skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truly. Had it not been for France, the Colonies would have remained under the auspices of the King of England. Likewise had it not been for the Colonies, the French, and indeed the whole of Europe, would most likely be speaking German today (perhaps - few today are familiar with the ties the Nazis had with radical Islam in the 30's and 40's) I firmly believe that had the Allies lost the war, Europe would have finally succumbed to Islamic Jihad much faster than it is today.

France has 5,000,000+ Muslims; In Italy, the fastest growing "religion" is Muslim and it's also the second most practiced "religion" there today and closing much too fast for my tastes. I put religion in quotes because I do not believe, now, nor will I ever believe that Islam is a religion. It is a cult created and pushed by a sadistic, ego maniacal, self obsessed rapist and murderer seeking only to justify his tastes for evil, death, destruction and misery.

I pray for Muslims worldwide, that they find the light that is Jesus and through HIM, find their way to the true Father. Allah is but Satan in disguise and Satan is the FATHER of ALL LIES!
I dont think I'd qualify as a programmer even if I try so hard to be one. But this is really cool.
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Google Translate 'turns interpreter' with voice function
I think there is a minimum quantity for buying Gold anyway, most of the times. When you purchased Gold in East Europe, how did you make sure your Gold was authentic by the way ?
a) market cap is meaningless for currencies - you want to look at transaction volume

b) you're comparing apples and oranges - the market cap for USD is not the total value of printed currency

c) btc transaction volume currently averages about $65M per day, which is $23.7B p.a - about 4x the size of the Apple App Store and about one-eighth of PayPal's $180B p.a and larger than all but the top 3-4 online payment providers

d) it is still very, very early days for btc. it's goal is to not replace PayPal, but to have these payment gateways build on top of it.

e) there are dozens of blockchain based applications currently in design, draft, development, beta test etc.

f) the current implementation of btc for payments is horrible yet despite that it has established itself as a viable payment backend with a non-insignificant portion of the market

g) comparing bitcoin with any fiat currency, let alone the worlds major reserve currency, is very flattering
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Ah! About that I'm not a good person to listen to, for I was born, raised, and have retired to a city that's a hair's breath from the USA's "Tornado Alley", and for that reason we are deadly serious about Civil Defense. So during tornado season, every Monday at 10 am if the weather was good, the sirens would sound for testing. And they of course sound when a funnel cloud was sighted, and they saved a lot of people from death or injury (in my case) the 3rd time in my life when it was for real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado and http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/

That said, surviving nuclear war isn't that difficult. Threads was ludicrous propaganda; if your nation is prepared (UK and US no, Switzerland and Israel yes), or if you're lucky and either aren't in the path of serious fallout or can arrange a shelter ... well, one theme of Threads was correct, medium and longer term survival is the trick. But the portrayed bigger environmental effects as well as cancer rates and the like were flat out lies (this based on reading the Wikipedia summary and my 45 years worth of study of nuclear war survival).

Don't know about that Q.E.D. episode, but it was unrealistic: while the U.K. is like many other nations in being a "one bomb nation", that is, taking out the one central city takes out almost everything and everyone important "at the top" (compare to the US were D.C. is nothing but government, however much they like to pretend it's e.g. a cultural center :-), London would get a nice saturation spread of more efficient sub-megaton warheads :-(.

If your government had really cared, and could afford it (that's the trick, I suppose, post-WWII and serious socialism), it could have been arranged that you'd get that 4 minutes warning and have a blast shelter to get into. By the same token, the US could have spent 1/3rds of a year's Cold War "defense" budget and outfitted enough shelter spaces for every resident, including a year's worth of food.

But don't worry, sooner or later nuclear weapons will again be used in anger :-(, and a lot more people and nations will get serious about surviving them. If you want be prepared today, take a gander at Nuclear War Survival Skills, the book on expedient nuclear war survival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills

(Note you need the real, green cover book to get the correct scale diagrams to make a Kearny Fallout Meter, not to mention the need for a paper copy if the lights go out/EMP messes things up, but the free on-line versions will get you started.)
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>The dashboard is, frankly, out of date compared to the UI experience people would expect from us in 2015. We're building that right now.

As a sysadmin who deals with your website a lot, I actually like the current management UI.

Yes, it could use a few tweaks here and there, but overall I quite like it. I hate websites that update their user interface and hurt my ability to get things done.

I use another registrar for some of my .de domains, and their web interface is horrible. I have ongoing issues with their interface not saving changes to my zone because the button says the zone was saved when it wasn't.

tl;dr - The current interface doesn't look nice but it works damn well and I can find everything. Please don't ruin usability in the new version. I care more about functionality than looks.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastel_de_nata

Interesting. I've had those in "Chinese" Dim Sum restaurants, but while they were clearly atypical for Chinese food, I had no idea they were originally Portuguese.

Strongly second the recommendation. They're delicious!
So, if I want to incorrectly invoice my customers then I should use MongoDB?

I don't understand how you can say any of this seriously.
My comment starts with "I (don't) think". Feel free to think otherwise, but my statement has truth - I know what I think.
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Out of interest, what else do you have stashed in that bag?
funny i learned to program as a kid in highschool so that I could one day make games. I'm now a full time software developer completely self taught, no overhead of a expensive CS degree i didn't need, and I've never even made pong. The closest I came was building tic tac toe. Somewhere along the lines I got hooked on stealing shit from people on AOL and just got pulled away from the thought of games and never looked back.

Ultima Online in my opinion was the climax of online MMO's. Someone needs to build a true sandbox fantasy MMO. CCP has proven that a sandbox done properly will bring in the crowd and keep the doors open.

Someone do it!!

I've tried multiple times however to build/find a team to work with and the team is never dedicated enough to complete even the most simplest of things.
"* H1Bs are not just about bringing in workers. They are also about giving employers the power to fuck those they bring over by linking their immigration status to their job. This isn't just bad for them."

Just call a spade a spade. Management likes H1B because they can and do treat them like slaves, like owned property of the corporation, less than human. Nobody wants to compete with or become slaves, and its morally and ethically disgusting to support or encourage a system of slavery.

Like most, I like immigrants and individual H1B holders, its the destructive system of slavery that's horrific. Simply getting rid of the whole H1B system and transferring that quota over to the "skilled trades" real-immigration quota would be a fine idea. Heck, double the number while they're at it or even remove the limit.

The civil war ended in the 1860s. Its the 2010s. Isn't it time to remove slavery from the system? Must we wait longer while our brothers sit in chains?
We had something called 'MiniMünchen' here in Munich, Germany when I was a kid - was more like a longer event with children manning boothes, a special currency and stuff

Hard to find English material, but http://www.mini-muenchen.info/index.php?article_id=34 doesn't look too bad.
The problem with Angular
Such is the scourge that is Political Correctness. Take heed, this scourge will bring about the undoing of Western Civilization.

If you can not call things by their true colors you have nothing and will lose all you thought you had.
And there's exceptions to each case.

I can see the distinction that people are trying to make here but it's far from a binary one.
I'm saying that it's not laws that are making the majority of citizens behave correctly, and the law enforcement mitigates the effect of those who don't.
Technical differences between io.js and Node v0.12 (unreleased)
And yet practically no police use of firearms is recorded. They have to declare each time they unholster the weapon
Sure, I'm from NI so aware of that. It's a unique situation though and I thought it best to leave out rather than confuse my point that there are police forces that work without firearms.
What difference to you think it would have made if they had been armed?
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You can't force them, but you can definitively "nudge" them, creating the conditions to change the values in a certain direction. For example, assuming that daily interaction increases empathy with people that are foreign to you, a law that promotes the development of mixed neighbors (be it mixing ethnicities, income levels, number of children, etc) might increase that empathy without resorting to any violence.

Not all laws are enforced by the police and courts.
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User Psychology: How to make users take action?
Almost always, what is really called for are multiple interfaces:

1. a "power user" interface, stripped down, that allows for the fastest ways to do XYZ (key bindings, fast client-side validation, batch uploads, etc).

2. a "first timer" interface, with explanatory info, slower pace so people don't feel like they're getting overwhelmed or pushed in to something, etc.

I've yet to see any registrar do this. Many do offer APIs, which, for developer power users, might be sufficient. I'd suggest to this company that they perhaps keep the current version as a fallback to the existing power users that already know how to 'get things done' with it; maybe not forever, but for a while so they can learn the new interface on their own schedule at the very least.
The higher the GH the more secure the network. The lower the cost per GH the less secure the network. These two will generally cancel out.
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Same here, got my hopes up. Kinda wish they hadn't overloaded that name.
I like Nim. I used it for a few side-projects as well. The only thing it definitely needs before feeling really solid is trait (interface, contracts or whatever you call it) support IMHO. Current alternative is "compiler does copy-paste for you", aka templates. See: https://github.com/Araq/Nim/blob/master/lib/pure/collections...
You do realize this is the Game Center message and not actually from the app?
Snapdragon camera adds DSLR effects to your mobile phone
https://xkcd.com/1338/ is amazing on this point.
We are building a music streaming website. Think of it as a Spotify for Pakistan and Mongo has been wonderful for the kind of Data Structure we have. Its perfect for a catalogue like structure where objects can very easily nest inside each other. Each Artist has multiple albums, and multiple artists have multiple songs. All of this nestles very neatly inside eachother, and when i want a song, i almost always need its album and artist data, so i can very easily get that. Mongo is blazing fast on such kind of nested data structures. The only slight problems is where you have playlists and need to reference songs for a certain Artist. That could be countered by Data Duplication, since the song artist data etc once entered will very rarely change. So for us it makes perfect sense. You really need to understand what your data model is, and what you want from it, and then Mongo will be your friend, other than that it will cause you a world of pain.
Y combinator implemented in different languages
this 1000 times.. started out wanting to make games, ended up just building everyday apps. I now work on an app used by hundreds of companies and some very big ones. It gives me great satisfaction although I'd still love to build the game I always dreamed of if I found the right group of people to do it with.

The Fantasy Sandbox MMO market is begging for some love. Nothing great since UO or SWG:Pre-CU... Everything after WoW has been just flat out terrible attempts at stealing wow and its really hurt the market.

The whole game development now is just about profit and not about creating original, amazing works of art like the early guys.
These Pasteles de Nata are amazing, indeed.
Nemiroff said "if detected".. Does this mean photonic booms is not guaranteed to detect the objects?
Out of interest what does F.e. mean? You seem to be using it in place of the usual e.g.
Correct. (I'm only back here because it's working again.) It looks like it was down for everyone, but seems to be totally back up now: https://www.google.com/search?q=usdrub
I certainly hope that the next world war is on cyberspace. I dont hope to see another world war but I think this kind of war can do more harm than the first 2.
Macau, a former Portuguese colony, is full of these pastries. This may be how they entered China...
I am not a big fan of annuals either but I think I'd like to take advantage of my policy... after all, I paid for it.
Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective
How does that hierarchical model work when songs or albums have more than one artist?

Why does a traditional relational db fail for such a well-defined data model? I mean, there's nothing about 'given an song (id), retrieve artist and album' that would make mongo inherently better.
The transaction does span across hosts with the linked package.
I think about them as notes. It's the applications way of taking notes. These notes help machines keep track of how they are doing in terms of functionality.
why not "see sql server from 10 years ago with xml column type"?
Well, still you can pay some one part time, doesn't need to be a full time hire.
"Threads was ludicrous propaganda"

Actually, Threads was actually fairly optimistic about the likely scale of a Soviet attack on the UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Leg

Also Threads was attempting to show the actual state of preparation of the UK for nuclear war - so saying that a nuclear war is easy to survive if you are prepared is a bit silly as the UK (and the US) really weren't that prepared - that was the point!
See, I disagree with your "budget".. all it takes is a computer and a dream to build whatever you want. It doesn't take budgets.. Can you do it in the same time a team with 30 million in funding? Hell no, but with the right group of people and a lot of persistance you can make anything happen.. see SWG Emu http://www.swgemu.com/forums/index.php

it's taken years, and years, but with determination and $0 budget they've pretty much reverse engineered an entire game. It doesn't have to be done today. Start it, don't stop, keep going, and while doing that for fun(because that's why I started and still write code today.. for me its fun as hell.) find something that pays the bills like a day job.

I'm working on a project, all by myself right now.. I put in my day job, and then if I'm up to it, put in a couple hours on my side project. When its done, its done.. or it may never be done, but i make a little progress any chance I get.
Can I get a free trial? They should have free trials for businesses to assess if its worth spending on.
Not following NASA and the ISS and well as I used to, I know there were plans to build a 'lifeboat' for the crew. Is that a thing now? If something catastrophic happens, what does the crew do?
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Or I could just keep using my credit card and not have to worry.

It's starting to get hilarious...

Yes. If you want to use a credit card then please, by all means, use a credit card.

And in addition you may use Bitcoin in scenarios where it works well (e.g. to transfer money to people you know), for ecommerce through services like Bitpay, or just retain it as your favorite strawman... ;-)
Didnt they say that the moon has critters with aliens on them? I definitely dont want to swim in the moon. Nonetheless, great article and great illustrations to explain the theories of inertia.
I am pondering whether we could trigger nice hover effects with something else, e.g. gyroscope, on touch-enabled devices. E.g. I wish for the link text to change color when one moves a mouse (on non-touch-enabled devices) or turns the device around (on touch-enabled devices)
Location: France

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Erlang, OCaml,C, C++, Javascript, Postgres

Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/pub/joachim-tessier/5a/411/697/

Email: tessierjoachim@gmail.com

As a recently graduated student I’m looking for a position in SF where I can learn and acquire experience quickly. I would like to improve my skill in functional programming, and discover new technologies.

Currently discovering node and scala.
The out of band advertisement [Who is Hiring was less than two weeks ago] doesn't suggest a company that has its shit together [there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that]. But out of band means out of band. And the mores of Who is Hiring are not applicable.

Working on the project Wiki is the only specific task listed. That's a red-flag in regard to gaining professional Computer science/engineering/programming experience. It's secretarial work [not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with that] not an extension of the CS classroom.

NASA in the headline is also a bit misleading outside the jobs thread, since this is just another contractor [not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with that], but in that industry there are companies that will take interns and give them work that extends the classroom.

I am not saying that this isn't an opportunity for work experience or an entry into the world of government contracting or that there's anything wrong with that industry. But it isn't a job at NASA and working on the Wiki is not the kind of experience that leads to the skill sets NASA seeks for software developers. They need hard computer science ~ they want people who can work with the Peter Norvigs and Margret Hamiltons of the world.
>> Aside from its very public history of being an absolutely abysmal store of value

You're talking about something different now. Namely the effects of all the speculation, and for example governments figuring out if Bitcoin poses enough of a threat to them that they need to make it illegal, and so on. Will they shut it down? Will they not? Will they first make some money with it, and then shut it down?

The point is that the wild fluctuations in Bitcoin's price you see are not proof that it's not a good store of value. It could well be, after stabilizing, if it ever does.

A good store of value is something that could serve as a good medium of exchange too, like gold for example. Gold was used as money for ages, exactly because its characteristics made it suitable for that. It can't be printed by pressing a button somewhere, it's divisible, durable, and so on.

Bitcoin has some of the same characteristics, and that's why it might well become a widely used medium of exchange. I bet something like it will.

Central banks are not actually helping you. If you have a sound currency, it can't be printed, and central banks can't meddle with it.

You see, printing a currency devalues it. If the pool of currency in circulation grows faster than the pool of wealth it can be exchanged for, then the currency loses some of its value relative to the wealth available.

>> Bitcoin's sole value as a currency lies in its ease of use as a back-end for transactions.

Fiat currencies' sole value lies in the fact that governments force us to pay taxes in them. Otherwise we'd all be using a sound currency instead, because it would be in our self-interest to do so.
I find that logic utterly distorted. Give a bunch of humans guns, the right to use deadly force and then for some reason worry about making them 'feel safe' -- oh, and also absolve them if things go wrong (or even if they break the law), as we've seen in recent US news. I think they're already safer than most people.

What cops really need is better and more substantive training, not equipment to hide behind.
Can this be installed with Node side-by-side or does it take over the `node` name?
I think you are allowing "war" to be a metaphor for restrictive policies, where "war" in this context is literally armed conflict with a death toll.
I can't really verify the authors thesis that most people using Angular are backend developers, but it does seem to have become the first thing everybody tries to learn after JS/jQuery. I've been interviewing a lot of entry level candidates lately, and "I've also started playing with Angular" has practically been a theme song.
Ask HN: Recommendations for purchase and storage of Bitcoins
Interested to know what HN recommends is the best way to

(i) buy bit coins

(ii) store bit coins
I build surveillance programs to look for activity such as spoofing and layering. It is not always as clear cut as these cases make it out to me.
Because one example is enough to dispel that myth, and I'm familiar with Postgres, and not with "sql server from 10 years ago with xml column type".
Yes, there are Soyuz spacecraft that can be used for evacuation in the worst case.
There is nothing wrong with the KKK giving money to white people only. There is something wrong with the KKK threatening black people with violence for taking a job that a white person might have wanted.
Pinker did a TED talk on this book. In the talk he makes a note that the book does not try to explain why, though he has some ideas as to why the numbers are declining.

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...
There's always a Soyuz attached, which the crew can hop into and return to earth if necessary.

edit: There's also the now cancelled http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Return_Vehicle, which is probably what you were thinking of.
Roundabout way of justifying the reinvention of the wheel.
>to transfer money to people you know

Offloading the issue of converting it to something usable to them? This only makes sense if you already have a bunch of bitcoin and makes no sense for the receiver.

>for ecommerce through services like Bitpay

Which doesn't fix the charge back or scam problems. Scammers can use Bitpay too.
What's the problem with serving customers and occasionally forgetting some small part of the invoice?

Overinvoicing would be bad. But underinvoicing is just another cost of business. If the cost is smaller than the alternative, fine.
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So you want him to be a martyr? With the murder for hire accusations I doubt it...
For example, probably.
But McDonald's makes a profit every time I buy a cheeseburger from them. It's like the know the true price in advance, and set their prices so that they always make a profit.

The cheeseburger market is rigged.