skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone willing to give a contrarian take? I'll give it a shot: Square is an ambitious company with some great engineers, stellar UX and a giant total addressable market. Their business loans are interesting and could grow into something important. Square readers are a fashion accessory for hip businesses. No sooner would a coffee shop be seen without a Square reader and an Edison bulb than its yuppie hipsters patrons would be seen without a MacBook or an iPhone. That brand equity might really be worth something.
Speaking as a formerly severely depressed person: yes, that fixes it.

I worked hard at it. I wanted to fix it. I didn't take any medications. It was very, very hard. I wallowed in it for a long time. I fixed it.

"Oh you weren't actually depressed then, you don't know what you're talking about." I was (severely), and I do.
> Not sure what to make of it. Apple decided to assign to a Unicode character their logo. Does anyone have context?

Might be for compatibility with MacRoman, which also had such a character.
People who want to learn a useful and (more) easy to read K relative might have a look at Kerf. It has the columnar database baked in.
http://www.getkerf.com
No, but they do have a law about "burglary tools" that can include bolt cutters. That's pretty ridiculous if you ask me.
Drink the most distilled water you can find.

I don't get this at all; a body needs electrolytes. Purifying/filtering your water is fine, but drinking a lot of distilled water (without added/restored electrolytes) is asking for trouble.

The author also should have stressed that the benefits of kombucha, yogurt, etc. come largely from fermentation.
No, the number of people who can copy a file.
Ask HN: Pathways to immigration?
Hi - I'm a Computer Engineering student in a spanish-speaking South American country. I'll be graduating in about a year, and I'm really interested in working overseas. Actually, one of my long term goals is to establish myself permanently in a first-world country. This entails (possibly) even getting citizenship.

I thought that one of the ways to realize this goal was to get a job in a big tech company in the US, but so far my attempts to get an internship have been unsuccessful (twice interviewed by Google). I believe startups are out of the question, as most of them just aren't willing/able to sponsor visas. The marriage fast track option just seems unethical to me, and I'm not sure I want to spend ridiculous amounts of money on grad school somewhere, unless it increases the chances of getting a job.

I'm young, my English worked well enough for a 6-month stint as a university student the UK, and I'll be a skilled graduate in a year. Sometimes I hear people from third world countries saying they just moved to where they wanted to be [1], but that just doesn't make any sense to me.

Are there any other pathways to immigration for a guy like me somewhere?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10591089
Braintree was doing $12B in GPV when they sold for $0.8B and are now doing ~$50B in GPV. Square is actually doing around $35-45B now (8.8B in most recently reported quarter). Growth is relatively slow though so will be interesting to see what happens in the IPO.
Out of work Appalachian coal miners do start up to teach coding
I'd love to see what a detailed version of security policies and infrastructure look like in a world of backdoor-less strong encryption from Schneier, the EFF, the Hopkins crew, etc. Something that can be used to persuade, or at least influence policymakers by allowing them to see that another way is possible, one that allows security services to do their job in a way that allows them to feel that their work isn't futile, while simultaneously respecting privacy rights.

I think the need for strong encryption and no backdoors (which has Schneier explains, are always a double-edged sword) are very important and I support them, but that those on the side of it who also have in-depth knowledge about the finer details don't deign to articulate just what exactly the policy looks like without resorting to just a list of what we shouldn't do and vague allusions to "just go old-school" or "utilize human assets more."

A coherently articulated, normative counterfactual security platform would be a better place to argue from.

It's a cousin to the negative liberty arguments: they only list what not to do to in order to avoid hurting people, rather than what we can do to help them (positive liberty.)

Maybe we could frame the question as "If we let the EFF and Bruce Schneier redesign the United States security apparatus from scratch, what would it look like?"
Erm, nope. So nope. I see how many transactions the lemonade stand on the beach right below my balcony does on Square -- it's an awful lot. Runners, bikers do not need to carry cash just a card. I went with a friend to Burnaby Mountain and between the two of us we would've had problems to buy ice cream from a truck showing up for the three of us for cash but he had Square. It's not "hipsters" it's another nail in the coffin of cash. I hate cash. (And no, I do not have a Macbook or an iPhone, I am a stout believer that Apple should be boycotted for being the leader on the "sanctioned apps only" road)
>The data they collected was list of installed apps, serial numbers, and some sort of AppleID numeric identifier. In particular, they did not (could not) collect email addresses.

[Edited for unnecessary stuff]

Oh the article you linked has Apple response that is quoted verbatim below - it references user email addresses. Specifically.

“We’ve identified a group of apps that are using a third-party advertising SDK, developed by Youmi, a mobile advertising provider, that uses private APIs to gather private information, such as user email addresses.."

> Please stop confusing private methods with elevated permissions. You CAN call private methods without elevated permissions, as my code above demonstrates.

What I wrote was you are not going to be able to call an Android API via private invocation and succeed if the API requires a specific permission and your app hasn't declared it.

All of this only goes to prove that Apple's security in iOS is not extraordinary as you claim - it is fallible like every other platform except with the exception of fingerprints which are currently believed to be secure - but that's now the case with Android as well - in M they are using ARM Trust Zone with no app access.
New Report Rates Peruvian ISPs: Who Defends Your Data?
Well, I can appreciate that you conducted yourself with honor. However, here is another data point, equally as anecdotal, showing another story (wikileaks apache video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hx-jA2m_hY
We have an answer, but it's a political no-go. The answer is: you can't, really.

You can do the obvious things like stop bombing the living shit out of Middle East, etc. but that would only reduce the amount of radicalized people. The best you can do is to push it down below the "crazy noise floor" - because you ultimately can't prevent random people with a particularly destructive mental condition or an axe to grind from shooting people up. Not even if you turn the country into a police state.
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This will cause "labor abandonment" and put more pressure on the economy. Here is an example --- a company uses a worked for just 1-2 years, sponsors his green card and then fires him. Now if he cannot find a job then if he were on the previous H1B, then he will have to leave the US. However, now, he can stay without a job with no risk of removal, which means he is a liability to the country.
bit of a conflict there though, yeah?
Midwestern Pilots Risk Their Lives to Change the Weather
The CDC has a relatively comprehensive data set here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

It's definitely not everything, but I don't know of a better data source...
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A friend of mine had both his cars stolen a couple years ago (keys were out on a table, I think).

There are ~20 break-ins and car prowls a year in our town, a small one near Seattle. They've caught a few of the bad guys doing this (it is a chancy and protracted process).

Mostly they seem to be looking for laptops, cash, jewelry and similar small things easily sold (guessing, for drug money). We also have a lot of mail getting stolen, so identity theft is a thing, too.

We're not under siege, but burglary is not dead, either.
Ya, Electron != Atom. Grab Code and paste that giant JSON into Code and let us know how it goes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_Terre ?
a software that deal cleverly with podcasts, allowing at the same time to mix them with music in smart playlist but also keeping some specificity, (save playing position including across devices), bookmarks....
It shouldn't be hard to believe because there is no difference whatsoever. You could do bank transactions over chat, you could run chat over bank transactions. Both are fundamentally the same thing. The mathematical model that says that Alice exchanges information with Bob is not a simplification, it's fundamentally how it works. Content is arbitrary and doesn't matter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867538

Criminals (in this case bike thieves) just change their tactics:

"He used a limited tool set—generally just wirecutters, a wrench, and a screwdriver—and didn’t like bolt cutters. “You caught with bolt cutters, they charge you with burglary,” he claimed."
Same. Please share!
tl;dr: Numbers.
Of course. I'm saying the important part is not that the class is bigger, the important part is that it's a Banach space.
That's what the homework is for. But for new students who have never written code or experienced even a prompt (the closest thing to that now is the web browser address bar, which stops being a prompt as soon as you click to bring focus to it) -- it's helpful to confirm for themselves that a code snippet works as described, from the typing of the first character to the actual execution.

Too often, beginners (and frankly, experienced programmers such as myself) believe that they truly understand a snippet of code just because they read it. And being beginners, they lack the discipline and the wisdom to know that code is not just human-readable machine instructions, to be read as if it were a stilted essay, but something to be interactively tested and changed.

Also, those new to coding don't realize that copying/reusing code is just fine. But understanding what it does before you attempt to re-use it -- that's the challenge.
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Not sure where you're living, but I lived in Rochester, NY and just outside Pittsburgh, PA the last two years. The last time I saw a square reader was when I lived in Manhattan, 3 years ago. I'm not sure if I'm just not frequenting the types of places that would use square readers, or if where they're popular is isolated geographically.
Somebody please explain to me how political parties aren't the dumbest idea ever, because I'm having trouble seeing it. I find the concept of buying into political beliefs wholesale - instead of considering them on a case-by-case basis - to be plain insanity.
The computer technology world has changed a lot since then, and I expect that intelligent people at Microsoft know that the old ways won't work again.
For a few years now, but yes, now with support in Production.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OmniSharpMakingCrossplatformNE...

Also http://get.asp.net and http://code.visualstudio.com
Bill Gates recently reviewed Munroe's "Thing Explainer" (a book consisting entirely of explanations written in this style), and in his closing paragraphs states the following:

"If I have a criticism of Thing Explainer, it’s that the clever concept sometimes gets in the way of clarity. Occasionally I found myself wishing that Munroe had allowed himself a few more terms—“Mars” instead of “red world,” or “helium” instead of “funny voice air.”

Of course, that would defeat the purpose of the book. And Munroe himself is aware of the tension. In “Page Before the Book Starts”—a.k.a. the introduction—he acknowledges that some terminology is inescapable. “To really learn about things, you need help from other people, and if you want to understand those people, you need to know what they mean by the words they use. You also need to know what things are called so you can ask questions about them. But there are lots of other books that explain what things are called. This book explains what they do.”

And it does that beautifully. Thing Explainer is filled with cool basic knowledge about how the world works. If one of Munroe’s drawings inspires you to go learn more about a subject—including a few extra terms—then he will have done his job. He has written a wonderful guide for curious minds."

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Thing-Explainer

I completely agree. Things written in this style occasionally start to feel a bit clumsy, but the fact that my curiosity has been piqued to delve deeper into a given topic is more than worth it.
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Who Is Responsible for Creating Free-Market Madness?
You're talking about the 2002 Korea-Japan fisheries agreement I think, which establishes catch quotas for fishing, but my understanding is that Korea is recognized as sovereign over the islands under precedent (Palmas and Clipperton) since it has permanent habitation and infrastructure, and under UNCLOS but it hasn't been formerly decided under international arbitration since Japan refuses to arbitrate while it's dealing with other Japan-China territorial disputes.
Feel free to add Princess Pricklepants to your professional network:
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If you do not enable the tracking scripts on the page (google analytics) then the "/game" entry point after signup just endlessly reloads itself automatically in Firefox 42.0. I can watch the page load resources in the developer console. There are a couple of different stopping points. One is when it loads all the way to /api/user-config while the tab has focus, then it starts reloading. Another case is where I leave the tab, then I load all the way to /api/tutorial/?userBase=XXXXXX&tutorial=true plus some images (ending with logo.png). As soon as the tab gains focus again, it triggers a reload.
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how much home alarm tech and cams and surveillance etc was there in 1994? Not nearly as much.

The general spending of all people on electronics is much higher now than in 1994.

So the rate is lower, the security is higher, the value of available goods to steal in any given home are higher.

It doesnt matter if they cant hock them at pawn shops. I have ~20 computers in my home.... many monitors etc...

So yeah the rate is down, but the value and density of targets has increased -- but it metered by also much more vigilant and camera ready people
Doesn't Vishay own IR (and everybody else)? What about the Japanese (Hitachi, Toshiba, Sanyo, Panasonic) are they in the game?
I've always wondered - why was it so easy to replicate Square's scanning device? Seems like about 6 months after they really started gaining traction, PayPal came out with their copycat triangle one, and then a cascade of copycats.

It went from not being a thing to there being tons of them overnight. I would imagine there would be somewhat of a barrier to entry, but it seems it's a fairly easy device to create?
Soon, but not quite yet. you'll be able to "dotnet compile" in a folder and that'll make stuff, and then "dotnet compile --native" will give you a single linked executable.
How can you afford legal representation if the police just seized your money (or even house)?
Love the idea but way too expensive. Why? I would get this for £30 maybe £40.
"Let’s say that you want to travel for a year; it’s cheaper to put your personal belongings in a shipping container as it sails around the world than to keep it at a local mini-storage facility."

Yow.
That's not the only functioning Sabre that would have come in handy ;)
Can someone help me understand...

Let's say an employee was granted 10,000 stock options at $1/share. They're all vested.

Does this mean that each share will be worth $9? So if exercised and cashed out, the employee would essentially earn $80,000 (before taxes)?

Trying to understand how the economics of all of this works.

Also, does this mean there are 300,000,000 shares? (How many shares do start-ups usually start with before funding rounds and what not? Seems like Square must've started with 100,000,000 or something.)

So many questions.
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Since ES6 doesn't generally support TCO Id recommend using Babel. I wrote about Babel's ability to support TCO, and its downsides, here: Functional JavaScript –
https://taylodl.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/functional-javascri...
Yep. Apple mentions it here¹, as well as the reason:

“Be sure to create the ellipsis character using the key combination Option-; (Option-semicolon). This ensures that an assistive app can provide the correct interpretation of the character to a disabled user. If you use three period characters to simulate an ellipsis, many assistive apps will be unable to make sense of them. Also, three period characters and an ellipsis don't look the same because the periods are spaced differently than the points of an ellipsis.”

Of course, Apple’s advice for typing U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS (…) (typing ⌥;) is only accurate if you’re using a US keyboard layout. The key combination will be different in other keyboard layouts. For example, in the 'Canadian French - CSA' keyboard layout, typing ⌥; will give you U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN instead (which makes sense if you actually look at a French ISO layout keyboard, like this² one or this³ one). On that keyboard layout, to get U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS, you’d actually type ⌥⇧L (option-shift-L).

¹ — https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserEx...

² — http://f.cl.ly/items/42233R3c2e0z2e2i3V2f/MB110C.tiff

³ — http://f.cl.ly/items/1q2N2t3N0Z3z2u3c2P3h/MLA22C.tiff
You can buy passage on freighters as it is. Writers, for example, use the isolation to keep them from distractions.

Alex Haley, for example.
http://www.alex-haley.com/alex_haley_speaks_out_for_freighte...
Of course iTunes is bad, each version since 6-7 years adding layer and layer of half baked functionalities and a list of new bugs on previously working features. Unfortunately all the other music software are nowhere as good! That's really the sorry state of the music playing/managing software industry, if such thing exists.
death by police is tracked here (1051): http://killedbypolice.net/ ... cancer kills about 580,000 and automobiles get about 32,500 for comparison.
There are magnetic stripe readers everywhere -- I can't imagine they're that hard or expensive to produce.
How do you convince someone to refuse to be terrorized though? If I know someone who feels genuine fear when they hear about these sorts of attacks, what do I say to them?
"You're an idiot", "here is some math", and "you're giving them power over you" are not effective approaches.

How do I convince someone they should try to not feel fear if they strongly believe their fear is valid and that attempts to invalidate their fear are an insult.
Rare photos of San Francisco's Chinatown, before the earthquake
If you want to practice math, look at math.stackexchange.com.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I was pointing out that there is a lot of effort put into gaming what exactly "market rate" means for any job. A lot of effort put into preventing workers from knowing what other workers make even outside of any government program; It's an adversarial negotiation.

The rule that H1B workers get paid the prevailing wage is... quite difficult to verify or enforce.

My own (completely anecdotal and subjective) experience is that the H1B workers I've known well enough to exchange salary data were either way better than me technically, or they were getting paid way less than I was. My impression is that foreigners (esp. foreigners from lower cost-of-living countries) get paid less for the same skill.
Is Spacetime a Quantum Error-Correcting Code? – John Preskill
"why did you enable the -R flag?"

Because either the documentation means to include -R in the description, in which case your interpretation of the documentation is incorrect, or the documentation is incomplete because it doesn't describe a valid CPython 2.x run-time. Either way, it indicates that the difference isn't, strictly speaking, a Python2/3 issue.

"an arbitrary order"

Where does it say that the arbitrary order must be consistent across multiple invocations? Quoting from https://docs.python.org/2/using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-R :

> Changing hash values affects the order in which keys are retrieved from a dict. Although Python has never made guarantees about this ordering (and it typically varies between 32-bit and 64-bit builds), enough real-world code implicitly relies on this non-guaranteed behavior that the randomization is disabled by default.

I totally understand your point. I remember the debates about how this would break code. But it's there to mitigate algorithmic complexity attacks against an every increasing attack surface. This was the best solution they come up with, along with a migration path to the new default.
I.e. the range from "very sophisticated criminals" to Mossad. An average person isn't even a potential target for this group.

That said, locks serve a different purpose - they're to stop random people from just coming by, taking your stuff and leaving. The kind of people who are not 100% commited to burglary, so they won't be destroying your property in order to get in, but who'd nevertheless take your stuff if they found it unprotected.

That, and also the important social signal: "strangers not welcome without announcing themselves and being allowed to enter".
visual studio code seems way faster, pasting the object was nearly instantaneous and it looks like it has a nice set of features. also, i feel i should add, i realize electron is independent of atom, however it was developed by a github engineer previously working on nodewebkit for the github texteditor called atom. it used to be called "Atom Shell" and is in the atom/electron repo. So I was curious if this was related to electron generally, or choices made in atom.
"The Shakespearean model holds true today. Consider the Square card reader. Square was the first company to do mobile handset credit card processing right. It did the software piece and the hardware piece, and built a brand with the iconic white square device.

Then there was a proliferation of copycat readers. PayPal launched one. They shaped it like a triangle. They basically copied the idea of a simple geometric-shaped reader. But they tried to one-up Square; 3 sides, after all, was simpler than 4.

Before PayPal’s PR people could celebrate their victory, Intuit came out with a competing card reader. It was shaped like a cylinder. Then Kudos came out with its version, which it shaped like a semicircle. Maybe someone will release a trapezoid version soon. Maybe then they’ll run out of shapes.

How will this all end? Do you really want to get involved in making a new card reader at this point? One gets a distinct sense that the companies focused on copycat readers are in a great deal of trouble. Much better to be the original card reader and stay focused on original problems, or an original company in another space entirely." - Peter Thiel, http://blakemasters.com/post/23250566538/peter-thiels-cs183-...
This has little to do with the IoT really. The latter is generally acknowledged to be the internet which will result once all manner of gadgets containing cheap sensors, actuators, and microprocessors are internet-enabled.
That's a great example. For contra-contrarian reasons: If your coffee is less than $7.75 (debit card) or $4.00 (credit card), square loses money (cf Starbucks).