skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not until I see a security audit will I believe any exchange is secure. I believed Mt. Gox had "resolved" the basic issue of password hashing back when they were compromised until I found out they were using a home-grown "run sha512 1000x" solution.

That, plus I know as a programmer I like to think I'm disciplined enough to be a secure programmer until my software is audited or pentested. Then I realize how naive I really am.

Like I said, I'm not trusting any exchanges until I start seeing rigorous security measures (more than "security is our #1 priority" bullshit) in the form of audits, pentesting, and etc...

That said I also know very few people that actually use their personal BTC wallets and encrypt it with GPG + a two factor challenge (to avoid the possibility of key loggers).
> Is it a rhetorical question were I to ask which of the two versions, Om + Clojurescript vs vanilla JavaScript, looks more pleasant?

Well, the JavaScript is harder to read because of the colour choices and the fact that at least in part it looks to have been compiled from CoffeeScript (or something else).

Conversely, the ClojureScript is probably quite hard to read if you don't know what "peek", "reify", or "did-mount" mean.
I think both IE and Firefox has an "all in one" archive format for a webpage that includes all the external files and can run directly from the single file.

That would be a neat alternative.

But I think they built a website for the traffic, not to give away their work.
As yet another change, PEP8 recommends placing comparison operators (and dots, when method chaining) at the beginning of each line to make things a little clearer.

def is_file_for(is_nagyker, type):
return ((type == KIS_ES_NAGYKER)
or (type == KISKER and not is_nagyker)
or (type == NAGYKER and is_nagyker))
it's chromium embedded framework[1]. it's technically a c++ application. in theory very close to how brackets works[2]. but they use the chrome rendering engine for text storage and all the drawing, which in theory means that it's easier to port across osx/windows/linux. there's still some platform specific code in there.

think about it a little like xulrunner

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

[2]: http://brackets.io
Those kids on HN think that everything cool was invented last summer by some new college grad, funny thing is most of stuff was already invented in 70's but who would care about prehistory of computing.
Just a note to the author if they are reading: you might want to remove that OSC code for inline HTML.

There are reasons dynamic codes like those don't exist. Good reasons. (In my own naivete, I once thought an OSC code to access scrollback would be a good idea. You can imagine how insecure that was). It's not a good idea to run any programs in this terminal until that OSC code is either removed or the HTML is somehow sanitized.
a US exchange with actual US bank transfers for USD is actually a big thing because it is hard to get done
Unfortunately, each of the 14 states that made their own exchange used a separate team with a separate codebase.

To be clear, it's not like QSSI or anybody else is ripping us off. We're all getting paid the standard contracting rate. But many of us probably would've worked for free if they had let us.
Bitcoin Kingpin Admits Everyone's Money Is Gone (Video)
Should Tesla or Google solve Nuclear Fusion
Interesting article in the New Yorker this week.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all
According to the author, there is a risk that ITER will fail because it has become a Tower of Babel with so many governments involved. Should Tesla/SpaceX or Google be working on Nuclear Fusion?
Funny. I saw this earlier on NPMjs.org and it had 22 upvotes, 0 downvotes. Does it say anywhere why, exactly, it was deleted, or do they just delete anything they don't like?
Evil Incantations
I assume that would come when fiat (USD) transfers come online.

Why set that barrier for coin to coin exchanges?
git is overkill for facilities with small groups working in a common area (not hard to imagine if you're in the hardware biz) and all the engineers are used to cvs command syntax..
Really Awesome! No more switching back and forth
Car dealerships make a profit based off of information disparities. What value do they add in today's world?
The karma threshold shifts over time, so while it might have been 500 at one time, it's a moving target:
http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ

I don't know what the current level is, or where to look it up.
Sure, it's not unheard of, but I think for most users, for most of the time, it's not a typical thing to happen. You instead work on a tree of small files. The odd time, I need to edit a huge file like a database dump, I'll pop open vim or nano/pico, but that isn't where I spend the majority of my time developing. I think the trade-offs are worth it, and I think it's also something that can be improved in the future. I don't view it as a critical feature.
Hey Nick, I'll email you, thanks!
If car dealers are so important to people, surely they can continue to operate

Car dealers are important for the same reason a shoe store is important. You've got to go in and try on the shoe first to see if it fits. But much like with shoes, consumers can figure out what fits and then go home and order from someone else.

The only difference is (in my eyes) it would be even worse with cars, because it's easier to spend an extra $5-10 supporting your local shoe store than it is to spend an extra couple thousand supporting the dealer.

Dealers are also a portal for interacting with the manufacturer for things like service, recalls, and TSBs. I'm not sure what, if anything, would step in to fill that void if they disappear.
Although it has its own set of problems (some pretty large), this is one somewhat nice aspect of the EU scientific funding system. It has ulterior motives, but many of them are "meta" motives rather than specific ones like oil-sands, because it's not one national government setting the priority. Instead there are meta-motives like "improve European research/educational integration". That's implemented by requiring that EU-level funding only go to multi-country projects with partners from >= 3 countries represented (single-country or two-country projects are supposed to be funded at the national level). That adds coordination difficulties since every EU project is a big multinational management problem, but it's at least a political criterion that's mostly orthogonal to the actual research. And when they do pick actual topics, because of the need to compromise between so many governments they tend to be very vague, like "data & 21st-century society", which you can fit a lot of things under.

I do recall seeing a study that suggested that just taking the total pot of money and dividing it by the number of researchers would be at least as good and maybe better, though. Even if the lack of competition leads to less hard work and more money being spent on questionable things, there is a huge overhead removed: the entire infrastructure of people writing 100-page documents, other people reviewing those documents, people flying to Brussels (or D.C. or Ottawa) to make funding decisions, support staff at universities reviewing documents, etc., etc.
It's only good for one conversation. Read the hover.
Just a little bit of banter. Chill out.
Even if the cost to mine the coin ended up being slightly more than $1USD, over time as the coin is transferred multiple times to multiple people, the value increases due to the fact that there are no transaction fees.
Evernote.

For the longest time, I had issues finding a good workflow with Evernote. I purchased and read Bradley Chambers' e-book on Evernote and have been using Evernote comfortably for several months now.

http://chambersdaily.com/learning-to-love-evernote/
Has anyone run independent hardware and software tests on devices like this and Lockitron? Are the services open-source?

I just find the whole idea of remote locks to be disturbing. And yes, that even extends to keyless entry on cars. I'm just a Luddite that way.
Thanks for all the effort to get to this stage Eben. As someone who was repeatedly told (on the RP forums) that I had no business to desire the user-land graphics to be open-sourced, and that only hardware engineers would get any benefit from this code, I thought this day would never come!

I'm happy to be proved wrong, and happy that many little 'RasPis' will have an extended lifespan from this decision by your employer. :-)
Great for them too, since buying a car from a dealership is one of the biggest scams the average family walks in to on a regular basis. This is especially true in poor rural areas where cars are non-optional - there's a reason that the owner of the local car dealerships is frequently the one of if not the wealthiest man in the county.
It's really disappointing to see this sort of "reasoning" used so often these days.

Just because somebody points out serious flaws or problems with one technology does not automatically mean that he or she thinks that other, unrelated-yet-similar technologies aren't flawed or are somehow perfect.
Anyone who has ever looked at the DOM structure of an in-browser code editor (CodeMirror, Ace) knows that they are extremely nasty. So much overhead. The markup characters outnumber the content by like 50x. While the speed of Atom is much better than I expected, it just doesn't feel native enough. I still feel like I'm using an in-browser editor.

Maybe Sublime has spoiled me, but that editor is pretty fast. It can open large files. It's almost as extensible, especially for any kind of practical purpose. Oh and it's cross-platform, which Atom is not at the moment.

I also can already see a time when we reach Atom package hell. Someone is going to have to come up with a system to manage all these packages pretty quick. When you are literally installing packages to add a single hot-key, and all packages are treated as equals, it quickly becomes very difficult to find what you are looking for to manage your install.

I'm excited and optimistic to see where Atom will go, but my thoughts before I tried it are only reinforced after a few days of use. GitHub does not mess around. I know they will fix most of my concerns pretty quick, but I'm not sure how much more can be done about performance.
I'm starting to work remotely from my sailboat in the Caribbean. It's perfect, I can just pack up from one paradise to the next, taking my office/working area with me. This is after working in NY for a few years and needing a breath of fresh air.

Currently at a marina in Bonaire, close to Venezuela, connected to power/internet to do a remote contract. It's pretty sweet to go freediving or scuba diving a few feet away, then go to the "office" and work my ass off. Afterwards I'll be free again, sailing around for another bunch of months.

Challenges, well the obvious... getting distracted with the outdoors, oh man there is so much to do out there. But the pros are totally worth it and you strive to work hard to keep the lifestyle. If you really want it, everything will work out.
At first I thought it was Calvin & Hobs, but after the epic spacey events weren't followed by a joke, I knew it was Watchmen.
I use evernote (wish there was a better alternative) for notes I create but I use http://diigo.com extensively for online content that I consume.

Why I like diigo -

1. Available everywhere - they have good, working extensions for popular browsers, native apps for mobile

2. You can highlight and annotate parts of web pages and if you visit that page again while logged in to diigo through the extension, it will show you your highlights/annotations

3. Tagging & bookmarking (I switched from delicious while it was in future:uncertain state)

4. You can create groups and add links to groups (e.g. I use this feature to share links and my comments with my wife on topic we are concentrating on/discussing)

5. Share feature. Very easy to share a link and a quick note to anyone with email address

6. It has other _social_ features (share on twitter/facebook, etc.) but I don't use those

I am not affiliated with diigo in any way. Just a happy user.
> I wonder how many Indian or Chinese founders are actually immigrants from relatively well todo families that could afford to send someone half way across the world.

From personal experience, I can say that it's not that expensive to send someone "half way across the world" (I grew up in Romania, but currently live in California). What is hard is immigration/getting a visa, but you can't really fix that with more money (unless you're going for the investor visa, which very few do).

Also, it's really easy to apply for BigCo (Google, Apple, Facebook) jobs in the Bay Area from outside the US (you get phone interviews at first, the get flown over for on-site interviews on the company's dime). It's really not money that's stopping people from getting "in".
I think you completely don't understand their position. Noone is "celebrating uncontrollability" (well, someone probably is, but it's certainly not a majority). If anything, proponents of bitcoin celebrate independence - which you might frame es trading controllability by institutions for controllability by individuals.

Their argument is that the decentralized nature of bitcoin allows an individual to secure their bitcoin balance without having to rely on any particular institution, which means one can avoid the risks associated with corrupt or otherwise potentially not trustworthy institutions.

Now, this argument obviously does not apply to MtGox - MtGox obviously was/is a centralized company that also obviously has all the risks associated with such a centralized company, and also all the institutional controllability of a centralized company, it's registered in Tokyo, it falls under Japanese jurisdiction, the state could easily have frozen balances people held with them, be it in bitcoin or in USD or EUR or JPY or whatever, ... in short: It is pretty much a Japanese bank, which incidentally allowed trading and storing bitcoin with them. As such, why is it hypocrisy to expect it to be treated like a bank? You have all the risks of using a bank, why not the advantages of using a bank?

But also: Well, even if this was about some stealing someone else's bitcoins (well, it kindof is, as far as MtGox itself is concerned, at least if they are to be believed): Why would it be hypocritical to ask for help from others just because you tried to minimize the need for such help and this also caused the help that you need in the end to be a bit harder to provide? It might even still be an overall benefit to society.

I guess that you might disagree with some of the supposed benefits that proponents of bitcoin claim - but that does not make them hypocritical, just possibly wrong, and it would probably be more constructive to point out where you think their idea will fail in reality or where you disagree with their goals than to accuse them of being hypocritical.
The odd thing about your comment is that in my experience science in Europe is a MORE feudal system than in the us, with hierarchies of professorships and less independence for most researchers.

It's possible that this is a cultural thing writ large, but how exactly do you get a committee to do anything but reward the 'haves' at the expense of the 'have not's?
Regarding pandora, the form post is over HTTPS:

https://www.pandora.com/radio/jsonp/v35

And you can load the form, which is just an HTML input form with some sensitive data (last 4!), over HTTPS. It sucks that HTTPS is not default though.
Lavabit's Ladar Levison on Snowden, Why He Shut Down, and How to Beat the NSA
not to be cliche, but its just a system and it can be disrupted.
5 Landing Page Mistakes That Are Killing Your Chances At Conversions
I regularly work with relatively large JSON files (500kb - 4mb). These open and edit quickly in ST. Atom refuses to load anything over 2mb, and chokes even on 500kb files.
It's targeted to the huge amount of people who are becoming programmers just now.

Github is already a key component of how many people develop software. Expanding to an editor is going to make GH the essential toolchain.
You forgot CoinMKT, Atomic-Trade, and Cryptsy.
I've actually talked with Kevin before, they do seem to care about open-source & security & scalability. I mean, from what we talked about, I got the sense they do. But for them, I think things are moving fast, and it's hard to please everyone, all the time, especially when you need to prioritize the business. It seems they care about open-source as a reassurance to security. And I think they do want to give back to the community.
Without more proof, I'm not buying that rural car dealerships make their owners wealthy. I suspect it's the other way around, you can't own & resell (as that is how it works) fifty vehicles without a good chunk of change already in your pocket.
I am specifically not talking about the NSA - incompetant to the poi t that a temporary worker for a contractor was anle to steal secret documents.

As for GCHQ oversight: it'd need to be a conspiracy spanning government (all parties); judiciary; etc. i'm not saying it couldn't happen, but the alternative (GCHQ lied; the oversight committees were incompetent) is easier to believe.

http://www.gchq.gov.uk/how_we_work/running_the_business/over...

http://isc.independent.gov.uk/

http://isc.intelligencecommissioners.com/default.asp

http://www.iocco-uk.info/

http://www.iocco-uk.info/docs/2012%20Annual%20Report%20of%20...
Avoiding the hyperbole and answering the heart of your question:

No, I honestly don't believe that centralized content silos are a good thing for anybody besides their owners who are hoping to become the new gatekeeper communications middlemen.

Your shoplifting analogy would only be appropriate I were saying that I run Adblock to make anti-Adblock technology stronger. The problem is not that centralized websites allow the possibility of "freeloaders", it's that in addition to being expensive, the centralization itself has harmful effects on expression, culture, and self-determination.

Just look at something like Youtube - you have content restrictions (no "porn", etc), internationalized lowest-common-denominator copyright restrictions, public pressure to hide majority-objectionable content from searches, length restrictions, extrajudicial takedowns from an algorithm rejecting a video with no legal judgment, an unchangeable UI, a UI that changes when you don't want it to, terrible search, nagging of asking for signups/G+ account linking/etc, no ability to easily download videos for later viewing or posterity's sake, limitations on video quality, and I'm sure a whole host of other features that I cannot even fathom because they're impossible to experiment with.

A market of many centralized providers will indeed correct some of these things with time, but there's always going to be details that competition will never fix, especially while battling the inherent non-linear network effects.

As another straightforward example, take something as benevolent [1] as Wikipedia. The main thing they need these massive donations for are because they distribute content by fulfilling every individual request, using a massive number of servers.

Imagine a different system instead using current technology - Wikipedia could instead publish a magnet link in DNS, which interested clients would periodically refresh and restart the torrent. If Wikipedia was not a popular site, their initial seed would be enough to handle the load of casually-interested people who retrieve what they want and close the torrent. But as they get popular, people incidentally contribute to helping them host by re-serving content.

Current torrent clients of course have limitations that would make this annoying and/or not scalable across sites. But this is merely a straightforward example meant to wet your whistle.

[1] Since their editing process is centralized as well, we can certainly question whether it's universally benevolent. But for this example, let's keep our focus on their publishing method - of course similar things can go on on the content-production side. There should really be no need for me to be submitting this comment only to news.ycombinator.com, supposedly agreeing to their terms, hoping they indefinitely rehost what I have to say, suffering the annoying dead-continuation bug on long posts, etc
I honestly wonder how big these markets are..

> 17. Bankruptcy lawyers

> 37. Mail-order brides
Off the top of my head,

- Place to window-shop and test-drive many different cars

- Place to get your vehicle serviced by manufacturer-trained techs

- Place to get TSB's, recalls, etc performed

How much the second point matters does vary, depending on the quality of your local independent shops and your vehicle. Some vehicles are dirt simple, some are really weird & complicated. Case-in-point; would you rather have Joe's Gasoline Imports work on your Tesla, or Johnstown Tesla?

I'm not in love with dealers, but it's frustrating to see people writing off the whole notion altogether, pretending they will be better off if the only access to Tesla is a mail-order catalogue.
Trolling someone who suffers great pain when holding two opposing positions in mind, and blames the pain on the person bringing the opposing position is counter productive.

It feels like trying to paint a 3d rotating gif onto a canvas with a large brush. You may be able to paint one frame fairly well, but it will not rotate. The spirit of the gif cannot be hosted on this canvas. You can host subsets of it, but not the entire spirit of the duality of ideas.

The "dance around the issues like a butterfly" is not something you teach. And trying to teach it, you just make the other person angry or depressed they can't do what you do.
> Sure, some people get lucky, or work really hard. But on average, the game is rigged.

It's rigged really badly against immigrants (counting H1B workers as immigrants too) as well.
The last thing Bitcoin needs is a bunch of exchanges without liquidity!
Emotions run high when something of this magnitude happens. Judgement gets clouded. A reminder is very important as a way to intercept those without a clear head before they do something rash.
Interesting fact presented in the beginning of the article: all the government funded research/companies went belly up.

Food for thought: Is it because of the sheer difficulty of such ventures? Or is it because the money went to the wrong hands?
Apparently there's a workaround:

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-cert...
SMS Based Labor Management
I'm curious about his 'knowledge-based programming' concept.

Will be interesting to see where this new language goes.

Right now it's not yet public, so you'll need to opt in to receive updates if you want to know when it's released.
Interesting that it is being attributed to the old and conservative. From 2002 to 2006 this kind of hysteria strongly affected the youth in the US beyond what I would consider reasonable measure. In 2004 I couldn't have a political discussion without someone talking about the inevitability of the draft, and in 2006 it was about how one party was obviously more corrupt than the other. From a foreign perspective, these views were obviously false, but were held by some with hysterical strength.
"For the record, Tesla has not said it will locate its new Gigafactory in Texas in exchange for the state changing its franchise laws."

Are there any legal restrictions on a company making demands like this?
Official Google Calendar Chrome Extension
Lenovo to launch a line of smartphones from Ashton Kutcher
Auto-Brewery Syndrome: The Ability to Brew Beer in Your Gut
Making them any more blatant isn't going to do much good, seeing as those who block ads won't be able to see them.