skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love your summary about cat-sharing startups vs. C code for internet-facing daemons, but the cat-sharing people can't usually afford our rates for crypto work; most of my experience comes from code built by people with lots of experience.

Also, if you asked me who was more likely to get crypto right, the Django web guy or the C daemon guy, I'd bet on the Django guy every time. Betting against crypto implemented in C is like betting when you've made a full house on the flop: all in.
I don't think it is in this case.

Bitcoin is pretty fungible, almost like cash. If it turns out that he's innocent, he can sue the government for the money. It's not like they're selling some unique piece of art, or his family seat.
Arguably, what we've seen happen in practice is both a race toward the middle and polarization - the two parties and their supporters become more and more hostile, aggressive and unwilling to compromise over an increasingly small set of differences between the two.
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> There's a reason Southern Europe has worse economic outcomes, and that's trust.

I have no idea where you got this impression from. It is wrong, though. I did business in several southern Europe countries, and you can seal a deal with a handshake and be confident it'll go through.
There is a body of literature on the subject how self governing groups escape the tragedy of the commons. For example: http://www.amazon.com/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutio...

This is all empirical studies.
Please entertain me how drugs sold on SR kill people.
> I'm all for rabble-rousing, but if you're throwing punches you should know what you're talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Meijer_(computer_scientist...
Very interesting work. Is there a development list or some other way to follow progress?
They are talked about because Bitcoin is talked about. Their value is ridiculously low compared to BTC's.
What's with the hostile response and name calling? If you don't agree with me you can write a constructive response.
Pretty sure OP meant tobacco and alcohol. The government doesn't tax SR.
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I too have a similar problem with twitter. Its not just the signing up process, but also the signing in process, especially on the mobile application. Every time I "sign in" the mobile applicatoon , I'm put through the same annoying process of being shown suggestions of who to follow, importing my contact list, tips I already knew when I signed up and some more suggestions. Once signed in, random twitter notifications come in which make no sense or which I have not signed up to (for example, x and x have favorited x tweet who I am not following)

To further add to this without trailing off topic, twitter is incredibly restrictive when it comes to sharing content through direct messages. As I find useful resources which may benefit a friend I am advising on his startup, twitter seems to think I am spamming him even if I send one link at the time.

All of this , including reasons others have mentioned in this thread ultimately drives away users slowly. I feel like I'm fighting the platform just to share content when Facebook, Google+ et al seem to let users easily share content.
What about coins of SR users? Are those included here? Shouldn't they be returned to the users?
Besides, we already have quite good protocols to ensure verifiability of votes: Put what you voted for on a piece of paper, and drop it in an urn. Allow observers to follow the urns everywhere, and observers from all parties to be present and take part in counting.

It's so effective that the first thing people do when they want to rig votes is to try to take away the paper and/or the observers, sometimes with threats of violence.

If people want quick results, while retaining the benefits of paper ballots with a proven provenance, we have the easy solution: Electronic voting where the machine prints out what you vote for, and ask the voter to confirm what was printed is what they voted on, and have the voter put that printed receipt in an urn like before. Then you can have near instant results from the machines, and can still more slowly verify a sufficiently large random sample of urns of paper receipts to ensure the numbers match.
This. Maybe one of the top reason to use queues and ESBs
Currently designing a device to do that it will use the same signal as the stingray under a tesla design it will reroute a fake signal to send a high electrical pulse safe to humans to the stingray causing it to become a receptor of the signal and frying it under electrical load kind of like a solar storms effects on electrical devices in space
True Digital Detective: Why We're All Converging at the Digital Watercooler
Basic scraping of Google Groups
It's not bad - I read this book a while ago to boost my Python-fu. But it left me feeling like most software/language books - unsatisfied, i.e. here are the pieces (syntax), here are a few (boring, trivial) ways to put the pieces together, etc. To give a really strong CS foundation, SICP still rules. :)
I can see how you would take it as hostile but it was not meant to be. However, trying to set a precedent on "Let's agree that this money should vanish because we all don't like where it currently is" turns into "I'm a core developer and my wife just left me so I'm just going to ruin her" in relatively few steps.

What you are suggesting would be a centralized backdoor in a decentralized protocol.
It´s easier to keep a rocket under trade secrecy than a car that can be disassembled and copied as soon as you got your hands on it.
Wow, pretty sure I learnt this stuff after high school...kinda awesome/scary.
In a Grain, a Glimpse of the Cosmos
HTML5/JavaScript mobile apps with native UI on Steroids.js
IOS 8 Swift Tutorials
>"In Redmond, like a lot of people talk about code but don't write it, so I think Microsoft can only come back if, you know, they start writing more code."

It's like you've never worked at a tech shop with a sales team. Also keep in mind that it wasn't meant to be taken seriously or literally. If his audience wasn't terribly offended by it, why are you?
No proof? Go check sedimentary layers in affrica / Arabia / golden triangle
I am a computer scientist, and even though I've used python extensively in both product development as in prototyping,
and I honestly don't think python helps people here.

If you want people to learn to think as a computer scientist via programming languages, teach them at least 1 language in the 3 major paradigms (OO, FP, declarative).

(There's more to learn: data structures, architecture, math, .... that I will not delve into here...)

The problem is that the insight comes at a price: You'll start comparing and might conclude that LanguageX is not suited for taskY.
And I'm sitting in an office with over 200 Fedora and Arch Linux machines. What's your point?
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Insane. The USMS with this announcement massively devalued it.

It would have been far better to quietly sell these BTC evenly spread across the major exchanges at market prices.
If the coins were seized on Silk Road servers they didn't belong to anyone at the time but the Silk Road.

We can argue the merits of returning the coins to the last previously associated wallets; but I don't think the U.S. Gov has any intention of returning drug money to drug buyers the same way they wouldn't give gun money back to arms buyers.
That's really ambiguous. I read it to mean deep springs in heaven opened and it rained from them.
Apple and Responsive Design
This is very shocking.

So the government makes it illegal to sell narcotics, regardless, some individuals take a risk and deal drugs to be able to sustain themselves or finance a lifestyle of their choice.

Now the government start prosecuting someone, seize their assets (Which were turned over through illicit methods) and release this dodgy money back to the market.

What's more disturbing about this whole scenario is the fact that someone is getting done over. What if the government kept prosecuting dealers and then selling their assets back to the market? Those assets should be "destroyed" - just the way narcotics are destroyed when dealers get caught.

This is a joke.
The coloring of vertices is a great idea. I'm going to try that with my daughter.
Using this evidence of uniformity in order to accomplish a goal, is an act of faith. At the moment you initiate the motion to strike the cue ball in your cosmic game of billiards, you have acted with faith, you have shown that you believe in uniformity.
Well, there is the main company website[1], but that's more for "marketing" purposes.

In the future, there will be a website dedicated to SolScript itself. This website will be the "technical" website. We already have a domain [2], but there's no website there.

Right now, we are working on getting SolScript into production. This thesis was really the first time anyone ever wrote anything about SolScript. Part of my job, in the future, will be to write blog posts and create tutorials. I'll definitely keep HN posted!

[1] http://www.unmanned.aero/

[2] http://solscri.pt/
Tesla Patent – "Good Faith" – What are they not telling?
The news is about their patents being opened up to competitors using them in "good faith" - but what does that mean? What would be a "bad faith" situation where Tesla could enforce one of their patents?
> It is in Twitter's interest for governments not to crack down on free speech

Article shows otherwise, it is not in Twitter's interest to worsen relationships with any government by refusing to comply with requests. Providing some evidence would be helpful.
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for?

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Or you could just learn to live with people who aren't exactly like you. You know, like everyone on the planet except for wealthy and reactionary enclaves of the United States.
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What’s new for designers, June 2014 
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Martin Fowler explains "Microservices"
Ask HN: What are the best design problems to ask in an interview?
When interviewing designers (product/interaction/user experience), what are the classic design problems that you want them to solve?
For instance: designing an interface for a lift installed in a building of 1000 floors.
Awesome, Docker and Jenkins integration
In the article.

"These are safeguards that were missing in the EU's Data Retention Directive. As a result, the Directive has been invalidated by the Court of Justice of the EU, Europe's highest court. The court said: the violation of individuals' rights was of "vast scope and particular gravity". One thing is certain: it will be have to be revised, with greater protection included for individuals."

So, we really need to protect privacy better, but we're still going to preemptively wiretap everyone in case some of them turn out to be criminals.
A very stretched example follows, be warned:

An online shop selling clothing also happens to sell firearms illegally. Its assets are seized. What about money from pending orders for the clothing? It seems to me it's obvious in this case. Couldn't SR users start a class action lawsuit against gov for seizing their assets stored on SR servers? This is assuming not everything sold there was illegal (this might be wrong).
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But SR was not exclusively for drug sellers.

Most of the business there was drugs, obviously, but some amount of that money would have bought legitimate items. So what gives them the right to sell off that money?
> If YAML can't be replaced, could the YAML marshalling be sped up?

For sure... for example, by rewriting it in another language?
NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building native mobile applications
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More APIs than not aren't web standards but Mozilla's ones.
And I don't see companies with real mobile OS offering (Google, Apple, Microsoft) implementing them anytime soon. So, it will stay Mozilla only APIs, not standard.
Also, if I understand it correctly, many of those coins were not preallocated to any sale. They were just sitting there to be used in the future. So whether they would be used for drugs or something legal is irrelevant.
Even "ordinary" elections have a similar risk to Crimea in some parts of the world - if I lived in the Basque Country in Spain, and voted for the (mainstream, right wing) Partido Popular I wouldn't necessarily want that to be published.
On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem 1936 [pdf]
Yeah, that's what most people I talk to think also. 30-40% remaining battery is probably about average, I'm definitely in that range also.
> Next, we considered Eulerian paths and circuits, where one traces through all the edges of a graph without lifting one’s pencil and without retracing any edge more than once. We started off with some easy examples, but then considered more difficult cases.

Wait, there's math devoted to that? I used to do that as a kid for fun!
I do most of my work in python, but the one thing that I use all the time and makes my life easier is types. I was introduced to types via c++ and java and having to declare them explicitly gives (imo) a much more concrete idea of what a program is actually doing. You can learn a little bit about types in python, but their connection to correctness and strange bugs (in python) is hidden by the dynamic type system.

So while I like python a lot and use it as often as I possibly can, I think it hides one of the key elements that distinguishes of thinking like a computer scientist from just thinking logically. Computers are all numbers, types give numbers meaning and provide strong tools for intuition. Python hides that.
Yes, I've used wkhtmltopdf for that, but I don't think it works if the page requires authentication, or you want to check what happens if you have particular cookies set.
They opened because there is no big player with a e-car strategy ... if ford/daimler/bmw starts with massive production of e-cars this will change elon's mind. The time will answer the question.
Think of it as "open source justice", where more eyes means less bugs.
> On a more practical level, I can't remember a time my credit card has been refused for local or international transactions (and any additional fees are largely invisible to me, the consumer). Paying with a credit card also carries certain advantages: If the goods aren't delivered, I spend 2 minutes on the phone and get my money back.

I donated to wikileaks. Except I didn't, because the US put pressure on VISA+MC, and reversed my transaction. That whole business convinced me of the need for decentralised currency.
Great project. Strangely enough I was thinking about going through something similar just yesterday (to teach my work mate about graphs).

My daughter isn't even 3 yet so this would still be a little beyond her. Not by much though, given how approachable it has been made.

I've downloaded the kit for later in life.
Thanks for the story. I'm playing around with the idea of developing a case, with either a built-in battery or solar, that will help charge your phone.

The problem with solar is the lack of energy density obviously and like you say, mention the word 'battery' in a accessory and folks get turned off.

Both also have the problem we've mention i.e it adds weight and makes your device look bad. The reason I'm thinking about developing this is less about recharging devices and more about doing away with chargers altogether.

Would people pay for something that's better than wireless charging and does away with chargers altogether? Assuming battery and solar technology gets to this point in the future, quite possibly. Then again, the folks at Apple and Samsung are probably already on it.
reminds me of http://ql.io/ (which does not seem to have taken off... last commit: Apr 24, 2013).
A Day in the Life of a Quantitative Developer
Ha! There's a whole branch of math dedicated to variations on it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory).
It's a really good read, there's a follow up as well which I enjoyed but it didn't work quite as well as the first. The book runs through from the first days to about 30/40 years later and covers what the impact of the ever changing sea level does to civilisation.
Feedly recovered from a massive DDoS attack
The article sums up my experience well. I've had a Twitter account for years. I never use it. I have no idea how to use it. If I'm really bored I might take a look at Facebook, but never Twitter. I don't 'get' Twitter, but I want to (because I see many people I respect who apparently 'get' it), I just don't know how to.

My first thought was how you measure "better". You say "all performed worse than my original when we measured for retention over time". And this is not surprising - I doubt one flow works for all people. Did you ever try multiple flows to rescue stranded users like myself?

For example, whatever stats Twitter has on me right now shows that my engagement is zero. Would Twitter have better luck getting me to actively use their service if they tried re-engage me? Or do they think I'm a bot at this point? :)
It hasn't been the last, oh... four times or so?
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Ok you're right, but on the other hand if I, a vivid user of the browser didn't think about searching the browser history for that, other people will neither.
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Once you decided you knew what I thought better than me and willfully ignored every statement I made then yes I made the conscious decision to act like a dick to you. My apologies to DanBC, but I'm not made of stone.
PellesC has a new release candidate. LCC-WIN32 (compatible with what standard???) has a steady stream of releases. Openwatcom v2 has also changes. VS is only good for VisualD.
I've tried Firefox OS and it feels on par with early versions of Android in terms of UI/UX i.e. it is bad, very bad. Plus poor performance, lack of any app ecosystem and operators are sticking it on sub par hardware. At the end of the day, poor user experience. All said and done, Firefox OS is just something developed markets don't want and emerging markets don't need.
Feedly down again?
Like creating servers or user space drivers. That is what IOMMU is for.
First MofN oracles ready to go, allowing for external inputs in smart contracts
Bitcoin was supposed to be a decentralized system, not one with a centralized benevolent authority. In GHash We Trust...
But not C include files. I think nimrodhas something here. Vala? I do not know.
That reminds me of an argentinean comic's line:
American: "Can you explain argentinean politics to me?"
Pinti: "Noo, no chance. You have it, you endure it, but you can't explain it."
You can say no apps about any new phone OS but FFOS especially it's missing the point.

There shouldn't be any damn apps, if you have 'The Internet' you're good. There's no manufacture defined walls between them. If there's 'FF Apps' they should work just as well on and android, iphone, windows/ whatever.

Anything cheap will have slow hardware.
Perhaps this centralized non-profit could exist as a DAO[1] on something like Ethereum. Very hard to shut down a decentralized autonomous "central" bank who's purpose is to issue units of cryptocurrency that is pegged to units of traditional currency.

[1] https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/%5BEnglish%5D-White-Pa...
Hominids have been using tools for a very long time. Hypothesis: facial adaptations provide some protection from blunt weapons like wooden sticks. EDIT: and rocks.
I think real issue here is a perception problem. How often have you
heard someone complain that their system is too slow and how they need
to buy a new system? --I hear this a lot, but the reality is quite
different. Their current system is more than fast enough, particularly
if they bothered to learn how to use and maintain it better, so the
underlying truth is, they just want a new system and they'll make any
excuse to justify the purchase. They'll cite "Vanity Metrics" like
processor speed, disk space, connection speed, amount of ram, and yes,
even battery life as excuses to justify buying something they don't
necessarily need. Complaints about the supposed hassles of charging and
chargers may also turn out to be hot air... Now that I think of it, if
you can figure out a way to charge devices with just hot air, you'll
make millions. ;-)
I'm not sure how you can blame OS for "no apps" (business decisions), "slow hardware" (hardware manufacturer's decision, also did you notice "entry-level smartphone" in the title?). If you add "bad performance" in that context, wouldn't it be better to first check it on "fast hardware"?

Basically the only problem from this list that depends on the OS is "bad memory management". Do you mind expanding on exactly what is bad about it?
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Software 3.0: ten key differentiators of web apps
I know of one person personally and by extension one or two more that are very much like Elon Musk. Joel Gascoigne from Buffer for example. He's taking a very similar approach to things, especially if you look at how transparent he is about himself and his company. They've set a lot of waves in their space.