skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly - I know numerous people who use multiple apps for messaging. Most of my US friends use iMessage and Facebook. But my UK friends use iMessage and whatsapp. It's no big deal to use more than one.
IRS asks for it:

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Pay-by-Check-or-Money-Order

You can probably arrange to make the payment electronically.
How does coinbase operate?
Even with the global menu, you can still move windows by the titlebar. Furthermore, you've always been able to move windows by dragging a window while holding the Alt key. You can also disable the global menu entirely by removing the appmenu-gtk, appmenu-gtk3, appmenu-qt, and indicator-appmenu packages. (This does break the HUD however)
I read that Germans are really into the alternative messengers right now. My Facebook feed with old (non-techy) highschool friends is full of "Go Threema" or "You can reach me via Telegram".
Agree. Texmacs is a good idea. Unfortunately it don't attract much attention, it is still not very mature as Vim or Emacs. I hope the community could pay attention to Texmacs.
It's just an interface to Google Play Music, which already makes your music available on your Android.
So if this payment needed to be stopped in the eyes of the bank then why did they suggest a measure for circumventing their own rules by sending a paper check.

This is kind of funny I recently purchased a bunch of second hard server parts from the excess department of a mid-sized bank and they insisted on checking my name against the OFAC list before completing the transaction. Insane.
Playing the lottery is stupid. To the extent that poor people are more likely to play the lottery, well, that's money they could have used to better their lot in life.
Coinbase isn't really an exchange in the same way mtgox/etc. are. It's a hosted wallet and a USD/BTC market maker.
I'm giving 26 hours of time to help 26 startups I've never met
Counterpoint: as long as these trivial services are attracting $19 billion valuations, eventually someone is going to do the obvious rational thing, and pay new users $10 each to switch to their competing service. Lather, rinse, repeat, until equilibrium is reached.
> Also, changing windows (e.g., if you have two or three document processing files open), how do you quickly and efficiently switch to the right one? I don't know!

There are quite a few of them:

1. Mouse scroll on the icon in the dock.

2. Click twice on the icon in the dock and select the window from spread/expose.

3. Right click and select the windows from the list.

4. Alt+Tab. Select the application, wait a second, select the window.

5. Alt+Tab. Right-click on application, select the window.

6. etc.
3) Hidden in plain sight

I'm baffled that this wasn't caught long, long ago. Most of us have worked with internal systems where certs, for whatever reason, don't match the site, and it's surprising many people haven't noted that such doesn't raise any errors on iOS/OSX.

Though thinking back....I actually remember encountering exactly that on the iPad once, surprised that it didn't raise a flag. Like probably most I just shrugged and continued on.
From some of his other posts I'm 99% sure that he used Python.
I didn't recognize your first choice either, seems to be unknown outside of the midwest.
I actually prefer this behaviour. I need the active window/application title more than I need the menu. As for discoverability, I haven't seen much impact. Even my non-technical mother and father do not have issues with it. I'd chalk this up to personal preference.
I don't think its a good idea to let your world view be influenced by fictional T.V. characters.
I tried couple of anti-procrastination techniques and the only one I had moderate success with is the "no internet mode". When I have some project to finish, I make a decision that until it's finished, I won't use the internet at all from the morning to 8pm (except for work-related things and email). What's really important here is that you have to decide firmly. This usually lasts couple of days but I'm thinking about doing this every day.
I doubt that. That's a pretty extraordinary claim care to back it up with some examples or facts.
It operates on Bitstamp's exchange to buy/sell when orders can't be satisfied with existing assets.
It takes a great deal of effort to provide a configurable option and acceptable configuration UI for every single option in a DE. It also greatly increases the number of custom configuration combinations and the testing required. It's not a zero-cost option at all.
Thanks for telling us in advance. ;)
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Oh, I'm still on 12.04. Guess I have that to look forward to.
What is the point of this article? If he is saying that anything that can be shown to have passed through the hands of a criminal in the past could be seized then absolutely nothing is safe even cash and especially any electronic transaction. That this is the case is sad but it's not unique to Bitcoin.
FWIW: users on Dpadd only need to set a username. No real names are used even if people sigh up with twitter/Facebook. Gamers are welcome to use their real name as a username if they choose but it's up to the individual.
Chromecast support would be cool, not sure if this is possible though.
The bank didn't make the laws and doesn't run OFAC. The government does.
It's not a backdoor in the existing router firmware. It's an article about how to add a backdoor to the firmware and then re-flash the router with that firmware, which requires authenticated access.
These are great ideals. But there are a lot of problems with how Google does an interview process.

The most known problem is recruiter quality. Google's recruiters are notoriously non-diligent and screw up in big ways. It's not unheard of for eng candidates to be booked with a non-eng interviewer, and vice versa.

In any case, here is how it works in practicality:

1. You apply for job X and do a phone screen (or two).

2. Random people throughout the company who a) have had interview training and b) are (supposedly) related to X will be tapped to interview you, but nobody from the actual team you are applying to is selected to minimize biases.

3. Each person interviews you and fills out a form giving feedback. Feedback is qualitative, as well as quant (scale ratings with previous entries exposed to make biases clear).

4. Feedback goes to an unbiased committee (again, not related to the hiring team) for a decision. Feedback is permanently saved in case the person applies again.

The problem with (2) and (3) is that it sometimes results in an unrealistic process - depending on the prowess of the recruiting coordinator in setting up interviewers. A front-end dev candidate for Shopping might get interviewed by an deep algos person from Search, and tank the interview because the interviewer had higher expectations for the candidate's theoretical knowledge.

Good interview training alleviates these problems somewhat, but there are still huge gaps.
Works well and looks great. It would better meet my needs with Chromecast support, but I don't see a way to do this on MacOS without having embedded the Chrome browser instead of Safari: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/downloads
"The Google Cast SDK and API libraries support the development of Android, iOS, and Chrome sender applications"

AirPlay audio streaming would also work for me, such as the way iTunes works, but I assume that Apple keeps that locked down as well.
Why NOT vilify the folks at the treasury? Why so polite?
You are correct that Bruce mentioned, in passing, that it may not be a good idea for the NSA to collect "data on foreign citizens indiscriminately."

It's of course possible and perhaps reasonable to argue that Yemen has a far higher percentage of AQ leaders than, say, Canada, so vacuuming up all of Yemen's phone records is not "indiscriminate."

But the point I was making is that it's especially alarming when the NSA's giant electronic ear is turned inward, and the spy agency uses these vast powers granted for overseas surveillance for domestic surveillance. The Yemeni government can't order the NSA to hand over information gathered on Yemeni citizens. The U.S. government, on the other hand, can order the NSA to hand over information gathered on U.S. citizens.

That is what a good portion -- certainly not all, but a good portion -- of the NSA debate is about. (Also see: "DEA use of NSA intercepts for domestic criminal prosecutions.")
Do you have any reasons for the things you say?
You can tell some of these things from an interview. For example, when I interview, I never pretend to agree with something the interviewer says. If the interviewer doesn't agree that my algorithm is O(N), I will keep arguing that it is, unless we decide to move on. I can be quite convincing, so I have even convinced interviewers of things that are wrong during interviews.

This approach demonstrates an ability to collaborate. If a person can't debate a straightforward problem without either backing down immediately, or getting angry or defensive, how will they be able to deal with protracted disputes about the design of complex projects?
You are making the assumption that simply because they applied 6 times means they must've been obsessed with getting into YC. That doesn't have to be the case - it's not hard to imagine someone trying various startups deciding that it's worth a shot each time.
I agree with this. You might be able to grow your own stuff with mediocre success, but most people will be a) too lazy to put in the effort and b) interested in higher quality and more variety than the backyard plot (or closet) is likely to produce.

You can grow your own tomatoes, too, but most people don't, and even those that do usually recover from the gardening bug after two or three seasons.

Also, I expect commercial growers will start using GMO and hybrids. You may in fact be unable to grow your favorite variety of pot because you can't get ahold of viable seeds for the strain you want.
Agreed. I will never donate money to University of Phoenix, Devry, or ITT.

But those other schools (Stanford, CMU, Harvard) are all non-profits.
That is a different bug.
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Why not?

Is it specific to github's "gerve" application?

What and where is the bug exactly - I mean, how can a username with linefeeds end up setting environment variables? And what username is being set - ssh? github account? wouldn't you need to use exactly the username "git" when ssh'ing in to github to trigger this gerve app anyways?
Setting up continuous integration, nightly builds, etc in a .net environment
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I think this is a fantastic idea, I don't have any applicable questions really so I don't want to take an hour from someone who could really use it.
This sounds highly unproductive in the high stress situation that the interviewee is in. Hence the 'high false negatives' I guess.
This is not the blackberry OS that they're using and it isn't Blackberry that will be doing the work.

QNX is an operating system company that Blackberry acquired in 2010. They have made and sold automotive operating systems since long before the Blackberry acquisition.

QNX already powers multiple car manufacturers infotainment systems.
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Did you add a department (ex. "Billing Department") and move the real address to line 2?
Legal compliance requires money transmission licenses in 47 states and registration with FinCEN pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1960. No exchange fulfills all of these criteria; most haven't even bothered to try.
Legal tender and negotiable instruments, e.g. cheques, are exempt from the nemo dat rule [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_dat_quod_non_habet#United_...
Ok let me play some mental games with you. Ask yourself would you rather pay $10/$100/$1000 or study for 5 hours?

Find the amount where you rather do the studying then pledge to donate that amount to charity. Do this everyday. I find this works for.

I estimate you are doing 4 a-levels. That's about 2000 pages of work. A 500 pg book for each subject. If you study 20 pages a day and do all the exercises, I guarantee you will get an A for whatever course(oh yea and do the past papers).

In a hundred days or so you could be finished studying for A-levels.

Enjoy the days of where you have if/then reward structures. If you study hard you get good grades then you go to a good university then you get a good job. After this, there is hardly any guaranteed recipe for success. So, take the success while you can.
>My understanding was that there is about 10 cigarettes worth of tar in a similarly sized joint.

That may be true, but how much does your average pot smoker actually smoke in a day? My dad was a two-pack-a-day cigarette smoker, which is forty cigarettes. I have yet to run into someone who smokes four cigarettes worth of pot in a day, and while I'm sure they must exist from what I can see the average is more like an amount similar to the tobacco you'd find in a quarter of a cigarette.
I decided to actually read man ld.so and came across this:

--ignore-rpath LIST
Ignore RPATH and RUNPATH information in object names in LIST.
This option has been supported by glibc2 for about one hour.
Then it was renamed into:
--inhibit-rpath LIST

I'm not sure if it's a joke or an incredible testament to backwards compatibility.

I've been writing a COFF linker recently, and have been reading lots of comments and man pages about linkers and loaders. The more i read, i think dynamic linking isn't such a good idea after all.
The sad state of mobile messaging
Well, yeah, leaders need to lead from the front, or at least give a strong impression of doing so. Otherwise, people will ask your question, and for good reason.
Encrypt and Decrypt Floral Bouquets
Maybe something like this but it's 3.5x the price after equipping it - http://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-SuperServer-Rackmount-Bareb...
It relies on Andreessen Horowitz's connections to former regulators, such as William Haraf, the former Commissioner of the California Department of Financial Institutions, now employed by Promontory Financial Group, to convince the DFI (now DBO) look the other way while Silicon Valley Bank pretends that what it's doing doesn't pose any legal problems.

Coinbase knows exactly what's going on with the money transmission laws it chooses to ignore. See:

http://www.dfs.ny.gov/insurance/hearing/vchearing/ehrsam.pdf
A lot of people have happily paid us money, which is awesome. But we've decided to transition to a true "gift economy" model now. In the next few weeks, we're launching a big crowdfunding campaign to fund development of Loomio 1.0, where we're taking the learnings from our first 10,000 users and creating a much more accessible, mobile responsive, intuitive tool. After crowdfunding, we're going to just be giving the basic software away for free and accepting donations instead of having a structured subscription model.

At the same time though, we've had massive pull from enterprise customers for consulting to go alongside the tool to help them do really good internal collaboration and culture change to a more distributed leadership model, as well as facilitate constituent and stakeholder collaboration. That's been a significant source of income for us.

Overall, the commitment to "pay what you can" has been core to our model and our values, and we're sticking with it, but we're experimenting with interpreting it in different ways. It's very important to us to both be independently financially sustainable, and to give our tool to groups doing great stuff in their communities regardless of their financial means.
Here's my application for the last batch:

https://www.penflip.com/loren/yc-application

Wasn't accepted, but it might help anyway.

If anyone's curious, no, I didn't lose all hope and give up when YC rejected me. Third time being rejected, and it hurts less every time :) Still going strong on this idea, refuse to quit.
Would be nice to have an option to keep them permanently visible.
You mean to Comcast?
This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All Small Businesses
Statistics student here. If one of the languages in the manuscript is a Turkic dialect then statistical word analyses won't be helpfull.
The Importance of Having More Than One Backup
Yes, the heading is misleading. The actual one for the article is "A More Universal Router Payload – Backdooring the Linksys WRT54G Firmware".
Apple OSX Mavericks 10.9.x SSL Key Exchange Verification Vulnerability
Awesome project -- I can't wait to hear how it ends up. Definitely do a blog post afterward! (I applied.. can't wait to hear back)
You are correct.

The original Sync system was developed by Microsoft for Ford and has gotten generally positive reviews.

MyFord Touch, the touchscreen system, was contracted out by Ford and developed on the Microsoft Automotive platform. So it is "powered by" Microsoft but was not originally built by them.
When I applied for YC, the application itself was very valuable because it asked focused and aspirational questions which forced me to think about what I was trying to create and why it was important to other people. I also went into the process telling myself that while it would be great to get in, it was not the end of the world if it didn't work out.

Remember that the success of your product/company ultimately comes down to you and the market you are in and not necessarily the money that is invested or the often nebulous social status that might come with getting into such programs. What matters is creating something which is of service to and valuable to other people.
A Beeb came assembled in a case that you didn't have to assemble. Not being available in an actual store assembled limits the ability of the Pi to train a new generation.
I'm not, he's just an example which I thought best sums up what I am trying to describe...
Here's a longer, but still mostly back-of-the-envelope calculation: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-tha...

It turns out that the tax benefits pale in comparison to the slight reduction in car accidents caused by drunk drivers (because pot use seems to displace alcohol use.)
Cool, suck my balls.
Because it does not work like that. SecureTransport actually verifies the validity of the TLS certificate. If you hand it an invalid certificate in the first place, it will complain.

The issue is one level deeper. When you connect to a server that supports ephemeral key exchange, the parties involved will generate new key pairs on the fly to use for that connection. In order to make sure that the server has the key published in its certificate, the ephemeral public key shown to the client must be signed by the static private key of the certificate and the client MUST verify it. It is the ephemeral key signature that is not validated, not the signature on the certificate itself.

What happens here is that the server gives the client a _valid_ certificate for which it does not own the private key, and in the ephemeral step, it simply generates a key pair without a valid signature. At no point in the handshake the server is asked to verify its ownership of the private key associated to the certificate it is presenting

To summarize, TLS certificate should be valid, but you are never asked to verify you have its private key when the connection used DHE or ECDHE.
Manufacturers will do whatever they can to maximize profit. They already have razor thin profits, if not losses, they will pocket the savings if they can...but their competitors might have other plans.
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Are you trying to be hyperbolic to the point of obliterating all nuance then?
This used to be true about social networks as well, but Facebook (still) seems to be the end of that.
I don't hate Microsoft. But I don't exactly like them either.

They've made some pretty piss poor decisions over the last 10 years that have had some huge impacts. IE6 was bad, but I can forgive their ignorance on that — no-one knew any better at the time.

What I can't forgive is IE8, and the years since then that they've CONTINUED to make major-versioned browsers. If IE6 was a one off problem, it'd be fine. But with IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, IE11, and new ones being released all the time, it just seems like MS don't realise it's a problem. No-one should be making browsers that don't silently auto-update at least once a month. It's physically harmful to the web ecosystem.

I don't care how good IE11 is now, whether they've caught up or not, I care about them putting a system in place that ensures everyone always has the latest web technology. Don't tell me it's not possible. Google and Mozilla have had it sussed for years now. (Apple could do with sorting themselves out on this too. Could also see them go in this direction since Blink split off.)

I can't help but think the version numbers are political? Some group in Microsoft trying to prove its worth by making a big deal about version numbers every year? "Look how much we care about the web, look at our new shiny browser. It goes to 11..."

The web would be way further ahead if Microsoft had stopped making browsers years ago. Millions of hours are wasted every year testing websites in dead browsers. Microsoft created this situation, and they've still not adequately addressed it.

Put your latest browser on everything you've ever made, stop calling out the major version numbers, release every month or so. That's how you'll get people to like you.
Really?

> Life works in any way that you want it to work.

This, kids, is why you shouldn't smoke crack.
Another income inequality article. Get off hacker news and stay off.
It must be incredibly difficult to turn the whatsapp service back on after an outage, since most active users have probably sent a message that is waiting in the queue. Literally hundreds of millions of messages would hit the server once it goes up. Does anyone know how they handle this?
DMCA takedown in 3, 2, 1...

Still a cool project anyway.
Edit in a reply: And whoever else wants to join: feel free! We can make like a Study / Work group session where nobody talks for an hour and we just work all together in a video conference. Why, that would be just the ding-dang-diddly!

(how do I edit the original post? click "edit", append that paragraph, click "update" button.. nothing happens; edit page reloads and I lose changes.. wut?)
that is a crazy amount of aliases!
The desktop client/multiple platform thing is so huge, I don't understand why WhatsApp, for instance, avoids this.

My group of friends uses a lot of iMessage, and I really hate the fact that I can neither use an iMessage app sitting in front of a Windows/Linux machine, nor can I use the iMessage app to view/respond to SMS from people who don't have iOS devices.

Who wants to take your phone out of your pocket and hunt and peck on a tiny keyboard when you can just type ~80 wpm on the computer in front of you?
Maybe spend an afternoon learning up on copyright and trademark law.

Why would you spend so much time on something that clearly violates the intellectual property of Nintendo?
This is how I go about tasks usually, I hardly ever expect myself to finish something completely unless it's small. Sometimes I just end up in the zone and happily punch it out for several hours, sometimes I work on it over several days.

Another thing I might work on is over-hyping a task, making it seem like much more work than it really is. For example, I started on this paper I need to write and was really dreading it. However, since I started it I've seen that it's actually nowhere near as bad as I had previously imagined.

I'm finding that momentum is constantly a large factor in my productivity as well, if I can get momentum I often begin to enjoy tasks.
youre a humorless retard
Will people that plan to move back home or have home (non American) markets as their primary markets be considered?

Many have done this, whether planned or not I don't know in all cases, but I know that Glio has Brazil as their primary market.
Ok, I'll ask. What is "art porn"?