skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credit cards get skimmed by altered machines all the time, trusting the machine is the sketchy part. The nice part with mobile payments is you only have to trust your device. I'm pretty sure a mobster hasn't found my phone in the middle of the night and altered it. I am not so sure about a POS terminal at any random store. Target's POS got owned, why should I trust anyone else?

If someone hacked the terminal I use for an Apple Pay transaction what exactly would happen? It's a one time token that gets passed to the terminal and I immediately get a push update about the transaction.
His number wasn't in the repo, so I'd guess none.
I take the opposite view: it's wonderful that it happens. Most professions have very few choices regarding tools. Having hundreds or even thousands of options is simply delightful.
Just use Rails with Heroku for deployments. You can deploy a small instance for free on Heroku.

It'll save you the headache if configuring and setting up everything, and with a feature complete framework like Rails, you'll hit the ground running and be cranking out features in no time.
They are encouraged to apply for as many as possible:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713817
Certainly, they can change any laws they like, subject to the normal legislative process, including a Presidential veto.

Of course, they could try to ram that through before Obama leaves office, to avoid such a veto. However, I can think of few better ways for Congress to ensure a Trump victory.
AI might be bigger than VR, but the timeframes are messed up. VR is an engineering problem now; I don't think there are major field-shattering breakthroughs needed to make reasonably realistic, cheap VR within the next 5 years.

AI is nowhere close to strong AI or reasonable general-purpose intelligent programs that don't require loads of human tuning. It will take several breakthroughs.
Your Canadian experiences mirror all my US experiences.
'What is this low level journalism doing on HN?' is a bizarre way to phrase a question that's really saying 'I disagree with the assertion/characterization' - which is one that is made routinely, over the course of many years, both through news outlets and in various forums of more substantive debate.

Some examples of using the 'fascist' label: From The Financial Times, quoting Sarkozy: “Are 6.5m French people fascists?” [http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2012/04/is-the-front-national-... ]; In 2014,German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Tuesday branded the French National Front party fascist: [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-elections-fascism-idUSK... ]; French court ruling they can be called 'fascist': [http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20140410-front-nationals-le... ]; 'Donald Trump is Now America's Marine Le Pen':[http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/could-donald-trum... ]

The internet tells me there are about 1 million other references one could use to, in fact, make the claim this is not low-level journalism.
Could be neat if they become the defacto way to launch and sell opensource hardware. I'd be interested to see if that pencils out as a viable/scalable business.
I was giving you facts on the ground, rather than complaints about ulterior motives or lack of knowledge, although both complaints are often valid.
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AArch64 is a dramatically nicer instruction set than AArch32.
While I agree with the spirit of your post, your premise is wrong. Being nationalistic has nothing to do with being conservative; there is no correlation there. Many liberals are blindly nationalistic as well.

Intense nationalism does cause conflicts (look at the US and Russia relationship at the moment), often fabricated for pure political gain by controlling/power individuals.

Very few individuals look at the core of an issue, but instead follow the example set forth by people in authority positions and/or the frenzied click-baiting-gotta-get-eyeballs-on-as-many-ads-as-possible media.

For example, a Russian jet is shot down over Syria by Turkey. Almost immediately the spin machine kicks into high gear to paint a picture of a plotting Putin carefully strategizing how to dismantle NATO by means of getting his soldiers killed (which makes little sense)... all because the nationalistic side says "USA good, Russia bad". People died, we should have some compassion.
How to Spot Satoshi
If you ask me they mostly need software engineers, not “CS people” especially. Whenever I talk to a scientist about their software, I see great opportunities and interesting problems that are solved in suboptimal ways. To be blunt, scientists can't code (and neither can most “CS people” for that matter). Every scientist (be it physics or CS) could use a professional software people, who have experience with developing and maintaining complex code bases. The problem is, there is no funding. Let's say a researcher gets a budget for some hardware and 10 PhD students, then there is nothing left to pay the engineer with. We're too expensive.
The environment that OSS developers work in
The company has said that ads targeted at logged-out users - or people who view tweets without a Twitter account - would bring in $2.50 in average revenue per user (ARPU). Its logged-in user base brings in more than $4 in ARPU.

What's the time scale? $2.50 per user per year seems high. Per lifetime, it seems low.
> Point 1 is why I think Apple Pay & others will be more of a niche - until the terminals become common, you can't rely on them, but once they are common, contactless cards become just as useful.

Why is the extra thing you have to bring with you and probably use a PIN for "just as useful"? Mobile based systems are also interesting because you can just as easily use them for app based sales. Anything to reduce the friction of someone giving you money is going to be a welcome thing for retailers.
I call this 'feeding the machine'. There's the thing you want to do, the interesting, valuable, real-world problem you're trying to solve. But you're using a library, that has a dependency, that doesn't build on your machine, because of your version of the compiler, and the new version isn't in your package repository, so you have to download and build it, but your version of readline is wrong and so on and so on. You're feeding the machine constantly, when you feel that it's supposed to be working for you.

It sucks, but it doesn't end. Every once in a while you're be in a nice place where you're using familiar tools and libraries and doing familiar work, but every new project and technology brings potential new demands to feed the machine.

You can have a long, happy and prosperous career working with a single stack that someone has made work on your OS of choice, but if you don't enjoy feeding the machine, there is a ceiling on your flexibility and problem solving ability.
By no means should anyone ever feel required to divulge them. If you are the private about yourself and your things, then thats completely fine. Maybe you want to quit in a year to go off the grid or something. Thats perfectly fine. But if someone is interested and you think the person wants to know and help out, maybe you tell them 2 months prior instead of 2 weeks. Thats still a big gain.
If same timezone is all you want, why restrict it to EU? Cape Town is the same time zone as Bulgaria, and if you're outsourcing anyway EU citizenship doesn't matter.
You should have justification.

Looking at Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Ott..., it seems like Jews were at the whim of the Sultan, but during the "classic" Ottoman Empire (1300-1600s), tended to prosper.

There may be counters to this, but first couple of sources I looked at indicate your initial comment either needs backing or is incorrect.
I did read it so yes I did know. I just feel like most active researchers would be able to point people in the right direction, so the fact that he's a Nobel laureate wasn't particularly relevant.
> ... I was conflating Tokyo with Japan. ... These data for Tokyo are interesting:

> http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/02/20/124942

Those data for all of Japan (not Tokyo(!)) put the median commute time somewhere around 44 minutes, the max commute time at 90 minutes, and the average commute time at 57 minutes. That is totally in line with what I reported in my comment.

Did you maybe mean to link to [0]? If you did, then that survey tells us that of the 583 Tokyo respondents:

* 2.9% have a 120+ minute commute.

* 17% have a commute between 90 and 119 minutes.

* 66% have a commute shorter than 70 minutes.

* 20% have a commute between 60 and 69 minutes. This is the most frequent commute bucket. Second is 50->59 (14.9%). Third is 40->49 (13.89%). Fourth is 70->79 (13.03%).

> Really, it's not unusual to meet a salaryman with a 2-hour commute.

If only 3% of a population has a property, that property is actually pretty unusual.

> ...and this one for Japan paints a more vague but differently interesting picture:

From that page:

"About half of the Japanese respondents indicated that they need less than 30 minutes to go to work/school. On the other hand, one fourth of the respondents need more than one hour."

To break it down:

~50% < 30 minutes

~25% >= 30 minutes but <= 60 minutes

~25% > 60 minutes

That doesn't mesh with the official stats for the country.

> But you know, normal kinda also means "within 3 sigma" as well as "mean".

It's a pity that the standard deviation of the reported figures was not reported. I gather that it's hard to determine what is within 3 SD of the mean without that information.

[0] http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/08/05/231455
While I like affordable things and development boards in particular, hardware price isn't that much of an issue anymore. Most people, especially programmers, are going to spend more in terms of labour cost even just getting this up and running. Actually doing something exciting takes from a fair to a huge amount of time, which you most likely won't be able to recuperate. At least not directly. Until someone has a next level value proposition that enables more things, I would suggest sticking to the boards you're already not using.
Same here. It's actually a really good post!

Regarding his comment about hearing from amateurs who think they've solved the world, that is something I've heard from a lot of physics professors, that they get a lot of emails with crazy stuff like this:
http://i.imgur.com/QTt6ZTq.gif

Why does that happen in physics and not chemistry, bio, econ, comsci or any other subject?
What humans consider leisure is simply enjoyable work. If there is no "work" work and just leisure, we're fine.

But not if there's nothing to do at all.
First language influences brain for later language-learning
Use pencils and paper. Learn one tool and learn it well.
I've made double that delivering pizza and that was almost 20 years ago. It's criminal what you guys are forced to try to live off off.
But even just assigning someone to jaywalking duty is already selective enforcement. Even if the entire police force was on jaywalking duty, you couldn't catch all the jaywalkers in the city.
Depends on how one perceives democratic force working.

I don't view the absolute number of calls to congress as important as unstated assumptions about what is "unamerican".

Back in the 90s if you asserted that the government was tapping everything, you were called a conspiracy nut. Because we had a shared societal belief that it was off the table in a free society. This has now been broken.

A politician endorsing a surveillance system that would make East Germany jealous would have been ridiculed by the media. Now they're ridiculed for not supporting such totalitarianism.
Now in EPUB and kindle, too. https://unglue.it/work/153041/
I actually heard somewhere (TV probably) that army members are actually trained to try to avoid escalating conflicts like this.
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My bad, I don't know why I typed extremely.

however, while yes the compiler does a lot of work, it's an entirely different method of programming than most coders are used to, which make it painful to change to.
I think I understand the sentiment behind this and agree overall but have fun trying to track that metric without introducing perverse incentives.
I just watched Schindler's List again recently. I kept thinking, "how could this happen?"
Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction
Indeed, but if the best candidates are equally distributed across race and gender, and just black, Hispanic, and female founders are chosen for exclusive sessions, the best of the remaining candidates would be those that didn't qualify for the exclusive sessions.
How does your Linux VM even get to see your real GPU? I didn't know it was possible with VirtualBox.
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Wikipedia or any of the thousands of available sources, including AMD's website wouldn't convince them?
That's $200k per employee if they sold today, they were already getting paid well.

A nice payout for sure.
I had similar thoughts when seeing the following section (but didn't comment under fear of immediate downvote).

"April - Female Founders, June - General, July - Black and Latino Founders"

I find it somewhat unusual that the open office hours are segregated. Why not just reach out to those groups but have general open office hours?
Truthfully, I think we're getting to the point where there's a backlash against 60 workweeks. You can see it in the comments that are on HN. Devs are getting disgruntled at the "perpetual college all-nighter" coding culture, even as they feel they're not getting properly compensated by startups. But that's a different comment thread for a different future story.
AKA yak shaving - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/dont_shave_t...
Google: How We Use Big Data for recruitment
"Be managing a full project on my own", "Manage group of people", "Become an expert in X technology", "Build 2 products into production", "Get to 100,000 users" etc etc etc.

How do you want to grow? Do you want to stay in the same spot? Maybe for now, but do you want to be doing this exact same thing for the next 5 years? Not even minor improvements? Getting faster/better/stronger?
I just read both of those earlier this year, based partially on recommendations on HN.

Speaking of book recommendations, try almost any book reviewed in Jo Walton's collection of essays: *What Makes This Book So Great?. I read and bought about the first half-dozen or so that I hadn't already read, and there was only one that I didn't enjoy thoroughly, and more because it was too much of an emotional downdraft than because it was badly written, which it wasn't at all.
> The sort of internal reward you're describing would be hollow because people would still see others' work that was better than theirs, and they would feel jealous.

Well, that's the status quo.

> Most of my sense of self comes from overcoming obstacles, and I'm sure a lot of people would agree with that sentiment. [...] Automation as an escape from work? I'll pass.

You would be welcome to work as much as you like, of course. Obstacles would be self-selected, not assigned by chance or force.

If you live in my hypothetical utopian society and truly feel that humanity must suffer so that you can derive meaning from "the struggle", you might have to emigrate to a polity of like-minded masochists.
I think it would be closer to say "Perl 6 and Perl 5 are two completely different languages, and have about as much in common as Ruby and Perl 5". All the languages in that sentence are Perlish languages, so to me it conveys the relationships better. Perl 6 definitely has a lot to do with Perl 5, especially the mistakes therein. If anything, it's the most Perlish of them all.
not much of a problem for the founders
http://www.domain.com.au/news/billionaire-mike-cannonbrookes...
Does ARM Linux offer a 64 bit mode with 32 bit pointers?

On x86-64, Linux supports a 'x32' mode which gives all of the advantages of the 64 bit ISA, but with a 32 bit memory model, meaning that programs using lots of pointers will take up far less memory (but still get to use the extra registers & instructions), leading to faster code. You can run x32 binaries inside a 64 bit kernel (ubuntu offers several packages, for example)

OTOH I don't know if the ARM64 ISA offers many other improvements to make a similar 32-in-64 kind of mode worthwhile.
How to Spot Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto
Is there such a thing as algorithmic imagination?
> You wouldn't sneer at OP for working 60-hour weeks...

Sneer? No. Pity and feel sorry for? Unless he was getting a really big payout from all that work, absolutely. Because:

> ... that's what a 40-hour work week with a 4-hour daily commute amounts to.

Don't give up half of 5/7ths of your leisure time on anything that doesn't richly reward you.
I found myself so enraged at what Wikipedia privileged editors considered non-notable that I haven't had the energy to contribute in the past few years. I'm not talking about my 2nd cousin's garage band: see the talk page on reStructuredText (which managed to survive).
I'm sorry but a cop that stands by and does nothing when duty calls is worse than a cop that goes on a shooting spree killing people. (To go off on a tangent, people who don't want to do a job, shouldn't have to do the job to not starve to death. Any employee/worker/volunteer/service member whatever should not have to take a job just to put food on the table. This is where some kind of a basic income should come in. I'd rather have a smaller police force of people who belong there than a bigger force of people who do not.

and no I am not saying sacrifice life but at least show some initiative in something other than writing tickets and meeting quotas.

http://nypost.com/2013/01/27/city-says-cops-had-no-duty-to-p...
yep can definitely confirm everything is very expensive here
I've been using Pocket Casts and Google Navigation together for a while. There is a setting in pocket casts to play over notifications and navigation prompts. I had to switch to this a few months ago because navigation prompts started getting muted for about 1 second, then they became audible half-way through and then the transition back to the podcast worked fine.
That was caused by 9/11 though not the increasing use of the Internet. Which also reminds me that the US-EU safe harbor dates back to 2000.
One herpes test and 9 Billion valuation. According to Elizabeth Holmes its none of our business to worry about valuation, since the initial investors are sophisticated. Now, we know the initial investor is a family friend. She had 10+ years to put something out, and I am sure it is hard, but its about time, this farce be dismantled once and for all.
In any case, I thought the final paragraph was the most important: "So by all means: unleash the contempt and the righteous indignation for Trump. It’s well-deserved. But that should not obscure everything that led to this moment, nor exonerate those who for years have been spewing unadorned anti-Muslim animus from multiple corners and under various banners. They’re more subtle and diplomatic (and thus more insidious) than Trump, but they’re reading from the same script."
They don't need to have a violent revolution. They can just vote for a different party in the next election cycle. If the votes aren't there, revolution wouldn't succeed anyway.
"manspreading" is a word?
Really? I'm a Canadian who had an awful experience with US police. I was attending a music festival that had a noise complaint, officers came in with guns drawn. I've never seen this approach in Canada.
I love this kind of site. Not that you can't scour up the content yourself using Google, but here's the thing... when you're trying to "teach yourself" something complex, one of the challenges you run into (in my experience) is understanding the order of the dependencies for prerequisites and sub-topics. And nothing is more frustrating than trying to read a book or a paper and feeling totally lost because you're missing something that you should have learned first, but you don't even know exactly what the "something" is. :-(

As someone who considers himself something of an autodidact and who is always trying to learn new stuff, I really appreciate a resource that can point at a bunch of stuff and say (even in an approximate sense) "do this in this order". It really does make a difference.
Start with something like MIT's Scratch, maybe? They used different shapes and colors like legos to intuitively help kids understood what statements fit together. They ran with it and made all kinds of stuff.
I guess you have been a lucky duck!
Putting even the most secure and resilient backdoor should be considered a failure of freedom, privacy, and politics.

At the end of the day backdooring encryption does nothing but weaken everyone's security without actually helping intelligence agencies, at least in the face of serious actors.

Fine, agree to a global backdoor or all crypto with a handful of trusted key holders, how long until the algo or key is leaked, how long until a flaw in it's implementation is found, how long until some TSA agent is photographed with the password blinking on his screen in a news article.

All this will do for bad actors is ensure they assume whatever service provider isn't to be trusted in their implementation and just use a 3rd party process and/or open source tool chain to produce encrypted messages that will be routed over already encrypted networks. Great, your backdoor got you to a second layer of ciphertext that you still can't make heads or tails of, meanwhile you've weakened the security of literally every person on earth.

A backdoor is unacceptable, no matter it's perceived strength, value, or safety.
So you pretty much just described the plot of Breaking Bad ;)
> Really? Are you able to produce more than $5000 of value for your startup in 20 minutes?

Hosting credits are not currency. Most startups will never need anything close to $5000 in AWS credits.

Not to mention that AWS basically gives them out like candy. I have several grand in AWS credit just from attending hackathons and conferences.
This paper introduces the Bayesian program learning (BPL) framework, capable of learning a large class of visual concepts from just a single example and generalizing in ways that are mostly indistinguishable from people.

This is one of the most exciting and readable papers I've come across.

Does anyone know if the code is available anywhere? Can we reproduce their results? I can think of a dozen applications for such an ability.
The next stage in quantum key distribution
It is my understanding that very few, if any ARM SOCs support ECC RAM.
I've had my debit card canceled for fraud three times in the last four years, after only dealing with vendors I'd think would be reputable. I LOVE Apple Pay and similar layers between vendors and my credit card.

On the same note, I will never, ever use something like CurrentC that gives those same vendors a direct line into my bank accounts.
"It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs."

"One feels, as with Napoleon, that he _can't_ win, and yet he somehow deserves to."

So far as that goes, he resembles so many candidates for so many offices.

But it is at this point where the true fascist emerges (compare Mishima or Le Corbusier):

"Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all 'progressive' thought, has assumed tacitly that all human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain."