skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wrote:

> courts are cautious about handing them out to journalists engage din legitimate news gathering.

I doubt that it it News Worthy to be the 150th person with a TV camera standing at a recently declared news-worthy spot, or that most of those are gathering something that isn’t being recorded.
Three things put me off Linode:

1. Dependency on ColdFusion. Seriously that product is dead, poorly maintained and powers the entire front end. That's scary. Even more scary than PHP written by outsources from Elbonia. They got hacked due to this.

2. Billing system is take then refund credit rather than billing afterwards.

3. From my location their latency and throughput sucked even in their EU DC despite being only 11 miles from my house.
You find human decency repulsive?!
W-what is my password doing on the frontpage of Hacker News?
Not sure about that. Perhaps not sold at a loss in terms of bill of materials right now (since they have been in production for some time they probably brought the price down), but that doesn't account for the labor costs (developers, support, etc...).

All e-book readers are subsuidized by book sales. Amazon would be mad not to do it that way. They are a goods company not a hardware company.
This is very typical way of approaching sales and arrangements in the sales world. Sandler sales and a lot of other sales techniques / principles apply this, and I've seen it work wonders
> What does 289321 signify

Just that it was the 289321th block to be mined on the mainline of the blockchain.

> what about the other transactions of the 289321 block?

These are just transactions that happened within approximately 10 minutes before the block was mined (precisely, those that reached the miner between 06:22:28 and 06:34:54 today -- times in UTC I guess).
I would bet that anyone who is already very geeky and just happens to be called Satoshi Nakamoto has a much higher than normal chance of being a bitcoin early adopter.
tl;dr: Someone got phished.

That is not cracking, which is also not hacking.
For those asking about the transaction being processed without transaction fee, it was possible because it satisfies three conditions: tx size < 1000 bytes, outputs are more than 0.01 btc and priority is high enough.

More details here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
This is like a real-life crime fiction.
This is freakishly similar to the discussion on a PHP bug I submitted in 2006:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39579
Same results on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zshct/4ee89f7cf824...
On Ubuntu/Debian, if you want to have an icon to make it easy to toggle it, install:

sudo apt-get install gtk-redshift
Britain's fattest loses weight, starts own fitness firm on government grant
Anatomy of a Perfect Web Page
It's been a while since I've looked at the protocol but I believe it's because other network members have to verify your transaction, so you have to pay for that compute time otherwise you could flood/ddos the network with fake transactions
No it's not. If it didn't return anything, it would be

-(void)foo;

This is how C and by extension, Objective-C work: to indicate "nothing" you have to put in something, specifically "void".
Don't give me that bullshit. It's not hard at all. It's not even close to hard. It would be an understatement to call it easy. Anyone complaining about this is so steeped in entitlement that if they told me such a thing in real life I'm afraid I would become animal-like. Such complaints are worse than pointless and I hope OP or whatever refers to the guy I responded to originally, and to some extent you, get some fucking perspective. It's embarrassing.
Eh, if that's the threat you're worried about, it's really just a race against time. For $15 you can already get a GSM+GPS "mini" (not micro) tracker. That was just a quick search. I'd be surprised if there are not smaller models already easily available.

Sure, a BLE beacon is gonna be easier to make small and power than a completely self-contained unit but it's not like this creates an entirely new threat.

1: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-Global-Real-Time-GPS-Tracker-GS...
Fortress Investment Group Bought $20 Million of Bitcoin in 2013
This post is best read in the voice of the Comic Book Guy.
I use a Noppo Choc Mini and it does n-key rollover over USB. It works well but the numpad function won't work on linux for some reason. I also heard it makes the keyboard not function with certain BIOS/operating systems.

Quite frankly I really don't care for n-key rollover, it's a silly marketing argument as far as I'm concerned. 6 KRO without ghosting "ought to be enough for anybody", especially if the alternative breaks compatibility. Maybe the hardcore gamers will disagree though.
> Any good reading material?

"Working Effectively With Legacy Code", by your esteemed parent poster... :)
So this is a 2-year-old block, and ~$15 million (just estimating at ~500/btc) being shifted around in that set isn't abormal? (Not sure how recycling of big amounts works, I'm not being facetious)
It's basically spam at this point.
More than half of the 21 actually. Russia is a federation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_Russia
I have a pretty decent six-pack. All I did was look(up) what you put in your mouth and Insanity. I'm currently doing T25 as I couldn't plan 1 full hour of workout everyday.

There are quite a few YT videos showing you routines you can do in limited time. The key is (also now when you've joined a gym) determination and actually going :)

Good luck
Inside the bubble of the bitcoin soap opera this is a big deal. In financial terms, this is the construction cost of a US middle school or 8 miles of Kentucky Interstate Highway [in non-mountainous terrain].

That's of course assuming that someone would take that many bitcoin in lieu of cash and that the availability of that many additional bitcoin would not lower market exchange rates.

Sure it's interesting to speculate as to the who and why, and if you're a blackhat it might be profitable to try to figure out the where in hope of a bonanza attack. But it's not much in terms of how much other people's money there is in the world.

http://cber.uky.edu/Downloads/highways.htm
Crowdfunding sites are just like banks, say financial regulators
I'm not quite getting your analogy. Was it supposed to have any depth, or was it just a way of signaling your hatred for your ideological opponents?
"We can stick millions of bytes on an image, but hundreds of small transactions? Too difficult!"

The transistors on an IC are like pixels on an image. Every individual component is a single transaction. Not surprisingly it's way cheaper to transfer an 1MB picture than 100 small requests that each have their own overhead.

It's a difference between the processes they are made with. It would also be expensive to have hundreds of individual transistors. It's the fact that they live in the same packaging and are manufactured at the same moment into the silicon what makes them cheap.
Ah, I see. Thank you
We've already started using a competitor's product (Logentries) and we're happy with it, so we're not looking to Scalyr or other log management solutions at the moment. Thanks for listening to feedback though!
Hopefully someone can expand on this answer but broadly it's so that there's an incentive for transactions to be recorded. (And apparently transaction fees can be adjusted up and down, across the entire system, to ensure this happens.)
This is the "they laughed at Galieo" Gambit http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit It's a lot older than your examples and is a reliable crutch for quacks.

Yes, most important advances are initially dismissed. But almost all things that are initially dismissed are not important advances. You cannot infer importance from initial dismissal. Dismissal does not in itself make anything more likely to be important.
I have a six pack... of beer. Thats about it
The action should be prevented, not the device. And these actions already are prevented in most jurisdictions.
Man quit upvoting my dumb angry response to his idiotic, entitled garbage and vote up the informative and consequential stuff below. If a year from now we look back and this nonsense is the top comment, what claim will HN have to being a community where meaningful discourse is valued?

Downvote us, you fools!!
Thigh slapper :)
I wrote a userscript that makes small enhancements to HN. Among them is a regex-based post filter.

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/HNImproved
it's not fucking spam either. get a grip. fuck! it's like words have no meaning now!
Oh I'm sorry, I was unaware that community members weren't allowed to voice their displeasure at low-quality submissions (yes, this is one).
The title is a bit opaque but with the domain displayed next to it I don't think it's that hard to infer hash+blocksomething=bitcoin.

For what it's worth I don't like all the Bitcoin stories on the front page but sometimes they're interesting (the slow motion train crash that is MtGox) and other times, when they'd not interesting, they're not hard to ignore.
So someone can approach any ex secret military contractor in USA and get anything he/she wants just as simple as that? Isn't it like a security breach?
Faster, Leaner, Smarter, Better Data Centers
When Research Should Come with a Warning Label
"I used to just wake up at the rise of the sun"

I like rising with the Sun, but at 58.9 degrees North there is only a few weeks a year where this is possible without radically changing my daily schedule with the seasons (about now happily being in one of those periods).
Life in the Digital Crosshairs
Or, consistently with the persona in the article, it’s actually Satoshi claiming not to be Satoshi.

(Mind you, as much as a bitcoin-hater as I am, I find doxxing him distasteful. And I’m not even a total anti-doxxer, I just don’t see any justification for exposing his persona).
Satoshi Nakamoto is not Dorian Nakamoto
Two Artists Live and Work on a Giant Rotating Hamster Wheel for 10 Days
Doxing is surely the supreme act of internet violence. I think this is what journalists don't understand. Anonymity on the internet is what gives one the absolute autonomy we all find so liberating. To unilaterally take that away from someone is probably the most aggressive and violent thing you can do while still remaining in the virtual world.

That doesn't necessarily mean it's always wrong for a journalist to do that, but it should give insight as to why people are so upset here.
If you were an actual hacker you could make a filter function in less than 5 minutes. Just saying. And paying for that would just be plain ridiculous.
Relax psycho
There's likely global (but unprovable given nature of social science) precedent for this and similar in most every culture where fidelity and virginity were absolute sacred values. Another practice for example, rural villagers in South American will kill you no questions asked if you mess with their daughters. In the US, a "shotgun wedding" had its name for a reason. My grandparents can attest that a couple of my great-grandparents were modern comparatively barbaric farmers (Jeff Foxworthy redneck jokes all the way).
reading the perl6 monthly logs perl seemed to stay true to it's swiss army chainsaw philosophy. it almost looked like almost every programming language feature you would think of would eventually end up in perl. ofc this was the idea i got a couple years back.

but read kbd's comment below or the mailing someone else posted.

http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2013-February/0...

parrot was to be the perl6 vm, but that never happened. it become too much at the same time

so they tried to fork off parrot:

> However, even if you remove the baggage and optimize for Rakudo (or rather NQP) integration, Perl6-on-Parrot will still be a 2nd-class citizen as long as no one replaces the PMC-based object system with 6model, which is imo a major undertaking; it might be easier to restart from scratch and fix other 'mistakes' along the way. That's where Parrot2 comes in

so no i don't think perl 6 is ready for production. that said, i thought it was it a cool language. even though i'm not sure if there was a clear direction of where it was going.
I don't really mind bitcoin drama but this "submission" is terrible. No context, no nothing, no analysis.

It's not a submission aimed at the HN community, it's a submission aimed at the bitcoin community because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to the rest of us who aren't very familiar with the protocol.

This submission is obviously not meant for me, it seems fair that I would ask for the possibility of not seeing it, don't you think?
Or a small, but significant number of other people's keyboard manufacturers. Welcome to lowestcommondenominatorland.
Tag a person who you are stalking?
There's an inconsistency here: unit tests should depend only on the public behavior of a class; the constructor is public; constructor calls should nevertheless be avoided where possible.
What happened to IBM's 'SmartCloud Enterprise'?

edit: Ahh > http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/why-ibm-phasing-o...
But, what if you became "animal-like" IRL and the guy just completely kicked your ass in response? I mean, that would be a distinct possibility, right?

Just hypothesizing on where that scenario would leave things.
> awesome stuff :D Thanks for this. Will definitely look into some of that in more detail.

No worries, hope it helps, it was just a quick project back in the day at uni that ended up working a lot better than I expected.

Give me a shout if you want any work done on it (my email address is in my profile).

> Some things I've noticed and will be taking into account are: Skin areas tend to clump around the same locations in photos. The product is usually the focus and skin is near the edges. Product types also tend to share similar photo layouts. So with that, skin color in those zones score higher.

This kind of thing will really help you, small bits of knowledge about the specifics drastically simplify the problem. For example, you can estimate the skin tone by roughly segmenting the image into possible skin/not skin with the approach above, then look at segments which are more likely to be skin because of their positioning you can narrow your accepted parameters and hopefully help distinguish between the two.

Identification of unusual edges/shapes can help too, to classify regions as skin/not skin.

Beyond that, starting to look at estimations of pose to help guess the underlying shape (since you know it's on humans you can make a lot of assumptions).

Also, since you're detecting colours, mistaking very similarly coloured skin as the product wouldn't change your results much :)

visual_cat posted a really nice site with some of the state of the art: http://clothingparsing.com/
It's not the transaction size, it's the age of the transaction inputs.
You're reading something very different into jnbiche's words than I am. I'm reading it more like this:

"[Ooooooh,] Duh[!], it's fake[!] [forehead smack of realization and insight]."

You seem to be reading more of a dismissive "Duh, I knew that, why are you telling me what I already know?" into this, whereas I'm reading a much more realization-striken tone.

"Obviously, it's possible to set your system clock back."

Thinking out loud through the realization and insight as it occurred.

"I was so intrigued I wasn't thinking clearly, even after I pointed this very "attack" out during the Ed Snowden GPG affair."

Explaining the circumstances of and implicitly acknowledging and admitting to a mistake or fault, continuing revelation. An introspective done, not a defensive one, not offered up as an "excuse".
Porn on Vine banned
Yeah pay someone to add a filter. I'm thinking simply grab the html from each HN link, perform some search against a Bitcoin word/phrase dictionary, if it's a match then hide that link.
How are they buddies? That's not evident and there's no trace of "golf" mentioned anywhere.
New tagtree screencast on getting started with ES6
It's funny how we see things differently.

It is my understanding that this was "by design". I.e. that if you work after the sun is set, it's bad for your natural sleep cycle for you to stare at a monitor screen which emits light that looks like the light coming from the sun.

By tying the emitted color from the screen to the rising and setting of the sun, your brain isn't affect by this any more. This doesn't mean that you have to go to bed when the sun sets and your monitor turns yellow - it just means that you increased your chances of feeling tired at a more natural point during the evening.

I'm a long time f.lux user and have happily accepted the yellow sun set on my monitor when the sun outside set. I've even worked long hours with this setting since it's a great ease on the eyes. If you ever worked at night with this setting for a couple of hours and then tried to switch of f.lux, you will feel your eye becoming VERY sore. Only then do you realize how uncomfortable the normal light from your monitor is.
You cannot sign up as an individual, your organisation (since it's on a paid plan) will be able to sign up though.
Bitcoin is not and never was anonymous. It's pseudonymous by design.
For some reason I read that as TrackIR..

On a more relevant side it definitely looks interesting as I lose stuff very easily.
I wonder why they scan the keyboard as a set of columns and rows!! When I was at University, I created a 49 note midi controller from a discarded electric piano keyboard.

Basically I got the hardware and wrote software for a Motorola 68hc11 to control it. The way it worked was that you would put a value on an 8 bit register that would activate one "bit". This bit would be connected to 8 different keys on the keyboard. You would get an 8 bit value out the other end that would tell you which keys were connected at the time.

So for example the value:

01000000

might correspond go keys 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 31 and 36. If you got the value:

01011001

out the other end, you knew that keys 6, 16, 21 and 36 were pressed. The 68hc11 scanned so fast that you couldn't fool it. I remember my professor standing there for ages mashing the keyboard trying to get it to break with different key combinations.

If such an old microcontroller could handle 48 keys so easily, why the hell would a modern microcontroller not be able to use the exact same method? ie. instead of doing it in "rows and columns" just treat the keys as a linear array and deal with which keys are pressed and which aren't.
Note that the original article doesn't disavow all unit tests; nor does it disavow all testing.

Sounds to me like the kind of tests you're describing aren't necessarily unit tests (system-level race conditions aren't typically discoverable with a simple unit test); where the tests were truly unit-level, the proposed alternative (assertions) may have been even more informative. Finally - a few real unit tests for known correct behavior are advised where in essence the algorithm can be described independently from its outcome.
jsFiddle is the biggest according to myip.ms

http://myip.ms/view/web_hosting/38903/Digital_Ocean_Inc.html
That web address means something completely different in UK English.
ok, so what?
When writing to a cache simultaneously writes to the backing store [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_(computing)#Writing_polic...
> This submission is obviously not meant for me, it seems fair that I would ask for the possibility of not seeing it, don't you think?

You're clearly thinking of another internet service. Everyone sees the same Hacker News front page. You want something customizable.
Ask HN: Knowledge management for developers?
Do you see any potential for a knowledge management app that focuses software developers and their teams?

I like the idea of having an app that manages the knowledge of my team and makes it searchable.

Do you know any existing apps?
Do you have any more information about air quality and sleep? I've been told this a couple of times, but I've never found much to read about it.
And if this is ordinary way in which I communicate? Am I typing in all caps? Am I misspelling things, or threatening people, or invoking fallacies? I feel strongly about this kind of thing. If I appear to be less than calm to you, you might do well to consider how very little you have to go on in this evaluation of my demeanor.
The Dutch revolution in journalism: all newspapers behind one paydike.
When you say shutdown are talking about issuing commands from the command line like 'shutdown now' or 'reboot'? Because with Digital Ocean you DO NOT lose your data when you issue those commands. I know from experience.
If you need to modify the tests together in a parallel fashion to the modifications you make in the code you are more likely to introduce same conceptual bugs in both places.
The crash is caused by very short parameters for diffie hellman key exchanges in TLS. I did some further tests on that:
https://dh.tlsfun.de/

Here's what I found in my blog:
http://blog.hboeck.de/archives/841-Diffie-Hellman-and-TLS-wi...
1. Enter username, and email address if not used as a username.

2. Enter password

3. Click link sent to email address.

Seems more convenient that having your privacy steadily eroded and introducing a SPOF.
Well there seems to be some misunderstanding about who released what. I have not released anything because I didn't have to.

All I have done is link to some items that she released into the public domain on a previous occasion.

Sharing the stupidity of others is a long-lived internet tradition. It's almost adage status; be careful what you post, it may come back to haunt you later. The same is true of this, I suppose.
You rarely hear about Ada on HN (sadly). What do you use it for?
The problem isnt just the title - this whole submission is pointless.

I saw the long hash and assumed it had something to do with bitcoin. I clicked through onto the link, but I still have no idea what's going on. I'm guessing that someone sent and recieved lots of bitcoins in one transaction, but I don't know the significance of that.

Perhaps the OP could have linked to an article discussing or describing it? Or even have made the submission a text submission and commented on it himself?
No conspiracy theorist has yet claimed that github posted this on HN to get people to pay for a plan, right? :D
I was a backer for this project on Indiegogo, they are awful!

The devices simply don't work and the customer service is awful, they have now started to delete any negative comments on the project page.

The devices that shipped differed from the ones that we backed and the team refused to listen to the backers. The devices also shipped late.

Steer clear people.
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Good to see the HTTPS site/download working. Now if only we had GPG signatures for this.
Readers who believe Dorian != Satoshi: What would you have to see to convince you that Dorian == Satoshi?

Readers who believe Dorian == Satoshi: What would you have to see to convince you that Dorian != Satoshi?

The hallmark of a good belief system is that your beliefs are falsifiable -- there exists some hypothetical set of experiments which could return unexpected results that would make you change your beliefs.