skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's ironic is that the old school mag swipe cards are more convenient than Apple Pay but the new chip cards are so slow that it does open up a convenience gap for Apple Pay to gain mind share.
If you're curious what an activist investor is:

"An activist investor is an individual or group that purchases large numbers of a public company's shares and/or tries to obtain seats on the company's board with the goal of effecting a major change in the company."
Hard to say. But I think it will be hard to enforce anyway. The money is gone.
I run broadstreetads.com (2x techstars finalist, 3x reject), and it's profitable with plenty of growth potential.

Building a profitable sass business lies in the ability to understand your market, the problem your product solves and execute on sales goals. Learning how to do that takes a while though - you generally don't get your business legs for a while.

I'd be happy to share tips if you want to connect: katzgrau at gmail
I've seen some grocery stores with double grocery belts, so the cashier can start checking out the next customer while the first one is finishing payment, they just sweep a divider over so the groceries go down the next belt.

This was well before chip-and-pin, they probably did because of the slowness of writing checks.

Though maybe this is all moot with self-checkout since the store doesn't really care that much if it takes you a bit longer to check out. Especially if they can show you ads while you wait.
To add clarity to this statement, for some unfathomable reason, the "web" link does not show up on the mobile version of HN.
Glossed over this but it drives me nuts:

// Bad:
String nameString;
DockableModelessWindow dockableModelessWindow;

See it? Don't dance around reserved words/used names in a space with caps. Arg.
I'd assume GP is referring to something like http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.ht...

Which is not a parallelism model itself, but is more about how rust's data model lends itself to implementing different kinds of parallelism in a reliable way.
atleast puredata is written in c, i guess the others also to be similar under the hood.
This is neat, once IB is in I might try it :)

How are you planning to handle the user data though (who set what trigger when, etc.?) -- will you be selling it (even if anonymized) to third parties?
It doesn't work for me on Chrome (which I usually use), but does on Safari (which I don't) I guess I have to clear my cookies or something?

I also support not submitting articles that require workarounds.
> When climate-related deaths have steadily decreased in recent history[1]

And exactly what does mean that figure from CATO Institute?

> and fewer people are in climate-related danger now than ever before in history

Do you have any link to back that claim?
Microsoft Open Sources a safer C
How does this work for video though? I remember reading somewhere there is about 3 hours of film shot for every hour of final product. That's more than some might think but not close to 100:1
Last week I traveled home and Google did not let me login to my account because they were somehow 'suspicious' it was not me using my password (same machine). They wanted to force me to provide my phone number, even though I never asked for 2FA. Not truly a dark pattern, but shady anyway, expecting nothing less from a prism company.

ot. I guess you are downvoted because the element of truth in your comment (e.g. 2FA is data collection) hit some nerve. Just yesterday a similar 'questioning 2FA panacea' comment was downvoted, even though it was just arguing about the security aspects.
This doesn't work for me on my default browser.
What is Slovakia doing down there???
Flagging WSJ until they're shut out of HN will effect more change - they still gain SEO and popularity and social benefits from us using their contrived "trick" to leech off this community.
Chemists Were Wrong About Splenda
BTC-e and Poloniex offer margin trading including short selling.
"Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
org-mode + pandoc let you convert org files to anything
Yahoo was sustainable and profitable. They weren't as big as Google or Amazon but they made a lot of money. But that wasn't good enough for the investors or the public, who want infinite growth.
Afaik obj c got some kind of garbage collection and is heaviliy tuned to use apple libs. Since it's so platform-centric, objc is out of the question for me. Maybe fast, but not as fast as c/c++. I would guess around java speed.
Works on my Kindle Fire 7 but I didn't like the fact I couldn't install Firefox on it - indeed, no Play Store - so I installed Cyanogenmod and everything's been great ever since!
And for discussion of 3D analog of the original Mandelbrot, check out the Math Exchange discussion[1] and site dedicated to finding it.[2]

The vanilla zoomed mandelbrot[3] looks 3d to me. It's interesting that actually turning them into true 3d is such an elusive problem.

[1] http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150117/is-a-3d-mande...

[2] http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html

[3] http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/h-frac.jpg
Why does the IRS need guns?
Yea, it always surprised me that Apple hadn't fully copied this idea for Mac books. Maybe it needed to wait for OLEDs?
Is there a name for a logical fallacy where actions are claimed to be morally equivalent if merely their shapes are the same and regardless of the details?
Turn+Your+Slow+Metabolism+into+a+Fast+Fat+Burning+Machine?
Unless you don't provide a code example and/or dev chain description i'm unable to follow you.
(Not to take this post too serious, but I'll take the bait)

I'd argue that the solution proposed by Ethereum in this blog post is not antithetical to mainstream Libertarianism. It actually fits perfectly well into the role the majority of libertarians believe a state should take.

To begin with, from my understanding they merely proposed a solution which the community has to agree to implement. Just like modifying the bitcoin codebase.

It's still ultimately an additional layer of decentralization in between. Taken as a whole - even if Ethereum takes action against the attacker - what DAO represents would still be very very far from the representative democracy style system that libertarians take issue with.

Importantly, libertarians are not all anarchists (or 'crypto-anarchists' or 'anarcho-capitalists' to be more accurate) who believe in total decentralized control structures. Mainstream libertarians wish for a minimal state or "night-watchman" state, a not the total absence of a state.

This the most prevalent myth about libertarianism and the faulty premise of most attacks against it.

Even many hardcore anarcho-capitalists are against the idea of decentralized judicial and law enforcement systems - as they see it as unworkable.

In the book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" [1] popular libertarian thinker Robert Nozick argues that

[..] only a minimal state "limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on" could be justified without violating people's rights.

Therefore supporting the solution Ethereum proposed does not make you less of a libertarian. But it does make you less of a crypto-anarchist.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-State-Utopia-Robert-Nozick/dp...
> I am no longer a paying customer since they put Condi Rice on their board of directors. If Rice quits their board, I will immediately become a paying customer again.

Curiously, why?
The miners have always been the arbiters. That's implicit in verifying transactions via their consensus.
That's lame. If I had seen that post that one day I would have chimed in. Good to know their stance though.

Added:

Send us update emails when you come to decisions like these. It would help keep me and others informed. I don't regularly re-read the guidelines and sometimes I miss threads like those.
As I wrote in another comment, this can be done quite easily with Pandoc. It is a really powerful processing tool and with the right set of templates it can do wonders. Have a look at Kieran Healy's work: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2014/01/23/plain-text/
Digital Exclusion and the Robot Revolution
Step 1: Write an insurance contract against the malicious use of Ethereum

Step 2: Find someone foolish enough to accept the other side of the insurance contract, in a world where "insurance fraud" is no excuse

Step 3: Use Ethereum maliciously, stealing your own Ether under another identity

Step 4: Collect insurance

Step 5: Profit (in Ether)

Step 6: Good luck turning your Ether into actual money when people figure out how broken everything about it is
I believe the crux of the lawsuit (and oddly isn't really covered in the article) is that the credit card companies are trying to have their cake and eat it too. Visa & MC have created a new system that is only marginally more secure, but have required retailers to now shoulder the costs of any fraud that occurs on those new cards.
It's not about encouraging complex markup, it's about discouraging or just fully disallowing it.
When Meyer left google, I was of the opinion that it's a good move for her. She had strong signals that her rise at Google was limited. This is when Larry Page had taken over as CEO and created a new "inner circle" of 7 senior VP's and Marissa was not one of them.

I thought it was a good move for her because she gets to be a big fish in a smaller pond and gets her name out there as a CEO. Pretty much nobody would blame her if Yahoo ended up bankrupt anyway since nobody had high hopes. But at this point it feels like her brand is damaged along with Yahoo's because of the leaks of boardroom struggles more than just the failure to revive Yahoo's business.
Someday we will get rid of all the layers of web client stack and streamline it into something small and easy to implement. I don't know when that will happen, though, seeing a myriad of preprocessors and compilers that produce CSS and JavaScript and then work around HTML by reimplementing parts of the browser in JavaScript, realizing one feature but breaking many others like standard browser features of HTML pages.

The actual bug on nest.com sounds like Chrome should prevent allocating that much memory in a single tab, especially given that any content can be thrown at a browser and it's a not a controlled environment like a game where the engine doesn't have to handle edge cases like this because the level designers take care.
I asked the manager at the local grocery store why they had chip readers but didn't enable them. They want to be ready in case the system becomes less awful. He described exactly the problems mentioned here.
> From quantum field theory, you get polynomial decay

I think you're oversimplifying, although I agree that I was also oversimplifying when I said that the theory predicts exact exponential decay.

What I get from that stack exchange thread and the linked papers is this: in an idealized (and not physically possible for a real system) model in which every individual decay is statistically independent from every other and in which all of the quantum states that are possible end points of the decay are unoccupied, the theory predicts exact exponential decay. But in real physical systems, neither of those conditions is exactly true. Individual members of an ensemble of decaying quantum systems (such as radioactive atoms in a sample) interact with each other (either directly or indirectly via states in the environment), so their decays are not completely independent; and any real decaying system has an external environment which includes some occupied "target" quantum states. When these effects are taken into account, the theory predicts a decay law which is often called "power law" but which I would describe as more of a "truncated exponential": it replaces an infinite series of power law terms (the exact exponential) with a finite number of them. The actual measured decay law in a given experiment will depend on how much the experiment probes the portion of the state space where the above effects are significant (for example, a decay law measured over a very long time can deviate measurably from exponential where a measurement over a shorter time would not).
Yes I believe there was an unfinished demo with atlas. The presentation[1] was on HTMLBook[1].

[1] http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/print/Kleinfeld01/...

[2] https://github.com/oreillymedia/HTMLBook
Bay Area is just now getting chip readers active in many places. They started installing them a year ago or so, but many had the slot taped off. The experience now at most places goes something like this:

1. cashier done scanning items
2. person swipes card since reader has a slot to do that on the right side and that's what they usually do
3. machine beeps or displays an error or does nothing
4. cashier has to explain to insert the card
5. person fumbles with card, eventually getting it into slot
6. sometimes people just push it in and pull it out or otherwise don't leave it in long enough since every single POS has a different workflow and dialogue for this, and this error condition requires re-starting the process (GOTO 3)
7. Waiting 3-10+ seconds
8. Sign
9. Hit yes or accept or I agree
10. Wait another few seconds
11. Remove or forget card. Sometimes the machine beeps, sometimes not
12. Done!

Despite all this hassle, we still didn't get chip and pin that I had been complaining about for years, so if someone steals your physical card, they can still use it until you realize. I'm not really sure how this whole process improves security (does the actual CC number no longer enter the POS at any point?) but consumers here are definitely having some growing pains with the new system and the current state of supporting both old and new systems.
Too bad it tastes weird.
How is Google different anyway? They both support the TPP.
Why is it lame that the publisher would like to be compensated for their work?
Definitely, I think it's still too early to know for sure. Interestingly we only had one incident out of the 300 or so rentals in our first semester. The damage wasn't permanent so we just paid to have the dress dry cleaned. Our policy regarding cleaning is "use good judgement." Because it's peer to peer, there seems to be social pressure; you're much less likely to ruin a dress after you've met the owner in person. And on the flip side, owners won't want to hand over a dress that isn't in good, rentable condition
Microsoft may seem like a big scary competitor, but they've been dead for some time (1). If all they're doing it providing free hosting then they're not really competing with you.

(1) http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
They do this on reddit in many subs, r/SpaceX has that bot post in just about every single thread.

In the US military, they joke about everything being a TLA or an ETLA. ETLA being an "Extended Three Letter Acronym".
I never understood the mania for growth. If a company is reliably returning, say, 20% profit, I wouldn't mess with success.
From the site:

> The name change from "global warming" to "climate change" was, to my mind, less about science and more about a marketing effort to deal with the fact the temperatures had plateaued over the last 10-20

Someone that can say that the term have changed from global warming to climate change is because has an agenda because it is false.
Obviously nobody blames the cashier for the delay (at least I hope). But blaming a slow system on the organization as a whole and the department responsible for the POS in particular is appropriate. It's not like it's impossible to create a fast system.

A one-off internet issue is fine. But in this case it seems that there is something systematically broken.
It's not too complicated: if you don't pay a reliable dividend you need to have growth to keep investors happy. Yahoo's profitable businesses have been shrinking and they have been unable to find new ones to replace them.
Yeah, that's true, but my point was that gender differences are much more real on an individual level than differences between races.

Racial differences are extraordinarily superficial and hard to define. Gender differences by comparison are massive and very real.

Again, there is a very real debate on how much is culture and how much is biological.

But, it's not ALL culture. The fact is girls and boys are different and will continue to be different.

We don't know if their interest level in math/science is biology or culture.

If I had to guess, it would be both. I think we can do more to get more female engineers for sure, but forcing people to do something they don't want to do is just as wrong.
A couple of times a week, though alot of my posts are explaining how the financial markets work and include a blurb to reach out to me with any questions.

I dedicate atleast one lunch a week to going out for coffee with someone who wants some mentoring, had mixed results with this. About half the people I have coffee with come from HN.

About once a month a blogger/reporter will read something I wrote and ask to do an interview about said topic.

People want to talk and learn, but its up to you to reach out and get things started.
Just agreeing here and adding another point of data. Everywhere I've used my card there is a 30 second delay in the processing.
Serious/meta - Can we please stop posting wsj with their paywall nonsense? We hear all the time about talking with our money to get rid of this sort of thing, but it's never actually done. As a community, we should actually do something instead of armchairing it.

(Yes, I know about the "web" button.)

To the downvoters: If there was a better place to post on this, I would. But since there isn't, this is my only option. Explanations for downvotes help the discussion. Downvotes by themselves just hides the discussion.
As it goes, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I have never in my life seen a mountain gorilla. I am aware of evidence that shows that they exist, but at my age my grand parents did not have access to that same evidence; does that mean that mountain gorillas came into existence when the evidence was found? Almost certainly not, heh, but they would have been valid in disbelieving in the existence of such beasts.

There could be a person behind me with a knife, poised to slay me; but I am fairly confident that this is not the case due to a number of factors. On a population scale, such incidents are vanishingly few, and I took precautions earlier today to ensure that my home was locked and secured; but that does not guarantee certainty of my safety. It would be a fallacy, perhaps post hoc ergo propter hoc, for me to believe in the certainty that there is no such individual behind me. Until I turn around and observe the empty space, I cannot lay claim to the existence or non-existence of that individual.

We cannot observe all of Earth all of the time, and we cannot do so for the Solar system, or lay claim to having done so throughout history. This does not mean that aliens have visited us, or that they even exist; it means that we cannot be certain that they don't exist and that they haven't visited.
A quick look at the tests[1] shows that it handles drive letters. The current implementation is probably not the most efficient though...

[1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/68ebbbfebe5b666cf76ab41f1e...
Is there really no other comparison between the two companies that you can think of?
Hey, thanks. I remember the old SitePoint forums fondly, and other people there inspired and helped me get W3Counter off the ground. I occasionally check up on people I knew from there as well... Zach Holman (lo0ol) sold Good-Tutorials and became one of the first engineers at GitHub, Josh Pigford (shpigford) went on to make Baremetrics, Roger Stringer (freekrai) made Flybase, Josh Catone (bleys) became a writer then executive for RWW/Mashable... SPF was our HN before HN.
Not only is this a great read, but the follow up for citations is replied with "I am the reference".

If this were reddit I'd post the hot fire gif. Eh, here it's anyway: http://i.imgur.com/VQLGJOL.gif
Garbage article, doesn't even give details on what they violated.
> As a total percentage of the world's land a very small percentage will become "uninhabitable", though right?

An small percentage of land with a high percentage of population and infrastructure

> There is tons of land in Canada and Russia that is currently way too cold to do anything with

Yap, and with the warming the Sun will also change and will shine like in the meridional regions, isn't?

> TBH, the world would be a better place if it was a couple degrees warmer.

No, it won't be
If the attacker is just moving funds into a child DAO, could someone else attack the attacker? A digital Robin Hood?
Having a war where nobody shows up would be great. Sadly wars usually happen because one side shows up and leaves the other side with no choice.
Definitely not going crazy. There is a graveyard of startups with similar models to ours. We're going after the college market first because we think we can reach profitability faster than in cities like LA and NYC. No one has taken this college-first approach
That was a flaw in the process the banks were using to allow cards in the Apple Pay (without verification), not a flaw in Apple Pay itself.
As a developer, I would LOVE a tech writer to sit next to me and walk me through the best way to write documentation, using the best tools. And by "best," I don't mean what I think is best, I mean what the professional tech writer thinks is best. Until I have the experience to opine to the contrary, it is my responsibility as a software engineer with a mission to produce quality software to care deeply about documentation, even if it's not my full time responsibility. I would love to see more articles about the "how." I would learn a lot and be a better software engineer as a result.
The lawsuit explains it, I never bought the "Americans are too dumb to remember a PIN" excuse, and it turns out that it's about the money -- PIN transactions cost less than signature transactions so Visa/MC want more signature transactions:

The banks collect higher merchant fees for signature-based credit-card transactions than PIN-based ones.

“While chip-and-PIN authentication is proven to be more secure, it is less profitable for Visa, MasterCard, and their member banks and it provides a greater threat to their market dominance,” the lawsuit claimed.
JPEG 101 – How does JPEG work?
I thought OpenStack just recently voted No to allowing Go as an approved language:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/312267
What I saw in Syria
Most of the things I have read which accuse energy companies of being subsidized lack a basic understanding of the historical accounting mores of those industries. This is principally because of depletion allowances and industrial depreciation. Both of those still apply and have full standing in the law.

I am not saying this should not be changed but rather that it'd be quite a change.

As a USAian, I can expect my energy need to be met by cleaner tech than someone in, say Africa. Natural gas is here and will make a difference.
With chip-and-signature cards it's much harder (as in currently not practical at all) to clone the card to use it at another POS (at least if the magstripe readers are finally switched off). Cloned cards are a much larger issue than stolen cards.
My workplace cafeteria, located in Austin, Texas, just switched the registers to always use the chips on cards. The result: the lines are 2-3x as long, they have hired another cashier, and they have created a cash-only line in order to speed up the process. It's mind-boggling how slow the chips are. The cashiers have started doing two customers at once- while you are waiting for your card to validate, they are ringing up the next order.
EBay search not working, same thing happened this exact day last year