skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it is only more thorough than prior efforts because they list the names of the other people they applied the same textual analysis to. HOWEVER, this type of analysis is too subjective. It may help when you definitively know the suspect is one of 12 or 20 but it is useless when it could be literally anyone. You might as well water board random people on the street demanding they tell you who Satoshi is.

Szabo is definitely a candidate but the onion of who Satoshi is requires you look at much more information. Such as what the target was doing 2 years before the publication (this is the known timeframe of when he started working on bitcoin), the style of coding, the times of coding which indicate sleep patterns and what happened the end of last year to Satoshi (nov 2013) which lead him to diverge control of all final assets (known from whois records for bitcoin.net and bitcoins.org, confirmed by theymos). If you cant complete that, don't bother writing an article on who Satoshi is and don't bother telling a journalists about your textual pseudo-suspicions.
So it sounds like this isn't just limited to D.C. proper based on some of the comments. To me that makes sense because there are a ton of startups and talent in the Beltway - and we all consider ourselves living in "D.C."

I am about to take my startup Visidraft full time in September and I know it will be massively helpful to be linked better with the D.C. startup scene - which I am already to an extent.

Thanks!
Maybe you dream of Rebol?

[http://www.rebol.com/rebolsteps.html]
Hrm. Our entire lives are task lists of some sort.

+ Your calendar with your list of meetings

+ Your inbox with your list of unread emails

+ Your snail mail

+ Your personal needs (mow the lawn, paint the bedroom)

+ Voicemails, text messages, facebook pings

+ Your personal goals (learn to speak spanish)

Every single one of these things is a task. I can't imagine Jeff Atwood is saying that his day is:

1) Write a blog post

2) Do job

3) Do personal life

Does checking and responding emails not count? Does checking text messages from friends and family not count? Does making sure your bills are being paid not count? What about remembering to go to home depot to get drywall or getting your oil changed, or getting groceries or learning to make alfredo?
So Google basically took what Lytro has been using hardware to achieve, and did it entirely in software. Pretty impressive.
Does this pretty much blow Lytro out of the water, and mean that you no longer need dedicated hardware to do this?
Also, when I imagined him slapping the thing onto pillows, I imagined that the screen cracked anyway. What a jerk. He should have asked me to imagine one of those stunt man long fall air bags. I also imagined that I used a nice tablet computer instead of an ordinary notepad, but that can't be helped. My imagination likes nice things.

For me, keeping even as few as 3 things in my head all day instead of writing them down is needlessly tying up 3 mental registers that could be used to speed up the thing I am doing right now.
This is an excellent article. It helped put numbers and precise definitions behind several things I had sorta intuited before and also corrected me on a couple of others. :)

As part of internalizing the bit about P(H|E) vs P(E|H) [Warning sign I4], I wrote up a quick gdocs spreadsheet to let me play with the numbers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10JrG42iKY-LhcnaKU7O7...
A lot of the "Hey, check out my cool startup" pages are put together with Bootstrap or similar.

If you don't want it to look the same as every other bootstrap page it still takes some work to customize, but it takes care of a huge amount of work for you.

http://getbootstrap.com/
They're just ahead of the curve, a century from now people will be amazed that 20th century first-worlders went to so much expense and effort to bring filth and vermin as close as possible to where they live.

Water isn't cleaning the fecal bacteria off the toothbrush you keep in the same room as your toilet, your wall-to-wall carpeting is full of food crumbs that roaches love, etc.
I'm still able to submit more than once. I find that polleverywhere's sms based voting is a good way to get around this (but kind of annoying for voters).
One thing that I've noticed in interviewing people is that those with a previous STEM background seem to get a lot more out of the programs. I assume it's because they already have an understanding of problem solving & analytical thinking (whether it comes naturally or they were taught it) and so coding bootcamp is just learning a new syntax for their problem solving. One of our best engineers is a Carnegie Mellon EE grad who did a coding bootcamp, he's an awesome coder.

On the flip side those who come to me with a liberal arts degree + bootcamp just don't seem to have the same problem solving skills.

This is all a generalization of course but it's what I've seen doing lots of interviews.
If you couple this with instagram does it break the cosmological fabric?
I think he means that "to err is human". It is very easy to make frustrating mistakes in JavaScript which is not just dynamic, but even weakly-typed. Following that Node.js is obviously most human.
Appreciate that feedback. Actually working on improving that output view shortly.
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I'm definitely interested - I'm in Cheverly, MD so it may as well be D.C.
China's air pollution may lead to stronger storms in US, say scientists
I had assumed "minutes of human time" was a proxy-metric for efficiency.
If only they could print something for me, the sophisticated urbanite. I will be very impressed when a high-rise condo can get squirted out the business-end of this thing.

Ah sweet: Future of Construction Process: 3D Concrete Printing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfbhdZKPHro
As I think of the technology changes (hw & sw) in my recent experience, I struggle to think how my personal banking (yes, business banking & financial services is a nightmare) experience need to be disrupted. Its a real question, not trying to be flippant - but what do you think are the top problems today (outside of commercial banks needing an API to their data, I've heard)?

I use uber; before I used uber I constantly complained about getting a cab in NYC or having to schedule a black car only to find them late with a smelly car and no way to review a poor experience. That was something I actively knew needed to be changed, and uber did just that.

Contrarily, for banking it isn't as acute to me:
I use USAA as my personal bank and I can't think of much I'd change to have a better experience. Apps are good. Technology is reliable and (assumed :-)) secure. My money has been safe and available when I need it. I can download transaction history to csv with a few clicks. Everything is online, cant remember the last time I got post mail from them.
Yes, every once in a while I run into a situation where some regulation is in the way (mostly in brokerage services), but mostly its a smooth experience.

Similarly to other regulated industries, I'd like to see air travel disputed. Flytenow, AirPooler, and FlightHike are trying to do this but will likely be crushed by FAA regulation on air taxi and commercial operation rules. Are the regs bad? Not really, they are there for safety. Are bank regs bad? Not really, I think they are there for security of our financial system.
Hopefully the one who wrote this article is not a moderator on https://news.ycombinator.com/. Very misleading title.
It's techshedding, not focused on how they're going to provide a better or different service.
More than half of the examples didn't even work in my browser - Chrome 34.0.1847.116, Windows 8.
You could use Unbounce, Optimizely or LeadPages.
None are free but not expensive either.
I'm not trying to control what you say. I am critiquing what you said. I also didn't assume you had a hidden agenda. Again I just pointed out that your response is a common trope used to discredit people's opinions.

> Someone saying "I'm a product guy" is in no way a slight or a problem in the world.

In your world. Is it so inconceivable to you that other people might feel different things are problematic in their lives? Who are you to decide what is and isn't a problem when someone has just expressed that they are conflicted about something.
But rudimentary testing of critical code is not part of Apple's corporate culture. They have released versions of the Finder with amateurish bugs that delete files[1] and versions of Mail that randomly delete messages[2]. Several versions of Mail on iPhone, a couple of iOS versions ago, send hundreds of copies of a message when emailing a link from Safari[3]. They've chosen to hoard over a hundred billion dollars in cash rather than hiring more competent engineers and enforcing quality control.

The blame for these fiascos, and for the goto fail bug, getting out the door lies not with the programmers, who can not avoid making mistakes, but the with the CEO and other management, who decide how to allocate resources.

[1]http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopa.... [2]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12758081&.... [3]http://lee-phillips.org/iphoneUpgradeWarning-4-2-1/
Is looking at the examples giving anyone else a headache? It's like the software blur falls into some kind of uncanny valley for reality.
In First World countries, sure. In Third World countries, maybe not so much.

A lot would depend on whether there was a local concrete industry.

Edit: I'm not so sure that this is all that "eco-friendly" either -- cement production requires a lot of energy.

That said, concrete is very durable (if made and poured properly) and might be a win in the long term.
I find it funny that this was one of the "exclusive features" of the HTC One M8 thanks to the double camera, and days after it's release Google is giving the same ability to every Android phones.

I'm sure the HTC implementation works better, but this is still impressive.
Future Nokia phones could send quantum-coded texts
knocte, in case you were wondering why you got downvoted (though by the time you read this you may be back to 1 or higher, who knows), on this forum there's a bit of pressure to avoid the "this" and "+1" comments. Some with high enough karma will downvote these sorts of comments when they come across them. To avoid those downvotes, but still post something, minimally add a sentence or two explaining why you're in agreement. For example:

This. With Ada, for instance, there's SPARK which is a restricted version of Ada with additional constructs (in Ada comments) for formally verifying the program. Spark, then, has grown to the point where it's almost its own language (though Ada compilers can handle it because of how the annotations are placed in comments).
For the indian market Worldhaus.com has a roof/floor panels that reduce construction cost and time by around 40% and blocks that reduce construction time by 50%.
It seems as if several of the author's problems come, oddly for someone who's used both strict (Pascal) and non-strict (Haskell) langauges, from being confused about Racket's strictness. Why is time a special form? Because otherwise (time (expensive)) would just get the result of (expensive). Why doesn't (list 1 (2 3) 4) work? Because list isn't a special form, it's a function. Why doesn't quote turn '(list 1 2 3) into '(1 2 3)? (Well, this one isn't about evaluation order, admittedly.) Because if it did it ... wouldn't be quote.
Phasing out certificates of free courseware completion
UnBounce makes things very very easy.

http://unbounce.com/

Another option is to buy a theme off Themeforest:
http://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages
California - You mean Everywhere, right? Because no state, province, country, etc is without a need for cheap housing.
Why We Do All-Hands Support at Olark
> It's important to note that the Cortana app itself is in beta

I would say that's a cop-out. If it's a headline feature, it's not a beta. It should work correctly (ignoring 3rd party apps having to update to integrate).

This applies to Apple as well. When they first announced Siri, they called it beta but it was the headline feature in all their ads.

If you add a weird little feature, I'm OK with the beta label. But you don't get a free pass on half-implemented or buggy software. You can't have it be a focus and say "but it's not ready".

(This isn't about Cortana, I haven't used it and can't comment on how complete it is. This is a general rant.)
There's already been some disruptions (Paypal, BTC (Coinbase, USV)), but copying isn't sufficient for disruption. Chase although mostly evil was the biggest to roll out check deposits by mobile camera. Also citi offers a basic card that has an online sorta crappy Flash widget that will generate limited time / amount virtual cards on the fly, good card optimized for travel and online purchases.

I would see what is the biggest customer hassle and find the MVP to test offering that. Also, chatting up bank employees can be a way to see what's going on and what's missing in terms of oppy... There's a bank manager in downtown PA that's aching to join a startup, not in the BS small-talk sense, but passionate to escape corporate backwards-processes hell.
Well the ironic part is that the official eiffel compiler compiles the eiffel code down to C, which is then compiled again into assembly. So technically speaking eiffel still relies on C... Note that its not very optimized C either, its much slower than Java for most of the stuff I tried (with contracts disabled).

Said compiler also happens to be terribly buggy and unreliable: The author still teaches the CS "Introduction to programming" class at my university with this language and every year students struggle with the language and the obscure IDE. Also don't know anybody that ever wrote a line of Eiffel again after that class even though the idea with contracts is kind of interesting.

Summa summarum: Best language constructs don't help if your basic tools are broken and make it a pain to write in that language.
https://github.com/GAFuller/rails-4-landing
We had an interesting discussion about this a few nights ago at a Photojournalism talk.

In that field, digital edits are seriously banned, to the point multiple very well known photo journalists have been fired for one little use of the clone tool [1] and other minor edits.

It's interesting to think I can throw an f/1.8 lens on my DSLR and take a very shallow depth of field photo, which is OK, even though it's not very representative of what my eyes saw. If I take the photo at f/18 then use an app like the one linked, producing extremely similar results, that's banned. Fascinating what's allowed and what's not.

I find even more interesting is the allowance of changing color photos to B/W, or that almost anything that "came straight off the camera" no matter how far it strays from what your eyes saw.

[1] http://www.toledoblade.com/frontpage/2007/04/15/A-basic-rule...
I will say that where I work we appear to have managed to get on a list of "startups to send your resume to" by one or two of these bootcamp shops, and the resumes tend to be severely underwhelming. Here are some of the things that have been negatively affecting my reaction to them (I share in hopes this is useful, not to bash bootcamps or folks that attend them!):

ONLY A GITHUB PROFILE

It seems pretty clear that the bootcamps told you we really care about your github profile, and that sometimes gets interpreted as "to the exclusion of everything else".

APPARENTLY BORN SIX MONTHS AGO

Related to the over-emphasis on github profiles is the exclusion of anything not-code related. I get that code bootcamps attract lots of folks who maybe got a political science degree or spent the last three years in real estate. Tell me that. I'd love to see what you've been up to, we're looking to hire you, not your ability to code. I hope these institutions aren't making folks feel like their past isn't valuable because it didn't involve Rails.

ALSO THE GITHUB PROFILE IS BORING

The profiles tend to have some code camp rails homework in them. It's hard to go from learning to code to having a github profile that's impressive in a short period of time (Hell, I've been working for well over a decade and my github profile isn't impressive!).. That said, if you do want me to care about your github profile I'd rather see signs of enthusiasm in the form of personal gists or projects or thoughtful bug reports or feature tickets on other projects.

DISGUISES THE CODE BOOTCAMP AFFILIATION

Seems like the elephant in the room on these things is where you've been learning to code and how you found us. Many of the resumes seem to avoid being transparent about this. I wanna know which bootcamp you did, what got you interested, and how it went.

THEY TOLD YOU TO EMAIL US

It's clear that we're on a list and plenty of candidates email us without knowing (or maybe caring) about what we do. That's a non-starter. Frankly, I doubt that the people who even put us on the list of shops to mail looked any closer than a crunch-base profile or Who's Hiring post on HN.

RAILS

The resumes I'm seeing clearly come from a bootcamp that emphasizes Rails and JS/HTML. That's great, but we're not a rails shop and the candidate is brand spanking new to this. It's probably better that you continue your investment in Rails before doing a wholesale dive into another platform.

At any rate, I love that camps like this exist. I've long thought our industry needs really good trade education to supplement CS programs which are focused and affordable ways to launch folks who are interested into software development. I just think the packaging and presentation of folks coming out of these things could use some work.
I am now curious to see what happens when you switch some of the Hazda group to an Italian diet, and some of the Italians to a Hazdan diet.
I agree with the notion that "a disruptive bank does not look like a bank" but I think you oversimplify the purpose of a bank.

Today's banks provide a variety of services to a variety of different customers with different needs. Lending is just one of them.

Providing a variety of services well as an integrated business is very, very difficult for banks today. That has created opportunity for smaller companies and upstarts to succeed by unbundling services that have historically been accessed through traditional banks[1].

For some reason that isn't clear to me, the OP seems to have fallen in love with the idea of the traditional integrated bank even though the market is clearly suggesting that this isn't where the opportunity and action is.

[1] http://blog.aweissman.com/2013/01/banking-and-unbundling.htm...
What is your expected time for posting the results?
"The government has been spying on us for years? Well... that wasn't so bad."
This probably doubles how much I value my Nexus 7.
Isn't it interesting how, by diminishing the overall information content of the image by blurring it, it actually communicates more (in some ways, particularly depth) to the viewer?
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It doesn't give me a headache, but to my eyes it isn't remotely convincing. There's no way I'd look at any of those example pictures and not realize the blurring was done with postprocessing.
Where are all those comments, blog posts and experts' analyses saying Phonebloks could never work in this world?
I see, yes Erlang really did revive the concurrency focus. But I also think that the syntax is a major hurdle to widespread adoption. Mochimedia did some cool stuff with Mochiweb in Erlang. Indeed though, you really shouldn't brush over Erlang when talking concurrency as your main feature to decide on. But he is right, syntax will hold it back, where Go doesn't really have that problem as much. We have all experienced the tab push back on Python, dial that up on Erlang.
> Authentic actions by a stable individual are inherently consistent. Whereas forced behaviors that are intended to be consistent rarely are.

I think we mean the same thing, but to be sure: I tried to exclude the following authenticity with my phrasing:

If I am relaxed on a saturday afternoon and my child spills it's cornflakes over the print outs I left on the desk, it's no big deal. Me or both of us clean up the mess and I just print them out again. If the same thing happens on a stressfull thursday evening, I am angered and let that anger out.

In that example I am authentic, but from the view of the child my response to the same action of the child is not consistent. The child has to have reached a certain age to grasp that my anger is mostly about my stress and not about the actions of the kid (specificially the ability to empathize has to be developed).

tl;dr: What I meant with consistency is mostly the parents having a certain amount of affect control. That's probably what you meant with 'a stable individual'.
This if you're testing spaghetti code or a monolith. In a system of low coupling and small highly cohesive components the cost of catching defects at the upper levels is not high enough to justify the cost of blindly using the tools below.
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I wonder what the broader implications are of this bill. Is the bill broad enough that if I detect an IP address connect to my business SSH server does that afford me the privilege to obtain the customer information from the IP address?

Think about that for a moment, as a business owner I can now send a request to any ISP that owns an IP address that connected to my website. Why do I need your customer information, why because I did not authorize the IP access to /index.html, and the IP address showed repeated attempts connecting and using my computer resources (of course to the ISP I make it sound a little more sinister, like embed an image tag to a resource like /employee-portal/login so that I can tell the ISP the unauthorized access was to the employee portal, and of course that image tag will result in generating requests in my server logs to show the repeated requests from the IP trying to fetch that resource. Poof now I have the name and phone number for everyone that has been to my business website and is potentially interested in what I'm selling.. Of course, I won't tell the individual how I got their phone number. I wouldn't practice this, but for a morally corrupt business it sounds viable.

If the above is possible by the bill, and from the articles that I've read it is, then this bill strikes me as particularly stupid legislation bought for by moneyed interests. I can only hope that our government isn't so corrupted by those moneyed interests that this thing passes.
Regarding (0): could I ask how your acquaintance ended up obtaining the regional bank's charter?
It should have been...
No one's claiming that requiring braces on conditionals is any kind of silver bullet. The Apple bug is just a concrete example of how a different language design decision (requiring braces) could have avoided this particular bug. The fact that bugs can also be introduced via an erroneously designed switch statement is a red herring.

And I also don't think anyone is claiming that the skill of the developers doesn't matter; of course it does. But the fact that no single change to any one part of the process (tools, developers, methodology, etc.) can prevent all bugs does not in any way negate the value of improving any one of those parts.
> I would accompany that design with very strong warnings that substituting AES-GCM for anything else is likely to destroy the security of the design.

IMO, it's exactly this kind of strong advice early on that would be of great benefit would-be crypto developers. They need it drilled in as early as possible that the canyon-like pitfalls lie in the compositional problems of building a working cryptosystem. This is really a domain where just-ship-it cowboy coding becomes a massive liability.