skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link, the reasoning from the ruling [1] is a bit more precise however. For the purposes of establishing standing the SEC to prosecute. The judge reasoned to that in part with this:

"First, the Court must determine whether the BTCST investments constitute an investment of money. It is clear that Bitcoin can be used as money. It can be used to purchase goods or services, and as Shavers stated, used to pay for individual living expenses. The only limitation of Bitcoin is that it is limited to those places that accept it as currency. However, it can also be exchanged for conventional currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, Euro, Yen, and Yuan. Therefore, Bitcoin is a currency or form of money, and investors wishing to invest in BTCST provided an investment of money."

The key here is that the judge is trying to understand if the transactions involved met the standard of being an 'investment of money.' Which he reasons to by establishing that you can convert currency to and from BTC and you can buy products with BTC. He doesn't address the question of people who create BTC out of the act of 'mining' it. Let's say Van Gough was alive today, you could use his paintings as "money" in exactly the same way, except Van Gough could make new money just by painting something. Which makes other things more complicated (are bottles of tide "money" if you can trade them for drugs? [2]) It sounds like this ruling simply allowed the SEC to move forward with their case, but I'll be interested to watch it to see if it gets appealed (the ruling). Clearly ruling to overly broad here would put the onus on people with collectibles to follow FinCen rules when trading them, which to date they have largely avoided.

[1] http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/08/06/Bitcoin.pdf

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-are-...
chile doesn't demolish houses like this either. i don't know where you're getting 6.5 mag data, but for 8+ we're very similar to japan - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/mag8/...
Blame Congress. While the executive branch may write regulations, they must operate within the mandate defined by Congress.

The DSHEA of 1994 (authored by Orrin Hatch) explicitly forbids the regulation of dietary supplements by the FDA so long as they do not make health claims. Unless that bill is repealed, the FDA has no authority over supplements.
US spying fuels popularity of secure messaging app Wickr
Progressive enhancement, JavaScript, compatibility, and client-side MVC
That's the whole reason they're being sued, because the Beastie Boys don't want their stuff being used for advertisements.

It's ironic that a corporation (mis)using their song helped them bootstrap their music careers. Back in '84, British Airways used their first hip-hop track, Cooky Puss, in a commercial. The Beasties sued, won $40k, and quit their day jobs.
Unfortunately it only implements the curly-brace SCSS syntax, not the indented SASS syntax [1] (which is weird considering it's called Libsass, not Libscss), and there are no plans to support both syntaxes.

The companies I have worked for all use the indented syntax, since it meshes very well with HAML and CoffeeScript. But it looks like more people use the brace syntax (roughly 980k SCSS files on Github, vs. 85k SASS files).

[1] https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/issues/16
Which would be more upsetting: that the author was so familiar with those pages s/he could make one by heart, or that the author had to do research on those sites in order to find attributes that make it look so realistic?

But the submitter is right: that is ridiculously detailed.
I've never even bothered to delete anything, and I'm only 19% full. I also consider myself a HEAVY Docs user.
Sorry about that, we temporarily turned off new sites on the main server so our current users on that server have uninterrupted access to their sites. Most production sites are not running on nudgepad.com, but on other servers running NP. NudgePad.com is more of a demonstration server. We haven't tested it with more than 10,000 projects on a single machine and didn't expect this big a response tonight. It will be very easy to scale--just need to shard new projects across servers--just haven't gotten to that yet.

Happy to send a direct link to anyone who wants to try it--breck@nudgepad.com.
I was surprised to find Web of Trust addon ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wot-safe-brow... ) in top 10. From my past experience https://mywot.com is nothing more than a scam. Their ratings are not reliable and should not be trusted by anyone.
For example, our business website was rated with "Child safety: Very poor" and there is nothing we could do about it.
Only a small amount of the tuition goes to pay for professors. Most money goes to feed administrative bloat.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-14/bureaucrats-paid-25...
Anyone have experience with the System76 Gazelle Pro? I run linux as my main OS.
I saw it on HealthCare.gov when I registered for insurance through the "exchange." (Yes, it worked for me ... finally). I don't have a link for you, but I saw it. And any number of articles on the internet make the same statement. Only age, whether or not you use tobacco, and geographic area are factored into your premiums.
tptacek, you and I have exchanged comments before when it comes to copyright. What's the real issue here?

Previously you've argued that the copyright industry actually has the stronger set of morals, and those violating copyright are somehow the "bad guys" in this debate.

Now you're arguing that society is warped and all content is trash ("a Miley Cyrus").

I may be trying to accomplish the impossible by being rational here, but level with me. Why the love for copyright?

I admit that copyright may have a useful purpose. I feel like the usefulness expires about 10 years after the work has been created.

I feel strongly that the current laws and the corporations who largely depend on those laws to make a profit represent a parasite that exploits 12 year olds and other underprivileged people.

You do wonderful analysis of cryptosystems. This isn't much different, right? It can be deconstructed analytically, the problem identified, and at least on a message board the propaganda can be debunked. ("You wouldn't steal a car. Stealing is wrong." Copyright violation IS NOT stealing.)
I'm not sure what sort of context can explain away this real-life Randian superman. (and it's interesting that you mention Rand and crime and the Fountainhead, given that Howard Roark blew up Courtlandt Homes with dynamite)

This is some interesting reading that goes deeper into Rand's writing: http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/romancing-the-stone-c...
All these are Rand's own words:
"The first thing that impresses me about the case is the ferocious rage of a whole society against one man. No matter what the man did, there is always something loathsome in the 'virtuous' indignation and mass-hatred of the 'majority.'... It is repulsive to see all these beings with worse sins and crimes in their own lives, virtuously condemning a criminal..."

And in regards to Hickman's jury: "Average, everyday, rather stupid looking citizens. Shabbily dressed, dried, worn looking little men. Fat, overdressed, very average, 'dignified' housewives. How can they decide the fate of that boy? Or anyone's fate?"

"Other people have no right, no hold, no interest or influence on him. And this is not affected or chosen -- it's inborn, absolute, it can't be changed, he has 'no organ' to be otherwise. In this respect, he has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel'other people.' "

"He shows how impossible it is for a genuinely beautiful soul to succeed at present, for in all [aspects of] modern life, one has to be a hypocrite, to bend and tolerate. This boy wanted to command and smash away things and people he didn't approve of."
If what's he's saying is right, it doesn't matter if he's a foreigner who hasn't adapted.
Pretty much every time a headline is in that format, the answer is "No" and the question is stupid.
I think bitcoin is at a price right now that people should be pricing things in milibitcoin which would put each mBTC at about .8 dollars.

Edit: This includes whatever you use to view your wallet and send coins with. Your wallet should display in mBTC so you send 1 mBTC instead of .001 BTC and pretty much never actually have to do conversions.
Ask HN: Where should I advertise my Windows 8 apps?
(Disclaimer: I'm a 15 year old web and app developer). I have 8 (and more to come) new apps for Windows 8. I need to get at least 100 downloads per app. Where should I post links to them? The apps are here: http://www.aeipsapps.tumblr.com/
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>So the parent is right to take opportunity costs into account, especially in case of deflationary currency.

If that were a valid concern, why would anyone ever spend bitcoins when they could spend cash? If the price is guaranteed to rise as you imply, why isn't it already reflected in the market price? In other words, why are there people even selling it?
that's my take on it too.

EFF is tipping their hat to agendas far beyond electronic freedom in saying they endorse this use.
Looking at the "About and Goals" section of their docs http://www.infinisql.org/docs/overview/#idp37033600

I can't seem to find the word "Reliable" or any variation thereof anywhere in there.

In fact, that word is no where to be found on the blog post or on the entire InfiniSQL page (not in the Overview, Guides, Reference or even FAQ). I find this quite remarkable since reliability is the true virtue of an RDBMS, not speed or even capacity. At least that's what PostgreSQL aims for and this being another RDBMS, and is also open source, I see it as InfiniSQL's only direct competitor.

It's nice that this is scalable, apparently, to ridiculous levels, but if I can't retrieve what I store in exactly the same shape as I stored it, then that's a bit of a buzz kill for me.

Can we have some assurance that this is the case?

There's a note on "Durability" and a shot at log file writing for transactions, and presumably InfiniSQL uses concurrency and replicas, to provide it. In the Data Storage section, it mentions that InfiniSQL is still an in-memory database for the most part http://www.infinisql.org/docs/overview/#idp37053600

What they're describing is a massively redundant, UPS backed, in-memory cache.

Am I wrong?
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One of the other participants, a VPN provider, lists your new IP and implies it is from Switzerland.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/bitcoin-friday-2...

While the majority of sites list that IP as swiss. Some list is as Iranian:

http://www.lookip.net/ip/31.7.56.170

If it actually were Iranian, then paying in bitcoins would be an effective way around the sanctions. If only Iran were more tech savy, then they could cater to the bitcoin early adopters and provide VPS, domain services, and the like.
I think that's right. But then, if you don't want your bitcoin position to change, and you have no need for its other features in this transaction, then why use bitcoin? The OP's point stands.
There was a website like this some time ago, people would anonymously post an image and paragraph, others would comment, identified only by an animal avatar. It was called something like weareeverybody.com or something, but it is no more. Seems pretty interesting -- I'm not sure that the "alone" requirement is necessary though. It seems photo + handwritten note provides the necessary context.
no, i'm talking about transaction log ("redo log" in Oracle parlance). Switching log files causes checkpoint (ie. flush - it is when the index datablocks changed by the inserts you mention will finally hit the disk )

http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUES...

MS and DB2 have similar behavior.
FDA tells Google-backed 23andMe to halt sales of genetic test
> We’re terrible at work-life balance. Although work is pretty much your life, we do our absolute best to make sure that work is as awesome as possible so you at least enjoy each and every day here.

Sigh.

edit: oh haha I get it, it's a joke:

> - Annual Salary: Negotiable, but you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-motivated group. We’re more likely to spend less money on salary and invest that on making your day-to-day life at work better.

I was disappointed til I realized no one in their right mind would be asking someone to get worked to death for low pay. See? Joke!

edit 2:

C'mon this is probably one of the worst job listings I've seen in my handful of years looking at developer job listings. This cannot possibly be serious.

In addition to the "We're gonna work you to death" and "We're not gonna pay you what you're worth", there's also the awesome addition of "We don't have a plan and it's basically up in the air what you're going to be doing every day":

> Flexibility adapting to deadlines, changing schedules, priorities and unpredictable events in a fast paced environment.

And don't forget that you should be highly experienced, multidisciplinary wizard who won't mind doing desktop support:

> the (dreaded) GENERAL IT for us here that need help configuring a firewall for a dev kit, etc. Sorry, I know that’s the WORST, but it’s absolutely part of the gig.

This is legit, at least they're being up front with it instead of springing it on the poor schlub who gets hired.
I'll bet that the auto industry lobbied for those expensive inspections.
I find that the phrase "pause+rewind" doesn't quite give the right impression; sure, sometimes you missed a sentence and need to rewind, and that's great. Other times, I'd like to fire up an editor and type out the code the lecturer's showing (I'm often surprised at how many things my mind missed just skimming the slide), see if it compiles, how it behaves for 10 minutes or so. Kind of like a self-imposed mini lab, if I'm feeling a bit behind on the topic at hand.

Other times, it's great to play it at 1.5x, or even skip sections entirely. E.g. if I'm comfortable with the topic / environment, I don't want to sit through 20 minutes of setting an IDE up, or a walkthrough of "hello world". I wonder if it would be possible to deviate from the strict linear progression of lectures, and allow the learner to choose. The difficulties in prerequisite knowledge might outweigh the benefits, but it might be an interesting idea. More of a library of closely related lectures and information, rather than a single course.
I understand that, and I'm trying to be as general as possible: paying the bills isn't part of your world view, what "paying the bills mean" is shaped and reified BY your worldview and goals. That's all I'm saying: "that's great, but you still have to pay the bills" doesn't have anything to do with a mantra by which you live your life, it's something you fit around and is shaped by what is core to how you want to live.
There are many other earthquake-prone regions which don't rely on thin-wall, disposable architecture.

What you generally will see is an aversion to unreinforced masonry construction -- stone or brick. Where you do see these they've generally been substantially reinforced with either internal or external metal skeletons (or you live in a region with poor building codes and the structures were erected since the last big temblor).

I'd suspect that Japanese construction methods follows engineering to some extent, but is also strongly influenced by tradition.
So, I think bitcoin sort of shot itself in the foot with the low number of total bitcoins. I think if the actual $ value per bitcoin was more in line with the dollar, people would be more willing to spend them. Yes, you can spend fractions of bitcoins, but for instance here namecheap wants at least .1 bitcoins deposited. Currently, that's what, $80? why do I want to give them $80 when all I really want is 1 $10 domain? How about a 100/1 split :-)
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Hey, at least he is being honest. Not talking about xboxes/playstations at work and how there is free lunch, dinner at work.
Think about the opposite, though -- most people don't get tested for anything, especially weird/uncommon conditions. Tests like 23andme aren't something your local doctor does every checkup.

For $100, people who otherwise would have been clueless know if there's something they should ask their doctor about. In this case, I think some false positives are better than ignorance.

Worst case, you think "oh no, I'm predisposed to ___!" for a few days until you make it to a doctor who can tell you for sure.

It's fair to say 23andme has saved far more lives than it's hurt.
They work together, by encapsulating the data internally, one is free to change its representation. It keeps the coupling to that data local, the objects methods.
God this is sad.
A subreddit-powered blacklist app so people can submit the what & why!
I like this exchange, personally.

https://www.cryptsy.com/users/register?refid=18976
they are definitely using a lot of progressive discourse to seem like they anything but another commercial interest, girls/feminism (for profit (keep that in mind)). another would be the beastie boys-approves discourse. some very very smart marketing people at goldieblox

they just want profit like the rest of the capitalist world. beastie boys are the victim here, a capitalist enterprise stole their track. kill it with fire.
I did exactly this for a school project about a year ago:

https://github.com/bcuccioli/neural-ocr

There's a paper in there that explains the design of the system and my results, which weren't great, probably due to the small size of training data.
While you are adding unique value as the only developer, you have to consider how much they're investing in cash for expenses and opportunity cost. I tend to think that nobody gets paid at the beginning. If the website is very complex and core to the company, maybe the equity split should reflect that.
The problem with just looking at the completion rate is that it doesn’t really distinguish between the “just browsing” crowd and the “I really want to finish this course” crowd.
Hi, eksmith. I talk a bit about plans for durability in that overview document.

I promise that I have every intention of making InfiniSQL a platform that does not lose data. I have a long career working in environments that demand 100% data integrity. If I de-emphasized it, it was not intentional.

PostgreSQL doesn't scale for OLTP workloads past a single node. There are a handful of products similar to InfiniSQL (google for the term NewSQL for a survey of them).

And yes, a redundant UPS-backed in-memory cache. I have some ideas on how to do regular disk backing as well (which I'm sure you've read).

And if a more traditional log-based storage layer is added, InfiniSQL will still scale nearly linearly across nodes horizontally. Multi-node scale and in-memory are not dependent on one another. Though I believe that redundant UPS systems managed by a quorum of administrative agents, and provide durability just like writing to disk.

Are you familiar with high end storage arrays, such as from HDS or EMC? They write to redundant memory, battery backed and managed by logic in the arrays. I'm just moving that type of design to protect the database application itself, up from the block layer.

And some people trust their datacenter power--they use pure in-memory databases without UPS already, or they do things like asynchronously write transaction log, which also sacrifices durability. For those groups, InfiniSQL ought to be just fine, without UPS systems.
Probably not. In your ordinary browsing, you're not likely to download anywhere near the entirety of wikipedia. Plus, spreading out your requests over time rather than downloading it all at once is more gentle.
Ahh, the MNIST database of handwritten digits. I never took an ML course and I was only able to achieve 87% recognition rate 6 years ago for a university software engineering project. I read others achieving 99.9% recognition rates with their ANNs so I wasn't happy with my result. I tried to self-study about ANNs but I found most material to be either too simple or too complicated. I finally found some articles about ANNs (http://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/List/Neural-Network...) with code samples in C#, so I'll finally be looking into rewriting my old code to get a better result.
This is namecheap's problem, plenty of decimal places left there.
On launching AngularJS 1.2: what we learned, what we're changing
> We are quite literally looking for a person that can do four jobs: Web Development, Software Development, Sys Admin, and the (dreaded) GENERAL IT for us here that need help configuring a firewall for a dev kit, etc. Sorry, I know that’s the WORST, but it’s absolutely part of the gig.

Christ. Hire more than one person then. This is insane.
Hmm. So the first argument was that fair use can't be commercial, but the Supreme Court obviously showed that commercial parody can be considered fair use. Now the argument is that the parody isn't commercial enough? That it's tangential? Is your argument that because it's tangential it is less of a parody? (Sorry if I'm not totally following... long day at work...)
the eff article is sexist, i don't think i will be donating to or praise eff anymore.

(from the article):

"GoldieBlox could have made a less intricate machine, of course, but that would have undermined the purpose of showing the amazing creative engineering girls can do"

GIRLS?! i think most intelligent adults prefer the terms female or women... do grown men refer to themselves as/idetify with the term "boy engineers"? no i didn't think so.

poorly written article by someone trying too hard but missing key points in gender equality/social construction.

eff please be better than this.
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Oh ok, now I see what you're saying, it's still similar to an insert buffer in that case. B-tree behavior is still to blame for this, and if you make your log file bigger it lets you soak up more writes before you need to checkpoint but you'll either have even longer checkpoints eventually, or you'll run out of memory before you have to checkpoint.

We also checkpoint before trimming the log, but our checkpoints are a lot smaller because of write optimization.
I know this is completely juvenile of me, but I can't help but see "libs ass".

It's kind of like "xbone". I'm sure it's not intentional, but people will see it nonetheless.
They don't seem terribly desperate to fill the position. If that's true they can probably play a waiting game to find someone who matches what they're looking for.

As for the salary line, either it's true that they're not a "terribly money-motivated group" and thus you should feel free to ask for whatever you want and if they really want to hire you they'll cave. Or, it's true that they aren't willing to pay the salary you expect and negotiations won't last long.

Either way it's really nothing to get worked up about.
> why do I want to give them $80 when all I really want is 1 $10 domain?

To qualify for the promo? They don't enforce a minimum purchase for BTC... I have bought several individual domains from them in BTC.

What is the point of a 100/1 split? Moving the decimals over is completely arbitrary, since you'd just have 6 decimal places at the end instead of 8.
That's really scummy of the EFF to phrase the title in a way that makes it seem like the Beastie Boys filed the suit.
It's Penny Arcade, he's concerned with getting too many applicants, not too few.
I'll definitely do it even if there is a little bit of interest. I'm thinking a small set of check boxes that you can click for an app ("spams contact list", "downloads your email" etc).