skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment made me pause while reading this thread -- what exactly is surprising about that? Repo migration is a thing...
In the second half of the Keiser Report: New Crypto Phenomenon Ethereum (E569) (published Mar 1, 2014), Max interviews Charles Hoskinson, a cryptographer and one of the people behind Ethereum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdAnyC45ZbU&t=724 [video]
I'm here only to respond to you. I wish someone had warned me like this 9 years ago.

I understand how you're feeling about it. It was exactly like my first experience as well. 9 years later, I'm addicted. (Yes this is possible)

It's not apparent from the outside. Almost no one know that I smoke. I did lose my girl friend, who was pretty much the one for me. All warning signs were there, but I chose to ignore those. I'm able to hold on to an good programming job (ios/android programming) with a good salary, although I believe I am actually producing half my capacity, and having a lot more stress than needed. During the day, I can't wait to get home to smoke a little. Then a little more. Nights are pretty much a blur this way.

The effects you're experiencing fade away so slowly that it's hard to know when you're no longer actually enjoying the "high." And that's really dangerous, because you don't know that you might be getting addicted (everyone tells "marijuana is not addictive") so you smoke a bit more. Eventually it does end up consume you.

Some percentage of marijuana smokers do get addicted. I personally have quit smoking, never got addicted to drinking or anything else, and have never done any other drug. It almost feels impossible to stop weed though. I urge you to look it up online, there are forums where people talk about this.

So I suggest great precaution. See when you want to do it more, and more often. And when you start doing it instead of what you need to do. There's when danger is first realized, but often overlooked.

Maybe you're one of the lucky majority who will not get addicted -- in which case I envy you.

I hope the reason that this was prescribed to you is not very serious and you get well soon.
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Thx, couldn't remember that answer from the FAQs :)
How do you use orgmode in vim? I would love to have orgmode in vim.
I have a bit of a problem with the way you're talking about "virginity". Scientifically, it's not a concept at all. In fact "vagina has been penetrated at least once by an object, whether penis or not, and hymen possibly broken" is a more scientifically valid definition of female loss of virginity than yours. So basically, you're wrong, the problem isn't people thinking that using a tampon is loss of virginity; the problem is people thinking that "virginity", however defined, has any particular significance.
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I would say you have a very bubble-ized perspective of who actually uses Yahoo. You'd be amazed at the non-tech people that aggregate on their services.
> I don't know what you could call the root case of this one.

Bad software engineering. Their internal routines return negative value to indicate failure, but to the caller they translate it to true/false.
You should definitely consider adding support for drawing using Raph Levien’s Spiro curves: http://www.levien.com/spiro/

Much much better than Beziers for many purposes.
Why the hell does anyone even use GoDaddy any more?
CloudFront doesn't have many edge locations

This is nonsense. They have more edge locations than most. I didn't try all comparators in the list, but out of half of them I tried, none had more than Cloudfront: http://www.cdnplanet.com/compare/cloudfront/maxcdn/

So if Cloudfront has 'not many', who has 'many', and how many is that?
i have no idea why this doesn't get any attention here
on hacker-news. it looks like a very nice start to me.
(and i'll have higher praise if i can push it hard and
have it do well, but i haven't had time to stress it.)

on the whole, i don't see much value in json, however.

and part of the reason is that you're just storing the
presentational information (font, size, color, styling),
and not the structural (a.k.a. "semantic") information.
(which is the problem with any wysiwyg approach today.)

rethink your philosophical approach on that issue, and
make your save-to-file output some light-markup format,
either restructured-text (blah) or markdown (blah blah)
or my z.m.l. (zen markup language), and i think you'll
be on the way to having a definite winner on your hands.

-bowerbird
I'm going to take this at face value and assume you are, indeed, sad. I hope you are, because it is sad.
Ah yes, the good samaritians over at facefuck, providing a service for free. (Leave it to us, you're too stupid to handle this...)

Your disgusting business motives and my (consumer) interests do not align, at all.
Going to sleep before the response link to your reply goes active, so here's my response:

Is it true to say "no one really knows precisely how much of a threat he's facing"? The justice system is usually precise, so it seems odd that a precise maximum can't readily be found in this case. Do you think the maximum is probably more than 10 years?

Yes, if he is found guilty. No, if he pleads. However, I heartily disagree that the justice system is precise. It's very messy, and two defendants with the exact same facts can get widely disparate sentences. A recent study from 2012 or 2013 revealed that judges were more likely to give harsh sentences after lunch than before lunch (controlling for race, criminal history, and other factors).

1028 imposes a maximum sentence of 15 years for the gravest crime listed in the statute. Assuming he is found (or pleads guilty) this yields a likely maximum sentence of 17 years, or a potential maximum sentence of no more than 33 years.

Does this seem excessive?

Yes since the crime is relatively non-serious compared to something like drug dealing or aggravated assault, and especially since our financial system already protects credit card holders. Hell, even violent robbery with a first-time gun enhancement can have a lower maximum potential sentence than 33 years.
I doubt Google particularly wants to be an ISP, but something has to be done to break up the stalemate in the US. Google are one of the few companies with enough clout to actually get the ball rolling.
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These services deeply anger me and it is pretty hard not to launch into rants when I see them unfortunately.

I have an honest question for you HN: Do you not see these services as fundamentally broken? Would it be worth writing a long post somewhere breaking down exactly why these services are broken at best and bad in general? I'm deeply afraid that the public will start seeing these services as providing actual privacy and start using them as such.
It will be interesting to see how this will affect the business practices of other Bitcoin exchanges.
The crucial distinction between a word processor and a text editor is that the word processor hides the formatting instructions from the user, and instead displays formatted text. Text editors display text in all it's glory. Nothing is hidden.
Please don't complain about HN turning into Reddit. It's not.
A p.o. address, for example, may tell you how to get to someone's apartment but it wouldn't tell you how to get up there if the front door is locked.

A URL may tell you how to get to someone's file, but it wouldn't tell you how to download it if the server required authentication. A URL might be more comparable to driving directions than a mere address, but it does not grant access to a resource with even the most rudimentary access control.
Loved that by inspecting message in Chromium DevTools you see a “div“ element with a class “nice-try“.
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Hey, a chance to plug my thing!

I built S3stat (https://www.s3stat.com/) to fix this opaqueness that comes with using Cloudfront as a CDN and get you at least back to the level of analytics you'd get if you were hosting files from one of your own servers.

RubyGems guys, if you have logging set up already, I'd be happy to run reports for all your old logs (gratis, naturally) so you can get a better idea of which files (and as another commenter wondered about, which sources) are costing you the most.
No mention of what extras we get in meat courtesy of the feedstock for the animals.

"Most U. S. beef cattle are implanted with synthetic hormones in feedlots prior to slaughter. On January 1, 1989 the European Economic Community (EEC) placed a ban on hormone-treated U. S. meat, preventing U. S. meat products from being sold in any European nations. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has challenged the ban and accused the EEC of unfair trade practices, but the action of European governments raises some important questions about American meat."
When a levy breaks people die. Software maintenance and damage is nothing compared to real engineering.
Yes. It can also be cheaper to make, since the same material can look good under more different lighting conditions. So an artist can make the textures & material once and it will mostly look "correct" when put in anywhere. As opposed to older ad-hoc models where often in a different lighting setup at least some parts had to be redone.

Just wanted to make a distinction between "physically based/plausible" and "photorealistic", since I've seen both being mixed up a lot of times.
Not sure why the frantic movement of the map was necessary. Or a looping video, for that matter. Hold still for a while, let us watch stuff moving without moving the map. Reminds me of the faked Roswell "alien autopsy" video that showed a series very quick edits in succession, no way to focus on anything or get a good look at what is going on. Something seems fishy here.
Sadly, the headline is unfortunate because "Barrett Brown faces 100 years for link" was not supposed to be the story here. The story is that his legal team filed a motion arguing that hyperlinks are protected speech under the First Amendment, etc. lol
I've used one time secret for sending temporary passwords or sensitive numbers to colleagues without context. So much project communication takes place via insecure messaging such as email or im. It's not perfect security, but I've seen enough people have their websites hacked after having an email account compromised (and searched for the phrase 'password'). Tools like this don't so much give a false sense of security so much as remind the average person what a false sense of security they already have by using their cloud email service as a password manager.

The developer also open sourced it so it can be integrated into an IT department's internal workflow if trusting him is too much. The command line tool is also a nice touch.
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No disrespect intended, but this is yet another example of the inverse correlation between grammatical knowledge and enthusiasm for pouncing on grammar mistakes.

In Standard English, this use of the subjunctive mood is optional, not required.
"When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind," he said, "I don't consider the bloody ROI."
What do they care? They sign a bit of paper and a few months later money appears in their account.
Loved the blog posting :)
Hey, as I mentioned in another part of this thread, my startup crunches those logs for a living (and they're sadly not really designed for crunching by anything that comes off the shelf). Ping me if you'd like a hand doing the crunching.
That worked so well for people using hushmail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_p...
Unless you are hypertensive, there is no evidence you need to do this. Blanket low-salt recommendations are not supported by RCTs.
> (Who uses GnuTLS?)

People who want IPv6, DTLS, decent cli tools (gnutls-cli), pkcs11.

https://lwn.net/Articles/486369/
Also Sophos

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/virus-remova...
Theory is dumb when all empirical data disagrees with it. Good thing the Austrian's figured this problem out by ignoring data. It's the true hacker's way.
knockout is such an awesome library. I have only used it for a few toy projects, but I love how lightweight it feels; and how it doesnt feel like it takes over all of your html.

I also love how the ko.observable doesnt feel as magical as the angular binding. It makes me feel alot more in control
It seems to me that, even if there is sufficient New Testament scripture to infer that any types of sex are sinful that the parts about grace, mercy, love, forgiveness, self-control, being kind, "paying to Cesar what is his", not judging one another and not casting the first stone (just to name a few) would be such high priorities that trying to keep any government laws anywhere in line with Christianity wouldn't even be on the radar.
There's a scale model of the solar system spread out over hundreds of kilometres across New South Wales, with the Sun at Siding Spring Observatory.
Use of the subjunctive mood is slowly declining, especially in the UK. We often smooth out the difference by inserting a "should" or "might". E.g. "It's important that you (should) be on time."
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But google is a corporation, and America loves corporations so much it treats them with more rights than people.
> one has a moral obligation to annoy prescriptivists anyway.

Challenge accepted! (See above.)
at $600/month you've only saved them $1500/month (the hosting portion is only $2.1k), and now they also have physical hardware to manage, requiring a broader skillset from the volunteers, plus someone having to be in physical proximity for 'on-call' issues.

I don't know what datacentres tend to charge for data transfer, but as that's the largest item on the bill, it's the more salient point.

Also, just because it's not on the bill doesn't mean they're not using other AWS services; there are several free ones.
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the developer still works on it. it's an open source project as well, I hope this gets some attention to be a better tool.
It's depressing how many Conservative conspiracy theory websites are out there. It's even more depressing when people link to them as if they are real news websites.
Their early versions looked closer to a blackberry. The general Jobs assertion is that Google switched to full touch screen after seeing the prototypes.
Nice. You should add http://Clara.io to the list of 3D design software available for STLs. :)
Please , also our technical co-founders re from pakistan and belarus respectively .. So am thinking how can we go about the video thing. Should we merge the video together?

Thanks
"Currency being used to trade" :o
Hey Hacker News! Great to see this posted here.
I made this with my friend as a side project and a of proof of concept.(You can see I tried to post it here when we launched). So yeah the main point you guys are picking up on is yes you can just screenshot and the img is being inserted in plain form - so yes it's pretty easy for people to just grab your 'secret' message.

As the lovely named 'shittyanalogy' picks up on I think the use case here isn't for super secret messages or data you never want viewing. We've had people use it for coupon codes (first 100 get it) or your phone number so you don't have to post it publicy. We preach the mantra of 'don't upload things to the internet you don't want people to see'. This rule applies to snapchat, us & all the other services out there.
Too much time was spent on this last night, but here it is http://jsfiddle.net/yrFK4/
I wish style was consistent: some icons have miniature details, while some are super-simplistic. Windows Modern GUI icons are the best imho.
At the time of his arrest the biggest fuss was made about him threatening a federal agent and his family in a vlog post. Are these charges dropped?
Article does not say 90% of Americans know what is HTML. They might have given other wrong answers or simply answered 'I don't know'.

Imho, articles implies that Americans start bullshitting if they don't know what something is, however I don't think this is any different for other countries.

>Do 1/10 people on Earth even know what an STD is?

STD is an abbreviation in English language. I am pretty sure more than 1/10 people on Earth knows that there are sexually transmitted diseases but may not be aware that is is called STD in English.
Reality check: what does it matter? This person is facing 15 years in prison for linking to material in an ephemeral setting - a chat room. That there are not people protesting on the streets is a good indicator of how much US citizens enjoy living in an ultranationalist state.
iTunes for windows was very big news when it was announced.
Reddit hasn't been intentionally coded to avoid duplicate submissions.
"Stealth mode" is the dumbest fucking buzz word.
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That makes sense to me. What did Zachary mean when he wrote, "The partners tell you not to prepare"? I understood that to mean you don't have to have a pitch ready for Prototype Day yet.
Good catch! I'll ask them to sign up so they can post a listing :D

edit: YOU should sign up and post! Haha
This is in exchange for charging extortionate prices to the middle class - in the neighborhood of $90 for service packages that go for $30 in European countries with rational regulations (and I presume those European companies are turning a profit). That can easily amount to skimming %1 from a median household's income.
They're a safe haven under DMCA, they're allowed to do that if they respond to DMCA takedown notices.
Will at some point everyone have to become an entrepreneur? Stats?
I wish they had put the median salary for a social media manager in the article.
That's been my impression so far with repositories where you configure a mirror explicitly, like Debian or CPAN. I used to be diligent about doing "the right thing" and switching out the default (usually something in the U.S.) for a Danish or nearby mirror. But I've stopped caring much because it doesn't really seem to make any perceptible difference. If I remember to, I still will switch it just so I don't unnecessarily waste intercontinental infrastructure, but it doesn't make much difference to my own experience.
He didn't dox an FBI agent or his family (indeed, he's charged for his speech and there's a motion to dismiss that indictment on First Amendment grounds too); he was under duress and coming off meds, and outraged at the legal threats against his mother. The allegations are "conspiracy to dox" rather than any successful act. Literally they said that someone did a Google search with the goal of making "restricted personal information" public.

He flipped out and lost his cool over constant government-sanctioned harassment. He's not perfect by any means—admitted substance abuse problems and a big naïve/foolish/arrogant streak—but still deserves sympathy.

I don't think he would have known there was a law on the books making it illegal to dox feds. Doxing abusive cops on the other hand is legal and happens all the time between Anonymous/Occupy and even journalists do it sometimes.

In order to convict on threats there needs to be a "true threat" of physical harm, a non-conditional statement made to a specific person. All he said was "if they come" he wouldn't be able to tell FBI from Zetas so he'd exercise self-defense. And he explicitly clarified when he said he was going to ruin the guy's life, he meant to expose him, not as a physical threat.

One can disseminate a link without knowing whats in it. Brown is on the record in many places as being opposed to spreading credit cards. He was against that kind of stuff.
Weird. I got the homepage up fine but now I just get a 404 error after going to the tour page. Now if I go back I get the exact same page?
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Sorry for being blunt, so you are putting your problems, your inner fight and challenges on cannabis?
This is interesting for us as well... We currently have "only" 50 servers (mostly virtual) that need to be monitored, a per-server pricing would push the cost far too high regardless of the quality of the solution.
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I have better things to do than wait 15 years for a vendor to look at fixing a serious issue.
No but they are also subject to a motion to dismiss by his defense. http://freebarrettbrown.org/files/BB_motiontodismiss1.pdf The allegations there are actually not as significant as the linking. If he were convicted of threats and that was the only charge, he'd be out by now.
One issue might be the price differences for petrol across the countries. As an example, many Italians near the border like to fill their tanks in Switzerland. The bigger the tank, the longer you can run with it.
I saw Steve Mould demonstrate this a few weeks ago as part of the Full Frontal Nerdity Tour [1]. It was superbly entertaining.

[1] http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/
People that cannot be imprisoned or executed, unlike real people.
Some places can be flexible about their entry requirements. If you're not against coming to the UK, try some places here, like Cambridge (much cheaper than ~all US schools). Don't just apply - contact specific supervisors about joining their groups. I can help guide you through this if you (or anyone) want to drop me an email.

As someone who bucked the traditional route to get here I can assure you it's feasible. I didn't go to university until I was 21 - and then I did a weird subject at an unheard of university. Now I'm a grad at Cambridge. If you don't like the system which is set up to select people who are likely to be good, then you have to work around it, not try to run straight through it. By applying the normal route you're guaranteeing yourself to get stuck. People are always the way around institutional rules - get to know some of them, help them to like you, then help them to help you.

Also, if you want to change the world with your skills, very few academic projects will let you do that. We're building a site that lets you find those projects and give your skills: http://solvers.io
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I don't totally see the point to these arguments. The inherent nature of the technology we have means that if they can view it once, they can view it as long and as many times as they want. Anything trying to restrict that is just futile -- look at DRM.

Snapchat has never given that particular illusion of privacy. As the most common and basic example, it has absolutely no way of stopping people from simply taking a screenshot of your image. Snapchat is meant to be used to share throwaway photos without the social expectation that comes from putting it on somewhere like Facebook. Anyone who uses the application learns quickly that someone can potentially store the photo they sent -- in a vast variety of ways.
I was never asked by any colleague at my company in all my 6+ years, but this is Beijing and not Shanghai :)
Wait until they find out that http is right next to a colon.
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The Polymer project from Google is something I've been following and I feel like it holds a lot of potential... Why hasn't it gained traction? Web components seem to be a great vision of the future of web design/development.
>Not to mention Kshama Sawant grandstanding about completely irrelevant topics. I can't understand how she got elected.

I didn't vote for her but I enjoyed her being elected. I would love to see her ridiculous ideas implemented just for laughs.