skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If what you are looking for is not available, too hard to use, of a bad quality and/or cost too much you will turn to an alternative that is free, fast, easy to use even if is illegal. If you perceive that what are you doing is not actively harming anyone.

It's like if you are running around town looking for a parking spot. You find a place where you could park your car, it's not bothering anyone and doesn't block anyone and anything else it just isn't marked.

If you have a cheap real parking near, you probably wouldn't park in the unmarked spot. But if the first legal alternative is 5 miles away, a private parking charging you 10 bucks every hour, a maximum 5 minutes parking then you probably stop in the unmarked spot.

It's legal ? No.
It's actively bothering anyone other than the policeman writing you the ticket if he finds out ? No.
You hope that they won't find out, and won't write you a ticket ? of course you do.
Actually the current guidelines are pretty clear. Mining is income. When you receive your coins from mining, that's a taxable event. Current value - mining expenses = income. After that any gains or losses are unrealized until you sell, creating another taxable event. Current price - cost basis = capital gains. Since bitcoins were worthless when Nakamoto was mining, he has no tax bill there. No taxes are owed for simply holding the coins. If he sold today, he'd be taxed at the long term capital gains rate of 15% for 100% of what he sold.

EDIT: but of course I'm making the silly mistake of assuming he's an American.
>I'd argue that IE is primarily used in corporate settings

I wouldnt make that distinction. While its probably true that some corporate users are still stuck on XP. Most non techy people I know (which is almost everyone) just buy a new laptop open it up and start using IE. They will probably never upgrade unless the computer tells them or does it automatically.
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This is simply an infosec problem. Much like banks in the wild west. It's easy to set up a bank, but hard to keep the money, therfore lowering the value of having a bank.

The infosec industry needs to mature and bitcoin needs to thoroughly adopt it at every stage. This means consumers as well. There will be a knowledge-gap to participate in Bitcoin because of this for a long time.
Seems like this one is going to make it to the frontpage. Recap of relevant links:

Press Release: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/04/03Apple-Worldwide-De...

Direct link to register page: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/

Info for company account holders: it seems like every Apple ID associated with your company account can enter the lottery separately.
> The reversal of this policy will mean that the non-traveling public will subsidize travelers. Great for those voting and attending the EU Parliament among others. Not so hot for the rest.

Am... not really. It just means that the travelling public won't subsidize the locals, i.e. that everybody will pay as much as they use.

Also, I don't believe that infrastructure is expensive (once it is set up), and in any case, if either the infrastructure or the spectrum become too expensive, the governments can nationalize the infrastructure and offer it for rent to multiple carriers (so that competing carriers don't need to build their own infrastructure - some countries already do that), and/or reduce the spectrum prices.
I've been wondering when a government sponsored excursion into twitter astroturfing would come up...it is trivially easy to build a network of fake accounts and to have them followed by hundreds of thousands of fake accounts. As follower count is the main way that people seem to validate accounts, and Twitter has little incentive to stop puffed up accounts, how hard would it be during a revolt to fake something atrocious from the revolters' side and have it endlessly retweeted before anyone realized what happened? And that's just a brazen op...more subtle, patient intel ops could be even more pervasive.

There really aren't many tools to quickly validate accounts by sight, though showing account age would be at least one metric that is harder to fake
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Google bought my 5 person company. They hired everyone but me.
Thanks for the invite, it is a bit far from Germany and Portugal. :)
It seems to me the hint is in all the different sized squares. iOS is going variable screen resolution (which it already supports, only no-one really cares). Mac OS X is probably going to let you treat any display like a Retina display (this kind of capability is already everywhere, but only available in certain contexts, e.g. when mirroring to a different resolution display). Between TVs, cars, 4K, big iPhones, and so on, Apple has to bite the bullet and just support arbitrary screen sizes.

Incidentally, has anyone noticed that Apple's push towards simple geometric UI design in iOS7 has simultaneously reduced application sizes (less need for giant bitmaps), improved performance and battery life, and paved the way for more flexible screen resolutions.

This also likely means we're finally going to see the Apple TV as a games console. This similarly means that third party TV apps will probably appear (and thus we'll get CBS, Showtime, etc. on the Apple TV itself). (

Obviously Amazon has beaten Apple to the punch, but I suspect the Apple console might have quite a decent launch lineup.
Americans apparently don't understand that daily use of marijuana will damage your brain.
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Probably because my tone and term 'fanboy'; I said it very carefully even as I am not anti MS or whatever; I use F#/C#/.NET every single day and like it. But apparently that was enough to trigger :) Thanks anyway; I was just surprised why suddenly whole HN seemed to hail in the new messiah... Easier is nice, but...
Google DNS and OpenDNS also cause some serious problems with geographic results. My go to example is www.netflix.com. I live in NY and Google DNS always points me to us-west instead of us-east.

dfc@fob-xray:~$ host www.netflix.com # local unbound dns
www.netflix.com is an alias for www.us-east-1.netflix.com.
www.us-east-1.netflix.com is an alias for www.us-east-1.prodaa.netflix.com.
www.us-east-1.prodaa.netflix.com has address 50.16.245.238
www.us-east-1.prodaa.netflix.com has IPv6 address 2406:da00:ff00::6b14:f251

dfc@fob-xray:~$ host www.netflix.com 8.8.8.8 # 8.8.4.4 Gives same response
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:

www.netflix.com is an alias for www.us-west-2.netflix.com.
www.us-west-2.netflix.com is an alias for www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com.
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com has address 54.245.96.95
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com has IPv6 address 2620:108:700f::3270:5f36
8 years ago I left behind .NET development and gaming PCs as a hobby for Ruby development on a Mac.

I got into crypto-currency mining last year. As that became less profitable I decided to sell most of my mining hardware, keep one R290, and build a gaming rig.

"Metro" (aside from forced full-screen) is the clean break Windows needed IMO. There were/are definitely usability issues with it, but mostly on the feature/app level IMO (it's difficult to know how to find the tool you're looking for in the new "Control Panel", it should not take minutes to figure out how to turn the computer off, etc).

The biggest problem with it was that it was inconsistent. Steam is a "Desktop" app. For no reason besides MS apparently didn't force developers to go Metro. That results in a really awful experience for users.

So this... bowing to the same crowd that said they'd never leave DOS for Windows '95. Or '95 for XP, or XP for Vista, and on and on... this is a huge mistake IMO. MS recommitting to a UX that's never really worked all that well, and at this point extremely dated.
For me is not interesting because is a woman, it´s interesting because she made public the process and what she did. That´s very useful to me because I want to learn, and also I want to be able to point somebody that asks me to an amazing example.
Please tell your learning process if you think you may help someone due to your special situation.
Google Cache of the linked article:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?output=search&s...
For those of you curious about array-based / columnar programming languages, there's an APL/J/K reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/apljk
Why re-invent simple_form with more code that you'll have to maintain now?
I'm also part of that sub-group. I absolutely despise going to the theater. In fact, I've toyed with the idea of of opening a theater with enforced etiquette, but ultimately determined that there was not sufficient demand.

Since I do not think the value proposition of piracy is in my favor, I simply do without recently released content. However, if it existed in an easy to use home view capacity, I would definitely pay for it.
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I was the person who wrote to OTF asking them to fund our audit. I have no idea if they require it — I'm always the one to initiate the process.
I think you're right(ish), with one caveat that I think you understand, but this time last year I would not have...

If you ever sold them, and long-term capital gains should apply, you would still owe the long-term capital gains tax on the proceeds from the sale. So, subtract your cost basis (which for THE actual creator of bitcoins is arguably more intensive than average miner who merely creates bitcoins), subtract that which has not been (depreciated?) on any other gains, and pay tax on those gains from the proceeds of the sale.
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I wonder if everyone's quality of life would drop if everyone ate the amount of meat per person consumed in Austria. Could our environment even support it?
Why isn't Moxie replying? Publishing an audit, with or without vulnerabilities, surely is beneficial to TextSecure. I don't understand their reticence to publish audits. We know OTF has commissioned at least two audits for them, but not a word has been heard about them.

In fact, OTF has actually complained about their projects choosing not to publish audits: https://www.opentechfund.org/article/bringing-openness-secur...
This is the entirety of Ted Ts'o's post.

For those who believe the systemd developers are reasonable and will listen to constructive criticism.....﻿
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/415

There are dozens of comments on the G+ page.

At the moment, I can't even pull up http://lkml.org/ Not sure if that's an outage or just me.
Satoshi changed the world and the newsmedia and humans in general are obsessed with geniuses and successful people. It's also a natural phenomenon that people are drawn to something that's mysterious and forbidden (read the book "Artful Persuasion").

I doubt it has much to do with anything rational, such as benefiting from finding out who he is or obtaining more insight from Sathoshi. It's just deep rooted human curiosity.
- About half of the comments are about girls/gender/sexism and so on.

- Any sort of criticism is down-voted to hell, this never happens when author is a boy

- and finally show me similar toy project from boy, which would make into front page of Hacker News.
OK so it's not the WAP, but I still think we could differentiate between an ethernet switch upgrade (for local problems i.e. with content streamed from one device to another) and a router upgrade (for upstream problems: NAT issues maybe?). Routers have switch functionality built-in, but since you were using a really old one you might have tried sticking a cheap switch between the router and your local network before upgrading. Anyway, I think the blanket "You need to upgrade your router." advice is unwarranted.
This is a direct result of their (continued) fuck-ups. No one will ever be able to look favourably upon the USG again. This is quickly leading to the country's demise as a perceived 'world power'. Unfortunately, military might is next to useless in restoring reputation.
Enemy? Spy on them.

Ally? Spy on them.

Communist regime? Overthrow it.

Democratic government? Overthrow it.

So proud to be an American.
Ck out Arthur Whitney's abridged manual for fun:

http://kx.com/q/d/kdb+.htm

For using the 32-bit version (from Limits):

22 Limits

Each database runs in memory and/or disk map-on-demand -- possibly partitioned. There is no limit on the size of a partitioned database but on 32-bit systems the main memory OLTP portion of a database is limited to about 1GB of raw data, i.e. 1/4 of the address space. The raw data of a main memory 64bit process should be limited to about 1/2 of available RAM.
I can't work out why the width would be need to be 1px bigger in width? I don't see the explanation in #3.
Also, the array in #3 shows a 9x9 grid of 81 values when there are only 72 pixels?
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Alternatively, make less typos. Get something basic set up like jshint in your editor of choice (will warn for unused and undeclared variables), that kinda thing.

Although it's more of a patch. A proper IDE for JS would be neat, but it'd need to support popular DI frameworks and the like.
Fair point. Microsoft has always been a lot better than Apple at protecting backwards compatibility. It's just a shame that they decided to use IE as a lever to push people toward newer Windows versions rather than doing what's best for the Web platform.
Anyone that has used postMessage will know that IE support is a joke - only between parent and iframe, not windows, and couldn't post objects up to IE10
As a Zend Framework refugee, I agree. View stuff belongs in the view.

Additionally, for those of us who works with designers, this gets in the way. My designer-colleague is comfortable editing HAML by now; I want to give him the templates and let him move things around without having to involve me for things like where a label should be.
IE still refuses to support push notifications: http://caniuse.com/#feat=eventsource. Curse you IE!
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The growing number of spectators and cash prizes in eSports
I used to play quite a bit of StarCraft (v1.04-1.16) back in the day. There were hardly any competitions back than. It's amazing to see how big/professional/commercial the gaming industry is becoming though.
I never heard of a work of USAID that does not involve US trying to enforce his vision of politics in the country. Could you please illuminate me?
And the other upside is your usage of the metaphorical parking spot doesn't stop anyone else from using it too. It is like infinite free questionable parking, or limited gated private parking with an hourly rate and those terrible parallel spots when they could have just made them perpendicular but want to make you hate the experience.

(I think the analogy might be getting overloaded at this point)
It's having trouble at the moment, it's down for me as well.
CLA's are good practice in general. It's always up to the maintainers whether they want feature requests.

And as you pointed out, you can always fork.
Roaming charges will effectively be dropped on the 15th December 2015. Src: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/2014...
I am so disappointed. The kinds of outreach and charity provided by USAID isn't perfect, but the intent behind it was always good. Heck, if anything I'm really, really proud of the humanitarian work the U.S. government does, including USAID at State and NIH and CDC at HHS. Overthrowing governments is completely at odds with humanitarian missions, never mind the fact that the outcomes (especially in the Americas) for covert U.S. interventions in foreign governments are _not_ generally positive.
How good is Mono - Unity3D is based on it and I have not heard anyone complain that the thousands of games built with it (including some of the most popular ever on iOS and Android) are having performance issues because of the underlying architecture.
You do have archive.orgs entire collection of public domain works available. I'm pretty sure it would take a lifetime or more to just consume all those.

And personally, I spend sparing time looking at art on deviantart from the some hundred or so artists I follow, listening to the music and podcasts I follow on bandcamp / rss, watching youtube videos, and read the books and novels of authors from all over the Internet that publish their works online. Plenty of stuff to occupy oneself with.

Not trying to argue in the OPs favor, just saying inherent to an Internet connection is access to effectively infinite material.
You missed the point 1 + 1 = 2 depends on the definition of '1', '+', '=', and '2'. The first case where this maters is probably binary where '2' does not exist, but that's hardly the only time 1+1 != 2.
As noted in the last section, the survey focuses on facts concerning the greek IT industry.

Of course headers of outdated software can be interpreted in many ways (you mentioned a few). This is why we avoided any generalization of our conclusions.
What some people do with it doesn't invalidate what I said at all. I'm just saying that being deflationary doesn't stop you at all from spending it. What's the difference between holding it and only spending dollars, and spending your coins and buying more coins with your dollars? There is no difference. In fact, since lots of places accepting Bitcoin give you discounts if you use Bitcoin, you are encouraged to spend it instead of dollars.
Indeed, the storage and retrieval of similar images is the hardest part. I do not know of a single networked open-source storage solution for this. I really wish that there was a project with a mindset of Redis, but for MVP trees.
By the way, may it be possible to implement MVP data structure in Redis, as the project is now? I can not think of possible replication issues with this, apart from the fact that one would have to pre-define a metric space for every tree.

It could be a great extension to Redis DSL.
Strong governments are an obstacle to corporate ambitions of taking over the resources of the country.
For better or worse, U.S. foreign aid and assistance are instruments of U.S. foreign policy. Just look at the list of countries and how much they receive. It's not exactly correlated to the amount of poverty and hunger among recipient countries.
It's interesting. It's more like a "static JIT" (BIT?) that does not account for the different data characteristics the instructions will process (which is something a JIT would/should do because it alters the actual program flow), but I find the "fast from the start" idea very compelling. I wonder how long will it take to Oracle (or the OpenJDK folks) to react to it.
Maybe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#Major_arms_indust...
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CloudFlare does Anycast for both DNS and HTTP so the DNS resolver will be 'close' to the client and the HTTP connection will be made automatically to the 'closest' CloudFlare PoP.
The EU has only existed for a couple of decades. To suggest that the EU is a reason we haven't had any wars recently is ridiculous, yet it gets trotted out time and time again by pro europeans. It's as scientific as saying vaccinations probably cause autism.

Also, the EU is not getting much useful done considering the millions that pour into it daily. The level of waste and bureaucracy is staggering. Moving the entire parliament between locations, the amount of money wasted in translating every document into every language, and so on.

The EU is obsessed with micromanaging every little detail of our lives. From regulations on fruit to banning things like light bulbs and vacuum cleaners. And the less said about the absolutely ridiculous nightmare that is "cookie law" the better. No one should be creating laws on what websites are allowed to do with cookies.

Thankfully the UK will not be part of the EU for too much longer. I give it 5 years at the most. (See the landslide win by UKIP in the debates this week).

If that doesn't happen, you can be pretty sure there will be wars in europe. Unchecked mass immigration tends to end up badly.
I for one think that Nadim and the Open Tech Fund are to be applauded for opening up their review to the public. I have to wonder how many other commercial and non-profit organisations would ever consider doing this? (Especially those which are in the field of communications and are relied on by people for their lives).

Many people on HN seem to be reading the review without actually looking at Nadim's response on the Cryptocat blog - which I urge everyone to read first before commenting.

https://blog.crypto.cat/2014/04/recent-audits-and-coming-imp...

As far as I understand the username for Nadim (Kaeporan) was also blocked from HN last night so probably he isn't able to continue responding to the comments up here.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view_fl...
Yeah yeah, "basic economics". I'm getting really tired of all these unproven theories. Economics at this point has turned into a pseudoscience just like Psychology. Academics publishing untestable bullshit and people like you citing them ad nauseam, instead of showing some actual evidence.

You are absolutely wrong in your comparison with cigarettes, because in prison you don't have enough liquidity of cigarettes. On the other hand, you can buy all the Bitcoin you want and use it to buy whatever you were going to buy anyway, and even get a discount.
What about pressure-sensitive touch? There was a patent filed recently using IR light to detect how hard someone is touching a screen:

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
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Although slower than this solution, I like this program: http://ssdeep.sourceforge.net/
no censorship in turkey? fun!
I thought that was the point of Android, to let other parties do some of the work to keep the internet "open"?
Confirmed: tickets can be transferred among team members. So if you have a company account it's time to promote everyone in your company to developer status ...

Quote from https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/more/: "Tickets may not be sold, resold, bartered, auctioned, or transferred in any way. As an exception to the foregoing, requests to transfer tickets among eligible team members may be submitted to Apple for consideration at wwdc@apple.com. Apple reserves the right to reject any transfer requests."
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And importantly the tickets are not transferable in any way.
I'm really curious about this paragraph:

"...launched shortly after the 2009 arrest in Cuba of American contractor Alan Gross. He was imprisoned after traveling repeatedly to the country on a separate, clandestine USAID mission to expand Internet access using sensitive technology that only governments use."

expand internet access with technology only governments use? Is this just some shoddy reporting from a writer who doesn't understand technology or something else?
"instrument of US foreign policy" != "arm of the US intelligence services"
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"The opportunity to buy tickets to WWDC 2014 will be offered by random selection. Register by Monday, April 7 at 10:00 a.m. PDT for your chance to attend. We will let you know your status by email on Monday, April 7 at 5:00 p.m. PDT."

(https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/)