skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume that Google is giving me a free browser because it will drive traffic and revenue to the search engine. There is no reason for Google to be nefarious to make money.

I cannot guess the motivations of free plugin developers.
> 20-35yo, white male, Ivy league graduate, $150K+/year community

the funny thing is that you see nothing ridiculous about trying to use this as a hypothetical counterpoint.
Bitcoin's role as a large-sum money-transfer mechanism for legitimate purposes hinges on availability of immediate exchange at each end of the transaction (immediate because of the volatility). Bitcoin exchanges aren't getting the best PR lately, either. I don't think responsible organizations would allow the use of Bitcoin as a transfer medium in the current chaos just to save some money. So this utility, I claim, is more theoretical at this moment. In any event, the volume of such transactions by established, lawful, and respected organizations is probably too limited to be categorized as clear value just yet.
Certain medieval torture methods make me actually doubt that there is a person alive that could inflict it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_sawing
If you can read meaning into a one-day price fall of 0.08%, you're a smarter person than I am.
Laying Out iOS UIs in Code
They don’t escape tax at a local level.
This lesser minds effect has many manifestations, including what appears to be a universal tendency to assume that others’ minds are less sophisticated and more superficial than one’s own.

A lot of the stuff in this article runs rampant in various forums on the Internet and especially in interactions between programmers.
Direct link to El Erian's article with his 5 reasons.

http://bit.ly/1kCYOM5

If you read his 5 reasons, you'll notice that there's one string that ties them all together: interconnected global economy with strong influence by large conglomerates.

The more your country is dependent on these multinational companies, more you will be at the mercy of ups and downs of business cycle.

Sadly, most industrialized countries are full of them, but there are some exceptions, including Iceland. Iceland, despite almost going under, recovered quickly partly because it unloaded its debt fast, and its small size made the country relatively free of multinational's influence.

Japan seems to be everyone's punching bag for being in economic doldrums. But a visit to the country will make you realize that there's a fair balance of multinationals and local companies that evens out the pace of domestic consumption and investment. However, that balance has been breaking for awhile.
I Failed Big Because I Tried To Please Everybody
People may be better off using a notoriously insecure app like WhatsApp and not use it for anything sensitive. I believe that "Secure" products can only give you a false sense of security, an illusion of safety.

Security should be about planning for failure and not about trusting a marketing blurb that says "100% secure". Just look at the Apple gotofail bug, the RSA/NSA fiasco, the Debian fuck up, the ssh crc32 bug...

I'll finish by quoting Theo de Raadt : "You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes." *

* You can replace 'virtualization layers 'with 'secure messaging protocol' or any other piece of code.
>> They are only just getting their act together with cloud offerings whilst a bookshop has become a market leader.

Nice one. I can say similar things about SAP.

Interesting, possibly related fact - SAP was started by former IBM employees.
VoltDB, native memory, and you
Hello, world!
There lots of great technologies to work with behind the MS:
NodeJS, PlayFramework, Django and Ruby on Rails - perfect tools for web development.
Javascript, Dart, Coffee script - web development languages/platforms.
Android, Objective C with/without the Apple's iOS - the best tools for mobile development and desktop.
Qt - best UI crossplatform framework for all OS like Linux, Windows.

Just choose the language/technology of your choice.

That's the top of the iceberg.
The link does not work, and the layout of blooki.st seems to be completely broken on Firefox 27 (OSX)
I think that's exactly the counterpoint he was going for, people would be stupid enough to put their life savings into BTC but not dogecoin.
While hate can be examined, analysis should also be made of the over-humanizing of certain peoples while blatantly ignoring others. While the proverbial fiddle plays during any Shoah reference, hardly anyone notices that Königsberg is not found on maps anymore and that its people have been scattered to the winds.

Many people suffer but scant few receive condolences. Rather than being blinded by preoccupation with historical "recognition" of hate, focus might instead be placed on justice in one's everyday life.
It always makes me really glad to know I'm not the only one who sees it this way.
I wonder about that. If anything, it seems more like we've been quite destructive this past 100 years, from Hitler to the Stalinist purges. I'd love to claim there's some modern age of enlightenment, but the fact that there are significant conflicts every few years makes me question that.
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> Games released via Steam have shown evidence that when a singleplayer game is unavailable as a torrent for free, then people will pay for it.

When? Where? To my knowledge, no such study or data in favor of that thesis exist. For music I know of a counter-study to such statements: http://www.scribd.com/doc/131005609/JRC79605, which concludes with

According to our results, a 10% increase inclicks on legal streaming websites lead to up to a 0.7% increase in clicks on legal digital purchases websites

and

Essentially these papers show that illegal music downloads have little or no eﬀect on legal digital sales.
Britain to Scrape Bitcoin Tax
I don't think that's a reasonable reading of my comment. My phrasing matches standard English usage.
Ask HN: Would you pay $3/yr for a bare-bones No-IP like service?
A buddy of mine was thinking about running a bunch of cli applications on a server at his home and just remoting into them so he never had to reconfigure anything. The hangup was the static-ip requirement or the need to subscribe to something like No-IP or DynDNS(at least $25/yr).

I was wondering if anyone on HN would be interested in a barebones service that just tracked your dynamic IP's current IP address and provided a one-liner way to call it to make remoting in easier.
It actually sounds a lot more like a CIA intimidation tactic.
This problem with film is the same thing with music - now anyone can have a professional recording studio in the comforts of their own home. With more people making music / film, the more the quality suffers as everyone believes they are a film/music maker. It just means that in order to get noticed through the exponential increase in volume, you have to work that much harder to demonstrate your talent and craft.
> How can we distinguish this statement from Jobs-worshiping woo?

Results. He made Apple a huge success then come back and did it again. He took Pixar to wild successes whilst masterfully cutting deals with Disney. Even NeXT for all it's faults had some impressive technology back in the day.

He was indeed an A++ player not just for what he did but for what he represented. Himself and Bill Gates are the parents of the modern computing industry.

And I 100% that people who emulate him are just being idiots. His personality makes no sense without his unique history to back it up.
Thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours[1] have gone into security audits and improvements of Pidgin[2] and are not one-time things; this Google donation has recurred.

It makes little sense to me to pick up and move to another platform and product because it's written in JavaScript. The remaining bullet points in this wiki page appear to be fixable with a lot less directed effort than adopting and drastically changing an unpopular application.

[1] https://blog.wasilczyk.pl/en/2013/google-donates-pidgin-to-i...
[2] http://pidgin.im/news/security/
One the hand, the "self-deletion" seems very fishy, coming from a layperson's assumptions about computers and hacking, so I lean towards innocuous explanations, if not utter bullshit.

But to play devil's advocate, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a gaslighting-style psychological attack. If the author was deeply infiltrated with the right malware, the keyboard stunt could done, and would achieve one of two things:

1. The writer is so unsettled or terrified that he abandons the project ("the chilling effect").

2. The writer foolishly goes public with the incident, making him look like a liar or a lunatic to the tech crowd, and probably everybody else too.

Food for thought.

(As I think about it, this is also exactly the sort of prank that a 14-year-old with a malware toolkit would find hilarious.)
But he did answer them:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ycs5l/hi_reddit_im_br...

The wording is carefully chosen so I'll let people draw their own conclusions from it.
Why on earth would a malicious party manually delete characters while the author is watching? If you don't care about being observed - as the author suggests - then in order to destroy his work, you'd just delete the truecrypt partition.
You can use it to collaborate on shitty startup ideas.
Keep the government out of your email
I think the main problem is that you could say exactly the same about Ballmer at Microsoft. He also ran Microsoft very well from an operations point of view.

What we know for certain is that Apple can still _execute_ very well and stay competitive in a certain market. The latest offerings of Macs, iPhones and iPads are ample proof of that.

The question which is still unanswered is whether Apple, with Tim Cook and the other leaders, has what it takes to stay innovative. It's too early to tell, and I think it's certainly to early to write a book about it.

Since Tim Cook has gone on record saying that we will wee new product categories within the year, my guess is that we'll know for certain in 2-3 years time.
google givet, google take it away...
You can also just create a *.user.js file and drop it on the extensions page. (Still works in chrome 35.)
Shoot me a quick hello if you'd like a few suggestions, my username at gmail.
"Being able to send money across the world for next to nothing (compare to credit card fees, not to mention the higher prices of Western Union or hawala) has immense value."

This is likely to end as Bitcoin exchanges discover the cost of compliance.
That was exactly my point, "synonym" != "the same thing", it's a bit more nuanced than that and requires the context in which the words are used.

Only a 3rd grader thinks its ok to trot out their thesaurus and willy nilly replace words.

(also, from reading this thread, I don't seem to be the only one who thinks your english leaves something to be desired)
reminds me of the paradox days,good times.
Which MUD were you on?
I figured that might be the case. If I got one I'd go with the Surface Pro 2, more than likely.

I also plan on keeping the iPad around. lstamour mentioned this in another post, but weight-wise, I'm assuming I'll still prefer it for reading pdf's and such. That's actually the main reason I got an iPad to begin with. I wanted to be able to read tech books, pdf's, papers, etc on something electronic and iPad beat everything else I tried.
Another thing to do with the blank left page might be to use it for the thumbs/page counts/other possibly desired info. Maybe a notes section for that page?
Everyone is going to say iWatch. But that's nothing.

The two biggest for me will be an App Store for the AppleTV. This could put the end to Nintendo's console hopes forever and open up a lot of new revenue streams. And the biggest by far is payments. iBeacons is starting to take off and with AppleID/TouchID they have the frictionless security mechanism.
At root this is a part of the push to make the web less participatory and more like television. Users need to be gulping content and crapping cash, and they don't need to be distracted by trivia such as altering a web site's layout for personal usability or accessibility.
I'm going to go take a look at one now and see how I like it. I doubt I'll pick one up today, but who knows. I've impulse bought worse.
My exact thought when reading the article. I've long termed this phenomenon "correctness at any cost"; a zero-sum game of "rightness" wherein one bludgeons another with overblown self-righteousness in having memorized the equivalent of a 20-second Google search. Emily Post would have labeled such people "boors".
Perhaps a different question then - if such a group were to form whose consensus would they need to pull in, what rough roadmap would you suggest they follow. What, in short, is going to hurt and when should they duck?
Nope, I don't work there.

Suggest you ask them :)
It isn't. He is stuffing information in the blockchain into a standard public-key crypto scheme. DNSChain is more secure in that you run your own certificate authority that happens to have it's trust root in Namecoin.
Google's most valuable asset is its reputation; switching cost are still pretty low for most of their properties. But, not only does Google have a disincentive for being nefarious in that fashion, they're also under more scrutiny vis-à-vis Chrome (which would be effective even if it were not open source).
I've been on irc channels for the past 16 years, basically right from my first year online.

I've found my closest friends through irc and we are partnering regularly on business related subjects. Best medium to stay connected. The WhatsApp Groups are what kids these days use from what i hear.
You might want to read up on some of the atrocities that have happened recently in tribal violence in Africa.
I work in big insurance, too. How did you handle porting your legacy code into (R|Python)?

We had tens of thousands of lines of SAS code from over the course of 10 years (macros, clinical programs, reporting functionality) of SAS programming that the higher-ups never saw the benefit of switching to Python or R to be feasible, especially with the Biostats team working on existing projects.
I also work for Red Hat. While the degree of remote working varies by department, it is substantial, appears to occur at many hierarchical levels on the management chain, and seems to work out pretty well. Also occurring in some cases, and somewhat related, is working out of a 'satellite' office rather than one of the major offices of a particular country. I'm surprised that more tech companies do not allow or encourage such arrangements. The arguments in favor of generally prohibiting remote working strike me as rather flimsy.
That's not quite the same thing.

You could replace the IBM CEO every week for many years to come with someone who has been at the company for 30+ years.
If you work backwards, starting with people who have successful exits, you will find occasional intersections on mailing lists or IRC channels or meetups or model railroad clubs.

This doesn't mean that list or whatever caused the success. This is the same problem epidemiologists face when trying to explain cancer clusters.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
Personally, I asked about early Pentium Ms lacking PAE.
I find the medical experiments performed by Japanese and german doctors during ww2 to be more frightening because they where done in the name of medical science by "modern" humans completely capable of emphasizing with their victims.
There is a great book available for free about the topic: Against Intellectual Monopoly[1] which does a great job detailing how IP is actually destructive to innovation and hurts society as a whole. The authors cover many topics from pharma to tech.

1. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h...
1) The iPhone iterations haven't been insignificant, unless you're expecting "mission impossible" technologies (or replaceable batteries and memory slots).

2) They have gone on record saying that they will introduce "new product categories" this year, so we'll see whether they keep their promise.
You're thinking of the live representation of the "model" of a brush in the program. I'm talking about the "definition" of a brush, from which the program loads that model. Another example would be, say, a "level" in an HTML5 game. These things ship alongside the game as blobs of data. Those blobs need a format that the browser can parse. Currently, JSON is that format, and it's inadequate for that.
That'd be cute if what I said there didn't come from experience, even if I did exaggerate the specifics.

Yes, the specific sequence of tokens is not valid because a list obviously can't be a key. The idea is still the same. I'll fix it so it is a valid sequence of tokens that's just as confusing: "}}}]}]}}"
Copyright protects work that people did from being copied. It is fairly narrow.

Patents protect "ideas". It is much more likely that someone may come up with the same or similar idea completely independently, than someone would come with up the same exact computer program or book. Patent protection is very broad. Especially in the US due to the Doctrine of Equivalents.

Soo... I am for copyright protection and not patent.
"... its
various Ctrl-Meta key-chords will seem not merely satisfyingly
ergonomic for the typical arthropod, but also direct evidence for the
universe’s Intelligent Design by some six-legged, multi-jointed
God.”

It just feels good. Do it today!
That's good. It would be nice if they'd document the spec before doing this. Right now it's pretty unclear what is and isn't valid CSON, since any CoffeeScript code will run.
I think the only time I haven't been on IRC since I discovered it in 1991 is the 5 years I spent in prison :)
Here is Woz explaining it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ciNXc_4OQ
The cost of compliance is a serious issue, true. I would hope that at least some states recognize the value in letting the experiment play out without interference, as with the early days of the internet, but with real money on the line it's harder to dismiss as a mere toy.

However, I wouldn't neglect the "gray market" use cases of Bitcoin: things that happen outside the law, but are not as nefarious or blatantly illegal as Silk Road. Immigrants sending money home to their families, secondary savings accounts for those in countries with unstable currencies, etc.
I've read the article talking endlessly about the corners as the easiest place for users to reach and I can accept that they are correct on their own terms.

The problem is that on a laptop people are used to both visual and kinesthetic cues for their action. Just as much, any mouse "gesture" effect has to leverage our intuition about physical things... when a gesture in one place (a corner) causes something to happen elsewhere (a side), it feels unnatural and is going to keep feeling unnatural no matter how many fan boys wiggle noses and say "you're doing it wrong, this is really easy no matter hard you're claim to find it...".

Edit: The point is the bar appearing on the side cues the user to go to the side, regardless of their great dexterity at going to the corner if they happened to remember to do that (as the gp actually implies).
Especially since said software auto-updates and adds these features. :) I think the emulation feature is very recent.
I'm curious about the ring. How do you know how much of the ring to "populate" unless you know how much they're going to type?
In fairness, it's somewhat likely that everything went exactly as planned, at least for some of the people behind MtGox.
Watch Stephen Colbert lambast the NSA and Snowden at security conference
All YAML files are required to begin with "---". If you're aware of what YAML is, and you've seen YAML ebfore, and yet you somehow "aren't aware" that something is a YAML file, you're incompetent.
hey can i join the channel? what's the pw? .....
>This is a pretty embarrassing piece; it reads like something you'd find on a conspiracy forum.

1. The guy doesn't seem like a computer expert. Don't dismiss his speculation merely because he's unable to explain what he observed as an engineer or programmer would.

2. There are always lots of more reasonable explanations for any suspicious activity than spying. This will be true for almost every case of actual spying that isn't unambiguously discovered.

4. The fact that one possibility is more likely does not disprove the possibility that it was the other. Do you really believe that every gov't agent is above a juvenile prank, or that none are buffoons? Or perhaps it wasn't a gov't agent but some other person.

5. Hotel safes are universally crappy and usually have a default master password that is known to criminals, and spies. I'll assume there are other ways to break into them as well.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/its-cover.png
The real cost of money transfer isn't really "next to nothing" when it depends on an asset so volatile it might lose 20% of its value before the party at the other end realizes they've been paid, and counterparties involved in the transaction are people that really shouldn't be running financial institutions.

When you look at the proportion of Bitcoins in existence whose owners are known to have lost them to incompetence/malice, suddenly those 2% conventional currency transfer fees with banks' associated guarantees look very cheap indeed.

If you want a "disruptive" money transfer system with low fees then there are a whole lot of p2p-based FX firms which offer very competitive rates that are run by relatively competent people and don't rely on a volatile asset in the middle of the transaction.

Obviously, if you want a speculative investment vehicle, to stick a middle finger to fiat currency or to facilitate money laundering then Bitcoin has other appeal.
There were reports that they laid off a number of employees in late January before this all went down. Maybe one of those disgruntled employees took a copy of the cold storage private keys with them.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1wc2mg/things_just_...
The devs are also running a crowdfunding campaign for this,
with 10% of the donations going to the EFF, Demand Progress, Mozilla, etc:
https://back.nothingtohide.cc
Technology we wish had worked: The Rocket Belt
Jobs haunts infinite loop because in his death we ascribe all and any kind of paranormality to him.

Innovation has came before Jobs, and it will come after jobs. One man alone does not hold lock and key to something as big as innovation.

If Apple is the only company that can put a screen in 7 billion people's hands and home, how is this not a testament to greatness?

Don't be the next Steve Jobs. Be Tim Cook. Be you.
What new products did Balmer bring in which would go from zero to being main profit generators?
Why it's time to stop worshipping coders
We used to do this for giggles. PC-Anywhere era.
Stylish is GPL v3, according to the FF addon page.
Shoutkey.com is insecure by design
If it were a real integration effort, sure. Imagine you are trying to get that group into a segment of society they have been traditionally excluded from. Only then would that parallel make sense.

I am having a hard time picturing exactly what that could be. Law enforcement, maybe? Romance literature?
I would trust him, someone from Europe, over a person who has "travelled" there. You really need to live in a place to get to know it's culture at anything more that a superficial level.

At a superficial level, for example, Americans seem to believe they are better (possibly due to genetics) than others. This kind of exceptionalism/patriotism is bad.

You've mentioned yourself why this whole article and comments are bollocks. Europe is is no way homogeneous and referring to startups in "Europe" is kind of pointless.
Link "works" fine except yeah it's a completely white page for me in Firefox. Actually, in everything that isn't Chrome.