skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The general idea of creating overlays for actions that take awhile to complete should really be integrated into the system itself. It's a really good idea that the desktop gets around by allowing multiple windows at once. On a phone with only 1 window, it's a really obvious solution that surprisingly hasn't been used much before.

I think the origin of the idea is probably Facebook's Android app where contacts are little icons floating on your screen. That use case was so-so and only really useful if you were messaging one or two people constantly. This takes that idea a step further - but it could be taken even further by making all asynchronous actions use the system by default. Maybe in Android 5? A good first step would be to generalize this into an easy to use library that app devs can include without fuss. Maybe if I get some time next week...
No mention of Wackamole¹ in the article, and I feel really compelled to mention it here, as it is really simple to set up a HA cluster using it. I followed this howto² a few months ago. It was really easy to configure and it runs stable since.

¹http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/

²http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-high-availability-loa...
Preponderance of the evidence is the usual evidentiary standard in civil and property suits.
There's a high end bakery in the mission called Tartine where people queue up every day to buy $13 loaves of bread. I could never justify the expense but from the line outside I'd say there are definitely a lot of people in SF who can. You might have a hard time scaling this outside of really posh areas, but I'd bet that if you can make a profit delivering 5$ loaves in SF that you could do it for cheaper with the same margins in less wealthy areas. Good luck to the OP!
Seems a nice idea, I hope they'll release it on other app stores, so that I might be able to try it out on my phone
FYI, it appears you can still exchange the frozen currencies (BTC, LTC, TRC, FTC) for unfrozen ones (DOGE, etc) and withdrawal that way.

Naturally there's about a 25% premium for DOGE on Vircurex over other exchanges right now.
For reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Rutkowska
I don't buy it. We thought that vPro would be a home run technology for a few of our high security environments. As far as I can tell, nobody uses the capability. The Intel people didn't know about key, glaring bugs that affected mainstream HP devices. High-level support/consultant type people at the OEMs claimed to have never been asked about it.

IMO, it's some sort of NSA thing.
I know that this is under development, and it looks like it addresses your issue: http://adune.co
In case you missed it, here's the blueprint for a DepartmentPress revenue model for universities:

> I am trying to get my [[colleagues from the]] department to create an introductory meteorology textbook.
> A pretty decent online book could be written ... we could charge $30 for it
> and use the money for an undergraduate scholarship.

$20 sale price - $10 printing = $10 profit x 300 students = $3000 / semester

We're not braking the bank with these profits, but at least first-year undergraduates will save $100/course/semester, which is money they will use for beer instead.
Server 500 error. Now that's irony.
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I'm skeptical there's any profit selling $5 loaves in SF. How many can one driver really deliver per hour, 3-4 trips? $20 per hour in gross revenue is barely enough to employ the driver and his fuel, let alone the bread, bakers, managers, facilities, taxes, health licenses, marketing, customer service, payment processing, etc. unless people tip very generously.
This isn't really a feature that needs to be added to Android - you could create an app that filters Twitter links to X and other links to Y without much fuss. Given how obvious it is, there's probably already an app that does this on the market?

If you can't find anything let me know, it's about 15 minutes work to make something like that.
When two clones touch, they merge into one!
Did the (now defunct) Facebook mobile app chat bubbles inspire this idea?
Textbooks are insultingly expensive. Why is it a student's first lesson on copyright law is having to choose between a legitimate copy of a textbook at a sky-high price while eating ramen noodles, or getting a pirated copy and living large?

Then there's the paper publishing racket which is just as perverse.

This whole system needs to be disrupted so hard nobody even recognizes it.
Principles of good data analysis
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That is so true. At some hours they'll have no clients at all and at others they'll need tons of people delivering the bread to get on time.
Ask HN: What are the best data science talks you've heard?
I'm mostly looking for talks directed to technical people but, if exceptional, also talks directed to a general audience
If the exchange can automatically move money from an address, the hackers can get to those keys if they gain the same type of access that they are gaining in these hacks.

The only way would be to use multisig, and have a trusted third party allow the coins to be moved if it was not suspicious.
nsagate.apple.com
I am concerned this will lead to groupthink and predictability.
In an ideal world, they'd adjust the price according to demand. But, realistically, no one's gonna shift their schedule to get cheaper online bread.
I hadn't really thought about ECC bits getting errors and thus corrupting the thing they were supposed to protect.

Do you know if hardware uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Muller_Code for the ECC bits?
"Australia, and other countries, have introduced systems with minimal requirements for receiving welfare: making an effort to find a job, based on simple objective criteria."

That's more or less the situation in the US at present, as I understand it. We all want people doing useful things, but this kind of system 1) means that the benefit of finding that job (for those at the bottom) is substantially less than it is under BI, and 2) we're requiring people focus not on their job search or on preparing themselves for work but on documenting their job search and jumping through bureaucratic hoops - hopefully there is substantial overlap but when do we ever measure exactly what we intend to?
“Good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies” is a catchphrase typically used as a sarcastic retort when someone either threatens to report you to the authorities, or claims to be able to track down your location.
Origin

While no archive of the thread exists, the phrase is believed to come from a 4chan thread on September 15th, 2007.

After cracking into a woman’s computer, Myspace account and college financial assistance fund, the hackers posted several pictures and videos of her on 4chan. When she became aware of this, she went to 4chan in an attempt to have them taken down. After threatening to involve the authorities, she was met with the response: “I WENT THROUGH 7 PROXIES GOOD LUCK". The following screenshot is reported to have come from the thread. [1]

Example of various images [2]

Google Trends 'Seven Proxies' [3]

[1] http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/131703-good-luck-im-behind-7-...

[2] http://imgur.com/cOW0CB8,Lbl8tLl,sOVvWaP

[3] http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=%227+proxies...
Modern CPU design adds an interesting twist to the bounds checking question that (imo) renders it moot. At least on Intel CPUs, the array bounds check gets compiled down to a compare-and-jump instruction pair, which then ends up getting run as a single microinstruction on the CPU. Unless you're in an extremely tight loop, the cost of that instruction just isn't significant. The only time it costs much at all is in the event of a branch misprediction, in which case the very next thing that's going to happen is an exception so it's still insignificant given the context. And if you are in an extremely tight loop, it's probably structured in a way that makes it easy for compiler optimize away the bounds check.
Why do you say defunct? Did that feature disappear? I still use it.
Recently, people were getting around the ban by switching to Google's DNS. http://jussiparikka.net/2014/03/21/google-dns-freedom-fight-... So it would have helped for a while anyway.
I like the picture on the site, it's from one of my favorite wineries - Scribe
Excellent Ideas. Delays on large withdrawals, daily limits, monthly limits etc.
Not to be too pedantic, but the GnuTLS library isn't "Linux the kernel".
> Looks to me like that was a good move

Yeah until a point that nobody will be able to innovate anymore, even being original and inventive, because of patents into nuclear ideas or generic ideas..

Its the difference of "everybody against everybody" to "everybody working for everybody"

I hope software patents became a thing of the past soon.. the concept of property and the concept of ideas do not belong to each other
Then there will be complaints that surge pricing for bread is price gouging when people need bread the most.
I don't know whether you're saying "supporting a Basic Income is entailed by basic economic literacy" or "basic economic literacy precludes a Basic Income".
I agree 1000x. The worship of this guy in tech circles astonishes me; he comes across as the prototypical managerial leech while Wozniak comes across as the selfless genius. I bought and read the Isaacson bio to see if I missed anything, only to confirm what I thought: he is a classic bullshitting asshole that climbed to the top on taking credit for other peoples talent(Woz, Ives, etc). The best parts of that book were the people who cut through the bullshit RDF and called him on it: Wozniaks dad: "you havent done shit!" Bill Gates, re: NEXT (paraphrasing) "This is an overpriced piece of shit, Im not developing for it." The CEO of Corning, when Jobs tried to tell him, of all people, how glass is made: "Are you ready to shut up and listen to some science?"

That wasnt enough to keep me from throwing the book in the trash, however.
Check out Hollywood Accounting.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/how-holl...
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Searle's primary contribution to philosophy is that he forces every CS student to ponder this important question: "Is this famous philosopher correct, that AI is impossible, or does a nobody like me actually understand the concept of emergence better than he does?
And there is also vippy, that is written in node.js and looks really good, but I didn't have the pleasure to try yet:

https://github.com/postwait/vippy
Setting up a private bridge only helps if you have friends or family living living under an oppressive regime. Anyone who run an obfsproxy bridge will be helping the to alleviate the shortage of bridges.[1] The quickest and easiest way is to setup your free Amazon EC2 account with the Instructions at the Tor Cloud Project page[2]. It took me just a couple of minutes to install my free EC2 account. Another option is to donate money to pay for the bandwidth that Tor relay and exit nodes require.[3]

NOTE: A bridge is not the same as an exit node. Only exit nodes could possibly attract attention from authorities. If you are just running a bridge, you are only helping people circumvent government firewalls to join the Tor network. The default EC2 Tor Cloud images only run as a bridge.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/tor-ca...

[2] https://cloud.torproject.org/

[3] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/support-tor-network-donate-...
Oh man... I would love some fresh, warm bread right now. breadbox is going to set a trend with this stunt.
Yes, definitely. Thanks.
Perhaps, but I'm not convinced they help as much as it appears. The biggest difficulty is the need to establish uniqueness of an individual to the network, which is really difficult without some centralization.
Please do. I would like to use Link Bubble for opening links when I'm using Twitter, Reddit or HN app. It's pretty awesome but like what he said, I'm not yet ready to give up Chrome fully.
For those at the margin currently receiving conditional support, a transition to unconditional support discourages people from earning a living substantially less.
> I'm surprised that no one (that I've seen yet) has started a company providing bedside iPad media services -- movies, games, messaging, etc. Outdated TVs running local cable still seem to be the standard form of inpatient entertainment.

They market themselves slightly differently from how you describe it, but Pad In Motion does essentially this: http://padinmotion.com/

> Also great to see designers getting into healthcare! I'd love to help out any way I could.

Where are you based? My startup[0] also works in this space, though we focus on a different approach (patient education isn't our main angle, and readmission rates aren't our primary metric).

[0] https://www.boardrounds.com/
Knight knew enough to leave the machine off long enough for the capacitors to discharge so the machine started from a clean slate. The Novice was turning the machine back on too soon.
I remember when I was a kid, imagining how the inventor of English taught everyone else...
"'Dog' means-- wait. 'Means' means-- uh-oh."
Someone else posted a study suggesting the average Bitcoin exchange lasted 381 days before disappearing with most of their users' money. The notional dollar-denominated value of Bitcoin lurches all over the place on a daily basis.

Insurance companies are generally quite conservative and regulated institutions and like to make a profit. Sure, they'll insure some crazy things like satellite launches where one launch vehicle explosion means the space insurance industry as a whole makes a loss that year, but they'll only do that because of enormous premiums.

Tack those enormous premiums onto Bitcoin exchanges' costs of doing business and suddenly Western Union money transfers would look cheap.
Some professors in the Uni I attended are enlightened and use open textbooks. One thou amazed me. He taught Discreet Math. He had every edition of the book for the last 10 years and told us to bring any one of them. He had a map for the homework shuffle between editions and alerted us to the little changes made in the text itself. Gem of a teacher.
Crazy, all the reading list on my course are provided as pdf to the students and included as part of the course fees. Maybe that's one of the reasons it was voted UK University of the Year, 2013.
It would be interesting to know how _personal_ taxes work in European countries. I remember conversing with somebody, maybe from England, who told me that the typical worker doesn't file any paperwork for their annual taxes, unless they're doing something unusual. If that's the case, then filing business taxes for the first time would come as somewhat of a shock. In contrast, my personal tax return here in the US is about 10x more complex than my business tax paperwork (Schedule C plus a state sales tax return).
>Brilliant, especially the redirect handling.

That was what got me to click the install button just now. And he used my least favorite example, Instagram out of Twitter with the t.co redirects and yada yada—I've always felt like that was super awkward.
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China is the only country that has no demonstrable history of imperialism outside of its historically occupied borders.

I call baloney on that. (Basis of knowledge: study of Chinese history, culture, and language since 1975 and residence overseas in east Asia.)

China's territory has expanded ENORMOUSLY from the historic regions that were part of the mainstream development of Chinese history and culture. The Chinese language developed a new word for the chief national ruler (皇帝), conventionally translated "emperor," at the time 2,000 years ago when China went on a long period of sustained imperial conquest and expansion. This is still very much part of Chinese geopolitical thinking today. The current occupation of the historic territory of Tibet and Eastern Turkestan by the People's Republic of China regime actually has very meager historical precedent, as those territories and the territories of China proper have mostly only had common rulers during the conquest dynasties of the Yuan (Mongol) and Qing (Manchu) periods of Chinese history. I live in a town with a very large Tibetan diaspora (I see "Free Tibet" bumper stickers all over town, and the Dalai Lama recently celebrated Tibetan New Year here), and I am well aware that Chinese conquest of Tibet is historically recently, naked imperialism, and extremely disliked by the population of Tibet.
Patient education tools such as this are certainly a good idea. The only question I have is why do this as a non-profit? If you are reducing readmission rates for hospital, especially with respect to certain core measures (and CHF is one of them), you are actually saving the hospital money. And we are not talking nickels and dimes - up to 2% of payment. It is also the hospitals responsibility to provide good patient education, as that will have an impact on patient satisfaction scores, and presumably bring more patients in the door.
There are companies which do some of this, such as provide the patients with tablets to take home for 30 days. Hospitals can and should be charged for this, and since there is a clear business model here, I'm just curious as to why run this as a non-profit.
(At least with respect to hospitals in the USA).
A decent loaf of mass produced bread here (Eugene, Or) is four bucks at Safeway.

I do wish them the best of luck. If it was available here I would order a loaf every day. Our household tears through a loaf of bread in a day and sourdough is my favorite.
Show me a company that advertises it publicly.
Shine. Redefined.
4chan at its best sigh
Yes, but from everywhere, and more importantly, handles that Android-redirect-through-app nonsense gracefully.
If you open something in a new tab, on twitter whose link has been shortened, it will go through a couple of redirects before launching your Instagram app. This is pretty awkward as is, and he made that graceful. (At least in the video, I guess I haven't whipped out my phone to try, yet)
Realistically, it's money they'll use to buy the Stewart's Calculus ($200) [1] (which, let's be clear, is covering 350 year old subject matter). And then they'll use their financial aid to buy beer.

All of these intro texts (at $150-$200) are broken. They do not go into the subject matter deep enough to use as reference later in coursework or a career and their too expensive to disseminate knowledge widely. Realistically at $30 it's still too expensive to compete with free. But until annotation and referencing UX catches up for e-books dead-tree books still win for learning (I know people manage with PDFs and annotation, but I haven't had success with e-books for anything except for recreational reading). And I think there is a hurdle that is difficult to get over with getting other universities to adopt a university press book from a different university especially for an introductory text.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-James-Stewart/dp/0538497815/
Indeed, patenting ideas is an excellent way to prevent free software from usign those ideas while proprietary software can just get the licensing costs from their profits.
Yes, the classic definition of "general AI" is "whatever computers can't do". That is definition is thoroughly out of fashion now.
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I'm curious as to what you think of the first century of the US, where income taxes were 0% and tens of millions of people rose from poverty into the middle class.

Also, 85% of American millionaires are self made (see "The Millionaire Next Door").
I wonder where the bread is being baked. SF has some pretty strict laws around the quality/inspection/safety/licensing of kitchens (even home kitchens) used to create food for sale. My girlfriend wanted to sell lamb cakes during Easter season a few years ago (we saw an indication of demand and absolutely no supply from established bakeries) and while figuring out how to do it at minor scale (planning on 25-50 cakes) we became aware of these inspection limits. It seemed like it was going to be a lot of footwork to handle and was discouraging enough to not follow through on at the time.

Maybe they most likely won't run afoul or attract any legal attention for this test run for a single day. If it proves to be popular then it wouldn't make sense to do it out of someone's home kitchen, of course.
Luckily there are some new kids on the block that (say they) won't ever rent-seek with fees. https://www.simple.com/ is one I know of.
We give a lot more money than just 600bn to low income people though the tax code. (aka 10% income tax vs 39.6% income tax) Still 600bn / what amounts to ~275 million people = ~2,200$/person or 22% of a 10k basic income. Not to mention stipends for collage students etc.

~23.5% of the population under 18 get 1/2
prisoners get nothing or close to it.

Also people can get close to 40,000$ from social security not just 10k.

PS: Only 65.5% of Social security goes to retired workers. Well over 63 million people get paid from social security but less than 40 million of them get traditional retirement benefits. http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/
Submitted something similar earlier today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7453448 which discusses an idea for combating these costs.
None of the books I bought in school can be sold. The class requires the latest edition, and the homeworks are just slightly different. You are force to buy new ones every semester, and the window for selling it back is getting smaller and smaller.
For most of the students I know it's more like the choice between having to pool resources between classmates and buy the textbook or pirating it and still living on ramen noodles.
If someone is unable to meet their needs when provided with the resources to do so, they probably have bigger problems (mental illness, substance abuse) that should be themselves addressed. Making sure everyone has access to some resources they can build upon, and making sure everyone is sufficiently well off, are not the same problem. Throwing money at people substantially addresses the former. Some of the latter is likely to remain, and that portion is not likely to be addressed by throwing more money.
Bravo for doing things that don't scale. Good luck here & I hope this works out. Happy to help read through your YC app as well. ayo at hipmob.
I don't understand why they don't go through and pay everyone in equal proportion to what they currently have. Eg. 100 in total liabilities, they have 25 currently, everyone gets 1/4 of their total balance.
Seems like the most equitable way to do it.
It's not really VP8 compression, as in the full video codec. But it's neat regardless.
We have engineers making up to $250k total comp most are in the $150-200 range, we have offices in LA, Palo alto, and NY, we pay relocation of some kind, and we want generalists that are really good.
Sounds like a great business to me, better than I've managed to do by myself. Sign me up.
Hm, American software, that's a rather vague definition.
Scooter with a basket front and back would raise delivery rate a fair bit, but I'd be surprised if it was by more than 1 or 2 loafs.
I'm left unclear on how that helps move over my data migrations...
I'll start myself indicating a non technical one focusing on communication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w