skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm upset that I have to go through StubHub, which exposes me to shady sellers (who I have zero means to vet - I can't even see who is selling which tickets). E.g. https://twitter.com/Jason/status/738489612075569152

I'd much more happily pay market price directly on Ticketmaster than to some random seller on a secondary site.

Edited to add: I know that StubHub "guarantees" the tickets. But the compensation is less than the hassle and disappointment of potentially missing out on an event I want to see. Especially if it comes in the form of getting to the door only to find out that the tickets are fake or duplicates (which does happen).
Security company Blue Coat files for IPO
Just incredible: he used the word "journey" un-ironically.

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
interesting, i couldn't see this scaling past 3-4 people. i figure the dedicated desk might be worth it, or at least space to get out of the house and network, but for 2500 5 people can probably do better even with flexible arrangements
What's your source on the claim that bicycling is 7x more dangerous than driving a car?

Most sources put it around 2.5x more dangerous than driving, and I'd wager most of those deaths come from inexperienced riders who don't know the traffic laws as applied to bicyclists.

Fatalities Per Mile

Motor Vehicle Travel.................... Bicycle Travel

42,000 killed........................... 813 killed

2.56 trillion miles..................... 21 billion miles

0.016 fatalities per million miles...... 0.039 fatalities per million miles

Data from Traffic Safety Facts 1997
and The Environmental Benefits of Cycling and Walking

Pulled from http://www.bellboycott.com/cached/www.kenkifer.com/bikepages...
I think these rumors are just a side effect of how good these companies can be at predicting what you are, or will be, interested in. People think it must be listening in when it is just using other bits of info about you.

Like when Target knew the guy's daughter was pregnant before he did: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-t...
Ditto...in London that explains the success of http://ministryofstartups.uk/
websitescenes did write that only cyclists are bothered, so the values being communicated by the community at large don't seem to conflict with the law.
Have a look at Walmart SavingsCatcher. As you walk out of the store, you snap a QR code on your receipt. They check every other store in your area for the stuff you bought and refund the difference on a gift card if they weren't the cheapest.

I've used it a few times with grocery delivery.
Cluster of “megabreaches” compromises a whopping 642M passwords
right now LF is funding three development efforts for NTP.
UPDATE -> please send to hiring AT versame DOT com
Said facebook.

That's awfully specific.
Dynamic fabric is something I'd love to see more artists working with.

So far the most impressive example I've seen is ZEITGUISED's geist.xyz: https://vimeo.com/150824660 Undulating impossible fabrics with photo-realistic shaders (and a soundtrack that makes my head hurt).

It's definitely an experimental art film but it feels more like an impressive tech demo for what they've been able to accomplish with textile simulation. Sadly like most art pieces, there's very little in the way of technical on how they pulled off such interesting stuff.
The math on this seems wonky as some areas are very low density and still have electric water and sewer. I suspect detroit has problems from poverty and poor management not density.

PS: <rant> Underfunded pensions are a huge issue that's often ignored until way to late. People need to sound the alarm at year one when the pension is not at 110% not year 30 when it's way to late. IMO, a company should not be able to have a dividend or stock buy back if their not over 100%. </rant>
I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11425718
That's a pretty good blanket statement, hard to see how they could be twisting words here except as jvehent said, they may in the future.

That being said, it is unsettling they have the feature. A lot of people, me included, were upset when Google started reading our emails for ads. Slowly, people started accepting that was the norm, and there is a lot less fuss over it now, bigger other battles to fight with the NSA and other privacy issues.

Whose to say what we say out loud is more private than emails? It really could be a matter of time until that expectation of privacy of the spoken word is diminished with the rise of Alex and the like.
What I found to be worrying is that the researchers seems to be unclear about how MSC is causing the improvements.

Also the improvements continues after the stem cells have disappeared. This seems to suggest the effect doesn't come from the MSC, but rather the chemicals the cell produces. Does that mean if we can synthesis the chemicals, we don't need the cell?
People downvote stuff when they dislike the implications of something even if it's true, actually especially if it's true.

As to your point, a friend of mine has an electric motorcycle. He said that it's silent is scary because in traffic cars don't notice he's there. He has to always be on guard for people merging into his lane.
I think we'll end up agreeing to disagree here, but the AI would only be producing the appearance of consciousness in the NPCs. There's absolutely no reason to believe it experiences any of the qualia experienced by the people immersed in the VR. It doesn't see anything or hear anything. Only the people do, via their headsets. It just behaves as if it does, like the people on your television screen.
Is it 2007 again? :)
I don't even use an ad blocker and got the popup on load.
"I flagged this story, and hope others do too."

It's totally flagworthy but this is the same thing as 'soliciting votes' which is supposed to be a Bad HN Manners.
Count me in, simon@litchfield.digital
Do you really think Trudeau would be PM (now) without his name?

2nd youngest PM ever, and the youngest is Joe Clark.

Still rather have Trudeau than harper, I just dislike electing people based on legacy.
Well, at least if there's a problem, you can always pick up the phone and give Stripe a cal–OH WAIT YOU CAN'T.

I'm sorry–I love Stripe as a product–but it blows my mind that a company with a $5B+ valuation that touches your business' money only has email support. Not even fast email support (in my experience, 12h+ response time is normal). Not even a ticket number.
> If this occurred in an urban/suburban environment

It happened in Oakland, CA.
The $1,000 CPM
This. I suppose I am a successful founder, but it sure wasn't some mystical "vision of the future" - I have about ten of those a day, and I'm sure everyone else does too.

We succeeded due to blind luck - right place, right time. And a lot of hard work of course, but there are multitudes working just as hard who don't succeed because their thing isn't quite compelling enough, or a large competitor suddenly appears out of nowhere, or even the stock photo they used is also used by a popular gambling website and turns people off.

I guess the whole VC thing is predicated on the idea that you can pick winners, and therefore those winners (founders) must be something special. We're not - we're just dice that came up six.
> This will give me the time and flexibility to pursue new opportunities to create and disrupt other industries – and to support others who want to do the same – just as we’ve done at Nest. We should all be disrupters!

It sounds to me like he's done a terrific job disrupting people's lives and careers. I find more and more than people who speak like this are interested in fulfilling their narrow goals at the cost of everything and everyone around them. After a few years and the novelty of the invention wears off it just looks petty.
I've gotten a (4) response several times after interviews that went well in multiple regions - "Although you're well qualified, your experience and compensation are far more than we were expecting and we cannot proceed. Thank you for your time." I've asked different contacts before at most of them and my ask was within 15% and still way too much. Different companies have different tolerance for comfort even if they can get "top talent" for a good deal because they're so price sensitive.

I've had a negotiation where I found out that the company was only able to make $2.5k after paying me + overhead (contracting on predefined rates) after they led me on and gave me an offer that met my low number barely after bonuses with zero stock. I rejected multiple times and a VP even called me by the end. That should have been the sign to walk honestly. Evidently, some places have no negotiating power fundamentally because they have no intrinsically compelling work with substantially below market rates and with little means to negotiate up their value proposition to improve their circumstances.
Southeast Asia Startup Scene Is Sunny, Investors Say
The title of the article ironically reminds me

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Labour_Isnt_W...
I wonder if you were there when I reported 768-bit DHE on one of Nest's servers to Google security around mid-2015. Especially if you were following @NestSupport on Twitter around this time (there was also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170833). It wasn't long after that they had to hire a VP of security (when Alphabet was formed I think).
People are posting related info they've found. Seems entirely valid to me (especially given that the media botches a lot of stories, like the last two revelations of "the real Satoshi").
Comment checks out. Fascinating.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=alchemy&allowed_in_...
No, of course not. My opinion is based on many other papers and understanding of a very different model.
"COBOL is one of the most used languages in the world, and the number of lines of code is surpassed perhaps only by a handful of languages. That alone tells me any generalisation you make about COBOL programmers is most probably erroneous."

One a name and one phrase changed but it's still technically true. Clearly something wrong with your argument unless you think COBOL is also superior to other languages due to uptake.
Lots of flowery language and very little substance
LuaJIT's FFI also allows to manipulate and dereference arbitrary pointers.
Airship Italia
So, in order for me to feel happy about the artist's keeping-it-real credentials I have to give up the freedom to resell my ticket? No thanks.

Seats at performances are scarce resources. We have an efficient and fair mechanism for allocating scarce resources: the market. Raise ticket prices to the market-clear price and be done with it.
apparently the Vikings got the steel for their swords from as far away as Central Asia and India. and that steel was critical to the superior performance of those blades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_sword

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucible_steel
He was strongly associated with Tor from a PR/outreach perspective. Less critical than a year ago, and not particularly operational. Hence my confidence that Tor will survive.
This is quite the novel method of testing the bandwidth and reliability of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Internet connectivity.
Natural laws are the same as God given laws
Sounds like you need to enable anti-anti-adblock filters in your adblocker.
Why?

Also, do you trust the security of your computer when connecting to that domain?
Call of Mini: Infinity Hack Android and iOS
But then what happens in those - admittedly very rare - cases when you can't attend the even, and you wish to legitimately hand your ticket over to your friend/family...and then both lose out due to the need for id validation? (I'll admit i don't have the answer, i'm just trying to say that there could be reasonable use-cases for transferring a ticket.)
Aren't the robots already doing that, and that's what the number tens are telling us?
There is no value in having a middleman in that process. They actually make it harder for ticket buyer and ticket seller to meet, unlike your typical middleman.

Uber is a perfect example of why no middleman is needed.
Calling drivers "small entrepreneurs" is BS -- but equating a "work whenever and however much you want" driver gig with a fixed-work-hours employee is also BS.

It is truly a new class of "job" -- with pluses and minuses (the distribution of positives and negatives are up for debate).
It's an old laptop with an integrated GPU running Ubuntu so it's a combination of all.
That's why you go with Braintree.

They offer $50k in processing fee-free, which saves you ~ $1500 immediately.

Their fee for currency conversion is 1%, while Stripe's is 2%.

They reply much faster to email inquires and you can call them.

They support more countries than Stripe.
Here's an interesting e-bike that recently launched on IndieGoGo and raised $1.6M mostly in the US.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flux-electric-bikes-with-...
Incredible Stabilization Tech
Good thing everyone has been so honest about data capture of Americans ...

“What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls and the NSA cannot target your e-mails.” President Obama, June 16, 2013, on the Charlie Rose Show

During a March 12, 2013, Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden asked DNI Clapper if the NSA collected any type of data on millions of Americans. Clapper said: “No, sir.”

“We don’t hold data on U.S. citizens.” DNI Clapper speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on July 9, 2012

“Provides the government the same authority in national security investigations to obtain physical records that exits in an ordinary criminal case, through a grand jury subpoena.” Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaking on the Senate floor on May 22, 2011
Vivaldi features are not that bad, but the fact that this "browser" is only a combination of some extensions bundled with Chromium is a big downside.

Also, not being able to implement more privacy for example fingerprint block is also rather bad. All they do is work inside their extensions related code with avoiding to touch actual Chromium code base.

When these guys have finally more knowledge about Chromium to either enhance it or remove unused parts - Vivaldi UI exists outside of Chromium and they carry all that Chromium luggage around which they also not using at all which means tons of dead weight - then this browser COULD be useful - of course only when Open Sourcing it 100% - but before, not even worth thinking about it.
> Is resource redistribution the only way to solve income inequality?

Yes.

> I always believed we weren't playing a zero sum game.

That's true, so a redistribution can result in a net gain (or loss) of aggregate experienced utility. But you can't change the outcomes resulting from the current system of allocating resources without changing the allocation.
No we're not in trouble.

Massive mining industry including potash, precious ore and diamonds.

Massive hydroelectric power system (Northeastern US guess where much of your power comes from).

Massive agriculture industry

Massive seafood industry

Massive forest industry

Add to that movies, music, manufacturing, cars, steel mills, shipbuilding ($26B ship contract near me), munitions and software industry. We used to have some pretty good hardware too remember Matrox and ATI video cards?

Oil and gas aren't the only things we produce but even so there is also a lot of it on the east coast.
It's kind of like connecting to a website of a parallel world. Looks normal at a first glance, but weird and alien when you start reading.

As far as security, what can they do from that domain that isn't done from other domains?
> Free markets by definition require things like homogeneous products and perfect information. Perfect information has never existed in a conflict zone, and it never will.

This is so absolutely wrong that I'm curious from which reference you got it from.

The very reason free markets work is because of heterogeneous products, allowing for competition, and for the fact that perfect information does not exist.

In a free market each actor only needs the information necessary to run his enterprise, contrary to a centrally planned economy such as a totalitarian state or today's central banks, which require (and think they have) perfect information, leading to bubbles, poverty, chaos.
Aloha and Welcome to Paradise. Unless You’re Homeless
Making the tickets non-transferable changes the offer. The market still applies, it merely reduces the value of the ticket and brings it closer into line with the price.

Charging market rates for the tickets means some popular events will go for thousands of dollars. Artists don't want their fan demographics to get skewed by that.
> And while carmakers, rideshare companies and Autonomous AI companies are all forming alliances in varying capacities, Alphabet's self driving car project dance card remains conspicuously empty.

Except for the Ford partnership [1] and a strategic investment in Uber [2].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/business/ford-and-google-t...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-i...
The DPRK usually hosts its content in China.
Unfortuantely, creating a memo post (hold on funds) is impossible given today's ACH infrastructure. That said, you can use Plaid to monitor funds availability throughout the lifetime of the transaction, and to predict the likelihood of clearing.
not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing.
Building Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) Contextual Models
For underpriced tickets, that basically creates a lottery: everyone rushes to buy a ticket the second they go on sale, and some lucky fraction get one. If you're busy at that minute or your computer craps out or you're just part of the vast unlucky majority, you don't get a ticket. That doesn't seem like a fair way of getting tickets to the people who want them.
Nope, no micro-deposits necessary at all
Visualize different algorithms as they work
The science still doesn't seem clear - for example, a recent study in the UK (presumably the largest ever) showed no evidence of increased infertility: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/jomh.2014.0012
I second picking up Go first and Rust later (or as an ongoing thing since Rust takes time). I tried both and was quickly able to make use of Go, but had to give up on Rust because the paradigms in Rust are very different from the languages I am used to (mostly C). I will invest more time in Rust because I like the concepts baked into Rust (and as a replacement for the things I use C for), but it's going to be when I get a lot more free time. BTW, if anyone knows of a good online class teaching Rust, please let me know.
Someone told me another trick not mentioned in this article [written by the former CEO of ticketmaster]. Can't find a citation, though, so take it with a grain of salt.

It seems odd at first that certain ticket sites are the exclusive ticket dealers for some venues. It would seem that in a competitive market where you can spin up a whole fleet of machines to handle the public sale onslaught that used to be nothing short of a ddos against your ticketing site, there would be competition across ticket vendors and that would drive down those service fees.

It's not a competitive market though. Ticket vendors realize the difference between face value and market value is uncaptured consumer surplus. To capture some of it away from the second-hand dealers, they vary the service fees for venue to venue and show to show.

That's the expected part.

The (admittedly I-don't-have-a-citation-for-it) interesting part is a portion of that service fee is a direct kickback to the venue. Some of it may be to cover the performer's higher-than-the-sum-of-face-value-tickets performance fee mentioned in the article, but some of it is to make sure The Venue deals exclusively with Large Ticket Site and ignores offers from small ticket.ly startup armed with some EC2 autoscaling groups.

After all, why go for a more efficient operator when Large Ticket Site offers you a guaranteed percentage of the uncaptured consumer surplus? That's a service you would almost pay a fee for!
"Shapes on the surface of this lens are smaller than the wavelength of light involved: a thousandth of a millimetre."

A micron is 1000 nm and visible light is about 900 nm and down. Close but no cigar.
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army

====

Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals(, the Rhoynar) and the First Men, Lady Regnant of the Seven Kingdoms, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Mhysa, Breaker of Chains, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons
There are a few:

* Canary: http://canarymail.io (in beta)

* Airmail: http://airmailapp.com

* Polymail: https://polymail.io (in beta and currently Google-only, ironically, given its name)

* CloudMagic: https://cloudmagic.com

* Postbox: https://www.postbox-inc.com
What is particularly bothersome about Obama is that he is very good at misleading with lying. He says "NSA cannot target your e-mails" when he knows that NSA is actively collecting emails, but not by specifically targeting.
The other comments had me rolling my eyes. But far as Tor and Appelbaum, remember that Appelbaum was the public face of Tor and defender of Wikileaks for many people. Also did lots of work on these issues. Was the fieldguy in many countries deploying the tech. Justifies a specific interest in Appelbaum over others where some, including me, were wondering if aomeone missed a writeup somewhere about why he left and what's his next plans.

All this other stuff seems tabloid. Not what we need on HN.
What do you expect from compressing an image to 200 bytes? It's impressive that it has as much detail as it does.
The click-baity title of that Fortune article you linked is misleading vs what he's actually saying.

The title refers to cuts in positions in the UK, but these would actually move to continental Europe in the case of a Brexit.

His own quote from the article :
"So if the UK leaves the EU, we may have no choice but to re-organize our business model here. Brexit could mean fewer J.P. Morgan jobs in the U.K. and more jobs in Europe.”
> Also, I'm a black person. All of the horror stories they say about POC in tech, I have never experienced one. I've had individual jerks but, I haven't had things like the company passing me up or ever felt that I wasn't getting a promotion, ever.

One thing interesting about the company I worked at from 2012 to 2014 was that, despite it being an abusive startup with dysfunctional management, it was the single most ethnically-diverse place I've ever worked at, and I'd never heard about a single problem related to race there (while I'd heard a lot about the company's other problems). This was all despite the company being a tiny startup that never exceeded 15 full-time employees when I worked there (augmented by a handful of contractors and part-timers, so a little more than 15 on the payroll at a few points). To wit:

I'm Jewish, as were both of the co-founders. We had three Indian employees (though not at the same time). We had two black programmers, one of whom is also an albino and legally blind. Our lead content people were a woman of Cambodian descent and a guy of Iraqi descent who's an actual Assyrian Christian. We also had a few part-timers, including an Asian guy and a summer intern from Sicily (technically white, but I'd still say she's a minority because her accent stood out). WASPs were very much a minority at that company.

Also, I'm transgender, and so was one of our contractors, but that actually did cause issues (not with my employer, but with our landlord, who went out of their way to make life difficult for me because I'm trans).