skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll have to dig in to federal law again, but I'm pretty sure the law does carve it out that way. And it seems legally weird to me that I as an American citizen can mine "foreign coin" in the US. But I see where you're coming from.

Actually I think there is a bit of a tradition of the SEC prosecuting people for purporting to sell securities, even if they legally weren't. So I'd say that should be the basis of prosecution as opposed to "Bitcoin = Money."

I'm mostly just sore that the SEC hasn't bothered to prosecute MF Global principals, as that was outright, straightforward Securities Fraud.
> In order for that to work you would need nearly 99% of the population or more to agree to that punishment and to actively participate. Which is a lot more than required in a democracy or pretty much any system.

But it has happened in the past. Never underestimate the power of groupthink to do horrible things to minorities.

> Somalia is a collapsed society, not really a good example of anything.

No better place, then. Nothing for the anarchist utopia to compete with.

> Libertarianism is counter-intuitive for most people

No, it isn't. Not from what I've seen both online and off.

> People would defend their own property or pay into some private legal system that promised to do so.

We've tried this and it didn't work.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3227605&cid=4186250...
Yahoo set to change their logo
This. And I agree with Justice Kennedy.
This pretty much breaks progressive enhancement. If anything, the user's time zone should be first estimated from their IP address with a setting to override it. The client side solution to further refine it should be piled on top of this last, if possible. JavaScript is useful, but nobody should assume it's present.

Also, it should be noted which time zone a time is in. A naked date/time is about as useful as saying that you're 3 units away from me. What unit does "unit" represent? shrug
IBooks comes to Mac OS X Mavericks
Seems really nice with a first glance. Are you considering any Django support in the future?
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Ubuntu Edge Gets First Major Corporate Backer, Funding Still Off Needed Pace
"Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet"

Interesting title, Bruce.

Is this your first `walking in on little kitten feet', getting your tippy-toe wet, capitulating inverted ClapperSpeak, or `Shark Jump' or `Breaking Bad'? Too much recent popularity, and now that you're a street celebrity doyen, you don't want to stampede the restless herd?

You entitle this as a CNN 6 O'clock News headline, sanitized and pleasantly amilorating our bellowing constant surveillance disgruntlement into a Family Hour's "Group hug everyone, let's sing Kumbaya, and `Restore Trust'."

Please, not you too Bruce. Not now.
> Technically, the man did nothing wrong. His bank agreed to the altered terms.

Yep, which is why he won the first case. The terms are ridiculous though (fee of $200,000 if the bank cancels the card), which is why I would expect it to be deemed excessive and thrown out (same as EULAs that demand someones firstborn).
Chinese Hackers Caught by US water control system Honeypots
Please correct me if I am wrong but you're saying that I should try to identify low hanging fruits, right?
I don't know how to fix news. But like you said, Starbucks Steve and his buddies probably aren't the answer. Maybe they need to work together with journalists.
Welcome to the press briefing today. Our first agenda item is to discuss where the drones will attack...

Schneier must not mean that when he talks about coming clean.

Anyone who has been betrayed by a friend or lover can regain trust in that person somehow, but that's not the same as regaining trust in a group of people. I don't trust large groups, and how does a whole group (or government) start down the path of regaining trust anyway? I agree with Mr. Schneier, but balancing power seems closer to the solution than what he said about the government starting down a path, coming clean and other things that individuals do better than groups.
The Science of Annoying Emails: A Presidential Campaign Case Study
As bryanh mentioned, $5k isn't the goal. It's the first milestone. Agree that getting from $5k to $50k will be a completely different undertaking so you'll see another post like this one once we get there
Just FYI "flyover" is a really horrible patronizing elitist term and should be avoided at all costs.
I always assumed haskell's type system would eventually just turn into prolog.
i don't get this. For me, instacart delivery has always been free on orders over $35. What does express buy me?
I only "trust" distrust. Mutual suspicion of belligerents (adversaries) to keep each other in check. Balance of powers.

I was a very engaged election integrity activist. The reason elections in the USA worked as well as they did for as long as they did is because no one trusted the system, each other, etc. Hence the Australian ballot system of voting. If all the players agree to the count, then I as Joe Citizen have greater confidence (vs trust) in the results.

The moment anyone mentions "trust", I assume there's a scam of some sort, either by default or by design.

PS- I sometimes trust family.
Unfortunately, for these sorts of SaaS businesses, the income is rarely passive in nature. Startup companies, which form part of the basis for the market for this app, have a naturally high churn rate. This means that you need to acquire customers continuously just to keep up with churn, and higher yet to achieve growth.

These needs for high acquisition rate drives up high customer acquisition costs, which eats at the margins. $5k in revenues is good, but the profits are not mentioned. Going from $5k to $50k will not scale margins linearly. Indeed, the need to multiply customers by 10 will necessarily increase customer acquisition costs (low hanging fruit will no longer be available) and increase overall churn (the "natural" churn rate applies).

If you wanted to make money in consulting, it certainly would be easier to just offer consulting services, and both margins and sustainable revenues would be higher. Perhaps you can use your SaaS app as a consulting marketing tool, but I don't see this app being used that way.
Just threw together a test case. X-Frame-Options does seem to mitigate the view-source attack: http://jsfiddle.net/GEynT/2/embedded/result/
How frequently is the little guy is screwed when they don't read the big institution's fine print before they sign?

Finally, a big institution is screwed when they don't read the little guy's fine print before they sign!
Fair enough, that might be the wrong word.

(Out of curiosity, do you know if there's any way to see how many threads are closed by moderators? My recollection is that the rationale for closing a thread is included in its comments, but the thread disappears of the frontpage once its been axed so it's hard to know how common that it.)

Either way, I didn't mean it as a bad thing. Personally, I want a moderated experience... so long as I trust the moderator.
Possibly you could simply consider BTC a "non-state" foreign currency?
Don't forget viral cycle: http://www.quora.com/Viral-Growth-and-Analytics/What-is-the-...
Why would the creator want to remain anonymous?
My understanding is that one way to reduce the impact of card skimming would be to use a credit card for general purchases rather than a debit card. I would especially avoid pin-based transactions whenever possible.
I had the same reaction. Whenever I read GMT I know instantly that the author is not a big time nut and to take the rest with a grain of salt...
I <3 this essay. "Fake it 'til you make it" seems to be the m.o. in a lot of entrepreneurial circles. I've honestly never known if this is actually a good strategy or not. It seems the answer is no.
Why Accelerators Matter and Why You should Join One 
A must read if you are planning to join a startup!
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How can it become cheaper than harvesting and packaging something that needs very little additional processing? I don't see the economical argument.
Thanks for the response and kudos to you for making it to this point.

What I'd be curious to learn is your margins, customer acquisition cost, support cost, and churn rate. And how this changes as you go from $5k to more than $5k/mo. This is where most SaaS companies falter.

If you can, you should talk about how you plan to market to reach the larger required revenue rates. This will necessarily require higher customer acquisition costs as your lowest hanging fruit will be quickly exhausted.
Huh, I remember hearing a similar story but I too can't place the name. I bet he was a Chicago guy... maybe Muddy Waters?

Johnson and Beiderbecke are both good name from their respective periods (30s country blues and 20s jazz), but I'd argue that there were significantly more influential musicians on the development of the blues style throughout the 40s and 50s. More on that in a minute... Robert Johnson's an interesting guy.

Johnson's influence is a weird case: he was almost totally unknown until the early 1960s, when that classic compilation (King of the Delta Blues Singers, on Columbia, 1961) came out with many of his recordings. As a result, his influence really begins to widen in the 1960s, as many white blues-rock bands were starting to form and gain popularity (such as The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds (featuring Eric Clapton), and Mike Bloomfield + Bob Dylan). This blues-rock was the stuff that really made an impact on American society at large, and as a result, we tend to consider Robert Johnson to be one of the seminal blues artists. Odd how that turns out.

Anyway, back to seminal blues artists. Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yd-c91ww8) were the two who I'd argue contributed most to the "classic" style. Johnson was exceptionally prolific and exceptionally good, and Blind Lemon mentored many young artists, including Robert Johnson and T-Bone Walker. On the white side of things, Eddie Lang (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loc8WiDvNaE) was arguably the first jazz guitarist (and had a heavy influence on many blues musicians), and Jimmie Rodgers (yay, awesome video footage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlURYJI-xs) was arguably the first guitar-playing "modern" country musician (he fused country and blues). He too had a wide influence on blues artists, going so far as to collaborate with Louis Armstrong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BFbY9Vw8DM), and to be the reason why Howlin' Wolf started "howling."

Thanks for playing :)
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Plenty of research suggests that they don't need to have it as personal data but it can be extrapolated who's the subject of analysis.
It's now up to $30,219.92 !!
Sure, but I'm pretty sure the reason xenoestrogens are "bad" is because they affect the same cellular receptors as naturally occurring hormones, not because they affect estrogen/testosterone levels. Just because we've measured that something isn't the case, doesn't necessarily mean something (else) isn't happening. It could be doing something we just can't measure yet. Who knows what the long-term effects of greater phytoestrogen intake is for an individual? Or for their future offspring?

As others in this thread have alluded to, we're far from having a correct model that we can believe in with high confidence when it comes to nutrition.
> I've seen some credit card and bank card forms that include language which make the agreement void if its terms are altered in any way

Couldn't part of your alterations include the removal of that section? Just strike that out, in addition to the other changes you are making.
Check out the Capital Factory(http://capitalfactory.com/startups/). That should be a good start.
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Agricultural subsidies is one way.
I don't know about eradication but the millenium goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015 was achieved in 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals#Pr...
I had never considered this possibility -- either in my laptop's fans nor in my Arduino robot. But that's a great pro-tip I'll keep in mind. (It may be why my Arduino stops working normally after a couple hours and takes a couple days to straighten out)
Not a tremendously compelling argument, and I think the company may come to regret the know-it-all tone of the post. Hubris is not what you want in a security platform company.

The author cites two "flaws":

1. Your phone is offline sometimes.

Twitter has a backup code mechanism that covers this case. They talk about it, right in the post.

2. An attacker can send verification requests that look exactly like yours.

The sole use case for this mechanism is to verify login attempts by the phone's owner in real-time. If a verification request comes in and you're not actually trying to log into Twitter, or if you see more than one, you know you're being attacked.

It's true if you share a login among multiple coworkers then you're vulnerable to being tricked. But that's a bad practice to begin with, and this 2-factor system is still a massive improvement in security even for that scenario.
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Are there relayout issues I'm not aware of with images when you're using absolute positioning?

I did some experiments a while ago with running jpgjs in a webworker and was able to get zero-jank images by splitting the copy to canvas across multiple requestAnimationFrames. However it adds a significant amount of latency and I'm not sure it's worth the trade off.

I am wondering, though, if one built a pipelined progressive jpeg downloaded/decoder/renderer with this technique if it would yield positive results.
The court ruling at issue [1] specifically addresses each of the legal elements of "security" and how they apply to the what Shaver is accused of doing.

[1] http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.txed.146063/gov...
If the same thing that happened in reverse, what would you expect to happen?

Lets say that you were given some terms and conditions to read, the and the bank swapped them out for others just before you signed. The new terms contain a condition that you must pay them several hundred thousand dollars instead of 10.

Which way would you expect the court to rule? Which way do you think it should?
Obama decided to shutdown instead of reboot(WSJ)
It's the worst system we know of, except for all the others.
IMHO "fake it til you make it" is sometimes necessary and sometimes it produces quick wins - but if you let it distract you from building authentic value then it is a net negative in the long term.
Yeah, thrown out or severely reduced probably. It's pretty obvious he was very confident (and maybe a bit foolhardy) doing this or he wouldn't have put such a large number.

I'm curious as to whether he's done something similar previously.

Side note: There's a little-known legal provision that lets people sue a tele/direct-marketer if you ask them to take you off their list and they still keep contacting you. You have to take down the company name, get the name of the caller and ask them if they have "do not contact/call" and to put you on it. If they keep calling you after that (I think 3 times is the limit within 30 days or so), you can take them to small claims court.
Elon Musk said he appreciates the government assistance, and Tesla's success was accelerated, but not dependent on EV subsidies.
Yeah, but most of it is encumbered so it'd be really hard for a competitor to go and read your driver code and then do the same thing without ending up in trouble later on.

For example, NVIDIA vs SGI on Texture Mapping, or NVIDIA vs 3dfx on stochastic mipmapping. (NV lost both of these cases, but managed to get what they wanted in the settlement...).
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The personalization, although helpfull to filter out noise, can have some unwanted side-effects, as described on the Beware online "filter bubbles"[1]

Note that there are already tools that provide some personalization for Hacker News[2]

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...

[2] https://github.com/fractastical/Hacker-News-Filter
> This isn't Congress doing the "regulating".

Actually, it is Congress. Specifically, the Court ruled that the use of bitcoins for the transactions at issue does not (as the defendant attempted to argue) cause them to fall outside the scope of the Exchange Act of 1934.
You're correct about the forums, of course, but obviously the real problem is this:

their lack of support for encrypted password transmission for their mail server

Unacceptable. Get the heck out of there before you lose something vital.

That's the thing about being shipshape. Why do you focus on getting the little things right? Because the attitude you bring to the little things is the same one you bring to the big things. And because, especially in security or reliability, big problems are built out of minor problems that accumulate or escalate without warning.
Fortunately operating systems on laptops and mobile devices all adjust timezones automatically whenever they connect to the internet.

My laptop has never changed timezone automatically. And that is a feature in my eyes.

How can you assume that just because I'm doing a weekend trip that I want my whole life to be centered around the timezone in that particular place?
Agreed. I had a question answered in less than a minute earlier today (and it was a dumb, non-critical question—I couldn't figure out where to enter a coupon code)
You absolutely should have SSL be required when having a login form. Like 'ctb_mg' said, it's hard to believe we are having this discussion. It's scary where plaintext goes and how easy it is to intercept.

The tough thing is that not too many years ago it was perfectly normal to not use https for logins into anything except ecommerce, online banking, and serious corporate and government stuff. Even Gmail didn't default to https until a few years ago - long after they were huge!

We also have to remember that SSL certificates suffered a lot on shared hosting due to dedicated IP requirements (until SNI) and just plain being difficult and confusing to setup. That's a huge barrier for Average Joe that wants to setup a forum about race cars or Average Jane who just wants to manage her own website via CMS.

So now we have tonnes of legacy systems and people who simply haven't gotten the memo yet. All of which is to say that yes your host should use SSL, but it's going to be a long time before you see this practiced by the majority of websites. I'd say your host might be the norm instead of the exception.

Unfortunately their attitude might be indicative about how they think about the rest of their server security though, in which case you may as well move to a host that takes things more seriously.

After years of working with dedicated server companies I found that little things like this did tend to lead to patterns of bad security, bad backup systems, bad monitoring, etc.
Indeed, I used the ThingMagic M5e. All the code for the (python) drivers [1] and robot behaviors [2] are open sourced.

Funny story... before (and after) doing higher-level robot behaviors, I worked on low-level reader hardware too (with our mutual colleague, I presume). Most recently, it was building SDRs to interact with super-high datarate passive tags with onboard sensors... to build cyborg dragonflies [3].

[1] http://ros.org/wiki/hrl_rfid

[2] http://www.ros.org/wiki/pr2_rfid

[3] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/dragonfly-backpack...
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> There are a handful of angels who'd be interested in a company with a high probability of being moderately successful.

Is YC in this camp or do you guys and gals try to stay in the huge success side of speculation?
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Not exactly a trivial task... Incanter uses several sizable Java libraries (such as Parallel Colt) under the hood, so a port would first need to either finding suitable replacements or re-writing that code as well.
Is brick and mortar a good e-commerce launch strategy?
They own many of the 3G and 4G ones too, and can give you a great deal on bundling if you go with them.
> Exchanging numbers is speech.

Fraud isn't protected speech. Even if you use speech in the course of comitting it. The issue here is securities fraud, not prohibiting the exchange of bitcoins.
Who incorporate SGX and Mali GPUs with closed drivers.
Lack of a private backend network is something that is keeping me using it, for one of my projects. For my smaller projects, they're great.
This is why I refuse to use debit cards.

Also, the authorization that merchants do to make sure you have the money will tie up that money on your account even if you cancel the purchase before being charged. On a credit card it will tie up the equivalent credit, but at least it is not cash being locked up.
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"The Twitter thing was kind of a misunderstanding"

Didn't Dalton market App.net as a response to Twitter rate limits and taking away features?

By making a paid API, he's essentially moving in the right step. But there's 1 problem: his system will never have the data that a network like Twitter or FB has. What good is a paid search API when I'll only get 10 "tweets" a min?
Most people want their clocks to be correct, local time, including their laptop clock. It's a better assumption to make for most people.

Of course, it can always be turned off for others, like yourself! :)
But surely the kind of robots that pack boxes at amazon won't be the same kind that build Teslas.

Just like the kind of machine that wove cloth isn't the same kind of machine that forms plywood.

Just like the kind of software that checks my taxes won't be the same as the code that reads my MRI looking for cancer.

I'm not sure if the difference you describe fully explains what we might see.
Really like the sticky Buy It Now button on the top right. Interesting idea.
If you use Alfred/Quicksilver (or your Linux WM's equivalent) you could just map the pedal to that that key combo.
I fail to see how keeping secrets can be procompetitive. The existence of a larger barrier to entry surely prevents competition.
If you can't even see the screen of the phone you're booting then how does it matter if the rest of the kernel is Free or not?

A lot of the theory of optimization can be reduced to speeding up parts of code actually being executed and paging out parts of the code never actually touched, which works because the source is not uniformly useful. A kernel would be useless without a scheduler, a GUI program would be useless without an event loop, no matter how "open" the code surrounding those are.
Got a link for me, please?
His latest recipe uses rice and pea protein.

No soy.
Nice! Thanks for taking the time to explain this :-)
I doubt that would work. Besides, the ones I've seen include a link to the original text on their website as well. Now if I take a screenshot of that (or maybe hit Archive.org for it) at the time of signing and if the text is different, I may be able to claim that the bank is forcing me to follow an agreement different from the one I signed.

But that's an extremely long shot and it still needs to rely on the bank fudging the records first.
Does writing legal agreements to intentionally limit the market for your hardware chips make sense under capitalism?
It's a fantastic platform; I'm just irked that my VM with all of my work was destroyed without so much as an e-mail prior to the release. :(
I'm not sure it's possible to do a "charge back" on a PIN-based debit transaction.

It was years ago, but someone once stole my debit card number once and it took a few weeks to get my money back ("provisionally") from my local community bank.