skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least for me, the background song (from renowned singer and lyricist 'Piyush Mishra') adds a LOT in making me emotional - which they didn't translate. So I decided to add a rough translation for the same in the comments, but thanks to new Google+ integration - only junk is at the top on Youtube now.

Here's it again (translation of only the BG song), timed for those who are interested:

0:59 : Those narrow streets of childhood jump in joy again ...
Tying those little sweet thefts along with it ...

1:35: (Same two lines above, then ... )
Where I would fly like a kite, like a bird ...
That was the time .. when my heart felt like a free peacock ...

2:21: When I would sit immersed in those paper boats all day long,
... or 'entangle' myself with those windows peeking outside ...
Oh, what a time that was, when there were no restrictions in the heart ...
... That was the time .. when it felt like a free peacock ...
> So we need a way of getting private keys to beneficiaries without risk, perhaps involving some kind of secret sharing scheme and reasonably trusted third parties (lawyers, friends, relatives). I've spent some time thinking about how you'd achieve this, and have concluded that it's beyond me.

Seriously? I could have the core system developed within a day. Do you want me to do it?
Ask them to commit to training you into a web dev role. If they won't commit, it might not be a good place for you.
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I am curious, what type of app do you have running on the 512MB VPS? I use Java in my day job but I am considering using Python for a side project primarily because of a JVM-based app higher memory requirement.
What do you mean, "you never got your money back"? They're just sitting on $2,000 USD of yours?
Stiglitz makes a good point about how farm subsidies made sense in the '30s when most farms were small and family owned. They were an antipoverty program then, and only since then were their rules exploited by ever-larger farms.

This kind of rent seeking should not surprise anyone. The market moves a lot more quickly than government. Today's reasonable policy is tomorrow's corporate welfare.

The lesson I take from this: other things being equal, err on the side of fewer programs and regulations instead of more. If you want to help the needy, it's better to use broad-based direct assistance (like food stamps or the EITC) than a more complicated program that singles out some sub-group like farmers.
Oh, also, nice examples: https://plot.ly/#gallery. And R, Python, Matlab, Julia, and PERL libraries: https://plot.ly/api...Nice!
Have you tried IntelliJ IDEA? They have a free community version that you can use: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/

I switched to their Python IDE (PyCharm) and have never looked back.
Ah cool. When is the next senate hearing? I might consider buying my bitcoin back in case it goes up again for the hearing. :)
I use the JVM "as little as is absolutely necessary", which is often, thanks to technologies like Lucene, Hadoop, Storm, Zookeeper, etc.

And, "code fashionista"?

Hah, give me a break.

Python actually predates Java. I can't tell you how many times in the period 2005-2009 people derided me for using a "scripting" language for real work. All the "real programmers" used C++ or Java, of course!

Then, in 2009-2013, everyone suddenly realizes, oh, perhaps we don't need 200 classes per 1,000 lines of code and perhaps we don't need an IDE to that vomits boilerplate all day long and perhaps static types aren't such an important thing and perhaps generics are overrated and perhaps programmer time truly is much more expensive than machine time, ...

and, now I'm a "code fashionista" for still using Python for production projects, 6 years later? The "scripting" language that's so non-serious that it's used by thousands of production large-scale systems and scientists the world over?

Yes, that one -- the "fashionable" language. The one that isn't fussy and just gets work done.
Most of these purchasers are not really a net demand for Bitcoin, though, are they? I see them as mostly using Bitcoin as a short-term intermediary to gain USD or EUR while bypassing exchange controls. So they'll account for, say, 1,000 BTC bought, and 1,000 BTC sold.
Is using the keyboard with its tiny little buttons really that much better for you? As someone who can touch type reasonably well I have always found both the touchscreen virtual keyboard on my Android phones and the n900 physical keyboard rather annoying.
I feel like the "fuck you, I've got mine" culture of Hollywood and, thanks to the VCs, also the Valley leads this way for a lot of talented, creative people (such as OP). The problem is that no one thinks age discrimination will happen to them, and people who've realized that it can and does have been rendered irrelevant.

Also, I know that a lot of people will think that this is a shitty thing to say, but it's just the truth, so here goes. Unless you have dynastic wealth (and various generational protections against losing it, such as trust funds that skip a generation) having 8 kids is just fucking irresponsible. You're betting on 5+ of them being 150+ IQ types who can make it on their own without top schools and bought connections, and that's just not a reasonable bet no matter how good your genes may be. Sorry, but them's truth. I'm not sure I can even condone bringing one child into this fucked-up, horrible society. I certainly wouldn't even consider it if I lived in the ex-hippie-now-hypocrite fuck-you-I've-got-mine paradise of Hollywood/Silicon Valley.
According to the article, it ranges from 16x more time-complex to 256x more time-complex, depending on what you're doing with it.
Sure you can.

When you transfer USD into Mt. Gox, you can then buy some "virtual" BTC. The BTC that is in your Mt. Gox account is purely virtual. Until you manually transfer it out of Mt. Gox, you don't even know if those BTC exist yet.

I'm not necessarily saying that Mt. Gox is lying to anyone (although they don't strike much confidence in me...). I'm simply stating that the job of lying to the customers is a lot easier than you might think.

Take GPL for instance. It "virtually" held BTC for its customers, and one day... they decided to disappear off the face of the internet. Unless those BTC are exactly in a private, offline wallet, you have NO guarantee that you are actually in full possession of those BTC.

That is why BTC regulation as a currency is a necessary step forward. If institutions are forced to offer guarantees on the promised value of your BTC Accounts, then life will be a lot easier for the BTC consumers.
Really, really beautiful. Well done.
Wow, I had no idea. That's a nice feature.
I mostly agree. Cannot vouch for other Slavic people, but in Russia "чо лыбишься" (wtf are you smiling at) almost always greets me, and greeted while I was living there. One of the most fundamental reasons for me to move away to the US was this fundamental difference in the psychological makeup, which is expressed in the Russian proverb, "смех без причины признак дурачины": a smile without a reason means the person is without reason. No it does not.
Ctrl-K will put a ? in front to indicate a search term.
Not paused but searched after the video ends :). And 'verified' that the correct definition does appear. :P
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If you don't mind me asking- why? Things like debugging seem like they would be a nightmare.
localbitcoins.com is always pretty good as long as you choose a safe payment method... i.e. not paypal or something easily reversible.
A couple large bitcoin funds go broke to hackers and the price of bitcoin subsequently doubles in a little over two weeks. I'm curious to see how this will continue to play out.
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Ask HN: Do you see a bright future for Litecoin?
Today Litecoin doubled in value, leading me to wonder if now might be the time to start getting into it. Your thoughts?
We use Grails purely for the convenience of its Views, Controllers, and Services. For the backend, we use Java - backed REST-like services.

It is trivial to remove the GORM/Hibernate dependencies from Grails.

If you can use No-Sql databases that offer a REST API, all you will need is an additional dependency on Httplib so you can make the calls.
This is a good analysis as well: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/41937/pgp-rsa-ke...
Amazing work!

What strikes me most is how little the language matters. You don't even have to watch it with subtitles to see how solid the editing was. Kudos to the entire team that worked on these videos.
And some sort of obsession with excellence. Wikipedia relates that the median price of a home there is $1.98 million. I'm sure there is somewhere cheaper in L.A. that still has a very reasonable public school system.
I don't think it is BS; the article has a very true observation

"Quite often, Russians smile not “at”, but "about" something."

I guess in Russia one must always be aware of hierarchy; one is supposed to be subordinate to the current hierarchy; Smiling is often interpreted as mocking by the higher ups, and as a sign of condescension by peers.

Also Moscow is quite a stressful place; Men have a high chance of dying in their fifties due to heart problems, much higher chance than in other countries.
Try reading the title of the article.
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I am getting stock options worth $15,000, and there is a 4 year vesting period.
This company is in the top 100 Deloitte fastest growing companies list.

I don't have more info then that (such as my equity %), but for those who were in similar situations, what is the potential for these options ?
The chinese govt has plenty of engineers and plenty of IC fabs. They are in the best position, even more so than the US govt, to execute the 51% attack.
Anarchists love Bitcoin because it is "currency without a central authority." They see that and ignore everything else.
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The major takeaway from the article is that he fell into the same trap that a lot of us did in the 90s, that the future was so bright you had to wear shades. I had no idea the 2000s were going to be so dang BLEAK.

What happened to agricultural commodity prices in the Roaring 1920s began happening to almost human labor (except high-end private-sector social climbing) around 1998.

Badly managed plenty (in the '20s, in food; in the '90s, in services in general) leads to a catastrophic depression. If excellence-maximizers are in control, people see better uses for the freed-up resources. But the ones who succeed in human organizations tend to be the boring cost-cutter type, and if those sorts of people are in control, then growth (paradoxically?) leads to meltdown and widespread poverty.
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> Is using the keyboard with its tiny little buttons really that much better for you?

It's way, way better.

On my old Blackberry, I could type as fast as I could write by hand. (The Blackberry didn't even do any form of auto-correction or text-prediction).

I don't even have very large fingers, but there's a huge benefit to having the tactile feedback when typing quickly. Similarly, I'm dramatically slower on a full-size touchscreen "keyboard" than on a physical keyboard.

Of course, this effect is more noticeable the faster you type. I notice it a lot, because on a physical keyboard, I can theoretically type ~100 wpm[0]. In practice, this means I end up typing as fast as I think (which is obviously slower than 100wpm).

On a touchscreen "keyboard", I can't type as fast as I can think, and it's incredibly frustrating to keep halting my train of thought so what's on the screen can catch up.

[0] for a typing test, where I don't have to stop and think about what I'm typing.
Restricting comments so the 405 developers don't get spammed "me too", "please fix this ASAP", etc is a good thing. Bug report comments are not the place to add such things. Votes were implemented for that.
It is an interesting point. Google has become as much a substitute for the address bar as a way to find new things.
You can easily acquire 100 million dollars to burn every month?
Anecdote from back in the day (well late 90's). A friend I had at school invited me to hang out with one of his "hacker" friends. This guy was into carding and other crap. Anyway, he lived in a small town. So somehow he managed to build small transmitters and attached them to bottom of a few local police cruisers. When those would get closer he got a blinking light on his receiver. Don't know how true it was, I was pretty young, but thought it an interesting idea.

Courts in many instances agreed that one doesn't need an warrant since the movement of one's car is public. Can the same logic be applied to police cars then?

Some countries don't let you advertise the location of speed traps. So radio stations there would for example warn drivers of cars with flashing lights and people in uniform blasting beams of microwave energy at oncoming cars.
Well it's moving someone to tears in the ol' USA too.
this thread couldn't come sooner. I'm in Minsk, Belarus (very similar to Russia) from SV for the next month to finish our mobile app. One thing I've noticed is how fucking gloomy everyone looks. If you smile the men look intimidating and want to cut your head off and the women roll their eyes...It's as if everyone is a KGB agent and they are constantly suspecting you.
In using Groovy for web development, checkout our product (www.crudzilla.com)

here's a short video demoing coding in Groovy and other jvm languages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqeOS2hqtMg

We use JSR-223 to support the various languages
I agree about drawing diagrams by specifying coordinates (it is tedious). The point here is to make existing LaTeX publishable online. It would be great if there was a web tool to generate the diagram PSTricks code
You can have my car when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers...

Seriously, cars aren't perfect for every situation, but nothing can match the flexibility of a car. They are popular for a reason. Need to go to the corner store for milk, but it's raining out? Car is nice. Need to head all the way across the country, hauling something (too big | too awkward | not allowed | etc) for an airplane? Drive. Need to go somewhere unusual after work that isn't remotely close to a (subway station | bus stop | airport | etc)? You're fucked, or on the hook for a long walk or an expensive cab ride. Or maybe you live somewhere that doesn't have subways, buses, trains, etc.

If I lived in, say, Chicago, I doubt I'd drive very often but I darn sure always intend to have car (or two, or three) no matter where I live.
Is there no end to what the US Govt will do for large lobby groups?

Here the US seems to be opposing the rights of Lat-Am countries to use emergency measures to protect their citizens against "Chagas disease" because that would deny its pharma companies a lucrative & desperate market.

>> Take the following snippet, from Article QQ.A.5:

>> (a) The obligations of this Chapter do not and should not prevent a Party from taking measures to protect public health by promoting access to medicines for all, in particular concerning cases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, [US oppose: chagas] and other epidemics as well as circumstances of extreme urgency or national emergency.

>> Here, "[US oppose: chagas]" indicates the word "chagas" is disputed, with the United States opposing its inclusion in the treaty. This is a reference to Chagas disease, a form of trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease primarily affecting Latin America. U.S. opposition can probably be attributed to pressure from the pharmaceutical industry.
I saw a demo in person the other day and they showed it as a graph embedded in a Washington Post article. I was most impressed by the ability to click through on the graph and browse or query the data set directly.
I'm a Russian American. I've travelled to India for a few weeks and have some friends from the region, but I don't really understand the ethnic issues beyond a very surface level.

The ad made me very emotional. It's a very human story. The fact that the characters in the story happen to be from India and Pakistan are almost tangential to the point. The same story could have been told about east and west Germany before unification, and it would have been just as powerful.
This is probably more high level academic analysis than the TPP has had in the previous two years of negotiations, and it shows why open access to the treaty can provide great benefit to both the people negotiating it and the people who will be governed by it.
Yes, because if something isn't happening in Silicon Valley it must not be happening anywhere, right?

It's clear that progress is slow, but any progress at all is good news in my book. My T-Mobile cellphone is also now IP6, so it's happening. Gradually.
I have an idea for using visual cryptography to improve patient safety in healthcare centers. Although it isn't directly related to the type of cryptography mentioned here, I'm interested in sharing it to receive feedback from fellow HN users who know more about visual cryptography. (I'm a layman when it comes to the subject.)

Without further ado: My friend, a nurse, told me that serious medical complications can occur because of breakdowns in communication among patients, nurses and other healthcare professionals. As information changes hands, misspellings and misinterpretations of records can seriously harm patients.

For example, you might have heard the story of a girl in Ohio who overdosed in 2011 because a nurse accidentally prescribed her the wrong dose of medication. It was a simple clerical error; the nurse had been prescribing the same amount for years.

I'm interested in using visual encryption to help validate patient information, especially the types of information (names, contact info, treatment regimens) that remain relatively constant over time.

Imagine if there were an easily recognizable, thumbnail-sized image on patient medical records. The image would pose no security risk because no sensitive data could be deduced from it, but even the slightest change in a patient's record would make it appear entirely different.

I think this might be one extra useful layer of security that would help patients and healthcare professionals safely validate their information. But, as I said, I'm a layperson when it comes to cryptography.

I'm interested in learning more about this approach, as well as the subject in general, and welcome any feedback from people who know more about visual cryptography.
Most of the US position has been set by large lobby groups. They're the only one who have been allowed access to the negotiations or draft text until this leek.
I don't understand -- is your intention to put them under fire so they're on your side in efforts to repeal MTA?
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I got my current iPhone (my first smartphone) in 2011. Before that I had an LG Envy Touch, with a phenomenal keyboard. I type fast on my iPhone, but I reckon I'm still 1.5 to 2x slower than with a physical phone keyboard. You can really hustle with a physical keyboard. All that said, if a keyboarded smartphone was fast and bug-free-enough I'd jump ship for the keyboard alone.
sounds like yesterday was a better time to start getting into it
Here's one of the recent Washington Post articles with an embedded Plotly graph: http://wapo.st/13osx4W
> They actively funded terrorist groups on conflicting sides with the express goal of dividing the region not just geographically (Partition), but ideologically and politically.

Can you give me some specific examples of terrorist groups? From my readings, the British just successfully managed to divide the Hindu and Muslim populations using discriminating policies (like the pig / cow oil on guns in the 1800s), and let the divisions play out. They did support Gandhi and Jinnah, but I never came across them actively funding terrorist organizations.
And check out the python script that generated the graph (https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/157) to pick and choose favorite layout elements, for example.
> Even though it is only implied by the article, Microsoft's business model is in jeopardy if the most future-proof method of application development/deployment becomes the web.

Luckily, if you compare the life of the article to what would work reliably on the web, we're talking an order of magnitude difference.

I just checked : a win3.1 .exe runs fine on my win8 test VM, and displays exactly as intended (well, a bit smaller than intended I guess due to the ridiculous resolution of my screen, oh well). A webapp made just 3 years ago doesn't display correctly on anything more recent than IE7.

Seems like windows tech is still by far the safer bet.
Well of course you should try to protect your family, just know that the law will want you after. Morally right and legally right don't always align unfortunately in most cases where that's true.
I did.

The expected definition appeared.

And the first two "Images for jhajariya" were frames from the ad.
This is just a version 1.0, if not less. Imagine when the columns become much smaller and the amount of them increases. That coupled with higher resolution projectors can make for some real cool applications of the technology.
Clojure is the thing that fills the flexible, expressive language niche on the JVM for me. This is to say nothing about Groovy, I've never touched or looked at it.
Presently, yes.
They built a nice series of shorter vignettes based on the original ad.[1] These are perhaps less easily translated but they are sure to tug at the heartstrings of a subcontinental audience. Cricket, biryani and street food - who knew power-cuts and diabetes could evoke such nostalgia!

Well played, Google. I'll refrain from criticizing you for the next hour or so! :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYVoM8tgbvA&feature=c4-overv...
RFC 3177 suggested /48 for customer networks but RFC 6177 allows shorter delegations. /56 and /60 are common allocations for ISPs. /60 should be plenty for residential customer especially if larger allocations are available for business customers.
Here's the most recent embedded Plotly graph in the Washington Post: http://wapo.st/19zFL1B
I loved the 3-D plotting, that definitely sold me on entertainment value at least. I think at this stage its uses are fairly limited, but it's likely meant to be somewhat of a proof of concept at this point. Yeah the "car" they were "designing" was kind of silly, but smaller piston sizes and less "pixelation" may make something like that more feasible.
There are a number of options for the US. It could, for example, not be involved in the trade talks (it wasn't originally); it could make demands that crash them; it could make ludicrous demands and have them acceeded to; or it could negotiate as a partner to the other members.

I suspect that the only two outcomes that are regarded as succesful is a multilateral treaty on US terms, or no multilateral treaty at all. The last thing the US wants is a multilateral treaty between East Asian and Pacific nations, which the US regards as its back yard.
Comcast had real incentive to push IPv6 hard in some markets -- their address plane was out of addresses to satisfy DHCP leases in some markets. When you get support calls in a market, and the reason is because they can't be given an IP address, it lights a fire under you.

Needless to say, I've had IPv6 with spot-on 6-to-4 support in Boston for over a year now.
Wind down stock and use a different program / partner and abandon the FBA program would be one option.
I am a Russian-American as well and I have to concur with gentleman above. I also asked my wife to see if she shares the feeling. Same result.

I am not sure whether it's Slavic thing or not, but I think last 100 years of history had something to do with it.