skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of. Mass market radios are designed for low cost and low power consumption, and the engineering cost is amortized over tens of millions of devices. For that market segment it makes sense to make a perfectly customized radio.

There's nothing to stop them from putting a self-tuning phased-array radio on a niche product. At $50 a unit extra on a volume of 200,000 it might be viable. And the tech could be amortized over a line of industrial radios too.
Old Compose. OWWWW YEAH
Between frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node.js, AngularJS and smaller libraries like Backbone.js, jQuery, and jQuery UI, I've relied more on code for all of them. Documentation has only ever helped me to get started, and as a quick reference. But do anything significant, and thorough understanding is simply a must; something I can only find in code.

I also do a good amount of work with the Twitter and Facebook APIs, and in my spare time work on a fairly complex Cocoa project. Working with all of these is a whole lot of poking at interfaces until they do what I want. These all have tons of documentation, but they'll never be pleasant for me to work with.
The most recent episode of In Beta with Gina Trapani and Kevin Purdy (http://5by5.tv/inbeta/70) discusses the current state of WP and specifically addresses Ghost. While they make a sound argument that WP has become a bloated mess compared to its humble origins, they point out that Ghost isn't terribly accessible to the general public because it's node.js based and can be complex to configure. Probably not a huge deal if you know what you're doing, but even as a full time web dev, I don't have a node.js server of my own to screw around with.
Quote from article:

> This past June Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem gave a Bitcoin-friendly report to Parliament. He said: «Bitcoin is not electronic money… At present its eventual I'mpact on the real economy seems negligible…Bitcoin is not a financial product as defined by law. (Mediation in) the purchase or sale of Bitcoins is not a financial service either, so the Financial Supervision Act does not apply.»

This is the same Dijsselbloem who said that deposit confiscation on Cyprus is not a template for similar confiscations in the rest of EU: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-19/cypriot-bank-accoun...

This is the same Dijsselbloem who said that Cyprus is a template for "haircuts" on deposits in the EU: http://www.businessinsider.com/dijsselbloem-cyprus-deal-is-a...

When time comes, all these guys will change their minds 180º without blinking. Fortunately, it will be too late.
How do you think Bitcoin's unregulatable nature differs from the unregulatable nature of physical cash?
I didn't flag, but as has been pointed out many times on previous discussions of this, the consensus seems to be that if Apple didn't moderate their forums and remove incendiary posts or threats of lawsuits, they would be opening themselves up to more unhappy customers doing the same. A forum isn't the place to demand Apple fix something, the Apple store or their support line is the place for that. Likewise, a forum isn't a place to bring threats of a lawsuit against the company who owns the forum.

The fact that someone is trying so hard to make this become controversial and news-worthy is the only interesting thing here.
NSA: White House OKd spying on allies
Is startupsparadisenewyork fake?
I got an invitation from startupsparadisenewyork (www.f6s.com/startupsparadisenewyork) and was wondering if they are fake/real? To me, I don't see any person or legit entity listed there.
> Why is this a problem? Most web problems don't need a large code base. A small, dynamic language is suited to web problems.

This is demonstrably false the second you start to use JS on the backend. Just because most of the problems you've seen require only tiny codebases does not mean that they all do.
Well, the context here is discussion of the problem of unreplicable research. I do get the impression (including from your post and reply) that computational biologists need to get their act together on that front; see http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/ for one researcher in that field who sometimes blogs on this theme.
If we're talking about deep significance, I also think Bitcoin could be a tool to help support world peace (hear me out!)

My understanding of one facet of the UN is that by promoting trade between UN nations it makes war between these nations more costly and difficult thus reducing the chance that war would break out.

If correct a globally accepted and popular currency which can be freely transferred across borders between citizens of every nation could help depopularise outbreak of war between nations.

You can criticise this view in many ways, but I think it's undeniable in principal that open trade between nations would serve as a barrier for initiation of war and conflict. And raising barriers against this behaviour is only a good thing.
So maybe Obama needs to stop protecting them, as a first step, and allow real panel reviews and Congress to rein in on them, instead of opposing it as much as possible, and asking politicians like Dianne Feinstein to fighting against limiting NSA's powers.

But of course he won't do that, because all he does now is lie about everything NSA-related.
I love how the HN type of people come into Facebook threads like this claiming that using the site is bad and that they are above everyone for never using it.

It's not that simple for people that aren't in the same circles as HN readers. Younger generations utilize it as their primary means of keeping in touch with people. That's fine if you get along well without it. But take a step back and look at all the teenagers who grew up with never not having Facebook to keep in touch with their friends/setup events/etc. You remember how difficult the social aspect of your younger days were in school.

Facebook/Twitter/Instagram alleviate some of that for the younger generation. I've seen that in many youth that I've worked with over the years.
Every single one of these compile to the JavaScript runtime.

(Dart has a native VM in Chromium, but AFAIK it is a long way off from the real world)
Sounds like a plain old fashioned MITM attack to me. Nothing new here.
The original article is at http://www.skycure.com/blog/http-request-hijacking/

This is just a little enhancement for the the usual non-tls http mitm on shared media. They use a 301 moved permanently code, making some http clients cache the new attacker-controllled url for a little longer after the active attack stops.
Oh sure, they're free to do so (not sure the gmail TOS allows scrapping ads though). But I'm also free to call them up on that :)
> yield is shallow, caller must be ready to cope with yielding explicitly

TFA invokes C#'s `await` which is also cooperative and "shallow". Granted in C# there are APIs available for a synchronous function to "block on" an asynchronous one, but aside from that it's equivalent (the limitations are those of the underlying platforms, core.async loses the same features when doing from Clojure/JVM to ClojureScript/JS).

> so it's not really a good replacement to proper coroutines that can pause arbitrary deep stacks.

I agree, but I foremost went with the examples of "doing it better" which TFA provided, and TFA used `await` (if he'd used gevent or Erlang, I'd have been hosed)
FWIW:

* Ubuntu 13.04 (because the the 13.10 upgrade went horribly wrong)

* The Cinnamon desktop

* Vim, Eclipse

* Gnome Terminal

* Chromium

and all the usual suspects on a linux box.
This is obviously a troll...
Even the most heinous of brutalities can have positive externalities. You're really wrapped up in the defense of your point, but you're not arguing it effectively. I wish your example was relevant.

Don't worry, everything is going to be fine. This decision was made long ago. I remember the day. Nothing I or anyone on HN can do will change that.

However, I do take issue with your assertion that the web was built on marketing. It really wasn't.
This is how I learned Angular and CS, by writing the todo apps in CS...after a bit, it was much easier to think and reprocess the concepts in my head as coffee script, especially when it came to test writing. I think the must-have for me is te bevy of ways to do auto compilation these days
If things continue going as they were for the last years: government printing money and people trying to move savings anywhere but in the currencies, then yes, all printed currencies will become worthless and if people run to Bitcoin, it will be impossible to have "budget deficits" and very hard to tax many people.

Without government people would have to find ways to voluntarily pay for things they like to have. E.g. roads, insurance etc. Some roads will be paid, some roads will be sponsored by merchants that do business on the streets, some roads will be owned by big malls etc. The market is different from the state not in that it does something differently, but that there are millions of ways to satisfy demand instead of just one.

Read more on possibilities in "Practical Anarchy":
http://freedomainradio.com/FreeBooks.aspx
> there’s a better chance that banks and governments of the world will start to get serious about cleaning up the global mess they’ve created

Never gonna happen. Bitcoin is the cleaning we need. There's absolutely no incentive for governments or banks (which are in bed with governments) to make things better for those, who are not in the club.

I don't think Bitcoin's gonna wipe out the very idea of government, but it certainly has a potential to give rise to free economic zones, where no government can have its way. And their success can, in turn, convince even more people that they don't really need anyone to govern them.
This seems a lot like linkbait to me. Most of the post is just reiteration of Ghost's features, and the title intentionally asks an inflammatory question.
My comment from the blog:

I've seen several variations of the "trial week" in effect on a smaller scale. In the cases I'm aware of, the timeframe was drastically reduced to a weekend or a single workday. Candidates were given a realistic problem to solve and a set amount of time to solve it. Most implementation details were left out beyond general scope and what constituted completion. If someone was truly interested in being hired for the company, they'd jump at the chance. Beyond this, I've also been in situations where the candidates were paid for their time, even on weekends. It's an incentive that the company is also investing themselves in the candidate. The company is essentially saying "We're interested enough in hiring you to pay you for your time." This bodes well with both parties in my experience.
Yes, Obscurity is a Valid Security Layer
Can I determine the JavaScript Engine from .js code?
I would love to. But that might end up with me being fired :) Ego is a big thing to surmount.
I use it. Love it.
>But on other side I see JS bytecode as great alternative to Java and JVM.

Exactly how is javascript a better byte code than JVM byte code?
Ironic or shameless or whatever, this goes against Adsense TOS: you cannot promote a service of theirs (here: Gmail) and explain how to hack that service.

I was recently "kindly" asked by Google(had 48 hours to comply) to remove Adsense from a innocuous post on my blog because said post was just a couple lines explaining how I used some online service to download a video from Youtube (which, apparently, hurts their TOS and feelings)
i thought you could simply turn it off if you wanted to
I've always loved the idea of making Email better vis-a-vis the hyped rants of replacing Email. Sorry! Email is going no where and neither do existing email services & mail clients completely suck at managing email. Yes, there are some gaps in them and that's what we should try to solve. The whole approach of solving the problems with existing email services & clients vis-a-vis the idea of completely replacing it.

We built MetisMe around this philosophy of making it very easy to search and share attachments inside Email. www.metisme.com .

The next thing that we're targeting upon is can we give more context to the content which is already there inside Email.
Or you're saying that you know so little about it you don't know of its real problems.
If the data is age adjusted it would be interesting to know if the Florida figures are influenced by retirees moving there.
1. Your cash can be devalued by printing more cash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing

2. If you move or store cash, it can be confiscated by the police: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/nation/july-dec13/assets_08-1...

Bitcoin is impossible to "print" more than scheduled and it's much easier to transport and store safely than cash or gold.
so basically YAML and/or Jade + SASS + CoffeeScript. I dig it.
Definitely linkbait.
It is not[0], but when TFA asserts

> They are not solvable by making a new ECMA spec.

I consider using the upcoming ("new") ECMA spec more than fair game to refute his assertions.

[0] although a number of its features are shimable, precede it by a few years, are already (possibly partially) implemented in some runtimes or are available through ES6 -> ES5 compilation via Traceur. See http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/
TalkTalk want £10 for a 13-month-old bill
Lol, fair enough.

But not necessarily the Vim / Shell / Apache / MySQL environment which is very useful to Computer Engineers. At least, that sort of stuff is not easily done on a (non-rooted) Android Tablet yet.
"Juvenile elementary school behaviour", when related to nation states, is usually called "patriotism". Also, sports fans tend to exhibit similar behaviour wrt. to their favourite teams.
As it is with every market out there, it is a matter of equilibrium between buyers and sellers.

Sure you can find enough people to do a trial week if you are a poster child of startups. Good luck if you are anything less than that.

Yay for Tesla Inc.; Nay for vowelless.ly
None of those is remotely in the realm of possibility, except maybe #2 and the difference in scale (at least in the US) between total tax receipts and the float of BC is so vast that it limits it to a very small percentage of the total. All bitcoin currently in circulation amount to 0.1% of one year of US tax revenue ($2.5T v $250M).
I checked three, because I do those three every time!

Note: I tend to build political blogs or tiny campaign websites, not actual apps.

1) download wordpress.

2) pick a theme to start hacking on, either one of the defaults, or a "write me some CSS" plain theme.

3) hack around in CSS and the PHP to get the exact layout and spacing I want. I did make several projects that used custom web fonts, custom javascript, etc.

Note: my latest blog is just a very basic customisation of Octopress. I really liked the HTML5 theme that scales down onto my phone perfectly, and being able to write in Markdown.

EDIT: Oh, people are worried about doing their own design?! I was entirely happy with doing my own web design, and have made maybe 10 wordpress themes, including some as a freelance designer for others (by accident). I only charge a tiny amount for my work, because I do it for charities and political activist friends, neither of whom have any money!
1. Politicians can't change the rules of the protocol.

2. Politicians can't print more bitcoin as they like. Only according to the protocol and in competition with others.

3. It's virtually impossible to censor Bitcoin transactions (unless you shut down the whole internet in the country).
I'd look to freelance yourself out to London agencies on the proviso that the majority of work is to be done remotely and that you'll be around for kick off meetings etc. Once they trust you you'll be able to switch this to pretty much 100% remote (possibly look to reduce your rate as a sweetener) and then just go to cheap SE asian country of your choice, doing visa runs every X months.

There is a large culture difference between different countries and you may as well spend some time in each to see how they fit before looking for a full time position
Be careful when trying to untangle correlation and causation: it may well be that poor people and criminals are more likely to turn to religion. After all, atheism is mainly found in more educated populations.
A book for team leaders who hate their job
> [1,10,5,-15,-2,4].sort();
> [-15,-2,1,10,4,5]

[1,10,5,-15,-2,4].sort(function(a,b){return a-b})
[-15, -2, 1, 4, 5, 10]
The article is interesting in that it quotes Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem saying:

"Bitcoin is not electronic money… At present its eventual impact on the real economy seems negligible…Bitcoin is not a financial product as defined by law. (Mediation in) the purchase or sale of Bitcoins is not a financial service either, so the Financial Supervision Act does not apply."

Then the article goes on to say:

>ingredients are in place to make Amsterdam a city with a lot of Bitcoin in its future.

And the article then lists a lot of the benefits of having Bitcoin as an unregulated 'local currency', aka a commodity. This is a dangerous place for Bitcoin. If it grows too much, it will be recognized as a currency and regulated. If it grows only slightly, then it will not see any real use outside of the small group that already uses it. In the latter case, people like the author of the article stand to benefit a fair amount. In the former case, people like the author of the article stand be driven out of business, or have their business model impaired, by regulation.

If the point of the article was to convey that this is a golden age for Bitcoin in Holland, then it has achieved its purpose. If the point of the article was to make it seem that significant adoption of Bitcoin in Holland lay ahead, or that it would be a good thing, then it has not done so. In fact, that would be an entirely different article that would have to include more factual and historical analysis than this article even bats an eye at.
what does the premium offer?
Just installed it! Really happy with the options page which allows me to enable and disable only the options I want. For example: I actually prefer the new email compose for my work inbox, because I usually have to go around searching and referring to other emails while writing.

Anyway, it is already looking much cleaner and nicer, and I hope it saves some time and makes my emailing experience more efficient. I'll try it out for a week or two, and you will hopefully get a small donation from me :)
I've never found this argument very convincing.

By adding the methods "string get_Name()" and "void set_Name(string name)" you are making _exactly_ the same contract as if you have "public string Name".

There is no extra dependency here - the dependencies are identical.
But who will build the roads? We need someone to force people to do stuff in public's interest.
1) What about gold then?

2) The Silk Road bitcoins were confiscated by police just fine. In fact Bitcoin is in some ways easier to trace and therefore confiscate. If the cops can trace a transaction to you they just apply some rubber hose cryptography.
Very cool! My wife and I have this issue. We and my parents want to share pictures without posting our child's life for facebook to control, but still have that convenience.
I think the point is that whatever slowdown the use of Accessor pattern introduces will actually be a lot smaller than 2X, which is useful information when deciding whether to discard the great benefits of using the Accessor pattern that others have mentioned.
Without the attempted dramatization, this appears to be a case of hair-splitting: people can keep their policies but if the insurance provider chooses to change the policy, they must then bring it up to code because it's no longer the one someone was happy with.
The Unexpected Compensation Trends of Post-Series A Startup Founder/CEOs
facepalm Security company learns that HTTP MITM + cache poisoning is a thing that exists. (Edit: If it wasn't obvious, 301's are a common and well known form of cache poisoning in this scenario)

Next I bet they will discover that you can pretend to be anyone you want in e-mail!
Quick startup opportunity, generate "photo ids" for people to use on Facebook. $0.99 per.
Glad you like it. Do not hesitate to send me any suggestions/ideas via the support form ! Best.
Safari/Chrome: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '>'
Firefox: SyntaxError: syntax error

In a discussion about Javascript maybe it would be a good idea to give examples of Javascipt that actually run in a Javascript console?
Do such contract stipulations ever actually hold up court or have been challenged?
> This IS a lie. Do you have any sources?

What's the "lie", the aggressions or the fact that it come from far right groups ?

If the former:

http://www.france24.com/fr/20130421-climat-homophobie-agress...

> 1200 aggressions on homosexual people in the first 3 months of 2013 compared to 1 556 on the whole 2011.

Almost 4 times more than usual, is it enough for you ?

About the authors of the aggressions:

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/09/04/bar-gay-sac...

Are skinheads far-right enough for you ?

But off course, skinheads are probably not behind ALL these aggressions, most of them are probably "standard" homophobics.
Where we're going we don't need roads http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flge_rw6RG0
Suburban areas come with benefits too, lack of traffic congestion, no parking hassles, plenty of places to go, everything nearby.

A car in the city, is mostly just a pain.
I don't understand why people think Bitcoin necessarily leads to governments collapsing. Bitcoin can be regulated in many ways:

1. If you buy a house you must show evidence that you earned the money. You can't earn all your Bitcoins Breaking-Bad (or Silk-Road) style and expect that the government will think your new-found fortune is ok. Thanks to the blockchain you kind of can't lie too much, unlike, say, cash.

2. If the government wants to ban certain activities it can do so easily. Suppose that the government wants to keep its citizens from gambling or from using mixer services, it could declare that it won't recognize Bitcoins that passed through those services as legal tender. Good luck paying property taxes with your tainted bitcoins.

... and so on. Things are not that different. In fact the blockchain may mean that the government has more, and not less, access to information: for example governments generally can't access information from other countries except in rare occasions. With Bitcoins that information is accessible by default.

Now what the government can't do with Bitcoin is play games with the money supply. People in places such as Argentina could perhaps tell us why that would be a good thing.
You know various organisations hold patents to protect open source projects and some of them have used patents to litigate? No one is clean.
I have heard other people suggest similar, it does sound very attractive - something to work towards maybe.

Re: PHP - I have front-end experience including some of the emergent technologies such as Node.js etc.

Out of interest, what skills / technologies would make me more marketable to employers (overseas or otherwise)?
Apple's forums are a private website that they are free to moderate in any way they want, and users agree to these conditions prior to contributing to the forum and any time they change. There are friendlier places on the Internet to post things Apple doesn't want you saying, but their user forums isn't that place.
> All privacy questions aside... ...I'd wasted my time and made myself stupider in the process.

You perhaps need to find smarter friends then.
Yes, it's strange to benchmark a standard and not an implementation. Besides, timing in well-known implementation such as SBCL looks much better here than in the chart.
KnockoutJS.com is by far the best in terms of documentation and usability for novices.