skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This merger is likely a response to competitor, Freelancer.com going public in Australia this year. It also positions the much larger, Elance/oDesk for an IPO next year. Smaller, niche freelancing marketplaces like Guru.com, 99Designs, WorkersOnCall.com and others will now be looking for acquisition exits from the new giant. The freelancing marketplace industry has been growing 100% year over year for the last 7 years and is expected to continue for the next five years. Once tied to the economy, the freelancing industry trends have now disconnected from the economy in general and are on a steady trend no matter how employment levels rise and fall. All in all, the merger is good news for the industry which saw its first exit this year.
Nobody's claiming it won't work; they're claiming it will work in a way that is dangerous to its users.
We shouldn't forget the illegal spying happens against American citizens in American soil. I suppose the NSA's charter includes spying on Brazil and they wouldn't be doing their jobs if they weren't spying on us.

Much like we probably try to intercept every communication for of foreign diplomatic missions in Brazilian soil.
>>>> What makes WM stand out? They need it.

Are you serious?

1) Let's start with the interface which didn't completely copy iOS like Android and BB did.

2) Live Tiles - which neither Android or iOS have

3) Nevermind Android or iOS don't have live tiles, you can also make the tiles small, med, or lg depending on the app. Again, something neither platform has.

4) Built in feature Data Sense which conserves your data usage and lets you know which apps are using the most data. Not available on Android or iOS

5) Built in support for Office. Available on both android and iOS - but for a fee though.

6) 41 megapixel camera? Oh yeah, only available on a Nokia WP8 handset.

So yeah, if you actually look at the features and benefits of WP8, you'd see that stuff too. Most people just write it off, but I give them cred since they didn't just jump on the iOS bandwagon. They really built a separate, independent OS that stands on its own. You can't say that about Android.
It really was significantly under a second. This was a much older model of MBP, though. A comment elsewhere in this thread suggests that maybe Apple switched from simply wiring the LED in with the camera to using a microcontroller for this very reason -- so the light would stay on for a minimum amount of time.
Understood, but my question was specific to the current entities (exchanges/whatever) in the market that let you purchase bitcoin.
This is pretty awesome, and it seems to apply to New York City too:

- In New York City, Long Island and Westchester County, businesses must be start-ups or one of a number of broadly defined “high technology” businesses.

But this looks like a major caveat:

- Participation in START-UP NY does not necessarily require that your business be on or next to a campus, but it must be located on property affiliated with a university.

That's a very "interesting" requirement. I wonder how it will work in practice? What does it mean for a property to be "affiliated"?

Edit: here are the 3 NYC locations: http://startup-ny.com/properties/new-york-city-properties/
FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate (2004)
> The key here is that people believe that only government can do the things that they are thankful for.

Believing that government is essential for some desirable things does not mean loving government (or even having any emotion at all about government as such), any more than believign that government is essential for some undesirable things (a belief shared by many of the same people) means hating government.

> It would be a fallacy of composition if I said "people like social welfare programs, therefore people like governments since governments provide social welfare programs." But it's no longer a fallacy of composition if I assume that only governments can possible provide social welfare programs.

Yes, it is still exactly the fallacy of composition, the same way that "People hate aggressive wars, and people believe only governments can launch aggressive wars, so people hate government" is the fallacy of composition.

People can like or dislike things for which they see government as necessary without liking or disliking government. It is exactly the fallacy of composition to conflate like or dislike of particular actions of government with like or dislike of government, regardless of whether or not government is essential those actions.
> A U.S. source close to the negotiations said that whatever intelligence the spying had delivered for the American government was unlikely to outweigh the commercial cost of the revelations.

This to me is the most interesting quote. Although vague, you just have to wonder how much of this spy data goes to companies? Anyone can understand that the US has an interest in maintaining the importance of their own corporations around the world.
Someone did exactly this "fuzzy fingerprint" attack for ssh host keys in 2003:

https://www.thc.org/papers/ffp.html
What kind of currency fluctuates in value by +/- 20% in one day? What kind of currency is inherently deflationary?
You have asked for peer-reviewed references from people who say honey is more than "just sugar".

For good measure, where are your references?
System V init could restart a service, that's how you got to log in after logging out. Even so, you actually need init to restart your important service process that should never die in the first place? Now that's just sloppy ;)
For posterity's sake, here are the sequence of events. Coinbase:

1) stopped replying to support emails even though there was a clear issue

2) only addressed the issue when the victim decided to submit his issue to HN (and only after it sat on the front page for nearly an hour

3) blamed a server upgrade and offered $50 of BTC when the actual loss was well north of $12K

4) only made the customer whole after many HN comments pointing out that the offer was paltry compared to the loss (and that they may potentially be pocketing the difference)

I applaud them for resolving the issue in a way that the victim wanted: "deliver the coins at the exact market price that they are at the moment you are crediting the account". However, this and similar issues in the past have raised red flags that haven't be adequately addressed:

A) why did customer support go dark? I suspect the reaction would be different if they were more proactive

B) as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6930748 , why doesn't Coinbase have the infrastructure to detect these issues? This is really basic accounting, and if they can't get it right on a small scale why would anyone trust them with more money?

C) what steps were taken to prevent this from happening in the future? I imagine that there will be more server upgrades as Coinbase expands.

D) What is their future policy regarding similar issues? Based on their initial reaction, one should not expect much if any compensation.

E) Will it take an HN post in the future to get their attention?

And looking back at some of the comments in a conversation from 270 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427985) it seems that Coinbase hasn't actually learned from the previous issues.

I think joezydeco said it best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427985

> You have a company trying to start up in a very tough space where you need to be super-reliable and super-transparent. Coinbase's actions this entire week were neither.
SPDY addresses some shortcomings in HTTP, but you will always have to be mindful of the amount of render blocking JavaScript and CSS loaded on your page, regardless of network protocol.

If you load large amounts of render blocking JS/CSS in the <head>, the browser must wait for it to finish downloading before it can render content in <body> to the screen.

To deliver a fast experience, keep the amount of JS/CSS needed to render the initial view to a minimum. Ideally, that'd be no JS, and just the CSS needed to style the content in the initial view. Then, once the initial view has rendered, load the JS and additional CSS needed for the rest of the app.
What is a software strap? Tried to google what that is and how it works, but I don't see much. Is it known by another term?
Plaintext. Always and forever.
MtGox is something like 5 months behind in withdrawls with no confirmed date of when it will occur. I'm waiting on $600 since beginning of Sept...
Disclaimer: I never worked with the sound side-channel, so maybe what I'm going to say is not entirely true, but the general idea should be right.

Actually I think the job of the other core would be more difficult than just doing random noises to mask the noise from the actual secret computation.
Simply doing random computations (and thus, random noises) of the other core is not effective since random noise would "easily" be canceled using statistical tools (for instance, looking at the variance of the data instead of looking at it directly will already reduce some type of noises).

What would be more effective would be to balance the noise for instance, maybe running the same computation with opposite data would balance it more effectively. To picture what I'm saying better, here is a completely fanciful example (just to provide an idea). Imagine that during the RSA exponentiation (where the private key is exposed), the operation that is done when the bit of the secret key is 1 makes the sound "s_s_" and when it is 0 the sound is "_p_k". If you do the the same computation as the secret one on the other core exactly at the same time, but with the opposite secret key, then whatever the key is the attacker will always ear "spsk" at each clock cycle. And that will be harder to attack than random noises (but is also more difficult to achieve, of course).

That said, I don't know why the use of multiple cores would help the attack (but I didn't read the paper, just a few sample of the linked web page).
Apple price increase in 3,2,1...

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
Step 1. Write a tool that translates the C code to go.
Ask HN: Where will Bitcoin price be in one year from now (Dec 18th, 2014)?
My guess is: 3,100 US$.
In C or in Go?
Can you re-enable it?

Then so can malware.
So you've screwed him out of 13 000$, but gave him back 50$? That is ADORABLE.
>>All you're proving there is how educated people like ourselves don't take alternative medicines seriously (and for good reason too).

So I'm not going to argue one way or the other, I just want to be clear. You think the stuff listed in this link[1] is nonsense? Or what is your definition of alternative medicine? Anything that doesn't come from a first-world scientific study?

1. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/comp...
Don't know, but I've seen The Club circumvented by cutting the steering wheel with what looked like gardening shears. Literally took less than two seconds to remove the device.
Okay but the rents must be cheaper than Vancouver, BC right? Taxation must be lower too?

I signed up and planning to move there IF this is not one of those 'too good to be true' deal that ends up in snow flakes.

The tax rates in BC is insane both as an employee and employer.
The cost of hiring an employee because of taxation and other social welfare benefits in an attempt to become more 'Netherlandly' forces down salary for software engineers and designers. What makes it worse the scarcity of such jobs forces engineers to compete with each other on the non-paid overtime one can work to become 'invaluable'. Plenty of software sweatshops here in BC, where a nurse or a manager at mcdonalds find more stability and higher pay (when you count the unpaid overtime).

Not to mention that up to 40% of any money you make goes to federal government and the BC government still trying to pay off the loans from holding the winter olympics.

Not to mention the special taxes on rent, food, bars, everything.

If the door opens, I'm going to be the first in line to get to NY if the tax thing turns out to be true. I hear New Yorkers are mean and cold, that's totally fine with me, I'd rather have someone admit they are an asshole and not hide behind it, rather than try to deny it to keep some false image as the 'warmest part of Canada and the whole world' thing. I've been part of this hypocrisy too long.
You clearly haven't been dealing with businesses. 99% doesn't do daily checks. Many notice thins after a month or so, when closing books for month. And some notice those kind of things aften closing a year. But there still are many businesses which won't ever notice or care missing 100 grand. Been there and done that, and it's much more common than you think. In some of those cases I personally think that the business is partly illegal and bookkeeper is cooking the books. Therefore they don't even notice honest mistakes. I have seen same thing happening over and over again. People don't care about money. And this is business as usual.
Presumably in go, though that's not explicitly stated.
SF and WA State have essentially a gross receipts tax, so there's some tax on revenue :(
Brave decision & congrats
If you read the comments on that blog, telegram actually negate that:

> the server can perform a MITM attack.
> you cannot detect MITM between you and your peers.

>> NOT true. You can compare key visualization in the clients.
> old conspiracy theories surrounding the explosion that destroyed the Alcantara launch pad

I have to point out the VLS launcher has a seriously weird all-solid-fuel design. I am not a rocket scientist, but, as an engineer, I have to wonder what the hell those rocket scientists knew no other spacefaring country did since nobody launches satellites on all-solid-fuel rockets. They cannot be controlled after lit (the VLS used all-solid-fuel-with-oxidizer and not solid-fuel-with-liquid-oxidizer).

When you are doing something nobody else is doing it the same way you are (in special the people who have been successfully doing it for decades) it's time for you to question your own wisdom.
These attacks are specifically for the operations involved in repeated use of long-term RSA keys, and Bitcoin uses ECDSA keys a relatively small number of times, so the attacks would be materially different.

However, I would not bet against the fact that your machine outputs "compromising emanations" (be they acoustic or RF or otherwise) leaking _some_ information about your bitcoin keys.

There is less opportunity to execute such an attack in the bitcoin universe, though, as bitcoin-qt doesn't reuse keys that much. (When you send a payment, the "change" difference is sent to a new key.)

It's something to think about, but the attack surface is a lot smaller. Perhaps there's something specific in the ECDSA algorithm that may make it easier or harder? I don't have the requisite mathematical understanding of elliptic curves to know how they're executed in-CPU.
That was a very good read that I wasn't aware of, thanks for the URL.
The thing that is interesting to me is that for a very long time, "Adult content" was what the vast majority of internet bandwidth was used for, by a tremendous margin. I remember in '01, one of my co-workers streamed CNN, after the twin towers disaster; In spite of working in the industry for several years, that was the first time I saw someone use streaming video over the Internet for anything other than demos (and pornography)

The fact that non-adult streaming video has surpassed adult streaming video (in terms of bandwidth used) is interesting because it means that the Internet is now a mainstream distribution channel for mainstream video.
It's nothing that complex. a_c_s has just suggested that inflation (the rising price of goods relative to the dollar) is good because it allows one to buy more with the same money (the falling price of goods relative to the dollar, not to be confused with deflation, which would of course only benefit the rich).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932053

The key is not shown in hex, so a MITM is quite simple.
I find your analysis of the fallacy of composition to be ridiculous. Again, I am not saying "people love infrastructure, therefore people love governments." I am saying "people love governments because they believe governments are the only way to have infrastructure." This isn't a fallacy, it's a true description of what many people actually believe and would openly admit to believing.

> the same way that "People hate aggressive wars, and people believe only governments can launch aggressive wars, so people hate government" is the fallacy of composition.

That's not a fallacy either. It just happens to be false, namely because most people don't hate aggressive wars.
Great point and I think the answer is both. We're in Durham and it's fundamentally cheaper for us to be here and for me to fly to the Bay Area every 90 days for a week (admittedly I have family there still so accommodation is free) However, there are a lot of customers or prospective customers I never met because I have to formally schedule it around a trip. No random meet ups. No "Oh, you guys are just 4 blocks over? To heck with email let's get coffee and explain what we're doing"
pg, if a reasonably intelligent person asked you to describe bitcoin, how would you do it? -if you'd humor me

I ask, because IMO much of the debate about bitcoin consists of people conflating and abusing definitions and talking past each other. As you are obviously interested in it, I wonder what you see, and perhaps what interests you most about it.
It could be motorised :-)
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No, it isn't. "Intrinsic" means "belonging to a thing by its very nature."

The "value" here isn't "indirect". Only the method of measurement.

This is economics, not quantum physics. The method of measurement (as long as it is rational and consistent) does not change the value being measured.
Did anyone else think this was going to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_error from statistics? I just think of the computing term as 'stderr'.
Right and we're comparing this to other state/s with income tax. What's CA up to now? I'm sure they're the bullseye target.
"Fun fact" two of the worst accidents with the Saab JAS-39 Gripen were blamed on software faults.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen#cite_ref-FOO...

http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1989/1989%20-%2...
On the other hand, sometimes a webcomic character says something I've been thinking better than I could.

Not Something Positive :)
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=fv9swGBf
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VC-istan 6: The Isms of venture-funded technology
I suspect most people understand the hook and motive of NY for doing this.
Macbooks already have this: it's called the keyboard and it "slides over the lens" when you close the laptop when it's not in use. Much easier to do automatically than remember to slide a 'door' across. Or do people really leave their laptops open when not in use?
Wouldn't legitimate cryptography products also tend to offer such challenges? It's not much different than bug bounties, which are common and (at least according to my impression) well-accepted as a legitimate practice.
3 Step Guide to Explain Why Your Start Up Makes the World a Better Place
The claim that there is a significant difference in the emitted sound from a capacitor based on the value of an RSA Key. May or may not be true.

That that sound is significant enough that you can use a microphone, to pick it up from a distance greater than a fraction of an inch is implausible.

That the sound difference is such that it can be captured with any of the setups pictured in the paper is impossible. There are systems designed for frequency isolation that do megahertz sampling rates which you could convince me are capable of reading the 1's and 0's out of a 286. The frequencies of modern electronics that is simply not possible.
So when I was in college I was pretty shy, but I heard that networking was essential for career success, and so I was kinda terrified about what my future held.

It's 8 years later, I'm in my early 30s, and I feel like my network is doing pretty well. At least, some of my direct friends - people I would invite to crash on my couch when they're visiting town, or go out for dinner with weekly - are tech leads of major consumer products with millions of users, or entrepreneurs with a successful exit, or heads of university research departments, or responsible for managing tens of millions in investment portfolios. And my 2nd degree connections include early Google employees, venture capitalists, heads of government agencies, etc. This is all without doing all that much in the way of deliberate networking. I just get involved with things that I'm passionate about and seek out other people who are passionate about it - or, more commonly, get sought out by other people who are passionate about it.

It's a little paradoxical that almost all of my big career successes came from my network, but almost none of my network consists of people that I specifically "networked" with.

I think what a lot of people miss about general social interaction is that people like to hang out with other folks like themselves. If you specifically believe that networking is the key to success, you will attract other people that believe networking is the key to success, and you will end up with a network full of...well, networkers. Which can be great in fields like enterprise sales or politics where success is pretty much based on knowing lots of people who know lots of other people. But if you want to network with people who are passionate about changing the world for the better, your best bet is to be passionate about changing the world yourself, make your actions congruent with that, and you'll find that you will find and attract other such people.
The exhaust from your Chevy also doesn't have the "intrinsic worth" of the oil that it ultimately came from, either. Nor does the electricity from my solar cells have the "intrinsic worth" of the silicon they were made of.

So what? That is about the farthest thing from a valid analogy I've seen in a long time.
Ask HN: How to organize your Twitter feed like HN
Obviously everyone gets inundated with information from their twitter feed, sadly from their most admired collection of people. There has to be a more organized way to sort through the information and make the value rise to the top.

A simple algorithm, similar to HN would do the trick- curating information from your favorite people to make the funniest, or most intelligent post rise to the top. Instead of up-votes, it's retweets & favorites, still including the timeliness as a major factor.
You know, there was a startup back in the spring that allowed municipalities to accept bitcoin for fees and taxes. Haven't heard any more about them though...
"The Go compilers are also significantly larger than anything we’ve converted: over 60,000 lines of C."

Couldn't the compiler translation just be crowd sourced by a small group of people? It wouldn't be the best result but if people just stuck to the original C design, it would work as a first implementation.
Some numbers about housing in SF
May be solution could be putting all useful for troubleshooting and annoying in everyday use LEDs under special cover.
As the author hints homelessness is not generally due to housing shortages, but more usually mental health, economic, relationship or legal issues.

That said, its an extremely cool way to build a house and really emphasise the need to re-use material (remember: reduce, re-use, recycle!)
Try mouseover Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button
That doesn't mean no one else is doing the same thing. You do recall all the nice embedded controller chips from china sold to the US:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/95282643/Backdoors-Embedded-in-DoD...
Not continuously. The compiler will continue to be improved, and with a working translator developers never need to worry about the bootstrapping problem while developing the Go compiler in Go.