skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Content wise yes. Font size no. Font is so small it is almost unreadable.

Take-away: To improve time spent on site, and return visitors computing.co.uk should increase the font size!

That just reminded me of an (urban) story where a man went to Fairy Liquid and offered to increase their profits by 25%. He wanted 5% of the 25% increase. They signed contracts and agreed to the deal. The simple solution was to make the hole 25% bigger. The customers squeezed just the same and 25% more came out. Profit.
Like I said, you are probably right that my perception in this regard is not representative of German society as a whole. However, I consider myself to be male, and I have to object to a blanket statement like

> Prostitution is tied to the nature of the sexuality of men

It's obviously not tied to my nature nor the nature of most men in my social circle. Are we not real men, then? I get that the intent here was probably to express how prostitution is fueled by male desire, but I don't agree with the implication that this is how all men feel.
Paper stashes can't be put in DarkJPEG and uploaded on Facebook or Dropbox.

I'm not arguing that it's always possible to find stuff out. I'm saying the bar is being raised much higher. Today cops don't go to thousands of people to make a "haircut" on their bank deposits. It's done with a single button click and negotiation with a couple of bankers. With bitcoin you'd have to send around policemen to every house to confiscate stuff. When there's no good justification, people will strongly oppose that.

The reality is that if you want to hide from govt and govt wants to find you, then Bitcoin does not help you much (although it's certainly more mobile than cash). But if thousands of people are hiding from govt routinely, it's much more expensive for govt to go after all of them at once. See what happens with Bittorrent. Some people get caught or threatened, while thousands of others enjoy cheap movies.

Regarding last example: you underestimate the power of good mixing. You can swap coins anonymously so that all the "tainted" coins get distributed to thousands of different hands and never go back to you anymore, while you receive thousands of little coins back, from various sources, not tainted by whatever business you was doing before.
This happens all the time, it's nothing special. Normally targeting known btc users, using emails from leaked DBs (eg. gox)
> I just don't understand how the scam could work.

You send the money, the scammer pockets and laughs
> Bitcoin right now is an incredibly bad long term value store.

It's a deflationary currency. Sure there may be rises and falls, but in the long term, the trend will only be in one direction.
A significant amount of the data is freely available data produced by the U.S. government(s). The issue is processing it into something nice.

The level of coverage that can be done with that data can sort of be inferred from this post:

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-satellite/

(they basically processed landsat imagery to get large scale data for the entire globe, and free imagery of the US gets quite a bit finer scale)
Chromecast works with youtube videos and google chrome tabs only (and it lags using tab casting)
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I made it to the robot full of prerecorded videos before my eyebrow went up and alarms and whistles went off in my brain.

I'd hope that is the furthest anyone would have to go to se the absurdity. I'd be interested if anyone made it past that before noticing it was a joke.
I'd say 50% greed, 50% stupidity.
..."SatNav and ILS app written in 3 lines of javascript"?
German intelligence agency to step up counterintelligence -official
Not too far from the truth:

Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_dating...
> now is a pretty good time to buy

Are you bonkers? Price rose nearly 10 times in about a week. That's practically textbook definition of a bubble. Wait until it crashes and comes down to 200$.
Yes, but how does anyone with the ability to navigate the fairly pain-in-the-ass process of getting Bitcoins fall for something so transparently stupid?
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That's a great idea. I see a couple of problems though:

- Once the simulation gets sufficiently advanced, it will want to pass the buck to another simulation, because that's what you did.

- In a world where many people do that, if you find yourself on a date with someone, that raises the chance that you're a simulation. What you do with that knowledge is up to you :-)
Judging by the blockchain info [0] they are either using unique addresses or the scam isn't very successful.

[0] https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9...
Heh. You ever hear of Vixenlove?

She was a yahoo or aim chatbot (can't remember which) that pretended to be a slightly flirty teenage girl but logged all her interactions to the author's website. There was some great material in there.
I used to read the Economist, and I was very much under the impression that they were champions of objectivity, and that they provided a very critical and unique point of view. Nothing further from the truth: they also have an agenda, so they shoehorn the facts to their conclusions. Exactly as everybody else is doing (maybe not so cleverly). I stopped reading it when I could pretty well predict what they would say about a certain topic. And currently their "I told you so" attitude disgusts me profoundly.
That doesn't make sense, I just said that people who consent into prostitution should be allowed to do so and you say they shouldn't be allowed to do so because people shouldn't be forced into prostitution? Forcing people into prostitution should be illegal, I agree with that. But if two people consent into something concerning their own bodies, the state shouldn't have a say in that. If you don't even own your own body, what do you own? What freedom's left?

> Just like my right to walk the street without being shot outweighs anyone elses right to carry a gun there.

I disagree with that too, people should be free to own guns, not just the government. Using guns against people for anything but self-defense should be and is illegal though. It's fascinating how much people can trust their government to the point of giving them the right of what they should do with their own bodies, sexuality and more. I'm from Europe though, so I'm used to that.
Needs to put more information in the README on what it does, not just installation.

I'm guessing based on the libraries used that it tries to make the sizes of static media content smaller, like smaller png's etc. But that's just a guess.
If there are limits per-user and per-IP, they would need a shit ton of IPs to do that to any reasonable number of users.
But that's bad, right? It's like you're making the "Landing on the moon" documentary in the 1920. People don't want to hear about 40 years of mistakes, they want to hear about the end conclusions and you won't have any to give. That's why success-story books sell, but you don't see a lot of "will-try-to-do" books.
"Why does this article only focus on the problem"

Because we already know what the solution is and it is described in numerous articles, books, papers and reports published over several decades. If you want to know what you should be advocating then read them. Please don't just say "So why bring it up at all?"

This article is just about the consequences of failure to adopt a solution. There is no requirement that every work on antibiotic resistance has to adopt the problem/solution structure that you require.
For iOS (Universal) and OS X (10.7+). Synchronizes notes via dropbox, and encrypts the text of the notes with RNCryptor. Sources (MIT licensed) are on https://github.com/ilTofa/janusnotes
This made me sad, mostly because the base variable is facial attractiveness. Gotta love living in a culture so saturated in image worship that dating sites have nearly boiled off text bios entirely. Have fun chatting with people you have next to nothing in common with!
You are doing more than OK ;)

Risky investment doesn't mean bad investment. Startup equity can be a good investment too. I'm just saying bitcoin is not a safe value store, which is what nl was hypothesizing in his comment.
Interestingly, the two UK cities marked on the map appear to be Bristol or Cardiff, and... somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Cumbria? Why not London, Manchester, Birmingham etc.?
How are you going to prove that your system isn't pulling random ratings out of thin air? ;)
It has more to do with the fact that a good chunk of natural phenomenon are distributed exponentially, not linearly. Benford's Law actually applies to other notational systems.
For me it is not really clear this passive income stuff in terms of tax laws and relation with employer.

Now I am based in Netherlands and my employer put in the contract quite big fines for anything I would do on my own or for some other party. So I would have to get written consent from my employer, this one is clear. But for anyone else check your contract ;)

Second thing is for instance you get money from Android app, or from users. How would you go with taxes, you have income so you have to pay taxes. Beeing sensible for some beer money they won't get after you. But having 1000 euros a month could lead to some nasty stuff like questions where did you got that money and why you didn't tell to your beloved country...

I think all those passive income gurus are not mentioning a word about this side of things. Does anyone has any experience on legal side of passive income?

Charge in bitcoins only? :D
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When RMS says he's not familiar with a feature, you can believe him.

Org-mode is fantastic, but a very, very recent addition to the Emacs cosmology.
Does DLNA support this? From the description it's not clear.

Honestly, I've no idea; if you like I can have a play tonight when I get home and let you know?

I can clearly see that this project supports it, "Duplicate your screen" is the first feature listed there.

Hah, that's quite funny; if you skip to the "Use Cases" section, it's all about consuming media, whereas the screen mirroring is highlighted as an extra feature. I guess the page neatly segmented you and I into our respective markets!
I thought phishing meant fishing for usernames and passwords. This just seems like a run of the mill stupid scam attempt that happens to say Bitcoin instead of dollars.
The NSA can't even catch an internal problem (leak).
I am curious, why do you consider it insane?
Did the email you got contain the same "investment address"?
That assumes the objective is to 'chat'.
The same pros that come with using a dynamic language vs. a statically typed one...
There's considerable promise in phage therapies as an alternative to antibiotics. And they may well not suffer the same problems of resistance since phages are targeted to specific bacteria.
I don't think anything excuses the media for being so shoddy in (mis)informing their readership.

Remember, you're on Hacker News. Thanks to people like the author, the average person thinks you and I are criminals. Because, hackers.

You may be right about omitting that tone in general, but considering the feelings of media hacks is not a big motivator.
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Tim "4 hour workweek" Ferris actually did something similar using virtual assistants. http://blog.timferriss.com/1/post/2009/07/how-to-tim-ferriss...
Visualize RMS as like the patron saint of a religion, which is full of schism and sub-sect.

He's using his position to influence mindshare, and he doesn't think he's got a handle on the details. He just wants some of his devotees to start kicking the problem around.
I'm not saying hiding BTC is easy now or will ever be cheap and simple, but it's certainly possible to automate and optimise security measures a lot and there will be a lot of apps doing exactly that. Right now the cost of taxation, inflation and bailing-in is very-very low and hurts most innocent law-abiding citizens (not everyone loves how the taxes are spent, but they are easy to extract anyway). With Bitcoin, huge chunk of money can safely sit in private wallets instead of bank accounts, thus making fractional reserve banking less relevant, bail-in becomes irrelevant too. Those who wish to not declare some income have much safer way to receive/send money, than with modern banking system. Most outstanding tax-evaders will be chased and caught, but 99% may safely enjoy their own little share of global black market without worries. They already enjoy local black market when they pay in cash for lots of things, but it'll expand with Bitcoin to the whole world.
Indeed. Being happily married is one hell of a productivity booster. There's no need to waste time to get lucky or handle the frequent dramas in trying to figure out someone new.
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And all they had to do was pay Keker & Van Nest for two years, without knowing whether they'd win or not - and Google didn't even make a VM that can run Java apps!

Not to mention that Oracle has appealed, so we still don't know if Google is clear or not.

If you want to risk getting yourself or your company involved in that quagmire, by all means do so.
I clicked to look at the PS4 one to compare score, in order to do that I had to scroll to the bottom. Try refresh and then scroll to see the score as fast as you can, scroll bar jumps all over the place.
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>need a runway 9,199 feet long to take off at maximum takeoff weight

uh, maybe dont load up to maximum takeoff weight at Wichita?
Ponzi schemes sometimes work by giving early/influential customers the advertised returns as taken from the newer customers' subscriptions.
This creates a viral effect, but the customers suckered in by the viral effect will get nothing.

Based on the offered rate, I suspect this scheme doesn't plan to be that sophisticated.

If the advertised rate is high but not extraordinary, customers don't typically care exactly what is happening to their money (for example: what is your bank doing with your money right now?).
It's a tech demo that has a cartoony looking character walking around. It's not 'sexualized' at all. 'Woman' does not by default mean sexualized.
They don't show up on my phone, but they do on my ipad.
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I think you don't need to be a rocket scientist to use coinbase.com, for example.
I've been using this: http://www.laptopmag.com/review/wifi/hp-wireless-tv-connect.... for more then a year now, works like a charm. It's not small and slick but get's the job done. I am using with with a stationary desktop machine though, not a laptop - this might be too much for a laptop.
I think the only way it might have a chance of working is the fact that the (well-known, "legit", and large) gambling site SatoshiDice works almost the same way - you send it bitcoin and it sends you back either your winnings or an extremely small amount if you lose. This is a similar concept, just with bad grammar and for the 0.1% completely gullible idiots.
I get the feeling it would cost more to hire developers who can wrap their heads around performance sensitivities in JavaScript and WebGL than it would to hire, say, C++ developers who've read the OGRE manual.
...and I'm not sure what its supposed to accomplish.

Reframing the competition. You know, it's not voter suppression, it's anti-voter-fraud. Etc.
Same weird placement effect on French cities: one seems to be Rennes, the other Limoges or Poitiers...
"Generally" refers to an average trend, not that all examples must follow that trend.

I am not that familiar with Marfan's or this case, so I don't know if this device is useful in this case (http://www.medtronic.com/patients/heart-valve-disease/about-...), but there are stent-grafts that also replace the aortic value so that the stent-graft can be used close to the heart, and you can be sure that medical device companies are looking at ways of using stent-grafts in close proximity to the aortic valve without requiring its replacement.
DLNA is emphatically not a better solution, or even equivalent. The spec defines only a limited number of file types that are allowed to function. Why on earth would I want to let multinational corporations decide which file types I want to use? For instance, MKV files, which would be in the top 2-3 file formats that most of us would want to use wireless streaming for in the first place, are not supported. All Apple products are, similarly, not supported. Noncompliant file types must be transcoded.

DLNA will die an instant and painful death the moment a truly open solution is adopted.

DLNA is the solution that TV companies and PC makers came up with to keep the lid on streaming and make the viewing of pirated content more difficult.

DLNA is widely despised for the same reasons that all DRM-crippled products are always despised.
Amen. Think of 20 years using the grossly identical UI for all those disparate tasks... How much time do you think you lose learning the little quirks of a new app just because you're typing things inside a differently labelled box?

And then you can script or macro all of those processes using the same set of concepts...
I'd say it's just as transparently stupid to give your Bitcoins to someone else. And yet tons of people use web wallets, which are often hacked (or "hacked").

Dealing with the pain of getting bitcoins doesn't make you smart, and it certainly doesn't make you invulnerable to greed.
I could buy a Chromecast for half the price and use a free service to mirror my desktop for meetings.

Or I could buy another Apple TV for a little more and have a lot more functionality and video outlets (HBO GO, Netflix etc.). Although this option only works if you use Macs.

Or as another poster said just use the built in wifi on my TVs in my house.
Now giving a 404.
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Possibly related:

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_dating...
LaTeX compilation has never really been fast enough for WYSIWYG, and good luck trying to optimize it.
There is a last reason to vote: use it or lose it.

I believe we're at or approaching the point where governments and politicians merely pay us lip service. This is certainly the case in surveillance.

It would be much more efficient, for them, to not have to bother with elections.

If enough people stop voting, it would be tempting for them to try to get rid of voting.

Would you rather live in your country that has voting, however badly it's degenerated, or your country without voting, governed by people who have eliminated voting because they could?

At least make them jump through this one last hoop. Maintain the vote, and it could be better one day. Without the vote, I think it would be the end.
Is this happening actually a bad thing? With vast over population about to occur, it seems like this might be a natural solution to a difficult problem. If all the sick people start dying again as would have originally happened things like plagues/wars will be considerably more devastating.
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This is FUD, pure and simple. Anyone can be sued for anything.
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Why use the official API? Just MITM a 1st party client to find the endpoints it uses. Last time I checked IG only used SSL for login, everything else was clear text. Why no one hasn't has made a firesheep for IG I do not know. Think of the mischief one could cause!
Totally agree. For the most part, that article was quite good, even though some of the details were off. It's almost like disregarding the entire article for a spelling mistake.

It's good to point out the faults where the information is wrong - but relax on the tone.
Are you seriously asking whether people dying earlier is a bad thing?
Busy with challenge #3, which seems a lot harder than challenge #4.. The amount of username combinations are larger, and there is no specification as to if they only mean "submitters" or also commentators. Also there are no username lists available for reddit so you have to parse it from reddit manually...
Again, the rewards seem a bit skewed from the supplied text file challenge #3 got.

For example, did the OP consider that reddit posts can dissapear? Therre is a max amount of pages you can go through at /r/Bitcoin/
Or did they mean from the top posts? Again, hard puzzle.
ZOMG!!! GCHQ have sites in Scarborough and Harrogate, Yorkshire!!!

The stars are big and so I guess it's just very rough placement.
Counter-argument: The offer of money incentivises the reporter to be clearer and more thorough in their report because they want to get paid and not have their report thrown out by a moderator who can't understand it.
Piwik actually does support DNT and also can process server logs.

http://piwik.org/privacy/

http://piwik.org/log-analytics/
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And people talk about America's employment laws? It blows my mind that something you do at 11 PM on a Saturday night can be claimed by your employer (yes, I know there are some companies in the US that do this).

Regarding your question about taxes, you would just... pay the taxes. If you're not comfortable doing your own (I don't know the tax climate in the Netherlands) you would just pay an accountant. I have a CPA here in the states so I just give him all my information in January/February and he lets me know what I need to pay or what I can expect back.
Because they need capital to invest in the first place?

My bet is that it is some kind of viral Ponzi scheme where some early adopters (or very gullible but lucky people) get a good return and talk about it until it reaches some target, then the guy running it shuts down.

I'm pretty sure I saw a few of these running over on SilkRoad about a year ago - you sent the seller some coin and got it back + 25%, 50% etc the next week. Lots of good reviews, very likely some people made quite a bit of money when SR was shut down by the feds.
We will know what happened if they start reporting a freak accident involving a pedestrian and one of Google's driverless cars.
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In the US Pres and Congressional elections, at least, we have none of the above. Vote for any third party. You know they won't win, but vote for them anyway. This is how you can cast a vote, that gets counted, against the Republicans and the Democrats both.

Write one in if there isn't one running for a particular office.

I always vote 3rd, I'm disgusted. I haven't done a write-in yet, don't know the rules and how to do it correctly so I didn't want to invalidate the rest of my ballot. But I'll start doing that to.
In my experience, the bugs that get bug bounties are not the kind that QA departments find. Unless you have an extremely technical QA department.