skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The smart watch as an output device is pretty obvious, but this is really interesting tech to make it a viable input device as well.

The Minuum team made a really impressive IndieGoGo video a while back[1], they quickly got the Android version of the keyboard onto the Play store[2], and they're still continuing to impress! Great work, keep it up.

[1] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-minuum-keyboard-projec...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whirlscape...
Great decision. I hope it sticks. This is especially important in light of the government trying to limit the protections of even traditional journalism, let alone of those who they say "aren't trained journalists".

I remember Feinsten was trying to do something like this by disguising a law that would seemingly increase "trained journalist" protections a little, but was really about not recognizing anyone else as a journalist, and make it explicit in the law that they won't get any protections.
According to the post the white hats that found these and other holes testified in front of congress. I think it is safe to tell their parents at this point.
1. I think that there are anti-money-laundering regulations that don't require $20m in bonds, like the know-your-customer laws that many exchanges are complying with.

2. Many people want consumer protections, but they'd probably, if asked, 'want' it for cash as well. And in fact, they do have them -- customer service, anti-fraud laws and criminal prosecution, small claims court and lawsuits. Those protections are necessary to, essentially, protect the consumer from the money transmitter. But in this case, the Bitcoin network exists, and provides a novel invention of something that can, through the use of keys and such, be transferred every bit as irrevocably as handing cash from one person to another -- and provide an excellent, public 'paper trail', which can act as proof of purchase/payment, as well.

So my point is, the world has changed, and it's very, very good that the old-world regulations aren't yet completely crushing that change.

Cash++ springs into being, and companies are being formed to add a user-friendly skin on top of this amazing Cash++ network, but endangered existing players want to make the barrier to entry for any company that taps into Cash++ be the onerous, $20mm bonds required of traditional money transmitters.
I'm going to be posting some over the next few days, actually - plus a series over at Charlie Stross's blog talking about the past, present and future of Machinima.
Uh, every single tech conference... ever?
Well, at least it's not a total loss, since the SO mods take great joy in killing joy.

One wonders how they deal with the situation of their own joyfulness, because it too should obviously be killed, but in order to do that they'd have to unhold joyful and interesting questions, creating joy which itself necessitates killing, and so on. Fork bomb.
What am I missing here? I don't see anything on the site mentioning this impending shutdown...
I left NetSol almost a decade ago. Their ludicrous pricing was bad enough, but this is basically a scam they're running now.
The test tool is pretty handy too. If only I could convince some of my service providers to care...
First of all, I can pay taxes in Bitcoin. There's a company that handles it for me.

Second of all, your dollar's "intrinsic value" being an American criminal law makes zero sense. It's geography-specific. Suddenly if I'm not from US, that "intrinsic value" disappears. So much for that dumb definition.

> It doesn't matter how easy it is to transfer something to someone else if they don't want it. That thing must be seen as valuable for some other reason for anyone to care how easily it can be transferred

There are multibillion global transportation industries out there, and they don't care what they transport (as long as it's legal). People pay them because they provide ease of transportation at a reasonable price per pound.

I'd say ease of transportation is much more valuable to the majority of the world than some "freedom from prosecution" by some government that can't touch them.
Kids can't use credit cards online, but they can use Bitcoins.

Third world folks with cellphones can't use credit cards (and likely don't have banks)... but they can use Bitcoins.

The uncredited can't use credit cards... you know the drill.
May you write down the link?
I visited DirectEdge.com
I doesn't appear that the average investor is allowed to join.

http://www.directedge.com/Portals/0/04Support/Membership/EDG...
Well that's creepy: The address of my randomly generated person is 1 block from an place I stayed at (same street name, just one block down).
This is not good news for Chris Kluwe then.
"much of feminism ignores the question of why one-to-one gender representation is desirable in the first place" - I agree, the mainstream meme of "equality" betrays a liberalism about much of "mainstream feminism," when radicalism [0] seems much more internally consistent.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkXrS0NnQM0
This is good news. Libel laws are constitutionally questionable anyway.
For some reason, people really like complaining about questions like this being closed.

I think this misses the mark for two reasons. One is simply that these sort of questions aren't really the point of SO, but I guess people disagree.

A bigger one is that closing is no big deal. People can still read the question and vote on answers! The only thing you can't do is add new answers. And given that there's already a perfectly good answer along with a bunch of other posts, more answers would just be adding to the noise.

Seems like a win-win to me, but others somehow construe this as the downfall of StackOverflow.
The problem is that we are negotiating from a position of ignorance. You don't know the lowest price they will sell it to you for, you don't know the lowest price you can get from competitors, and so on. Let's say I decide I will pay $25K for the car, sit there for 3 hours, and get that price. How do I know that if I presented a competing offer I might get it for $24K? I don't, and thus I leave money on the table.

Because when you don't have that info, the dealer performs a simple calculus - how likely are you to walk away after 3 hours of haggling over $1000 that you didn't know was negotiable. The answer is probably pretty small, on average, and thus it is worth it to them to not go rock bottom on the price.

If I can pay a service to get that rock bottom price (where price + service charge < my negotiated price) why would I not want to use it?
This issue would make my short list of things I believe critically need to be codified into accepted legal standing this decade. I'm not sure if it's possible to overstate how important this type of ruling is (and getting more like it).
My take on this:

- If you're building a web app (perhaps a single page web app), it might be useful that you can share client side code and server side code. Take input validation as an example -- you can use the same `validateEmailAddress` function on the server and on the client -- guaranteed to be consistent.

- Javascript is a fascinating language.

- Maybe others can contribute some performance numbers? My impression is that V8 is very fast -- can JS outperform other scripting languages?

- The whole Node.js approach to concurrency is very different than using threads -- it's fascinating, as well.
MetaSigh. Why is it only now that there is a contradiction to the accepted narrative of technological merit that squishyness has become problematic?
Do you give a shit about Richard Sherman's Rant?
SSL labs is an amazing site. I use it frequently to alert co-workers about potential weaknesses in our SSL setup. Having a SSL labs testreport makes it easier to grasp for everyone involved.
Risky how? If you meet in a public place and use cash + escrow, it's as safe as a trip to Walmart.
Looking at the other comments, he was serious...gotta fight that!
Cryptography is not on life support any more than Schlage door locks are "dead" because they can be picked by anyone with the tools and training to do so, and kicked in by anyone able to bring more than 50 lbs to bear on the lock.

When I've given security talks I've always tried to compare things like air travel, which isn't 100% safe (planes do fall out of the sky) but is 100% "worth it" for most of us. And most of us won't be the focus of a government investigation.

So the reasoning that we can't make systems 100% secure, therefore security is dead, doesn't persuade me.

What will be interesting though is the use of cryptography to protect things like our pin numbers at the checkout line. That is an area that needs improvement right away.
YC have jumped the shark and landed into an ocean of political correctness.

The conference is called "FEMALE" Founders Conference, yet males can apply?

Utter lunacy.
Why would they not pivot to being an Earth Class Mail competitor? At that point, they are not competing with or undermining, but rather contributing to the USPS.
How come he didn't tattoo the failing unit test first?
"To have audible" is startup speak for ... what?

"proving you’re worth the valuation of a Series B upround requires incredible metrics that are tough to reach if you have audible late in the game."
They are not(I hope) judging quality of my work based on # of commits.

-They are assuming I have little to no experience in a service they use every day.

-They are assuming I don't contribute to Open Source in any way (I contribute to private repos that are at the core of several large OS projects but are private for business concerns).

-Github provides an easy metric to see what most of my work is. I can see that 45% of my work is done in Python, and maybe the rest in front-end tech. That would be useful information to an employer if I apply to an Obj-C position.

Actually the work I am most proud of is in my side-projects, which I would much rather employers go on and interact with rather than scour over the github repo. Posted above is not just something I want, but something I see much more value in for Github to become a more friendly intermediary between employer/employee.
Not at all. The world could just use more people like you then! ;)

I personally got a 'weak correlation between Male and Science and Female and Liberal Arts' even though I care deeply about gender issues.
Typically that's where Haley sits, who is typically the person you'll first meet when you're visiting or if you're dealing with some logistics with the SF office.

(As an aside, the idea behind the Oval Office as a visitor's reception is to turn the notion on its head a little bit. We've all been to companies where the reception area is just an afterthought, and you're stuck awkwardly standing in the middle of an open floor, not knowing what to do next. Our Oval is a tongue-in-cheek jab at that, and an attempt to make things a little more, well, interesting while you're waiting for a GitHubber to meet you.)
I like the Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheels for transmitting the perceived substance of a religious text with an almost industrial efficiency.
Your argument is, paraphrased, "bitcoin is bad because it is new and does not fit well into current conceptions of money and current payment systems."

Well, first of all, most of this friction only happens when trading bitcoin for fiat. It's the fault of the existing system.

I can send any amount of Bitcoin in 5 seconds, anywhere in the world where there is an Internet connection or a reasonably good cellphone. So can any kid (who can't get a credit card), so can any third world unbanked person. You simply cannot do that trick with any other currency.

Cryptocoins, led by Bitcoin, truly are "of, by, and for the Internet".

Secondly, shit changes. Look at what the Internet did, and it too had its famous skeptics: http://kenhoma.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/the-internet-is-just...
What do you say to the idea that Bitcoin is backed by established laws of math and economics?
wrong, with credit cards you have a 2.5% fee with every single transfer you ever make. A pays B pays C pays D, each step has a fee. With Bitcoin ONLY the people who do fiat exchanges pay a fee, A pays B pays C pays D, only A and D pay a fee. This has massive economic implications if bitcoin starts getting penetration.
You are totally correct in all you write. Yet, it is still quite easy to think of future 1984 scenarios.

For instance, consider the Chinese version of NSA, it is an ideal tool for a free economy (i.e. a working economy) with control of the population. The country has already got a capitalist economy married to a dictatorship. We expect China to open up and democratize, now that it is getting better and the average education is increasing. But what if the communist party instead starts to integrate with the military, increases automatic surveillance and goes the other way? "The future as a foot that stamps in a face" (iirc from 1984) might seem lika a nice scenario for quite a few guys in boots.

Will it happen? Afaik, the risk is small. But it certainly exists.
I wasn't thinking of USD, I was thinking more about something used for a couple of millenia as a value storage, but yes sure... Compared to today's BTC even the USD seems okay.
Which is defined as being a personal choice, not one you get to force onto others. Which is what they advocate - using their position of privilege to deny the choice to others.
Encouraging women's complaining might be the last thing they actually need. This is kind of like throwing a kegger for alcoholics.
Things like this have been around from at least the late '90s, I've used them twice, in both cases it was my credit union that recommended a company. I'd ask some credit unions.
An unbelievable story coming from macrumors.com. Where's that article about Apple falling behind Microsoft, Android...and what was it, even Nokia?
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So your issue with feminism is essentially that it's wrong for a women's movement to pursue women's issues?

Nothing about feminism is orthogonal to addressing the needs of men. In fact there is a lot of feminist theory exploring pretty much every single issue you listed, and if you did actually engage the issue critically you'd probably know that.
No....No he didn't.

https://twitter.com/HackingDave/status/425640931690565632
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Every single tech conference did not allow girls? Really?
As a wise man once said, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
That you take an event like this meant to inspire and empower an underrepresented group and interpret its implication to mean that said group is somehow inferior to the majority is just a remarkable level of mental gymnastics.

You are essentially in support of no form of supportive outreach that targets a specific group because the act of targeting alone implies a kind of special assistance for the less capable.
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Go say hi! And deliver a certificate of congratulations for being included in the exclusive fakenamegenerator.com!
Or better yet, have the default map an explanation of how to get around the interface.
Clearly from this thread I'm not the only one who deliberately chose to forget this company's existence over ten years ago.

Talk about blast from the past. I remember having conversations about how awful NetSol was on /. in 1998-99.
I wanted to get <?=phpinfo();?> on my arm once. The thought of what it would output if run on a human still amuses me and if I had got it done, I don't think I'd be sick of it now, even though I've not coded in PHP for 2 or 3 years.
You're probably right, but git just drives me insane. And so does the "no true Scotsman" approach to development.
They used to keep a blog, but they stopped updating it years ago.
I may be wrong, but my impression of Outbox has always been that they were designing an impressive solution to the wrong problem.

Sorting my important mail from my junk mail is just not something I need help with. And the extraordinary wastefulness in my mind of paying a company to follow postmen around and take back the mail just delivered to my box seems so ecologically wrong that I couldn't support it on that ground alone.
So you're saying both can work?
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Something similar happened to me at one of the domain registrar sites. I can't remember, but I believe it was register.com or namecheap? I unlock a domain at the last minute to request a transfer. Of course they offered a lower price to renew it with them. The next time I logged in, I couldn't unlock the other two domains without talking to support.
Ever run into counterfeit drives?
Netsol recently caused me a bit of a problem, they auto-renewed my domains for me. THREE MONTHS before they were set to expire. I decided to move my domains after that.

If you look at their site "Network Solutions is now a web.com company". Seems like the new owners are digging deep into Netsol's bowels to get that extra golden egg.
Too late, I've already blocked it from my google results, just after expertsexchange.
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For those who don't speak codec, HEVC[1] is the coming successor to H.264. If the license terms are reasonable, one would expect web video to move to HEVC in the future. There's been a lot of brouhaha about H.264 in Firefox, Chrome, and Wikipedia, so expect more of the same for HEVC.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
I believe this may have been discontinued.
As I suspected we're mostly on the same page then with the main difference being (if I'm correct) that I interpreted radical feminists as the subset of feminists who hold radical beliefs rather than referring to a specific 'radical feminist' belief system and its views on trans* issues (whose existence I was not aware of until now.)
The salesmen could be needed - because cars are commodities.

If a customer walks in your door, you really need to sell them on your brand of car, at your dealership.

If the dealerships were manufacturer owned, perhaps the commission would be lower and service level higher.
That says he didn't hack the site to access the data. In the video he says the information was collected using "passive reconnaissance" which means he could get the data without attacking it directly.
At least the tattoo inker should have run some CLI tests first... duh. Can't trust those people.
Financial economics literature is quite heavy on stochastic processes. This requires a sophisticated treatment of probability, which in turn necessitates familiarity with measure theory. Throw some stochastic differential equations into the mix and you're probably also going to need some background in functional analysis. Not so familiar with the rest of the econ literature, but even basic econometrics requires familiarity with point set topology.
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That's a very interesting link! For me, I ended up in the "strong association between men and science". My best guess as to why that is is that there are very few women that I've personally worked with in a technical capacity.
You could go the skin graft route, but that would be annoying.

IANAD, but if you tried to (gently) stretch the skin where you need the space (like with some tape and sticks) then over a period of months you'd grow some new skin in between. You don't want to stretch the skin too much too quickly, or you'll get stretch marks (like some pregnant mothers do).
Proxima Centauri holds extremely high promise for human exploration. If we could only get there.

Curing cancer will revolutionize human health. If we could only cure cancer.

and so forth...
It would be very, very interesting to repurpose the Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes Racism Experiment[1] to one that highlighted the subtle (or not so subtle) differences faced with gender. Then applied to the audience here. I wonder if more empathy for such a conference would be seen.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeK759FF84s
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I've never had any issues with GoDaddy for domains. There are always coupons for renewals. I've never paid more than $7/yr for each of the twenty or so domains I have.

Just make sure you don't have domains autorenewing.
I am familiar with everything he talks about, and have personally noted most of what he describes in political writing in the past. I guess I just don't think of it as a corruption of language; it's just kind of a given to me, that people speak in riddles and flowery phrases when they look to hide another meaning. I don't really see how English has changed as a result of it.
I see now, I assumed a different motivation on your part than there was in reality. I apologize.
Nope. PG planned this before that other incident happened.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097462
Except they're not thrown in gulags, persecuted, or even inconvenienced. Quite a few self-proclaimed socialists and marxists I know, with public blogs and other hallmarks of modern political activism, work for large corporations. No one cares.

I live in Poland, a post-communist country. Just yesterday I heard an interview on (public) radio with some (state-sponsored) university professor arguing that life was better under the previous system. No one cares.

There is proper thoughtcrime, like racism, or denying holocaust that can get you in trouble, fired, even arrested. But that is still really mild compared to 1984 or 1984.
Is there any chance that they can weasel their way out of this by having their lawyers point to fine print?
I just have my son's name in binary ascii spiraled around my upper arm. It's nothing but ones and zeroes but it gets a lot of compliments.
I don't have the ability to downvote, but this type of meta/complaining is exactly what I would downvote.
amazing i don't know but its useful, it helps raising awareness a lot.
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Interesting to note that Orwell railed against tyranny, control of the understrength masses by a powerful few, and the obliteration of individualism and C. S. Lewis wrote thinly-disguised Christian propaganda targeted towards children.
Put a notice at the top of the readme.md letting everyone know you plan to take it down January 21, 2015 unless there is feedback indicating that people are using it. Provide a means of feedback and make your decision based on what you get or don't get.
I really do not trust hosting or domain register companies, which is why I use paypal to pay them. But recently, they have been able to setup an automatic recurring payment when I do this (9web). There is no option when I entered paypal, but to paypal's credit they did send me an email, and it was easy to log back into paypal and stop this.
Very sorry to see them go and it was a beautiful product. However, this is no surprise at all. More surprising is that they were able to raise money for a business model that is fundamentally unsustainable (negative gross margins).
Isn't this kind of short notice ... oh wait, my mistake, everyone who is important is already in Southern California.
Amazon is somewhat of a different story; Amazon is enduring small profits by choice in a bid for the future, and investors feel like they see that future, that tremendous potential.

The way they are playing it, IMO Amazon is still neither a success nor a failure. Their story is still being written, as they position themselves for whatever move they have been preparing for the last decade.