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The linked page is okay for general information about the conference, but really poor for finding videos you might care about. You're forced to click through every speaker to see an embedded video and description of the talk. Much better for the video is to browse the youtube playlist [0], but this loses the specific information about the talk. Bummer.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLiioAbFTbKP9CxF9Fu4_...

Edit: Okay, so if you scroll up from where the submission links (#speakers), there is a link to watch the videos [1]. I did look at the entire page first, but missed the link because its target is a picture of a monitor.

[1] http://2013.cascadiajs.com/videos

Edit 2: So the video JS Bringing Crypto To The Masses caught my eye, and I spent the last remaining minutes of my lunch hour giving it a watch. The first 17 minutes and 45 seconds are about cryptography in general, and I won't make any judgement on this part. The last 6 minutes are left to talk about JavaScript, except not really. I admit the majority of my interest in this video was to see if the problems with doing cryptography in JavaScript were going to be responded to. The problems are not ignored, as the presenter immediately brings up the requisite matasano article [2]. Then he makes some vague claim that doesn't respond to the problems mentioned in the article. The majority of his time was spent on this:

His claim: Matasano is worried about a man in the middle attack and thinks that SSL is good enough.

His response: "I call bullshit. SSL is protection from other people on the wire. Cryptography is protection for you on the wire. Why should you trust me to store your data without reading it?"

This completely ignores the major issue of the execution environment with JavaScript cryptography. He actually does briefly mention these issues before making the point above, but offers no response. So, there is really no content in the talk about "bringing crypto to the masses." Disappointing.

[2] http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
It may be easier to do than it looks, but it's also harder to do well.
Those companies were >80% chance of success at employee 50. Any of them have/had more chance of being worth $10B than less than $500M. So you really have to integrate over the probability curve to get an expected value, but I don't think the naive estimate of $700k oversells things.
Its the mutt of media players (mutt as in the email client)
I did attempt to clean up the data, just not enough. (I substituted for the abbreviations for 20-25 colleges. In retrospect I should have looked for a mapping online first.)
The quote in question was from the article: where the author claimed that there was a rash of anarchist terrorism in the 1919-1921 time frame, and using it as an example of the instability central to the article's thesis.

I'm specifically referencing the events author was alluding to, since tokenizer seems to regard this statement as an unfair coloring, where in fact the specific referenced events were bombings, some of which targeted the public, which makes "terrorism" an apt label.
One Startup’s Long Road To A Rackspace Acquisition And IPO
Here's the Foreign Policy Article, linked so there's no registration banner:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/19/stuxnets_se...
Heroku comes with a free managed postgres database to start with. Upgrade when you need more features like point in time recovery and more resources.
you are asking too much permissions. Why you want to update my profile?
Educate don’t humiliate
Yeah, I wasn't implying that the specifics of BitCoin would work well for a hypothetical SearchCoin. NameCoin is feasible because the volume of data is much smaller, both for keys and values, and updated infrequently.
I also use XMMS as my primary media player. It "just works" and I don't need a lot of fancy stuff in a music player. XMMS for music, and VLC for video, that's pretty much all I need.
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The problem he is pointing out is that here is blatantly clear that this is corruption but is socially acceptable because is a "gift" or "campaign sponsorship".
".WINE is perfect for a winery!"

What are these guys drinking? I'll give it a miss.
He might not feel like doing this full time, but surely there is a market for this. i.e. A team that doesn't nothing but PC ports. I'd imagine similar issues would crop up every time so specialization might be possible.
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I thought the goal was not to fire employees, but instead to identify and address the situation.

I have often been told that the goal of Welch's management style is to identify the top 10% and reward them heavily, and to identify the bottom 10% and find out how to help them improve.

Honesty is necessary if that is true.
Boy gets prosthetic hand made by 3-D printer (Robotics & Engineering)
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Fuel cell cars...finally
He is called Charlie in French... "Où est Charlie ?"
12 Ways Android Is Still Better Than iOS 7
I posted it from my Google+ account. Muahahahaha.
One pretty big cost is the risk of confusion when visiting "somebrandname.sometld", especially if it's a different entity from the ".com" domain.

It can also be a cost (both moneywise and as a time sink) for brands wishing to protect their identify, if the number of tlds increases with a magnitude. (Multiplied by the number of misspellings and hyphenations etc).

It's probably likely to break a lot of (buggy) software (just try entering an @example.museum email around the web today).

Non-technical people are likely to be confused (so increased support costs, re-education, etc).

What happens to a gTLD and all the registered subdomains, when its sponsoring corporation goes under?

The DNS root zone grows, which may have undesirable costs for caching nameservers and DNS traffic.

It feels like a waste of energy and time that a non-profit like ICANN could have used for more constructive work.
It actually is. While plenty of economic goods may not be secured by codified property rights and instead are secured through the application of community norms, when those norms are challenged community does have to apply force.

See: the majority of human history, particularly Pythagoras' attempt at community, every war for conquest, anarchic systems created in early Iceland/Scandinavia, normal people's experiences with bullies, etc.
> Why Go Pro? Help fund continued product development & innovation

Well... no more...
You can check out our personal cloud software Tonido (http://www.tonido.com). It organizes all your music, video collection and makes it available from anywhere. We have very good mobile apps for iOS, Android and even for Windows 8. You don't need to take our word. Just check the app ratings and reviews in app stores.
+ you can bypass iTunes and sync your iPod Classic using Winamp.
The difficult aspects take centre stage when things go wrong.
It's not really the google wallet card, of course. I really wanted the old Google Wallet card that was promised awhile back and then dropped.

So many wallet solutions have come out in the last few days.

Give me Wallaby:
https://walla.by/the-wallaby-card?ref=ecpeby

Or Coin:
https://onlycoin.com/?referral=ETAu9R6E

Google Fail.
It would definitely help, but I don't think it'd be a silver bullet.

http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors

I'm seeing the domain name considerations well below bigger factors (link juice, page rank, etc.)
Because Winamp.
I recently updated Winamp to 6.65, and it removed the ‘play tracks similar to …’ feature. That is the only difference I noticed.
Having single-payer healthcare is important for this to happen, yes.
Also: aerodynamics is not really hard, anyone can fold paper planes!
Or: programming 3D games is easy, just build new levels for an old game!
Or: I don't know what I am doing here, but look, this photoshop effect looks really cool on my holiday photos!

etc.

Seriously:
The writer would not be able to write anything about K-Means if not for people looking at it from a mathematical view point. This angle is of tremendous importance if you want to know how your algorithm behaves in corner cases.

This does not suffice, if you have an actual application (e.g. a recommendation or a hand tracking or an object recognition engine). These need to work as good as you can make it because every improvement of it will result in $$$.
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It's interesting you mention this. The polished UI and tab isolation are the only reasons I haven't switched back to firefox at this point. Firefox has mostly fixed their bloat and stability issues (not to mention chrome is far more 'bloated' on purely a ram utilization scale), but its just so damned ugly and lacks the security benefits of process isolation.

Btw, the reasons I want to move away from chrome are the "sign in to chrome" movement, I'm assuming this is an end-run around the movement to block internet tracking, and the lack of a strong extension model.
We don't need 50 crappy new domain extensions. We just need one new one that works well like .com.

Personally, I had high hopes for .co, but it doesn't seem too well adopted yet.
Oh, it is.
> A rotary dial is an affectation for anyone; a physical keyboard is a valuable tool for some users.

I entirely disagree. They are both simply examples of what one is used to and therefore prefers. The only difference between a "valuable tool" and an arcane affectation is your personal preferences.

I have no problem distinguishing between useful and trendy. We're not talking about just mass market popularity, we're talking about these niche devices no longer existing. "Because it's trendy" isn't the reason that even companies that have no problem with spitting out endless models and variations have also abandoned hardware keyboards.

A full size phone headset, a rotary dial, a landline. All arcane affectations in the eyes of most, useful tools in the eyes of those that swear by them. In 10 years, we'll look back on hardware keyboards on phones the way we look at floppy disks. Most already do.
Serious question:

Why THE FUCK are industrial controllers connected to the Internet still running Windows?

What is going on here? Why did anyone ever think this was a good idea? Your customers may use Windows, but you don't code your site as a batch script ...
Conversations should be task centric
Wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

Just as I don't imagine that apple would create an iPad that was too hot for touch...

The gist, and my point is that it is easy to imagine an alternative universe with, for instance, much better battery tech, without considering how our bad batteries have influenced our.

Our batteries have forced us to focus on low power designs. Designs that also benefits from low heat output which also benefits from cheaper, smaller and quieter cooling.
Ask HN: What are some good iOS development related podcasts?
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Natural resources? As in Japan, Switzerland, Iceland, Britain, Hong Kong, Singapore? Have you ever read 'The Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith. Seems not.
A 19-year-old college dropout is launching the world’s most powerful smartwatch
NYT announces two new initiatives including data analytics vertical
Vulnerabilities can still be discovered in the compiled code, but they are easier to discover in the source code. Simply running a static analyser on the code will probably point out numerous possible vulnerabilities already.
Credit cards charge merchants for their loyalty programs. They do make money from carried balances, but that's not how reward programs are funded.
I think it's unfair to place the blame squarely on the student. Even in college, the academic system emphasizes memorization and surface-level application (knowing how to "use a formula") over the kind of "thinking" you're describing.

Also, many professionals are called upon to solve problems that require this same kind of "thinking". Academics are not the only ones wrestling with difficult problems.
"And this wasn't from some iterative Moore's Law"

It was WRT CPU power. I remember having to use some specially compiled for 486 player to just barely be able to play mp3s. Before that on my 386-40 I was below real time.

I'm pretty sure this is what I was using:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mpg123-oss-i486

This was the days long before P2P, using binaries usenet groups. Or ripping songs yourself, which took quite a long time indeed (like 10 or 15 minutes per song?)
I never use Facebook. Reading any sort of article certainly is though. So are all forms of remote desktop. This is a common misconception by those who swear by hardware keyboards, that the rest of us are simply fucking around on our phones, and those that do real work need a hardware keyboard.

They said the same thing about the GUI vs the CLI. Look how that turned out.
I did notice a lot of misspellings on the graph legends :)
Even being 2:1 why would you expect those results being reflected anywhere else? Why would an employer hire from one of the two pools of people where one haves 50% less chance of being good enough for the position?
I find it weird how socialists latch on to every source of violence and claim it as their own, even when it's very obvious it's something else.

Most leftist terrorism, in Greece for example, was directed and controlled from within the Soviet Union, and had the goal of military conquest behind it. That is very well understood now. It had nothing to do with what Greece's populace wanted.

The irony of the article is that it attempts to use today's terrorist actions and claim them for collectivism. In fact al qaeda started by bombing soviets, because they were collectivist. They got help from the US (because collectivist systems hated religion up to two decades ago. Marx hated religion, as is very well known).

As if that wasn't proof enough you have the "arab spring" and what it was really pushing. That's pretty clear at this point. In Egypt, Lybia, ... and it wasn't collectivism. It wasn't equality. It was the very opposite of that. It was pushing an extreme view of repressive, very capitalist religion. One that espouses a slave-based economy, and a form of society that has a reputation across the planet for being by far the worst society for a slave to live under. A religion that pushes selling humans. A religion that praises trading, pillaging the earth, and all you seem to hate, to a far greater extent than our capitalist system does. 9/11 and related bombings were executed by people associated with this system, not with collectivism of any kind.

Another massive self-deception is that most of these collectivists, at least the ones discussing it in European cafes where I live, are universally part of this "elite". But they themselves are innocent, see, because they "try to help". Not by working, obviously. It "somehow" escapes their attention that most people in the cafe nextdoor, the cafe that used to be filled with car mechanics, drivers and ... and now is filled with call center employees, hate them for this. And they hate them because they can effectively do nothing and discuss collectivism all day.

To me, the article reads like another intellectual looking at society, and seeing exactly what he thought was going on all along. Like with the Egypt "revolution" for democracy. Hah ! In reality US society is fraying in hundred different small ways, mostly due to pressures coming from the outside. But the basic problem is this :

We have 7 billion people on this planet, and we only need ~1 billion or so for the economy. That 1 billion figure is dropping fast, and we've reached the point where the US's 300 million are not isolated from it any more. But you know what ? Historically, that's only strange if you look at the last 100 years. If you look at the last 1000 years, that's merely the status-quo.
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"The average credit card processing cost for a retail business where cards are swiped is roughly 1.95% - 2%."

Those are US numbers. In fact, credit card costs are plummeting across the world [1] and every year more and more shops force a debit swipe where available (spoilers: more and more people) so they pay a dime instead of 1-2%. In addition E-checks are basically free.

[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/var/archive/storage/images/media/im...

Further as sibling notes the argument that bitcoin is free from middlemen is not very convincing. Middlemen would have to exist in a bitcoin world both because of bitcoin's very nature of requiring them and because of the same reasons middlemen exist in the world today.
Not to sound ignorant, but what would you use this for?
I feel I'm in a somewhat unique position to talk about easy/hardness of machine learning; I've been working for several months on a project with a machine learning aspect with a well-cited, respected scientist in the field. But I effectively "can't do" machine learning myself. I'm a primarily 'self-trained' hacker; started programming by writing 'proggies' for AOL in middle school in like 1996.

My math starts getting pretty shaky around Calculus; vector calculus is beyond me.

I did about half the machine learning class from coursera, andrew ng's. Machine learning is conceptually much simpler than one would guess; both gradient descent and the shallow-neural network type; and in fact it is actually pretty simple to get basic things to work.

I agree with the author that the notation, etc, can be quite intimidating vs what is "really going on".

however, applied machine learning is still friggin' hard; at least to me; and I consider myself a pretty decent programmer. Naive solutions are just unusable in almost any real application, and the author's use of loops and maps are great for teaching machine learning; but everything needs to be transformed to higher level vector/matrix problems in order to be genuinely useful.

That isn't unattainable by any means; but the fact remains (imho) that without the strong base in vector calculus and idiosyncratic techniques for transforming these problems into more efficient means of computations; usable machine learning is far from "easy".
It's easy until you have to start adjusting parameters, understand the results meaningfully, and tune the algorithms for actual "Bit Data". Try doing most statistical analysis with dense matrices and watch your app go out of memory in two seconds.

It's great that we can stand on the shoulders of giants, but having a certain understanding of what these algorithms are doing is critical for choosing them and the parameters in question.

Also, K-means is relatively easy to understand untuitively. Try doing that with Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Pachinko Allocation, etc. Even Principal Component Analysis and Linear Least Squares have some nontrivial properties that need to be understood.
They don't really represent anything.

Think of those graphs as being something like the rubber sheet analogy that's often used to explain general relativity - it's not a great analogy in all respects, but humans can't really visualize 4 dimensions and it captures the gist of the idea well enough. Machine learning models have a similar problem: In reality the data points in k-means clustering exist in some very high-dimensinal space that's impossible to draw. So for the sake of visual aids it's common to draw 2D plots where the only thing they're meant to suggest is that points that appear close together in the visual aid would also be fairly close to each other in the actual problem space.
"physical media has enormous problems for anything besides long term archival use"

for those of us that consider music as art that is precisely the point, especially re: children browsing their parents collections
Would open sourcing the code get around that?
Is your point that private-property is in line with how people naturally behave?

I'm not really sure what is meant by rights. It's surely so subjective that it loses it's purpose.
I love this author. This is a must read for non technical folks who interact with technology.
Yeah, I saw that tweet too: https://twitter.com/m4tt/statuses/403227577151918080
Mea culpa; I rarely visit HN recently, and broke my own rule against commenting before closely reading the article.

The media is obviously hypocritical on who they call "terrorists." (That is, they ignore the far greater terrorism on their own side.) But that aside, I clearly didn't read closely. Best to stop posting...
i agree. however i wouldn't worry about your kids wanting to browse your music choices
If you'd bother to read the article, you'd know that the infection vector was not direct Internet access to the affected systems.
Christian Marazzi 'the VIOLENCE of Capitalism' with 100 Bitcoin Gold Plated Bar
They don't mean anything in particular. The actual analysis is being done in a high-dimensional space, in which each post is represented by a high-dimensional vector of the form [0,0,1,0,...., 0,1,0]. The length of the vector is the total number of distinct words used across all blog posts (maybe something like 30,000), and each entry is either 0 or 1 depending on whether the corresponding word occurs in this post. All the distances and cluster centers are actually being computed in this 30000-dimensional space; the two-dimensional visualization is just for intuition.

If you're wondering how the author came up with the two-dimensional representation, the article doesn't say, but it's likely he used something like Principal Component Analysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis). This is a standard technique for dimensionality reduction, meaning that it finds the "best" two-dimensional representation of the original 30,000-dimensional points, where "best" in this case means something like "preserves distances", so that points that were nearby in the original space are still relatively close in the low-dimensional representation.
Of course not many people will go on a rampage. But the right to life is an entirely different beast than the right to property. It seems obvious to me that private property (the "right" to sole use of property) exists merely by decree of laws and without it, it simply doesn't exist. In the natural state one can only own what they can successfully defend. The concept of private property outsources that defense to the state and thus one ends up capable of accumulating far more property than one could defend in the natural state.

>Without the State, would you and your friends go forcefully take everyone else's (non-)property because property rights would cease to exist

No, but in a scenario where a bank was attempting to evict me from my home and I had nowhere else to go, I would defend my claim to said property.
Those companies were >80% chance of success at employee 50.

I'm not sure I agree with that 80% figure and, even if, that's because the VCs have so much influence over the reputation of the company. (Indeed, that's why they have so much power over founders. They can turn off unrelated interest, which gives them extortive leverage.) Market manipulation at its finest.

VCs are in the business of using their power over emerging, impossible-to-valuate companies' reputations to make millions for themselves. If Wall Street analysts did that shit, they'd be in jail.
But it seems those music listeners in this thread are the type that prefer a single up-front cost over a recurring subscription.
I've also seen a fair bit of misunderstanding about hashes - you do not want to apply a global salt to all your hashes. Salts should be generated on a per hash basis, and should be stored within the hash itself. Most hashing libraries will do this. It's usually much easier and safer to use a library than to roll your own.