skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have addressed a point on which you're mistaken, but it could still be that bitcoin proves cheaper.

My concern about bitcoin winding up more expensive is that it's a bit of a red queen's race. Unlike most applications of encryption, attackers and defenders are on even footing (except, like in most human spheres, in that defenders hopefully outnumber any coordinated group of attackers). This means that whatever latest best tech we have for efficiently turning power into hashes, we've still got to burn about the same amount of power to keep things secure (and continually update to the next newest tech). In other spheres, technological process makes doing the same work cheaper - but in bitcoin it stays the same; you've got to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.

It may well still be worthwhile, though.
I think we have to take the referenced article with a grain of salt. If I read it correctly, there is nary a mention of the flagging function. So, to put it bluntly:

Correlation does not equal causation

NSA articles may be more often penalized...but they are likely more often to be flagged. It's not that people here are defending the NSA or anything, it's that people have often said that they are tired of reading NSA all the time. And so, their reaction may be to flag those stories, giving them a penalty.

The referenced article does not really account for that, AFAIK
Didn't see your comment before I posted below, this is on GH too https://github.com/MohawkApps/Hacker-Bar
Julia does support vectorization just like MATLAB, but I think what you may be referring to are some of the speed traps that currently exists where undesireable/unnecessary copies occur. This is often in practice the reason that writing devectorized code is better in Julia right now.

But, this issue is well-identified in the Julia dev community, and is on the roadmap for 0.3: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4853
RevolutionOS (Linux story) [video]
Justin Bieber: 594,757 views in the last month.

Origin of birds: 8,506 in the last month.

Ogden L. Mills (secretary of the US Treasury under Herbert Hoover): 399 views in the last month.

What is in the public interest is not the same as what the public show an interest in. Page views won't necessarily help you filter Wikipedia...
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Durable? When you lose your passphrase or wallet hash all the bitcoins in it are lost.. forever..
With gold there is hope that at some point in time someone will find it and be able to use it.
Considering how they interrogated Miranda, hardly surprising.
I personally (for home use) held off buying drives for two years, found out I did not really need so much space and discovered SSDs would do the trick.
I'm an introvert, and I also learned to be more outgoing. I love talking with people, going out, etc., but then I need lots of "alone time" between those kinds of activities. I'm still an introvert.
Not trying to bash on PHP or perpetuate the knee-jerk PHP hate, but should we really encourage people to learn PHP?

Imagine the effects if the mainstream web development focus would shift from PHP to some more thought-through language(+framework?). The PHP-development community produces some really great things, imagine all that effort expressed through better and more efficient tools!
> Thank you for your feedback but it is my understanding that the nearest nodes will generally be the ones with the least latency

The latency you mention is actually [my latency to relay node] + [relay node latency to blockchain.info]. I have 20 ms to node A and it has 100 ms to blockchain.info for a total latency of 120 ms. I have 100 ms to node B and it has 10 ms to blockchain.info for a total latency of 110 ms. Node B will most likely relay my transaction to blockchain.info before node A, even if it's five times “farther” from me (100 ms) than node A (20 ms). The combination of latencies makes the relaying IP reported by blockchain.info semi-random.

I don't mean to bring you down or criticize. This is a really cool visualization! It simply visualizes different thing that most people think it does.
does this mean that docker will run on 32 bit systems ?
Does anyone know if it is possible to set a disk quota on a container?
Basic income does not increase the money supply, which would bring about inflation. There may be an increase in the general cost of living for many, but that's not inflation, and it wouldn't absorb the entirety of one's basic income.
Terry A. Davis
I've changed the price to $1.99 if you quit the App Store app and reload it, the price will be $1.99!
How much profit do the world's top companies earn per second?
Last we published an infogram that hit the homepage of hacker news and attracted 120,000+ visits. The overriding feedback was "we want profit, revenue is meaningless". So here is the updated infogram to show profit.
I couldn't agree more. Security and freedom are inversely proportional. I was upset when the start of the second paragraph to this piece stated that the most important thing for the government to do is protect people from terrorists. I couldn't disagree with that more, safety is never a given and freedom and resiliency in the face of adversity and setbacks should be our goal, not a nanny state.
Annoying typo in the submission's title, it would be awesome if someone could fix that.

It's just s/distrubtions/distributions/, obviously.
How about we just stop categorising people.
With bitcoin very few still control most of it. And they use force... asic brute force :)
Postal mail is historically treated as a special case because it's a government agency. Cars on the street are still your property, even when you're not in it, just as your house is still your property even when you're on vacation.

Wiretaps and documents hosted on the "cloud" are somewhere in-between. The first time the Supreme Court considered the Constitutionality of warrantless wire taps, it found that they were not protected by the 4th amendment. In the 1960's they overturned that precedent, but using reasoning that really only makes sense in an analog context where your voice directly modulates signals on a wire, and there is no intermediate storage.

Call records are further removed still. They're not a recording of your voice. They are generated by the telco, for the telco's own purposes. They are never in your possession, and you don't even know their contents. It's a huge stretch to say that they are nonetheless "your" papers.

Finally, microphones and cameras in public are clearly Constitutional. Whether they can be abused is irrelevant. The 4th amendment is not a prohibition on anything that can be abused. It's a prohibition designed to protect peoples' physical persons and their property rights from government searches.
> Indeed, the focus is clearly on personal things (house, person), not things possessed by third parties.

You need to understand the context. People did not store information about their private communications with third parties in 1776. Can you call AT&T and ask for someone else's records and get them? Why not? Things you wish to stay private do stay private unless a warrant is issued citing probable cause to violate your privacy.
Must be frustrating! Octave provides a valuable service to the community.
Cool. Jetbrains ran their big discount less than a year ago, so I'm still able to upgrade for free.
I don't particularly believe the rape story, but I also don't believe the NSA had anything to do with it, though I'm sure they greatly enjoyed the fallout.

Ardin described a method for revenge against an ex on her blog prior to the Assange case that was very similar to the events in questions. It seems quite possible to me that the two women both were angry after finding out he had sex with both of them, and decided to teach him a lesson, and that it went too far.

Especially given that one of the women have categorically refused to sign the police interview report and refused to have anything further to do with the police after she learned the police was pursuing a rape investigation, and that neither woman alleged rape when they approached the police. Exactly as Ardin had previously described on her blog, they "just" described events to the police that were sufficiently ambiguous to get the police to start an investigation. An investigation that was closed until a prosecutor with a long time political agenda of massively tightening Swedish rape laws got hold of it.

Couple that with Assange acting like quite the asshole and being paranoid about the US, and it was all set for plenty of drama.
> there was a lot of turnover in the London office

That's a huge red flag imho. I don't think your experience speaks against remote work in particular: it's a just a communications problem between teams / departments, and that's very common in most companies.
I'm assuming you meant "At its core, PHP is just a template language." That's a ridiculous, extremely over-generalized assertion.

I don't know of many "template languages" that treat classes as first-class citizens, has an in-depth, thorough unit testing framework, traits, closures, and and and.

I'm sure you get my idea? PHP may have been much simpler at its inception - it is not the same beast now.
This. PMQs are basically a political dick-waving contest/circle jerk (depending on who is asking the question).
Monarchy is technically extremism in it's extreme nature of power concentration. It doesn't matter what excuses are made about how little power that parasitic single family has, the aristocratic system of inherited power and privilege still exists and is extreme. Let's see if anything advocating that system is blocked.

UK....achem it's even in your name,... king----dom!
I see docker come around every now and then here. I'm a smalltime developer shop, small team, small webspps. What can docker do for me?

Can this reduce the time it takes me to put up and Ubuntu installation on Digital Ocean?

Is this more for larger companies ?
I saw this before deciding to build my own... it's just a webview and is a lot slower than mine. My app is completely native with no webviews whatsoever. So faster and less memory intensive :)
Gotcha. I see people are trying to use numpy for CPU intense computations (eg. FFT back and forth), and then they ask why it SO slow?!..
Surveillance is a tool for oligarchs to control their citizens. The terrorist threat is theatric misdirection.
PHP is probably the language with the best return on investment (of time spent learning) currently. It is extremely easy, and is fast to prototype stuff because of the high level nature. While the language is not as expressive as other languages such as Ruby or Python, it is easy to move on later, but PHP provides everything to get things done and deploy easily your simple application in minimal time.

A lot of good programmers today started their web experiences with PHP. Now probably they are using the latest cool thing, but it served as the "BASIC" of our times, and is still active and trying to fix its issues.

Also, and this is not a PHP merit, but a disaster with other dynamic languages such as Ruby, the performance you get by default with a simple PHP application, is good enough that is almost always the DB to blame, not the front-end, when there are issues under load.
Aaron Swartz
Edward Snowden
you know what he should be charged with? rape. because he raped two women.

That's really an issue for a court with the proper jurisdiction to decide after charges via the justice system, not you, me or anyone else here based on the limited evidence we have available in the public domain. Smearing either side on the basis of hearsay is not real justice for anyone involved.

It also has nothing to do with any charges related to wikileaks.
:+1: for writing it in RubyMotion
I say you raped me. Would you gladly come to my country to "answer questions"? If you don't, I will say you are a "conspiracy theorist" (whatever that means).
I think the real news here is stuff like this:

According to figures collected by Joel Kotkin, the dotcom crash wiped out 70,000 jobs in the valley in a little over a single year, and since then the tech industry has added only 30,000 new ones, leaving the bay region with a net 40,000 fewer jobs than existed in 2001.
Well, I'm glad Satoshi got right to the point. So many defenders come up with these roundabout counterarguments. "There's value in the system" "As I understand, its intrinsic value come from being so easy to spend across the world"

The bottom line is, there is a belief that there can be a currency bootstrapped into an exchange rate, with no compelling reason to have it other than to pass it on to the next. It's a hard one to argue either way, but I'm still holding out in camp "no".

Here's a simple engineering analogy since I'm among engineers. In both cases, valuation is based on some sort of subjective valuation (advocates love to point this one out, which is why I don't use the phase "intrinsic value" anymore, they're right that there's really no such thing). In both cases, prices can swing wildly. This is because there is a positive feedback loop constantly pushing prices in either direction, from people subjectively reacting to previous prices and wanting to follow suit. However the consumable commodity has an additional negative feedback loop, from people always ready to buy if prices get low enough, without regard to future expected prices, because they just want a pretty ring.
One thing this article misses completely, as do many other arguments on the subject and even many posts here, is that introverts do not simply dislike or wish to reduce all social activity. The kind of social activity matters greatly. Introverted people tend to prefer spending time with one other person or in small groups, whereas extroverted people prefer larger gatherings.
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This seems to be the same person. The seller in the app store is "Mohawk Apps, LLC" and the GitHub account is for "MohawkApps." I only point this out because there was an indignant reply here expressing outrage that someone stole an open source project and published it to the app store (that reply was deleted).
We implemented a "serious" version of simplex algorithm for linear programming (sparse-matrix / sparse-vector operations that can't be handled by standard libs), and we got performance no worse than half of the equivalent code in C++ with bounds checking, slides here: http://www.mit.edu/~mlubin/informs2013.pdf
Killing the free internet will not stop extremists, it will just obstruct tech innovation and cost the UK economy, in terms of job opportunities and wealth creation.
I want to vote for Elon Musk too, but Edward Snowden is too important. Also, why are there no women listed? Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer made lots of news this year.
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The government should just provide software for filtering. Not shit registry that keeps track of who has the filter on or off with the ISP.

This is the first step.
Flickr now allows creating printed photo books
Interested in that too.
So, I assume that if you aren't using AUFS then you don't have to deal with potentially bumping up against the 42 layer limit? Or does this update also address the issue with AUFS?
It was some very specific sort of rape, but only in Sweden. In any other country it wouldn't be rape or anything else.
That computer that you're using most likely has some gold in it.
What about people working with legacy code? When I started at my current employer there was a quite a chunk of code written in PHP so learning some PHP wasn't optional.
Emotion Regulation Predicts Marital Satisfaction: More Than a Wives' Tale.
Not yet, but that's coming very soon. We've been artificially limiting the number of architectures supported to limit the headache of managing cross-arch container images. We're reaching the point where that will no longer be a problem - meanwhile the Docker on Raspberry Pi community is growing restless and we want to make them happy :)
Another nutty Bitcoin article, equal parts nonsense and hype. Don't forget that ownership of gold can be transferred digitally just like ownership of Bitcoins. A real investor would know that already. Plus it's a false dichotomy to claim that because Bitcoin becomes valuable gold must become valueless. Both can have value. Finally, Bitcoin is subject to substitution replacement (by altcoins) or technological obsolescence (by someone inventing a better coin), but gold just isn't, since it is one of the fundamental chemicals of the universe.
“MongoDB is dead. Long live Postgresql”
Same here. I bought my last 2 TB for $80 shortly before the crisis, and was able to scrape by at 90% capacity until 4 TB drives became cheap enough.
Nobody is blocking legitimate medicine. It is just asked that you prove that it is legitimate medicine before you are allowed to sell it as medicine. That way consumers don't go into a store, find 30 "cures" 3 of which have actual evidence that they work. They might harm themselves by taking the treatment that doesn't work, thus delaying access to the evidence based treatment.

> Just like 99% of rational people, who are able to judge for themselves that homeopathy is nonsense

Rational people fall for pseudo science too, especially if it has a good salesperson behind it. Most people believe what others tell them without questioning. Very few look at the world skeptically. We need to blame the scam artist not the victim.
Here is what you can do: grow milkweed. I do and it seems like my milkweed patch is the only one for miles. I had some monarchs coming in this summer to lay eggs looking so beat up like they flew nonstop from Canada to find my patch. I also had insane population explosion this year as butterflies overlaid eggs and caterpillars ate all plants I had. I tried to add more but could not keep up, milkweed grows very slowly and once they ate all leaves, it takes months to regrow.

tl;dr : please grow milkweed
Virgin Galactic to accept Bitcoin for space flights
That reply was by me, and deleted maybe 30 seconds later after I realized my mistake. Also, I wouldn't have considered it as indignant as it was inquisitive.
> People did not store information about their private communications with third parties in 1776.

People stored all sorts of private information with third parties in 1776. They had accountants and bookkeepers and suppliers and vendors, etc.

> Can you call AT&T and ask for someone else's records and get them?

Can you call up Ernst and Young and ask for someone else's accounting records? No, but the government can.

The test isn't "things you wish to stay private." It's "reasonable expectation of privacy." It's an objective test, not a subjective one. And I find it very difficult to understand how anyone could have a "reasonable expectation" of privacy in information generated by a third party for its own use, that's exposed to god knows how many engineers and system administrators.
Unfortunately not. I just enjoy watching technology eclipse another aspect of society.
There is the Tarek Mehanna case. Apparently you don't have to leave your bedroom, or even send a check, to be a terrorist.

That's another great win for Carmen Ortiz, by the way.
An animation of what? It would be much more difficult and take way more space for a flip book, and it doesn't contain much more information than a few pictures, let alone a book full of pictures.
Public opinion polls are split on Edward Snowden.
Our first priority is to keep Americans safe from the threat of terrorism.

It's like a feller can't even write a serious editorial in support of American liberty without kowtowing to irrational fear-mongering anymore.

The battle to keep us jumping at shadows has been won so conclusively that no one even bothers to stand up and say anything like:

You are safe. Your family is safe. You are safer now than you would have been at nearly any other time in American history. Your children will probably view these years of The Terrorist Menace in much the same way we view McCarthyism and the excesses of J. Edgar Hoover - a humiliating betrayal of everything that was supposed to make America different from the rest of the world.

There is nothing patriotic about being afraid all the time.

But that won't sell, and the Senators who wrote this know it. I don't fault their judgement, but it makes me really sad.
I looked at it several times but never really got it. Can I use Docker to isolate different servers (think http, xmpp, another http on another port) on a server so that if one of them was exploited, the attacker would be constrained to inside the container? Or is it "just" of a convenient way to put applications into self-contained packages?
I posted something similar in the previous HN thread where claims were made about how these jurors are the best jurors in IP cases because they're so "experienced" and this was a slam dunk victory for Newegg. Afterall, Diffie spoke, so that seals the deal, right? My skepticism of those claims didn't go over too well.

Well, I was right. I really wish people better appreciated how corrupt and broken the patent process is and how appealing to ultra-conservative districts isn't some solution. Its part of the problem.

If anything, this verdict should prove that we are farther from a solution than ever. Maybe we'll have better luck with the next congress.
Yep, but as the op-ed states, they dont think the government should be unable to surveil the citizenry, just not surveil them all the time for no reason besides they said so.

The op-ed states:
"So we offered amendments: One would end the bulk collection of Americans’ records, but still allow intelligence agencies to obtain information they legitimately needed for national security purposes by getting the approval of a judge, which could even be done after the fact in emergency situations. "

I think you are absolutely correct in stating that there needs to be a balance, but when the American people have no say in how that balance is defined, we have programs that watch us all and as far as I am concerned trample our rights (1st chilling effect, 4th privacy, however you want to frame it).
Figuring out that a hotplate is turned on can be done though a very simple and direct observation, so most likely I would take your word for it.

Figuring out what makes people successful at starting companies is extremely complex. And without objective evidence, no level of expertise, be it PG or other VCs, will convince me to take someone's word for it.
Ha! Yep. That's me. Here's a blog post about why I open source all my apps and sell them too http://blog.markrickert.me/why-i-open-source-all-my-rubymoti...
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They've been a well known company for several years. I don't think this kind of publicity helps them very much, since they're specifically banned from selling their product at the moment.
Google Invested with CIA?
This is interesting in that Google top execs say the government coerced them into giving up data.But looking upon their investments into companies that are funded to analyze and discover trends it paints a far different picture. Is there any more evidence of Google's backing into government funded social media analytics?
Except that you don't really own the stock. In almost every instance when you buy or sell securities with a broker, your name is not actually on the stock or bond certificate. The name that appears on the certificate is that of your broker, and this is referred to as being held "in street name".Ask the people who were MF Global clients how much rights they had after the meltdown. E.g. none. They got to line up at the end of the queue of debtors.

Bitcoins is more like stocks with Direct registration.