skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NSS bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917571) is still NEW. Any idea when it will be finished and included in Firefox?
Zero. Bitcoins are worthless.
Does a headline with two HN memes get extra points?
Google Released Scraper Report Form to Help Original Content Writers
The word you are looking for is negligence.
http://www.gestha.es/?seccion=actualidad&num=221
Microsoft introduced a proprietary technology only IE5 could use and changed the world?

Google implemented in both a maps app (completely new UI, and WAY more novel use of Ajax than outlook) and a mail app a standard that worked across all browsers (also something missing in outlook).

Google showed us that you can use a new piece of tech across all browsers. Microsoft showed us you could do something in IE, and only IE.

Your statement is equivalent to saying "ActiveX changed the world". You maybe right, but no one cared about the change, and the change was probably negative.
Why do we always need to innovate?
A Bird-Like Flock of Autonomous Drones
It seems it is too early to state with any certainty that MtGox are also a victim here.

http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/the-ghost-in-the-machine-at-mtgox...
Thanks for the insights. Apparently Accenture has been contracted to help out (or take over) the HealthCare.gov website:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230381970...

I'm wondering - how is this perceived within the current team? Are you relieved that you will be getting reinforcements, worried that another big contractor could contribute to the complexity, or even disturbed that they could get the credit for fixing the site after all the hard work you put in?

I used to work at Accenture, so I'm curious as to how this will turn out.
Spaniard here. In Spain you have to look at the law in two ways (due to their stupid nature and that they are created following the interests of powerful people):
First you look at the law and see the legal holes in it (usually huge holes). Then you see how to directly avoid the law due to the poor enforcement when there is a direct violation.
For your question you need to apply both, most hacienda inspectors (spanish IRS) will be clueless of that kind of tactics for years. They usually only "learn" after a hole has been open for years or has been used by too much people.
I guess that in most countries people try to do this in a way or another. But in Spain some laws are so stupid that you have no option but to avoid them..
They're also staring down the barrel of last year's taxes, which are due in two weeks. (For filing - they might get an extra month to pay them.) They're almost certainly going to miss that deadline and the National Tax Agency is going to make some guesses as to their situation.

It would not be out of character for the NTA to say "You had $50 million in incoming wires? In the absence of a timely return accompanied by an income statement and balance sheet prepared in accordance with Japanese GAAP, we are forced to impute $50 million in income. Your bill comes to $20 million. Thank you for banking in Tokyo; we do so love not having to call the international desk to do collections."
Should the owner Mark Karpeles go to jail?

On one hand, there may be a chilling effect if Karpeles is sent to jail, because fewer companies may be willing to participate in an area where the penalty for failure is time behind bars.

On the other hand, it feels very inequitable and unjust that Karpeles made millions off of MtGox, lost our money and then is free to enjoy life. But that's a vengeful mindset, and it seems counterproductive.
Is it really just a bad situation with no recourse? Karpeles walks, MtGox shuts down, and everyone's money is gone. Poof.

The most persuasive argument for jailtime seems to be that if he's not penalized, then others may attempt to orchestrate similar disasters. Bitcoin has a very, very small chance at becoming the next gold standard, but it's a chance nonetheless. Therefore whoever is willing to flaunt the law and steal >5% of all bitcoins that will ever be created has a very, very small chance at becoming extremely powerful in the future, and wealthy in the short term.

I don't know. There's probably nothing to be done, and taking away years of a person's life out of a sense of retribution probably isn't the best answer.

What does everyone think?
Isn't it more like walking down the same bad street every night with other people's cash in their hands, getting mugged repeatedly, not telling anyone and still taking more money?
I'm an spaniard living in Spain. Yes, there is too much black market economy here, but I've never seen it with cars. People here usually don't pay VAT to the plumber, the electrician, etc.

EDIT: I'm talking about new cars. I guess the used car market is mostly black, but I don't know as I never bought or sold a used car.
I think the confusion arises from the term "thermostat". The example works much better with a "heating power dial", not a "desired indoor temperature dial".
To protect investors in a crowd funding campaign. Crowdfunding could be used as an instrument to avoid liability to investors. Limiting it limits the potential for fraudulent crowd funding campaigns.

Also: taxes
The trick is to know when the tax needs to be paid and what it needs to be paid on.

This is why accountants are important. They know the system and paperwork and words; they know how you can pay tax in one form cheaper and later instead of expensive and now.

I don't think UK taxes lottery winnings.
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Hilarious. Can't wait to hear from the choir of libertarian crypto-currency-zealots, who will sing the praises of the Ponzi scheme that is Bitcoin.

On a serious note: who benefits?
People say the same about Python, but it is completely possible. Deeply nested hashes with no comments explaining the structure. Variable names such as 'Indexes' and 'indexes' in the same function. I have had to rewrite code like that.
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After this, you still say "Bitcoin may be the next gold standard"?
As others have pointed out, Emacs has a GUI. But the fact that you didn't know this might suggest that the GUI part of Emacs isn't integrally linked to the killer features of Emacs.

Learning tools like Emacs is for many a matter of productivity. If you want productivity, you want to streamline your most commonly used actions. Streamlining things in an editor will probably mean to use keybindings, since you're using the keyboard to input text anyway. Then you have to memorize the keybindings (or: your fingers have to), and you have to practice using it to the point that it actually becomes more productive than whatever previous routine you had - you have to fight your old habits.

Building these habits is what takes time. The fact that Emacs has a GUI helps with feedback and discoverability, not that much with building habits. When you have finally built these habits, only then can you know if you are more productive. If you aren't you might have to unlearn a lot of your habits (for example by learning modal text editing).

- Written in my Emacs
That would be logical. However, this is not how things works here in Spain.
870,000 Bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox
I hear there is a coin launching soon that may interest you, SchadenCoin!
I might have to move from Squarespace to Ghost but I hate updating blogs manually, It's just another step to climb before I can actually write a post.

Since I graduated two years ago Coding Horror has taught me so much.
My observation is simply that the future is unknown, and therefore a greedy actor would benefit greatly from stealing >5% of a currency. The most straightforward way to do this is to set up a popular exchange and orchestrate a disaster which is secretly a theft. Since there's no way to prove it, and since bitcoin wallets can lay dormant for decades, there's at least some incentive to do this. Should jailtime be on the table for gross negligence? I'm just interested in everyone's thoughts on the matter.
All the new labor and economic laws created after the crisis have been done thinking in the interest of big corporations and banks. If you are a small entrepreneur you are basically screwed.. No that they don't help you, they are actively trying to make you go bankrupt even before beginning.

In this case if you have a project that can go beyond 1mill € (I can't think of any that could reach that quantity, but that's another question), you'll have to be creative and create a company in the UK or USA to manage it.

Reading the article I realize that what they are trying to do with the new law (that basically makes the crowd-founding unusable for startups), is to protect the small investor. We've had several small investors scams (one of them by Caja Madrid, a big savings bank), in all the cases, the regulators were accused of being too little involved.

I have to agree that is a matter of time before there is a big scam with crowd-founding in Spain. So the Spanish bureaucratic logic says you'd better punish all of them(those dangerous crowd-founders) before a notorious crime is committed.
Sad

Edit: added the last paragraph.
Edit2: readability and typos.
Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites
Negligence is when I forget to set my alarm.
I used to think the same. But as for any rule, there are exceptions. Documenting a Swahili project dealing with parsing official Swahili resources may not be best done in english, just translating every idiomatic notion into english would be a waste of time, effort and won't help anyone.

System that only make sense in a specific context should be OK to be documented in the most appropriate language.
Bitcoin is not anonymous. Is pseudonymous.
At least in the United States, an officer or director's right to stupidity is enshrined in law. But fraud isn't. If Karpeles knew and understood that there was a problem, there should be criminal charges. Further, there may be grounds for Mt. Gox and its investors to pursue Karpeles on civil grounds.

But this is philosophical. The operation of an unlicensed, dollar-based financial institution will attract the sharks. "Move fast and break [laws]" sometimes works, but only if you win.
"who benefits?"

Follow the money... erm... crypto bits.. um.
MySQL: How rows_sent can be more than rows_examined?
Personally, this fiasco hasn't affected in the slightest my beliefs about the protocol. Hell, if anything it might've been a small point in favour of decentralization.
This is a very good point.

But they were also dumb enough not to realize they were getting mugged, or so they claim.

Maybe I should have used "pick-pocketed" instead of mugged as an example.

I am not trying to give them an excuse but we don't seem to have enough anger against the criminals that caused this.
>I was thinking of the backers.

I don't think they care about the backers.
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I quite don't understand the article. Does 70% refer to the number of infractions or the total monetary volume of fiscal fraud? If this is a volume number, is this the case "80/20" rule where 80% of fiscal fraud volume originates from a small fraction of the wealthy?

This is an article, but can't find the report. Is there a report one can download? Or is it just an opinion piece?
Adobe’s new product integration streamlines content across devices 
One of the big challanges for large companies, especially in the digital age, is establishing and maintaining brand consistency. A corporation like Sony for example, wages a daily war to ensure consistent communications across five continents.Today Adobe announced that they’re integrating their Digital Publishing Suite with Adobe Experience Manager, in an effort to capture a larger market share of this growing sector.
Spain is a horrible place to do business. First hand experience and official data http://www.doingbusiness.org confirm that.
Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy
A childhood friend of mine is now really worried since nearly 80% of his new videogame funding comes from crowdfunding. This measure will easily throw down the drain his and his 20 employees jobs.
Picking A Programming Language? Python And Java Still Top The Charts
TBH, it doesn't look too good. The syntax is all over the place, bad indentation, missing semicolons, a loop variable is leaking, it doesn't follow common conventions... But don't give up, keep improving your skills. Here's a replacement for that monstrous "getURLParameters" to pique your curiosity that can save you a few more lines:

function getURLParameters(url) {
var res = {},
re = /[?&]([^?&]+)=([^?&]+)/g;
url.replace(re, function(_,k,v) {
res[k] = v;
});
return res;
}

Then use it like "getURLParameters(window.location)".

Also just a tip in general, if you're up for some more constructive criticism I'll rewrite your "hasclass" function following conventions. So it goes from this:

function hasclass (el, className) {
if (el.classList)
return el.classList.contains(className);
else
return new RegExp('(^| )' + className + '( |$)', 'gi').test(el.className);
}

To this:

function hasClass(el, className) {
if (el.classList) {
return el.classList.contains(className);
}
return new RegExp('(^| )' + className + '( |$)', 'gi').test(el.className);
}

Notice the camel casing in "hasClass", the braces around "if", and the early return.
Pizza Wrocław – Pizzastation
link showing DanBC is indeed correct (http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/help/playinginsto...)

though UK lottery winnings will still be taken into account for inheritance tax if the winner dies within 7 years.
Designing Tools
Package up voip.ms or anveo on the backend in a nice UI, and provide a reliable SIP app (e.g. sipdroid), and you basically have what you guys are going for. If you focus on polish you can probably charge a premium, as right now there's still a high tech factor involved in setting such a system up.
LastMinute.com hit by 46% fall in organic visibility following Google penalty
Switching Docker from aufs to devicemapper
TIL: $565 are worthless (http://www.bitcoinexchangerate.org/)
> bitcoin industry

What the? They certainly do seem to consume a couple of factories worth of electricity
Business calls are one of those things that any engineer doesn't want to be involved in. Thus, there's no passion behind the projects that exist :-)
Not quite, the replaceState() function, as its name would imply, replaces a history item instead of creating a new one.
You forgot to add "just as Fiat money is worthless".
as an italian and fellow southern european, this has been true for a long time here too.

So now they added a new 20% tax on private bank transfers from UK bank accounts to italian ones.

Just saying: be wary if your government gets inspired.
Just like everything, until we decide to give it value. Gold is completely and absolutely worthless to us humans, we don't need it to function and it serves no biological function in our organisms whatsoever. But because we like it and there is a scarcity of it, we will trade goods for it. Just like with bitcoins.
A Spectrum of Trust
There are older blogs on the web (mine is 13+ years). What impresses me about Jeff is that he has built up such a huge audience, and effectively converted that into a business. I don't always agree with his opinions, but that's fine I can still admire his output.
More than a million: two years ago, Double Fine crowdfunding project revolutionised video game industry and revived a genre long-time abandoned by major companies: adventure games https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-...

It is the best known proof that it works, that people can be heard when someone is ready to listen them. And they will give money for that.

And this, this will probably never happen in Spain.

Edit: > million (reason for this answer).
Indeed. These sensors are the impressive part of wearables, it will be tough to build a differentiated product on top. Invensense becomes the Apple/Samsung, and the wearable maker becomes an app, but with hardware development timelines and costs. The way to win is if someone can make a "killer app", and continue to innovate faster than competitors simply copying what works.
No doubt it is used to discredit a target's reputation. I am ashamed to be English, someone please help.
This is really a beautiful work, congratulations!

As someone also said here, should have more explanation about the subject Trigonometry. But I am sure I can show this to a kid and give the explanation too.

Again, very well done.
Correlation, causation, blah blah blah. There are people who pocketed a lot of taxpayer money creating the healthcare.gov failboat, and no one is being held accountable. That's my takeaway from the article.
That's actually very interesting. The UIKit framework that powers most iOS apps uses a similar approach in its collection and table view classes, which is one of the reasons that scrolling managed to be so smooth even on the limited hardware of the original iPhone.

Ember.js similarly has Ember.ListView[1] which was the first implementation of that idea I'd seen on the web. I had no idea that Google Wave had beaten them to the punch by so many years.

[1]: https://github.com/emberjs/list-view
I would have some sympathy for them, if they had shut down immediately after realizing they would not be able to pay their debts. Instead we were fooled with "everything is ok, we are reopening soon" PRs while massive insider trading was going on. Victims or not, the way they handled this is probably criminal.
Not really.

When someone gets mugged it's simple to be sympathetic to what's happened.

When someone gets mugged and you gave them assets to hold and/or transfer, and they didn't take due care of the security of these assets, this makes them culpable and negligent.

Yes, MtGox are probably having a really shit time right now, and yes I'd feel sorry for anyone who'd just fucked up this royally (assuming there was definitely no intent to defraud on their part), but that sympathy is tempered by a recognition that they've made the world vanish from under thousands of peoples feet as they see assets they trusted with the exchange float away into the ether.

This is why managing risk and having rules that protects consumers is so useful. Everyone's a hedgefund investor until suddenly the rug gets pulled out from under their feet.
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The Python script used to generate a relevant MotD is nice, but I wonder how it compares to this Go implementation: https://github.com/jhchen/ansize
> "no cell handoff"
I'm curious how this would work. Presumably in the pCell system the base station focuses the radio signals in something like a beam towards the device but this must have a finite range - I wonder how far - and when you go out of range the system must switch to another base station. Maybe you call this a different name than 'handoff' but presumably the switching base stations thing must happen some how?
The same bill mentions new crowdfunding platforms must have:

- At least € 50000 on capital stock

- A civil liability insurance that covers up to € 150000 per year.

Also individual donors must not donate:

- More than a total of € 6000 per year on crowdfunding projects

- More than € 3000 per year on a single crowdfunding project

Funnily enough, political parties in spain can:

- Get donations from individuals for up to € 100.000 yearly.

- Foundations or associations owned by political parties (think tanks) can receive limitless donations.
I like the idea. There is many ways to extend e-mail functionality by building additional layers on top of it. But imagine having a group e-mail conversation for a large number of people where just a fraction of them is using the featured e-mail client. How would you communicate this additional information to the other? More e-mails? Or just completely skip it?

At http://www.mailcloudapp.com We're currently working on new ways to use e-mail. Always hungry for feedback and new ideas! ;)
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It is definitely on it's way out. We are having more and more trouble scaling to volume production for each production node. 14nm is behind schedule. 9nm is going to be harder and no one is really sure how to get down to 5nm. Beyond 5nm parts of the transistor will need to be smaller than an atom. We are hitting a wall, predictions are that by 2020 the cost of developing new manufacturing techniques will not justify the return. A fundamentally new substrate or perhaps paradigm will be required to push us forward. This will need to be revolutionary not evolutionary in nature. This is not guaranteed to be forthcoming in time to continue Moore's law.
On used cars is mixed. You need to pay taxes based on sell value, with a lower limit based on the blue book equivalent we have here. People just declare a bit less than blue book value and pay the minimum.

But yes, most of Spain's submerged economy is via services without invoices (no VAT, no IRPF).
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You think gold being stolen reduces its value? If not, why do you think it would happen here?
Very nice, the fact that only requires an nginx module (which I didn't know existed) is a big plus in my book. I will definitely be using this.
So much speculation and theories. Seems like Occam's razor wins again.
I don't know much more than you, but I'll give it a shot:

We can say whatever we like, really. If you mean "is it true", then yes, if our sample was representative of all the programmers and not biased in some way, the new programmer will have a 80% chance of liking science.

In reality, though, "80% chance of liking science" is just a best guess. Since all we have to go with is the sample we already studied, we assume it's representative (or try to correct for the bias we know) and make a guess based on that.

This has nothing to do with causation, however.
After seeing Twitch.TV's Pokemon... Automating Gameplay with TestComplete
Yeah I know UK doesn't, that's why I said "most" EU countries, and not all of them.