skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, sorry, that's a bit outside the intranet-app stuff I do. All I can think of is somehow getting the odds of those people from within a known demographic and multiplying... At the same time, it sounds like a kind of statistic which a lot of mortgage/realty places probably already know or track.
> Works for Panama, Ecuador, and El Salvador, all of which
> use the dollar.

Scotland! You too can have the economy of a Central American state!

(Scotland's GDP: $216 billion, Panama $36b, Ecuador $84b, El Salvador $23b)
> If it looks like Scotland might reach 50% plus one, then the U.K. and Scotland had better have a clear stance on what that will mean!

I've seen several times that the government statement on the referendum is that if a (unqualified) majority is acheived, Scotland will become independent, after a period of negotiation on the specific terms, so, I don't think lack of clarity is as much of an issue here as you present it as having been for the Quebec referenda.
Many SMTP servers include the IP address of the sender in the headers (usually the Received header). Just look around, you'll be surprised.
x-originating-ip?
"I do understand that change can be frightening"

People aren't necessarily afraid of change. They just disagree with the proposed change - which isn't the same thing. You're patronising them as if they can't decide what's best for themselves and saying they must be doing it out of fear because they can't possibly have reached this as a rational decision.

If you offer me a piece of cake and I say no thanks, it's not out of fear is it? It's just that I'd rather not have it. No matter how tasty you think I should find it. Maybe I just prefer sandwiches.

Try to understand their reasons rather than dismissing it as fear.
Satoshi's behavior is the opposite of hasty.
While I agree with the points made in this post, it's important to note that the strategy of condemning offers with a short term plays in the favor of YC and other established/larger accelerators and to the detriment of newer/smaller accelerators.

As others have noted, there may be compelling reasons to require an offer be accepted on a short timeline or not at all. In fact, as raised elsewhere in this thread, YC itself used to require acceptance the same day the offer was made.

From an entrepreneur's perspective, given two offers at equivalent valuations and terms it's rational to take the offer at the more established accelerator (e.g. YC) over a less well known one. It's also less important for large accelerators to allocate each open position in each cohort, and thus easier for larger accelerators (e.g. YC) to tolerate losing a few deals last minute.

Again, I agree with the points made in the post, but it's important to note that making longer term offers the norm plays in YC's favor.
Intresting theory from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.80

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nycgoat on September 08, 2014, 11:49:43 PM
Is it possible that he deleted the e-mail address @gmx when he left the project and that it has been recycled? Someone else may have been able to sign up, then use the reset password feature on these other sites. It is likely that the @gmx address would have been destroyed at the conclusion of his participation in the project, as all relevant information and e-mails have been public from the beginning.

1) Satoshi finishes with Bitcoin and deletes GMX account
2) He does not delete other accounts (sourceforge, i2p, etc)
3) GMX account is recycled after x period of time
4) Person signs up for @gmx account after it is recycled
5) Passwords for other sites are reset because they still point to the @gmx e-mail address as a recovery
6) Person tries to profit by extortion and fails

This is probably the most likely scenario... and they probably don't have any of Satoshi's information because it is unlikely that any e-mails were still in the box when he re-set up the @gmx address.

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No. The first hop in the SMTP via headers will usually have your DSL router IP.
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Ah. Now I get you.

Pinakothek der Moderne is a lot of post-moderism, which is... mixed. There's a lot of conceptual art there which is brilliant, but in a cerebral sense, not visceral. It's not representational, though - that's the point of a lot of post-modernism, to rebel against established art ideas.[1]

They still do have stuff that might appeal to you, IIRC - August Macke, Franz Marc, Miro, Emil Nolde come to mind.

[1] That doesn't mean it's unskilled. But the skill is hidden in the breaking of all rules of skill, and it's occasionally hard to tell if it's incompetence or deliberate, unless you spent a lot of time on art history.
There seems to be no relevant "MarkDown" trademark registered in the US. All the results I found were retail related:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/su3ka2jgffuaxfe/Screenshot%202014-...
Yes, maybe it wasn't clear, my comment was meant as a reinforcement of your statement. The einstein-sum example is in line with what some C++ libraries can do, but I expect the common lisp implementation to be much simpler. Even more complex libraries like deal.II for pde-solving would probably benefit immensily from a domain specific language instead of a C++ interface.
I try hard not to be the "you should ask for your money back" person, but I don't see that hand-wringing like this is any use as regards open-source software.

"Software should be tested" is indirect speech which leaves out the subject. Who should ensure that the tests are in the codebase? The creator? The writer of this update? If this was a first-time volunteer and his patches were acked by someone, the person who cleared them is arguably more at fault – the original contributor should not be blamed.

Developing OSS is a complex endeavor depending upon the donated time of hundreds of people. Sometimes I'm surprised that there are well-functioning, robust pieces of OSS out there at all.
Free to answer any questions about the project, making the shirts, getting it automated with making the shirts, process, anything. Lose to hear feedback!
Tony Hoare: Communicating Sequential Processes [pdf]
I've used all three for clients and my own profiles and prefer Hootsuite Pro. I currently manage five different sets of profiles, so it can get messy easily.

Sprout Social has beautiful analytics, but with a hack I can get the same for only a quarter of the price. I also work better with multiple columns so Hootsuite wins me over there. With more than a couple of profiles, it's too hard working out what came from which profile in Sprout.

I was using Buffer free to post content, but Hootlet is built into Hootsuite and gives me Ow.ly URLs for tracking, so I found myself not using Buffer as much then not at all.

Probably the biggest clincher for me with Hootsuite Pro is the price and extra user. I have a client also managing their profiles, so I set them up with my extra user. At $10 a month it's amazing value. Two users on Sprout Social is at least $80.
You are not the only one with this concern. Despite being out of the country for a long time I would prefer to keep my British passport. I'm also annoyed that I don't get a vote on whether my nationality will change.
> Which really doesn't matter since credit cards can be used online

Don't you need the printed CVV for that? Which isn't stored on either the magstripe nor the chip.

edit: 3DSecure would also help if banks cared to push it harder (for instance my bank now disallows all online debit card charges that don't use 3DSecure)
Seems to have been reverted now.
Pretend to be a lasership commander using only your keyboard
If just one bored soul is happy with this game for just 5 minutes, that'll make the time spent worth it :D!

I wrote this game in shell, because I was bored. It interprets the keycode of the pressed key on your keyboard and plays a mp3. Simple, but fun :).
Hope is not a policy.
> If the Bank of England denies Scotland the use of its
> assets, it will also have to forgo Scotland's share of
> the liabilities, essentially wiping out Scotland's share
> of UK debt.

The Bank of England's central asset is that people believe the UK economy will produce enough to make the UK government's promises in Pounds Sterling worth something.

Salmond Shekels may not carry the same weight, perhaps quintuply so if one of the first acts of the new government is to renege on their financial commitments.

Besides: anyone who doesn't think that France, Spain, and other EU members are going to extract their pound of flesh for EU membership for Scotland - in no small part to dissuade their own autonomous regions - is living in la la land. It'll be the Euro, or being locked out of the EU. That the best response to this so far is "No no, it'll all be fine, we're already part of the EU" serves to illustrate the degree to which the independence argument is based on really really really hoping it works out OK.
I had no idea that it wasn't possible to get a pin, but now having done some research it looks like I was wrong. I wonder if it has something to do with them using the existing pin infrastructure for ATM cash advances.
Built a resume, when I tried to export to docx it gave me an xml file with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Error><Code>NoSuchKey</Code><Message>The specified key does not exist.</Message><Key>1o4ez4ueoao.docx</Key><RequestId>20D1570494140710</RequestId> <HostId>VdnBAhqGiwEkrJPk9rsrf95eNZFqMih//UuNCMBcLUyt7HhqP0ulrJnlFfwMypQyPqGs+L2iuik=</HostId></Error>

You can find my email in my profile if you need more info.
Please comment on why you don't comment
> Restricting freedom of movement and labour is morally unconscionable.

Why? I'm in favor of more open borders than most nations have, but I don't see a moral imperative to let outsiders in.
Why is every mention of possible disclosure of Satoshi's identity fraught with heavy overtones of "Your Life Is In Grave Danger"? We have many people who are much richer whose identities are not secret and we don't need to freak out constantly and warn them that They Are In Grave Danger. AFAIK he's not been accused of any crime either.

Is it maybe because Bitcoin enthusiasts have a large overlap with monatery cranks who tend to be conspiracy theorists?
No, you really don't need the printed CVV for that. And several cards have actually had the CVV on the chip.

Also, in many cases the chips actually contain enough information to replicate the magnetic stripe. (Which is well, bad.)
Some of us have sympathy for his cause and still think his writings on evolution (out of a sense of "check out how amazing and exciting this stuff is!") are overwhelmingly better than his writings on religion (even if we frequently appreciate snark).
Not directly, but nearly. Structural sharing / copy-on-write is basically the only way to satisfy the actual definition.
> Mojang is absolutely to blame for this, no matter how childish Wolverness' behavior may be.

Mojang is to blame for not letting @EvilSeph shut down the project? Despite his reason for shutting it down was that he was worried Mojang was going to issue a takedown against them—something Mojang showed no interest in doing, and then was done by one of their own developers?

I'm curious how you think they should have handled this. EvilSeph wanted to take down Bukkit, something that would have freaked out a whole lot of server admins (and did freak out a whole lot of server admins, now that Wolverness managed to actually do it). Clearly they didn't want it taken down. They owned it (although what that means is unknown). What else should they have done?
Yep, still works as advertised in current Firefox Aurora "34.0a2 (2014-09-08)".
Using SVG to shrink your PNGs
>Worked for plenty of successful governments on the gold standard

That's just wrong. I'm sorry. Just Google it or something.
Scotland was ground zero for the industrial revolution and has had relative peace within its borders for centuries.

Those other three countries all experienced coups in living memory, and didn't seriously start industrializing until at least a century later than Scotland.

Those factors are more than enough to explain a factor of four or five difference in GDP.
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Except I really like the free trips I get every year from accumulating travel reward points. Not to mention in my experience (personal and through acquaintances) Visa refunds fraudulent transactions immediately and with little to no hassle.
Let's also remember there are people who believe that insults and condescension are the least effective ways to help someone see they are acting irrationally, and that attacking a group of people's shared identity is the worst way to work with them on the substance of the challenges of our time.
Your impression is incorrect. Current EMV cards do something called DDA, so charging the card (as a card-present transaction) requires the card to be physically present or you to have cloned the application off the card (which the card is designed to prevent you from doing.)

You can still get the magstripe data if you compromise the terminal, but the network will (eventually) reject magstripe transactions made by a chip-capable card in a chip-capable reader. You can get the transaction certificate for one transaction, but that TC is protected from replay attacks.
> I'm concerned about what will happen to my British
> citizenship in the event of independence. It seems like
> Scotland would introduce its own citizenship and
> passport with independence, but it is unclear what would
> happen to existing British passport holders of Scottish
> descent.

I don't think British law acknowledges the concept of "Scottish descent". You're a British citizen, and the nationality of your parents or place of birth don't factor in to it. If you choose to surrender your British citizenship to be a member of The Social Republic of Salmond, there may be difficulties, but otherwise countries are simply not allowed to turf out their own citizens! So relax :-)
I flew in 2003. Car dropped me off in front of the "Concorde" sign at JFK. I walked in the door, checked in, went through security, and then sat in the Concorde room until departure. It was far less than 30 minutes!
In Mexico it is done but usually the carriers without interference from the manufacturers. For example, I can pay a different price for the iPhone upfront depending on whether I want a contract for 12, 18, or 24 months. Of course you can always buy the phone at full price.
Thanks for the links! The UI looks clean enough, I wonder how many users will chose to use paypal/venmo over adding a cc...
Only if you get the cash via bank teller though. Skimmers make using ATMs risky as well.
Without sticking up for Krugman's article, which I'm not qualified to judge, isn't he capturing some of that "fiscal policy" level when he talks about Spanish austerity?
A good corner
I took that straight from the article / filing. and been impressed by the downvotes!
Yes, they may say that. However, Home Depot is not the one that is determining what technology the issuers use. Most issuers are using Chip&Signature. Home Depot may support Chip and Pin, but if your bank doesn't use Chip&Pin, the fact that Home Depot supports it is worthless to you.
I'm pretty sure the card processors would be on my side of the lawsuit, along with a few million other home depot customers.

I don't care about damages to me. I want the problem fixed. This Laissez-faire attitude towards online commerce security needs to end. Standards like PCI and PA-DSS are not enough. Corporations need to be liable for leaking everyone's information. A year of free credit monitoring is a slap in the face.
Thanks again. Congratulations on arrival of your newbornbaby and hope he recovers soon.
Good luck with your start-up.
F*ck her in the p*ssy guy strikes again
Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 1: Basic Stats
It didn't fly supersonic over the CONUS. USG actively blocked Concorde in the early days, hence the first routes were to the ME and not the US.
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It's a good question. I haven't seen them in the Counterparty forums or Bitcointalk thread. I own some XCP but no MC. My reasoning is because XCP had proof of burn and has seen steady dev progress. Sometimes, millions in funding cause more problems for a project than it solves.
OP, how did you hear about this company? Can't find any stories mentioning it.
While you're 95% right, you could also argue that irreversible hundred million dollar transactions are a feature unique to bitcoin. That could appeal to kidnappers.
Freaking hilarious. You brightened my day sir.
great work as everybody else said! would be awesome to see the sizes of the modules, too
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Cyborg Unplug finds and kicks Google Glass users off the Wi-Fi network
Why would your nationality change? You would simply gain an option on another nationality.
Europeans are much less likely to chase the Euro than their US counterparts are going to chase the buck.

Language is one part of the issue, another is that we have a completely different look at distance. I'm living in Romania right now, I don't even know a single other Dutch person that has moved to Romania.

In the US you'd be in the company of 1000's of people from 'out of state', but you're all Americans. In Europe the chances of getting a job differ greatly depending on where you're from and where you are applying for a job.

A Romanian in NL or France would have a harder time finding employment than a local (and would get paid substantially less when they do find a job), a guy from Michigan or even Canada in San Francisco would have roughly the same chance of finding employment as a local and would earn roughly the same amount of money (that's anecdote based, not 'data' based so correct me if you feel this is inaccurate).

Part of all this is culture, part of it is stigma, xenophobia, language, perceived quality over the last decade or so of hiring people from different countries and with different backgrounds.

The US is simply much more homogeneous than Europe will ever be, even though there are large differences between say California, Colorado, Florida, New York and Wisconsin the differences between the people from those places are not all that large mentality wise and so on. You participate in a single set of elections with parties that are present everywhere.

Compare that to Spain, France, NL, Sweden, Poland, Romania and Greece to select a few examples, and the people from those countries, each with a fairly unique cultural identity. No unified elections (some of the parties don't even have parallels across a border with a next door neighbour). There is no shared history, the history books are usually written from the perspective of the country where it will be used for teaching rather than from the perspective of Europe or something a bit more objective than the local country.

I don't think the 'Federated States of Europe' will ever feel as closely knit as the USA does.

Think of the differences between the groups of states on both sides of the American civil war, now multiply by 15 or so and then take all the possible interactions between those parties. That gives you an idea of what the shared history looks like for Europeans.
FYI, you're dumping PHP warnings visible to the user.

"There will be no notification or affect on your LinkedIn profile."

Too bad my LinkedIn profile already has an affect!
> a possible reason why he favours monetary policy: it devalues currency, taking more from those who hold large cash balances

i understand that logic, but currency devlauation ends up making things worse for pretty much everyone but the extremely wealthy.

in a deflationary economy, all you have to do in order to prepare for the future is just spend less than you earn. that's it. the savings will be more valuable in the future than it is now.

in an inflationary economy, not only must you spend less than you earn, you must now take on risk just to maintain the value of what you already have. the entire financial system exists because for most people, investing (choosing loans or investments) requires more resources and knowledge than they have on their own. you're _forced_ to play a game you don't really understand: picking companies to invest in. most people who 'get it' will tell you to just buy and hold - but all of that would be totally unnecessary if currency were deflationary or just kept its value.

of course, the extremely wealthy have much more money to invest, and can spend their whole lives managing their portfolios, because working isn't necessary for them. they benefit from the increased flow of cash into investment markets, enabling the existence of a financial industry that is necessary to service _everyone's_ 401(k) and pension fund - because "spend less then you earn" isn't enough.
So you're saying holding Bitcoin can be hazardous to our health? Whoa, I don't think that's one of the approved talking points.
> Of course, for being a left wing economist, it isn't difficult to see a possible reason why he favours monetary policy: it devalues currency, taking more from those who hold large cash balances.

This is one of those memes that just won't die: currency devaluation isn't bad for the rich. It's bad for the poor. The rich hold the vast majority of their wealth in inflation-proof assets. Their housing costs are fixed because they own houses. The poor hold what little liquid wealth they have in cash, and their housing costs are variable because they rent.

If inflation was the pro-poor policy, you could be damn sure we wouldn't have experienced it consistently for a hundred years.

This confusion springs from the idea that inflation is a pro-debtor policy. But the biggest debtors by far are rich people and institutions. Nobody lends poor people tens of thousands of dollars to buy securities on margin, or millions to build real estate developments.
I think I'm making exactly the point I just made in the comment that you responded to: that prior to the Peace of Westphalia, extranational forces played a part in local policy. Today, states and national borders dominate policy, but in pre-Westphalian society, borders were fluid, and the church often played as great a role as local governments. One day Aquitaine was English, the next French, &c.

Perhaps what Stross is intimating is that we'd be better off if Wales was Wales, Normandy Normany, &c, and that instead of the church, we devise some more sensible extranational force to implement the social contract across all those small nations.
There is only one way out! (ctrl+d) :D.

Good to know I made you smile!
Scotland can't create a currency if they desire to join the EU. Current rules don't allow any more UK/Denmark-style currency exemptions.

It appears that Scotland's options would be:
- retain the Pound Sterling, not sure about EU membership
- Euro, with EU membership
- new currency, but without EU membership
Bitcoiners tend to discredit only themselves.
No damages?

- Go through your entire credit history over a six month period looking for illegitimate charges. (Many people, such as myself, use a single credit card for most of their payments -- that's thousands of transactions.)

- Wait a week for a new credit card to arrive in the mail, and hope none of your automatic payments try to charge the old card while you wait for the new one.

- Update all of your automatic payments. Doing it once would be one thing, but every time one these breaches happens?

None of these are the end of the world, but they're certainly not "no damages".
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Card processors might have a case, but the customers really mostly wouldn't.

The PAN that belongs to your credit card company that was assigned to you by your credit card company was compromised and someone tried to defraud your credit card company using it. Yet it's you complaining, why?