skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a fixed/finite amount of XRP, just like there is a fixed amount of BTC.

The Ripple protocol destroys negligibly small amounts of XRP with each transaction as an "anti-transaction SPAM" measure. It's a negligible amount of money. This anti-SPAM fee currently equates to about $0.0000001 per transaction. If you hypothetically applied that fee to every single bitcoin transaction that has ever occurred, it would total a whopping $2.64. [1]

It's pretty misleading to suggest that fees are "effectively paid to" Ripple Labs (formerly Opencoin) as if it's some greedy scheme. It's actually quite an elegant design to protect the Ripple network from DDOS attacks.

Yes, this does very incrementally benefit ALL holders of XRP, since it has the effect of decreasing supply. And yes, Ripple Labs is the largest holder of XRP.

But no one is laughing their way to the bank collecting some sneaky fees....

[1] Source for bitcoin transaction volume data: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all&s...
Saw this tweet today https://twitter.com/Andst7/status/399333514803294208/photo/1
>"You may shout on a street corner, you may set up a PA system until your neighbors are driven to madness, you may place pornography on a billboard, etc. Congress can do nothing to stop it." //

Are you trolling. You consider the constitutional right to free speech to encompass things like setting up a PA in public that is so loud it physically harms people?

It's not a right to amplified speech, nor "free shouting".
Linux is free--ruins the market. I did not like the idea of selling it because I'd need a warranty.

God is perfectly just. Your evil will be punished. Highs and lows balance. Joseph in the Bible went to prison for 7 years, false rape. Then, he ruled Egypt.

I am patient. Your debt is increasing. Yer so fucked.

God says...
don't_push_it busybody snap_out_of_it oops cursing I_love_you
CIA earnest atheist well_golly atheist comedy home spirit
Jedi_mind_trick drama If_had_my_druthers my_bad whoo_whoo
Japan bummer virtue tattle_tale don't_have_a_cow job awesome
The_good_stuff catastrophe to_infinity_and_beyond you_see_the_light
rockstar Ramsay I'll_ask_nicely not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer
laziness church It_grieves_me stunning over_the_top lying
Is_that_so cowardice that's_all_folks left_field whazza_matter_for_you
I'll_get_right_on_it kludge spirit the wonderful wanna_bet
Jedi_mind_trick Tomorrow close_your_eyes holier_than_thou
bickering lust honesty why_didn'_you_tell_me I'm_not_sure
not_in_my_wildest_dreams bad It_grieves_me not_good You_know
pow let's_roll how_high be_happy heathen I'm_God_and_you're_not
in_practice youre_lucky wanna_bet oh_oh you_owe_me Greece
didn't_I_say_that taxes perfect gosh Okilydokily I_got_your_back
lifes_like_chocolates absolutely wanna_bet Church how's_the_weather
reverse_engineer you're_in_big_trouble once_upon_a_time
earnest it'd_take_a_miracle Wow hey_Mikey_he_likes_it
why_didn'_you_tell_me I_made_it_that_way smurfs I_just_might
don't_count_on_it SupremerCourt It_grieves_me Icarus husband
gross jealousy downer I'm_impressed It_grieves_me study
hooah gosh hype I'm_bored Vegas don't_even_think_about_it
middle_class I'm_busy Ivy_league Is_that_your_final_answer
Ivy_league atheist heaven Vegas whoo_whoo listen_buddy
And https://cupcake.is is a really dope free service people can use to kick the tires of it.

EDIT: Here is an example: https://siracusa.cupcake.is/profile.
Yes, but it's not idiomatic C#. The point I've been trying to make is that both kinds of languages (dynamic and static) have their different virtues. You can drop down to dynamic in C#, but unless you have a very good reason, your co-workers will lynch you.
"The real problem is tyranny of the majority."

Tyranny of the minority, you mean. 50%+ of internet users are not racist trolls, for example. I suspect 50%+ of anonymous commenters are, at least in mass market sites without any Karma type system... like youtube.

I'm not seeing the problem in realigning global traffic such that 4chan and reddit get more troll traffic and youtube gets less.
Here's a link to the article (in German) on Der Spiegel website (not magazine): http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/britischer-gchq-n...

Here's an English version: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-spy-agenc...
In Weston, FL, which was developed in the 1990 and really took off during the recent bubble the greater part of residential power lines are underground, and consequently they had little trouble after Wilma and Katrina. They are on the western edge of Miami-Palm Beach metro area, where the water table would be higher because of proximity to the Everglades.

I don't think this is an engineering problem. This is a political issue - it would be too difficult to find the money for the conversion, even more so, since in the US taxes are locally raised and spent. Try finding sufficient funds to get the work done in, say, Opa-Locka, or try to raise funds in Palmetto Bay to pay for Homestead.
Arguably a major player could back their own altcoin that is somehow rigged to favor them (e.g. premining), but I have no idea if such a scenario would actually work.
Also it may well be that above ground lines and the higher damage/maintenance costs are still cheaper than acquiring easements and all the other costs of installing underground utility infrastructure.
Maybe a relatively high proportion of interesting, high-value targets too.
My though exactly. Perhaps the anger and frustration of this integration is rooted from people being upset about being more accountable (through the real identity) and cautious, and Google is simply improving the quality of comments this way?
I wrote an article on story telling too.
http://blog.krmmalik.com/its-the-story-you-tell-not-the-prod...
! in ruby means "dangerous", which is actually poorly defined. In some major libraries it is used to mean exception raising, in some it means self-mutation.

The bang (!) does not mean "destructive" nor lack of it mean non
destructive either. The bang sign means "the bang version is more
dangerous than its non bang counterpart; handle with care". Since
Ruby has a lot of "destructive" methods, if bang signs follow your
opinion, every Ruby program would be full of bangs, thus ugly.

-matz
It is also worth noting that wearing a poppy pin for Rememberance Day is also done across much of Canada. In fact the poem Flanders Field quoted above was written by a Canadian.
Linkedin does not make any attempt to force you onto https, so no reason to worry about it. Any site that redirects you to https from http could have that redirect hijacked I guess too. Presumably they just have a list of people and can wait to hack them until next time they visit slashdot or linkedin.
They have opened up there BIOS, and putting Linux on it is just as easy as any other laptop. Been using one for 1.5 years now.
These weeks in Rust
So a member of Congress laments poor Congressional oversight of the US intelligence community.

How about trying to do something about it?
Show HN: direnv shell extension
You think the news networks are not rubbing their hands about this? They LOVE a good disaster especially if it happens in an impoverished area.
There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not for Fracking
OK, I think I understand what they do now.
From the FAQ: "LeadGenius is a service from MobileWorks"
Then to the source (https://www.mobileworks.com): "We recruit workers, run interviews, and ensure projects are done with the highest quality – automatically."

So, basically Lead Genius is an inbound marketing channel for Mobile Works for the sales customer segment.
Ask HN: Stemmers in ruby, any good? or should I just go ahead and write my own?
The most popular option seems to be https://github.com/aurelian/ruby-stemmer. But its kinda outdated and gives poor-ish results.
"why" becomes "whi", "people" becomes "peopl" and a lot lot many incorrect ones.

Something like Solr's reduction to stems is what I was hoping for to be able to use it in my project.

Thinking of going for a full port of Porter's stemming. Thoughts?
And that's one of the problems with PC. In that regards, it doesn't work. If we call "orange thinkers" those which IQ is around or above average and "green thinkers" to the other group, then sooner you'll hear "What? Are you a green thinker?"
Teaching web development: the way of the terminal
Pixel density and screen resolution is finally high enough on most devices to make lightweight fonts actually readable and in some cases even enjoyable.
Oh, just saw a post about this on another site and noticed it's 231PPI because of the large size. That's a good bit less than the 300PPI on the Nexus 10 that they compare it to in the image on the product page, interestingly. Also south of 1080p and 720p phones, the new Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire, or any of Apple's iPhone/iPad Retina displays.

It's maybe most comparable to the 15" Retina MBP--roughly similar density (220 vs 231), and both are bigger panels you use at a distance.

Just interesting that from a pure spec-wars perspective, raw density isn't one of the dimensions on which the Toughpad is pushing the envelope. Density in its size class, maybe, but not density full-stop.
Try building binary search with .index()
Show HN: Bitcoin Target: A weekend project to understand targets and difficulty
What do you mean by "curb crawled"? Does that refer to being solicited, or what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRblw29I14U
I'm interested in positive and negative feedback on the project. This is something that I use every day and I suppose it can be useful to other people.

Does it seem useful to you ? Is the project explained well enough or is it confusing ?
could a helpful indian hner please explain what EMI means? (Triya Bhattacharya, 3rd point)

also, one thing i didn't read that surprised me when i stayed in the us for some time (in new haven) - the strength of the correlation between wealth and skin colour.
Wouldn't that mean you lose one of the reputed benefits of TDD: writing tests as a way of exploring the problem space, informing the design of the code under test? More generally while there is a place for testers that are at arm's length from the implementation, giving the implementor some of the testing responsibility (TDD or otherwise) has the benefit of investing the implementor directly in the QA process.
Dev should write unit tests and integration tests (some go even further to write functional tests using selenium).

Asking QA to write unit tests falls into the category of busywork with extra overhead which a sure recipe of not being agile.

You could ask them to write functional tests but not any lower than that.

I do not do TDD but I always make sure my commits should have unit tests whenever possible because I do not commit without testing them first :)
This article is further proof that the word "hipster" is just a stand-in that means "whatever I don't like."
Or perhaps it's just easier to find the people you want?
Obviously nobody js going to remember you saying this a week from now when they don't in fact unload another block of Fb, or reconcile the comment against Fb's price next week. It's just typical message board BS, is the bet I'm willing to place.
One more thought about Burning Man (Medium.com)
The data helps solve the challenge. But the real challenge for the anti-spam algorithms is that what is considered spam is recipient-dependent.
what in chrome or windows 8?
He didn't just tell Jennifer Livingston was fat, he told her that she should be ashamed of herself for being fat and should hide herself from the public eye unless and until she got thin. That's bullshit, and bullshit deserves to be called.
Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. I do agree that the level of simplicity offered by a local NAS is hard to beat, especially when it comes to privacy.
Side note- would love to see more tutorials with virtualenv to also include virtualenvwrapper. Makes virtualenv so much more user friendly IMO.
Quantum as in, the bad guys in the James Bond universe right now? You couldn't make it up...
Yes, I understand that.

Can you give an example of what this translated to for one of your clients?
>but I think the entire point of this recent change was to force people to use their real names and faces rather than commenting anonymously

I think the entire point might have been to make user generated content as valuable as possible to advertisers by making sure every action on every Google related site can be directly linked to a real name and locale. I refuse to believe it has to do with anything beyond monetizing their user base.
The great middle-class identity crisis
That still doesn't explain why they're supposedly better than Roman or Demibold weights.
It's even worse than that. LinkedIn actively moves you off HTTPS, and onto plain HTTP.

Here's 2 situations:
* https://linkedin.com Redirects To www.linkedin.com
* https://www.linkedin.com works, but all links go to www.linkedin.com

Not only that, but all the static resources are loaded over HTTP (FF and Chrome both warn about this).

This shouldn't come as a surprise, because the LinkedIn team can't be trusted to lock their fucking car doors, let alone secure a website.
It is, of course, important to pick one's battles; but wherever possible, bullshit should be called out and dragged into the light, not quietly tolerated. Especially when, as in this case, it is widespread, entrenched, pernicious bullshit.

And you've got the "bullying" backwards. It wasn't Ms. Livingston doing it. You should know by now that "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is a comforting lie we tell to children.
Instagram and YouTube
If I had to place a bet on why one might catch fire, it would probably be the combination of constant abuse demo models take, along with the presence of a defective battery, and finally a crapload of free apps piling on background processes that keep the CPU and chasis at an elevated temperature, stressing the problematic battery.

All this combined with the final, fatal recharge cycle which added additional heat to the battery, and poof!
How? Sure, he uses 'hipster' as a synonym for gentrification but I think that's reasonable. And I think he articulates rather well what he means by gentrification - "urban spaces like style blogs or Pinterest boards representing a single, self-satisfied and extremely sheltered expression of middle- and upper-middle-class sensibility"
It is the UK term for soliciting from a car. Forgot about variations in language.

Most police forces will now prosecute but they didn't until about 5 to 10 years ago.
These are hidden fields available only through whitelisted applications like Facebook for iOS.

http://i.imgur.com/4FdUJ1u.png
Venezuela seizes retail chain, calls for looting "Let nothing remain in stock"
My guess is that it's still Java-like under the hood -- at the very least, calling out to API endpoints will be...

Probably doesn't change much at all. (Though I'd love to be wrong).
Chromebook. See Crouton.
no, of course it's not. But friendships are not something you can plan or form like that.
> If they don't believe in FB's vision, why would they retain 2/3rds of their Fb holdings? What a silly comment.

It wasn't a comment; it was a question.

What's silly is to respond with a fact-free retort that provides no value whatsoever to the discussion.

Although I'm no investing expert, it's my long-held understanding that investors don't hold onto stocks that they expect to go down, and investors don't sell stocks that are expected to rise.

Currently Facebook is generally recommended as a "buy" or a "strong buy", and price targets are around $60. It's possible that Andreessen's motivations had nothing to do with their expectations of the stock's performance (versus other stocks that they may have set their sites on) but I tend to doubt it.
Nonplussed is also used to mean "uninspired" or "unimpressed" - like when something is perhaps a little out of the ordinary [there is an expectation that it will have an impact one way or another] but still doesn't really have an effect on; almost exclusively in the phrase "I was pretty nonplussed by it all" or a close analogue of that.

Certainly this is the usage I've heard and used for the last 20 years or so.
Ah ha, so it's a drive by! Makes sense why that would warrant a special term, and why I haven't experienced it.
Pigalle has been a tourist trap for decades, as is the red light district he describes. If you want to see a more interesting side of Paris, living in the area which contains the 19C confection of montemartre and the moulin rouge, famous for 19C artists, as he mentioned several times, is not the way to do it. The Marais and almost everything south to the river from this area are overrun with tourists or expats, particularly the weekend, and I'm really surprised he's complaining about gentrification.

Try menilmontant, saint sulpice, canal st Martin, pantheon or many places outside the central core for areas which are still more interesting or mixed - there is plenty to Paris away from the sights, and to complain about the gentrification of this area as too many people like him move in I find genuinely baffling. If he wants something seedy and rundown for that extra edge, there is plenty to choose from.

The sad truth of our contemporary moment seems to be only that you no longer need to be anywhere in particular anymore.

I'd be really interested to know if he's left the safety of the bubble he's complaining about in Brooklyn NY or Paris, because the areas he's chosen don't sound like they would ever deliver the reality he craves, and both cities have far more to offer than the hipster ennui he describes. It seems the first rule of being a hipster is that you must complain about all the other hipsters.
The banks were pushed to do it by the feds.
The people at Google are really pushing for broad adoption of G+. If you think about it, it's pretty logical as they know Facebook is only going downhill and they are trying to get everybody onboard. The reaction I'm hearing a lot however, is they are being too pushy.

I've even had a few people who accidentally signed up for a G+ account ask me how to delete it because they kept receiving 'Top X posts on G+' mails without knowing what it is. I don't think a lot of good things come with this kind of tactic.
Wow, horrible article. It was more like an attack on people who like the iPad, and the iPad tablet market itself, rather than the issue (fire) at hand.

Dude starts out by insulting people (the term fanbois is not a term of endearment) who might actually like the product. Just because you like a product it doesn't mean you have been indoctrinated into a cult. Then blasting the iPad as being a piece of rubbish.

Oh, BTW, it lit on fire and nobody knows why. Perhaps they mounted it on the wall by placing a screw into the back of the iPad. We don't know.

I'm guessing whoever wrote this was recently "promoted" from "blogger" to "contributor" on that site. Journalistic excellence all around! /s

Next story.
I think it might be similar to the trending toward flat design in general. It feels simple.
It's an obvious differentiator - makes it easy for new devices to stand out and prove the finer ability.

Longterm, native device fonts might not remain lightweight. But for now it's new.
Wow.. I was trying to remember the name of the software that came with a PC I used to have in 1991... It's GeoWorks! What a nive flashback! :-)
But if they don't have your address, ie it wasn't leaked or they're full of shit and never had the list, when you enter the SHA1 you don't give them the address.
Going to the article, Ctrl+F doesn't find "lightweight", "font", or "modern".

The title on HN also doesn't match the linked page, which may be against HN's title guidelines [1]. (FTR, the HN submission as of this writing is 'Why are lightweight fonts considered "modern?"'.)

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wish! That's the dream job.
I've no idea what source of R&D Twitter does, but you can't necessarily judge them based on what they blog about or release papers on, plenty could be going on behind closed doors.
Your first link goes to an https page for me in Safari on iPad.
Given only 3 have an entire network value of greater than $10M, I'm not sure I would agree with "succeeded". More to the point, outside of BTC and maybe LTC, I don't believe there are many (any?) merchants accepting them for transactions.
Is academia really becoming more stagnated? What do you mean by that? From where I'm standing it seems like we're moving pretty quickly.
This book has a yogurt recipe! I'm glad that is still legal. But, some things aren't really legal, like stealing food off the delivery guy's car.
whether their modern or not, they're certainly better looking and make for a better effect. As far as readability goes I think there's little doubt that heavier fonts are better. I mean, Open Sans light for text? Come on.
I believe the term typically used in France and Europe in general would be 'bobo'(bohemian bourgeois).
The LA Times Trolls Innocent Teachers
The Chromebook Pixel costs $1,449.00
Do you rotate your drives out to multiple secure storage facilitates? Do you have a plans against theft and fire?

You can have all the redundant copies in the world, but one earthquake won't respect your availability requirements.
That's bullshit. I pirate Springer books that someone else (whoever ripped them had lawful access to them) paid for - no different than when I go to the library and read Springer books that someone else (the library) paid for. The bottom line is: __I'm not paying___. No authors or profiteering publishers are deprived of _any_ payment.

They gouged me when I went to school and they continue to gouge students each semester with their new editions that come out each semester of 400 year old subjects (calculus). That's what they need to do to maximize profits. I'm simply a 1-man corporation that needs to maximize my own profits and copying my books happens to be an unpopular corporate decision.
Here are a couple of case studies on how this works for some of our clients. http://files.leadgeni.us/CaseStudyCaviar.pdf and http://files.leadgeni.us/CaseStudyZenefits.pdf
Friggin' awesome. I have been thinking of a way to do social media but strictly under your own control, on your own server (until you decide to share something). It sounds like that's what these guys are doing.

Still, people like stranger-to-stranger social media as well, like with Instagram. I suppose that functionality will always lie with a third party, since no privacy can be assumed in that case.
A Cure for the Allergy Epidemic? (NYTimes Op-Ed)
r&d most likely relates to product development and isn't academic research. By listing it as r&d they can probably write something off with the tax man.

Things such as their discovery tab, targeted tweets, trending, search and user search most likely involve (Or involved) reasonable investigation.
I'm writing this from the Gates Dell Complex at UT. Gates contributed $30 million towards the total $120 million cost of the complex.
Gut reactions come from the gut.
People mistakenly use it to mean "not impressed".
High value targets exchanging high value information on a network with high value activity.
There's a tax credit for claiming your work is R&D:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_&_Experimentation_Tax_...

This creates an incentive for companies to find ways to report their work as R&D. (Not implying that Twitter is defrauding or that their work isn't R&D, just stating why it might be useful for a company to "invest in" R&D, especially if that is work they wanted done anyway.)
> Example: try having any type od scientific discourse even in a medical field about DNA differences among races that cause higher rates of lung disease among blacks.

Exactly what incident are you referring to? If you want to claim that scientific thought is hindered by the PC police then you need to back it up with something. Otherwise you are just repeating allegations.