skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, although as I understood it a lot of the actual time it takes to build the titan, is time spent waiting, and you do not have to be logged 8 hours per day for months at a time. This is at least very true for the "training" system in the game. You purchase a skill book, start training, and based on your characters stats the training will take a certain amount of time, no matter whether you are logged on or not.

Of course, as I believe someone else pointed out, you (or your alliance more like) need to guard the construction site while the Titan is being built -- so the cost of building one of these is definitely huge. I guess $1500 is a bargain, all things considered?
Reminds me of this thing I did awhile back for some laughs:
http://dfcb.github.io/manly-man-passwords/
I personally find it ugly :)

(own a black one)
i wouldn't go that far, one issue with bitcoin is that .08 is ~$65 now that values is ~40k dogecoin last time i checked.

for micro transactions the dogecoin is a better crypto currency but i don't see it as one or the other think about it as american express vs (mastercard or visa)
Ya, hard to say. If it really isn't related to your username or identify somehow, it would be hard to think that someone would brute force you specifically. Not that it's a very strong password.

https://code.google.com/p/skype-bruteforcer/

looks like a 60 second timeout between attempts.
Wonder where casascius coins fit in this...
https://www.casascius.com/
If you're serious about your equipment, avoid MikroTik.
'The reality is, the "us vs. them" mentality of many citizens nowadays is likely beyond fixing.'

I think to fix it you need to first fix the "us vs. them" mentality of many cops.
What is the best advice you can share about backpacking through Europe?
You aren't going to keep any of your good employees that way.
Thanks. Not sure how I missed that. Perhaps because my instinct is to check the footer for "about" links. I would still be curious about the registration. May reveal more interesting information...or not.

I would also be curious about the founders and their "independent" non-profit--In particular, the source of their funding and support. From GMO to pesticides, they seem to absolutely love what the ag industry is doing. If I get a little more time to look into it, I will post back here.
The next generation. Cycle refreshes constantly.
Maybe he lives in a high-crime area and thus must always be ready to quickly grasp the phone in case he gets "picked".

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/09/iphone-thefts...
Oh I meant this version. http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/the-bloodbath-...
I'm creating http://www.dwgdrop.com (soon to be DrawVault) we are currently about one month away from a V1.0 launch.

Interestingly in answer to your question i'm building an application in the non-developer space as a non developer. I work in the architecture industry & my app is aimed at providing architects, engineers, building contractors and other related fields with an easy way to send and receive drawings and files, and also keep track of revisions to those files. Effectively its a repo for architectural & engineering drawings. I came up with the idea by employing 37 Signals style "scratch your own itch" method. While searching for a solution to replace the tedium of sending through email and local filing that seems commonplace in the industry i found platforms that are similar available for very large scale construction (read 100m, 1b etc) works but didn't scale well enough to be a viable option (price-wise) for small scale to include projects in the order of 500k - 5m etc.

I think that we hear and talk about "scaling" in the start-up community but we often overlook the possibility of building apps that "scale down" features from a much larger successful software. These smaller apps could theoretically have an untapped access to consumers/businesses that are out-priced by larger software systems.

*Edited for clarity
http://www.cato.org/raidmap is also rather sober reading

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That was predictable, Bitcoin is a huge source of chargebacks and fraud. My bank had issues with people stealing online banking credentials and using them to buy Bitcoin, there's a bit of a blanket ban on that sort of service now I think. It's a fairly common occurrence for sellers on localbitcoins too, I've talked to sellers before who have been ripped off to the tune of thousands of dollars due to similar situations.
I agree in spirit, but the idea of everyone starting at the same end of the download does indeed go against some of the core ideas of bit torrent.

Personally I think maybe something should be built on top of bit torrent to accomplish this task. To me it's a case of being careful when re-engineering underlying protocols because of a higher level need.

Anyway, it's a nice hack, but I kind of understand where the client developers who refuse to do this are coming from :-)
Or, perhaps Paypal is a company whose interests aren't well served by the availability of electronic money transfers with little or no transaction costs.
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Eve is probably the best game around to read about rather than play.
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> They are banning the sale of non-physical items

Can you link me to the seller policy? I have an app I'd like to sell (no bitcoin involved - except maybe taking it...maybe), and I've been wondering about the seller policy, but couldn't find it.
Until organised crime infiltrate the government and they start ignoring the law. See the FBI under Hoover.

Is this an argument for more government, or less?

Plus organised crime hardly enables a free and open society. Especially as a free and open society revolves around a viable rule of law.

"Rule of Law" is one thing, and is largely desirable, yes. Capricious and arbitrary regulations that try (vainly) to pre-empt a crime that might not happen, and which infringe individual liberties in the process, are quite another thing.
I don't think the openness of the desktop world was because of Microsoft. If any other company had taken over, we would've seen pretty much the same thing imo.

In today's mobile world, Apple and others could learn from the drawbacks of the desktop world and implement a "better" system, at least in some respects. It has certainly helped their revenue.
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Banned. Did you not read the linked post?

> I got called from paypal because i sold a few casascius coin
Try interactions of 2000^2000^7.
That's because I'm using the planid to display the name I have to do some back end changes to subscriptions so I can have 'Friendly names' :)
This is a wholly reasonable reaction.
I would personally recommend Ubiquiti or some ALIX-based pfSense router over MikroTik. They seem like a better value for the money to me.
This is getting close to the limit of my expertise. What resource is bumping into it's system limit? Can you back up that answer with a stack trace or core dump? If so, would you mind filing a bug in our bug tracker? [0] It looks like if you put [MemShrink] in the Whiteboard field, the memshrink team should pick it up. If not, you could jump in #memshrink in our IRC server, irc.mozilla.org, and let someone there know. [1]

You can ping me directly on irc, too. My handle is a literal new line character (which _is_ a valid nick), and I'd be happy to help you get the bug filed if you run into any issues. Once you have a bugzilla account, you'll see it's generally pretty easy to submit bugs and provide feedback in channels that allow us to more easily find and work on issues. We're happy to help, too!

I'd file the issue myself, but I'd prefer to enable you to see how easy it is, and for you to provide the stack trace. Even providing steps to reproduce issues makes you a part of our Mozilla community. Welcome!

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink
In terms of the software, pretty much since the beginning. Even if Google only had 20 machines at first, the difference in mindset and software architecture is to treat each machine as expendable. The code has to be written very differently to account for that, and I think that was done starting fairly early.

In terms of the hardware, I guess it was a few years, whenever Google started building its own servers, building its own data centers, etc.

There are a lot of challenges as you scale, but it's safe to say that it wouldn't have made sense at any point to outsource/use AWS. New ground was being broken.
This is incorrect. The CEO of PayPal David Marcus has already denied these claims:

To clarify: we have no policies against using PayPal to sell Bitcoin mining rigs.
We don't support any currency txn whether fiat or BTC for a host of regulatory
issues. But we treat BTC and any FX txn the same way. We're believers in
BTC though.

There was a communication error in January but it was retracted within hours: http://i.imgur.com/GMC0fsd.png

https://twitter.com/davidmarcus/status/422632561882316800

https://twitter.com/davidmarcus/status/422632849670299648
When the intelligence community and the military has a social media platform I'll make sure my son loses some weight.
Even though they are able to keep money from these banned accounts its probably just to get back from all the scammers involved

Check out number 4

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full
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It's just semantics.
This is exactly it. Many people don't realize this when they say Android is not open. But you could install F-Droid, which is a repository of open source Android apps and you could pretty much live without Google at all on Android. You would lose many conveniences but you will still be able to make use of all your phone's smarts.
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Of course. :)

I love every blog post you write and every image i see released of the game.

It's just that i've come to terms with the high possibility that i simply might not get to play this game at any point.

I'm simply trying to say that the path to the realization should be made easier for other people before they become enamored only to face the harsh reality of the last paragraph on the game's website. ;)
Bitcoin wallet validation website
Free service to check out a wallet holder via SMS and geolocation. Also, it has a community database of fraudulent wallet holders.
From a link in the article: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2013/03/01/can-the-p...

> Take these results from a microarray below: the pink horizontal band is, effectively, the length of a chromosome – and any peaks indicate extra copies of that particular region.

> There are four regions where you can see the levels change – these show where alterations have occurred in a specific part of the genome. But to be able to home in exactly on which genes are affected, and identify those that may play a key role in cancer, our scientists need to know precisely where this shift begins and ends – and for this we need the accuracy of the human eye.

It sounds like this game is built on the idea the human eye is somehow better at detecting peaks in a signal than a computer, which doesn't make any sense to me.

Can someone explain what's actually being gained from the human component here besides good PR?
Why would you want to use this instead of OpenCL, which supports SPMD and also provides vector primitives?
I don't see how it's trolling - the assertion is that one can be free to do things by reducing ones needs _to zero_. My assertion is that once free one needs resources (eg financial) to enable the doing of things. Boyd for example spent millions - through his job - on the development of fighter aircraft.

For me to get to the library costs ~£3 in bus fare, they don't have the book and so there is a stocking fee. They have an online order system which is also charged for which of course I need to own a computer. These things cost money to do.

My assertion is that the basic statement is absurdly false - no-one has given a context in which it is true.

Perhaps Boyd was prone to hyperbole and instead meant "reducing your needs will deplete your finances at a lower rate thus leaving you free to spend your money on doing things"; not very pithy and hardly a surprising statement.

Don't get me wrong, Boyd seems like a remarkable and insightful character but I'm calling him out on this one, at least unless someone can provide context to justify the quote.
Most JS graph libraries I've found have either been really hard to use or buggy. Hope this is much better, seems to sound like it.
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The only good thing about this is showing the world that the curries are finally stepping up. It will not make one iota of difference to anything Microsoft does, its culture, policies, etc.
That's a fair point, but I was looking on my big desktop at the office but I don't always have full-screen.

Didn't get a chance to use the tool yet, but I'll give it another look.
Both figures seem unlikely, given that Google served ~2 trillion searches last year and did not spend $151 billion doing it. (The entire company spent on the order of $20 billion in 2013, and that's for everything.)

http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/
https://investor.google.com/earnings/2013/Q4_google_earnings...
Now that's a conspiracy theory.
The first trick requires having the Angular Batarang installed, right? Still cool, I didn't know about that. I've been manually typing angular.element($0).scope() like a sucker.
Can you checkout the code, apply their patches, and build Chrome? Can you do that with Firefox? ;)
So basically anyone with a google voice number will be flagged
This matches my experience--a friend and I were among those "early adopters" who published PDFs back in the D&D 3.0 days, and nobody was using DRM then; first, nobody wanted to pay the license fees to Adobe or whomever (most of us couldn't afford them in any case), and second, all it would have done was piss off our customers anyway. Later on (in the D&D 3.5 days), as you say, third-party PDF distribution services started offering DRM, but even then there wasn't a lot of uptake that I could see.
I've never heard this distinction between adaptive and responsive. The article claims that responsive layouts are series of liquid layouts while adaptive layouts are series of static layouts. I was under the impression that "responsive" refers to all usage of media queries to swap layouts, and it just so happens that most of the time liquid layouts are used.
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The chances any 'complex' life came to form in the early universe are vastly improbable. First, there were no heavy elements yet. They are formed in the cores of exploding stars (Metallicity). We know from our studies in to the ancient universe that early stars are metal poor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity

Hammering that fact in that the first stars are not though to have formed for 100 Million years after the big bang, at which time the CMB would be rather cool.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-first-stars-in...

After this point things get kind of hazy as there are still many questions about early galaxy formation and dark matter interactions. That said it is likely that star formation was occurring in dense clouds of hydrogen gas like we see today. Most of the star formation areas would be dominated by huge stars with short lifespans, ending in short violent lives. While seeding the galaxy with the building blocks for future life, the amount of these catastrophes would make survival very difficult in the glow of gamma radiation. Very little is known about the long term stability of these galaxies either.

http://sciencenordic.com/collisions-made-early-galaxies-grow...
Here's a photo set of the initial server rack, showing the use of 1/8'' cork sheets to separate circuit boards from contacting each other:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmuseumofamericanhistory...
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Well, for one, for the same reason that we have iTunes for Windows and Office for Mac. It would increase their potential customer base and generally make said customers happier. Driving adoption and winning consumers' mindshare, by getting as many people using their app as possible, is probably worth more than whatever sales they gain by enforcing lock-in and alienating users.
Gary Johnson posted tons of videos to his YouTube channel, had online debates with Jill Stein and other third party candidates when they were all shut out of the CPD debates, did several Reddit AMAs, spliced his own responses into CPD debate footage and posted them on his YouTube channel, and generally had a very active online presence.

The sad fact is that even though the power of TV is diminishing, it's still by far where the majority of voters get their information from and if you don't get on the televised debate you don't stand a chance. Unfortunately democracy at this level means you are ruled by the low-information voter.
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I'd say the Angular approach is definitely modular in the context of current javascript.

Perhaps you're thinking of another language's definition of modular?
I can believe that, especially since NKVD was and Russian Mafia is to this day mostly Jewish.
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The rape interpretation is not one I've heard before, or the one I would charitably assign given the context. But if I was in Josh's position, I would apologize while still being shocked at the misinterpretation.
The grandparent mentioned $.07 per 1000 searches, not per search. I think that brings the figure down to something pretty reasonable. ($151 million.)
Opposition to turning our police into paramilitary troopers looks like this: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/were-building-a-domes...

After a decade long (non-)war, the US government has a lot of surplus military-grade equipment they no longer need. By heavily discounting it through DHS grants, they are allowing small town american sheriffs to buy Fallujah-grade armored personel carriers. You know, for the teens smoking a joint and the two murders a year that happen in your 'burbs.

That's what the marine corp colonel in the above video is speaking out against:

> I saw a picture in the Boston Globe during the Marathon Bombing where there was a state police officer– Actually, there were two officers. They both had identical helmets, flak jackets, weapons, everything I wore in Iraq, only it was all blue. The officer on one side had a big patch on his back that said “MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE.” Another officer next to him, his patch said “BOSTON POLICE.”

> And so what we’re doing here, and let’s not kid about it, we’re building a domestic army...

Any decent person wants a police force. But when the police force starts to look and behave like paramilitary storm troopers, that's when you start asking if this is really the land of the free.
I'm not sure about remapping hotkeys. In OSX, command+shift+] is next tab and command+shift+[ is previous tab.
Angular has it's ups and downs like every framework.

One of the core issues with angular is maintainability imho. There are few best practices and almost no documentation on proper project layout. You can also build an application any which way you please. Want state in your controller? Sounds good. Want to build an app with nothing but directives? Sure. Inline all your HTML into your directives? yes please. Hell, in theory you could build an entire site out of comments using 'M' type directives. Of course the code base will be a bit of a mess - but it still makes great eye candy.

Another issue with angular is that you're frequently doing a deep dive into how angular is built. Want a recursive directive built in the compile phase? Uh oh, my screen locked up. Pass a '&' scope method into a nested directive? Hmm, does angular wrap that in a getParent()?? Do I need to double bind the parent callback using '=' in the nested call? There is WAY to much need to understand the compile and link phase. My unit tests for $q promises don't fire because they only resolve on a $digest cycle? Uh, how does that work again?

It's a great attempt to build a front end MVC. It definitely speeds up development time and it enforces the IDEA of testing your javascript at a least (a concept foreign to most jquery developers). However, it's still miles from being an ideal front end framework imho.
Hehe. Of course NSA employees would never kill or conspire.
Where did you get your $151 billion figure from?

2 trillion searches at 0.07 cents per thousand is 2 * 10^12 / 10^3 * 0.07 = $140,000,000.
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Nothing comes to mind. It runs alongside HTTPS (not HTTP), and in my experience "just works" if a client supports it. In Nginx, its a simple flag flip in the sites-available file.
I think you're thinking of Blue Seed (https://blueseed.co/) which is a non-Google venture and off the Pacific Ocean outside US territory waters.

If the Barge is in the bay - it's still in US territory & they still need visas.
Agree. What set apart a project from another is the quality and amount of documentation, also tutorials, articles, books and reviews(it help a lot on the popularity context).
Google now offer security bounty rewards for official Chrome extensions
I've been on fb for 9 years, with 900+ photos and easily 500+ posts, but all I got was 6 photos, 4 from the past month... I guess other people are a LOT more social networky than I am.
A bunch of people posting here seem to be misreading the point of the article. The point is not that he died old but that he died in obscurity in the midst of issues that came to light in part following his work decades ago.

The article suggests he was ahead of his time in finding and exposing problems with the NSA (and CIA, FBI, etc), which seem egregious then and poignant now. The article suggests the NSA worked against him, contributing to his obscurity.

I found the article interesting, informative, and relevant.
Same!! How do we get it back?
That aluminum paper was right.

Firstly, aluminum is originally made on-site at hydroelectric plants in inconvenient places. While it is energy intensive, nobody else is competing for that electricity. Cost = price of dam ÷ decades of aluminum production.

Secondly, aluminum recycles really well. Dumb machines can separate and purify it to high levels. The majority of aluminum has been recycled at least twice, amortizing the energy cost over a much larger amount of products.

Thirdly, aluminum is ductile (does not shatter) so containers can be made paper thin, and researchers are constantly devising ways to make it thinner. With recycling and thinness, the original production energy can be amortized over 10-100× more containers than an equal strength of glass.