skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For whatever reason, decentralised cryptocurrencies seem to be a very polarized subject.

As somebody in the financial markets regulatory space, your comment aligns with my own thoughts - there is a middle-ground: a balanced but essentially prudent view of Bitcoin and altcoins that is seldom seen in these threads full of naive ideals and cynical strawmen.

Another aspect of this middle-ground viewpoint: both of these polarized sides seem to be focused exclusively on fully automated Bitcoin-based systems. I find this highly unlikely.

If Bitcoin-based systems do become popular, there is no reason to imagine they won't involve some human (e.g. back office settlement systems with STP rules, payment tests and 4-eye reviews of breaches) and legal elements (e.g. declare your BTC addresses to your government tax office, KYC/AML compliance for exchanges, etc.) to solve certain problems that have been in the news lately.
Sprint sued by Feds for fraudulent cellphone tapping overcharge
This links to an Ad.
Introducing Reading View in IE 11
It's not like flights are that expensive, is it? It's the "actually moving across the country" part that people don't follow through on. So either this is a crowd-funded one night stand festival, or it's a failure.
Edward Snowden to speak at South by Southwest
How did you go about learning Obj C and iOS development? Books? Online classes? YouTube?
The fastest way to learn C++ is to write programs in it. If your textbook has exercises at the end of each chapter, work through a couple of them per chapter. You won't be able to do everything in 10 days, but you can do more than you think you can.
So put some numbers down. Let's say the transaction limit out of the float is something like 1 bitcoin, or 0.1 bitcoin (lower than that and you basically shouldn't be advertising any liquidity). How much skew should the float be able to cover there? 5 customers at the limit? 50? More?

edit: some small percentage of customers would be a smarter measure than some specific number.
Awesome post. Thanks Zac!
tl;dr: like restriction enzymes, but easily retargetable because they recognise sites using RNA.
Downloaded it, but have no one to chat with.

I created a room called: hackernews

Its group fingerprint is: BBD398AA E131E1644 6EF77D4E A2CDC074 F497ED37

I'm not sure the group fingerprint is required. I've noticed if you logout and login with the same room name, it generates a different fingerprint.
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Chromecast Support Comes To Chrome for Android
This is very true. It is a real issue in the open source world. http://github.com/codegangsta/martini tries to pride itself on minimalism. Thankfully the modularity of the project allows me to tell people to add features via other packages and repositories. Even though the product is solid it is difficult to communicate that the project is still active without having so many commits.

This is one of the reasons that I find the Golang package management philosophy refreshing in theory. "Master should never break" really prevents feature creep from coming in and promotes the use of solid packages that aren't always being actively worked on. Of course there are some major drawbacks wrt lack of versioning in Go, but I think the philosophy there overall is a very good thing for open source development.
Yes, Linux software is generally less prone to erroneous installs than Windows software, when it is done through your distribution. However, I think a parent commenter was pointing out how much easier it is to hack all of the users with this unified system of installation.

Is searching for, downloading and installing Putty actually resulting in users with malware-laden files? It would seem not, as the highest-ranking results for Putty are the official ones, and downloading/installing is a breeze once you get to the official page.

For software that's a more likely target for scams (like Firefox) you'll find a lot more user error and potential for abuse. And consider that many users may download and install Firefox by hand instead of using their distro (it's faster and less complicated). And similar to the attack on popular Windows end-user software, Linux server software is often a more high-value target for attack also results in users unknowingly installing insecure software, as we've seen in[1] many[2] cases[3].

Realistically the only thing keeping Linux more safe is that the user base and culture are different. But it would be naive to assume that somehow distro packagers are a more trustworthy source of files than the ones you could find on your own. It would seem to completely depend on the application and the user.

[1] http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/open-source-proj... [2] http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/malicious-backdoor-i... [3] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/23334/example-o...
Also interesting to note is that Tizen has a presence for infotainment systems with car manufacturers also.

https://01.org/solutions/why-tizen-for-ivi
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Except with one intractable draw back that shadow volumes could eat up an unbounded amount of GPU fill rate, based on shadow caster geometry and your camera position. As a thought experiment, imagine trying to use stencil shadows in a jungle scene, something Crysis does just fine with shadow maps. Everything is a tradeoff, smoke and mirrors, tons of bullshit and often due to schedule pressure, a lot of takesybacksies.
I'm from Ireland and I have been living/working in tech in the Bay Area for the last 6 years. While rent in SF is more expensive pretty much everything else (groceries, booze, coffee, restaurants) are significantly cheaper than in Dublin (25-50% cheaper). The average base salary in the Bay Area (excluding bonuses and equity)is more than twice what you would get in Ireland.

This plus the greater variety of work options and culture made it worth the hassle for me. Also If you are willing to live in Oakland/Berkeley rent is a lot more reasonable.
The optimal technical solution to this problem, for the vast majority of the population, is menstrual cups. They are completely reusable and generally perform better.

To me the long term challenge is the social problem of convincing people that menstrual cups are not gross and are not going to hurt them.

I totally respect this guy for finding an intermediate solution that helps his community though. I don't live in India so I have no idea what the specific cultural challenges are.
I had to come read the comments to figure out why I was just seeing a black screen that wasn't scrollable. Sideways scrolling? Really? There's a reason no one uses it.
Or just one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinken_(software)

Shinken was written by Jean Gabès as a proof of concept for a new Nagios architecture. Believing the new implementation was faster and more flexible than the old C code, he proposed it as the new development branch of Nagios 4.[3] This proposal was turned down by the Nagios authors, so Shinken became an independent network monitoring software application compatible with Nagios
And the main reason why we have web standards is that it should not matter how "shitty" your device is to access content on the web comfortably.
RadioShack closing 1,100 stores after dismal holidays
A minor correction, if you are married, your spouse cannot work if they hold a H-4 visa. They are allowed to work if someone is willing to sponsor their H1B, L1. They are also allowed to work on F1-Visa, using OPT/CPT.
People with green cards or citizenship are subject to the same unique worldwide citizenship-based taxation scheme that the US has. You will have to revoke your green card anyway to escape it so I would just get the citizenship since you can renounce it later with a somewhat more involved process. You can be subject to an exit tax if your 'rich enough' when you revoke your green card or citizenship. Something like $150k annual income for 5+ years or $2+ million in assets. Research it yourself, etc.
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No, the in-built car infotainment is built on QNX. Of course it works without phone, too! The CarPlay is just for iPhone users if they want to use their iPhone that way. It's similar to AirPlay. Android users can plug in their devices and get Android on that thing (when Android gets the compatible software).
If you play that game with any kind of prior belief about the values that you're about to see, then the theoretical solution is not longer valid.

What you're describing with the rock star vs incompetent people scenario is about bringing prior knowledge in there. You see a rock star as first candidate. You figure that, in your lineup of 10 people, odds are that no one will be better than that rock star. So you pick him/her.

This makes the theoretical solution at best a kind of intuitive justification in practical settings, but you shouldn't apply it mechanically without using your judgment.
Personal research opinion is that the lead-carbon battery is one made by Axion Power (AXPW), called the PbC.

The PbC has a carbon based electrode, which allows fast charge acceptance and discharge. In addition it has a long life cycle because unlike normal lead acid batteries, the carbon electrode doesn't sulfate. Thus, the PbC is ideal for hybrid and storage applications.

This is a first real alternative to lithium based batteries, which has high cost and safety issues.

www.axionpower.com
Indeed, CarPlay appears to use the existing h264-based display streaming technology that Apple employs for AirPlay and the Lightning Digital AV adapters.
wouldn't a sugar daddy dating site be better suited for that?

https://www.seekingarrangement.com
Clever was refering to volvo ;-)
I have consulted on operational monitoring for many years, including with a customer that claims to have the largest deployment of Nagios anywhere (50K+ nodes). The author hits on many good points, right up until they suggest a solution. My advice to customers has long been that you can make any tool successful, but the tools are not what really matter. Too often I've seen customers invest $MM in tooling, and fail to understand that people and process around that tooling is the real challenge. Too often both the entrenched enterprise vendors AND startups in this space miss this too. When it comes to tooling, the problem that too many startups miss is that they repeat the patterns that the entrenched players formed decades ago, and fail to understand that the kind of monitoring tools like Nagios and its clones offer is but one piece of a comprehensive solution for all but the smallest of operations.
That's like saying 'If something better tha PHP came along, programmers would use it'. Something better did come along, but that doesn't change the fact that PHP is still popular.
Much like the micro climates it seems pretty regional in SF [1]. Although this Forbes article seems to suggest that single women should look in the Tenderloin for single men. ;)

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/trulia/2013/02/11/americas-best-...
I'd also suggest the course along with sections of http://www.amazon.com/Database-Systems-Complete-Book-Edition...
Fair point. This is how that page will look after the weekly manual rebuild occurs on Friday: http://i.imgur.com/YXhafB5.png
Even for-profit companies could make "fix" vs. "ongoing treatment" work in a market where there is a constant supply of new patients (children) and a huge market relative to the size of the company. If one person learns to code reasonably well through something like this (or codecademy), referrals should be cheap customer acquisition.
Perhaps, in the case of the most cautious developers. But right now, I'd be happy with just competent developers.

And to me, at least, it's pretty clear why competent, responsible developers are not participating in this space -- we're too frightened by possible government sanctions.
I've always used alt+scroll for horizontal scrolling.

Edit: doesn't seem to work on the linked page
As an Australian she should have been eligible for an E-3 visa. Basically we gave Australia easy visas in exchange for a trade agreement.
CarPlay doesn't run anything. It's a protocol for iOS to talk to in car entertainment systems and controls. It's better to think of it as a specialized version of AirPlay for cars.
Most credit card purchases, like almost everything in the financial system, are reversible. Things that aren't reversible are the exception, and those are the places where, pun intended, the buck stops. If someone gets my credit card, they can't get $50,000 out of it and disappear. It's very very hard to buy cash equivalents via credit card, and this is not an accident.

Nothing in Bitcoin is reversible. Everyone working with them has to be hyper-vigilant, always, constantly, whatever you do don't blink, blink and you're dead.

I think if I were working with Bitcoins I'd get an ulcer.
Larry Hagman credited LSD with helping him to quit booze. Shakes your brain up like a snowglobe breaking all those addiction paths, so he claimed. I did ridiculous amounts of Nicholas Sand made LSD back in the early 90s when I was Lisp hacking, went from depressed teen to motivated info sponge couldn't read enough
I used the warp drive console at the top. "Engage"
Classy! Same shit happened with my girlfriend a year back. I must clarify, both of us were 12th graders in the same school in India back then. Had to explain her the C++ syntax just a day before the exam. And that's asking a lot counting in all the OOP concepts, memory mangament and neat data structures that needed to be covered. You, my friend, are much well off considering you still got ten days and already know PHP & Javascript.
is it more work? The CarPlay seems to run on the iPhone and projects to the QNX system. So the car system is just a dumb interface. Update iOS, and you update Carplay. Seems like less work.
Tinkercoin Will Sell You $20 in Bitcoin, But Only Once
Feds now oppose Aereo, rejecting cloud apocalypse argument
i'm only familiar with f-secure but imagine any av vendor would have something like this(but yea, what if system files were infected?)? https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/removal-tools/-/...
You didn't specify what country you are in, where you're from, where you're trying to immigrate to. These might be important details if you're looking for help.
I have previously wandered along the scale model of the solar system on the St Kilda beach in Melbourne. Yesterday I did the same with the scale model in Bonn. In both cases I only got as far as Uranus.

It was interesting along the way to verify Kepler's relationship between the orbital period and the distance. Saturn takes about 30 years to go around, and is about 30^(2/3) ~ 10 times the distance. Jupiter takes about 12 years to go around and is about 12^(2/3) ~ 5.2 the distance.

Standing by the plinth with the Earth and the Moon, looking back at the Sun, then forward to Mars, and not being able to see Jupiter really does give a true sense of the scale.

Not to diminish this effort, but getting out and walking the distances make a difference.
This is a smart marketing stunt. It's a mutual win because it will generate press for both the platform (CrowdTilt) and the user (The Dating Ring).

My hunch is The Dating Ring got the okay from CrowdTilt before launching this campaign, and have an informal agreement in place to delete the campaign after a few days, which will generate further press.
looks nice, but no info which scripts it covers?
It doesn't say this on the website, but they are releasing this under the Apache license.

I wish they made this more clear from the get go because with all of the formats they are releasing it in as well as the release note on browser compatibility, they are clearly targeting this towards web development.
> Kudos to the OP...I wish more graphics programmers did this.

In my experience this mostly happens when a game programmers are switching jobs. Compared to the open source community, or indie community, console game developers rarely publicize their work. To be fair, most of them are under NDA and under a time crunch.

> what is the equivalent to "Rails"

Unity... its "Rails" for game development in general. You can do simple things quickly, and you can dig deeper into shaders and (if you have the commercial version) some advanced visual effects. Of course its not a substitute for writing your own, but unlike writing your own engine, you might actually finish a project with Unity :-)
If the moon WERE only 1 pixel...you know...because it's not. :)
For anyone like me that was wondering about the open source license they were using, it's licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (so it's GPL-compatible).
It's really easy to mis-interpret this at a glance. I thought it was literally asking people for money to fly random people to a different city for a date.

Instead, they're actually selling tickets - the cost includes flight, hotel, and some sort of dating event. (You can also toss in $20 and maybe win a free flight.)

I thought that Crowdtilt was more like Kickstarter, but it seems that it's just a way to gather money for any arbitrary cause.
We usually put lengths along an X axis when graphing, I believe this is why horizontal scrolling was used.

We also tend to think of our planets in order from left to right from the sun.

If this was about ocean depth, vertical scrolling might be more analogous.

But its all subjective of course.
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> one should at least consider using and contributing to bareos, the (hopefully) true OSS fork of nagios

Bareos [1] is more an fork of Bacula [2], Isn't it? Did you mean Icinga [3]?

[1] http://www.bareos.org/en/

[2] http://www.bacula.org/en/

[3] https://www.icinga.org/
A child is generally more mentally vulnerable than a grown up. So the effect of a crime on the former is generally larger and hence considered more heinous.
The Quantum D-Wave 2 Is 3,600 Times Faster than a Super Computer
Everything excess in life is poison. Like they say, it is possible that you hate a thing which is good for you [emotional/mental pain], and love a thing which is bad for you [being a drunk].
It's such a great feeling. My favorite part is how, no matter how long you've been doing it for, you still get that feeling time and time again.
If Mattel had a prototype of this over a decade ago, why would we not at least see the principles behind it in other technology?
The title is hardly factual. It was a theory by the author that shows his misunderstanding of CarPlay, the update does not confirm his theory either. The in car entertainment system might run QNX, CarPlay is a protocol. It's not like Apple is designing the head unit.
You're spot on, CarPlay is essentially Apple's version of MirrorLink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirrorLink). Volvo's press release from yesterday put it concretely:

>Smooth connection
Apple CarPlay is available for iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5 running the latest version of Apple’s iOS operating system. Apple CarPlay allows connection of the device to the car through a Lightning cable. The connection is based on a streaming H.264 video feed that returns user input from the touchscreen. Apple CarPlay will be available in forthcoming Volvo models based on the new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA), starting with the all-new Volvo XC90 later in 2014.

https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...
I got my bank account before getting my SSN. They ask for passport and maybe some other documents (e.g. I-20 for F-1 Visas) but certainly getting a bank account without SSN is possible.
Yep, you could even see their shirts move when the harness takes their weight.

Also, as soon as they "hover" they're suddenly putting no weight on their legs. Unless hovering implies complete gravity reversal, that doesn't make sense. They'd still be putting all their weight on the board.

Ok, for an obvious fake, I care too much :)
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> business apps (I take it you mean "enterprise apps") are not the epitome of programming, much less serious programming.

I'd reverse that and say the polished, packaged apps are the exceptions, these days. Code behind webservers and business backend processing is the code that runs the world now. To see C++ used in such code is pretty unusual. I do think C++ has its place: kernels, drivers, numerics. Not much else.
The font doesn't have hinting and ends up looking not very good at small sizes.
2013 called and wants its stupid press release about a stupid font back.

PG IS A BUTT
RemoveBackground in the Wolfram Language...

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RemoveBackground.h...
You're potentially right that this could work as a for-profit entity too; it looks like they're going to provide their basic systems to companies or non-profits who want to replicate it.

"Teach your non-technical employees the basics of code" would probably be a better team-building exercise at a company like HP than doing outdoor activities.

As a non-profit, you could charge 5-10x the cost to run those courses, and then run the revenue back in to the non-profit school programs.

There are also lots of profitable commercial companies serving the education market, so if they'd wanted to, this could have been set up as a commercial entrant. But being a non-profit makes it easier to get adoption in schools I think, and allows them to use volunteers, vs. expensive staff.
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There are already many HTML UI libraries/widgets that use custom attributes. Like setting the icon to use on a jQuery Mobile list item. Similarly, you've always been able to just set properties on them and call them or use them later. This just seems to add custom tag names instead of generic tag names and prototype functions instead of setup functions - syntactic sugar, basically. Unfortunately it has poor browser support, so there isn't much reason to use it rather than the more compatible traditional methods.

There are JavaScript libraries to bring it to the full set of browsers, so I guess if you really want to name your divs something pretty you can do so at the cost of performance and heavy scripting.
I joined, but the fingerprint is different... :/
Rural areas often host large music festivals and state fairs, which tend to have crummy porta-johns. The rural town where I grew up was packed every summer with campers, antique collectors, and bike riders, and I'm sure some of them would pay to use a nice toilet for a change. And septic systems aren't limited to just rural areas. Many suburbs and towns have them too.
Oh I see, missed that, thanks. Well, I'm splitting hairs here, but "runs on" and "this partnership extends to support for Apple CarPlay" is not really the same thing.
Ask HN: Why big companies don't use Angular.js?
Is it just because big companies adopt things more slowly or it has something to do with Angular.js itself?
I thought it was literally asking people for money to fly random people to a different city for a date

That's one of the options. You can 'donate' to send 'additional' women. A good few of the recent contributors have been men.