skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the main premise of "serverless" is function-as-a-unit-of-deployment, it's actually quite suited for distributed computing and works quite well in decentralized architectures. Using serverless, it's easier than ever to build "hybrid" clouds constructed of resources both locally and on public clouds (Google, Amazon, Azure, BlueMix, and others).

We can even deploy that code to IoT devices and embed it inside of desktop and mobile apps.

Serverless frees us from lock-in, but it does not have its own state, so it's easy to become locked into various web services. However, it's also easy enough to rely on your services (microservices) for state, avoiding lockin to other IaaS/SaaS products.
If you knew they used proxy measures then why didn't you simply explain that to the OP rather than pretend you didn't understand? However, I am glad you asked because it caused me to investigate and learn something new.
The very same networks have rates for the very same cards less than half of that in the EU.
> Just about any economist or rational person will tell you these are a huge boon to the world

True, but I think said people still haven't taken the whole Taleb idea to heart. I'm pretty sure there are certain domains where the wisdom of the crowd is no wiser then a chimp throwing darts.

As an extreme example, assume you ran a prediction market that predicted the value of the s&p500 x days from now. Would you expect to make money based on these predictions?

This is not to say that they can't be useful in certain domains. It is well known that they do well for binary outcomes like sport events and elections.

They might also be valuable in situations where there are behavioural factors that prevent the spread of information (e.g. whether a project will finish on time). However, there might be simpler mechanisms (like whistle blowing) which could solve the problem or it might not be a problem at all (Bent Flyvbjerg's research on mega projects suggests reliable forecasts are simply undesirable and "true" forecasts are known sub rosa anyway)

A relaxation of the law or more exemptions a la IEM could be beneficial from a research perspective, but I wouldn't expect a "huge boon" just because. These are a lot of words to basically say, it's not a black and white issue.
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Why would you need a web exposed UI?

I guess you could have a local only port to use on a server backend like a reverse proxy but you definitely don't want this public web facing.

imagemagick is used because it is binary library used on the backend

now if this was a dropin library and command line compatible, adoption would be 100%
It completely obviates the point, because a contract no longer means what it says, it means what Bob says. So just wire your money to Bob, it's simpler.
Your classes example is actually hilarious, because previously every JavaScript library that wanted classes invented their own incompatible syntax for it. Now there is one "blessed" way of doing classes.

In general this seems to be the approach of ES these days. They take ideas that have been proven or at least prototyped in userland JS or compile-to-JS languages like CoffeeScript and now Babel, and clean them up.

If they didn't push the language forward the community would continue to fragment as other compile-to-JS languages filled that demand.
Even without downvotes it's unsettling how much of an echo chamber my Facebook list has become. The only points on which I disagree with any significant number of my friends on are those aligned with the hard left (draw from that what inference you will) but talking to new people I meet out in the real world, I get a totally different picture of the what other people think.

Edit: The whole point about Demosthenes and Locke was that any sufficiently persuasive person could be widely influential in an anonymous online system. Putting it on YouTube with videos destroys a portion of the anonymity. Who would take Demosthenes seriously, knowing that he was a girl in her early teens?
Buffer actually adjusts the salary based on location, so this is (at least partially) taken into account.
Still a terrible idea. I agree with the poster below that these should just be their own types.
Since Atlassian acquired bitbucket, the products have two separate development histories, so I'm not too surprised.
Rails is such a huge community, and Sprockets has to be one of the biggest pain points for many years.

My solution after years of agony has been to just throw it all out, and use a diff asset packager underneath rails.

Really happy that people are taking this issue on. Wish I had the time to help out.
(I'm a brit who moved to the US.) It is far more common for people to have multiple cards. There are also a lot of affinity cards - associated with airlines, stores, sports teams etc. A random site[1] claims just under 4 cards on average for those who have any cards. A card issuer also requiring that the consumer remember yet another PIN isn't going to find it too useful for expanding their business, just as the consumer is going to prefer less hassle.

[1] http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/ownership-statis...
I think you're unusual. Many people struggle with PINs, or at least think they would, which in terms of hurting credit card use amounts to the same thing.

Another issue is that PIN adoption often implies a liability shift. Right now I have zero liability for fraudulent uses of my credit card. Some places place liability on the cardholder if the cardholder didn't take sufficient care to protect their PIN and a fraudulent transaction is made with the PIN. If that happened, I would stop using credit cards unless it was absolutely necessary, and the mere possibility is enough to make me extremely skeptical of any move to require PINs.

By the way, there is no requirement for your signature to be readable or reproducible or even anything resembling your name. Just do a quick freehand scribble. There's no reason for it to be harder than entering a PIN.
While not a Chinese company, I remember Samsung winning an ITC import ban of Apple products. Obama promptly overturned/vetoed the ban[1]. I do not doubt for a second that american institutions (especially the executive) do what is best for "American Interests"

1. http://www.fastcompany.com/3015243/where-are-they-now/obama-...
It seems to me that these alternatives (Chip & sign, chip and pin, carrying a credit card at all) all compete poorly with the "tap my phone to pay" offerings. I use the latter whenever and wherever it is offered. As I understand it offers greater security than any of the above, and more importantly (life is short) it is much faster. (Though there is one wrinkle. Most point-of-sale systems process phone payments with just the tap. A few of them seem to instead treat it as equivalent to a swipe, and then launch you into a legacy multistep handshake thereafter.)

For reasons I don't understand, the credit card makers have spent many years bringing the new chip cards to market, they include much higher technology than ever offered before, yet the payment process takes much longer. Of course these few seconds don't matter that much per transaction, but think it might be enough to actually make a meaningful difference in staffing levels and line lengths at big stores in December.

I do understand the fees though. The credit card brands and banks have worked themselves, through years of diligent effort, into a business where they can impose a kind of "tax" of 3% on most of the retail economy across the entire US. This is obviously of immense economic value to them, and they will work very hard at every level to maintain it for as long as possible. On the other hand, paying these companies a 3% tax on every retail transaction is... rather surprising in the grand scheme of things, and seems unlikely to persist for that much longer.
It was $2m in 2014
You mean like vim, emacs, nano, kate, notepad, notepad++, wordpad, or any other plain text editor?

Really - I don't get this impulse at all. From my perspective, the entire point of markdown (and RST I assume, though I haven't used it) is that you can easily read and write it using any plain text editor.

If you are going to need a specialized editor to write it, you might as well use html, docbook, docx, odt, troff, rtf, or any of the zillion other formats.
If you're not stuck on the text-art aspect of this, and are more willing to do graph connection list type spec, you can do this easily in graphviz.
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I have never found a programming language to be complex.
Is forcing users to use a strong password effective? [2015]
You can thank Gore and his messianic ego for completely politicizing climate change.
FaaS (functions as a serivce) and App Engine are not the same thing. They're both a platform as a service (PaaS), but that's where the similarities end.

The difference is that traditional PaaS like App Engine and Heroku imply a certain amount of lock-in (although this has gotten better over time), whereas Serverless is a more raw compute service that is no more locked-in than, say, EC2.
Yes, I'm not sure why it's slow in catching on here. We've had contactless payments for years (I had a card that supported it around 2008) but they're still not common.

I suspect that one is more of a chicken-and-egg problem, with merchants not really caring to adopt it as long as few people have the cards, and card issuers not really caring to issue them as long as few merchants accept them. But I don't really know.
I'm sure Buffet has sleepless nights over this.
This is a non-issue. Here's a simple algorithm:

1. Do you want to write something that MD is sufficient for? Write MD.

2. Do you want to write something that you need RST for?

2a. Is your document already in RST or is there no document? Write RST.

2b. Is your document in MD? Pandoc to RST. Pretty print. Write RST.

The reason this is useful is that the 90% use-case is probably hit by MD. You may never need RST. And you won't spend more time deciding and discussing than actually doing because this algorithm only takes a few seconds to execute.
I strongly agree, but nobody* uses languages that would make it a compilation error to add "cw" and "ix" together.
> The suggestions you mentioned all have substantial negative impacts to humanity - arguably as much as climate change itself (i.e. doing nothing) - and has a huge upfront cost, to boot.

Not even remotely true. If we experience massive economic pain for several decades as we switch over to renewable energy, big deal, that's a few decades.

If climate change displaces hundreds of millions of people, disrupts global weather patterns, and devastates ecosystems across the globe, what do we do then? Some of that damage is irreversible. We simply do not have technology to reverse climate change on any timescale that is going to prevent massive levels of death and misery for most of humankind, not to mention permanent destruction of major ecosystems.

We're talking about how habitable Earth is going to be for mankind into the foreseeable future. Damage to the current state of economic markets doesn't even come close to that sort of impact.

We can argue about what would be the most effective way to change, but to suggest that expensive changes would be worse than ruining the biosphere for humanity is ludicrous.
Functions looks interesting, but only supports node.js. GAE has the advantage that it support multiple language targets.
Mpe.js – Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (node, Browser)
Gets most of the way there, though I'm confused as to the wording on the BSC. "Fully libre OpenBMC _secondary_ firmware". Still slightly worried as to the meaning of Secondary firmware; almost makes me think the BSC has non-libre _primary_ firmware on there too.
Honestly, at this point, I somewhat agree with the notion that we should just be refunded our ETH.

I'd be happy to try something like this again, but I think the current iteration clearly needs work and should be dissolved / refunded so that we can make that choice at a later date.
That's just nonsense. It's really not backwards at all. There are extensive system integration issues due to our markets' diversity. With dynamism and diversity often come a whole heap of challenges that simpler and more basic systems simply don't have to deal with.

I also feel like we have been light-years ahead of Europe in particular when it comes to fraud detection and consumer protections that have also not made it all that urgent of a matter. Sure it's from a couple years ago, but that has never really been an issue in the USA, even if recovering stolen funds was a hassle in the past. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/may/04/banks-pin-card...

In many ways we are also even technologically advancing far more as we adopt Apple Pay, which uses your fingerprint and various security layers to authenticate your card. I get the sense that your perspective about "backwards" is really more about self-perceived European sense of grandeur than reality. I suspect if you look at the exponentially larger number of card transactions we process in the USA, the fraud issue is really not that big of an issue even with magnetic strips, so there's really no rush.

Also, considering that Europe still uses hard cash (for many laudable reasons) also needs to factor into your sense of being "backwards". We will all rue that day that cash is fully replaced by systems that are and will be fully monitored and inherently vulnerable to being compromised, but I'm not going to call Europe "backwards" for it. Euro-smug, "by the measure of how we do it you are backwards" is not all that flattering.
Interesting that this submission has no responses.

Is it disinterest? A feeling powerlessness? Surveillance fatigue?
I wouldn't consider web apps "almost native" until they take up the UI paradigms and hopefully the UI design (or at least the spirit of it) of the host OS. There's nothing native about an application that doesn't look or act like it belongs on any particular platform.
Notably, handing out options does not fix this. All it does is give employees conflicting interests, which softens (but doesn't alter) the blow if there comes a moment that firing them is the best thing for their options.
Not working on Opera 12.16 (last Presto engine).
Not working on Chromium 37

So. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=0x.co - and apache behind...
Percentage fees make absolutely no sense, and that is the end of the discussion. A flat fee regardless of the transaction amount is the only method that even registers as logical.
> What happens when a child is psychotic or has a chronic health condition that causes them to struggle to communicate or 'give back' to their family in a way the family can understand?

Sometimes what the family gets out of it is a sense of moral correctness, and self assurance that what they are doing is correct. People use cost benefit analyses for everything, it's just that we often don't take into account some aspects (such as how we feel about an action,or how it affects our self image) when trying to rationally weigh those costs and benefits mentally.

If cutting off ties with your child makes you feel extremely guilty or like a horrible person, to the degree where you can't stand it, then obviously you weren't correctly weighing the impact that action would have on you.

Note, in the case of children, it's a bit more complicated, because IMO you've essentially contractually obligated yourself to your child for at least 18 years, but generally for much longer. By bringing that person into the world, you bear some of the responsibility for their outcome. Often this doesn't feel much like responsibility because our strong emotional connection and need to protect and help subsumes it, but if those are removed, responsibility does remain.
this is extremely important: just yesterday I forgot my phone at my university (luckily it hasn't been stolen) and realized that i was cut out of most services that use my phone as second authentication factor.
I've been using Elastic Beanstalk lately and it's a true pleasure.
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You've illustrated the complexity in foodstuffs which have complex sourcing histories. Makes sense. I do find it a little incredible how difficult it is to trace an unprocessed good like lettuce, or meat or eggs. At times it gets hard to navigate thru all the middle sellers processors, etc. to trace an unaltered good with a single source down to its source.
A bug is the difference between the intent and the produced document.
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WhatsApp famously has 55 employees and over a billion monthly active users. That should be the role model for today's startups!

I think it's conceivable the reason you don't see much innovation from Twitter for years now, is that they have the organizational equivalent of traffic gridlock. It's simply impossible to get anything done with that many stakeholders.
Looks like security agencies are placing extra guards at important national security sites like the statue of liberty, NSA, and Best Buy: http://i.imgur.com/5c9H6DO.gif
> It seems to me that these alternatives (Chip & sign, chip and pin, carrying a credit card at all) all compete poorly with the "tap my phone to pay" offerings.

Apple takes a cut for "tap to pay". No one wants to pay extra middlemen.

> For reasons I don't understand, the credit card makers have spent many years bringing the new chip cards to market, they include much higher technology than ever offered before, yet the payment process takes much longer.

It took years to roll out chip and pin because no one wanted to pay for the new terminals (another expensive cost pushed on to someone). It takes longer to approve a transaction because of the challenge response implemented to reduce fraud.

> I do understand the fees though. The credit card brands and banks have worked themselves, through years of diligent effort, into a business where they can impose a kind of "tax" of 3% on most of the retail economy across the entire US.

This is being driven down by legislation.

Everything has a cost, and someone has to pay it.
But if one of your main selling points is integration, you'd better standardize to one, especially if (as an other commenter pointed out) the one in bitbucket is subpar.
Quite condescending. Definitely not what I expect from a post on hacker news. There was no mention that these companies created Chinese knockoffs. On the other hand, I see it as a patent dispute by predatory companies.
My own skepticism isn't so much stemming from any belief that the current legal systems are particularly great as it is from the learned reflex to be wary of anyone rewriting a system from scratch.

The legal system is complex and messy sometimes because moneyed interests have been keeping a thumb on the scales and sometimes because the world is complex and millions of people have spent hundreds of years patching bugs and extending the code to handle all the weird corner cases.

Smart contracts are a neat idea, but it is also kind of like the guy who wants to rewrite the production system in a weekend.
Regarding vue - Here's a nice compiled list of awesome vue things...
https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue

I keep going back and forth what to focus on more learning wise - vue or angular2. I'm using vue1 currently and enjoy it, but job prospect wise angular is much more known. Then there's vue2 on the horizon - so do I just wait for that. I also so far like typescript, which angular2 focuses on. Sometimes the speed at which this stuff moves can be too fast to make proper decisions.
Lots of Smart People Don't Understand Climate Change
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Ah, thanks... I think I understand Pokemon now.
Some part of the fee is used to insure against fraud. That is obviously related to transaction volume.
The two seem to be really popular candidates.
Maybe – but I still think the problem with tools like PGP are the user experience, and not any underlying tech.

If you look at things like WhatsApp and iMessage, they give you the same kind of security in a completely transparent way. And I believe Whisper/WhatsApp also give you a cool way to verify keys in person (I believe they use QR codes?)

So public key crypto is here, and it's widespread. It's just not in the form of PGP, and that's because of the UX shortcomings of PGP.

On a side note, Keybase really is awesome – I have setup keybase and am hopeful for it, but I feel even in that case, if you try to do PGP, it feels a bit odd.
Hmm I feel quite the opposite here. China has a, um, less than stellar record when it comes to prosecuting Chinese companies that engage in IP theft and patent infringement. But then they want to get high and mighty when the shoe is on the other foot...
What? It was clear from the very beginning to anyone who actually looked into what the DAO was and how it worked, except those wanting to strike it rich believing the crypto hype.

You're saying you trusted it, got burned, and are already looking forward to the next one?

The DAO was described as "the code of the contract is the absolute truth, any other description is just a guideline", which was hailed as a new miracle by the investors, and now that it doesn't mean mountains of gold the founding principles are suddenly not important anymore?

The "hacker" simply used the DAO as it was meant to be used (i.e. according to the smart contract code), and deserves the funds. If there is a hard fork, I hope he sues slock.it for controlling the DAO, and stealing the funds he is owed according to their own terms ("The contract is king").
I tried to pay with ApplePay at The Home Depot but their readers wouldn't allow it. If your company is seriously concerned about fraud, maybe allow customers to use available systems that help prevent it.
In Canada, we have a good compromise. Up to $100 (depending on your bank) you can simply use RFID "touch" payments. Fraud is much higher but it increases credit card usage so credit card companies promote it heavily (after all, the possible fraud will be for very small amounts). For larger purchases, a PIN is required. I think it's a good system.

When I travel to the US I'm always surprised by how backwards the approach to credit cards is:

- Waiter grabs my card and walks away with it. (In Canada they'd bring you the machine to your table.)

- In the unlikely scenario that they actually place the card in the chip reader, as opposed to just swiping it, they usually come back to me with a puzzled face. Last time I had the following interaction, "Sir, your card is giving us an error". "What's the error?". "It wants a code". "OK, I'll come and enter it". Then waiter proceeds to ask me for id, inspecting my card, checking the signature on the back carefully, etc. Basically, he thought I was up to no good because my card has a PIN. :)
Those stats made quite interesting reading - what I felt is missing is the reason /why/ there is such a high multiple-card ownership rate?

I personally have a single debit card, and a single credit card, as do most people I know - is the culture in the US really so different that people need so many cards?

I've visited the US, but do not live there - I never felt properly safe when I was just swiping my card and signing to pay for things. I don't even know if the fraud protection would apply to my European chip and pin card if I paid for things that way.
> The RST rules are clearer and standardized

They're standardised but I wouldn't say they're clearer as the "level" of a specific over/under symbol only depends where it first appeared in the document, I've seen projects where two documents side by side used different underline symbols for the same depths, that gets confusing.

I'd like rST/Sphinx to be stricter on this point, maybe I should open an issue/PR allowing upfront definition of the over/underline hierarchy for the project.
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Is there any way out of this local optimum?