skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"PJ" really is a pseudonym (and I think it's fair to call it that even if we now know who she is); per her own post (http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20050414214437...) she'd originally intended to remain anonymous.
If automated vending machines are the remaining hope for NFC, that's pretty weak.

A geofenced app -- if not Square, then Apple Passbook or others -- could prompt me on my own device's screen: "The vending machine here requests $1.50 to dispense your Snickers. Press 'pay $1.50' or 'cancel'."

The soft-interface device screen is much more flexible than the NFC-tap/wave-in-the-right-place gesture. Your own device screen will be better for doing things like:

• pre-authorizing a purchase before buying a tank of gas

• requesting an emailed receipt

• offering immediate feedback (or adding a tip)

• avoiding possible confusion/chargebacks about amounts paid.

That could mean 'app-style' payments have not just usability benefits, but also cost and legal benefits over 'NFC-style'.
As I wrote in the other reply, I intend to share a link to the javascript version of the game. People would know whether they like the game before they decide to support the project.

I know I could take a bunch of side work to raise money for a laptop, but that won't quite work for my family right now. Part of the appeal of the kickstarter approach is that it immediately answers the question of whether people are interested enough in this project to make it worthwhile.
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I'm not sure why you linked me to the original post.
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Anecdotal, but at a sandwich shop the other day, I tipped $1 when the cashier handed the iPad to me. Not sure if I would have done the same when signing a regular receipt.
Its an infinite loop. However it seems that the sandbox have some way to detect an infinite loop with while loops, etc. However this is probably an edge case they have missed.

Good catch!
As discussed in the linked HN discussion, VCS/diffs are not compatible with the established workflow for discussing and changing laws.
However, as far as I understand, this repository is not primarily intended as a tool for supporting lawmakers but serves two purposes:

a) It allows the public to track all changes made to a law.

b) it allows NGOs and other parties to suggest changes to a law by forking the repo and sending a pull request. [1]

In summary: no revolutionary shift but a nice tool.

[1] https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze/pull/2/files
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There's this joke about hiring the cheapest security guard to watch over your most prized possession. I'm not only talking about the wages being paid to the Apple CSR, but also of their technical ability to know the value of the data they possess.

Sure, if I was a facebook db admin I'd be semantically satiated with the data, but that doesn't mean it isn't important.
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Will have an impact also in terms of economies of scale. Their transaction fees _should_ go down as they process a larger number of transactions. Makes the partnership much more strategic, and it makes sense why Starbucks also invested - might have been part of the package.
Cool, I'm excited to read this series.

Was a little disappointed to see neural networks noted as "classical" with SVMs designated "modern". And nothing about deep learning? Autoencoders? How about different optimization methods--Truncated newton vs gradient descent?

Some of the most interesting recent developments in ML seem to be left out, even if it is just an introduction.
Merges definitely seem like they'd be difficult if there are two concurrent changes to a statute, but that's always going to be the case (and is the case with or without source control).

I think a lot of the initial focus/discussion here is about machine-readable interpretation and management of laws themselves, and hence the challenges of turning gray into black and white - but I think that having a historical, digital record of changes in laws -- especially if clear attributions to individuals or groups can be made -- could be just as significant, if not more so.

Imagine having a full historical record of legal changes across and within a nation, and the data measurements to back up the effects of those changes. The results could be linked back to the individuals/groups involved in drafting the laws - data-based legal review.
Where I live a panic stop in heavy traffic on anything called a "highway" could get you killed. I imagine a lot of the stops we see on the highway that do not result in accidents are made safer by the network effects of lots of cars doing the same thing over time and communicating visually. It's different in nature than somebody (or some machine) getting confused and stopping suddenly in the middle of the road.

Don't get me wrong: things aren't so grim for the "just stop" approach of dealing with a problem. There's no reason an automated vehicle won't be able to communicate with other cars, warn everyone of an emergency stop (at a minimum), even find the best path off the road, depending on how serious the problem is.
Thank you for both pointing that out and doing so in such an a well researched way.

For the record, I would tend to agree with 'opposed', this was me just writing with my ears. :)
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Because while(1) evaluates to a constant, which can sometimes be a bug and thus, some compilers emit a warning.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6t66728h%28v=vs.80%2...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3490823/why-msvc-generate...
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it's a popular convention among the node community https://gist.github.com/357981

and yeah, I was also surprised when I saw it for the first time :)
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While I agree with some of your points here, you are ignoring that an Amex user does not have a second card based method of purchase.

I would assume that most Amex users always have another method of payment, considering how likely they are to run into a situation where Amex is not accepted.

With this logic, the business will only lose revenue from customers whose only form of payment is Amex - I think this would be a small subset.
Rewriting law to be machine-readable as in "instructions a machine can understand" would be quite a task I suppose. Interesting project though. Would that even be possible? How well does the law map on the black and white logic of a computer?
This is not exactly true. The JVM startup time is not what makes Clojure slow to load; it's the startup of Clojure itself.

~$ time clj test.clj
Hello world!

real 0m1.337s
user 0m1.309s
sys 0m0.172s

~$ time java Test
Hello world!
real 0m0.142s
user 0m0.116s
sys 0m0.030s

You may want to look at the -XX:+TieredCompilation -Xbootclasspath flags. They reduced the clojure startup significantly for me.
It's two of the top three in the most snatched list, though!
Nerds are always viewed as condescending towards "normal" people but imagine if somebody actually went and wrote on a technical subject aimed at a non-technical audience in this style.
Wouldn't it be much better if video calls (or Facetime) became ubiquitous (and mandated for auth)? The mere fact that the attacker needs to show his face for getting the password reset should improve things a lot because it would make detection as well as post-facto investigation much easier.
At least in urban areas, you're eventually going to end up having vehicle performance arbitrated via radio by a computer network outside the vehicles. (I'm pretty sure it's much easier than trying to do everything "peer to peer," if you will) This gets you intersections where nobody has to fully stop and vehicles merely coordinate and modulate their speed, which is a pretty powerful efficiency advantage in itself.

With a system like that you could easily design a market where vehicles can choose to pay a toll to get a favorable path through traffic. You might see a few options and incentives given for choosing a more fuel-efficient path, etc.
Some disjointed thoughts:

* If a consumer favors their Amex over their other cards, then they favor retailers who accept Amex. Thus the higher fee is justified with more repeat business.

* My mother's company has one line of credit: her Amex. If her Amex is refused, she has to pay with her personal credit or debit card, then go through the rigmarole of a personal refund. In corporate America, Amex is the standard due to its ease of internal accounting and external reputation. With the former, the better reporting of transaction information justifies its use in the accounting department. With the latter . . .

* Amex has established itself sufficiently as a luxury brand,

e.g. if you take your client out to lunch, it could be out-of-place to pay with anything but an Amex.

Furthermore, if your business does not accept Amex, it alienates luxury-seeking consumers

e.g. if a Michelin-starred restaurant refused an Amex card, it would experience a more precipitous drop in return rate than if a neighborhood diner refused Amex.

* "the business will only lose revenue from customers whose only form of payment is Amex" -> This is true on a per-transaction basis, but I defined "quality" to include repeat business and, per my first above point about business, restricting consumers could discourage repeat business.
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Sometimes, I fantasize about turning that around. What if parts of the law (say, fiscal law sounds like a candidate) are chosen to be as black and white as the logic of a computer?

Policymakers could get automated compile errors when trying to craft conflicting laws. They could instantly compute what the effect of a law change is on this and that demographic or persona.
Many Android manufacturers developed their own custom UI skins on top of Android, especially with Gingerbread. HTC's is called Sense UI and Samsung's is called TouchWiz.

There's little doubt that earlier versions of TouchWiz looked much more similar to iOS than any of the other manufacturers' UIs (or the Android default skin), which is part of the reason this lawsuit exists. Whether this amounted to outright copying or deceptive business tactics is what this case will hopefully settle for once and for all.
Apple does a pretty great job at call centers. The structure, the training, even down to the QA dept., They seem to have it figured out. I remember training was very much like reading the manual of the computer. Being a windows and linux user I was fairly comfortable with the transition. Going from Not knowing anything about Macs to issuing commands to help users who have manually changed the name of their user folder.

They use IRC heavily for teir 2 support for teir 1 guys. If anyone has a stumper throw it into IRC and get help. That was the nice part about the job.
The way I would do it, if I were apple, I would keep the keys myself and require the customer to go to the store, personally, with their wiped/encrypted device, and present some proper form of id, for the sales rep to undo the wipe.
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Mentally reviewing the people I'm close to, the figure seems to be off by at least an order of magnitude.
Wow. This document illustrates exactly why design and attention to detail matters. In absolutely every comparison the iPhone just makes sense and works and the S1 has some kind of clumsiness. Very impressive, Apple.
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>suddenly we'll start seeing references to this period of culture in the new media of the day
It is already starting, just look at this job offer (it's German, but you'll understand the reference to rage comics at once):

http://www.sixt.de/php-entwickler
The problem is, if it gets to production, the first real accident will be considered totally inacceptable.

It doesn't matter if you reduce by a 1000 the risk of accident. When an accident is caused by a human error you have someone to blame, you can think "I would have done better". But when the accident is cause by a machine, then people will stop trusting the car and be done with it.
Furthermore, I think that Starbucks made itself the best possible partner/consumer for "Pay With Square" by pursuing the Starbucks Card program outside of traditional payment solutions. Ostensibly, they stumbled upon the opportunity for such a non-traditional payment system, and thus validated the Square strategy prior to the partnership.
They want to be loud because having Starbucks on board both as a customer and investor is a strong vote of confidence for Square. They want prospective customers and existing customers to know that.
Susan is that you? In all seriousness, what famous designer who used to work for the company in question can't tell the difference between the icons of a Samsung phone and an iPhone that the company she used to work for built? Come on, I will admit the icons are similar but even I can tell the difference between the two interfaces. If a company of Apple's stature is basing its entire court case on a few icons looking similar then that is just sad.

While we're on the subject, why don't we talk about the similarities between the Android pull-down notification menu and that of Apple's which was introduced long after Android implemented it...
If he can generate two files with the same hash he can do much more interesting things than write a sketchy python script that a few people might run without reading.
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This list is only this things Samsung felt the iPhone was doing better - there are lots of other things that differentiate the two phones, this is not a doc on how to clone the phone, but how to follow it's best practices.
I'm not a lawyer, but technically the hacker didn't "hack" the computer systems. So I'd wager that you can't slap a data protection law. But on the other hand, they definitely are legally liable for even a social-engineered attack. Maybe they'll get hit with negligence?
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In that respect it's like a bcrypted safe with a 4 character password and limited bandwidth.
I wonder if that will come out in time - I'd be very surprised if Samsung only conducted detailed competitor analysis of a single phone/brand.
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It's not a zero sum game. As more mainstream consumers learn about and start using Square, it will undoubtedly give a great boost to small businesses using Square as well.
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said in a jerry voice: a "free" web series, like anyone would pay for a "web series" -- what's up with that? and how about that bee movie too...
A couple of month ago, after finishing (almost) Standfords Saas-class (https://www.coursera.org/course/saas), i decided it was time for my first webapp.

A directory for wordpress themes sounded like a small enough project to start learning everything there is to know about running a webapp. What i learned the last 2 month feels more valuable then 3 years of college. The backend runs on rails, the frontend is done with backbonejs and i'm using mongolab.com as my database-(service).

the skills that i learned so far are mostly technical, now i need to figure out how to get the word out... any pointers on how to do that are very welcome.

I thought i start here since i love how much you help fellow hackers out. any feedback on the app would be highly appretiated.
Piracy is a fact of life, so why not just have fun with it?
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I don't believe any HN reader could ever be considered an "average user" in this context.
Really Rails? Why are has_one methods defined differently than has_many?
I suspect they intentionally dual-branded it, officially calling it "Go" but hosting it at golang.org, giving the contrast to Erlang's name. They might want the option to trademark it in the future, so couldn't use "Go", just as Coca Cola couldn't trademark "Coke" because it was a common word.
I don't think the number game is very interesting, but you have more than 17 european economists arguing for banking union (e.g. http://www.voxeu.org/article/manifesto-banking-union-economi...). That call from the 172 make a lot of noise because it went against the consensus, not because they are for the consensus.

One issue of the debate is that so much of it is covered with most moralistic arguments that are not very useful to solve the issue (Greece is bad, they must pay, Germany benefited from the Euro, they must pay, etc... the level is often that low). I think Germany's position is really hard: a breaking of the euro would be catastrophic for everyone, but particularly for Germany. OTOH, they will have to pay a big share of the damage, and long terms outlook for Germany are not good (bad demography in particular, see for example http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/how...).
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Meh. Perpetuating the myth that Samsung copies Apple.

I've had the iPhone. I've had the Samsung Galaxy S. The latter is nothing like the former, and that was why I ditched the iPhone for it.

Apple is suing Samsung because they are very, very competitive and eating into Apple's market-segment, or at least the high-end market-segment which Apple wish would be theirs and theirs only.

Apple has nothing new to show for, the iPhone is getting stale and the future is looking increasingly bright for Android as a platform, and this is bringing on even more Android OEMs, bringing out even more competitive devices at prices Apple cannot (or wont) match.

Apple wants monopoly its own high-end, high profit-margin market-segment, and because of Android they cant have it.

Apple wants to stop this, as iOS now represents the majority of the company's income. Without iOS, Apple is nothing. They put themselves here, and now they are trapped. Apple wants Android gone since the success of Android will mean the end of Apple, or at least the end of the golden days Apple is seeing now.

Apple is acting aggressively anti-competitive for very selfish reasons. There is nothing more to it.

Those who try to analyse this lawsuit as anything else, or as some magic stroke of strategic genius are deliberately BSing themselves. Apple is getting desperate. Simple as that.
I liked very much the way you have worded it. Especially, the last statement: "The design of Wikipedia is not simply an aesthetic designer's problem, it is a problem that has to be approached from an engineering point of view: maximise the information communication rate whilst keeping the design aesthetically pleasing, not the other way around."
Indeed. I'm glad to know that. Mind you, nothing in the home page or in the first pages of the wiki to give such an impression. When you read them, you get the feeling that Riak is yet another NOSQL database (which is absolutely fine - Mongo and Couch and Redis and tens of other NOSQL dbs all solve slightly different problems and have different characteristics and use different parts of CAP), so it's frustrating no to be represented with a simple tutorial and instead, being lectured on how Riak is built (which is slightly different that "how would you use it").

Now that I know Riak is a different NOSQL db, next time I'll spend more time reading the docs.

Thanks.
Actually the problem with snow is specific to Google's approach and is not limited to snow, but to all changes of the environment. They use the 360 degree LIDAR (Velodyne) and drive multiple times over each street in order to create a 3D map which is used for localization after that. Therefore the snow changes the layout of the environment significantly and localization stops working, which in turn makes functions like lane keeping, car detection, traffic light detection etc impossible. This will also happen if the environment changes a lot in another way.
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Finally! Now I can hope for fat window borders on my phone!
It is quite possible to understand the efficient market hypothesis and not believe it. In fact I think that everyone who invests in the market in forms other than tracker funds doesn't believe it holds.

The efficient market hypothesis is a useful thought experiment but the assumptions required for its proof are unrealistic and it doesn't explain real world volatility.

I do think the thought process of 'what do I know that the market hasn't taken into account yet' is a useful one and that if the answer is nothing buy a tracker. The knowledge could be proper research that disagrees with the media about a company.
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Major human achievement? IIRC there have been rovers landed on Mars before numerous times.
With billions in revenue per year, Starbucks has direct advantageous deals with credit card companies that probably follow them no matter what transaction system they use including Square. In other words, they are likely to pay less than the standard Square fees.
Didn't say anything about degrees. Ultimately it's about people who know how to make things vs people who know how to talk about things. More often than not, in the software world that equates to engineers vs MBAs. I'd much rather work with people who can make and need to learn how to talk than people who know how to talk and need to learn how to make
I thought this was relevant given the Mat Honan attack reports: 2FA isn't only useful for Gmail. I was able to set this up in about 10 minutes on my Ubuntu and Mint boxes.
There's no casting involved in while(1). 1 is "true" in C, in fact, any integer != 0 is "true".

I just did a quick check and gcc -S produces the same ASM output for both of them, which doesn't include any comparisons whatsoever, just a jmp. So both of them are really compiled to an actual infinite loop.
Exactly what you say. Nobody wants to volunteer to change any rules. It's sad that researchers have to be forced by their universities to even allow open access. When career is above all, science lags.