skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is simply not true. Public != traceable. Please read about any of the many methods for securely anonymizing BTC. Coinjoin is a good example.

CoInvalidation will probably never be even close to implemented, and the proposed usage of x.509 certs has nothing to do with anonymity or privacy.
37signals is paying Bezos a regular dividend, as peer DHH comments [1]. Regardless of the terms of the agreement, 37signals still took outside money.

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2565-acquisition-condolences?...
US and UK spy agencies scoop up private data from 'leaky' phone apps
Damnit! Just disabled GA tracking. Thanks for spotting that.

There will be a monthly fee to join. I'll try to make it clearer on the page, sorry about that. This is my business, I make a living teaching developers online.
I understand that significant parts of the OS code were burned into ROM in order to free up RAM, which was more expensive. Code for things like the window manager, etc. Later versions of the OS patched bugs in the ROM by loading the patches into RAM. A rather inventive design at the time.
Strange game, the only way to win is not to play.
Except for that the government still can't use torture in most cases.
I highly recommend reading the original thread instead of this horrible writeup: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...

Especially Håkon Wium Lie, who isn't even mentioned in this article, brings up some really convincing points against CSS Regions.
Certainly yes. There is no or very little aggression towards Russian speakers in Lvov.
I don't have any experience with it myself, but ZPM Espresso is a relatively high profile Kickstarter campaign that recently went through this process for their product (a home-appliance espresso maker).

Maybe you could reach out to them?

zpmespresso.com
@zpmespresso
It's not because of the language itself. It's because it's implied that the platform my_great_project would be built on is "Chrome, the new C runtime". This is the "platform of the future" and that makes me kinda sad.
You can get the same effect without java-script using Wrap and cutting an image into multiple sections. So, while useful long term there is little immediate need to add this feature if it's causing some issues.
So is this inaccurate?:

With the help of at least one other person, the roommates re-sold these [stolen] high-end components to various telephony equipment suppliers nationwide, washing the checks through a series of falsified bank accounts and voice-mail business fronts.

- http://www.fineorsuperfine.com/newyorkpress31.html
We compute in browsers using webworkers, which means that every javascript code we sent to a browser is managed in a different thread, without harming the user experience.

Indeed, this is not a sequencing demo, but an alignment demo. Thanks for pointing that out.
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I guess it's safe to say that most web dev know JavaScript.

That's why I chose to use it as an example and will also use it to present projects in the club.
So, how much you been collectin' ? Y'all must have money comin' out the wazoo.
Being well-off (supposedly, at least) and having power in certain domains does not mean you can't be raped. The only relevant attribute is consent. If you were making an argument that the prisoner actually had power over the guards through external contacts and implicit threats to their families, that'd be one thing. But you continually mistake masculine bravado and some level of material comfort for ability to consent. It's a category error.

Your analogies both fall flat, because there's the key point that the women and men in that situation have the ability to consent. The proper analogy is a kid who's been abducted by a pedophile. No matter how happy the kid is, no matter how kindly the pedophile treats the kid, no matter how many gifts the pedophile gives the kid, no matter how much the kid jockeys with other kids for the pedophile's affection--it's rape. Because consent.
I've been shocked by the caliber of Amazon's customer service. Pleasantly shocked that is. Also imagine AWS has at least some privacy controls. I find it unlikely Bezos has Netflix's monthly AWS bcced to him in secret.
I agree, I want to see screenshots.
Every media, as long as media is made by humans, will be biased. The only choice you have is to search the bias you know, so you can use your brain to fix the information you were fed.

Example: Every time I read something about left/right wing politics on HN I try to check if the commenter is from the US. If he is I apply a "mental filter" which allows me (as an European) to better understand him (what people from the US consider "central" falls under "right wing" policies in my mind). Without that filter political discussions on HN would be pretty useless for me (actually that was the case until I had read enough to understand this particular bias).

You have to do this with every source, otherwise you will always be fooled. Back to the current case: I am not able to distill your sources, because I have no idea what their bias is. At least with most western media I know that they usually tend do favor the "non-government" side in conflicts of people vs government.
>I personally do not see how SMBs can compete when they are paying 4x more for labor.

This makes the error of assuming that the only thing a consumer values is cost. That isn't actually the case, but it varies greatly.
My craziest bug was a Java clock issue. If you had some specific model of motherboard, calling System.getCurrentTimeMillis() repetitively could actually make your system clock run faster. I mean, actually CHANGE the system clock. For real. Like 10% faster. That led to veeeeery interesting issues related to timing on the game I was working on, and of course it me took days before I would even think that my problems could be caused by the time actually running faster on different machines.
Winklevoss-Funded Bitcoin Startup CEO Arrested in Silk Road Investigation
>Clearly these people are working under a very different set of priorities than me.

Yes, they are pragmatists.

Plus they know that the language is the first priority, not the REPL.
Troll is wrong. Engineers don't make things that are dependent on closed standards (stares at different frameworks especially cocoa touch framework). We don't need a new Flash!
She's back!

Nice job, Jennifer. The one place I think the 180 previous helped you build massive skill is in UI design. Simple and snappy.

What are you using for geo-coding and mapping? I've found a combination of "geocoder" and "gmaps-for-rails" gems work great.
I'm the creator of the club. Happy to answer any questions about this. I'm just getting started with this so feedback is very much appreciated :)
Dear Google, other things you might want to do to make your rendering engine faster, especially on mobile.

* Proxy all mobile connections through an html-simplifier

* Ignore inline elements like <strong> and <em>

* Remove the vertical part of the box model, and disallow any vertical positioning statements

* Simply serve raw html to the end user. In these days of semantic HTML5, users should be able to read it anyway.
These hoes ain't loyal
I would argue that these companies represent "Companies that realized they needed to raise funding to remain competitive"

A lot of startups that taking early funding could take this route too but realize that's not the most optimal path to success?
Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data
Very cool. Nice work.

I think it would be even cooler as a Firefox extension -- open up a .min.js file in one tab, hit your button, and get a new tab with the beautified js. I don't know anything about FF extensions, but since this is written in JS in the first place, it seems doable.

(Or alternatively, it would also be cool as a standalone site, just paste the URL or uglified JavaScript in a box, and get the pretty version.)
I would say the reason is Google Docs! The current version doesn't use contentEditable [0] anymore, Google wrote a custom renderer in JS using one DIV per line with custom word wrapping, etc.

With Adobe's CSS Regions and other improvements [1] everyone could write an Google Docs competitor (single person mode) in one hour. Of course, Google and Microsoft with its Office Web fear this possible upcoming situation.

It would be awesome if some browser devs improve "contentEditable". It's really sad, there are so many bugs in Webkit and Firefox bugtrackers and got submitted related to this topic and no one fixed them. And no new features arrive either for years. Read some source code TinyMCE & co and you know what I mean, a lot of hacks to work around browser bugs.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich-text_editor

[1] http://html.adobe.com/webplatform/
openBSD hacked by FBI in 2010 :)
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/53067-fbi-accused-o...
That's only an issue for quick iterating tests in the REPL. The REPL is not a priority.

You're not supposed to rename functions in your code -- are you kidding me you're hang up on this?
Best CA for jar file signing?
Has anyone had experience using a CA to sign jars? There are many different companies with very different prices and we just want the minimum that will remove the scary popups and the need for users to reduce their security setting to run our applets.
How is this better than any other existing solution? Specifically, how is this better than Ghost, which it seems to take heavy inspiration from?
So is it just for web devs then?
From the evidence available to us, HSBC has been a naughty, naughty bank, laundering drug money with impunity. The fines levied against HSBC for these activities have been laughably small.

It's not really a double standard, though. It only appears that way if you believe our society to be founded upon the foundations of justice and law. If you believe it is founded upon the premise that the powerful cannot be wrong, it makes perfect sense.
There is certainly influence, but the Federal Reserve regions map doesn't align especially well with the study map.

As a New Yorker from Connecticut, the gigantic barrier between New York and New England would have to be nearly completely explained by the Fed.

Having also grown up in Connecticut, New Englanders aren't as likely to go to New York as one would expect from the proximity. Young folks, especially in Connecticut, tend to go back and forth, but people in the city only tend to visit New England in the fall, and people in New England only visit the city on special occasion. In fact, the line between New York and New England is the only place I have ever seen a road sign for "New England" and not an actual state name. It is a very culturally polarized region where city folk like the city, country folk the country. There's also very little in up-state New York (which is mostly park land) that would cause lots of travel there from Vermont... If you're from the area it isn't as weird as it looks on a map.

If the Federal Reserve regions were actually causing the currency movements, why do regions 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 12, and Louisiana not line up?
Well, yeoman provides 3 tools: Yo, Grunt, and Bower.
The first handle boilerplate and scaffholding, the second automation and the third is for 3rd party libraries provided to the browser (npm/gem/pip for the browser).

They have a catalog and as soon as you have choosen what you wanted inside, it keep things updated, clean dependencies, etc.
The thing is, you still have to do the choices yourself. So, as a newbie, you quickly find the profusion of packages overwhelming.

So, assuming you want to make Hackathon Starter and you know how to do it you could:

1. Use this Generator: https://github.com/lukelarsen/generator-node-express that will boilerplate + scaffold your backend

2. change the rendering engine in server.js to Jade

3. Install front-end componnents: (do `bower install <component>`
* font-awesome
* lato
* jquery
* bootstrap

4. Then you'll write these nices views because that can't be generated. That's where the value of this project is.

5. This yeooman generator doesn't provide passport (auth system for Node) so you'll have to write it too. Maybe i didn't pick the best generator, sorry for that. Again, the project has lot of value with the working Passport system.

6. Glue things together with Js and CSS in the front-end, because that can't be generated neither.

There is work in this project, and yeoman is not the silver bullet. Just another tool to make things faster.
Labyrinth is indeed brilliant. The best wargames recreate history and suck you in. Twilight Struggle is another excellent example. But that's also the highest level of complexity I'll tolerate. Friends of mine enjoy the super detailed a rule for everything games but I think those are better left for the digital realm...just too fiddly for my taste.

I'm an avid gamer (>150 games in my collection) but I only own three war games. Twilight Struggle, Napoleon's Triumph and Maria. I'd recommend all of them :)

Andean Abyss is on my to buy list.

Edit:
Link to BGG, wargames only: http://boardgamegeek.com/wargames/browse/boardgame
Best Music Video Ever. EVER
David Rogue's video for "Breaking the Law" is pretty much the stuff dreams are made of. Literally. Like bear suit disco gnome dreams. CAN'T-STOP-WATCHING-IT.
>This issue was brought to my attention by pals who had investigated Julia and rejected it for this very reason.

You should pick different advisors.
> "It is unfortunate Silk Road continues to make the headlines in association with Bitcoin - this is the dark side of Bitcoin, which the vast majority of digital currency users have no association with."

Every currency or commodities of value have a dark side. A significant percentage of British notes have traces of cocaine, occasionally you see ones with blood on them. I'd consider blood diamonds to have just as sinister connotations as bitcoin.

Discussing this reminds me of the scene in Beverley Hills Cop, where the character Michael Tandino is murdered for stealing a wad of bearer bonds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_bond
Ask HN: Career advice for a young graduate?
Background:

I'm graduating this semester and have opportunities a few "top" software companies (e.g. Amazon, Microsoft, Google). I've had two internships: one with a government contractor and one with Amazon.com. At Amazon I worked on some pretty cool stuff, received a return offer, and above all, worked ~8 hours a day. However, I feel like my experience as an intern may have been significantly different than a full time employee because of "on-call" and other full-time responsibilities. So, I have a few naive questions about the software engineering industry as an employee that I hope some of you may entertain:

(Note: I have no debt.)

1) I want to work for a start-up or lead one myself in the next 4-5 years. Is it realistic to take a job at one of the large firms, build capital for a few years, and then take a dive into the risky start-up world?

2) Is Google still the premier job for a graduating software engineer? Are the perks and culture still strong enough to trump opportunities at a company like Amazon?

3) Work/life balance is very important to me if I'm not working at a start-up. Is it unrealistic to expect to work ~8 hours a day at these software giants?

4) Finally, what general advice would you send to a 21-22 year old entering the industry with a solid resume?

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer any of these questions.

*) TL;DR: If you could start your software career from scratch, what would you do differently/the same?
Terry laws & Homeland Security: Copped for Wearing Google Glass at the Movies
There is some merit to what he's talking about. The idea of segmenting pieces of the file metaphor for linking or applying permissions has merit imo. http://xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/PARALUNE/paraviz.html

I would love to be able to link from one data element to another. I believe it would eliminate a whole class of applications.

One of the reasons I think the Android ecosystem will win out in the end is due to Intents, I don't see any other operating system even attempting something that cool.
You're just being silly and overly literal. Having gates does not legitimize a project. Being "mature" does not legitimize a project. Only users can legitimize a project, a license, or a philosophy. In that sense, the GPL is losing legitimacy and relevance in the mindshare of young people, IMO. In the same respect, Debian is meeting a similar fate. Does anybody use Debian anymore? Yes, maybe. The new generation of new distributions seem to be built on Ubuntu, not Debian. I know I've never used Debian, and it took Ubuntu to teach me the "Debian-way" when I had grown up on using Red Hat/Fedora.

Implicitly, everyone has a license to do harm to you. Which is why some people feel governments exist to protect you from others, and others from you. But, laws & rules all have two fatal flaws. "It's only illegal if you get caught" and "Rules aren't made to keep the bad guys out; they're made to keep the good guys in." Meditate on that.
Also "support discontinued in 1998", more than 14 years after introduction and nearly 13 years after the product has been discontinued.
> if you're using C++ for portability for any sort of non-realtime needs you've lost your marbles

Maybe if you're starting from absolutely nothing. If I had non-trivial functionality already written in native code then I suspect I'd rather write JNI bindings than do a complete rewrite in Java.

I'm also skeptical of 'use more memory' and 'load less quickly'. Even the GNU C++ standard library on an x86-64 desktop is a less than a megabyte. I can't imagine that being significant in either of those problem areas.
It's a bottomless pit - prior to HG Wells were the various kriegsspiels, though of course they weren't games in the entertainment sense - but very much forerunners of Ruhnke's philosophy of learning through games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel_(wargame)
It was a record year for solar job growth in the U.S.
I've always wondered what coding is like for those who don't speak english, or only speak a little. I imagine it's something like working with code beatified by this tool.

Almost every codebase is filled with english verbs and nouns. They are one of the primary tools for making source code readable by humans, not just machines.

Very cool tool.
Bootstrapping implies being self-funded.

To some who might have some seed funding, they might make sure the business is making money from day one.

One thing that was really attractive to me about the YC model (besides having PG as a mentor) was when there was only $10-20,000 of funding. You likely have little choice to focus on anything except making value for customers that pay. As other funding streams have come online the types of ideas have broadened.

Having no choice but to learn how to make money is how I had to learn business as a teen. I started in bootstrapping because YC didn't exist in my late teens or early 20's or I most certainly would have known it was a place for me to seek out. I had to learn to make money to pay for what I wanted to do when starting business full time in my late teens that was one valid way to make sure no one could tell me to go home because the money ran out.

In Canada, one source found that 98% of all startups across all industries are bootstrapped / self-funded. It wouldn't be surprising if this was largely true in other places too.

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/how-canadian-entrepreneurs-fin...
Stack Exchange for Android
We can't be sure what the result of that hypothetical trial would be. Otherwise why have a trial in the first place?

It appears there was a lawsuit against U.S. It was brought by al-Awlaki father after U.S. put him on a kill list (while he was still alive).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki#Lawsuit_agains....
Title is very sensationalist and almost gave me a heart attack.
You'd be surprised. Especially if those laundering money via Bitcoin are also suspected of helping bad guys and such.
A father/daughter team was first to make the cross-country trip:

https://twitter.com/plugshare/status/427260624230309889/phot...

http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/heading-cross-countr...
To be clear I am not saying that Github is going away anytime soon. I love their service but I am just sick of them going down during business hours on a regular basis. Right now there is really no good alternative. So I agree on the fact that Github is it. It was more a post about the frustration of Github being down when it's needed the most.
The links are fixed now, we will work on the "More downloads" side of things
I have been to Lviv and its perfectly OK to use Russian or any other language for that matter. You can often even hear Russian pop hits on the streets.

I think this misconception stems from the fact that Ukrainian speakers often reply in Ukrainian when spoken to in Russian, because they assume you know both languages, but they will switch to Russian if necessary. This freaks out Russian speakers from outside of Ukraine.
Why are the plants closing? Ford of North America has been fairly profitable, so I hope it's not a labour pricing issue in Australia, or there'd be no point :(
>> provide 170 miles of range in a 30-minute charge

That would have still sounded impractical to me when I was still able to just drive through the night to get where I needed to be. Now that I travel with a young baby and a dog, that's about how often and for how long I have to stop for breaks anyway. This is impressive progress anyway, but I'm especially impressed now that it really wouldn't alter my own schedule much.
Google and encryption: why true user privacy is Google’s biggest enemy
Another challenge for IBM's Watson?
Thanks! We put a lot of work into it and glad people appreciate it :)
The investigation took years and not a single HSBC employee has done a perp walk.

The large companies obviously know how to avoid accountability by eliminating, or never creating paper trails.

Oh, and since when does selling BTC anywhere, including Silk Road, constitute a crime?

The article says money laundering, so there's probably more to it than that. Eterm's review seems to support that.
Awesome job! I agree with your opinion on Yelp being imperfect for specific tastes, since it's all aggregate. What's your plan for gaining users, and getting to that critical mass?
>it seems a bit odd to advocate a completely context-insensitive heuristic for deciding whether upgrading frameworks is a good idea.

For a contractor who generates income from upgrading Rails? Not likely. The answer will always be: "If it is possible to upgrade, you should have us upgrading for you." Excellent and traditional way to turn a 5 hour job into a 50 hour job.
Will it cost $30/month? That last checkbox takes you by surprise.
You can see their Street View stuff at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
I actually just went through a lot of this. Despite loving my day job as a software engineer, it was so creatively exhausting and draining that by the end of the day, all I wanted was to relax. I couldn't find even the desire to work on the things I'm passionate about. I think that was the most upsetting part to me.

I'm very risk-averse but finally worked up the courage to quit and spend my time doing what I love: writing music. I'm slowly bleeding through my savings, but it's worth it. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I never gave composing a fair shot. In the end, the biggest risk is actually to your ego. There's always another job out there, particularly if you're a software person.

I'm still nervous about the whole thing and worried about my prospects. I still procrastinate. But damn, I'm just much happier these days!

Finally made an account after years of lurking just to say this. Believe in yourself and take a leap. Sometimes it's just what you need to rediscover yourself.