skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm speaking out of context from those people specifically as, for the most part, I don't have any particular adoration for them.

Regardless, you simply cannot take things out of the context of history. In that day, it was common to find scientific evidence (or at least reports masquerading as scientific from otherwise esteemed scientists) suggesting that non-caucasian races were inferior, and weren't meant to be treated as equals.

It wasn't too long ago that the common knowledge was that homosexuality led to increased and unavoidable risk of diseases.

It's too easy to look back on history and decry those idiots for succumbing to common knowledge, but it is naive to do so.. and is analogous to mocking them for letting so many die of Polio, when it is so easily vaccinated against now.
All the theory about currencies and macro- and microeconomy and libertarianism are available in books. But people really like to learn the hard way.

There are a few rules about trustworthiness in economy. Our whole economic system is held together because one rogue actor would be rejected by all its partners if it failed a transaction, and the person wouldn't be able to create a new company if they acted unfairly. This peer-to-peer network is also backed by trade unions, then banks, then governments who vouch for each other.

By trusting Coinbase, a single actor in a very small economy, you have very little leverage, except talking about your mistake on HN and trying to get the consumer's snowball effect. It is not backed by its trade union, nor by its banks, insurances or government.

Don't forget that Bitcoin is a token game which is parallel to your national currency, and allows bypassing taxes. Bitcoins should get what they deserve: As a subversive currency allowing to bypass taxes, it should be fought by governments. Receiving money for a Blizzard account is just as illegal. Because it's a parallel economy which prevents taxes from being duly collected.

I'm not to say that I'm on the governments side, nor on the Bitcoin side. I'm saying they are competing and proponents of one side should be rejected by the other side.

Givn this background, you losing 0.12 BTC is a very mild outcome.
No. "was began" is never, to my knowledge, valid. "Was begun" works sometimes though.
Instinctively I reel the same way, but if you think it through, it's equivalent to complaining about all the ink and paper and cotton and metal being "wasted" on bills and coins.
ISPs or anyone could still insert malicious javascript into your site, or present download buttons or login features on your site.

Visits to your site could be logged by IT departments, getting your users in trouble.

Also I've actually heard of places where port 80 is actually blocked by default (but 443 isn't) and you need permission on a site by site basis to get it unblocked.
Yes that's why this discussion is about ST3.
I think one of the reasons Dogecoin is working so well as an introductory cryptocurrency is because it's all being done for a laugh. A lot of the most vocal people in the other currency communities are out to promote their mining pools or attract money into their favorite alt-coin, which turns off newcomers by giving the whole thing an air of carnival barking.
Reading Eric Evan's DDD book was an epiphany for me. A less ambitious introduction to DDD is InfoQ's Domain Driven Design Quickly. It's available as a free ebook, too:

http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly
I am an african from africa currently in the US giving my perspective.We have always had a house maid,we call them "house girls" and they are usually in the mid teens going up.Most families i knew had one too.Typically these are young girls from the rural places,they go to the city,work as house maids for a year or two and they go home and get married.

This has nothing to do with caste system and everything to do with "cheap labor",if there were no minimum wages laws in america or if americans were getting paid much much much more than they are,it would also have been common here.

Parents send their kids here to day care here because its cheaper than having a "house girl",if the other way was possible,the other way would be more common.
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except they do have a resale value.
Hmm, alright. To your first point, the ultimate conclusion to that idea would be a graded prison, where criminals of like-violence are kept together so everyone has the same likelihood of fending themselves, because I can imagine there are those that are charged with assault being significantly less violent than murderers. I wonder if that would also further lessen the cost for your second point.

Edit: And thanks for your response.
In the last few months, I've been noticing that every major political issue throughout the entire history of America ties strongly into the Civil War, either as a prelude or as an effect. I'm not a historian, though, and I'm worried I have a golden hammer, but...

When I was in high school, I looked around at my school and saw how diverse it was and said to a friend online I'd never met that racism was dead. She told me that, when she was a child, a burning cross had been thrown into her yard. That would have been ~1980.

I don't think society has really moved on at all. I think a lot of us were simply distracted for a while, and deluded by the brevity and light treatment given in schools.
Riiis you have been hellbanned. Contact admins and perhaps ask them what rule exactly you contravened with this one comment - the hellbanning system here is truly kafkian!
Try reselling Angry Birds.
> not to need to such a prefix

You're right; sorry about that. I do get annoyed when I see bogus reasons for not deploying HTTPS. It's made all the worse by people who actually know better but spread FUD because they stand to make a profit from selling expensive HTTPS accelerator appliances. But that's clearly not the case here and doesn't excuse my comment, which, upon reflection, was too harsh.
Craft - A simple Minecraft clone in Dart.
Changed. If /u/dogecoinbot worked here I'd tip you. ;)
I think you just need one HTTPS only cookie (Amazon seems to have two) and just check that one (in addition to the others) at purchase time, since that one can't be stolen.

However, the sign in button is served from a insecure page, so a ISP could MITM that and get your password anyway.
Here's an interesting observation I made.

You can instantly become both the world's richest and generous person. Take a friend that you trust, and sell him a piece of paper for $10000000000000 billion dollars. Suppose he agrees (even if he doesn't have that money right now, he/his descendants can pay it off over their lifetimes). Now you have $10000000000000 billion dollars of wealth. But, you decide to be generous and give $10000000000000 billion dollars to your friend, for free (which in turn allows him to pay off his debt to you).

Basically, two things happened simoultaneously: nothing, and a two-way exchange of $10000000000000 billion dollars. Which, if you report to the government, you both owe a lot of taxes now because you've had a lot of income.
"Preventative care does not result in cost reductions" is a rather contentless argument - it has to be broken down into exactly what people are trying to talk about. For instance, while there may be mammogram-related arguments on one side, it's also obvious that it costs less to take care of a small medical condition that, left untreated, would result in an expensive trip to the emergency room.
How is Dogecoin a good if its only feature is the mode by which it is exchanged?

Disclaimer: I possess Dogecoins
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I'm not saying border harassment is OK, but it's a pretty big stretch to say the experience of Poitras or Appelbaum is an example of routine behavior. Both of them have a seriously adversarial relationship with the US government, it's hard to imagine anything between them and the government is routine.

Again, not saying border harassment is right, but I'm not sure it's part of a backslide away from democracy either. Up until relatively recently, openly going after the government of a world power and then frequently traveling there would result in a lot more inconvenience than some questioning at the border. Even in the "free world", I can't imagine many countries that would completely ignore things like that. Poitras and Appelbaum talk a lot about Germany, but if they focused on the German government the way they focus on the American government, I wonder how friendly German border folks would be to them.
It would be interesting to know how many of those 250k feel that Street View is a useful service, but just don't want their own home/business on it.
> Yes, Glass may fail

Even if Glass' victory is inevitable, it may not be wrong to oppose it. Opposition need not take its value from its chance of success -- delaying the inevitable has value, as does the simple fact of having acted morally.

When asked to choose between the moral highground and the literal highground, many people take the former. I'm not convinced the two don't coincide here, but I don't see a problem with that position in theory.
Anybody knows if the pictures are getting updated? Would be awesome if the Streetview cars never stop taking pictures updating the previous.
Yes, maybe I should ask "would you pay for this service". Actually uservoice is much broader solution and it is not about showing customers testimonials from real people which are on social media. Uservoice is more like help desk + feedback not testimonials.
Preventative means more like having a physical where you discover an easily treated cancerous mole.
I think it's a backlash against complexity, and also some of the backlash is because there is a naiveté that we have outgrown (anytime you outgrow naiveté you look back on your former foolishness with some resentment). Not to say that these architectures are completely bad, by any means. But these 4 architectures can "remind" us of 2 problems:

(1) Times when incidental complexity derailed us (whether we ourselves were the misguided ones who pushed it, or whether someone else inflicted it upon us is beside the point), and

(2) Times when we thought some architecture or idea was an amazing insight, and then later we found out it was only good due to other limitations in our environment/toolset/mindset. (For example, "design patterns" seemed like the greatest insight ever to the Java programmers at the time, but eventually everyone realized they many of them were just workarounds for Java's limitations. They were elegant in a world of single-inheritance OO, but not that insightful at all for functional programming, or languages with closures, or data-driven imperative programming).

So it's a "once bitten, twice shy" feeling. And an anti-hype protection cloak.

Note: I'm not saying these architectures are never a good solution. I'm sure there are cases where they are a great fit. But they still remind us of these issues, so they still trigger a bit of a backlash.
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It makes the people that hold it laugh, which is valuable to them.
In case anyone is curious, Henderson Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson_Island_(Pitcairn_Isla...) is perhaps best known as the remote island where some of the survivors of the whaleship Essex arrived after their boat was rammed by a sperm whale. The story of the Essex is the inspiration for Melville's Moby-Dick.
you are pathetic
Algorithmically generated intelligent news summaries
FBI Special Agent Thinks a MAC Address Indicates Apple Hardware
Coverage in case of emergency is called "catastrophic coverage." If that's what you want, it's available on the health insurance exchanges for anyone under 30. In my zip code, plans start at $90/mo for a 26yo with no family. (In comparison, bronze plans start at $133/mo.)

If you'd rather bet that you won't get an expensive injury (a dangerous idea, in my opinion—emergency health care is expensive in the US), you can just pay the no-insurance fine. But it's not the way I would go.
Oh this is going to end so well
SPDY is less secure than HTTPS though[1]. Plus also supported by less web browsers / HTTP clients than HTTPS too.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/262307/crime_attack_abuses_ss...
2014 will be the year of the ____________ .

There's got to be some better alternatives. Ideas?
Many people prefer partial HTTPS only for pages that need it. The danger of hijacking session id, mentioned in the article, is mitigated by IP protection - remembering client IP when session is created, and denying access of this session id for any other IP.
> pursuing charges of police misconduct

When it comes to diplomats, we might "protect our own", but it is nothing compared to how cops in the USA act.
At big companies credentials matter. Typically it is the HR dept who find potential recruits to interview. They use that CS degree as a filter. Yes it is still possible to get a job without a degree but it is harder. My advice is to stay in school.
I think that's where the IRS' definition of "fair market" value comes into play. They'd only tax you on the market value of that piece of paper... which is $0.
This is fake right? South African sounding name (which happens to be one of a former president) + no mention of it anywhere else on line. Are we posting Onion articles now?

It'd be cheaper to fly up 25 hunters, expenses paid.
People have always bought silly trinkets and useless things, what's wrong with that? This doesn't "fly in the face" of anything, the price is being set by supply and demand. It just so happens memes can create demand.

The people actually investing in dogecoin are doing so because they believe the price is going to go up, the same as people who invest in anything else. They will lose or gain money depending on whether they are right or wrong.
sure - apps dont have a resale value. but that doesnt mean video games in general dont. You're just providing an exception to a rule that's all. Also - you're defying your original point of something being a good. Angry birds is not a good - its a service.
Just for the sake of argument -- We tell software startups to get their MVP out as fast as possible in order gain feedback and improve the product... yet we smack down hardware vendors who have done exactly that?
That's ok. As you said, I should know better (and now I do)
i find comments like this a bit odd.

didn't it used to be the case that america was the good guy because they tolerated dissent?

these days it seems to be that "america is probably no worse than anyone else".

well, ok.

[edit:] and that's ok; i think it's what "we" (non-americans) think. the trouble is that you're not just one more bully. you're the strongest one in the room.
Personally, I think 2014 will be the year of location services because of iBeacons and BT LE.
Someone might rightfully ask the question, "Should I invest in Dogecoin?", and at this stage of our financial markets, I really don't have a good answer for that.

This is where recognising a distinction between investing and speculating comes in handy. It's quite possible to speculate in dogecoin (relying on greater fools coming after) in the short term and make some money. In the long term it is extremely unlikely to have any value at all, so if you take investment to be long term search for value, the answer to should I invest is no.

The interesting thing about fiat (all our currencies at this point, including crypto ones, unless you want to quibble over semantics), is that it depends on confidence for its value. Without confidence it is worth nothing (Assignats, Zimbabwean dollars etc). This realisation doesn't give me great confidence in Bitcoin or any of its spin-offs though. It's an interesting experiment and noteworthy, but I think fatally flawed as a currency or an investment because of the explicit rejection of verified identity, regulation, and inflation and its attempts to emulate paper cash.

Perhaps the next currency to emerge will be corporate sponsored rather than state-sponsored, as corporations are still rising in power over states, but it will be a very interesting century, because most of the national currencies probably won't survive it, and by 2100, no-one will be using physical tokens for payments (cash). States will naturally resist any encroachment on their power over currency and taxation, which up to now has been absolute. I expect any stateless currencies which do manage to rival say the USD to come under heavy pressure from both speculators like Soros, and currency blocs who perceive a threat to their monopoly on trade.
At the time of the alleged crime, the accused was a member of the consular staff, not a diplomat, and would therefore only be entitled to consular immunity, not full diplomatic immunity. Consular immunity extends only to actions taken as part of her consular duties. That's a very important distinction.

India has re-assigned her to a diplomatic post and tried to get retroactive full diplomatic immunity for her, but she was not a diplomat at the time she allegedly committed perjury by misreporting wages.

Edit: added the word "full" to reduce confusion.
I really, really like you and really respect you, but a lot of this is projection:

>Bitcoin was all "we're going to destroy fiat currency, fuck the government." Dogecoin is "hey lol isn't this silly? Have some coins."
> Since then I alway change the lock in the main door.

I'd check your tenancy laws, that's certainly not legal in some countries. I would be evicted if I did that.
Changing Tune
I'm quite fond of Watson's Molecular Biology of the Gene (not to be confused with Molecular Biology of the Cell).

In the stats camp, Jaynes is fantastic, alas a bit difficult. But the prerequisites are very modest. It's self-contained.

Hoel, Port & Stone's volume is a great introduction to basic (w/o measure theory) probability.
AGW wouldn't be a black swan by Taleb's definition anyway, which requires it being completely unpredictable and unforeseen, except in hindsight. Accidental discoveries, like of penicillin, are his best examples. AGW and its effects are more like grey swans - somewhat predictable and foreseen.
I'm able to view the pictures just fine using a desktop web browser.

I guess you mean the pictures are taken by iPhones.
KGB Defector Explains the Theory and Practice of Subversion (1983)
Is there a better predictor that year X won't be the year of Y, besides tech sites in December of X-1 saying "X will be the year of Y"?
Are there any crypto-currencies that are not anonymous? I like secure, modern, low cost transactions, but I don't like the anonymity. I want a currency where everyone knows how much I spent, what I bought, and it applies to everyone. Does that exist?
Master of His Virtual Domain
Err, MAC addresses are allocated to manufacturers so certain values indicate it probably[1] is Apple hardware.

Many of the comments on the op also indicate this information.

[1] Some devices allow you to set a MAC address so it is possible that a non-Apple device is pretending to be one.
Did you even read the article you linked? The CRIME attack involves SSL/TLS, that both HTTPS and SPDY use.
I am your target customer (I think), I hate carrying around things in my pocket. But, this product doesn't really solve the issue. There are plenty of cases that hold cards... this case has a unique feature - it pops out cards mechanically. This doesn't solve the initial pain point. Infact, in my opinion, it adds a layer of complexity to a simple task. Now in order to eject a card, I need to open my phone (with password), open an app (I already have too many applications), find the card, then push eject. Not only is this more complex, but it's one more thing in my life that seems finicky. Something that could break, run out of battery, jam, etc - a simple card holder is a lot more appealing to me. I think you have a cool feature (can see where you left your card), but I'm not sure its enough.

Again, these are my thoughts. I don't know your business. Maybe I'm not your target customer. Wish you the best of luck as you move forward and figure things out. Hope this helps.
wow. such autism. very aspergers
Good point. But what if it's some weird personalized product/service that is worth a lot to one person but worthless to everyone else (like personal memories, photos, etc.).
"Rational" has never meant that people know what they need, only that they know what they want. And people can "want" things for any number of silly or rational reasons. In the case of Dogecoin, it may be silly to you, but humor is the "rational value" people are getting from trading it.
I'm seeing an influx of those social justice posts, and even straight-up American politics. Apart from the whole off topic issue, they're not very good.

For example this post. Your vote doesn't matter because of maths, not some evil Republican plot. There's too many of you for any single vote to have much sway. Same with those impediments to voting, in pretty every civilised country you have to show an ID to vote. I personally don't like the whole "here's your number, here's your ID, without it you may as well not exist" and certainly you won't be using any modern amenities but this is the reality of mass society.
> In any case, residents of the Hamptons are urged to stay indoors from December 29
> to January 8 while the lions are loose.

Has to be fake, but pretty funny!
Part of the reason is because for the longest time, the smallest unit of "value" recognized by most people was 1 US Cent.

Crypto currencies, like Dogecoin are intrinsically more divisible.

If someone made a funny comment on the internet, and i wanted to reward them.

In 2012, I might "like" or "upvote" their comment -- a subjective measure of appreciation.

In early 2013, I might "give gold" or "gild" comments or posts I like on reddit.

In 2014, I'll probably just give some Doge, or whatever the new popular currency is (which I can easily buy with my other altcoin/currencies online). I can also give more or less based on how much I want.

This wouldn't work with pennies or USD because 100 Doge still __feels__ like a lot -- even though it's some fraction of a penny.

For a long time, people would give each other "internets" to reward what they like. The only difference now is that you can buy internets with real money, and they retain at least some quantitative value.
I think there's a more subtle point here. Being smart is good, being overly certain of the ultimate power of reason to solve all problems is something else. It's also a common Achilles heel of smart people.
Ordered it!

Erlang is rather fascinating. It is a relatively old language and for being such an old language it managed to keep consistency and didn't explode into an all singing all dancing pony with 100 ways of doing everything. It syntax is strange compared to run of the mill curly bracket languages, but it is self-consistent.

It is also interested because it is adding rather fundamental features to it like maps. Yes, yes, all the modern languages have them and Erlang is about to them too! despite being a rather ancient language.

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-May/073656...
"...but rarely have I read a book with such a correct thesis and so many misrepresentations, needless ad-hominem attacks, and dubious stories..."

This has always been Taleb's problem. His abrasive personality and latent narcissism water down an otherwise very worthwhile message.
If burglary is considered a violent crime, I may need to rework my comments.

As for jail v. prison, my apologies. I know the distinction, but so few people make the distinction in their use of the two words I usually ignore the difference.
And exactly how many windows did Ghandi break?