skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consumers don't bear the brunt of the risk of a payment processor folding. The merchant with millions of accounts payable, an unsecured claim, does.

I agree with the core of the post: the system is too cautious. I disagree with the call to lower the bar for starting a payment processor to parity with a photo sharing app.
There is not always one answer. In the UK the Royal Mail, electoral roll, credit reference agencies etc can disagree with each other.
The weirder thing on Linux is that you can watch Amazon's streaming videos in Firefox, but not in Chrome. Apparently the Flash plugin for Chrome on Linux removed drm for some reason, so Amazon killed it as a supported platform.
In the morning right after getting out of bed? Those ideas were/are nothing compared to the ideas that came to mind while running 5 miles in the woods in college and then in the shower afterwards. Runners highs are awesome!
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Unlikely. If someone can easily find a high paying job overseas with their education they can do the same in the US, debt problem solved.

One of the biggest problems is that student debt is so easy to acquire. It makes it easier for people to complete college who aren't as serious about it and who don't have a firm notion of how they will make money afterward. It also makes it easier for colleges to raise tuition (as they've done). Classic bubble behavior.

The real problem is that the low quality of K-12 education has forced a lot of employers to require college degrees as a prerequisite, not because the job is dependent on the specifics of the degree but because it's the easiest way to ensure literacy and so forth.
Err....do you remember the Iraq war? We weren't in it. Harper demanded that we enter.

Firstly, the opposition generally will be against whatever the party in office does. However to your actual example,
while that is the standard revisionism, it's completely wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qx6fwn8XM&noredirect=1

Harper didn't demand that we were in it. He demanded that we be honest about what we were doing in Iraq. At the same time the Liberals proudly promised that they were working overtime to convince the UN Security Council to allow the invasion of Iraq, at which point we would be in there guns in hand.

So compare that to what you just said (I don't blame you as it is the completely standard narrative).

-We were in Iraq
-We were working all channels to get the UN to sanction the war
-Then we would be in the war
Why does it mean the majority of advice is not correct? That is a myth.
Toilet paper, believe it or not. You can get a case of 80 rolls of Angel Soft 2-ply bathroom tissue for about 40 bucks from online office supply stores (officeworld.com currently has the lowest price). Saves me about $200 a year vs. buying it at the grocery store.
If you read the top voted comment for this post (as I write this), it describes the same experience though.
To live the American dream, you need to be asleep.
If you throw private debt and public spending in together, does the US have more debt due to education than other western countries? (eg. in Britain the state largely subsidises higher education but then you pay taxes or your government borrows to cover the cost)
it says specifically in the article that it is staying
Hey, thanks for your reply; sorry for taking so long on mine.

I understand why the Travis features you mention are good for open source, I'm not sure I understand why they're not good for web apps. Notifications (email and IRC) sound great for in-house stuff too; and build statuses seem to make sense on some central web page that gets a lot of hits from your dev team (be it the Github front page, or whatever) as well.

The deployment part makes sense though, thanks!
It is beautiful. I really like this :-)
JVM performance optimization, Part 5: Is Java scalability an oxymoron?
Linux Gamers Make Up ~2% Of Valve's Steam Users
Setting Up Your Agile Team Room (video)
Thank you. Appreciated ;)
IMO they should default just like typical loans. These student loans wreak havoc with the lives of those that cannot pay them back - best example are doctors that are not allowed to practice anymore because of their student loan delinquencies.

> There would be very few people who qualify for student loans if we treated them the same as traditional loans

True, but that is not the problem - the problem is that college and education costs have risen almost exponentially. This problem will certainly not be solved by pumping massive amounts of bad loans into the bank accounts of already overpaid colleges.
The deposit-taking function of FDIC-insured banks failed gracefully. So did broker-dealers of centrally cleared securities, i.e. those processed at clearinghouses. The parts that junked up were negotiated between private parties.

Rational actors are hypothetical. There is a cost to forcing every transaction to bear the full burden of due diligence. Pooling these costs under a trusted agent makes sense. Note that stock exchanges and clearinghouses, which have strict eligibility requirements, emerged from the free markets.
Some key quotes:

"Tom Arah says the shift from Flash to HTML has set web design back 15 years"

"Older versions of Internet Explorer offer only spotty HTML5 support"

"asking visitors to download a plugin [here he's not talking about Flash] to view open content is both awkward and undesirable"

Is it April 1st already? ;-) But seriously, complaining about HTML5 because _one_ of the tools you can create it with is not good enough, that's not an argument. "This new energy saving bulb I bought looks too yellow, ergo all energy saving bulbs suck and we should stick with the old ones."

There might be point hidden in there that we need better tools for non-programmers to create "quickly create flick-book-style sequential animations", but that is 1) a criticism of tool availability, not HTML5 itself, and 2) not something you can argue without looking at more than just Adobe's offering.
> How do I get my kids into that school?

Paying $30K - $50K a year in tuition fees should do it.
Google search has a built-in tool for filtering sites out of your results. I haven't seen an experts exchange result in years. Just remove answers from your search results.
I co-chair a conference and share your stance.

An lot of people are heavy into the idea of social/community conferences and treat other programmers as their main social group. I don't have a problem with that but there are other groups to represent. I enjoy meeting Internet acquaintances at events, but if the sums don't add up (either in business or education) it makes no business sense to go.

Luckily there are still many "large"/commercial conferences and expos (i.e. most pricier conferences of > 500 attendees) so you can more easily make a decision based on your needs. Mine are: Am I speaking (often good for business)? Could I speak to potential clients there? Are the attendees so perfect I should exhibit? The answers are rarely yes, so I rarely go.

Putting on events, on the other hand, is a different story and the value proposition is heavily shifted in your favor, if you can pull it off..
I was under the impression that pretty much all of the major US cities were 24/7 economies, with store times matching up.
I basically agree with you, but these ARE loans made to people without a specific, current means to afford them.

That seems perfectly appropriate to me (and I assume to you), but this lack of being able to predict the future income stream of an individual is a large driver in making them not dischargeable, because that allows the product to exist.

Because I agree with you(r presumed position) that these are not ridiculous loans and that their availability should be encouraged, I'm strongly in support of the terms necessary to make them available.
So, the went on an experiment to the mall to check how employees responded to deaf people.

All the students received a MAC from the school.

The author doesn't have any comments on his blog.

It's fiction, this dude is lying like hell :-s
I believe the American Taxpayer will have to pay for this either way, the choice is between effectively destroying the lives of those that default or giving them a fighting chance.

> "In an aside, loans made to college kids to get a quality education is not a ridiculous loan on ridiculous terms to people who can't afford them."

I'd like to disagree with you and I believe that a default rate of > 13% (and rising sharply - http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/first-official-three-y...) supports my statement.
The yahoo! App on android is simply an embedded browser widget and only provides one actual feature. You can share the current URL on Facebook. Confounding how they could release an app that is both pointless for the user but beneficial to a competitior.

I'm surprised they only discontinued the blackberry version.
With robots, humans face ‘new society’
... no it doesn't.

It once did, briefly. Lasted about six months if I recall correctly, then was deprecated.
The Verification Process on Twitter and what features you get with it
I was very happy when my local grocery started delivering groceries from online orders. It's really helpful, especially since it remembers your orders, so you can just edit the cart from the previous week, instead of reselecting all the items again.
So how much of this is open source and available? I can see lots of uses for something that looks this good and to which you can overlay your own information.
persona is an actual trustworthy idp, google ... you are the product.
On target.
It's even weirder than that because you can watch Amazon videos just fine using Flash in Chrome Google TV. In fact, until the most recent Google TV update that was the only way to take advantage of this high-profile, remote control button-worthy feature.
Love empiricism angle. It's ironic that Bacon was a Believer.
Why are only Computer Science, Math, and Chemical Engineering being counted compared to all Visual and Performing Arts? Shouldn't all math, science and engineering graduates be compared?
To be fair: I took one of the Google Chrome Experiments (can't find the exact demo right now but here's where they are hosted: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/webgl/), stripped it down, customized it (using particles instead of animated lines) and pump the geo data into the globe.

So I'd say with Three.js, Google's code for the Globe it's in the end just a couple of Javascript lines for the page and the customization of the globe. I'd say 98% is open source from a technical perspective.
Sadly it's not a war on drone use by any level of government, only individuals.

I suspect government drones will get federal protection if people try to use them as skeet targets when they fly over their property.

Countdown to when the public starts to say "oh well, what can you do, we need to be safe" (ala TSA).
The PBS thing is roughly the same situation as the BBC outside the UK, AIUI.
Thanks. I'm surprised. Experts exchange hasn't come up since. Guess that was the only site I ever wanted to blacklist.
Interesting. Would be great to have something like that with interaction built out as a simple component. Hmm...
Absolutely; just to expand on the point - 3D secure is now prevenalant, if you just check for enrolment with 3D Secure - as a vendor you're generally no longer liable to chargebacks (there are a few edge cases around pre-paid and commercial cards). It doesn't matter if the issuing bank is signed up or not.

Paymill already support 3D secure - so I would have to imagine that stripe's 3D secure support can't be far behind.
More people invested in education, more people have debt to pay.
I haven't learned a Lisp. And ClojureScript does look interesting. Thank you.
nice; dear
I probably missed something, but where exactly in this process did they verify anything? It appears the person-to-be-verified was told how to tweet and asked for a phone number…and that was it? How is this ‘verification’ in any possible sense of the word?
The original was "Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple is getting better at what Google does best."

Truncating the sentence for the title changed the meaning to something much bolder.
The BlackBerry the app was written for _is_ a dying platform: BlackBerry 10 has zero compatibility with the original BlackBerry OS's apps.
"Solar flares." --BOFH
I remember hearing about this and the subsequent threats to cut off travel to Texas. Yes, it is nice to hear when Texas lawmakers stand up for their state's sovereignty.
Hmm. I think a component would be possible but then it would be rather "static". Customizing it to your needs would most probably mean changing code in most cases ...
Playing up Google? Now Gruber is just screwing with us.
If an existing provider's API became the standard, the other providers would rightly complain. If a standard were made from whole cloth, then, you know: http://xkcd.com/927/
Is there a possibility of interaction with the provided data on the globe?

Also I would really like to see the "address network", e.g. lines between the dots.
the big question is though, can Google also be awesome in Services going forward?

i am loyal user of chrome, gmail, search, youtube, maps, picasa - in this order. none of which is younger than what, 5 years?

innovation in those items? gmail got a new UI, but else?

where are the BETA products? used to be the awesomeness of Google. ever since Page took over, they've been killing the small, useful things. ok, they want to be apple. google glass, cars, chromebooks - big ambitious things, big bang approach. nothing below 1500 usd.

of course there is android, but that one is slipping away - samsung, amazon, chinese manufacturers - all are eating it up and taking ownership.

how come amazon is the premier cloud provider, not google? how come dropbox is the premier storage provider, not google? they are moving from a (ad-supported) knowledge company to a product company. more money there i guess. still makes me sad.
Agreed. Thats why I started the local barcamp, and will (most likely) create another event in the next year/18 months.

There is tremendous value in creating new events.
Is it a similar concept to Effective C++ or Effective Java? Or is the similar name a co-incidence?
in progress ;)

Plus real-time push visualization using node.js and websocket...
From the original quote [1], what Apple does is "design" while what Google does is "web services". Design is more fragmented than web services and thus easier to break into. If Google + design -> Cupertino while Apple has only to master "web services" the war has already been won. Given how premature that seems, I'd say the core competences identified and thus the analogy as a whole appear to be stacked.

[1] http://patrickbgibson.com/post/36041799210/apple-and-twitter
Chrome for Android working on optimizing page rendering via SPDY proxy servers
Writing books using bookchef.xml, your text-editor and git
Zimoun's Sound Sculptures & Installations
I've done two stripe implementations and one Braintree. None took more than a week of coding and that's being generous. Although I imagine if you had a really complex system, you could take a while.
> Maybe nurse-maids are about to make a comeback.

#shithnsays

Sure you can hire someone to delegate parenthood to. But that just underscores my point that working at home is nearly impossible if you need to care for your children by yourself.
To add a little perspective as to how this whole 'left-right brain' myth has been perpetuated - a lot of it has come to popular consciousness (and particularly that of artists) through the (learn to draw) book "drawing on the right side of the brain" by Betty Edwards (1979).

Its actually a fantastic book for its purpose. It remains today a classic book still widely used - better than even most more recent books on the same topic. Whilst its use of the 'left-right' thing is obviously fundamentally flawed scientifically, in the book it is more or less a model presented to the reader in describing how to 'think' to aid in drawing - which mental processes to turn on/off, focus on or ignore. This more practical side of the book has proved very helpful and effective to its readers and is the real achievement which has led to the book's enduring success. The success of this has however led to the propagation of the 'left-right' thing which the book does basically claim is a scientific basis for everything described.

My only point in saying this is that there's complexity to stories like this - ideas can be helpful even if the scientific base they pretend to be based on is incorrect.
its pretty interesting to think about the implications. A few thoughts.

Air power has been a decisive advantage in recent wars (e.g. Desert Storm).

Seems possible/probable that the victor of future wars will be determined by who has the better drone air-force.
More info about his works: http://www.zimoun.net/works.html

My favorite: http://www.zimoun.net/24-sound-contributions-in-an-automat.h...
The premise is pretty stupid.

Firstly Apple does do services. They run the world's biggest media store, the world's biggest syncing platform and a semi popular email service. Sure they aren't perfect but they can be considered successes for the most part.

And the point about hardware is completely misguided. Apple's true strength has never been their ability to build a well designed machine. It is the fact that they can do it consistently and ship it on a scale unmatched in the industry. All whilst maintaining a huge profit margin.

Until Google can demonstrate that they can actually ship a product and do so profitably then nobody will or should take them seriously.
I still don't think Google has the culture to create a good consistent UI, something that has pretty much always been Apple's strongest asset - the reason I keep using Apple products. I don't think this will change, at least not anytime soon.

Recently I developed an app for Android, but when using the toolkit and testing on a real device I realised how much stronger Apple is in the department of software design.

That's not to say I don't like certain products of Google. I appreciate Gmail very much and I'm very likely to use AppEngine in the near future for a mobile game I plan to develop. I just think Apple is much better when it comes to UI design.
C++: Why can't I sort like a normal human being
I am also kinda in the same boat as you.
One thing i have figured out is to just try and play around. When you want to do something with CSS just search for it and try it out. If you have source code control or your own local dev environment, you can play around and it will help to learn new things.
I don't think we want that. There is a lot of innovation going on in payment API's right now, and the competition is what is driving it. That makes it easier for everyone.
> As I have said before, show me one company, one project, that has some in on time, budget and without bugs because of their choice of vim over even something like Notepad and I'll eat my words.

Show me one transportation company that would fail because their trucks do not have air conditioning or power steering.

Is it nice to have those things, especially if you drive around the entire day? Of couse.

I'm with you that vim should not be a cult.
But calling it a shit interface is over the top.
If it was, why are there so many popular vim emulation plugins for many of the modern IDEs.
Your post does not make sense. I tell him to go out and get sales (cash flow) now by going directly to his market. The samples are not for branding. The samples are necessary because nobody is going to order food without trying it first. The biggest issue with selling food is overcoming the fact that people are picky about food. Thus giving samples allows him to convert people into customers immediately. It's the best sales technique he can use at the moment.

Plus racism is going to help the business in this case. This is ethnic food. If some white dude went around selling his stuff people wouldn't buy it because it would not be authentic.
Interesting presentation, but it can't be the whole story. Even projects like SciPy which use the most rudimentary data structures (basically just a large array of floats) and algorithms (sometimes just looping through the elements in order a few times) see a considerable advantage when rewritten in C.

http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython
Haha, yeah I always wondered about that. Like they've got something against riggers or something. I imagine there must have been a case decades ago of people on oil rigs showing movies and then claiming exemption from the rules due to being out at sea.
>gmail got a new UI, but else?

Priority inbox? It's pretty useful.
Nice... Good... Cool... Required.
Thanks for keeping the structure same and putting no 'extra features'.
It's not that weird at all, in a sense. With this mystery cleared up, all the evidence is basically consistent with "Lightning" being just USB 2.0 over a proprietary connector plus some proprietary authentication chips in the cables. There is literally nothing it does that could not be done with a standard micro USB 2.0 connector.
There's an old saying that it always takes boots on the ground to win a war.

Along the lines of your analysis, I wonder if we won't start seeing low-observable drone ground forces.
true, don't use it for priority myself though, only to group unread items out of the rest of the inbox. which is indeed awesome.
So Google just released a laptop that is actually better than an MBA and you think Apple shouldn't take Google seriously? Good thing you're not running Apple.
This one I imagine: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/cloudglobe/
Cynical, but ultimately as accurate as you can be.
The topic wasn't whether nukes are better or worst than other means of killing a comparable amount of civilians, but that our brain is shaped in such a way that we can easily justify that kind of action because "they" did worse, and why this, very natural thing, is dangerous.

Personal revenge and punishment has already an interesting amount of counter arguments. But when we begin to lift this issue up to whole populations/ethnic groups, the thing starts to get out of control.

Collective guilt and responsibility and punishment were the same actors behind the very atrocities we were condemning and fighting.

In the hearts of many people, the Jews deserved what happened to them because they were the alleged cause of their problems and misery (and they needed an enemy, someone to blame). And it was way easier for German people to not feel empathy for all the Jewish neighbors disappearing once they thought of them as "them", as carrying a collective guilt, regardless of individuals.

So, I'm not here to discuss who is worse.
But sometimes, as I struggle to understand how it's possible have had so many millions of complacent people, assisting, giving power to cruel dictators, sometimes I have a glimpse of how is this feeling, each time I happen to think "well, they deserve it".
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What's crazy is that Facebook has only been a public open-signup website for ~6 years, and it's so tempting to assume it will be around and popular forever -- I mean, why wouldn't it?

But at the end of the day we really have no idea what the world will be like in 15 years.

It only took MySpace 3 years to fall out of favor.
Google Chrome initial release is September 2, 2008. So it's less than 5 years old. Also Android, Google+/Hangouts, Google Voice are pretty nice and yes, ChromeOS is getting better all the time.
What content does yahoo have?

Other than their "Answers"-garbage polluting my search results I don't think I have been in contact with any yahoo property for about 10 years...
It's a similar one but not exactly the one I started off. I used the one which shows the world population for 3 predefined years.
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Mansplaining: the feminist's way of saying "you're a man, that's all I need to know to dismiss your argument!"
Ah, I guess I combined them too? Which one is used for mailing lists like FreeCycle?