skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austrian school economics seems unheard for many. After skimming books by Mises, I believe Austrian school is on the right track. But the tool for it has not ready at that time. When I learned about complexity systems. I think it can supply the right tool. And just this week, I'm reading papers by W. Brian Arthur. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Brian_Arthur) Quite fascinating experience.

Another issue with economics is it has very tight connection with financial and political systems. Until some players could take advantage with those more advanced theories, a new wave of mind-sets would not emerge and widely accepted by the public. Money, power, information, control, it sounds like crazy words. When things become closer to those, you have to think harder to get closer to the reality, if you do care about it.
> There's no physics or natural law that dictates it has to be this way.

Yes there is: At a very basic level, humans need to eat food to live. If nobody wanted to do the work necessary to procure food, everyone would starve.

Maybe at some point in the near-ish future we will have automated away all unpleasant-but-necessary tasks, but that day is not today, and when it does arrive, it will be a new development for our species.

Until then, being a responsible adult will involve at least some modicum of doing-things-that-one-doesn't-want-to-do and it makes sense to prepare children for that eventuality.
FDA lets 23andMe market genetic tests to consumers, reversing previous decision
How to spot a Russian bomber
The typewriter lives on in spirit in our monospaced fonts, and our ASCII programming languages that can still be comfortably written on a typewriter from 1960.
Who is it that has their job ad in a X-something response header? I liked that one.
I'm not really following your point.

Seeing a doctor used to be dangerous. Traveling to other countries used to be dangerous. So if I follow your logic we should get rid of all planes and travel because things that are dangerous should remain dangerous because reasons? And we should make sure surgery is still dangerous because reasons?
The Rising Costs of Scaling a Startup in San Francisco
No, if you wipe the hd and reinstall it's not an issue. I run linux because I like it. Stuff like this doesn't happen with mainstream distros.
I feel the same way. It's why I use pen & paper.
Gogo Inflight Internet is Intentionally Issuing Fake SSL Certificates
Your experience runs completely opposite mine integrating ecommerce solutions for large companies. The amount of complexity and headaches it takes to develop with PayPal vs Stripe is orders of magnitude higher. For instance, recurring plans with discount tiers is trivial to manage with Stripe, but a 10x complexity and cost basis higher with PayPal. Those engineers and technical debt is a lot higher than the cost savings, where you'll probably get a better deal from Cybersource or Authorize.net by a large margin (1.6% fees on my last project).
I am talking about credit card transactions. I plan on accepting bitcoin, but I want to accept normal payments as well. Right now it seems like Amazon + Coinbase will be my choice.
And the problem’s not only technical—it’s only been recently that companies have started accepting digitally filled & signed forms.
With 1000 repos I'm curious how you manage dev environments. Is it just cli tools to help, or are you using something heavier?
The introduction alone just made my day, thanks for sharing.

It's about time that we take history more seriously.
US subprime mortgage defaults were just the trigger for the 2008 global financial crisis. Most subsequent mortgage defaults in the US (and Ireland, Portugal, Spain etc.) were for prime mortgages.

My guess is that the Saudi oil price war, Chinese credit defaults and turmoil in the Eurozone will trigger an even bigger global financial in 2015.

FWIW I currently live in Melbourne, Australia, but lived in southern California when the US housing bubble burst. I see lots of parallels in Australia, but if anything the housing bubble in Australia is even bigger due to idiotic policies like negative gearing and interest only investor mortgages.
"The best startup ideas are the ones that seem like bad ideas but are good ideas."

Great tip. So it's easy then. Find an idea that seems like a bad idea but is good. Also, if an idea seems like a good idea... throw it away. It's shit. Find one that seems bad. But is good.
All you have to do is Google the title and click the link from there, and no paywall.
I am not a lawyer, but I used to do dev-ops on one of the leading 'free online legal advice' type sites in the UK.

You don't say which country you are in, but if you google that phrase and your country, you'll likely find a site where you can post your question, and it will be answered (for free, with no strings) by a lawyer. [Edit: or you may find that a similar question has already been asked on the site, and you can read the lawyers reply/advice]

As davismwfl rightly commented, you do have some modicum of control over the usage of your likeness, and if they are factually misrepresenting you/your present situation (your present relationship with them—or lack thereof), then you (most probably) can take some action.

My guess is that a lawyer would advise you to pony-up a small amount of cash for a cease and desist letter to be sent on your behalf.

Hope that helps.
"worst offender" = "arsenal of democracy", at least to Franklin Roosevelt.
The Knowledge is the book that every library and "End of the World" kit should have in it.
Remember when people used to clap or cheer at the movies??The don't make 'em like they used to. Even with its moments of campiness, there's a certain authenticity, even nobility to Raiders. To this day when I watch the ark-opening sequence I get chills, in no small part due to John William's masterful soundtrack.
Road rage killing suspect told friends he shot someone
Show HN: Websockets proxy server written in haskell
> And the "wet coast" is really a myth.

Nice try but Vancouver really is wet and miserable most days in winter. I know because I lived there for 5 years. Sure winter is more bearable than Halifax or St John's but that's not saying much.

Now I live in Melbourne and just laugh and point to the banana tree in my backyard when people complain about winter here.
Their hand was forced. I'm sure this is going to cost some money, possibly by both sides.

The notion they were unaware of what Superfish was and did is simply implausible. This is damage control, full force.
What's in Amazon's 3-D Printing Store?
Pair natives to teach each other language, use data to train algorithms?
I though of an app that would pair people from different parts of the world to teach each other their language, guided by prompts. If you are teaching the other one English, the app tells you to read some text in your language and then check if the listener understood what you just said with a multiple choice question, among other activities to guide mutual teaching. That way we would have many hours of data relating spoken-written words. Could that data be helpful (and sellable) to researchers or speech recognition companies like Nuance or Google?
Did you bother to read what I was replying to? The point in question was the risks of holding BTC versus national currencies.
Isn't your good compromise just US Copyright violation by another name?
Netflix is clearly running a two-sided strategy, having less then strict checks on the consumer side while telling the studios they will enforce their restrictions.

The purchase of a DVD grants you the license to play the stored content for unlimited private screenings from the medium provided. It's both a license and a copy. The first sale doctrine overrides the "For Home Use Only." clause (which is a part of a license) still present on many DVDs and allows libraries and retailers (notably old netflix) to rent out the medium.
Anyone know of one of these that supports some kind of callouts?

Basically I want to be able to annotate groups of 1 or more lines, something like this, probably using some kind of inline comment

http://reference.bitreactive.com/reference/images/tutorial/s...
"Would the Grand Canyon be less grand if it was only a couple millennia old?"

Yes.
This is the one I was thinking about and implicitly referring to. Thanks for posting.
What ‘The Imitation Game’ didn’t tell you about Alan Turing’s greatest triumph
What happens to programmers when they get old?
Good luck. That crapware is often there, as I understand it, to offset the cost of an OEM Windows licence. So unless he wants to give it Windows out for free, he'd basically be telling PC manufacturers to delete their profit margin.

With the number of business model changes MS is making this could be possible, I honestly don't know the state of the company well enough to judge if that's ridiculous.
Great initiative. Is it going to be possible to ask questions in real time?
Apple's business isn't $45-$50b profit. Last quarter was $42B revenue, $8.5B profit[0]. Volkswagen group, including Porsche had around $4B profit in the same quarter.
FDA eases access to DNA screening for inherited diseases
There's a directory with maybe 30+ exe's in this repo. So it's a black box to some extent but it looks like they're known browser utilities so presumably someone could verify them.

https://github.com/lenovo-inc/superfishremoval/tree/master/S...
I will usually under or over answer for those kinds of reasons... If the specific case is pretty narrow, I'll write either a thorough answer to a more broad scope, or a specific answer with some additional info on alternatives.

Sometimes I will write a very broad answer, especially when it's apparent the person doesn't seem to have looked into finding anything, and just asked a question on SO, which happens a lot.
Sounds exactly like what I implemented 4 years ago.

Here is where you extract the existing HTML tags: https://github.com/ioquatix/jquery-syntax/blob/97e38d08924d7...

When you brush the code (extract highlighing information) you provide the set of initial matches which are converted into a tree: https://github.com/ioquatix/jquery-syntax/blob/97e38d08924d7... - there is no merge step, they are merged in place in the tree which is then used to generate DOM (or whatever you like really) output.

I never implemented language auto-detection but I'm sure I've seen that implemented before prism before, perhaps Google's Prettify might have been one of the first to do it. It basically highlights using all available brushes and looks at which one matches the most tokens - not sure if this is how it is currently implemented though. My feeling is that you usually know what language you are highlighting, the auto-highlighter wouldn't always get it right, and the cost of loading all brushes/languages is pretty high (imagine for example you have 100 different languages supported, you'd have to do all of them)..

The sub-language handling in jQuery.Syntax is as precise as possible: https://github.com/ioquatix/jquery-syntax/blob/97e38d08924d7...

Basically, if you match some sub-portion of the code, you then highlight that using a different brush. Sometimes it's almost impossible to know though (e.g. diffs which may be incomplete).
jQuery.Syntax does support preserving the original DOM elements, so you could do this.
Can someone tell me how geo-fencing within the EU is still a thing to stay when one of the EU's main digital agenda goals is to establish a digital single market market?

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/our-goals/pillar-i-di...

[Edit] Some sources:

Geographical Restrictions, (and different pricing) for digital goods within the EU are clearly discriminatory against the customer. As stated here:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/documents/i...

Under intellectual property law, right holders may geographically restrict licenses. Therefore intellectual property law allows businesses to compartmentalise the market. Restrictions of passive sale are contrary to the consumers’ freedom of access to goods and services on the DSM, and are not permitted under European law.

Prohibiting geographical restrictions would not require fundamental changes to the international system of intellectual property rights. It would simply ensure that all licences granted for the territory of one Member State are valid for the whole territory of the EU. The tendency to market compartmentalisation is inherent to territorially restricted IP rights.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/etudes/join/201...
Holy schmolies, photographed by ANTON CORBIJN.
I agree with you. I have a lot of friends in bot pre-uni (as myself) and in techniques and I find it awesome how a CÉGEP strikes a good balance between general education and specific classes.
I found it by myself several weeks before all this news came out.

I got my new Lenovo Y50, visited my own website with it and decided to see how my https cert looked. I got quite scared when I saw I was being MITMed but I googled it and there were already a ton of forum posts saying it's just stuff bundled with Lenovo. So I uninstalled it.
How Latest Snowden Leak Is Headache for White House
That's not true, as Wikipedia says:

"Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, remained unconvinced until he was shown a computer simulation confirming the predicted result (Vazsonyi 1999)."
Um, really? How informed is that consent?

What of sites that unilaterally change rules retroactively? Or fail to provide reasonable alternatives?

Facebook does all of the above.

To an extent that I don't trust it, and don't use it.

But there are plenty of other services which wave the "but you consented!" flag. Google comes to mind, and I've had my set of issues with them as well.
Gogo is old news by now though.
jQuery.Syntax supports line numbers and is generally pretty awesome *

* I'm the author so of course I'd say that :)
China Flies Its Largest Ever Drone: The Divine Eagle
Just a tangent, but the 600m for advertising and 500m for product development is not a Netflix only thing, but it always pisses me off so much to read it.

That first number, the bigger number, is a black hole. Advertising is the worst, with its only competitor in my book being the legal system, industry in the industrialized world. It produces nothing of value, because all it tries to do it move money from predisposed destinations to the advertisers. It is buying market share, without making anything with the money. The later is actual productivity, goods and services people can use and want and experience and benefit from.

I'd go into another tangent about how advertisings size is out of control and it only gets worse due to how people are getting poorer on average (less money per individual) while wealth concentrates in the rich (ie, those that would own a company like Netflix) which means that when you rake in huge profits and a big money pot, what do you spend it on? Making goods and services is pointless if there is no money left in the market to explore your products and buy new things. Instead you throw those profits into advertising, into a non-productive discipline whose only job is to manipulate people into giving you money they would have spent elsewhere. But this post is already long enough that nobody is going to read it anyway!

What a colossal waste, everywhere advertising happens. And it is only on track to get worse.
A couple weeks ago, I had some paperwork to do at a county Recorder's office. As I'm standing there writing, I heard the rough sound of gears turning 3 times, and a chunk-chunk-chunk. Sounds at once both familiar yet distant in memory. Sounds which were so common yesterday--if yesterday was 20 years ago--now almost shocking to hear.Without looking, I knew an IBM Selectric was being used to fill out a form.

I stopped writing and just listened for a bit, letting the keystrokes, the ball strikes, and the platen and roller movements take me back in time.
In which case, luck is still partly a factor rather than largely a factor. It's only accentuated in that case because your hypothetical has every venture pushing each facet to the limit.

More realistic would be 10 ventures where a couple bail, another couple just don't have a professional network, another has a great network but an ugly design or awkward name, and so on.
The returns for genuine basic scientific breakthrough can be very high.

They also are very rare, and tend to create financial payoff only after a decade or more.
I guess you haven't heard of amazon+ubuntu? This is just a side effect of maximizing profits, and it happens to anyone making a profit, unless they're idealistic enough.
Adding (or removing) CAs is a fully legitimate activity.

Your own site, work, or vendor / client sites could be added.

Or you could want to remove a Comodo (or Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Certificates).

http://www.livehacking.com/2011/04/25/honest-achmeds-used-ca...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959

Just because your OS / browser vendor "trusts" a cert doesn't mean you should.
Some more info in text form: https://github.com/jbenet/ipfs and from there (PDF) https://github.com/jbenet/ipfs/blob/master/papers/ipfs-cap2p...

Really looks interesting, I like that there went some thought into integrating with the existing web, lowering the barrier of entry compared to other projects.

(Thinking of the webfont/JS discussion going on in another thread: so when can we start to deliver fonts and jquery content-addressed from this? ;))
I believe CodeMirror does something like this. It uses restartable parsers (or it used to) to make parsing fast while editing.

I experimented editing code using jQuery.Syntax. I used the match tree it generated to figure out where to restart parsing and it was pretty fast, it would only re-evaluate the current line in most cases.
Yeah. Ranked questions, ranked notes, real-time files and links. Hope to see you there :)
Gramercy Typewriter. I just had a 1920's Underwood refurbished there. Tiny, tiny place on the fourth floor of a nondescript building across the street from the flatiron building.

There's really not much to check out, but they really love to talk typewriters.

Edit: Oops. realized you were talking about store in Toronto. Oh well.
This article should be titled "StackOverflow Rep-Whoring Considered Harmful?"
I add CAs to my root store so that I can view my https traffic using fiddler.

Also if you want to use http://www.cacert.org/ you need to add their cert.
That distinguishment is essential. Being able to offer distributed, decentralized, and open source intelligence is what we are waiting for maturity.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/shopping/detail.aspx?itemnumb...

Probably one of the better collections.
So this is Lenovo's first github repo. Please don't tell me that it is their first free/open source project developed by their own.
That. Learning is a high-p, low n problem even if YC attempts to do the opposite (extract a set of learnings that apply to every company, via observing first hand more than any other fund or entity in history). The richness of a story is a feature.

A nice parallel in finance is Steve Drobny's various books. Their format is anonymous interviews of very successful and well known hedge fund managers, where they explain their thinking through a bunch of events, actions, and analysis of what happened. They are REALLY good.
I've noticed this as well. Why is PL so punny?

Related question: are there other interesting quirks of various CS subfields?
While the NSS suite is fairly standard, I downloaded both pre-built Windows binaries from here:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_12_4_RTM/msvc9/

However the SHA256 hashes do not match those of the provided Lenovo binaries. The Lenovo binaries are also bigger than either build provided by Mozilla.

However this does NOT mean there is something wrong, Lenovo may have just compiled them using a different compiler/compiler options/library versions. It is actually common for two people compiling the same source to get different binaries (see, for example, the TrueCrypt issue where TrueCrypt's pre-built binaries were hard to reproduce because the library versions were so specific).

Lenovo may also have supplied the wrong Readme file (that's where I get the version number from).

If you're paranoid, delete them from the Lenovo package, and download them from Mozilla.
I'm glad to see Sarah's courageous acts receiving more positive attention.
> So why did Superfish not just present itself like a browser plugin

They did this for years, actually. They paid add-on developers to bundle their shopping app with the developer's app. I remember this going on ~2010/2011 at least.

People were not happy about it to say the least.
He Draws Lines Across a Block of Glass, but the End Result? I’m SPEECHLESS
This man is swimming in the deep end of the pool and is in over his head.

First, Rand never offered an "Objectivist" psychology but she wrote an integrated philosophy that she called Objectivism. This is not a trivial point but I can let is slide because all philosophies imply, as the norm, a particular psychological type. In fact, most people reverse cause and effect and choose the philosophy they think is most aligned with their psychology. We have 4 choices in regards to philosophy but they encompass all the possibilities; Aristotelian and Randian or Platonic and Kantian or the Primacy of Existence -vs- The Primacy of Consciousness. There are miscellaneous variants and mixtures of these types but these are the essentials.

Second, Matt Dupree steps in his first pitfall when he writes; "I’ve met a surprising number of people in my life who believe that no one is capable of altruism. These people believe that everyone always acts to further their own interests. Many of these people are influenced by Ayn Rand."

This error was so common in Objectivist circles when Rand was alive she had her protege of the time, Nathaniel Branden, write an article specifically addressing and rejecting the affirmative to the question "Isn't Everyone Selfish?" published in the anthology "The Virtue of Selfishness". On Rand's behalf, Branden rejects this view attributed to Rand. So Mathew's second mistake was accepting what others say about Rand or Objectivism as representative of the truth about her ideas. Many people who claim to be Objectivists don't really have any deep understanding of Objectivism or Rand's ideas and it is best to get it straight from the horses mouth.

Third, and more importantly, Rand blasted the whole philosophy and epistemology of "two kinds of truth" deriving from Kant. She identified this as the analytic-synthetic dichotomy that follows from Kant's false theory of concepts. This topic was covered by Leonard Peikoff in her book: "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" titled "The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy".

It will be interesting to see if Matt Dupree doubles down on his errors and continues with with additional parts or stops to check his premises and the straw man that he is attacking.
(3) Google; Chrome has a rather sophisticated mechanism for detecting MITM attacks, in that it's distributed with pinned certs for several Google properties, and phones home with reports of errors it receives. This is how the DigiNotar leak[1] was discovered.

Perhaps because it was persistent and on the TCP stack level the phonehomes never succeeded? The retry logic should be robust enough to try to deliver the fraud list anyway, even if it will only accept that it has been delivered after a secured connection is restored.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar#Issuance_of_fraudulen...
How Intel and PC makers prevent you from modifying your laptop's firmware
I wonder how much of this is AK-47s. It is arguably the most successful arm.
It is on github. So why not send them a pull request?