skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tacit admission that Snowden is winning the battle for public opinion. They must be scared.
If that were the case, then there's no reason to frame it as if they thought there weren't any bitcoins left in unused company wallets. They could just tell the truth.
There are tradeoffs with that, too. The moment you provide low-level access, you make whatever low-level interface is supplied a standard to be supported now and forever. See: the VGA, or any of the Amiga chipsets. One thing that may fall out of this is that future GPU vendors would provide the low-level interface as an abstraction over what's really happening under the hood. And then developers will complain that they can't take advantage of the the real chip's theoretical capabilities.
Generally, I ask this to graphics programmers (Don't take any harm). What will you do after graphics singularity is reached? People say video game graphics are going to be photorealastic in 10 years.
Ask HN: Can I use a name from a novel for my company?
I'm a fan of George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and among many things, I like his creativity with names. I was wondering if I can use a name from his series for my company. Perhaps I should ask this question directly from him, but he seems unapproachable.

So the question is, is it fine if I use a name from his books for my company without informing him in advance? Is there any legal problem with it? Is there any moral problem with it? If yes, how would you avoid them? Have you ever borrowed name of your company from a book?

Any hints/clues/ideas will be appreciated.
More than once I witnessed questions to the effect of "how far can we go before we break the law" be asked. The person who asked had full knowledge his/her plans were illegal. He/She just needed to know where to stop.
Maybe they just got bored with making fiberglass "fighter jets".
F2e-workflow: A f2e project workflow
Super cool concept! Wishing you folks luck with it.
Mark: Honey, I was cleaning out the couch and found 117,000,000 USD!

One a serious note: How do they not have a program that monitors all wallets they control? This seems beyond ridicule.
Would you rather have Google mine your emails to display ads without human involvement, or would you rather Microsoft personally read your emails? Don't get scroogled.
Why thank you :)
Excellent cover story. They really pulled out all the tops.
That's quite literally schizophrenic ("split-mind"). What do they imagine will be the disagreement rate between the two teams? What is the incentive for the second team, which is after all employed by Microsoft, the same company that employs the other, to disagree? This is envisioned as being for a scenario where Microsoft's interests are directly affected, after all.

Why the hell are users even subjected to whatever mock-trial Microsoft deigns to give them? The whole point is that there is no legal bar to them doing as they please, so why won't they just bypass the whole procedure when it suits them?

The only solution is a company that ties itself to the mast with verifiable technical measures.
You should ask permissions to his publishers. They will guide you.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

-Nietzsche
They may be called associations in some states. I don't think you can open a certain brand dealership in a state with going through them.

Ford was trying to let customers order cars online and they would deliver it within a couple weeks or less to a Ford hub. Some states pushed them out before they could try it.
> Closed source API's like DirectX won't ever be as fast as an open source API standard like OpenGL.

Why are you comparing implementations and standards on a metric that's only application to implementations?
Agreed with michael.

To the OP: life will provide you with plenty of experiences. You don't need to look for problems because they are masqueraded as inefficiencies and frustrations. When you notice yourself frustrated, ask: why am I frustrated? What is frustrating? How can things be improved? Coming up with ideas is a creative process.

Creativity is a muscle that can be trained. A simple exercise is to take, say, a pencil and name as many uses for it as possible. That's not useful in reality as it's not directly related to a problem. You could, alternatively, find a problem, such as an itchy back or uneven desk legs, and think of ways to use the pencil. Thinking of using the pencil is easy. What's very hard is you have to remember the pencil, keeping it in the subsurface of your mind as you encounter problems. Of course, this is a grossly simplified example, but this is how problem solving works: by observing situations, remembering the attributes/qualities of objects (or resources) and appropriately recalling them when they can be a possible solution to the problem you are facing. Most people brainstorm the first way. They look for what they want to do, and find ways to make it work. Like michael mentioned, it is nice if you are doing something for fun, but it is not good for generating viable business ideas. The best business ideas are organic, as in they come from a real problem. People are usually happy to pay to make a problem go away, provided the solution improves their lives in some tangible way.

I would argue that the second way of brainstorming - the indirect way - is more powerful because you are training yourself to add constraints by tracking existing resources and recognizing when they are useful in a seemingly random problem with no obvious connection to the object in question. Back to our example: when you have an itchy back, there is not necessarily a pencil in sight. You have to pull it into your mind's eye. You are essentially turning your mind into a database or file cabinet; a must-have skill if you want to be a top-notch tech support person or creative problem solver. This is the secret behind the hype about connecting-the-dots and ideation. It's very easy to talk about, but very, very hard to practice.
I am from Istanbul too and I agree on this. Only 3-4 of the larger cities look like they're more modern.
That's true, it would actually make them seem less cretinous if they said they had cracked a lost key.

I guess the fact that they have to have been so staggeringly incompetent to have 200,000 bitcoins they didn't even know about makes me feel like there must be some other explanation than the one they are offering.

Attempted theft is up there.
My biggest difficulty with the documentation is the lack of examples and a logical layout. That's why at our company (we do hosted ES), we decided to invest in a new documentation portal ala Stripe: http://www.silota.com/docs/api/

Hope you find that useful. Any feedback is appreciated!
As you don't seem to be a fan of Microsoft, something to perhaps keep in mind: Rumors this week of Microsoft trying to acquire Ximian.
In practice, however, what typically happens here is that you have your killer feature you want to sell, but will find other things you want to fix. You don't want to maintain all of your fixes yourself, so you try to modularize your enhancement off, and contribute everything else back.

Failure to do this means you end up with high maintenance costs if you want to pull in enhancements from future versions. So the fragmentation tendency is only partial. You have to either fully go your own way (usually suicide) or you have to give almost everything back (which opens up the possibility of competing with the community).

Sure people may choose unwisely. They will suffer the consequences and maybe learn lessons the hard way. ;-)
Did you seen the top 10 bollywood comedy movies 2000 to 2010
Django 1.7 is the first version to have schema migrations built in, thanks to this wonderful kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig...
How Not to make a cake Real life cake core
ANY portal fan will appreciate this. Even those who aren't are sure to get a laugh.
Without facts on the missing airliner, the media make stuff up
I am borderline speechless in the face of the incomprehensible carelessness. The lack of records is amazing. The lack of accounting is amazing. The lack of professional standards is amazing. The lack of common sense is amazing.

If you'll excuse me, I have to go to the bank. I just realized that I left a million dollars in the pockets of the jeans that I just washed. I suppose I should dry them out and deposit them, along with the $100,000 I just found fallen between then cushions of my couch.
great job guys, looking forward for it!
If SparkFun had decided to drop ship those same multimeters to their end-customers directly out of China (or wherever they are sourced from), via mail, would customs have seized each individual multimeter? I think not.
What makes a good interview question
... they refer to it as a search of "our own email".
I was wondering the same thing. It certainly looks that way, the comments/"mood"/timestamp display on the posts is a dead giveaway.
This look great.

One thing, as someone who represents organizations, I can't really tell what the benefits are for an organization from the homepage. Do you have more information for partners other than the 3 points on the homepage?
Larry Page’s Homepage
Fine, but let's not conflate government taking money from people with people voluntarily giving their money away (charity). They're two different things.
Also I don't think the BSD license makes it harder to commercialize software than the GPL does. You can't have a dual license model without the GPL, and that also requires copyright assignments. And once you do that, you are controlling not whether the software can be commercialized but merely who can commercialize it.
I agree. It's more about developing good habits, so pick a small activity and see it through to the end. Bake a loaf of bread. Take out the garbage. Heck, even deciding you're going to do ten pushups and then doing them can help get you back in a finishing mindset.
I think I should have won by now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2hokoh94hujyf2j/Screenshot%202014-...

I thought it played normally, and it does for a while, but it always eventually seems to randomly revert your high tiles (I verified that I had at least 1024 by checking the debugger).

[edit:] Ah, I found the code. It's possible to win but you have to survive the small chance that it will perform a random merge and destroy your tile:

// 0.005% percent chance that we will merge a cell anyway
if (next && Math.random() > 0.995) {
next.value = tile.value;
}
Your pain is the breaking of the barrier that encloses your abstractions
> For any given U.S. household, there is often only one or two choices for getting

> high-speed Internet* access and that’s unlikely to change.

> Furthermore, Internet access is often bundled with other services

> making it challenging to switch ISPs. It is this lack of

> consumer choice that leads to the need for strong net neutrality.

Spot on. The reason Comcast and others can play this game is because they're a monopoly at the local level. They've worked with the help of regulation to snuff out all serious competition. Pull back the regulation (at the local, state, and federal levels) and watch the competition spring up, and watch the Comcasts of the world change their practices when they actually have to compete.
> Using PHP to begin with was a bad technical decision. Failing to establish a reasonable migration strategy was a bad business decision likely rooted in bad engineering management that fell out of starting with bad technical decisions.

Facebook is a ten year old company with a market capitalization of $170 billion, so "bad" is probably not the most accurate word to describe their technical and business decisions.
Did they ever mis-sell their service as being Linux compatible? I don't see how you could start a lawsuit because Netflix don't provide a service they never claimed to...
Imagine how much money would have been spent if this had to go to court to achieve the same result: we'll let you go this time, but in future please pay more attention to product design/appearance.
So you run tests on SQLite and use Postgres in production? Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, if it hasn't already.
> SunOS/Solaris vs the free BSDs?

This actually seems like a counter-example: the commercial spinoffs have totally dominated in comparison to the free BSDs, which have never had particularly large market share. Through much of the 1980s and early 1990s the free BSDs had approximately zero users, whereas their commercial spinoffs had hundreds of thousands! The BSD licensing also allowed AT&T to reincorporate large chunks of the BSD code back into AT&T Unix (even Microsoft borrowed some of the sockets code for Windows). This situation was only disrupted in the 1990s by GNU and Linux, not by the free BSDs, which re-arrived only later. And even as Solaris declined, the free BSDs didn't manage to capitalize and gain its market share.

On the desktop, of course, a proprietary spinoff of the free BSDs completely obliterates the usage numbers of FreeBSD and PC-BSD: Mac OS X. It's not a pure spinoff; it also includes permissively licensed code from the CMU Mach project, among others. And it's at least semi-proprietary: Apple does release some code, but it's both incomplete and doesn't even build, so there is no free version of Darwin you can actually run.
which is called "trade dress" and is much more difficult for fluke to prevail on.
I'd think of the thought process a bit differently than lclarkmichalek, though of course with the same result.

To get close to 952, you can quickly think of 106x9. 106 is easy to obtain and you have a 3. You can get another 3 from 75/25. You're now at 954 with only a 50 left. If you could divide by 25, that would give you the 2 you're missing but you already used the 25, unless you were to divide later. So instead of doing 106x3x(75/25), you do (106x3x75-50)/25.

He could have certainly thought of it another way but based on how players typically play that game, that would be a somewhat logical progression.
"Oh there's that $116 million I was looking for!". I suppose that given the level of incompetence and/or malfeasance at Mt.Gox, this shouldn't be that suprising. What is actually more surprising is that they ever became the primary BTC exchange in the first place.

I first wrote them off as a scam years ago when I read a Bitcointalk thread wherein Gox tried to explain away their aggressive "tainted" coin confiscation policy. They essentially explained that they were confiscating all coins that they deemed to be tied to theft or illegal activity at any point in the blockchain - in their sole discretion. Yet somehow, with that and many more very public red flags, they just kept growing.
> Is freedom of economic value?

In general, I think it doesn't have any realizable economic value. Large numbers of users have neither enough control over capital, nor enough organization amongst themselves, nor enough knowledge about software, to wield effective market power. They may realize much later that something they wanted to do is now illegal, and retrospectively regret it or even lobby politicians to do something about it, but they probably won't realize up front that by going to walled gardens there are significant problems.

(This is speaking mainly of regular end-users, not users of specialized software that appeals to techies.)
It involves PHP so...
good for him. 90% of charities are shams using over half the funds on "administration costs". Elon Musk is actually changing the world
Show HN: HotSauce shows you the popularity each dish on the menu
They're so gleeful about it all. Wow.
The mid-ninties: It was innocent and simple, but you felt so technologically advanced to be able to publish something online. It wasn't about making millions. No one was judging your code. You used Java Applets to make dynamic menus and that was the pinnacle achievement. No one turned on Javascript. You only worried about Netscape and eventually IE, but you really didn't worry that much about either. You didn't think about domain squatting because you weren't sure how to get a domain and it really wasn't worth the cost, whatever it was. If you did, you got your name from Network Solutions or that startup, Register.com. CGI was for professionals. Perl was for scientists. You kinda checked email every couple weeks. You may have even shared an email address. You were ahead when you had a separate phone line for dial up. You were a big shot when you got DSL (from Phoenix). Your DSL was bought out every six months. It was Phoenix, then Earthlink, then... You got AOL CDs in the mail weekly. You remember gmail invites.

Edit: And this was your editor: http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php
During early elementary school I learned more in camp than I did at school.

I was also first exposed to C++ in a summer program around 1998.

With the right vendors this is more than a marketplace for camps, it could radically change education. Kids can pick up technical skills VERY early (that schools won't give them), and they'll have years to master them.
There are more possible moves, and so I think more "outs" for a long time in the beginning of the game. I think the game has a more gradual difficulty curve.

When the board is empty, you'll start and gain 1, 2, 4, 8, etc. pieces. You can often make pieces to combine with those easily, since you can move in any direction and the board is relatively empty.

Eventually, over time, larger pieces build up. 64, 128, 256, etc. You can't make such large numbers easily, and they'll start to be cluttered around and in between other numbers. When the board becomes congested, and when there are many different numbers in play, the challenge ramps up.
Okay... Your implied statement here is that it's OK for ISP's to charge CDN's/Netflix/anyone...

Is that a statement that you agree with?

Regardless of whether Netflix is portraying the situation with some bias(on their own blog who would have thought) this is in important issue that should get attention.
A very useful tip: instead of invoking sbt on the command line (i.e, 'sbt compile') every time, first open the sbt shell (just type 'sbt') and from there you run 'compile', or better yet '~compile'. This way you will always have a warm jvm. Makes a lot of difference.
I've found NetBeans to feel less resource hungry than Eclipse, or IntelliJ IDEA, on my linux box. It also feels more intelligent than Eclipse when offering suggestions or code completion. I've, overall, been extremely pleased with it. I also prefer it aesthetically over Eclipse, for what that's worth.

The transition from Eclipse is really smooth, and there are many helpful FAQ's on the subject if you need it. I've been recommending it to friends since I made the switch a few months back.
> Is it?

Community is what is important, I would agree.

> Every time I buy a new one, I have to either look for one with an open source firmware already installed, or be very careful to make sure one I get is supposed so I can reflash it (if its even possible on some models) to reclaim my freedoms.

Now, why do you do this? What motivates you? Is it ideology? Or do you have a practical reason for wanting that power over the appliance?

Now, if you have a practical reason, then you have proven what I have been arguing, namely that freedom is of economic value. I.e. freedom is important not because of some abstract value but rather what you can produce with it.

If we accept that, then in the long run, software with more freedom will outcompete software with less freedom.
Sadly, I would have to pay $1 a week for 12 weeks to read the story. I think it would probably be old news by then.
Had no idea that dogs' visual acuity was so poor. My dog seems to be able to spot squirrels at 100 yards...
Don’t mix A Players with B Players
You clearly did not understand what I said. I wrote that I used chrome, which I assume has a pin for google sites because even when you allow HTTP in your Gmail account, you would be taken to the HTTPS site.

Then, when going to firefox, It would take me to gmail over http. This is because my account was set to http (by default) and chrome doesn't allow connections to gmail over anything but https.

I accessed gmail one time over http in firefox (when I was connected to burp) before I realized there was a problem. My account had been set to "Allow Connection of HTTP" for years, but chrome will only connect with https.

Despite what they say was default, a few of my friends and I experienced a bug where ours was set to "Allow HTTPS" but we didn't realize it since we were using chrome.
This seems like complete BS to me. I wonder how it's going to show up in the blockchain. I suspect Kerpeles has somehow shuffled a few 10,000 BTCs to a private account, considering the lack of records.

I lost over $5000 USD (in fiat) on Mt. Gox and I want my money. Seeing stories like this just raise more questions that I wish didn't have to be asked.
How about an MVC type framework, like Laravel for Hack?
I realized that 2048 has quickly become the first code-meme of HN.
What pattern would most likely represent the Winklevoss pattern? Assuming there was trading prior to raising public awareness?
PhpStorm adds support for WordPress development
Maybe smell?
Perhaps smell is in there too, and perceiving movement better?
Their official announcement is even more ridiculous.
https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140320-btc-announce.pdf

The have more coins and there is evidence for that in the blockchain. Many people know about that for weeks. After they figured people were on to them they released this lie.

Nobody just forgets about 200,000 btc.
my faith in someone else handling my wallet has diminished considerably.
Based on books I've read that were written in the 10's, 20's or 30's, I think charisma is closer.
> In general, I think it doesn't have any realizable economic value.

Then this is where our disagreement is.

> Large numbers of users have neither enough control over capital, nor enough organization amongst themselves, to wield effective market power.

Why is organization required? If you were building a new piece of software, would you prefer to start with open components or closed ones? If you had a business and needed a tool, would you prefer one that could be customized to support your unusual business processes or one where you must structure your business around the software?

In some areas, maybe freedom is not that important (consumer entertainment, for example), but I think you greatly underestimate the value that freedom brings to any productive endeavor.
FWIW, no paywall: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Even more interesting is his old resume :

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html

Or rather what is hidden in a comment in the HTML - (view source to see it):

<!--<H4>Objective:</H4>
A large office, good pay, and very little work.
Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.-->

He certainly accomplished much of that..plus a whole lot more..:)
Check the bitcoin reddit. Everybody knows about that 200k btc for weeks. There is evidence they have about 300k more.
How is SunOS vs Solaris doing now?

Yes, they outran them for a while, but the only way Solaris is even surviving at all is because Sun returned it to an open license. How many users are on FreeBSD vs OpenIndiana?
This is a beautiful troll. If only sipr and jwics comms was so hilarious, and on the same network.
Or even a text file with the all their public keys listed, so they could verify where their money was without giving access to move it.

I take better care of my dogecoins, and they are only worth a few hundred at best.
Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire.. oooh the memories
Microsoft Tracks Down Rogue Employee By Snooping Blogger's Hotmail
That's probably not a bad thing. What gave you faith to begin with?