skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people don't care how it was generated. They want 120V @ 60Hz. That's it. Power companies don't secretly throttle you and then claim they didn't. The poster is talking about broadband access, not 'bits'.
I have to say that this one came out of left field. Would have been much better at the end.

Also, not sure what happened here: http://clojurescriptkoans.com/#runtime-polymorphism/4

I guess it ends here?
And to top it all off, this Mathematician was in his late fifties when he published his breakthrough proof!
If you can create a pair of (private key, public key with collision), then yes bitcoin will be broken.
Yes, I'm familiar with Paul Graham's essay. But while the topics we address are related, I think they're distinct in their own right. pg is arguing that succinctness (the "simple interface" camp) should be the goal to which all programming languages aspire. I'm complaining that programmers use the word "powerful" to describe things which are, not only dissimilar, but outright contradictory! pg's essay is prescriptive; my comment is descriptive.

I also think my links are sufficient. Orwell discusses sloppy diction. "Worse is Better" discusses complex implementation. pg's essay primarily addresses interfaces. If expressing myself had been as easy as citing pg's essay, I would have done just that.
I enjoyed the analysis, and lots of good points were made, and now has me believing it was faked. But I'll be honest, when I clicked the link, I was kinda hoping for some sort of image processing/hyperspectral article.
>>I just wrote an article about US tax implications regarding Bitcoin holdings (not transactions! transactions are easy, and well-covered on the Bitcoin wiki).

The stated author of the article, Tyler S. Robbins, reached out to me to state that you (@gamblor956) are not the author of the article linked by the submitter. Evidently he's been downvoted trying to point this out.

Perhaps the unintentional implication inferred by most on this thread is that that you personally wrote the linked article, when in fact you may be referring to a different article you wrote about US tax implications that has yet to be published (as you stated above).

Hope this clears things up for anybody else that may have unintentionally made the same inference. I'm meeting Mr. Robbins on Monday to discuss some of the issues he raised in his article.

EDIT: I see that he's put a warning at the top of article to clear up any misunderstandings.
[x] Code can be shared without compromising security

This is made possible with...

* compile-time memory protection

* automatic memory management

* compile-time data access restrictions (mark struct members as read-only)

* divide programs into small, mutually-distrusting components

* add features by adding components, not by changing existing components

The last two points are things the programmer has to do, but keep in mind that programming languages today don't even give you the opportunity to design this way. The last paradigm that did was C / Unix, and that was back when it was reasonable to send program state over a pipe.

Java tried to do this in the 90s, but a quick web search for "Java security" will turn up the historical record. In my opinion, VMs are inherently insecure, so I think the flaw in Java's approach was the decision to make Java run on a VM. VMs are inherently monolithic, and thus violate the "network of mutually-distrusting components" point above.

For more semi-coherent rambling on this topic, see my latest blog post... http://dbpokorny.blogspot.com/2013/11/prisoner-of-paradigm.h...
maybe you should upgrade to the latest. I have 32.0.1700.19 (Official Build 235778) beta on OSX and it works fine.
Yes, I almost exclusively use pytables+HDF5 when I'm permitted. As I commented on some thread earlier this week, it strikes a great balance between simplicity, performance and flexibility.
Infoworld's comparison of Salt, Sensible, Puppet and Chef
If you want to play the Bitcoin lottery, it's a far better idea to focus your computing power on solo mining. You have far more chance guessing a 25 bitcoin block than getting a valid private key.
I think you need to google the definition of 'generally'. A list of narrative exemplars does not refute an assertion of proportion.

Like the first google result for payments volume yeilds this: http://www.gfmag.com/component/content/article/119-economic-... As you can see, credit transfers dwarf everything. It's worth noting that all of these payment types are cleared electronically (including checks).

I sincerely doubt gold bugs and Persian carpet fans are trading at total volumes of 100's of trillions of fucking dollars globally.
Ask HN: How does the Coursera dynamic checkboxes work technically?
Can someone explain how the checkboxes load the content dynamically? Thanks.

Here's the link:
https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&cats=infotech
Keep doing it! The main idea behind Raspberry Pi is to bring young people back to the core/kernel/assembly/hw parts, and you've succeded on your own. This is a great accomplishment.
> The verification that ensures you aren't the victim of double-spend fraud takes an average of 5 minutes..

One confirmation takes an average of 10 minutes.
Lie-flat beds in business class? On-demand entertainment? Power outlets and wifi?

Safety enhancements?

Not to mention flying is much cheaper than it used to be, adjusted for inflation.
It's interesting that his claim on possible bitrate for wireless is 10^55000 bits per second while the cable bitrate is 10^54000 bits per second. Wonder what he actually talked about at techweek and if anyone bought it.
One note: if you have a MIG welding rig you can use flux cored wire in it without a shielding gas, which simplifies things somewhat if you're an occasional welder. Just make sure to adjust the polarity settings correctly when you do (there are tons of videos on youtube explaining how and why).
Yeah, I hate everything about the article, especially the self-assured 'expertise'. At no point does he address e.g. the possibility that the blood was not hers but someone else's.
It's mostly about the fact that the author makes somewhat serious accusations while his proof is rather underwhelming.
If you haven't seen Bill Scott's talk on Kraken.js, check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5yk5SZxWX4
Recording and documenting where you go in no way hinders or interferes with your freedom of action, therefore I retain my right to freedom of action in doing so.

I don't have a right to go into a place where you have privacy. If you come out of a private place, or act in a way that is public, I have every right in the world to track you.
In a lot of countries it's certainly grounds for arrest as carrying a government issued ID is mandatory.
The payment gateway providers will create the infrastructure to settle payments early where needed (by relaying/insuring the risk, credit scoring, much like they do today for CCs).

In practice you may find that your starbucks coffee will take 10 minutes to buy with a newly created wallet, but comes in immediately when paid with a wallet that you've been using for a while (so it has a 'reputation').
The person you are replying to never made such a claim. Remind me not to hire you as an attorney in the future.
Get ready for these to be deleted too! :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6672029
->
http://nypost.com/2013/11/05/microsoft-com-is-stuck-in-the-1...
->
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6681746
It's likely not her own blood, could have been from the probably crowded ambulance, so you can ignore some things relying on that, swelling, pain, cuts.

It's possible she wiped her own eyebrow, and she may have tried to clean her chin while the blood was partially dry (maybe with saliva, diluting the blood a little).

It's possible the blood dried at different rates, considering sweat.

Either way, it would make a lot more sense to stage this with animal blood rather than acrylics.

Edit: posting this here because I agree. Also needs more clear proof on why the blood color is true to camera.
I read 7G without thinking twice, i thought it was the same 3G,4G,5G marketing terms. then ... wait a minute.

Fun read though.
Sounds like you didn't read past the first couple of paragraphs.. while he isn't offering any conclusive proof, his argument consists a lot more than "I think it looks fake".
Bridgestone Sues IBM for Fraud in $600 Million Lawsuit over Failed IT Project
...which Lisp has had since before I was born
From what I've observed, Matlab is more popular. There's a perception -- for whatever reason valid or invalid -- that Matlab is for numerical computation, and Mathematica is for symbolic or higher level math. And, that Matlab is easier.

However, I'm noticing a trend towards using mainstream programming languages and whatever free libraries are available, to do the same kind of work. I used Mathematica 15+ years ago, and for doing the same kind of work today, I now use Python and am quite happy with it.
I can relatively easily convert large amounts of gold, stocks or bonds to cash currently unlike bitcoin. Also I don't care about potential use in the near future (20 years? 2 months?).

Unless you provide me a way to realize bitcoin to actual USD in non trivial amounts with the same amount of effort it would take to convert my stocks or bonds, it is as useful a currency for real life as is my current GTA V Online bank account.
I wouldn't be surprised if multiple investigations were launched. The downside is that they lose a few thousand to a few hundred thousand dollars in employee time. The upside is that they potentially collect millions in taxes.
Marc Benioff responds to Hackathon accusations
Porn Is Dead, Long Live Sex
Don't most places only allow either 1's or l's in all plates, and the same for 0's and O's?
What would the motive be to fake an injury when we all appear to agree there really were injured people there? True or not, this reasoning based on things that cannot be objectively tested smacks of conspiracy theory.
Not if the center of a black hole contains a Einstien-Rosen bridge, then the information is transmitted elsewhere.
I read that too. I agree..what that Indian student did, is a load of crap..
25 is a small number. Would it make a difference with (much) larger ones?
Loads fine with 31.0.1650.57 Debian jessie/sid (235101)
You mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Storage

It does work, he just slightly overestimated the maximum density :) There is an open-source implementation (http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/) that stores ~3mb per page.
How does Square Cash work technically
Yeah, he found some other people who thought it looked fake too.
The Double Life of Memory Exposed with Automata Processor
My guess: Bail money for DPR.
Game development.

Setting up a new workspace generally is a "go out to lunch and it'll hopefully be mostly done with the perforce checkout by the time you're back" affair on our internal LAN, nevermind if you wanted to work from home. Downloading the built assets through our internal tools takes a similar length of time, so you hopefully can wait until the end of the day to kick that off as you head out.

Various SDKs are delivered by download - my last download was 15GB, compressed. These often require frequent updates, which we save to local shares as a simple matter of expediency when shared widely.

Delivering complete, self contained milestones in specific formats causing 12-50GB .zips to be uploaded via FTP for hours... with the semi-frequent resort to sneakernet due to quota limitations, service issues, or just plain not having hours between when development for a build was stopped and when the build was needed someplace for a demo or whatever else.

I have an archive of some of those deliveries on my local machine. Even with a good 30%+ of my archives missing due to lack of drive space, the archives for the single project I've archives for total over a terrabyte. They're useful for reproducing bugs exactly on occasion. Between all the other projects, other employees, and monstrous shared resources like complete Perforce history, build machines and other servers... complete backup would probably be somewhere around the 0.1 petabytes mark... or close to a full petabit of data. And we're considered only a "small" business, under 50 employees!

Fortunately for us backups are fairly static, and the nightly rsync to offsite storage is usually done bringing all our services to a grinding halt by the time work starts the next day. But it's sufficiently slow that those are our secondary backups, with primaries and restoration being done through sneakernet as the rule, not the exception, despite the "beefy" pipe. A second internet backup would push backup times into our workday, and if we're ever forced to do a major restoration through the internet, it's going to be extremely painful... days of waiting with employees unable to do their jobs. Expensive!
I hope not. Seems silly.
Since you bring up Sirlin, I would recommend Yomi, which is a card game that is very balanced and very competitive. I don't think it's as deep as chess, but I certainly enjoy playing it.
Giant Pyramids and Sphinxes discovered offcoast Cuba
Huh: https://www.kraken.com/

Why this is relevant: kraken is a bitcoin trading platform. Paypal is a competitor to bitcoin.
Huh: https://kraken.io/
This looks very very promising!
This was publicly admitted by Bill Gates himself in his joint interview with Steve Jobs. Just pointing out that it's not been a secret act. It made practical sense because of the nature of the Xbox360 processor architecture (triple core PowerPC).
Really?

I’m telling you this because you all need to know that there is not some great pool of amazing people in some other place who are going to shape the way our species navigates the coming decades.
upvote for mentioning the evil scheming of a Bond villain in a serious conversation as a serious answer :)
Alarming. Addictive. Awesome. What’s It Really Like Being An Entrepreneur?
Being an entrepreneur is heck of a job. It’s unpredictable, it’s confusing and at times its downright scary but an Entrepreneur will tell you one thing- with all its hurdles and uncertainties they won’t have it any other way.
I wrote a little Python program that lets you try it with an arbitrary integer. It assumes that for instances where you have to lay out a zero that you need one bit (for 0).

This times out quickly if you use too big of a number, but you can play around with integers here:
http://codepad.org/4mnHI9E3

Based on what I see, it compresses poorly at the beginning and then reaches parity. At 1,000,000 (tested on my machine, not Codepad since it times out), you get one bit of profit, but 1,000,005 is at parity, suggesting that it's not very stable.

Also, this is assuming that the decompressor can make sense of the absolute smallest representation you could lay out these numbers with, which is basically not going to happen. That additional padding would destroy any potential savings you got.
Mmm... Looks like they haven't quite abandoned it, after all. ;)
Hey give me a shout and maybe we can work something out. reechaurd@gmail dot com.
http://progressivemaryland.org/public/documents/2010/utility...

>In the state of Maryland, Verizon currently offers FiOS service in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Charles, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. Thus, the only major jurisdiction in the state that is not yet wired for FiOS is Baltimore City. Verizon recently told members of the City Council that they have no plans to apply for a franchise agreement with the Baltimore City Office of Cable and Communications.

I'm not sure on all the ins and outs of it. Feel free to dig more yourself but basically Verizon needs some sort of permit to lay cable and the city council or this office has a certain price for it that makes Verizon see it as unprofitable to provide the service then, unlike most other areas.
I accidentally ate some soap, but it was worth it
Absolutely, internet access is less fungible than electric power. In my area, I can purchase my electricity from specific generators, but they don't run a line to my house from the windfarm; instead, all of the generators are connected to the grid, and so is my house, and I get a nice sinusoidal 220-240 VAC @ 60hz.

In contrast, if I choose between different ISPs, ignoring the inherent differences in latency and bandwidth of the medium and protocols, my packets could have a very different path through the internet depending on how my ISP is interconnected with the rest of the network.

If they embrace local peering, then my bits may not need to travel over very many networks when connecting to relatively local destinations. If they shun local peering, but have good local transit, then my bits may have to travel over more networks, but not travel far. If they shun local peering, and their transit is also not local, then my bits will have to travel a long way to get where they want to go. If the peering or transit connections are inadequately sized, then there will be congestion there that's dependent on my choice of ISPs.

There is fungibility in bringing my bits to a specific carrier neutral location; but bringing my bits to the internet at large is not fungible. If you want to regulate as a utility connecting homes to the nearest internet exchange point, for some definitions of nearest and internet exchange point, that's probably the limit of coherent regulation.
I find it interesting that the author of the article mentions Malcolm Gladwell, who has been accused of stretching reality (scientific studies) to fit his theories. It appears that author is taking a scientific approach, but the argument would be better supported by analyzing a number of photographs as opposed to focusing on one. It would also surprise me if the author was surprised that there may have been some alteration to reality as the act of taking a photo alters reality in and of itself and news, like it or not, is a story medium, subject to exaggeration. Surely there are more examples from which he can draw to make his case.
100000 people killed, 2200000 refugees (1000000 of them children) and we are talking about a photo instead of taking action to end the war NOW.
Huh: http://asana.github.io/kraken/
What Is The Future Of Marketing?
How is the world of marketing shaped? What is the single most important thing that would define the way businesses are marketed across the globe? With so many channels and mediums available this video succinctly tells us the most important factor we should bank upon as new age marketer
Actually he does

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Both of these second opinions gave the option of blood splatter from another person. Assuming that this is spray from another victim, then there should be droplets all over her face. I count seven possible drops on her forehead, one on her nose, and no others. Searches on Google Images for "arterial spray" and "blood spray" turn up a lot of disturbing photos. But all the photos have something in common: lots of droplets. If her face got splattered, then she should have droplets all over her face. I would have also expected her clothing to have visible droplets.

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Maybe I'm a minority, but I can't really trust anything from a company with a login screen that says "logging you in securely" for 5000ms before loading me (sometimes) to my dashboard.
====

Don't like:

dust.js templates instead of handlebars

self = this all over the place

native use of forEach and Object.keys instead of underscore or lowdash

====

I like:

that you can change the template system

grouping routes, I always add this myself, makes it more django like

security stuff like csrf

dev and prod environment awareness

directory layout is cool

apache license

uses grunt

they use Object.create!

one var statement per function

krakens

====

Overall pretty awesome.

p. s. I have no idea how to format text here.
As the author of Kitten (http://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten):

You appear to be advocating a new functional, imperative, procedural, stack-based, eager, statically typed, pure programming language. Your language will not work. Here is why it will not work. Unfortunately, your language has comprehensible syntax, significant whitespace, type inference, closures, tail recursion, algebraic datatypes, polymorphic types, nested comments, multi-line strings, and call-by-value. (It lacks almost everything else.) The most significant program written in your language isn’t even its own compiler. There is no language spec; the implementation is the spec. Compiled languages will never be “extensible”. Your compiler errors are completely inscrutable. No one really believes that your language is faster than assembly, C, or FORTRAN. We already have a safe statically typed eager functional language. You have reinvented Forth but non-ironically. In conclusion, you have some interesting ideas, but this won’t fly.

And the runtime isn’t even done yet. :P
"I don't understand what you're saying, but you're wrong"
Are there any studies on the rate at which physical money disappears from the system? I know physical money can be printed to make up for it, but like all things the electronic counter part of physical money will become much more reliable than physical money over time. Do you worry about google corrupting a digital file you emailed to yourself?
If this were a transfer of ownership, it would trigger the reporting requirements of any country that has reporting laws. The odds are overwhelming that it is not a transfer of ownership, but if it is, here are some guesses:

1) The feds have finally cracked wallet(s) used by Silk Road, or he managed to give his keys to someone (he had a bail hearing today - it's an odd coincidence);

2) Drug cartels are now accepting BTC for major payments; or

3) Macau-based junket operators, that provide casino credit to Chinese gamblers because they cannot easily move money out of China, have begun accepting it for payment.

Personally, I think it was just one of the exchanges moving some money internally.
> The current implementation works pretty well, but ...

Exhibit A: HTML

Exhibit B: SMTP

Exhibit C: IPv4

If something kinda sucks, but kinda works pretty well, chances are that we'll still be arguing over it in ~10 years.
Over One Million Xbox One Units Sold On Launch Day
Kraken is an offshoot from work at Paypal and just a few lines above this on the HN frontpage is a post about a Node memory leak post mortem from Wal-Mart. Over the next few years will we see Node become as commonplace in the enterprise as Java and .NET?
Twitter implements new encryption using Perfect Forward Secrecy
For me, this is the essential bit: clojure.test is simpler and less magical. You can read the clojure.test source code and understand it in an hour or so - the trickiest bit is the extension system (e.g. throws?). Midje has a lot of really dark macro magic and the code is... complex.
How does this compare with Sails.js?
In the vein of mmullis' suggestion, I've successfully used Emacs batch mode to reformat huge Runa code bases. I blogged about it here: http://www.lispplusplus.com/2013/10/mass-clojure-file-format...
This guy knows everything. From quantum mechanics (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicolas-dupont/79/217/325), to wedding journalism (https://nppa.org/profile/XtremlyGeeky)... while still attending to highschool.
Chrome uses V8. Chrome is the primary user of V8.

Not supporting OP's definition of irony, whatever it is, just speculating how OP could've thought of it.
What's wrong with using .forEach or Object.keys? Underscore will fallback to that if it's supported (which is always in nodejs).