skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish comparisons to tobacco would stop.

I find the general accreted ... stuff I've read on facebook simply confirms my bias about confirmation bias. I unfollow people who get too noisy.

I still think the original Usenet - even after the Eternal September* - to be in all ways superior to anything else online. Then came the binaries that killed it.

*I would think that because that's when I found out about it and you could get one a' them dialup Internet connections boy howdy.
Retailers don't support it because, like it or not, almost no one is trying to use it. And it isn't just the US, up here is Canada it is even worse I am betting. And honestly, I can understand this perfectly. I have a VISA card with chip-and-pin and contactless that I can use nearly anywhere in the world and it has a plethora of benefits that I don't get with Apple/Google payments.
I know this isn't the advice you're looking for, but since at least $X00,000 (and most likely $X,000,000) is at stake you should definitely talk to a lawyer.
Exactly. My local HEB has NFC icons on every terminal, but they're all disabled.
Won't work. California IRS hires bloodhounds to sniff this stuff out.

If you were employed in California when you were granted the options, you are going to pay CA taxes on them during exercise.
Corporate governance is a lot about perceptions. Even if you set aside the fact that most of that growth comes from Yahoo's stake in Alibaba, you still have the question about Yahoo's future and vision. If there is a perception that their future is shaky, that matters more than if things are likely to turn out badly. Should add, IANAL aka, I am no analyst
Only three of YouTube’s top 10 videos of 2015 were made by ordinary YouTubers
As others have said: anjanb probably meant 1 lakh (100,000) [1] and 2 lakh (200,000). His second number was likely a typo.

[1] Not sure why the asymmetry between thousand and lakh (when these units were created), though (10^3 vs an additional 10^2).

Another difference: Billion in India used to mean 1 million million (like the British), rather than the American meaning of 1 thousand million.

Linking to this post (mine), since it is somewhat apropos :-)

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2010/06/bhaskaracharya-and-man-who...
You may be able to move to avoid the tax, but FTB will scrutinize it. If it appears to be a temporary move just to avoid taxes they will try to collect.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/fileRtn/Nonresidents_Part...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2012/11/08/leaving-ca...

http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/18/pf/taxes/state-tax/
> I am one of the apparently about ten people who thinks that should be the universal default.

There's a handful of us, a handful!

FWIW Rust checks for overflow in debug mode, and while that's elided by default when compiling with optimisations it can be re-enabled with a -Z flag:

> rustc test.rs
> ./test
thread '<main>' panicked at 'arithmetic operation overflowed', test.rs:4
> rustc -O test.rs
> ./test
Overflowed!
> rustc -O -Z force-overflow-checks=on test.rs
> ./test
thread '<main>' panicked at 'arithmetic operation overflowed', test.rs:4

And of course some languages bypass the whole thing by automatically promoting to dynamically sized integrals.
"Fractal" has always meant "self-similar" not "self-identical". There are subtle and some not-so-subtle differences within all of the repeating shapes in a Julia or Mandelbrot set.
The only incentive I can think of is a potentially lower rate of fraud/chargeback.
I just used that tool, the date I joined (October 8, 2014) there was only one non-programming/tech related article which was at 22.
I use Apple Pay regularly at Trader Joe's, Peet's Coffee, Whole Foods, Walgreens, and various other places. Success rate is 100% at most of those stores. For Walgreens, implementation is still rather spotty; works great at some stores, others have had broken readers or have said that their new readers were coming soon, but not there yet.

It's especially handy for occasions when I'd rather not bring my wallet, such as workouts.
I don't think a language's popularity has anything to do with it being a good, well-thought-out language. Just look at Javascript.
If someone is driving a SUV down the sidewalk I would probably call the police. The EPA is legally empowered to deal with air pollution, sure we carve out exceptions for the common good, but the default is not dump whatever you want into the air.
No ? Qt, Gtk, ... all do it.
Serious here--what is the color between black and white?
Well core.async is a Clojure library so it uses features available in Clojure. I don't see how it would affect the fact that it is a library.

I've also linked to js-csp, a JS library obviously not implemented using macros.

I can also find other examples of implementation as libraries, but I have no experience with them:

- Scala: https://github.com/rssh/scala-gopher

- F#: https://github.com/Hopac/Hopac

- C++: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/ofa/c++csp/
He has the same 'expert blindspot' as so many others when it comes to learning and pedagogy.

If you show this book or go through this book with a true novice, like a child or complete non-programmer (no one has 'zero' knowledge like he says), this would turn them off programming for a long time.

To hook people in, to give them an actual /reason/ to learn programming, you need to show them how programming can be used to do something fun or useful. For example making a little game, or making something to help with a spreadsheet or so forth.

Instead, he waits until the very end of the book to start thinking about using the language to create something useful:
"OK, so now everything is ready to talk about deploying things to the web. And at this point, people will be able to start creating useful, practical pieces of software that they can share with the world."

Start with how to make a simple web page, or a simple game that others can play, etc. Don't end with that. Make it easier for people to use your tool to make games or practical applications.

Then again, as others have pointed out, the fact that this tool is proprietary though makes it a non-starter for novices, anyway, in my opinion.
It's called CloudFlare (only a little tongue-in-cheek).
This page contains the word "Wolfram" 102 times. Really outdid yourself today, Stevey.
The headline is "Hardly Anyone Is Using Apple Pay", but the first sentence of the actual article is "Only 20% of people who can use Apple Pay have done so." That sounds...pretty freaking good? I think of Apple Pay as being mildly successful given how hard it's been for competing systems to get any traction over the last 5 years or so, but I would have guessed that that number was more like 10%.

I also consider Android Pay to be mildly successful, but AFAIK it has about the same level (or less?) of popularity and support. It's just fundamentally not the kind of service where the criteria for success is defined by adoption by a plurality of compatible device owners.

All of these different payment systems are just struggling to gain traction- over the next couple of years, I would consider "success" for any of them to just be getting enough growth and support to stay alive. Once the market has decided that one or more of these systems gets to stick around long-term, then we can start being disappointed that only a few tens of millions of people are using them.
Undefined. Yahoo was one of the first big Internet companies in the late 1990s to make you shake your head and go "This must be a bubble." They had some ridiculous valuation at a time when they were losing money so P/E doesn't mean anything.
Apple rumored to be developing its own humility
>Bitcoin seems more appealing than that scenario.

Bitcoin is not fundamentally different. It decentralizes the role of the bank, but adds the step of currency exchange to get bitcoins in the first place. These currency exchanges have to comply with anti-money-laundring regulations that are very similar to those of banks, so they have to know your identity too.

The only advantage bitcoin currently has is that not all governments have gotten around to figuring out which existing regulations apply to bitcoin related businesses.
Interesting, but I would still try my best to just keep sensitive data out of the repo rather than commit an encrypted version of it.
I've wondered how that works too. I'd imagine you'd need a "firm offer" equivalent of cash-on-the-barrel from a third-party for your company shares, a non-further-negotiatable-contract-for-stock-purchase-with-lawyers involved. Then the lawyers would take that to your company, and if the company buys at the negotiated price the third-party loses, and if the company passes on it then the third-party gets the shares. You'd get the cash either way.
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If it succeeds, none dare call it treason.

The thing about Usenet is that it trained you how to discuss things in public. It is a rhetoric laboratory. It's very useful learning to harden yourself to envy, woe and want. Eventually, such things become a mirror and if you don't like what you see, change it.
What you find at Walgreens or convenience stores is not what I would call the "most popular". Having been around a large number of analog cigarette converts at my previous employer absolutely none of them would touch any of those with a ten foot pole, they weren't "cloud chasers" either, they used vape-pen devices sold by a local B&M shop. I don't have a large enough sample set, but I've never actually met anyone in person that vapes that uses a cig-alike sold by the big tobacco companies.
You might also be interested in https://github.com/kallerosenbaum/poppoc/wiki/Proof-of-Payme..., which will let you "login" by prooving that you made a small bitcoin transaction.

The disadvantage of this sort of microtransaction is that people may actually be willing to pay more through donation then through forced payment.
Get Amazon Prime ($99/year?), and get unlimited photo storage: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/primephotos

And free 2-day shipping (if you're in the US).
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I like what your concept is a lot. I do not think a huge number of payments are going to be made using it, HOWEVER, I think this is just the beginning of a much larger movement behind micropayments for ad-free content. I've been wanting this for a very long time to read good quality articles online that are behind paywalls. I would totally pay with bitcoin, but refuse to sign up using any form of credit card.
Honestly, the user experience of paying by credit card is just getting too complicated. Which of the 3 contact-less payment vendors can you use? Do you hand your card to the cashier or not? Do you swipe it or insert it (who knows, the cashier has to tell you)?

I miss the days when you just handed your payment (cash, card, check) to a trained cashier, and they just handled the rest.
May be there is no need for this. All those cheap skates which are telling you that they would give something if there would be a micropayment solution, would not give a nickel, even with zero transaction costs.
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Let me clarify, I did not ask how do you feel about reports of metaphysical/paranormal events.

My question was, how would you feel about:

1. A scientist with strong political/religious views.

2. That works in a scientific problem that have strong implicationis for his strong views.

3. Then he does accept funding from established political players that allign with his strong views. He fails to report his funding sources.

4. And finally - surprise, surprise - goes on to write articles that "reach" to the "conclusion" that validate his political/religious views.

The reason is that the GP claimed that there is nothing morally wrong with said scientist because of #2. (the scientist sincerily believes in those biased views). And that the former example has no difference with:

a) Scientist picks one field of study.

b) Scientist accepts funding from a third party that is interested in such field of study.

c) Scientist produces results in his field of study.
How was this measured? From my perspective, from knowing and chatting with semi-professional sharers daily, most bitorrrent traffic is encrypted. Torrent clients can all encrypt and are generally set to use only encrypted connections. And serious sharers have switched to VPNs en mass. So how was all this bittorrent traffic identified?

Fyi, there are some tricks for overcoming bittorent encryption. I've used them to identify what was is shared across private networks (schools) but the techniques involve some trickery that is probably illegal on the public internet.
I think this is often just ignorant employees (not their fault; they probably haven't been properly trained). I've run into the "that doesn't work" thing at Whole Foods a couple of times, and both times it worked perfectly when I insisted on trying it. The employee was amazed, and said they'd never seen it work before.

I have run into problems at Subway, which is supposedly an official Apple Pay merchant. I can almost never get it to work there (and often they keep the terminal behind the register, so you have to ask for it and convince the employee to give it to you if you even want to try).
Another thing is to note is that the highest ROI generating properties are the stations, if you can get a monopoly on them. The surest way to win is to just get the orange and the transport monopoly, and the game breaks down because you are earning far more than any other player can.

I try to focus on one of these groups at the early game, and add the other one as soon as I can. Unless I'm playing with good players, in which case I need to hedge bets and maybe go for a Red. I rarely, if ever, go for anything above Red (So anything on the second half of the board).
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Co-dependency is definitely something to watch out for. I've read a number of books on the subject, and I'm a little surprised I was interpreted that way.

There's a huge difference between healthy support and enabling bad behavior.

Examples:

Your husband is drunk in the gutter. You can A) leave him there or B) drag him inside, clean him up, and put him to bed. If you pick A, you're allowing him to experience the consequences of his own mistakes. If you pick B, you're enabling him and saving him from his own mistakes. The person picking B is co-dependent, not supportive.

A wife has always dreamed of having a lake house. The state of the house is immaterial, she just wants to walk out the back door and see the water. She finds a house they can afford now, but the husband finds the dwelling unlivable, and they're unable to afford a nicer house. The husband can A) veto the lake house outright, saying he won't be uncomfortable for her dreams or B) move into the house and be uncomfortable for his wife's dreams or C) put a plan together to earn/save extra money and make sacrifices to get the house that will be agreeable to both of them. The person picking A is taking care of themselves, but sticking it to his wife. The person picking B is being co-dependent, doing something that makes him miserable for the good of their partner. The person picking C is the healthy one here, enduring shared, temporary pain to achieve an end that is agreeable to both.

A husband and wife have a vacation fund. They set a goal to save enough to go to Nepal the following year, and put together a savings plan to go. The wife follows the plan, sacrificing her gym membership for jogging and making fewer trips to the hair stylist. The husband ignores the plan, buys a new TV, eats at restaurants too often, and finds himself with a sizable debt at the end of the year. When it comes time to pay for the trip, the vacation fund has enough money to A) Pay for just the wife to go on the Nepal trip B) Pay for both of them to go to Disney Land instead C) Pay off the husband's credit cards. The person who chooses C is a text-book co-dependent. The person who chooses A is probably being healthy, but missed an opportunity for relaxation with her husband. This makes B a suitable option as well. The husband still has to handle his credit card debt, but his wife was willing to sacrifice her Nepal trip so they could be together. Perhaps it will inspire the husband to change his spending habits the next time around, or perhaps next year he'll be waving to her from the dock as she leaves on a cruise with her friends.

The key to avoiding codependency is setting clear, definable limits with your spouse, and then allowing them to suffer the consequences when they ignore those limits. It takes a level of self awareness to set good limits, but self awareness is not selfishness.

If you're able to build a marriage around self-sacrifice that has clear, definable payoffs, then your needs will naturally begin to align and the needs of the couple will supersede the individual needs.
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In my current bag, my phone is a lot easier to access than my wallet. So I use Apple Pay wherever I can.

I can't really use it many places. So far it's mostly Trader Joe's and Walgreens. Local coffee shops, farmer's market, I gotta take out the cards. But this will change; a few years ago I had to bring cash to the farmer's market and now everyone there can swipe a card with their smartphone.

It'll be interesting to see what the small-vendor uptake of Square's NFC reader is when it comes out...
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It's a dumb idea. Pulling out a card and swiping is quick and easy. And youre not fumbling with a $900 computer while people wait behind you, for no benefit. They'd have to pay 2-3% cash back for people to switch. But that's the money the banks and phone companies want for themselves.
> I like Go. I use it for a number of things (including this blog, at the time of writing). Go is useful. With that said, Go is not a good language. It's not bad; it's just not good.

It's all right there. Go has good uses. But it's not good for some things including as an example for a 'good' (for some definition of good) typed language.

Also Go has generics: array/slice, map, channel. You just can't create others.
I agree with a lot of the text, but the solution offered is ridiculous.

Problem: general-purpose computers are too difficult for users.

Answer: publish a lengthy manual explaining how to use computers.

Seriously? Everyone on here has a hundred tales of users not reading help text, error messages, prompts, documentation, or literally anything else.

The problem with GPC and the problem with users is the same, in a way: humans are incredibly f*ing lazy.

Users won't read what they don't absolutely need to. Programmers won't build an actually intuitive UI (often involves significant effort and interaction with designers and users) when a CRUD form does the job (ie, modifies the data correctly).
In the case of delicious, in all fairness, the whole tagging/folksonomies thing ended up being pretty much a passing fad. (Though I do use pinboard myself and find it useful.)
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> but the UX doesn't beat my actual wallet

Why not? You don't need to pull out your wallet, find the right card. You just put your phone (which I'm already holding when I'm waiting in line, but maybe that's me).
A ROFR gives the company the right to pay the price you are being offered and acquire the shares underlying the options. A ROFR has the effect of making potential buyers reluctant to even deal with you, as the company can swoop in at the last minute and take the shares by paying what was agreed to. So effectively, it puts the company in control of the situation, and so best to get them on board to whatever's happening. First talk to an attorney though - with this amount of money at stake, it would be stupid not to.
You're saying this like nicotine is bad for humans. It's not been shown to be in the levels found in cigarettes, gums, e-liquids, etc. Don't confuse the word nicotine, which has often been used as a synonym for cigarette (even in serious publications), with cigarette smoke.
Mongodb?
In Norway about 80% of the POS terminals have support for NFC payment, however all the retailers have disabled them.

The reason is that we have a national debit card system that is paid for by the banks (and indirectly the consumers) and not the merchants.
Enabling the NFC payments would result in them having to pay surcharge on most transactions.

The terminals do support credit cards but almost everyone use the national system called BankAxept.

There are some national NFC providers on the way from the banking groups, but I think it's really stupid to develop something that only works locally.
Here in San Francisco, I only see it my local independent grocery store, Walgreens, and Whole Foods (where I don't regularly shop). Not Lowes, Safeway, Bevmo, not any restaurant or liquor store, of course.
I've only had luck with Apple Pay in Trader Joe's and Panera so far. Discover is doing 10% cash back for payments made in Apple Pay until the end of the year so I've been trying hard to find any stores that accepts it, but couldn't find that many places. If it were accepted by more retailers (e.g. CVS, Stars Market), I can see it being more widely used.

By the way, I remember Target, CVS, and some other retailers were working on their own payment system using QR code. I wonder what happened to it.
My Gitter im instance been running for past 2-3 weeks and it only consumes 100 megs. It runs inside nwjs
interesting, I use it at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, quicker than card.

When it works, it works. I can't imagine it won't be standard to pay by phone, with integrated loyalty program.

Meanwhile the chip cards are perceived to be slower than magnetic strip. How is that even possible?

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-shoppers-are-so-annoyed-wi...

and never mind the insanity of MCX and CurrentC
http://gizmodo.com/how-corporate-greed-is-trying-to-kill-app...

It's only been about a year and I have to think Apple is pretty well positioned to get people using phones, have a feature that works better than Android, and eventually get a nice vig.

If the merchants and banks and credit card companies don't get their heads out of their butts, Apple could even end up being a tail that wags the dog and running the table on payments.
"You don't really need that, we know best"

This is true. And what's always been funny to me, is the predecessor language(s) for many Go programmers, such as Python, had people saying similar things about how you don't really need static types, we know best. Then suddenly they saw the light.

All of which is to say, I've noticed that many people who enjoy Go come from languages which Go is a step up from rather than a step down. And that's good for them, but compared to what else is out there, it is a step down.
Take a look at Google Photos. It's very good and getting better.

I'd like it to have more advanced options, but it's probably the best choice and well integrated with Google Drive and Google+ (if you use it).
Then, shouldn't the up and down stream be symmetric?
I think this attitude is just fine because it does not make assumption about what is improvement for a particular language users which you seem to be making. Some user wants improvement ,ok fine, but then what about users whose experience deteriorate after those alleged improvements.
I would think it's lack of scarcity would make it UNATTRACTIVE as an investment. How much is your investment worth if he decides to print a bazillion more tomorrow?
Yeah, it is the ACK packets. Here is an article going into more about it http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/netfli...
Of course I knew what he meant. I wasn't being pedantic, I was trying to point out that "I'm a horrible person when not on nicotine" probably isn't the GP's natural state.

To put it differently, I'm not surprised when people feel worse and act worse when suffering from withdrawal. It just makes me sad when people use that to justify their relapse.