skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No big deal. If one wanted to exploit NSMenuExtra with an App Store app, a separate web downloadable "plugin" would be able to take over this sort of "verboten" functionality. Coordination via group container IPC would make this work (eg plugin present ? Tell plugin to do its thing and don't show the menu : fallback to crappy NSStatusBar).

"There's always a legal way around any rule."
Using GAAP (Groupon Accepted Accounting Principles), Uber's Gross is $10B.
Nexus is the best selling android tablet. What else do you need?
14 wearable computing devices
In the long term, can bitcoin be able to survive if it doesn't have property of having anti-speculation system in it's design ?
Yahooo!
"Tiny changes" are his words. It was tiny in the amount of characters, but apparently some people consider it not so tiny in meaning, otherwise this whole storm would not have ensued.

Some people consider it tiny, other don't. There is no consensus.

Also, I don't think anyone can claim copyright over the change of 2 words (so in the intellectual property sense it was tiny), so if there was CLA- and other process-related complications, he could have done the same edits himself. Takes one minute, problem solved, shitstorm avoided. Would also have saved a lot of his and everyone's time.
Can one record include many rows? I would assume so.
>Password leaks and user privacy breaches? Customer information that can be sold to competitors?

Source code does not include that information. Do you know how software works?
There certainly was.

"SO has probably added billions of dollars of value to the world in increased programmer productivity."

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/380018564792455168
> There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual.

I wonder how many people skip right over this in the article thinking that's just another pointless or no-substance sentence.

It pretty much sums up everything that makes Bitcoin unsutable for any type of real world (at scale) transactions and trade.
Yahoo's new "Global News Anchor" is vaccine skeptic
I always have an uncomfortable feeling these exist purely to harvest email addresses. Not that it stopped me using it, the results are of interest and my email address is already plastered all over the place.
Much prior HN discussion on this article.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22lis...

I guess the duplicate URL checker has a time-out period?
Ditched controlplane bc the shell evidence source hangs. Using a shell script which is just a loop via a library launchdaemon instead.
You can separate this into two statements:
1) Your wife/husband is not your friend.
2) Your friend is not your wife/husband.
I know a guy who swears he is more productive by starting his mornings with:

1. drink a cup of coffee

2. take a good shit

3. tackle a big problem
Ditto. Sleep and reading hacker news.
> Oh you need that abandoned Chemistry application from 2006 that depends on X11? Spin up a VM.

No, just load a compatibility library, possibly in the form of a wrapper program. If Wine can run Windows programs on Linux by translating Win32 to POSIX and X11, which it can to a very usable extent, something equivalent can translate X11 library calls to whatever the new library speaks, especially since it will be able to use whatever X11 code it needs.
The biggest moment for me was when I started thinking about productivity (or its absence) as a matter of willpower, and started to think strategically about how to make it easy. It's still a struggle to think that way: it seems like you should be able to grit your teeth, roll up your sleeves, and become productive. But that's not really how our brains work. Not mine, at least. For me, after that mindset shift, the most valuable strategies have been creating early external deadlines, drafting in longhand or into a voice recorder—and, above all and whenever possible, working closely with awesome collaborators rather than alone.
f* yes.
Can we say that mBTC is some kind of devaluation tool to fight with inflation process which participants of the system are trying to build ?
Remember to take into account that doing something similar to SO but scoped more narrowly could actually hurt the help/answer community through fragmentation more than help it.
The belief that the value will rise is only a minor part of my interest and investment in Bitcoin. My primary reason is a belief in the increase of its abilities and usefulness. Having programmable money opens a whole bunch of possible opportunities that haven't even been conceived yet. At the very least, it offers opportunities to disrupt the business practices of a lot of notaries, title companies, gambling operators, wire transfer companies, transparent systems for non-profit finances, etc.

The concept of an open distributed ledger that doesn't require you to trust the parties you are dealing with is exciting.

Simply put, I think its the future of monetary transfer. Perhaps not a good system to replace daily transactions, but certainly a good system for bulk transactions and to build a whole new generation of finance.
Yes agreed.

Binary downloading seems to be increasing due to both the higher speeds and the anonymity USENET can provide in comparison to filesharing system like torrents.

Now yes, perhaps discussion groups are on the decline and being replaced by individual websites and their forums but I feel that USENET still offers a great advantage in the case of say medical conditions - were you want to be anonymous but still want to participate in a discussion.

Granted if you are uploading copyrighted content in your home country you can be tracked but otherwise USENET is anonymous

Also sites like http://usenetreviewz.com/ are advertising Black Friday specials and keep up to date news articles on their so yes, USENET may be now well known but I think USENET will be around for a long time
That is a political argument against copyrightability though not a legal one. There is also the possibility of fair use arguments which probably could be decided by the court.

Do remember that if you independently come up with the same API for a function without copying that is not infringement (copyright is not patents).
>This is a rather shortsighted view. Integrated graphics are rapidly catching up to desktop cards.

I don't see how it's short-sighted, mainly factual. Integrated graphics are cards are rapidly catching up to only the lowest end discrete cards available.

How many people sticking solely to laptops were ever doing much gaming on their desktop back when they had one? I don't think it's useful to conflate all the people replacing their crappy old Dell desktops with a new laptop to people replacing gaming desktops with gaming laptops.

>And yes, I very much can have an immersive experience on my 15" display, as can many other people.

I'm sure plenty of people would have an immersive movie watching experience crowded around a 15" laptop as well, but I'll stick to my large screen TV in the living room personally.
Sigh

- Confirmation times are not reduced by more miners, more miners = higher difficulty.

- Coins can be double spent before confirmations, see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Double-spending. Also re security n.b. the 51% attack.

- The reward for solving a block is the major incentive to mine: 25 BTC reward at ~$1000. Mining costs money, what is the incentive to mine without that $25k? Spoiler: more fees.
Stop Saying Bitcoin Transactions Aren’t Reversible
How? A phishing site can relay any of this information by acting as a client to the real site while prompting the end user for the requested credentials.

The only way FIDO could prevent this would be to make the credentials dependent on the URL in the browser, but I don't see where it does this.
Hi there, you can find a high-level roadmap here: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/hack/ROADMAP....

We ship on average one major release per month, and one minir release per week. Each major release comes with a detailed blog post explaining significant improvements and what we're planning next.

For example here's the 0.7 announcement: http://blog.docker.io/2013/11/docker-0-7-docker-now-runs-on-...

0.6 announcement: http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/websockets-dockerfile-upgrade-...

It's true that the dates projected in that blog post have slipped - mostly because the amount of usage, contributions and integrations we had to deal with is 10x what we expected - docker is a VERY active project! And we're still adjusting to that.

Another thing that happened since that blog post is our partnership with Red Hat (and several other major partnerships we're not yet allowed to disclose) which gave us the opportunity to make docker available on many more machines. For example 0.7 was shipped in collaboration with Res Hat for support of unmodified linux kernels: that collaboration meant more external patches to review and digest, and a delayed release, but now docker runs on all linux distros! So I think it was worth it :)

I will be updating that roadmap document soon, and perhaps we can write another blog post when that happens.

I'm always happy to answercquestions on irc (#docker on freenode) or on the mailing list!
Lol. You don't even understand that what you are foaming at the mouth about. Confirmation rounds are designed to take, on average, 10 minutes. That's the way the protocol is designed. Even I know that, but then, I'm not a blind rabid dog follower.
Flipper USB, a US company sells cables/adaptors with USB-A plug that works both ways. I've no experience of them though, and it still leaves the Micro-B connector with a wrong way up

http://www.flipperusbsales.com/flipperhome.html
> used to find possible critical holes to exploit.

If a competitor did this, they are risking having their entire business shut down for hacking. Seriously, what are you thinking?
It's rare per pound, but it's not limited in any real sense like bitcoin. Gold is mined to the point where 2% of it is added to the traded/stored amounts. It's pretty much guaranteed to lose value.

And then there's this coming soon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining

> Only 6 elements (ruthenium, palladium, rhenium, iridium, and rhodium) are rarer.

I think you forgot to count all the truly rare elements on the periodic table past number 90. You know, the ones that decay in hours, minutes, seconds or microsends.
Wow, great example. That's exactly what I wish had happened here.
I'm a bit skeptical regarding the weight of these biases on everyday life. Looking at all these biases, and the fact that no one is actually free of them (except perhaps some enlightened few) would suggest that we're all making choices which most of the time are based on assumptions that have little anchoring in reality. If this were so, shouldn't there have been total chaos here on earth?
Is there an easy way to check a password using cracklib via the command line? Preferably on OS X.
Just send me one too :)
We have a predicament. Either iPhone is insecure or the US government security is insecure, or both.

Pick one.

I predict the general consensus will be something moronic like "the government needs a different type of security", so they're both secure.
Are Uber drivers employees of Uber? Or are they contracted out, or independent, etc? If they aren't considered employees, then the $1B gross would not really be gross revenues under GAAP.
This quiet "Show HN" reaction is probably because you haven't actually shown anything.

You don't even need to make your product generally available. If hoist is a set of API's, why aren't they publicly documented?

I'm glad you have a nice terms of service [0] section and a big user registration counter, [1], but I recommend starting with a product demo, maybe in a video.

[0] http://hoistapps.com/terms/
[1] https://twitter.com/hoistapps/status/407350960608907264
Probably because it's known as an audio connector, unfortunately.

Still, there are other uses: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/projects/hijack/

8.5kb/s isn't great, but for low-resolution data sampling it's not bad. (I assume.)
Now that this has made it to the frontpage of HN, I'm waiting for someone to write a post on the millions of dollars lost in productivity because of HN.
I assume that Home Depot will be delivering as well as furnishing the trees. Otherwise it might be worth it just to see a towncar pull up with the tree strapped to the top.
Do you even understand what inflation is?
> I am 100% sure

Your 100% certainty means nothing to me.

> makes my employees and me more productive.

A very strong claim.

> QAOP (Question and Answer Oriented Programming) boosts the productivity significantly.

First Google results don't even know what this is.

Listen, I actually think your claims have merit, but the way you present them is "crap, crap, mega crap". Please cite something we can take take to the manager or test or vet in some other way. Otherwise you comment is just "ME RIGHT. ME SELL YOU SOMETHING".
2FA will make password managers obsolete.
It is amazing how powerful these cognitive biases can be.
As heuristics, for familiar cases, these cognitive biases are acceptable; Why would you expect chaos from that, instead of expecting suboptimal results? And yes, we definitely see suboptimal results.
Here's one that does it till Windows 8 Pro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY-UHdswFkg
What else would you call that number? It's basically sales. Revenue is how much they actually took in.
"Part of the fun of programming in Perl lies in tackling tedious tasks with short, efficient, and reusable code."

Reusable - I have always felt that Perl is a write-only language. :)
Actually it seems that some indie developers are already supporting Linux more often than OSX. I have seen on Steam several titles where the title was multi-platform, but multi as in Windows/Linux, not Windows/Mac/Linux. Interesting trend. I would be very interested to hear about sales numbers on Steam Linux from developers or publishers, and see if the time they spend converting their game is worth it as this stage, or if this is simply a bet on the future of the platform.
Ask HN: How to evaluate job offers?
I'm a computer programmer and I've found myself in the enviable position of having to choose between 2 nice job offers. It's a classic dilemma of high risk v. high reward or corporate work for higher pay (~15%).

I am married with a child and my wife does not work. If I choose to work for the startup I will essentially be unable to save for the next 4 or 5 yrs (or until we learn to appropriately adjust our lifestyle). The corporate gig represents a modest pay bump (and the ability to save) and a more traditional path for career advancement (i'm not 100% sure that matters to me).

Everything about this choice is a conflict.

If I think about my life goals in terms of non-work life then the higher pay, the slow & steady nature of the corp. job, and an office (with a door!) are appealing.

If I think about my life goals in terms of work life then the startup is more appealing - I will have more autonomy, using more exciting tech, solving bigger problems, working with movers & shakers, and generally more of a challenge.

How can I convince myself of one or the other? How can I vet the opportunities of the startup vs. the position of the corp. job? Any insight is appreciated.
Sure, but it still has no utility on it's own. Interesting point though, because it brings up a weakness of bitcoin in general; the same weakness that got us off the gold standard in the first place.
It doesn't come with OS X, but I suppose there should be a port available somewhere. Otherwise, Virtualbox and some minimal distro are probably your best bet.

On Linux command line, you just feed the password to it:

echo "password" | cracklib-check
Looks like the blades are designed to crumple when they fail.
Anyone have any good resources or recommendations for getting into this area? (automatic-algorithmic music generation)
> "I'd like to point out they all were created to serve some useful purpose."

I don't think we can take that as a given. Saying that they are at least intended to appear to exist for a reason seems like a safer starting point.
Seems like Bitcoin doesn't have lots of tools to be considered as reliable payment tool for every possible scnerio in which current currencies are being used without issues. I'm wondering how this and other informations could impact on bitcoin price in the future
He said he ended up on his answer, therefore it's something he knew but forgot. Nonetheless your observation still holds, as the obscurity of the topic increases the chance of such coincidence both by the scarcity of content on the matter and because he is more likely to forget little used information
I assumed the meaning was about "playing games" in the sense of gossip, innuendo and lies.

Don't be devious and underhanded, be genuine.
Leanpub Has Distributed Over A Million Dollars in Author Royalties
If I send coins to an M-of-N multisignature output, I can't economically back out once it's confirmed. In finance we have a special word for that kind of transaction: irrevocable.

Stop Making Misleading Headlines That Aren't True.
Pretty much, yes. In fact I wonder how you can release a complicated product like a mobile device SDK nowadays without millions of eyes solving and documenting problems.

I used to trace into disassembled library code to root cause issues. Now that's somewhere between infeasible and impossible. On Android I can sometimes look at the source to solve issues. On closed platforms I have to rely on cut-and-paste from StackOverflow forums.

Commercial software vendors are lucky SO users are doing their documentation and testing services for free.
Well we already hold them in contempt, the judge may as well join us.
I take it as don't really, deeply trust anyone. It's hard to unpack given the drift in meanings of things like 'intimate'. It could mean don't have affairs with women, or it could mean don't go sharing your secrets. Given the very next line is about keeping secrets to yourself, that's how I take it.
Unless you make it many small shell aliases, such as these:

urlescape () { perl -MURI::Escape -lne 'print uri_escape($_)' <<< "$1"; }
urlunescape () { perl -MURI::Escape -lne 'print uri_unescape($_)' <<< "$1"; }

Then you can reuse them often. :)
Maybe. I'm comparing it to Phoenix; pretty much everyplace else feels too humid now.
"I'm not going to buy any BTC because it's $1000."

Probably means: "The market price is above what I believe it should be."

Not: "$1000 is too much money for me to spend."
I'd like to but a vowel for $100MM, please...
This is stupid, targeting individuals at 'random' is pointless and won't help anything. There is no way to tell whether or not a Character even holds a specific view that they portray. It's called acting for a reason, and this is why "faking it until you make it" is so popular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KwEDgpSWxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWf2LLaHkM0

All that matters post Snowden Revelations is Game Theory - as if this isn't how it's always been. It doesn't even matter what he says now, he has established himself as a Character. Whether he's even a legitimate individual is irrelevant. The fact that he and WikiLeaks both choose to release their documents over time instead of in a single dump gives them the advantage of having or following a script. The only ones who don't know what's on those documents are the public. There honestly doesn't seem to be a reason to trust either party and I doubt either will ever be in any real danger unless they so choose so, because that's all people seem to want in life is to be remembered after death.

The only thing that could ever work is individuals in power promoting a strictly decentralized or public society. Yet, this will never happen because High School never ends, and someone always wants to run the show. So, if the whole worlds a stage how come you aren't looking at the stars?
Came here for this. I don't even buy that many electronics, and I still have a dozen different (normal/macro/mini) USB cables. Now I have to throw them all into a landfill to get basic connectivity? Or worse still, hang on to both the old ones and the new ones to connect different devices, and buy adapters? First world problems, yes, but taking 1 minute of 10 million people's time is arguably as bad as taking a 100 minutes of a 100,000 people's time.
> I feel like StackOverflow is a blade that cuts both ways.

That is a feeling, not a thought.

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...
Wow thanks for the reply. I noticed it mainly (possibly exclusively) occurs when the navbar comes into view, or goes out of view (so scroll up, release,then scroll down). It gets annoying because the nav bar reappears if you switch tabs, or leave chrome and come back later.
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I understand benefits of devaluation if there is a hyper inflation. There is no authoity that could really devaluate bitcoin price, but we could try to devaluate peception of unit here.
If they are a marketplace where the drivers are independent entities from Uber, then the money going to the drivers is not considered revenue under GAAP. Which is why I ask whether or not the drivers are Uber employees or not. I have no idea if they are or not. If they are Uber employees, then it is legitimate revenue, but if there is some agreement where they remain independent from Uber, then it would not, under GAAP.

Think about a site like Expedia, or Orbitz. They do not claim the entire price of the ticket as their revenue, since that money is going directly to the airlines. Their only revenue is the $10 they make from a ticket purchase.

This is the same issue that Groupon ran into pre-IPO where they were claiming the entire deal as their revenue.
I don't think that's fair. It's accurate to say that the US Law is moving away from considering intent at all.
The same Nexus 4 + Android KitKat 4.4 + AT&T SIM Card does not detect unauthorized tethering.
Surprisingly this "feature" only appears when using T-Mobile SIM Card.
It is not the case with Android Jelly Bean 4.3
Not a very clean topic, but shitting really does make me more productive! If I'm feeling groggy, tired, lazy it's usually when I haven't taken a shit in a while.
> Tim Berners-Lee specifically granted permission and encouraged people to adopt the WWW and create their own implementations.

> I'm not sure if there is a formal license grant or not

Where is the actual license? If formats are truly copyrightable, then general "encouragement" is not sufficient, you would need an explicit license, as every open source project has to allow copying of copyrighted code. Where is the actual document that says you can use HTML without infringing the copyright of Tim Berners-Lee or the W3C?

The answer is that there isn't one, because no one thinks that formats themselves are copyrightable.

> They chose to develop the incompatible Dalvik to deliberately avoid Sun's contractual obligations but still benefit from the API design, documentation and existing developer experience expensively created by Sun.

Writing books about your technology does not mean you somehow own the experience that people gain from reading them. Spending a lot of money does not entitle you to exert however much control you feel you deserve.

"Intellectual property" is a balance between the interests of creators and the interests of society. Giving first movers complete control over APIs, formats, and languages that become popular would enable a new wave of rent-seeking, very much like the patent trolling we see now.
A few people are saying that they are most productive by starting their day on a big problem.

I am the opposite of this. I try to tackle a small problem or two in the morning in order to improve my mental state. If I'm able to get things done quickly, then it sets the tone for the rest of the day.