skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems pretty clear that the culture at DEA is also to blame; there are plenty of other areas of law enforcement which is comparatively reasonable.

The severity of the punishments, and the level of funding, is the fault of congress, but a well-funded DEA which stuck strictly to the law would be a lot better than what we have now. Part of it is that drug smuggling gangs are some of the worst criminals, and putting police agencies in constant contact with them seems to corrupt them (Nietzsche...).
Look at this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1x04kh/sentinel_0day...
>Economic injustice is a question of moral values; phrasing it as a scientific truth lends it a false air of credibility.

So you think morality has no credibility?
Man Makes $23,000 Posting Music Spam On Spotify
But you know, just verifying that it is reproducible takes time. Ideally you would have a system that enable you to trust everything you read with minimal work. Like if I claim the world is round you would know from my awesome reputation / fancy title / little green WoT indicator, that you can take that at face value.

In this case the poster tried to use fancy title, but found that it didn't work satisfactorily.

> The weight of people -- supposedly credible scientists -- that they were able to bring to bear to speak against him calls into question effectively every controversial scientific finding.
"any CIO will call a rack of servers with any virtualization vendors' software running on the bunch of them as the cloud"

Not if they are responsible for the CapEx, administration, upgrades, data center space etc.

I would state that the defining characteristic of "cloud computing" as far as senior managers go is that these things are all someone else's problem and all you are left with is a predictable monthly/yearly fee, application support and making sure your users have a decent internet connection.
How is google anything like a startup?
thanks for pointing that out.. i knew i had to do more research before posting it, but i was a bit in a hurry and mostly wanted to get my gut-feeling out.

when it comes to sponsorship and creator-payrolling, i dont think that counts as being "controlled by large corp". if M$ really controlled haskell, how could it possibly create such solid programs? </joke>
Like RIM and BlackBerry?
Where do you sell an iOS app?
Where does one sell an iOS app with or without it's relevant company included in the acquisition? I guess you could put it on ebay or something like that, but is there any other channel more specific for this?
Promises normalize all exceptions in promise code to bubble up the chain - as such, they do make it back to the caller.

(However, they do leave async exceptions from callbacks alone - only domains can handle those)
My mind is utterly blown. So it's possible that there were life forms (roll of the dice) before when the temperature of the universe was best. They did not figure out how to survive or did they? If they had wouldn't they have already made contact and transferred some of their survival know hows?

The idea that universe gets colder and colder resulting in less and less life is reflection of our current state. We haven't found a civilization beyond this planet and I fear we never will.
As soon as I saw the picture of the sample players, and the "ladies magnet" bit I thought of..

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...

Hidden handicaps can hinder some level progression (like jobs, social acceptance) may really frustrate some players. No mention of the luckless that spawn in unfortunate terrain/hostile environments.

Compared to similar players I feel like I need to level grind more than those that spent the same amount of time on it. And that's how I discovered the game is not balanced, which is sometimes rather depressing.
Hmm ... so the service looks to target what would be considered illegal in most countries yet has no meaningful way to hide the user's identity? Using a VPN will not help when subpoenas are coming down for release of CC/payment details with names, billing address etc. Am I missing something?
Who spends $7b on a company that claims $870m anyway? ... That's way to high unless you knew that future business was on it's way. On the other hand, HP seems to be really good at buying dying businesses, or buying businesses that have potential and killing them off.
I am pretty certain he means in terms of code delta.
If they were really dead he wouldn't need to say it, it wouldn't be of interest to say it, and he wouldn't have bothered saying it. Microsoft only needs to be concerned when people stop banging on about them.

It would have been better if had said he wished they were dead because he doesn't like them, or because he thinks they are bullies or he thinks they are ruining the web or something of that nature. I would respect that.
I also have the feeling that the same thing would happen if Intel decided to open up the details on their Atom SoC platforms. They're a bit like a neutered PC from what I understand, so it's a lot easier to port existing OSs to them, but without technical docs it's still hard.
> You call other countries who don't want to import the crappy, unfriendly business climate of countries like France or Italy (where I live) "parasites".

You are taking this the wrong way. It's not that Ireland does not want to import corporate tax from France and Italy, it is that they substantially lowered it, expressly to take advantage of the other EU countries.

You can also see that I didn't advocate higher taxes for Ireland or lower taxes for the rest of EU, since it doesn't actually matter as long as they are the same in all EU.
Why do you think banks, skyscrapers, ATMs, computers and money printing machines will go away just because of bitcoin?

They will all still be there, there will just also be lots of machines calculating SHA256 hashes
How about: you can't lose.
Finding the right partner isn't trivial.
>> "people expect Google to be a corporate company."

It is a corporate company. When millions of people rely on your products you need to be careful when introducing new ones and pulling old ones. I don't think you can run a business like a startup forever if you have millions/billions of users. You cans till maintain some aspects of that startup culture but there are other aspects you have to leave behind. You have to think of how anything you do is going to affect people's long term view of you. The Reader shut down may not have affected a majority of Google's customers but now some people are wary to adopt new Google services. If you pull that kind of thing often enough you damage your long term prospects.
Anonymous is worth their time?

Yes, in the sense that hacker groups can harm a country more than other country with non digital weapons.

We are living exciting times moving to a new balance of forces.
What a shit comment. Not even sugar-coating it.
When did HN become a repository for sub-par Tony Robbins pap?
I was thinking the other day, let's say someone operating the bitcoin network wanted to crack a specific AES256 code - couldn't they try to use the network to insert that into different blocks with different difficulties to try to get the network to crack it for them?

Or it doesn't work quite that way?

Would be interesting fiction (ala Cory Doctorow style) if say the NSA created a crypto-currency to make everyone else crack messages for them.
How breaking news is breaking us
How Up to Date is your Business Plan?
Not all the worlds computers, all the worlds personal computers. That's a big difference.
For fans of IntelliJ, there is the Resharper plugin (from the same guys) that brings over much of the refactorings, quickfixes and other features that you know and love from IntelliJ.
> It's not that Ireland does not want to import corporate tax from France and Italy, it is that they substantially lowered it, expressly to take advantage of the other EU countries.

Good. That's called competition. They want to attract companies to their country. There are plenty of things Ireland can't compete on, like having a decent climate (IMO), so they do what they can.

> You can also see that I didn't advocate higher taxes for Ireland or lower taxes for the rest of EU, since it doesn't actually matter as long as they are the same in all EU.

Then why doesn't France lower theirs? "Harmonization" is just a way of saying "they should raise their taxes".
Why would a profitable company like Basecamp need VC money?
From the Wikipedia page:

Probably the most common hardware feature of DOS-era PCs that the official version of DOSBox doesn't emulate is the parallel port that was used to connect most printers, since very few games can make use of a printer.

I'm not just playing games with this, I have some hardware that needs a parallel port and relies on direct access to the ports, so any sort of emulation layer etc. would likely not work well.
I hope Nadella is adjusting strategy closer to a Google-Amazon-Microsoft hybrid; beefing up Hotmail, Office, SharePoint(?) and running them everywhere on Azure, while Windows platform fragments into Phone and Surface/Desktop.
Estonia: Big Lessons From A Small Country
I think you're right that life's character selection is a random number generator that is in some ways predictable. But I think PRNG usually stands for Pseudo Random Number Generator, which in this context seems different. Almost as if you waited long enough, the same people would start appearing again...
Certainly an idea that should be discussed in the mass media. (I'm not counting on US mass media, though, for some time to come.)

In other words, it can be summed up as 1 way to make democracy more direct. (The problem is, Washington with its ever-increasing level of corruption, is never going to want a more direct democracy.)
Isn't it the double-spending solution that requires all those resources, not the simple ledger?
It's only required because of the decentralisation fetish of coiners.

Perfectly secure systems exist that don't require this lunacy.
I think Culture Orbitals are more elegant than Niven Rings as you don't need the shadow squares and wouldn't have the stability problems that a Ring has:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_%28The_Culture%29

For another take on mega-scale artificial worlds there is Alderson disk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderson_disk
Please don't bring facts into this discussion.
Re-enabling JTAG and Debugging the WRT120N
Who Are the Major New gTLD Applicants (Part One: Famous Four Media)
This article is the personal analysis by a new gTLD consultant who has been following the ICANN new gTLD program from the beginning but with a Frenchman's perspective.
Who Are the Major New gTLD Applicants (Part Two: Uniregistry)
As I previously wrote in part one of this series of articles (first part was about Famous Four Media), the vision I have of these "portfolio gTLD applicants" mine alone. The only difference between an "end user" reading this article (a potential Registrant) and me is that I have been in and around the domain name industry for years, as a Registrant, a Registrar and a Registry.
The justification for the current behavior is that the mods don't have the time to read the articles and verify whether a custom title is better than the original.

I suggested via email that they could let veteran users flag inappropriate (link-baity/editorialized/inaccurate) titles and have moderators change them in that case, but I never received any answer.
From my experience, girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid-to-late '70s ... he was hard to compete against in middle school.
iPhone completely changed my life overnight, mostly due to its navigation features and ability to look up phone numbers.

I'm not disputing that the iPhone changed smartphones forever, but looking up numbers was something existing smartphones had apps for, long before the iPhone.
Same here, for Uruguay, especially Montevideo, it's far better than Google Maps, and it has house numbers which Google doesn't.

I think it's because the local government is contributing to OSM (or they got somebody to upload some government data).
Google Clinches EU Antitrust Pact With Pledge Over Rivals’ Links
Vertcoin going vertical
Did a search for vtc, no results.
I like the positive decentralisation effect and will keep an eye on this.
Unfortunately they are not roughly equivalent. A solid shell or a ring around a star is not a Dyson sphere. The correct Dyson sphere is composed of many separate orbiting elements. A solid shell or semi-shell is unstable and is bound to collide with the star or just wander away. Yes, the Ringworld is unstable. This was one of Niven's mistakes and misunderstanding of Dyson spheres.
crossing of fingers. I probably could have worded that better...
Hello Dave!
Is this supposed to be a joke or there are people who really do think that they have figured out the simple rules of how to lead a good life?

Maybe I'm just becoming old, but I already hate this kind of arrogance.
> Good. That's called competition.

I believe competition has no place, or should have no place, between EU countries. But that's my personnal opinion, which seems less and less shared accross Europe.

> Then why doesn't France lower theirs? "Harmonization" is just a way of saying "they should raise their taxes".

Huh, I'm not part of the Ministry of Finance, so I don't think I have to justify myself for France not lowering their taxes, but it's probably because France is more dependant now on corporate tax than Ireland was when they decided to lower them (France still has some kind of industry, while Ireland didn't then). It's not up to France (or Ireland) alone to make a decision to have the same taxes all accross EU anyway.

Harmonization means levelling taxes accross the EU, I didn't say a single word on how they should be raised. You are reading way too much in my words.

Edit: formatting (and the bit about how the EU is more than just France+Ireland).
He gave up on Windows phone after a year though:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2014/01/22/so-many-games1

"I made the switch back to an iphone recently after having a Windows phone for about a year. I really liked the OS but I had nothing but trouble with the hardware. I went through three different handsets and all of them ended up failing on me. Eventually I gave up and just bought an iPhone 5c. I have to say that after a year on the Windows phone I had forgotten what the Apple app store looks like. I think I had managed to convince myself that the Windows app store was pretty solid. Jesus Christ was I wrong."
Glucose-Based Battery Has 10 Times Energy of Lithium
"How many of you clicked on the 'PRESS START' and then started to wonder if it's actually a key and realized you have no idea what you are doing like life itself."

I clicked, but just because I wanted to make sure I don't miss an easter egg or something.
Agreed, and I'd like to add that there's a reason why a few thousand years after Aristotle (and the rest) we still don't know a good recipe for a happy/whatever life.
Press release – EU – Google Antitrust settlement
Well ... except by definition bitcoin is hashing at that rate AND computers are being used for other tasks, so they can't be using 100%. There are also billions of embedded systems that have computing power but can't be used for bitcoin mining. What about CPUs in phones and tablets?

If you define "world's computers" as "desktop PCs" and you exclude GPUs (which my son seems to use to heat his bedroom), then maybe this statement makes some sense ... but it's really a pretty weak milestone.
> What I find surprising is that, in the process of writing a historical review on Microsoft, anyone would ignore the fact that MS has repeatedly identified areas of profit, moved in, failed spectacularly, iterated aggressively, and ultimately become dominant ...

When was the last time they have actually managed to pull this off? Maybe the Xbox? It was never dominant or an area of profit. .NET? Never dominant or a direct source of profit.

The days you are referring to are long gone. It's not the same company anymore and it's not the same world anymore.
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Google Reaches Landmark Deal in EU Antitrust Case
So where are those life forms today? Have most of them gone extinct? Have some evolved to the point where we wouldn't recognize them as "life forms" today?
I would like to see more information on the botnet were or are operating. Is it fully theirs or did they rent it? If they rented it, how and from whom? If it is fully theirs, what did it consist of? Did they rent a bunch of servers, or did they use a collection of residential connections? Were these connections used with the consent of their owners, or did the GCHQ hack them? If there was consent, who gave it to them? ISPs?

The legality of this is interesting. I suppose it takes a peculiar legal structure to operate a botnet lawfully.
I am curious. Are video games such an influential component of American twenty something year olds that every fucking thing has to be couched in terms of gaming lingo? I see this shit on Reddit all the time and it baffles me.
It's interesting that Facebook and Amazon have a terrible experience for blind users, considering their wealth of resources. I imagine it is common knowledge among blind users to expect the mobile site to perform better, if the desktop site is sucky.
Sony Said in Talks to Sell Japan PC Unit to Investor Group
First of all, there's no such thing as a perfectly secure system, second of all, you tar people who are interested in decentralization at your own peril. The type of power that is being consolidated in multinational corporations is greater than anything that's ever existed in the history of the world. If we don't want to wake up as serfs one day we should be taking decentralization and other technological democratic aids seriously while we have the chance.
What kills battery in an app with location tracking?
Let's imagine the following situation. A big EU country heavilly invests in digital technologies and ensures all of its citizens have access to fiber for exemple.

This kind of investment would heavilly rely on taxes, but would also create the ideal conditions for internet giants to make lots of business.

These internet giants chose to put their headquarter in a small EU country that chose to lower the taxes to attract companies. This country doesnt care for fiber, and doesnt make investment at all, but its no big deal, it only represents a tiny part of the EU ppl.

This is a nonsense to pay taxes in a country for business made in another one. Unfortunately this nonsense is part of the UE.
Only if your data and apps are on that device you carry about, and not in the cloud so you can access them from both at once. And they just made the cloud guy CEO so he might be thought to favour that way.
The first 15 years or so of life are just tutorial missions, which suck. There’s no way to skip these.

Umm... right. Seriously? That's all the advice this guy has on the first 15 years of life?

Reading the rest, it doesn't look like he has much of use to say about anything else either.
Lol. People, why the hate?

90% of the 'issues' raised in the comment thread including that by alexcroox can be answered by reading the post.

Here, in case you missed it http://37signals.com/

The other 10% are outright misleading.

BTW, Alex Croox, once you start a business, you must run it forever right? Well, I have decided to build my flow around all your project here alexcrooks.me

Don't shut any down hommie.
It's already kind of happening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gG8TlUVyU

many designers look at the surface pro and find that it has very appealing features, and it's only going to get better.
Ask HN: Why are upvotes not applied?
How come upvotes are not taken into account? (Is it only me?)

Bug or feature?

If feature, why does this make sense? (No, I'm not a mass up/downvoter.)

If HN does not want me to vote, why display the up/down arrows? Why not simply hide them?
yeah, its all connected man, cant you see it?
I think you can try on http://flippa.com
I have a Vaio that had a loud fan speed problem. I found a post online that said to go to the Windows advanced power settings and set the CPU power to 99% to make it slow down. It actually worked. Something about not letting the Intel Duo core chip go into turbo mode, which keeps it cooler.
Maybe it's blasphemy for me to say this, but in my life it's been a lot harder to start a relationship than to keep one. Relationship books say that you have to work just as hard to keep one but that's nonsense. I don't need to buy my spouse flowers constantly or go on dates every weekend. (But surprise flowers are always a good idea.)
Single product company is more Omakase.
I think it underscores more that general-purpose PCs are terrible at single-task programs.
Nymi Armband Adds A Secure Bitcoin Wallet As One Of Its Killer Launch Apps
My personal opinion is that the SoC business is stuck in a chicken and egg scenario where there will be no sense to sell to small players because there's no common ecosystem to leverage (and thus SoC sales will come with heavy support costs) but there's no incentive to create a PC-like standard since it is not a commodity market like x86 chips and motherboards are.

Currently selling a small batch of chips (even individual ones) to someone makes no sense because the customer would be unable to do anything with the chip simply because they wouldn't know how it works without support or documentation (which costs money to create and maintain). The small players market (all of them, combined) is not worth enough money to put the effort in. We can argue about the PR value (among geeks) but that's not deemed valuable by management at this point.

It's certainly not about ignoring or setting price points to exclude little guys, it's about running a business for profit.

If and when we get some kind of a standard for SoCs and it becomes viable that you can build a motherboard and put any ARM SoC in it, it will also become sensible to sell them like commodity products but the industry as a whole is not at that stage.

As there is very fierce competition among the individual SoC manufacturers and very little co-operation takes place, I think that ARMH is pretty much the only ones in the position to make any such development.

I don't like the way the industry works at the moment but that's just the way it is. Maybe it will some day mature and stabilize.
Twitter have been surprisingly slow about /N?
Any update on this?

https://twitter.com/N

Still shows that it hasn't been returned.
Easy way to convert image to Base64
I would rather read a short article with pictures then read a 300+ page book. Both of them are subjective views anyway, it's not an exact science.
> when it comes to sponsorship and creator-payrolling, i dont think that counts as being "controlled by large corp"

People need to pay the supermarket.
Doesn't work that way, bitcoin proof of work uses SHA256 twice, which is of limited value. It gives you a near collision to a double hash. It's burning energy for work.
What Facebook Will Look Like by 2024
To prepare for an IPO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029681
H2O on Hortonworks
wow! you are charging $59/user/month for a contacts app. Good luck with that.
Microsoft isn't even close to where apple was in terms of hitting a low.
In XP, when connecting to a wireless network, you are required to type the network's password twice. How the UI team came to that decision I'll never know.
>Or it doesn't work quite that way?

No, the work done is very specific. It's hard to imagine a usecase where it would be useful to take advantage of it.
Three words of advice for the young and ambitious
Most of these US companies are huge tax avoiders. They use very trick to avoid paying ANY taxes. For some reasons these companies have tricked the countries to be able to. About time they get taxed at all.
Genius who used first class ticket to eat free for a year does not exist