skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're dead right. A serious problem with the Bitcoin and Dogecoin clients (which I last used some time ago, but which changed relatively little over time) is taht they just installed themselves on the boot drive (if you're running windows) and had little in the way of configuration options. Cut to a few months later when I'm wondering why I'm running out of space on my SSD, only to realize that it's full of gigabytes of blockchain data that is a complete waste of space, with no convient way to put it somewhere else.

Could I manually get it installed and running on another large-volume and slower speed drive where this wouldn't be an issue, of course. But why do I want to bother even dealing with something so user-hostile? The average Joe or Jill who isn't a computer nerd is just going to see this thing eating his/her hard drive and get rid of it.
So this means the go compiler is completely written in go?
This seems unlikely (given only what's in the article). She doesn't say that the decline of freestyle was sexist. The point is that the target demographic of commercial skateboard culture shrank drastically. Males—check; males under 18—check. And as it hit each check point it was reducing the population it was going to appeal to.

And your comment doesn't address the specific claims of sexist behavior, like those Enjoi ads or Hubba's "The Girls".
Designing structures such that all elements are either in tension or compression, with no bend moments, used to be very important in the era of iron bridges. Truss type railroad bridges were built that way. Often the joints were actual pins, so that no bend moment could be applied at a joint. Iron didn't handle bend moments well, but cast iron could handle pure compression and wrought iron could handle pure tension.

Steel is equally strong in tension and compression, and once good steel became cheap, structural design was much less constrained. (Mass production of steel came later than is generally realized. Until about 1890, good steel was about as rare as titanium is now. Steel swords go back a long way, but I-beams don't.)
I got my PhD at a second tier university, 20+ years ago. We had a hallway where there were pictures of the faculty with their names and where they got their degrees.

That was one of maybe two or three data points, that confirmed my decision to pursue an industry job. Another was the average age of post-docs in the department.
I just bought a "Tensegrity" tent... it isn't pure tensegrity (there is one small bent pole) but it gets close.

https://www.sierradesigns.com/product/tensegrity-2-elite
New Google Pixel Chromebook Coming
> Why is there an implicit assumption that the H1B visa program engenders fraud

I can offer this from personal observations:
- I work with many clearly talented foreigners such as Indians here on H1B

- But I've also seen entire floors of companies such as at Cisco and Ebay that are almost 100% Indian

- This appears to happen when management positions are attained by Indians who only hire more Indians and contract with Indian-based outsourcing companies

- The Indians in these companies are different than Indians who work at other companies that are not dominated by Indians, in that they tend to be of much more dubious ability. This leads me to believe that there is widespread fraud on the visa applications.

- I've heard of under the table dealings among the same people where positions at companies are sold for thousands of dollars.

All this leads me to be against the work visa program for spouses of H1B workers. I can easily imagine wives of Indians without skills creating fake resumes, and paying under the table to gain positions in Indian dominated departments. Almost guarantee this will be a widespread problem.
Yahoo Exec Goes Mano a Mano with NSA Director
>Let's not make personal attacks here.

I was calling you out on the worlds most obvious straw man. Would you rather I just call you a liar, instead?

>Have you used a kettle that is smart? I assume you must have given the conviction in the way you dismiss IoT as not useful.

It's not a sensible funding allocation decision to attempt to make everything smart on the off chance that it might make it better. Smart pegs? Smart carrots?

Generally, in the real world, we theorycraft before we invest using that miracle of nature, our ability to model and predict the future in our heads.

Provide for me a tangible way that a kettle might be improved by being made smart, because my theorycrafting is coming up blank.

I'm willing to be shown wrong, but I will compare any benefits you vision bestows against any downsides it may introduce.

Amaze me.
It will stop working in 10.11 entirely.
since age doesn't seem to be a concern, how about Paul Erdos having a heart attack (and later dying) at a math convention?
I'm waiting for a marijuana case of some kind to come before the Federal courts.
Ask HN: Open source or closed source (business model)?
I and a collaborator have started a project with components and infrastructure to build line-of-business applications using ReactJS and .Net. We have planned to make it open source in a first moment and try to sell support and other services.
We are working on this project for two months, and we realized that it will be a lot more work than we thought. Now we are not sure whether we should be creating a company with paid components and services (yet another one =), or if we should continue with the open source idea, and charge only for offered services.

In the open source argumentation side, if the project succeeds, then we may have additional contributions from other developers world wide. But, is that a real pro? For a line-of-business project? Who's going to contribute since the target audience is generally companies instead of individuals? Another pro is that we may have more visibility, maybe faster than if we made it closed source.

In the closed source side, there is the pro of making it more profitable... but maybe this is just a misconception? That's the question. Is it easy to sell components these days, or is it easier to sell services only, and not worry about payd license?

This is the project repo: https://github.com/gearz-lab

What business model do you recommend us? Advices are very very welcome! And I'll be greatful forever =D

Thanks!
Hey, I was craving for Kathy Sierra writing since Creating Passionate Users: http://headrush.typepad.com/
Not all terms in all contracts are legal.

I'm also curious as to why individuals cannot simply toss contracts of adhesion back at vendors.

A standard for this, in which a standard reference format links to your terms, on an "included by reference" basis, stating what terms are and are not accepted, might create some interesting courtroom drama.
Already happened, the ruling is going to come within the next three weeks:

http://blog.norml.org/2015/02/12/federal-judge-hears-closing...
The best part of the article was "skateistan". I'd love to learn more about how skating became so popular with women in Afghanistan.
That's a fair question but how do you stop a powerful adversary from flooding it with false information or how do you protect the consensus system from being MitM-ed, more SSL?

Plus one could argue that a P2P consensus system would be a massive breach of people's privacy. Do you really want everyone upstream knowing what sites you're visiting even if it is just at the domain level?

My point is that while this problem is both true and easy to quantify, a solution would wind up being almost as complex as SSL itself. And it seems like a drop in the bucket when DNS remains insecure, SMTP is still highly common, and HTTP (i.e. not HTTPS) is widespread.

That all being said, if someone developed this as e.g. a Chrome Extension, I'd consider installing it as long as some privacy guarantees were in place.
Fermat lived almost three decades after he proposed his "Last Theorem" and was hardly inactive in that period. Had he even thought he actually had a proof, he would have published it, and we would all know it was wrong.

A far more likely scenario is that he had a false proof, discovered he had a false proof at some point after he made his marginal note, and didn't bother to publish the fact he had made a fool of himself in some obscure marginalia.

The only mystery surrounding Fermat's understanding of his own "Last Theorem" is precisely which false proof he most likely had.
Nice. That's a step forward. Another bit of legacy code bites the dust. Another step forward to the post-C world we need.

(If you want to compile with a different compiler as a check, there's an LLVM-based compiler for Go.)
> increase their revenue

OR decrease their expenses.
I like that in old Superman comics he would use one of these giant arrows as a key to the fortress of solitude. Only someone with super strength could gain entry.

At the time I first read a reprint of an old Superman with the aircraft arrow they had probably been obsolete for decades, which like English police boxes just seems to make them more magical.
The thing is, the regular payments system (plastic cards, Dollars, Euros, and other national currencies) already works very well for the vast majority of people. If you're a merchant, then you should certainly think about being able to accept payments in Bitcoin, but as a consumer I'm having difficulty thinking of an instance where I've ever said to myself 'I need some Bitcoin...'. If I was into drugs it would be convenient, I guess, but hte size of the illegal drug market :: regular commerce is pretty small, and I'd imagine drugs about the largest illegal consumer market by a long way. Other contraband markets involve much higher risk factors and are correspondingly smaller.
I had an idea similar to this where when filing for a patent you include an estimate of R&D costs. If the patent is awarded then its lifetime is related to how long it takes to get a reasonable payout on the R&D investment.

This way big pharmaceuticals put a couple million into a new drug and they get to profit for a few years. An Apple engineer makes slide to unlock in a couple days and given the number of iphones sold the patent is over quite quickly.

tl;dr a salary cap for patents based on R&D cost
About a week ago, my team and I also launched a similar service in India - Genie (www.getagenie.in). I am happy to answer any questions or concerns from Indian market standpoint. We have built a concierge technology platform that our crowdsourced Genies (of course we handpick only the best) uses to serve the customers. We take a bit different route in pricing/offering where we provide an actual assistant (ofcourse shared and available via text, call or email) who takes the customer to know personally and provide both reactive (customer asking for a plumber for example) and proactive (Genie coming up with ideas on customer anniversary for example) services.
I took that ethics course. I don't think that course really made much of a difference in anyone's career. The material was mostly common sense ethical questions.
> Supposing that sidechains can be mined simultaneously with the bitcoin at no additional cost

Which is obviously not true. Extra storage and bandwidth at the very least.
TL/DR: the Blockchain only wins if Bitcoin wins, because miners need an incentive to mine.

"...the Bitcoin Blockchain cannot win without Bitcoin as a currency winning too, but if the Bitcoin price languishes, the incentive mechanism backstopping the Blockchain will be weak and therefore unreliable, ..."
So, if I'm understanding this correctly, they are to re-write the Go compiler in Go, and compile it using the currently published compiler (i.e. 1.4)?

Could someone, kindly, explain how future versions would be built? Thanks!
Also, when I played with Lego (that was actually during the dark times, the late nineties and early 2000s) I actually loved special and weird pieces I would get in sets (excluding pieces with stickers)!

If those pieces weren’t overly large and specific at the same time – and they rarely were – my growing collections of weird bits and pieces could be endlessly repurposed in cool new builds. I was always on the lookout for cool new computer monitors or cool new wheels or whatever to build cool new things with.

I would definitely agree that the late nineties and early 2000s were aesthetically a dark time for Lego and I actually prefer the aesthetics of today’s Lego sets (colors, part choice, building styles), but I’m not really aware of any kid for whom those sets – the standard ones you could always get, the police station, train station, the space shuttle, the cargo train station, the passenger double-decker train (ah, memories) – were the be-all end-all. They were always just a starting point and the whole things was to repurpose them and you really always could with those sets. And then those weird pieces were a cool assest that allowed you to be more specific.

I can see the ascetic ways of building only with four types of blocks or so, sure, but I’m not sure that’s something I personally would have enjoyed. I liked my weird bricks.
Well, I agree with that in particular. I find it very unsettling when I can't scroll a website on my i7 and GTX670 at home without it stuttering around.
You mean, audit a large number of independently-written Go compilers?
I find the rest of that specific comment particularly amazing:

> How does this relate to politics? Well, I suspect that governments today are more concerned with the loss of their ability to control and regulate the behavior of their citizens than they are with their citizens' discontent.

> How do we make that work for us? We can devise means, through the application and sophistication of science, to remind governments that if they will not be responsible stewards of our rights, we the people will implement systems that provide for a means of not just enforcing our rights, but removing from governments the ability to interfere with those rights.

> You can see the beginnings of this dynamic today in the statements of government officials complaining about the adoption of encryption by major technology providers. The idea here isn't to fling ourselves into anarchy and do away with government, but to remind the government that there must always be a balance of power between the governing and the governed, and that as the progress of science increasingly empowers communities and individuals, there will be more and more areas of our lives where -- if government insists on behaving poorly and with a callous disregard for the citizen -- we can find ways to reduce or remove their powers on a new -- and permanent -- basis.

> Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.

> We haven't had to think about that much in the last few decades because quality of life has been increasing across almost all measures in a significant way, and that has led to a comfortable complacency. But here and there throughout history, we'll occasionally come across these periods where governments think more about what they "can" do rather than what they "should" do, and what is lawful will become increasingly distinct from what is moral.

> In such times, we'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and the responsibility to rebalance it toward just ends.

I like his idealism, but I just don't foresee the substantial changes that he's calling for occurring any time soon. Frankly, most people don't give a shit, and there are just too many vested interests involved to ensure that can't happen (e.g. Koch brothers donating $1billion dollars in the next election cycle, Citizens United, etc). Sure, there will be some pandering by both sides of the aisle next election about how they're the only true candidate that will protect individual rights, but once they've been sufficiently elected and absorbed by the machine, they'll continue along the trend that started 50+ years ago. Obama was a constitutional lawyer ffs.

But hey, as long as gas prices are low, Netflix stays up, and I can get my $10 Domino's large pizza delivered to my front door, I'll vote for whoever sounds good and promises me the most shit. /s
Github handles it well, but our browsers don't. It would be nice if they loaded large diffs progressively, as you scroll.
One of CNN's most embarrassing moments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVd7k1Uw6A

Can anyone fix American news?
I agree with these statements, but the analogy is flawed because in your second example you are making it impossible for everyone to see the original ad. The software equivalent to your analogy would be hacking into others' servers to replace ads, making that replacement visible to everyone, and that is certainly not what Privdog is doing. This also happens to be the crucial difference between theft and piracy.

Privdog only replaces ads on the machine on which it is installed, and those who don't have it installed will see the original ad. The meatspace equivalent would be something like an augmented reality device that replaces ads for the one wearing it; and this is not a new idea, although no one has wanted to replace ads with other ads:

http://theartvertiser.com/
Staygg - new app lets you invest small amounts of money for free
Right. But there is no requirements for wage, nor caps; so it is technically legal, but should not be.
Ask HN: How much are Turtle programmers worth these days?
or Logo.
Usually a pretty common mistake. Fluid is always compressible (else sound won't travel in STP water). It is whether one chooses to model the flow as compressible or not.
Go does not have any luck, but it's an incredibly elegant and deep game with basically 3 rules. Computers still don't win against the top pros. (But that'll probably change over the next 5-10 years.)

So you don't need luck to make it an attractive spectator sport. But I suppose it might be very different from poker if there wasn't luck involved.
Way to ignore basically the entire point the article makes...
No! I am not going to send a GET request containing my API key over HTTP.
I'd give serious thought to these two articles:

"Hey, software makers: Skip the sales team. Go freemium to build a $1B business"

http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/10/hey-software-makers-skip-t...

And...
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-zenef...
Virtual reality testing: Caveman to blog to 3D print to VR fashion shoot
> From what I could find with a quick Google search it looks like California is one.

Could you provide a source for that? I know that California regulates the title "Professional Engineer" or providing "engineering services" but I'm not aware of any regulation preventing someone from using engineer in job titles.
Ask HN: Where can I begin contributing to Node, MEAN stack, JavaScript projects?
I recently finished a full stack web development bootcamp from which I have experience in 3 different stacks. I'm looking to begin a career in Javascript, preferably node development and want to get some contributions to real life projects (outside of my small personal projects) to get on my resume and have some talking points about for interviews. I've gotten an interview or two so far but both have had concerns about my experience. I figure there couldn't be much of a better way to spend my time while applying for jobs than getting this kind of experience under my belt.

I don't really know where/how I would start with this though, do I just browse NPM, find some package that I'm familiar with, check the issues log and go to work on one? Do I approach the developers beforehand and get their thoughts/consent to work on something and submit a pull request, (putting all the work in for a pull request that gets ignored seems like it would be quite annoying)? I'm confident that I can contribute solid code, I guess the process itself is what I'm inexperienced with. If there is anyone on here that is in need of some open source junior level JS development please feel free to contact me, I'll be over at the Who's Hiring Thread.
> I am presently incapable of seeing how any token other than Bitcoin will be the one that wins.

In some sense, Bitcoin has already "won" in that it currently has a non-zero value. Anyone who says "Bitcoin can't possibly exist or hold value" already is known to be wrong, simply by Bitcoin's existence.

In the same way, I don't understand people like OP who say "No other cryptocurrency but Bitcoin can have value" because many of them already have a value and have "won" by some measures- Why do people keep trying to argue that dogecoin/litecoin/etc/etc don't have value, when people trade them for other currencies every day on open markets?

Near as I can tell, there will be (and already are) multiple "winners" in the cryptocurrency competition, filling different niches, just like there are multiple species on planet earth filling different niches.
> "It is unimaginable to believe that if heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, or even over-the-counter medications were being distributed in 23 states and the District of Columbia, Congress and the President would abdicate all regulatory authority to those jurisdictions, and then cut off all funds … to intervene in related distribution activities"

What does this quote mean? I'm having trouble parsing it properly.

Also, in the US, methamphetamine is a legal Schedule II drug for ADHD and obesity.
Damn Peter Thiel is smart

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/08/cannabis-inv...
Yeah, I mean mua based message encryption is totally doable from sender to receiver but apparently too confusing, ie. GPG/PGP. I kinda buy that as a UX problem if I assume most people are not technical enough to understand how PKI works.

mta transfer encryption probably needs more uptake and plugging of simple degradation attacks that cause transfers to flow unencrypted - in my opinion having providers do this for us is a losing battle.

But considering S/MIME is likely the lowest acceptable form of email authenticity, why don't we have an interest in progressing the adoption of this technology?
With a larger dataset a larger model is more useful though, since you are less likely to suffer from overfitting.
Go is also supported in GCC, as GccGo.
How to capture an open source project (2013)
I read daily. I'm always part of the way through something, and I try to finish at least 1 fiction book a month, and a non fiction ever 2-3 months.
Did the same thing at my university years ago. I was able to duplicate and switch IDs on the fly with just one device (part of a senior electrical engineering project that is way too public). Things like COIN are appearing on the market, making duplication far too easy. Having physical access to student ID cards means you can clone them, you need something that does bidirectional authorization if you want to be secure but that costs too much and takes time to upgrade. Easier to lock down the important stuff with ID + something (fingerprint or PIN) if you really want to solve this problem.
They were talking about it on NPR. Basically, you take a risk on the legality of marijuana to get larger gains in comparison to the investors late to the table. Just because not every investor wants to take that risk your gains are higher because you are getting a larger slice of the pie and funding companies with first mover's advantage.
Definitely Superfish inspired some thinking on this topic but I do understand that a compromised system is compromised so better CA or external consensus does nothing there.

Even still, I'm not totally convinced browsers will spot the MITMs so I don't have to. However, having many-many individual web browsers tracking and sharing SSL fingerprints to potentially provide consensus as well as some history and traceability I believe would be a needed public service.
Marionette 2.4 Released
Many foreign worker are brought on L1. No minimal comp. requirements.
I'm inclined to think of patent reform not as a "cure" for the failing patent system, but simply a palliative measure for everyone's protection during its inevitable decline