skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really just government sanctions? Or do regulatory cost and exposure to liability have something to do with it, too?

I think that in the USA at least, government sanctions are far from guaranteed - the courts have confirmed that BTC is a currency. What that means is that there is no longer a question of if you can legally start a Bitcoin exchange in the USA - it's a question of what hoops you have to jump through to do it. (And liability. . . I'm curious if the Flexcoin situation means we'll soon be finding whether a clickthrough EULA that says, "Not responsible for lost or stolen bank accounts" is enforceable.)

Now, perhaps the hurdles are prohibitively high. I'm more than willing to believe that's true. But if so, then you're being rather melodramatic to frame this in terms of "government sanctions". That makes it sound like people aren't doing it because they don't want to knowingly engage in illegal activity. It'd be more realistic to just say that competent people are staying out because the regulatory environment results in an excessive cost of doing business for anyone who wants to make sure they're operating on the up-and-up.
Q&A with an Astrophysicist from Stanford's Particle Accelerator
No, its simply more informed.
Is money a bottleneck to getting more of these machines out? If so, what charity would someone donate to?
In real world situations you already need to go to the database to do validation. For example to check that a username is not already taken. And because of the race condition, you still need to be prepared to handle a duplicate-key integrity error when actually trying to create the user row.
A good example, why diversity is important. I would have never thought of it.
"newer" in the sense of "in the last 12 months".

http://blog.cloudflare.com/understanding-and-mitigating-ntp-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036037

http://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-behind-a-400gbp...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7230847

EDIT: just saw who submitter is. :)
Why do you think their economy has been depressed for over a decade? Every time they show a glimmer of growth, they yank out the rug from underneath by raising taxes.
Couldn't have said it better myself. As soon as imo drops support for other messengers my connections are gonna go from over a 100 to 4. And I'm powerless to fix this.
What do you mean by depend on an ini file? I wasn't aware there was any settings for equality testing there..
Not at all. I just wanted to point out that it looks like one of the best typefaces of all time except without it's best features. Did not mean to come across as arrogant. I understand it will be useful to some people who don't care or who are unable to pay $30 for Frutiger.
I'll take that as a "No."
I guess if we had room temp superconductors and you could install them under all of the roads and sidewalks, and the hover board had really strong magnets onboard, that might hover.

Or if it's a self contained theme park "ride" you could possibly use existing super conductors and actively cool them. (I'm imaging a super cold skate rinc concept)

Can anyone correct my physics understanding?
So, you're sublimating your frustration with a broken company into dislike for a tool. Logical.
Alcohol is probably much worse than weed or coffee over the long run. It's exceedingly hard to slowly poison your liver and brain over the course of a lifetime by smoking herb. It's easier than you think to do it drinking alcohol.

I'm not a teetotaler by any means. I drink a couple of glasses of something pretty much every other day. But that's about the limit of what a healthy, adult male should be drinking. Any more than that, especially over the long run, and you're setting loose a lot of chickens that will come home to roost when you're older.

I don't smoke weed with nearly the frequency I did when I was young. That's got less to do with my beliefs about its health effects, and more to do with being too busy. But every now and then, sure. Sharing a couple of beers and a joint is a fantastic social experience.

On a related note: SF is one of the most weed-friendly towns I've ever lived in, and there is virtually no stigma whatsoever here. One time I saw a dude light up right outside the freaking airport baggage claim, in broad daylight, and nobody around him seemed to care.
"Why on earth..." I see what you did there.

But seriously, I don't think I've ever heard of using M for meters.
A Dodge Ram is not a "normal" sized car even in the U.S., and will be quite out of place in say Philadelphia.
Actually, limits and infinitesimals are two very different explanations/foundations for calculus. Infinitesimals are much more intuitive.

Up to last decade, limits were the only rigorous enough explanation. Until someone invented an equally rigorous reconstruction of calculus with infinitesimals.
Not very secure if anyone can just waltz into your chat room.
Beej's guide to network programming is great http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/ - it's pretty deep, but it's very clearly written.
Cool idea, guess scaling isn't a feature tho.
Designing a font is one of the few things on my "bucket list" (designing a Linux desktop environment being another one). But it being quite the undertaking, I end up relying upon fonts I find while browsing the web (I keep a list of the best-looking/most useful ones).

Typekit and Google Web Fonts really changed the state of font usage in web design. We're not restricted anymore by a fixed amount of fonts, nor have to rely upon images or weird technologies (remember Cufon?) to display custom fonts. It has its drawbacks (loading time, unreadable thin characters...), but it's overall a great step forward in software-less web design and graphical variety (which in turn improves visual identity).
I wasn't able to open the article, it was hanging on a call to disqus.com and I have that IP banned in my firewall (iptables):

http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/ip-address

108.168.209.242
The link makes the point that 'Nagios has all these things wrong with it, like a horrible UI. Fortunately, there's Sensu, which requires you to build your own UI to do these things it can do. And by 'it' I mean 'other software instead'.'

I like the idea of Sensu, and I would love to have a system built on it, but I don't have the time or energy to build that system, create the parts of it that need creating, tie them all together, and then (ha!) make sure they're all monitored so that none of my monitoring system fails.

Being pro-Nagios is like being pro-USA: it does a lot of things that annoy people, but in the end it means well, gets the job done, and you know what the caveats are. It's not perfect, but I have other problems to solve and systems to build.
I'm sorry, were you sitting next to me during every use of Android I've had? If not, then don't tell me what happened, because you can't. Period.

And where's the proof for your second claim? Show me how you can reject individual permissions, without root, on a stock android phone, such as the HTC One, Galaxy S4, or anything, really?

I can take screenshots this instant that illustrate that you can't do that on a stock device.

I'm not a fanboy, I have devices on both sides of the fence. You however are rejecting my claims with ZERO proof. I believed that is called willful ignorance.

So, for all of your "wrong" statements, provide some proof, or STFU
I guess if it is humble enough, that opinion isn't too harmful. I think many people would find it dismissive of their experience, especially since you have no justification for characterizing their experience for them. To presume to speak of "The LSD Experience" is anything but humble.
It's much different if you're a second time founder (you have sold acompany before) such as Zac's co-founder.

If you're a first time founder without significant traction, I think it's very unlikely to get into YC. I can imagine less than 5% of first time founders in the past few years that got into YC didn't have decent traction. Does anyone have numbers on that?
Gifgif – A fun way to catalog the internet's emerging emotional vocabulary
3. Correct, and not knowing anything about the author I would venture that the reason is that he uses imperial in his everyday life, and thus it has been a concession to the wider world to do this in metric, for which I am grateful :-)

Citation for "lowercase m for meters": http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec06.html
Whoops! We're working on it.
Maybe this appeals to the man or woman that thinks NYC/SF is a magical world full of only people of the opposite sex. I just moved from NYC to SF, and it's really not that exceptional of a difference.

Fair enough, let's play this out. Women are going to pay $500 (without accommodations), to go on 3 dates, and fly back. Guys pay $100 for a cocktail party with a plane full of ladies from New York. Then what happens? You pick up and move your life across the continent for your love at first date, or do you keep going on $500 first dates?

At some point someone has to move across the country. It'd make more sense to me that, if you think NYC is some oasis overflowing with women... just move there. It's not so hard. There is a tech sector, and it's really a fun place to live. Just make sure you live by Carroll Gardens, because that's where i noticed all the girls in Brooklyn seem to live. Women who want to move to SF... Yea, um, good luck finding an apartment. See you in Oakland!
Working video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIyBZNGH0TY#t=20m40s
> Kudos to the OP...I wish more graphics programmers did this.

While graphics programmers never update their blogs as much as many would want (which is true of almost all bloggers with interesting things to write about), if you instead look at a large set of graphics programmer blogs, you get new posts all the time.

And, good news! Someone has been collecting them :)

http://svenandersson.se/2014/realtime-rendering-blogs.html
The resulting standards would probably be so expensive that they couldn't afford to implement them, or the standards would create an uncompetitive cost structure (see Coinkite). Also, security isn't lean.
To wrap my mind around it, I try to imagine astronomical objects as everyday objects. For example, if Sun was a base-ball in my hand, the earth would be a mote of dust some throwable distance away. My favorite one is: if Sun was the size of a grain of sand, the nearest start would be another grain of sand 30 kms away!
Well, you could go outside and do it with marbles and soccer balls:

http://florin.myip.org/blog/i-had-no-idea-just-how-big-solar...
"pro-Russia" -- nice.
At the 10 million km mark, it says "that was about 10 million kM (621310 mi) just now. Either "mi" is a unit other than miles or the math is wrong (10 million km is about 6.2 million miles).
A Quick Peek with Myo Devs
I'd pay $30 in a heartbeat if I could ship Frutiger with my applications. The Intel font can be used for that.

Web guys have it easy when it comes to fonts.
I just heard a talk on this the other day at an undergraduate mathematics research conference (SUnMaRC). Apparently, at Al-Andalus there are examples of all 17 different groups. Islamic art has some of the coolest math.
Woah woah. I've never sold a company before. Dan was the COO of Giftly, which sold.
"its own ..."
The future of safe sex?
If the V stands for "good enough to get people to pay you," then you have to admit that this product had it.
You could just Google it. The Feds seized a bank account holding 5M USD belonging to MtGox's customers.
>bitcoin supporters are driven more by ideological reasons
than economical ones

and for good reasons.
A designer's taste of a type is an educated one, and thus it is more important than one that is not educated. Some knowledge of type is essential for an utter designer, at last.
GitHub's most expensive hosted plan is $200/mo with unlimited users. Their self-hosted version is a minimum of $20k/yr ($1666/mo) for 20 users.

They also ship GitHub Enterprise as VM "appliance" image, which is probably the only sane way to package up a system that wasn't originally designed to be run in many environments.
Mind if I ask how you were getting paid a below market salary?

Part of the H1B approval process is that you get paid more than the average salary for the same job in your area. If your salary is below the regional average for your job, then immigration doesn't approve the visa.
Oh they are headed for trouble, you cannot avoid regulation that way.

You can get a stack of $20 one-use debit cards and you can get a CC generator from some banks for your card to use for a one-time purchase online.

One could automate buying thousands if they had the time and money.
Knoxpayments.com

We think credit card forms are horrible and credit card fees are ridiculous. We're fixing that. Well funded (900k) and distributed. I would be specific, but if you can hack we need you.

tommy@knoxpayments.com
same article could have been written like 1 year also .
GnuTLS certificate verification bug
The biggest threat of this lawsuit will be to the meanings of arcane technical terms such as "acquire", "playback" and "her".
There are at least two Nobel Laureates who have used LSD:

Kary Mullis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis

Francis Crick
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/science/11book.html?_r=0
New Relic Outage
"The in car entertainment system might run QNX, CarPlay is a protocol." vs "Apple CarPlay Infotainment System Runs on BlackBerry’s QNX"

Did you know iTunes runs on Windows? Well, Apple's CarPlay runs on QNX. The title is factually correct.
Ask HN: Starting at Google in a few weeks. Any tips?
A little background: I graduated from college in 2010 and have been employed a developer ever since. In a few weeks I'll begin my role as a software engineer for the Quickoffice team in the NYC office.

I think working at Google will be a great opportunity for taking my career to the next level, and I want to maximize my experience there. Do any of you current or former Googlers have any tips, suggestions, or advice for becoming a top contributor and getting the most out of my time with the company? Also, would any NYC Googlers want to meet up for lunch?

Thanks!
Yeah, so? Sounds even better, as you can only declare what you'll actually use from the enclosing scope.

Besides, doesn't Python work the same way?
In the article she said that she was worried that even if she escaped her mother or sister could be hurt. While the local law enforcement should protect her if her husband is abusive, there is nothing they can do about threats in a foreign land.
magikarp, you're hellbanned. Apparently after your last comment about HN censorship, so... a little irony there I guess.
It could improve efficiency but really adds a lot of challenges, not worth it for a 1st product. Good idea though :-)

We patented using wind towers for air storage.
One of my summer internships was delayed for two months because USCIS thought my photo was overexposed (it wasn't)... so I definitely wouldn't say "no uncertainty" but all the paperwork was possible to complete without representation.
It irks you because of some design principle you read somewhere, or because it's actually a problem.

This is true of many fonts, and is a rational choice.
Agreed on both counts. The 'a' looks particularly awkward.

It's 95% of a really nice font, but that last 5% makes all the difference.
What's a word where that is a problem? In coding it would be a problem, but I don't use sans-serif flexible width fonts when writing code.

Edit: asking a question == downvote. I never said it wasn't a problem. Spending more time on lobste.rs anyway, this place is declining at breakneck speeds.
That doesn't solve the problem, though: how do you trust that they're able to do a good audit?

(I don't have to trust that my bank can, because my accounts are insured by something that rhymes with "duvvermint".)
This is Gareth from Tinkercoin, thanks for checking us out! We are completely compliant with all US federal AML/KYC laws. We also have a strong background in credit-card fraud and it's been top of our mind since day one.
Are you publicly posting your chat room's (not simple to guess) name?
Why would someone go to the trouble? If you want to buy $1000 in Bitcoin there are plenty of places willing to sell that to you without buying one-time-use debit cards and VPS accounts for proxies and everything else involved in evading detection at a business that doesn't want to sell it to you.
Canny edge detection uses Sobel in most cases as a first or second step (after blurring) and adds a non-maximum suppression + hysteresis thresholding -
You do most probably know that, just wanted to clarify that it's not really "instead".
The problem with older founders... often their needs are different (financial burdens, children etc), though they also often have more life and career experience, which make for a different set of challenges to success.

Fixed that for you.
Yep. But we can dream, can't we? :(
Why do you think their economy has been depressed for over a decade?

While it is incredibly complex, the fact that their population has been static, trending towards declining, has played a significant part of it.

In many countries, economic growth is just a side effect of population growth -- every number gets bigger, but the actual wealth of each individual person is static or in decline.
To be fair Skype (MS) cut them off and without any warning. It wasn't their decision. That was actually one of the reasons they cited for doing this. Always at the mercy of external decision makers.
Ahh yes, you'd owe Linotype a few hundred bucks if you want to do that. I'd love to see Adrian Frutiger release an open source font before he goes... Imagine if Univers was free!
It was funny, but inaccurate. Don't you usually exchange public keys? Of course if he said public, then the joke wouldn't have made sense, which is probably why he said it that way.
Alternatively, they could probably make all the dates happen at home by offering NYC men some of the money that would otherwise go towards the flight.
A starbucks in Madrid has a scanner that validates your purchase ticket in order to access the bathroom.

Lucky for me, the door was half open already.
Incredibly, people seem receptive to overly ambitious feature-creep-laden libraries even if they're completely half-baked. It's like they'd rather debug someone else's code than write it properly in the first place. IMO, there's few things more painful than when someone's library just doesn't work at all. The 'shiny' factor of communities usually indicates a lack of respect for good engineering. I much prefer communities that take coupling seriously; the only one I've found so far seems to be Clojure.

Please continue to push Golang away from fashion-oriented 'engineering.' I hope you take marketing seriously; it seems very possible for someone to create the next ultra-coupled-hack-of-a-Go-framework to rile everyone up and consequently forget all the lessons of minimalism.
Windows tablet sales continue to tank -- can hybrids and Windroid save the day?
>I read a George Will column this morning that blamed Putin's invasion on Obamacare

Not sure about your reading comprehension there.

"Large presidential failures cannot be hermetically sealed; they permeate a presidency. Putin's contribution to the miniaturization of Obama comes in the context of Obama's self-inflicted wound — Obamacare, which simultaneously shattered belief in his competence and honesty, and may linger as ruinously for Obama as the Iranian hostage crisis did for Carter."
This broke the "two finger right sweep" to return to the previous page (HN). I had to touch the back button on Safari. Felt horrible about that ...
Autonomous taxis
...and you could guess wrong (because consistency is for suckers) and have things blow up in entertaining ways.

That being sort of the problem.
Unique gaming hardware
Look at this way - everyone who still went to the RSAC were okay with RSA putting a backdoor in for the NSA. So you can probably imagine they're not exactly fervent supporters of Snowden.
Thou who reimplements code is doomed to reimplement bugs as well.
but that's what psychedelics do. they magnify what you bring to the experience and give it back to you 10 fold.
C++ down, up or stable?
Because electronic money transactions are reversible. If you can convince the right people that a transaction was illegitimate, it can be reversed and you can be made whole.
Wrong. You only need to use the free variables of the closure, you don't need to copy the entire environment from the function you're defining your closure in. By the definition of a free variable you actually use it, otherwise it wouldn't be a free variable of the function! Python definitely does not work the same way, but in Python "x = 3" can inadvertently shadow (make a local name) something defined in the outer scope, but that's a completely different problem.
Thought Experiments Supporting the Self-Sampling Assumption
I was expecting a transparent/invisible font.. Disappointed.
You can always revert to the old try/catch/fail if you need to test something more complex (e.g. testing the message of the exception) but most of exception tests fall in the simple case shown above.
Near field communication - you probably know it, but didn't expect to come across it in a conversation about Bitcoin
I think the Google location is Windsor, but I know they have an office in Montréal and probably Toronto as well.
I use domain.nr. It is simple and easy to find new domain names!
I'm not characterising their experience for them, it's far too variable and subjective to do that. I also didn't use the phrase "The LSD Experience" so I'm not sure why you felt the need to quote that.

What I will say is that some people seem to come back from it convinced that acid will change the face of humanity and society in some sort of miraculous way. But when pressed they can't say how. I don't think it's wrong to combine this with the fact that LSD can cause feelings of the profound over the most mundane or nonsensical things and come to the conclusion that they're probably off on one...

As I said - do you need acid to see the problems in our human society?
A quote: "After about two months of weekly therapy, the eight participants who received full doses of LSD improved by about 20 percent on standard measures of anxiety, and the four subjects who took a much weaker dose got worse."

I hope no one thinks this is science. There's no control group, those who received the treatment under study knew who they were, and they were asked about their emotional state after the treatment ended. This is a classic case where the Placebo effect cannot be either eliminated or discounted.

This is not say that LSD has no beneficial effects in therapy. This is to say we have no idea, and this study provides no useful scientific data.
There was no insurgency in Iraq before the invasion. The net result of which was triggering a bloody civil war, fuel hatred of the West for decades, destabilize the whole area and reinforce Iran. I don't see how this furthers the US' strategic goals. My understanding is that the only message that has been taken home is that the Bush administration had as little understanding of the country as it had regard for the rule of law.
Archlinux pushed the upgrade just 9 hours after the bug was fixed. Damn I love this OS.
Thank God for that, and I wish it was a universal standard. Fonts where you can't tell the difference between capital eye, lowercase ell, and numeral one are a pain in the ass. Improving legibility doesn't violate the purity of sans-serif.
Back up! For now...
I go to New York City all the time (but I don't live there) and I've never had an issue with finding a clean bathroom, ever. Boston is a different story though I've only been there a handful of times.

Walk into Starbucks or McDonalds, always worked for me. Never had a cleanness problem. I usually only pee when I am in an establishment as a customer though.
Oh yeah, of course it was a way to suppress the countercultures. But not all countercultures had or have drug use perceived as one of their defining characteristics.