skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give them a listen... but Dave@TheAmpHour is one of the more annoying podcast hosts, he's very under-educated on anything but his specialist subject and semi-depressing most of the time.
>ran into issues of being flagged as prepaid or single use cards

I generate Citi's virtual credit card numbers every month for numerous online shopping payments and I haven't run into issues.

It seems that it's not possible to determine if a card is a virtual number by parsing the digits.[1] Do you have other information stating that merchants know how to reject virtual cc numbers?

[1]"As there is no way for a merchant to identify a card as virtual up-front,"
https://support.cybersource.com/cybskb/index?page=content&id...
One project I've recently been wanting play around with is Beaker, which touts itself as a polyglot data science notebook tool. The pitch is that you can use the right tool for the job, no matter what questions you want to ask next to each other. It looks like an iPython notebook on steroids.

http://beakernotebook.com/
https://github.com/twosigma/beaker-notebook

Disclaimer (or not): no involvement, but looks very handy.
So I should give Privacy my bank account information in the name of "security"? No thanks.
You keep harping on and on and on in this discussion about "private" information. What you are referring to are unauthorized disclosures. That is not the issue here, and I don't think anyone has a problem with removing that. Please stop tossing out this irrelevant strawman.

The issue is redaction of authorized, public information from the index.
The best way to prevent rigged voting is not to let the users select what's being voted on out of a large pool. Polling is better!
Most cells don't have cell walls, typically only plant species / fungi and some bacteria do. I think the confusion here is due to the term 'cell wall' which has a very specific meaning in biology and doesn't just denote the outer parameter of a cell. The 'cell membrane' is what keeps all the innards of a cell in place, but that's a distinct structure to the cell wall.

http://www.majordifferences.com/2013/10/difference-cell-wall...
This is not disimilar to a child who grows up in a racist environment. Takes a lot of ego, reflection to buck that trend if parents and society in general had a shared and accepted bad idea such as certain races should be slaves.
That is great to know! If we do add support for credit cards, it would probably be as a sort of premium feature.
At the Royal Academy: Giorgione
I'm surprised no one has mentioned IPFS as a solution to the deleting.
Great company name. How'd you get the domain?
Did you look into Braintree? If so, why did you choose Stripe over Braintree? The reason I ask is because I recently looked into this and found Braintree to have much better service so far. I'm wondering if there is something about Stripe that I'm not taking into account, or if they are just growing too fast and not giving new customers as good service.
If this is true, then Privacy.com doesn't resolve this obligation. The temporary card number won't be chargeable by the merchant, but you'd still be on the hook for the renewed (and unpaid) service.
Are extensions for other browsers planned?
Launchy sits there with 30mb ram used and no cpu used when not in use.

n.b. Launchy 2.6 beta 2 on Windows - the most recent version since 2008 - pegs a CPU while it's running.
It's a recruiting exercise for various companies.

Apparently it's a serious recruiting exercise for various companies - which is frankly terrifying for anyone who knows anything about infosec but isn't a cybercriminal, terrorist, or foreign hostile.
I like Hearthstone and Ascension. The latter is not a CCG - you buy expansions like, say, Carcasonne, and the deck is "combined".
The High Cost of Free Parking is a good start. Meanwhile, minimums also have a terrible effect on the cost of housing, which is explored in more depth here:

http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/420062
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I'm really sorry to hear that :(

Any chance you could give me a link to the thread/issue you posted? I really want to see where we went wrong.
> It protects the privacy of private citizens, specifically if the information isn't relevant to the public interest.

If it protects the privacy of citizens why it doesn't pull the information from the source and just from the search engines?
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On the contrary, this is why I don't use Mint...
Looks awesome! does it support mosh by any chance?
Buy a Mac, OS X is a certified UNIX.
Shouldn't it be leftpad(leftpad (str,pad,n/2),leftpad("",pad,n/2),1)?
I read someplace that a large part of the budget that is allocated to local government agencies in SF goes to pay pensions and very generous benefits of its employees. How true is that?
That body is usually the search engine. Censorship is not the right word; if the request is granted, the documents are not being hidden absolutely, only for specified queries (name of the individual). "Protecting the individual" is better expression; it is about the search engine tuning its results to reduce the harm that is being done to the requestor.
If I download a game that's made by a company who make a loss then it's their backers/founders/previous successes who have subsidised my gaming, not the 1% of people who buy things in Candy Crush. Candy Crush players have nothing to do with what I'm playing. Consequently the premise that the 1% of the players who buy in-app things keep the industry afloat is wrong - the industry is kept afloat by the money people risk speculating on investing or producing games in the hope of becoming the next Candy Crush.
This could potentially help http://jeremykun.com/2015/04/06/markov-chain-monte-carlo-wit...

If you're unfamiliar with Bayes Theorem and Bayesian inference the earlier articles from the OP might help.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but this is just an extension that works with standard postgres, there are no code changes in postgres itself, so it doesn't look like it ever was a fork.
That's exactly what's going on. In a bit more detail: when a POST arrives and no receiver is available yet the server lets the sender know that it won't handle any more data (TCP Zero Window). When the receiver connects to the server the server asks the sender to continue writing and the data is relayed (proxied) from sender to receiver. If multiple receivers connect they're put into a queue and the server waits for the sender to POST the data again once the ongoing transfer is finished.

An interesting difference is that in the browser the rePOSTing is done through scripting whereas when using cURL or Wget (or httpie, or ...) the server will issue a 307 Temporary Redirect allowing cURL/Wget to send the file again without manual intervention. Hence the name! (although that doesn't really account for the "Station" part yet)
Hey, Stencila developer here. Thanks, nxsheet looks really nice - great work too!

I agree, somehow getting spreadsheets into the workflow of reproducible data analysis is important. They are a tool that I for one had ignored (focussing instead of reproducibility of text + code) - but there are too many people that use them to ignore them!
The script Uber is using to make anti-union phone calls
We are still subject to US AML / KYC laws. But the cool thing about these cards is you can use any name or billing info you want with them, so don't have to worry about your info getting leaked if some website you bought an indie game / song / whatever from 6 months ago got hacked.
reminiscing with Jerry Seinfeld

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/garry-shandling-its-...
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> Technically, it already does.

No, it doesn't

> You can already get a lawyer, find a way to try and sue someone for false (or private) information online

The information is not false and is not private
I'm generally not a big fan of IPFS, but IPFS seems like the perfect solution to this problem.
I didn't think this was a particularly deep article, but I wanted to address this quote:
> So what? After all, we know that primes are not randomly distributed and become increasingly less common as we progress up the “number line”

The point is that yes, of course the primes aren't random, but in many fundamental ways they behave as if they are. Terry Tao explains more: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/biases-between-con...
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Internet will die by thousand cuts if we let any country apply their clueless, stupid, misguided, shortsighted, unenforceable laws.

This is a European giving leaving his opinion.
> Re: the conversation about walk-ability of cities. The key concept here is density.

It does require density, but not so much that you need buildings more than a few stories high. Much more important is zoning that allows shops and restaurants to be mixed in with housing, and not wasting those few square blocks within walking distance with parking lots and private yards.
Japan comes to mind. (Not for outsiders though, I don't know how that's related to "nerds" and intellectuals.)

Also, you're conflating different types of intellectuals. Nerds who are interested in science and engineering frequently aren't all that interested in art, social justice/change, government/politics, etc. Germany under the Nazis certainly had a lot of engineering prowess. They didn't tolerate anyone who wanted to change the government, obviously, but they certainly made use of their scientists and engineers. The Soviets, similarly, were always been pretty strong at math and science (while not tolerating political dissent).

Religious societies never seem to do very well with "nerds", and not too surprisingly, highly religious societies never seem to become strong in science and engineering or even industrialization. When they do, it's coincides with them watering down or neutering the religion, as we see in Western nations now.
Are you planning anything for B2B?

I’m working on an idea that will need to pay hundreds of vendors for the services they perform for our customers. We want to pay the vendors electronically where possible so having unique card numbers for each vendor would be a great thing.

After looking at Privacy.com I want to take it a step further by generating a unique card number for each of our customers. We’d need higher spending limits and the ability to manage the cards via API. Other than that, what you’ve built sounds like a perfect fit for our use case.
You think the gambling industry needs advice? They're drowning in money last I checked.
Giant holes found in Siberia could be signs of a ticking climate 'time bomb'
Regarding renovations: whenever someone takes a rotary hammer to concrete, it will be fairly noisy no matter how good the sound proofing is. That sound will travel in the entire structure even if the building is 400 feet wide.
I'll try and explain it in my point of view from an event that happened to me.

I was doing a job interview when I was younger and it was going well. I got scheduled in for a second interview. Right before my second interview I got a call from the manager saying that they didn't want to hire me. I asked why and he said this "I was taking a look at your Twitter profile and saw that you were holding a gun". What actually was going on here was my profile picture was me holding a paintball gun with my friends from a weekend event a month before. I was told that they don't want people with my image as a part of the company. (this is a whole conversation in itself but I'll leave it here).

So after this I went and removed my picture. Done deal; problem solved.

Now, what If I didn't have the option of removing that picture? This was my personal profile. This was MY information. Would it hurt future job prospects? What if someone posted revenge porn or myself (no this doesn't exists online or anywhere else). What if I went through a goth phase in high-school and a potential employer or volunteer organization didn't like it. There are many, many scenarios like this. Some of which end very very badly for people, and others just very annoying.

The point here is that there is permanence on the internet but individuals change. And as an individual I should have the right to remove that information. In the modern world it's not realistic to ask "just keep everything offline". I fear for my eventual children who will do what kids do and will have that stuck with them for their entire lives. I'm very happy that nobody can Google what I did when I was 12.

The blinds analogy highlights the idea that behind those blinds we have(had) photo albums, journals, arguments, phases of life, conversations, and skeletons in our closet that we had control over. Today we no longer have control over that information (and stay culturally relevant in any context) and top it off with the horrendous privacy records of companies like Google and Facebook that drive our lives I think we have the right to have laws like this.
Also, John Kruschke's "Doing Bayesian Data Analysis", aka the "Puppy Book", is a gentle introduction to Bayesian inference. It is very readable, especially with regards MCMC.
I imagine generating cases for property based testing this could be quite useful. Also solving problems with brute force where effeciency doesnt matter. Eg proving a theorem on you machine but that code doest need to run in production. Or suduko fwiw
To appeal to a broad segment of the electorate, you need to a.) be able to predict what will be important to a large number of diverse groups and b.) be able to analyze & synthesize that into a platform & message that will bring them over to your side.

The combination of both is a very rare skill that correlates well with intelligence. Note that it requires both emotional & analytical intelligence: you need to understand what motivates people, and you also need to understand the numbers & segmentation well enough to make sure that you're empathizing with the right group of people.

CEO, BTW, requires a similar skillset. I used to think that CEO was a do-nothing role that you got through political favors, and maybe in a couple dysfunctional companies that's still the case. But in a functioning, market-leading company, being CEO requires that you first understand many different perspectives, and that you can synthesize those into a course of action that avoids pissing off any one core constituency too much.
Debit cards are something we're looking towards in the near term, credit cards probably will have to be a premium feature (due to how we make money right now).

The numbers can be one-time use (burners) or re-usable at the same merchant.
I've been following Justin for a while on Snapchat. He's always doing something interesting and offering helpful advice, as well as just providing some insight into the culture of YC. I think he's a great choice for managing PR at YC, seeing as he's already been doing that unofficially for a while now.
What f#&king programming language should I use?
Paragon has been releasing some data lately that suggests a weakening of the high-end market in SF. In particular, it looks like luxury condos are becoming overbuilt:

http://www.paragon-re.com/Luxury_Homes_Market_Cools_Affordab...

It's still early, though. Their March 2016 market report is inconclusive on what's happening with prices. However, this could really put the lie to the people who believe that indiscriminate building is the solution to high rents. Folks are likely to find out that when developers overbuild at the high end, they don't just keep building and let the new units go for a steal -- they stop building entirely.
Yeah I have, it has interesting results sometimes. The thing is, it's just a markov chain implementation rather than any involved machine learning. Though I do realize now that the twitter bot is probably using likes and retweets as a feedback metric which might explain why it can't discern negative feedback.
The statistics really doesn't care what type of sentient species we are.

If you're confused by the examples given [for the approximate size], that's understandable, but the examples don't change the analysis. That's like saying "All of the countries in the example are in the northern hemisphere, so the analysis is flawed."
We should put a proposition on the ballet to repeal that anti-tax-increase proposition, once and for all.
Yup! We have plans for Firefox (April) and Safari (TBD).
I find the concept of a TV show that can only be seen with certain cable subscriptions equally sad. It's just exclusivity contracts, just like pay-per-view and channels like HBO and sports channels, and video game exclusives, and applications only being available on specific operating systems, etc.
We put 25mph signs and crosswalks across ridiculously wide streets that encourage people to do 40+mph and wonder why so many people die.

Of course, auto safety standards that worry only about the occupants of the vehicle, and not whoever they hit, don't help either.
Please help the ignorant and provide a link to a description of those best practices.
Unregulated mutual fund?
In Explorer the spacebar is used for typing spaces.
I hope you realize the irony of "protecting your identity" when you link your Github on HN (that has your real name) and which, in turn, links to your resume, portfolio, personal website, and (presumably) private email address.

Stop being a dick.
Good to hear! Bring this to Europe and I can see it being very popular, credit cards aren't as common or easy to get here and ordering outside of your local country often requires one. I imagine that's still a long way away though :).
Sure, we can talk about all these things. Nothing says I can't be skeptical of corporations and unions... and government, for that matter... all at once!
Didn't Microsoft do that game? It was one of the signs of their decline.
Thanks! I don't think teleport will work with mosh as mosh uses custom UDP-based protocol that we'd have to support, however if we'll get lots of feature requests for it, we'll definitely consider implementing it!
Citi and BOA get away with it because they can allocate out of a large pool of BIN numbers that are otherwise regular use debit/credit cards. These guys will have to figure out how to get a similar "mix" to avoid being flagged as prepaid/single use. This was the issue that ultimately caused PayPal to kill the service they had that was almost exactly the same as Privacy.com.
vendoring if such a thing is possible is the first thing that comes to mind
That is very much the case at some restaurants that consider food to be art. Art is different. To be able to appreciate and understand it, it's all or nothing.
Very relevant https://github.com/substack/hyperx

I code in react without jsx and webpack. I recommend hyperx for your code. Hopefully new modules can be built out of this one.
I have heard from a couple friends that George W Bush was smart, just bad in front of a camera. To be honest, though, my own radar from seeing him all those times - from heuristics and deduction - said he was actually not very intelligent in many areas that other presidents were intelligent in. I think his social intelligence was much higher than Gore's and Kerry's, though.
Not necessarily.

https://twitter.com/patel0phone/status/705587706517184515
The doomsday argument is sound. It's controversial with the assumptions about population growth, which plain don't make sense—I don't claim to understand what happens, but I think that an argument would need to be made for the entire population basically vanishing when it hits the cap. There are certainly scenarios that would lead to that (e.g. nuclear war over resources could plausibly destroy statistically significant human populations enough to allow for extinction), but again, it requires argument.

Or another way, you at least need to argue AGAINST rational rationing of existing resources to make calculating potential populations over all time quite difficult and run up against heat death calculations.

That said, I love both these thought experiments because they highlight how hard it is to figure out population growth with (theoretically) rational populations.
Yes thus feels like functional programming and you kind of get this for free using predicates and Haskells lazy evaluation. Infact the list comprehensions are similar and of course what are they... they are sugar for the list monad.
Hey, nice one! But reading the code I didn't see any arg defaults or destructuring. Saw the other stuff though! Which is pretty darn cool.
And KUKA, which makes the best arms in the industry.
If they want ideas for shows, how about life at uni, in the us, for the year 2016. Over here in Europe, we either get the view that it is like back in revenge of the nerds movies, or worse, stuff like this:

Http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-24/emory-students-scared-pain-after-safe-space-violated-word-trump-written-chalk

Hopefully it is not like revenge of the nerds in 2016, and hopefully it is also not full of students crying in "safe" spaces.

Might even be interesting!
Came here to write just that!
...and the NSA can't/won't help the FBI with the iPhone?
Well, technically they can but a split key system is a PCI-DSS requirement. The advantage is that no single employee can gain access to sensitive data - they would have to collude with each providing their key to decrypt any data.

It is mainly designed to prevent employees from selling off sensitive data, but I think in practice with the right audit controls it's pretty effective.

I guess if there was a system in place where the two employees didn't know who the other employee was then it would mitigate risk.

Makes me wonder what sort of auditing system could be used that guarantees total transparency around when the keys are requested by both parties, by whom and for what reason without disclosing the employees? More interestingly I'd be really interested in a system that ensured that nobody knew who the two employees were but the keys could still retrieved.

Then on top of this it would awesome to have a way of revoking keys.

Probably impossible, but that would be the ultimate in security!
Bejewelled is a near perfect Skinner Box, I had a serious 'addiction' to it for a while, managed to avoid spending on it but can see how others didn't.
If you make a good change, make sure to tweet it back with #PR.
Why in the world is this on hacker news? Did GS have some role in tech I didn't realize?

(Not trying to be too big of a dick, just confused)
The games are there, you just have to dig. Phones and tablets lend themselves really well to bullethell and other shmups(of which I love):

* .Decluster
* DoDonPachie, DeathSmiles, really anything by Cave
* Shogun: Bullethell

They have also done remakes of popular shmups like R-Type and popular Neo Geo shooters. There is plenty of depth in and fast action in these games. Tapping rhythm games are awesome like:

* Rhythm Control 2

There's also adventure games:

* Sword and Sorcery

Not to mention the Secret of Monkey Island series and Grim Fandango have been remade for iOS. I also know a guy was super into Street Fighter tournaments and really like Street Fighter IV on his iPad. The platform has already been proven as a viable gaming platform. Very few people other than serious gamers want to pay more than a few bucks for "just an app".
Hardly. There's tons of regulations around them.
This was well explained in my comments here already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11356302
The logical conclusion of following orders like this is for China to demand every trace of Tiananmen Square to disappear from all of the Internet.

This is madness.
Any plans to make a physical card? Basically the multiple virtual card service you have now but in one card I can use in person, like Coin.
I think that's been going on for a while.

But what may be new is that Gen X is starting to have to wrestle with their mortality. People who were on TV when we were kids are starting to go, and it's becoming real for us. "Jesus, that guy was only 15 years older than me."
Would really appreciate some kind of link to the discussion you mentioned..