skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would think they were more interested in the products being sold as compared to the made-up currency that was being used to purchase said products.

I'm not talking about the SR related prosecutions, I'm talking about, among others, the ponzi scheme prosecution against Bitcoin Savings & Trust, where bitcoins were invested for promised returns in bitcoins in a ponzi scheme. (Though I misrecalled, and this prosecution was a civil prosecution by the SEC not the Justice Department; still, its a pretty strong indicator that the US federal government recognizes bitcoins as thing of value when it comes to the law regarding such things.)
Great idea. I'm not sure about the pricing though. I'd expect anyone who reaches 1000 submissions per month to probably make the effort to get their own form handler. I'd make it 100/month or maybe 1000 submissions total until you have to pay. Then make it an annual fee so that customers think "OK, I'll pay $X not to have to deal with this for another year."
Culture building through productivity for small companies
A lot of intermediate Haskell material (and advanced Haskell material) is locked up in a series of papers. They're usually well-written, but the intermediate Haskell canon is not well-defined nor is it in a comfortable format; I often find that when I recommend a paper to someone they have a tendency to be turned away... even if it's a tutorial paper not so different from a blog post.
I think that "should" is based on "wanting to avoid prosecution for operating while insolvent".
Two-Factor auth?
And kids the lesson is don't use cute cc domains from small or micro entities (run by people with dubious technical chops), for anything important
Someone found my wallet too and located me on linkedin. Come to think of it, it's the most useful linkedin has ever been for me.
Yep, the same thing Facebook is doing with Whatsapp, Instagram...pure NSA surveillance strategy, nothing to do with Capitalism. puts titanium hat
To quote /r/Bitcoin:

"If there will ever be a book on MtGox, it will have two Chapter 11s"
I started reading "Beginning Haskell". So far the most practical Haskell learning resource I've encountered. http://www.apress.com/9781430262503
I would imagine that there is always the chance of 'false negatives' (people you call as failures that eventually succeed), but they are probably pretty bang on with identifying positives.

As an investment first that pretty much the only statistic that matters.
I'm a fan of archlinux running the cinnamon desktop environment. Archlinux might be a bit intense depending on your command line fu; you might want to try Linux Mint instead.

Hardware wise, Lenovo also makes decent hardware. The Yoga 2 is a pretty solid machine comparable to most of Apple's offerings.
Is this a good thing? What the development process in this post appears to involve is a mostly-mechanical filling in of function definitions to match a pre-given type signature; but, if it's mechanical, shouldn't the compiler be able to do it for us?
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What a badass.

THIS is a woman in tech
What I'd like is granularity on this.

Well, that makes two of us. I'm sure all Android developers would like the option to request permissions at point of use, so users who want to use the feature can give the permission, and the ones who don't, don't have to. But it isn't there, period. So the choice is: don't add features users ask for and listen to the people telling you they don't trust you to use the permissions you request wisely, or add features your users are asking for, and tell the ones that don't trust you to get lost.

You get one guess at what application developers do.

BTW. Good luck with getting the government to legislate that you can't implement features users ask for.
thanks god is was not redirected to a phishing google site.
I was recently looking for a nice simple implementation of this for a client. Didn't really find any that I liked so we decided to build this ourselves. Now we have the flexibility of either emailing them the results or storing in our local database for later processing. This looks really nice though.
I agree completely. It's almost humorous (I've been guilty of thinking some of these before sooooo...)

Though, I do wonder if it isn't completely selfishness, including instead a pinch of resistance to change as part of the social recipe that drives us. In some of my other comments, I've suggested it's entirely greed or selfish motivations, but reflecting on my own experiences, resistance to change fits the bill fairly well. (Excepting financial motivation as partial to the cause, mind you.)

We are creatures of habit, after all.
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Supposedly, yes: https://telegram.org/faq

They also have an open API and documented protocol.

I was a WhatsApp subscriber, and I'd pay for Telegram.
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You were being juvenile by grouping murder with meta data. How does meta data "severely harm the life, limb, or property of others"?

It's an appeal to emotion on your part, and judging by how you're now lashing out like a child, you still have quite a ways to go before you mature in this conversation.
That was 5 days ago. OSX 10.9.1 is still vulnerable.
Test your software with a simulated clumsy Internet connection
It's still a very niche platform that very few people use as a Facebook equivalent sharing and personal status system. Anecdotally hardly anyone in my personal life uses it, and that's no delusion.
> unconscionable makes it sound like it's more irresponsible than the industry standard - when in fact it is less.

> Yes, I agree that's a stupid call to make, but most smartphones have far worse unpatched vulnerabilities.

That's why Apple's response here is so interesting: it's much more common for smartphones to have serious and known unpatched vulnerabilities than it is for desktop and server operating systems to have them.

It's expected that a smartphone might go unpatched for a while, but the industry standard is that a desktop or server operating system should receive a patch for an extremely severe security vulnerability almost immediately.

Why Apple has chosen to ignore and invert that expectation is unclear. Was there an active, seriously damaging attack against iOS that they thought needed to be stopped right away, despite the cost to OS X users? Did they look at the install base and decide patching iOS first would have a larger impact? Is their development process for OS X not up to the task? Do they just care a lot more about their consumer electronics than their computers?

Then there's the question of why they published the details of the iOS patch before publishing a patch for OS X. Perhaps they rushed to patch iOS when they discovered the vulnerability without realizing that OS X is affected as well? The situation raises a lot of questions--while I'm not sure that what has happened is unconscionable yet (rather than merely extremely incompetent but well-intentioned), it's still an open question, and it's certainly possible.
I've often heard "design bug".
The compiler is doing a lot of it for us.

> Thanks to GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving, I got the three instances I wanted for free via F.

A good bit of what you're seeing as "mechanical" is actually the simplicity achieved because Haskell is expressive enough to get very close to the abstractions that we really need. Haskell allows you to decompose problems in ways such that each step along the way is very simple and in many cases obviously correct.

Obligatory Hoare quote:

> There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
Extremely interesting.

I'm puzzled by this paper, though, and by the number it reports: > 1600 wpm for spritzing (that's > 25 words per second), but even this 790 wpm median rate for standard reading (called PAGE, page 5, column 2, line 2) is something of a mystery to me...
Alright, to be fair, if you change anything at all in your application, you need write code. However, instead of spending two weeks and rebuilding everything under the sun, this change only required a quick update to how messages get posted.

To be precise, we do two things different now:

(1) Check if the sender of a message is the same as the current user, in which case we skip messages coming from Pusher.
(2) Before sending msg data to Pusher, we copy-paste the html onto the message thread.

That's not really "writing code", as far as thousands of lines of code are concerned.
Disable the computers and run the steering hydraulics manually
It's possible that they will be vulnerable remotely, but there is also the possibility to create interference or jam the signal with proximity to the ship. Maybe they will work in tandem with an online team...

I imagine the ships going through dangerous territory would probably have some sort of defense, if not munitions, then sound, laser, or other type. It's also not crazy to imagine that the ships would have flying drones on them for reconnaissance and other uses.
Thanks for the link, it does clarify matters.
Apple's SSL Vulnerability might allow NSA to hack iOS Devices Remotely
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I've noticed a lot of 'modern' sites now have a long-tail loading period as all the JS, resources, and real content show up.

The nav bar and structure of the FB news feed shows up < 1s for me right now, but the actual contents of the page take another few seconds. Total 3 – 5 seconds for the browser to indicate it's fully loaded.
I thought the same thing. Nothing a little JavaScript can't fix:

// Insert drop down item.
var li = document.createElement('li');
li.innerHTML = '<a href="#">1000wpm</a>';
li.setAttribute('data-value', '1000');
document.querySelector('.speed ul').appendChild(li);

// Create 1000wpm script
var s = document.createElement('script');
s.id = 'learntospritz_en_1000';
s.type='spritztext';
var data = JSON.parse(document.querySelector('#learntospritz_en_500').innerText);
data[17] = '1000';
s.innerText = JSON.stringify(data);
document.body.appendChild(s);
Where Have All the Workers Gone?
except you completely disregard cultural backgrounds, but meh. to each their own. interviewing just like any other skill can be practiced.

edit: not saying i disagree per se. I can tell really quickly if someone knows their shit by working with them for a day... or so i'd like to think. the truth is i've been completely misjudged based on interviews before. i've seen people on top of their fields do the same mistakes with other people because they "seemed to know" based on talk. in the end talk is just that, talk.
Disable the ships communications with jamming device. Tow it to port, hold ransom for % of cargo, or sell cargo in the local market.
I don't know anything about shipping, but I wonder how much of the crews' time is spent in maintenance and repairs. Are they trained to fix common issues? What happens when the robot boats break down?

Or are they just there to fill minimum crew size regulations and babysit ships that mostly drive themselves anyways?
Looks like it was built with Flash, so that could be it. Its a really cool project if you do get a chance to check it out on another device.
The way I envision BTC being used is via apps that connect individual users to individual exchanges.

What I envision: I take an auto and the driver tells me the fare is 100rs - 60rs meter + 40rs because fuck you it's Bangalore. He gives me a BTC wallet. My phone goes to an exchange, converts $1.65 or so into BTC and transmits to the drivers wallet. His phone then converts the BTC into rs.

I'm generally viewing BTC as a medium of exchange for cases that would otherwise require a bank transfer or currency conversion. There are a lot of these.
> Except for the CORS issue have you seen an exploit related to WebGL?

And as far as I can tell, that was the issue MS needed fixed before going ahead with WebGL, but then again I haven't been following their actions in this area. On the other hand, another Microsoft employee seemed to agree with Mozilla and Google: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/20/webgl_/

"And, frankly, if Microsoft has taken a formal position against WebGL, no one I know got the memo.”

So maybe it was only the MS Security team being paranoid, as they are supposed to be?

>As for the CORS issue, MS shipped CSS first and CSS had the same issue.

Wouldn't that indicate that they have more reason to be wary of things like this?

>You also realize that Mozilla started the WebGL spec, not Google and that Mozilla also released WebGL long before v1. Opera was also involved and MS was welcome to join but never bothered. WebGL is not proprietary. Never has been. So claiming Google is copying Microsoft by pushing proprietary standards is pretty disingenuous.

Mozilla doesn't have clean hands in this either. It may not be proprietary, but releasing an implementation with known vulnerabilities? Enabling something widely used connected to the Internet without sufficient hardening is exactly what MS did with Win95/WinXP/ActiveX, and it created a decade of malware-infested Internet. They also got widely excoriated for that. I wouldn't blame them for being cautious going forward.

> Want some MS evil evidence? Just Bing it

So negative advertising is "evil"? I knew F/OSS folks thought MS's publicity against their religion was "evil", because, well it offends their personal beliefs... but so is negative advertising against your employer? Sorry, but Google engages in a lot of that itself, it's just that people in this echo chamber uncritically accept it as fact because it confirms their biases.
Bro-hug. :) Seriously.
Tow the ship, assuming they had powerful enough boats...
I will update the post accordingly - I was referring to this slide - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wAxB5DPN-rcelwbGO6lC...
It amazes me, Google emphasizes sleek design, and ease of use. Yet, they seem to forget the old adage,

"Write programs that do one thing and do it well."

That simply adage pretty much sums up why Snapchat, WhatsApp, Instagram are successful and the Google Hangouts, Plus, etc. are failures.
Update on the Mt. Gox "Crisis Strategy Draft" leaked document
I've seen a demo; it was finicky and had issues and didn't do orientation.
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Dumb question, would finding this just be pot luck, or did they have an idea of what they were looking at before they decided to subject it to the battery of tests?
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In pure numbers, it affects around 10 - 12% of the market to be precise.
What I find interesting is that there has been very little talk about privacy concerns over iBeacon.

I wonder why that's the case?
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Ask HN: How do you increase your productivity?
Hi HN,

I'm a premedical student soon to go off to medical school. I'm rather productive already, but not to the level at which some on these forums are. What do you recommend for increasing your overall productivity (whether the product is your own, someone else's, or simply an idea you've had)

Thanks for your time!

(I'd like to primarily keep the discussion serious, if at all possible. I understand "get off the internet" is likely to increase my productivity, I truly do. But I'm genuinely curious about this question. I hope some of you can answer!)
> I believe many people consider this low risk, that they consider the likelihood of the government failing as much less likely than a particular company or commodity failing. (Of course that depends on the government.)

Perhaps nearly as importantly than considering it low risk in an absolute sense, they consider the risk of it with particular government currencies as being strongly correlated to the risk of money, regardless of its type, losing its utility.

If the US government loses the ability to protect the dollar so rapidly that holders don't have a viable exit to alternative currencies, that probably involves a pretty fundamental breakdown in society (particularly for people located in and around the US.)
Well it's because vendor lock in. Vendor X dont want you to access his messaging app from another client V, and instead of using P2P , Vendor Y uses a centralized server, with the a protocol not supported by any other vendor. But vendor U swears he supports open techs !!!
I've never seen a truck driver restock a shelve; what kind of shops are you thinking of? Unloading the delivery of boxes should possible to automate using a robot like those from Kiva Systems, even if harder due to less standard conditions.
Why Simple Sold Out To A Big Bank
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TIL that exists fleeting Reddit (short-lived posts and subreddits) – tempast
That's correct, and doesn't that <1s load for navbar make you feel so good? Honestly, would you log into FB as often, if the first part of the page took 3 second to load?

I've talked to some friends who work at FB and yeah, they use a lot of sequential loading (forgot the technical term for that). I wish I could implement more as well; someday.
Another option is to host your static site on BitBalloon (https://www.bitballoon.com) - we make the forms on the site work without any backend programming.

This doesn't leave your email in the HTML and we also do spam filtering on the form submissions (get a bit of traffic and your contact form will get lot of spam).
NO, in the Apple case its not hiring enough code reviewers..its even worse not using the coding talent they have to code a simple code scanner that detects brazen shit like a goto statement...

Apple's mes sup is pure management goof based on culture same as MTGX
Also want to mention that there are 7 completed chapters on the github repo. Seems like an amazing resource.

https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
"So, my Coinbase account was hacked, bitcoin stolen, now what?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946832

FYI, after some time, Coinbase followed up with my support ticket and said tough luck, bitcoins lost, better luck next time. No mention was made of any effort to track-down the hacker or fraudulent transaction. They probably didn't even block the hacker's IP address.

And yet, Coinbase declares, "We strongly believe in transparent, thoughtful, and comprehensive consumer protection measures. We pledge to lead the way."
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Because of the Kumon method, that is used very little in the Ocident. Kids learn three-digits addiction in preschool, as well as nouns, verbs and adjectives. At high school they already know advanced math (calculus, vectors, linear algebra, statistics, probability, etc...)
Hacking the Chinese Android market(s)
Web developers have been claiming forever that the web will take over and nobody will need apps or software outside of a browser, but is not close to becoming true yet on mobile. If you're considering making a poor web app or a poor native app, your time is probably better spent on the web app. Even if you're crafting an average app, it's probably a better use of your time to just get it working on the web. But the UX and speed that is possible in an exceptional native app is just not possible on the web today.

Airbnb absolutely benefits from having a fantastic app experience. Facebook and Twitter absolutely benefit from having exceptional apps. Google's iOS Gmail app isn't even a very good app (slow performance from being a web wrapper?) but it's still way better than using the web app in Safari. Basically if user experience and speed are a high priority and you are capable of making a decent app, the web is not a substitute for a native app.
At a first glance, this seems like Angular's digest loop. Can someone make a more elaborate comparison for people that know nothing about iOS?
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I haven't. I'm OK w/not getting messages from those that can't/won't follow direction.
Turning into an epic fiasco, I'd say. This story is unfolding like the second half of every episode for American Greed that I've ever seen on CNBC. You'd swear it's the same story over and over just the character names have been changed.

My prognosis is Bitcoin will survive and thrive as a technology, but current Bitcoin businesses and investments are about to take a big hit.
No, D2 was first released in 2007. It wasn't a completely new language written from scratch though. It was D1 with the addition of features that broke backward compatibility.
Personally, I run Debian Wheezy in its default desktop install, GNOME3 and all. It works very well in my opinion, but is neither as shiny or "solid-feeling" as OSX.
this in itself illustrates one of the problems with hangouts... why are there these two different ways of running it? where am I told which to use? how do I explain to my grandma that she shouldn't be using an "extension" but if she wants to video chat with me, she has to ... go to her email?? it's all very, very confusing
I can't believe you quoted that and missed where I said specifically I was talking about the non-amish US population, and the western hemisphere.
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That's definitely how I felt while learning Haskell: Like putting together a jigsaw, which reveals itself when it's done, rather than the usual plumbing and hoping there are no leaks in the end!
Apple doesn't have to claim copyright.

They can simply make sure your iBeacon proximity uuid doesn't get registered with the OS if you aren't a certified vendor.

No uuid registration with the OS and people using your app will not get a background notification for your iBeacons.

This would leave app developers with only having the ability to detect beacons when their app is foreground, or during background processing time.

Note: There are no checks like this today. You can advertise any UUID you want, and have your app subscribe for notifications if the os detects the iBeacon in the background.
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7299245
SQL, Prolog, Scheme, and VHDL seem to be doing just fine.

And if you leave off the "interpreted" qualifier, which is (a) a property of an implementation, not a language, and (b) is rather meaningless anyway (can you actually define "interpreted"?), well, then C ought to count too.
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Do they have to hire a team if someone with deeper pockets just came in and said "Shut it down, we're buying you out"?

You may be right that they are incompetent and it shows, but it doesn't necessarily follow that the answer is to right now immediately hire a new team and let them handle it.
Yes, this is my project - startup. What do think about it?
Unfortunately it's likely they will go "full asshole" as Apple is a controlled ecosystem.
Tim Cook had better make a public statement and make it soon.

Think antennagate.

It's one thing if your maps application is wrong ... but it's quite another if suddenly people feel like using your product puts their banking information at risk.
That's a good observation. I never thought of it that way.
If someone started a blog where they give an approachable overview of all these papers, would that be helpful? Would such a blog be considered rude since many people would read the blog summary instead of the actual paper?