skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the short answer is they don't know about other operating systems or what an operating system is.
>I follow 30,000 accounts on Twitter

oh God why?
I think you're totally missing the point of the Make-A-Wish foundation -- the MAW foundation isn't for care. It's to make the life of a child who's been affected by a life-threatening disease a little bit better so that they can enjoy something magical in their life.
I once had a particularly slow week at work, and decided to write an article about how "Hello World" works in C. How it really works -- including compiling, linking, system calls, operating system involvement, hardware I/O, communication between ICs, etc. The path from the block of text to photons emitting from the screen, with fairly detailed explanations at every level.

I ended up with a 50 page LaTeX document that barely even scratched the surface, and then work picked up and I never finished it. A "full" explanation would probably be a 600+ page book.

I still think it would be a neat resource to have. We kind of take for granted that the simple "Hello World" is built on 60 years of research, and is anything but simple.
I'm no currency expert, but if these exchanges aren't liquid enough and some of them queue up payouts like they do, wouldn't that contribute to a bubble in the price? More money going into the commodity and the outflow of money artificially limited? I get interested in buying in every now and again and am totally creeped out by the general shady nature of every exchange.
I use it purely to Tweet and to network...either to respond to people or to just tweet what I've read. I almost never read my timeline as I follow just about anyone who follows me, and anyone who is either in New York, a journalist, or a programmer, though I don't follow too many celebrities.

I don't understand people who are put off by the noise. Just don't read your timeline. Also, it's not much work to manage...whenever I read an interesting article, I just tweet the headline and link...Literally a 10 second action that sometimes can catch a lot of attention and help you find other like-minded people,
omg this is so funny
Hadoop - 100x Faster. How we did it...
Web server means additional complexity both to deploy and maintain. After 20+ years in the corporate world I can guarantee that an alone-standing native client it going to beat anything with a web server.
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c) I don't.

The service had a value to me when there was a focus on interaction, but as it transitioned to a news feed/advertisement service it lost any and all use to me.

For news, there are enough sites that all spout off the same reviews and "exclusives". If there is truly breaking news that I need to be made aware of, there are a multitude of channels I can get the information from and all of them will convey the information better than a 140 character tweet could.
Very, very informative, thank you. I too have been wondering about this exact thing - if it's worth the trouble in the end, to do server checks and whatnot. Seems it's not, in these cases :)
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Maybe it was me again with http://www.hnstore.co/
I find myself wanting to get into the bitcoin speculation game, if only nominally with some small denomination (say 0.1 BTC or something). Can anybody else speak to or give advice on getting over the creepiness factor of finding and using an exchange? Are some more reputable than others? Places like MtGox don't inspire confidence and the physical location of many exchanges gives me concerns about them in the event of some kind of dispute.

I feel like if I were to do business with an exchange, I'd need to start a whole new bank account just to do it to keep my real account info hidden away from exchanges and potential bad actors. Is this a completely irrational feeling to have?
"In America among Scandinavians, we have no poverty either."
I don't have the reference handy, but somewhere Steve Blank basically says, "If there's another bubble, ignore all this advice. Building a real business only makes sense when the market is sane."

The only way I could look at SnapChat as a startup is that their market isn't consumers, it's Mark Zuckerberg plus a few people who are trying to compete with Facebook. We know that Facebook is willing to buy things perceived as threats to their business model, or perhaps to buy large sets of users they've failed to capture.

It's a stupid business to go into, in that the odds of success are really bad: low barrier to entry, lots of interest, lots of competitors, a winner-take-all game. But if you win the lottery you can get zillion-dollar offers from Zuck and feel like a genius.

Bubble 1.0 was filled with built-to-flip companies, and one of the things I like best about the Lean Startup movement is that it demands building an actual business. Sad to see that the pendulum might be swinging back some.
The nameservers they've given me are:
mary.ns.cloudflare.com
paul.ns.cloudflare.com
Hopefully Cloudflare can actually get the pages to load in order to serve them up.
If it doesn't look like solving itself soon I'll look at some better hosting.
IMHO vendor lock-in is anything that makes part of your work process specific to a given vendor. The harder it is to move from one vendor to another, the deeper you are "locked in".

And as a point of interest, I think these days its probly much easier to convert your database than it is to switch hosting platforms (well... in some cases).
What you've built looks great and I totally understand your rationale. It was just _scary_ to see that pop up. Did not think of the method described by @fjabre's comment and its children though (one of your sibling comments). Maybe that could be mentioned on the warning page in the Harp app after a denial from the initial Dropbox authorization too?
WOW, you should post that LaTeX document regardless of it being unfinished! Just the fact that you spent so much effort, requires some sort of release :)
I have read that it's much more difficult for the wrongfully convicted to get parole, as they tend to be rather averse to admitting they committed the crime.
> Americans are particularly unsympathetic to racial minorities living on the edge.

AFAICT, it's about neurological differences, not racial or cultural differences. White people with low IQ or poor impulse control get shafted just as hard, they are just a smaller proportion of the population. Gypsies and trailer trash are just as screwed as minorities of color.
You:

> Burglary is punished so severely because, like you said, the end result can be much worse than just stealing property.

Also you:

> We don't punish some future consequences. We punish dangerous and harmful behavior.

Please help me make these two statements make sense together. In this case, the severe penalty is only justifiable with a view of what might happen or what might have happened (that he might steal again, that he might become violent in future thefts, that he might have hurt those men). Now to the first might, I'll grant it's actually pretty likely. But to the second might, it's hardly clear, every summary I found suggested none of the past thefts or youthful cocaine charge (possession? couldn't find specifics) were violent. And the third might is the justification you offered in the earlier post. Which means, what, punish people for how bad their crimes could have been rather than how bad they actually were? I was in a car accident (my fault, rear ended a guy), it could have resulted in a fatality had it been at higher speeds (we were, at most, moving 10mph), should I be treated as if I had committed vehicular manslaughter?

What might happen in a crime ought to be irrelevant, what did happen is the important part. And again, in this case it appears that violence didn't enter into the equation. Might the victims have felt there could have been violence? Sure, but fear of violence (in this case he didn't even threaten violence, he came up with a lame story and ran off) is not the same as being the victim of violence.
They are still in a post colonialism desert walk. They were simply dragged to fast from a traditional hunter gatherer society into the modern industrial age. Denmark kidnapped their children, banned their language, built concrete blocks from them to live in, which were unsuited for their traditional lifestyle, and gave them alcohol to drink. Pretty much the same story as what happened with most aborigines and natives in other colonies.

So of course things got bad. Lots of social issues. It is improving, more and more young people are getting an education, but they have a lot of social issues to deal with yet.
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I have often had the same idea, but more towards the goal of the intended audience being non-programmers.

But if you do finish this, I certainly would be interested in reading it.
Actually the message quoted complains about the lack of _main not main, so the rest of this post is a huge overinterpretation. _main is IMO some windoizm connected to the use of WinMain for GUI apps.
No worries. I'm curious to see data past what bitcoincharts.com offers. If you look at their three years of data on a log scale, there's a very clear trendline with gains of 6x to 10x per year.
Dunno, I firmly believe that once you have that many users, you're sitting on a gold-mine just waiting to be exploited.
I worked with an IT department (all windows shop, but not afraid of Linux) who setup large screen high definition tv's around the facility for a request to support digital signage. The department wanted to save money, so they took on a DIY attitude instead of building it themselves.

Well, they know the windows platform and had windows machines lying around. They hooked up PC's to these TV's mounted high up on the wall, either mounted the PC on the TV or put it somewhere that couldn't be seen, and put powerpoint viewer on the PC's.

This might sound like a disaster, but the higher-ups loved it. And it worked quite nicely to my surprise. Windows can easily be configured to start the powerpoint file of your choice in fullscreen mode when the machine starts. Creating the material was as easy making a powerpoint.

So, in the end, the cost of materials and time was minimized because these guys used Windows + Powerpoint for their digital signage. And since they weren't using some buggy piece of custom software, it was fairly stable.

You may not like Windows, but it's a _fine_ computing platform. People get _work done_ with it. Personally, I'll stick with OSX.
All the legitimate exchanges require identity verification (passport etc.). If you want to trade without revealing your identity you'll have a difficult time, but you can try localbitcoins.com for trading in person.
this quote is from memory, so the wording will be off, but...

"It was as if the human brain had a blind spot, and someone had written on it in permanent ink, 'Kings. What a good idea.'"

I believe it's from the Discworld book Guards! Guards!； I always loved that imagery.
I'd argue cause...something like technology's version of the "trickle-down effect". Some displays will require advanced engineering skill, but I'd wager that the majority do not. When you're working at the leading edge of technology it's much easier to evaluate multiple competing technologies and compare them on the merits. When you're given a $5000 contract to produce an advertising display in 2 weeks, you're going to go for the most Google-able solution.
Can you please post it somewhere? I am really curious!
This is stupid. You should learn C properly (know how to avoid undefined behavior) or not at all. Exception if you're doing something that can tolerate remote code execution.
I do too. Chrome 30 on Ubuntu. Can't/Couldn't figure out if it was intentional (to attract my attention to the user presence count) or a glitch.
Or not. Wait until Samsung decides finally to abandon Android because they can't stand basing their entire business on a US competitor's work. Also so far Google is making very little on Android and on their own phones while Samsung and Apple are making all the profits. Eventually these two forces will force a change. Everyone wants to rule the world and every wants to be like Apple and control everything. Expect an ugly split into three mostly incompatible camps (plus Windows/Nokia as a minicamp). The dream of an "open" mobile OS is a temporary period not long for this world.
And that may give you a leg up on the rest of us. Not enough thinking of this sort gets done.

In fact, this is how one of the great teachers of CS, Dijkstra, taught computer science.

I have been known to complain about the second edition--the first is the one that I go back to. But it is an absolutely fundamental book for understanding the practicality of programming. I agree with your assessment.
Isn't it funny how VCs really invest in order to take advantage of the mania of later VCs or the public. Perhaps that's why founders found, too.

A noble calling it is not.
MtGox is having its troubles right now. I've used CampBX and Coinbase reliably without any problems about a year ago. I can't speak to the withdrawal process though, other than to say I wouldn't do it through MtGox anytime soon.

There's enough liquidity in the top exchanges that discrepancies in sell-prices from one exchange to another are indicative of people's trust in being able to withdraw their money from that particular exchange.
Best I can tell it's an issue of philosophy. Many people in the US (my people, lucky me) are fearful and angry. We really seem to like our vengeance (consider the country music songs that were coming out post 9/11 as we entered Afghanistan and Iraq). When it comes to crime we don't bother with "rehabilitation". When it comes to mental health, that's clearly a lack of personal responsibility. If I can tell that they aren't really a knight in King Arthur's court on a holy quest, then they should be able to realize it too. Lock them up, throw away the key.
That's not my issue. I'm fine using my real identity. I'm more interested in knowing if some exchanges are considered more trustworthy than others.
> that is attempted murder basically

Oh come on. I've lost my license for what you'd call DUI - made a stupid decision to drive the 1.5km back home from a pub, got a 1 year ban and a hefty fine. Yes, it was a stupid thing to do and I deserve what I got, but attempted murder? Don't be ridiculous.

At most repeated DUI is criminal negligence, and negligence on the part of whomever supplied the offender with the vehicle. It should be met with driving bans and escalating punishments if those are ignored. Life imprisonment is an amazingly harsh and expensive over-punishment for a stupid but usually non-malicious crime.
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> Basically, Apple makes phones that are too small and too expensive to win in the global market.

So, having profits higher than any other player in the smartphone market, with just 14% of market share, is “losing” is it?

Samsung had to sell nearly 2.5x as many devices to make LESS profit than Apple.

Google’s profit from Android is purely about eyeballs - what happens when people realise that Google actively watching everything they do is even more creepy than the NSA watching for what a small percentage of people are doing?

> iOS7 may be the beginning of a new approach for Apple. But they're going to have to launch a larger phone in addition to the already well selling smaller phone size.

So you admit that the current phone sells well, and Apple’s profit share shows that it is immensely profitable, and yet somehow Apple “must” launch something different?

As for the general concept of “phablets” - have you ever fucking seen someone using one? It’s like the 21st century version of someone walking around with a boom box on their shoulder.
Sounds good. I will check those out, thanks!
I think the focus on the dichotomy between the header and the body is misguided. If you separate them then an attacker can't attack the header using the body, but that's just inviting the attacker to find a way to insert data into the header to attack other header fields, or find secrets in the body that shouldn't be revealed.

Also, it seems like you could get the same benefit as using a separate key and encryption context by just padding the header to a block boundary.

The real problem with these attacks is that they aren't attacks on the cipher at all. You could be using a one time pad and the attacks would still be effective. What they really are is an attack on content-revealing efficiency. The only defense is to prevent the length of the message from depending on the existence of matches between attacker-supplied plaintext and secrets, and doing that in a way that allows non-cryptographer web developers to not screw it up basically comes down this: You have to disable TLS protocol compression. It exists at the wrong layer of abstraction because the TLS layer doesn't know what data is acceptable to compress against what other data.

But you still want to use compression, so the compression has to exist at a higher level in the stack, i.e. in HTTP or even HTML, where the web developer can specify exactly which data has come from an untrustworthy source so that it won't be compressed against secrets.
Every job is slated for automation eventually. The idea that jobs are a good thing to have around is widespread but wrong, in my opinion. Jobs are a relic of the pre-automation era of civilization.
I get that DHH doesn't believe in this whole trend of over-valuation of companies that don't make any cash, but doesn't this article give you the sense that they're a little bit jealous that they're not in that group?
Yes, like revoking the driver's license for good. Not a life prison sentence!
d) Never used Twitter

As soon as I realized that sometimes there is news worthy stuff posted there, there will always be reporters crawling through the noise to find those and put the content on their respective outlets. What's the point of me subscribing to boat loads of literal shit ("at toilet, pls rt") to find a pearl now and then, when I can use traditional media to get to the pearls immediately? Sure, I might not get the pearls instantly, but I think that sacrifice is totally worth it when I occasionally read through some public Twitter feed.
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Sell like Hotcakes? They sell reasonably well in one country - South Korea. In the rest of the world they’re at 7%.
I'm surprised this isn't a poll.

Anyway, my answer is "a", I use a client, Tweetbot, that syncs my read position across all my devices. When I wake up in the morning it shows me the last tweets I read the previous night. I then read them chronologically until I'm caught up.

I detailed that process because I feel that there's an important distinction between what I do and scrolling back for tweets I missed. For me, the process to catch up is the same process I use to read Twitter throughout the day, meaning that I don't have to do anything special when I wake up.

Of course, if I'm away or otherwise have been unable to check Twitter for two or three days, catching up can be a bit difficult and I might just give up and scroll to the top, then scroll down a bit just to see the most recent tweets, but I try to avoid doing that most of the time.
Wondering if there's any tax implication on earning money from bitcoin speculation. Does anyone know?
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Mt.Gox is the main reason of the current raise in bitcoin price.

As Mt.Gox users have difficulty cashing out dollars, the only option they have is to convert those dollars to bitcoin (buy bitcoins on Mt Gox), or risk loosing all the money. At the same time spread they spread panic on forums, so a large quantity of people who have funds in MtGox in form of dollars, is currently trying to buy bitcoins on Mt. Gox, making the price raise.

That is also the reason Mt. Gox bitcoin price is much higher than other markets.
I'd love to have it, integrated in the OS and by default as well. Something might be moving, as Google added "App Ops" [1] (hidden by default, but it's there) in Android 4.3, which allow you to revoke permissions from applications.

That said, there are some alternatives to Cyanogenmod's Incognito mode, which should work better.

One is XPrivacy [2], which relies on the XPosed Framework [3]. This is what I'm currently using on my Android phone. You can allow/restrict some permissions by default, and then have a whitelist for certain applications.

Another one is OpenPDroid [4], which requires you to patch your rom (there are some preset for the biggest roms, so usually it's just a matter of a few clicks). I haven't used it, but it should work just like XPrivacy.

XPrivacy and OpenPDroid send blank/fake data instead of blocking applications from using certain APIs, so they cause way less crashes. They even allow you to choose the fake data to provide, so that you can fake, for example, your location.

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/25/app-ops-android-4-3s...

[2] https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy

[3] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401

[4] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2098156
> “You have SMS waiting from Dad, Jonathan and Florian”. The mightytext guys thought it would be more engaging to take a look into my recent SMS messages, pick up recent or popular contacts and use it to get me to use the product.

> To me this is crossing some invisible but very clear line. I haven’t used the product yet, and it’s already trawling through my personal stuff?

I'm confused by this example. Isn't this exactly the purpose of MightyText, the app he installed? It's routing your text messages through you server. Obviously their system knows what texts you are sending, otherwise how would it function?
Also, the product has been used if you give it permission to access your contacts.
Well, you could look at the charts of exchanges before mtgox, like bitcoinmarket.com with data from 2010:

PayPal USD: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bcmPPUSD#czsg2010-01-01zeg20...

LibertyReserve USD: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bcmLRUSD#czsg2010-01-01zeg20...
Mt.Gox is the main reason of the current raise in bitcoin price.
As Mt.Gox users have difficulty cashing out dollars, the only option they have is to convert those dollars to bitcoin (buy bitcoins on Mt Gox), or risk loosing all the money. At the same time spread they spread panic on forums, so a large quantity of people who have funds in MtGox in form of dollars, is currently trying to buy bitcoins on Mt. Gox, making the price raise.
That is also the reason Mt. Gox bitcoin price is much higher than other markets.
I feel that while it’s good that we’re encrypting HTTP more and more, there is too much focus on it, and other protocols are being neglected. Most SMTP and instant message traffic, for example, is not encrypted and authenticated.
You'll have to evaluate which exchange you want to use for each of these three actions:

1) buying

2) holding (exchanges are targets for hackers whereas with a private wallet you can be hacked, or you can be virused, or you can lose it of your own fault)

3) selling & withdrawing
>>People use what they know. Given a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Slightly related. One of my professors wrote a 200 line matlab code to extract a column from a csv file, when all she needed was a one line "cut". The only language she knows is matlab.
Whenever I start a new project I snag the Twitter name for it and link it up to automatically tweet when stuff is posted to the website so I can at least show up. Same with Facebook. I don't think I'd ever use is it as a communication tool, though I might consider it for news if RSS completely died or something.
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So WikiLeaks are policing black humour now? Do we need to submit all bad taste jokes in advance to see if they are be approved or not?