skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked remotely for a US based software company on the island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean for most of 2010 while my girlfriend taught there. It was pretty fantastic, The major challenge was as you might expect... connection speed and stability. As you can see from the map most of the islands have fiber jump offs:

http://www.connectinghaiti.com/

but the challenge is in how local governments regulate them. At the time that I was working there the very best internet money could buy as a consumer on our island was only about 4 MB which made certain types of things challenging. luckily I worked with a company that was in love with the idea of distributed teams, so they maintained virtual desktops in the United States that people could connect to do things where the slow bandwidth might mess with something important. Mainly things like executing code with our main data warehouse.

Another thing that you run into is access to a good consumer electronics market. If I am trying to get setup to work from home in the US it is easy to solve little problems, I can order things online and get them the next day or if I am impatient I can go directly to the store and buy usually exactly what I want to solve the problem. This won't be the case when you live on a small island, stores hit the general notes but if you are looking for something specific that you will know will solve a problem you may be disappointed. This can also be a risk if your primary machine goes down. I am not saying you should pack for the trip like a survivalist, but its important to think about things that could go wrong ahead of time so that you can plan for contingencies. Again my work being more than accommodating direct shipped me several items that I needed and pulled my ass out of the fire.

As to quality of life it can really be amazing. My company generally operated on Pacific time since all of the senior managers lived in California, as a result I would usually get up in the morning go to my surfing lessons lounge a bit then come home at around noon and start working.

As I sit typing this I am really starting to wonder why I ever came back to the US..... ::opens new tab to look at plane tickets::
Any validity to the claims made on this website that the theft at MtGox due to a Botnet called Pony?
It does check if the arguments are correct these days.
My real gripe with using web rendering isn't that it doesn't look native (the "native look" changes every year, so who cares if we deviate)... no, it's that it's slow and sluggish and resource-hungry. I honestly don't feel comfortable running Atom on my laptop.
There's no censorship going on, and Reddit is not the only place people get their news. Seriously, if /r/news is your primary news source then something is wrong with you.
A few years ago, my son would watch "Finding Bigfoot.". Someone said they saw a bigfoot running off into the woods the narrator would say, "The bigfoot must have been frightened, so it's exactly what I would expect a bigfoot to do."

Another person would say, they saw a little bigfoot standing on the river bank and the narrator would say, "That's exactly the sort of place we would expect to see a baby bigfoot." [1]

If someone said they saw a bigfoot shopping in Walmart, we could expect to hear, "That's exactly the sort of a place a bigfoot would shop."

The conspiracy theorists and the honest mistake theorists are both finding bigfoot. On the one hand, it's exactly the sort of exploit a state security organ would like to create and on the other its exactly the sort of error a programmer can make in C. And neither side believes in the other's Bigfoot.

[1] We talked about the actual words that were used by bigfoot hunters to advance the story
It wasn't a closed-source system. This bug was in public source code, sitting there for anyone to see it. Nobody did.
Australian music label to pay damages to Lawrence Lessig in copyright battle
No, could have been stolen through bugs in their software (e.g. transaction maleability), not directly from stealing the keys
Dude, I'm poor has hell and I'm not crying about the €30k I lost there. And those 30k are several multiples of what I got left with. Not everybody commits suicide for losing money, you know...
Any first-time, solo entrepreneurs that got seed funding?
It seems like an impossible task, but if there are any out there, would love to hear from you (or ping me at aspiringmbacoder@gmail.com). Thanks!
You should at least put 1 screenshot of the gameplay in the iTunes preview
> His treatment of the docs is a disservice to the public.

Greenwald has been dealing with this attack for a while now, and has commented on it several times. His answers are not hard to find. Links: http://utdocuments.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/questionsresponses... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/01/greenwald-not-h...

How do you think he should be treating it? If he released all the documents all, he would be criticised for that. If he releases little bits, he would be criticised for that instead...
You have a point. It can sound like tinfoil-hattery, but there are several examples in which the FBI and other police had so thoroughly infiltrated radical groups that there were practically as many monitors as activists. This was not only a 60s and 70s thing, it has continued up to the present day in some cases.
A cheap recruiting tool for these companies. Get top recruits through the door when the difference in a few K still matters to them.
>tl;dr: /r/news considers the piece an opinion piece and they don't allow those.

Except they do allow them and apply this rule(s) at their whim.

The next excuse that's trotted out is that reddit isn't a democracy moderators can do that if they want to. Go make your own subreddit if you don't like it, etc.

Fine, what a shitty way to run a default subreddit. (little transparency, little accountability, etc.)

>And here's the last paragraph of The Incerpt aticle that makes clear it's opinion:

So what, you can find the same in a good portion of the content that remains on /r/news etc. The article is not an Op Ed, but if you like, read all but the last two paragraphs. Furthermore, the Intercept article[1] was rewritten[2] by other journalists to exclude "editorialized content" and also subsequently moderated.

Missing from much of the discussion on this is the irony that the story in question exposes gov't operations whose task is ongoing infiltration and manipulation of the media. Even if you're happy to defer to the mods' interpretations that the articles written to date regarding this particular news story are appropriately moderated; you must then concede that the rules are inappropriate if they manage to effectively exclude such a timely and appropriate news story.

[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

[2] http://www.examiner.com/article/snowden-government-infiltrat...
But what if I steal a Bitcoin and exchange it directly to USD. If the coin is banned later my counterparty, who acted in good faith, is left with an empty bag.
Show HN: Meet Geisha
For the past couple of months, I’ve been working with a total stranger, @ahmetsulek. We’ve never met in real life, and our communication has been restricted to Skype. And that’s Skype call, not video.

Whilst it’s advised that one should only team up with somebody they’ve known for a long time, I’ve found this not to be necessary. Instead, all you need is a dose of mutual respect and a clear partnership agreement.

We’ve been working together for the past couple of months on a web app and Chrome Extension that aggregates sites like Hacker News, Designer News, Sidebar.io, Behance and Dribbble into one place. Why? To make an easier browsing experience.

Meet http://geisha.io

Let us know what you think.

@williamchanner
It's easy to say "Oh, you shouldn't need moderators" but the reality is, you most certainly do need them. It's like saying "Wikipedia shouldn't need mods or admins". I couldn't see wikipedia existing without them. There are just too many people out there who aim to ruin it for everyone.

Without moderators the system is easier to game, communities will almost immediately go off-topic, and the lowest common denominator will win. It's naive to think that online anonymous internet forums can exist without moderation. It's even more naive to think that you can foster high-quality content without heavy-handed moderation. Subreddits like /r/Askscience just wouldn't exist without it.

When you plant a rose garden, you don't just let the garden grow wild. You prune it to your liking, and to keep the garden healthy. The garden must be meticulously pruned if you want it to look beautiful. Pruning content which break the rules is the same thing.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,

adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mt. Gox taken down by Pony botnet? Site to check credentials.
Bizarre. What if we can fully rouse patients with this treatment, but only temporarily? Imagine being dependent on a daily morning tCDS treatment to wake up every day. Maybe this will be incorporated into an implantable device, like a pacemaker for the brain (not in the sense of providing periodic pulses, but rather in the sense of being required for normal functionality).
I'm in the same situation you are. In my (albeit limited) experience I've found that coders "get" the business stuff more than business people "get" the code. Maybe coders are better at learning the business stuff, maybe it's something inherent to the nature of code or business…
If you're thinking Mark Karpeles, he doesn't really have motive as he's likely going to go to jail.

However, an employee or contractor at mtgox who figured he could cover his tracks could have stolen them
The admins (disclaimerbrag: I used to be one) prefer to exercise control one level up: by deciding which subreddits to put in the default set. So the moderators have near-absolute domain over their subreddit, but only the ones who do a good job get featured on the default front page.

That restores the proper incentives and controls to the system while maximizing free speech and experimentation.
Most professors will not carry guns, but knowing that some may be armed could deter massacres like the ones at Virgina Tech or Sandy Hook.
Apple Adds New “Designing Great Apps” Micro Site For iOS 7 Developers
But does nothing to address the original dishonesty on the part of the moderators.

Your line of reasoning is similar to the jingoistic "USA! Love it or leave it!" style reasoning. Rather than abandonment, another remedy is to actually fix the problem, namely Reddit's moderation system.

And of course abolish the NSA.
Visualising it in something like KeyLines (http://keylines.com/) would be awesome.
It would not imply that.
For simple context managers, an easier method is to use contextlib.contextmanager (http://docs.python.org/library/contextlib.html).

from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def tag(name):
print "<%s>" % name
yield
print "</%s>" % name

with tag("h1"):
print "foo"
"""
<h1>
foo
</h1>
"""
I want more life f*cker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbAgwdBaTI
Keyword is "tend to".
I've always wondered about news organizations. The vast majority of them have websites full of regurgitated content. They don't usually discover and report their own news, they feed off Associated Press, Reuters and often times individuals posting videos on youtube or articles in their blogs. It would be nice to see them not dominate news on the internet by simply engaging in re-writing what someone else originated.

Is it content curation? Don't know. Everyone is reporting pretty much exactly the same things. They can't all be the original source. Who gets the juice?
Right, exactly. It just seems hopeless to try to figure out "where they are". They're drops of water in the ocean.
This is full on satire.
Shows I didn't have a good enough look. Ha.

Thanks again for this.
link to Google cache...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Y2AE0GA...
It's ICANN, not Icann. This article is overly sensational.
Don't waste words
Direct link: http://geisha.io
Hey! Thanks for taking the time to write this. Honestly where i'm from (Ghana) 4Mb is a luxury! The most you'll get is 10% of that and pay roughly $70/month.

However its great to have an little insight into what goes on in that corner of the globe!
I'm aware that this particular code was - but presumably whichever hypothetical person has arbitrary binaries pushed to them in the grandparent's scenario was using a Mac or iOS.
Great! Let's do the same thing for Browser Plugins now :)
Does that mean that you haven't yet tried Atom on your laptop? I haven't however haven't heard complaints about performance...
Bitcoins have no intrinsic value. They only have value in trade.

If I started my own currency called a superdollar, and I had the only superdollar in existence, it would be worthless, despite the fact that it was very rare.

If a foreign entity can make the bitcoins you have disappear, that leads to less confidence in your ability to use the bitcoins for trade. The fact that there's fewer out there doesn't mean yours are more valuable. The number of bitcoins has been constantly increasing, yet the price has been going steadily up as well. That's because they've become more trusted, more usable. More places will accept them in trade, and more exchanges exist.

When places like Mt. Gox fail, or fear that foreign entities have the ability to essentially rob the banks with impunity, it makes the currency less trusted.

Consider this. The government issues a currency called digibux. They are matched to the USD, you can buy one digibuck for 1 USD, but they are limited in volume, only so many are offered. Looking at this naively, digibux has the same value as USD. Now consider the following happens, the government takes down a giant drug operation, and invalidates all of the digibux that were involved in the operation. A friend of yours who was a pizza delivery guy has hundreds of dollars removed from his digital wallet because they were tips from people who had participated in the drug trade.

Now you're sitting with 10,000 digibux, and you know that the government is pleased with the results of the previous sting and wants to set up more operations like that. Someone offers you 8,000 USD for your 10,000 digibux. You know that the 8,000 USD can never just vanish.

The number of digibux in circulation went down. But did that make the total value of digibux go up?
No, I don't think I'm arguing that. It's not a question of any one methodology always being better than others, or correlation studies always being wrong. The question is what we should reasonably believe in light of several analyses of various strengths.
I got seed funding from my employers. I presented an investment proposal based on a streamlined business plan. It helped that they knew what I was capable of. I'm currently working full-time on this new venture.
It might, but unfortunately, you can't build a library with it. It only transforms whole apps. Apportable was investigated in the first part here http://www.skyscanner.net/blogs/developing-mobile-cross-plat...
You don't even have to create a full object if there's no need to:

@contextlib.contextmanager
def manager(*args):
object = initialize(args)
try:
yield object
finally:
# cleanup
object.close()
Your line of reasoning is similar to the jingoistic "USA! Love it or leave it!" style reasoning.

It really isn't. "USA, love it or leave it" it useless at best because people very rarely have the ability to just up and leave their home country, let alone deal with the employment and family repercussions of doing so. In short: it isn't a reasonable expectation.

To refer back to the post I replied to:

Is unbiased journalism what /r/news and /r/worldnews readers actually want?

I don't know. But the point is this: /r/news has rules. I don't see how the mods are being dishonest - the rules are stated quite clearly. If a significant minority disagree with those rules, starting a new subreddit is incredibly simple and has no repercussions beyond people adding another subreddit to their subscribed list.
> But IS investigative reporting "news"?

Yes, absolutely.

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." - George Orwell.
Also where you was grammared.
It depends on what the prior probability of them waking up without intervention was as to its significance. Statistical significance is a function of both frequency of effect and magnitude of effect.
BipolarBear0 isn't even the one who removed the links. When you're making wild accusations, at least try to point them in the right direction.
> So the real question is does the public get what the public wants?

I don't think "Is our precious little Public getting everything he wants?" is the right question. What the public wants is shouty-but-shallow opinion pieces and cat pictures, and in those interests they are already well-served. The point of moderation is to raise the level of discourse above the lowest common denominator.
Personally, it's not that I don't enjoy gaming, but I feel guilty for the time I "wasted" afterwards. Every other activity such as cleaning up, going out for a walk or even reading a good book seems to be more rewarding and useful than playing a game.

I tend to give that as the reason I started teaching myself programming, and later I won't allow my children to waste days playing games. But let them do more productive activities on the pc such as video-editing, messing with photoshop, chatting with foreigners (the good old days on IRC..)
Windows 8 already has built in banner adverts
Google is most certainly crossing the line here.

1. They are not only doing this with wikipedia, but with many, many sites: "what is the smallest cell in the human body", "what is the biggest planet in the solar system".

2. The sites they chose to link are not always the highest quality sites, such as the two examples above- why are these websites being featured?

3. Many times, the user will get their answer right then and there, and be done with the search process. The site misses a visitor. In spite of these type of questions being "facts", someone took the time to organize and give context to these "facts". Turning facts into useful, consumable, content costs money. Google should not be taking visitors away from these sites.

4. There should be public information on the CTR of these snippets. See if it helps or hurts the user.

5. Google is abusing its power as a major search engine to reinforce structuring rules, such as microformats. With these rules, webmasters are giving more and more semantic meaning to their content, which means Google has an easier time completing their knowledge graph. They might link to the source site for a while, but there is no good argument for linking back to wikipedia to attribute the fact that Jupiter is the largest planet, since it's a fact, just like 2+2 is 4 (no attribution).

6. Google is all about ML/NLP/AI driven knowledge. But in reality they are turning all of the internet content creators into a giant sweat shop for their knowledge graph. This is not fair, and sooner or later it will come back to bite them.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744427
Right, that part I get. But isn't the security of the resultant key now left entirely to Verisign?
Simple answer: under the same conditions you may shoot anybody else.

Too much practicality for the academic class, I fear.
No journalist is unbiased
4mb was very expensive there too, I worked in Rep Benin for several years so I would say that if you are used to west African speeds you won't be disappointed at all. In fact I would say that being from Ghana depending on where you end up you would probably really love most of the Caribbean it is very culturally related to West Africa.
Mass shootings are so rare we may not ever be able to gather convincing data one way or another, but I tend to agree.

Shooters are dismissed as crazy and irrational, but they aren't. In every case, they plan for a successful shooting. They want to go out with a bang, not a whimper. They're going to prefer targets that are unlikely to offer resistance that will reduce or entirely eliminate their body count.
Not sure how a rude LinkedIn message qualifies as "shameful," but a deluge of nasty anonymous messages is surely a proportionate response!
There never was a debate. Having a debate presumes that it is possible for one side to concede. The public discussion between Bill Nye and Religiousguy Whatsisface showed that one side is not debating; they're just baiting. Bill Nye said all it would take to change his mind is just one piece of real evidence. The other guy said that nothing anyone could ever say or do would change his mind.

On hearing that, it becomes obvious. There is no quest for truth or spirit of inquiry in the opposition. They are simply obstacles to progress that must be routed around. The debate is not over; it never took place, and it never will.

If you can't get someone to support rational argumentation by means of rational arguments, you're better off talking to someone--anyone--else.
Sorry for the grovel, but still looking for an atom invite. Would like to try it out for myself, and of course I'm impatient.
I believe the idea is the "both sides" approach, where you get quotes from those who disagree on the story at hand, then uncritically present an equal amount of quotes from both sides (and there are only ever two sides to a story). And of course, you do your best to keep out any context that might suggest one side or both is full of shit.
> because if you actually perform too well you become a liability.

What do you mean?
The conspiracy theory explanation for this is that the mods are actually government assets and censored the stories in order to make their handlers happy. I don't believe that this is consistent with the history of the NSA leaks on reddit so far, given that most of the other NSA stories have been highly visible and upvoted, though some have been deleted infrequently.

Perhaps this isn't so far fetched after all, though. I checked the front pages of CNN, ABC, MSNBC, and FoxNews, and found zero mention of the NSA whatsoever, nevermind the explosive reveal of COINTELPRO style operations against the internet public.
If he was, his mom must have had one heck of a labor.
Do people seriously believe that?

Do you really think that the sort of people who would shoot up a classroom will have second thoughts if they think someone else might have a gun?
There is no list of "recognized" religions kept anywhere. "Bona Fide" means "honestly or sincerely", and is in there to prevent people who are caught with peyote from insincerely claiming a religious exemption as a get out of jail free card.

You are probably going to ask who decides if use of peyote is actually protected under this act or not. The answer seems to be a jury of one's peers. Laws are often written to provide guidance for how one's actions should be judged, and do not provide a detailed "if-then" case for their application.

Whether or not peyote should just be fully legalized across the country is a different question.
NASA uses Windows XP on A31 & T61 Thinkpad notebooks:

As of 2010, the Space Station was equipped with 68
ThinkPad A31 computers along with 32 new Lenovo ThinkPad
T61p laptops plus a dedicated IP phone which also has
limited video phone capabilities. Work incorporating
those laptops into the station's LAN continued into June
2011. All laptops aboard the ISS are connected to the
station's LAN via Wi-Fi and are connected to the ground
at 3 Mbit/s up and 10 Mbit/s down, comparable to home DSL
connection speeds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad#Use_in_space
Careless “growth hack” leads to PR nightmare
Indeed: school massacres are driven by individuals acting in a very danger adverse manner.