skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree about the federal reserve being a government entity. It's owned by banks - a "self regulating" private cartel by charter. Even congress can't "audit" the fed. The fed controls the government much more than vice versa.

Sure they will spin some line like 'profits' from the fed go to the government (profits above which are distributed to the private bank shareholders, of course!) but that's like saying I get reward points for every dollar I charge on a credit card. If you really think banks are "giving up" a lot of profits, you might want to check the total % of profits that go to the financial sector in the US economy. What are "profits" anyway when you can just print money - what is profit measured by?

Furthermore, even your 'small banks' that "loan" money under fractional reserve rules are, if you squint, awfully close to counterfeiting as that can raise the money supply 9 fold.

So I recommend you keep digging and follow the money.
For the sake of information, Blackwater changed its name to Xe, and then changed it again to Academi. Academi is the name you should rub in the dirt.
Enlitic gets $2M seed round to mine medical images with deep learning
Isn't time we got off the computer?
This happens every time someone brings up torrenting on HN: a baseless, sarcastic, unsubstantiated, "moral" judgement.

Why do you feel the need to stick your head into the comment section and spit out a worthless one-line comment about conscience?

Please keep your morality complex out of our technical discussion.
I dunno. Some employees are sympathetic: other times, people get defensive and toe the company line even when they know it's a bullshit policy.

There is nothing wrong with saying "I'm sorry, if I did this for you I would be fired."

Conversely, there is everything wrong with saying "No, I'm sorry sir, but I can't change that for you" when you know he can, he just won't. (in general; not referring to this case)

For reference, I worked in a Cable/ISP/telecom call center doing tech support, and had wildly varying feelings about different coworker's stances. So I'm not just armchairing opining.
Microsoft announces initiative for apps built on Office 365, new SDKs and APIs
If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives
Wind Mobile (in Canada) has an "Unlimited US Roaming" package that includes "Unlimited data". In reality its T-mobile, they give you 1GB and throttle you down to a useless speed (>1 Minute per page load when browsing)
Capture the social story at your event
I just can't stand white themes anymore. DeepDark is the bee's knees, as far as dark themes are considered. It even works on Thunderbird.
You're correct.

There's lot of confusion here over beverage sizes.

240mg in a 16oz/473ml can. It also seems to have been reduced back to 160mg.

Even at 240mg it's equivalent to or less than a cup of medium strength regular coffee. And not close to Espresso.

The problem is, it's much easier to drink down sugary beverages than coffee(especially hot).
Congrats to the team - maybe it's just me, but it seems like you guys to to 1.0 pretty quickly

edit: random aside, I literally just saw the transition from the preview website to the 1.0 website as it was hotswapped in, and I have to say it looks _much_ nicer!
Shouldn't Amazon be verifying the email address before they just start treating it as valid?
Show HN: airsocial.co – meet the people on your flight
It's true. Their convoluted billing schemes belong in the "mislead the customer for great profit!" hall of fame, right up there with insurance providers.
I was throwing out the idea that I would handle someone's job search. Basically, you would tell me what you wanted in broad strokes, and I would keep looking until I found the right job for you. I'd also take on the grunt work that normally comes with mounting a job search (e.g. interview scheduling, travel logistics, timing things so they come together at the same time, etc), and I'd either help with or act as a proxy in offer negotiations, depending on which you were comfortable with.

I threw out a few price points when I was chatting with folks, and across the board, everyone was pretty surprised that I'd be charging them. In order for this to be worth my time, I'd need at least $5000 or so per head, and that seemed like an insurmountable figure for people. The best I could get was something along the lines of, "If you can guarantee that I will make $20K more per year, then I can give you a cut," but I didn't really like that either because it still creates the wrong incentives, essentially making it not in my interest to ever refer anyone into a cash-poor, equity-heavy situation, or really into any company that couldn't throw out a lot of cash.

The closest thing I've seen to what I described is offerletter.io (also mentioned on this thread), but I think that has a good chance of working out because of the focus on just the negotiation aspect.
Neither does Apple. Someone used my email address for their iCloud account. (no, not JL.)
Sprint does the same thing but at 5GB. Just a data point from a former Sprint customer.
Being such a large corporation attracts unwanted attention: many interests at play, peer pressure, etc.
Transactions are not required to include a fee. Zero fee transactions are fine, and will make it into blocks rather quickly if they have a sufficiently high priority (input age).

The DoS prevention measures are enacted by the enforcing the dust limit (min transaction relay fee), based on the cost to the network to spend the coins.
I managed to get (first name)@(popular).com, and man, it's a core sample into what a bunch of people all over the world are doing. Signing up for cable or satellite tv, buying iPads/iPhones, sending each other family photos, ordering dinner, taking cabs, buying bus tickets, getting divorced, offending their condo association, signing up for dating/hookup sites, opening stock-trading accounts, applying for jobs, posting jobs for people to apply to, and more. And none of them know their own email address.
HP Finally Makes Its Move on 3-D Printing
You know that mesos runs the majority of twitter's production web services, right? Take a look at this for an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hal00g8o1iY
I had unlimited up until my 5S when we went to a family data plan because it made financial sense. I can't help but feel they were throttling my internet PRIOR to the 3GB mark as well but this may be due to more phones coming online that lowered speeds across the board. I am VERY pissed with AT&T right now as my house (which used to get 3-4 bars no problem) now only gets 1 bar and regularly cuts in and out. Also mobile data is crapshoot even if I am in an area that you would expect good speeds from. I've gone full circle from all local -> all cloud -> all local because I can't trust my connection to work. Finding out that AT&T was injecting a tracking ID into my web requests is just the icing on the cake today..... I hate AT&T.
I like the part about three replicas of redis destroying all the data when the primary went down. If anyone out there is using Redis as more than a cache then you're doing it wrong.
Is systemd going to become like the NSA leak? Every article no matter what will somehow become about it?

This has nothing to do with systemd.

And init of systemd doesn't die anyway, all the extra stuff is run in separate processes, process 1 is indeed, very simple.
This Sidecoin sidechain has a different block reward.

It seems like sidechains can't have a block reward at all, because that would allow creating new BTC outside Bitcoin. Or perhaps the block reward would have to be paid in a different currency than BTC which would have a floating exchange rate.
Google Updates Technical Webmaster Guidelines for JavaScript and CSS
Wit.ai (YC W14) is hiring software engineers in the Bay Area
Wow that was fast, I can't believe Meteor is already at 1.0! This is really exciting times, so much progress has been made with Meteor. Ill upgrade my meteor app as soon as the official release is out.
HTML 5.1 Nightly
If only this was built in Dart... or at least TypeScript.
>I think minimal infrastructure should be free.

I think you mean minimal infrastructure should be subsidized. There is no free in the physical world. The internet you are using comes in on big copper (or glass) cables and tearing up the ground costs lots of money. Overhead wireless internet is feasible, but not at the scale of an entire city, let alone a nation.

It's not like you can wave your hand and have a network magically appear. People have to dig up the streets, put the cables in the ground and connect things. There are servers in big datacenters and routers and all sorts of technical devices that have to be configured. It is not as simple as pushing a button and making your code open-source; building networks is construction not publishing.

If you think the internet should be subsidized (or nationalized) that's a conversation, but asking private companies to give things for free is ludicrous (you either mandate it to be free or accept the private status quo). If you really want free wifi, lobby for it.

Is the Internet a business or not? Is telecom a business or not? The highways are nationalized, and I'd argue that they work pretty darn well. It's very politically difficult to go from a privatized industry to a nationalized one, particularly in America (it has only historically happened during times of war or massive banking crises and even then quite rarely).

The fundamental question is this: Are these networks public or private? If they're public, most of these questions are non-issues. If they're private, again, most of these questions are non-issues. The reason we're talking about this stuff is because the line between public and private is hard to define.
Reminds me of the Yes Men:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9xPU_kJc0

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352852/
MC and Visa were originally setup by the banks. The only people powerful enough to create another system like this is the banks.
Thomas Knoll, Founder of Primeloop, talks about why he’s baked the “no internal email” rule into his company. He talks about the insane benefits to workflow, culture, and sanity, as well as how any company can start to implement the same processes, regardless of size.
>>They aren't collecting any information that you aren't freely giving up

They don't present a choice.
Most non-tech people don't have a clue they're being recorded.
Especially not that they're being recorded in great detail across multiple sites so that advertisers and marketers (many of whom have exceedingly questionable ethics anyway) can target them better.

It may be semi-public, but its also done secretively and without permission. If someone followed you out of your house and took a note of every shop window you looked at, every book you picked up, everything you did, would you be happy?

There is some expectation of privacy even in public spaces. The balance has not yet been struck properly with the net yet. For now the technology is just making it easier to violate.
Tangentially related and amusing anecdote: http://dotat.at/tmp/railtrack.pdf

(summary: troublemaker registers 'Railtrack Ltd' as UK limited company after dissolution of the previous Railtrack, which owned the country's rail network; long succession of solicitors, land agents etc. fail to do basic research and send legal demands to this new Railtrack Ltd; merriment ensues)
Thats funny, a month or so ago I tried to sign up for an eBay account and never managed to make it through the buggy email verification. Last I checked I still can't use the account, or create another with the same email address.
Eponysterical :-)

I'm very fond of a book called The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind by Julian Jaynes, which proffers a difficult-to-falsify but still compelling conjecture of why this should be. As you'd expect from such an ambitious title it requires an awful lot of handwaving, and accordingly it is viewed as heretodoxy in academic circles.
If he has access to the account, why wouldn't he just write up an explanation of the problem and push it to the Kindle?
And still, every other day you hear people using cache as primary data store.
I am grateful that it was built in neither.
You get called dark current (thermal noise) on CMOS and CCD sensors, and the signal-to-noise ratio goes down as you decrease the exposure time. You see the effect when taking a low light photo, the graininess is from the SNR being very low while the noise is showing through. You can smooth this out quite a bit by combining burst photos (see Cortex Camera app) as the noise is random, but you always get better results with more light for each exposure.
While I do enjoy the bleeding edge on which we live. I'd love to wait to have the discussion about the new Meteor features until their site and newsletter tells us about the release.

Sure the git commit is a landmark, but there's nothing to offer other than 'kudos' with this link as the discussion point.
In this case yes: the child is in the US. However, I am not...
Actually, the same thing is true for HTML legacy color parsing too, but the only difference there is a few lines of code. I think it is these lines that was added (from http://mxr.mozilla.org/classic/source/lib/layout/layimage.c#...):

if (bytes_per_val > 4)
{
bytes_per_val = 4;
}
Bear in mind the rules cover all workplaces. Of course workplaces can enforce dress rules, even ones as specific as that, because workplaces are also allowed to enforce the wearing of uniforms.

It doesn't make it a good idea for a specific place, but, well, the purpose of the law is not to provide "good idea" guidelines for every scenario, or to prevent people from making bad decisions. It's only supposed to prevent them from making illegal ones, and that's not the same in any way.
Great theme, thanks a lot !
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Visa and MC (as well as AMEX, JCB and Discover) provide the issuing of cards and recording of all the cards for use. I would consider them a form of governing body similar to ICANN of internet (maybe bad example as not everyone likes ICANN)
Americans are the least miserable they have been in years
This is very exciting, but ctl-F "espresso" shows 0 results. The sample "recipe" shows it can do at least 9 bar, which would be sufficient.
I would've disagreed with your assessment, but then the guy came out with his (probably) own name and picture @ https://twitter.com/ufukaltinok
This is brilliant. I would totally do that in a heartbeat. I don't know if I would have them buy it (although that might be necessary to get them to read it). You could presumably do the same thing with an app which ran and said, "Let's figure out what your real email address is shall we?"
If math was somehow "deep" in the manner Wigner suggests, you'd expect it would have a lot fewer rough edges. In particular you'd expect we wouldn't have to throw away solutions to our differential equations that are perfectly good mathematically, but unfortunately unphysical: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=381

The Dirac equation is notable as one of the very, very few mathematical descriptions of reality that describe only what is, and nothing of what is not. Pretty much any wave other equation has non-physical (time reversed) solutions, and the Navier-Stokes equation has mathematically OK solutions (if you consider the odd singularity "OK") that are unphysical. Even the Dirac equation has issues with pre-acceleration that are at best physically ambiguous.

My own take is that math is a language we use to describe reality in a way that allows us to do precise book-keeping. Like any language, we are able to express "mimsy were the borogoves" as easily as perfectly meaningful things like "colourless green ideas sleep furiously" (as in: "Beneath the snows of winter that blanket the land, colourless green ideas sleep furiously"... there's actually a minor literature using this phrase in meaningful sentences, just to prove Chomsky was no poet.)
I'm on the $60-70/month T-Mobile plan that gives me truly unlimited 4G data; no throttling.
I might not use more than 2G a month most of the time, but if I need to use more, I don't have to worry (such as when I had to go out of state when a family member had emergency surgery a couple of months ago).

I wouldn't switch back to AT&T as a wireless carrier even if someone paid me every month.
How did Meteor get to 1.0 when node.js is still at 0.10? I congratulate the Meteor team, but can anyone confirm it is actually stable?
Still, $850 is only a little over a year of my Internet bill.
I think it might be an actual person selecting from choices, and then the response is automatically composed.
This is not meant to be snarky, but what's the point of this? What use does the pattern being uniquely generated from a SHA of a distinct string have over a random pattern being generated from a SHA of some random string?
The story numbers tell about Indian women is harsher than we imagine
Holy shit. No wonder I feel so much better after a steak.
Would it be hard to fix this specifically in the kernel? I don't know the details of the implementation, but I suppose those regions of memory holding the required information for /proc to work could be made always accessible, even if a process has hit its memory limit.
This is a lie, I have a Nokia with the S40 OS and Java apps can't just do anything they want, particularly sensitive thing like accessing contacts and making internet connections.

In fact, if your app isn't signed by Nokia, you can't let an app make a request without nagging you for permission. This totally kills homebrew.
Have you tried emailing them and telling them that every time they contact you, you are going to donate some money to 1) Obama and 2) some organization that lobby for more gun control?
> So if only a total of 5 Bitcoin were ever sent/frozen to the sidechain, then only 5 Bitcoin can ever be retrieved/unlocked?

Yes; anything else would be madness. (If you got back less than 5btc, it would be a huge tax on any usage of creation of sidechains; if you got back more than 5btc, well, there's gonna be problems.)

> So for Sidecoins to be economically viable and therefor functional, someone would need to be constantly injecting Bitcoin in to the sidechain, right?

Yeah, assuming the sidecoins aren't being used up by miners somewhere. You have to pay for the security somehow; miners aren't charities - the transaction fees have to come from somewhere. In Bitcoin, the transaction fees currently come in the form of inflation+transaction fees, but probably different sidechains will pick different forms of payment depending on their goals.
It's owning property that's immoral.
I'm going to ramble a bit. I haven't thoroughly philosophically investigated any of this, this is just a condensed version of my train of thought:

There is a very obvious way in which mathematics is related to nature: the concept of an 'integer' originates directly from nature. The integers initially allowed our ancestors to count predators, prey, enemies. They did not originate from some brilliant flash of abstract light. The abstract definition of the integers is merely an ad hoc construction to make some things easier. They were already known and used, very effectively, in ancient times, without that abstraction. They are only known to us, only came into existence as memes in our memepool, because they are useful for this purpose.

Integers count multiplicity: how many distinct objects does a group of objects, considered 'equal' for the purposes for which you are counting them, contain? Sometimes just knowing they are unequal is enough, making integers themselves signifiers of a difference. Sometimes you want to know how unequal they are. Do I need to kill one other bison to have the same amount as we had yesterday? Twice as many (meaning: the same count once over)?

Everything else is just derivative from those principles: counting things considered equal and the equality of the countings themselves. Everything else in mathematics is just convenient representations of Gödel numberings to say what is equal and how much things aren't.

So of course mathematics applies to nature. Mathematics was born as a way to abstract over nature, to quantify it.
Except Capitaine Train had to go (almost? can remember the details) to court in 2009 to gain access to SOCRATE, the SNCF booking system.
Capitaine is competing with Voyages SNCF and SNCF themselves. They both operate and sell tickets. (And VSC see themselves as competitors to SNCF, which is kinda schyzophrenic if you ask me).

Now that they have set a precedent, Lyria and the likes opened their booking plateforms to Capitaine.

But, still, you get odd looks if you try to exchange a CT ticket at a counter "how, that's a travel agent ticket, we don't support those" "well, yes you do, just type this booking number and you'll be able to deliver me another ticket, trust me" ;-)
It is such negligence that so many companies do not validate email addresses.

It is especially frustrating that nearly every time this happens it comes from a "do not reply" address within the company so you can't do anything about it.
well styling is always a matter of personal opinion. I don't think Mozilla should spend time on theming it's developer tools as long as it's readable and usable.

For the main theme, as long as it's customizable to satisfy the 5% of grumpy people I'm fine with that. The other 95% just doesn't care.
Rather than go through self-publishing, you can use the personal documents service to upload a short document and send it down to the device. Details are at http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_p.... There are fees if the user isn't on WiFi though...
I work for a telco reseller. We make our money by selling the same services as the big guys without being assholes about it. We make a lot of money.
I don't think swartkrans was making any statement about the relative evil or harm of these companies, rather, he was simply commenting on their public perception. Yes, Blackwater/Xe/Academi does terrible things. Despite this, the general population has an even stronger negative perception of Comcast/AT&T/whatever, which should serve to further highlight the absurdity of the whole thing.
Meteor hits 1.0
Considering a theft of $5000 can land a person in jail, it shouldnt be a grave concern that we can't say exactly how many $billions were stolen by the LIBOR cospirators.
Newb question - The tinfoil hat is to block RF interference but part of the RNG is a channel hopping RF receiver. Those seem contradictory to me.
Well, one-way binding is pretty important for most frameworks. The reason I say it is inspired by Angular is that it has a similar separation of concerns with directives etc.
> We dismantled Arthur Anderson for their complacency in the Enron criminial enterprise. Why not banks?

And that was a terrible outcome. A huge, $10 billion a year corporation came crashing down, with tons of people losing their jobs, all because of the conduct of one team within the company that the rest of the enterprise had no knowledge of or control over. For a conviction that was overturned on appeal!
I explained why in my comment. The protocol needs to be integrated into desktop clients and it hasn't been. Moreover, feross is not trying to convince client developers to incorporate webtorrent, nor is he submitting patches to those clients.
And for those who do not trust Wikipedia, http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/persona... states:

"They went to Microsoft for the operating system (QDOS, renamed PC-DOS and later sold by Microsoft as MS-DOS) and to Intel ® for its 8088 processor."
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Wow you are like, a new Shakespeare
Meteor hit 1.0 b/c their APIs are stable. I'd also guess that the software has hit a level of maturity where the Meteor team is comfortable with a supported release.

As for Node, there are some within the Node community who would like to bump it to 1.0 as it is clearly production ready. In Node's case, .1 vs. 1. is a just a numbering scheme issue, not a production ready issue.