skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the old mans war books they cover that by having the old and new bodies staring at each other while they move the consciousness. So one minute you're staring at a new body then you're staring at both then gradually the vision of the new body fades out and you're left staring at your old body.

I think something similar is the only way you're going to get people to want to do this. Though whether or not that is possible is way beyond me.
If the pics were taken in a public place then (in most jurisdictions) you have no legitimate complaint. Arguing about just what constitutes a public place could be a fun way to spend a lot of money on lawyers.
Ah, well this is old now, but since you're the author I'll respond anyway because I think it might help you in the future. I think you got a little dramatic with a weak connection:

> "If you turn out to be wrong, you will likely be jailed like Ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling."

So your argument is that you'll likely go to jail because you'll likely lie because your company will likely fail. That's more than a bit of a stretch.

It might help you to know that you undermined yourself and your point with this sort of dramatic claim. You had a really good thought going: if you think climate change is not happening, bet against it! There are enough people betting for climate change that you can probably make money. No need to make a sloppy connection to Enron.

Again, by way of advice, I don't think people believed that insurance companies are pulling out of Flordia or the UK, and I didn't believe you had the facts to even prove they were raising rates because of climate change. I'd believe they are, but I want more than conjecture I could do on my own. Establish your premise a bit, build your credibility, and avoid the weak claims - had you done that you'd have a solid article that could have done well here.
Most decent developers will want the opportunity to work on the latest version. Certainly keeping reasonably current is much lower risk than not upgrading.
Basically this, also surprised anybody would buy Bitcoins from a SR vendor. Also another reminder for companies to encrypt their internal emails this is also how they busted Megaupload because of stupid things they emailed each other 'hey where is Batman uploaded?'
To any exchange that launders money...

I personally wouldn't put it past the US government targeting honest bitcoin exchanges but that doesn't seem like the case here
I used a Multiflow Trace back in the day. For certain types of apps (mechanical engineering simulations in our case), there were significant speedups. It was a weird box, though.
I'm sure Werner would appreciate some evidence to back up your statement that he is a piece of shit.
The original Mac had a screen buffer of 24KiB, which isn't enough to even hold half of a Retina-scaled iOS icon.
Google reverse image search

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyi...
D9u's post was not about drone strikes in general, but Anwar Al Awlaki specifically ("U.S. citizen and his teenage son.")
Adding to this list is EventMobi[1]. We help over 4000+ events & conferences in 25+ countries create cross-platform apps for their attendees.

We've grown our team to about 35 people across our Toronto (HQ), Berlin and Virginia offices and are planning to grow to about 60 people by years end.

We just hit our 4th birthday a week ago, and are now expanding to providing the complete toolset for event planners to help make planning, running, and gather data about events easier.

[1]http://www.eventmobi.com
OS X actually does this now. You get a little pop-up when you hold down e(èéêëēėę) for example and press a number to choose. It's efficient enough if you don't type them often enough to remember the alternate keystrokes. (option something something)

It actually doesn't work well in TeX because it depends on having the correct input encoding set, which still breaks when you have multiple collaborators. Though \:e for ë is pretty easy to remember.
Search by Image
What classifies as "bootstrapped" these days?

Because many of the companies on the list have taken VC/Angel money.

The following have taken VC/Angel money:

- Github [1]

- 37signals [2]

- BigCommerce [3]

- BrainTree [4]

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/github
[2] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/37signals
[3] https://angel.co/bigcommerce
[4] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/braintree-payment-solution...
How come? JavaScript is a pretty popular language nowadays.
> Well, since they were arrested for "money laundering" it can easily be generasiled to any Bitcoin exchange...

How? Are you saying that BTC exchanges necessarily fail to comply with money laundering laws in the way the offenders here are accused of? They weren't charged with money laundering for selling bitcoins, they were charged with money laundering for doing things that would have been money laundering if they were done with dollars, euros, or anything else.
Yes.

1) Big banks have more leverage than insignificant fringe exchanges.

2) Wells Fargo was also investigated and fined (although an insignificant amount compared to their business).
In some cases it should be able to figure out a good name for the variables. eg (var hello = 0; hello < 10; hello++) {} hello would be better named i.
I agree with you that citizenship should not protect you from the consequences of your actions. Even so, I don't understand how a targeted drone strike in Yemen is an acceptable choice for the USG, regardless of who is killed.

Would it be okay for another country to conduct such drone strikes on US soil? If not, which countries are allowed do do such things, and where, and why?

How can you prove that lives were saved by the drone strike?
This looks really interesting. I would definitely use it for sketching out PCB designs to share with the rest of the people on the project.
Meet me in St. Louis? San Francisco too expensive for techies, too
Look at the options more carefully:

(1) Leave al-Awlaki alone, situated in the middle of AQAP home territory, and hope that he doesn't succeed in his evident ambitions to coordinate attacks against Europe, America, India, Russia, and Indonesia. This is the strategy Clinton employed against Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. You and I might debate it, but a realistic analysis of the circumstances of al-Awlaki has to acknowledge that the strategy was discredited. Consider carefully what the real differences between al-Awlaki and al-Zawahiri actually were.

(2) Kill al-Awlaki with an air strike. Here, we have the benefit of seeing the result of this strategy, since it's the option the US actually took. Result: 14 people dead: al-Zawahiri, his son, the editor of al Qaeda's English-language magazine, the day-to-day operational leader of AQAP, and 10 other people. Assume only al-Zawahiri, the editor, and al-Banna were actually meaningfully hostile to the US: that's a death toll of 11 innocent people.

(3) Invade Yemen. Hundreds or thousands of truly innocent people, people with no connection to AQAP or al-Zawahiri at all, would have been killed. Nothing the USG does is more damaging than sending ground troops.

Options (1) and (3) had potential death tolls in the thousands. Option (2) had a death toll in the low teens.

I think reasonable people can obviously disagree about which of these options was the most prudent. But I don't think it's reasonable to suggest that there wasn't a difficult decision here; that the President, whose foremost duty is to protect the people of the US, could casually have chosen to leave al-Awlaki to his own devices. I look at the situation and thank God I'm not the President, and can instead retain my humanity.
The biggest factor for me, by far, has been an understanding spouse. That being said, what I've learned doesn't require that luxury.

Since having our first child I've learned, painfully, to stop trying for optimal conditions (a quiet room, a guaranteed, contiguous block of uninterruptible time), and learn to spin up and down quickly as circumstances dictate. That learning process was primarily about refusing to use sub-optimal conditions as a reason to delay work, but it's also about setting up in the family room and accepting that people make noise and demand attention and that, with mental discipline, you can work through it. Copious notes (I keep a running 'dev log' open and note my thoughts into it almost constantly) are a huge help in re-establishing context after a distraction.

There's always something you can do to keep engaged with the codebase when given a 30m slot: some brainless extraction of magic numbers into statics; cleaning up some nagging compiler warnings; things that free you up to do more creative and challenging things when there's less noise and distraction later on.
For God's sake, how is this piece of propaganda relevant to hacker news? This is not reddit.
The domains are obviously trusted to a degree. The objective of the hash is just to allow a content addressed[0] clientside web cache, and avoid talking to them most of the time. Good for privacy, security and load times.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage
This may go some way to an explanation:

http://randomstreetview.com/#rrrxi_91xj4_-1g_0_-19
I really like the idea behind this. Anyone have any experience using something similar?

My specific question would be whether using longer gibberish variable names is any more helpful than using short names. I don't know if 'quinis' is better than 'h' or 'tenmiey' is better than 'a'? I guess at the very least it should provide a much easier find and replace once you figure out what the variable should actually be named.
So how long did it take?
Glad you like it, how did you share them before?
They revealed that hand a while ago with the FINCEN announcement.

The US government isn't going to give Bitcoin a status that's different than other currencies.
Nice! So interesting. This is the kind of thing that, 30 years ago, you could only dream about. Stuff like this reminds me how much we take things like the Internet and Google Street View for granted, and sometimes you need to step back and think how amazing they are.

But stepping forwards to a minor detail... are there keyboard shortcuts? If you click on the image, you can already use Google controls to pan/walk around using the arrow keys and +/-..., so that all works...

But it would be awesome if there were another shortcut to move to the next/previous location, so I could move around, and between images, solely using the keyboard.

Anyways, great work!

[Edit: another thing, so many locations seem to have... not much going on. Instead of picking a random spot by area, it might be interesting to pick a random spot by population distribution... so that half the locations would wind up being urban, and you'd see a lot more people.]
Where the heck is openBSD ? if its "security" you're trying to assess, why not use the distro that aims to be secure ? Ubuntu aims to be easy .

Edit: I previously said "freeBSD", meant "openBSD"
I tried and it just asks me to download a .SWF file:

www.youtube.com/v/z0zD3pOG-Tk
You can do this on www.mapcrunch.com
Which part of "stuff of fantasy" was unclear?

Hell, there was a recent movie about a bunch of scrappy Americans playing guerilla against a successful Chinese beachhead. (I don't remember the name; I just saw the trailer in theaters a bunch.)

If you talk about invasion on home soil, virtually any American will bring up how it would be opposed by armed citizens at every step.

> It would surely make more sense to fantasize about a more militaristic culture waging the war, no?

Like who? Canada? Mexico? Our special relationship with the UK? France? Russia? There's no country where an invasion makes sense. At best, there's a reasonable fear of someone carpet-bombing all of our major cities with nukes.
Awesome. My wife and kids asked me if you can write computer programs using just 1s and 0s and I told them that assembly was the lowest you could use, apparently mistakenly. Gonna have to try this out!
I'm curious why this even mentions that no credit card is required to apply. Is it required later? Why mention it at all if it's not?

Also, I use Ghostery and it blocks Google Analytics which seems to consequently block the click-through on your Apply button.
What does "OK" mean? Nations interact in the state of nature.
You know that it's illegal for actual banks to assist in money laundering right?

You know that when a bank does it though, nobody gets arrested right? They just get a small fine that is a fraction of their net profit from their illegal activities. When someone with Bitcoin is accused of money laundering, everyone involved is arrested and every asset they have is immediately frozen. It's a tremendous double standard.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageo...
I don't mean guilty in the sense that a court has convicted you; I mean, everybody has done something that objectively breaks the law, and the more information the government collects in general, the more likely it is that they have something on you, with probability rapidly approaching 1.

For instance, if a friend on Facebooks cross-site posts a photo that they don't have a license to, you've broken copyright law by downloading it too. Again, nominally, convicting you requires "criminal intent", but this has been getting weaker lately too. This is just an easy example; there's a lot more and many worse ways they can get you, but this is an example where probably everybody on the Internet has a record of many of this sort of violation on file somewhere in the government right now.

"Law enforcement is not an end in itself, it is only one of the tools a government has available."

And it was never meant to be a tool that the government had at hand against all of its citizens, but if we aren't there now, we will soon.
That seems to be a common thing globally. All sides of most political conflicts are corrupt.
Would you call Swiss Army Knife a GREAT tool?
Thanks for the feedback, I'm the other co-founder of Crowdlink. We see our service as more of a complement to Gittip, where the monetary component is more of a way to show the developer you would really like to see a feature and give a small tip, instead of trying to live off of it. I know if I was dragging my feet to fix an annoying bug and a couple people put up a dollar each I would feel motivated because I knew that people genuinely valued the work.
taking a funding round after you've done millions of dollars in revenue via bootstrapping, doesn't suddenly make your bootstrapping experience redundant.

perhaps the correct title should be "companies who bootstrapped themselves to success" but it's not quite as catchy ;)
I read 3 books a week. I've learned a bit, but not much that's affected my life directly in a practical way.

Obviously, I do enjoy it though.
A nice comic on the subject:

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/01/24
About 80 days.
Ask HN: How much time and money did UL certification take you?
My company is building an electricity submeter which must be UL certified. I know what the UL site says about costs/timelines, but I'd love to get some real-world data points on how long it actually takes and costs as we're about to undergo this process ourselves.
From a referring URLs report in your site's web stats / analytics tool.
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The site in question is actually abandoned, and has gathered a LOT of spam. If I could actually be paid individually for removing spam comments, this could be a business. ;)
I wasn't claiming that any business does care about this (though in fact I bet some do, at least a bit). Only suggesting that they should.

Your question (which, I now take it, was intended to express businesses' attitudes rather than your own) was "why should the business care?". I agree that they commonly don't, and that there are structural reasons why they commonly don't. But I think most would say that they should.
This answer would completely put me off building a Rails app, as a business owner.

My we might be using a four-year-old copy of Photoshop, or Word. But my Rails consultant tells me that after he builds my 3 user internal accounting app I'm going have to pay him for 10 hours every time a point release of rails comes out – which is about quarterly – at his rate, which is say $150 an hour. Now my three user app has upkeep costs of 6K year. With no improvements at all.

No thanks – I'll go look for technology where every point release doesn't require $1500 worth of work. Or where I can find a consultant who actually weigh the costs and benefits to me.
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This could be useful. A few questions:

1) can you describe the tornado part of the system? The blog post isn't really clear on that.

2) how do you associate websocket sessions with browser sessions?

3) how do you handle server-to-client notifications? ie. a celery task completes and you want to notify the client.

4) Is XSS a concern?
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Titles of standalone literary works are generally not trademarkable. You need to have a series (Harry Potter) or significant commercial tie-ins (Spaceballs: The Lunchbox) to pull it off.

King's "Saga" games do not appear to be a series so much as an attempt at a branding umbrella. That's much weaker than "Elder Scrolls", which is a series with common elements. Just "Scrolls" by itself is a long stretch, as the company did not produce other series with that word in it, like perhaps "Younger Scrolls" or "Forbidden Scrolls" or anything other than "Elder Scrolls", so confusion with "Magnetic Scrolls" was very unlikely.

Again, as software falls largely under copyright, I don't think King has a leg to stand on from legal tradition. But our courts don't necessarily do what we think they should, either.
While it's a good idea, I feel like it should rename with real words, or not rename at all. From the example:

function(bedad, latay, vublu) {
if (!adag(this, "on", bedad, [ latay, vublu ]) || !latay) return this;
this._events || (this._events = {});
var cyem = this._events[bedad] || (this._events[bedad] = []);

bedad, latay and vublu don't make it much easier to remember which variable is which than just using a,b,c
Now that we have light sources that can produce a small amount of light efficiently (LEDs) we don't really need that many lights built into the structure anyways. People can function in really really dim light. Just light up the whole building slightly all the time. You end up needing just the task lights and those are better controlled with switches at the place the light is used.
But the lone visionary has a hard time opening up his/her idea to the bazaar, because then the bazaar gets to mutate the idea away from the shining purity of the visionary's dream. That is, those who most intensely insist on the purity of their idea are the least likely to make a mark. (Steve Jobs is the exception, but he had a company to back him.)
>My point wasn't that it can't be done. My point was about usability and what programmers have come to expect from a modern language.

Scientific programmers don't expect a behavior different than Julia's from a modern language.

>I understand that things get trickier when trying to implement arbitrary-precision arithmetic while keeping performance high.

It's not merely "trickier". It's impossible to be fast enough.
Seems like advantage is skipping network roundtrip to/from client browser. But still seems expensive in terms of cycles.
Notice the last checkbox in the application form:

I'm willing to commit $30/mo to become a better developer.
I wonder how central figures in Bitcoin feel about this. The headlines aren't helpful but in the longer run if the Feds drive down or out the number of bad guys using Bitcoin that would seem to help it's image over the long run.
government loves bitcoin. credit cards are very traceable. cash is fairly traceable, but the moment bitcoins are used to get real goods theyre completely traceable. add redlisting and upcoming ca authorities to the mix and bitcoin is a governments wet dream
This is simply not true.

'In some of the documents, prosecutors allege that HSBC intentionally flouted the law. The bank created an operation that was a "systemically flawed sham paper-product designed solely to make it appear that the Bank has complied" with the Bank Secrecy Act and is able to detect money laundering, wrote William J. Ihlenfeld II, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, in a draft of a 2010 letter addressed to Justice Department officials.'

'In one email exchange submitted as evidence in that case, employees debated whether the bank should help a Miami client get around U.S. sanctions by moving the client's business to HSBC's Hong Kong office. "I believe that the best outcome would be for the customer to open a relationship with Hong Kong just for leters (sic) of credit purposes. He travels there all the time," private banker Antonio Suarez wrote in a 2008 email. Suarez has since left the bank and couldn't be reached for comment.'

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8420FX20120503?irpc...
I do not agree, from a small sample, I noticed that they got a screenshot even for my own site, which is currently down.

Also could be helpful in the case where I'm searching for an article on a topic where I barely remember or only just clicked through to the article, but found some comment interesting, and I'm looking for it again days or weeks later.

(Eg. When the post's HN title has been changed by mods, and all I might have left to go on is that I still vaguely remember what the style of the article page looked like)
This is the information missing both from the article and the comments here in order to understand what's really being objected to. This should be the top comment.
I really don't see the difference here. Some of the allegations against HSBC are extremely damning. It is hard to believe they did anything other than deliberately ignore laws to facilitate money laundering.

The only thing they didn't do is advertise directly to drug kingpins. Then again, we don't know that they didn't.
"What the command is supposed to do is to collect all the dependencies and the convert them into wheels if necessary..."

How does it convert the non-wheel packages into wheels?
I do this too.

What's funny is, these are the same people who a year ago wanted to pay me to add their links to my pages.
A good excerpt from page 13.

"Shrem email accounts reflect that "BTCKing" not only obtained his supply of Bitcoins through the Company, but did so with extensive support from SHREM. Even though SHREM quickly realized that "BTCKing" was reselling Bitcoins on Silk Road, which SHREM knew to be a marketplace for illicit drugs, SHREM went out of his way to facilitate "BTCKing's" business. Among other things, SHREM: permitted "BTCKing" to continue doing business with the Company, despite initially threatening to "ban" him based on his illegal activity; personally ensured that "BTCKing's" orders with the Company were filled everyday; gave "BTCKing" discounts based on his large order volume; sought to conceal "BTCKing's" activity from the Co-founder and the Cash Processor to prevent "BTCKing's" orders from being blocked; advised "BTCKing" how to evade the transaction limits imposed by the Company's own AML policy; let "BTCKing" conduct large transactions without ever verifying his identity, in violation of federal AML laws; and failed to file a single Suspicious Activity Report about "BTCKing," [sic] despite the obvious "red flags" raised by "BTCKing's" dealings with the Company."

If all that is alledged is true, that's pretty damning and this isn't just a general bitcoin crackdown.
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