skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what happens when you effectively have a monopoly: a terrible product with a huge price.

Only it turns out they don't have a monopoly! And like most monopolists, rather than try to compete, they want to just shut down the competition.
IAmA with Bill Binney, Former NSA Tech Director
That's not how the fiat system works out (there's no borrowing from the federal reserve). You deposit $10, they loan out $9, which ultimately ends up back in a bank account to be further loaned out.
Some parents try to use their children for personal gain, whether social or financial. My hypothesis is that a person who is selfish through his or her life will remain so even after having children. Habits don't break easily, especially if they are needed to satisfy insecurities. I honestly believe that many parents publicly "care" about their children only because it would make them look bad if they didn't. Hence, it's just a show. I had only one parent, and that parent couldn't have cared much less about my future. This is not to say that anyone else (other than myself) cared more. I didn't mean to suggest that non-family cared more than family. I also didn't mean to suggest that nobody has caring family and friends, since I'm sure some do.
Kubernetes: Zero downtime update while handling one million req per sec
I Wonder Why People Block Ads
Main concern is that people fully expect issues to be found down the line. Would I bet $100,000 that we won't discover any currently-unknown harmful side effects from vaping in the next thirty years? I wouldn't. It's similar to how with each iteration of safer food-grade plastic we end up finding something harmful about it.

It's not a good reason to make it illegal, as I think harm should be proven before making something illegal, but I like that people are exercising some skepticism and concern over the unknown unknowns for a new technology, especially one that involves smoking.
For someone who's handle is "1024core" your integer arithmetic sure is pretty bad...
As an aside, I love the lego diagrams.
The payments will need the appearance of being inexpensive/free, so Apple needs to first use network effects to capture a chunk of the market, then they will strong-arm Banks into paying fees to Apple (They need to earn their 3% or whatever on every payment somehow) which the banks will then indirectly forward to customers.
Why are you talking about "with the same name as your WiFi"? That might change things (the people setting up the rogue network would be deliberately interfering with your network, after all), but as far as I can see that's not what anybody is doing here.
It's glycerine. AFAIK that's about as safe as water.
On the one hand, a known and potent human carcinogen.

On the other, an application of the precautionary principle that may well be just as applicable to the acrylamide on french fries.

How does this make sense as a vector for backlash?
I don't have any citations but it seems unlikely given that there's certainly no law that requires building structures to not block cell service. (I've been in enough buildings that seem to pretty much act as Faraday cages.) Intent matters I suppose but seems pretty unenforceable.
Middleman is amazing, I build all of my sites with it...it's a nice mix of Jekyll's ease with the flexibility of being able to write as much templating/backend logic as you need (basically, the ability to use Erb). For any site in which you don't need a database, in which your content can be serialized as several hundred JSON/yaml objects, I think Middleman is fantastic.
If Apple introduces this, it will likely require scalability higher than that of the current blockchain, which allows for roughly seven transactions per second. Peer-to-peer is definitely the way forward, but for now, banks have the infrastructure, and the customers.
My grandmother was a 'mischling' (mongrel), half Jewish on her father's side (a doctor who converted to christianity for convenience), and a gentile mother. Both died before the war, and she was orphaned, interrogated by the Gestapo, imprisoned (for listening to the BBC), and survived through begging for her life.

Though half her family were wiped out in the Holocaust, she still casually said to me in her old age that 'the Jews must have done something' to provoke such a response.

I don't hold with that, but it does give some indication of how brutal the world view was, and how everyone bought into the anti-semitism - even Semites. If you think she was a one-off, then read up on Wittgenstein, who wrote about the 'dirty Jew' inside him.
Tote Boards: The engineering of horse gambling
Caffeine also has CVD impact, as well as GI and mental health.
It was a publicly traded company.
Isn't your premise only true if it's impossible or very hard (in absolute terms, not relative to rich people) for poor people to get richer? "Feudalism," while not being very well-defined as far as I know, implies that the lower class has a low quality of life.
That's not what fractional reserve banking is at all.
Capturing rents is the original workable business model.
Seems to me more like a well-executed Surface RT than a Surface Pro.
One of the (many) reasons I went vegan was to cut my impact on the environment. I don't own or use cars. Where I can I walk, where I can't I take public transit. I've made considerable changes to what and how I buy, to source food with less of a total impact. I've started to look at alternative clothing and technology strategies to reduce my environmental impact there too.

I know there are plenty of geeks who have done similar things. The truth is that a new tech or more companies aren't going to solve this problem - the problem is we (who live in large economies) now live in a world which is completely separated from the daily realities of where our stuff comes from. We have spent the last 50 years enabling large mono-cultures and promoting specialization - which has done amazing things for food availability - at the expense that now a single plate of food easily contains ingredients from every continent - at a huge environmental impact. Similar trends have happened in manufacturing, textiles and practically every other industry.

Trends in tech that might help us:

* Hyper-local agriculture

* Locally-efficient down-cycling / recycling programs - for clothes, tech...pretty much everything.

* Teaching people how to buy and cook produce.

But the truth is that every individual needs to make a transition in how they live - that means eating less (hopefully no) meat and animal products, repairing instead of buying new, developing ethical supply chains (starting by knowing the supply chain is a good start!)

And yes, companies need to change and adapt too...that means more environmental regulation, more incentives to develop and adopt renewable sources of energy - how we structure those is completely beyond my expertise though...and I don't have much hope there.
I live in the Bay Area and this is the second time I've heard of it. Nobody I know uses it. Square, occasionally.
I give the French credit on that angle. They're certainly in the lead for practical R&D + tools for building and verifying software. Especially anything coming out of INRIA or Meyer's teams.

I never heard of AdaCore being French, though. Only two of the Executive Team (below) were educated in France with most of them (and Ada itself) coming out of U.S. (esp NY). Headquarters is split between the two at least in Contact page. I could be way off so anyone feel free on input to this.

http://www.adacore.com/company/about/executive-team/
Your example arbitrarily indents and new-lines. If that's what's on the table, then nothing is really going to help you.

if (x
> 100) { console
.log('hello') } else
{ console.log
('world')}

When it comes to if/else and if you indent with some sanity, then lisp is like Python: if the 'else' branch is too hard to spot or if you forget the context by the time you reach the 'else', then your 'if' branch is simply too many lines long. Or you should flip the condition so that the short branch comes first.

Meanwhile, I can't even write your lisp example as-is in any of the editors I tried it in.
How can we assume this?

Obviously we can't know for sure – but it does seem like a pretty safe assumption. Apple Pay is a good experience at the moment; it's easy to see how that experience could be extended to inter-device transfers (bring them close together, enter the amount to transfer, Touch ID and done – or something similar).

The challenge Apple will face has nothing to do with UX - it will have to do with user base.

The service will likely be available instantly to literally tens of millions of people with no additional effort on their part, as soon as Apple roll out a software update. That's a big benefit for Apple.

It's likely (although not absolute) that using this service will require an iOS device. Given Android devices far outnumber iOS devices, this may pose a problem.

I think I responded to this elsewhere, but that's only true globally. Bear in mind that even Apple Pay is only available in the US and the UK at the moment; iOS share in those countries is around 40%.

Other services like PayPal and Square are universal services (device agnostic), and accounts are free (compared to Apple's barrier to entry which will likely cost you an iOS device).

They do have the additional barrier of not being available to all users by default, though.
Not related to the original article, but that's an ideal use-case for Amazon Lambda.
Sign up for a trial at Pluralsite. Any c# lesson or knowledge is contained there. Highly recommended.
Problems with "E-Cigarettes":

1) They are loaded with chemicals known to cause harmful effects

2) It's not "just water vapor" that is exhaled by users

3) Users insist on using them indoors and in close proximity to others (see #2)

4) The large lobbying effort to make them socially acceptable often straight-up lies about their effects (again, see #2)

Just about the only "Good" thing about them is the lack of carbon being inhaled and released into the air (smoke)... otherwise they are just as bad as plain old cigarettes. What we have done is taken the Tobacco leaf + additives and removed the Tobacco leaf, leaving only the additives.

The lack of scent in the air doesn't mean the harmful "second-hand" chemicals are not present... it just means the tell-tale smell of burning paper and tobacco isn't present, making E-Cigarettes more dangerous to bystanders (no sensory warning signs to detect).

Regarding the lie that is #2, it if really was "just water vapor" being exhaled, you would not have inhaled it in the first place (there would be no effect). The lungs do not 100% process all of the chemicals being inhaled, which means you are exhaling them into the air just the same.
You do realize there are a fair amount of machine learning algorithms that do not run efficiently on the GPU right? Deep learning isn't the only method out there...
I know this is anecdotal, but everyone I know uses Venmo. I have never met anyone who uses Square Cash or Messenger, and I have both apps. To be fair, I don't know anyone in the US that uses WhatsApp, but all my friends in Europe use it. So, maybe it's a regional thing? I would love to see real usage statistics on those.
Whatsapp would like to have a word with you. With iMessage you have to turn off SMS to make it really secure and once you do that you lose the ability to communicate with a large number of non-iOS users. OTOH Whatsapp is secure by default.
There was no doubt money laundering happening. We also had a consulting company we hired, that we "had" to use and we paid absurd rates to. I am sure there was money flowing under the table or to fund other shenanigans.

I have no idea how they kept raising money, outside to say, Video was hot at the time, and the corruption was buried in complicated accounting fraud so it wasnt front and center.

If you want the details check here - https://m.fbi.gov/#https://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-release...
I would think how you message this. What others and I picked up on is appropriate for this level of discourse (HN), but something that is likely not going to make sense to your core customers.

Are customers that buy from companies that integrate with Stripe aware that it is Stripe that stores credit card information when prompted? I don't know if the average person can make that abstraction.
If Apple Pay had UX to pick someone near you also in Apple Pay to transfer funds too.....oh my!
Insiders can file 10b5-1 plans - committing to a sales plan in advance.

"These plans are widely used by officers and directors of public companies to sell stock according to the parameters of the affirmative defense to illegal insider trading available under Rule 10b5-1, which was adopted by the SEC in 2000."

http://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/02/05/rule-10b5-1-plans-...
Some allow you to prepay ~$100 and get a year before it expires.
Are you kidding? The ubiquity of very secure hardware in iPhone 6 and later phones does not present a uniquely trusted advantage, over the many clumsy-to-use earlier startups?
Things come a long way, eh? And another team got Ocaml on an 8-bit PIC:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5232

High-integrity languages are certainly getting more efficient. Just makes it more fun for me when I'm told how they're "too inefficient" for systems work by C fans. ;)
x2 for Github pages, it really has almost everything you need or a quick workaround.

That said, I am a huge advocate for owning your own content. You never know you might be an awesome writer that will turn into a famous blog :)
Sure, but you might have made the same argument with Facebook when it launched "Poke" (2012) and "Slingshot" (2014) in order to compete with newcomer Snapchat, and we see how that turned out due to poor execution and the incumbency factor.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/facebook-poke-vs-snapchat-w...

https://gigaom.com/2014/09/04/facebooks-slingshot-experiment...
I thought you had to meet certain criteria to become public, like showing X quarters of consecutive growth and bend-over-and-grab-your-ankles audits and such? Or is there some wild west of penny stocks and cocaine that I don't know about?
Nice writeup on the game and application of lightweight, formal methods.
Some people have pointed out that a lot of this doesn't work on iOS. I'd like to add that it also doesn't work for Firefox on Android. Instead you are re-directed to the App Store and get a pretty strange fallback page [1] if you don't use the App Store.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qr4e54ja8vnyoa8/Screenshot_2015-11...
Gardner calls Searle "the scoundrel of Hofstadter’s book." He is now also the scoundrel of this thread.
They were a pink sheet stock (Penny Stock), not sure if that made things different or not.
This is really where tariffs should be applied. We don't need to apply tariffs on goods from Germany or France. But we do need tariffs on goods from China.

There should be a department which analyzes the laws and production and applies tariffs accordingly. The zero tariff on import stuff we have actively discourages lower cost manufactured goods in the US because of cheap imported crap.
Well the banking model is to take demand deposits to issue longer term loans. Is that bad? People want loans, people want to deposit cash... Why should banks not operate this way?

Would it be better not to have deposits and loans?
Because I'm not trying to defend what they did -- they were wrong and just trying to grab money.

I am saying that using deauth packets to prevent wifi from operating does not seem to be outright illegal and there are valid reasons to be able to do it. Considering basically every high end AP has the ability to target rogue APs and the FCC takes a dim view on people selling jammers, it seems like the context of the application of this determines whether you are jamming or not and not the use of deauth packets by itself.
> A side note: I thought it would make for a cool platform, where a website "hosted" products/projects and users put up bounties for things they want fixed or features they want.

Sounds like Bountysource (https://www.bountysource.com/).
A woman with 10 personalities, some of whom are blind
Go's Error Handling Is Elegant
Not a native speaker so I may have missed the nuances here but I don't see why parent comment was flagged to death.
This isn't true. You can't intentionally use paint or wallpaper that blocks signals in public spaces or places where a wireless device is expected to be able to be used(like a movie theatre) in the case of an emergency.

In the eyes of the FCC it is no different if it is willful.
> They are loaded with chemicals known to cause harmful effects

So are roasted coffee beans.

> It's not "just water vapor" that is exhaled by users

It's less toxic than tobacco smoke.

> Users insist on using them indoors and in close proximity to others

So did cigarette smokers. This tendency is not written in stone.

> The large lobbying effort to make them socially acceptable often straight-up lies about their effects

Citation needed. Is this a bigger or smaller problem than how Big Tobacco has historically operated?

> Just about the only "Good" thing about them is the lack of carbon being inhaled and released into the air (smoke)... otherwise they are just as bad as plain old cigarettes.

You're completely ignoring the largest benefit -- there is no combustion occurring. Combustion results in many more (carcinogenic) toxins being created. Inhaling nicotine vapor is inherently much safer than inhaling tobacco smoke.
Convention runner here.

Between $100-750 per day. Some plans charge per device, some per jack, some per event. At some events you can get away with using hotel guest Internet, which is cheaper ($10-15 per day). Typically other network connectivity (fiber point to point, dry lines, VLANs, etc) is also expensive. Power is sometimes charged for, but in some states that is illegal or included in the room rentals. Some hotels and convention centers get around that by charging to hook up power, charging for the power drop equipment or charging to turn it on.

Don't ever underestimate a hotel or conference center's ability to bill large amounts of money for services their captive clients need. Coffee is $60 a gallon.

Prices quoted are from major brand hotels and major conference centers on the west coast of the United States and are in US Dollars.
Austria after the first world war was left as a non functioning country. The industry was largely in parts of the country that were lost in the war, there were high reparations to pay and the government apparatus was largely broken. Things got so bad that Austro fascism started which was terrible in it's own right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrofascism
On the other hand, if I was doing something my own government doesn't like but the US doesn't mind too much, I would rather the US government have access to it than my own (assuming the US do not then hand over data to my government).
There are cryptocurrencies now with more scalable architectures... I'm just counting my blessings that Apple is foolish enough to build another centralized system that is sure to be hobbled by AML requirements and misguided fraud-prevention measures.

Having a centrally-mediated, proprietary cryptocurrency endorsed by Apple/Google/Amazon/Facebook is the worst thing that could happen to the cryptocurrency community right now, so I'm glad none of these companies are pursuing this opportunity yet.
The book is a product of grief, not greed.
I can't claim to go to the movie theater often, but frankly, the incessant reminders to use CineMode(TM!) and silence your cell phone and dim your screen and so on are FAR more annoying than any actual interruption from a phone has ever been.

In fact, I can't remember EVER hearing a phone chime in a theater when I was present. I'm 100% sure it has happened a number of times, but it's still so infrequently as to not even cross my radar as an annoyance.

Let alone one that I'd support jamming to 'solve'.
Not if they wanted any of the 'advanced' goods we were producing, like, say, cars or chemicals or whatever.

Also, some people might view a large, wealthy, populous country imposing its will on a smaller, poor country as not very nice.
Why do you assert those benchmarks are "bursty"? Have you looked at the code in the benchmarks?
If iPads are able to become the defacto portable work/personal device I wonder how Apple forcing a 30% cut on every digital things sold through apps will work.

Are there any people here who use an iPad regularly for work? Is it easy to keep things organized without a file system?
Although you are correct, I will point out that physical access to a wireless-connection is generally much easier than physical access to a wired-connection
For added irony, the hospitality industry claims that allowing hotspots will "cause interference with their networks".

So?!?

That's not even implicit, but an explicit part of the use of the 2.4 and 5GHz spectrums. "There may be interference. Wear a helmet."
I don't think that the lack of a "grass roots movement" implies a lack of caring (on any groups part, but specifically "geeks").

Also, I don't think the lack of startups in the (pardon the buzzwords) "sustainability space" implies that tech people don't care.

Maybe the tech people that do care work for established companies in that industry?

Maybe there are constraints that make it extremely hard for a startup to (again, pardon the buzzwords) "gain traction" in the industry, i.e. companies that already have huge market share, overbearing regulations, etc.

idk, I just think it's a little premature to think that "geeks" don't care about renewability/climate change just because there aren't a ton of tech specific startups trying to solve it.

There are tons of companies that don't list themselves on Product Hunt, etc.

There are tons of engineers that don't use twitter (and that's not specific to engineers).
"She was sent through a train’s mail compartment with 53 cents of stamps attached to her jacket."

How awesome is that. I bet the kids thought it was cool too - they probably still would today, "Hey kid, you want to ride with the people, or with THE MAIL?"
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Integrating with External API Services
A Survey of Open Source Machine Learning Tools on Hadoop
Half of employees afraid to speak up about misconduct
Or a successful attempt at humour.

BTW, I really liked "The Mind's I" (coauthored with Daniel Dennet).
Chris Ford has something interesting to say about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg3XOfioapI
Arguably, but it isn't a very good argument in 2015.
The "get rid of the duck" story comes to mind:
http://pud.com/post/59851751577/the-duck-technique
New iPhone processors are obscenely powerful
I assume that is exactly what they have in mind.
No one beats Intel at their own game.
How is it sad? Everyone is learning how to build a better game engine. Are you suggesting that the same pull requests should have been made against an open source game engine? No open source game engine comes close to UE4 in feature set.