skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Reports of Wall Street adopting it for settlement purposes seem slightly optimistic

Here is just one example: (and I'm aware of many more pilot programs)

http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nasdaq-launches-enterpri...

the 1MB blocksize limits are rapidly being tested. However with some of the recent proposals, blocksize would double every 2 years, so something like this:

2016 8MB 0.1Mb/s 26Tx/s
2018 16MB 0.2Mb/s 53Tx/s
2020 32MB 0.4Mb/s 106Tx/s
2022 64MB 0.9Mb/s 213Tx/s
2024 128MB 1.7Mb/s 426Tx/s

Right now there is a theoretical ceiling of 604,800 bitcoin transactions that could be undertaken every day. By 2016 that could be 2.2 million, by 2018 4.57 million, 2020 9 million , and 2024, 36 million.

There's a lot of space to grow and a lot of time to pass in which numerous innovations could come to existance, sidechains, lightning networks are a few 'transaction offloading schemes we've seen recently.

In addition, the blockchain proper only needs to be used as a periodic settlement platform, where tx's are farmed together into blocks. and not as a trading engine. (non PoW-based permissioned ledgers are a better fit for that)
From the Google bug report (https://crbug.com/505268), it looks like WooCommerce was looking explicitly for $_SERVER['HTTP_HTTPS'], and this code was removed when the Chrome behavior was discovered:

https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/issues/8479

So "breaking web applications everywhere" is an exaggeration.

It also looks like this is the implementation of the W3 "upgrade-insecure-requests" spec, so "Chrome 44 sending HTTPs header by mistake" is also not true. It's intentional.

http://www.w3.org/TR/upgrade-insecure-requests/

But it sounds like they're going to implement a different header / propose changes to the spec based on real-world feedback like this.
I thought those were only used for street/place names, and sometimes business cards for family names?
There's no such thing as a HIPAA certification so, if their plan is to get one, it's safe to assume that they don't have the expertise to create the appropriate security infrastructure
It's a spec bug: they wrote a draft spec, implemented it and pushed it to a stable release too soon.
The government now wants different minimum wages for each industry and location? This is completely insane.
Agile PTSD
I appreciate the effort but I can't see how this in anyway answer's the question I asked below.

> How does the blockchain reduce counterparty risk. The counterparty can either produce the required shares or they can't.

Let's simplify. I buy 100 MSFT from you. How does the blockchain help settle this trade. At some point I still need to deliver 100 shares to you.
Implementing Release Markers in Graphite
No. I'm barely on board with the pain/benefit of running an isolation VM. Containers provide so much less isolation than VMs, it's hard to imagine they're worth the inconvenience.

(I hate VMs so much I just use two computers).
Oh, you're right. I know the difference, just a typo. I corrected it.
Not at all. I've just started a new Rails project and widgets that would normally be written with a smattering of JavaScript are now self-contained React components. I can't imagine this app ever transitioning to a single-page JS thing.
I'd put it up fairly high on the list...

http://www.windows2universe.org/glossary/plasmaspheric_gain....
Continuum Analytics Raises $24M Series A for Anaconda Python and PyData
Family of mine worked in uranium mines. Lots of people died there as a result of radioactive particles that ended up in their lungs (plus the typical mining accidents).
Link to the Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHTK-2W11Vh1V4uwofOfR4w
Azkaban and Docker
As a productive tool, I can't think of a use at all.

For learning distributed computing, I think has some advantages over just running all of the nodes on a single powerful computer. It means you can't hide from doing things scalably -- i.e. network costs between your processes are real; if your load isn't well-distributed across your nodes the OS scheduler can't save you; etc.
In grad school I worked part time for the city's non-emergency 311 help-line and took several calls related to taxi complaints. The process may have changed since then (early 2000's), but it's not a very friendly process for the individual making the complaint.

The person making the complaint is required to show up for a hearing, in person, at a date and time determined by the TLC, to present her complaint to a panel of "judges." The driver is also required to show up and to present their side of the story. My understanding is that they almost always find in favor of the complainee, even when there's no evidence and it's the driver's word vs. the complainee's. After the third judgment the driver loses their license.

So on one hand making a complaint is far more difficult than poorly rating a driver on a phone, a process that takes almost no effort. But on the flip side the complaints that were processed were taken very seriously and had very real repercussions.
No unit test suite can cover all situations, you actually have to "use it in anger" before shipping it to something like 50% of all web users.

Chrome is "breaking the internet" for its users, so Chrome is doing something wrong.
"At the very moment Merkel and her allies are hectoring the Greeks about their profligacy, the airport’s cost, borne by taxpayers, has tripled to €5.4 billion."

So, which country does Germany want to borrow money from in order to cover the wasteful spending?
If the language spec says that $_SERVER['HTTPS'] is an indicator of whether the request was made over HTTPS, then it should ensure that it adheres to its own spec (I.E. not overwrite $_SERVER['HTTPS'] with the value from a header, if it's present).
According to Yahoo Finance, Facebook made $13.5 B between 13 March 2014 and 31 March 2015. In December 2014, they reported 1.19 B monthly active users. That works out to about $0.95/user/month. I would love to have the option pay $25/month[1] to be able to get out of the tracking crap.

I don't even particularly mind banner ads that appear because I am viewing a page. I just don't want to be tracked. If I go to Dockside Tropical Cafe's fb page, sure show me an ad for some trop-rock artist or Caribbean vacation. But don't do it when saying happy birthday to my friends or on a site about car repair. I don't always want one to know about the other.

[1] Edit: I meant $25/year- I'm not sure I'd pay $25/month for fb. Maybe $5/month though.
IEA – A File based testing strategy for document transformations
but you can get a distribution more similar to a power law but using a log normal distribtion
Five Views of 2 World Trade Center
Only hard to fill if you're dealing with text only. Say you're building a video copyright detection crawler and you want to store videos from all over the internet.
Just by reading your list of requirements.. Google Docs?
Meteor Meetup at ShareThis
Create API-First Web Apps with API Platform, a PHP Framework
I mean I should be able to take a spreadsheet, properly configured, and turn it into a CRUD app through some sort of wizard.

Or, as a programmer, I should be able to massage an existing spreadsheet (to confirm data types, maybe add some validations) and have that be able to be wrung through a CRUD app generator.

People use spreadsheets because they combine business logic, data, and a simple user interface into a single document. 99% of spreadsheets should actually be CRUD apps (in my experience, at least) but it's not worth the hassle of going that route until you already have close to 30 MB of unstructured, manually edited data.
Bootstrapping in Saigon
I generally set mine up to use the sd just for boot, and have the actual file system on a usb thumb drive. Works great, and haven't had any sd card corruption issues since I started doing it.
Thx for the correction. Point understood.
The Foundation of Cloud-Native Computing
The licensing boards are going to burn you to the ground. Even if you're based somewhere out of reach, they'll block payment processing or freeze your accounts.

Your doctor directory makes no reference at all to where they are licensed to practice medicine more specifically than a country. There's no way you're going to get a pass on this.
Sharethis, Meteor and the Lean Startup
> Inside the World’s Largest Fact Checking Operation

Spiegel has 1M prints / week, which is not so high number. I would expect 'world largest' editorial staff at some bigger news paper.
Use the hardware-based full disk encryption your TCG Opal SSD with msed
Not a very informative article. Nothing in either the article or the linked "advisory" mention which version(s) of IE and which versions of Windows are affected.
"measuring variations in a star's movement"

Not sure what the primary means of doing that is, but I think it includes Doppler shift measurements of the star's light.
Not really. It's more of:

- many would prefer to whitelist trusted software than blacklist malware
- bypassing AV is trivial
- http://www.sevagas.com/IMG/pdf/BypassAVDynamics.pdf
- https://github.com/Veil-Framework/Veil-Evasion

That many security experts use GNU/Linux or *BSD is definitely a factor, but many people still use Windows.

Great question, though. :)
Sorry, yes, you are correct - my memory was playing tricks.
The List of Startup Resources That Will Give You an Inspiration Boost
No, it's not really that kind of site. But then many of the sites I value myself and the content I read also aren't that kind of site.

There are plenty of people in the world willing to produce good content without trying to maximise every last drop of potential revenue, and who for whatever reason prefer not to carry ads next to that content. Some of them just blog for fun. Some, like the site I mentioned, charge to cover the costs and maybe make some modest profit, but in a niche market you're never going to become the next Google or Facebook anyway. Sometimes the whole site is run for reasons other than direct profit anyway, for example if the site itself is a promotional exercise for some brand or store or charity awareness campaign or freelancer, or if it's some sort of community or government site with its costs covered by other means. None of these sites need to carry the kind of ads I think we're talking about here.

Of course there are also sites that are very commercial in nature and do want to do everything they can to maximise revenues. If that means carrying ads, they'll do it. But as long as those sites aren't the only places you can find good content, the original premise will be flawed.
Show HN: Proof of concept conversation-tree interface using HN API
I think BBC journalists run this story out whenever they're low on other work to do, here's basically the same feature, exactly 3 years ago...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18644343
I am going to have to go with the non-experts on items 4 and 5.
Calling All Hackers: Improve this Federated Wiki JSON-DOM reader
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931404
It is the new norm of HN. Almost ever top voted comment nowadays is a negative swipe or a nit-pick that is tangentially related to the OP.
I meant to, but forgot it, I'm afraid.
I'm dutch and I agree that a decision not to go there shouldn't be rushed but a bill like this being even considered makes the choice very flaky.
Nah, they for sure would have known it was dangerous as the kinetics behavior was already well understood. The article seems to imply that they were aware they were violating the one-rod stuck rule (and if not, they should have been). The lesson learned was more in operations practice, which is that even if you're careful you shouldn't do this.
Without getting specific to particular startups - obviously the best country is the one where you have a large market -which are the best countries for startups?

In terms of availability of funding, legal ability to onboard foreign workers, IP rights, general digital-friendly legislation, and so on? I'm only really aware of the US & larger EU countries, presumably there are also great opportunities further afield?
Not really. The problem isn't that Pluto is too close (Hubble has taken excellent pictures of Mars), it's that Pluto is tiny, specifically in angular size.
Security experts have more faith in their ability to avoid triggering a scenario where a virus has the chance to gain a foothold. That's why there's such an emphasis on patches, to plug the holes they can't see to personally.
As with any country monetizing debt, they auction bonds to the highest bidder.

The 'highest bidder' being the bidder accepting the least interest.
So they're doing exactly what the NSA and GCHQ are doing but they're actually being transparent about the fact that they're doing it?
There was a great article a while back about a guy running a warehouse-sized bitcoin mining operation, using RPi's to coordinate the many thousands of custom chips doing the mining. The Pi was the cheapest full linux a system available at the time, and performance wasn't really an issue.
Well... That, or you just use Python 3, which already supports UTF-8 as default encoding for strings...
If Seattle implements rent control, it will be the mother of all property investment opportunities as it turns into SF 2.0 over the next decade. Long-term renters will dance in the streets alongside property owners and everyone else will be priced out forever.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Rent-control-proposed-for...

Even Paul Krugman thinks rent control is bollocks. Of course, people only listen to economists when they agree with them, but I digress.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent-...

Sorry for hijacking the topic a bit, but I don't think it will be Seattle. And it's already too late for it to be Boston. I'd love for it to be Portland, but Portland's politics make that impractical. You need a hard to copy magical mix of social liberalism mixed with a healthy subpopulation of corporate whoredom to recreate Silicon Valley IMO.
Quand une niçoise écrase la voiture des gendarmes à cause de ses tongs
This is trying to avoid a repeat of Heartbleed:

"CII ... a Linux Foundation effort assembled in the wake of the Heartbleed fiasco to provide development support for key Internet protocols, has opened the doors on its Census Project -- an effort to figure out what projects need support now, instead of waiting for them to break ... the programs most in need of attention are not previously cited infrastructure projects, but common core Linux system utilities that have network access and little development activity around them."

Top 10 at-risk programs:

ftp
netcat-traditional
tcpd
whois
at
libwrap0
traceroute
xauth
bzip2
hostname
> "Professor, let me understand this," Loge said. "You are talking about having 800 people wearing orange vests, sitting on camping stools, holding thermoses filled with coffee, and shouting into their cell phones, 'Open the fire door'?" Loge refused the airport an operating license. Schwarz stood up and walked out without another word.

Easily the best part of the article.
How I finally got permission to use my own computer
Denver still has the issue that it's a 20 mile drive from downtown out of some misguided belief that the city was just going to instantly grow out to it.
We've had blurry images of Pluto because of its tiny angular size. The fact that its closer than some of the things Hubble has taken better pictures of is not relevant.

For example, here's a Hubble photo of Mars:
https://milesobrien.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/mars_hubble....
in irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn I see a constant flow, no batches.
> Peaceful coexistence is hard precisely because it is NOT our most natural, basic state.

It depends on what you mean by saying "our".

It's "not natural" for an aggressive chemical reaction called "life" that consumes all the resources it can find.

But it's a basic state of the Universe. Ever heard people saying "God is Love", "we are all one" or "nirvana"? That's it.
I don't doubt that at all but I'm still confused. That's was SCM is for... Not like removing it from the repo makes it disappear off the face of the earth...
More Raspberry clusters http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/32-node-raspberry-pi-cassan...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9924632
Optimizely's NuclearJS: ImmutableJS and Reactive Flux
I sense a great disturbance in Hollywood like a screenwriter was just inspired to write something original...
I also had some earlier smartphones (Palm Treo, a couple of HTC PocketPCs running Windows Mobile) and agree that the browser experience was tolerable at best. I think I used Opera Mini and Opera Mobile depending on which ran best on a given device.

Still, there were just so many things I had gotten used to (and not just Google Maps and other nav programs like TomTom). I could still buy those phones without carrier junk if I wanted to pay full price. The main issue was that there weren't as many decent options for prepaid or MVNO deals and my $45/mo Sprint plan came with unlimited 3G so it was as good as any $80+ plan from ATT that I'd have had to get with an iPhone.

Even stuff we take for granted now like listening to streaming radio was missing. I was (and still am) a huge fan of several Shoutcast stations that I used via headphones or plugged into the car when everyone else was paying for XM. I had a tuner card in my home PC with my cable connection hooked up and a server app running so I could skim through my home media library or any live cable station and have it piped to my old Windows Mobile phone.

Hell, you could even make video calls at whatever low resolution the front camera had at the time and there were the precursors to services like Periscope like Qik. The iPhone didn't even let you change the wallpaper or ringtone for eff's sake.

That's not to rag on the stuff they did right. The iPhone wasn't targeted at me. It was targeted at people who used their phones for texting, calls, and maybe email or the early mobile web. Compared to those RAZRs and lower-end Blackberrys, the iPhone didn't really take anything away. It added a much better interface that was smoother and more responsive than anything on those featurephones or my beloved PPC. And yeah, the web browser was the killer feature. Passable web browsing was fine on my WinMo but the iPhone's browser was so much nicer to use.

In the end I just couldn't give up my unlimited 3G, GPS, multitasking, third party apps, or customization options in order to double my bill and pick up an iPhone. Still, I am thankful to this day that they hit everyone else where they were lacking (interface and responsiveness) so those later competitors were forced to address that even as Apple slowly added in the features they were missing from other smart phones.

Nowadays it's almost moot as the insane growth in mobile development has made even $150 contract-free phones capable of all those fancy features.
I know that this is a tricky question to engage with on HN, but is there a major-market country in Europe --- say, from the list of Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, and Finland --- that is fundamentally more privacy-friendly than the US, in black-letter terms?

US privacy laws have loopholes you can drive a truck through. But the limited research I've done suggest to me that that's true of virtually all western democracies, and that the loopholes in other countries can be even larger and less transparent. My impression of France for instance, is that there isn't a major distinction between what the French government can do on its own soil to combat terrorism versus what it can do abroad; that's probably not true of the US.

I'm interested in facts and non-emotional analysis; the "interesting" discussion we can have about this topic. Obviously a lot of people bring priors to it about the evils of the NSA or NSA/USG's corrupting influence on other countries. I'm prepared to stipulate that (believe it or not, I'm not that far from most HN readers on these topics, ideologically!) if we can boil things down to the raw facts.
Internet Marketing 101 for Business Owners
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9920543
Namebrand home router vs pfSENSE router.
Agreed.

I consider it psychological manipulation. Nothing more.
Okay, someone with a blog just learned he had to use Unicode because not everyone speaks English and not all text is ASCII.

Why is this an interesting link?
A plug for our paper, also at the SOUPS conference. We tackled a similar topic, but with a different method and broader focus (how experts and non-experts in general conceptualize the internet as a system): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/soups2015/sou...

It's great to see a large company like Google focusing on this kind of work though.
This will only accelerate the trend to automating away these jobs. E.g., serve your own soda -- it is cheaper than having a human make the drink for you. When humans are more expensive than machines, they are replaced.
Why do you hate VM's so much? Usability? Or is there some technical reason?
Well, the title is that, but the claim is a bit more specific. Still ridiculous. Anyway it feels like the system will change soon as everyone is fed up with this kind of stuff.
Even earth has survived 5000 years of civilizations with the last 200 at that level.

Problem is even with a probe at 10% the speed of light we'll never even see it.

Heck if it was 107.5 light years away it would still be "useless" but might inspire better telescopes.
The Setup: Bjarne Stroustrup
Clearly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It's very easy (trivial even?) to browse in e.g. Virtual Box these days - why do the less secure thing?
That's not a fair assessment. The problem with NSA isn't that their authority is opaque. The problem is that their authority, dating back to the cold war, is so broad that it's difficult to cabin what their doing into public policy objectives.

In other words: once you pass a law that gives the government authority to dragnet communications, no matter how specific and overt the law is, the authority you've delegated does grave and intrinsic harm to transparency.
Google seeks to patent all-knowing robot teddy bear
> How accurate are we able to measure?

Quite poorly, I believe. I think surface temperature is estimated based on the distance from the star, and I think it assumes an albedo (reflection coefficient) and maybe a typical(?) atmosphere (though I'm not sure about this). In any case, I imagine the error's quite large.

Unfortunately, we only have our own solar system to go on, and until we find better ways of studying these exoplanets, we have no good way of knowing if the planets in our solar system are really representative of what's out there or not. But that's why this research is so important.
I mean, dude, seriously... what?

by no means I am an apple fan, never owned any of their device (mainly because how they treat their customers, but that's completely different topic) and still living, but - case is clear simple here. Apple paid owners of copyright agreed amount, and startup was stealing this content without anyone's approval. I don't care who gave list to whom, etc. Justice has been done. If you don't like copyright laws, that's again another story altogether. No rocket science...
The software jigsaw into Maslow’s pyramid
Top Suppliers of Car MEMS Sensors
I am personally concerned with the "patch, patch, patch" message. Stated that way, I completely agree with it. However, for many it is just "update, update, update."

I'm all for getting the latest security patches. Or any security patches, really. I'm growing tired of getting the latest possibly risky feature from a product because it is the only way I can get a security patch.
Yeah, some fairly large sites being affected by this. Especially in regards to the "too many redirects" symptom.
Can you imagine being the person at USPTO who has to actually read and understand that?