skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do work in UK public sector. I have been fortunate in the payroll/HR departments, obviously.

Chunk of cash suddenly appearing in my bank account would have me asking questions by the way.

I imagine bank security in the case of the unwitting recipient of your wages were reassured by the payment coming from a BACS or similar system. When I paid my redundancy cheque into my bank account over the counter, a bank manager appeared in seconds and wanted to know why this very large amount was being paid in...
We had a conversation with our BizSpark manager and you can also apply for BizSpark plus. This needs an additional review of your Startup, but if you succeed you get 10.000$ (or 15.000$ - not sure anymore) in Azure credits every month.
Quite nice to get some traction at the beginning :-)
But you can't avoid Google. First, the people you correspond with may be on Google. Second, and this is the most important point, Google does not make clear the terms of the contract you're entering with them (i.e. free services in exchange for semi-authorized surveillance). In effect, they're tricking people into surveillance.

In many ways this is far worse than what the government does because what the government does irks people; it generates anger. Google does not, and they have people like you maintain the illusion that you can opt out of Google, when, in fact, "opting out" is really hard. In 1984 Orwell made it clear that Big Brother rules through love, not violence or coercion. Few would rebel against a power that creates an illusion that it is not oppressive. A government does not have this advantage.
What I like about doegcoin is that everyone realizes it's a joke and has fun with it.
Oh really?

Sorry, I couldn't stop myself. From a standpoint of a person who was young not that long ago it's pretty much obvious. Children want, children do.
to drive away investors and people looking to profit.

Holy shit, you mean it's a currency that will encourage trading rather than hoarding? The horror!
I think there may be a problem with this kind of analysis - it seems to me that the "riskier" plays (2 point conversion, going for it, etc.) - are more likely attempted when coaches think they will work - not randomly. To really do a fair analysis of expectancy you would need trials where the play selection is chosen randomly. Anyone else agree with me?
Yes, basically offload all logistic concerns to the entrepreneur and simply provide the online store service.

You would handle things like payment and verifying the identity of your buyers and sellers, but the actual procurement and shipment of goods would be handled by the seller/entrepreneur.

I have a friend who ships handmade handbags from Senegal and sells them in NYC in the summer. She's responsible for dealing with the production issues in Senegal (not fun) and the shipment to NYC.

Now your service would be to offer this person a popular online space to sell the bags to a broader audience.

*It looks like what you are thinking of is for the person doing the traveling to basically buy the stuff and bring it back or vice verse take it with them?...
"US citizen/PR only"
Here's a the dramatized version of David Grieg's 2012 play "The Letter of Last Resort" produced for BBC Radio 4. I can recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwY9th-vmNY
One thing that Azure and EC2 gives that Google App Engine does not is root access to VMs. Modifying my models with respect to the App Engine doesn't really seem like a good idea. Maybe I am too lazy to do that, but I just don't want to leave something that gives me a whole new machine on the cloud!
How to check if your app is addictive enough to make money
If that is the case the tipbots should not show USD next to the amount.
Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd (Hackney, London, UK)
=======================================

Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd is looking for Python developers and front-end engineers.

Requirements

- Python, html, css, javascript programming experience
- Ability to self-lead, a lot of the time you will be deciding for yourself what to work on.
- Ability to look at big picture architecture as well as small details code.
- Any experience in DevOps is attractive as we handle the full stack.
- 2-3 Days in London (Typically at Hackney Picturehouse) every week, rest from home.

About the company

- We have a relaxed, family-friendly culture.
- We contribute to open-source projects, with any non-sensitive code being available for ope

n-sourcing
- We have real customers -- who care about the product and use it every day
- Free cinema tickets, tickets to premieres, discounts on food prepared by the chef, free soda and barista made coffees
- Flexibility in hours and home working (2-3 days/week)

What Python is used for:

- We use python for almost everything
- Full stack cinema system from POS, ATM to public websites, and internal admin apps.
- A distributed, fault tolerant system so different parts of the business continue to sell i

n case of failures.
- We sell 25K+ tickets and 30k+ transactions every day across 60+ cinemas.
- We send around 500,000 emails a week
- We run quite a few websites.

If you are interested, drop me a line - vikram.b at picturehouses.co.uk
Although it will probably be a hash of numbers and letters (shorter!).

Hi, I'm 7cba4209d3b4!
Yes, that's something I haven't tried and it's a luxury that this startup doesn't really need now.
Why would you trade it? You can just mine more as you need it?

You aren't going to sell any goods for it because the value today is likely worth less tomorrow unless you can "cash it out" immediately.
On a separate note, can you really say "that's a great idea" to a startup/team that hasn't yet demonstrated the potential of the idea? I do believe that on some level, a successful start-up idea does have to sound "stupid" - not necessarily the product itself but the idea that you can sell/generate revenue from product/service X.
Totally. We certainly have no intent to sell your phone number.

We only ask for your full name because we think that will better identify you in case of an emergency. (But you can put anything there.) And we actually don't need your location. We do need your phone number, though, so we can communicate with you on the go.

I'll think of ways to make this more clear.
I might be wrong, but didn't he say that he did do filtering of some of the info before handing it to journalists? In that case the information revealed is already partly a statement on his part, because he chose not to filter it. He can't have his cake and eat it on this one.
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Found the comment by truncating the URL back to the main thread, though. Not sure why the direct URL to /cf1801o is being denied.

[back on topic]

Yah, the video, while not the usual "lets all copy/paste the AP or Reuters story as many places as possible", there HAVE been a bit of coverage.

If we're taking about suppressed stories, I'm still amazed at the utter lack of coverage of Binney/Drake's [1] amazing open letter to the president[2] that was published on Jan 7. Part of me wants to blame it on short attention spans and the usual celebrity worship; it only involves the OTHER whistleblowers, pre-Snowden, so I guess nobody cares.

I was able to find a very minor mention on Huffington Post in the week after it was published, and a few video interviews by Reason of Binney trying to promote the letter, and... that's it. (not counting the handful of "personal blog"-style articles that covered the story, of course)

1: signatures also include Loomis, Wiebe, McGovern, Ellsberg, ...
2: http://consortiumnews.com/2014/01/07/nsa-insiders-reveal-what-went-wrong/
A lot of European countries are supported according to the FAQ. There's also a note at the bottom:

>If you do not live in the United States, you may need to prefix phone numbers with the appropriate country code.

https://www.kitestring.io/faq
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Contact ola@humanapi.co with interest or questions.
Hm, kinda wish it was a percentage rather than a fixed amount. Eventually 5 billion will be but a small percentage of the total.

Kudos nonetheless; glad there's finally a digi-coin that might sort of kind of be fungible for real-world wealth.
There are a great many people spending a whole lot on power and hardware who probably aren't laughing so much at the joke.
It will encourage tipping (giving it away in large numbers), not real trading. As mentioned elsewhere, why sell goods for it if the value will keep dropping?
Spanish Hacker Claims this Exploit Returns Facebook Passwords
They can already get your mobile records during a court ordered investigation. That information includes where you were and who you were with. Or rather where your phone was and who your phone was with.
Uh, there is no cost to branch on GitHub. I'll leave my critique of your comment (and it's abortive duplicate cousin) at that.
Singer PSY Speech in Harvard [2013]
Brilliant Speech by PSY. I personally used to think he is over-hyped and is crazy but I was wrong. A brilliant man
Why would you trade it? You can just mine more as you need it?

Mining is resource-intensive.

the value today is likely worth less tomorrow unless you can "cash it out" immediately.

Exactly! Not only is this like almost every other good on the planet, it encourages trade.
Facebook just threatened to put this publisher out of business and it is scary
This is a risk when you invest in something where a small number of people can fundamentally change it on a whim. Remember Zynga's warning about its dependence on Facebook in its IPO filing?
This is an excellent point. You don't necessarily need to start from scratch if there are existing projects which you might be able to contribute to. If you don't like the direction of certain decisions, you are certainly free to fork the project and continue in your own direction as well.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to 'shop without borders'?
Do you think friends/strangers could bring stuff for you from abroad (given right incentive)?

The reason I am asking is because I am working on this - https://yenbe-beta.appspot.com
I think you might need to distinguish between the old, secretive, possibly creepy NSA and the current slurp the world volcano lair NSA.
I was the voice of Punxsutawney Phil on Twitter for 5 years
At least in my opinion, that's part of the joke, showing such a small amount next to such a large amount of coins.
I hope this isn't stupid linkbait and apologize in advance if it is and I got pranked. An Argentinian programmer friend forwarded this to me, which is why I am posting it here for comments. He seemed to believe it was legit but sent it out as an alert rather than commenting on the script itself. Right now I'm reading through the script to check if there is reason to believe it's legit or if this is some kind of prank.

Translation:

Want to "hack" - get the password of the account of someone on Facebook? Exploit this vulnerability before they realize and remove it, it's working RIGHT NOW!

1. Use Google Chrome

2. Get the person's profile

3. Then press the F12 key

4. Then go to the section / tab that says "Console"

5. Copying and pasting the following code <view down>, press ENTER and presto! Pop-up window will open with the password of that person!
The title is in reference to a famous mathematical assertion and is a direct allusion to a G. H. Hardy quote from 1940.
If the coin has no value, you might well just say "great comment, I give you 10000 doge for that" without the hassle of actually giving doge.

Why have a whole system that accomplishes no more than merely typing the words did? Stick with the words. Easier, faster, just as much fun.
What if "the media" found that insistently reporting on the Snowden story wasn't popular among it's readership?

Much more boring than a conspiracy but plausible IMHO.
why sell goods for it if the value will keep dropping?

You know the USD is inflationary, right? I don't see people having had a problem selling goods in the US since 1970.

You don't sell goods to get money to hold on to for the rest of your life.

You sell goods so you can, with the profit, immediately purchase other goods that you need (either to live or to invest in).
Yes, this. How can they objectively rate businesses that are paying them?

But, they go even further. That is, they will collect complaints, etc. and give the business a bad rating if the business does not respond using the BBB's system. So, even if the business is legit and has worked earnestly to resolve customer issues, they must add value to the BBB scheme (and thus also reinforce the BBB's perceived "legitimacy"), otherwise risk their own reputation.

In fact, we received our first complaint after several years in business and they opened a "file" on us. We then received threatening letters from the BBB indicating that we had a window in which to respond, else receive a negative rating. Worse, even before we had a chance to respond, they'd already given us a C-minus; citing as the reason that they did not have enough info on our company. Why not a more neutral C? Better still, why not a "no-rating", indicating the actual truth that they'd acknowledged: they didn't yet have enough info to rate us? Why, instead use their qualitative scale to misrepresent us as somehow subpar? Again, they want you to submit more information and respond on their terms, thereby increasing value for them. It's the perfect racket.

Worse, most people think the BBB are the good guys and many actually believe they are government-affiliated. So, they effectively use their own reputation against companies (many of which are lesser known small businesses) to force them to add value to the BBB's own scheme or outright pay them. It really is a racket and should be illegal.
Uh, that's, like... How actual money works? /shrugs
I'm sorry, perhaps I misinterpreted the headline:

"US Media blacks out snowden interview"

as

"Only US _televised_ news sources either did not report with enough depth on the interview, did not report on it entirely, or gave a delayed report; the content of which is not terribly new or substantiated with evidence [1]"

One of these headlines is a short, snappier version that is considered click bait. All this coming from a source that promotes, among other things, the alleged (and widely debunked) link between autism/vaccines.

Color me skeptical, but when a news source bends the truth in order to grab attention, I tend to scrutinize it all the more.

Look, I support Snowden but this isn't journalism. This is hyperbole. Going to such extremes to "fight the system", to be the counter-weight to whatever scheming superpower there is, corrupts. So yes, I stand behind my original accusation that this is "moving the goal-posts". The headline claims US media blocked out the interview, but I find it rather easy to find US reports on this bit of news online. So, to re-examine the accusation, it's not true. US Media did _not_ black out the interview. So what now?

[1] He makes claims that the US spy agencies have been spying on corporations, but he does not elaborate on it. This is unusual for Snowden as he usually provides ample evidence to support his assertions. Don't you think that this would be a bigger deal if he had supplied the evidence to go along with that interview?
Well, that's their loss for taking a gamble on it. Not everything is a sure bet, and even those that look like it might turn out not to be :)
In 2015 it won't be resource intensive.

We should be on 3rd or 4th generation asic scrypt miners by then which maybe means you'll be able to get a $20 usb stick that makes you 10k coins a month with a single kilowatt of power per month.
[un]conscious self-selection bias? you're going to be spending 100 hrs/week with your co-workers at a startup, so people will hire those they can relate to as part of cultural fit.

that said, there are roles that require more experience/industry relationships/gravitas as a company matures (e.g., Sandberg as COO) and that often correlates with age.
An interesting but scientifically useless account. Psychiatry and psychology will become useful to science only when such stories are validated by an effort to connect effects with causes -- to try to explain what has only been described. To date, these fields have gotten by with descriptions of things they cannot explain. Once explanations are proposed, they can be validated or falsified using empirical evidence, but until that happens, it's not science, it's anecdote.

Interestingly, the director of the NIMH has recently taken the same position, ruling that that DSM (psychiatry and psychology's "bible") can no longer be used as the basis for scientific research proposals, for the simple reason that it has no scientific content:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

Quote: "... each edition [of the DSM] has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."
>i may never be able to tell you "i told you so", because in the future there may be no platform for us to express our discontent.

Statements like this make people roll their eyes and walk away. You don't need hyperbole to explain why mass surveillance is dangerous.
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Really, 5 billons appear to be a lot, but it will be only a 5% the fist year after the initial mining period is complete. And after 20 years the annual inflation will be only 2.5% if no doge is lost.

[Disclaimer: I’m from Argentina, where a 5% annual inflation would be really nice.]
Actually, this fellow is paid $70K/year (he's at a public university where salaries are public). He got into the system before the big shift to lecturers and adjuncts, and since he has been in the system for a long time there is a long history of salary increases, back when times were good, and never a decrease - the phenomenon of sticky wages in action.

Whether his compensation is fair is a different question. His homepage lists what courses he is teaching but not the number of actual sections. A lecturer can teach three sections of a full-time four-credit course. With preparation, grading and contact hours this constitutes a 40-hour workweek.
On the other hand, it would seem that many of the top experts today are masters at mashing up the frontiers of multiple fields. Just think of all of the applications of Neuroscience + X (CS, Philosophy, Psychology, Chemistry, etc.). Sure, there are few (no?) people today that can claim mastery of 10 or 20 fields, but most of the cutting edge research does seem to require expert knowledge of 2 or 3.
Nintendo to Tackle Mobile Health with new Non-Wearable Platform
True, but it makes me scrutinize it all the more.
"It looks like what you are thinking of is for the person doing the traveling to basically buy the stuff and bring it back or vice verse take it with them?"

Yes Exactly.
WebLoop: Scriptable, headless WebKit with a Go API. Like PhantomJS, but for Go.
Lots of good discussion on the reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1wsg31/dogecoin_wi...

I think this is good news overall.
Does someone have link to a manual where not just disassembly presented, but also process of patching, packing everything back and uploading back to hardware?

I had a printer Kodak Hero 4.2. It has ink level warnings which I can not get around without new cartridge and new ink chips.

I found a way to get firmware and how to upload firmware manually. I also disassembled it and found few spots where I could change ARM asm code to jump around ink level checks. But I could not figure out how to put it all back together so printer would use this firmware instead. My naive approach did not work well and I bricked it (not a big deal).

I would love to read more about process people used to, for example, build DD-WRT, which I believe is modification of stock firmware.
I think one big problem in India is the lack of big exits.

For instance, Nest was a "billion dollar company" because it got acquired by Google at a high price for a small company. Perhaps that reflects its value but it also reflects the dynamics of the U.S. stock market.

In India you might get bought by Wipro but they are the kind of people (for better and for worse) who have their feet on the ground when it comes to valuing things.
I gave an un-conference talk at Clojure days Amsterdam called "Purely Functional OS" on this exact topic and we had an incredibly interesting discussion about the topic.

The conclusion we kept coming back to is that it's technically not all that difficult to implement, but that to make it usable in the real world would mean that computers would have to get a lot more cautious about source vs. derived data.

The main thing is that on the one hand it seems pretty feasible to store all meaningful data a user generates over the course of using a computer and building an immutable persistent OS on top of that.

On the other hand though, when you think about doing this in the context of an actual computer as in use today you will very quickly run out of storage space.

What is separating these two scenarios is that a lot of data is (deterministically) derived from source inputs, but in the current state of technology it's impossible to determine what is derived data which can be easily recomputed and what is essential data without which the current state could not be reached.

I happened to just be reading this article on unikernels which coincidentally is something that would help get us a bit further along in that direction: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628

P.S. When thinking about this one key concept is to realize that you could can do things like implement a 'torrent file system' where a file is just a torrent hash which can be requested and signal when (parts of it) become available.
Well, even in Germany they failed by

- not showing this prominently enough

- not providing the original version without a lot of prodding

As for the rest of the comment: I don't know. The content's created. Why not set it free? I expect that for me/for locals, but I fail to see why you'd want to use geolocation to exclude others. Ever. The only cost at this point is bandwidth and by offering the content with a liberal license you could expect decent mirrors.