skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Multisignature transactions solve the "annnd it's gone" due to hacked merchants/exchanges.

Theories are great for people who can afford to lose tens of thousands of dollars. Until the actual rate goes down, recommending bitcoin to average consumers on the basis of "this is supposed to work" is stupid.

> Yes, I noticed you failed to address the 13.1 million people a year who have their lives ruined because they had their identity stolen.

No, I didn't. Here, I'll quote myself:

> CC companies essentially insure you against loss by paying out the fraud themselves and then forcing merchants to raise prices a bit to make up for it.

Almost no one is having their lives ruined. You call your credit card company's fraud department (actually, these days they often catch it first and call you). You spend 20 minutes getting your card canceled and showing them which purchases were fraudulent. You wait three days for a new credit card to show up.

Hardly life-ruining.
The level of control these companies assert over our young people (directly through testing procedures and less-directly through influence over their futures/distortion of curriculum goals) is a symptom of larger problems in our education system. These tests are also hugely expensive. The answer, however, is to increase the amount of testing we're doing - not eliminate it. The 'problem to be solved' is to create a way to integrate trusted assessment into everyday instruction more often and less intrusively.

This requires us to develop a way to accredit (through national scale use/vetting) assessment materials on a much smaller scale. PARCC, ACT, et al. will maintain their current level of influence (functionally, not politically) so long as we can't assure that teachers are assessing their students against agreed upon benchmarks.

If these benchmarked assessment materials could be integrated into everyday instruction (which, as a teacher, they surely can be) AND we can accredit them as accurately assessing student ability on "competency X' then we will no longer need centralized, high-stakes assessment.

This accreditation will come from a decentralized exchange of classroom instructional materials/artifacts which will allow for the 'cream' (i.e. materials that accurately assess 'competency x") to be used, assessed, modified, re-used and finally accredited. Currently, teachers are silo'ed and rarely exchange learning materials beyond person-to-person contact or by physically gifting photocopies. Google docs facilitates exchange with real gains in productivity, but only within your immediate department (which could 4 people, could be 20 - but will hardly be >1000). We need the ability to fluidly exchange learning and assessment materials from all over the country/world that can be easily personalized for our classrooms.

As we more thoughtfully mediate the average classroom (which is inevitable) I hope we see these sorts of changes - but right now I don't see very many edtech designers attempting to create tools that will enable my teaching in this way.
Honestly, it just sounded like a harmless joke directed at bankers on someone's blog :)
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I personally use Sublime Text for smaller code tasks, like simple webpages, smaller edits etc.

While I use WebStorm for larger projects such as building a website for someone or collaborating on projects at school.

Sublime Text, to me, is still just a text editor (a really good one at that), while WebStorm is a fully-fledged IDE.
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Yes, I think people should have a choice. If the market wants insured taxis only, you will see that people only use those taxi-services that prove they have it. If not, then some will be using uninsured services at their own risk. No one has the right to tell me what choice am I supposed to make with my own money.
I joined a startup several years ago as an early engineer. The company was acquired last year, and my equity was worth more than $1m after investors were paid.
Absolutely, I agree with you! It's time to deregulate the taxi industry, because needing a license to drive people around is absurd. Yes, you should need insurance, but in most EU countries, the already required insurance covers all passengers. Each car must also pass an yearly technical review. What more do you need? Someone posted that drivers aren't vetted - there is no better vetting system than the instantaneous feedback from the app. Feedback, given by tens or hundreds of clients.
Wikis have revision tracking and at least they have a global version rather than "document v2 from Bob final8 really (with corrections).docx"

Also wikis are as distraction free as it gets...
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Sure. I've been a part of several startups that have achieved liquidity events and seen non-executive employees walk away with notable 6 figures in value. One coworker was able to purchase a vacation home for over $500k with cash from his post-tax proceeds, amongst other takeaways.

It happens, you just need a team that understands how to manage an equity plan through fundraising, growth phases, org evolution and is motivated to create value for everyone involved.
I know this situation too well. It gets worse when child is asking for pacifier, favorite tv show, playground etc. Also child does not pronounce clearly, and its very hard to understand for non-native speaker.

I wonder why author had not learned German in advance, they had almost 2 years time. English speaker can pickup German in 5 months, very similar and easy language.
The thing I keep emphasizing in this conversation is how terribly good human drivers are, on average. In the US, there are three fatalities for every 10 billion passenger miles traveled. That's tremendous. A machine that is currently incapable of driving in rain and unable to see a child in the street has a long way to go to hit this mark.

Musk is here to sell his car. He'll say all sorts of bullshit to make it look sexier.
They are not exempt. Nothing is stopping you from setting up a similar structure. We all play by the same rules globally.

Whether it's cost efficient to do is a different matter.
They already have an insurance that covers the passengers.
OK, maybe, it was the first one I came across. Well, you can claim they invented the term in 1998 and I guess I can't convince you otherwise unless I dig up some old documents, which is unlikely.

Anyway, FWIW, we used the terms "open source" and "open source code" way before that and it was widely understood. I don't have any reason to make that up.
You'd think for $500 it might come with a USB cable.
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Yeah, it's sad. I think that investigative journalism should be funded by the public, unfortunately, that's a conflict of interest for the government and sadly, most of the public doesn't really want to know the truth, they want just want to feel that their perspective on the status quo is validated, and that their life can carry on comfortably like it did yesterday... and the day before... and the day before that. And if it isn't carrying on that way, they want to know who to blame for the discomfort that causes so they can go over with their torches and pitchforks and get "justice", whatever the "news" tells them what form that justice should take.
Uberdrivers aren't driven off the road, because they need to go through the same hoops as every other Taxi. Uberpop drivers on the other hand are illegal in the Netherlands.
The app store isn't really a "catch," it's been in Windows since 8.0.
> poorly paid (once you factor in the capital costs of the vehicle and the cost of vehicle maintenance)

I don't happen to know how much Uber drivers get paid, but I've seen comments saying that a lot of people drive Uber as a part-time thing with a car they already own to supplement their income. I think that's a more likely scenario than someone going out and buying a car specifically to drive for Uber full-time.

Also reminds me of arguments about raising minimum wage because every job in existence should pay a living wage, ignoring circumstances of why people are working various jobs (thinking particularly about teenagers and retired people).
I disagree with you that it's "corrupt". Why should someone who wants to drive someone other places need to jump through more hoops than the ones Uber has in front of them? (Background check, constant ratings?)

And if you take issue with Uber for other reasons (shady recruiting practices come to mind), there are other rideshare services that do not have those problems.
Looks pretty straight-forward, but are there other projects that do what Rewire does to do a compare and contrast?
It's amazing what a small team with a great vision can do. They had the expertise and delivered what customers wanted.

It's also sad how a large company can lose track of what made its previous products so great. EA tried to "innovate" SimCity 5, except they were "innovating" the game for themselves (e.g. get users online to make it easier to buy upgrades), not the end-user. Gamers did not want a multiplayer-based city simulation with limited scale and broken mechanics.
I recommend AeroFS for anyone that wants to sync computers over their local network in real time. In the past, I used Microsoft Live Mesh to sync files between my desktop and laptop but it was discontinued. Every other application I checked out required uploading data to the cloud first, e.g. dropbox would upload to cloud first then sync over LAN. Other applications, would only upload to cloud and then download from cloud which is a pain for large files and slow internet connections.
Exactly my reaction. I love this tagline because it just echoes how you would describe the product to a friend: "Oh it's like X but with Y".

It's at the complete opposite of the general trend of obscure generic headlines, like "Make your life better" or "Be more productive" or "Gain time and money", or the worst "Sign up for free" (yes, I've seen that as the main headline).

It just makes sense to not waste your visitors' time because they won't stay long enough to decipher your marketing gibberish.
That is very very lame excuse. Because it suggests that you are unable to use Google and your preferred App store.

There is an App for it, called "Taxi Deutschland" (how obvious is THAT?) https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/taxi-deutschland/id454467694...

There is even a German wide number, which works in any major city: 22456 from you cell including text service http://www.22456taxi.de/
It's different when you're adding another person and it's adding an additional 15$/month, and adding an additional 500$/month - even if overall it ends up being the same per person overall for both.

Think of it this way.

If you've got 30 people, you're using this product. Then you add another person.

Now all of a sudden you've got 500$/month expenditures suddenly appearing. The sudden appearance is much more likely to push people to alternative routes than a gradual increase.
You realize Uber does background checks, right? I could link you stories of rapist taxi drivers (Yknow, those traditional and regulated ones that you're implying are so much safer)...
Yes, my first startup job got me into the high end of that range, as employee #5, with a relatively small acquisition.

I know several people who took home much more from employee roles (albeit in larger acquisitions) in the recent past.

A lot of it has to do with who you work with. In every case I can think of, windfall money for employees came from founders with a track record of accomplishing that (or, in my case, a founder who would soon develop that track record, and was, in the company I was at, extremely committed to making sure his team was well compensated at liquidity).

This is one of the reasons I don't love Paul Graham's hacker startup thesis, about working very hard for 5-10 years so you can take it easy for the rest of your life. There are a lot of problems with that idea, but one of them is that it generates a lot of loss aversion instinct for founders.
I remain extremely skeptical that 95 % will be good enough and its the edge cases that really matter. It doesn't matter that they're better most of the time because the failure modes are different.

However since Elon is a really smart guy who has mastered multiple disciplines , I'll take his word. I'm waiting for my self driving car.
Will there be an embed functionality?
Making hardware - Surface, Dongle PC: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Unveils-Windows-8-1...

They are also giving away visual studio now which is part of >1bn$ development business division
Read the comments; the guy seems pretty serious.
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Do you think $30 is cheap or expensive? I, for one, think it's exactly the right price.
Could you point me to some decent reading on the subject? I've asked around a bit but it's not really something that people like to talk about.
I submitted a very detailed bug report[0] a while ago, which can lead to a DoS (albeit in a very specific setting). I don't expect anyone to rush to fix it, but I'm surprised that there isn't even a comment about it. Is there another place it needs to be reported in?

[0] https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2265
Drone pilots can have several seconds of latency. This means remote operators are useless as a backup to the machine if a split second reaction is required.
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Another gaming success from Finland. Big up guys!
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Yup, and this is especially true of languages that are completely different than your own.

Immersion and osmosis are going to work a whole lot better if you're going from French to Spanish, or English to German, etc. There's enough shared vocabulary and culture that it's easier to make assumptions about the intent of the speaker.

That will not be the case if you're going from English to, say, Korean. Immersion is important for any language learning, but some prerequisite learning is needed to take advantage of it. I think those prerequisites stack up as you move further away from the foundation of your current languages.
Content marketing is still everywhere - AeroFS are doing it right now, and the Bitbucket story's submitter looks like he works at Atlassian and registered just to market here over and over again.

There will be many more submissions by companies today.
There's little reason to switch to Sublime Text if you're already competent with vi/vim
> Software runs the world these days, you can't just let people with no licences write shitty code. Politicians and bureaucrats should join their forces and decide whether each individual programmer is of a certain level. If not, he is banned from writing code and should be fined or imprisoned if he ever tries to do that.

For any public related service actually, that is regulated. Any software written for a car, truck, train, bus, airplane is regulated in terms of certification by so-called notified bodies.
Think of the education market. So many schools in the US are full of Macs. You won't see that in China as Apple hardware is cost-prohibitive for them. Getting the mindshare and comfort with Windows pays dividends long term
Volume is one thing but quality should be also important for music videos, and even HD VEVO videos has noticeable worse quality than a 256kbps MP3. Probably due to the re-encoding, and the lower quality settings at YouTube. So YouTube is still not good for music listening if you are sensitive to the quality.
Facebook and Google both created literally thousands of millionaires, IIRC. Bad news, though: power law distributions of startup returns have some really toothy consequences for employees as well as for investors.

There exist some less famous answers I could give here but they would be socially embarrassing to friends/colleagues. Let's put it this way: IPOs are public, right? Each of them allocates 10%ish of the market cap to employees. If you guessed employees 1 to 100 split half of that you wouldn't be insanely off base. If 5% of market cap is $100 million...

Another thing you could do, if you're interested, is look up the Angels participating in an early round in a recent startup and check out their LinkedIn profiles. Most have an obvious tuple of (Company, Start Date) which itself explains accredited investor status.
Well these systems weren't ever human, so I'm not sure a million human years would help them as much as you hope.
Just saying that I think that Cities: Skyline is a great next step in city builders, but is not ground-breakingly different from the last Sim City. I am hoping that there's some ground-breaking changes soon enough. This is a great start!
Thanks for the update! I was unaware of the power of geoJSON (also githubs neat mapping of them) and access to data from places such as gadm.org. Is that where you source the data?
I don't know if it is still true, but Chinese OEMs used to be a "pay what they will" business model for Windows licensing from Lenovo on down. There was simply no way to audit/enforce the OEM licensing agreements.
The author knows USB is just as vulnerable as it always was.

The thing that changed with USB-C is that you can't avoid plugging in USB devices. If you borrow someone's power cord, you're plugging an unknown USB device into your computer.

Dropping a malicious USB drive in the parking lot was the traditional attack vector for USB devices, which obviously won't work as well with a power cord (a power cord sitting in the parking lot would be a bit suspicious), but it opens up new targeted attack vectors. Someone could easily swap out your power cord with a malicious one when you aren't looking, which might wait for your computer to be inactive, then kick into "fake keyboard mode" to open up a terminal, download whatever executable off of the internet, and run it (with your user privileges). It won't own the whole computer without authentication, but it'll own all of the data in your home folder.
This is fun. http://i.imgur.com/ILo0eiE.gif
It could be that you're lucky or maybe you're just suffering from impostor syndrome.

Have you considered that he might be perfectly happy where he is as he can basically relax at his job as most of the tasks that come up , even the difficult ones must be a cakewalk for him.

Success has a very narrow definition these days.

Here's an interesting story :
http://heuna.tumblr.com/post/2415073898/kim-ung-yong-a-child...
No, it doesn't. It stops a majority of primitive exploits. Breaking exploits is not the same thing as closing vulnerabilities.
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Don't know why you are downvoted by so many. But I think you provided a good comment here. Upvoted.
The problem is that in the olden days, it was the precinct worker's choice over who had to take it and who got it waived... and all the white folks got waived.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_right...
Which doesn't mean it's the right way to go.

Bitcoin would've never been possible if a software engineer required a licence to write financial software. And it is a very critical piece of software.
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> Women are literally MADE to do this and I don't care what modern "gender equality" proponents might make of that statement.

That's a fallacious, appeal to nature argument. People should raise their kids how they want, and should feel free to make their parenting choices rationally. What's "natural" or what women are "made to do" shouldn't enter into the equation. "Naturally" something like 1 in 25 women died of childbirth.

There are good reasons to breastfeed. But there are also good reasons not to breastfeed. My wife and I bottle-fed from early on. I did all the night feedings, because I handle interrupted sleep better than she does. At the same time, I have little patience for after-work playtime, and am happy to let my wife handle that. It's an arrangement that takes advantages of our relative strengths that would not be practical without infant formula.
An integrity test works exactly once. The first time you do it, you can see the candidate for who he is. Pass, fail... you've measured it.

Then, other candidates learn of the integrity test. And they try to game it. They see you drop the wallet, they make a point of giving it back regardless of what their true impulse might be.

So I don't think you can effectively test for these things, unless you hire so rarely that word never really spreads.

Haha! Got a chuckle out of the Wikipedia link. Sounds like pseudo-science (obviously if he answers that his favorite color is red and not blue he's some sort of shifty klepto!).
So if I (like most people with modern systems) only use SSH2 + AES, I should be OK?
I use webstorm for both Angular and Node because the integrated debugger doesn't require a context switch when debugging code. In fact, most development workflows can happen within the editor (and a browser) because of the great tooling.

For everything else (mainly Go/Python these days), I use vim.
silly boy. paper money and real money aren't the same thing. your equity is between $0 and $0.
If you're still whining about the "JavaScript Problem" in 2015 without trying ES6, it's going to be hard to take you seriously.
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I walk through that intersection most days. What they've done in NYC is interesting. That part of First Avenue used to be, like most in mid and upper Manhattan, six (or sometimes more) undifferentiated lanes.

The first change was the addition of dedicated bus lanes (right-most lane, painted reddish), complete with violation cameras and automated ticketing. This reduced competition among buses and cars -- in favor of buses, leading to somewhat better bus throughput. Cars now had five lanes -- although with parking in at least the left-most lane, and delivery trucks double-parked adjacent to the cars, more like three.

Then came the big bike lane initiative. In the book Traffic, by Tom Vanderbilt, some of the takeaways are that parked cars can form a buffer between flowing traffic and bike lanes, and that narrowing roads at intersections through the addition of islands with trees on them increases pedestrian safety (in no small part by reducing the speed of turning cars at intersections). To varying degrees they've applied these ideas -- the left-most lane is now entirely a bike lane (painted green, complete with its own traffic signals). Next to that is a dedicated parking lane -- yes, in lane two -- often buffered by concrete islands at intersections, with a tree or two. You can see this here [1]

Cars now have three or perhaps four lanes for general travel. For left turns, the bike and parking lanes are cut by a dedicated left-turn waiting lane [2] (usually with its own left turn signal, so left turners are not fighting pedestrians in the crosswalk).

On some avenues they then added "Select Buses", which work on a "trust-but-verify" honor system so riders can enter and exit quickly through any of three wide doors without queueing to dip a Metrocard.

Finally, they cut the city-wide speed limit to 25 miles per hour, adjusting the timing of avenue traffic signals accordingly.

The result of all this has been much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, but as a whole it's made the city substantially better for bikers and pedestrians, and in many cases left turns are much easier for drivers.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@40.771088,-73.9538,3a,75y,53.97...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@40.771088,-73.9538,3a,65.7y,194...

[Edit: clarity]
As with any MS licensing press release it is necessary to read the fine print: this is only for upgrades, so first you need to install something and then upgrade it, and only upgrades from Windows 7 and up as opposed to the more easily acquired/pirated Windows XP that is prevalent in China.