skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be as strong an argument as, say, going through the crypto with a fine-tooth comb and finding flaws. However, I'm not qualified to do that, and most of the people commenting here aren't, either. Even so, we might have to make a decision about going forward with the information we have.

Bringing the quality of a person's previous work into the discussion is a necessary shortcut. We can't all be expected to have expert-level knowledge on everything.
The 'evil' is how they treat their workforce.
A mono-culture is never healthy for an environment. Letting Amazon destroy all competitors would eventually allow for a monopolistic business. Where do you think book prices are going to go once Barnes and Noble finally bankrupts?
If that's the case, why do they need to pass a law preventing giving the customers a discount? Apparently, it's the competition that doesn't like it. Oddly, customers like discounts and free shipping. Good thing the French government is there to set them straight.
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"Today, everyone has had enough of Amazon, which, by dumping, slashes prices to get a foothold in markets only to raise them once they have established a virtual monopoly."

Not to say they might not do that in the future; but aah, generally Amazon's modus operandi has been to continue reducing prices even when they have a 'virtual monopoly'.
I bought at about $40, about a week before they released numbers and suddenly ran up over $120. I really wish I had bought more, but I was actually just buying a few shares because I liked the company, I never expected to make any real money on it.
You mean the app such and such has been added to StartHQ tweets?
At the rate science and technology was expanding since we landed on the moon, we should've been on Mars. What makes you think that this particular point in time presages a predictable increase in scientific discovery?
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Indeed you would not be able to. CloudFlare only does HTTP/HTTPS right now. Technically since Nginx can also support SMTP they should be able to do that as well but it's not implemented currently. Basically if you want to protect SSH it would have to be a provider that does layer-level protection like Prolexic.
Really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_p...
We've wanted to open source this for some time, but it takes some time to make it less Google-specific. Things just lined up recently and we were able to finally release it.
I don't think lacking a partner should prevent you from working on a project, but lacking the right kind of partner can prevent your project from realizing its potential.

I'm an engineer, I could sit in my house and work for months on end making amazing things that never see the light of day. It takes more effort than I have on half of the days out of the year to release things into the wild[1]. I need a co-founder that complements me in this aspect, someone who is very good at pushing things out in front of people and getting attention for it. If I were to pick up another technical person, we'd just do the same things I'm already doing: making things without releasing.

I'm an artist, I can be very creative when it comes to procrastinating important, administrative tasks, i.e. paying taxes and such. I need someone[2] to push me, prod me, maybe even just do it for me. Another technical cofounder isn't going to pick up that slack, they'll want to work on code.

And if I take any of these people on as partners, the only way the project wins is if they're in it for the long haul, if they are as dedicated to it as I am.

So there you go, a very tall order: find someone who does not share your skills but has their own that can help you (so has an increased likelihood that they are not in your social circles[3]), and is committed to the project in the same way you are (this is a slog, just try people out and dump them if they don't work, no hard feelings, just move on). As with all issues of luck, it's about perseverance and riding the waves as they come in.

But the difficulty of finding that person/those people doesn't mean you stop working.

[1] I pay the bills with consulting gigs, so my clients force me to release on that stuff. Also, I'm forcing myself to learn how to build a blogging followership, as an education in marketing.

[2] Not necessarily a cofounder, but an accountant can be expensive. So, I'm paying an accountant for the big things and trying to get better about not procrastinating. "Trying" means "attending coaching sessions", not "talking about trying".

[3] So I'm forcing myself to socialize with non-technical people. I'm not going to any more programmer meetups. I'm instead going to things like CreativeMorning, or just chatting up the local business owners who run their own shops. Really though, the 6-degrees-of-separation rule applies, and it's really more like 4. The more people you get to know, in general, the more likely you'll be connected to everyone, so there is at least a non-zero chance you can find suitable people, if you persevere.
There's http://www.wmtransfer.com/, besides Bitcoin/Litecoin, obviously.
The SUV looks showroom ready. That looks like an ad for SUVs.
That was between S12 and W13:

http://ycombinator.com/w13smaller.html

I can't find the source for the cut in extra VC funding but it was around the same time.
And yet this bill has nothing to do with that. It just protects customers from a discount and free shipping. Thank goodness the government is looking out for the people of France and protecting them.
How does this work for mobile sites? This looks great for using your phone to login on the desktop, but how do you use your phone to login on the phone? I'd love to push this where I work, but I don't think it will fly if it doesn't work on the mobile site.
Some Thoughts About Mobile Testing: Humans vs. Machines
For all of Google's talk of "don't be evil" - it's pretty amazing to me that this one tiny player has more balls to stand up for his principles & users than some monolithic organization like Google.
I'm sorry but this is a horrible quote/statement. Is gasoline dangerous yes. But to compare laptops to vehicles as if assuming they go through even remotely the same conditions is misleading and just plain wrong.

Will there be skewed coverage between tesla vehicles and their combustion brethren yes there will, this can not be helped. We have been around internal combustion engine vehicles for over a century now, ppl are used to there advantages and disadvantages.

Teslas are very new on the other hand, ppl are afraid of change. While this may not be 100% justified, we should still give new applications of technology like the tesla more scrutiny. Its part of the progression progress.
Best time to buy Tesla shares I guess with everybody panicking.
Why I am reading this crap?
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Well then you have learned not to deploy from github, get an AWS micro instance which you can also push to and deploy from that or many other possibilies that a Dcvs gives you.
This is possible with a gas car, but the gas tank doesn't occupy the whole bottom of the car and even if it is punctured, it won't ignite unless there is some additional spark or heat source.

Given the number of gas cars on the road, anything described as a "freak accident" must have a very low probability. If this is the 13th serious accident of a Tesla, it's unlikely that the probability is very low.
France is the text-book example of a country falling into irrelevancy through the protection of the status quo.
This is going nowhere. It looks like there's too much overhead to get anywhere near as proficient as the guy in the video.

Leap Motion in general is awesome technology, but it's going to remain grounded without a practical application.
That's cool. I guess.

I know it's barely been upvoted but I really can't understand how blogspam like this hits the front page of HN everyday.
Likewise. I'm long TSLA and staying that way.
You buy because you are expecting good news to be coming. Bad news comes instead. Your whole reason for being there is now gone because whatever good news comes isn't going to trump the bad news that is here now. You sell.

Or you buy because there is a crazy amount of hype on the stock and a history of insane growth. Your expectation is more of the same. That suddenly changes dramatically. You sell.

The stock has been traded mostly on pure momentum and speculation of late. That kind of scenario is highly sensitive to any kind of news.

I'm surprised the tumble wasn't worse than it was. There must be some real solid long term money in play.
Looks significantly slower and RSI must be terrible.
I would prefer to draw shapes on flat surface with my wrists resting.
Sounds like an act of malicious obedience.
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The fire has little to do with it. The stock is down because earlier this week it was priced at 100x Tesla's earning estimates for next year, and implies a 30x growth in sales by 2020.

Simply put, while Tesla's fundamentals are strong, there's a bubble in the stock. Retail investors (e.g. us) have been excitedly buying it without taking a careful look at the stock, and several institutional investors have decided it's a good time to sell and reap the rewards (i.e. fleece the excitable retail investors).

Here's a CNN Money article about Bank of America's sudden bearward turn on Tesla: http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/01/investing/tesla-investors/in...

The Baird Capital report is a little more nuanced; it boils down to "Tesla have been kicking ass, and that's already priced into stock, so don't buy it now because everyone else is buying it":
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2013/10/02/tesla-down...

Anyway, yes, this isn't anything wrong with Tesla, it's just a natural market correction.
If you haven't got time to read the whole thing, consider these sentences:

In fact the FBI agents even admitted their intention to collect passwords in transit so they could access emails protected by Lavabit’s encrypted storage feature. This was in stark contrast the DOJ attornies who maintained that only the metadata authorized by the court order would be collected.

Levison was running a business. A privacy business. After years of peaceful co-operation with federal authorities, the FBI suddenly told him he was about to not be in the privacy business anymore, that the business he'd poured ten years of his life into would now shamble forward as a living lie, a thrall of the surveillance state it was conceived to oppose in the first place.

And the motive for this dramatic move? An attempt to find the guy who broke the news about how much spying the government's been doing.

That is, the FBI's instinct about how to handle a scandal about unprecedented levels of domestic surveillance was to increase their level of domestic surveillance.
upserts?
Brave new world castes where created by inducing birth defects, not avoiding them
It baffles me how somebody willing to buy TSLA would become scared so easily.

This isn't retail traders. It's institutional traders who understand that the value proposition of Tesla relies upon getting over the hump of "the new", which is a perilous position where any risks that differ from the old risks have a very negative impact on the proposition.

We know and accept that normal cars can catch on fire, and that gas tanks can be punctured and leak, etc. These are known quantities. Crazy exploding/catch on fire batteries though seems new and scary. It may be entirely irrational, but institutional investors understand the importance of psychology (this no-one-injured car fire is in being carried by the majority of news sources) so they just move the money to other investments.
I can write on keyboard , why should I wave my fingers? Need more practical application. It's really fast .
I think the promotional video should show something a little more useful than air-writing. One could have typed (or spoken) the same text in a fraction of the time. How about drawing or painting?
How is writing 10 wpm by waving your finger in the air a good thing?
What menage said is true. As it came time to clean up what we were using internally it became a decision of adapting the code and semantics we already have to be cleaner, or starting anew with something like LXC (which does more than we need in some ways and less in others).

We have a lot of really well tested and battle-hardened code and behavior, so we chose to keep that.

lmctfy is designed from the ground up as automation which can be used by humans, and never the other way around.
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It's been a few years since I've heard of it, but didn't france always have crazy bookseller-protection laws? I definitely remember there being some law against selling books (or anything?) below the listed RRP, or something similar.
Try BitBucket, same stuff productivity-wise plus private repos.
This would be a neat way to search for television programs from the couch, or to write notes during surgery without having to remove gloves, or to search for recipes with the hands full of flour :)

There are definitely many applications for that technology!
I second http://codeschool.com. They have a great catalog of courses and their interactive demos are very good.
Nothing to do with the presenter, as I indicated up front.

To the presenter - I thought I'd seen/heard this talk before, and I was right - she gave this talk as a TedX talk about a year ago and has since published a successful book about her search.

I'm glad that she figured out what was actually important to her. I hope that she has chosen her parameters wisely and will have a lasting marriage because of it. (I also sincerely hope that her husband had gone through a similar exercise.) However, being the cynic that I am, I suspect that what she thinks is important now will not be what she finds important three to fifteen years down the road. One of the things I noticed that she was looking for was a mid-30s (I assume) male who had never been married. She probably failed to take into account that there's probably a reason for that.
Should be mixed with food in parliament house canteen.
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No different from a potential mate checking your credit before they decide if you "qualify". Not my cup of tea, but whatever. To each his own. Even if his own is batshit crazy.
IMHO, there is a major problem with Tesla's batteries. Boeing has had issues with its lithium-ion batteries catching on fire. I wouldn't be surprised if more Teslas have the same issues in the future.
"In an attempt at dry humor"

I think that is a little better than an "attempt"...
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> The BBC's Paris correspondent Christian Fraser said the bill "might be seen as payback" for Amazon's practices of reporting European sales through a Luxembourg holding company, to take advantage of comparatively low corporate tax rates.

God forbid Amazon pays less in taxes and then passes the benefits over to consumers. How will we then finance the so needed new EU armed forces? Or welfare for third world immigrants who come here after we bomb their countries?
Well, there have been more scientific advancements in the last 500 years than over the last 50000 before them. I don't imply we're getting inmortality soon, but we're exponentially getting there.
So you agree that Amazon is an exploitative business that treats their employees like dirt. So why are you so keen to defend them? I have absolutely no sympathy for Amazon at all and I can't understand why anybody else would if they knew what the inside of an Amazon warehouse was like.
thanks, much more accurate than my explanation.
This is not unbelievable. Google has more to lose.
They have had "Lang Law" in France since 1981 apparently. This prevents individual booksellers from undercutting publisher prices and essentially establishes a price fix on books. It protects booksellers from big bookstores, which is basically the same issue that this article is talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Law
Does the charge in the battery affect the flammability? For example would a completely discharged battery never catch fire?
I want a product that comes up with new product ideas.
If online code availability is _that_ important for you then just push code to both GitHub and BitBucket.
The website isn't exactly presented in a linear fashion, but I gather the issue is the subject's use of Truecrypt to contain his personal files, whereas on a company-owned computer, all data therein is company property.

This certainly seems like it should be a civil matter, not something to involve the guys with guns and blue suits. But more to the point, $21.50 an hour for a 1099 job for a huge bag-of-dicks of a boss who pirates all his desktop software? Is that BSA hotline still around, or do they even care about small fries?
Protecting market incumbents from competition isn't exactly great for an environment either.
Bitcointalk.org db dump with over 150K emails and hashed passwords
Too much spite and satire in this comment to parse.
If you have an integer random walk and the step sizes are multiples of 3, you cannot reach a location that is not a multiple of 3. The ECC structure they described is similar to the set of multiples of 3: for example, an analog computer trying to simulate such a walk would periodically round the location to the nearest multiple of 3 to counter the effects of noise. The rounding does not change correct computations (becase they would already be multiples of 3), but it increases the likelihood that the result of the computation is correct.
I recall watching him sometime back explain it as follows.

In the guts of string theory lay error correcting "code" similar to some of the error correcting codes used in computer networking algorithms.
In order to give any return and be useful to investors, you'll need to scale your company. Scaling from 3 people to, say, 30 is a non-trivial task that isn't always done well - and I'd feel that getting from 1 person to 30 is harder and carries more risk. Being a single founder instead of a team also is correlated (not always, but sometimes) with being the type of person who can't form a team easily - which would be a drawback for any such startup.
if you are a game developer (indie or not), it`s worth looking into this one.
It helps to make encryption the norm. Better to be using encryption in situations where it is not needed than to fail to use it in situations where it matters.
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Will be a lesson for Tesla, I hope they improve and make it more better. I will still go for Tesla
Well, the French gov and the book stores can suck it, everyone can order from neighboring countries. I still can't understand how they don't get that it's a global economy (not to mention the EU, which each member country just disregards when it comes to various laws)...
More important is that the collection was initially already demanded to be via the FBI's own device (that they referred to as a "pen/trap device") that they were to install and control effectively providing them unwarranted access to all the traffic and all the content of it of all users. Nobody actually gave FBI the warrant to access everything but they were to effectively have the access. Later on they also demanded the SSL keys which have more or less the same effect. There's a major difference between collecting the data of the specific individual under investigation and accessing the data of everybody. And this is the first time such secret orders are accessible to the public.
Sorry, but I'm not a fan. Either comply with the order or don't, but don't play games.

This is the same nonsense the government pulls when they want to "technically" comply with a FOIA request, but want to make life as hard as possible for the requester.
Pure awesomeness!
I think expanding the life to 100-130 years might be possible in next 20-30 years for people in private jet category.

I don't think we can get to the point where person can live over 90 years old and has his cognitive capabilities intact and here is why:

If you hang around with old people in their 80's and 90's who are still exceptionally smart and have retained their faculties, you can still see how their cognition has changed. Brains might change only slightly after they reach their peak around 25, but we still carry the baggage of previously learned stuff. We don't have the so called "fresh eyes" anymore.

We see our current situation filtered trough our past experiences and I think this emotional and cognitive crystallization just goes on even with fully healthy brain. Using machine learning terminology, human brain can't backtrack from previously learned and their learning bias only increases. If our brains only increase their bias and specialization over time, learning stuff that is outside that field becomes more difficult and we lose the ability to adapt to big changes that will happen.
I type much slower on my phone than on a keyboard, but it's clearly still useful.

I have a music recording studio set up at home. I can imagine some scenarios where it might be easier for me to wave my hand for some brief computer interaction than to reposition myself for regular keyboard-typing and mouse-moving.

But, shrug, in any event, I think it's neat to see LeapMotion technology being brought to more applications. Maybe some of them will prove silly, but at least people are trying to figure out how to use it, which is more than I can say for myself thus far...
If people won't get off their asses for whatever reason to fight for our rights, at least help out someone that will. Donated.
Reminds me of Palm's 'Graffiti', both in execution and scope: it's a stop-gap solution, possibly to a problem that no longer exists.

IMO, their three suggested use-cases are quite flimsy.

"...enable surgeons to take notes during an operation without removing their gloves" - They already can, it's called dictation which is subsequently transcribed by a medical secretary whose time is far less expensive.

"check recipes while cooking without spilling flour on the keyboard" - touchless navigation of a pre-chosen recipe, maybe. Actually stopping cooking to search for a recipe/technique that you're unsure about? I would rather quickly wash my hands and use a more traditional input method to find what I want.

"search for TV programs without leaving their couch" - Given the range of the Leap device this really doesn't make sense - are they envisaging a wireless version you take with you to the couch/coffee table. Some sort of device that can 'remotely control' your television...

I still think Leap Motion is great technology, but still missing a decent application.
They do hire some ignorant yahoos from time to time.
Darcs Vs Git
yes, but they also have much more resources to fight and from what we know so far they didn't even try.
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I use the 8pen android keyboard. It takes a bit of time to get used to, but not more than a couple of days. For short strings of text, the learning curve is fine.
Lets krugman fix it
Would you want to invest in someone who will wait indefinitely to find the ideal teammate while [s]he actually needs to hire sub-optimal people in order to grow the company?

It's okay to postpone starting a startup, but if you want to say that you're started and get funded, then you have to show that you won't even consider a possibility of postponing growth for reasons you can avoid.
I've seen all three shows extensively and actually prefer the BBC show the most. IMHO, the BBC one is the most serious version and even though you have to get your head around some of the UK-specific stuff at first, you'll learn a lot from the show. Canada's Dragons Den and, even worse, Shark Tank, are more heavy on the drama and personalities, so there's more flash, but less substance.

Also, Peter Jones on BBC Dragon's Den strikes me as an incredibly intelligent investor.