skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although they are convertible one for one with the Pound Sterling. It's the same with the Isle of Mans currency the Manx pound.

This is because these are British dependencies or have a special relationship with the UK but at the same time are independent.
After reading /r/gamedev on Flappy Bird I got quite disgusted by their community. I hope doesn't represent the whole game development community. They seriously compared Flappy Bird to more in-depth games and took its success as some kind of threat without even realizing that short and addictive entertainment does sell. You can't compare Flappy Birds to "bigger" games, it just doesn't make sense. Flappy Birds is an amazing game in its own right.
A Better Parcelabler...
I don't understand how this is the case when younger competitors like Braintree and Pin are able to offer it.
Stripe Goes Global, With Its API Now Accepting Payments In 130 Currencies
Found: The Oldest Known Star In The Universe
>> Fully a quarter of the U.S. population lives in the metro areas of just six cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, San Jose/San Francisco, and Boston.

Chicago and Los Angeles are safe if you live in a upper-middle class white neighborhood. Chicago is the most dangerous large city in the US.
EDITD secures $4.4m to expand
MY GOD! Why is everyone so obcessed with the 50k/day. It's his game and he can do with it whatever he wants! Just because it earns him a lot of money and it is the #1 game in the app stores it doesn't make him obligated to make the choices you would make.

Maybe taking it off the market is a stupid decision (which I'm in no position to comment, as the context is a bit too complex). There are guys that accept to be kicked in the nuts for a youtube video. It's stupid, but it's their nuts. They can do whatever they want with it.

With that said. While IMO it's ok to do this king of thing, the guy still has it's copyright. By your logic "I don't steal because I may be arrested" is a valid thought. It's not. You shouldn't steal because it's WRONG!
Identifying which ad to show to which user is basically mind reading. I can think of few things which are more intellectually stimulating.
I don't think that's a fair reading of the piece. By the end, Christie comes off pretty well:

Then, this year, after two years of chaos, Christie and local leaders instituted a new reform, breaking the unions of the old municipal police force and reconstituting a new Metro police department under county control.

...

Predictably, the new Camden County-run police began to turn crime stats in the right direction with a combination of beefed-up numbers, significant investments in technology, and a cheaper and at least temporarily de-unionized membership.

...

In recent months, Christie has visited Camden several times, making it plain that he puts the daring 2011 gambit here in his political win column. And not everyone in Camden disagrees. One ex-con I talked to in the city surprised me by saying he liked what Christie had done, and compared Camden's decades-long consumption of state subsidies to the backward incentive system he'd seen in prison. "In prison, you can lie in your bed all day long and get credit for good time toward release," he said, shaking his head. "You should have to do something other than lie there."

For a guy like Taibbi, who can't describe union "excesses" without persistent scare quotes, this is praising with faint damnation.
I think it would be hard to build a movement around the things you list. The core competency of the hacker/programmer community is technical and a lot of the technical solutions tend to have significant difficulties in implementation (such as email encryption).

Why not focus on a very limited number of simple to understand technical goals. For example, you could advocate the creation of private encrypted tunnels between large corporate networks. So that all traffic is routed by default over a VPN if such a route exists. This lets encryption be a compliance issue for an IT department rather than a user level app problem.
No crypto currencies yet...
I'm actually curious how long it takes before Google adds it to their frontpage :)
Braintree was founded in 2007, Stripe in in 2010. As an Australian company, Pin may have an easier time with Australian banks and regulations than Stripe. It's real easy to assume things are a lot simpler than they are when it comes to businesses that work with money, especially across borders.
Well, it IS a blog post after all...
Interfaces as Loops
Both have been up and running in Australia longer than us, actually. And we want to launch multicurrency support in Australia properly: as a default part of every Stripe account with no paperwork. We could probably get a half-baked version out the door faster, but I don't think that's fair to our Australian users either.
I learned gdb in our systems/assembly course.
Nothing catches the eye
https://www.de-cix.net/about/statistics/

here https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html?stats=week

https://www.ams-ix.net/technical/statistics
Stripe is a bit younger, except Pin (which was operating in Australa first though). Pin did mention somewhere that they had a very special partnership with one of the 4 pillar banks that would have been difficult to create.
Wow, so much negativity here. The whole thing does seem a little disappointing, but we have to start somewhere, don't we?

Added to our (moderately large) site.
The "new" page moves really fast. Usually the first page only shows stories that are < 30 min old. So several people have to check the new page, read your article, and upvote it in 30 minutes (not many people go past the first page).
Interesting.

I remember a while ago there was suddenly many States in the US to enact smoking bans in bars/restaurants mostly one right after another. I remember when I was in high school they passed the law in my State and they had some people interviewed on the news about it. However, while I heard about "smokeasys" existing (term comes from prohibition era speakeasys) I have never seen one and I've been to a lot of bars in many areas and various States. Some people complained but compliance was basically a non issue.

As a result, I think younger smokers are now just used to going outside to smoke, I don't know hardly anyone who smokes in their house and those that do seem to be really old. Very very few non-smokers let smokers smoke in their house, and hardly any smokers ask, they just walk outside. This wasn't the case even 15 years ago.

It wasn't really that long since the law had passed, but several (probably 6) years ago I went to the American South and I was asked "smoking or non-smoking" and it was so weird, even though that's basically how I grew up! When I was a kid teachers smoked in the teacher's lounge, in school.

However hookah bars are allowed to exist almost everywhere as far as I can tell, and I really never understood how that fits into the law.

Also a few States allow exceptions for private clubs so places like the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) allow smoking.

Also, some except casinos, for whatever weird reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_the_Uni...

Any other places these laws are loosely enforced?
>> The police force alone in Camden costs more than $65 million a year.

I'd be curious as to how much of that $65,000,000 goes towards funding things like pensions and healthcare for retired workers. All of the new cops are starting without pensions in most municipalities (at least the ones that are low on money) and a huge part of their budget is paying for long-retired cops.
When you fear for your life your decisions may be different than if you didn't.
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't fly.

This is one of the rare ways in which the two-party system is actually beneficial. They disagree so much, that when they actually do agree, it's serious business.

Taking down the NSA is a move that has bipartisan support. Shutting down LGBT advocacy groups in the same way would cause massive backlash from the left.
>I have a newsflash for you - marketing is hard and you are not entitled to results, just because you throw $50 on facebook ads.

Interesting that you know how much time and money I've put into it.

It's also, interesting that you know what other means of advertising I've employed and am using for COMPARATIVE purposes.

Marketing is hard? No kidding. I have been marketing online for over 10 years and have driven well over $500M in sales during that time. Now, maybe you've done more than that with your FB ads, but I would say that I'm qualified to speak on my experience.

>You want to achieve meaningful results when competing with people who are vastly more prepared to you.

No. The person to whom I'm responding stated that very few people know how to succeed with FB's product. If FB is marketing a product from which the overwhelming majority of their customers don't get value, then something is wrong with the product. I'd think that simple statement to be obvious but, then, here you are.

>Why do you feel entitled to making facebook work?

Again, you know me so well. I don't feel "entitled", though Facebook certainly wants me to feel that way. Again, if the overwhelming majority of customers find the product ineffective, then there's a problem with the product or Facebook's positioning of it. I call that fundamentally flawed. You can call it a success.

So, you say you went off and built a slide-rule, strapped on a rocket pack, and obtained a PhD in psychology and statistics, and an MBA in marketing. Now, Facebook Ads work for you. Great! So I guess it was me and the other 90-something% of Facebook's ad customers who were wrong after all. We should just do what you did.

Listen, FB sells the product. Funny thing: they don't recommend the MBA, PhD, or even consultants. In fact, they hide important features because they are so unusable for the vast majority of their customers. This is tacitly misleading people into believing that what they see is sufficient for success with their product.

So, FB itself is telling you there's a big problem with their product, and this doesn't even consider the fraud issue in the OP. But, you just carry on defending them.
New Jersey has very fragmented local government. In Maryland, the school districts (for example) are by county.

As for Baltimore, a) for eight years the governor was William Donald Schaeffer, a former mayor of Baltimore who thought of Maryland as a life-support system for Baltimore, b) not coincidentally, the cash cow of Maryland has for many years been Montgomery County, which is full of good-government types who seem to lack the technical political skills to make their influence felt.
Must be interesting since everyone is talking about it..?
I think OP means Twitter OAuth tokens?
collision / dangrossman - sorry I had my facts wrong there.
Were you using radvd or dhcpv6?
Not really because the limits of what is and what is not tolerated are not arbitrarily decided by individuals. There are clearly understood and published local guidelines, effectively this is often an end-run around national level laws that the local community collectively chooses not to enforce. A prosecution brought against someone who was within the understood, tolerated guidelines wouldn't be successful because it would contravene the principle of the rule of law (quite central to Dutch political and judicial thinking).

The crucial elements of the rule of law, predictability and detachment from individual judgement outside of established and controlled channels is maintained in the Dutch system because there exist universally understood and judicially binding methods of disseminating the local guidelines.

I'll admit that it usually isn't explained very well because it's mostly lay Dutch people explaining their understanding.

Notably, I've never heard of a case anywhere in the Netherlands where this principle has been abused.
This is how you link to your privacy policy: app, app store, site
Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water
? So this personal attack is related to?

But health and wisdom to you too.

And by the way, what does 'heuristic' have to do with 'truth'?
Nothing on this page effectively answers the single most common response to mass surveillance:

"Why should I care if they read my emails? I'm not important and I don't do anything wrong. If it helps them catch terrorists, who cares?"

Until this question is answered clearly and effectively, nobody except all those splinter groups represented by so many logos will care about this.
I was with you until appel and toth, which don't seem to be English words at all... *apple and tooth
When you understand that the majority of people out there are followers, cannot be bothered to risk making anything on their own, are in constant search of leaders to tell them what to say and believe, and take the lowest-effort path to approval and attention (eg sensationalist simple-minded criticism), and that there are others out there who are aware of this and exploit it (eg bloggers), and that all this is the norm and has been, you'll be better prepared to deal with, or better, ignore the haters.

People are lazy and selfish and will do whatever it takes to satisfy both behaviors.
I like the idea of the "enter your phone #, we'll call you and show you a script, then connect you".

But I wish there was also a link for a more traditional "here are the phone #s of your representatives and a sample script".

With the latter, I could just print out that page and find a private place at work - away from my desk - to make the brief phone call.
Missed @evleaks. Talks handsets.
https://twitter.com/evleaks
> The editorial independence of our journalists will be guaranteed. They will be encouraged to pursue their passions, cultivate a unique voice, and publish stories without regard to whom they might anger or alienate.

When we speak about guarantees here it usually has a stronger meaning, but even so, how could one guarantee anything like this?
The co-founder of Dogecoin is not responsible for the start or proliferation of the meme. Which comes from a joke about Vogue (the magazine)thus pronounced as such.
You don't need to read it if you are not interested. I'm a tech guy and I found it very interesting to read.
That's why I wrote "who can catch" me and not "who can beat me?".
I don't see anything that says they wouldn't accept equipment?

"If your endpoint drives enough traffic, we're open to solutions" doesn't seem silly.

What about ISPs that provide mirrors? An example I've used before was Australian ISPs providing steam, linux, etc mirrors to save their transoceanic costs. Is that still neutral?
Well done qzervaas! Please keep us updated on your success. I would be very interested to hear how many copies of this book you managed to sold - and your margins. I wonder whether writing in such a niche is profitable.
How do duplicate threads sneak through the system?
Show HN: Scorch – Send users an SMS with your app link
Still, while there _might be_ a war with Germany, there _was_ a war with Japan in Manchuria in 1939.

As a result of Khalkhin Gol, Japanese were afraid to attack USSR again and attacked USA instead.
States working harder to collect income tax from telecommuters
But do I really want to be friends with people whom I only have "somewhat" a connection with?

Like with somebody I call a friend, I try meet at least let's say once a month. It is going to be quite a logistical thing to coordinate only 15-20 meetings a month just to maintain the friend status...
So as an experienced developer with no game dev experience, is something like Phaser (or other frameworks, like Corona) a good place to start, or should I start with something more minimal? I really want to pick up 2d gaming so that I can develop a few fun games for my kids (and teach them in the process), but am unsure if I should start with a very minimalistic, low level set of libraries or a full stack... Any advice is very welcome. Oh, and it'd be great if I could do all of this from Linux. That's one of the big drawbacks of things like Corona, which require either Mac OS or Windows.

(edit, corrected wording)
10 gigabit can't come close to covering the growing demand, no?

During primetime hours, Netflix represents some substantial fraction of total U.S. internet traffic. If you're Comcast, running 25% of the U.S. broadband market, you're seeing a big chunk of that traffic. What if Netflix decides to double their max streaming rate? Or quadruple it? We can argue again about what it means that Comcast sells you a 20Mbit-max connection, but as a practical matter, it will cost them a lot more than $6K/month to keep up with Netflix's growth in subscribers, average daily viewership and stream quality.
All the logos in the world aren't going to make foreign organizations trust American companies with their data again.

The blow to trust has been struck. Operating a data processing or data storage business inside US jurisdiction is now a liability.

It's time to leave.
On iOS, it is iAds.
Gitsh: A dedicated shell for Git commands
Note though that those pounds (I have a 5 Jersey Pound bill somewhere) are not legal tender in the UK [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_pound
You could probably bootstrap it in a virtual world too, that's true. I don't know if the skill acquired there would easily translate to the mechanical world, though.
Levo Raises $7M To Connect Young Female Professionals
Here's the NPR interview: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/02/04/jeopardy-arthur-chu
Follow you around like a drone eh? Look, we're not the ones who politicized the term. A robotic bee mascot is not going to put off people's discomfort. Which is unfortunate because it looks like a really promising tool for CI...

cf. "The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program", published yesterday... https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-ns...
Dong an don nguyen are commen names
So I bet the knife maker loves the extra hits.
I suspect you're right, though I'm hoping it was done unintentionally, that he hired a company or acquaintance to "promote" the game, and it resulted in bot-fueled reviews and downloads.

The smoking gun is that he had two other games in the top ten, and that happened without in-app cross-promotion. People would have to look-up Flappy Birds in the app store and click on the "also by" link to even find those games, and there's no way enough people would be doing that to place them in the #2 and #6 slot.
I appreciate the link! I created topiama and posted it on hackernews almost 2 years ago.

As a fellow user of topiama... I am a bit annoyed at how it looks on mobile. What I plan to do is use bootstrap to make a nice responsive layout for all devices. Stay tuned. Probably Spring/Summer.
There were two camps in Russia before WW2 - Trotskyist and Stalinist. As a leader of one camp, he needed to get rid of the other camp, if he wanted to live.

People like Zhukov turned out to be quite competent.
I bet Nintendo could convince a jury that the graphics were copied. I doubt they will though.
I like how you've included an index in the sample chapter. It shows what else is in the book. How did you generate that? What tools did you use to write the book?
Telegram API was revealing private conversations' titles
Intel Reveals New Haswell Details at ISSCC 2014
We did a mini multiplayer platformer in this over a weekend. It was pretty simple to setup but if you aren't familiar with properly setting up JS applications you're going to hit a wall eventually with your code (luckily we had someone incredibly smart to help us).

The idea of cross platform and in the browser is nice, but if I had to do it again I'd probably go for something desktop or app focused.
Why India's Ban Against Child Labor Increased Child Labor
Good point, I've edited it accordingly.
> Were Stalin's methods brutal and inhuman? Probably.

"Probably"? So there's a chance that they were NOT brutal and humane? Jesus f#cking Christ.
I'm not seeing SGI Irix!
If a server or domain gets seized the site can be up within minutes at another URL

If a tree falls in the forest...

The fact that some server, somewhere, is available to service requests doesn't do very much, if your readers don't know where that is. The DNS system is the normal way of doing so.
Build your own media publishing website for free
Other CDNs (Akamai, Level3, etc.) pay Comcast/TimeWarner to host boxes in their datacenters, and to support interconnects to their private CDN networks.

If they start giving it to Netflix for free, how do they continue to charge other companies for the same service? The thing to note is that the established precedent is for companies to pay, because they see value in it. Netflix is trying to get something for free that other companies pay for. Oh, but they slapped the word "Open" on the front of it, so it's about free speech!

The ISPs don't give a shit about downstream bandwidth consumption because they get paid by the CDNs for that. What they do care about is last-mile bandwidth; i.e. the bandwidth between their datacenter and the customers' homes. It's not unlimited and there are constraints. That problem doesn't get solved (in fact, it gets worse) with OpenConnect.
You, sir, are expecting too much from your audience.

It's interesting in that the assumption of formality in 'you, sir,' suggests the speaker is about to be rather discourteous in the following clause.
ان للأحباط مرارةوهذه هي مرارة الأحباط
I'm going to make the assumption here that you would not be happy with your government installing and monitoring surveillance cameras in your home bathroom.

This isn't really all that different; it's just your private communications being observed, instead of your private parts.
It's seeing answers like this that make me choose products.

Nicely done.
Reading application notes can be helpful
. They hold plenty of knowledge and in many cases they are described in a less formal more intuitive way.
The fragmented government is definitely a major issue, I believe there was an attempt to consolidate municipalities sometime back, not sure how well that went. In some places it seems every few blocks is a new municipality.

I am still holding out hope that Cory Booker would become governor and make the necessary push for Newark, but I am not holding my breath for that. He may have higher ambitions.

>b) not coincidentally, the cash cow of Maryland has for many years been Montgomery County, which is full of good-government types who seem to lack the technical political skills to make their influence felt.

I suppose in that regard NJ is cursed because its source of tax revenue is from wall street types who are not exactly known for their egalitarianism :)
Although the Luzin affair is more serious, the institutional problems with Soviety math remained at least up to the '80s; Edward Frenkel's recent book Love and Math: The Heart of a Hidden Reality discusses the anti-Semitism that kept him and other Jews from top schools and positions.

In his case, the opening and then crumbling of the Soviet Union got him out, but the book itself is worth reading.

(I wrote a little about it here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/love-and-math-the-h...).
The implication of my post was that if there was something about his current job that made him really, really happy, he didn't necessarily have to even look at the other job.

Getting a modest raise frequently happens, but doubling your salary in one career jump is pretty rare. Doubling a salary is too big of an increase to ignore for most people.
Confirmed: Nathan Fielder Is Behind Dumb Starbucks
DigitalOcean Launches Its First Data Center In Asia
Experiment Alleges Facebook is Scamming Advertisers out of Billions of Dollars
I assume that's:

http://common-lisp.net/project/fset/
They've got 99 currencies but the btc ain't one.

Edit: Sorry, this isn't reddit. So: Yes, it shows that serious people doing serious business still aren't really that interested in Bitcoin.
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1fwj66/u161719_t...

This somewhat answers that!
Huge hack 'ugly sign of future' for Internet threats
Big ups from the 1040ST part of the peanut gallery!