skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concrete paths inherit from pure paths - this would be quite strange using antonyms. This isn't like an "abstract" base class. It's a full class on its own, which is extended by another.

Anyway, I think it's meant to be "pure" like pure functions, generally having no side effects or external inputs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
Between my Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, iMessage, SMS, and phone, and whatever else I'm forgetting... I'm all socialed out. Do I, or for that matter anyone else, really need another way to communicate with social circles?

Do I personally want another one? Well not me, but other people might.

Does anyone need another one? I highly highly doubt it.
There's some guy (with multiple aliases) who trolls the Phoronix forums whenever there's a BSD-related topic. I'm pretty sure this is his blog.
A whale jumping out of the sea next to a beautiful sunset is awesome.

I don't think a website is. But each to their own!
(I suspect this is the overuse of the word "awesome" that reduces the really "awesome" things to "super extra awesome".)
awesome? That sounds honorific.

"OK Google, remove all semblance of my privacy"
It stands to reason that Bitcoin's creators would have believed that they needed a killer app as a catalyst to spur acceptance. Silk Road was ideally suited to show off the advantages of Bitcoin over more traditional payment methods. However, Silk Road didn't pop up until nearly two years after Bitcoin was first introduced.

This paper is trying to make a connection between a few transactions sent from a very early Bitcoin address to some Silk Road addresses. It is possible that if this early address belongs to "Satoshi" that he was simply buying from Silk Road. Whatever he was doing, the connection is tenuous at best, which of course is the entire point of Bitcoin. DPR is facing a life sentence, so there is a good chance that if he has partners, the feds (and eventually the rest of the world) will find out about them as part of a plea deal.
You were downvoted in that period, which might have something to do with it (people are seriously overzealous about that)
It is part of the point; if it would be normal (which it is here) to see breasts, this instance would not be as big a deal as it is. You would not lose your job for it nor would anyone care or even point it out if it's just breasts or ass. Hence making Moore his business impossible unless he can get spread shots or sex shots; people who take/film those can expect to have them surface these days. If Moore doesn't, someone else will. That's also a point a point here; we live in these times; stuff you take on a digital camera cannot be considered private in a lot of cases (unless you take it off, print it on a non internet connected photoprinter and put it in an album and then purge (overwrite with 0s) the camera and printer). You have to know that before you are putting pics of your breasts (or more) on computers. You'll forget about them, computers die (but the hds are taken out after you throw them away and can be looked at), images get uploaded in the cloud, etc. If you are a prude then make sure your pics don't get taken in that fashion; even this example; why didn't she remove the breast one and kept the rest?

Moore is wrong for not removing images which are contested to be authorized by the subjects, but further; if he doesn't 1000s of others will and do; there are many of these sites a quick Google search shows. He just has a bigger mouth in the press.

In short; get used to this happening to your pics and indeed, I do no believe Moore would have success in the EU. He would have to hire porn actresses to play girls and boys doin' it behind/in the church and make it look real to get any kind of 'oh my word!' feedback here. In that from a limited audience as there are not that many believers anymore.
Further clarification: The manifest is the same you'd use for native applications. Microsoft automatically enables DPI awareness for WPF because that framework scales all coordinates automatically with DPI settings. WinForms doesn't do that. It requires extra code for proper DPI scaling, hence you need to manually apply the manifest if you have done that extra work. (Auto-generated Visual Studio projects might automatically provide both the necessary rigging and manifest, not sure.)
The question should be about biology, not stuff like gender.
Biology solves this problem (most of the time)
A similar point was described here, using Wolfram Alpha as a running example: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.de/2009/07/wolfram-...
Does somebody has an informed opinion about the skyrocketing of difficulty the next months?. What will happen when the top of the line ASICS will be mining at a loss in 4 to 5 months?
Are new processors coming or the number of people mining will drop?
I think you're confusing analyst with field agents.

The information you mention could be in an analysis though, but not the techniques for aquiring it.

One is writing intelligence (this), the other is gathering and collecting intel in the field (covert ops etc.)
But, then again, so would "I am John Doe and live in 23 Maple Road, Kentucky, US, 12345, Apartment 1a", that's why the post office uses it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition... says they've only bought two Israeli companies so far.
The ability to create their own themes styles and background changes and the ability to get maximum karmas
Is McDonald's really worth $100 billion?? It's some guys making hamburgers!

Valuation is based on a whole host of things including revenue, brand recognition, distribution, customer acquisition costs, customer retention rates, switching costs, growth, etc. You could start a Dropbox competitor and have none of those. The business matters far more in valuing the company than how hard it is to replicate the product. It's much easier to make a hamburger as well as McDonald's than it is to make a business as good as theirs.
> To be clear, I'm aware that some of these victims lost their jobs. I did not mean to suggest there was no harm done. However, they lost their job due to the prudish culture that I originally referred to, not directly by the actions of the villain.

They did lose their job directly due to the actions of the villains. It was an organized attack to ruin some innocent person's life. The prudish society provides them the means, but let's not forget that these people are pure evil. There's not the slightest excuse or reason for what they did, other than pure, unadulterated malice. The nudity makes it easy, but when that tool is taken away from them (it certainly should), there are still plenty of other ways they can discredit, slander or ruin someone.
It's not easy to find, but we have a technical data sheet here: http://sugru.com/pdfs/tds.pdf
When someone asks an obvious question, the interpreter of the question has two paths to choose.

(a) Assume the author is very stupid and then tell him the very stupid and obvious answer.

(b) Interpret the question as rhetorical.

People who take (a) are the type of people who think they're smarter than everyone else, but who are actually, in fact, dumber. Usually they lack empathy, are undersocialized, and probably show on the autism spectrum.

People who take (b) are the type of people who correctly interpret the statement.

The correct interpretation of my rhetorical question is to read it as a commentary on authority. Is this 1800 rated 19 year old really the proper authority to learn how to play chess? Wouldn't a professional chess teacher with decades of experience and a higher rating than 1800 be the correct authority to instruct us on the best methods to learn chess? Yes. They would be. There are thousands of these teachers.

Instead of pushing blogspam by amateurs onto the frontpage, if HN really wants to know how to learn chess, HN should just link one of the dozens of much more reputable books on this topic.

As a chess player all I can do is roll my eyes when a 19 year old with an 1800 rating and very few (none?) years of chess teaching experience proclaims himself an expert and gets upvoted for it. It's just absurd.
>Why are humans still doing this work?

They are cheaper. And it keeps them occupied.
Interesting ! An excellent introduction is also available as a coursera class (by Perry Mehrling from Columbia U) at https://www.coursera.org/course/money and https://www.coursera.org/course/money2 !
It is explicitly not a display issue.
Because everything powered by greed gets fast lane access.
"Why are humans still doing this work?"

Given that Amazon is no stranger to technology I suspect the answer is that it simply doesn't make financial sense. I suspect the capex on a standard Amazon shipping center is probably pretty low (lease a warehouse, put in computer systems, hire a crowd of temp workers).
Wow, I remember the Pentium 90s coming out and being amazed. I of course had rubbish old late 1980s British computers to use whilst everyone else was on 16 bit machines, but when the Pentium II came out, I finally got hold of a 486 DX2 66Mhz.
It is strange how you learn to "make do" with hardware and systems, and learn patience. I finally bought an Ivybridge i7 last year after "making do" with machines for a long time. I fondly remember spending hours and hours tinkering with slow systems, but being just as productive!
Does HN operate on a kindness and friendliness economy? If some blogspam hack writes in a very kind tone but peddles complete unauthoritative bullshit should we coddle him so as to not hurt his feelings? All he because he wrote with "kindness".

This isn't a nice lady smiling at you on the street and telling you about her knitting technique. This is fucking blogspam by a complete amateur who has self-proclaimed himself an expert on a topic that is already very well populated by ACTUAL authoritative experts.
I'm part of this "renewed interested in chess", as I've played competitively when I was in high school but then stopped for several years until I came across this year's championship a few weeks ago.

I've tried several things to get back into chess but so far I've gotten the most "bang for the buck" on http://chesstempo.com/ , go to Training > Chess Tactics. It's fabulous, it feels very useful and it's even highly addictive. And for chess videos I warmly recommend ChessNetwork on YouTube. Lastly, I found a really nice app on iPad just called "Chess", which lets me squeeze in quick games in-between events and it's optionally computer assisted, which can help find interesting moves.
Yes. According to the paper they not only transferred the money, and they did it in 445 chunks of 324 bitcoins each (and one chunk with the remainder).

324 spells FBI on a phone keypad.
As long as the Gov't has authority what asset it accepts for tax payments, legal tender as issued by the central bank is in no danger. Since in industrialized nations taxes make up a large part of the GNI, I cannot see XBT dethroning national currencies.

The usual inflation of traditional currencies would predictably lead to a deflationary spiral in XBT until it either hits a ceiling or goes into extremely fast boom and bust cycles that kill trust. Everyone who tried to evade the debasement of his savings by 2% inflation only to witness them melting 50% in the next XBT bubble pop will be hesitant to go there again - especially if the market get so narrow that selling is a real problem.
Ah yes. Closures are a poor man's object.
Ref: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
Ask HN: resources about strategy
These last few weeks, this site has seen many discussions related to strategy (Magnus Carlsen, Chess, Go, John Boyd,...).
In particular, many have pointed out the difference between 'tactics' and 'strategy'. The consensus seems to be that the former is related to winning a battle and the latter is related to winning the war.

I'm a novice but quite interested in the subject. Are there any recommended books, discussion forums,... on all kinds of conflict (military, business), identifying and exploiting advantages and "keeping your eyes on the prize" (having an end goal in mind while still using the right tactic for the present battle)?
This is very very true. I see the "multiple users" feature they introduced a few dot versions ago in Android and thought it was useful (perhaps?) but then they are implementing all of Linux's features on top of Linux.... makes me chuckle
Rarely does a comment make one feel euphoria. This, to me, is the heart and soul of our internet.
Through a brutal reign of imaginary murders.
I get the author's fear, but how is that any worse than doing mass surveillance for a fuzzy reason like "national security concerns"?

All the totalitarian regimes cited reasons like "national security concerns" or "enemy of the people" to mass monitor their citizens. Using mass surveillance in order to catch a thief or a killer is still excessive and undermines our freedom, but at least it's a much more specific and debatable reason than chasing ghosts.
This absolutely reveals a problem in society, and a problem with employee's rights and employers being able to fire people for things that are none of the employer's business.

But none of that changes that Moore and his henchmen are the primary villains here. Behind bars is the only place for that kind of malice.
Hilarious campaign on Indiegogo
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>You haven't provided any evidence that social networks in fact behave like TV shows.

No, but he made an argument. You have to judge it. Not everything in life is settled with "evidence".
Um, in many many ways. It's probably easier to compare it to something similar, e.g. An ordinary car lease. Here, you have all the advantages/disadvantages of a leasing agreement, but you're now tied to work as a contractor to Uber, who have no obligations to you. No guarantee of work, no certainty of income, few benefits. Meanwhile, should you stop working for them or if business is not good, suddenly you are on the hook for a lease that you can no longer afford.
Haha setting up X very true, really made me laugh thanks. And then the same pain with ndiswrapper because I bought cheap wifi cards that there were no drivers for....

And then folks complain today about the tiniest things!
What I would love is an app that does this locally, without sending my data to the cloud. I would readily pay a good deal for it. Better than my information being sold to advertising agencies and their cronies.
Of course. Or rather, that you'll learn that the more important data, you publish on your own, and everything else is transient.
Yeah, you would think that, but you'd also think he wouldn't have made a number of other pretty elementary mistakes that led to him getting caught, like promoting the website using a username linked to his email address (firstname.lastname@gmail.com), asking for help programming TOR services using his real name then quickly trying to delete his name, twice paying to have people assassinated that resulted in him getting conned (once to the FBI), and ordering fake IDs online to be sent to his residence under his name.
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It is fascinating to see the kind of mental gymnastics some people try to engage with in response to these reoffending rates. It's particularly worth pointing out that this was/is an experiment even by Norwegian standard.

Norway's prisons used to be horrible 100-150 years ago - we used to have prisons where people would be kept in iron and used for forced heavy manual labour, and kept in dark miserable cells. But it was clear that it didn't really work. The system was getting miserable results whether you cared about reoffending rates, cost, human rights or whatever measure you might care about other than pure vengeance.

Rather than trying more of the same, which seems to be the common reaction, the criminal justice system has continuously been subject to experiments that has been focused on outcomes, and nearly every time, the experiments ends up evidence supporting a more and more lenient system whether you are looking at costs to society, reoffending rates or other factors.

Even satisfaction for victims is better served by reforms that focus on reconciliation than harsh punishment (people who consent to meet with victims or relatives of victims to explain themselves can in certain circumstances receive substantially reduced sentences).
This article surprisingly misses the fact that I want to communicate with my grandparents. Sure, I don't want them in the same circle as my friends, but communication there is important too.

There are many social networks who aren't tailored to the older generation, so there's a bit of a problem there: My mom has no interest in Twitter. That's why I like attempts like togethera.com, I think there are plenty of alternatives for "the social network we think we want", but not enough for the ones we actually would find useful. "Faster horse", etc.
There's a distinct lack of a service that I can post filtered photos of the toilet bowl after crapping for my friends.
No, Circa has a large team of actual human editors. That’s why the content is good.

Also, Circa started out as an iPhone app. The iPad and Android versions came later.
Cheaper I understand, however, it doesn't seem very healthy work. I worked with people doing it full time at that time (and apparently not much has changed); most of those had damaged hips from walking the same way behind the carts they pushed for 10-15 years. And I can see why this would mentally affect you, although I must say that most of them actually liked it. I was setting up a software business and was telling about that ; they were just saying 'why not work here, no stress, it's great! never any stress and fixed paycheck'. That sounds different than the Amazon one, but you cannot really do that in NL ; you can set a 'realistic, sustainable minimum' amount of work they have to do, but that differs per person; you cannot fire or reprimand someone for not 'making the beep' if that means you have to walk faster than normal or even run for it. So everyone would be quite relaxed and yet everything gets done with the people happy. So cheaper but unhealthy maybe?

Also; I don't know much about the robots involved and what they would cost and how much prices are going to drop; seeing that humans are wasting quite a bit of space on the floor and have other issues, I'm not sure if it's cheaper? I'm sure Amazon calculates that often though , so I guess it is.

Occupied; I see that as a reason, but that's an issue anyway; we cannot keep doing it that for that reason (and they don't, but as you say). If the work can be done by machines, it will be done with machines.
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I'm slightly disappointed about the level of discourse here about this. Visa issues are a side show - the real story is about the self censorship people are subjecting themselves to.

The important idea that Perry Link suggests is that US Universities should deliberately push at the very limits of Chinese censorship within China, so that academics will feel free to discuss thing within those boundaries.

It's quite a clever way of trying to avoid the self-censorship trap, which - as the author points out - is probably more dangerous than the actual censorship itself.
PowerShell is nice and in principle seems more Unixy than the normal Unix core utils in that cmdlets really do only one thing and that one well (most of ls' options for example can be solved by simply combining Get-ChildItem with Sort-Object or one of the Format-* cmdlets).

As for a port, you're welcome to contribute on Pash (https://github.com/Pash-Project/Pash) – it's still woefully incomplete, sadly.
I don't know much about this issue, but just a shot in the dark: Apple is using a new technology called Core Storage that's "layered between the whole-disk partition scheme and the file system used for a specific partition" in order to manage FileVault and their fusion drives. It's also apparently a technology that's in flux, as there are certain incompatibilities in regards to fusion drives (possibly custom created ones?) with the release of Mavericks. John Siracusa mentioned this in a recent podcast, and even hypothesized about how Core Storage might be a stop-gap between HFS+ and a new Apple-designed file system. Could it have something to do with this?
It certainly belongs in court, just maybe not in a civil one. It's a criminal case. Well, damages for the victims (surely much more than the villains will ever be able to pay) may belong in a civil court, but these people also belong behind bars for a good long time.

If you're willing to ruin someone's life like that, you do not deserve to live in a way where you're capable of doing so.
The important things to note about the relation between DPR and SN:

* There was an account/wallet that was created a week after Bitcoin mining 'commenced' in 2009.

* SN was known to have been active in the early mining. However so was Hal Finney (inventor of RPOW). They refer to it as the founder's wallet, but I think it would be more appropriate to think of it as the wallet of an early miner.

* This early miner's accumulated into it over 77,600 BTCs (mostly from mining operations)

* During June 2011 (4/6/2011 - 28/6/2011) almost all of these bitcoins were moved into a second account

* On the transaction graph, on one path, 45% of these bitcoins are are transferred to another wallet over the course of late 2012 to new year 2013. On the other path, the remaining 55% is sent to another wallet over the course of early 2012 to the same day new year 2013.

* The 45% wallet has a little of its funds sent to the 55% wallet, and then has laid dormant since a month back. In the 45% wallet in March'13, a fifth of the wallet is sent to the 55% wallet. Again, from the 14/9/13 to 23/10/13, another 15% is sent to the 55% wallet.

* However, if we look at the 55% wallet, we can see a clear link to DPR's wallet. In March'13, the 55% wallet sends 6 transfers totalling 2.5% of its balance ($1000) to another wallet, which sends this to DPR's account (as we know from the FBI's discovery of the wallet).

The authors suggest that all of these accounts belonged to the same person, this same early miner they call the founder. This is a possible flaw in their argument, as there were multiple early miners, Hal Finney being one of them.

The transactions that divided this wallet into the 45% and 55% wallets could have also split the ownership.

Lastly, it's very important to understand that while it may not be publicly recorded in the blockchain, these accounts could've changed hands by manually exchanging the private keys, and thus could bring into question the basis of this speculation.
Average people get all upset about unions when they see them applied to jobs that don't seem too too demanding.

But places like Walmart and Amazon are exactly why unions should exist, to counterbalance the inhumane over-optimization and maltreatment of people.

Amazon could probably make work less toxic by hiring 10% more people, but that would make things cost a few cents more.
You can have a web-site plus their hard hard drives for less than $1 million.

Now, try also getting millions of users, tens (hundrends?) of thousands of paying customers, tons of possitive reviews from both major outlets and happy users, Jeff Bezos investing in your company (IIRC), hundends of third party apps offering integration with your service, etc...

Oh, and the technology to do what you do, and do it AT SCALE. And also the history of having met and solved tons of technological (OS/use case/etc) obstacles in the process of building your app, now in it's Nth year.

I mean, what are you on about? Just a website and some hard drives?
Here is another scary read: "I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave" http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...