skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you watch the recent Senate hearing on cryptocurrencies? They seem to have already admitted that there are legitimate uses for Bitcoin, etc. I think businesses in general are more scared of it than the government is.
>>> note the 14 Jan in URL and 27Jan release date; first draft Press release, then make arrests

2014 January?
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I think they could still do better without using SPDY. Going to try and make time to test a different approach.
That is awesome! Now that I've gone through the whole process I'm definitely much fast than I was when I started YumHacker. I spent a lot of time in the beginning just trying to wrap my head around what the heck I was doing, especially with Backbone.
It depends on whether you are in a situation where demand outstrips supply (surge pricing) or supply outstrips demand (UberX).

By lowering the price, they are trying to get more people to opt for UberX vs. taxi/Lyft/etc which theoretically brings the supply/demand into equilibrium. There is potentially the effect of lowering prices so much that drivers don't find it worthwhile to pick up fares in which case you once again help get into equilibrium since now supply is closer to demand levels. If Uber wants to counter that secondary effect, they can lower the prices by reducing their own margin w/o impacting the driver's cut.
Did you actually read the actual conversation?
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
You read my mind. That was one of the sources I was going through that motived me to make this.
So the thing you might be missing is that even when you think you're being appreciated for your intelligence, people have still been assuming that you are both white and male (and on IRC back in the day, probably a teen or young adult).

It's folly to think that you are free of prejudice with the only basis that you don't consciously hold these prejudices, because we (humanity, science) know for a fact that biases are much more deeply ingrained in most of us.

This is particularly hard for our demographic (programmers et al) to hear, because we consider ourselves rational. We like to think that we do things because we have thought them through. But all evidence points to the fact that we are just as susceptible to biases and prejudice as everyone else. Indeed, nobody seems to be free of it, but there is a silver lining: with an analytical approach, it is possible to examine biases and become aware of them, and eventually work through them.
I'm addicted to these blog posts, the guy is like some sort of magician.
Short of intercepting traffic at internet backbones, you can't know this without logging in to the site.
The reasonable here does not mean what's techincally easiest or reasonable for the government, but what a reasonable violation of the suspects' or innocent people's privacy is, in light of the suspected crimes.

Grabbing the servers is easy, but arguably because so much unrelated data could be on a shared server these days, it's unreasonable to just grab everything. Many other people are affected, and unrelated data is collected and evaluated later for purposes unrelated to the original collection purpose. This circumvents a reasonable expectation of privacy, and strongly shifts the balance of power from the regular citizens to the agency hording the data. Especially in light of the plea-bargaining justice system in the USA, where the data can be and is used to threaten and coerce, this is worrying.

EDIT: missing word
Your evidence that something isn't ridiculous consists of two points which are, themselves, ridiculous.
AmigaOS had "library vectors" (see Exec.library SetFunction) for patching ROM libraries too.
Yeah, I mean like a sofa, bumper, etc. I leave a larger-than-usual amount of space between me and the car in front of me, but in heavy traffic, you can't always evade, particularly if the car in front is a high-clearance truck, and the object clears that car, but not necessarily my normal-height sedan. Within hours of being back in SFBA I'd run over a boot, then another shoe (possibly the boot or another shoe), in separate directions of 101. It struck the front bumper and didn't seem to catch on anything underneath, but I was worried.

Roadside trash sucks, too, for different reasons.

(I call 911/CHP to report this stuff frequently, on average once a week or more. They send a CHP car or two out to road-break and remove it, or CHP+Caltrans if it's big.)
Not at all what I had in mind. I want this to be a community and not a course.

But to get there we have to start somewhere. And I know people can bond and form a community better if they work on similar problems, thus the projects.
It's missing 2 really big ones...

- Craigslist: http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/4/craigslist-valuation-8...

- Plenty of Fish: http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/digital-100-mos...
Well in your firewall rules i don't see any OUTPUT drop/reject so the following should be enough on the master if your master is actually listening on lo and port 3306(you can see this running for example(in linux): netstat -tnlp ):

-A INPUT -i lo -p tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT
Just create a type in any language and you can do it there too
Distances aren't big because gas is/was cheap, they're big because nobody wants to pay $2,000/month for a crappy one-bedroom apartment within biking distance of their job. Distances ARE big because America is so big, and even now there's still plenty of land to be cheaply bought and decently priced housing built upon.

For the past decade everyone's been balking at the rising gas prices, and so far as I know no two places have magically become closer together as a result.
It's because the big guys wouldn't be the ones to go to jail. They are smart enough to set up the incentives for low and mid level employees to commit crimes while never actually instructing them to do so. The relevant criminal statutes and doctrines require the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the mens rea of "intentionally" and given how things are done that's all but impossible in these cases.

The government could prosecute the low and mid level employees who were the "hitmen". I personally think they should, but there's a bipartisan consensus not to. Some because it would be an indirect attack on the banks (job creators) and others because they see the low and mid level guys as victims rather than co-conspirators.
Not particularly noteworthy compared to the listed companies, but my brother's company Appstem has taken $0 of funding now grosses in the range of $1-3 million annually (I don't know what their books say, I only have a general idea of how much they take in per contract and pay out). They don't make a single given product like most software startups (though they do have at least one in the pipeline that I know of) - I guess they are sort of like the early version of 37 Signals in that respect.
> Most modern organized crime is a result of drug trade. So yes, it's all related to victimless drug use, as I said.

I'm sorry, this is just ridiculous.
Hey subsection1h, I'm Ryan from Ninefold. We're working on getting our docs in place around multiple environments. Our setup is different from Heroku and they do a great job of describing why you'd want more than one environment, so I think our article will be much different, but I'd like to make sure it's informative.

Is there any specific information you'd like to see in there?

Also, we use Phusion Passenger to manage our deploys and we do implement pre-start: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache...

We're working on a new feature to further reduce the chance of diminished performance during deploys. There will be information about it in our docs and on our blog as soon as we release it.

Thanks,
Ryan Clark
Lead Rails Support Engineer | Ninefold.com
Awesome! Your journey is quite inspirational as well.

There's some weirdness remembering locations I search for before I sign up and across the boundary when it asks me for a signup but works great once I've logged in.
I think he means having to implement toString() ten times to handle all the various types that need to be converted to strings. toString() is a trivial example because most languages have that built-in to some degree. But there have been several times where I would have to write the same C/C++ function again and again to support a new type.
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Braintree is a Chicago company.

Adrian Holovaty (of Django fame) recently caused a stir here when he argued in front of a group of investors that Chicago is an ideal place for bootstrappers:

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/chicago-bootstrapping/
After a quick glance, I'd say fig.yml is the magic here. It orchestrates building and linking all the docker containers.
My understanding (and I'm not a lawyer) is that a contract with a company is binding if that person was authorised to sign such a contract (i.e. manager or director) also known as "apparent authority" which basically relies on "a reasonable person would assume that the person was authorised".

i.e. Head of IT signing 200,000 contract for computer equipment no problem, Part time office cleaning signing, big problem.

I'm sure someone who was a legal professional could state it better than that :).
I view the extra scaffolding as writing unit tests. The type definitions are just a way to specify unit tests in a formal way. The compiler does the rest of unit testing using the type definition, at compile time. With the correct tools a lot of the scaffolding are automated and kept to a minimum so not much is loss.
Most of the time compiler can do without most top-level declarations too. They're a form of documentation enforced by the compiler.
This looks close. I wonder how good it really is functioning though. I'll take a look, but it is a great idea.

edit: Ok, I dunno how well this really works, but it sounds/looks rather brokenish. Actually, I think this could have been easily made not nearly so pricey though. An API is expensive for this task, it's such a general task it should be a 1 time fee.

edit2: Actually this is pretty neat, but dang that price is annoying. I think anyone re-coding this idea as a plugin without a API cost and instead with a single cost but outputted the code would literally make 3x the amount of money.

edit3: Kimono is broken. Just did some tests on random blogs. It is not exactly as good as it suggests. It just chose a few sites that are easy to scrape from for it's display.
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Criminalizing BTC is a sure sign of fear from the US/UK banking system. But you cannot criminalise maths, you can only do that with mathematicians like Alan Turing.
I've been using fig on some side projects. It's incredibly exciting how easy it makes configuring what could be a quite involved development environment. Installing redis is 3 line addition to a fig.yml file (https://github.com/orchardup/fig-rails-example/blob/master/f...). It also has amazing potential for an agnostic development environment across teams.
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Without wanting to criticize the article, there is an interesting physics mistake here. Electric current is not actually moving electrons but _movement of electrons_.

This means that no physical electrons make the "round trip" in an electrical circuit, but the current propagates via locally moving electrons interacting through electromagnetic force.

So indeed, the electrons that Amazon is handling are definitely not identical to the electrons at your end, even in the hypothetical case in which there are no transformers and fibreoptics between you and Amazon.
Given that 37 signals had been around for seven years when they took money from Bezos, you certainly can't conclude that they're not bootstrapped. Everything depends on how much money it was, how they used it, why they needed it, etc, but it does look like they built a sustainable business by that time.
Thanks ! I'll definitely test that !
1. C# is not as verbose as Java and C++. Latest versions especially.

2. C# supports dynamic typing as well as static.

3. C# and F# are the easiest to mix and match within one solution.
The type checking is a form of unit test. The compiler just does it for you automatically.
Hmmm. Exploiting the weak(est) link of trust. In any chain of friends or business associates. Have to say, it's by the book.
I wanted to learn to code but I'd never really done any coding before. I came up with the 180 websites idea as a way to start really small and stay motivated. It wasn't always easy but I had a blast and learned a lot.
There are several things about this post that make me really question its validity.

"The best feature of the script when it comes to higher-level product is that large portions (if not the entire thing) can be scrapped and started anew in a different way without a significant loss of investment."

Large portions can be scrapped and started anew without significant loss of investment?!? Is this code being auto-generated somehow? If it's legit actual lines being written by your developers, then that is the definition of a significant investment. And if you're redoing it, then that's by definition loss of the original investment.

"There are probably only a handful of apps that wind up being 'large' (in the 10k+ LoC range)."

What are you smoking? I've got more than 10k LoC in an app that has only been under development by < 2 developers for a few months. My company has another app built by one guy that's more than 30k LoC. And you say you have 30+ million LoC in production?!? If 10k is "large" for you, then you must have a shitload of apps out there.

Also, there's a huge difference between maintaining 3000 apps with 10k LoC and maintaining even one app with >1m LoC.
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Maybe 100K LOC in a static language is more difficult to maintain than 100K LOC in a dynamically typed language, but what if the same functionality requires 500K LOC in the dynamically typed language?
Dude, I am Soviet engineer. I remember times when we called each other brothers. Kiev is mother of Russian urban culture.
Do not mix politics with code and you will be all right.
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I guess we should just understand what's the goal of scripting versus what's the goal of statically typed languages.

Statically typed languages should just provides code that need to be reused often. Also needed when you need performance or low power consumption.

Scripting should be about using those libraries together.

People should try to understand how gmail works, because I think javascript is just used for presenting data to a browser, while gmail servers do the heavilifting.
Any way to find out what sites you have used this on in the past?
We covered "A Distant Plain" on Shut Up & Sit Down last month: http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/review-distant-pla...
We use our product Exponential.

Exponential.io is Tooling as a Service. Basically, it creates 3 things really well via automation:

1. API

2. Angular app (and connects to the API)

3. Express app (optional. used for SEO)
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C++ heavy apps on Android are larger, use more memory, and load less quickly. This isn't obvious if you're used to other worlds, but it is a side effect of how pervasive Dalvik is on the system.

Citation required, as this is entirely the opposite of every experience I've had actually building apps that use significant native code. What are you basing this claim on?

There really isn't anything magical about Dalvik (or ART) -- it is a per instance runtime. C++ code doesn't suddenly become heavier or slower to load because of Dalvik.

And of course the overwhelming majority of games are mostly built using the NDK.
This is, i think, the main problem of their approach of the yo-catalog. So many packages who does so little things when we prefer to have little that do many.

We are the community, it's ours to think of a way to make a better yeoman ecosystem.
what are you doing in JS now that required C/C++ before ? that's the most interesting question. I dont think you needed C/C++ at first place.
Try "deriving (Show)". And stop using the C/C++/Java straw man as the basis for arguing against static type systems.
At 160-180 km/h in a rental 116d with winter tires I was actually getting about 6L/100km. I was able to do Berlin to Auschwitz (Poland) on a single tank, with 0.2 tank left over. (Poland technically has speed limits I think, but they weren't enforced) For a combination of high-speed-autobahn and city/etc driving, I was basically refilling for EUR 65 or so every 600-700km.

The rental 116d couldn't do >200 km/h, so I'd probably want something a bit bigger, but even a 123d would be a reasonable option. I was thinking 535d just in case I had to have passengers.
I wondered when this day would come. This project doesn't consider Linux a platform you develop on https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter#prerequisites, but rather a platform you deploy to, if that. Heroku is so abstract it could be almost any OS.
Isn't it counterproductive to drive a model s at high speeds cross-country? You get an extra ~40 miles of range by going 65 instead of 75.
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"Small" compared to what?
I don't believe this is accurate. I think the Google Hangout "app" is fairly new: http://help.roll20.net/misc-playing-in-google-plus/
> The side of history that can't afford a Tesla S

Yet.

There were millions that couldn't afford an automobile when they came out too you know..... Give it time, stop thinking a new product has to be everything to everyone so early on.
The trouble with abandoning symmetrical unit tests is that:

* The unit is no longer portable and can't be pulled from the context it was first used in (e.g. into a library or another app) without becoming untested. And adding characterization testing later is usually more expensive
* A developer who needs to make a change to that unit needs to know where to "test drive" that change from, which requires that they know where to look for the parent's test that uses it. That's hard enough but it completely falls over when the unit is used in two, three, or more places. Now a bunch of tests have to be redesigned and none of them are easy to find.
* Integrated unit tests like this lead to superlinear build duration growth b/c they each get slower as the system gets bigger. This really trips teams up in year 2 or 3 of a system.
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I'm thinking of building a simple tool(chrome extension) to enhance my time here. I want to know if others are interested before I build. Here are the features I'm thinking:

1. Notifications when some one responds to your comment. Like the adblock/ghostery red counter

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5. Interesting user stats.

If you're interested put your email in the box here. I want to get a minimum of 150 people before I build it. Feature requests are welcome.

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Wow, what disinformation. My background in static like Java has been that moving to dynamic makes it easier to do large.
Except... no one has criminalized BTC itself here, only its use in facilitating crime. They seem to be treating it like any other currency.
Thanks! It has been a really fun ride.

There's still a lot to be done with the sign up/sign in process that I haven't gotten to yet. Saving the last search is at the top of that to do list.
Moving WordPress from localhost to live production
Moving a WordPress site over from one server to another server or copying the site from your test server to a live production server can be downright confusing.

WordPress provides some solutions and there are a few good plugins around that do the trick but I wanted to figure this out for myself right from scratch. Not use any plugins or import tools.
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Yep. I don't really practice "OOP" anymore because each of my objects are really just behavior with no application state (their only state would be the other behavioral objects they depend on).

However, in a classical language it's easier to organize stuff into classes and for the purpose of a post like this one it's easier to convey. But you're dead on.
Hmmm.... I can see how open source app can exist on githib and in your iTunes if you have Developer Account. But can you be sure it is 100% open source once it went through the AppStore gates? I am just asking.
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Freedom is incredibly harmful to society. It allows organised crime to operate with great ease. It facilitates the corrupt in any walk of life, be it political, corporate, or even law enforcement.
Wow. Why are you just randomly making up your own pet theory when the question was actually answered and also had a catchy phrase to go with it? HSBC was "too big to jail"

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/06/opinion/calabria-gilbert-too-b...

Holder responded by saying he was not talking about HSBC in particular but that, "I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy."

From Holder's statements, it appears that the government was so worried about the dangerous repercussions that could result from prosecuting such a large, complex and globally significant institution that it shielded HSBC from criminal liability.
Sporty behavior not on a highway is still going to get better consumption than extremely high speed driving, because wind resistance rises as the square of the velocity. If you double your velocity, then air drag increases by 4x, so if users are quoting 8L/100 on 120-130km/h then you can expect to get about 32L/100 going 250km/h.

With a 70L tank at 250km/h you may well exhaust the tank in under an hour. These are worst case numbers though, so if you drive a bit slower, then 1-2 hours between refueling seems like a reasonable estimate.
Why did you have to write the same function again and again? I guess polymorphism would have helped, would it not? Not knowing too much c++ I can't really comment so I guess I am asking for a clarification.
What about leaking bookmarks from Al-Quran app?
In addition, entrepreneurs should not dismiss the value of user-testing as part of customer service. So often a startup will have an idea for a product/service and work tirelessly to implement their vision of it without ever taking it out and testing it with users at each step in development. I've learned this lesson myself and it is surprising how often developers misunderstand their users.
Longford, company that owned perfect cover for intelligence assets in middle east, sells its oilfield in Iraq and "invests" in another perfect cover for gathering even more intelligence.

Doesnt sound like CIA run front at all, no no no.
OMG. I want to play DnD again.

I won't forget a friend realising how you could abbreviate Find And Remove Traps. Never. Gets. Boring.

Strangely, DnD caused different types of teenager to unite around the same table; Geeks, tracksuits, metal-heads and pot smokers.

Them were the days...
Sure, if you leave out the reality that the US had already expanded to the west coast by the time the car was invented.
If you paid them for the time they spent on the project surely you'd own it? The actual issue seems to be if they've displayed they're more competent than your entire team why would they want to work there?