skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yaaawn more misleading titles. 'Pulling out' would imply lower valuations, of which there is no evidence for startups like Snapchat, Pinterest or Uber. Instead of selling, what is happening is that we're seeing a flight to quality, which is something I predicted months ago.
Stripe doesn't have a monthly fee either.
Yeah, pretty much as expected [1] :-) A good friend of mine was at Cisco when this mindset hit really really hard. He said everyone learned to ask "Is what I am working on Core to Cisco's business?" because if the answer was "no" it meant you were on the way out until the answer was "yes". It certainly helped inject tension into the employees at Cisco.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037511
Anti Money Laundering / Know Your Client
This is incorrect. I've used the citi offering recently.

Abine.com also has such a service.
Anti Money Laundering / Know Your Customer
(Quick clarification: "advanced future society" is misleading. For instance, consider primitivists.)
Not particularly, though it may factor in. Rewards are primarily a kickback from the company's ~3% cut.
>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.

They are monetizing their time spent/interaction with viewers which is a very different thing and something people do monetize (see: speaker's fees, counseling fees, adviser fees)

That's the idea behind monetizing streams/streamers accepting donations. It's a way the viewers can support the person to stream for X hours a day and have it be something they can routinely do because they are being paid for their time. It just so happens that time is being spent playing a game that is the result of someone else's work.

I think it is stupid to deny free publicity - but maybe there's a reason why I'm not in marketing/advertising.

Not sure if necessary, but possible bias: I don't monetize through ads and prefer to accept donations, but I have streamed on occasion and have received donations for doing so.
What I don't understand is that this was entirely predictable because it's exactly what happened before, every time.

Was that part of the research? Did they want to gather data on "trolling"[1] raids?

[1] new use of the word, not traditional.
I've been curious as to why the following strategy wouldn't work as a hack as well:

* Your credit card has a balance of $0 on it

* You have some app that allows $NAME to deduct $X from it

* You transfer $X to it earmarked for $NAME for some limited amount of time.

I.e. you could walk into Starbucks, have an app on your phone to say you're depositing $20 into an account earmarked for /starbucks/i for 30 minutes.
In my opinion, he's used often as a prop by companies who want to try to inject 'hip'-ness in to a product, and it screams r/fellowkids. He has tried to promote a bunch of products that have ended up complete failures (2 smartwatches so far), but is bandied about as this 'tech celebrity'.

Intel made him a "director of creative innovation" for no reason whatsoever. 3D Systems made him "Chief Creative Officer".

He tried to sell a $475 iphone case that added a lens and made it look like an old digital camera:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/feb/01/william-ip...

Basically, he is used to confer some artistic legitimacy to stogy corporations (not to say he isn't an artist, he has done very well in music) and in return these companies confer unearned tech legitimacy upon him, creating this cycle of forced legitimacy.
I'm not sure if I'm ready to hand over personal details to Privacy, there's not much assurance other than "We'll never sell your data to anyone".

Does privacy.com see where I make all my purchases? Is there a collection of my metadata? What assurances do I have that you take personal privacy seriously?
Liberating Pitch and Taming MIDI in Composer's Sketchpad
In a completely theoretical way what you say is possible. But in practice does anyone actually do this?

What's the time frame you'd be willing to stake your career on for a startup (event a fairly mature one) to be meaningfully impacting the overall profitability of it's astronomically larger competitors? And you'd be simultaneously betting against overall bull markets and that the incumbents won't adapt, whether in the market directly against the startup or in any of the other markets they're in.

To my knowledge you can't even trade in stock futures with sufficiently distant expiration dates to do this.
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> anything that's developed to the point where it actually works ceases to be "AI.

Hmm, I've not heard of this happening. Do you have any examples of it?

> In any case, it doesn't matter what you call it. Current research is producing results that can improve these systems, which means that research is worth a lot of money.

I don't see how this really adds to or is relevant to my comment, I was simply restating and adding to hitekker's point that AI is improperly named.
The point is they can't charge you again. I'm struggling to see what you are getting at here.
If we are talking about crypto monoculture, don't AES and SHA-3 come from Joan Daemen? Also before this, the 90's crypto was basically a Ron Rivest monoculture with RC4 and RSA. This is nothing new and I believe today's monoculture is more secure than previous ones. Also, just like DES, RSA and RCA got displaced, so will DJB's monoculture if something more secure comes along.

Basically this monoculture is a consequence that crypto is very subtle and it is often better to have 1 algorithm than everybody uses implements and studies and tries to break rather than 10 that nobody really studies.
high cost issues are endemic to the bay area, not just to BART
> just like pay-per-view and channels like HBO

It's not like that, because HBO doesn't cost as much as an Apple device. You can subscribe to HBO, watch whatever you want, and unsubscribe. You only paid for the content.

> sports channels

The most popular sports in the US are available on the networks. Minor sporting events are available for a small extra fee, regardless of your cable or satellite provider. Many are streamed over the internet by ESPN. Again, you can watch what you want without spending as much as an Apple device would cost.

> video game exclusives

It costs far more to port a video game than it does to simply stream your video content to other devices.

> applications only being available on specific operating systems

Again, much more expensive and time-consuming than just opening up streaming options for users.
If you'd like to help replace Google with a decentralized, publicly-controlled alternative, I think that'd be a great thing!

But that's a very large amount of mystical speculation, Ray. And by and large, if people had their own indexers, we wouldn't have a single search engine determining what people's public reputation is, so this problem would largely cease to exist.

But the reality is, this has nothing to do with 'government censorship'. Google itself admits things like revenge porn should be blocked. (And in fact, it's Google itself that decides whether or not to censor RTBF sites!) Private citizens should have the right to remove personal information with no public bearing from the Internet. If you disagree, feel free to post your social security number and credit card information.
Oh the irony, a bank that offers a burner like credit card numbers and pretends to not know the aggregate transactions using the guise of privacy

LOL
There is a difference between allowing the temptation, and exploiting psychological conditioning.

I'd definitely consider arguments that western culture has in many ways developed the advertising industry as a means of systemic psychological manipulation. There are a lot of people who make irrational purchasing decisions based on what is on the TV, and there is some degree of exploitation in that behavior.

Practically speaking we want to think that anyone over the age of 18 is a competent rational capable human adult with acceptable brain chemistry, but in practice I'd imagine very few people are perfectly healthy mentally, it is just the degree to which mental illness is apparent. Look at how common depression is, or how diagnostic rates for Autism and ADHD have risen dramatically in the last three decades. That is not to say we have more mentally ill people today, we are just paying more attention to individual psychological profile to deduce that there is much more nuance to mental health than just being insane or not.
I'm not sure what Apple's good at anymore. Hardware, I guess? Maybe?
yes

You got to start from somewhere.

How are we going to cure cancer if we don't start
One the solutions is to start using algorithm cascades instead of single algorithms where performance doesn't matter.

If you are using 10 ciphers or 10 hash functions or 10 signature schemes, then you need 10 different breakthroughs before it all falls down.

There is really no reason to not do this unless performance is important, and a lot of times performance does not really matter.

NOTE: obviously you need to this properly and use a different key for each cipher, concatenate hashes, concatenate signatures and so on. Also, you should start encrypting with the best implemented ciphers, so that plaintext is not leaked if the worst ciphers happen to have timing/cache vulnerabilities.
It would be better if this were more clearly visible, especially to non-US IPs. I don't want to create an account to discover that the service only works in one specific country and with a specific list of banks.
Have you tried https://abine.com/ ?
Perhaps the mix into one tool is what makes it novel?

I'll be honest, my first knee-jerk, HN conditioned, reaction to this was similar to yours, but I've been trying to temper my first reactions, especially when they are negative.

Not the most central thing, but something that put me off a little was that they offer a command to filter the listings...had these people never heard of grep? The playback of terminal sessions is cool though, although I swear I've seen someone else do that somewhere...
Unfortunately, this argument doesn't really make sense. Just like decades of software development (should) have taught us, and just like fighting climate change, doing physics research, giving antibiotics, fighting terrorists, criminals, spammers, enemy armies, eating healthy, raising kids, whatever--multiple approaches and techniques and tools are always a good thing. Why would crypto be the one single area of life where there was a Right Answer? The fact that crypto is part of an arms race with criminals and authoritarian governments is strong evidence that a monoculture is not the right approach.
I work at Stripe and would love to hear how we could improve the experience of integrating with Rails. Just shoot me an email (romain@stripe.com)—even bullet points are helpful. Thank you!
Clariphy targets 400Gbps with new 16nm DSP silicon
I actually couldn't get an answer when I was inquiring about me over DM, but Tay's DM response behavior seemed to go up and down throughout the day. (It'd tell people on public tweets to DM her, but never respond to DMs for hours at a time.)

This was very clearly an experiment, and I don't think they wanted to pre-train it too much, to see what would happen. I think the results were kinda predictable when people like 4chan get involved! But at almost 100,000 tweets it generated, clearly they got a lot of data to work with for the next version.
Why should the wider gauge do either?

Noise: It's just steel wheels rolling on steel rails. Why should the distance between the rails change the amount of noise it generates?

Wear on the track: Presuming that the turns aren't too tight a radius (which may be larger for the larger gauge), and the superelevation is correct (which probably has to be larger for the larger gauge), why should wider track mean greater wear on curves?
I came here to say this. It's really a great service, but it is not available for the iPhone (Flash) so I always have to use it on my laptop (trade one problem for another) which is kind of a pain. But I do use it all the time and highly recommended especially to avoid having to cancel subscriptions.

People are surprised when I point it at them because it is almost as if BoA does not want you to use it. Check the right side bar towards the bottom.
I believe transactions must process against a single node.
Is a tool like JIRA the solution for tracking the contracting process?
Discover had "online card numbers" like this back in 2010. I'm not sure when they were originally introduced, though.
Since no one has mentioned it, American Express had Private Payments from 2000-2004, which generated one-time credit card numbers that the merchant could charge for up to a month.
The French term for this is "onde verte" ("green wave"), and from memory it is/was mentioned somewhere in the French traffic code. Here is a reference (in French) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrefour_%C3%A0_feux#Coordina.... That said, as far as I know that this is specific to France at all.
The Unbearable Homogeneity of Design
When you switch payment providers, how are you going to obtain new payment tokens for subscriptions? I.e. Stripe will give you a payment token for processing but if you switch to another provider you do not have the card details to create a new token with the new provider. Would you have your customers re-enter their card details?
Completely unsurprising. Every other system treats the open Internet as a hostile environment. Why would we expect an AI designed to learn from said hostile environment to fare any differently?
> in the end there may very well be only a single element--carbon, the basis of all life on earth--that is able to support the complex chemistry presumably required to create any self-replicating chemical system

This assumes the fine structure constant has the same value throughout the entire Universe for all time. Tentative results from recent observations suggest it could increase in one direction and decrease in the other along one of the spatial dimensions of the Universe.
SoCal was never walkable beyond a local neighborhood - if you look at population density and where the freeways are, they all parallel former lines of the Pacific Electric Interurban system. [1][2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric

[2] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Los_Ange...
Yeah, Citi for sure still offers this product. And I still use it for vendors I don't use regularly.
We've run on Stripe for 2 years now.

Good onboarding, snappy support replies by smart people, they do what they say they'll do, good transparency when there are mistakes, early heads up on changes. Overall, they are solid people running a solid business. We respect them and enjoy being clients of theirs.

We're a medium sized business and we run charges pretty regularly through out the day. Their status page only reports their larger outages. If you are running charges regularly, expect their end points do go down for 20 secs up to 2 minutes 2-3 times a month. Its to the point where our customer service chat knows what's going on and says things like "ask the customer to wait 2 minutes, it'll be right back". Its frustrating. We've considered setting up a fail over with spreedly and braintree but its juuuust inside the threshold of annoying enough to do all that.

That minor gripe said, I still have the Stripe afterglow because we suffered through the Auth.net days and the AMEX domination days. Stripe set us, and everybody else, free from that jazz. We're still grateful and probably always will be.

Lastly I note, if your volume merits, they will discuss alternative rates within reason.

You should go with Stripe.
Some banks like Citibank do this as well.
AFAIK the raid was mainly coming from here: http://archive.is/bEyye

There is also some stuff on here: http://archive.is/XEKxe
look at 4chan archive from yesterday http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/68537741/tay-new-ai-from-... also 8ch if they have an archive

pretty sure media already knows
edit: they do http://fusion.net/story/284617/8chan-microsoft-chatbot-tay-r...
Show HN: Eminem.css – a front-end framework for web artisans // satire
How Jeff Bezos Became a Power Beyond Amazon
Oh does this ever make me thrilled for the Ray Kurzweil-inspired AI overlords. The best we can hope for, it seems, is to "make anime real."
“Dear Tim Cook”
Good man. I was going to suggest a RES-style extension.
Not surprising, given they are for photoshop.
This seems to be somewhat (although not universally) true of buses in the US, which often struggle to be on a par with buses in the UK 25 years ago. Here we tend to have more comfortable seating, cleaner interiors (and exteriors), less engine noise, rapidly decreasing particulate pollution and dammit they've just been designed to look nicer.
I think you should think ahead and change it to "any-pad" or something similar and offer adapters/plugins. What are users of your library do when some industry-disrupting startup comes in offering left- and mid- pads?

Changing your npm shouldn't be a problem, just unpublish it and create new one.

Also don't forget to check trademark list before creating npm because "they will come knocking on your doors closing all your accounts".
Don't waste time adapting to a cumbersome project management tools
But if you write it yourself, you're also on the hook for it. So I don't see a meaningful difference here.
TDD - Twitter Driven Development
I will echo the recommendations for Stripe. I used it for a side project that needed to process payments for enrichment classes organized by our school's PTA, and have had zero problems over the last two years, processing around $150k of payments.
But that would rather understate Linus' substantial contribution to thinking about version control differently and better.

That paradigm of version control existed previously. (Monticello in Smalltalk, for example.) However, Linus had the programming chops and name recognition to start it off down the road to what it is today.
Unpublish Isn't a Word
My bank also provide this type of virtual credit card, but it is useless. It doesn't work, i tried in paypal.
You are using a general definition "removing objectionable information" here but most people, when reading "censorship" will understand it refers to a different concept like "deplorable practice of suppressing communication between people by force". You cannot, in general, put personal information regarding an individual in place of that communication and call exercising right to control personal data censorship. The right to be forgotten does not mean anything objectionable can be removed and it does not apply to public figures, companies or corporations. It only applies to individuals and search queries containing their name. In special cases the objected search result is important to the public, the right to be forgotten does not apply. So no, it is not censorship.
This is a particular pain on mobile, because a given thread tends to be much deeper to scroll past.
One issue would be that the merchant name doesn't always line up nicely to where you are. For example, a local Burger King shows up as something like, "Hidden Rocks, LLC" instead of "Burger King" or even "HiddenRocksLLC/BurgerKing."
Ask HN: Struggle and how everyone else gets lucky but me?
Hi HN,

Today my question is regarding struggle and luck. I have so many friends, colleagues who get lucky in terms of dating, finding high paying jobs, finding cheap homes and getting rich and so on in many aspects of life.

I keep struggling day after day. I work in bay area but for peanuts salary compared to my decade long experience. Men and women 5 yrs younger than me are earning $150k base very easily.

I work for one of the respected company and I do have good tech skills. I got rejected by both Facebook and Google this week after 1st round and it has been quite a downer on my confidence.

I don't watch tv or play games or do anything other than work ,home, little bit of gym. It has been at least a month I have been looking for new job but still nothing.

Anyone who thinks getting job in bay area is easy is not familiar with reality. I have had funny, annoying and better experience so far.

I feel like noone has struggled in life as much as me. Its ultimate struggle that I hate.

I should mention that I come from south asian country. So far life has been really really brutal for me. I wish I could have luxury that people with millions of dollars enjoy.

I don't feel I have anything to look forward to in life.

Has anyone been through similar phase? What did you do to keep head high and still achieve something great in life ?
I use netteller, that does something similar, called virtual cards. Can create multiple cards and assign funds to each virtual card. Its not as smoothly done as this one, but same thing.
>and so do you. Don't even pretend you don't, no one will believe you.

You're projecting a bit. I try hard -- consciously -- not to shut down and shut out people who need grace as much as I do (either more or less externally-visibly).

Your own code of ethics is not universal. There are people who think and operate differently from you.

Which is exactly the point of not discriminating whenever it's avoidable.
Left-pad: There is no “my” in open source
We do have the ability to detect signals: none found. We have also not detected any von Neumann - Bracewell probes. These are significant negative results, since any civilization slightly more advanced than ours could quickly (a few M years) seed the galaxy with vN-B probes -- and would eventually do so with probability approaching unity.
Although in this case only words were slung, I think this scenario illustrates a potentially huge problem: horrible people combined with an AI system that can't tell right and wrong (perhaps call it morality) could result in terrible catastrophes.

What if a distributed self-driving car system learned from users, and some people taught it to cut people off, drive aggressively, or even indirectly cause accidents?

I don't think the problem here can be solved purely through engineering. It's an issue of teaching an AI system right and wrong and I don't think that's easy at all. Even humans wouldn't be able to agree on a training set of moral and immoral data. And yet this distinction would have a huge impact on how the bot influences the livelihoods with who it chats with.

I'm not sure how to create a moral system for AI, but this seems like a big obstacle to scaling up virtual agents like Tay.
There are full acoustic/electric hybrid pianos with mechanical actions that have the ability to be used with headphones only.

http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-instruments/keyboards...
Gotta make the bot "politically correct".
You're right. We should've done a better job with this. It was a trade-off and we decided against, but we should done a better job communicating it. Hopefully you can enable Javascript for us and give it a shot :).
Whoops, didn't see that one.
Sounds like she imitated the behaviour of a 14 year old on the internet pretty well.
Specifically about 60% of the total budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, ACA subsidies and safety net programs. Then we have your 20% (16% DoD and 4% VA), then 6% goes to interest on the debt, and the remaining 14% is everything else.

Though FWIW the percent of the budget spent on the military was (for somewhat obvious reasons) quite a lot higher during the Iraq war.
I'm always amazed that they have speed cameras in Europe/Australia but not here. It seems like such a no-brainer for cities that have already landed on the "limited privacy" side of the spectrum and have things like red light cameras and license plate collectors.
This is made more serious in practice by the continual recurrence of bugs in Backup Exec over the last several versions, which would often manifest as "backups ran fine, verify ran fine, restores claim to run fine. But all your restored files are 0 bytes long".