skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll second this. I bought some BitCoin on Coinbase and the coins didn't show up until 7 days later. While I was waiting for them to arrive, I used LocalBitcoins to drop off $100 at a bank one block away and the coins were in my wallet 10 minutes later. LocalBitcoins was definitely much easier to use for me.
Bitcoin Tops $600, Up 60x Over the Last Year
Stanford scientists create 'self-healing' battery
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What about Arora [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arora_(web_browser)
IBM has always been one of the biggest contributors to Linux. But I think a major difference is that these companies haven't sold themselves as the open source, pro-internet "don't be evil" company. Google has.
"But, in a major embarrassment to the health groups, the calculator appears to greatly overestimate risk, so much so that it could mistakenly suggest that millions more people are candidates for statin drugs."

What? In the Mecca of over-medication & healthcare lobbying, a health group is recommending putting millions of healthy people on lifelong medication?

I'm shocked!!
Great advice.

"Recognize opportunities and see trends before everyone else"

Sounds easy enough.

"Choose work you enjoy"

No kidding!

"One mistake is to stick with a highly profitable business model too long when the world is changing. Another is to abandon the old for the next new thing, particularly if the path to profitability is not clear."

So change is good. Unless it's bad.

"Happiness is the best measure of success."

So my Reddit Karma is worthless?

"The greatest gift you can give your children is to love one another."

AWWWWWWWWWW <3
Go Perl go!
Samsung makes the case for 'bended' phones
Advanced Nutrients owner Gino Yordanov talks about medicinal healing 
De-criminalizing marijuana movements comes now on the south-east coast of Eastern Europe. More and more people are realizing the medical benefits of Marijuana.
Politics and economy is not a thing of 0s and 1s - there are no clear and easy solutions that will work perfectly in every country - it's always about finding some middle-ground, where pros outweight cons.

E.g. banking regulation - sure, it won't prevent all the bad behaviour, but it will help (see Poland where state control over some banking regulations prevented banks from getting into bad mortgages). Does that mean that government should control everything? of course not! It can be somewhere in the middle (think Keynes instead of Friedman) and where's that middle also depends on the local environment and such - what worked in Poland won't necessarily work the same in Spain.

Also, I disagree with the notion that he proposes fighting the State with the State - he wants people to be the State and I agree with that to a large extent. People like to complain about politics as if they (the politics) were some aliens from the different planet. Spain is a good example here, 2-3 years ago thousands of people were protesting with slogans like "no nos representan". Yet no one from the protesters had the guts to take that movement and actually do something with it, become a leader, a politician, take a responsibility, try to change something for real. Instead they preferred to shift that responsibility back to the politicians they were protesting against. Year later people went to elections and voted the same people as before, the ones that supposedly "no les representaron".
How wearable tech should be.
In a similar vein, one of the things that's worried me is the technology community's blind faith that helping the government automate is a good thing. It is not.

For most western democracies, the government operates by a byzantine layer of legal and regulatory mumbo-jumbo operated by a overworked civil service class. This sounds bad, and it is to some degree, but what it means in practice is very important: not every law is enforced.

People do not understand how critical to civility that statement is. Every day people go too fast in their cars, drink and drive, skip out on toll booth fees, spit on sidewalks, pay day laborers under the table, and participate in all sorts of other non-violent, yet technically criminal activity. And the world keeps spinning around. In fact, I'd argue that this rampant lawlessness is a good thing. People can skate by without car insurance for a month or two because they're getting a second job. They can have the roof fixed by cousin Joe who is on disability because they can pay him under the table at much less cost than hiring a contractor. All sorts of really good things get done because there's a lot of wiggle room.

We start automating everything, and suddenly the system of inconsistent and unintelligible laws become some sort of social operating system. One that is tremendously complex, covers every aspect of our lives, and has never been ran before at any level of completeness. That's a nightmare that any technologists should be intimately familiar with.

So nope, you can't beat politics with technology, and in many cases you can't even fix politics with technology. Politics is about relationships between people, fuzzy arrangements, and structures to facilitate that. Technology is about machines, rigid structure, and boolean logic. The two do not go together naturally.
Looks nice. Good luck with the project!
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it wasn't a swipe, compressed? yes. It IS the main reason why this paper is getting more air than the work of hundreds of other machine learning papres int he same league. It was not meant in malice, just a plain ordinary fact.

I thought arguing it has a was a average contribution would be more snidy. It's perfectly good work, just not in the same league as map-reduce or self-driving cars.
Have you tried KeePass or LastPass? They work pretty well on just about every platform.
How can hosting companies thrive with such terrible support?
Sure vB is crap... and then you look at the other options out there and realize they're even worse. Especially 5-10 years ago when many of the sites using vB started using it. It's wildly successful - at least in the niche I'm familiar with - for a reason. It's reasonably cheap, reasonably easy to work with even for nontechnical people, works reasonably well, and looks decent.
I'm not sure if anyone here has used the BB Playbook (and lol why would you) but I got one for free after writing an app for it and I really enjoyed their bezel features[1] and always wish my iDevices had the same feature set. These gestures are nothing iOS can't do, but I find they stay out of the way unless you want them unlike some games on apple where you might confuse the app/os on what you want that swipe to do.

Samsung seems to be taking this to a new level

[1] http://playbookwiki.org/index.php/Bezel_Gestures
All speculation is based on the likely future value of something.

If millions of people start believing BitCoin will eventually be a world currency, then it will be.

I agree that it is price speculation. Is speculation always based on a delusion?
how do you run it behind proxy. I am not able to understand much from https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/130
Google Forceful Spoon Feeding
In the U.S. we have credit unions, which are community-owned banks. They generally work very well. Community-owned does not have to mean government-owned.
The 15M situation was a catch-22.

- When they proposed solutions they were called out as being "politicized". Both left and right-wing saw them as biased (in the other direction of course).

- When they didn't propose anything, they were called out as being gutless (as you said), lazy, whiny...

- When leaders tried to step out they were criticized as opportunists trying to kidnap the movement for their personal interest.

- When assemblies were formed, they were criticized as slow and not effective (which they actually were).

Of course all these criticism were promoted from the media to form mass opinion. In case you didn't like a statement, you had the contrary to criticize 15M as loud as you wanted.

In the end nothing happened.
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So which is more impressive Breakout or Excel?
That is quite impressive. I wish I'd have known about kibit 6 months ago. Since I'm still a Clojure novice, I guess I still stand to benefit from it. Moving from "can bang out technically workable code" to "effectively uses the whole range of core functions" is a long slog. Next time I'm writing Clojure I'll definitely be running kibit over it.
That's just the same article on two different websites, stating that a handful of parts on the 777 are manufactured overseas, and the FAA/Boeing needs to do better at QC.

And Intel's 22nm chips are made in Chandler, AZ.
Healthcare.gov’s website suggests SQL injection attacks 
Healthcare.gov’s website helpfully suggests SQL injection attacks in its autocomplete: pic.twitter.com/tP0qtHET4e
Help us researchers in a crowd-sourcing experiment to predict protein kinks
Yes a cryptographic hash (like MD5 or SHA etc) stores a non-reversible string. Encryption means that it reversible but lets be honest here, when writing an article most laymen understand the general idea of encryption as opposed to hashing.

I'd really like to see how this hack works for general knowledge and if it's purely via the script itself and not a server attack.
Ooh, very interesting, thanks.

Always extremely interested to hear about tools that are simplifying the content creation pipeline.
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To be fair, the article is only an hour old, and it's not even seven o'clock on the left coast.
I think [BitCoin will] definitely make for a better world

Bitcoin is inherently deflationary, which would be economically disastrous if it supplanted the dollar. Granted, I think bitcoin supplanting the dollar is unlikely, but it does make me question how beneficial bitcoin really is.

On top of that, bitcoin erodes transaction privacy. Is this really a step forward?
Well, it's on github, you could look through the history, and eventually you'd find this:

https://github.com/paulirish/browser-logos/blob/17bbcde4c555...
If tech journalists would use the right terms that would at least help lead the public towards a better understandings of this issue. I presume they say 'encrypted' as their generally means 'not plain text' to the lay person. To be fair, we do call these cryptographic hashes.

By the way, if anyone is wondering how VBulletin forums store passwords... It's md5(md5(password)+salt).
Author of the article here: I absolutely agree with you.

I also do quite a bit of web development, and I've encountered these issues in both contexts - notably a few years ago when I got very excited about Rails.

These days I do most of my web-side work in PHP precisely because it's the language I've been using for years, and thus I'm more aware of the hidden bumps in the road.
The Business Philosophy of the Man Who Brought Us the Mustang–and the Edsel
Oh, it's a good thing that all of your comments are so constructive and engaging with the subject, then.

FWIW, in my usage "Statism", is a reference to the assumption that by default, a problem should always be dealt with by the state, and when a problem isn't dealt with correctly, the default assumption is that it's a symptom of the state holding too little power and too few resources.

I think that these assumptions are not always false, but they are false often enough that the possibility that they are warrants careful discussion.
Ghost in the Cloud: Dealing with data after death
"Americans are feeling pretty smug after winning the right to use portable electronics on airplanes during takeoff and landing. In fact, we even beat Europe to the new rules by several weeks."

WTF? That's how you start an article? I haven't seen anyone feeling smug at all about this ruling. Talk about trying to manufacture an issue!
*(though I draw the line at one maintenance script I saw last year. It was
a Python script where every other line was os.system. It just struck
me as rather pointless starting a Python interpreter if you're just
going to use it like a shell script - you might as well do the whole lot in the shell to begin with).*

FWIW, one of my favorite features of Perl syntax is that you can do things like this. A lot of my quick-and-dirty sysadmin scripts end up being Perl scripts with lots of backticks. It's handy for when they grow (as they often do) into more full-featured scripts.
Sure, I'm just saying that you'll be hard pressed to find a product that doesn't have components manufactured overseas.

Even/especially the ones that proudly claim to be "Made in the USA". It doesn't reflect the reality of the global market.

Hell, I know a guy with a gun business who gets all of his parts manufactured overseas, but he's allowed to put "Made in the USA" on them and it's a huge selling point to his customers just because he assembles them in his warehouse himself.
This looks awesome, when is it coming to Kickstarter?
You are ignoring the 'already identified' in the text you quote.

I'm sure there is occasional abuse, but I'm also sure that most investigations start with an examination of the available evidence to look for leads about who committed the crime.
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I wonder how much of this was actually parallel reconstruction vs "investigative research"
Basically yes. Civil law between companies is first and foremost a welfare system for legal folks and a club to beat people with. If you don't have the money to pay, you can't play, you simply lose. This unfortunately is the case with most criminal law as well.

When people scream and scream and scream about tort reform in the US, this sort of stuff is mostly what they're talking about. There are a wealth of lawsuits filed every year which have no reasonable basis that do nothing but make lawyers rich.
It's quite clear he does not think he himself will change everything. He clearly calls out for people to start participating in the political system in a more active way. He also doesn't say that technology doesn't have a place in change. He's saying that a lot of people think that technology on its own will fix things.

Using a war metaphor. Technology is an attack on the rear, politics is a frontal attack. He is merely saying that basing your whole strategy on rear attacks is misplaced.

Not saying anything about the truth of what he's saying, but it's clear that you're misrepresenting him here.

And using Sunde's now quite distant past together with a rather stretched out notion of tax to discredit this message is pretty weird.
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In high school I learned that the government passes laws and has many tools to enforce them, like fines, arrest, and imprisonment. Tech folks would do well to remember that. You can't disrupt a market if you are bankrupt or in jail.

Uber and AirBnB have faced and will face serious threats from the government. The reason they are continuing to succeed is explicitly because individual people have engaged in the political process to defend their business models.

Or look at Tesla. It seems ludicrous that buying a car online should be illegal, but in many states it is. No matter how awesome Tesla's website and cars are, it won't matter if they're not allowed to sell. The only solution there is a political solution.
Does this mean you have constructed your own pipeline with your own implementation? Just like Pixar or ILM?
The Toyota Tundra is built in San Antonio, TX.
"The watch is dusted with 100% authentic asteroid dust."
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The Guardian and the New York Times are also well known for political advocacy disguised as unbiased information, just towards the left rather than the right.
Ryanteck - A motor controller board for Raspberry Pi
I like the Excel example b/c of its simplicity
http://jsfiddle.net/ondras/hYfN3/
Wow, this is really cool I wish they had this kind of stuff when I was a kid.
You have it backwards. The US and Europe can source their cheap products from many locations in Asia, while China is very reliant on the EU and US economies to keep buying their stuff.

China is not 1,1 billion new consumers. It's a 200 million people extension of the western economy with 900 million people in Africa level poverty.

And despite this massive human surplus wages keep rising because even assembling an iPhone is relatively hard.

And soon other Asian countries will start doing it cheaper. If that happens, China has a huge industrial plant with no internal market to afford it.

Also, the average profit of Chinese exports is just 1.7%. So basically the Chinese made massive investments based on a projection of export demand that lasts long enough for sustainable internal demand to catch up. When the discount rate turns out to be a bit higher than expected, the house of cards falls.

Think of China as the Groupon of nations.

The smart Chinese elite is also buying foreign assets as fast as they can. Like insider stock trades, when a management of a country starts divesting, that's a sign of troubles, not of wealth.

This is not to say the Chinese elite was wrong to grow via market liberation and exports. What I do say is that the bulls on China conflate revenues with profits, and activity with lasting competitive advantages.

It also means the Chinese are buying US debt not to enslave the US (hard to do that with zero procent interest rates!), but as a favor to their largest client base.
I own a license of vBulletin. After approximately a year of experience with their codebase I decided that burning off my eyeballs with a hot spoon would be more fun. I wouldn't know where to start to describe just how bad their software is.

It doesn't end there. The folks who own vBulletin run a whole series of communities themselves:

http://www.internetbrands.com/

At one point into configuring vBulletin I realized they had code in there that would allow them to monitor your site's traffic and performance. Which is genius if you run hundreds of sites yourself and want "probes" out there to discover areas that you could launch sites into. And, it is even more brilliant if you can have these "probes" be people who pay you to use software you produce. Imagine thousands of business experiments actually paying you and feeding you audience data. That really didn't sit well with me and a number of people who were awake while installing and configuring their vB software. The vast majority of folks running vB communities either don't care or don't have a clue.

There are other issues. Maybe someone else has the time to chime in.

I guess my point is that password security might not be at the top of their priority list.
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>Good for china , bad for most of us, because there is a hidden cost to all these cheap stuffs , it's called debt.

It's not bad for the US because China owns treasuries. They never gave China any leverage over the US.

It's bad because buying those treasuries pushed the value of the dollar up and the yuan down. That's why the pearl river delta is the richest conglomeration of manufacturing industries in the world, and factories are being closed left, right and center in the US.

And one day it will be as hard for the US to bring that manufacturing base home as it was for China to build it up in the first place. That's when the US is really screwed.
And what kind of animation doesn't take so damn long? Be happy you don't have to draw each individual frame like in the old times.
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WRT to Japan holding US debt, I'm not sure that's correct.

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/ti...
But, of course, that assumes that the rig for the hand matches whatever rigging system your pipeline currently uses. If you've got a hand rigged with a skeleton based system (see: every IK/FK system under the sun), but your pipeline uses a fully deformer based rigging system (see: Pixar's system), that hand is still no good to you.

Once you start going down the CG pipeline rabbit hole, you begin to realize just how far it goes.
I have to agree with this. Life is a lot easier when you look at gifts as truly gifts and not obligations. I received zero dollars from my parents (of course I got a basic roof over my head) even though they were upper-middle class. If I did get something I would have been grateful, rather than having a "it's about time" attitude.
Why does it use less than half of my monitor width? I'm on a 1920 x 1080, and the feed pane is only 770 pixels wide - and not resizable. What's the purpose of this? Most of the screen estate is wasted for a wallpaper of author's choice, instead of displaying the content I'm actually interested in. I find this design choice really hard to understand.
Huawei make a lot of good stuff nowadays.
There may be truism that the wierdo playing with fire and rocks in the cave may not experience any returns if his new steel can't manage the hordes of club thugs.
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I'll be posting some more tomorrow. But I was shocked to find out how Lunarpages does not hash their passwords.

But for now, how on earth do these companies manage to stay up with such poor support. Or am I really that much of an outlier?
Japan used to make crap too, before they moved up the value chain (as China is doing now).
It's probably hard to directly change the law, but you can definitely fight it. Napster has been dead for 10 years, but to quote fictive Sean Parker in The Social Network, "Do you want to buy a Tower Records store?", and plenty of services, not least Pirate Bay, has risen to fill its void.

It's hard to argue that low-friction, even non-DRM, digital music sales wasn't brought around (or at least, brought around much faster) by piracy-induced pain. The RIAAs would have been more than happy to use the law to shut down piracy (in effect, their competition), but even tough the law obliged them, the customers didn't.

I'd call that fighting the law.
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Just a joke about the great HN Bitcoin craze in general, and the occasional crazy schemes people come up with to turn small amounts of computing power into pointlessly small amounts of Bitcoin, like the recent JavaScript miner that you hide on your site and run on visitors' computers.
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It took a while for me to be able to articulate it, but that was what bothered me about my interview. The recruiter was all positivity, but the first real person who interviewed me seemed like he hated his job. It was the biggest turn-off.
This is why retooling a pipeline at an animation or VFX studio is so mind-bogglingly complex and difficult. The analogy I've heard before is imagine not only rebuilding an airplane while its flying and trying to make sure the passengers don't notice, but sometimes also making the tools that you're rebuilding the airplane with from scratch as well.
The Internet itself is pretty regulated and monitored already.
Yeah, I might have gone too far with that gutless thing, but the important thing is the final outcome on which we both agree: in the end nothing happened.
Not trying to be sadistic, but hasn't the backlash over Google+ integration into YouTube gone a bit far?
I know it looks like that, but that reaction happens often right after it.

Of course I didn't like not being accepted (that was in 2007 btw).

But based on what now is showing and the opinion of people that have worked there (and the jobs I had afterwards) I see that it didn't matter much in the end, and I believe that even though having Google in your CV is something that's good, not entering allowed me to pursue a lot of other things.

And the opinion that the Google selection process (not only theirs) is dysfunctional is widely shared.
Windows Phone developers can now integrate Facebook login APIs into apps