skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “There’s almost no future in which selling $20 of bitcoins to someone will label you as any kind of significant money transfer businesses,” said MacLeod, explaining how he expects to fly under the regulators’ radar in both the US and Canada with his service.

I hope he's not naive enough to genuinely believe that.
Huvr - The Future Has Arrived
Yes, but it's really hard to pierce the corporate veil if all the formalities are in place. Negligence alone won't let you pierce the veil. Unless the shareholders effectively embezzled the corporation's assets, I don't see how you get around it.
Tip: Never do a domain availability check unless you intend to immediately register the domain.

When you do a domain availability check, squatters get a list of the inquiries, and they may choose to register the domain if you don't.

That's why my blog is at 'realfreemarket.org' instead of 'realfreemarket.com'. When I did an availability check for realfreemarket.com, but didn't register it, a squatter grabbed it.
How much would such insurance cost? More than the money deposited?
Ukraine And The 'Little Cold War'
Why wait?.. you can just get a Nissan Leaf now
Hello. Greetings. Brrrrrrring!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5ghQ
Yahoo U.S. get this award almost everyday. Strange that some other countries' versions of Yahoo News look more like serious journalism
Windows XP Still Holds 30% Market Share Despite Support Ending in 1 Month
How do you get around the phone verification step? Burner phones aren't that cheap.
My First Trip to Wal-Mart
>>You're presenting the MySQL argument. "Why should we switch since we know it fails in exactly these 1,000 different ways and we can fix these problems? Using something better has unknown failure scenarios!"

The point is that you cannot know that something is better if it has unknown failure scenarios.
The vulnerability means that there is an ASN.1 certificate format you can use that will validate against any unpatched GnuTLS-using application, regardless of how you configure ciphersuites and negotiation. The bug isn't cryptographic. It's much simpler and more basic than that. My guess is that it's also been embedded in GnuTLS for longer than the SecureTransport bug had been.

For connoisseurs of bogus conspiracy theories, it's worth noting that the coding flaw that produced the bug is much more subtle than "goto fail", but the bug is equally simplistic. Where "goto fail" required a duplicate line, GnuTLS required only a single switched token; not only that, but the bug comes from a mismatch between two common C error checking regimes (a zero-return error and a negative-return error).

I think what I like least about the bug is that it was found by the GnuTLS maintainer, long after the code shipped. That's a signal of how much attention GnuTLS gets.
Then each trade takes 10 minutes. Check out Coinkite if you like this kind of architecture.
Don't know about that. From talking with my wife they are very messy and need to be cleaned a lot or they smell, like boiled every day or two - so that's why there are disposable ones and they are more popular. Also you need a lot of clean tissues each time you insert, rinse, and replace it - which brings you right back to the using dirty rags again cause there is stigma to clean and dry them properly in those cultures. Anyway her ob/gyn told her to stop using them when she got a IUD, and that's another issue with them.
It's almost like they read this (satire piece) and decided to try to validate the idea... http://www.leveragedsellout.com/2014/01/the-founder-hounder/
A New Twist On Semiconductor Nanowires
Lets actually look at a more realistic example. Women in CS and Engineering today might be ~10-20pct of FTEs. That means, in a medium sized shop, where there might be 20-30 engineers, you have a situation whee how many are women? 2-6? That sounds about right. Now, if you are in this position...the issue is that the guys have 18-24 FTEs amongst their co-hort. In order for the girls to get the same type of network-density you need to bring together the equivalent of 5 to 10x shops together. That is just simpe seeding of network effects. If you worked in a shop with only 2 or 3 other people who did your job, the "law of small numbers" means your chances of leveraging this social infrastructure are "hit or miss". There are too many simple variables (personality type, work habits, social background, etc) for an effective "matching problem" to be solved. Or use another example: would you go to a school with only 2 or 3 students in your major? Most people would see that as a red-flag. Social isolation is at odds with the type of network effects most people seek to develop at school. MBAs for example typically invest $250k to buy a commodity education, paired with a very exclusive rolodex. The value of this degree would almost be worthless in a school with 3 other students (regardless of the teaching).

This is quite a different argument from lowering standards or affirmative action or whatever you want to call it. In fact, it is precisely the strategy YC used to bring its co-horts together. Back in 2005, VCs did not back many founders without an advanced degree (MA/PhD or MBA). As a result, it made sense to bring together (concentrate) a cohort, because the general peer group of VC backed CEO's would not have much in common with a 22 year old with no job experience. By bringing folks together that face similar challenges, you are not (per-se) giving these people special treatment or lowering standards; you're just providing a level os support infractructure that lets them "self-help" there way through many problems. It is actually critical that you don't "dumb down" standards, for this to work.
If anyone wants to delve a little deeper into these topics I highly suggest Patterns in the plane and beyond: symmetry in two and three dimensions. By B.G. Thomas and M.A. Hann.

The PDF is available for free.

http://ulita.leeds.ac.uk/docs/Ars_Textrina/Monographs/Patter...
"And in the span of just two years the only commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave One, has already doubled its computational power. Kiss your law goodbye, Mr. Moore." ...?

--should this not be the opposite: i.e. Moore's law brought back to life?
In modern versions of Python you can declare "nonlocal x", but that's only necessary if you want to assign to x. Since assignment in Python creates a local variable by default, there needs to be a way to tell the byte compiler not to shadow the nonlocal variable.

If you don't assign to x, the compiler will do the right thing without help.
For anyone interested in CV:

http://szeliski.org/Book/drafts/SzeliskiBook_20100903_draft....
Yeah, I might end up eating my words. The quote was taken a little bit out of context, what I was trying to convey was that amounts this small are very unlikely to need the intense KYC/AML checks that full-featured Bitcoin exchange are required to do.
The Road to Cairo Goes Through Nashville (1996)
Last I checked, PHP was open source. Why don't you go and do this for the "lazy devs" if it bugs you so much.
Certificate Verification Issue - GnuTLS
Skype pulled the plug, not imo.
Are all programs dynamically linked with GnuTLS, or are there packages that have to be recompiled separately? (On Debian/Arch)
New iOS API for nearby interactions using bluetooth LE
Bubble API ( http://bubbleapi.com ) enables you to detect & exchange data between nearby users with the same app.
It's free and setup takes a couple lines without getting into CoreBluetooth at all.

this is how it works :

1. set a dictionary of attributes you want to broadcast to nearby users

2. listen to the delegate method and get the attributes of the users nearby

The server manages the "graph" of people nearby based on what they detect, so you can use this to communicate between many devices in the same room.

The attributes are broadcasted both in the foreground AND background modes, so you can use this to wake up app users with the same app who are in the same room.
Linux? afaik I don't use any program that requires GnuTLS...
The quality of open-source typography has massively increased in just the past few years, and it's great to see Intel making its own contribution. The number of free options we have today for well-balanced, full, multi-weight type families (not just "fonts") would have seemed impossible just four years ago.

Intel's entry nicely fills a void left between more humanist types like Ascender's Open Sans and more geometric families like Natanel Gama's redrawn Exo family. It has a nice DIN-esque rigidity to the strokes that the other big DIN descendent, Roboto, doesn't fully embrace.
Sure, email in your profile?
You can't just audit the code. You have to audit the whole runtime, every time the app touches the web server. It's not a tractable problem.
Interesting, the 'a' also caught my attention straight away, but I think it's particularly beautiful.
I kind of felt that the slowness of using the right arrow to scroll was kind of the point. Even holding it down, you're moving significantly faster than light. And it still takes an age to get anywhere.
Yahh, I was posting the comment just when I looked it up and changed it! ;)
Far-Traveling Objects
Create gifs of your mobile app
The hurdles may be high for a couple of guys in a garage, but since the US courts have agreed BTC is a currency, the hurdles are well known and well understood by existing players in the finance world. I suspect their reticence to get into BTC is a combination of limited customer interest, underworld associations (SilkRoad), and volatility. If those three things would go away (i.e. Lots of people want it to use for mundane things, and the price remains relatively stable) I'd bet Bank of America would be happy to get into BTC.
Was that anywhere on the website? I had to download the font to figure out its license.
1. Network widely. Get to know your Noogler class, and setup lunch/dinners with them for a few months after Noogler training ends. Get to know the folks who sit around you, and eat with them. Try to meet folks in other departments as well. Your network will probably be your single biggest asset in trying to navigate Google's often byzantine project structure.

2. Your starter project will probably be pretty boring. Suck it up and do a bang-up job on it. Starter projects are usually a way for your team to get a sense of what you can do. If you establish a reputation as someone who gets shit done early on, good projects will come your way.

3. Stay away from - well, I can't exactly say in a public forum, but basically any mailing list or internal app where you get long centithreads or pictures of cats. Corp G+, however, is pretty useful for getting plugged in to what the general zeitgeist at the company is - what concerns the rank & file employees have, what projects people are excited about, interesting new infrastructure that's available, teams you may want to join.

4. 20% time is a great tool for getting to know a potential team and letting them get to know you, and a terrible tool for starting something new. When you first start, you should probably be heads-down on your main project, and dive in there. But once you've got a chance to see some of the other interesting projects in the company, don't be afraid to 20% there and transfer if you like the experience.

5. Find and attach yourself to a good manager, do good work for him, and ride the coattails of shared success. Managers vary wildly in quality at Google. Experienced engineers (those with >1 year of experience in a department) all know who the good ones are. If you get a bad manager you will stagnate, find your projects are continually ripped out from under you, and come up short at promo time. If you get a good manager your career will be one success after another, and eventually you'll get a reputation as the "go to" guy in a domain. That's when you get your pick of high-profile projects.
shift + mousewheel works for me in chrome (windows 7 and osx)
4 months in advance you are seeing the wrong GP! I could easily switch to a new GP if I tried to make an appointment and they were booked that far in advance.

Can you choose you GP in the UK or are they assigned?
I can never remember, is this the one that tptacek likes, or is that the other one?
>they regulate penny stocks, and those things are only worth a few pennies

You understand that the value of something is not tied to the value of its base unit, right?

If you want to be pedantic, the value of a base unit of Bitcoin is about $.000006.
The Internet Under the sea..
This is what the Internet actually looks like: The undersea cables wiring the Earth
You can easily detect a prepaid card from a traditional debit/credit card.

http://www.maxmind.com/en/ccv_overview
Introducing the New Roku Streaming Stick (HDMI Version) | The Official Roku Blog
The money transmission license aren't necessary for firms dealing less than 1000 USD per person per day, as the article says, and they are offering only 20 dollars one time ever.

To me it's just an attempt to create a large database with people interested in bitcoin (with their credit cards).

TryBTC.com introduces bitcoin to new users more effectively.
What's the point of this? The server that feeds the Javascript that generates the PGP keys and any server that feeds the Javascript code that performs PGP operations can read arbitrary messages. Why bother with the rubber chicken crypto? Just have users send you plaintext messages over SSL and be honest about it.
After $620,000 theft, another Bitcoin service shuts down
Great link! That's my goto for correcting people's units problems. Such a fantastic resource.
Open sourcing the Cloudup CLI application
> However, there’s also another facet: customers have to sign up for an account, which means that the firm will have their email address, potentially turning the business into a large bitcoin-focused list-building operation.

Do I need to create an account to do a one in a life time purchase? The data for the account are only c.c. number and email? Or they include full name, birthday, address, password and recovery question, parents name, pets name, ...?
Congrats, look forward to seeing what peoples' advice is!

If nobody chimes in, here are some possibly helpful Quora links. They shouldn't prompt you to sign-in/sign-up BTW.

http://qr.ae/t3txB What are some things a Googler should do or experience before leaving to work elsewhere?﻿

http://qr.ae/t3tHP What exactly should you do in your first few months as a Noogler to make the most of your Google experience?

http://qr.ae/t3tQM What happens during one's first month as Google Software Engineer?﻿

http://qr.ae/t3nGN What is it like to work at Google?﻿

And why not:

http://qr.ae/t3nKN What is the most frustrating thing about working for Google?﻿

http://qr.ae/t3nsf What's the worst part about working at Google?﻿
I choose nagios cause there is currently nothing else on the market that is actually better.

I think nagios is a piece of shit, but it is a working piece of shit.
I was trolled twice. Once by the special effects guy and director from Back to the Future II in the late 80s and today =) For details look up hoverboard on Snopes.
Is it that they just now started actually testing these implementations, for the first time? Even if you wouldn't follow TDD practices, it's obvious that anything that implements a protocol of some sort (particularly a security protocol), should be tested to actually follow that protocol. Isn't that common sense? What is going on?
*were

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood
I can't speak for absolutely every package but most if not all on Arch will be dynamically linked and shouldn't need to be recompiled. (The new version was released on Arch 3/3)
If by "all day" you mean "a couple of hours" that it takes to run down the batteries by capturing and processing live video.
That’s the thing: it can take months, especially if you have a troublesome work history.
My scroll wheel has sideway tilt.

However I just used the navigation icons on the top.
That made absolutely no sense.
More Destinations for MongoHQ Alerts with Zapier
Back in 2009/10 I used an 'enterprise' competitor to both that was proprietary and 'definitely nothing to do with Zabbix' according to the vendor.

A simple 'strings' on the proprietary app's agents revealed a whole lot of 'zbx'.

Link: https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10155&page=5
Ruby, you mean - it's part of the standard library.
I wish more experienced DMT. It's like the ultimate Oculus Rift. The resolution, colors and sense of intelligence communicating with you is beyond anything any other psychedelic can produce. It is literally like opening a door to another dimension, one full of overwhelming love. Maybe it's just a biological trick but it is one of the most fascinating and unbelievable things in nature.

Not everyone should try it but I hope one day Sam Harris eventually does. His insight on it would be riveting.
Why? Leave it be.
Well, on public diplospeak, people don't want to tie their hands in the future with clear public statements, so they're going to deliberately say nothing while the real action happens in private.

On preparation.. well, my opinion is that there are a lot of potential situations that can happen in the world, in order to have a 10-country-coordinated gameplan for every possible situation, kept up to date between the countries as governments change.. you're not going to have a script for this. What they can have is exhaustively updated briefs and intelligence on as many relevant players/interests as possible and really good communication between allies, both enabling leaders to 'wing it' as effectively as possible.
"evidence to my claim"? But it's an example of a committee rejecting new math, not proposing it. And do you seriously want to argue that Feynman doesn't "do math"? Actually, it looks like you do. Why should only a certain type of math practitioner determine the curriculum? Do we only let people like Ramanujan set the curriculum? 'Cause that won't work.

What you're complaining about is called "democracy." Yes, democracy is messy. The current movement towards high-stakes testing in the US is anti-democratic in part because it coalesces more power into fewer people. If you don't want a committee then what do you want? A so-called "education czar" with absolute power to make things work the way you think it should?
Capturing Myself (Cocoa, Blocks, and Retain Cycles)
How to create the perfect startup name...in nine easy, fun steps
"left feet" :o) this is why i can't run fast! also "lose" not "loose", sigh...
After 5-decade career, NPR's Carl Kasell will retire [Wait Wait]
Patch fixing the bug:

https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/855127da290a2...

Basically, the code said

bool isOk() {
result = someCheckReturningNegativeOnFailure()
if (result < 0) goto cleanup;

cleanup:
...
return result;
}

The issue is that failure is communicated with a negative number in one case and 0 in another, and the wires got crossed.
That is pretty awesome. I would be very interested in limits of modern reconnaissance hardware in orbit, if commercial microsats can produce video with clearly visible cars.
Puppet is almost entirely composed from weird things, so much so that I'm surprised you're surprised.

rspec-puppet in particular; so much pain.
HUVr - the future has arrived
There is a 1:1 billion scale planet path along the Rhine in Bonn. It makes for a nice Sunday walk (six kilometers from the Sun to Pluto), traversing pretty much the entire city.

It seems many other places in central Europe have similar scale models of the solar system, though I’m not sure how common those are in North America.
TLS stacks aren't built with TDD practices for the same reason that the kernel TCP/IP stack isn't built with TDD: the things that go wrong in TLS involve the state machines of a distributed protocol and somewhat elaborate mathematical operations.

Read Schneier and Ferguson describing in _Cryptographic Engineering_ the steps required to validate a bignum arithmetic library. That's one of the smaller problems in getting a TLS stack right, and it's complicated.

If you demand that your browser implement protocols the same way ActiveRecord implements SQL join generation, you should just stop using browsers; none of them are built the way you'd want them to be.

I have a hard time not being dismissive about TDD's role in improving systems software security. If you're going to propose a radical change in the way systems code is written (or, worse, hold systems developers to a nonexistent standard), be intellectually coherent about it: demand that security-critical code be implemented in a rigorous language, like idiomatic Haskell. Don't propose monumental changes that promise only that the resulting code will be asymptotically secure as Ruby on Rails.
You can login only via Facebook and it requests the following information: public profile, friend list, e-mail address, employer, status messages, education, hometown, place of residence;
How Google AdSense Misleads Its Publishers
Yep, seems to be working consistently for me now. Updated the title.
My wife has had a different experience; she reports she's quite happy with hers and it requires less maintenance than alternatives. Of course, this is a very small sample size, a second hand report, and, of course, still surrounded by all the attendant larger issues....
Dan Norris talks about failing fast with your startup
Stop being a fuckhe.....oh, nvm.
Yeah, this drives me crazy. At King's Cross in London (which I'm at at least once a week) it's 30p - if I have cash it's most likely notes not change, so even though they have machines to give change I don't really want to spend the rest of the day with £9.70 or £19.70 in cash.

Would be even worse abroad (though can't think of a time I've run into it), as apart from places where cards aren't enough (of the places I go to frequently, just Dublin and Amsterdam really), I don't take any cash, even notes.
It is a common misconception. The official website is very clear: it reads “The Italian Social Security offers all people working in Italy” Until you find a job, you don’t have any benefits.

http://www.welcomeoffice.fvg.it/common/are-you-a-non-eueea-c...
Airbnb vs Hotels: A Price Comparison
Whole Foods employees have open salaries
Why is FB login required? I was going to purchase, but don't want to link my FB profile.
Why can't I click on the specimen and view it in full size? :(
I am not very familiar with low level C or the coding patterns used with it, so I must ask; why do we see goto statements in both of these recent bugs? As far as I know it's a bad practice overall, is there some specific reason for using it here?
Unfortunately, when you zoom in on the cycle map, it's still a bunch of giant blue highlighter blobs where bikepaths are.
It's not just about words. Written media is no longer limited to a few basic structures and voices. Grammar needs to be able to shift away from English in-line while maintaining semantic clarity, and sometimes that means the reader needs to distinguish between graphemes without any of the typical contextual cues that classic written languages provide.

The most common issue is hand-copying a piece of text between devices, such as a cryptocurrency address or a URL. Sure, it would be great if those sorts of non-linguistic bits of information were always tagged appropriately such that they show up in a different font, but that rarely happens in reality. Even here, on Hacker News, we can only talk in plaintext with a few minor markup features.

A general-purpose web font should be able to handle a variety of linguistic and non-linguistic strings and not choke up on edge cases. In that respect, I really like the differentiation between a capital I and a lowercase L in Clear Sans, no matter the inclusion of 'Sans' in its name.
Coming so soon after the Apple bug, it does make one wonder whether some or all of these are deliberate backdoors. Relevant musings by Bruce Schneier:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/02/was_the_ios_s...