skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ah. Yes. They can totally do that.

Yeah, I had been thinking about how TARP required congressional approval but, of course, the _reason_ it required congressional approval was because the "troubled assets" in question were not Treasuries. A little investigation reveals that section 14 of the Federal Reserve Act authorises the Fed "To buy and sell, at home or abroad, bonds and notes of the United States".

> ..whether the increased supply of USD would have a higher velocity than it did when China was sitting on it, which could lead to a weaker dollar or substantial inflation.

Weaker dollar? Definitely. I expect the ECB and banks of England and Japan would buy dollars - both to help the US stabilise markets and to avoid their own currencies growing tooo strong - but I'd still expect to see a significant drop in the value of USD. 20%, maybe?

Substantial inflation? Inflation is a longer-term, delayed reaction sort of thing so I reckon it would depend on what happened subsequently.

The funny thing is that, having been through the turmoil of September 2008, the financial system is probably better prepared and positioned now, than it was before the Financial Crisis, to deal with the turmoil that would be caused by China dumping its Treasury holdings.
I thought the problem with including loops (and other constructs) is that it makes the block chain too hard to protect against haxor trickery
This isn't intrinsic to Matrices vs Number-Arrays. The matrix-mulitplication issue is just a mathy version of the plus-as-sting-concat troubles ("Foo: " + 1 + 1 makes "Foo: 11" while 1 + 1 + " Foo" makes "2 Foo"). There are always holy wars about whether "+" should be string-concat because of that.

Both approaches have their merits.
I think there's at least an interesting debate to be had. Why is gambling restricted to adults? Presumably because children are unable to comprehend the way in which it persuades you to spend more than you ever intended to. Or maybe it's because the money is unlikely to be theirs.

Either way, you could argue that Candy Crush is the same on both counts.
Some friendly typo notifications to improve visitors' first impressions:

* Under [what], "trasaction".

* In a citation below the video, "crytpocurrency". It is of course important to cite correctly, but perhaps it's nicer without the typo.

* Under [why] a repetition, "years years".

Copy is important. :)
Few basic things which can be done is like .. install Fail2ban , change the default SSH port to something else, and use PermitRootlogin as No in sshd_config file
Structured Query Language

See wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
Yes, cigarettes are often sold as singles in areas around the world where tobacco sales aren't heavily regulated. So a pack of 20 cigarettes that costs $5 can be sold for .30c each one, giving a higher profit. This practice disappeared in the early 90s where I am from but I come across it all the time in developing countries.
Not to mention when dirty fingers leave pattern-showing streaks on the screen.
Injection of malicious code into jQuery is increasing
Since Samsung's TouchWiz (at least on S4 mini) don't allow to take shots with camera without unlocking the phone (standard AOSP has such feature), I guess many users settle with swipe-to-unlock.
But why would I pay money to send a non-email when people have been trained for years to check their actual email? I'd be paying more for something worth less to me.
But... Isn't this why it's legal for "Topless sunbathing photo of celebrity" to show up in the enquirer? They were topless in a public area (Sunbathing on a boat, for instance) and a photographer snapped a photo?

I'm just trying to play the other side of the coin here. It's really unclear to me if revenge porn sites are illegal or just a really asshole thing to do.

Also, In the example you're using... someone sent a sext and that means they were the original photographer, so they own the copyright. It sounds like there are two different types of photos here.

I took a photo of you because you said I could - I own the copyright and can reproduce.

You took a photo of yourself and sent it to me - You're the original photographer, I have no rights to the photo and can't share or reproduce.
Well, it seems there's a lot of people who believe WebGL, HTML5 and asm.js will once again make the web a serious challenger to the App Store in the casual games category in coming years. But there's still the problem of monetization when there's no easy micropayment system similar to the in-app-purchase systems that iOS and Android have. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. I'm also pretty sure that Stripe is gunning for the "micropayments on the web made easy"-crown - their integration with e.g. the Humble Indie Bundle is already pretty slick.
Yup, this. Of course, it hurts that there are probably less than 10 people in the world who fully understand the optimizer (and the majority are employed by Monty); though I'm sure the MySQL folks at Oracle are getting there.
I responded with something similar above. This was my understanding of the various laws (For some / most states).
From the article:

> This week, transactions worth a total of $US14 million were made, including one Chinese investor who bought $US5 million worth of the virtual currency
You could, but who actually does? You'd have to be awfully committed to set timers each and every day.

Eventually, I want to pair it with a physical desktop hardware companion to close the feedback loop and really integrate it deeper into office culture. Wellness programs right now are a joke because 1) they lack feedback to prove effectiveness and 2) exercising after work does not fix the damage of sitting all day.

That was Michelle Obama's photo-bomb on the Miami Heat from earlier this week. I think she was trying to convey the same thing I'm trying to convey: there's no shame in moving around and stretching in the office, although it might look a little weird to others.
Crowdfunding = developers will be instead drinking beer at local pub instead of coding their ass off. Best way to make sure that no results.
The protest in Berkley was only tangentially about technology. It was mainly a traditional NIMBY [meant neutrally] anti-developer [in the traditional sense] protest that happened to ride the zeitgeist of the populist protest across the bay dressed up with a glaze of Berkeley's anti-war activism [The past is never dead. It's not even passed. - Faulkner].

The proposed condominium project which mobilized these activists is in fucking Berkeley where the poverty rate is 4 points lower than San Fransisco or Oakland (where 1 in 6 families live below the poverty line).

It wasn't about tech at all.
Plenty of them for sale on eBay.
So we have a culture of social insecurity at HN. #masks
What are you talking about? The average person may not be able to solo mine a block but you can still earn meaningful quantities through pools.
Related to this concept of moving to some other currency:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/12/how...
Doable in a browser extension, possibly
The goal is to develop this into a standalone desktop application (think: Growl notifications). Then, it'll be paired with a custom hardware peripheral to encourage social reinforcement.

Right now, it's email-based, which is pretty terrible. Way more intrusive than I'd like.
The iPhone simulator will cover you completely for this course.
> I never though I'd see someone on HN extol the virtues of a pharmaceutical company executive and Republican!

Ha ha I appreciate your comment (and if it's sarcastic/funny it's actually hilarious)

But otherwise it's Ad hominem. I'm presenting him as a more nuanced human than just than just a guy who sold a company for $200M (http://newsok.com/novazyme-example-of-promise/article/275860...) and who's name gets floated as a possible (R) candidate (but who doesn't take on the role).

Perhaps he's one of the numerous Republicans who are dissatisfied with the entire radical wing. I don't know anything about that. Maybe the reason he repeatedly chose not to run or accept an appointment is he wasn't radical enough. After all, many do say that even Reagan wouldn't make it in today's Republican party.

Making a founder's share of $200M is probably fair payoff for saving all those children's lives (potentially ~10,000 cases in the USA)... especially when compared to a share of $1B for enabling the absoloute clusterfuck of idiocy that is TUMBLR.

Do Zuckerburg, Brin and Graham deserve the same derision for also being filthy stinking rich? Do all other motives get thrown out the window when they get a life changing payday?

Anyways, the sum of a person is more than their net worth and their political affiliations. I'm sure there are a handful of good people who are also Republicans.
It's the default alright, but that has nothing to do with it being in the base (yes, it's an exception to the rule). You can look it up on the freebsd-ports@, there were somewhat heated discussions concerning this and some other issues. Unless I've missed something, this decision hasn't changed.
I think its obvious that mobile is a ghetto. The touch based controls don't really lend themselves to anything complex gaming-wise and high-information gamers aren't ignoring their PCs and consoles for them. It just leaves low-information casuals who jump into whatever skinner box time-waster is popular today.

In the meantime, the PC master race is having a renaissance of sorts and the new batch of consoles look pretty good.
Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics
we use rhino for some types of testing. brutally slow.
King.com have been around forever pretty much copying every game type it could. Bejeweled, Bubble Bobble, Peggle, and tons of board games. I'm not surprised at all. Their games are pretty good clones though.
Got it. So it's sort of like the difference between "willingly and knowingly" giving away the credentials and "willingly" giving away the credentials.

The intent matters.
I've been somewhat addicted to Candy Crush for the last few months (at level 305 now - long commutes give me way too much free time) and I haven't spent a dime either. What was surprising to hear was that some co-workers have paid at every "world" change - and they didn't know there was a way to get through to the next world without paying. It seems, when it is hooked up to your Facebook account, you don't have the option to play the three bonus levels over the course of 24 hours each - only nagging FB friends and paying. The trick is to just sign-out of FB in-game, play the three levels and then connect it back up if you wanted to.
The Best Study Resources for Technical Interviews I've found
You can track the progress of DNSSEC validation in Debian at https://wiki.debian.org/DNSSEC
The thing that bothers me is that US mail already costs 50 cents and I still get a ton of spam. 90%? So I'm wondering how viable it really is.
GPUs mining scrypt. It's more profitable than using ASICs to mine Bitcoin.
Ada is dead for new development by fiat of the DoD. They finally figured out that having all their real-time code written in a language almost nobody outside of DoD uses is a bad idea.

Fortran doesn't fly; that is, (almost)[1] no real-time code is written in Fortran. It is still used for simulations, but is steadily being replaced my Matlab since the latter integrates better with various engineering workflows.

C is definitely still the winner for the embedded code, but is losing to C++ as time goes on. Java is also making inroads for implementing the interfaces on operator consoles.

[1] I know of at least one program that deployed signal processing algorithms in a semi-operational state in Fortran.
If the devs are reading--the quotes scroll too quickly to comfortably read, especially with no way to control them or go back. Otherwise this is a gorgeously designed site.
Ask HN: What do you wish bitcoin facilitated, but doesn't currently?
"We then digitally reconstructed their cell bodies and dendrites..."

Does this mean that the experiment was done in simulation?
That is the fundamental misconception in regards to the crypto-currrency and (in my opinion) indicative of why they will probably never catch on in any mainstream fashion. If the currency was successful, the end user was never intended to be able to mine a meaningful level of currency themselves. The act of mining is required to facilitate transactions and miners get a small part of those transactions for participating. The initial payouts are there solely (in theory) as incentive for the early adopters to mine when the transaction volume is small and to allow them to give the currency an early liquidity. In practice, because of the deflationary nature of the coin and the domination of speculation over transactions involving some tangible goods or services, people are hoarding them expecting increases in value. This is not a good hallmark of a currency and is a flaw that all the derivative coins fail to address.
The second half of this is ridiculous speculation. No one knows what's going to happen in the future.

I expect this discontent to grow, but I don't think that most people have an issue with "tech firms". It's unfocused anger about economic stagnation and real estate malfeasance. I doubt the people being priced out of the Mission care strongly about PRISM. People are trying to direct this unfocused anger (which looks like it might be the nebula of a left-wing Tea Party) toward their own pet issues (surveillance) and it won't work that way in the long run. If this dog runs loose, it will go where it wants.

Having traveled pretty extensively about the country, I think technology has a huge problem with "placism", coupled with an unhealthy obsession with pedigree. There's no good reason for technology to be one of the industries where location matters most. It should be the other way. But Sand Hill Road VCs won't take you seriously if you're more than 50 miles away, companies like Google keep the best projects in the Valley office, and having gone to Stanford matters more than a 150+ IQ. (That's not to say that "having a 150+ IQ", alone, should mean that much. But it is self-evident that a noisy signal of intelligence should be taken less seriously than raw intelligence itself.) It's unhealthy for technology, it's bad for the Bay Area, and it's catastrophic for the rest of the country. Now we're seeing pushback against technology's location perversion coming not from the engineers, but from Bay Area locals who are entirely disinterested in technology's placist dynamics, and who don't have strong opinions of technology either way, any more than Parisians in 1793 gave a shit which province got its swamps drained and how such decisions derived from machinations in Versailles.

If there is a wave of violence in the U.S., it won't be "against tech firms" because tech is not a day-to-day problem for most angry Americans. (Besides, most cities would love to steal a few tech firms from San Francisco, whose people sense saturation and no longer want them.) It will be broader, less localized, and it will be, toward its end, very differently from what it was when it started. I don't think it's desirable, either; those sorts of processes are too nonlinear and volatile for anyone to hold blanket opinions either way.
No Mac SE? No clip of the "1984" SuperBowl ad?
This population consists of 50 people who can afford to pay $1 for your product, and 1 person who can afford to pay $100...You can sell it to 50 people and make $50 profit, or one person and make $100 profit.

This is true for a single monopolistic market incumbent. On the other hand, if I (the upstart) want to make money, I'll charge $1. I don't care if I just cost you $100 and I only gained $50 in profit - my choices were either getting $50 (by selling at $1) or $0 (by selling at $100).

The real estate market is pretty competitive - it's not as if a small oligopoly owns all the land. So if rent is going up, you should be asking what what prevents upstarts from buying up a city block and building a gigantic low cost tower block to house everyone. (Hint: insane SF zoning regulations.)
As a followup to this, the scrypt coins I mine increased in profitability this week. I'm making over 1% ROI per day right now.

Increasing difficulty is less of an issue for altcoins. There are so many of them that difficulty may spike on one but that will cause it to drop on others, shifting which is more profitable. They tend to self correct better than Bitcoin.
JQuery 1.11 and 2.1 Released
Title is misleading. This is simply more research on the very well known black hole information paradox, proposing that a commonly cited property of black holes may be wrong.
Setting up is actually fairly easy using bind and the right tools if you are familiar with DNS configuration.
On debian/ubuntu there's a package for it ( dnssec-tools ). Here's a simple tutorial:
http://www.howtoforge.com/configuring-dnssec-on-bind9-9.7.3-...
'Super-rare' Nintendo game hits eBay
AngularJS SEO: How to get your site indexed & to the top of the search results
It's actually 9* (1 + 8 * (1 + 7 * (1 + 6 ..... + 1)))
Well, perhaps I should have rephrased - I know you can still earn bitcoin, but you can earn more <newcryptocurrency>. So why not switch?

The answer would be "because bitcoin is legitimate and dogecoin isn't" - but I'd argue that bitcoin hasn't gotten there yet. So it's a race, and one that any cryptocurrency is likely to lose.
Are they covered in hot grits and naked and petrified?
Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics in New York
This would definitely depress wages throughout the industry, SV doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Seconded (although the permadeath-style reset when you completely die annoyed me greatly.)
Despite DOGE mining difficulty shooting up this week it's still one of the most profitable coins to mine thanks to its spike in value. I've been making $60+ per day mining it. Now if I only had 10x as much hardware...
We used to pay $50 for every new game, why do you want a new game for $16?

I get it, most of the games are from $1 to $4, but I don't understand why. Either you pay $1-4 for a dumb little game with no depth, or you pay $16 for a quality of game that used to cost $50, when hardware was less advanced. Why?
Because OP doesn't understand why bitcoin "script" is limited in first place.
Nice article. I liked the Eat The Donuts part. Very well written and really inspiring.
I have a few things going on.

1. Income from ~5 non-fiction Kindle books for sale on Amazon. Around $100 a month, though at one point when I was more heavily marketing them it went up to $900-$1000. Would be great to spend more time on this and automate a system where I have a couple of assistants doing this for me around the clock (marketing and book creation).

2. Income from a single Youtube video which links to a simple blog (about solar power) with Adsense ads. I get about 50 cents to a dollar a day from this.

3. I used to work for a jewelry firm doing SEO, going into their office on weekdays. Had to quit later, so I asked if I could do the work from home and send a work log each week. They pay me $300 per week for simple social media and blog posts. I pay a girl in Pakistan (who has good English skills) $70 per week to do the work for me. She's very good and I'm thankful to have her. They have no clue.

Feel free to PM me if you'd like to speak about these things / wanna brainstorm.
Hooray! Let me know if you think I should change anything!
Tuesday Tinkering: Try something new
Something like this, but for cancer? Here you go: http://www.indysci.org/project-marilyn.html
I believe that the photographer owns the copyright.

There might however be obligations owed by the photographer to the model in such a scenario. I imagine that it could be deemed a 'breach of confidence'[1] and there may be specific privacy laws in some jurisdictions.

Also for this specific case of nude pictures I imagine you could quite quickly get into harassment/cyberstalking territory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_confidence_in_Englis...
If you are threatened with firing or fired for not going along with an illegal activity I would think the proper thing to do would be to report the illegal activity. If the law was structured in a slightly different way they could have been dragged into the court case for going along with the scheme.
Linux in there is probably just because of CloudFlare. I had no idea what was HN running on until that outage a week or so ago with the switching of servers etc. A Tell HN[1] about the incident says they were using UFS and now switched to ZFS, and that can only mean FreeBSD.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069013
Leads, not facts.

I had not been to CNN or FoxNews websites in months, unless I get pushed there by Google News or Drudge and was surprised at the state of CNN.

Yes Drudge is a valid place for links, it all depends on what you are going there for. I go there for links to world news events and the like. To dismiss that site out of hand which so many here do is irrational at best. I learned long ago, many sites have good stories, bad stories, and bait stories.
I understand your point, and agree, to an extent.

However, there is value in operating more as a collective. Employees are uniquely disadvantaged when negotiating for salary. Employers have experienced negotiators, they know their salary ranges as well as the industry. While the employee has only the knowledge of perhaps a few of his peers, if that.

A professional organization could aid employees in their negotiations. That would be a nice way to start. I'm not entirely convinced that a 'bar exam' for developers is the right path. But, clearly as this article states we are being taken advantage of. In my experience the problem is larger than SV.
With a browser extension you can integrate crypto tipping into every website. (Did i just missed my chance to create a startup? Investors, anyone? :)
Was "echochamber.com" already taken?
I started investigating java on my first personal Mac, which was a blueberry iBook. This was end of the 90s though.
In my physics lab, we used Performas to develop our software. In physics labs, Macs never really disappeared.

Still, I liked the colorful Macs a lot. They cheered up daily work. A pity, that we are back to gray boxes.
Jon Appleton was my professor at Dartmouth's Electro-acoustic Music Program. He's a great composer, professor and person who cares about his students.
Also, I would do away with clichés like "the only limit is your imagination" et similia as well as all the techno-babble. Keep it simple, don't overdo it.
I'm not even sure that 'accuses' should be in the title given that Uber have already admitted that they did it. Pretty shady, IMO.
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence#Black_ho...
I hear things got so bad they eventually had to hire Oompa Loompas.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.