skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you just create a transaction address derived from a hash of your document

How do you do that?
Perhaps not with iOS, but Android allows such things in their SDK. Guess iOS is just more restrictive in that manner.
Argentina freezes prices to break inflation spiral
The one key element of a Skype Killer, which isn't present in WebRTC, is a prescribed infrastructure to support these communications. Skype is made up of users who actually are, usually, unaware that they are also routing calls for other users. Even more precarious (and absent from WebRTC) are the skype SuperNodes, which no one is going to redo for WebRTC.

The things which we love about skype, most notably the directory and ease of routing, are currently missing from WebRTC. Someone might come along and make them, but WebRTC is not inherently different from Skype's infrastructure, it's just new. Someone still has to build the supporting services to turn this into a Skype Killer.
Show HN: We are building a home for questions too subjective for Stack Overflow
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Would really appreciate some feedback on a site we are working on that deals with programming/tech questions with no definitive answer.

The concept is that while there may be no definitive answer to "Best X for Y", knowing the pros/cons of the different options and their use-cases is useful when making a decision.

We also took a different approach to Q&A and went very collaborative, so one person doesn't have to write everything and we can improve/update it over time.

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Agree for software people, agree for middle class people with no children. Vast swathes of the population are not included. 30% of the population has less than 10k in net wealth. Think someone with a mortgage but no equity(or even underwater) and no assets. For this person, money is a very key issue since they are one non-emergency medical issue(cancer, heart disease, diabetes) away from death assuming they have insurance. If they don't have insurance, they will die if they develop a medical issue due to lack of ability to pay for their treatments or medication.

For those with money, don't forget luck. Also don't forget timing, but I repeat myself.

The money thing comes into play for the lower 30% of the population which has 10k to -infinity in net worth. Here's a tip: price out some business plans, then look up the percentage of the US population has enough net worth[1] to fund or convince a bank to fund their plan.

[1]http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/11/30/study-american-hou...
Are you saying google is irrelevant to firefox?
Thanks, enlightened reply.

On the other hand I'm feeling that way too many take this debate to a level where they actively deny any evidence that points towards a different solution.

Try to find where this was considered. I haven't heard a good explanation yet.
"The target audience for this is people who're most likely to be (sensibly, imo) running with NoScript or with JS completely off."

Absolute rubbish

I work in a huge place that holds almost 2000 developers ranging in many different languages, skillsets and areas.
I've yet to meet 1 who surfs with JS switched off.

Maybe this was the case in the early 2000s, but certainly not now. Get with the times.
Still need directory services too. That problem isn't going away...
I think he's referring to a hostile script trying to bind to keydown -- usually you shove the banners in iframes to limit this possibility when you include external untrusted content. I assume the same holds true here, though.
It may be encrypted -- but is it protected against traffic analysis?

The following papers are a good starting point:

[1] Guessing the URLs being browsed by users over an encrypted TLS session: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gdane/papers/...

[2] Guessing the co-ordinates of where a user is scrolling around on Google Maps over an encrypted TLS session: http://www.ioactive.com/pdfs/SSLTrafficAnalysisOnGoogleMaps....

[3] Guessing the content of encrypted VoIP conversations: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~amw/resources/hooktonfoniks.pdf

[4] Guessing communication paths on the Tor network with only a partial view of the network (not strictly related to encryption but the principles of traffic analysis are relevant): http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/papers/oakland05torta.p...

[5] Guessing passwords sent over the SSH protocol using keystroke timing analysis: http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~dawnsong/papers/ssh-timing.pdf
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Student Government sold us out. We should have never gotten rid of Al Simone.
It would be really great to see an actual running example so we could look at it on our device. (edit - like the pixate playground app on the store - for those of us who are too lazy to set up a new project just to give it a quick look!)
I think learning to tell stories is a huge leap forward. I used to have no idea about this, but over time have noticed that effective leaders can rewrite history or light up the path through the future with an effective story.

(On a side note, I'd totally pay for a social skills bootcamp! I bet there are a ton of tiny improvements they could teach most people within the first 30 seconds of observing them)
Not to sideswipe your comment, but this piece is a really great overview and analysis of ZRTP: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/11/lets-talk-ab...
All of these uses would still apply if bitcoins were worthless.

No, because if bitcoins were worthless, there would be no incentive to mine, and if there is no incentive to mine, there is no security for the blockchain.
Many people seem to assume that the business proposition in itself is the reason why Google offers FTTH.

I think it should be considered that their main interest might be one of the strategic downfalls of the service (ex. free raw trafic), akin to how GOOG-411 was used to train a voice recognition engine, before terminating it once the training goals were attained.

If it proves to be the case, the media distribution "giants" have nothing to worry about, and people who expect the service to stay might be in for a surprise.
Just read it again, and have to ask: what was the impact of those actions on the community? It obviously had an impact on the targeted woman, but the community? Did anybody really think "gee she looks ugly in those pictures, I guess she sucks as a person" or anything like that?
The program is structured in a way that you can use it both as a hosted webmail AND as a locally running client. I needed that so i can use the web version from my iphone and sync my laptops for offline use.

But for web hosts i think they would prefer a solution for multiple users. This is designed for one person with multiple email accounts, so they would need to start the webgui program multiple times to host multiple users.

As for SaaS i'd rather have the users host their own version on Heroku or EC2 than having to manage all those clients.
I started the article thinking it would be based on the ideas of LOGO, Etoys, or Scratch, with their heritage as programming for children, or ABC (precursor to Python) with its emphasis on developing a language which non-programmers/non-CS majors can more easily learn.

This essay even started nicely, saying "Imagine a programming language designed specifically for teaching young computer science students a solid foundation in sound computer science topics." My first CS class was in 9th grade, as I recall, so I thought the target audience was secondary/high school students.

But it quickly lead to statements without empirical justification, like:

> To start, I’m strong believer that when learning new, and at times complex topics it’s outright detrimental to overload students with frivolous syntax rules. Therefore, Enfield is designed with minimal syntax rules and what’s more minimal than a Lisp like syntax.

Is that opinion backed by any of the decades of research on the topic? Additionally, FORTH is a more minimal syntax than Lisp, so why a Lisp-like syntax instead of a FORTH-like syntax?

It then went into things which made no sense for a high-school CS student, like bignums and tail recursion.

Only then it say "Key to any college programming course .."

Which means this is designed for an early undergraduate course for CS majors, and not what I was looking for.

(I work with programmers with no formal CS education. These are computational scientists. I chose first Tcl then Python in part because they are languages that non-CS majors could pick up without the "untyped lambda calculus." I'm interested in knowing if there's more research along these lines. Perhaps it could replace Python in the future.)

Perhaps for a CS major it is 'ideal' that "an introductory course would require students to not only learn a language, but to also create an interpreter for a subset of the language using the language itself." My first and only BASIC interpreter was written in BASIC. But I think it's reasonable to say that this is an opinion piece and not the direct of empirical research or based on a research review.
There are 60 years of massive social change in the answer to that question. It's worth understanding where we were and where we've gotten to so we can continue to try to get further.
I think, in this case, being confrontational is the right thing to do (though I don't think you should have to engage in a confrontation if you don't want to).

Most people (despite the arguments here, which are mostly about either semantics or arcane ethical points) think that the way the guy you described behaved is unacceptable. You're one of us, a hacker, and you don't deserve to be treated like that. I can't imagine you'd get anything other than a positive association from standing up for the rights of hackers to get on and live their lives free of that kind of harassment and bullying.

I don't really understand why people don't mention this more often: the kind of bullying that women in tech receive now is pretty much the kind of bullying that male geeks got from non-geeks twenty years ago. It's not really anti-women so much as it's anti-people-being-geeks; society at large may have (grudgingly!) accepted male geeks, but female geeks are still getting abuse for being more interested in computers or science or whatever than in what society thinks they 'should' be doing. As such, this affects all of us and we all need to be pretty damn clear that we won't stand for it.
But all the incumbents have to do is lower their price just a little bit lower than Google, and Google will never make a return on the billions spent on infrastructure.

That is why Google doesn't really want to become an ISP.
Out of how many umpteen cases the office handles each year? A big district like D. Mass has tens of thousands of active criminal cases at any given time.
Anyone else get an error trying to run this slide? (ARRAYS & DATA MANIPULATION) on
http://scottcheng.github.com/d3js-101/#/data-manipulation

I don't understand whats going on here, what does array[, accessor] and [start, ]stop[, step] mean? I get an error "SyntaxError: Unexpected token ," which I tend to agree with.
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I'am a manager, how I improve my relationship with programmers?
There are some pretty good IR25 proof legal contracts out there. The key is to have a contract that defines your independence and that the way in which you operate with the client is very unlike that of an employee. Good examples are the ability to choose when and where you work, that you can work for other companies at the same time, and the fact that you use your own resources: http://www.contractoruk.com/contracts/wary_consultancy_contr...

For more information, and where to find a good lawyer who can firm up such a contract, try http://www.contractoruk.com/ir35/
There's zero reason these fat profiteers are still protected businesses. They're simply parasites on the networks the taxpayers paid for. I recommend as step one to stop paying for things like television and unneeded bundled services.

I'd also like to point out that a VPN is about $40-70 a year. Once you have that up, you're only bound by bandwidth restrictions.

It makes me sick that I have to resort to such things simply to extract fair value from my service and believe me, I'm willing to pay my fair share. I'd spend upwards of $150 a month if I could get a legit Internet/TV bundle. What I'm not willing to do is allow these boring shit companies to get rich off subpar services anymore.
Google is going to be able to sell personalized advertisements in TV shows. Forget targeting networks or shows, Google can hit exactly me, complete with all my search history.

At the beginning, they're only going to have a few ad slots to work with, but the next step will be to negotiate with the ESPNs/Discovery Channels/MTVs to expand the number of ad slots they personalize. (Advertisers are going to demand it, since this blanket show the same ad to everyone watching is incredibly dumb.)

If the cable companies had their act together they'd have done this years ago, but a few minutes with my cable box convinces me they're no where near able to pull this off.

Google is going to make a killing.
I like your comment, I think it's the most concise explanation of why you should go to college, not for "job training" but to be educated and not simply about computer science. I think good programmers should have a good basis in general knowledge, and therefore college should make you a better person.

I say this as someone who hasn't finished his BS Computer Science degree. I probably have a couple of credits of CS courses to finish and some liberal arts (literally, some art classes) to finish my BS. I have been working in the profession for over 20 years and I feel like not finishing my BS is a bit of an albatross around my neck. Not because I feel it's holding me back, but because if I hadn't taken the courses I have taken, I wouldn't be interested in the broader subject of Computer Science. I never would have taken that Scheme class (SICP) that some of the other students complained about because it was in a language that "wasn't useful" (I was curious and thoroughly enjoyed the class). I never would have been curious about writing a B tree from scratch and learning about algorithms. I never would have been curious about Derivatives, Integrals, and Differential Equations. All things that don't generally directly apply to my day-to-day job, but because I have knowledge of them, I am a better engineer and problem solver. Even my philosophy credits help me with critical thinking. I could go on and on ...
This is really useful, thank you!

I built this tool to test out Adobe webfonts. I'd like to convert it into a bookmarklet like you did here. Thanks for the inspiration!

http://harrisnovick.com/cygni (move mouse to left browser edge for menu).
Thanks Yajoe!
I wonder who the very last will be? Kind of a sad thought but it's gotta happen some day..
You are thinking of larceny. If you had an idea for a product and told me about it, and I then took that idea and used it. That would still be theft. It wasn't MY idea. Theft can exist as a metaphysical object.

The theft in question is production/distribution rights.
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Open Croquet 2.0? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project
No. You don't need to polish it further. If it were free right now, I'd be using it today and helping you polish it. As it is, yeah, I feel disrespected. You want my free help (or the free help of other somebodies like me) but you want to be paid for your work. Obviously.

Sorry, I really don't mean to be That Guy, but you are not coming across as anything like sympathetic, and I am 100% your target audience.

Light Table is a darling of the community, but I get the same vibe there. Although, to be honest, he's got a huge (yet unspecified) vision and is asking to be "freed up" to work on it, whereas you've scratched your own itch and already have a working project but want to be paid before you'll let people use it.

If you want my advice (which is worth as much as it costs you) put it on Github now and offer a supported, shrinkwrapped version for sale. Then you get paid, at least more than you're paid now, while still having an open source project.

"But nobody will buy it if they can just download it," you say, and you may be right - or maybe not. It's worth a try. Sell a souped-up version, sell corporate bulk contracts with support, I don't know. There are lots of open source business models that have been applied with varying success.

But don't, for the love of God, sell your time to the open source community.
It would definitely be an advance in cryptography engineering, yes.
Your right, insufficient context, my apologies.

There is a common set of exchanges that occur in climate discussions that go like this:

Person A: "Here is climate change without humans"
(person A in this context is trying to argue that change
will occur because there are other sources of change)

Person B: "That was millions of years ago"
(person B in this context is often trying to argue
that what ever caused climate change 'back then',
doesn't apply to current change)

Neither person directly addresses the emotional argument/fear, and neither person tries to establish a common frame of reference.

In context, kjackson2012 was making the 'things change' argument and your (snowrestler) response about the 'cold comfort' was in the context of the emotional argument.

It is kind of like an exchange that goes "Oh we ordered too much food for the party." followed by "That's cold comfort to Ethiopians who are starving."

On its face it seems like an argument that had we ordered less party food, there would be more food for Ethiopians. And yet the link between this party's food budget and that country's food problems is tenuous at best and generally a non sequitur.

The point I was trying to make was that responding to the comment about change with a statement about timelines is a common one in climate discussions.

Had I not reflexively responded to what I see as a common fallacy in the debate, I might have more constructively asked this:

Given that coastal dwellers are now aware that the sea level will change, possibly significantly, for their great grandchildren. And that we know that there is nothing known to science today or predicted by our models that can stop it, how do you suggest we comfort these coastal dwellers of the present?
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HN thread on Taren's post iteslf: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5164287
Sure, but my laptop's graphics driver isn't preventing me from sharing a torrent while trolling^Wbrowsing HN.
Is ebay one of those companies?
http://www.ebay.com/new

Or are they maybe close but not close enough to call out considering the size of their legal department?

To be honest, not being much of a designer, I've seen this scrolling with background switching 'style' become popular on a few sites recently.

I have no reason to doubt that OP developed it from scratch and clearly some of the linked sites blatantly ripped off the entire design, but the question of where inspiration ends and what constitutes 'independently developed' gets murky really quickly.
There are some blatant ripoffs amongst the list of links in the post, but I think you should remove the last two. Pearl web studio and the germ one are far from ripoffs of your site.
Actually, the transactions can't be forged. If someone has > 50% of the network, they can double-spend, but they can't forge transactions.
That's still a losing proposition in the long term, again the plugin-free WebRTC. Imagine everything else besides Skype works through WebRTC.
Of the top 10 universities in those rankings, 3 are in the UK. The population of the UK is only 1/5 of that of the US.

The implication that universities in Western-Europe are 'mediocre' seems misguided.
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What the fuck, I really can't wrap my mind around the fact that stuff like this happens. Who are these idiots? It would be pretty useful if there were a way to get these types of things anonymously reported so the accusers could have some way to publicize it, the accuser have their chance to voice their side of the story, and failing to clear the issue up (in your case, there is no excuse for that kind of response) the rest of the entire industry could never, ever hire that person. It's embarrassing that interactions like this happen in a professional setting and there are no good measures in place to report and prevent them.
fails miserably to render in IE8. I like the idea btw.
You're presumably the best person to work on finishing it. Don't underestimate that position and the respect it can earn you.

(edit) I guess, emotionally speaking, I'm in the position that if it were already on Github, I would actually fund your Kickstarter. I mean, right now. As it is, no, I'm not going to, for the reasons I explained in my comment upthread.
You need to find better colleagues.

Plus multipart mime makes it a lot less confusing for people who do not understand pgp signatures. Long gone are the days where you have to have a giant block of random characters appended to the body of your message.
I don't want to speak for you, but it sounds more like the debt sucks, not so much college and the experience? I can understand that. I haven't finished my degree (yet!), but I promised myself I would never go into debt for it. I sorely miss my college days!
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I know :( really sorry about that, we are working on browser compatibly ASAP. Any chance you can check it out on another browser?
Anti-trust legislation wouldn't be necessary (if it is actually necessary) if it weren't for regulations that cause monopolies that a competitor can't attack.

What regulations prevented competition with Standard Oil? Wasn't it the case that there were, in fact, no regulations and Standard Oil exploited that by dumping?
which is why many colleges do not feel a need to hold back the costs of an education. With near unlimited borrowing ability available colleges have simply kept raising tuition to keep pace with available funding.

That and an incredible marketing push akin to how diamonds were marketed, as in you have to have a degree/diamond