skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitrated [1] [2] is doing exactly that - arbitration using multi-signature transactions and a marketplace for arbitration services. A major new version is about to be released shortly, with an improved UI and many new features (disclosure: I'm the founder).

[1] https://www.bitrated.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6842697
What if the entire network was a VPN where you the operator know all the nodes that are part of it. Would it still be vulnerable to the sybil attack?
I'll definitely implement that at some point then. It's quite easy to swap out the database the model is backed by, so shouldn't be too hard.
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butterdb is powered by gspread. Definitely a quality library.
I am also really interested in this. Do you have a working prototype that others can play with? Is it SaaS based or something a dev can run on a local box?

What is your main goal with the project? Just improvements to the interface?

I have been thinking about downloading all of my financial information and throwing it into a project based upon Elasticsearch and Kibana (http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/). I have been using these tools to process log data at work and I get more and more interested in Elasticsearch the more I read about and play with it. They are both open source, but I have not yet dove into either project in detail (certainly not enough to build something on top of it).

What technology are you using/plan to use for the project? If you are interested in getting input I would love to chat more about it. Feel free to reach out (personal email in my profile).

EDIT: My main motivation for creating a mint-like project is to improve the search and data analysis capabilities so that I can visually explore my spending habits more easily.
Whether "tox" sounds like "talks" will depend on whether or not your dialect exhibits the cot/caught merger. To those of us without, it sounds very different!
As someone working in SF right now, keeping tabs on all the companies and technologies out there, I don't particularly consider Node to be the new hotness. Currently, Ruby probably has the plurality of mind share, followed by Python and Node.

But I think the greater trend is one of polygot backends. Startups bringing several different languages onto the backend, when necessary to scale beyond the initial web app. This does involve a slow dispersal of mindshare away from Ruby/Rails. Things like: Node, Python, Go, Scala, Erlang, and so on.
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I like the name, sounds like something that would give certain government agencies heartburn.
I don't know who you talked to, but Dolphin will never have support for Wii U. Wii U emulation requires a completely different emulator type compared to Wii emulation.

Source: I'm a Dolphin developer.
Would it be possible to make zerotier tunable so in some networks you care about efficiency, in others you could make it eventually consistent. I know there are lots of different methods for eventual consistency that could be used and compared for performance.
> They had one of the best products on the market.

I used it and didn't like it. It felt like an iPhoto with a huge amount of features missing and with some anecdotal gimmicks that were presented as core concepts.

Since my macbook died I just used folders on windows to sort my pictures and I felt it did a better job than Everpix. That says a lot.
so, you know it's God and you want to fight God.

If God talks to somebody and you kill them.. what the heck -- just kill his replacement really fast, and the replacement after that.

That's your plan.
Expertsexchange.com

What?
I work at a startup in New Zealand -- Hoist -- where we're building a platform as a service type offering entirely in Node. It seemed like the best choice when we started out a year ago and has paid off. It's fast and freeing to work with. It certainly might be harder sometimes than "established" languages but it's far better regardless. I'm so glad we're not using Ruby, personally, and my feeling is that Node is the new hotness. We share an office with another, funded startup that's also building in Node.
Yeah I also would like to know of any good learning resources. I'm a Python programmer, and I know I'd like to learn node.js since it's very likely I will use it in the future.
To be clear, the only old hashes were those from folks who haven't used persona to log in.
There are problems possessing 10 $2 bitcoins, due to the minimal transaction fee (approximately $.20). Reclaiming the value (putting back On-Blockchain) of $20 worth of $2 dollar addresses will cost you 10%. Then again, %10 is how much Coinstar charges to turn loose change back into dollars. Still, a better alternative is this; replace Bitcoin with a lower-denomination Altcoin (Dogecoin?) to cover preset currency addresses below a certain amount. Dogecoin's transaction fee is negligible, so the reclaiming cost is no longer an issue. Though Dogecoin's fluctuations demand some level of, the lower-denomination restriction makes these fluctuations negligible (By which I mean this; A quarter is more likely to fall out of your pocket than a $10 dollar bill out of your wallet. However, the quarter's ease of use is more important than its potential loss of value, which is relatively negligible when compared to the $10 bill)
Why not make an actual job site? It seems the data here is quite disorganized. There are quite a few who wants to be hired and who is hiring posts? Could work as a free job listing site for hacker-techies.
I am not sure if either of the two effects you listed are behind this. I think the most notable issues include:

1. Less brightness as measured in nits. Emmissive displays are often tuned to much higher brightness than normal objects around us including reflective displays like E-ink.

2. Reflective displays and paper often have significantly lower front-surface reflection than LCDs/OLED displays. Add touch-screen and it gets ruined beyond repairs.

The first one is easy to tune by reducing brightness levels. However (A) that makes the second one worse as the brightness of the displayed content reduces but the brightness of reflection does not, and (B) displays are often too bright even at their lowest brightness levels allowed. Put a white paper in the front of white background on the screen, and you'll see what I mean.
A title like this screams: "Pick my example video apart." And the first thing I noticed was the vocals on this was horrible - poppy plosives and screaming fricatives. Use a pop filter to get the plosives under control and a multiband compressor for the fricatives.
Wonderful interface (once I realized that I was supposed to scroll down for the results).

The only parameter I'm missing is what country the film is from. British crime movies are my favorite, and I'd love to be able to filter it down to the UK.
this sounds insane. but im not familiar with all the concepts. it seems that now instead of alice and bob exposing their real keys, you have node a, b, c and d exposing theirs during bob handshake... which will lead to sociopath nodes that wont be part of this, but rely on nodes that accepts it for them.

also, if the message is encrypted, why not use a "torrent" of all the messages being shared and discarded after a while (no need for offline messages anyway) and each node decrypts its own as they please but relay all of them in the same stream? no way to know who could decode it. and it was delivered to everyone. much like a bitcoin transaction, but without the metadata.

it would probably be vulnerable to a dos by flooding it with bogus, expensive to try to read, requests... but will be the most reliable and private you can get
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I did write about customizing and extending Emacs here, and made a clear point about extending and customizing:

" Because the nature of Emacs is an extensible system, people write extensions to improve Emacs and share with others. The extensions improve various aspects of Emacs: Improve existing and add new editing features, integrate 3rd party tools, add programming languages supports, change Emacs appearance… Without the ability to extend, Emacs will just be another obscure editor with some useful features but cannot meet the demands of people, because different people have different needs, and Emacs maintainers cannot provide them all and integrate all into Emacs. With the ability to extend, people can bend Emacs the way they want, much like Lisp.

Unlike other editors which encourage users to stay with the default as much as they can, Emacs encourages users to customize and extend Emacs as much as they can."

http://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor3.html

I just don't want to mix the two things: Emacs basics and Emacs extending together in a guide. It should be separate. I used to use packages a lot, until I realize that many built-in features which I didn't know serve me well. Learning stock Emacs is beneficial because users get the features that are always available.

> I started learning with Emacs Lisp Manual, not a tutorial or Emacs Manual and it got me up to speed in no time at all

I guess you method could work for, but I think it would be intimidating for most new users when they first read that to be able to use Emacs, they will have to learn Emacs Lisp. This is contrasting to everything else, even Vim.

Vanilla Emacs is definitely better than Notepad++ or Gedit:

- Emacs is an implementation of Emacs Lisp with an editor on top of it. The other editors are just... editors.

- Emacs has many useful features such as:

+ how to use mark and point and region. A useful feature is exchange-point-and-mark; other editors do not have this.

+ Dired

+ ibuffers, that can manage hundreds of buffers

+ a window management system (so you don't have to use things like tmux, screen)

+ registers, you can save anything, like window configuration, text, position

+ the help system

+ Bookmark (to quickly access things later)

+ Calc (a scientific calculator)

+ CEDET a language framework for building IDE features (like context-sensitive completion, jump, find references...). The best language it is supporting is C/C++, as demonstrated in the guide.

...more features that typical editors won't have...

Learning all these things should not require customization and external packages to further add burden to learners. After people learned something like Dired, if they want more, they can look it up for packages like Dired+.

Finally, Prelude disables arrow keys and encourage users to use key bindings like C-f, C-b... I think most of the key bindings for editing in Emacs are fine and make editing faster. Of course, the bindings are not as ergonomics as Vim, but it is still much better than other editors.

Since you don't like C-f, C-b... I guess you don't like key bindings with prefix C-x and C-c as well?
I'm looking for something more along the lines of Grindr/Chatroulette + elance.com. Surely someone can help me out here.
While I totally agree that brightness is a very important factor, there is another very significant one, front surface reflection. See more in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8124039

However, in my experience, resolution matters too. I increased the font-size on my monitor and saw a clear impact on readability.
You may want to try SmugMug [1]. Easy bulk mangement, simple to upload to using the Lightroom plugin, private galleries if you need them for clients. Even sell prints etc. The iPad app for viewing your own photos was good too.

I was happy with them but in the end went with hosting my own Koken [2] powered site. Its a blog/cms aimed at photographers, but you host it yourself. Again pretty to use with bulk management and Lightroom plugin for uploading.

[1]http://www.smugmug.com/

[2]http://koken.me/
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Same applies for things like Meteor.js which are based on Node.

Lot's of people dabble in it but to truly know how to not screw it up when building something bigger it takes patience, experimentation and serious effort.

This is somewhat compensated by the speed of development you have with such platforms and is a tradeoff.
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It is absolutely critical to a civil justice system in a democratic society that police department activities (including arrests) are a matter of public record. Operational details are not necessary, but at the very least the police have to be obligated to report that they have arrested someone and why. If not, you have a secret police department and secret arrests.

In my town, only convictions and lawsuits show up if you search someone by name in the court record system. However, you can go to the police department and ask for the daily activity log, which indicates who has been arrested, where, when, and on what charge. The newspaper does this every day, and publishes demographic information but not names.

Do you really want people disappearing with no one taking responsibility or giving an explanation? No, thanks. I don't need my local police department turning into the Stasi.
like to be able to read. but would have better choices than <> and {} for special groups in regex.
I guess... aside from hoarding photos, the only other things I want to do with them is improve them and share them. And I've never seen any other site do that as well as G+. (Except Everpix, at least for hoarding and sharing.)

G+'s circles make it really easy for me to define exactly who sees which photos, and the auto-awesome stuff really is pretty gorgeous. You'd prefer a dumb drive like S3 to free enhancement and easy sharing?
This!

The actor drop down, year, directors all confused me. Not sure what you can do there though but looks really nice.
Platforms like Node become a necessity as you'd rather be faster to market and be more agile vs. being caught out building something that is useless in a nicely scalable platform over a longer period. Lean startups FTW.
Very cool. I had never heard of Rprop, but that's a neat way to trigger your learning that it needs to rapidly damp. Kind of like a limiter in CFD.
node startups get all the rockstar ninjas. whatever good that is.

ruby startup gets all the round A funding and big exits.

php startups become huge corporations.
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From the article it seems like some of the symptoms are associated with inadequate sensing or awareness of social cues. That makes me wonder if taijiquan is a good exercise to help with that, as it trains sensitivity to small movements, intentions, and body structure. I'm not sure how well kids pick it up, though.
I noted earlier that a friend of mine is an ABA therapist and has been working with autistic children for over 20 years.

He once told me that I was in what he termed 'a risk group for having a child with autism'.

I was taken aback and he went on to explain that while there is no hard and fast rule, it had been noted that there was a prevalence of fathers with particular types of job, namely engineers and computer scientists, amongst the fathers of the autistic children they cared for.

Often the fathers (and on rare occasions the mothers), were also 'within the same spectrum', even if it just manifested itself as social introversion or 'geekyness'.

In retrospect I imagine this isn't often discussed with the parents since throwing 'genetic blame' around isn't exactly productive and it is widely believed that there is no singular 'cause of autism' anyway.
No doubt true. Doesn't make it any less interesting as a cool hack though. If it's specifically trying to pick up "wifi" power in the 2.4/5GHz spectra that's obviously unregulated and approval is mostly a rubber stamp AIUI.
TFA is wrong. Elevated serotonin is well documented.
Tunable means there's now something else people have to understand, which means nobody will use it.
> I didn't understand what flapping was

Right! I'm assuming everyone knows what flapping is, but it's not obvious! It's literally flapping your hands in ... anticipation? excitement? sensory overload? I don't know, but I think my son does.

> Please ... consider what "normal" means and what its worth might be.

Yes, I put "normal" in quotes for a reason as I don't particularly care too much about "normal." For me and my son "happy" is more important than normal for the most part. But, there is a huge issue. I chose to have children later in life (I'm 43 right now and my son is 3). So there is pressure on me and my family to make sure that whatever happens that my son is cared for and kept happy.

I can't guarantee that I can ensure he's financially taken care of after I'm gone. I hope that issue is far down the road and I hope it won't be an issue, but what if it is? Do I work on helping him to become "normal"? Or do I hope that I can provide for him no matter what?

So do I make the decision at all costs to make sure he's provided for by becoming "normal" or do I dash that to the wind and hope I make enough money to provide for him when I'm gone, but keep him happy?

There is a good reason to making sure that he can be productive in society at the cost of losing himself (if that's possible, no one knows that it is) vs. keeping who he is at all costs. Does that make sense?

I hope it's clear that I love him for who he is no matter what, but that I want to make sure that he has a "good" life for the rest of his life. Hopefully this is all moot as he's doing very well with speech therapy and occupational therapy.
Neat - for my personal tastes, I've found that I only trust IMDB ratings and anything in the near the 7.5 range regardless of vote count - always hunting the missed movies. But can't find something like this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220644/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

Searching on a rating of 7-8 and Johnnie To even if I put in 1-3K votes matching the imbd count. Which, btw, someone uploads to youtube every few weeks.
Heh... I just realized I have no idea what any other Triangle area startups are building in. And more to the point, I don't really care. I mean, if I met another startup founder at an event or something, the question "what is your tech stack?" would be pretty near the bottom of the list of things I'd ask. I actually can't even think of a reason I'd want to know.

I'll go back to what Steve Blank and others have said: most startups that fail (and most do), fail because they build a product nobody wants, not because of technical problems with the product. If you believe that is true (and I do), the tech stack really just isn't a very important decision at all. And I think that's especially true if you stick to anything even remotely close to mainstream: Node, Rails, Grails, Django, Flask/Pyramid/Pylons/Whatever-it's-called-now, Scala+Play, Java+Spring MVC, Whatever-Clojure-uses, etc.

Now, if you said you were building using Algol-68, SNOBOL, RPG/400 or MUMPS, then there might be a legitimate question regarding your ability to find and hire good developers, etc. But I'd still almost be willing to bet that "building a product nobody wants" would be more likely to be the culprit if the company failed, than the tech choice.

That said, we use Groovy and Grails here. Node is on my list of "things to play around with when I have some free time" but nothing I've heard yet gives me any reason to think that it's a "game changer". Feel free to convince me otherwise though.
lame paid advertising.

but they, it worked for that silly kid selling a rss aggregator like it was sliced bread, as he managed to bait yahoo into buying his shenanigans.
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We do, kind of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification
It's partly because of that sound that musicians have to actually turn their phones off during recording. If you're too close to the board that clicking gets picked up.
Obviously a good UI and everything. I would suggest adding rating as an PG, R, etc as another filter. Also if there was some way to integrate with netflix and filter out all the movies I have already seen from my watched list. There should be a third party provider that keeps track of watched movies/tv shows and your ratings for them that could provide an api to the likes of netflix and anyone else that wanted it. The problem with sites like this is like 95% of the results fall into the category of I have seen it or I already know about it and don't want to see it. An app that could accurately show me movies I haven't seen or heard of that I would actually want to see would be so incredibly useful.
It's me or there are a lot of articles from the newyorker which make the HN top?
why only piratebay? let HN be part of the fun as well

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:14c1b2d6191c692f41c9021a9ca4201a98ab694a&dn=Suzy+Q+DVD5&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

there just "uploaded" to HN the same anyone would "upload" to piratebay.
Can we make this a module for angular.js?
Nice! And I'd also add my most favorite PG essay: http://paulgraham.com/determination.html
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Looks great!

But your "votes" section that I browsed seems to be listed rather oddly.

Items seem to be listed randomly.

They don't seem to be listed by title, date, number of votes, overall score, or anything really.

It would be nice too if you allowed the user to rank each list by whichever column they felt was most important to them.
What does it have to do with self-control if we are only measuring our willingness to submit to being controlled?
How else would you connect to them in decentralized fashion? Your IP address isn't really useful information anyway.

Note that being friends in this context means the users have added each other.
The problem with WTFPL is that it's not clear that it lets you do the things that copyright usually prevents you from doing. In particular:

* It's not explicit that the user can redistribute the software freely.

* It's not explicit that you're free from warranty, meaning that, unlike basically all code ever written, you're on the hook for bugs and defects, just like a physical product.

Yes, it does say "do what you want," but that's not necessarily good enough for lawyers.
What's the source dataset? IMDb?
The capitals are generally a response to the "conspicuous" requirement of the UCC:

(2)Subject to subsection (3), to exclude or modify the implied warranty of merchantability or any part of it the language must mention merchantability and in case of a writing must be conspicuous, and to exclude or modify any implied warranty of fitness the exclusion must be by a writing and conspicuous. Language to exclude all implied warranties of fitness is sufficient if it states, for example, that "There are no warranties which extend beyond the description on the face hereof."

I don't know if the definition of "conspicuous" has ever been tested in court, but that's the idea. I'd be interested to see it used as ammunition against clickwrap EULAs, though.
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miss when heilmann was writing good books instead of just sucking mozilla.
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