skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met the co-founder of inPDV in TechCrunch Disrupt in SFO. He claims that 2.5 billion people in Brazil don't have access to credit/ debit cards. Consequently, they can't buy anything online.

inPDV is offering a new mechanism using which people can pay online using cash. All that they have to do is select cash in the drop down list of payment methods. These payment accounts are connected to the user's mobile phone numbers. Reloading the balance is also easy.
First BlackBerry Android Phone Has Been Confirmed for Launch
Aren't you snarky... Read carefully. I have a fourth. And that wouldn't fix it anyway. They detect it on the protocol level. They posison your DNS.
Oil Reclamation at the Offshore Drilling Platform in Nigeria
I don't know if you can tie anything to a physical painting, but you can keep track of ownership through the ledger. I don't really know what this company has planned, but if you start at the source use the shared ledger to pass on ownership, then someone can prove that they own something.

Basically like a title being passed around on the blockchain.
The Battle Over the Worst Movie Ever
Would love a source on the Gilead numbers.
The backend is irrelevant to the interface the author uses.
Awesome Opensource Documents
Why Women Have Breasts
Other interesting ruminations by Lloyd: http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/evolve/evolmenu.html
You are right, as I've commented above - I will definitely implement this functionality. If you want - feel free to create an account, and I'll send you a message when the feature is ready.
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if hundreds of minds suddenly cried out for immutable data and stateless functions...
What happens if someone steals the key but not the painting?

What happens if someone steals the painting but not the key?

What if there's two claims for the same thing?

How do you prove that thing == key?

How do you prove thing doesn't have two keys?

What if you lose the key?

It makes absolutely no sense.
This is perfect for me guys. Nice work! I travel a lot and many times the SSH ports are disabled in the networks that I use, so having a GUI over HTTP like this is very helpful for me. Only downside is the cost, I think it could be a lot cheaper.
3,357 titulaires de NDD pour représentertous les autres
German Infrared Night-Vision Devices WW2
Love the approach. Then they showed their results, and it was only 606 "tests" (showings) of 250 images? On average, just a little more than one same and one different pair-showing for each image. Doesn't strike me as a huge sample.
Articles like this help me relax a little. My programmer brain wants punctuation to be held to some absolute standard, with immutable rules. The rest of me needs the encouragement to chill out about it.
We did an interview with our production users a few months back: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/production-user-research-s...

Names you might have heard of: Dropbox, Skylight.io, Sandstorm.io, Tessel, Terminal.com, Chef, among others.
How does real money laundering work? Do you think that the other comments about electronics being sold for money laundering are also off mark? Also how realistic was breaking bad, where they brought a carwash and put it in some fake receipts.
#Hyundai_Sonata is recalled for a big problem
Welcome to the Drone Age
And especially to birds whose ecology has at least remote similarities to the dinosaur you're thinking of. Thinking about a T-Rex acting like a cassowary then realising the cassowary isn't even carnivorous is more terrifying than anything else.
You know the old saying. If you owe the bank a hundred dollars, that's your problem; if you owe the bank twenty-three quadrillion dollars, that's the bank's problem.
CoreRoller, an open source alternative to CoreOS CoreUpdate
Human resources bot for Bitcoin
Honestly, the NSA will probably do a better job of securing it and I'd trust the NSA over someone who talks like that guy any day of the week. Claiming to respect privacy is the absolute bare minimum: the NSA does it, this guy doesn't.
Insider Named at Volkswagen Shows Germany Inc. Insularity
> They are cute, but interactive diagram editors have been around a while and, unfortunately, are just faster to use and are more flexible.

Personally, I build most of my diagrams in either graphviz or LaTeX/TikZ. Graphviz constructs certain types of diagrams very quickly, as long as you don't care deeply about precise placement and layout. And TikZ integrates perfectly with LaTeX documents, and makes complex diagrams and graphs more manageable and scriptable.
I would not expect the part of a brain that deals with self-awareness is all-pervading and all-entwined. I would expect that you could disconnect cognition from self-awareness. Apparently we don't even need a self to synchronize emotions! That is a fantastic find!

I also think we can see a huge bias about some of our theories of what human beings are: Many emphasize the self; a self-aware brain can become self-obsessed. Many societies are obsessed with selves. Clearly human beings are more and less. Decentralized. A plurality of cognitions embodied in one brain.

What is the implication for sociology? Has the emphasis on individuals been too strong? The human fabric is ensembles interacting with each other, not atoms. Models of rationality talk about discrete agents. What if we can't be modeled as discrete agents? What is rationality now? Processes in my brain have competing interests, but also cooperate. Cognitive processes are probably not discrete. Can one come up with a model of rationality where the 'agents' form a continuum?
This is a really cool idea... but there's a lot more that needs to happen.

Firstly, it'd be great to auto-zoom to a zip code or city. I don't want to click 11 times to get to my home city.

Secondly, I'm confused about where you're pulling your data from; I don't believe for a second that there are only 5 jobs in the DC area.

Finally, could you implement a narrowing feature where people can find jobs in their respective fields in addition to finding the right location?

This is a great start; looking forward to more!
> There is no reason the US should be giving away IP for free

This times a million. If you fix that, most of the drug problem goes away here in the US even if you don't start letting Medicaid bargain.
Works for me on Fx 41.0, but I had just noticed Mozilla had removed all the useful information from the popup that appears on clicking the padlock icon. The only text here is pointless "secure connection" (even for EV certificates!). Firefox UI team must've gone insane.
There's also AdAway for more "traditional" system-wide ad blocking via hosts file or applications like "Tinfoil Hat" which opens the mobile Facebook site in a sandboxed wrapper so you are essentially able to view the site without using their dedicated app or needing to open an incognito tab in Chrome or Firefox before visiting the mobile site.

Ads and tracking aside, it's worth it even if just for the lowered system resource usage (my battery life improved by a decent margin even though I still check out Facebook every 1-3 days on my phone).
Perhaps this is not the right thread for it, but what exactly about the Obama administration is idiotic? I'm ashamed to say I don't really follow politics.
Netflix Hack Day
While I got excited about this at first, after spending some time on the crackberry forums, it seems the main intention of using grsec is to prevent rooting, not necessarily to protect the user. So that means no cyanogenmod or replicant, and users will be stuck with whatever custom bloatware/spyware blackberry decides it should have.

All I really want is a fully open source phone that I have control over, is that really too much to ask?
I graduated in '93 - I loved the course, but definitely butted heads (to the detriment of grades) with the Marxist tendency of the faculty

I have found the History and Philosophy of Science, to be s great preparation for a career as a developer, unfortunately the US CIS trends to disagree making visa/green-card stuff harder than it should have been
Millions are already benefiting from the shale revolution
Whew. Title made me disagree. Then I read "There’s nothing wrong with basic exposure to computer science. But it should not come at the expense of fundamental skills such as reading, writing and mathematics" and "We shouldn’t be teaching kids “computer science.” Instead, we should provide them plenty of structured opportunities to play with hardware and software. "

Agreed. Coding is a means to an end. Although I must say, 'coding' in Scratch is very helpful for my kids to better understand logic flow in their minds and think in a structured manner. It's means to an end of building something. At the end of the day, I still want them to get outside and experience the world rather that sitting in front of a computer all day. Moderation is key here.
A Q&A with NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Wow, this is incredibly well-executed. I worked in a lab with Bunnie years ago; it's great to see he's still as thoughtful and thorough as he was then. I wish I had the dedication, time and aptitude to execute as well as he does.

A great tidbit:

I designed a very simple protocol which will only reveal if your friends are nearby, and nothing else. Every badge emits a broadcast ping every couple of seconds. Ideally, I’d use an RSSI (receive signal strength indicator) to figure out how far the ping is, but due to a quirk of the radio hardware I was unable to get a reliable RSSI reading. Instead, every badge would listen for the pings, and decrement the ping count at a slightly slower average rate than the ping broadcast. Thus, badges solidly within radio range would run up a ping count, and as people got farther and farther away, the ping count would decrease.
As someone with a startup that operates in both India and China, I completely agree that India will be the next big thing.

Both are messed up in their own ways. The difference is that in India, things are generally getting better. There are exceptions but the trend is moving towards a better internet ecosystem.

China on the other hand is a case of how to F* things up. They modernized their tech backbone so quicky hundreds of millions of people have access to fast (20 mbps+) internet. From there the government has made it virtually impossible to have a global tech focussed startup in China.

Just an example- npm repos are by default blocked in China. Apparently the automatic version control ended up with a number sequence that corresponds in some bamboozled way with a black date that's censored. Government had a hissy fit and therefore NPM is blocked. You have to reconfigure to use Chinese locally hosted repos which is a security risk (Read: IOS malware in Chinese versions of software)

We also got stung with a government request for data on users. Since the law in China changes with every government official you meet, some of the shit they ask for is beyond rediculous. To be fair, it's also happened in India, but the frequency is decreasing.
That is my initial reaction, as well. (well, not the "stop snitching" part).

They have basically hacked into these persons private accounts repeatedly.
It would be great if there is a some kind of tool with predefined objects like the square, table, start and so on. So you can easily added to your text
Skinner-box rats trained to predict currency market movements
You don't need to appeal to "quantum effect" to think that being able to understand, well enough to simulate, THE SIMPLEST NEURAL SYSTEM of any organism would be helpful before jumping in feet first with 1 billion euros into the most complex neural system. Of course it is a process over 10 years and they have "only" spent 200 million so far. I would expect that quite a bit of that money is going to study model organisms from c. elegans to mouse to chimpanzee. Studying simpler model organisms is one of the best ways we have to understand fundamental biological principles.
Great example of panopticon-like surveillance leading to people self-censoring since they are afraid of being monitored.
Because of that mistake I had a hard time of understanding the actual topic. What is it that they are trying to say?
You can borrow something that's on the heap as well. And you can safely share pointers into stacks across threads with the right libraries, too. See https://crates.io/crates/crossbeam
What Happens When a Seal Woman Gets Angry?
I applaud and welcome the freestylers who know the rules (as far as they exist) and choose to be playful with the written form to enhance meaning and communication.

I decry those who just don't know yet respond to critique with claims about how language is a living thing and what's "correct" changes all the time.

Sadly, the two can look identical on the page :(
> I also think we can see a huge bias about some of our theories of what human beings are: [...]

I agree. A common theme in articles like this is the suggestion that when our subconscious mind does something, it's "not us doing it", as if your conscious experience is all that counts as "you".
iPhone 6S and 6S Plus set an opening weekend sales record of 13M+ units
I was curious so I googled. The ban was lifted. The ban was put into place because people were broadcasting provocative and violent videos showing torture and cutting throats of cows (sacred to Hindus in neighbouring Indian states). Eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzSBk6n1olU

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation...
Old previous discussion (with a different URL): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632374 (90 points, 2312 days ago, 66 comments)
I love how fast you can get productive in Kotlin. With

https://github.com/jetbrains/workshop-jb

and some glimpses into the documentation you can get productive within a day or two.

It may not be as expressive as Scala but still is a huge improvement over Java (or even Groovy).
Yours sounds a great approach. I've tried many, and I always look at negative reviews, however I should weigh them more.
WW3+STARTED+ABOUT+2.30+am+THIS+MORNING+-+YouTube
Saving you some clicks:
(from the link)
"This is an extended version of a column written for the UK Times newspaper by Weir Group CEO Keith Cochrane and published on 28 September 2015. "

(from wiki)
"The Weir Group plc is an engineering company headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company operates in over 70 countries employing approximately 14,000 people focused on mining, oil and gas and power markets."
This is pretty cool, a project that directly addresses a problem faced by many millennial travelers including myself.

A few questions that are unclear: do you still need WiFi on your phone while traveling for the service to work? The mechanism for placing calls is still unclear, as opposed to receiving calls.

Republic Wireless and Google's Project Fi seem to be tackling related problems.
I've never considered getting a tattoo. I don't even put bumper stickers on my car. Some say I'm boring.
That's a different issue. That's a file that makes certain systems misbehave. The drives are dumb storage.

When your storage device itself is smart and compromised, you can't even verify what its contents are. Things get much worse.
The other day we wanted a copy of the children's book 'Vincent the Vain', a short picture book about a gorilla. 'Daily Deal' are selling a copy for £999.11. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0747584990

But they're the only people selling a new copy, so its not a feedback loop as in OP. So whats going on there?
The hard SF novel Blindsight, by Peter Watts, is an excellent and extremely interesting exploration of this idea and its ramifications.
Isn't 8mb of L3 cache a huge amount for a phone with 2 gigs of ram? A $260 Intel i5 6600 only has 6mb
Not for people that refuse to use it.
I didn't really understand this part:

decrement the ping count at a slightly slower average rate than the ping broadcast

Is he saying he's reducing the power of each subsequent transmitted ping, causing nearby units to see more pings than far away units, or something else entirely?
I think this is completely wrong. The NIH funding is already the way it is. There was no special offer for Gilead. For people to come after the fact, and state that we know what is a reasonable profit is the height of arrogance and greed.

Gilead did something that was once considered far off - they created a CURE for Hepatitis C. Because they created a cure, we are infinitely better off in that regard - before there were 0 people getting reliably cured, now there is a number greater than 0 getting reliably cured of hepatitis C.

In 20 years, the patent will expire and whoever wants to can make this for free if they want.

I propose the following compromise. Let the government create and fund a biomedical research lab for creating new drugs. The process for drug approval should be the exact same as for everyone else. Any drug that the government's lab discovers and gets approved can be given away or whatever the government wants. Any drug not discovered by them, they should let the companies that actually discovered the drug set the prices.

This is hacker news created by YCombinator. Will a VC fund a startup whose best case return is 10x investment? Would we rather have more money/effort invested in curing disease or making "sharing economy" apps? I think companies that do save lives should have outsize rewards. For government to step in and try to change that would be killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
Great slides! I hope we'll be able to adopt this style for our introductory materials
“open standard” just means is that there's a spec which you could use to produce a compatible encoder or decoder.

A published standard has that advantage, but I think when most people talk about "open standards" they are implying a standard that can freely be implemented, in much the same way that for example Open Source software implies more than mere visibility of the source code.
What Apple's Mandate of HTTPS in iOS 9 Means for You
Here is a screenshot of the dialog http://i.imgur.com/8mldN68.png

The fix to this one would be to use something non-blocking, I guess.
iOS 9 Search API: Apple’s Trojan horse to make your content King
SVG cannot be entered by humans in the same way this can
You can use SSLH and other similar software to multiplex HTTPS and SSH (along with a few other protocols) on the same port, so if 443/TCP is allowed, you can just use SSH.
Introducing U-SQL – Makes Big Data Processing Easy
Data.Bytestring is still not as fast as it could be.
Just try counting the number of eol characters in the bytestring (or any kind of character). Now do the same with `wc -l`. They did make the library perform well, but there are tiny details that squeeze the most out of your hardware and they seem to be a nuisance to do, even when you're thinking about performance.

Despite that, fusion is beautiful and happens without all of that verboseness that makes the same thing in C++ work.
DualSpark Acquired by Datapipe
Huh didn't realize others do the same thing. I thought up this same method 7-8 years ago and I don't think it has ever steered me wrong. I may not always appreciate the book, but I can tell it is simply something that doesn't work FOR ME, which is always hard to gauge before you actually read something.
I hate the generic sounding levels anyway, they explain nothing. I'd much prefer to see business relevant levels.

Those vulnerability still can fit into nice categories like 'remote code execution' 'denial of service' 'local code execution' 'remote information leak' 'loacal information leak' and those could also directly communicate what the bug is all about without 500 words explanation for each single level.
Clipboard.js – Modern copy to clipboard without Flash
And if you need to have a h.264 fallback anyway, then any alternative codec starts at a disadvantage, as it can only have marginal gains in return for the extra encoding.
Using ES2016 Decorators to Publish on an Event Bus
Not exactly. If you use an standard VPN protocol right out of the box (read: OpenVPN), then yes it is automatically blocked. The OpenVPN SSL handshake is different to regular SSL.

There are certain ways you can disguise the traffic and the VPN companies that specialize in China do that- but the GFW is regularly updated so what works today probably won't work next month.

The other issue is that even if you do get a VPN working, they have a tendency to throttle your connection. VPN traffic is quite different to your regular http/https.
Microsoft expands Azure Data Lake to unleash big data productivity
Reminds me of Julian Jaynes' ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology) (And if I remember correctly, the original study is referenced in his book)
Ask HN: What Reddit “Subreddits” Are Good to Make the Site Informative/Useful?
I've never bothered much with Reddit except to browse a few gifs or funny videos here and there. But there are some pretty useful "subreddits" and it seems like it could turn into a relatively useful site if one unsubscribed from all the "default" subreddits and subscribed to only a curated list.

For example, datasets, dataisbeautiful, programming are all pretty interesting and useful.

Does anyone have a list of suggestions of subreddits to make Reddit more akin to HackerNews?
Last year, I did a statistical analysis with the same data and can confirm that the data is robust: http://minimaxir.com/2014/12/reddit-statistics/

The Comment data set is already on BigQuery, allowing for quick analysis without having to download that corpus (example: https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3kfnmq/reddit_sub... )

Once the Submission dataset is also on BigQuery, I'll write a blog post with more info on how to use it.
Seven Jaw-Dropping Applications of Cloud
The only clue on their website seems to be 'Each product is labelled with Block Verify tag', but this in itself is useless:

* How can I tell that the label is genuine? With expensive items, an attacker can spend a lot of money creating an exact replica of a label. There's no hologram/anti-tamper system that's undefeatable.

* If we assume that Block Verify's tags are trustworthy and tamper-proof, and there's no way they could be duplicated or placed on to a fraudulent item, then at this point we don't actually need a blockchain to prove anything, as the label is proof enough.
PlantUML does the same thing also.
Well, we are unplugging them.
At my last job, I wrote a bit about this:

https://sellerengine.com/top-5-myths-about-amazon-repricing-...

It's a funny situation to be sure, but remember that somebody was trying to sell that book, and their software screwed up in a way that just shouldn't happen, preventing them from making that sale.
When your iphone suddenly seems slow? (In German but a picture)
"if a __system__ is 'old'" is the key phrase here.
Glitch hits Visa users with more than $23 quadrillion charge (2009)
"open standard" does, in various contexts, mean you can use it without paying a royalty, including in the W3C, the EU, and various other national governments and standards bodies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard