skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You bet your ass I, along with ten thousand others, tried to find ways to game/break Bitcoin. And guess what? We can't, because it's well designed.

51% attacks? http://www.coindesk.com/ghash-io-never-launch-51-attack/ ?

Etc.

Please don't tell me you can't game/break Bitcoin. With enough capital, you can. Just no one has bothered.

Please don't make obviously false statements in defense of your position.

> Why the flying fuck would I show restraint towards a system that claims to be designed for the safe storage and transport of money?

I could steal people's credit card information and use it without triggering the fraud alert until after I get the goods. I could flee the country to a place that wouldn't extradite me for such behavior before anyone was the wiser.

I don't because I have no desire to abuse breakable systems just because I can.

I guess I just have more restraint than most people.
An awesome person -- her thoughts both challenge and provide a breath of fresh air. Check out her TEDx talk on the value of boredom: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxSydney-Genevieve-Bell-The...
What "opinion"? All he said was that the data isn't in yet.
The thing about global warming that I don't know and would like some answers on is how bad is it going to get? Is the worst case scenario mass-extinction? It doesn't seem like we're getting anywhere with reducing carbon emissions and I'm pretty pessimistic on the politics since it involves international cooperation, which there isn't much of between the big polluters. Does the worst case seem as likely as I think it is?
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I have a desktop, so the webcam clips onto the monitor. I just face it out the window at my bird feeder when not in use. Anyone hacking it can watch cute finches.
I think there will be different solutions depending on what is triggering the feelings of loneliness/isolation to begin with. I'm in a situation right now where I am out on medical leave from work - and I don't have many relationships outside of my professional life. It has been incredibly lonely - but rightfully so, because I went from having a ton of people around me to having literally no one.

I would imagine feelings of loneliness could also be more synthetic - not saying that the feelings themselves are fake or unwarranted, but they are brought on by more psychological conditions versus situations manifesting themselves in the physical world. I have experienced this type of loneliness as well - though it took on a flavor more of abandonment.

I'm @thegrif if you want to connect.

TG
I remember needing a single use url shortener a while ago. I created this out of necessity: http://iwalton.us.to/vl/

It only shortens URLs, it doesn't host anything.
Otherwise known as "Arbitrage" and something that any commodity, let alone currency faces in the first 30 seconds on the market.

If it wasn't Everett, there is a 100% guarantee that if there was money to be made, that any one of another 10,000 people would be immediately utilizing this mechanism.
A very much known service comes to mind! - maybe its yours, maybe different, but has lot of similarities with yours :)
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How long do you feel copyright should apply and why?
I think the problem is the people who shout about state's rights are easily linked to racist loons. The rational ones think things like alcohol, marijuana, etc should be state-level issues. :P

The Federal Government shouldn't regulate any good or service that doesn't cross state borders.
If this is true, that's going to kill their business in the paranoid post-gox btc community. Most will probably wait until a competing service with a smidgen more reputability shows up in about 2 days.
I had seen your food website long time ago. That was very well done site.
The simplest solution, honestly, is to just require an application token and bill based on API calls. The only issue is dealing with fraud but that is the same risk you deal with in any business.
Definitely going to be giving this a shot immediately.

This looks incredible.
Add to that list Fred Brooks (IBM System/360, Brooks' Law): http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/Toolsmith-CACM.pdf

Relevant quote: "... the scientist builds in order to
study; the engineer studies in order to build. ... I submit that by any reasonable criterion the discipline we call 'computer science' is in fact not a science but a synthetic, an engineering, discipline. We are concerned with making things, be they computers, algorithms, or software systems."
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If that's really all the security they have, it's kinda bad, but it does encourage the right attitude for early bitcoin adopters, which is only put as much bitcoin in any online wallet as you would in your actual wallet.
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The video brings up some interesting points. Are we looking at lots of new legislation to address things like this?
Feel a little baited and switched--I was hoping for an astronomy article!
LAMP + MEAN developer.

Macbook air + DigitalOcean VPS for all development + xTerm + tmux + ssh + Vim + SCP/FTP
Do you mean the optional type enforcement? Admittedly it's not built-in to ruby, but it's easy to replicate.. and a lot less verbose:

# Implementation:

module TypedAttrs
def attr_accessor_type name, type
define_method name do
instance_variable_get "@#{name}"
end
define_method "#{name}=" do |value|
raise ArgumentError unless value.is_a? type
instance_variable_set "@#{name}", value
end
end
end

# Example:

class Foo
extend TypedAttrs
attr_accessor_type :bar, Integer
end

a = Foo.new

a.bar = 5
p a.bar
a.bar = "hi" # ArgumentError
I urge you to seriously reconsider your design. VPC/MLAG/etc. are attractive because of the ease of making any VLAN available anywhere without the traditional spanning tree nightmare of doing so. However, you're trading one nightmare for another. Your core or aggregation switches are now stateful, and you've just experienced the results of stateful network components not failing cleanly.

I'm not saying an overlay (e.g. VMware NSX née Nicira) is the solution either. I'd suggest rethinking why you need any VLAN anywhere, which is likely the reason for VPC/MLAG. If I'm wrong and you don't put the same VLAN in multiple cabinets, then rip VPC/MLAG out immediately and switch to a pure L3 design. It is so much simpler and consistent with industry best practices.
Data on legalization vs. data on the effects of cannabis consumption? Or the data on the effect of criminalizing cannabis consumption?

Because you don't need to be a scientist to know that the current laws are flawed through and through and that the only good thing about them is that if you own a private prison you're going to make a lot of money.
Though as I understand from the source this also acts as an emulator, so if you scan your phone it may replay those card details, worth keeping in mind.
I agree with others who said that the site looks good, but it may be better to show a grid of themes immediately on the first page, and then using the filters would narrow what is shown. Currently users need a minimum of 3 clicks before they see any of the themes (in worst case they need 9 clicks when they specify each 4 category). That's maybe not a huge issue but it could be improved even just by showing some themes after the first category is selected, then narrow the list after the other filters are changed.

Another thing i noticed is the loading animation before showing the themes. It may be a little slow because I'm viewing it from the EU and the servers are in US, but it could be improved a little if the next template would be preloaded after the current one is loaded, or even when the filters are already selected but the "Show templates" button isn't clicked yet.

For advertising you could try the more design-oriented ad networks:
http://vandelaydesign.com/ad-networks/

And in your AdWords campaign you could create ads with more specific keywords that are linking to a page with prefilled filters, for example: users who come from a "Responsive Wordpress themes" ad would have to click only on the "Show themes" because the filters are already set for them on your page. And also more specific keywords could cost less than general more competitive keywords (but specific keywords has less volume so you need to create more of these keyword combinations to get more traffic).
I don't understand this comment at all. The grandparent comment didn't take a position on any of the issues you mention, and the only hypothetical position it mentioned that's germane to your comment agrees with your comment.
yeah, it tends to obscure the image eventually. Also, I personally found it difficult to keep the habit. Tape is also kind of a slur on the design integrity of Apple products, which I tried to cut down on on my design.
That is correct. The author of this tool is an expert in that field, too; his book (Surreptitious Software) is solid.

I'm not sure what the subtext of your comment is, though. If it's "software like this is bad because it enables DRM", that's an odd position to take. If you don't want to obfuscate your code, don't run this transformer on it.
Thanks, I think that is wise. It is a very difficult target to isolate in adwords and facebook, but I live and learn.
This is a rather short piece covering big areas. I half expected her to explain her precise role and her projects at Intel after reading the first paragraph. She is a good publicist, the way she pivots questions.
That same approach, obviously, works for lots of different languages. Not just C. You can even do it at the level of raw algorithms, transforming (for instance) a block cipher implementation that accepts a key as a parameter into one specialized on a specific key and from which the key is (H)ard to extract.
I'd love this. My bank wants me to pay $2.99 for a sticker to go on the back of my phone (to do contactless purchases) while supporting Galaxy S* phones natively...
I would tend to agree with that, except that I imagine that in many corporate environments, important files are protected so that general access to native files would be a smaller concern. Is that right?
Quantum Computing and startups
How far are we to make quantum computing something from a lab to a start-up? What it's needed to make the transition?
I'm surprised that better threading wasn't mentioned. As I understand it, OCaml has threads but parallelism isn't possible. That is, although you can have multiple threads, only one can execute at a time.
Your website is pretty bad.

Look at your competitor (http://themeforest.net). From the second you arrive you are seeing possible themes to try and buy. There is no "How It Works" section because you instantly know how it works. Your site forces you to think about what you are looking for before being able to see options. It's exhausting. And as someone who has spent hundreds at Envato I would never use it.

The concept is NOT flawed. Envato is a massively successful company and as web sites become more complex sites like yours will be increasingly relied on. It's a growth market.

So: Fix your site. Model yourself on Apple's App Store. Have a popular section, comments/reviews, curated themes, everything visible on one page.
Thanks, that sounds promising! 3G/LTE is rarely open, and I'd go for the WiFi model anyway if anything. Touchscreen driver is also critical for a tablet though.

Do you know if Linux for Tegra R19 (https://developer.nvidia.com/linux-tegra-rel-19) is using those kernel drivers for WiFi/accelerometer, or that's a bare minimum release?

Also, if this isn't of course under some NDA and etc, do you know if Nvidia plan to merge development of the closed Tegra driver with nouveau for K1? Since Nvidia contributed some code already, may be they consider switching to the same approach like Intel?
I have heard various FBI/CIA/NSA whistleblowers talk about this issue, so I don't think that the statement is inflammatory or misleading. Thanks.
"the data isn't in yet"

What data?
Yes. Infractions are crimes so yes. For the most part, they are not treated as crimes. You cannot be jailed based on an infraction. Most job applications I've seen typically explicitly exclude requiring information about past infraction violations.
I don't know if this is what jnbiche was referring to, but maybe the transaction volume isn't growing particularly fast. I don't know how useful/descriptive these numbers are, but from a quick look at blockchain.info's charts: the absolute number of transactions per day looks like it's only up by about 20% over the last year [1]. However, the USD value of transactions conducted is up by something like 200% [2]. I don't know how we could tell what fraction of these represent actual purchases, as opposed to individuals just moving their own coins around...

[1]: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=1year

[2]: https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...
I'm currently reading Touched with Fire by Kay Jamison. It's a fairly quantitative examination of the links between depression and creativity. Though it's specifically about manic-depressives, I think much of it is relevant to the article as the author describes himself as a writer, web designer/developer, musician and artist.

I was shocked even paging through the book when I first got it, jumping from chart to chart. Check these three out:

Showing Van Gogh's seasonal depression: http://xomf.com/rzbwz

Suicide rates of artists and writers: http://xomf.com/xysmn

Mood disorders in writers and artists: http://xomf.com/mxnqq

I think it would be easy for someone to say "oh but wait - this guy is a web designer, he's not sitting with oils and a canvas - these stats are irrelevant." They'd be wrong. Here is what Steve thought about the people who worked on the mac:

"These are the people under different circumstances would be painters and poets but because of the time that we live in this new medium has appeared in which to express one's self to one's fellow species and that's the medium of computing. And so a lot of people that would have been artists and scientists have gone into this field to express their feeling..."

(from the 1990 interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nMD6sjAe8I#t=16m25s)

I think there's probably more depression in our industry than people let on. TechCrunch recently did a post on depression in founders. Hell - I just commented on a HN thread of a guy working on an app to combat loneliness. It's a real problem, with a real nasty stigma, and I think it's important people start talking openly about it.
Tigress is labeled as an "obfuscator" that forces people to "crack, and re-crack, the code", for "software protection" from the owner of an "untrusted remote site" [i.e. you on your computer] - its main purpose is to prevent people who already have full access to the binaries from understanding them. This is somewhat related to the type of benign diversification that mitigates exploitation - preventing code that has limited access to the system from pumping the weird machine correctly - but, I think, not much.

Many techniques required for the first are useless for the second: if everything is open source, or even if it's not and the attacker is smart enough (unlike most protection measures which are supposed to be independent of intelligence...), then measures implemented by this tool like 'virtualization' (i.e. indirecting execution through an interpreter), branch obfuscation, etc. can be undone easily by an attacker with full access to memory; if the attacker doesn't have full access, there are much simpler and more performant types of randomization that are equally good at defeating them. And measures useful for the second (generally, anything that involves multiple variations of the same version of a program, to force exploiters to learn which one is in use) are no good against the first (since the attacker can just pick one to extract secrets from).
It would be great to see something that does what Firesheep did for SSL in payment security.
Respectively disagree. Web development is harder than it has ever been.

Sure there are CMS e.g. Squarespace but if you want to customise your own site then themes are basically a necessity. There is just so much complexity even with starting platforms like Bootstrap or Wordpress. Front end build pipelines to learn, SASS/LESS, responsive etc.
So they charge a 1% fee to fund the account with a wire transfer.

Can someone explain -- I am not attacking this, I am seriously wondering -- why anyone would wire funds into this account, pay a 1% fee, and then pay with a debit card like they could from any other bank account?

(I get if you already have bitcoin, but I'm wondering what the point of the wire transfer support is.)

Source: http://help.xapo.com/questions/94070-Does-Xapo-charge-a-fee-...
I can't comment on most of it. But about the Netherlands, this will not happen. Everybody knows that the Netherlands is currently already below sea level, and has been for over three hundred years. So if you made this kind of map for the Netherlands, for the sea level in 1901, nearly all of the Netherlands, and large pieces of Belgium and Germany would already be declared under water.

Most of Zeeland, North and West Flanders, Flevoland, and large parts of Utrecht and Noord Holland are reclaimed from the sea, starting in the 17th century (they won 3 wars by partially turning back reclaiming efforts during battles). There was a point in history when Brussels had a seaport. Ghent was built as a seaport, now it's 50km inland. When Ghent became unusable, they built Brughes as a seaport. That one is now 15-20km inland. Without constant effort, these would simply be reclaimed by the sea, not in a hundred years, not in a thousand years, but in a month or two. The effort to prevent that has been a necessity for 2-3 centuries, and they obviously are not about to stop doing it.

So I would bet that these governments will continue to raise land (importing sand mostly from germany), dam rivers as required and control their elevation and coastal tides to compensate. Hell I've heard about a plan to put a dam in the channel, which would slow down the currents and make the land reclimation a lot easier and eventually create a continuous land area into the UK. The UK doesn't like this at all, but if national geographic is right, and it's either something like that, or lose London, I see that changing.
It's borderline if you live by yourself in the city, especially if they don't cover travel expenses. There's a chance your health insurance and pension will be deducted from that too, assuming they cover it.

If you're working for a Japanese company, you'll probably be working a lot more hours, and taking a lot less holidays than you would be in the US or UK. 4x is a low estimate for the actual amount of work you'll be doing.
He didn't steal them. He bought them from others. Meaning that he valued them more than the others. Welcome to economics.

Also, you very clearly used the words "break the system".
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Don't conflate Experimental Psychology as a whole with the subfield of Social Psychology, or the particular social priming community. While it is true that the "skills" argument and "conceptual" replications are well-established methodological pillars within this subfield, they are far from standard outside of it.

This is why this string of multiple replication failures and fraud scandals have turned the spotlight to these practices from within the discipline, with reasonable and high-profile people openly questioning their validity and pushing for a whole "replication movement" [1-4]. So it's not just HN commenters, you know.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/replication-studies-bad-copy-1.10...

[2] http://chronicle.com/article/Power-of-Suggestion/136907/

[3] http://www.psycontent.com/content/311q281518161139/fulltext....

[4] http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.6716.1349271308!/suppinf...
Did you read the accompanying text? It talks about a 216 foot rise in sea level.
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Thanks for the link. Looks like you've put together some useful stuff.
For Python, take a look at:
https://github.com/frasertweedale/elk
How does the intelligence of an animal effect how that living creature should be treated? For example, do you think it is appropriate to treat a monkey better then one should treat a dog or cat simply because a monkey has a higher mental capacity?
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>51% attacks?

People have tried and failed to pull them off. Preventing 51% attacks doesn't rely on goodwill. It just relies on people being either semi-rational or not sufficiently rich and motivated (one must be very rich and very motivated).

>Please don't tell me you can't game/break Bitcoin. With enough capital, you can.

I am telling you right now: I cannot game or break Bitcoin. With enough capital, anyone can do just about anything. The important thing is that no one who wants to has enough capital.

>I don't because I have no desire to abuse breakable systems just because I can.

You're conflating stealing money with breaking shitty systems. You can (and should) break shitty systems without stealing money from people.
Did you read the part about California? "Medical" marijuana has been legal here since 1996. As the article says,

Many call it de facto legalization, because medical marijuana ID cards are laughably easy to get. While California’s experience shows the downsides of ineffectual laws and lax enforcement, it has not turned the state into a story of rampant addiction, crime or community upheaval. Support for full legalization there has grown as dire predictions of disaster, made over two decades, have not been borne out.
Most likely only a fraction of globe could afford this massive earth engineering. Some places like Mediterranean/Baltic sea are easier will be easier to protect. Most aren't.

On the other hand, even in pessimistic scenarios the sea would rise very slowly, so we will have time to build this thing.

Even better and cheaper, stop putting that much CO2 into atmosphere.
Actually we're working on Hatch. We just don't want to launch to crickets. We also want to get beta users and iterate the app from their feedback. I just added some screens on http://www.letshat.ch so feel free to check it out :)
waps is talking about how the 216' rise would play out in real life, while you and National Geographic are assuming an instantaneous 216' rise as a visualization tool. I don't see why his reading the text should be questioned as a result of his raising an relevant and related consideration.
I'm really interested in learning more about underwater ULF - can you point to any keywords, papers, or milspec prefixes to read up on?

I've explored all the ISM bands - I just want to play with something even slower/longer range whilst sailing (in international waters, of course :)).
I think quantum computing...in truth, has already made the transition from the lab to well, basically, anywhere (startups included). The human brain.
This is why people should invest in an RF-blocking cellphone case for when you're in public, for example:

http://silent-pocket.com/

http://www.amazon.com/HideCell-Cell-Protection-Bag-Standard/...

This is the only thing that can really stop wireless snooping. Even pervasive location tracking.
Thanks for your feedback. Maybe Tinder for finding collaborators would be better.

What are the other founder matching tools that you tried?
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I see promoted tweets and I use Hootsuite ...