skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Many bitcoin users are using it because of the anonymity that the system provides [...]

I'd say that more and more bitcoin users are using it because of the hype, not because of the anonymity.

>>I'm sure that not as many bitcoin users would be happy to lose their anonymity to gain that accountability.

Maybe not yet. But if everybody currently holding and hyping bitcoin achieves their goal of mainstream adoption, then at that point the new majority bitcoin user demographic will probably be very happy to lose anonymity to gain accountability.
The whole point of the ending is that Cobb does not care about whether he is in reality or not, as long as he is with his children.

To search for clues as to whether it's one or the other is to miss the point.
Well, now I am even more confused — here is what I see with the same inputs you said you used. You did say that this was a quote for a two-person household with a $60k income, right?

http://i.imgur.com/CfWAAop.png
Immutability and Innovation: The Perfect Storm
CloudFlare is great stuff just wish they offered SSL on their free tier, should anyone really be running without?
This explanation of Inception changed my opinion completely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ginQNMiRu2w
While it is true that "immigrant" is not a "race", the idea that swedes are inherently less criminal than all other ethnicities is still racist.

One might argue that "racist" should be replaced with the term "xenophobic" or something like that. However the underlying assumption is still that some groups are "better" than others simply because of their ethnicity.
Ordinary Apple investor beating the system? Not sure what that would entail, but I do know that if you invested in Apple in 10 years ago, your investment would be worth a lot more today.
Open source it, get user base and code contributions. Then, if it takes off, offer an 'enterprise' version with perceived benefits.

The 'enterprise' version can be a complete re-write with a couple of features that don't get included in your 2.0 open source edition.

Assuming you get users for the original open source version and that the extra features are worth having, you can sell the product on to them. Whether they buy it or not comes down to price.

Testing is also something you can sell. There are advantages in having a separate test team, be that test team. Provide a good service and build a customer base.
Deploying to console is very expensive. Wii license is something like 40k, PS3 is more. Not sure about Xbox 360.

I was told by someone familiar that the XBOX One license will be free.
Python Coroutines
Why We Should Think About the Threat of Artificial Intelligence
ctrl-k for kill ring
ctrl-y for pasting from ring
cmd-a for selecting all text
Though poorly articulated, I am with the author that OOP done wrong (e.g., Java) is horrible. It leads to FactoryFactoryFactory and a lot of insanity!
It starts after 2 seconds or so.

Direct link: http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/UnitySetup-4.3.0.exe
Yes, I think so too. At http://codedose.com we document projects, write comments to our source code and communicate with our clients in English only, not because most of them are from Western Europe and US but it's just more convenient and natural than coming up with wicked translations. A singleton is a singleton, right? ;)
I am not sure if what I see is inaccuracy.
Apparently his site is built with Drupal. This is very meta.
Yes, but you can pull into a new local branch, do the history edit there, and then push that new branch, can't you? Not that I'm sure it would be worth it.
They aren't the first ones to have noted this.
Yes, as a build target: http://unity3d.com/unity/multiplatform

The IDE does not run on linux, just mac and windows.
In the first picture I saw border navigation panels and a main center content area. Why is that "too many columns"? 1998 was a good year, web pages contained more information, not just text boxes super sized freakishly, low content, just large massive items on screens which have shrunk vertically the past several years which is far more of a conundrum to me. Making use of columns seems to make more sense now than it did in 1998. If anything, the Japanese are ahead of the curve. If screen sizes start growing vertically again then I could see your point.
> Makes it easy to be a criminal in Sweden.

But apparently not easy enough for to actually encourage people to commit crimes.
The host can spin down a drive manually, but most often it's done autonomously be the drive.

‣  In Linux you can manually ...

• check the power state of your drive using: hdparm -C /dev/sda

• manually spin down the drive (standby) using: hdparm -y /dev/sda (it will immediately spin up at the first attempt to read a sector)

‣  Or you configure the automatic standby of the drive (which also does not involve the OS)...

• hdparm -S n /dev/sda will configure the timeout of the drive to a value encoding the time to spin-down on a non-linear scale, check the manpage

• hdparm -B n /dev/sda will configure another type of power management which doesn't specify a fixed timeout, but rather a vendor-defined type of arbitrary power saving measures on a scale of 1..254 (1: waste power, 254: conserve power, n>128 allows spin down)

The latter two options are handled internally by the drive and (as far as I know) even stored non-volatile.

http://linux.die.net/man/8/hdparm

(Edit: fixed my broken English ;-) )
publishing to optical media is very expensive. PS and Xbox have lower fees for publishing to their download service (rumors that Xbox live arcade is going to free)
Can you expand on this? I was unable to find anything about this anywhere else.
Emacs as an Intellij editor
A plugin to use Emacs itself as Intellij's editor.
>it's actually the best - if not the only - method to represent the contribution of the Top N contributors to a global measure

Yet it's still not great at that. Stacked bar chart (basically an unrolled donut chart) is better - again, because people perceive linear distances with much higher precision than radial:

http://i1.wp.com/flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/...
"What matters isn't whether the top stopped spinning; what matters is that Cobb didn't bother to find out."

Exactly.
Well, aren't you the bizzy buzzer?
What are some java projects looking for contributors?
NeverWet spray
Mooha – First Node Interface for PHP
I often had to deal with node interfaces in various programs. Starting from music modular software and finishing with the packages for creating 3D graphics.

The idea of graphical control in a program has always seemed to me a very elegant, and in some cases, the only good solution. Later, when besides music and video, I became interested in programming (mostly PHP), I wanted to try, even as an experiment, to create a graphic interface for solving those little creative challenges that I faced in my work.
Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive? [video]
Cinefile article at THE TOP of HN. Love it.
As an exercise, it's an interesting project. As a product, "better than Google docs" is not getting anyone anything - [Microsoft hatred aside] that space is where Excel lives. And as always, Microsoft is eliminating any of Google's potential advantages systematically.

After nearly 40 years of commercial spreadsheets, the empirical evidence is that spreadsheets are hard, otherwise there would be more of them. And the reason Excel dominates is because they get so many of the non-trivial details right.

Example: consider how often inaccuracy of JavaScript floating point operations makes a blog post appearance on the web [I recall several even on HN] versus the rarity of similar observations regarding Excel calculations. Then consider how many complicated floating point ops are done via Excel functions every minute of every day by non-computer scientists and non-programmers.

A couple of years ago I came to the conclusion that Excel, not Windows, is the killer-app for Microsoft, and that Microsoft knows it and invests in it accordingly. The person who decides on office suites is the manager who uses spreadsheets not the people using the word processor [in which case we would talk about WordPerfect not MS Word as the standard].
In drupal we trust.. Wait for drupal 8 it's going to be Legen.......wait for it ............DARYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
Verizon Selects Cloud Foundry, Joins Customer Advisory Board
What are best practices for writing async code in PHP?
Dressing up in drag is a time honoured tradition for comedy sketches. In places like London or New York city (that have strong arts and theatre traditions) this is a completely normal thing. Nobody would beat an eyelash at a transestite or a drag queen. The Mayor of New York used to do it all the time.[1] By turning this bet into a comedy sketch, branson is just displaying some wit, and he pulls it off.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoralty_of_Rudy_Giuliani#Dra...

That being said, you have every right to be offended.

However, It seems a bit rich tho that you need to justify your offense by quoting some 3rd party "explanation" and then trying to sell other people on it. You're not selling your own view, in that case IMHO.
Node.js is also based around a subpar language, so it's not necessarily the main cause either.
Cloud-based security on its way to being a billion-dollar business
Not exactly what you meant, but there is UnityVS. http://unityvs.com/
For 2D, Futile may be almost exactly what you're looking for

https://github.com/MattRix/Futile
You should try asking the people around you whether they wish to give up their language and culture to become an undifferentiated province. Even in the internationalized circles in which expats move you will find almost no-one (who is not an expat) who agrees with the proposition. It may well be that many people make many small decisions which tend towards that outcome, but that is what democratic, civic decision making processes are for. You might as well say that people vote with their wallets to build on the countryside.

And you only have to look at the way in which the political systems operate in different European countries to see the massive cultural differences which exist. How do you think the Danish would react to a politician like Berlusconi?
From Walmart To Bitcoin: The CEO Behind The Chinese Exchange
Not at all. Nolan let DiCaprio wear the ring with an intent. It is at least part of his message.
Thanks - I was not even aware people went into this much analysis of the movie. :)
I agree. The design may seem unusual from a Westerner's point of view but from a Japanese prospective, this may fit the bill as a clean, simple design. The same can be said in reverse.
Do you actually believe suicide can be caused by someone playing dress up? Your post demonstrates that you have no firm opinion on the matter and that you are "covering all the bases" as opposed to saying something meaningful based on your personal experience.

I lived with someone who tried to commit suicide and suffered from deep depression. Laughter was the one thing that helped.

It's pretty clear that RB is having a laugh and inviting others to join in at his own expense and not at the expense of any of the examples you give.

We must rigorously defend humor from the humorless, less they try to make sense of complex humor as in "What does it mean?" or "I don't get it therefore I must try to sound intelligent in the wake of my ignorance."
I have used RollingCurl (non blocking CURL) to fetch multiple API requests at once using PHP. Really easy to implement using a simple class. The example shows how you could build a simple efficient scraper.
The Basics of Ruby Memoization
http://africa-is-not-a-country.we-magazine.net/
Knitted headphones pads (by my grandma) (there, she fixed it)
Tor in a Box
good point. I'd have to say Google was an MIT startup.
Also, this came out a while ago...
Novice question. If the transaction history of every bitcoin is public why couldn't the owners find their bitcoin?

Do you have to have the bitcoin to get the history?
Does the transaction history not say where the bitcoin went?
It is difficult as we do not ask for any personal information of the reporter (except email address) and all reports are filed anonymously. At present, we are validating the genuineness of the reporter through email verification. I understand that won't ensure complete genuineness but the idea is not to focus on individual reports. An area will be tagged high-risk only when sufficient numbers of cases of a particular crime are filed on the platform. Even if there are a few fake entries, the threat will definitely be real and the idea is to bring that forward. Moreover, we are doing manual moderation and in future we plan to add crowd-moderation that can help in identifying fake reports to some extent .
That was a real common theory around the time of the movies release, something I noticed on my second (or third) run through it. The bigger tell is that it's not his totem to start with, it belongs to Mal and as is pointed out you have to have something unique to you, something only you could know. I don't think it ever actually reveals what Cobb uses for his.
> I have done all of that, except tried different ships. I only played with the starting ship, on hard difficulty, because I wanted to finish the main game before trying the extra modes.

You are playing on hard mode without any experience in handling game strategies and events, this is why you are losing. Try it on the easy mode and get a feel for some different strategies and ships. This game is not difficult, with some experience you can beat most runs in the game with any ship on the hard difficult.
If We Can Bury Carbon Dioxide, Why Not Use It to Make Electricity?
PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000] [1203] User bryanbra_drp1 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /home4/bryanbra/public_html/includes/lock.inc).

That's exactly what would happen because Drupal is a piece of crap that can't scale past 20 users without some serious hacking
Stanford vs. MIT: How Marketing Trumps Technology In Startups
Now I know what I have to download tonight! :)
Freelancer.com: verify users before spamming them
I have a full name that is fairly common in a certain area of the world. On top of that, I was fortunate (?) enough to get the first.last@gmail.com account for my name (back when gmail was still invite-only).

Over time, many people have attempted to sign up my e-mail address for various sites or tried to link my gmail account to another one. Whether these are mistakes or phishing attempts, I always try to take the appropriate action. If the provider supports it, I indicate that I did not sign up for this service, otherwise I ignore or mark as spam. Most services are good about not bothering me if I do not verify the account.

This morning, someone signed my e-mail address up to Freelancer.com. Not only did I get the verification e-mail, I got about 10 other e-mails about the "project" I had posted, which was apparently possible without the account being verified. When I woke up to these e-mails, I emailed Freelancer.com to let them know what had happened and asked them to delete my account. Since then, I have had one e-mail from a Freelancer.com concierge to offer to help me better market my "project".

All of these interactions, with an unverified user. This is of course scary to me because there is a small possibility that my e-mail account was hacked (in order to sign up to freelancer?!), so I'm hoping for a quick resolution. But, in the likely case that Freelancer.com is just treating unverified users no differently than verified one, all I have to ask is: WHY?
in other news, 93,000 people still have a juno.com email address.
If HFT is indeed lowering the cost, how come they are making the money and not the retail traders?

This sounds like an odd question if you transpose it to any other market where automated systems have lowered costs:

"If Amazon is indeed lowering the cost of buying books, how come they are making the money and not the consumer?"

"If Expedia is indeed lowering the cost of booking a plane ticket, how come they are making money and not the traveler?"

"If Toyota is indeed lowering the cost of manufacturing a car, how come they are making the money and not the auto buyer?"

Retail traders benefit from the cheaper trades facilitated by high liquidity in automated trading. There wouldn't be anywhere near as high liquidity in many of these stocks if there weren't automated systems trying to make money on penny price shifts.
That worked. Thanks.
I was beginning to wonder if it was just Hans Zimmer's score that masterfully carried my emotions at the end. But too jarring was the theme of exploring the depths of a shared psyche with your wife in an absolute, limitless world, then losing everything in yourself from a single mistake. The dream mechanism was a wonderful way of taking you from the sublime to the very feeling of hell.

Very glad to have read this subtle message from the director! A masterpiece in my mind.
The passwords were all encrypted with the same key, and ECB mode still leaks some patterns. Jeremi Gosney of Stricture Consulting Group was "fairly confident" of his decoding of many of the passwords. http://www.zdnet.com/just-how-bad-are-the-top-100-passwords-...

Edit: oh it's the same guy who has this beast of a cracking cluster! http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-crack...

Edit2: more details about how the decoding works http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/04/anatomy-of-a-pass...
tl;dr: Here's some statistically significant data on how 25000 drives have worked over 4 years, please now comment on how the 3 drives you've owned died.
To the Idea Guys and Growth Hackers
I am a software developer (iOS, frontend, and backend) and like most developers, prefer to spend my time coding rather than promoting. My current project is a weekly fantasy football site (think: Fan Duel and Draft Kings) called First Round Fantasy: www.firstroundfantasy.com.

I am looking to partner with someone to help with promotion. So far I am improvising and do not really know what I'm doing. I have decided this is better left to those with experience and/or actually enjoy this aspect of the business.

My proposal:
If you are able to hit certain metrics within a timeframe (both determined by mutual agreeemnt), then I will agree to do the following:

A) Split First Round Fantasy with you. You will own a considerable portion of a site which is already developed and will have development support which is hard to find - just ask your programmer friends. The equity portion will be at least 25%. Considering that the development is done and I am paying for the football data out-of-pocket ($800/month), this is a non-trivial offer. I hope to raise funding after gaining traction so the value of your stake would be reflected in the valuation we secure from investors. Of course, this valuation would be higher if you are able to attract many many users.

B) I will help get your idea to MVP. I am a contract iOS engineer in NYC and have been so for over two years. If you have a mobile idea, I could hammer it out for what would likely cost somewhere between 10k and 30k on the open market in NYC or SF. I also do a fair amount of backend work and have been messing around on the front-end (Backbone, Angular, etc). I got you covered on the "ends." The only area I don't do is Android.

So that's my situation. If you have questions/comments, leave a message on this thread. Also, feel free to PM me if you are interested. I am based in NYC and can meet any day. Thanks.
Excellent reasoning :)
The advantages were ease of installation on Windows, and network effects.
> I was told by someone familiar that the XBOX One license will be free.

This was announced some time ago already, http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/11/05/big-xbox-one-news-for-un...
Ask HN: Good tech conferences in Europe for 2014
We are doing budget planning for 2014 to attend a tech conference. We are in new england, but I would like to find something in Europe to get the feeling on how is the dev env over there. We use spring, java on a daily basis. I am also interested on machine learning may be something to apply ML in business.

This is the best I have found so far in the US.(2013) https://springone2gx.com/conference/santa_clara/2013/09/springone/event_schedule
WooCommerce now makes up 80% of WooThemes' revenue
Another good example why you never want to use a web service company for important things. Hopefully they will open source their stuff after shutdown.
I read the entire article in the accent of a West Country farmer. And it still made sense. :)
John McCain Calls on NSA Director to Resign, Backs Down Immediately
I see i[Thing] and assume it requires an Apple OS. It looks like this is still the case here: https://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html

>"To enable iCloud on your Windows PC (Windows 7 or 8 required), first set up iCloud on your other devices, then install the iCloud Control Panel for Windows."

The "first set up iCloud on your other devices" step appears to need an Apple device.
Just http://www.scala-lang.org/ and everybody's happy :)
Putting together a social network schema and keeping performance in check is less than evident. It's a problem that many have to tackle such as facebook, twitter, linkedin, flickr etc. Here is a blog article discussing some of the issues and approaches: http://www.kylehailey.com/facebook-schema-and-peformance/
Try using Readability. Even if ghostery blocks the content after it loads, Readability will just format it and show it to you, without sending data to Disqus et al.
+1 Hype != $. Lots of equipment, b2b companies raise tons of money below the radar.

http://online.wsj.com/news/interactive/NBT092012?ref=SB10000...

VCs take a bigger chunk at a lower price, because the risk/reward equation is different and they may need a lot of money, whereas unless you're racing for the scale of Facebook or Twitter, your mobile app doesn't need to raise that kind of money.
Let the programmer who hasn't done something dumb with a Git repo cast the first stone. I know I'm guilty as can be and surely I'm going to transgress in the future. It does kind of show a little bit of a need for a more formal permissions system for Git. Most organizations have something like this in place as policy but that doesn't prevent mistakes.
The 3 Motivational Forces of Developers
Google F1 vs. FoundationDB's SQL Layer
For me, WebGL is only for quick prototyping OpenGL ideas, before writing them in native code.
I think you're creating a false dichotomy here. It's perfectly possible for a government to encourage people to work in certain areas without descending into tyranny.

Most modern democratic governments already regulate their financial markets, and already invest in research grants, infrastructure projects and support for start ups. The fact is, providing incentives to work towards long term goals is exactly the kind of thing that free markets aren't good at.
What's legal is not always constitutional. That's why gov't workers take an oath to bear true allegiance to the Constitution.
Why does it have to be predictive? What's wrong with its being merely a descriptive tool? I agree that it should not be used as a basis for decision-making, but dismissing it as useless seems a little extreme. Granted, I have consistently scored the same over several years, although I think even variable, time-capsuled iterations can be helpful as a way to observe one's personal change over time. Of course, I suppose the problems arise when an employer administers the test just once (especially when that happens with new employees).
Oh absolutely. It's part of cultivating the culture. Personally I like the book "The No Asshole Rule."
Yeah, I suspect this is the major factor. Or maybe I'm just bitter after going to blender.org this morning and finding that they have ditched their orange-on-black color scheme for the "white minimalist + photo" style that's all the rage these days. Bleh.
Is version control really an area where the ability to do "interesting and clever" things is desirable?
Awesome web IRC logs
Open Comment Box - open source nodejs Disqus alternative