skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first point is rather diminished by the fact that the people actually (legally) carrying will be over 21 years of age.

I'm not sure how to address your second point, e.g. is that an argument for denying the enumerated constitutional right to bear arms to those in that higher risk age zone?

I'd prefer we counter-reform our mental health system; back in saner days, most of these shooters, like the Virginia Tech one, who was adjudicated by a judge, would have been controlled in one way or another so they weren't dangers. The introduction in the '50s of miraculously effective anti-psychotic drugs---something witnessed by my mother the nurse---allow solutions short of simple warehousing, but that wasn't enough for the powers that be, especially since there were more effective ways to buy votes.
Ukraine Acting President Says Russia Has Invaded Ukraine
Prompting for App Reviews in Release Notes Works
But it is pretty amusing.
Under RIPA S.32 the Secretary of State only has to believe that the surveillance is proportional and the reasons that allow for it include national security, prevention of serious crime and UK economic well-being.

S.42 appears to say that the SS(!) must issue a warrant - I wonder if this is a matter of record and whether such warrant can be viewed/verified to any extent.
Yes, mostly due to new content. You have to miss on the first request for the new content, and each of the 350 million or so photos a day will contribute a miss. Also, this only ran over a particular time period, so one-off requests for older content (someone revisiting their old photo albums) would be misses too.

I'm not sure whether a "refresh" (ie, 304 not modified due to expiration) is counted as a miss in this data.
At least one major security issue has already been discovered & fixed: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1z6gif/butterfly_your...
Permanent 2: The Permanenter
And down goes the click-through validity rate.
I signed up and they won't let me exchange USD<->BTC because they're not registered yet. Is anyone else able actually use them?
Did you forget about it and then when the check showed up it was like finding a FIN ($20) in your jeans? Or did you feel like you were always going to get it, it was just a matter of time?

Just curious, that's all.
what is there to deal with with putty? it's pretty simple. I run linux on my desktop and use a chrome extension called secure shell (http://goo.gl/TK7876)

I like this butterfly, but don't see how it's any different to using ssh which is already designed for this.
Please share the thanks of a grateful nation (or at least the poker playing portion :)) with your coworkers. Mentioned this in a Twitter rant about this whole ordeal, but to this day PokerStars is the best company I've ever dealt with regardless of industry. I wish I could continue to give you guys my business. Thanks for protecting us from our disgraceful government.
HP Zero Day Initiative’s vulnerability fix timeline now 120 days
>> But it's clear that the U.S. government has no right to control something like Bitcoin

> Its rather clear that the Congress has enumerated Constitutional power ...

I think yo may have replied to my sentence without reading it fully. Because BitCoin is an internaitonal entity, the U.S. government has no authority/right/power to regulate Bitcoin (note the upper case), only some U.S. transactions that involve bitcoins (not the lower case), using laws unrelated to virtual-currency issues.

> The US government certainly has a variety of explicitly granted powers that could be applied to regulate bitcoin ...

Do try to avoid confusion in your posts. "Bitcoin" with an uppercase first character refers to the Bitcoin system, but "bitcoin" refers to the elements of exchange. Your sentence is open to misinterpretation -- do you mean the virtual currency system Bitcoin, or do you mean transactions involving bitcoins?

> ... and, in fact, some of them have been applied in a way which governs parts of the bitcoin ecosystem

False (unless the same meaning ambiguity is present). Legal actions have been based, not on Bitcoin or virtual currencies, but on the specific uses for bitcoins, such as money laundering, drug trafficking and so forth. In other words, to date legal actions have addresses alleged crimes having nothing specifically to do with virtual currencies.
Physicists consider reviving the SSC
If I'm uniderstanding correctly, this is nothing like the Spanish "Google tax", which states that aggregators (like reddit and HN... well, their spanish counterparts like Menéame) and search engines have to pay a fee to the press. Has this been discussed here? Info: http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/02/14/inenglish/1392391558_174...
That's not a loaded comment.. Changing your programming environment over an SSL certificate? Tell us all about how awesome it is building apps in Java!
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US MSM: Nothing to see here...
Why don't these guys list their bios on the website in a prominent location? I find it difficult to trust any exchange that doesn't do this personally.
The browser is the OS.
Presumably they were not blindsided by these 'revelations' overnight either.
I've never been to Reddit. Thanks though.
There's been a lot of great advice so far but I think making the jump really depends on where you are in life and where you'd like to be. Are you married or single? Do you have a family you need to support? Do you have a mortgage or other loans? Can you afford your own health insurance? Can you continue to work in your current location and maintain a healthy and sustainable lifestyle? Can you start investing more in yourself and freelance (savings, 401k, IRA, continuing education, travel, etc)?

I made a similar jump two years ago and found oDesk/Elance/etc to be fairly sustainable source of income/jobs once you've demonstrable experience (either through their platform, your blog, github, referrals, etc). While not necessarily a rule I found the higher rate (should be proportional to your experience on oDesk, etc) tends to match up with the more fulfilling gigs and interesting clients using those platforms.

While I agree with Patrick that you should stop sourcing gigs from oDesk/elance/etc you should also establish yourself and feel fairly comfortable running a consulting/freelance business before taking on 'professional clients'.
Good ol' gzip download, because fuck source control.

edit: FWIW, a friend who works there told me flat-out to just avoid them (I'm job-hunting)
I agree. I do not need my mind polluted with artificial wants for products I don't need. It's not my capitalist duty to watch ads. Website owners, if you're pissed off about me aggressively blocking ads, then make it easy for me to give you money. Don't try to subvert my adblock, because I'm just gonna go away. Don't lecture me about adblock without giving me an option to pay (DuckDuckGo, I'm still waiting on a response for that email on how to send you money instead of watching your ads).

I hope that if bitcoin (or any other crypto) takes off, then it really will be easy. Bitcoin works the way money on the internet should have always worked: easy, between individuals, nobody else's business but the people who are actually doing business. :-)
I think this is due to poor naming, not due to short functions.

Compare:

def makeMove(self, target):
enemy_piece = target.piece
if enemy_piece:
self.takeEnemyPiece(enemy_piece)
target.piece = self
self.position = target

And

def changeCoords(self, foo):
if foo.standing_on_it:
self.nowItsMine(foo.standing_on_it)
foo.standing_on_it = self
self.coords = foo

In the former case, you mostly don't need to consult the source of functions called. In the latter, you're never sure.
Even for DC that's deeply out of touch. I spent about two minutes on apartments.com and found a building in Arlington, nice neighborhood and right on two Metro lines, with studios for $1200/month. $2000/month can get you two bedrooms with a balcony and about 900 ft^2.

I get the feeling that people are confusing the rents in extremely desirable neighborhoods with the rents you must pay to be in the city at all.
It's lost. Any money returned will be pennies on the dollar.
I don't at all.

1. The moderation is very recent news, and something like this isn't banged out in 24 hours. Likely this has been in the works for a while, before news broke of the Snowden moderation.

2. The mods on subreddits like r/news are different people from the admins of Reddit. Obvious bias within the subreddits, but I have little reason to believe that it's a site-wide conspiracy from the admins rather than controversial decision making from subreddit mods.
Yum (and I seem to recall up2date) have had certificates revoked before (due to compromises on the upstream packaging system) requiring everybody to re-import a good certificate before updates will work again.

Now, system updates are a different beast than tying your development process into Magic Hosted Things In Internetland, but certificates on things have been changed before and they will be changed again. Just have to keep aware of how your systems work and what they depend on, which goes against modern "javascript with a double large lack of knowledge" development.
I took a quick look through that site, paging through my alma mater of a decade ago. I do see pathologies in the ratings/comments that remind me of complaints I would hear about professors from fellow students that were stressed, not getting the material, or used to a more structured environment. And if these ratings held weight with the university, I can definitely see professors dumbing down their lessons to avoid bad reviews. So I do see what you're getting at with it going terribly wrong.

Still, I think there's several key differences:

1. Every school student would be rating their teachers, rather than just those that loved a professor, had an axe to grind, or were encouraged to by an entertaining personality.

2. The context would be "closed", with each teacher relative to their school, rather than open cross-institution competition with a front page of featured "rockstar" professors that make the rest seem inadequate.

3. The high schools officially sanctioning ratings with real results would give kids the feeling that they really do have a stake in the process, rather than simply being its victims.

4. High school is a more structured environment where the process details matter a lot more. So a teacher eg giving out an incomplete homework problem is actually a valid indictment rather than the stressed out nitpicking of a culture shocked freshman.

5. In college, there's a certain level of appreciation for the material that everyone should have but doesn't necessarily, causing them to get frustrated at a professor with a dry personality. Whereas with high school, the idea is that everybody should be learning a cursory understanding of all subjects.

6. In college, there's a huge variation in the level of courses. One specific professor I had for a seminar where it was basically his PhD research group and me, an undergrad who'd just started on a simultaneous master's. I learned a lot in that class, and really appreciated him. I then ended up in a grad-level "intro" course with him (which I knew was an utter waste going in, but it was the only thing that fit my schedule). Most of the students were rote-memorization paying-for-credential types, but his style certainly did them no favors either, and I can definitely see my recollection echoed in a few of his current reviews. I'd say that he's still a teaching asset, but not for intro lectures where most students aren't already committed to the subject.

Really, there just needs to be some extrinsic motivation/reward for teachers that are truly making a difference versus simply clock-punching, and that's not more top-down testing edicts that further shackle them. And sure, the immediate reaction shouldn't be to fire the lowest-reviewed, but neither should we pretend that they deserve similar compensation to the exceptional ones.
Less than you'd think. Other vendors have improved somewhat, but from often from pretty poor starting points. Jumping a process node is a "brute force" approach: we can all do that. I'm more interested in apples-to-apples comparisons on a given node.
I agree. But it also takes people willing to put their money where their mouth is to do that.

The notion of "free" has spoiled a lot of folks online and made it a tough sell. I run a site that is entirely reader supported, but statistically it's very unlikely you'd just sign up and join, even though you believe ad revenue needs to die.

It's especially tough to do on sites built on user-generated content, because someone could just start a new one that's free and they'd lose their audience.
> Commodities have intrinsic value.

The conversion rate of gold to USD vastly exceeds the intrinsic value of gold. People are investing in gold far more than they would ever invest in any other commodity.

In other words, you'd be a fool to use gold as a commodity material in manufacturing when any other similar material would do, because we've collectively decided that gold has more value than its usefulness as an element would otherwise indicate.
You're conflating two things here. I agree that clones more often lack innovation - it's inherent in the way they're made. But there's no automatic correlation that they'll be bad at customer service, or incompetent. There's also no guarantee that the original company will be good at these things.

Put simply, there are times when "the best" isn't necessary, for financial reasons. Particularly when we're talking about payment processors that are literally skimming a percentage of your profit.
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Did they previously have client-side validation of the self-signed certificate, and now they changed it to "accept any cert signed by a root CA"? If so, why in the world would they do that?

Maybe I'm being hopelessly optimistic by not jumping to the conclusion that they did no validation whatsoever before?
Probably a co-op program with a University. the University of Waterloo often does 4-month and/or 8-month (depending on the program); the University of Toronto does 12-month, in partnership with companies that are looking to woo students before they've even finished their undergrad.

(Usually it involves the school designing the academic program and shifting when courses are offered (including putting courses in the spring/summer) to accommodate the work term.)

The grandparent appears to go to the University of British Columbia, judging from their profile.
'sudo pip install', really?
Good point. Still hard for me to remember that mobile != ARM these days.
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If you're desperate for something, anything, then npm is what you tend to wind up with.
Ok, I understand now.
Personally I'd say that your timeframe is very doable at least to a journeyman level of skill, given the 5 things are related.

As for how to do it? I'd recommend starting a SaaS business. Pick something - something where you can generate leads reasonably easily, so you don't end up learning marketing, and where you aren't going to need to spend loads of money, so you don't end up learning finance - and set a launch date 50 days from now. Then start designing.

Your project probably won't be tremendously successful - although you might make some passive income, and there's always the chance of an accidental massive success - but you'll learn a hell of a lot, you'll have real-world problems to solve and real-world users to pacify, and IMO "I've built a business on these technologies" plays better on a CV than "I've made some webapps for my own use".
I'd kept tabs on it by checking in on 2p2 (the StackOverflow/HN of poker) every few months -- there were long threads with people who had much more invested paying much more attention. I was lucky in that this occurred in the spring of my senior year of college, so I was able to move on without significant real-life impact other than a loss of secondary income stream. There were people with hundreds of thousands locked up, people who had been doing this for a living for several years who lost their homes after they were no longer able to pay their mortgage, etc. Early on I was iffy on whether or not I'd ever see my money back, but once PokerStars stepped in it became clear it was probably just a matter of (way too much) time.

It was funny to see how the whole shut down unfolded -- it happened on a Friday morning and PokerStars had their ducks in a row software-wise, and were immediately able to boot American players from tables. Full Tilt, on the other hand, had their software written such that players could continue playing until they logged out or disconnected from the network. Myself and some other enterprising Americans set their computers to not go to sleep ever, so I was able to keep playing through Sunday. I was the last American playing in the last big FTP tournament that Sunday and ended up finishing in the 50s out of 7000+ players iirc, and was leading at several points with less than 100 players remaining. Had I won or come closer, I'd have had ~100k-250k locked up, but ended up with a much smaller amount locked up. I almost suffered much more heartache wondering if I'd ever see my (potentially much larger) sum of locked up money.
ok so Mt.Gox should still have the digital wallets. The whole point of bitcoin is that you don't need a central bank/exchange holding your wallet. But people used one anyways and now Mr.Gox doesn't know where the money went.
I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria
I've been saying "Ideology is the dead end of ideas," but I think I might like the Emerson quote better, though I might be more inclined to defend RMS, as his predictions have all been true.
The gold and silver standards BACKING CURRENCIES were established by central authorities. Meaning, you could convert your USD into an equivalent value of gold. Guaranteed by the US government. And the US government kept an equivalent stockpile of gold in vaults, to reassure everyone that their USD was as good as gold.

Then the USD was decoupled from everything.

Far before any of that, people actually used gold and silver coins and pieces of coins as currency.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to include coinlab, they don't seem to ever have actually launched a US exchange.

Also, Kraken looks to be US based but don't yet allow US customers to trade USD pairs, only crypto/crypto so far.

Would also really like to see exchanges offer proper websocket/streaming API access, so far the only two who have shut down (Bitfloor, MtGox). Trying to write a proper trading algo against unreliable "REST" APIs is generally an exercise in frustration.
> In common with every other ARM-based SoC, using the VideoCore IV 3d graphics core on the Pi requires a block of closed-source binary driver

The Lima driver for ARM Mali is open source and runs Quake 3!
It actually adds a lot of value, at least for me. If you notice it doesn't show up these cards for all searches, but only for direct questions which it understands and can answer with fair enough reliability. It relieves people from the hassle of going to webpages to find the answer to their question. Most of the times, that's the only thing they are looking for. Your concern about eating away traffic from Wikipedia is correct, but the big question is what matters more to people in general - going on to a website just for the sake of it, or quickly getting their answers? When I ask my phone, "How old is Barack Obama?", it fetches the same from wikipedia, produces a 'Card', and reads the answer out to me. That is enormous value.
More a moral victory from my PoV. Remember, code that runs in the blob is running on another processor, so not costing you ARM cycles. That's why we've set the Quake fps target much lower than what you can hit with the blob.
> they are trying to help with the registration process

I thought they were friendly and helpful, and enjoyed talking to their support staff. But I couldn't get my account activated, because of a HUGE amount of bureaucracy involved and the process takes at least 8 weeks(!).

With stripe, there's no help needed in the registration or activation process. I activated my account literally within 5 minutes of signing up.

I wrote a blog post about this, comparing lots of providers I was trying to activate collecting payments with in the last few months - in case anyone's interested - http://blog.gingerlime.com/2014/cutting-through-red-tape-wit...
Yea that's one thing I'm not sure about is how easily one could create it without that feedback. I'm sure it'd be possible but certainly more difficult.
You can only lose what you give them, which should be no more than is necessary to complete a set of near-term transactions.
Very learnsome, Thanks!
You have the search built in to the app store. A lot of people use that. It's how a lot of apps get found. Otherwise, there would be only 100 apps downloaded ever.

Also, Google doesn't show you the top 500 websites on Google per se. They show you the top for a particular keyword in whatever order they want. People navigate by both top lists and search.

It's not like app stores are missing a search engine.
I hope we can make tipping website owners easier, for those of us adamant about adblocking. Using my credit card to give a small tip to every website I enjoy is uncomfortable. Sending money to anyone on the internet (no international region locking, no international laws) is what I really want to do with bitcoins.
>now that the United States is no longer a credible military power.

It is hard to fathom such a level of confusion.
Jet Engines hacked on to a VW Beetle and a Scooter
Celebrate the open source release of the drivers by giving out a price for making a non-free software run on it? Also one that the intended audience of the hardware is not allowed to play? Seems a bit odd.

(The Quake 3 engine is open source and free nowadays, but the assets and maps are not, so you cannot run "Quake 3" without using the demo. So "Quake 3" is non-free.)
It sounds like you really want a TI Pandaboard or maybe even one of the Intel SoCs...
I too would really have liked to see an example of a past set or two of gifts you sent. If this doesn't exist, just give me one you would have sent. I would rather have this than the collection of things on the front page.
Rob's comment was spot on.

Here's a link to the full text: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-cert...
> well in my opinion, central banking is vital in my trust of a currency as well.

To each his own. Some think a central authority improves the reliability of a currency, some think the opposite. Let's ask Weimar-era Germans what they think:

http://c3445010.r10.cf0.rackcdn.com/landscape_image/5759/big...

(Humorously, the sign in the back -- "Rauchen Verboten" -- means "No Smoking". No sense burning up people's pocket money.)

> Otherwise, you're just dealing with gold, which is a regression.

You just posed a false choice. There are choices besides central authority and gold coins. Any currency in which people have faith and trust can be a legitimate currency on that basis alone. Of course, any currency must earn trust, and Bitcoin is nowhere near earning the public's trust.
I like some ads, as long as they fit in with the site design, aren't in the way of content, and do not target me specifically.
Statistically, though, you're in the minority. Most people would be much more willing to see ads than pay up for a service.
Thanks Edmond! We used Firebase's validation rules to create a basic schema but something more robust might be called for in the future.
At the time of this reply, it is at ~14.7k retweets + ~9k favorites. That's some fairly respectable distribution.
Do you understand you're an outlier?

You're a small but vocal minority.

Just like people who don't own TVs, people who don't listen to pop music, watch reality TV, indulge in celebrity gossip etc.

You're an outlier - understand and accept that the vast majority of people are not like you.