skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gold and USD is even easier to steal because it's damn too expensive or impossible to protect them. You never actually own USD, by the way, it's always in some banker's balance sheet. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

Protecting Bitcoin by splitting the password via 7-of-12 SSSS and sending the keys to 12 of your friends around the globe costs almost zero. The amount of security does not depend on how much you are willing to spend on it. It only depends on your paranoia. Most of the people are safe enough with cheap offline computer. Fugitives can use more complex schemes.
Ask HN: Why are gambling adwords the most expensive?
I have recently come across a post:
http://visual.ly/most-expensive-google-adwords-keywords-uk-data

which basically (tldr) says that gambling content is the most expensive (upto £80 a click). So my questions are:

[1] Why are they so expensive? Is the content? lack of gamblers? rich casino/betting houses?
[2] What other options do you think are viable other than adwords?

Disclaimer: I ask the second question because I run a small webapp for the UK which displays current top sports betting tips (i.e odds comparison) + bonus codes/free play - and I am considering advertising via "some form of adwords".
The Trouble With Types by Martin Odersky
No, but there are languages that make it hard to write bad code. Go, Erlang, heck, even Python comes to mind.
Yes, the letter 'y' is called '(G/Y)amma' im greek. Why 'Hylas' for me it reads like 'Lylas', considering that λ is the greek 'L'?
To the Comments here:
Why on HN is always so much hate?
Because you don't like Language X you have to say it in every post about it?

99% of the Comments are not about the Topic just about beliefs of other Commenters....
Hm. Sounds like the old-timey dick did better, quicker, with less resources.
They pay attention when people call them up. A whole hell of a lot more attention than they pay to HN, in any event.
Wouldn't solve the abortion debate. I used to say the same thing until someone explained to me that they are fighting for the same rights of the unborn children.

I'm not saying that position is right or wrong; I'm just saying that said position exists.
The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic
Information is still classified to hide it from enemies, as it requires an effort. Immediately follows though, that the system now considers citizens its enemies, which is reasonable: if they knew everything it does, they would actively attack it.
That's great if it's your function that's the problem. Less so if it's someone else's.

And it's not only these kinds of errors that can cause silent failure. I've had it on missing brackets, on missing commas, on failure to include/require the right source file etc, etc. No error message, no warning, no log entry, no nothing. Just silence. And a blank output. Not overly helpful.
Sound Design in iOS 7
From the official Motorola Blog:

> "A module can be anything, from a new application processor to a new display or keyboard, an extra battery, a pulse oximeter--or something not yet thought of!" [1]

So it doesn't seem too-far removed from the original Phonebloks concept. And you can't really tell me that had this new version been presented as the original, we wouldn't have seen the same feedback.

[1] http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-hel...
The significant thing about XML is not that it's any good, but that everyone switched to it. I predicted this meant XML would win forever... but JSON does seem to be catching up.
"Republicans are more likely to nominate a candidate that is broadly appealing" is a reasonable theory, and to the degree that this dynamic dominates it's true that it would lend the Republicans more of a chance; if that's enough to make a difference, the Republicans should indeed focus on their own candidate. The one data point we have so far lost 38-61.

"As a California Democrat, I'd love it if Republicans followed your plan, because I'd like nothing more than a D v. D general election."

That's precisely why it might work. Democrats should like it for the reason you specified; Republicans should like it if there is someone they prefer to Feinstein. If enough of both get on board, it happens.
How did you go from "C with macros" to Dylan? I love dylan but its main draw is its object system, not macros or metal.
I have, but I fail to see how frequency analysis can work on "Everything is fine. Everything is cool here, uh, 15 22 27 31"
My girlfriend's iPhone 4s updated to iOS7 and refused to activate. After four or five hours of going through support and then a trip to the Apple store, Apple confirmed that the hardware was fine but something went wrong on the upgrade. The "Genuis" told us that's it's "unfortunate" that things like wifi sometimes break when you upgrade your phone's OS because of the stress that it puts your phone through. Their only solution was to buy a used phone of the same model for $200 from them. Our request to have downgrade back to iOS6 (we have both an iTunes backup and an iCloud backup) was refused because the "Genuises" can't even do it. I even offered to pay them to fix that phone and we were told they couldn't do it.

We refused to pay Apple to replace her phone and I bought her a friend's spare phone in the meanwhile. My first and only bad experience with Apple so far but quite disappointing to say the least.
I reccomend the work of Hernando de Soto on extralegality: http://www.amazon.com/Other-Path-Hernando-Soto/dp/0465016103...

In a country (Peru) where formal legal systems functioned extremely badly, there was a huge extralegal economy: houses, businesses, transport, etc all of which didn't officially exist and had no legal protection. Providing a route into the legitimate system provided a huge economic benefit for a lot of people and reduced Maoist terrorism.

Bad legal system < Lawlessness / Extralegality < Good legal system.
[Author of original article here.]

Yes, this is the real issue. If they would just SEND me the electronic bill, like they used to with the paper one, I wouldn't have this problem.

They way they run this business is like sending me a postcard once a month saying "your paper bill is ready; please drop into our office and pick it up".
10 pounds max per request, and a request can cover all your personal data (you just have to name exactly what you want them to return).

the ICO has some guidelines on this: http://www.ico.org.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_...
College is for trying
Hi there, I could do that but then I would have to re-create the config files which contain the environment-specific information.
Really the only option is to simply unlock the zip file and the Web App will be instantly up and running.
However those people have lost their court case and now they are trying to make the things worse for me.
I'm okay with this request for citation.

Having spent a lot of time around kids, I have a completely different view.

Most everyone is born a genius angel with unbounded potential, which is too often beat out of them by cruel parents, vicious peers, and an uncaring society.

YMMV.
Elements added during the iteration may be returned, or not, at random.

I can't be the only one who thinks this is crazy behaviour.
Cryptolocker Ransomware makes different Bitcoin wallet for each victim
Still think this makes no sense at all, though I'm happy to be proved wrong. I think the endgame for personal devices is making the electronics invisibly small, which requires more integration, not less.
But you do see why people are complaining, right? You are having to manually write thousands of tests to check something that is trivial for a compiler to check.
One of the codes I worked with had multiple symbols for each letter. We have 26 letters in the English alphabet. But this code system had 40 symbols. The letter “E” had three different ones. The letter T had two and so on. That’s a very complex code.

Interesting; they're trying to flatten out the code distribution…
Your naivety and optimism is cute. Reality is that no brunch of the current government gives a shit. The US isn't a democratic republic anymore.
Unfortunately I'd have to have done it deliberately :) Here I just confused my message: not a great marketing skill!
Courier was a pitchdeck in video form. It was never a real product.
If a phone is available on a 24-month contract, I would damn well expect the manufacturer to stand by that hardware for 2 years.
Docker just keeps growing and growing. The amount of new businesses springing up to take advtange, along with some pretty heavy hitters looking to adopt, Docker has a fighting chance to become a standard from which everyone benefits.
I'd think there is a reasonably good metric in there around approximating Kolgomorov Complexity: "What is the size of the shortest written description of the entire spec of a language?"

This completely discounts expressivity, of course, so perhaps a related measure would be, given a suitably complex and representative programming task "What is the size of the shortest written description of the entire spec of a language plus the shortest program in that language that solves said problem."

None of these things exist nor can be computed. They also still ignore readability (something very important and for which Brainfuck would likely fail), but I would wager a reasonable consensus could be built around the concepts.
Actual link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57609714-94/uber-delivers-a...
Mozilla to support Firefox on Windows XP after Microsoft ends support for the OS
smells like ES4 fiasco to me. Ambitious spec stuck in endless debates.

I've heard it was supposed to be finalized in 2012,then 2013,then what ?

They should go with a minimal spec ( let,proxies,modules,promises,deferred
) and deliver.
Wrong, they pay attention when people pay them or threaten their pay.
Cards for Humanity
To quote an Applied Math professor from college (Thomas K. Donaldson):

"When we reach the stars, we won't need planets."

The kind of competition and resource exhaustion you're talking about is on a scale where interstellar conquest is kind of a moot point.
I really don't get all this rage at Javascript. Obviously it has flaws and warts, but I don't see it as being significantly worse than other dynamically-typed languages. Yes, there are some misfeatures we'd all like to see ripped out and those provide some nasty gotchas. But once you learn the language it compares well to Python and Lua and other dynamically-typed C-ish-syntax languages.
I cannot comment on Ruby. I, personally, think Java is a much bigger language than (base without other scripts included) Javascript. Of the two, I prefer Java for it's strong types. My biggest problem with Javascript is that if I make a typo on a variable name, it can be very difficult to debug. This could perhaps be mitigated by using an IDE, I don't know since I don't use JS that often. I feel like this is not a major issue and work on LLVM+emscripten will let me work in almost whatever language I want and have it end up in Javascript in the near future.
Just saying that JS has a good debugger (it isn't that good, really) isn't nearly enough to counteract the original points about terrible exception handling. Exception handling isn't just about fixing errors, it's about controlling the flow of errors through your programs and handling them as best you can. Your customer doesn't want to step into a debugger to see what went wrong, they just want a nice error message.
Speaking from my own experience, the NYC startup community is large and very active. I'm hoping this growth continues after we get a new mayor in.
I switched to paperless with HSBC and their statements go back 6 years, it was one of the "features" of going paperless. Switching back to paper the 6 years were still there :)

I've switched back and forth between both methods though, but they are good enough to give me free statement prints going back 6 years whenever I request them.
This is the weird libertarian view of "coerciveness" where having to participate in a society with other people is a gross imposition but being fireable instantly at the whim of your employer is not coercive.
To get a glimpse of the impact of this new TLDs you can just look at how much ICANN charged the registrars 'cartel' to open up this new top level names: 185K for each name [1].

This, I suppose, means each registrar plan to make a little more than a few thousands for each domain extension if they want to be profitable. They know already it's not going to be a widespread phenomena, otherwise the greedy bunch running ICANN would've charged a lot more.

Still I don't understand why the internet top-level domain control is in the hands of a private and fake non-profit organization, instead of being directly controlled by an international, third party organism such as the United Nations or something similar.

[1] http://www.techspot.com/news/47031-icann-selling-custom-top-...
"There is no need in this world for manual screwdrivers because a drill can do the same job with less work."

I don't understand the vitriol. Is JavaScript perfect? No but I don't think anyone has ever made that argument. Can you build web applications with it? Absolutely.

The fact of the matter is JS can run on more "things" than anything else. Period. This includes legacy systems. Don't like the language? That's totally fine and, to an extent, understandable. But, holy shit, it's a highly accessible tool: learn it and stop complaining.

"But there are better tools!" Ok, that's great, but those tools aren't presently available in your toolbox. So write your own library to implement missing feature x. Syntax not terse enough for you? Write a preprocessor. Since you won't be the first, a lot of the hard work has already been done for you. Consider publishing it. Do what every other developer doing anything on the web has had to do for years: improve your sandbox.

"But these features should be standard!" They're not. Write the 3-5 lines to fix it and move on. Want to go the extra mile? Talk to the folks who run the show (the ecma folks).

Not happy with the tools? Fix them. Chromium and Firefox are OSS; write other runtimes into them. Push for their adoption. Does that seem like an insurmountable task? Then perhaps leverage what is available to you.

All of this religious debate is nonsense.
Wow, this is one of the first things I've read on HN to give me pause in a long, long time. Thank you for writing it.
I've read "Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS" and I thought it was pretty good at explaining difficult concepts in AngularJS.
Your pessimism and apathy is both disheartening and infuriating.

Make enough of a stink, and people listen. That is one of the few immutable laws of politics. If you are not getting the desired results, you're not making enough of a stink yet.
Please Build a MIME/IMAP-Backed Note-Taking App
I've lived poor on a little more than $5000/yr for several years now, though it's due to living in developing nations and/or countries with hard-hit economies.

I still want things but I fully recognize it's just a want and not a need. Would I live 'normally' if I made more money? Well, I've come to find that paying for experiences is more important than having status or things that represent it.

Most of my current friends are not as poor as me but they aren't rich either. Though, I spent all of my teens with 'rich kids', for one reason or another, and they seemed to have no clue about how good they had/have it. If we all had to start from scratch, I'd survive while they wouldn't.

When the basics aren't covered automatically, there's a large psychological toll (the scarcity trap) that affects every single decision made. I'd rather know the art of being frugal than be oblivious to it (and how much of the world lives)...but I must say, the scarcity trap can be hell to deal with.
Greece’s Pursuit of Tax Evaders Collects More Anger Than Money
More pragmatically, nobody has ever cared about the rights of foreigners. Xenophobia is something that is heavily rooted in pretty much every culture, and it comes to rear its ugly head at times like this.
I feel like making it hard to write code tend to correlate with making it hard to write bad code.

This is a problem since many programmers do not like languages which make it hard for them to write code. I'm not sure whether it's the effect of "making it hard to write bad code" that makes it hard to write code or whether its "making it hard to write code" that makes you less likely to run into the effects of bad programmers.
Because under a stronger definition of tainted, they cannot be trivially mixed, they pass on the contagion.

The US government can ostensibly stop accepting Zerocoins. In that event, so would any party that wanted to trade with them. There wouldn't be any need for a new blockchain, possessors of clean coins would simply have to decide how much extra value that part of ecosystem provided.

That last sentence mixes up with your point 3, tainting all the coins would be a collaboration between owners of clean coins and service providers, there is at least room for owners of clean coins to be careful with them.
Living on 5000 is enough is simple enough when you start out with everything that is expensive already in your possession.

I have seen people live frugally, none of the cases in this story are meaningful. I am more interested in the unintentional poor, because by calling these people intentional means its a lifestyle choice. Lifestyle choices let you stack the deck prior to taking the choice. Its the perfect choice of vapid selfish people.
Which region are you in?
This point can't be sung enough. It always seems so absurdly obvious to me, but everyone is sold by their favorite media outlet, their upbringing, or whatever motivates the two-party voting base.

Sometimes I think people just like to debate when they have neat little debating packages lined up for them.
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That sounds repetitive and kind of annoying to read. It's usually obvious from context what's opinion and what's not, and you can always ask for clarification in those rarer instances. For example, it's pretty obvious the OP is stating opinion.

You don't need to couch your opinions with "I think" or "It's my opinion that". Have some conviction.
At some point someone should build a complete list of all the things that US citizens should be writing their representatives about.

My impression is that is one damned big list.
Every time I read an article of someone blaming a language, that is not the language they love, I feel like I am reading an airplane pilot, driving a bus and screaming: BUT THIS THING DOESN'T FLY!!!
This is a smart move. Some people might call it a pivot, but I think it's really doubling down on what people really want. dotCloud is not going to change the world (or make a truckload of money) by being Heroku's also-ran.

Instead, they are taking something they built that is really interesting to a lot of people and building a business around it. As someone who is quite interested in docker, I'm glad that they are turning it into a real business. This benefits pretty much everyone who wants to see docker succeed.

Also, it's really smart that they are keeping dotCloud alive. It would be incredibly irresponsible for them to kill that business just to push faster on docker.
Another Way Samsung Can Copy Apple
If enough people vote against them, that pretty much cuts them out of the picture.

I know, actually picking up the phone and making a call is much more difficult than making snarky, cynical comments on HN, but it's more likely to accomplish something.

If you care enough, you could even get out there and do something like work on the campaign of a primary challenger, or donate money to Amnesty, or anything else out there in the real world that requires time/money/effort.
I'm sorry but I have to side with the "oxygen is utter crap" crowd. It's too reactive, causing all kinds of materials to degrade, and sometimes they even burst into flame! Helium, Neon, Argon are much better, but even Nitrogen, which isn't perfect, is better than Oxygen.

The single redeeming feature of Oxygen is that it's pretty much everywhere, and yeah sure we can all breathe it and don't have any other choices for gases to breathe. If it wasn't for that fact I doubt anyone would care much for it.

Ok, I'm paraphrasing and extending what you said to make my point... Javascript being in every browser, to the exclusion of all other languages, is a huge factor in its popularity and utility, and it's the main driving force towards improving the language. If Javascript didn't become the in-browser language, it probably wouldn't have existed at all. Instead we'd have some other small language with similar design flaws, or maybe Perl would have been adopted as the in-browser language. At the time it was the main language for server-side web development, it was already embeddable and used for in-app scripting (like Lua is today), and I recall a browser extension for Netscape that let you use it instead of Javascript. IE, of course, would only have had VBScript.

Pick your poison.
I have been, too. One of the things I really like about MInimalist for Everything ist that I can eliminate the branding from Gmail entirely. We use it for work on an Apps domain, and when traveling I prefer shoulder gazers not to see immediately who I work for.
In the WW2, USA was safest place in the reasonably-developed world. If you were wealthy and had the ability to move your assets from one country to another, USA was a safe bet for you. Obviously, the movement of wealth was also convenient for the host country's government. Nowadays USA may not appear as the only good place to be, but if you understood the underlying idea of the above reasoning, you may also understand that at any moment a conflict/war can induce a differentiating factor for perception of safety. If the environment becomes risky with a war to be unleashed, you won't risk keeping your wealth in a system whose very existence is endangered, you'll move to a greener pasture. A greener pasture, preferably in a powerful country, with no risk of having a war carried out on its territory and therefore with a minimal exposure to any conflict.
Those greener pastures usually are in the very countries that seek war in the first place. The war itself is a profitable business in many ways.

Bitcoin makes no difference against this. Actually in the regard to world conflicts, Bitcoin carries an insulating effect. It makes you more mobile and more willing to get yourself to a safe and peaceful place to live (and spend your Bitcoins there).
What do you do for fun? Are you active in the dating pool? How often do you socialise in situations that require spend? (Be that a trip to the cinema, or a coffeshop, or a bar or taking beer/wine to a BBQ.)

As an aside, why I know this type of lifestyle is not for me and why I find it so alien...

"-$200/year for clothes/toiletries"

...is blown in one quarterly trip to Aesop.
"A system he no longer deserves to be a part of because he's stopped contributing to it."

It seems to me he is contributing in many ways, they just aren't financial.
I can't wait for the moment I can Google something in the middle of a conversation (to verify some points of the discussion) without disrupting it.

Do you guys use Siri for that? (I have an "old" 3GS)
Yes, the nice thing about the MOTOACTV is that it runs independently, you can sync it when you are at home, or near your Android phone. The music player is surprisingly good and the headset is OK too.

Another nice one: if you decide to take the phone with you, it functions as a wireless headset!

And the best of all: is fully hackable!! Some reference : http://blog.martinh.net/2013/05/hacking-google-smartwatch.ht...