skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
damn. I've been wanting a service like this for a very long time. Not just for privacy of security, but hopefully so that if my banking or real credit card information changes I could just go to one place to make all my updates.

Looking forward to seeing how it looks.
Lord of Poker – totally new poker/rpg experience on Kickstarter right now
Don't think they ask for banking username and password. They only state they will directly debit it from your account, which does not require sharing your bank credentials. All you probably need is a one time authorization for them to be able to debit.
I feel like the 64GB SSD would be really limiting for development, though. I'm using about 200GB of space on my work machine, and I don't think I'm doing anything crazy with it.
It's already happening (a comment I made 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11331154).

Sorry about that, I can't copy/pasta the contents, as the URLs will break :/
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD geometry so you can mod it
Sendhil Mullainathan (econ prof at Harvard) is doing some work on using machine learning to predict whether people should be granted bail. The machine discrimination (no pun intended) issues here could be quite terrifying. Not published yet, but example abstract: http://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/event/sendhil-mullainathan...

On the other hand, there's starting to be some research on how to codify and prevent this in ML. For example: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3756
We often get instances of US police using the public intoxication laws as a cart blanche means to arrest people:

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/stroke-victim-and-son-arr...

This also happens with drunk passengers in cars. Police will order drunk passengers to get out of a car, to then immediately charge them with public intoxication.

http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/sheriff-s-beat-deput...

Nebulous laws like public intoxication statutes are rife for abuse by power hungry megalomaniac cops with no accountability or oversight.
In the past, when I myself was undecided on these two things, I'd agreed with you. Since then I've concluded that Catholicism is the correct religion, and that our current political systems are completely and hopelessly broken. At this point, there's nothing for me to change in these areas, and my job isn't to convince anyone else of my positions on either of these. (If they want to know more of why I believe what I believe in either area, I will gladly point them to some resources.) So it's absolutely useless for me to discuss them with anyone else.
Unfortunately it probably won't happen for awhile :(. We're a free service, and make money off the interchange from issuing these cards. Amex and high points cards are really expensive to accept funding from.
Couldn't you get around using eval by just use an object and register methods on it, instead of global functions, essentially using the object as a namespace? Instead of

/* @jsx ((a,b)=>(eval(a)(b))) */

You would have

/* @jsx ((a,b)=>(MyJSX[a](b))) */

And then just build your functions on top of the MyJSX object?
I just mean that some things do not need to turn a profit. Of course you are right about budgets being fixed and priorities weighed with specific numbers attached.
We already trust mint.com with this information. I don't see the big issue.
How does this work? I see the pending POST in the Chrome network tab, which completes when someone downloads it, and then become pending again for the next download. So are you proxying the uploaded data to the downloading client?
Bear in mind, the way Google applied the law 'only in France' originally was to delist the search result in google.fr, but French citizens could simply go to google.com and the results would be there. So Google was not complying with French law, even in France.

Apparently, they've since taken the step of adding country detection, regardless of which domain you go to, to ensure RTBF is applied based on where you're browsing from.

However, the extended point, is that France has granted those individuals certain rights. It's in France's citizens' best interests for France to protect their citizens' rights globally.

Note that if an American is incarcerated for a violation of another country's laws, the US will often actually intervene and try to negotiate for their release. Your country is protecting your rights (as your country defines them) even when you're outside of their borders.
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> The law doesn’t apply globally: it allows a French citizen to ask Google to have their info removed. Period. It doesn’t allow US people to do the same. That this info is hidden in all countries Google operates in is a side-effect.

Currently the info is only hidden if Google thinks that you are searching from within Europe.
I worked in Tokyo for a while. If you don't take cabs, you end up doing a fair amount of walking. There are a lot of trains and subways, so there is a limit to how much walking you have to do. Even if your origin and destination were both right next to a subway station, however, you could expect to do a lot of walking underground, since there is a lot of stuff underground in Tokyo around which subways have to be routed.

I think walking is great, and frequently I would figure ways to skip a subway line by walking a bit more, but I thought I'd mention this just to give a more accurate impression.
I just got part-way through the signup, and didn't fund my account because of this issue.

Maybe different for other banks, but this was the requirement for Chase.
Macbook touchpads are still a tier above the rest, but the Skylake XPS touchpads are pretty good (and better than the previous XPS 13) based on the reviews.
Lenny Bruce was not afraid
Love the idea, but I just wanted to shout out the logo. Best logo concept I've ever seen, and the whole branding looks great anyway. Brilliant work.
> then you should probably have an entire fake virtual identity to handle things like this.

I don't believe facebook allows this. Hence the problem with a facebook-only login.
>no Amazon Prime Streaming app on Apple TV, for instance

I was under the impression they were working on that, [0] seems to agree with that

0) http://exstreamist.com/when-will-amazon-prime-be-on-apple-tv...
I think notebook environments like iPython provide greater flexibility in terms of programming. I don't think they can replace spreadsheet nor spreadsheet would develop functionality to replace notebook environments.

The missing link is a seamless experience between spreadsheet and reproducible data analysis (programming).

My team is working on https://nxsheet.com. We look to provide this seamless experience. For example: Generate normal distribution - https://nxsheet.com/sheets/56e845da4030182e337c6c2b

Stencila looks interesting. Great work!
Could you please tell this on your homepage and maybe even add a "send me one email when this is available in my country" form?
>Presidents are extremely smart

Interesting. Is there a part of the democatic process that guarantees electing extremely smart people?
Much of what is covered by RTBF is stuff that should be covered by blinds in your home, but may have been illegally brought to the Internet. Such as revenge porn.
Are you kidding? Will.i.am making a tv show about apps? 2008 pop culture won't know what hit it!
Is the browser extension something you plan on requiring?
You got permits for your remodel? Everyone else I know in California does it on the dl and doesn't tell the city for this reason(and many others).
Gawker could chose to relocate it's business outside the US, but as long as they are a US corporation, they are bound by US laws and rulings handed down by US courts. Furthermore, defamation laws for publishing content are very different than the right to be forgotten laws which apply to indexing content. No one is arguing that the content is defamation, since it is true and reasonable, the argument is that the content is no longer relevant to a person's character (eg shoplifting arrest as a teenager that made local news).
Why own shares of a valuable business when you can buy the entire business for pennies on the dollar when they're about to go bankrupt?

EDIT: Then sell them during the next bubble.
France has declared the absolute right to artificially censor google globally?

Dandy. Next China will ask the same thing globally of other results. How can you do anything on the internet if you must follow all laws everywhere at the same time?
It'll last this way until a few of them start to lose money, then they'll sell off the division to some independent group (probably Comcast) that will offer all these shows in a single payment model.

I wonder if this is as close as we'll get to the "a-la carte" tv show utopia.
You've got to separate federal taxes from state taxes to understand how the US spends its money. In general the federal government is well funded and squanders its money on wasteful and unnecessary defence projects, such as having more aircraft carriers than conventional military wisdom says that they need. Such things don't enhance the US's defensive situation. The F-35 is another great example.

But states are generally underfunded, because lowering taxes is always popular and easy to do in state politics. State budgets are dominated by boring things such as education which an aging electorate often cares little about. And states are always in competition with their neighbours with regards to taxes, so raising sales tax might actually push more shopping across the state line to your neighbour. Couple that with the situation in California where any tax increase has to be voted on by the general public as a "proposition", and you get a scenario where adequate state funding becomes almost impossible.
The new daemon (dubbed osxfs) is FUSE-based at the moment, but also provides a semantic translation layer between OSX filesystem calls and Linux kernel events. The FUSE layer can be removed in the future in favour of a direct kernel module with this architecture, if it ends up being a bottleneck (its fine right now though)
There's a lengthier answer to this, but long story short, yes we're aware of a lot of the common pitfalls. A big part of the challenge comes down to limiting abuse on the cards (which we're planning to do).
The 'Uber for Experiments' Group Science Exchange (YC S11) Raises $25M
Yes, and those more pressing issues are among spending time debating why it's not worthwhile to spend time debating a topic that is less pressing than the debate about the time it takes, apparently.
Mortgage income tax relief strongly punishes renters - my commercial landlord doesn't get any tax breaks, while you do. It also increases property prices, by reducing the cost of borrowing money.
Thanks again for the interest. I've launched a few more workers on EC2 for all of you attempting to play with the demo sheet (each of you gets a Docker container running an R session). Things seem to have stabilized for now. A good robustness test - more work needed! Sigh.
Tapjoy posted an infographic recently as well: http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/infographic-whales-account...
Chicago startup wants to turn Trump's tweets against him
I'll copy-paste my reply to every comment you make, since you seem to really like making this non argument.

Gawker could chose to relocate it's business outside the US, but as long as they are a US corporation, they are bound by US laws and rulings handed down by US courts. Furthermore, defamation laws for publishing content are very different than the right to be forgotten laws which apply to indexing content. No one is arguing that the content is defamation, since it is true and reasonable, the argument is that the content is no longer relevant to a person's character (eg shoplifting arrest as a teenager that made local news).
My biggest question with Privacy, and of any one-time use credit card numbers service, is always:

Will it affect my rewards? Will businesses still show up unaffected with the same categories on my credit card statement? (I have a travel rewards only card, so breaking the rewards flow is a deal-breaker for using a higher level service.)

Edit: I misunderstood the service as being able to be layered on top of normal credit cards. It looks like the funding source is only bank accounts for now. Still my question remains if building on credit or debit cards is on the roadmap.

Edit 2: They are one-time use numbers, right? "Use at merchants" (plural) seems to possibly imply otherwise.

> What happens when I generate a new Privacy card?

> We'll give you a random 16-digit Visa card number that you can use at merchants that accept Visa debit cards...

Edit 3: It sounds like the business model results in keeping the money that would go to rewards on a normal card.

> How do you make money?

> Every time you spend using a Privacy card, the merchant or website pays a fee (called interchange) to Visa and the issuing bank. This fee is shared with us. We have some premium features planned, but rest assured, our core virtual card product will always be free and we will never sell your personal data.
Not everyone does. And anyway it's owned by Intuit which has a much longer track record than this new company, so it's not the same thing.
Minimum TTL for SOA records on .com is a day. Lowering your A record TTL isn't buying you much in case of DNS hosting failure. Helpful if your site (not dns) needs to move providers though.
Dell Precision laptops now ship with Linux.
Not quite what I had in mind, but that sounds nice too. I just meant when you get to the bottom of some comment thread (i.e., next comment is de-dented), it would be nice to be able to collapse it there, too.
Yes, but that doesn't prove anything. You're not going to see alien life on other planets when your technology is so primitive that you've never even send manned missions beyond your nearest moon, and you've only recently even begun to detect other planets (outside your own star system), and even there you don't have the capability of detecting planets as small as your own.

If you don't bother to actually observe planets similar to your own, then of course you're not going to observe any alien life similar to your own.
> In other words the right to be forgotten is effectively absolute, because no person or entity could afford to investigate and respond to each such claim, and is forced to simply accept them all as if they were uniformly meritorious.

No, that's not how it necessarily works. The search teams do not like meddling with their search results so it is reasonable to assume they analyze removal requests carefully and proceed with the removal only for the substantiated ones, in the sense of the court ruling. If the request does not qualify, the probability that the individual would drag the big company into court and win is very low. There is no worry of losing in the court then and the search team won't remove the result.
Personally I've found the keyboard on mine to be just fine, but I'm using a 2015, not a 2012. For those of you who are interested in a try-before-you-buy, when I was shopping around they were selling them at Microsoft stores and had a demo unit set up for people to play with.
Could not a website also ask a search engine to defend it's determination to remove a website improperly? Sites like The Guardian should presumably also be able to appeal if their public interest posts are censored.

In a proper appeal process (I cannot say if this is currently in RTBF, I don't know), infringed parties exist which could complain for either way a decision goes, so it's in the best interest of the determining party (in this case Google or Bing) to make the decision most likely to be upheld by an appeals court (or data protection agency, as I think it is in this case).
It's an interesting idea. However, I'm not comfortable with a third party having all that information. Some banks issue "corporate" cards, with numerous "employee" cards. I already trust the bank, after all. So what else does Privacy.com provide that's worth the risk? They're still subject to KYC, right? So there's no strong privacy. Or am I missing something?
You took away his freedom to be unaware of choice.
Yes, we do have a measurement problem. I was going to propose a solution, but it's a hard problem and any solution will necessarily have side effects on the surrounding communities as well.
That's like 800 m, still very walkable
Totally understand it's sensitive, and it's cool if you're not ready to trust us with that yet. That's something that we plan to earn and don't take for granted. Eventually we do plan to allow debit card funding.
It's important to remember that just cancelling a payment method doesn't necessarily mean you're unsubscribed. If you're still getting a service, you're still on the hook for paying for it one way or another.
The guy is talking about replicating abiogenesis like it "happened the first time".

You can't use sky hooks after all. Where are your cranes? :-)
More for new versions of same software where the account might be highjacked but hopefully the key wasnt. I dont think a hash would help.
How would the app know which profile to look at?
Tony Fadell’s Struggle to Build Nest
If you signed up online, the company must provide a way to cancel online per visa rules. Check their TOS, they probably list a way to cancel online via email or whatever.
Finally, a card for my dial up needs!

Really though, isn't something like the apple pay system a better way? You don't risk getting flagged as a prepaid card and reject, you aren't giving out your data.
In my experience, bank logins are used for instant verification of funding. For example, Robinhood uses it likely to verify legitimate users for its $1000 instant funding service.
Freemium players who don't pay aren't "Pirates". Also they take up server resources (and complain even louder than paying ones when the occasional defect happens).
How many celebrities did you know who were born in the 1920's and 1930's? You're just observing more people who you've known. Television didn't get big until the 1970's and cable didn't really impact until the 1980's, which made a lot more people well-known.
IRC client -> ZNC -> Slack IRC => logs*

Sync them with Syncthing => locally saved logs, you can read them later.

Problem solved.
IMO doing well in debates requires the ability to think very quickly.
Not sure what about that is hard to understand, it's a convenient proxy factory bean superclass for proxy factory beans that create only singletons. Says it right there on the page.
(This is an archive of the story hosted by John Gruber -- if he takes it down, the sharing link is http://go.theinformation.com/d9e0d5, which asks for your e-mail address. I know HN folks are pretty anti-paywall but this article is original reporting that's well worth reading.)
Duplicate, discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11355270
Yes, that's my question too :)

I'm pretty sure that KYC trumps privacy, in this case :(

Lavabit wasn't doing financial transactions. Openly, anyway.
This is very handy, sometimes there's a really enjoyable movie you'd like to watch at home, but has few parts that are not appropriate for kids. I don't see the need for a high-horse about censorship in this case.
Postgres with sharding and master/master replication would be so awesome.
If any part of the site is meant to assassinate my character, I could sue you for defamation in the necessary jurisdiction. Alternatively, I could work to improve the SEO scores of my personal and professional pages, acknowledge that you are attempting to character assassinate me in my pages, and move on with my life. The problem is that in reality what's happening is that people who made stupid mistakes as teenagers are now realizing that their arrest record is searchable, and I feel terrible for them, but wouldn't it be better dealt with by passing laws to thwart the arrest record sites rather than forcing every site that indexes content to delist on a case-by-case basis.
First, you probably need to define "god". Does a biological being like us but with extremely advanced technology count? Or do they need to be able to exist beyond conventional physics and have apparently limitless power in our universe, like Q? Or do you mean specific gods, namely the ones which various groups of humans worship?

If it's #1, those are just aliens. If #2, I don't think you can discount the possibility entirely, but there's no evidence for their existence, but it's entirely possible. But spending any energy on the question seems a bit pointless, since no members of the Q Continuum have made their presence known to us yet. If #3, the problem there is there's no good evidence for their existence, only ancient stories passed down from oral tradition, and the old "telephone game" shows how reliable that is, plus the well-known phenomenon of hallucination, which can happen to people when they eat certain tainted foods.

The question of aliens is worth considering seriously because we do know that life is possible (look in the mirror), we know under what conditions if can form (look outside; we have a planet to study that formed life), and now we know that lots of other planets are out there, and some of them may very well be similar to our own. If we can evolve here, it's quite possible some other beings evolved elsewhere under similar conditions. And with many billions of stars out there (just in our galaxy and nearby ones), the probability of other planets existing with conditions similar to ours is high. Furthermore, as our ability to detect exoplanets improves, it's quite possible we may detect signs of alien life: radio signals, industrial emissions in their atmosphere, weird starlight patterns indicating a possible Dyson swarm, etc. There's no way to detect any kind of god (whether it's one from some old book or the Q).
> Technology security expert and academic Pierluigi Paganini said if properly applied, facial recognition technology could have alerted security forces to the bombers at Brussels airport.

It would have alerted the authorities that one "guy who came from Syria" is in an airport. And some other guy in similar situation is in another airport, and 10 others are in bus stations, and 50 others in train stations across Europe, and 500 others are in malls, and so on.

The reason mass surveillance doesn't work is because there will be a ton of "similar" signals. Which ones do you know to go after? Remember, one of the Paris attackers was already on an "extremist" list. And the more governments overreact and start putting more and more people on such lists "just to be on the safe side", the harder it will get to stop any of those thousands of tens of thousands of people that may at one point be in a crowd of people.
Why have tire factories? Don't you want to be confident that you know how your tire is made? Why don't we just make tires for all of our vehicles?
Define "comes close". In California the fuel tax covers less than half the maintenance cost and none of the capital costs of the roads.
Is there a president you can think of that wasn't a genius?

Being president requires you to manage so many different things; it couldn't be done by someone who wasn't smart.
Thank you! We do have to abide by US AML / KYC laws as we are working with a sponsoring bank. We plan on releasing transparency reports on a regular basis.
To elaborate, time is the problem.

The number of atoms in the smallest viable cell is actually reasonably small, less than a billion atoms, such that you could hope to store it all in memory on a single beefy computer.

Meanwhile, you need something like picosecond resolution in the simulation, while you need seconds of simulated time to see interesting macro-level things happen. If you want to see cell division, you're probably talking a minimum of thirty minutes of simulated time.
Got it. Would it help you to know I'd be willing to pay for something like this for all of my cards? That may be a good freemium model to explore.
/taps on i.am+ Dial smartwatch to set a reminder to DVR/