skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dumping Stellar coins should be prevented for at least five years provided the creators adhere to the agreement described in their Mandate page:

"In order to provide additional stability to the system, the nonprofit founders and Stripe have voluntarily agreed not sell any of the stellars initially received (either via employee grants in the case of the founders or via repayment of the loan) for at least five years; however, Stripe may auction any of their stellars, provided the recipients also agree not to sell their stellars for five years, and net profits are returned to the Foundation."[1]

[1] https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/#Stellar_distribution
Matt Cutts and other tech donors launch CounterPAC
Alternate questions: Why do authors keep using generic and vague titles? Why do submitters keep submitting content with generic and vague titles?
You can look at Harvard's stated financial aid standards. The rough guideline last time I checked (I'm Harvard class of 2013) was that if your family income was under 60k a year, you got full aid, and from 60k to 180k per year you were expected to pay about 10% of your family income. They have a calculator you can use here: https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat... .

It's definitely the case that when they say that Harvard students are graduating without debt, it is because of the generous financial aid and not just the independent wealth of the students and their families.
why does it cost you so much to run this site?
> My point was just that wireless communications do rely on public assets in a significant way.

The whole point of auctions is to take a public asset, compensate the public through the auction process, then make it private and let the market manage it. At that point, it's no longer public.

> From a carriers perspective, they benefit from the existing inefficiencies and besides, it would deeply cut into their monopoly profits .

The cellular carriers aren't monopolies. At three or four major carriers, there's much more competition in that space than in, say, the search engine space or the consumer operating system space, or in the mobile operating system space. Moreover, those profits are what motivate companies like AT&T and Verizon to spend tens of billions of dollars a year investing in infrastructure that becomes rapidly obsolete.

Look at our other public infrastructure. It's decrepit. Amtrak still has lots of cars built in the 1970's. Our power companies are running century-old coal fired power plants. You think there's the public will to spend tens of billions of tax dollars each year upgrading cellular infrastructure to keep pace with technology? Once public wireless infrastructure was built, it'd be a fight to just get enough funding to merely maintain it, the same sort of fight we're having with rail infrastructure, water infrastructure, etc. E.g. many rail routes are slower today than they were in the 1960's, because the infrastructure has been allowed to deteriorate.

There's an article on the front page today that gives you an idea of how well our "other utilities" work: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/swim-swam-swum ("Grzybowski sampled again, and the C.F.U. count in the river exceeded 24,196, the highest possible measurement. 'Pretty much raw sewage,' he reported.")
> I love the implicit assumption that the standards-of-the-moment are any better.

Of course they are objectively "better" (by almost any measure) than the mixed old-and-new-that-conflict crap we have.

Is the "new new" we have bettter than the "old new" we had back then? Who cares? That's an institutional question about standards in general.

I'm focused on a very different problem: how we as an industry react to the standards. Currently, we always pile up extra tech debt and almost never (not never, but very rarely) accept the pain of kicking out the really old.

> This whole 'effort' is moot since web practice veers so quickly

I'm not suggesting it's a one-time fix. It might have to happen once a decade, or once every 20 years.

BUT, I think there's a good amount of evidence to suggest this idea could achieve more positive forward motion than it might've in years' past.

Namely, the fact that all modern desktop browsers are on a drastically more rapid update cycle than we were in back when much of this tech debt was accrued (circa 2005). The quicker browsers auto-upgrade, the less likely we are to have widespread "adoption" of bugginess that sets in and becomes permafrost on our industry.

If we fix mistakes quickly, and often, it continues to spur companies to keep their apps fresh and updated.

Is it a perfect solution? Hell no. But I think it's better than what we've got now, which is to say, "approximately nothing."
No reply yet from the "fanatical" support re: a simple billing/account type question.

Linode, whom we use but need a second cloud for DR, answers to these types of questions in minutes.

jnoller: Where in the dashboard can I verify that I have a Developer+ account?
Veu is a worldwide travel guide for trips, week-ends and holidays
Veu offers a worldwide travel guide for trips, week-ends and holidays.
With over 27 000 000 places (many rated 0-10 stars), it's just like having a universal travel guide always in the pocket. The user will discover places, monuments and museums everywhere, even next to his home. Just select any of them to open the article on Wikipedia with pictures and detailed explanations, or to localize it on a map.
Veu covers all countries for all your trips (US, UK, France, Germany, Italy...) and thousands of cities in the World (New-York, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome...).
Enjoy this app during all the travels, on vacation or on business.

+ Over 27 000 000 rated points of interest to discover in English
+ Geolocation for instant info on what's nearby
+ Convenient search for almost everything in the World
+ Links to related Wikipedia articles
+ Links to related Foursquare venues
+ Open directions in Maps app
+ Tap on the phone number to call the museum/restaurant/other place (when available)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veu-city-explorer/id648861758?l=it&ls=1&mt=8&at=10l7qw
Could you elaborate? I think I understand "boolean blindness" but I'm not sure how it applies here. MaybeFoo.type is deliberately an enum.

(I could totally be missing/misunderstanding something, though...)
Indeed; in fact, I just posted about this surprising little catch and was immediately downvoted.

I don't have a facebook account so that's an automatic rejection for me :-/

I'll revisit this once they add some other alternatives.
Suspected Chinese cyber attack forces NRC security overhaul
I'd just be afraid of limiting growth. Maybe just keep that thought in the back of your mind as you dive into your niche?

I dunno, you've probably got way more specific knowledge that informed your decision, I don't mean to sound obstinate.
Try the net price calculator here: https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat... .

I was Harvard class of 2013, and I received some financial aid from Harvard even when my family had an income well above 100k (my father is a professor and my mom works for the federal government; both have PhDs).

Edit: I think it's more around the 180k-200k range where the aid falls off rapidly, especially if you don't have extenuating circumstances like a sibling also in college.
Why not end school with your best and go from there?
So, essentially this is just a hosted 'contact us' form, which sends emails?
Static cameras have markings and 2 pictures are taken, normally 1/3 of a second apart. Activation is either radar or in-road inductive wiring. Neither are foolproof and pictures are supposed to be manually checked but often are not with results like this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-21264281 where a claimed 50mph was actually 18 mph)
You're repeating yourself, please stop.
Yup, this is true.

The way the article used the lens was as comparison to something similar to the effective f/2.0 the Lytro camera uses; if you're willing to go 2-stops slower (f/4) instead of 1-stop slower (f/2.8) then the lens costs can be reduced even more substantially.

In any case, the original comparison isn't all that useful anyway since the Lytro is a very different beast than a traditional digital dslr, but the bottom line remains while I think the Illum is cool, $1,600 is about 4x what I'd pay for it (which isn't to suggest the cost isn't justified based on BOM and/or R&D costs, it probably is, but that is irrelevant in calculating its value to me personally).
There is nothing odd about it. Argentina agreed to a debt contract without a collective action clause so that they could sell bonds at a higher premium. When they later needed a collective action clause to enforce the majority will on the minority, they complained that the agreement was unfair. But it was an agreement the country's leadership agreed to; the law in this case is fairly straightforward.
Anagen3’s Collaboration with TrustLeaf
"The only thing missing is probably the importance of human interaction." That's it, right there. Because, for the majority of students, human interaction isn't merely important, it's critical. The problem with MOOCs is that, because of this, they can never (baring some serious breakthroughs in strong AI) provide that key component, but we pretend that they're an adequate---some go so far as to claim superior---replacement for traditional education. In the end, MOOCs end up being a smokescreen that helps universities and governments avoid making substantive changes to address the affordability of education. The fact that it also helps them collect tuition from more students without spending any money on infrastructure or professor salaries on top of that is why so many University administrators become visibly aroused at the mention of MOOCs.
I think at this point your beef is with PG himself, or whoever he had write those guidelines.

The thing the mods are trying to avoid is link baiting, and they tend to err on the side of "no exceptions". I prefer this, as any other option may lead to more unintentional bias, or worse.
Yeah, looks nice, but I don't want to carry my iphone again. Waiting for android version.
Or maybe some people just wanted a larger house and larger backyard sometimes at a cheaper rate?
TED ?
I reverse engineered a teacher's password in middle school because the teachers' logins had access to Doom on the school computers. The IT monitor noticed me playing after a few days and I was banned from the IT lab for the rest of the year. (4 weeks or so, if I remember right)
Well thank you for the inspiring words.

I think you're right and I'm at my best when I'm an inspired maker of stuff.

My hope is that sharing our experiences, we transition to making awesome stuff and sharing it with other people that like what we do.

You're also right on trying to calculate the "ROI" on our fun is the wrong approach. At best revenue is a data point, not the goal in itself. If the goal was money for its own sake, we'd make much different choices.
Argentina Discovery – Rio Pilcomayo National Park
We wish Stellar all the best and it's certainly a huge improvement on Ripple Labs, but we're also working on a (not directly competitive, but related) project http://hyperledger.com/ without any native currency or pre-allocation at all.

Hope we can integrate with Stellar as soon as possible.
If I can host my own server, this sounds like a very promising solution.
Same issue for me, I can't even log into the forums to get technical assistance. I got an email confirming my account, but can't log in with my password, and can't re-register with the same username.
Mystery of the 'Cheshire Cat' of quantum physics solved
FTFA: the median starting salary of people with college degrees is $46,900

Of those who graduated... of those who found a job at all.

>$59,950 for tuition, room, board and fees combined

If a summer job could pay for that, then why would I need a college degree to make $47K annually? Harry Lewis is le trollin.
That image may reasonably prove it was not a woman driving the vehicle, but no way can that prove it was the actual driver (or anyone's identity). It's way too blurry and pixelated. Also, a LIDAR beam shouldn't be pointed at a sloped window, so I doubt it actually proves where the beam was pointed at either.
A +Pool in the East River
I'm leading a totally online Coding Dojo at AirConf, similar to what @caike and I ran at RailsConf 2014: http://youtu.be/d-Yc7XpELRg
> MOOC movement (or at least where it has seen success), tends to focus on self-motivated, usually high-aptitude students. But, almost by definition, those attributes do not describe most students

I think MOOC's could benefit from face-to-face coaching. Students need someone to see them, to acknowledge their efforts, to monitor their progress and give them encouragement or advice when needed. This is the job of a coach, or educational counselor, not a teacher.

The teacher can very well be teaching the course on video, but the student needs to be observed by a real person in order to get that special feeling that motivates and makes the whole process efficient. A bunch of counselors distributed to major cities could serve a lot of students taking online courses, but they need to feel accountable to a person, not just a website. It's easy to do that and fits well with the online delivery model.

MOOC's could be a great solution to life-long learning and keeping up to date with relevant skills. Especially in computer science, a 4 or 5 year college program is too long - by the time the students finish, many specific technologies they learned might be already obsolete. Instead, coming back for a course or two every year might work much better in the long run.

MOOC's might still work out if they could be coupled with employment from the start - let Coursera or Udacity partner up with various companies and create relevant courses, and use this opportunity to teach and rank the participants and in the end, offer jobs to the ones that are up to par with their skills. This would make MOOC's much more valuable than what they are now.
Quick, everyone send me their stellar: troypayne
Ripple consensus.
~2007 / 15 years old

I wrote a script that allowed me to create a Google account with the IP address of a visitor to my website, all without them knowing. All I had to do was open the registration page with a server side script, download the CAPTCHA, display it to the user and ask them to fill it out. When they filled it out, the submitted form targeted the Google registration form in a 1x1 iFrame, then another button targeted the logout form. Google was not checking the referrer of the sign up form, nor was it comparing the IP address that received the CAPTCHA to the one that submitted it.

I had a friend load that script into thousands of generated blogspot blogs, which got long tail google traffic and asked the user to "fill the CAPTCHA to continue." The script ran for ~2 weeks and generated ~60000 Google accounts all from unique IP addresses.

That was around 2007, so obviously it's all patched up by now. I was 15 years old and never did anything with the accounts, so if anyone from google is reading this, keep the lawyers away from me please.

Blackhat SEO actually has a lot of clever tricks. I haven't been part of that space in a while, for a lot of reasons, but I can attribute 99% of my knowledge of marketing to time spent trawling through blackhat SEO forums reading not only about that, but also landing page optimization, conversion tracking, copywriting, etc. It was definitely a worthwhile learning experience for me.
Gateways actually don't have to be trusted by the network. Think of them as similar to stores issuing credit: the gateway just says "the user has a credit for 100 USD, redeemable at my store". That credit is tradable, but only to other users who trust credit from that gateway.

This means there needs to emerge a good system for users to decide which gateways to trust, but a malicious gateway can only directly harm the users who have decided to trust it.

The beauty of this model is anyone can become a gateway at any time. See for example the gist linked at the end of the Stellar blog post: https://gist.github.com/thejollyrogers/b114b5a98fa11a5a4ad0 — becoming a gateway is just two API calls.
Reducing ranking latency from one hour to five seconds using Cloud Datastore
No this is not Bitcoin-like. It's premined and requires trust. Besides, it's just a fork of Ripple, which has already failed after being dumped by its creator.

http://i.imgur.com/DvyNzY3.jpg

Oh but it has integration with Facebook, so I guess that changes everything! /s
It's been a strong year for equities. When I was looking the other day at vanguards list they all seemed really strong.

I purchased one in January and it's been doing pretty good. Hopefully the second half of the year is just as good.
Registered, verified with FB, it says I'm in the queue and I should receive my Stellar tomorrow.
On the other hand verifying the email with the code received raises an error saying that I need to login before via FB (and I did it). Maybe it expects to see before the Stellar gained via FB login before releasing the other 1000
The Chinese tests did not include testing in a VACUUM. Not a sealed chamber, but an actual, airless, gasless, box of some sort.

The power levels involved in these devices are 10-20 kW - that much power into anything is capable of heating air and producing currents from convection alone. A microwave cavity is exactly the sort of thing which would make a great make-shift reaction chamber for a very inefficient, very ordinary jet engine of some sort.

I note the Wired article here also makes no mention of whether they tested the device in a vacuum chamber. Its the only test which matters, and no one ever does it, meanwhile they're pumping enough wattage to flash boil water around things.

EDIT: From the NASA abstract as well - "Testing was performed on a low-thrust torsion pendulum that is capable of detecting force at a single-digit micronewton level, within a stainless steel vacuum chamber with the door closed but at ambient atmospheric pressure."

Given what this thing claims to do, and how you have to operate it (allegedly) and the scale of the forces involved (tiny), not testing in an actual, evacuated vacuum chamber is absurd.
So why no two factor auth right off the bat?
FWIW I built idea #3 here (mobile marketing for restaurants), except I targeted another, but similar, niche.

I used long codes (short codes are expensive!), and I didn't do the marketing myself. It's basically a way for them to keep a list of customers, enable automatic signups by texting the number, etc. They write their own messages and send them out.

I'm not much of a salesman, but I was able to make a few sales, mostly to local places via in-person conversations.

Anyway, I have this software built and I'm willing to talk about moving it into other niches.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with premining, if it is done honestly and transparently and especially if your coin is using a consensus algorithm that has no need for regular mining in the first place. Let's evaluate the fairness of the distribution model on its merits. This one is quasi-centralized (relying on Facebook accounts), but I predict it will be among the most egalitarian.
Sure. But the web is well past its infancy, its hype curve, etc. It doesn't need "help" to find adoption. It made it.

Now it's time for maturity, in my opinion. I just think this is one way of going about shuffling off some of the old baggage (that admittedly got us here).
Building a board game with React.js
I've noticed a few things that seem to differentiate autos and taxis. Perhaps I'm overestimating their importance, and these are definitely just anecdotes and not data, but these might be worth considering:

- Relationships. Almost everyone I know who has stayed in one city/area for more than 4-5 years has the phone numbers of a few auto drivers they trust. These are the first who are likely to get a call when they have time and need to make a quick trip to a friends house or the grocery store. OTOH, while The same goes for cabs, they tend to have the numbers of a local cab company, not the driver. The cab company gets a call only for longer trips; typically the ones that lead out of town.

- Trust. Ties in with above, people are wary of unknown auto/cab drivers. I know a lot of people >40 tend to prefer calling someone they know rather than flagging down an unknown auto/cab, more so late at night.

- Roads and weather. I know a few places where driving in a car is almost impossible. The roads are just too narrow to allow it. Perhaps not a large market for cabs but one heavily trafficked by autos.

- Regional culture variations. Bangaloreans in my circles tend to prefer autos, while Mumbaikars prefer cabs. Delhi folks almost always prefer to drive.

My point being I'd love to see companies like this adapt to these variations. I'd personally prefer to call an auto guy I know who works with this service, and then fall back to someone else if he's busy. Or bump me to a cab company if the distance is too far. Perhaps give my family a way to track me on pickup and drop if I'm heading in to the shadier parts of town.

I think they will coexist.
Feel free to send me 1000 stellar in step 4 of the signup process. Username zeljko. Comment so I can give you some good karma. Thank you! (btw credit to corey for coming up with this)
Startup Hopes to Enable 3-D Scanning and Videos
"[CIA] officials suspected the intelligence committee had improperly obtained an internal C.I.A. report about the detention program"

How is that even an excuse? The Senate Intelligence committee is supposed to oversee the CIA. How can they do that without access to any and all CIA documents?
A family with $100k in income can expect to pay around $12,000 per year at Harvard, the difference being covered by need-based grants and scholarships. Very few people pay full price.
Switching between currencies, especially paper currencies, requires trust unless you're physically handing over money. I have full control over my bitcoins, but if I want dollars, I need to trust Bitstamp and my bank, or Stellar and my gateway.

Anyone can be a gateway, so Stripe can't prevent others from succeeding. The only barrier to entry to becoming a successful gateway is earning the trust of the folks transacting on the network.
What amazes me is that Apple's infrastructure has markedly improved over the past few years. I haven't noticed as many Mobile Me/iTools-era sluggishness or flakiness since at least a couple years ago. And I've yet to get on an internet connection that isn't saturated by a download from Apple.com or a related service. Not to say Apple's perfect, but whatever changes they made after all the Mobile Me fiascos seem to be helping.
Great idea and best of luck in your search.
We have an intro here:

http://millcomputing.com/topic/introduction-to-the-mill-cpu-...

(Although it doesn't cover things in as much depth as the talks)

We are working on a public facing wiki, and do actually have some white papers drafted.

But these talks are not your average talks, and well worth trying even if you don't normally ;)
Why is this article link grayed out and missing it's up arrow?
Great - shoot me an email (joyce@stellar) and happy to help!
Just tried out the beta. I can't import Adobe Illustrator files yet (their forums says this is coming later). But otherwise it seems like a pretty good replacement. The panning and zooming is much better that AI. You can also use keyboard arrows to scroll through fonts and it shows up immediately, which is another thing about AI that has always annoyed me. I don't see any support for scripting (which I like to use to export icons), but it is a beta.
That is however this intuition can causes you get stretched thin. Obviously, you shouldn't focus on a niche that is too small.
There is a balance to strike.

In the past, however I think a lot of people ( including myself ) were trying to play too save. Placing a focused bet would have helped me a couple of times in the past.