skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, if you're 20's geek in RoR space - you'll enjoy mingling at Shopify ghetto :)
USA Today has a bitcoin next to their logo
Now that's interesting...
Does GnuCash not count?
There are parts of reality that you can't possibly witness directly because you are located at a single geographic point. For example, someone suffering on the other side of the world because they've been gassed by a dictator or a terrorist group, or wrongly imprisoned, or they are dying of some easily curable disease. You would usually only ever hear of such a thing through the news media, and yet it is real

Things are not all one way or the other. The media is very imperfect, but it is not worthless.

No need to attack me.
Yup. But like cigarette advertisers and spammers who intentionally misspell so only uncritical people pay attention, most mainstream news sources have so effectively created the atmosphere of _learned_helplessness_, they can tell people in bold letters straight to their faces, "this is bad for you" and people still pay for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
They sure seem friendly but later Assange became disenchanted with Schmidt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/the-banalit...
As everyone seems to agree, you're being contracted to build a web app for the client. The business model and marketing behind it, is essentially his challenge.

> I'm not sure that in all good conscience I can take on a project that is going to cost him a lot of money and not be successful.

No one can ultimately say a project will be successful or not as there have been good ideas that died, and bad ideas that took off.

Take the money, build the best web app that you can build.
NomNom Launches First Free Commercial Game Based On Asm.js And Unreal Engine 3
I've been looking for something like this. If/When you implement contextual viewing rather then diff changes I'll probably start using it.
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Thieves can already scrub out visible watermarks with content-aware fill etc.
First? What about http://www.gnucash.org/ or any of the others?
This sounds awesome. I've been looking to build an alternative to Mint, but getting banking data (in an automated way) has always been a pain. I look forward to trying it out.
I will bite, what's so bad about business-minded people running a business?
> A warrant might just mean that they're asking for the information legally, so that they can use it, rather than relying on their illegally gathered hacked information.

Note that the "warrant", in this case, required that CertiVox hand over the key(s) to the encrypted data. It's possible that the authorities (not necessarily GCHQ itself, as NTAC provides assistance to other law enforcement and intelligence agencies) had already intercepted or seized the data but were unable to read it because it was encrypted.
Is pervasive NSA surveillance & hacking part of a broader conspiracy?
In this day an age, where Subway can make "artisan sandwiches" and Dominoes can make "artisan pizzas," you have the chutzpah to give yourself the titles like "Data Artisan," "Mobile Artisan" and worst of all, "User Experience Artisan."

I like the idea for your company, but the "artisan" angle ain't making me trust you. Instead it's making me laugh. Please take this as constructive criticism. I'm sure you folks know what you're doing. Just stop taking it so seriously.
To get away with using PCBs.
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists." Norman Mailer

"Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation." George Bernard Shaw

"In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has." Mark Twain

"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets." Napoleon

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." Oscar Wilde

"The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word journalist." Soren Kierkegaard
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Munich... I guess when I am in the US next time, I will send out a request beforehand... But yeah, the MS Natural Elite is the keyboard that I have ordered in bulk, too :)
I don't know anything about the US law system so I would really like to understand this: 6 figures? wtf? Why is this so expensive? Is this the cost of the lawyers? Do you have to pay court taxes?
That's my core problem with her approach: she seems to takes for granted that having limited formal reasoning skills is a defining feature of being female, and therefore must be promoted by feminism.

It is to my understanding of feminism what Stephen Colbert is to Republicanism.
Ha that's exactly what I thought when I saw this. The Double is a much nicer version than Sheldon's though!
You are right. Bitcoins and bitcoin businesses in general have taken a very American twist. The entire 'bitcoin foundation' had turned into nothing more than a lobby group which is what Gavin happens to belong to. Large bitcoin businesses are dominate by Americans so far: Coinbase and Bitpay.

Happy that Bitstamp isn't US owned but not sure for how long. It's basically a repeat of what happened with the Internet. No one is stopping other regions from taking their own slice of the pie. It just appears that Americans are quicker on the innovation front and seem to understand where future value may lie and thus take appropriate risks.
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In my experience, a good PM says "no" to things. I've worked on projects with a weak/ineffectual PM that suffer badly from "feature creep", because the engineers on the team continually moved to make "minor" changes to improve things that ultimately customers didn't want or need. To me, this is where a PM comes in to set the pace and keeps the engineers on track for specific goals.

Granted this is just my experience, and it's from an engineering POV.
Ask HN: Should I open source a Rails Point of Sale that I have been working on?
I have building a Rails POS that I think is pretty awesome. I am almost done with the core and I will soon start on business specific plugins. First, let me say that my goal for this project is to make money. With that in mind, should I leave it as a closed ecosystem and launch or should I open source it and make money off of extending it and supporting it. I am a huge fan of open source but not sure if it is appropriate for my given goals. Thanks for input on this, I have been sitting on it for a while.
The most obvious use of bitcoin is to enable peer to peer exchanges of currency without banks, that's its purpose. Setting up a website that accepts payments just became vastly easier without the need for PCI compliance or even SSL; that is huge. Digital cash. That it can be used nefariously is beside the point, so can cash.
In what alternate universe does "scrolling" count as a meaningful engagement?

Engaging means making the user think, arousing their senses, letting them interact with something you've made. It doesn't mean wasting their time.
Open source it and make money from support and further customization. Like Zend does. It's a strategy like any other.
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It isn't new per se, which supposed to be just accurate reporting of the recent events and facts, but that unprecedented flow of unimaginable nonsense, propaganda, brain-washing, manipulations, lies and mere stupidity no mind could cope with. It is just unnecessary stress (especially from modern "dramatic" framing of third-rate media) we do not have any adaptation for. So, just switching off a TV and stopping reading nonsense (about Bitcoin or Docker) is really a relief. It is like giving up reading /b/ dramatically reduces the likelihood of developing ulcers.)

The problem is that every fool nowadays could write a blog post or a comment which would be indexed by a search engine, adding a bit to the total waste.
It doesn't matter that PayPal or credit cars are hypothetically more convenient for you as a consumer. The reason you don't buy with PayPal/CC is that nobody will sell to you.

PayPal has explicit policies against buying virtual currencies and they will cancel your payment if it's brought to their attention, screwing the seller out of their Bitcoin. Similarly, credit card transactions will be reversed if later found to be fraudulent, and there's no way for the seller to be completely sure your card isn't stolen. So the status quo is that nobody sell Bitcoin for credit, and if anyone were to start they would be a lightning rod for CC thieves, since Bitcoin is by far the best thing to buy with stolen credit if you have the option.
That would improve most power points. Have you seen the average marketing presentation? Star swipes and comic sans.
Yes, fast spin-up/down are an advantage.

Thanks.
I've used this product myself and the mobile optimization really helped with response rates. It's a good experience.
Just FYI cinemaguy23 & stevebenjamins you guys are both hellbanned.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745880 for more info. IIRC, some people have had success emailing info@ycombinator.com to get unbanned.

Edit: state, if you don't have showdead=yes set in your preferences then you won't see the hellbanned posts. I don't know about the posts that got them hellbanned in the first place, but the dead ones here are completely unobjectionable .
It's so true. I spend the majority of my time working for a company that sells physical products, and we roll everything ourselves. Managing fulfillment, integrating with accounting, and basic CRM among a medium-sized team is an enormous task that's completely underserved by Shopify (or anyone else for that matter).

Knowing a good handful of other small to medium-sized business owners I know we're not alone in this (as your comment points out), and it makes me all the more eager to open source everything we do. But first, there are bugs to fix.
A big congratulations to them but I have a slightly different experience to share than the other posters here. I was just in our shopify store trying to decide if I should pull the trigger and migrate to a weebly [1] site I've created.

Weebly is starting to be a real competitor in the lower end of the online store market.

The Real-time carrier shipping calculation feature shopify has might have kept me around but I can't justify the 2k+ a year plans just for that feature (that frustrating realization is why I started looking around) and I like weeblys layouts and site builder tools better.

Also, the shopify admin console was really really slow when I was working with it yesterday and I've had that experience at other times in the past as well.

[1] www.weebly.com - same price as the shopify basic plan for commerce.
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Very impressed with Assange's technical chops in this discussion. I only read about a third of the discussion, but I kept getting the feeling that he was trying to dumb the topic down to a level Schmidt would understand.
> without compensation

Clearly the merchant must be getting something out of the arrangement, or else they wouldn't be concerned about Google walking away from it.
Excellent point. I've been debating with my gf a lot lately about the diff. b/t "information" and "observations." I find many articles are simply observations... like molecules in bloodstream, they float around, but only rarely combine into anything worthwhile, as compared to controlled chemical reactions in which ideas and structures combine meaningfully.
Sure, but they don't seem any more (technically) secure than any other decent webmail provider.
Information Geographies » Age of Internet Empires
The claim says images must be captured "from a height of about three feet." Put your cameras at five feet or two feet and feel bad for these folks paying tens of thousands of dollars to own "about three feet."
The issue is the news is usually out of context. Last week a video of a BASE jumper smashing into a cliff got a lot of airplay. The same week 100 jumpers were jumping 4 times a day without incident in the same area. There were some obvious takeaways from the incident and causes. The news always reports as har, har isn't that nuts?

They do the same with war reporting and airplane crashes. See the knockout game reports for further reports of garbage.
Email service provider
Any recommendation for a good email service provider? A provider that has high security measures and takes privacy seriously!! I am dumping GMAIL!
How exactly would you like the contextual view to present changes?

Show whole file with changed lines highlighted or as side-by-side diff? (file context)
Or is it about the ability to browse/display changes e.g. by modules, directories and jump between files? (more general context)
You're right that we may have been naive about trusting our governments.

What I don't understand is why anyone trusted businesses (such as CertiVox and Lavabit) to keep their emails secure?

If the businesses themselves couldn't decrypt these emails, there's nothing the government could usefully ask them for.
As long as you can prove a link to Catalonia or Catalan, you can (Francesc is from Catalonia, so...). Actually nyan.cat exists just with the excuse they have "translated the website into Catalan." Seriously.
Last year we were contracted to do some IC verification work. The more we learnt about the system, the more we wondered, "doesn't this just duplicate existing successful products? What is the niche here, exactly?".

Meanwhile they ran out of money and didn't pay our invoices.
Yep, that's basically my experience with my home desktop: a media server, and I can play a few games on it with the Nvidia proprietary driver. I'm a "casual gamer" if at all, so booting windows is too much trouble. And when I want to do some real work at home, the OS doesn't get in my way. This is probably a hard sell for serious gamers though, what with the lack of AAA game titles.

I figure I should be working anyway...
Sure, at that time(a few years ago) it was a hassle to install jdk(had to download binaries to install openjdk).

Also, I don't think Oracle has BSD version.

PS: Thanks for asking, since this made me want to try it again :)
Could someone paste the image links below? Pastebin appears to be overriding my phone's ability to select and copy text.
Mean while, they Tories have rolled back legal aid, which means the poor cant get decent lawyers any more.

Non Brits might be amused to know that this Tory government wanted to out source poor people's legal representation to a haulage company. Yeah, you read that right.
Btw, if you would be interested in hacking Deliroll and other related things, feel free to contact me - my email is on the slides. We are hiring.
"I honestly don't have the time to get more involved"

So don't. It sounds like you have quite a bit of work landing at your door to make the above claim. If that's the case then choose to work on the projects that you feel have the most potential to succeed. Doing so will, assuming you're correct, build a better portfolio and reputation for you, which will then lead to more opportunities and better pay.
Be able is one thing, but be up to date is another... Also the lack of Oracle/Sun version may be a show stopper for some.
It has gotten harder to train Google news due to the big uptick in the 300 word reprint practice that is playing out in media recently. Even if you manually block all the major outlets, so many sites reprint their stories that I still end up with Miley Cyrus news in my feed.
I'm guessing you're referring to other replies that we can't see. Is that the case? Just curious what you're talking about.
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Problem "Where2"

Fails:
SELECT facid, name, membercost, monthlymaintenance FROM cd.facilities WHERE membercost > 0 AND (membercost / monthlymaintenance) < (1/50);

Succeeds:
SELECT facid, name, membercost, monthlymaintenance, (membercost / monthlymaintenance) as a FROM cd.facilities WHERE membercost > 0 AND (membercost / monthlymaintenance) < (0.02);
Patent attorneys average around $250/hr. That's around $40k/month per attorney. It's not hard to end up in the six figures before even going to trial.

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/patent/patent-attorney-fees-explai...
GCHQ are both better and worse than the NSA. I would argue that it seems they are if anything even less restrained than the NSA in over broad surveillance. However it is less clear whether GCHQ have actually broken the rules (and certainly not the constitution) which the NSA may have done.

My view is that everyone (in the world) should be pissed off at both the NSA and GCHQ and that Americans should be additionally angry that the NSA seems to have broken the limits placed on them in terms of domestic surveilance.
Good to see someone here making economic sense, instead of thinking we can all get something for nothing for ever and ever.
Banknotes featuring Scientists and Mathematicians
Instagram launches Instagram Direct, lets you share photos and videos privately
thank you, please do not hesitate to send your suggestions or comments about the site here or via forum
But it doesn't show up on your banking statements where your spouse could see it. The "felt anonymity" is much higher, imho.
Building a Flask Blog: Part3
All currencies are also investments. Investments that have additional properties that make them useful as a medium for exchange. Like divisibility, portability, etc... Btc is so volatile that it probably is, for many, better as an investment for the time being. Once there's less risk and more confidence, we could see that change.
Why you should use HTML5 frameworks for web apps
> Only people who live in older, more affluent areas built before community mailboxes receive home mail delivery.

I'll debate that 'more affluent' part.
Missing the "Cloud - based" part I think...

I agree with the idea of a free/open finance manager - definitely when it connects to the bank through online services.

I wrote a GPL'd finance app for OS X a few years ago, and tried to add online banking support, but other than OFX HTTP download, there didn't seem to be any standard specification for it at the time other than screen-scraping, which I don't think counts, so I didn't bother, given it would be different for each bank.

Another issue is that my bank would give abbreviated/limited names and descriptions of the data, which meant that there needed to be a "post import" step to tidy the data up to make it meaningful which was annoying.

I don't know what the state of things is now...
Ask HN: What languages to learn and Where?
I always wanted to learn how to create a webapp, but i never knew where to begin and what to learn.
What languages to learn in 15 days to create an efficient and complete webapp.
Do you have some sources or links to begin with, i'm more interested in learning from real code of already existing app, than tutoriels?
Thank you !
Nope, you're covered by copyright laws there. You give Google an (implicit) license to use your photos, but not your competitors and you can send your lawyer after them.
''Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives
a mimicry, their passions a quotation.'' Oscar Wilde
I'm very interested to see how this goes against SnapChat. I think it could either ruin SnapChat for good, or not make any impact at all because of the fanbase loyalty to SnapChat. It will be interesting to see, that's for sure.

Also, I haven't seen a clear explanation on their implementation when you try to "direct" someone that has not updated their app (don't have the Direct feature) yet. Does it warn you, queue the Direct for when they finally do update, doesn't let you use the feature with them at all, or what?

AFTER UPDATING: It looks like you guys are right, it allows you to send Direct to people who have not updated, so I imagine it just queue's it for them. Also, you cannot set expiration timers, and if you do a group message everyone in the group can see who is in the group (both unlike SnapChat). So, it looks like this will not probably not harm SnapChat at all.
Can you explain in more detail? I am actually curious, because as a customer I hate the watermarks. Do you think they help with brand awareness, or driving traffic to your own site?
I'm curious. What does Multi Level Marketing have to do with news consumption? Why do MLM people know better than to read the news?
It's frequently referred to as "Talking your book" :-)

I still don't know if this is tulips [1] or turtles all the way down [2]. Perhaps both?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulipmania

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
The security risks of RJS/SJR
I found this conversation to be a really worthwhile read (when it came out). It's a refreshing demonstration of the 'empirical journalism' that Assange describes in this conversation.

As time goes on I find it even more interesting in contrast to the public images of both Assange and Schmidt. I'm much more interested in the raw, unedited dialogue between these people than the way they are reported on.
Any alternatives to IRCCloud? It's invite only.
Exactly. What's the difference between the cpap.com watermark and this sort of watermarking which is designed to prevent reuse. https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/ballicons/128/magnifi...
Nice, I like Postgres a lot, but sadly now I live in Oracle world. Will give it a try at home.

Back in 2005-6 I used http://www.sql-ex.ru/ to study and learn SQL, it worked fairly well with Postgres.
Great site. Here are some bugs I found:

In the charting view, switching between delta and cumulative view deselects your metrics. You can't deselect the initial chart (on top in black). Suppose I start out comparing metric A to B, then I add C, now I can't remove A (to compare B to C w/o A).

If you get a 404 error, eg here ( http://www.bitcoinpulse.com/chart/ ), the newsletter signup doesn't work (or at least doesn't turn green).
The Whole Explanation: She's a woman and the CEO of a major website; which isn't to say that she doesn't deserve more attention given the smaller number of female CEOs/women in tech.
No. The point of some of the alt currencies is to address perceived weaknesses in bitcoin, like deflation, or wasted energy in mining for example. Bitcoin created a market but that market will outlive bitcoin if it fails. Now litecoin is basically a clone so it'll fall with bitcoin, there's nothing interesting about it, but others like peercoin or primecoin are substantially different in ways that may matter greatly.
I tried signing in with Github, but the permissions your app is requesting are too liberal for the level of familiarity I have with your service.

I absolutely understand the rationale of asking for permission to view my private repositories, but you're asking for read AND WRITE permissions to my (and I assume my company's) private repos without giving any information about how you protect my or my company's closed source code.

My suggestion (being completely unfamiliar with the Github permissions API) would be to only ask for read permissions to public repos for people who get to the login page by clicking "View live demo." I understand it might limit the live demo but personally I just want to see the UI and what have you. No need for write permissions.

edit: And you're also asking for permission to read AND WRITE my email, my followers and my profile. I cannot think of any web app I would grant those kinds of permissions to my Github account. I am sure this is just a benign mistake but it could be perceived as sloppy.
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