skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sadly did not go to a different school, my parents insisted that that school would give me the best education, so I had no choice but to stay.

My parents did try to sort things out, nothing happened though, so I stopped telling them about it.
The point being that "identity theft" is typically used to shift responsibility to the individual from institutions.

Truth is that "fraud" has existed for centuries (though the incidence of "financial fraud" in print has exploded since the mid 1980s). "Identity theft" emerged in the late 1990s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=financial+frau...
No OSX port until the surpass their initial goal. Meh.
This might be a good place to ask this. I'm the creator of EpicEditor. EpicEditor hasn't been updated in quite awhile due to a lot of big life events including the death of a family member, a baby, a move to another city, new job, and some other ones.

EpicEditor seems to just keep growing. It's been on HN's front page a few times. There's a version for just about every environment from Node, Ruby, to Python to every CMS such as WordPress, ExpressionEngine and more. It's even been placed in an Adobe Enterprise on-prem app. I honestly can't keep up which is a shame because I think it can grow into something even greater with a little TLC :)

If you or someone you know has worked with HTML WYSIWYG type open source projects (contenteditable APIs, etc) comment in the GitHub ticket I just made (copy pasted most of this message), or you can email me at oscargodson@outlook.com.

https://github.com/OscarGodson/EpicEditor/issues/309
http://thepicrain.com/planets%C2%B3-an-open-world-voxel-base...

I think it is bad practice - users cannot type it out if needed
Thank you, interesting.
Exactly, except it's "don't work for non-vested, they can take it away from you" equity (which is not to be confused with equity where they have the right of first refusal to buy it back if you separate). When they ask you to sign up for deferred stock options, which requires paperwork you need to sign, don't.

Or if it's a sufficiently confused small startup, never return the paperwork and let it slip through the cracks ... although when it comes time for the investment/sales event, they've got to know you have no options....

Hmmm, for excuses maybe mention some of the screw cases where people got options vested---exercised them? I forget the details---but the stock then tanked, and they had a big tax bill. I.e. throw FUD on the mechanism, the IRS, etc., but not the company. Or say you're a proletarian ^_^?
Show HN: Cute Countdown Timer
The word "pioneer" refers to contributions at the birth of a field. CS is now an established field, there are no more "pioneers" in the sense that there are no longer "pioneers" discovering America by crossing oceans.

There are certainly "pioneers" operating today in sub-domains of CS: in machine learning, artificial intelligence, in parallelization, networking, cryptocurrency etc.

(and countless other fields related to or derived from CS).
If you are referring to causes of obesity, caloric excess is certainly part of the problem. I think the author is attempting to make the point that 'it's complicated'.

I think the question the author raises is a good one. We don't have a very good handle on what bacteria live in our bodies, much less what they all do. If we are destroying certain bacteria with antibiotics inside us, what does that mean for our bodies? There appears to be a long observed correlation between ingesting antibiotics and weight gain.
BTW rooting doesn't include a full wipe. Unlocking does.

So you can unlock your device when you buy it and not root it till you are ready.
Idea: 1-click Bitcoin Currency Exchanger.
Until a few minutes ago, you could see this hidden message:

$ curl http://89.248.171.30/
<a href='MtGox2014Leak.zip'>They were not made out of magic Mark...</a>
<!-- I hated working with you. You deserve everything you get for what you did. -->

The machine seems down now.
That's a terrible pair of photos to start the article with.
Common core long division.
Ask HN: How to make the most out of a summer internship at a SF startup?
Hello.<p>I just accepted an offer from a startup in downtown San Francisco. This will be my first time working in a SF startup. Could any startup veteran give me some tips on what to do to really grow as a developer in such an environment? Sorry for asking noob question. I would really appreciate any recommendation!
Honestly, when I use SASS/Coffeescript it's not performance I'm thinking about. Most of the time it doesn't matter for the stuff I make. The reason I use these things is simply so I can type less. I don't have to type brackets/semicolons, I get all the syntax shortcuts in Coffeescript, whatever. It's so restricting when you can't type as fast as you think, and JS -> Coffeescript gets you closer.
Nice research and explanation man! Filing prior art is awesome too.
The leaked data set contains:

* screenshot of the back office application
* OSX and Windows back office application binaries
* btc_xfer_total_summary.txt
* CV-Mark_Karpeles_20100325.pdf
* home_addresses.txt
* trades_summary.txt
* btc_xfer_report.csv containing every deposit and withdraw
* mtgox_balances containing the balances of all user wallets
* trades.zip containing monthly csv files of all trades within mtgox & coinlab between 2011-04 to 2013-11
* trades csvs have fields:
Trade_Id	Date	User_Id	User	User_Id_Hash
Japan	Type	Currency Bitcoins	Money
Money_Rate	Money_JPY
Money_Fee	Money_Fee_Rate	Money_Fee_JPY
Bitcoin_Fee	Bitcoin_Fee_JPY	User_Country	User_State

From this data you could reconstruct every trade within the site, and identify the address from transaction values.

This dataset could lead to loss of anonymity to a significant number of people in the cryptocurrency world.
The East German Stasi also tracked friendship networks
Here's the List of Bars That Are Banning Google Glass (Update)
Is this "anonymous/ephemeral network" trend a fad like group buying platforms were a couple of years ago?
No check, Premium SMS technically doesn't require any opt-in. Charging on SMS receipt is called "MT billing" [1] and this is how PSMS works in most countries including the US. PSMS is heavily regulated but the nature of the business today makes it unattractive for anything but fraud.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_SMS_billing
Mt. Gox leak rumor
Reading the description of today's episodes, they are revisiting the Cosmic Calendar and discussing the immense age of the universe. However this was also the first episode of Sagan's Cosmos. Is this a shot for shot remake with better graphics? Or is this something new and only inspired by the previous show?
You could lump it under #3, Calculus. Newton originally expressed using differential calculus as F = dp/dt, and developed his second law as an application of his newly-developed calculus.
Wealth is a relative measure, not an absolute one.

"That's like saying that the last person (blah)"

No, because relative to other people, they have more stuff. The proportion they have of the group's net worth is significant greater than almost all other members, who have generally have five or more orders of magnitude less wealth (0.0000005% and less).

The reason why you're having trouble converting from countries to individuals is because there's currently only 200 countries, but 7 billion individuals. That's why the individual's percentage looks lower.

Also, your comparison makes absolutely no allowance for inflation. GDP rises for everyone over time simply due to inflation. Your shekel could purchase more in the time of Herod than it could in the time of Netanyahu. Zimbabwe's GDP went through the roof in recent years in their own dollars; but it didn't as a comparison to the rest of the world's output.
Sorry, but if everyone replies with their side project, this page will be full of non-relevant sites. Like the OP, I'm interested in seeing fully self-sufficient one-man startups.
This was what finally got Cabal working for me on OS X http://stackoverflow.com/a/21285413/1176156
Too bad it looks kinda ugly. Example: http://wymeditor.github.io/wymeditor/dist/examples/01-basic....
There's no way a proprietary environment can be the future of programming, but Wolfram does have the right ideas.

Ctrl-F for "symbolic" in that page returns 14 results. The way I interpret it, they're aiming (rightly) to dismount programming from its local maxima in expressivity that is plaintext--a feat that Lisp and Smalltalk and a horde of gimmicky visual languages* couldn't do. Wolfram Language won't succeed here, but they'll get closer than anyone else has.

* Not saying that visual languages are inherently gimmicky; just that when you do write one, it's extremely tempting to fall into toyland.
How is it possible? Well you can TRY to patent ALMOST anything (except a few things like a perpetual motion machine) That doesn't mean it will be granted.
That's awesome, didn't know it ran so well on smaller systems. Are there certain settings you start it with? I usually just start with the default parameters and haven't explored heap sizes and all that.
>China must have around 7000 miles of track by now. The US still has none.

None what? Acela is HSR. It's just not as nice as what you find in other countries.
AR property rights – sharing, distributing and modifying the real world
Seems like you're still not quite getting this. News happen because the community around it want it to happen, because news is a signal to be broadcasted only if there's a medium in which to broadcast. It's one big circlejerk. I can't do bizdev with some company far away.
Ask HN: Convertible Debt AND Equity Seed Round
Hi all,

There are plenty of articles out there that talk about Convertible Debt vs Equity however I'm currently in a position where I have offers for both Convertible Debt AND term sheets for the sale of Equity from different investors.

I've been offered a convertible debt note that is at a different rate to the valuation that I'm pushing out in the term sheets to other straight equity investors. What happens in this scenario and how should I proceed?
> The obvious conclusion of this is that this implies you should have no goals for the future, you should work towards nothing, and just take life as it comes.

That kind of black-and-white thinking is exactly what the article is nudging you into letting go of. Nowhere does it say not to have goals. Rather, it says not to confuse those goals with reality, not to spend all your time protecting a hypothetical future when you can only ever live in the present. Nowhere does it say work towards nothing. Rather, it says work is something to be experienced for its own sake, rather than just as some suffering to get through in order to achieve an end.

Yes, take life as it comes, including the fact that setting goals and working towards them might be something that makes you happy. However, when goals become obsessions and happy work turns to fear of failure and anxiety, you're defeating the entire purpose of setting goals and working in the first place.
Or just try the virtual alternative : http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/railroadNoiseGenerator.php
I see, it's just the non-linear patterns? Looks like they were considered for Haskell and there are some good arguments against them: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell@haskell.org/msg03721.htm....
"Imagine if you had a telephone system in which you had to listen to everyone else’s conversations until somebody finally spoke to you."

Now imagine that everybody on the alternative secret phone system is flying around hundreds of passengers who'll be killed if somebody misdirects a call with important instructions.

I've found that, in general, if one's reaction to a practice is "WTF, is literally everybody else in this industry stoopid?" it usually means the opposite...
Don't be so sure. If this turns out to be a cost-competitive way to get internet access over the last mile (or last several miles) to customers, then there's some real money to be made.
> was browsing a site with ads.

> saw content X on that site

> other sites showed me ads with X

kid, this is just targeted advertisement.
So the answer is "no", right?
I guess it depends on the size of the project. I've reached a point, in pure js projects, at which refactoring code was too risky. It's too easy to introduce subtle bugs in pure js, just with a typo.

After hours lost debugging js code. You end up with certain fear to touch code that's already tested.

By migrating some projects to LiteScript I've found bugs lurking in js code I believe was bug-free. Also with LiteScript I found myself coding faster, fearless, trusting the compiler to catch typos and object misuse.

Javascript is great, wonderful. I love it too. Prototypal inheritance is also a refreshing approach to OO. But it was not designed to scale. And that's ok. It was designed to be a script to add dynamic properties to HTML pages. Simple, powerful, global var by default, return undefined if property does not exist (instead of throwing).
This are good decisions for the original purpose, but they do not scale.
As someone who uses these services in my job, I like the design a lot. A simple url and a simple copy button is great for these things (anyone who has done support will know what I'm talking about).

However, I get more information from whatsmybrowser.com

If someone could do a site that gives as much info as possible, including an Internet speed tests, I think it could become very popular.
The Programmer Bill of Rights (2006)
Sunday at 2:45pm mountain and the follow message is prominently displayed:

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The Amtrak.com reservation system is temporarily unavailable while we perform site maintenance. To make reservations during this time, use the Amtrak mobile app for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone or call 1-800-USA-RAIL and speak to a customer service representative. We appreciate your patience.
Why? It's not as good.
Go Home Marketing, You Are Drunk.
SXSW Interactive is Not a Tech Conference Anymore
Thanks for the link! There were little quirks with redactor that was annoying and I think this tool would have eliminated those. The only thing that I don't like about the examples is when you want to edit in HTML, it puts the editor at the top. I prefer how redactor does it, which is one window at a time. However I'm guessing this is all customizable or you can implement one yourself if you wanted to.
The addiction paradox | Science News
Google Faces Antitrust Heat In India
I think the biggest challenge to rail in the US is just how huge the US is.

Take a common train ride in Europe: Paris to Berlin. You've actually traveled less distance than from New York to Chicago, and it took 8 hours to do so.

In fact from Paris all the way to Moscow is much shorter than from LA to NYC.

Without some amazing new tech in rail, I doubt it'll ever be a popular alternative in the US to flying (other than intra-regional trips).
While personally I have no problem with people inventing new programming languages, I think that with es6 something like 80% implemented in latest firefox and chrome, expected to be properly finished this year and with good transpilers already in use, there's a really strong case for anyone who would otherwise be transpiling anyway to look at es6. Just yesterday I was seeing how far I could get with gulp and traceur: https://github.com/kybernetikos/gulp-es6-template
That's because they may be selling the rest of it. A 'nanashi' has already posted on Bitcointalk their terms (100btc for the entire dump, 10btc for 2gb etc).
One liner CSS trick for spacing items
In addition to the points made by the other comments, I'd also add that "thus more stops" doesn't necessarily follow. Amtrak tends to be the subject of a lot of stupid politics, with the routes and stops determined more by what wins votes than what makes sense. As a result, a lot of Amtrak routes stop extremely frequently in pretty small towns.

As an example, the Amtrak train that runs between Washington DC and Boston (serving NYC along the way, and continuing on to Norfolk, VA) stops not only at DC's main train station, but also at New Carrollton, MD and Alexandria, VA, which are not only quite close to DC, but actually on the DC Metro system, making these stops almost completely redundant.

I count no less than thirty two stops between Boston and DC. The trip is about 9.5 hours long, so that's an average of one stop every 18 minutes.

The NYC->Chicago trip isn't quite as bad, but still has 19 stops in between. Along the way, it stops in such bustling metropolises as Elkhart, IN (population 51,152) and Sandusky, OH (population 25,493).
Thanks! I picked up the domain name for around $150, which I actually thought was expensive at the time. The .org and .net versions were available, thankfully.
God sees everything.

Is there a white man I can talk to?
I keep hearing about Dylan (good things) and have checked out the site a few times, but never sat down and actually learned the syntax and built something with it. I'll try and give this a go in the next few days. Is it like CL where there's a language spec and independent implementations?

Thanks for the tip!
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My article in Quartz didn't address all of the reasons women earn less than men do because of space constraints. Also, the article was discussing new research on pay equality in STEM fields, with a summary on gender wage gap as background.

It is interesting to discuss whether there is more pay equality in STEM fields, specifically engineering, because females in these fields are also more comfortable with (and better at) negotiating higher salaries for themselves. At the moment there isn't research to suggest this but it could be a contributing factor.

- @NinjaEconomics
Clicked on this because the title didn't have the 10 ways in it. Some have already commented on the link baitedness of the title, so shan't. I was ready to dismiss the site entirely after realizing I had been duped into reading aired frustrations when I stumbled across his mental models page as I looked for escape. Nice Summary!

One of the very few times distrust has turned to glee in a split second. I happen to be looking at mental models at the moment to improve my processes and daily decision making. Bump for the incidental discovery.
> if you don't pay for the product - you ARE the product

I paid full price for my XBox 360, within the first year or so of its release. It had a simple and clean interface, pretty much enough to play games and search for/demo/sometimes buy new games. Since then, the UI has gone through various terrible iterations, including full-screen ads for Bing and Zune, and embedded ads for other (non-MS, even non-XBox) products within the main landing page. Even if you do pay for the product, you probably are the product.
People throw the word 'literate' around a lot, and while I do like what we've got here, as originally envisaged, literate programming allowed you to lay out your code for narrative flow regardless of how the compiler needs your code to be sequenced.

I like what litescript is doing here (and in my opinion markdown is near perfect as a literate programming documentation language), I'm just worried that people will forget that the vision of literate programming is quite a bit larger than is typically implemented.
Ah, interesting. I was familiar with spherical harmonics for Ambisonics [1], a technology for representing the directional sound field at point (or perhaps a head-sized sphere), using the spherical harmonic decomposition to approximate the sound field in a reasonably small number of discrete channels.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 makes it clear: we need to rethink black boxes
Next Keurig Will Probably Include of Form of DRM
I ported Box2D-lite to R6RS Scheme a few years ago:

https://github.com/dharmatech/box2d-lite

If you decide to add a physics engine to your project, that might give you a head start, or at least some ideas. :-)
This is so true.

News sites tend to be so "busy" and messy. I love the clean look of the mobile version. I really get what people mean by "mobile first design" now...
Right now.

> Share this now with your support team now!
Or,

A) SnapChat was valued at $3B, making them rich (in theory).

B) SnapChat's reason for that valuation is that investors believed in the value proposition of secrecy, via ephmerality.

C) Startup founders want to be rich.

D) Therefore, startup founders will make an app based on what investors currently believe in
How many bitcoins did he pay at the time? (no need to be exact to the satoshi if you want to maintain anonymity, i'm just curious)
Company culture is an interesting topic. Here's a link to another useful take on the subject from an agile coach's blog (not me). His formulation is that culture is "how we do things around here to succeed," which is from a book by William Schneider. http://agilitrix.com/2011/03/how-to-make-your-culture-work/
I think these things are quite easy to fix. I definitely prefer redactors look, but being able to see each container is actually quite nice. You sort of have use your imagination when it comes to layout spacing, but I think this route is definitely better.
Thanks, I really appreciate that. I'm actually pretty self-conscious about the design because I don't have a design background and I'm color blind. Every time I use new colors (which isn't often) I have to send them to my wife to let me know if they look ok. It's a real pain in the ass, but whatever, I love the work.
Connectify Dispatch Pro 7.2.1.29658
Reports my IE11 in modern mode as IE7.

I'm guessing it's because of the "trident" and "7.0" in the user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0) like Gecko

I've noticed a ton of sites that misdetect IE in this way. MS's attempt to 'improve' their UA string seems to have done more harm than good.
gin side project. noun. :: A fun side project that turns into successful venture worthy of posting to Hacker News (with or without having been conceived while drinking gin).
No, it is same one.
It says that my screen size is 1280 x 720, but it's actually 1920 x 1080.
I doubt rail will replace cross-country flights, but there is a ton of air traffic on shorter routes.

As one example where it's already done, the DC-NYC Amtrak route is quite popular, despite being just as expensive, if not more so, as the plane ride. It takes a similar amount of time, factoring in travel to and from airports, waiting, etc. and is much nicer. There are still a ton of airline flights between these two cities as well, of course, and those could probably be supplanted to a large degree with additional improvements.

That's with current American trains, which are painfully slow. Imagine modern high-speed rail between, for example, DC and Miami. It's a bit over 1,000 miles which would take about five hours. That would be an excellent substitute for the plane trip, which is about two hours in the air, but tons of time and hassle at the airports. I have family in South Florida and if such a train existed at something like a reasonable price, I'd definitely go for it. As it is, Amtrak on that route takes nearly 24 hours and costs way more than an airline ticket. I don't see why they get any passengers at all, given that.

Seems like 1,000 miles is about the limit for high-speed trains. How many pairs of large American cities are less than 1,000 miles apart and have lots of travel between them? I would bet there are quite a number. Rail doesn't have to solve everything to solve a bunch of things.
How does it know my Java and Flash versions when I have click to play set?
Gay marriage, pot legalization and crime-victim laws don't hurt anyone's profit (or, in case of crime-victim laws, the cost of opposing the law is higher than the cost of letting it pass) so there are no well-funded adversaries trying to kill these laws for profit.