skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main reason this cites is correct: Bernstein's algorithms are simpler and easier to implement correctly than RSA, DSA, or even AES. They're smaller in code, easier to port, and easier to understand.

Barring major problems with the algorithms, their simplicity also makes them inherently more secure. Complexity is anathema to security-- complex code is hard to audit, hard to understand, and has more "bug surface area." Bernstein himself calls this "boring crypto": the use of simple easy to understand constructions in simple predictable and easily auditable ways.
Yeah but at most speeds, it would probably sound like an out-of-tune instrument
> most of Top Gun is perfectly suitable for a 5 year old...except some of the swearing and the sex

It's fascinating to consider the cultural differences that make sex the thing most unacceptable in a movie largely concerned with gigantic flying death machines.

And I'm not saying jets are not awesomely cool, they are indeed... But is the movie significantly different from an air force/navy recruiting advertisement?
>The state of California is chronically underfunded because it does a poor job of taxing the people who actually have money.

So does everyone else. The reason it's so hard to tax the wealth of the rich is not because they're masters of political manipulation but because they're -- as you note -- much better at (legally) restructuring their activities so that the wealth does not pass through a nexus that a given jurisdiction controls.
So what about alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, weed, sugar, or fat? And isn't the goal of all ads psychological manipulation?
Yup, going to have to save this for later... I vaguely remember a Metropolis Light Transport from my college graphics course, which I assume uses similar sampling methodology
I had a lot of fun with Pandemic, but on the whole I agree.
Absolutely. I think it is the rapid prototyping aspect of spreadsheets that is perhaps the most powerful. For analysing large amounts of data they are obviously not great. But they excel (pardon the pun) at providing an environment in which to quickly formulate and visualise numerical models - because they are reactive so you can see what happens when you change inputs - without having to recompile, or manually rerun code.
Any plans to support UK cards?
The UI is clunkier than that of Numbers, but you can do something similar in Excel with tables (blocks in a sheet that you somewhat enforce some structure on. See https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Overview-of-Excel-t...).

And of course, Excel can flag cells that, according to its heuristics, seem to use inconsistent formulas, such as using empty cells in a summation, or having one cell in a column use a different formula.
this is sad :(
I had a general question about card numbers.

Say there are 3E9 people on Earth, each with 3 cards. That's around 10 digits right there. There's 1 digit for checksum. I imagine you'd want to leave space for least 1000 financial institutions around the world, so that's another 4 digits. Which means you can only have 100 transactions per person.

None of this takes into account the fact that the same people are issued way more than 3 card numbers either.

So my question is, how are we not close to running out of card numbers? How is this not even a problem yet?
College ordered to pay more than $1B for misleading students
The refund will go directly back to your original funding account.
Waiting for my neural network to finish training.
Is that something that new? My bank (Itaú, in Brazil) offers this option for some time now.

Here(in portuguese): https://www.itau.com.br/cartoes/cartao-virtual/

Or am I missing something?

Edit: They launched it in 2002: http://exame2.com.br/mobile/tecnologia/noticias/itau-agora-t...

Edit2: Sounds new in the US. This is not supposed to be a bragging/snarky comment. Just genuinely surprised as innovation usually come the other way around, from US to Brazil. So Congrats on the launch! Good job, sounds tough to launch it not being a Bank!
Demystifying the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Glassdoor Salary Data
Sure, but an unauthorized charge is a clear cut case. I'm talking about an authorized charge from a merchant who is later uncooperative for whatever reason. I would think that a longstanding credit card company would have a more account-holder-friendly dispute process, but perhaps this is just a perception you have to overcome. Furthermore with a credit card one never loses the money until they decide to transfer it, regardless of company policies.
Is there a package manager out there with signed releases (GPG or something)?
This is surprising why? I suspect 75% of car commercials are CGI as well. There are forums (I used to participate in one) where members would show off their "renders" and given the computer power available its not really a big deal for anyone to make really really good pictures (or insert silly things into other pictures)
Aha. Should have read the announcement better. Thanks for the explanation.
Thanks for this nugget of knowledge. Wasn't aware it was possible to negotiate the rate down unless you were a BigCo. 1.7% is impressive, that's the rate we had for our brick and mortar restaurant in the past.

We're not doing micropayments. Each transaction is around $50-$200, with <5% margins. Volume is low 100ks. (Didn't mention this earlier because I didn't want to seem like I was getting my homework done by others, planned to research the general recommendations.)
Updating to a newer version of VirtualBox solved that issue.
Obligatory country smug. We have had this in Sweden for at least 5 years, possibly a decade.
>I want a game I can buy, not a bloody subscription.

There are literally thousands of those out there. Go ahead and buy them.

Why are people so concerned with what others find entertaining? If freemium games, and their shitty mechanics, aren't for you, don't play them.
I was that nerd, although admittedly I was only in one real fight (in grade school) and I didn't have too many problems beyond that.

[edit] I guess I didn't see too much actual violent fighting otherwise beyond (I guess) normal making fun of / pushing around of nerds, although I did see a few fights between girls and some involving more metalhead/burnout types (in case anyone is familiar with the John Hughes High Schooler taxonomy)
Censor: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.

The reason someone's search results are considered 'objectionable' is because they consider those results private. The private citizen, in the case, is the censor. The french government is just the enforcing body behind that censorship.
E8 Is the Best
You're probably thinking of this paper by Jon Karr et al.: "A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype"

http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(12)00776-3
Never thought of that - please expound...
what would you do if you were that assistant secretary to fix the un?

please i need an answer
Check the "Other" section of their FAQ: https://privacy.com/faq

"We're only available in the United States at the moment."
Far.

This would be the intersection between natural language processing, small-step operational semantics, and structural (big-step) operational semantics.

This is something I've been trying to wrap my head around for nearly twenty years.

It is relatively easy to rewrite terms within a single language such that very different code is functionally equivalent (which can be an insanely useful card to have up your sleeve).

And it's not too terribly difficult to generate equivalent code in a different language for very small things (functions, loops, etc.). A bit more difficult to generate equivalent idiomatic code.

But going the opposite direction -- taking some functional code and truly understanding "oh, this section is building a graph of dependencies" is more challenging. And the names of things rarely helps (the two most difficult things in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors).

And then stepping back and having a system understand what you mean -- what you want -- is a black squiggly squirming nightmare.
> > Make the OS your task management system

> Can anyone who is more familiar with orgmode describe how it might play this role?

Emacs, full screen (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen), auto-starting org-mode, and do everything you can in it (http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3996068979/the-levels-of-em...). It helps if you already use Emacs, such as writing software in it.
Wish they explained this better:

"Please ensure this information is accurate. We're
required to verify this information against public
records. But don't worry, we'll keep it private."

I suppose I'm legally opening a bank account, which has similar requested info as this, but are they checking my credit (probably not, I know, but it makes me uncomfortable)? Will wait a while.
One tactic I've used is start with modifying something that already exists - something you kind of like already.

Certainly as you work with it you will have changes, as you work with it you will get the feel of the structure and mod it all the ways you want to see if you can do it different or better. Once you’ve groked that project a bit you will realize the basics of writing yours from scratch, make something maybe borrow code, it get easier and more you as you work on stuff.
The problem with that sentiment is where do you draw the line between someone who really loves to play certain types of games and someone who has some sort of mental problem?
If France is able to pull this off, and Google doesn't just decide to close all of its French offices, someone will start an uncensored search engine based exclusively in the US, subject only to American jurisdiction. Anyone trying to dig up dirt, like a prospective employer, will search on that instead. You might say, France will then block that search engine. Okay, so people will use one of the hundreds of web proxies that can be easily found by searching "web proxy" on Google, or Tor. And yes, people will go through this trouble, especially in a place where it's almost impossible to fire someone, like France.

Sounds like a stupid sword to fall on.
I've used a todo list, in some form for over 10 years. I'm currently using WorkFlowy and have used it nearly every day for 2 years now. I'm one of those 'minimal GTD' types that just needs to get everything down so in the morning, I can make sure I'm focusing on the right things. Nothing heavy, just a simple way to reflect and focus.
Didn't realize you require login & pass to bank (registration didn't work on windows phone).

While that's common in Germany, in Poland giving your login & passto 3rd party means that bank has no responsibility for any loss/fraud/anything if something goes wrong for whatever reason. This is breaching the term with the bank, that your login and password are confidential.

In Poland a oauth like alternative for payments is used, where you end up on your bank website to confirm payment and then you go back to the merchant.
Hopefully they're not creating something airborne with an unending thirst for life.
This is awesome. Design that matters.
Why is this tasteless? App discovery is a huge problem in the app store with the amount of apps out there. I don't know the premise of the show, but I could see it being really cool if they brought some of the small teams behind apps to light and told their stories. Who cares who the host is if he does a good job? I for one think it has the potential to be an interesting show that is different from whats out there already.
In my previous uk startup for an online game (100 mill players) we used multiple providers. Vindicia, Playspan and Paypal as well as physical shop based game time cards. And then also later directly with Apple's appstore and Google's Play store.

You might find yourself requiring multiple providers for different requirements and redundancy.

Playspan was for example very good at the south american market, Vindicia very good at retrying failed payments and auto replacing card details for recurring subscriptions. And a lot of customers expected to be able to pay with Paypal whom are also good at fraud prevention.

But to echo everyone here, if my "next" startup requires a payments provider I would initially go with Stripe and/or Braintree.
This article is self-contradictory.

In the second caption: "Each cell of JCVI-syn3.0 contains just 473 genes, fewer than any other independent organism."

In the main text: "In a 1995 Science paper, Venter’s team sequenced the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted microbe with the smallest genome of any known free-living organism, and mapped its 470 genes."

Which is it? Venter would have seemed to disproven his own claim to novelty, unless we've found new genes in M. genitalium's genome since 1995.

Edit: As with most biological terms, part of the problem is the fuzziness of the definition of "gene". More recent studies claim M. genitalium has 525 genes [1], but that might be including tRNA and ncRNA regions. I'd still object to the article's poor editing. Also, let's get down to brass tacks here: we've only trimmed a 580kb genome down to 531kb (9% reduction). Clearly, life is already pretty damn efficient.

[1] http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(12)00776-3
this is the best non-thread related thread-related post ever. very cool!!
Obligatory "no we can't have nice things". Something like this was available to all Discover card users 5 years ago, but a bit hidden on their website, and was discontinued.

I think most people prefer to do what's most convenient (have one credit card/number) and patch up any abuse/fraud after-the-fact.
There's a relevant (and pretty funny) ServerFault question from 2011 I'm immediately reminded of:

"Our Security Auditor Is An Idiot. How Do I Give Him The Information He Wants?"
http://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-auditor...
To the extent that the valuation is inaccurate, it's not based on the housing income created and sustained by demand. It's a based on a projection of the growth in that housing income. I believe you're mis-blaming real demand for rental units the for the mistakes being made by real estate investors in projecting growth in housing income.
$50B transit proposal would boost light rail throughout Seattle region
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Only because they don't know about it. If you had a way to market to them you really wouldn't need the other 99%. There's probably enough data out there to do just that, too.
You still have to walk back.
The is something named e-carte in France, and that is directly powered by banks :)
Congrats on getting to market with this! Super tough thing to do. Congrats!
Yarvin and his "ilk" aren't the ones complaining about being offended here.
what would you do if you were that assistsnt secretary to fix the un?

please i need an answer
If it's a conference on terraforming, then you might get into a very interesting conversation on that very topic.
The short answer is that, in theory, we are running out. It's kept in check now by some amount of BIN & account number recycling by financial institutions.

If you're curious about the number scheme, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7812
I've never heard of anything like this in the US. So I think it is new here, at least.
If left-pad.io goes down, will it take the rest of the WWW infrastructure with it? I'm missing a Q&A for important and apparently relevant questions like these.
For big banks, it has been technically possible for a while (since 2002 in France[1]) you can create a single usage card. The issue is the cost of that service, and it's probably only working on Windows PCs.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev...
there is a machine. It's called ECMO http://content.onlinejacc.org/mobile/article.aspx?articleid=...

i am sorry they were not able to save your dad.
The first genetic scientist was a priest so not really...
Plenty of US companies either currently offer this service or have offered it in the past. This isn't exactly a new concept.

These services aren't usually very popular.
This bot is basically Bender from Futurama.

Here's some screencaps of most of what it's said.

http://imgur.com/gallery/GKEt8/new
Yeah, I can believe things are different since the 80's. Nerds seem to be much higher on the social totem pole now IMO. Also can I now say that I feel the the old guy going 'WELLLLL, back in MY day..." :-/
Steve McConnell's classic book "Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction" references some ~1980s studies of code quality. IIRC, defects per KLOC was inversely correlated with function length, leveling off around 200–400 LOC per function. Software composed of many micro-functions (or, in the npm case, micro-libraries) is more difficult to grok because there is more context "off screen" to keep in your head.

An unrelated Cisco study of code reviews found that 200–400 LOC is the limit of how many LOC can be effectively reviewed per hour. Applying the findings of these studies suggests that neither functions nor patches/pull-request diffs should not exceed 200 LOC. FWIW, I have worked on commercial software that had functions many thousands of lines long! :)
Well it wasn't very good at PDAs but we got the iPhone...
You're right the language here should be better. FWIW, you're not opening a bank account and we aren't pulling a credit check (per our FAQ). We cross check the information as part of our AML / KYC policy.
Opa is a really bad example since every program that uses the standard library will be utterly depended on that library. The program can not work at all without the copyrighted work of the library authors, and as such, do not even have basic aspect like independence.

If I write a program that connect to a database, my program will happy work fine without the database software. I could replace the database with a different one, and the program would work identically. Outside some database specific quirks, programs that connect to a database do so as independent works.

An other aspect is that if you change the standard library of a programming language, the programs that uses it will utterly change too. If you change the database software, most well written software won't be effected and will run identically as if it connected to a older version of the database.

And last, software that connects to a database won't share memory with the database software. Programs that uses a standard library will share memory with the standard library. The connection between a program and it's standard library is significant closer than the connection between a program and a database.
Yet SF still manages to mess that up. The Geary/O'Farrell corridor gets its own lane for the buses, but the "rapid" ones stop every three blocks.
I can't use this right now because all of my spending goes on a rewards credit card, but if you offered credit card support as a premium feature I'd be signed up in a second. I hope to see that feature soon!
Regarding the hack to make function calls: if JSX elements start with a capital letter, then the pragma is ignored, and the element name is used as a local variable name instead, e.g.:

transform("<Foo id = 'my-element'>hi!</Foo>")

outputs

Foo({id: "my-element"}, ["hi!"])
one word: negotiate.

Contracts are often just boilerplate that the company downloaded from some website. Just tell them that you cannot accept that particular term and offer an alternative wording. Then stick to your guns.
Why not let people directly put in account numbers then? Lets users avoid online bank account liability but has the same effect.
Only supports Macs & Windows, sadly.
The idea is preposterous.

...and not what I suggested. It feels like you didn't read my comment at all.

We are talking about automated content filtering. This is all we are talking about. Not whether it's OK to stop watching a film you're not enjoying (of course it is), not 'rules in general' like driving regulations and bedtime. Just automated content filtering.
I don't disagree on the sales impact - if you're spending a sufficient portion of your day watching videos of people playing a game, and that game isn't streamed, you're FAR more likely to watch a different game than actually go and buy a copy and play it.

That said, the irony is strong here when streamers are complaining about not being able to monetize their stream of someone else's work without restriction.
What if one day everyone runs their own indexer, or there's a distributed search engine where people index parts of the web and share it with others like FreeNet/Kazaa? What of sites like archive.org whose job it is to preserve the history of the web, in effect, a history of our culture?

You're talking about in effect, erecting a Great Firewall around Europe so that EU citizens can't surface information that the rest of the world can. But anyone in Europe could use Tor, a foreign proxy, or a VPN to get around this.

Ultimately, if government censorship extends too far, it may push decentralized information indexing and sharing to be more mainstream than the darknets it currently exists on.
A few credit card companies offered this in the mid-2000s (Providian and Citi, possibly more), but it seems to have fallen out of favor in the intervening time. I liked to have it as an option, so I'm glad it's making a comeback.
I wish it was Bender. Even though he wanted to kill all humans he at least thought of the señoritas and rose to the ocassion.
That's cool but I still think it's just finding yet another way not to implement the actual solution for speeding - ANPRs powering automated ticketing and something like "three strikes and then your license get suspended". As long as drivers can easily get away with irresponsible road behaviour, they will be speeding.
Communist "state" is an oxymoron: "the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism)

Please google these basic terms before you engage in character assassination. As you did with Klabnik. (On topics like this, HN comments don't even rise to the factual rigor of YouTube comments.)
Bank of America offers this as "ShopSafe", but it's buried on the BoA credit card account page and it's a flash app. It's also not available from the BoA mobile app, at least not last I looked.
I figured someone who knows more about this (than me) would write a good reply to this, and they did:

Ron Garret replies:

Saying "How on earth did it come to this?” strongly implies
that you think that the trend towards DJB’s crypto suite a
problem, but you don’t offer much in terms of proposals for
how to solve it, or even what a solution would look like.
You seem to agree that a solution would *not* look like the
status quo. So what exactly are you advocating here?

I submit that the impending monoculture in crypto is not
necessarily a problem, any more than the monoculture in
physics (what? No alternatives to GR and QM?) or climate
science is necessarily a problem. It’s possible that crypto
has a Right Answer, and that Dan Bernstein has discovered/
invented it. If you believe that simplicity and minimalism
ought to be part of the quality metric then there may be very
few local maxima in the design space, and DJB may simply have
found one of them.

rg
Wow, you guys are lucky (or maybe I'm just unlucky?). I guess it's hard to avoid generalizing from our own experiences though, glad to hear some of us made it through unscathed ;-)