skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people maliciously or accidentally provide another's email address, and now that person is getting your unsolicited commercial email (i.e., spam). And now they must actively do something to try to get off the list.

Double opt-in means by doing nothing they will only receive your original confirmation email.

It's not a matter of being crazy. It's a matter of being considerate.
Only 2,700 physical stores in the entire world is still 0.00% penetration. Zooming in on the map on NYC shows a total of 61 entries for all 5 boroughs of NYC and the entire surrounding area. For comparison, there are over 150 Starbucks in Manhattan alone. In my entire borough of Queens, only 2 stores take bitcoin and one of them is a just a POS company that is promoting a POS that takes bitcoin. I went and looked at the websites of a few of the other businesses listed around NYC and they made no mention of bitcoin. On a serious note, I'd be curious if a retail store can even properly take bitcoin in a standard retail transaction given that it currently takes around 10 minutes to confirm a bitcoin transaction[1], unlike cash which is instant or credit card which is 5-10 seconds.

[1] Source: http://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time

> Plus there are 90,000+ online merchants that accept Bitcoin via Spotify.

I think you mean that 75,000+ online merchants have the option of accepting bitcoin via Shopify if they decide to enable it. Shopify merchants must explicitly enable it (it's off by default) and there have been no numbers released on how many have.

> Plus there are some major companies joining every day, including Overstock and Tesla.

As discussed previously, Overstock isn't pricing in bitcoin or assuming any of the risk of bitcoin. Overstock never even touches it, just letting Coinbase be a 'pay via' vendor ala PayPal or Google Wallet and only dealing in USD for pricing and their actual payment from Coinbase done via a realtime conversion of BTC to USD. Mind you, I'm not minimizing that as it's still a pretty big deal.

Tesla doesn't accept bitcoins. That Tesla S from the story in December was purchased at a 3rd party dealership in USD that were converted from bitcoins. The story that he walked in to a Tesla dealership and bought it with bitcoins was a bit of an exaggeration that some bitcoin fans seem to keep repeating.

> Ah, sure, but 99%+ of them is people tipping each other for fun on Reddit and other sites, and transactions on exchanges. They are not goods purchased, simply because there are almost no places to spend Doge.

Quite true. But it's still very impressive for a cryptocurrency only one month old compared to the 5 year old bitcoin. When bitcoin came out, people used it to tip each other and do silly things on reddit, too, but nowhere close to the numbers you see from dogecoin now.
AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user
Because who doesn't love having their personal possessions tracked by third parties, right?

One person's feature is another person's backdoor.
This pro-government Vietnamese group is hacking into computers abroad
Working on her blog in California one day, Vietnamese democracy activist Ngoc Thu sensed something was wrong. It took a moment for a keystroke to register. Cut-and-paste wasn’t working. She had “a feeling that somebody was there” inside her computer. Her hunch turned out to be right.
A few days later, her personal emails and photos were displayed on the blog, along with defamatory messages. She couldn’t delete them; she was blocked out of her own site for several days as her attackers kept posting private details.
I appreciate this comment. And you have a great point that I could have waited longer to post this. I've never posted to HN before with any sort of results; my goal wasn't really to rush this out there. It just seemed like a conversation that was worth having, and I didn't think through the fact that it would look like a very ranty customer before posting it here. Your perspective has been very helpful in that regard.

As a (minor) side note, regarding the download speeds, the bottleneck wasn't my speed I don't think (though I do have Comcast and so I'm sure the mileage varies). Right now I'm pulling 56mbps down and even when when my laptop was dealing with slow internet it was still 13-15 mbps.
You mean "data".
> Things could have been worse If the attacker found a way to upgrade the privileges of the user running jboss (it’s a sudoer, but the password is really hard)

NEVER GIVE THE USER YOUR APPLICATION SERVER RUNS UNDER SUDO PERMISSIONS!
A guy visiting from nowhere in Australia was telling us how he gets twice the minutes, unlimited texts and twice the data on LTE+ for about 1/2 of what it costs in the USA.
Ah! Yeah, my bad. My Midwest assumptions are showing through. I'll try to be more aware.
The "allocation of resources", while influenced by many factors I don't care to debate about in this comment (politics, lobbying, uber wealthy, all of those sticky topics), is largely determined by market forces and your statement that the market's allocation is a waste is shortsighted because an environment in which someone decided what people should or should not be working on is an environment I want no part in.

I also think, despite its many warts, our environment (that of the USA and the tech / startup industry) is an arena within which agents can operate competitively and towards their own ends.

Is what we are doing the right way to do it for everyone? I'm not sure and it's also not my place to make that sort of judgement. But I do know it is working exceedingly well for many of us, improving the quality of life and advancing the state of our society.
before it wasn't cool.
Moby Dick is probably a poor example. Something like the Iliad or the Bible might be appropriate since extensive studies often focus on a few chapters or verses. Yes, one normally reads the entirety of the work, but studying specific parts seems more apropos.
so mr. egalitarian, I'm so blind-I-only-see-ability.

You're telling me, with no question, if you were to see this woman in the middle of the street, you would think she could absolutely be a coder?

You're telling me if you saw her at a conference, you would think she was there as an expert, and not to find a husband, or was part of the booth babes or help staff?

You're telling me if you saw her on the roster to speak at a conference, you'd think she got it because of her prowess and intellect, and not because she dolled up?
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Yeah, I know who GP Thomann is (was). We sold the RE/search books at Fringeware.

But I'll bet 8 of 10 on HN do not. Moreover, some percentage of HN won't understand that OpenBSD forked from NetBSD, and the rest of the 'joke' stream will be lost.

And... I was responding to "lies".
I feel like a lot of the stuff I do is that sort of basic work, and that's just industry (old plant stuff). But there's value to taking advantage of some of the new tools. Occasionally they're massive force multipliers or reframe a problem in a more solvable way. For example, this year I plan to play with Beysian analysis - I want to be able to trace the story of process shifts, not merely detect them. I could - and will - hit the problem with the standard fare of tools, but it's an overwhelming amount of ground to trudge through. Just trying to make the imperfect, inhomogenous data analyzable to automate it is hard, and yet still worth the effort even in the short run compared to manually.

Back to space. There are some long shot wins with research like this, things that are pure research prerequisites for big changes. As in, once we've looked at and followed a comet, we'll have the experience doing remote landings on small rocks in space. Why not do that to asteroids? Perhaps we can find an asteroid with an unusually high concentration of rare earth metals. That could bootstrap fuel cell research by dropping the price of rare, useful materials like platinum. Or gold. Such tech would help alleviate many problems at once. It might break economies, but it may also put us post-scarcity for manufacturing tech.

I don't mean to make it sound like I don't think it's not worth doing just for its own sake. I really do. But I also think that the potential wins we're setting up for the next generation or three down the road make starting now worth it. Being slow and thorough is a risk of lost opportunity, potentially huge loss. I also think there's plenty of brilliance available to work on the other problems, too, and I am often confused that we feel a scarcity in that respect (like how there are food shortages despite incredible productive ability - I just can't properly wrap my head around the subtle complexities that cause such strange things).

So I think you have a point, but I think it's a bit harsh to call it nihilistic. That's certainly there, but there's more good to be had, too. Can we do better? Sure, but I'm cynical enough that I'll accept the occasional wins for what they are, while secretly hoping it changes to world for the better.
Exercise regularly, eat organic, pray, meditate, attend good conferences, pick up a new domain such as "Internet of things" and create beautiful products that inspire you.
Why is LZW patented?
dogecoin is going through the roof http://coinmarketcap.com/
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I love to see that Google is on their top donors page every year, it shows their commitment to supporting open source and the tools they have used to build their business on.

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html
A question, because I'm unfamiliar with the way HN works in this regard. My article was #2 on the front page for a brief spell.

Now I look, and it's nowhere to be found.

Is this by design? I don't need it to be on the top page and this isn't about the page views, I'm just not sure how it would disappear. Did a moderator somewhere frown upon it?
* The installation can only take place if the car is stationary, parked, and off.

this of course, only works when the patch isn't to fix the part where it detects if the car is stationary, parked and off.
Interesting story on pages 207 and 208. Feynman is giving a lecture entitled, "What one scientist thinks of religion", and gets into a debate with the head of the School of Religion at Caltech.

A few interesting quotes including this one:

"No one can be sure of anything. We must frankly admit we don't know. It keeps our minds open...We must think about what the universe means without man. If we can't, it makes us 'the center of the universe...hard to believe.'"
It would be interesting to know if Jason would feel the same way after being auto signed up to a few thousand mailing lists.
Who's surprised? When the Surface / Surface RT line released in 2012 Microsoft had a decade of sales data for their Tablet PCs to prove that traditional Windows applications and touch doesn't mesh. As for Metro apps, the obvious problem is ecosystem size (vs iOS and Android). What Microsoft should have done (and this is not hindsight, that's still their way forward) instead of getting into a battle almost impossible to win is to find a good story of why laptops are still relevant, invent new physical formats which are small to carry but much larger in usage (think Sony Tablet P or the old, old Thinkpad with the butterfly keyboard) and stick to its guns. Ultrabooks are not a bad idea, make them lighter weight but obviously it was not enough. That Google beaten them with the Chromebook in the laptop arena just highlights the absolute ineptitude of MS.
Soviet Unterzoegersdorf is fictitious nation. It is, explicitly, a joke.
I think a lot of companies are scared of how good hackers are these days. No one wants to guarantee protection because a hacker of a more elite variety will come along and take that as a challenge, by hacking into the sites that X company has created.

I definitely agree with you that it is somewhat of an under tapped market, but definitely think it needs to be head up by the right individual(s).
And here I was thinking of congratulating the author on having filed a FOIA request.
I have done my bit to put the MPAA and RIAA out of business: I don't watch movies, and I don't listen to music. Google Glass does seem--at least anecdotally--to elicit aggressive behavior. Prudence suggests waiting until the Borg has assimilated the homo sapien malcontents before wearing one.
That's not that old - Apple still has downloads going back to the Apple IIGS, some 21 odd years ago.

http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
> 1. On the idea that somehow technical debt is culturally ingrained in certain societies.

It is. I can speak confidently about it (at least for China) since my family is from there, I was born in the region, and I worked in East Asia for period of time. I know the culture(s). Whether or not they are right or wrong, my Indian friends and colleagues have confirmed the same problem in their country of origin.

Culture does matter in general and it affects things like technical debt. It's the reason why the US favors lawyers and bankers over engineers and programmers (and why Asia will most likely eclipse us in the long run), and the same reason that places like Japan have a dearth of entrepreneurs due to their fear of failure and aversion to risk.

On a whole, people in mainland China just don't give a shit about anyone outside of their family (and maybe maybe their friends and even this is a stretch since it's a low trust society). All they really care about is maximizing their economic gains and increasing their social status. The cost (i.e. who you screw over) doesn't matter as long as it doesn't directly hurt anyone in their extended blood related family. Quality and a lot of other things suffer from this pervasive way of thinking.

> 2. On the idea that western programmers care more about discipline rather than smarts.

Maybe hot startups focus solely on smarts, but larger, older, and less hip companies tend to care more about experience and just competence (i.e. can you understand the work and get things done that doesn't end up being spaghetti?) instead of how brilliant you are.
I've been noticing this too. HN has a definite bias against Quora that stems back to the early stories about its blocking content from non-members.
I think he was drawing a sarcastic comparison, not making an actual suggestion. The former doesn't require that there actually _be_ underemployed programmers
Yea... Does it have a camera on it? Don't wear it into a theater or other area where filming is prohibited.
The PCI council has already provided the evidence for which I've already provided the link. Read the PCI guidance surrounding tokenization. It makes it very clear. Just think about this rationally for a second. If you are a merchant who uses a bit of JavaScript provided by a payment provider and customers enter their credit-card information into the form created by that JavaScript, but instantiated by an HTTP response from the same origin of your domain how do you as a merchant side-step responsibility for PCI compliance? The simple fact of the matter and as outlined in the latest PCI guidance, you don't. Now if you instead send your customer directly to Stripe and they collect the credit card information within their same origin, then yes, PCI side-stepped. Stripe and any other vendor in this space need to behave responsibly and ensure their customers understand their PCI responsibilities.
> You've been able to buy it installed on a machine offered by a major hardware vendor and publicly offered in their catalog?

Yes.

You could buy PCs preloaded with Windows XP for the first couple years of Vista's availability.
Nice. If the list was editable, I'd add mine:
http://gyrovague.com/2012/12/18/wikitravel-press-seven-lesso...

Interesting how many others have also found "7 lessons" in their failures!
If services like Stripe accepted already-encrypted credit card numbers, couldn't someone just steal the already-encrypted credit card numbers and run them through Stripe?

Also, resting the security of the payment infrastructure on a single keypair (per network) seems a bit risky. You'd probably want a more sophisticated infrastructure which individually identifies players and allows for revocation, ala chip & pin.
It's almost like the management of America's mobile carriers and pharmaceutical companies went to the same business schools, were members of the same fraternities and bribe the same senators or something.
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Because the merchant is still responsible for delivering the payment form within their same origin in a secure manner which means that the merchant must secure their hosts so that the delivery of that payment form cannot be tampered.
Have they ever heard of the expression 'the customer is always right'? Well, there he was.. the customer.
The ‘How Are You?’ Culture Clash
> Yeah, right. What are they going to do with 300Mbps to a smartphone? 4k video?

well, think of it as phone-as-a-modem, or no expensive last-mile issues with taking fiber to the home and all that...
or.. http://pmarchive.com/
Haha, nevermind, I'm an idiot. Just hadn't considered that the sheer amount of content would knock it off rather quickly (which makes sense, given that this is not nearly worth the focus that some other topics are.)
Sure, but in most programming classes they want the source so they can compare to others to see who cheated. It's unusual to be graded on the binary.
Yup, and that's just the start of the issues when it comes to trying to side-step PCI compliance through claiming tokenization takes care of it all.
"We would also like to thank the many smaller donors too numerous to list here for their contributons to the foundation."

If you go to the openbsd.org page, it does list the people who have given directly. I would like to see the foundation continue this tradition[1].

It's good to give first credit to the big donors, but it is kind of sad not to give credit to those paying every month[2]. It made me feel pretty good to get my name on the openbsd site's page and did encourage me to donate more.

1) with the donor's permission

2) reminds me a bit of Revision3's t-shirts sent to donors, but only the lump sum people who actually gave less than the monthly donors
Thanks for all the support - just digging in to all of your lovely emails :)
Well, it's a rim. If you wear eye glasses, you have your regular "I need these to see things" lenses mounted into your fancy-ass $1500 rim. You'd need them to see the damn movie, even if you weren't recording.
Yay! Send me an email with your info!
We hope so too!
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/463/

Why add more moving parts when they don't do anything but make more work? Scanning is a helpful idea, but not AV scanning. Regular vulnerability scanning can assess the platform security. At the very least, it can warn about potential security holes. It might also be plagued with false positives, causing more work for no added benefit. Safely running services on the internet is hard.
It's awesome people came out.

I signed up for the monthly paypal deduction. Many a tech can expense a minor $10-$20 per month subscription for a important project like openbsd.
When I think minorities, I think African American and Hispanic. I grew up in Nigeria and I'm lucky that my parents decided to move to America where I picked up on programming. If there were more notable blacks in SV, I would have decided on programming sooner.

Non white immigrants to me are not minorities but I could be and I probably am wrong.
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You were wearing a camera on your head.

Guess what would happen..........
Then it's a poorly designed product for real-world use.
Thx. We will add yours. If folks know of other post mortems we missed, leave them in comments and we will add them.
Awesome, were we located in SF we would definitely be down.

Just a side note. I'm not sure how much work you've put into the website, but that white text against a light blue background is very hard to read. The form could stand some optimization too, unless this is just a MVP for you guys while you work on the back end/fulfillment side.
This, like almost every counter point I've faced thus far, is simply wrong. It is manufactured reality.

ICC 8 added auto-vectorization. It, the very first auto-vectorization version, added the "GenuineIntel" branch for such vectorized code, because despite all of the fiction stated otherwise, vectorizing is actually a very hard task (hence why Intel maintains such a lead, and people are still griping about this 9 years after it came about).

I am hardly standing up for Intel, but this is Reddit-level conversation, where people simply say what they hope is true.
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It's easiest to engage with this at the google glass / privacy / media rights gone amok level, but it is most important to face it directly: We are headed towards a very real police state.
Do people still record movies in movie theaters? I'm getting 90s flashbacks here.
So if you're going to go through the trouble and expense of getting prescription lenses mounted onto this thing, then maybe it's also worth your while to get a second pair?

You know, to avoid situations like this?

We've seen people get into trouble with stuff like this before [0]. This is a new, socially unproven device meant for developers. As an early adopter, you should expect to run into occasional resistance until the general public and law enforcement become more familiar with devices like this.

Expecting everybody to automatically be on the same page as you regarding what is and isn't reasonable with this device is pretty naive. You are the public image of this technology. Behave appropriately.

[0] http://eyetap.blogspot.com/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdon...
On the other hand, South Koreans are required (by law) to use Internet Explorer 8 or earlier for online transactions[0], and they are required to register for many (perhaps all) websites with user-generated content using their unique national ID number (sort of the Korean counterpart to a Social Security number)[1].

This is due to a law passed in the late 90s, in the name of security. Perhaps it once worked, but it clearly doesn't today: http://www.zdnet.com/bank-data-of-20-million-customers-leake...

They have very extensive censorship of websites - not "just" pornographic, but also those that are "subvserive" or "harmful to minors". In combination with the aforementioned "citizen identity number" law, this has been used to suppress political dissent and/or protest.[2]

Much as I wish I could do better than my molasses-esque Time Warner connection at home, I'll savor my freedom in the US to the extent I can.

[0] http://www.zdnet.com/south-koreans-use-internet-explorer-its...

[1] (There are exceptions, and the full realities are a bit more complicated, but it's bad enough that virtually everyone uses some form of Internet Explorer: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/due-to-secu...)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_K...
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What the fuck USA? These gestapo goons are running amuck harassing innocent citizens.