skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "Google is trying and delivering a whole lot more than MS Research ( did MS ever have a public prototype for anything?) - Glass, Self Driving Cars, Google Now are all tangible things that show concrete effort to make entirely new products and also make existing products better."

Glass flopped. Self-driving cars haven't been released and there are plenty of people working on that (Google just makes a big PR thing out of it) and Google Now is great (although hardly one of their moonshots?).

>> "Google on the other hand isn't being complacent with GMail (Inbox), Android (Lollipop), Chrome (v41) or Search (Google Now)."

Inbox is certainly interesting but most people I know don't like it. I did like it but moved away due to rising features. Lollipop killed my battery life and slowed my device to a crawl. Chrome has become sluggish and bloated. Like I said Google Now is great but only if I give Google all my data and give up all my privacy (search history, location history).
> Fluctuation-resistant - Avoid exchange rate hassles—specify amounts in USD and we’ll send you dollars.

I don't think I fully understand this part. Does the exchange rate remain static for a period of time, or do they just mean to say it's automatically converted for you? If the latter, how is this fluctuation resistant.

Regardless, I'm very happy. Been waiting for this to come out of beta.
I completely agree with the contents of the article. But it's politics: flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, it's called an attack, and defenses are a thing too. You can't learn to block if all comers are expressly forbidden from punching or feigning punching. This need not be a violent attack, it will not incorporate any weapons, and there is furthermore no concept of assault and battery against computer equipment. One should avoid any destruction of property when wearing the white hat. They are not "unauthorized" accesses, however. The supposed authorization controls have failed and the doors are really unlocked if the attack succeeds.

Which situation is preferable:

a) As a new business, I am contacted by a good Samaritan who informs me that my public website is vulnerable to a common attack. I take this information to my development staff and they verify that we are indeed vulnerable, then we fix it. Millions are saved. I send a thank-you note to my new friend in Samaria and maybe even write a check.

b) Good Samaritans are prevented from helping by laws that divide adept lever pullers into only two groups: the paid kind and the unauthorized kind. There are then never good Samaritans because every Samaritan needs to take steps to remain anonymous themselves before performing any deeds which could constitute "an attempt to obtain unintendedly authorized access".

It's clear that "The only reason to obscure the origin of a packet is in order to not be the one caught sending it." Anyone who does not want to get caught doing whatever they are doing, I think it follows obviously, can't possibly be helping but only up to no good. Now all Samaritans with knowledge of SQL injection are at odds with web service companies and all good and rational Samaritans do the smart thing and cease all helping. If anyone helps, they will do so anonymously; if they are identified, they will have to swear they only found the issue by accident and didn't even really know what to look for.

In (B), your ability to secure yourself is directly at odds with the amount of spare time those (real) hordes of bad Samaritans or other nationalities behind seven proxies can spare. Got unlimited money? If you can't pay for enough pen testing, well I hope you did security right because nobody is going to help you now. Is that really the preferable scenario?

We have varying degrees of laws protecting certain kinds of "Good Samaritans" in cases of medical emergency, they are on the books in every state. Unless or until it's an issue of something wrong on a computer. There is no such similar protection for any security pros or curious tinkerers.

People who legitimately stumbled onto vulnerable services are best advised to never report them to anyone and forget whatever issue they saw, or they are persecuted by the FBI and prosecuted through CFAA and other legal channels. This cannot be considered optimal!
Turns out you are right. Asked & answered on the project page today: https://github.com/jmhodges/howsmyssl/issues/44
I have friends in the Okanagan who managed to get some of the advanced species of Rapid Growing Hybrid Poplar from the research plantation they have in Vernon, BC.

They have a small lot, about 5 acres, with a good agricultural water supply, which they planted mostly with this hybrid. In the first year these seedlings grew from around 6" to almost 5' in height. In the second year, the trees were 10' high. By the end of year three they had a mini forest of 15' high trees. It was actually terrifying how quickly these hybrids were capable of growing - reminded me of something out of "Day of the Triffids" - one only wonders what would happen if these fast-growing hybrid-poplars somehow managed to start spreading...
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Honestly, this may be what it takes to see more mainstream consumer adoption.

A lot of the apps with high levels of penetration in this generalized demographic seem to use Stripe--if it's truly a frictionless integration, it will be really interesting to see the market's response.

Coinbase & exchange API's were the first step. Single-script hosted payment processing with a UI focus (accessible to tech and grassroots e-commerce alike) seems to be the next.

And to the Stripe team--Thank you!

I've used many merchant processors, from 2004 until now. Along with Braintree you paved the way for this future in MP, and overall created a brilliantly engineered system that's a pleasure to work with.
Although I agree with the EFF, I question the legal argument, and whether or not the case will be in their favor.

(1) Although DNA should be protected in the sense the government cannot take it from you, without a warrant (or claims your a terrorist). It's difficult to argue that if some hair falls off my head in public, should it not be considered "fair game"? Picking up papers out of the trash has always been fair game for law enforcement, so why should the hair be different?

(2) Unreasonable search and seizure is relative, it's not reasonable to pluck a hair off someones head. The same way you cannot go through someones office without reason. However, if someone disregards the hair, then it does seem reasonable to take the hair, because it is not invading a persons time/space/property/anything.

(3) It is a powerful tool to fight illegal activity. I have trouble believing a judge doesn't/wont (to some point) empathize with this and have a slight bias.

I find mass DNA collection very scary, but I don't know if this is fully valid or winnable case.
Yes. Many people did. Twitter's success at 140 characters was largely based on being accessible without the high cost of a smart phone at a time when not everyone had an iPhone or T-Mobile Android.

I don't have any hard statistics, but I used Twitter before I had a smartphone; and you asked a question where an anecdote would suffice.
To be fair they asked if they should not trust it. Which I think is a fair question. It could be answered with "I don't have a reason not to", or "Yes, because ...". Neither answer implies that it should be trusted.
Allan Savory: His ted talk is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI
That's an absurd analogy. A more apt analogy would be to check if the bank had bothered to lock it's back door, while waving at the security cameras.

Prevent this kind of scan makes all of us less safe, since it encourages negligent behavior like taking risks with data that's not yours. Frankly, I think website owners should be held liable for security vulnerabilities.

This kind of culture of systematically undermining a secure internet only serves those who abuse our trust. Do you honestly think the FBI has a chance in hell of actually catching more than a minute fraction of all malicious hackers? Not to mention the fact that their motives here and elsewhere are rather questionable - if anything, they're less benign than the hackers they're chasing, seeing as they're essentially untouchable for whatever damage they cause.
Not true. Certain cultural groups (e.g. orthodox, Arabs, Druze) and others are exempted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemption_from_military_service...
I've been saying this for over a year now. They've very much reversed roles. Market dominance has a huge effect on how a company acts, and Google is acting like the old monopoly trying to hang on.
When twitter first started out most people I knew were just starting to get smartphones. This is why things like text-to-twitter and twillio started off.

I would say by 2010, clients had taken over, but in 2008/2009 sms was really a thing.
I also find their crash reporting to be really good.
Fluctuation resistant for the seller but not the buyer.
I don't know what you mean when you say backed by the Apache Community, but Elasticsearch is also an open source, apache-licensed project that has a commercial, private counterpart. I think every major open source project has this now (Hadoop has Cloudera/Hortonworks/MapR, Spark has databricks).
Tiny, rugged, box-PC implements Intel's IoT platform
What's in a Domain Name? Howard Lefkowitz Stresses Brand Strength
How to improve the UX of your tweets
Yes, but then people will just hop from one service to another. 90 days on Airbnb, 90 days on VRBO, etc...
Although I can't find it stated explicitly, if you look at "Guide Part 2: Creating a charge"

:currency => "usd", # presently can only make bitcoin charges in USD

So, looks like USD for now. Although I think you could probabaly just implement the conversion yourself on your own wrapper code.

<<Edit>> my apologies. I misread your question, thinking you were referring to currencies. But assuming they only accept USD, i'd have to assume its only for US accounts too? Perhaps someone can chime in and let us know though. Or try it with a canadian account and see what happens.
What a fantastic product page. After less that 30 seconds, I knew exactly what Stripe was doing with Bitcoin, how to use the new feature and integrate it.

This is great news for Bitcoin. If all it takes is one extra line of code for online retailers to start accepting the currency, widespread adoption could sky rocket. That's always been Bitcoin's crutch, simple integration. Others like Coinbase and Bitpay have made it much easier to accept Bitcoin, but usually more services are required to accept other forms of payment. This simple catch-all solution is a game-changer. Congratulations Stripe.
Paddy rice is a substantially higher labor crop than mechanization-friendly wheat production per calorie, and China eats about as much wheat as it does rice; It grows even more maize, but this is mostly as feed.
That cost would be borne by the customer, won't it? I guess that's still in some sense a fee from the Stripe vendor's perspective, because the Bitcoin price will be higher for the customer and thus the quantity demanded will be lower than it would be with the vendor's USD sticker price.
That wouldn't avoid storing the key on the local machine, since the MITM server still needs to be on the local proxy.

I have no idea why you're chasing this thing. The gist of nailer's original post was asking why the private key was accessible. Whether the local proxy talked to a box in China or not seems completely irrelevant.
Types as Units
Can we please not Google brand the whole internet? :(
Greg Brockman from Stripe said this is exactly what it would take for BTC to take off commercially a year ago:

(after discussing why regular people probably don't want to store value in BitCoins)

> However, Bitcoin has huge potential as a way to transport value. It’s surprisingly difficult to move money today ...compounding the issue, value transport becomes especially challenging as soon as there’s a regional border involved.

> Cryptocurrencies have given us a real opportunity to solve these problems.

https://stripe.com/blog/bitcoin-the-stripe-perspective
> If the "simplistic" male/female binary explains >99% of observations, there does not seem to be a strong case for describing biological sex as a "spectrum"...

1% of the world population is nearly 70 million people. That is not a small population. One would hope that we might be more flexible in our descriptions considering how large of a population that is.
Health care is working far from properly in the case of normal capitalism, so actually it is a bad example.
Glad you enjoyed it. More or less, yes. I've brought on a few contractors at times to help with audio, animation, and a few other things.
I imagine that comment referred to fake antivirus software from webpage ads or something that users are tricked into installing. Something like ClamAV would be fine.
Really disliking the word "pre-accelerator". Right up there with saying "mentors" instead of helpful peers.

Not sure why these words are chosen where there's an implied hierarchy of one being better, one being worse. One more advanced, one less advanced.

Back on topic- companies look nice though. In, fact I like everything about this, except that name.
Then try one at a time, so you can tell which wagon has which effect. This guy was trying to hitch his ride to a dozen wagons at once, all pulling in different directions.
Nope - I'm just suggesting it's not as big a deal if a former Apple employee decided to return back to Apple, than if a someone who had never worked for Apple went from Tesla to Apple.
No evidence of security concerns, you say, Lenovo!? Well then your entire C-suite will put their money where their mouth is by browsing with these "uncompromised" machines for the forseeable future, right? Banking, signing in to their hospital's website, logging in to corporate sites...

Wait, your IT department just frantically rolled out clean disk images to the whole org? That's a funny coincidence...
The Boys Who Loved Birds: After the Iron Curtain
Disappointed to see that they don't appear any PaymentProtocol[1] integration.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawi...
Being picked last in playground kickball hurts. That doesn't change when you trade a playground for an office.

Social acceptance is a human need, like thirst, hunger, and safety. People will kill for acceptance.
I'm genuinely curious. Would you mind elaborating or pointing me to another resource that goes into detail on why this is the case?
If you think that verifying that a site is using valid SSL is a tool to make sure that a site is taking reasonable safety precautions with your data, you most definitely are entirely out of your depth.

As to trusted certification - please elaborate; because many of these "certifications" are entirely worthless (some indeed indicate that a site is less likely to be safe).
This is a far better point. Twitter happened along in that magical time of AJAX when everyone was willing to share their data because we all talked about how everything should be free and open.

Then the social media companies realized that this was a gigantic mistake, and started to seal everything up. How could they be expected to make their billions when their services were so open that they were essentially becoming abstracted protocols for third party apps? The opportunity to sell advertising and personal data is far greater when what you have is closed.

I understand why they did it; I just hate that they did. It always felt like a massive bait and switch and I'm betting that Facebook and Twitter aren't going to be the last ones that do this.
Is Lemma going to target other platforms than Windows?
The "Open Wallet" link has a bitcoin URI. If you have a wallet installed, it'll pop open that wallet. More here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0021.mediawi...

Stripe doesn't have a Bitcoin wallet for consumers.
No. Some != all.
Does that make a highly accurate approximation into a less accurate one?

At what point is it acceptable to say that something is an approximation, and should not expected to be precise and accurate in perfect detail?
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The observation that a characteristic exists on a spectrum, and the observation that the vast majority of individuals fall on one of two extremes of that spectrum, are not mutually exclusive.

For the overwhelming majority of organisms, including Homo sapiens, all proposed indicators of sex (anatomy, hormones, cells, chromosomes) give the same answer. Reading the final two paragraphs of the paper, it's obvious that attempts to muddy this naturally clear water are being made for political, not scientific reasons.
The problem is Google is coupling improvements in performance and battery life on the backend with additional bloat on the frontend with all their design/animation stuff. So we're not actually getting any real gains here.
Maybe Windows is terrible, I've heard lots of bad stuff about the wifi and touchpad drivers in particular. I installed xubuntu the day I got it and everything worked out of the box from day one. Power management on ubuntu 12.04 wasn't so great, but battery life became significantly better on 14.04.

Additionally, a roommate spilled a pint of beer on my computer and Asus replaced it for free, despite not having an accidental damage warranty.
> Partial data will serve as a distraction if you present it as important.

If you ascribe to the importance of its display, then you are allowing it to be a distraction as an observer of the display. But, yes, in practice I agree that most humans are foolish and will allow it to serve as a distraction.

> I'm saying this doesn't belong on a dashboard. Granted, they just did this for fun.

Maybe or maybe not. There are definitely good reasons for removing it from the dashboard. I agree that it is not presented well. Outright permanent removal of the vague notion and concept of this particular data and its relevancy is a different matter. Exploring alternative presentations, getting more sensors and more relevant data, etc. (This is of course stating the obvious.) But I'm not really commenting on that at this time.

> The more data the better - That's not true. Some data is better than others. Some data is poor quality. Some is unimportant.

This is often debated with vigor on both sides (okay, there's actually a gradient of n-dimensional in-betweens, not explicit sides) of the argument. (Collect it all and figure out relevancy from analysis, then scale back data collection where it was determined to be irrelevant. Be presumptuous based on experience and collect only what you believe is relevant. Expand and contract collection periodically as something in-between. The list goes on and on and on and on of possible configurations and approaches.) Of course some data is better than others. Some data is more relevant than other data for a given operational context. And, yes of course, besides just relevancy, fundamental things like accuracy, precision, and error are all aspects of data collection and analysis. But, back on topic, both sides of the argument have merit. The reality is, like all things in life, there is a pragmatic balance point. (Not necessarily a point, though. In reality, usually an n-dimensional volume, but that's another topic.)
Does Solr have the same problem as ES where you can't modify an index mapping after creating it? With ES you have to reindex everything into a new temporary index and then swap the new and old indexes. It's a terrible design, especially considering that ES already has all the original data and should be perfectly capable of doing it itself, incrementally.
IPv6 was formalized in 1998, so if HTTP/2 follows the same trend, I guess we'll be at 5% adoption by 2032?
More than likely, material design bloat ate any improvements in performance or battery life introduced by backend optimizations.
Stripe's Terms of Service reveal that they use Coinbase in the backend to transact and exchange the bitcoins: https://stripe.com/bitcoin/terms If you are a small merchant planning to do less than $1-2 million dollars in sales, you might still prefer using Coinbase directly instead of Stripe though, because Coinbase waives all fees until the first $1 million dollars (then it's 1%), but Stripe charges a constant 0.5% fee.

There is a tad more info from https://twitter.com/stripe :

"Our Bitcoin support is now fully live: https://stripe.com/bitcoin ."

"It's fully-integrated with the rest of Stripe: same APIs, same reporting, same dashboard. (Just like our Alipay support.)"

"While testing our Bitcoin support, we had people from 60 different countries use it to pay. (Howdy, Guatemala, Algeria, Rwanda, Cambodia!)"

"Particular thanks to @Namecheap, @Tarsnap, @HandUp, and @Grooveshark for their feedback as we developed this."

"And as for https://stripe.com/bitcoin itself -- this is our first, but hopefully not last, page to feature an animated Vim."

For the record, Stripe's Bitcoin support has been in beta since March 2014. Tarsnap were the first users: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-03-27-tarsnap-bitcoin.h...

Edit: @ThrustVectoring: it does not take 5 weeks of a developer's time to integrate with Coinbase, especially for the "small" merchants (<$1-2M in sales) that my comment was written for. But I agree the appeal of simplicity if you already take Stripe is there :)
Quora is hacked
I am amazed. I am baffled. What's happening in this world. The world is surely going to end. I can't believe what I am seeing right now in front of my eyes. Quora. My love. Is HACKED!
Read it here.
http://pixr8.com/quora-hacked-holy-christ/

Followed the linked. Searched on Quora and found, yes, its true! Very true! I am sad today. Sad.
Thanks for the response, sounds like you've got a good plan for where you want this to go.

As for the middle-click issue, I'm getting it on Chrome v40 on Windows actually.
What the Apple iPhone Will Be Like in 10 Years
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7245297 (a year ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8620236 (3 months ago)
Not just clickbait either. The whole article is a mish-mash of bad tech history analogies.
... And his billing rate...