skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not conflating them, they go together.

No, they really don't.

> Cryptographically secure algorithms are better than goons with a printing press.

Again, technology cannot solve political problems.

There are two scenarios: the government provides a cypto-currency to provide its practical advantages, or a private currency overtakes usd.

If the government proves a crypto-currency (not terribly likely, but the more likely of the two alternatives), then probably it would retain the same amount of control it has now. Technology cannot solve political problems.

The latter presupposes the government wouldn't shut down the currency and that there's political will for your preferred monetary policy anyways. In which case technology didn't solve a political problem, politics solves a political problem.

Anyways, I prefer my democratically elected "goons" to an algorithm chosen by a small group of people.
I'm a current undergrad at MIT and I still see it (and use Emacs myself). Vim and Sublime are more popular though. Vim and Sublime are probably around equal, followed by Emacs.
Does anyone have opinion about the MaidSafe self-authentication paper? https://github.com/maidsafe/MaidSafe/wiki/unpublished_papers...

I came across it a while ago somewhere but still haven't read it.
Well I guess the civilians don't have much choice when they're in a hospital. Also, the fact that these sites appears to be in highly populated civilian areas seems to be guaranteed to generate civilian casualties (which happened today: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-mideast-gaza-id...).
Previously you had to download anaconda from the continuum Website and install it via a shell script. The new pypi option should fit much better into the typical Python workflow.
I never thought of starting an internal mailing list for anything, let along API evangelism, till I started writing that section of the post. Thinking back on some places I've worked in the past though, I imagine that it would be really effective. It would certainly have gotten people talking and conversing at some businesses I've been at.
Milošević was prosecuted at the ICTY, a special-purpose tribunal for Yugoslavia.
Great story. Reminds me of this scene from the wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyoqNyH7HZA
I completely agree that Documentation + Q&A together = Awesomeness. My first programming language was PHP, which I self taught to myself using only the online documentation. Without the comments at the bottom of every page of documentation, the learning process would have taken a lot longer. I haven't looked at the PHP documentation in years, but I hope that the discussions still exist. I'm surprised that more documentation doesn't have the same kind of commenting system, or every a better one... from what I can remember the discussions on the PHP documentation were single threaded and didn't have any user moderation. I also recall people commenting and saying "Don't listen to Bob's comment above! It's completely wrong!! Here's how you do it: ..." followed by: "Steve has it almost correct, but you should really use X instead of Y.", followed by 10 more comments with no real conclusion on how to "correctly" query a mysql database. If there was a Stack Exchange type of Q&A that was embedded on each individual page of documentation, that might be very useful.
Interesting about your grandfather. Mine taught me a similar integrity lesson when I was a kid. Back when there were payphones I would always check them for spare quarters. One time when I was with my grandfather I checked a phone that has broken and dumped ~ $6 in change out. I pulled all the money out super excited about my find. He explained it wasn't mine and when we got home he mailed the local phone a check for the exact amount.
My first marathon training could barely be called training. Previously I had done a half, as the furthest distance I've run. Unfortunately due to injury I couldn't train until the last month. I ran 4 miles, 13 miles, 16 miles, 16 miles, one weekend after another. All very slowly. Then I tapered and did shorter runs, resting the week before the marathon. On Marathon day I hit the wall around mile 18 and trudged the last 8.

Fortunately for you, you have more than a month to prepare! You're also already halfway there. The key is that once you've done the distance, you keep the endurance for a very long time. So you just need to up the miles each run, then taper off to rest before the race. You don't need to do a full marathon before the race, but a few miles short is fine. The last runs, work on speed. Don't do any long runs two weeks before race day, so your legs are fully recovered.

After that, the main thing to worry about is simply staying hydrated and not overheating. The main reasons people drop out of races is because of these two reasons. It's rarely because you're out of breath or your legs are too tired. You can push through those, but not heat stroke and dehydration. You will also need to eat salt or salty foods along the way to replenish. Get used to running with a pack and/or bottle.
Intro to programming with any kind of Lisp as a language could be a good reason to do this. Unless the Lisp in question is Racket - DrRacket is quite nice Lisp IDE if you remember to enable a few options (like auto-pairing of parens, which I have no idea why would be disabled in any Lisp environment by default...).
That's a lot of meta-work talk.
What about the product itself? It's hardly even mentioned in your remarkably honest post.
What was your job as a CEO? What did you bring to the table?

Is it possible you have failed because your product wasn't good enough?
Is it possible you focus too much on being a CEO rather than take care of your customers and employees?
The Quest For Researching Stuff That Will Never Come Out of Our Lab - is probably a more accurate headline coming from Microsoft.
Eclipse has emacs-style key bindings. So you can have the best of both worlds.
Someone linked the relevant case elsewhere in the discussion, and apparently it was a computer expert working for the German police that did the unswirling (which is about what I remember from the news at the time): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil
CocoaPods.org – The Dependency Manager for Objective C
> purely algorithmic proof-of-identity

Is that what's presented in this paper? https://github.com/maidsafe/MaidSafe/wiki/unpublished_papers...
Yes, at least in my circle of coder-friends. Younger people seem to be using some new-fangled thing like Sublime more often, but there's still plenty of us using and hacking on emacs. Don't worry, we won't let it die.
This kid's parents knew the right people and had the right amount of cash to get him the expensive, needs-connections education and tutelage required to "create a truly outstanding college application."

Clearly it happens that non-wealthy, non-connected people get into Ivy League schools. It is, however, not the norm.
An alternative approach is something like sandstorm.io
That approach would require constant database updates as new makes/models come out. Additionally, it wouldn't be able to handle vehicles that have been customized with things like larger tires. Scanning every vehicle makes the system much more set-and-forget.
Perhaps something like "P2P/distributed hosting with Safe", "MaidSafe: Decentralized servers/hosting", or some combination like that?
In Finland the tax office creates a "tax account" for each company. You can transfer money into the account for withheld payroll taxes, social security payments, value-added tax, etc.

It works just like a bank account (except you can't withdraw money from it). They have an online service where you can check the tax account's status and activity, so it's easy to keep it in balance.

This eliminates the need to retain any money that is actually owed to the government. When you pay an employee, you can pay the withheld tax and social security fees at the same time into the tax account.
Delivery would be an obvious one. I could be wrong, but except for pizza, I don't believe any of the major American fast food chains deliver.

Maybe they've all done the math and it doesn't make financial sense, I don't know. But there's certainly nothing inherent about the type of food that makes it impossible; I've had great burgers and fries delivered by a few independent restaurants.
I might choose either of those options, as I have no objection to paying a (small) amount for the stuff I read, but neither of them would be very fair. If we just measure cost per article then it just means they would have to push out two articles (similar to what you do with academic publishing) where it would have been better if it had been in one.

Make it so that some articles cost more and it just becomes too complicated.
It's totally understandable how these companies get themselves into this situation. Your employee gets a paycheck of $1000 and in addition to that you send off $700 in payroll tax. Well, if your bank account is low you can pay the employee his/her regular amount but delay paying the tax. Your employee doesn't know as long as you manage to pay the withholdings before the end of the quarter (or worse case end of the tax year).

This is known as "borrowing against payroll tax" and is pretty much universally known as a terrible idea! It does happen, though and a business might be dangerously low on cash, but has big amount coming in (from a consulting job, investment, etc). It's just very risky because if you get yourself into a position where you can't pay the bill, then you will be screwed just like one of those companies you mention.

But - if you just simply use a payroll service and always pay the withholdings without fail then you won't have that temptation and won't get yourself into trouble. No need to try to hide your money or something so the IRS can't get it.
I think the breakthrough with Facebook's system was the idea to transform the face before running the training or verification on it. And the new system seems to use the same idea: The new algorithm works by normalising each face into a 150 x 120 pixel image, by transforming it based on five image landmarks: the position of both eyes, the nose and the two corners of the mouth.
That's a very delicate situation. You can definitely try, but its about time, place, and reading their reaction.

Do you have any presentation material? Improvising is very hard to do. Its extremely difficult to convey a complex concept, and there's absolute no way they're going to understand it as well as you do. For this reason, there's no way they'll understand the value of your concept as much as you do.

Find the right venue. If you have an opportunity to give a formal presentation, then prepare for it. If not, you'll have to improvise. You can't demand other's attention, so you'll have to find the right time.
as someone who headed the dev team in a startup where the ceo did this repeatedly, i have to say it's a huge mistake. it was very demoralising to the entire engineering side of the company; we felt that we were never given a chance to deliver a properly working product because we were always working round the clock and frantically adding half-baked features that had been used to close a sale.
If this deal were to go-through, it'd be a massive consolidation of the online real estate industry. Zillow keeps saying otherwise, but local MLSs are going away.
> But my hypothesis, that poor families are less likely to vaccinate their children than rich families, was incorrect

Indeed. The Waldorf School of the Peninsula, an expensive private school ($20k/year tuition for kindergarten and elementary school, $21k/year for middle school, and $28k/year for high school), full of the children of very well off people from top Silicon Valley companies, had a 23% immunization rate a few years ago (I haven't seen what the current rate is). Compare to 90% for the public schools in the same city, and 94% for the public schools in the county.
Isn't the point playing the original game?
I don't think he's out of business yet.
Silver: Use Swift with Android and .Net
Hidden features of Ruby you may don't know about
Repeating my comments from another thread:

I thought like this once.

Futurists have a tendency to imagine a world of changed human behavior and it's compelling to do so. The reality is that the future rarely arrives as sweeping change, but rather as metaphor and specialization.

Whereas you can imagine others adopting new patterns of behavior because you understand the underlying reasons why such behavior is reasonable, the metaphor through which you explain this change is not readily understood. Why, as a User do I want this? If the answer is control and privacy, you might be barking up the wrong tree (time and again we've shown that those are not things consumers want or are willing to pay for).

If you want to drive dynamic change in the world, you have to change the underlying structure of complicated systems while steadfastly avoiding changes in user behavior. It turns out this is quite hard.

I applaud your efforts but encourage you to avoid the rabbit hole of endless specialization and to improve the marketing metaphor/rhetoric.
A Closer Look at Transit
Spot on.

Escrow isn't unique to BTC, and how many Mt. Gox users wished they had FDIC insurance?

Other than extreme early adopters and libertarians, most people aren't going to use bitcoins because of the lack of anti-fraud, which creates overhead that is passed to the users as transactional costs.
What's an MLS?
That's not a vector - a vector is another species
My stance on this is that while he did do something "wrong", this should not be something that he gets in signifigant trouble over.

He did post someone's work to the Internet, but seriously? Prison would be absolutely ridiculous for something like this.
Once in a while in HN you see the question, "what side projects are making you passive money?". From my understanding, most of them are simple SAAS ideas fetching 200-300k. Eg, patio's appointment remainder app.

Instead of saying "I need a simple idea"...I think you should phrase it as "what is a simple pain point that I can solve"
This has been one of the most popular features of Mailgun: removing the signatures from email message bodies. Happy to see the team finally extracting it from the code base and making it available for all DIY heroes everywhere.
EDIT: Sorry, I realize this doesn't really directly respond to "IDE replacement" - honestly I don't write much code any more so some of the below doesn't apply to that. When I wrote code, the main benefit of emacs was that it abstracted me a bit from the nuances of different IDEs for different languages / platforms and was good at generalizing interactions with the compiler / errors / objects. A really good IDE would be better at many certain things than emacs, but emacs was marginally better all around. I used it for C, perl, and a little C++.

1) "the kitchen sink" thing, which is commonly cited as a drawback, is (to me) emacs most compelling feature. If this isn't compelling to someone, then a lot of the rest of emacs probably won't be, either.

There's a learning curve to doing everything in emacs. I've written some guides on it before to ease the transition to starting to use it (basically introducing a few very important basic concepts that introduce major and minor modes, keybindings, and how to investigate those and customize them), but when you have that core understanding down, when you realize that you can apply those same concepts to everything you do - it's incredibly, incredibly powerful and you understand why people want to live in emacs.

eshell or shell-mode for your shell interactions is amazing. searching through a shell buffer with emacs' regexes or incremental search is fantastic. Running your whole shell in that buffer and being able to run simple but useful commands like "occur" (essentially letting you grep through multiple preceding lines of output) is something I use all the time. The commands to jump up / down through the buffer to prior prompts in the shell history - all of that stuff is great.

Similarly, using dired (directory editor) as my shell browser is great. If I need to do a batch file rename, I could jump through some hoops to do this with shell script one-liners or something, but putting dired into editable mode and then treating the file names simply like text and using search & replace operations the same way I would on regular content in a file is a natural, fast, and powerful operation.

And of course all of these are the same commands and same environment as I have for editing text.

I don't do everything in emacs but I do as much as I can in it. And I didn't mention org-mode but I use it for 100% of my note taking and publishing to HTML - it's incredibly awesome.
Wow, two for two. You will be our new proofreader.

Yes, that's a typo as well, we only deal with USPS at the moment.

There are two main reasons for this:
1. Every person would be be able to use the service from their home or place of business.
2. They offer free package pick up service.

We use USPS Priority Mail, which takes 2 to 3 days from the majority of the country.
You should have moved to Oakland. There's plenty of cheap real estate there, and it's on BART.
I've been playing today with the new version, loaded in a project i have been using in Nitrous.io and have been really happy with c9 so far.

The only complaint i have after 3-4 hours of ruby dev was performance when it appears i’m doing anything IO related on my container. For example re-seeding the test database, or even startup times of the test rails container.

For example right now here is a screenshot of the terminal:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w8b29sn8fjabbr3/Screenshot%202014-...

(56 load average? Swap almost full? Yikes)

That said, the features are solid and i was able to get up and running very quickly. Assuming the are just having some growing pains from launching the new services today, I’m definitely going to consider switching over to c9.

I haven’t checked the forums to see if there is a way to re-launch my project onto a different server to try and get better performance.
Multiple Listing Services, run by real estate agents, which can't die soon enough.
No. Proof-of-identity means proving you are a unique human. I.e you're not a bot, and one human can't claim to be multiple humans.

It is not possible to have proof-of-identity on a distributed system without having a trusted centralized identification service (which maidsafe claims to have solved, yet offers no evidence).
What surprises me the most is that this came from the author of the paper, not the publisher. In my experience, authors don't see any kind of royalties from any publication fees, and generally there are even fees (often significant ones) associated with having your work published in a journal. Generally, if you're the author of a given paper, you'd prefer if your paper were published for everyone to read (even beyond the intangibles, this could increase citation count), whereas the publisher is the one with an incentive to keep it gated. In fact, some journals are now offering creative commons licensing as an upsell - pay a certain amount of money and there's no paywall on this article.

This EFF article may be playing a bit fast-and-loose with the term "article", though. I'm seeing something here about how it was actually someone's thesis, and that the author was concerned that the person who put it on Scribd did so in an attempt to profit off of some sort of system of fees. It's not clear to me why it would go as far as prosecution, though, unless issuing a takedown request necessitates full criminal prosecution...
Thanks for the brave post, Seth. Glad to see all of the support here, deserved, and appreciate your honesty. Best wishes for the days ahead
Thinking 'bioinformatician' is a fancy name for 'programmer' is likely part of the problem too.
TL;DR:
Family members of Wood's victims in a double 1989 murder said they had no problems with the way the execution was carried out.
"This man conducted a horrific murder and you guys are going, let's worry about the drugs," said Richard Brown, the brother-in-law of Debbie Dietz. "Why didn't they give him a bullet, why didn't we give him Drano?"
Yes, my company has used SurePayroll and it works exactly like this. They charge fees, as well as presumably making some money on the float.

The fee is around $40 per month (per employee, I suspect) and it is money well spent. There are pains associated with the service - the reporting is not entirely transparent, and when things go wrong with the automated systems I have gotten odd letters from my tax authorities which needed to be turned into support tickets (which were then handled promptly). But I would never use anything less than a payroll service. If my payroll gets more complex I might upgrade to a bookkeeper with well-documented payroll experience (at a cost which would, I suspect, be considerably higher than $40 a month), but I'd never try to do payroll myself, for reasons which are amply attested in this thread.

Also, accountants. +1 for accountants.
"Not every developer in SF is as mercenary as you make it sound. For your first employee hire, you might find a single person living in an apartment in SF vs. a family man in St. Louis who has to pay for day care and save for college. Their salary requirements might be comparable."

This is based on a ridiculous premise:

1) That a highly paid professional in a city BRIMMING with recruiters and cool new companies throwing themselves at them isn't going to respond to market pressures and/or "the shiny new company" effect when you reach a certain growth point

2) That a "family man in St. Louis" will cost something comparable due to this odd concept unique to flyover country of having a family.... oh wait, people in the Bay Area have kids too.

I'm sorry, but there is a huge amount of delusion in San Fran about the advantages of physical proximity. I'm not idiotic enough to believe there aren't huge advantages, but it seems as if there is absolutely no point (that HN folks are willing to acknowledge) where the cost of being in San Fran and having to pay your talent at grossly inflated rates actually MORE THAN CANCELS OUT the benefits.
Was. And warmonger he may have been, but a stable one.

The evidence uncovered after the invasion shows that Saddam's Iraq had been bled dry by sanctions, and that Saddam's frustrations with forced weapons inspectors had been genuine (the chemical weapons were destroyed long ago) all along; by the late 90s, Iraq was toothless. Saddam could not have staged another war if he wanted to.

Clinton didn't oust Saddam's precisely because it wasn't necessary; Iraq provided stability in an historically unstable region. The State Department and the CIA knew this; the neocons insisted on removing Saddam in spite of all the available information. The Pentagon (I think it was) had run simulated war games, every one of which predicted an outcome very much like today.

Saddam was a dictator who massacred his own people, but his regime resulted in far fewer casualties than the invasion and subsequent chaos.
They do, but it's classified as a "barter".

If you have the option to get USD instead of BTC, then you're much, much better off getting paid the former.
And I thought it was about cloud9.gg at first glance.
They actually caught up to Koding.