skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But this Visa deal, what on earth are people without Visa supposed to do? I just don't see how anyone sane could think this was a good plan, either from an Olympic organiser's point of view, or Visa's.

It's been working for the past 26 years that Visa has sponsored every Olympics game. This isn't a new thing. This is what pays for the Olympics even occurring. Their sponsors are exclusive sponsors. Visa's already committed to the next 4 games as well (through 2020).

As far as Visa's point of view:

> According to the U.S. Sponsorship Tracker, a Visa commissioned study following the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games conducted by Performance Research, an independent research company, Visa cardholders
who were aware of Visa’s Olympic Games sponsorship claimed a 16 percent and nine percent increase in Visa card usage in Canada and the US respectively. The same report found Visa’s brand equity was 32 percent and 38 percent higher among consumers who were aware of Visa’s sponsorship in Canada
and the US respectively.

http://corporate.visa.com/_media/olympic-games-media-kit/vis...
Calling it a "battery" is disingenuous. An RTG doesn't fit the typical definition of a battery -- it doesn't store electrical energy. A better name would be "power supply". </pedant>
The way he put it it's not possible for him to switch projects, and it's not simple to take on a second project because he's supposed to be fulltime on the transition. But I don't know the details, I'm not clear how Google's project management works.
when we start building "breeder" reactors again. Plutonium is a byproduct of the breeder reactors when they create the type of uranium that can be used for nuclear bombs (this is one of the reasons that breeder reactors aren't popular). I was talking with one of the scientists at Ames last night, and apparently this is pretty much the last of NASA supply, since the US has significantly cut down on their production of weaponizeable uranium.
There are practical uses for much math but in very many cases it's only practical in extremely specialized fields/cases. Meaning, in most cases very impractical if speaking strictly in terms of practicalities. Yet, it's widely taught, widely misunderstood, and so widely hated. The idea has become humorous to me -- math, a natural pervasive wonder of our universe, hated by many. Very impressive feat.

On this topic this book is great: A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart. It opened my eyes to the concept of viewing much of math not in terms of something strictly practical, but rather in broader terms, ie. natural art and beauty with very practical applications mixed in here and there. Just as one person enjoys painting, another enjoys dabbling in mathematics taking pleasure from the elegance.
A.K.A. the reasons why there aren't many women working in startups? (Ask your friendly neighbourhood feminist about old-boy networks today!)
Not exactly I think it just comes with practice! Looking at examples and inspiration galleries help you put all the pieces together.
Developers will faster turn to these sorts of products before abandoning half the market.
What is Inheritance in Java?  Here's an in-depth look...
Sending $$ might not be much. Receiving is another story.
Xiaomi to launch Xiaomi MONE S Low Cost Dual-core Phone
You're quite simply wrong; content creators have plenty of ways to make money other than distribution. Secondly, the market doesn't owe creators a living and manipulating the market by creating an artificial concept that allows someone to own information is wrong.

If the only way a creator can make money is by using law to create artificial scarcity, then whatever he's creating isn't deserving of pay; if it were, the market would value it without the fake scarcity imposed by law. There was a time when creators were paid to create, rather than for content distribution, we need to return to those times.

You are simply defending the status quote without understanding the critique against it.
It's bookmarking (a la a browser) vs. following (a la Twitter). Those behaviors seem quite distinct to me, warranting different UI actions rather than following and following-except-not-really-following.
As a clarification, it isn't clear that the rule is universally followed but at least from the areas of Old English literature I have read it is the clearly most common way to use gendered pronouns at least in prosaic contexts.
HS students are extremely capable of building amazing stuff.

We run hackathons for HS students every few months and are amazed by the things they do. http://codeday.org/pastevents.php

I met with Ashu & the team a month or so ago and it seems like they're up to something great =]
I've worked in the film, video game, and now music software businesses, all of which suffer heavily from piracy.

The ironic thing is that all the defenders of "free culture" piracy do is drive creators into the arms of Orwellian walled gardens like iTunes and empower legislators to write dumb laws like SOPA.
Apple drops YouTube as pre-loaded app in iOS 6 system
Why is Amazon making social games, you ask? Good question! We know that many Amazon customers enjoy playing games – including free-to-play social games – and thanks to Amazon's know-how, we believe we can deliver a great, accessible gaming experience that gamers and our customers can play any time.

Translation: We need more ways to extract money from our customers. People throw bags of money at social game makers, so we'll do that too and add in a blurb about our experience so our customers will think we've really thought this through.
So, 7 seconds of Googling tells me that it will not work right at my first point[1].

Perhaps you should have read my requirements before mentioning Pages?

[1] http://www.theipadguide.com/faq/can-i-add-fonts-iwork-keynot... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2387345?start=0&tst...
Shoot me a message if you're interested in Kaggle - ben@kaggle
Chemotherapy Can Actually Make Cancer Worse
When you have a company with 15000 engineers and maybe 15 solid products, I imagine there's a lot of mindless work going on :) But, if you're going to do mindless work I can't think of a better place than Google to be. Every single person I know there is, at the least, content with their jobs.
It's been enforcing these kind of competitor exclusion zones on card payments at major sporting events since 1986?

Ah.. Just looked it up. - http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Visa-Will-be-Only-Credit-C...

OK. Fair enough. They haven't just miraculously turned into complete bastards on this, they were just complete bastards all along and the press happens to be making a fuss about it at the moment, just cos it is news with the word 'olympics' in it.
I sincerely don't understand this move
> I simply can't understand how it could be viewed positively by any consumer

Visa's market research suggests a significant increase in Visa usage and Visa brand value among consumers aware of their Olympic sponsorship (which has been ongoing since 1986, and already committed through the next 4 Olympics games):

> According to the U.S. Sponsorship Tracker, a Visa commissioned study following the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games conducted by Performance Research, an independent research company, Visa cardholders
who were aware of Visa’s Olympic Games sponsorship claimed a 16 percent and nine percent increase in Visa card usage in Canada and the US respectively. The same report found Visa’s brand equity was 32 percent and 38 percent higher among consumers who were aware of Visa’s sponsorship in Canada
and the US respectively.

http://corporate.visa.com/_media/olympic-games-media-kit/vis...

> I've been trying really hard to understand why Visa would make such an obviously unfriendly and counter-productive decision

The first Olympics game where Visa was exclusively accepted was Calgary 1988. This isn't a decision they just made.
This is what Curiosity saw as it landed on Mars
You are a customer of your bank, not Visa. Visa's customers are merchants and financial institutions.
And then you go home and work on your own thing?
That's a great point. We've worked hands on with quite a few high school students developing games. You should see the notes they scribble while coding. Even if their game isn't physics based there's usually a good amount of trig and I guarantee it feels like much less of a chore than math homework.
I think it's a historically common consensus that high powered macs are considerably more expensive than their equally powered non-mac alternative.

My historical stance on the matter has been that the money goes to R&D. I have no proof to validate my assertion, though.

And some quick links to compare. I could have taken more time on selecting the links, but this was pretty quick:

http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MD104LL/A

vs

http://www.alienware.com/Landings/laptops.aspx
I don't really understand why people get so mad when being acquired by Google. For me it doesn't make any sense to sell your company, even worse if it's to Google.
How about the whole Virgin empire then? Or Reliance industries or Berkshire Hathway ? Maybe Amazon is morphing into a giant holding company over time (industrial robots, cloud computing, ecommerce, ebooks, games, consumer hardware, video streaming, selling non branded commodity versions of electronics under their own brand (amazon basics sells things like hdmi cables, mice etc))
elevator UI

the Miconic 10, a smart elevator system that allows users to enter their floor onto a keypad.

"The first U.S. installation of Miconic 10 was at the Ameritech building in Indianapolis in 1993. The next generation added a radio frequency identification, or RFID, reader to the keypad to identify passengers, so tenants could swipe their ID badge or card to call an elevator. In 2009, Schindler launched the third generation, called PORT (it stands for “Personal Occupant Requirement Terminal”), a software-driven system that uses a touch-screen and learns movement patterns, enabling it to personalize its offerings to each passenger.

I was just at a hotel where I had to:

1. press the up button
2. swipe a room (key) card on the elevator
3. often swipe again because the card needs to swipe a certain way, swipe for other people who were equally confused
4. press the floor number(s)

versus

1. press the up button
2. press the floor number

I would imagine that guests would have a room (key) card with RFID, and that by default the lobby elevators would read the card and by default offer to go to the floor that the room is on, and from the room floor elevators it would by default offer to go to the lobby. The "keypad" or touchscreen would only need to be used if you wanted to go to another floor: pool, restaurant, conference room, etc...

The elevators need to clearly indicate where they are going.
Does it only integrate with statsd, or could it aggregate metrics from collectd, for example? This could be an alternative to Graphite for graphing metrics because Graphite is a pain in the ass to setup (no proper installer), comes with a lot of bloat and is in a semi-broken state regarding features right now.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
That example is extremely unique and is more akin to selling a byproduct or runoff from some other production. AWS doesn't exist as an entirely new venture, it leverages everything Amazon has become good at over the years but never sold directly to the public.

This isn't really the same situation at all. Amazon knows nothing about game development, and now has to hire a bunch of new people experienced in game development and focus on getting it right. AWS was already there and a clear benefit to the business before the idea of selling it to users as a service was even on the table.
Well, some of them are quite pretty and would look good on the wall.
On the Earth side there may be contention since AFAIK the Deep Space Network is shared by multiple missions.
X11 has little to with screen sharing. They always describe it as the networked window server, but in reality on OSX, it is the software that allows Inkscape and similar programs to run on your own machine.
The point of starring is to do what you probably wanted to do when you watched a project, which is bookmark it without it cluttering up your watch list. Personally I think the star feature is great -- now I don't have to use Codeshelver, which was cool too but kind of half-baked.
YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Google ties
A visa card, and the pin code was 666
only those with sign could pay and trade.

Its a scary form of enslavement, like a next world order
Or even worse suddenly people's money has no value at all.
From Rural Japan to Pinterest: the Origin of MessagePack
I think it's pretty useful. I had tons of projects I'd watched just because they were cool and I wanted to use them in my next projects, not because I actually wanted to follow their development.
I'm liking the Apache license which pulls me away from Neo4j. Can anyone please layout a comparison between Neo4j and Titan?
By linking to rubydoc.info, I was referring to online docs that index functions/namespaces/classes/files and make them searchable which is different than reading formatted markdown.

On second thought, I'm not sure if any of this would go a long way as I don't know clojure's culture too well yet. I just know I've found indexed docs to be valuable in ruby when linking to and discussing a library's API.
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Here's Exactly Where Mars Curiosity Landed
Which are you talking about, the Galaxy Nexus? I went for an HTC One S, love the hardware, hate the software.
Only Visa has been accepted at the Olympics since 1988. They're a charter member of The Olympic Partner (TOP) program.
Isn't Content ID automatic? Could be Scrips just says yes automatically to every hit generated by Content ID.
Ask HN: what's the site that provides a better UI to hiring threads?
I guess the question says it all. I seem to recall a site that provided a nice UI to browser HN hiring threads, but I can't find it anymore…
"The only theory I can come up with is that their real customers are the banks"

Unlike Visa in the US, Visa Europe is still owned by its 3000+ member banks. It's only responsibility is to make its shareholders happy.
It turns out, a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card number are the only two pieces of information anyone needs to get into your iCloud account.

This is scary.
You realize they do this because they know there's absolutely nothing you can do about it right?
Yeah I can't find it either.

Here's a request where a guy pipes up:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kwi3c/iama_request_som...

A guy who did the graphics for Moon

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/f50mf/sci_fi_if_...

But neither are the one I'm thinking of sorry. :(
On my own "Stars" page (https://github.com/stars) it's paginated, there's no sort, and there's no search; I'm having trouble imagining many use cases where this page is actually useful.

However, if you go to your public profile page, and click "starred repos", you can see a single-page list of all your starred repos (e.g. https://github.com/<username>/following).

Strange to say the least, but at least there's a single page where you could search your starred list...
Oh, @nathancahill just told me on Twitter. It's http://hnhiring.me/

Just leaving this here in case it helps somebody else!
There's a niche market. I'd pay $500+ USD for an open source phone that made phone calls and ran native Linux apps. Imagine putting SELinux on that thing... now I'm getting excited.
Sure pop stars are, but there are hundreds of thousands of artists who aren't signed to big labels.

I really don't care one way or the other about any artist who plays on the radio. I want to ensure the artists I listen to are able to continue making music, therefore I buy their music.
This really seems like it might be some exec's strawman example as why amazon should stay out of the gaming space. They can't be serious, can they?
Sony lost their lawsuits against Bleem!, because Bleem! did not break any laws or infringe their copyrights. The Bleem! lawsuits set precedents that protect hardware emulation to this day.
Productivity tool - Twitter in Excel
I actually use $NODE_PATH, mostly for historical reasons. It would certainly get unwieldy if you added more than one directory to it. It's nice to have a place for small shared library files that don't justify their own package.json, but as things get more mature they end up in node_modules.
If they are not guilty of perjury, then surely they are guilty of some kind of commercial fraud. Could action be taken from that angle?
Less than a text message.
If 3GB is exceeded, an additional 1 GB is automatically provided at a rate of $10 for each additional 1 GB.

Domestic Long Distance and 50 SMS are free.
Given how central (for better or worse) of a role email plays in safeguarding other accounts, the hassle of 2-factor auth for it is feeling like less and less of an annoyance.

About a month ago, one of my credit card accounts got hacked and was used to send money to someone else - the number itself wasn't compromised, it was the actual account. No doubt, the attackers tried to login and change my email password, but had to settle on the next best thing - spamming my email address with hundreds of emails per minute in an attempt to cover up the emails sent by my CC company.

Fortunately, the spamming wasn't very sophisticated and it only took me 30 seconds to filter it all to trash. I was on the phone with my credit card company within 10 minutes of the attack, which mitigated some of the damage.

I'm sure at some point weaknesses will be found in the 2-factor auth solution, but for now, it feels almost mandatory for important email accounts.
Honest question here. What implications are there under European Anti-Trust law regarding such a rule? Is such a bald-faced restraint on trade illegal? Could many vendors get into trouble here? Could the IOC be sanctioned?

I ask because in the US I would expect Sherman Act lawsuits to be flying over stunts like this.
Compilers that are verified/validated (in some sense):

http://compcert.inria.fr/compcert-C.html

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4571

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The "Related Work" section in this UVa dissert probably most closely answere your question

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jck/publications/Xiang.Yin.disse...
Previously the watched repos were displayed in a widget on your News Feed page exactly like the current "Your Repositories" widget. It has a nice fast filtering text box. The stars page desperately needs this back.
I would use stripe for my products store but with authorize.net we are on 1 day delay deposits. Stripe is 7 days. With seasonal sales and inventory/advertising costs 7 business days is a long time.

We use stripe for everything else we build for clients though, and it's awesome.
You have it right, the key for stripe is LOW volume.
How did I miss that this thing was running on nuclear power. I guess I just assumed battery + solar.

Pretty sweet! It can run for a minimum of 14 years. I don't recall the last rovers using nuclear?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Rover
Here is my favourite elevator optimisation story [1]. Customers were complaining that the lifts were taking too long to arrive. It turned out the root problem was boredom, and the solution was to install mirrors in the lobby. The mirrors allowed people to fill in the time by admiring themselves and others. A neat illustration of how there are sometimes simple non-engineering solutions!

[1] http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xyIRdiAbpr8C&lpg=PA1...

---
Update: Q: Have I been suckered by an urban myth here? I have a vague recollection of knowing this story before the publication date of the source I gave, and it seems to be well used in "management" books but no mention of specifics or a primary source.
Reading that my first thought was "Wow, British banks are screwed."

It would be interesting to see how that compares to Greece, Spain, Italy, and other more troubled EU countries. The EU situation suddenly seems a lot scarier to me financially.

I should add that Steve Keen's writings on debt are absolutely must-reads for anyone interested in macroeconomic outlooks especially because he discards Neoclassical models in favor of debt-based models.
Not really. You just develop independent, reusable modules, drop a package.json in the module and npm link the module to your app. It gets symlinked to your app's node_modules.
Cool! Been waiting for this for a while.

Now, I'll continue waiting for https://gist.github.com/ to get the updated header :-)
They have to send you a 1099-K like all other payment processors... if you made over $20,000 in gross sales in the year. I got one from PayPal in 2011.

https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-c...
the thinking behind the "We are proud to only accept Visa" marketing campaign

It's like "for your convenience."

"For your convenience, all toilets have been closed."
The walkthrough took me through finding a correlation between voting preference and neuroticism. Great! But it's also worth noting that this dataset shows larger effect sizes at similar CIs for the correlation between [preference and age] and [age and neuroticism]. This, folks, is why ANOVA is important.

That aside, the product was clear, fast, and intuitive. Well-chosen visualizations and a clean emphasis on the important moments for basic covariate analysis. Well done.
Especially given that that information is available to anyone you've ever used that credit card with.

"Pay with your iCloud password" just doesn't have the same fuzzy feel, does it?
No, he can't. The CPSC is an independent agency, run by five commissioners. The president nominates the commissioners, but he can't give them orders or fire them without cause.
> I want to switch all my watched repos to stars.

It appears that happened automatically. Your watches list is now full of all the things you used to implicitly get notifications about, which was not a materialized list anywhere before.
Unlikely that you'll meet the founders - It's not worth it for a founder to meet someone for a $1k investment (the minimum allowed).

Seems more like an easy way for you to spread your risk over several start-ups with smaller investments in each, as opposed to putting a larger sum + time and effort in a single company.
Well it does - it stores nuclear binding energy that's unstable enough to be extracted and stable enough to last for x years. It's a nuclear battery just like convential ones are chemical batteries.
2-factor auth has been cracked before [1] and will be again until there is a standard on how to implement it. With implementations differing between companies, a cracker can play one org's weakness off another org. Like in this case, using the freely-available trailing 4 digit CC code from Amazon to get into Apple.

If both companies agreed to a standard that made it obvious such practices were non-compliant, this wouldn't have happened.

1: http://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-todays-attack-apparen...
I'll be trying this out first thing in the office tomorrow.
i thought he hated "work visa" for a second, silly me
Is the new Obama campaign app violating voter privacy?
> I respect not only my own time, but others as well.

If the meeting is small enough, all critical attendees should be addressed by name. Therefore, it will arrive in your "Inbox" rather than your "Not Inbox" and you'll be able to respond correctly. My scheduling strategy is to avoid "Everyone on Team Foo" meetings, which are pretty much always useless.
Python: Using Turtles for Drawing Circles