skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 10m HDMI cable connecting your TV to your laptop on the sofa is not hassle-free---that cable is the hassle. I'm doing the same things, and I find it a hassle but haven't yet been willing to cough up the $100 for an Apple TV + AirPlay wireless solution. Unfortunately, their dongle costs nearly as much.
Also, if I was running indie music label called "get off my lawn records", I'd probably actually use that logo. Seems fun.
>Cowie said the really big Internet service providers ... should be watching for when smaller players advertise false routes.

How can an ISP tell if a route is "false"?
This sounds like an overcomplicated version of HashCash...which was the inspiration for Bitcoin in the first place.
A report in 2012: 3/4 of bitcoins are not circulating. Not sure if this still is true today, but it does reveal something worrying: BTC is not a currency as you might think.

http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf
Thanks for the information. It sounds like you've got some experience that I can relate to. I might actually check GO out for some API work.
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Flash crashes or "flesh crashes?"
> Go, Scala, Clojure

All of them languages which are mostly used for web.
I used both, but in the end I just stick with Winamp because all I really care about is listening to music. It's really no big deal for me to find a playlist with Everything (or even just navigate there with Windows Explorer) and double click it. I suppose Winamp just fits in better with my workflow.
Yes. That's correct. You would've had to find a miner to include the transactions in the blockchain. However, in upcoming versions, setting output as OP_RETURN (which basically allows you to embed additional data) will be a standard transaction type, but immediately prunable. Hence, for the 'currency' part of Bitcoin these transactions won't form part of the bloat, but nodes that want to keep track of it, can (https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=290).

Miners will still choose whether to include them or not (being a good citizen and adding a tx fee is still recommended), but now other nodes will relay them so they can find their way to a miner. Other Bitcoin developers can correct me if I'm wrong.
> Citation needed.

They're not hard to find. Australia, UK, US examples for females into construction:

http://www.heatingandventilating.net/news/news.asp?id=6255&t...

> A successful initiative set up to support women working in the construction sector, has been granted £420,750 further funding to continue.

> The government-funded Women and Work: Sector Pathways Initiative is led by Construction Skills and aims to help get women into construction work and supports women already working in the sector to get further training.

http://civilconstructioncareers.com/women-in-construction.ph...

> The Women in Civil Construction Initiative will directly address the skills required for entry to the civil infrastructure sector of the industry. The Civil Contractors Federation (CCF), in collaboration with their funding partners Construction Skills Queensland, is delivering a flexible based program designed to deliver the entry level skills required to participants who wish to pursue a career in the Civil infrastructure sector. The WIC program is already underway within Queensland.

http://www.construction.co.uk/construction_news.asp?newsid=7...

http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/news/136592/new-program-to-...

Men into nursing: http://aamn.org/

Men into early years educations: http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/working-groups/men/
Yea, I was excited about this until I saw that the source has to be a machine that can run their software.

My dream atm is for a low-cost wireless HDMI sender for projecting stuff like xbox to my office (would be nice to play a bit of GTA while I wait for files to copy ;), that work in a similar way to the RF SCART senders you can pick up from most electronics stores.
I think you are not taking into account that he's writing this for a, what i would call, moderately technical audience. In a sense it -is- a man in the middle attack as someone seems to have tried to put himself between the internet user and the requested service. To explain it as such at least makes it easier to understand for 'normal' people even if it's not 100% correct which in this case for this audience is just not that relevant.
Is anything really fixed-length? ISO country codes had a 2-char standard that got upgraded to a 3-char one, and RFC 5646 language codes are variable length. Plan for an extensible API, and just make sure that you control what data ends up on those tables.
I think it's a perfect benchmark to see how much someone is engulfed in said startup culture.

Just measure how far you had to read before thinking "ok, I get it, he is joking".

I had to get to the part about the Odesk virtual assistant.
One giant brothel. Isn't it awesome? What's wrong with you guys!
Also see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fidelity_bonds

Edit: Also, a comment I wrote a while ago with some more thoughts and information on fidelity bonds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048650 (starting on the 3rd paragraph)
What strikes me is how the Apple TV is really in the "good enough" zone for iOS and recent Macbook users. After so many years there's no clearly better solutions to show some random content on the TV.
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I got it as well, I wonder how they chose their targets?
If you just want a common runtime, what's wrong with java apps

Oracle v. Google. By CLR I assume you mean the CLI, but only a fool would trust a "standard" controlled by MS and driven by a proprietary implementation, not to mention that the latest version doesn't even have a patent promise from them.
Does it support HDCP? I don't see any mention of it, but not supporting it would imply that you can't play your DRM-protected iTunes streams via an Airtame adapter. (I totally agree that DRM is fundamentally a broken idea, but alas, that's the current state of affairs).
Let's just agree the robot part is the nerd threshold.
Reminds me of this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397797
This '400,000 prostitutes' figure seems to have originated from Hydra e.V., a prostitutes association [1]. It is at least three years old and seems to include part-time prostitutes as well.
Generally, it seems to be an upper bound.

[1] http://www.bmfsfj.de/BMFSFJ/root,did=132012.html (German)
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great example of how unimaginative AOL is. winamp has (had) a massive user base. it would have been a great base to start a spotify competitor with.
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> What problems, more precisely? What's the difference between compiling C++ to JS and compiling C++ for an open VM?

Fair enough. Personally i see crosscompiler like Emscripten as a way to port already existing stuff over to JS. But i do not see the point why i would want to build a new application that targets JS in C++. You would loose the "native" performance of C++ and don't have the high-level language constructs to deal with common problems... even bread-and-butter string manipulation just takes more time (not too much, but just more) in C++ than for example in Coffeescript.
Ah yes, the old "sync 600GB of MP3s onto a 32GB device" trick.
> 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.

Why would you think so?
The number of older people is just growing.
That will be the next step, but it all has to start somewhere :-)
Consolas beats it hands down (with ClearType enabled or similar font rendering patches on Linux) as far as I'm concerned. It's a matter of taste.
Their software is open source, that means if funding goes success and they release their software we could use any mini pc running ubuntu (or raspberry pi) as the dongle for tv.
As someone who regularly has to write SQL in 7 different dialects I much prefer VARCHAR to TEXT as the former is handled much more consistently across platforms. A TEXT column in MS SQL Server is an entirely different proposition to a VARCHAR column. VARCHAR on the other hand is treated with relative similarity between most of the systems I regularly use.

Additionally, one of the key benefits of more explicit datatypes is documentation. Knowing that a column is 30 characters wide is useful information to have at hand (without having to check check constraints) and often reflects a business rule. Where joins have to be performed on character columns it also helps to know if both sides of the join are both (say) CHAR(8). If every text column is TEXT then that's much less clear. Check constraints help but you don't always know if they've been applied to all current data (some platforms allow for constraints to ignore current data). If I know a column is VARCHAR(50) then I am 100% certain that there will be no value longer than 50 in it.
> From where I'm standing, the fact that it's not illegal helps a lot of people with no discernible downside.

I'm generally if favour of legalising prostitution. People with free will exchanging money for sex is fine. And having legal prostitution should allow better regulation - children and trafficked workers get better protection; legal sex workers get better health care.

But those things that make legal prostitution more acceptable make it more expensive, which is the gap filled by criminal gangs exploiting trafficked workers.

> 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.

Everybody gets old. Online dating shows there are many lonely people.

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".
> Me? I have an unusual attitude in Sweden. I ask: What works best? Frankly, I don't know. The Swedish way sounds nicer, but... does it really work?

How is it nicer? Do you think it's ok for the State to decide what two consenting adults can do with their own bodies?
I completely agree! I implemented Hashcash a couple years ago into my email wrapper and the algorithm is (in it's essence) suprisingly similar to Bitcoin: given this data, find a hash that has a consecutive number of x zeros in it.

I don't know about the 1/20th of a second though. Back in the day, the slowest Hashcash stamp with 5 ending zeros I could produce (with optimized code of course) was marginally above 1 second. But the good thing about Hashcash is that, much like Bitcoin - the difficulty scales. Just ask for more zeroes and it'll take longer. Email clients could also use the number of zeroes to help email classification: 0 zeros = SPAM, 5-8 zeroes = HAM.
Have you considered Piwik?

http://piwik.org/
With all due respect, one thing that gets really tiresome on this board is the "OMG, this person is soo stupid because they don't know nearly as much as I do about this one particular topic" tone in this comment. If you started your comment with "what happened here was..." you'd come across as knowledgable and helpful to those of us who aren't knowledgable in this field, rather than (please forgive my saying it) an asshole. Maybe try thinking "what if someone wrote this to/about me" before hitting Submit. Just trying to be helpful in my own way, pardon me if it's unwanted.

edit: my point had nothing to do with the content of the article. It was more just saying "hey, effective written communication is a tricky thing. Where the author of the article may have failed in some of the important technical details of the article, you have also failed in presenting your corrections in a somewhat offensive manner. Maybe consider the _how_ next time in addition to _what_ you are trying to convey."
You don't need a USB port. It plugs into the HDMI port.
Tracing packages would do it, a false route would be longer as is explained in the article, where a package from Mexico suddenly -instead of just being sent north- is crossing the Atlantic and the length of Europe twice over, to get to D.C.

Unless I am missing something?
I wondered the same, but was shocked to realize he actually said it himself, on his personal web site where the blog was hosted. Amazing, really. :)
Ask HN: Any Hip Hop loving, Brisbane developers?
I have a super exciting idea, with an awesome name, that I would love to build with someone local. It is not specifically a hip hop application at all, much more than that. I just love Hip Hop and will most likely play it when we work.

I'm looking to team up with someone who can do all the smart(er) stuff with me. I consider myself a top class UI Developer with a deep care for UX.

Contact me at https://twitter.com/jsncbt and to talk more.

Edit: Start up idea - I'm not sure if it was doing it wrong but I swear it is impossible to find developers by a certain type. I'm sure there are ways but nothing was glaringly obvious.
I like it!

But I think we can take this further, surely she's into automation too? So he-bot and she-bot are the ones that actually get together.

But then why bother with the physical world if it's all software? The entire exchange can be virtualised and simulated at high speed, then you only need to actually bother the meatspace human if the whole thing has been electronically predetermined to be acceptable to all parties.

That way you can find the perfect match in seconds. Unless, of course, they were a little creative or devious in their parameter settings, but nobody would ever do that, right?
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> The drug wars already tell us you can't get rid of some perceived evil

define "evil"
I saw some photos from Easter Europe before the Soviet Union fell, and the most striking difference to the West was lack of advertisements on every corner.
This doesn't make sense to me.

Bitcoin right now is an incredibly bad long term value store. Right now it's a speculative investment. Either it will succeed and demand for bitcoin will go even higher or it will fail and it will be worth nothing. It's like investing in some risky VC fund. It makes sense for people to have wildly different ideas about potential and risk, but it makes no sense to expect it to just stay where it is.
FYI, there's a typo in the code screenshot.

s/versoin/version
The wireless receiver is powered by USB though right?
HashCash is not surprisingly similar to Bitcoin; HashCash was the inspiration for Bitcoin. HashCash is one of the few examples of previous work that the Bitcoin paper bothers to cite.
It seems to me that FABIO could be massively improved upon by offloading the computation to a remote (cloud?) server, allowing the date to continue until screams of pleasure are recorded.

Additionally, the robot self destruct seems like overkill. It would be better to simply wipe them and start over. After all it, it wasn't a hardware failure that resulted in a bad date, but a software problem!
Hope there's some kind of python server side push technology to update browser graphs in realtime.
You might be right. But the way I meant it was only incidentally about age itself. I think my generation and below (btw I'm also middle aged now) are less likely to engage the services of a prostitute, but that's mostly based on my immediate social circle and I don't have the data to back this up. Personally, the concept always seemed very strange to me, and I can't imagine that'll change as I get older.
> it's easy in some cases to mistake a bordello for a [...], a private nudist club,[...], a swinger club, or whatever.

And you mean in Germany seeing a private nudist club or a swinger club in the street wouldndn't be surprising, or immediately tag the area as seedy?
If you dont have a usb port on tv(or if power is not enough to drive the device) you can always get a usb charger right ? Which is definitely less hassle than 10m HDMI cable.
You have to plug it in the USB port too to supply it with power
Yes, but after evaluating it we decided not to use it. Also, we have a strict no-PHP policy.
Why not use miracast/WiDi? We really don't need another solution, we need devices that work with the existing standard. All new intel laptops and android phones can transmit, but there are hardly any affordable receivers.
AND usb, for power.
I was going to buy multiple shields for my Quadcopter project, but now I can save many of them.
Nice, thanks! Corrected (in the code of course) ;)
So, Wordperfect 5.1's "reveal codes" from 1989.
We strive for the "clouds", and Miracast/WiDi with it's WiFi-Direct dependence isn't really future proof...
"Someone reminded me I once said «Greed is good». Now it seems it's legal. Because everyone is drinking the same Kool Aid."
Can I play content from a Linux machine on the Apple TV?
Me and my buddies recently switched from Skype to Mumble+IRC. Works great, I like this setup way better. The big downside is of course that it requires a server.
Man, I can't get Plex to run. It looks so excellent but whenever I try and play anything I get "Media player error! Resetting" and then nothing happens.

Edit: Rebooted phone and it works now. Holy shit this is cool, and I can even share my media library with friends!
And I hope their software would eventually support Android , which is really awesome for cheap android phones without WiDi. Even if they dont officially support some one would eventually port it to Android devices. Which makes it out of box solution for any Android tv stick.
Did they use the same Bitcoin address as in the pastebin?

It seems like no one paid them anything yet [1], but they might be using a unique address per email.

[1] http://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9H...
The 'Springy Panther' is one of the best/worst: http://www.horriblelogos.com/springy-panther/

The comment from the buyer: “Thanks Horrible Logos. That’s so appalling we cant use it anywhere…just what we were looking for!”
It can tag an area as seedy, but not necessarily so. Like I said, they're mostly normal-looking clubs. There are many private clubs in Germany that exist somewhere on the edge between different concepts, and they're not necessarily seedy or easily distinguishable. Remember, this is the country of the swinger club or the BDSM show or even the socially very acceptable Burlesque/variety show.
The UK has had some changes to its prostitution laws.

It's legal for two people to exchange sex for money.

But then there are some added technicalities: two or more women cannot share a property to use for sex work (because that becomes a brothel); people cannot control sex workers (pimping is illegal); it's illegal to pay a trafficked worker for sex; etc etc.

These have been added over the years, and so we have a confusing situation. People don't really know what is or isn't legal.

With this kind of stuff law should be clear because it's mostly about telling society what is acceptable. That guides people into making less unacceptable choices. (EG: Curb crawling: "Pay women to have sex is okay; but don't approach women on the street in your car and ask if they're prostitutes". That law should be about guiding people to use advertised prostitutes, but it's used to clamp down on all prostitution.)
Love that game! Seriously, if you haven't played it yet, do yourself a favor and play it ASAP!
Unless you have a TV with HDMI 1.4 + MHL which is capable of supplying enough power over HDMI (500mA).
It's like Rick Santorum satirizing conservatism.
Sadly a better solution already exists: my 2012 Panasonic TV connects wirelessly to my network, and my laptop can stream videos to it without having to install anything, all via DLNA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Living_Network_Alliance

Here's Panasonic's page outlining such features in their TVs:

http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_GB/Products/VIERA+TV/VIER...

It's a lovely idea for retrofitting to older TVs, and sharing between laptops is really neat. For anyone who's bought a TV in the last couple of years, though, the device is redundant.

(it's also apparently very easy to share content from smartphones, tablets and so on, but I haven't had the need (or a chance) to independently play with this)
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This is the inventor's website: http://www.boyanslat.com/plastic5/

There's a note on the bottom that they understand their idea isn't quite feasible yet. They also need people who can help them out with things like fluid dynamics modelling.

The array is designed to be made of manta-ray shaped platforms, with ocean currents pushing the plastic debris into the collector (floating on the surface, since bits of plastic float to the top).

Documentaries have shown that due to waves and currents most of the plastic doesn't float on the surface. Also, plastic can break up into very small pieces over time. This video from Vice shows the resulting gunk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D41rO7mL6zM&t=1091
This doesn't use MongoDB therefore this is not web scale.
This isn't too implausible. I remember a story about a guy who was fooled into dating a chatbot for 2 months.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/137466-clever-bots/
I write all the time:

for(int index = 0; index < collection.size(); ++index)

I don't believe in the philosophy of saving seconds of programmer time at the cost of understandability, especially when the latter is increasingly more important. Also, calling it "index" makes it really obvious when you're possibly using it wrong (ie, as anything other than an index). My version of your latter example would never look so ugly, because I would never ended up with such badly worded things in the first place. (Who puts domain functions on their model objects?)

for(int index = 0; index < things.size(); ++index) {
final Thing thing = things.get(index);
businessUnit.doSomething(thing);
}
Don't shoot the messenger :) These are more guesses than opinions, so if you have any better ideas, shoot!
i dont see why you cant use any standard USB charger instead.
Positive and negative freedoms. The right of a subset of the population (Non-consenting sex workers, i.e. traficking victims etc.) to NOT have to sell sex against their will, is stronger than the right for the larger group to be allowed to do so.

Just like my right to walk the street without being shot outweighs anyone elses right to carry a gun there.