skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=vi&tl=en&u=ht...

English article from "The Hindu": http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/workers-building-s...
http://store.steampowered.com/software/

100 titles today. Seems to be building momentum slowly, but it's there.
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I don't know about Australia's system, but the U.K. has been a popular target for reincorporation of American companies, along with Ireland and Switzerland: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044423050.... Bermuda, a popular domicile in the past, apparently made certain changes to its tax code that caused companies to move to European countries.

For corporations, tax rates lead to domicile-shopping because finance analysts use Earnings per Share (EPS), which is computed after taxes, as a key measure of company performance. Relocating from somewhere in the U.S. to the U.K. might substantially increase the total taxes paid by employees and executives (almost every developed country has a higher individual tax burden than the U.S.), but it can goose that all-important EPS number.
The EC said Google had proposed to provide electoral look up services for citizens to help in Commission's efforts for better electoral information services.

What's wrong with that?

Are you affiliated with any of the local companies lobbying to get that contract instead?
Anti-Virus systems are not required for anybody who practices even a tiny modicum of caution (Don't browse with plugins like java enabled, never open attachments, don't click on links) - and in stand alone with a half decent set of firewall rules your Windows XP system will be fine.
Part of me thinks.... what happened to google just being a bloody great search engine? It was great then. Thats all I wanted, a decent search engine. And now all this crap.

However, how about just dont sign in to google at all? Click the dont track me stuff. Dont use other google products, like chrome. I mean, I do wonder how many people criticise google, from a chrome browser. I am right in thinking there is some choice here, right?

No, I dont particularly like how google has gone from being a great search engine to being this huge insane money and data slurping machine, but as long as one can avoid it, then, does it matter?

I tend to think that what is actually damaging to society is the choices society lazily makes, with out a decent level of knowledge and the possible future consequences. As long as we can get email for free, maps for free, browsers for free, and so on, who cares?

Anyone ever paid for a browser? I mean separately, not as part of buying Windows or Mac OS.
Altcoin value is very closely linked to BTC value. Most (all?) altcoins are vulnerable to 51% attacks, so killing bitcoin would leave little hope of leaving value left in the altcoins.
The original plan for the zero-knowledge idea was to roll it into bitcoin, but so far the bitcoin devs aren't going for it, so it'll be just altcoins for now at least. The finite blockchain is probably too big of a structural change. There has been a fair amount of work on less extreme ways of compressing the blockchain that could work for bitcoin.

II'm optimistic about cryptocurrencies in general, but it could well be that Bitcoin itself will be made obsolete.
I think it's easier to get Australians into the USA on the E3 visa.
But.... A steambox is just a standard PC in a nice box suitable for using on a TV. And sure you could probably do some work using steam os if you install applications. Or you could install a more mainstream linux and then install steam which seems to work just fine already.

Not sure of the point of this article.
This will cause block chain to split into two (we've already observed that a year ago due to sqlite glitch between versions) and the offender (ghash, 51%) will get exactly 0% in the block chain that every other client will be using.
Nope. Censorship in this context means denying access to certain host names from all people (in certain countries), regardless of what they would've done had they been able to access the host name. (This procedure could be rephrased as suppression of public communication which is considered objectionable, harmful and inconvenient.) The following is irrelevant, but I'm quite sure The Pirate Bay has links to liberally licensed music, as well as movies, games and other software.

Circumventing the censorship has the usual meaning, i.e. allowing this said access once again.
Love it. I haven't had a need for this yet but I could definitely see how this would be beneficial.
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As a person who used an LG "smart"phone that couldn't handle the bare Android OS without lagging (and turning on Wi-Fi would freeze it to death), I agree wholeheartedly. Intentionally selling crap that doesn't work is evil in my book.
Well part of the confusion is that one reason for our headline rate, as I understand it, is because we have franking for company/income tax.

So Australian companies tend to pay dividends much more freely than US companies, but the headline corporate tax rate is higher.
Even on the slow (by smartphone standards) Nexus One, Flash ran quite decently. The Nexus 5 is a good magnitude faster in every way (I can't find specific parity-version benchmarks, so perhaps I'll fire both of them up and give it a go), moreso in some ways like the GPU, and is as powerful as some desktops that people still use in business settings. It would of course have no problem with Flash.

Flash failed because a good percentage of existing content relied upon the accouterments of a desktop, namely the keyboard and the mouse. Minus these it just made for a frustrating experience for a lot of users. Add the fact that sites were loaded with obnoxious, taxing Flash ads, and it just gave users of Flash-enabled devices a very negative experience. It also reflected poorly on the product as a number of popular tech sites compared Android and iOS web page loading times, the former seriously hindered by the loading and overhead of Flash.

There were later changes to make it activate on click, but that just made it even more of a usability burden.

In a way, at the time this whole debate was raging, iOS users got to enjoy essentially a free "adblock" in the absence of Flash.

I have to entirely disagree with any notion that smartphones are underpowered: I am currently working on a very intense real-time image processing system and with each iteration I'm finding that I'm increasing the scope and featureset because the performance continually blows me away. Even when I work on "older" devices like the Galaxy S3, with good code and good parallelization (incl. the GPU), it is just a ridiculous platform.
> Oh that's completely new to me. I thought that mining means that I need to let the PC run for hours to get some BTC someone send to me. Is the mining you're mentioning unrelated to another one sending your BTC?

I'm handwaving here, and this is how I understand it.

Yes. It is verifying transactions. Making sure that transactions are valid and people aren't double spending or spending money they don't have. As a reward for doing this miners who find blocks generate bitcoins from nowhere, the reward is currently 25 bitcoins for finding a block. It is luck based, you have to find the right hash. You just keep hashing away until you find the right one, I believe.

It's called "mining" because it's a reference to say mining for gold or other items of value. You can look in the right spot, but there's a bit of luck involved.

>How can people share a "computer cluster"/minin pool (that is what you mean right?). Do you mean that one person or company owns such a huge cluster and let's all members share 'virtually' a single 'Bitcoin wallet'?

More or less. They rewards are divided based on how much computing power you put toward finding that block (shares). Once it is found the rewards is divided up proportionally. In reality some pools have slightly different reward schemes, but I'll make it simple here. So, if the reward is 25 bitcoins and I put in 10% of the "effort" to get that 25 bitcoins, I would get 2.5 bitcoins even though I am not the one who found that block, someone else in the pool did. That lives on the pool's wallet. I then go and log into the pool's website and transfer those bitcoins from the pool to my wallet. Some pools have an auto transfer so that when you get to a certain amount it automatically goes to your own wallet. Those coins do me no good at all in the pool's wallet, until they are transferred to my own wallet.

Pools aren't run by companies, not that I've seen. They are mostly run by anonymous operators.

It is long, but I strongly recommend reading

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...

See here for a more technical explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_protocol
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No, you cannot use this app to buy bitcoins. So I'm afraid it does not solve one of the hardest challenges Bitcoin still faces, which is how to get any. You'll have to figure out the best/cheapest way depending on where you are.

If you happen, for example, to stand in front of a Bitcoin ATM, you can use that to turn fiat that you have in the form of cash into fiat that you have in your Bridgewalker account (by buying Bitcoin from the ATM and sending it to your Bridgewalker address), which you can then later spend wherever it says "Bitcoin accepted here".

A lot of exchanging back and forth for sure, but basically the idea of "Bitcoin only as tranfer mechanism" applied at every step. It's also just a technical prototype. In practice it might make sense to cut some of those exchange fees by having a more direct way to fund your account, at the cost of only being available in certain markets/countries. For this prototype I went with the easiest solution: only Bitcoin in, and Bitcoin out.
"Elitist?" I came into web development via the PHP tradesman's entrance, and until by the grace of God I found my way out into the wider world, I didn't even begin to suspect just how miserable I had it. If there's a tinge of elitism in the wider world's attitude toward PHP, I'll be the first to contend that it's justified.
My post is not advocating that anyone invest money in XRP. My comment is about the Bitcoin protocol vs. the Ripple protocol's methods of reaching consensus.

The primary purpose of mining is to allow Bitcoin nodes to reach consensus about the blockchain. It is intentionally resource intensive. It takes 8-10 minutes. And it is subject to a 51% attack.

I believe that the Ripple protocol's method for reaching consensus is superior to Bitcoin's. It is orders of magnitude faster (2-5 seconds vs. 8-10 minutes). It is not subject to the 51% attack. It is not computationally expensive or resource intensive. It seems like a better design to me.

Ripple protocol =! XRP. If you don't like XRP, then don't buy it. Easy solution. Ripple is still valuable as a protocol, since it's currency agnostic.

@Goldenkey - While we're making demands of each other, please take your logic-free and malinformed vitriol off HN.
When someone has taken a restraining order out you've lost your rights to shades of grey.

The order is designed to be black and white to provide clear, firm, boundaries over which you will not pass. Before the restraining order there are several levels of allowance which let people obey the spirit (no contact) or to experiment with boundaries.

When under a restraining order you need to take special steps to ensure complyance.
True, and furthermore, services like this (FB, G+, LI, etc.) have every incentive to escalate their involuntary contacts over time. Every once in a while they'll go too far too quickly and have to backtrack due to public outcry, but there won't be any outcry about the plight of alleged order-violators. In general you should expect every service that knows your name and any other person's contact info to send that person many messages on your behalf without your consent. It will be nice when the courts figure this out; I don't expect it to take them more than twenty years.
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Like I said, I'm just an amateur, so I wouldn't be qualified to recommend any stock in particular. I signed up for a an account at dividend.com and looked at their ratings to see what to invest in. Anything above 20% seemed too good to be true, so I focused on a few with yields between 10 and 15% that had long histories of paying out.
Use google to find that... :)

Why isn't google proposing something like this to US government? Their election system sucks - remember how George Bush got his second term?
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Ah, so its workers building the plant, not the workers manufacturing their products.
Consumer spending is extremely reliant on consumer earning. Unless you rely instead on borrowing, which doesn't tend to end well.
For me, this is the definitive take-down of PHP:
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...

Even if a handful of those issues have been addressed in the intervening 15 months, the depth and breadth of fundamental problems remains. /$.02
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You might be interested in reading about The Iron Law of Oligarchy (an influential "social law" that was proposed in 1911 by Robert Michels)

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

It is a pretty dismal assessment of the likelihood that a democratic institution can avoid becoming oligarchic (spoiler: Michels believed it was inevitably impossible as the institution grew in size and complexity, years later he abandoned his anarchist beliefs and became a fascist in Italy)

There are a few historical counter-examples to the Iron Law of Oligarchy, but I don't follow the details of Bitcoin closely enough to know whether it is resistant to the factors Robert Michels described.
Dupe: http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/01/is-valves-steambox-a-conten....

Seems this submission has an anchor ID which makes the URL unique from HN's point of view.
I think the article is dead on -- I'm seriously considering one myself.

From the perspective of a developer, a Steam Machine is simply a Debian machine that is certified Linux compatible. People have been screaming for this for years. Even if you install Ubuntu or Fedora, you know that the components have been selected for Linux compatibility. That means something. Granted, 99.9% of standard desktop components are already Linux compatible so it's not a big deal, but it's one less thing to worry about.

How many devs dual boot to play games? Maybe not the majority, but there's a huge market there too.

Plus, don't underestimate the appeal of something that's not just another beige box.

From the perspective of hardware vendors, Steam OS makes a lot of sense too. If you want to sell a "Linux" machine, you'll have lots of demands to support Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, Arch, etc.

But now they can sell a Steam machine, and get away without supporting the other flavours du jour.

Of course, the ironic thing is that modern development is much more OS agnostic than it has ever been: as long as your machine can run Vagrant, you can run anything you want. Linux does run Vagrant better than other OS's (because you can use vagrant-lxc), but that's minor.

Lots of gaming is being done on laptops and tablets. If SteamOS does well on consoles, I do expect Valve to try and get a piece of that market too. That'll be at least a couple of years, though.
Not at 4k resolution. They all advertise themselves as 120hz, but that's only at 1080p. Show me a 4k monitor that is using display port 1.20 that is not at a ridiculous price.

A computer isn't going to struggle with that resolution for non-gaming usage. A $150 graphics card can easily handle 2x 2560x1440 monitors for desktop usage without breaking a sweat.

You're going to end up having to spend a lot more to run a single 4k monitor too because your graphics card absolutely must have display port 1.20 or hdmi 2.0 (which isn't even out AFAIK).
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>With sufficient test coverage, you can change one variable (Python 3 vs 2)

That is a pretty hilarious way of putting it.
I think Google+ auto sends an invite when you add someone to a specific circle.
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This was hotly debated, by myself included, right here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3820431

He has updated the article over time which is good of him, but much of it is still subjective and from a quick glance there are points that no longer hold true.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but Ripple Labs did set things up so they would start off with all the network currency, and still own the majority of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(payment_protocol)#XRP .
This highlights the importance of having a visible bug bounty program (or at least something very basic) that clearly states that you take security seriously and appreciate/reward (whatever you prefer) bug reports from security researchers.
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EU: next time when you make a law, allow a penalty of 150,000,000 Euro for starters. After repeated violations increase to 1,500,000,000 . Double each year. Then Google will listen.
You seem to have missed what I am saying completely.
If there's no obvious "dismiss" button, I found you can sometimes right-click, select "Inspect Element" and when you think you've found the DIV, select the "Delete Node" option. (Firefox)

Requires some HTML knowledge to pull off, alas.
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In some projects, not at all; in others, most of the time. But it's string/unicode that takes up most of the time and effort in porting; projects that don't involve much string handling are pretty trivial to port to python3, IME.
... and yet the obvious answer to a poll like this lies on the bottom.

HN makes me sad these days
Let's face, there's going to be projects that will NEVER be ported to Python3. Not a couple, a lot. Why should they? If they are using software for making money, it works and porting it to Python3 maybe is just too expensive and too risky.

The point is that, as time past, hopefully more new projects will be created in Python3, and they can drive the development of more and more modules and tools, and, eventually, all new projects are in Python3 and Python2 is just legacy.

Legacy code happens. And for good reasons. And there are lots of people working on them and earning money. Software is a means to an end. I love to use new technology and using old tech drives me crazy, but from the point of view of business, it's a decision that makes sense. There are still COBOL systems that behave perfectly.

EVE is a game. It currently works. Its players don't care if it's done in Lisp, x86 assembly or Haskell. The people working with the code care, but to migrate it to Python3 is simply to costly and risky to do. And will probably always be.
If they start a new project, they may be starting it on Python3. And that's fine. That's the way it should.
That's actually an interesting illustration of the dynamic. The management at publicly-listed companies are very preoccupied with what finance analysts have to say about the stock. When someone at Morgan Stanley compares two companies on an EPS basis, what's relevant is the rate paid by the company. It comes down to $0.28 per share versus $0.35 per share, even if other features of the tax code mitigate that difference when a dividend is actually paid out.
I recently bought this and loving it. Connected to both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu 13) without issues.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VAHYNC/
The behaviour he was put in prison for was not "sending a G+ in invite" but "violating a court order".
GTK on Linux uses Cairo and other vector rendering libraries to draw widgets and icons. You can set the font size or resolution as low or high as you like. This has been true on that system since before 2008 AFAIK.
> It will be nice when the courts figure this out; I don't expect it to take them more than twenty years.

It would be even nicer if courts put a stop to this madness.
Because not everybody wants to spend days or weeks figuring out why their video or wireless drivers aren't working. They want to get to work.

Until OS X 10.7, it was a beautiful version of linux that just worked. "Less capable", ok, maybe, but I don't see it. My entire work environment (zsh+bash scripts+vim) seamlessly copies back and forth between linux and OS X. Most linux utilities are available via homebrew. Those that aren't I compile from source. It's just like any other linux distribution on that front. It's not perfect, but I get up and running a lot faster on OS X than on any linux distribution.

I'm on Fedora 19 now and in many way I have the same issues with linux I've had since I first installed Red Hat 7 in 2000. The lack of progress on certain fronts in the linux world is staggering.
The argument about deflation is moot, since Bitcoin isn't the only digital currency. At this point there's a website that lets you create your own with a few clicks.

Rather than a single deflationary currency, what we have is a lot of privately-issued competing currencies. Hayek advocated a system like this, arguing that it would result in stable prices and economies without need of a central bank.
He also misses the point about developers and Apple.

It might be that in US, everyone jumped on Apple's bandwagon.

But most European developers I know are still on Windows/Linux/BSD systems on their desktop/laptops.
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They do actually: https://developers.google.com/gec/

Isn't that open data anyway?
why not a wire transfer to their bank account?
What's horrible about the "polyglot" approach?

Beyond not getting to take full advantage of python3, it's really a relatively painless solution (though when you hit the pain points (bytes vs strings vs unicode) you'll notice).
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And yet Linux machines have been drawing SVG icons and SVG widgets for years. This limitation doesn't exist any more.

Look at Display Postscript, which was created by NeXT in the late 80s and carries through to much of Apple's Quartz rendering system today. Why are we still limiting ourselves to pixel graphics?
Chances are those DOS systems aren't connected to the internet and vulnerable to a billion different attacks like XP machines are.
Great comment, although I think I didn't make the intended use of the 10k quite clear enough. Whilst one way of spending it is in live experimentation, yes, and that can be a very good option, I meant it more in a "be prepared to pay for help, with the only return being knowledge" sense
Folks are missing an important point here about the incentives of a pool majority (that I recall Satoshi mentions in the original whitepaper[0]): even if a particular agent has a majority in the mining network, it isn't in their interest to upset trust in a system that they have such a large investment in.

Where would the sense be in taking the risk to undermine public trust in BTC for a short-term gain like modifying a few transactions when you have such a large stake in the system?

[0]: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Just saying that they are "trying to kill the EU Data Privacy law" assumes that the privacy law is good to begin with. I'm not saying it is or it isn't(I don't know much about it other than high level summaries).

Just going on names alone, I could argue that anyone who tried to kill Americas Patriot Act hated patriots.