skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have kids, but if/when I do, I will avoid giving them TV access that comes with ad breaks. I'd rather they become conscious consumers on their own terms, instead of being spoon-fed ads from such an early age.

Case in point: I took a college psychology class where the professor flipped through slides and asked the class to raise their hand if they could identify who was it was being displayed. Most hands shot up immediately for slides of Captain Crunch and Tony the Tiger, but figures like Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell hesitantly got maybe 1/2 of the class.

If Hulu gave me the option to pay another $7.99/mo to remove the ads, I would, but I guess that's not their intent.
The piece that seems wrong to me is your CPC with Adwords. 15-35 cents per click? It looks like Adwords is charging $3 - $6 per click for closely related terms. Yes, this is 10x what you're used to paying, but these are the customers who are the most likely to want exactly what you're selling.

Get a signup page in there and see what converts the best. For B2B, the sales cycle is longer than consumer-oriented businesses, so it's best to start by building some sort of relationship first: e-mail newsletter, free trial, etc. rather than tracking absolute sales based on the first click.
Well I mean, if your first app was an attempt to scratch your own itch, and if your first app fails, then your itch becomes how to build something that doesn't fail. It's only natural that you'd scratch that itch by jumping up one level of abstraction.
Allowing THC in baked goods just seems like a Bad Idea for this exact reason.
It's been submitted at least three times. All three submissions disappeared off the front page, and two are dead, because it's being flagged. The fact that it's being flagged -- multiple times, I believe -- makes me sad.
Murphy Was An Optimist: Byzantine Failures in Real Systems
The copy on the Rakasheets site also stood out to me as a problem. As hahla stated, your customer is likely not a hacker. The other vendors they give their money to do not say things like, "... without the suck" or "Benefits - lots of 'em."

The value of the inventory you're tracking could be a significant chunk of your customer's life savings, so I'd want to convey professionalism and trustworthiness.

Regarding copywriting in general, I've never tried it, but if you need help you might try something like https://draftin.com/
Is China Set to Unveil a Record-Shattering Supercomputer?
Bizarrely, the US is demanding the charged parties to forfeit $6B USD. I'm sure they know that the $6B doesn't exist, but it seems that it should be illegal to demand that it be forfeited.

The $6B total appears to be each transaction added. If $100 got transfered within LD 10 times the government says there should be $1,000 (and is demanding it be given to the US gov't), but in reality only $100 ever existed and it's quite likely that after being transferred internally it had been transferred out of LD.
Out of curiosity, could a crypto-oriented person suggest the effective difference between a public/private key system, and a password system where the password is as long as a public key would be?

Given that most of the password-cracking articles focus on length of password being important regarding cracking time, it seems to this crypto-naif that a public-key-length password would do 99% of the job of moving to a public/private key system. I understand that you may as well use keys as a password of that length isn't human-memorable, but I'm curious as to what the effective difference would be.
Critical Ruby on Rails bug exploited in wild, hacked servers join botnet
Alleged terrorism http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/ and Alleged paedophilia http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/
They won't understand license negotiations; they'll understand the consequences of poor license negotiations.

<editorializing>Then, bad licensing will become the norm. </editorializing>
There are benefits to having children earlier. They get to know their grandparents more. You have more energy for them. You get to know them for more of your life.

Not sure these benefits outweigh increased stability or other things, but they are worth considering.
> If you let a large proportion of Bitcoin transactions become linked with illegal things like drugs, credit card fraud, and money laundering, the law will certainly figure out a way to shut it down.

That hasn't happened with cash [yet]. Humorously, if the idea of cash was new today like digital currencies are it would be outlawed for our "safety".
New SARS-like virus is a 'threat to the entire world'
Privacy, since when have we had that?

Since we've had costs to stalk people. Walls, for example, add a reasonably high cost to see and ear what we're doing. We can be reasonably confident that people in general won't care enough to pay the costs of violating our privacy if they're reasonably high.

Your neighbors can freely watch your comings and goings, see who visits you and usually know what you're doing. Why aren't you more afraid of them?

Because the costs are reasonably high and the "profit" is reasonably low. Most of my neighbors can't afford to stay all day looking at the door to see who comes in or out, nor do they profit financially from doing so, unlike these online services.
> Those are basic legal regulations or established charter rights. Not economic regulation as the original commenter implied and this entire thread is debating.

This distinction is artificial: there is no difference between defining the scope of property rights and enforcing rights within those boundaries, on the one hand, and generalized economic regulation, on the other: they are different words for the same thing. All economic regulation is part of defining the scope of property rights, and all definitions of the scope of property rights regulate the economy.
All 3 strategies may be fatal - it's just that only the Wii U has been released.
Looks interesting. I'm disappointed that I have to give you an email address in order to read about the security & threat model.

Why not make it public?
The Wii U may make a comeback when an original Mario or Zelda game comes out for it.

Screw Mario; what about Sonic? Sonic: Lost World looks like the coolest and most innovative thing they've done with that long-beleaguered franchise in well over a decade, and harks back to the radical experimentation they were trying with Sonic X-Treme in the mid-90s. It's my "oh my God, I have to play that" game, anyway.
"he's caught red-handed violating the civil and constitutional rights of his employees"

Dean Hammonds is a woman.
Thus, what tv would you recommend to learn Dutch? ;)
This is horrible. Every feature I loved about opera is gone.

This is chrome with a slight opera theme.
Good riddance. This is the second time Viacom shows have left Netflix. I would assume that this time, like the last, is that Viacom wants more money than Netflix considers their content worth, which is the same story as when Viacom pulled their shows from DirecTV recently.

I'm guessing the content will show up again, but I hope they don't pay more than they did on the previous agreement for the same old episodes.

As a parent, I'm glad Netflix made a large agreement with Disney.

Disclaimer: our kids aren't into Nick shows as is, they mainly watch the Disney channels; all of us enjoy the marvel cartoons.
Right now, we're working to create an easy to digest summary of our security architecture, so this is just a temporary measure.

I just shot you an email and will follow up with a more in depth summary.
I don't. I prefer for the common case to be correctly and automatically handled for me.
Hilarious.

Although it's projected to be 140% the size of Manhattan, the article states that the city will accommodate only 150,000 residents. Indeed, the article also says that the entire country of Belarus is only 9.5 million inhabitants, just 15% or so larger than all of NYC.
Totally agree with you -- this guy needs to COLD CALL!
How is this any different than Wall Street's shenanigans?
Serious question
Ask HN: gmail & http/s
When I am logged into gmail, do all the associated services go through http/s? For example if I set up a socks proxy via ssh, does all my gmail related traffic (mail, calendar, hangouts, etc) go through it? Or do some services use other ports?
As someone with a PC connected to their TV, I beg to differ. My housemates and I use it all the time to browse the web- place orders on Seamless, use YouTube, even use Amazon Instant without having to use a slow, remote-based interface.

I'm not saying that many people do this, but I'm saying many would.
How is that a problem? Go out and do something.
I like your article because you show "how to fail" instead of the common "how to win". We started a product/company (took a year to build), have a similar situation, and are still debating closing everything completely. If we do end up shuttering, I'll just try to sell to a competitor for a little computer money. Anyway, I think your product sounds cool (would b good for a bookstore) and I think your story could be ebook worthy.
> The hub will put Chinese exporters within 170 miles of EU members Poland and Lithuania and give them tax-free entry into Russia and Kazakhstan, which share a customs union. It will also let them draw from a workforce that’s 99.6 percent literate and makes $560 a month on average, half the Polish wage.

Imagine a Shenzhen on the edge of Europe. This is probably a hammer blow for domestic manufacturing in EU countries.

Chinese outsourcing and freedom from EU regulation will be just an hour or two away from every single entrepreneur in Europe.
This really is a big option...but I can't see this taking off either. Secure Email Digital IDs have been out for forever and very few people use it...even fewer webmail clients use it. What seems to be obvious, doesn't appear to be catching on at all.
Yeah. The plague of javascript libraries and CSS frameworks is becoming rather tiresome.
It's a quite different scheme.
That's actually a really good question that this post wasn't focused on. What's cool about the key pair is that the only information that is passed around is the signature, which is only valuable for a few seconds. The key itself is never transmitted and so it can never be intercepted.

That's a separate problem from the length of cracking, but an equally important one with regards to security.

Also, it would be pretty hard to remember even a single password that long...
Manhattan isn't that big as far as cities go. It's only 23 square miles, less than 8% of NYC's land area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan
This is very interesting development in European politics and "Europe's last dictatorship".

Especially since the 'threat' of China often seems to be one thing that can unite the member states.
Nintendo's success has always been driven by games, not hardware. While much of the punditry surrounding the U has legitimacy, it's failing mostly due to a lack of compelling first-party titles.

There was never a chance that the U would sell in the same numbers as the first Wii; the "non-gamer gamer" moment has come and gone. But if it had launched with a new Zelda, a new (real) Mario, Mario Party, Mario Kart, Smash Bros. (the list goes on), they'd be selling moderately well, with the game revenue as the cherry on top. Hopefully it won't be too late by the time those titles trickle onto the platform over the next year or two.
any idea how this guy calculated the colour for the text dynamically so as to maintain the contrast difference?
The keys for the paper wallet are not stored on Coinbase.
A public key system allows you to prove that you know a secret (the private key) without revealing the secret. To authenticate with a private key system you have to share the secret with the entity you're authenticating to, so you have to trust that entity to keep the secret. The fundamental problem with passwords is not that they're easy to guess, it's that using a password necessarily entails revealing the password.
I noticed a couple of other odd tidbits:

> The rise of virtual currencies has been exemplified by bitcoin, which lets Internet users create new money by solving complex math problems.

While technically correct, this explanation would probably give a layperson the wrong impression as to how bitcoins are mined.

> A transaction would start with one person opening a Liberty Reserve account using a false name and address, including what prosecutors said were blatant criminal monikers such as "Russia Hackers" or "Hacker Account."

Those are blatant criminal monikers? They sound more like trolls to me--serious criminals are probably a bit more sophisticated in their fraud.
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It doesn't happen every time. It happened for me for the first few pages that loaded (as I was clicking through the overlaid menu). Then it went away for a few pages, then it came back. In other words, there was no rhyme or reason, even after everything should have been cached, it would randomly happen. Usually the kind of thing you see when there's a race condition in the javascript.
Same idea but running in your browser:

http://dswi.net/
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Not much depth to this piece, seems like an unusual amount of links to his other articles...is this some sort of SEO test bait?
There are now several posts online in the series!
> That hasn't happened with cash [yet]. Humorously, if the idea of cash was new today like digital currencies are it would be outlawed for our "safety".

The key word here is "proportion." Cash is used in a lot of illegal stuff, but its used legally far more than the illegal. I don't know what the proportion is for Bitcoin, but this answer doesn't that fact. Its a rather poor rebuttal to the issue of Bitcoin being used for illegal activity.
Game industry outsiders often overlook how much console sales are driven by quality games and how often a suddenly popular game can completely change the market.

Consider for example how the Monster Hunter series became a cultural phenomenon in Japan and made the Playstation Portable incredibly successful. In contrast Sony's Monster Hunterless followup system, the Playstation Vita, has been a failure.

Of course it's impossible to predict which games will become phenomenons (though Nintendo seems to strike gold more often than others) and so when predicting game industry fortunes you have to make a prediction ignoring the possibility of a random breakout title, but then footnote that "of course anything could happen."
Original title:

"More Colorado kids ate pot after medical use legalized"
Marketing tools worth knowing about
Button downs (especially oxfords) with very dark wash, slim-fit jeans and brown leather or canvas shoes seems to be what the more fashionable of my coworkers all wear. You can put together a full week's worth of these kind of clothes for about $300 without any sales and with only a few hours invested. I'm just getting started on this fashion project myself (at 28, I've wasted so much time), so I'm not an authority, but that's what I've been observing so far.
If grad students are reading the most important and influential papers in the field then they're certainly not going to read the just published paper that tells everyone how to exploit magitech energy for great win - or whatever - because it's not important or influential yet.

All that process should do is reinforce the status-qua.
I do not support the idea that Pottering wrote it without consulting people, but what is certain is that he wrote almost all of the code himself and since your comment talked about looking in git I assumed you were talking about code authorship.
Ask HN: Do you use an eReader? Why? Why not?
I am trying to decide whether to get one or not, and am curious to hear what every one has to say about them here. I will be reading an array of styles of books, from novels, to technical books on development. So, what are your opinions on eReaders based on your experiences with them?
I'm talking about very specific types of "pickaxes" that make me cynically feel like there is no "there there." Instead of selling a book on something, sell a book on selling books. Instead of executing on an idea, sell a app that lets people talk about ideas others can execute on. Instead of going out there and doing the hard work of customer development, build a tool whose sales pitch is that it will do customer development for you. I mean, it's really no different than when you see "How to get rich" books in the book store: the way to get rich is to sell books telling people how to get rich.

I get scratching itches and selling those tools you create in the process, but there's just something that seems off about these products that are clearly pitched by failed entrepreneurs to the HN crowd of struggling entrepreneurs and conceived as an after-thought from a failed "real" product. (As a counterexample, 37signals' books etc on building things, are byproducts of building real, successful products, not their main focus of effort in-and-of-themselves.) If you have some tool you built that provided real leverage when building another "real" product, by all means, you should sell that sucker since it's validated as providing real value. But if you had no luck launching a real product and are building some tool that potentially could have helped you if you went back in time, it sounds like you are copping out of the struggle of finding product-market fit and trying to pitch to people going through similar struggles that there is a "quick fix."

There's a grey area here but basically it's the pornographic definition to me for what constitutes ponzi-products: I know it when I see it. Some people are selling actual useful pickaxes, which is great, but others might be just selling fictional treasure maps and Gold Rush 2013 t-shirts.
>> Freedom, zero cost, quality, low legal risk.

> Where did you find freedom and zero cost there? Low legal risk is a myth in the land of patent minefields.

I made it up, couldn't narrow it down to three. MPEG1 is low risk, free and Free now. AVC is low risk now it has been a juicy target for long enough to draw out trolls and it is high quality. VP8 is high quality and zero cost.

The license that Google has from the MPEG-LA doesn't seem to allow for those who accept the license to sub license. If this is incorrect please send a reference.

You seem to be of the view that the pool contents are either invalid or non-essential. Until I see a detailed study of them that indicates this with claim by claim explanations I will assume that at least some may be valid. Now Google has taken the license it is highly unlikely they will challenge the pool patents (and they may be contractually obliged not to). This means there is no big player likely to fight the patents and make the status clearly open source compatible.
Neat. This reminds of a prerequisite charts for university courses[1,2].

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[1] http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/labs-schema/
[2] http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/prerequisite-chart/
Furthermore the constitution protects you from the government. It doesn't protect you from a private entity like Harvard.
The key detail here is that Liberty Reserve (Like MtGox) was operating an unlicensed money transmitter. Let's be honest, if you're transmitting money without a license, you're gonna end up in jail once you hit scale. It's inevitable; the only companies that evade capture are the small potatoes.

So I think companies like MtGox have a lot to worry about, but companies like Tradehill, which have gone and done the regulatory dance, will be fine.

This is not the US versus Bitcoin, this is the US versus dumbasses who try to cheat the money transmitting rules and know damn well what they're doing is illegal. I happen to sympathize with these folks because I don't think the government should have its hands in every monetary transfer, but regulatory concerns are always a part of any business plan and ignoring them is a plan too (albeit not necessarily the best one).
I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords!
This resonates with me deeply. The idea that representations of active things should be active themselves, in pursuit of building intuition and understanding, is a central motivation for my current project. I feel like some of my own thoughts were just expanded upon, clarified, and handed back to me. Real inspiration. Thanks for posting.
This is the line that stood out to me as someone who misunderstands the strategy completely.

Obviously browsing the web on a TV is not a good experience. But using apps could be great. They demo'd skype and a fantasy sports app, and both look like great use cases. As we all know, the Netflix app is one of the best reasons to own a console. TV apps will happen when someone comes along with a good development environment, reasonable distribution terms, and a large volume of users.
> We need a name for this effect so that we can just quote it whenever this topic comes up, like Dunning-Kruger.

Sounds a lot like the Market for Lemons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
I can't imagine users being satisfied with a solution that requires them to either use a specific machine or have a physical artifact with them to login. It just feels too much like a step backwards when everything else is moving toward living on the cloud. Clef looks interesting, but what's the user story when someone's phone dies?

Every security article I see either tries to drastically expand the entropy of the user's key (password or otherwise) or expand to some sort of two-factor authentication. Obviously that's better, long term, but I get the feeling passwords are here to stay for the foreseeable future. I'd love to see an actually secure authentication solution that can be used by someone with nothing other than their memory. Is anyone doing any work on ways to make authentication more secure with a low key entropy?
Now that all the hard problems of humanity have been solved, tenured professors may return to more pressing matters -- with style. Splendid!
I did briefly, but ended up preferring hardcopy books because:
-I can flip through pages
-Write notes and highlight where I want
-One less thing to worry about getting stolen

They are cool, but they are not for me.
> Profit per visit seems flawed as well. Why not just optimize profit, or long-term expected profit?

I think it's like averted vision: the point is to achieve profit long-term, but you have to focus on profit per visit to get there.

Regardless, as a customer, I don't want every employee focused on ripping me off, which is what I assume it can degenerate to.
So, universities are going to start trying to teach a person to be a programmer (in several languages), a sys/ops admin, a statistician, a business/systems analyst, and a DBA all at once? Good luck with that...
But you see, the arbitrary set of rights he picks are "rights" while other ones are "regulations." And its better for him to pick than to do something stupid like having a democratically-elected body pick.
Engineers are allowed to think of whatever they want on their own time. Do I need to remind you what Einstein was "supposed" to be thinking about when he figured out special relativity?
Or 2.8 days if you go out and buy 10 GPUs for a couple of grand. And practically, how often are people really trying to crack all the hashes?
Probability of acceptance of pull requests
Wall Street, however ridiculous it might be, jumps through the necessary legal loopholes that we, as a society, have deemed necessary to perform monetary transactions at scale.

Companies like MtGox and Liberty Reserve simply decided to skirt the envelope and paid the price. The answer is to register as a money transmitter; simple and plain. The difference is one conforms to the law and maximizes its potential whereas the other simply willfully ignores the law. The latter does not work whereas the former is tolerated as a matter of course.