skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So does this mean Nginx now supports WebSockets? In the past when looking into it as a reverse proxy I was advised to avoid it and instead use HAProxy.
How much do you plan on charging for the API once it exits beta?
> It is used to increase the apparent size of the hips and buttocks to resemble those of a female. The padding is intended to improve the person's chance of passing as female by altering their apparent waist-hip ratio and shoulder-hip ratio.
I may be reading this wrong, but I think this means that a shot glass is mathematically perfect.
If you're serious about building a prototype as fast as you can, you don't need to build something someone else has built for you. If you find it to hard to imagine using that service in the long term, you might be right, but you can just replace it if your product goes anywhere.
Not by the ISP. All their equipment is made by other companies (like Cisco, Juniper, etc.) who do that kind of innovation. They're just buying the pieces and snapping them together.
> Fuk and Tai were arrested at the Los Angeles airport after security agents searched their luggage and found an encrypted disk containing the files that Chi Mak had copied.

I would imagine someone working for Chinese intelligence would be using a robust encryption method. The article makes it seem like recovering the information from the disk was trivial.

It makes me wonder if the Chinese are just sloppy about secrecy, or if the US is just skilled at data recovery. I lean towards the latter.
That's the wrong repository: that's a front-end (a UI written using angular); the backend repository (which could be said to be an open-source implementation of chain.com) is the one I link below. All this package does is provide a node.js wrapper for the bitcoind API. Almost all of the code (in both repositories) is project boilerplate or data marshaling: everything even remotely difficult is just "run bitcoind". I maintain it would be difficult to get locked in to a service like this just because it isn't open source: it isn't that difficult to rewrite.

https://github.com/bitpay/insight-api

As for "resource intensive", I was thinking memory, disk space, and network connectivity: the reason these services are valuable is because the blockchain is 18GB at this point, so downloading it to clients or even storing it at all on some clients, is at minimum "egregiously painful" and sometimes "pretty much impossible". If you want to be able to answer tons of different kinds of questions about transactions with low latency you are likely going to be storing this information with a number of specialized indexes, further increasing the database size requirement.

However, "people" is also a valuable point, but no: having an open source project doesn't solve that; if you make a program that uses bitcoin, you either have to download and manipulate the blockchain locally (which sounds awesome, and is arguably half the point of bitcoin to many reasonable people, but in practice is not realistic or even possible in many if not most interesting situations) or use a service. You can either run your own service or use someone else's. I enjoy running services: I accept that most people do not ;P. Instead, they would rather use a hosted API such as this one (or any of the numerous existing alternatives to this one) so they don't have to have people maintaining servers.
What do you think is the world's most valuable company?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco
What is your definition of "coercion" that you are using here?
Oh, it was worse than that. You used to not even own your phone, only rent it from the telephone company; a lot of elderly couples are still getting charged for that phone they rented, and threw out, decades ago [1]. Thankfully, most customers are now at least allowed the tiny luxury of their own cable modem.

http://www.consumerwarningnetwork.com/2009/03/25/is-grandmom...
Preach it.

That said, if you get a cushy job, it can stay cushy for a long time.
None of the storage servers should have been storing the user data on the same volume as the OS the way a client machine would. So the network-mounted home directories should be intact and ready to use once the server OS is reinstalled. And while I don't know how SCCM works, I'd be surprised if this image push was affecting anything other than the primary physical drive (a wipe-all, populate-one recipe would be too obviously wrong and dangerous, right?).
I find that in order to get natural feedback early in a development cycle, you need to write so many interdependent bits of code to get something actually working that any mistakes you made along the way are buried in a mountain of spatial complexity. By testing at a lowish level along the way, you don't have to wait until there's a button to press to see if things are working as expected. Long feedback cycles make for tedious debugging sessions. I consider testing more useful as an aid for authoring code than as proof that it works after the fact, but that's a nice side effect. It also forces good separation of concerns (monolithic procedures are difficult to isolate). I don't worry about 100% code coverage; I test what I need to test to feel confident my code is working.

Edit: I also write a lot of throw-away tests as I go. I find that the easiest way to figure out how third party libraries work is to write tests against the documentation. If you find something unexpected that way, you can be pretty sure it's somebody else's fault.
> I think you're focusing too much on the technical implementation

I'm focusing on the functionality that's being implemented, which is what the poster I was responding to said was important. Having privileged routes is different functionality from having multiple hosts that all have copies of the same data.

> a CDN effectively carries traffic from a content provider to the end user.

But so does a non-CDN. So does any route on the Internet. The only difference with a CDN is that the content provider has paid for more servers to host multiple copies of the data. But the money is for those multiple copies, not for giving any specific copy a privileged route to certain users. As above, that's a functional difference.

Here's another way of seeing the functional difference. Say I use two online services, A and B. A is served using a global CDN. B is served using a privileged network with my current ISP. Now I change ISPs to one that service B isn't paying for privileged access to. I see no difference in performance with service A, but a big difference in performance with service B. So service A using a CDN doesn't lock me in to a specific ISP; but service B paying for privileged routes does.

> the end result is still "pay more for faster access"

No, it's "pay more for multiple copies of your data". It's not "pay more to have your data go over a quicker route from the same place".

> isn't that exactly what net neutrality is against?

No, net neutrality is not against "pay more for faster access", like service A above. It's against "pay more for privileged access to an ISP's users", like service B above.
Have you heard of Tradecraft? You might consider reaching out to alumni of the program, and asking them about their experience. You could get insights on how those students found out about Tradecraft to help you sell your bootcamp.

http://tradecrafted.com/
The books on and around my nightstand:

+ Joy of Clojure. A recent gift[card]. I put off learning Clojure because of it's more complex syntax. I'm both glad I did, and that I have this book now that that's the no longer the case.

+ ANSI Common Lisp. Lisp was out of reach at the time when my younger self might have pursued computer programming, and realizing around two years ago how accessible it had become got me to download Lisp in a Box and then buy the used copy. Currently visiting, this book orbits in and out of the rotation with a cometary periodicity.

+ Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3, Sorting and Searching Twenty-five years ago or so I bought volume I and about 15 years I donated it to the community radio station's books sale [WMNF 88.5]. I spent about $25 dollars including shipping for used copies of the first three volumes from Amazon last year. Right now each is on a different floor. The proximate reason Sorting and Searching is by the bed: I'm taking Algorithms I on Coursera and it is the first one that really dives into algorithms. A deeper reason is that Knuth always reminds me how much more there is to know - I'm getting better at the maths, but haven't learned MIX. Maybe one of these nights.

+ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs I bought a "used" copy from MIT via Amazon last year. It's staggering how much is really in it that I glossed over 'reading' the free online version. It's much better than I thought, and I find myself constantly referring to it or just reading a section. It's also a reference for the other Coursera course I am taking: Funtional Programming in Scala with Martin Ordersky.

The non-programming books are from the public library:

+ How Literature Works: 50 Key Concepts. The sections are four to six pages and lightweight. Makes for something brief to read. It's the sort of book that I feel no obligation to finish.

+ Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology This book is actually why I mention the non-programming books. I don't read poetry, but I'd always seen people make a big deal about it, and there this was on the new book shelf. I see why the English make a big deal about Siegried Sassoon. I see why they make an even bigger deal about Wilfred Owen. It's potent and powerful and the bench of poets runs much deeper. It makes that war the last ancient one.
There was a reddit comment where someone wrote, in poignant and graphic detail, about the slow death you would find if you fell in the hole.

Someone else replied, pointing out that the hole can barely fit your leg. The juxtaposition was pretty funny.
Interoperability is relevant to fair use, but it's not the only factor. For instance, when Florian Mueller looks at the fair use argument, he cites a number of factors that weigh against it, of which the supposed lack of interoperability is only one:

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/05/oracle-v-google-fair-use-...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2014/01/why-google-books-is-proba...

While I'm not a lawyer, it would make sense to me for API reimplementation not to be fair use when viewed from the perspective of copying "declaring code", even if interoperability is stronger or argued stronger. Incorporating part of a copyrighted work in a new work intended for exactly the same use, which competes with the original, is not "transformative", and certainly has an "effect of the [] value of the copyrighted work"; it doesn't look much at all like normal examples of fair use, such as thumbnails and quotations.

Also, I did read the decision itself, and the part about fair use didn't seem particularly friendly to Google's argument, even if the issue was remanded. In particular,

"We find this particularly true with respect to those core packages which it seems may be necessary for anyone to copy if they are to write programs in the Java language."

where "this" is relevance to fair use, reflects badly on the majority of packages which are not necessary to write programs in the Java language. (I think this definition of "language" is nonsense, as even though it's what a programmer would call the Java language, I think the analogy is to human languages, which were found to not be copyrightable; yet human languages include a large amount of vocabulary, which I find analogous to API declarations. However, it's what the court used.)

We will have to see what happens in the Android case, including appeals, as well as any future cases (though I'd say the former has a good chance of producing a chilling effect that will greatly decrease the probability of potential subjects of the latter from even being created), but I don't agree with your relatively positive assessment of the power of fair use.

Also, fair use determinations can, like in this case, be decided by the jury rather than the judge, and I trust juries far less than judges to weigh how the facts actually apply to the law rather than whether it feels like some company ripped off some other company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Feline_Federation
The default python path is `c:\python2.7`. I would install a new python in your home directory then edit your $PYTHONPATH (or windows equivalent) to point to that directory.

Then, I'd use `pip install numpy scipy` (since numpy is a scipy dependency).
If you find the Bitcoin protocol so difficult that you need to use bitcoind, you should probably think twice about developing a Bitcoin service.
You can write a script to scrape the front page and search for a link back to HN. No one else will do this work for you.
What you are trying to do is out of spec, specifically including Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true and Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * . Is not allowed and its not allowed for a very good reason. That being that it is completely insecure. This combination, when visiting a hostile site will allow that site to act with the users credentials without any feedback or action on the users part.

IE9's limitations are also in spec, and again its behavior is for a good reason. Specifically GET and POST don't need to be preflighted and so webapps need to be prepared for the case where a hostile post request comes from a disallowed referrer (which can't be manipulated through javascript). Other methods do need to be preflighted so browsers that are unable to do that are not allowed to send cross-origin PUT,DELETE, etc. In fact most of the "frustrating" things MS does (e.g. disallowing cross scheme AJAX) are well thought out and if you don't understand why they make sense there is a good chance that you are creating security vulnerabilities.
A lot more happened than just swapping the box on my desk when Verizon came and installed FIOS. It took innovation to get from the 768kbps DSL line I had to the 50mbps FIOS connection. How much credit Verizon deserves for it, I don't know. Even if they did none of the innovation directly, they ended up paying for a lot of it.
Last year it was a 10GB large blockchain. Next year it will be a 40GB large blockchain. I think the argument is that no normal user considers it reasonable that you have to download tens of gigabytes of data to every single client, with at least another gigabyte every month to "keep up", in order to get relatively basic functionality. Many devices don't even have 20GB of storage in the first place :/.
I've switched to 'most' instead. You can use < and > to scroll left and right in the document.
This is still true in developing countries. e.g. FoxConn prefers women over men for assembly, but these days they can't be so picky. Most of those died in the recent Bangladesh factory tragedy were women.
Why did the Roman Empire collapse?

What is the Latin for office automation?
I'm pretty sure they don't..I had CS6 without using any patched files iirc
Yep. Though subsidising subscriptions is a pretty non transparent way of tendering for access. If you are in the business of creating lots of little monopolies to achieve universal access, wouldn't it be more transparent to just create one big monopoly?

We tried this in oz. A gov. built backbone to be sold off (the naturally competitive part), with a gov. built and maintained 'fibre to the home' access (the natural monopoly part).

Fox / News waged a months long campaign to have them booted out of office, in which they explicitly and repeatedly called the gov. nazi's, and outrageously lied about the associated costs for both the gov. and opposition broadband systems. Now we have a system which locks in contracts for the backbone, and rents copper infrastructure for the next 50 years for access. If you want fibre access, you have to pay for it to be hooked up at a prohibitively large cost.

We know we can deliver access to everyone in oz through gov. for close to the price of delivering access to a privileged few through market monopolies. At a certain point, you have to realise this isn't about bad political choice, but a deliberate and sustained attempt to lock in privilege for the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. This is the real market distortion.
DuckDuckGo and Blekko seem to think so.
Did you mean recursive?

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=recursion

:)
I was just looking at the Blockchain.info transaction API yesterday, and I'm in love with its simplicity. It doesn't even require an account, and it's one endpoint.

You just call it with a destination address and a URL, and it returns a source address. Whenever any funds reach the source address, it forwards them to the destination and calls your webhook once for every confirmation it sees.

So simple, and so brilliant. I'm trying to brainstorm things to build with it, but so far I've come up short.
Mistakes are made. In related news...

Lawn care error kills most of Ohio college's grass

http://www.wral.com/lawn-care-error-kills-most-of-ohio-colle...
You aren't noting an intrinsic difference between genders, only a cultural one.
If you want to go that route then you're going to have to find billions of dollars in cash to pay the contractors laying the fiber. Good luck with that.
>best minds of generation are deal with flaky VPN client

So true. I'm on the receiving side of this..."No you can't work on that multi million deadline project of yours...the only way to fix the VPN is to re-image the machine back at head office [an international flight away]". Me..."Could you repeat that?" And thats a Cisco Enterprise VPN...(turns out IT was right...re-image & avoid conflicting software is the only solution). So much for Cisco...
Is Saudi Aramco even a company? What defines and separates companies from governments at that point?
On the contrary, lots of people around here will write a quick script for you. I've seen it happen.

But a well chosen search is even quicker. Here's a start: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22discuss+this+on+hacker+news%22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_recognition
Publisher targets university researchers for "pirating" their own articles
According to the article this settlement is limited to the Motorola unit that is being sold to Lenovo and does not include any cross patent license. The title makes it seem like Job's "Thermonuclear War" was finally at an end, and that doesn't seem to be the case at all. The title ought to qualify it with "Google's Motorola" or something.
The 1992 Cable Act made it illegal to grant exclusive cable franchises. Since the franchises were generally renewed every 10-12 years, very few places (I don't know of any) still have legal monopolies.
Interesting that he was American but served in the RFC (predecessor to the RAF). I didn't know that you could do that. It seems that back then nationality was a looser concept? We didn't yet have the closed border regime that we have now across the first world. But there had to be limits, especially given the war. Inquiring minds want to know...
Cheering for a country based upon an image of that country is the very definition of nationalism.
After reading the above article, I can see how Facebook ended up with their current approach, but it seems to me that Flux is a roundabout and possibly inferior way of using state machines to organize application logic and user interface communication. For instance, statements like "The Dispatcher can be made to reject actions while it has not finished processing a previous action." indicate (to me, at least) that Flux could likely be more efficiently coded and used if it were based explicitly on hierarchical state machines.
>We'd be stuck with what we have now for a very long time.

Being stuck at the speed of light sounds ok to me.
Historic Modi win transforms political landscape of world's largest democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraliparis_membranaceus
How the F.B.I. Caught a Chinese Spy
No business built on teenager demand is sustainable
Given the analogy you are using, do I understand it correctly that software can "catch" GPL (as in being required to be released under the GPL, I suppose?) without a deliberate decision of its developers to include GPL licensed code into their codebase? Could you explain how that works?

Also, would you use the same language to describe typical proprietary licenses? After all, most of those would also prevent me from publishing any codebase incorporating any code I obtained under such a license as free software--or in your terminology, the codebase would be "infected" by the proprietary license which forces my software to also "catch a proprietary license"? I'm not quite sure I understand your analogy, though ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pern
Kicksat burned up, including Sprites
Less charitably: the FDA is intentionally slowing drug reviews as a bargaining tool.

It seems insane that drug approvals could be safely expedited by four months, at the suggested value to companies of $150-$300 MM, and this isn't done routinely. That revenue could easily pay for the extra eyeballs at FDA -- which are certainly much cheaper than the clinical trials themselves. I think if Congress were to question the FDA's workings, this could be prima facie evidence that the pace of drug reviews isn't set by hard constraints of public safety: it's slower than it could be, and agency leaders know it.
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firef...
I learned not a whole lot happened in Spain in the year 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_in_Spain
The reality though is that most people will never, ever need this sort of information. Unless you have a particular desire to run a block explorer or other lookup service, you are only going to be interested in addresses that you own and not those of the rest of the network. You don't need to store extended lookup tables and indexes for an ever increasing amount of information, doing so is foolish as it doesn't scale at all with the size of the network.

If a service needs to have a wallet connected to the network without the resources for storing the entire blockchain, they can just use a SPV [0] client like BitcoinJ to set bloom filters on their peers. They then get a stream of trustless information that's only relevant to the wallet at hand. You end up with a local service that's faster, completely under your control, and has a tiny resource footprint. You could happily run that a device like an iPhone, no problem.

[0]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability#Simplified_payment_ve...
Looks like we're using the same setup.

I'm using ctrl+hjkl to navigate tmux and vim panes, and winkey+hjkl to navigate i3wm windows.
I suppose my statement was a bit unfounded. Having just graduated, many of my friends have begun experimenting now that school's out (and schedules are less strict).

Small sample size, I admit...
Wireless, at present anyway, has a massive disparity against fibre with regard to bandwidth.

Or to put you comment another way, 'the poor can't afford computers or good internet access, so therefore they don't need them'.
Well for me I can try some ideas without going all-in to setting up a bitcoind server. blockchain.info seems to have a half-hearted attempt at an API too.
hey saurik!

OT: are you still involved with cydia?
Glasses-free 3-D projector
That's exactly the problem.

When I bought the Wii U for my kids, if they got to the end of the new Super Mario world and I had to go pay $N.NN to unlock the rest I'd have a really bad taste in my mouth.

What about at least including a couple awesome titles with the console? They are all around $1 to $10 (ish) right? Heck you could include 4 A-list titles where I only get ONE with a major console.

Just saying... nobody is blinded by the "free to try" idea. All that means is that I will need to spend MORE money before it's fun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Disney_Animation
Better malaria detector wins MIT $100K
It's saddening to see fellow hackers falling on hard time. I'm going to Palo Alto next week. I'll swing by to Mt View to see what I can help out.
that's awesome. Does this candidate exist?