skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say that it's "hot". It's recently become more popular since Google started forcing it on Android 4.4+ users as the only SMS option on their phones. Personally, I wouldn't use it at all if not for easy group communication with my Ingress mates (most Ingress communities use Hangouts, Slack, or both; ours uses both but mostly Hangouts).

I just felt that it was a glaring omission, especially considering its more popular and more reliable precursor, Google Talk.
I always assumed Google's use of reCAPTCHA was to augment the OCR used to digitize Google Books, particularly in results the software couldn't confidently match to a word. Is this true? It's interesting that it's still the fallback for the new method.
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The article stated the total cost for the goods and shipping to Australia was $8000 and that they needed to sell 500-600 items to be profitable.

$8000 / 600 = $13.33 profit per item

At the end of the article they stated that they sold about 2700, which would be a profit of

2700 * $13.33 - $8000 = $28000
I have yet to go wrong taking advice from Philip Greenspun. The whole idea that YC has been espousing recently about domain-specific knowledge often being more valuable than pure technical ability, which was brought up in the context of the female founder interviews, is something that Philip has been talking about for 10+ years.
Much ado about tax collecting. Less ado about how, and on what, big governments spend the tax money.
> The experiment looks flawed. It seems that ALL (or almost all) resumes are, at least, OK.

That is the point. The experiment was to determine who various people would call for an interview, not hire. Nearly every resume was worth a phone screen, yet on average half of them were rejected for that stage.
Interesting. Judging from this LinkedIn page [1], Wire Swiss GmbH has been around since at least March 2014, and has between 50-200 employees [2]. My guess: they renamed Zeta Project to Wire, but didn't want to wait with the announcement until it's updated in the registry?

Still not sure what's up with the two governing laws.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pub/pierrine-auberson/5a/70a/537
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/company/4836762
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This comment started out sympathetic, veered into an energetic deployment of anecdata, and ended up in a very creepy place.

I'm not sure where I land on the H1B question; it's hard to see how there can simultaneously be a labor shortage and that immigration is going to be helpful to tech workers already here.

But if you want to help make the case against them, probably leave out the appeals to "ethnic ghettos".
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Do you happen to browse incognito or with 3rd-party cookies blocked?

Looks like the new version needs an active and valid google cookie in order to tell if you're a robot or not.
It is not. I kept the length and style the same to give a better example, but replaced most of the characters with 0s and Zs.
Mouse movement is not the only factor Google is using.
Hate to be that guy, but in About Us you have a minor typo;
"Having one of your online accounts hacked and loosing all your.."
should read;
"Having one of your online accounts hacked and losing all your.."
Any guesses if this is related to the Silk Road coins the feds auctioned off not too long ago? Or the even more recent second auction?
I hope that the recipient intends to use those funds on the darknet or overstock.com, otherwise the fees for converting even a fraction of that sum into usable money will greatly exceed $0.04.
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hello - www.somewhere.com - it's all about the people.

disclaimer, I'm a founder there.
The implication is that Bitcoin isn't "real" money.

Never mind that money is a social construct and is useful whenever two parties agree on a common value.
Do they even need the checkbox anymore? They could track mouse movement, keypresses, history or whatever else they are tracking without showing any kind of GUI at all.
That was the original goal of the project.

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

"By presenting two words it both protects websites from bots attempting to access restricted areas[2] and helps digitize the text of books."

For some time, you could pass a reCAPTCHA test by just entering the more distorted word correctly.
The devil is in the details but the principle of taxing money where it is made is sound.

Taxing revenue instead of profits could be a solution for example by shifting all the tax to the VAT (and then having a single VAT rate in the EU). Then Apple and Google would start paying back on the property rights, patent rights, copyrights, trademark rights, infrastructure, rule of law and well educated consumers they enjoy in Europe.
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So now spammers will use botnets… Oh wait, they already do.

They already have the botnets. Now they need to use those end-user machines as proxies, using the credentials already on the machine. They just need to figure out the other parameters: maybe it's running js code ? Then you can use a browser engine/selenium). Maybe it's the click pattern ? Just generate the json data and send it. They can even apply the same machine learning techniques to figure out the best way to circumvent the captchas.

And the escalation continues.
At least it hasn't taken the Tories nearly a whole term to begin to address this issue...

Got to say I agree with this http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4285739.e... (paywall).

Summary: Hodge wants to make it a criminal offence to sell or promote illegal tax avoidance schemes in the first place. So if HMRC challenge a scheme and it's found illegal, the lawyers/accountants who developed it can be criminally prosecuted as well as those who used it.
The spammers thought the same when Bayesian spam filtering started working: "I'll just program a Markov chain to insert some none-spammy words". It did not work out quite so well.

I've also been thinking on how to defeat this, but even the mouse movement seems hard. You are trying to beat the big data statistics that Google has on these mouse movements. Programming a distorted mouse path does not take into account micro-movements (compare with saccades) or speed. To simulate mouse movements convincingly, I figure you'd need a model based on actual mouse movement data on these Captcha's. Also, you may succeed once or twice, but the third time the system is detecting your bot, making all your work void, since your code is now a new signature for bot-detection.

Bots want to quickly leave a message and move on to the next one. Real users first read an article, before they comment. If "Time on site before filling in Captcha" is a feature, then there may be no other way around detection, than for your bot to wait 5-10 minutes before filling in the Captcha.

I think this new system really makes it easier for non-bots to quickly fill in a captcha, and makes it harder for bots. Also because reputation (of IP, of cookies and behavior on Google domains) now seems to play a larger role.

The result of this reputation system for Captcha's is that Google admits to tracking their users outside their own domains. This also places the entire Google+ eco-system, analytics code, Chrome, fonts, charts and Google Hosted Libraries in a different light. Google tracks you everywhere, and the actions you take build or break your online reputation. I am not sure as a legit user that I want to trade this privacy concern, just so I can show my "humanity" and that I am not an evil bot. An evil bot would crawl the pages where these captchas are hosted, and join this data with the captcha user data. Then you can get personalized advertisements when you comment on 4chan in political threads.
Low taxes? I almost fell off my chair. With all of the rules, regulations, not to mention v.a
T. A 25% additional because we can tax doesn't seem very low or fair.

If my company was having these taxes imposed on me, I would move all of my offices and companies out of the U.K. within the next couple of years. I will be interested to see what happens to the economy after these changed.
How do you track mouse movement on a tablet?
Might be cool for some technical discussion forms between other security-conscious, although as far as practical value goes, I'd probably have about as much luck getting my friends to use it as using PGP...
Got recaptcha'd, probably because of Ghostery.
Ask HN: What are some successful one-man tech companies?
In 2012 there were almost 30k "non-employer" businesses making more than $1MM / yr in revenue (see below). Some, if not many, of these must be in tech.

What are some of the most successful one-man tech companies you know?

* 26,744 had sales between $1 million and $2.49 million

* 1,723 had sales between $2.5 million and $4.99 million

*368 had sales of $5 million or more.
No, because he wouldn't really be running NASA the way he runs SpaceX. Government organizations are subject to a host of political influences that that don't affect the private sector. I used to work for the Library of Congress where the Librarian of Congress at the time was a political appointee who spent less time managing the collections and more time updating the carpets.

NASA has worse problems because members of Congress see is as a tool for funneling pork spending. Any director of NASA would have to spend time playing politics with Congress in order to keep his funding and that would undermine any coherent vision that he brought to the enterprise. If buying rocket engines from Louisiana would save NASA billions in the long run, but funding depends on buying them from Alabama, Alabama it is. High-level government bureaucrats must be career fundraisers first and visionaries/competent managers second.

As the sole owner of his own launch company, Musk as a degree of freedom that he could never get as a member of the government bureaucracy and it's that freedom that allows him to run SpaceX as well as he does. In lesser hands that freedom would be a noose, but at least in that case the cost of failure to the public would be very little.
It lost me at this point:

Type the following into an emacs buffer, and then type C-c C-l (use \_1 to type the subscript symbol ₁):

proof₁ : suc (suc (suc (suc zero))) even
proof₁ = ?

On my newly created emacs setup from the earlier instructions, it's not clear what "type into an emacs buffer" means. Do I create a new file with C-x C-f? Create a new buffer with C-x b? I tried both, and promptly lost agda-mode.

I then tried restarting emacs and opening a new .agda file so I get agda mode. Loaded the earlier module and then tried loading this, and it didn't seem to know about suc in the context of this buffer/file. So now I'm lost.
Well if you ever run for political office it's going to save them a boatload on campaign contributions.
Here you go: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo
This also gives us concrete data on what makes a good CV, provided anyone has access to the ratings and can also come up with a good classification metric to extract attributes.
I think the law is specifically for cars, hence "AutoPact".
I've seen many negative consequences from poor software engineers being brought into companies first hand.

I saw a junior engineer try to add a patchwork of libraries just because he was not confident in his ability to do something correctly, leading to a lot of maintenance overhead that grew very quickly.

Many of the previous frontend engineers got fired from my current company because they did not produce at all - a direct result is a polluted codebase that needs to be scrapped asap because it has led directly to poor perception of product. It also is extremely difficult to iterate upon.

One company I was at had some very terrible legacy code from full stack engineers. The person who wrote the code was fired as well, but not before leaving damage that persisted for years - some triply JSON.stringified JS object, along with some other extra parentheses, was stored right into the database as a string! This meant every time the data had to be fetched, it had to be parsed by the server to fill certain other data, but the core answer object was still sent as it was due to the difficulty associated with sending a parsed form (the backend was Java), which meant that the frontend also had to parse it! Thankfully we were able to silo the damage to an easy to adapt modular service, but it was the cause of much sadness, especially when it was a core piece of data for our product.
As drily as I can, given the rules of Show HN, but it's not end-to-end if the crypto is delivered over browser Javascript. Every time a user's browser touches your server for any reason, the server has the option to fatally compromise security. End-to-end means you don't have to trust the server; that's real privacy.

So, given that this is a proof-of-concept, my advice is to back off on the web app part of this, and develop an installable client.
That was the original idea behind reCAPTCHA (which originated outside of Google, acquired in 2009), but my understanding is that they long ago ran out of actual text that needed human OCR'ing, and/or found other reasons that approach no longer was helpful.

The "help OCR while also spam protecting" thing isn't currently mentioned on Google's recaptcha product page.
Not really; the techniques are still relevant in Perl 6 (which you can try out today, no need for waiting), even though the syntax changed slightly.

In fact they are pretty much relevant in all dynamic programming languages that have a convenient closure mechanism/syntax. There's also a "Higher Order Javascript" page somewhere, which translates the Perl examples to javascript. (EDIT: link: http://interglacial.com/hoj/hoj.html)
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The upside here is that perceptional encoders could do a really super job of compressing such material... :)
Did you just split all engineering jobs in front-end and back-end? I'm afraid I never did a lot of neither, and I have no place to put my experience in there.
I preferred Google Talk as well, especially since it was built upon an open platform and was easily implemented on unsupported OSes (Windows Phone via IM+ for example). Personally I haven't seen the out-of-order issue in one on one conversations, but it's prevalent in the group chats I'm in. When it happens to my messages, it's almost always when I'm being handed off between towers on the go; it hasn't happened to me on WLAN yet. Since there are no message size limitations like SMS has, I rarely send multi part messages anyway.
I'd love to replace my company Skype with a client/service that has an API, that I can script bots for, and has great support for both mobile and desktop.
This is great. I think the downside, though, is the $0.04 transaction that incurs a $0.04 transaction fee.

For instance, there's this transaction for .02 BTC that incurred a $0.19 fee.
https://blockchain.info/tx/a2933a1dc53361a7770c2a9d998c1fe30...

I'm not sure why this tiny transaction cost so much more than the huge one, but being able to support 0.00045 BTC transactions at reasonable cost is the challenge.

This isn't just a fee challenge, but a blockchain-bloat challenge as well.

But if it can be solved, I think it would be a turning point for BTC.
That's your prerogative, but doesn't more exposure mean more potential future contributors?
> Hodge wants to make it a criminal offence to sell or promote illegal tax avoidance schemes

Isn't promoting something illegal already illegal by definition?
At least one of the earlier transactions I found browsing around was involved in the BitStamp audit.
Disagree, depending on how strong you mean the word "indicate" to be.
In order to make this workable, the government would assume that certain industries make certain profit margins
e.g. 8% assumed profit for the sale of goods to 32% assumed profit for the sale of services. [0][1]

According to the FT:

"the new tax would be a “deemed profits” tax rather than a corporation tax, so as to sidestep issues about double tax treaties.

[...] the Treasury would identify profits that escaped tax in the UK because of royalty arrangements or the absence of a taxable presence.

[...] It seems to be something completely novel . . . It is a huge stick that will stop this artificial avoidance. The difficulty will be how it is defined in practice.” [2]

[0] Similar way to the way the UK flat rate VAT scheme works

[1]http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/Detail.asp...

[2] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/127010ea-7af9-11e4-b630-00144feabd...
>What a nice attack vector. Deliver a "suicidal" payload to a website, report to Russian authorities and watch it go offline in Russia.

It would go offline after few months. It's government agency, not some use support forum!
i am curious, what is the advantage of using Firebug instead of the built-in developer tools?
The credit for this video goes to "Physics Girl"; she's the one who made it. By hosting the video on her own channel on YouTube, she has a modicum of control over the presentation and proceeds of her work. On "sun-gazing", she shares the page with:

"the exotic belly-dancing cat"
"12 celebs who came out of the closet"
"12 celebs who are actually black"
"this food kills belly fat"
etc.

Of course she could disable embedding if she chose, but some sites that might embed her work might actually add some value or bring in traffic organically, rather than through SEO shenanigans and link-baitery. The less we reward the latter techniques our attention, the rarer they will become. The more we reward value-added sites, the more common they will become. I know which sort of web appeals to me. Anyone with taste can tell the difference, and fortunately on HN our mods have taste.
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You are right. In America we deplore things like bribery, oppression of women, caste systems, rule of law, human trafficking, honor killings, etc. We will impose that social contract on anyone who migrates here. Even if you are Sir Elton John, you are just Elton John here. If you bring slave servants to the US and enslave them here, as has happened, you'll be thrown in prison. It's not about language.
I was digging on this a little deeper and found this discussion from 2011 [1] that has some interesting points.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nosql-databases/4Aco...
And intra-group licensing costs and royalties should also be disregarded as costs for tax purposes, since there's no real or opportunity cost to allowing one part of the group to use another's IP except for the cost savings that can be generated by shifting the tax burden.
I had a similar reaction. In addition to the article's assumption that the consumers and producers of audio are distinct groups with no overlap, there is the assumption that humans will be the only ones listening (rather than computers, e.g. Shazam).

Those two factors are probably not enough to change the way ALL music is distributed, but they deserve to be acknowledged and dismissed with proper evidence as well.
http://wh.gov/iCfVS
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Not sure about their financials, but they're pretty transparent overall. Some of their internal policies (linked from that support page) are in their git repo https://gitorious.org/conservancy/policies and their list of services seems pretty clear: http://sfconservancy.org/members/services/
I find it rather amusing that you think the profits will end up in the worker's pockets: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/08/with-41-of-g...
I don't even have to argue to make this point, I merely have to point out Heartbleed or Shellshock.

The reason both were found and had the absurd propaganda campaigns behind them as they did that are the only reason you can even name them to begin with, is precisely because the underlying software was free.

On the other hand, let's name drop another vulnerability and its exploit: SMBRelay. Took 7 years after it was made public to introduce an incomplete and partial fix. Still exploitable to this day, 13 years later.
It is:

> Creation of Value

> Stop a bot. Save a book.

> reCAPTCHA digitizes books by turning words that cannot be read by computers into CAPTCHAs for people to solve. Word by word, a book is digitized and preserved online for people to find and read.

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html#creation-o...
You'd have to stop selling in the UK as well - that's the point.
For reference, the Slack OSX App uses MacGap.
I suspect so. I have a profile, but there are only some trivial programs there. Of developers that I am contact with these days, maybe at most 10 percent of them have put profiles there.
Does bitcoin have the kind of volume/liquidity to make that kind of exchange without causing a significant disturbance in the exchange rate?
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Those customers were for the old product. There is not really much point in going into how we got them as the product changed. I will be going through how we got our first 100 customers after the 4 post in this series! If you want to subscribe to the blog you can get the posts as they go live.
> Have you ever tried to start a Hangout with a non-technical user?

Yes, my technophobe sister in law. She got a new Android phone and was texting me via plain old SMS, which are metered on her account. I texted her back "Look for an icon that is a green circle with a double quote mark in it. Open it, follow the prompts, and send me a message". Within a minute I had a Hangout message from her, and she's been using it since.

Purely anecdotal, but then so was your example. I'll agree it's not so simple doing it on a computer, but they still make it fairly simple; do a Google search for "hangouts", the top link takes you to a page that has a button that says "Available for your computer".
Transactions without fees will eventually be processed and normally within 24 hours in my experience.

On top of that miners are currently processing transactions with fees of 1000 satoshis with no delay. That's about $0.004 with the current exchange.
They've been doing this for a while. With recaptcha, you got easier captchas (a single street number instead of two words) if the system thought you were human. There was an official post about this a year ago. [1] Now they have probably improved the system enough to be confident in not showing captcha at all. It's nothing revolutionary. If it thinks you're a robot, you still get the old captcha. [2]
[1] http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-j...
[2] http://i.imgur.com/pCKS8p5.png
A older article on Tutanota with features at a glance:
http://tuxdiary.com/2014/10/21/tutanota/
tptacek is right. In order to trust your crypto we have to trust that your server isn't compromising your crypto via malicious JavaScript, so when you claim that we don't have to trust the server, you're asking us to both trust and not trust the server.

You could do a Chrome extension with all the frontend code baked into the extension's static JavaScript. Firefox still has no sandboxing for add-ons, so you wouldn't have luck there.

Desktop / installed apps would be the way to go. See https://turtl.it for an example of this (shameless plug)
Maybe I am getting ahead of myself but this seems to have huge potentials and is actually quite interesting from a whole other perspective.

If a machine can determine you are human what if it learns your unique patterns? Couldn't it then be used to determine you are you?

And couldn't this solve the problem of identity?

In the bitcoin world, what if you could use this to log into your bitcoin wallet?
This sounds like something that isn't defined as illegal yet but might be in the grey area - and if HMRC decides it's illegal later then you are punished ex post facto.
Amazon is a classic example of this, an apparently UK based selling business that in fact sells via Luxemburg with Amazon UK only being a fulfillment/delivery service.