skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're already trying to limit how much cash you're legally allowed to carry without having to explain yourself to a police officer in some states.

You don't need to make cash illegal though, you just have to make the alternatives really really attractive.
I am amazed that we've got 56 comments on this thread, and nobody's brought up market share.

Android has been beating the bejeezus out of iOS on unit sales for a while now, both in the U.S. and globally. Even more importantly, Android's growing at a faster rate.

Developers will gravitate towards the platform with the most users. Period. This has happened time and time again over the past 30 years. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, Google...

There's a lot of nuance underneath the headline numbers, and certain communities (like HN) will be friendlier to iOS. However, in general I would expect Android to capture the bulk of developer attention going forward.
My current pay is probably 10-15% above average. Funding is more to the 2-4 range. My main concern is whether the equity is within the "average" for first developer on deck in a startup with VC money
The highest energy density listed for the electrolytes on the wikipedia page for flow batteries is 75 watt hours/kg, that is about 0.25Mj/kg. Gasoline is 42Mj/kg.

The original MIT release claims a 10 fold improvement in energy densities over existing flow batteries, but that is still more than an order of magnitude worse than the incumbent fuel.
You're probably very right there. FSTR could definitely be 'tuned' to be faster, but since this one and the other have all other things held constant in terms of programmer skill, then doesn't it come down to the language?

I mean if I'm doing something wrong in PHP, then I'll likely make the same mistakes in node.

You are right though, PHP+apache can be just as fast as anything else. I'm told that apache has a lot of overhead because of all the modules that come enabled by default. Apparently by removing all but what you need, you get a system that's a lot faster.

That's a bit more advanced though - while node's quick by default.

Anyways, I'm far from a language zealot in any way. I've loved every language that I've worked in.

I'd love t see some of the stuff you're talking about that's lightning fast with hundreds of forks... sounds like something I could learn from :)
Rockefeller also was a janitor at his Baptist church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Beliefs
Talk to me in a few decades...

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

Subway extensions are notoriously difficult to pull off in NYC. NYC, in specific, and the USA, in general, have become woefully inadequate in their ability to pull of Major infrastructure projects. The list of overbudget and behind schedule projects in the last few decades is a mile long. I won't hold my breath waiting for the day I can take the 7 from Flushing (where I grew up) to Jersey.
The canonical problem of health insurance is not profit making, it's that most of the people who contribute have to be excluded from receiving benefits. Not sure how a distributed model is going to do a better job at that than current models.

Bitcoin is trying to solve a mathematical problem (double spending), you're talking about a problem that in my opinion doesn't have a mathematical solution.
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Meh, i just use a screen filter.

And enjoy my view.
It exists in Ruby:

[socket, window, file].each{|item| item.close()}

http://codepad.org/GqNp94Iw

It sort-of exists in Lisp-inspired languages (anything from Arc to Lua to Io) with appropriate boilerplate, for example:

function apply(tbl, func)
for key, val in ipairs(tbl) do func(val) end
end

apply({socket, window, file}, function (item) item.close() end)

http://codepad.org/SNWO1Y6K
Is it not that simple. Commercial accounts do not have the same protections as personal accounts, but under UCC § 4A-202:

[... presuming a relationship between customer and bank, then..] a payment order received by the receiving bank is effective as the order of the customer, whether or not authorized, if (i) the security procedure is a commercially reasonable method of providing security against unauthorized payment orders [... so long as the bank is acting in good faith.]

And then, in the very next clause:

(c) Commercial reasonableness of a security procedure is a question of law to be determined by considering the wishes of the customer expressed to the bank, the circumstances of the customer known to the bank, including the size, type, and frequency of payment orders normally issued by the customer to the bank, alternative security procedures offered to the customer, and security procedures in general use by customers and receiving banks similarly situated.

The stuff this bank didn't do that it was supposed to do appears to be spelled out directly in the UCC, but the bank got off because the court chose to find a fine-print clause that waived these rules enforceable.
You do realize that startups fail for any number of reasons. Founder's not having all the necessary skills may be a contributing factor, but I would be willing to wager quite a bit that it is not a leading cause.
both arguably can be used for "tax evasion"

You can use US minted currency for tax evasion as well.
Low-Competition Niches In Retail Software
Some background: unlike PCI, which has very large specs for how to protect cardholder data, banks have very little mandated requirements for protecting online banking.

Really the only guidance they've received is the document "Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment", released by the FFIEC in 2005. [1]

The mandate boils down to: "Financial institutions offering Internet-based products and services to their customers should use effective methods to authenticate the identity of customers using those products and services. The authentication techniques employed by the financial institution should be appropriate to the risks associated with those products and services."

So, if a FI provides basic personal online banking -- with no money transfer abilities -- perhaps a username/password pair combined with pretend-MFA ("What's your favorite secret color?") is appropriate.

If you allow your customers to originate ACH or wire transfers, it's simply negligent to not provide true MFA, and their auditors should have caught this earlier.

[1] http://www.ffiec.gov/pdf/authentication_guidance.pdf
There's a lot to be said for learning something in multiple passes. A fifteen-minute overview video can give a vague notion of what happened when, and lay the ground work for more detail later -- as well as, perhaps, piquing a student's interest. There aren't that many students who will voluntarily go read through a history book. There are considerably more who will watch a 15-minute history overview video, which may make them more likely to study more history later.

So, watch a video, read a book, read a bunch of books. None of this stuff is mutually exclusive. Rather, I would say its complementary.
Fear of the Unknown
What a lesser mind would come up with given a similar breif:

"Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham, United Kingdom"

http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/gchq/gchq1.html
Sounds like those people would like more media, like movie rentals.

Buy a redbox machine? Start a rental store?
Kept me a the Rand quote. Do you actually dislike the quote or just Rand in general?
If you disliked the quote, I would like to know what you disagreed with.
If the latter, I would have to say that ignoring everything someone has ever said just because you disagree with them on some points is attacking the person, not the idea. Just because I disagree with Hitler's actions doesn't mean I ignore everything he ever said.
When they launched MobileMe there were no iPads or iPad Touches.

It's a different ballgame now I think.
I was surprised to see Lloyd as their council president.

For a fanboy he did a good job.
I apologize if this post comes out sounding very negative, but "Insurance" is susceptible to negative Black Swans.

http://specialtyinsurance.typepad.com/specialty_insurance_bl...

Any algorithm you come up with will eventually meet a large sigma event and destroy your system unless it includes a whole lot of exclusions, or inversely unless it covers only very specific events.

Tackling Health seems daunting to me, maybe start with some kind of property insurance (computer insurance against theft/damage?)
Goldman's idea was to use ferries between FiDi and Jersey City to mitigate this. They called it the 'Venice strategy', I have no idea how well it worked.
To be fair, most of those are in a future that's a little bit farther along than ours.

The cars in 1900 didn't look all that much like modern cars, either.
Exactly.

Blizzard pays support costs when player's accounts get hacked and are motivated to keep the players as happy paying customers.

Many banks seem to regard deposit holders as merely some kind of annoying obligation necessary to participate in FDIC programs (and occasionally as a source of absurd fees).
The author argues that good code should be written for people. The metaphor doesn't break just because you disagree with the author's point.

IMHO, any dolt can produce code that only works. All too often I have to sift through horrible code that works, and I think the author is right in that if the programmer who wrote that (sometimes that's me, sometimes it's someone else) had had the next programmer in mind when he/she wrote it, it'd be much less of a pain.
Arab & European Historians Unite Online Over Birth of Modern Agriculture
My goodness, I think you are missing the point entirely. Or perhaps you mean to. If you watch the video, he says that videos CAN be effective. You sound so defensive here, it's starting to make me doubt your sincerity.
Our lives are over in a blink of an eye. One day follows the next ... and then it's over. You should decide what you want your days to mean. What do you want to experience? What do you want to do with this world you've been given? How are you going to make it happen?

It's easy to let the current sweep you along. You can tell yourself you are noble for taking care of the parents who took care of you. Except one day is the last day. The story "of you" will have been finished. Do you want a chapter titled "and he took care of his parents"? Nobody but you knows the answer. You are the author. Whether you want or not, every day, you write a page.
Richard Dreyfuss' dramatic reading of the iTunes EULA
This is such a great example of excess.

iPad 2: 500$+
Smart Cover: 40$
Evernote Peek: 0$.

vs.

Pack of index cards: 2$
"ebooks" aren't "attacking our freedom". DRM and proprietary formats are.

I'm publishing my Python tutorial on leanpub (a great idea which I plug whenever I can) and it's DRM free and available on many formats:

http://leanpub.com/learn-python/

You just buy the book once and you can download as many of the formats as you want, whenever you want, and if I update the book you get all subsequent versions for free. You can back it up and share it with your friends (maybe that's illegal, but you have my permission to do it with my book), etc.
Ask HN. Proof of Concept: Goingtobe.in
Hi hackers,

I'm working on an idea that I have had for a while.

Is aimed at late trip planners (such as myself) that would like to have some useful data about the destination they are traveling to but don't have the time (or the will) to spend an hour researching online.

Since we are already working in this would love to get your feedback, suggestions, etc. on this.
At least in the US, if you didn't put a stern warning about doing up the zipper/velcro in the vest's instruction manual, I'd be willing to bet there'd be plenty of lawyers who would gladly sue you on behalf of Mr. Smith's estate. Sadly, there would probably be some juries who would find in the estate's favor, too.
Here's what you need to do.

1 - Practice humility and drop the attitude. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
2 - Come up with a plan to have a net worth of $0 in 18-36 months -- owe nobody anything. If that is impossible to conceive of, make sure that you are exploring all avenues -- including bankruptcy.
3 - Get off the couch. Establish social connections. Go to church.
Volunteer somewhere. Join a book club. Work in a coop. Do something.
4 - Build your relationship with your parents. Don't "manage" them. Easier said than done, of course.
5 - Work. Anywhere.

Sorry to sound like an asshole. Live for the present and don't worry about the future until you have fixed some of the stuff going on now.

Print out your post. Your goal shouldn't be starting a company -- on December 8, 2011 you should be able to look back on today and be able to say that life is better, and that you refuse to go backwards again.
Wait ... what? Did you even watch the whole video?

First of all, he says all kinds of positive things about the work you're doing. "Impugn Khan Academy"? Really?

Second, he is explaining physics education research that he himself did for his Ph.D thesis. He's using examples from his own work to make comparisons in technique to what worked and what didn't work in his own, actually objectively tested research. This is not "a small interview of a handful of people".

Third, he's not saying videos can't explain things - he's saying that they often fail to make students question their own pre-existing misconceptions.

I hope you actually watch the whole video and catch the research context? I mean I am handing you a research-tested science education technique that you could easily incorporate into your own videos if you actually wanted.
Clickable: http://goingtobe.in/
Node.js is neat, and I have contributed some things to the community, but it has a long way to go honestly if it's to be taken seriously in the performance and infrastructure realm. Articles like this don't help it's image either. It's as if a naive PHP developer suddenly discovered long-running processes, eliciting a chorus of rolling eyes from those who've written server software in the last 30 years.

Ryan and team are talented people, but they're mostly dependent on the V8 team, which is focused on building a JavaScript interpreter for a browser. Node.js/V8 has come tremendously far in the last 18 months, but still hits some particularly nasty walls when it comes to massive concurrency and managing big pools of memory in non-trivial applications. It will take some serious time for these challenges to be overcome. The JVM, Erlang/OTP, and C are particularly good platforms for this type of software because they're mature and well tested in these environments.

I really hope for the sake of the project that the hype surrounding Node.js blows over and the hipster crowd moves on.
Apple Asking Devs about Legal Issues
You might be in a better position than most of us. You are poised to start all over again. You may have no idea how empowering that is.

I see only one problem in your situation actually, but maybe it's just me oversimplifying everything. You need to believe in yourself once again. Snap out of it, wake up. You're still alive, and that should count for something.

Maybe you can make use of the app I made to create resumes, if you still don't have one: http://www.cvstash.com. Other than that, all I can say is that maybe you need to dive into an altogether different industry, one you haven't explored before. There are always problems to solve.
Tour of Membase Server Monitoring Features (new in 1.7)
or anki, the OSS version of supermemo:

http://ankisrs.net/
The Road To 2015
Pardon my ignorance, but are the flow batteries you mention the same type used in existing electric vehicles? It can't be assumed that the energy density of flow batteries will ever match as gasoline, but people might be willing to accept the difference if it means more infrastructure adoption and less time spent recharging vehicles.
One of the author's gripes:

Unfortunately, he does not explain what a Bolshevik
is nor how or why the Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian
empire, nor why it matters but no dilly-dallying, just
fast forward and bingo...

This is a limitation of the 1-way set in stone nature of video. It could be addressed by augmenting the lecture with an interface similar to an interactive-movie-game at the arcades circa 1993 called Dragon's Lair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_Lair). A concept similar to "pick your own adventure" books but with video.

For instance, if some lecture L is about ideas A, B, C, D, and there is another lecture B+ in the library that specifically targets B in detail, then there could be an option presented to the user around the timestamp B to divert to B+ in depth, then come back to C. The important part is that the material is relevant as decided by the user. If they decide B+ isn't what they wanted, they could cut right back to C immediately.
But isn't the whole point to target people who want a novel use for their smart-cover?
That works in Norway, but would it work all over the globe?
This is very similar to what I've been doing since 2008 with http://sencss.kilianvalkhof.com, except I also provide a good vertical rhythmn. I should probably start promoting it more again ;)

That said, the form stuff in normalise.css takes a very different approach that I'm definitely gonna try out.
I feel for your situation and realize that you cannot change it overnight.

In the short term, put in your profile what you can do:
- What skills do you have? (coding, marketing, etc.)
- What was your project(s) that failed.

It doesn't matter that your startup failed.
What did you do in that startup?
Thats all that matters.

You would be surprised how many of us are willing to take a chance. Yes, we might not be able to pay you the best money out there but it will help you get back into things.
I watched a few of the Khan Academy videos. They're fun and entertaining and you may even learn a little, but they don't cover anything beyond the surface of a topic. I think the Open Yale videos where you can watch a full semester of a Yale professor's class are far more informative: http://oyc.yale.edu/
I don't think that it is so simple; with physical books it is still illegal to make duplications, and with digital copies it is extremely difficult to allow people to transfer ownership of their copies without allowing for unlimited duplication and distribution that would destroy all motivation for anyone to purchase it to begin with.

Second hand sale and lending of physical books would have been outlawed if it destroyed the whole book sale economy. I always see comments on here and on reddit that imply that people are too dumb to realize that ebooks are analogous to physical books, but that is a seriously absurd claim since they are so trivially similar; the difference in their legal treatment is rational and pragmatic not an evil conspiracy by publishers.
C.A.R. Hoare (according to http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesProgramming.html anyway), but I prefer Douglas Adams' formulation, though less clever: their
fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws

Yes, it's true that the compiled-supported semantic modularity of methods helps here: e.g. it can't access other methods' local variables, you can see what goes in and what goes out. But, in a long method, you can manually enforce the same modularity on sequential parts (you can even use local variables scoped by {} to borrow some compiler support). But, yes, point taken.

Can you elaborate on the relationship not being linear? I think you mean that the many parts of a long method can interact (if the coder doesn't enforce this manually).
I've been in very similar situations, except I did not turn my life over to the ones I was helping. If you have shown someone how to organize their money (a dubious enterprise with people in their 70's who have never done so), and have helped them access social services, then please feel free to leave and not feel guilt. The family members I helped in this way could go along for months with no apparent crises; as soon as I arrived to help them with some specific effort, I was presented with an avalanche of emergencies: illnesses, broken appliances, unpaid bills, conflict with neighbors, etc. After spending a week getting those issues resolved, I was hit up for a return visit to handle the original purpose of my visit. Each visit was a new list of crises. When the crisis culminated in the death of our uncle, we "airlifted" our handicapped nephew out of there and into our home and left the rest of the family to fend as best they could. Guess what? Without us there to help, they managed to get on disability and other forms of welfare and are doing OK. If you have the time, means and inclination to deal with people like that, do it; if not, no one outside of the family will blame you for taking care of yourself.
The Stars Align for Spotify (Really This Time, Maybe)
Pasting links does not an argument make, it also does not take a lot of effort. You've made few if any valid arguments, throughout the course of this discussion. To repeat an argument - first you have to make an argument.

Again I will help you with your obvious difficulties in reading comprehension, although I cannot help you with your stubbornness.

In the link you pasted Andi makes a short comment about education being more important than technical progress (especially technical progress at all costs). This is not anti research, and this is not Luddite. It's pro education! It's very important to read those last three words 'at all costs'.

If you have a look here at a comment in the same thread:

>> Of course it is OK and important - especially for the poorer countries - to make power cheaper. But NEVER at all costs.

See the phrase 'at all costs' he used in the later comment you refer to? Nowhere does he make an argument against all progress, he's arguing against ignoring the the cost ('at all costs') of nuclear reactors for future generations. He even argues for making power cheaper for people in poorer countries. Hardly the behaviour of a Luddite, don't you think?!

So these comments are irrelevant to our discussion, and they do not show Andi to have Luddite opinions.

Here's the question that you have gone to enormous lengths to ignore - one more time, and strangely, I amn't tired asking you again:

There is no forced binary choice to be made between living as luddites, and ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Archduke was incredibly disliked by the people he was governing. Why none pulled out is a mystery to me. The terms basically crippled Germany until they decided to call the allies' bluff.

I have yet to take a college level history course, so I probably have errors.
Hi, I've been where you are, and I know it sucks.

Why don't you get a 9-5 job for now? You can always quit once you want to move on. It'd be a new thing, it'd help clear your mind. There's no shame in it. And it'd put money on the table =)
The banks we talk to are certainly aware that a significant percentage of the customer-provided client machines are pwned by malware (and not just dumb keyloggers either). The Zeus trojan in particular is currently one of the most-discussed topics in online banking security.
...Unless they're RSA SecurIDs.

Although it seems that whoever got that info used it for poking into defence contractors, rather than banks. Still,
I imagine it's perfectly possible they could have used it to defeat some multi-factor logins for large bank accounts.

I wonder how long the recall and replacement will take; there's got to be a lot of those tokens out there.
Really? Hmm, mut have missed that option when setting it up; although I suspect the vast majority of people dont realise that either.
I'm not disagreeing with @pg but instead of trying to build a business/startup I'm developing a FOSS project called SmallCommunities (http://github.com/billsaysthis/SmallCommunities). It's written in Rails and is intended, at least at first, to handle groups which have regular events and (paid) members. Always happy to have more collaborators.