skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely right.

Putting 5-10% of your net worth in something like this is being innovative and forward thinking and taking a calculated risk.

Putting 90-95% of your net worth in something like this is serious, foolhardy gambling.
Not sure this will help: IMNSHO market already perceives COTS computers as "costs $x, plus has Windows for free."
I've done that type of copy/paste error - inadvertently duplicating a line - more than once when using an unfamiliar and "helpful" IDE. I hate it when an IDE screen flashes and I'm left wondering what the HELL did that just do???
It's not just that.

During the dotcom boom, many, many people faced tremendous tax liabilities because of ill-timed tax strategies. For example, they had stock options that were worth millions, but instead of selling them, they exercised them in order to hold them to get long term capital gains. So for example, they had options worth $10M, and they exercised them. They faced an immediate tax liability for $10M, but then the dotcom bust hit, and they lost all $10M, leaving them with $10M in taxes but nothing to pay it back with. I personally knew several coworkers that suffered this.

I believe it was only recently, over 10 years after the fact, that the IRS changed how they treated this so that people didn't go bankrupt from this.
I am on a chat with the Amazon support team to get this back up. It's set to scale to users but not this fast apparently.
That's a good point. Still, it's probably manageable to accomplish for major stores by manually mapping some out (or letting your app users map it out). I usually go to bigger stores, because you can find everything in one store. People who shop often wouldn't need the app, since they remember where everything is.

The same idea expanded a bit, could be to optimize for money. For example, if your list is going to be $200, you might save 20 dollars by shopping in two/few separate stores (accounting for gas), and app could divide the list into multiple lists per store.
This is way harder, because prices change all the time (store layout doesn't change as often), and usually you can't look up prices online. The app could take into account any store coupons (assuming manufacturer coupons could be used in any store).
The target audience for this are people who are willing to trade in time to save few dollars. I'm not sure they will have smartphones.
Recovery in this case will most likely be in the underlying asset i.e. BTC.

Having knowledge of a ton of these situations what will actually reduce the payout/recovery substantially are:

a. The time it will take to recover => 2-5 years

b. The customers will be on the hook for all accountant and legal fees, which will easily erode 40-80% of the recovery amount

So the expected recovery would be in the range of 0.118btc - 0.354btc per 1btc.

The only saving grace to recover the USD value would be if at time of recovery BTC was trading at $1600 - $4796 USD/BTC.
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As far as I can tell, this doesn't affect Kickstarter and such, since you're not legally investing, but buying a product. So if that's the case, he should be on the safe side.

A shame of law, however, since it's only meant to discourage small scale investing.
Spooky23 is also right because we've done a lot of research and most people in debt are 25-44 working, educated, and upwardly mobile (if they weren't being dragged down by debt) usually they got into debt because of job loss or medical crisis.
Of course it's taxable - if you give someone $20 for their project and get a t-shirt in return, then that is taxable just as any other deal, and even if there is no profit/taxable net income, then VAT applies for the transaction.

If crowdfunding was like purchase of shares (which it isn't), then it wouldn't be taxable initially, but would have a capital gains tax when you sell those shares.

Most of the crowdfunding projects are in essence similar to preorders, and thus would be taxable as any other sales - if there are true donation projects, then they'd need to file for nonprofit status to be able to get tax-exempt donations.
It's not true that there was no other change in the code -- there was a change eight lines earlier. It could be a mismerge of the latest upstream code. There was refactoring nearby, and people can make stupid mistakes while refactoring.

I disagree that there's no "reasonable explanation", and so do most other people who've looked at it. That doesn't mean it wasn't malicious, but it means that it has reasonably plausible deniability. (Of course, if you were being malicious, plausible deniability might be important to you.)
If this is the case, depending on how deep they follow this philosophy, it's important because the people or places that actually gather the content or lead to the content creation have invested and are investing more resources than those who simply scrape the data - and they the opportunity to recover costs, otherwise you damage that positive system's ability to continue on their successful path. That matters if you care how quickly we reach a better and better world for everyone. The source of where content is generated (in form of data or other) is also a strong signal of value, and that seems to be a leading metric of what Google wants to offer - the highest value search results.
Can anyone who is interested go along and sit in on those sessions? I live in London and that sounds interesting.
You're in stage 1, denial.
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Much better than I expected, it may not be perfect but it seems like the most secure of the mainstream chat services. I would love to also have seen forward security but that's asking for quite a bit.
I'm not sure which point you're trying to make. Did you look at op's submission?
That SERP should show only one result from Wikipedia instead of two. It should be on top, have a blue title link to Wikipedia, and look like an answer to the user's question. That could be done by a general mechanism that lets every site customize their representation on the SERP, or by a special case for Wikipedia.
So one President backs one gas pipeline deal, and the other President another deal. Russia has an interest in the latter.

Both stood to gain massive backhanders. The people of Ukraine have to suffer.

Does that summarize the core issues?
why they don't just integrate this into the results page? what's wrong with having up and down votes or a report this link button for the results?
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That's brutal.

Honestly you might consider switching to a new domain given that you haven't launched yet. It can take a long time to get out of the Google doghouse.
Better than no hoop.
Just realised I may have missed your point; anyway, you're right that "monoid" is harder to find an easily-understood counterpart for than "container". There are examples of monoids which everyone is probably familiar with, but we don't usually abstract from those everyday examples; whereas as well as there being everyday examples of containers (boxes, bags), we are familiar with abstracting away from those examples in everyday life to come up with the general concept of container.
Funniest part about that is that a foil hat might very well prevent it from forming in the brain.
So you're happy to code in a non-monospaced font. I can't help but think you're being wilfully ignorant... or just being a contrarian. Either way, good luck.
I believe MtGox users have unfortunately learned the definition of "counterparty risk". This is one of the major overlooked risks that almost took down the global financial system in 2008. People would hedge their worthless bonds using AIG as a counterparty, and once things blew up, these people realized their insurance policies were completely worthless because AIG was about to go under itself, causing them to almost go bankrupt as a result.

Unfortunately, in a world where none of the bitcoin exchanges have any sort of regulation, there's no way that BTC use can expand via BTC financial institutions until people have full confidence they can get their money back in the case of another collapse like mtgox.
Is the source 'User X' or 'StackOverflow'? When you reference CC BY-SA code you don't reference the people who, say, checked it into git but rather the whole repo.
Not sure if it is/was, but having at least three people review code before merge should be standard practice for security critical stuff like this. Something I plan to implement in the future.
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Show HN: XKCD Now Comic Android Widget
Hey HN, I just started learning Android this week in my free time and the XKCD Now comic inspired my first Android app! The app adds a large, transparent widget of the Now Comic to your android device.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stdiostudios.now

I will be posting my source on Github in the near future.
>"1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year. It's not an exaggeration to say that due to the work we're doing here, 5,000-10,000 people will live to see the end of 2014. You should be proud of what you've done, but we should also all be grateful to have this opportunity."

Using that logic, how many have died due to the botched rollout of the website?
I think most people would be a little unsettled and at least occasionally annoyed if when they googled something as broad as "Russia" it gave them all very specific to their industry.
Do you know HowToUse.cc?
The de facto standard robots.txt is pretty likely to be respected by Google, so it's fairly easy to stop their scraping your site. Yes, it is opt-out, bit I'd expect it to be.

It may be quite frustrating for an upstart to be denied access while Google is explicitly allowed, but that's another matter.
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Almost all theft at financial institutions is internal theft.

There is not one single official statement from anyone to the effect that there has been an external theft from Mt. Gox. No one has reported a theft to police.

There is zero basis to believe an external theft has occurred.

If Mt. Gox does file a police report, at least then someone has done something (with official penalty for false statement) indicating that they believe a theft has occurred, and some possibly-accurate information would be available. But for now, there is nothing to stand behind a claim of external theft.
But my point is that even local organic farms have to deal with the useless males problem. For eggs: if they have a rooster to breed more chickens, they kill the male hatchlings as soon as they're old enough to be sexed (which can be at birth or a few weeks later depending on the sophistication of their sexing techniques). If they purchase their chickens from a breeder, the same problem exists there.

I mean, simple respectable pain-management could help with de-beaking, but the existence of unwanted male birds is a hard problem.

I'd be a lot more comfortable with ovo/lacto vegetarianism (which is what I do) if those problems could be solved, and I'm no luddite - if there was a high-tech solution to these problems using crazy cloning techniques or somehow inducing parthenogenesis or something, that would be great.
I think the p stands for "personal" ie. it's so tiny that you can create one for each device.
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Question: did anyone got fired in Washington for blowing through 300 mln and delivering jack shit? Why if you get hired in a company and preform poorly or just because of the budget cuts - you get laid off and end of story. If they have budget problem in DC and politicians doesn't do what they were supposed to, they get to keep a job and tell more lies...
I feel like doing something different. I'm sure Amazon would be a better investment.
As I understand it, Microsoft needs to keep Windows everywhere so they can sell everything else (Office, Exchange, Server, SQL and Sharepoint).

Why don't they give Windows for free ?
The MySQL clustered index (and Oracle IOT) are, in my opinion, often over looked powerful features. To pick an example I recently encountered ... I have an Rails app to implement a RSS reader. Each user has many feeds that get added over time. If you cluster the feeds on user_id then all the feeds for a given user will be in a single database block or two, so reading them out is super efficient. If they are in a standard heap table, (or the way Rails creates the table by default, clustered on ID), then reading the list of N feeds could require N database block reads in the extreme case. Same goes for all articles on a given feed - cluster the related articles together and its very efficient to find the most recent articles for a feed.
The integer seeds of the PRNG on hand and the first (or second or nth) generated pseudo random number on the other hand.
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Interesting, from the file sizes you can quickly gauge the relative popularity of each subject.
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They don't actually link to the wikipedia URL. They mask a link that leads to another Google page "/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...." which in turn responds with a 200 OK page that redirects to Wikipedia.

Sure it passes the keywords etc. But this likely reduces the number of people visiting Wikipedia, while increasing Google's ad revenues, if anyone but Google did this they'd be potential blacklisted by Google.
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Think of change, copy, paste, do something else that you suddenly thought of, forget because lunch, commit without looking. (TODO: Write unit test.)

Or a conspiracy. At this poing, I just don't know any more.
Is their copy and paste verbatim?
Because it's based on extremely complex ideas. Multi-dimensional emails are great but they are really hard.
Firefox also provides a suggestions list for CSS properties and values in the rule view and the markup view of Inspector since Firefox 25.
I know why you are annoyed, but many libertarians (of the non-anarchist variety) still believe in the court system to recover damages. If they use the courts to recover part of their losses from MtGox's assets there's nothing hypocritical there.

If they want a bailout, ie a cash injection, then I'm with you.
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Good point, I was surprised it didn't work like that. Guess it's one of those little things.

Personally, I think that console could do some work. Chrome console is top notch, and there is too much noise in FF version, with CSS and other stuff.
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In reply to:

Apple cannot prove they aren't reading your iMessages.

You said:

Sure they could. They could change the protocol and UI so that the users could verify and pin keys, and they could publish the iMessage source[1] to allow people to check it and compile it themselves.

My point is that publishing the source is not enough since you cannot verify that is the source running on your iPhone. Even if we concede that Apple could let you sideload your own compiled binary (which is not the case today), you still couldn't prove it since you couldn't know that the iPhone is running your binary and not a backdoored binary in the OS.

None of which is to say that Apple should have to prove any of this. If you cannot trust your phone vendor, then you cannot use any function of that phone, be it purportedly-secure messaging or location services or even the web browser.
Thanks. Yeah thats the idea.
But it's highly non-linear. They have an expected Pearson correlation of zero.

Note: there are simple counter example of variables that have a Pearson correlation of 0 yet some non-linear dependency structure as in the 3rd row of the plot of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_and_dependence
The $409 Million Question: – Who’s to blame for the Mt. Gox attack?
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It might be a bit promotional towards their own products, agreed. But it is just an example...
"Ukraine: President Viktor Yanukovych says he was forced to flee due to threats; slams 'pro-fascist' forces" is the actual title.

Posting it to hacker news as "Russia invading Ukraine right now" is editorializing. (See the Guidelines.)
And what about the Magic: The Gathering cards?
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FWIW, you have pretty fine grained control over what appears in the console (CSS, JS, Logs, etc.) as well as the level of logging (Error, Warning, Log)... see the dropdown buttons at the top of the console tab :)
I would be very interested in seeing the source of the quotations from Jefferson and Franklin. "Mob rule" and "elite" do not at all sound like the expression of their day.
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The way that exchanges work is that they hold a wallet for you, you deposit money into it, and then you do off-blockchain trades with other users. At some point, you ask to withdraw, and give them your local wallet address, and then they send you the coins.
At that point they should really consider switching to another DB imo.
My comment below highlights the clawback risk for those that were successful at pulling money out. If this turns out to be a Ponzi scheme there is a real chance that people who profited and were able to get their USD out may actually be forced to forfeit all of their profits depending on the jurisdiction.
It's just a font, man. Chill.
Why couldn't you be both visionary AND rent-seeker?
I mean, isn't that the whole point of capitalism?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318701
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that's for parents safety
Actually, Joel's article is also outdated, e.g. Only code points 128 and above are stored using 2, 3, in fact, up to 6 bytes.

See:

What is the maximum number of bytes for a UTF-8 encoded character?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9533258/what-is-the-maxim...
> Why don't they give Windows for free ?

I think you know the reason, its because they make a shit load of money selling it.

It's not at all clear that they would be better off giving it away for free.
A little off-topic, but I was just reading this:

> In response to this, Mozilla has designed a way to lock the device and offer guest access to apps predefined by the user with a green light to allow anyone to use them. All other apps will remain behind a password protected wall until the primary user changes the settings.

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240215078/Mozilla-launch...

This is actually an idea I also came up with after the whole Miranda thing at the UK airport and finding out that the UK authorities can arrest you just for not revealing your devices' passwords, which I think is just insane, especially if you're just passing through UK. I don't know what the UK people are thinking, but they can't let anymore days pass by without repealing this awful law.

But I think I had a slightly better idea for this. Don't just make it obvious that there is another account on the phone. That doesn't improve things too much. Completely hide the accounts, and when you're asked for a password, it should open up the account according to the password you're using.

So if you pass through the UK airport, and they get your phone, and they get prompted for a password, you can just tell them the password to your "safe" account, and they would be none the wiser. That's what I've been hoping Google will implement for Android, but it would be nice if Mozilla did it to push this idea out there.

The second thing I wanted to say here, and also something I've been thinking about for even longer, but perhaps now is the perfect time to do it - Mozilla should create a Firefox to Firefox (or to Chrome extension) end-to-end encrypted chat app. This could all of the sudden bring true communications privacy to over 300 million people at once. It would be amazing!

The reason I say it's the perfect time to do it now, is because Open WhisperSystems has already done most of the work on creating a very secure asynchronous protocol that even works with groups, and they've said they're already working on a browser solution, anyway.

I'm sure they'll create a Firefox extension either way, but if you could work with them on this, help them out with the funds they dearly need, and then put the app front of center on Firefox as an integrated part of Firefox (you could even promote it as a secure communication solution to enterprise users), that would be fantastic.

The problem with end-to-end encryption right now is that it's barely seeing any support from small fundless groups, and none of the large platform owners seem to have any interest in deploying it. Mozilla is one such large platform owner, it's also an open source organization, and they seem to be working on improving their users' privacy. So I couldn't think of a better large platform to do this first.
the OEMs don't perceive it that way. Acer could have two SKUs. One with the free version at 199 and the non free version at 249. I think a lot will buy the 199 version.
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We (I am the author of that post) definitely care about color blind users and want to make our tools as usable for as many people as possible! Photoshop allows you to simulate varieties of color blindness and we keep that in mind. We are also trying to provide better visual cues, like shapes/textures rather than relying solely on colors. The network panel in nightly for example has shapes to indicate HTTP response codes.

Secondly, once you switch to the light theme (available in the options pane of nightly) it should persist for you, so it will become your "default".
Given their behaviour to date there's absolutely no rational basis for "faith that they will do the right thing".
True, but default choice is SPAM WITH CSS REFLOWS, YAY!

EDIT: Another thing, there needs to be a font shape difference between input and output. Basically, you should be able to tell if something is input or output without looking into the arrows to the side.
Agreed. Trick question: both.
Still working on the servers- here is a link to the executive summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4STqhM8PxcqNOoAMcjyFnXm...
The article (or rather the one it references) makes the argument that:

> "...almost all of Musk’s companies rely in some form on government subsidies or tax breaks."

Wouldn't that also be true of many (if not most) US companies, given our rather labyrinthine tax code?
Here it is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4STqhM8PxcqNOoAMcjyFnXm...
I'm still thinking he should have taken the $120K and rebranded elsewhere, but what do I know? :-)

I used to check his site daily. Now I wait for the links to appear here. I know he's busy, but I wish he'd have time to write and share more!
Can't it be both? The guy has an impressive depth to him. He worked on a payment system and space exploration. Produced a movie and brought to market electric cars people actually like.

What's a little rent-seeking on the side?
and who will regulate the regulators? In recent history, it appears no one will. Will things end well with respect to that? History tells us no.
My mother in law has worked for the past 15 years at jobs which employ her for 39.5 hours a week and don't give her health insurance. She suffers arthritis in her hands and knees. She signed up and received health insurance for the first time in 15 years last week. She is now receiving the medical care she needs. Had she not, she would have had to apply for disability benefits. Now, she gets to keep working.

You don't know what you are talking about. My mother-in-law makes shit money, and yet she has a plan that is extremely affordable for her.

Your a partisan hack, and your facts are regurgitated from professional partisan hacks. Your absurd "handing a 1/3 of our economy over to the Federal Govt" comment points out your biased sources of knowledge. How is a website which matches consumers with private insurance companies equate to "handing over" to the Federal Government? What planet do you live on? Alabama?