skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't really matter. Consider the dumbest possible encryption scheme: Car sends random 32-bit number to key. The key XORs the random number with some 32-bit number. ECU checks that the response is valid.

This is the worst possible design, and not far from what late 90's cars use. Even though it is the dumbest possible solution it still works reasonably well, because you have to have access to the key to start the car. You can clone the key in a second, but you still must get within inches of the key.
* Yep, just hold "n" or "space" and you'll scroll through the articles
* I'll look into that.
* I'll try to gather some more feedback to what people think about the font. Perhaps it would make sense for this to be configurable.
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There is an important point that is being missed, which is the main reason I haven't used Shopping Express:

Google Shopping Express: schedule a window for delivery, during which you have to be at home.

Amazon Prime: I pick it up at my convenience from my mailbox.
Wouldn't you then be able to determine the fob ID by recording multiple car "random number" requests and fob responses?
I suggest you spend an hour at your local cancer hospital or orphanage, cause I have personally seen, stronger views than this, melt away in minutes.

Helping others is deeply ingrained in our nature. But ofcourse, there are Kobe Bryant's out there being brought up by eskimos, who have no concept of basketball.
It's not relative to absolute size -- it's relative to the average size of the thing. Baby elephants are cute, even if full-grown dogs, being much smaller, aren't.

A tarantula is not so much a small thing as it is a HUGE spider. Tiny spiders are actually cute. At least, as cute as spiders get, anyway.
Never underestimate the seemingly ludicrous amounts of money people are willing to shell out for their dogs (and other pets).
Yahoo hints at Foursquare Aquisition
How did you make it beautiful? Just good design skills?
Is there a reason for preconfigured? Assembling your own machine is fun and easy.

Can you throw also rough budget guidelines. A desktop can soak from 400$ to 4000$ easily.
Rumors are that Google is testing a grocery-delivery bipedal robot that can climb stairs, use the elevator, etc.
Well, Cyto P450 is involved in the detoxification of drugs such as dextromethorphan. Two important things about it are: (1) it is possible to overwhelm P450 activity which will slow down the metabolism of other P450-metabolized drugs (drug interactions) and (2) a big chunk of the population (I think 10-20%) have insufficient P450 function and they metabolize P450-toxins slower than most other people.

Of course the dose makes the poison. It's not a good idea to guzzle roundup. It's not particularly persistent and I don't think you're at a risk of eating it from food or spraying roundup to kill a weed now and then.
Seems like a crazy high bar to hold for "supporting open standards". Google made the APIs available and allow you to provide your own client on their platform with minimal to no interference. They just don't do one auxiliary part that would amount to not much more than making competing with Google Calendar slightly easier. Competition doesn't mesh with the kumbaya, sunshine and happiness tone of open source, but it is fairly strident stance to say companies have to go out of their way to hurt their own products to be open.
Free shipping on both products puts it at $13.24 on Google [1] and $16.17 on Amazon [2]. But yes, my post could have been much more objective and scientific.

[1] Google https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbnpel7w2mscpv2/google_express_pro...
[2] Amazon https://www.dropbox.com/s/gh0rcveo1sqtmgw/amazon_prime_produ...
I envision getting a text. "Your pizza is here. Use code 4025 to open locker #24."

"You have 20 seconds to comply." ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzlt7IbTp6M
In fairness, he saved almost $3.
LOL, if only you weren't the minority! If you would like to donate more, just let me know and I can manually adjust your account. Perhaps I should make the donation amount variable starting at $9/yr.
Heracleion revealed / what will they remember of Silicon Valley in 1200 years?
Could you elaborate on why using tcpdump is a better idea?
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Mix and Match Stripe/PayPal, Dropbox/S3, Gmail/Mailgun to Sell Files
Some even have a diagram of the fuse box in the fuse box.
can it be due to protests in Turkey? people used social networks quite actively this week ...
And on another day: What about a version for tracking children? I have to say that I find this somewhat spooky.
TIL today.com's site looks really nice
I've been having an awesome time with Heap for the web. Their response time is fantastic for user feedback too.

Glad they exist.
Thanks for tl;dr anyway :)
Exactly. The level of disconnect is concerning. Most people are shopping at Target or Walmart because things are 20% cheaper there.
To me this looks like top notch execution of a silly idea.
Your email validation is too strict, my perfectly valid email (.me TLD) was denied.
Budget is upto 3000 USD. When I say pre-configured, I only need Ubuntu installed. I am more than happy to play around and install my own stuff as needed. Love the "sudo apt-get .." and "sudo pip install..." commands :)
A few people have mentioned wanting to donate more. I could make a few more options for the donation amount. I figured I was on the high end at $9/yr. People don't like paying for software anymore.
I agree. I think Google is planning something huge for when self-driving cars will start being used to ship stuff.
A person can get on the lawn and take it from the vehicle. You just need to separate the inside of the vehicle on easily configurable compartments.
One definition of cheap would be something like $0.10 for self contained electronics in a light bulb. Then the installation is practically an accident.

(I think home automation sounds like a neat idea, but I always end up trying to figure out $10 of value that it would provide...)
No it doesn't, you can't request or pin a specific version. You just get whatever is in HEAD when you pull.
Why ought moral credit go to those who make the most, regardless of the opportunities that they're given?

Opportunities are not "given". I don't go to work thinking, "just look at all the opportunity I'm creating for other people by contributing to industrial civilization."

Rawls is wrong. The idea that "you didn't earn your brain, your family, your upbringing, etc." is completely in error because the concept "earn" only applies to situations where choice is involved. In reality, "earn" distinguishes the hardworking doctor or construction worker from a 30-year old man that won't get a job and still lives with his parents.

I say that if you make the most of what you've got, it doesn't matter if you started out with $5 or $5e7. What matters is that you make the most of the opportunities that are out there. What matters is how much you improve your lot.

I say that the purpose of morality is to have a happy life, here on earth. It sounds like you are against "enjoy yourself and live."

Edit: Here I give the answer to most of the people that are downvoting me. Clicking the down arrow to shut out other viewpoints won't help anyone get to the truth on the matter.
Most people's own goals actually include enriching the lives of other people, even if those people aren't directly or indirectly willing and able to pay for it.

There are those who require 100% of their money to simply achieve their personal consumption goals but -whether financially or emotionally- they're very poor.
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a solipsist's life is far from an ethical one.

you mention creating, but nowhere do you mention who one should create for. the ethical reason for creating a product is to better others lives, not your own.

you also suggest that bettering others' lives does not better your own:

>i.e., because you know that the specific cause you're supporting will make your own life better

this ignores the joy that most people experience when they genuinely help others, the sense of community people feel when they come together as a group for a cause, and the feeling of hope that your community service or charity may impart on those who are less fortunate than you can likely imagine.

assisting a charity is not 'giving up' your life for most. It's enriching it.

As an aside, your comment detracts from the value of charity to begin with, when the article is about whether or not a specific _form_ of charity is more beneficial than others. I think your comment adds little to the discussion and ignores the content of the article entirely.
It looks like he was just adding some clarity to a discussion a few users were having. He didn't post any links, or 'announce' anything.
> Disadvantage of charities is that only approximately 10% of donated money are making it directly to the cause.

93% of a donation to GiveDirect will end up in the hands of the recipient.

> Disadvantage of giving money directly to the poor is that half of them will end up buying pot, booze or getting robbed.

Nope to the first two, I don't know about theft, but they have no reported incidents of violence (they perform follow up calls)

http://www.givedirectly.org/pdf/litreview_2.pdf

They've performed randomised trials to see if the money makes a difference, and find that it's making a huge difference to peoples lives.
I put in my zip code on their web site to see if they had coverage. They force you to enter your email address as well and they make sure it's a valid domain.

After I entered my zip code and (fake) email address it told me that they needed my physical address to determine if they had coverage for me at my exact address. Thinking they had coverage in my zip code, I entered a real (but not my) address. Then they immediately said that coverage was not available at my address and to look at their map for more coverage details.

Looking at their map, it looks like coverage is not within 500 miles of any part of my zip code. I guess this is just another part of their gathering of personal information for making a simple inquiry.
I don't have much to complain about, but I will gather my thoughts and shoot them over. Really a huge fan of the product, though.
that is one expensive ass pedometer.
Well in actual fairness, he did not because he didn't purchase anything.
Is the "capture everything" approach to analytics a way to differentiate themselves from more enterprise level mobile analytics solutions such as Localytics?
Firing up the the Angular vs Ember debate again here. What's your take?
Yeah. So Amazon didn't sell that particular shoe rack. I don't see a story here.
It's not generally polite to refer to a sexual orientation as a terrible mental disorder.
Never trust ANYBODY who requires a valid email address just to check if their service is available in location. Zip code alone will suffice. If they are OK with harvesting your email address (for spamming purposes I presume), what makes you think they have any scruples against spamming everyone.
Glad you think it's cool! We have big plans for launching online stores and catalogs through the site, but this is the "MVP". Right now we're focused on making it fast and easy for creators to share products with their audience and accept Bitcoin.
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Just signed up. It's been importing from Google Reader for the last 20mins or so. Is it supposed to take that long?
As the majority of this thread seems to be about the morals of pedophilia, I'd thought I'd chime in with the specific issue at hand here.

The cutting of legal aid will mean that only the rich or lucky will be able to afford justice. The crucial point is this: you are assigned a lawyer who will get a fixed sum regardless of the outcome. As a defendant, you will not be able to fire your lawyer if he/she is shit.

In the new system there is no need to specialise. All you need to be able to do is persuade your client to plead guilty as quickly as possible. Failing that finding a way to get the case dismissed as quickly as possible with the minimum amount of work.

It is a cruel and deliberately unjust system. Potentially it will be brought in without so much as a vote in parliament.

On the plus side, it will drag britian kicking and screaming into the 19th century, which is where most torys want to be.
This is why I like RSS to IMAP solutions. Plenty of native and web apps for every device.
Yeah, I moved to self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS after Bloglines went down. OPML import would be great. On the flip side, OPML export is also a requirement for me - I don't want to re-enter all of my feeds.
I wonder how many "channels" can be worked out? 2? 20? 2,000? 2,000,000? Anyone have any background on this? It's fascinating to think of the complexity of a machine that could be controlled, when compared to the inherent limitations of pedals, wheels, switches and the like.
I'm impressed and excited to see where this is going.

Are all creations previewed?
> Self-driving cars will make natural delivery vehicles.

Are you sure about that? Self-Driving cars are currently a very limited use case. They drive, but they haven't shown to be very adept at more anomalous behavior that humans can do, such as following detour signs, following traffic officer signaling at intersections, or finding parking spots in locations where they are unlikely to be towed.

Furthermore, when you want to actually deliver something, you have to do far more than a car is even capable of, such as unlocking doors (for apartment buildings with controlled access), opening the million different types of latches for front yard fence gates, obtaining legitimate signatures from humans, determining access requirements for new locations, finding and successfully navigating staircases, escalators, and elevators, and a dozens of other tasks that are years away and not prioritized in current research.
I've been working on a real-time collaborative app that does just that: the client collects a list of edits and tries to push them to the server. It always displays the state as the last known accepted state with the local edits replayed on top. The server accepts edits from clients, gives them a total order, and rebroadcasts them. It's intended to be used while connected, but the protocol has no problem dealing with arbitrary gaps in connectedness, so adding an official disconnected mode would be trivial.

Importantly, "edits" here are discrete and independent. They can conflict (in which case it just does last one wins), but they can't affect the meaning of other edits. This scheme couldn't be used for collaborative editing of a linear text document, since e.g. "insert 'a' at position 15" means something different depending on whether it comes before or after "delete positions 5-10".

That problem is what OT solves (by the transform function that lets you commute edits while preserving their meaning). So, yes, that kind of scheme is much simpler than OT, but less powerful. Whether you can use it depends on the semantics of your edits.
Come on Aaron. As someone who formerly ran a payments company, you know that going direct from a credit card to a bank account is not possible with today's banking infrastructure. Of course the funds go to their account. You know that, but you're clearly trying to prove a point here. Please, do it somewhere else.
Its nice to see that Stripe wishes competitors well when all Balanced tried to do was promote their brand.
> S2 apparently does not need to sell HoN heroes to stay in business

That remains to be seen. Do we even know if HoN is profitable? My impression is that League of Legends is the only MOBA to turn a profit so far, but I could be mistaken. Based on how drastically they've altered the game and the changing business models, I certainly didn't get the impression that S2 was satisfied with HoN's returns.
To be perfectly honest, 87% of candidates who go through the process and take a job, go with a company OTHER than the one that made the highest offer.

In fact, many more interview requests get rejected for "not interested in the company/industry" rather than insufficient compensation.

It's almost always more about the opportunity & the company, rather than the pay.
Next post: Google customer service vs. Amazon customer service.
I'm most interested in the inverse... allowing customers to send us cash directly from their bank accounts for $.25 per transfer (instead of the bullshit credit card company fees). I'm sure there's some serious fraud implications that Stripe would have to deal with to ensure validity, but is that coming?
Striving is fine, but as some sage once said, "your enemy always has a vote." We're limited in how we act by how our opponents behave. And despite what Fukuyama said, I think that we'll see more conflict in this century than anyone expects.
Forcing people to be home is bad enough, but now you are forcing them to drop everything they are doing. Not exactly an amazing customer experience.
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Using the fine for expansion and not simply restoration implies punitive damages.
Marc Ecko deciphers The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments”
Straw man. Charity and giving are morally neutral actions. On its own, charity doesn't improve your life.

Remember, the purpose of morality to guide you so that you can enjoy a good life. A morality (that's good for life) should not tell you to suffer, give up what you care about and die.
I've been through the same thing, trust me, i've wasted years tinkering on problems that'll never see the light of day that have already been solved by other people. Learn to take advantage of Composer and existing libraries and frameworks. You'll save yourself an absurd amount of unnecessary work and maybe actually get something done.

And good luck with the whatever it is.
Great write up Billy. Have you had a chance to talk to the founders or employees at the TechStars companies?
If the circumstances allow both hypothetical parties to be of sound mind to make a consenting decision, and consent was given by both parties, then I see no reason to get upset over it. Why should I be able to tell consenting people what they can and cannot do?

It is certainly not my place to project my feelings onto someone else. Perhaps even projecting my desire for consent might be crossing the line. Definitely an interesting topic with no fully answered questions.
You can transfer to any US bank account with Balanced. Wells Fargo accounts benefit from same day transfers, while all other accounts are next business day.
Yep -- this is something we're really interested in doing as well.
I'm not going to create an account just to browse a catalog.
Agreed. This was poorly written and he compared apples and oranges. The shoe rack with thinner cutout pieces should be expected to cost more than the blocky solid MDF shoe rack.

Uninformative blog post, OP.
The concept is really interesting, is there an equivalent of DeveloperAuction in Europe?
I mean, if Google thought running a free RSS reader was too expensive, imagine the headache it can cause you if/when this gets really popular.

Seriously, I admire your willingness to give something great away for free, but I also think you need to think about recouping your expenses and making your service financially sustainable for the long haul.
Yep, sorry about that. The importer is currently working like crazy on all the imports from this HN post :p
He has decided that this is how he will make the most of his own life.
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This makes it ideal for cities like NYC, where most people do not have doormen to receive packages and thus need to be home to sign for them. Being able to schedule a window for delivery would be most useful, rather than having to be home when the mailman comes.
Is it not in Google's motivation to make Android the best phone platform it can be? The lack of native CalDav sync irritates me (the app/plugin listed works fairly poorly, from my experience), as well their horrid excuse of what they call "Exchange" support on Android. If you aren't using GMail, they make it very clear you are a second class citizen on Android. Part of the reason I left it after using it for a month.
I did not sign in with Google, but the import page still says "Importing…" without any action on my part. Will there be an option to manually upload a list of feeds?
> If you haven't actually looked at the block allocation patterns of common filesystems

I have.

And? What distribution of block allocation did you observe on said filesystems? Does it contradict the original supposition that filesystems spread out allocations to prevent fragmentation, thus possibly overwriting hidden data at the end of a partition?

It is sufficient that it is standard practice for filesystems to be restricted to the first 1/4-1/2 of a spinning disk in performance-sensitive applications.

This has as much to do with seek times as sequential reading speed. A drive with 8ms average seek times might average 2ms if you only make the heads travel 25% of the width of the platter.

The fact that you have to restrict the filesystem to the beginning of the disk suggests that filesystems don't do this automatically.

Thank you for assuming I don't even have the knowledge of a typical computer user, it greatly increases the likelihood I'll not waste further time with you. Raises it, in fact, to 100%.

I'm not sure how you got that impression. I was just providing numbers to complete the example. There's no need to become defensive; and if you find that you might be wrong, saying, "That's a fair point, I'll have to do some more research," goes a lot further than continuing to beat a dead horse.

Maybe it's the fact that this thread is on an article related to law, politics, and morality that is causing needless argumentation.
I'm not sure what you mean for us to infer from this. Riot is owned by Tencent, but that doesn't mean Tencent is willing to take a temporary loss on Riot like Valve is willing to do with Dota 2.
Thanks! The product preview is optional, but it makes the page look better and can help to sell the product.

The preview media link is provided by the seller in addition to their product's file. For example, it could be a YouTube link to the trailer for an independent film, or a SoundCloud link to the preview for a full album.
Excellent. Having grown up in East Africa and seeing first hand how UNHCR, WHO, UNICEF etc actually worked; I've always thought this would be the best way.

Kudos to Google's top brass, you employees should be proud to work for a company like this!
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Since they are in a sector that is in a dire need of change, why should one company reinvent the wheel? The goal is to push the boundary of the space instead of redoing the same thing over. Balanced did ach payouts first and then Stripe just released it. You should be glad there are two good companies competing.

Calling Balanced a group of subpar copy ninjas is very ignorant. Dealing with payments, fraud, and banks is an extremely difficult. I rather Balanced tackle new problem in the payments like ACH debits than reinventing their documentation. Plus, they are a much smaller team than Stripe.

If a sector is already a polished like project management, then you can complain about how one company is not perfect enough with its smaller features.

(I don't work for either, but I use both apis extensively)
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I imagine there will be more people who will buy this because they want to be more connected to their dog (as silly as that sounds) than interested in their health in a fit-bity way. I can see my whole family having this app for our dog.
FWIW, I think Dwolla still requires the recipient to have a Dwolla account. Stripe and Balanced are white labeled products.
>I’d pay 20-50% more for products just to avoid the inconvenience

This guy is clearly an outlier and not suitable to use for judging ecommerce decisions.
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