skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having done my time in the independent computer repair trenches with more than one restaurant as a customer, I can tell you that while secure, sophisticated card scanning equipment exists, much of the stuff used at mom & pop stores is rudimentary at best. Basic USB card swipers can be swapped out with zero change required in the software.

None of this really matters though. What are the consequences of having your card skimmed?

For the card holder, it's a mere inconvenience. The banks don't hold you accountable for the breech, because they know you'd never do business with them again.

For the bank, it's only a small loss. They chargeback the transactions amounts to the vendor that took the card.

The "victim" in this scenario is the merchant who accepted the stolen card.

The risk associated with stolen credit card data is diffused this way. Merchants who don't want to assume the risk of accepting stolen credit cards can opt-in to far more stringent CC security practices like CVV2 codes and AVS (address verification). If you've ever had your CC number stolen, you know that the purchases are made overseas, or with shady merchants that don't opt-in for better security.
Corona (http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/) is nice if you want to write Lua on iOS/Android
Actually, can science truly prove anything about the world with certainty? I think claiming that would be ignorant of the way science works: You make assumptions, based on those assumptions you build a model and then (optionally) you show that your model correctly predicts some effect. If the assumptions you made do not hold, your proof does not hold either.

Related to that question: Is consciousness really subjective? Is it not the only thing I as a person can experience objectively?

EDIT: I don't understand why I am beeing down voted? I am just trying to explain my point of view. I don't think religion can prove anything with certainty, either. Nobody can. You can just make more or less strong assumptions.
Thanks for the feedback. We definitely want to support indie devs, and will add tiers to reflect that soon.

Our current pricing is more targeted at enterprises, web dev studies and funded startups.
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This looked like a cool idea.

However, it's clearly insecure so I can't recommend it to anyone.

You say a login is required to run code but I can simply enable the Submit button and everything works? That's just extremely poor design.

The same is true for all of your stuff behind your "paywall." Simply editing the HTML in an editor renders your site usable.

You need to have validation on the server and the client. Simply providing client-side validation is not enough, especially for something that should be considered a teacher or tutorial.
> his http://timvandamme.com/ is better-made than anything Dustin's ever touched

I don't see why. The linked site is a generic Apple style ripoff with an annoying and unnecessary swipe action. I've seen hundreds of sites just like it. Am I missing something?
Yes, you want people who are passionate and want to work hard, but there are sacrifices made to work 18 hour days, and people are much more likely to make those sacrifices when their upside is in the millions rather than the thousands.

The difference between a 60 hour week and an 80 hour week is pretty significant in terms of personal sacrifice.

No one says "I'm going to slack off", it's just that the founders are inherently (financially) more motivated.

If the money isn't a motivation, then the founders should have no problem giving out most of their own equity.
If anyone in the US is looking for models for privacy legislation, we have some okish ones in Europe

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...

Human readable version

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive

Have fun over there
I understand your point completely, and I agree with you. It still doesn't change the fact that when you give up your Facebook account information, you are not just surrendering up your personal information, you are giving up the personal information of everyone in your network that has chosen to share with you. It's a breach of trust with that network.
It could be worse.

(http://www.matobmobile.co.uk/index.php?id=doro_handleplus_ph...)
Give /r/indiegaming & /r/iosgaming a try.
Why amazon bought kiva?
We're actually moving to guest login and we will be removing the necessity to login but thanks for your feedback.

The login is required because otherwise we can't save and pre-load the code for you the next time you visit the same activity.

Edit: what I mean to say is the app itself is secure and so is our sandbox that runs the code and this is more of a UI issue that we'll fix immediately by removing the login prompt.

Edit: The paywall is going away as well :).
Well said good sir. I want a developer writing this stuff. The "Lighten Up" is a post I can respect, as it points out a REAL problem, not a media hyped one that we read about every other day.

The writer of this article seems to be a developer or at least is trying to present herself as one.

"Media depictions of computer scientists only serve to further alienate women from the profession. When I watched Revenge of the Nerds as a child, it was hard to relate to a nearly all-male cast.

Turns out, I’m not alone."

Also I worked in laid back, and corporate environments, and my observation stands for every place I worked at. The more laid back the more fit and lively and sociable the people are.
Thanks for the feedback. It seems like the key bindings are large source of debate, so I might end up making them editable.

I'm reluctant to use tab and shift+tab to indent/outdent because that interferes with browser behavior. On the other hand, some of the other key bindings probably interfere with browser behavior, too.
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Gnome 2
Nokia Is Paying $25 Million To Get AT&T Employees Off Android And iPhone
Barclays Contactless Cards data read using phone
That's unfortunately illegal. We aren't allowed to have any financial interest in any company on our site.
That title is incorrect. These researchers did not stimulate one neuron to activate one memory. They stimulated a group of neurons in one region using a fiber optic.

I'll go through the experiment for those who don't really get the write up. Quick background:

0. Neurons are specialized cells in your brain, their firing is the basis of cognition. Neurons that fire strongly together tend to get linked. Not all your neurons are firing all at once. Not all neurons participate in a memory, but a large collection (0.1-4% depending on brain region) are used for each memory. (at least in naive mice) Memories are highly distributed across brain regions and within brain regions.

1. There is a gene 'cFos' that turns on in neurons that undergo activity. It is very short lasting, about an hour, and then it is back down. It is very cell specific, only cells used have been activated will show this gene.

2. There is a genetically inducable protein you can put in cells so that when you shine them with light they will start firing.

3. Anything genetically inducible can have a tag added that will make it impossible to induce when an animal is on a specific drug. (We'll call it Dox.)

The researchers made it so that when cFos is activated, it will transcribe the inducible light activated channel. But, it will only do this when the animal isn't on Dox. So they took the animal off Dox, exposed it to fear conditioning (they shocked it in a unique box), then put it back on Dox. So only the cells that were active during the fear conditioning will be turn on when they shine light.

They then put the animal in a new box and shined light, and the animal froze. (A sign it was afraid) They concluded that activating cells that had been active during the storing of the memory can 'reactivate' the memory, even out of it's context.

Of course there are a few major problems with this. The region of the brain they worked in is a relatively minor area of the brain. They admit in the course of the paper that each cell is used to store many memories. (They claim the assembly of cells activate the memory? But they never bother testing this.) Their firing pattern is far from physiological. The mice who underwent this 'memory reactivation' did not freeze as much as mice in normal fear conditioning and did not seem to learn the 'reactivated memory' at all. (Though again they didn't really bother testing this.) Normal fear-memory is learned quite well. This is a very preliminary but very important study in the field. It will be interesting to see how they follow this up.

Also, the Npas4 stuff is completely irrelevant to this article. There are countless markers that when 'knocked out' make it impossible to store memory.

Also here is a (paywalled) link to the paper:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vnfv/ncurrent/full/natu...

Here is a link to another (paywalled) paper which came out today which did almost the same thing and say almost opposite results (the details explain this oddity): http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6075/1513.full?rss=1

Here is a (paywalled) more layperson write up to the second article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6075/1455.full
Why aren't there more women in tech? Wrong question
Cocos2d uses LUA as well as ObjC and C++ so you could get the best of all worlds ;)
Very cool, I've been waiting for this to happen.

I'm surprised that Google doesn't explicitly talk more about this use case for Native Client. It could be the backbone for an AWS/Heroku competitor. The ability to run lightweight tasklets securely would enable a lot of interesting scenarios. While not very significant, Google actually already started doing this with their Exacycle program:

http://research.google.com/university/exacycle_program.html
Deploying my Django application to DotCloud: Part 2
Python lends itself quite nicely to code-golfing, that's true. In fact I am constantly amazed of how terse Python code can be, despite the significant whitespace stuff.

from os import*
r='s=[0]*8**5'
p=0
for c in read(0,9**9):r+='\n'+' '*p+dict(zip("><+-.,[","p+=1|p-=1|s[p]+=1|s[p]-=1|write(1,chr(s[p]))|s[p]=ord(read(0,1))|while s[p]:".split('|'))).get(c,'');p+=c in'[]'and 92-ord(c)
exec r

I know, it's a JIT compiler, not an interpreter, but still... :)
klochner made my point more eloquently than I could. I am the first employee of an early stage start-up and I think I have put in the hard work. However, because I work at a startup, does not mean that I put on other things at hold, more importantly, my development as an engineer.
I had a holiday today and I spent the entire day working on SICP. There was a part of me which kept saying I should also probably do some work. So, maybe, I am just trying to justify today to myself.
> http://openhercules.com/lists/4f6ccefaa9fcc8000100022d

> Try hitting 'escape' and editing this text. Hit 'escape' to save.

I tried. No matter what I type, it unfocuses the item (gets out of edit mode)
It can't be just about making women more visible. The girl scouts did a study and the most common reason high school girls didn't want to study STEM fields was because they'd have to work harder than men to be taken seriously. Seeing other women can help, but even more helpful would be seeing men take those women seriously and publicize their work day-to-day, instead of just when trying to encourage girls to consider their field.

Right now, young girls may be accurate in assuming that entering the field will suck more for them than their male friends. It's not like there aren't plenty of alternatives: digital archiving and computational biology, for example, are non-male-dominated programs coding-inclined women can pursue instead.

If we want rational people to join our field, it has to be the best choice out there.
I agree that NVidia are looking at a brick wall.

But if people are willing to pay $1-2K for a gaming rig (and given that games are $100-200 plus a monthly subscription they probably will) then the proportion of that cost which is GPU will increase for a few years.

The question is whether in the 'post-PC era' it would be worth the games companies putting out games which will play on a $500 home PC with an embedded intel GPU - even if that GPU is as good as todays GT295. Between high end gamers, family console gamers and casual mobile gamers is there any profit in good-enough?
If you are going to be pedantic about it, you're wrong as well: Moore's law describes neither chipmaking processes nor silicon. It describes a quantity of transistors that are in an integrated circuit. In fact, the first integrated circuit was the Darlington transistor, which would have been germanium at the time, and also had nothing to even do with computing.
Couldn't an employer just make applicants apply via a Facebook app and get all the info they want legitimately?
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They said it was the stereotype that they were trying to bust, not that it was an accurate representation of the culture.
If your client-side code doesn't even require server-side validation, it does make it difficult to trust or believe your sandbox or app is secure.

As I said, it's a cool idea, but if you want developers to recommend this to people starting out, you need to make those developers confident that they're giving people something well-written and secure.

Edit: Well, cheers to your edits! As someone who is often helping people with learning PHP, I will definitely keep an eye on this project as something to recommend :)
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I'm just struggling to see what's so 'revolutionary' about the design. It's just a bland minimalist modern theme. Anyone could have made it.

Dustin's response was just plain rude, let's recap:

"This is almost unbelievable. No matter what you think about me or my product decisions, it is flatly wrong to ripoff work. It's shameful, even. Please take this site down and delete the Github repository. The work isn't yours. Just wait until Svbtle is finished and open to the public. The reason it's closed is really simple: it's not ready yet."

Get over yourself.
Imagine if you could scale up and down the amount of computing capacity you were paying for on a second by second (or even ms by ms) basis! That would be pretty cool :)
Probably not helpful, but I switch back to Windows.
TVs and Tablets to Get the "Retina Display" Treatment
That's not good. What browser are you using?
Maybe because women aren't as interested??? It seems like that gets missed.
I don't know why you think a non-16:9 size will be the next one, specially since there is already a widespread 4k standard (3996:2160, almost 16:9ish), and is almost irrelevant in adoption outside specific niches like digital cinema, or some countries like japan.

I think 1080p is here to stay, at least for three/four years. TV manufacturers seem to be focused more on things like 3D than in increasing resolution. I don't blame them, 1080p for movies had very slow acceptance, and 1080p is already pretty much indistinguishable from 4k when viewed more than 3/4 meters away or when projected in less than 60 inches of diagonal size.
TSA: Large Amounts of Currency Will Be Referred to Law Enforcement
12nm might be a technical limit - but if those 12nm transistors cost more than a 28nm transistor then nobody wants them.

The main reason for going small is cost - Silicon costs you per sq in - smaller transistors are supposed to buy you more hardware for the same money. If that stops there is less reason to go small.
There's no formal relationship, although I have met several of the IndexTank guys and they're a cool group. And Searchify is based on the IndexTank open-source project.
Perhaps the future lies more with the "something you have" form of authentication than the "something you know", like passwords, that this article complains about.

For example, Google's two-factor authentication seems very secure, even with a weak password. To log in, I need to enter the ever-changing six-digit number off my iPhone as well as my regular password. Similar to this are other schemes which use any SMS-capable phone: enter your username and password on the web site, then enter the word the system just texted to me. Some banks use this to secure the addition of a new electronic bill payee, for example.

If you think about it, password safes, client-side SSL certificates, SSH private keys, etc., are really all just "things you have."

Computers aren't getting any slower; the gap between what you can remember and what they can guess is only getting smaller.
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I've never heard of anyone actually failing a drug test - I suspect that's because they aren't very sensitive. It's mostly a scare tactic.
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I find it difficult to divorce 'favourite language' from 'favourite stack'.

I use C# a lot, and I love it. But it's tied into MS's heavy stack for web stuff (ASP.NET, etc.) so recently I've switched to using node.js and CoffeeScript in my projects. It's fantastic. So right now my favourite language is JavaScript/CoffeeScript, but just because of the things I can do with it.
Tim Schafer Hilariously Demos A 3D Adventure Game That You'll Never Get to Play
The nice thing about Kyte is that it doesn't mess with any of the phone's data. This means you can install it on your own phone, log in and give your phone to your kids. When you need it back, you just log out and have your phone back.
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My favorites:

- Ruby for an imperative scripting language

- Go for an imperative systems language (previously C)

- Clojure as a functional language
This is why I stopped using Yahoo search
How To Make the most from your iPhone apps
I do believe this was posted already at least once within the last 48 hours.

How do you feel about spam?
> just because of the things I can do with it

I am hard pressed to find a better reason to like a language or stack.
Nope.

One thing is defending their website from massive account closing or effectively limiting their usage.

Another thing is that if I create a Facebook account then I can't use anymore the words wall, face and book without risking a lawsuit against Facebook.
Facebook's unintentionally hilarious lecture on privacy
Point taken and thanks for your feedback. We've removed the pay wall for the PHP course for now until we fix the UI.

Thanks and you can also reach me at krishna@unclassroom.com.
"Those really are pretty stunning words for a business relationship as big as this. "

Just another chapter like the breakup of wintel. The 500 pound gorilla in the room is that the PC business is no longer king. A company like TSMC has limited resources and as demand for them skyrockets from mobile companies the price goes up.
Nokia paying AT&T for exclusive employee use of the Lumia 900 (Windows Phone 7)
+1

My Panasonic took 8 of those

Seriously, the boombox was relatively low cost of entry, and the distributed stand-alone nature of the device. You didn't need connections, signal strength &c. Just some music.

Correlates with Kodak box camera in the 19th/20th century?
I finally created an account because of this :) Python FTW!
Spam every contact address you can find with a (polite) message pointing out that iOS users don't need, or want, special mobile sites. It can't hurt to try.
I love the Python ecosystem but I prefer Coffeescript as a language. Guess I'll upvote both.
Machine Learning with Large Networks of People and Places
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This is a perfect Mobile Agent platform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_agent)
Sounds a lot like the medical data startup I joined ten years ago. We were so, so painfully naive about the realities of medical software. Medical records are a trivial technical problem, but an almost insurmountable political and regulatory challenge. I knew our company was doomed when we were talking to another medical software company and saw the literal wall of binders that represented a single FDA approval process submission. It is so not a market that's friendly to startups.
Paper isn't secure, but probably more 'secure' than data on a phone, cause there's far less risk of the paper getting duplicated silently than data being pulled from a smartphone (silent sending of address/contacts, etc).

Seriously? A shared Word document? With no audit trail of who wrote what? And that is an improvement over the state of the art? It sounds like Wordpress has far more robust data management (and probably security) than what he just described.

As a doctor who can code, I'm sure the OP will be in a great position to make real change. He knows the regulatory stuff to get past, what rules can be bent, who the movers/shakers are to get stuff moved. Likely just bringing some very basic CMS/ERP functionality to medical records management in a hospital would be huge.
(http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/poppyseed.asp)
Looks like 'Go' is missing, 'Lisp' should probably be 'Common Lisp' since Scheme and Clojure are also 'Lisp'.
Well, I was thinking that it's possible to like a language in a very pure, abstract way- C# is a great example of that. Lambdas, LINQ, anonymous functions... it's a slick, slick language. If I'm looking at language alone, it's probably my favourite.

But I can't do anywhere near as much with it.
The possibility of a whistleblower, I think, would be too high. It would probably destroy Facebook or close to it.
Then take your hearing aid out.
Right now, we've only tested the app on 2.2 and 2.3, which we thought was a good compromise between getting it out there and covering a decently large chunk of the market.

We're definitely going to get it working with Honeycomb and ICS though!
Must be my partner. Things slowed down a bit after one guy had a baby and other one had to move. Anyways, I'll check your link for feedback. Thanks.
None. I like Lisp but it has its problem. I don't like Java but it is useful and it has good tools and a ton of libraries. I like C, but it needs better libraries and it can be a little cumbersome to write. I don't like C++, but there are cases where one of its features are useful.

I hate PHP but it is easy to write a quick backend in which can be deployed everywhere. I hate Javascript, but it is hard to beat it in the browser.

I summary I don't have a favorite language, they all kinda suck and kinda don't. It all depends on what I need to use them for.
I see why it's important to have secure patient records. It would be devastating to have your personal medical information up on pastebin.

But you know what's worse? Dying because the doctor misses a vital piece of information which can't be found in disorganized paper notes, or a bureaucratically designed medical information system (which set the hospital back roughly the cost of a new life-saving machine).
The number of C# votes makes me very happy. When I originally signed up oh.. 1333 days ago it felt like I was the only .Net dev on the site. It was a huge deal for me to find other startups built on .Net back then. Now I discover them far more often. I think Microsoft must be doing something right. I blame Scott Gu.
> so intel is truly looking for ways to stay relevant in an ipad world.

They can stay relevant in gaming. When/if PCs fade out and we go back to a big servers/workstation/thin client world Intel will be able to live in the three of them. They are already doing well in big servers and workstations, and I think they are the only ones currently in a position to be the dominant provider of technology for the "gaming thin client", whatever it will look like... I don't know if it will be more like a console, or more of a small PC you plug into your TV. NVIDIA only has something to offer for the workstation type of PC.