skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good on Apple! That's the best that can happen to us customers. Even for an Android / Windows guy like me :-).
I haven't had the time to watch this yet, but it seems like they wouldn't let anyone they didn't want to work with on their show.
Works perfectly.
Certainly tells me never to get involved with Leshem in any capacity. Not that it's likely.

This whole story reads like a some tech people got rolled by a couple of Hollywood types. It sounds like the only intentional asshole was their producer guy.
Or a trunk, for that matter.

It's not at 100 feet behind you that the trouble lies; mirrors are sufficient for that. It's the 1-5 feet behind you that you're completely blind to with mirrors (assuming you don't have transparent rear seats and hatch).
I don't think you understand, the PoC is not supposed to be a PoC for phishing but rather a PoC for their lack of rate limiting [1] , and user enumeration. I have showed the first name and last name [2], but have accordingly blurred them out [3] as I felt it was only appropriate.

In the technical section, I demonstrate where the first and last name would show up in the response from Coinbase. If you still think it's unclear, let me know, as reporting is something I wish to improve critically.

I appreciate the response from the Bitcoin community and the semi-fix from Coinbase they wish to implement in the future (optional masking of names on coinbase). However, I do also hope that rate limiting is implemented in the future, as I still personally consider this insecure by design.

[1] : http://i.imgur.com/nauHivq.png

[2] : http://blog.shubh.am/full-disclosure-coinbase-security/#tech...

[3] : http://i.imgur.com/l84eOi6.png and http://i.imgur.com/SDlbtty.png
April 1st advice for Microsoft and Windows Next
This is obviously a very simplistic scenario, but I think it's no more simplistic than your scenario:

Sally works at an electronics factory for minimum wage. The factory fires her and replaces her with a robot. The factory then is able to sell some electronic components to Joe for a lower price while also increasing the factory's margin. Joe sells handmade artisanal pocket calculators. Now that some of his components are cheaper, Joe can afford to hire Sally to work as a phone salesperson, making slightly more than minimum wage. Sally makes more money, the factory makes more money, and Joe can expand his business and probably make more money.
How Patagonia's CEO has tripled company profits while trying to save the world
The crux of the arguments presented is that there is some undefined point past which the market will not be able to absorb the displaced labor.

If or when that comes to pass, it's no longer about whether or not automation benefits society - but how to adapt to a changing employment landscape.
Considering it's a small team, and this is aimed mainly at designers, it's reasonable to expect they focus on a Windows/Mac build at first.
JSON looks more-or-less like a Python dict, but you still wouldn't be able to parse {"x": NaN} or {"x": Infinity}
Does this do SSL ? If not, there is no reason to use this instead of the (excellent) thttpd.

thttpd is a very, very nice tool. It's very handy sometimes to just fire up thttpd -d /some/dir because you want to look at the contents of the dir in a web browser but don't want to spin up the whole environment and server, etc.

I put thttpd on a lot of informal servers just to have it around when I need something like that...
Well I was considering a career as a Data Scientist having a strong interest in this sort of thing and as a poker player.

This just kills my vibe, man.
Well, you're right it's not just as easy as I wrote it.
For the moment I'm just doing it the ugly way when testing 2 versions whith differences I maintain and detect directly in the application code logic. Not nice.
First off, you really need to add a disclaimer to this comment. As a cooking robot, your view is clearly biased.

That said, I mostly agree with you. However I was mulling all this over last night, and I hit a snag: If everyone is unemployed and has no money, who will patronize the services that are owned by the rich? Will it just be rich people passing money around? Or is wealth redistribution actually in the best interest of rich people, since it means more people will buy their goods and services?
Doesn't putting the namecoin blockchain on a remote server and then using the traditional DNS system to interact with the remote Namecoin DNS system completely defeat the purpose of Namecoin DNS?
Super cheap robotic labor is a calamity!

Why? Because you will be able to get such a robot for practically nothing and it will fill all your material needs without you having to pay any one any more money.

That's right. Head for the hills. The world is coming to an end.

An unprecedented wave of prosperity is coming to destroy us.

The only way this could be a problem is if robotic labor becomes super cheap, while at the same time becoming super expensive. The picture usually painted is the overlords will have it and those underfoot won't be able to buy it. Unlike any other technology revolution, ever.

The reality is that even the poorest sap unable to operate a robot will be handed a $500 self-assembling house that grows all its own food, collects all its own energy, and cleans itself. Imagine the untold suffering that awaits us.
I'm confused...isn't this just a matter of wrapping sql select, insert and update statements in the db.find() and db.save() interface? If so, how is it relevant to MariaDB rather than a translation layer in a client driver, for example?
Physiognomy of intelligence un-de-bunked by Scientists
It has some interesting investors: http://www.policymic.com/articles/46597/narrative-science-th...
There are many cases where credit cards don't work so well. Traveling abroad for instance. Every had your card denied because of a false positive for fraud? Ever lost your card on a trip? They won't send it to you where you're at. They'll only send it to your home address.

You'd be much better off using something like the blockchain.info wallet while traveling. As long as you have web access, you have access to your wallet.
That is what has happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
More automation -> Less jobs -> Lower wages -> More jobs -> Less automation

I believe there's an equilibrium going on. I don't think we'll ever reach that point of automation, it will only happen when (and if) demographic growth turns negative. Until then, availability of cheap labour hinders "full automation".
Perceived Intelligence =~ Measured Intelligence in Men but Not Women
Who needs a job when you have robots doing all the work for you?! Think of all the other things you could be doing.

No, really. Think about it.
Composer is the de facto PHP package manager, and it is highly recommended for modern PHP applications.
I am in this business and I think the general execution seems reasonable if it works as advertised. However you need to secure at least one big partner or a few smaller ones. May be Plivo themselves, they should be interested to help out promoting a good product based on their platform. You will need funding to develop the whole thing into a unique appealing product with some differentiators - some harder technical features, better artwork/UX if you will.

My advice is don't put more cash into it for now, go talk to Plivo, talk to a few call center companies see if anybody wants to be a partner on reasonable terms. In the mean time look for a team and funding. Not freelancers, a few guys part time, working for shares is better for VC.
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I do not believe Adobe Connect uses AIR. In a desktop browser; it uses Flash Player.

I thought the mobile client was built natively (Objective-C) on iOS, but don't quote me on that.
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Ugliest…repository…conversion…ever
First look I'd suggest is separating the DDL and DML into separate SQL scripts, the mysql dump is scattered and hard to read.
Would be curious to see/know which major competitor you're referring to
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Looks like it's a DNS issue. http://192.81.217.227 still works. H/t @lgarvey on Twitter.
Let's stop talking about jobs and talk about productivity. What's the net productivity of automation? Let's also start talking about guaranteed minimum income.
Certainly automation reduces the numbers of jobs required for production. This has always been the case. This leads to overproduction problems, but the answer is always the same:

hire more people in the public sector, and try to bolster consumption further.

It is the growth of the public sector that solves the overproduction crisis, by throttling production. This time is no different.

Taken to its logical conclusion, if all production could be automated, every one of us could work for the government...
I believe it's ok to offer a discount for cash as long as you don't have to pay more than the posted price when you use credit.
Aside from the productivity argument, a big problem businesses face is finding capable and reliable people. If you can push that problem onto the companies building robots, it might not save you any money, but it reduces your own risk and that is still going to be worthwhile in many cases.
> Robotic car manufacturing hurt some auto workers, but all of society gets cheaper cars

This is false. Over the past forty years, the rise in price for the median car sold in the US has far exceeded inflation. The idea that "society gets cheaper cars" is false, cars have gotten more expensive, even taking inflation into account. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics keeps careful track of such things.

Obviously automating something will benefit someone. You have your facts mixed up however, thus your conclusion that it benefits "society as a whole" can be disregarded.
OKCupid Website Blocks Firefox Because of Mozilla CEO's Anti-Gay Beliefs
I don't mean to offend but your sites theme looks like something I could pickup for $10 on Themeforest. Consider making it easier for users to see the way the system works, examples and use cases, as well as success stories (I recognize you are currently new).

Additionally, consider changing your front page video to someone actually designing something.

Also use margin-bottom: 0 on your about page to eliminate evil whitespace!
The additional damage and injury of OKC's actions here is that they are directly discouraging the use of perhaps one of the last great free and unencumbered browsers based on something that doesn't matter technically--and that a lot of people are going to switch just because of scary and hateful wording and possibly be hurt.

Had they blocked Firefox users because of a security hole or layout glitch, that'd be fine--many of us have done the same upon finding somebody hitting our site with IE6 and requesting that they upgrade.

Had they blocked Firefox because it was a competing product (as Microsoft has done at times), that'd make sense too, although it's a bit scummy.

The problem though is that they've elected to block a particular browser based solely on the third-order actions of an employee of that company exercising their right to free speech.

Legally, sure, they can do whatever they want, but we really ought to hold them to the same standard we seem to be holding Eich.

Note, for example, that he sent some money into a cause and then the gears of politics ground and spat out what he'd supported--whereas fully 12% of people on OKC (according to their statistics) have been denied service on a whim.

Even from a business standpoint, why would you inconvenience 12% of your customers? That's just silly. Because you can get away with it, because you are a gatekeeper of part of their social graph? That's just scummy.

This is not how we should be behaving as a community.
Even if every possible task were automated and made super cheap, and somehow you were able to deny access to super cheap products and services to large numbers of people, these large groups of people would still be able to trade with each other.

The robotic abundance/destitution scenario is inherently contradictory and assumes some things stay exactly constant while others undergo complete transformation.

We have advanced societies that are making great use of technology today. And others that do not. Somehow these co-exist. A completely robotic United States will still have Amish people not benefiting from robots. Anyone else that cares to operate on the tech of 2014 will be free to do so. Or the tech of 2050 or 2100.
You can automate things to free humans up to do what only humans are good at.
Same logic applies, "jsmith+mnmnmnmnmnmnmn696969696969@gmail.com" then. Add a filter to discard email to that address unless it's from Coinbase. Done.
You could argue that we're getting better cars (as in, more safety and convenience features) for more-or-less the same amount of money.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7499308
I think it still makes sense for them from a business standpoint because of the all the free publicity this has already given them :(
Hi Steve, I'm the author of the path and a big fan of your course - thanks so much for putting it together! However I would like to echo @rattray's point - when I started learning as a complete newbie to web-dev, I found Django much easier to pick up, less intimidating and more satisfying than Webapp2. The Udemy course I have included later teaches how to put up a simple landing page using Django/bootstrap and in 3-4 hours - you have tried frontend, backend and all. The joy of making something real, even if simple is a big motivator and confidence-booster, which IMO is key to self-learning. I actually started with your course, drifted away in the middle, and then came back after finishing the Django course.
Except Sally now suddenly has to retrain as a salesperson. And perhaps also try to beat out other people which already have sales experience to that sales job.

This takes effort and may be achievable with a lot of gumption, sure, but now consider the entire workforce that just got fired. Are they all going to be able to pull that off?
hi, i'm the author of the post. it's updated. thanks again for pinging me on twitter.

i'm planning to talk to linkedin more about it. let me know if there's anything you'd like to know.

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Perhaps so. I tried Ubuntu with Unity a little while ago and didn't like it much--I'm used to minimizing to the taskbar and seeing the names of the programs. I settled on Linux Mint as it offers a clean and "classical" way of doing things.

I'll consider trying out Ubuntu again when 14.04 LTS comes out this month. Maybe I'll get used to it, who knows.
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There's no such thing as bad press, I suppose. :(
A few months ago, I wrote httpdito, a tiny web server that serves static pages only. It's about the same amount of code as nweb, but less functionality, and I have more confidence in its security: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s, with README at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme. It's 296 instructions.

I'm not saying it's secure, but I certainly intended it to be, and it doesn't suffer from the particular problems tptacek, evmar, kedean, and nknighthb identify in nweb. I'd like to think I'm not naïve enough to have written problems like that, but that's probably not true.

(I'm pretty sure that "Try my new secure software!" is something that should not be followed with "I wrote it in C!" but usually assembly language is not going to be an improvement. In this case I think it happens to be.)

httpdito was discussed on HN a bit before it was finished; for example, it's no longer completely trivial to DoS it, although I could do more to protect it against that.
London skeletons reveal secrets of the Black Death
I worked with her on that project to put a satellite into space. She did a damnable fine job on the lightning algorithm. I managed to write an over engineered piece of junk. Funny part is, her "simple" code was far better than my "complex" code no less in part because she actually was writing in the idiom of the language while I was fighting it.
Plivo also has an OSS offering which is based on FreeSWITCH. So it could work with that too.

Disclaimer: I am part of the Plivo team.
See my response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7505882
> Is wealth redistribution actually in the best interest of rich people, since it means more people will buy their goods and services?

I believe the answer is a resounding "yes." However, that doesn't exclude the possibility of a tragedy of the commons, and we all know how good markets are at preventing those...

> If everyone is unemployed and has no money, who will patronize the services that are owned by the rich? Will it just be rich people passing money around?

It's still a problem if a sizable subset of people are unemployed and have no money or ability to get money. It's not terribly difficult to imagine a system with a underclass, a consumer class, and a "owner" class. Even if we automate manufacturing, the consumer class will include mercenaries of the literal or financial variety. In fact, I wonder if that's not precisely what Wall Street is.
*hoard

I actually just found out that it's a homophone with horde (I thought they were spelled the same and had different meanings).