skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that is that you are then putting the onus on your users to act as your net-sec team. Basically, if your user base is unskilled to begin with (old or economically disadvantaged) and the sites that are targeted to them break, they typically don't know how to let someone know.
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Bitbucket is apparently using statuspage.io for their status reporting. So it is using the statuspage.io certificate....the error is a domain name mismatch.
A term exists for such self serving and convenient thinking: cognitive dissonance.

The religious are no different, they rail against how wrong science is, and yet at the same time have no problem using the fruits of scientific labor like air travel, the Internet or clean water.

People just do what's most convenient for them at the time.
I think this is pretty possible. You could use Mori [0] or another set of persistent JS data structures. And you'd need to monkey-patch them to all support being used as cursors like in Om. That'd be pretty cool for those of us who can't sneak Clojure in at our day jobs.

[0] https://github.com/swannodette/mori
Google's real purpose for Tango: One-up Apple's fingerprint with 3D face unlock
U.S., China officials agree Ukraine's territorial integrity important
I kept reading the article hoping to get to the point where I say "Aha!! Now I know this is the founder of Bitcoin" but the writer kept rambling with if, if and if he's actually the creator, continuously engaging in intellectual masturbation. Sigh

All I have to say is; Speedy recovery, True Journalism, from whatever cancer you're suffering from.
Has anyone here purchased one of these? If so, any insights on quality and comfort? They sure have some great prices.
There is however one use case for which I haven't found a good way to use REST: have the client upload a document to the server and return the same document in a single call, transformed (say, applying an XSL server-side). You're not really creating a new resource here, or accessing an existing one.

But I agree that in most cases, REST is good enough, and certainly a hell of a lot better than old-style RPC or "let's-put-an-action-verb-in-the-URL-and-call-it-REST" HTTP APIs.
My side-project tries to improve NBA game recaps/box-scores by adding more context from analysing the play-by-play.

http://recappd.com/

Click on a score to see an enhanced box-score. Click on a players name to see their game logs. Almost none of the links in the banner work, so it's clearly unfinished.

It started out (and remains) a way for me to learn Rails, as my career has been spent developing non-web software. I am desperately trying to put in enough hours (I average about 5 a week) to get it to an MVP state (e.g. all the links actually work). Keep in mind this is my first web project and I have no design background whatsoever (it shows).
Oh god yes.

I'm currently a relatively junior flunky in the Marine Corps, and the GS civilians who work here are hilarious. "We need to cut the fat!" We work at a minor airbase in the middle of nowhere... oh. Oops. Whatever we are, it sure as hell ain't muscle.

"Government spending is out of control" while talking about how they exploit the DTS system to get as much per diem as possible.

"Those lazy people who expect everything to be handed to them, and that Muslim in charge is just giving it all away" while sitting in their chair bitching whenever a Marine disrupts their Freecell session to ask about equipment repair.

I don't even talk to them about it, mostly because the fact that they are capable of this caliber of doublethink indicates that they're beyond saving.
Actually, no. Double spaces after periods are an artifact of the formatting limitations of typewriters (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing#Mechanical_typ...). In an age of properly kerned digital type, there's no reason to use more than one space.

As a result of this, you can get a rough sense of a person's age by looking at how they handle sentence spacing. People old enough to have learned how to type on an actual typewriter (like, um, me) will very frequently use two spaces; people younger than that, less so. (Except on the web, of course, where browsers enforce the proper usage for you and collapse multiple spaces after a period into one no matter what you type.)
IBM China workers strike over terms in $2.3 billion Lenovo deal
Could be mr pygy_ isn't english..

e.g. redaction in german means editing
It is difficult to tell at a glance if -foo is returning something or just modifying state.
The loss rate is extremely high; I don't think people would be willing to pay an extra 20% spread on their exchange to cover it.

Much higher levels of isolation (such as running the transaction engine in some kind of HSM) would help, but I suspect that anyone smart enough and cautious enough to do it properly is too smart and cautious to go anywhere near the prospect of running a bitcoin exchange.
Father of Bitcoin living reclusive life in California: Newsweek
Website availability downright dropped to zero and still no information neither on Twitter nor on http://status.bitbucket.org .

(Fixed URL)
If Dennis Crowley spent half as much time trying to grow his biz as he does courting the media, foursquare would not be the cautionary tale that it is today.
Smoking is not as simple as many assume. Smoking actually changes the disease risk profile a lot, lowering risk for many diseases. It's probably an open question if light smoking is even bad for you. Super centenarians have disproportionately been light smokers.
iOS and iCloud are strategically important non-electronics products.

"i" is still the most succinct way of saying "This is an elegantly made Apple product". To the point where any "i" product made by another company feels imposter-ish, and any below-par Apple "i" product feels like a letdown from a high standard.
This wasn't a random robbery though. This was a systematic killing involving dirty banking employees who sent people to hunt them down. The connection is that $20,000 is a ton of money in Ecuador, and Nakamoto has a ton of money, so Nakamoto now has to worry about being hunted.
that is the most genius newsweek cover image. I'm stunned by how smart it was to create that artwork.
How will you measure whether the constant act of measuring affects your mood positively or negatively?

"Quantified self" is a bit like trying to turn a quantum phenomenon into classical physics by taking precise measurements and bounding the parameters until some structure appears to emerge. You've got a theory then, but instead of describing the original phenomenon it's an image of the choices you made to get that data.
This was the most infuriating thing for me with my daughter. She was tested in kindergarten to read at a 3rd grade level. She also was beginning to learn multiplication, fractions, etc.

I went to her school and asked her about special programs for her, potentially skipping grades, etc. Their response was essentially that in a couple years time the other kids would catch up. Well, of course the other kids will catch up, you're going to tie a big anchor to my daughter that she has to drag through a bunch of boring curriculum she already knows.
Even worse when it's not even a politician from your own country. I'm looking at you Rand Paul.
US agency to probe health exchanges
There is now on status at least but no word on twitter yet.
I like subscriptions, I just don't care enough about Newsweek to subscribe. Can't we have ads, with a payment option to remove ads? Ars Technica does this https://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/
Economic stimulus by the government that actually works?
Stipple's native advertising for the visual web
Those are two different propositions. Tearing things down inevitably breaks vital things and should only be a last resort. But that says nothing about whether incremental improvement is possible.

However, nobody wants to put the effort into organising politically to cause improvements to the existing system. Because they don't trust anyone, and only care for the increase of their own wallet.
And Jezebel will call you a rape-enabling phalocrat in 5, 4, 3…
I believe that the empirical evidence supports that these guys do improve shareholder returns. It's not altruistic, they're doing it for their own position too, and they don't really care what happens after they leave.

There is definitely something to be said for execs protecting their position rather than their company, especially when they are paid subjectively rather than corporate performance. (Or if they take corporate performance as a given)

Here is the case against activists having a positive impact (which I disagree with, but share for the sake of being balanced): http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2013/09/30/lipton-tak...

Here is a paper that I agree with that highlights the persistent positive impact of activists: http://econ.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/30891/AlonBrav.pdf
Not for nothing, but it's a bit ironic that you rail on against the irresponsibility of the paper for publishing this, then throw up a non pay-walled link to help ensure that people can access it.

But, thanks.
U.S. Copyright Office Supporting TV Broadcasters in Aereo Fight
Drinking alcohol has many health benefits. Even a beer a day, something that 'common sense' would lead you to think was unhealthy, demonstrates to be good for your overall health. And eating processed foods while smoking and drinking would likely be more detrimental than eating well, while smoking and drinking. The hard part is determining what eating well is.
This is pretty cool. There was a similar link to a Ruby site on here a few days ago. Too lazy to dig up the link though :/
> If you think this article is a dangerous invasion of privacy, tell her and her employers (Newsweek).

How adorable! You think Newsweek is going to give Leah a talking to, because of the piece constituting a 'dangerous invasion of privacy'? That's just really too cute.

We live in the age of the Facebook. We live in a place where dollar rules, and folks like Zuck and Jobs, and other actors of questionable ethics excel. No, Newsweek is not going to punish Leah, Newsweek has actually just recognized an employee who's able to expertly stir the pot, attract attention, and sell a lot more rags. She's getting a nice raise.
I like how people think one study is enough to upend an entire body of knowledge. Never mind the fact that there is an intense amount of bias in nutritional research. Never mind the fact that the results of many studies cannot be accurately reproduced. Never mind the fact that observational studies generally suck and cannot 'prove' anything. Nah, this new study, which happens to conform to my preconceived notions, this new study changes EVERYTHING.
I don't think he allowed that photo to be taken. The reporter probably got it from a family member or friend.
مواعيد الدراسة والامتحانات والاجازات في الفصل الدراسي الثاني 2014
And if she is wrong?

Maybe he doesn't have access to his million dollar fortune. Maybe he lost the keys. Maybe someone else used his name and he is the Satoshi but not the creator. He is certainly not living as someone with hundreds of millions in the bank. In what way did he lose any right to be protected from public scrutiny (assuming anyone does have that right - I'm not sure they do)?
I disagree - certainly about the steps. I use the Moves app on the iPhone, which tracks, without me having to think about it, how far I walk on a daily basis. I've found that it's motivated me to walk further than I used to.

I have a choice on a daily basis whether to walk to work, catch the bus all the way or do some combination of the two. It used to be easy to convince myself that I was walking further than I actually did (things like "I only caught the bus half way today, that's almost the same as walking the whole distance").

But when I've got an app tracking me every step of the way, that's not possible. I can get to Thursday, check my app and realise that I'm several miles short of where I should be, so if I'm going to hit my targets for the week I'd better get walking.

If anything, I'd love to be able to capture more stuff about my life automatically - it would be a lot harder to convince myself that the doughnut I've been given doesn't count because it was free (or whatever my latest lie to myself is) if I've got an app telling me otherwise.

Most people lie to themselves about things like the amount of exercise they do, the amount of junk food they eat and the amount of alcohol they drink. If they could have the truth presented to them as cold hard fact, that would probably be quite an eye opener.
I just use this in Chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-mail-checke...
Whether or not there is shame in getting help for your depression is cultural. Saying so on a hackernews post doesn't change the reality on the ground for any potential viewer in, for example, Japan or China.
http://reporeader.com is my first project built using Ember.js and Rails. The idea behind RepoReader is that it gathers events from your favourite open source projects (hosted at GitHub) and shows it in a "grouped" way so it should be easier to follow high traffic projects like Rails, Ember, etc.

At some point I just lost interest in that idea and now the project is living it's own life...
Using CART for Stock Trading
Show HN: Scendr - Sending a handwritten note is as easy as sending an email.
which means?
Report: RadioShack Apparently Still Exists
Negative voices bring a lot of noise but in the end, the sum is just that, negative.
Big data correctly picks winners at Oscars
Intentionally not taking a job with the Federal Government would not cause the Gov to shrink. There's no inconsistency, just an acknowledgement that, ideally, you would need to find a new job.
dox the doxing doxer

Seriously, the story is best of psyops.
The pre-existing concern wasn't that the government wanted to backdoor the crypto (as they have done with BSAFE, etc.) rather that Bitcoin might have been invented by a government for their own reasons.

Obviously you can argue how likely that would be, but it's been widely discussed in the bitcoin community in the past and has been an issue of concern given there are "arbitrary" cryptographic decisions in the bitcoin algorithm design without clear reasoning.
If The Telegraph reported this as the NHS describes then this strikes me as profoundly irresponsible journalism. I'm no fan of The Telegraph, but I'm actually a little bit shocked
We already knew his full name. You can find the family names of the Wal-Mart family also. Could Newsweek done it better? Yes, but his address would have become public within days of this story being published. Posted on reddit maybe with in hours.
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Kind of a low bar to hurdle, don't you think?
Interesting concept. Certainly makes sending hand written notes easy. Is the UI (changing an email to a note, rather than using an app or website) enough to differentiate this service.
It's true. The blockchain is at best pseudoanonymous. If you are careful about how you get your coins, and use a high latency mixer (which don't exist as far as I know, but can be faked by multiple runs through a low latency mixer) and take your profits out slowly, you can make them quite anonymous. While they are a richer stream of data that a purely cash business, they don't have the same hassles (mostly physical size and security issues) as cash.
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The point is that games require you to spend 100 hours for "ridiculous grind" for no other reason than to motivate you to pay to not grind. If paying was not an option, the game would be designed to not require any non-enjoyable grinding/waiting (even if there is grinding, it would be an enjoyable part of the gameplay, not just "wait 5 minutes and you can click something again").

Imagine a game where you build a village. You need gold to build something. The game gives you X gold every 5 minutes, and you can pay to get more. Sounds reasonable, right? Except that there is no gameplay reason for you to wait 5 minutes to get more gold. They could just as well give you more every 30 seconds and the gameplay would became 10 times faster and more enjoyable.

If there is no option to pay with money, there would not be any need to pay with time either.
Mmmm... you also need to subtract the PR damage this kind of behavior gives them; and when not doing it actually becomes a feature by your competition (Soon enough: "We never send you any mail! No anniversaries or spammy stuff like that")
did she have a small child in a carrier in one photo. that's really sad about this.
Thank you: I was starting to wonder… Three? Wasn't that yesterday's count already?
I think this should be a major difference. Your normal workflow is sending thank you notes from email. Now you can do that, but the result is a beautifully hand written note. From anywhere.
This has a tinge of pettiness to it, don't you think?
Thanks for the suggestion - that looks fun! I already have a DS but loathe the idea of having to carry it around with me. It's definitely a very nice system, and can actually sleep for a few days unlike the 3DS.
Both Dollar and Bitcoin are un-evenly distributed, but with Bitcoin the creation of new currency is fair, unlike the creation of new dollars by the people who have fractional reserve banking license.
The competitive games I have first-hand experience with(LoL, DOTA2, World of Tanks) have no pay-to-win elements and the different heroes/items/tanks/ are all balanced.

And this whole discussion is about f2p games with microtransactions and this thread on whether microtransactions should give an advantage. Please don't confuse the issue.
Maybe he developed those views after working for the government. Maybe he saw something while working for the government (that we don't see) which helped shape those views. Maybe for him, given the chance to do things he found to be interesting and challenging was greater than his views of the government.

This story obviously leaves a lot out from a guy who has had a long secretive life. Also, he isn't on a soapbox. He didn't share these opinions and I imagine, not thrilled that any information about his has got out.
"Real-time email notifications considered harmful"

Seriously, if your daily activities require actual thought, turn all that shit off. If you need to know when a critical email shows up from time to time or from specific people, find a tool that does that or wire one together yourself with IFTTT and a push notification service. Your flow will thank you.
I posted that earlier but it did not get any traction. I guess I should have added "Bitcoin" in the link title…

Anyway, there are some reactions on the crypto subreddit (https://pay.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/1zmzto/sidechannel_...) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/44123758372587520...).
isn't the lack of a denial in this instance tantamount to
an admission? I mean, if it were me, [...] responded to
questions about Bitcoin with "bit-what-now"?

If all his friends and family know he shares his name with the creator of bitcoin, he might have already heard all the jokes and think "not this shit again" as well as not being able to credibly deny knowing about it.

There's a british general who goes by Mike Jackson when his real name is Michael Jackson [1]. If someone asked him to moonwalk I'd expect the resigned frustration of someone who has heard that lame joke a thousand times before - rather than him denying having heard of the pop singer of the same name.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jackson
Does this kind of harrassment-marketing really work?

Until someone creates a payer based email system, yes this will work because the cost of spam is almost 0.

Now imagine a system where you get paid a penny (or dime?) for every email sent to you by someone not on your contact list, with the only caveat that the other person has to opt in to the same system. Could this take off and be the gmail killer? (Perhaps you could even allow email from approved non-members)
Yes - that was when I started looking at it more seriously. I'm hoping that work continues after the feature support is considered mature enough.
the paradox of the deeply conservative anti-federal government types who work for the government - directly or as a fed contractor

Those are the people who have a realistic, first hand understanding of the government innerworkings.

Also, a contradiction between believing that allocation of capital would be more efficient under a less centrally-influenced system, and being willing to accept higher pay and benefits from one of the central institutions only exists if you believe that individuals should strive for public good even at great personal expense. Which strikes me more as a moral view taken by nationalists than libertarians.
Your site scrolls 100% on the horizontal axis - it needs a bit of co-creative fixing.
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Facebook Wants More and it's using a nonprofit to get more.
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Super centenarians have way disproportionately been born when everybody smoked. Check back in 50 years.
WordPress is not heavy when you use one of the many caching plugins.

SQLite should not be your go-to database if you want to handle "a few hundred thousand uniques a day". PostgreSQL or MySQL are much better for that purpose.

While some of the core WordPress code is terrible, WordPress is still pretty much the leader when it comes to usability and time-to-market. My recommendation: WordPress plus a caching plugin.
There was another guy like that in the news recently. Ned Snowman or something.
As a youth I was fascinated to discover a dethroned hapax legomenon in a detective novel:

http://lee-phillips.org/literallyEgregious/
haha... yes. why don't you co-creatively suggest a fix? :D
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I am a huge R# fan myself. To be honest, that was the original inspiration to create this tool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kidnappings#Modern_kidn...

List of the known ones, think about how many are unreported...
How North Korea's elections work
I'm working on an analogy between Bitcoin evangelists and anti-vaxxers:

- something bad happens to someone doing the conventional thing (vaccination, banking)

- people panic about it on the internet

- there is a lack of trust in other people and institutions

- people pull away from the conventional system

- in the short term it's fine

- then there is an epidemic (measles, fraud/loss)

- this is much worse than the system they rejected, so they resort to denial

- everyone else says "I told you so"
This was the answer to a sub-sub-puzzle of the MIT mystery hunt 2012 http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2012/puzzles/into_the_woodstoc...
The China–Cornell–Oxford Project ruled out population differences by using a very large monoculture, rural China.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090223222003/http://www.nutriti...

And even though it was epidemiological (statistically based), it's findings were strong and it confirmed prior laboratory results and hypotheses.
This isn't everything, but racism is a significant part of what's motivating the economic right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

Obviously, a lot of people are caught up in the bubble without being racist or even being aware of the implicit racism of those around them, but much of the motivation behind the right's demonizing rhetoric against the freeloaders seems rooted in race.

Edit: also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen
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