skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The academic world in general tends to focus on collaboration with other academics, and people in their research groups, which tends to result in people using their own internal git repo hosting infastructure, rather than external ones like Github, where anyone who wants to commit would have to create and maintain a separate Github account.

Other than having a GUI and nice web interface, what are the advantages of Github over the git repo Mylar is using?
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I am saying that the basis for law itself seems to not be invoked here. The government is the one distorting market forces, what you are describing is emergent behavior which comes out of market forces - companies agree to all sorts of arrangements including buying selling, exclusive service contracts and more. The govt has a rationale for this. The rationale is that most people will benefit from companies competing. I am saying that it hasnt been shown that most people will benefit from companies excessively disrupting each other's teams. The workers are still able to find jobs by SIMPLY BROWSING A MARKETPLACE. We are talking about agreements not to advertise the offers in certain places. The government restricts advertising all the time - for example in south american cities advertising in public places is now illegal. Is that distorting market forces? Well it sets the rules for the market. Here the rule is that companies cannot agree not to cold call each other's employees. I call bullshit on that benefiting anyone but a small group of employees. The teams suffer and the companies suffer and they pass on the cost to everyone.
How Investigators Used the Doppler Effect to Trace Flight 370
I'm not familiar with US tax, but isn't property tax in the US something like 200bp per year?

If I understand this correctly this can be a huge blow for Bitcoin users in the US
I should have been more clear -- they compared routes and aircraft velocities that could be expected to produce the same radial velocity and Doppler effects, given the satellite's geostationary position.
The new price sheets are below. It's 0.026/GB and 0.020/GB. Let your jaw drop more :)

GCS pricing - https://developers.google.com/storage/pricing
GCE pricing - https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing
I'm pretty sure, since you'll need 56va or more type notations to get it back onto the treble clef, where "8va" indicates play 1 octave higher than notated, that many/most of the notes will be above 18kHz. Before my Dad lost my flute, i used to be pretty good at reading notation in the 2 octaves above middle C range, but that hurts my eyes. Maybe you could revoice all the chords and we can figure out harmonic structure
brilliant, love it.
“How do I know any of this is secure?”
You may have identified quite an audience.
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I hope you are right.
There are two reasons I still interact with windows:
1- Work
2- Games
I'd imagine that he was actually charging you for the extra effort as much as doing something sketchy. While the card does provide an additional layer of security, it also provides a layer of convenience for the locksmith, as they can just punch your code into their machine and it will spit out a copy very rapidly.

It sounds like you were talking with someone who had a clue and could quickly, but with additional effort, reproduce a key via a duplicator like this: http://www.lockpicks.com/w333l-sidewinderkeyduplicator.aspx which is fine, but dramatically less convenient than an automated code cutter.
I disagree.

Isolating this on a separate piece of hardware might be a good idea. But getting your code on the hardware seems like an obvious and fairly fatal flaw. The possibility of the NSA forcing the single maker to insert some hidden code or even some hidden extra hardware makes this a "single point of failure". They sell servers the size of "wall-warts" - you could run Linux or BSD on that and run your secure email on top of that.

Keeping a general purpose computer secure is always going to be a problem but recent experience seems to pretty say "if you can't trust yourself, you can't trust anyone".
IRS Rules Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency
Do I work with you?
The U.S. has no property taxes in that sense (a tax on all owned property, more commonly called a "wealth tax"). Some states have a tax called a "property tax", but it applies only to land and buildings ("real property"), not to other kinds of property such as stocks, baseball cards, gold, bitcoin, bank accounts, paintings, etc.
Bitcoin miners would have to report their earnings as taxable income with a value equal to the worth on the day it was mined.
Thanks - it was a great way to learn more about the database, and the effect of network partitions in general.
Keep in mind that even if you're maxing the in-game settings, you aren't maxing out the image quality fully. You can still go beyond that with supersampling (essentially rendering at a higher resolution, then downscaling to your monitor's resolution in order to prevent aliasing). Standard anti-aliasing tries to detect edges in order to find specific parts of the image to supersample, but it isn't perfect. If you want the best image quality possible, supersampling is the way to go.

The downside though is that it's extremely resource intensive. Even 16x MSAA antialiasing is faster than 2x supersampling. With supersampling, at 2x on 1080p you're rendering at 3840x2160 then scaling down to 1080p - effectively the same as gaming on 4k.

I have two rigs, one with dual r9 270s and another with SLI'd gtx 760s. Each can run dota 2 at 2560x1600 with 2x supersampling at around 40 and 30fps respectively.

The image quality is beautiful, don't get me wrong, but even those cards in an SLI isn't enough to push that amount of pixels.

With quad Titan Z's, you could probably do 4x supersampling - nearing the quality you'd get with source film maker, but in real time.
That's a good point. A lot of what I built classes and objects for in other languages can really be expressed as simple maps, hashes, lists, and vectors, and more complex types built from them. Clojure's elevation of maps/hashes/vectors to first-class types puts it above Lisp, imho, and its functions to manipulate said data structures are better even than languages like Ruby and Python.

I can't imagine having to go back to Java collection classes again. Ugh.
The future is now: http://eclecti.cc/hardware/physical-keygen-now-for-disc-deta...
Obama proposes a slight improvement to appease his own party's electorate, House proposes something much worse to appease its own electorate (or maybe just their pay masters), and then they "compromise" in the middle, where the middle is significantly worse than the current situation, and then everyone (in the government) is happy! US politics as usual.
Exactly! My total monthly expenses are less than $250 (rent, food, internet etc.) and it should not be a problem to devote 7-8 months for building promised apps.
Types like (a -> a -> a) which are associative show up everywhere and are often named as Semigroups—there's a (somewhat) popular library which provides all kinds of hooks into the abstract algebra in that space. When we also have that (a -> a -> a) has a zero then we call it a Monoid and that typeclass is built-in.

In short, there's a continual tension between wanting to reify the entire abstract algebraic hierarchy and the weight and arbitrariness of doing such a thing. To resolve this, the community tends to favor typeclasses which have enough law structure to determine uniquely what the semantics of that algebraic pattern ought to be.

For Monad that is absolutely the case. There is wonderful algebraic structure to monads and thus they are named.

For Magma... not so much. So you've got an operator, eh?
nothing on this page shows up except for vine, social links and your picture. I am using Chrome Version 33.0.1750.154

EDIT: it started working..
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Yes, we get it. 'Europe' and countries within Europe are not the same thing. You are missing the point. Yes, this article only talks about the UK, but Europe generally has a problem with free speech.

The following countries have laws against hate speech:

Belgium@: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Anti-Racism_Law

Denmark: http://www.inach.net/content/denmark.html

Finland: (sorry, could only find PDF) http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Expression/ICCPR/State...

France@: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_France

Germany@: http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/StGB.htm#130

Iceland: (Art 233) http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=190914#LinkT...

Netherlands: http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001854/TweedeBoek/TitelV/Arti...

Norway: (135 a) http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1902-05-22-10/KAPITTEL_2-6...

Sweden: (PDF Ch. 16 sec. 8) http://www.government.se/content/1/c4/15/36/d74ceabc.pdf In case you don't want to read that far "sentenced for agitation against a national or ethnic group to imprisonment for at most two years"

UK: See article.

The countries with an '@' are ones that also ban certain kinds of denial (usually Holocaust denial).

Note it is very likely that more countries in Europe have bans on free speech, these are just the ones I know of and could get sources for quickly.

On top of that, your point "Europe (as a political entity) has only generally positive things to say about freedom of speech" is only accurate if you don't take freedom of speech seriously. The European Convention on Human Rights AND the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union says it is up to the countries whether hate speech counts as free speech! Which misses the entire point of free speech, that no one is able to say what is and is not okay speech!

I live in the UK and the things that upsets me most is the lack of free speech here. There seem to be far too few countries that take it seriously.

So yes, I think it is fair to say Europe has a problem with free speech.
Not personally, but this article has stuck in my mind:

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compu...

Note that this is a year-old article. It also doesn't address reliability; it focuses on common performance benchmarks. The article links to a GitHub repo with some performance benchmarks you can run yourself.
Personally I find having a higher frame rate in faster paced game is far more important than having a diagonal line be perfectly smooth. In the middle of a game you'd never be concerned with how perfect the image looks.
What part of that sequence of events were you unable to do before KeyMe or KeysDuplicated?
>still on IE9, there might be a reason you haven't upgraded.

Corporate IT users sometimes dont have a choice which is the case for some users on my current project. 2011 isnt that long ago to support something for a corporate app but I guess things move much faster other places.
Out of interest, what do you play on this rig?
I am an ex-AWS employee. I can verify that AWS was founded as a new line of business using new servers purchased for AWS. The idea that AWS was started using Amazon's spare capacity is widely repeated but false. Amazon is definitely leveraging their expertise and not their physical machines. Source: I've seen the original pitch deck for Amazon S3.
In what situation would "just embed python/lua/js/etc." not be the appropriate solution to this problem?
there's no such option for now, but we have a bug report:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704252
I really can't discuss anything about this because I have to request an invite to see any part of the product. Also, how would this be different than Diaspora?
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Nice - it looks like for the Compute Engine, you essentially get "AWS Reserved Instance"-like pricing without requiring an up-front payment.
Recruiting involves many things and what is considered moral is relative. An HR dept will pay recruiters to advertise in APPROPRIATE places and screen candidates, do background checks, set up a pipeline etc.

If the recruiter is instructed not to advertise the company's openings in strip clubs or porn sites, that isn't illegal or immoral. This is how I view instructing the recruiters not to advertise on their competitor's website or target other company's employees. Perhaps they think the cost of bad reputation or reprisals from those companies was too high. It doesn't have to be a "conspiracy". As I posted, an arxiv article shows that cartels are a natural emergent phenomenon of markets.

As far as marriage - there was a time when people worked decades for a company and earned a pension. These days esp in the tech industry those days are long gone. Poaching is an additional cost of hiring employees. You want to increase this cost - fine, and it will be passed on to the employees and depress their salaries. Your argument that the correlation is the other way is sofar without basis. I am not arguing that it is not illegal - the courts should decide that. I am saying this enforcement goes contrary to the purpse of the law and no one wins.
Oh, man! I saw this a while back and was very excited about it. I have a project I've been working on off and on in my spare time that I'd love to talk to you about if you'd be up for a conversation.
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For my projects, Google instances boot faster, have lower network latency, higher network throughput to storage, and more IOPS than EC2 "provisioned IOPS" volumes.

It's really amazing. I can snapshot a 1 TB volume in the US and start a new instance with it in Europe in less than 10 minutes.

Scalr did a more rigorous benchmark, details here: http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compu...
> Keybase never has to know what your private key is or store it. So, yes, you are completely free to continue managing your private and public keys however you are used to.

And if they did require my private key I could always just not use the service at all. This is sortof besides the point. I'm not concerned about being coerced into anything. I'm concerned that they're sending the wrong message. Do you remember when Facebook used to ask for your Gmail password before we had OAuth? Do you think that was cool too?

> like you say, it's too early to trust them with everything

I'm not saying it's too early to trust them with everything. I'm saying you should never trust anybody with your private key. I don't care if it's my best friend, giving my private key to somebody is one more place it can get discovered. PGP offers something unique in that it can give you a network without any trust. You can weather the storm of broken https and MITMs and get to the person you're talking to. The only thing it doesn't fix is somebody owning your desktop. This is a beautiful thing if you think about it, and this sort of thing would dilute it.
Prestige. Both for Nvida and buyers, having the fastest graphics card on the market.
Trello launched from day zero, in Sep 2011, without IE8 support. At that point, IE <= 8 was about 80% of the IE crowd[1]. FogCreek said that IE8 support was coming, but it never materialized, and they eventually just passed on.

So the truth is that Trello always stayed pretty much ahead of the IE usage curves, so that most people with IE willing to use it, simply couldn't.

I guess this is the reason why they don't have many IE users in the first place.

[1] according to W3Counters, which is the first I found with 2011 numbers readily available.
To my mind (and I don't know exactly how much) - even $1.5MM at a 3% return would nearly make your mortgage payments without touching the capital, so maybe that's why.
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The important question, I think, is: can the FreeDOS folks read the MS-DOS source, and then continue to work on FreeDOS?
"Under the ruling, purchasing a $2 cup of coffee with Bitcoins bought for $1 would trigger $1 in capital gains for the coffee drinker and $2 of income for the coffee shop."

So if the coffee shop leaves the "property" as bitcoins instead of converting it over to dollars, and the value of those bitcoins falls before cashing-out, they're stuck paying tax on the $2 worth of income despite potentially no-longer having the funds to cover those taxes.
Good stuff Vikas!! It's not easy to raise money in India (esp through crowdsourced funding) and you seemed to have already made good progress. Focus, choose your projects (games) wisely and I am sure you will do well.
Interesting, but unsurprising. The more interesting aspect is that unlike tangible property, bank accounts or stock transactions that can be audited, this seems practically unenforceable on the IRS's part.
this is where, Google should keep focusing than going after and pursuing things which other people can do better. I meant I am a die-hard Apple fanboi, But If they launch a search engine, I am definitely not gonna switch at once.

Google is essentially a web-services company a SaaS at its best. Stay focused on these services, and keeping bringing awesome things like this.

PS: I'd love if they would drop Google apps pricing too ($5/user). Please Larry/Brin? and let's put a final nail into office coffin.
The point is that you use your phone most of the time, but keep a key with you as backup. More convenience, less risk.

Being able to get into my house immediately even after losing both phone and keys is not a priority for me. If I'm being chased by a criminal near my own house after losing my keys and phone, I'll just shout until the neighbors come out.
I'm not a professional by any mean, and have only put up
my own websites. I found the whole learning process very
confusing for years--I would start, then get frustrated
and go ack to repairing watches. The books were boring;
especially the 500 page block typed phone books--without
any graphics. Well things have gotten much better; the books still need improvement, but are much better. I don't
know why someone hasen't used the comic book format to
get across complex subjects--yes, I believe the less words
you use to expain something is Holy. I'm running on like
so many teachers do. To your question; starting web developement. My advise is you don't need to know everything about all subjects. A good beginning course
on web developement, and computer science is cs 75 at Harvard(it's free, a little outdated, but once you start
to hear the computer lingo--it makes further learning
less daunting. Get to know Firebug, and source page.
Look at the source code for simple websites. Copy it, change it, see how the tags are used(html and css). Everything is free if you look around. Oh, yea--get comfortable with the command line. You will eventually
need it, unless you just want to do front end work. (I'm
not in the computer industry, but I have heard there are
front end designers who just use html, and css--and get
paid?) As to those Coding boot Camps--they seem great, but
look expensive, or have a catch. There's a free one in San
Francisco. They take a percentage of your salary when hired. I looked into that school and the catch was they
pretty much only accepted people with CS degrees, or the
equivenent. These students would ave eventually got jobs
if they studied the right material.(I did copy their curriculim though--It makes a good map of where I need to
go.) Another Boot Camp I looked at was expensive, and only
accepted women. Why just women? I think the founder of the
school knew that Computer Nerds just might question the value of what they were teaching--eventually. I'm not
being sexist--I just know that most women are not interested
in ths stuff, and html seems like science. Good luck to
whom ever asked for advise. One other thing, get regular
exercise, and when you are watching the teaching videos--
rember you can always speed them up--1.5 was good for me
if the teacher was native, and had reasonable diction. Actually I downloaded all of cs75 on my IPod, and listened
to David and the rest on my nightly walks. After, awhile
it all started to fit together. Good luck!
You make good points about the need to develop skills for finding information and learning on your own. I do think, though, that there's a lot of value in increasing the visibility of that information to increase the efficiency with which that information can be accessed -- think how Google and Stack Overflow have changed the productivity of programmers.

Having a good set of resources laid out for me certainly doesn't take away from the fact that I've still got to learn them but it does prevent me from wasting time with inferior ones. There's also value in producing and marshaling those resources because there will always be a set of people who might have been great developers but never really entered the learning funnel because they didn't have access to good resources at the time when they were ripe to explore them.

In terms of ease of learning, sites like codecademy make it extremely easy to get started but you're certainly not going to be able to learn an employable skillset by working solely in a hand-holding browser environment. That's why I've tried to focus on building real (and often difficult) projects along the way in this curriculum. Start to finish, it will likely take ~1000 hours to complete.

I guess my points are that A) development will (and should) require a certain degree of actual effort to learn because that's how you develop problem solving skills but finding the right resources to do so shouldn't, and, B) making those resources more accessible helps more people potentially great find their way to the profession.
Yes, everywhere I've ever lived or visited in the US. And very few hardware stores stock anything but those basic types of locks. Even the somewhat more secure Medco locks are virtually never seen, and cost several times more to buy.

I would say they're right to use relatively simple locks too. I've known several people who have had their homes broken into through kicking down doors or breaking windows. I've never even heard of a break-in by picking a lock. Why make everybody's locks much more expensive and harder to duplicate when lockpicking attacks are virtually nonexistent in the real world?
It seems there are hypothetical scenarios where your taxes could exceed your net worth. If you mine a bitcoin worth $1000, and then it's value falls to $100, you could owe taxes on $1000, and the $900 capital loss would only carry forward to the next year.
Kraken Passes Cryptographically Verifiable Proof-of-Reserves Audit
I hope there's comparison chart for cost per computation/memory of cloud services, based on benchmarking.
Yes, the clerk almost certainly turned you in. The alert went out within a week. Do you really want to bet that was a coincidence?

He may not have turned you in, by name or by face, and he may not have turned you in specifically to your landlord, but he could have. And the coincidence suggests that the word went out and that your landlord took action in response.

As for the "master" key thing: Master keys can often be made by filing off a tiny bit of a non-master key. That's how they work. So, when you requested a copy of your key, you may really have raised the suspicion that you were about to go home, take out a file, make a master key, and go on a fun round of housebreaking.

(Obviously, you would not turn your original key into a master, because then when your landlord or the cops asked you to produce it, it would be tampered with.)

Incidentally: Because master keys are variations on the shape of non-master keys, your key doesn't need a "serial number" or embedded chips to match it up with other keys from your building.
Ha ha! Well, snagging an unauthorized copy still seemed smarter than some of the alternatives, like climbing fire escapes and jimmying my own window...

http://gothamist.com/2009/08/08/locked_out_of_apt_woman_fall...

It's more common than you think!
In all honesty, I don't see who would use a service like this apart from very small time advertisers, but It'd be interesting in knowing how you piece together the reports, is it automated?