skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pizza has been used as a tool of harassment in the past. People order lots of pizza from different places for the victim, who then has to deal with a bunch of angry pizza drivers and being black-listed from those pizza places.

Pizza drivers are often the victims of crime. Not only for the small amounts of cash that they carry, but sometimes just for the pizzas.

edit: I should say that my comment here was a kneejerk reaction to "it's just pizza", and has nothing to do with how eatabit.com deals with this kind of harassment. i agree with other commenters that blog posts like these are a great way to promote the company.
The only thing that matters is that Y amount of sidechain issued currency/protocol must be pegged to X amount of currency in the bitcoin network. And this ownership must be verifiable by crypto. At the higher level, it is basically a 2 way agreement.

The sidechain-coin could have many different features, for instance it could be a clone of Ethereum and its "currency": "ether", being able to replicate its functionalities like issuing subcurrencies or assets (out of the blue) completely decoupled from the bitcoin blockchain. But the higher level currency (the Y issued ether) is pegged to X amount of bitcoin.

The concept is not new and is similar to the proposed spin-offs... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=563972.0
ZType doesn't accept input from Plover for some reason. Typing of the Dead works fine though.
General Purpose Programming Languages' Speed of Light
I think neither CBC mode nor XTS mode is a great tool for encrypting disks, but rather than restating all my thoughts, I'll just link back to what I wrote about it a few months ago:

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/

But, apropos this thread: the specific claim Wikipedia makes about the insecurity of CBC mode for FDE was debunked by Phil Rogaway, who --- much as I like Justin Troutman --- trumps Justin Troutman. :)
How are you going to exploit the fact that these pizza orders aren't encrypted to achieve either of those things?
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I had only one strange thing happening in ~3 years of using Crashplan. I'm using it for cloud backups but also for "friend" backups - with all the systems backing up to a NAS with Crashplan installed. A month ago my parents had a problem with some files in one folder (bad sectors on the HDD), and I had to recover them from the NAS (their system backs up on the NAS). Using Crashplan on their system, I could only restore about 30% of the files - the others were not listed at all. Recovering the full folder using their Crashplan resulted in ~1.5GB of files. Doing the same on my NAS, I could see all the files and I could successfully recover >4GB of files (all of them). Somehow their Crashplan could not see all the files it backed up, but the target Crashplan did.

No idea if this is expected (their account is a free one, where you cannot change many of the retention and backup settings) or it's a bug, but this made me check the cloud backup also and compare the files on the disk with the recovered ones. No problems so far, but I only managed 1TB (of 2.5TB backed up).
But portions have gone up considerably over the last 40 years. Take a look at the size of dinner plates from 1960 and those from 1980 or since.
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First of all: "If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans."

*

In the terms of overall benefits, I rather prefer to be the worst in group of people than the best. There's nothing beneficial in being that one people admire/want to be (since money are not the issue).

I got friend from childhood that were at Google internships twice and I really want to be at place like G. someday. but it's more motivational (we were quite competitors then in hacking and other geek stuff) than depressing - if he could why not me?
anyone else hoping for a {hidden} alien message somewhere in there? :D
many of my friends have bedcome director level operators, where i have stagnated. while i am happy for them, i feel that maybe my personal ceiling has been hit. when i see a former colleague reaching the next level, it triggers a minor depression that takes a few days to pop out of. and when this happens i spend try to spend more time with my kid. he makes me happy above everything else.
> It is tiring to hear that kind of argument all the time to determine if a business is a monopoly ( monopsonist ) or not

Nevertheless, that's the relevant bar to clear. If consumers reasonably have another option, no matter if the use it or not, then there's not a monopoly. At any given time, there will be a "most convenient" or otherwise "default" provider for a given class of product, a sort of "monopoly of convenience", and there will be some stickyness to that provider - but that's stickyness, not monopoly.

Just like the supermarket down the road can't lure you away from your "default choice" supermarket with a 2 cent discount on butter, Amazon's competitors can't lure customers away with minor niche publications - but if Hachette actually choses not to distribute, say, the promised new Harry Potter universe books on Amazon, a very large number of people will break their stickyness to Amazon to read it - and Amazon would do well to heed such a threat.
I certainly had Smalltalk and Lisp Machine environments in mind when I made this, the central idea being to be able to query and manipulate every part of the system while its running, to be able to fix faults and continue.
No one wants an eBook reader for each publishing company.
Heroku use Erlang:

http://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
That's true, but it's easier said than done. I get really low and feel like an impostor.
I don't think you are. The idea seems to be that you don't have alternative tokens at all, really. Instead you would use an alternative blockchain using what are for most intents and purposes still bitcoin tokens. It's not really intended to be compatible with existing altcoins, but rather to supplant them.
This proves a very important pet peeve of mine: Your modern application has a highly dynamic operating point. There is no way you can deploy a system and expect it to be static for eternity. Back in the day with low interconnectivity you could. But today it is impossible.

When you build stacks on top of system for which you have no direct control, you must be able to adapt your system. This means you can't statically deploy code without an upgrade path in one way or the other.
Check out this article from Universe Today - http://www.universetoday.com/102234/put-the-aurora-borealis-...

Looks like a VLF receiver could give one a new way to sense natural phenomena like lightning and apparently even some mundane objects.
Yes, it's just pizza - no ccards or personal information is transmitted - except your choice of toppings. Could that be used to profile you? "...paging Dr. Freud"
> is to provide you and me with more to read at a better price than ever before

As a reader, do you want to optimise for price or for quality? The argument is that one will ultimately come at the expense of the other, because good books need good editors and good authors need sufficient money to allow them the time to write.
Show HN: Verified Twitter Followers
Thank you for both your answers.

I guess my main worry with this scheme would be fragmentation, having 3rd party libraries not bothering using Type* where it makes sense and making it very difficult to write code using uniqueness types. I guess I'll have to learn me some Idris and see for myself, the language looks very interesting.
I run fruji.com, which has become somewhat of an unexpected monster and received more interest than I ever thought it would. Too much actually, so that most of the bottle necks with regards to communicating through Twitter's API have become massive issues. I've had lots of celebrity and super large brands/companies sign up with onboarding periods of weeks (imagine, you sign up, your first report shows up 3 weeks later, uggh). So, after some customer feedback rounds, I've realized that most of the big accounts care about their verified Twitter followers a lot (they are often big relays/multipliers). That data is much quicker to produce, so I've created a MVP that does just that. It seems to work fine after a few first tests with around 50 users, but I haven't announced it yet to my existing users as well as the general public broadly. Would love to get some technical feedback first from you guys (you've guided me so well through creating so many other things in the first place and avoiding mistakes).

EDIT: No need to sign up, this is basically what you'll get after signing up (this is a shared page, if you look at it from your own account, you're asked to upgrade through tweeting or paying $2 if you have more than 5 verified followers):
http://verified.fruji.com/results/3f4cdab2fa81ac30fd57ef5abd...

EDIT 2: The tech behind: It's a Sinatra/Puma setup, jobs are being queued up through Sidekiq, data is being stored in Redis (just lots of ids and id lists), payments are being run through Stripe and front-end is basic JS with super simple custom HTML templating. It runs pretty slim.

EDIT 3: In case you do sign up, please use 'freefruji' to get the full report for free. No reason to pay now.
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Specialized in fact, they "pivoted" some years ago and layed off much of the staff.
A few years ago I looked at about 30 different backup solutions and finally settled on CrashPlan for the following reasons:

1. Can send backups local drive, cloud, or P2P.
2. Encrypts files locally
3. Incremental/delta, e.g. a 5-byte change to a 10GB file doesn't resend the whole thing.

A lot of the named services from the OP are cloud only. Try backing up TBs of data. It'll take over a month, depending upon internet connection speed.

CrashPlan lets you backup to an attached hard drive and then send it to them in the mail (sneakernet). Then, when you want to restore the entire archive, they can send you a drive in the mail if you'd like.

The one place CrashPlan falls down is doing full-disk backups or images/snapshots. It's only good for backups of individual files.

I've got a copy of CrashPlan running on my DS212+ NAS (http://pcloadletter.co.uk/2012/01/30/crashplan-syno-package/) so it serves as a peer and I push to the cloud as well.
Do you understand what the "diffuser" in Bitlocker was intended to do? Virtually every other mainstream FDE scheme uses XTS, which is also not authenticated; XTS is literally the ECB mode of tweakable block ciphers.
This is fun.

I think it's counting quoted material as stuff that I've said?
This is an interesting perspective. Do you use a home-rolled email client/server, and only exchange emails with other people with a similar setup? Completely avoiding "third party apps" with respect to email seems like it would take quite a bit of effort.
We use Twilio so we know our customer's phone numbers. If there were ever an issue like this, we could easily assist with a request by law enforcement.
Yeah, why is every image, heading, and paragraph on that page surrounded by scrollbars where most don't work and are not necessary?
After asking a similar question here ages ago, one thing that was recommended was ShadowProtect [1]

Incremental backups take in the order of seconds to complete, thus running them every 15 or 30 minutes doesn't hurt at all. I have it set up to make such backups during my usual waking hours (to keep the number of snapshots a bit lower) and additionally rsync my backup volume from the NAS to a backup account in a datacenter.

Basically I wanted to have a full-machine backup with incremental snapshots. And since I don't use libraries because I don't use Explorer, File History was, although very nice, not adequate for my needs.

[1] http://www.storagecraft.com/products/shadowprotect-desktop-b...
Or... here the problem is that the "be liberal in what you accept" design principle failed to be captured by the HTTP specification writer, that forced a single SP character. It looks like a specification issue to me to use a syntax which is very prone to errors, and is even not much visible (you can't easily inspect double spaces in protocol traces when checking just with your eyes), and then be strict about it. Even changing separator, if you want to be strict, already helps, like in "foo|bar|zap" compared to "foo bar zap".

Humans are strage: many will spot "foo||bar|zap" as an error, but not "foo bar zap" as an error as serious as the previous one.
Making sketchnotes on the How to start a startup class at Stanford
Still not launched, so what is there to see?
That series of strcat's caught my eye as bad practice. Fine in this case since the destination string is short but horrible in general. Every single one of those calls needs to iterate over the entire existing string to find the string size. The code could be much cleaner with a small macro hiding the incrementation and the casts.
PIZZA IS SRS BSNS
>The push API is pretty awesome, the key difference between it and websockets in term of what it offers is this bit:

> > A push service allows a webapp server to send messages to a webapp, regardless of whether the webapp is currently active on the user agent.

Actually, the difference you describe is what Server-Sent Events [1] already provide: one-way notifications vs bidirectional communication with websockets.

This spec, rather, would standardize an API for a single-connection (read: better battery life) push server that third party webapps can use in the same way Google Cloud Messenger is used by third-party application servers for android apps.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/
Cool idea. Unfortunately I've yet to see sentiment analysis even really come close to providing any useful insights. It's just not accurate enough on 140 character tweets.
+1 Robocopy script with external drive.
I lived in Oakland (17th and Merrit), and worked at Netscape in Mountain View on Ellis. I took Bart + Caltrain + a company shuttle for 2 1/2 years. I tried taking buses as well - but it was a brutal grind, and not something anybody with a realistic choice would undertake. Bart + Caltrain is possible, particularly now that Millbrae exists, and you don't have to perform the absolutely wretched 4th and Townsend to Powell street transfer, which was the bane of my existence.

But Public Buses are just not seen as first, or even second class transportation in the Bay area, so most people, and certainly the vast, vast majority of Silicon Valley employees, would never consider using them to get to work in conjunction with Bart+Caltrain. They are, at most, used as part of two-segment trip. (I.E. Caltrain + Bus, Bart + Bus).

What I'm really trying to say, is that if the valley had a first class rapid transit system around the bay, so you could eliminate the transfer to caltrain, and just go from Bart -> Bus, it might be a reasonable alternative for a lot more people, particularly with company shuttles that run from the nearby bart station to the office on a regular basis.

Speaking of which - I've been away from the Bay for a few years - have they finally unified the payment of Caltrain/Bart/Buses, or are they still on separate payment systems?
Show HN: An idiomatic go client for HDFS (also, a binary with tab completion)
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>It can only be solved using Bitcoin blockchain

Could you please elaborate?
Sure it is. The influence of HN is unavoidable, like any media, especially since it is a leader in the sector. It is even publically said that content will be edited according to YCombinator's choices.

- If you've spent more than 6 months on HN, you probably know the rules (and they are not a secret),
- I'm myself a French entrepreneur and I'm glad I have been influenced towards start-up creation by HN,
- HN is both capitalizing on SV's leadership and reinforcing it.

Of course I wish I were influenced by my country's start-up material, but I'm not. Now that we've confirmed HN has influence, what would you do differently?
True but that doesn't bother me. Nothing is static on the web these days and everyone plays under the same rule set. Keeps things interesting...
Disruption is by definition not Pareto optimal since it is bad for those disrupted. What's your point?
yep you're right - this is just a cool toy to have a look at what Londoners are up to - the focus isn't scientific, more like "hey what are all those people there tweeting about".
That's the second best market research. I'll definitely consider your service, assuming you have a Linux client.
You mean so long as everyone standardizes around a non-standard, rather than the actual specifications of the standard, it'll work?

I think I prefer just adhering to the standard in the first place.
nice, an additional tutorial about rendering with JSX might be this: http://thinkingonthinking.com/the-rendering-question/
Nice site, although it does have issues with the analysis as outlined by others here.

One suggestion I would have is some sort of filtering based on the content of the tweets. This tweet returned "feeling good":

"New post featuring: @NewLookPRTeam @nextofficial @Matalan @hmunitedkingdom @uoeurope @Accessorize @ASOS http://t.co/nGsFj306xT #fbloggers"

This one returned "feeling average":

"@dannykobe17 @DanielRacheter @Khuds_ @shangambling @Umar_Wilshere19 @_mikenewell_ @BlueKay10 is that ollie?"

Whereas there's absolutely no real sentiment to derive from this sort of thing.
I would say it very much depends on which computer you're trying to organise.

For my work drive, everything is sorted by year then project, and each project starts with a timestamp (= start date), so:
2014/
2014_01_Project A/
2014_03_Project B/
etc.
and on top of this there's an admin folder to sort contracts etc.

For my personal computer, I tend to organise things by file type (apart from personal projects which are organised as per above), so one folder for videos / images / audio / documents, and then I tag the file accordingly (using the Mac OS X tagging feature).

Hope this helps!
The notion that Amazon is a book store is the most flawed aspect of this article.
Thanks Dan! Yeah, unfortunately it is right now. I've got a list of things to improve upon and that will be one of them. Thanks for the feedback! :)
That time a misplaced “0” set a U.S. warship adrift
It's not only about the framework, it's about the language too. Qt is written in C++, and so it's hard to use effectively when not using C++. On the other hand, GTK being written in C, it is possible to use it either directly, or through some simple FFI or wrapper from whatever language of choice. That alone is enough of the reason that every non C++ developer prefer GTK.
Amazon Launches $39 ‘Fire TV Stick’ to Challenge Google’s Chromecast
Good ol' hug of death? I'm having problems connecting.
haternews.herokuapp.com does not appear to be handling the load well.
As a reader, I think Amazon helps me a lot on the quality information about books I might want to read, as it posts reader reviews and includes those beguiling "Readers who bought this also bought" links frequently to guide me to books I haven't heard about before. On the whole, as a reader who has been reading for half a century, I like the ecosystem for readers better since Amazon came along than I liked it before Amazon came along.
That, or other extrinsic evidence. The easiest would be inconsistent deposition testimony (some lawyers are good at making you say what they want -- don't underestimate them), but another option would be evidence of your having done something to manifest your knowledge of the thing you claim to have forgotten soon before or after the deposition (like, e.g., sending an email).

And while perjury may be a stretch in most cases, there is also the matter of the jury's opinion of you as a witness (assuming that the case eventually goes to trial and you get confronted with your own deposition transcripts). If they think your memory seems a tad selective, then they're apt to assume that any fact you've "forgotten" is the worst possible fact for you. There are also concerns like civil/criminal contempt and other sanctions against your side in the litigation.

There is also the small matter of morality. Many of us think that you shouldn't lie in a deposition even if you can get away with it.
FYI the nice thing with security keys, is that you can't actually do that (dump a bunch of OTPs to use later).
I wouldn't dare expect this to exist in 5 years, but I hope maybe it's an issue slightly closer to the front of our minds. We really don't need, or even want, a wholesale replacement of the browser internals - the rendering engines, sandboxing techniques, etc. are good: all I'm saying is it would be really, really nice if we could have access to these components at a lower level (not too low, mind) than what we've currently got.

I'm fine with JS as a thing that exists, my problem is with it's position as the "assembly of the web" (credit to user Lerc below for that fine phrase.) The good parts of the HTML/JS/CSS paradigm are making awesome things, but the bad parts make our lives far more difficult than they need to be.

And don't worry, I'm not actually going to kill myself, but thanks for the concern.
I like GObject a lot (esp. over higher-level languages like python). I just wish creating typelibs was easier.
I initially thought that it was because of a single whitespace character... but it's because

p {
overflow: scroll;
}
Ask HN: How to leave my country?
I am from Brazil.

For many years I've been wanting to leave, now I think I finally can, because I finished last month paying all my student debt.

I have no assets, no money, no job, no friends here or abroad, I want to start a life somewhere safer than here and somewhere with easier upward mobility, so anyone can help me? How I leave my country?
Former CBS News reporter links her computer intrusions to Benghazi reporting
>If a candidate has been through six jobs in the past 10 years, that’s not normal

I don't really think that's a fair statement. 6 seems a little high for 10 years, but in my experience changing positions every 2 or so years is par for the course for people who A) work hard enough to outgrow their responsibilities in that time, and B) respect themselves enough to seek significant raises every couple years.

If companies in general were in the habit of offering internal promotions it might be a marker of instability, but I've met few people worth their salt who will stick around at one company for 5+ years for raises that barely keep pace with inflation.
What browser are you using? I'm not seeing that here on my devices...? We are using pretty vanilla Bootstrap.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/pastprojects/SR71...

The JPEGs are actually .mov sound files.
Forcing an Application to a Single Instance in C#
This article (like all other IEEE Computing Now articles) is free to download for a limited time.
http://i.imgur.com/v0b1LKC.png

This is what I see in Chrome on OSX.
> I don't doubt that there are other abstractions than FP and OOP. But arithmetic looks like FP, to me.

When aikah said "FP", I took that to mean something like using a higher-level "updateScore" function that accepts a "calculateScore" function as an argument. I certainly may have been mistaken, though.
>It's just not accurate enough on 140 character tweets.

I would disagree but apply the caveat that there has to be heavy filtering of what is being analysed to derive anything of value from it.

A tweet like:

"“@BarkhamTaylor: #beatcameronathisowngame @aliceehoughton” let's get it trending #adrian"

Has no value for sentiment analysis, yet is lumped in with the rest of them, while something like:

"Sunny day in London :) @ Green Park http://t.co/S71RQR2luU"

Clearly has value regarding sentiment analysis. The current problem being that all of the junk gets marked as "average" or similar because sentiment can't be derived from it, which in the overall set skews things greatly.