skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt they're lying, what they are doing is mislabelling their experience as representative. Low level PayPal employees have previously made mistakes that has resulted in people who are selling mining equipment finding their accounts suspended, however these are misinterpretations of the rules by the lowest level of PayPal employees. The David Marcus statement was in response to a story (almost identical to the story of the bitcointalk poster) from a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1v12p4/well_done_pa...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1v3qhw/update_well_...
I suggest open sourcing Windows. Put it on GitHub with a permissive license and accept pull requests. The internet will blow up, you'll instantly win back all of the developer mindshare that has been lost over the years.
Writing an Angular-style dependency injector for Ruby
Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hotel experiences
awesome, thanks for doing this, bookmarking it!
(I’m internally classifying this idea as interesting but extremely implausible. Neverhteles, just a technical question.)

How long was the period between the 100°C (212°F) and 0°C (32°F)? Or to be generous between 200°C (392°F) and -100°C (-148°F)?
It's good to keep some perspective. C++ standards are incorporated into tools so much faster than they used to be it's not even funny. I'm not on the inside so I don't know why things are so much better, but clang, gcc, and visual studio people are all doing a pretty great job.
There's no ban on selling non-physical items. They have a very small list of prohibited services which includes currency exchange:

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full
Adobe fixes critical Flash flaw
While this is interesting, I was disappointed to see only one of the startups was something other than a PaaS for Docker (aside from the book). I'm really curious to hear more about how companies are using Docker in production.
Every story I've seen said this was a 'bug'. How do we know there wasn't a spy who did this deliberately? It's hard for an outsider to tell, but some of the factors behind this appear to be a bit too convenient.
This demonstrates the power a very good idea when it's open-sourced and marketed effectively. It's hard to believe that Docker has yet to celebrate its first birthday. The initial release was in March 2013.
Paypal is banning any account which deals in currency exchange. They are still allowing hardware such as Bitcoin mining devices. The gray area are Casascius Coins which they are banning because it involves currency exchange even though it is sold with a physical item.

By the way, my post title was changed by someone else. Paypal is NOT banning anything Bitcoin related, they are only banning Bitcoin exchanges for fiat currencies.
Here is information and links about some unusual operating systems, including several discussed above.

https://github.com/jon-jacky/Piety/blob/master/doc/precursor...
Well, what I called the "MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco" is one of my favorite topics, and as I said before I have a bad opinion against MS about it. Notice it was Paul Maritz who wrote http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/... BTW.
Thought it said startups... Starships?
It is very possible that it was > 7 months ago. Glad to hear you fixed it.
I think you should add [2] https://leanpub.com/assholejava
Mexico City vows to protect historic maize varieties.
Dear Hiring Manager, It's Too Bad We'll Never Chat
I don't get it. Why do you have to go out to sea if you are going to experience it virtually anyway? Couldn't you just have it on land in a room that also moves based on the waves you see out of the virtual window?
Oh, good suggestion with the intro video and free users can use the product forever, they just are limited to viewing one week of their logged time. Maybe I'll increase that to a month in the future.
The R Inferno (free ebook on R)
I've been on a couple of cruises and I've always booked the interior cheapest rooms. I think this a cool feature and the mockup looks terrific but I don't think I'd find value in purchasing this upgrade. At least for me, the cruise ship room serves as a changing room & a place to sleep as I'm preoccupied enjoying all the activities they offer outside of my room.
I've heard from a friend that for Asian companies like MediaTek, "going through the front door" is the wrong way to approach them, unless you are a very large and well-established company.

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040
Thanks! Check out the source code at the link at the bottom of the blog post if you want to take a look.
Assault on California Power Station Raises Alarm on Potential for Terrorism
Budget cuts, take a look at Detroit.
What's 5% of say $100B? Nothing to sneeze at, I'd say.
Honestly I haven't built team features so I set a high price to prevent anyone from signing up for it ;) Don't tell anyone but if someone signs up I'll just ask them what features they want built then refund their money until I finish those requested features.
Bring Docker to windows and I will use it.
This is still seen in countries like Mexico. Just last week the NYTimes mentioned mafia dressed as Italian policemen dumping toxic waste ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/world/europe/beneath-south... ) The uses are for more than violence.
Here's a handy calculator, with variables you can edit: https://www.scalyr.com/cloud
Could this site be the next YouTube?
The link above displays a sample of the new online video sharing website. Watch the video and see if the content is better than YouTube's?
I would assume they don't want to use closed source software because of the security headache of having no way to vet and verify all dependencies.
Have to give a lot of the credit to Google. Before Chrome, Firefox was floundering. Updates were painful. Chrome competition eventually got Firefox refocused. Chrome also pioneered rapid release cycles and auto-updating so that users didn't have to consciously think about being "ready" to update or find reasons not to. Hopefully they don't even notice.

Google's stated reason for developing Chrome was to push web browsers forward as a platform. Whatever you think of Chrome now, I think in that objective they succeeded admirably.
Hello all,
I'm a student at MIT working on a project building a general-case platform to create and explore graphs called WikiNets http://wikinets.co.uk/ with the goal of enabling half-formed ideas separated across different people's heads to come together (e.g. making a custom platform for http://hackathonprojects.tk/). Anyone want to work on this with us? I would love to find others who think on this same wavelength and I lament that (ironically) there's not yet a way online for people to find others with synergistic ideas! Feel free to poke me at jcole@mit.edu
Incidentally, we're currently using D3, but welcome suggestions as well!
That's up to you to say NO if a boss asks you to show him.
I also found something comparable for npm this afternoon, after much searching: https://github.com/mozilla/npm-lockdown.
First search got me [1] which has a buy-out of 35 billion ISK. According to currency convert [2], this comes out to around 1,000 USD. The buy-out was taken, too.

It's extremely hard to believe that such a player is actually piloting a titan at time of transfer, though, and this thread [3] starts the hull cost at 40bil ISK. So you're looking at north of ~2,000 USD for the pilot and a useless hull, which is past the 1,500 mark. Assuming that the "travel fit" mentioned is a combat fit (unlikely), that's a total of ~4,000 USD.

Which means you'd have to get back to 300bps's "hard up for money" remark and recognize that anyone in possession of a titan is going to have an alliance full of people willing to handle this kind of thing more directly than a stranger walking up offering less than market value.

And we'll just ignore the fact that, unless you had an alliance backing you up (meaning all of this contrivance gets pretty moot), you wouldn't be able to do anything meaningful with it except wander around a little and die.

[1] http://eve-search.com/thread/1382980-0/page/all

[2] http://isk.thealphacompany.net/?isk=35000000000&conversion=i...

[3] https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=63093
#1 is not how macroeconomics works, not without some quite controversial assumptions.
I wasn't aware. It's probably because we both use Bootstrap's example template:

http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/
In eve you do not "fight" for xp. There is no "xp" in eve. You get skill books which teach you things. Then you set the skill to train, and via your stats your training time decreases (which is why implants are so valuable). To learn to fly a titan is a skill that with the best upgrades your character must spend about 3 months (real time) just learning the skill. Meanwhile if you die, and don't have the money for an appropriate clone (by that time your clones cost tens or hundreds of dollars) you lose the skills, and thus months of training.

Basically building a titan takes a community effort, and finding a pilot for it is equally as difficult.
The simple Secret behind wonderful Products
Hardly setting fire to the world. Really nothing by comparison to what FOSS has accomplished without them.
Thanks Userify CEO! :)
Lol eve is a thinking man's mmo. Action is kind of... meh. There is no simulation. Your character for better or worse can just be replaced with an AI that listens to commands of the leader. You are basically a body in a giant battle. Your goal is to click the little red dot designated for you to click on, and click your weapons. The end.

The game is all about maneuvers. How to out-maneuver your opponent to catch them with their pants down, block reinforcements, prevent retreat, maximize damage while minimizing yours.

Imagine a battle between two countries, its not just about what is in the battle, but what led up to the battle occurring, how people behave, etc.
I've tried xmonad, awesome, i3, dwm, herbsluftwm, ratpoison, etc. My favorite was dwm for a few years, then I moved up to i3 because of multi-monitor support. I see i3 as a good medium between the really minimal <2k lines tiling managers and the larger ones like awesomewm.
"What if you believed the work in question unfairly demonized your product? What would you do then?"

Yep, Don't assume the 'other' side is just being corrupt or greedy. They could have some true believers that think you are the crackpot and being dishonest or have your own greedy / ambition motive. Look at political discussions and how few false first stories are corrected if wrong.

It gets worse if one or both sides believe "the end justifies the means".
They are bad things if they empower an ever more powerful monopoly.
Well i am left handed and use my phone with my right hand.
Is there a difference between quantitative finance and HFT? I imagine it's a square-rectangle relationship.

I'm a big fan of new tools to make mathematical models for traditional investing, but I am fairly against the idea and practice of HFT.
There's an interesting philosophical question here: what is the difference between seeing something in person, or watching it from inside your stateroom on a retina screen that mimics exactly what you would see if you were outside?

I agree with you that seeing things on the TV screen seems much less meaningful, but I have a hard time explaining why.
Only current data. It is a very simple tool. If you clone it to your Web server it should work already, if you want to test it.
How do you define virtual? Is it limited only to simulations, or is it for any attempt to mimic nature? For example, organic compounds used to be considered impossible to synthesize due to a "vital force" until Wohler synthesized urea from inorganic compounds. Is organic chemistry the study of "fake" organic compounds?
I think it also depends on how big your hands are, and how long your fingers are. I have a 5" device and I can still comfortably touch anywhere on the whole screen with my thumb; the only "ow" spot for me is at the very bottom right corner.
So what is the recommended approach ? (sorry if the link you shared answers the question, i have not checked it yet)
Why the fuck are they even referencing the shuttle protests in that article? What does that have to do with anything?
How We Learn
> the displays are mounted in the staterooms on either the north or south wall

Wait, what?
I like it. I'm going to switch.
> but are the ships hard for the player themself to fly?

"Hard" isn't the right word. It's more... knowing when and why to do things, and knowing how to work with others. EVE isn't very twitchy (and if I understand the Time Dilation technology, what little twitch is there isn't even present anymore): about 70% of the fight is dictated by your ship's fit, and only 25-30% is in-the-moment skill.

If there was a continuum between chess (10) and Street Fighter (1), I'd call it a 7. This opinion comes with a grain of salt, though, since I'm incompetent at PvP.
Interesting that there so many Docker PaaS/IaaS services despite the fact that Docker claims it isn't ready for production use.
Ask HN: Best CS Research Papers to read?
I'm a sophomore CS student, and would like to start deepening my knowledge much more. What are some good papers to start reading (as in, not so complicated that the content will go over my head).
Isn't that how EC2 works?
If someone wants to build a language and "A programming language is the semantics" doesn't it really make sense to tell them what the semantics should look like?
Your first link is over 3 years old. Prices in characters fluctuate quite heavily during the time of the year and during various events. And links 3 years old in the Eve economy are worthless. Though you're right you won't get the titan with the pilot in any of those.

Your currency converter is also converting at $15 = 481m isk when in reality $15 will now get you over 700m isk.

Lastly hull cost for a titan hasn't been 40b in years. That guy was very wrong. They are closer to 90-100b if you get a deal and 110-120b on the market.

Read the full context of their hard up for money comment and it's clear they are using hard up for money to mean rich not poor.

You are right that without an alliance you won't do much with your titan.

My qualifications for my statements are as a super capital pilot and a capital builder and I have been one for a number of years now.
Author must have thought that was more readable by the layperson than "fore-facing" and "aft-facing"
This stack gets a LOT of use in HFT. (Including us)

Honestly, the three things I'd most love to have are:
- more wrappers, support, documentation on PyMC -- a LOT could be done here and this could replace HUGE amounts of code in all sorts of place
- libraries/models on top of cvxopt
- more polished ipython notebook -> pdf or d3.js html -- I do this a fair amount for auto eod reports etc

And maybe a fourth...a good open source alternative to kx...preferably one that can accept .h5 files.
I didn't get anything from the article about squeezing maximum money from every customer. No customer wants to feel like they're being gouged. But, neither do they want to see a good service go out of business because the owner felt guilty about the price.

One thing I know is that if you charge $49/month inevitably somebody will tell you the price should be $9.99/month. If you charge $9.99 then somebody will tell you it should be free.

The point is that there will always be a tiny minority of people who want your service for a price that isn't sustainable. You can't base your business plan off of these people. You have to base your prices off of the value of your service as well as the cost it takes for you to provide that service.
For the internet perhaps not. For our industry - we can trace it back to the 1950s or 1960s (I know there were earlier uses of computers, but I've never sen them as similar enough to our pattern).
The distinction here is that's for hardware cost only. I imagine salary costs are much higher.
> That was predictable, Bitcoin is a huge source of chargebacks and fraud.

It's also a potential huge competitor for PayPal.
Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Tech Will Be Mandatory
This is precisely correct, but cruise lines have figured out that they can upsell passengers by showing them larger rooms with balconies and windows. Why not splurge - you're on vacation, right?
Here is a collection of great computer science papers to get you started: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html

It includes some intermediate and pretty advanced topics.
Because we'd love to use C# across more platforms, and the 2nd class citizen status of Mono in the *nix world makes us sad :(
Ross Perot was a novelty vote.
"Right after that, the two factions of the big-business party collaborated to ensure that no other party could mount a serious challenge. This involved forming the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) in 1987, which re-wrote the debate rules to effectively block challengers from participating. Out of sight, out of mind."

Incredible. After Ross Perot ran for president in 1992, they traveled back in time to form CPD in 1987. Amazing story.
Harvey Keitel, CEO
depends on the state. Some are at will work states, which means realistically no rights as each party is able to terminate at free will without warning.

The states with heavier union politics tend to have some amount of small rights to warnings, etc built in
Bill Watterson on a culture that promotes avarice and excess as the good life.
First Single-Molecule LED
Can you do a lookback page for a company page that you are an administrator on?
is the requirements.txt not vulnerable to be altered?
The war on drugs has been around since the 1930s; there have been MANY crops of crappy old people keeping it going. The police constitute a concentrated interest group in favor of the power they get from the various Wars so the policy survives for much the same reason crop subsidies survive. Any policy that bestows concentrated benefits to a small group and widely distributes costs to everyone else is hard to stop once it gets started.
It can also be useful to SSH into a system to check what's going on with a specific problem. Sometimes weird things happen that you can't always anticipate or automate away.
This is why it's important to serve your jury duty when called. Kudos to you for doing so.
> they are willing stoop lower and employ underhand tactics to an extent that nobody else in the industry will match.

Worse than Google or Amazon's dominance of the marketplace? The squashing out competition that they do? I don't think so - Microsoft could be on a par perhaps, but certainly no worse.
Good Book indeed. We are learning alternative from here after d3.js and Highchart. Reading the book and will try to employ this in analytic portions of our in-house project.
Take a look at [1] for details on the contract language they built. Instead of modeling things in a taxonomy, they build the logic of contracts up from primitives using a combinator library.

Concurrency in Haskell is a big thing. At the lowest level, purity means there's a lot of opportunity for parallelization. Atop that Haskell has a really great green threads system and new GHC has a very, very performant IO manager for running them. It's GC'd so you do have thread-local pauses and they're not as nice as Erlang's actor-local GC. Atop that you've got a nice channel system, the best implementation of Software Transactional Memory around, and neat new libraries like LVish for doing eventual consistency in a very reasonable fashion.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
Reminds me of the dongle/forking joke fiasco. Anytime a woman hears a crude joke she thinks it is directed at her and all of womankind. The man must then be shamed publicly. This is our future.
Paypal is the worst way to process payments, no one should use them (use any of the alternatives). Paypal will never support anything like Bitcoin unless they absolutely have to because it involves "risk". I wish consumers weren't so use to the easy checkout process, because they're terrible to develop with and will stifle virtual currency adoption.
I don't see what that has to do with anything. You made a bizarre assumption that the financial world is hard for haskell to break into, when both history and the current behavior of financial firms says otherwise.
Sourcing is a better word than "securing" though the title is accurately quoted.

I thought it was going to be security related.
Facebook at 10: Hip or Has-been?
"Raft: A distributed Consensus Protocol" (https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/1137...) would be a very valuable thing to look at for a sophomore CS student. I imagine it's a bit different than what you've studied so far, but the protocol was designed for understandability and ease of implementation above all else. As a result, it's gained quite a bit of interest from the industry, and you'll find implementations in Go, Erlang, Java, etc. to pick apart.
That would be the most awesome thing that could ever happen, when they can just keep offering the windows 8 for the customers in boxed but allowing developers to contribute to the project.. I cannot think of percentage of people who will be lost customers, it will not matter when everyone in another 10 years will have their own linux systems on cloud..
I think his next move will be to only accept payment in bitcoin.
A little late to reply but... my clients are using XP for web access and email. So its just a matter of time before they get infected via an unclosed security hole.
Also: You guys contribute a lot of good work to Hadoop and related projects.

Disclaimer: I contribute to some ASF projects.
How long have you been working?

In my job, each year I end up in dozens of meetings between corporate executives from different countries around the world. Nowadays, it is true that I see them bringing mostly Macs and iPads.

But this is, in my experience, a rather astonishing change from even 5 years ago, when 95% of the computers I would see these visitors bring would be Windows (and the majority of those still being Windows XP).

The Apple hegemony is still a pretty new thing.
One favorite of mine is Danny Hillis' dissertation on the connection machine:

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/14719/18524280...

And not really a research paper, but if you haven't read it, you'd might enjoy Guy Steele's Growing a Language:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham (the Creationist Guy)
I sincerely doubt it. PayPal is an escrow service, Bitcoin includes one in the protocol but it's by no means the easy user protection PayPal provides.
Net step: get rid of the cruise ship altogether; just roll the cabin sideways back and forth, while streaming in video from a ship on the seas far away. Give a discount for this "cruise ship experience" ...
Rural carriers start connecting customers to doctors via mobile video chat
I agree in principle, but that won't stop someone from fighting with shift reduce conflicts or dangling elses for hours on end before giving up. constructing an unambiguous CFG isn't trivial without experience, and it's tough to get that without bashing your head a few times.
Wow, what a great list! Thanks, I will peruse this page.
I was speculating the other day that some sort of container-based virtualisation might be a feature of the server part of Windows 'Threshold'.

I'm sure Hyper-V does some sharing of memory pages related to the Windows kernel when running multiple Windows VMs (if they are the same version at least), but there's probably an opportunity for an approach that is lighterweight than VMs but still gives you a greater degree of isolation than just a managed boundary via the CLR.
In the past, there have sometimes been configuration differences between the official packages for different OSes. I know SPDY is enabled on Ubuntu, but I'm not certain of all of the others.