skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coinbase stores one private key that we can access, and one private key that is encrypted with the user's vault password on the front-end and sent to us encrypted for storage. The third key is the user's and we never see that.

We have no ability to access multisig vault funds without the user passphrase, which never touches our server.
This will be tossed out at the district magistrate prior to trial due to Fourth Amendment violations. The amendment does exist, and still has quite a bit of force of law in traditional criminal prosecutions.
There are official "Who is hiring/get hired/freelancer?" monthly post the first day of each month. They are popular and you should post there. You need to wait 2 days until Wednesday to post in this month edition. Last editions:

Who is hiring? (October 2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394339 (274 points, 28 days ago, 438 comments)

Who wants to be hired? (October 2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394329 (81 points, 28 days ago, 141 comments)

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394327 (October 2014) (81 points, 28 days ago, 123 comments)
At the same time they use deterministic hierarchical keys. Means that you get series of different keys. I guess you can use only a single key, or number of different ones if you want to.
no personal data or payment card data was beached http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/currentc-hacked.html
Not really, but it's cool anyway :)
Just being pedantic, but the more accurate term is: secure element. The SE has its own OS (JavaCard) and is usually directly wired to the NFC controller (no iOS in-between).

http://globalplatform.org/mediaguideSE.asp
Right now osquery only supports read operations but you're totally right; if you could kick off tasks, kill processes, unload kexts, etc. via CREATE, DELETE, etc statements, that would be so killer!
http://www.cyclingforums.com/t/402918/another-quadriplegic-c...
Your anecdotal evidence appears wrong:

"Worldwide sales of tablets to end users reached 195.4 million units in 2013, a 68 percent increase on 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. While sales of iOS tablets grew in the fourth quarter of 2013, iOS's share declined to 36 percent in 2013. The tablet growth in 2013 was fueled by the low-end smaller screen tablet market, and first time buyers; this led Android to become the No. 1 tablet operating system (OS), with 62 percent of the market (see Table 1)."

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2674215

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apple-ipad-t...
The original wiki had much to say, over its many discussions, about TOP - table-oriented programming.

Today we know via Category Theory that tables are Turing complete and are actually quite synonymous with CT itself.

In other words, thinking of computation in terms of tables with rows and columns and relationships between tables is an interesting and promising (given CT) approach to computing that has been discussed in the past but then left largely unexplored.
However no personal data or payment card data was breached http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/currentc-hacked.html
Of course they didn't. We all knew this flight was unmanned, so it was easy to laugh off such an event. Like other posters have said: 1) A shame for the scientists and engineers who worked many hours to put this together. 2) An unfortunate loss of tens of millions of dollars. BUT 3) We're human and make mistakes, just in the case of aerospace the smallest error is make or break. Aviation wouldn't have made progress to the point we're at now without learning lessons.
Any relationship or inspiration from BeOS's file system?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System

I remember from back in the day that was one of the really cool feature of Be.
Spread the word that coding is fun
Nice clip, but as a tech journo the amount and type of corrections put on (late at night) says "Google plant" all over it.
I don't think there's any point to this. It's going to fail on its own, why give them a place to point fingers?
The flying car: AeroMobil 3
How are the two comparable? Production, distribution, and storage costs are vastly different.

You might as well compare the price with jet fuel, too.
Tell HN: Our startup, CarcodeSMS, has been acquired by Edmunds.com
Ton of questions, I've been working on a small game (+engine) myself and it has been magnitudes more difficult than I imagined.

Do you have any blog posts about the process of making this? I see the technology link, but I'd like to hear a little more about the architecture. Something along the lines of a post mortem maybe.

* What sparked this idea?

* Was your initial set of features more simple or more complex?

* Any features you had to give up on?

* Any unexpected features you were able to add after you were forced to rearchitect it? (Ok, I may be painting my own experiences on you with this question.)

* How long did it take?
If their 3D printers are as reliable as their 2D printers, I may as well burn my cash :-)
They worst part is that they aren't even going to store credit card details because they aren't launching with credit card support. They want to tie into your checking account and do ACH! (This being the big pitch to the retailers, not only can you track across stores but you can forget about credit card fees). This is an instant fail company.
Excel for Beginners November 5, 2014
But that's my whole point -- reddit may once have been comprised of outsiders, but those days are long gone.

It's bigger than Twitter was in 2012. Could you imagine a journalist in 2012 calling Twitter a cult website?
Coinbase Multisig Vault recovery tool (open source)
How come I can't reply to "mod" below? https://i.imgur.com/k75wRiK.png

All Linux distros require a restart for kernel upgrades if you want to use that new kernel version. Or are you saying that Ubuntu actually forces the user to restart after a new kernel is installed?
I wonder if this has anything to do with the effectiveness of the ketogenic diet to treat epilepsy.
I understand what you're saying, but I don't think it's a sufficient reason to throw away data. I've seen hundreds of cases where a GlusterFS user went against our advice and did something that ended up making things worse. Sometimes they even lost data. Of course, they always blame us. I'm pretty sure people who have worked on every single data-storage system ever have had similar experiences. Sometimes the user is just wrong and it's their own fault. Sometimes they're right because we made it far easier for them to make things worse than to make things better. In those cases we have to stop making excuses like "user error" or "RTFM" or "against general practice" or whatever. We need to help the user by not handing them bags of explosives. Which do you think is a better choice here?

* Default to preserving already-replicated data, provide "clean start" as an option.

* Default to throwing away data, maybe-someday implement an option to use data that's already present in the system.

Blaming the user won't prevent another user from making the same mistake with the same result. Saner defaults, and an implementation to support them, will. Who's going to complain that you saved too much of their data?
To be fair it works the other way around--the retailer scans your phone with the QR code on the screen. Like Starbucks' app. It's still clumsy, especially compared to Apple Pay, but you don't have to use your camera for anything.
This is amazing.Installing it right away
A $200Million loss is better than the best of all possible Space Shuttle's outcomes.
This or something similar was on 60 Minutes a few months ago it was Canadian head trader at RBC Brad Katsuyama's work got the attention of Michael Lewis.

When Katsuyama placed large orders only some were filled and the rest later at a high price. Exchanges closer to the stock market got trade data faster and could outbid people.

In the end Katsuyama started his own exchange IEX and purposely delays their trades using loops of thousands of feet of fibre optic cable (shown on 60 Minutes) to hide from the faster traders.

A lot of the big traders even Warren Buffet included dismiss it as sour grapes.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-brad-katsuyama-in-s...
I feel the biggest problem for Perl 6 at least in terms of mindshare is that Perl's spiritual successor already offers most of Perl 6's promises and it's already in production. It's called Ruby.
IIRC it was in 2008 when YC was in a very different position from what it is now.
Keys are created and encrypted in the browser

Key hijack in 5... 4... 3...

Browser crypto isn't secure. One way to offset the risk is to use a browser plugin to perform the crypto operations, and even that isn't really a security guarantee.

When you combine an incentive to break crypto (money) with a straightforward route to breaking it (browser crypto), you get a pretty dangerous situation.
The Space Shuttle which costs between $450 million [1] and $1.5 billion [2] per launch depending on who you ask and still blows up 1.5% of the time.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttl...
[2] http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/re...
Are you missing the reply link underneath comments? Sometimes I'm missing the reply link on messages but that can usually be solved by going to the permalink of the comment and replying from there.

I think most users of HN find comment threading useful.
Is it possible to create the configuration file from the current machine state, or do you have to create the configuration by hand?
They do claim their printers will allow control over electrical properties:
> with control over part and material properties beyond those found in other 3D printing processes, from texture, friction, strength, and elasticity, to electrical and thermal properties, and more

So you should be able to say one part of the board you are printing is electrical and one part is not. That said, none of this is selling now, so it is all just a marketing gimmick.
Except it undermines the power of the press and, in my opinion, the freedom of the press, which is a constitutionally granted right. It creates a situation where people are scared of speaking to the press and can create situations where the press cannot get sources because of the fear of impersonation. So yeah, its good police work, except for that small little thing called the United States Constitution. This is all too often the reasoning that is used to take away our liberty.
I really wish I could see what it does without having to open a demo video.
The Federal Government has even thrown its weight around to protect agents when they're charged at the state level.

When Idaho attempted to indict Lon Horiuchi for shooting Vicki Weaver, the DOJ sent lawyers make sure that their man was shielded.
None of the CC licenses that I know of distinguish between marketing and other forms of use. The CC licenses have a range of restrictions depending on the specific one used. Freesound has a faq at https://www.freesound.org/help/faq/#licenses-0 The actual name of the license pretty much tells you what the restriction is though.
#85 on the Times Higher Education ranking [1].

#164 on the new US News international ranking [2].

Around #400 on the QS rankings [3].

[1] http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...

[2] http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/us-news-global-t...

[3] http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-uni...
Building a startup team
Paying money to someone for doing research isn't insider trading.
The idea that the far side of the accretion disk would form a halo appears to be kind of new, at least in terms of visualization.
Long time Hacker Newser here (and one of the founders of CarcodeSMS). Just wanted to share with HN, as we're really excited. As part of their plans for the product, they're making it free for car dealerships to use, and would like to roll it out to all dealerships nationwide. Please feel free to ask me any questions or anything like that.

EDIT: One of the cool things about this, is that we won their Hackomotive competition back in February this year, and we're the first startup that Edmunds has every acquired, since they were founded in 1966 (and since Edmunds.com was started in 1995).
Why would that matter if it is printing the entire board? It is not like it is printing on the board surface, it is printing the entire thing, so it can make a column of electrically conductive material straight through the entire depth as it lays down the rest of that depth with other materials.
It can be though, and generally is more open than any mobile hardware.

https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/gluglug
I'm late getting back to this but I laugh at your so-called ability to determine my attitude and opinion about anything based on a few sentences you read on a web page. You do not know me, you do not speak for me, and you surely do not have the ability to tell me what I think about any particular subject.

I can easily extend your definition of arms to mean anything and everything, which in the end makes it mean nothing.

I believe you protest too much.
A great product for retailers perhaps (track the hell out of you customers and stop paying fees!), but that's only one side of the coin. T

he other side is who controls all the money and a less fast and less secure way to pay for things so that you have the privilege of being marketed to is not exactly "great product" territory.

There is a decent chance that CurrentC will fail before it ever launches.
Why is everyone having access to all research all at the same time a requirement for a free market?
> Let's say they arrest me, put me in a room and try to interrogate me for a few hours before a lawyer shows up. Even if the only words out of my mouth the entire time are "I would like to speak to a lawyer please", what stops the Police from saying I said something else entirely?

Their conscience about committing perjury. Nothing else.

But it's a bit more nuanced than that, because even if each one of the people in the room (aside from you) are willing to commit perjury, each one has to be convinced that each of the others is also willing to commit perjury.
The unfortunate truth is that the long-term costs to startups of compromised security is low because most people don't really care about it anyway. Target, Home Depot, Adobe, et al aren't seeing a massive loss of revenue due to being compromised.

There's a lot of press about incidents for a day or maybe three, it gets posted to HN and everyone has a <stuffy>very serious and very academic</stuffy> discussion about it, and within a week it's forgotten entirely.

People just don't care. It's nothing more than a temporary nuisance to most people. There aren't any consequences that seriously impacts anyone's life.

In the real world, startups are probably correct to focus first on new features and then patch security later. In an ideal world, that would be a mistake that would kill them.
Is it becoming more common to see these type of attacks directly after patches are released?
??! There are pictures. I came here first, saw your comment, then looked at the site and had not trouble understanding the product or principle of operation just by looking at it.

Obviously that's no help to blond people who would prefer text, but in fairness they're highly unlikely to use such a product anyway.
Welcome to 2014 where cross-platform means "Ubuntu, CentOS and Mac OS X".
HFT / algo-trading firms are NOT generally trying to make a buck on market momentum. They're generally trying to make a buck by market making. They're buck (or penny really) comes from the bid/ask spread.
Getting there. DNF took 15 years. Perl 6 will surpass that if we don't get a real release in 2015.

But the real champions for delayed development are LaTeX 3 at something like 20 years & counting, and the GNU Hurd at 24 years & counting.
Six Murderous Beliefs (1955)
It's far from black and white when it comes to feedback, once you're at the point where an investor is spending real time with you they're much more likely to give you feedback if they think you're able to react to that feedback effectively.

For example if they think you need to prove out certain assumptions then they'll tell you those assumptions, because it's in their interest. If they think you personally as a founder are uninvestable then they're unlikely to tell you that because there's no advantage in that for anyone.
Ask HN: Does Verizon use my GPS position to verify credit card purchases?
For some time now, the official Android Google+ app has conflicted with a Verizon service "vzwavsservice", causing it to crash on startup. The current workaround is to uninstall or revert Google+ to its factory version. For me personally, this happened with both my old Samsung Galaxy S3 and my new LG G3 (but Googling around it seems to happen to all Verizon branded Android phones, Galaxy S5, etc).

I was curious what function "vzwavsservice" actually performed, and after searching I found the following copy-pasted on several sites:

"VZWAVSSERVICE is the Verizon Address Verification System Service. Banks use the AVS Service to verify your address when you make a purchase with your credit or debit card. An AVS authentication failure can result in a credit card sale being denied, and the sale and associated funds put on hold until the bank is able to verify that the person attempting to make the purchase is in fact the card holder (by matching the address entered to the billing address the bank has on file)"

This was news to me. Can anyone confirm that this is accurate? I'm curious if T-Mobile and AT&T do this as well.
I'd be really bummed to see Minerva changing their vision and trying to be more exclusive than inclusive.

The market value of an elite education is the very fact that it's exclusive. That's why the connections are so valuable and the seal-of-approval means so much on the job market. And that payoff is what justifies the quarter-million-dollar (actually, closer to $140-180k) price tag.

This is not a comment in favor of, or against, Minerva. However, the truth is that our society doesn't really value critical thinking, education or culture. It values money and power and social access. That's why colleges can charge such high tuitions, it's why "disrupting" the current model is impossible, and it's why the quality of education you get, even if you go to Harvard, is good only if you're already self-motivated when you enter the place. (You can learn a lot at an elite school, but no one forces you to do so. That's equally true of non-elite schools.) I think ed-tech is doomed to underperform because most of these companies don't understand what's actually behind the problem. It's deep and sociological, and (to use someone else's phrase) the problem has its act together.
Every time you make popcorn, you are listening to the normal distribution
another thing: all the add-on links redirect to the same DNS add-on
Coin – One Card to Rule Them All
Unity 8 search lense does not include Amazon results by default
I didn't know it had grown that large. How much bigger has twitter gotten in the last two years?

I agree that in the context of journalism it's a loaded term that's probably not fair.

The outsider status is about more than the user count though. They maintain that status with all the weird stuff they get up to.
I meant that Reddit handles the manufacturing, so there's less risk than with Kickstarter, where the creator also does manufacturing. It's like more like Teespring or Quirky than like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo

From https://redditmade.com/create :

> If enough people pledge to buy your product by then, we’ll start making it!

From https://redditmade.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202364265-W... :

> Most importantly, you'll also need to be willing to work with us. We'll connect you with sourcing partners, work with you to finalize designs, and help you step through all the other creative, legal, logistical, promotional, and financial hoops to make your campaign happen, but we can only help you as much as you'll let us.
Ok, but the sad looking Tux suggests otherwise.

On a side note. Linux users should be happy that Windows is using a package manager. It creates more opportunities to get Open Source software into Windows.

"Install-Package GNU", to name as an example.
This is pretty neat. I'm a big fan of SQL in general and being able to query system stats like this feels pretty natural to me.

A long time back I created something similar to this atop Oracle[1]. It used a Java function calling out to system functions to get similar data sets (I/O usage, memory usage, etc). It was definitely a hack, but a really pleasant one to use.

Be cool to see an foreign data wrapper for PostgreSQL[2] that exposes similar functionality. I'm guessing it'd be pretty easy to put together as you'd only need to expose the data sets themselves as set returning functions. PostgreSQL would handle the rest. Though I guess that would limit it's usefulness to servers that have PG already installed. Having it be separate like this let's you drop it on any server (looks like it's cross platform too!).

[1]: I don't remember exactly when but I think 10g had just been released.

[2]: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/postgres-fdw.html
If ads eliminate people's ability to make choices, then that argument would certainly be correct. But you described that as "extreme BS".

So I don't really understand the intermediate step. Corporations advertise. Then people choose to consume. People could choose differently if they wanted.
Food combining health app for mobile
I've been very ill for two years and noone told me about food combining, not even my dcotors and specialists and honestly I am outraged. I have seen a ton of documentaries and read about Weston Price, a dentist who traveled the world to examine why natives are so healthy, have beautiful teeth, without any cavities.
There are some apps out there but all that I could find grossly lacking. Why isn't there an app which would suggest an optimal meal based on the goals I want to achieve and what I'd like to eat. Counting all nutrients, calculating optimal digestion and time. Guiding me all day? Cronometer is not enough and it sucks.
easier in Postgresql, with its foreign data wrapper capability.
There was a paper at EuroSys this year "Relational access to Unix kernel data structures" which seems to attempt to offer similar functionality. A comparison between the two would be interesting.

HTML version of the paper here: http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2014-EuroSys-PicoQL-ke... Paywalled version: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2592802
That's an awesome idea.
How AI happens: the fitness function is the *economy itself*
software: depends on the team, device: most of them use stats http://www.stats.com/sportvu/sportvu.asp to track games and various wearable technology (which is not allowed in games ) on training. They are not as far behind as media portrait them, all these tracking devices (sleep. HR, GPS..) have been around for a long time. You wouldn't believe the stuff they tried, there are some snakeoils salesman but they usually end up pretty badly.

Also for software there is a lot of variance, I feel that they prefer people that know personally or have previous experience. There are a few people making the decision to adopt a platform for a team to track all the data floating around, usually few high managers of physio, that's your audience. Usually it's highly customized and there is a lot of support as the user (coach, physio stuff, athlete...) is not a tech person
do you mean just like the CLR?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Runtime