skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised that there is so much controversy about this article - nothing Paul Krugman has written here is outside the mainstream in international economics, in fact it can be taken out of a textbook (in fact the author has written a very popular one on the subject).

The point or the article is simple - you are going to have a new set of problems to work out, please think about them, don't assume the best possible outcome. I didn't see a radical policy proposal that could possibly offend anyone. A lot of people seem to dislike the examples - but this is just nitpicking to show off.
How can you blackmail a person for digital information you steal? Who knows if you won't blackmail again?
Excellent, I have been waiting for this since it was announced.

Now I just wish there was an easy way to get it working with chromium. I can dream right?
> Why would you think this?

Because that's been the pattern for most businesses. I doubt Microsoft is any different - why do you think it would be?

> It doesn't look that different.

The two pages you present compare "all MS salaries, globally" to "all MS H1B salaries, globally" - that's a meaningless comparison. A software engineer H1B is going to make more than a non-H1B tester.

Note again, I'm not trying to indict MS for anything here: I'm simply betting that MS is enjoying lower worker costs by employing H1B workers, just like many IT companies do.

I hope that's not the case, both for the H1B worker AND non-H1B workers.
What's so bad about hygienic macros?
I'm curious why Europe is in such a situation. There seems to be something pathological behind trend. I'm not sure what.

I've seen free higher education, or at least heavily subsided education. There is a great safety-net available too in most European countries. These two should make for a greater tech culture, at least abstractly.

Now I've worked with Americans and Europeans who had an MS or PhD in CS (full disclosure I started to get a MS, but had to stop because I couldn't do that, a marriage and 60 hrs a week for work). Most couldn't code worth a damn. They could probably discuss abstract CS concepts. They couldn't leverage those to solve a problem. It could be that the higher education is perhaps a hindrance to getting things done?

There could be a difference in how the two see failure. America seems to be open to it. Europe seems to be opposed. I think this is reflected in the history of the countries. America wanted the people who felt penned in by their countries hierarchy. Europe wanted those people gone.

Perhaps it's a combination of the two that's lead to the European problems. Education is seen as an end in itself, while the environment is such that people are told not to aim to high lest they melt there wings?
YC doesn't have anything like a monopoly on great startups. If investors can't find their own great startups they don't deserve to be successful as investors.

What all SV investors should be worried about is crowdfunding. Most of them don't have anything to offer beyond money and that doesn't count for much if users pay millions in advance.

Oculus took VC money but you can bet it was on incredibly advantageous terms due to their millions in kickstarter revenues. A16Z was merely the strongest among the weak and paid for the privilege of investing.

The fact that Oculus was immediately acquired for billions by a company Marc Andreessen sits on the board of is not necessarily a good outcome for the world. A fully crowdfunded Oculus may never had chosen that route.
Explain to me why people would want to harm Satoshi? What purpose would harming him serve? The tech is already out in the wild
That's why we built Inbox. :)

https://www.inboxapp.com/

In short, the Inbox API is a translation layer between IMAP's eccentricities and modern JSON REST endpoints. Plus it's open source free software.
GMX has pretty poor spam filters judging by the inbox screencaps. 11,000+ spam emails in inbox and only 2 in spam folder.
> now that Apple Java 1.6 is gone

It's right here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572

Installed on the latest Yosemite beta.
For the love of possible users, put some sort of scrolling indicator on the page. Firefox in OS X doesn't show scroll bar. I spend about a minute clicking on the slant phone and the name in the top right before accidentally causing the page to scroll down.
Show HN: Tilt Out – iPhone Game
> Krugman is a very well known advocate of monetary policy, especially in the 2008 recession.

Huh? Throughout the recession and still to this day, ever since the Fed ran into the zero bound, he's been banging the drum for expansionary fiscal policy. Unconventional monetary policy (i.e. quantitative easing) is decidedly a second choice for him, given the zero bound on interest rates.
'just an hmac token', but attached to the payload in a well-structured way. Very required for the proliferation of libraries across all languages.

There is also JSON Web Encryption, built on top of JWT, which provides encryption in addition to signatures. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encrypt...
Perhaps its a heat issue, so they place the cores as far from each other as possible?
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Tilt Out is my first work in Objective-C / IOS (and likely my last - all Swift from now on :-)).

It is a variation of the classic arcade game Breakout (Arkanoid). Controls are via the accelerometer (hence the name Tilt Out). I have tried to create a highly paced game avoiding some of the dull one brick and one ball moments of the classic.

It uses OpenGL for graphics. Sounds are synthesized realtime according to gameplay and how you the tilt the phone. It is free and runs an iAD every third game you play.

Hope you like it.
I might not have been clear: I'd want bare-metal as the basis for running Containers or Docker. The Xen article described the value of using a Xen guest as the basis.

Ubuntu MAAS could be part of that, but I'd want to be managing containers, not metal.
Pastebin images hosted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8288450

And analysis: http://i.imgur.com/y0Ee8cl.png

Conclusion (IMHO): It's fake (address doesn't exist).
From my limited experience, H1Bs seem to make as much as non-H1Bs. But then I work in China as an American on a work visa.
Shen more strongly typed than Haskell?
Well this is far from clear. There are not that many people working on AGI, Fusion has always been vastly underfunded from what they estimated it would take (http://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg), and life extension research is pathetically underfunded as well.

Spinoff technologies are great, but I bet that any scientific or engineering venture you throw money at will also produce spin off technologies. E.g. AI research makes it's way to hundreds of different industries.

Personally think it's more wise to spread money over many different fields and projects rather than giant mega projects.
Glad there are people like Jonathan that take the time to do things like dump federal/state caselaw and related materials:

http://webpolicy.org/2013/12/29/advancing-empirical-legal-sc...

http://webpolicy.org/2013/05/03/advancing-empirical-legal-sc...

http://webpolicy.org/2013/08/09/advancing-empirical-legal-sc...

Also, he had an interesting start to Coursera's security:

http://webpolicy.org/2014/09/04/a-funny-thing-happened-on-th...
What if I created a 2nd account to make my first comment seem absurd?
The difference?

1. The internet was developed in the USA.
2. Language.

The first point simply means that whatever was done with the internet, the USA got the first crack at it. In american TV it's common now to tell people two tweet about the show they're watching, with hash tags on screen and whatnot. In germany, europe's technology powerhouse, it's still extremely common for a person to have never even heard of twitter, if they have internet at all.

Further: Anything you do in tech has profits that scale with the audience you can reach. Companies starting out in the USA are able to access all of the USA, all of the UK, and anyone from any other country who has learned one of the most wide-spread languages on the planet; with exactly zero special consideration at any point. Companies in Europe have two choices: Either they build with localization in the product from the start, which is hard, and provide both their local language and english, which also costs more; or they ignore the local market and work entirely in english; or they stick to their own language entirely and ignore the world.

In addition to that, due the great employee safety neat, which also means that employees have protection from things like capricious firings, taking risks is more expensive for european companies.

Whichever way they go, european companies either have to live with less growth potential, less ability to take risks, or spend more to get the same opportunities as their american counterparts.
Can I play? I wrote a RK4 gravity simulator a while back in WebGL, but my main goal at the time was to find a way to visualize gravitational fields, so its nowhere near as interactive or user friendly as your implementation.

I was trying for the effect you see in high school physics videos. My approach was to use a plane geometry mesh and apply a vertex displacement shader, but never quite got it to look or perform how I wanted.

http://programmarchy.github.io/gravity
So it is. Thanks for pointing that out!
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Although this article has more context, the main thread is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8287905. If people think we should change the url on that one, we can do so.
Disclaimer: I am ecuadorean.
Unless you are the same company as these guys: https://www.equiposcotopaxi.com.ec/mobile/ then your social good cause will lose ground on the fact that you would be damaging a local industry by using an established brand. Now, please allow some criticism to your logo. I am sure you were after a cool name like Patagonia, and el Cotopaxi is indeed super cool, it is the highest active volcano in the world, a perfect cone covered with snow all year round, located in a magnificent valley (el páramo) and surrounded by other beautiful ancient mountains and lakes. A must-add destination for anyone's bucket list. Wild life includes the mighty condor (biggest flying bird on the planet), andean fox, deer, falcons, mustangs and bulls (both introduced by humans); and exactly zero llamas ;) Okay, maybe there are five or six at the tourist area brought in by a local entreprenuer to sell la foto to los gringos. So, I advice you scratch the andean camel off your logo and use the superb volcano instead (assuming you can legally use the brand that is).

http://kantoborgy.com/leonardo_salvador_vivar_ayora/2012/ant...
isn't android the 'desktop' linux and ubuntu server/centos the 'server' linux? almost?
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We don't need fusion because only rich people would be able to afford it, and we don't really need electricity anyway. We don't need space exploration because only rich people will be able to afford to go to space, and who really needs space exploration. We don't need computing technology because only rich people will be able to afford computers, and who really needs computers anyway...
> There is a great safety-net available too in most European countries. These two should make for a greater tech culture, at least abstractly.

Quite the opposite actually. The better your life if you don't take a risk, the less likely it is that you will take a risk. And because people usually overestimate risk, risks are usually worth it.
Google has plenty of competitors. I think you forget that someone typing in a search isn't the customer opening their wallet up to pay for Google.

http://www.techdisruptive.com/2013/04/16/breaking-down-the-o...
One of the best startup up school talks. Hard to watch this and not feel like you want to work for Chase by the end.
I like how he says 'compiled c++ (to javascript) is immune to buffer overflows' yet completely sidesteps the real issue at hand: Every major javascript virtual machine is riddled with security holes. In Firefox case (no sandbox, no process-per-tab, one of the worst C++ codebases I've ever seen security-wise, _infested_ with memory leaks and UAFs) these holes
can effortlessly lead to system compromise. In Chrome case, significantly more work is required.
Google is the default search engine in Safari, Chrome, Firefox on both mobile and web. Nobody is going out of their way to look for or type Google.com.

And not sure why on earth you are bringing up Yandex or Baidu which are both country specific engines with very strong ties to their respective governments.
I had a discussion with erming about this because I use ZNC. There's actually a /raw command, so you use /raw PASS user:pass to do it, IIRC!

There's also a /quote command.
Heh, so far this guy has earned about 10 bucks.

https://blockchain.info/address/19pta6x1hXzV9F5hHnhMARYbRjux...
The logic is that he (might) have access to millions and millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin. But of course, it would be next to impossible to convert any of that to USD as soon as people found out what had happened. If they currency didn't crumble, nobody was accept coins that could be traced back to the wallets.

He's probably (physically) safe, although look at how the faux SN was mobbed. Imagine if he were real. He'd be harassed, and anything he did or said would affect Bitcoin and undermine his intents for it.
Engineerrs build drivable car using 3d printer
Yeah, I saw that. I'm on Android. Pretty cool.
Ask HN: Chrome store and small icons
Why does the chrome extension webstore use the ugly looking small 12px by 12px icons? I do see that some apps use a larger icon but 99% of the extensions out there are tiny little icons that you cannot even see or make out.

I do see that some extensions use the larger one ... Searching docs though, can't figure out how.

Please share if anyone knows how to use larger icon images for the chrome play store!
The conference said they would be doing editing on the videos before posting them, so I assume that will take some time (this talk was today).
The EU commissioners would prefer everything to remain as it is because the UK government has promised an in-out referendum on the EU and, quite simply, they figure there is more chance of the in vote winning if Scotland is still part of the UK at that time.

So, the EU commissioners will say all they can to keep the UK together.

However ... the tone will rapidly change if Scotland does go independent. There is zero chance that the EU will risk forcing a prosperous, educated country that is already compliant with EU laws out and make them spend several years re-applying, especially when there is a real chance that England will be leaving.

The EU is a business, a very lucrative one. They need the rich countries to pay for the poor, uneducated, mafia-riddled ones to the south and the east. They already lost oil-rich Norway years ago, they won't make the same mistake again.

Just watch, the EU will arrange for "special status" to kick in on the very first day of independence, nothing will change.
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Not in the search space they don't which is what EU companies have an issue with. It's Google with about 70%, Bing with about 20% and Yahoo with about 10%. The others are basically rounding errors.

When Google puts its own products before organic search results then that clearly is monopolistic behaviour i.e. attempting to extend dominance in one sector to another.
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Is that second implementation in Hacker's Delight? Also it'd be interesting to see how z3 handles the examples shown there too (the logarithmic time algorithms using

x' = (x & b10101010) >> 1 + x & b01010101
x'' = (x' & b11001100) >> 2 + x' & b00110011

or whatever it is)
This Wired article + HN comments are interesting, however is most likely completely fake. The linked HN section is much more based in fact. Both, however, seem worth reading.
"downloads in the last month"
Seems everything is a fixed size so it probably would be an excellent fit. You'd probably also get constant time guarantees with Cryptol too right? From memory it wasn't too happy to do anything where the runtime varied.
I actually found the UI excellent when reading this. You get to see counterpoints and clarifications inline, and you can see exactly what phrase or sentence is being addressed.

The only improvement I could see is if it was more prominent who is giving the verified annotations. It's listed twice at the top but they're easy to miss. Might be nice to have each person's avatars and names take up the side next to the first few paragraphs.
The fact that Google search is a free service with no lock in and with many other free alternatives still stands. It's also strange that a search engine is a target of such hostility in the continent. No one is being prevented to visit any website or install any app they like.

Also the political aspect of this situation shouldn't be so easily dismissed, I don't see how tax or intangible privacy concerns have to do with the competitive question, this whole thing boils down to powerful newspaper publishers which have outsized influence on politicians seeking to punish Google, this is not unlike corrupt third world government behaviour.
Right-clicking is a nice treat! Interesting to compare the different integration methods, too. Excellent work.
I agree with this. I've recently started my own company. My wife has a job which covers our bills. I don't have a fear that we're going to get totally wiped out. As a result I don't focus as much as I should on it. Instead I work around the house or get lost on the Internet on HN or Reddit.
So we're looking at the gmx.com account being legitimately hacked -- but Satoshi had good enough opsec to not leak anything interesting from the account.

The hacker gained access to the gmx.com mailbox - resets all of the third party accounts and still comes out with nothing of value?!!

1) So he has to fake an invoice to gain media buzz? I don't buy it.

2) What's in the outbox?
It has to do with how the cores connect to the rings, which probably run over the L3s. Each core "faces" one of the L3 slices and it looks like each L3 slice has a ring stop in the middle.
Disabled by default meaning he enables it for sites that he frequents and need JS like Facebook, Mint, etc.
uhhh, I think you mean "funds" not "firms." Defining 3 regions and pigeon holing firms is too much of a simplification of VC markets.

Firms raise funds, that can target specific markets/verticals, as well as company size/maturity.

a16z is a firm. They have multiple funds, including a seed fund, surprisingly named "Seed" which competes directly with YC.

http://a16z.com/portfolio/

Some Firms have only 1 fund. Firms manage and guide their funds, and charge a management fee. While managing a fund is a largely personal intensive business, much like consulting, there are some economies of scale which is why many Firms will have multiple funds. This also further protects against risk.

YC and other accelerators are Firms, potentially with multiple funds, but all of their funds are at the low/angel end.
The closer we look, the less superior humans are
I believe gmaxwell mentioned on #bitcoin-dev that he was emailed.
Depends on how you access Gmail. Webmail doesn't include your IP in the headers. SMTP does.
You're being obtuse.

What is the benefit of billions of the starving and impoverished masses suddenly having longer life spans?

What is the benefit of having an enslaved sentient being to do your simulations and calculations?

Fusion is pretty obviously something that can help everyone.
About naive optimism: I have a friend who lead the team at AOL, back in 1991, that built the chat client for AOL. At the time, he and his team sincerely believed that they were ending war forever, for surely, they thought, once there was an easy to use GUI chat client that allowed all the people of the world to chat, then there could never be war again.
Change the link to Tiobe please, no need to link to Google plus.
I believe all you need is several mini coopers.
I had an AMEX Blue Business card with an RF chip in it, transaction receipts had a completely different last 4 digits using RF vs magnetic. I called to see if I could get a chip+pin and they said yes except it's chip+signature. So at least U.S. AMEX is chip+signature. However, the card's chip "pin out" area is shaped smaller and differently arranged than the one on my bank issued card. So we apparently have two different "chip" standards and I don't know which one is actually going to get used.
Couldn't this person who has Satoshi's GMX email then reset the passwords on any of Satoshi's existing accounts?
Why does adding English cost that much? I thought that a good number of European companies have English speaking people in them. They don't have to speak perfect English for a lot of tech. Just enough to label a UI mostly right. Americans will overlook grammatical errors.

Why is the Internet lacking in Germany? Is it because there are few German sites?
How do you generate PDFs? Is this HTML and CSS at heart? I'm trying to do the same with a resume of mine but haven't found a good tool for doing so.
I'll play. My conspiracy theory is that this is a PR stunt by gmx.com to advertise their email service. Motive and opportunity!
Isn't the company you link to just a retail store, not a manufacturer?
In short, no, because you can use the same method as discussed of defining a non-empty list type in Haskell, but that data type is not as useful as the regular list type, so it isn't what APIs expect or generate. To have functions which know (in their type signatures) when they'll return empty lists, you need some form of dependent types.

In fact, Haskell, in particular GHC with the right set of language extensions, is increasingly capable of implementing various strengths of dependent typing. See http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Dependent_type for a discussion of various approaches and a very useful set of links to other resources, some of which discuss this exact use-case.
Lots of old clients still out there, including people who don't have the option to upgrade.

A couple of years ago we tried upgrading our certificate to SHA-2, and rolled it back within an hour, because it broke the site for several of our customers.

It might work now; IE6 users have (finally!) dropped to about 0, but we certainly have tons of IE7 users, and I'll have to look up versions of Windows they're using before we try it again.

We work with hospitals whose IT departments who need to control changes to their computing environments extremely carefully, and upgrades are unfortunately quite expensive and difficult for these kinds of environments.
Every time I've installed Chrome clean, it has asked me what my default search engine should be o_O
If you suffer from back pain, I can't imagine trying to sleep on plywood? There must be better options to sleep on, and also consider the root cause.
negotiation is all about context. Knowing your BATNA is the first step. That will give you a baseline for your negotiation. Like in trading, you only hear about the success stories about top notch negotiators. The reality is much more nuanced than that.
That statement, read alone, sounds a bit more stronger than I intended for it to be. I agree with what you said. Although I should note that we aren't allowed to run around in top secret building to draw out the floor plan ;).

Thinking about it, I guess "security through obscurity" wasn't the correct term to use in the case. What I meant was simply that: there are completely valid reasons to keep your name and/ or location unknown, both for your safety, and otherwise convenience of life.
Apparently we know who Jack the ripper is now.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/was-it-aaron-kos...

He is Aaron Kosminski according to DNA probably.
Apparently there's a protocol that addresses this issue (WEBIRC): https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway/issues/117