skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i say for monetized accounts, there needs to be more accountability from google's end to prevent loss of monetization. A rogue DMCA takedown is detrimental to a youtuber's livelihood. If you haven't, check out these following opinion pieces :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoDDh4kE0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5hWeodMws

I highly respect content producers on youtube - they deserve as much protection from rogue elements who intend to exploit them as possible. Unfortunately, there isn't any competition for youtube, and so the problem will only get worse.
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I'm European, and I've never been hassled during my travels. The worst I've experienced was having to pull 10m of ethernet cable out of my carry-on in Stavanger Airport, Norway, but that's it -- and I can easily see how a rolled-up cable might've hindered the airport security from looking through my bag.
Off the top of my head I've been through England, Denmark, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Spain, Egypt, India, Nepal, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal and Peru, and I've never had any trouble.

Maybe you've just been targeted because you're American, just like Brazil is fingerprinting US Americans[1] to pay back the amount of trouble foreigners often find themselves in when visiting USA?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-VISIT#Similar_systems_in_oth...
At least more people are buying coins, and more and more merchants are accepting bitcoins. This is going to be a very long and gradual process to critical mass where it then becomes a viable currency. Right now it's a speculative investment. Perhaps that is a viable route towards becoming a currency, who knows. This is Darwinian and no one can predict what will happen and no one can know how it "should" happen. All we know right now is "something is happening" and you're either on board or you're on the sidelines watching.

In my opinion the word "currency" is about as stupid as that thing in your pocket people still keep calling a "phone". It's best approximated legacy words we have to express ideas about something which it doesn't entirely fit. More interesting, for me, is a comment I read on HN a few days back where someone said "I could be carrying a million dollars on this thumb drive and no one would even know.", a distributed ledger, the script language in the bitcoin protocol, etc. these things transcend the word "currency" as we ordinarily use it.
I bought and older house, and the USPS puts my mail right through a slot in the door. It's great - super convenient and I don't have to worry about stopping delivery when I'm out of town.

Personally, I'd rather see delivery cut on Saturday than have a community mailbox.
Yep, because it's impossible that non-US governments are individually idiots, everything is controlled by the NSA.

12 years ago I was backpacking in Australia/NZ with my girlfriend. Upon landing in Auckland we were subjected to about 30 min questioning. From I heard, it was pretty common at the time.

I doubt the NSA had anything to do with it (and it wasn't that big of a deal anyway, if you handled it like an adult).
People constantly "want" many things which are harmful to them.

In this case, Derek and his friend appear to want something which is harmful to them (almost completely transparency in all their activities, to the extent of revealing a private diary on request). People are just pointing out why this is harmful, and why he should think twice before proclaiming that 'secrets are just facts'.

You can't ever take back having released a lot of information into the public domain - for example a diary would reveal your location on almost every day of your life - very useful to catch you out on some technicality on tax or some other issue. People are already (in my opinion) giving out too much info, sometimes deliberately (Facebook), sometimes without their knowledge (Tempora).

I actually agree with his point about code and ideas (that it's better to share than not), but think it is completely wrongheaded and downright dangerous to extend that as far as a private diary of thoughts and events.

Derek isn't claiming that your decisions about what to keep private shouldn't be respected, but rather that you - the person who wishes to keep things private - might benefit from thinking twice about what is it you are actually afraid of, and whether it is all rational.

It is completely rational to believe that a growing lack of privacy is a serious problem in our society, and would undermine our freedom from government or corporate interference and manipulation on every level of our lives. You don't have to look far for examples of gross misuse of personal data.
"But another possibility is that we engineer the perfect happiness drug, with no bad side effects, and no one wants to do anything but lay in bed and take this drug all day, sapping all ambition from the human race."

That would be a pretty bad side effect in itself. There are some pretty nice drugs that approximate what you say, yet as a population we mostly get on with our lives.

It's not in our nature to be satisfied with any persistent state - positive, negative or neutral. So as a tail risk worth worrying about I'd put this in your terrorism category.
I'm happy with an apple trackpad in the center.
I meant "below room-average wealthy", i.e. taking only the people in the room into the account.
It's not only grossly unfair to reviewers, but that copyright's fair use clauses specifically allows for fair use in critiques! These copyright claims are bogus.
Yes it is. See the Github repo. All information is there in the README, including detailed usage and download instructions and build instructions.
Shpec -- rspec like testing for shell scripts
Have they fixed the issue where the same ad will repeatedly play back-to-back over the free version? It's been a while since I've tried to watch a Twitch stream because of that.
Maybe have a look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6840935
Yes, definitely. We might be able to open-source some parts of the system eventually as well.
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As someone trying to sit down and learn PostgreSQL right now, I am so happy this exists.
WebRTC Jitsi Videobridge video demo
It happened to me with a graphics card regarding PCI bus speed.
Coinbase Raises $25 Million From Andreessen Horowitz
>> First, money has to be spent somewhere

Not really. When business owners save money on labor and have no need to reinvest in production, the money goes to corporate profits and gets siphoned off by Wall Street and wealthy investors. They can't spend it all, and it basically accumulates. I have a pet suspicion that all this idle money is what fuels the investment bubbles that we seem to be having more and more of.
Love it, nice work. Had a bit of a chuckle when thinking of the site owners who see "Mac Plus, 1986" turn up on their user-agents log. Still renders better than IE6 though
Regarding source code in a business context the question is: What is your competitive advantage? Well, as an experienced software developer who is not nearly as experienced in other things, sometimes my only chance to have competitive advantage is private source code. You may argue that I do not even have that competitive advantage, but then why bother competing in any market at all?
No they didnt. The were not able to cover Tamil Nadu, Kerala and the southern parts of Andhra Pradesh.
Worths a look if you are writing shell scripts. Really nice!
I was detained for four hours at Newark airport. I was entering on a visa waiver for some meetings, and I was just coming off the back of another visa waiver trip. They were basically trying to prove that I was working illegally in the US. I had to empty the contents of my pockets and the bag I was carrying. The guy took my wallet, took every bank card out of it and asked me where the bank account was held, how much money was currently in the account and how much money went through the account each year. He made me switch my laptop on and spent some time looking through files on it. He literally told me "I think you're lying to me, you better come clean or this will be bad for you". He spent ages typing into my file on his computer (supposedly, maybe he was writing his girlfriend) and told me that if I ever tried to come back on a visa waiver I would be declined (untrue, as it turns out).

Obviously if you're American it's easier because they can't deny you entry. I basically had two options - do everything he said, or go home, miss my meetings, and have to tick the "I've been declined entry to the US" box every single time I go to the US for the rest of my life, which would make every border crossing a multiple hour ordeal.
You do realize that bringing food/agricultural products is forbidden on several countries, right?

Times I have been questioned by customs while entering the Schengen space: zero

This may be more likely depending on the origin of your trip though.
> Obviously, you cannot write portable system code..

Sure, but the goal is to minimize system dependencies as much as possible.

Relying on language extensions works against it.

> There were, probably, hundreds of compilers and C flavors even before the ANSI C. What one thought was "the standard" was very subjective.

Yes, I do remember variants like Small C.
Wait, yes. Dude, Alexander and Genghis Khan are like they happened only yesterday. Hindusim is much older than all of that, and I don't mean only in terms of religion. The culture itself is very old, so to speak.

God this is going to be a long comment.

I don't know how immersed you are w.r.t Hinduism, which gave birth to, no rather off-shooted other religions like Buddhism & Jainism. Here I can only give a very top-level view to help you make an entry:

There are two epics of the Hindus: The Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Read both, they're brilliant classics. These two epics are stories about rise and fall of political power, affairs, conceit and ensuing wars between leaders of different Hindu kingdoms. Let's say kingdoms of an aggregate land mass we now call India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan that stretches up to far, far east to places like Cambodia.

I could not confirm how far in the west did Hinduism spread out but will do so given that I am excited about it now.

Both epics are mythology by today's standards, but the stories in each are what Hindus vehemently believe as true. All (not most) of warring cities in both these epics exist inside and outside of India (or sunk under the ocean [1]) even today. I mean literally.

On axis of time, both these two epics are separated from each other by two 'Yugas' [2]. We are living in the Kaliyug where kali == machines and yug == time-frame. Yugas are of varying length, first being Satayug about 1,728,000 million years. Man exists during this period as life forms from scratch in this universe. Alexander was like a fucking second ago when you're talking ages of this length.

I suggest start with Yugas and you'll start seeing math, numbers, conclusions, geometric progressions and astronomy right in there. No need to accept anything is true or false, w.r.t written and confirmed history. But you'll love visiting places, and connecting it with the historical texts.

It goes up the Bohr's model of atom (Paramaṇu), the theory of what nucleus and subatomic particles were about (hell yes!), the nuclear bomb (Brahma Asthra) and how these were used in warfare, negotiation and peace keeping. Several other concepts of what seems similar to magic of quantum physics, treatment of time-space curvature, extraterrestrial life, theory of relativity and additional dimensions of gravitational physics (though refuted by modern practitioners of course) all exist in discussions. May or may not be correct, but the level of thought can be appreciated.

Astronomy, for example, scales to the level of predicting solar cycles, cycles of universe (311.04 trillion years?[3]), variable length of life of man/species, sub-sub-events like the ice age, age of the machines, age of only truth which you will find pretty fascinating to read, if not believable.

Let me just throw in the starting point [2]:

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrics_of_time_in_Hinduism
hey paulftw!

that's a nice idea too. However, do you think it would work in a nice way? if the column is filled with items then you thanks for the feedback! are hovering over an item and the column then you may go to drag but want to add an item and vice versa. i guess this could be tackled with correct behaviour in event listeners.

I'd be interested in any more input you have on this behaviour and the opinion of others on this approach.

thanks again for the feedback, it's much appreciated!
Add cards should have pride of place at the top. You don't want to scroll to find it.
But a "right" is the legal entitlement to do something, as well as a moral entitlement.
“I’m not worried about someone finding out my secrets, because secrets are just facts, right? So if someone is going through my private things, for example, and gets upset about what they find, then that’s their problem, not mine!”

Sure, it's their problem. But they might have power over you. If some intolerant family members discover you're gay, you might get kicked out of the house. If parents discover their child is trans, they might try to "beat it out of them". An abusive husband might find where his wife has run off to and "finish the job".

But, hey, they're problem! right?
"it's pretty terrifying to us too"

Isn't it? This story upsets me quite a lot. I've recently moved to the UK, but certainly plan on returning, intermittently or otherwise, and do not want to be subjected to this.

"probably the NSA thought he was someone else and leaned on the NZ government"

We told them to take a hike with the nuclear warships etc.; I wish we'd do the same with their data collection regimes. Unfortunately I definitely don't see that happening under Labour or National; and probably not under any of the parties either :(.
Just think of it as "Hi". Nothing more, nothing less. That's it, simple and easy.
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That is why micro-hypervisors where all OS instances are virtualized even the one acting as master, like on mainframes, are gaining acceptance.
You might find some tips in here: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-57233
We are hiring for lots of positions. If you are interested and enthusiastic about bitcoin (or just curious), please take a look:

https://coinbase.com/careers
It's entirely unclear in NZ whether there's any legal obligation to furnish your passwords. See: https://twitter.com/GraemeEdgeler/status/411040201062895616 (Graeme Edgeler is a well-known NZ law commentator).
There are tons out there. I've been using the new Kinesis Freestyle for a while and it's by far my favorite. Here's a good review of the product http://www.bestergonomickeyboard.net/kinesis-keyboard-ergono...

There are several reviews of ergonomic keyboards on this site so you can glance around, I'm sure you'll find your fit.
Sublime Ubuntu Google Chrome (trying to phase into Firefox)

I use Python and Javascript
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On the responsive performance side of things, I've been building a tool to help track build differences and load performance across different viewport widths. Demo for The Guardian here... http://speedcurve.com/demo/
That's right. The argument I often hear from people about the Snowden stuff is that, in contrast with a corporation, the government is there for "its people" and "will never abuse its power". What they forget is that the government is run by people, and people are by nature selfish and are looking for personal gain. So as you say, I think that "a government that relies on the moral character of its officials" is doomed to get corrupted and exploited, sooner or later.
He is so funny, there are actually dogs at USA airports who particularly look for any agricultural food to prevent plagues. They do not smell for bombs or drugs, they really smell for apples.
I bet it was still easier than programming the DX7 by hand though.
Well, it is a server product so WiFi support isn't very relevant. The wire is still easier to secure so it might help for certification (speculating here).
Sandstorm: new experimental network stack 3x faster than current generic stacks
A ton of production applications do not need a full server worth of capacity per server process.

And as someone who uses virtualisation like this extensively: it is about separating functional concerns. I have images of our "standard" web frontends, and our "standard" database backends and their slaves. We can deploy one of those with a few commands to any of our VM hosts (currently using openvz, but looking at both LXC and KVM and combinations). I don't want them co-mingled because it complicates migrations as needs change.

E.g. some customers could easily fit on a single server when we start deploying our apps for them, but may a year down the line require a complicated multi-server setup. When they do, and it's all in containers, we can migrate the web container to another machine (or duplicate it and load balance), and database container somewhere else, and it's all generic tools. We don't need to start messing around and untangle dependencies on a single server.

Having them neatly isolated in small manageable chunks also means that we are free to change hardware specs, and move containers around depending on what is most cost-effective rather than having to make sure everything fits.

And there's the dependency issue. In my experience, I don't trust for a second that you will end up with a working setup if you ship packages and install them on a pre-existing OS install. It takes about 5 seconds from someone other than a very experienced sysadmin gets an ssh login to a server before it deviates from the servers it is supposed to be identical to, at which points all bets are off whether or not your app will run once deployed to your production servers at all. VM's and containers provide the opportunity to easily guarantee that the images you deploy are unchanged from what you tested on.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Obama is kind of the CEO of the government, isn't he? So he's the person that should be held accountable for stuff going wrong (or right) in his government.
That would be useful - sometimes you have to change the system time to debug some code, and if that trips up all the other containers, its a deal breaker for us.
Startup founders get 'prenups' for billion dollar breakups
"Momentum Machines estimates that every fast food franchise in America spends an average of $135,000 annually on staffing."

Think about that for a second.

$135,000 is all the entire staff of a McDonalds sees per year, in pay and benefits.

It's already almost a vending machine, for all it contributes to our population's welfare.
I'm European, and the first I've experienced is having to take off my shoes while someone pats me down because the metal detector beeped at my belt or shoes, and someone else X-rays my stuff.

I found it annoying and invasive, but it sounds like even the mildest TSA procedures are a lot worse than that.

No, actually the worst I've experienced was having to bribe some guard in Mali because I couldn't find the receipt for my luggage.
No. I have two little ones at home (2yo and 6 weeks), and no steady employment. Of course I can't afford daycare. My wife and I have off-time measured in the minutes per 24-hour period. I seriously can't remember the last time I got a full nights sleep. But I am more resolved about this matter than before my wife and I had kids.

Being a parent is an awesome responsibility. You more than anyone or anything else shape who you kid becomes, and how they develop is determined by what you allow to be brought into their lives. The damage done by passive screentime, especially at such a young age is immense. It alters the personality of your child. It kills creativity and playful inventiveness. Which, by the way, are the core elements to success no matter what you doing in life. These parents are - little by little - doing life-long damage to the psyche of their children for the transitory and selfish reward of a few minutes downtime.

That is, as I said before, disgusting.
In the world of business, the behavior of those ATF agents would be described as fraud and/or embezzlement.
With an increasing number of Bitcoin based startups raising substantial capital, there might be an incentive to keep the price of Bitcoins high.

Launching soon: http://www.codeforbitcoins.com/
Well, that's not what people say while they're shoveling the snow out of their driveway just after the snow plow filled it with snow from the street, though.

Or when they slip in the slush and ruin their mail when coming back from the community mailbox.
Fake Money - A popular weapon in fighting corruption
For one you can't sort playlists. At all. So I have a shared playlist with a few friends, and since its being going for a while, if I want to listen to the new stuff on it I have to spend a good minute scrolling down - not optimal.

Adding stuff to playlists is annoying, could do with a bit of help. The search on the ipad app is a mess; I appreciate the thinking behind being able to follow your search history and go back a bit, but if I hit the search button I want to search for a song, not search through my history!

Generally just little niggles, I can't complain about the overall service.
Really like the idea, if you can get enough bloggers on board.
Well, there's another vote of confidence in Bitcoin. It seems to be a battle of good and bad press. Ultimately, I don't think it matters. The votes are in and the people have said they want virtual currency. If it's not Bitcoin, next man up.
Any profession that teaches computing can benefit from some coding skills. (And similarly, any profession where you ever produce some written words can benefit from learning how to write well.)
Sandstorm: specialised web-server 3.5x faster than nginx
Thank you, this is excellent!! Just when I needed it too.
The reason that HN looks okay on it is because HN is laid out with a series of nested tables, just like we did in MacWeb's heyday.
Well then, the most important problem that needs fixing is those social standards and laws which cause harm without any acceptable reason.
How would website owners have confidence that their article would appear on a blog with significant traffic?
The black box of cell data tracking and charging
Why does this remind me of an episode of the 'Big Bang Theory'?
Just don't trust your business to a "site". If it is your business, then your "site" should include a blog that should have regular articles about all sorts of related things, including about other related sites who hopefully have their own blogs and will write about your site. There needs to be a buzz of activity around your business or people will stop coming in the door.

Dirty windows? Spider webs in the doorframe? Trash on the sidewalk? Paint fading? Lightbulb burned out? Sign peeling? These are signs that the business is dying and the passersby will gladly help you out by not shopping there and by telling their friends to avoid the place.

Life is like that in the real world; why should the Internet be any different?
for those that are interested, backend is in clojure

using http-kit and enlive for scraping; templating with stencil
It's also related the other way - if everything you do or say is public, it won't be held against you. Noone cares about your sexual kinks or comic tastes, if everyone knows about the even weirder issues of the president and all the congressmen.
While VODs may start slow I find the playback much more reliable than streams here in Europe.
When are you going to add altcoins support?
Also, why can't I import privkeys like I can with blockchain.info?

Finally, your API documentation is out of date and the examples don't accurately reflect the data that Coinbase sends in response.