skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of living is likely higher in the UK. Even in Los Angeles you can get a pint of beer for $4 or a six pack for $8. That is a good benchmark for minimum wages. http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/11/08/62761.htm
When it is such a large amount of money, it is not all that difficult. Just look for the guy who is $147M richer.

In other words, the only way you get to have the money is if you never spend it, except in minuscule amounts.
that guy doesn't get what people are feeling. People are feeling that this was a closed box. A possibly even pre determined outcome. And out of their efforts they didn't even get to show or talk about what they did - the least you can expect . So we have to shop for a new sponsor to finish it out. I think most people wouldn't even care so much about the prizes. have oracle or Microsoft end the even right with everyone's submissions. Let everyone show what they created
Indeed, without gold, modern electronics would not be the happy place it is now. I am old enough to have had to use a pencil eraser to periodically clean tin plated contacts. Even silver oxidizes under normal conditions. I like my gold (plated contacts).
No, because surveillance is censorship too.
Interesting! Any idea how the verified tags work? Who verifies what and how there?
SHA-256 may go in several years, and this is an active concern in the Bitcoin community:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264552.0
Thanks, that's a very concise and precise way of conveying what I was trying to get across.
Matt Damon giving a dramatic reading of Howard Zinn is the archetypical /r/politics story. It has no place here. Flagged.
Node School - Interactive lessons for NodeJS
I spoke to many devs. As we are not former salesforce people, we are smart enough to know to subtract the single view or views we made when we watched it. We're also smart enough to put analytical into the apps and be able to read server logs. And that is how we know what happened during review
Google could end China's web censorship in 10 days - why doesn't it?
If you don't want to run Flash:

http://html5zombo.com/
You keep on keeping on with your civil obedience.
Gold's price is sensibly on the order of the price of silver (which gets classed as money but has a pile of uses).

Gold's magickal role is largely cultural bias. There's lots of metals that are rarer and pricier than gold, but you don't hear about scandium-bugs or rhodium-bugs.
If you want to check your Heroku apps:

https://gist.github.com/ssaunier/7612827/
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.

Regulating the guys with the physical plant to be nothing more than a physical plant would be a massive improvement over where the US is today.

The biggest problem today is that the guys with the physical plant have aspirations of doing more, and that gives them incentive to degrade quality of service for general internet access (which competes with their aspirations). Thus we get things like ~300GB/month bandwidth caps which are enough to impact a typical family of four trying to cut-the-cord and use alternatives like netflix.
Im fairly sure this is how Google Video started out, but wikipedia has more about its later YouTube-like existence.
Breaking OS X signed kernel extensions with a NOP
Please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and pay close attention to the 4th paragraph from the bottom.
Is it really all about the speed race? Why don't I ever hear about quality of service, smaller latencies, etc? Is it because it is less marketable? I am sure ISPs can ultimately do something about it.

If I am naïve, then please guide me.
the question is, if they really know if he/she is 18 year old or something.
If you want to see some horrible UI designs in 2000 this site has not been updated since then.

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?file=shame.htm&mode=or...

EDIT: MY mistake. Apparently this is a mirror of the original.
Benedict Cumberbatch in line to play Alan Turing in The Imitation Game
Stop disobeying our rules, we're here to talk about how more wealth can be allocated to us and especially venture Capitalists. Totally apolitical. (Sorry to those who don't detect sarcasm easily.)
Maybe you could submit a video of someone doing a dramatic reading of the Patriot Act as a counterpoint.
Their strategy at this point if the high ups are stubborn will be to wait out the weekend for activity to die off. People get on with their lives. The thing to do now is to reach out to companies who could sponsor ending this thing right. prize or no prize. i think we organize to find a Microsoft or oracle who could host an evening
On iPhone Safari,iOS 7.0.3, your newsletter pop up obscures the entire site for me, and I'm not able to move the screen in any way to get to the 'no thank you' or 'x' out of the dialog.
Unsolicited Advice on Responsive Design
not exactly.. there was a proper term.. fourth world as well.

for 15-20 years, third world in military terms at least, meant the signatory of NAM movement. fourth world was anyone left after that.
Things are not so bad. They're not even just bad. Name a time and place where you'd rather live than today in the western world.

This is blatant pandering of one faux-rebel (who supported the very "wrong people" who are in power today) to other faux-rebels applauding a guy from tv who tells them to not listen to what they hear on tv. It's crazy. Or, it would be crazy if the goal was anything but maintaining speaker's personal popularity.
How is the author overlooking the most obvious course of action the Chinese government could take?

China could easily block Google outright -- while the Github reversal the author mentions is certainly surprising, Google represents only a small sliver of Chinese search engine use [1] and probably wouldn't result in much of a mass outcry.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/09/17/baidu-still-tops-china...
Okay, you lack a sense of humor, but you're right: I'd definitely have gained from reading a brief, beginner-friendly document like that.
no. I know it wasn't sponsored by them. Not enough alert banners on the screen
For example Trezor hardware wallet ( http://www.bitcointrezor.com/ ) generates its private key when it is first initialized. This way, the key never exists outside of the wallet.
Inaccurate headline.

Electronic games have no detectable effect on the behaviour of kids aged 5 to 7, according to a single study.

I don't think it's enough to extrapolate to all kids of all ages, and it doesn't automatically supersede any previous studies that found different results.
The upside is much lower though if it goes to 2K at this point. I think a bunch of us want to kick ourselves because the insane upside is gone. i.e. 100x. Those crazy returns were usually reserved for VCs :-p

I bought a small amount now. Total speculation. Not enough to ever make a difference to me. I guess I'm like an entrepreneur who got heavily diluted.

My total guess is that there is a lot of pent up demand right now. A lot of tech people have already got into it but a lot more "normals" will take time to figure out how to get into bitcoin. Again, my guess is that it could collapse once the last of the "normals" has gotten theirs. Some chance there will be a day trading platform come out of it. Some chance it will become a lot bigger ... global currency level big. Who knows?
"They received a mathematical assurance that it would work"

No they did not. Mathematics is about proofs; Bitcoin does not even have the rigorous definitions needed for that.

To put it another way, what you said is the equivalent of saying that Hacker News gives you mathematical guarantees of security because it happens to use TLS.
> Name a time and place where you'd rather live than today in the western world.

Fiji, circa 16th century.
PR Industry Fills Vacuum Left by Shrinking Newsrooms
People want to be offended, it makes them feel superior.

It is clearly a joke, anyone taking it seriously shouldn't really have any attention paid to them.
Matt Damon has itwrong. Servility is bad. Obedience is good.
If Sage really is to Mathematica what Gimp is to Photoshop then IMO it definitely does not obviate using Mathematica. The Gimp/PS argument is well worn.
The same way as enforcing for cash - you collect most of it on good faith, and for the 'bad faith' cases you try to catch some % of violators and punish them harshly enough so that the rational choice is to declare truthfully upfront.
"If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles." Howard Zinn
I'm trying to find out what's so special about that place and time, but am failing. Do you care to elaborate?
It's perfectly ok to flag something and just move on. No need to derail the actual thread.
I actually thought I was seeing Craigslist when Strawberry Pop-Tart Blowtorches came up.
Ison: The comet of the century
In order for that to be true you have to accept vertical integration of ISP as inevitable, rather than artificial. Structural separation could be implemented tomorrow, and would be a Very Good Thing.
Wow. Great piece. Kudos to Matt for reading this. What's best way to carry a message, if not from the lips of a celebrity :)
Many (young?) technologists think that technology stands above any kind of politics. They see their work as only bringing benefits to the world. Any bad application or unwanted side-effects should be fixed by applying even more technology.
Thanks :-) Your answers on some of those other questions really helped me get into this type of analysis. I'm even still working on my this dogs project (https://github.com/ivoflipse/Pawlabeling), the automatic labeling of the paws still needs a better solution!
Finding your first clients as a freelancer
DB-Engines Ranking ranks database management systems according to popularity
You Think You Know Someone, and Then He Gets on a Stage and Blows Your Mind
It is a paraphrasing by the article's authors. It is their take on the document.

Fortunately the article includes a link to a copy of the document. Published on documentcloud with a crappy user-interface it is a PITA to read it and I can't find a link to download as a PDF either. But at least you still have the option to read the original source yourself.
Electrode Recreates All Four Tastes on Your Tongue
The set of things that are sub optimal to breathe is pretty wide ranging though. I agree that breathing soot is not great, but I don't think this is particularly because it contains CNTs, as much as because it is a fine particulate that can get into and block up alveoli. I can't think of any fine particulates off the top of my head that are particularly good to breathe in.
It's also very likely to be just a continuation of current practice.
He could have learned mirrored writing. Would have allowed using the board in in-person lectures. Not that simple, but definitely possible: after 2 weeks of 2-hour almost-daily practice I've acquired quite decent skills at that.
Translation: we can thank Microsoft for creating a world where you need to run whatever arbitrary software some website sent you just so that you can click on some underlined text and go to a different website.

(Also the fact that at least half the websites I see these days manage to break basic browser features like "Back," "Forward," "Bookmarks," etc.)
This was first submitted about 30 min ago and then was flagged to death after reaching the front page and ultimately the number 1 spot on HN: https://www.dropbox.com/s/brz84r1vs05mvk3/2013-11-23%2008.21...

Thank you mmariani for re-submitting.

Link to original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6785795
Sorry, I beg to differ in this story. Are you saying these two engineers have no idea what the hell is going on and that they have not been told about what is being discussed here? These guys are software engineers and they sure have friends and co-workers who are HN readers. And they being the main party involved you think they haven't visited the site is one big fat red presumptuous of you in your own word.

If I accuse you being a cheater you sure won't check HN. I am pretty sure.
The article specifically mentions China blocking Google.

“Google! Do it! If they don't block you, freedom wins. If they do block you, there will be much more opposition to censorship inside China and the system will be forced to change, thus freedom wins too!”
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Yep, this.

I'm extremely relieved that he's gone onto new things. As much as I loved and grew up on Quake, the company is still rehashing their greatest hits with little to no inventiveness or creativity.

I'd much rather see Carmack's talent applied to Oculus which I am incredibly excited about, rather than another extremely anodyne shooter. Gaming's moved on.
Sincerely, you're wrong.

GreatFire.org exists to end China's censorship - they have pondered long, researched, and have not missed your point.

China's weakness is they cannot censor where it crimps the economy too much.

Read: Collateral Freedom
https://openitp.org/pdfs/CollateralFreedom.pdf

China blocking all Google products would make such a backlash in China that it's not a feasible move for the China government. Just as with Github, too many people would complain about losing $$ in the economy.

Gmail, Android, Chrome, Picasa, Google Drive, Docs, Translate, Maps, Scholar, Books, Earth, AppEngine, Research, Hangouts. Too many Chinese rely on these financially, and in their jobs.

GreatFire.org is right. This is a superb defrocking of censorship that will work.

The real question is why isn't Google doing this.
It doesn’t end there. On that page, you have to edit the code in the gray boxes at the bottom, not the big code at the top. (I recommend copying your answer to that page before you submit it; you can then adapt that answer for the problems on the next two pages.)
Why aren't you taking action then?
Because there is always the danger of forgetting to think and getting lost in a thoughtless state.
If bitcoin becomes a large enough issue for IRS, then there's definitely at least a few ways for them to proceed.

For example, they can subpoena localbitoins.com and such sites for all their user info, and do a full tax audit on them - after all, in taxes generally it's your problem to provide a paper trail for your taxable income/expenses, and if you can't do it, it only hurts you.

For example, if you buy 1 bitcoin for $500 and sell for $800, you pay taxes on the $300 difference; but if you have no trail whatsoever for the $500 transaction, then tough luck, you'll be taxed on the whole $800. Oh, and that assumes that you did 'tax yourself' by properly declaring it; if you want them to tax you, then expect that to be tripled as a penalty; and if you're using any 'coin mixing' services then that smells like tax fraud which would move the pain from a few dollars to risk of prison.

I'm not a tax lawyer, but you might need one.
so uh, exactly the same problem bitcoin has vs. real currency?
You need determination and experience, and some knowledge of how code is compiled at a low level.

Tools like those described in the article are handy, but aren't absolutely necessary. They save a lot of time, but the same effects can usually be gotten by more laborious means.

You have a segfault. You should know where in the code it's occurring already; it's either an access to bad memory with the instruction pointer (IP) at the point of access, or it's an attempt to execute code with the IP pointing at the bad memory, in which case the top of the stack (or, depending on calling convention, one of the registers) normally contains the place where it came from (necessarily, since the code expected to be returned to).

There are ways to turn an instruction pointer into line number offset when you have appropriate debug info, if you can't get the program running under a debugger.

Given the line number, segfaults can typically be split into three categories: plain bad logic, use after free, and memory corruption. The last is hardest to find IME, most easily done using a debugger and hardware breakpoints on memory address modifications, but you need a stable repro and a consistent memory allocator that gives predictable addresses for every rerun.

If any of the above is meaningless to you, it should give you some clues as to where you need to research.
The article describes how the their (small?) group of activists is willing to "bet the house", and that the potential outcome could include Google being blocked.

It's nice that they're willing to see Google blocked, but they're not actually giving up anything if that happens. Google on the other hand is a public company and has a lot more to lose if they're blocked. What would the shareholders say to Google risking the ad revenue from Chinese Internet users? And they're already fighting for marketshare with Baidu ... they could end up losing enough ground to never recover.

The activists might find that tack is a far better way to proceed. Google could easily just say "switching to HTTPS is in accordance with our policies throughout the rest of the world and it's (one way) to protect Chinese users from spying by the NSA (and others). Actively redirecting blocked requests to cached pages would on the other hand offend the Chinese government and would signal Google's true intent.

If you're going to be activists, you need to have a much better understanding of corporate motivations as well as become much more tuned into politics.
Javascript Zombie FPS Game
<sarcasm>
Pfft, GenericNoSQLDB has always been fast and totally mature and production ready, honest.
</sarcasm>
You're welcome! I clicked on this moments before it vanished from the front page. I don't see why people flagged this video as this is not about politics. It's about freedom.

Matt Damon summarises with a very short and compelling speech why the system is so deeply fucked up and how we can change it.

Spread the word.
The same people will flag again.
There are many historical examples on how to do effective taxation without looking at your transactions.

For example, a classic approach is simply to assign you a flat tax amount per year, and periodically visit you to check "how you're living" to reassess how much you'll have to pay.

It's generally worse than the current approach (less accurate, even more prone to corruption), but it works sufficiently well, and would work even in bitcoin-only world.
Apologies. I had received several emails referring to "my" comments on this board and was obviously upset. People were taking an inference we were the same person that I now see was not intended.

As to the rest, appreciate the comments and suggestions.
To be fair, a number of those are regularly and/or completely blocked in China, e.g. Google Drive[1] and encrypted.google.com[2] completely (if I'm reading those right) and gmail[3] often enough to be notable.

[1] https://zh.greatfire.org/https/drive.google.com

[2] https://zh.greatfire.org/encrypted.google.com

[3] https://zh.greatfire.org/https/mail.google.com
Read-only performance for unknown kind of query with unknown size of dataset using memory-cache plugin.

Hmmm… I don't see any meaningful information. Should I be impressed? Am I missing something?
Bitcoin surpasses PayPal, Discover and Western Union for daily dollar volume
http://coinometrics.com/bitcoin/btix
>Evidently he's been downvoted trying to point this out.

As he should have been, replying in all caps while being unable to comprehend what gamblor956 wrote. gamblor956 did not imply that he was the author of the article, rather the author of AN article on a related topic. Coming to hasty conclusions and calling out a friendly poster hardly speaks highly of the OP.

He should read more carefully in the future and not overreacted, I would be hesitant to trust such a personality, an attorney should know better.
The red fire truck russianed in a lot of Wolfram interest.
It's not the age, it's the marital status that affects the productivity the most.
http://cl.ly/image/0x331G1c2a2f
Also, Android in China is completely degoogleified. No Google accounts, no Play, no GMail...
I think I can safely claim that (with the right team) I can scale any database to match that rate. The real problem with scaling is that until you hit a limit, you don't generally know where the limit is ... and at the limit, you need the system to do something reasonable (in this case, I'd say drop read and/or write requests that couldn't be done consistently). I also wonder if you couldn't perform the same feat with only memcached (wink wink).

Systems that behave erratically when you hit a limit should be avoided, and I often wonder if people publish articles like this because they themselves are amazed it was possible. For a well-behaved system, there's no need for fanfare as you grow, but when you hit a limit you have to engineer a reasonable solution.

As an aside, it's pretty amazing (to some who's first computer had 2K of RAM) how big you can scale an individual server these days. The competition I'd like to see is when another team accomplishes the same feat but with half the memory, or half the number of cores or a result set that's twice as large - and then publishes how they've done it. A little friendly competition might result in some amazing discoveries.
1M QPS with MySql 5.7 (Memcached + InnoDB)
Brad Feld and Jim Collins Talk Leadership
Why the Swiss Scorn the Superrich
Two points:

- In math, an innovative "attack" (such as a technique to approach a problem) can result in years of subsequent research that progresses a field. Zhang deserves a lot of credit for his accomplishment!

- He shouldn't have had to work at subway. If only our society held intelligent people in the same regard as athletes. What we have right now (hoops to get tenure, publish or perish culture, etc.) is a joke. I review papers for some notable conferences in my subfield in CS. This week I read about a dozen papers. The ones that pained me the most were written by very smart people solving made up and artificial problems. But hey ... you need to publish this crap to graduate/get tenure/get next grant/whatever. How about a basic income for everybody with a PhD?
InnoDB API on top of memcached. Read-only. On the same “biggest HW box we have in the LAB” machine.

over 1,000,000 Query/sec

Cool. Carry on guys.
This abstract suggests that the bound may be lower:

http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/amsmtgs/2160_abstracts/1...

From http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm201...
Link: http://www.tripstamp.com
As far as I'm aware Google hasn't ever shot anyone in the head, which is a common occurrence in China. (China executes more people than all other nations combined. Real numbers are hard to find, but about 5,000 people in 2009 is accepted for a low end figure by most people. That's 13 per day, or one person every two hours.)

Comparing Google's surveillance to Chinese totalitarian state is obscene.
The lead developer on Elefant got poached by a high frequency trading shop in 2006. He was "discovered" showing his wares at pycon that year (vectorized operations faster than anything else out there).

Sigh.
that seems to be a great idea, google could also do Germans a favor by hosting "this video is not available in your country" mirrors, right?
Hmm, so that means that someone who solved the crypto problem (say, NSA) could simply take over [presumably] abandoned wallets, which would be nearly undetectable compared to other uses of such attacks, but could still have a huge impact on Bitcoin ecosystem simply due to the large mass of such wallets.
The translation of your link for Gmail says Gmail is (only) 9% blocked in China.