skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C. If your fill rate drops too low (around 1%, sometimes a bit less), your broker shuts you down.
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In Switzerland, you get a 6-digit PIN, a chip in the card, and SecurID to log into online banking, but you are held responsible if unauthorized transactions go through.
4chan Users Crash MPAA Website in Pro-Piracy Protest
The European Silicon Landscape [1] - System's actors
See previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511201
Yes, and for small values of X, 70/X is more accurate, too. 72 has the advantage of being a multiple of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 12, whereas 70 is a multiple of 2, 5, 7, 10, and 14 -- knowing both of these gives you a whole-number answer for any growth rate under 15% except 11% (correct answer is 6.64) and 13% (correct answer is 5.67).
> Swiping and signing is heck of a lot faster than figuring out which to insert the card in this particular terminal

Well, there's always the issue of unfamiliar terminals, but that's a question of habit. I, for one, can complete a chip+pin transaction faster than most terminals can print a slip for signing.
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Just like traditional dating it's just numbers. Go out and meet people. Then you two should go on dates and test the relationship. Seriously. My friends linked up because they only called and talked to each other at 2 in the morning. Someone else I know went to Burning Man and became a dev/biz team. Using an OKCupid for startup founders seems silly though.
Not quite! It's working intermittently; try more.
SSH agent forwarding is tremendously useful, but I'm glad the article points out how trivial it is for the root user on a remote system to hijack a user's agent and potentially connect to other systems. The moral of the story: Only forward your agent to trusted systems.
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When it's slashdotted, people open several of them in tabs, until they get it, pounding the server even worse.
There's little need for your bank to double-check with you for credit cards, IMO. In fact, in the few instances where my bank has checked with me, it's been a pain in the ass. (Travelling or otherwise making unusual purchases.)

If you don't agree to pay a merchant, you dispute the charge after the fact and the onus is on the merchant to prove that you agreed to that amount and that they delivered the product/service satisfactorily, etc.

In 2 decades, I've probably disputed 5 or 6 charges. In every case, it took less than 15 total minutes of time, and averaged under 10. So, in 2 decades, I've spent an hour dealing with credit card issues that smartphones might solve. And believe me, I'm not shy about using the plastic, averaging $30K+ per year in purchases on the card to get the 1% cash back.

I'm just not sure I care about better security for my CC information, and I'm sure I'm not alone...
This is tne most interesting language in a long while. Sure maybe learning erlang directly might be better, but since so many are unwilling, you'd think an interest in real concurrency would push them to effete. I hope it is gaining momentum.
Review my one-day Twilio project: track and view your customer support calls
In 1982, you could build a computer with 4-bit color at 320x200 graphics, a 3 voice synthesizer, without any software to run on it at the right price and have a huge hit.

You just can't do it now. If you build a computer that uses anything but an x86 processor, you won't be able to sell it to people who like Windows. You could go for 1080p screens, but many high-end home PCs surpass that. You could run a complete Linux desktop, but that would face some user resistance.

It kills me but there seems to be no space for innovation in the desktop PC market.
So this is a 102 year old lens mounted on modern Canon DSLR. Obviously it requires an adapter to physically mate the two.

Not to take anything away from that, but I thought I'd point out that you can mount 50 year old Nikon lenses on modern Nikon DSLRs, no adapter required, due to Nikon's commitment to the F-mount it introduced in 1959:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F-mount
I think this is an excellent idea, if done correctly. I think it's all too easy for developers to make sharing sites for other developers. I can't quite tell if you had this in mind, but I'd recommend actually providing a working environment that allows for end-user lay-person single-signup and use.

Right now there are a number of different sites that have a single automated tasklet each (one to search craigslist, one for amazon, etc). But you have to sign up for each one individually to use them. If you can centralize that for the noob AND allow for code-monkeys to post new tasklets, it would be awesome! Make me a form of online "app store", and I'd definitely sign up. =)

Plus, if it becomes successful, ads would bring in $ and incentivize desired high quality tasklets.
It somehow reminds me of their old strategy towards Linux. Microsoft claimed that a research (sponsored by them) had proven that Linux is not free, but more expensive than Windows, when you calculate the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) according to a certain methodology.
I'm running into Poe's Law here: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law
It's not out of your control. Just don't use it if you don't like it.

I really don't see the problem that you're talking about. When you pay with a credit card, nothing happens with your bank at all. You pay your bill by check or on-line 20 to 30 days later, and only then does your bank get involved because you told it to. When you pay with a debit card, your bank is informed that you have authorized a fixed amount to be withdrawn. You could also do that through a bank web site or by writing a check, which has your account number on it. Not that much different, really.
You're cuking it right
Isn't it? It wasn't back in Sun's days, but I've got more apps open in my browser right now than my dock, and so does the person beside me.
Oh joy, the Haskell propoganda machine has made it to Hacker News.
Duncan Dowling's re-design of U.S. Banknotes
Just feedback, i think youre doing a lot right here, but heres the stuff i didnt get:
Maybe this makes more sense for canadians but I can't figure out if tis is useful for Americans or not. A diagram might help a lot sine there are several multistep scenarios you're describing. Also pick a primary benefit or two and focus on the. The top three view rotator left me confused and would change before I had a chance to figure one of the views out. Good design and domain and naming, a d you're halfway to making it comprehensible, I think.
(unlike music, there isn't a big 'indie' porn scene)

It does exist, and it's called "amateur" pornography. Interestingly enough, some companies seem to make good money getting low-quality footage from various anonymous exhibitionists and repackaging it.
the restaurant gets my money without ever knowing my card details

It's still their hardware.

I think what Cushman wants is for the merchant to present the customer with a QR Code, the customer scans this with their device and registers a transaction with their bank (possibly adding tip, etc). There are at several ways for the merchant to confirm the payment including notification from their bank, notification from the customer's bank, and notification from the customer's bank returned to the customer's phone (which the merchant could trivially scan and authenticate).
Vision of America in 2016, written in 2005
Yes, I too thought it was similar to a numbers station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Just Manic Enough, Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs
Did you read about this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/huge-first-high-frequency-tra...
Maybe he wanted to burn the bridge publicly in order to make it more likely that he will keep to his decision. "Can't go back now that I've said I'm leaving." kind of thing? But if he does decide to go back it leaves a nice opening for the follow-on post of "Why I decided to go back to reading HN".
Why bother making new desktop products (other than browsers) for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPad?

Why not just make them for the web?
Social Gaming Market Reaches Its Final Stage
It may be a 39mm lens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M39_lens_mount

You could start with a T-mount adapter to get to 42mm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-mount

http://www.adorama.com/LNTMEOS.html

Then a 42mm to 39mm step-down adapter ring:

http://www.amazon.com/Fotodiox-M39-Adapter-Zeiss-Pentax/dp/B...

Not sure about the clearances, and you may not get infinity focus depending upon how far out the lens ends up being situated from the focal plane of the sensor.

Edited to add: google turned up this direct EOS to M39 adapter:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110365260908&ssPageName=STRK

But note "DOES NOT allow focus to infinity".
Now this is great! I've requested such api, and so have many others, a few months ago. It somehow needs more publicity...
I have found out most of this stuff gradually, by reading comments. The best advice I can give you, to maybe speed it up a bit, is to click on "ask" on the orange bar and browse the local posts that discuss HN.
To fulfill your curiosity - No. I knew it beforehand as I'm a Finn myself.

And here's the first logo of Nokia. It's quite, uhm, interesting compared to what they're doing at the moment, wouldn't you agree
http://www.about-nokia.com/images/nokia-logo1.jpg
You could probably say that confidence is a a rule of thumb that uses crowdsourcing (or group think) the assessment of risk - but transparency can serve to improve this even further. Confidence in people/system is derivative (and has feedback from) hard numbers.
"When you pay with a debit card, your bank is informed that you have authorized a fixed amount to be withdrawn."

See that passive voice hiding the problem: The bank is informed by the payee that I've authorized the transaction. I think it would make more sense for me (as the owner of the money) to do that.
i think you miss that diaspora is an open source project. once they release a 'developer preview' people _can_ actually use go an use it. i would not call that 'launched' or '1.0' (which is the open source analog to launching in my opinion).
sitting on top of yr code will not spawn discussion, attract devs/tester to have a look. therefor the opensource mantra is release early+often.

it took me 2 minutes to find out what BCC means. for those also wondering:
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/
sorry but BCC is not open source so i call it a bad comparison. commercial software is different. the thousands of diaspora end-users you talk of are probably quite aware they are guinnee-pigs of a facebook counter project.

"facebook but private", sorry but again i dont think you get diaspora as it is more like "facebook but distributed".

calling diaspora a "flop" is like calling mozilla before 1.0 a flop: it's open source (something you dont seem to get), its out there for _anyone_ to play with freely, to collaborate on, to learn from...
While it's not the same, there are several how to's for using a Holga lens with a DSLR (like http://www.howcast.com/videos/217390-How-To-Make-Your-Holga-...). Extrapolating from these would certainly help get you at least part way there.
> So this is a 102 year old lens mounted on modern Canon DSLR

Isn’t that precisely what is suggested by the title?

Also, this isn’t any “adapter”:

> My friend, a Russian lens technician, who loves nothing more than to frankenstein equipment [...] called me into his store in NYC. [...] He found in a box of random parts, hidden inside anther lens this gem. A circa 1908 (possibly earlier) 35mm lens. Still functioning, mostly brass, and not nearly as much dust or fungus as one would think after sitting in a box for over a hundred years. This lens is a piece of film history people, and at this point rare beyond words. So i say to him, “Wow... what do you have in mind?” He smiles, and says (in the thickest Russian accent you can imagine) “I can make this fit EF you know....” My eye twinkled, and then 6 nail-biting hours later, he had it finished. My Russian lens technician is a mad scientist and he took what sounded like an angle grinder to the lens to make it clear the flange distance and the mirror.... This lens’s value is unclear. It’s sort of on loan. It’s the only lens of its kind on a 5D... or any digital for that matter.
Jersey Shore's JWoww wanted to be a computer programmer (seriously)
Looking at some of the comments you've made on HN its seems like you're not totally tech-ignorant. What do you do now? I would say that if you don't work at a startup now, join one where it's small enough that you can actually talk to/interact with developers. Get experience communicating things to them and understand the development process - then try to make the leap within your firm or perhaps to a different firm as a PM.
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I love the visual qualities of that lens. Wow! The slight softness, the vignette, the muted tones. I have bags full of old lenses and lens elements (going back to cameras from about 1920) myself and now I'm inspired to do something with them on my own digital body. What fun!
> Of the ones who vote by agreement, some will agree and some will disagree, and they end up cancelling each other out.

It's possible for this to happen, but I don't think there are that many hot-button issues where the two sides are exactly balanced. More commonly there will be at least a slight skew in one direction or another, which gets magnified in absolute score the more people there are who vote based on agreement. For example, if there's a 60/40 opinion skew among people who vote based on agreement on a particular topic, and 20 people vote that way, you already have an 8-point rating gap between the popular and unpopular comments (+12/-8 versus +8/-12). On really high-traffic topics, where 100 people might up/downvote based on agreement, you only need a tiny skew from 50/50 for the votes to pile up in one direction or another.

I think in practice that often swamps the quality-based voting, especially on high-traffic articles: you sometimes see extremely short and not particularly insightful comments that express a popular sentiment up at +40 or more.
Trillium was not DOSing the market, they were layering.
He could, but CPython and Ruby are single language VMs.

DN and Java have a larger amount of classes accessible from any language, including Python and Ruby implementations.
Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?
Ask HN: Why firms don't train workers anymore
Some economists cite structural factors as to the reason why unemployment has persisted at these elevated levels around 10%. By structural they basically mean job mismatch: workers who have skills in one area are in surplus even though there are jobs in demand, though they require a different set of skills. One way to rectify this predicament is to have firms more willing to expand their applicant pool and train those they do hire for those jobs.

It has become common wisdom in hiring that firms would rather leave a position unfilled than recruit someone who didn't fit the job requirements. A new hire must hit the ground running so-to-speak and therefore he should not expect much handholding on the part of the employer. So, if you are not a perfect match and can't already do everything stated in the job description, don't expect to get a call back.

I wonder why this move away from on-the-job training has taken place. It used to be that firms would accept a wider range of applicants after screening for basic intelligence, competence, and ability. They would take their new recruits and train them for upwards of several months. After successfully completing the training, the new employees would be ready to take their place alongside their fellow co-workers. This training not only produced better employees, it also engendered more loyalty as workers could see the firm invest time and money into them and would reciprocate with their work effort.

Now, it seems like most firms give new employees at most a few days to become acclimated with them and most of that time involves processing employment paperwork for the new worker. Since, the worker cannot expect to be trained by the firm in any meaningful way, one shouldn't expect much loyalty from him should a better opportunity arise.

One reason given as to why firms have reduced their training is because they fear that after investing in the worker, he might just bolt to a competitor which may reward him with better pay because it didn't have to budget for training. However, to take that POV, you must assume that workers are only satisfied by more money, when there are multiple factors that workers take into consideration when deciding on where to work, including how the firm treats them initially.
Some of these are overly popularised. But I didn't know about the gyro train car. That was interesting
> I imagine would be near impossible to do in Javascript on current hardware.

In JavaScript, most probably. But on current hardware, just perhaps. You can't forget the immense floating-point power we have compositing polygons on our displays... GPUs could be used to simulate such a system close to real time, I guess (didn't do the math on that).
I dont think that it has reached its "Final Stage". I do feel that its currently over hyped and will have to evolve in order to compete w/ traditional casual games now that the free distribution they were receiving has disappeared. I never really thought that the current popular social games "Farmville" etc... were ever real games anyway.
BASIC is on the iPad and iPhone with C64 App
Awesome feedback, thank you. I appreciate it all and you can bet that I'll be incorporating your suggestions. I've been thinking about this problem for so long, and know the solution inside out, it is difficult for me to see it with fresh eyes. By the way, do you know of any similar features in the states where you can get unlimited calling to one number? Much thanks.
We could call it "LISC". The instruction set was never reduced, but its growth was limited by what Peddle and hist folks could fit on the chip.

And yes. I learned to program on a TI-55 calculator. Limiting complexity is a very useful tool to introduce someone to programming.
I would say the entry point is less than 100$(nikon coolpix) plus making photographs. Scanning takes so much time. Good ones uses 600$ canon or nikon(you can share use a friend digital camera)

Today people can share(or rent) relatively expensive scanners(1000$) with ultrafast feeders(any book in less than a minute) it they don't care about destroying the original book(just "guillotine them"). I had so many books that I did it with hundreds of them, my entire collection will be digital some day.

It hurt the first time I did it, but there are so many advantages(you can move with all your books, no weight, search funtion, indexing, digital notes)
If you'd like a demo, call (877) 264-0341 (toll-free, forwards to my cell). Then visit http://www.hirahim.com/projects/support_dashboard/

I've blanked out the last four digits of the calls listed there for privacy purposes.
Much of open source software source code sucks in linux. Things could have been leaner, smaller and written with cleaner source code. I haven't checked thoroughly but I am pretty sure I can find lots of places where code could be factored out or made smaller. This goes for glibc too, and no surprise certain statically linked binaries turn out to be simpler.
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GMail. 280Slides. My favorite spread betting site. The web version of the shitty BMC Remedy app I used at work, which was less shitty than the Win32 version. What do you want? Do you you not think any of these are good apps?
I've been interested in doing something like this for some time, but I've no idea where to start. Is there some recommended reading to get started?
I don't think anyone wants to simulate a brain in JavaScript. Or Python (which is the 27Hz number you have), BTW.

But you could simulate a lot using a couple GPUs. That's what OpenCL is for.
ETFs: The next crash?
What country are you in? The machines in Zurich pretty much always take 8-10 seconds just to get around to asking for a PIN, then a further 5 seconds to confirm. This, in a reasonably wired city where both my bank and the merchant's bank are a couple blocks down the street. At grocery stores in North America, I usually swipe the card, sign the screen, and have a receipt in under 5 seconds.
Being rude isn't cool here. Re-read the HN guidelines.
Android apps on the Galaxy Tab may be 'a little ugly'
What would you classify John Brown's raid of the Harpers Ferry armory as?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpers_Ferry,_West_Virginia#Jo...
If HN would do a dup check on the canonical url instead of just the submitted one it would avoid these duplicates. Isn't that just what the canonical meta tag is there for?
You should probably be using the Blobstore API if you are not already.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overv...

It takes a bit more work but you could store the original file since it has a 2GB limit. You can only fetch 1MB at a time but it should still be doable.
The 8-Year-Old Programmer
Mirror, just in case: http://fileability.net/mirror/cinema5d.com/
I’m Giving Cable 6 Months To Live
Some of what the author wrote was interesting, but a lot was hyperbole. At the end of the day, HN loses less from his departure as he does from leaving. I'm not saying this as a suggestion of the author's inferiority in comparison to HN, far from it, just that people join and people leave communities, and ultimately unless you are able to corner an area of the market (like why the lucky stiff and rails) nothing of value is generally lost.

I see where the author is coming from but think it's a good thing for his development as a person, he should carry on and move to his next thing, because he should push forward in whatever direction he feels fit. Anhyoo, I never stopped reading, because for every shameless plug, there's a 6502 implemented in Javscript here. You just don't get that ratio on reddit. Good night, and $deity bless.
Noble goals, and I'd probably run it, if it were available for download.
Sorry if I wasn't more clear - I'm not actually sure how granular you can get with mturk.com. I don't think their filtering is that exhaustive. If I lived in the US, I'd be able to try and let you know though!
Also, HN is fast.

Well, this might be a sole implication of its simpleness: I need fewer steps to accomplish things, and the pages load faster because there's less stuff to transfer and less stuff for the browser to render.

However, it might also be the case that the HN folks performed better optimizations than Reddit, or that HN needs less optimization because it has fewer visitors.
+++ The third gen xbox interface is even cleaner. These would be the guys to do a real Windows touch interface.
Evoltution is great at tweaking, and would be hard to beat, but it might be possible to build something completely different. It would also be hard to tweak a bird's wings, but we have built aircraft with completely different designs that fly many times faster than any bird.
Rather than duplicate code millions of times to every fat client, why not just help web apps be fast and awesome?
We're building out our REST API to allow you to create, train, (and re-train) your own SVM. In theory, you could use our API entirely on the client side, using JavaScript.

From my experience in seeing performance and the kind of tweaking we've had to do to be able score 10K documents/s, you need some nitty gritty C code that I don't think can run in a browser.

http://www.repustate.com