skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an insecure approach. Dictionary style attacks now can account for phrases from vast libraries of literature, pop culture, or anything else you're likely to remember.
Um, so what happened?
Then the wing top shape would have little effect.
There's a similar issue if you joined a site long, long ago but didn't get active until recently (which is reddit for me.) One dot, then years of blank space.
NASA video shows Oct 19th comet near miss with Mars
It is his. This is what happens in an ethereal format like the internet, and it's something we'll have to adapt to -- in the history of mass publication, one wasn't able to just destroy all copies of a thing with the push of a button. Books and pamphlets could be hunted down, but almost always some would survive, because you can't remotely change the contents of the paper. In the digital age, you can. If there's a lesson to take from this, it's the dangers of the non-permanence of the web; we should be looking at solutions that can mitigate that danger. But I don't blame Everett at all for not just giving away his company's IP for $15k in bandwidth bills, and I don't believe he should be shamed into doing so.

If I were him, I'd probably be contacting Sotheby's or another auctioneer that specializes in high-value goods and seeing about selling off the dataset to the highest bidder. Then these fellows can put their money where their mouth is and show us just how important the preservation of that data is.
What about consumers that pay cash and aren't contributing to the fees?

Probably noise into the system. Also likely, unless you can take advantage of these fees across millions of people (which, by definition an individual cannot), it probably isn't something you can account for.

Consider, the number of stores that can refuse credit cards in an effort to save these fees for themselves is effectively nil. That is, it is worth it to most stores to pay the fees on the transactions that have them and not discount those that do not, versus force all transactions to not have them.
It's indeed very helpful. Predictions should be independent for wisdom of the crowd to actually work. But we did introduce this dependency by revealing crowd predictions after yours as a tradeoff. We want to give feedback on how our users are doing, so that they're incentivized to continue making predictions.

Sometimes what you see as crowd prediction could be just a couple predictions. As new predictions come in, we adjust individual scores. We are planning to hide scores until a healthy number of predictions are made on that profile. That should help a bit on the dependency issue. We are open to suggestions as well. Thanks for the feedback.
Might lead to need inflation and huge fertility.
And of course his investments might take off too. Coinbase etc.
Are there any awesome shows like this coming up in Los Angeles?
I am from the state of Michoacan, Mex. There is this dish done with the pig´s blood and intestine, it might not look like the most appetitizing dish but it´s pretty good. Its called "Soricua" by the way. We might be speaking about the same dish.
It appears that you also need to uncheck "Include Spotlight Suggestions" in Safari. It's in Safari/Preferences/Search and located in "Smart Field Search."
Here's the text editor they're talking about: http://www.kparc.com/edit.k

The code is, well, not the easiest to understand.
Matchstick – (Play Any Content on TV) Raises More Than $380K
While I think the Federal Government funding this is a bad idea, I personally would be interested to see the results and conclusions from the effort. When I think of alternative funding sources - the private sector, my first two thoughts are 1) How would this go over if Rupert Murdoch had funded the research?, and 2) Facebook's emotion study...
"They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work" [1]

Charles Bukowski's letter "People simply empty out"

[1] http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/people-simply-empty-out...
Nassim Taleb: Here's What People Don't Understand About Ebola
Agreed. And the rewards aren't paid for with the fees charged to the customer; they're paid for with sweetheart deals between the payment processor and reward provider. There's nothing wrong with this even - it's biz dev 101.

As an example: Mastercard (let's say) offers American Airlines cobranding, marketing (in the form of newsletters and emails pushing me to use miles whenever i pay my bill) and service perks (read: lower transaction processing fees) in exchange for frequent flyer points (note - not even dollars, a point is some fraction of a dollar in terms of flight purchasing power) for tickets on flights that would otherwise probably have a seat empty. Nice seats on full flights cost more points, of course. I get these points if I use my card often enough.

I'm fine with this arrangement - both parties are gaining here, and maybe I as a customer get a nice perk occasionally when I finally have enough incidental points saved up to go on a flight - but none of us is under the impression that there's some one to one relationship between fees charged and amount of money paid for redeemable rewards, and I expect that in volume both parties are actually making money off of this arrangement, not sacrificing revenues.

There's also a feedback loop at work here - Mastercard pushes points for American Airlines, more people use American Airlines, more of them end up using the same airline regardless of points due to familiarity and customer stickiness, so Mastercard gets more AA transactions and more fees overall - even though they've dropped the per-transaction fee rate, the increased volume makes up for it...
A question is how much entropy a string like this has? Say you have 10 million English songs, if you always start a password with the first letter from a song, and choose the password to have between 20-30 letters, you only have about 26 bits of entropy in the password, which is trivial to brute force. You can increase the entropy by starting from a different word, or inserting random characters, but the entropy will never be close to the entropy of a random string of the same length.
Kickstarter pulls Anonabox, a Tor-enabled router that raised over $585,000
Maybe it's just my ignorance showing, but it seems to me that the complexity is inherent in the languages themselves.
A lower-cost, lower-benefit option? Great idea.

Except it already exists. It's called debit cards. 0.05% + 21 cents. Still has some consumer protections (it can do chargebacks), just not the overhead of rewards. Accepted everywhere.

Just take the word "cryptocurrency" out of whatever you're proposing and you'll see that it's just adding techno-sheen onto what will inevitably be just another centrally-mediated payment network.
This is an incredibly biased op-ed piece by a member of the FCC. I personally think that this research is fascinating and will lead to mathematical insight on how political memes and outcomes are influenced by social media astroturfing.

Edit: I read the abstract, conclusion, and a few figures from the linked paper. Nothing about it seems nefariously political. The author doesn't seem to grok science.
That's taking a dim view of the man's prolificacy, or maybe I'm not understanding what "write-only visionary" means.
Nassim Taleb – Ebola, Including Model Error
That's an understatement. If we are allowed code like this, I can write an editor in ONE line of JavaScript. :)
I agree in general with your sentiment however I am not sure I agree with the details.

First of all credit cards are primarily a US phenomena for a number of reasons, one of the biggest being credit score.

In most of Europe your credit score is defined negatively and not like in the US positively. I.e. you don't have to prove yourself to be credit worthy by paying back debt "they" trust you from the beginning and you can then kill that trust.

In the US you often have to get into this weird setup where you have to build debt to show you are good with money which to someone like me is an absurd logic but non the less it's the logic we have here in the US.

Second. Europe isn't really that advanced in the whole point system. Besides airline miles and perhaps the UK system I am not aware of any broad acceptance of points/coupon systems until recently.

Third of all. The 3% isn't really important when it comes to normal transactions.

Where it matters is in the ability for Bitcoin to 1) be a truly global wire transferable currency (there currently aren't such a thing) and 2) the ability to do micropayment which BTC will allow for

Lastly although the protocol doesn't allow for the puritan version that some of the biggest dreamers hope for, using the protocol as an open payment gateway will be a quantum leap compared to the proprietary systems we have today.

The reason why you need to build in risk with the current system is because you only need to get in one place to compromise it all.

Thats not the same with bitcoin and the very fact that it's build around NOT trusting IMO makes it very different and will be the reason why it could be winning in the long run. But yeah it might take a long long time to get there.

But I do welcome your more balanced view on the matter.
Would you be willing to share the program or source? That sounds like an interesting project.
This is a new take on fees that I hadn't heard before. Your accounting leaves 1-2% left to make up for fraud, which you don't mention (you mention chargebacks and consumer protection, but give no accounting of these costs in the fee structure), and was the main reason given for the fees in all descriptions I'd previously read. I haven't read that deeply on the topic so perhaps you're right.

I would like to point out that the "specific niches" you mention but leave unspecified are far more important, and frankly, dangerous than cheap transactions.

In fact I know of only one "niche" that Bitcoin serves well at all, which is that it provides absolute control over wealth in a way that gold cannot, in addition to providing far superior fungibility.
Googled around, Kuro5hin (that's a name I haven't seen for some time) has a tutorial for K from 2002: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/11/14/22741/791

The download link at http://www.kparc.com/ asks for password, so I'm not sure whats going on with that.
apologists who contemplated a career as priest (patio11)

Literally accurate.
> Why not just not have the fees and let prices be lower so that consumers have more cash?

Exactly what they did in Australia. Except guess what? Didn't result in lower prices. Merchants kept that margin for themselves.

Ahh, macroeconomics.
> According to police, Salahadyn went to one of his concerts, noting, among other details, that he was the only African-American there.

And he was there to steal an instrument...
As we've been growing our SaaS service, Cronitor, i've been humbled by the effectiveness of simply written plain-text emails. A year ago I'd have said text emails were for luddites; now I'm an evangelist. That said, this looks like a very well done product and the HTML newsletter-style email isn't going anywhere. Congrats on shipping!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8461206
> Not in the middle of a rant, or while you are professing your love for someone.

It's possible to detect mode of speech even without visual cues. Factors such as pitch dynamics, speed of talk, etc. can be accounted for. Software can be trained to be even more sensitive to these signals than we are.

Of course, the problem is that this varies somewhat among different people. Therefore, part of AI training would need to happen with actual customer after purchase. There're a lot of unknowns in this process from manufacturer's point of view, so I can understand why it's not happening yet.

Once a “special” mode of speech is detected, though, it's simple to avoid canned “Please rephrase” response in case of unclear voice input. Instead the software would change its own mode of speech appropriately, and then evade the direct reply—humans do this all the time in real-life communication.
What I like about this article is that it points out that human capital is a marketplace. No matter what you perceive your value or worth to be, your worth in the marketplace is only what you can get someone else to compensate you for.

If you feel there is a discrepancy between what you are currently being compensated and what you are worth then it is your job get fair value for your skills. Either you prove your worth to your current employer or you find someone in the marketplace that is willing to pay the price you have set for your skills.
It's possible for it to download compressed data and 323 used uncompressed textures/meshes/sounds/etc.
"Startups that get big have more than one founder."

What? At best it's correlation, not causality, but besides the point... coercive already has a successful business operating for several years. How on earth someone coming in to his existing/operational/profitable business years after its inception could or should be considered a "founder" is such an abuse of the word as to be nonsensical.
Here is the four line version: http://www.kparc.com/$/edit.k (lines beginning with / are comments)
I wish the article knew the difference between a hologram and a projection.
> Maciej Ceglowski, you either can't tolerate the thing (Maciej)

What critical things did he say about YC?
I think he does a better job than uglifyjs can
JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface
Fees have to go entirely. That won't help bring down the cost of any given item by 3%. It will make new micropayments possible. This, in turn can lead to sustainable businesses. For example, WhatsApp costs 99 cents a year (first year free). Currently they lose about 30% of that to fees (because of the base load of 21 cents). As a result, there currently is a fundamental minimum for a monthly service at 40 cents. Without fees, you can push that down near 1 cent.

Without fees it would be possible to have a service provide 25 cents worth of value and only be billed per month. Apps that had to use ads before or that had to hope to get bought by bigger companies, could make a reasonable about of money per month. This would lead to permanent jobs.

In the end, assuming your argument that fees == consumer deals, I submit the total value created by a micropayment service will lead to a better life for the average consumer. Therefore, they should drop fees.
Show HN: Extensions and Utilities for transducers-js or transducers.js
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> “It is a lot easier to find your errors in four lines of code than in four hundred.”

Looking at his code on http://www.kparc.com/edit.k I'd like to disagree with that statement
I would try to launch the first version of the product on your free time and take it from there. Take a week of holiday to work full time on it, maybe on a quiet week at work with a holiday on on the middle of the week.

With one week full time, you will probably give it a huge boost. This is the least risk path.

If your employer is open to unpaid leave, take one month without pay. That goes in a flash at work and its easier to sell to management.

With one month of solid work full time on it, you would give it even a further boost, then take it from there depending on the reaction.

You mention you are a junior developer. You should likely try to become a freelance with your own company as soon as possible, that would give some funds, equipment and a company. I don't know if that is feasible in your local market or somewhere near.
But can companies in Australia charge 25 cents a month for a service?
Is it possible to believe in the blockchain, but be on-the-fence about bitcoin? I realize they're presently pretty tightly linked, but I see the blockchain technology as the new concept holding tremendous promise.
I mean the wikipedia article on Credit Card Fraud clearly states the average loss is just 0.07%. [1]

I don't know what you've been reading.. perhaps it's an indication of just how off the descriptions have been in these parts?

Chargeback costs are borne by the merchant, by the way, so they don't really impact the fee. I mention them because they require a central, trusted intermediary to enforce them, meaning that it's not just a "detail" for bitcoin to implement later.. If you want to enforce consumer protections, it changes the whole system back into just another "Discover card"-like new network.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud

EDIT: I guess the exact figure's disputed but even at 1% there's plenty of margin for reward programs.
Wow, people really need to get off their high horse about the National Science Foundation. Yes, it is a federal agency tasked with funding basic research. No, it is not a tool for the government to invade the lives of citizens. It's easy to make headlines dismissing research by trivializing it. "The government" is just not involved in some secretive anti free speech project here, and it's simply disingenuous to make it out that way.

No matter what strange research project Republicans find offends their delicate sensibilities, it is absolutely essential that we continue to fund basic research, particularly in fields like economics, math and computer science, where the NSF is the one of the only reliable sources of funding.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824793
When InfoSec is not enough
Glad there are other language nerds on HN.

The o/a thing is not totally intuitive to my foreign ears but I'm willing to forgive it as a phonetic feature of the language and less to do with spelling. (I'm reminded of how older people in my [American] family used to say words like "potato", or certain northeastern US pronunciations of words like "Florida" - I guess I have little trouble seeing how o/a can be a flexible concept for some.) Similarly I'm sometimes not sure when "e" becomes "je", but after listening to people speak I think I get something of an intuition...
The article ends a lot more abruptly than I was expecting. It says what the failure points were, and then it completely stops.

By what I've come across, I think this site has the best in-depth analysis of the rise and fall of the Springfield empire, of the type that I was expecting from that article:

http://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/zs1/
HiddenMenu – Lost in a French Restaurant?
If I posted four lines of Chinese or Sanskrit, it's likely that native English speakers would disagree that they had much meaning either. However, this doesn't mean that those lines are inherently devoid of meaning or difficult to parse.
New versions of Tor being developed by DARPA
You're talking about micropayments. That's cool. That's a niche where bitcoin could be useful. There are transactions that wouldn't be viable with cards today, so no conflict exists.
Maybe add few popular domain name checks like (com, net..)
How to Live a Creative Life That Matters
Somebody post that one as a story!
> Evading taxes that pay for city services?

Well that does not actually answer my question. What services? Water, electricity and basic services like that are paid for and not more expensive for temporary residents. Police maybe? Do temporary residents require more police involvement? You are implying you have an answer to my question and maybe you do. I would like to hear it.

> Raising the cost of housing stock

No, this is not a cost imposed on others, because that is not what imposed means. If you want to buy housing you are free to do that and so are others. If you want to prevent other from competing with you, that is asking them to subsidize you.
I think the first line imports view.k: http://www.kparc.com/$/view.k
Single page:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/more-langu...
Show HN: Teleport – Lightweight JSON types
Would certainly be nice to avoid tons of different href_sha256, href_sha512, href_sha3-512 etc. attributes.

But the browser supporting identifying files via hashes is vastly different from it fetching files via BitTorrent.

I think it makes more sense to pursue each separately. Even though magnet URI support will deprecate any existing implementation of hash support.
> And the rewards aren't paid for with the fees charged to the customer;

the interchange fees for Visa and Mastercard have a surcharge for rewards cards.

It is definitely not the case that the rewards for your card are free (to the merchant/consumer).
I think the point several people have made about wanting a 'normal' life is important. The relentless advertising of an unachievable life that American, and other countries', media saturates peoples lives with must be a factor. I am reasonably well off and have no money worries, live in a country where differences between rich and poor are small. I could easily afford to buy a USD 1500 sofa, I could even without any impact on my life pay the over USD 4k that the woman in the article will actually pay. But in fact I have never done either, the leather sofa I have cost me the equivalent of USD 100, in fact it cost me another USD 50 to have it delivered. The point is that the sofa does not make me feel that I am poor so I feel pressured to spend more money on it. In addition it's simply expensive to be poor as several people have pointed out, see Vimes Boots on http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Samuel_Vimes
Does anyone know what the rest of the article covers?
FICO score forces you to take on debt to show you are good with money. The US is debt ridden to the extreme.

Make of that what you want.
OpenSnap: A Snapchat clone in Dart
Code: https://github.com/sdeleuze/opensnap-polymer
So You Think You Can Be a Hair Braider? (2012)
If someone thinks hacker news is a cesspit of comments on the internet, then I can only imagine that someone hasn't really spent any time on the internet. It's not always sunshine and happiness here, but HN is definitely among the top sites in terms of comment quality, especially considering the broad variety of topics covered here. You really only end up with better quality comments by going to sites that only cater to special interest communities.
You probably need some kind of currency with value to compensate the miners, but sure, there's all sorts of technological development going on. I'm partial to Ethereum myself.
I had a discussion with him around inherrent value in currency btc, fiat etc and I was actually quite surprised at how unreflected his view seemed to be.

But I would still consider him a smart guy just not a clairvoyant.
But the suggestion is to carry out a simple hash on the input phrase — one could use the second or third letter, for instance. (Or the first, second, third, first, second, third…)

How could a dictionary-style attack predict all possible such arrangments?
A categorised list of network jokes
Both issues could be solved in a number of ways. Im undecided yet, what would be the best. Need to sleep over this.
I think a better alternative is to use python mode for vim and get all the static analysis checks as you're coding. I tend to do half my development using an IDE (java/scala), but I don't really miss any of those features using this great plugin and vim.
How Palmer Luckey Created Oculus Rift
Personally, I have been mentioning the idea of an admission of wrongdoing with an apology letter in the employee poaching scandal for a while now. I think the SEC is pushing admission of wrongdoing in settlements.