skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Are you saying we don't need watches at all? Or that some how modern day humans don't need to keep track of time? Watches started going out of fashion when mobile phones came along with Real time clocks, so people just didn't feel they should have a wrist watch when they check the time on their phones.

But that didn't cover all people and all use cases. There are many use cases where you can't use your phone to check time. And in such places a wrist watch is a indispensable utility.
"You’ll notice we’re using the word “GM”, not “final”. That’s because Swift will continue to advance with new features, improved performance, and refined syntax"

Typically, when people say that a language "reached 1.0", they mean the very end of that process.
Yes, I would have also thought that since this was a presentation to the general consumer and not just a tech demo ala WWDC where these things don't matter yet, that they would have addressed this issue by showing a person taking the watch from one wrist and putting it on the other and thus showing the device can be turned around and used just like before.
Sites should stop storing plain text password
I can tell from the first 2 characters that the leaked password associated with my email address was scraped from Pizza Hut Australia's online ordering system (they only recently implemented SSL on the login page).

It's interesting that I setup a particular password for that service when I noticed it didn't use SSL. Make's me wonder how many databases this comes from. It certainly isn't Google's.
Ask HN: Which libraries are Gevent compatible?
We're using gevent on our project but it's hard to figure out which libraries are gevent compatible without looking at the code. I made this github page to try to create a simple list of these libraries: https://github.com/valanto/geventcompatible/blob/master/README.md

Would appreciate your help!
There's a lot of misconception spread by FreeNAS forums. I suspect that's where he read it from:

http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-r...

The author there makes some crazy assumptions like this: "But, now things get messy. What happens when you read that data back? Let's pretend that the bad RAM location is moved relative to the file being loaded into RAM. Its off by 3 bits and move it to position 5."
F.C.C. Chairman Says Wireless Broadband Could Get Stricter Oversight
If they were equally good, why not coin flip instead?
Minor grammar nitpick: "Open PostgreSQL Monitoring is a free software" is incorrect English, as software is an uncountable: we don't say "a software", but a program, a system, or something like that. You could also say "is free software".
ASUS ZenWatch
Increased numbers of psychopaths in senior managerial positions?
10 years in niche websites here. We sell a website system (hosting + cms) to professional photographers. A lot of them. We do traditional hosting where each customer is an individual apache host with it's own database, FTP account, etc. But you could just as easily do something in a multi-tenant, "cloud"y fashion.

The margins are decent IMO. You can get a decent sized VPS or dedicated server and easily have your costs under $2 per user per month. Then you charge the customer $9-29 per month.

They key will be automating the setup process. If you're doing traditional hosting, you may also need some sort of control panel (they all suck, btw).

We also sell other SaaS tools for photographers–allowing them to sell and share photographs. We upsell them to our website clients.

It's hard to define fairly easy to create recurring revenue. We were profitable from day 1 but it took more than a few years to clear $1M in annual revenue. And now there are a lot of well-funded competitors (wix, squarespace, etc.). So, my advice would be to find a niche, figure out what they need, and focus on them.

I have a few ideas (below). This is random, but I would advise you to avoid restaurants. I've tried it. Many others have too. They owners are too busy, have little money, and most just don't care that much.

Some other ideas I've had:

* A static website hosting service based on Jekyll. But a web-interface somewhere allows you to create new jekyll posts/pages.

* Wordpress hosting for landing pages. I like Unbounce but it's expensive. Create a WordPress theme with 12 different page styles and let me make an unlimited number of landing and lead-gen pages for it.

* Elementary school websites. As a parent of 4, I've yet to see a good one. I'm sure there are existing players, but if you can carve out a niche, there are COUNTLESS other things you could build for them. Start with some private catholic/christian schools near you. They have much less red tape in their buying process. If you have some sales chops, aim at the district level so you can bag a few schools at once.
I tend to be skeptical when instead of counter-arguments I'm told "it's so elementary I won't even tell you". Some quick research shows experts are still debating whether the 51% attack is a real threat. I also don't know that comparing Bitcoin to the stock market is fair, as you didn't offer an argument for it. They seem different to me.

Also, you're saying that it would be a really bad thing for a currency (such as Bitcoin) to suddenly become controlled by an anonymous party, yet that is exactly what instating the FED did to the dollar. But then you say the FED ensures stability. So I ask, do you believe the only way to achieve stability is through maintaining the worst possible scenario for a currency?

I don't believe in democracy and so of course I'm not promoting it, and I don't think it is associated to fairness as you imply - I see it more as a tragedy of commons. I do believe what I promote is fair because it is free of coercion and it encourages engagement with others and with one's community, leading by example, and so on.

People are desperate, people that lost their savings because of the government playing money scientist. They might not know that what they want is a money that cannot be manipulated by decree, but they seem to recognize pretty well why is it that their savings are gone.

And your view of economics in this micro/macro false duality is what might be making it hard for you to see what I am talking about. At what point does exchanging value for goods and services need to be divided into two different things? I don't see that.
Can Apple Pay be bypassed?
Coinbase on BitLicense
>A watch is primarily a piece of jewelry.

or saying a watch is for time keeping is not very forward thinking IMO. Its like saying 10 years ago, a smart phone is just a phone. Less and less people actually use it to make calls and use it more for many of other functionality it provides.
Which is why London taxis are so damn expensive, and why UbiCab, Addison Lee, and Uber provide such an amazing service.
How do you come up with the factor of 20? On a smaller scape, if you try to buy a website or an online-business (say, on Flippa), oftentimes the sales price is around 2-3x yearly income. For my own business, I'd love to see a factor of 20, but I can't see how anyone would offer that much money.
Did you really just say earpiece?

S2 doesn't look like iPhone enough for Samsung to get sued (my opinion as an Android user that loves iOS as well), but.. earpiece? Really? The curled edges I'd agree with. But that's about it.
Niche subreddits can actually be fantastic. I'm subscribed to many related to my personal hobbies and interests, and in general the content and conduct is reasonable. In contrast, most of the mainstream ones that are worth avoiding, with the exception of /r/askscience.
Factoid: At Kitt Peak National Observatory, a working astronomical site, you get more light pollution from the Homeland Security / Border Patrol checkpoints that you do from the nearby city of Tucson.

1,000W bulbs: Just Say No.
To be honest, I thought the same thing about the earbuds of the iPod or the iPhone. You know, the signature, white earbuds. I thought to myself, "if I have these on, everybody will know I have an iPhone"... this was back when iPhones still were a kind of status symbol because of carrier lock-in and still costing a lot etc.

At least with the watches, if you wear long sleeved shirts, nobody will see it. Only while wearing tshirts it would be visible.

As far as mugging potential goes, I think nowadays you could attempt to mug any person on the street and chances are pretty high that they carry a smartphone which has at least a value of 350 dollars. Android or iOS. So, I don't really think that theft would be a bigger problem than it already is with smartphones.
The Economist[1] had a story about the London Stock Exchange getting jammed GPS-signal 10 minutes every day. I believe they are using something similar.

[1]: http://www.economist.com/news/international/21582288-satelli...
Yeap but if we want to be fair, we either have to pass Uber drivers through the same procedure or we should lower the barrier for the cabbies.
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Interestingly, there are a large number of non-gmail.com addresses in there, including 123k yandex.ru addresses, plus a (very) small number of yahoo.com and hotmail.com addresses. Here's the output of "cut -d@ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr":

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/255959493c0a26cce856

The data hasn't been very well edited from whatever dump it came from. For example, there are lines that end in "gmail.com_xtube", "gmail.com7777", "gmail.com|login", etc, which are curious.
I agree with your point, but there's no need for name-calling.
> The five years he has spent on the quest is fairly typical.

> The Uber driver did the run from the newspaper's office in King's Cross to Big Ben, in Westminster, in 22 minutes; the cabbie did it in 18, by taking a slightly longer route he knew to be quicker.

The apparent extent of London cabbies is undoubtedly impressive, but I'm not sure the benefits outweigh the benefits of the Uber driver not having to spend five years studying the roads.
Yes, those are OS elements. Not so much app widgets...
I far prefer this system to the nyc medallion system. It still underprovisions taxis, essentially a tax on riders, but gives them a better experience.
What are the busiest airports in the world?
With two-factor authentication you are happily providing gmail with your phone number. They say they need this to send you a verification code when you log into your gmail account. Then they say:

"During sign-in, you can tell us not to ask for a code again on that particular computer."

Well, if that's the trick, they don't need your phone nr at all, they can do ip and os check anyways..
I wonder if NYC's cabbie test is anywhere near as rigorous (if, in fact, there is one to speak of), as I can't think of any other taxi-centric city.
The black cab brand probably is enough to justify at least some additional training for higher rates. I'd probably pay a premium over Uber to have a really qualified driver (although safety would be my preference vs. knowing the roads).
Should probably compare the Note 4, but yeah, the iPhone 6 Plus is definitely taller. Note 4 sliiiiiiiightly wider.
grep admin google_5000000.txt -c
1019

sigh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8283992
I've taken cabs in many places and a lot are worse than Uber but one thing I've never had to worry about with the black cabs is the level of service. If I'm going into the buroughs then I chose Uber. But if I'm going into central London then the black cab, hands down.

Until these new cab services get access to bus and restricted lanes there simply is no comparison.
Oh man, there's a Z3 Compact (skipped Z2) and it looks fantastic! Look into it!!
How so? Genuine answer.

I fail to see what this offers that the other products in this space doesn't have. At least hardware-wise.
OK, my address was in there. I've changed my password. But, how do I know if they actually had my correct password? Shit this is scary...
JetBrains has great products. Support could use some improvement but overall I am a happy customer. I use PyCharm on a daily basis and love it. I will certainly keep CLion in mind.
There's a fairly decent little film that follows four (fictional) characters seeking to aquire "The Knowledge".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082624/
Thank you! I was always a bit puzzled why the Sun engineers would not verify against the on disk checksum, but it made some sense that in a server setting ECC can be assumed.

By the way, the above "insane" scenario comes from the freenas forums

http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-r...

and is used to motivate why ZFS should have ECC ram. I am glad to hear that is much less of an issue than it's made out to be.
Amazing is not the adjective I would use. Uber is a terrible experience in London (which is a HARD city to navigate).

I don't live in London. Whenever I hail a cab I have a semblance of where I'm going and not much else. It is a pleasure (and worth the extra) for my driver to know exactly how to get me where I'm going, even when I might not know.

In my experience, Uber drivers require me to know the exact address, including post code. Even with GPS, they often get lost, confused, and take bad routes.
I wouldn't call ARM open. Sure, you might be able to negotiate a license to one of ARM's designs. You need an architectural license to do your own implementation though.
Wow!:
“But they shouldn’t expect to be subsidized by the poor.”

Something is very clear: politicians always want more, and more and more. They never have enough taxes.

"Thanks to stock market booms, economic growth, a soaring real estate market and a major expansion in both private and government pension plans"

I don't know Canada, but here in Europe pensions are shrinking, and stock market is a bubble that will pop when interest types rise, and they will soon(they are unsustainable now).

I am young and the only thing I need is freedom, economic freedom included, let bubbles burst so we could acquire our houses and cars at the right price. They let it only go up, then they try to sustain it artificially injecting public money in banks and making "bad banks"also public.

Politicians and taxes are the problem, not the solution.
No we don't. Uber are free to operate without their drivers passing the knowledge if Uber choses to compete against taxis - pre booked pickups (no hailing from the side of the road) and pre-arranged prices (not using illegal unchecked uncalibrated meters).

If Uber wants to use meters they need to comply with the regulations that come with meters.
It's a beautifully quirky institution with a lot of character, whose intent and principle effect is to prevent people from entering into an honest trade to the advantage of their families and customers.

It is very easy to distinguish between an Uber and a black cab, so if black cabs are systematically better than the combination of Google and a GPS, the market will work it out in a few weeks.
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All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection
Thanks! Checking that list against my gmail contacts, I found six of my friends in there!
Of course. But, seniors also have harder time to settle on new place where they do not know anybody and do not have support network they need (e.g. people willing to help with small and big things when they need it).

If you force them to move elsewhere, they are likely to end up completely isolated and it is much bigger problem for them then for younger person.
True that. I find them creepy as fuck!
You study the roads by driving them everyday. It makes you familiar with traffic patterns, POI, and small details that a GPS simply won't give you, (ie. when primary schools let out avoid this route).

I've met some Uber drivers who are using the service as mileage builders until they are ready to take the tests.
The Knowledge's purpose is not just to know the fastest travel between A and B in ideal conditions (although a 20% improvement in that situation would be nothing to sneeze at), it's to know it in any condition and to be able to find B however it's specified and to be able to explain landmarks to tourists. In fact the original article on the comparison notes at least part of that:

> The Uber leg does not start well. After the app is downloaded, it stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that the Guardian exists. Only with the help of an old-fashioned desktop computer is registration completed and a car booked for a four-mile journey from the Guardian's offices in King's Cross to Big Ben in Westminster.

and the difference in fare between Uber and the black cab was 8%.
I'd probably add Bangkok to that list. Loads and loads of taxis here.
In defense of Halo's Library (2011)
honest question: Is JQuery considered old-shool?!
They hide this behind a checkbox asking you if you want to see info about possible close relatives

They did. According to the editor, they don't anymore: "[Note: 23 and Me has since switched to an opt out system, where users will automatically be enrolled in the close relatives finder program.]"
And adding some others.
The benefits of a registered taxi in London are obviously a lot more significant than getting to Parliament from the station four minutes quicker than Uber. I'm sure you understand this and you're just commenting on the speed of passenger delivery.
Nice! Thanks. A perfect fit for my current project.
I'm not sure exactly what point you're trying to make, but you seem confused about how 2FA works.

The goal of 2FA/MFA is to make you demonstrate that you're in possession of two independent secrets (authentication factors). Once you've shown that, it's considered safe enough to replace the second secret (OTP sent to your phone or generated by your TOTP app like Google Authenticator) with a cookie (the check is not IP-based). Typically the cookie only lasts for 30 or 60 days.

If what you're concerned about is the idea that Google knows your phone number, you can use Google Authenticator or another TOTP app instead.
Trailblazer startups hide nothing
So what? Isn't that why (s)he's using a pseudonymous?
The main difference between dismissing an iPod and an Apple Watch is that, disregarding cost, the latter asks for the fairly significant "lifestyle change" if you don't already wear a watch.
Ok, let me present a simple scenario. Imagine the following:

Initially you're doing well in life. You're making decent money at your tech job and you eventually end up buying a pretty nice house. Things are good for a while, but at some point you get old/sick and are unable to work anymore. You are able to survive on what you have and perhaps have a fairly decent life, but it's not a lot. You like the house where you live and you consider it yours. But for some reason, the price of real estate in your neighborhood skyrockets and the government reevaluates your tax liabilities based on the new valuation of your house.

You used to have a pretty good life, but now you just can't afford the new property tax anymore and are forced to sell the property, move halfway across town and buy some dingy shack that you actually can afford.

Question: is it fair of the government to evict you from the place that you fully own and where you lived for ages, because of someone's rent-seeking behavior and based on certain factors that are completely outside of your control? Are you telling me that you wouldn't feel even a little bit upset in that kind of scenario?

edit: Also, I thought that downvoting is reserved for rude discourse and blatant violations of the HN rules, not if you disagree with someone's opinion. This place is becoming just like Reddit.
I'm not buying the assertion that theses things are too difficult to build in-house. While I would want a lawyer's approval for peace of mind, and the administrative safeguards are actually nontrivial, I'm pretty sure Wikipedia meets the technical safeguards.

The Access Control requirements: Everyone should have an individual user account protected by some kind of authentication, limited to the permissions its user actually needs, and should log off (and/or be automatically logged off) when they're not actively using that account.

Duh? Every multiuser system designed by a remotely competent solo developer does this. Your local Starbucks's POS implements this. So does my small-town public library. And Wikipedia.

Transmission integrity: as far as I know, you have to explicitly go out of your way to not get this for free from TCP. If you're using HTTPS, even better.

Audit controls: Wikipedia seems to nail this one, since Mediawiki is built around versioned storage with nice visualizations of diffs and reporting on changes. Even without considering security, the natural paradigm for a clinical EHR system is read-and-append-only since you are documenting interactions and the past doesn't change. (Sure, mistakes happen, but that's probably worth acknowledging with an explicit correction.) Otherwise, what's so hard about throwing in a logger.log() describing what's happening when a user does something interesting?

I've skipped encryption, but encryption is "addressable" so you don't have to encrypt anything if it would be too difficult. (So long as you document that choice.) Use HTTPs where feasible, like you should be doing anyway? Encryption of database servers doesn't make much sense since they key would be in memory all the time anyway, but maybe pick "encrypted LLVM" when you install the OS? And that's the technical safeguards.

The guide claims that my line of thinking is a trap people fall into, but you don't making a compelling case as to why the technical safeguards are too hard to do yourself or even a burden.

HIPAA isn't talking about static analysis, formal verification, vulnerability research, strong cryptography, hardened kernels, airgaps, side channels, timing attacks, HSMs, 2-factor authentication, etc. It isn't about secure code, nor any of the interesting/"real" security that HN likes to talk about. A HIPAA security audit is a checklist and a very expensive Nessus scan. This isn't Bruce Schneier-level stuff. I'd be surprised if any HIPAA violation was even interesting enough for DEFCON. HIPAA isn't like the FIPS rules. On the technical/software side, it's more like an idiot-check. At least, that was my conclusion after doing a bunch of research for one of my employers.

If I were running a business involving PHI, the thing I'd want most is a lawyer to tell me what I actually need to change based on what the law actually is. It doesn't really seem like help is necessary to implement the technical safeguards.
Hazelcast 3.3 Tops Charts in In-Memory Data Grid, Moves into NoSQL
> The Uber driver did the run from the newspaper's office in King's Cross to Big Ben, in Westminster, in 22 minutes; the cabbie did it in 18, by taking a slightly longer route he knew to be quicker.

A lot of times "disruptive" innovations are initially not as good as what they compete against, but are "good enough" and better in some other way: cheaper, smaller, faster, easier to use, or something like that that lets new people use them.
In the case of smaller organizational systems (projects, companies, possibly even states), yes.

At the largest scale, I find the analysis of Diamond and Tainter comes into play. The capacity to survive smaller crises and overcome them just increases the magnitude of your final failure, though Diamond suggests a few means by which failure may be averted (Tainter seems to find it inevitable).

Ultimately, the resources required to maintain a system prove insufficient.
RESTful API and a Web Site in the Same URL
I went to Iran and loved it
Google does not host a forum dedicated to spreading nude pictures of celebrities. If and when google spreads images like that it is because of automated collection of images, not because of some intent on behalf of a google registered user to harass private individuals.

There is a huge difference there and if Reddit turns out to have liability I wouldn't be too surprised.

In that sense they are no better than camcap forums.
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