skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Documentation is for if I already want it, not for figuring out what the thing is. And if you follow the link to http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/CyanogenMod_Installer you still don't find any reason to use it (whatever "it" is)

This question is the closest, lets hope people click on it too:
>Why flash CyanogenMod?
>There are many reasons to consider for flashing your device. Check out our Why Mod? page for more info!

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Why_Mod%3F

Then goes on to talk about moding (I guess CyanogenMod is a "mod", but it doesn't explicitly say so right off the bat) and goes on to talk about the cons and pros of modding, but doesn't actually tell you why I would want CyanogenMod until I scroll more than a page down to a bunch of similar screenshots.

So three links deep hidden in the bottom half of a wiki page is a (even complete?) feature set of CyanogenMod. Again cyanogenmod flat out fails to tell new users what they do and why I might want it on the main page. I wonder what the bounce rate on the main page is.
If you're into node.js development I would recommend https://github.com/jedireza/drywall as a minimal yet well organized CMS to extend yourself as you need.
Well now that Toshiba runs things that should be less of a problem.
This is incorrect, see my post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6812657

Also, nice strawman with the laptop. Ever heard of smartphones?
That is just god damn disgraceful. http://www.google.com/patents/US6857067

"System and method for preventing unauthorized access to electronic data"

What in the world is going on with the US patent system that things like this are emitted.
Give me a break. Who doesn't throw hard drives into the trash? And are you really so sure hard drives are included in any of the state e-waste laws? I doubt very many if any.
Here's a novel thought: do something good with your money instead: e.g., education, investment in socially-responsible companies, etc.
They do police overcharges and excess billing; both AT&T and Verizon have paid massive fines for this in the past decade.

The agency is not responsible for policing quality of service--that is a function left to the market. Nor does the agency simply get to decide that it will police quality of service--it must be granted that authority by Congress.
Yes. I do.

I do not speak for the (small) company I work for in any official capacity, so I will not go into the details. But we have quite a few patents, and they have been useful. There is considerable risk in coming up with a new idea and launching it in the market; a risk that a small company cannot afford to get wrong too many times. There is the risk of failure, and then just the opportunity cost of having your small team work on project A vs project B.

If our work was unprotected then larger companies could just sit and watch the small companies try, and then swoop in and take over the market if the idea is valid and the market is there. Recall that Microsoft received the "evil" moniker (which I don't really agree with, btw) in part because how often they did exactly this.

Sure, there are all kinds of injustices and inequalities in the system; I do not argue the system is perfect, nor do I suggest that I have any idea how to improve the system. There is value, however, in rewarding a company that takes risks and generates new ideas. Perhaps that value is overshadowed by the value destruction by patent trolls, I don't know (would have to see the numbers). But it is a value.
A JavaScript parser and interpreter written in Go
Yeah, a couple of other people pointed that out.

core.async has state (when buffers are used, in particular) but state is not exactly the same thing as mutability. Producers and consumers don't have unconstrained access to channels, in the way that users of a mutable cell (a Clojure atom, a ref cell, or just a variable in many languages) can clobber it at will.

Likewise (although I didn't get into this) state doesn't necessarily violate referential transparency. Memoization uses state as an optimization, but doesn't interfere with RT.
> forcing people to pay taxes in a particular currency or go to jail creates demand for that currency

This is true. But, I don't think it backs up your original point:

> the sine qua non of "money" is that you can pay taxes with it.

Reworded to non-latin, I believe this is saying that without taxes there can be no money. That just seems completely ludicrous. Sure, taxes increase demand for money, but that is a far stretch from saying money can't exist without taxes.
Let's say I already do but I need quite a lot more to make any significant impact. I'll be pissed if I had the chance to make that happen but balked.
NextGen General Interface - Rewrite GeneralInterface.org?
About General Interface

General Interface is an open source Ajax toolkit and development environment that makes it faster and easier for you to build and deploy web-based applications that have the rich feel and functionality of desktop software. General Interface's server-less architecture means it is flexible for many uses, such as the frontend of an SOA implementation.

Why a next generation General Interface is required?

There are no releases after May 2011 for General Interface. The GI is a very powerful interface for integrating with a SOA system like a BPM tool.

GI provides a builder that lets you build a full featured interface. Think google forms on steroids.

What's the problem with GI?

GI is a heavy weight framework that packs in a lot of js libraries. In a production environment it takes more than 15 seconds to load the form itself.

What can be changed?
GI uses SOAP calls to load the form data / drop down etc. SOAP to submit the form almost everything is SOAP.

The framework has to be rebuilt with AngularJS and Backbone.js all the calls should be migrated from SOAP to REST. Submission of the forms will be with REST and the builder should let the json schema design and other aspects easier.

The interface should look really good and not like a 1988 solution as it looks today. It should be themeable.

Potential Uses:

Built forms and Client applications can be plugged into applications as a widget. This can be an opensource google forms.
Anybody want to take a guess at what percentage these 2B pages represent out of the total surface web at least? I can't find reliable figures, numbers all over the place. 5 percent?
SQLite supports a pretty comprehensive query language including joins, sorts, filtering, etc etc. It's a full RDBMS.
Exactly. For the moment it's mostly cementing USD's position further.
33554428 in safari
Visualization of Founders Fund Investments
Bitcoin: When Money is Not an Investment
I said the opposite: more programmers than jobs.

That might change. Clojure's been making some pretty impressive in-roads into the enterprise.

At this year's Conj, there were a fair number of companies hiring. Staples Innovation Labs is apparently hiring a lot of Clojure people.

What part of the world are you in?
The new CM installer nearly bricked my phone! This would be a warrenty/customer support nightmare for Verizon/ATT/Samsung/HTC/whoever.

Preface: I consider myself a fairly advanced power user on linux as a hobby, and I'm a computer technician/sysadmin [Windows] by day. I've had two Android phones over the past two years.

I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and was pissed that Verizon decided that phone was not to get 4.3 let alone Google decided no 4.4 for the Galaxy Nexus...(Each iteration of Android broke more things like speech to text.) Rather than wait for the never coming updates I started studying how to flash Cyanogenmod onto this. It looked a bit convoluted even compared to flashing firmware onto micro-contollers. Then the app hit the Play store and I figured I would give it a shot.

The app showed you what settings needed changed (like enable USB debugging) and how to do them, even to the point of opening the settings screens for you. A casual user would never even be able to find the settings again after that first opening. It would be akin to going straight to the Computer Management console in Windows or loading up fstab in Linux without telling a casual end user how to get there! My install process did not go smooth. The first thing it had wrong was the connection mode, said to use Camera Mode PTP instead of MTP. That is flat out wrong for this phone and it won't connect. Then during the bootloader/rooting process, which the installer fully automatically does for you(!) a critical USB driver failed to install and it locked the phone up. The soft power button does not respond here and luckily I was able to pull the battery to reset. If this was a Nexus 4 or 5...I would have been praying that once the battery died I could still power it up for a recharge; a very good possibility it would have been bricked. Now that the software is installed I have no Photosphere in the camera and I can no longer connect to my work exchange calendar. I also managed to lose a few stored contacts somehow. I knew to backup my pictures/docs/data but a typical user would not.

Now imagine a typical consumer has just purchased a Galaxy S4 on contract for $199. They flash CM onto it and now best case they call Verizon/ATT/Samsung wanting to know why feature X isn't working or why they lost the phone numbers of their friends/family – or worse their baby pictures/movies. Now that company either says 'Go fly a kite' or reflashes and they still have data loss. If the phone bricks they will be shocked to learn they will need to pony up $650 to replace it replace it!
Has it been verified that the bug is fixed as in no further database corruption? I'm confused what you mean by this "sample" you got from Gavin.
Where do you think BTCUSD will go?
An image of Bitstamp's order book. It would seem like the market has a strong view about BTC (not) extending its run...
I think I was making a _different_ point.

I think BTC is a perfectly fine transactional tool. Much like credit cards. I can buy and sell things with my credit card, but I can't eat positive or negative numbers on my bank statement - in one sense it's not "real" until I turn those numbers into something of "value", perhaps butter - perhaps some other abstraction of "value" that I trust, like dollars.

Dollars as an "asset" are reasonably safe. Using dollar assets for investment in other value-generating activity is fairly well understood. But ask anyone from Greece or Zimbabwe if they'd entrust their families future to their local fiat currency…

BTC as an "investment" or "asset" are quite different. There's _very_ much more reason to hold on to BTC rather than invest them in any activity that's going to return less than several hundred percent annualised returns (there's a _very_ good reason why Silkroad's major commodities were what they were). If I can expect to double the dollar value of my bitcoin holding just by waiting another few weeks, of course I'm not going to invest any of that into widget raw materials or manufacturing plants. But there is definitely a US property market style risk for people sitting on large number of BTC. The notional "value" keeps going up at a startling rate - but it's still a crap shoot - there's nothing _guaranteeing_ you'll get any value at all out of your BTC - it's even less "sure" then US residential property market or Credit Default Swaps or Collateralized Debt Obligations from a few years back. It's not impossible you could buy "$25kUDS worth of BTC" today, and find you've got _nothing_ next year, instead of $50k or $100k or $500k - there were _lots_ of investors and property speculators with expectations like that 5 or 10 years ago≥
Ask HN: Would you use Bitcoins backed by the US Treasury?
I am wondering, it is possible for the US Treasury to start a Bitcoin Network using an Alternative Chain [1]?

If they could and they backed each of their Bitcoins with the full faith and credit of one dollar, would you buy them?

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_chain#Handling_your_new_block_chain
If you want long-term exposure to a stock but don't want to implicitly make a bet on short-term value, chunk your purchase up into smaller amounts and do it over time (1/10th every day over the next week).

Forget what this is called, but think it's a standard maneuver for wading in to a big long-term position.
The authors also seems to lack backbone and hedges his bets with a final sentence. Something to the effect that bitcoin will continue to do well as long as government is not doing well.

Despite the link-bait title, he doesn't seem to want to make a definitive statement.
Print magazines are actually closer to 600 dpi for black text while only 200 dpi or less for color (due to Moiré patterns and CMYK printing).

In any case, Apple have indicated that they're more interested in limiting screen resolution fragmentation than chasing a specific resolution number (both iPads have the same number of pixels and that number is exactly 2 times the original iPad).
Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Sure, but so is Humanity
The conversion from asm.js to native code is much easier than the conversion from JavaScript to native code. The conversion from the real assembly code to native code would be slightly easier than that, but not significantly, making asm.js close to the assembly language (with an infinite number of registers, if that's your concern).
Guess I'll have to turn them on one at a time; when I twisted all the knobs, nothing with flash would work.
so i just wrote a page with "bfc" method.

and the "main" div has a really big width like:

width: 100000000000000px;

however when i inspect this element in safari's inspector, it shows as "33554428px" width, it seems to be a safari upper boundary huh?
Is the SMART board what you are looking for? Installed SMART boards are rapidly becoming standard hardware in K12 classrooms.
by the way:

> 33554428 .toString(2)
'1111111111111111111111100'
I've started work on something like this in the past -> https://github.com/cdnjs/browser-extension

Using the Extensions API I could even stop the DNS check and inject the Javascript before that which was pretty awesome.

My version would simply just look for cdnjs.cloudflare.com links in the source before rendering but could be applied less strictly to other assets e.g. Google jQuery CDN

(I co-started cdnjs.com a few years ago)
This is a terribly marketed idea. Totally anonymous? Sure, just don't log into anything you've logged into before. Or use Flash. Or forget to dump your cookies before you start. Perfectly secure? Sure, if you use TLS. But then it's really TLS protecting you, not tor, isn't it? There are plenty of naughty exit nodes out there and I'd never log into an account I cared about via Tor without TLS.

I like Tor and think that making it easier is a great idea, but when you sell it as an easy path to security and anonymity, you are going to get some people hurt. Tor can be both anonymous and secure if you take certain paranoid precautions when you use it, but are general consumers going to have any idea about those precautions? It's a challenge to get people to not just bypass browser cert errors or to secure their Wi-Fi, advanced tor browsing precautions may as well be instructions for using a zero G space toilet.
One of my Vertex2's died and I need to send it in on warranty (if it isn't too late). The other one is doing fine for now.
Nexus 7 is actually pretty good. Some reviews:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7231/the-nexus-7-2013-review

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/07/the-2013-nexus-7-revi...
Right, it's diminishing returns. My Retina iPad 4 looks great. Maybe an extra 100 dpi would make it look better, but it would require more hardware, redesigned programs, etc. Frankly I'm not sure I'd even be able to notice it.

Of course, if you're not using the standard RGB style screen, it may make a difference. Having an extra 100 DPI on a pentile screen may be noticeable. I don't know.
The UN really has as much power as we give it, in situations like this. It comes down to your contempt or otherwise for global consensus opinion.

But, if we're justifying the UN, as seems to be necessary by this thread, the UNHCR and the WHO make huge differences, these are the organizations which have been coordinating help for refugees in Syria, and efforts to completely eradicate Polio, for instance. The Security Council is the major means for forcing Russia, China and the West to come to a shared position on Syria, which has led to the decommissioning of chemical weapons. It's also instrumental to avoiding war in Iran - the non-proliferation treaty provides a framework for negotiations, and the IAEA does the actual inspections - and failure to reach consensus in the Council was a major reason why the war in Iraq went so badly.

It's a bit tiring hearing the old John Bolton-esque bullshit about the UN; it's a vital international institution, even if just for diplomacy and discussion.
But the value floor for the USD is effectively the tax obligations denominated in USD, which is 5.5 trillion. Meaning a hell of a lot of powerfull people have a legal obligation to collect -at least- 5.5 trillion USD.

This provides a much higher value floor, no ?
Bitcoin value soars above $1,000
Nexus 7 is 323ppi, and Nexus 10 is 300ppi
Paypal just froze over $70,000 in my account for 180 days
Heh, approaching economics from a philosophical standpoint is the road to madness. I'd argue that
sociology is a better approach to understanding economics, but then I would have fallen into your
trap; because then we'd have a philosophical discussion :P

I'm far from an expert in economics, but if you're interested in the (very dirty)history of gold, the
wikipedia page of the "Gold Standard" is a good start.

Time to sleep :)
I run a Android Development company and has high respect to Koush and others at CyanogenMod. I believe they add great value to android ecosystem. But CyanogenMod installation is anything but fool proof. Had issues on Nexus4 and 7(2013) personally.

CyanogenMod definitely doesn't belong in PlayStore. Having an app like that on Play Store enables many non techies to try it out without understanding repercussions. Who do you think these people will call?

Here is the order:

1. Carrier (Walk in Store)

2. Play Store Support Number (Surprise Surprise Google actually provides phone support)

3. ????
Scalding For The Impatient
>Likewise (although I didn't get into this) state doesn't necessarily violate referential transparency.

Boy do Haskell users ride that one hard.
Awesome work. I've got enough bookmarks from your discoveries to keep me learning for the next year. Props.
Payment processors such as bitpay offer same-day bitcoin-to-fiat conversion and bank deposit with extremely low fees (0.1% - 1%), and are becoming the defacto standard. This is expected during the bootstrapping phase. Later, if bitcoin firmly establishes itself, merchants could choose to not convert directly to fiat.
I assume he meant one of the log/database files that contains the corruption.
How can someone opaque and fearful make sincere gestures? Sincerity is only possible through honesty and integrity. Honesty and integrity require courage.

As for the mean as a first-order statistic, we clearly have different values... I like mine better.

Cheers!
Attorney's Go Asian
The existing kindle HDX tablets and both Nexus tablets are 300 or above:

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/tablets-retina-resolutions...
Is there any way to get incrementals? It would be extremely valuable is to get the pages that were added/changed/deleted each day. Some kind of a daily feed of a more limited size.
I have been thinking about this also and I concluded I would either account for the bitcoin volatility risk in my BTC price or by raising the dollar price.
So long as the author/designer didn't have a contract in place to sell his work, then they don't own it and he retains copyright. As a result they're committing criminal copyright infringement and he should be referring this to the FBI for federal prosecution. They will have zero ability to prove that they own the work so I imagine it might go very well for the designer.
edit: well after actually reading your comment, I see now what you said :). Yes that seems like a good reason for companies to adopt Clojure, I hope they do.

Ah, yeah, I really wanted to go to Conj, but only found out about it last minute. I'm in San Francisco.

It's not that there are no companies using Clojure, it's more that the companies where I do want to work, don't want to use it.

When I mention it in an interview or something they kind of give me a funny look like they hope I am not one of those LISP people. I mean I can see where they're coming from. It's a big risk to let someone write in a language you don't know much about, and that you don't know if you'll be able to hire for in the future.

And at the places where they are feeling a bit adventurous, everyone seems to be leaning towards Go :(

Oh well, I can still use it for all my side projects until it gains more popularity I suppose. It really is such fun to use. I only started 2 months ago and I have been having the best time of it.
That's what I initially thought, but then I missed the part where they've confirmed that this fixes the bug. Has this been tested?
Moment Camera updated ver 1.4
Custom Elements landing in Chrome stable
I'm definitely curious, but oh wow, do I have doubts. So many doubts.

Is there a more technical analysis of this, and how it works, and what it restricts? Because nearly all the benefit of this can be lost pretty easily, unless they make what I assume would be rather painful decisions for users (strip all cookies, etc, which obviously they don't do).

If this is just about avoiding geo-IP lookup, then I think it's a hard sell. People who would care might be offended that it does little else, and people who don't have no reason to spend $50.
Go 1.3 Linker Overhaul
What happened to Pronto Push?
Apples Mavericks update brought desktop push notifications to MacOS. ProntoPush appears to have been a company that accepted RSS feeds and pushed them out as a notifications to users. Their twitter feed is like reading the log of a ship floating unattended in deep space.
Einfache schwarze beflockte Kleiderbügel
Beflockung Kleiderbügel,rutschfeste,platzsparende,mit guter Qualität.
Verschiedene Farbe zur Auswahl, hochwertige Holz- Kleiderbügel
Holz-Kleiderbügel,verschiedene Farbe zur Auswahl,mit starker Belastbarkeit, Platzsparend, günstig.
The Gauss-Jordan-Floyd-Warshall-McNaughton-Yamada algorithm
> and argued that there is no internationally recognized human right to privacy!

Maybe there isn't, but maybe there should be..

http://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text
I would argue that if the global economy operated on a fixed-supply currency, there would be no aristocracy. Those with the largest stash of currency would have to spend some of their wealth in order to realize its benefits. This spending would naturally result on a more even distribution of wealth.

It also wouldn't be the end of debt - just the end of the ridiculous debt-for-life system that most people live like today.
That's not true, there could be multiple buyers and the punchline would just be, "to whom? there's only the three of you."
Any user action that is completely reversible, like installing software, should not render the warranty void.
As a person who have replicated Zapier kind of integration into our development tool, I don't find this news anything bug a paid advertisement. Anything with REST API can be integrated with Zapier, so Firebase can be integrated too. Looks silly to me.
I bought and prefer the Nexus 7 to the iPad Mini simply because it fits in my jacket and coat pockets. I've had and enjoyed iPhones and iPads in the past, so this was not a step I took lightly.

The most used application on any of my hand-held devices is the Kindle.app. I quite like reading on the Nexus 7 in portrait orientation. It doesn't feel too skinny.