skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, mining is still profitable so it wouldn't make sense for them to stop yet. Once Bitcoin dips below a certain value (around $100 I believe?) then we will have to watch for the drop off.
Google grandfathered in users on the free Google Apps Accounts. They also let you add new domains to it, so you can pick up an account from someone else.

The other option is to just use some simple email system and forward it to a personal free gmail account.
alt-l opens, alt-h closes currently.
h takes you to the parent of the current node.
Author of GSS here. The brilliance lies with guys like Badros (Cassowary), Ken Ferry (Apple Auto Layout), Alex Russell (Cassowary.js), etc.

GSS was created b/c our company's main product, the Grid (still in stealth mode), is doing some radical things with design of newsfeeds, we need layout to be completely decoupled from the DOM. A fairly developed Float / Flexbox-based layout becomes as much of a CSS affair as an HTML one; changing layouts requires a whole new set of div wrappers. CSS was designed to separate presentation from content, and that ideal has unforeseen manifold benefit when actually realized.

Cassowary powered constraints allow for layouts not possible with a CSS unable to resolve cyclic dependencies in layout arithmetic. Of course, you could easily shoot yourself in the foot & define fragile, ambiguous and/or impossible layouts. But, w/ great power comes great... I always prefer expressive freedom over easy-to-comprehend limitations.

GSS is very new - much is needed like better debugging, implementing floats, etc.. Constraint-based layouts isn't a silver bullet, it takes practice & thinking more like a programmer. Fortunately, Apple Auto Layout demonstrates the viability of all this craziness.
Not that different from how paper currencies like the US dollar work in terms of money supply though.

Of course, Bitcoin is not issued by a QUANGO whose chair appointing government has 10 aircraft carriers, over 5000 nuclear missiles and so forth. Anyone can start up a Bitcoin like currency (Litecoin, Dogecoin etc.)
Rice is a war criminal who happens to have not been prosecuted.

That's a pretty serious claim, and more a matter of opinion. Depending on the situation, one could point such a charge at any person who was in a position of authority in a government of a nation that was fighting a war, if one were so inclined.

Shouldn't a person's status as a war criminal depend on whether they've actually been charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced?
Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
I'm baffled by this opinion. Comparing a voluntary boycott of Condi to the government blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten is so far off base that I honestly can't understand how you can compare the two.
The reason is much more Machiavellian, namely if you keep the price of entry high and you loose money to mine for 80% of the time then the 20% of the time that it's extremely profitable you have a bigger multiple since the competition is weaker then it would've been otherwise.
It seems that this is great opportunity for email hosting startup right here. A lot of people in your situation now.
I am not an Aussie, but I did eat at an Outback Steakhouse last night!

Sorry.

In all seriousness I have been on my own for almost 15 years and I first made the leap by securing a contract from a client of my former employer. My employer was ok with it because they were moving in a different direction so the first step out the door was like having a job but I changed status from employee to contractor. The wonderful thing was the customer got me for cheaper than they were paying my employer and I got a big raise. Definition of a 'win-win'.

For most people you are going to have to get out there and do some sales work but what I suggest to people making this leap is to sell yourself to an agency, not individual customers. There are lots of consulting firms who need people and they are afraid to bring on full time work because their variations in work are often from contract to contract. If they land a gig for 4 people and 6 months of work yet only have 3 people they have to spend the time and money to go out and hire someone - then once the gig is done they have to keep that person busy. If they can find someone who will work on the project as a sub-contractor it is much more valuable to them.

Doing sub-contract work like this is a great way to give you steady income while you network and build a portfolio of direct customers where you can make better margins.

Another thing I would advise, realize that your rate represents a perceived value. If I tell you my rate is $40/hr then you think one thing - if I tell you my rate is $195 per hour you freak out, say that is crazy and then think - this guy must be amazing if people pay him that. It changes the mindset and even if you cannot get them signed at 195, it makes 150 sound like a bargain. The catch - you have to be worth it.
Can't wait for this to migrate into NYC
Vertical integration of design and post-pcs
my main point was that venture capitalists own the vast majority of the company, and the founders own a comparatively small fraction.

i think we should be moving away from this model.

zendesk isn't even profitable.
> What about people that can separate their personal from their business? Eich never did anything at all at Mozilla to push his point of view on gay marriage. If #1 is true, then that plays to him not doing so as well as CEO.

Right, we definitely had (at least) two different signals about how Eich would behave as CEO with respect to LGBT employees. And how he behaved in practice is arguably a much stronger signal than his political donations, especially when coupled with his statements of support for Mozilla's inclusive culture and promise to maintain it.

The strongest counterarguments I've seen go something like this:

- Eich was never previously in an executive leadership role; being CTO is important but not in the same way as CEO. So his past behavior is less of a signal than his supporters would have us believe, especially since we don't know about every interaction he's ever had with his LGBT colleagues.

- It's easy to accept that Eich had no plans to e.g. try to roll back domestic partner benefits for LGBT couples; with Mozilla's current culture, that would have zero chance of happening anyway. But given his political donations, are we 100% sure that he wouldn't be in favor of it if the culture shifted? If not, then it's reasonable to oppose him as CEO.

- Even if we expect zero policy changes driven by Eich's beliefs, as CEO he would be making decisions about people's roles within the company. It's reasonable to be concerned about how fair-minded he would be, particularly if someone felt they were being marginalized.

I'm not sold on these arguments, but I think they're sincere and I cringe every time someone categorizes them as a "witch hunt".
It's amazing to me how much price movements create news. Often people think the causality is the other way around; that there is some underlying news that must be responsible for price movements. Prognosticators in the stock market are forever looking for reasons for the price movements. Simply supply is greater than demand.

In the greater scheme of things this fall is no more significant than the last falls when bitcoin dropped from $30ish to $2, or when it dropped from $267 to $50ish. The question still remains: will bitcoin become a standard for online payments and a medium of savings? If it will, it will be a bargain whether it's $10, $100 or even $1000, and all these price movements, and the kerfuffle they cause will seem amazingly quaint to those looking back on the past (our present).
Here in the U.S., we don't have rules that require ISPs to retain such data, yet many ISPs (especially the largest ones) happily do so for months or years.

One of the first things I did shortly after going to work for an ISP was to create a formal retention policy. We certainly don't "record" user traffic (with the exception of a tcpdump if I'm troubleshooting, for example) anyways, but nearly nothing is kept for more than seven days. I wish more ISPs operated this way.
Thanks for the terrific insight. Had no idea that it was like running Fort Knox. With that sort of investment, no wonder the pressure to amortise capital costs pushes the prices up.
RIAA sues Megaupload over copyright infringement
Well, the 10 beefy boxes will be much, much faster if your problem is not very distributable. Say, Facebook as an application shards very easily, because most users don't interact much with each other. Other applications, might have much more interactions.

What you're really paying for when buying a 256 processor POWER7 box is the fact that the interconnect (and therefore the time to acquire a lock/update data from another node) is much faster and more reliable than commodity networks/kernels/stack.
Zendesk Acquires Zopim For Up To $29.8M
Heartbleed coder: bug in OpenSSL was an honest mistake
I agree, there is no such thing as 'safest OS' however it also depends on who are you trying to save from? Government? forget it. Viruses and malwares (non gov stuff) then MacOS is still better than others. This is a lengthy discussion though.
If I'm understanding correctly, you're contemplating just asking random people that you don't know for money, simply because you are graduating?

May I ask where you are from? I'm genuinely curious if this is considered socially acceptable. It reminds me of the "homeless" guy standing on the corner at the intersection with a sign asking for money.
Yes, the problem is that CSS's structural presentation is ultimately tied to the DOM. Funny you bring this up, as I commented earlier here:

"GSS was created b/c our company's main product, the Grid (still in stealth mode), is doing some radical things with design of newsfeeds, we need layout to be completely decoupled from the DOM. A fairly developed Float / Flexbox-based layout becomes as much of a CSS affair as an HTML one; changing layouts requires a whole new set of div wrappers. CSS was designed to separate presentation from content, and that ideal has unforeseen manifold benefit when actually realized."

Here's an example,
http://gridstylesheets.org/demos/apple/
notice the button & panel layout as you change the screen size. Now, view-page-source & notice how every element is a direct child of <body>, no parent-child nesting... Here's a recording of talk I recently gave at FluentConf that delves deeper into this: https://vimeo.com/91393694
The "Heartbleed" Internet Security Flaw: What You Need to Know
Is this of interest?

Oh yeah, definitely.

Thoughts?

Want. Now.

Seriously, I could see this being really useful if it works. I'd be very interested in giving it a try.
I'm curious if 30 minutes is the lower bound on meaningful project time if the constraint of writing code is lifted. I've been thinking about what kinds of projects could be decomposed into 20 minute work units, allowing some work units to basically be all thinking (design, specs, figuring out how to split up a problem, etc.) and others to be more coding.

I'm suspicious that there are many projects that could be decomposed like this, or even into 10 minute blocks, but that it'd be really helpful to have tools that makes this more achievable -- ones that basically remind you of where you were and help with the what-do-I-do-next decision.

Does anyone have any experience with this kind of development process?
It's funny because the video is shot in China...
> Price-wise, I think the tech is a tad out of reach for most people right now.

That's my thought, too. I'm no stranger to buying expensive music gear just to see what I can get out of it, but £2400 (about $4000) is a huge chunk of change. That'd get you Ableton Push, a nice digital piano, a decent interface, and another mid-range instrument. Big investment for something speculative.

If the prebuilt version was half the price, I'd back it in a heartbeat, but as it stands, I can't justify the cost.
Hm? How is free email hosting a great opportunity in 2014?
C memcmp() timing channels are extremely difficult in practice to exploit, even at relatively close proximity to targets, so I'm not sure how practical any of this is.
I'd be willing to pay a dollar a month for a daily email flow of like 1-10 Max a day in, 2 out.

Well, Max being "regular maximum I've goo ten so far" hot a hard limit.

But also why I choose Microsoft or Google would be because of decent spam detection and overall filtering,
Thanks. Reading this thread, it feels like I'm the only one who has already been boycotting dropbox.

Hopefully this news will lead to increased development for a product like SparkleShare. Lord knows we need it.
Are Saunas the Next Big Performance-Enhancing “Drug”?
Security is always going to involve trust. Even putting aside root certificates, you'd still have to trust your browser and your operating system.

That's not to say there aren't better mechanisms for verifying trust, but you'll never eliminate it entirely. There's always going to be some assumption, such as "the central authorities are trustworthy" in the case of SSL, or "the majority of nodes are trustworthy" in the case of Tor, or "the CPU majority is trustworthy" in the case of Bitcoin.
The more obvious explanation is that the Chinese crackdown on bitcoin has tamped down the massive demand for BTC in China: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/10/bitcoin-prices-dow...
Just because there is a slim chance bitcoin might end up being worth 2,000x what it is right now does not mean it's current price is meaningless. I would buy a lot of power ball lottery tickets for 1 cent but at 1$ a pop there a poor investment.
People aren't logical entities, so the fact that slippery-slope arguments are "logical" fallacies is completely irrelevant.
pharaohgeek's response is an eyeopener.

You could provide an easy to use guide for people to install your root certificate into their browser. Then it becomes a matter of making sure that your CA issued certificates are not abused. I think that is a huge risk if you can't make sure that spammers, etc can't get hold of your certificates.
Ask HN: What are the current debates and unsolved issues in web development?
Basically anything in the realm of web development that there's no solid consensus on.

As a disclaimer, I'm looking for a topic to write a research paper on for university and was looking for something both relevant and interesting.
No problem. One quick thing I learned: pandoc is sooooooo much better for this than anything else. I was originally using Calibre to generate stuff, and their epubs don't follow the spec, and so don't work correctly in some readers. I was _this close_ to writing a Ruby script that would unzip, s/foo//g, rezip it back up, before I found pandoc.
American Bar Association Model of Professional Conduct Rule 5.6:

A lawyer shall not participate in offering or making:

(a) a partnership, shareholders, operating, employment, or other similar type of agreement that restricts the right of a lawyer to practice after termination of the relationship, except an agreement concerning benefits upon retirement; or

(b) an agreement in which a restriction on the lawyer's right to practice is part of the settlement of a client controversy.

49 of the 50 states have adopted their own version of the ABA rule prohibiting non-competes in the practice of law. In fact in Florida if an associate leaves a firm, for every file the associate worked on, said associate must notice each client of their right to continue representation with the firm or the associate, of course the associate can not be forced to accept any client(s). Your examples of non-solicitation is generally true, but there is a difference between non-solicitation and non-compete under the rule, especially against a partner who sold the practice or retired.
And who did George Tenet report to, again?
The code in question is a Ruby FFI wrapper for OpenSSL (not a fork). Originally the function wasn't static, so when OpenSSL made it static, Ruby copied the function implementation to their source tree, as to avoid breaking their API.
Apple Says iOS, OS X and “Key Web Services” Not Affected by Heartbleed
As someone who holds Bitcoin this is the one thing that has concerned me the most. Mt. Gox has seemed incredible shady. What if they have been manipulating the market all along?
pobox.com is $20 per year, which is $1.67 per month
Agreed. But is there a magic number that small internal teams can afford to put on the company expense monthly and have it pass.
How do you think you compare with established players, like uShip?
OpenSSL Heartbeat Extension Vulnerability in Multiple Cisco Products
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I agree with you 100%. But as an anecdote I know full time employee that was supposed to be working on a football game for company ABC. He had an arrangement to work from home. He worked for ~1 year and appeared to be very behind schedule. He then quit, started his own company, 3 months later his company shipped a football game.
That's the issue though. Libertarians often say things like "If you don't like Walmart, don't shop there," which is fine, but puts the responsibility on the consumer to know the various ideologies of the businesses they choose to support. If we want to live in a society in which this responsibility lies with the consumer, then the people who make up a company's board of directors are an important part of this decision making process.
I don't mind paying for the service. I just hope they handle migration to Office 365 well. I currently sign in to my Windows Phone with an account made through this, and it automatically sets up contacts/calendar/email sync. What I don't want to happen when I move to Office 365 (which seems to use a different "Organizational" account system) is to have two email accounts for the same email address, when only the Office 365 (Exchange) one works.

Edit: same goes for Windows 8(.1) as to automatic accounts. Deleting and recreating would be an option (I don't keep emails around for long), except this Microsoft account also has all my Xbox games and a few licenses of Windows attached to it.
But you are falsely implying that the intent "be good for big projects" is opposed to the concept of "having useful abstractions". It is not. Go fails at being useful for big projects precisely because it fails to have basic useful abstractions. Those are most important in large projects. In a 1000 line program it doesn't matter much if I am repeating code, there's just not that much code anyways. In a 1000000 line project, it is a serious maintenance problem.
I don't see how pluggable or proxying support your argument. What would be the alternative that would more clearly communicate intent and avoid bugs? Just avoiding these constructs altogether isn't an answer to this question. Yes, some constructs/patterns should generally be avoided, but when they are necessary higher level constructs like these are a boon rather than a hindrance.

>Keep in mind that the worst problem is actually with badly caught exceptions.

My point here was that if we granted that checked exceptions, i.e. forcing handling of an exception by the compiler, is a net negative, the construct of exceptions themselves (sans forced handling) is still superior to error codes for the reasons I mentioned.
Be aware that with a Google Drive account you explicitly give Google unfettered access to all of your data to do with what they want.
I use a personal GMail account, and forward my @domain.com emails to it. You can set up a "reply from" email address, and it works great. (Your @gmail.com account is still in the headers, but it's probably fine.)

Most registrars will offer an option to forward. If not, I've used ImprovMX [1] and it worked like a charm.

[1] http://improvmx.com

(Note: With something like ImprovMX, you have to trust whomever made it. In this case, it was made by https://twitter.com/atereshkin)
I see it from a different perspective: You are trying to rob someone of their ability to work because you think their politics should have been prosecuted.

And thank you for the wonderfully engaging insults. Enjoy your bigotry.
Very my much impression. What you can abuse JS to do is impressive and I would never ever want to maintain a codebase that used these tricks.
Two thirds of players ditch free mobile games in less than 24 hours – GameSpot
> If we used a boycott at every opportunity, at every disagreement, where would we be?

If we used a slippery slope argument at every opportunity, at every disagreement, where would we be? Would we be able to buy milk for fear of the veritable avalanche of milk we may end up buying in the future? Could we stand the idea of going to work one day under the contemplation of spending the next thousand years, every day, going to work?

Boycotts are not new. They are not novel to Eich's situation and it working is not a sign of a Brave New World in which every person boycotts every other person.

If I'm wrong, and in ten years I can't talk to you because I have a beard and you don't, please feel free to say "I told you so," but in the meantime this kind of argument is just ridiculous.
Have you never worked a job in which you've never wished some people to get fucked over?
The graphic novels are like books to me. But getting the monthly titles was more about going to the comic book store with friends and hanging out (and speculating about their value).

The comic book store I used to go too closed down a few years ago. I'm sad to see it go, but the industry is going to have to change to survive.
Yeah, you do have to be crossover-aware before you pick up 50 issues of a title. I passed on an X-Men sale they ran a while back because I remember having to drop that title every summer when I was a kid.

They were doing the sale every week, and it's always something different. I've picked up huge continuous runs of Deadpool, Daredevil, and the Walking Dead.
Ask HN: Can we consider the web safe now?
I am not a security expert but the heartbleed bug, that leaves almost no traces, has affected a big part of the internet (some say over 50%, others over 70%), and I think that it is pretty much impossible for the most of it to be quickly updated.

So will we live with the consequences of this bug for a few years?

And how can we be sure that bugs like that aren't included in other commonly used libraries?

Please let me know I am mistaken.
There is some public work on this:

http://bap.ece.cmu.edu/

Unfortunately, most people do not find this to be terribly exciting. Worse still, there is almost no demand for it; most programmers want to quickly hack out something cool, and by the time they begin thinking about security it is too late.
Google Glass puts the focus on Parkinson's
That seems very dangerous. This "insane" amount if stuff being done, does it really matter?
The fact that Zendesk isn't profitable is related to the ownership. Growing as fast as you can often involves spending more money than you make. VCs can trade you that money for equity. The old saying goes that 100% of a small company isn't worth as much as 10% of a huge company.
This has everything to do with political (in)tolerance.

There is nothing to be gained from asking a person to step down over their past political beliefs and actions, other than engendering fear and heightening mistrust among people with different points of view. It also happens to be illegal to fire employees over their beliefs in many states.

Tolerating difference and changing minds can enact positive social change, destroying the heathens does little.
is mining competitive, though?
Cloud Storage Services Affected By Heartbleed