skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a firm believer that everyone should have to do the following things before getting a drivers license:

1. Spend a month in an accident recovery unit, seeing first hand victims of MVAs.

2. Be in a crash. Somehow this would have to be simulated, at a speed that won't cause injury, but will shock. (I was in a simulated 15mph crash at a fair - it HURT!)
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it's a great question. i think the only "real" explanation is that junior bankers become senior bankers, there are very low barriers to entry once you're inside (learn excel and accounting), and so working 100 hours a week is a way to limit the competition and prove your worthiness - you wanted it more than anyone else.

mindless, yes. but it makes sense - banking is basically an exceptionally lucrative gentleman's occupation. particularly considering the largest clients have the resources to do M&A in house, so the bank most often gets paid fees for justifying what the client was already going to do.
Why would the anti-virus industry refuse to hire people that had developed viruses? Aren't those the people that think like virus writers and could write better antivirus software? Same with the hacking half of that. Those are the people that best know how to secure systems.

Wouldn't it be the people that used to be blackhat and have transitioned to gray or white-hat hacking that would be the best people to provide their services for pen-testing/anti-virus writing/etc?

Is the probability of an so-called ex-virus-writer writing in exploits into the system higher than someone else?

Is their knowledge worth the chance?
Clojure is fast 31-49K transactions per second
Mehldau is one of my more common choices. As a guitarist, I also lean towards Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and Joe Pass from time to time.

Otherwise it's more groove heavy DJs like Flying Lotus, Four Tet, Caribou, etc.
> which project the image directly in your field of vision

Really? Link?

This seems like a bad idea.
That's really inspiring. Relying on the facts above, life Starts at 35! -This is the the age when experience adds to the energy one has.
Abobe is required to offer credit monitoring. That's not an optional altruistic service on Adobe's part. Depending on the details of the hack, the CC processors can also fine Adobe significant amounts.

The credit card company is offering full fraud protection. So if someone does use your CC for fraud, you're inconvenienced, but not liable. That's far more than what Adobe is required to offer.

I'm quite happy with the American system of "it's the CC provider's responsibility to sort out fraud". It allows commerce to flow, and the backend can figure out fraud most of the time. Putting the burden on a consumer via a PIN system now means consumers have to be more careful, which is bad for consumers and could possibly deter them from using the cards as much.

Edit: The one thing I'd agree on is the broken system of "credit" in the US. Any company can ruin your credit rating based on their own internal policies, and successfully fighting is a major ordeal. All a company has to do for proof is show a bill, which they literally can just make up.

Additionally, requiring an SSN for everything is ridiculous. Cable TV and prepaid T-Mobile even demanded one. In Canada, no company is allowed to refuse service if you decline to provide your SIN.
Visualization with insight in budgeting is pretty easy because you're trying to answer "where do I spend my money?". Categorization needs to be good, but then you just need a distribution.

Mint is surprisingly bad at automatic categorization (failing on things like large transfers that trump all my other data), so I think there is an opportunity here.
Agree. But it happens all the time. Why else do you think they have those long periods of gardening leave when you leave one employer for another, or those clauses in contracts saying you will not work for a competitor in the same field for X months when you leave? (Although, I seem to recall the last one being unlawful since they are essentially stopping you earning a living).

Sometimes employers are willing to take that risk.

Do you think Ed Snowden is now more or less employable now?
$293M.... I'm just consistently angry over how much this cost.

There are so many moving pieces, and while I understand that, $293M for one piece. Half a billion for a website.

Christ.
You could consider just taking that 1mm and distribute it among your employees to make their salary competitive to reduce the turnover after training on that complicated internal hadoop variant.
You'd think that but that's not actually true. Google's infrastructure is way too big to be completely secure. There are several ways to penetrate Google's network.

I know some of the people in the security team and they are pretty good, but arrogance will be their undoing.

Google has an internal team called the Orange Team that performs security audits and, so far, they have always been successful in penetrating Google's network. If they can, what makes you think the NSA hasn't done that already?
If you were interested in seeing any details whatsoever about the protocol there are none either in the article or on the official website.
Creates a chat room with all the people around in it or it just randomly connects you to a single person?
> the startup's greed in check.

I didn't mention this, but the value and the revenue will come from solving people's problems. I think things are really well aligned here. You have a really cynical view that most people don't share. You're probably closer to reality, but what users actually care about matters more than reality.
That's if you live in the US :)
Why isn't it possible to just use your iPhone or any other Bluetooth (4.0 low energy) device, they should have a unique mac address and could be used for something like this.
Apple has been paying MPEG LA license fees and giving away QuickTime Player for ten years; this is no different.
Fwiw Micheal Crighton wrote about this ("piggyback slurp") in Congo:

http://goo.gl/KSf78p
http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~xzhou/teaching/CS522/Projects/SIGCOM...

There's the actual paper google wrote. It's very good. OpenFlow is a terrific piece of technology.
My location isn't unlocked yet, but this has the ingredients for brilliance. Marries the desire for privacy with the desire to feel connected to a local community... without being Whisper.

A great example of digital technology facilitating in person communication.

Look forward to playing around with it.
Agreed. The goal is great. The name implies malice.
Its the Bluetooth Low Energy chipset (part of bluetooth 4.0) in the modern macs that lets it talk to Sesame.

Thanks for the support!
I am curious too. It has me looking at apps like: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tokenlock/id402433482?mt=12

How/why is this better?
Yeah that was the question I initially had - I'm assuming it's a chat room, which I like a lot better.
What's the point of doing this, why not just use Mozilla Rhino?
A person shall not drive a motor vehicle if a television
receiver, a video monitor, or a television or video screen,
or any other similar means of visually displaying a
television broadcast or video signal that produces
entertainment or business applications

It doesn't have to be only an entertainment device. If it can produce entertainment or business applications, it's not allowed.

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27602.htm

There are exceptions for devices that have interlocks that allow them to act only as a GPS, map, vehicle information system, or or rear-view camera display while the vehicle is in motion. The Glass doesn't meet these criteria as it has no such interlock.
We recently opted to open up the restaurant searching outside of the target area to ensure we found the restaurant we were looking for (Google wasn't always returning accurate matches within the city selected), however it sounds like it is providing a confusing user experience.

Removing the city selection is something we've talked about, since it is less necessary, but it sounds like something we should move forward with.
Too bad I didn't get this contract...
Poll: What's HN's net worth?
Inspired by the millionaire poll on here that I think just got flagged away, I think it'd be interesting to see how net worth is distributed here on HN since like income, net worth may affect people's opinion on things.

Also, we might get an idea of how much HN's aggregate spending power may be.

Net worth includes all your measurable assets (e.g. savings, posessions, real estate) minus your liabilities (e.g debt, mortgages).

Please upvote after voting to make this poll representative.
$0 - $10K
$10k - $100k
$100k - $500k
$500k - $1M
$1M - $10M
Sebelius Claims ObamaCare “Website Has Never Crashed”
"I can tell that this system consists of a JBoss Application Server with data access components and RESTful web services developed using Java. Given my prior experience with JBoss and Java, although they are great for middleware development, they’re known to be a bit slow."

I always had this non founded impression that something running on the JVM would be slow ... this author also. Anyone with data to back this impression ?
Perhaps something like this should be in a policy handbook?

"Employees may not use passwords that are used with any service outside of the company."

Zero enforceability (but some companies would probably ask for a list of outside passwords I'm sure), but in the face of a direct policy violation, 100% fireable, and can help a company in terms of liability.
I would imagine it's not compatible because of Bluetooth 4. I had a similar issue with my MacBook vs iMac using that Authy two-factor authentication app that was talked about a couple of months ago.
Agreed.

One of the biggest issues with security-conscious systems is that people don't want to be seen as using something that only "people with something to hide" would be using.

The average American watches a show like SVU and learns that TOR is how kiddie porn is traded, not that it is how dissidents in Iran or Russia communicate with Journalists. They hear about the "darknet" and assume that that is where illegal activity goes on.

So "dark mail" gives the complete wrong connotation and basically means this is DOA unless they completely rebrand.
I mean, I've always envisioned a sort of uber-graduated license for driving with "distractions".

You're 16 and you get your license and you get a car with one seat, a speedometer, and a manual gearbox. You then can undergo additional testing/licensure that shows you can cope with additional distractions (passengers, radio, cupholder, tachometer, Google Glass).
Trouble is, I don't think many people would go for that.
Whats the charge for a state being the enemy of its own citizens?
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This is a pretty silly statement, because it implies that what someone could do with google glass they don't normally already do.
What about a TomTom? Is that illegal? Is it better to look at its screen wherever you positioned it in the car?
What about billboards? Aren't they there to catch your attention while driving? Are they illegal?
What about checking your speedometer or the gas level, or gas mileage?

In the future things like google glass or even active screens/windshields will be more and more able to show the same information and more, without necessarily implying any unsafe behavior on the road.
Scientists Discover the First Earth-size Rocky Planet
It wasn't too long ago that Obama himself said Ed Snowden was not a patriot. Said it then, will say it again. The hypocrisy just reeks.
If she were watching a video, there would be no way to know. Giving her a ticket is the same as giving one for an open container, really.
Good idea, but presentation is a bit iffish.

First, that the opening title about the coffee thing - I had to re-read that section twice to realize it wasn't referring to someone getting a refill in a coffee shop and wondering why the heck would they leave their precious Mac behind.

Second, I would strongly consider redoing photos that have woman's hand in them. As odd as it may sound, the nail polish color is annoying and distracting. It has this old lady feel to it. Also there's something altogether wrong with the second from the bottom photo, it is just ... gross.

Also, the fob seems to be just a tad too big. I can't help but to compare it to the Fitbit. That's the baseline for size and it's got the wireless proximity sync and an incredible battery life. It may not have crypto support, but there are few simple ways around it (e.g. preloading one-time pad during paring over a wire).

All in all though - very cool. I'd rather see one project like yours than a hundred of Jekyll JavaScript icons for MongoDB on Bootstrap or what have you :)
dominant ERB use surprised me, I would have guessed it much lower. Have people been moving back?
A friend analyzed the page and noted that they didn't minify or combine anything.

"One obvious reason is that they're serving unminified and unconcatenated Javascript and CSS files. A single page load causes 92 requests to the server, and they're not using a CDN for any of that.

They're also not setting the Cache-Control and Expires headers, so the browser isn't caching many of those files, including on 80k file full of response strings.

For the non-technical, this means the site is essentially killing itself. An optimized and properly tuned production website would load one (1) HTML document, one (1) CSS document, and one (1!) JS document, they're loading 92. "
I did this with my phone using a wireless hotspot and some bash scripting. Basically you're paying 40 euros for closed source hardware that works only with Mac, when you could do it with some scripts and your smartphone ;)
Zappa referred to electronic music (of the day) as 'missing the eyebrows'. Its sort of the uncanny valley of electronic music.
> That's not a given.

I think it's safe to say he was referring to the 99.99% of internet users for which his statement is true. Sure, he's generalizing a tiny bit, but it's basically true.
I haven't checked out the app yet but I love the concept. And I'll echo wmaiouiru here that if you don't have FB integration, it should be priority #1. Personally I'd like #7 to be in the development plan as well :)
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AppScale PaaS on Docker
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I know what you mean, I could've totally made a failing website for $100 million max. I would have saved them money.
Am I the only one who is against litigation? On the off chance that we lost it would be annoying to be legally forbidden from using these devices while driving. I would just pay the ticket (which I assume is ~90$).
When the NSA sends people out to infiltrate companies, they won't write "NSA" on their resume. For the rest of former NSA employees, a lot of them will have resumes that say: Palantir, Booz Allen Hamilton, etc.
The writing has been on the wall about the true nature of "the cloud" for at least 15 years. I tried to tell people, they preferred to put their faith and trust in the major magazines, which were all propagandizing about it constantly. Most people (including the developers who write this software) allow themselves to be herded, and if you try to tell them what's really going on they write you off as a crackpot.

What most people don't realize is that all the value offered by "the cloud" can be created with much higher quality on a different architecture, one that gives all the benefits of the cloud, but without sacrificing privacy.
Team Austria Wins Solar Decathlon 2013
If you like this kind of stuff, check out Low-tech Magazine. Here's their article on aerial ropeways:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/01/aerial-ropeways-autom...

Their series on the mechanical transmission of power is great:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/01/mechanical-transmissi...
Revealed: NSA pushed 9/11 as key 'sound bite' to justify surveillance
Where are the links to IRS and social security admin? During the sign up process they verify tax return status and ssns of dependents including children?

Is that what CMS does?
iPhones have this habit of running out of battery. That could be inconvenient. The battery in the key fob probably lasts on the order of months because that's its only purpose in life.
Your cellphone usage should be automatically linked to your car's GPS data and automatically bill you every time you use it while driving ? this is not that hard, I am sure the NSA already has all that data
About lack of golden reference: Illustrative but extreme example is Bitcoin. There is no golden transaction history. What emerges through consensus from your peers is accepted as the transaction history. If there are network outages and silos get formed, then content can diverge.

About peers being offline: I am not talking about people being offline, but their systems going offline. Say I want to publish a photo to my friends. Their systems may not be available at the moment my system is online.
Yea, but as collateral damage, the rope hung the tech companies and damaged their brands by who knows how much.
>Heads up displays have already been proven by the military to be much safer.

Correction: Military heads up displays have already been proven by the military to be much safer. In order for their results to apply to Google Glass, they would have to install Angry Birds, Facebook, and YouTube on those devices, too.
In what universe are vehicles sold without dash mounted radios and nav systems? Those are dramatically more distracting than a HUD, as they require the user to avert their eyes from the road for use.
When I was studying this in college I always found the "Eigenfaces" example very enlightening (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface).

In case you're not familiar with them, the basic idea is treating a image of a face as a very high dimensional vector, and then doing what amounts to PCA on a collection of them. I'm leaving off a few steps, but the resulting eigenvectors converted back into images helped me grasp what was going on in a much more intuitive fashion.
Maybe it's trivially easy to host your own e-mail, but isn't it pretty hard to convince other servers to accept e-mail originating from your host? I haven't been following things closely, but I remember reading about stuff like DKIM and SPF and I seem to recall that you need a static IP for some of the stuff involved. All in all, sounds like a non-trivial hassle and non-trivial cost.

On that note, is there a down-to-earth guide to setting up your own e-mail host?
All espionage that Country A does in Country B is illegal in Country B. That's why it's espionage.
Sure, and you are allowed to have GPSes in your field of view.

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27602.htm

But the Glass is more than a GPS. It lets you read texts and emails. Reading texts and emails while you're driving will necessarily be more distracting than not doing so. And that's what's not allowed.

The law is written such that it's only allowed to be able to offer both an approved function as well as an entertainment/business function if there's an interlock that prevents anything but the approved functions from being used while the vehicle is in motion.
I agree. If they start producing this robot as an affordable toy -kids and parents would love it! And it should give them the best and the most numerous use cases.
It has nothing to do with "running on the JVM". The JVM is about as fast as you'll get any VM offering GC and running an IR like Java bytecode. It's only slow compared to compiled, native code (and even then nowhere near as relatively slow as it used to be), which no competing tech stack would be doing. It's much faster than Ruby, Python, etc.

That said, my experiences with JBoss haven't left me enamoured of it, and it certainly wouldn't be my first choice.
> The infiltration is especially striking because the NSA, under a separate program known as PRISM, has front-door access to Google and Yahoo user accounts through a court-approved process.

1. Spy on whatever the hell you want without benefit of warrant.

2. Discover something interesting.

3. "Parallel construct" a way that the information could have been legally obtained.

4. Get a warrant based on the parallel construction.

5. Profit.
It would be cool if the "radius" automatically scaled to ensure there are not too many or too few people in the chat. This could be accomplished with a Voronoi diagram.
I supported a growing family while beginning my M.S. and the PhD. My wife chose to focus on the children rather than work, and we lived off my stipends. It worked out great. When I completed my doctorate, we had 6 thriving children. We had also learned how to be resourceful and create a great life without a ton of money. We saved up a solid down payment for a permanent home in the meantime.

Now I'm making a solid living, we're finishing paying off our permanent home, and we're expecting our 8th child. (By the way, I'm also 36. We didn't wait exactly because we knew that our time to build a family was limited while our time to make money was less so.)
This question on this kind of topic needs to stop being asked on Hacker News. It's fair to ask whether or not there was a material usage intended for the project, but if isn't one, we really need to stop implying that there should be.
Do they actually own and operate all of the wires between various datacenters? That sounds like a huge undertaking.
Funny thing is how many articles have been written about Chinese crackers, possibly funded by the Chinese government, trying to hack into big companies.
San Francisco: the shine has come right off for me
Actually, if I were Google or Yahoo, I would be getting my lawyers to prepare some type of lawsuit. Not that I think it will succeed, but Google/Yahoo are direct victims here.
Do you have evidence that Larry Page or Google knew about this? How is the CEO of Google stepping down an adequate reaction to a something that Google doesn't seem to be behind?
At first I thought this was similar to a bike lock so that your Mac can't get stolen. But that doesn't appear to be what this is. I don't see why simply "locking" your screen with something as simple as configuring a Hot Corner (all I do when I leave my Mac is swipe my trackpad to the bottom left) and it locks the screen. Logging in again isn't a problem no matter where it is. The fear is that if I'm in a coffee shop, my entire device will be stolen.
Banking is a relationship business. The hours aren't so much for productivity as for bonding. Think of it as a frat initiation ritual that lasts years. Some very small portion of IB analysts remain in IB, most move off and become successful somewhere else, building an incredibly strong network of captains of industry over time, all tied back to that particular investment bank.
If they don't understand what's going on, wouldn't that argue in favor of doing more detailed research and analysis before writing claims? The original assumptions/claims in the Guardian story on PRISM are now shown to be false. This caused a lot of negative blowback on the companies involved.

Don't we expect our investigative journalists, to well, actually investigate things, instead of rushing to print?