skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably oversimplifying this or missing some crucial step but...

All your users by BTC at i.e. $10 and store them on your (Gox) exchange. Price jumps to +600 and you subsequently get 50k fiat withdrawal requests. Am I a total cluebie to wonder how they can fund such withdrawals? Maybe there isn't sufficient capital reserve or liquidity between BTC and fiat to withstand such demand?
Somehow, digging in deeper on this subject led me to another video (which I just shared - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7195652) of a player piano emulating human speech by reproducing the part of the spectral fingerprint within it's range. Eerie
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If you have enough devices yourself does it matter much? I'd take uptime over redundancy. I always have 2 work pc copies + 2 laptops going. As long as they don't sync empty folders back down I don't mind a services that's only got light redundancy.
Why 80%? I've worked in various companies with 3 months probation (actually, quite common in my country) and it was fine, but never for a % of the salary (unless it included % less time at the office)
Well, not quite no other effects, according to an article on his new setup:

"Helping him drive it are three iPads, two of which control the Beardytron and one that uses apps for extra noises. He also has keyboards, Native Instruments Guitar Rig, and Rob Papen’s delay as part of the setup."

http://www.djtechtools.com/2012/12/12/the-beardytron-5000-mk...

[edit2: Although according to his TED talk, it only reuses noises he puts in, so I guess it's an open question if he's moved to include "external" samples or not...

http://www.ted.com/talks/beardyman_the_polyphonic_me.html
]

[edit: apparently that article wasn't submitted to hn, as I'm guessing it's a good fit, now it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7195664
]
I'll take stupid NSA codenames[1] for 10 points, please, Alex.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/how-th...
What about extended warranties? A 3 year NBD warranty from some laptop manufacturers will set you back only 10-15% of the laptops replacement cost. Seems like a good deal to me.
Yeah, paying at less than the advertised wage is insulting. Unless they give you the 20% of the first three months back after the probationary period.
I really hope the surgeon said "I am your father!" after the procedure. :)
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I'm genuinely confused about large companies constantly "reinvesting" their profits. I understand that a case can often be made for this or that strategic investment and that this is part of complicated maneuvering, paying in stock and such. I just don't understand the value (from a shareholders perspective) of owning share in Google that owns shares in some other company.

That aside, why does Google need to own stock in companies? Why not return money to investors and let them buy whatever stock they want.
I wonder.. could this be a fork of the ol' iFolder by Novell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFolder
I would expect that the issue is that an aweful lot of work is going to be done in CFO territory in areas like accounting and securities law.
Internet browsing is broken.
Why would NBC discredit them? They paid for the broadcast rights.
Out of interest, did you get the job through a recruiter? This is quite common for companies that hire through recruiters. I've worked in a few places where people have been sacked a week or two into the job because things aren't working out, because most recruitment contracts allow a get-out clause where the employer can claim back the fee they paid to the recruiter.
Some minors are gay. Now they are criminalized for even talking about themselves. See the recent example (which they backed off from due to international pressure)[1]. This is an immensely oppressive law, it needs to end immediately, and defending it is unconscionable.

[1] http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/02/06/russia-punishment-halte...
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There are obviously things where it becomes completely immaterial if something happened by error. Depriving someone of their constitutional rights is most certainly one of these.
The only remedy can be to handle these cases as if intentional, such as to rectify the processes that allowed it to happen.

Look at page 9 of the ruling, the VGTOF form. It shows checkboxes, which any human being can reasonably interpret as boolean values. But the intent is negated! It asks you to check those lists that you do NOT want someone entered in (so true (checked) becomes false (not in list)). This is terrible style in programming, it is completely unacceptable in forms that brand you a terrorist.

(Regardless, someone needs to be fired for the $4M alone that will be going to plaintiff to cover their costs. Theres error, and then theres refusing to fix them.)
I can't fathom why this thing even needs such a high power CPU. Presumably it's running Android, so why not go with ARM + a nice video coprocessor to handle video?
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Bitcoin is not the same thing as mobile payments. I send mobile payments, I don't do bitcoin, and I'm a nerd. What percentage of the population do you think really is interested in ever using bitcoins?
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"monopolistic" ?

What's that supposed to mean ? They don't have any monopoly, they are not even the dominant player in the smartphone market, and slipping in the tablet one.

I guess you mean they use heavy handed control on the apps they allow to run on their devices. But that's like its basic right. If you don't like the concept, don't develop stuff in somebody else ecosystem (i.e don't develop for facebook, google, evernote, dropbox, ...)

Ironically, if Apple was a monopoly, then the government could intervene on that basis. Outside that scenario though, I prefer to avoid shit companies on my own and not have the government regulating how the APIs to their service should look like. (disclaimer, I'm a bit sore on that point. Imagine calling Google Map api using EBMS and XBRL, that's the taste of Government Regulated APIs)

Now about "how they're a terrible company that doesn't really care at all about their users." That's a popular opinion those days, I'm only moaning about the monopolistic part of it (as its corollary, that somebody should tell them how to manage the plugins for their platform)
I've found that f.lux really helps with that. For iOS you need a jailbroken device though.
Collapsing banks have very little choice. You can physically go to their branch and withdraw money (and historically everyone doing this at once has been one of the more common _causes_ of collapse), and if they stop withdrawals for no reason the regulators will be on them like a shot.

The regulators will also keep track of their reserves, particularly if there seems to be a problem.

None of this applies to MtGox; it's an unregulated company running in a country with very different law to that of the countries most of its customers live in.
I'm afraid this Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) is a real thing in the industry now, and not going away.

It's even covered by the OGC [1], see their primer on the topic [2]

DARPA ARGIS-IS is already deployed to UAVs[3] and actually gives you video, not jaggy-looking stitched DOP slideshows [4]. it looks like DARPA is way ahead of Northrop Grumman which tries to get into that market with more traditional expensive optical hardware, compared to DARPA's cheap phone camera array, yet with inferior results.

[1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1759

[2] https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=50485 [pdf]

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5129332

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA#t=120 [video]
You don't what? You can type full sentences, there's no word limit here.
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nkurz, you are hellbanned. Can't see why, given that your account is clearly legitimate.
So, if the agent checked the wrong boxes, presumably (in order to place this person on the no fly list) there must have been something dodgy in the boxes that were checked. Does this mean that someone else (who the boxes actually belonged to) was mistakenly not put on the no fly list? Shouldn't the government be trying to track this person down?
Awesome result. I think it's vitally important to acknowledge achievements that happen in parallel with research at the LHC because otherwise we're going to miss a lot of very neat results. I don't know enough about particle physics to be able to comment on the techniques involved unfortunately, but I love reading about the progress that's being made.

For someone that Wikipedia's a lot of this stuff, does someone know if this type of spin asymmetry is in any sense related to CP violation? [1] As soon as I read the article I thought of CP violation and I'm assuming this is basically the "P" violation.

Finally, reading this article actually triggered a totally different question:

"Using the electron accelerator at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, the researchers shined 170 billion electrons on a target of liquid deuterium over 2 months in 2009."

Shined or shone? Turns out to be quite the discussion topic (e.g., [2][3][4])!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation

[2] http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/shined.html

[3] http://grammarist.com/usage/shined-shone/

[4] http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/has-the-sun...
Or maybe they do, but nobody makes international issue from that?
Any press is good press.
One would think so, but there are a bunch of factors against once one gets close to something like the stock market. The two big ones are uniformity of financial metrics and honesty.

One of the huge problems in an unregulated stock market is that you have people exaggerating their financial position either because they aren't doing due diligence or because they are lying. Investors (including workers paid in stock options) have no way to evaluate the claims, and so you get exaggerated claims, false advertising in efforts to raise money, etc. We give some deference to those only seeking investment from small pools of friends or family, or those seeking help from venture capitalists who are presumed to be able to spot irregularities themselves, but on the stock market this is considered dangerous.

The second problem has to do with the convenience of stock analysts but is a related problem. The analyst always has less information than the CFO of the company he is analysing. Differences in ways of accounting lead to distorting effects as analysts read into them more of a difference than is justified by the facts. The stock market thus breeds a need for uniformity of accounting standards that small, locally supported and financed businesses do not need.

The result are things we call "securities law" which always includes "following the best practices from the relevant accounting organizations" (i.e. IASB or FASB depending on where you are).

Do the right thing is sufficient, on the other hand, if the business is a small one serving local markets and invested in by local individuals. It breaks down quite a bit as one tries to scale up.
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Google has been running a campaign for two years about gay rights and discouraging 'homophobia' (https://www.google.com/diversity/legalise-love.html). Also, three main sponsors of Olympics including AT&T have also spoken out against Russian laws.
In passing and in contrast to Google I noticed that Yahoo's display of Dilbert cartoons at http://news.yahoo.com/comics/dilbert-slideshow/ shows a different cartoon to the main Dilbert site http://www.dilbert.com/strips/ for today. Is this an editorial decision or just a cock up do you think?
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Approximately every company in the Valley which has 10+ engineers is currently hiring more engineers. Do you need an introduction? Email me with anything that demonstrates programming ability. I'll recommend a few folks to talk to.
Do you know a good client for Linux? Their official client [1] requires mono and I don't want to install that on my server (or even my desktop, for that matter).

[1] http://mir7.ovh.net/ovh-applications/hubic/hubiC-Linux/1.1.1...
He didn't say they aren't "us". They do legitimately and regularly fly and are thus those that are to be protected by the security mechanisms and thus by his/her definition a part of "us". Also that they are singled out for more intensive search does not mean they are not a part of "us".

I do agree with you though that this kind of ethnic screening has a ton of ethical problems. And that airport security is mostly security theater.
More information in his TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/beardyman_the_polyphonic_me.html
My reading of the article suggests that the form was for the right person, but was filled in ticking each question the opposite of the way it should have been filled in. My conclusion is that adding someone to the no-fly list is purely a box-ticking exercise (in the literal meaning of the phrase), without actually requiring any written reasoning or any proof of anything.
As a funny example, I read the 1040 instructions each year and some interesting points are included regarding "claiming kidnapped children" and "whale captains deducting specific expenses." If they are devoting time to these sections in the general instructions, then it's gotten out of hand.
You could get the .net or a slight variation for outgoing mail, at least until things are cleared up.
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A lot of this comes down to two things:

1. Having a good grounding in accounting basics, and

2. Having enough accounting knowledge beyond the basics to have a discussion with accountants and lawyers regarding best accounting practices.
It's nothing to do with that, there are plenty of apps on the app store that are designed for very niche markets. The true intentions are hidden, but based on past behaviour I'd say Apple are trying to lock down the financial transactions on their devices so they can always take a cut. Does seem increasingly likely that phones will become the 'wallet of the future', Apple aren't likely to give up control of that lightly.
> nobody has found any evidence of the law being enforced

And yet:

"A Russian court has fined a newspaper editor for publishing an interview with a gay school teacher who was quoted as saying 'homosexuality is normal.'" http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/feb/01/russ...
The CString C++ class from Microsoft's MFC and now also ATL used since forever the trick of having both the length and the reference counting in the single allocation with the characters themselves, as well as additional 0-termination character even if it was initialized with non-zero terminated character.
As I understand it, the new migrations module is more fully featured than south: eg, it intelligently squashes/flattens migrations together to avoid redundancy when you run the migrations (say you create a model in migration 1, and remove it in migration 3 after changing approach, the whole operation will be skipped).[0] This will speed things up if you have a lot of migrations to run.

I think I heard that some of this stuff will be backported to South for those of us stuck on 1.5/1.6, however.

[0] http://www.aeracode.org/2013/10/23/flat-pancake/
When it comes to zero-knowledge encryption, it is hard to know how their implementation holds up without external audits. This is the same for other encryption applications (google Truecrypt audit).

EVault, Wuala, Tarsnap, SpiderOak, Norton Zone, KeepVault, Jungle Disk, ElephantDrive, CrashPlan, Carbonite, F-Secure, Handy Backup, IASO Backup, MediaFire, MEGA, OwnDrive, TeamDrive etc..

..all provide Zero-Knowledge encryption for their cloud backups, i think OVH should be able to at least the same.
Eh, I played it for a bit to see what the hype is about, but I already played games like this before (and much more interesting ones, like Canabalt), and there's no way to disable sound, so I can't see myself spending much time on it.
Our shared problem is patriarchy and gender roles. "Why would a man take the inferior role" is behind phobia of gay men and trans women. "Don't let a woman get out of her place, as a sex object for men" is behind phobia of lesbians and trans men. Banding together makes sense.
i prefer gruntjs with coffee, jade and sass/stylus compilers + live reload. i barely work on vanilla html/css/js
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Yes, but that's not what the GP was talking about. Sometimes shuffle will play two consecutive songs from the same album consecutively, just from randomness, and people will complain.

Incidentally, I prefer random pick with replacement, at least when selecting from a set of tracks greater than one album.
Do you have links to these "stories"?
Hahah funny thing is I had these thoughts as i typed my last reply.

Btw it's rather interesting how the same cycle begins in photography where old school photographers scoff at post-capture editing via photoshop and say that it takes away from the beauty of the art. So maybe even if we get visual programming, maybe things won't change...

But still, I gotta ask, how can you learn programming without learning HOW to program? The HOW is where code comes in. Yes, we'd all love the magic of making the computer do as you wish with a point of a finger. But until then, why not enjoy the process of taking a problem, thinking of a solution and figuring out how to explain that to the computer?
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Because it was wrong:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7195640
It's a pretty important one, though. I have a Nexus 4 and if not for the big price difference and the fact that I wanted a phone without a contract, I would've gotten an iPhone instead. And one of the primary reasons is one-handed usability, because that is the primary use case for me. If I can comfortably use two hands, and if I want to, I'll use my tablet...
What prevents you from considering this as a bare storage backend to use with Duplicati or, say, TAHOE-LAFS?
Yeah, but what about the boxes that were checked, and what did they have in them? I don't see what this has to do with a form-filling mistake.
If uint16_t really is a signed 15bit value under VS2013, somebody in the compiler development department has a great sense of humor.
I also use OVH as an ISP and quite happy so far. I had connectivity problems once and a technical person answered my email within a couple of hours. By the end of the day it was back to normal.
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Cloudfuse [1] allows you to mount remote OpenStack Storage.
You'll need to tweak with the ~/.cloudfuse config file. I haven't tested it though.

[1] http://redbo.github.io/cloudfuse/
Hey man I actually went and read that paper you posted the other day: bullshit-alarm went off louder at every page. It's all ad-hominems, "look, America is also bad," unverifiable facts and hearsay.

If it is actually true (the anti-"Russian anti-gay laws" movement is overblown in Western media), and if you believe that it is true, then you would do better to stop posting this. You are only doing that cause a disservice by looking untrustworthy.

Everything about your posts and the thing you linked to smells of astroturf.

Been lurking on HN for half a year now, I guess this is what finally gets me to sign up.
Wow, just wow...

The inability to admit the error and fighting back is the proof that the system doesn't work. Intentionally.

But if you like the statistics and probability, what is the probability that this is the only case?

To help you along the way, consider the fact that the clerk here was not even aware he was doing it wrong...
Not to mention that most states have moved to at will employment, which means that you can be fired for no reason.
It may have been the case that Lenovo could not afford to pay 3B in cash over the next three years.

Using their own stock helps them compensate Google for how much they feel Mobility is worth without putting themselves in a tough liquidity position etc.
User that wants to buy BTC via an exchange:

* User deposits USD/EUR/etc into an exchange (such as MtGox)

* User places a "bid" to buy BTC at a certain price (USD/EUR/etc per BTC)

* User waits for their "bid" to be matched by the exchange to another user who has placed an "ask" to sell their BTC for USD/EUR/etc

So, the USD/EUR/etc being exchanged between users in an exchange is put there first by the users. The exchange itself does not front USD/EUR/etc; or at least it shouldn't.
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Well, you have to skip screening some people (in fact, most of them). Given the presence of holes in your net, positioning them over young pregnant women is going to give you much better results than just about any other policy imaginable.

The Anne-Marie Murphy example is interesting; as you point out, she was sabotaged and didn't know she was carrying explosives. So -- she would pass demographic profiling with flying colors, as she should. She didn't want to do anything. The very commonly suggested approach of behavioral profiling is also useless here. People who believe they're not carrying explosives act exactly the same as people who really aren't carrying explosives.

Network analysis ("passenger's boyfriend is Arab") could flag her. Would you support that?
"Try using your laptop in bed"

Actually, that's one place where I much prefer using my laptop. It's sitting on my belly, with the screen standing vertically. I just couldn't do the same with a tablet.
See 7th of Feb comic vs the one here http://www.dilbert.com/strips/2014-02-07/
Just tried to sign up for the 10TB plan, figure it's a good price for backing up my archive of DNG photographs, which is about 1TB.

Not going well so far, credit card form was in french... Said it failed, it refreshed itself, says it's worked, but it isn't showing up on my account.

Something tells me that 10 euros is going to cost a hell of a lot more than that of my time getting to the bottom of this.
Vocaloid still relies on human vocal samples, though.
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That reminds me of the daft "Section 28" law that the Conservatives introduced in the UK (excluding NI) in the late 80s (now repealed):

The amendment stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28
Next they will jump on a frozen lake and die then report Sochi is dangerous because if you jump on a frozen lake it's risky

(Yes, I know there are no frozen lakes in Sochi, it's an example)
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Man, I was hoping it was a cock up, but having looked now, and looked through past days, I'm really doubting it. :\

EDIT 1: For ease of viewing I tossed the comparison up on imgur: http://imgur.com/kBHJ0eq

EDIT 2: Squinting, it looks like they still have the 2-7-2014 date running in the gap between the 2nd & 3rd panel, but it's copyright is clearly from 1990-something. So, it's clearly intentional, I now wonder if it is Yahoo or S.A. himself providing the alternate.
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Upload is slow. From web interface it's around 300KB/s at the moment for me. Just for fun tried out Mega and it's 4MB/s-7MB/s there.