skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think O/Ss are, in a way, overrated, as the core usage for non-power users is simply based on the applications.

Most users probably use all the Windows-es exactly the same way. An acquaintance of mine was actually complaining that Windows 8 was too different.

Of course, security is a different story.

I personally still prefer XP, as I can tell you that Windows 7 is a horrible HD-eating monster, while Windows XP has a small footprint, and it's very lean.

Note - I'm a Linux user, by the way.
Encrypt all the Things. Google and Twitter endorse encryption principals
So you think a country is just going to have a nice peaceful revolution without fringe political movements making moves to be in the drivers seat when the country starts to stabilize again?

There are def. Nazi supporters in the mix, the pictures and such don't lie. To assume all Ukrainians that are actively participating in the overthrow of their own government are Nazis just because a fringe group exhibit Nazi propaganda sounds like a whole lot of throwing out the baby the bath water to me.

Every revolution we've seen in the past few years has been either partially orchestrated or fully hijacked by an opposed political party. Arab Spring was full of Al Qaida, Hezbollah, and Muslim Brotherhood influences to the point that in Egypt they had to basically have a revolution of their revolution to break the power structures that settled after the first one and out the leaders that ended up making power grabs during the chaos.

If you were to see a similar thing here in the US you'd better believe half of the people would be classified terrorists and there would be a power struggle between the two primary opposing parties and the fringe parties that would hope to capitalize on the chaos, they(KKK, BlackPanthers, "Don't Tread on Me" crowd, etc.) would all be trying to garner support/awareness and make a good name/image for a political role after things had calmed down.
The solution is to live in a place of relative ecological abundance where you can buy locally-raised animal products with minimal environmental impact. Hunting your own meat (in my case, deer) is also a good option. I recommend Canada.
Do you write for Pravda, by any chance? That style of frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Ukraine propaganda seems eerily familiar.
Just to add a bit of color, over the weekend I upgraded an old Acer netbook to Windows 8.1. The specs weren't great: 1.6GHz first gen Atom/945 PCH, 1GB Ram 250GB hard drive.

Overall Windows 8.1 is faster and more usable, with the BIG exception of the screen's 1024x600 resolution being unsupported in Metro (which made getting Windows 8.1 interesting). Intel has a hack to show a "larger" resolution in that space. Once Windows 8.1 was loaded I gave the laptop back to my Aunt. She'll probably never think about the Metro side of things (she'll use it as a large start menu for her traditional Windows apps) so that will be fine. I'll probably throw some more memory in there and it'll work for the next couple years.
There are a lot of things I don't find pleasant to use even when there are no issues. Lots of clunky, weirdly designed tech in the world.
One other unforced error with c.j was having almost every function take a dictionary of args instead of a sane argument list. That left "grep the codebase" and "read the entire function definition and god help you if it passes on the argument dict" as the two horrible options for figuring out how to even call most of the functions.

But we probably could have erected a blast shield around that mess if only we could have written functions and aggregators in ruby.
Someone please work on the screenplay, and please have David Fincher direct.
What I like about this story is how consistent it is with decades of stories from financial fraud. E.g., the downfall of Nick Leeson and Barings Bank:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson

Poor internal controls, greed, arrogance, and snowballing losses that lead to greater and greater risks. And then disaster, at least in the cases we hear about.
GoxBTC is BTC that you had in your account at Mt Gox, essentially, an entry in their database.

RealBTC is what you got when you finally got it out of them, to spend elsewhere.
I also had the same issue, but Gareth verified my information and got the transaction through in around 10 minutes. Props to them for quick service.
Insofar as you take as premise that the arrangement was good in the first place, it doesn't really follow that it's abusive for the telecoms to continue to bill for infrastructure costs associated with maintaining and building their ability to tap to meet government demands. It's not as if there has been 0 infrastructure buildout since 1994.

Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's abusive. Rather, the 1994 law seems quite abusive.
How is this on the front page? I could get 10% of Americans to click pretty much any box if I designed the survey appropriately. Good riddance, this makes me which HN had a down-vote button.
They're probably not doing high enough doses and/or a combination of the following:

Using LSD with intentions to not be bigoted, prejudice, etc.

Taking LSD with the intention to introspect, experience spirituality, etc

Taking lots of medium dose LSD over time (years, decades) till the character of the experience gradually evolves for them in such a way as to reduce bigotry and prejudice

When people say LSD can have profound effects on people what often gets left out is that one may need to take it more frequently and in higher doses than most recreational users tend to do. Intentions matter, too.
If by "he" you mean the person who drew the picture:

First, I absolutely LOVE it when people assume I'm a dude. Plot twist: no I don't. If you don't know someone's gender, getting it wrong with an assumption is a good way to hack them off.

Second: the function is explicitly prototyped as returning bool (I highlighted this in neon green) which means caller expects true or false. It returns a negative value that is not intended to represent either true or false but a detailed error code. THAT IS THE BUG.

If bools don't exist in C then neither does strlen, gahh.
Which is why government insuring bank deposits isn't such a crazy idea. If the government collapses and can't stand behind the policies, then you have some really big problems on your hands and it is likely that private insurers wouldn't have fared much better. If the government doesn't collapse, everyone gets made (more or less) whole again. Basically, when the government is your insurer, there is no "Who insures the insurer?" problem, or at least the problem becomes moot.
Russia’s very different take on Ukraine crisis
Should not be the total replacement for all because?

Also, you could use LUA with nginx to increase the flexibility (if the lack of it was what you mean).
Ask HN: Questions for Freelancers/Contractors?
Hey guys

I have been back on the freelance market pretty heavy for the last year and I had an idea for a small tool product for freelancers/contract works of any type

1. What is your normal deliverable?

2. How do you deliver that to the client?

3. Do you deliver before or after payment?

4. How do you usually accept payment?
> Clang begs to differ on that point http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html

Impressive! I see that exported templates got scrapped in the latest standard -- they probably never supported that.

In any case, my point wasn't that Clang was bad (I think Clang is very good) but that the few limitations that might exist in Clang or GCC are probably not holding back C99 adoption.
Find their biggest objection and their primary decision maker. You mentioned in a acomment security is a concern for them. Argue that using amazon is far more secure than their system (which is likely true). See aws compliance here: http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/
> It never mentions anything about the quality of the animal protein

why do you think this matters. their study studies the relation between protein and longevity.

> People that are actually eating paleo aren't just eating any animal protein. And that makes a big difference.

the article indicates that the causal link is related to IGF-1 levels. what does protein "quality" have to do with this, or longevity in general?
Even if this article were 100% true (which I doubt), I wouldn't follow the advice.

Switching from a low-protein to high-protein diet has had the most dramatic positive effect on my health and fitness I've seen in my short 35 years on this earth.

For most of my life I basically got no real protein in my diet -- cereal for breakfast, pasta for dinner, etc. I was always just a bit out of shape, and no matter how much time I spent at the gym I saw minimal improvements.

A few years ago I was inspired by a weightloss thread on reddit and "rebooted" my eating and fitness. Started running, dumped my carb-heavy diet and moved to a high-protein diet -- Greek yogurt, lots of chicken, cheese, etc.

I've lost 30 lbs and am seriously in better shape than I've ever been. My exercise level went up, sure, but the dramatic change came from my diet reboot.

So frankly, even if this were true, I'd rather live the life I've got now than go back to the low-protein lethargy of my 20s.
It's a pretty widely accepted fact google around

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_pr...
I get the point that we need to take vacations. I really enjoy mine, and I try to take at least 3 small-ish vacations during the year, plus a big one.

Having said that... making them mandatory? We're adults, we should act like them.
Paying for icons? No thanks. I have http://fontawesome.io/
So does http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ and many others.

The advantage here is using multiple colors ... but the disadvantage is that you need to load the files individually.
Well, it's not even scholarships in the traditional sense necessarily, but the department covers tuition and you get a stipend. I'm eyeing a PhD down the road, swapping with my significant other when she finishes hers, and I would also turn down any non-stipend positions.

It's really surprising to me that a wealthy university like NYU would charge PhD candidates. If you don't mind sharing, what field/topic were you considering?
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1zk81g/low_protein_...

Comments here do a good job pointing out the shortcomings of the study.
I'd venture to say that there's a different cancer profile for those actively working out than a random sampling.
That's because it's a ridiculous statement. Sure, cattle convert grain calories into meat calories fairly inefficiently. But cattle evolved to eat grass, not grain. Grazing cattle on the prairies is far more environmentally friendly than ripping up that prairie to replace it with a wheat monoculture.

Animals that evolved to eat grains, such as chickens, convert calories much more efficiently.
Wouldn't open-sourcing XP be sort of meaningless unless they also open-sourced the Windows NT kernel, which Vista, 7 and 8 also run on? I can't imagine that happening.
BIO 101:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency
Show HN: Spritzer, a tiny JS library to integrate the Spritz reading method
Sure, do that too. Can't imagine it happening either, but am still suggesting that they do it.
This could make for a twist on CAPTCHA. If you took pairs of gifs with huge vote disparities you would effectively have a right answer and a wrong answer.
Whenever someone brings up the "trusting trust" thingy, I feel compelled to point out the antidote:
http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
Why Google fiber will never come to Seattle
I recall hearing Mt. Gox had some sort of deal with Eligius where they'd include Mt. Gox's transactions for free. I don't know what Eligius got in return, if anything.

The religious messages thing is a strawman. Miners are allowed to include whatever they want in the coinbase. It's common among pools, and hardly considered "tampering". https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38007.0

Edit: more info: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zifxf/why_is_the_a...
Couldn't a bitcoin exchange publish a list of accounts that they use to hold coins for customers, and similarly, request that their bank confirm that the sum of customer funds is greater than X?

I mean, we might not see exactly the number of things we expect, but if it's holding over 95% of the value expected (through those mechanisms), and shows a successful trend of having increases when it claims and decreases when it claims, then it seems relatively trustworthy.
dead pixel,

its stars are specks

of dust
Also female with quite a few year experience (please don't let me be 13 again). Many of my circle have moved away from replaceable products in exchange for reusable products, for environmental reasons. But you need very good access to clean and hot water. So there will be another revolution to come, once Tampax loses it's hold.
probably this: http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(14)0..., and http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(14)0...
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ" -- Gandhi
All those media queries!

500px ⇒ 14px
570px ⇒ 15px
620px ⇒ 16px
680px ⇒ 17px
720px ⇒ 18px
800px ⇒ 19px
860px ⇒ 20px
920px ⇒ 21px
1000px ⇒ 22px

This can be simplified a lot with the vw unit. 1vw = 1% of viewport width.

The differences between each pixel increase in font size seem rather arbitrary: 70, 50, 60, 60, 80, 60, 60, 80. Let's simplify it, going for 14px below 500px, 22px above 1000px, and linear interpolation between widths 500px and 1000px. That way you can just use calc(). Oh, and I'll use `:root` instead of `html`, for joie de vivre.

:root {
font-size: calc(6px + 1.6vw);
}
@media screen and (max-width: 500px) {
:root {
font-size: 14px;
}
}
@media screen and (min-width: 1000px) {
:root {
font-size: 22px;
}
}

If a browser doesn't support calc() or the vw unit, it will just keep the browser's default of 16px.
Observational study with not even an attempt to control other variables = confirmed useless
I dismiss amarok and rkward for the same reason: a dependency on kde-runtime. This is just a philosophical decision that the kde community made that I disagree with. Why does rkward, a stats program, need to have the phonon-backend-vlc video or libkntlm dependencies? An RDF daemon or kio-audiocd (i don't have a CD drive)? I use awesome as a window manager, so I do not have KDE/GNOME installed. However i can and sometimes will install most "gnome" apps because they do not have a dependency on gnome-core. For comparison:

Clementine vs Amarok

# apt-get --no-install-recommends install clementine
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
clementine libechonest2.1 libftgl2 liblastfm1 libprojectm2 libprotobuf8
libqjson0 libqt4-opengl libqxt-core0 libqxt-gui0 projectm-data
ttf-dejavu-core
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,715 kB of archives.
After this operation, 28.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.

# apt-get --no-install-recommends install amarok
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
amarok amarok-common amarok-utils kate-data katepart kde-runtime
kde-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools
libattica0.4 libdbusmenu-qt2 libdlrestrictions1 libepub0 libfam0 libiodbc2
libkactivities6 libkatepartinterfaces4 libkcmutils4 libkde3support4
libkdeclarative5 libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 libkdnssd4
libkemoticons4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkidletime4 libkio5 libkjsapi4
libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4
libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4 libktexteditor4 libkxmlrpcclient4
liblastfm1 libloudmouth1-0 libnepomuk4 libnepomukcore4 libnepomukquery4a
libnepomukutils4 libnl-route-3-200 libntrack-qt4-1 libntrack0 libphonon4
libplasma3 libpolkit-qt-1-1 libqca2 libqjson0 libqt4-opengl
libqt4-qt3support libqtscript4-core libqtscript4-gui libqtscript4-network
libqtscript4-sql libqtscript4-uitools libqtscript4-xml libsolid4 libsoprano4
libssh-4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libtag-extras1 libthreadweaver4
libzip2 nepomuk-core-data nepomuk-core-runtime ntrack-module-libnl-0
oxygen-icon-theme phonon phonon-backend-vlc plasma-scriptengine-javascript
shared-desktop-ontologies soprano-daemon
0 upgraded, 82 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 75.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 202 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Gnumeric vs Rkward

# apt-get --no-install-recommends install gnumeric gnumeric-plugins-extra
...
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 456 kB/7,289 kB of archives.
After this operation, 34.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.

# apt-get --no-install-recommends install rkward
...
0 upgraded, 70 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 61.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 143 MB of additional disk space will be used.
>The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the lower court ruling on Monday in a 2-to-1 decision, saying that Aereo’s streams of TV shows to individual subscribers did not constitute “public performances,” and thus the broadcasters’ copyright infringement lawsuits against the service “are not likely to prevail on the merits.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/business/media/aereo-wins-...
Now this is cool. Thank you for sharing the link.
Yeah, that's an unfortunate part of Ruby's design and culture though and not really specific to c.j. Since Ruby doesn't have real keyword arguments, you don't get any checking (even at run time) that the things you passed in aren't completely wrong (and thus silently ignored). We could have fixed that bit with some API redesign, so it's not nearly as dire a problem. The other two things couldn't really be fixed without changing languages entirely.
Any 10-minute Google search over the past year would reveal that Gox had been having absurd problems for awhile and that there were several more reputable exchanges available to would-be day traders. Over the past year, a visit to any bitcoin forum wouldn't be complete without a highly visible 'Gox screwed up and their support sucks. Stay away!' thread. Unsurprisingly, the Gox market share had shrunk to a fraction of its former might months ago. Sad as it may be for those affected, this is how a market learns to value one competitor over another. The free-market result of the Gox situation is that exchanges and other custodial companies in the space are now differentiating themselves with enhaced security, transparency and 'proof of reserves' features. No cumbersome regulatory framework required.
i'm just (still) glad i didn't buy into the latest fad because of common sense.

all stories aside i believe that bitcoin is unsafe - and that this has been /blatantly/ obvious since i first encountered it as a suggested method to launder money and fund criminal activity.

don't buy unregulated 'currencies' with a strong history and incentive for money laundering and facilitating the black market. its violates the spirit of the law of pretty much every nation on earth.

whilst i genuinely believe that cryptocurrency is possibly the way forward - certainly a global currency which is independent of such whimsical things as nation states, politics and commodoties - i also think that it took a spectacular lack of common sense or 'street smarts' to actually spend money on bitcoins.

nice story... but i am indifferent to its truth - it doesn't negate the obvious risk of investing in bitcoin. but then many will say 'the greater the risk the greater the reward' and they are precisely correct.

NB: i barely trust the bank - i have a bank account 'under duress' as most of you probably have - that i would like to see my earnings from employment. how did that happen? why should banks have any involvement in my remuneration for work. /i would very much rather cash in hand that you can't fuck up for me because you are gambling it on the stock market under the pretense of running a business/. its not like we have self inflicted financial crises as a result or anything at all... :/
Mt. Gox tried to secure insurance of customer deposits. Japanese insurance companies asked them about the specifics of their business and then said, to paraphrase, "Oh HELL no." One of the issues was that they were awaiting guidance from the Financial Services Authority, because insurance companies hate uncontrolled regulatory risk. The other issues were the sort of thing which will get your Errors and Omissions insurance application circular filed regardless of whether you're running an exchange or running a web development shop.

E&O insurance is surprisingly simple to understand. You fill out a 5ish page application, which asks you about the character of your business, your tech infrastructure, and your procedures/policies/etc regarding particular risks. The underwriter reads your application then asks some drilldown questions. The two I got were "Confirm Mr. McKenzie has 5+ years of professional experience in system administration" and "Confirm that the use of Appointment Reminder in a hospital is for the hospital's business administration or the convenience of patients, rather than for treatment/diagnosis/etc of a medical condition." (Translation: If it breaks, does anyone die? If so, we will probably not write this policy.)
Just have to wait for this bugfix to make it to Chrome stable:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=249099
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I'm glad you've found a way to make science work for you -- and shared your experiences -- and I wish you the all the best.
Really does seem like these guys are a day late and a dollar short.

So far the list out the added value over fontawesome I can see is:

- Multiple colors
I feel I am perhaps being too pessimistic, but I fear this trend toward this heavier, unused-feature filled web-- a mosaic of libraries that make web development or design better in X and Y way that really doesn't affect the end user that much, but largely increases the cost and speed of viewing a webpage, especially in places and countries without the high internet speeds the developers inevitably have.

How many icons will a website need before an abstraction like this is necessary to manage them?

If every icon has each element labelled with large prefixed classes (".iconic-camera-slr-lens-release"), this is going to be a lot of extra footprint for websites that have enough icons to make this useful.

Perhaps I am alone in thinking that colourful icons are somewhat noisy, and thus will be used only in designs where icons are prominent elements, and as such infrequently; with that frequency, they could even be individually coded for.