skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, it makes more sense in the world of a 'backed dollar'.

As it is, it is a debt to repay $1 for each $1 bill. You might well ask, $1 of what? Since the government doesn't produce anything, it is a strange kind of debt.

$1 of tax-forgiveness is one answer. $1 of whatever our citizens produce is another answer. This 2nd answer is the reason why the demise of the dollar as the world currency (aka wealth reserve function) could lead to hyperinflation in the USA as all those foreign-held dollars come flooding back, looking for something domestic to buy.

As long as the dollar is legal tender within the USA, foreign "creditors" (in the sense used in the above comments) can always get something back (however debased in value).

If like Brazil and Argentina, the USA defaults and creates a new currency (it'll never happen, right?) then good luck to all the drug-dealers of the world trying to cash in their old greenbacks.

<edit: phrasing!>
What's wrong with your browser bookmarks, or the more general bookmarking services (like HN's favourite, pinboard)
As a tech saavy guy, what I always appreciated is the low cruft of their systems. Free was always trivially simple. They gave you access to simple ftp and mail servers. No need for special programs. It's not the most user friendly but it doesn't add another layer of fat on top of existing systems. Most companies wrap everything in their own shiny interfaces that will appear as added value for non knowledgeable customers, justifying the higher cost. This was something heavily discussed when they entered the mobile market. The old triumvirate tried to blackmail public opinion saying Free will force massive layoffs. But we don't need, useless branded programs, layers of hotliners, or incompetent salesmen in the first place.
Great. Keep up using Emacs and you won't regret, especially using it for writing Lisp code.
Oh, I didn't realise the linked article wasn't the actual seL4 website.
Paul Buchheit: The Technology [video]
So Microsoft domains account for the highest amount of fraud?

Maybe a third-party should seize hotmail and outlook.com in order to clean it up for them...
I just used this and it came up with some awesome information I'd not previously found using standard google web research tactics, totally awesome. This is going into my regular web research toolkit.
I like to work that is challenged technically, salary is second preference for me.
I like my company as i come in very starting members of company, so its tough for me to leave this company.
i am doing management but somewhere i still want to write code and live that life.
Looks good, but unfortunately I'm on Ubuntu, may use Win on a VM, but that's it! Such a pitty there's so many new tools like this coming out, but just for Mac. £37 is affordable
Didn't Dianne Feinstein try something similar against bloggers, only that instead of forcing them to register so they aren't anonymous, she wanted to completely exclude them from any sort of 1st amendment protection against the government?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130807/13153224102/sen-f...
It's funny how some mac apps mention they support "full screen" as if it's something nontrivial.
you comment seems to abide by my feelings.
The Decision To Open Source ArrayFire
U.S. Lags in Energy Efficiency
> Is there a "secure" way to get a KeePass file onto an iPhone if Dropbox isn't safe?

I have an android phone. I use a technology called a "USB Cable" to transfer files onto it.

Sadly that is also very insecure:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/31/black_hat_hackers_dr... http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/08/01/badusb-malware-liv...

but at least it is safe against remote intercepts.
Wow - "Engaging in any form of licensed or unlicensed aggregation or factoring" Lucky I don't use Stripe to sell my scientific software which does unlicensed factoring of large matrices and also sell "Personal computer technical support" to help customers who have problems using it.

But the real problem with Stripe is simply that it's not available in almost any country. They're too small to have the resources to read the laws and open bank accounts outside America.
WP8.1 Update brings USB condom feature
I want to point out that this commenting style is very good. You provided helpful answers, looked into the original question, and then provided sources. More people should comment like this.
I combine stuff at my job. Development and Management is split 50/50 a.t.m.

This of course might change to more management if that part of the jobs demands more time.

Nothing wrong with becoming a manager if that's your thing. But I love the fact that I can still do some research (/poc development).

As we say in Dutch: A Developer in Heart and Kidneys ;-)

edit:

Additionally, I think it might actually help in becoming a good manager if you are a good developer, still being able to 'relate' (i.e. not looking down from your ivory management tower).
I wish there was a tag or context based search engine, where you could enter one set of keywords for metadata/categories, and a separate search query for the full text of the page.
Russia has always tried to control media, Putin (and comrades) launch conspiracies, and twist stories to fit their bill. Some examples are the 'failure' of the olympic games opening (they aired the rehearsal). And the airplane MH17 appearantly was shot down by the Ukrainian government, in a grand masterplan to make holland and asia turn agains Russia.

I don't think this will ever change until the citizens rize and overthrow the government.
Every manager of programmers I've known who was not themselves a competent programmer caused more harm than good. Take that for what you will.
I have worked as a freelancer for around 2 years during my college and then as a developer for 1 year. After this I did my MBA in Technology Management and started off with a new job that of an IT Consultant. My job was to manage IT projects which started off with conceptualizing things, writing a requirement doc, prepare RFP, evaluate proposals and coordinate with vendor and monitor the development. My work changed drastically, from writing code in Java, PHP, Javascript, Python to making documents in Words and Excel.

As developer writing even a small piece of code made me happy. There was satisfaction at the end of the day about the things I created. I could see a potential output. This is the good side. The bad side were the clients most of the time very annoying. They were never clear with their requirements. Did not understand the amount of time required in the changes. All this was very frustrating which made me think that the problem is with the managers.

As a consultant, I was the client side manager. With the experience which I had as a developer, it help me a lot as to get the clarity in the requirements and how they were to be communicated to the developers. Things were good. But I spend most of my time shooting emails, meeting the development team, testing the app and discussing with my employer on how we can make the product better. Though I did a lot of work, I did not create anything. And this made me sad. I was not all satisfied with what I was doing, as I did not see any sustantial output in terms of what I create.

After working for a year and half, I quit. Reason - I am a maker. I would rather want to create things than to manage. Management is equally important and I think young managers can understand things much better and can surely make a difference.
yes, they require using IAP and will reject any app trying to circumvent it.

I was just making the point that apple is allowing wallet apps but they're still not approving (to my knowledge) any apps that let you replace IAP functionality with crypto transfers.
It depends what you want to do but as a manager I'd like to say a few things I found making the move:

1) It's obviously very different. It's primarily about organisation and co-ordination - you need to understand all the moving parts of a project, know what's important, what might need your attention and what can be left alone. You might want to ask yourself whether after 3 years experience you feel you're equipped to do that - some people have a feel for it and are, others need more first hand experience of projects. More importantly you want to think if you're going to be happy doing that.

2) There is a temptation to think when you're a programmer that the reason things aren't going well are that the manager is doing his job badly and you're going to do better. This may be the case but in my experience that's often not the case. Organisational cultures and how projects are run tends to be driven from the top of the organisation down and you may find that the things ultimately causing the problems are far higher up the chain. Where things are bad for programmers they're often bad for managers (or at least middle managers) too. Moving into management because you think you can fix the world is probably misguided.

3) Following on from that, you'll probably have a lot less power / authority than you think. It's best to think of managing at this middle level as working with programmers but doing a different job rather than them working for you. Generally, as when you're a programmer, you're a middle man turning the wishes of those above you into reality. Yes you might get a say / some influence but probably not anywhere near as much as you'd like. People will tell you to do stuff, you'll do it.

4) Learn to delegate. This is key. When you're given things your first instinct will be the one you have now - to do it yourself. That approach is going to kill you. You need to learn to give other people work.

5) If being friends with the people in your team is important, you might want to think twice. That's not to say you can't be friends with someone who works for you, just that there is always the potential for problems. If your friend starts coming in late are you willing to pull them up on it and risk the friendship?

6) It is hard to go back. Some roles keep you hands-on to an extent but once you're not coding at least 20 hours a week, you've got a year, maybe two at most, before your skills have significantly atrophied at which point moving back will be a problem.

7) With regard to skills decay, you also need to understand this is happening when you're making decisions on the project. You may be the best programmer in your team but if you spend 0 hours a week programming and the graduate entry level guy spends 45 hours, how long before he knows more than you do?
Pretty sure this was disproven. Some of those words don't mean anything, but Google translate mistranslates it.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/17/truecrypt-...
It's a shame this is titled to target Haskell developers - it feels like it would be a good read for most young developers.

(though I can see how the endless feature-incorporating (typeclass-based) refactor cycle is particularly relevant to Haskell - come to think of it, I think many somewhat older Haskell developers could stand to take from this too)
It could be both misinterpreting the data and not misinterpreting the data though. Let me explain...

The argument for misinterpreting the data is easy to use when you account for time zones. If (a) I'm in the US and (b) I notice that most of my fraudulent transactions occur around 3AM, then it follows that (c) most of my fraud occurs at night. However, if the corollary of "Most of my fraud occurs from India/Singapore/etc", then it's simply a matter of time zones. Does most of my fraud occur at night? It does if I'm in the US but, if I'm the hacker in India/etc, then it occurs during the day. It's 3:45AM where I am in the US (CDT) but it's 2:15PM somewhere in India...

However, if I was to write a training manual for my employees who worked in the same building as me (US CDT), then I'm not misinterpreting the data. The data is the "truth" here - if it shows that most fraudulent transactions occur around 3AM local time, then that's the truth and I'd be foolish to over-complicate the issue when trying to train new hires on how to spot fraud.
Yeah, I use cloud servers. I think the bill on one of my grandfathered account has been ~$16/mo - under the new system I believe it would be $50/mo.
It could be.

It isn't, though.
Android Antitrust Investigation Starting To Ramp Up
How do you think botnets are formed?

You surely don't believe folks are granted access to all those computers, right?
Oh yeah you can. It's not simple, but you very much can.
Lots of interesting Management material to learn about. To be a manager it's good know a little about a large number of things. Learn about the theory of constraints, lean, product management, finance, psychology, visual management etc

Lots of cool things to learn, don't think your leaving interesting knowledge behind.

Being a manager is about getting the right resources, the right people to do things at the right time.
I don't think your comment on Overflows - "Zend is by definition a correct implementation" - is necessarily right - elsewhere we're definitely looking at Zend having to change their implementation, right? Great article, BTW.
Junk patents are a threat to innovation, progress, and small businesses globally.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hoverbike#!/story/sort_by_date/0/h...
Umm, so the conclusion is that:

"Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues"

Can translate into a warning from the developers, if you take the first letter of each word and turn it into latin?

Isn't "Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues" already a warning from the developers?
That thread understates just how centralized the consensus system is. If your node isn't on the trust list of the official Stellar Foundation nodes, they do not participate in the consensus-building process of those nodes and cannot affect their consensus. Those official nodes have the ability to freeze accounts, change the fees charged, and probably to issue new money arbitrarily if they collude.

Now, technically your node can have a different trust list and come to a different consensus. You don't want to do that, though, because then you're stuck on a different version of the transaction history from the one everyone else accepts and any money you receive is likely worthless because it's not recognised by the rest of the network.
Another extraordinary story about a Suicide Catcher, this time in China.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201005/suicide-ca...

"Mr. Chen would charge them like a dangerous man himself, wrestling, punching, kicking, doing whatever was necessary. 'I'm very confident in my physical strength,' he said. 'Since I have no psychological training, my job is to get that person off the bridge as quickly as possible.'"
If you're starting to do technical management after only 2 or 3 years working as a coder, I would say that's a bad move. Project management, people management - all fine, but it's extremely unlikely you have the depth of experience required to be providing technical direction for any kind of a large project
When? All the damned time. Maybe you have an external HD or SSD based on USB, updating the firmware is perfectly acceptable. Same thing for HIDs and NICs. High performance USB drives are basically little SSDs, and there's plenty of reasons for wanting to update the controller firmware on them to improve features or performance.

It should not, however, be generally possible for arbitrary programs to update the firmware on a USB device without both the consent of the computer host's current user/administrator AND the device's manufacturer (subject to certain hedges and caviats of course). Right now many USB devices are just wide open, allowing this chaos of security vulnerabilities, that should not be.
Just as an aside on one of the points they try to make (not about residential internet access):

"Imagine the Director of Public Works using her smart phone to reschedule all the sprinklers in the city with just a few clicks."

This makes me really uncomfortable. I think infrastructure needs to be physically separated from the public networks. Everything else just asks for somebody to cause mayhem, un- or intentionally.
Anecdotal of course, but I and a few friends/family I've seen used to have email addresses (when I was younger) with two digits representing birth year (like, something85), whereas I can't think of a reason I'd use only one...
These people will most likely not be able to track you down though. Assuming they didn't make their website vulnerable on purpose.
"I wonder how this compares to Sketch?"

Sketch is focussed on UI designers. Affinity is focussed on illustrators. Different markets, with some overlap. In many ways, within the Adobe suite, Sketch is closer to Fireworks than Illustrator.

I think part of the reason you're seeing a bit of an explosion in apps, in addition to the general digruntled-ness with Adobe, is that Illustrator is one of those apps that is serving many different markets — not all of them well.
> I work with vectors a lot and I'm wondering why you're set on EPS as a format instead of using something like SVG.

Publisher requirement. It seems to be preferred for print work.
85% of phones shipped last quarter run Android
That's my experience too, it's mostly basic CRUD interfaces. People say it's fast but that's because it gives you the most barebones user-hostile interface you could have.

The company paid IBM $100k to upgrade a single server and this shit is locked with licences for cores and memory. It's not even that fast.

The problem is they are too deep in it now but this shit needs to die.
How is that worse than trusting that the top 2 BTC mining pools aren't colliding?

I'll take a semi-centralized system with respected public figures as advisors over a theoretically decentralized system that is actually ran by a few anonymous miners.
Help us to test SproutBooth for android
SELFIES WITHIN SELFIES. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE SPROUT!

Cloning just got out of hand...
Imagine your face sprouting from itself ad infinitum. A fractal selfie like no other.

goo.gl/aiCxAU
You need to understand that there's a large slice of users who use PayPal exclusively, because they perceive it as a safer online payment option. These users see a credit card payment form (say, hooked up to Stripe), they panic and they start sending "who the hell do you think you are to be asking for my credit card number?" emails. We tried arguing, we tried explaining that we don't see the CC info and that we are getting far more personal data on them when they use PayPal, but it was all pointless. They don't care. They want PayPal.

So the question is if you want these people's money or if you are willing to take a hit in sales just to stick it to PayPal.
Not perfect and a bit slow right now - but definitely a worthwhile concept.
I have - you can checkout https://github.com/twistedvisions/anaximander and build it using my parser from a dbpedia dump!
> Wow. Nice downvote there. Good job guy. I can't comment on a post I want to read later. Thanks for that.

For this you have Pocket[1], which has as a main benefit that it doesn't pollute the discussion for everyone else.

As an added bonus it even syncs the stuff offline on your phone and tablet!

[1] http://getpocket.com
" The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years. " – John McAfee, 1988
Might be. I mean, of course you can be open for every idea and service you encounter in your life. But then we come into personal preferences. For some people it is music, that of course you play the music you enjoy by yourself. And for someone else it is the kayak you build from scratch and use for kayaking. In my case, when I wrote my comment, it just happened to be cooking. Sure, everyone is free to use the service. I won't hunt anyone down because of it :)
MyntraFab – The fashionable indian bot
Excellent, now I have somewhere to try out tetris for the AS/400
UK Prime Minister Holds First Ever Startup Pitch At No.10 Downing Street
Besides showing a correlation there's no answer to the "Why" question.
Golang: Package stream
Ok - not a common UK model (at least I think not). But I guess it makes more sense.
John McAfee smokes too many drugs...´Me, 2014´
What if everyone commented on an article, so they could re-read it later?
Since Microsoft US and Microsoft Ireland are to two different entities. The former is a 100% shareholder of the second but technically there is an Irish CEO that is report to Irish board representing the owner of the Irish Microsoft company. The Irish company doesn't operate in the US. Should the US judge send a letter rogatory to an Irish court to get the evidence?
They "scan to email" patent they mention at the start is famous largely because the owner is extremely aggressive, they even go after end users. IE, they might sue any company that has a scanner so their list of targets is basically the phonebook.

“Method and Apparatus for Indirect Medical Consultation” was issued on June 24, 2014. Presumably there is already a software/companies/people doing this that started before last month. If they are targeted, what happens? IE, if software published before June 24 is accused of violating this patent is there any possible case for it? Would it still cost huge amount of money to defend against this attack? Would losing the claim automatically invalidate the claim?
I grew up with it as a child but I went back and forth with it when I decided to stop caring too much over it and accept it as something that is good, in itself.

The problems with people are always going to be more fundamental than what religion they attach themselves to. This has always been my experience, and it seems consistent all the time.
At least one of the attack, the CSRF on the Asus RT-N56U, seems to need the IP address of the router. Does this mean that this attack is useless when the attacker doesn't know the IP of the router? Or is there a way to know it remotely? (I happen to have this router and the IP of the router is not the same, and I don't think that the default config has been changed as the admin interface has the default password.)

Also, an attack necessitating a user to be logged in to the admin interface has probably a very small chance of success. I don't know any "normal" person who would log into their router admin interface (unless maybe they are asked for with social engineering).

PS: but having an Open Wireless Router is a good idea anyway. We could imagine one having upgradeable hardware and just switch the mini PCIe card to have 802.11 ac instead of 802.11 n for instance.
Eh from what I remember from my latin hobby studies you don't even have words like "the", you would change the words instead. I very much doubt that translation.
Yo accuses Oi API of copyright infringement
Is it because someone has identified you as having leadership potential or because no one else wants to be the manager?

If the former, thank them for the assessment and leave to start your own company, even a tiny one. You will learn more about management and less about impedance matching the (dys)functions of existing organizations.

If the latter, leave to work elsewhere in a technical role, preferably under a good leader.
A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me?

I'll rather stay with my old python one:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0
There where too many bloody revolutions in russian history. And looking at Egypt, Syria, Ukraine, Lybia and many other countries after the revolution epidemia theres not much russians who thinks that overthrowing the government is a good idea. Even amongst those russians who think that mr Putin is a bad choice.