skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US doesn't have chip-and-pin, we have "chip-and-sign", plus the older magstripe system (and the CC number is still necessary for online purchases).

As of this spring update I'd estimate vendor uptake is about 30-50%. So half the time you either swipe and wait 2 seconds for it to beep that you need to insert, or you insert and wait a couple seconds for nothing to happen and be told to swipe. The chip mode is poorly integrated into many POS systems - at most local groceries even if you tap "card" and insert the card it will make you go back to the screen and push "card" again, or take several seconds before it accepts it. Then it processes for ~5 seconds, then you need to sign.

Some of this is teething issues with rollout and POS integration, but the signature is unfortunately not going away.
Actually Microservices is also about team size. It makes no fucking sense to break a Application into Microservices when your team consists of five members.
Actually Microservices have their place but Monoliths, too.

Also Containers will some day have their place but at the moment they are just not ready for 70 % of the workload. it put's just too much complexity on your system.
Also Microservices add a lot of complexity, too, which is easy too handle if your team has a certain size, but without prober tooling, management services it's really really hard to do it.
I love the chat implementation. What would the other possible usage scenarios be?
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That is weirdly negative. Why is he advising people to not play with his software? Is he afraid of it leading to competition?
"Nomad 0.3.1 was released earlier today. In the next major release, we will focus on data volumes to enable Nomad to run more stateful applications."

What is the current approach for dealing with persistent data?
> I guess I mean, if you can code for WebGL in JavaScript you can probably code for GL in C even if you're not yet aware of that fact

You're quite right about that. But then writing the rendering code is not the hard part, is it? I'd actually prefer to build my native app in Rust right now, but there's a few things holding me back. Namely:

1. UI layout and rendering: Currently Rust has no packages (that I'm aware of) delivering a good developer experience for building layouts and interfaces. There's a lot of parts to this besides just the layout calculation—there's font loading and text layout, too.

2. Easy cross-platform support: I don't have access to all the devices I'd like to build my app for. That's a relatively small problem, but also one I don't want to worry about if I don't have to. Not only can you write cross-platform logic and interfaces very easily, but the debugging experience for these is also really, really good.

Could I figure out solutions to these problems? Definitely. However, I'd rather spend my time crafting a great user-experience for my game instead of building a layout engine.

The JavaScript ecosystem is great currently, and if web performance is "good enough" for my use case, I don't have a very good business reason to pursue a different technology stack.
I use a Windows Phone which came with OneNote. It automatically syncs between my phone and my desktop. It's really nice when I'm out on the town and have an idea or something I want to jot down.
I surmise that hendrix, based on Twisted, will be the first true ASGI / Django Channels backend.
http://manageiq.org/pdf/ManageIQ-0-Lifecycle_and_Automation_...

you know you're getting real value when the docs explain pull-quote conventions and PXE provisioning before listing the product's features.

What does this actually do?
CUDA is designed to help NVidia to sell more chips so I don't see it as a big risk.

While it is all well and good to hold certain beliefs [people shouldn't eat meat, use cars, whatever], it also a valid to believe there is nothing wrong with using proprietary, for profit software. Personally I believe that exchanging money for something of value is fine.
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For people who have used more batteries-included style frameworks like Ember, the churn isn't as bad. But for those who tend to lean more toward small libraries like Backbone and React, the churn can be overwhelming.
Sounds like total nonsense.

More capacity ⇛ more traffic.

Example reference, if one is even needed http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/11/californias-dot-admit...

Not hearing that that is part of the thought process here.
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I know many small physical businesses who get almost nothing from their website, and a huge amount from their 10,000 followers on Facebook. Coffee shops, tradesmen, bars.

Facebook isn't a competitor to most B2B products, but it's defintely the Excel of the B2C world.
Then you will see everything. I have a facebook profile with very few friends and relatively few liked pages.

I see every activity, including comments and even likes.
I hope this doesn't include the self driving cars.
Probably the best way to find out if you really want to start a business (as opposed to just talking and reading about it), is to just start one. If you can stick through the rough times, you're the real deal and if not - you've learnt something important about yourself.
As for the lack of money, it can be solved by getting a high paying job for a couple of years (to accumulate savings).
The webapp version of OneNote works pretty well. I use it on Linux with no troubles.

https://www.onenote.com/hrd
If only they had sprinkled in the word "democratic"... such a shame...
Const keyword for mutability and I have no idea about pattern matching. Just the js syntax would be great I guess. And special keywords to match what misses or misbehaves . Just a try. Won't be bad!
I didn't perceive the author's comments to be discouraging but if anyone else is feeling bummed out by the Facebook juggernaut, keep in mind what happened to IBM, Microsoft, and Google.

When IBM built the original PC, they let Microsoft keep the rights to the operating system software. In hindsight, it was a massive miscalculation as Microsoft's "software-without-the-hardware" business went on to earn more profits than IBM's hardware. IBM's later weak attempt with OS/2 to beat Windows failed.

Microsoft's then CTO Nathan Myhrvold (who Bill Gates considered one of the smartest guys on the planet) was on a phone call with Larry and Sergei and yelled into the phone that "Search is NOT A PRODUCT!!!". (Probably their MSN hubris speaking.) Microsoft's later attempt with Bing has hardly dented Google's search marketshare.

Google didn't notice the importance of social networking before Facebook did. Google's later attempt with Google+ Circles failed to trigger a mass exodus from Facebook.

Facebook.... <story is yet to be written> but the same thing will happen to them. Somebody will come up with something that blindsides them. Or it might not even sneak up on them. Mark Z himself may look at the early-stage product and conclude that it's not anything special.

There are plenty of untapped business ideas that Facebook will misjudge and dismiss, leaving others to win that market.

But to the author's point, it will suck if you create a product that paints a bullseye and it lines up in Facebook's crosshairs. Microsoft couldn't beat Intuit Quicken with MS Money but they did crush Netscape with IE. They lose some, they win some.
GP is probably in the US, like me, where chip and PIN is pretty new. I can confirm that it tends to take a lot longer than swiping; I still do a lot of both swiping and chipping, so it's easy to compare.
A buzzword-loaded advertisement.
I'm not very familiar with the discrete logarithm problem but it seems to be fairly generally true that many problems which are easy in the continuous case become hard when you try to restrict the solutions to a grid. Even solving the linear equation Ax = b in n dimensions, I believe, is NP hard for x \in {0,1}^n.
The guy tried just that. After 1 year of this paper being in "research committee" the answer was, and I quote : "This is not possible, you're wrong. Even if you're right, you're wrong".
That's it, no one has been able to disprove this, and I hopped someone skilled enough on HN would be.
> Note: It looks like your browser doesn't support emoji,

Excuse my ignorance, but aren't emoji just characters in Unicode or SVG? Why would my latest chrome browser not support whatever it is?
In every way that I could see, save being naturally cross-platform: graphics, sound, controls, game design, user interface, and even the multiplayer features.

Wild Terra is a lot like Ultima Online, 1997 (even more like Lineage 1, 1998), and Starbreak is a simple platformer (like, for example, Maple Story, 2003).

They're a step up from Flash, but 15 to 20 years behind game consoles and native PC gaming.
Ironically, Venezuela has so much oil that gas is almost free. Most people dont even know the cost, they fill a car's tank with about 0.10 us$.

Probably, people will start using the portable power generators that everybody already have, because this is not the first time the power goes out, and it will become a gas-powered country for a week.
The timing of this article is significant. Politically, it's playing the victim card.
Have to be honest, I'm surprised how little effort it took to 'unmask' him. Usually when people try and find out the actual identities of anonymous internet celebrities, it becomes a sort of investigation where they have to put all the pieces together.

But that doesn't seem to be the case here, unless the story is missing a few steps.
Give it a few years and you can draw your conclusions, guaranteed.

60 years ago: "The ENIAC uses so much more energy and takes up more space than a human to multiply numbers, I want to see a calculator multiply faster than a human running on a 5V watch battery before I draw conclusions"
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Thanks for your input, I'll foward that to Feldmann.
My single biggest pain point was the single-buffered UARTs in the 53X series.

On the BF-538 that we were using, there are three of them and we needed them all. Since each one can only buffer a single incoming or outgoing byte at a time, there's a lot of interrupt-handling overhead with all of the RISC-style registers that need to be saved on each incoming byte.

We were already using two of the SPORTs and both DMA engines for hard real-time transmit and receive signal processing with microsecond-scale deadlines, so they weren't available to offload the UARTs. But since the UARTs have such tiny hardware buffers, their interrupts have to be very high priority in order to avoid dropping characters.

On a different project we were trying to build a very-low-power system around one of their new (at the time) BF52X parts, which had new low-power states for extended sleep. Except in the 0.0 version of the chips, those low-power states simply didn't work. An updated errata sheet was published a week or two later documenting that the processor couldn't be woken up once put to sleep.
A lot of people who make over $350,000 are about to get replaced by software
It is often true, but not always true. I have worked at or worked with companies that could express their strategy. But usually they are not big multi-division companies like Alphabet.
Sure, do you want to take this conversation offline? This is just going to get buried deeper and deeper and eventually become locked when it's stale enough.
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beaucoup

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beaucoup
So it's like ipython notebook?
I would hope you'd also agree that if the people who didn't give Secretary Clinton the specific mobile device she wanted should be removed from security-related work, then so also should Secretary Clinton.
"Over 90% of startups fail."

Does anyone know the success rate for 2nd and 3rd attempts?
Sometimes bugs are very hard to figure out, yet very easy to fix
A self writing behavior tree that uses behavior to write new behavior based on past behaviors. Sounds human enough to become an addict of some sorts. :-).
I can confirm this. I worked with Andy at General Magic, and I later worked at Danger, Inc. (but after Andy had left). Andy was building robots the entire time. The early Danger office had several robots that Andy had built for fun.
Nice to hear!
Exciting! Zach Tellman's work had always impressed me. Looking forward to seeing what he brings this time around.
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From 0 to 40M+ and acquired by Google. In only 2 years
I am not talking my own book here because I was looking into it for other reasons mentioned in the linked piece - but, you can absolutely make the case that because the account's influence had grown so large, there was significant potential for conflict of interest that the public ought to know about. That sounds crazy, but that's also how big the account got.

Now, I obviously disagree with that opinion, but I'm also not a member of the media. It was also apparent after looking into it that there was absolutely no COA that would have justified outing him at the time.
I read Atlas Shrugged cover to cover (and suffered). How did they deal with that speech in the movie that came out for it? I sure hope they cut it short ...
Older devs probably don't use SO as much, because they are the one who built the great tools.
They built the techology stackoverflow was based upon, they didn't need SO when they were developing in the 80s, 90s. they probably don't need it now.
As systems age they get bogged down with stale infrastructure. We need to give our local governments political cover for hitting the simcity 'delete' button. Until we collapse the pipes & tunnels that aren't working we won't be able to build the ones we need.

A midwestern state is considering reducing their total highway miles based on declining usage stats. This is a really brave stance considering the cultural bias against it.
>I feel that I am overly obsessed with success.

Google top dying regrets. There are plenty of workaholic people who regret being succesful and spending too much time at work.

Don't measure your 'success' by what capitalist society says is success, measure your success in what YOU want for your life. When you stop paying attention to the worlds idea of what comprises a successful life you will then be an adult.

Your body's natural inclinations and functions, your health of body and mind is the only fucking thing that matters in the end.
That would totally suck for pedestrians and cyclists. Optimizing for cars and not for pedestrians and cyclists is what gave us the awful suburbs of America. No thanks.
Or you could do it Snow Crash style and hope the delivery guy is late so you can shoot him and take the car.

That aside, when you use automation to strip personality from a venue, it puts personality at a premium. Some of the best places to eat in town are those where the staff are friendly and you can chat with each other about your day. No robot could ever do that (as long as you know it's a robot).
To get more insight into the design of channels, see (my coworker!) Andrew Godwin's article "Laying the Channels Groundwork" at http://www.aeracode.org/2016/1/3/laying-channels-groundwork/
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One of these plays a role in this sci-fi book:

http://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Steel-Rat-Born-Series/dp/144...
It looks like two knowledgeable people here have said that the issue is likely about the continuous vs. discrete aspect (requiring a solution to be an integer and not just close to an integer makes it qualitatively harder to solve), while another person has suggested trying to code up an implementation and see how it compares against existing SAT solvers.

(Even if, as I think the paper suggested, the benefit would appear asymptotically for extremely large instances, you could at least confirm that the technique appeared to give the same answers as other solvers for real instances, and that the code didn't sort of accidentally smuggle in another solution technique.)
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Well the problem with that approach is that you have to account for every possible situation that might occur and program them into the robot. When a situation arises that you didn't anticipate then bad things happen. When a learning machine, it can teach itself, adapt and understand.

The former approach works fine for a factory floor robot that is in a controlled environment but doesn't lend itself well to other situations. An example might be a biped robot walking up a mountain and it falls. Most of the examples I've seen, the Boston Dynamics one included, have the robot detect it's falling and put itself into a crash position where it remains until it comes to a rest before attempting to recover.

If your robot is rolling down a mountain it might be destroyed before it comes to a rest. Having a feedback loop, reflex reactions and the ability to access the situation and recover dynamically would be much more useful.
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Yet another clueless articles bemoaning the lack of investment in subways. I'll just link to my previous comments on this topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10979537

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10247109

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11242655

The tl;dr; is that the costs for the MTA are 10-50x more than every other major city outside the US. The solution is to shut down the MTA, fire all the employees and bar them from ever working for any government agency again, and and replace them with Spanish, or Indians, or Hong Kongians, or French workers, all of whom who seem to be able to build subways at very reasonable prices.
The paper has pages of formalism about interpreting SAT in probabilistic terms that feel like they probably don't add anything to the problem. I'm not inclined to work through all of that either but I think it's very likely he ends up with an LP that isn't integral and therefore he hasn't actually solved the problem.

If that's not the case he should implement his algorithm and show that it actually works on large cnf problems, such as those that one can download from a number of SAT competition websites.
I'd honestly say it is more important than Susan Crawford is not only a technological adviser but a professor of law.

Megan Smith is an engineer and lacks the standing [in the eyes of some people who value qualifications from an accredited University] to really argue with the president about the legality of an action like Susan can.

So, I'd say this message works better with Susan as the spokesperson regardless.

But yes, honestly, its quite embarrassing how far out on a limb both Obama and the FBI have gone to insist on this path. It is just a question of whether public opinion supports that limb at this point, honestly.
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I can totally see genuine reasons for that. Feed is a huge part of the product, and you want to control that (which means controlling UX). You don't want to let things go out of hand. Some of us feel like, well, we can control it ourselves by unfriending/unfollowing/unliking things we don't like. That's true. But we shouldn't forget that we can't apply this assumption to the whole active userbase of Facebook/Instagram. Many many of their users won't bother, or aren't even aware of it.

It's kind of odd seeing all frustrated comments about how it's just about ads and etc. Well, duh, they are a business, not a charity.

The only problem with it is if they disable an ability to switch back. But, again, I can see reasons for that. It might be that they ran some experiments and some that people switch to chronological and then they happen to be less engaged over the time because their chronological, raw feed happens to suck big time.
Unfortunately especially with restaurants i am seeing more and more have only a Facebook page. I really don't like this trend. For example the format is stale and the information is often poor - many whom only have a Facebook site don't even publish a menu!
The "almost free" gas was from fixing the price of oil, which caused massive shortages within the country.[1][2] The new government overturned Venezuela's policy on this and raised oil prices by 6000%.[3]

[1] http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=334115&CategoryId=...

[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873240007045783867...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/venezuela-presi...
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450 lbs, not 480 kgs. The main power draw comes from the 2 desktop computers sitting in its base. Runs for ~4 hrs if you turn one off.
Awesome, thanks! Yes, angular unit is what I was fumbling for.
I will let you know when we will complete audit of our crypto.
But if you want a multipurpose robot that works alongside us in the human world performing many diverse tasks that a human would perform, being a humanoid might be quite useful. Jobs are designed for humans in many cases, so looking and moving like a human seems like a good thing.
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The story is missing a few steps.
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yea, of course. It's a new option to build good systems not a tool to build shitty ones
RAII is the one thing I miss from C++.
Super against auto. The type is implicit documemtation, and auto hides that. It probably also increases compile times.
Yes, they had to find customers. That's how business works. You sound as if they cheated.

You find someone willing to pay for your product. The "build it and they will come" doesn't usually work out so well. Finding governments or wealthy people to pay for your products counts when building a business. Elon didn't invent this tactic.
Thanks! Yeah it's hard to find good UP TO DATE reading material on this. I genuinely appreciate this.
I wouldn't dismiss social tasks. It gets people involved in community, including knowledge progress. And who are we to decide what purpose and drive to give a population? The minimum for health and growth is socializing.
Am I really that much of an outlier in loving coffeescript?

I know a lot of people don't like the extra translation effort to debugging, and some aren't fond of significant whitespace, but I'm surprised that that's enough to make it into the top 5 most dreaded. Is there something else I'm missing?
> without belittling at all what it took to achieve this victory

That's not really what it comes across as. Most posts like that reek of moving the goalpost.

Also the efficiency goalpost is probably the easier problem. Advancement in processor designs, microarchitecture, and basic code optimization will get us there, not necessarily changing the techniques of AlphaGo.

* 60 years ago ENIAC was room-sized and slow, now salesmen hand out branded solar calculators for free
* As the article mentioned, deepblue was a massive computer with custom hardware, now your <1W phone can run stockfish. The achievement wasn't by the chess team, it was by Intel, ARM, compiler developers, etc.