skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my codebases, literally 1/10 lines or more contain at least one call to underscore.js, frequently more than one (not even including async). Its for brevity. If you wrote out underscore.* or Highland.* your code would become hard to read. These are utility functions that are used heavily.

I'm excited about this, as someone who uses underscore.js and async together, heavily.
If you are looking to build something like this, check out MaxMind @ http://www.maxmind.com/en/city
Silk Road 2.0 'Hack' Blamed On Bitcoin Bug
What a weird, unnecessarily long and comprehensive response to a well-intentioned and relatively neutral advisory comment.
Brilliant +100
Why is that an extraordinary claim? They certainly are products. They're things that people want that other people produce. That's not really a statement about history that I would support by giving historical examples. It's simply a plain description of reality.
I have a FOSS port on the app store[0] (3 actually, [1][2]) and have posted the code on Github. Barely anyone has even noticed. I wouldn't worry too much about someone stealing your app. The apps are GPL, Apple didn't seem to mind.

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marathon-1/id419805412?mt=8

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marathon-2-durandal/id421697...

[2]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marathon-infinity/id42277554...

[3]: https://github.com/dblezek/marathon-ios
Yes, clearly you can do that, but it's obviously not your intent. All the docs use _ as the class name, and that's what you use internally. The class is named "_" and that's what people using it are going to expect to see if it becomes popular. You could make a better choice.
they definitely don't move that fast. Thanks! :)
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident"

-- Declaration of Independence 1776

I do believe that the Declaration of Independence ALSO leaves its explanation out. It declares the truths to be self-evident, and fails to elaborate upon those facts.

The term 'natural right' is nothing more than a glorified circular argument, embodied within the founding papers of our Government.

So you can either hold those truths to be self-evident and agree upon our founding fathers, or you can disagree. If you disagree, we will be unable to proceed with this debate however...
It makes sense. The payoffs are going to show up on Coinbase's balance sheet in USD, and they don't want to commit to buying $X BTC if the market changes.

On the flip side, if BTC crashes, this is good for participants.
This guy has jumped the shark. He can't seriously want to roll back a hundred years of progress on universal suffrage.
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i believe it's a tongue in cheek thing against the italian laws for internships, i've been there and there are a few online things about it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd5mHHg1ons
AWS in general is a waste of time and money for most standard web hosting requirements I think
An app toolkit for Valentine's Day
> " Mr. Krawczyk said he believes Pandora's predictions are between 75% and 80% accurate"

This doesn't really seem noteworthy at all. I would be interested to know on a national level, percentage-wise what the average majority of each county votes.

I don't know how to word that better unfortunately, so here's an example: If we have three counties with equal population and one votes 81% republican, another 71% republican and the third 88% democrat, I would be able to determine your voting preferences by county alone with ~80% correctness. I know some states are swing states, but I think that a lot of those counties are still strong in one direction.

Anyone know where this data might exist just for kicks?
Someday we have to figure out this app-death thing. There has to be a better way.

If anything, this highlights a problem with the model of SAAS in general: whether it be 3 years out, 10 years out, or 25 years away, these companies and the tools we might begin to depend on are not reliably sustainable.

Is there a better model? What if we all had our own private cloud servers, running apps that we purchased that communicated with each other independent of a central entity? What if they were as easy to set up as the current SaaS signup we know so well? What if it were even easier?

Personally I would love a personally-curated library of tools, on which I could control the end-of-life story. But this also brings up many new problems. New and interesting problems.
JS devs rely heavily on libraries to do things that most programmers would expect the language to handle. $ and _ have been adopted as toolkit identifiers and are littered throughout most JS codebases. Highland does much of what one would expect from _ via Underscore/Lodash. I'd bet most people think they improve readability.
It might not need all the resources, and it might decide that the chance of humanity being a threat is outweighed by what it would take to solve the problem.

You're giving humanity far too much credit here--we ourselves basically ignore the animal kingdom from which we came unless it gets in our way.
what about genre's like comic book movies or scifi.
The difference to me is that the dolls capable of playing music were made up of a small set of parts compared to 15 million lines of code for Wolfram Alpha. We are way more sophisticated today.
AI brings the possibility of creating minds literally millions of times more intelligent than humans. That kind of power is unimaginable to beings in a world where the dumbest village idiot still shared 99% of his brain structure in common with the greatest genius. An AI will either solve all our problems pretty much instantly, or crush us like ants.

It definitely the dominate factor in the future.
This is a very important point. It's remarkable how often startups run out of money as if by accident. The fundamental reason is that although a startup is nimble in many respects, financially it's like driving something very big and heavy. You have to be "ahead of the aircraft" to a degree most people have never experienced. Plus when startups are doing badly, their founders are usually in denial about it. And denial in a situation where you have to think far ahead is a terrible combination.
And that's why I'm still hesitating to use some kind of proprietary document management solution like evernote, doo, etc.
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Just seems like a silly thing to get hung up on.
That's for your own use however, the license says:

Access to the data is restricted to employees and contractors of the license holder. With contractors, the license holder is liable should the contractors violate the terms of the agreement.

Data may not be stored in a way that is publicly accessible.

If you wanted to build a public server with that, you would have to use their per-usage API according to their FAQ: http://www.maxmind.com/en/faq#lookuptool
At risk of turning this into an echo chamber:

In-App Purchases become intrinsic mechanical elements of a player's experience of the game. This results in the design skewing towards encouraging "positive" events, namely making purchases.
At this point, the mechanical goals of the game become abstracted, or even split - your game isn't about the mechanics of the puzzle anymore, it's about producing those positive events.
Libertarians and communists are probably the only ones on this list who have actually made any attempts to define "freedom" in a consistent and location-independent way?
Some people talk about "Guaranteed Minimum Income" as a conditional income guarantee, as opposed to an unconditional "Basic Income"

I don't feel strongly (either approach would be an improvement over the status quo), but I suppose I mildly agree with you. I think human beings need to have some Work to feel like their lives have meaning. Even if we made GMI conditional on 10 hours a week of charity volunteering, that could have positive mental health outcomes.
Soneca, i've saw in the other thread about stackoverflow that you are from Brazil.. i'm also trying to bootstrap a thing on my own.. and i'm brazilian too..

So maybe we can start this open group.. with two? maybe add more people later? i dont know if i will help you out.. maybe i give you bad ideas.. rsrs.. who knows?! but at least we can try??!
underscore.js is a pretty good sized collection of utilities, which is why you call it a lot. I am having a hard time believing you're going to be constructing so many Highland streams that you need a one-character identifier for it to increase readability.
I'm curious which features highland provides which RxJS doesn't. From what I understand, composable streams from any data source with backpressure support is pretty much the definition of Rx.

Sometimes simplicity is a feature, too, though.
You are missing one important factor in your analysis (which took me a long time to figure out). People with lower income spend more on consumption goods, than the higher income individuals, who spend more on investments. This is important, because the rich are investing much of their wealth in growth, whereas the poor are spending on necessities and happiness. Transferring money from the rich to the poor also transfers money from investment to consumption, which has important effects on long term economic growth.

One must remember that the US grew only 0.5% faster than the UK through the 20th century, and this led to a large difference in outcome.
Indeed caolan/async has been a de-facto standard until recently. But for me personally it has become obsolete, with the standardization of generators and promises.
These flappy clone brigade is just dumb.
I think I'm getting the hang of HN ;)
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Enterprise is where the people who choose the software don't use the software. Software is sold there not bought.
Microsoft's old guard backs off on Office for iPad.
The problem is that both your attitude and 4ad reflect a somewhat toxik high-priest holier-than-you.

For example, someone enquiring about using arrow for history navigation gets an immediate response about how bash is an abimination and a rant about no-one having written a new shell in 20 years and what not.

Meanwhile, skipping entirely any discussion about how plan 9 does things better. 4ad mentioned " but failed to explain how one navgates /down/ the history. It also entirely ignores the fact that users have voted and arrows have won. They are used to navigate in text. Navigate between email messages. Practically every where keyboard-based navigation is used, arrow leys have proved both accessible, simple to understand and fast to use for the level-1 needs (next, previous, ...). Are your rants enlightening? no. They merely impress that plan 9 is not a community I'd like to join.
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Wayland packages are in Ubuntu already and will likely be used by desktop environments other than Unity.
UpCounsel launches Outside General Counsel program for startups
Rx doesn't handle back-pressure or laziness, so it's for only really for handling events.
In my mind, it should be very simple. If I supply a URL to a server, and it responds with "200, here's the contents", then that to me means that I have been authorised. Unfortunately the courts don't seem to be seeing it that way.
Great concept, I will signup tonight.
Sounds like you're saying that Youtube content creators will be able to tag items in their videos and this could directly link to say an Amazon affiliate link to buy the product in the video. If so, this sounds like a really profitable idea. How far off am I?
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If you look at the full docs, there is a lot of overlap, highland provides a lot of of the functions from underscore.js, and since from what I can tell its trying to unify the "javascript utility belt", I can only imagine more will be added.
Thanks - I didn't see that. Might actually buy that book.

As I said this is something that makes me deeply uneasy. I'm pretty relaxed about most "serious" issues...e.g. Climate change - I feel "it'll be fine & we'll make it work somehow". Looking at this problem I can't help but feel it will not be OK. And thats coming from a guy in South Africa - a society that is barely hanging on under the strain of inequality. SA is on the very edge of what the social fabric can withstand in terms of inequality & AI will cause inequality that is much worse.
disgusting. Maybe we should just give all the power to the rishest individual and call them supreme emperor. If your going to throw democracy out the window you might as well do it right.
What's funny is one of the albums they've put up for download ("De La Soul is Dead") seems to itself been downloaded from a piracy website. This album lacks any ID3 data except for a link to "http://rappalata.net/". I can't read Russian, so forgive me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't look too legitimate. (EDIT: Correction: all tracks have that link)
"My reasoning is not the cognitive overhead that's caused by memorizing tons of characters, but overhead of encoding/decoding the affixes into that type of writing system."

But that need to memorize IS a cognitive overhead that is hard to dismiss. The Japanese have to learn thousands of Kanji from their early years (of elementary school) till well into high-school! And I would say that the encoding/decoding is actually an overhead only until it gets automatized in subconscious mind.
I did a quick check right now and couldn't find it either (always easy to find shipment numbers, but not user base). I am pretty sure it was an IDC or Gartner chart that I saw that showed worldwide pc users per year. Let me do some checking this afternoon when I have more free time and will post a link.
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There was also a language named C+@

http://foldoc.org/C%2b@
sure, my email is on my profile. Let's talk about it...
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In a less idealistic implementation of this; you end up with the TSA.

And to a lesser extent the modern day "professional" military.

Massive jobs program hammers, begging for nails.
Whats the limit on concurrent callers? We have had to stop using google hangouts for our morning standup due to more than 9 of us being on at times.
Why is getting a member faster than calling hasOwnProperty?
Potentially, people might work on factory lines for extra money, so they could buy more stuff.
Naming is important for code readability. I think a lot of people recognize that. Which is why I'm so baffled by this trend of "screw it, I won't even bother with a name! Call everything underscore!"
I think it's pretty safe to say, the NSA can't secure data against an one person working alone. Therefore the NSA's security practices don't have a prayer at keeping out a determined nation state.

That's probably not the conclusion you're looking for though.
Belgium legalizes euthanasia for children
This is way more interesting than party affiliation (which I bet is largely based on cultural affiliation, not policy preferences): "He says that people within higher-income brackets have more eclectic musical tastes than others."

I can see that possibly being true but has anyone seen studies on this? Is the correlation between income and diverse music tastes very strong?
I think pretty much all pay-versions aren't 100% accurate either, from my experiences anyway.
I had legos when I was a kid. The Burj Khalifa is pretty much just like that.
This looks very well done and useful.

Usually though I just use http://www.moanmyip.com for the weirdness of it. Or pretty much any search engine includes that up top when you search for "ip address".
Small startups with big employee perks.
I think if you go to any web forum you'll get people saying similar things about themselves vs. "the general public."
"The Cloud" is getting creepy.
Scientists set new speed record for big data
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It depends how strong the AI is but destroying humanity might be as simple as unleashing a superlethal virus, or a swarm of self-replicating nanobots (yes it sounds like scifi but we are talking about minds possibly thousands of times more intelligent than humans.) Then you have all of the Earth's resources and no threat from humanity whatsoever.
https://www.dropbox.com/help/16

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There are probably a metric shitload of confounding variables in between.
You're exactly right. Snowden was a spy, working for the citizens of the United States to infiltrate the extra-constitutional USG.
The option to pin a self-signed certificate would also be nice.
First geologic map of Ganymede made with Voyager data
How is a an airport xray scanner maker supposed to participate in that iterative process for improving security if they aren't in a mass market? No security researchers took interest for a long time till Rios purchased a scanner. "It runs an outdated windows 98 operating system" just shows how little anyone cares, even if Rios would like it to show how awesome he is as a researcher or how awful windows 98 is as an OS.

Also unrelated, how to factor a large prime to break RSA 1024 quickly is a secret too.
Thanks for the link. Its a fascinating, if somewhat scary, story to contemplate. We fight off waves of so-called 'argentinian' ants (small ants alleged to be native to Argentina) but they tend to be controllable with sugar bait traps.

Like others who commented on that story and have posted elsewhere the attraction to electricity is interesting as well. And given their reproductive rates, one wonders about their use as a feedstock for a bio-fuel process. :-)
His point applies equally to general software quality. Even in the workplace, I always see the bad programmers try to sling shitty code with private repos or direct pushes with no peer review. The good ones always operate in the open and appreciate peer reviews.
This map shows the voting percentage from the last election for the House of Representatives for each county.

http://s1131.photobucket.com/user/swolf318/media/Political%2...
I guess it's a good sign that not that many people are quite that stupid, despite the cloud hype?
The bid-ask spread will shrink as (if) the currency stabilizes, and you won't need to round-trip as (if) the currency becomes more widespread. It's not really any different in these respects than any other currency - if, say, I decided I wanted to pay someone in Baht or Rubles or something, it's just that there is not presently much of a market dealing primarily in bitcoin.

I'm not going to push any notion that bitcoin has no issues, and these are issues in the short term, but these particular issues - cost especially - aren't anything like insurmountable.
Embrace creative destruction. Apps die and it gives new ones a chance to fill the space. Keeps the ecosystem responsive and gives everybody a chance to innovate.

Want apps to stick around? Enjoy Excel, Photoshop, etc. :)
You might want to switch from Eulerian integration to Verlet for more stable orbits. http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/15708/how-can-i-i...
Can Slack be the de-facto team dashboard for all things important?
Apple patent to stop/track spammers with automated disposable email addresses
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Ask HN: Naive question about indexing website content
Is it legal to scrape sites and store them and server them up on my site (of course with a link to the actual site as well)? I see for example Fandango shows movies and move times for theaters all over. If I am working on something like that for another vertical will I be breaking some kind of copyright law?
As as extension to this idea, I do stuff like this sometimes in coffee.

$.when.apply($, (object.request() for object in objects)).done (responses...) -> doStuff()
You're absolutely right. I've being setting up too many nginx instances lately and the term stuck in my head...
The Seattle F# user group just had an event last night, and the first talk was 1 hour on how to create iOS apps with F# using Xamarin/Mac. If anyone is interested, a recording is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MriHEnq5MR4
Some of us believe that general intelligence is possible in (complex) software on a (powerful) stored-program computer. As in, we don't know how to write it yet but it doesn't require weird quantum effects. The processors are just doing the very simple operations they are told to, very fast, but the intelligence arises from the complexity of the system.

However I quite agree that the cheerleaders for AI frequently do us all a disservice by exaggerating the successes, and above all by exaggerating how close we may be to a breakthrough.
My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do
I launched the site http://altexplorer.net at the start of January as a Block Explorer and information hub for alternative cryptographic currencies. This morning I found a site http://4co.in which is ripping-off my site in real-time; every time a page is loaded on 4co.in it uses php to load the corresponding page from http://altexplorer.net, removes analytics and ad tags, replaces the site name, and replaces the link URLs.

I've put a lot of effort into building this site and keeping it running, and now someone in India is stealing it in real-time. Every page load to 4coin causes an identical page load in the nginx logs of http://altexplorer.net. What can I do besides blocking the source IP address to stop this?

Screen shots:
Alt Explorer home page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/altexplorer-home.png

4coin home page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/4coin-home.png

Alt Explorer profitability page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/altexplorer-prof.png

4coin profitability page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/4coin-prof.png
I'd look at the payment processors too. CitrusPay, PayU, CCAvenue, Zaakpay are a few. The retailers themselves haven't really solved the problem to be honest. Most transactions are done via cash on delivery - they've built cash collection into their logistics.
"highland provides a lot of of the functions from underscore.js"

"A lot of the functions" (versus "all of the functions") sounds like a one-way ticket to readability hell, since it means that an inattentive reader may assume the functions ARE from Underscore.
Sample log excerpt:
162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:18:48 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 23271 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:37:51 +0000] "GET /chain/42 HTTP/1.1" 200 76170 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:17:40:58 +0000] "GET /block/0e67dcf5f6797840a98061af7581138f2347feb168d78f7138d4268c6f854748 HTTP/1.1" 200 15719 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:38:21 +0000] "GET /tx/6c636ebff9674f4168b80b415f8a9097509802992b0422a4fa98c543da9c068e HTTP/1.1" 200 15898 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:17:41:05 +0000] "GET /address/GRjc357hnC7THEUPVJmpMmCjSAGn54CJnx HTTP/1.1" 200 14034 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:13:21 +0000] "GET /news HTTP/1.1" 200 16675 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:19:12 +0000] "GET /profitability HTTP/1.1" 200 188354 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"