skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the interest in how irony is identified and (mis)used much more interesting than the actual use or misuse itself.

I guess you could say I have a hang-up about your hang-up, or an interest in your interest. ;)
That's what they said every month for the past 3 years.
(S)He's talking about an intraday total, not a single transaction.
I can't speak for them, but don't underestimate the reasons people may have for staying in their country, and don't overestimate their appreciation for money.

I make about the mean income in my country (which is quite a few k€ above the median). I know for a fact that I could go to other parts of Europe and earn possibly twice or more, but I don't think I'm going to do so in the near future. Here I have my family, my friends and my climate. There awaits me a bigger amount of money... that I have no real use for.
"Sic" generally means thus or therefore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic

If wikipedia is wrong here please correct me!
I have a question. What can people do to stop this?

I've seen numerous protests, a lot of uproar in the press, grassroot initiatives. But did any of this change anything?

I mean, hell, even the great 2008 election for change didn't change much. What are the options left?
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Wonderful blog post; major props for the engineering time expenditure. But, why do you have an Olark chat widget that says "Contact Sales". I don't want to have anything to do with those schlubs! If anything, I want to talk to serious engineers like you!

Perhaps a better call to action would be:

* Talk to us about how we can solve your problems

* Chat with us

* We can help you too

* What's up?
Made an edit here, perhaps not the best but... Please let me know if you would like credit and I'll toss a back link in!
I find you need two things:

- the "troubleshooter" mentality/thinking pattern
- extensive system knowledge

I haven't figured out how to teach #1, except maybe for "don't have anyone to ask for help" and #2 is self explanatory.
Fiat currency is backed by the legal obligations of the country that issues it that it is a suitable means to extinguish debts.

Bitcoin is not. No one is obliged to accept Bitcoin as a currency for settling debts anywhere in the world, it has to be converted to something else. Similarly to gold - you don't have to accept gold as payment for debt, but you do have to accept USD.

This is where the problem lies: BTC acts like a commodity, not a fiat currency - and people are treating it like one buying into it. The problem is it has no value as a commodity other then being Bitcoin.
I believe you accidentally some math. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack by checking every atom in the known universe.
I think anyone who still believes the mass surveillance isn't used over 95 percent of the time for different reasons than "defending against terrorism", is being naive at this point.

This is mainly about industrial espionage, and maintaining the power over the world (by any means necessary), primarily for the NSA, then for the US government, and then for their partners in the military industrial complex.

They know that mass surveillance is a treasure trove for all kinds of scenarios, present, and future, against anyone who might ever question US's wishes - ever. They just can't imagine giving that up.

For me to trust the US government or to truly trust any US company again, these things would need to happen first, for US to re-establish its credibility in the world as a beacon of democracy and freedoms, that they've been pretending to uphold for a long time:

- pass Rush Holt's Surveillance State Repeal Act passes, to dump the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act altogether (as a first step)

H.R 2818: http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-bill/2818

- cut NSA's budgets (both secret and public) to 10-20 percent of what they are now, because if they aren't, then simply repealing the laws won't change much

- throw out the secret FISA Court, or make it dramatically more transparent, and like a real Court

- overhaul the Senate Intelligence Committee (get rid of people like Feinstein and Rogers)

- fire (or even imprison) Clapper, Alexander and Holder, and possibly even impeach Obama (to really send a message to future presidents that mass surveillance is completely unacceptable)

- make it explicitly clear that any private communication of any citizen in US or on US territory needs a regular warrant (one that actually respects the 4th Amendment). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the US Constitution applied to people on US soil and not just "US citizens". Couldn't that be interpreted to defend the data on US soil, too? If I buy a home in US, isn't it defended by US laws? Why can't my data be, too?

For non-US citizens, there also needs to be an international treaty that says that if a country wants another country's citizen's data, then it needs to contact his/her local government, before it can obtain.

I think it's only reasonable. Just because my data happens to travel through US backbones, doesn't mean the US government has power to willy-nilly get my data as they want, and also force US companies to give it to them, breaching the privacy that US company promised me when I signed-up with them.

Something like this is only possible right now, because like with all rights, people haven't fought against it yet. There's no reason why such a treaty couldn't exist. For the Internet to become a nice, non-hostile environment again (talking about governments abusing their power here), we need to make it encrypted and secure by default, but we also need the legal framework to support that, and severely limit and punish government abuses.
Couldn't it also be done by writing a check?
My computer, my doppeltweeter
Don't forget the cavity checks, a huge leap forward in safety.
IMO, it would be better to hire another Android developer with saved cost.

And why should we step to a language which cannot offer any benefit? Even if it happen, it seems just a huge step backward.

For portability, I don't think JS is portable. Because portability doesn't come from a language. It comes from implementations by platform vendors. It's purely up to how platform vendors support the compatible language and feature set implementation. JS itself has nothing special in portability. Though all the browser vendors are supporting JS, it doesn't mean native platform vendors are interested in JS.

For the real serious portability, I think the only choice are C/C++ which are the CURRENTLY AVAILABLE de facto portability layer on ANY platform while keeping most of the benefits I mentioned. Including mobiles, desktops, servers, game consoles, embedded devices and even on web-browsers. And also for any new unknown future platforms. C/C++ support is virtually promised due to its superior range of existing portability.

And intermixing them with Objective-C is literally natural, and far easier then JS.
The real horror is that they are trying to run another sham next year....
Honesty races to the bottom, 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE
I've been in a few hackathons .. winning prizes in some (usually schwag or gadgets), and also ran a couple myself.

They don't work nearly as well with more valuable prizes. In my view, a hackathon is best as a starting point ... for teams, projects and ideas. They are much better chances to "network", particularly for hackers/makers, than so called "networking events", which are usually a waste of time.

Hackathons also work great for startups to introduce developers to their technology & culture, and perhaps recruit them.

The worst hackathons are when the intended outcome is that the winning team(s) go on to start a company with the proceeds of the win and/or are accepted into some newish accelerator/incubator.

In the case of Salesforce and it's extreme prize, the controversy could have been predicted .. there was no way they could police a fair competition (and that was unlikely their goal anyway). Their goal was similar to that of a nightclub that doesn't have the desired demographics, so they gave free cover ($99 "hacker" tickets), drinks and raffle tickets to the desired group (programmers in this case).

While the majority of the conference attendees were wandering around, mingling and generally enjoying themselves, every once in a while, they might chance by the "hackathon room" and look upon the poor creatures as they would monkeys in a zoo.

Quite the spectacle, it must have been..
It's possible to sign transactions offline, so that the private key never touches a device that's connected to the internet. Check out http://www.bitcointrezor.com/
Ok, this was a weird segue. I thought we were talking about market capitalization and whether or not people use it outside of bitcoins, which they all do for basically everything.

However, non-voting common stock equities that do not grant dividends basically have no "intrinsic value" either I guess. It is just a proxy for the public opinion of the net worth of the underlying asset, similar to bitcoins.

I think this kind of "intrinsic value" line of reasoning isn't a very strong argument in general though because mostly the value of commodities is essentially based on the value people assign it via free market and psychological principles.

You sort of don't seem like you know much about econ/finance so I think it is strange that you are so outspoken about bitcoins.

BTC could still collapse, and it very well may. Even if we put the potential innovative benefits of btc aside though, things like this are more like cults vs religions. A cult is a cult until it has enough followers at which point it becomes a religion.

Cults and religions have a similar scam potential which is what it seems like you are feeling, however at this point I would say btc is reaching or possibly above Scientology levels of belief/followers. In fact the market cap of btc is possibly more than the market cap of Scientology right now. If btc is going to fall apart as a pyramid scheme it will likely be the largest to ever fall.

However btc is more than a pyramid scheme because it does offer some real benefits over the existing financial systems. The online blackmarket does require a currency similar to btc to operate. Right now sending money across borders is difficult and expensive. Right now buying things over the internet basically must be done with credit cards which has a lot of fees attached. Right now there is no real way to quickly send large sums of money to people without similar fees and specific hours of operation. You also have to go to a bank and deal with a lot of bullshit.

Whether btc will be the solution to these problems I am not sure, but it is a very big deal that it already has so many users/followers. That is the hardest part of changing things, getting large scale adoption.
I am really not convinced of the argument that bitcoin will help in third world countries. There are so many places in the world that neither have internet nor computers, how should they use bitcoins? I'm also convinced that those people will not just "believe" in some "invisible" money. They will always prefer real money or goods to trade, not some virtual number on the internets.
i don't think every candidate should be interviewed the same way, and i don't think these processes should be set in stone.

if you look great on paper (e.g. have some nice name brands on your resume, are a minor celebrity in some relevant community, or come in through a strong internal referral), there's no need for stuff like this.

however, if you don't fall into one of these categories, until there's a reliable way to tell if you're good from your resume, having an OPTIONAL coding challenge is a great way to get your foot in the door.

coding challenges shouldn't be about making people jump through arbitrary procedural hoops. they should be about making the (very broken) eng hiring process more meritocratic for people who'd never get their foot in the door otherwise.
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The crux of the argument which comes up from the 'apologists' for this type of thing extends from a different understanding of the axioms of privacy to everyone else.

Let p(x) be a proposition that means that doing x is a violation of someone's expectation of privacy.

Some people seem to assume that (not p(x)) and (not p(y)) implies that not p(x union y). In other words, the assumption is that if x is not a violation of someone's expectation of privacy, and doing y is not a violation of someone's expectation of privacy, then doing both x and y is also not a violation of someone's expectation of privacy.

However, the 'mosaic theory' suggests that the above assumption is not valid - doing x and y individually might be perfectly reasonable, but doing both could be a violation of someone's expectation of privacy.
Whether not Whenever.
FWIW, Grooveshark has a feature called Broadcast that, while not the same thing as Turntable, has the human curated music selection part of the experience. We're also about to release functionality that lets you view past broadcasts, hopefully addressing your main complaint. :) http://grooveshark.com/#!/broadcasts
Full disclosure: I work there!
Oupps! thanks.
I feel the site has a wall up. I want to see what's behind it without having to Connect with Facebook, but I can't, so I wont.
Bitcoin isn't "invisible" money. It's money that is secured by cryptography. A printed bitcoin wallet, a $1 bill and a $100 bill all have the same inherent value. Almost a third of the "developing world" has internet access [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage]. Even if individuals lack access there's no reason bitcoin can't be made accessible to them through public access points.
How about the users keeping the key and supplying each time its need from a separate secure app? And that app wouldn't even contain the complete key, but requires they supply the last three digits each time. And they can tattoo that somewhere on their body.
I was replying to the parent comment's: "hard to imagine that it was something built in 3 days"

==> You weeks to work on the entry.

The fact that Upshot's Team did theirs outside of the competition period longer is a different issue.
If you buy a (large enough) amount of some currency; later sell it, and the difference makes you a profit - then it's taxable income.

Intent doesn't matter as such - if you do it for 'practical purposes', then you most likely don't realize the gains (don't trade USD->EUR->USD, but do USD->EUR->buy stuff in Europe) or have very small volume (lots USD->lots EUR->go on trip->convert a bit EUR back to USD).
Interesting trial.
Could not find your pounds. http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=IRR&view=5Y they did do something nasty in 2013...
But it's just double. With bitcoin we are talking factor 10 and atm is increasing in value exponentially. But all of them are currencies really, I'm just scared :)
If you had $150 million in rubles, you'd almost certainly have an account with the private banking side of whichever bank you use. Private accounts generally come with perks like free wire transfers.

Source: Someone I trust who works in Private Client Services at JP Morgan (not sure if other banks offer free wires, but I'd be surprised if they don't).
Google Can Bring an End to Censorship in 10 Days
Facebook connect is used to help you set up the filter easier.
Qwitter is down :-(
Working with an Android Tablet
Neo900: Open, hackable phone, with battery hot-swap, GLONASS, etc.
Lenna, the First Lady of the Internet
One of my faves: Acme Klein Bottles: http://kleinbottle.com/ , a novelty glassware shop ran by astronomer, author and glass blower Cliff Stoll. They sell hats and Moebius scarves just as well :-)

Despite the looks, the website is very much active and grows over time.
Stop paying them.
Game Play Has No Negative Impact on Kids, UK Study Finds
I wasn't aware. Thanks. I sent you email.
Anal includes women.

> It is 2013 after all.

And even today people are executed or imprisoned for life because they are gay.
The first obvious one is that he is from the western world. No matter what may be politically correct, that will be positive in the western world compared to a Russian or Indian having the title.

Secondly, he is young, athletic and smart, getting a lot of media attention.
Google Could End Censorship in China in 10 Days - Why doesn't it?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/22/google-...

This Guardian article is a "shorter version" of the original article at http://en.GreatFire.org
I'm not sure what you're talking about, exactly none of the blockchain splits that have happened so far were expected to happen.
At my office, if you don't answer your phone for an internal call (for example, due to being busy talking to another developer about a tough problem, or deep in concentration on a problem) the person who called you will get up and come in to your office to see why you didn't answer. Really makes it impossible to have any solid development time.
I looked at node.js for a system I'm involved with creating, but ultimately we went with Erlang just because it's been around a lot longer and is more stable in terms of things like this. We're working on a semi-embedded system that will not always be on-line or accessible for debugging. We also considered Go, which probably would have been more familiar to C++ guys, but it was also deemed a bit immature even if it seems like a very pleasant language to work with.

Cool writeup though!
I have an apache box that runs a bunch of PHP and flat HTML sites. I have to set it to only use 10 processes, and to kill them every half hour, because they all gradually swell up to 35MB each (which I imagine is where they've loaded pretty much all the PHP on my server, independently of each other).

Without the number limit, or the kill policy, the server runs out of RAM and crashes. (it's only a cheap one, with 512MB RAM.) Luckily it's a very low traffic set of sites, so these limits don't break the experience. I'm glad I didn't have to solve this problem any deeper!
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Berners-Lee: insidious government surveillance may be worse than censorship
It sounds like that portion of the program continued (after a period when now funds were disbursed) but I had moved onto another company before that happened. And yes, poor districts had an advantage ... we built systems primarily in rural and urban areas, but very few in suburban areas. Those rural areas were poor due to low population density, while the urban areas were poor due to demographics.
One of my favorites was the set of galleries Microsoft put together in 2007 to show off CSS in its infancy: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/css/gallery/entrance.htm .. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/css/gallery/4.htm etc.
Yeah, Grooveshark broadcasts are neat, I just wish they worked on the HTML5/mobile version of the site...
Can you tell the difference between good and bad code?
You could download it with (the somewhat inappropriately named) youtube-dl tool.
Breathing ordinary soot is sub-optimal.
You are correct! I was confused about this
W-Wolfram.

Or Wolfram-W
The `<` function only works on numbers but, unlike java, it will correctly coerce numbers with different representations.

(< 1 ;; Long
1.5 ;; Double
2N ;; BigInt
)

If you want java-style comparisons use `compare` instead.

EDIT: Ooops, this is cljs, not clojure. The correct answer is that string comparison is lexicographic in js:

"is" < "length" < "word"
And the second...
MySQL 5.7: over 1M queries/sec on a single machine
I had a simpler idea. What if Microsoft or oracle just took over to finish this thug. Most developers just want to show off what they did. Sales force never even created a gallery for that
"for every 100 folks who fear this, there is someone who quits their stable job, moves out of the city to a not-so-great part of Oakland, grows a beard, and starts a company by living with his cofounders, and tries to build a prototype with his savings before thinking about more elaborate plans."

This just floors me. You folks realize that not even five years ago, SF was the place where people were living with their co-founders in a not-so-great part of town, right? The smart money said that you should be in the valley.

San Francisco is done. Put a fork in it. People are renting bedrooms for $2000 a month (you used to be able to get an apartment here for that much money). It's too expensive now. Move to Oakland (or hey...how about the valley?) and enjoy the luxury of living in a place where all of the young, creative, innovative people have gathered.
The story does credit Snowden later on. Are you saying he should be credited in the first 2 paragraphs because people usually stop reading stories after that?
In reality, you can get more in other companies. Up to 2500 EUR monthly, I'd guess. German companies in CR offer even more.

But yeah, for 1750 EUR monthly wage you'd get a dedicated, talented young developer who probably already knows at least two programming languages and basics of web development. Or the other way around.

(It's also a slightly above-average wage of a normal full-time C developer.)

Hmm, to reach someone from the outside... try http://brmlab.cz/lists and ask around.
Touch ID Patent Applications Show Details Behind 'Secure Enclave'
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thats cool
...or you can pick a language that is better than both: GC + strong and static - Scala/C# etc.
"Finding random big primes p and q is easy"

For those wondering why then, it is news when a new largest prime is found: there are gradations of 'big'. The big primes used in cryptography have fewer than 1000 bits, or about 300 digits. That is not what one (nowadays) calls 'large' in the field of finding the largest prime. There, one laughs at numbers of a million digits (the largest known prime has 17,425,170 digits)
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I don't see btc as being able to retain its hundreds of dollars in exchange currency value. Imagine you have 1 mil usd worth of btc, and then imagine trying to dump it all on the open market. You would probably find a widening gap in the bid-ask as your position is liquidated. In other words, there isn't likely enough buyers.

Someone is probably manipulating the supply and demand to serve their own purposes. You might as well day trade something more liquid.
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Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?
Matt Damon: Our problem is civil obedience
Enterprises don't need high-load web sites. Enterprises benefit from non-buggy strong static languages with automated refactoring.
> Their decline began with Doom 3.

That was some 9 years ago, already...
I have a hard time understanding how someone so familiar with HTML can claim that "HTML programming" is creeping up on JavaScript. Perhaps it has to do with lack of computer science education (more specifically not understanding Truing completeness)? Perhaps you don't need it to write games?
Show HN: HackerNews is up
Back when I was at school we sourced a bottle from there for a teacher.
Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries
Such kind of jokes isn't completely useless if recall "Noise level" by Raymond Jones )

By the way the most unrealistic promise is compression of congress library, because the data is determined.

If kind of video or audio data is not determined (it may be year of black screen or zooming in-out mandelbrot) limitless compression rates is possible.
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Oh my, the .htm extension visible in the address bar... The nostalgia kicks in!
We've seen devs swap in prebaked apps for a $2000 first prize. For a $1M prize, what did we expect...
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TripStamp allows users to create a digital scrapbook of their travels, past and present. Any feedback on the concept, design or functionality is welcome.

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