skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's true, but as a freelancer that operates on OTHER people's computers... imo made life very convenient (especially having multiple gchat accounts concurrently with multiple yahoo / facebook account (yeah some holdouts are chatting on all)
Fortress Investment Group Discloses a Paper Loss on Bitcoin
What STL are you using?
If we want scientists to be able to work on projects that nobody else cares about, we can't be judging who deserves money and who doesn't. What we need is a system that allows people to work on whatever they want without any requirement that their efforts be sanctioned by greater society.

Sounds to me like a job for guaranteed basic income.
Agree, IMHO speed is everything, and the fanboyism of some people about this make me little bit uncomfortable, i was rolling my eyes every time that i read something like "is so pretty, look at that dark colorscheme, i am gonna switch now", sigh -_-.
It's not about "the" outage (a rare event), its about all of the batteries working together to make that event even rarer and make the grid more robust during normal operation.
Whats the best Linux OS for my Powerbook G4 12"
Whats the best Linux OS for my Powerbook G4 12"?
> 37. Mail-order brides

As was just pointed out to me, that means mail-order husbands are not forbidden. Just in case anybody was planning on starting a new business.... :)

In all seriousness, some of these other markets are massive industries, but are excluded for good reasons - I recognize a number of them immediately as being disproportionately high targets for fraud and/or chargebacks, which would be prohibitively expensive for Stripe to deal with right now.
ThinkPads have a historically good reputation because kernel developers tend to use them. But as trouserpants says, almost all of the machines from major manufacturers will work fine.
Is not like that, he have some good points in his statement, which at some extend i am agree with them.
It'd have to be 1.0 if we want to do it at all, because it's not a backwards compatible change. (We're serious about backwards compatibility for 1.0.)
The sheer majority of centralized services operate on content generated and submitted by users simply looking to express themselves and communicate with others, and do not reimburse them. I explicitly used Wikipedia because it's a very pointed result of specifically how much money is required solely due to terrible technology.

As for the funding of big budget films and the like, I'm not terribly worried. First, they have an awful lot of fat to trim, like all those lawyers and lobbyists they hire in an attempt to put the Internet genie back in the bottle, and that whole parallel management chain of Orwellian-named "producers".

But more importantly, we're already in a post-copyright world on that front. You accept that any information can be freely propagated, and that is just a new rule of the game, and you move on. You sell things like the experience of going to a movie theatre, concert venue, and physical merchandise. You explicitly appeal for fans to directly support you, and you take preorders instead of doing big-money gambles. Things about this model aren't ideal, but it's just how it is going to be.
500 dollars for pro is extremely reasonable in my opinion, considering the value it brings. Another 150 for a personal ReSharper license and you're ready to tackle anything.
Multiple files would mostly just make them more fiddly to work with, juggling all these buffers. In my experience, the modern fashion for tiny source files is not intrinsically better, especially when all the code is related to a functional area (and is mutually recursive, in a compiler's parser).

You'd still rely on search to navigate, and whether it's in the same file or a different file is just an IDE / editor detail. If anything, fewer source code files meant you always knew which file to switch to to find any given function, which you could in turn find with an incremental search.
A Maelstrom of Fraud Without Early Warning
A Purpose Beyond Profit
They are most likely being held by the U.S. Government.

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1z2xo5/specu...
I've never been in the situation to make these kinds of decisions, but when you're paying tens of thousands a year per developer, sysadmin, qa, and/or ops people, a couple thousands per in software costs isn't going to break the bank.
Om and React are cool, but this comparison is disingenuous. The author should have compared the Om implementation to a native (JS) React implementation.

I recently converted a React project to Om and found it to be a very enjoyable exercise. However, contrary to most tweets/blog posts, my Om code ran slower than the JavaScript version, which ultimately caused me to abandon the conversion. Full disclosure, the port was a naive implementation of a single page React component which probably wasn't the best use-case for Om ( (om/transact! ...) was causing a full page re-render to the VDOM).

Om/cljs is very beautiful and concise compared to JS ... immutability rocks! If I could achieve performance comparable to JS I'd switch in a heartbeat.
>During a power outage, are you really going to drain your source of transportation to power your house?

It's important to look at the numbers here.

An 85 kWH battery can drive 300 miles, or power the typical household for 3 days. Why wouldn't you power your house for a day if only meant 100 miles less range? How long are you expecting the power to be out? You may have a gas generator, but not everybody does. And if your car could act as a UPS until the generator kicked back in, why not?
Yeah but just going away is better than leaching bandwidth you don't pay for.
At whatevsbro's request, continuing this below here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312239
> written in Javascript

Right there.
Sometimes I think I would rather see ads on wikipedia instead of all of the begging.
The effect of various marks on whether it's the same letter or not depends on locale. You need to change the sorting based on context.

Don't hardcode utf8_unicode_ci either.
I just bought an x1 carbon and loaded it with ubuntu. Just about everything worked out of the box, less microphone mute button and sleep button. It's pretty flawless and hands down the fastest machine I've owned. Battery life is also awesome (5-6 hours).
Did you actually read the article or the HN comments? Both are fairly critical of Atom. "There's no such thing as bad press," maybe, but just talking about something doesn't mean you're trying to hype it up. God forbid we discuss current events on Hacker News.
I read last year the (Texas?) police had some similar devices in there possession. The ones the article talked about listened to lock frequencies and could then work out the unlock frequency from it. So the criminals would scan car parks waiting for people to lock cars that where brought in, wait for the person to leave, then approach the car and unlock it with the captured frequency.

I have no idea if thats what all these devices are, or how legit the article was, but seems legit to me.
I'm not sure this is true.

You can still run into issues if the model of laptop is brand new. Things like graphics and wifi maybe a little iffy.
Wow. Much open, such surprise.

What next, a full BCM2835 datasheet?

To put in the words of Torvalds:
"Hey, this time I'm raising a thumb for Broadcom. Good times."
For those late night hacking sessions.
Of Microbes and Mock Attacks, The Military Sprayed Germs on US Cities (2001)
You're right, it is kind of dickish and it is inconsiderate on the user's part. I think we can agree on that. But I don't think it's fair to have such high expectations of your users. This is the internet, where everyone is an asshole and half the incoming traffic to your site will be wordpress logins. All we can do is hope the user is nice and will click on an ad.
I don't know the details of these government funded companies, but it doesn't seem to surprising. I wouldn't expect a government funded restaurant to be able to compete with privately funded restaurants either. It's pretty basic economics regarding how incentives work.
or "leopard" in Swahili, or various words in Mandarin, or a tiny town in Brazil...
I've faced two situations involving collectors: In one, I had forgotten to pay a bill in a timely manner. In the other, the bill was BS and the former landlord who sent it to collections was breaking a number of related laws (such as double-dipping).

In both cases, the default behavior of the debt collectors was to... break the law. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act exists for a reason and its only peoples' ignorance of it that allows the grotesque tactics they employ to continue unabated.

(BTW: The $100 bill I forgot about? I promptly paid it once I was reminded of it. The $5,300 the landlord claimed I owed? That went away the moment I pointed out I had proof of their malfeasance.)

"Just doing their jobs" is not an excuse for bad behavior, ever.
If you prefer to listen in a dedicated app the stream link is http://stream.soundintroversion.com:8000/stream_192
I have never used this App but if I did I would also be uninstalling it right now. Chat/messaging apps are not primarily about features, they are about connections. They are social. I don't care if your chat app is awesome if none of my friends are on it.

I have been a long term supporter of Trillian for just that reason, cross platform support. It's quirky at times but it gives me as many protocols as possible in one place, and a combined list of all my friends through one interface. It also syncs across all my devices (multiple PC's and Android tablets/phones) As long as they keep that up they maximize the social connections... and my loyalty.
CodeMirror has had a ton of work put into it and Light Table mostly rides on that. Opening a 40kloc javascript file and searching in it is totally smooth. Auto-complete, jump-to-definition etc are fast and don't block the UI. We still have performance issues in places (eg watching large directories which change often, serialising large inline results) but we haven't had any problems with the DOM being too slow. CodeMirror deals with all of that for us.

I'm playing around with React (and Om, Quiscient etc) at the moment and it's by far the nicest UI model I've ever encountered. If I could get Cassowary working reasonably fast too it would be miles ahead of anything else.

The only thing that I don't see improving soon is not having shared memory threads (or even zero-copy messaging). Webworkers are all well and good but sometimes the serialisation overhead is still enough to block the UI. thread.
I keep all of my systems the same between dev,test,prod so I still deploy into a virtualenv inside of containers. No reason to ever run something as root.
You couldn't say anything to motivates me more about reading the linked article. docopt is a gem ;)
This is the right solution - unfortunately, socket.io has been essentially abandoned, but it's the library that everybody knows, and is mentioned in almost every node+websockets tutorial. We get questions about socket.io all the time in #node.js, and the answer is usually "use sockjs".

Guillermo Rauch is working on a complete rewrite (engine.io), but it's been very slow going. I don't envy him; socket.io has gotten very popular very fast, it's complicated software, and people expect it to be much more polished than it is.
I agree with you, it's cool but there's no way I could justify it. However, I think Lockitron offers more utility than this and, assuming I was allowed to install my own locks, I could see myself potentially using it

Hell, it'd be cheaper and probably less confusing to visitors for you to just yell from the couch.
> The competition should not be in the critical software. That much needs to be standard. The competition should be around fluff, construction quality, body design, brand, perks, horsepower, etc.

Could you explain your reasoning for this claim? Does competition lead to better/more efficient products, or doesn't it? Why do you desire to leave non-critical parts to competitive forces, but not the critical parts?
Isn't there some theorem of thermodynamics that says your device gets more efficient as the temperature difference between the hot and cold parts of the device increases?

AFAIK the only reasons devices aren't run at arbitrarily high temperatures is that material properties change unfavorably, or you risk fires.
Homebrew installs a specific pip, you still need to upgrade if you want to get the latest. Although it should be fairly up to date. Type `brew edit python` to peruse the recipe.
I'm surprised that it's taking so long for these kind of stories to hit the news. Here's a paper from three years ago describing some disturbing attack vectors on a modern automobile:
http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf
Poll: what's your primary editor/IDE?
All the controversy surrounding Atom sparked my curiosity – what do HNers use as their primary text editor?

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5736367
Sublime Text 2/3
Other editor
Dev-C++
Komodo IDE
Other IDE
This is a great tool for getting free wi-fi if you know what you're doing and can change your MAC address.
In the USA, the vast majority of drivers, and probably an even larger majority of would-be car thieves, learned to drive in the USA.
So if you agree that a business model is not required to motivate contribution, then why would someone have to choose one to endorse?
I post this whenever this subject surfaces. Great paper.
He specifically said: "...if that's the case for vim, which is what people seem to mean these days when they talk about vi"

He didn't say it was vim. You took it as your opportunity to express your Opinion, since he mentioned something you care about, but just look like the kid in class raising his hand as high as he can yelling "Me! Me! Pick me!".

Pay attention.
I wonder if you've read the book "Just My Type" by Simon Garfield. http://www.simongarfield.com/pages/books/just_my_type.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_My_Type It's a gem of a book about typography.

In Chapter 9 "What is it about the Swiss?" Garfield writes about Helvetica "On an emotional plane, it serves several functions. It has geographical baggage, its Swiss heritage laying a backdrop of impartiality, neutrality and freshness (it helps at this point if you think of Switzerland as a place of Alps/cow bells/spring flowers rather than Zurich and its erstwhile heroin problem)." There is a longer extract from the book here: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665881/how-helvetica-conquered-...

A broader article on Swiss graphic design:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/17/lessons-from-swis...
Not an excuse, but it's hard for a startup to hit the price that we'd expect a large manufacturer to. Still, their challenge is to find an audience that sees value at the price, and I agree with you, that's not necessarily you or I.
You're most welcome. Good times.
It's a type of terminal escape code, designed to interact with the terminal emulator's environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Non-CSI_codes
More precisely, the latter are a subset of the former.
Am I the only one who listens to dumb shit while I work?

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Based_on_a_T.R.U._Story
>> written in Javascript
> Right there.

Ahh, the anachronistic JS attacks... Right there.
I just switched my GPU to an nVidia GTX 750 for precisely this reason. I have been near exclusively using Radeons for ten years, but the last few generations just run too hot and loud.
Text editors were a big thing in the 1970's. Forty years on building one in the browser feels like...a text editor in the browser. There's a use case or two for it, but throse are mainly not having ssh and wanting to write extensions in JavaScript.

JavaScript is a great language but it won't get Atom to Emacs for the same reason that SICP in JavaScript peters out in chapter 2. The design tradeoffs in the language come due. What is rather surprising about Atom is that the great advantage of Browser+JavaScript+html, ease of cross platform development, is nowhere to be found in the initial release. What is perhaps more surprising however is that the only version is for Mac rather than that hacker's favorite, Linux.

I don't have anything against Atom, but for me it doesn't inherit Github's awesome sauce.
Obama warns Russia over Ukraine
I got the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. I like it.
Chui dies a horrible death
You can get a phone plan for $10/month (unlimited talk and text no internet though) and $25/month(unlimited talk, text and data) from Republic wireless. Only caveat is, the plan is limited to android and you have to buy the phone for $299.00 upfront.
I suspect this time around ST will destroy everything else. To be honest I can't really think of another editor that's as portable, affluent with extensions, and easy to use. And [0] and [1] are almost as good as the real thing.

edit: One of the big reasons I depend on ST at the moment is GoSublime [2].

0: https://github.com/guillermooo/Vintageous

1: https://github.com/grundprinzip/sublemacspro

2: https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime
I meant more in the sense that it would make all the subsystems of the vehicle subject to review by security researchers and hobbyists.

Things like backdoors in key/locking mechanisms or even gross incompetence would be difficult to hide when the underlying hardware and software was open source.
You probably would use IntelliJ's refactoring instead of multiple cursors. Renaming variables, functions, editing function signatures, etc. Whatever you'd do with multiple cursors you would probably do with a refactor, or a search and replace. There's also column select mode.
Chui is also beneficial while you're away. If you're expecting to be occupied you can have Chui deliver messages for your. You don't require your visitor to have a certain kind of smartphone to work with your lock, and it can make your home more intelligent(ex: recognizing when you get back and automating certain tasks.)
I'm curious what tools the author doesn't consider obscure.
As soon as they made having an imo.im login mandatory, I had a sinking feeling it was the beginning of the end, and jumped ship (to the terrible compromise of AIM Express[0]).
I had preferred Meebo for my third-party web messaging for a few years (handy in computer labs where you don't own the box!), but the Google acquisition took that away, so I'd switched to imo. Now they're both kaput.

A sad day for multiprotocol web messaging.

[0] http://www.aim.com/products/express/
In Order to Persevere, You Need Deeply Held Beliefs
A lot of them pay supra-market salaries to certain employees with ties to the handpicked, perpetual, unaccountable board.

Although nominally non-profits such corporations are fairly indistinguishable from partnerships.
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> While baking TypeScript into Visual Studio isn't a certainty of its future success (e.g. Silverlight), it is a good indicator of Microsoft's commitment to the language.

It's also no indicator of continued commitment (Silverlight, WebClasses).

TypeScript is an intriguing language. It's much closer to vanilla JavaScript than CoffeeScript and that may make it feel more comfortable to JS users.

It's too soon to guess which approaches will prevail on the long run, so, one may as well hedge bets.
I feel like this person has never seen Haskell or done any code that handles contracts.
Check out http://terminal.com/ You can instantly clone real machines there.
I think it's important to note that it's osx only temporarily. They are working on windows/linux version.
Cool new 3D printer on kickstarter?
I'm sorry, but this just does not agree with my experience. Yes, if you work at it, you can probably get 80-90% of things on your machine to work. But even getting to that point takes some effort. And quite often, there is that 20-10% that just doesn't work quite right. Like not being able to wake from sleep reliably. Or having popping noises when you play audio. Or having some of the audio jacks not work. And it just frustrates me to see this kind of blithe assurance: "Oh, don't worry, everything will work."

It's the same story with distributions. So often, someone asks what the best one is, and several people say something like "They're all good---you can't go wrong!". Which, again, doesn't agree with my experience. There's always something janky no matter what distro you choose. But the good ones (like Ubuntu pre-Unity) had considerably less jankiness.

I wish we lived in a world where you could install any Linux distro on any random hardware and have everything just work. But that is not the world we currently live in.
Ahh.. this takes me back to when you had your page on something like Angelfire or Geocities and someone else would provide free guestbook or "contact us" type forms. You just had to plunk some code into your html and go.

This is the Web 2.0 version of that.
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Cost of Visual Studio Pro + MSDN for my (small) business was £1100. This for 2 years of MSDN, and it was some deal (at the reseller's suggestion) that also came with various Windows licences too. (More Windows 7 than I imagined was likely for the price, and I think Windows XP and Windows Server 2008 R2 too.) Renewal cost is something like £900.

I wouldn't refuse something cheaper, but the price seemed fair enough as these things go. For a side project this is perhaps a little steep, and if you could realistically use something cheaper you would be silly not to, but for a business with an actual need for all this Microsoft junk this seems like reasonable value.

Stuff that costs me less than £~500/yr: printer paper.

Stuff that costs me more than £~500/yr: everything else.

Then again, just to back up your point - my last employer switched everybody from MS Office to OpenOffice to avoid the licensing fees, even though numerous internal tools (that then had to be rewritten, at a cost of several man-weeks, plus drag due to changes in workflow for the less technical staff that used them) relied on VBA, COM and OLE stuff that OpenOffice didn't support. And the place I'm currently working with doesn't install Visual Studio on the servers (each server = 6-core Core i7 with 32GB RAM, 2TB RAID1, 1TB SSD) because apparently it would be too costly to do that. So maybe once you become big enough for MS to care about things start to become rather more expensive.
Embrace and extend can exist without extinguish.
Guy Gives Google Fake Phone Number for FBI, Records Calls To Them
I'm not sure I've heard any claims that would point towards MtGox being a Ponzi scheme. It was a straight forward exchange, not an investment with returns of any sort, let alone those derived from later investors.

The allegations are generally much more straight forward, either some sort of incompetence in the form of transaction malleability, or some sort of malfeasance (pilfering the bank for operating costs, outright theft of the funds). Ponzi schemes these are not.
FYI, for some reason your reply to at-fates-hands (sibling comment to this one) is hellbanned. I have no idea why.
Plenty of people were buying Bitcoins because they thought they would increase in value, which sounds like an investment to me.
It's under Pricing in the FAQ page (the gist: contact them via the contact link to discuss a price, because it's apparently too complicated to estimate), but yeah, the FAQ seems like rather an odd place to relegate such an important aspect to.
The author mentions App::Ack, but I doubt you'll go back to using `ack` once you've tried The Silver Searcher (`ag`).
There was a pretty good talk at 29C3 about side-channel analysis and how it can break secret keys of wireless devices and smartcards. [1]

With knowledge of cryptanalysis and lots of free time I think it's conceivable that someone could have cracked the system. I wonder if car companies test their crypto very rigorously?

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1o2ST03O8I
Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in Silicon Valley