skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
to summarize: regulatory capture is an existential threat to the American economy, and any regulation that restricts a silicon valley firm is prima facie regulatory capture.

I, too, am alarmed by the changes in campaign funding we have seen in the last 20 years. The author applies his alarm narrowly to problems in his private equity portfolio. I do not share his alarm on that particular topic.

By and large, I prefer to live in a world with taxi and hotel regulation, even if it impairs the ability of some bay area millionaires to add to their fortunes. Not all regulation is a sign of regulatory capture. Not all lobbying is intrinsically bad. Not every improvement in efficiency improves outcomes for society.
Karpeles said last winter that they were going to make their keys more secure by breaking them into pieces using a Shamir's secret sharing algorithm. This would allow a key to be more secure because it would take several pieces, but not all of them, to reconstitute the private key.

My assumption is that they either made a mistake with the algorithm, or they lost enough chunks of the keys that they can't reconstitute the private key. This could have been as simple as a banks safety-deposit box being inaccessible because it's seized or losing the pieces.

If they were stored digitally, it could be as simple as a media problem (Organic dyes in CDR's degrade. USB drives aren't infallible, etc).

The reason they got this wallet open is because they probably recovered the private key in some ancient backup they forgot they had from before they split the keys into pieces and deleted what they thought were the only copies of the unsecured keys.

This is just my completely unsubstantiated theory, but it seems to match the current facts.
Sell me this pen.
Charlie of SA used to write for The Inquirier. He has some damn good sources. I cannot recall a time when he was ever wrong, and he's broken some big stories (things like the Nvidia 8800/9800 GPU failures).

Out of all such rumor sites (Fudzilla and BSN being two other large ones), SA is the only one worth taking seriously.
Whenever it gets radically easier to do higher-level things, it usually takes a while for people to understand the possibilities.

We haven't released our cloud platform yet, but if there are particular domains you are interested in, you can poke around http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ to see what we have there. The examples to do with machine learning seems to be popular on http://www.wolfram.com/language/gallery/.
That's a very valid point. Hadn't considered that.
I point my domain name to Amazon Cloudfront with my website as the origin server. Cloudfront respects your page cache, so most requests are served by Cloudfront (cheap and fast) and most users never even touch my original servers.
of course, when there are two or three items left, choosing between left and right is the same as choosing an arbitrary index. that's nomenclature. whether you follow the rote textbook definition and do that indexing up front or delay it until you've paired down your possibly-large list into a manageable (whatever that might mean for the problem domain you're dealing with) size, it's still pretty much the same algorithm.

and since you're imagining rather than being certain, that means people continue to downvote without comment, and i continue to cheerily object to that.
Ah okay, you're right. And yes, if you knew anything about the key you could drastically reduce the key space to search.
He was good at it. He was no genius. Tesla turned out to be the better showman. Edison's envy of Tesla's flair for the dramatic led him directly to his ghastly practice of electrifying stray animals to portray AC as unsafe. Whereas Tesla almost managed to get a gigantic pie-in-the-sky wireless power transmission experiment funded using little more than his famous mad-scientist mystique. Edison couldn't hope to inspire that kind of patronage and had to rely on more prosaic methods.

What Edison did possess was a remarkable capacity for what he called "hard work". Making the light bulb practical was something anybody could have done, if they'd had the willingness to burn through months of time and money performing dull experiments over and over and over again.

There was still a lot of low-hanging technological fruit in Edison's day, but 'low-hanging' didn't mean 'easy'. He made a business out of working harder than anyone else did to make contraptions practical.

People pooh-pooh him as unoriginal, dull, but that's the sort of man his work needed. He was also smarter than people gave him credit for, though he didn't match the sheer brilliance of Tesla. His industrial research facility at Menlo Park was the first of its kind, he set a lot of standards in the field and had a lot of influence. It's considered by many to be his most important innovation.
You'd only get real data if you have the team go back and review the previous cases to see if the approval rate would change.
At least get to 1.5 before you have significant data. Get proper time zone support now while it's still painless, particularly if you have an app that relies on sensible time representation.

Also, remember that when 1.7 is released, 1.4 will no longer received security updates, only 1.5 and 1.6 will.
C:\> TWENTY48
Loading...
Ready.

You are in a darkened room. On the floor in front of
you are sixteen tiles, arranged in a grid. The tiles
are labelled A1, A2, A3, A4, B1 and so on up to D4.

There is a two here, on tile A1.
There is a two here, on tile D3.

> GET ALL
The numbers appear too strongly glued to the tiles.

> INVENTORY
You have a copy of On Lisp by Paul Graham, a thing your
Aunt gave you that you don't know what it is, and a
small leaflet.

> READ ON LISP
Time passes. You have a profound enlightenment experience.
Sadly, this does not help you win the game.

> READ LEAFLET
"WELCOME TO TWENTYFORTYEIGHT!

TWENTYFORTYEIGHT is a game of numbers, addition and high
bits. In it you will explore some of the most tedious
territory ever seen by Hacker News readers. No computer
will be without one!"

> GO LEFT
Some numbers move, and a new number appears!

There is a two here, on tile A1.
There is a two here, on tile C1.
There is a two here, on tile D1. [Footnote 6]

> FOOTNOTE 6
There are no footnotes.

> GO UP
Some numbers move, some change, and some new numbers
appear!

There is a four here, on tile A1.
There is a two here, on tile B1.
There is a two here, on tile D4.

>GO DOWN
Some numbers move, and a new number appears!

There is a four here, on tile C1.
There is a two here, on tile C4.
There is a two here, on tile D4.
There is a two here, on tile D1.

>PANIC
Not surprised.

>QUIT
Amazed you survived this long.

Your score is 4, out of a possible umpty squillion and six.
Good bye!

C:\>
C:\>
C:\> DEL TWENTY48.EXE
C:\>
I mean, literally, that Netflix traffic is valuable to Comcast's customers (it's their movies) and not valuable to Comcast (it competes with their other offerings).
Markov Networks, Monoids, and Futurama (2013)
Very happy to see another successful venture from Houston.

Great work folks! :)
I am not trying to belittle efforts necessary for the state of the art VM or programming language implementation. I get paid to do these stuffs, and I am on my third VM/PL project now. It is also true these things take time and not very parallelizable, so while man-month may not be that big, you can't make it faster by throwing more people.

On the other hand, I maintain it still is no big deal compared to rewriting Facebook. I also maintain while skillset is rare, Facebook apparently had no trouble so far and will have no trouble in the future finding (I remind you, small number of) people to work on VM. I also remind you Facebook has been working on alternative PHP implementation for 6 years now, 2 years in private(2008~2010) and 4 years in public(2010~2014). It has been profitable for them for 6 years, will be profitable in the future, and profitability does not need "sharing maintenance load with the wider industry". They can maintain it fine thank you very much. Because, in the end, VM is no big deal.
I don't know, a bunker under a mountain doesn't get clawed open with bare hands.

That said, sure a vacation home on Mars would be great. Just that it's not very viable ... the preparation would have to be immense. It would, however, prolong the species a while later than living on Earth, as the Sun turns into a red giant. Perhaps in a few centuries.
And don't forget those "Best viewed in" IE and Netscape gifs...
" that one thinks are largely beneath one's self."

Mind elaborating on that?
It occurs to me that judges, members of congress, law enforcement officials, etc. could be considered "sys admins" in a sense.
I'm using it for c development for the GT OMSCS Advanced Operating Systems course, and it was a life saver. I tried Eclipse, Sublime Text and plain old VIM. NetBeans got to stay. Why? it doesn't crash, it's lightweight, it works very well with GDB, good warnings / errors highlighting etc. I'm still checking the new 8 features, but I was missing things like introduce local variable or extract variable. can't wait till intellij release a decent C/C++ IDEA...
Improve our ability to build useless, wasteful towers? No, thanks.

I'm pretty sure we can improve our engineering abilities in much more constructive, useful ways.
This statement is completely nonsensical. If the person had full knowledge that the plans were illegal, why would he/she ask how far they can go before breaking the law? He/she clearly didn't know where the boundaries were.
Thanks! H-Town represent!! (wait that sounded really silly...probably less silly than if I really said that out loud)
or meterman.

http://www.wavetekmeterman.com/mmusen/home/default.htm
Every Gmail Message You Send Will Now Be Protected by Encryption
A few weeks old but saw this earlier today via Brad DeLong:

Who’d have thought that there might be an incentive for operators in a totally unregulated market to take people’s assets and run? Or that self-regulation would be so lacking in a market that purposefully concocts information asymmetries that benefit money creators/the tech-savvy…. or that the Bitcoin system was only recreating and replicating all the bad incentives we know and love in our current system, which are now being curbed by intensified post-crisis regulation?

Irony of irony, Bitcoin Magazine concludes that since it is unfortunately the case that many bitcoin businesses must use escrow accounts to hold people’s bitcoin, the only solution to the problem is moving towards a quint-party agreement to manage unauthorised liability creation in the system...

But you mustn’t confuse this with some sort of recommendation to forge a Federal Bitcoin Reserve system. It’s a “Five Parties Model” system. Entirely different...

All in all, it would be NOTHING like the Federal Reserve System we have already arrived at thanks to decades of collective trial and error, and acquired wisdom from the countless bank collapses and system crises that have come before us.

Except, of course it would be exactly like the Fed. And where it wasn’t yet exactly like the Fed, it would soon be, because exactly the same human processes, incentives and behaviours would govern its evolution and development.

Proving the point yet again that there is nothing new under the sun, and that bitcoin is more of a replication of the old unregulated past, under a new technological order, which society collectively refined and regulated until it created the system-stabilising framework we know today, than a golden era of finance no-one had yet been smart enough to discover beforehand.

ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/03/03/1787992/magic-the-undercapitalised-gathering-online/
The existence of other legal authorities does not imply that tech firms are voluntarily working with NSA to help NSA harvest their data transiting the Internet.

It doesn't even make sense anyways; what does Facebook have to do with surreptitiously tapping into a router in Belgrade or Quito?
Google’s Dominance of the Mobile Ad Market Is Slipping
Hm, the comment is wrong, it's 0.5% chance.
You should put the score beside the board so we don't have to scroll up to see it every time. Also a chat feature would be cool. Other than that, very fun version.
ScreenFly
KeystoneJS – an open source Node.js cms / web app platform built on express
And this is different from spies seducing and/or blackmailing clerks how?

It may be distasteful to you but it is the traditional work of spies in service to their country.
I'd go with a popular framework at first. They all give you a built-in development server that will run your web app directly from a terminal.

Do you have any experience in anything other than C++? If so, try one of those languages first. In general, in my experience, familiarity is a great way to break the barrier into a new area.

If you don't have experience in the other languages (Ruby, Python, Go, etc) — pick a few common frameworks and built simple-stupid apps in them. Build a TODO app in Rails and Django. They are so quick to build you can follow tutorials and explore which one you seem to like most.
> I've known several web developer "enthusiasts" over the years who know just enough PHP (usually it's PHP, but this applies to other technologies as well) to build things that mostly work and feel confident that they can solve anything with "a little PHP."

Not trying to start another language debate, but this point I think epitomizes the sort of hate PHP gets from a lot of developers. Regardless of any pros of the language/tool and how much better it might have gotten over the years PHP as a language and ecosystem seems to encourage this mentality. Another, more recent example, seems be NodeJS. You can write beautiful, rigorous, well tested and thought out code in PHP or Javascript, but that hardly seems to be what most people are doing or even what those communities, in general, encourage.
How To Hunt a Submarine
Pebble timezone watchface support iPad now
Vacation must be paid back to you (the employee) if you leave the company. PTO is not.
fixed it: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apply+dog+vision+to+pho...
Every time I play around with Wolfram Alpha, I get frustrated trying to figure out how I get past the natural language input interpretation and write code like you specify here. Is this a restricted feature for pro subscribers? Why do they bother letting me see the "input interpretation" (and provide it as copyable plaintext) if they're not going to let me actually use it?
We are hiring. There are 3 links at the bottom of the page. Also we're not a startup.
KeystoneKS makes my life a lot easier!
the 401k Match is real. The federal max isn't per salary, it's just fixed. 17.5k. If you contribute 17.5k they will contribute 8.75k.
I am genuinely curious how often seduction is used to compromise admins.

Clearly I work on the wrong systems. :(
My point is that the terms in the sale of a loaf of bread are implicit, just like those in the social contract. The idea that it isn't a free market until you sign a document is demonstrably false.
I prefer to live in a world with taxi and hotel regulation

Please enjoy them, then. The rest of us whose judgment is sufficient to choose our own taxis would appreciate if you kept the cops out of our private choices.
Monoliths and microserives... what's happening in dev world?
Looking at the case of Uber I think it's not so much corruption as vested interests that are fighting against it. NY taxi medallions for example are worth about $13bn or $1m each and the guys who have spent $1m are going to lobby against Uber, corrupt politicians or not.
Step 1. take a bunch of stories in the news about tech firms.

Step 2. rehash them together without a discussion of the individual issues at stake in each case, which can be quite different and complex.

Step 3. slap on a catchy title.

voila, your HBR article is ready!
> The "Social Contract" you are talking about is no contract at all. It is imposed by force, you are given no chance to sign, a false choice (red or blue!) and only 1/385millionth of a say in it.

For the vast majority of people, contracts provided by the market are an even worse false choice: Maslow's Hierarchy imposes needs on every individual, fixing the supply of labor at a lower bound which is empirically observed to lie far above the demand for it, thereby commoditizing the unskilled worker and coupling his salary to the minimum dictated by his Maslow needs rather than to the value he creates. The difference goes to his employer, and a non-governmental tax is exacted upon each of his purchases that is distributed to local capital-holders according to their wealth, exacerbating the imbalance in an exponential feedback loop. There is no remedy when his employer resorts to wage theft (frequently), because the justice system requires time and capital that he does not have to achieve the simplest forms of redress. There are conditions for dissolution, but he fears them, because written between the lines are an economic certainty that will dash him repeatedly against the rocky shores of unemployment and homelessness.

This is a laughable notion of consent. When did he agree to have Maslow's needs imposed upon him? When did he agree to abide by the rules of a game that systematically disadvantages him? When did he agree to initial conditions that give him far less than 1/400millionth of a share in economic power? This is the very opposite of what someone with a choice would have chosen.

The only things this hypothetical worker has going for him came from the government: minimum wage laws (and yes, I believe these are a good thing, since wages in commoditized labor markets tend towards the lower end rather than the higher end of the economically feasible range), worker safety standards, subsidized food and health care, education for his children, and so on. None of this is speculation: we can look to history to see what happened when government did not "intrude" on these areas of life.
>This is why there is regulation of the finance sector

This is why there are bailouts of the finance sector. A bank loses this kind of money, they get it back for free.
Luckily the Way Back Machine has a version where the images still exist.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061030081028/http://infolab.sta...

There's a grainy photo of his Stanford student ID as well.
Brilliant! Even better because Numberwang is our internal term for "any random number in some code that isn't declared as a constant". Love it.
Movie CGI is already photorealistic. Minecraft is not. You can add an arbitrary (and exponentially growing) computational cost to your game by making the world more dynamic. The games we look at today as paragons of cg advancent are really just static meshes with a few small entities running around. Any step away from pre-baked, pre-compiled and pre-made content will easily consume as many years of tech advancement as you let it. (For evidence, look at how long a modern level editor takes to bake in something as relatively simple as lighting.)
Also, you'd better hope that the accessible methods of accumulating wealth haven't already been commoditized (which amounts to hoping that you are special in a world with plenty of people).
Good that also the problem of Intellectual Property has been touched in the article!

This is an important one. Because they always claim, that make the IP rights stronger does strengthen the innovators. The opposite is true!

You see it also in the patent system. When old (and stupid) patents hinder innovation (what happens all day today), than the patent system becomes the biggest hindrance to innovation.

The point is good: When it is better to "own" old IP than to make new one, the system is strangling innovation, nothing else.

This system is for the "owners" not for the "creators"!
There's a big difference between making an app that loops an MP3 (no offense - certainly well done and well marketed) and one that handles millions of financial transactions. Don't feel bad - if something goes wrong with yours, nobody loses their life savings.
FYI I also tried changing the mix so that 10% of the ops were del/put and 90% of the ops were gets. Unfortunately the ops per second went down to between 0.1 and 0.2 million :-(
MtGox: We lost all the coins! We have no idea were they are...

Random person: Have you tried looking in your wallet?

MtGox: Found it!
It sounds like you want to use the Wolfram Language rather than Wolfram Alpha.
Your solution to this seems to be (morally) compulsory licensing instead of notifying customs authorities about the fact of an infringement. Exactly why should a firm grant a license to its direct competitor to make inferior-quality goods in the first firm's trade dress?

I could just as easily argue that the fault for the waste here lies with the Chinese exporter who refuses to take back the unwanted product which infringes on someone else's trade dress. I don't buy the argument about import taxes making it too expensive, this is what entrepots are for.
It's a bit surprising that there aren't that many good CMSs for node given how itd adoption is going. KeystoneJS is really cool.

Pros: really easy to get started (yeoman generator), bootstrap, jquery etc included in the box, auto-generated admin UI. Does a lot of the boring stuff for your at the start.

Cons: the content management could be better. Apparently it's this side of things is under active development, but for now its more geared to managing list of things, rather than static page content.

Worth a look in any case.
really looking forward to this. Meng is a great teacher as well as designer and coder.
Thanks for helping me sleep a bit better at night :)

> finding the installations for launching these missiles is not difficult. If said installations want to have a snowball's chance in hell of finding a target to hit they will need to light it up, even if only briefly

Really? I'd have guessed that a carrier group puts out enough radio to locate using a walkie-talkie with a retuned crystal, let alone a purpose-built passive array of any sensitivity.

Of course, there's the NRO to contend with. Iran probably can't move a porta-potty without the NRO knowing, so it doesn't matter how well they hide their installations if they look suspicious putting them in place. But satellites have to put out signals too, and I know for a fact that certain publicly available astronomy-related datasets aren't censored well enough to stop interested parties from finding a large number of things they aren't allowed to know the locations of.

How hard is it to dazzle satellites if you know the location?
Font rendering is still horrible on Linux compared to Sublime.
Dave, dave... let's talk about this dave
why a developer in Brazil ask for 20k saying that the money will only cover 4 months of development? For me that's a lot of money for only 4 months!! Take a look here: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...
JavaScript Code Coverage Detector
What stops people from getting things done?

People.
I can personally count the FreeBSD contributors in the LedgerSMB community. I don't know that firm counts are really possible but I would say FreeBSD ports were one of the first packages formally added (even before Debian).

It's hard to say for sure. However, from what I have seenof the FreeBSD community, they seem quite active and vibrant.
He is really one of those James Bond villains.

The sentence describes his state of mind: He is the best thing for the country, so any resistance, corruption news, and protest cannot come from people of this country. It must be a conspiracy of the west. So, by blocking twitter, he is blocking west's conspiracy. He started believing his own propaganda.

The truth is people who vote for him is mostly poorer Turks, and those people don't care about twitter.
I believe what I want is the ability to use Wolfram Alpha by writing my queries in the Wolfram Language. How does one do that?
The classic paper on operations research from WWII republished in James R. Newman's World of Mathematics. Useful as a model of finding down aeroplanes as well. I remember reading it in the 1950's and finding it amazing.