skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a programmers dream.

It's not a software problem. Or at least, it's not purely a software problem. For the vast majority that freedom would make no difference. They don't know how to change things anyway. I remember a few months back on here when we were going 'Why don't people use PGP more? Oh yeah, the interface sucks.' And did anyone change the interface? Nope, not to my knowledge at least.

Did any of us make better encryption tools, despite there being available encryption libraries? Not to my knowledge.

That sort of freedom is tied to your capabilities as much as it is your tools. If your understanding of a computer goes something along the line of 'that magical glowing box under the desk.' it makes no difference either way.

To get to real freedom, in the sense that Stallman seems to mean, requires more than a change to open source software, it requires a system be built from the ground up to not just enable but also encourage co-evolutionary mastery. And it's not clear how that would work. Having the source code of the system available is probably a part of it, but you also need people to be able to start off with simple changes using the same language that the system is described in - preferably they'd use that language at least to some degree to instruct the system to do basic operations.

A lot of that probably has to do with how modular you can make a program - when you make changes how much of the program do you have to hold in your head to understand their effects? And I think that's probably, ultimately, a processor architecture level decision if you want it to be how most things on the system work.

Looking at it from the software side: at the moment, even with open source software, sure you can theoretically go in and learn about the program and make alterations and ... but that is not a trivial thing to do. Even for people with deep knowledge of computing it's not a trivial thing to go and learn about how the program works, and if they don't already know the language it's even worse. There are loads of open source projects out there at the moment where what needs to be done is essentially obvious but there's such a lack of people with the abilities and interest to do it.
> define "evil"

Whatever the law makers define as undesirable for society.

Notice parent comment uses "perceived" evil.

Law makers perceive drugs as harmful for the users and society, they perceive drugs as evil. The accuracy of their perceptions are not discussed in parent comment.
Machine learning using R
Hft decreases volatility
Could you imagine if Amazon started accepting Bitcoin. The price would skyrocket.
there is no relation between "Dr" and his rant about Skype.

You would not believe the number of PHD who are not that intelligent (to be nice). Also Stallman is a master in its profession and "Dr", who is just acquired by doing a Phd, seems to me like it's not doing him enough justice.
No, it was a serious question.

Have you heard about the MMO Wakfu? They faced a problem a while back where their player base grew faster than the supply of virtual currency. And since the currency was not divisible (integer values only) all low value items were not being traded.

They solved this problem by increasing everyones supply and increasing all store prices by a factor of (10?), effectively moving the decimal point.

They could have solved it by giving a few players a massive supply of the currency which would have eventually spread out but they chose not to.
Mining Bitcoin by hand
You seem to be so caught up in this issue that you just aren't listening. Here is my point spelled out again:

There are two parts to a legitimate campaign to fix this. Educate people on the problem and educate people on the solution. Why does this article only focus on the problem and then have an advertisement for her book?
> I'm gently surprised there's nothing exploiting the gap between "rent a friend" and "sex work" for "rent someone to give you fully clothed, non-sexual, hugging and conversation".

True. I have always been surprised that there are no actual (for lack of a better word) escort services here: places where you rent someone to go out with, or to attend social functions with. If this existed, I must confess I'd have used it several times already. There are social events where showing up alone is simply not a good option.
Haha thanks, that made it easy. I am on my phone and didn't notice that the URL gave away his last name. The blog post only says "by rob".
Java stacktraces: friend or foe?
but we have many great wysiwig editors... isn't emacs specifically for all the people who want a highly configurable weird and wonderful dev tool and care little about wysiwig because they are writing code etc.?

i don't agree with what those kinds want.. but they should be allowed to have it. :)
Yup that's what comes to mind. Easy way to get a target's email marked as spam all around the world for a buck or two.
Should you be curious, they both work 2 hours later, and the hashmark is not highlighted on the search results page.
Don't know what is the chicken or egg in this regard, but I think it's clear that with respect to sex (and the surrounding industry), Germany is culturally very different from Sweden which was the counterexample. Brothels are probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Is it though? I mean, it just hangs over the arm of the sofa and I plug it in when needed. Plus HDMI is one of the few ports on my MBP I don't need an adapter for.

I get that cable free would be awesome but as I understand it we need significant advances in inductive charging to make that happen.
OK, there's two big things this instrument lacks - slurring and attack. Also it lacks the ability to control volume as well as a viol (but that's less important IMO). It can only play detache, which isn't really that common for viols.

It's still a neat instrument, but it falls into the uncanny valley a bit - it kind of sounds a bit like a bunch of strings, with very mechanical phrasing.

Of course, you could say the same about organs being mutant cyborg flutes, so I guess there's a place for it.
And the comparison:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Buy%20bitcoin%2C%20Se...
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Is this report more competent, capable and/or informed than the one being discussed over here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6773889
Eric Schmidt thinks government censorship will be wiped out within ten years
Can someone elaborate on how this could even work? If someone asked me to give them a dollar and I'd get 3 dollars back in one hour, I'd want to know what they are doing with my dollar. I assume the subtext is "we have some guaranteed way to arbitrage bit coins at a 300% return - send us your money and we'll give you at least that much back". I realize it's a scam. I just don't understand how the scam could work.
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Droplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing - MIT News Office
Have you decided to not use it only because it's written in PHP or are there any other reasons?
This is a solid idea, that has been suggested and talked about before ( on shows like letstalkbitcoin ).

However, the world should and most likely is looking to move away from insecure emailing. This is especially true for corporate and political figures.

Free software like bitmessage are revolutionary in nature and are surprisingly easy to use. Bitmessage also uses the bitcoin protocol to relay messages across the network in an untraceable & encrypted manner. A spammer would need your public key in order to send you anything. You can also block messages that do not originate from predetermined public key addresses.

The bitcoin protocol and blockchain have so many innovating alternative uses outside of finance and currecny. Also, bitcoin overlay protocols such as mastercoin are already gaining traction.
Texture, you say? Try this on for size:
http://www.comicbookfonts.com/Code-Monkey-Constant-p/cl343.h...

It's not free, but both a) reasonably priced and b) dirt cheap during their annual sale (that Andy Ihnatko has written about at length).

It's not for everyone, but it's a "Comic Sans Mono" (if you will) that's actually not aesthetically displeasing. I use it occasionally for code, just for fun.
Chromecast? I have several and they are pretty much this.
"It's easier to hide even the fact that you have some Bitcoins. When you buy some Bitcoins for cash from random people on the street and keep in different wallets (or even "brain wallets"), no one would know how much do you have"

...kind of like a drug dealer who has stashes of paper money hidden in various places around his turf.

"Even if someone knows that you have some bitcoins, they don't know where they are stored"

When the police make an arrest, SOP is to take all computers, all storage devices, and then look in places where tiny storage devices might be hidden. Sure, you could have buried your Bitcoin wallet in the woods, but this is not much different from burying some paper in the woods (yes, people do this).

"locking it up in multisig transaction with someone you trust (who is outside jurisdiction), by saying "my hard drive has crashed" etc."

...so basically the old trick of trying to send your paper money out of the country? Criminals try this all the time, and the police are not deterred by it.

The reality is that if you want to hide money from the government, Bitcoin has no particular advantage over paper money -- and the fact that your transactions are broadcast to the entire network actually makes it a bit harder. In any case, you also have ignored the greatest problem with off-the-books money: taxes. You can send your Bitcoin money through all kinds of convoluted paths, and then when you get out of prison and try to spend it the IRS will just swoop in and you will be re-arrested for failing to declare your income.
You don't need to install anything, it's plug&play and open source. And can you stream to multiple tv's with that panasonic setup? And if you have multiple tv's from diferent models? A nice solution is something that doesn't rely on specific models or brands.
Chromecast, cheaper, and no Apple universe buy-in.
Yes: http://continuum.io/blog/painless_streaming_plots_w_bokeh
SQL Azure? Bwahahaha..
JPMorgan: $7 billion of the settlement was tax-deductible
Almost 4k views for this questions already. Kuddo's for the SO community for giving a real answer instead of flaming.
Is the report over here more useful?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6774263
I'm quite surprised this happened in my country where people are usually afraid to embrace new technology.
... and over 2x the cost of Chromecast ... and then there's Roku.
Monty Python team to reunite for live one-off show
Maplace.js : A small Google Maps Javascript plugin for jQuery
The list-of-unavailable-SaaS product isn't going to generate any profit though...i can't think of a single reason why anyone would pay for such a list, or pay to vote on such a list.
Yes, really cool for youtube videos and chrome tabs (tab casting has a crazy lag) But in the end you can't share screen and basically any kind of content. It's a nice device indeed, but so limited and pointless!
I think it was a typo initially -- the ad originally read $10,500.
There are other reasons, but PHP is a pretty big one. If we're going to use anything other than Google Analytics, we want to integrate it pretty deeply with our frontend. We were thinking of making a Flask extension that would capture all non-personal information without having to serve analytics code to the client. Also, as far as I know, Piwik does not support DNT.
Anyone here old enough to remember Sonique? Back in the late 90's skinning your MP3 player was the bees knees. I remember having debates about Winamp plugins, flame wars about the direction of the software ... the good ol' days. iTune sucks.
too bad he talked about the "robot" too soon. He should have kept going the same way and I would have been pointless about it.
Because bitcoin.org's SPF record's failure mode is set to "softfail" rather than "fail" [1]. According to Wikipedia, "Typically, messages that return a SOFTFAIL are accepted but tagged".

[1] http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3abitcoin.org&...
16 year old invents test that would detect cancer in five minutes.
I think the deadline to accept this PEP to ensure asyncio's inclusion in 3.4 was today or tomorrow. And Guido said it was either now or two years from now in 3.5?

So for Python programmers writing new code today: Are you using gevent? Are you still married to Twisted? Do you think asyncore is for more than just toy implementations? Are you crossing your fingers that Tulip will somehow get back-ported to 2.x-3.3?

Do you understand "yield from" yet?

I've been studying this for several weeks now, struggling to balance present and future. If anyone can recommend a better option for later porting (to asyncio/tulip) than toro[0] I would be forever in your debt.

[0] http://toro.readthedocs.org/en/stable/
Update from poster: they changed it from $10,500 to $105,000.
You don't need to install anything, it's plug&play and open source

Yes you do, on their page it says "Install our AIRTAME application on your computer..." under step 2.

And can you stream to multiple tv's with that panasonic setup. And if you have multiple tv's from diferent models?

You have the choice of which screen to stream to.

If you mean "can you stream 1 video from 1 laptop to multiple screens as the same time," then I honestly have no first-hand experience so couldn't say.

DLNA has many members, so I would presume different models and brands would work.

From the Wikipedia page I linked, the members include:

ACCESS, AT&T Labs, Awox,[12] Broadcom, CableLabs, Cisco Systems, Comcast, DIRECTV, Dolby Laboratories, DTS, Ericsson, Google, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, Huawei, Intel, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Nokia, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Sony Electronics, Technicolor, and Verizon.
Caudit: Audit Your Performance
Performance auditing is an important issue when you deal with an application which requires high performance. As I searched on the web, I could not find a way of doing that, so I have written a performance auditing library called Caudit.
Not sure on multiple TVs, but I thought DLNA was gaining wider adoption. My brother's got a TV that's not Panasonic and it has DLNA as well, and he can stream to it.

Would be nicer to simply have a wireless standard that devices - DVD players, boxes, etc - would bundle so that we didn't needs cables to the TV box. Or... hey - maybe just wireless audio from a TV to external speakers (bluetooth 4?) to cut down on wires.
Meet the developers who can't complete their own games
The people involved with bitcoin are (mostly) tech-savvy, I don't think they are going to have much success.
Winamp was my first mp3 player.
this looks interesting, but i seem to be missing something... where is the data and toolchain?

I'm really not a fan of code driven 'game engines' I think it misses the point...

also, despite the code making for an interesting read (seeing how someone else approaches this problem) most of the demos don't work for me in chrome.
> Germany is culturally very different from Sweden

For the most part I think you're right. On the one hand I think the idea of, say, a swinger club is somewhat adorable, but in practice it's sometimes hard not to laugh about German sex culture with all of its curious stereotypes. I went to a "normal" rave party once, and the highlight of the evening was a banquet table with a naked girl on it which you could eat fruit off of. Personally though I find the BDSM stuff hard to swallow, especially if young people are doing this it's just kind of sad.
If you're interested on antibiotics there's a good Frontline piece on "gram negatives".

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/10/frontline-asks-h...

Their point was that it's not "when" we reach this point ... we already have.
DLNA only works for a limited set of content (music/vids/pictures).

No gaming, other apps, etc.
By knowing what IP ranges the smaller ISPs own. If a small A connects to bit B, and B knows that A has IPs 123.234.., then it should not accepts routes that route other IPs to A.
Tesla gets top marks in Consumer Reports satisfaction survey
Technically, there are black markets with high margins like that. But even in that case, why would they want to give these margins away to somebody else instead of giving a dollar to themselves.
Good luck, yourself
Hey, Rob comes off as slightly to moderately to extremely naive, depending on who you ask. But he never struck me as utterly un-self aware.

This post, however, does seem almost too good, as if it's the greatest PR coup of all time.
Yes, the intersection of the 'able to send bitcoin somewhere' and 'dumb enough to fall for this' populations is probably zero.
However, display mirroring on Chromecast is currently an experimental feature, and only 720p.
The whole point is that it's not about punishment, it's about preserving the tone.

Telling somebody "you've been banned" will make them upset. Some people get severely offended and they want to fight. So they go and create new accounts and start over, or they seek revenge in other ways. It can be very time consuming to deal with. Granted, this will still happen because some people will realize that they've been hellbanned, but the ones that simply get the impression that people aren't responding to their trolling will get bored with it and go away. Which is a win.
Qualifications, minimum wage, property laws... 3 out of 4 of those things at the moment have government bounds on them in some sense or another, and that with fairly questionable planning.

Edit: Oh right, yeah, duh: minimum age before you can decide for yourself whether you have an abortion or not.
Those markets don't recover nearly as quickly as they used to.
Nice post, however, I would not agree to this statement:

"Anecdotally I do get the feeling that prostitutes as a profession are mainly serving an older generation though, so I'm not sure if they remain economically viable anyway."

Prostitution is tied to the nature of the sexuality of men - which is likely not going to change in the next time. There is a strong demand for uncomplicated, quick, cheap sexual satisfaction within the male population, and prostitutes cater to this demand. The image of the 60 year old unemployed client is wrong.

There was a nice article in the last FAS (Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung 17.11.2013, a leading German newspaper) that reported on a biased podium discussion of a well known stone age feminist. I found the article to be nice because it discussed the needs of prostitutes e.g. respect of the customer, hygienic business practices, safe environment, etc.
Congrats, you are not in the target group..
I don't know. I've held it since I bought it at $13/BTC. Seems like so far I am doing OK.
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One chrome experiment to rule them all
That's the point of it.
Alaska is very large, but there is some exaggeration at the north and south ends due to the choices this map style makes to flatten a sphere into a rectangle[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Uses
A cynic would say that most marriages consist of zero physical contact... ;)
Same, virtual assistant.

I could conceivably see someone utilising OpenCV to "try" to measure attractiveness. I could also see someone trying sentiment analysis with NLTK... but farming it out to a low paid worker is just insane.
This is awesome! I really like it alot!

A couple of weeks ago I was thinking up this exact idea.
I'm glad someone is doing it!

A greate usecase for use would be in our office conference room. Plug it in the projector in the ceilingand all employees can just stream the screen.

Installing custom software might be a barrier for some users.

Congratulations to the team!

Good luck!
Bitcoin nodes surged to 200k
Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe?
The robot isn't too implausible, if you could convince your date to accept a telepresence which is just weird and wacky enough it might work some percent of the time. The hard part would be getting the AI good enough, but it's not impossible.
I think this can work well as a startup. You sign up and create a profile. Then the system matches you up with as many other people as it can and runs several simulated dates based on your profiles. After 3 successful simulated dates, you are both booked a room and given a transcript of your conversation this far, plus a list of fetishes.
Whoa. The possibilities... It's pre-arranged marriages but WebScale(tm)(r).
Beautiful article. Well played sir. I went from "this could work" to "huh" to "W T F" loving every single sweet paragraph. So much win. Thank you :)
Heh, neat. Interactive form: http://ozh.github.io/your-spam-solution/index.html?908856741... :)
Then, at some point, the female starts sending her robot too...
I'm not sure that the author of this article is correct. Why would the Chinese gvt push bitcoin, for it then to be used to undermine the Yuan? Doesn't make sense.

From what bitcoin followers have been saying: the Chinese government has been indirectly supporting the rise and adoption of Bitcoin through state-run Bitcoin documentaries [1]. This is seen by some as China pushing for alternatives to the USD as a world reserve currency (following US gvt shutdown) [2].

[1] https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/226-cctv-bitcoin-documentar...
[2] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1330873/chinese-state...
I'm curious if the emails other people got have the same bitcoin address or if they used unique addresses per email.
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What's the difference from Chromecast?
1 BTC is a really high minimum investment. Maybe they'd have a better chance of scamming people if they started a bit lower.
Valkee - Debunked
> Has the liberalisation of the oldest profession gone too far?

No

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I'm an Apple fanboy, but the Apple TV DRM-crippled walled garden isn't anywhere near good enough for me.

I simply want any device to send a signal to my TV. It's trivial with cables, modern wireless technology can cheaply carry high quality signals, and the only thing standing in the way is the copyright mafia.
Excuse me for being pedantic but how is this a "phishing" attempt?
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I have both, and AirPlay is much better for my use cases personally. But I've already "bought in" to Apple's ecosystem, so it's a bit of a no-brainer there!
According to wikipedia it is not first reconstruction of "viola organista’’.

"Akio Obuchi built several instruments as early as 1993.[1] In 2004, a modern reconstruction of the viola organista by Akio Obuchi was used in a concert in Genoa, Italy .
In 2013, Sławomir Zubrzycki constructed and performed on his own viola organista[2] at the Academy of Music in Kraków."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_organista
Oracle lost the lawsuit, except for the part where Google literally copied one of their classes.
Maybe read the description first. It even includes a convenient picture: http://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/213408/files/20...
Me, my laptop and my 30m ethernet cable felt the same way about Wifi for the longest time (this was pre-smartphones). Yet finally getting wifi felt like dropping a yoke.

That said, my TV has networking and DLNA and has pretty happily played any video file I've thrown at it yet, so I don't really need to hook up my computer.
Troubleshoot tricky PC problems with SpyStudio
A friend of mine set up a micro to repeatedly click on the thumbs up - and I thought that was bad!
I just want a fast way to mirror my computer screen onto the TV (wirelessly). Does DLNA support this? From the description it's not clear.

On the other hand I can clearly see that this project supports it, "Duplicate your screen" is the first feature listed there.