skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. I think the jury is still out on that. But remember that this effort started in 2008. Bitcoin didn't exist then. Also remember that my target launch audience was U.S. companies and their investors. To serve that market I had to be able to move U.S. dollars around, not just any old currency.
Can someone explain why this hoax call isn't traceable to the original caller in anyway?
I am dismissing it as something that Google couldn't pay me to use. I suppose that counts as un-productizeable for at least me. I don't see how making it better would change that - my distaste is for the concept, not the implementation.
Assuming you have a (equal) right to reasonable self defense under law, you would expect a judge to take into account circumstances which would include things like relative strength of those involved.

For example it would not be seen as reasonable for me to use a brick in self defense against a small unarmed child but it might be if I was attacked by a heavyweight boxer.

It's not something that is limited to gender either, as you could in theory have a weaker man fighting a stronger woman.
> (google search, web mail, amazon, online banking and investing, etc.)

The transformative power of all of those (excepting maybe GMail) was realized in the form of cgi-generated webpages (click, refresh). Performance is not a requirement for those applications, whereas it is very much a requirement for interactive games. 20 years might be a little too harsh, but only a little.
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The employing company would then be the original assignee, and also exempt from being classified as an NPE.
Jobs has been quoted saying the concept for the iPad came first and there have been pictures come out in the Samsung case showing a prototype from 2002. The iPhone likely did help establish the market for the iPad which would have been a niche device otherwise.
It.

Were you not paying attention?
Safari and Chrome now support retina
True, Java has primitives, but I believe it is pretty much decided that they will be discontinued beginning with Java 8. (The fact that the wrapper classes like Double and Integer are immutable makes them behave sort of as if they had value semantics, but that's really an orthogonal issue.)
That sentence says he wants a 20px font ("base font size"), but it doesn't explain anything about the line spacing. Right?
Who is Instacart's target market? Are people really too busy to go to the grocery store and are willing to pay a premium for delivery? Amazon works because their items are actually cheaper than retail. If Amazon items were priced at a premium, few would use it. I personally enjoy grocery shopping. It's a relaxing break from my day. I like picking out my own produce and cuts of meat. I don't think it's something many people would be willing to outsource.
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Ask HN: Software Engineering Jobs in Zürich
Hi all, I am a graduating senior in Computer Science at the University of California. I have experience with software engineering and bioinformatics, having worked on several independent software engineering projects and having worked with some really great people in bioinformatics. I am very interested in the possibility of working in Zürich after graduation and am wondering if anyone might have any tips.

Thank you!
vooza is a one joke pony. it's boring after the first act.
I appreciate the constructive suggestion, but it's hard enough to write this in installments because I have a very diverse audience, and I don't really know who is tuning in. So getting feedback and mid-course corrections in the form of comments really helps me figure out what to focus on next. I don't think it would be possible for me to write this all at once.
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I think the result of that would be relegating Bitcoin to small orders. Even then, Amazon would probably still face non-trivial problems with double-spending schemes where someone tries to engage in large numbers of very small transactions as part of some larger fraud. The problem here is that neither you nor I can envision every possible way to exploit Amazon failing to confirm transactions of any size.
That's why this bill requires NPEs to put up a bond to cover the other sides legal bills in the case they lose.
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Author Ann Friedman has a useful insight: "From the Web-based heavy hitters like OkCupid, eHarmony, and Plenty of Fish on down to newer apps like Skout, How About We, and MeetMoi, they’re all developed by men."

The CEOs of every major online dating site are men, with the exclusion of newcomer Coffee Meets Bagel. OkCupid, for example, has about 30 people, and fewer than five team members are women. These women have relatively minor roles in product development.

Women don't like using online dating sites. Female users are harder to sign up, much less engaged than men, quit sites faster, and are less likely to convert to paid memberships. It's worth considering whether this has anything to do with online dating sites being designed primarily by men. Online dating sites monetize via their male users, which perpetuates designing for the male experience.
I'm not aware of any mobile phone in the USA that has a light that turns on when recording (not including the flash). Glass won't have any special zoom capabilities. It's the same as a phone. If you're afraid of someone zooming in on sensitive data don't put it near a window where others can see it.
Actually, it's been surprising to me that there are many, many folks on HN who view this the way you mention non-HNers do. I would have expected what you say to be the case, but lots of HNers also seem to be dismissive and afraid of this. :(
PC, laptop, mobile phone ...
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Heck when you put it that way, this guy actually did them a FAVOR. He ONLY wiped out the User table. The company was able to learn the value of backups, and they had enough data left to be able to partially recover it from the remaining tables, which is much better than the worst case scenario.
Well, not usually in the US. The big internet providers usually section off areas, and they don't compete. So we get the worst of both worlds - a private (ie, unaccountable) monopoly.
I'm. a little worried for OP because he obviously took the time to keep the characters in this article anonymous, but we now know who this CEO with ridiculous behavior must have been, since we know the name of OP's former company from his profile. Not sure what said former CEO of Noe acquired company can do, but this is the kind of thing I fear happeneing toe when/if I write something negative about a past employer, being a blogger myself.
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This sounds like a good strategy; perhaps taking on GoPro and making rugged models for extreme sports, with an emphasis on video recording and live video webcasting.
Yes. But this bill requires NPEs to put a bond to cover the defendant's legal fees in case they lose.
And mostly useless. Most active people would prefer walking or cycling to maintain their fitness. Most inactive people don't have the coordination and would rather sit down on a mobility scooter. It was a cool idea with a limited market.

Glass will succeed if people find it useful enough and the dorkiness will become cool. It is really an extension of the smartphone user interface and smartphones are undeniably useful. People currently wear glasses and those ridiculous bluetooth earpieces so it isn't a big stretch.
Without the matchmaking part, and just meeting people through real life events... isn't that the same as regular dating?
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I assume you mean manifestO?
This isn't much of a problem if the inventor sells the patent outright to the company that is going to use it. Then the new owner is not a troll and could legitimately sue infringers. I agree that it's problematic if the inventor structures the deal as a license.
I'm not an expert on Crouton, but:
1) I haven't noticed any problems with battery or boot.
2) I use the cli-extra chroot, so no window manager. I have a tab open in ChromeOS with the crosh shell and switch back and forth to that.
3) None, so far. Before Crouton, I used the Secure Shell extension to ssh into a remote Ubuntu box, which was fine. Crouton makes it possible to have an offline development box.
There is no reason to limit the scope to only disbarred attorneys. Being disbarred is an extremely harsh penalty. It may mean finding something else to do with your life after decades of practice. Suspensions are also serious. They can be for years, and almost invariably mean the end of one's career at a large firm. Imagine a programmer being told he wasn't allowed to program for two years. What does he go back to after two years of working retail?

Comparing to other professions, the threat of licensure revocation is less in law than in say medicine, but not by so much where I'd argue the threat is "very weak."

In 2011, 365 doctors had their licenses revoked or restricted in California, out of 131,696 (0.28%). That's about twice as high as for lawyers (0.16%). See: www.fsmb.org/pdf/2011-summary-of-board-actions.pdf

Also, note that courts typically impose monetary penalties on lawyers and clients to sanction conduct that doesn't warrant suspension or revocation of license. Such monetary penalties are not common for doctors, but are also a source of deterrence.
My professional focus has always been on desktop coding, with the web being just a hobby. Any web professionals out there want to comment on how Comcast plans on implementing this so-called "browser hijack?"

My clumsy first guess would be that the spyware-like term "browser hijack" is just hype for non-technicals. Comcast probably just plans on injecting a few lines of HTML into web pages coming back to a user. But wouldn't that mean they'd have to intercept, assemble, and evaluate all of the http response packets going to a particular IP, before letting them through? Sounds expensive and time consuming.

And then wouldn't that also be defeated by anyone who used one of the various web encryption schemes available? Surfing the web this way is slow, but it seems like Comcast is going to throttle part of your connection anyway.
Every business I hear about that starts accepting bitcoin does so through a third party exchanger - so companies are still getting paid in USD. That doesn't count as a bitcoin accepting company.
Given that double spends are reasonably expensive, you could just use zero confirmations for anything under 25BTC and the standard six confirmations for the rest. If you double spent a transaction under 25BTC, you would have been better off just mining a block yourself.

I'm sure anyone spending more than $750 on amazon is probably happy enough waiting for two or more confirmations.
Very bizarre to focus on the symptom and not the cause. Legislators appear to acknowledge the USPTO gives out patents to patent trolls and yet wants to focus on curbing their enforcement not their registration. Perhaps this is a necessary step, because so many patent trolls currently exist, but why don't the legislators focus instead on cutting the head off the snake and prohibit patent trolls from successfully registering a patent in the first place.

For example, Trademark law requires that a application indicate the date of first use in commerce, and the one exception is filing under "intent to use". I know there are a lot of arguments against a similar provision for patents, but why not make this distinction in Patent applications, because if a patent is actually used in commerce, then you basically insure the holder is not just a troll.
Huh. It really makes no sense why I posted this after the title change. What gives?
This suggests to me that a sensible business model would be for the man to pay to have his profile pitched to a given woman. This would reflect the IRL risk of asking for a date.
Yeah! He even refers to the "critics" as such, those on the outside of the arena.
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Google is not in the bookmarking business because it is not profitable enough for them.

But apparently, Pinboard generates enough profit to make it sustainable without any ads. Which means there are enough people who pay $10 for an experience that they consider superior to their browser's own bookmark manager.

Why would you pay for a tourist/hiking map if you don't own any property that is shown on it? Presumably because you like the convenience of being able to pull it out at any time and study it in its full 40" glory without having to worry about your phone's data roaming rates. Why would you pay for an "enhanced" contact manager app if you don't own any of the phone numbers and email addresses that you manage with it? Presumably because the cost of the app is well justified by its improvements over the stock Contacts app. I don't see any silliness or irony in that. It's just a cost-benefit analysis that turned out to favor paying some guy a small amount of money to facilitate your interaction with third parties.
It's relevant because they were mostly disease free on that diet. We switched our diet on a dime and now we're sick.
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To run crouton you need to put your machine into developer mode though, which could mean that all bets are off. (e.g. if you power it off, it comes back up without requiring a password, since this is annoying/unnecessary if you're actually developing for Chrome OS.)
Just always be sure to unset $value afterwards :)
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OT: I just kudos'd with my hand over a foot away from the mouse by hitting the spacebar and scrolling into the button.
This is very much specialised stuff however - would you ever see your average consumer walk around in public with it? No - because these are ski goggles not normal glasses.
I can't wait for the contact lens version of Google Glass.
Oh, I didn't realize that you didn't know the reason. I misunderstood your topic. My complaint was assuming you knew, and were just stringing the reader along installment after installment while diving into details before getting to the meat of the story. Now, knowing that you don't know why all your meetings with banks were cancelled, and knowing that you ultimately don't know why banks don't want to play ball, it makes a lot more sense the way you're telling the story.

And I'm sure your narrative style is much better than if I tried to tell it.
Wow dude, that's quite a story. That must have been an awful feeling, I hope you're doing better now
What is the message? "Stop goofing around, get to work"? She's sending the wrong message to the wrong people, it'll have exactly the opposite effect she imagines.

The value of a software company is in its developers. The best developers are almost always intrinsically motivated. And the best developers are the ones who typically end up being the heart of the company, they're the ones who keep the whole system working through the thousands upon thousands of little things they do that aren't mandatory but are necessary in order to ship any quality software.

Mayer's efforts here are to treat the developers as spoiled children, and it will serve only to further alienate and demoralize the best developers who have just been too lazy to leave and find better work elsewhere. It doesn't even matter if the developers actually are acting like petulant children, if you drive them away they still go away. And then once they evaporate you're left with the dregs, and then shockingly somehow it becomes orders of magnitude to ship anything of any quality on time. The worst part of this is that I'm sure this cycle has already played out multiple times at yahoo.

You can't treat creative knowledge workers like factory drones, even when they're misbehaving.

The only thing that will actually help Yahoo is tackling projects and creating a work environment that encourages intrinsically motivated devs to work, everything else will follow naturally. If they want to continue on their long slide into the dust bin of history then by all means they should create a workplace that is optimized for mediocre devs and mediocre projects.
> If the title says it, it doesn't matter what the article says.

That was my point. The article title is sensationalistic without even the article itself supporting it.
According to the documentation, it does this by preventing callbacks from initiating transactions on the same SpaceBase store?

:) :) :) Isn't that a constraint on the application? :) :) :)

I think I'm going to have to look at the demo and see how a shot which triggers an explosion then does the query to perform the push of the surrounding ships.

I would expect something like:

Ship A:
Query(origin+direction+range, callback Shot())

Shot()
if Exploding
Delete
Query(origin, range, callback Boom())

Boom()
Update location

Except that's not allowed?

An AOE which causes cascades of death would be cool to see too.

Nifty idea.
> A video recording has a higher truth value than oral reproduction.

Surely it's clear that this is very, very temporary?
I understand what you're saying but at a basic and common human level: we all make choices that we occasionally regret. Sometimes that leads to change, "I'll never do that again", while other times it just makes you look out for that particular scenario while continuing in the same behavior. I've had one night stands I regret purely because of the social stigma against it. Other times I've had mutually good one night stand experiences with people.

In relationships such as these, one person will be coming from a place of higher value and another will be coming from a place of lower value. That isn't to say the woman is always the one coming from a place of lower value.

Thanks for linking to the articles, adding them to my reading list.
Yet drastically down compared over a larger timeline. https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=VPN&geo=US&c...
Don't you mean that's why you don't give keys to people that do not know how to act responsibly?

Giving keys to irresponsible people seems irresponsible ;)
Idea to Delivery: Application Development in the Modern Age.
I never said "Alan is the most important person alive in Computer Science" (though he's obviously a contender)

And I have no regrets over the title "The Deep Insights of Alan Kay"...

Alan has generated a wealth of intellect, experience and insights in his works that most IT people still don't know about or even know who he is. The objective of the post is to bring some of his meaningful and powerful ideas to the surface and summarize them so it's more palatable and more accessible to more people - I think the title accurately captures this.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Disease is less prevalent now than it has ever been in history. People live longer and better lives than ever before.
Why not just load Mint or Ubuntu onto a mbp?
What about you can use eye focus and movements to gesture in it? I'm thinking about a way to use it without words, or hands. An advanced Human Interface Device for Eyes only (optionally augmented with voice/hand gestures).
Interesting. How do you need to define "easy" for this to work? Can you give an example of a problem without an easy solution? Has this class of problem been studied?
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I don't think the iPad killed Silverlight per se. I think it was dead on arrival for the most part; it was just not a good technology.
I wish that were true. Useful stuff is closed all the time. Which is good, because we are totally running out of bits on the internet!
It's an EMG (electroMYOgraphy; myo means muscle) wristband that is being marketed as a gesture-recognition input device for computers.

1. https://getmyo.com/
Pardon my English.

Team consists of two programmers and four helpers, we live in different cities near Moscow.

I started developing the game in April, published link at habrahabr.ru and since then i'm optimizing network and rendering.

We were preparing for Mozilla GameOn, posted a link to /r/webgames, it became viral. We're in shock :)

Game Core: Pure Java.

Game Client: cross-compiled with GWT. Angular.js for UI (scoreboard, chat).

Game Server: Haproxy -> Jetty

Web backend: nginx -> node.js

Servers are hosted in cloud and begin to slow down after 800 players.

We'll rent dedicated servers to archieve 1500 players on a map.

P.S. Langoliers are eating the time you spent in bombermine.
Sorry, I was being facetious. You're completely right. It's just that's the automatic assumption I make when I see a SO question that's deemed interesting enough to get upvoted on HN
I wonder if the author ever tried reconnecting with some of the early banks they talked to. Stripe works with Wells Fargo. When you open an account with Stripe they actually open bank and merchant accounts under your company's name with Wells Fargo. I found this out when WF called me one day about my merchant account and I had no idea what they were talking about.

It seems that WF is now open to working with startups and opening accounts in other people's names (without notifying them).
Works fine for men. I don't know more than one woman who would try this. A woman may not be able to pick the eventual winner, but they have a better chance of avoiding Mr. Creepy. It might work if people are personally interviewed beforehand and weeded out, but I still don't think it has much chance to get traction.

Ask 50 women before you launch. :)
Yes, as we all know, only obese, non-athletic people can be made faster by cars. Sigh.

Seriously, though, I know that my effective memory is thousands or millions of percent better than it would be without search and the internet. Google Glass just makes this faster and easier, and makes my life that much better remembered.
Can I pay with bitcoin? Yes. Then it is a bitcoin accepting company. I don't care if they use someone else for the infrastructure and sell the bitcoins immediately.
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I'm pretty sure average non-geek persons will receive with open arms a currency that can't be manipulated by the government, among other benefits, once they are sure it's safe and not a scam, like some people even here in HN sometimes suggest.
This works well, though you may need an "anonymizer" (and maybe some extra compliance testing) if your systems have PCI or HIPPA data on them. We have federal restrictions against storing certain types of data on servers outside the US. Cloud computing sounds great but neither Amazon or Google will guarantee the data stays within the country's borders.
So you're essentially saying that the people in the WFH program have given up because it's not inspiring work. And Mayer canning that program to cut the dead weight is bad because it gets rid of them?

She's trying to shift the culture over there and it's going to be hard to do that with a bunch of people outside the main HQ, especially when they aren't actually doing anything.

Another way to look at it might be that employees who work from home, who aren't exactly feeling inspired, feel re-energized being on the main campus again and get a new spark for doing great work. Lot's of spin, lot's of angles.

I'd give her a bit more time before raising the pitchforks.
That's why I favor an HR Technocracy to an HR Bureaucracy.
Please do not use this.

The whole page flashes and flickers for me on Safari 6.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.8.2.

Input of extended characters also doesn't work. Option-[aeiou] doesn't enter any characters. Holding [aeiou] prints the base character but fails to update once a modifier is selected.

The antialising algorithm alternates between subpixel and greyscale, causing flickering changes to the boldness of the text.

All in all, very very broken.