skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you math? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.05%25+*+number+of+amer... says over 150,000 people given your number.

Coinbase themselves say https://www.coinbase.com/about over 2 million users.
may be they fix it as a new feature after Google M.
any precompiled binaries not hosted on sourceforge? Given recent developments I'd rather not run an exe from them.
Here's the most worrying line of the article, in my opinion:

Asked about instances in which Microsoft built methods to bypass its security and about backdoors generally, a company spokesperson told me that Microsoft doesn’t consider complying with legitimate legal requests backdoors.

Which says to me, "There are no backdoors, provided we redefine the word 'backdoor' to be exclude all of the mechanisms we currently employ."
Wow, that's awesome to hear about the polish. We move pretty fast, and sometimes I worry about skipping over important details.

To get what polish we do have took a few things:
1) My cofounder and I have been working together for a while and our workflows compliment each other. The time we save with development usually gets spent on polish after shipping.
2) This started as a side project for us, so we made a strong effort to find a concept that was inherently simple. For example, the simpler we can make the UI, the more users can concentrate on your ideas. So our motivation towards the UI isn't to add more, it's to refine down when possible.
3) I use Precursor everyday now, so it's important for me make sure things behave well :)

We're not heavily-dependent on svg, it would be possible to render to canvas or just to straight html. But svg has some niceties, like transforms on groups and easy export to images. It definitely has its challenges (e.g., text formatting, Safari bugs, etc.) but we get a lot of things for free, and it helps keep sharing options pretty simple. Luckily our visual aesthetic is pretty minimal, so we don't have to push things very hard on it.
Leaked documents show U.S. widened Internet spying: N.Y. Times
Genetic engineering of microorganisms carefully maintained in bioreactors and probably not competitive with their wild variants is not quite the same as letting them grow on fields.

While one shouldn't categorically deny manipulation of crops at least the risk assessment should be more stringent than for lab-grown yeast.
Functional programming in Ruby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN_hopping
It would make me feel a lot better to know that there was no mechanism by which the manufacturer (or some entity which has hacked or coerced the manufacturer) could conceivably push updates to my computer without my knowledge and consent. Write-protecting the drive controller with a physical switch would be very reassuring.
The private one is revealed after the competition is over. Only the private leaderboard counts. To get an idea of how well your model performs, you get scores for, let's say 30% of the holdout data, on the public leaderboard. You can also use local cross-validation to gauge model performance.

There is a limit on the number of submissions. Usually 5 or less a day. Also precision of scores is visibly limited, but for final ranking all decimals count.
Stardog 3.1: Enterprise Graph Database
SSRS – Mass update multiple reports
Very real issue to consider as we all try to guide Android's imminent permission system update (Make noise and open issues!)

Is accessing nearby BSSIDs available in a similar fashion on iOS? A quick look reveals: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/System...
>>> I wonder if there could be commercial interest in cryptographically secure garage door openers?

Probably not. Mainly because breaking a window or crowbarring a door is a lot less expensive and a lot faster.
Tesla?

edit

Meaning, 'clean-tech' is alive and well.
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* Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for extreme context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective

* Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon

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* Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context

* Maintain an understanding of the Internet threat environment and how it affects the company

* Find and fix flaws in existing company systems and sites

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>Being from the UK: It's a bit unseemly. Mind your own fucking business.

Does that apply to the 5.9 million surveillance cameras located in the UK?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10172298/One-surveilla...
- OpenStreetMap : http://planet.openstreetmap.org/

- Wikidata : http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download
Media: stop pretending you are tech companies
First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
Read the video caption as well. Tons of valuable nuggets.
That's part of why I think CoffeeScript isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
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beta testing anyone?
Except i still don't know how i could build my own S3 or simpledb equivalent, even provided i have unlimited servers at my disposal. By looking at this project, it seems like they're trying to tacle the big problem, and that's a good thing.
Definitely not on my Firefox. It feels smooth as organic grass-fed butter.

As a beginner web developer aiming to work remotely, they have me. I want simple, fast, colaborative, and they have it all plus "mindblowingness". ;)

Not only that, sites like this get me excited and make me want to develop something as good.

I can only congratulate the developers!
> And IIRC, the diffuser is quite fast

Kinda. When Elephant was designed AES-NI did not exist, and so AES was expected to work at somewhere between 10-20 cycles per byte. Elephant worked somewhere between 5-10 cpb, so it was not a lot of overhead. Post-AES-NI, however, the majority of CPU time is now spent on the diffuser.

Furthermore, SSDs were not popular at the time this was designed. So the relative low speed of software AES + diffuser was not that big a deal. Now, with 500 MB/s and higher drives, cipher speed matters. For reference, 10 cpb translates to ~200 MB/s in your average 2 GHz processor.

This is not to say that removing Elephant was a good idea, but the performance argument is not entirely unreasonable. It is of course possible to design a new diffuser that can take better advantage of modern chips; maybe they should do that.
Absolutely the only thing that needs to be done in California is allowing water markets to function. We do not need to be reading Dune except for entertainment.
The FCC doesn't care. If they cared, they would end up killing fake callers and robodiallers very quickly. Only the most stupid and flagrant offenders get fined.

The FCC just needs to start handing out fines, tracing the liability up. So if little VoipCo signs up some guy from XX and lets him set any calling number without verification or lets him make a high rate of calls, bam, fine VoipCo.

It's easy and the FCC could clean it up in a couple of months. They choose not to.
Single Test for All Virus Exposure Opens Doors for Researchers
This behaviour most likely achieved the exact opposite, effectively penalizing the article on HN.
That's not exactly like computer security. With computer security you plan for the worst, not the average. That's why even a skilled hacker/coder can't break into banks or major websites on a daily basis.
Time to enable two-factor authentication on my garage.
IANAL and I didn't do any research into this.

But based on the content of the CB Press Release, and the fun we had with NY, I'd say it works as such:

You're a WY resident, and therefore the DE bank must follow the WY policies for your money. Of course this is a BTC/Digital Currency-based regulation, so...
And that times .2% gives 322 people, so 322 is a safe estimate for the number of bitcoin users in Wyoming.
Oh what a website.. WHAT A LOVELY WEBSITE!
Overuse of that comic is a pet-peeve of mine. That comic is about standards, which the entire point is for everyone to agree on. That doesn't apply to all products in general! The point of a database isn't for everyone to use the same product. It's to store data. It's not ironic in any way that there are multiple competing database products! It's only standards that have any irony in that fact!
We have to trace the corporate call stack to find our point of blame.
Yeah, I've looked into that, but you have to use their special compiler to build. I can't find a way to use it in a Maven build that doesn't require the user to install the checker framework locally.
Thats the upper limit. Not all bitcoin users use coinbase.
"Bolt is working with manufacturing partners such as the Michigan Biotechnology Institute in Lansing, which will do larger-scale fermentation in 4,000-liter tanks using Bolt’s process, and Unifi, a yarn manufacturer based in Greensboro, N.C., which will spin Bolt’s fibers into apparel-ready yarn and textiles."

From the article it seems like they're already partnering with established firms to scale up their process. So I doubt this is "perpetually five-years-off" if they have already have partners on board implementing their process.
California is sinking, and it’s getting worse
TechCrunch Writer Becomes an Investor
The Terrorist Line
IFTTT still does the same things it always has.
We've had a lot of success with moqups, it really is so simple that anyone can use it. The commenting is a little clunky but everything else works incredibly well.
It's roughly the underlying tension in Vonnegut's "Player Piano" as well.
Even on account suspension CB let's you remove your current funds. I'm assuming the customers will have a time-period where they can remove those funds.
So you assume that all BitCoin users maintain active Coinbase accounts?
Not that I've heard, but I'm just a regular contributor and not a maintainer. The last I heard, the chances were somewhere between "when pigs fly" and "LOL no". Then again, at one point the idea of supporting Windows hosts was unlikely and yet here we are.

That said, I wonder how well it'd run under Cygwin. I've never even attempted this experiment so I don't have the foggiest.
Apple Takes on a Market Full of Streaming Services
The main one I made was to switch the actual link for the Reddit RSS feed to be the main link, set the true article title as the item title, use the submitted title as the item body and add a link to the link's domain in the bottom.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RedditArticles

And another where I put the pictures inline (though the 3rd party API I was using isn't handling things too well anymore)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RedditPicturesWithPictures

I still have 146 subscribers to keep happy, though Feedburner should make any transition transparent. I'm disappointed it's going. Thank you to those who made it!
I love hearing about a database that decides to focus on replication and self-healing itself! It drives me nuts how most databases implement a data store and then leave all the complexities of sharding and replication as an exercise to the reader, who is busy trying to get other things done.

I've been looking for a database which does sharding and replication automatically and without throwing away any focus on consistency and transactions, so I figure I'm likely to use this in the future. I've struggled to try to find any others meeting these criteria.
No, it's standard for "money transmitters" to have to maintain 100% reserves. Coinbase isn't a bank. They're not a lender. "Fractional reserve" means that a fraction of a bank's assets are in cash, and the rest are in loans owed them. That's fine unless a lot of loans go bad all at once, as in 2008. Even then, it eventually worked out when the economy came back.

Here's Wyoming's law:

"Each application shall be accompanied by a surety bond, irrevocable letter of credit or other similar security device acceptable to the commissioner in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) or two and one-half (2) times the outstanding payment instruments, whichever is greater. The commissioner may increase the required amount of the bond or security device to a maximum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) upon the basis of the impaired financial condition of a licensee as evidenced by a reduction in net worth, financial losses or other relevant criteria."[1]

For most money transmitters, this isn't a big deal. They don't hold the money for long. The whole point of the business is to get funds from A to B quickly. So they don't have a large obligation to their customers at any one time.

Coinbase's "hosted wallet" service makes them a depository institution - customers have funds on deposit with them. Given the track record of Bitcoin "hosted wallet" companies, most of which have failed, requiring reserves as a consumer protection measure makes good sense. Coinbase could post a bond from an insurance/bonding company, but they'd have to convince the insurance company of their financial soundness. That they can't easily do so is a bad sign.

Coinbase should still be able to do their business of converting Bitcoins to dollars for merchants. They only hold the money for a few hours, and should be able to have reserves for that float.

If Coinbase became a bank or a broker, they'd be subject to US Federal regulation and audits, but would no longer need state licenses. They're trying to sleaze by as a "money transmitter", while acting as a depository institution, and it's not working out for them.

[1] http://legisweb.state.wy.us/statutes/statutes.aspx?file=titl...
Oh very nice named graph security support. Need to find some time too test this.
Chrome Now Automatically Pauses Flash Content That Isn’t ‘Central’ to a Web Page
List of SaaS,PaaS,IaaS free tiers offerings for devops and infradev
This reminds me of Season 4 of The Wire where Colvin runs a special classroom for the "corner kids" and sees promising results.

One of the big differences is that in The Wire they mentioned that high school kids weren't going to be impacted as much as the middle school kids they ended up doing the program with. This program seems to focus on high school, which is interesting (and exciting).
And why would they not be allowed to say no?
Show HN: Cumulus, an unobtrusive SoundCloud desktop application
Ah, I did this too! I'd forgotten about it. As I was looking, I'd continually update it to block out streets I wasn't interested in, then eventually I was only getting notifications for exactly where I wanted for exactly how much.

I also used it with Freecycle and got a fridge-freezer! (you had to be quick to get them)
Interactive map of UFO sightings
Is there any sort of cliff with the points system?

At least with a normal vesting schedule once you hit a 1 year cliff you're granted a certain portion of the equity. It seems like with the point system you run the risk of every founder just being perpetually diluted, which would ultimately un-incentivize employees.
I'm just getting into machine learning so I'm looking forward to practicing on these datasets. Thanks for sharing.
Not sure I agree. For example there's a patents set:

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/cit-Patents.html

with included patent classification data. You can also join the WikiTalk set:

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/wiki-Talk.html

against Wikipedia data. You can obtain more node attributes for these (and others) easily by joining against public sets.
Untrue. It's standard for money transmitters to obtain surety bonds, but never have I seen a 100% reserve requirement flat out.

That being said, given Bitcoin's history, I don't think Wyoming's interpretation is unreasonable.
I came here to get away from reddit but there's definitely a lot of unfortunate overlap commenting wise. I should just stop reading comments but I can't help myself.
Also relevant to understanding their choices is the Spanner paper: http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
On iOS you can only access the information of the SSID you are connected to, not a list of nearby networks.
> legal prevented us from doing any kind of long-term storage of RSS feeds

Wait, is there something legally wrong about storing RSS feed data?
back when pipes came on the scene it was so out there but it was amazing. We couldn't fathom what kind of magic was making it all work and there seemed to be so many possiblities. Future bright etc. Of course, landscape changed etc...but it was / remains a display of what is possible with the web and kind of the 'idea' of an open web/apis/all that jazz.

I am still using it to repurpose an XKCD feed into a fully formatted feed with images that then is picked up by IFTTT and tweeted out as a tweet with images when new comics go up. I used Pipes just because it was point'n'click and seemed to have all the key components I needed to do the task without worrying about the code-route.
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We operate a little like a startup within the larger organization with support from the senior leadership team.

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Email me ned@godaddy.com if any of the above rings a bell, I'd love to tell you more about the opportunity.
Nonius: A C++ micro-benchmarking framework
OP forgot to do it since it was working well it was out of mind.
No - what's happening here is we're disagreeing on the meaning of the verb "to know".
Rudder is a free iPhone that enables users to receive quick feedback on upcoming decisions. Users create polls to send to friends for immediate feedback. It’s Survey Monkey, but geared towards being social and fun.

Please let me know if you have any comments or feedback.
Guys fix your form you are showing to fields that are supposed to be hidden
White House secretly expands NSA power to collect US Internet data
Comprehensive serological profiling using a synthetic human virome
Wouldn't it be simplest to refuse more than 4 attempts per minute? I suppose it would sometimes frustrate the owner bungling the code, but stretching out brute-forcing the whole space to hours instead of minutes would make it a lot less appealing to would-be thieves...
Indefinitely is a very strong word and goes beyond the initial implications for the (small) population of Wyoming.

Under this interpretation of Bitcoin companies like Coinbase need to hold the equivalent value of their state holdings in a fiat currency (deriving it's value from government regulation), but fiat currency, aka USD, is no longer on the gold standard (a commodity currency) and thus only holds value because our government tells us it does and our collective agreement that it does hold value.

The interpretation of this law would be the equivalent of telling the native americans they need to hold USD reserves to trade in shell money regardless if all people collectively agree that shells hold value as a currency for trade. It's an attempt to continually establish USD being the standard for global currency value.

If more states follow suit set by this precedent than companies like Coinbase can't do business and the US Government crushes legitimate bitcoin uses.

This requires Bitcoin to continually evolved into an increasingly decentralized currency where both individual humans and computers agree on it's value without the inefficiencies of marketplace or government middlemen.
> had his affiliate id in all of those links

Wow that must have added up to quite the haul
Oh, god. I don't remember the details, but it involved crossing off the bottom third of candidates every round until there was only one left. But somehow, this didn't always get rid of everyone, and you could get stuck in a state where there was no bottom third.
How about having the digital signature check controlled by a physical switch on the side of the drive that defaults to "enable"? Sort of like the write protect tabs of yore.

Anyway, I wonder about the feasibility of writing your own firmware like this. The stuff is so complicated that it seems impractical to do it usefully on a production-ready level without the cooperation of the manufacturer. In an ideal world the firmware would be open source and we could tweak it as we wished, but absent that, it seems like more of an abstract concern.
Related article http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/health/single-blood-test-f...

your blood antibodies looks like a blockchain for any infectious agents you have been exposed to.
Netflix now works under Chrome (not Chromium) as of...October? But Amazon has broken as of a few months before that - they switched the DRM they use and the old solutions are no longer valid. As far as I know, there is no workable solution for Amazon video on Linux anymore.

DRM-protected video in general is a giant pain in the ass that you don't really notice on the "blessed" platforms.
Instead of closing it down, releasing the source and giving it to the community could breath live into it.
I remember being blown away by it, the fact that it was neglected and just kept on says a lot about it's good design.
This wearable defibrillator could one day save your life
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I'm sure there are tricks against battery consumption - for example - scan only when user stops driving. And when user walking scan rarely. Or maybe use Gyro/Accelerometer to estimate where the user walked.
Not sure why the Bystander effect works 'so effectively' too, but the only reason I can think of for people not helping others is because of the fear that it might involve them in years of rounds of police/courts. Especially in India (my home country), it's a big problem as more often than not you'd be taken in an endless circle of it. Moreover, you might be falsely framed in some cases yourself, in absence of any Good Samaritan law as of now.