skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Murders are detectable outside of homes. Is someone missing? Yes? Then start an investigation.

Fraud can be detected with perfectly normal well understood investigation techniques. No literally peering through walls is required. It is an important difference because fraud investigation techniques were conceivable when the laws we run our legal system with, laws put in place to protect us from it, were created.

Nobody is proposing we deploy these sorts of technologies to patrol for these crimes. Once we are reasonably certain that a particular crime has occurred, break out the UAVs for all I care. And get a warrant first. That is how the system was intended to work; if you breach that intention you breach the implied contract citizens have with their society.

Any crime should have an effect that is noticeable in a reasonable way. If there are absolutely no other methods of even determining if a crime has happened, then it is not a crime. A crime must have an effect, and an effect is noticeable. If there are other methods, the use those.
You forgot a few critical steps for a full PayPal replacement. Might I recommend:

* Set up a Twilio number for billing support. Play hold music even if your office is closed.

* Proxy transactions to Stripe using a intermediary server in India to match the latency and reliability.

* Randomly multiply totals by 10.

* Randomly forget to call the Stripe API.

* Setup auto renewals. Even for one time payments.

* If a customer has more than 20% in receipts than the previous day, freeze all funds for 190 days.
I imagine it would be at least slightly difficult. A .gov blog could link out to any number of domains. Plus, a domain they linked out to three years ago could get taken over and used for nefarious purposes.
I've heard that that doesn't work either, because then they redefine gross to mean what 'net' used to mean before.
It's not illegal for the telephone company to not try stopping them.
You generate a loss for one company, but income for another company. I don't see how this avoids taxes, just moves them from one entity to another. (so if the second entity is in a tax-friendly jurisdiction, it's obvious how that helps, but it doesn't simply generate a loss and that's the end of the story.)
Well, they stopped that one specific redirect "and others" [1], but this will just be a game of whack-a-mole given the huge number of organizations (local, state, federal) hosting sites under .GOV. I'm sure there are tons more redirects lurking on rarely viewed sites under .GOV. It's not hard to find potential starting points [2][3].

[1] labor.vermont.gov/LinkClick.aspx?link=[spam site]

[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=site:.gov+inurl%3Aredirect

[3] http://www.google.com/search?q=site:.gov+inurl%3Alinkclick
I can't shake the feeling that we could be having a much more fruitful conversation if we simply removed the word "spiritual" from it, and talked about the concepts themselves. Arguing over the definitions of words has got to be one of the most exhausting and futile acts in existence.
this is a really well done project, did you build the whole app yourself?

EDIT: I guess you just answered this :) awesome job, it looks amazing!
Benioff is very very good at playing the publicity game. What was said is not important, that wasn't the reason why he said it. He said it in order to make front pages, and he did.
It's worth noticing that he says he didn't email this to tech writers, he didn't tip anybody, all he did was put the picture on picasa. If he'd gone out and told people he had inside information about the next nexus, that'd be kind of mean, but i'm pretty sure there's nothing unethical about putting a render on picasa and just letting the internet go crazy speculating about it.
Why I won't depend on your pre-release software
Can you implement the Read class in Clojure?

class Read r where read :: String -> r

(Let's ignore parse errors for our purposes here)

Haskell supports return-type polymorphism. Clojure, being dynamically typed, cannot in general support this kind of overloading.
And you also expose yourself to dangers of breaking a leg when you go on a hiking adventure. When you drive you also are very vulnerable. Every time you step into the shower you can slip, snap your spine or hit your head and remain paralyzed or dead. But you know what makes those things different than TSA? -- You get something back in return for that risk. You have fun hiking, you get to work faster, you get cleaned so you don't repulse friends and strangers with BO.

But you get _nothing_ back by going through the TSA scanners except getting your cells blasted by energy enough to mutate your DNA. Yes you get the same in flight, but you are getting some place pretty darn fast as a trade-off.

To continue the analogy. Imagine you go through a machine every morning that has a spring loaded hammer when you exit you house to leave. Most of these machine will do nothing to you, but every rarely those machine are known to release their hammer and smash limbs or cause injury otherwise. That is exactly the equivalent of TSA scanners. You get nothing back for the risk of injury.
Casual use of thermal cameras is indeed too much (and as someone else pointed out, illegal.) Other things, like matching faces, speech, or even listening in public places, seem fine to me. (Someone else pointed to laws about flying so low, but if that can be worked around...) I know that's a popular image, but, if this is a new tool for officers patrolling, then I don't see what's so dystopian about this.

As long as we're not talking about cutting other officers and patrols, I would fully support police stations hiring a couple of people to alternate flying a dozen or so drones around the city. Just put some charging stations on top of light poles or city buildings, and have them automated to fly back when power is sufficiently low.

I really don't get why people are averse to such things so long as we keep in mind that they are tools are to help people. They're not magic robots that can not completely take the place of people. If we ever get to a point where it even seems like that, then that's another conversation to have. But we're not there yet, and I see no reason to not use tools if they seem worthwhile.

/edit: I understand that any tool can be abused, but can someone explain to me why this is met with such anger? Barring thermal or other vision modes, what's the huge difference in this and patrolling? (Aside from not being seen.)
I'm not criticising, I'm only trying to complement what you've already done.
The buttons show an underline on Safari on OSX when they're hovered over.
I'm working on it now, and will post a link with my fixes later on.
Fantastic work, thanks so much!
I wonder why there aren't more products that use DDR3 memory for storage. Constant power supply and a reasonable small emergency battery seem no-brainers for server operations and you don't have these creeping failure modes as with SSD. Is it the lack of error correction? The need to refresh the state?
RSA’s Distributed Credential Protection: Yeah They Are Overselling it a Bit.
Google is still a one trick pony from a revenue perspective. It sells advertising pixels in web browsers. As the world moves to consuming less and less info via web browsers this will become a bigger problem for Google. It seems every day I am getting so much more of my info from mobile/tablet apps than I am from a traditional browser. For instance I use the Yelp app to find businesses instead the browser. Of course I still spend a lot of time in a browser, but I certainly see a future where the browser goes the way of newsprint as my devices get smarter and smarter software. Google doesn't have a revenue model for those devices (yet).
Ask HN: Cheapest way to process $10 credit card payments
I am trying to figure out how to process payments for an iphone app. This involves choosing which gateway, merchant, and card input (jumio / card.io / all the different magnetic strip readers / others?) Most charges will be around 10 USD. Does anyone have advice on which gateway, merchant and card input method to use? What other things should influence my choices? There will be no recurring billing by the way. Any advice helps, thanks!
Where's the printer friendly version? I'm not playing too-clever scrolling games.
Isn't this kind of an over kill, i mean how often does one update their resume.
I think it would be more accurate to say "the install took less than 30 days." If you get all your circuits dropped in and then start counting days, it becomes much more realistic.
Why We Should Embrace Failure
Show HN: I'm 13 and This is My First App
> Beginners' minds don't go around dispensing advice.

Cool-sounding advice, I suppose. What sort of mind is yours?
“Obviously, our office encourages lifelong learning and wants Minnesotans to take advantage of educational materials available on the Internet, particularly if they’re free,” said Larry Pogemiller, director of the office. “No Minnesotan should hesitate to take advantage of free, online offerings from Coursera.”

Larry Pogemiller needs to go. Earlier today, he said Coursera-affiliated universities needed to register (and, pay up) "to prevent people from wasting their time." Riiiight. /s

Pogemiller only backed down from being a Government-sponsored bully when the press picked it up, and when asked, was surprised that Coursera didn't just roll over and pay up. Words fail me for how out-of-touch this guy is. He should be nowhere near the wheels of government.

Minnesota, do the right thing and reprimand Larry Pogemiller. A very public firing would not be a step too far.

UPDATE: Downvoted? Larry, is that you?

UPDATE 2: Wow, I've never had a post that goes up and down in votes like this one.

This wasn't an innocent mistake, a clerical error, a misunderstanding of the law, etc. He literally saw nothing wrong with his office's actions until confronted by the press. How many other times has he misused the long arm of the law that didn't get picked up by the press? People in positions of power like Larry Pogemiller must be reprimanded when they abuse their position. Every. Time. The public vests power in these people, and they must, MUST be publicly held accountable when they abuse that trust.

If someone doesn't want the responsibility of maintaining the public's trust, they need to find work in the private sector.
Show HN: Piki is now open source
This is a great idea. I'm an Android developer and every now and then I think "I must be doing this wrong somehow". A list like that helps building a mental database of best practices, good job!
Show HN: Visualize where your friends travel.
Thanks for the positive feedback! I can look at the CSS soon, but if you want to put in a pull request on Github that would also be appreciated!
Also require the user to enter his One Time Password to unsubscribe from marketing emails.
You don't have to learn to code to think like a coder
Emailing .patch files is better than VSS :-)
https://spacebox.io
Paypal? Or a toy example kind of like Paypal?
It's not just the interface, it's the file system as well. A harddisk can be written to infinitely many times, but the cells in an SSD eventually wear out. That's why you have wear levelling, trim, an understanding of common file systems in the SSD firmware, the works. I keep asking: when will the low-level access be moved to a low-level SSD driver, where it belongs.
Even as someone who wants to see law enforcement crack down harshly on unsafe driving, I highly approve of this. Speed cameras were a great idea that failed because of greedy vendors (and greedy municipalities). The cameras should encourage good behavior, not shake down average drivers. (And, the vendor should get one fee for building the thing, not a percentage of each ticket given.)

My design would have used something like an LCD in front of the license plate. When near a camera, turn dark. Otherwise, stay clear.
Yeah, I like yours better for sure. But please don't compete on price! Charge for the useful analytics and CSS customization. louisck's web developer should use your product for his next $5 video and you deserve to get paid for that.
I started as a programmer and got an MBA from an ok school (top 20). The combination is very valuable (at least to me) for exactly the reason you cite: the best decisions require wading around in the mucky details.

The MBA gives you a few tools that are helpful, but mainly it's a way to brand yourself and have people give you the benefit of the doubt that you can do things other than strictly build stuff.

I personally think the anti-patterns you describe-- the "do whatever it takes" without having the first idea what that is-- are intellectually dishonest and a sort of management-by-roulette. Sometimes you get lucky and it works out, but I don't know how you'd sleep running things that way.
As someone who has zero calc training nor linear algebra (some discrete mathematics was all I took in University), what are some recommended start point to most quickly be up to speed to digest the resources posted both in the OP and by other commenters in this thread? Just a bit of background about where I am at math-wise: I tried taking Andrew Ng's ML course, and quickly fell behind starting with the second programming assignment (it was implementing a linear regression algo, I believe).
NDAs Considered an Anti-Pattern
There should be plenty of time to test them now, to see if they are dangerous, and to see if they were correctly calibrated while they were deployed. Right?
That's kind of my point. Why label a section with a title that's bound to be controversial and confusing, only to include almost nothing relevant to that title?
Why isn't this stuff outlawed? To me it doesn't sound like accounting tricks at all, it sounds like outright fraud.
Really cute, props on the originality. The general design is good (I loved the skills bars!), but your Experience sections looks a bit too wall-o-text. I can't imagine reading through all that.

If I were you I'd try reducing the word count as much as possible as well as applying a very very subtle background shade for each position to set them apart (or something similar to that).

Anyway, awesome stuff.
You aren't using any ammunition here. What is in it for the user? Sit down with some friends and ask them - what does this do? I think you've actually got a good concept here. But you have to read the second paragraph of your 'about' page to understand it.

You need just one use case. It's too confusing you're trying to be everything for everyone too early. You have no traction because people don't find it useful so try and find out why.

For what I understand (I might be wrong), but shoutt is an instant way to find people to do stuff with every moment on your phone. Simple as that.

Ask - where are people really losing out because they don't have this service. Then subsidise those people to build up your platform and attract others. Then when you find out what this is useful for right now then do all your PR. But make sure you having a concrete message.

You could use it to organize parties on campus. People could shoutt to get everyone to a party because there is going to be some mega hot girls etc. That might be a useful use case to start that would spread the word really quick.

Some thoughts that might help anyway :) It's got potential I think. I would have used it to go surfing. I can never find anyone.
This is quite neat. First thing I've said "wow" to in a while on HN. How do you think municipalities will react? I imagine they will pass laws against these sorts of devices.
Oh, so Minnesota doesn't want to repudiate the entirety of the 1st amendment to the constitution? Thanks, we weren't sure of that before.
This is an amazing idea. So simple, yet so effective. I'm surprised someone didn't come up with this years ago.
Verizon bragging about spying on customers
I'm getting much lower rates when I plug them into tax calculators. For example, if you make $100k, are single, and take the standard deduction, you pay an overall $18k in federal income tax (18%) and just under $7k in MN income tax (7%), for 25% total. YMMV if you have a spouse, kids, or a mortgage, of course.
Exactly. To me, it seems that ideas are not really so distinct from their execution. Of course it's possible to have a 'great idea' without the ability to execute it, and it's possible to possess the ability without the idea, but both of these should be disregarded as uninteresting. Some might say then, that the 'interesting' part is the balance of idea and implementation, but I think that the significant ideas/projects are really only so because of the people that fostered them.
Do all traffic cameras use a flash, even in daylight, and if so, why?
> Safari on my New iPad on iOS 6 works significantly better than Safari on my original iPad on iOS 5.1.1. For one thing, it never crashes

That's because the new iPad has 4 times the RAM of the original iPad. Lack of RAM was the cause of almost all Safari crashes on the original iPad. Safari under iOS 5.1.1 on the new iPad was as stable, or even a little bit more stable, than under iOS 6.
Reminds me of the scramble suits from A Scanner Darkly.

As government surveillance technologies improve, the anonymity (and accompanying privacy) that once accompanied some areas of public life is at risk.

Public opposition to that trend has largely come in the form of calls for better legal protections. However, my suspicion is that ultimately it will be the arms race between surveillance technologies and technologies like this product that determine what happens to public anonymity.
DRAM is so low-density and complex to use safely that it's really not worth it; flash works fine.
Forget about version control, may them be using pen drives to copy code around for the rest of their days...
This will get banned in no time. In my country (the Netherlands) even passive radar detectors are banned, let alone actively jamming these things.
Best way to fix those (Website-->) buttons is to remove them. They are very distracting! Just make the titles links with some suitable style.
http://www.unturf.com/post/24536592330/i-dont-care-if-you-ar...
Sure but the thing about already living in the stone age is that being knocked back to the stone age isn't so much a catastrophe as it is Tuesday.
Security Flaws in the TSA Pre-Check System and the Boarding Pass Check System
Yup. David knows what he's talking about.
It allowed people who didn't know how to use google to tweak some aspects of their computer. Going by what I've read while attempting to help people in the Ubuntu forums, Ubuntu-tweak was roughly as reliable as pasting lines from google searches into a root prompt.
> My design would have used something like an LCD in front of the license plate. When near a camera, turn dark. Otherwise, stay clear.

Your design would likely be illegal, whereas this one probably isn't. Yet.
"Forever" is hyperbole. I don't know about the US but digital cameras with no flash (or infrared illumination, specifically to avoid visual light overexposure problems) are becoming common here in the UK.

Also if the camera taking the picture has a shutter speed faster than the time it takes this system to respond, it'll get a picture before the defensive flash occurs. They do claim the noPhoto is fast enough but it would take testing against actual, regulation speed cameras to come close to guaranteeing that.
Ideas are the result of a process: brilliance / talent / skill leads to understanding and insight, which identifies valuable needs and lacks, which then get synthesized into an idea.

The idea is the final product of that process, that's why it's normally dismissed as worthless. An idea by itself is like the combination to a lock for a case you don't have, which is in a place you don't know.
This is how government works everywhere in the United States -- ram as much greedy crap through legislation hoping nobody would notice. Why innovate when you can legislate?

It's not the status quo but it happens far too often, and without repercussions.

I am not anti-government or anti-American but it's hard not to have a very sour taste in your mouth when you hear it happening every day.
I like mostly everything I see, but I have one criticism. The bars in the technical section seem arbitrary. It seems that a person viewing this CV wouldn't know quite what to take away from it. To start, I am assuming this is some sort of proficiency. The proficiency of a skill is relative only to the proficiency of the other skills which doesn't tell a person much. Is there some way that you can give the bar a baseline to work from. Something along the lines of 'no experience' -> 'comfortable' -> 'proficient'.
lack of permanence really. I have seen servers that go down for more than a few hours or even a few days. It's basically a game of chicken with your data. What happens when your power goes out for longer than you can provide backup supply to? You lose all your data that was on the DDR3.

The basic way that they deal with that is to use a two phase system. Lots of DDR3 and servers running a caching layer on them(memcached, etc...). You can buffer your writes in ram as well but that as always is a tradeoff.
I had this idea quite a while ago after watching a Mythbusters episode during which they attempted to beat a speed camera. The only solution was making a second plate mechanically fall over the real plate. I had planned on using infared LEDs which ran off of the car's battery. Only cameras would pick them up.

It's awesome to see this actually being implemented and sold. Even though I had absolutely nothing to do with this, it's cool to see the product come to life.
My design would have used something like an LCD in front of the license plate. When near a camera, turn dark. Otherwise, stay clear.

This would address my other concern, having my car tracked in parking lots by private businesses.

Being able to detect a camera seems a knotty problem though. Maybe have it use GPS and enter locations where the plate needs to be impossible to scan from a distance.
Thanks! I'm pretty happy with it. The integration turned out to be really easy.
The subculture of Weird Twitter
In the United Kingdom at least, no, not all do. And infrared is also common, specifically as a mechanism for countering visual light overexposure (as much a problem at night as during the day for a forward facing camera).
Why the down votes? They've nearly doubled the employee count in a couple of years, which is quite impressive at that scale.
I love those skill bars.

Because they say something meaningful, potentially, namely what you're relatively better or worse at, more or less experienced at. Without committing the sin of telling the world what your objectively absolute rating is in some supposedly global but in actuality undefined frame of reference.

Example: "I'm a 6/10 on Apples and an 8 on Oranges, and Bob over there says he's 9 on Apples and 1 on bananas. Turns out in actuality I'm way better at Apples than Bob, but Bob kicks most people's asses at bananas!"
Exercise Barriers for Getting Your Ass in Shape
And the FACT is that Lawrence Pogemiller is the one who said that Minnesota does NOT intend to enforce this law against Coursera (overriding the earlier statement from the person in charge of registration), and will be working in January with the legislator and governor to get the law amended to take into these new developments in online education.

If you are intending to try to smear Democrats, you are doing a spectacularly poor job.
This might save you a few tickets, but it sets you up for a much more serious charge when you are caught. Ask all the sportbikers who have been caught with flip-up tags.

It is cool though...
I hope this catches on as a trend. A similar setup has worked great for me for some time now. Don't forget your print media specific styles though...
"What happens when your power goes out for longer than you can provide backup supply to?" - You flush to Spinning disk.
http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html