skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any suggestions on how to deal with that problem -- people
> calling you paranoid because you don't use an easy to
> remember password on all sites?

They think you are paranoid because they think that you are worried about Mark Zuckerburg logging in to your Google account or something along those lines. Explain that websites get compromised all the time - you could bring up the LinkedIn (http://lifehacker.com/5916177/65-million-linkedin-accounts-m...) or the Gawker (https://gawker.com/5712615/commenting-accounts-compromised-+...) compromise if they use one of those sites, and that when criminals get things like your Google passwords, they will often delete your data and try to scam your friends out of money - there are many stories, here is one about it: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/e-mail-scammers-ask...
The voice interface and the forced fashion statement will probably greatly contribute to the death of this product as it stands, but I think it's the next necessary step to something truly revolutionary.

I would like the next step to solve these two issues using something like subvocalization to replace voice commands, and having more say in the fashion statement, so you can custom order your Glass to make it look (more) like you're wearing normal reading glasses, or sunglasses, or whatever. The latter is just a brute force matter of getting hardware sizes down even more over the coming years.

Then eventually we'll just splice the display into our optic nerves, and drive the interaction with our thoughts, and the borg takeover will be complete.
Bitcoin is not replacing credit card companies. It is replacing the electronic transfer of cash between banks which currently takes several days. A credit card company built upon bitcoin could offer instant transactions with a vastly superior underlying architecture.
It requires the NPE to post a bond to cover the potential legal fees. This will drastically increase the cost of business for NPEs.
No, we actually kinda hate it, too :)

It's just that as a young startup, it's very important for us to learn about our customers. At this stage, it might be beneficial for us to offer you a fantastic deal if we think we there is much to gain by the partnership. Also, learning about the problems our customers face is more important to us than sheer sales volume at this stage. That's why we want you to talk to us. But we're sorry for the inconvenience.
Usually: Hollywood.
Twitter, faceook, Linkedin...
And so much more that are in reality not open and can revoke you at any time for any reason.
Deflation is bad for creditors for the same reason it is bad for debtors. By making it harder to repay a loan, deflation raises the risk of default i.e. it makes issuing a loan riskier. Out-of-control deflation can lead to disasters where large numbers of loans go into default, ultimately bankrupting creditors.

"deflation and inflation are only damaging when they occur unpredictably. Predictable amounts of either can easily be built into the interest rate of the transaction."

The problem here is that as the economy expands, the rate of deflation increases if no new currency can be added to the system (as is the case with Bitcoin). As the economy contracts, issuing a loan is risky due to the economic contraction. Expansions and contractions of an economy are basically unpredictable; there are a few vague patterns here and there, but in general predicting economic booms and busts is difficult (if you could do it, you would be very rich very fast).

Issuing a loan in a deflationary currency is asking for trouble.
This can be solved by pre-registrations. I've done this before for two sites - Member of the Tribe and JSpot (both Jewish dating apps - http://JoinJspot.com ) This lets you wait until you have a certain threshold of users before you launch.

Pre-registrations for online dating are different than with other kind of consumer apps. Daters eventually stop being single. So pre-registrations are most useful if they are for a short period of time - no more than, say, eight weeks. This ensures that your profiles are accurate (single people are actually single and will become active users once you launch.)
Help me make a portable, USB powered Ubuntu server
It seems to be an unpopular opinion, but what you see as the biggest problem I see as the most exciting feature (albeit Glass doesn't go far enough for my desires). I can't wait to see how machine learning can be applied to the corpus of audio and video recorded throughout my daily life. The idea that additional value can be "mined" from that data, retroactively, makes me even more excited.
Looking forward to trying this. Chrome on Android so far has been blazingly fast (naturally) but also surprisingly buggy.
i am a fan of "how to design programs" [http://htdp.org/]

if you are already an experienced programmer, bits of it may seem trivial, but avoid the temptation to skim; following along all the way through will genuinely introduce you to the functional way of thinking.
Let me try to put that another way: I get the distinct impression that many men find it threatening to have the tables turned and struggle to remain in control of a process where they are used to initiating. I have put a lot of thought into how it works to signal receptivity selectively because it really has gone extremely poorly for me to initiate, even though I have a long track record of being heavily sought after by men. I have trouble reconciling the two sets of experiences without viewing it as mostly rooted in biased social expectations about who is allowed to do the asking.
Edit: Since this link was posted to HN, Sash has removed each of his other posts, so those are what I am referring to in the second-to-last paragraph.

> It might have been written because the author wants to balance the solely negative stories we hear of him.

My opinion of the company was not based on what other employees have said; their business practices before all of this alone made them look bad. The employee accounts and admissions Pincus made regarding doing anything to make money just added insult to injury. Additionally, I don't think there's anything worth balancing regarding a CEO who tells his employees to steal rather than innovate because they're not as smart as their competitors.

The OP used the term "groomed" to speak to how many young employees were quickly shot up the ranks without any experience and how this was intentional. I would be grateful to someone that irresponsibly gave me a fancy title and put me in charge of something too, despite the reality that he was using my youthful ambitions to his advantage, working me to the bone under the guise that I was capable of the work I was doing, despite failing in doing so. I also don't know anything about the author's health before the incident where he collapsed, but it wouldn't surprise me if the stress of working in such a way played a role in it. It all seems a little too Stockholm Syndrome to me, but I'm not Sash so I really can't say.

> Because this is Svbtle does not mean we should forget that this is a personal blog.

So then what is the point of Svbtle as an exclusionist platform if at the end of the day it's no different from any other?

".. an invite-only publishing network that brings some of the best things from newspapers and magazines to a network of great people. We focus on the people, the writing, and the ideas. Everything else is secondary."

His first post on the platform was a quote from Pincus from an article written last year about how well the company was doing, and a single sentence agreement with it. The second entry was a few sentences about how ideas are useless (when actually dreamers are just as important as doers, but I guess when you can make money profiting off of other people's ideas, you would hold this sentiment). Outside of the linked entry, the rest were just a few sentences to a paragraph or two on nothing all that earth-shattering.

Personally, I think they should put the answers the authors write in response to the "Expertise + Authority: Who are you? Why should people listen to you?" and "What do you plan to write [about]?" questions they answer when they apply in the sidebar. That's what I want to know before I sink my teeth into the entry.
So from your vantage point, how is anyone supposed to write about Fabrice Bellard, or, for that matter, Wire's "Pink Flag"? Do we have to make up negative things about them, or are we just not allowed to write about them at all?
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Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi's _All Your Worth_:
http://books.google.com/books/about/All_Your_Worth.html?id=S...

(Yes, that's Senator Elizabeth Warren.)

The Balanced Money Formula they present in the book is the most realistic and least gimmicky financial management system I've ever encountered. The book is a quick read -- I finished in a few hours -- and when I was done I had a very clear picture of what things were putting my finances out-of-balance and what I needed to do about it.

For me, the answer was to pursue better paid work in a more affordable city. I have since achieved those goals, and as of last October I am pretty well in balance -- I still have some debt, but there is enough room in my monthly budget to both pay it down and save for the future, while at the same time having enough money for my must-have expenditures and a healthy budget for "wants". IMO the wants budget is one of the best parts of the Balanced Money Formula -- Warren and Tyagi assert that financial asceticism is counterproductive and that everyone deserves to have a wants budget, no matter their income.

There are a handful of books I've read that I consider to have changed my life, this one is ranked #2 or #3 in that list.
It's nice to see. But SHIELD lacks a critical element: allowing the defendant to specify the jurisdiction. Otherwise every patent case will still be fought in troll-friendly East Texas.
http://www.reconinstruments.com/

http://www.oakley.com/airwave
Ask HN: What tools do you use for your start-up?
An open ended question to ask what start-ups here use in their toolkit:

For me personally
+ cacoo.com -- the google docs of wireframes
+ fiverr.com -- I am a back end coder and when I have UI problems, I outsourced the annoying UI problems to fiverr
+ google mail (hosting a business domain)
Make laws for people. All people. You're making this more complicated than it needs to be :) Take parental leave for example, why must a woman get more time off than a man? They might prefer if the father got the parental leave, or they might want to split the time, or they might both want to do part time. And if a single man has a child? Why shouldn't he get parental leave? There you are, make a law that applies to people, not to genders, but regardless, the law is there for women, who just for being female (generally) are the ones who need this law. And that's what matters. The law is there for them, yet also extends to other people.

But not having parental leave at all would be harmful mostly to the female gender. So because people (excuse me, men) don't need it, a country might not see the need for this law at all, making the situation difficult (primarily) for women.

Frankly, a lot of people see laws as "I don't need it", or "my group doesn't need it", so "I don't want this law to pass". They don't think past that so they don't realize other people might have certain needs.
I'm not sure whether it's similar enough, but the "Private Eye", a wearable, monocular heads-up display, had a bit of niche success when it was introduced in 1989. Here's a contemporary blurb from Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=dwEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=...
How the Mashape Cloud API Hub Works
Best, since this is a website based authentication: Support system has a feature where CSR can pop up a text box to enter the password in (or at least generate a link to give to the customer); password entered is checked against hashed database password, CSR gets to see whether or not the password was correct.

Failing that, customer has to give CSR the password, CSR enters it, it is checked against hashed password (CSR sees plaintext but it could be arranged that it is never stored, which is better than storing all plaintext in a database).
There is a red light glowing when the camera is on. But what happens when you have 10 people with Glass?How will you stop everyone from recording?And 10 is a small number in a fast-paced environment like NYC.

What happens when someone zooms in on sensitive data in a company or home or anywhere you can think of.

The more Glasses you have, the less control you get.
I think it would be very simple to solve the problems indicated in the article. Just charge some amount of money to send a message on the dating site. It would cut down on the total number of messages and people(men) will start self-regulating who they send messages to. If it is free it incentivizes every 'creep' on the planet to spam every remotely attractive woman.
So basically it operates on a copy unless it determines it doesn't need to?

I'm not sure why this is interesting.
Creepy = the thought of being associated with this person fills me with disgust.
I would personally love to see the "Alternative Approach" of using something along the lines of AngularJS to decouple an administrative API and a client side application. Arguably, with an appropriately designed API, this could be substantially more future-proof. Not to mention I think could end up being a big developer draw to the framework.
Not sure what this is about. Most of his criticism can be made against any form of computing clusters. Hadoop is optimized for processing raw unstructered data fast. It's not an alternative to SQL and never was. It's also optimized for data throughput and not like MPI for processing power.

MapReduce is an algorithm or paradigm that has to fit your problem. It is not the fault of Hadoop that it is over hyped and mis-used for other problems.

Hadoop is not a database or a datastore. If you want to extract data out of e.g. web-pages Hadoop is a great tool as it abstracts away the problems of distributing the algorithm and the data for you. Google (re)invented MapReduce and is a search engine, Yahoo was also a search engine. Hadoop solved Yahoo's problems.

I really don't understand the point he's trying to make. If you want to run your business database from Hadoop you are crazy. If you have 5 terabyte of click data from your website and you want to cluster and analyze this data Hadoop (or better Hbase) can help you to solve this problem.

It is a different paradigm. It it not like Java programming. It uses Java to implement the MapReduce paradigm. If you don't want to think about how to fit your problem into this paradigm or if your problem is not solvable using Hadoop don't use it.

If you want to build a search engine Hadoop is a great fit. If you want to replace your SQL database with Hadoop you are crazy.

Also if the network is the bottleneck in your Hadoop cluster you did something wrong. Hadoop is designed for data locality. Usally the output of a Mapper consists of less data than the input.

* I've used Hadoop as a student for several academic projects. Mostly information retrieval. So I can't comment on "real world buisseness" usage. I've just have the impression that Hadoop is pretty overhyped and not well understood.
They're also somewhat dangerous, having killed the guy who bought the Segway company, among others. That is not mitigated by the fact that the Segway was marketed as something like better walking, discouraging helmet use (even while claiming in safety manuals that helmets are required).
> it is far easier to dynamically define a method in Ruby than in Python

I don't know Ruby. But it's hard for me to imagine a syntax that could express any of several related operations which could reasonably be called "dynamically defining a method" in a "far easier" way than Python does. So please enlighten me, and the other "Pythonistas" who may be reading this article, as to exactly what this magical syntax is. (The clearest explanation would include some equivalent Python code or at least a plain-English explanation of what the Ruby code does -- the Ruby language's syntax has been a bit of a barrier to me.)
Retail price is about $1500 on the glass.
How about:

1. Circuit-printed contact lenses.

2. Soluble eye-drop based displays that spread out over the eyes.

3. The much much harder brain implants/nanobot injections that respond to your impulses etc?

I'm sure back in the 40s/50s smartphones and tablets probably would have seemed pretty out there too.
One point about "Functions as variables". Ruby actually does have method objects, which you can access via the method method.

def add(a,b)
a+b
end

def process_numbers(a,b,method)
func.call(a,b)
end

method(:add) => #<Method: Object#add>
process_numbers(1,2,method(:add)) => 3

This isn't a normal programming paradigm in Ruby though.
For 9.99 introductory price I think is awesome.

3 questions:
1. With the Lua script, can I call a web service or a web page to get an xml or or a json with data and load that response directly to a sheet?

2. How do I put a button or something to trigger a script?

3. Can I open one of your files from a web link? as in "Open in..."

With those 3 items I have a server controlled reporting app.
I'm not explicitly saying that, but yes that sounds reasonable.

I can't really think of an example of where it might be oppressive to give both genders the same rights under law.
I have a few questions about running Crouton on my Samsung Chromebook:

1) Have you noticed any effect on battery life or boot time with the chroot environment in place?
2) Can I access Ubuntu CLI programs from the shell within ChromeOS or do I need to switch to the full Ubuntu window manager environment?
3) Any other disadvantages you can think of?
Spot on! Computer matching is fundamentally flawed. That's why we are building ElimiDate... Key is to throw people into a pressure-free environment so that they can know each other.

No long-winded profiles,

No browsing through countless fake photos

and no computer "matchin algorithms".

Just fun and chance to be creative :-) If you are interested, take a look and sign up here for beta: http://www.ElimiDateapp.com
I wouldn't use Mega because of their reputation. I'm being biased and probably a little unfair but I would feel more comfortable telling my users to allow Dropbox/Google Drive for my app as opposed to Kim Dotcom's Mega. Reputation isn't everything, but it's still important.
What everyone is forgetting about the Pixel
Despite Google's medium/long plan on expanding its ChromeOS userbase, I think we have forgotten something about this uber cool (albeit underadopted) device.

Does the Pixel not bring beautiful design, and awesome hardware to linux users? I for one, prior to its release, had been browsing everywhere for a 'mac killer' laptop (hardware-wise) that I could load Linux Mint / Ubuntu onto without luck.

TL;DR - Could the Pixel + Linux be the device we'll use?
Would you be able to read a document on that little HUD though? The size seems more suited to Google Now cards and such.
The issue is that schools are not a place to learn, they're not the right place for people to actually develop skills.

Because schools suck at teaching (because they feel like glorified prisons and lack resources due to ignorance and bureaucracy) we must fix/replace schools before “teaching” kids to code, otherwise we will fail.

Also, this illusion that low-level languages like C are any less suitable for introduction than other languages is yet another barrier, I learned in assembly, and I would probably prefer to learn in C, since it's very simple, clear-cut, and consistent. No namespacing, very little context, very little syntax.

The best way to teach any skill, is to provide resources and motivation for the completion of real, practical tasks. In software we have the unique opportunity not to break anything real when we build something equally-so.
I can see the contextual bit, but I'm not really sold—at least, not yet—on the HUD form-factor. Why can't I view the smartly-pulled-up, contextual information on a smartphone screen? There are a handful of situations where no-hands usage would be nice, but for the most part a screen works fine for me. There are lots of things I'd like improved about quick, non-frustrating access to information, but they're mostly the software/indexing/querying/"smarts", not the display technology.
Two Factor Authentication for Twitter
I think you are underestimating the number of double-spend attacks that a business like Amazon would face if they never waited for confirmation. Amazon has plenty of problems with fraud right now; this would just be another way for people to commit fraud. It is not just the losses, either; Amazon could reverse transactions once the double spending is detecting, but they have to worry about their reputation. The last thing they need is to be known as the website for people trying to cheat.

Also, "ideal circumstances" do not happen in the real world. IF you want to convince Amazon to adopt Bitcoin, you need to impress them with typical and realistic circumstances.
And in ten years smart contact-lenses. It's not hard at all to imagine.
To add to this, I just saw this post this morning too, which strengthens this argument https://plus.google.com/112449749826562830126/posts/ZS9Waegr...
I agree but why is the tesla roadster in that list?
The WFH ban is just a band-aid. The fact that it was necessary is a symptom of the fact that many yahoo employees had simply given up. They'd stopped putting in effort, they'd started staying at home and pretending to work. Now with Mayer's ban they will simply come into the office to not work. It's a classic "the beatings will continue until morale improves" measure. It won't work, it'll just remind unsatisfied yahoo employees how much they hate their jobs and lead to an even more dysfunctional workplace and evaporate away all of the talent that was ever at the company.
Google searches for "VPN" are spiking this week in the US
The link is in their website:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/permanent-new-spreadsheet/id...
Not a single mention of fraud prevention, AKA why no-one else has successfully challenged PayPal to date.

Buyers can perform fraud. Sellers can perform fraud. Sometimes they're the same person. None of this is easy. But articles like this pretend it is.