skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's unfortunately the exception rather than the norm. I have seen laptops with switches for WiFi, and camera obturators, but manufacturers hardly think about these things. It's obviously not an Apple problem only, but it certainly hinders usability to have physical switches. Yet, I really wished they'd make that standard for all media peripheral (and not just on PC, but any device coming with these features). That would however be easily considered as an admission of failure to provide a secure software environment to their customers, and they might not like that aspect of it.
That would be my impression, and that's really shady.
Wait, are you implying...
The internet is for porn, and everything else amounts to a rounding error.
There no shortage of people who can only find a sense of power in their lives by attacking strangers on the internet. Odds are, none of the haters has never built anything more valuable than a "shitty website." You should just ignore them and be glad that people are paying attention!
In other news, lian-li announces this nifty little aluminum m-itx pc case for $149 for http://anandtech.com/show/7595/lian-li-release-pcv358-chassi... And you can even chose from and upgrade to many different CPUs, GPUs, and internal storage options. See also bitfenix etc.
Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology
0. This is exactly why auditing (internal and external) and settlement processes exist elsewhere. But it's impossible to have a startup deploy every single control at the very beginning. There are costs (time & money) to get things done, those control don't just magically appear. Eventually, with scale, the growing pains of business process debt (like technical debt) will come due. That's a good thing, because building every single control into an experimental venture that might not survive could be a very big waste. Just like a successful venture is a series of experiments, the business side gets built incrementally. As a company gets bigger (whether $ or buzz), it's susceptibility to being targeted increases because the bulleye on its back gets larger.

1. Let's suppose I employ an old gambit: process a large transaction through CoinBase, receive the coins and say "I never received them." I'm sure they have at least enough controls in place to avoid double-credit fraud.
101 feels like a death trap too with all thee buses speeding down.
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I guess what it mean is: I think it needs to be able to solve a problem it wasn't designed upfront to solve. No serious system I've ever seen attempts to do that.

Fair enough. :-)
How sure are you about that? Obviously the flag link goes away for some people.
Having spent some time in financial institutions, I can only agree with lastlogin's point. It's important to remember that there are many such mistakes in large financial institutions every day.

If I could post on yc and quickly get a response from my bank, I'd be a happy customer.
Maybe Oracle Isn't The MySQL Villain So Many People Think
> its lack of traceability

The fracking director of FinCEN herself said, and I quote, "Cash is still the best way to launder money". She said this at the hearing(s) on Bitcoin.
A potentially disruptive electronics startup you should know about: Transphorm
Ah Babylon.com, how I hate you so. May your stupid toolbar burn in hell.
If they can cancel pre-delivery, it's a very different story, because then it can be interpreted as a free option.
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Even though many of the Vagrant-purists and PHP-haters mock it, I am very happy that PuPHPet exists. It is hands-down the best way to show "I only do LAMP" developers what their world can be. And I appreciate any mechanism that is a gateway to something better - Linux got more users from distro-on-a-cd than "how to compile a kernel" books;-)
Well diamonds actually have a ton of useful properties -- beyond just being pretty to look at -- but that doesn't actually justify the price per se.

The problem with Gold is also it's virtue: it's rare. Rarity is good in that it implies value. But let's say you're the American economy and you're growing 2% this year. Should your money supply be governed by how much of it you can dig out of the ground? That is, for example, when South African gold mines were discovered the money supply internationally radically increased, despite having no relationship to economic output. That ends up not working out very well.

Bitcoin though could be thought of more like gold and diamonds not because those things are good to think of as currencies -- they really are not good currencies at all-- but because their all commodities with limited supplies that have markets that move on vagaries with little relationship to any economic necessity or output.
I think you mean 4 second 0-60 time. A 4 second 1/4 mile would be a world record.
That's why I disable the webcam in the device manager
I don't understand why the Broker/MLS system even needs to exist in the first place. I've noticed more people selling their homes directly through Zillow lately -- shouldn't the internet be the ultimate platform for selling homes without forking over 10's of thousands of dollars to a broker?
This pricing reminds me somewhat of the poptarts:

http://i.imgur.com/2PEDR.png
Well diamonds are also valuable because of their use as a coating for cutting instruments. But, much like diamond, your point is solid; gold and diamond have been valuable over the years for the sole reason that people are willing to accept they are valuable.
Which has not traditionally been an issue when "sending money to grandma."
I'm sorry, but its irrelevant. If it tells us that the NSA has turned cyberspace into a giant panopticon, then we already know that. If it tells us that the NSA has been responsibly limiting its surveillance to overseas targets known to be working against the USA, then we know its lying.
http://www.pitchenvy.com/

Not affiliated, just happened to come across it earlier today.
>> Minarcho-capitalism has only one moral rule

You just made up a new political philosophy there.

>> It has no considerations of the virtues its system inculcates in people

The virtues "its system" inculcates in people? Look, we're all brainwashed into the cult of statism while growing up, and I've spent my time arguing against sanity too. But you have to draw the line somewhere, and start seeing reason when it's presented to you.

Freedom is not a "system". It's just the absence of coercion. If you want to call waking people up into reality, and trying to get them to be consistent and rational in their thinking "inculcation", then be my guest. But that changes nothing about the nature of the world we actually live in.

>> nor for their utilitarian well-being. It only acknowledges one rule as being a moral factor. Ever.

Even if we all adhere to the NAP, which we're actually naturally inclined to do automatically (because it's not like people walk around wanting to hurt anyone) we're still free to use our common sense whenever the need arises.

In other words, the NAP is not some all-encompassing, universal moral absolute that rules out any and all considerations for what might be the right thing to do in some specific situation.

>> Meaning: go ahead and eat puppies or kick people in debtors' prisons, because you're still obeying the One Rule of not violating private property.

Your brain is working pretty fucking hard in avoiding having to accept reason and reality. As I said, I've had to go through that phase too. But try and get past it already. Let Larken Rose be your therapist: http://www.youtube.com/user/LarkenRose/videos - he's awesome.

>> you can't structure an entire society on one moral rule that corresponds to nothing else in any other form of ethics or morals

But "don't hurt anyone" is a pretty good moral rule, don't you think? -That's basically what the NAP says.
sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=0

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(points changed) to (new percentage).

e.g. 1.5 to 3.5% means it dropped 1.5% from 5.0% to 3.5%
FWIW, I believe Redfin is itself a brokerage.
I like to warn people about my experience with Elance and their flawed approach to contractor accountability: http://djwonk.tumblr.com/post/50365605390/elance-reviews-don...

I am not holding my breath for the merger to improve this dynamic.
That headline is distinctly average. And I can't find pricing for anything other than the quad and 6 core model on the apple site (but am on a phone, so it may be that I'm missing it).
I don't see this as all that important. South Korea has some fairly strict rules on gaming within the country. I believe to get a game account (like a Steam account, or a WoW account), the company must get the users government ID information. Then they must impose fairly strict regulations on persons under 16 years old. I also believe it's difficult for non-Korean companies to operate their games there due to other regulations. So most gaming companies will outsource running games in Korea to companies like Nexon.
So tying the dollar to the gold standard is meaningless, because paper money is in itself intrinsically valuable? I thought the dollar was fiat [1], i.e. without intrinsic value. Just like bitcoin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
"Networking is for people who don't know what they are doing and who don't have better ideas regarding what to do with their time and energy. "

Wait, what ? No. That's not what networking is for. You don't network only because you have nothing better to do and you are at the bottom of the food chain but because networking helps you create influence in a world where ultimately, everything comes down to human beings. Do you believe that successful people don't network anymore ? You are talking about "networking" as if it is a negative last resort kind of thing for losers. Not quite. I bet if you interview any successful person, they will tell you that people skills/networking is one of the most important aspects of success. Go read the book "how to win friends and influence people" to understand what networking is all about.

Networking is not a one time event. It is a continuous process regardless of whether you are rich or poor, success or failure
This doesn't help here. The computer's control of the light is the problem--it's what lets the malware turn it off.
Lergic: An embedded datalog-like logic programming DSL for Erlang.
Only about half of the students who registered ever viewed a lecture and only 4 per cent completed a course.

My response to that is: "Yeah, so?"

I've signed up for a few classes in the past. I had somewhat underestimated the amount of time I had available to spend on these classes. And then things like work also ramped up, and I didn't finish any of them. Since I didn't pay anything for them, I didn't feel guilty about "dropping" them either.

But I did learn at least something from each of them. Two of them I might try to take again some day.

The relevant question is: "How many people are completing these classes?"

I just think it is awesome in general to have more and more good instructional material available.
Likewise, unlike banks, there is no legal system in place or organizations that assess companies like this and determine whether their transactions complete and such. The downside of the Bitcoin market, pretty much.
How can I be sure that the other person won't run away with my money?
Aren't most startups essentially "shitty lemonade stands" until the magical VC fairy shows up?

What do you need besides actually making money and having users to be considered a 'startup'? Employees? An office in SV? Hype? Buzz? A hyperbolic sense of world-changing self-importance? To not use PHP? What?

He's doing better than I am so respect.
new reply to reply to the edit :)

I don't think I've found a sure-fire way to beat the market, not one bit. I understand that it's risky-brisky. But I do think that non-investment activity will add more legitimacy to the btc economy itself, which is why I opt to spend instead of sell.
> If this were a bubble and it were popping the president would be on the television talking about a Bitcoin stimulus package to stabilize the economy.

LOL! Bitcoin ain't that important. A tradable commodity can express the characteristics of a bubble and yet not be especially significant to a global or national economy.
Oh, absolutely this should give people pause at spending $35k at coinbase (or on bitcoins period). Or, rather, maybe people should stop massive speculation on bitcoins on a platform that takes at least a few days (best case) to clear.
>The very words "sexist" and "racist" are really just smear words. They convey no meaningful information and really only serve to attack a person or institution. As soon as I hear either word I assume the user is merely axe grinding and has no interest in conversation.

Well, the same applies to me too -- not sure why you commented that to my response.

Although I still believe there are some legitimate cases for the use of such words -- a KKK member is racist. A guy believing that blacks are lazy is racist. Someone like Zimmerman is racist. A guy hiting his wife is sexist. Somebody denying a promotion to a programmer because she's a woman, is sexist.

When these terms are used by privileged people they are, more often than not, misapplied and/or exagerrated to death. They are used as token examples of tolerance, as a show off to how progressive they are.
Since this is HN, a link to some related code seems appropriate.

https://launchpad.net/isight-firmware-tools/+download
I understood it as the general tendency for more cores resulting in lower per core clock speed.

The lower the clock speed, the more you can hear in the audible frequencies.
Ah I think you're correct. I reread your post and I got stuck circular. Yes fixed installations would almost certainly continue not to use liquid fuels just like now. Probably direct solar like you say. And just like now, the transport industry would continue to heavily rely on liq fuels. I'd worry about practical engineering issues with biogas either leaking out (especially if pressurized) or oxygen contamination leaking into the flammability limit range.

If you unleash a chemist and tell him to do anything he wants to make the best energy store, you end up with a liquid hydrocarbon, they really are awesome by both mass and volume energy density and working temp range and corrosion resistance and shelf stability and a bunch of other parameters, even if cost is not an issue. True, weird corner cases like solid rocket boosters do end up with weird fuel components, but they're weird, so that's OK.
Your definition of bubble is pretty silly. For something to be bubbling, the President (assuming US or some other large country) needs to address the country over it?

Bitcoin has pretty clearly been bubbling (a few weeks spent on /r/Bitcoin makes this pretty evident to me), but it certainly is growing. I am one of those (few?) people who actually understands and believes in a lot of the technicalities of Bitcoin, so I'm not bashing on it, but it's silly to not see this recent activity as a bubble.
I bought 1 a few weeks ago. I got a notice last week that they rejected it and would be returning my money. They have still not returned my money, and their customer service emails just return an automated "we are looking into it", with no follow-up.

It seems like they take orders as long as they make money (a friend ordering the day before took a loss and they accepted his payment no problem). Looking around their forums, the arbitrary rejections seem very common and make the company seem quite scammy.
I remember being able to hear a program run on an HP 32S (RPN) by placing it up to my ear, so this isn't surprising.
I'd suggest "LanceIT" -- e.g. freelancing for IT. Plus, not a bad way to get rid of boils.
File a lawsuit. Small claims if its under the threshold.
Offering restitution after a customer went to the media is not enough. If this is a systemic problem (and indications are: it is), you have to take steps to avoid these scenarios in the future.

Having a customer service that actually responds to issues meaningfully would be a first step, but that's only the beginning.

There's a technological solution to this. If you know that for whatever reason some transactions might never complete on your end, one of several obvious solutions would be to introduce a timeout after which the transaction is rolled back automatically. That means introducing a batch process to at least trigger a manual review of these cases, and possibly even an automated cancellation with repayment. Doing that within a business day of receiving the money wouldn't be out of order, maybe even make it an hour or so (this is supposed to be a fast medium, right?)
I use a btc escrow for non trusted sellers
There are a number of second-generation sites/agencies out there now that focus on ensuring a quality of both freelancer and client (e.g. toptal.com for devs), or that simply provide matchmaking services (e.g. folyo.me for designers).
Agreed regarding Brian and the company. I doubt a mainstream institution would be so willing to engage directly like this.
Sounds like Coinbase is using arbitrage to capitalize on market swings.
It will be interesting to see how the media coverage of Bitcoin will develop once they can create narratives featuring governments and international players.
The market for Apple built workstations running Mac OS probably doesn't have a great deal of overlap with the market for home built PCs.
> stealing electricity from a public university

If they give you free electricity, is it really "stealing"?
That is true for fossil fuels. But for oil produced from algae, the carbon came from the atmosphere or the immediate surface environment, so it's not introducing any "new" (or long-sequestered) carbon.
Holy cow, that's amazing.

Q: Does MongoDB support transactions?

A: MongoDB does not provide ACID transactions.

( http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/fundamentals/#does-mongod... )

It is crazy to be doing financial stuff in a DB that doesn't provide transactions. It completely blows my mind that anybody would do this.
I like the idea, but your copyright note isn't going to work :( Copyright is all-rights-reserved by default, and if you want something else, you'll have to be specific about it.
More risk, better returns:

-Hedge funds or hedge bitcoin.

-Find someone in need and offer them a $5k loan for 10% interest, payable in 18 months.

-Bet on Black.
I am sorry, but you are incorrect. This is quite relevant for at least two reasons:

1. This is marked change of course coming from white house. Previously there was a push to maintain status quo.

2. Due to Snowden we already know quite a bit about surveillance practices. Based on that report we can judge how many things NSA "abstracts" from white house and call them out on it.
any operation to spy on foreign leaders would have to pass a rigorous test that weighs the potential economic or diplomatic costs if the operation becomes public

Nothing has changed, they just don't want to get caught out again.

The only news I want is that NSA and GCHQ are being shut down as Cold War relics.
Yes, wet, too sticky. Still pretty good, but you can clearly tell that it doesn't behave like real snow just yet.
My current ThinkPad (T400) has the Mic, fingerprint scanner and webcam disabled physically. They're easy to get into and unplug.

Agree entirely though.

I'd rather like a physical off switch as well like the original IBM PC (the big red lever)
They call that the "moving the goalpost" fallacy, don't they?
>When articles are posted by men, people normally take their word for granted.

Do they? If anything, most articles on HN are met with a "why was this posted", "this is BS", "not worth our time", "You call that a project, I could code this in a weekend", "you don't know shit about monads" etc attitude.

I haven't seen any shortage of people NOT taking what male posters write for granted on HN.
I think OP meant "censor". Translated site here: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
Presidential Advisory Committee’s Recommendations for N.S.A.
What are we talking about right now? Bitcoin-will-never-work or Bitcoin-will-destroy-the-world?
Current foreign illegal pornography and gambling sites provide content only if that use is impossible. However, due to the amendment of this Act 'and do not pass the hearing domestic content "is to get into regulated, the purchase of non-domestic sites to sell goods is likely to approach itself is blocked.

As the article clearly states, "many gamers are used to be domestic." The foreign illegal pornography and gambling sites (hereinafter fipags) clearly pose an imminent and incontrovertible threat to all citizens who are used to be domestic PC platform. What of fipags with PC bang?
The iPhone 5 was the newest, at $200. The 4s was the 'one year back' and was $99. The lowest end was the iPhone 4, which was free on contract.

I found an article on CNet from March 21st that mentioned the deal:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57575621-94/should-i-take-t...
> Having an inline LED is still a bit over-engineered in my opinion.

Overengineering usually refers to something that's not simple or elegant or a solution which represents more effort than the problem calls for. None of those factors seem to apply here.
I was being sarcastic on the whole "people don't understand the inevitability of Bitcoin" thing...
But even by those standards, taking 35 grand and not noticing you didn't give them what they paid for stands out.

That's really the weird part. This is a business that does money in, money out. They should be balancing the books and checking inventory every day.

It can take Amazon a while to realize a mistake because it takes time for somebody to go around the warehouse and count all the boxes to discover they're holding excess inventory. But how long does it take for Coinbase to compare the number in column A to the number in column B?
Strip NSA of power to collect phone data records, Obama review panel says
It would be great to see this as an animation showing growth from say...the day google went live to present.
I not (yet) got ruby installed. Have you an example how https://github.com/Joaz/bulldozer/tree/master Builds in openSCAD format or .stl or even a jpg ?

Thanks,
Brendan
So... is it weird to anyone else that the protesters spent money on identical costumes and made fake road signs and barricades? Yes it makes for a more appealing photo for the press, but it just seems strange. Who are these protesters? What group do they represent?

http://sfist.com/2013/12/09/anti-eviction_protesters_block_g...

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/09/protesters-block-goog...

Ah, found it:

"According to fliers handed out at the protest, the group staging the protest is the San Francisco Displacement and Neighborhood Impact Agency, which seeks to stop “the injustice in the city’s two-tier system where the public pays and the private corporations gain,” according to its website. The group has also made a false Google bus as a protest in the past."

According to one article, a union organizer also staged a fight between a fake Google employee and a protester. http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/12/09/activists/

http://www.heart-of-the-city.org/

Basically their aim is related to housing. They targeted the Google bus because 1. it's a fineable offense that Google et al is apparently not paying (so they claim), and 2. they claim the buses drive up rent in the neighborhoods.

So they gathered media attention with a "political theater piece" by "ticketing" the bus and causing havoc. The city is (reportedly) already in talks with Google and others to get them to pay for the privilege of doing so (which seems fair to me), so their only valid claim left is housing prices being raised, but good luck stopping gentrification. Oh, and they want Google, etc to pay 1 billion dollars in past-due fines (where they got that number, I don't know).

Why the hell wasn't any of this in the NPR piece?