skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's hope they store a (salted) hash of the password, not the password itself.
I won a bet too! Thanks! As predicted a reply to my comment was arrogant, intentionally obtuse, written by someone who didn't carefully read the article, sets up a strawman about the FBI being "merely a tool of the rich" which no one claimed, and even falsely accuses the company itself of being an "enormous fraud"!

Truly a caricature of an HN comment.

As for the actual topic, of course I did not actually claim, or even imply, that the FBI is "merely a tool of the rich", but if you think the FBI has not many times served as a tool of the rich and powerful you are beyond ignorant.
Erlang is not available as PaaS and it is missing a good editor. Solve those issues and it will take off.
That sounds more like a nurse practitioner than an RN. It takes 4 or 5 years of school beyond that required to become an RN to become an NP.
Securely load a comments plugin from domains people are already logged into?
Maybe we can hope for an MRI/YARV scenario!
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hoddez: this is a non-issue and a poor suggestion, please ignore this advice and continue to make great things. I doubt anybody has ever had trouble tuning their guitar because they accidentally tapped their desk instead of strumming their guitar, subsequently getting lost in a pool of confusion. Just doesn't happen, so no point in building a solution to that 'problem'.

Sometimes people go out of their way to find flaws with a service - this is one of those times.
>If our supply-demand assumption is true, the $2,160,000 dollars of Bitcoins that come into existence every day, that's also about $2,160,000 of electricity used.

I have some first-gen ASIC miners and electricity is 20% of revenues at the current price and difficulty. The current-gen miners that are contributing to most of the increase in hash power are even more efficient and many large scale operations have cheap electricity.
It's not the only motivation. It really will be better for YC to have someone running it who is actually interested in running an organization.

I have a whole bunch of ideas for essays I'd like to write, but I almost never pick a topic. The way I decide which one to write is that one starts to write itself in my head.
i'm in! 20 years later.. still using IRC.
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Bollocks - in my defense I was on a train :(
I wouldn't be so sure there's no money changing hands. One of the sides caved; and it was probably Netflix. The amount of money the ISPs were asking for from Netflix was not outrageous; the ISPs were more worried about the precedent that providing free interconnects might set. Give one to Netflix for free, and Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft all think they're entitled to one too.

Strategically, Netflix was holding a far weaker hand because the ISPs had no reason to give in since their brand perception was already so bad. I mean really, is it possible to hate Comcast more than most people already do?
Coming from Java the biggest surprise to me was a lack of good API documentation for Rails and Ruby gems.

Javadoc used to drive my productivity. It is quite frustrating sometimes with Rails that more often than not I can't find good api docs.

Rails and various Ruby gems have very good tutorials, but sometimes no api docs at all.. Tutorials are great for getting started, but you're in trouble when when you want to do something slightly unusual.

Slowly I'm realising that to be really good with Rails you need to look into the source code of libs you're using to get a better grasp.

As an example, I wanted to find out if it was possible to do something with ActiveRecord.to_json that I haven't seen in any tutorials. Spent 10 minutes searching for docs and then looking at the code.. which in Java would have been done in 20s.

Having said that, I really like Rails and enjoy a lot of productivity gains. I just wish it had better api docs.
Or, if an event doesn't want to use barcodes at all, they can check in anyone without a Selfie Ticket by name
I suspect these parents aren't actually conflicted, but are reasoning through their own fears of failure by projecting it onto their children.
knew it looked odd...
Last I checked, Pentadactyl is dead. I've moved back to Vimperator.
I wonder how much electricity they use to monitor individual plugs and whether it will actually result in a net decrease in electricity usage...
I'll be going to college for engineering or comp sci, so for me it will be more about learning in a more formal setting and filling in the (presumably large) gaps in my knowledge. In theory I could go out and start working in the industry after HS, but it will be much easier to do so with the credibility (and connections) that comes with a college degree.

I agree that for many college is "simply to help you figure out 'how you learn'", but for others it is about the knowledge gained.
to summarize:

you've written a handful of latex documents, so you're now an expert on what latex is used for and what people want out of it. would it help to point out that given latex is more difficult to use than word, I'd bet most latex users have tried and discarded word in favor of latex? Would that affect your judgements about the relative use cases?

There's people out there that think that the power in typesetting that LaTex
has is mutual exclusive with the speed and usability that Word has. That
just isn't so.

Since, well, nothing else offers similar typesetting plus mathematical notation / flexibility, your proof is... what exactly?

If you built a better system, you'd find customers for it.
Very nice! I had considered going the fuzzy logic route, but missed the other.
Wasn't this posted yesterday and the day before?
Energy consumption is precisely what gives proof of work its utility. It provides the economic cost to overturning ledger commitments which is at the core of bitcoin's security guarantees.
The problem with it is that it doesn't have a good addon community. Things like LastPass, Ghostery, and (good) ad blocking.
Interesting fact just for fun: Afghanistan shares a 76 km long border with China; this is where the biggest time zone jump occurs, an impressive 3.5 hours.
i can't really use this project now that my main os is osx(i frequently boot from my ssd with archlinux on the mba), but

i absolutely love this project. it's amazing,

the only thing i'm a little sad about is that i never wrote the pass plugin i wanted for password store [1]. but hey you can still write one

the main author moved, but there are fairly active forks[2].

the amazing thing about this is that you can write plugins in any scripting language you want. you can pretty much hook it's basically a mighty scriptable version of webkit.

here are a bunch of scripts you can use to extend it with [3]

on a sidenote, a completely different, but also interesting approach are conkeror [4] and luakit [5]. though luakit seems abandoned too. luakit is kind of a lua webkit browser framework with sane vi like defaults. conkeror is an emacs for xulrunner, however keep in mind that since firefox is taking over the role of xulrunner you might not really need xulrunner at all.

[1] http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/

[2] https://github.com/mathstuf/uzbl/tree/next

[3] http://www.uzbl.org/wiki/scripts

[4] http://conkeror.org/#Installation_and_Startup

[5] http://mason-larobina.github.io/luakit/
The Jack of all trades aka the 'master of none'. I agree there's room for both types of personas and have yet to experience it as a weakness in my current job, but you never know. I think I know more or less where my specialties lie but yet have to remain focused or else I can easily veer too far off track. I'll remain curious until the day I die.
What's the socket.io for?

Also, am I right in saying that you did your own fft rather than use the built in analyser? I tried to do one with the built in analyser a while back and had mixed results.
This feels gimmicky. How does this help solve real issues with admission control? The idea of admitting based on a face vs. a barcode for a reserved show won't work. Assuming this is for GA only? Why not just allow users to import photos from instagram, FB or similar? Are you going to make these photos available in bulk fashion to event organizers? I can see how this might be interesting for attendees to stalk who else was there but what is the value prop for event organizers? Would the event organizer get other info from the user such as email address? Why is this going to make me choose TicketLeap vs. TicketFly vs. TicketMob vs. Brown Paper vs. Eventbrite vs. anyone else in this insanely crowded industry? And for what its worth, the video is unnecessarily emotional. If I were you I would just cut to the chase on how this adds value to the ticketing ecosystem.
Yea, don't know why I did that. I've never used that acronym before, must have been my brain processing POTUS as President rather than the actual acronym.
> instead of wasting time on HW and studying, I've spent my time learning Python and C and Linux administration and dozens of other potentially useful skills (that haven't helped much in college applications, but will be useful in and after college).

Actually, you should mention that in your college app. For certain schools, especially ones that at least pay lip service to a "holistic review" process, that might be more interesting than your GPA.
"I've spent my time learning Python and C and Linux administration ..."

That makes me sad, you're only young once, if you're pulling a 3.8 you should get out a little bit more, talk to girls (or boys, w/ever), there's all the time in the world to hunch over in front of a computer screen.
One fairly obvious application of that is to have motorbikes that can act like Google self-driving car. If we replace most cars by two-wheels (say, with a roof for confort under the rain) we divide to a third the oil consumption for transport, i.e. a third of world’s oil spending.

That's 20% saving on global non-renewables. “Niche”?
scrypt ASICs have better performance relatives to GPUs or CPUs than sha256 ASICs did.
Someone should build a web plataform to allow to decode it using crowdsourcing ..
This is really awesome. Currently Lego is high into buzz. After Lego the Movie.

I couldn't watch the movie. But will surely rejoice using this app!
> > And you still don't fix the problem that balances which are unchecked can be diverted.

> Okay, I'll admit I might be missing something here; what do you mean by that?

Say Alice _never_ logs in anymore and the site has noticed this. The site can just go "oh Alice, her balance in now 0" and go and gamble away those coins— sure, their holdings go down, but so do their obligations. Since Alice never logs in anyone, she's not going to protest that her coins are all gone.
It's using BLS categories which don't necessarily match up to actual job titles or to colloquial use. According to the BLS, Computer Programmers turn detailed specifications into code while Software Developers have involvement in the development process beyond just writing code. Software Developers are far more common than Computer Programmers, so for the most part you can just ignore the whole Computer Programmer category.
And teachers? That has to be the MOST important group where we should absolutely have equal representation.

As a "traditionally female" occupation, K-12 teaching is woefully underpaid relative to, say, police or firemen. In the SF Bay Area, teaching is just not a middle-class profession at all.
> Lunches

This actually reminds me why I think free lunches at company cafeterias might be a net negative.

At a more traditional company lunch involves

1. Gathering the group (who wants to go to lunch?)

2. Deciding where

3. Getting in cars

4. Driving to restaurant (5-10 mins)

5. Waiting for seating (5-10 mins)

6. Ordering

7. Waiting for order to arrive (5-10 mins)

8. Eating (10-15 mins)

9. Driving back to work (5-10 mins)

That's 30-55 minutes spent together talking, interacting.

At a company with a free lunch cafeteria steps 4, 5, 7, and 9 are removed. I worked for 5 years at a company that had free cafeteria lunches. While I appreciated saving money on lunch my personal impression is I got far less camaraderie, team spirit, etc from it than from the more traditional "drive to restaurant" style.

I'm not saying companies should get rid of free lunches. Only that maybe people should look into ways to increase the time spent building friendships etc...
That's an interesting point. My example was more like the article's dilemma... not being perfect. Your's involved an actual [F]ailure.

What is a "good" college? I understand going to some colleges will give you a leg up in the "business" world. HNers and programmers tend to ride the meritocracy train and if one hops on board then the only thing that "should" matter in the eyes of HN peers is what you produce and your results. So don't get a standard job at a typical company working for the "man" where your resume has to make it through HR BS, instead start your own thing?

I agree, a system where you can be told you've ruined your life at 14 is BS. I don't know the circumstances surrounding your F. Regardless, the fact that adults gave up and give up on a youth is somewhat revealing about the culture and beliefs they have... sad.
Wow that's a pretty cool idea. The only issue I see going forward is whether or not the target market can afford the machine. The biggest pro of customizing a PC is the price for performance. I'm able to save quite a bit of $$$ by building my own machine. If the people who don't know how to customize their own machine are price insensitive they might as well go for something that requires no effort from them (e.g. Apple products, high end Dell/HP). If they are in fact price sensitive, I imagine a modular machine such as this would probably be out of their price point given that every part is specifically for this one type of PC.
> we don't see a huge number of "guys who teach" or "black guys teach" type programs popping up all over

You don't see a huge number of "girls code" programs, either, you just think you do because some of them have press and you're pretty deep in the culture of software development. Not a bad thing, mind you! But we have to keep in mind observational bias.
Could you explain this a little more, I'm having a hard time seeing how it applies to mining.
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Ripple's consensus algorithm pretty much has this licked.

https://ripple.com/wiki/Consensus - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10180/what-are-th... - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13330/what-is-the...
I'm not willing to accept shady moves just because you are startup. For one, there is no reason to think you will suddenly develop ethics once you become big company.

Second, I have been mislead the same way in both cases.
The question is, which civilization will most thoroughly utilize the superpower that is the internet and getting millions of people to act in unison, as one.

We will need new founding fathers to re-write the book on what the most perfect union looks like. Perhaps capitalism is not the best system, considering everyone can instantly know what everyone else is contributing or not contributing.
Maybe I'm wrong. I don't think I have any non-top100 vim plugins installed. I could be underestimating the problem by a large margin.

I sort of think that if just the top 100 plugins would be compatible, the authors of the non-top100 plugins would be motivated to migrate, as a sort of herd mentality thing.
Status of Gnome 3 on OpenBSD
Not a whole lot of energy spent writing a key to a USB stick and putting it in a safety deposit box.
Looks a lot like InsightSquared
Out of curiosity, have you checked out Rust?
https://code.google.com/p/dactyl/source/browse#hg%2Fcommon%2...

i don't know where you got the impression. if anything it's the other way round, no?
How are you concluding that from the tracert?
It did go on my applications, but I have yet to see how useful it will be.
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I always thought that Netflix served everything from AWS. How can they they have their own AS number and peering locations?
You know I did wonder if it was, since I googled it and didn't find anything :) The name does kinda have that sound, which made me wonder about it. :)
Based on lived experience, I don't see a lot of people in this industry understanding "compiler theory or asymptotic growth of recursive functions".
No; no ISP would ever run externally managed equipment inside their network. They would run it in a separate cage with a direct fiber connection to the gateway routers. Rule #1 of network security is that you never run someone else's equipment inside your network; you ALWAYS make them go through a gateway.

Also it's largely semantics where a device like OpenConnect is hosted. Netflix could host it at a datacenter across town with a direct fiber interconnect to the ISP and it would be effectively the same thing. This is how all the big CDNs do it; that way they host equipment once and connect to multiple local ISPs.
> Look at SublimeText, it's got 1% of the features of Vim, yet it's converting Vim users left and right, by its sheer usability.

You're confounding usability with "do not need a manual". They're not the same thing at all. Moreover, I reject entirely your assertion that vim is not usable.

vim is amazingly usable; text manipulation commands for example all follow a common structure: [action][times][position]. That means the rules you learn for using "yank" apply just as well to "delete" or "paste" or whatever. Anytime you encounter a new text command you don't even need to wonder how to use it; it's a sure thing it will follow the same structure that you already know.
Yeah, but as POTUS, he would be able to tie in his location-based experience at Loopt with drone strikes and Jihadist check-in sniping!
Certainly not! If I was re-selling the data, maybe. But I'm generally using it for statistics and data viz. I include the source of the data and I always obey robots.txt. Sometimes I'm even able to talk with the owners beforehand to get their ok.

(Don't downvote him, it's a valid question)
The Olson tzdb used to have support for a solar-noon time zone for Saudi Arabia. I forget the specifics but there was a need for solar noon and a religious observance. It was just recently removed due to constraints regarding the size of unsigned chars.[^1] It would be neat to remake the map with the tz shapefiles and animate it a la xearth.[^2]

[^1]: http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/

[^2]: https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/a9ac0f6938c416f724a52115...
Personal transport. It makes what Google did with self-driving cars possible with far less stable transporters: motos, bikes, even small crates with wheels or even rotors in large logistic centrals. It can mean plans like drug-delivery using drones have a better technology in crowded places, like when approaching futuristic health centers that synthesize or store drugs. This is huge.
> They are as emotionally advanced as computer types are intellectually advanced.

Some of them are pretty damned intellectually advanced as well.
I still get nervous, but I've learned to manage it.

Some things that help:

- Keep your changes small. You should be able to fit the entire diff in your head and completely understand the purpose for every changed line. If you can't, split it up.

- Automate the process as much as possible. Invest in learning whatever tool works best for you (Fabric, Rake, Grunt, etc).

- Use a staging environment. This is especially helpful for catching issues like missing dependencies, DB migration problems, etc.
"...you should get out a little bit more..."

I do: I play sports, hang out w/ friends, etc; but, I enjoy learning new computer-related things in my free time.
I'm upvoting this because it's thought-provoking, not because I agree with all the points made. I'd recommend reading it to engage your critical thinking skills - but of course, don't feed the troll.
I used a library I found on github for a similar project - here's their demo page: http://deibelman.github.io/dart-mic/demo.html

For my project, I was charting the dominant frequency for fun.
I'm curious, do your movies, outings, and activities happen on company time or do people have to use their personal free time to attend? Many employees have significant others, family, etc which means they want to spend their free time as theirs.
I don't own a guitar, so I tested this web app by making guitar-like noises. It turns out my voice produces "C" chords...and my neighbors probably think I'm insane.

(Jokes aside, this has a great design and it's an interesting application of the microphone API. Hope to see more apps using this feature in the future, especially in conjunction with the cool voice-to-JSON APIs that have recently come out.)
Pentadactyl is still extremely active, they just haven't cut a new release in a while.
Hmm, I remember having this issue with RHEL also, but I thought it was fixed in maybe tmux 1.8... although I could certainly be wrong.
I looked into it, and you're right; I was sloppy in my terminology, and will be more careful in the future. I appreciate the correction.

In this light, let's consider four activities: spending, investing, saving, and hoarding. Currency dilution encourages the first two and discourages the second two. It also systematically transfers purchasing power from savers/hoarders to spenders/investors. Can you build a case that the benefit from dilution outweighs the costs? Dilution certainly encourages "economic activity" (for certain values of "activity"), which you seem to regard as axiomatically good. What is your justification for this?
I bounced around from a (non-elite) state school, to community college, and finally ended up with a CS degree from a fairly mediocre accredited private university.

I had a pretty bad attitude about education after my high school experiences, so I just fancied myself as some sort of autodidact that does things his own way without concern for the "system, man".

I've done well for myself as an engineer, so I feel that I cam out of it all ok. But now that I have kids, I don't really want to pass on my bad attitudes onto them, so I guess I'm facing some of the issues this article discusses.
On the other hand, you can take a 20% to your base salary, but your standard of living will only decrease by what? 10%?

(I am aware that the math does not pan out that way, but the fact remains that if you have confiscatory levels of taxes at the higher brackets, the cost of marginal (negative) increase in your base salary ends up working in your favor)
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I once challenged Scott Fritchie to give an Erlang talk at our local ruby group (rum.mn) without implementing Eratosthenes' sieve, and sure enough he did, using elevators of all things.

I was so impressed with Erlang that i'm still banging my head on it nearly 10 (half-hearted) years later.
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and what's the problem exactly?
"'We think the governance has opted for ubiquitous law enforcement.' Pham whistled softly. Now every embedded computing system, down to a child's rattle, was a governance utility. It was the most extreme form of social control ever invented. 'So now they have to run everything.' The notion was terribly seductive to the authoritarian mind ... The only trouble was, no despot had the resources to plan every detail in his society's behavior. Not even planet-wrecker bombs had as dire a reputation for eliminating civilizations."

--Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky