skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome used to have this feature. History was full text searchable. I used to find old articles based only on some phrase or a few key details I remembered.

I didn't use it often, but it was handy when I needed it. Then one day I went looking and it was gone.
The ethereum foundation was given a sizeable endowment of ether currency to help advance development, as part of the launch. It will take 3-4 days before we'll have any idea of the market price of ether, and I won't speculate, but this will be a critical data point to answer your question.
Got it. I actually signed up already to use the NDA. I can see it definitely saves time and keeps things organized. Instead of going through HelloSign and Dropbox/GDrive each time I can just go to IrconClad. :)
Ask HN: Bug hunting / open source for a living
I have been curious if it is a reasonable goal to hunt bugs / develop for open source projects for a living.

Are there are any sites that have a "bounty" board for bugs and is it possible to make a good living hunting bugs?

Also, does anyone know of a good and active open source C# project? I want to spend some time contributing back to the open source community as I have used many open source tools and gained much knowledge through studying them.
Good writing indeed. And for a technical audience, I also like to use the following (if oversimplified) description of Ethereum (quoting from [1]):

"... In a way, Ethereum is like a cloud infrastructure that is extremely open. You can run any code you like in this cloud, as long as you follow some rules. Firstly, the code you run in Ethereum has to be essentially open source: you can only run your code if you publish it, unmodified. Secondly, even your database contents are public. (Privacy is still possible with client-side encryption, though client-side encryption will not work if the server also needs to read the data. In that case, preserving full privacy is still possible, though it may require sophisticated cryptography). The openness goes further: the underlying cloud infrastructure has no single owner. Rather, Ethereum is a fully distributed system, enabled by the block chain technology.

Why would anybody need this much openness? There are certain applications that truly require this level of trust and auditability. The Bitcoin currency is one example. Bitcoin already uses the same underlying block chain technology as Ethereum (in fact, Bitcoin pioneered it). It is unlikely that Bitcoin could have succeeded otherwise. Indeed, who would trust a startup that essentially prints and sells their own money, and whose founders are not known?"

[1] https://ristoalas.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/what-is-ethereum/
It's also been less of a memory hog than the equivilent chrome set up for me.
Programming for four-year-olds – No assembler required
I hope that you're just a troll and not serious. Pinterest is one of the most visited sites in the world. It requires huge technical talent to handle that much traffic and data. WTF is wrong with you?
It would make more sense to put pressure sensors someplace where a drunken yahoo with a brick couldn't cost the city $250.
Not sure if you're being facetious or not but if you were right then we would just do it on our existing phones now.

In the 90s we had slow voice recognition that took a long time to train, that would only ever work for a single user, in a silent room... If it worked at all... Which wasn't very common.
How to Accelerate Symantec Backup Exec Over the WAN
ScopeAR (YC S15) Beams an Expert to You Through Augmented Reality
Yes - they're available in the app before you pay.
This book was my introduction to Hitchens and to Orwell as something more than 1984 and Animal Farm. If all I'd ever got from Hitchens were the desire to read more Orwell, that would have been enough.
If you know it's fake, why would you bother posting it or even bringing it up?

"Its awesome living in a mansion! According to this picture, this is what my mansion looks like"

"!!!EDIT: I know I don't own a mansion, but other people do and this is what it would look like if I had one."
Clue and Arch, incongruous. ;P
Good suggestion, I'll do that! Because there are significant differences between them, and the purpose of ErlBus isn't compete with RabbitMQ at all, they are different tools to drive different problems, so is very important highlight these differences. Thanks!!
Hijacking this thread - if anyone used the official media creation tool to get a x86_64 Professional ISO, can you please post MD5/SHA1 hashes? Mine don't match anything on google.
> that's used to make it just as secure as the one-time pad, but more practical.

No. There is no such thing as "just as secure as the one-time pad but more practical". If you want information-theoretic security you have to pay for it, and if you don't pay for it you don't get it. Like, there are theorems. That's why mention of OTP is a good proxy for not understanding modern cryptography. Everyone who's serious about it knows that not only are the benefits of the OTP not achievable in almost every practical situation (due to key distribution), nobody actually needs that level of security when 256-bit algorithms are available.
You're just wasting your energy if you setup MAC Whitelisting and think that's going to help at all with security.
Why is that so horrible that marketing ad money pays for it?

And it's also not obvious that there 'is no other way to get there', but rather that way of getting there got there first.
Besides the fact that you can't turn off automatic updates (which makes Windows little more than a zombie node in Microsoft's vast botnet), the default setting is also to "send updates to ... PCs on my local network, and PCs on the Internet." Similar for the defaults in Windows Defender.
NYC receives several hundred billion gallons of rainwater each year (source: USGS). That's just counting the ~30% of the rain that actually makes it to its streams and aquifers, discounting the portion lost to evaporation and transpiration. If it's not a scarce resource, they can waste 25 gallons a minute running some free sprinklers.
Microsoft can't lock-in user to OS because most of the apps are now multiplatform so they are locking-in to their services and profiting from big data.

EU will take a look on those practices soon :)
I thought the Stanford/Sandhill area surrounding 280 was undeveloped because the land is owned by Stanford. Not so?
Do you remember how much training time you had to spend on Dragon Naturally Speaking?
No, but he's profiting off other people's misfortune.
Earlier today, they completely delivered the product they had promised during their crowdsale, and more. As a participant in the crowdsale, I am fully satisfied with the release of geth 1.0.0 and the Frontier production network.

(with the caveat that the network is still limited until Monday or so when a regular transaction load will be possible)
What seems to be happening is that we are re-inventing PCI.
It's only an issue because the original "sidestepper" sold-off, or was perhaps bullied into selling (theory), the patent to an entity. An entity that will unfortunately just hold it in a "bag of tricks" until they need it, or decide to play with it, or decide to litigate with, or decide to "license" out usage of it to another big player willing to fork over money for it.

Had an innovative tinkerer kept it, then who knows what might have happened. But I'd take a wild guess and say that the odds are more likely that a such an innovator would allow others the use/play/profit off of their novel ideas than would a large entity that sees it as a potential avenue of competition.
> it's an imitation of OTP mechanism but has nothing to do with how OTP is conventionally implemented

That's called a Viginere cipher and people stopped using it in the 19th century.
> no hassle (if not an exit)

Not 100% true, your server's IP will be banned along side the IPs of exit nodes. It seems a lot of blacklists don't bother to make the distinction.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/2abne1/hulu_blocked_af...

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/doc/ListOf...
From what I gather one has to pay you (in bitcoin of course) to get ether to even use the network.

Now once again contrast it to how Satoshi quietly created probably one of the most important projects of the last decade without asking for a cent.

You do understand that the whole crowdfunding thing quite literally sends all sorts of alarm bells rolling, especially since so many other project are doing the same.

Now granted out of all the projects i listed above yours is the most promising and the most ambitious, but once again the whole thing stinks.
Yes, obvious trolling by a Nazi username gets downvoted. Yay us!

Unfortunately, biases are rarely so blatant. Many are even non-malicious and entirely unconscious, like how people tend to guess older ages for black youth than white youth. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/03/black-boys-ol...
I think you're reading way too much into all of that, attempting to make a mountain out of a molehill just to prove an imaginary point.
My first though on reading the headline was "has New York even had fire hydrants for centuries?". It seems they actually just barely have.
There are generally pretty strict laws about how many people you can cram into how big a single-family residence. Multi-family residences (read: apartment buildings) are regulated differently.
As cool as it is, the reality is that geography changes: cities evolve, roads are built, closed, etc. Maintaining an up-to-date database of those views can only be done to serve another, very lucrative purpose, the one of which only Google & al. can offer. I don't think a community-based approach can work when the scale of effort is this high.
I think that it may be a way of saying "Latino/Latina" that is used sometimes in Spanish. As Latino is the male form and Latina the female one, sometimes a "@" (which is sort of an a and an o) is used to signify inclusion.

Maybe because I'm not American the part that confuses me is the "Hispanic" vs "Latino", are they used to mean different things?
Technically (very technically), Latin-American would include people talking French or Portuguese, while I guess Hispanic will only include Spanish speakers, e.g. not including Brazil. But I don't know if they are used in a different way in the US.
Why would a high disagreement rate "drive profits"?
You'd still maintain the hydrant form factor. The sensor would be internal.

Dibs. Going for YC '16, "Poseidon".
Maybe for Pinterest, a sum of diversity is greater than a sum of talent.

The possibility of that being true is certainly unsettling for me because I've always assumed that hiring by merit is intrinsically superior to hiring by quota.
What is your plan for increasing diversity of thought in hiring?
From the article:

The earliest “hydrants” in New York City (dating back to the early 1700s but lasting until the late 1800s) were simply buckets of water scattered around the five boroughs, left locked by the fire department so as to keep out thieves and vandals.
It could be done, but it would require a lot of hefty cryptography-centered engineering to implement zero-knowledge data sharing schemes, etc.

Who's going to pay for that?
driver. Not as often in the SF area, but in SD, a large chunk of my rides were driving people who were down and out. Once on Uber, I drove a guy 25 miles to work at a 7-11. He had killed a guy in a bar fight by accident, went to jail for manslaughter, and coming out of jail couldn't find any job. It took him an hour and half to get to work, but he was late, and if Uber wasn't there, he'd have lost his job. His girlfriend had won $100 in uber credit due to a radio promotional contest, and was using the credit to get him to work.
You know they sell things like the Surface 3 using an Intel i3 processor, and still sell Windows tablets with Atom processors, right? Just because you have a 12-core i7 with 320GB of RAM doesn't mean every Windows machine does.
> It's apparently a little-known fact that this even applies to rental cars, even though the rental car companies do their best to not tell you this.

True, but only up to ~30 days. To continue to be covered longer than that, you need a separate policy, or you need to return and re-rent a rental car every 30 days or so.

> Of course, minimal liability is only good if you have no assets whatsoever...

Having nothing to take is the oldest version of "judgement proof".
The spray cap doesn't seem insanely wasteful. Or at least, no more wasteful than a public fountain or swimming pool. The benefit seems to vastly outweigh the cost. Also, I'm guessing that NY has sufficient reservoir capacity to handle it, and the reservoirs fill up naturally when it rains, so you're not wasting a finite resource anyway.
Perhaps you should live in an area habitable to humans, then. New York's reservoirs are overflowing [1], and that's after they dump water.

[1]http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/drinking_water/maplevels_wi...
Linking several hundred objects in a dozen or so libaries out of 2.5kish objects together is going to get hairily expensive memory wise no matter what way you do it.

Compiling with debug information embedded raises that to around 12GB to do it in a practical timeframe, though it may have dropped recently with some tweaks that have been published on llvmdev. Unless you've willing to wait a few hours.

GCC is no slouch in that area either but its usage spikes feel lower.

(Source: compiler dev)
I don't think that's fair. You're assuming that because the rent is $1,000/month he's a douchebag. The bay area has prices that are higher than Manhattan's. He's trying to provide cheap housing in an area where the prices are absolutely insane (try to find a room cheaper than that in Los Altos). He makes a profit from doing so - I don't think that makes him a terrible person.

Again, no one is forcing them to live there. They can come live where I do and get a three-bedroom house for $750/month, but they apparently want to live there. He gives them that chance.
How I built Gif Fight Club in 6-ish hours (with a quick lunch)
A Young Entrepreneur's Passion for Hacking His Diet Sparks a 7-Figure Business
We are authorized & regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority as an intermediary. We have built a partnership with a European underwriter to sell policies on their behalf.

To make Cuvva possible, we've had to build every part of the system from scratch. This is mostly in Node JS, with some RoR thrown in. We also have some open source code on our Github - https://github.com/cuvva
> Can a person who does not trust the NSA trust products they paid for?

Remember a couple of things:

* The NSA relies on SELinux as a part of their internal computer security system. (However, as the NSA document leaks reveal, even the best system fails when poorly configured!)

* Both SELinux and Tor are open source software, developed in the open. It's not unthinkable that there's a problem with the design of the software of either project, but the commit history and mailing lists of both projects are available for public perusal and audit.

* Well regarded security researchers have looked at both Tor and SELinux and declared them to be reasonably well designed systems that do what they say on the tin.

Anyway. If the NSA involvement really squicks you out, there's always either Grsecurity and PaX [0] or AppArmor [1]. Grsecurity is primarily developed by Brad Spengler. PaX is developed by an anonymous cabal known as PaX Team. [2] AppArmor has been developed by Canonical (the Ubuntu guys) since ~2009.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grsecurity

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor

[2] AIUI, it is the PaX Team's refusal to identify themselves that prevents Grsecurity and PaX from ever being merged into mainline Linux.
Philae lander finds complex organic molecules like acetone on comet
https://internetbugbounty.org/ is sponsored by Microsoft, Facebook and others and honors bugs found in many open source software.
Bitcoin's big push was to make central banks obsolete. It's a temporary success, long-term failure because the blockchain grows infinitely. Soon only big corps will be able to afford maintaining instances of the blockchain. The more successful it is, the less it achieves its original goals.

Ethereum uses a blockchain and therefore has the same fault (although democratization is not a stated goal of Ethereum). I'm sure it will be a useful platform for some but the pre-mining thing leaves as bad a taste as all other alt-coins that popped up. It's the big-business version of the digital Ponzi scheme.

I'm still waiting on Maidsafe.
All of these companies capture the data to improve their recognition, heuristics, and machine learning algorithms. The pay off is that their services are vastly improved.

Ever wonder how Google was able to catch up and perhaps surpass Microsoft, IBM, and everyone else in the Voice Recognition field so quickly? It wasn't because they came up with some revolutionary algorithm overnight. It was because they very quickly amassed an archive of transcribed audio samples. How did they do that? Very cleverly with Google 411.

If you ever used Google 411 you might have noticed it worked slightly differently from regular 411. You spoke your query, the voice recognition software spoke back what it thought you said and asked if that was correct. If you said no, or it couldn't understand your reply, it connected you to an operator who first listened to what you'd said and then repeated the confirmation process with you again whilst inputting what you actually said into the system. This created a transcribed audio sample that Google could use as a test case for their voice recognition software. This allowed them to iterate much faster than other companies.
Well the first step is to check out the jobs where you meet the requirements for at http://jobs.redhat.com/job-search-results/ in your area.

After you have a good feel for what they are looking for build your profile on their site at https://careers-redhat.icims.com/connect?mobile=false&width=...

If you do not see something in your area look into the remote positions they offer and ask about relocation which they might offer if you have what they are looking for.

Who knows you might have something they are looking for and get a nice salary and benefits with a job at Red Hat Inc. to take you to the next level.
One thing (which is mentioned in the wikipedia page) is that in the metric system where e.g. meters and kilometers are related by a power of 10, a length which is a preferred number in one unit will also be a preferred number in the other unit. This does not work out for e.g. feet and miles.

So imagine you have a landscape architect designing the interior of a park and a civil engineer designing the city around it. In the metric system, their preferred placements automatically agree. In imperial units they have to coordinate that.
I agree. I like to walk and think out a problem, and especially how I'd like to approach that problem. I almost never touch the computer unless I at least know an approach to tinker with.
My argument was based explicitly on the premise that we were discussing computer/internet education and literacy, which is something that many children do not grow up with or have access to.

To your other point: Not force, but encourage. I sure as hell don't want to pay the higher taxes needed for a medical system to take care of growing levels of obesity and the expensive procedures that are required for individuals whose health problems are directly correlated to poor nutritional choices.

It's any persons's choice whether or not to eat healthy, but I would argue that a truly mature individual would recognize his/her decision's impact on the greater society that he/she is a part of, and take social welfare into account when making a decision. This prescience, not age, is what truly separates a child from an adult.
I think this is a really cool idea. One of the things we're designed to do, as the administrative layer, is take these conventions that are set up by experts and put them into software so that anyone can then execute on them. This would be a neat example.
This is amazing. Bring it to the US.
What imaginary point are you referring to?
yeah, perverse incentives like preserving natural beauty and avoiding untenable population density

edit: but if you build larger living spaces in places that nobody wants to live, i'm happy with that
I agree with you with everything except the expectation of performance of your desktop - you're underestimating the ever-growing bloat. Faster hardware is just an excuse for businesses to include more useless shi^H^H^Hvalue-added features and a way to speed up their delivery by caring about performance even less.

WRT cloud, we've already reached the point of ridicule with the new generation of Internet-connected hardware. So many useless webapps (er, "value-added cloud analytics platforms") and so many devices sitting centimeters from each other but communicating all the way around the world. There is absolutely no engineering reason for it to look that way - it's all just attempts to milk users by making them depend on cloud services.
Latin@ = Latino + Latina

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/07/168818064/...
Cool thank you all for the great feedback, I'm Robert!

Right now I am writing a book on improving Erlang performance written in the same style like my blogpost!

I will also add a few more articles in the future. :)
phone tracking and triangulation always existed, even before Google.
Honestly you can't compare Google to Microsoft.
That's what I like to hear! Excited to have you as a user. Let us know what else you want too. founders@ironcladapp.com
You submitted the same under a different username less than 24h ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9972580. Resubmission is fine, I personally don't like the idea you created a new account.
Actually, storage on blockchains has two different solutions.

1) Disk space halves in price roughly every year and a half. Currently 2tb costs $100 USD. So odds-are the price of running a full node continues to stay about static, unless transactions increase faster than 2x every year and a half.

2) clients can calculate the current state of play for every account, and then shed the past transactions past a certain point, or amortize the cost of the storage pools by each keeping a fragment of the total transactions.

Remember, transactions can't be forged, only omitted, so it's possible in all cases for a set of clients to collaborate and ensure that between them they have a complete history.

And these are just the naive approaches. See https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/26/state-tree-pruning/ for a more sophisticated approach (by Vitalik Buterin.)
This is really interesting, but I'll second the intuition that building a critical mass for StreetView-like data is probably one of the hardest thing to crowdsource.

It's just not fun to be driving each and every road around where you live. Besides, without an hemispheric camera data is really limited.
It also supports multiple identities, so passwords can have different recipients. Good if you don't want to share everything with your phone.

The best part is that the program itself is a ~500 line shell script:
https://github.com/zx2c4/password-store/blob/master/src/pass...
I noticed too but I disabled them all. Didn't you notice that?
Option Stacks: Solving the Horowitz-Altman Conundrum
Consider the one who had to come farther to get to the same point, and what that implies about how they will go in the future.
How much thought has gone into preventing underhanded [1] smart contracts? It seems like, if this catches on, there could be large rewards for sneaking in hard-to-notice "mistakes". And given how little attention people already pay to EULAs...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underhanded_C_Contest