skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can confirm that Element 14 in the UK sucks.

I somehow managed to order a RPi from them a year ago without trouble but after taking more then 2 and a half weeks to even bother to ship it i just cancelled the damn thing and bought it off Amazon.

Luckily now i know of a lot more small and helpful websites that would ship stuff in a decent time frame.

Can't avoid using them for more specialized part unfortunately. Don't expect much from them though.
Speaking of...

kernel/sysctl.c

#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR
static int sixty = 60;
#endif

static int __maybe_unused neg_one = -1;

static int zero;
static int __maybe_unused one = 1;
static int __maybe_unused two = 2;
static int __maybe_unused three = 3;
static unsigned long one_ul = 1;
static int one_hundred = 100;
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
static int ten_thousand = 10000;
#endif
I wonder if it would be possible to write an AI to manage a Bitcoin exchange; cut out the human element and the potential for mistakes/scamming completely? Before the exchange is launched, publish the AI's source and have it undergo an extensive public audit.
In the page source:

<!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
Introduction to the Wolfram Language
Yes, this opportunity to make a reference to De La Soul should not be wasted!
A couple of these courses on physics and computer science were recorded when I was enrolled.
Sounds like the argument is a question of definitions - does "operating system" mean kernel, userland, or both? You argue that changing the userland doesn't change the OS. I could counterargue that Debian/kFreeBSD is the "same operating system" with a different kernel.

RMS believes that userland makes an OS, because he wrote a userland. Linus believes that kernel makes an OS, because he wrote a kernel. Calling Android "Linux" is like calling Windows 8 "Windows NT", i.e. correct if you're talking about kernels and wrong otherwise.
I'm sure he'd rather you just apply for the next batch of YC. Applications are open.

http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
the point of Spritz is not showing one word per time, but the alignment of words, see here: http://www.spritzinc.com/blog/

they told there's a point called ORP, it's the point on the word that people could recognize the word quickly. so if you align the point of each word, the reading of words will be easy.

the second point is reducing eye balls' rotation.

this really improved the way I read in English, love it :D
Gem discovered on Australian sheep farm is oldest piece of the planet
May I suggest the additional step of an /etc/hosts file entry for the site in question. I recommend '0.0.0.0'.
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what's the name for the four hard things concurrency, in computer science: cache invalidation, off-by-one errors, naming things, and whatever the last one is called?
how did you managed to remove the blur in the photo ?
Chrome plugin sets all Hacker News hyperlink targets to '_blank'.
I'm surprised nobody is posting detailed traces of all the Mt. Gox bitcoins. They can be traced through the system, right? It should be possible to figure out how many Mt Gox still had when it went down. It should be detectable when he transfers them to a different account or sells them.
How did you manage to remove the black blur ?
The iOS model uses App Store reviews (with whatever static analysis secret sauce they do), plus user permission requests for access to some things like location and contacts.

I'd suggest Nokia's Symbian permission model was better, if a little annoying. It asked each time the app tried to use a given permission (until you permanently allowed/disallowed it).
The growing cost of getting an education
Mark Cuban: How To Outplay Your Competitor’s Startup
One day when I was doing undergrad research, I helped one of my professors move to their new office[1]. He had an entire bookshelf of SIGGRAPH proceedings going back over 20 years.

[1] Before anyone brings up "undergrad research slave labor", I'll have you know I received a copy of "Gödel, Escher, Bach" for my troubles.
It's pretty funny how she uses E-gold as an example, which failed due to forcible dismantling by the government.

Hint: Bitcoin was created for the sole purpose of avoiding problems of that nature.

As for the rest of the article, not much content and many unsupported assertions. It would have been nice to hear why bitcoin is completely value-less, beyond not being "goverment backed". But I suppose that discussion would involve actually understanding bitcoin.
What a self-promotional garbage. Why was this not written when Bitcoin was valued at $1000?
But they will give it to the regulators.
At this stage, sure. But unless MtGox gets revived, what about in 2 years from now? It doesn't seem likely unless the NDA is one of the assets they sell.
A completely non-technical explanation of Linux Containers
I wonder what this comment in the source means <!-- put announce for mtgox acq here --> ?
Explaining the problem under that "Wikipedia sized proof" – with a puzzle
The explanatory comment is 40 lines earlier in the same file where the function those variables are being passed to is defined. It need not be repeated every couple lines; "being clear to outsiders linked to a specific line of a specific file without context" is not a reasonable concern.
> And then I read that his hacked-together-in-3-days ssh server was for use in production. In a hosting service.

That sounds like a brilliant technical guy, capable of running with a daft idea to completion (unlike me, with my collection of at-best-half-built personal projects), who should have some layers of protection between him and Real World Production...
Explain?

I'm as curmudgeonly as they get. Other than DRM, I think I'm actually pretty happy with what I see in HTML5, though unfortunately there's still no way to actually force Web developers to use just a minimal markup set.

If I could force every last goddamned Web dev in the universe to stick with <html>, <body>, <header>, <article>, <aside>, and <footer> tags, along with <p>, <em>, <strong>, <a>, <blockquote>, <ul>, (and list items), form and text elements, and <img>, I think I wouldn't shed a tear. And I could then write my own goddamned CSS to render their pages in a sane and readable fashion. Once (as opposed to the 1000x I'm approaching now via Stylebot).

Table elements would be accessible for a fee, waivable for actual data presentation.
> If by a freak accident they make more than they can sell (LOL, wont happen, flash market is constantly under supplied)

If this were true, it would be hard to buy SD cards. But it isn't?
I belong to a WhatsApp group for common interests. I was about to recommend to everyone to switch over to TextSecure, but then I realized not everyone has an Android. This app would really benefit from a J2ME version like WhatsApp IMO.
I never had a Symbian device (though a couple of friends had Psions), but always had a bit of a soft spot for them.
15 Year-old kid's Social Media Ecommerce Startup is looking for feedback
Not loudly enough. I remember reading lots of stuff about how Mt. Gox was where it's at.
Giant Robots in Everyday Background
I'm no doctor, but I been burned out a few times. A look at your recent history might be helpful. Do you have months of long hours and stressful work, unappreciative bosses, lack of sleep, no exercise, bad diet and alcohol? Then it's burnout.

If you or any close relatives have a history of depression, or you have had a traumatic experience (i.e. end of a relationship), excess drug usage etc. it might be depression.
No, you can have only one second language, and then possibly third, fourth, and so on.
Telcos gouging on SMS by up to 90,000%, says consumer group
The article about the "Wikipedia sized proof too big for humans to understand" was posted several times - here's the one that got most of the discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7264886

Unfortunately, there seem to be many misconceptions about the whole thing. This video explains the problem amazingly clearly. For most people it's a subtle problem to get your head around, but this presentation seems to make it almost obvious.

What do you think - is this clear?
1 is the zeroth power of 3
There should be some universally recognized icon, like RSS feed icon, which would be on sites offering app versions, and user could press it of he wants to.
Switching to the Hacker News "Classic" view
ShapeShifter: The emperor’s new web security technology
You can increase the speed to any WPM you want using chrome developer tools:

In the dropdown menu where you select a WPM rate, change the "data-value" attribute values in the li elements to whatever you want.

Also, although it helped my speed reading considerably, I would not adopt the current version of the product because it does not allow for pauses (eyes get tired, sneezes, blinks, distractions, etc), re-reads, time to ponder, etc. However, I think these problems can be addressed with very simple UI tweeks:

1. (On mobile) Push to read. Release to pause

2. Scroll to go back/forward

3. Ability to start and skip to other areas in the text, probably via some table of contents

4. Some estimate of remaining pages/words. I like to scroll ahead to see how long an article is. If the article is gone, I have no way of sensing duration. A displayed word count might help, but I'd imagine that few people can easily process number of words as a duration.
60-minute overview of 2013 – a busy year in cryptography [video]
Very interesting experiment. I'm surprised to be able to read (albeit only when completely focused) at 500 English wpm without being a native speaker. Some observations:

* My eyes muscles feel oddly relaxed while reading, whereas in contrast I need I mental focus to understand the text. It's really hypnotic, in a weird but not unpleasant way.

* Keeping focused on a single point for minutes, I get a disconcerting tunnel effect. As my brain hasn't seen my surroundings for too long, it stops recomposing it, and that makes me conscious of how small my precise vision area is. This also contributes to the hypnotic effect of that thing.

* It absolutely needs an intuitive throttle. My optimal speed varies continuously, because the information density varies a lot within a single text, and some information can be perceived to have widely different levels of relevance for different readers. I'd probably like the speed to be controlled by the mouse's y axis.

* Quick indexing: I want to easily jump anywhere in the page, not read it sequentially.
I call that a feature. I'm way past sick of flakey transparent proxies with bad caching behavior.
If you do any sort of work on Middling-to-Fairly-Big Data, eshell is not for you. I love emacs, and would love to love eshell, but I prefer running grep/awk/sed/etc in tmux since it's just soo much faster.

And of course, if you need to use any sort of curses type thing, eshell (or M-x shell) often fails in ugly ways.
That's a very... awkward of doing quite a simple thing, generating ascending interleaved powers. I'd probably use one or more arrays of multipliers to maintain the counters. Simpler and more general -- not often that you can get a solution with both these two attributes.
Mt. Gox Shuts Down, Loses $409,200,000
For those who are/were unaware of it, there is a "front page" for HN that is ranked by the votes of only a subset of users - I think it's those users that have been here the longest.

There are other subsets available:

Highest voted recent links.
Most active current discussions.
Highest voted recent comments.
Submissions from new accounts.
Comments from new accounts.

Links here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

The "Classic" view isn't one of those, nor is the link to only those stories with more than 200 points (for some value of 200). I must go hunt that out ...
Reddit is down ...
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If images are put into a PDF as embedded media, then they will be represented whole as PDF objects in the PDF file, even if they are obscured when the PDF is displayed. Acrobat, among other utilities, allows these objects to be extracted.

See, e.g., http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/pdf/Extract.html
Time for you to crack open our nation's history books!
"Trade with confidence"

... yeah, right.
Typical...

Use Reddit once a month and when i look for something for my webapp (marketing), it goes down.. :P
It's not a bug, as shown by the currently top comment. It is however, misleading and could be better documented or named. Still, it is at least a little amusing, worth posting here?
We just released a new Bitcoin iPhone app – Bitcoin Stats
Too bad Mt Gox goes down on launch day! We are working to replace Gox for Coinbase and will be updating the app soon.

In the meantime, we'd love some feedback on the app itself.

Thanks for checking it out!
Want proof that Google+ is no ghost town?
Well, look at the alternatives.
Fastest way to get your app removed from my phone? Request additional permissions.

Unfortunately there's little the developers can do about it, short of not adding any features. You have to ask for every permissions your app could potentially need to use, upfront. You can't ask at point of use. This is a huge Android flaw.
Too bad Mt Gox goes down on launch day! We are working to replace Gox for Coinbase and will be updating the app soon.

In the meantime, we'd love some feedback on the app itself.

Thanks for checking it out!
why the upvotes? but I'm sure the author is an expert in Elliptic Curve Cryptography and understands the subtleties of hierarchical deterministic wallets.
if you haven't seen the documentary on this delightful woman,
do yourself a favor and see what an extraordinary human being
looked like, in this day and age, at the ripe age of 110 years.

the film is up for an oscar, and i can guarantee you that the
immense applause for alice will be music to her ears in heaven.

-bowerbird
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That is obviously not true. For example, as soon as you have a contract with a for-profit enterprise where you are paying them actual money, they have legally actionable obligations to you in return.
We used to use a carefully biased diode in the feedback loop of an op-amp to create logarithmic signals. I was expecting the article to dispense with digital electronics (in the core of the machine) and use tuned physical properties to actually do the calculations.

What a disappointment that the first few slides imply such a break-through and then we find that the research is simply about reducing precision to the minimum needed. And it's patented? (rolls eyes)
https://twitter.com/redditstatus
Mt. Gox Implodes
Don't be so melodramatic, nobody is literally being lynched.
> I do just fine reading at 250 wpm. Some times I feel just being good enough has lost its value.

What is fine? What is good enough? I think it's an absurd statement that in no way is an argument against reading at 500 wpm.
Took the test, testing is the future so embrace it
http://www.mac-containers.co.uk/temporary-container-housing....
http://www.flappy-bird-multiplayer.com

yea I made 50 score
Torture in North Korea
Quote from the article: Bitcoin mining is not valuable for anything other than creating Bitcoins. Bitcoin is possibly the most valueless asset in history. If people no longer wish to hold or accept Bitcoin, the value will be exactly zero since it has no inherent value, making it an extremely fragile asset.

Therein lies the trouble with taking lessons from economists who don't think it through.

Also previously:

* http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/

* http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/20/so-thats-...

* http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/12/investing/bitcoin-bubble/

Don't get your hopes up just yet.
BBC Site Problems
only in a court of law.
So, I'm curious, is that similar to what Wolfram Cloud will provide? To me, it sounds like a service that will run your Wolfram Language code in the cloud, just like Wolfram Alpha runs it in the cloud as part of its backend. Is that accurate?
I have some very rough proto code for something along the lines of this from 2004 with per word weighting and ability to speed up or slow down general flow.

How is this even remotely patentable. This has to have been done a thousand times. Do the the red letters and black lines make that much difference.
Because they've proven time and time again to be unworthy of our trust.
Calling it "Entertainment" was tongue-in-cheek ... WSYIWYG is overrated!
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"...Labbé, who has built a website where users can test whether papers have been created using SCIgen..."

It's so lucky that he's built a tool to check whether a document is "computer-generated nonsense". God forbid that the publishers have to actually read the papers to check.
>Bitcoin is possibly the most valueless asset in history. If people no longer wish to hold or accept Bitcoin, the value will be exactly zero since it has no inherent value, making it an extremely fragile asset.

Stock in a shell company also has zero inherent value. This is simply a localised critique of the "most valueless asset" accusation - many assets share that characteristic.
I've thought about this before too, and I've realized that unless I give it some thought, my eyes read at about a talking speed, especially when reading essays and comments such as yours. My guess is since we hear the words in our heads, we prefer to hear them as if they were naturally spoken.
The Modern Java Web Developer – JavaOne 2013
Pós-Graduação em Reabilitação do Património Construído
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

That is to say, at the end of the day, does it really matter if this happened because Karpeles is an idiot or because Karpeles was malicious? No, the end result is the same, and possessing and wielding that shear amount of idiocy is no more excusable than just being malicious.
My comfortable reading speed is a bit above 700wpm. On a book with proper line length, or on my Kindle. Strangely, or not at all, I only read at that speed when parsing non-fiction texts. Reading a novel, the reading times on my Kindle boil down to 300wpm.

Some stuff needs to be savored, I guess. Even at that speed, I'm known for devouring books, so I am probably reading too fast.

On a side note, if Spritz is that good, I'd like to try it out above my comfort zone. Say, 1000wpm.
Ask HN: Liquidity for (ex-)employees in later stage rounds?
Hey hackers, I'd like to ask the members of this community what the general practices are for companies to provide (ex-)employees liquidity in later stage rounds (series C and beyond).

Is it normal for there to be no liquidity until an IPO or acquisition? Do companies try to give (ex-)employees liquidity in the equity rounds? If so, do they generally coordinate with investors (who may want preferred, but could settle for common if the goal is not to dilute existing shareholders?) or use something like a secondmarket.com after the round closes?

I have no idea about how companies think about this stuff, what their incentives and disincentives are in doing so, and how they generally go about doing it. For those with experience, your insights would be valuable. Thanks!
It seems that the line between native app and web will increasingly blur as HTML5 matures to the point it obviates whatever advantages remain with building native apps. I think this will mean a better end user experience as there will no longer be these walls between the web and mobile experience. It doesn't seem efficient for companies to have to build a website, a mobile version of the website (with responsive design), and native apps (for every platform).
Free HTML5/CSS3 templates for personal and business use
yes, and regulated banks/exchanges have never been the centre of financial disasters.
Why is this so bad? I'd be proud of my spritzing turbo cojones.
URB-E: The world's most compact e-vehicle
Yes, and that's a entirely fair observation, but he's been full of these "amazing" stories about cheap android, and its use in developing nations for the last few months. That didn't just happen, and he presumably knew about it before, because that's his full-time job, so what changed?
so someone got away with 740,000 bitcoins? at $500 per bitcoin, would that be the largest robbery ever?
Same reason the lira would fall if a significant Turkish bank came out as a Ponzi scheme. Loss of confidence in the system's resilience paired with, to a lesser extent, uncertainty regarding future liquidity.
The lesson is:

If you don't understand anything about something but need to opine, put the words "lesson" and "engineer" in the head to fake your understanding.
She doesn't get it bitcoin will never reach 0 there will always be people buying and selling bitcoin just as there's customers for even the crappiest websites.

Not to mention it's already reached critical mass which means it will never go away and the advantages outweigh the risks.

Now will this hurt bitcoin? Yes. Is this a good thing in the long run? Definitely.

It's always a bad thing when 70% of all speculation is done on one platform and that platform closes down.

I'm somewhat glad mtgox was allowed to fail that juts proves that the awful too big to fail mentality of the US did not corrupt the bitcoin marketplace.

This is a good thing in the long run even if it's going to hurt like hell in the short run.
Regulation hasn't stopped massive thefts of fiat, the amounts that bitcoin thieves can only dream of.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/19/missing-iraq-money-may...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/30/government-cant-acco...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

http://jonathanturley.org/2011/08/19/auditors-conclude-that-...
Bitcoin and USD are not the same thing. Bitcoin exchanges need to have enough BTC to cover any accounts in BTC. They only need to have USD if they also have accounts in USD, which I suspect they don't.

If nobody wants to exchange your BTC for USD, then the value of the coin collapses, but not the exchange.
I miss you too :)
And then there is fiat money, the elephant in the room of valueless things.
it's not broken at all. tx hashes are essential for looking up txs in the block chain, and can be used as addresses because they immutable once they are in the block chain.

before they are included in the blockchain, malleability aside, they aren't even necessarily valid (they could be double spend attempts, etc)
"You might as well flush your money down the toilet by investing in the Egyptian pound."

Does the author have some insider information on Egyptian currency trading? I hope they are putting their money where their mouth is by selling EGP on the foreign exchanges!

Or in other words, the author opens this article by spouting speculative bullshit. Why then should we treat the rest of it as useful?
Contact a lawyer that knows something about Japan maybe? I'd say you are fucked.
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Ubuntu is following Debian on using systemd, "as soon as it offers a credible quality of service to match the existing init" (which might happen pretty fast): http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316

I don't see software installation unification happening any time soon. There are layers like packagekit that sit above package managers, though (but mostly under-developed because, well, what is the point?).

AFAIK, systemd makes sense in servers (possibly even more than in desktops), because of its support for container setups. Not sure, though.