skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I can't back it up offhand (nor do I care to go to the trouble). I'm more pointing out that I wish the case would have been of that nature (because it was definitely discussed to some degree, threatening, releasing to gawker, etc) and not on the trumped up "hacking" charges.
Another explanation is that such carelessness was a form of willful blindness. If Gox had cratered (relatively) silently then perhaps the coins would not have been 'found' until much of the fracas passed. But because legal process has been invoked (bankruptcy, IL class action) the penalties for not doing a clean-up now go beyond negligence and could result in contempt or a loss of liberty. So there's additional incentive to look harder at this stage.
How is it that IBM would gain business? They are still an American company which makes them equally susceptible to this form of data theft. I can't see handing my data over to IBM any more than I would Facebook or Amazon. Surely the article could have picked a better example.
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Meng gets it, looking forward to this.
My Google Account doesn't seem to want to connect, but we just did a potentially similar thing here: http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048

Great minds, etc!
Neuromorphic computers do not look like a brain. They just borrow some of it's so called 'features'.

I am not saying that we should copy the brain. But at least we could copy the design, just like we did for aeroplanes. Neuromorphic sensors could act like our cerebellum, which act during unforeseen incidents. They are typically error tolerating.
Why the upgrade cycle means the ‘Apple tax’ is lower than it seems
Any problem with the Countdown Numbers Game as a name? Any variations on it could simply be called Modified Countdown Numbers Game.
You're seriously bothered about the robustness of a 2 hour old project?
Almost all nations have standing armies. But, in isolation, that statement is very deceptive. Only dozens of nations could successfully invade a neighbor. Less than a handful of nations could mount sustained wars across an ocean.

Since surveillance budgets probably track military spending, there are probably many places where surveillance is as ineffective as their military.

But your bottom line is correct: "If you hold the keys the governments can't get to your data by going through your service provider."

Not only are those wise words for users, enabling that way of working, and making security an easy verifiable default is going to be the only way to heal this problem for US tech companies. And they have been slow to get started.
Looks cool!

Installation instructions would be a nice plus
I never really thought about it that way, but after working in the game industry for ten years, I think you are absolutely correct.

Designing things to be "fun" is hard to do analytically. I'm a programmer, and I've observed programmers ruining game design by taking a designer's work and subjecting it to too much analysis. And the designers often can't defend their choices either.

Great comment!
They'll just rewrite their moral programming at some point if it suits them. This is folly.

It's what humans do to themselves, after all.
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wow such amaze
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It's the asteroid the Little Prince lives on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
I certainly stand corrected, I made the assumption that OpenGL was open source (which was incorrect)

The assertion I was intending to make was that widely used open source applications tend to be analyzed and improved by a larger community and thus are more likely to be more steamlined/efficient ("faster" was also not a correct term here to describe efficient pipelines)

Although as someone stated further down, OpenGL is not actually open source, it's an open standard. So my original point is null and void as is.

I believe my hate for Microsoft had blinded me, forgive me.
Congrats, font rendering looks Awesome on Chrome (win7), miles ahead of Google Fonts (which honestly, sucks on Chrome, and made me lose an entire day searching for why webfont rendering looks so so bad on Chrome).
Again, thanks a lot!
Finally, some good news!
Newspapers like the Globe and the New York Times recognize that they play an important role in keeping an archive of daily life. As such, many articles are specifically written to contain context that future readers can use to understand an issue as it relates to the overall culture at the time.
The professor is a little over twice as old as listed, as well.
Prediction: Sometime in 2018 we will have a thread: "Ask HN: Is it finally time to use CSS grids?"
As the importer and contractor of the manufacturing, Sparkfun is the responsible party. First, the manufacturer just uses whatever colors/marking/customization that Sparkfun requests (note the Sparkfun logo on the meter). Second, trademarks are de facto irrelevant in China.

I personally don't think this meter directly competes with Fluke - Sparkfun has lots of great things, but test equipment is not among them. But we can agree to disagree about this, and my point stands irrespective of it - Companies, despite being legally compelled to churn on anything remotely related to their trademark, can choose to protect their marks from erosion in amicable ways. Thus, companies can and should be judged for the actions they do take.

The reason I called the original statement an 'aphorism' is because it's indeed true in a sense, but its simplicity hides the entirety of the situation. It's part of a larger trend of people abdicating individual reason and responsibility, and passing the decision making to a nebulous non-entity ("everyone else is doing it.."). If a professional job is performed this way, then the value-add of a person is merely a human face, and they should be replaced with a short shell script. Then the actual professional human up the chain can better exercise their own judgment.
Huh, maybe it's a side-effect of some mod I'm running. Didn't expect that.
You forgot to mention the part where Apple was first to implement features that later become known as HTML5. Also, the story of Web SQL and IndexedDB is not so simple.
I'm only three-quarters-joking when I say that there could be a blockchain consensus solution for this (Ethereum, BitShares, etc).
IBM could make their products verifiably secure. Open source client software. Web of trust. Making encryption the default. Any non-US competitor would have to do at least as much because NSA surveillance recognizes no borders. Against tier-1 state actors, everyone is on a level playing field. The question is, which nation's tech industry will be the first to decide that the only way to win is to not play the game?
In the books the robots adhered to the laws strictly. The problem was that humans were able to circumvent the laws rather easily. For example; lie to the robot or divide the murder trough many robots each unaware of each other.
In absence of humans the robots were perfect for deciding moral subjects( as long they have enough information ), the opposite what tomp is suggesting.
Could you point out what is oppressive about Chrome? I don't see any G+ in here.
(a-priori: for some reason I can't reply directly to you)

It's not quite a "no true Scotsman" since great ideas do happen and happen fairly often, in the grand scheme of things (there are over 100 Nobel prize nominees every year). The oft-repeated argument about ideas versus execution is that ideas are a dime a dozen, which is true, but most of them are not really all that great or original. The same can be said for any resource.
I confessed my idiocy earlier above, although I do believe OpenGL provides a more efficient pipeline to the hardware itself.
I read/markered "On Intelligence" on my train commute to work and have scribbled a bunch of notes in the book. Pretty interesting and I like the basic idea of the memory-prediction framework, invariant representations, "melodies of patterns", focus on neocortex and the whole same general algorithm for all senses.

I haven't had the time to research how far the general idea has gone or if it is relevant at all but the scetched examples were pretty interesting.

I also found the random remark of "consciousness = what it feels like to have a neocortex" interesting.

Glad to see that some smart money is bet in this general direction.
True, but it doesn't seem to me as if Google tries to push web apps as an "as-good-as-or-better-than-native-Android-apps" approach to make apps.
Prediction: The response will be "not until Firefox supports it".
What are you finding unreliable in terms of tooling for Puppet on Windows?
A - Most of those attempts have had mixed results to put it mildly.

B - Scale in economics is a big deal. Obviously you can transfer wealth from one person to another pretty effectively but what happens to an economy, government, society, etc when it's the main income source is a different kettle of fish.

I didn't say impossible. But it's a technology we need to make a big leap on. Money itself is a technology. Maybe we need money itself to be disrupted to overcome some apparent limitations.
We're at the middle of the process, not the beginning: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...

"Information has been running on a primate platform, evolving according to its own agenda. In a sense, we have a symbiotic relationship to a non-material being which we call language. We think it's ours, and we think we control it. It's time-sharing a primate nervous system, and evolving towards its own conclusions."

- Terrence McKenna
Heh, checked iOS, Android, even Windows Phone... but not Firefox - doh! Should be fixed
It doesn't sound like you can afford an employee, even if the cost of payroll taxes and such were zero. You can barely cover a consult with a lawyer and accountant to understand the labor laws and get payroll set up. $200-300/month just doesn't justify that kind of paid help. If you wanted to invest some of your money to have him do something for you, it'd more realistically be as an independent contractor, not as an employee.

If you feel bad about having him do work on your side business un-compensated, and can't afford to compensate him what you feel he's worth, the only right thing to do may be to not have him work on your side business. Perhaps you can repay his volunteer efforts so far by helping him start his own business or project of some sort.

Careful with the volunteering thing either way. If someone's treated as an employee, and doing the work an employee would do, they are owed minimum wage, no matter what you each call the relationship. The IRS and state want their income and payroll taxes.
The web is text, alas that is too often forgotten now.
You're simulating a swipe.
I know that sounds like an obvious question and the answer to that is obviously yes, but the business is not making enough to provide what I believe his work is worth right now (and to pay him above and beyond what's coming in would have to come out of my own pocket from my day job salary).

Also keep in mind that where we live programmers don't make nearly the same amount as they would in the Bay and technology-type jobs are pretty scarce. The only major local web development firm would probably hire him as an intern, with a bit more training, and start him off in the $11-$15/hr range (if they are even still looking for an intern). I know he could do well in a different city, but he's told me he'd like to stay local, which unfortunately affects his opportunities to get a position doing development work.

I fully agree with you though, I do want to pay him what he's worth because I know he has a lot of potential (and I've seen it more or less going to waste the past 3 years after he graduated, which is why I asked him to start volunteering with me so he could gain experience and I could also think of ways I could help him out). The only negative there is that I don't have enough money to truly do that (but by him starting off and helping me do more work in the business I'm pretty sure we can make the income go up, which would allow the business to pay him more as we grew).

I hope that helps to clarify things a bit.
What would be the advantage of such tactic?
My favourite version so far. Most people are sick of all the 2048 clones but I for one enjoy seeing the creativity.
I have to agree. I'm very pessimistic about this whole situation, and this is one of the few forces I can see that could have some positive impact.
President of Turkish Republic can't actually deny new laws/legislations though. He can only send it back to the Parliament for them to review again but he has to sign it if it comes back, even if it comes back the same.

He actually said that this is the reason why he signed that law.

But believing him is up to you.
>>>I guess hackers should shoot a computer with a gun after hacking and use affluenza in their defense to get away.

While I realize this is sarcastic, there's a huge reason I stopped hacking into systems. I know its a felony, I know the government has a hard-on for making examples out of people they catch breaking into systems or doing anything they deem mildly illegal. To me, it's not worth it to test the government and try to show them the error of their ways. He was playing with fire and he knew it.

On the bright side, he's still getting what he wants. He's getting plenty of people coming to his defense. His security company is getting a lot of exposure, and people are clamoring for a review of the law his was prosecuted under. His cost is going to be spending three years in jail and having to put that he's been convicted of a felony on every job application until he retires.

If you asked him if it was worth it now, what do you think he would say?
The score is still a number. It would be interesting if the score, too, were a color.
timeline: like! i wish more news sites presents history in a straightforward manner
colors: not so much; not meaning & some combi are hard to read; favicon/logo/color-scheme-based-on-logo will be more useful
http: if the form method is "GET", then I can easily share or bookmark for updates later
text: some body text will be nice
At 1:35 he says "you can do all sorts of things you can't do with tables". I think I'll continue learning jQuery Mobile and run on a wide variety of devices and PC's.

http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.3.0-beta.1/docs/content/cont...
Everyone's goal in life should be to be remembered as a good person who made a difference like Mr. McGovern.
That might unfortunately be true. However, even that is a misconception on the part of companies thinking it is "easier, faster, cheaper" to create web-based apps. Building something with web technologies that's on par with native is hard and difficult work. It's a myth that it's so much easier and faster to build an app with web technologies. It could very well take longer and still have a worse user experience. Building a simple native app is, well, simple. It might be way more complicated to build it with web technologies (if you try to mimic native).
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Mostly works for me in firefox, the far right column of the grid does not show, but all of the functionality works. It is a little annoying that you have to click and drag instead of using the arrows, but I guess that's because it is made for touchscreens.
Public Choice Theory
Ok, show me Android apps which are as performant as native.
This nonsense about Apple fearing web apps should stop already.
* The Actual Law: A robot must deliver the highest possible profit to its seller.
I have been plagued by semalt for the past 2 months.
This is working so far:

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer crawler.semalt.com spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer semalt.com spammer=yes

Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=spammer
I don't dislike the web. I dislike it when web technologies are used to mimic native apps because that creates expectations that can't be fulfilled.
Some of them will be impossible because digital images are already limited to human visible ranges, so you don't have infrared or ultraviolet values. But there could be filters for transformations within our ranges.
I agree that for most uses of GIF nowadays, a video codec would be superior, but better in every way? What about decoder overhead? For certain sizes of GIF, the combination of GIF + GIF "codec" (a trivial XOR) will consume less memory than, say, h264 + h264 codec - in some cases far less. A modern video codec is not at all trivial, and also is optimised for filesize, not CPU load.
Hey, no problem at all! Just surprised to see how similar we were in our styles. Happy that there are more resources popping up now!
Funny, me too, given how I was just researching server side locking and sqlite yesterday.
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Is there any non-video documentation? I find videos painfully slow compared to scrolling through some quick actual code examples side-by-side with results.
I don't know if this is built on the FullContact API, but you could very easily build the exact same thing with the FullContact API. In fact the company I work at did exactly that. Took us less than a week.

Smart arbitrage play perhaps but not very defensible, especially if your customers are the kinds of companies most likely to know about FullContact, which gives you up to 25,000 matches per month for $99 (vs. $19 for 300 with StackLead).
Most likely you never tried to do what you preach. You will end writing your app only a little bit faster (if you are lucky) and then three times more on debugging.
I'm of the opinion that you should only test public methods (what your class exposes to the outside world, i.e. its contract). Private methods are implementation details and therefore you should be able to change them [effectively changing your implementation, but that should not change how your public methods behave] and rely on the tests you have on your public methods to detect any change in behavior that is not correct.

When you say: "...methods used by a method under test can only be assumed to work if each of those methods has good tests", my opinion is that if that is an issue, than those private methods belong in another class that is a dependency of the class you are testing, and should be tested in the context of that other class.
This is nice, congrats! Would also like some performance metrics, or at least exec time per script
It's the fact that everything you do with Google Chrome is tracked by Google. Nevertheless, Google Chrome makes my life easier, so I don't mind giving them my usage information if in the end it all works out in my favor. Some people however, don't like sending all this data over to Google. That's understandable since it can also be used to harm you. Literally.
This. I like the look of it and it's still useful, but we need to stop abusing the word "native." Let's be clear that this is just an html framework that looks like a native app. It's still a website.

This is not the same thing as Phonegap, for example, which lets you build a native app you could install from the app store.

Again, still useful if you want your mobile website to look native, but not the same thing.
Maybe try these libraries next time:

Crispy forms: http://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Floppy forms:http://django-floppyforms.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Sure, but to generate x watts probably requires the walker to output x more watts than normal while walking.
Yes, also the printing problem he mentioned too. Maybe they did not allow PostScript printing? That is all I could think of. Which is a very small number of printer types.

Also the part "... there are still things I like better on Windows. Some of these things I'll choose not to mention for fear of inciting the wrath of Mac users everywhere, since many of those people will refuse to believe anything can possibly be better in the world of Windows. " - Just tell me what you're working with. Its a little too late for that anyway. haha
Django works perfectly on Python 3 (go with 3.4) however you may have issues with packages.
The Tntnet project: C++ dynamite for the web
Hm, so you're saying the second team is there to reboot the first team in case it BSODs?
neocortex would be a cool company name
What I've Learned From Female Founders So Far
> I don't doubt that the platforms have good 3rd party support, but it's absolutely dwarfed by
> that of the web community, and that will only grow larger over time.

You know why it is funny? The things that native offers without even third party code is leaps and bounds beyond what web community offers for mobile and will stay this way for a long time, if not forever. So far community has been reinventing the same wheel a thousand times over and there is no sign of progress. Guys, look, another MVC framework, how cool is that!
I grew up in Germany during the 90s. Our view was that, while the US doesn't have the figurative "clean hands" (insert vague reminiscence of some half-knowledge about things that happened South America), they were rather "civilized" about things.

I DO REALIZE NOW that this was of course a distorted picture of reality, which I think dawned on me around the time the illegal rendition/secret torture prison affair of the CIA came to light.

However, compared to the Americans, the Russians were never _too_ discrete about the rough practices of their intelligence agencies. This is what I was refering to: To the current state of my knowledge (which, admittedly I did not update with even a Google search) there are publically known instances of the Russians crushing private individuals by inserting HUMINT into their lives, whereas I don't know of any example involving an American service.

Maybe this is also why the Belgacom hack was so shocking to me. I had not previously thought that they (NSA GCHQ) would take apart some poor schmuck who happens to work at the wrong company just to gain access.

On a more general note, to me it just seems that bringing down the power of a governmental intelligence agency on an innocent bystander for the sake of a "shortcut" is unethical.
Rdio pulled it off.

Its not a bad idea, its just really hard to pull off.
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Sidebar: I know the motivations of people who post in every single goddamn thread that MtGox stands for "Magic the Gathering: Online eXchange" (ie, "tee-hee! giggle giggle! laugh!").

However, there is also someone in every thread who replies to this assertion to say that they never actually traded Magic cards. My question is, what is your motivation for this? I could think of three off the top of my head:

a. Emotional need to defend MtGox
b. Intellectual need to correct misinformation
c. Refocusing; it's an ad hominem and detracts from the real problems with MtGox
I'm due a slow commute to London next week and I can't wait to play it on a train see whether those sitting near to me can figure out the rules of the game.
Interesting. How so?

I mean, I suppose you could be right, but my point is that we take it for granted that the way things work in our society is just the natural state. It isn't. There are all sorts of policies in place that lead to compensation for various actors being what it is.
doge2048.com version is also numberless
No True Scotsman's ideas are unique. /sarcasm
Correct. Look at Americans and the NSA outrage. Very few people care anymore and everyone has gone back to their day to day life.
Ask HN:Upfront Take and Vesting Schedule for Solo Founder
Hello HNers,
I have been working on my startup past 1 years fulltime and have recently incorporated.
My attorney suggested that I take 25% upfront fully vested for my work so far and rest 75% vesting over 4 year period. Attorney is legit guy and he does multiple XXXMil exits per year. So he knows what he is talking about.

Wanted to check with the community, what are the typical norms for founder vesting. Another piece of info is that i am planning to raise some money in next 3-6 months.

Thanks
Shyam
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If what you mean by exec time is request_time, i.e., serving time of a request, then it's pretty close on my agenda as long as you have it in your access log :)