skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is absurd. I spend money by wire transfer all the time. A good 80% or so of my ebay shopping would be wore transfers to merchants in Hong Kong via Paypal.

It's worth noting that EFTs (Electronic Funds Transfers) between domestic banks in Australia is nearly always free, and that in your case you're not transferring money overseas at all.

You are transferring money to PayPal Australia, who is then communicating to PayPal Hong Kong that all is well - so that PayPal Hong Kong can pay the merchant. Both entities can transfer to/from local bank accounts because they have explicitly set up B2B interfaces (and met regulations) that allow them to do so.

In this case, PayPal is the bank, and they are a bank seeking to specifically facilitate money transfers between countries. You could not, for example, transfer money to a merchant in (e.g.) Siberia - they wouldn't be able to get that money out of PayPal into their regular bank account, because PayPal has no local presence/connection to the banks there.
RNA-directed gene editing specifically eradicates latent and prevents HIV
Rabbi tells Congress “world is on fire”
How does one even make use of >1Gbps internet in a residential setting? Do they sell 10 GigE routers for consumers? Are there any desktops or laptop out there with 10 GigE? I think the answer is no.

The fact that you can get a 1 Gbps link to the internet is amazing. This is pretty much the fastest LAN connection you can get. The difference between LAN and WAN will be gone before too long (other than latency).
"that has the well-traveled internet in its cache"

I have the well-traveled internet in my HOSTS file.

No DNS lookups, recursive or not, is always faster than 1 or more.

When this sort of discussion comes up, I always ponder the number of IP addresses that constitutes the "traveled internet" for any given user. I believe it is a relatively small number. The truth is, unless you are running internet-wide scans or something, you will only visit a small fraction of the total IP address space in your lifetime. And in my case I believe I can store all those IP addresses, in additon to a large number of addresses I might visit, on my own personal storage. I'd imagine I visit more addresses than the average user, so the number becomes even smaller in that case.

Another thing I'll mention is an article on the Cisco website from a number of years back where someone claimed that the optimum number of users for a DNS cache is only, if I recall correctly, about 10.

I'd say it's healthy to check your assumptions. You might find that large shared DNS caches, like the ones offered by ISP's or "open resolvers", are not always faster than the alternatives for all queries. Believe me, I do a lot of experimenting with caches in additon to using authoritative queries, local authoritative servers and /etc/hosts. Despite what theory and logic suggest, caches are not always faster across all lookups.

If there were hard and fast rules about how to configure DNS to minimize the number lookups and make DNS as efficient as possible, and everyone followed them, then maybe things would be different. As a simple example, try counting the number of queries required to resolve a host when Akamai is used. I don't care what the large, shared cache of the "well-traveled internet" has, because I already have all the fully resolved Akamai IP numbers where the content resides in my local storage. And if one location is slow I can manually choose another.
Isn't the same true of any telco when it goes off for a loan to cover construction costs for new infrastructure in a tiny market area? Everyone who doesn't benefit has to pay the cost if it fails in the form of higher prices across the market. It's not like you're going to stop needing a phone or cable any time soon...
Every so often, my linux vm running on VMware fusion gets really out of date. I tried the "sync time" feature in VMware, didn't fix it.

Eventually I had ntpdate running every minute via cron. Pretty annoying.
I get that some developers want to protect what they consider a private API, but consider it from the other side.

As a user, I think I have the right to know that you're not secretly uploading my contact list to your servers. Anything you do to block that prohibits me from trusting your app.

There must be some kind of happy medium where I can protect myself from malicious apps, and developers can protect themselves from malicious users too.
As long as a full time worker is allowed to take their four weeks of annual leave, then it should be fine.

'Open vacation policy' sounds like there's no maximum, so should be no problem.
Also, unlike Bitcoin, gold remains gold without the need for a constant supply of electricity or technology. It's an element, and part of the reason it worked as a store of value was because "ooh shiny" and zero upkeep.
Internet Of Things Microcontrollers
Whats your experience with these (and other) IOT microcontrollers?
Here's a couple I have been looking into..

Arduino Yun (1), Tessel (2), Electric Imp (3), Pinoccio (4), Spark (5)

(1) http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardYun?from=Main.ArduinoYUN

(2) https://tessel.io/

(3) http://electricimp.com/

(4) https://pinocc.io/

(5) https://www.spark.io/
Freshcode.club: freecode/freshmeat replacement site (alpha)
The don't have servers with that much RAM, but a 244GB RAM server with 8x800GB SSDs and 32 cores costs <$5k a month ad-hoc and about $1300/month with a 3 year commitment.
This is really great work.

Why do all of this instead of just using Om? I'm currently waffling between Om and straight react.js for a project of mine.
Legality aside, I'm surprised this wasn't pulled on ethical grounds. Does Black Hat not require "researchers" to follow responsible/coordinated disclosure?

What about the political dissidents who use Tor? They could be at risk of certain death if caught by the authoritarian regimes they live under. Without coordinated disclosure, the "researchers" might as well have been signing death warrants.
Meteor 0.8.3RC, with experimental Redis support
Yep no luck for QuizUp here as well.
> The trailer never characterizes the Bombe as a computer...

...except for the text in the trailer @ 1:19-1:21 that says "They had to create the world's first computer."
I was about to make a note of this but you found a much better example from co-founder's (sort of defunt) blog.
At that point, you know what the system does, and what the turtles are doing underneath you.
I don't know how else I'd be able to find work aside from freelance websites. If there were some way to find tasks to do then I'd be more than happy to jump ship, but so far nothing has come up for me outside of freelance sites and I'm not sure about how to "market" myself.
As far as I can tell, cable systems were basically not "designed" -- it was a pretty shady industry in the early 80s, with a bunch of shoddy work, questionable ROW deals, etc. Consolidation happened and a bunch of regional carriers happened and maybe some of the later deployments were "designed", but very little of the early catv was built the way telephony was, which was itself usually different from water/sewer. Electric depended on where, and was either sketchy (in some of the East Coast cities), or some kind of "designed" system, or government (RE).
(I work at Stripe.)

Don't worry, the benefits box just isn't localized (yet). We have a draft of a new jobs page we're working on, but figured we should prioritize launching products over it :).
28 people killed because a clock was off by .34 seconds (system hadn't been restarted in 100 hours)

http://fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm
No, to some degree BH is about compromising X in public after X has been repeatedly contacted with the necessary details AND given ample time to address the issues.

What these "researchers" were doing was just reckless. When it comes to Tor, lives are on the line. This kind of irresponsible disclosure is abhorrent, at best.
Fiber optic cable is manufactured with anywhere between 1 and 288 strands in the bundle; I believe its most likely a non-issue.
The Swift Programming Language: Access Control
That was an interesting article/book summary. The main idea (that there exists a correlation artistic creativity and mood disorders) is something I've observed anecdotally.

I get the impression, however, that it serves the end of history and entertainment more than it does those of science. The examples in the article were light on sample sizes and heavy on speculation ("Is mental illness caused by creativity? Maybe it's the other way around! Who knows?"). I wonder if the book it's about offers more solid corroborating sources.
I've been hacking since I was 10, and I started off with Scratch <scratch.mit.edu>. It's visual programming, and it has a remarkable zero-to-sixty time. I've run a couple of Scratch events, and I've had kids come in cold (no coding experience at all) and code pong in 2 hours flat.

And Scratch has a great community.
Launch location of the missile that brought down MH17
A quick search turns up warnings of periwinkle being an invasive species: http://www.canadiangardening.com/how-to/pests-and-diseases/t...

Seems like something that you might not necessarily want to introduce.
Jazz is open source
I think the question is: when does it matter? What applications rely on an accurate clock? I guess it would matter if you are running some algorithm on logs that uses time as an input. Interested to hear any other examples.

DJB has a clockspeed package that addresses this problem. Anyone used it?

http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/clockspeed.html

It seems interesting but I haven't (yet) run into the need for super accurate clocks (or perhaps I am not running enough machines).
It is explicitly prohibited and done all the time. Investigate the current situation with Baltimore, Maryland regarding its Comcast franchise as an example of how these things are still a problem, despite Congress' attempts to prevent it.

The executive summary here is that the laws you cite protect some services without protecting other services that may commonly be bundled. In the Baltimore situation I mentioned, only Comcast can provide cable TV. Verizon won't roll FiOS out to most of the city, because they wouldn't be able to sell television services alongside the internet and telephone services. It's rumored this also prevented Google Fiber from considering Baltimore as a target market. So, while the letter of the law agrees with you, that any entity can provide service, the city has signed an agreement with Comcast that makes it financial suicide to attempt it.

It is not enough to parse the laws; you must also understand how they interact with the actual actions taken by real governments.
You are in favor of ARM for whatever reason but that doesn't mean that ARM is the definition of "really minimal".
You forgot the part where the only reason he was fucking with the F6 key in the first place was to play a game. That's irresponsible and grounds for firing.
Why do you say AngularJS was hard to debug? Also any insights around modularity - AngularJS directives vs ReactJS components?

I hear you about the API surface. Currentlu AngularJS has too many weird/new concepts.
Sort of true, but static assets are also trivial to serve. What they get by using CloudFlare is getting their assets as close to end users as possible to reduce latency. This isn't a complex problem to solve (for a single site), just a really expensive one that very few single app companies could ever justify solving themselves. I believe Google and Amazon are the only ones with their own significant CDN infrastructure, everyone else outsources it.
YES, please! Stripe in NZ would be amazing. Email is in my profile if you need someone to pre-beta test.
MUST SEE: An Honest Israeli Soldier Speaks
Hacking on Mtrek
I'd take your question in good faith, but the phrasing of the title seems somewhat suspicious. "Finally". Did he do this himself, or have you given him subtle signals?

A far more common story than any parent pushing their kid to accomplish anything is a parent burning their kid out so severely that they hate it for the rest of their lives. See forced piano practices etc etc. It's much easier to burn out a kid than the opposite. I'd be cautious.
Does ML force much of a paradigm? Make mutable the default if you want. FWIW I wasn't much of a fan of it in the late 90s either.
This is an amazing story. I'd totally forgotten I'd read it years ago until I clicked through. The pictures brought the whole story back to mind.
Music! Build playlists that help you get through tough times. My personal favorites are classic rock like Stairway to Heaven ("If there's a bustle in your hedgegrow, don't be alarmed now / It's just a spring clean for the May queen"), Bach (in particular, WTC pieces), and instrumental jazz (Miles Davis is really uplifting). Find songs where the lyrics mean something special to you, and listen to them. Sometimes it helps you look at the big picture, and sometimes it makes you feel like you're not alone. Either way, it's uplifting. :-)
Right that was my point - if a 64k demo had to actually push pixels into a framebuffer or similar API (like it was 20+ years ago), how big would they have to be? That is, how many bytes are saved by having high level frameworks that can do T&L and more all in the stack?
I urge you to give it another shot too. After I few episodes I barely stuck with it, but by the end of the 3rd season I already preferred it to TNG/DS9 and just about any other sci-fi show. I think some of the characters are intentionally painted as one-dimensional early on, so that they can grow later (Londo and G'kar especially). There are many campy and lame parts too, but if you can get in the mindset of "enjoy the good, make fun of the bad" then it's highly enjoyable. I take the same mindset with most sci-fi.

The last 1.5 seasons of B5 were a letdown though. They had problems throughout with actors leaving abruptly, imminent cancellation, etc. that threw the plot arch off track a little. It could have been a lot better. The six or seven movies that were produced after the show's run... couldn't get through more than a few minutes of those.
Congrats Basho!
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as opposed to getting clothes as a gift?
spanner? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)
That interview is from September 2013. Ad technology stocks have performed very poorly since then[1], so it's understandable they'd want to sell and avoid the headache of an IPO.

[1]: http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/06/02/why-ad-tech-stocks-are-g...
JavaScript test framework comparison
Don't forget about the Toyota RAV4 EV, which uses the same Tesla drive unit. There are lots of reports of similar problems on the RAV4 EV forums.

Tesla is a public company, so this cost must make its way into an annual report, right?
A systems programming language would never come with a baked-in, hardcoded garbage collector incapable of soft realtime applications and such a limited scope in utility, not such a constrained set of concurrency primitives and such a basic type system.

Seriously; LuaJIT achieves greater performance and has more abstractions in place; Rust fills the niche of systems programming languages easily.

I just fail to see the long-term utility of Go in a space where you have upcoming, high-performance languages like Julia and Rust, all while V8 and asm.js continue to improve in performance, LuaJIT wipes the floor in sheer speed for a dynamically typed language, C++ gets saner abstractions every day and the Erlang VM gets such a nice language as Elixir in the space of critical distributed apps.

Go would be interesting if you were at least getting something interesting out of that garbage collector in terms of type system goodness; as it stands Go is only slightly safer than C in that regard.

And by the way: what the hell does not having a Map() function have anything to do with performance? C++11 has std::transform which goes as fast as anything else. Any functional traversal of data structures can be trivially turned into an internal representation with the same performance characteristics as a loop. It's the biggest cop out ever.
That's probably a question that only an Nvidia or AMD engineer can answer.
I run various production systems in both VMware ESX and VirtualBox, and I have time issues in all VMs, regardless of hypervisor vendor. The VM tools are installed and operating "properly." The host machine clocks are synced correctly with ntp. Yet the VMs will sometimes get tens of minutes out of alignment in short order.

At this point I'm thinking I need to run ntp on the physical hardware with the least jitter, then just run ntpdate in a cron job on all the VMs. This would work better than ntp clients in the VMs or the VM tools.
Happy to offer 2-day settlement (we've got a number of merchants on this already). E-mail chris@pin.net.au.
Something tells me that the deer's representative would object that it was actually the deer who got taken out by a car.
The Hockey Solution or How to skate without thinking about it
I especially like appirater among the 4 you mentioned. Have yet to try GA for mobile, will include in my next update for sure.
That almost sounds impossible. Do you mind me asking what he did, driving for so many hours a day? At 150k a year, that amounts to over 410 miles a day, which is 6-10 hours of driving at normal speeds, quite a feat!
While I think you're being sarcastic, I believe the issue is this:

SF taxi rates are regulated. This can lead to scarcity for everyone.

Uber prices are not regulated. This can lead to scarcity for the poor.

(Morally speaking, which is better?)

So long as there's a linear (or perhaps "convex" might be a better term) response, then yes, more competition and lower barriers tends to drive prices down.

Traffic is not one of them. Adding a few percentage more drivers can drastically slow everyone down. If small vehicles are the only way to get from place to place, and since the price of the trip on average is a profit for the driver, then it's advantageous for paid drivers to have more drivers on the streets. This causes more congestion, which causes longer drive times, which in turn requires more drivers to meet the demand. This is a stable solution, so is an example where more competition and lower barriers to entry end up increasing transportation costs.

The city doesn't want congested streets. They make it hard to get business done, including goods deliveries and scheduling face-to-face meetings, and add pollution and more chances for accidents with serious injuries.

Instead, observe that my preconditions are incorrect. There are other modes of transportation, including walking, biking, and public or private mass transit. A city might introduce a medallion system as one way to limit congestion, and use the resulting artificial scarcity as a way to entice people to use other transportation schemes which are overall better for the city.
While PureScript looks very cool, if you're interested in solving callback hell without changing the whole language, StratifiedJS is a superscript of JS that adds straightforward sequential-style code which is async under the hood, with a bunch of concurrency constructs built into the language:

http://onilabs.com/stratifiedjs

(Also, not terribly relevant to the discussion, but the fact that almost every line is abruptly broken mid-word without any hyphenation makes the article rather jarring to read)
I wanna try this. Is there a video demo I can see?
I just clear my browser history constantly.
I actually really like the added knowledge that my login screen and password input box is a system one...
Shoot me an e-mail at chris@pin.net.au and we'll see what we can do.
If I understand you correctly, your estimate is way off. Have a look at the bitstamp exchange rate for the last 8 months. Looks like around 40% of days closed at a price above the current price.
Proxy does SSL checking, browser trusts proxy's CA certificate, requests are re-signed on the fly.
How to tack a command onto the end of a long-running Unix task, halfway through
Last I knew, iOS Newsstand apps were allowed to do a special push to the app in the background—but only as often as the physical issue was released. So, it might be that they get to do a background push once a week, and aside from that, all downloads have to be started while the app is open.
Several security protocols (e.g. Kerberos) depend on systems having a somewhat reliable clock. They'll issue some sort of authentication token on system A that a user is meant to present to system B; the token has some expiry time, and the security of the system depends on systems A and B having comparable clocks.
Um... In large scale systems... vector clocks? Or am I not reading this correctly (I skimmed)
Missing from this great guide was any mention of moss, an issue I never thought about until moving to the Pacific Northwest. Now my lawn is mostly moss with some grass sticking through. I have resigned to just let it grow, since it is soft underfoot and nice and green. Any tips for a mossy lawn?
Startup claims it will build fiber network in LA and wireless throughout US
> the vast majority of people in the world (at least those who've heard of it) know it as this weird, unsavory, and probably criminal thing

Yes, and it's the truth. What can bitcoin do that no other currency can? It can operate entirely outside of the existing banking system. That's the X factor of bitcoin, and NY regulators hate it for this reason.

The black market actually has _very_ wide appeal. It's worth north of 40% of GDP in certain developing nations. It's worth billions of dollars in America, and Bitcoin has that market cornered online. This _is not_ a bad thing. It is something worth celebrating.

I might add, the vast majority of Americans can't imagine a world in which the US Dollar isn't world reserve currency. Bitcoin was devised as a better currency system than the US Dollar ever could be, and that's why it's so special. Bitcoin doesn't try to be legal, it doesn't try to be whitewashed and savory, Bitcoin just _is_. And what it is, is a vastly superior form of money than fiat currency.
Why I'm Leaving Google After Only 9 Months
I know that offhand gaming and financial services rely on very accurate clocks at the application level. And you can't necessarily rely on the clients to tell you what their time is, as it can be spoofed.
This article is genius, Greg Brockman has figured this out.

Does NameCoin have all the needed features to make this happen right now?
Black Hat is a venue for presenting research. They don't influence the procedures used by researchers at all. And the Black Hat review board is not stuffed full of people who buy into "responsible disclosure".

In fact: I'm not aware of a vulnerability research conference that does get nosy about this stuff. I even reviewed for Usenix WOOT one year, and we didn't vet research for "coordinated disclosure". Not even Usenix works the way you want BH to.
That warning is really irritating, and I get the security concern but the fact that there is no way to silence, minimize, or otherwise hide that notification in any way bothers me.

I don't understand why there is no way of telling it "yes, thank you, I put it there, shut up already, even for a short while!".