skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be just fine, if you knew what you were doing when choosing ECB. I can think of plenty of brain dead ways you could accidentally use it if you thought that AES automatically protected you no matter how you used it.

I'm sure there are vulnerabilities all over the place, but it would make even more sense if it happened to an AES system, because people would let their guard down because super-duper industrial strength encryption will take care of everything.
We should, of course, incentivize people to work hard, and I'm certainly not against enjoying life! I'm also not suggesting that people take vows of poverty, or try to move society towards a Harrison Bergeron-esque dystopia. Like I said, keep every last cent of your money if it means so much to you!

However, success in today's world is not driven solely by "creating value" for a variety of reasons. Don't succumb to the "just world" fallacy - it's easy to moralize about how the unsuccessful must be lazy, but applying a little bit of critical thinking should make it clear that a rural shepherd in a third world country isn't necessarily poor because he "chooses" not to work hard and become a surgeon. Indeed, well-targeted charity may increase the returns to hard work.
I'll look into this. I had to restart after upping some connection limits which may have been when you were adding your feeds.

Yep, just tested and that feed you mentioned can be added.
when I bring up this situation or others with that lens, peoples' eyes cloud over.

I think I've spotted your problem: you're full of shit.

(Oh, and you like to trash people.)

Maybe once you know what you're talking about instead of attacking people as being sexist, having mental health issues or needing to "chill out", they'll start taking you seriously.
When Google Shopping Express can offer two day shipping to the entire country, then I will be impressed. Why is the author comparing two different products that are not even made of the same material? I can go buy a faux leather wallet for $5, and turn around and buy a $100 quality leather wallet somewhere else. When it comes to wood, if you want cheap, you can get cheap. When you buy cabinets for your house, you do not go with the cheap particle board, you go with the solid wood. Google is great in many things, but when it comes to customer service, Amazon wins hands down any day of the week.
I have a background in these so-called brain computer interfaces. Typically, research know some of the properties of the EEG signal during specific tasks. Using signal processing and machine learning methods (and sometimes human training), these tasks can be recognized by 'decoding' the EEG.

Some of these signals are spontaneous (realizing an error has been made), some are produced by voluntarily executing some mental task. Currently, the amount of these 'channels' that is available is limited by 1) the amount of detectors that a lab is willing to build, and 2) how many tasks the user can simultaneously execute — which is typically very low. If you really want a number, I would settle for four as the current state of the art.

I have been working on a method to make problem 1) so easy it can be solved by laymen by just collecting examples of EEG during the task of interest. Now we are founding a startup to make this happen commercially :).

PS: I think this technology does not lend itself well for analogies with channels or buttons. Buttons were invented for a physical world. Brain-computer interfaces lend itself to interact with signals there are /not/ available in normal interaction (i.e. relevance, errors, intended movements etc).
Who says Valve doesn't make a lot of profit from Dota 2?

My guess is that Riot simply didn't bother changing the model they went for in the first place for LoL, but I think Dota 2 has proved to be a great business model for Valve.

I'll be fair, I haven't seen any numbers from Valve, but if you pay any attention to the selling and trading of TF2 and Dota 2 items on Steam and many other places, you'd notice that people are outright making a living out of the whole Steam ecosystem.
Of course they can move merchandise in quantity between locations. Faster, safer and cheaper than anything that currently exists. That's the whole point.

But nonetheless, a major distribution network needs to be in place before this can happen.. If you only want same day deliveries, you could do with maybe 20 centres in the USA and automated delivery vehicles, if you want 1-2 hour deliveries you have to be much closer. And that's where the battle for omnipresence will be won.
I don't keep up much with the Microsoft space, but aren't they supporting Cal/CardDAV now too on their windows 8 phones?

If so it is a bit of a weird thing for Android not supporting those protocols to be considered a 'crazy high bar' of effort. If the other smartphone OS's support them, it is somewhat curious that Google doesn't as well. Even when they support it server side. Strikes me a bit too much like a Hotel California situation.
Agreed; this direction is unseemly. Let's just focus on the products.
Datomic Sync
Everyone knows how that would turn out...
It's mentioned a few times on this thread...the importer is just really busy and you'll be prompted for auth as soon as your turn is up.
McKinsey & Company Report on 12 Disruptive Technologies Released
Bringing charges of child pornography against someone can be so damaging, you might as well convict them. Certainly if your employer finds out you're likely to lose your job. Friends and acquaintances will likely ostracize you, indefinitely. Do you really think just because you aren't convicted, you don't become "that guy who got accused of kiddie porn"? Of course you do.

I don't think we can agree with such a blanket statement as "creating sexual videos of a minor constitutes abuse", if you're going to classify all imagery of naked children as sexual. Have you spent much time around kids? When it's hot out, it's all you can do to keep the clothes on the young ones. Likewise, parents take lots of photos and videos of their kids when they are young, often candid photos of them playing. Those are cherished memories when they grow up.

You can't classify something as porn because someone somewhere might get sexually aroused by it. If there's one thing I've learned from coming across some bizarre stuff around online in the past 20 years, it's that there is someone, somewhere, who finds a way to be sexually aroused by anything and everything.
Today I've timestamped my secret source code with Bitcoin
Robert Reich Gives Instructions To Silicon Valley
I think what makes this shutdown different from Reader is that 37signals did this as soon as they realized it wasn't a profitable venture.

I can't actually say how it went down at Google, but I suspect they knew they weren't going to be making money with Reader very quickly, yet still allowed it to become the dominant RSS player.

The 37signals shutdown seems practical, the Google one reeks of greed.
It turns out that investors are generally about as involved as they are invested. [...] In a typical party round, no single investor cares enough to think about the company multiple times a day.

This sounds like something which is obviously true; but I'm not so sure: In particular, it seems to me that an investor's involvement is likely to depend as much or more on their investment as a fraction of their assets as it does on the absolute size of their investment. If I invested $100k in a startup, it would be because I really believed in it, and I would help them in any way I could; but if Warren Buffet invested $100k in a company he would probably forget about it before lunch.

To the extent that "party rounds" involve large investors throwing their spare change into a pot, I agree that they would certainly not be productive; but if a party round allows small investors who would provide advice and assistance disproportionate to their assets to get involved, it seems like it could only be a net positive.

After all, nobody expects that an investment of only $20k means that YC won't provide much help.
I'd like to know how breeze customers feel about it.
Of course it's possible. Stripe could give its processor the routing and account number of its customer to deposit the funds in in place of its own routing and account number. This is why the Department of the Treasury distinguishes between payment processing companies and money transmitters.

By the way, I still run a payments company, and you should not assume that you know what I know (or don't).
Looks like an awesome service... I need a replacement for Google Reader so I'll try this one out. Also, please consider accepting bitcoin so I can pay without revealing my private credit card information.

Update: I am trying it out right now and I've noticed it's taking quite a long time to load my Google Reader profile. My Reader profile is absolutely enormous - hundreds of blogs and thousands upon thousands of read and unread posts. It took about 10 minutes to load a single blog. This is going to take a while.
More than shipping fast, it is about getting something out there. I have been stuck with a project which I should have frikin shipped a year ago. I am still thinking about customer development instead of putting something out there and getting the customer to validate :(. Need a kick in the butt desparately. So yes, I say ship fast and ship now if you can.
Samsung wins a small publicity battle with Apple, but little else
With Samsung's recent patent victory coming just days before Apple's WWDC event, it's a PR win. But it's really just the latest in the constant patent sniping between the two.
Berkeley, CA, Full Time

Are you looking to join a giant company? Hoping to turn your day into a dreary routine where your work will be marginalized? Well, you've come to the wrong place.

EasyESI is a 7-person, tech-led startup in downtown Berkeley that's changing how litigation is performed. Trust us: you'll like working with lawyers -- when they're paying you for a change. And they do pay us: we're comfortably cash-flow positive just two years after founding, and growing quickly.

We have many challenging problems, including machine learning, visualization, search, distributed systems, and nifty user interfaces. We're looking for generalists; we'll teach you (or you'll teach yourself) what you need to know.

We're a fun company, with an awesome location in downtown Berkeley, foosball, board games, and more (recent events: Warriors playoff game, ski weekend in Tahoe). We'll offer you a great salary, equity, health care, retirement with company matching, and a generous vacation schedule.

We are looking to fill 3 positions:

Software Engineer: We all wear many hats, contributing to a backend Java codebase that uses minimal XML. We use a lot of modern open source technologies: Lucene, Cassandra, AWS, etc. We have a separate Python codebase for performing offline work. We strive to write all of our code in a modular, reusable style that maximizes code-sharing and minimizes repetition. We schedule weekly time for refactoring so that we avoid the accumulation of technical debt. If you're sharp and you're interested in learning how to write performant code that uses modern academic research and operates on the latest infrastructure, you'll like this role.

Front-End/UI Engineer: Must have a good attention to detail and be able to use and contribute to a large, modular Javascript codebase (built on dojo). Good understanding of HTML/CSS/Javascript is a must, and a good eye for design is a nice bonus. We support only modern browsers (no IE6 headaches), so we have a very rich HTML/Javascript interface that relies on AJAX queries to pull down data and perform much of the work.

Salesperson/Marketer: You'll help manage our current client base, land new customers, and develop our company's marketing strategy and materials. However, since we’re a small, flexible team, you will not be tied down to a particular role. You'll have the opportunity shape product development and design your own projects to help grow our company.

Check out some videos of our product at http://easyesi.com/review.html

We consider all applicants; please apply for the position(s) you're interested in at http://easyesi.com/jobs.shtml.
Managing that army of volunteers becomes a job in it's own right.
The data from Whistle can be an indicator of aspects of the dog's health, just like Fitbit is for humans. The correlation seems to be similar.
If they'd figured out how to invoke resync, the owners' keyfobs would stop working, which would be a dead giveaway.
What if my goal is to leave the world in better shape than how it was when I arrived in it? It could certainly be called "selfish" still but I see no reason at all why helping others should take away from your own self-improvement. In fact IMHO the most I've ever improved myself has been under the aegis of service.
The thing that matters is the power imbalance, which would be nearly always present. This is highly undesirable, as it invalidates consent to a large degree (i.e. while the initial consent might be unquestionable, it gets really murky when things get into withdrawing it). It's similar as with employee-boss relationships and teacher-student. All of those can imaginably be okay, but the amount of dominance that the superior has over their partner makes things at least suspicious.

In fact, the "temperament" thing is one of the most commonly invalid, as having the "temperament" higher at 16 than 25 is not really that uncommon, intellect basically stays the same until 30, just gaining experience (!). And yet your 16 year old is (most likely) going to be dependent on their parents, and people will treat the older partner significantly more seriously even if they're a drunken slob, because the younger one is "a child" (and despite the older one being perceived as creepy. Ain't society great?).
fair enough. So what do you recommend ?
> Automated cars can make deliveries pretty easily, but they can't move merchandise in quantity between locations.

Automated trucks sure as hell can...
One thing about things going into the Mac App Store is that there is no trials. This looks like it may be great for my needs but there's no way to try before I buy... now, it is just $3 so, why not?
So raise an extra 50K and hire someone to do it.
Except when it is...

I can't imagine having a compulsion as core as sexual desire which you can't satisfy without horribly damaging another person is anything but terrifying.
CPU-wise, our SDK adds up to 2% overhead to normal UIEvent-handling. This is with frantic and constant user input - in practice the overhead is much less.

Network-wise, we batch user activity and by default make a network request every 5-10 seconds. We'll expose a config variable so devs can tune this frequency on a per-app basis.
Except that around 1999 it was already possible to write stored procedures in Perl on Oracle. Eventually it was replaced by Java.

SQL Server allows for .NET stored procedures, so you could already use something like JScript.NET.

I fail to see what you mean by thinking out of the box.
I still really like Stuff You Should Know.

The two hosts are very engaging, and they're short enough for me to finish one on a commute.
Nice site design. Is that a freely available Bootstrap theme?
I'd say it's more like asking a fellow air passenger, in earshot of others, whether that thing they just put to their lips is a candy cigarette or a real one.

Payments systems are complex and the regulations are complex. I don't think it's rude to ask questions about complex topics, and here I honestly do not know what Stripe is doing. As both a Stripe customer and competitor I have the right to ask.
How Mailbox Scaled To One Million Users In Six Weeks
Looks cool, I would pay for it, please just charge and don't pretend it's a donation.
This is good news, I guess, but I'll play the pessimist and ask: "How long will this commitment hold?
VC vs Bootstrapping. What's your experience?
Definitely true--if someone invests a lot of their money, they'll focus. The problem comes when a 500MM fund makes a 100k investment.

YC is somewhat different, since all the investments we make are the same size. And, I'm biased, but I think we work pretty hard.
There are legal risks involved with sharing anything in the US. As a result, you need a deep personal connection with the recruiter (usually predating the interview) to get any kind of feedback.

The EEOC push has benefits, but the danger is it reduces the efficiency that feedback could provide.

It's worth noting that headhunters can fill this role. Since they're only an intermediary, they frequently can get away with giving direct feedback.
"Ship fast" and "Develop something to a level which makes it feel like a complete product" aren't necessarily opposed. Agile and lean methods, in general, tend to be about focussing on the smallest units of work that will deliver complete units of value and getting them out delivering value quickly -- so, ideally, you have something that feels like a complete product whenever its released, just initially a complete product with a very narrow scope.
"How would you describe a challenge based authentication system that uses 128-bit AES?"

How do you know at the RF level that its challenge based, and how do you know that the exploit is not operating in some .gov override mode like "I am NSA, open right now" mode.

I used to operate a computer that had a rack mount lock where its extremely well known (to some, anyway) that the mfgr shipped every unit with a tumbler that could be opened by a key cut to "XX2247"

I could encrypt the key cutting code XX2247 for you with 128 bit AES, or maybe 2048 DSA, but its not going to help very much.

It might be buggy enough that a random out of limits response might open it.
Breather raises $1.5M to offer on-demand spaces, initially in NYC
The payments are of a fixed amount ($1K, spread over 1-2 years), so recipients know that they won't continue to receive money indefinitely. It probably also helps that a significant fraction of the money appears to be spent on durable home improvements (e.g. tin roofs) rather than ongoing costs. See the FAQ (http://www.givedirectly.org/faqs.php) for more details.
I am really interested in understanding the WHY part of being stuck. Why does it happen? Is it because a person is perfectionist. Or is it because of fear of failure. Or a combination of both?
In all cases the user is the customer. Some customers pay with real currency (e.g. those who have enterprise accounts), others pay by loaning a few thousand pixel-seconds to advertisers.

It's very much in Google's interest to encourage task-specific protocols, because they can be attached to subscriptions, and subscriptions are denominated in real currency. If Jane Smith knows that GAE has good support for syncing her calendar to her iPhone, she's more likely to use it as her company's email/calendar/documents provider.
Java and C too.

To be honest, though, I've never really had much of a use for any language other than pl/pgsql and occasionally pl/r; I try to keep anything too complicated outside of the database.
Seriously.js
This is second post in two days[1] and about 10 times[2] it was submitted before you. A few times on homepage.

I dont think it can be used for mainstream, just one time attraction, but from so much re-posting here I can be wrong

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5813596
[2] - https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=geo+bootst... and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508061
> Honor wasn't satisfied-- the top Taliban Mullah and Bin Laden both got away.

But then it was a man-hunt, not a war. Honor was satisfied: a country's government which was seen as complicit and responsible was destroyed. Quibbling about Omar or Obama is like saying that the American public wasn't satisfied by the conquest of Japan in retribution for Pearl Harbor because the Emperor wasn't deposed and put on trial.

> And it wasn't just the Bush team whipping up support-- Congressional Democrats almost all voted to authorize force and the New York Times reporting supported WMDs as well.

Certainly. Once the drumbeats of war started.
Added the poll:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826842

of the few replies (11 so far), the overall majority is either Atheist or Agnostic (7).
Mail order catalogs never offered the opportunity to transcend the experience at a store.

Digital experiences do theoretically offer that possibility. One example is using virtual augmented reality to see how that shoe rack will look in you're home, how does it combines with your wall and floor colors, etc.

And this "digital better than real" has already started todat. Some high quality furniture retailers or hotels(forgot which) ,use computer generated models for their catalogs, not carpentry and photography.
> GitHub ... and StackOverflow don't appeal to the majority of developers. Those sites will capture far less than 1%

Yes, exactly. That's what the proposal at the OP link is aimed at: Letting experienced developers sign up to be poached, but using their affiliation with an online community as proof of their seriousness.

That's less valuable than a good GitHub repository, but the usual interview process can take it from there.
I'm sorry but self-driving cars will not make any type of delivery. You obviously have not thought of even the simplest type of logistical delivery method. How would the package go from point A(the delivery vehicle), to point B(point of delivery). The simplest logistical standpoint of just getting out the vehicle and bringing the package to the residence is too advanced for any robot, anytime soon. A person can hop out, drop it off, and be on his/her way before a robot even gets to the curb. A self driving car with a person inside pretty much defeats the purpose of a self-driving vehicle.
That's the point - the "pro" version only gives you a silly, feel-good feature, but it (might) increase revenue when people feel they're actually getting something.
The pendulum of design always has swung between fits of over-design to stark minimalism throughout modern history (the last 300 years or so).

There's a happy place to be found between skuemorphic and flat. Flat is hitting the reset button. If everything were flat, the internet would not be better for it.

Skuemorphic is best used to communicate complex ideas that are aided by visual illustration. Skuemorphic's main problem using analogies that don't need defining. Apple's iOS Podcast app used a reel-to-reel animation. For anyone under 40, this is silly. It neither communicates interaction more effectively nor does it enhance comprehension. However, the application Propellerhead's Reason, had a great deal of success using skeumorphic design to communicate FX chains, allowing users to set up device racks and drag and drop the wiring to set up complex FX chains. Flattening this probably would have diluted the analogy. Where Skuemorphism went bad was when we started using it as decoration like leather address books.

The best parts of "Flat" aren't the graphical elements but the close attention to functionality and interaction.
This is very pretty, but there's no need for a larger, separate JS file. All of this can be handled with CSS and a simple JS command that adds/removes a CSS class on click.

Quick demo: http://codepen.io/ultimatedelman/pen/klDHy

Since you wouldn't obviously use all the effects in this article, just pick the one you would use and have the .loading class effect the correct change.

UPDATE: now with fewer elements. Only HTML element needed to achieve this effect is the button itself :)
a lot of smash and grab guys use something called a "ninja rock" which is a chunk of porcelain from a spark plug. throw it against the window and it explodes. if you have tint, it is like tape on the glass, so it doesn't break apart as easily and makes the smash and grab operation take longer.
Note to self: dont feed trolls.