skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could use something like the Kinect to do a 3D scan of an object for output to a 3D printer?
Whoa nice you have a GPG smart card? Very cool. There were some people giving out USB tokens at FOSDEM which looked sort of neat but I haven't gotten it working reliably.

GPG is mostly easy to use -- gpg -e -r someone@somewhere.com file.txt -- will encrypt that file for that recipient. Most of the basic stuff are easy. For creating a key and setting that up, I suppose this isn't super intuitive and nobody has those commands memorized, but there are so many guides out there for doing this. I think I started with the gentoo gpg guide [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml].

Anyway, you're correct -- this is one of the reasons pass uses GPG.
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I'm sorry but none of that is even vaguely true, as true or false as something can be when it is entirely opinion.

Touch screens are to desktops as push bikes are to tractors. You need both. Some people even use both. Or just one. Or neither.

Maybe you feel this way because you've been driving a tractor around all this time and you feel like you've been wasting your time, however some of us (I imagine a lot of us on HN) like to do farming occasionally :-)
In total hindsight, it seems like this should have been expected.

For open source projects to succeed, it needs a strong, clear voice and leader and a large community of users (which results in a large enough group of developers willing to contribute).

TM2 has the bonus in that there's an extremely significant overlap between the user base and those who can and want to contribute to development.

The only question was whether there would be someone taking charge and pushing development forward, accepting patches etc...

It looks like that's very much the case.
What is wrong with having the user say what they want? My microwave doesn't popup open the door and grab what I am holding whenever I pass food in front of it, and that is fine.
You just need better wool. I have several knitted wool t-shirts.
It does seem like an curious decision coming from someone who, judging by what he says on his podcast, seems to hate ads.
In Drupal any module can inject its own separate stylesheet into the page. It's standard practice to enable Drupal's CSS (and javascript) compression feature once you move the site to production. That they haven't done it suggests the developers aren't very familiar with Drupal, or easily overlook details.
I have a GPG smartcard. The problem is that no readily-available card readers work under Linux. I had one on a Dell laptop of Core Duo vintage many years ago; after I got a new machine, I could never find a working card reader.
From their Terms of Use, their entire section on refunds:

"Kickstarter does not offer refunds. A Project Creator is not required to grant a Backer’s request for a refund unless the Project Creator is unable or unwilling to fulfill the reward.

Project Creators are required to fulfill all rewards of their successful fundraising campaigns or refund any Backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill."

Except there are two problems with that,

1) These people don't have the funds to begin with, that is why they are running a Kickstarter campaign.

2) The actual contract language is that they "Backer" funds a "Project Creator" to attempt something rather than to deliver something.

So when you go to sue the person who has your money you have to contend with the fact that they have no money (and insufficient assets probably to get a lien against, and if they do they will just do the personal bankruptcy thing) and then you have to convince a court (or a jury) that they didn't try in good faith to deliver the project.

They will argue the Backers knew there was a risk when they started and that due to problems unforseen by the creators these risks actualized and there project failed to materialize. They will argue the Project Creator is just as harmed as the Backer. The only way you might get any money back is if you managed to prove fraud.

Kickstarter has only been around for a short while, so we have time to watch this unfold.

This is not 'new' (while Kickstarter is, crowd funding is not). I recommend you look up previous cases where the product wasn't delivered. There were a whole bunch in the 60's when a bunch of 'movie producers' were raising money to make movies. I took a cinema class at USC (it was a fun elective) where the professor claimed that a lot of the contract language that exists today for production companies came out of the lawsuits of that time.
I'm amazed this hasn't been exploited by an out-and-out scam yet, I guess kickstarter must have some serious vetting process.

What's to stop somebody setting up a kickstarter for something highly desirable but somewhat impractical (but not totally out there) raising a few million $ and just riding off into the sunset?
Just because you need to a higher learning curve, doesn't mean it's wrong.
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Yet a minority of people buy macs.

Source:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_percentage_of_Mac_user....
There is no significant difference between criminal gangs, governments, and corporations. Each has some legitimate aspects and some ahady ones. Governments do things like genocide and rendition, corporations do things like bribery, and criminal gangs participate in black market and gray market activity (often illegal simply because governments declare a legal monopoly, as in gambling, arms dealing, prostitution, vengeance killing, etc.)

All are institutions and create the institutional fabric of society. A society that is trending toward greater human rights will observe certain trends in all three kinds of institutions... as will one that is trending toward decreased human rights.
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You should! This started out as a Kickstarter.
All open source projects have a list of committers and a maintainer or few. Ubuntu's system respects that. Do you want me uploading a "new version" of something you wrote? Who am I? I am some evil hacker.
It's not just NASA, zip-ties are banned in plenty of data centers and telecom facilities for the reasons cited.

Less of a concern on Mars, but the edge where the excess is cut away can be really sharp and hazardous as well.
That is what IBM is trying to do with Watson initially.
To be honest, I'm not sure why crowdsourcing and Kickstarter are so confusing to so many. If you put money into anything on Kickstarter and it fails, you have lost that money.

It is a gamble. End of story.
They actually did make a gameboy hookup to a sewing machine, I think primarily for embroidering patterns.

http://kotaku.com/5800606/this-might-be-the-weirdest-game-bo...
I've backed a fair few (over a dozen) KickStarter projects, and every single time I've seen it as a risky investment with the HOPE of getting an awesome product out of it.

Some of my backings have been in the few-hundred-dollar range, and as much as I'd be upset if they didn't success and send me my product, I wouldn't expect a refund.

The only point I could see myself actually BLAMING them, would be if they didn't put their best efforts into creating the product, and just bailed with everyones money.

If they truly do try their hardest to create the product, and use up all the money trying, but still fail... I'm OK with that.
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there's a high school science project where you make your own EEG (not that hard, really!) and then use it to drive an RC blimp.

it would be even easier with the emotiv, which also gives you other face-muscle sensors so you can do the eyeblink stuff. with a homebuilt EEG you can also get a lot of data but there are few, as I understand it, signals that can be easily 'user influenced'.
"Oh my god, what am I going to do without HN karma! Oh wait I know, let me post some yakuza or geisha news and gather some HN karma! And try my best to be a HN resident for a long time! That's because I don't have a life!"

The reason I registered at some point was because I randomly wanted to write a reply to post. To hell with it. And you.
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That reminds me of the John Ford quote:

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

People do not desire better desktop operating systems. They want computers to disappear. It simply does not matter how good this awesome new, secure, desktop OS is because it's built for a world that doesn't exist anymore.
Are you kidding? You wouldn't have found it because you weren't looking for it because you don't want to read crap filler content... if you did, you'd have been browsing the other sites it was on. So right, you wouldn't have found it, and maybe, somehow, you thought it was a valuable use of your time to read it, but how does that make it in anyway appropriate for this site?
Generally security people are fairly approachable. If you're at BlackHat, all you have to do is say "I saw your presentation -- neat work, but I have some questions" or "want to grab a beer?" and you'll most likely have a good conversation.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zioneyez/eyeztm-by-zione... seems like a pretty clear example of this. Backers are actually starting a separate forum to discuss legal action. Doesn't seem to be any sort of recourse via kickstarter.
Just tried this out; on Firefox at least you have to specify the shadow color, otherwise it inherits from the text color and becomes transparent. So, text-shadow: 0 0 5px #000
Standing up for the health of the community has become very unpopular.
Else where? When the copyright cartel has all vendors under under their control...
You are over dramatizing the bad part. I quit my job exactly a one year ago to make sustainable business developing iPhone apps. I have failed and I am looking for a job BUT the entire year was a lot of fun, I learned a lot. Its not the end of your life if you run out of money for a while. You will add more skills in the worst case. If you are single its easier.
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But let's not miss the other half of that sentence: "While the company's policy says creators have to give refunds on failed projects, the website doesn't have a mechanism to do it."

If they don't have a way of returning the money, then it doesn't really sound like a very serious policy. In fact, it sounds like they haven't given it much thought at all, and their policy is to hope that it doesn't happen:

`` So I call Kickstarter founder Yancey Strickler, and ask: What if Uhrman isn't able to deliver the consoles? Would Kickstarter get involved?

"You know, that would be new ground," he says. "I don't know. I mean, no, I don't think that we would. But certainly, the kind of thing you're talking about is not a bridge that has been crossed yet. Someday it will. And you know, I think if something did go awry, it would be — it wouldn't be my favorite day." ``
It turns out startups are risky.
When someone makes something that's marketable out of one of Valve's games, Gabe Newell normally gives them a job or a publishing deal. That's how all video game companies should operate.
This is awesome! I think I know where I can offload my assembled older projects when I'm done with them. =)

One note: When singing up you should redirect away from the registration page.
This site is absolute trash, pretty much like anything else the NIC creates. I've tried to register using a dozen possible methods and there are all sorts of errors. Seriously, how hard is it to allow someone to create an account, beta or no beta? They have this ridiculous list of ways to sign up including Foursquare and PayPal and almost none of them work. Yes Paypal, really.
Has anyone tried to actually download a data set? It seems you have to register first. Is there any good reason why an open government initiative would need to require registration to access the actual data?
Sounds good! Will do!
If everything were okay TEPCO would have a lot to brag about and its image would only go up.

It's no wonder so many rank and file TEPCO employees are resigning of late.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/tepco-worke...

I bet they know more than the general public does too.
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Same as selling anything. A hosted web app is not easier to market. The problems you are facing now (who is my customer and how do I get them to buy) is what every other business out there goes through. You need to create a good direct email campaign to test whether businesses will buy your product.
So after about 20 attempts I now have an account, but if I try to download a data set, it takes me to my profile page.
Unfortunately, one has to eat. And there are social responsibilities, e.g. to family and the needy and so on. It's tempting to work on projects that are really meaningful, but if one receives nothing at all for it, the result may be starvation or a life of crime, unfortunately.
You're probably familiar with the Eclipse distribution management package then (not to be confused with the IDE), that's the app I was referring to. I've been using Universe since the Vmark days, ADDS Mentor and Sequoia before that. Pick type databases are sadly under-rated. Possibly because there's never really been any kind of marketing aimed at indy developers and/or students?
It is quite clear that Kickstarts are pre orders, because the SEC would shut the whole thing down if it claimed to be an investment scheme.

Really, any Kickstart that isn't "we need $X to place a bulk order with our raw materials supplier" is at best wishful thinking, and more commonly an abuse of how Kickstarter presents itself. It should not be for paying speculative salaries to the campaigners (Hi, LightTable!).
Joel - try http://hnalerts.com/ to get SMS notifications when your domains are on HN or Reddit. Not my service, just a happy fan.
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I've backed a bunch of small, and a couple of large Kickstarter projects. I viewed each and every one (including the high-value ZPM Espresso Machine and Pebble Watch ones) as a gift to someone with an exciting idea, with the understanding that if things went OK I'd probably get a Watch/CoffeeMachine/AduinoShield/Album in return - but if things went badly I'd get nothing.

I'll be sad if the Pebble guys don't deliver, but sad because I want them to succeed, not because "I bought a watch and they never sent it". Even if they took off and spent all the money on hookers and blow, I'd mostly be sad that an apparently great product never made it to the market, rather than sad about my couple of hundred buck having gone.

Surely this sentence "But financial backers have no clear way of getting a refund if the young businesses fail to deliver." represents a fundamental mis-understanding of what Kickstarter is? If you want "refunds", go buy things from a store with a unambiguous refund policy. If you want to be a "financial backer", work out what that means before claiming you're owed a refund…
oh yeah, thats pretty cool, yet to test more, looks good and neat so far!
Epic thread. I haven't used Linux much since early 2000, but all the giants of Linux I remember from my Linux hacking days are there. Interesting read!
It really bothers you that they consider funded projects successfully funded? The goal of a kickstarter project is to raise money for the attempt. Once the money is raised, the kickstarter is successful. I think the site is pretty upfront about this.

And any additional judgement is out of their hands. They could allow backers to fill out a survey after the tentative delivery date has passed, and that might be interesting to see. But it's hard to deal with the delays inevitable in any project.
I am pretty sure that you don't have to spend all income the year you receive it to avoid paying taxes on it. One of the foundations of accounting is the matching principle:
"Expenses are recognized when obligations are (1) incurred (usually when goods are transferred or services rendered, e.g. sold), and (2) offset against recognized revenues, which were generated from those expenses (related on the cause-and-effect basis), no matter when cash is paid out."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_principle

There are multiple ways to match income and expenses that occur in different years - at least if you have some sort of business entity.
This looks nice. I've been doing something similar by hand for e.g offlineimap and msmtp passwords that I didn't want to store in plain text. I had planned on writing a similar utility to manage things, and it looks like now I won't have to. Thanks for sharing.
Is there a Saxon alternative?
Why doesn't Kickstarter follow the original Groupon (thepoint.com) model, where if it doesn't meet its goal, nobody is charged?
The JOBS Act will let companies set up Kickstartr-style funding portals for small investors.[1] It was signed in April, but the SEC is still in the process of defining how it will be implemented.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startups...
not part of their tech talk series, somewhat related to Airbnb in the sense that its hosted there and the organizer works at Airbnb
The danger with using an application that is not current like Textmate 1 is that an OS update could majorly break it and you would be stuck between keeping the tool you know or upgrading and losing access to it.
It stores entries names in plaintext? Not very secure. I'll rather have log.tmp file container (with all encrypted passwords inside) than passwords\gmail.gpg
Great! Glad you like it. Let me know if you have any suggestions or feature requests.
Back when I used textmate a year or two ago, it would crash and hang frequently, especially when dealing with large files or folders.
Usernames aren't considered to be privileged data. If you're relying on your usernames being secret, then you're making a big mistake and you should rethink things.
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Agreed. He should make sure people actually want to use this, and if not, then just move on. Seems he built the software before testing if there was a market for it. Golfers spend lots of money on the actual game and equipment, though. So maybe he could use this as a channel to sell some golf equipment. Maybe he can test different golf balls and then have the software tell people which to buy from his website. Though this would require more resources to be invested into it.
Seeing as an aside/light hearted post like this makes it onto the HN front page, I'd say its a reasonable deal for the advertiser in terms of eyeballs/brand awareness, even if the HN audience is not their intended audience.
I've been using (and updating) kedpm (python based FPM compatible password manager with GTK and CLI interfaces. found on sourceforce and github) for a few years now...

This looks like a nice addition to the growing menagerie of password managers.

All kedpm data, including entry names, are stored in an encrypted file. I think unencrypted filenames is a kind of information leakage; I may not want an attacker to know that I even a password to a specific service.

Also, I don't see a mechanism to search for entries. I have hundreds of password entries so search (on any field) is critical for me.

With the ability to search (assuming it's fast), the first problem could be mitigated by using generated file names.
"Definitize" should mean "to make not finite", as when launching a space craft out of gravitational orbit.

"Misunderdestimate" was a flub or portmanteau of "misunderstand" and "underestimate", not a word that was used intentionally and repeatedly. It is actually kind of a cool portmanteau.
>Benchmark against your own potential, and against your desires.

In my case, doing this has been extremely depressing. This is a habit I need to unlearn, lest it ruin my happiness and my life.
That is true for deals that don't get funded. This is talking about the case where the deal is funded but the service is never delivered. Like having a Groupon for a company that went out of business.
Usernames aren't considered to be privileged data. If you're relying on your usernames being secret, then you're making a big mistake and you should rethink things. Alternatively, generic names.

For search, just use grep. "pass | grep whatever" has worked pretty well for me when the tab completion did not. Or would you suggest an alternative approach? I'm open to ideas.
Out of curiosity, has anyone here invested in a Kickstarter project that entailed physical goods that actually made its proposed deadline? Between the three I've paid for so far, all of them have been at least two months late of the deadlines they made after funding was successful.

This includes the Elevation Dock, Kickstarter's first $1M+ project, which is shamefully late. I doubt mine will get to me before the iPhone 5 comes out, which is somewhat extra bitter to me since I just had my iPhone 4 stolen and am waiting for the 5 to come out...so I probably won't be using the Elevation Dock at all, if it ever actually comes.
Yep, its a minefield (of course like most things, these regs exist to protect special interest).

I'm sure there is some bright attorney who could figure a way around it (ie. its an unsecured loan, that contains a very permissible default clause, which is potentially convertible to an equity share upon event a, b, c happening). Or more simply, just host the site in Hong Kong or somewhere and escape US jurisdiction.

I know that none of this will never happen, just talking out loud....honestly, the first time I heard about Kickstarter, I thought this was the idea and I was excited. Then I discovered it was "act like a angel investor, fund my idea, and if 1000 things go right you will get a free tshirt". Meh.
That's exactly what happens. You commit to backing a project, but your card is only charged once the project meets it's finding goal.
Because Kickstarter wouldn't make as much money ...
>Microsoft would not extort PC makers like they do with Android makers but there is no evidence for that. If you have any documents suggesting otherwise, it would be nice if you could produce them.

I shall do exactly that.
http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f200400/200457.htm

>A. Microsoft shall not retaliate against an OEM by altering Microsoft's commercial relations with that OEM, or by withholding newly introduced forms of non-monetary Consideration (including but not limited to new versions of existing forms of non-monetary Consideration) from that OEM, because it is known to Microsoft that the OEM is or is contemplating:

developing, distributing, promoting, using, selling, or licensing any software that competes with Microsoft Platform Software or any product or service that distributes or promotes any Non-Microsoft Middleware;

shipping a Personal Computer that (a) includes both a Windows Operating System Product and a non-Microsoft Operating System, or (b) will boot with more than one Operating System; or

exercising any of the options or alternatives provided for under this Final Judgment.

>Besides, when all PC makers depend so much on Microsoft, there are many other creative ways to punish OEMs who want to be more independent without raising too many eyebrows

If an OEM can prove it, billions of dollars to them in court.

Maybe System76 can be the big Linux OEM, except that Linux folks buy Thinkpads or Macs.

https://www.system76.com/

Do you have any documentation that MS is suing them?
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