skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s easy to miss the bigger picture here. With a fully automated unmanned ship you could explore business models that you otherwise would never consider.

For instance, With no humans aboard you could have a ship that is super slow and super energy efficient, it could cast itself out into currents, use a variety of novel locomotive methods in a significantly longer but cheaper journey. With no people aboard to pay, feed, etc, it wouldn’t matter how long it took.

While this is one novel scenario, which probably wouldn’t work for a million reasons, there are probably a hundred more ideas that would work for a automated ship that are currently unfeasible.
Good point. My javascript solution uses two hidden fields with very similar names. One that the script fills in and one that it doesn't.

Bots will either hit both or neither and get rejected. Screen readers/toolbars may be an issue, though the names would be hard to think what to autofill with. It has never come up in practice -- the reject message tells people to email us directly

If you have javascript turned off, you'll need to email directly too -- and the site won't work so there probably isn't much lost!
I think the problem is that many people are reactive when it comes to risk. Most people tend to be risk averse, which is counterintuitive to the empirical observation that they don't prepare well for so-called "black swan" events. I suspect it's a case of moral hazard, which makes perfect sense. It's a lot easier to gamble someone else's money.
If not fraud, then simple theft.
Curious, reverse your example.

You buy at $100 and sell at $1000. Where did the value come from that compelled the new guy to buy it from you at that inflated price? In my thinking, by your example, the new guy wouldn't pay an extra $900 because the value didn't already exist in the bitcoin you are selling.

Or am I just totally messing that up?
For American ISPs yes. For ISPs in some allied countries, probably. For all ISPs in every country in the world? Unlikely. And furthermore, that would require a nationwide (or worldwide) scheme where NSA gathered or issued keypairs for every certificate at every ISP. That is much more expensive than just tapping the lines, which is some of the point here, and some data probably would even be off limits. It would also be hard to keep an operation like that hidden, as they could for many years with the current methods.

I have no illusion that NSA can be stopped if they target someone, but it should be possible to make it impractical to just tap plaintext from the internet backbone as they do today. If data generally is encrypted _unless_ they do MITM attack it will be too expensive to just collect everything.

This is of cause not enough in itself, but it is certainly a step in the right direction.
The question asker didn't gift free interesting content to the site. The question asker emptied their chamber pot on the front lawn. The answerer left interesting content and got rewarded for it.
Depends on the intent of submitting it. If his intent was to point out a potential bug in the Linux kernel then yes, it shouldn't have been submitted. On the other hand what has resulted has been a rather interesting debate about the merits of variable naming vs. proper commenting, with some side commentary about what a shitty name something like three and five make for variables.
> Does the FBI even consider bitcoin as something that actually has any value that requires investigating an accusation of theft?

ISTR that both the US Justice Department and at least one state government in the US has initiated prosecution based on the fact that Bitcoin is a thing with value, so probably.
This is what I see:

<html><head><title>MtGox.com loading</title></head><body><p>Please wait...</p><script>function xdec(data){var o="SOME_RANDOM_BASE_64_THAT_KEEPS_CHANGING";var o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,bits,i=0,ac=0,dec="",tmp_arr=[];if(!data){return data}data+='';do{h1=o.indexOf(data.charAt(i++));h2=o.indexOf(data.charAt(i++));h3=o.indexOf(data.charAt(i++));h4=o.indexOf(data.charAt(i++));bits=h1<<18|h2<<12|h3<<6|h4;o1=bits>>16&0xff;o2=bits>>8&0xff;o3=bits&0xff;if(h3==64){tmp_arr[ac++]=String.fromCharCode(o1)}else if(h4==64){tmp_arr[ac++]=String.fromCharCode(o1,o2)}else{tmp_arr[ac++]=String.fromCharCode(o1,o2,o3)}}while(i<data.length);dec=tmp_arr.join('');return dec};document.cookie=xdec('MORE_RANDOM_BASE_64_THAT_KEEPS_CHANGING').replace(String.fromCharCode(0),'').split('').reverse().join(''); location.href='/';</script></body></html>
Your argument would benefit from precision; it's exactly 'through the blockchain' that you can track thieves. The issue you are bringing up is that it is straightforward to move value off the blockchain.
I wish the media would stop calling BLE "iBeacon". It's like the media started calling WiFi "Airport". First of all, it gives the mistaken impression that Apple invented or controls BLE which is am industry spec. Secondly, one would have to fear that sooner or later, some proprietary extension makes iBeacons incompatible with BLE to lock them in to Apple devices. This seems more likely if consumers are trained to look for "iBeacon compatible" rather than "BLE compatible"
Price and value are not the same thing. Lots of labor can make something valued, usefulness can make something valued, but as early liberal and Marxist political economists found out the hard way, it's nearly impossible to derive a theory prices from a theory of value.

The price is going to be determined by supply and demand, not by your labor or the usefulness of the app.

There are occasions when you can successfully price a good above supply and demand (when you have a monopoly on a good that isn't easily substitutable), but I doubt you're in that scenario.
If you are saying "merely hiring more people to review the code won't work," then I agree. [1]

If you are saying "hiring more highly-skilled people to review the code won't work," then I'll disagree. App sec engineers can be had for the price.

[1] I say this despite the fact that this was a bug that leapt out at people who had no security knowledge. The one before this and the one after this won't be like that.
The Yakuza have been moving into white-collar and financial crime for decades, and Japan has had cellphone-related quasi-currencies for a long time now. It's not that big a stretch.
Actually, broader reason was that people concluded that MtGox have lost all the coins. And will be insolvent. In that event, it be easier to sue them for cash instead of coins.
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I think people who aren't necessarily technically savvy mistakenly treat the exchanges as their local bank. Your local bank follows a huge number of regulations, many of which are designed to keep your money safe. And in the rare event that your bank fails, your accounts are FDIC insured up to $50k (in the US, don't know if other countries have depositors insurance.)

I also think that most (though apparently not all) of the people with millions of USD worth of bitcoins acquired them at low cost so in real terms their loss was mostly on paper. The started at $10k, it ballooned to $10m, and now it is zero. Did they lose $10m or $10k?
Apple has had a working gotofail fix for OS X internally for days.
>Reload multiple times, the server seems to be hammered.

I wonder why ;)
He'd be rich if only "something"...
These are for static websites. The idea of an "account" doesn't make sense.

Edit: Ah, you mean that formspree should allow site owners to create accounts. Carry on.
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Sorry I was being a bit sloppy. The point I was trying to make was that most people are better off outsourcing investment decisions to someone with more expertise than themselves unless they want to invest in an area they know particularly well.

And if you have a good financial advisor the first thing he will tell you to do is diversify :)
In theory it'll be much more accurate for indoor navigation than GPS, as the accuracy level should be higher (as long as there's no RF interference etc etc).
Well putting together that statement clearly took a lot of work...
You seem to think the US warrant process hasn't been made subservient to enabling dragnet surveillance.

Unless a service enables you to put your data really truly out of reach of any demand for it, those NSA slides about which companies are part of the Prism program are probably an accurate list of companies enabling dragnet surveillance.
Oh, just wrote an article about the lessons we learned from that: http://blog.frontapp.com/lessons-from-facebook-stopping-its-...
My experience with Cocoa is that "change detection" (called "key-value observing" in Obj-C land) is a bit of a wild goose chase.

At a distance, the notion seems appealing. But when you try to build anything larger than a simple form UI, you start to realize that maybe it's not such a good idea to have anyone, anywhere, listening to changes on any old property and doing who knows what.

There are two problems with automatic change notifications: timing and context. Usually there is a something else (e.g. a controller) that is actually doing the property change on a model object. This controller is much better positioned to inform others about the change than the model itself. The controller knows the context, and it can decide whether the notification should go out instantly or perhaps after a bunch of other stuff. The controller can also make this context information available to the listeners, which is often invaluable... But a plain old "this key just changed, ho hum" doesn't let you do any of that.
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As a founder of a prospective startup, I know that so much can change in a matter of days or weeks — not just about the people/market/concept, but also with the founders themselves as we "grow up". I wonder how many founders came into their pitches throwing red flags, but who would have outgrown them during, or even before, the YC program began.
They might .. but enforcement is hardly automatic and tends to be slow. They might already be investigating.
great idea.

I think you can give the user the option to specify the email hash (MD5 maybe) instead of clear text email.

so either:

<form action="//api.formspree.com/user@example.com">

OR

<form action="//api.formspree.com/b58996c504c5638798eb6b511e6f49af">

You can provide the user a small tool to generate the email hash.

Good luck
Not yet (and because some people around here seem to be softer than melted butter, that's not a threat).

Now I'm usually a pretty cold-hearted bastard, and I'll admit that I had very little stake in MtGox (I never conducted any business there), but I sort of agree with the above. Yes, he probably deserves some Internet hate. The problem is that this Internet hate is not likely to be the full extent of the hate he'll get over this thing.

I, for one, hope that the dude hasn't fucked over the entire rest of his life.
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You know people who _only_ used Facebook e-mail?? Never attaching files or adding CC?

Although, if Whatsapp acquisition tells us anything, is that Facebook is not king in the realm of messaging, be it e-mail, inbox, SMS or anything ;)
Just watch, take notes and learn how to do brand positioning.
That's the theory, anyway. Let me know how it actually goes when you get defrauded and see if that super-reliable infrastructure has your back, or if your case is too small for them to care about.

"The government provides protections" != I can completely trust my contracts to work because of it".
How, exactly, was this a death threat? I find your response to be quite befuddling.
I would suggest than that other industry participants need to come up with better popular names for technologies. Bluetooth is a total clusterfuck from that perspective.

FWIW I've never heard anybody use the term "Airport" when they meant "Wifi".
The android upgrade that allowed hangouts to handle SMS asked you if you wanted it to handle your SMS. I said no and it never took it over for me.
My biggest question is how they plan on securing these ships. Pirates would likely see this as a huge opportunity.
>"It is slow. Messages are delivered after a delay and there is no way to see who is online in my contact list and who is not. I ended up disabling it," he said. Sharma and all of his colleagues then switched to WhatsApp. The app is not only simpler to use and is much faster but also allowed Sharma to create a specific group that he can use for group discussion with his colleague.

Wait, what? WhatsApp's "last seen" feature is hardly an indication of who's online, and Hangouts allows for group chats...

Are we sure that the backend behind Hangouts is much different from Talk? I suspect not, but there must be something causing all of the complaints of slow/poor delivery. Bad HCI/UX?
This was posted over 2 hours ago..... Whats with the duplicates? Can't people use search here?
In my view, none of the mobile OS manufacturers have a good handle on messaging. I don't like Hangouts, I didn't like iMessage. WhatsApp is OK but no one I know uses it.

When I was a kid and spent a lot of time planted in front of my computer IM'ing with friends locally and around the world, I loved messaging! There were a few great general IM apps that would allow me to connect to multiple services all under a unified interface. Some friends on MSN? Some friends on AIM? Not a problem, just add those accounts to my preferences. I could see when people were online, the messaging seemed reliable and consistent (for the most part), I was able to see when/if things were delivered, I could see when people were typing a message to me.

15 years later and I feel like people have shifted a lot of their lives to mobile but the solutions we have to work with to communicate are half of what they used to be. Are my friends online? Who knows. Can I see any kind of status if they're an iPhone user? Definitely not. Did the message I just sent actually get delivered? I hope so! Oh, let me launch Skype for two minutes so I can send a message to one of the two friends I have on that platform.
Point stands that are people who, for whatever reason, had assets on Gox. And they got hurt real bad. Although people have been trying to warn everybody off Gox FOR THE LAST FUCKING 3 YEARS, they still got there.

And insulting people who just lost real money in whatever fashion. It's just not considerate. But, if Charlie had been there, the last 3 years, warning people off gox, well, I would emphasize. BUT HE HASN'T. Stross the dickwipe wasn't there, trying to wean people off Gox. He has only opened his piehole today, because it's the hip talk of today. It's shameful and illconsiderate. It's also showing an astounding lack of empathy as to be basically psychopathic.

Stross is a walking talking psychopathic incident waiting to happen.
So they got acquired and all the Bitcoin investors will get pennies per each coin. I think that's the best case scenario right now.
I really hate these long-url one-word-of-content sites. Doineedajacket.com was clever, but the swarm of copies are unaoriginal and annoying.
Please add two spaces before your gigantic layout-breaking text.
2. This is on .NET 4? Send me the repro.

3. Yes, we're adding more libraries.

4. Have you tried using /maxcpucount on MSBuild to enable parallel compilation?
They might be obligated to give notice and let you get your data out, but Google could absolutely remove features from GMail at its discretion. Providing a service doesn't make it obligated to continue providing that service forever.

Google's ToS (which you've agreed to) pretty clearly gives them this authority.
(Not the OP, but I just take the test.) I got 6 out of 11 without reading the text. I didn't even skim the text. And in most of the questions I got wrong, the correct answer was my second choice.
Flow is not a lifestyle, it's an important component of a fulfilling one. You don't have to achieve it by being unsatisfied, but that's one way. Just like I said.
How much do the people working on them get paid to work on them?

What many users of open source don't seem to understand is that actually, honest-to-goodness open source development is a major undertaking and imposition on a person's time. And quality software takes actual teams of actual people with experience and commitment and a basic peace-of-mind about paying their mortgage and putting food on the table.
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Facebook open-sources KVOController – simpler key-value observing for iOS
The entire video of the interview is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rVpAKziQJA
Are you suggesting Google has a contractual obligation to you when you use (free) Gmail? If so, what?
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> this tool is truly excellent for breaking the subvocalization habit

I found the exact opposite when playing with the demo on the site. Perhaps I fall into the camp of the 1k+ wpm readers, and by extension am a non-linear, non-vocalizing reader, but going this slow, and seeing only one word at a time made me conscious of my mind "saying" every word.

> it forces you to read every word

Also a pain in the ass - I found if you blink, you'll end up missing words. At a consistent 500 wpm clip, a blink (avg 100-400 ms) could miss anywhere from 1 to 3 words. As you get faster, blinks are even more costly. Somehow (I assume through years of practice), when speed reading, your mind is able to properly account for blinks. This also brings up an interesting point - the creators claim that this method reduces eyestrain, but it makes me feel like I'm forced to hold my eyes open for fear of missing something. I can't imagine that's any less straining on the eyes.

Maybe in the future they'll add eye tracking and pause the text when it detects a blink. And we thought Kindle tracking your reading habits was scary.
OK, I think I understand where you're at now. :)
Recent anecdote: My parents and brother were on WhatsApp and were trying to get me on it. I tried to get them on Hangouts instead since we all had it on our phones already.

So I convinced dad to try it with me. He wanted to send me a pic. Right away Hangouts on his phone said something about how sending pics required G+, but maybe he could skip that step, or not, we couldn't figure wtf was going on.

So now we're all on WhatsApp (and I love it). It just worked right away.

I can see in my crystal ball that Google's downfall will be:

- attempting to passive-aggressive force everybody into their G+ world.

- making every Google service so dependent on other services (namely G+) that every simple task will be interrupted by some sort of "Would you like to join G+.."

edit: formatting.
Of course it's futile. It doesn't mean you shouldn't do as much homework as possible to reduce the chances of an unknown unknown wiping you out (unless you just like a straight gamble, which is fine too).
> Does the FBI even consider bitcoin as something that actually has any value that requires investigating an accusation of theft?

Market cap isn't money, its an estimate of value based on a premise that is not merely flawed but outright insane -- that every unit of an asset that exists can be liquidated at the current market price of a single unit (that is, that market clearing price is not effected by supply.)

Its used because its easily calculated, and people are prone to want to believe that values that are easy to calculate are also meaningful.
If it's free, how do you discourage people from registrering a domain just for speculation? Paying for it is a good way.
ThoughtWorks just open sourced Go, their tool for Continuous Delivery
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Who would they take hostage?
I thought that is exactly what "slashdotting" was
I'd love to hear the full arguments behind this.

It seems like WhatsApp or snapchat would immediately become heavy obligations as soon as they contained any sort of 'official' message or even an advertisement.

Can you imagine medical billing software sending you updates through any of these communication products? What about that Facebook advertisement bullshit prodding you to buy an engagement ring because you've been in a relationship for a year?
Trying to comprehend the scale of the universe is deeply unsettling, especially when thinking about our minute, insignificant part of it.

Anyway, I hope the startup you're killing yourself over is going well!
Not keeping up their side or the bargain != refusing to enter new bargains under the same terms.

Are you actually suggesting that consumer protection laws should prevent businesses from cutting features and discontinuing products?
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We also have a ZIP download.
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This was my initial thought. Then I realised whatever sensors are on-board these things would likely detect incoming pirate attacks (of the physical kind) from miles away (think satellites). At which point nearby naval forces would be alerted.

Hell, you could go a step further and equip each one with it's own drone to defend itself in case of attack.
The thing that still infuriates me about the new hangouts experience is that they still don't understand the difference between status and presence.

If I don't have some way of knowing whether someone is actively at their keyboard, or has their phone/tablet screen on, and is likely to see my message and respond instantly, then my only recourse is to stare blankly at my display and hope that they show up. This is a huge fucking waste of time. Right now the "green chat bubble" means that the person (is at their computer || owns a smartphone).

Blindingly useless.
Ha ha ha! The big headline has an upside-down apostrophe, maybe one of those stray Microsoft "smart quotes" in "America's". That's the way to lead with your chin, guys.
> It's human nature not to prepare for a theoretical risk

That's a substantial generalisation. Some people, especially in software engineering, spend a great deal of their day thinking how best to prepare for theoretical risk.
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Re some of your points in the last paragraph:

* I feel like the concept of "being online" is a bit redundant. For iMessages/Hangouts when it works, messages are sent to mobile devices, which may be "available" even when the recipient isn't online and "on" the service at the moment. Also, Google Hangouts chat still supports Jabber, and does support online statuses :)

* iMessages shows delivery receipts, and opt-in read receipts. Not certain about the Hangouts app (on iOS), but it looks like there are three pulsating dots as the message is "sending" and the timestamp appears when the message is "sent".

* A good chat client goes a long way. My needs are probably different than yours, but using Messages on OS X works great for me. Integrates with iMessages, Google Hangouts chat, and FB chat. All I need!
It's a good thing that nobody has ever been massively fucked over by a regulated fiat system.
But given this person was/is a US citizen (I believe he was?), even though he's now operating outside US, the States has big interest in bitcoin, perhaps the States has already compiled a stack of profile of him :)
It would be cool technology and cut emissions (12 to 15% is not bad at all) but I don't want to be on a dismasted yacht doing ocean crossing in the middle of a storm with all the nearest vessels computer-controlled, without life-support systems, unable to help me
"We are currently at a turning point for the business. I can't tell much more for now as this also involves other parties."

No shit it involves other parties: all your customers, for one.
Kimono http://www.kimonolabs.com/
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gargl http://jodoglevy.com/jobloglevy/?p=5

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