skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't looked for others but Australia has a convenient calculator: http://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualPreDecimal.html
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And we all know how this would end. GoDaddy and Paypal will try to make this right because of the negative publicity. Why does it always take a post like this to call for help?
I wonder how many of them will still be on IE8 by the time Win7 ends support in 2020.
I'm not sure what EU is.
Been with gandi.net for a few years now; excellent service and 2-factor auth.
World of Warcraft usage numbers (infographic)
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This has to be false, no? If there is data encoded there, that is non-random, then there is also non-randomness encoded there.
Well, if this story is true ( I put the if because it seems silly to have that account be the target ) then access to the account is proof of a crime (this is why it seems silly)

If they sell it to someone I guess that is a reason to take it, but it also seems like some enterprising DA would want to use it as an example of receiving stolen property ( because News! Hacking! Fame!) So if anyone buys this name they might be in trouble at some unspecified point in the future.
What does the complexity of PCB design have to do with improving customer service?
Show HN: Facebook chat now integrated with Google chat in boxUno
If it works with Plex and I can run a few emulators on it I'll buy it.
#HypeReduce: Some lesser remembered tools for your #BigData strategy
Windows Safari was dropped a while ago. Safari is Mac OS X only now.
I maintain an imap client library for PHP ( https://github.com/tedivm/Fetch ), which is far more painful than it really should be. I really am happy to see attempts at a more modern approach.
99.9999999% * 7.14 billion implies seven people and maybe a parrot knows something.
the author specifically mentions that this is in the context of a php application.

and in that context, it is perfectly reasonable, I think.

what issues do you have with the idea exactly?
Do you have a source for any of this? x86 is much more powerful than ARM by watt, being exponentially faster at most math. I've never had anyone seriously propose that ARM is more efficient than x86 at anything then not pulling watts from a Li Ion battery.
pretty link baity topic. Makes the internet out to be the bad guy... the internet is just a piece of technology. wealth inequality happens as a result of the capitalist process. it's the best thing we've come up with at organizing human work, but it's clear that one way or another, it's going to have to drastically change in the coming decades.
Here is the factory vid of the new Porsche 918 Spyder Electric Hybrid.

Go from 600/hp to Electric Drive silence with a push of a button.

This car also owns the current lap time record on the Nürburgring (Nordschleife)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Qs-B5gTmE
I made a wordle tag cloud out of this, and had the common words like Me and I removed. Check it out:

Very heavy on the America derivatives, jobs, economy, and congress.

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/7498720/Obama_2014_State_of_...
That's a pretty lousy rate of return for inventing time travel really.

The normal way one calculates this is by buying power of those dollars - what could you buy then and what would it cost now.

But really I could have bought a Sub-Mariner comics #15 in mint condition, and it would be worth quite a bit more today.
Does this mean that TrueCrypt encryption also works as near-perfect compression?
It's not a $50K Twitter username unless someone actually paid $50K for it at one point, is it?

"Not accepting an offer of $50K for a twitter username I didn't use" doesn't really count...
Same reason that x86 became hot, really. There are these newfangled PCs/smartphones that are providing ridiculous volumes that create network effects and defray design expenses. Back in the day the idea of x86 in a server was crazy, but they were able to break into the server market from the bottom and mostly consumed it. The same might happen with ARM, or it might not since Intel is in a better position than the RISC vendors were with it's near monopoly giving it access to phenomenal engineering resources.
If you're using win32 time for anything that needs accuracy greater than a few seconds, I think you're doing it wrong.
possibly depends on whether you are using 2-factor auth with gmail.
Not the biggest crisis. Okay, they have several awful cipher suites enabled, but no sane client would ever use them. The client report shows that almost every client uses AES; a couple crappy ones use RC4 or 3DES.

They don't have PFS, either. That's bad, though unfortunately still common. As far as I know Akamai's position is that the (small) performance cost of PFS is unacceptable. They would be delighted if it was faster (which people are working on).

I think the F is because of the 1024-bit, MD5 CA. That seems to be more of an argument for clients to disable that CA certificate, especially since there's another, good trust path, but maybe I'm missing something.
He tweeted pretty heavily previously. Was one of the small team who made @echofon. He'd reduced his tweeting, but was still using the account in other ways.
Sounds cool. In the 4 years I've lived in SD, this is the first I may actually make it to.
http://DNSimple.com for us. Their template system and support is fantastic.
> If that counts as data loss, then a "normal shutdown" also causes data loss.

I disagree. If a journal write was in progress on SIGTERM, you either fail or complete the write, returning the result to the client. In either event, you should end up with a clean journal on SIGTERM, assuming your implementation was sane (i.e. how I'd write it). If the client chooses to ignore the failure, that's not on the server and that's the whole point.

A normal shutdown should never require data loss. Somehow you're conflating SIGTERM with SIGKILL and I'm not understanding why.
How we applied lean startup principles at Dropbox.
Nonsa, Serverless private encrypted communications platform based on Bittorrent
Back in the 90's, they tried to give you a free keyboard that was supported by ads. And a bar code scanner, again, supported by ads. Or free internet, supported by ads.

Good luck.
This is laughable. CoffeeScript makes JavaScript look silly frankly. Preferring JS to CS is like preferring addition to multiplication.
We want to help teams transform their inboxes into meaningful knowledge.
Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade
I blame the keystore and the dreaded keytool.
42 coins/day ? Why mine at all? You'll probably spend more on electricity.

If you must have the coins in anticipation of their rise, just buy thousands for them for a few dollars.
If I weren't coding ClojureScript now I would at least be in CS. CS is nice, but Clojure is just too strong a language.
You compiled it? Why? Why not compile on a different architecture thats faster or use distcc to make a compile farm? Last times I used Gentoo I just used the packages, took no longer to install than an rpm based distribution.
Yes, just like your car will last you 20 years. If you drive a car from 1994 you don't expect to be able to drive 90 mph or offroad without running into major issues. Should cities keep their infrastructure backwards compatible for people with old cars?
Change it to $1.50usd 1945 today to see what the OP expected you to see.
Nice try... wait, this is not on reddit. Let's stop the joke now.
Chrome is only supported for another year.
I'm a very casual and infrequent tweeter, and I can't fathom how that makes my username 'up for grabs'. Sorry you have such a twisted view of username ownership :/
If someone had a Mercedes and only drove it twice a year, is it OK for someone to steal it?
> Though i wonder how well this chip would perform at 50w. Double the watts, maybe another 1.5ghz, might be viable for a cheap htpc.

As a general rule, power varies with the cube of frequency. 50W will only get about 2.5 GHz.
(Advance warning. If you've been abused and do not feel you have completely processed it, you do not want to read the rest of my post. You've been warned.)

To me the most important item is his difficulty with processing the feeling of consent in his abuse experience. This is incredibly hard to face, and an inability to do so puts you at permanent emotional risk.

And this is a commonly experienced issue. After all pedophiles convince themselves that this is a love affair. And children have a strong desire to please adults and authority figures, so provide plenty of evidence for this. Furthermore it is very confusing for a child to reconcile, "This feels good" with "I don't want this". Doubly so when an authority figure is telling you, "I can see how much you want this, doesn't it feel good?"

Yes, logically there was no consent. But the experience of abuse leaves you feeling that there was. And emotions respond to experience, not reason. Furthermore unprocessed emotions have a nasty way of blindsiding you with no warning.

Now why do I know this? It is because I was homosexually abused for 5 years. I know what it is like to go through, and how to deal with the aftermath. And I've talked to plenty of others who have had to deal with it as well. It is easy to fool yourself into believing that you have dealt with it..only to find that there was another dimension that needs dealing with. That sounds like what happened to Jesse.

Now nobody knows what causes sexuality to be wired the way it is. But it is possible that if Jesse had fully dealt with issues around his own feeling of consent (even though there was none), then he might not have been a pedophile. Certainly his own words suggest that this could have happened.

Or maybe not. And we'll never know, because he was never able to tackle the issue.
This is a scary story!

Focusing on the Twitter handle sale part: I have the twitter handle @jetsetter, and have been offered multiple thousands of dollars for it (guess who!).

Unfortunately, selling a twitter handle is against TOS. Only @israel has been officially allowed to transfer hands for money, that I'm aware of.

So trying to broker the sale of a twitter account can allow the buyer to report your 'behavior' to twitter. They can seize the account and make it so no one has it, which may be what the buyer prefers to you having it.

So no matter the price you could command, it isn't like you could just list @n up for sale and make it rain.
Twitter became the de-facto source of real-time news because there was no good alternative. Replacing a reputable institution like the NYT is a completely different game.

It's not even a good comparison. The NYT is a daily newspaper. The better-written pieces on medium have aspirations closer to what you'd find in The New Yorker or Vice. You have absolutely no precedent for thinking public curation will yield better results than the professionals who work for those institutions. In fact, most of the evidence so far (reddit, digg, etc...) indicates the contrary.
I was more surprised at the lack of inflation (about the same between 1785 and 1945 and 1945 and now).
I use Gandi (for hosting, domain and email) and Hover. Can't recommend them enough.
One thing that people should realize in why Twitter may not respond to these kinds of issues, or may be slow to respond, is that it's probably true that lots of people buy and sell Twitter accounts, and people may report them stolen when in fact they've already sold them to someone.

This kind of thing happened a lot in MMO games which is why they try to push account security into your hands so they don't have to attempt to arbitrate in deals that may or may not have happened outside of their sphere of control.
Twitter's official policy is that an account becomes inactive after 6 months - at that point, they reserve the right to release the account (in practice they rarely do this, though - there isn't an automated job releasing inactive accounts or anything)

https://support.twitter.com/articles/15362-inactive-account-...

@N (now @N_is_stolen)'s last post was 4 months ago, so he is still technically considered an active user.
So you upgrade their computers and ... they're stuck with IE8! :p

In all seriousness, I think it's better and more cost effective to have them switch to a better browser (FF, Chrome and even IE11). There are a lot of Win7 companies that still insist on IE8 as their browser of choice and that costs a lot to support as well, speaking from experience.
Nope. A week ago when I explained the situation, Twitter seemed to think I just gave it up, willingly or not.
Girls underperform when they play chess against boys
It's a Latin noun, derived from an adjective, that literally means "a something of some size." That's it. The first meaning in English is "some quantity." Uses which denote or connote 'large' or 'small' are secondary extensions which depend on context.

"Quantum leap" connotes an unpredictability in the magnitude of the change in common usage. Over time, the understanding has drifted a bit to include, usually, the idea of significant magnitude.
I have a two character twitter handle also, and am active on it. Used to receive several "reset" emails per day before two-factor authentication.
Heads really ought to start rolling at PayPal. Their general approach to security is, quite frankly, appalling.

Is there any possible rational for Paypal to give the last four digits of his card number to "him" over the phone? Given that they're routinely used for verification, it's as if they've never heard of social engineering. It's simply inexcusable.

And it's almost as bad as the ridiculous "Log In Without Your PayPal Security Key" option that lets you bypass 2-factor auth and head straight to the ultra-secure world of the ridiculous security questions such as the ever-popular "what city were you born [that's also listed on Facebook]" and what not. I still can't believe they think that's a good idea.
Full title: Girls underperform when they play chess against boys - real-life evidence of stereotype threat?
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck."

-- Robert A. Heinlein
I had had a nagging belief in this for a long time. Then something funny happened that convinced me this is 100% true: Instagram. A couple years and 11 employees and $2 billion in wealth. Incredible.

As recently as 20 years ago companies simply couldn't do this type of thing. The wealth creation was slower, and spread amount among more people. Things were less efficient. It's astonishing how drastically technology and the internet have disrupted the traditional paths to wealth creation, and allowed it to be more concentrated. Capital has slowly displaced labor. This is why the middle class is stuck, while owners of capital (eg private equity fund managers) have gone from obscurity 30 years ago to dominating the Forbes list.

For better or worse (probably worse), the die has already been cast. We cant uninvent things. The inequality trend is irreversible.
Ha. Yes, you didn't say any name at all. So what name would you ascribe to "if he is rich .... In his view, this is his, and he doesn't have to share it with the lesser people". 'Unkind' would be a good approximation? Or you'll find some euphemism? And your interpretation is that Indians feel less guilty about it as well. So sure, Americans do it, but feel more guilty. How sweet :).

You might not have used these services. I was clearly talking about "yours" culture, which you are using to draw differences. But you'd be living in a cave if you don't think that most of the Americans who can afford use these services. But still, let's blame Indian culture without knowing much.

Cultural differences are always there. The important thing, however, is to know where does it apply and where it doesn't.

Edit: And why doesn't my example of the unkind Steve Jobs doesn't apply here - because you don't like it? Did he share anything of what he earned with the 'lesser people'? :) In fact, he shut down all the philanthropic activities that were going on in his company instead. So why shouldn't I, by that analogy, generalize that to be the "American culture"? I think my argument definitely applies here and there's certainly a similarity. You might not want to accept that, of course.
So if I don't really use my $50k collection car, it's as bad if it gets stolen?
> Part of the thing about CoffeeScript, is that there are more bad parts that it introduces than prevents.

I'm not sure about that; it prevents many of JS's ugly quirks: http://arcturo.github.io/library/coffeescript/07_the_bad_par... ;)

> Cleaning up the class model is generally not a good thing, since JavaScript isn't designed to have true OOP principles.

I really don't understand this. What does "true OOP principles" mean? Objects are so central to JavaScript that it has a concise syntax for object literals. It even goes to the extent of having a dynamic "this" to let any function work as a method in an object.

It has its rough edges (like primitives), yes, but they don't make it a non "true OO" language (whatever that means) IMO.

> [...] it's expressive for loops [...] shun people from using ES5 array methods like .forEach, .map, and .filter, which are a lot cleaner and more optimizable by the engine.

Thay are cleaner in the compiled JS, but Coffee's for loops are quite clean too, and they don't require a nested closure ;)

And, although i would also like native Array#forEach et al to be faster than manual for loops, that hasn't been the case in modern JS VMs: http://jsperf.com/for-vs-foreach/75
Ditch GoDaddy - They are a terrible company.

Also considering closing my paypal account now.
My custom domain address was stolen with the Dropbox data leak, got so much spam that I set my Gmail to pull my mails via POP3. Then I changed everything to use my Gmail, and locked down my Gmail account.

I've heard people go on about how Google (and I suppose other corporations) are evil, and how they are rolling their own custom mail solutions etc. It's times like these that people lose important things.

Also, I really don't understand why US companies must store credit card details. I understand the convenience, but there's been a lot of security compromises to let this practice continue. In South Africa online retailers don't store CC info, yet we aren't being brought to our knees by inconvenience.

At least the attacker mentioned his methods, so GoDaddy and PayPal can educate their staff better.
Chrome apps *NOW* run native on Android and IOS
strictly speaking:

Total energy consumed = Power * Time
He probably wanted to brag to someone about how he did it. It just so happened to be his victim.
No. But I'd feel less bad for that person than someone who drove their Mercedes every day and had it stolen.

Also, a Mercedes and a twitter handle (or domain name) aren't exactly the same thing as a twitter handle is a unique owner of a particular pice of the namespace.

A better analogy would be an owner of a valuable piece of property who wasn't putting it to good use.
XP support ends in April, with extended security support ending in 2015, but you already knew that.
Activity doesn't require the creation of a tweet though. There are plenty of active accounts where the users just read.
I've found asking up front what level of IE6 support was needed and then listing it as a separate line item in a quote is a good way to get out of supporting it, or at least move from "must be pixel perfect!" to "the main functionality has to work"
I don't get the opposition against this. There's plenty of Jewish and, especially muslim schools in the US that teach only creationism. Hell, some of them do so to the exclusion of not just biology but all science. They do so, generally, with public funding.

I don't get the position. There can only be one stance as far as I'm concerned. Either teaching kids science including evolution is mandatory and the state goes after anything different (AND checks), or they do none of that.

Those Christian schools referenced here are not a problem : they teach kids science and prepare them well for life, scientifically and otherwise. Compare that to orthodox Jewish schools or sharia-oriented schools.

I hate that nobody ever discusses the real problems. Unlike canon law (which no christians even follow), sharia law is fundamentally sexist and discriminatory, is pro-slavery ("advises against it", but has the most flexible slavery laws known to history. Islam is the only known religion, EVER[1], that allows killing slaves for fun, something not even the Romans dared to do (yes, gladiators were personally compensated, they and their families, and had to agree (to a similar degree as one "agrees" to a job, right. Legally you have a choice. In practice, saying no may have unacceptable consequences, generally the mines or a galley). Only people in the arena that didn't at one point legally chose to be there were criminals convicted to death)). This is being taught, both to small kids and adults. Why isn't it outlawed to teach this, completely ?

My point is: there are far worse things taught in public education to kids than skipping a small part of biology, while keeping science education generally intact (as much as one can reasonably expect from a public school at least). Why is this thing a focus of anyone ? Why is it allowed to teach people to kill other in response to what any American would consider freedom of speech ? To teach people to follow slavery laws and so on. I mean, given that that is not just being done, but growing. I feel that creationism is the least of anyone's religious education problems.

[1] Only law that comes close is from imperial Japan, the honor law, or Kiri-sute gomen, "cut down and walk"
Oh it definitely doesn't make your username 'up for grabs'. What happened to you totally sucks and I hope you manage to get your account back.

That being said if you're not actually going to use your account you might want to at least consider giving it to someone who would put it to more active use. Just a thought.
To use Twitter, one does not have to tweet.