skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an IE user, Chrome is certainly an upgrade. Both in security and speed.

I'm by no stretch an IE user, but MS have made great improvements to their browser. And some users may prefer it simply because it is familiar.

And excuse me for saying so, but as someone who values my privacy I trust Microsoft a lot more than Google. To me, Chrome is the web browser where everything I do is leaked directly to the NSA.

Sorry, but I don't consider that "secure" by any stretch of imagination.

Disregarding that, as a Firefox user though, I still get the same crap ads. Basically they are shown to everyone not using Chrome. And for my needs, I think Chrome is a significant downgrade compared to Firefox. By using the word "upgrade" Google is being disingenuous.

Google doesn't have a monopoly in browsers

But they do have a near monopoly on internet advertising and they are using it to push their own products in a borderline dishonest way. I mean... If Microsoft merely bundling a web-browser with their OS (as opposed to leaving users needing to fiddle with command-line FTP to download one) was bad enough to warrant regulation, I can't see how this significantly worse.
Somewhere buried on my hard drive I have a fraction of a bitcoin that people were giving out for free when bitcoin first came out to encourage adoption.

I really need to find it, it's actually worth money now...

ps. that pizza is now worth $3 Million
Nobody is forcing you to use it OR help its development. Why do you even care?
Mining is a lost cause for the average Joe. The simplest way to buy for U.S. citizens is coinbase.com. Local bitcoins is pretty good too, and has somewhat of a global presence. Look up creating an offline paper wallet to securely store your invested coins (short version: disconnect internet, print out a few copies of paper wallet using offline version of bitaddress.org, and then reset computer before reconnecting the net). Practice a few times with small amounts first. For everyday use, security is not as important and you can keep small amounts in a smartphone wallet or desktop client.
The first question I'd like to ask: are we sure we actually did this?

The modelling is so variable, incomplete and inconclusive from what I can see, it's almost down to whoever manages the most statistically significant mistake to come up with these numbers.
The LAMP guide at Linode Library gives a step-by-step procedure: https://library.linode.com/lamp-guides
He's still going strong.
You know, its the oscillations == volatility philosophy.

Of course only should only look at daily graphs no older than two days.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg1460zigDailyztgSz...
I see. I will try to fix that. Thanks for feedback.
And 1 nibblecoin == 4 bitcoins.
Yeah, it is good idea.
Coworkers Killing You?
There are now no less than three 1st tier, mid-sized "native" fully electric vehicles on sale here. The Leaf, the BMW i3 and the e-UP in addition to the converted Ford Focus Electric. The Leaf is finally getting some competition.

Surprising not to see Toyota participating yet. I expected them to have a head start since they have been producing hybrids ~forever.
<joke>Hey, this statement generated a mess up the thread! You troll! :D</joke>
Why is this still a thing that people have to care about? Can IDEs still not automatically convert between company-style and personal-style?

(Sad that tabs solved that problem decades ago (by having a byte that means "+1 indent" instead of having to build some ascii-art that looks like an indent) but people screwed up the implementations so badly :( )
you really don't want that. imagine a confusion you'd have all the time when using software. say a year from now, you launch your older wallet software, and send 1 (old btc) instead of 1 (new btc) to someone.
You'd need to double check every single place you'd ever spend bitcoins on to make sure that it's new bitcoins and not old bitcoins.

Similarily with software - everyone in the source code it'd say "bitcoin" programmers would need to check whether it's new or old.

The amount of confusion, and engineering work would be staggering. It's far better to have a new term alltogether. People have been proposing "millis" or "millibits".
silkroad 2.0 launched just recently
There is this: "Program indentation and comprehensibility (1983) by R J Miara, J A Musselman, J A Navarro, B Shneiderman"

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/papers/Miara1983Program.pdf

I'd classify it as an attempt rather than something decisive but whatever floats your boat.
Um... Why is it inappropriate to suggest that one might bump into passionate and talented programmers at the startup centre?
Sure they do, add this to your user styles:

pre { tab-size: 2; }

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/tab-size
This needs to be upvoted more. How can someone have a hosting provider whilst claiming to be the most secure BANK out there?

This should have been pointed out long ago. It's a terrible thing that people get away with this. Arrogant developers who think they can do without sysadmin skills when building crucial software.
Agreed. That's the purpose of the --help flag and equivalents.
Mining is sort of a lost cause at this point. It is ultra competive with specialized chips, most don't regain their investment. Better off just buying coins.
There must be some better documentation.

- What are the features?
- How does is check and validate backups?
- Is it compatible with mainstream backup solutions?
- Can it work with automated tape devices

I can't find any answers to these questions easily.
Ask HN: Which recurring tasks have you automated?
From time to time, we might do some tasks that could easily be automated.

Knowing programmers, they could spend a lot of time automating boring repitive tasks.

So i'm wondering, what tasks have you automated and how much time does it save you?
Yep, i loved having LEGO but now that i am all grown up, i realize what a privilege it was to own that many LEGOs!! Hell they're expensive! (though part of me still wants to spend a huge chunk of my salary on them) :P
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SilkRoad was important, but most important was its community (dkn255hz262ypmii.onion) that it's still online. You see, the most important things for the anonymous market are the WoT and the PGP pubkeys, and that's not illegal (at least until now).
Additionally Black Market Reloaded was already very popular when SR was seized.

I believe that what is pushing Bitcoins value is that many people call it "the credit card of the 21st century" and they are buying bitcoins as shares of the next Visa.

EDIT: as wildgift said, there is no insurance in Bitcoin yet, but I'm sure that if Bitcoin starts being really popular we are going to start seeing online wallets with insurance provided by big corporations. CCs (as a technology) don't include insurance either...
I think the simple explanation is that Silk Road's takedown increased Bitcoin's media coverage, which is leading to new buyers, which offsets whatever sell-off there might have been.
Did you read the first sentence of that article?

"However, the government scientific body later denied that it had made any official statement about the research, saying only that it had handed its results to the Russian Foreign Ministry."
The Business Side of Sensors
Which of the java web development framework is best for startup project?
Just an example, from time to time we check all our clients pagerank.

I have a script that extracts our database of clients and checks their pagerank through their mail (of any contact) or the "website" field.

The pagerank gets saved in the clients "internal note" field
Also experts asked by the BBC say that this is a very bold statement;

Prof. Paddy Regan, says:

"They are saying the hypothesis that Arafat was poisoned with polonium-210 is valid and has not been disproven by the data. However they cannot say definitively that he was murdered.

Prof Regan says a series of assumptions would have been made in order to ascertain how much Po-210 may or may not have been in Mr Arafat's body at the time of his death."

'has not been disproven' - means it has not been proven either. No?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24838061
Not really. Last month was a special case: Several months of hype and preorders hit the statistics all at once when Tesla started delivery.
Mockito Verify Cookbook
Seven reasons why closed source is better than open source
Bitcoincharts.com says the high was 31.91, for a few short hours. Either the parent comment has ridiculously bad timing and less than 20 months of patience, or is trolling us.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60zigHourlyzczsg2...
I think that's a bit harsh.

Of course we write style guides and while I like the idea that it's part of the tool, that's rarely the case.

I don't follow the objection about a colleague helping ensure consistency across a team. I'm really not sure why competence comes into that equation either.

Agree with the idea any style guide should be automated. Several CI servers I know of can incorporate style checkers and their reports into their workflow so this can be made really hands off, even to the point of automatically failing code review stage before its been lumped in the review queue.

Don't agree at all with the idea this type of doc should be rejected. In fact it's completely wrong to jump into automation without having "found which way is up" manually first time around.
And not necessarily if you did finish a CS degree. I was never taught about them, apparently only electronics/signal processing folks were at my uni.
Oh.. hmmm.. so this has changed since the (first and) last time I tried to get a piece of python code through a review at Google. Looks like better sense has prevailed finally.
(There's a version number on that public document but as far as I see, no version history so I could tell when the change happened.)
Just checked em out, they look pretty cool! Are you sure they aren't still in the market? I mean didn't you check the manufacturer's site? (i cant cuz it's in japanese and google services don't work in my office) but i did manage to find a blog post[1] about them from 2 years ago.

[1]http://threestepsoverjapan.blogspot.com/2011/12/gakken-kit-3...
If you're smart & hard-working, you can make anything work...up until a point
Well, you don't necessarily need to cash out to USD to withdraw from MtGox. Instead, you can transfer to an offline wallet with a few physical and/or cloud+encrypted backups.
Why, is there any reason to consider 194194 significant?

From 100100 to 194194 there are 194 of those kind of numbers (e.g 133133).

Even more if you count other symmetries as "significant", e.g 100001 or 123321
India is going to be (if not already) one of the largest consumers of Linux and other open source software.

I find it sad that most OSS conferences are held in Europe or USA, where you will find everyone toting Macbooks. Do note that I dont begrudge this and I do understand that it is the birthplace of most software.

However, I do wish that the chief developers reach out to the Indian community and help establish a vibrant ecosystem before we achieve Apple affordability.
This is valid c++11
I automated Windows and SQL Server installations / configurations using Powershell. I initially started with Ruby but eventually switched over to Powershell due to all of the things like being able to use .NET objects from within Powershell, etc.

If you work with Windows, this is a really awesome tool.
I would add "Must he refund anything at all by contract/policies?"
> I wonder if Google will ever end up in legal trouble for such a policy.

I don't think so. It's not like they're banning IE9- users from accessing their services. It's just that the content will probably look weird to them.
There's a theory that it could just keep going for a while yet.

We're talking $10,000 to 1BTC. So what then? Lose another set of zeros?
I would go a step farther: In many cases (esp. SaaS solutions) marketing takes even more time than the development.
I don't know where you got this from. Silk Road wasn't busted because of anything in the sites code-base.
Invasions / raids have occurred in the past
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chola_Navy
They don't? At University of Sydney every engineering degree does 2 years of maths and that includes Fourier Series.
Ask HN: Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for a Public Beta (not incorporated)
I am currently in the development of a public Beta of my product.

I haven't incorporated, yet.

I don't think it's highly probable to mess up and expose someone's data or do anything else that I might be legally liable for, but with all the recent hacks and all of the trolling out-there, I want to protect myself somehow from any personal liability before incorporation.

Could anyone suggest something other than spending lots of money (which I don't have) on lawyers?

Practical question - is there a copyright protection of Privacy Policy and Terms of Use texts? In other words, could I just copy portions of such documents, which I think apply to my case as well?
A patent license is not a product. A patent license is a permission to use a technology used in the product you buy.
I think the next error is hypergeometric distribution, because parents and real-life social networks do affect the success rate in achieving a job for skilled workers. Of course farmers give their farm to their offspring etc.
It is free? MS released their main product for free? Unbelievable. Their must be some catch here or I am missing something, either functional restrictions or buying a skydrive account. Well, looking forward to trying this out. Potential to be big in academic environments, especially with formatting fidelity.
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That's the thing with Fear. It makes you stupid.
I had that 160 in 1 kit. Blew out one of the transistors early on. Ended up most of the interesting circuits would not work at all after that.
HN can get just weird sometimes.

Next week: "I stood on a rusty nail and my foot got sore, I'll try not to do that again" guy gets taken apart for not standing on 1,000 nails in a double blind study to get statistically significant results of nail-standing-induced badness. And no, I don't know how one would introduce the double blind element either :-)

Honestly, sometimes sharing experience and telling stories is just that. Wish HN would stop picking on people for such contributions.
where do you personally buy/sell BTC ?
No template constraints yet?
Meet ART, Part I: Google's New Super-Fast Android Runtime
Is there nothing to be said for consistency?
Yeah, they re-released the EX150 series .. I have one of the new ones, but I really prefer the older kits that were released in the 70's and 80's - the synth component, for example was pretty badass. (Sorry I didn't make it clear that I was an Ebay junky looking for the older kits..)

I suppose its irrelevant these days; I could just wire up my own new Denshi blocks with ease, and it'd be a good reason to polish up my Japanese .. there is a thriving Denshi culture, but it seems to have withdrawn into Japan.

For some reason Denshi blocks never caught on out in the West; but I think - as we see with this new-school effort - there are still tinkerers out there who yearn for such modularity. In the case of Denshi in the 70's, I think it was more that kids just lost the blocks too easily. Magnets help, I guess!

EDIT: Exploring the subject a little more, I realize that in fact Denshi blocks are thriving in Japan .. in fact look at this great picture:

http://otonanokagaku.net/feature/vol27/0ku8jv00000006xr-img/...

I now have a reason for a 3d printer. :) (Another one, anyway)
>Bitcoins should lose 3 zeros, like many countries do to their currencies.

I've never heard of that, although the opposite has been done plenty of times. But that's rarely a sign of a healthy economy, most of the time it's done out of desperation I would think.
API's are great, but they are not the end of development.

While i develop several projects and write OpenSource apiDoc (http://apidocjs.com) i see the advantages of API's like you did it.
Clean way of development and access, but on the other side some double work on frontend and backend (for own Applications).

Iam excited of the next evolution step of API's or what will be used after API's.
The most recent spike is due to Baidu starting to accept Bitcoin and people speculating (not unreasonably) that nothing in China happens without the government's approval. Combine this with the fact that the Chinese are getting sick of receiving worthless American paper for their labour, which just gets devalued when they have accumulated enough of it. People are thinking China will switch to XBT and as a result it will become the new international currency (because, let's face it, whatever China says, the rest of the world must follow - if they decided to stop supplying us, we're dead - we don't have factories anymore, everything tangible that we had is now over there).

About the lack of regulation and verifiable identities - that's the allure of it :) It's not just the lack of inflation, it's the whole "Wild Wild West" atmosphere :) Like, remember the Internet before the old people and politicians found out about it?
What sort of server is Bitalo hosted on?
>EDIT: A guy in this thread told it works only for IE, then this statement was fixed in "also works on Chrome". Since I'm a GNU/Linux user I could not verify myself.

I'm pretty sure there's a version of Chrome for Linux.
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I don't think it'll be needed until/unless bitcoin stablises enough that people start quoting prices in bitcoin.

Right now, advertising a computer at 3 bitcoins is not practical. The value of those bitcoins change to fast.
I thought this too, but then, due to my lame password management, my mtgox account got owned and they took out around $250. Oh well. Easy come easy go. But what I learned is that bitcoins really are like cash. You lose it, and you won't get it back.

That's what's different with Visa - there's an element of insurance with a credit card, and that is greater than what you get with a bank's checking account.

The insurance of being able to cancel a check is what you get with a regular checking account, and that's greater safety than what you get with bitcoin.

Of course, there's a price to this insurance, and it's the fees, which are much higher than what you pay for bitcoin transactions.
Style guides are the worst to me. Taking some of the small joys left in programming away, while making you feel like a cog at the same time. Especially since many are outdated or just plain wrong, and very difficult to change once established.

Tools that take the AST and output standardized code for peer review and documentation sounds a little better. It would not deal well with the only human problem really worth having a style guide for - naming things. But at least humans aren't forced to jump through hoops. And the naming thing possibly can be settled with an interface that asks something like - "what do you want everyone to call the 'BitWarper' symbol?", for all named symbols.

But well written software is no place to express individuality - we just want it to work and not make our eyes bleed when we have to fix it! Even better then, just have machines generate and test all the code based on systems of higher order rules and style guides in situations where factory manufactured code is necessary. The outputs should be reasonable if the requirements are well specified (NASA style). Humans can come in after and do the real fun work in optimizing and finding clever hacks (if environment is not mission critical and such liberty can be safely taken).

Having humans program character by character, with their bare hands, while also suppressing creativity, is unnecessary in this Post-Industrial Age.
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Proper indentation (tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment) is still pretty hard to configure in most editors in my experience. Even in emacs I had to install an external package to get it to behave properly (and it still breaks from time to time).

Failing that I'd rather people just used spaces and no tabs. Using tabs for alignment just means it's going to look fucked up everywhere else. At least spaces are consistent.
Interesting, thanks - you completely changed my understanding of audio amplifiers and I'm learning that I'm stuck in the eighties... Big good stereo amplifiers from that era are so cheap these days that I failed to see the latest progress !

Links:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_d_amplifier

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplifier#Class_A
The online Office apps have been free for quite a while. At least a year now, if not more.
If we talk about the broader perspective, so much credit should go to the Indian Supreme court and its patent office for taking bold stance, time and again, on this broken patent system, allowing generics to make affordable ones.

For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis_v._Union_of_India_%26_... talks about how cancer drug were made affordable. Novartis (Switzerland) set the price of Gleevec at USD 2666 per patient per month (which is almost double of India's annual per-capita nominal GDP USD1414); Whereas, generic companies were selling their versions at USD 177 to 266 per patient per month. We can safely presume the situation to be much worse in Africa.

Based on this possibility, support is being replicated to Africa, notably for cancer, AIDS and TB.
Quote: "Why doesn't the DC offset affect the frequency information? Because adding a constant value to all the samples just makes the whole scribble bigger, which doesn't affect the midpoint."

This is false. The amplitude of the terms above f = 0 are unchanged by the DC component, regardless of its magnitude. And the "midpoint" of the time spectrum is in fact shifted up or down by the DC component. So the DC term shows up in both the time and frequency representations, without affecting the amplitude of the other terms.

Demonstration:

Time domain, DC = 0: http://i.imgur.com/XFFJAy1.png

Time domain, DC = 1: http://i.imgur.com/WRtCD6q.png

Frequency domain, DC = 0: http://i.imgur.com/dfAxUlc.png

Frequency domain, DC = 1: http://i.imgur.com/73tc9UA.png

In the fourth graph above, note the large DC term at the left.

I decided not to read beyond the first major error.
Bitcoin is antifragile
A "Satoshi" already has the common usage/definition of 0.00000001 BTC -- the current smallest denomination.

[1]https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#What_do_I_call_the_various_de...
I'm not an enthusiast, I don't own and have never owned any Bitcoin.

However I think your dismissal of Bitcoin is wrong. Not because it doesn't have flaws, and not even because it's guaranteed to succeed—there's no telling when a crypto breakthrough could cause Bitcoin to crash and burn faster than tulip bulbs—but rather because Bitcoin is the most interesting development in currency of the past millennium. There's simply no denying it has unique properties of considerable interest, regardless of ideology or affiliation.
> I try not to visualize complex functions of complex variables. Four dimensions is just too much.

It's just different representations of the same two dimensions. It's not really four dimensions, unless the view out your west window lives in a different set of dimensions than the view out your east window.
They don't need to