skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone know if this is true for other countries? Specifically Australia? I'm in the market for a new car... and not too fussy about what I get.
Satoshi's account on p2pfoundation.ning.com also made the first comment since he said "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." back in March. It says:

"Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn't configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before these people harm you. Thank you for inventing Bitcoin."

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor...
> If you have been wondering why laptops have gotten such terrible displays (or other components) for so long, this is the reason. OEMs have no room for anything else when the processor is 40 percent of their cost.

The more expensive the processor is, the less (proportional to the total cost) impact a more expensive non-processor part has on the final cost, so I don't think that's the explanation.
I think there are several distinctions. You can have a side-project, a lifestyle business, a small business, a startup, etc...

I think a startup is by definition a company hoping to scale fast. By this definition, what the author is doing probably isn't a startup. But then again, everyone define startup in their own definition so maybe it is by his definition.
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Chip&PIN is a red herring here, your data is just as compromised as it'd be with a magstripe card. EMV does not protect your card information.
The challenge is defining whose "team" you're on. Individual, family, chorines, country, race?? Different people prioritize these differently, but if you're sharing data with your team I should think the circle of people you're sharing with would define the team, but there may be reasons to keep part of your team in the dark too. It all depends on higher level strategy. In some cases we see who is clearly on the team, and in some cases who is clearly not. The public doesn't seem to fit cleanly into either of these camps in all cases.
I thought that odd too: surely lower labor productivity in a prosperous nation is a positive indicator of a higher quality of life.
Ask HN: How to market iOS game to get more downloads?
I am a hobbyist iOS developer making free casual iOS games.

Every time I release iOS game, I usually get around 1,500 downloads the first week and then next week number of downloads drop to around 10 per day. The people I showed the game to tend to like it and yet because of the lack of time and resources, it seems my games aren’t polished enough to get featured on App Store and get reviewed on major iOS app review websites.

I don’t expect any of my games to become next Flappy Bird, but looking at other casual games, I think that I can get more downloads from them. How would you suggest to market my games to drive more downloads ?
When I enquired my bank about my EMV card, they informed it that it preferred Chip+Signature, but that it also supported online (aka "realtime") Chip+Pin authorization. It is not configured to support offline Chip+Pin like many european cards.
Starting to wish these guys would hire writers. So much more exposure for saying something clever or funny... but no. Butts.
I think I saw an option on the Bank of America website to get chip & pin, though they were advertising it as for use internationally.
You don't believe in the startup, right? So the likely fate is that you'll work hard for a year at discounted wages and then the company fails.

You are being asked to make an investment -- extra work for less money -- so think like an investor, not like a worker. In this situation, a VC would probably ask your friend to come back when he has a prototype or can show more traction. You should do the same. Take the job with the established company, at least for now.

No need to slam the door, though. Tell your friend that his idea sounds farfetched, but that you'd be interested if he could show some real progress -- an actual client or a working prototype. You should be able to part on decent terms.
What would be nice as an addendum to this, especially with the likes of browserify and webpack for node and the browser would be a syntax to start an async channel in a new process/webworker...

var ch = new echan('moduleName');

Where the moduleName would be a module that exports a single function that receives two channels.. in, and out for a request/response pattern. An "easy" level of abstraction here where the request/response is only going to pass what works with JSON.stringify/parse, removing circular references.

It could work really well for worker handlers... It only needs to be an abstraction around the csp interfaces, as well as the current implementations for web workers and forked processes in node.js

More advanced scenarios could use 0mq for passing a worker to multiple processes... all of that said, it's just an idea.

I think where this lines up very cleanly is as a means of communication with React and flux.
Comic Book Data Base Hacked
heh.. I chortled, indeed is it only the U.S. that does this free phone lock in contract scheme? I simply buy my phones outright (Nexus 5 atm) and hook it up with an MVNO (Simple Mobile atm) that works with sim cards.
Canada has a lot of oil and other natural resources in proportion to its population. I suspect this underwrites a lot of their high standard of living vs. labor intensiveness. I'm not sure nations that don't have that kind of cash cow can do what Canada does.
Buttcoin.org is also a satirical blog that mocks the extremely vested segments of the Bitcoin community: http://buttcoin.org/

I used to read it at one time, and it was actually often the voice of reason in a sea of anarcho-capitalist pipe dreams, but I don't know about its present state.
Segment.io (YC S11) is hiring amazing account executives
The Amex app on iPhone sends push notifications for changes.
Butts are always funny
I guess Paypal just sends you 'paypal credits' then, that you can convert 1:1 to a fiat currency... because, it's not really money, until you can have it in your bank or in your hand as cash, right? And if you need to setup a paypal account, ugh, silly proxy service and all that, linking your bank account and creditcard and sending over your proof of residence and identity.

Look, bitcoin is money. It may not be as universally accepted as a national currency, it may not have some official country issuing it, but it's still money.

You don't necessarily have to convert it to anything. As he said, he actually used bitcoin to buy computer parts at a billion-dollar company like Newegg, which is just one of multiple billion-dollar computer companlies like Dell and Tigerdirect, just to limit the examples to billion-dollar companies in the computer retail industry.

And I recently signed up with Circle. The process of signing up takes 10 minutes, like opening a gmail account, you can then buy and sell bitcoin instantly and it's completely free, zero fees. It's founded by Jeremy Allaire who built a billion-dollar company now part of Adobe (ColdFusion, used by 75 of the fortune 100). Point is, within a very short timespan of 1-2 years we already see industry veterans like him jump into this market to make it more and more frictionless, they already managed free and instant bitcoin purchase and sale, insured, too, in fact.
Most US banks are going for chip and signature.

I've received two new cards in the last month with a chip in them - both were chip and signature.
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Would it actually have helped, though? I was under the impression that the Chip and PIN POS terminals don't do anything differently as far as the part between themselves and the authorizer goes - if somebody hacks one, they can still get everything they need to charge against the card. If so, it's more of an issue of firewalling properly at the individual store and corporate level.
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I agree and am linking my one and only interaction with Mr. Torvalds [1]. It was quite pleasant :)

[1] -- http://marc.info/?l=git&m=121753383913562&w=4
You're entitled to your opinion on his crusades against religion. But let's bear in mind that there are those of us who consider religious irrationalism a key challenge of our age, nationally and internationally, and hence that such a crusade is important.
Oh yeah. Java and JS right here. Probably a common choice. Or "choice".
> But Canada has its own currency, which means that its government can’t run out of money, that it can bail out its own banks if necessary, and more. An independent Scotland wouldn’t. And that makes a huge difference.

Works for Panama, Ecuador, and El Salvador, all of which use the dollar. Worked for plenty of successful governments on the gold standard throughout history. And it works for every state and city and other regional government. It's really pretty partisan and tendentious to suggest that governments playing games with the currency is a fundamental tenet of governance.

Just because your favored public policy techniques make use of currency manipulation doesn't mean a nation can't do without it, Mr. Krugman, even if the Scots are pretty far to the Left.
Am I trolling you or are you reverse-trolling me?
Physics and the environment don't work that way. Our society has never been as energy-intensive as it is now, nor has its impacts been as wide.

There's not much that we'll be able to do about the massive amounts of plastic released into the oceans, or the levels of mercury and lead pollution throughout the world.

If the fact that we were not able to externalize the costs of carbon pollution ends up leading to the collapse of the Antarctic ice shelves leading to a massive sea level rise that can't ever be fixed then that sort of kills the argument. The same can be said for the destruction of ecosystems that can never be recovered for that matter.
I disagree. If an offer is accepted under duress, can you really expect someone to hold up their side of the bargain?

An equivalent is that you shouldn't expect someone to follow through on a decision they didn't buy into.
Minor feature request: Instead of selecting from pre-selected colors, a color wheel would be great!
Or use cash and forget about all this other stuff ;)
In your case there's an excellent chance the deal wouldn't have gone through even if you had agreed to their initial offer. The something that happened would have happened anyway, and a firm like Se____a would probably not worry too much about retracting an offer (assuming it was a term sheet or a signed-but-not-closed contract with a MAE out.)
They have started moving toward a review process over the last few months. Extensions now go through an automated review and can be flagged for manual review if they appear suspicious.
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I understand the sentiment. There does seem to be a trend of pandering to web developers in a way that discourages them from leaving their comfortable JavaScript bubble. I'm not sure what that says about developers or the future of the industry, but I do find it a little bit sad.
> The Home Depot is offering free identity protection services, including credit monitoring, to any customer who used a payment card at a Home Depot store in 2014, from April on.

This is absolutely not acceptable, and I deplore how this has become the status quo. I reject these services and want nothing less than a full lawsuit.
not quite as much... though using "async" as the main method name, with the fat-arrow syntax for an anonymous function would be a little more clear... same for using let instead of var here.

async(()=>{
...
});

It's a bit more terse, and implies that the method will be run asynchronously from the parent.
So could someone explain how an IP address would leak when using an email account? I suppose potentially in the SMTP header, but this would assume he was using a email server running on his own personal ip, right?

So is the guess here (assuming this is even true) that he had an email server running at home, leaked the ip, and then was attacked when someone found it?
I'm not sure... seems like what you say may hold for a while, but eventually you start hitting a more objective sort of hard: things that are hard for human beings to comprehend due to the limitations of our intelligence itself. Beyond that there's probably an even harder hard-- when you start actually running out of new things to discover. Can there really be an infinite number of physical laws, principles, and useful relations? Or at some point have you actually found most of basic physics?

Once you start hitting those, you've either entered a permanent era of diminishing returns or one where you can only really make progress by radically redefining problems, making leaps, or trying wild and crazy ideas in the hopes of unlocking some isolated seam of high-value research that isn't connected to the others in the fitness/value state space graph.
Could this be a government posing as a hacker in order to discredit the threat to mainstream currencies? I don't think so, but I do think conspiracy theories will be abound!
It's looking like his email address got recycled, and someone is using that to request password resets on accounts associated with it.
The way Mozilla treats is own supporters (Thunderbird users and developers ) is disheartening... Sure it's less glamorous than mobile, datajournalism or <insert buzzword here>, but we need a quality FOSS email reader and I'm seriously considering switching to 19 years old Mutt
A lawsuit which you would lose. Especially considering you most likely suffered no damages.
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Van Gogh did pretty decent :) Assuming you meant 20th century modern art, here's a short list.

Skill: Dali. In terms of being "thought-provoking", I consider much of his stuff tripe, made to pander to mass tastes, but he most certainly had skills.

Skill & thought-provoking: Picasso. I don't - again, personal taste - find beauty in his works, but they sure make you think.

Skill & beautiful: Kandinsky, and Miro. It's too abstract for me to really consider it thought-provoking, but the pure beauty of it, to me, is almost mathematical in nature.

All three: I'd probably go with Magritte. YMMV.

If you want to go postmodern, it's getting difficult - not because it doesn't exist, but because I'm not that well-versed. Marcel Duchamp's painting are certainly there. "Nude Descending a Staircase" is, to me, an amazing painting.

Based on your preferences, I'd suspect classical realism would appeal more to you - try Parrish, or Jacob Collins. (I find them boring, but as always, the eye of the beholder is what counts)
SourceForge in general seems terrible. i tried to filter by 1 star reviews and at first it selected the wrong filter because i didn't click right on the star and reloaded the page... went back and clicked right on the star, "star=1" showed in the URL, but it still only showed 5 star reviews. it was made by the halfwits at slashdot, so i wouldn't trust sourceforge for anything.
My understanding (and it's entirely possible I'm mistaken) is that chip+pin and chip+signature cards are not interchangeable. In other words, I don't think you can just take a chip+signature card and "get a pin" for it. And the one card I've received with a chip (from Bank of America) is definitely chip+signature.

I'd love to be told I'm wrong, and that this can be made into a chip+pin card without physically swapping the card.
SHA1 is the only supported hash algorithm for PGP key fingerprints.
Sounds like a short sale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_sale_(real_estate)
It was bought by a straw purchaser on behalf of BFL, a Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer with an aversion to shipping in a timely fashion, as a reputation management ploy. They edited some pointed posts about BFL and left the rest of the blog up.

Just another day in the Bitcoin economy.
i see that JetBrains people are in this thread. Is there an "everything" license? I can justify PyCharm, and perhaps CLion; but if the (combined) price was right I'd also get IDEA.

For the majority of programming languages/environments (e.g., IDEA) I suspect the community edition will be enough for me. But I would be happier if I could pay a reasonable price and get all JetBrains products in one install.
> That article's commentary on dating articles is largely complaining about HN's policy.

No, it is using the observed effect of HN's policy as a piece of evidence for the broader claim that using dates is bad content marketing because it leads people to discount the dated content as it ages; the thesis is that, to maximize the value people ascribe to your content, you should avoid dates.
Whoa. Now of course the question becomes is the warning genuine, or is it an attempt to cause Satoshi to do something hasty?
Oh the irony of how using cash is safer these days. You expose yourself to an internet full of thieves using plastic, but with cash it's only to the handful of people you actually cross paths with.
I can confirm that Amex has this. If you login on the website, you can also get emails / text for each transaction, set thresholds, etc. I've been using this feature for a while now. They also send you weekly statements on your transactions and how much your account has changed from the previous week, etc.
Krugman's article dialect borders on the offending.

The point he was making can be easily summed as the peculiarities of the macroeconomic Trilemma[1]. If Scotland honours the pound, then it must either lose monetary independence or restrict capital inflows. Every country must make this decision, whether they are in an economic union or not. Scotland's situation is interesting because effectively, a fixed exchange rate situation with Britain will mean less monetary policy mechanisms for Scotland to play with. Of course, it can always attempt to maintain economic stability with fiscal policy; it suffices here to say they have their individual purposes.

Krugman is a very well known advocate of monetary policy, especially in the 2008 recession. For this reason, it's clear he has a disposition towards favouring his own tools of choice. 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.

Economists, like all other professions, should strive to be fair and balanced in their articles. Krugman's article is certainly not balanced.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
I'm not saying the conclusion is wrong, but the reasoning likely is: there's a huge difference between a collision attack and a so-called second pre-image attack [1]. To impersonate a website protected with an SHA-1 certificate you'd have to mount the second kind.

> Walker's estimate suggested then that a SHA-1 collision would cost $2M in 2012, $700K in 2015, $173K in 2018, and $43K in 2021.

If you adjust those cost estimates for the fact that a second pre-image is needed they look more something like this:

An SHA-1 second pre-image attack (needed to e.g. impersonate an SSL protected website) would likely cost about 10^26 USD in 2021... By comparison world GDP is only about 10^14 USD.

Better safe than sorry though. :)

1. https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/pkix/current/msg30395....
Theta is a well-known parameter in the Barnes-Hut algorithm which this simulation uses. It isn't a magic constant and is well-defined.

Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes–Hut_simulation , look for the theta symbol.

The only thing you can really knock this implementation is not explaining the definition of theta, but you can't much do that without a writeup of how the Barnes-Hut simulation works. I think "higher = faster, less accurate" is just fine for a demo's purpose.
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It depends on what you want to do with it. I use it and I reckon its worth $10 a month because I can post to and monitor all my social media channels at the same time.
Depends on the subject. Marketing and conversion stuff, like he posts, is mostly timeless. Things related to specific pieces of web technology or security or other things that tend to change rapidly really ought to be dated in an easy to find way.
Why on earth would you argue this issue with the guy at the paint counter? He clearly has nothing to do with either the cause or any remedy they might decide to offer.
A lot of people make online purchases and pick up in store. When you make a return, you have to supply them a drivers license and that goes into the system as well. I'm wondering how much of this information was compromised. They use a third party company called Retail Equation for tracking returns. This company basically makes a profile / tracks your return patterns.
With Java vs Go the little bits of forced correctness are more subtle than they are compared to dynamic languages or some of the less "modern" static languages (and less to do with types, though I could attempt to start a raging debate over the merits of interfaces versus traditional OO), but they do still exist. One example off the top of my head: if bracing.

Java:

if (state)
doThis();
doThat();

This type of error is not uncommon if you don't enforce really strict code-style standards or some sort of linting step that isn't part of the language proper.

Programmer A writes an if statement with one line because that's all that's needed at the time, programmer B comes in to expand the logic and is either just having a bad day or is more of a Python programmer dabbling in Java and so doesn't automatically see the error. Then programmer B dev-tests the code, but only when state == true, so he still doesn't notice the problem because he was expecting both doThis and doThat to be called anyway.

In Go this is an explicit compile-time error, all if statements require opening and closing curly braces. This is exactly the sort of thing, IMO, that might seem like an annoyance to someone who "knows what they are doing and just wants the compiler to stfu" (eg. younger, stupider me) but is, in the long run, actually really helpful for software correctness.
This talk just keeps getting more and more relevant: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Working hours and paid vacation days are roughly similar between Canada and the US. Canada is no France.

Specifically, Canada ranks 3rd last in paid vacations: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-ranks-3rd-last-in-paid-...

Average annual hours worked, per worker: Canada, 1706; US, 1788 or only 4.5% less, compared to France at 1489.
(http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS)
A bitcoin address appeared on satoshi's profile page:

https://blockchain.info/address/19pta6x1hXzV9F5hHnhMARYbRjux...

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto posted a status:

"Tip Jar: 19pta6x1hXzV9F5hHnhMARYbRjuxF6xbbV"
I wonder if I can add this year of identity protection services on to the year I got from the Target breach not to long ago. At the rate these companies are losing my credit card number I'll have free identity theft protection services for life!