skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good editor does not need to be open source to have a good eco-system based on plugins (like sublime).
The MIT license seems to be friendly who would fork to make a more specific editor for some special language/purpose.
In Austin they've had a 50% off promotion for several months straight now. They keep claiming it's going to expire only to extend it at the last minute. I'm curious if they're doing this in other cities too to try to promote growth.

I'm curious how this strategy will work long term - it's obviously not sustainable, and I have to imagine they'll lose a large number of customers as soon as they stop the promotion as they're simply more expensive than Uber. I'm happy to use the discount right now, but I can't imagine I'll continue to use them afterwards as Uber costs less.
Which important details are they leaving out?
The paper makes poor conclusions about SSDs/Flash - which are increasingly becoming the performance tier in the data center
And if the seven day solution perpetually sows the seeds for future terror?
I think that strategy reaped them billions, and continues to do so (the Office franchise is still a money printing press).
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> these are a group of people who use terrorism as a tool to wage war

You mean the United States of America, terrorizing Pakistanis for years now?

There's no binary switch. There are tactics effective for given goals and circumstances. Mass shootings and suicide bombings are a perfect strategy if you want to make a country destroy itself. The question is - why would you like to make that country destroy itself? The answer is not:

> It's not because of standard of living, I'm pretty sure it's because they hate everything the West stands for and wants it to burn.

That's not only bullshit but, if it were true, it would be the best argument to just ignore those attacks and treat them as any other murder done by organized crime. Because if they "hate our freedom", then by overreacting and turning ourselves into police states, we're doing their job for them - we're putting our economy and industry into dismantling everything the West stands for.
What were supposed to be Square's differentiating features? What competitive edge is being hyped?
I'm thinking that a small safe is probably the best bet, which can also be used to store documents like passports.
Bit off-topic but https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html say flagging is for off-topic and spam, not low quality (they also explicitly request not commenting to say you flagged something).
So this is a new low as far as reactions to the refugee crisis goes... wow.
According to the docs, EBS goes up to 500 MB/s while a d2.8xlarge can read 3,500 MB/s from local disk so local is still faster (if you can actually use that much throughput).
I have personally never discovered any real help beyond the label. All we have besides medicine is therapy, which I've found equally crude.
Not always. There is a minimum ticket price that must be met for Square to make money. Square charges merchants a fixed percentage, but Square's costs aren't so simple. There is a reason why tiny corner stores charge extra to process a credit card transaction under $10. or so.
I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, one does not need to formulate an alternate strategy to point out that the emperor has no clothes.

Strong encryption cannot be back doored in an effective way, this is just a fact. Ignoring that fact because we wish it were otherwise, or asking the people that point out that fact what we're supposed to do in light of that fact, doesn't change that fact.

The group constantly pushing for backdoored strong encryption fails to realise that they are asking for regulations to ensure that all water is only ever sold in ice form. This does not, and cannot, mean that all water will only be available as ice. This needs to be realised, accepted and moved on from.

Only then we can start actually trying to formulate a coherent asymmetric warfare strategy, cognisant of the actual facts on the ground rather than wishful thinking and ignorance.
> I won't go that far, I would say that getting a Gun in the US or even in Europe (especially since the eastern European and Balkan states have joined (officially or unofficially Schengen) is by far easier than setting up your own secure crypto from scratch.

This is laughable. Getting a gun legally or illegally is harder than downloading a basic Tails live cd.
No, that's exactly what they do. They pipe audio track data through your mic port, like any other reader would. Although they did start encrypting the signal, because people started using these cheap readers for nefarious things.
Maybe there's a private API on iOS that leaks the user's email addresses without the proper permissions. Maybe there's one on Android too. Neither OS has a runtime that will prevent malicious apps from exploiting such an API.

> 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

Just like on iOS, with the difference that it happens at call time and not installation time.

> All of this only goes to prove that Apple's security in iOS is not extraordinary as you claim

It shows the exact opposite! Notice how ridiculously weak these results are. On one of the most high-profile targets today, an app may (unconfirmed) be able to determine the user's email address and send it to a server. On a trojan app that the user deliberately installed, and then deliberately granted access to Twitter, it can post a tweet without the user's confirmation, if the user has not updated the OS. Fetch the smelling salts!

Meanwhile, millions of Android phones are part of botnets, like NotCompatible.C, at one point reaching 1.5% of mobile devices in the USA. A Chrome 0-day came out last week, allowing full control remotely of fully-patched Android phones. These aren't research papers showing theoretical attacks, this is real life.

Yes, iOS has extraordinary security, and its competition only makes it look better.
No, it does properly support both of those and I've been happily using those features in VS Code for a while now. It might actually be the best editor for JSX.
Looks awesome and at $13, probably a good buy: http://amzn.com/0957389450
Yeah, a buddy of mine built on from parts at a hackathon on a weekend. Really straight forward.
I just looked at Github, and most of the source is written by Typescript.
I wonder what kind of GUI framework they are using? This application is cross platform. How do they make it??
If this is legit, what amazes me is the time! Network hops can account for approx 100microseconds, which means that these HFT trades would not only have to be in the same datacenter, but within no more than 2-3 hops of the exchange device. Then on top of that, it's making its trade decision within 500 microseconds.

I need to sit down to calculate this, but that is guaranteed to mean that they are reading from RAM and not disk. Could the entire stock market fit in a single hashmap in memory?

That's just some awesome hardware and super efficient software.

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> They have explicitly and repeatedly stated other reasons for their attacks on the West than those you claim.

And why would you believe them? What they say on TV is also a weapon. People who don't come and negotiate but go straight to killing won't be posting their real goals on their website, they'll rather post something that helps further those goals.
> Why should anyone care that it's mathematics?

Well, if the universe is a simulation, then you can start poking around for the limits of the simulation and finding out new things is something that lots of people enjoy.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-...
Would you say elements is superior to Bishop's book?
What is encryption for? Why even have it at all? Devil's advocate.
It appeared to just be using it to fill in the username field for you...
On the other hand, I'm unaware of any automated analysis of applications on the iTunes App Store, dynamic or static. Doing this properly isn't in Apple's DNA. For example, when XcodeGhost apps infected some hundreds of millions of users, it took Apple days to take down the affected apps, seemingly waiting for third party reports instead of simply scanning the entire store for the XcodeGhost signature themselves.
Yeah, I've got a minor issue with the Configuration classes and they were already talking about RC2 a little while ago [1]. I don't think we can fault them too much for this - we've all been on those kinds of schedules.

1: https://github.com/aspnet/Configuration/issues/335
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> First, cell phones ate EVERYTHING. So, the only volume is in cell phones.

Not sure where your getting this. The MCU market dwarfs the cellular market, last time I looked it was on the order of 25B MCUs sold per year and the majority are still 8bit MCU. There are only ~1B cell phones produced per year. I don't think the discrete market is really all that driven by cell phones.
I am not sure why and how that helps anyone. Japanese Americans and Indian Americans are least politically influential and extremely better off than every other group. On other hand look at Blacks And Irish Americans. Opposite case.

Groups do well when they enjoy freedom, chase opportunities freely, compete and drink less. Not when someone from their community is elected.

You are completely wrong about the manager aspect. A good manager will always keep the team lean, less red tape and maximize the freedom of the team members as well as the customers they are serving. managers on other hand will always claim their more resources which they will spend on their own lavish lifestyle and problems that did not need solving in first place. Obama is a good example.
Yep.

It's abundantly clear that their slimeball strategies worked very well for them for at least twenty years. In the computing industry, twenty years is a very long time. :)
Scientific research quite strongly links excessive screen time to psychological problems in children. You can be spared from science, if you'd like, but it does no good to ignore real problems just because you want to stick your head in the sand.

Edit: And for the bogeyman's sake, if you'd like the "proof", that's what Google is for. This isn't some fringe view. It's about the same as asking me for proof that smoking is damaging.
How do you convince someone that flying is the safest mode of transportation? Sometimes you just can't.
Welcome to the gene race, just like the space race to keep creating more and more intelligent humans. Other countries will be forced to start their own research or fall behind economically, unless we end the race by inventing strong AI.
If you're worried about Apple screening the apps you can buy on your phone maybe you should check out what Square doesn't want you to buy:

https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/5089-prohibited-good...
Just ignore the extra zeros.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590758
> Do people care how cool their bank and credit card company is?

The company I work for has built a business based on applying this predicate, and so far we have been successful.
>> I demanded all of their names and was given few. Some officers simply ignored me when I asked, boldly turning and walking away. Afterward, I saw them talking to neighbors, but they ignored me when I approached them again.

Protect and serve...
A combination of things - a super old/competitive market (processing), the ever changing risk dynamics and Square's targeting

Let me illustrate points 1 and 2 with an example.

a) Square earns $2 in revenue per $100 of transaction volume
b) $0.5 would be their gross margin accounting for expenses i.e. bank/visa fees
c) The next biggest line item to subtract would be risk. If there is a fraudulent transaction of $100, then square has to compensate it with 200 transactions of $100 each. (200 txns *0.5 gross margin). Net effect is not only do they have to deal with low margins, they also have to manage risk very well. And this is not something you accomplish overnight especially as you enter new markets.
Personal anecdote: I had $120 or so disappear from my Starbucks wallet a couple of months ago and the merchant had to eat the loss.

Lastly, large payment processors get out of this loop because they manage the big (Targets and Walmarts of the world) with the small and over time have fine tuned their risk engine. Square went into it in the reverse order, targeting mom-and-pop stores first (which have low volumes and high acquisition costs) and then trying their hand at large merchants (Startbucks in this case and they lost a ton doing this). In the process they never got risk management right for either segment.

My 2c.
I think there would be an ever better angle to this. If the government can listen to any legally encrypted communication via their backdoors, then by definition any communication they can't listen to is illegal and they can focus their intelligence resources people communicating in such way.

But honestly, I think it'll result in bad guys using the same backdoored crypto that everyone else will be using, relying on steganography and disappearing in the noise - so basically, they'll do things in the same way as they always did, since assuming all communications is broken by the government is simply good OPSEC.
> for like $10/hr

Hey, big spender !
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You would have been given an option to purchase an absolute number of shares, not a percentage. Let's say 10K. That may have been worth 1% when you were granted them, but as more shares are issued in subsequent funding rounds / IPO, your 10K will constitute a smaller percentage of the bigger pie. This is called dilution. You still have 10K shares, though, and they will still be worth $9/share at the moment the company IPOs. (And maybe significantly more or less after that moment. Typically employees have a wait a bit after an IPO before they can sell.)

They cannot be "destroyed" (under normal circumstances) once you are fully vested, although with certain types of options you may need to exercise (purchase) them if you were to leave the company, if you don't want to lose them.

The proceeds from your 10K options is easy to calculate once the company goes public: it's simply the stock price, minus what you have to pay to exercise the option (the strike price). Perhaps the trickier thing to calculate is taxes because of things like capital gains.
Either that or you work against whatever gives them irrational demands. And I wouldn't do that by fighting on religious grounds, but building the alternatives - through education being one. It's not exciting or retaliatory, but the status quo in the Middle East is not particularly effective.
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So, basically a Big Trak, which had the same features.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak

Big Trak also could fire it's "laser" programmatically.

My kids love it today - age 3 and 7. (Ok, I bought it used, since my parents had long ago donated mine to goodwill. Still, 35 year old toy works great.)
Cut me a break. As a customer, I want to buy something and pay for it as easily as possible. If a taxi driver wants me to pay by Square because that makes them more money, I'm cool with that so long as it's straightforward. Whatever. But I absolutely have zero interest in how "cool" a given payment system is.
Orders of magnitude more iOS users have been infected by malware (via XcodeGhost) than Google-flavored Android users, despite the latter platform having multiple times more users. The reports you're pointing to list malware in Chinese app stores on non-Google-flavored devices.
I think the entire discussion misses the even more important point - terrorists won't care whether encryption is backdoored or not. It's a good OPSEC to assume all communication is being listened to anyway, and to rely on steganography and disappearing in the noise. Bad guys will simply use the same backdoored crypto everyone else will be using, communicating in the same way they do today, because using the unbroken crypto will be easily detected as suspicious action.
Yep, my disability affects my fine motor skills especially. At RuxCon this year I was able to pick a lock with assistance (a very patient person + a vice on a desk). It's amazing, once you start figuring out what you're feeling via vibrations.
I was flying in an LAPD helicopter the other day, and they spotted a half chopped car in an alley between two buildings downtown. Said they find them pretty frequently and it's hard to track back to the original thieves.
Uptill IE 5, it was was there for Mac, and Linux was never mainstream till the time, for it to be evil to not support it.
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> The only advantage listed of the Midwest over the west/east coast is cost of living which you would expect to go up once the long promised "Silicon Prairie" takes shape.

OK, but right now that advantage is there, so someone considering a move right now would get that advantage.
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> How is my online conversation with the bank any different than my other online conversations?

It happened between you and your legitimate bank. Its definitely not like 2 terrorist exchanging information online. Unless of course your are HSBC bank.
Those are things Square doesn't want merchants to sell. The difference is meaningful here, because many of those services are regulated and the goods listed are prevented from sale across state lines. Square has an MSB license in all 50 states and are under scrutiny from federal regulators, so they have to abide by the rules.
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Looks like only highlighting support. I would love to know if there are plans to improve C++ support.
You don't need much bandwidth. The Internet is creating a false sense of data size because nowadays even a simple hello world seems to require a multi-megabyte download. But actual communication for practical purposes can be done in just bytes. There's more than enough space in transfer title to communicate a lot of stuff, even without a pre-arranged set of shortcuts, and in planning stages, you don't need real-time communication anyway.

(Note, this comment would fit in one or two bank tranfers).
My code never gets checked.
My Firefox renders it as an apple with a bite taken out of it. Probably depends on your font.
Japanese Americans do much better than white males in many professions including higher education does that mean system is biased towards them? How come those politicians who talk non-stop about minorities never mention Jews, Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans as minorities and extend the same benefits to them ?

The reality is that different cultures value different things and pursue different dreams. Only politicians benefit by peddling the agenda that some other group is keeping another group down. As an Indian education was extremely valued in the family, education not only ensured prosperity but status and excellent marriage opportunities. Automatically academic and intellectual success is something I have pursued and probably my children would do the same. My parents sold many items to put me through colleges and I would do the same for my kids. White Americans on other hand have different concepts of status, a football player is considered as cool where as smart boy is considered nerd. Guess who gets more dates ?

USA was founded on the principle that people should be free to pursue their own values. What we do not want is politicians forcing needless values on us.
Congrats to Scentbird on their continued success!

This advice is great: "... the ability to articulate quickly what it is you want to do is very important."
>Could the entire stock market fit in a single hashmap in memory?

I don't see why not. You also don't have to put the entire market onto one machine - you can shard the market across multiple servers, with one server handling each symbol.
Have you ever read any merchant account agreement? There are always a whole host of things you're not allowed to sell because it puts you in a different risk category. There are other processors who specialize in being able to handle higher risk categories (say, adult content).
Solid advice, but this part was a little cringeworthy:

"At the same time, we also needed sufficient cash flows to fund our aggressive growth strategy and invest in technologies that will change the world."

I hope that is tongue-in-cheek because world-changing ideas aren't a dime a dozen.
I disagree - I live/work smack in the middle of Manhattan and I'm not really seeing a Square dominance in coffee shops around me.

Yes, every coffee shop needs their cool iPad credit card processing machine, but anecdotally I'm seeing more non-Square ones than Square ones.

The choice here isn't between "usable iPad thing made by Square" vs. "crappy 90s POS terminal", it's "usable iPad thing made by Square" vs. "other usable iPad thing made not by Square".

I think a huge issue here is that merchants care about the bottom line, and it turns out Square does not have a lock on producing reasonable hardware/software around payment processing. Square may have invented the category but from where I stand they don't look like they own it.
It's not just Starbucks. He did those calculations based on the interchange fees Square pays to Visa/MasterCard/AmEx compared to the flat 2.75% it charges merchants.

To swipe a debit card, Square has to pay at least $0.21 + 0.05% per transaction. 2.75% of any amount less than $7.75 doesn't cover the $0.21 fixed cost. They lose money.

Same deal with credit except it's $0.10+ (and 1-3.5%) instead, so they're only losing money on every swipe under $4.

There's also some amount of markup over interchange going to their underwriting banks (JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo) which makes the minimum charges at which there's any profit even a bit higher than that.

Basically, coffee shops are loss leaders for Square.
The command prompt looks the same in Windows 8.1 and 10 to me. What terminal are you talking about?
Because these protocols are unusable from the perspective of JS on a webpage in a browser. Yes, browsers do support FTP, but I don't believe there are any browsers that support FTP uploads (and even if there are any, I doubt it'd be possible to upload from JS).

HTTP also has the advantage of being allowed through virtually every firewall.

It seems that webapps are paving the way of the future, for better or worse.
But.. how would it get to the front page of HN without mentioning IoT?
Coffee shops like Square because it offers one of the lowest rates for tiny under $10 purchases, not because it's "hip". It's a flat 2.75% without any additional $0.10-0.30 fee like some other processors. So a $4 coffee costs the merchant just 11 cents to charge.

Unfortunately this is because Square actually loses money on these sales, which you can confirm by looking at the public available interchange rates for Visa/MC.[1] Credit transactions start at around $0.11-12, and debit is a whopping $0.22.

There's other reasons too like maybe they find their bundled software easy to use or their signup process has less hassles, but they are practical reasons.

[1] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-usa-in...
$9 is a good psychological price. This is going to pop tomorrow.
"We" don't?
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