skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@nostrademons

1)the rate of inflation will be
equal to takers/savers

2)the whole point of having the ability to have an printing press to everyone is to devalue the concept of "time value" to discourage users from hoarding

3)ethical/ideal reasons mainly, sustainable growth vs debt-based growth

to clarify; I believe your question is mainly that what stops the users from cheating the system?

So there is 2 reasons,
A) we remove the incentive to hoard by devaluing the time-value of money, so theoretically if sally wants an car at the immediate time she theoretically can award her-self karma points to purchase the car at the spot, if sally is guaranteed to have an car at any point in the future will she have an need to store that car in her garage?

B)if there is an absolute information parity, then each vendor can also check the history of an potential consumer; if the consumer has an shabby history, then there are options no?
> By computers, I think you mean exchanges

No; as I responded to another post in this subthread, I mean multiple computers belonging to a single exchange, such as NASDAQ. In one of the previous HN threads on this topic, somebody linked to a post that showed the situation I'm talking about; I'll see if I can find it.
Starting an interactive Java Textbook. What do you think?
> How I hacked HN using a CSS vulnerability to make it look like reddit. 4214 comments 1 hour ago
Hmm, clever.
Then there's my brother who as a young adult filling in some sort of form asked "Mum, what religion am I?"

If you have to ask like that, you'd best put nothing.
Here's a related Mozilla bug report from 2002 regarding the link visited issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777
Interesting. Could this maybe be bypassed by looking at computed CSS values of an element?
Linux-based NAS hosts private clouds and VMs
The problem with only changing the law is that you are still going to have federal judges issuing secret rulings "rubber stamping" data collection.

The real problem isn't that the courts are rubber stamps, its that nobody checks the courts work. Yes, I know the FISA court approves the vast majority of requests. Most judges approve the vast majority of requests. That doesn't mean they are rubber stamps; It means that DAs and investigators normally work hard to get their ducks in a row before asking for a warrant. These judges are human, so they make mistakes issuing warrants. Investigators are human, so they make mistakes (or "mistakes") staying within the bounds of the warrant. Then a defendant get brought in and their defense attorney sees the evidence against their client was improperly gathered. They file a Motion to Suppress and the judge or investigator is rebuked. If denied suppression, they can file an appeal and it can go to as far as the Supreme Court.

Why is the FISA court a rubber stamp? Nobody checks their work.
Why does nobody check their work? There are no suppression hearings on data gathered via PRISM because the data isn't used as evidence for a prosecution.
Maybe just avoid making a big deal out of it. In my travels over there, it didn't seem to come up and almost everyone was really friendly.

(Also live in a country where having no religion is the norm and there are probably more negative connotations for identifying as religious.)
It's funny to see sites highlight specific CEOs. It seems to say something about their viewpoint or possibly their target demographic.
City of Seattle Data Portal
Apparently not. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Privacy_and...
Doesn't invoke that meaning to me at all. Sounds really off.
Because in the donated service (car pooling) its much less likely that the people participating are doing so as members of the public.

Its like the difference between me showing a movie in my house to 15 friends And me renting out a movie theatre and opening the doors for everyone to come in. Even if the same 15 friends show up, they do it as members of the public.
It's not an encompassing stereotype but US does have some evangelists and devout Christians that believe that the US is a "Christian Nation". To them Atheists are the ones that took prayer out of school and that want to take the 10 commandments monuments off court steps. So some people view Atheists as troublemakers. It's mostly a political issue.

Realize I'm talking about a small minority, but they're also vocal. I doubt you will encounter them in tourist areas. In tourist areas people are more interested in your money then your religion, it just won't come up.

But in casual conversation with strangers, I personally identify as "Not Religious" instead of "Atheist". For some reason the term Atheist carries extra baggage in US.
Because if there is money involved there is incentive to do it for a living, which leads to incentive to cut costs and that might not always be done in a consumer-friendly way; therefore regulation is needed. If there is no money involved, the people who would cut costs and make it unsafe for the consumer are rarer -- since they can't do it for a living, and the relationship is harder to regulate since the only thing involved is communication between two parties, so it's probably not worth it.
Browsers lie in the computed CSS values. Regardless of whether you have visited the link or not, the computed style that JavaScript sees is always unvested.
Making the Thunderbird address book not suck would be a good firsr step in this regard.
I just read the source code, uses caches.
Yes, but at Keller's restaurant it's not charged in advance -- it's just a "gratuity included" situation. The specific definition in the FLSA states that tips for an employee are "actually received by the employee", which is the main issue in counting prior ticket purchase as gratuity.

Also, Nick, if you're still reading -- do you think that the prepurchase model materially affects people's spending on e.g. upgrades and drinks? My wife and I did Alinea & Aviary on November, and I was definitely happier to spend a little more given that the original "purchase" was so many paychecks in the past.
Vanessa averaged A's in high school but tested a 22 on the ACT: she was the top of her class, but her class was very far behind the students in the rest of the country. Her high school was clearly ineffective and set her up for failure on her first test. Good for her for sticking with it and working through/around/with a terribly unequal system that disadvantaged her from the start.

Perhaps instead of an SAT or an ACT, there should be a test where different colleges contribute questions that are representative of intro level classes at the school. Questions would progress from relatively easy (large state school questions) to more complex, esoteric questions that would show up for the more selective, private school caliber students.

This would overcome an important informational friction: high school students don't see college-level test questions until they're enrolled and sitting in class, with the test in front of them. If you are going to make a $200k investment, you should have as much information as possible about your chances of success before signing on the dotted line.
Show HN: A simple CLI I built to generate custom git.io links for my projects
As someone who has sold millions of dollars worth of event (mostly broadway) tickets, the fact that they're moving that quickly says you're not charging enough. My first instinct when I see something that moves that quickly is to write a program that reserves them for me and sell them at a 2x-3x profit on the secondary market.

Is there an opportunity for that, or does a secondary market exist? Imagine traditional market economics applied to the same model - eBay for restaurants?
yes "impossible" denotes some sort of 'law of nature' that cannot be avoided, and "almost impossible" doesn't.
I presumed as much. But if you can covertly jimmy the UI and parse the user's interaction, you can more or less get at the history like that anyway.

I don't see any secure way to handle this besides disallowing :visited styling entirely.
> buy-and-hold investors can move in and out of a position for much less than they could in the 80s

In other words, brokerage fees, or the equivalent, should be lower, so the overhead to execute a trade is lower. That has some value, yes, but not a lot, because a buy-and-hold investor, of course, doesn't execute many trades, so the overhead cost of executing trades is already pretty small for him.

Also, most "buy-and-hold" investors hold mutual funds, not stocks, which changes things. See below.

> costs...can be very important even to value investors when there is some extrinsic prompt to trading

Yes, but as I just noted, most "buy-and-hold" investors are holding mutual funds, not stocks, so they aren't paying the direct costs of stock trading anyway. When I want to rebalance my 401k, I don't trade stocks, I trade mutual fund shares, and they're all shares of different funds offered by Fidelity or Vanguard or whoever my 401k provider is. (And with most 401k's, certainly with the ones I have, as long as you don't rebalance too often there is no fee for rebalancing.)

So decreasing the overhead cost of trading will only appear to me, if at all, as a decrease in mutual fund fees; but with most 401k's the individual doesn't see those anyway, because they're provided through employers. I don't know how much the fee question affects the negotiations between employers and mutual fund providers for setting up 401k's, but in any case that's at least two layers of indirection between me as a retirement investor and the overhead cost of executing individual stock trades.

So I can see some small benefit, yes, but is it enough to offset the high social cost of having so many smart people doing HFT instead of something more productive?
True that, they make pennies, but they do get exposure. But then if your going down the 'Every pirate play is a lost sale' route they should be giving the artists more. Has there been profit data released about spotify? What does there CEO make?
Obvious question - how was the list of URLs compiled? Some are really specific like YouTube channels. On the other hand there are only 15 categories and there are probably a lot of people that would not get a single match or only something very generic like Wikipedia.
gevent should have py3 support soonish since dropbox put their money behind it:
https://github.com/surfly/gevent/issues/38

You can use gevent in a similar manner to this - monkeypatching is not required
On that note, Colorado has something slightly similar implemented, except with a different underlying platform (Socrata): http://data.colorado.gov
crypto has never been perfect, and it will never be perfect. stakeholders should pay for their own code audits.

the number of people in the world who give a fuck if your stakeholders like free crypto software is exactly you plus the number of stakeholders. ;)
Hacking for visibility on LinkedIn
It talks about buffering in memory. That could be bad.. I'm assuming/hoping they'd put some kind of upper bound on it, or you could easily take out a server.
See my response to tptacek upthread.
Universities should weigh the first semester less and cap the number of hours taken. I know plenty of people who fucked up their first semester due to culture shock/feelings of isolation.
The Single Transistor Radio
"The US" is awfully big. Nobody cares if you're an atheist in New York or San Francisco, but it would definitely limit your social life in Nashville.
If you want to be pedantic, the image format is actually called JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format). It's been designed by the JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group).
Open Source Drinking Water Distiller and Thermostat Cooker Combined
Virginia DMV Tells Uber And Lyft To Stop Operating
Standard islamaphobic narrative - i.e support extremists in their claim to own the religion. Ignore other Muslims as fakers.
> automation + speed = the smallest amount of frictional costs being extracted from the market.

Ok, this makes sense. But it still leaves the question, how much are the frictional costs decreased by HFT, and is that benefit enough to offset the social costs?
they only get paid for implementing fips-related security features, which is an important job. they would love to spend more time on core security and have already tooled up to.

they went into the consulting biz to pay for the maintenance of openssl, but it hasn't panned out well until recently.

it's petty to take something done with great dedication and provided for free, with freedom, and demonize them. where are YOUR commits?
Court Again Orders Government Not to Destroy Evidence in NSA Spying Case
That strikes me as a system that was set up with the best intentions, but which in practice acts as a barrier to, rather than facilitator of, change

Hu?

I can see an argument that is is ineffective (maybe it just drops into the FDA bureaucracy), but I'm not sure how you can argue it is actually a barrier?

The FDA does actually have some pretty significant regulatory authority over medical devices. IANAL, but it appears this may be one of the limited cases where the FDA may actually be able to force a recall[1] as opposed to just requesting it. I suspect (and hope) the "recall" would actually be limited to a software update in this case. Even if they can't force it, a FDA-requested recall is a pretty significant thing.

[1] http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/Transparency/PublicDis...
Entire Back to the Future town to be recreated for anniversary screening
> It's not credible to suppose that Comcast's network is built around equal exchange of traffic. The broadband connections they provide are wildly asymmetrical, often by an order of magnitude.

That's because around the time Comcast was building up their networks customer demand was wildly asymmetrical. People simply download far more than they upload and Comcast wisely dedicated more of it's bandwidth to downloads.
Abjad is a Python API designed by composers Trevor Baca and Josiah Oberholtzer that wraps/extends Lilypond:
http://abjad.mbrsi.org/start_here/abjad/index.html
Translation: Zuckerberg and Nadella score points for pretending to give a shit about NSA surveillance and users' privacy, and all of us are callously manipulated into giving them props.

Conveniently, especially for Zuckerberg, the narrative implied here exactly counteracts the previous narrative implied about their companies: that they do not, in fact, give a shit.

And all they had to do was write a letter!
Lions and Jellyfish: Blogging Content Creation
This was a famous but now dated (2009) socket benchmark of frameworks that involved Diesel http://nichol.as/asynchronous-servers-in-python
thanks for sharing, love the simplicity.
I'm having a hard time following here. What is "covertly jimmying a UI" and how would it allow you to exploit visited styles?
"If you don't believe in God then what stops you from murdering people?" is a question that has been asked of atheists I know.

There are students who, having been excluded from school prayers at the behest of their atheist parents, are ostracized by the town.

There has never been an (openly) non-religious President. (And a single digit number of non-Protestant Presidents.)

A political candidate's piety, or lack thereof, is fair game for a political smear campaign.

Of course, reactions vary greatly depending on where you are. Coastal urban areas are generally much more atheist-friendly; an open atheist will, at worst, simply be looked down on by the pious. The inland "Bible belt", not so much. Atheism = devil worship, and exorcisms are a thing that are still performed.
Dropbox, who appointed Condoleezza Rice to their board, asked the US government to restrain their spying?
This just solved a huge problem I've been struggling with. This is beautiful - I don't actually want to know the information I've been trying to access, but it will make the experience better for the user. I now realize I don't HAVE to know - the browser knows, and that's all that matters. I just have to teach the browser what to do.
There is no redundant information in progressive JPEG. JPEG stores image as frequencies (transforms 8x8 block into "layers" of varying levels of detail) and then it can arrange this data in the file in couple of ways, either:

ABCD ABCD ABCD ABCD

or

AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD
Hipmunk does a great reservation system for flights.
Yes, help fund these people on the basis on what gender they have or if they have said nice things about other people with another gender or sexuality.

Because _that's_ equality people!

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Edit: Downvoted immiedietly of course. Is it just me that thinks it's weird to have a community where we activly encourage to treat people special just because of their gender/sexuality/political thoughts.

It's a bit like "fund me, I vote on Obama" or like the more hilarious "fund me because I want to get stinking rich". Each one of those tells me exactly the same on the work that person is doing.

Jon Lajoie has a "kickstarter" for getting rich:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSR3h1wUoS8
It's sexy enough because they put that effort in in the first place. If they don't continue it would begin to look sloppy, as the piece points out. It's not bike shedding because good design is integral to Apple's brand, and good design is about attention to detail.
It was eerily accurate on me.

1. science
2. technology
3. programming
State of Colorado Data Portal
That's exactly what's going to happen. In fact, they already held a very similar hearing right after the Snowden leaks, and it was all about praising the NSA.
If the NSA's ability to spy is a critical piece of national security -- then that which opposes it is a national security threat. It isn't the Greenwalds or the Applebaums who are the targets, it is the people who are elected President, run for Congress, or run big technology companies. The only people who have come close to spelling this out are Senator Ron Wyden and Bill Binney. That was before Snowden's leaks.

I'm not impressed by tech's leadership on this. Their fear today will mean a new generation will see secret pervasive surveillance as a feature to be added to; and perhaps that generation already does.
Exclusivity is kinda a big deal to many restaurants. If you charge "open market" prices and get "open market" customers, people might be much quicker to decide the stall across the street is a lot more hip than you.
NO. Not "brokerage fees".

Whatever you pay to your brokerage, you pay on top of the spread. The spread is what you pay to place a market order.

In exchange for the privilege of buying right now, you pay the best offer price. In exchange for the privilege of selling right now, you pay the best bid price.

It's a commission you pay per share; the more shares you try to move, the more you pay whoever's providing you the liquidity.
What a huge step backwards. We had decades of binary protocols. They sucked. Then everyone moved to non-binary protocols and it was much better. Let's not do it all over again.
I agree that he did violate one of their terms of service, and, like you, I believe it is unfair and too extreme to ban him from ever submitting an app to the Google Play store again.

The author links to a few other people who have also been banned. It's amazing that Google does not provide some way for developers to get reinstated in the Google Play store. Google basically owns the Android app market space and a ban for life is too severe.
Teardrop was fantastic.
I like the intent of this chart, but the Y-axis is a mess. Combining percent change from 2007 (as units for the y-axis) with roll-overs of actual numbers that contain data pre-2007 is very unintuitive.
What if you can believe in god and have no religion?
Here's the same exploit disguised as a game, to make it less obvious that it's tricking the user into interacting with it: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/yahh/

Documentation of the game proof-of-concept: http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2013/05/some-harmless-old-fashio...
yes, i can. let's take columbia for an example. the united states spends (obviously wastes) billions of dollars fighting cocaine production there. it may actually be a net win to fucking _send_ entrepreneurs there to give creative-minded young folks an alternative to spending their creativity evading capture.
The funniest part about what he said, is "Bawww we'll lose business overseas because they know they're being spied on!"

No shit, sherlock! You should lose business if your government gets caught doing shit that foreign people don't like. Your government is allowed to do that, yes, but you're not allowed to complain if we foreigners decide that we don't want to do business with companies based in a country that gives zero shits about our right to privacy.

It's all pretty hilarious tbh
Perhaps the OP meant to say it's tough to retain top talent without being on the top of your own game in terms of providing benefits and culture to them.
Huh. I've never heard that term before. Now that I know the definition...I'm skeptical I would want to read that person's code.
Hashtags-as-topics look very much like IRC channels, yes? Are there any special features here we don't get with something like IRC?
Red Sneaker Effect: How to increase brand value by ignoring the norm
A little bit meta, but: The funniest part of sites like these with real-time chats getting posted, is seeing how prim and proper our comments on HN are compared to what we're all like in a chat box.
teledildonics, n.

1. A word that means exactly what you think it means.
the cool part was that i got to have an e-mail exchange with steve bourne, because he was at the time the past president of the ACM. i mean, we'll obviously never be friends because i had to throw a fucking tantrum over an entire year of income, but it was kind of like:

hey, steve, thanks for writing that unix shell we all use a clone of. by the way, i would fucking really like to get paid since i was living on the couch in fema housing babysitting my friends' kid after katrina the entire time i worked for you guys.

what's great is that i started doing the work as a volunteer and was aggressively pushed into a contract, which they later didn't want to pay, though they had no issues paying for piles of HP servers that went unused or oracle licenses to solve problems that could probably have been solved with mysql.

but hey, i'm still alive, so: yo, motherfucker, wheee!
If you open the console and run this script, it'll click every single square, giving a list of the most common types of sites in the array being used:

for(i=0;i<$$('a').length;i++) {
$$('a')[i].click()
}
City Of Denver Data Portal
I don't think these companies even know they were helping it.