skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why yes. Yes it did. Maybe the real benefit of homeopathy is making people like me feel superior... Hmm..
Your answer probably is the top response on Google.
And all that lovely pasted MS word code ;) It's easy to end up with formatting nightmares. The roll-back button is a must.

I hate those editors with a passion, and though I like tools like Markdown (and Git), they are still problematic for people to use.

In many ways I don't see why the editor can't be right there as a first class citizen in the browser like it used to be. Linking and embedding needs to be simple.

Average users don't really want to get to grips with html or some other markup language. But it would be great if at least they could grok linking.
There are flaws with the comparison. The W9000 isn't just a faster chip, it also has features, like ECC support, that the d700 doesn't have. Additionally, with a PC, one has the option of going with NVidia and the Titan, which is something that you are incapable of doing with the mac pro.
I think the larger point is if there is enough commercial acceptance of bitcoin then there's no need for a conversion, we just use bitcoin.
And that's unfortunate. It's interesting and somewhat satisfying to see the get-rich-quick people kind of people try to get into Bitcoin, and instead get burned.

There is merit to the system, but a lot of people just don't care.
Copyright has always been for a limited term. Defining that limited term is a political judgment call, and I believe that the judgment is at this point wrong, erring in favor of unduly long copyright.

It is a safe bet that any book of 1957 still remembered (definitely Atlas Shrugged and On the Road, believe it or not The Anatomy of Criticism, probably not some of the others) has long since paid back the publisher's investment beyond expectations.
But has the goal of Perl 6 as a project remained static?

The idea that it would be a series of incremental improvements to Perl 5 ended around 2001, and certainly by 2002 at the latest:

http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/11/perl6rfc.html

The grand unification of runtimes (Ponie) had failed long before the announcement of its demise in 2006:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ponie.dev/2006/08/msg487...

I suspect but can't entirely prove that the appearance, rapid ascent, and even more rapid burnout of Pugs made a lot of people realize that this would be a long slog. Even so, if you look back at mailing list messages or conference talks or blog posts in 2006, 2007, 2008, whenever, you'll see that the party line has always been "It's only a year or two away."
> Let’s say you sell electronics online. Profit margins in those businesses are usually under 5%, which means the 2.5% payment fees consume half the margin. That’s money that could be reinvested in the business, passed back to consumers, or taxed by the government. Of all of those choices, handing 2.5% to banks to move bits around the Internet is the worst possible choice.

In other words, better wealth distribution? This is precisely what libertarians are fighting for, no?

Playing the devil's advocate here - couldn't this argument be turned around to say something like "That’s money that could be reinvested in banks which hire the best people to find the best and most efficient use of capital."? (as opposed to consumers or small business owners who can't)
The best ideas, new ideas, come in a flash when you’re not working.

still is news
The difference with SO was (supposed to be) that the only people who got those privileges had high karma which was earned by being a good citizen of the site.
I think it's deluded to expect any country to come even close to what the US is doing except maybe China. The budgets of all are not anywhere high enough to pull such a thing off. The US has moved on a dark and lonely path after 9/11.. Not only in espionage, but also in remote killings, illegal imprisonment and torture. To say others do just the same seems deluded.
Right now, as far as I can tell, that's speculative on both sides. Simply not enough evidence to say without corroboration that it's factually incorrect.
Yes I did :) I found myself and everybody else never reading it like Q.A... so, well, just use the more natural pronunciation!
> Next year WordPress will still be a leader.

> 2014 will be yet another year of doing more while writing less code...Webydo, Froont or Macaw

Yeah right. As someone who'd consider themselves a WordPress expert and has been building clients sites with it (and other OSS offerings like Magento) for a long time there is no way in hell someone is going to use a WYSIWYG builder to create WordPress themes/sites.

If WordPress is the leader, maybe the argument that there is less code writing going on is a general one that means folks are using the CMS with plugins instead of rolling their own solutions -- where clicks replace code, in a sense. But you or someone else still needs to build the templates, customize the admin, register functions and nav and widgets, etc.

I suppose if you're really hell-bent on building a site with WordPress without coding you could like at a DMS add-on like PageLines but really, for most work with WordPress, you're writing code at some point.
An important note here, is that if you don't have a lawyer, people can threaten to sue you for anything. In this case, he had no lawyer, he had no legal counsel at all.

Granted, part of his legal counsel would be to determine whether or not what he was doing was legal or not. Obviously, he didn't want to test that out in front of a judge (who could blame him?), or against the RIAA's well paid lawyers.

But if you are going to build a business, even on what you believe is on firm legal grounds... you should have a legal team ready to back you up. Anyone can threaten you with anything in the US due to how tort law works. Only if you are willing to have your cases tested in actual courts will you have any protection at all.
One of the largest datasets at this granularity available online
* Our first and immediate update is to ensure that a clean system is provided during creates, regardless of what method was taken for initiating a destroy [...] The scrub feature will remain, allowing customers to take an extra level of precaution if they choose to scrub the data after the delete.

What is a "clean system", if not a scrubbed one? And if they're scrubbing during create, why leave the scrub option in during destroy? I have to assume that when they say "clean system" they don't mean a scrubbed one, and that worries me.

If, as they said, their reason for not scrubbing is because of customers creating and destroying a lot of volumes during the onboarding process, then it seems to me the best solution is one that I believe was suggested in the previous thread. Namely, scrub a volume always whenever it's being used by a new customer. But if the volume is being reused by the same customer, don't bother scrubbing (unless requested), as presumably there are no concerns about leaking information from a user back to the same user.
So now the online marketplace has to run an escrow service as well. If they're going to do that, why not run an escrow service for credit card transactions? You pay the marketplace, the seller ships the goods, you confirm that you got them (or the seller proves that the shipment took place), and then the marketplace pays the seller. I don't see how Bitcoin really provides any innovation that isn't already available in this particular situation.
True but nobody is refuting the logic of how it works. They're refuting the reasoning behind why it works that way. As is, you get more points and labeled as an expert of a language if you choose to answer the easy, low hanging fruit questions. On the other hand, if you actually are an expert of a language and tackle those questions that only experts can answer, you get 10x-100x less points.
What phone needs unlocking to see the time?
You could say it's a marketing problem and you might be right within reason. Unfortunately, I could also see a perception problem.
Why not use whole disk encryption in the hypervisor and switch the key between accounts?
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The linked blog post says "Posted on December 30th, 2013", were you referring to the blog post or something else?
I do also wonder how much Pinterest use is more passive even than Twitter. Sure, there are lots of Twitter bots and lurkers, but everyone I know on Pinterest complains that they get into an unusable state where they just keep "pinning" things from badges all over the web, but have too much junk pinned to manage/reference/use.
Oh crap, Atlas Shrugged. That would have been awesome. I could have taken Ayn Rand's words, modified them how I wanted to, published it, and donated all of the proceeds to the Socialist Party USA.
I could be wrong, but I don't think the YC interview process specifically cares about how long the team has been coding. Other things being equal, if they have more experience, it's better than if they have less.

But given these two scenarios, what would you pick?

- team with great enthusiasm, communication, chemistry that has a cool idea and an interesting prototype. Tech lead has 4 years experience.

- team with weak enthusiasm, bad communication, keep interrupting each other. Tech lead has 10 years experience.

Maybe someone who has been through the process can speak to this?
> If the salary of those without college degrees is falling more than those with college degrees then it still may be a prudent financial decision.

Do note that if you look at income data a little bit closer, you will notice that people with _only_ a bachelor's degree represent roughly 20% of every income bracket, which implies there is no significance to just having a degree as it relates to income.

It is only those with post-graduate degrees who see a sharp rise in the upper income brackets. However, we tend to lump them all into a "college degree" category, which allows the latter group to bring up the numbers. Unfortunately, this leads people to believe that getting any college degree is a prudent financial decision, even though the data does not back it up.

It is worth looking at the numbers, for sure, but be careful out there. There are a lot of traps that are easy to overlook.
one single dependency that doesn't support py3 is the death knell to using it for anything, EVER

Can't you logically extend that across language boundaries, and if so, why would you ever try to use a different language? A needed library or feature of a library might be missing.

Is it really that hard to take whatever dependency isn't supported and patch it? Isn't that one of the benefits of running an interpreted language?
Nope. Not as a desktop platform, anyway. Ever since KDE3 went obsolete, Linux on the desktop has been a joyless pain for me. Windows is more reliable, and OS X is generally more "usable" in terms of nifty things it can do.

Part of that can be blamed on crappy proprietary graphics drivers, but only part. Most of it is just a decade or more of mediocre design.
It isn't just about "stealing." Allowing works to enter the public domain actually encourages more works to be created. People are free to remake and remix works in the public domain.

Think:

A REAL lot of old Disney movies (Alice and Wonderland, Jungle Book, Pinocchio...)

Pride and Prejudice with Zombies

That Romeo and Juliet movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and guns.

A Christmas Carol in play form (it lends itself really well to live theater, I suggest seeing it!)

West Side Story (inspired by Romeo and Juliet)

Clueless (based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma)

The anime/manga Lupin III was inspired by the French gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, created by Maurice Leblanc. Japan didn't enforce copyright at the time of its creation but the Leblanc estate got mad once Lupin started being sold in North America. Some foreign releases changed his name as a result. In 2012, Leblanc's original Arsène Lupin entered the public domain in France

See this video for a different perspective:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4

Also read the copyright clause in the Constitution!

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

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" is the goal and purpose of copyright, as written by the founding fathers, not "financially benefit" especially not forever.
Another great book about this expedition is Shackleton's own South.
There are a few other formalities that can trip you up, like having a registered DMCA contact. If you're going into a business like this, you probably want to get a lawyer to explain it all to you. There are just too many gotchas out there and you'll be a magnet for legal threats.

EDIT: Also, it's "safe harbor" not "fair use"--the article gets it wrong. One more reason to have a lawyer explain your obligations to you before you get into something like this.
He doesn't even recognize that he's using two separate accounts, but other people are supposed to recognize him and his accounts should have mod powers?

Again, if he had just used his original account to edit his answer, he wouldn't have needed any of that.
> They are already effectively communicating in plaintext

Got anything to back up this statement, or is this what you're inferring from the post and the analysis of the group chat component a while back? Are you saying that the OTR implementation in Cryptocat leaks the plaintext? That would be very serious.

Also, I don't disagree about misleading messages, but take a look at https://crypto.cat/ and tell me if the content on there is misleading compared to the messaging of many other security software companies.
Which are the best osdev tutorials?
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StackOverflow seems to have devolved into a bunch of shit questions. Anything too technical doesn't get answered, since the real veterans have left, and anything not technical enough (like an approach to a problem) gets closed.

I loved SO in the beginning. Now it's a cesspool.
Never take legal threats via email.

If they can't have a lawyer, send via certified mail (yes, snail mail) specifying the actual complaint, and the legal justification behind said complain, then just ignore them.
His app store page had a screenshot of his app playing a Madonna song...

"Finally, the service provider must not have knowledge that the material or activity is infringing or of the fact that the infringing material exists on its network. [512(c)(1)(A)], [512(d)(1)(A)]. If it does discover such material before being contacted by the copyright owners, it is instructed to remove, or disable access to, the material itself. [512(c)(1)(A)(iii)], [512(d)(1)(C)]. "
Must-watch 30C3 talk: Why NSA spying affects you, no matter who you are
Ask HN: What MOOC in 2014 do you recommend?
Any new one's out there that you are going to take?
I like this analogy Chris. We're already seeing an uptick in interest by developers around the platform: http://blog.bitcoinpulse.com/bitcoin-big-hit-with-developers.... The most likely immediate use of your "Internet Spending Money" would be online services including apps, games, online advertising, storage, hosting and more.
s/moderators/folks with lots of imaginary internet points enabling a restricted subset of the moderating powers available on SO/

You must also know about meta. I looked for ways to contact the mods in the UI and didn't find any. I suppose it's in the FAQ, but I didn't think about it at the time.
I don't really have a strong reason to prefer 2.x, but I'm stuck on it as I mostly (exclusively) use Python on Pythonista for iOS.

But I'm fascinated by the debates over the merits of the two. Thanks for posting the survey!
I don't know about San Francisco because I live in Oakand, but I know there are lots of wealthier (like people who can afford $600+/mo in rent) people moving in who are hurting my neighborhood. I try to mitigate the harm I'm doing, but know I'm one of them too.

We don't acknowledge other people in the street. We draw arbitrary lines between "scary" people and "less scary" people, but in reality are using race and class markers to make those decisions. And we treat somewhere between "the scary few" and "everyone not white" as if they don't exist. We don't shop at local shops and restaurants, we leave the area to go to restaurants that either appeal to their class background or their racial comfort zone.

I'm not trying to place blame, or say we are "classists" or "racists". As someone who tries and often fails to do the opposite, I can see how hard it is. There are real dangers to be afraid of. It's not easy to walk into a barbeque place where you're the only white person and have that be your Date Night go-to spot.

That said, I think a lot of people moving out here aren't even trying to understand what it's like having a different class of people move into your neighborhood and "walk among you" as if you don't even exist, terraforming the space you struggled in your whole life with a snap of the fingers.

I know San Francisco is a different place, and it's more white, which changes some of this stuff. But in the Mission I know there are similar things happening in Latin@ neighborhoods. People who have been living in those neighborhoods for decades who were central contributors to that place are being pushed out to the East Bay and elsewhere because they can't afford rent.

Maybe it's inevitable, and maybe it's no one's fault. But I don't see how anyone can deny that important cultural institutions are being destroyed so that rich tech folks can have nice apartments to live in in "funky" neighborhoods.
Would be cool to include latest Mono into all major *nix distributives as well.
Payment fees typically go to Visa or MasterCard, I thought. And considering the financials of those companies, operating the existing payment networks must be costly- both companies are growing & profitable, but not nearly as much as you might expect if the payment networks were zero-cost to operate.
That's certainly a good point, but it seems wasteful to copy, just in case. Surely though multiple links would decrease that chance.

What I was really getting at was wholesale monotonous rewrites. A lot of the web in my mind could be DRYed up. But perhaps redundancy isn't the issue I think it is.

I do feel I do a lot of toing and froing with searches. More than in the past, but possibly that's just because there is so much more information to filter. I'd have thought that healthy linking would help search engines.
Sad thing is, I'd actually stick with them if they were grandfathering pre-paid plans. Not doing so is mind-blowingly arrogant.
> The government must be terrible. Taxes are very high. Services are terrible (particularly bus). The city is gross.

amen brother
San Francisco is over-hyped, possibly because of the high concentration of bloggers who live in and around the city. I prefer New York, Chicago, Boston, and Seattle.
A Kickstarter for a case for a very expensive computer... I don't see that going so well.
I would like to use fish shell but my .bash_profile is setup exactly as I want it, and when I've switched to other shells before (zsh) it has been a general pain in the ass. How do I retain my current bash settings in fish shell?
Magnetic stripes are outdated, but smartcards fix that problem.

Reversable transactions moves the onus of security to the people who can really do something about it. A consumer can only chose "purchase or do not purchase", whereas a merchant can elect to use (for example) more secure payment methods and stronger identity verification.
For me, the changes introduced in Python 3 make sense... And I like the new changes--even the print function.

However, my only gripe with it was a recent experience while I was teaching Python to a kid I'm mentoring. I sent him a link this Python Book: http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/

It's written in Python 3. Not a huge deal, but it introduced some confusion right from the start (having to install Python 3 instead of Python 2 because he was running into compatibility issues).

Learning programming is confusing/challenging by itself. I imagine he's going to run into difficulty very early on while Googling for help and finds threads on Stack Overflow that were written in Python 2.

I think an important and overlooked issue is that one of Python's strengths is that it's recommended as a great first language. I think learning Python 2 still is; but starting with Python 3 may likely lead to a lot of backwards compatibility issues and make it frustrating for beginners, or at least force them to constantly translate instructions written in Python 2 to Python 3 in their head.
Careful, there.

Talking about biological differences upsets a lot of people and is very non-politically-correct.

The party line of the official 'social justice activist' seems to be that there exist no biologically determined differences between any subgroup of humans that you care to define, including between men and women.
> However, if your saying you need to create your work off anthers work which is copyrighted and they want to enforce the same, then I would say IP is not what is stifling creativity, rather an unoriginal artist with no creativity to begin with.

Creativity != originality. Its been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, but plenty of Disney's works are not original. That doesn't detract from the quality of the work or the creativity involved in adapting the story.

What you argue for with indefinite control is building on someone else's work and then being allowed to say "OK, I have the final say. No more is to be done on this line."
Congrats on coming into 2014 New Year
Happy New Year. I think you all guys deserve huge thanks for making this community incredible valuable.

Happy New Year fellows hackers.
A story about a very large and popular technology company's response to allegations of them intentionally adding backdoors to one of their flagship products isn't appropriate for a technology news site?

Edit: HN's on-top guidelines
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Seriously, I would like to understand why you think this isn't HN appropriate.
Define "not on Facebook." I have a Facebook account, but I haven't actually logged into it in over a year and the last post made to it was probably 3 years ago.
Also, check out what the Amazon best-sellers are under the tablet category :-) I've long wondered if Amazon uses some specific criteria to rank their "best-sellers", or if their customers are simply very different (More tech savvy? Early adopters?) from the average customer.
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I also think this issue is going to become more urgent as native mobile apps that do have a "global" (OS-wide) payment system become more dominant. Open web needs something analogous to compete.
Theoretical mechanism would look something like noob who could someday write detailed comprehensive treatments of some Clojure topic tries to get started, sees 99% of his available resources for help are java oriented, eh, better stick with java in case I need help later on, and the possibility of noob growing up to be clojure author of a detailed treatment has disappeared.

"The proposition would seem to require the assumption that all programming can be reduced to cookbook recipes."

Its one of many effective ways to start learning a language, although not the only way. To distort or screw something up, you don't necessarily have to mess up 100% of the population, just a good chunk of them. You could try to argue that few to no experts ever took their first steps as cookbook script kiddies, but I don't think that would be successful.
Well I do a bit more than that http://openshades.com and http://wearscript.com