skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "all-in-one card processors" do you mean payment gateways? The majority of them do offer built-in fraud protection, though the efficacy varies a lot. In fact, Stripe also offers it: https://stripe.com/docs/fraud

But if you think about the case he describes in the article, there is very little distinguishing a fraudulent purchase to test the validity of a credit card vs a legitimate one, unless they are completely careless and initiate multiple transactions from a russian IP, in the middle of the night.

The biggest problem is the very expensive chargeback fee from Stripe. It looks like he could avoid some of them by, for example, reporting accounts that had no activity as fraudulent and refunding the purchase before being hit with a chargeback claim, but I don't see how putting such a burden on businesses makes sense to begin with. A fee that grows in proportion to the % of chargebacks the company generates would be more fair.
Which premises of Rails have you rejected? I'm just now starting to learn it. It seems very inflexible so far, and a lot of things seem too magical (I'm used to being able to follow where things are being set on a step by step process), but it does seem like if it finally clicks I should be able to crank out my website concepts a lot faster.
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You can write your own firmware, but when you distribute the router you should distribute everything needed to build it with it.
Hey commentzorro, thanks for your comment. I am not sure I follow how you are connecting difficulty in bankrupting to higher rates. If anything, opposite will be true (if your assertion is correct) as they will eventually get most of their money back. Consumer bankruptcy laws are fairly well defined in the US (not that it is nice for the consumer but there is a process) so it is not quite driven by the banks although they probably wrote the legislation around it.

If you ask me higher rates are justified because consumer's get tricked into it. Take department store cards for example, they charge 25% - 30% because no one thinks they need to carry this balance forward when they are buying a refrigerator -- they just want the 15% off at point of sale and 0% for 6 months is a bonus. Fast forward 6 months, they have not paid it off and the credit card company calculates interest by going back in time as those interests were 'deferred'. Now with all the compounding they end up getting stuck in debt for much longer they needed to be.

For people we give credit to, we focus on consumers with good credit. For others, we will still service them and help them by optimizing their payments and those payments will directly come from their checking account.

Edit: I want to clarify one thing. When I say good credit -- it does not mean you need to have a FICO Score or long history. We look at everyone holistically so it comes to down whether you are a responsible borrower measured across many dimensions.
There is an infinite set of things you can't do with that device even though you own it. You can't turn it into a surfboard, a dishwasher, or a birdcage. You also can't turn it into a customized router, apparently.

Maybe it's just me, but this seems like an easy thing to get over by buying some different hardware. Instead of stressing out about this particular WNDR3800, focus your angst on the general case, which is the FCC's attempt to make it illegal to upload custom firmware to any router.
Sort-of not supported, it can still get unofficial-official security updates until 2019.
Parents. It comes with a two-year "no questions asked" warranty and free access to tons of media curated by an independent third party.
There is also "Turing Computability With Neural Nets" (Seigelmann, Sontag, 1991 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/08939659919...)

This paper shows the existence of a finite neural network, made up of sigmoidal
neurons, which simulates a universal Turing machine. It is composed of less than
10^5 synchronously evolving processors, interconnected linearly. High-order
connections are not required.
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Good to hear. Thanks!
This is precisely why you store your signing keys in a HSM attached to your build server, precisely so that it's impossible to leak them (either by malice or incompetence).
the discount window lending rate is pegged to be 50 basis points above the federal funds rate, so, yes, they thought of that.
KYC/AML law only apply to financial institutions.
I think you greatly overestimate the state's interest in hiding the violence they perpetrate, and underestimate how little people care about their country using violence, at least in this country and many eastern ones.

In revolutionary France, as part of the purge of the old monarchy and replacement with a republic, there was a need for a more efficient way of killing people. See, the people wanted to kill all the old royals, but the old method was hanging, drawing and quartering, which besides being labor-intensive and incredibly painful, often used a stand-in in place of a rich nobleman. They wanted something more humane, more egalitarian, and of course, more efficient, since they had a lot of people to kill. The guillotine was introduced, and from Wikipedia:

"Its operation became a popular entertainment that attracted great crowds of spectators. Vendors sold programs listing the names of those scheduled to die. Many people came day after day and vied for the best locations from which to observe the proceedings; knitting women (tricoteuses) formed a cadre of hardcore regulars, inciting the crowd. Parents often brought their children. By the end of the Terror, the crowds had thinned drastically. Repetition had staled even this most grisly of entertainments, and audiences grew bored."

During both the Russian and Chinese revolutions, death tolls of those executed as traitors or proponents of the old empire were published widely by the state. After World War II, traitors were again executed in great numbers, and even during the war a "blocking detachment" might stay behind the lines to execute any deserters.

America has also had public execution pretty much since day one. Hanging was our preferred method before the electric chair, and then lethal injection. We make sure that both the families of the victims can witness these deaths, as well as other witnesses, and they're widely covered in the news media. We are still the only Western nation left that practices capital punishment, mainly because people here love it so much that they can't seem to pass a law banning it or follow the UN resolutions that ban it.

Now, there's plenty of abuse doled out by oppressive regimes against their people. But this abuse is still not necessarily propagandized or even hidden. A state may use secrecy and intimidation to continue their abuse, but propaganda is used more often to bolster some case the state is trying to make. Anyway, in modern times it's far more common for corporations to use propaganda to defend themselves from democracy than for the state to use it against its people.
Flyspray: A lesson in how not to monetize open source projects
This demo is better, lets you adjust latency: http://http2.golang.org/gophertiles
The market is down more because of commodities and China concerns than a rate hike.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/24/investing/stocks-markets-sel...

People are alot more concerned about trade with China than a token Fed Rate hike, sorry.
But that is not a reason to dismiss it. It is still not inherently incapable of being tested, but it may still be quite some time before science is at a point where hypotheses from evolutionary psychology/sociology can be tested in the same way that hypotheses in evolutionary biology can. Imagine how little there was to support Darwin originally and how much technology that now is used to find the evidence that supports evolution did not exist back in his time.
Does Paypal ameliorate the problem? Is there less fraud if you accept Paypal only?
It's good to see self-assigned liberal psychologists realizing the field's weakness in it's near-universal acceptance of the "liberal progress narrative", and the need to push for more diversity in the narratives it embraces.

Perhaps they should set a quota for grad student political affiliations :) ?
Original article here (open access, happily): http://www.cell.com/cell-systems/abstract/S2405-4712%2815%29... .

This is my subjective impression, but it seems like aging research is starting to gain traction, with interesting results appearing relatively frequently. It gives one hope, either of immortality or a more pleasant old age.
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Anonymous business. No street address. Not in Dun and Bradstreet. "Private registration" domain. And they want you to deposit money with them. Yeah, right.
One of the dot plots from a FOMC member released today -- they are anonymous, so we do not know which one -- specifically forecast (i.e., advocated for) negative real interest rates.

EDIT:

Here it is: http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/files/201...

And here is this past June's dot plot:

http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/files/201...
>> Because there is more to performance optimization than just using SIMD types.

But that doesn't explain the lack of language support for 3- and 4-element vectors (or even 2d). I think the GCC intrinsics are nice, they allow you to pass by value and are cross-platform with x86, ARM NEON, and AltiVec.

So many people think SIMD is somehow about parallel computation, but to me the obvious use is small vector math with basic vector types and standard operators.
In general, sure. In this instance, this is a bad policy decision. The title of the article is substantiative. It only seems like link bait at the shallowest possible reading level.
Actually, the "no questions asked" warranty is only on the "Kids edition" which is $100. The Kids edition is the $50 tablet + a case + "FreeTime", and the 2 year replacement warranty.
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I'm assuming just the general business cycle which averages a recession every 6 years or so. Plus negative interest rates being the only tool available to the Fed during a new recession.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/businesscycle.asp
Don't say "incompetent" when you mean "they don't give a fuck" or "this software was subcontracted to the India".
Doesn't Uber India have cash payments?http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/11/uber-is-testing-cash-paymen...
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>Like you said is few. Let them be? It's likely they generate word of mouth and other value being invested enough to go thru the hassle.

This sounds a lot like the arguments piracy apologists use. A lot like the arguments people looking for free web design use. I am very skeptical whenever anyone asks for anything to them for free now because it will somehow (nebulously) come back to me later in a good way.
We would love to see more support for GitLab.com. Things are moving the right way with https://about.gitlab.com/applications/, also CodeShip is considering support now as are many others. But we have some way to go, please keep telling the services on Twitter. By the way, what integration would you like to see first?
Your Nexus 7 did not cost 50 bucks three years ago.

(Also it's hardly junk because you don't like the price)
I know I'm being snarky, but literally the only campaign position he has published[0] is his "plan" for immigration reform.

[0]https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions
I think it makes sense to require that any automated firmware updates be signed by the device manufacturer and this this key is never released. This is to protect consumers from malicious third parties who may attempt to install malicious firmware.

Then there can either be an option to disable this check or a large warning that is produced when you try to install unsigned code. There's really no point in code signing if everyone has access to the private keys.
IMHO a well-documented JTAG, USB, or serial interface on the board to change the trust root would suffice.

If you wanted to prevent evil maid attacks, then a time lock would actually be more secure than a fixed trust root with respect to downgrade attacks and leaked keys.
On the contrary - I'm glad to hear that he'll remain safe, hopefully, from here on out.
I'm thinking about, say, a big array of cheap, powerful-enough dedicated ARM/MIPS CPUs, used on-demand, one for each VM.
All this is true for compiling for the integer ALU as well. Exactly because the actual optimizations depend on the architecture, they should be done by the compiler.

Yes you can do much better by hand-writing assembly, but right now that's rarely done. So compilers try to vectorize scalar code we give it in languages like C, which is much harder than optimizing code that's already written in vectors like int32x4 or float64x2.
Thanks, Brandon. My friends from the industry are already starting to hate us :)
The Internet Archive people are working on it. They are kinda busy and there is not much we can do at this point.
No, they're not. That said, there is no valid engineering reason why any web app should require more than 512MB of memory to run with minimal user load.

User load is what bumps up the RAM requirements. If the active user count is in the single digits and you're running into problems with RAM, either something is deeply misconfigured on your server, you have a ton of data, or the codebase is poor.
Yea it's a bit tougher when you're not in sales. Still, you can look up market value for your role in the area you're in.
This article is about nurses in care homes. They aren't under the same constraint as an ER nurse.

Reason why ER nurses work 12 is continuance of care. You're better off being looked after by 2 shifts who are familiar with your case rather than 3 or 4. More people just add complexity
People who are not technically literate and bought into the Amazon eco system.

Also Hearthstone players where, with the right combination of events, you can buy in-game currency at a discount that likely exceeds the $50 [if you buy $500 worth of in game currency, which is not unusual in a TCG, you only need a 10% discount to effectively get a "free" tablet]

http://hearthstoneplayers.com/today-only-special-bonus-on-am... [40% discount, spend $200 and end up with a free tablet]
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The second, major issue was that I had hoped, naively, that the web community will swoop in and pony up some cash.

With JS Bin, everything users need is given away and open source. That's honourable, but doesn't pay the mortgage.

He has come up with a very jaded either/or point of view. You can visit Patreon and find sites being supported by user "donations". There are sites making money on ads. There are sites making money on product sales. There are sites supporting staff from a combination of the above.

It is naïve to think "If you build it, they will throw money at it," but that doesn't mean you can either cut your own throat by giving it away for free until you feel like a chump or you can hold everything hostage until people pony up.

It's fine if you have a service that works well with a pay per use or subscription model of some sort, but lots of services are not monetizable that way. Television, print magazines, newspapers and on and on have to find ways to pay the bills using a combination of charging the end user and selling advertising and possibly other things I am not thinking of. As far as I can tell, it would not work to only charge the end user for quite a lot of things we use regularly.

The world would be a poorer place if the only services that lived were ones that charged the end user. There are some services that are just not conducive to that model.

I hope he revisits the question of how to monetize JS Bin. Do some brainstorming. Do some research. Try to figure out a monetization scheme that is a good fit for the specific service in question.

I think the best salve for this wound would be a monetization scheme that works. There are enough embittered, jaded people in the world already. We need to find more ways for people to follow their bliss and also pay their bills.
This isn't new, unfortunately. I believe there were complaints about it a few months ago.
Hmm, so instead of Facebook Ad we should create click-bait articles as a form of free advertising. Thanks.
I've heard it said that the Federal Reserve Chair is the second most powerful person in the world after the US President.
Yep..

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/uber-gets-serious-about-cas...

And the Uber design post about how they made it work (in broad terms);

https://medium.com/uber-design/designing-the-uber-cash-exper...
I would expect there to be an obvious difference between a PC version and a PS4 version of the same game even if both are running at 1080p. You should run the PC version at 1080 and compare to that.
The big one is "Convention Over Configuration", which means there are magical things you can do that have lots of wonderful side effects. If you put a file in the right directory, the Rails engine will react by doing lots of things in lots of different parts of the request lifecycle. You don't have to connect your routes, views, and controllers, you just have to structure them correctly on the filesystem and you let Rails glue everything up. This tradition has been carried on by Ember.

It is great when it works... after spending a year or so in Rails, you are able to make lots of things happen with just a few lines of code. But it makes debugging a nightmare. Even after several years of Rails programming I would often find myself in a situation where I needed to debug down into Rails internals just to understand what was happening so that I could figure out where my code was wrong.

A good contrast would be raw (no framework) PHP. If you want to know why your PHP script isn't working, it's easy to figure out what's going on: Just look at the URL, get the name of the file, start from the top of that file and trace through your code until you find the problem.

Ember (although I love it) is very similar to Rails in this regard. It took me about a year to get to the point with Ember where I knew what magical buttons to push to make things happen. But I also found myself continually needing to debug into the framework to understand why my code didn't work. To their credit the Ember folks are doing well to mitigate this problem by having good error messages and documentation.

You also see the same complaint come up a lot in regards to the ActiveRecord pattern. It has you set up a bunch of declarative facts about your data model, and then then your giant ActiveRecord library does a lot of super smart things in response to a simple command like "update". It's cool when it works, but when it's not doing what you expect it's miserable to debug into the query builder. These days I'd much prefer just to have a good, imperative (do this, then that) interface on top of SQL.
because there are no key bindings aimed at the text editing areas and I can't even drop into vimium because there are so many potential key binding conflicts.
9+1 reasons why Snapchat is so popular
>It's a hostile piece of regulation which very severely disincentivize you from starting a business

Would this fall under regulatory capture? I'm not sure to what extent existing international businesses worked to get this established.
May yield... May lead...May replace. That's a lot of maybe. I submit that from purely a business ROI pov, you are far better off building a 'very complex hand engineered system' as you put it, since that's the natural outcome of hiring say a bunch of rails/python devs at pennies on the dollar on some offshoot dev portal. Building a nicely tuned scalable RNN model in the industry requires a team with 100x intellectual capabilities for which you will pay 100x, and there may not be a mature business case for that yet.Though I agree much of these skills are being commoditized rapidly.
> But that is not a reason to dismiss it.

As long as you recognize that absence of evidence cuts both ways. Assuming physiological predisposition towards religion and strong leaders, it's also possible that the disposition developed because God actually exists.

What came first, religion or God? Can you prove that scientifically? I'm not sure you can.
This was a great read. The VATMOSS stuff was especially scary. I don't understand why there isn't a lower bound on how much money you have to make before you have to worry about bureaucracy like that =/

Monetizing foss projects is hard. It's funny... at this very moment, in another corner of Github, there are people fighting against ads being introduced in Flyspray, a self-hostable gpl issue tracker. There's good discussion in the commit and it's a perfect lesson in how not to monetize FOSS projects.

I thought it was relevant so I submitted the details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10235858
Why call a salary inflated, if lawyers or doctors still make more? I have yet to meet one lawyer who feels his salary is undeserved or inflated.

Unprofitable businesses (startups) don't even pay their employees that much. The established/big players pay higher salaries and do not depend on much credit at all.
Why not make a stop at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology? It's not far from Urbana-Champaign if the Y Combinator folks have a presenter to send.
I would even go a step further and say that probably more than 50% of scientists have a Mac laptop as their personal computer at this point. In DoD, I can't install anything in my office computer. So if I hadn't had iPython up and running on my mac, there's no way I'd have gotten to the point (over years) of going to present a project to the HPC guys on Monday.

Very, very glad Anaconda exists.
My customers use cheap Fire tablets as e-signature collection devices.
OAuth Authentication on tvOS
Hey {{big company}} please hire a UI guy
Okay if I understand correctly, you just hate targeting ads with tracking not any ads right? Then instead of using ad blocker, you can opt out from cookie tracking on NAI so all participating companies of NAI (which covers almost all major players in the ad network industry) will not use your cookie.
Mods: That domain should be blacklisted. Seems to proxy medium.
> Anonymous business. No street address. Not in Dun and Bradstreet. "Private registration" domain.

This will be more and more common and isn't a bad thing. None of those provide any real safeguards and frankly, private domain registration is pretty common. I wouldn't dump > a half weeks paycheck in there, but measuring risk and reputation will no longer be a simple BBB or Dun and Bradstreet lookup.
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The HN guideline is "Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait." Does that answer your question?
How is PyKE? Pros and cons?
Just took a loot at the SourceForge site for it, will check it out later, but appreciate any feedback based on your use of it.
>I'm assuming just the general business cycle which averages a recession every 6 years or so.

That's a rather large assumption IMHO. Prior conditions do not necessarily hold true in the future. We went ten years from 1991 to 2001 without a recession. We are due for a recession the same way Yellowstone is due for an eruption.

>Plus negative interest rates being the only tool available to the Fed during a new recession.

This does worry me.
I agree with you dang, but the title is a bit vague. A random war reporter quitting isn't interesting. I clicked on the link to scan over it, and was surprised to see it was CJ Chivers, and ended up reading the entire article.

Maybe a better title would be "Why War Reporter CJ Chivers Had to Suddenly Stop"

but I suppose the name doesn't add anything if you don't think people will recognize his name.