skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not exactly correct. Nobody had proposed a system that was as distributed as bitcoin until bitcoin came on the scene. Szabo wanted to use lots of timestamp servers and Finney wanted to rely on "transparent servers" that borrowed ideas from Trusted Computing so they could be audited.

To have a currency backed by processing power is not really an old idea either. It was at most 10 years old and nobody really had a good idea how proof-of-work (POW) could make a currency at that time (around 1999). I'm referring to the "Bread Pudding" variant of MicroMint (http://www.hashcash.org/papers/bread-pudding.pdf), not Cryptonomicon which doesn't really mention distributed computing or POW.
How about traditional journalism and reporting as a method of intelligence? The government is supposed to be for and by the people and I for one don't feel comfortable with my tax dollars going to aid this sort of actively offensive espionage/violation of human rights. But that's just my opinion and it's something I should vote for or whatever if I feel strongly about it; that's not what this is about. This is about a right to know what type of actions my government (which is supposed to be a representation of me) is involved in in this world. Without Snowden I would never know for certain that my government is involved in actions like this and I would never have the ability to object to actions like this in a public forum without being labeled a conspiracy theorist. I mean just look at this list of articles speculating on what was going on with Syria's internet, do any of these even dare to speculate that it was NSA espionage that caused the outages? Of course not cause that's fucking crazy; except it's not and we know it's not because of Snowden and Snowden alone. He is a truer patriot than you or I will ever be.

Press coverage of the Syrian internet outage at the time: http://www.cnet.com/news/blackout-syria-vanishes-from-intern.... "The Middle Eastern country has been experiencing an Internet outage for several hours, and many people on Twitter are reporting that phone lines are down as well."
http://www.renesys.com/2012/11/syria-off-the-air/ "There was one brief whole-country outage of less than ten minutes on 25 November. By the time that one was confirmed, the outage was over. It would be reaching to call that a “precursor event” or “practice run,” but that’s a possibility."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/anonymous-declares-.... "The Syrian government said that terrorists were behind the outages, but CloudFlare, a firm that helps accelerate Internet traffic, said it would have been extremely difficult for any type of sabotage to cause such a comprehensive blackout, according to Reuters."
http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-syria-turned-off-the-internet "All the edge routers are controlled by Syrian Telecommunications. The systematic way in which routes were withdrawn suggests that this was done through updates in router configurations, not through a physical failure or cable cut."
Stop bitching, start suing...
Show HN: Compiler development
I'm currently developing a compiler for Oberon (x86, x64, MIPS) and also a compiler for C.

https://github.com/rcorcs/OberonC

https://github.com/rcorcs/rcc

Contributions are welcome.
You have a right to record the police
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. He's still a looney tune.
What you're attacking is not how Docker logging works.

The Docker daemon collects stdout/stderr from the beginning of each container's life, always, and stores it locally. You can then ask the Docker API for all the log events from a particular container ID at any time.

You would have one system that polls the Docker APIs on all your hosts and dumps the logs into the management system of your choice at some interval.

Log events are not going to HTTP live, you are not making an HTTP request per entry, and the event will be captured whether or not the network is available at the moment.
Sorry about that, server got knocked offline. Should be back soon.
> And you can use F#! http://funscript.info/

As mentioned, not a big fan of transpiling.
I think much of the valid "us vs them" arguments came in the pre-SCSS days. Back then SASS was NOT a superset of css, while LESS was. So choosing between them could lead to very different codebases / workflows. These days they are both supersets (or rather, SCSS is a superset, you know what I mean), and they have many of the same options available, so IMHO the differences are trivial.
Playing With Swift: Extensions
Amid Protests in Missouri, Officer’s Name Still Withheld
Oh, I'm glad you said that. I didn't watch the second video because I didn't expect it to be any better than the first, but it turns out it's way more informative.
Though lynch mobs were unofficially sanctioned by municipal authorities, they were not paid for by grants from the federal government. I don't think the United States is a Stalinist police state, but there is a qualitative difference between the present militarization of the police and the history of vigilante racism.
Oracle is incredibly well crafted for managing a transactional database in an enterprise setting. If it's $200k more and the option is to take a massive risk what would you do ?

At some point the massive risk will become worth taking; this has happened for ETL and is on the way to happening for BI; there is a skills / tools gap but that will change.
Oh, please. I'd much rather die from a heart attack than die in the place and condition that alcohol took me to.

This creep is shamelessly and disgracefully pushing his stupid book.
Two examples off the top of my head of crazy shit Alex Jones believes:

* The Boston marathon bombings were a false flag attack by the US government

* The US government creates (some) tornadoes, and uses them to destroy US cities
Dynamic Search Help from Internal Table Data in ABAP
Is this how a dystopia starts? Ferguson, Missouri
Andrei Alexandrescu becomes a US citizen
On a slightly apologetic note: There were actual, real, violent outbursts. If you put yourself in the shoes of a police officer, you might understand the police' reluctance to stand up to a potentially armed and certainly aggressive mob without any protective gear, and in completely standard police cars.

The individual misconduct of these officers should be prosecuted. But these rioting mobs won't stand a chance changing these "bullying" tactics or getting the police to "demilitarize".

In some part, the protective gear actually decreases the need of applying violence against protesters, because the officers don't have to defend themselves as "actively" when trying to control a crowd.
I haven't, we'll check it out. Though Tyk is not a SAAS, it's meant to be self hosted :-) (though it could be a SAAS if you configure it right. In fact it has design implementations for just such a purpose...
A great article. I recently visited the "Blind Exhibition" in Warsaw. They show you some items that blind and visually impaired people use on a daily basis and then you have to guess what they are for. I'd never contemplated how blind people know when a coffee cup is full, or pair their socks.

They then take you into a series of rooms (bathroom, the street, art gallery, kitchen etc.) which are completely black. Not a shred of light. You are blind. I can't describe how it felt other than terrifying. I didn't know if my eyes were open or not. It wasn't the black that I saw when closing my eyes, or am sleeping in a dark room. It was this empty hollow of nothingness.

As someone who has always wondered what it's like to be blind then closed my eyes for a few minutes and stumbled around my home - it's nothing like that at all. I left having found a new sense of understanding for the struggles that blind and visually impaired people go through on a daily basis.

An interesting but harrowing statistic they mentioned at the end of our trip was that the majority of people go blind, instead of are born blind. And the main cause is diabetes. It's not uncommon that those with diabetes lose their sight and then their sense of touch. Imagine not being able to feel your way around after going blind.

I highly recommend the exhibition if you're ever in Warsaw, and I think they have it in a couple of other cities:
http://niewidzialna.pl/en/
Adventures in AngularJS: The View-Controller and Computed Properties
> This is bad but it definitely isn't proof that we've turned in to some sort of Stalinist police state.

That's kind of a super-extreme isn't it? He said first glimpse of tyranny creeping up. I took it as an implication that the wheels may be beginning to turn.

Social unrest has also happened quite a number of times throughout history, but are we not allowed to be shocked in seeing weapons trained at civilians? Snipers? Vehicles of this stature? I mean, this is a town of 21,000 and utilizing this equipment was deemed appropriate?

Fortunately, the death and violence and hate aren't on par with lynch mobs and the like, but are you trying to say we should just brush this off? If you could perhaps elaborate on how the concept of Police Militarization is being polarized and preventing a resolution?

I don't see this particular resolution in the first place. We had the President decry weapons or war and then the Pentagon give 'em out. I don't feel like there is a resolution in place to be prevented.
I think localization is so important and reaches beyond just translating a few strings (though really -- even that is something many developers miss). It's really about the small touches in the experience, for ecommerce, items that ship, taking tariffs and import/export rules into account. currency. for games, small hints like background and music and so on.

This effort is great and its awesome to an effort that speaks to a variety of audiences
NO

Please, I read Hacker News for intelligent discourse, away from Reddit-type nonsense.

There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that the NSA hacked the Syrian core router. Snowden was passing on office gossip which he heard. Why isn't that fact mentioned? Because it doesn't suit the cultural narrative?
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I've been listening to the dispatch recording and haven't heard anything about the shooting. I've even forwarded it to 2pm. If anyone finds a direct link then paste it in.
Pretty sure that's a mistake in the article. We're supposed to be in 2051 looking back at a sample of code written in 2021.
Install STIX Fonts on your system
I guess the protective gear reducing the need to apply violence is why these cops are armed with assault weapons and have snipers watching the crowd?
How long can I stay on Wordpress
Wordpress is great for building prototype packed with rich/free functionalities using plugins. Can you share your experience on migrating out of WP? Is it possible to get series A with a live site built on WP these days?
Ask HN: Are you wl
Individual transistors are getting faster, but wires are not. Wire performance has not been keeping up with the transistors since something like 90nm (2004), hence the "telescopic metal stack"

Clock speeds are in part chosen based on optimal path length (measured in gate count). The longer the path, the less is wasted on flop overhead. The shorter the path, the faster your clock and the more flop overhead. Features or instructions are not important to this equation, because you can break a feature into multiple stages divided by flops. So the fact that frequency has stayed about the same should tell you that path length (gates per cycle) has stayed about the same, which in turn means gates have probably stayed about the same speed for many years!

Next, let's not forget about the power/heat envelope. Modern transistors are mind-numbingly fast if you juice them with 5V, but 1kW CPUs are generally frowned upon these days. We continually squeak down the supply voltage to save power and meet the heat envelope.

Now, you might be thinking about all the extra transistors that are added to newer designs. "Forget about path length," you might say. "If we cut crap features and got rid of those extra transistors, we could afford the power cost of turning up the supply voltage, and get faster!" Alright, now you're thinking smart! But 90% of modern CPU area is spent on graphics and cache, not x87, MMX, and AVX512.

I could go on, but I cannot properly cover all the aspects in one comment...
It's a shame we've got to wait so long until the publish the videos of the presentations.
There appear to be some snags, though -- "Faraway" is lacking capitalization for the "away" bit, and, even more confusingly, "wolf" isn't capitalized either. Word boundaries aren't always obvious, but I feel certain that the "wolf" of "Ethiopian wolf" is an independent word.

So this string is easier to pronounce, but it's actually fairly tricky to communicate and error-check.
Thanks, you have enlightened me as well as contributing to today's procrastiducation.
>I wonder how long it's going to take for people to take up arms

they had - check the history of Black Panthers.
Shitty internet is your problem. Fix it so you can experience the internet properly in 2014.
But why use Flynn? Getting a CoreOS cluster up and controlling it with Fleet, and deploying docker images to it, seems quite a bit easier.
If I need a number, I just swipe down from the letter that the number appears under. No press-and-hold needed. Does that not work on your phone?
What do you think are appropriate methods for police to respond to riots and looting?

Also: could those who down vote please explain what you find wrong with asking what the police should be doing?
I'd like to add Imgur...that site is the handiwork of the devil.
It's a peaceful protest even if the people are heavily armed [1]. But at Ferguson unarmed protests are considered as non peaceful protests and dealt with force. There's one conspicuous difference between the people who were protesting on each occasion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff#Confrontations_...
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Stealing bicycle prank / Пранк с кражей велосипеда
you can always unsubscribe from this service if you want. Also there are some multiple filters inbuilt into the service restricting you to send multiple mails to the same id.(hourly freq limit, daily freq limit etc.)
Actually just picking useful names for variables, field id's, application sections etc is another huge time-sink.
GNU Octave 3.8.2
I don't like using short keys. Another thing you need to come up with a name for. I much rather have the English phrase as the "key".
>It's a miracle some nut hasn't snapped and engaged in all-out warfare already.

You mean like Christopher Dorner?
I am looking to play D&D, would you guys accept an outsider?
I suppose this is the inevitable outcome of everyone owning firearms.
Can he hear what they're ordering him to do through the gas masks?

Police: "Umff flumfff urgffff fruffu hufff froof!"

Youth: "I want to comply with your orders. I am not violent. I am not resisting. I can't hear y..."

Police: "UMFF FLUMFF URGFFFF FRUFFU HUFFF FROOF!!"
President Obama: No Internet Fast Lanes
Hell, and the US is the one trying to take the morale high ground with Russia. Maybe they need to spend more time looking at themselves.
Microsoft do this as well with the CLR.

I decided a couple of years ago that I won't deal with companies that have this policy.
Unstable product requirements.
Two Indian-origin academicians win 'Nobel Prize' of Mathematics
Its an interesting concept, but usability wise is it actually an improvement?

How tactile is the scrolling? Is it suitable for general web browsing?
I meant to say that I am not using any third party mail service api for sending mails. and yes you are right that I am hosting it in linode which is a cloud hosting service provider. But I have tried to put multiple filters inbuilt into this service to make sure that chances of arising above mentioned situation is low.
Thanks for the reply.

If not xdg-mime(1) then, do you know of another file(1)-like command-line app which does use the shared-mime-info database?
Pico part I: a project to replace passwords
You could have just unsubscribed. It was a much simple option.
Or devs could stop including fucking huge but pointless assests in what should be a simple web page.

"Test on real hardware" includes testing on the reduced bandwidth that most people have.
Hire psychopaths! Apparently :)
The more charitable interpretation here is that the cops may actually be perceiving everyone as acting much more hostile than they actually are. The cop's perception is being filtered through their own fear and implicit bias.

There's also of course, the conclusions about abuse of power drawn from the Stanford Prison Experiment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Either way, these cops should not be given such heavy weaponry.
Advice on finding and selecting photographs for using in a company website?
Hi,
We are about to start designing our company website and are needing free, or low-cost, high quality photographs for use in our site.

Does anybody have any advice on finding, and selecting, free or low-cost photographs online?

All ideas and advice would be much appreciated.
There really was no "traditional approach" to creating a distributed digital currency at the time. The blockchain is a product of Satoshi's thought and is the central innovation in bitcoin. The principal issue was not anonymity but making a network that didn't require third parties to prevent double-spending. Genuine technical problems that a lot of smart people hadn't been able to solve were solved by bitcoin.

Bittorrent was way easier because it was about copying, whereas a currency has to in a sense make copying impossible via some sort of time-stamping to prevent double-spend.
This really got me. Mike Brown's mother said this [1].

You took my son away from me. You know how hard
it was for me to get him to stay in school
and graduate? Do you know how many black men
graduate? Not many. Because you bring them down
to this type of level where they feel like "I don't
got nothing to live for anyway. They're going to
try and take me out anyway."

[1] http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/266242/speedreads-white-...
The Secret of Minecraft
A sobering voice of civility is exactly what everyone needs to hear right now. Getting pissed off about things solves absolutely nothing. That's what everyone is doing right now in Ferguson. Getting really fucking pissed off at one another.

Anyone feeling the same is as guilty as they are. They just don't happen to be in possession of an armored vehicle and riot gear. If they did they'd probably be out somewhere knocking heads together.

Someone needs to convince the people who elect these Sheriffs that they should put someone in charge who isn't going to buy 50,000 rounds of tear gas.

You know what's really going to end our democracy? Everyone abandoning it because they think it is too hard to go out, interact with people, and maybe start a real dialog about how we're governing ourselves.

Getting angry, pointing fingers, and inventing some sort of "us vs. them" mentality does nothing to prevent things like this from happening.

Tyranny is "super-extreme". We're nowhere near it. Implying that we are is irresponsible and most importantly, is a type of language that is hard to reconcile. The goal is conflict resolution. That doesn't mean that the actions are condoned just that there are plenty of ways to respond to situations like this.

We quite clearly have a lot of remaining issues from our past. Slavery, segregation, civil wars... it's been a fucking shit show. But so has basically everywhere else.

I'd say that events in Ferguson are more a reflection of our traumatic past than evidence of some sort of paranoid future of oppression. The oppression is behind us, fading away. Fear and mutual misunderstanding is what will lead us back to that bullshit.
Where can I get me one of those sweet sweet black market routers?
One way to optimize Adsense earnings is to look at Google Analytics data (you have to link the two but that is trivial to do). For example, look at eCPM by screen resolution to see if your ad placements are working correctly on all screen sizes. Or look at eCPM by Content Group, which will help you figure out how lucrative certain sectors are. I also keep an eye on eCPM by browser. Used to be that Internet Explorer had the highest eCPMs. Now it's Chrome.
http://beforeitsnews.com/u-s-politics/2014/08/militia-in-mis...
3% of 512,000 is 15,360. So if the table truly spiked up in the 15k, that notice may have been very short.
I didn't fucking susbscribe - what am I unsubscribing from?
Agreed. The demo is a top-down management wet dream. A meeting where people get instructed in details to do specific tasks? No deadline, no ambiguity? Those guys never attended a meeting.

UX wise, I'm not ok with the "red/orange/green" codes and "fail/done" tags. Even for a small startup, communication is not that blunt, for a reason. Red in the demo seems to stand for postponed, canceled, rejected or badly executed. Yet "red" means bad in most cultural contexts. The color code implies too much and would really harm any group using such a basic code.
Hive Wallet – iOS Bitcoin wallet
As I'm considering to move to London too, I asked two friends of friend who are Head Hunter for tech professional (web dev). What they said is: Expect 30-40k£ if you are a junior, 40-55k£ if you have some experiences.

Beside the annual salary, you can ask for good benefits: half of phone, internet, transport bills, health care, vacations.
Your interpretation actually isn't much different than mine. I suspect police are trained to feel threatened by civilians and to escalate along the use of force continuum while maintaining some semblance of reasonableness and legality. I don't intend to be uncharitable toward the average individual officer's character, or even the intent of departmental policies. I just don't think those policies are desirable.
The fact that this is funded by Google bug bounties is really impressive.

I'll tell you right now, this is something we'd use. I manage a ton of WordPress sites, adn they are always getting hacked. Not root level server hacks, but annoying database link injections and redirects.

Some other really nasty attacks going on especially with the latest patch that fixed the XMLRPC hack which wrecked thousands of sites.

Would love to see more information on your site about what exactly it does, what access it needs (is it a plugin) and what actions can be taken both proactive and reactive.

Very useful and very cool!
Yeah but you probably can't afford the gear/internet connection it would take to bring a Russian hospital to its knees whereas the NSA could probably bring every Russian hospital to their collective knees before any human knew what was happening.
No, this is the inevitable outcome of the global elite controlling government and the armed forces, and not giving a damn about the rest of the population whether they own guns or not.
I am looking. Trying to get some freelance clients is tricky, as it seems a case of who you know rather than what you know here.
I don't understand it. Who are the police so afraid of that they need armored vehicles, assault rifles, and snipers? I can see a SWAT response for a hostage situation or a large scale gang arrest. In what rational world is it necessary to deal with protesters?

Armored vests, plexiglass riot shields, helmets, and less-than-lethal armaments I understand. They have to protect themselves, but these levels of deadly equipment are surely only necessary in war. Are they just going to start gunning down the crowd? Does no one in charge not see the absurdity of all this?
Sure. But the point stands: it makes snooping more expensive. Is it perfect? No. Is it better than nothing? Yes.