skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an analysis, it's a rant, sure. BUT as an Italian, I've seen this over and over and it sickens me.

Italy is one of those very few countries where for years you couldn't legally run an open wifi spot - you had to file ID cards of each and every user, and send them to the police on request. Where the early cypherpunk scene was criminalised and associated with terrorism - the police would just sequester entire servers on a whim, just to collect SSH keys and mailing lists of activists. Where authorities cracked down hard on P2P while at the same time supporting a copyright regime that is much worse than the equivalent US one (the association of publishers and music labels is legally tasked of collecting royalties and copyright-related taxes, with no oversight whatsoever on where the money actually ends up). Where law-mandated DNS blocks were pioneered.

All this in a country with corruption and organised crime at levels unseen elsewhere in Europe, an economy that's been stalling for almost 20 years now, a huge anti-business bureaucracy, and gigantic public debt. It's like, "don't you have anything more urgent to worry about, rather than bothering our Net with laws so inane, even the EU will likely strike them down?"

If this sounds like something out of Fox, I invite you to watch any political talk-show on Italian TV. You think Fox is bad? HA!

The problem at hand is not complicated, but it's something that 1) must be solved at the European level (otherwise, why did we create a unified market?), 2) does not touch real revenues being siphoned to tax havens, which are the real problem -- does Apple sell ads or internet services? not really, but they're THE prime example of this problem, and still won't be touched by this law. It's the usual buffoonery devised by one of the worst political and economic elites in the developed world.
>Data is stored in the blockchain forever and can be retrieved using a transaction hash as an identifier.

so, if someone stores any piece of copyright material the MPAA/RIAA would need to destroy whole ecosystem of the given coin? bamboo roots come to mind.
very interesting, not sure even bitcoin will stay afloat but there is room for other players to make a splash
Measuring averages from the extreme is not-accurate(via Taleb)
You're right. I was snippy, and in a particularly dumb way. Sorry about that.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter - Issue 58
Doesn't Type 2 already have pill-based treatments?
I think this is why some people go into Finance. Spend 10 years in some miserable high stress job, but hopefully gather enough wealth to retire in your early 30s and work on whatever you want.

Some of my college classmates went down this route, and while the numbers can theoretically work out (these are uber-smart math/science/engineering folks), I've never seen a single person exit successfully from this game and then unicorn it. The main reason seems to be that they can't fight off the inevitable lifestyle inflation that comes with being in such a social circle. The last I heard from one guy, he was paying almost $10,000 a month to maintain two apartments in Manhattan ...
I tried it, then went back to bash. I'm not really sure why. I also tried zsh some time ago, then went back to bash. I rather like fish, it's a cool construct, and I can appreciate its features. But somehow I found that I didn't really gain anything from them, so I went back to bash. I honestly admit I'm not sure why -- fish is really cool, and zsh is really cool, but I didn't adapt the new features to my day to day usage.
The numbers look too sensational. They are probably very biased towards platforms/clients with default external image loading switched on.

Litmus claim they have a "secret sauce" that lets them detect email clients and user actions reliably. Sounds suspicious.
It seems your edit did all the work for me. Being in the core of the MD2 compression function puts the Sbox in a good place to be a backdoor.

However I strongly doubt this is one. The attacks that have broken MD2 do not seem to hinge terribly on the Sbox (I may be wrong, it was only a cursory look). It's more likely to me that the Sbox was generated using a hard-to-replicate Knuth shuffle using the digits of Pi.
Thank you for your feedback. It helps to understand.
For those of us whose "core dream" is exactly the kind of logistical problem solving and organizational coordination the author describes as "overhead", starting your own company is a unicorn job. Feeling lucky, I suppose :)
In other words, schadenfreude > public good
Consider this. NK probably has some degree of decentralization and/or redundancy in their chain of command. You bet they have a fail-deadly system in place to get their conventional artillery (the ones pointed at the north half of Seoul) to fire in case of an attempted decapitation strike, say nothing of their possible WMD systems.
Article mentions the shift to "unlimited vacations". Sounds like it worked at Neflix, larger companies are starting to move toward unlimited vacation model, but it appears that it's driven by not having carry accrued paid time off on the books and studies that show that people actually take less vacation under unlimited plans. How is it done at your company?
I think most people don't spent enough time looking for the best fit. Most engineers I know select from the jobs offered to them by friends/recruiters. I did this for my first job (which sucked bigtime). The best jobs will never be offered (too many qualified people competing already). However, if you get out there and prove yourself to awesome people you'll get offered unicorn opportunities. My second job (helping schools write CS curriculum) came this way. My new years resolution: spend more time with less people.
It's not like the Republicans are the party of small government, nor have they functionally been so in any time in the last 20 years. This is what I'm talking about, people do not actually vote towards their conscience, they vote towards a lottery game.
To be fair, I probably misstated. The average of working hours is ~37, which doesn't necessarily mean that the average worker works that at all. It could be the averages are between 40 hour weeks and 20 hour weeks, and that's where it falls. Honestly, I don't know, nor was I attempting to ascribe motivation to the numbers, except to point out that stated premise was factually incorrect -- workers in the 50s did not work fewer hours, nor did they have larger houses.
How many people would have been interested in a digital currency when it was worthless and not accepted as a form of payment anywhere?

Perhaps the general population won't be interested, but techies are often willing to play around with unproven technologies.
Really, just build your own? Take a look at multiwii for software and plans, and hobbyking for parts.
Well, I'd love to say it was my sheer wit and coding genius. But truth of the matter is, there's a good bit of luck involved as well. The secret to success: get lucky. I got unlucky too. Found myself scrubbing toilets for $4/hr back in NYC at one point. It's nice to not have to do that anymore.

If you can code, sure you might not be overrun with money, but at least you can still earn a decent living. At the end of the day, the most "successful" people I know do not measure their life in money stashed.

The billionaire I mentioned, showed me that I didn't necessarily need to become a billionaire to be successful. He happened to be a billionaire and is successful because he's satisfied with who he is and what he is doing. Still wakes up at 4am to change the world for the better as he sees things, with what's in his capacity to do.

When I was in NYC scrubbing toilets for a living, I shared my sandwich with someone else who needed it. That was positive impact I could make given my resources. When I got money, I just bought into the "good life" BS and became a consumer. I lived for nothing else but me. Turned into a certifiable asshole. It's hard to see it when you're in the midst of it.

Once I began to see that I was lying to myself saying, "I'll start being me once I've made $x". I could be someone I'm happy to be, now. Six months of planning, get rid of crap, and learning to live with less and asking myself a many times a day, "am I living up to someone I can be happy with" seemed to remedy the problem.

I've lost a good bit of $ to startups. Friends say maybe I'm afraid of making money, maybe they're right. But I sure as heck am happy being able to help. I hope I can get myself disciplined enough to the point when I get my next hit, I'll know whom beside me the money is going to.

Wish you the best. Screw the losses, you know what you've built and nobody can take that away from you. Do the best with what you have, to me that's success. And if luck should shine upon you, hope you're still successful afterwards because that's where it's easy to slip up and take it easy. (Sorry if I'm too preachy, obviously I feel strongly about the subject)
Sounds like you'd recommend going with a vendor like Sage? Or that IC Group should use an accounting system which doesn't match their business requirements?
But...But...

Okay, you really are right. Thank you. I will go drink christmas ales and listen to my family's bad jokes. Hope you all do the same :)
Depression, the secret we share
Thank you jedberg. You and elq give a much realistic view of what Netflix is.
It depends what they want to hack. Since you're saying "drone" I'm assuming you want them to be autonomous in some way, and not just traditional RC.

When I was working on Tacocopter, we used 8-CineStars from Quadrocopter[1]. They were originally designed to fly pro cameras, so they have an incredible payload, great flight characteristics, all carbon fibre, etc. Downside is they're very expensive.

Most of our development was in the software, so we wanted a hardware solution that "just worked" Dealing with DIY motor controllers that can burn out really slows down the process. Aside, if you end up using the MicroKopter platform, I reverse engineered a lot of their serial protocol for our telemetry stack-- check it out on Github[2].

The cool thing to me about MAVs is they essentially become a flying computer. For your friends, I would pick the one that has enough power for decent acrobatics+payloads, but more importantly the easiest software development stack. Stuff from 3DRobotics is a good starting place.

[1] http://www.quadrocopter.com/

[2] https://github.com/grinich/mikrokopter

[3] http://3drobotics.com/
Hmm, gravity can be implemented easily I think. Another thing is that raindrops are not always perfectly circular.

The "cross" is an artifact of the way I deal with saturation. The raindrops are simply Gaussian functions and the shading/refraction depends on the gradient thereof. If you keep clicking in one spot, the function values and the gradients become very large -- then the top half of the raindrop becomes black and the bottom half becomes white. To mitigate this, I simply run everything through the sigmoid function f(x) = 2/(1-exp(-x))-1, but this leads to the "cross" artifact. I'll think about how to deal with this a bit more.
A blockchain isn't a particularly great data storage or retrieval mechanism. The core value of the blockchain with proof-of-work is achieving global consensus through majority hash voting. I don't see why data storage would benefit from this kind of structure.

For example, the basic premise of the blockchain is a backwards linked list. New transactions in the chain are collected into blocks which must be placed at the tail of the blockchain. Miners race to get their blocks on the tail. This is a great property if you're trying to prevent counterfeiting and provide protection against double-spends, but what does counterfeiting and double-spending have to do with data storage?

Blockchains are incredibly cool, but when you have a hammer...
Great to read that you're excited about your progress on CodeAcademy nick, but you've just started learning javascript. I just took a look at the lessons in the CodeAcademy Javascript course you took, and though it may be a great course, there is still a lot of Javascript yet to learn. So realize that you're just at the beginning, not at the end.
having to preface every sentence with "in my opinion" is a waste of text. I am speaking it, of course it is my opinion. It is only fact insofar as it can be recognized as so. I did not explicitly state "it's a fact". Don't be pedantic.
The crazy thing about software is that when business requirements change, you can change it. If they don't need to support multiple currencies today, it's silly for them to put in the effort now.
I was stuck in that situation this time last year. I could knock out my daily work in maybe 2 hours (mostly babysitting some Excel spreadsheets) and spend the rest of the day building my own skills. So long as I was really good at alt-tabbing no one knew (or they just didn't care).

Once I had built up enough savings, I jumped out and tried (and failed) to start my own company before joining up with a TechStars team. Worked out pretty well in the end: if I'd been in a "good enough" tech job, I probably wouldn't have taken that leap and wound up in an awesome job with a great team.
You can have a unicorn job if you just do consulting and/or project development. While I personally prefer entrepreneurship, I understand that it is not for everyone (as the author mentions). If you do consulting though instead, no one owns your time aside from what you decide to sell, and you can choose which projects you work on.
Is it just me or is anyone else surprised that the first screenshot contains a (working) .su URL?

.su was the TLD of the Soviet Union.
I tend to create temporary e-cards for online purchases outside of subscriptions...
I wasn't surprised that there was some blowback, just by the level of vitriol in one particular comment. The Nickelback feature was intended to give an example of how doing something unprofessional will generate criticism, even if doing it is net worthwhile.
What makes it valuable as a currency? Are people expected to buy DTC to pay storage fees? I don't know that this will work from an economics standpoint.
Every time you go out in public or post something online, you're going to offend someone, somewhere. You'll wear the wrong clothes, have the wrong haircut, have a beard or not have a beard, have different beliefs, eat the wrong food or have the wrong opinions.

So don't sweat it when people get offended. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you and you'll have no regrets, but you'll still offend people. Just accept it and move on.

Also, I did not think your stunt unprofessional, I thought it was cute and funny. That band offends me ;)
what possible purpose could there be to knowing the outcome of an election before voting? The likelihood that one person can impact the vote is so slim that it does not make sense for the individual to strategize for the best outcome of their personal choice. They must strategize based on aggregate choice, which favors sticking to principles, as, you know, they are principle.
I've checked twice in the last hour, and so far I'm not seeing any uptake of this story by any other news organization. One of the best illustrations of what a tyrannical country the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is is the news vacuum most of the world encounters when trying to find out what's going on there. The ruling party doesn't want the common people of north Korea to know what's going on in their own country, so pervasive censorship and government surveillance make it difficult for anyone to find out what's going on there. I look forward to the day when the people of north Korea can make a transition to civil liberty and democratic, constitutional government.
Not all Bitcoin-derived technologies are necessarily intended to be an actual currency, though some do still get traded for other currencies (usually for a very low amount).
> Sorry to tell you, but this kind of system does not exist in reality. Heads of states in all States are above some laws and there are plentiful of reasons for this.

But they are not so by birth, that was my point.

>supreme court members are not elected

I assume you are talking about the US? In any case, they are not nominated by right of their birth, but they are chosen by elected people.
I'm taking an Intro to Crypto course this spring. What's interesting is that it's offered through the Math department, and assumed it was a CS class.

We'll be using this text:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Cryptography-Coding-Theor...

Is this any good? Apparently a best seller in the "Software Coding Theory" category on Amazon.
I'm going to guess that GVR wants to spend 50% of his time on other things. If you're a language designer and you don't spend half your time programming to core business needs, you risk isolation and your quality of inspiration will go down.

One of the reasons why Clojure is great is because Rich Hickey actually goes out there into the enterprise and has put a lot of thought into making it an extremely practical language in a wide variety of business settings, without compromising on the things that actually matter.
bitcoin can already provide proof of existence in a similar way if that is the key advantage expressed, if they claim to be able to store an indefinite amount of future data instead, as could be inferred by a quick scanning of the text, I find it very hardly scalable at all, there could be useful files of any size passing through the voting system and the blockchain should be replicated by each client on the network in theory in order to safeguard the network from possible missing nodes
Somehow I don't think many people will be willing to store arbitrary data like this on their hard drives. It only takes one person to inject something illegal before the entire blockchain becomes incredibly dangerous to handle. There's not really much worthwhile in storing something in this expensive format over an http/ftp/gopher server server if it's not illegal in some way, which will probably lead to it being quickly unsavoury.

On the technology side, you'll get to the point where no solved blocks include any data because it's causing massive orphans for the miner. I can't see this ever working the way the author intends. That already happens in the bitcoin system where blocks are extremely well compacted, and still people don't want to include transactions against the risk of losing their income.
When your side project turns into a full time job via starting a company around it, your founding position at your startup is your unicorn job. I find that this is one of the biggest pulls towards entrepreneurship for me.
What's the difference with Namecoin other than the hashing algorithm and block speed?
Crazyflie from http://www.bitcraze.se/ is pretty cool. I own one myself, and I like it a lot. This is a tiny fully opensource quad which can be flown indoors. Obviously, because of it's tiny size it doesn't fly for too long and don't lift much.
It is very easy to put yourself in a bubble and forget that there are people with different opinions. He probably was actually surprised that someone passionately defended Nickelback.
I think Google manual overriding a serp in this case is the way to get the best possible search result. Being at the top of the page shouldn't be about how many links were bought, it should be about quality of content.

Rap Genius has the quality content. The fact that they have to rely on these link building techniques to rise above the trash shows a flaw in Google's approach to ranking.
To me, the big warning sign is that the creators of a social music app seem to be ignorant of or in denial of the fact that music is one of the most deeply personal and subjective media in human culture. Even if they disabled a much less popular band, that attitude of objectivity doesn't sit well with me.
How many of those do we need? At least this one is using flat design. Guys, you should call it flatcoin, that's a good name too.
I always think it's a shame that they don't release binaries.
Yeah sure, it technically "works on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and W32", but without binaries, they'll barely get more than a few users. I really like that they continue to improve the technological underpinnings of the software, but there's a reason a lot of people use the tor network. There is a bundle that they can just download, start and it helps them connect.

I guess they DO see themselves as a "framework", but there is a GTK UI and there is a "regular" filesharing component to it
What I Learned From Analyzing 1,000 Medium Collections
What do you think of the 3DRobotics Iris?
Trusting Government IDs in the Web of Trust
> If you have 10mb of numbers that you need to add 1 to immutable state means you now have 20mb of numbers guaranteed

You'd only have 20mb of 'numbers' if you needed to keep a reference to the original data structure. Otherwise its' garbage.

>So in general, forced immutable state means that any class of problems which require both high performance and a lot of mutation are going to be very poor candidates for functional programming

FP does not necessitate 'immutable state', even in pure languages like Haskell. What it enforces is purity, or more concrete, referential transparency. Often the easiest way to obtain referential transparency is immutable data (non destructive data structures, etc), but you can have mutable data and maintain referential transparency for high performance (see ST Monad).
This is not unlike what was said about a world without payphones:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/pay-ph...

And now the poor get prepaid cell phones or cheap contract service and they chat on their cell phones while in the Greyhound bus station. As smartphones get cheap they will become just as ubiquitous.
Of course, sometimes people actually are arseholes.
Pardon the italian

17-bis. Al decreto del Presidente della Repubblica 26 ottobre 1972, n. 633, dopo l'articolo 17 è inserito il seguente: «Art. 17-bis – 1. I soggetti passivi che intendano acquistare servizi on line sia mediante operazioni di commercio elettronico sia diretto che indiretto, anche attraverso centri media e operatori terzi, sono obbligati ad acquistarli da soggetti titolari di una partita IVA rilasciata dall'amministrazione finanziaria italiana.   2. Gli spazi pubblicitari on line e i link sponsorizzati che appaiono nelle pagine dei risultati dei motori di ricerca (servizi di search advertising), visualizzabili sul territorio italiano durante la visita di un sito internet o la fruizione di un servizio on line attraverso rete fissa o rete e dispositivi mobili, devono essere acquistati esclusivamente attraverso soggetti, quali editori, concessionarie pubblicitarie, motori di ricerca o altro operatore pubblicitario, titolari di partita IVA rilasciata dall'amministrazione finanziaria italiana. La presente disposizione si applica anche nel caso in cui l'operazione di compravendita sia stata effettuata mediante centri media, operatori terzi e soggetti inserzionisti.

Says here that the law applies to results visible on Italian territory.
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