skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically they made X-Men's pin-table-thing? Probably loads of fun, but honestly I'm having trouble seeing the use. Rolling a ball around through the internet isn't exactly a day-to-day event, and is probably better accomplished with a Sphero.

edit: finally watched the video. impressively well developed, and a lot faster than I've seen before. So yeah, with a lot better resolution, it could be a thing. I'm not finding much in the way of actual details of how it works ("linkages" = ?), but it seems like it could scale kinda decently. I still think macro-actuators to micro-display is not the way to go in this, though it's probably a lot easier to play with.
For the last three years I've been living in a very pretty seaside resort town in Vietnam called Nha Trang. In just the last year it's seen a massive influx of Russian tourists and it's completely changed the vibe of the place. They're everywhere now, usually with a scowl on their face and usually dealing with people in a manner that would be considered very brusque and impolite anywhere in the West. Nobody seems to like the Russian tourists, including the Vietnamese, but they bring a lot of money into the local economy so they get the red carpet treatment all the same. But Western tourists are becoming increasingly scarce as word gets out that Nha Trang is not the easygoing friendly place it used to be.
Maybe we need a TV-B-Gone[1] over IP so that bars streaming too loud can be shut off.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone
Explain like I’m five: Bitcoin
Just looked, couldn't even find the file.

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security

OSX 10.9
"a person with privileges, rights, and responsibilities"

I don't actually think that privileges bear any relationship to rights or responsibilities.

If you had suggested that their rights increase in line with their responsibilities, that is something I could get behind. The question is what the recordings are used for. If they were automatically backed up and stored out of police hands - only to be used in the event of a court case. If the additional responsibility of being constantly recorded was attached to the right for that recording to be used only in court - this would be reasonable. If they are going to look at the recordings as part of, say, performance reviews.. not so good.
Consult a lawyer, of course. You could pull in the T&Cs from firms that seem similar to yours, analyze them, learn a bit about contract law, and aggregate them to match your preferences, but the cost of the time you'll have to spend is quite likely to exceed the cost of getting a lawyer to modify some boilerplate to your particular needs.

You could also consider looking for a legal team member or mentor that could either contribute directly or steer you towards an attorney experienced in this space. As I've said for a while, having a plan for your legal needs is just as important as having one for server infrastructure etc. There are more legal grads than there are legal jobs at present so this might a good time to seek a business-minded cofounder with legal training.

If you're not sure where to start, call the bar association in your state and ask for a referral. You could also consult DIY legal texts such as the NOLO series, which are often quite well written and helpful, but knowing nothing about your business it's very hard to say how well or badly they'd fit your needs. Also, they're mainly aimed at consumers so I don't know if they'll cut it for B2B stuff.

The Small Business Administration has general resources: http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-ma... or this affordable book provides an excellent introduction to the general principles of business law and the sort of situations any business owner should be prepared to encounter (the whole series is good in fact): http://www.amazon.com/Business-Law-Barrons-Review-Series/dp/...
This is a good first step, but people authorized by the government to kill citizens at their discretion should be monitored intensively every second that they're on duty. Something as light-handed as GPS tracking on their vehicles, and they're complaining about it? That's something that would worry me if I was deeply corrupt, so it's telling that the Boston PD is complaining.
Holding right now, but if I see a correction over the next few days I will buy more. My goal is to get to 100BTC and then just sit on it for a while, with some slow withdrawals as needed.
Who has suffered from Google ending Apple's Maps license?

Now we have two great mapping services on that platform to choose from.
Or they operate most of the BTC washing services.
I think you mean it is a hell of a defendant list. There's only one plaintiff, Think Computer Corporation.
Someone (actually one of the biggest bitcoin mining equipment developer) donated me 10BTC back when they were about $1000 in total.

I tried to sell them but luckily almost got scammed, bank refused transaction and I didn't lose much. So i ended up keeping 8 BTC still :)
Thank you Victor I will email you tomorrow AM.
'buy low sell high'

For a given time period

* Mark transactions as 'high risk' at random

* Prefer transactions which buy coins from the user at low prices and sell coins to the user at high prices

* Randomly cancel a subset of non-preferred transactions after you've seen the market move over your time period

* Profit

If you do this right, canceling transactions is like having a price oracle, you can profit with 'future knowledge' by leaving some transactions open for extra seconds/minutes/hours/days.
I wish I had lived in an urban area like SF, Chicago, or NY at 25 and then settled down in the suburbs a few years later. Instead, I've spent almost my entire career in the burbs or burb-like centers.
Regarding your last question - I'd say it's pretty much the norm in our field.
Source for 2048 being good for "many more decades"? I thought it was getting close (10 years?) to the point where you might not want to use it, particularly without PFS setup, for anything requiring long-term use.
Being of Pakistani background, I could relate to it a lot. I'm actually just stunned by how well done the ad is in every aspect. I find it a little strange that a big Internet company did this, one wouldn't have expected such a thing. The reaction from my Pakistani friends is overwhelmingly positive too by the way.
> It's certainly not worth using obsolete hardware for pretty much all users

When it runs GNU/Linux, it's obviously not targeted, per se, at all users. It should be fairly clear right from the start. And they don't plan to manufacture millions of them, so they know what they are doing. Obviously there are still people, even if they are few, who want to have a general computing device in their pocket, that can run Python, compile stuff with gcc, and which is programmable, not like all other phones out there.
Great, can we also end public subsidies to help build their stadiums, while we're at it?
There's no need for anything like AWS or any payments. You offer some of your bandwidth and storage to the P2P network and get bandwidth and storage in return. Any machine on the network can participate. It has nothing to do with cloud providers. It's quite analogous to bittorrent.
this is what people who do real finance call an illiquid market.

Just to give you an idea, all the BTC in the world today were worth more or less as much as FIAT, which is probably the smallest car company out there.

An illiquid market is fantastically easy to move.. and rig.
Venturing to Gumroad and chewing
An experiment with the Gumroad digital fulllfimment service.
There are many things that can be automated and we developers believe this is some kind of value, however a MVP is about customer validation: If you have not validated your product, it's harmful to automate it. If you have customers and they pay for automation, you don't have a MVP anymore. You're already playing in the next level.
Sample Size and Early-Stage Innovation Returns
I'm anglo-Australian, and this definitely was very moving, even though it's not something I can relate to on a personal level.
Fascinating, does that mean you can plug a random DOCSIS 3.0 modem into any Comcast port, and get free IPv6 access? That's an effective way to encourage deployment, but I'm sure they'll fix the bug if they haven't already :-)
Don't be hatin' just cause you have never seen panic buying ;)
It's still such a small market. A single whale can cause a price to fall or rise...a group of whales could "crash" the damned thing for a time. It's also a nerd market. There is algorithmic trading happening at a level that only can happen with firms that have access to the direct feed on the exchanges...BTC allows everyone with enough knowledge to do high frequency trading.

But, every day the size of fluctuations that are possible will become smaller. More people holding BTC, more people buying and selling BTC, leads to less ability of a few buyers or sellers to cause a major change.

Someone in another recent BTC thread joked (in a "ha ha, only serious" kind of way) that the current speculative nature of the market might get enough people buying into BTC as a lottery ticket kind of purchase to cause the tipping point for it being a viable currency to happen without anyone noticing. If 20 million people in the US held Bitcoins...that's a big market for vendors to want to tap into. It's worth a little risk to get those buyers, as well.
Great ad. Here's something similar, by Coca-Cola: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_4vOUDImE.

Not as emotional, but quite good.
Behind the division of the sub-continent lies a great debate, that of Jinnah vs Gandhi. Was it the true aspiration of the people to get divided geographically while getting independence from British rule? It seems the divide happened because of some ideology driven people (Iqbal) who convinced other leaders (Jinnah) to pursue it. Today, this is a raging battle in Pakistan, did Pakistan ever need to be an independent country, considering how peacefully muslims are living in India vs the ready-to-cut-throats Pakistanis?
Why Not Epistocracy?
The Igor Naming Guide [pdf]
Spring-Loaded Running Shoe Could Help Prevent Injuries
It's not as simple as not living up to your commitment.

Yeah, mostly it really is. I'd make an exception if there is abuse or cheating going on, but yes when you get married you are signing up to be a caretaker to a sick, unstable, dying, unemployed, depressed, failing, whatever spouse. That's the deal. If you aren't prepared for that, don't get married.
I don't think subtitles were a barrier for the emotions transmitted by the video. At least not for em personally.
Just bought his book.
"Smartphones only become obsolete because the manufacturers design them to."

…and hardware getting faster, new sensors, etc. This line is getting pretty tired.
> Ironically, IPv6 "just works" totally out of the box, but IPv4 does not.

Not very ironic at all. IPv6's autoconfiguration (through link-local addresses, the Neighbor-Discovery Protocol, etc.) comes from engineers with decades of experience (and frustration) in managing ISP-sized netblocks.
Surely Spaf has recanted by now.
Using Gimp http://silveiraneto.net/2013/09/18/one-time-pad-using-gimp/
Correct, but that doesn't apply to GPS in police cruisers. All that data can tell you is that the car was at X address at Y time, which is already obvious.
Ggplot2 tutorial
Nah. I think it is because New York is our biggest city with 8 million people. There are just too many people to sort through so nobody talks. You can't make a generalization about the entire east coast based on NYC. In smaller places if you are walking down the street and you pass a stranger most of the time you smile at them and say hello.
> 3. put all changes that you are not interested in on shelve

Usually what I want is the opposite: cherry pick a few changes, increasingly adding them to the staging area (or index in gitspeak), because oftentimes I have a change that I am not sure is required for this patch.

I was very unconvinced by the staging area thing when starting using git and tried to avoid it, but in fact it is very powerful and not that complex. I do not know bzr and only used hg for a few months so maybe they have similar tools, but my main point is not git against the other, it is learn power uses of the tools to help improve workflow, against the claim that dcvs should be not our concern.
AIDE[1] is an IDE for Android, which supports writing C++ and Java applications without a separate machine. User interface considerations restrict it to tablets, since programming on a phone-size screen would be unpleasant.

[1] http://android-ide.com/
The Case Against Cars in 1 Utterly Entrancing GIF
So which of them work well with Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2 drivers? Your average fortune 500 company isn't moving to PostgreSQL for the hell of it.

They're running on top of unix, but it all comes down to the database. And the java and .NET drivers are the best options. Rails has oracle and DB2 options, but how many people are using them? How well are they supported? How many people are around if you run into problems? What list of consultants can you hire when an advanced problem comes up?

Otherwise, you're stuck with a labyrinth of ETL jobs between the main DB and your internal app. That's not going to bode well, especially with JRuby around.

The other option is writing your business logic in the JVM and doing rest calls between that and your front end. I've heard multiple discussions of this (and even seen it done a few times.) But that's not getting rid of the JVM.
Totally agreed on the question. I have been trying to engage people more actively in the details of this question as well.

There are actually many, many documentation resources right now (seemingly enough for anyone to get started), so the question is really whether actual docs are lacking or just the right place(s) to start for specific kinds of docs.
In Google search, select the "Search tools". You can set a custom range, and that effectively allows you to search the index from the 20th century.
1. Bitcoin is not backed by anything. The work that goes into creating Bitcoin via the mining process has no bearing whatsoever on the value or utility of Bitcoin.

2. USD is backed by the law -- laws concerning debts, laws concerning taxes, laws concerning torts, etc. The law is what makes USD useful, which is why USD has value.
>>Yes that could possibly have a slight impact on the economy

>In the same wall that a concrete wall across a freeway could have a slight impact on traffic.

Well you'd have to have a significant percent of people invest in bitcoin instead of investing in something else. And even then I'm not certain how much an effect it would have as speculating on commodities is very common already and a necessary part of the economy. Also it's impossible to avoid if the supply of currency isn't finite. If so then whoever is increasing the supply is also going to significantly affect the economy. Like a tax from everyone that has money to the government or banks or gold miners or whoever.

And from an individual perspective, having slightly more money in your pocket or bank account everyday is definitely a good thing.
Lovely idea. There's too much snark in the world. Any project aimed at making the world a better place is awesome.

Here's some immediate feedback that might (or might not!) help:

* One per week seems too long and people wont ever come back. More than one at a time seems too much. How about making it like Groupon etc and have an 'ask of the day' and then 'side asks' for things you'll never front-page, but are interesting?

* I'd love to see the Groupon idea stretched. Add an "I did this" button (or an "I'm doing this" that posts a follow up email asking if you've done it 24 hours later)

* Needs a button to 'share this ask on Facebook/Twitter/...'. Same after someone has 'done this'.

* I'd post a card if it looked like people were posting cards.

* As naff as it sounds, "Needs more gamification"
Indeed, my parents saved over twice that amount, paid off a mortgage, and put two kids through university, and made maybe $70,000 combined in their best years.
Instacart Eyes 10 New US Markets For 2014
Writing Vim plugins with Python
This is an awesome talk about writing Vim plugins using Python and TDD.
He lived in Los Angeles, not the San Francisco "bay area".

Unless I am mistaken and there's a "bay area" in Los Angeles.
Thanks for that. Any idea on how exactly this protects privacy though? The moz dev didn't clarify.
> globally-accepted (at the central bank level) reserve asset that's not subjected to any one nation-state's (or state union's) wims or woes

Gold is hardly that; Chinese reserves of gold right now are unknown, but they are currently the largest miner and buyer of it (the government, consumers also buy). Given that we aren't sure what the real supply is (China's biggest state secret), the price of gold will remain volatile.

> You think the Chinese want USD long-term? Why on earth would they?

They want to continue to sell us stuff without overheating their economy, which is why they are happy to buy treasuries at a loss (the interest is not high enough to cover inflation). No one is really unhappy, even the Chinese, that USD is a reserve currency as long as the American economy is robust enough to be the largest consumer as well as a debtor of last resort (via treasuries). Bitcoin does nothing here: the US is a safe entity to lend to, Bitcoin doesn't magically create a similar entity.

Put it this way: money simply can't be saved without someone else spending that same money at the same time. China couldn't just sit on all of their USD, gold, or bitcoins even if they wanted to. Buying and sitting on gold doesn't magically create or even preserve value that you can call on to use in the future.

The fix for China is simply to promote more domestic consumption so they need to save less, which would also balance out the export/import deficit. Given that consumption can only be increased gradually (too much inequality in China), this isn't going to happen with a switch flip and in the meantime the Chinese would definitely prefer stability.
I'll put a finer point on it: in a coffee shop, you're guaranteed that zero of the conversations will require your attention. In an open-plan office, almost all of them will concern you even if you don't have anything direct to contribute. By this relationship, all voices in an open-plan will steal your attention.
WOW!! This is what you call succeeding in life at all costs, grabbing it by the balls and saying you are not going to defeat me. This was inspiring and a guy like this earns my respect any day. He has 8 kids, held them on his shoulders till his last, how many fathers, pro athletes, rich people(even steve jobs for a while) abandon their kids to make their life easier. This is about being a man, tackling life Up, Close and Personal. This book will be on my bookshelf. I honestly believe that this story is not for the 20somethings..... but the 30somethings and up.
Probably. But I'll still be able to get more work done than you because I can type much, much faster, and an order of magnitude more accurately.

I'm sure Facebook is much more satisfying on a purely touch screen based device though. :)
WSJ: Despite interest in bitcoin, Monday's hearing was attended by only one member of the Senate panel, Sen. Tom Carper (D., Del.), who chairs the committee. Other senators were still en route to Washington after spending the weekend in their home states.

Marketwatch: More than one hour into the hearing, and Sen. Carper is the sole lawmaker to ask questions. It appears no others are there.

Embarassing.
>Departments are going to have to confront the chilling effect this surveillance might have on police behavior.

Honest question - what bona fide police activity could be chilled by GPS tracking their cruisers?
On the other hand, you should never feel shame about applying for food stamps. Those programs exist for good reason, and if you were employed before you've probably paid your fair share into the social safety nets (in some states they break it down so you can see exactly how much you paid)
OK, but is that even usable on a smartphone ? They apparently recommend to use this with a tablet equipped with a keyboard, which is a different form factor altogether.
Mozilla developer creates curriculum to on-board new contributors to Firefox
Yes. If you have a large amount of Chinese Yuan (CNY), it's very difficult to legally convert that to foreign currency or purchase substantial foreign assets. Foreign exchange is strictly regulated.

Until the Chinese government clamps down on BTC China, as I expect they will, bitcoins offer an excellent, possibly even legal, method for Chinese to take their money out of China. It's so useful in fact, that Chinese are willing to pay a 30%+ premium for bitcoin on the Chinese exchange.

Note that this same problem also stands in the way of those who might arbitrage the difference in the exchange prices.

(I've lived and transacted in China)
No, subtitles don't get in the way at all :')
Great article -- just the kind of meaty technical content I love seeing here. Also good to know Rust is living up to its goal of being a fully-fledged systems programming language.
I guess you are not from New York...
The original concept was produced in a video by Pak Sar Zameen Productions on December 12, 2012

http://www.hotpaknews.com/2013/11/did-google-stole-the-idea-...
Look what happened with corn subsidies. Now corn is in EVERYTHING we eat. Literally everything. The beef, chicken, and pork you eat has all been fed corn. Every processed food has corn starch or corn syrup or some other product of corn. Most of the words you can't pronounce in the ingredients list are derivatives of corn. And it's all because of ridiculous bills and subsidies and money getting thrown around in big agro. Recommended Read: Omnivores Dilemma
"Someone in another recent BTC thread joked (in a "ha ha, only serious" kind of way) that the current speculative nature of the market might get enough people buying into BTC as a lottery ticket kind of purchase to cause the tipping point for it being a viable currency to happen without anyone noticing"

How is that? It sounds like you will have lots of people with Bitcoin holdings. I do not see a currency, because I do not see where anyone is using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
Just like all the places that are only firewalling IPv4 (I blame the iptables/ip6tables split).
Haulin' Data: How Trucking Became the Frontier of Work Surveillance
Maybe that is to ensure that the results remain stable after people start trying out those searches for themselves (and so Google doesn't endorse another company's services).

Wikipedia for results is definitely not the norm for Google searches in India---I just spent a month there and results can be anything from JustDial directory services (for phone numbers, since many local businesses don't have websites) to local newspapers (for reviews etc).

The utility of Google in India is that it provides you the best link across different websites. This is really important because India has a growing population of new Internet users (who don't have "go to" sites like Wikipedia and Yelp), and because it still doesn't have clear winners in many verticals (e.g. real estate)