skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its free if you have bitcoin and your friend wants bitcoin. Once you bring other currencies into the mix it is often more expensive to comparable services and just as slow if not slower.
i see. thanks for taking time to explain.
"It's actually quite easy to change people's social behaviour through a very small number of minor modifications to zoning."

I 100% do not buy this would work in the US :)
There are huge culture differences.

Can you cite any example of a large US city where it has worked? A bunch of them have tried, AFAIK.
I remember reading once that part of Apple’s success was owed to their shunning of lean principles, that they only ever ship complete, mature products. I would say that couldn’t be further from the truth: the original iPhone was about as minimum-viable as a category-defining hardware product could be.

It did only a few things (web browsing, media playback, email) better than anything else on the market, and left out nearly everything else that wasn’t critical to that core functionality (Exchange support, software ecosystem, copy and paste). If anything, the original iPhone was a demonstration of lean principles applied extraordinarily well: A bare minimum of functionality executed at eye-poppingly maximum quality.
Thanks for the comparison. And good catch with the cursor equality relying on both value and path. That is something that was recently fixed in Om.
He's kinda late to the party: CCC (Chaos Computer Club) Members already hacked TouchID last year[1] and broke it again this year (09.19.14)[2]

[1]http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

[2]http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Fingerabdrucksensor-d... (german)

If you ask me, it's really a shame (security-wise), BUT having a kind-of-secure TouchID is WAY better, than having absolutely no security (i assume that people that didn't use any passcode now use touchid).

We (and Apple) need to educate people, that it's not the perfect and completely secure solution.
I see a few places where bitcoin is accepted as donation. How is that taxed if/when spent?
Completely agree and was going to make this same point. The PIN system is a lot easier to "hack" considering that all numerical layouts are the same and all PIN's are four-digits. Thus you only have to see the area in which they are touching the screen to get something close if not exactly accurate to the correct PIN.

Same goes for the Android swipe pattern system except that if you turn off the pattern display it is much more difficult to detect since length and pattern can vary. However, on two separate occasions people have noted to me that they "now know my pattern" despite my being fairly fast and subtle with how I entered it.

All things considered, I think finger prints are much more secure for most people.
Meh, land is an asset, and they aren't making any more of it. A reasonable person would expect use cost to increase over time, especially in high-population centers like SF and NYC where the game is basically "is someone else as qualified as you willing to pay me more?" -- which is, incidentally, the same game we play with our salaries.

That's why fixed-rate mortgages are so great. Your housing payment is guaranteed not to rise! (taxes notwithstanding)
The critiques are all valid but browser tabs can be a decent digital instantiation of the hipster pda[1]. If this minimalist workflow management works for you, then browser tabs are great.

Searchability, ranking etc, etc can be a plus or minus depending on your system to GTD.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA
> Everyone else is just doing product development.

I believe IBM still does quite a bit of fundamental research as well.
1. I just like controlling what I eat. So when I cook I tend to be more vegetable heavy which isn't available in restaurants.

2. I tend to look at pictures of what other people are eating on Facebook as inspiration (modernist cooking, serious eats, food lab, etc). I don't plan ahead as I usually cook what is in the farmer's market that week.

3. Pretty much all cuisines. More on the American/Vietnamese side though.

4. The 'just eat food diet'

5. Using a pressure cooker. Having a sharp knife. Watching youtube videos of other recipes.
Oh, of that I had no doubt, but I notice that nobody has disagreed with my point: given that lethal force (or the threat thereof) is useful in maintaining quarantine (as suggested by my parent post), use of drones makes sense, because it avoids the contamination issues seen using humans.

There's a lot to be said for proper containment protocols and education, but let's not kid ourselves--the populations in question are already willfully acting against such things, supposing (in many cases) a Western bugaboo.

Regardless, the meta issue here is that a bunch of HNers downvoted something merely because they disagreed with it (which is annoying but hardly the first time it's happened to this account) but also failed to contribute meaningfully to the discussion (which is sad). A lot of fools decry "oh no HN is close-minded" while spouting rubbish, but sometimes the accusation is well-founded.

In our present example, there is an interesting discussion to be had: could the use of drones for quarantine purposes present as the next step down that slippery slope? What sort of precedent might that set? Were it to be wrong, what exactly would make it so?

But, no; instead the users blindly downvote away and click onwards, safely avoiding that heavy burden of exploratory thinking.
I think this all is going to take time to sink in, but in the end, Americans will do the right thing, which has been the overwhelming trend in the past. Think slavery. Think women's suffrage. Think civil rights. Think gay marriage.

This one is a little tough because the targets are unsympathetic and the anecdotes of specific harm are non-existent. It's difficult to argue against fighting dirty as a principle; it's much easier when you can point to a specific person (like MLK) and say, "That dude was clearly wronged."

I wish it was different. I wish people got more upset about government fighting dirty against anyone[1], even against the enemies that we ourselves agree are despicable and evil. Fighting dirty hurts us far more than it hurts them, because it damages our moral identity.

[1] The one exception is if there is an existential threat to the US. However, terrorism has never been, and will never be, an existential threat to the US[2] - except insofar as, in a fit of epic but unfunny irony, they manage to manipulate us into destroying our own moral fabric.

[2] The same argument applies to Israel. Israel playing dirty against state actors like Iran would be far more defensible, because Iran really could wipe Israel out.
You might want to consider Ireland or the UK if your spoken English is as good as your written English. Salaries aren't quite bay area, but they're better than what you describe, especially for a master's!. With 20 days of vacation a year and people who don't take it for granted you'll spend all weekend working I have no intention to return to the US.
Stock trading did not work just fine when those spreads were larger. Investors wound up paying substantial amounts of money to human specialists. In the same sense as most investors with basic sophistication would avoid mutual funds with management fees today, the large-spread stock markets of the 20th century basically imposed a similar fee structure on everyone just to be in the market at all. Not only that, but those fees were the product of overt collusion, as the "odd eighths" scandal illustrates.

No, no, no. Large spreads are terrible for normal investors.
Let me first clarify, there very well may be certain HFT that try to do this, but it isn't a large class, because the sophistication and speed required would mean that you could market make more profitably in most instances.

The short answer to your question, is that other HFT prevent them from doing this. It is very rare for a single HFT entity to represent the entire order level at a price. Therefore just because they can react to their own transactions (the only ones that aren't on a public feed) faster doesn't mean they can react to everyone else. Further, just because demand on one exchange implies demand on others, it doesn't require it. So in the case where you read the demand wrong, and you are just changing your price you lose priority at the old price point and therefore there is an opportunity cost, but if you are actually making a transaction you lose both priority and the bid/ask spread which is a real cash cost.

Finally, we need to be very careful about the term frontrunning. It is a specific thing. Acting on the same information available to a counterparty faster than them is never frontrunning. The only time it is frontrunning is if you have a fiduciary duty to be acting on a parties behalf and you don't live up to that duty by trading ahead of orders they placed with you.
Why on earth do these tests cost $4,000? You are just looking for a few snps, 23andme can do that for under $100. Presumably it's because of whose paying?
Maybe they were illegal. The point is they are companies and can do whatever they want, largely without scrutiny. I mean this in the sense that it is difficult to bring charges against them, as evidenced by basically the entire financial sector.

When things like this are published it just serves to dissuade them from PUBLISHING the results of the experiments but not from actually CONDUCTING THEM.

I would much rather know when they do things like this than have them continue to conduct them in secret.
Yes. It is terribly buggy. A guy I work with bought it and considers it a complete waste of money. I have personally seen the lock triggered while he was sitting right next to his computer talking to me.
First two sentences of this article: Last year, when the iPhone 5S was released, I showed how you could hack its fancy new TouchID fingerprint sensor. A year and one iPhone 6 later, I’ve done it again. Obviously neither of those links mention the iPhone 6, which is the whole point of this article.
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Of course, the rub is Bitcoin is _already_ worth billions... Paypal is kind of a "small fish" by bitcoin standards (not that it isn't welcomed news)
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I like the way you think--what a wonderful opportunity this presents for these agencies to justify their existence and methods!
Thank you for this. I truly enjoy Grellas' "essays" and having a reference page with blurbs is extremely handy. :)
I'm talking about the "endurance" spec. Because Flash Memory can only be erased a finite number of times[1], SSD manufacturers specify the drive's endurance -- defined as the number of bytes which can be written to the SSD over its lifetime.

The SSDs helpfully keep track of how many bytes you've written and report that in the SMART info. For example, on my Windows dev system, HDD Guardian reports that I've used up 42% of my SSDs endurance (it's a Crucial m4 512GB). So by "usage", I mean the percentage of the endurance which has been burned.

[1] Each block of flash memory must be erased before it can be written. Each time you erase it, it "uses it up" a bit and will be harder to erase next time. So each time, the SSD controller is forced to erase it with just a bit more voltage. As the blocks become harder to erase, it takes more time to erase them and the SSD write bandwidth decreases.
Nice catch- It'll be great to check Google trends in a few days.
Does this work in a website with password?
e.g. can I fill a form and give user/pwd as the first step?
(I did the tutorials but couldn't figure it out)

Also are you thinking on allowing it to run locally? (i.e. I have some websites that only work for my IPs)
Just FYI, we managed to make it out of Casablanca. Now we're stuck in Paris, but at least that's progress! We go home tomorrow (on a non-Air-France flight :-)
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>Bitcoin addresses are intended to be single use, disposable keys rather a long term method of identification. A portion of Bitcoin's address design is intended to minimize publicity of EC public keys if at all possible.

A potential work around is to just BitAuth with a HD wallet? Thereby negating any address-reuse issues.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...
I haven't tried resetting mine, but allegedly with iOS 8 they're no longer defaulting to the 4-digit simple PIN.
You don't have to hold bitcoins to spend bitcoins and take advantage of the network's properties.
Or every ethnic group isn't entitled to their own set of TV shows, movies, etc especially if there isn't enough demand to justify it.

I think your way of thinking ties too closely with the failed multiculturalism experiments of the 20th century. Trying to artificially make media fit for various demographics leads to low quality media, tax increases, and ultimately a certain level of isolation.

In the USA in the 70s and 80s, we tried this sort of thing. There was a cola for black people, urban newspapers for the black community, we encouraged them to go to traditionally black colleges, we encouraged them entering traditionally black jobs, staying in traditionally black communities, staying out of the suburbs, etc. Instead of trying to integrate them into the mainstream, we isolated them. It was a disservice. The same thing is happening all over the world, especially with Muslims immigrants. We can see the multicultural mindset causing problems in Europe, especially in the UK and France.

Even if we took your argument on face value, what then? Some kind of quota for Irish directors? So we turn down an English director with great ideas and lots of talent for some Irish director because you feel, as an Irish person, that somehow you can feel his "Irishness" via his directorial decisions? So if he made a sci-fi film about the future on another planet, you'll absorb some level of Irishness from this? That's absurd.

I think its time we put multiculturism down and accept that a certain level of assimilation is normal and healthy. If your entire cultural identity is at risk from a Michael Bay film, well, that sounds like it wasn't too strong to begin with. My parents were immigrants. I feel only a superficial connection to their culture. I don't see why that's so terrible. Their great grandparents came from another culture as well. The idea that we need to protect those from a certain culture from change is highly questionable.
We do need that. We also need to get as many people as possible using strong encryption. The less useful mass surveillance is to the government, the easier it will be to get the political reforms we want.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted5.htm
Depends.. $120k per person or $60k each?
I assume there's some kind of story behind this post?
I can imagine Heroku being easy as pie when everything works, but it is a pain in the arse when it doesn't (I have pushed 3 small Django apps to Heroku, its not easy to debug errors).
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exactly. Given that ships regularly cross the mediterranean loaded to the gunwhales with passengers (or overloaded - two ships sank a few days back and about 700 people drowned, sadly), there is a lot of potential for an outbreak to impact Europe. It would probably be containable, but at great expense and would have a terrible impact upon existing immigrant communities regardless of actual infection risk.

Hell, if you listened to some people in the US you'd think the US-Mexican border was one giant hot zone. I shudder to think what would happen if Ebola turned up in France or someplace.
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More choices in how people create value, share it, buy, sell and trade it – that’s exactly what PayPal is all about,” said Scott Ellison, Senior Director, Strategy, PayPal.

That's amazing! And me thinking PayPal was all about our money!
Not a tax lawyer, but assuming the donations are small and no one is trying to write it off on their taxes , I think it's treated as a gift. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax_in_the_United_States.
Bitcoin doesn't render Western Union obsolete until the day remote Burkinabe villages can walk to their local store and pick up the US-resident cousin's salary earned in CFA Franc banknotes. A highly volatile intermediary currency is hardly an advantage there.
It's not only about the money. It's about the fact that your money will not buy you much if there are too few people around of working age to keep society functioning
Why is constantly maintaining political agreements a superior solution to building crypto solutions that can't be broken (economically)
The other argument here is that 90% of everything (including and perhaps especially American TV) is crap. Because Canada makes less of everything, there is less attractive content than the US. That said, there is also less crap content but no one cares about that stat.

There are some Canadian winners out there if you look for them.
This got quite a bit of buzz internal to the SQL Server community
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23fasterThanAzureSSDs&src=tyah

given this post

http://sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/new-typ...

It's especially funny given the fact that they've been touted as a cloud possibility for SQL Server 2014's "Buffer Pool Extension" functionality, which essentially allows an administrator to expand the buffer pool (the pool of memory available to the engine to store data pages and query plans in memory) to "faster" storage.
You might be thinking of BitID, which tightly couples payment addresses to identity: https://github.com/bitid/bitid – BitAuth does not use Bitcoin keypairs.

We created BitAuth as a way to avoid coupling payments with identity, which is why the keypairs are independent and include a different prefix (0x02).
> That's how you cut granite?

No, it's how you get the shape correct. You don't need a massive jig, either. I'm just pointing out there are many simple, low tech ways of doing it accurately.

> No one's asking how they got a level foundation.

Actually, that question was asked on one of those Egypt shows in the "how could they possibly have done that" way. I just used it as an example.

As for stone rubbing, that was in reference to how the Incas shaped stone.
Does Netflix have a physical presence (servers) in Canada? If not, isn't it the Canadian ISPs who are technically "broadcasting" by allowing their users to stream Netflix' content?
The difference with Apple is that even when they do minimum, they polish that minimum offering very well. I know exactly the kind of stuff the article author is talking about, and most of it undercuts whatever ideas are being tried out.
I'm feeling #17 right now, although that implies there is a plan.
For a long time this will still be the case. Until we're going to be putting humans on Mars (at which point there are very limited options for continuing the sterility, because we're lousy with them) avoiding contamination will be a pretty high goal for missions.
The problem is you learn something well, then all the hipsters tell you that it needs to be done in Mongo / Node / / whatever the latest fad is.
Sergey Brin, in my view, represents part of the problem here. Too powerful to be told that he's not delivering much.
But the only reason that half of the Canadian music we all know and love exists at all is because of the CanCon laws that regulate Canadian radio. FM and AM is forced to play a high percentage of Canadian music.
This reminds me of the Humbug in The Phantom Tollbooth, who is described as "[someone] who always managed to be the first with the wrong answer" and later tries to argue that it was the question itself, not the answer, that was wrong.

It's a shockingly good lesson that I seem to re-learn every six months or so. Being first is never a virtue in and of itself. MVPs that sacrifice quality for speed (instead of sacrificing scope) always end up as painstaking rewrites at best, and slow slogs to failure at worst.

Something I think most miss is that taking on this technical debt is ok when you don't know which direction to go [0]. Get something to market to learn, not to be "first" or "right".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE
> BitCoin is rocketing on this news it seems:

For values of "rocketing" approaching "down 6% on the week, 13% on the month"
Because people are going to turn it on without thinking, forget their passcode, and get locked out of all their personal information without any recourse. Given Apple's size, they have to target the majority, not the tech-savvy minority. I really think it's as simple as that.

EDIT: Oops, that's not right — the PIN by itself (or in conjunction with TouchID) still has that property. I meant it the other way around: Apple probably wants to make sure that the TouchID sensor is reliable enough to never lock people out, because if even one person has that problem, they won't be able to recover their data. Right now, the PIN is a failsafe; with TouchID/PIN, if TouchID fails, there isn't one.
Interesting idea - and great that so many are helping in contributing exercises.

To solve the problem, she created a site last year that presents the
practice problems and prevents students from being able to move on to the
next ones without submitting a solution to the previous problem.

I think that Project Euler, https://projecteuler.net/, has a better implementation of this. All problems are available, but they become harder and harder (at least in the beginning - they might level out now). That already is a stimulus to solve the problems in the intended order, in addition to the 'level degrees' awarded after solving a batch of problems.

Additionally, the Project Euler forum in which solutions are shared and discussed is only available once you've submitted the correct solution.

OK, back to Euler. I'm close to a next level award...
on the homepage bottom-right it says:
The course costs just $200. If, during the course, you feel you're not getting value for money, we'll give you a refund.

You'll get a lesson a week for 10 weeks. The lessons are text-format, combining a balance of challenges with instruction.
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> "Netflix's kind of late-1990s view of the internet as some unregulatable space was dragged into the 21st century and was put on notice," said Carleton University journalism professor Dwayne Winseck, who characterized Wright's appearance as "theatre."

Yes, those terrible 90's where a massive industry was born thanks to the internet. An industry that continues to enrich the lives of the entire civilized world while creating tons of wealth. This nightmare must be stopped!﻿ Seriously, there may be reasons for a regulated internet, but this particular argument seems silly.
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Yeah, it's tough. Especially since everyone inflates their earnings. But this is what I surmised after researching and interviewing at a dozen companies:

I compared my offers with friends and concluded a mid level (non-senior, not college hire) dev should make at least 135k for base salary and enough stocks and bonuses to surpass 200k per year. This is for Seattle as of spring 2014. However I followed my heart and accepted a slightly lower offer to join a start up.

Caveat: never believe any compensation numbers you read online or hear in person. People brag and exaggerate. Engineers lie to recruiters, recruiters lie to engineers, recruiters lie to other recruiters, and engineers lie to each other. I only believe numbers when I 1) see an offer letter, 2) see a pay stub, or 3) hear multiple people with the same job title tell me identical numbers.
That probably wouldn't be a good precedent to set. :P