skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're right, it can be used to prove that a contract with both signatures existed before a date, not after. So if Alice makes an agreement with Bob, Alice can't turn around and say that the contract was only ratified after Alice failed to meet certain obligations.

Then again, digital signatures come with a timestamp, Alice could lie about that timestamp, but it would be obvious to Bob that she did.

Fun to think about.
It's still possible to trick the browser of a user on the inside to HTTP POST a form invisibly to 192.168.1.1, by javascript hosted on an external web page.
> That's cargo cult programming. Using "class" doesn't make your code OO.

I shall proceed apace now to call

var x = 5;
(function() { return x + 2; })();

a glarfblork instead of a lambda, then, if semantics of naming should just be pitched out a window.
This API is for interacting with Gmail's user interface more so than for interacting with its back-end data.
Do you have an actual diagnosis or do you just think it is sciatica?

Describe your symptoms in more detail.
"A new beginning." And a web site and video that look exactly like every iOS and Android device ever made. For HN readers, there's some geek cred here, but as a consumer product, they need some marketing help.
Right vs left. Somehow its all politics and its not on his side and therefore doomed to fail. Maybe its neither and the other is an ideologue and imbecile.
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So you're a conspiracy theorist.
Do you really need to wait for users to generate your content? I'd suggest that's the scenario most likely to fail (that is, waiting for users to generate content dramatically increases the odds of failure).

You might already be actively doing this, but if not.... Spin-up the flywheel by generating as much content through faking users as you can stand to. Simulate real users (you fake the user names, the contribution time stamps, the upvotes / downvotes, and anything else necessary for your particular community). The more quality activity on your site, the greater the odds you'll get that critical initial traction. It doesn't matter if it's real or fake, so long as real users can't tell the difference.

You could also consider paying users for activity, depending on exactly what you need. The Amazon web services mechanical turk premise.

http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/

I don't know how difficult it is to generate user content for your site, granted.

Look up how Reddit used this concept to fake-it until they made it. It's also a commonly used tactic on new dating sites. There's nothing worse than a site lacking in activity, do whatever it takes to avoid that. Users will suffer a lot of things, such as bad design, long before they'll hang around somewhere that isn't humming.
The example in Graeber's book was the government pays soldiers in some currency it invents, and then taxes the non soldiers in the economy the same amount. The soldiers need to eat (which is important as they might otherwise just give the coins to the civilians). So the transaction of food for money makes sense, and the civilians can pay their taxes and the soldiers can eat, and the arbitrary currency has a measurable value.
Fitness trackers still need to work out kinks
yeah that's what I'm curious about. For example if we went to Electronic Medical Records i'm not sure the companies could just dig stats from that. But I guess what's alarming in the case of 23andMe is that they've taken the tactic of ignoring FDA. If a company goes rogue and takes "corp vs. the gov" attitude they are probably gearing up to push some limits that their consumers may not be prepared for and which may not technically be legal "yet" (while they try to lobby to change laws).
I read a great comment at a local forum earlier along the lines of: No one wants bitcoin, everyone wants ... to exchange their bitcoins for as many dollars as possible.
>Actually, you can in Python

You are right (apart from combining characters as masklinn explained), but as I said, that's only possible if an array of 32 bit ints is used to hold string data or if it can be guaranteed that there are no characters from outside ASCII or BMP. If I understand PEP 393 correctly, what Python 3.3 does is to use 32 bit ints to hold the entire string if even one such code point occurs. So if you load a (possibly large) text file into a string and one such code point exists then the file's size is going to quadruple in memory. All of that is done just to implement one very rare operation efficiently.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/#new-api
I am SO sick of spending more time configuring the CMS than writing code.

Oftentimes, I could've built a product from scratch in the time it takes me to Google the undocumented quirks of some stupid YAML file.
The argument boils down to:

1. Money has always been controlled by governments,

2. So money always will be controlled by governments.

3. Bitcoin is identical to money, but

4. Bitcoin cannot be controlled by governments,

5. Therefore bitcoin is doomed to fail (no date specified).

I'm not sure any of the premises are beyond scrutiny, or that the conclusion is even meaningful.

Anyone can say that nothing lasts forever. Let us know when someone predicts that bitcoin won't last out the year.
> This is the crux of the entire argument to me. The spirit of the second amendment is to allow the citizenry to violently overthrow the federal government if they become too powerful, as a last-resort measure.

That's actually not the case. Militia meant "every able bodied white male and sometimes freed blacks" (a more expansive definition than eligible voters -- as there were still property qualifications for voting), who are meant to be armed with common civilian firearms they would purchase themselves. They could be asked to show up at a "muster" by the government, but the second amendment explicitly protected the individual right of militia members originally from federal government (later on, via 14th amendment, this was extended to the states as well as well as to anyone who is not a felon, mentally ill, etc...).

It certainly recognized the right to use these firearms for hunting and self-defense. The common musket at the time -- The Brown Bess -- was smooth bore with a 0.75" caliber and a bead sight, i.e., a 12 gauge shotgun. It could be loaded with buck shoot, with a musket ball, or (as very common) "buck and ball". So it served both the purposes of militia service weapon, for hunting many kinds of game (which wasn't a luxury, but often a necessity), and self-defence (against both humans and wild animals).

Ancestors of modern hand grenades ("bombs"), artillery, and so on all existed at the time -- but were not commonly owned by civilians.

Rather than try my hand at constitutional scholarship, I'll go by the legal theory behind the Heller decision for this. More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/22/justice-sca...

Honestly, I'll go on record and say that this is good: violent overthrow of the government worked well for the American colonists precisely because they were colonists. The Monarchist loyalists could simply leave, whereas in France, they could only do so sans the head. The stakes were much smaller, so the American revolution (or really "the first American civil war") did not lead to the horrible outcomes other violent revolutions have almost exclusively lead to. Today, the results would be far far worse -- rather than a blossoming of civil liberties, it would mean revolutionary terror, followed by an even longer period of counter-revolutionary terror. If this happens, I'll definitely want to be armed, however -- to defend myself and my family from any of the factions involved in either the revolution or the counter-revolution as I make my way to the nearest port of entry of a peaceful country.

Private armies (those reading the "militia" to mean militia groups as opposed to what it actually means) are an even scarier idea. Not to Godwin this, but it reminds me of Freikorps, SA, as well as KPD/SPD armed groups, and other (sometimes state sponsored, sometimes not) street thugs of Weimar Germany.
>Javascript fanboys should not be praising asm.js, because it's a way to route around them.

Depends on what kind of JavaScript fanboy you are. If you love the language and want applications to be written, from the ground up, in JS, asm.js is not your friend. If you want to build applications that run on pretty much every platform + kitchen sink, this is for you.
"The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant."

You need to read the whole column to get the joke[1]. I like to imagine that fully Libre Gnu/Linux would be Jain, and Android would be Baptist.

Eco's routine journalism can be really funny.

[1] http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_mac_vs_pc.html
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There's big money and fame in high-profile work, and that can be very attractive... but stories like this, and the frequency with which they occur, are important to pay attention to. You can do everything right, you can make everyone happy, you can meet every demand, and you still stand a very real chance of getting absolutely shafted.

I've experienced enough of this with much less prolific projects that I happily keep pretty much everything small time now. Chasing billboards and marquees is almost always a game for lucky people and the already-rich.
1. You don't need a PaaS. Who said you do? That's rubbish.
2. Heroku does not treat PHP as a first-class citizen.

You can set up a Digital Ocean VM for $5/month. I'm hosting my small apps on it and performance has been worth more than $5/month, IMO.

One of my apps is www.puphpet.com - you can configure your server via my GUI and launch a new DO instance fairly easily.
> The right theory for a basic income should be that all people deserve a stake in the accumulated knowledge and technology of mankind, just as they deserve equal stake in the land and other natural resources.

What is their contribution to knowledge and technology, so that they "deserve" a stake? What you're saying is that they deserve something for nothing.
Spike contracted the agency, (or so it seems from a forwarded email) and he has the most control over the agency. I think by not publicly mentioning the agency's name, this gentlemen is demonstrating his desire to resolve this situation amicably and with integrity.
Stop building things within the US, it's patent system is broken.
I don't understand the potential..
We don't know any of those things. That's why it would be higher risk to start mining it. The rewards might be huge or they might be nil.
Right that is true. I guess showing the official posters as a cheap sympathy ploy rubbed me the wrong way.
I don't put all of my money into BitCoin right now for the same reason I don't put it into any other promising investment. The simple answer is that I don't know everything and something could come out of left field tomorrow and demolish BitCoin's value. A bug in the software, more overbearing government regulation, some government in the world (not the US, I don't think) banning BitCoin, etc.... I'm betting that this won't happen which is why I have as much as I do in BitCoin right now.
SMTP? Never heard of it. This library is more for developing chrome extensions that take advantage of gmail's DOM and UI state
Couldn't RICO be used in such cases? It is racketeering at best if this is worded like that.
I think it's prudent given that while the agency apparently lowballed him, it's not clear whether the agency or Spike Lee's production company (40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks, appearing on the posters in question on his Facebook page) are the party actually responsible for the theft/misappropriation.
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We are living in the world of connections. You may have extremely low IQ and live off the streets, but if you know right/powerful people then you are very "rich" to other people.

Its one thing to be able to talk and convince Ellison, Gates, Musk, or Zuckerberg to invest in your company; its another thing to sleep with one.
If it's easy to buy subprime mortgages with cash does that imply it's just as easy to sell said subprime mortgages for cash? Substitute any illiquid asset(relative to U.S. dollars) if you wish and the statement holds true.
AFAIK Gmail's implementation of IMAP is kind of borked and stuff like the "smart" categorization (e.g. social networks, notifications, etc) doesn't reflect into imap folders (or RSS their RSS feeds, for that matter). Labels do, though, with a workaround.
I've not read the code, so someone may have to correct me, but I think this is the gist of it:

Ruby 2.1 introduces a generational garbage collector, this divides all objects into young and old generations. A regular GC run will only look at the young generation, with the old being collected less frequently. An object is promoted to the old generation when it survives a young generation run.

If you have objects in the old generation referring objects in the young generation, but you're only looking at the young generation it may seem like an object doesn't have any references, and you might incorrectly GC an in-use object. Write barriers prevent this by adding old generation objects to a 'remember set' when they are modified to refer to a young generation object (eg old_array.push(young_string)). This 'remember set' is then taken in to account when collecting the young generation.

Most generational garbage collectors need these write barriers on all objects, but with the many 3rd party C extensions available for Ruby this isn't possible, so a workaround was devised whereby objects that aren't write barrier protected won't ever be promoted to the old generation. This isn't ideal as you won't get the full benefit of the generational GC, but it does maximise backwards compatibility.
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Great, let me know if you have any questions. There's a lot of content and it can be a bit overwhelming. These episodes in particular are probably the best place to start off, given what you're looking for:

* Large-Scale JavaScript Fundamentals. Summary of front-end workflow fundamentals. Check out the build script included in the example source code, too. http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/episodes/lessons_learne...

* Front-End Unit Testing in a Nutshell. A summary of several strategies for testing browser DOM code. http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/episodes/lessons_learne...
Not answer you directly, but this should concern you as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550198
I think the asymmetry revolves around the ease/difficulty in getting USD in and out of an exchange like mtgox. You can take physical paper money to the bank and transfer to an exchange, no problem. You can buy BTC at the exchange, no problem. You can sell your BTC at the exchange, no problem. You can transfer USD from the exchange to your bank and withdraw physical paper money, maybe a problem. Perhaps a slight delay.
There is no balanced ledger - Bitcoins can be spun into existence through mining, i.e. without the transfer of hard currency.
As far as I remember, that ad campaign backfired pretty hard when Microsoft released it's own "I'm a PC" ad.

IMHO that was the best ad Microsoft ever made. It was an obvious counter to the stereotype, but it made Apple users look like snobs, and Apple shut down its own campaign shortly after that ad.

As for the "scroogled", I think it mostly makes the impression that Microsoft is scared. I'm not sure if this campaign actually keeps more people from buying chromebooks than it does inform people that Google makes laptops.
This may be the weak point of these crypto-currencies. The proponents market them as scarce commodity but in reality you can just think today of another scheme like that.

So why is it booming? It is booming because it is booming. It's a positive loop that will end when the new comers stop coming.
I would pay money to watch it.
Not all good music is made in Ableton or on MPCs. Not all intelligent music is played on a Monome.
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This means that the market is not liquid and the value is not real.
I wonder if these concepts could be used to change the way land records are maintained and eliminate the need for title insurance [1] in the U.S. I am no expert but the current system doesn't seemed to have changed much in the past century or so. This results in a lucrative business (title insurance) that effectively insures against book keeping mistakes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_insurance
> Why does this concern you?
To me, that sounds like hearing someone saying "I'm genuinely concerned that people will start giving their kids strange-sounding names." Sure, it's a bit odd, but so what... it's not affecting you.

It concerns all taxpayers, since they're the ones paying the bill for basic income.
Assume you are a woman or older than 40. Can you know wherher you have been discrimined, say, when applying for a job? It is illegal... But it is quite likely unnoticeable as well.
Don't forget that in Kindle I can click in a word and see the dictionary definition. I also can search for it in Wikipedia.
Hmm, I don't think "I have for a while thought" is past tense. I'm going with 'present perfect.'
Just curious, how did you create the screenshot images?

nice work btw
Maybe it's very vulnerable to competition, predators etc.
"After suggesting earlier this week that a link existed between the creators of Silk Road and Bitcoin"

Wait, what? They didn't suggest a link between "the creators of the Silk" Road and "Bitcoin" but with "the creators of the Silk road" and "the creators of Bitcoin"

I see more journalists trying to jump on the Bitcoin train but oh boy...they fail miserably. It's scary when you think this might be the case with all other topics, not just bitcoin.
Some people actually enjoy pain...
if making a mild semantic error regarding the universe whose fundamental premises i believe are flawed makes me a troll, troll i am

ad hominem is bad enough dont bring in semantics please. in bitcoin there are 3 types of people -- hypemongerSpeculators, techDesigners, nonBelievers. The hypemongers call all the nonbelievers trolls, the trolls talk trash to the hypemongers for blindly defending a greedpile, and the techDesigners (who are supposedly the enlightened HN readers) generally don't care.

The only reason I even bring these arguments here is cuz all the HN headlines are hypemonger trash. I'm readying myself to accept this model of Bitcoin forums and move on, lol
orbit. gravity is canceled out by orbital velocity, as far as distance-from-sun is concerned. it costs Mars nothing to stay in orbit, and to go down to a -100m/s orbit or up to a +100m/s orbit costs the same amount of energy: (mass of mars) * (100m/s velocity change)

if Mars and the Earth were not orbiting, I would completely agree. drop something from Mars and it'll land on Earth, and the reverse is not true. but they're not - drop something on Mars and it's just in Mars' orbit.
That doesn't account for an imbalance in the number of potential buyers and sellers. It's very easy to buy a house for $100 million. Go to your real estate agent and say "Here's a $100 million. Buy me a house." It is, however, considerably harder to sell a house for $100 million.
is this guy you're referring to something of a celebrity?
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Jekyll is a static website generator. It doesn't let you edit and publish content from a central interface. It's not a CMS.
The Firefox OS phone (Zte Open) has proprietary stuff.
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We are talking about laws here, right? Not like say single events where the gov't did something unconstitutional (not that these are ok, but we are talking about a ban on using bitcoins as a currency, which would have to be a law). So which law do you think currently undeniably violates the constitution?
Sure, that was an awkward transition, but you gave up too early. One paragraph later justifies this:

"What the search engine is to Google, the Personal Genome Service is to 23andMe. The company is not exactly hiding its ambitions. “The long game here is not to make money selling kits, although the kits are essential to get the base level data,” Patrick Chung, a 23andMe board member, told FastCompany last month. “Once you have the data, [the company] does actually become the Google of personalized health care.”
You won't randomly land in a room with anyone else, so here's a specific exaple URL: https://dropth.at/#Or67N1ta7MKRy1LSk-cTkg
You didn't if you downloaded it without paying, which is why it is illegal.

So it's illegal to violate an agreement you didn't enter in? That makes no sense, sugar.

Let's test that: to read this post, you must agree to pay me 5BTC. Have you now committed an illegality? I guess not.

Also you are undermining your own argument here if you support the OP's original "agreement" but not copyright to music / movies, when he explicitly states in the post

He states that they had to written, explicit contact. Care to read my post again?

So he should expect to be paid for his work or it be protected, but musicians shouldn't?

Sure they should, by whoever has an (explicit or implicit) agreement to pay them. Thankfully I haven't, but I still like to reward them when I can for all the joy they brought me.
Thanks James! Your library was the inspiration for the observer methods. I agree with the maintenance part but I think having this out there will help reduce duplicating efforts.
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> I think that might partly explain the advertising, they seem to be modelling themselves on that Central/Northern European, Berlin counter-culture, Girl-with-a-Dragon-Tattoo, techy-savvy hacker kind of thing.

What the heck is that?