skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In order for an invention to be patentable it must be new as defined in the patent law, which provides that an invention cannot be patented if: “(a) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent,”" [1].

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/general_info_concerni...
A Former CIA Agent Talks Spycraft
Those fares are already subsidized by the government; reducing them seems unlikely.
:) Fellow Monstercat fan.
That makes sense. Ignore my ignorant comment.
If bureaucracy prevents new technology of being adopted quickly, then that bureaucracy actually decreases safety, even if it's goal is to increase safety. Yes, adopting new technology increases some risks, but also decreases others. The good thing is that usually you can have both systems on at the same time. If the internet connection and GPS fails, it's not difficult to fall back to the existing technology.
Of course it's relative. Power is about asserting your will, and inherent in that is having someone to assert it over. Saying that a modern country could beat a historical one in a war is silly.

It is interesting to note that in the 60 years that the US has been the ascendent world power, they've withdrawn from all sizeable wars with objectives unmet. If you're using actual active warfare as the yardstick, then the US is not powerful at all on comparison to historical powers. If you're using sensible measurements of power, then of course the US is powerful, most of it from projection of force and cultural/soft power.
This makes me feel old and sad because things change so fast
True, I guess we'll continually make our way to Python syntax. It is the same reason I love writing Python, less typing, more correctness and power.
This is a perfect example of the importance of putting even a marginal amount of effort into ux.
How many people do you know with adjectives in their name? If you met someone and they said their name was "Joey Red Puma", would you assume that's real or fake? You'd probably say something like "really? you're joking, right?" I would certainly be skeptical.

For all we know that might be a real name too, but all we can do is make an educated guess about whether or not it is. My point is that determining if a name is real or not is pretty arbitrary so if your objective is to verify if a name is valid or not, you simply can't be 100% accurate.

A wrong result is wrong, but making the best of what you have to try and get the right answer most of the time (while still being wrong sometimes) is in and of itself not wrong. Take any NP-hard problem, the best you can do is use heuristics to try and approximate a good solution, since the "right result" is simply impossible to compute.
Amputee drummer gains "superhuman" skill
The Anglosphere is dominated by the US because it is dominated by the US. US population is 300M. UK is 60M. Canada 30, Aus 20, Ireland 6, NZ 4.
simply put: engage.

attend every meeting you can, take notes. afterwards, ask people if there are things there you don't understand - acronyms, assumptions, etc. in those discussions take notes. then read like mad every evening.

with your work, deliver. get your work done on time, without issue. think of the internship as part extended interview and part actual work. get your stuff done. i have had interns over the years who were (honestly!) thinking "oh, you wanted me to _do_ that? ohhhh ... whatever. i didn't." a sure fire way to get kicked to the curb and ruin any hope you have of working there and not having a positive recommendation coming out of the internship. better to ask a question that may appear stupid than to make an assumption which is possibly wrong and get penalized for it.

go to lunch with people from across the company. if you're in engineering, don't just go to lunch with engineering folks, go to lunch with marking, product management, sales, etc. this is an opportunity to see the wide variety of roles and jobs needed in a business.

so: engage. engage the work - your output - and engage the opportunity to learn via listening and studying.
Would it be possible to use an alternative blockchain (maybe currency) to do internal accounting? Low confirmation requirement, add the BTC block chain transaction ID as a memo, consistency, etc.
More feedback: One your landing page, under "We Help Grow Your Community" non of sections are link targets. I should be able to click on "Great Looking forums" and see MANY EXAMPLES.

I should be able to click on "Designed for All Devices" and see examples of the forums on mockups of all kinds of devices.

You are missing a huge opportunity here. Only people that have a huge need AND have decided that phpBB isn't for them will take the work to see what you have to offer. That is already a small percentage of the market right there.

And just because you have mobile traffic doesn't mean that your site is good on mobile. They use it because they have to not because it is good. I worked at a site that was openly antagonistic to mobile traffic and it still account for 10% of our paid signups.
"I'd like to interject for a moment, what you call Open Source is actually FSF/Open Source or as I'd come to call it recently, FSF+Open Source".
It's a very basic service, but the UI is more hip, I guess.

It doesn't detect LightSpark as a Flash version.
Work harder than everyone else and you'll raise $37 million.
Cool, I did think it might be that, but when I read "LiteScript is written in LiteScript, every new version must be able to compile itself to be ready for release" it just kinda makes it sound like some kind of magic is happening, where a version of the language, before even being compiled, can somehow compile itself in some super clever way that I was just missing.

Thanks for the explanation :)
That happened to me all the time at my last workplace. If no one cared I'd throw out Subway as a suggestion, because I'm actually low-falutin' enough to be just fine with Subway. Although a good third of the time no one had a problem with that either so Subway it was.
Why is that?

Alcoholism is very much a disease.

Do you hesitate to take advice from people with cardiovascular disease?
It depends on the size of your audience. Typically if an audience is very niche (eg user demographics are similar), then selling ads to direct advertisers is more of a possibility.

What do your DAU/MAU numbers look like? How much engagement is there with your app, and how much time do users spend per session?

Feel free to reach out to me if you need more specific advice.
It's more likely the other way around. The same hackers dumping it to put the blame on Mark and deflect it from themselves.
swfobject.getFlashPlayerVersion();
I've loosely been following the MtGox fiasco, including previous hacking that revealed voice conversations, passport scans, etc. However, I don't quite understand the context or ramifications of this leak. Could someone give a brief description?

Much appreciated!
what the fuck? the help page says

"Google Chrome is generally considered the leader in supporting modern web standards, and can reliably handle most modern websites. It is also one of the fastest and most secure. "
Couldn't choose between Jekyll and Middleman, but now I think I'm going with Metalsmith. No ruby, understandable plugin structure… I'm sold!
UK detains journalists based on Anti-Terror Law
You doubt rail will compete/replace cross country air travel because "it seems like 1,000 miles is the limit for high speed trains." Is there any reason to think that what appears to be the case is actually the case? I do not know a lot about rail travel why is distance a limiting factor? Is it a business limitation or a physical limitation?
Probably from JavaScript. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorPl... and, from there, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Plugin. Your browser cannot hide extensions from that list because web sites might use it to decide whether to show you their plugin-based content.
Getting to slide 125 can be a challenge (no TOC, each next slide takes a history slot in Chrome).

http://bob.ippoli.to/haskell-for-erlangers-2014/#/abstractio...
Yes, it isn't obvious how it could be done. It would certainly require some sort of innovative solution.
Looks like it's gone from Google Play.
What is this statement based on?
for its tl;dr. I mean seriously, this page must have 50 bullets on it.
This is a pretty good comment in that it highlights the thought processes a lot of us go through. "I can't believe ..." or "I can't imagine ...". Believe it - there are tons of people out there willing to pay for various niche things that make their lives/businesses better. I've heard the same thing about one of my own projects, LiberWriter. There's open source software that kinda/sorta does what we do, but a lot of people just want to pay someone and make the problem go away. They don't want to know HTML or how NCX files work.
Representing and solving a maze given an image (2012)
The full leak contains a back office administration tool used by Mt.Gox, and what looks to be complete trade logs up to and including November 2013. The leakers haven't included any personally identifiable information.

If it means anything, I've had a look for my trading activity and it's all there and completely correct.
To address one point I saw: US passenger rail has signaling priority over freight, by law [http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/49/V/C/243/24308]. The law is just not enforced.

The US has arguably the best freight rail system in the world, and it seems like a lot of the problems with US passenger rail stem from that.
The entire store experience is the opposite of what Eric Lippert calls the Pit of Success: literally no one involved in the process is incentivized to protect your data. Developers ask for all the permissions they can get away with because users get confused by multiple warnings, users blindly click accept on everything because they've learnt they can't use the app without that, Google is blindly complicit in all this because for some reason, they think everyone is as interested in/capable of protecting user data as they are... (Or they just don't care.)
I knew that dimension of 'literate'.

LiteScript allows you to "lay out your code for narrative flow regardless of how the compiler needs your code to be sequenced"
..by not requiring a specific sequence.

You can start with "main" code, and define "secondary" code and "helper" functions and classes later in the file.

(the price to pay to allow that is the need to do several passes over the AST to link object declaration to object usage)
Then I don't understand the point you're trying to make.

You have argued that people should always use /dev/urandom, as opposed to the common understanding that /dev/random is safer to use if you need high quality randomness, due to the cold-start issues with urandom.

You said that "Not using urandom has caused way, way, way more real-world security problems than any bizarro embedded systems cold start entropy problem ever has.".

I asked you for an example of security problems caused by using /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom. You provided a link with no such examples.
It's a joke. If you're being "stimulated" (ie, electrocuted), then you might be doing it wrong. :P
Yes, the U.S. is big. BUT if you implement high speed rail in specific corridors it would be quite a bit better than flying.

The DC, Baltimore, Philly, NYC, Boston route covers millions of people. It is absolutely criminal that we cannot get trains on this route which have average speeds greater than ~90mph (amtrack acela express). DC to Boston is only ~450 miles. Even if we get to only 150-200mph (which is already occurring in China over long distances) we are looking at only 2-3 hours from DC to Boston.
This is the dumbest thing I ever started to read.
Sounds... incredible.

A few questions:

- Which object model & garbage collector system are you using? (in C)

- How do you handle scoping differences between JS/PHP/C?

- Which bignum and string libraries are you using in C? Is the String library fully unicode happy?

- How do you deal with 'eval', and other JS-specific functionality?

- You mention the classes being easily turned into C++ classes... how does that work with the dynamic nature of POJO objects, when at any time new methods and properties can be added to any object, or prototype?

Sounds intriuging, anyway...
1,000 miles is about the point where air travel starts to become substantially faster than modern high-speed rail.

Airplanes add about three hours onto the trip just to account for getting to and from the airports (which are almost always far away from the city), going through security, arriving early enough to account for unexpected problems, etc. With trains it's much less, often well under an hour.

However, airplanes go much faster. That DC-Miami trip would be about five hours by high-speed train and is about two hours by plane. It would be roughly a wash when you account for the extra overhead of airplane travel, making the train more attractive due to being more comfortable and potentially cheaper. But go much farther, and the plane starts to get a lot faster. For a coast-to-coast flight, a high-speed train is still going to take nearly a full day, while an airplane can do it in about eight hours after accounting for the extra overhead.

So, as far as I can see, 1,000 miles is roughly the breakeven point on planes versus high speed rail.
I took this away as a tl;dr

Currency: BTC Balance: 951,116.21905382 <– That fat fuck has been lying!!
Really dumb article, why is that even on the frontpage?
How not to write an API
My Little App – Easy setup of your own Heroku clone with Ansible and Dokku
Parallels Web Presence Builder
> 37Signals is dead

[citation needed]
...the same Mac that, the year Windows XP was released, switched from OS9 to OSX, a completely different BSD/NeXTStep based operating system that eventually forced users to completely upgrade every single application they ran once they moved to Leopard about seven years ago? That one?
But in another part of the statement it says "We stole no bitcoins. There were none to steal.", which seems to contradict them having ~1 million BTC.
I personally wouldn't mind, but then Microsoft comes out with crap like this: http://www.scroogled.com/mail
Certainly, at least for those planes fitted with satellite Internet uplinks, a status report every two minutes or so would be technically feasible and not terribly expensive?
He owns a plane which he does not fly as a pilot and got a PPL which allows him to fly light aircraft in visual conditions but refuses to fly unaccompanied. I would not say that he is a seasoned pilot…

There are planes and planes. Security in airliners and in light aircraft are two matters of their own. You don't expect people who own a Cessna to have a black box and a satellite data link.
You could take a look at Roundcube webmail: http://roundcube.net/

You might find this useful as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients
The coolest thing is the analog computer that seamlessly went between control surfaces and RCS as if it were flying using surfaces within an atmosphere. It may not be a "real" plane, but that doesn't make it any less amazing.

I'd love to see the X-15 progress into the X-20 and onwards.
20Jeans is also good and has fairly high quality clothes. Most of the Jeans are in the $20-30 range.
The balance may have been obtained from the logs, rather than from actual funds stored in the wallets.
To be fair, simplex doesn't really "drive today's computers", at least nowhere near like it did the computers of the 1950s.

This list of important algorithms includes Simplex - http://www.koutschan.de/misc/algorithms.php . Others do as well. And some do not.
Because the front-page placing algorithm is really, really weird on the weekends, and only on the weekends. (not sarcasm)
Why we go on international retreats 3 times a year with our startup
Confused Article with mixed messages - Surprised that it had so many up-votes.

The Author has problems with a Sony Smart-watch yet there is a picture of a Samsung Gear on the article.

Much of the criticism for the watch is indeed deserved - Smart Watches are more of a novelty at this point. If he had stuck with Smart Watches then this would be an acceptable and deserved criticism.

But he moves on to Cars and then muddies the waters with why long term attention spans inversely co-relate with automation.
What does one have to do with the other? Why go ranting about unrelated points to "round out" the word count?
Also not meant as an offense ;). Its just so telling...

Thanks for taking note.
There's another thing the article hand waves over: there is no actual evidence that antibiotics in feed have an effect on the animals' growth. [1]

It is yet another piece of farmer folklore, like hail cannons and routine castration. They are believed to work, without any scientific basis.

The thing is, farmers believe so strongly in this myth, that even in places where antibiotics are banned as a feed additive, they bribe vets to prescribe their livestock antibiotics for a variety of fictitious ailments, so they can keep giving it.

[1] http://www.tufts.edu/med/apua/news/newsletter_33_3555326098....
Why is this on HN? Clearly, it's not a problem that can be solved with JS or Rails.
Before everybody gets all up in arms about how this says that they still had around 1 million BTC, remember that this lines up exactly with what Mt. Gox has been saying.

This is Mt. Gox's own accounting. It should report that they still have BTC. But these are just numbers from a database. What Gox has said is that while they thought that they still had BTC, while their systems (AKA this) still reported them having lots of BTC, the actual wallets had long since been emptied.

So really, this doesn't help anybody in any ways. It could still be a hack, or it could be Gox screwing with everybody, or it could be something else entirely. It really doesn't mean anything. Other that showing that Gox still can't secure anything to save their life.
I'm curious how gravity will work when tunneling through a planet.
You complain about 37signal products being too simple but are in love with what is essentially a scheduled queue? I'm no hero for basecamp, I love my JIRA, but clients/suits/execs _love_ the simplicity of basecamp.

You personally don't like a geek blog, but many people do. The buffer blog is all marketing (well as far as I could tell, I only went 2 pages in looking for geek stuff). I'm sure other marketers love it, but you are comparing apples to oranges.

Perhaps you should take your complaint of 37signals "that's the way to do it" and apply it to yourself? Different strokes for different folks and all.

Be happy both companies are contributing and sharing their insights, no one is forcing you to read and/or take their advice. No need for overly dramatic "37signals is dead"
I think one of the lessons of Air France 447 is that our existing black boxes not only work, they work extremely well. So it's not so much that we want to replace our current black box technology so much as we want to augment it. A live satellite feed is an obvious choice here, but I'd argue that a secondary backup black-box (presumably 100% solid state these days) located in a part of the airplane that's likely to float would be a good idea.
So what you are saying is that even grass roots movements, led by fairly ordinary people, can raise millions of dollars for their causes?
This actually looks like a much better way to learn how division works—taking a number out of another number some number of times. While it may be less efficient than the other method, if we really cared about efficiency we would just teach division with calculators.

EDIT: Ooph, he's running for the House of Reps in my state (http://www.bongino.com/)
At an Apple Authorized Service Provider or Apple Store (https://locate.apple.com/). You can't usually visually identify a bad one, so I wouldn't buy one used.
nice comment- how do you stay apprised of these in light of the media bias towards the "sexy", are there any websites, youtube channels or blogs that are good for this kind of information? thanks!
It appears the hackers think it is a lie because all public statements I remember seeing and even the leaked "resurrection" plan talk about 0.7M BTC.

There has been talk of a Wally trading program which is said to have be run by Mt. Gox to profit from the price imbalances. If this is true then the 200k might be Wally's account. Which would explain why Mt. Gox does not consider it real liabilities.
Well, you don't lose your rights to the work. And it's an application, not what you produce on the train.

Doesn't every writer have some sample article for this sort of thing? Nobody uses their unpublished masterpiece as the application material.
If there's an impedance mismatch between Basecamp née 37 Signals and "startup culture", perhaps the problem is with "startup culture", whatever the hell this blogpost thinks that is.
Eating at 75-80% of your TDEE will cause a person to lose weight. It's as simple as that. Only in an extreme case (very small, sedentary person) would that amount be lower than the 1200 Calorie starvation level.
Not justicable you cant sign a contract to sign away your rights to annual leave - it's an open goal for the other sides barrister.
Air France 447 actually had such a system, although it was not designed to fulfill the same role as the black box.

Here's Wikipedia on the subject (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Automated...):

An Air France spokesperson stated on 3 June that "the aircraft sent a series of electronic messages over a three-minute period, which represented about a minute of information. "[32][33][Note 2] These messages, sent from an onboard monitoring system via the Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), were made public on 4 June 2009.[34] The transcripts indicate that between 02:10 UTC and 02:14 UTC, 6 failure reports (FLR) and 19 warnings (WRN) were transmitted.[35] The messages resulted from equipment failure data, captured by a built-in system for testing and reporting, and cockpit warnings also posted to ACARS.[36] The failures and warnings in the 4 minutes of transmission concerned navigation, auto-flight, flight controls and cabin air-conditioning (codes beginning with 34, 22, 27 and 21, respectively).[37]
An even better example is the Acela, which makes fewer stops than the regular Northeast Regional trains, but stops in Wilmington, Delaware (pop. 70,000 and a 30 minute drive from Philadelphia). Joe Biden, now Vice President and formerly Senator from Delaware, used to commute on the Acela every day, and was a strong advocate for Amtrak funding.
37signals is the anti startup culture. They make mountain loads of cash, Basecamp works great, Jason & DHH controls the company's destiny and certainly doesn't give a shit about what startup blogs says about them.
Yes, I did read it. I'm implying that this hasn't changed - there's enough people who still think Macs are toys and a Windows PC is the computer for serious work.
Everytime i write markdown i find an error, so i solved the problem ;)
First, thanks for your refreshing perspective. I agree that the focus on wealth and growth isn't going to help us create interesting things as a society. However I do think there's a craft to building a business that can stand along side the craft of baking or the pursuit of art.