skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My God! That review I posted publicly on G+, the one associated with my real name G+ profile, is visible on the Internet!"

If you write a review, then someone searches for that place on Google Maps, your review will come up on the place page--with your name and picture next to it, now less! It's... not really much different, except that this is being used in ~~ads~~.
Building a microscope from old camera lenses
It's worth mentioning a specific term here, too: "card not present" That covers all ecommerce, and even some card scanning technology, too, EVEN if the card is present. As you pointed out, it's all about fraud/risk. It's easier to circumvent the credit card companies' "security" features (magnetic strip, hologram, signature on the backside of the card, the actual card itself, a chip if your card has one, etc.) when the card is not present during a transaction. A good analogy would be paying with counterfeit $100 bills. There are security features built into cash that allow merchants to verify their authenticity. It's difficult to prove that the person on the other side of the internet is who he says he is when paying with a card. Is the card stolen? So as you pointed out, card not present transactions are riskier, thus require a higher interchange fee, etc.
I'm in the minority in that I love Google+.
It's everything good about social networking without any of those pesky people everyone seems to like so much.
I'm not but you might be able to use this:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/third-party-buildpacks

plus

https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go
Suppose the money was spent on better nutrition, exercise, good heating/insulation for seniors, instead of on curative medical care after something goes wrong?
Forget school, I just read it on the Internet. So it is true.
Minimum payments maybe. But you have the right by law to give a cash discount (and apparently the right to charge a credit card fee):

http://www.interest.com/credit-cards/news/you-soon-could-be-...

From that article it sounds like it was part of a lawsuit that was settled. I had thought it was through one of the consumer financial protection bills that happened after the housing bubble pop.
"Drawing a random squiggle" and assigning it a meaning is exactly how symbols work. Stopping your car at intersections has exactly nothing to do with red octagons inherently, its just a symbol that we've assigned a meaning to.
The basic problem is that tax systems are inherently complicated, and big companies with operations in numerous countries have many legitimate reasons for not paying "full taxes." There are two simple, common-sense, principles:

1) Income earned in a particular country should be taxed there and not elsewhere;

2) Taxes should be incurred on net income, not gross income.

In the context of a multi-national, there is no simple way to implement these two simple principles. When Google earned a Euro for an ad shown in the U.K. from a server in Ireland using technology developed in Ireland and the U.S. how do you divy up the income and the expenses?
Visualizing algorithms and data structures
Glad you like it!

We're always excited to see the new things that people build with our platform. The goal for our developer platform is to enable massive parallel experimentation with WebRTC so that people can create applications that are completely new and different from anything that exists today. We believe that by abstracting out the global server backend (and browser differences, etc.) from WebRTC there is a much larger market of developers that can build amazing things involving communication than ever before while only using JavaScript.

If you need any help along the way, don't be shy to contact us (@vlineinc, support@vline.com, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vline)
Mind was unchecked as well. A little confusing seeing the headline and then it looking like I had already opted-out somehow. Made me wonder if it was one of those double-negative check boxes for toolbar installations.
So ideas are like people; and since we are all equal, your ideas have no more value than my ideas.
This is something that shocked me when I went on the UTA Trax trains in Salt Lake: there were no tickets.

Or, to be precise, there were tickets, but they weren't enforced. No turnstiles were present anywhere in the system.

Coming from previous transit systems like MARTA and the DC METRO, this was a shocking turn of events.

Supposedly officials come around and ensure everyone has a ticket, but I never saw that happen.

The buses, on the other hand, require payment to board.
This is done for free by the police in Belgium (and the Netherlands if I'm not mistaken). They use a hand-held engraver on the frame, and when they find an engraved bicycle they contact the owner. I think the fact that the police and not just the general public use the system is helpful...
Steve Jobs started like that (blue boxing) and somehow avoided prison like what would happen today.

Could be an alternate universe timeline for him.
The D community has not found any good alternative yet. The wiki contains a summary: http://wiki.dlang.org/Versus_the_garbage_collector
Better yet, Google should not show ads for products that my friends rate poorly...
Because without economic incentives, the club would be free to do things that that are contrary to the economy, like I don't know, develop a machine capable of easily and efficiently copying and communicating data.
AppleScript XML-RPC
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I forget what the old setting was, but there was a G+ setting about showing +1s in other contexts, which I recall unchecking when I was unchecking all the "email me about..." settings and other cruft in the G+ settings. Looks like they remember that (it was unchecked for me too).
'access to their computers and source code work product.'
The service idea is fine (although I'm sure there are many other places that offer something like this, there is no such thing as too much chocolate on the internet), but your web design is a bit lacking.

For starters, any service trying to push food items needs pictures. Lots of pictures, huge ones. You only have one pic of chocolate, and if you don't like bacon covering the chocolate, you're turned off.

Secondly, since you are trying to get paid signups immediately, you can work a bit harder to establish trust. Add a few more pages. About us, FAQ, contact us, past months' offerings. Fill in the web design so it doesn't look like so stark. Show me you're a reputable merchant, that values security and privacy, and that I can reach if my chocolate doesn't show up.

If you find it hard to get paid signups right away, consider an alternate call to action. Maybe people can sign up for your newsletter with chocolate-related recipes every month. Maybe they can get email reminders when you offer a new month's flavor.

If you are looking for additional inspiration, go to the Kickstarter food section. There are lots of little bakeries and home kitchens there that have had viral campaigns for cookies, brownies, etc. See what worked for the biggest successes there.
The app itself isn't expensive - it's the time and resources to connect with local governments (so police search the database too) and the expense to reach more shops and integrate with various point-of-sale systems in bike shops.

The idea of the police engraving anything into my bike is horrifying. And impossible for carbon bikes.

And once again, it won't be difficult to get registration for free. The reason that there is a fee is to encourage people to register their bike when they are in a bike shop rather than putting it off because they can just do it at home - plus, by adding a fee we will make it easier to track thieves who register bikes they've stolen.
The money is given to the government, and the government didn't put it there either. However, the job of the government is to serve you. So I disagree that it would be a handout.
What "loop hole" exactly are we talking about?

Run down to your local university and audit a class in Federal Income Tax. It's actually a pretty well thought-out system. There are "loop holes" (e.g. for oil and gas companies), but when it comes to taxing multi-nationals there are real theoretical challenges.
He forgot to mention keeping the computer in a faraday cage. If he has Snowden info, it seems likely that intelligence agencies would be monitoring him closely enough to use Van Eck phreaking to spy on his laptop display (or other part of the computer that leak info through rf, which is all of them).
It's a great trend going forward to see companies becoming more open about the code they write, it helps get a third party perspective on what you're building. Balanced has done a good job at documenting and keeping their code clean enough that the barrier to contribution is as low as you can ask for on GH.
I know, that why I said "it's not important then", but just in case it was supposed to, I preferred to tell you :-).
But how do you know that a 50/50 balance is even natural in engineering fields like CS?

Why isn't there a 50/50 balance and other similar initiatives for males for female dominated subjects like nursing and education?
I meant positive changes - i.e. curing depression. And I don't have depression - I'm speaking broadly about solving problems with pills vs. non-pills.
Healthcare is absolutely a consumer good. I don't even know how to begin to try and understand your claim.
> That's why it uses operations instead of time - to be able to compare algorithms independently of machines it runs on.

Splitting hairs here. You can talk about operations or time. Same thing as operations are sequential. One operation follows another. You can count them when you are done to get to total and the total is also referred to as the "time" in this context.

> I've seen ever implemented was incorrect - most use integers or floats or doubles so their input space is very limited

So are we talking about specific hardware here or not. I thought we weren't. There ambiguity and discussion point is there because one can define what they consider is a "constant" operation. You can say it is a hypothetical von neuman architecture machine and these operations (op1, op2, ....) take a constant time. Now we compare two algorithms and see how they do.
Regarding your edit: Chrome and Firefox both support WebRTC out of the box. I'll look at the Firefox issue you mentioned (it should work).

Apple has participated in the WebRTC standard discussion (mainly pushing for H264 as the codec standard), but have kept silent on when/if they will release it in Safari.

Microsoft/Skype have been participating, but no word on when it will be in IE.
No doubt they both have their benefits, however in an environment particularly suited for working with JSON, like node.js, the additional overhead of a YAML (or other) parser may not be desirable.
The terms here are muddled, but what the hell, I'll go ahead and try and answer. For what it's worth, the parent comment isn't particularly well defined either.

First, if we define "the economy" as GDP [1] (a generally poor approximation, but still better defined than a vague "the economy" entity), spending tautologically boosts "the economy". It either falls under the "private consumption" or "gross investment" part of the equation.

Now, I'll try and respond to your analysis point by point.

> Because investing boosts the economy

Again, we're on solid ground here if we're considering "the economy" to mean "GDP"

> and spending reduces the potential for investiments

Woah, hold on there. This assertion doesn't make sense from several perspectives. First, the economy isn't some zero-sum game where players must choose between spending and "investiments". Spending by one party can be converted into productive investments by another. e.g. if people start buying a ton of G.I. Joe action figures, the maker of G.I. Joe Figurines can convert that capital inflow into a factory.

In addition, many forms of consumer spending are investments from their perspective. A new washing machine frees productive time that can then be spent e.g. learning a trade. A new car might enable them to find new jobs or reduce their maintenance expenses on their current car.

> so the picture is at least more complex than that.

Right, but generally when parties are producing things other people want to spend money on, the economy is "working". The corollary is that when nobody is willing or able to spend money on new goods, the economy is probably not healthy.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDP
> as Fred Wilson said, “you’re far better off working with somebody of high ethics with no NDA than somebody of low ethics with a signed NDA.”

I think this is what it comes down to. If you can't trust the people you're working with - then you shouldn't be working with them.
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From Ycombinator's "What We Do" page:

One concrete consequence is that Y Combinator funding lets you sell early, if you want to. It can sometimes make sense to sell yourself when you're small for a few million, rather than take more funding and roll the dice again. Google likes to do early-stage acquisitions, and we expect them to become increasingly common as other companies learn what Google has.

If you take a large amount of money from an investor, you usually give up this option. But we realize (having been there) that an early offer from an acquirer can be very tempting for a group of young hackers. So if you want to sell early, that's ok. We'd make more if you went for an IPO, but we're not going to force anyone to do anything they don't want to.
Tim Caswell on the development of JS-Git
Original comment poster here.

He is definitely an arrogant kind of guy, but the movie literally portrays him as having been in some kind of cult wherein everyone bleaches their hair white. That kicks him down from "arrogant asshole" to "crazy, God complex cult leader" to people watching the movie.

And really, from what I can tell, he's not done anything particularly immoral. No evidence has come out that anything he leaked harmed any Americans. He sifts through all leaked material before just publishing it willy nilly.
If anything this really is the time for the club to reunite (and for some new fresh blood to join in). If you think about it, homebrew has really exploded without the benefit of meets like this; all thanks to the internet (YouTube et al in particular) showing what can be done with a bit of DIY hacking of purpose built and definitely not purpose built devices.

Forget IBM, Dell, HP and such. Those guys are dinosaurs. There are so many new companies now Arduino, SparkFun, RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard(TI, but still worthy) etc... all catering primarily toward the tinkerer. If anything this should receive support from these companies, groups and products as well as individuals since it's their products that are going to form the backbone for a lot of homebrew projects.

How come there still isn't a proper standard (open source) replacement for the TI series graphing calculator? I can't imagine a group more qualified to build one and share among each other.
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I have an idea - but do no have any writing experience or confidence to do so. I'm a programmer in my day job. How can I start? Where do I look?
The ability to use a for-each loop rather than an iterator or iterated for loop.
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Also once you stop forcing people to do useless jobs just because it's considered good these days to "protect jobs" and just give them money (preferably enough to survive/look around for a bit but not too much to kill all the incentive to work) maybe they will start doing something actually useful like trying to meet all the increased demand for basic services/items created by shifting more wealth to the poor.
You're not required to have 200 friends on fb. Just unfriend the not so real friends. You could have not do real friends on google+ too if you chose.

Most my close friends are not on google+.
Generally yes. Distilled down, quality of team seems to be a better predictor of success in enterprise than consumer, in that we see many more great consumer teams struggling to get traction than we do great enterprise teams struggling to get traction (on a proportional basis). There are many other factors for both but the "lightning in a bottle" element for consumer startups is real and very frustrating for teams that end up not being able to capture it.

I would just take out "only" from your comment -- there are exceptions everywhere. When we talk about patterns like these, they really are only patterns -- the truth is always in the specific details.
Imagine you invest in several companies simultaneously. You have funded Company A who is working on something that does X. You meet with Company B, sign an NDA and discover their idea is to also work on X. At best this will resolve itself as a simple misunderstanding and at worst there will be attorneys involved.
I really (really really) wish they'd added a way to represent dates. Dates were left out of the original JSON spec since javascript doesn't define a syntax for date literals. You have to execute the Date() constructor to make them. Since JSON was supposed to be a subset of non-executing javascript, dates were excluded from JSON.

That left serialization to a string as the only way to transfer dates. But since there's no specification for the format to use, cross-browser date parsing is a mess (see http://dygraphs.com/date-formats.html ). JSON + dates = sadness.

The non-executing constraint on JSON was a good idea in its early days, when eval was the most common way to parse JSON, but now that there are dedicated parsers for all environments, it's not as much a priority. But we're still stuck with kludgy workarounds for the lack of native date support in JSON.

If there's still concern about using the Date constructor, the spec could require that the date be prefixed to avoid execution: "0 || new Date(...)". Real parsers would extract the date correctly, eval would just return 0.
Print money to fund startups. It's the future.
Fun note:

The conference room in the picture from the video is the Panofsky Auditorium at SLAC national lab.

It was just shut down last month as they are preparing to demolish it.
Yep, we do, and we set up many opportunities for our entrepreneurs to do that themselves. (I just got back from our annual CIO/CMO conference where there was a lot of exactly that.)
The one thing I think all US sports should incorporate is the idea of relegation. It make the rest of the season so much more exciting.

It's like one of the commentators pointed out. The Premiership is one of those leagues that even if you're mid-table, you might be safe since there are more points between say the #1 team and the #5 team as opposed to the number of points which separate the #5 team and the #20 team.

Plus, now it's just as exciting who's going down and who's staying up. As well as which teams from the Championship is getting their big break and can they stay up for more than one year?

If US teams had more of a setup like this, the story lines would be endless. I think it makes for a much more fan friendly league.
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I've been looking for software to video chat without being locked in an ecosystem (especially Google Hangouts), and WebRTC seems to do the trick just fine while being completely decentralized.
I just tried vLine and the quality is pretty good compared to Skype for example. Thank you vLine. :)

By the way, is HD video not supported or is the problem from my side?
While I don't support this double dutch or other kind of tax avoidance schemes, I can honestly say for about 25k USD you can get one of the top consulting firms (McKinsey, Deloitte, etc) to create a good tax avoiding scheme and for 5k or so more to implement all the documentation needed.

It isn't that big of a expense if you really want to try and avoid taxes as much as possible for your company.

source: I saw various of these reports for a few firms I consulted with
We are all Texans now.
HelloSign is looking for full-stack hackers (YC W11)
> what difference does it make if its on the shelf or already in customer's hands?

Actually, it makes a huge difference:

1) I pay property taxes on all inventory held on the shelf at the beginning of the year

2) I can offer a discount to move product off of the shelf now at a lower rate (equivalent to paying a higher transaction rate) to achieve actually present cash-flows

3) I can write-off inventory that sits on the shelf too long and depending on my accounting method, I may have to claim income on a sale today, even though I haven't been paid yet.

> % on month > 36% APR b/c of network leverage and government regulations.

No, it's 3%. Period. Not 3*12, just 3%. Don't conflate accrual of interest with acquisition costs. That'd be like saying that since labor on production is 2% of COGS, firing everyone increases my yearly margin by 24% (at best, it would be 2%, if you could still produce). Consider that any method of capturing payment, whether cash or credit card, has an acquisition cost (time, money, labor, etc.). Paying a 3% fee on CC optimizes time and labor in exchange for money.
Not something introduced in the new generation; the last generation had it as well. And the generation before that. And before that.
Have you decided for sure to move to the SF Bay Area?

You could potentially network and get a job (or at least have them fly you out for interviews) without moving. If a company likes you enough they may even assist with the move or you can try to negotiate that into your contract. Feel free to ping me.
So then you tell all the low incomes folks in SF "good luck"?

They are already getting more than the supposed guaranteed income and still there is a backlash about "kicking out the poor people".

Sounds like a recipe for social unrest.
>>>>> as a simple example, recumbent cycles are faster under many conditions

Ever tried to pedal one of those things up a mildly steep hill?
Korea, Japan, and China are not part of Southeast Asia.
Schneier explicitly mentioned tempest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)) in the article.
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I'm surprised how often that's repeated given that it's not true at all. Obscurity is a totally legitimate security technique. Maybe not the strongest one, and hopefully not your only defense, but it's clearly got some value.
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We're working on integrating with the police, it's the next step and a big part of the reason for the Kickstarter. But more important than the police doing it is bike shops doing it for free when you buy a new bike, before it leaves the shop.

Also I do not want the police using a hand-held engraver on my frame - it already has a serial number.
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Very good point.

Im inclined to believe Scheiers real security arrangemetns are obscured for now.
"It's repeating the mistakes of others in exchange for a quick short-term profit."

That's basically the definition of modern business.
Hire a CPA, it's what they do for a living.