skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't sound bad when taken by itself. Infants, however, are interesting things. They may be sponges, but if I've learned anything in the last couple of years since my wife and I had our first child, it's that their development occurs in weird, non-linear ways, and requires a lot of effort and practice on their part. Stressing them out severly can (and does) impair development.

Aside from that, I suspect I know what condition the original commenter is talking about--or at least my wife and I had a child who, at roughly 5 weeks, was given an almost identical choice for a condition he had. This particular condition is such that food either cannot pass out of the stomach into the intestine, or can only do so in quantities insufficient to provide adequate nutrition. It comes with a variety of nasty side effects, such as severe projectile vomiting when the stomach-digested food accumulates (hence the "carefully measured feedings") that, long term, will also damage the esophagus. I can only speculate about the kinds of developmental problems an infant may incur when he is stressed out over basic sustenance for the first weeks or months of key developmental milestones, but to me the choice was a no-brainer for the surgical option. I would do it again, even given this study, without hesitation.
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This. I integrated coinbase into my sites and that is why. However, I do see the important part here is that a customer doesn't need a coinbase account, they can send BTC natively which is a big distinction from using a CC.
I've found namesilo.com to be a decent registrar. Growing at a rate, which is good to see.
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First time I've heard of "peak cotton". While I'm sure this wood texture could supplement cotton, I can't believe that trees would grow fast or efficiently enough to replace cotton.
"not dissimilar to leaving your car unlocked when it is subsequently stolen and used in a crime"

In the US at least, this is not a crime. If someone leaves their car unlocked by accident, why should they get punished if someone steals it and uses it for a crime?

Victim blaming is not the answer, it's just silly.
Quite nifty. Imagine how you could seed a service with data over a very long period of time knowing and then at the wrong moment you make a single request causing the server to fall over.

This sort of thing might even work where the target comes to you for data (such as a search engine crawling you).
> they are probably selling the BTC behind the scenes.

Hardly behind the scenes...

https://coinbase.com/buy-bitcoin
The leverage Amazon has is how hard it would be to replace Amazon.
When they say "pure HTML" they mean, that they access the HTML api directly. The non pure HTML examples use third party javascript libraries as an layer between the html api and their own javascript code.
When are they going to start considering the other side of the Turing test - if a robot passes - a human fails it.
Thank you! Appreciate the help; I just couldn't find it the first time around.
Centralization is prone to corruption... 2008 financial crisis ilustrated it very well worldwide...

Decentralization, while having a bigger overhead, also benefits from a bigger pool of contributors...

Example 1 - mathematics: if the europe-mathematics did not cooperate with other world-mathematics, they would limit their knowledge to only european findings, which would leave them reduced compared to the worldwide mathematics investigation

Example 2 - wikipedia: more updated and complete than many classic-editor-encyclopedias that were sold before wikipedia was made.
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As the article seems to be down, here's the text-only (google) cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CTMc7ZQ...
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Tom Stuart on the impossible programs which lie at the heart of uncomputability.
Businesses want to reduce risk, reduce overhead and maximize profits. Lenders want to reduce risk and maximize return. Customers want their assets protected and want fraudulent charges to be reversible. Other businesses in other countries want to know what to expect when dealing with businesses in yours. Having a known regulatory framework and a system of laws regarding commerce, trade and consumer protection facilitates the level of efficiency and complexity necessary to have the economies of scale we currently do.

Almost everything else you list is a matter of scale. As far as industrialization goes, all that industry requires an infrastructure, which itself requires an infrastructure, adjacency to materials, shipping, energy and a labor pool which won't be paid well enough to simply drive in to work from wherever. Even mere agriculture can be considered a centralization of hunting and gathering - as you needed one place to keep all the farms and the slaves and the temples and preferably all of that close to a river. It's not irrational. In fact, I believe the more difficult argument is in favor of decentralization - Bitcoin is attractive to speculators, scammers and hipsters but why would it be attractive to businesses or the average consumer without a proxy for the existing legal apparatus?

Gmail is not "the single location to email", it's simply the leader, there are still many email services out there, you can host your own email server if you want, it's (probably) not illegal. Is Google not an example of a free market working as intended? Surely, just because a free market suggests there should be competition, it doesn't imply there must be. You don't have to use Facebook if you don't want to. Sure, everyone you know is probably on facebook but you're free to try to create your own social media site and compete, or simply not use it. The market decided on facebook, if you don't like it, well, too bad I guess. Github exists because someone decided an online version of git would be successful, and they were right, it is. The market chooses winners, either honestly or dishonestly, legally or extralegally, and eventually the winners dominate, which Facebook and Google do.
Minicabs are usually licenses, look for the logo on the car. Can get them pretty much any high street. They are banned from picking up passengers on the street but a loophole is they hang outside of major clubs and you can ask the club for a taxi which they can then pick you up.

Or do you actually mean the unlicensed ones of people going around saying "oi, need a cab?"
There are two aspects not discussed so far.

The first is labor. I'm cool with "mysql as my filesystem" but most people have no DBA-foo and will be horribly lost. Who gets paid more, a "filesystem-oriented administrator" aka generic sysadmin or a "database-oriented administrator" aka DBA? Its going to be much harder to use, not easier.

The second is "trends and fads" in persistent data. The calls for nosql as the universal cure for all ills have quieted a little. Fundamentally 99.9% of the time I just want something to quickly persist a binary blob, say a video file of a movie. I don't want to reimplement git in my filesystem because if I did I'd use git, I don't want a DB as my filesystem because if I did I'd use a DB. Ditto spreadsheets or VRML (remember that?) files. So the "nosql" analogy of a database driven filesystem is all the cool kids would "upgrade" to ext3 for performance reasons anyway and then come on HN to lecture everyone about how ext3 is the only way to solve all storage problems instead of the old fashioned and obsolete database-filesystem being proposed.
Interesting in that I've not seen something like this before. Personally I hate dev tests, but a lot of employers seem to like them, so I can see there potentially being demand.

My first thought is that the tests are too easy, I'm a Ruby dev with only fairly decent JavaScript knowledge, yet I was able to complete your hard, 10 minute, javascript test in one attempt.

My other concern is you'll need a LOT of tests, that expire quickly, to stop people posting solutions online.

Best of luck :)
Although some were (retrospectively) bad ideas, I like 31 c: an internet phone.
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My parent claimed 'cannot,' not 'most languages don't have the features to be able to.'
Tell dont not to open .exe file in Email.
"What is .exe files?"

Dont use IE
"What is IE? Next time they click on it to get to the Internet"

Can You please stoping using XP?
"Why should I pay for upgrade when everything i do is working perfectly fine?"

Honestly, there are people who dont know Shxt. And they dont want to know about it either. To them even basic computer usage is extremely complex. That is why Tablet, is getting the traction in Grandma and others who dont want anything but a Internet and Application capable Appliance.
A tool is just a tool, and any tool can be a weapon. You can use a hammer to build a house, or remove a person from a house. You can cook food, or cook a man alive with fire. A gun can feed you, or kill for you. Objects, ideas, things have no morality to them, we assign morality to them with our action.

Ultimately any decision you make about a tool, or idea is just a reflection of what you see in people. Assuming a tool will be used kill, hurt, or harm mean that's all you expect of people. The realization of that made me want to see the good in people, and trust that when given secrecy more people would rather use it to better themselves, and those around them, then hurt harm their brothers and sisters.
Second the recommendation for TT-RSS. For a few bucks it has a good Android app that can hook into your self-hosted server as well. For me it beats a plain old "dumb" mobile app with no sync service since I check so infrequently that I'll sometimes miss stories on feeds that don't maintain a full backlog of posts--it gives me peace of mind knowing that I have a cron job saving everything for me even when I'm not actively doing anything.
MacOSX uses launchd as its crontab, but it retains the crontab interface.
Bitcoins are very divisible. As more and more people use Bitcoins, the coins become worth more and people can simply trade smaller and smaller pieces of them. The limited supply doesn't limit the number of users.
"97. Have Pixar make 3001, A Space Odyssey, with HAL replaced by a Mac."
They did and it was called "WALL-E"
The article barely mentions it, but you can take a much shorter version of the knowledge that only covers a specific area. Means that black cab can only pick up from the area they did the test (but can drive outside). Quite often it means that cab driver doesn't know squat and uses a GPS anyway.

The ones that do the full test don't like the guys that did the short test.
Almost all the independant colo centers in Montreal have been bought out by big players with the corporate world in sight, not the small 1-2 servers market. So the prices skyrocketed.

The opposite is true for dedicated, since they have to compete with us-based players, and OVH got in the East Coast market big time. Prices are lowering.
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I'm surprised the article does not point out more directly that it's usually pretty simple to mitigate this attack vector by switching to mergesort. The worst case is O(n log n) so there's no real "killer input".

I think it's a good rule of thumb to say "if you need to sort large quantities of untrusted data you should probably use mergesort".
>RubyMotion is a toolchain, not a syntax
This is a plus. I agree with the power of it. But don't forget the fact that RubyMotion is not free; it's $300 last time I checked. How will RubyMotion convince new and transitioning iOS developers?

>RubyMotion is evolving
Yes, everything evolves in the software industry. Swift will as well.

> Swift is Apple’s creation, one that will get confused with the Swift parallel scripting language
No one will get confused because not many know about the Swift parallel programming language.

>None of you actually know Swift
Well it's not like you need to port all your code to it, but I am certain many new projects will be starting to use Swift. Besides, that's a poor excuse to go against Swift, since it's only a week old. It's only a language.

This is a very defensive post, almost like a RubyMotion employee made it.
Could have been using AFS over the network, I was using that in '92 right up to today, at least using it at home. AFS snapshots are no big deal today, but I don't remember using them or not in '92.
David Deutsch has a compelling (IMHO) defense of Popper in his book "The Fabric of Reality" chapter 7. Recommended reading.
MS were shipping a free browser which got them into anti-trust trouble, so it's not just about being cheaper.
I've found that the-whole-point-of-isms are almost always wrong.

It's not the whole point of Bitcoin to be a decentralised payment system. It's part of the point, sure, but there are many other points, such as being an asset with a predictable inflation rate, and allowing the storage of value protected by cryptography.

A few centralised actors offering service to those who choose to use it does not negate those points of Bitcoin.
> Right. Thing is ...

Absolutely. :)

> I can't think of one that wouldn't be either trivial or more work than its worth.

This is the hardest part about finding examples.

> Thanks for responding; it's really quite pleasant to have this sort of conversation without getting derailed into language wars :)

Agreed. Thank _you_!
Nice! Thanks, hackerboos.

I set up a site http://instantmusicapp.com already and what you mentioned are exactly what I want to do, but don't know how. It went viral on both Facebook and Twitter in Korea, but not sure how I should make it happen in other countries too.
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As someone who implemented an open source quicksort (http://www.mqseries.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=273722) which is used by many in production:

Now this is very interesting, but could also be prevented with a random number generator (which influences the selection of the pivot element). If this would have been exploited, people would have looked into mitigating this.

Edit: You can detect recursion-tree-degeneration (just check the depth) and react to it (pivot selection)
"7. Don't disappear from the retail chains. Rent space in a computer store, flood it with Apple products (especially software), staff it with Apple salespeople, and display everything like you're a living, breathing company and not a remote, dusty concept."

They did that with CompUSA, if my memory serves well... and are still doing it in France in FNACs for instance.
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Yes, but this is designed for non-SQL datastores, and arbitrary application code connecting portions of "data acquisition" and "data operation". Imagine if instead of an ORM, you had a single system that weaved together your application code and the database queries, and ensured that where they could execute in parallel, they did.
Amazon needs to be destroyed. They use their position to completely strangle businesses into bad contracts (or just put them out of business if they don't comply).

I wish there was a better alternative out there.
I've always liked mergesort for this reason. It's easier to understand and there's no wondering about complexity.
While I agree that tree plantations aren't as biodiverse as natural forests, I had been lead to believe that young, fast growing trees sucked in more carbon than mature, stable forests.

Do you have any citations for why forests are better, CO2-wise? My google search results turned up a mixed bag.
And Kevin Warwick is the chap who had an RFID (or similar) chip implanted in his arm and put out a press release declaring himself a cyborg: http://www.kevinwarwick.com/Cyborg1.htm
Pet project mentioned on calmerthanyouare.org

http://code.google.com/p/awib/
"Awib is a brainfuck compiler written in brainfuck. "
I agree. I have been using Ruby Motion since it came out and have released a few apps. I am a little worried that Swift will squash what momentum Laurent was able to build from MacRuby to Ruby Motion.
Yes, but this is for non-SQL systems, and it does quite a bit more. It's more like an ORM in this respect, because it weaves together the query planning and processing part which handles retrieving data, and the execution of operating on that data.
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability.

If you've taken the decision that none of these three is worth the hassle, that can be a fine decision.
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I'm sure he feels terrible, Matt.
Things like its "Safe Rides Fee": http://valleywag.gawker.com/why-is-uber-charging-you-extra-t...

And questionable promotions: http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-used-the-boston-bombing-ann...

And [allegedly] intentionally triggering surge pricing: http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/02/uber-busted-intent...

And otherwise just acting as if the rules just don't apply to them:
http://www.straight.com/news/uber-town-car-service-shut-down...
Firstly, the means to make mass surveillance significantly more difficult and expensive already exist, we just don't use them routinely as a society[…]but I think you could have a situation with much more transparency and oversight than we have today to keep that power in check and directed to its intended purposes.

One has to acknowledge that it is also not presently in the interests of those who have kept it so. Transparency is a two way street, if everyone as individuals had access to such information that is in the hands of the few to leverage, many aspects of our society could also be made better. After all, "encrypt all the things" makes one wonder about the effort exerted is worth it all, especially if it enables individuals to deceive/mislead/exaggerate to others in the name of privacy.

Secondly, one of the most disappointing things about this whole affair is that our own intelligence and security services (I'm in the UK) seem to be more concerned with covering their backsides and keeping tight with their US chums than they are with actually, you know, providing for the security of their own country.

I question how much "security" there needs to be when governments, corporations and individuals go to such lengths to hide such information from others to maintain the asymmetry of information from individuals of the public, and wonder if they're would be more "security" provided if the public who funds such boondoggles had access to such infrastructure. I'd rather have API keys than the hand-waving/profiteering/"we know whats best for you" media/policy makers and it's enablers tell us what they think we, the public, should know of what they do on our behalf, because only they should be responsible for protecting us, and not ourselves as individuals?

I never have expected any government to protect "their" people, when all of them to some degree are actively harming them and continue to do so through various means unaccountably with claims onto behalf of the public.
It has some minor issues, sure, but I'm completely missing the atrocious part. In fact, I think it's quite nice, hope to use this UI soon. It would be great if you could send an email to the developers with your observations as, you know, it's a beta and some help is always needed.

I wonder why so many design-related critiques sound as if someone comitted a crime against humanity. C'est la vie, I suppose.
That is an important point. The ironically named Patriot Act contains a deeper, clandestine layer a Treason Act, if you will, that can compel American companies to act in ways that are illegal in other jurisdiction. It is kept secret and any business costs and consequences for those actions are compensated, also clandestinely; which is also the biggest reason why it is actually quite crucial that American companies are not trusted by other people around the world.

If, e.g., Europe, is serious about protecting and defending against the demons that are quickly consuming the USA; they need to put in place meaningful, positive controls in place.

We really need to start coming to terms with the fact that we, the USA, are quickly becoming or maybe even are the most dangerous force humanity has ever seen. Sure, we are not "doing anything wrong" other than killing civilians and even out own people against our own laws by rationalizing ways and reasons to sidestep our most core fundamentals; but we will all rue the day that the force canalizes and stripps off its mask to reveal something far more sinister than most people could even imagine.

You have to remember, no horrible regime took power by saying they will graduate to brutalizing their own people. Put it this way, we are well into several meth highs, still insisting that we will be able to stop when we want to and control any addiction that may arise.
Some historic quick-sort mis-implementations had O(n^2) runtime when trying to sort constant data (all keys equal, the effect was due to not picking the partition carefully in that case). See: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2008/04/sorting-in-anger/
Oh, you know, just a few things:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-used-the-boston-bombing-ann...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/28/uber-s-bigg...

http://pando.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/

http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/Ride-Service-May-Po...

http://pando.com/2014/04/24/uberx-allegedly-hired-a-convicte...

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Uber-sued-over-girl-s-...
I wish we had a way to run KDE on a retina MBP...
> [1] Not counting the products themselves as viruses.

Pretty bold assumption IMO
really? I still can access the page
First thing I've read by Kurzweil that didn't make me rage. I fully expected him to chalk this up as more evidence that the singularity is well on schedule or he's going to win Long Bet #1. Glad to hear him being critical:

>I chatted with the chatbot Eugene Goostman, and was not impressed. Eugene does not keep track of the conversation, repeats himself word for word, and often responds with typical chatbot non sequiturs.
Ask HN: My friend fears getting raided because of blackshades 
She might have purchased it back in 2011.<p>She bought it to spy on her boyfriend suspected of cheating on her, but she gave it up because she couldn't get it to work.<p>She didn't use it again for a long time.<p>She told me that she found an article back in May 19th about customers of blackshades rat getting raided.

She is mostly freaked about having to explain to her parents. She fears that because of her misjudgement couple years ago she has to subject her families computers to scrutiny.<p>She is freaking out, suicidal.

<p>What should she do? Any adivce I can give her? Who should she call if she gets raided?
if apple did what the site suggest

it wouldn't be apple
You've turned some assumptions you have about my knowledge/understanding of Filipino culture into questions here. While there are some cultural similarities (deceivingly similar, I'd add), I was under no illusions they were the same.

I'd say my understanding was better than most Americans in my position coming out here, but it's grown significantly in the last 4+ years, for sure. I do think this played a role, but I don't think it was a primary issue.

As best as I tried to explain what happened factually in the 3K+ word article, I definitely wasn't able to include everything.

As an expat entrepreneur, holding back on getting your business rolling while you take time to learn more about the culture sounds nice, but isn't realistic. How many months (years?) would you have spent learning the culture before starting your business here?
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In the whole of Europe (or at least the Netherlands) where there are not a lot of Apple stores they are very actively doing this. Some large electronic chains usually have an Apple section in their stores, often with an Apple salesperson on busy days.