skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could get a phantascopic system planted directly on your retinas,

> just as Bud's sound system lived on his eardrums. You could even get

> telæsthetics patched into your spinal column at various key

> vertebrae. But this was said to have its drawbacks: some concerns

> about long-term nerve damage, plus it was rumored that hackers for big

> media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that

> were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your

> peripheral vision (or even spang in the fucking middle) all the

> time—even when your eyes were closed. Bud knew a guy like that who'd

> somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach

> motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his

> visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself.

-- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
I am sure you've already done so, but in case you haven't, read about Path's previous snafus.

Recently fined by the FTC: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2026985/ftc-fines-maker-of-pa...
Ask HN: How to responsibly come off a caffeine semi-addiction?
Somewhere between a coffee and Red Bull junkie, I recognize that I probably consumer too much caffeine every day. On days that I don't have a cup (or 4), I get headaches and am severely less motivated. Any suggestions on how to effectively transition from 3-5 cups a day to being the same 'me' without any cups? Any advice is appreciated. [From the surface, this solution may appear simple, but for those consume large amounts, they know it's not]
I like to think of brainstorming as a conveyer belt full of bad and good ideas. If you stop at the bad ones you don't let the good ones through either. You can't help what's on the belt, you just have to let it run.

Don't stop the conveyor belt.
Yeah. Similar story here.

Dwolla possibly (probably?) does more Bitcoin business than coinbase does, and that has probably been true since before coinbase existed.
Very well put. I can't speak for US McDonald's but Australian McDonald's where I worked in my youth for a bit had very strict QA processes. The store I worked at was in a low income area, but it was kept spotless, food was kept for the minimum amount of time (maximum 10 minutes for fries I think), burgers made to order.
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I'm probably what most people would consider young (22), but I see your point. But 'me too' has a very specific connotation of entering a market late because everyone is doing it, at least to me, which is the opposite of what Opera has done.
True, but something about the way the story is told is very "humblebrag"-y. I can't quite put my finger on why.
Two points.
First, crypto is hard. Unless a system is proven to have a certain property, assume the worst case scenario for your system.
Second, SHA256, RIPEMD160 are hashes. By definition (of an ideal hashing algorithm), every output can be generated with the same probability, and changing a single bit of the input will have a 50% chance of changing a given output bit.
Because somewhere between 97% and 100% of the recipients of the message would only be confused by that information.
If someone does this right, it should go over pretty well for EDA (Electronics Design) file formats. EDA is a wasteland.
Unlocking the bootloader just allows you to have access to boot an unsigned system image. He points out in the article that you'd still need an image to boot.

With an unlocked bootloader, you could boot something that then messed with the filesystem to drop "su" out in the bin (and this is what happens when you boot a recovery image to root an Android phone).

But in order to do that, you'd need kernel sources, so that you could have something that would properly boot on the device and mount the filesystem.
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I apologize, I believe I misread your original post as being risk adverse. Absolutely agree with you here though - striving to fail fast is perhaps the one bit of startup advice that is nearly universally applicable.
This will neither bring bitcoin down or change it forever.

Any information contained in those bytes is just that: information. What can you say in 20 bytes that can have permanent, material damage to human beings?

A wonderfully sensationalist title, but really nothing to back it up.
Ask HN: How can you leverage the Atom Syndication Format?
Hi,

I've been looking into the Atom format and it looks like an under-leveraged platform. There must be countless great ways to take advantage of a regularly updated feed delivered to your inbox and plus, the format is so flexible.

Question: Is there any room on the Atom platform for something more radical than delivering news and tickers? Any way to make it more interactive, customized, cool?

Purposefully broad question. What's the best you can think of?
Creating the clone is fairly easy. For every type of service that Craigslist provides there have probably been 1-5 clones over the past few years.

Currently both buyers as well as sellers have been trained that the place to go is Craigslist. Give that it would be impossible for a new service to have anywhere near the number of buyers and sellers as Craigslist, no rational individual is going to choose an alternative.

The problem becomes even tricker since Craigslist is for the most part free. They currently use the revenue gained by job postings to subsidize the other listings on their site. This makes it harder for a niche service to start up as they are competing with free.
The Fog of Cyber Defence [book]
It seems as though they avoid that problem by resetting the experiment after the measurement. From Li's paper:

> Then we can use a global probe laser which is only scattered by the mark ion (state dependent ﬂuorescence) to measure its angular displacement after a time separation Δt. [...] After the measurement, we can cool the ions back to the ground state and repeat the experiment again.
Former Goldman programmer fails to win dismissal of code theft case
IANAL.

See Section 5 of the Craigslist TOS [1]. Then see sections 11 and 12, which link to their liquidated damages policy [2].

I would imagine that Craigslist's future arguments would now hinge on the fact that people must access their servers in a way that they have defined, via their TOS, to be unauthorized.

From the liquidated damages document: "each day that CL's servers are accessed to facilitate one or more of the violations enumerated therein shall constitute one Instance of Unauthorized Conduct" And, in particular, Section 6 of that document: "you agree to pay $25,000 per Instance of Unauthorized Conduct: (a) copying, aggregation, display, distribution or derivative use of craigslist or any content posted on craigslist (including, but not limited to, by means of spiders, robots, crawlers, scrapers, framing, iframes, or RSS feeds)" ... (etc)

1 = http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use

2 = http://www.craigslist.org/about/liquidated.damages
As of now, if you have lots of developers and money to burn, build and maintain native on every platform. Personally, as a single developer with an app where multi-platform is more important than UI snappiness, I'm going with HTML5/CSS/js.
This reminds me of a Futurama episode: http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/EyePhone
"The something of somewhere is the nothing of nowhere" - Peter Thiel
Posted earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5634903
Comment threads on articles posted on the internet degenerate into petty proselytizing? Color me surprised!
Well, between Pinterest and Vine demos - how many times you were actually right about other, really stupid ideas? :)
There is a video of the lectures from SICP, which was produced for HP. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Newspaper ignores family's request, names minor who attempted suicide at school
This is what it looks like when you lose all your startup money
Well said.

I quietly dispair at the shortened attention spans and clamour for 'likes' and 'follows' that have resulted... Whilst I browse Instagram and refresh Facebook. I am a walking contradiction...
What is the message carried by this action?

I read that as: I liked your product but not above the $5 price limit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
Pathetic attempt at a justification from the editor is linked at the end of the article.
So, social media services should allow people to have "under duress" version of the same account. If "duress" password is entered - only predefined, innocent content is shown.
>For every Watsi, we have a hundred bullshit companies with bullshit products,

Unfortunate, but true. Everything is suddenly an app. Is there a difference between 'social' startup and 'tech' startup? I think the culture, particularly the media, is making those synonymous for the worst...
Apps status dashboard is updated:
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...

"We're investigating reports of an issue with Admin control panel / API. We will provide more information shortly."
I am familiar with how hashes work (I've written a Bitcoin address generator myself). To illustrate what I mean:

The Bitcoin address is just some chain of hashes (and a checksum) applied to the public key. To prove that the address IS actually output from the hash functions [and not spam], simply provide the public key along with it. Of course, you might say that is way too much data for the blockchain to handle. So you only limit the requirement of providing the public key to "suspicious" transactions. What constitutes a suspicious transaction could be a matter of debate, but I imagine it could be done, and it would avoid the problem of a Bitcoin's value depending on its ancestry.
I like to blame "Loony Toons" for my short attention span.
Airliners have almost none of the problems the OP mentioned. The displays are several feet away from the movement of the eye. Movement of the sensors is slow and smooth. The target distance is near infinity in optical focus. The overlayed target is a generally a giant flat rectangle. These are some delicious simplifying assumptions.
You know what, that was surprisingly insightful.
According to Wikipedia, Adobe Systems holds the copyright to and has control over the TIFF specification.
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Clever! I completely forgot that was posted on HN like a week ago.
"There's no hate like liberal hate"

https://www.google.com/search?q=there%27s+no+hate+like+liber...
I agree. Thank you for this topic series. I look forward to every Tuesday's email!

I have to ask though, why bother calculating the daily revenue? If a paid app is in the top 25, isn't that enough of a sign that it is profitable?
I've wanted to build such a game for ages and have done (not very well) in the past (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpM-wKLTKSI), this version is designed to run in single player, but also to be able to connect to a Node server to enable multiplayer (currently only map/chat works, but PvP is the idea). The multiplayer is half-implemented currently, if you select 'connect to server' on the bottom right menu and use host pkrusset.com with port 9030 it should connect up (return to chat).

Github: https://github.com/Fizzadar/PK-Russet
Breaks all Appengine apps that just use the oauth decorator...
Salted caramel has always been and will always be awesome.

Another deceptively awesome dessert is chocolate with pepper in it. Sounds weird, but its actually one of the original ways that cocoa was enjoyed.

What kills me about ice cream is the immense popularity of all of the stupid "Ben and Jerry's" style knock-offs that use a 10:1 candy:ice cream ratio. When I want to eat ice cream, it doesn't mean that I really want a candy bar.
Well, they also had an impressively cavalier attitude to copyright. Which was a major advantage.

But they also had excellent design sense. YouTube made uploading, viewing, and sharing content very, very easy. I did some consulting for a semi-competitor, so I paid a lot of attention to the market then. YouTube did a great job, which helped them get users, which surely didn't hurt with VCs.

Also, Crunchbase says they took $3.5m from Sequoia to start, and then $8m a few months later, and my recollection was that later tranche was really just to spend on bandwidth and servers. Google bought them a few months later. So they didn't lose what I'd call ungodly amounts of VC money; that's less than 1% of what Facebook received before IPOing.
And yet, these insights appear to happen instantaneously.

(Note that I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out an apparent paradox)
When you list ranges of temperatures you should indicate the body part that is being tested, because an oral temperature reading will be different than a rectal reading. Also, the temperature readings you gave are slightly inaccurate; this [1] says that the maximum oral healthy early morning temperature is 98.8°F, and 99.9°F overall.

[1] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=400116
Sounds logical, but Google are putting so much effort in to outshine Apple on Apple hardware that iPhone users get better Google maps and google Now than Android users.

Google's iOS team are producing some fantastic products, and I'm considering moving back to an iPhone to take advantage of them.
I have the same issue as you do. Node is in my global path. However, the console says a little more:

rror: No protocol method IDeref.-deref defined for type null:
at Error (<anonymous>)
at cljs.core.missing_protocol (file:///Users/jk/.lighttable/js/bootstrap.js:1384:10)

Additionally, I was able to get the node repl to successfully connect and launch whenever I directed it at a JS file which was compiled from Coffeescript.
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hopefully rust will fill this void, pun not indented
How about a little bit of consistency for the Path url in the tweet. I know its now common practice, but this obscuring of links is what I have repeated told my family and many friends to avoid clicking on, so to avoid downloading viruses or going to sites they don't intend to.

For "bit.ly/PathHelp" the underlying url is "t.co/B4lOWrDqyr" and it redirects to "service.path.com/customer/portal/emails/new"

I'm sure there is a reason for it, but just having service.path.com or help.path.com would be more beneficial for the company to both have as a url and to tweet to (former) customers/users.
Err... he's not necessarily being paid for this writing, and even if so, it's probably not equivalent to full-time wages. Keep a look out for a great place for Derek!
>Virtually nobody in practice uses any of these.† Java binaries are in practice JVM bytecode in classfiles. Python programs are run by the Python interpreter.

The "Virtually nobody" this is because the main use case for Python and Java are as server side languages (both) and scripting languages (Python). In those cases people are expected to have or to setup the appropriate runtime beforehand.

But for people who want to ship apps to end users (customers and consumers) with Java and Python, the bundling thing is very very common.

People using them in the end user space, regularly do it this exact way. For most of them, you don't even get to know what they use underneath.

Some examples:

- Dropbox (uses and bundles Python in the app).

- Vuze torrent client (previously Azureus and very popular in its prime) bundles a JRE (for when you don't have an installed one).

- LightTable is just a JS runtime bundled with Webkit as a standalone app.
I found How to Design Programmes very nice, and it uses Racket (which is a dialect of Scheme). HtDP was at least partially created as a reaction to the perceived shortcomings of SICP, including Wadler's critique. You can have a look for yourself at htdp.org. It's early focus on graphics and interactivity should jive well with people yearning back to the days of the C64 or ZX or BBC Micro.

For the more advanced reader "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" has a similar focus like SICP on the workings of programming languages---not for an accident they both share `interpration' in the name. Read the book at http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/

I have also been impressed with Learn you a Haskell for Great Good (http://learnyouahaskell.com/), but it is not very much like SICP.
How else would you propose to store a bitmap.
Has to do with URL character count - Twitter limit is 140.
How does one define a stupid or smart idea? Do I have to chip away at world hunger for my idea to be smart? Or do I have make a billion dollars for my idea to smart? The production of the iPhone has contributed to the suicide of a lot of people. Is the iPhone a stupid idea? On what scale of success does an idea have to achieve? If Groupon only made a select few rich at the expense of others, was a smart idea on the founders part, or not? Does the founder really care, or does he regret it?

Given all these factors, its clear you can't have an objectively stupid or smart idea. I think the only right questions you can ask are "How are you going to execute on it?" and decide whether or not the founder is stupid or not. I'm not sure there are many people on the planet who can, given the idea for Instagram, sell it for a billion dollars.

At the end of the day all you really have is your confidence in an idea, and confidence in the founder's ability to execute on it. Knowing whether or not an idea is stupid really requires a sort of omnipotence on your part. Was it the right time? Instagram would be a stupid idea in 1995. Did the founder execute well enough? Was the market too small? There are too many variables that go into deciding whether an idea is "stupid" or not.
Classic redirection: "How can I be a great web developer?", "Don't be a web developer".
We're looking for people of all experience levels. Our goal is to make Hacker School the best place to improve as a programmer no matter what level you're at.

We've had a number of Ph.D.s and postdocs in various subjects including CS go through Hacker School. We would be happy to have any of our residents as Hacker Schoolers if they wanted to.

So in short: you should apply to Hacker School :)
>"Nuff said"? The Zune guys were 6 years ahead of the rest of the business -- their UI & UX design work became the basis for Windows Phone, Windows 8/RT and Xbox today.

Notice how you say that "The Zune guys were 6 years ahead of the rest of the business" and "it was an expensive MP3 player launched when MP3 players as a category were being consumed by more capable general purpose devices" (so, behind the rest of the business). It can't be both.

The whole product/ease of use/market/ecosystem etc (which is what matters) was subpar. And the market had much better products already.

Also, I'm not sure why you tout the Zune UI/UX work either. The only thing it had going for it was the visual look, not the feel or the interaction. So it was mostly a pretty graphic design, not a great UX. Same for Metro/Windows 8. It's not like that got any good reviews. Mostly a mismatch of traditional Windows and an out of place, and quite restricting and ill-thought touch UI. Oh, and it's not like Windows Phone got anywhere either. Nice looks, as a concept, but they forgot that design is how it works -- not how it looks.
To build off of the comments below, this attack is foiled by the fact that one message can be encrypted to one of a large number of ciphertexts.

As mentioned below, this is true for ElGamal. It is also true for all other styles of FHE scheme I'm aware of (including Ring-Learning With Errors based schemes, like this one).

In fact, if a message can only encrypt to one of a small number of ciphertexts, even more direct brute force attacks are often possible. For example, many FHE systems publish a public key. In this case, one can just encrypt E(1), E(2), etc oneself.
Not at the moment. Most of the interesting stuff that happens at Hacker School would probably not translate well to video.
It's a shame Safari still doesn't support Ogg/Theora by default. But you can install a Quicktime add-on to fix that. See https://www.xiph.org/quicktime/
My bad. I'll delete it.
I still like K&R's C book, and have used it to teach C to a friend last year.

The Practice of Programming shows more signs of its age. It is a good read, but it could do with an update.
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Getting everyone to stop using Path is pretty over-complicated.

We need them to change their ways, not disappear.
Starting to get 200s now. Looks like they're back.
Not yet. That's just my blog. I did take into account people's comments here and adjusted accordingly. I wrote this to break the story - while I was involved with other work. I have headed many of this forum's suggestions.
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Towards the end they weren't even accessing the data through Craigslist. They were scraping Google Search results for Craigslist entries.
This is wrong on all points. A dollar bill is seen by an infitesimally small number of users as opposed to 100% of full bitcoin nodes. Dollar bills are also transient and easy to destroy, whereas the blockchain is permanent and forever. Finally, there is no entity that could determine unacceptable content or delete it, and if there were it would carry the standard abuse problems of any censorship program.

So while the issue may or may not be sensationalized, writing ignorant and wholly incorrect commentary is not the antidote.
This is badass!
Looks like there's going to be an IO talk about rooting Glass: https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/332704837
Which is actually where PadMapper was getting their data from.
It is implicit though, since robots.txt is a well known standard.
/strong disagree

Zune & Zune HD had extremely favorable reviews, both from critics and customers. It was a solid product with a solid ecosystem. Engadget's review recommended it primarily on the Zune Pass and Zune Marketplace components. CNET called it "the best portable music and video experiences money can buy", while highlighting the subscription music integration. PC Mag's review called it "the best PMP you can buy outside the iTunes universe". This sentiment was industry-wide. There was nothing half-baked about it; that's not why it failed in the marketplace.
Raspberry PI and Leap Motion anyone
Reason on why a certain Newspaper names minor who attempted suicide at school
youtube v3 api is down as well (502)
I throw out ridiculous ideas all the time, but the thing is, a lot of the time they are only slightly exaggerated. A lot of times a truly bad idea has some good idea hidden just beneath the surface.
This is simply a vehicle for the author to show off about how he was consulted by well-known startups before they were big. These articles by dcurtis are a very ugly portrait of San Francisco tech culture. For example it beggars belief that this one was not written as a parody: http://dcurt.is/the-best
Too little information, too much cognitive overhead.
If memory serves right, tidal forces are quite measurable. A centimetre a year or so extra in the distance between moon and earth.
Very well argued. I'm usually very dismissive of people who complain about companies pursuing seemingly unimportant goals, because at one time cars, electronics, and personal computers also seemed like frivolous toys. However, you make a very persuasive case.

And, to answer your final question, no, I don't really care. I grew up being lectured on how TV was the "idiot tube", so the idea of of society being full of people wasting their time is something I've gotten quite used to.