skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, any language with a well defined semantics, consistent syntax, understandable error messages, strong (preferably static) typing is a good choice to learn programming. Also, it's important that you don't need to introduce many concepts to do simple things, which is typically the case with C# or Java.

For instance, consider Hello World in C#:

public class Hello {
public static void Main() {
System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
}
}

you have either to explain several difficult concepts or tell the students that there are some magical things going there that they'll understand later. To me, it's not really satisfying. In the end, it will work, but with extra confusion and risk of losing some students along the way.

compare this with "hello world" in ocaml:
print_string "hello world"

I'd much prefer to teach programming to a newbie in ocaml, python or pascal, rather than C#, Java, C++ or C.
I have heard, 2nd handed (friend of my dad, if I recall correctly), of a well protected double bass that was pierced through on purpose. I believe it was a routine contraband check.

Maybe those incident are not very frequents. But when you multiply that by entire orchestra travelling overseas…
I got this: "Google finally has a huge security hole". Finally!
this actually sounds like a great idea is this only in the Army branch? can you give me some more examples I'm very interested.
I'm certain people do. It's called arbitrage.
This looks like a great tool -- thank you!
I use tethering a lot so this could be useful. I redeemed R4P3E47F49A7. Thanks!
In the US, most airlines charge for checked-in luggage in economy class. So passengers have reacted by taking carry-on luggage instead, leading to the long tedious loading times.

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, you typically get one bag checked in as part of your ticket. So there's no economic incentive to try and shove half your possessions into a small overhead compartment.

Then it gets sillier when they gate-check the luggage anyhow. To deal with the problems caused by not checking luggage "for free", they are ... checking a random selection of luggage at the gate. In a less efficient manner. In a way that slows boarding.

The most amazing part is that this situation has now totally inverted the order of boarding. It used to be that boarding last or near-last was a privilege. Who the hell wants to sit in a cramped plane for even longer? Now it's a curse.

Small changes can have surprising consequences.
Thank god that someone else feels the same. It's absolutely the worst thing I have seen in modern history.
The lag is too high. Rarely can you buy coins, get them transferred in to your wallet, transfer them in to the new exchange and sell them before the price has changed.

One of the biggest problems with Bit Coin is the delay. 5 minutes to move money between wallets is not uncommon. If you want to pay me, so I can pay the waitress we need 10 minutes.

Doing a check out at the grocery store that takes 5 minutes is not going to go over well with the masses.

Figuring out how to make the markets more fluid will likely be the biggest challenge for BTC, after is solves its issues with having huge swings in price such that everything in the grocery store would have to be retagged every hour to make pricing work. :-)
That's the wrong question to retort with. ASICs have no other use than to mine Bitcoins, unlike solar panels, etc, etc.

The answer is obviously to raise capital to so they can make more money faster.
Depends what your goals are. I haven't been in the military, but I know that it's nothing like the commercials. And I know that most soldiers are bored to tears and the most exiting part of their day is if they get something in the mail.
I threw together a little app that lets you vote for the funniest ones of these: http://headline-generator.herokuapp.com/

(I also really want to update it to also do Upworthy-style headlines. And maybe combine the two?)
The US Government has a simple way to find domestic buyers: Raise the yield.

I currently have to buy crappy BBB- munis to get anything close to a decent fixed income yield. If I could get 6.5% for a long bond, I'd be buying a bunch.

(YTM on 2043's 3.858% per Schwab today)
That's like the days of whitchhunts. You're a whitch if you can't prove otherwise.

You can't be guilty unless proven innocent. If you're going to claim bitcoin is at some kind of technical-limit, you have to show it. Otherwise, it's more reasonable to believe it's working as intended.
traveling, exercising and mostly computer related stuff.
Good luck with that if there are no-one in your "local" selling coins, just buying. That's my case.
Ask HN: do hacker engage in Black Friday?
Or you guys think that it's a big waste of time?
Is bargain hunting that important or is the opportunity cost of time not worth it?

I would really like to know how hackers think and prepare for holiday shopping season (some of you guys must buy presents; is it all done at amazon or you guys like other sites?)

thanks!
Users enable ads on their account I believe. If people are choosing to monetize their videos, thats going to happen more and more.
Those who make the claims are obligated to support it.
No, the parent comment is saying that this policy will have the unintended consequence of making passenger behavior more unpredictable by discouraging the mentally ill from seeking treatment.
How much is the minimum they set?
Because it comes without any implied warranty as per the Apache 2.0 license[1] they use. Though when they go and put it on the Android Market, that creates a gray area that was not an issue when it was confined to the Android Modding Forums.

Users installing it outside the market though as it was always installed have no more right to Cyanogen giving them a new device than Debian or the Linux Foundation would if you destroy your PC installing Debian Linux.

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_packages_apps_CMAccou...
> Rather than relying on confidence in a central authority, it depends instead on a distributed system of trust

Isn't it built on a distributed system of lack of trust? That is, after all, why it is distributed.
Joining the military will not solve your problems, especially since the Army might decide that it needs another grunt, not another coder.

If you get bored and distracted easily, you might have ADHD or another mild impairment, which for many people is treatable. Consider talking to a psychiatrist.
An ungovernable currency sounds like as bad a problem as a poorly governed currency.
IIRC that would all be CPU-based which is considered obsolete in the BTC mining world. GPU's are on their way out as well I think with ASIC's taking their place.
I used to walk through that place every time I went to Akihabara. It reminded me of something out of Neuromancer with the tiny stalls and bins of weird high-tech (and low-tech) components, with the Japanese merchants and the chatter of all the foreign visitors.

But I have to admit, despite walking through those cramped corridors dozens of times, I never did actually buy anything there. I still go to Akihabara when I need something right now, but 9 times out of 10 I just buy it at the colossal 8-story Yodobashi Camera on the other side of the station (erected several years ago).

So it's not too surprising they can't make that cool little electronic component shantytown mall work anymore.
Show HN: Chataroo - Chat with random people from around the world (ios app)
per Stallman:

The NSA tracks Americans' social networks, and Facebook is just one of its sources.

maybe so, but they don't seem to be doing it very effectively. If so, they would have been a. more closely following the the Boston Marathon bombers. b. would have been able to ID them from photos pulled from the surveillance tapes.

so while the NSA and their recent "efforts" are pretty scary and de jure or de facto illegal, it is the government, so how effective can they really be at keeping an eye on us?
That is what "not compatible" means.
But the difference in the BTC price between MtGox and Bitstamp has been staying at USD50+ for days at a time recently (right now its USD 130). What does a lag time of 10 mins have to do with it?
Show HN: PersonaVerified, Twitter verification
With nacl, you could. But I think you're talking about js, and yeah, you are right.
True, but it is still interesting that they have so controlled environment. We don't talk about things that are going on in Turkey, because Turkish government is supportive of western world. They get away with some interesting things.

(I'm here only temporarily 6 months, so it is different view point from people who live here)
Radix malorum est cupiditas. That is to say, greed (or in early English bibles, "the love of money") is the root of all evil.

Money is a medium of exchange, a proxy token for barter. The need to have more than others (whether wealth in its various guises or power) is the corrupting influence. Or so the Pardoners would have us believe.
https://adblockplus.org/

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809766

It would be a massive net increase in spending and it's not even remotely tenable without changing the tax structure specifically to claw the basic income itself back from most of the recipients.
Come to think of it, this is true of many causes. I recall the LGBT and atheism movements: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YxdM1WChHc (She says at some point that despite the infightings, radicals and moderates actually complement each other.)
He rattles off this complaint any time Cyanogen is brought up on HN (twice in this thread[1]). It gets a little trite after a while for him to keep dragging this complaint out when all one has to do is uncheck a box.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6812771
It seems reasonably likely to me that there would be clues left behind if we are in a simulation.
How is Lantern different from tor?
The topic of arbitrage comes up quite frequently in Bitcoin discussions; it's a good question and the answer is fairly straight forward. There aren't many choices for exchanges with a reasonable amount of transaction volume. Most people flock to these exchanges because they're well known, trusted, and you can trade large volume. The problem with these exchanges is their popularity - everyone using them means longer waits for transactions to be processed. In order to perform arbitrage effectively you need to be able to trade quickly. Any semi sane person will realize the risk in trading with 5 minutes lag, nevermind two weeks. The gain isn't worth the risk.
I'd love to hear thoughts on accuracy of our verification algorithm - all suggestions welcome!
That sounds odd. I've bought emergency medical insurance for UK visitors to Canada several times, as recently as this summer, and there have never been any medical questions whatsoever.
I too am in Brighton,! Don't have any cash at the moment, but I'm definitely interested in Bitcoin as a thing once I have some surplus money.
>If you get bored and distracted easily,

Also, he's 21? His concept of 'bored easily' may be 'after 6 hours coding I need a break', or 'I've got way too much energy for this artificial desk job'.

When I was his age I couldn't hold down a 8-hr day job so I found freelancing suited me, so I could exercise and get out when I needed. I definitely do not have ADHD.
> E.g. Rom managers such as this one.

That particular ROM Manager requires having root and an unlocked bootloader prior to use while the CM installer does not. That alone is a big difference, since it implies someone should be aware slightly of what they're doing if they have gotten past the unlocking/rooting stage.
Why limit yourself to printing out real laws?
This part is interesting.

> I attempted to withdraw the bitcoin balance into my own wallet, and hit the limit that Mt Gox has, preventing you from withdrawing more than $1000 USD worth of bitcoins (at the current market value) in a day.

What is the reason for all the limits and delays that exchanges impose on converting Bitcoin into USD? These appear to prevalent even today.

For example, MtGox says:

> - Withdraws lower than 100.00 EUR are on average take less than a week.

> - It takes at least a month on average for withdrawals larger than 10,000 EUR

> - Withdrawals greater than 50,000 EUR need to be split it into multiple transfers or you can use the International Wire payment method.*

Coinbase says:

> I assume you're talking about selling coins here though. It's 100 BTC a day, and that can be done on successive days - in this example it would take 5 days to withdraw 500 BTC. Hope that helps!

I guess the goal is to somehow prevent fraud. But (a) how do the delays and restrictions help? and (b) what is the long term prognosis here? Will these limits ever go away, and if so, what would have to change for this to happen?
I don't come from a CS background, but I have been programming professionally many years and recently got started with Scala. I had tried Go before and I like Go. I also really like Scala.

Scala requires much more work to learn than Go. I don't think I ever ventured out much from the offical Go documentation, the spec and effective Go and the library documentation to learn Go. With Scala I've already bought 3 books, and have bookmarked nearly 100 sites. I frequently have very many tabs opened with various scaladocs, examples and stackoverflow questions open.

My favorite thing in Scala is Akka. I quite like Akka and I like the functional programming that's possible with Scala. The build tools, like sbt require getting used to but I'm able to pretty much get along just fine without an IDE. I do have intellij open but I hardly look at it. I do all coding in vim and testing with sbt.

About 14 days in and I can connect to TCP and parse JSON ok. That's where I'm at. There have been some pretty frustrating moments, mostly dealing with 3rd party libraries (like scalaz, not documented much) and sbt, but once overcome it feels rewarding.

My other favorite things in scala: it has a REPL, s"String $interpolation" and pattern matching.
> Show HN: I am very real
Ditto. I lived in Tokyo for 2 very formative teenage years in the late 90's. Akihabara always felt like a bit of a wonderland, but not one where I actually spent many of my limited funds. I'm sad to hear that mall is closing, as the atmosphere was truly one of a kind.
Well I thought this was another crazy fan theory but those quotes actually make more sense in the context of government than talking about the matrix. The choice of words doesn't seem like a coincidence.
Shopify's CPO, delivers powerful keynote speech about hustle.
One reason not mentioned here is that its probably more attractive right now (with the upward price movement) to just buy and hold Bitcoin rather than take the arbitrage and cash out on another exchange.
Sad to hear, this was one of my favorite places in Akihabara. They have really good selection in tools and parts, I got some mini-XLR connectors and inductors. The first few guys I asked didn't have them, but they pointed me to the stall that did. They didn't speak English, so I wrote "18 uH" on my phone and they knew what I meant.

It's not like those parts would be hard to find online. But they had all that stuff in stock, in their tiny stalls.
Don't join the army, particularly if you're an American. They've caused enough issues in the world. The world would be a much better place if nobody joined the American army.
- Redesigning the country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night with Airbnb

That isn't too far off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2447580
Oh God please stop this. Autoproxy using encoded format[1] for a reason: Avoid getting Google Code or Github getting blocked.

Your plain text list will lead to total blocking of Github, All it takes is some random assholes to "report" Github to http://net.china.com.cn/ and oops, github IP will be inaccessible indefinitely.

Just find another way please!

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/autoproxy-gfwlist/source/browse/tr...
Two groups tried to reproduce Piantelli's "discovery" and couldn't.

I still blame the conspiracy morons.

If you can reproduce it, why not revolutionize energy market and make billions? Let's hear your made up reasons why you can't.
"MongoDB Gotchas and How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle"

This one is a gem.
I can almost see the fishy article about it
MuP21 – A High Performance MISC Processor (1995)
So when the user transferred 647 BTC, that basically came out of Mt.gox's "personal stash" which is then backed by BTC transfers from other people using the system?
Seriously? You realize how many apps on the market use Google Analytics or some other form of Analytics? Nearly all of them, including Google's Apps. Nearly all of them give absolutely no way to opt out either short of host blocking. However, CM gives you an option to under device settings.
All you have to do is keep some money in USD and BitCoin in reserve on all the exchanges. That way you can buy some BitCoin on one exchange and then sell the same amount on the other at the same time, and then transfer over at your convenience.
that was sad to watch
People got their freedom, but they had no idea what to do with it.

That's the truth right there. Vast majority of people already have more freedom than they know what to do with. Those people, if faced with a clear choice, would gladly trade some of that "freedom" for stability, security, and comfort in their lives.

If you remove a government from a society, it will quickly descend into chaos. Various armed forces will longer be held accountable for their actions. What do you think will happen?
Anyone with a gun can become a "government". Now instead of one government, you have a thousand. Eventually, power will consolidate, and you will end up with a single government, back where you started.

I feel a bit strange having to explain these obvious things, it's like I'm talking to a 10 year old.
Do you not realize that the societal order you're proposing has been tried many times since the beginning of civilization? It has never worked. Every time, some kind of power (official or unofficial) had emerged sooner or later (usually sooner), and eventually a some sort of a centralized government was formed. This happened every single time. If people could function without a government, surely we would have seen an example of that somewhere.
Lunlun Zou Guzheng Studio: First Hong Kong Business To Accept Bitcoin
It's EC2 IP, some other "unwanted" site is sharing the IP address.
I have a hunch that the 'Tso' is actually a corruption of 'sauce', meaning instead of being named for a military general, 'general' is the name of the sauce.
I noticed this recently as well. I had not seen any ads for a long time as I use AdBlock and AdBlockPlus for Chrome but they have started slipping through in the past few weeks.
I've found that YouTube ramps up ad volume as you increase your viewing. I can do a short session of a video or two (5minutes) without any. But if I increase that to long form content or longer session then ads seem to get center stage.
So here's what happens with empty. If you run it from the shell, first the shell will fork, then try to exec empty. But the exec fails, since empty doesn't begin with a magic value. Therefore the exec call returns an error. Now the shell picks up this error, and then tries to run the program again, this time as an argument to an invocation of the shell (i.e., it does an exec of /bin/bash, passing it "empty" as a parameter). This is why empty ends up taking longer to run.

This is the normal pattern, just in case you forget to put "#!/bin/bash" at the top of the script, so that the script can be run anyway. This is also a source of confusion for some sysadmins, when a script works from the command line but not from something like a cron script.
This is so naive. I'm from Wellington, NZ and live in Auckland. I can buy excellent chinese food without trying very hard in multiple locations.

Chinese migration isn't just limited to the USA...
Yes, you can do that. But you can only do that at the top level of your expression (ie outside the expression), not intra regular expression.
After having used adblock plus for like the last 2 years, I disabled it the other day and have been amazed at how terrible the Internet is without it.
You can access those music sites fine, it just shows "not available in your country". Adding music sites to the list is a good nice "side-effect" to use these service since most of proxy exits are US based.
I don't know why it did't happen sooner. I started pre-roll seeing ads on mobile as well, which I don't remember until recently.

I don't get why it's disgusting. This is how video creators and Google are supposed to get paid. It's annoying to me that people want free content, and they keep pushing companies to "get traction first, then monetize". This is what has to happen, or else Google has to keep subsidizing progressively larger bandwidth bills - and the people who are creating the content have to keep their day jobs.
Nice of you to release the code.

Cheers !
Having worked at a company that sold software to governments (Armies and TLA's) I heard stories of rampant piracy occurring in the most secret of places. Though there isn't really a way to fix that since the computers aren't connected to the Internet, and you can't physically get into those sites being a software vendor. So there's no way to check that they are adhering to the licensing terms.
I still find it creepy and unhealthy for security as a whole.

If a backdoor is planted on a system for monitoring purposes for example then it is a potential security flaw which could be exploited by anyone, not just the deeply caring and forever protective authorities. Am I wrong?
Yeah, it's the best so far.
Given the current exchange rate, those 600 BTC would still net him $628,932.00. That seems like a pretty good deal.
Granted, it could have been nearly $260 million, but I guess one can never have it all.
so I have free electricity, can a machine built from commodity hardware for under $1000 USD be able to make one bitcoin a month?
I'm not US-based, but the best bet is to talk to your local Army recruitment office.
You may not gain anything correcting your sixth grade teacher, but by not correcting her, something can be lost. A world where teachers can spout bullshit without any opposition is not one I want to live in. And given we only have one world...

Perhaps it was irrelevant in your case. Or perhaps your skepticism inspired a fellow student to become an engineer. Who knows?
Yep, boss will turn right around and "do" paying your salary
C:\TAD\Text\HUCKFINN.TXT

"

When she said that I see I was out of the woods again, and so I was
comfortable and glad. Next, she says:

"Do you go to church, too?"

"Yes--regular."

"Where do you set?"

"Why, in our pew."

"WHOSE pew?"

"Why, OURN--your Uncle Harvey's."

"His'n? What does HE want with a pew?"

"Wants it to set in. What did you RECKON he wanted with it?"

"Why, I thought he'd be in the pulpit."

Rot him, I forgot he was a preacher. I see I was up a stump again, so I
played another chicken
At $1,000 a coin and 2.5% on each service (which would be cheap) you'd have 5% total. That's $50 in fees.

At $130 it would be a good deal, but not at $50