skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, so we've come full circle.

Don't download random Windows apps from the internet, they're bad for your PC!

Hey, here's my nice shiny app store where the applications are curated. Only quality content, categorized, free of spyware and other distractions.

Oh no - market pressure has pushed the bar lower and lower and I once again have to rely on the Internet for reviews and comparisons of apps in order to install only the decent and trustworthy apps.

Kind of sounds like the Windows model all over again. But this time I have to go through your BS systems to publish an app on my own device. Yay progress!
> Thus, in building "the big marketplace", you necessarily fail to optimize it towards users getting value out of the marketplace, because you kinda sorta hoped that would be taken care of by "free market" pressures.

In an open and free market most of the stuff sold "is crap", but people generally discover valuable things and will equalize to the right intersection of value and cost, all things equal.

The big problem with a big marketplace is when it obscures the value part of that balance. How do I determine which of these 30 applications has the best value/cost balance?

Isn't straight-up downloads, because who knows how many of those people still use the app. Isn't necessarily rating, because we know those responses don't really answer the big question.

A small curated market solves the hard question (which is most valuable for the price?) but short-cutting the question. The user doesn't need to ask or research, because by the nature of having a small, curated marketplace, the marketplace organizers rely on their own credibility as curators.

Like the news industry, whose job it was to curate the news, eventually a few small curators float to the top and then attract more quality curators, growing that marketplace.

But it's still inherently weak, because you're still not supporting the user answering their own question - which of these has the best value for the cost?
The Apple security hole
goto fail;

Indeed.
Interview with creators of ex-Astroids space game
As the article says, they will forward it the email the user signed up with, which is of course required to use Facebook so your relatives must have one (even if they don't check it).
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#mtgox-chat Cannot join channel (+i) - you must be invited

:(
Are you a qualified assayer? You trust the other person is giving you gold, or you trust the individual who tests it.
You trust the system that provides you with an understanding of the relative value of the gold you're holding so that you aren't massively overpaying.

There's a reason Jesus through the money changers out of the temple - they were abusing that 3rd party trust.
How did you test this?
Read the comment above ext4_list_backups right above:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d2...

/*
* Iterate through the groups which hold BACKUP superblock/GDT copies in an
* ext4 filesystem. The counters should be initialized to 1, 5, and 7 before
* calling this for the first time. In a sparse filesystem it will be the
* sequence of powers of 3, 5, and 7: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 25, 27, 49, 81, ...
* For a non-sparse filesystem it will be every group: 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
*/

I'm not sure what's so noteworthy about that. There's ton of arcane code in any kernel, as long as it's commented correctly there's no issue.
I came late to the Bitcoin party, so when I started mining other coins mid-last year the first thing I did was download the wallet client and encrypt, and backed it up. And I still didn't fully trust that my coins were safe, and that there wasn't some other bug in the protocol that could result in my coins getting stolen somehow (or at least confusion arising as to who owns them). I don't understand how people put so much trust in these exchanges as to have millions of dollars equivalent of coins there.
If this is not a hoax, then I am going to question this Bitcoin Foundation's crebility. I remember a while ago on HN people asked "do you trust BCF" and a lot of people said yes.

http://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-ceo-mark-karpeles-resigns-bit...

While I don't know if Charlie Shre is really guilty of money laundering, I have to question BCF's members' credibility.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d2...

Variables `three`, `five` and `seven` are better described as `next_power_of_three`, `next_power_of_five` and `next_power_of_seven`. Since the `ext4_list_backups` function should iterate through 1 (= 3^0 = 5^0 = 7^0), 3, 5, 7, 3^2, 5^2, 3^3, 7^2, ... and 1 should not repeat three times, the initial value of `next_power_of_three` (or any of others) should be 1 and those of others should not be 1. The naming is a bit unfortunate (couldn't they be `threes` etc., for example?) but actually makes sense.
That deserves an explanation in the code comments...
At line 655: "... In a sparse filesystem it will be the sequence of powers of 3, 5, and 7: ..."

So I think this means three = pow(3, 0);
I'm an urban designer (not a planner but nearby). I agree with you that 'tiny houses' basically build in poverty. one of the key difficulties with housing is that the size to comfort chart is not linear. it drops off sharply at the low end and increases only slowly at the top end. this doesn't work well with a market system where the 'haves' end up with something big that doesn't really provide them much more than a mid-size home and the poor end up with a shoebox that makes living difficult. once in the west was the idea of having a safety net in social housing however this has been taken over by a high-rent system which increases productivity by forcing everyone to have an income to afford a roof over their head. this will be difficult to reverse however I think it will. Post war Hong Kong was economically driven by 80% government housing which in turn reduced the cost of employees (who didn't have to pay huge rent or mortgages). some smart state will realise this and compete in international businesses like tech. imagine the attraction for the youth if the next silicon valley had government provided housing.
Hey guys, I implemented a last.fm scrobbling that you can check out here:
http://jamesfator.com/blog/2013/05/17/google-music-app-for-m...
If you're interested, check it out and let me know what you think.
> So your risk of contracting wild polio is effectively 0.

Hardly. Polio has been detected in sewage in the Middle East (multiple countries). So far the only actual cases are in Syria, but that's pure luck (1% chance per disease per person), it could spread very very easily.
GopherJS, a transpiler from Go to JavaScript
>Neural networks? See The Vanishing Gradient Problem.

Only on deep networks. And as another comment mentioned, NNs can withstand and even benefit from noise.

There are numerous ways around it was well. You could just run the network several times (probably in parallel) and average the results together. Same with most of the other problems. It does defeat the purpose a little bit, but it would still retain most of the speed up. You could train multiple networks and average them together (also very successful even in deterministic nets.) Perhaps the network itself could be made more redundant or error tolerant.

Hell if the thing is as fast as promised, you could even do genetic algorithms and get reasonable performance.
This is not a new security hole. Carriers can do this today and transparently MITM all current HTTPS traffic: no new risk is present.
I think this is awesome and would benefit from a few extra options:

• Up to 5 words in a flash. (Still centered using their technique) Because true speed reading doesn't take in each individual word, rather groups of words at each eye saccade stop.

• Pause / fine rate control.

• Image placeholder indication & image pause.

• Fine and course scrubbing revealing the position in a traditional section of text.

• Chapter / break markers

• User settings profiles.

• Bonus: blink / look-away detection.

I think it has massive potential!
The State of Internet Surveillance circa '99
I wonder if law enforcement is already questioning him; I am sure FBI has eyes on him already. Yes. I want him to come out and explain to us. Any employees should come out and give us insider stories. Whoever took advantage of this (whether it's criminal or Mt itself) should be punished.
> 5 people getting maimed from poliovirus vacine (maybe) is just an anecdote?

No, it's fiction. It has nothing to do with poliovirus OR a vaccine. Except perhaps in your imagination.
Individual clients don't have to use the same client that miners use.

If 51% of miners start using an inflationary version of Bitcoin "Bitcoin-QE", but the clients (exchanges, merchants, wallet providers, etc) don't approve, they won't update the client and use the partition of the network that is secured by the remaining 49% of miners. People wouldn't want to accept the Bitcoin-QE mined on the inflationary branch and the investment wouldn't pay off.

Of course Bitcoin-QE miners could start an attack on Bitcoin in other ways, but that also woudn't be necessarily economical.

It's very hard to tell what 51% will do, but it is clear that you don't have full control of the currency.
I'll repeat myself: What does vaccine have to do with this story? Their cases have nothing whatsoever to do with vaccination.
MtGox acquired? "put announce for mtgox acq here"
View source for mtgox.com:

<html>
<head>
<title>MtGox.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
</body>
</html>
We’re Just Making Movies
Doesn't explain why it's not 1, 1, 1 or 1, 5, 49.
The "invention" has been made public (in paulftw's dated comment) before anyone has filed for a patent. It's no longer patentable material in a first-to-file system as there's now evidence that it's obvious to practitioners of the field, and this evidence predates any filing gcb0 can make. In first-to-invent, he could've claimed an invention date prior to the comment. Sound right?
Okay, you had a weak response to 2 out 4 of my points...
so, in time, bitcoin exchanges will become regulated. and in some more time, the irony might dawn on the libertarians.

but on a serious note, growing pains, i guess. i am sorry for people who lost their money.
That's unfair to the beanie baby industry. They were actually producing something.
No problem. It was one of my pet peeves when others (typically physicists) devalued the work of the computer scientists at the university I was at just because they believed that journals were the only acceptable form of publishing.
> What if a relative was maimed by a vaccine?

What if a relative was maimed by NOT getting a vaccine?

One of those two options is far more likely than the other. Far too many children die simply because they were not vaccinated. It's stupid to let people die for a completely preventable reason.
Ask HN: Have you tried any alternatives to CloudFlare?
I have been using CloudFlare for a high traffic website. For the past 2 months we have been plagued with intermittent Site Offline messages and stale content caches. We end up turning the service off temporarily whenever we get similar complaints. The most recent set of disruptions have been persisting for 3-4 weeks.

I have come to really appreciate CF and the suite of services they offer, however, our client is not happy.
See this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7296586

Good commenting is no substitute for good naming. For a variable containing the number 1, "three" is a shitty name.
Today could be the last day of the MtGox saga
What it comes down to, for me, is the question of trust. If there are 30 messaging applications, I will use the one that somebody I trust uses or recommends. Otherwise, I would have to spend a lot of time searching through the options ("collateral damage", as mentioned before).

Managing trust on a large scale (or in terms of the big app-stores, ultimate scale) is very hard because people are very different in their needs and in which providers they would trust in the first place.

Funnily enough, even if you decentralize this process as I'm trying to do, you might end up serving all clients with 90% of the same product. But those 10% make all the difference in the world.

In a sense, what I'm trying to do is to make that dynamic of relationships and trust the main focus of how the network is built. It is a marketplace of marketplaces that rise or fall depending on how much value they provide and how much trust users put into them.
It wouldn't be funny, it would probably be the intended point of the name.
2 days ago I was asked to respond to a survey on facebook and my opinions on the site. This ploy was one of my many gripes - I look forward to seeing the rest of my complaints actioned...
For floating point operations sure, but if I understand it correctly it could also provide a speed advantage to other operations. It means 1% of the operations will be wrong, but what does that matter when it allows you to search 10,000 more keys. Perhaps you could get even more speed up with specialized hardware for decryption, and then buy rooms full of them.
The other thing to consider is that in 60 years from now, would the data on that microSD still be there? Many books from the 1950s are still perfectly readable today (I have several), I also have some floppies from the 80s whose contents are intact, but what about modern high-density NAND flash, which is inherently unstable? Will it have mostly erased itself in a few decades?
s/libertarianism/bitcoin/ and I agree with you as a Distributist.

As a Distributist, my feeling is that successful regulation supports decentralization. The problem with the regulation vs deregulation dichotomy is that regulation is usually pushed as a centralizing power, while deregulation is usually also pushed as a centralizing power.
If only the whooping cough vaccine actually worked well. It works OK, but not great.

They may have to switch from the accelular vaccine since it's less effective, but it causes major reactions in people.
Oh true Scotsman, I get it.
Better still, it deserves to be replaced with a better name. Comments should not be our first port of call when we notice an issue like this in code. Fix the name. If you can't fix the name, you hang your head in shame and then you write a comment.
This is seriously going to call into question a lot of people's credibility. They knew that MtGox was continuing to trade and accept deposits whilst insolvent, and did nothing - indeed, it's possible some of them took advantage of the information asymmetry to pull their money out of MtGox at other people's expense, using various services that traded MtGox "Bitcoins" for real Bitcoins.
This is why I should not be allowed to name things, clearly.
Only with SIM locked phones for specific providers, I presume. Otherwise cert pinning will alert pretty quickly.
So everyone earning at least 10k isn't ubi, because the government isn't supplying it to everyone, you'd prefer a tax and redistribution? (Because that's easier to administer).

Australia's productivity is evidence that "reduced incentive to work" is FUD not fact.
Event discovery startup YPlan launches in San Francisco
It doesnt work like that either.
Sandisk has a chip FAB. They can make whatever capacity chips they like.
If by a freak accident they make more than they can sell (LOL, wont happen, flash market is constantly under supplied) they can just sell it to third parties (Kingston buys from them among many others).

NO ONE disables good flash memory without reason.
Damn, stores 125 apps. I've got 126 :/
I don't know. As far as I can tell, it's common to sell downgraded parts at lower price points, just to be able to compete at those price points as well. In theory they could've just dropped the price for 64GB cards, and killed all cards with less capacity -- that would at least have made more (apparent to consumers) sense than sell all cards at the same (cost+margin) price.

I speculate that as manufacturing processes have gotten better, several segments of the industry simply continue to follow the old pattern of lower performance/lower price (GBs of flash, frequency of processors) from processes that did produce "quantifiable" low yields (eg: disabled core that didn't pass q/a, unreliable flash etc).

As for re-enabling flash on lower capacity cards, I remember seeing a reference to some people being able to flash/reprogram/reconfigure SSD drives for higher capacity -- not sure about sdcards. Also not sure if that was just to alter the reported capacity, or actually enabled more flash on the drive -- I can't find the article right now.

Given stuff like:

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

It doesn't seem too far fetched that it's possible.
there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
I think you were off by one.
Dont worry, Google just removed full SD access for apps in kitkat :) so that slot is great for storing cat videos you record, and not much else.
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
Wait, so where are people's bitcoins and cash then? Lost in void?
Mozilla announced seven new smartphones at Mobile World Congress
Here I should mention my NCD programming language[1], originally developed for programming network configurations. Contrasted to networkd, it is an imperative programming language with a twist (backtracking) that makes it practical for this purpose.

Strictly speaking it can't be directly compared to networkd, which has a declarative configuration - until someone implements such a declarative config system with NCD. The goal of NCD is to allow hackers to program their network config however they want, not just in ways foreseen and implemented by their declarative config system.

NCD can already react to many kinds of events, including the basic network stuff (interface appeared/disappeared, cable plugged in/out), input devices (via evdev) as well as an IPC protocol which works with structured data (for GUIs and CLI control).

[1] https://code.google.com/p/badvpn/wiki/NCD
I think the problem is, always on encryption, is always off caching...
On the reason why people will spend $5 on a coffee but not $1 on an app:

I've been thinking about this for a while and noticed this behaviour amongst my friends. I have one friend who is a true apple fan-boy and finishes his phone contract early so he can get the latest iPhone earlier at much cost etc.

I recently finished an app and said - hey, do you mind downloading it for me and checking it out? He says, "but it costs £1?!" I said, "ok, no worries, I'll GIVE you the £1 right now"

He still said "No". Why? Because "he never spends money on apps." Weird, right?

Then last night I'm watching Horizon - "How we make decisions" [1], and they talked about how when we feel we are ahead we are much more cautious than when we feel we are behind, when we experience "loss aversion" and are more likely to take a gamble.

I wonder if this is the best way to monetize apps. So you offer the app for free (no risk at all), then instead of offering "add-ons", you offer to remove "restrictions", implying that the user is already behind and they should take the gamble to get back to their "free" app.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-r...
What makes you think that online wallets (including exchanges) keep 100% of their reserves? Without inside information, I find it extremely hard to believe that they would just eschew that advantage.
Reminds me of 'how to write unmaintainable code':

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmaincamouflage.html
I think we're being trolled :)
Two #s, that was not a typo
How I test Rails validations?
Lisp Machines are back! :)
Julian Assange should read these two slides:

https://prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/2014/02/de...

https://prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/2014/02/de...
BitcoinBuilder.com earned 587btc
Try telling that to the cashier at the local grocery store.

Gold is not generally accepted as payment for goods and services in any culture that I know of (excluding jewelry and metal stores, of course). I'd be genuinely interested to hear about places where you can still take a lump of gold to a store and pay with it.
Well that's explicitly against the site guidelines, and I think the mods take it very seriously because we're already a highly critical demographic, without some checks and balances it would be very easy to devolve into a droning whingefest. If you feel the need to proclaim something un-HN-worthy you can choose to either flag it or ignore it (or rip it shreds on objective grounds).
I thought it was interesting that a programmer with foresight could make ~$235k in a matter of a few days due to the mtgox problems.

Their total volume was 29385 BTC of which they earned 2%, which is 587 BTC.
The idea is that they would prove their solvency for the hypothetical event of everyone wanting their money back at the same time.
If it wasn't already too late I would nominate myself on exactly this platform. Unfortunately I suspect the people who would vote for a laissez-faire candidate have already gone elsewhere, or are sufficiently disillusioned that they visit only infrequently.
There is a "The Science" section, referring to the Blog referring back to the same section, but I see nothing scientific about it.

Science does not work by giving loads of examples of why the approach "should" work better than traditional reading, substantiated by intuition and "80%"-"20%" figures given with no reliable source. It should instead be validated by experiments.

Here, it is simple enough to validate the approach experimentally: select texts and create simple multiple choice assignments to evaluate reading comprehension, and compare the performance of your method versus traditional reading on random people. The exact protocol would require a bit of care to avoid biases, but it wouldn't be that hard to do.

Without a study of this kind, this is just a gimmicky way to read, backed by some people's belief that it is more efficient.

(Another comment: the example French text looks like machine translation, which makes it hard to understand.)
I'd like to see this combined with a regular paragraph for reading.

Say it sits on the right, and you have text on the left. While skimming, if I spot something i want to read more in depth, I click on it, and the spritz starts. Then I start speed reading through on the spritz, and if I get stuck on something, I click again and the spritz pauses and highlights the current word or sentence. That way, I can quickly figure out where to read next. Then when I'm done, I click again and it continues to the end of the paragraph.

That said, reading the faq was rather tiring as it is. I was trying really hard to avoid reading, which my eyes were unhappy about.
Ah, thanks. Missed that. So it doesn't look like there will be a way of getting an email in to their Facebook inbox.

Unfortunately my grandmother never quite figured out email but she's very comfortable with Facebook.
> Sandisk has a chip FAB. They can make whatever capacity chips they like.

But if production costs are (even almost) the same for a 4GB card and 64GB card, why would you ever produce a 4GB card? A 64GB card can be sold as 1 through 64GB -- rather than collect dust as a 64GB card if there is higher demand for cheaper cards.

Now, I'm not certain that prices are similar, but it seems reasonable that if you already have quality control and precision enough to make 64 GB cards, it would be cheaper to just make one type of card, than different types.