skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an example of how things can go wrong even in Europe, despite all of what you listed, just look at the Balkans.

I’m quite convinced that the EU and its predecessors were instrumental in keeping Western Europe very stable and very peaceful. The cold war helped, sure, but even 24 years after the end of that stability and peace aren‘t even threatened a little bit. Conflicts can and are routinely solved politically, not through any passive aggressive grandstanding that marks so many other international relationships. (I have always said that to judge supra-national institutions you have to look at how they deal with conflict, not how often they agree or how harmonious they sound when everyone has the same opinion. Those institutions exist to work constructively on solutions for conflicts and problems, that’s when you have to evaluate them. And there is nothing wrong with differences in opinion existing if institutions are in place to resolve that and find a compromise.)

Additionally the EU has been very profitable for very many European companies. Creating a common market (still imperfect and still more to profit companies than people, of course) has been a major advantage for everyone.
Come on, that's a silly thing to say, everyone's empires were significantly dismantled after WW2.

It's easy not to fight when there's nothing to fight over and you've got a massive bear beating at the door.

I'm not claiming the EU's done nothing, I think it's made Europe richer, increased growth, etc., I'm claiming the EU had nothing to do with peace in Europe. Europe would still be at peace today with or without a common market. Especially given that the UK didn't join for 25 years and a bunch more in the 80s and then more recently. And the UK invaded Egypt with France before they were both in the EEC.

That was NATO and mutual fear and needing protection from US doing that, not the EU. It was simply being in club capitalism and being very scared of club communism.

And the world changed, become smaller. Which developed nations have gone to war with each other since WW2? No European country invaded Norway for it's oil. The UK is seriously talking about letting Scotland drift away without going to war in it. Territory's not the same as it was.

Again, my claim is that Europe would still be at peace today with or without a common market, there's literally been no reason to fight.
That map does seem pretty useful, it's certainly easier to figure out if it's quicker to walk somewhere(sometimes what looks like a long route on the tube can actually be a 10/15 min walk). Bear in mind that there's far more information on the modern map though. There's additional tube lines (e.g. jubilee, victoria, and the whole DLR) and it covers a far greater area of London.
Future versions of Fx and Chr are available constantly (on multiple channels at different stages), what is not the case with IE.
Wanna Build a Rocket? NASA’s About to Give Away a Mountain of Its Code
I don't understand the utility of this boot to desktop feature. The moment you want to do anything, you're back in the start menu launching programs.

What problem does it solve, besides moving the first thing you use to the second thing you use?
Can a piece of A4 paper be folded in exactly three equal parts?
Just wanted to say that I found this comment to be crazy motivating for me this morning.

Please hit us up when you launch (or contact me personally if you don't want to post it yourself).

Thanks!

Edit: Cool, didn't realize you're in Austin! Gonna ping you
Build complex forms in rails with FormBuilder
Its truly a great thing. A single file deployment would be a tremendous improvement. Also removing the ease with which distributed applications can be decompiled helps as well.

Hopefully the marketing people let them spread it to all of their application types.
That would require every user to validate the sources themselves.

See, I could read your code today and recommend the site to my friend as safe, but you can then change what you serve from day to day or even from user to user (So that only likely targets are served a malicious version)
This sounds like a case of crypto nerd's fantasy: http://xkcd.com/538/

In theory...

Judge: "The SHA1 hash in the bank transfer dated 1 Jan matches the hash I calculated for the document you supplied me, so you must have had access to the document on 1 Jan. I believe you"

In reality...

Judge: "Wait, you sent an e-mail with this document on 1 January?"
You: "Sure, here's my gmail account. See this screenshot"
Judge: "Well, that sorts it"
If they're still bitter about that, then they need to grow up. The writing has been on the wall for a _long_ time about the death of EU roaming charges. Some companies were already bragging about not charging any well prior to the ban
It's best to ask this question on the node-webkit Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/node-webkit
Googling "perceptual hash" yields http://www.phash.org/
Show HN: Publishing Books to GitHub Pages using Bitbooks
If there are key critical systems, you want to have some documented plans down to checklists of things to do if there is some sort of emergency. I work in BigCo and having redundancy is nearly mandatory for all of our critical stuff. That may not be affordable for a small business, although if you phrase it in a way that electrical engineers would understand (fail safe like a GFCI interrupt or breaker) they might buy into it for a critical system. Bad things happen and if you can get them back up and running ASAP (e.g. failover to redundant system) and then fix the broken system you'll have less headaches.

Setup version control and use it, it's like having a time machine if you mess something up and need to get back to a working state. Git is all the rage, but Subversion is simple to setup and run and understand. It's just you so having a distributed VCS isn't likely to reap any rewards.

Use an agile approach when delivering features/changes. Build an entire "vertical" of a change like say moving one app from MS Access to a Web UI completely (or whatever you're going to move it to). If you design and develop each layer, like db access, business objects, UI in serial fashion then it will be a longer time before end users can give you feedback. Get that feedback as early an often as possible.
By that logic ISPs could throttle or block torrenting or Bitcoin if they are "illegal" in some country.
As someone else has said on this thread: if you're definitely planning to shut it down and you have no interest in selling it, try just stopping working on it instead.

(It'd be a good idea to at least have a discussion with your employees about this plan first, and of course put measures in place for payroll and so on.)

The worst that can happen is that it all grinds to a halt and you subsequently shut it down. The best thing that could happen is that it keeps rolling perfectly happily and you now have a substantial passive income.

On a similar note, if you haven't read "Four Hour Work Week", now would be a very good time to do so. FHWW is a bit sketchy on the process of building a company that makes money, but once you've built one, it's a fantastic manual on how to minimise your time involvement.
Single Interface Java 8 Applications
About One Third Of All Phishing Attacks Aimed At Stealing Money
Already posted here http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3657
Don't forget that there was also a huge amount of effort invested in making the PC backwards-compatible for software; although this has (unfortunately, IMHO) become somewhat decreased these days, you can still mostly count on a PC having the same "legacy" devices (8042, 8259, 8254, 8237, MC146818) that behave the same as they did in the AT, despite them being integrated into the chipset now. Those weren't enumerable since this was before PnP, but them being there was a pseudo-standard that software could depend on.

In contrast, ARM SoCs are extremely diverse, and the only thing they all have in common is an ARM CPU core. There is no one standard for where the peripherals are, how they behave, how the SoC boots, etc. There is no "standard platform" for ARM like there is the PC for x86. The closest "de-facto" platform I can see for smartphones is the Mediatek MT65xx, which is used by the majority of the generic Chinese ones (and some branded ones, like Lenovo).
To respond to one of your points:

> The current best solution is a dedicated cold storage computer (or Raspberry Pi) running Armory, and to make multiple paper backups and store them yourself in various locations, so that it's unlikely your computer and your papers are all wiped out simultaneously.

The Trezor, a hardware wallet that signs transactions without exposing private keys to the computer it is connected to just shipped its first unit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=553818.0

Dedicated hardware wallets (which will hopefully be cheap and readily available) may be the future solution to malware related theft.
PostgreSQL pain points on Linux
Agreed. Problems are now more within the states, like in spain/basque/catalonia uk/scotland, belgium, etc. and the hongarian racists, and italy-greek state corruption.
Whenever I look at the CV for Windows developers, all I see is MS technologies. I think to myself "how can you tie yourself to a single company? don't you explorer?"

But it's because it's difficult for them to.
True, but CloudFlare should be a company driving v6 forward, i.e. mentioning that the address problem only exists in v4.

Make people aware that v4 is history and present. Sure, we currently have to deal with it, but v6 and v4 should be treated equally. Esp. when talking about problems v6 solves.
There is Michael Ossmann's HackRF project: http://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/

But unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any news about when they plan to ship.
Here's a kind of sickening statement:

'"Europe's telecoms operators are facing decreasing revenues ... compared with operators in the U.S. and Asia," said the GSM Association, an industry group for mobile phone companies. In a statement signed by director Anne Bouverot, the group said European laws are "impairing their ability to invest in the infrastructure required to put Europe back on the path to growth and jobs."'

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/european-parliame...

One example of these "poor companies":

TeliaSonera: 1.69 billion euros in profit out of a 2.99 billion euro revenue (2013)

Edit: Sorry, yearly revenue was about 11.6 billion euro.
The sun never sets on the French Republic.
You're required to sign a CLA before you can contribute and they only accept pull requests for bugs.

Nothing prevents you from forking, but the main repository doesn't look 100% free.
The Islamic Sex Cult Supporting Turkey's Prime Minister
U.S. secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest
on Win7 I cannot remember the last time I actually navigated the start menu to launch a program. It's either on quicklaunch (pinned if you prefer) or win + search.

Every time I create a VM with 8 to try and use it, I last about a week and give up.
If you're willing to live in sunny SE QLD, Australia, and good at C# as well as JS, get in touch.
Has the repo been moved from here?
https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app
It goes against their "not invented here" culture.
I thought quantum mechanics was riddled with complex numbers? What is it about QM which means we're "using" complex numbers without having "found" them in nature?

(I realise that this is kindof a horrible question to try and answer on an internet forum, please try your best physicists ;)
Definitely set up revision control ASAP.
>> "The U.S. Agency for International Development masterminded the creation of a "Cuban Twitter," a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba"

Of course they're doing something wrong. If Cuba tried anything like this against they US they'd be bombed into oblivion. Cuba has a different form of government, one most of us don't agree with but that doesn't give the USG any right to interfere. In the meantime North Korea treats its citizens like shit and supposedly works on nuclear weapons and US does nothing. The only reason they care at all about Cuba of because of their history with it.
Which developed nations have gone to war with each other since WW2?

Argentina / UK for one. And the Balkan conflicts for two.
There is no universal solution, there are a few algorithms like SURF [1], SIFT [2], Winsurf [3], dhash (the one presented here), ahash [4], phash [5] each concentrating on a particular feature of the image and has it's strong points and weak points.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURF

[3] http://www-db.deis.unibo.it/research/papers/IWOSS99.ABP.pdf

[4] http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/529-Kin...

[5] http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/529-Kin...
32 bit version of KDB+ is now free for commercial use
IE seems no worse than Safari in this respect. Maybe better actually -- those who can't update their OS for some reason remain stuck with Safari 6.1
Matt Cutts Talks About Coming Google Algorithm Changes
The end of ORM
The Man Who Destroyed America's Ego
Apple Devcenter down. WWDC announcement imminent?
Clash of Clans – Time Monetization Formulas Demistifyed
Courts don't really give a damn about postmarked letters and other gimmicks for preserving priority.

If priority matters for you, it costs about $100 to file a provisional patent application and that's what you should do.
http://jezebel.com/meaty-new-study-plunges-steak-into-vegeta...

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/04/01/study-vegetarians-les...
Like this fan favorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Ask HN: Strategies for not screwing up?
Yesterday I was trying to update a status flag on a couple MySQL records. I've learned to always select the dataset first to make sure the correct records are going to be updated. When writing the SQL update I copied and pasted the WHERE part of the select and ran the command. It errored out and so a quick review made it look like I had missed an AND. So the SQL looked something like this:
UPDATE table SET flag = 1 AND m = 123 AND s = 888 which updated nearly 5 years worth of data and 100K records by nuking the actual flag value. I was able to essentially restore the flag from a backup but it got me thinking about strategies to prevent oneself from being your own worst enemy. Doesn't have to be SQL related. Thanks!
Another thing I just thought of is a health monitoring suite for your servers/network. Also starting to move towards virtualized servers makes dealing with both failed hardware and testing/rollout/rollback easier.
> The advantage of using bank transfers is it is much easier to explain to a judge/jury.

This seems like a really weak argument.. There are all types of things judges don't understand outright but can be made to be understood. The chance of a priority being granted to a hash embedded to a bank transfer and not a block-chain embedded one is essentially zero (all things being equal). Since it is both cheaper and more robust, a super-secure blockchain like bitcoin is clearly superior to a bank transfer.
The reason for not paying a dividend is that cash distributed that way is taxed more highly than cash distributed in a share buy-back.

I agree with you that if no dividend is payed and shares will not be bought-back, the company is effectively worthless.
Pure is pure, not stuff is hidden. Click on that 3x3 box of squares on the top right corner and take another screenshot.

Or click on the cog. What's the difference between settings and configure inbox?

Here's my screenshot. The red boxes are things in gmail by default that are NOT opt-in and are not in your screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/UGZbSky.png
Ketamine 'exciting' depression therapy
Well then, finally a point to prove to anti-EU activists (UK: UKIP, DE: AfD, etc.) why having the European Union actually is important and the European Parliament isn't just a paper tiger regulating the population to death.

(Granted, most European laws ARE regulation to death, but this is a good starting point...)
Sure, what's the problem? If it's illegal, it's illegal. The blame is on the people if they let their governments ban BT.
finally! this has been long overdue.

but definitely another hit for telcos (e.g. whatsapp)
The link on the website points to https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app
Transformers Universe devs plan air and sea vehicles for MMO
Are the servers on any sort of UPS to enable graceful shutdown if power goes out?
We should dynamically compute a hash of the source files client-side and compare it with a previous hash validated by a trusted third party and available online. If they don't match, the client displays a red warning :)
Did you mean...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest
It could be that a single coder took over or merged previous codebases from other people.
That is correct. In The Netherlands we already have net neutrality, but this hasn't stopped the Pirate Bay from being blocked.
However, try to prove to a judge the entire protocol is illegal and should be blocked.
"fit some arm board into it"

How about making it a dock for your phone? It would be really cool to have a hardware keyboard, bigger display, extended battery and external storage that you could simply plug into the phone's USB port. If you make one for a Galaxy S4, I'll certainly buy one!
Same here for a project three times this size. Still I find it extremely slow compared to CoffeeScript I was using before. I'm used to saving the file and instantly refreshing the browser/rebooting node.js.
Am I the only one that doesn't think this idea is particularly new or interesting? My cryptography professor in undergrad talked about the idea of hashing your work and publishing the hash in the classifieds of a newspaper as a publicly verifiable way to timestamp it. That was like 10 years ago and I don't think the idea was new at the time.
It's disappointing that prior art isn't mentioned in the article. DNSMadeEasy's ANAME record does the same. I believe other providers like Route53 also call it an ALIAS record.

It's also good to know that GeoDNS resolution won't work as expected since the location of the resolver is going to be the DNS provider and not the client.

EDIT: Actually DNSMadeEasy claims that the resolution is done locally in each of their region so the issue is somewhat mitigated.
Preferred stock is actually a form of debt. It gets paid after the bond-holders but before the shareholders.

It almost never carries voting rights.
Yeah, someone seriously needs to whip their greedy arses.

I guess we need even more competition to drive these dinosaurs a bit out of business.

It's the USA and ASIA that should follow Europe, not the other way around.
Thank you for writing this comment.

> Can I build simple console apps with this and deploy to machines without the .NET runtime?

> No

Darn. I was hopeful that this would help us run .NET applications in Wine by eliminating the need for the full VM, but it appears not.

> Besides, unless you have some Windows 98 machines sitting around nearly every PC has the .NET runtime.

Well, or a Unix machine trying to run Windows apps in Wine. We are (well, one single dev is, really) still trying to get Mono to work for us, but it's a very long road to get the missing APIs and VM features in place.
I've always wondered this too. Everything else being equal, a credit card seems like the better choice - cashback, the option to perform a chargeback if the transaction goes south, and sometimes an extra long warranty. It costs the store an extra ~3%, but I'm not paying that, they are, so unless they directly pass the savings onto me, there isn't really any benefit currently.
They add their own bloatware / proprietary apps to the build. Some are useful (e.g. TMobile's wifi calling) and some are not (partnerships with various app vendors).

Also, Carrier IQ. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ)
Next year, I'm going to be a freshman to Podunk University, Nowhere. I'm not very happy with my situation, but I know that it's one of my own making.

What sort of things - besides an academic excellence I didn't display in high school - should I do to break through into an upper-level school?

Thanks very much.
Interesting Google stock market manoeuvre
And: http://www.proofofexistence.com/
I used to do technical support for several ISPs before moving into a somehow nuttier profession(PHP development).

netsh winsock reset fixed quite a lot of things.

BTW: Before Microsoft added an automated tool in NetShell to repair corrupted WinSock2, this was the manual procedure: http://www.wikihow.com/Repair-Winsock-and-TCP/IP

Crappy Win32 APIs where bugs are features isn't a mainstream problem? Somehow in your decades of using Windows you have never run into buggy, crash prone applications. Amazing. Even Neo couldn't dodge those bullets.

Registry may never have corrupted on YOU, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't suck when it does happen. And it happens often enough that if you're in any sort of support role, you'll see it more often than you ever care to. Oh, it's rare, but it's prone to happen. It's just godawful design(this coming from someone who likes PHP, mind you) that you have this monolithic system database that somehow everyone can write to in various ways, not all of them good.

I can't find any better sources for why I thought that the driver model itself was wrong, but I do remember that a lot of Windows crashes happen because of crappy drivers. I remember there was a specific reason for it, and it wasn't fixed in as late as Windows 7, and it's even considered a feature. So, you got me there. what ever. I can still gripe about having to wait for Windows to install a driver for my keyboard when I use bootcamp so I can play MWO or Hawken.
> I've been having recurring suicidal thoughts for the past two years.

I urge you to talk with somebody.
"cool algorithms that could have inferred types as much as possible" - like Hindley-Milner type system? Like OCAML/Haskell/F#? There is only one reason JS could be chosen. Because it's everywhere. Almost any other modern language is realistically better. But unfortunately Web is Closed to JS/HTML/CSS.
Block Encrypter : .NET Encrpytion with AES, PBKDF (Rfc2898DeriveBytes) and HMAC
We are currently using perceptual hashes (e.g. phash.org) to do hundreds of thousands of image comparisons per
day.

As mentioned in another comment, you really have to test different hashing algorithms to find one that suits your needs best. In general though, I think it is in most cases not necessary to develop an algorithm from scratch :)

For us, the much more challenging part was/is to develop a system that can find similar images quickly. If you are interested in things like that have a look at VP/MVP data structures (e.g. http://pnylab.com/pny/papers/vptree/vptree/, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.43.7...).
Would wager that a copy of the Bitcoin blockchain outlives many banks.
We don't pretend the idea is new (although Ralf did not find prior scientific works talking about this). We just want it to spread since it is simple and cheap.
Programming Languages: picking the right tool
If the goal is to produce asm.js you can use a language better than TypeScript. Asm.js has not much to do with JS in spirit.
Yes: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/04/03Apple-Worldwide-De...
> Of course plyr is ridiculously slow and can't be used for even modest-sized data sets.

Right and that's what dplyr is supposed to fix. The benchmarks so far mark it at roughly the same performance as data.table. But, as you said, it's early days for dplyr ;) Thanks for your comments!
Here's my exploration of asm.js and the file API for making a offline SHA256:

https://rawgithub.com/kristofferkoch/web-lafs/master/test/sh...
The Balkans was a Yugoslavia civil war at its heart.

I give you the Argentina/UK one, but that seriously almost didn't happen. And is really one of the last, thorny, vestiges of colonialism, like Israel.
Removing EU roaming charges is a big deal