skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember one event from back when I was a bit over 1.

My mom took me to her friend's shop, they had 2 daughters and a chihuahua. One of the daughters (~5 years old) picked up the chihuahua and held it in front of my stroller, within reach. She urged me to pet it, and when I did, the dog bit the first joint of my left ring finger off. I remember that part, I remember crying, but I don't remember having it sewn back on.

To this day, I'm irrationally horrified of tiny dogs (I like big ones as long as they don't bark and show teeth).

Sidenote: Whoever sewed it back on didn't do a very good job; you can see it's slightly slanted and a bit rotated too. =( I'm thankful for getting it back though.
@memset who did you end up using for payments?
WhatsApp Processes 54 billion messages on New Year
You're not the only person. I also remember things from around age 2 to 3. It all gets really blurry before that. Most people I know don't remember anything before 5.
tl;dr your experience represents you, no one else, stop trying to pretend otherwise.

Absolutely spot-on! Thank you for making my point better than I could!

Read the quote to which I was responding, that most of us here want Firefox OS to win. That represents the experience of a plurality but not all.

I don't care what anything runs on, because the cool stuff happens when you connect people and things. I don't understand the brain's operating system and don't need to to do cool thing with other people.
Lost edit perms on this old post. I withdraw any implication he's writing about dualism. He has peculiar definitions of consciousness and "state of matter".

Dualism is still toast. However I no longer think he's proposing dualism.

It seems to be a multi-disciplinary collection of boundary conditions.
It's a large company with diverse departments and diverse teams within those departments. You cannot generalize the sweatshop mentality to the whole company.

Source: Worked on an Amazon team that did not strike me as a sweatshop. Also these views are my own and I do not speak for Amazon
This is pretty neat, the whole concept of 'open legal' is fascinating to me. For years it seems Lawyer's were like machinists of old, carrying around their own special sauce of document [1]. Now quality, vetted, legal documents are pretty straight forward to come by. This is pretty cool in my opinion.

[1] This was the root of a long running joke in Intolerable Cruelty referring to the 'Massey Prenup' -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138524/
Oddly enough, every bad engineer I've ever worked with has made a big deal of how good their code is, but yet their code has the effect of causing flaws in the product.

The existence of people who are bad at their job does not mean that the job description is problematic.
What about forgetting your 20s? I can barely remember what I used to eat before I learned how to cook. I assume that it was a lot of macaroni and cheese, pasta and mashed potatoes, but I can't really remember.
Consider John Doe. John is an ordinary internet user who's heard of bitcoin, but has no iota of how it works and 0 control over it. Will John trust his life savings with it? No. I think that's pretty obvious.

Let's face it 'Assuming everyone tomorrow agrees to standardize that Bitcoin is the de-facto currency and decides to transact in BTC only' is a crazy assumption right now.
You are as bad as the people who shatter car windows to steal a stereo

Not even that; this is breaking car windows to steal $5 in change from the ashtray.
As I wrote in another comment, while not promoting the retention at earlier ages, lifespan integration (http://www.lifespanintegration.com/) has promoted recall of memories. (even though this is not the main goal of the technique)

Since it's too late for you to promote your own memories, you could look for avenues to recall more of the ones you probably have hidden somewhere.
Just looking to reduce the friction. Clicking a link, typing in your email address, clicking "GO", it much easier than setting up an anonymous account. The facility could also allow one-click blocking of users, and can't be harvested. I have to change the email address in my profile reasonably often as it regularly gets harvested and transferred to spam lists.
"How I misused university resources, potentially inconvenienced my fellow students, and wasted a ton of electricity"
I'm not a game developer; that industry is welcome to continue on without me, they have done great so far.

The fact that some code is licensed with the GPL is in no way detrimental to anybody. If the person who had written the GPL code had instead made the code completely closed source, "game programmers" would have been in a situation that would can only be the same, or worse. They would still have to write their own code, and wouldn't have even the choice of building upon the free software and making it free to everyone else.

Open source developers are under no obligation to do your work for you, or to make your life easier. That some choose to do so is fantastic. To expect everyone to give away their code with no form of compensation is silly (even if that compensation is simply paying it forward).

And there's always the third option... pay someone for an alternate license to the code. Do you really dig Lighttable, and want to incorporate it in your closed source videogame? Pay the developer enough money that he'll license it to you without any of the GPL clauses.
Android is free AND has widespread driver support from SoC vendors. Firefox OS uses more hardware resources to achieve the same tasks and has less vendor support. In fact, what little driver support it currently has from vendors comes from the fact that it's actually sitting on top of Android (a fact that's often ignored).

Which one is low-cost again?
Live from T-Mobile's Uncarrier 4.0 event
I was pondering what the key psychological difference between "product" and "infrastructure" is – why are people willing to pay for one and not for the other? I'm not sure, but I think that for products polish is paramount, whereas for infrastructure, maintainability is paramount. Proprietary software is a nightmare for installation, deployability and maintenance, whereas open source is great. This is why open source has won the hearts and minds of people who build and deploy websites and other computing systems everywhere while companies producing polished products still rule the desktop.
I think this was a mistake. Like others have said it's a waste of their resources and you gain basically nothing in comparison. Even outside of electricity, having to bug the IT guy to look at the activity and taking up resources that other students could be using isn't worth the $2. I'd put an apology up and remove the veiled threat, it's just going to cause you problems.
It could be made to work technically, certainly.

But it'd be a complete mess of a code base. Code is read much more often than written, easily understanding a code base is incredibly important, and really hard in larger systems.

If even your syntactical constructs behave subtly different (let alone the code you're writing!), you're setting yourself up for unpleasant surprises.

There's an excellent book on UX, "Don't make me think". The same applies to code: strive to reduce the cognitive load it takes to understand a piece of code as much as possible.
I dont think Transmeta ended up being that influential. Sparc/Mips as the birth of RISC should be there.
I remember most of my childhood. I also know I have clear memories before the age of 3, because we moved to another country at that time, so it easy to distinguish the memories before/after the move. Talking to other people about this tough have made me realize it's quite unusual.

I know tough that before age 25 all memories where real, but now getting older the memories are becoming memories of memories, and it saddens me a lot.
This is great, I have been considering switching to Stripe and this has almost sealed the deal.

One question if a Stripe employee happens to come in here: The horror stories I have read make me nervous about switching. I have read about massive delays in getting paid with only vague explanations, and in more than one case Stripe actually reversing all charges made by a merchant after allowing a new account to exist for several days. Merchants performed services/shipped products based upon Stripe charges, then Stripe reversed the charges with essentially no explanation. These reversals were supposedly not at the request of cardholders.

What percentage of accounts suffer these types of issues?
Yes, of course they are. That's a major part of the challenge.
I recall very very little specific memories before 12 even.
I know flashes...
T-Mobile will cover early termination fees
Jetpack for WordPress
Do we have anything like that in the works right now? Everything seems to be fairly straightforward evolutions of the x86 or ARM--though maybe the innovation is happening over in FPGAs or business-not-tech venues?
3p/minute = 5 cents US per minute, or $3 per hour?

Seems incredible!
One of the causes of procrastination is perfectionism. The fear of not meeting your own high standards probably affects HN readers more than anything else.
Except you don't "turn it into" anything else ... the original is still out there, and still available to be used as anyone else wishes.
Most database servers will use RAM as aggressively as possible (limits defined in the configuration files), so yes, more RAM is preferable. However, it's difficult to get a large amount of RAM at an affordable price when it comes to VPS. There's a little saying that's like, "Don't think of an SSD as expensive disk; think of it as cheap RAM." I think that's a good rule that serves well, more or less, if you orient your systems to behave that way.
You should probably ask 1ShoppingCart...
It seems like you have a different convention that works for you. I think the most important thing is that you have one that the people who are asking you to do things are aware of.
No. Just don't. These computers are not your property. Do not use them for personal financial gain (unless it's somehow directly related to your studies).

You will cost your university far more in electricity than you'll make from Bitcoins. This is stealing.
Yeah, I would've also thought that they'd have the issue somewhat tackled by now. OTOH, I suppose it doesn't help much if the OS itself draws itself correctly if the apps are all wonky.
That's...erm...outside a hacker's budget.

We spent less on an Oculus and a Leap.
going long the general market on roughly a 1.1 to 1 ratio

I don't think they could have hedged this way. Madoff's volatility was too low, so there weren't comparable instruments. The only options were investing in Madoff himself, or not hedging on the assumption that it would blow up sooner rather than later.
It's definitely a toy and a bit dodgy. I wrote up some instructions over here: https://github.com/Katee/quietnet/issues/3#issuecomment-3187...

Basically I only every worked on this until it was at the point where it was working for me on the laptops I was using, it's definitely not robust.
What do you mean by worthwhile? For bitcoin, you won't manage to pay for the electricity using anything general purpose, so it won't be worthwhile at any scale.

I don't know the particulars, but CPU mining of scrypt coins is at least not very profitable.
They look more like estimates than actual counts.
It is amusing you bring this up, as AE was my major before switching to computer engineering in the 3rd year (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University). I was extremely excited about it in high school. I bought this book -

http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Aerodynamics-Aeronautical...

Started reading it and the math was way above my head. So I went to my calc teacher and he acknowledged the material was beyond my reach. But then he pointed me to materials to help and offered his time to explain the basics.

This was before there were countless free high quality learning materials online.

Are you going to learn differential equations, statics, dynamics, etc... in high school? Maybe. Probably not. Who cares? That doesn't mean you can't start.

Build a model rocket. Build an RC plane. Dive into more accessible subjects like linear algebra. Learn matlab or octave. I could go on forever.

You would not believe the amount of AE students that struggled - and I mean struggled with Ds through intro to programming with C. I helped many with their homework. Get a leg up and start on that!
Where will the contest take place?
I was under the impression that they were munched by Intel and basically became the foundation for the microcode that those chips use now. Am I wrong?
Not nearly as efficiently as your regular heater does though. So there is some cost.
Please comment if you're already using this. The number and depth of features it offers is impressive. Also, the fact that it is developed by Automattic makes you wonder if it will be integrated with, or simply replace, WordPress.
Now they need to test for the type of memory recalled, is there a difference in emotionally laden memories vs non emotional 'moment' or experience based memories?

And what is the recall on 'pure' emotional memories?(Where the memory is primarily about the emotion, not what was occuring at the time).

This would be incredibly useful in counseling psychology (and possibly neuropsych), where emotional based memories can get corrupted or ingrained into a person's overall personality. (Think of getting burned by a stove becoming anything from a subconscious jerk away from a stove to full phobias).
The reality on banks like this is that they are very hard to manage. There are specialists in every corner, and somehow the head of the bank has to keep tabs on all of them. Almost always, the money makers outearn the risk managers and compliance folks, so it's a game of catch-up. (Any bank that flipped it would go out of business - like the one honest used car salesman would.)
That's not accurate, since making a proprietary fork of, say, a BSD project, does not deprive anyone of the original project.
Everyone and their dildo is munition if you want to go by ITAR standards. "Does this have a conceivable use by anyone? Well then, we'd better prevent those dern moslems from getting their hands on it."
3D DOM view - Firefox Developer Tools
It actually works much better when sending an receiving on the same computer. It's not as fun though.
> I particularly would like a mobile OS that isn't tied to an advertising company (Google) and isn't a black box (iPhone).

http://source.android.com/
http://www.cyanogenmod.org/

Plenty of choices of Android builds that have no closed-source Google code whatsoever.

> I don't even have full comfort over everything running on my Android device. I have no way of knowing which companies can access the data on that device and the ways with which they can access it.

That has nothing whatsoever to do with the OS. You think just because it's Firefox OS suddenly OEMs are going to open source their drivers, ship unlocked bootloaders, etc...? If so, I've got a bridge to sell you.
How many nano-Dijkstras has this letter?
Fixed fines are silly, make it a percentage of revenue or profit. Give them a real incentive to change.

This sort of thing is done with speeding fines in several countries (link: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/295905?tp=1)
Ask HN: Which open source project to contribute?
I have some time to spare (1h/day or 4-6 hours per week and want to contribute to some open source projects.

But I cant choose which.

I have strong background in c/c++/embedded linux, some crypto background and know a handful of protocols. lately i've made some little webpages (for private) with ruby/bash for server administration.

Any recommendations where to look?

Thanks!
It's still a problem for the poor person who has to read those different files and understand the underlying semantics.
The RSA Conference was never where "security experts" went anyway. Sure some smart people occasionally showed up and talked, but it was mostly because their employers wanted exposure.

RSAC always was and always will be for suits that need to spend money and the vendors who need to take it from the,. All the cool kids with innovative research will be at BSidesSF.
Well, Ouya was a disaster, they should probably not include it in third place. I did not backed them, I can predict how projects will go very soon, probably because of my professional experience.

I backed some very interesting problems not mentioned that I am very happy with(more than 100 projects backed so far!!). Why? Just because they raised more money.

Kickstarter needs to include some feedback from customers, so they know which ones went better overall, not just how they started.
Are you Gay? Well, come out the closet
... Did you miss the part about JPM also being Madoff's bank? They sold investments run by their own client (who would not allow due diligence!) to other clients while finding evidence that there was no way the returns could be genuine. Instead of following the law in this situation they ended up trying to make money off the phony securities before they were publicly discovered to be fraudulent.
You know what they say about two wrongs...

Downvote me all you like. That says more about the state of HN than any one post in particular.
1 Coffee to go please.
I don't plan on it, haha. I was more curious. Besides if I got banned from the cluster I would have to drop out of my program.
If Java is involved, it's more likely they're interested in cutting developer costs than doing any "new research." That isn't to say they aren't doing any "new research," or that the research quality is poor, or anything negative at all, really. It's just a restatement of the observation that the labor market for Java developers is quite different from C developers or C++ developers (there are a lot more of the former than of the latter--a lot more).
Please stop breathing. Carbon dioxide is a tremendous drain on the life of the planet as it is without your hot air added to it.
Programming: An All or Nothing Skill?
A fish rots from the head down.
You need to come & talk with openstreetmap people more.
Elliot makes a bid for Riverbed Tech
What is p? certainly not pounds, right?
That's definitely not the case in the UK. For example, the guidelines for applying for Economics at Cambridge state:

"The Faculty does not have standard requirements for subjects other than Maths: in particular A level Economics, though useful, is not a prerequisite."

http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/ba/guide.pdf

(FWIW I did mathematics as an undergrad but I considered CS and spoke to CS faculty at various university open days, from what I remember they all considered maths to be the only essential A level for admission.)
Alternatives to HipChat
Are there any alternatives to HipChat? In particular, I'm looking for lightweight chat clients that support both individual and group chats, and that have a simple user interface. It'd also be nice to have a native client for Mac
I know you probably don't want to move, but slack.com has done multi-account management for team chat really well.
What makes you think people are less likely to be corrupted by power and large financial incentives if they don't have to convince the electorate they have principles?
The deceptive, irreparable Airbnb Verified ID
This is really exciting news, I am really glad I backed them on KickStarter ! Maybe even a good reason to try to learn Clojure ;-)
So wait, what does this have that's better than C macros apart from hygiene? I'm afraid I really don't follow.
I have no affiliation with Stripe aside from developing on their API. One of the explanations I've heard in regards to this is a scenario something like the following:

1. Merchant sets up Stripe account.

2. Merchant begins processing credit cards.

3. Stripe's vetting process kicks in and takes a look at Merchant, finding that Merchant is operating a business type that is prohibited by Stripe's TOS.

4. Stripe cancels all transactions and locks the account.

From what I can tell Stripe allows you to start charging immediately and only some time later does the vetting process kick in where a human takes a look at the merchant. When the merchant is operating a business that is prohibited[0], this happens.

[0]: https://stripe.com/prohibited_businesses
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>Not nearly as efficiently as your regular heater does though.

What do you mean? It's basically 100% efficient. Where else would the energy go? Through the ethernet port?
My guess is that heating-by-CPU is less cost effective than baseboard electrical heating which is already one of the least cost effective heating methods: http://www.efficiencymaine.com/at-home/home-energy-savings-p...

Also, depending on the setup of your HVAC system, it may be possible to cause a lab to overheat and trigger the cooling system in the middle of winter. Many datacenters vent excess heat year-round.

The absolute pittance of bitcoins you'll mine using CPUs won't begin to make up for these inefficiencies.

Edit: s/efficient/cost effective/g
> People won't "bank" when it comes to Bitcoin - There's no need of a Banking system really.

Banking is about borrowing and lending. The idea that using bitcoin eliminates the need to borrow and lend money is something that could use support.
Workshop Cafe in SF does it by the hour, seems to work pretty well. You get 10 hours free to start, it's worth your time to stop by for those hours at least.
Academe Quits Me (2014)
Pronosticos y Predicciones para ganar apuestas deportivas
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How does this help you live like a king?
pence
Check for database credentials too - you said you removed them, but they're probably still in the history.
Thanks for organizing!
I did it back in DEFCON 14 and had a blast!

Where's a good place to discuss/ask questions about the rules?

EDIT: Just found https://github.com/Defconbots/2014_Competition_Rules/issues
Pence.
Confide: an app for execs who want sensitive messages to vanish Snapchat-style
It might work out better than you think in your last paragraph. Auto routed vehicles will reliably choose the 'main' route through an area (instead of whichever they feel is fastest), so segregated routing should work better (and with little additional physical infrastructure you can have one way rush hour streets and such).
"€150,000 is a drop in Google's ocean"

An even more useless measure against Google was made earlier last year (2013) by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK (a data privacy body).

Google, having wrongly collected wi-fi data during its Street View activities, was asked to delete the private data it had collected. It failed to do so, prompting the ICO to give them additional days to comply with deletion but no fine. [1]

Google probably have an entire department of corporate lawyers zealously protecting their interests, yet despite being instructed by an official body to delete private data, they "accidentally" retained the discs containing the additional private data. These are not the actions of a compnay that takes privacy seriously. And that is unlikely to change until official authorities sufficiently hold Google to account for their privacy transgressions.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23002166
Microphone injection reminds of the picture going around with the person who taped a sql injection attack over their license plate to screw with the traffic cams.
They probably do since a collision might damage the car.
And with all the sensors, there must not be a single blind spot left. That means it becomes much safer to ride a bicycle or motorcycle.
I'm not the OP, but I opted for Balanced over Stripe due to the delay in getting paid. Aside from that I prefer Stripe's API and overall experience more.