skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shop & Browse... what are the funkiest e-commerce site you've come across?
That summary's not particularly on the mark in the case of Ireland.
> Needed: a very fast way to move from bitcoin holdings to litecoin.

There are many very easy ways to quickly move from Bitcoin to Litecoin. On btc-e.com, for example, you can sign up and be trading Bitcoin>Litecoin within an hour or less (the time needed for Bitcoins deposits to clear).
I honestly don't see what is broken here. No one has the unquestioned right to enter any country except one where they hold citizenship. This post documents one person who was turned away for what he felt was an unreasonable position but that's still up to the United States to decide. It may shock people on Hacker News to learn this, but many other countries turn people away for "frivolous" reasons or no reason at all. For instance, Canada:

http://www.metalinsider.net/touring/warbeast-denied-entry-to...

http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2013-06-21/article-328...

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2013/11/16/russell-brand-south-afr...

(well, almost) http://correresmidestino.com/almost-denied-entry-to-canada/
It is obviously an impressive thing. People are always impressed by a computer language/framework that can do "so much" in "so little".

Combine that with the behaviour of human attention, precisely how one thing inspires another, and trace it back to the original "spreadsheet in 30 lines" post, you can see that these type of posts are just recurring manifestations of executions of the same principle.

By the way, JavaScript, even without the host of browser-side framework, IS a powerful language. Of course, it stands on the shoulders of giants: JIT, platform abstraction, type-management, memory management, graphics (browser), visual toolkit (browser) etc.
Why teach math?
"Usually ships within 5-7 weeks..." Bizarre.
> If you don’t want tracking then this is why we have in-private browsing.

I have never heard anyone thinking that "private browser mode" protects against tracking. I wonder how common it is, particularly by web developers.

It should also be a nice hint to Firefox that their idea of incorporate tor into the browser by default is a good idea. If used, then private browser mode would actually be helping against tracking. as it is now, it simply a do-not-save-a-local-history-file option.
I thought that was odd too. Can't think of a reason why it should take that long.
I sincerely doubt the "small effort" part.
In my opinion, a better way to price LTC is in BTC. So, I prefer the LTC/BTC chart: http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/period-charts.php?period=1-...

Looking at it this way: LTC is now up to 0.014 BTC, up from a recent low of 0.01 BTC, and down from a high of 0.0449 BTC back in April.
It's neither a flat number, nor a percentage. Fee is not hard-coded in the protocol, everyone can decide on the fee himself. Users decide how much they want to pay and miners decide how to prioritise transactions. The fee is freely floating in both LTC and BTC, no difference here. The only practical difference is liquidity and it is produced only by network effect which tends to create "one of a kind" winner in a competition between very similar networks.
Good choice. I hope enough people take their money elsewhere and eventually some good might come out of it.
Everybody is missing a huge point:

Vehicle fire now completely covered under warranty, even when caused by operator error.

"Third, to reinforce how strongly we feel about the low risk of fire in our cars, we will be amending our warranty policy to cover damage due to a fire, even if due to driver error. Unless a Model S owner actively tries to destroy the car, they are covered. Our goal here is to eliminate any concern about the cost of such an event and ensure that over time the Model S has the lowest insurance cost of any car at our price point. Either our belief in the safety of our car is correct and this is a minor cost or we are wrong, in which case the right thing is for Tesla to bear the cost rather than the car buyer."
People need to give Tesla and Musk a break. It's big auto and big oil that want to see him fail, and they've got enough politicians and media in their pockets to have a fake world's fair with them. They want a slow, controlled transition to the next world energy source, and they're not ready for today's Henry Ford to come along and screw up their plan.

Also, when have safety issues not been a part of disruptive transport technology? For example:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/vintage-speed/13-m...

We need to be less influenced by this sort of FUD if we are going to have a company that can actually compete with big auto and big oil. If Musk gave my family 4 Model S's, I'd feel safe letting each of my family members drive them, once a few were old enough.
Happy for peer review. The important point is for people to read the data and use that estimate what they perceive as the risk. At a minimum, the 33% look to be easily excluded (parking 18, residential property 6, mercantile/office property 5, open land 4). Unlcasified street is also 8%, which if it were housing association or forest roads, would be an exclusion bringing you up to 41%. Alternatively, one could just simply tighten the comps to "55mph highway", and use the 17% number as the most relevant subset. However one wants to do it, the increase in fires form (1) to (3) and the reduction of the comparison space by 1/3 to 4/5 has a pretty material change in the implied probability of a fire/event.

These would be the changes vs how they appeared in October after the first PR:

Observed Events (1)/Index Population%(100)

October 1/100=1x Baseline

November 3/100=3x

Nov Min corrected data 3/67=4.5x

Nov Med corrected data 3/59=5.1x

Nov comps only 3/17=17.6x
Maybe it’s been a sufficient amount of time since the last JS1K and the code-golfers are getting itchy?

Whatever the reason is, I don’t mind so long as the submissions are interesting and I can browse the source. The ray tracing one that’s #1 at the moment IS impressive but I had to read the HN comments to find the source article.
Perhaps the upper post imagines reverse engineering the HTTP API is too difficult. I'm sure his suggestion was the same in spirit/principle.
Most of these also fit in a "things rich able-bodied people don't need to worry about" list.
I would disagree with both you and your parent comment.

Russian and Ukrainian are East Slavic languages; Polish is a West Slavic language. None of these three languages is mutually intelligible with any other, but Russian and Ukrainian are much closer to each other than other pairings. For example, Polish words generally have a fixed stress position, which makes Polish speech sound foreign and bizarre to unaccustomed Russian/Ukrainian ears. Many features of grammar and syntax are also much more similar between Russian and Ukrainian compared to Polish.

This basic picture is clouded a little by the split between east Ukrainian, which is lexically much closer to Russian, and west Ukrainian, which is farther from Russian and has very many lexical borrowings from Polish, because west Ukraine had been a part of Poland for a long time. So someone from the west of Ukraine will hear many familiar words in Polish speech, and will find it easier to understand Polish than someone from the east of Ukraine. That's sort of an icing on a cake, however; it doesn't change the basic fact that Russian is still much closer to their native language. If you could find someone from the west of Ukraine who had never been exposed to anything but their native language (and it's rare, as you mention, because almost everybody knows Russian at least to some extent), they would almost certainly find it much easier to learn Russian than Polish.

(my native language is Russian and I grew up in east Ukraine)

(and don't get me started on Belorussian)
I'd have taken it back.

My Bravia EX has no adverts but I don't entirely trust it.
I find myself going through several phases when it comes to online ads.

At first, I was fine with online ads. Show me the cool stuff! And companies did. And it was good.

Then there were blinking text, animated graphics, pop-ups to keep your from the text, and forced waits while you were "served". And it was bad. So I decided I never wanted to see an ad again.

I stayed with that for some time, until I started running my own web content. Now it's like: but who's going to pay for all of this? So ads don't seem so bad -- as long as they behave themselves.

I'm okay with ads. Heck, I'm okay with paid promotional content, as long as it identifies itself. But I'm not okay with FB inserting ads in my even stream, Forbes making me watch ads before content loads, or advertisers getting into my private life. And that's where we are.

So I'll take ghostery and lose access to a bunch of websites before I'll let people's search for a buck turn me into some kind of open book for the rest of the world to read.
You are hand-waving away this step:

"...once you have enough vendors accepting Bitcoin..."

There is also some irony in this statement:

"people are still clinging to bitcoins like gold"

Lots of people have gold but you would be hard-pressed to find any shop that accepts payments in gold.
Ghostery prevents you from loading the Javascript (at least on Firefox).

It does not protect you better than say hosts file base blocking, but it does protect you equally well and still lets you load and run that JS just once if you really need it.
But the author hasn't expressed that sentiment to the Internet Archive; they've just requested that automated spiders no longer follow those links on their site.

As with the original poster, I'm uncertain as to why IA has decided this means 'purge all copies'.
OpenSUSE 13.1 Released
I'm not desperate to see Tesla fail. I have just never seen a "perfect" car.

And so I question Musk's motives when he acts so aggressively against anyone who claims otherwise.
Same here, 5 failed login attempts from Venezuela
Happy some people switched. I've been a big disconnect.me advocate here on HN and elsewhere for some time :)
Something similar happened to me recently. I voluntarily left my job at a US employer, planning to move back home (to Sweden). But first I wanted to spend some time preparing for the move and waiting for my wife to wrap things up. The rules say you have to leave the country the last day of work, so I left for Canada to stay with a friend, and planned to come back on the visa waiver program. I consulted with the company's immigration lawyers and they said this shouldn't be a problem. The US border agents thought differently. After being held and interrogated for 4 hours like a criminal, they concluded that I was lying and they thought I would try to illegally immigrate to the US, because I didn't have enough financial ties to my home country. I had a green card on the way when I quit my job so why wouldn't I just stay if I wanted to immigrate so badly? They didn't care about that or anything else I said. I was sent back into Canada with most of my belongings still being in the US. "Entering the US is a privilege, not a right" I was told. Once you get denied entry it is very difficult to get in again, and you need a visa etc. I decided it was just easier to fly home at that point.

I realize now that I was naive, and many of you would probably say it was my own fault. I thought that if I did something that is not against the rules, things would be fine. Afterwards I found out though that entry into the US is completely the discretion of the border guards. Even if you are legally following the rules, they can deny you on a whim. In this case, I believe they thought I was taking advantage by just leaving the US for a few days and coming back. Which is a valid concern I guess, but if that's so, why wouldn't they put a time limit on how long you have to be away? I think part of my naivety comes from my trusting upbringing in a rural part of a small country.

Either way, it was not the best end to my 5 years in the US, and I doubt I'll be going back anytime soon. This experience just cemented once more that the US is not a country I wish to live in permanently, and have my kids grow up in.
Actually quite like the DLNA browser and renderer capabilities on mine, and the youtube feature, means I don't need another box attached. I already have enough with the audio receiver and various consoles.
I didn't have an account on either of those websites, but still had 5 failed login attempts.
Symfony2 REST API: the best way
No one has the unquestioned right to enter any country except one where they hold citizenship. This post documents one person who was turned away for what he felt was an unreasonable position but that's still up to the United States to decide.

Yes it is. And it is up to the people to decide not wanting to go to US ever again, as stated in this post.

Seems like you got offended by something the writer said. All he stated that he doesn't ever want to go there and I think he is allowed to state that without anyone getting upset about it.
You have pointed to another HN comment in which you make assertions about car fires without providing any actual evidence.

I've had a look and entirely failed to find any evidence supporting your claim that 80% of car fires occur while the car is not being driven on roads.

It does appear that most car fires are not the result of crashes or collisions. I don't see that that's relevant. If I were deciding between two cars on the basis of fire risk, the question I'd care about is "how likely is this car to catch fire and injure me?", not "how likely is this car to catch fire and injure me as a result of a collision?".

What does look fishy to me about Musk's argument here is that most vehicle fires seem to be the result of mechanical or electrical faults, which become more likely with age as things wear out and break and corrode. All Tesla cars currently on the roads are rather new, so comparing them against the population of cars at large could be quite misleading.

[EDITED to add: aha, following a longer chain of links from your earlier comment I found some statistics. The terms used in the NFPA report in question are ambiguous, but what's clear is that the statistics you yourself cited plainly refute your 80% figure. Here are the figures: 22% "residential street, road, or residential driveway"; 18% "vehicle parking area"; 17% "highway or divided highway"; 8% "unclassified street"; 6% "street or road in commercial area"; 5% "mercantile or office"; 4% "open land, beach or campsite". So, at a bare minimum, the lowest fraction of fires that could be on roads would be 17% + 8% +% 6% = 31%, and that assumes that none of the "residential street, road, or residential highway" and "mercantile or office" figures are for cars being driven on the road -- which seems monstrously improbable.]
This infographic gets metric prefix wrong.

Kilobyte 1000 bytes, symbol: kB

Kilobyte (kibibyte) for 1024 bytes, symbol: KB or KiB

Same for all other prefixes.
So what? It should only break comments. I can see how one could see those as "optional content".
A nice and thorough book about raytracing-like techniques (including photon tracing), and their capabilities is "Advanced Global Illumination" (http://sites.edm.uhasselt.be/agibook). It is very interesting.
Yes you could do that but then you would face a bunch of hard problems. Like support, deployment or where to find all these python/qt programmers.
They are not "dealing" with those relationships, but merely milking them.
White House claims to support cellphone unlocking but negotiations say otherwise
How do other countries doing the same or something similar justify anything?
Right, so now all we need is the mainstream news push.
> This graph indicates that the core overlap of negotiating positions currently includes New Zealand, Singapore, Chile, and Malaysia, although the direct connection between New Zealand and Singapore is weaker than the others.

Maybe that's because the 12-country TPP, initiated in 2010, is an expanded version of the 4-country TPSEP (Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership) agreement from 5 yrs earlier among Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, and Brunei. Their overlapping negotiating positions were cemented 5 years earlier than the other 8 countries.

> Counting up sole-country proposals, we might have expected the United States to take first place; in reality, it turns out to be Canada, with the United States and Japan following well behind. Of course, this chart doesn’t tell us what Canada is proposing or opposing on its own. It could well be that Canada is the sole party capable of opposing controversial provisions.

Maybe this is because the most recent countries to join the negotiations were Japan (March 2013), Canada, and Mexico (both October 2012).

The article doesn't mention this fact, instead speculates "It could well be that Canada is the sole party capable of opposing controversial provisions". I would expect better from the Washington Post.
Yes some do. If your a politically protected class you can come into the country at will and not generally have to worry about prosecution.

If you follow the rules then there is a good chance they will close the door on you, let alone make sure you don't sneak in.
A tiny device uses bluetooth and crowd tracking to locate your stolen bike
The data comes from Figure 1 of the Report that Tesla cited in October. I provided the above merely as an example of another way to read the report, but feel free to do your own analysis. Clearly, Telsa fires were 100% on public highways (by any definition). To which the report reads:

Where do automobile fires occur? Roughly three-quarters (71%) of automobile fires and associated deaths (76%) occurred on highways, streets or parking areas. While only 17% of the fires occurred on highways or divided highways...

So, taken strictly the analyis seems apples to apples. In any event there is clearly some adjustment that needs to occur rather than a blind-usage, IMHO. Whether the haircut is 33% at a minimum or a higher amount.

[PS I prvly addressed the :Edit: points in another comment below> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6760562]
I think that by now, not many people consider JavaScript 'alien technology', or don't believe you can do clever stuff with it.

I don't mind the 'X in 30 lines of JavaScript' articles at all, they're nice curiosities. That said, let's not pretend JavaScript is unique in its ability to do a lot in very few lines of code. I've seen more impressive raytracers written in just as few lines of C for example, Perl one-liners that draw a live analog clock on the console, competent Python web services in less than 100 lines of code, etc.
What is immigration control doing these days when very few people actually get stamps in passports? And if I have stamps from Somalia and Libya in my passport, why would I go to the US wihtout first getting a new blank passport? Are stamps in passport really that useful?
I have found Whoosh to be easy to use, though I haven't put it to use with a large number of documents, so I don't know how well it holds up.
Kafkaesque.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafkaesque#Legacy
Minesweeper in 34 lines of JavaScript
That's a security risk in and of itself. Suppose someone has an account named 'bobs'. For whatever reason, they don't notice that they mistyped and put in 'bob' instead. They try a couple times with their correct password, and now the 'bob' user has in their logs someone else's valid password. Said user could then set up very minimal bits of automation to discover, and break in, to that account.
Original: http://habrahabr.ru/post/202750/
Unfortunately, it's becoming increasingly obvious that the Tories never planned on following through with their promises in the first place. Their original justification was that the country's finances were so bad they couldn't afford all the things they'd promised. However, now that everyone's mostly forgotten what they originally said and they've deleted it from the internet David Cameron has declared that his policy of closing and crippling the Government services he got elected on the promise of protecting is permanent and has nothing to do with the country's financial state after all.
If I recall correctly Groovy was directly inspired by Python. I don't have a link, but I remember reading that the creator of Groovy was inspired after seeing a book on Python.
Meet The 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/18/meet-th...
Piano in 24 lines of JavaScript
"It is also why arsonists tend to favor gasoline. Trying to set the side of a building on fire with a battery pack is far less effective."

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
I don't agree. There would be no OTA bricked phones if enough thought and cost were put into the verification and installation process. Critical components could e.g. be duplicated, such that critical software like the bootloader can be restored in case the new version cannot start up.
Original: http://habrahabr.ru/post/202646/
We teach math (I do) to instill on Engineers the concepts of derivative and integral. That is all there is to "math" for an Engineer.

The fact that we teach "vector calculus" and "differential equations" is just taking the above to the extreme and enabling them to understand the physical problems they find.

At least, that is how I see it.

Which, as I see it, is what enabled Newton and Leibniz to understand the physical world as they did. And Einstein, by the way. Just differentials and integrals. No more. No less.
Well, good! :)
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Beautiful country. Wonderful, creative, friendly people. Horrible, over-complex, hostile bureaucracy.

I am pretty sure I'm not going back, either.
Ever heard about the Schengen Area? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
I mostly agree with you but I do blame the webmasters.

Every piece of third party content reduces the quality of the experience, even assuming it works 100% correctly. I have never visited a site to check out its third party content; it's rare that third party content has remotely enhanced my experience.

Including third party content which tracks people across the web without any concept of consent (here I am referring to Disqus) is unethical.
Actually, there's real good and simple method to determine which one is a shit or not. If it has a word SMART on its name, that's a shit. SMART - it's a magic word to identify shits. Because I never saw stupid companies can make great stuff with more computing power and accessibility. When they have more freedom, they always make a bigger shit. And sometimes it becomes deadly huge.

Real nice product doesn't advertise such smart shit stuff, and only focus on the feature what you actually need and use. Even such computing features made you happy, they know that's not a feature to be advertised.

Just don't buy any SMART stuff. Whatever they ADVERTISE, they're saying on advertisement are all bullshit.
ending political corruption is feasible

Wow, I'm not really sure what to say to that unless you mean that you can end political corruption by destroying the power base of government so that taking advantage of government doesn't mean much.

My Homeowners' Association doesn't really have any significant corruption, but that's really just because they don't have much power or money to control.

Whenever you concentrate large amounts of power, you will have corruption. That is as axiomatic as any part of life on Earth.