skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... well. Since we are going deep down the rabbit hole. So your machines other users are potentially a threat. Considering that the folder and contents are chmod 600. Only the owning user and root can see them. The key pass is pointless without the key files.

While we are on the subject. Lets dig deeper on this situation. Whats stopping your rouge user on the same box (that can dump the proc table while ssh-keygen is executing in ms) from dumping the ram to extract the stdin password typed out by keyboard then?

If you already have fear of a user INSIDE your box. SSH keys should be the least of your concerns.
Just checking, did Ray Ozzie join Amazon?
Provide every house on the planet with an artificial
leaf and we could satisfy our 14 terrawatt need with
just one gallon of water a day.

One gallon of water a day, in case we are talking about freshwater, is waaaay to much.

In case you haven't noticed, there are regions in this world with a freshwater deficiency (precisely those third world countries which would benefit from something like this), and one gallon of water per day is enough for 3, even 4 people to drink per day.

The article doesn't make it clear if this can function with salt-water, which would be more difficult. And if it cannot, this is not bio-friendly or cheap for that matter.
3kMarlin isn't involved with Stripe. collision and I are the founders. (Good point, though.)
I can't speak to Braintree because we don't use them. I do believe that they will set up a merchant account for you as a proxy or agent, IIRC.

But I can speak to the economics of all this "complexity" of which you speak.

We currently use CyberSource for our gateway and associated banks for our Merchant Accounts, and we maintain several accounts. Each account takes less than a day to set up, with our representatives at each company.

Integrating with the CyberSource API takes roughly 20 developer-hours.

An increase in transaction costs to 5%+0.30, would cost us roughly the salary+benefits+taxes+overhead of two fulltime developers, per year. That's a cost that's simply unacceptable.

There is also the issue of "killing the need for a merchant account", being problematic from a number of legal/accounting angles( tracing this transaction from A to M, entity separation and identifcation ), as well as customer service angles( what is this PAYCSTRIPE_TCMERCH charge on my card?? ).
I'm certain that when Braintree had 2 customers it was also very easy to talk to their founder and get them to change their SSL certificate provider.
I worked in Network Engineering for years. You will absorb the new unmemorable IP6 addresses the same way you absorbed the unmemorable IP4 ones.

Plus you potentially have the added benefit of having the MAC right there in the IP so you don't have to do any extra effort to figure out what it is.
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That's awesome and is something that I only just discovered myself. Does it work with any autotools project?
"re you sure that arrangement of 6 was really a solution and did not require some minute bending or deformation?"

It's a good question, but then, it is also a perfect example of why playing around with the real object is sometimes better than applying a theoretical analysis. The question was about cigarettes, and cigarettes do bend / deform. That means that any analysis will need to take this characteristic into account. The problem is, we don't necessarily know all of the factors that need to be modelled to do a correct analysis, which is why empirical testing is still an important technique for problem solving.
No we haven't, and were wondering the same question.
Thanks for posting this!
An option in the config file to specify key length would be good IMHO.
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Another example is the 1st generation iPod. Did just enough to solidify market share, then started evolving. You don't see people ooh and ahhing over a wheel anymore now that we are firmly onto touch pads.

Edit: Another example is iTunes (why couldn't you buy things directly on your device) or their office productivity suite.
Valmart's your FATHER, SubStack!

Edit: On a serious note, this looks really exciting, and I can't wait to give it a shot.
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Ahh! good catch, Thank you. I'll zdd that in tomorrow.
I recall that there are several high-ranking RIAA lawyers in the justice department, too.
I don't think Amazon is looking to compete with Dropbox but really iTunes in the cloud. For them, competing with Dropbox would be like shooting themselves in the foot. As long as Dropbox remains on S3, Amazon makes more money the more successful Dropbox gets. If they start to compete directly Dropbox will surely move to a cheaper solution and Amazon will loose a pretty large contract. They would also loose some trust with developers who feel Amazon might smash them at any moment. If Dropbox ever moved as they probably will, I think Amazon may consider competing, but even then don't seem to be in the business of creating client software (exception kindle).
Indeed. I think they are less important for WWDC as well. I've no doubt that the big companies can go visit the Apple Campus anytime they want and speak to the engineers as much as they want - they don't need WWDC
Is Dropbox bigger than Netflix in terms of traffic/storage?
K - thanks for answering!
"Visualize process" is a very good mantra.
Evidence in criminal and civil investigations is frequently kept confidential before a trial takes place, to avoid complaints about widespread media exposure tainting the jury and interfering with the defendant's right to a fair trial.

You do want the administration to pursue legal action against the polluter here, yes?
When it comes to unpleasant thoughts I'm more scared of this robot bird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo

When you see a quadcopter hovering you know you are being watched. But with the bird it's a different story.
Stripe is also funded by YC.
The US and other western nations would make up for it quickly. According to http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display... we currently use 200 Billion gallons of water per day for the current Coal/Nuclear system. There's around 115 million households in the us so one gallon per house per day would be exponentially better.
The rolling shutter artifacts are present, yes, but it's in the range of a movie camera. Movie cameras also have some slight jelly in fast pans, something not many people are aware of.

"measured the mysterium (RED ONE) at 9ms, the X (EPIC) at 5ms, and film at 4ms. All of them substantially faster than other sensors which can be in the 20's."

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?42240

"The mechanical shutter "wipes" across the film in a similar way to how a CMOS sensor is read. The trick to CMOS is getting the read-reset time similar to the mechanical shutter. EPIC does that. (...) there is skew in a film camera with a mechanical shutter, one of the many reasons film has "character"."

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?55397-General-Questi...
Except for baby formula vs. breast feeding!
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Last year I managed to sell quite a few legal ebooks for students at $160 a piece. It could be worth your while experimenting with a high price point initially since you can always lower it at a later date, or even simultaneously sell at multiple prices.

It's possible to have multiple price points for essentially the same item. In another project (learn Spanish, photography and journalism in Bolivia -www.bolivianexpress.org) I differentiated between a "basic" package and a more expensive "complete" package. This allowed us to charge a higher price to customers with cash yet still remain affordable to those without much money. A commonly cited example of this technique is coffee shops. Coffee is a commodity yet many people will buy their daily fix for $6 (a triple chai vanilla latte cappuccino on wheels) whilst others will buy for only $2 (americano). Both are getting essentially the same product.

On the printed vs ebook pricing I choose to sell ebook only for business efficiency reasons. On my website I emphasized the advantages of the electronic format to my customers: instantly available, easily backed up, available to be read anywhere.

I'm sure you already plan on doing this, but make sure you take out a Google Adwords campaign targeting your niche.
plaster it with adsense - what else? - and see how much it makes.
and Ken Thompson
I sometimes vote such comments towards one, especially if they're only one vote away.
First of all, please provide recent benchmarks (GCC 4.2 is not recent) on multiple OSes that test more than one small subset of Boost. Otherwise your statements about performance are doubtful at best.

Second of all, those symbols will have an effect on compile times, but they should certainly be stripped out by the linker. Why would symbols that do nothing sit in the executable?

Thirdly, Boost's purpose is to iterate faster than the C++ standard library and have real-world data about what libraries work and are needed. Those libraries would then be included in next C++ standards, as it has happened with TR1.
There are useful libraries inside Boost and there are research libraries or concept libraries. Don't use a library just because it's included in Boost!

I use Boost and Qt. Since TR1 I didn't need Boost as much, which means that it's achieved one of its goals.
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> One gallon of water a day, in case we are talking about freshwater, is waaaay to much.

I wonder if there's any reason why it couldn't use saltwater? I guess it's possible that the salts would cause trouble or clog things up, but...
Isn't the point of 'minimal viability' a low bar?
Artificial leaf that can draw cheap and clean energy from water?
Well, it's not just a difference in optimization goals; it's a difference in methodology.

Evolution optimizes by using heuristics and stochastic search--piling crap on top of crap, and obfuscating into oblivion.

Engineering optimizes by finding elegant mathematical solutions.

Sorry, getting off-topic. I guess I'm just bitter about not being a robot.
They are giving away 20gb for a $2 purchase

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000667531
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Can anyone explain the use of such high resolutions? I know it could be nice to crop some parts of the movie and still have a nice set of pixels. But in reality you will just shoot the scene again or leave it out. Nowadays everybody is shooting millions of pixels but I never saw someone who used a cropped versions professionally.
Depends on how you look at it. The BGI (aka Beijing Genomics Institute) is already the worlds largest genome sequencing facility, and I know of many US researchers and companies that are essentially choosing to use the BGI for all their sequencing needs. While the US will remain the hub for the forefront of research, the Chinese are moving really fast in building facilities and training people. Almost everyone at the BGI is really young, but they will get older, gain more experience and train people. They are producing quality pipelines and algorithms and publishing some really good papers.

One example, but I am sure there are other, similar, ones.
I agree with you. Moreover, there is yet another paradox in the article - if you need that much self-hacking and self-tricking to achieve the goal, is the goal really that thing you want to achieve?

I always thought that the goals should be my servants, and I am going to achieve them because it fulfills me and I enjoy the hardship associated with them. This article feels to me like it's upside-down, like I should be a servant of my goals. But why should I?
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You shouldn't generalize. Saying 'X' about Boost is like saying 'X' about the US or Europe.

There are many different components in there.
I understand what you say, but unfortunately it's not correct.
We believe that our decisions are 100% analytical and conscious, the result of a thinking process, but reality is that our old and middle brains are almost always in charge and deeply influence our decisional process.
For a primer I suggest "Neuro web design", you can find it on Amazon, it's pretty short and has a generic approach to the matter.
Anyway, desirability and in general influencing a potential customer shouldn't be thought as some kind of cheating, it's completely natural and I dare say honest. Especially because a product that is badly designed is unlikely to influence us (and it's clearly written in the article).
You're probably particularly interested in the concept of Personas and mental models.
Send Gifts and Flowers to Bangalore.
The problem with Objective-C is that it only adds things, it doesn't make the C part easier to use or safer.

As you've said: everything else is the same as in C.
Anyway Stripe can figure out a way to innovate around this?
What a crap. "It will prove to be deadly." but no answer is given. If you are terrified of Facebook, just stop using it.

Maybe an upvoter can explain the upvote?
This is actually a little bit worrying as an entrepreneur building things on top of Amazon's Web Services.

Amazon has always made a point of not building services on top of its Cloud offerings that directly compete with its users. Cloud Drive sets a precedent for them as the first time they've gone against that principle.

There are lots of "low hanging fruit" companies that were built on the understanding that Amazon wasn't interested in implementing that stuff themselves. There's no debating that this will make Amazon a ton of money. It remains to be seen, however, how much it will cost them in developer loyalty and businesses that never get built because "If they did it to JungleDisk, they'll do it to us".
I'm all for visa reform and stuff but some of these quotes are cringe-worthy.

By as close as 2016, he claims the company will
grow in revenue to $1billion and employ over
4,000 people. "These jobs could have belonged
to the US," says Wadhwa.

Another:

You don't tell mummy and daddy that you're back
because America didn't want you.
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"What if you want something like Smalltalk / Lisp images? Runtime code generation and optimization of virtual method calls? Precise garbage collection?"

What is the point of controlling all of those things? The GP was talking about speed - how are GC, JIT and images related to this?
This is nice but doesn't strike me as competition for Dropbox in any way.
The strength of Dropbox is in the deceptively dead simple client interface that lets it work without you having to think about it.

Amazon isn't addressing that here.
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Thank God that YC backed a company taking on Paypal for consumer 2 business and business 2 business.

About time a YC quality company gets in that space.
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looks great. would be even better when it comes with automatic compression for bigger scripts.
I learned this during my second year in college: the secret to reaching out to people and building a strong social network is to knock on people's doors.

If someone lives in your dorm call over in the evening to chill. Call someone you've just met up for a beer. Facebook everyone you met at a house party inviting them to come to your party. You'll soon find yourself very popular.
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RED has been driving some tremendous innovation in this space. Their cameras are an order of magnitude cheaper than anything remotely comparable, and they've built the entire ecosystem around standard video editing software (Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, etc.) making this kind of technology accessible to a whole new market of amateur and non-feature filmmakers for whom it was previously out of reach.

They are a fascinating company born out of Jim Jannard's passion. The only reason they exist is because the industry dinosaurs had been happy to eschew innovation in favor of consistent and sustained profit models. Jannard's only goal is to build the camera that the competitors told him he couldn't have.
The entrepreneurial climate is terrible in India, but it is getting better. The crumbling infrastructure, rampant corruption and terrible quality of life mean that a lot of educated experienced Indians are now going away from the cities and into areas that really need them -- in the countryside.It still is difficult to get things done, but the bureaucracy is getting better albeit slowly. It will take another 3 generations for all of it to fall in place for India and it's people.
Ugg, what a silly article. I am a non-user of facebook and a dedicated civil libertarian, and this article is ridiculous speculation. Undoubtedly Facebook wants connections and influence in government, all big corporations do. The connection to the Trusted Identities in Cyberspace plans is purely imaginary. With so many real vital issues of online privacy and security being contested right now, hypothetical conspiracy theories like this are an unnecessary distraction.
I think it is still more expensive than Google to store photos and documents.

Google storage plans are almost a quarter of what Amazon is charging for! For 20GB you pay $20/yr and with Google it's just $5 (for 20GB).
Have a look - https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage

Am I missing something?
Automatic compression isn't in there yet but you can compress the bundles using the "filter" option, which just takes a function that transforms the bundled source.
From a cursory read, I reckon it's about the ``National Internet ID''. You know how governments tend to botch big IT projects? Now imagine being forced to use one such insecure `solution' for every act of communication over internet.
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we are in for a really rude awakening when it comes to the political pull a site like facebook can really have.

Here we have a company with a very very large cross section of just about every culture and country on earth. It has massive amounts of personal. intimate. detailed data on its users, their relationships, their interests and activities.

We have a CEO who is young, idealistic, ego-centric and in certain ways, impressionable. Not in a petty sense - but in a way where providing the opportunity to feel as though he really is changing the world, he will assume that he is -- and for the better. The problem is that, I believe, he (and facebook) will be manipulated.

Regardless of Mark's ideals and lofty goals - politics is politics. It is a system of control in its basest form. Facebook is the perfect venn between social utility and totalitarian encroachment.

Sadly - the social utility for its users currently outweighs its encroachment and it will be ratcheted further into a position where we cannot separate our daily activities from it.
It actually does not matter if i do not use facebook. Why? , because not using facebook affects me anyway. That is the reason why arguments like your do not have any value for me.
Fortunately for us non-US folk, this Minimum Viable Product also has a Minimum Viable BarbarianWall that's easily circumvented.

In this case, the only step of the process that checks your foreign-ness is the first one, where you accept the license agreement. So if you have a US VPN, you can quickly bypass the wall and get signed up. Then it's open to use directly from there.

Or better still, since it's Amazon, you can fire up one of their handy EC2 Windows boxes in New Jersey, remote desktop in and IE your way to http://amazon.com/clouddrive. It's a few minutes of pain, followed by a nickel charged to your Amazon account, but it gets you in to try this thing.

Enjoy!
Before your comment I don't think I'd heard of Xdrive. People know Amazon, Amazon already has a lot of users, and Amazon knows how to get people to buy things.

Odds are someone is going to have an account at Amazon rather than Dropbox, and when they go to the Cloud Drive site they see a massive button to upload files and get going immediately. As compared to Dropbox where the user has to download and install something first, and then go from there.

So yeah, I think Dropbox just lost a lot of potential users — sure, they may not have been the type of users who would pay Dropbox at first, but Amazon's service is only going to get better, and they're less likely to grow into a Dropbox paying user.
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We're an entirely self funded startup, just past our one year anniversary and we're going live on april fools. Ask us anything.
... minus however much it costs to rent and staff the Moscone center for an entire week, not to mention all of the event dressing (signs, shirts, props), food for the attendees...
Well, I'm proceeding by shorting Netflix in about 6 hours. We'll see how that goes.
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In some cases I could see how it would be beneficial for the judge to have a solid understanding, and previous experience with, the subject matter in order to be able to make more informed decisions. Some bad decisions are certain made now by judges that don't understand the complexities or technical nature of some cases.

One of the benefits of the common law system is that courts can use previous rulings as a basis to maintain consistency in enforcing the law.

It's unfortunate that until there are well established precedents that a the result of a complaint is a bit of "luck of the draw". One file sharer could end up with a huge judgment while another gets the case thrown out, depending on a judge's understanding, or lack-thereof, of the nature of the offense.
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In Belgium we have an excellent welfare program. For many people it brings in enough money so low wage jobs are not interesting enough. For 100 or 200 euro more they are not going to work.

In some countries you see people starting very small businesses just to survive. Buying and selling goods or delivering services such as gardening, cleaning or maintenance.

Maybe they should give a bigger incentive so people can start these small businesses instead of receiving welfare.

Off course I'm not speaking in IT startups in particular.
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It's not really about 'stealth payment' but rather a startup in a 'stealth' mode (for those confused by the title as myself).
I think everyone would love to hire a good designer. But as already told: if you are a startup or doing some weekend project you cannot afford the money - this doesn't mean that you will never hire a pro designer and change the design if your thing is going off.

If you only have a logo its kinda hard to build a harmonious design around it but its still better than nothing.
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I'm sure they would love to have him, but they've always been 5 years ahead of whatever Ray Ozzie did.