skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say that any existing technology would meet this need, but there ought to be a way for users to have convenience and privacy. There are ways of syncing data without revealing it to the data host (Firefox sync, Tarsnap, BT Sync, possibly AeroFS).

It's up to those of us who actually care about such things to give users what they want in a way that gives us what we want.
The Implied Card Method for Encoding Data Into Playing Cards
I'm a novice trader, and agree with everything said. However, about penny stocks..... I've dabbled in marijuana stocks for 2014 and its the only type of penny stock I have or will ever touch.

The only thing I am risking at this point are my profits because that's how little faith one should have in penny stocks.
You do know Google has a history of having helped themselves to much more data than just public SSIDs, right? The reason I bring these up is to point out that Google's past behavior in this space hasn't exactly fostered trust.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/15/google-adm...

http://searchengineland.com/its-official-google-settles-wisp...
If you dislike the IAP model you should not pay to play the game, despite liking the game.
Money quote from the message thread: "I can't even find the words to express how gross this is." (http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200802/msg00100...) Interestingly, the conversation stays somewhat civil even after that quote, looks like professionals at work :)
They might want to monitor building permits, so they can get in ahead of when actual construction starts.

Also - the gold coupon is the 10% off one from Lowes that comes in the US Postal Service change of address packet.
I think this comment, and the article's assertion about age ranges, show that neither you nor the author know any middle aged women addicted to candy crush.
Something that means absolutely nothing to the lay person, which any successful currency must be approachable by to attain success.
It is very tough to prove insider_trading. As long as you don't put anything in writing, you can get away with insider trading even if you are the wife of an executive and got the tip during pillow talk.
Off topic: as someone who grew up learning British English, ars[e]coin is a very unfortunate name.
I hope the Arducopter community takes note of this algorithm and puts it in future builds. Arducopter is in my opinion the best flight control board for multicopters.

By the way I'm building a community to help RC builders show off their builds. Take a look at some of the vehicles here http://www.rcbinder.com/vehicles . This is my latest build http://www.rcbinder.com/vehicles/aphid-quad
Probably a suicide. "Ratke’s death brings the number of questionable financial sector deaths this year to eight."
Red Hat brings Microsoft .NET Apps to its OpenShift cloud
No, not really. It's a relatively expensive and illegal habit, LSD has gotten much harder to get due to the black-market turmoil, and I think my experiment massively knocked down the already-low odds microdoses would do anything useful for me. It is unlikely I will ever revisit the topic unless some other high-quality blinded experiments are released.
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Just start making things, and telling people you're making things. Eventually you will become connected to like-minded people.
I suspect mirror delay is less of an issue than you might perceive it to be. Many CPAN mirrors manage to stay within tens of seconds/no more than a minute from the main CPAN mirror that PAUSE publishes to.
Show HN: SxySrvy, understanding modern human behavior
Posting on behalf of a friend. Feedback is welcome and appreciated.
"Companies and organizations do have the right to check up on people's activities in some manner. If your car wasn't paid for and it belongs to the bank now, I think the bank has the right to know where it is to repossess it."

What you are referring to is part of the agreement you make with the lender in which you agree to keep them updated on changes of address, a violation of which they have constitutionally legal methods to address.

So please, elaborate on why you think lenders have a right, beyond the normal legal and reasonable updates of contact information, to "check up on" my activities in any way whatsoever.

This sort of slippery slope reasoning that is very, very dangerous for the peoples rights.
I agree 100%. Loan recovery people are usually pretty vicious, so this sort of thing doesn't surprise me too much.
Yes, but...

I wouldn't 100% judge the work based on authorship, but it definitely makes me think twice when Toxicology research is published by a computer scientist. It makes me wonder even more when that work is published by Americans in a Slovakian Toxicology journal. And when it's published by two people who have published work of questionable quality in the past... I think those are decent heuristics to flag this work as having a higher probability of being flawed.

Sure, it's not 100% objective, and all scientific literature should probably be looked at through the same critical lens. I'm not a toxicology researcher, and I don't have time to thoroughly investigate the claims of the work. This is enough of a heuristic for me to say "hmmmm, not going to make any life changing decisions based on this work until there's more data from other people"
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Langlois et al 2000 excerpts: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/TaUWk5du...
If your company can put out an Android app that can do everything Ovuview Pro can do and include Google Calendar integration (if I want to share my cycle calendar with my S/O), I'd switch immediately.
Post under a non throw away account if you want to cut down on the hateful zealots.
Team member here. Coded this in four days on a roadtrip... We're excited to hear the HN community's feedback on this iteration, and the overall concept of raising bounties which are released to charity.

We're also really excited to shower at some point.
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it would mean a distributed work-based hashing process would be the determinant of money supply of the world reserve currency.

The world reserve currency is the US dollar. Even if a central bank holds gold as a store of value, they price it and their own currency in the US dollar. If any commodity was to be labeled a de-facto 'world currency' it would be petroleum, as it is a commodity that everyone MUST purchase in some fashion.

The monetary supply of the US dollar is determined by the Fed, which has no oversight from or obligation to the countries which that monetary supply affects. It's clear moral hazard, on a global scale.

people would still use fractional reserve lending, and credit. But, no one sovereignty would be in control of the supply of the the medium of exchange they used.

I'm not arguing it would improve anything, but it would certainly be different.
If you dive into the exchange following http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200802/msg00100... you'll see that the criticism does not only allude to the liberal use of strcat() and strcopy() but has more fundamental problems about the general quality and efficiency of the code. While I do agree that digging up a 5 year old rant with a catchy tagline does not tell us everything about the projects current state, the rebuttal also misses some of the points brought up in the initial criticism
So that is what those are called!
It doesn't need 1 "killer app" it needs a bunch of small modular apps, that take away all of my annoyances. If I had a google glass I would write all of these myself. I wish I could get one. If anyone is reading, I'll swap you a kidney for one (haha I'm not kidding)

I have a reminder system that I would like to extend and make public, maybe I could integrate it with google glass.

When I am leaving my house, at 8:15am, it throws up the outside weather and any train delays. If it's raining or cold it suggests I grab the umbrella.

While I'm talking to the station, it quickly lists my todo items for the day, so I can muse on them.

Then onto interesting news articles and summaries (I use a trained nltk "filtering" system to decide what I find interesting)

Glass needs to have several todo lists that I can talk to. I often think of ideas on the fly, I just wanna blurt them out with a voice command and have them on the list, dont want to reach for my phone and write it out.

when I meet someone at the hacker news meetups I wanna say "glass meet john" and it will take their photo and write their name. Later after hacker news meetup I can review the people again as a quick slideshow to help me remember their names.

I want a flashcard system, so that I can learn new things when I have some downtime. Waiting in the lift, I'll do 5 flashcards on organic chemistry I'm learning.

I want an opt-in proximity app, where I can say to it "Glass: next time I'm near John, remind me to tell him about the doohickey". When john is within <n> meters of me, it will prompt me. Location sharing is opt-in and can be taken offline easily.

I want to be able to query it for basic knowledge (what's the speed of light?), nothing too complicated just a wolfram alpha API to start off with.

Edit:
These are all productivity ideas, there needs to be some creative stuff in there too. I think the first one is a meditation app ... 20 mins spare on the train I'd like to meditate with music and scenes of nature. Maybe 3-4 different scene packs (forest, beach, etc)

Also a dribbble app -- I'm not a designer, but often seek inspiration from looking through the galleries of others ("When one's imagination cannot provide an answer, one must seek out a higher imagination") all of this can be done on the gallery app, and give me time to think ...

this can turn all of those downtime moments into either productivity or relaxation!

I'm sure I'd think of other things once I started using it!
Craig Venter Starts DNA-Scanning Company to Boost Longevity
That rebuttal doesn't address the more important claim that the library uses NUL-terminated strings for potentially arbitrary binary data.

Not that this affects your point, but the critical bug was not caused by a goto. Rather, it was caused by a mismatch in return value semantics, where a variable was used to store a value where 0 meant success, and then later used to return a value where non-zero meant success.
I'm a huge fan of Zite and use it every single day as my morning paper, lunch reading and late evening reading. I've tried Flipboard in the past but it didn't hold a candle to my needs like Zite did/does. I'm hoping that this doesn't spell the end of the Zite experience.
No, wrong. Utterly wrong. "Private property" means "not owned by the public", not "hidden from view". Where do you get your ideas on the law? They have no resemblance to reality whatsoever.

Anyone can put under surveillance anything visible from anywhere they're allowed to be. Kids, cats, and cops alike, no permission, no warrants, nothing.
The problems of linking GPL-code with OpenSSL was one of the reasons why ruby is dual-licenced today afaik.
The article says "patent pending", so they'll have to come up with a different one :(
This was my first understanding, glancing at it on the news list. I was half-hoping for a lewd dogecoin.
I agree. To clarify, its not that the reader gets confused between the gas constant and the set of real numbers. The issue is never actually explicitly stating "R represents the set of real numbers" or "n is a natural number".

At uni it once took me hours to work out that "." was used for function application in one particular paper. "." was also used for multiplication and (in some example code) had the usual object oriented meaning in the same paper. It was incredibly frustrating.
Excellent point.

Conway's surreal numbers are awesome. Combinatorial game theory seems silly at first (why are we analyzing Hackenbush?) if you expect it to be like "regular" game theory but is mind-blowing when you actually get it in all its glory.
It addresses the use of the libc str* functions but not the first point about the prototype of set_subject_alt_name.

It's also discussed later in the thread: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200802/msg00100...

> You note that there's really a small number of instances of strcat() in the code. That's true, but that's because you've provided your own _gnutls_str_cat() function instead, which is also heavily used. Assuming that strlen() isn't going to SEGV on you (which depends on dumb luck) this becomes just a question of efficiency.

I also think that in the rebuttal the example is extremely poorly chosen since the code is equivalent to the much simpler

char str[256] = "PKIX1.CRLDistributionPoints.?1.distributionPoint.fullName";

Assuming you even need str to be 256 char long, otherwise you would use 'char str[] = "...";' or 'const char *str = ' if you don't modify the string.

Maybe the use of the concatenation is legitimate in the real code but I cannot judge that since it appears to have changed since the article was written:

https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/source/d9ce82a4ce690857f...

No strcat in there. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all? :)

EDIT:

Actually, I dug into the git repo to find the old code and looked to revert to a commit around the date the blog post was written. Obviously I don't intend to get any work done this afternoon. I found this commit on the same day (2011/05/10):

https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/3df051196838f4f43...

"eliminated last instances of strcpy() and strcat() to keep pendantics happy."

So the reason he says the problem is not here anymore is because he fixed it just before writing this blog post, more than 3 years after the openldap rant. I'm sure nmav was well-intentioned but it does weaken his rebuttal somewhat.
A mix of Zite's better personalization options and Flipboard's better design would be perfect.
The idea that a legitimately great movie can't be based on a product doesn't make any sense to me. My reigning, hardly ever challenged, favorite movie of all time was based on a line of toys, and could have been called an advertisement. But if so it was an ad with a huge all-star cast, one of the greatest wall-to-wall soundtracks ever arranged, action unrelenting in its cadence, an epic reveal, and a great script with dozens of memorable one-liners. The fact that it was part of a larger mini-storm of culture that included selling toys... means what? Now I have to find room somewhere in my top 5 for The Lego Movie, because it was that good. What do I care that it was about a well-known toy? Why would I care whether it was good or bad for the line of toys? Why would I care whether the toy company influenced the script at all, when the script is that good?
Decision to Suspend Student at Princeton Hinged on a Timestamp
A problem in his analysis is that 'smart money' has to look a step or two ahead of his indicators at hyper-technical data that includes the velocity of price movement, volatility and the probabilities that price trends will continue, revert or propagate. It is all mostly inaccessible to the lay investor. I don't think Warren Buffet has an ulterior motive an advocating the average inventor focus on broad, low-cost index funds, like the S&P500, where you dollar-cost average in over time. Not that I take that advice, or my own for that matter.
LATimes, Time, BuzzFeed Cite Poll? 10% America thinks 'HTML is a STD'?
Made these a few years ago, so much fun. Great physical hack!
What do you mean by "keep the fly time mostly intact"?
Target tech chief resigns as it overhauls security
How I managed to get shell access to groklearning.com?
Growth Hacking is a Marathon
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The NoSQL Landscape: An Interactive Infographic
I would be inclined to agree; that value is _not_ entirely caused by scarcity. (Though I will point out that if a resource is scarce, people might put more value on it and try to acquire more now because they're afraid they might not be able to get it later.)

However, for a currency, scarcity is critical! Let's say it was easy (and cheap) for people to print their own dollars. You then want to buy an apple. How much is an apple these days, about $1? That doesn't make sense, the apple store can easily print $1 worth of money and keep the apple. What about for $100? Same thing: it's still one bill. What about $1000000? Maybe. Depends how much harder it is to acquire that amount of paper and ink than the apple. At this point, congratulations, your currency is basically paper and ink. Buying anything remotely expensive (like groceries) involves hauling around tons of paper and ink.

http://w3.newsmax.com/newsletters/uwr/images/transcript-img1...
My neighbour two doors down is a regionally known full time professional painter hustling between teaching and shows and creating works that start at a few thousand dollars and sell at those prices.

But a few years ago the artist's agent brought an offer that was too good to refuse - license some works to a high end retailer for Giclee prints. It provides a real base income that pays the mortgage and the heat and the water bill.

http://www.gicleeprint.net/pricing.asp?servcat=2&medid=11
As Zite's CTO, it's interesting to see how the tech is perceived externally.

For whom did you work in a previous life, out of curiousity?
5 Legal Issues to Focus on for Reducing Taxes and Unlocking Value in 2014
Personally, I love Heroku. It's amazing for scaling your application. Don't jump in the deep end with AWS, scale your site easily with Heroku.
Big Data, The Cyclical Universe and The End of Science
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Some critical (to me) dependency chains on my system (Arch, KDE) seems to be

Networkmanager → libsoup → glib-networking → GnuTLS
Eclipse → WebkitGTK → libsoup ...
VLC → FFmpeg → GnuTLS
kdelibs (core KDE libs) → upower → libimobiledevice → GnuTLS

I have a feeling there are greater dependencies within GNOME distros and, as you said, Debian. Networkmanager is an especially annoying one because it uses NSS directly and gnuTLS indirectly.
Test driven development in Golang
Everyone who's saying it should be opt-in need to realise that the majority of people won't care that people can collect this publicly available data. I don't care either. It helps people navigate more accurately. If you really care, you wouldn't be broadcasting your SSID.

e: spelling
>But to be honest, there are some more effective low tech ways to catch these numbers

Heck, just have someone count cars and write down the time whenever they retrieve shopping carts from the parking lot.
Well, the humanity has (only what? -) billions of resource-brains (with not much other than) to think and figure out a way to get there! ...and we have a lot of time on our hands (or heads?) for that, so don't loose your hope.
Ask HN: Do you consider anyone a pioneer in computer science since 1990?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science
HN discussed Quantopian a year ago mentioning a number of alternatives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5107045

Edit: specifically (in the UK?), http://www.timetotrade.eu

About a week ago there was additional discussion of their support for live trading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7300291
I heard from a friend who gets bad migraines that you do not need to take a full dose, causing psychedelic effects, in order to get the relief/prevention. She said that a half dose prevented migraines for about two weeks. I do not know if the same strategy would work for cluster headaches, or even if it's a universally applicable characteristic of the drug, but if your mother is not the adventurous type or is unsure about tripping, she may want to try a smaller amount first to see if she can get the prevention without the mind-altering effects. Good luck in any case.
How the fuck would it handle triple loss?
2 engine failures I can understand 3 not so much.

Also hope their patent fails.
Physics should not be patentable.
Ask DN: Help Fundraise to Create Nonprofit to Help Unwanted Pets
We're trying to start a nonprofit to help unwanted pets get adopted more easily, instead of being put down.

Our crowdfunding site is here and our goal is $2200, we're 15% of the way there:
http://www.gofundme.com/tailweavers

I thought this would appeal to all the animal lovers here on HN, who doesn't want to save some kittens?
Microsoft is a “2.5-trick pony” according to Steve Ballmer
Surveillance by Algorithm
Strict screening will make it harder for the poor, who have poor credit, to buy a car. Tracking vehicles will make lenders less paranoid about lending, which will enable less wealthy households to lend. IMO if you're wealthy ( like the vast majority of the readers of HN ) you should be able to opt out of tracking for an additional financing feel whereas the poor should still be able to voluntarily subject themselves to tracking in exchange for a more favorable rate. Personally I wouldn't care if the bank is tracking my car while it's not paid off, so I'd go for the lower rate anyway.
Oh, I was just thinking of how cool it would be to have a live satellite video to create my own mobile apps.

Urthecast seems like it provides images, what would be really awesome is if they offered some short time interval based image refreshing. (acquire new images every few minutes)
Not really, if the program looks sufficiently random it's probably malware. Don't forget false positives are ok as long as the user can decide to allow things to pass you can also flag programs as ok just as easily as you can flag them as malware.
Yep, people are already making them:

https://fruitychutes.com/uav_rpv_drone_recovery_parachutes/m...
I don't understand why NSS[1] isn't more highly regarded. It's the crypto library that both Chrome and Firefox use, and it has a comparatively good security record[2].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=nss
> A rebuttal can be found here

Only that this rebuttal completely misses the point. They misunderstood the criticism being about buffer overflow vulnerability

>> So what is the issue? Howard claims that GnuTLS makes liberal use of strcpy(), strcat() and strlen(). Those functions are known to be responsible for several attacks via buffer overflows in current programs.

while it was in fact about the nature of the data to be processed, namely that it may not be NUL terminated strings but arbitrary binary data for which the whole bunch of `str…` functions and any other string processing that expects to operate on NUL terminated strings will miserably fail

> Looking across more of their APIs, I see that the code makes liberal use of strlen and strcat, when it needs to be using counted-length data blobs everywhere. In short, the code is fundamentally broken; most of its external and internal APIs are incapable of passing binary data without mangling it. The code is completely unsafe for handling binary data, and yet the nature of TLS processing is almost entirely dependent on secure handling of binary data.
I'm holding out for Kriegerands.
I use https://domai.nr/ it's really brilliant
What makes you think that wasn't partially intended? :)
I think they're more against institutionalized violence that is necessary to make these fiat currencies sustainable [1]. If consenting adults want to trade in monopoly money, knock yourself out. Just don't hold me at gunpoint and make me trade in your monopoly money.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

edit - typo, link
Would LOVE a beets for books!
Isn't typical use of (hash-based) KDFs for password verification purposes is essentially using them as salted hashes?

Yes, for most cases underlying primitives are iterated many times, so they're slow to compute, but that's not the point - it's still hashing.