skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good lord USCD Pascal I remember having to stay late at work in the UK to ring the Microsft helpline line in new mexico to try and diagnose a really persistent bug.
Whoa, almost the whole balance from that first address was just moved to here https://blockchain.info/address/1Ez69SnzzmePmZX3WpEzMKTrcBF2...
Waiting for Doctor Who
AT&T hacked, data used to unlock customer phones
wait...so you have to deposit $200k in order to bid???
Maybe this? http://pymotw.com/2/profile/

From here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=python+profile#!/story/forever/0/p...

I use pinboard to bookmark anything that I think has the slightest chance that I'll want to see it again. Most of the time I never look at a bookmark again, because you usually don't know what you'll need in the future. But I've found enough things like what you're looking for (but not this time obviously) that the practice has become worthwhile.

https://pinboard.in/
This lets me down a little bit. If two guys that I consider to be very knowledgeable on this topic disagree on some key things, how am I supposed to get most of this right?
Hum, that's no good. Could you shoot me an e-mail with your browser / OS / geographic location details?

Thanks!
This reminded me of an idea somebody else had of publishing everybody's votes in a federal or state election to the web. Everybody would get a unique, secret key right after voting with your voting choices. The machine would publish that key and the vote, but not your identity. You would then be able to, in the privacy of your own home, confirm that your vote has not been altered, while keeping your vote secret unless you choose to make your secret key public. Assuming enough people found discrepancies, a major revolt could be created in the event of the elections officials altering results in closely contested elections.

If only we could get a transcript of legislators' or government officials' conversations with influence groups...
Re Quotient: The cool thing about these TNF receptors is that not all of them lead to apoptosis. In humans for a TNF receptor to move towards apoptosis it requires a "Death Domain." In corals only 11 of the 40 TNF receptors have these death domains so the other 29 TNF receptors are likely involved in a variety of other cellular process besides apoptosis

Re DaniFong: "simpler" organisms do not always have shorter lifespans. For example many clams/molluscs can live to be hundreds of years old. In fact, the oldest mollusc is estimated to be over 400 years old!

Re: Why so many TNF receptors in coral there are variety of possibilites:

In terms of the biological reasons for so many TNF-receptors in coral there are a couple possibilities

1) Genome duplication events can occur during evolution leading to expansion of gene families. This appears to be the case in the Zebra fish model organism Danio rerio, they have 33 TNF receptors which seem to have appeared through genomic duplication. I did not specefically look for genome duplication events in the coral genome, but is an interesting direction for future research.

2) Microbial-host interactions- corals harbor a diverse assemblage of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and algae which changes in response to coral health. TNF receptors may be involved in managing these complex interactions. Of the 40 TNFR in coral, only 11 have a "Death Domain". We hypothesize that these death domain TNFR are involved with directly guiding a cell towards apotosis which leaves 29 other receptors that may be involved with other cellular processes

3) Coral resilience to environmental stress- Recent work by Steve Palumni showed that TNF-receptors are involved with resilance to heat stress. They placed naturally heat resistant coral into cold water and found that expression levels of specefic TNF receptors were maintained in the heat-resistant coral but not the heat-sensitive coral. This suggests a genetic component to heat stress via TN-receptors.

If anybody has any questions about my paper, evolution, or coral in general please do not hesitate to ask me on Twitter @StevenQuistad

Thanks for your interest in my work!
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They run the computers with screens on Windows. All the servers and rack-mounted stuff is mostly Linux these days, as far as I know.
> I can't imagine what "these programmes" you're referring to could be that could possibly be cheaper than providing full-time personal assistants to every visually impaired person in your area.

Jackhammering, buying tactile surfaces, installing tactile surfaces, having a safety inspector, stopping traffic. I read this from a source, but it's my wedding anniversary and I'd rather not go into too much effort finding it right now.

For your second comment: having full time assistants is a first class experience and saves money: having inconsistent tactile surfaces is a second class experience and does not.

You are advocating for disabled people to have a second class experience, which is shameful.
The Rust stdlib will not be as comprehensive as Go's, but it will still be much more "batteries included" than systems programmers have come to expect.
No, the nightmare is still there. Most Debian mirrors only serve HTTP and you most likely installed Debian from an ISO that you downloaded over HTTP. And when you did an md5 of the downloaded ISO you probably compared it to a fingerprint hosted on a website served via HTTP (at the same time forgetting that md5sum could have been compromised itself since you downloaded it via HTTP). Then when using APT to install packages, they too are being installed via HTTP.
Memristor's aren't the only interesting thing--they also said it would use new optical interconnect techology, which would contribute much of the speed and energy efficiency improvements.
In my experience All Access is a much better service than Spotify. No unnecessary playlists, I just add the album I want to my library where it sits next to all the other music I already owned before. Also no buggy mobile client that forces me to redownload the entire library after every update

/rant
Well considering that's around $16.7 million, I'm not surprised.

What's more amusing is that the auction is "cash only".
Anyone care to take a guess as to how will this affect Bitcoin price?
Don't know what you have against socialist countries(ie: most of the G7) but you definitely have monopolies in the U.S.
I think it's pretty standard when auctioning high-dollar-value items to require some sort of verifiable deposit to prove you actually could make the purchase if you're the high bidder...
Yes, since they're being sold in 3000 BTC blocks, the deposit is understandably high. I imagine the blocks will sell for much more than that.
Fine, the ride from the airport to off airport grounds is free, and the meter can start there.
I like that YC under sama is trying new things. Taking in Quora, more open HN meta-discussion, and now this hackathon. I'm someone who may never even apply to be in YC so I like that they are making an effort to have YC reach the community as a whole, not just the participating founders.
I don't think she was looking at it from a market share angle as much as a "this is what percentage of internet users you don't even give the slightest thought to when making your website" angle. A lot of accessibility improvements are trivial and of negligible cost to support by giving this group the slightest consideration in your design. It makes sense because of human decency, or the pursuit of it at least.
https://zapier.com/engineering/profiling-python-boss/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6837034

???
Why? And admittedly I do prefer the idea of just lots of plain, large printing paper and a sharpie. I just wanted to verify that people more professional than me like to do this method also
But, but, how will Tesla find the incentive to innovate without patents?
This seems insane. Shouldn't it be cheaper and more efficient to just sell them on an exchange or something? (Over time, even, rather than all at once, obviously.)

"Let's sell them all in blocks of 3000 and require a deposit of $200k to bid" ... yeah ...
Responding to your 3rd paragraph. I think you are too pessimistic. Solving the general case probably is that hard.
But working "well enough", "most of the time" probably isn't. I'd think a clever selection of hacks, combined with a knowledge of the most common patterns in which websites are designed go a very long way.

Afaik googlebot does things like this already. It detects hidden elements to prevent blackhat seo for instance.
Considering that each asset is worth over $1M I imagine the deposit keeps out the riff-raff.
There are exceptions, but most people are indeed paid like this, at the end of the month (or the end of the week). But this is more an outlook than a hard fact.

Another outlook is, the employee should count herself lucky to be authorized to work for a company. The company provide money to the employee, which means it feeds her. If it didn't the employee would have to find another benevolent corporation, or starve. Now there is still the occasional maverick who tries to start her own business, but mostly, employees rely on companies to eat.

Yet another outlook is, the company don't feed the employee. The customers of the company feed the employee. Which is why the customer is king: piss him off, and you won't see him again. Do that too much, and you your employees will starve. It will be your fault, and maybe the fault of some of your employees. It's certainly not the fault of the customer, who has every right to choose what to consume.

I personally find these three views (the one you awnsered to, an the two I mentioned) a bit extreme. But they're not strawmen either. Some people really do believe that. In my opinion, this is the sign of a deep problem. I don't know what exactly, but something is off with the current customer/employer/employee arrangement.
...so USA recognizes them as legal and as something of value, otherwise they'd auction, say, seized cocaine.
Shunt: simple shell testing pseudo-framework
> Even unsafe Rust is safer than C.

This is an important point. `unsafe` blocks only let you do a few extra operations[1], not anything you want. A lot of safety checks still happen inside of unsafe blocks.

1: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/rust.html#behavior-co...
Since you get a bill of sale from the US government I guess these will be the cleanest Bitcoins ever.
Ya, this should be considered an abuse of Union power. :/
"Too much trouble" is the whole point. The value of security for such accounts is approximately zero - if some solution doubles (or creates?) security but requires an extra click or two, then it's a bad tradeoff that simply shouldn't be done.

Why should people spend any effort at all to secure things that shouldn't be secured in the first place? Why should anyone remember a single bit of info or download an app or spend an extra keypress to protect an account that's already public in intent; but "private" because someone else wanted it to be private?

There are security problems if you use your 'throwaway' password for your primary email (as some of the people on Adobe list have done), but that's not the fault of the throwaway password, but in throwing away the keys to something valuable. That throwaway password should be something that's not a secret, as an equivalent to no password.

It should not even attempt to be protected - it's something that you tell your friends/colleagues openly (so that they'd not have to create their own accounts there, it's quicker to login with yours), post it publicly on the internet (again, bugmenot.com as an example), don't bother to change it years after some site has leaked it, etc. The password as such exists only because someone forces you to some tradeoff of "more security/less usability" - the only reason that the password is not, say, a 0-length string is that you're forced to do so, but there's no reason at all to go any further than the minimum.

For the majority of accounts that I have, the most appropriate level of authentification is not "a reasonable level", not "a minimum", but exactly zero.
Fuck you too! Go fall down a mineshaft or something in the interests of improving the human gene pool.
Blood Donations Simplified.
hp was often really good for hardware, sometimes also for software.
I, unlike some others, don't mind the paginated scrolling. I just think it would be good to be able to quickly flip through pages without delay just because the images are loading.

A good example would be a Facebook photo album. If I click the left arrow as fast as I can, the page keeps flipping instantly. Instead of seeing each picture, I see a small loading icon and a box where the picture will be. When I finally stop mashing the arrow, the picture I'm settled on will load.

I hope you don't find my comments overly critical. It's a beautiful design, just trying to be constructive.
Interesting; almost like a "SA" license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ but for product compatibility.
If you were the US Marshals, would you entrust the government's money[1] to an unregulated Bitcoin exchange?

[1] As to whether the government is morally, ethically, or legally entitled to the seized properties, I have no opinion. I don't know anything about the situation.
I like this. You should consider extending it to work with any $q promise (check out angular-promise-tracker).
Well, no, you can still theoretically do anything you want, you just need to be very, very explicit about it. :)
The new owners could the rights in writing and for x years.
nothing beats irssi
-Large sales are usually done off exchanges because it's easier to agree on a price and leave the market unaffected by such a large transaction.

-The government is probably not interested in taking a long time to sell these blocks.

-Lastly, I imagine there are easily more than 10 individuals who are both financially willing and able to purchase blocks of this size.
Isn't a like a judge making an initial ruling and then the next week saying oops that death penalty thingy I have changed my mind?

And if you are making revision you need to publish the actual changes not just slip out a new version ie para A3 delete last sentence and replace with "foo bar".

Dont they cover that at "judging school" to quote the E L wisty aka the late Peter Cook
I worked at an oral surgeons office for a few years. Everytime we performed jaw surgery on someone who was in a fight, 9/10 times they also had a broken hand.

The hand wasn't designed for punching either.
The text is already embedded in the PDF files so there's no need for OCR - you won't see high-quality results with Ocrad either.
Putting their sensitive traffic in the hands of Cloudflare without giving users any choice.
Stupid smartwatches and gimmicks: Wearable Tech's design problem
“Smartwatches are stupid,” says Hartmut Esslinger, Apple’s first head of design and creator of the company’s Snow White design language. “Why would I put cheap electronics on my wrist as a symbol of (my) emotion?” Esslinger also calls Fitbit, the popular fitness tracker, a gimmick. “I know when I am tired,” he says, referring to the device’s value proposition of counting calories through the day. Esslinger’s remarks about wearable tech may seem provocative but they represent a fundamental design problem in the industry.
> Normally, I'd have a ghostly music video running in my head just below the level of consciousness. Thoughts darting, snippets of music, visuals. All that was just gone and I was just there. Kind of like a flow state when playing sports. It was very interesting.

I know what you mean. I've used the analogy of having a plethora televisions on in my brain, all tuned to different cacophonous channels with the volume to 11 and no clicker. The medication gives me a clicker, so I can turn all the ones I don't want to pay attention to off. It doesn't get rid of my distractions: it gives me agency over them.

>This is where the ADHD as broken leg analogy breaks down.

I don't like that analogy one bit -- it implies that something is broken in me, and once it's fixed I'll be okay after maybe some physical therapy. Something isn't /broken/, my executive functions are /impaired/. Fixing that negative brings a host of positives with it: my brain makes creative connections all the time; my problem solving abilities are fantastic (even more so now that I have agency over those abilities instead of just letting them 'percolate' while I distract myself); yes, I'm a little impulsive -- but that just keeps things interesting ;)

Managed ADHD is a boon. Unmanaged, untreated, undiagnosed ADHD is crippling.
I take that to mean cash in the sense of liquid assets, as opposed to something leveraged or what have you. Not cash in the sense of a briefcase full of cash.
Street value of approx: $17,330,000 USD
£256M stolen
I imagine it's just official government procedure. ie. You seized an asset, this is how you sell assets, therefore this is how you sell bitcoins.
I've always thought a megaphone would make for a good share symbol. It makes much more sense (in my head) than most of these in the link.
I wonder what the optimal bid would be if the winner was going to sell off all of it.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886014
That only work if there is an exchange that is widely considered reputable so that the market value is accepted by observers as fair, and those places just don't exist yet for bitcoin. (Obviously, having stolen good sold at the agent's nephews's yardsale is not OK.) Sometimes there are inefficiencies involved with transparency.
Two new trans-Plutonian planets?
Is the market liquid enough to support that valuation?
Google offered perhaps $4B for hulu, predicated on long term, and perhaps exclusive, licensing [1] (this doesn't mention a price; I seem to remember reading it at the time but can't find a link). The content owners said no, which gives away the whole game -- wait a couple years, then take the screws to the owners for licensing deals.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20110906/google-goes-big-with-its-hulu...
Just like the plans in the hitch hikers guide.

" ...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.' But the plans were on display...' o n display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.' `That's the display department.' `With a torch.' `Ah, well the lights had probably gone.' `So had the stairs.' `But look you found the notice didn't you?' `Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".'
> "Is a naive solution to TSP really that hard?"

Why do we want a naive solution to TSP? The naive solution to TSP has no applicability to anything - it's purely a thought exercise in the same vein as "why are manhole covers round" and "how many jelly beans are in this jar".

Remember that 10 years ago we thought those questions were "predictors" of programmer ability. Turns out that was full of crap.

So your notion of testing someone's suitability for a job is to ask them to solve a problem unlike any they will encounter in the job, expecting them to generate a solution that would be wildly insufficient even if the problem was relevant to their job?

In the mean time I rarely see companies testing for abilities that are used on a regular basis in these jobs: the ability to architect, knowledge and familiarity with best practices and design patterns, writing testable code, etc etc. All of these skills are far from universal, but yet we spend no time ensuring they're there. No, we blow the valuable 45-60 minutes we have with candidates twiddling around with TSP.

We ask candidates simplified things from what goes in IRL, because we don't have all day. That can't be helped - the least we can do is make sure what we ask is actually a simplified version of what the candidate will be responsible for, instead of simplified versions of things the candidate will never touch, ever.

> "Proving people know how to implement an algorithm [even one that is a pretty bad solution to TSP] seems relevant to me."

It doesn't to me. More accurately, it doesn't seem relevant to the majority of coding jobs out there.

In reality the number of jobs that ever involve implementing real algorithms is really low. Even in research-heavy companies like Google it's limited to a small subset of employees in a small subset of teams.

The vast majority of everyone will not write a substantial algorithm from scratch in their day job. Ever. So why are we testing for this ability?
Only on HN will I find people who think saying "we won't sue you if you follow our rules" equates to "freeing engineering patents".

There's nothing "free" about Musk being the decider on whether or not you get sued.
I haven't tried it on anything but ubuntu. Since it's firefox SDK I would hope it's cross-platform. Only anecdotal experience I heard was troubles with debian's iceweasel.

I considered screenshots but it's hard to show anything cool since it's all vanilla firefox UI. Here's an attempt: http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN. Is it helpful?
Could be a very lucrative deal if someone can buy at a speculative price and flip. Wonder if it ends up in the hands of an investment banker/firm.
Rust RFC: rename 'unsafe' to 'trusted.'
Get help! It's hard. It is really, really hard. But ultimately worth it.

I neglected to mention that for a good five years or so I experimented with just about anything I could get my hands on: research hallucinogens (2CI, 2CH, 2CB, 5MEO-DMT in addition to LSD and mushrooms), cocaine, dextromethorphan hydrobromide, various opioids...

Alcohol, nicotine and my distractions were my addictions.
Yes, right now it's only in memory.

I've been thinking about storing the logs in .txt-files (with the option to turn this feature on/off). This way, I could let the user download the logs directly via the browser.
Microsoft will rebuild Windows and contribute to the open market of OS's.

They'll also rebuild Azure so their data centers will use memristors.
Appears to be from part of the Silk Road seizure:

https://blockchain.info/address/1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5G...
It really isn't. If anything it'd be Djikstra's or other optimized pathfinding algos. Even then, Uber doesn't do its own navigation, it's handled by Google/Apple/etc.

Uber, like most tech companies, is an integrator. Their need to write complex algorithms from scratch is practically nil. Looking for algo synthesis ability in a candidate is a waste.
That's the name of his series investigating distributed systems.
Why would you scab if you're a union member?
No, they're saying the winner must send the price minus the $200,000 that they already paid in the form of a deposit.

As for where to cash out, you'd probably have to sell off slowly over the course of months/years.
Signing up for a new Twitter account shows why the company is struggling to grow
TERMS OF SALE: Cash. The bid must be an all cash offer.

You have to wire the money, so it's not physical stacks of currency. But it does have to be US dollars.
BTC/USD down >10% in a few minutes.
This is a great hack and writeup, surprising to see it on a blending blog! I love to watch people explore the solution to a problem without expensive tools or significant experience.
I've studied Martial Arts for about 12 years. You're totally right. It takes years of training to learn how to properly throw a punch such that you harm your opponent and do not break your own hand.
Signing up for an account on $EXCHANGE_THAT_ISNT_COMPROMISED_YET so you can unload $17,000,000 worth of Bitcoin sounds far more insane to me than this does.
Using the Azure File Service in your Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles)
Darwin: The Perfect Email Service Provider
No. You place a $200,000 deposit to bid. If you win, instead of reimbursing the $200k deposit, they simply subtract that from what you owe.

So, if you deposit $200k, and the winning bid is for $15,000,000, so, less the $200k you've already given, you owe $14,800,000.
Mini-Googles Pledging Privacy Find Users Resist Switching
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