skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the wikipedia article on USCYBERCOM:

"In July 2011 Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn announced in a conference that “We have, within Cyber Command, a full spectrum of capabilities, but the thrust of the strategy is defensive.” “The strategy rests on five pillars, he said: treat cyber as a domain; employ more active defenses; support the Department of Homeland Security in protecting critical infrastructure networks; practice collective defense with allies and international partners; and reduce the advantages attackers have on the Internet.”"

Their directors have emphasized that while it will have extensive attack capabilities that it will also provide support to all departments to help strengthen system security across the board.

Banks, hospitals, government departments not relating to the military, utilities (power/water), are all critical to the nation and we must use every asset we have to protect them.

I'd argue that any analogy involving armed soldiers or deadly equipment is very different from defensive cyber warfare. Cyber Command should NEVER act offensively against a US company or citizens, no government organization should in my opinion unless a similar level of physical violence is threatened or preformed by those citizens.

If I was in charge I would allow all US citizens to attack US government systems as long as they responsibly disclose the security vulnerabilities and do not distribute any stolen information (and as long as they don't cause a service interruption), without fear of prosecution.
How many notions of 'depth' have we tried to create over the years within UI designs?

This is literally, adding another dimension to our UIs. I'm excited to see what people come up with and can't wait to play with it myself.
Legally Owning a Gun in Japan Is Really, Really Hard
I don't understand. How would integrating Bitcoin make a company "look cool" if no one is interested in companies integrating Bitcoin?
It all starts with drivel like this.

The company I'm at has a greater percentage of women than men, and they don't have any problem with it.

Really wish these articles were truthful and added the fact that it's really only a problem in 3rd world countries.
I think it'll come down to creating a compelling use-case that makes the technology stick and not just flash in the pan.
Just as an alternative, the NYPL (which is the New York City public library system) allows you to get a library card, and browse from their online ebook collection, as long as you are a resident of New York state. It's a bit of an annoying process, but their large selection makes it worth it.

http://www.nypl.org/help/library-card
Would you happen to know of a minimalistic puzzle approach? I've read about some, like at least 17 squares and 8 out of 9 numbers presented. It didn't actually worked out in tests, so I abandoned that approach. At some point, testing theories became a viable way of generating puzzles, so I went with the random approach instead. But of course, for an efficient program, developing parameters for minimalist is best. I have parameters that increase the success rate to 25% or so...
The question of "Does the seller actually own the thing being sold" is interesting. For example, I consider StubHub jerktech, even though the owner does indeed own the ticket. But encouraging people to buy up tickets for resale at markup seems jerky to me.
I like the idea of owning and controlling the permissions of all my data at the source, then those settings applying everywhere on the internet - in all the different social media services and systems out there.

Stored in the cloud space of my choice. Continually updated as I live my life, my data would be something I own that I could selectively share to social media services or other individuals or systems with fine-grained control over the whole lot.

Services like Facebook would need to change how they worked. Facebook would not disappear it would just shift its focus to offering a place to use your data.

Taking back the data keys would be a cool direction to evolve, and fun having new responsibilities of managing your own living-breathing data, be it stored in the cloud, your phone, or an encrypted USB stick- up to you.
Hi all, please for anybody's sake, can you explain me why the world is accepting something that we know is unsecured properly? Sometimes money just disappear etc..
Just a quick demo showing off what libswarm can do with logging.
The change of background colors is a deliberate design choice. The content is long and the background helps the reader, especially on mobile, to understand in which section he currently is.

It's a presentation in the form of an article. Same content, different medium.
Can anyone explain how does YC's business model works? They seem to keep adding several more partners often. I would guess the current toll should be more than 50. Do these partners also invest their own money in YC or no?
For Bitcoin to succeed as a means of payment, chains of payments need to arise. I.e. merchants not only accepting Bitcoins, but also keeping them and spending them on suppliers and paying their employees (partially) in Bitcoin. As you say, buying Bitcoins to buy something and then the merchant immediately selling them again is pointless.

That's why I'm skeptical with Bitcoin as a replacement for everyday payments. However, there is a chance of it finding significant niches online and internationally. Furthermore, it also has a value as a store of wealth, which is its main price driver (buying an hording a Bitcoin has a much bigger impact on price than buying and spending a Bitcoin with a merchant that sells it again).
The design of Bitcoin is such that no one, not even the "average consumer" is ever unable to operate directly in the decentralised backend.

Yes, and that's fine if the only place you shop is silkroad, but if you want to make purchases from real companies, these centralized 3rd parties are the only option.

About your second point. I was one of the people who had coins at Gox. Hundreds of them. I still think the parent is right and you are wrong.

Well, you're entitled to that opinion, but I think the catastrophic failure of mt.gox and myriad others pretty clearly demonstrates that the blockchain is not a sufficient defense against scams and incompetence.
I can't understand the point of your argument. You're saying that Dell chose to integrate Bitcoin because it will be noticed by Bitcoin users, who will then purchase Dell products with bitcoins. What is wrong with this motivation, and what other possible motivation would there be to integrate any payment method?
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According to the sources I can find "learnt" is the English and "learned" the American version http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/learned_learn...
Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic has talked in depth over the past few years about his attempts to learn French as an adult and I believe he's incommunicado at the moment due to an immersion program.

Nice video here showing his level at the time, great moment near the end when's he's asked by his conversation partner to explain his recent article for the magazine (the widely discussed 'case for reparations' article).

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/a-l...
Sharpening the saw is actually not the same. It means taking a break from what you're doing to come back more effectively at the task in hand.
Not to belittle the tragedy, but somehow, this feels a little different then people hijacking your planes and flying them into buildings.
That answer does not present a constitutional bar to Cyber Command operating on US soil, it presents a statutory bar (the Posse Comitatus Act) to using the military for law enforcement .

Furthermore, its a truncation of a longer article (whose original source seems to unreachable, at least at the moment) that cuts off midsentence. The last whole sentence and the fragment that follows is at the beginning of the section titled "The erosion of the act" and reads "While the Act appears to prohibit active participation in law enforcement by the military, the reality in application has become quite different. The Act is "

So, I don't think it really answers the question at all.
Is there any properly secured money? Each type of money has its flaws and its advantages. For one, bitcoin is traceable to a certain degree, whreas a paper bill is not.

>Sometimes money just disappear

Are you talking about fiat money or bitcoin?
Can we get rid of this trend of having such media-heavy product pages? The HTML5 header video is nifty, but the page is ~20MB to load. Is that really necessary to describe a product?
2x in the 90s. 3.5x in the 2000s. 22x since the 1940s [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inci...
I.e. merchants not only accepting Bitcoins, but also keeping them and spending them on suppliers and paying their employees (partially) in Bitcoin.

I think this is illegal now in New York. The new regulation requires that companies keep profits in USD and not bitcoin.

For bitcoin to succeed, it needs to become safe. It's still incredibly easy to lose your money if it's stored in bitcoin.
Also the number of transactions per se is not the best measure of bitcoin's importance; it is the total purchasing power being transferred that should be considered. Bitcoin is a medium of savings that allows people to transfer value easily, from any point on the globe to any other point with minimal fees. The total purchasing power being transferred has growth tremendously because BOTH the number of transactions has grown AND the purchasing power of bitcoin has increased manyfold in the last few years.

This, of course, does not even factor in all the transactions that happen off blockchain.
Another thing that is hard in French (at least for me) is listening comprehension.

For example, I know many more French words than German ones. Not quite enough to read very much (someday, I hope!) but if I were handed a text in French and German, I'd definitely get more out of the French half.

When it comes to hearing the languages it's reversed. In German, I can spot the words I do know in a spoken sentence and hope to work out the rest of the meaning from them. In French, between the liaisons and the low degree of syllable emphasis I probably couldn't even tell you how many words there were, much less what any of them were! (The exception is in language instruction videos where they carefully enunciate each word one-by-one, but nobody speaks French like that in real life)

I know that with practice picking apart French sentences would become second-nature, but it's a bit of a barrier.
Why on earth would it be intentional?

It's pretty much the worst PR possible for Russia. In fact, the only parties who have anything to gain from the plane going down are Kyiv and the US.

It was more than likely an unfortunate accident, as the separatists had shot down several fighter jets and military transports in the same area in the days leading up to MH17... On previous days MH17 had also flown south of Donetsk.
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As someone else said, all those protections causes merchants to just refuse transactions to people in various countries and contexts. It creates a payment alternative for those people to buy things because merchants don't have to expose themselves to the fraud risk.
With 90k I could become a full-time author
> What if I purchase something and the vendor screws up and refuses to fix it?

You tell your friends or post on the Internet that they did so, and more importantly, you don't purchase things from vendors that don't have a good reputation.

What do you do if a restaurant gives you horrible service? You don't sue them, because litigation is much more expensive than it's worth to you. Restaurants don't tend to provide good service out of respect for the law or fear of litigation, but rather out of the desire for continued business from customers.
From Jan'13 to now, which is when most of this merchant adoption has occurred, I can see an increase from around 40,000 transactions to about 60,000 transactions, which is rather modest and one can easily cherry pick points which show that the number of transactions has actually declined.

ed: And like I said in my other comment to vijay, it's not even clear that much of this represents positive-sum economic activity.
I love all the americans in this post tying to explain why the Dutch are wrong and they should be worried.

It really proves their point.
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Definitely not just sensitive jobs – I first encountered it as a contractor working for NASA (where I set foot in a government building no more than twice a year).

That's a LOT more people, many of whom have probably gone on to work in other interesting places.
That doesn't look like a growth story in the last year and half.
Then use Coinbase, which says "you'll have to trust us with your coin, and hope we don't get hacked".
With many-worlds, all quantum mechanics is local
I have owned for a long time. This is not a good time to spend, that is all. The price seems to be artificially depressed right now, especially considering all the big companies starting to accept it. In a few months I will use them way more.
This one is no mystery. There are deleted statements for this from the separatists.

1. Russian government gives BUK to separatists. (what could go wrong?). We have deleted tweets from the separatists bragging about their newly acquired BUK and youtube videos of the BUK being driven around.

2. Separatists think they are shooting down a Ukrainian transport plane. They brag about shooting down a plane at the time the plane went down. They alert journalists who go to the site and are surprised to find bodies and passports. The videos are on youtube.

So if the Dutch or Dutch government are not mad at the Russians, then dunno what it would take.
Regarding setting $IFS:

for arg in $@; do

A better way to do it is to quote it:

for arg in "$@"; do

because then you can capture newlines and tabs. Bash will automatically convert it to separate parameters, even though there is only one quoted variable.
Yes it's a technical book.
When you do not have the capability of hitting back, it is not a strategy available to you.
> But most people have to pay extra to acquire Bitcoins in the first place.

What do you mean by "pay extra"? The functional exchange rate of that currency to bitcoins is the total cost of exchanging fiat currency for bitcoins.
I will take a car crash over a plane crash any day!
I think there is something to be said about the environmental impacts of ownership. As much as we love to own things, it isn't sustainable for the environment.
It's rough, not because of Swift, but because of Xcode. I really love Swift, but it take some time to get up to the speed you are used with Objective-c. Mostly because of the new syntax, but also because Xcode is very buggy around code completion, linking and syntax highlighting.

But for a new app, I would recommend Swift to anyone, it's light, and readable, I really like it.
I realize this is a different mode of transportation, but what about German U-Boats (and I'm sure other nations) sinking passenger ships in the start of WW2? Attacks on civilian vessels shouldn't be tolerated.
I prefer buying new app. That way I know that I will still own it if I change the phone and I know the payment is one time only.
I also share your sentiment. Completely.

However, I think you're also underestimating the risk of all or parts of your stuff disappearing or getting destroyed in a house-burglary, fire, flood or another kind of disaster.

I'm not entirely sure what the actual risks are, but my gut feeling is that there's a higher chance of losing what you physically own than for it to disappear or get 'updated' as a digital / for-rent product.
Keyway: A simple Bash lock file library
I explained what fees I am referring to in my comment.
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How does that happen, entering a relationship with someone you can barely speak to? I'm very curious!
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You'll regret trying those 10 meeting tricks
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This is also interesting from the cloud storage perspective. Amazon is slowly making personal cloud storage almost irrelevant by providing all these subscription streaming services. You don't event have to digitally own something anymore you just rent it and stream it from the cloud. No need to back up the majority of the files you have.
Well, I want the app to be as close as what Apple could deliver as I possible. So I plan to keep the feed and comments very clean. It'll also feature some offline feature and automatic background update, very handy.
It's happened more than once that I've started something in bash, thinking it's a small enough job, only to see it growing in time - a lot. Sure, in theory you could rewrite it in Python, but you don't always have that luxury in practice.

Bottom line is - keep bash scripts small, but be prepared to deal with the cases when they grow like Jack's magic beanstalk.
Push side-effects away and you have maths. Imperative code conflates all the logical relationships onto big state. When you use functions or `algebraic types` you see the overwhelming presence of simple logic and recursion. Be it Lambda Calc, FP, Relational...
Well, if you define it to be broad enough, then you are correct by definition.

My point here is that there is a big, broad cultural gap between mathematics and programming that you are not going to breach merely by saying that a lot of mathematics is about formal languages (in the nontechnical sense of "formal language").

Far from it. Most of mathematics does not talk about formal languages and most of mathematics itself uses very informal language. It looks forbidding to outsiders, but there are many linguistic styles, fashions, abbreviations, shorthands, jokes, puns, and conventions in mathematical writing, very little of which is easy to algorithmically feed into a computer.
Moving outside a tech hub has distinct disadvantages, besides entertainment. You have less job prospects, thus vastly increase your risk and limit future growth. In addition you are less likely to branch off with colleagues and investors.

For me, the things that would sell me are 1) significant pay above net cost of living compared to tech hub 2) flexible work time policies 3) no attempt to own what I do on the side (CA has clear rules on this) 4) control over job direction and technologies 5) and lastly, maybe your company really is awesome.
Your web app looks nice.
That was and is always the case. Each individual Bitcoin miner can only be certain that they themselves are not colluding with other miners, but for all they know, every single other Bitcoin miner in the world could be colluding against them. Luckily, there is very little incentive to take over the network.
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YES YOU DID provide a lot of information to Paypal.

Never any of the items that I listed in my post.

To open the bank account that you need to use Paypal in the first place, you were required to provide lots of personal info and ID, and sign lots of forms.

Right, and people living in the real world still need a bank account if they want to cash out their bitcoin or spend it without a 3rd party provider cashing it out for them. It is not practical to use bitcoin in the real world without a bank account or a centralized provider's bank account by proxy.
They are different design philosophies: Irmin is closer to "Sqlite-with-Git-instead-of-SQL", since it's just an OCaml library that lets you build graph-based datastructures that are persisted into memory or Git. Higher-level datastructures are built in the usual OCaml style on top of it.

You could build a Camlistore-like service on top of Irmin, but this design/eval hasn't happened yet to my knowledge. It's on the TODO list for Irmin applications -- while I really like Camlistore, I do also want finer control over routing of blobs in a content-addressed network to manage the physical placement of my personal data.

Another interesting aspect of Irmin is that the backend blob stores are also just another functor. In addition to the existing memory/HTTP-REST/Git backends, we've sketched out the design for a convergent-encrypted backend store as well. Other backends such as existing k/v stores like LevelDB or Arakoon shouldn't be difficult, and patches are welcome.
The set -e option instructs bash to immediately exit if
any command has a non-zero exit status. You wouldn't
want to set this for your command-line shell,

...but, it's a great addition to your buddy's `.bashrc`. For maximum effectiveness, be physically present, perhaps with a camera. :)
People hunger for novelty.

The first application you will see is Ringers; when someone calls you, a little glowing globe (or dice, or butterfly, or...) appears in the air above your phone and you wave your hand to answer. There will be a bunch of 3d0animation 'visual ringtones' sold to this end.

People will get in the habit of laying their phone on a table as a display just to show this off - yes, this means there will be a minor epidemic of phone theft, more stories about thieves being trapped by the very phones they stole, all of which create favorable publicity for new technology by positioning it as something highly desirable and therefore worthy of theft.

Smartphones with holographic displays will have small tiwn (or quad) cameras mounted at the corners with face-detection software. This will generate a partial stereo image of your face as you look down at the hologram, which will in turn be a partial stereo image of the caller's face looking back at you but floating above the screen. Is this directly useful? Not so much. Will it be annoying to other people in the vicinity, like bluetooth headsets on people who appear to be talking to themselves, or some people's strange habit of holding their phone up to their mouth like a slice of pizza, while their conversation partner buzzes loudly through the speaker? Damn right, and the curmudgeonly articles write themselves (I'm angry at these people already - aren't you?).

But will it at the same time be awesomely cool to be able to hold conversations with little hologram head-and-shoulders people, as long as you do it discreetly? Oh yes it will. Businesses will pay $$$ for larger models that can project life-size head and shoulders for telepresence meetings, because that will feel about 100x more meaningful than talking to people on a video wall.

What else can you do besides talk to people and get voicemail from kidnapped princesses? Well, there are games, where there's a whole universe of possibility even on the crappy bounded confines of model 1.0 cellphones. Successful games and toys do not have to be complicated or even clever, in fact for new technology it's better if they're stupid simple to drive adoption as widely as possible. Obvious candidate: a little holographic Rock'em Sock'em robot fight, where you struggle with your phone or a friend by wiggling your finger tip in the vicinity of your robot until one of you 'wins'. Is this stupid? Yeah. so is the original toy, and that still sells for $20. Along the same lines, holographic origami sumo wrestlers who respond to your fingertip tapping on the table next to your phone.

I could go on and on, and I haven't even brought up ipad-size tablets yet. Send money for more futurism ;-)
None of this is peer-to-peer, it's all highly centralized. "Jerk" technology is an indicator of gaps in the definition or enforcement or the law. In the case of Uber, there probably should never have been any distinction to the law between taxis that can be hailed and hired cars, for example.

There were no gaps in the law when it came to Monkey Parking.