skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to comment that while the intentions seem very good, I think it may be a severe mistake to use monetary compensation as a means to increase the number of TOR relays.

Framing a situation as an economic transaction has been shown to interfere with other motivations. The classic research paper would be
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=180117
where introducing a fine to make parents pick up their children at daycare considerably worsened the situation. The interpretation is that behaviour that was evaluated in a context of prosocial motivations such as being decent towards the staff, keeping a good relation with them, etc, were supplanted by a view that 'it's worth the cost of the fine'.
It is worthy of note that going to an economic reference frame is often easy whereas going from an economic reference frame to one based on social values is frequently difficult - it certainly can't be expected to recover spontaneously just because the money is taken out of the picture again.

Now, TOR is very much about prosocial values - liberty, free speech, the right to communicate without being unjustly surveilled, and so on, and because of that, I think it is potentially quite vulnerable to these kinds of effects.

I think there is a substantial chance that running a TOR node is not going to be worth the economic profit in the long run, but that shouldn't matter, because running a TOR node is about something other and something more important than making an economic profit.
If we start framing it as a business transaction there is a risk we hurt the (in this context) much more important motivations to operate a node.
I think the TOR initiative should be developed on motivation based in the human rights values it naturally supports.
And in this case I believe the option of monetary compensation is genuinely at odds with that.

I'm somewhat sad to be saying this, because as I mentioned, it seems to me that the project is based in the best of intentions. Some components of the TorCoin system may be valuable for other service functions in the network.

I summary, I think the psychological effects of introducing the compensation scheme really should be carefully evaluated before any attempts to introduce it in practice. My spontaneous impression is that it is the wrong method of motivation for growing and maintaining the TOR network and should not be introduced at such. If it is after all introduced, that should be done in a manner that is informed of the psychological consequences.

As a preferred alternative we should emphasize the social and ideological benefits of TOR for core motivation and lower the threshold for contributing by making it technically trivial for the contributor and by making the situation as clear as possible about risks and benefits of operating a node.
Another use you should consider is to follow the FON model - you can spend TorCoins to buy bandwidth from people operating networks.

The more bandwidth you share for TOR, the more free wifi you get.
If you only "sell" wifi to torcoin owners, you simply trade internet access time, but running a tor relay would be like "mining" in the traditional bitcoin world.

EDIT: The point I'm trying to make is that instead of "just" the way to create torcoins, this would also create a way to spend it (and provide value to people by spending it).
Had some neat properties at the time though, like speeding up coded communications, and: "a speaker who has acquired a language during their childhood sounds distinctly different from a person who acquired the same language in later life, thus reducing the chance of successful impostors sending false messages" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_code_talkers#Cryptograp...
Arobaz in French. But most people just say 'At'.
Looks amazing, I want to go.

Shame I cannot afford it at the moment. *sigh

Djangocon is always on my hit list of tech events to go to.
An easier way to root or flash your Nexus device
Resumé: If all you need is a cellphone with no frills and the weight and shape of a Motorola brick phone… the X900 is for you.
No, you shouldn't expect that.

When you register a trademark, you do it for a specific region (country, EU...) and for a particular purpose (industry). In principle you could try to trademark a name everywhere in the world for every purpose imaginable, but it would be very very hard since any owner of an existing trademark can object if they think there is a chance of your name causing confusion with theirs and the resolution process can take time and be ultimately unsuccessful for you. So nobody actually does that.

Strength of a trademark really lies in both a) being registered and b) being actively used (first by you, but also by others). I think it is more useful to think of a domain as a digital equivalent of a sign hanged above the shop entrance. I think it affords you roughly the same level of protection.

IANAL, but I have registered a trademark years ago and had at that time spent some effort in getting acquainted with laws. They may have changed since.
Thanks! Well I think it's not just for me, it's just basic "Search Optimization" :-) In fact your paper was downloaded as "(paper (2).pdf" because there was already at least one other paper.pdf in my Downloads folder.
SpriteKit is ok but it lacks a lot of feature found in Cocos2d. SpriteKit is also closed so if you find a bug, you have to wait a year and hope for an update. Cocos2d users are free to fork and optimize as they want. You have full control. You can even do 3D and custom shaders and full GL with it which is not possible with SpriteKit.

Don't get me wrong. SpriteKit is great place to get started, but when you need something more powerful, that is where Cocos2D comes in.
In Finnish it is also informally known as "miukumauku", which refers to the cat-like appearance of the symbol (long tail). This name isn't very common anymore.
I recently read Chester Nez's memoir, Code Talker [1].

I highly recommend it. Experiencing the story from a code talker's perspective and reading how he chose to enlist and fight for his country despite how it had treated his people, makes all the difference.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11437988-code-talker
Posts with no url (e.g. "Ask HN"s) have been penalized for years, so it's definitely in one's interests to do a Show HN with a url.

As for data, it looks like there have been 23597 posts with "Show HN" in the title in the last 4 years or so, and of those 20731 have had a url. So about 88%.
Comments Don't Make Up For Bad Struture
Warn the CDC of an impending health issue and include very specific details or the at risk group and the transmission vector.
First of all thanks for getting in to it. Yes, I'm the author. I've seen your post on github but I'm pretty sure you're doing something wrong. I would like to see your code so we can discuss it.
Thanks again
Let me respond paragraph-by-paragraph:

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1. Blocks incremental rendering?

Indeed ... for people not TeeWEE, "incremental rendering" means say a 2MB HTML file will be partially rendered prior to the entire payload being transferred. That is no longer the case here. 100% true. As an aside, I'll think hard about how to overcome this.

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2. The description of how it works?

Correct. Very succinct. Good Job!

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3. Significantly slow down a page?

This depends on the page. If it's a small-footprint HTML page which leverages templating, then the base page will be quite small.

If the design previously loaded unneeded dependencies which were only applicable to a subset of users, then this provides a very easy way out without requiring lots of technical knowledge - and probably a good speedup to boot.

As far as actual tests, I've refactored a number of personal projects with this library, and the time to where the spinner stops (if I load the two versions side by side) isn't noticeable through my eyes. I can't honestly tell which one is which.

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4. A "mis-use of JS"?

It's certainly non-canonical - but I'd argue that many "standard" common practices got their start being just as heretical and then were later replaced by standardized ceremonial ways of doing things.
Because news.com.au sent a photographer round to take the photo straight away. Or because news companies never use stock or press photography.
Sure. When a story hasn't yet had significant attention on HN, a small number of reposts is ok.
I think that unless you want to carry the burden of possible assassinations that you could have stopped, you have to disclose the vulnerability ASAP. In order to avoid legal vendettas, I recommend to do it anonymously.
The comments there took a dark turn very quickly. Shame the thread's closed, with no counterpoints offered before doing so.

See also these two independent reports, one written, one an audio recording of a presentation, by a Dutch activist I happened across:

- http://raided4tor.cryto.net/ [text]

- https://archive.org/details/OHM2013-Partyvan [audio]

EDIT: To sum up, the activist advises that activism is not something to be taken lightly, and there is a real cost to being targeted by law enforcement. I know relays are different to exits, but it's not encouraging when you want to assist!
With due respect for you as someone trying to make money as a musician, your problem is that no-one knows your music, not that people are 'stealing' it.
Yo dawg, I heard you liked PHP and Javascript so I made your Javascript work like PHP...
Problem is everyone wants to know whether they just skip to swift right now or just wait a few years until the tech matures.
Claiming a speed increase of x2 and ending with -x2 is a 400% difference. We're not talking minor differences here.

As a sidenote, i've recently heard Core Data wasn't used internaly by Apple. Makes me think that i'll skip to swift once apple gives me the list of which of their app is coded with this language.
If you want a really nice hackintosh laptop with good build quality and great performance for the money you can't go wrong with this:

A second hand i5 HP ProBook with 4GB RAM. £126. Add to this a 120GB Samsung EVO SSD for £55 from Amazon, and a £6 wifi card from eBay. Less than £200 all in.

Everything works out of the box on this laptop except the wifi, which you have to replace (or use a USB adapter).

I configured one last week. Mavericks runs perfectly. Quartz Express, Sleep/Wake, all works.

http://www.scctrade.co.uk/prod/hp-probook-6360b-core-i5-23gh...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DELL-DW1520-CN-0KVCX1-LAPTOP-WIREL...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-120GB-Basic-Solid-State/dp/B...
People are already getting confused about it.
If you read any subreddit people seems to discover the golden diet and way of living. You have to remember theyre just strangers on the internet and you have no reason to believe them over doctors. If there was actually a way proved to result in long-term weight loss doctors would be using it, period.
The talk that Ted gave at the Homebrew Computer Club's 38th Anniversary Reunion was what really helped me understand his vision. That talk is online here: http://youtu.be/S84vl5759Ec?t=5m37s
Then the word easy is being used in two senses. Technically losing weight is extremely easy. It's a closed problem. It might be not-easy in a way that varies from individual to individual but to say that it's not-easy should be qualified in some sense to show that it's a psychological/will power/whatever problem and not because we have an incomplete understanding of nutrition.
Silicon Forest vs. Neckar Valley: Entrepreneurs and their set of values
The NSA Probably Really, Really Wants a Quantum Computer
It's actually a well-designed youtube client that doesn's show the video to the users, just the music, am i right?
Indeed. If anything, it should be called "waffle".
40 years ago people were born from thin parents, today they're born from obese parents. This has to have an effect on the genetic makeup of the children.
Only in the few first world countries that these services operate in.
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Spotify did the same to me, multiple times. Last time yesterday when my pc randomly lost permissions for offline storage.

But that is not an excuse. The music industry in trying to provide alternative ways, and I extremely appreciate it and think that we need to be supportive. Only by supporting this changes we will ever see any improvements, we need to find a middleground that can satisfy both parties. Spotify offers a great service on a great platform. It can have his hippicus but that can happen with everything. What would happen if the player app you are using to play your offline library breaks and you have no data?
I use Spotily for streaming however I don't use it to create a offline library exactly for this DRM shit.

I'd rather outright buy the songs somewhere else and have them backed up on another computer as well with btsync just in case these DRM apps try to pull some crap.
Open-source:

Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki, http://wardcunningham.github.io/

Elog retro UI, mature and flexible, http://midas.psi.ch/elog/

Treesheets, http://strlen.com/treesheets/

Linux Tomboy, https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy

Non-OSS indie apps:

Windows semantic wiki, Firebase db & Python plugins, http://www.connectedtext.com/

iOS, Mac, Windows markdown wiki,
http://www.notebooksapp.com/

Notelynx on Android, interesting UI but no interop: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.astrodean....

Tools discussion:

http://www.outlinersoftware.com/search/index/wiki

http://drandus.wordpress.com/

http://pauljmiller.wordpress.com/
(Off topic) Jesus christ. The hijacked they scroll event and replace it with buttons
Absolutely love it - real great way to explore how all numbers are uniquely interesting.
> Technically speaking, the device manufacturer hasn't hurt anyone at this point. But you've contributed to the death of a person. Is that really what you're after?

I agree that this could happen, but the obvious argument is that technically the device manufacturer did just kill their customers by 1) selling them a defective product; and 2) failing to take the opportunity to fix it when notified.
Ah, the one who "invented the entire *Kit Naming Scheme" "A Few Years ago".

Unless that actually predates the origins of technologies like UIKit, WebKit and the like, I'd think about revising that article so as to not make it look stupid and uninformed.
Low success rates do not necessarily imply that losing weight permanently is futile or impossible. All that we can reasonably conclude is that the majority of people trying to lose weight are using inadequate methods and/or are unable/unwilling to adhere to their chosen method.

Consider the following:

-The ideal client for a health-club or gym is someone who signs up for a full year on January 2nd and then never returns.

-Expensive state-of-the-art exercise machines are actually inferior to cheap, old-fashioned free weights.

-A diet conducive to health loss typically consists of precisely the kind of foods that can't be pre-packaged and advertized on TV. I suppose I don't watch TV much these days, but if raw kale and spinach are getting superbowl ads, I haven't seen them.

-Personal trainers, diet coaches, etc. are all service providers, and repeat customers are the life blood of the service industry. Succeeding in teaching clients how to achieve their goals permanently and independently is the one sure-fire way to shrink the client base.

Fat people aren't a problem for the economy. They're a wonderful new growth industry! It's highly profitable to sell "light" TV dinners, diet shakes, diet soda, ab machines, balance ball workout lessons, miracle herbs, etc.. There's relatively little profit in pig iron and kale.

The successful 5% aren't endowed with superhuman willpower. They just figured out how to reconfigure their lives to make physical activity and a healthy diet the easy default. Unfortunately, just being in the 5% doesn't make it easy to teach others to be that way too. Consider sports. Say you're an expert skier, snowboarder, etc.. You might have had some lessons a long time ago, but you probably got really good just by doing it a lot. You can do stuff that awes the instructors at the local bunny hill, but odds are that a newbie is going to learn a lot more in a lesson from the instructors than they would from you! Teaching uses a different skill-set, and it's hard to do well.

The current situation in weight-loss land is this: The 5%'ers mostly figured things out on their own. Their ability to teach others is variable and, on average, not that great. The professional teachers are almost entirely people who aren't a part of the 5%. Even those who are 5%ers are financially disincentivized to actually teach people to become a part of the 5%. Becoming a 5%'er is like learning to ski at a hill populated by daredevil experts who suck at teaching and instructors who only get paid if you flunk their class and have to take it again. It really shouldn't surprise anyone that your chances of becoming a good skier are awful.

End Result: Should you find yourself unsatisfied with being in the 95%, you really ought to examine the profit motives of the people you're paying to help you. If your success would hurt their bottom line, they might not really be helping you.
I was in Dublin for the last summit and I have to say that it was a great experience. Highly recommend it. Also node conf europe is interesting http://nodeconfeu.com/#welcome
Browser-perf: a Node-based browser performance testing tool
Swift Programming: Best Practices
Can you explain what you mean by `checks for safety first (variable declaration)`?

This issue only seems to affect arrays. Strings, numbers, and dictionaries are fine.
I was rooting for the OP up to the point when he said he was charging for the app. I know there wasn't some huge profit to be made there unless it's really huge school, but still. If he wanted to do something good for the school and fellow students shouldn't the app be free?
yup :) Except I've been doing it manually as I see comments/commenters that interest me and adding them to a greasemonkey script that decorates posts with icons identifying users and their affiliations. Does that make me evil?

If I find some free time I might download this and run some extracts as sytelus suggested.
It's much better when running a Tor node is a decision that is evaluated in an economic reference frame.

There are very few tor nodes currently because there societal incentive is very low. If you can actually start making money off it, many more people will start doing it. It's a concept so basic I'm wondering how one can miss it.

And the paper you linked to not applicable to the situation at all.
The article is about difficulty of reversing obesity, once you become fat. Different problem.
That math stands only if your server has spare CPU utilization.
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The key background here that is somewhat brushed over in the post is that the Beta distribution is conjugate to the Binomial - in the sense that if your parameter of interest theta has a Beta(a, b) prior, and you observe n successes and r failures from a Binomial trial with parameter(n, theta), your posterior is now Beta(a + n, b + r).

The 'non-informative' distribution can be interpreted as having no special information about the prior information of theta, so you just take theta uniform over [0, 1]. This is identical to the Beta(1, 1) distribution. Thus, you obtain the update equations @EvanMiller derived, while making it more clear how to generalize to the informative prior case.

In general though, I would have thought one would care more about distributional properties of the posterior p_B - p_A, which are more easily computed by MC methods - the closed form solution for P(p_B > p_A) is nice and fast, but it's not like hypothesis testing is in the critical path of a program, so I wouldn't shy away from MC methods here for a more nuanced view of your posteriors.
True... Luckily I'm in one of these countries at the moment.

However I'm certain my country of birth is still not covered by these services so in that case this is a good alternative.
Install blue tooth enabled skimmers. Get runners to drive around and go near hit machines, from where the data is pushed over mobile. Or maybe, the skimmers have an embedded mobile chip that pushes the data as soon as it's skimmed.
Reset the Net Privacy Pack
Usually the media players I use, they uhm play media. Like in open(...,'r'). And should it break my library then I have backups, because there is no DRM with the only usecase of trying to annoy me.

So no, I don't support them. I use Steam though, I think they got DRM right for the most part. I'd prefer no DRM, really. But with Steam I don't notice any DRM. That's good enough for me. I only use it in online mode though.
My biology is pretty terrible, but I'd argue that it takes more than just one or two generations to permanently change the genetic makeup of a population.

To be more precise: I know there are animal species that changed their natural colors to grey-ish tones nearby the cities in less than 100 years, but that seems to me more a result of selective breeding: the non-grey individuals were eaten/killed, so in a relatively short span only those with the grey gene survived. However, given that we are not killing those that are born without the obesity gene, there shouldn't be any reason for such change at a genetic level in such a short timespan at a big scale (unless the obese were over-breeding the non-obese by at least one order of magnitude, which is nonsense).
BlueMix is based on CloudFoundry (an open source project), so it is basically a rebranded CloudFoundry with some additional features.
in case of such sentences - where person is de-facto removed from the society forever, as even the 30-40 years means that the person will be different and the society will change unrecognizable - i see how it would make sense just to send the person to live on some other territory, continent, planet, asteroid, etc...

Long prison terms have 2 functions - deterrent and removing dangerous people from society. Both of this can be accomplished if the place where convicts are to be send is remote and harsh. Such approach would also allow to avoid feeding such a beast as the prison guards union.
I think that a pinpad is not that hard to hack. OTOH whenever I read about skimmers getting caught, they seem to use really low tech methods - keen eye, perhaps aided with a mirror or a small camera.
Do you see the amount of people that complain about Pythons white space? Plenty of people avoid it for that reason alone.
Not everyone wants to "live" on Soylent. But it makes a damn good and fast meal replacement for those times when you want more calories and don't have the time to cook / eat a meal. E.g. bodybuilders who need to eat at caloric surplus to gain muscle.
It's absolutely the opposite. We need not to be supportive. The industry has demonstrated time and time again it is more than happy with the status quo, and the only reason it's even gone as far as Spotify and co is that people voted with their feet/cash. Be supportive of their efforts, and they'll take that as a sign to stop right there. Sticks, not carrots.
Tracking with purpose
Depressingly I cannot find anything about "0". Quite an important number I would have thought!