skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have experience with a "Yeahpad Pillbox 7" or whatever it's called, with similar specs. Cost me $60 CAD even, mailed from Hong Kong a year ago, so a price point of US$38 for one now is believable.

They work fine as long as you don't expect too much. For example, installing the Facebook and Gmail apps on mine made it frustratingly slow each time it was unsuspended since these (relatively) bloatware apps - for such limited hardare - could take up to a minute to settle down. Similarly, Google Chrome is slower than the stock android browser on there, and for most practical surfing I use Opera Mini, which does most of its rendering server-side and works as well on this hardware as anything.

Youtube and Dailymotion videos play fine, although the Youtube app takes its time to start up. The weird media player that came preloaded can play full-on 1080p H.264 videos effortlessly. I don't know how they do that, must use some clever hardware acceleration.

But on the whole, just don't expect that "Android is Android". These are minimalist web surfing tablets, not pocket supercomputers.
Import Paypal transaction history in HomeBank
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the LAN
No malware was stirring, not even LoveSan;
The firewalls were racked by the router with care,
In hopes that no hacker soon would be there;

The users were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of emails danced in their heads;
And me with my MacBook, and fresh packet cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

When out from the pager there arose such a clatter,
I sprang to my desk to see what was the matter.
Away to the browser I flew like a flash,
Came through the VPN and refreshed the cache.

The sign on the certificate gave me to know
The session was safe, so I opened it - Lo!
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature email, and in text that was clear,

With a new device driver, with a quick "ho ho ho",
I knew in a moment it was our CSO.
More rapid than eagles his memos they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

"Now, firewall! now, filter! now, intrusion detection!
On, event correlation! deep packet inspection!
Build layered defense! to the top of the wall!
Now block away! block away! block away all!"

As alarms that before the wild network worm fly,
When they meet with my console, mount up to the sky,
So up to the network the sensors they flew,
With the rack full of gear, and the CSO too.

And then, with a twinkling, I heard on my cell
The custom ring-tone - the network was well.
As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,
Down to my inbox he came with a bound.

His message was brief, what was afoot?
Were servers and systems safe at the root?
A bundle of appliances stacked on his rack,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

Their lights -- how they twinkled! Their vendors - how merry!
They stopped all attacks, they paged my BlackBerry!
The poor little hackers were drawn up like a bow,
And tied up in knots in the honeypot below;

The stump of net packets held tight in our teeth,
With logs all analyzed, traceroutes were a breeze;
Our policies sound, vulnerabilities patched,
Our security systems just could not be matched.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his audit,
tested the firewalls; then turned to report it,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up our T3 he rose;

He sprang to his limo, gave his consultants a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!"
As of AngularJS version 1.2, the promises provider ($q) is fully Promises/A+ compliant.

http://blog.angularjs.org/2013/11/angularjs-120-timely-deliv...
That made complete sense to me. There's a trend recently of people focusing on native mobile apps instead of websites (see Keith Rabois on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rabois/status/406519032624320512 "nobody is going to be using the web soon"). I read this article as a reaction to that trend.
Well I'm not sure if moving several times and all other factors have made it exponentially harder to recover the data. It's double wrapped in a thick ziplock inside that shiny metal bag that hdd's come in when purchased out of the box and then in the freezer but of course it's been thawed and refrozen several times by now. I have no idea what the state of deterioration is or how far it'll be if they ever reach that high!
3. Create a disposable wallet. Move some money to it. Buy with the disposable wallet.

The worst they can do is associate the disposable wallet address to your name and sell that information to somebody.
An Apple a Day
When I moved away from catch-all, I analyzed my emails from the past 5 years to find all the email addresses I used (grep on my Maildir to find To: *, and then uniq) and then simply added ~15 forwarders. Haven't missed anything I cared about since.
... charity which makes money by selling you corned beef in a supermarket
You hold Ctrl (or Shift+Ctrl) while you tab to cycle all the way through all your tabs. The first time you press the combination, it switches to the last tab you were in. This is how it is in version 2, anyway.
Feedback wanted: Any demand for 18x24 Business Model Canvas posters?
IMHO, the Pirate Bay has already served the primary purpose for which it was created - spreading the word.

Whether or not TPB continues to exist in the future, whether it is forced to recede into the deep web with a .onion address, it has already ensured that searches with a ".torrent" clause added, will yield results. Piracy and torrenting sites have now accrued a hydra-esque proportion - if you stifle one, two more will almost certainly appear to take its place.

Personally, I'd like to see other piracy sites step up and create some more of these 'moles' for the whack-a-mole game that is being played with their domains - for fun and science, if not for anything else.

Rather than try and play whack-a-mole to plug what are essentially inconsequential leaks, why not try and give the market what it wants? IMHO, the market wants content, the market wants it at a reasonable price and the market wants it now. Why not find a way to deliver it to them? I get the feeling that the millions being spent in frivolous cease-and-desist letters and inconsquential lawsuits will help accelerate finding a solution that can make both parties happy?
Now may be a good time to revisit an old adage of investing: never catch a falling knife.
genius - will have to steal this and use :)
Charlie Stross writes in the article kindly submitted here: "Bitcoin violates Gresham's law: Stolen electricity will drive out honest mining. (So the greatest benefits accrue to the most ruthless criminals.)" I try to follow most of the Bitcoin threads here on HN, but I've missed that argument before. It makes sense that mining-by-theft will eventually displace mining-by-buying-hardware, and that is indeed not a behavior to encourage by the incentives of Bitcoin.

"Moreover, The Gini coefficient of the Bitcoin economy is ghastly, and getting worse, to an extent that makes a sub-Saharan African kleptocracy look like a socialist utopia" is an argument that tests people's commitment to neutral principles. If you don't like badly skewed differences in wealth, I suppose you wouldn't like badly skewed ownership of Bitcoin. Or do you like that anyway, as long as you have more Bitcoin than the other guy?
Thank you for generously sharing your feedback about whether anyone wants these or not (better to find out now, before buying inventory)
Would love to hear more details.
I'm programmer(not designer) so it might be the reason I'm missing something there :)
But the fact they start with Django means you can expect
a) They will play nicely together.
b) There will be consistencies between the libraries.
c) Magic things like the Amdin interface will work.

(Is there any good replacement for Djangos Admin in another framework? Its amazingly powerful with a small amount of configuration).
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I wonder what Bitcoin reward halving will do when it next happens (2016). It should certainly make it much less worth investing in as much electricity, and should thus bring down the carbon footprint.
Don't argue with success. It just makes you look like an idiot.
I should add that the web interfaces to Facebook and Gmail work just fine in Opera Mini.
very cool, basically 6 ibeacons with wifi and sensors. how much is this gonna cost?
I am sure everyone knows about the Monster, Dice, Glass Door, etc. job boards BUT I strongly recommend using the "Startuply" job board visit http://startuply.com/ -- This is an excellent job board that solely focuses on the openings at Tech Startup companies.
"Is It A Good Idea To Microwave An XBOX 360?"

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

"Is It A Good Idea To Microwave A PlayStation 3?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rWyJXpezPs

"Is It A Good Idea To Microwave A Nintendo Wii?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OydTZpbp0EE
Who Tried to Hack Your Microsoft Account?
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Many medium-sized businesses in Germany have already been banning any and all US online services for company use, but the revelations might increase their number even more, for example.

And I don't think it's limited to online services.

Cisco routers? Intel chips? Microsoft software? Suddenly just about every American technology product is about as suspicious (or even more so) than anything out of China.

I believe this whole sordid affair and especially the revelations about the subversion of protocols and possible back doors has tainted the US tech industry, possibly beyond repair.
When you have 3 kids to take care of and have no background in finance/accounting/etc. do you really want to start getting into THOSE details too? Why would you doubt your husband, the man who's supposed to take care of you until the death do you part?

...Right?
I respectfully disagree that these are visually appealing. They look like a trash can to me.

I respect Apple for continuing to innovate. Most of the time their innovations are rewarded with market acceptance. But I think this one is going to be a miss.
At least recently, new cars loan often have interest in the range of <3%. I have one car loan at 0.9%; and my last two before that were at 1.9% and 3.9%.

But I think most importantly, a mutual fund is much more liquid than a car (or a house).

If I had the choice between pre-paying $11,000 towards a car loan and sticking money in the bank; I would probably choose to stick it in the bank or a mutual fund. I always have the option of paying down a car loan if I want, but once I pay it down, I no longer have the cash. Stuff happens, and the utility of having the cash is more than potential savings from not paying a small amount interest for a few years.
Ah, by in finance I meant working directly in finance. I work as a financial analyst.
China is a big player, but it's just one of many.

But even China can't stop bitcoin from being used in China. They just made it harder, that's all.

Bitcoin keeps getting adopted, the infrastructure is getting built, better software is being written. Whether you like it or not, it's getting more popular, that's just a fact.

I predict it will take Western Union and Money Gram and many smaller money transferers out of business in a few years. I'm sort-of confident it will take a significant portion of Paypal's business as well.
I work with logmanagemant solutions for multiple application systems. The primary issue I see with logging is that no formal standard for events has ever been agreed upon. This effectively results in a million different event formats (whatever the developers think up) and make aggregated and correlated data evaluation quite hard.

The only options that I came across is a proprietary specification called CEF (common event format) and a dead project called CEE (common event expression) which IMO was over-engineered.

From a BI view the current logging formats could as well be /dev/random and this makes logging of somewhat limited use.

It's useful though when an admin reads individual log messages trying to debug an issue.
"storage in convenient ... form"

If you can't store it, you can't use it, so it doesn't matter how green it is, it won't be used.

The ideal transportable liquid fuel is diesel with gasoline a very close second. Some peculiar and temporary engineering and economic issues make gasoline ideal for passenger cars but in a very long run perspective the whole world is going diesel, its just the future has arrived a little quicker for some parts of the world than others. A common sci fi (and tech) theme.

Originally the diesel engine was developed by the Diesel bros (no kidding) to run on nut oil not crude oil. The Diesel bros had a political axe to grind about farms having self sufficient tractors much like they had self sufficient ox drawn plows. To say things didn't turn out that way would be an understatement, but there's no scientific reason it won't work that way in the future.

The primary problem with nut based biodiesel is you can't scale the production up to reasonable economic levels by shoving entire walnut trees thru a pipeline... but you can pump algae thru a pipeline...

So that's the big pix of why people are trying to turn algae into diesel.
Flask is very similar, but they do plugins better - many of the plugins are just thin wrappers around the existing (good) libraries for namespace and context handling -passing the core library functionality to the user. It's also been growing in popularity (hence support and active development).
Does anyone have any links describing the new CSRF for JS GET requests? Also they misspelled CSRF in the blog post title :/
Technology doesn't move backwards in time. Or in other words: As long as there isn't (from a technical point of view) a better thing than Bitcoin (for all of its current use cases) Bitcoin won't die.
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The BMC is a free PDF. I took it to FedEx (Kinko's) and they printed it 18x24 for $4.
"It makes sense that mining-by-theft will eventually displace mining-by-buying-hardware"

I don't really understand why - if something is legal, and there are legal reasons to invest in it, then generally legal investment has been higher than illegal investment. Sure, some people will use malware to mine, but they won't be doing so with ASICs, so it won't bring in much money. So we're talking about people doing it with _actually_ stolen electricity, and you'd hope that the electricity companies were good at spotting that nowadays...
Ask HN: What would happen if American companies stopped accepting USD?
This is a thought I had, what would happen if Papa John's or Walmart started only accepting Bitcoin and Litecoin for purchases? Would that even be legal? What would it do to the economy, would the government lose power since they no longer control the almighty dollar?

What other questions would this bring up?
Which is probably why they use Sublime Text.
I have learned the netiqette rules in 1990 when I learned about internet. The RFC has gathered rules that were created before.
Many countries with EMV standards implemented (Canada, European countries, Japan, etc.) will use chip over the mag stripe on the back. When this article refers to Track 2 data, it is referring to the magnetic stripe.

Of course, if your card has a mag stripe, it is still susceptible to this attack if you use it in an ATM which reads the track data and has the virus.
If you know what is Cauchy's stress tensor, know about finite element analysis, and grad classical mechanics, its understandable. If you don't know about that, you will not learn it in a demo...
Very strange Nokia Lumia 2520 ad
You are bit confused. What he meant is that you cannot buy high and sell low and make money, which is obvious. Its bit ironically because people will always tell you buy low sell high, duh, but its easy to say that looking on historical charts, much harder to predict future. You never know if X is high or low for stock Y. Some people are glad they dump on $1,000 but that's silly. They are glad they were lucky because had this thing go to $10,000 they would have felt like winning 5 out of 6 numbers in month-worth accumulation of lotto. Its all pure speculation at this point.

Short selling, in short, means you put a bet against commodity that this commodity will not rise up but lose value. Not all stocks/instruments can be "short sell", but you can for example bet against oil. So you say "I don't have any barrels but I can bet with someone this $100 worth of barrel will go down to $50. Can you bet against me?". Then someone comes and says "okay I believe it will be $150; I will buy this virtual security from you" (because you don't have oil at all so you sell virtually, on short sell. So actually you are negative 1 in quantity, someone is positive 1. If the value goes down to $50, you "won". So they need to cover the ride from $100 to $50 and you are $50 richer. They lost. So even if stock tanked, you gain/won. At such a point you actually buy the stock back from him to go from negative 1 to zero. If, however, the stock goes up to $150 you lost $50 because you were negative in quantity and you short sell. So there are people losing money when stock goes up.

This mechanism was created many years ago to protect commodities like orange juice or cocoa pricing on stock exchange from large fluctuations.
I don't understand what it is supposed to do.

> Check out the documentation section to get started.

> Documentation: TODO.
>> Unless you're very paranoid then a single pass of zeroes should be sufficient.

If you're paranoid it won't matter how many passes of zeroes you do. After 1 it's done.

If you're still paranoid, hard drives make great rifle targets.
Have you seen "Frozen?" It really was a beautiful-looking film with lots of opportunities to show off the simulated snow they modeled.
I still think the loose concept of "loosely coupled pieces" is a massive hand waving over the difficulty in making something multiple pieces. It is typically the goldilocks search. When do you have too many pieces, and when do you not have enough?

I have yet to see a prescriptive approach to this that works. About the best I've seen is the holistic iterative approach. First make something, then look to see where you can isolate changes and make them. Repeat. If this fits a model of TDD, it is new to me.
Way to use an anecdote of a single commodity to claim the entire economy is experiencing extreme inflation.

Moreover, you know tuna is extremely overfished right? This helps explain the price of that can you bought going up. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/09/overfishi...
and with the Mexican government stepping away from restrictions of foreign investment in their oil fields will technology like this ever take off or need too?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-16/north-america-to-dr...
Or in other words: As long as there isn't (from a technical point of view) a better thing than Bitcoin (for all of its current use cases) Bitcoin won't die.

I've studied the history of technology formally as part of my undergraduate education, and there is no such general principle of how technologies are adopted in a society. Bitcoin could quite readily die. Whether it will or not remains to be seen, but people betting real money that Bitcoin will not die are best advised to diversify their investments.
When ST4 will go in beta.
You may think so, but it's not.

Imagine a scenario like this.

- There's 10 units of wealth in the world
- There's 10 units of currency in the world

At this point, 1 unit of currency corresponds to 1 unit of wealth. But what if someone presses a button and conjures up 10 units of the same currency into his own bank account?

- Still 10 units of wealth in the world
- Now there's 20 units of currency in the world

.. So now, after someone printed money for himself, 1 unit of currency only corresponds to 0.5 units of the wealth available in the world. So everyone who holds that currency just lost half of their purchasing power, which is kind of bad. But the guy who printed money doesn't give a fuck - his share of the total purchasing power went up from zero to five, after all, while everyone else's dropped.

Of course, this is grossly simplified, and possibly partially wrong/inaccurate etc, but you get the idea, right? We really do lose purchasing power when more currency goes into circulation.

Besides, we haven't even touched the effects of zero interest rates, borrowing massive amounts of money that will never be repaid, economic stagnation, an ever larger portion of the national tax revenues going towards paying interest on the ever more massive debts, and so on.. It's all bad, and it's all something that: 1) we do not want to happen, and 2) would not happen in a free market (with a market-chosen currency etc).

But don't take just my word for it: http://mises.org
Question for current ST3 users: how stable is this ST3 beta as compared to ST2? I tried an early beta and it crashed horribly in the middle of a code-marathon, lost me a few crucial bits of code. Switched back immediately to ST2.

Is it safe to install this ST3 beta now?

PS: I'm referring to the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit version, if that matters at all...
"No one has been able to show me an usable way to do TDD when coding native UIs, mobile OS, embedded systems or when using third party libraries not built with testing in mind."

I agree. However, I do not consider this a strike against testing; I consider it a strike against native UIs, mobile OSs, embedded systems, and third party libraries that don't support testing. You may not do TDD (I generally don't), you may not strive for 100% coverage, but testing is a fundamental aspect of serious software engineering, and anything that actively fights your attempts to test it is a big strike against that tech. I only use the ones that fight you that hard because there's unfortunately no competition, but it's still a disgrace. In 2013, testing ought to be a fundamental first-class concern of any new UI library, yet here we are.
And an at-your-own-pace course!
What is Pincus doing there? [1]

Does anyone know if there are any backdoors built into Zynga games?? Their userbase is still impressive.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...
I'd be curious to know if any of the altcoins have tried creating an inflationary currency? I guess you'd still need some kind of reward for early adaptors though?
FWIW, most "investments" that regular people make in the stock market are also, in fact, speculation. Once the stock has been issued originally, the issuing company receives no proceeds from subsequent sales of that stock. There might be secondary or tertiary effects that eventually lead to real investment, but for the most part, the majority of American's retirement savings are in speculative holdings.
The only issues I've had on OSX are plugin compatibility issues with Python 3. It's been more than stable.
To me, the greatest revelation in this article was the Gini coefficient of bitcoin, which, according to the author, " makes a sub-Saharan African kleptocracy look like a socialist utopia".

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51011.0
EDIT: Plot of the wealth distribution in bitcoin: http://postimg.org/image/hzjmgepa3/
There are some really bad points in here. Like this:

Bitcoin's utter lack of regulation permits really hideous markets to emerge, in commodities like assassination (and drugs and child pornography).

So are you saying I can't pay for drugs with cash?