skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>1. Submit fingerprints of all founders (and employees) to the FBI and disclose personal financial information of founders and officers to NY State.

>2. Require them to hold an undetermined amount of U.S. dollar funds in bonds or trusts. Startups will not be able to predict the bonding or capitalization requirements until after they apply, making it difficult to project expenses or raise money.

>3. Conduct expensive audits and security testing that no small startup could afford.

>4. Hand over any untouched user assets to NY State after five years as “abandoned property.”

If these four things deter you, please do everyone a favor and do not start any company that handles other peoples money.
Why would anyone want to harass AirBnBers?
Dapper is nice, but if you want to have the compiler check your queries, and still run fast, I recommend LINQ to DB: https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db

(not to be confused with LINQ to SQL from Microsoft)
I don't know if the relaunch will work or not because I don't know if the web is fundamentally changing what (topic, length) we want to read. I do know they're sitting on a trove of evergreen content. A few years ago I rented a cabin in the woods for a month - no internet. There was a stack of 5 year old New Yorkers and I read all of them. I was blown away by the quality and timelessness of the writing. I had never paid much attention to it before, but I became a subscriber after that.
Latin1? I hoped it would die some day.
Wow, $280. I wonder if my public library will spring for it...
Exactly, this guy was searching for a django developer in my city (not too many there)
Thank you for the answers, going to install it and try it out!
They simply decided to choose the best.
> The only way to prevent security agencies from indiscriminately monitor web traffic is to make it technically impossible.

The vast majority of people do not want that Internet. See, for example, the popularity of Facebook. (About 1.2bn users per month).

You need technical measures, and law, and effective oversight.
Those coordinates are obviously less accurate than the mapcode, and not at all any smaller.
http://6octaves.blogspot.jp/2013/10/interview-with-demoscene...
Meanwhile we're stuck with price-fixing on books (by law) in the Netherlands which, IMHO, is a much much larger problem than the legality of reselling of e-books. And although that law doesn't apply to e-books, retailers so far haven't deviated from that norm, probably because it let's them line their pockets too. For any other industry such price-fixing would be considered illegal, but for some reason the publishing and media industries have been exempt.
Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive
A way to link better to apps in multiple platforms
Co-founder of YunoJuno here. I thought I'd chip in on a general point (I
won't attempt to answer specifics here as I think that's probably inviting
trouble for someone like me, with skin in the game.)

What I would say is that we at YJ feel very strongly that the future of
work is freelance. We've (literally) put our money where our mouth is on
this belief (not to mention our careers), and so we, and I'm guessing the
others in this space, really want to work with the freelancer community
to make this happen.

I've been a freelancer (developer), and a hirer (as CTO at various companies),
so feel reasonably in touch with both sides of the market, and frankly, neither
side functions properly. You (as freelancers) shouldn't be paying 20%, and
employers shouldn't be wading through the cr^p that traditional freelancer
recruiters put them through[1]. We're all working on making this better.

Whilst we're doing our thing, there are some great competitors in this market,
and hopefully they would agree with me when I say please don't give up on us
- the world of work is changing, and we're all trying to push it along
in the right direction.

Oh, and one minor rebuff - the very best employers in London, certainly,
are using online services, whether that be YunoJuno or any of the other
sites listed - and whilst the names on the list may change, the migration
to online services is inevitable. This is your future, get involved.

[1]There are exceptions to this - some recruiters are good guys - but they
take a lot of finding.
I guess "coming full-circle" isn't quite the term I want to use, but I'm old enough to remember when 401(k)'s were branded as the corporation's way of throwing their employees to the wind to fend for themselves. Compared to the defined benefit pension that was commonplace.

>At no other time in history could you rely on the markets to subsidize the latter third of your life.

So now saving for retirement is an act of benevolence on the part of the companies who receive the investment? Since that doesn't make sense, are you maybe referring to the small tax deferral provided by section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code?

Here's a link to describe what 401(k) is all about, for those who are curious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/401%28k%29
A Formula for Success: The Power of Implementation Intentions
> Indeed he's attempting to apply an existing regulatory framework to new technology, which rarely works well.

I think this sounds more true than it actually is. "Works" is a fairly ambiguous word, but new technology is released into existing regulatory frameworks every day.
Most "medication"(ie: antidepressants) is not a solution to depression either. But yes. talking helps.
It does. See http://golang.org/ref/spec#Import_declarations
You can rename the package on import http://play.golang.org/p/V01jD_EZyX
I'm not sure that makes sense for typescript. It's aiming to be a very conservative extension of JS. Adding new features moves away from that goal.
Might want to check if there's research into armchair theorizing. Maybe start with econometrics papers ;)
Few thoughts...

1. Your site is very confusing to me. Maybe a quick tutorial would be helpful?

2. Lot of UI quirks (as the other person has pointed out)

3. Why would I use your site versus the gazzillion other options available to me? It would be helpful if you mention your value proposition on your home page
I had to look up UO on Wikipedia... it's still going? God, if it was a person it'd be old enough to smoke.
Google, Microsoft claiming Apple's crown, albeit from 1994
It would have been even more meta if the OP posted "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is to ask questions."
Well Tor is obviously not the answer, it introduces too much latency and at the moment very few nodes mostly located in the US bear the majority of all traffic. No technical solution will prevent governments from monitoring all important network hubs. It seems impossible to prevent them to gather at least metainformation there. If enough routers in an onion routing scheme are compromised the same is true. If there would be laws that guaranteed the physical integrity of data centers, it would definitely be much easier to devise safe routing protocols.
Ew, now you can have an awkward weak implementation of some FP ideas in Go too.

Yeah, I'm a bitch.
To me, that sounds like you are saying simple code is often efficient (or that efficient code can by simple), not that efficient code is simpler (which is how I interpret the original text).

To be very clear, I don't doubt the author (you?) had a good point to make, just that it was unclear what that was from the way it was presented, and to such a degree that it took me out of the flow of reading the post, and perhaps a less ambiguous way of expressing that concept (or omitting it, if it's expressed succinctly elsewhere) would be clearer and more effective.
Do you have to sharpen the blades? I've used a dull reel mower before, and it was not so great, even in a small lawn.
Once you run it through some kind of thermodynamic cycle to turn steam into electricity, the efficiency will drop.

There's a limit to how efficient those processes are. For the kinds of temperatures we can easily handle with the technology we have, it's not so rosy.

Steam plants are between 30% and 60% efficient depending on how fancy (and thus expensive to build) they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_efficiency

So if you figure the steam plant might be 45% efficient and the steam production is 85% efficient you end up with 0.45 * 0.85 = 38.5% total efficiency.

Better than off-the-shelf PV panels available today. But this method requires solar concentration by a factor of 10x which will definitely add cost. If it's better that PV at that point would remain to be seen.
T buckshot is .20-caliber while 00 is .32-caliber.
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This is not realistic though and as I said it would actually help the security establishment and military if more people used Tor.
"some people would do some minor surgery on their 2m radios so they could tune in to police bands just above 2m"

Probably, but you could also just buy a police scanner from Radio Shack, or even a $10 TV tuner that can be used as an SDR: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr

In fact I think those cheap Boafeng radios will even transmit on those frequencies. Of course that would be highly illegal.

"fancy digital microwave comms now"

Microwave radios are only really used for point-to-point links, as the shorter wavelengths require line-of-sight.

They are using digital trunking systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunked_radio_system), and encryption in some cases.
I'm here too; EPB is amazing. I cut cable about 6 months ago (kept 100mbps), yet they were still awesome from a customer service perspective.

There is a lot of talk in the thread about public vs private - regardless of ideology - EPB is an incredibly run public utility (as least as a customer)
>As a non-American, it does seem a bit odd that you can't have a 401(k) or some equivalent outside of your job - or can you?

That's call an IRA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_IRA
I used to live in Chattanooga, EPB was wonderful. My favorite thing about the internet service, my bill was exactly the price advertised (like 59.99). No additional fees, no extra taxes, all of that rolled into the advertised price. It's a little thing, but helped to build trust. Oh, and the download speeds were always as advertised or better.
I became that in this universe.
HOPEX had a good talk on the subject:
http://hope.net/schedule.html#wirelessme

They reference the RedHook (Brooklyn) project in the article which was an inspiring attempt - especially in how they got local help for installation and maintenance. I am not sure how that project is going as the blog does nto have a lot of recent updates http://rhicenter.org/

I volunteer for a meetup based project in my home town which is having a hard time getting roof access for the network. In my limited experience it seems the biggest obstacles are not tech problems but NIMBY.

Meshnet is a great idea - one of these days it will break through. It is exciting to see these projects
Try Transfer Wise. It's a very useful middle ground between the current method of SWIFT and the potential of Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. It costs much less than a SWEIFT transfer and is much quicker.
It doesn't matter what some politician thinks, or even what a rich VC thinks: there will never be more than 21,000,000 bitcoins.

Once you invest in Bitcoin, you have a vested interest in the system maintaining and appreciating in value.

I'm not worried about Bitcoin being debased by VCs.

Politicians and bankers do concern me, however, because they can do whatever they want to my fiat currency: inflate it, deflate it, confiscate it, freeze it

and they can always hold those things over my head in order to compel me to take an action against my will.

Mainstream institutions have proven time after time to be more interested in accumulating and preserving their own power, than acting in the public's best interests.

I no longer trust this system, and I actively seek out ways in which to protect myself from its whims. I would never hold any more of its money than I absolutely had to, and I look forward to building a free economy on top of the blockchain.

That's what Bitcoin's about. It's not about being PayPal 2.0.
ML and LISPs existed. Surely Scheme in the browser would be a better language and implementable in the 10-day window JS had.
Agreed. I'm looking for a LiveCD style paper-waller generator, do you know of one?
it just made me wonder if tv might be a distraction.

but i also think this quiz only gives you half the equation - you'd have evidence you could be friends but it doesn't tell you whether you could be co-workers (requires similar motivations/work ethic & complementary skills).

although i like seinfeld, i'm squarely on the friends end of the seinfeld-friends continuum, so i guess that wouldn't bode well for a partnership. =)
Glad you were fortunate enough. I decided to drop out of highschool and hit the fast food workforce when I was 15 so I could play this game more often. I may have had a slight addiction :P I did end up selling my in-game property and account for around $1000 so that was cool.. but those years I will never get back.
The Greatest Double Agent in History
> Would it make me that much smarter or better in any tangible way?

If you think life is about you, you are guaranteed to find it difficult and unrewarding.
Next best thing:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elev...
The article saying the sale was somewhere between 300MM and 1BN. There is no confirmed actual sale price.
InstallingShit.com – WTF
Need feedback about how to make this the most epic thing on the internet.If you're interested email me installingshit@gmail.com Thoughts, ideas? First video up!

I thought about making installation videos that weren't boring. Repo of installation related porn.

http://youtu.be/x2yUJwc3-z8

PS #installingshit
What It's Like Living Under the Sea with Fabien Cousteau
It's automatic:

http://jsfiddle.net/bD68B/

I tried to make the example as minimal as possible, so I don't show off a lot of the features (i.e. state, event handling), but I did use JSX, an optional syntax extension for function calls.
Stack Overflow is the example I'm forever using when arguing against premature scale-out. For non-trivial applications scale-out has substantial complexity costs attached to it, and the overwhelming majority of applications will never truly need it.

It's frustrating to see time wasted obsessing over trying to maintain eventual consistency (or chasing bugs when you failed to do so) on systems that could quite happily run on a single, not that beefy machine.
Seeing all the debate whenever this topic comes up, it reminds me of the argument that Star Trek was actually a dystopia. Surprisingly, a jobless future with basic income really scares people.
I'd call it the depressing situation, personally. I wish I could carve out a small corner of the US sometimes where people don't actively sabotage the ability of government to function effectively.
There is a difference between:

* Coinbase: A startup that holds millions of dollars worth of bitcoin for mostly consumers
* The reddit tip bot: a non-profit community tool that explicitly discourages holding more than a dollar or two
* Blockchain: A startup that holds no money for anyone, but writes and serves software that helps people hold their own money online.

Do you think all three of these groups should go through this process?
In looking for specific strategies to overcome procrastination this one jumped out. A more detailed description of the simple technique can be found in a paper by gollwitzer, http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/99Goll_ImpInt.pdf
Alternative site: http://archive.today/v9fQO
Cool, will look that up
Discovering private APIs with Charles.app
on a side note: they use Fossil SCM [1], which looks quite interesting - it offers not only distributed code versioning, but also distributed tickets and wiki.
Comparison with git: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/fossil-v-gi...

[1] http://fossil-scm.org/
https://doc.ez.no/display/EZP/eZ+Publish+REST+API
Apparently my dad left me because computers.
Big data and small business marketing
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Get an earthworm or bokashi composter use that for nutrients. Declorinate your water by letting it stand outside for a day or 2. if you have a water feature somewhere which recycles water pee into it, after a couple of weeks bacteria which turn the amonia into no2 and then no3 will come to live in there (you will also supply a fair bit of nutrient this way), use that to water your lawn.

*bacteria in certain temp ranges obviously, a boston winter won't be any good for this.
In Firefox, install Self Destructing Cookies, BetterPrivacy and Ghostery. Ghostery will blacklist most of these tracker sites, the other two plugins should do their best at removing all traces of those that get through.
I think it's starts with being interested in them. Travelling may help.
Off-topic, but are you using the 10.10 DP as your daily OS? If so, would you mind sharing a quick note of your experience? Any show-stopping issues? Better/worse?
As I am working on large tables, I may have a different goals than most UI developers are looking for. Diffing a huge structure is just a waste of time compared to not-diffing. Don't re-calculate things that you already know of, and in case of the table, you know pretty much upfront.

On the HTML markup, there are many valid reasons you may want to use non-TABLE based tables:

- it allows better rendering control for infinite scrolling (DOM reuse, re-positioning, detached view for sticky header and column)

- it allows you to have real (CSS style-able) row groups, or if your structure is hierarchical, it allows you a better control to create a treetable (reduced rendering time if you expand a node and insert a bunch of rows in the middle).

- it allows you to have multiple grid systems inside the table (e.g. a detail row may use up the entire row, and it may have its own table inside, which you'd like to synchronize across multiple detail rows). I guess this later benefit is just redressing the fact that you do need to implement an independent grid system anyway :)
That's a long video. I believe in hearing people out even when they sound preposterous, but I'm not going to look through a 2 hour video.
I've upvoted this because I want to see what really smart people have to say about it. That said, I've always been of mind that if someone gains unauthorized root access to my box, then nothing on it can ever be trusted again. This includes things in memory. In other words, this feels obvious to me, once pointed out.

Is there something novel about this that I'm missing?
I don't use paper wallets myself but any barebones linux bootcd/usb with https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org and BIP38 selected is the route I see most recommended.
How? I can't seem to find this option in account admin panels.
It's really a good time to start your own mobile company and sell it to Yahoo. Easy money.
Let me ask a dumb question: If money exchange is the main problem that Bitcoin solves, then why isn't the problem of money exchange attacked directly instead, i.e. through some other less volatile classical stores of value like gold or stock? Why is money exchange a problem anyway and why couldn't a classical wire transfer solve the problem?

The article doesn't say anything about these things and the underlying principles other than that it's "suprisingly difficult". Instead it goes right into proposing a solution based on Bitcoin and making big picture comparisons with network protocols that probably sound very smart to the right audience.

Given the amount of agreement and hype that the article has received so far, I feel a bit like an outsider right now questioning what is proposed. I think I just don't get it. Is everybody just a lot smarter than me or does the community miss to address some basic questions here?
Show HN: We made a game this week-end!
Hi Hacker News!

My friend and I [1] would like to share with you something we did this week-end.

We really like the idea of game jams like the Ludum Dare, and we’d like to participate, but it’s often complicated for us, as we are often limited by the rules inherent to this kind of competition: we have to be available at specific dates, and the rules doesn’t always work for us. For example: if you want to participate as a team in a Ludum Dare compo, you have 72h instead of 48h, and you are not required to publish your code.

We realized that what we really like is:

- To work together.

- The 48h stress (two days is perfect because it fits in a week-end).

- To work with a theme.

- To play with Open Source enthusiasts, so we can all learn from each other.

That’s why we decided to create a quick manifesto, the Selfish Game Challenge [2]. It’s just a really small set of rules that we will follow for our game sessions from now on. It’s really just for us, but we thought it would be nice to share it with people.

The game we made is called “REVERSIBLE” [3]. We rushed a bit to finish in time, and it needs a lot of polish, but it feels good to have something playable at the end. It’s about cells and evolution, and we quite like it!

It’s open source, so don’t hesitate to have a look at the repository too [4].

[1] http://lisezmoi.org/

[2] http://lisezmoi.org/selfishgame/

[3] http://lisezmoi.org/reversible/

[4] https://github.com/lisezmoi/reversible
EPB does have a very nice "smart grid" that uses fiber optic lines to connect to stations positioned all over their network that monitor the condition of the connected grid and can rapidly shut off power to a very localized area. They realized that they still had quite a large bit of bandwidth remaining, and decided to start an ISP.[1]

1- This is all based on what I recall from conversations with EPB higher-ups when I spent a day chatting with them for a school event.
I agree with the point everyone is making about the cops not wanting to get involved since it's a civil matter but I stand by my statement that AirBnB is trying to be too nice. They offered those guys a hotel instead for 30 days? You don't negotiate with these types of grifters. AirBnB should do everything within it's legal powers to make life a living hell for them.
It's pretty realistic given the impetus towards tor-enabled FOSS routers. Many people may begin using tor without ever realizing it, if certain people get their way and the tor network expands to allow such usage realistically.
I did the same; I stopped by their office on the way to work with my cable boxes. While standing in the customer service line held up by a problematic customer, a woman took me aside to her cubicle nearby where she had me sit down as I turned everything in and changed my account. Very friendly, no pressure to keep anything. She just made the changes and helped me save some time. Much different at Comcast, where I was treated like an animal.
Theoretically, there is no reason for a government-run utility to be worse. There should be democratic pressure to improve service, balanced by democratic pressure to cut costs. Despite what ideologues say, there are many examples of well-run government-run programs, such as NOAA, CDC, NIH, interstate highways, FDIC.
So you want Ripple, essentially.

You should be aware that anything dependent on a small set of entities can fail spectacularly. You never know if they get hacked, bankrupt, sued, raided, etc ...
It depends on how pretty you wanted those pixels to be and if you wanted to use the hardware (and which hardware) to it's fullest extent.

Back in the DOS days, everyone more or less had to write their own rasterizers and write that data directly to the graphics controller (their own graphics driver), which probably took a few KB to do. Modern demos with full GPU acceleration use whichever 3D API/stack the OS provides, which (as a complete guess) is several hundred MB. Even that number pales in comparison to the amounts of data that the procedural generation within some 64k intros produce.
Not many days go by without a funny headline on Fark about somebody with a supposedly-unloaded gun who decided to "screw with someone's head."