skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really, this is more an indictment of web based interfaces than anything: users have no control. At least with regular software you can generally continue to use the old version if you don't like the new version.

The most recent example of a bad redesign, in my opinion, was Flickr. The new interface is awful and I have actually left the site because of it.
Why do you think someone is innocent if they let some third party use their computer without permission? For essentially all malware that makes your computer part of a larger botnet, you have to be extremely careless to let it get on your device, not dissimilar to leaving your car unlocked when it is subsequently stolen and used in a crime (or just misused by playing kids). The latter is illegal[0], why should the former be ok?

[0] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvo_2013/__14.html
They are probably saying "Give me money or I am going to continue DDoSing your site."
You've deployed with what looks like development settings. I can see a bunch of debug info.
Has to actually cause financial or significant personal harm. Something an HN comment will likely never achieve.
It's not blackmail, just plain old extortion.
Suing a startup company with no tangible assets is not much of an insurance. How much does it cost for the biggest travel company in the world to set their systems to accept bitcoins, pass a contract through lawyers, train support, etc? I'd say at least as much as the value of appearing in the news.

So IMHO Expedia sow the huge value of the BitCoin payment system.
Except you have to use an ATM debit card in the machine. If you wanted anonymity or lack of traceability, I think you'd rather buy with cash, probably using an actual in-person transaction.

(I don't know if the US or other countries require registering identity of people buying gold in person in cash? I don't think the US does).
Taking Swift For A Test Flight
Seems you have the debug stack dump stuff public...you probably should fix that and your mysql server issue...

PHP User Error – yii\base\ErrorException

Exception (Database Exception) 'yii\db\Exception' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'

in /var/www/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Connection.php:322

Stack trace:

... [redacted]

$_SESSION = [
'__flash' => [],
];
In Chicago some licensed cab drivers use Uber to process their payments with the Uber Taxi service. You can call a cab with the app, pay the normal fare plus 20% gratuity and a small service fee. I don't use cabs often, but it's working out way better for me than when I used to call dispatch and maybe the cab would show up and maybe it wouldn't. It's also really nice to be able to just get in and get out without wasting time dealing with payments. The drivers that I've spoken to seem to like it as well as it gets them more fares.
KDE has always been--and always will be, apparently--an aesthetic nightmare.
> I'd still like to know why this is better and not just different.

Its potentially more flexible, in that it doesn't restrict the "generic" cleanup code to run strictly after the exception handling code; this also probably makes things a bit more clear in the instances where you want to apply logic in the guaranteed-closeout that might affect return values but needs to consider errors in the event they occurred.
This seems good. But at the heart of it I fear it defeats the whole point of Bitcoin the payment system.
Why? I thought the whole point of Bitcoin was to create a decentralized payment system. And here is Coinbase (or Bitpay) becoming centralized payment systems...
Yep, from their blog.

"2:04am PST – Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop. We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can."

http://blog.feedly.com/2014/06/11/denial-of-service-attack/?...
The only reason I continue to use the Google Keyboard over Swiftkey is the built-in emoji menu.
I second Divvy. I felt silly spending $14 on something that should be packaged into OSX, but it's a feature you need regardless
That's what my father did for my brother and I as kids. Every time one of us lost a tooth, we got a silver American Eagle. Then we'd have to put it into a protective sleeve and look up its details in a coin book we had in the house. My brother and I would spend hours looking over every detail of those coins (there's not a lot to do when you're six and living in Wyoming).

I always wondered where they came from until I grew up and found my dad's giant suitcase full of coins.
A quick google shows 'blackmail' definition can either be restrictive to secrets as you say or can encompass 'extortion' depending on the definition you use.
They are essentially a keylogger when the 'cloud' service is turned on. It uploads everything you type but tries to detect password fields and avoid them. They insist their security and cryptography is quality, but we've heard that a lot recently.

Their lack of an obvious business model is a bit worrying.
Interesting Amazon has started more aggressive pricing tactics with digital/published media providers. They must be pretty confident that they have the distribution share to squeeze them.

Since their acting in a way beneficial to the end customer (i.e., by reducing prices), they're in a good position to avoid antitrust allegations.
"the worse the better"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Chernyshevsky
Response by Ray Kurzweil to chatbot Eugene Goostman “passing the Turing test”
DDOS-for-hire websites are naturally unstable - if not for the protection CloudFlare provides, they would all knock one another offline and there would be no DDOS-for-hire websites (or only a single, expensive winner).

Depending on your point of view, cloudflare providing the protection that makes DDOS-for-hire possible is either (a) them being fair and website-content-neutral, anything else would be censorship or (b) the glazier giving baseballs to the child who carelessly breaks windows with them, to generate demand for his services that would not otherwise exist.
That could happen with any ATM.
I've been using Fever since Google Reader shutdown: http://feedafever.com/

I have put together install instructions here: http://thornelabs.net/2014/05/10/install-fever-rss-reader-on...
Why? The bar is pretty low. Have you seen all the crap apps in the store?
Using current standard consumer technology, it would have some security issues.

That's why they say:

> We're working with a coalition of volunteer engineers to build technologies that will let users open their wireless networks without compromising their security or sacrificing bandwidth.

There are a variety of technological solutions possible, many of which could be implemented in firmware (see OpenWRT). I'd guess if we dig deeper on their website, we might get to their tech plans; I am not familiar with them specifically.

Although, honestly, if you're counting on nobody being able to sniff your traffic in transit for security, you don't have enough security anyway. But still, yeah, I wouldn't want to make it that easy.
Really? Because I think it's very much the same thing.

I think that a company which wishes to invest should always compare to the price of a green-field investment. If someone were purchasing Uber for $18 billion, they should do so only if it would be more effective then dumping 18 billion into a green-field startup. If someone is investing by purchasing some shares at an $18 billion valuation then the comparison is slightly harder: own 100% of a startup with a much lower investment or x% of the market leader.

The comparison is now always trivial, but I think that anyone looking at these sorts of investments needs to be doing this comparison before spending the money.
Yes,this just shows that this is a beta release.
These parts of the UI are under constant change and improvement.
Taxis in a lot of big euro cities are on strike at the moment because of what they deem unlicensed taxi services. Uber is being mentioned specifically. So while it's good for uber that they are announcing new services id much rather they sort my problem of spending a few extra hours getting to airport and a few more extra hours getting out of the airport today
Right, this would avoid Google's argument that they can sniff unencrypted data from your wifi since it's being broadcast in the clear out into the street. At least having a per-session key would count as a legal defense against drive-by sniffers.
I moved to Moniker a couple years ago since there was so much praise for it on Slashdot. I didn't check out the new interface yet. I don't have that many domains, but if they're so interested in obliterating their core functionality for no real reason, I think I'll play it safe and look into migrating registrars.
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Isn't the smallest denomination of a U.K. note £5? In the U.S. it's $1, which is currently worth about £0.60.
I just migrated from Moniker to eNom after having used them for years. Their support is abysmal. Two weeks for them to manually change a nameserver since the web interface wasn't working properly, and another full week for them to remove a domain from my account that I had transferred out, yet was still receiving pending deletion notices for.
Read the release, this is a collaboration with Google and Mozilla. But you are right, one of the main reasons CUDA is so popular is because of cuBLAS. And it is a big pipe dream that you could program a GPU without being aware of communication and memory transfer behavior.
Why are parents doubtful about PARCC assessments?
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I think falsifiability came from Popper.
Why would it matter if a piece of software uses CPU and RAM if it doesn't negatively affect the performance of the system?
If you're still using RequireJS and not browserify I built this to help out with A/B tesing.

Saves us from writing boilerplate JS code in our app — we just A/B test different modules and functionality by adding "test!" in front of our dependencies. Hopefully it can help you, too.
That's an interesting claim—that Haskell doesn't need object-like abstractions. I think it's really worth examining. I've said in the past the Haskell (and the ML-family) is possibly the only language which takes seriously initial data. That said, it still needs jerry-rigged abstract types to be efficient and I'm happy calling codata "object-like".

So really what I believe is that Haskell does a better job of being OO-FP than Scala does. I think there's still a happier medium between the two, though.

I'm also really eager to explore the type theorist's definition of OO in order to tease and bend the generalists definition. I'm not sure I completely agree about the idea of names that you outline, though. Existential types (and their dualized universal presentation) present unique types which could be named. State-transformer style (and the state-like monads) present a notion of identity-as-entity.

Again from the perspective of Haskell being a stab in the direction of a type theorists FP-OO language I find all of these features really interesting.
I priced and ran benchmarks for my last server upgrade. AWS was 2x the cost of collocating and some outages around the same time. I think it would have been only marginally more expensive since I could scale my server down to current need rather than project 3-4 years into the future.

AWS had the fastest network and but colocation allowed for cheaper CPU and RAM upgrades. As it turns out, my RAM/CPU needs plateaued at 4x my previous server so I have twice as much as I need. AWS got steadily cheaper over that same time and the servers got faster.

Upgrading to a new server is pretty disruptive. It would probably be easier to do slowly over time rather than big jumps.
When I started coding, I remember the long beards warning me the same mistakes are being repeated by the newer generation, and that I should learn about the history more.

Comments like this which are blissfully ignorant of VMS only make their statement ring more true.
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do now for a living?
The design of Lavabit allowed him to gain access to the data. It may have been encrypted at every point, but the keys were accessible by Lavabit.
400TB s3 storage in US-East is ~US$11800, so it's about 6 times the cost. You also get power and remote hands. Bandwidth isn't free, though, and can get pricey. On the other hand, for data you can shift to Glacier, you only pay a third of that cost. On the other, other hand, if you're using this amount of gear, you may be able to talk to an account manager and get something else sorted out. You'll probably want to throw some VMs in there with S3, of course, so that adds to the cost... 122GB ram reserved instance VMs run to about $700/mo, so with five of those you're looking at about US$15k + bandwidth, though of course you're not paying for the hardware or hardware setup time.
What if it was a coffeeshop, hotel, or other business?

I agree with you that the authorities aren't likely to treat individuals as well as they do businesses (at least in most countries). But the fact that they're already not gonna put a Starbucks manager in jail because someone did something illegal from Starbucks wifi -- suggests to me that there is an opening to agitate for individuals being treated with similar respect. The Open Wireless project clearly aims to make open wireless a normal and expected thing, so that legal norms will have to follow, and there will be political pressure for them to do so.

But yeah, I think it's as much of a social project as a technological one, which they seem to acknowledge in their self-description.
How you ended up using AngularJS.
Aren't those about the philosophy of mathematics, rather than that of science?

At this level, mathematics is a discipline that's entirely unlike science, in that (at least if you believe it's philosophers) science doesn't prove anything true, it just has a bunch of competing theories some of which get disproved by experiments.
True.

However I have to pay out of my own pocket regardless and that's way more fun anyway.
Given the similarity between Swift and Scala syntax-wise, I'm wondering if in the future we'll see a common language for streamlining Apple and Android dev (i.e. same code with option to compile libraries to C and/or to JVM). Just a thought...
You can get damn close!

http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/

I found OVH's dedicated server offerings to be so cheap that there was no point in using shared hardware for the flexibility. Then again, I'm not running my entire business on these boxes... but I don't think I'd have a major issue if I wanted to!
In all fairness, their old interface was a disaster too. From their confusingly interconnected upsells, to DNS management, to renewals - its only my distaste for GoDaddy's misogynistic attitude that's kept me from crawling back (and hatred from transferring domains from finding something new #theDevilYouKnow)
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Yeah, I hear you. I am hoping they are just crutches to bootstrap bitcoin adoption. If bitcoins become popular, perhaps we can lose the crutches. Or perhaps we'll have tons of competing escrow businesses.

What is it with humans' tendency to centralise anyways? Here is democracy... now here's an all-powerful president and congressional oligarchy. Here is the industrial revolution to facilitate transportation of goods all around the countryside... now here are the giant megalopolises in which most of us now live. Here is the internet... now here's Gmail, the single location to email, and Facebook, the single location to put all of your personal data. Here are DVCSes... now here is github, a place to centralise all of our DVCS work.

Maybe there's just something fundamentally ingrained in human psychology that makes us converge like this.
Of course. It's DBUS.
You can trigger dbus functions using QDbus.
`qdbus org.kde.konsole` shows you available functionality.
Browse through it.
The article described how the photos decoded wrong. Sounds like OS X left them alone without noticing the problem. Instead, the user's attempt to read the files personally (when else do you decide?) detected the errors.
Time for IPv6 baby.
It's based on SIMD support in Dart, which has been available for a while now and does supports NEON.

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/simd/

The primitives are pretty generic, just a few new vector types based on typed arrays. Operations on those types are supported on CPUs without a SIMD unit, they're just slower, but not any slower than coding with non-SIMD operations.
If you don't mind paying for rss, https://www.feedsapi.org is a decentralized option, you can use it to turn evernote or instapaper into an rss reader on the fly.
Moniker has been a disaster since Monte left and that was no secret. All you had to do was look at the forums or read some of the posts on the domain blogs. Do yourself a favor and move your names out now.

I would recommend:

www.dynadot.com

www.uniregistry.com

www.namecheap.com

www.pairnic.com

www.dyn.com

www.name.com
> My hope is that as bitcoins get more popular, businesses like Coinbase will seem less important.

> Instead, I need help getting bitcoins from all the people out there who have no idea how to get bitcoins.

If these two sentences don't sum up BTC I don't know what does.
I'm happy with Fever° (http://www.feedafever.com), that I host on an atom server on OVH with no performance problems.
Sorry, you are so right, I meant IRPF in my third point and I was referring to the 21% (around 1000€ with the salary I proposed).

About the VAT, well, I usually price VAT included... I just wanted to point out the VAT issue, the "cuota" and the IRPF, I believe it is clear now =)

Thanks for your corrections.
Thanks that is very cool. I knew about Ctrl-Shift-Alt-S which shows you the bitrate and lets you manually select it.
50% is not arbitrary. If they have more than 50% they can pull off double spends at their discretion, if they have less than 50% there is some element of chance.
This ignores the massive body of research and evidence that suggests putting a database in a file system is a Bad Idea.

File systems deal with organizing unstructured data (i.e. blocks of bytes); databases deal with organizing structured data (i.e. typed records).

Efficiency and scalability come from decoupling the FS and the DB and letting them specialize.

Examples: GFS + Bigtable, Azure extent/partition manager+ Table store, Amazon's various storage elements.

Pushing the DB into the filesystem doesn't really buy you anything - you still have to solve the unstructured page management/allocation problem.

Counter-examples: WinFS, Cairo, Windows Registry (which I'd argue was a large failure).

It's an idea that sounds good on paper, but fails on the theoretical (unstructured vs structured) and practical aspects (distributing structured data is MUCH harder than distributing unstructured data).
There have already been cases where courts decided that way.

But I wonder whether it'd be possible to route all guests to Tor.

Edit: Comcast is planning to open all home routers in Houston, unless users opt out. The justice system might just have to get used to this.

http://slashdot.org/story/14/06/10/1751255/comcast-convertin...
I think what strikes me about DE upgrades like this is that they don't appear to add anything fundamentally new or promise to provide me with a meaningfully improved or more efficient experience.

For my part - ever since switching to i3, I can't really see myself using any other WM. Once I got used to not touching the mouse, I lost all desire to use a traditional mouse centric GUI.
I see the value in this: it provides a nice programmable interface to cron. Unlike what you might think at first, cron has some really interesting idiosyncrasies that you might not appreciate at first. For example, if your filename in /etc/cron.d/ has a "." character in it, it will be silently skipped [1]. Also, files in /etc/cron.d/ will not inherit environmental variables from /etc/crontab. Consider how many hours have been wasted "debugging" these issues.

That said, cron is easy to abuse as well. The example of providing exponential backoff is kind of silly: there are better tools for the job, including Celery. Cron also does not have seconds precision which is a bummer for lots of short-lived jobs. Lastly, cron only runs jobs at the specified time. If you adjust the system clock, or shut the system down, your tasks might be skipped. anacron [2] might be a better solution in some ways. Lastly, all implementations of cron that I am aware of don't have a great ability to make sure tasks actually run and finish, don't have retries built-in, and have a horrible interface for reporting errors (any output of the script is emailed to root@localhost from root@localhost).

Based on the above, you might think I am saying to never use cron. That's not at all true. Cron is extremely useful as a systems tool. If you package your software in the distro's package format (you should at least give this a try to see how the system is put together), cron is pretty much your only safe choice. Also, as long as you follow the rules cron sets up, and know of its potential issues, cron will be the workhorse that gets things done. Tasks like log rotation, periodic sanity checks, etc. are great for this. If you are writing a web application and are already using Python though, look at more sophisticated options such as Celery before using cron directly.

[1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man8/cron.8.... and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/706565

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron
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Sure, everything can be questioned, but if you reject all assumptions then you're not left with much. There's no guarantee that the contents of your memory aren't all false or that the universe won't stop existing 1 minute from now. Yet I hold both of these claims to be false, simply because if I was to go around seriously contemplating such issues all the time then I'd just be living in a constant state of existential confusion. And there's no enlightenment in that.
I'm a Mozilla engineer involved in this. NEON support is very important and we're designing the spec to support it well.

CPUs that lack SIMD units can support the functionality (though not the performance of course), and there's even a polyfill library that can lower this API into scalar operations for SIMD-less browsers too.
Out of curiosity, other than owning a lump of gold, what exactly are you supposed to do with it once you have it?
>Miss Helen Brown, 639 Longfellow Street

>Miss Alice Reighly of 1400 Harvard Street

I wonder how we started and when we stopped mentioning people's addresses like that in news writing.
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a Cantor supporter shouted, “Get a job!”

All you need to know about why Cantor lost.
We now have a bitcoin ATM at MIT.

https://i.imgur.com/oR6yjEt.jpg
Backing up a ZFS volume would have detected the corruption error, giving you a chance to (a) not make a backup of the corrupted version and (b) restore a good version from disk.

In the same situation, HFS+ would let you make a backup of corrupted data. If you don't keep all your historical backups, you may end up unwittingly tossing out the last backups with good versions of those files.

I'm sorry, I don't understand your last sentence.
There are situations like survey research where percentages matter a lot and absolute values not so much.