skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no contradiction. HP, Intel, etc. happened because they were built on a foundation of massive government investment in microprocessor tech during its early, super high risk phase, and then government procurement. Hyperloop isn't happening within the Silicon Valley model because it's core tech/infrastructure that does not have the government's interest, because our system is built around defense spending.

That's not to say the government couldn't fund it as a transportation infrastructure project, but that's not the Silicon Valley model, and the funding is much smaller and harder to come by than defense spending.

The problem isn't really just to spend "more" on R&D -- have you seen the defense budget? Hyperloop would be a blip. The problem is deeper.. it's that our system is not set up to funnel taxpayer funds into public services like this. IMHO for political reasons. Running it through the pretext of defense makes it harder for citizens to question how funds should be spent and who they should benefit.

We need political change to make sustainable public transport projects like this take priority. Just like we need it for education, social welfare, etc. It's easier to control people when you tell them the Russians/terrorists are coming so we have to take your money and fund defense.
This is completely off-topic, but Lyza Danger Gardner is a pretty badass name.
I'm living in the UK right now, and I'm the same as you with having only one card. However most of my friends have several credit cards, which I find really strange. I wonder if it's a symptom of how broken the economy is... It's too easy to get multiple credit cards and use them all to pay each other off, so you're essentially living in constant debt.
Doesn't affect me. I don't do what I do purely because of money and $500k/yr is still quite a cap relative to any job I would want to do. Even at a fraction of that, I still would rather work on something I care about. The only exception is if I care about the job I would be working.
Are add-ons such as PostGIS supported on RDS?
But no full book is posted online in this case
Court rules DHS must reveal ‘internet kill switch’ protocol
I do have several cards (even if most of them are rarely used). I think a big difference is, that we still have coins. I see all those wallets on kickstarter that are useless for Europeans as they have no space for coins.

I'd want a single card and I'd want one of those sleek wallets if all I had were cards and bills.
Women's magazines ignore technology and demean women
If you're referring to stuff like iTunes then pre-orders, you aren't actually charged until the day it releases
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It's a bit more of embarrassing if you're the Sass consultant and the client is the one bringing it up. At least, that was what I gathered from the article.
I'm surprised that the C++ code is not using the RAII idiom in some obvious places.

For example: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/db/db_impl.c

There are many places with bracketed calls to mutex_.Lock and mutex_.Unlock().

An example:

mutex_.Unlock();
LogFlush(options_.info_log);
env_->SleepForMicroseconds(1000000);
mutex_.Lock()

Why didn't the authors use the RAII idiom here? Even if there are no exceptions expected, the code would still be simpler and less error prone by using a guard object.
Welcome August Smart Lock- Home Security without the need for keys or codes
In an age where the SMARTness of technology has overpowered nearly all archaic domains of life from Optimizing Brain Fitness to Sensing Temperature, August Smart Lock comes in with a special touch in home security. Only this time, the plan is to make you get rid of those rusted bunch of keys and think of a much safer and effortless mode of security.
Jailbreak for iOS 7 Availability Date
I'm surprised by the lack of penis drawing. Is there a review process or do people just suddenly decide to behave better?
Do keep in mind, though, that of the "billions of people" who use credit cards, the number that use cards that can be cloned by reading the magnetic stripe is fast dwindling. Until/unless Coin gets cosy enough with the card associations to the point where they can get some way of cloning chip and pin cards (EMV), they're DOA in a quickly rising list of countries that already covers the majority of the developed world.

And a large part of the point of chip and pin cards is that they're meant to be impossible to clone. E.g. in France it supposedly cut card fraud by about 80% for in-person transactions. So unless Coin can convince them that it will be as secure or more secure than these cards, they're going to be pretty much limited to the US, and increasingly get marginalised in the US too: Most large US banks have announced rollout plans for EMV cards (though many will be chip + signature rather than chip + pin).
Fascinating read about this topic:
http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illu...

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Dividends these days occur, but they are generally a token rather than the primary means of rewarding shareholders.

REITs might work for Hyperloop specifically (depending on whether the IRS believes Hyperloop is an "investment agent specializing in real estate and real estate mortgages"), but they don't work for most companies. The fact that there are a few corporate structures that avoid overtaxing dividends doesn't change the fact that they don't work for most businesses.
Yes! I came here to opine that in an ideal world somebody would slap the site designer for his lousy color choice.

All the more ironic that this is a developer trying to tell us about innovative and creative thinking.
Underwater Kites Can Harness Ocean Currents to Create Clean Energy
This is what I thought. I have two cards (my main one isn't able to withdraw cash but the other is) and it's not a hassle with up to 4 cards if you have a decent wallet.
As a matter of fact, mass transport is financially viable enough that JR Tokai plans to finance their 9 trillion JPY Chuo Shinkansen maglev line without government money [1].

[1]　http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/30/reference/maglev...
Erm... what problem is this solving? Is having multiple cards in your wallet really a problem that requires such a convoluted solution?

Sorry, but I really don't see what this is saving me/doing for me? Whats the problem this solves?
WallaBy + Loop will make a good combo - put all your cards in one WallaBy card and put one WallaBy card in to Loop. So your phone will have only one card and your point of control will be WallaBy. Hiding all other cards details - block one card and you are safe. Coin card is not going in the right direction i feel. Time to loose the card stuff now...
I take it back. Just found four of them.
Status: http://status.bitbucket.org/
I'm obviously not the target audience, so I can't understand the use case, PDF seems to be such a useless format for anything other than viewing and perhaps annotating (which it does great at).

Can you explain why anyone would use this assuming I already have a way to export to PDF? zip to PDF sounds strange.
Who ate all the (carbon) pie?
> removed for quality reasons

If apple would start doing this 90% of the apps in the store had to be purged.
The idea that "military development advances technology" is very popular but not entirely accurate. The micro-processor, for example, was invented while working on a handheld calculator project, and advanced through the consumer market.

Sometimes military development advances technologies in ways that might not have happened otherwise but it's hard to compare to the way development would have gone otherwise. Take the development of aircraft from their invention through WWII. Unquestionably there was a rapid pace of development during, and due to, WWI and WWII. But there was also a rapid pace of development outside of the wars. The design of the iconic WWII fighters the Supermarine Spitfire and P51 Mustang owe much to the advancement of high performance aviation spurred by the entirely civilian Schneider Trophy competitions through the 1920s and '30s, for example.
That is exactly the entire problem with credit card payments, online or elsewhere. Too often it relies on just the number, just the mag strip, possibly with other information that is _right there on the card_ (like that stupud CVC). This is totally insecure, and yet everybody keeps using it.

Dutch electronic payment (online or otherwise) always relies on "something you have" + "something you know" (which is secret and not shared with anyone ever). It's not airtight, but it's a lot safer than relying just on "something that can be stolen".

I'm still constantly appalled and amazed at US/international online payments relying on something as outdated and backwards as just a string of numbers and some other public information.
Consider this: The incentive for the banks in using chip and pin cards is that they are supposed to be near impossible to clone, and thus there is a "liability inversion": Unlike with mag-stripe + signature cards, with EMV cards, the assumption is that if the pin was used, the customer is liable. With some exceptions.

Couple that with massively reduced fraud.

Now, if they allow a method for cloning these cards, both of those go out the window: Criminals will just attack the weakest point, which is going to be whatever mechanism Coin would use to allow cards to get added to their device.

As for the US market: Consider that pretty much all large US banks have committed to start rolling out EMV cards (though many will roll out chip + signature rather than chip + pin, which seems the height of stupidity)
Hehe, never mind. It's the first of the offered features...
Classifieds: "Master is looking for more cheap power with experience from Google to pay minimum wage". Good luck, professor Huang.
Maybe, maybe not. I don't see how running it along the freeway is not credible.

But here's the upshot: Snapchat is a photo-sharing app that will hardly be around in 10 years; the Hyperloop would be. This seems to be lost on all those in Silicon Valley who sit for hours every day in traffic to go to their one-story prefab work box, only to then sit in the same traffic later to return to their prefab home box.

There's investment to make your money grow and investment in the future. We need less of the former and more of the latter.
This is cool. But should the fourth section (sub-seconds) be running from 0-99? It is currently running from 0-59, too.

Sorry about the nitpick; this really is a cool implementation :-)
If I can pluck your brain for a little, do you think LMDB would be a good option as a back end for time series analysis?
This.

Cygwin is not UNIX. It looks like it and runs UNIX tools but it has some gotchas that can shoot you in the toes and face if you move your stuff to another box.
There are alternatives that don't require centralized VC funded startups to act as banks for these cases. One would be: Having a mini wallet on paper (QR code for easy handling) and paying from that in your bar.
In my opinion capital gains and corporate income tax should go away and everything should fall under individual. income tax. Simplifies a lot of things and avoids a lot of perverse incentives created by the existing system.
I work with another tech startup in the parenting/baby space and it's hard to do PR for this space. This is especially true because there aren't may PR/comms people with experiences and contacts that cross parenting and tech and in my experience, people with PR experience in the parenting space often rely on a physical product to promote and send as samples to parenting journalists, tv shows, etc. As a tech company, there's no freebie product to push. And on the tech side, despite the fact that pretty much everyone knows a parent or child, this area is still considered niche which makes it less interesting to tech press than something that appears to be a service that could appeal to anyone.
You can - try something like this:

parseInt(getComputedStyle($('#seconds'), ':after').top)/-76

(see https://gist.github.com/alexlouden/7481780 for full)
Well, Instagram and Snapchat and the like are on the extreme end of the scale; the reason they get funded is because:

* Development is cheap
* Returns are quick

That is, anyone with a PC and a server can create a Snapchat clone; anyone with an image processing library (or knowledge to create one) can create an Instagram; getting a handful of developers together is easy, and building the next big web app will take just an idea and a few dozen K to develop - low risk. If it fails, no biggie, few K lost, some personal drama. If it doesn't fail, and is lucky it'll grow for a few years in its userbase, prove itself, and increase its value to the billions the lucky few companies did.

This is a complete opposite to the truly disruptive things like Hyperloop, which, if successful, will change the world of transportation. If it fails, however, investors will have lost billions - because the start-up costs are billions, not a few K or a garage and spare time like the silicon valley startups cost.

Risk vs reward, risk-spreading. With a billion dollar, an investor can fund a hundred startups comfortably, and only one of them has to strike it big for the investor to make a profit. With bigger and potentially more influential projects like Hyperloop, the investor will have to pour all of his investment money into one project, and if it fails - and I'd say there's a decent chance that it will - that money's gone.

And Hyperloop is, I'd say, a high-risk investment; it'll take years to develop, it'll probably have a lot of problems getting the 'pipe' up, it'll have to combat the user's fears of being locked up in a high-speed pipe, it'll have to be cost-competitive with the competition, and it has to be safe; a new transportation system like this needs just one serious accident for nobody to ever use it again.
A nice thing that we have here in Portugal are "virtual credit cards", offered by the banks, which act like a credit card for the merchant but as a debit transaction for the user.
They also bashed Color.
World's most beautiful libraries
Video Guia PVP Chamán Mejora Pandaria 1º parte
Fork My Religion: solve the problem of poorly thought out belief systems
This is what the future of virtualized software looks like
There's actually a genre of pure-CSS games [1]. CSS3 Panic was interesting as (I think) the first one to keep score.

1. http://thejavascripthomework.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/15-pur...

2. http://cssdeck.com/labs/css-panic-game
I'm pretty sure every bar in the US does it. That said I go to bars all the time and rarely open a tab.
Goes absolutely bat shit in IE11 flickering and all sorts going on.

Then again what do I expect?

Works fine in Chrome and Firefox.
Absolutely agree! Without the deadlines, I would not have finished. That said, a 5 weeks course is a lot easier to commit to than a 10 weeks course, since it is very intense during the course. It is simply hard to find the time for it.

I like that Courser split the algo course by Roughgarden into two parts. Made it a lot easier to find the time for it then. Some other Coursera courses are 10 weeks or longer, which so far has kept me from signing up.

I wrote about my experience of both courses: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/05/08/coursera-algorithms-course... and http://henrikwarne.com/2013/02/18/coursera-algorithms-course...
Predictious - the Bitcoin Prediction Market
Oh, cool stuff! I'll look into using this with the Openstreetmap deployment I'm building.
this video comes from a professor, good joke!
I also have my estimates. And I think that one day, after I create a successful company that builds electric cars on a scale no one has tried before, and after I create a company that designs and builds rockets that deliver cargo on commercially-contracted terms, people will even take my estimates seriously.

Until then, I'll keep them to myself and not criticize others unless I have a really, really good justification.
I guess the Vela Incident didn't make the cut...
So if someone reputable started an anti gravity tech company, you would write the same blog about them?

The point is, most don't think that the design would even work. The specs defy many laws of physics. It is more of a concept or dream at this stage. It would be an extremely high risk investment - thus, no takers.

By comparison, Instagram had a proven and popular product. Why would you compare something so very different?
There is a reason to think that virtual images of child sexual abuse cause real world child sexual abuse. People need more images, and there aren't enough virtual images and so the collection is 'topped up' with real images. And there's a possibility that people viewing images, even virtual, of child sexual abuse will go on to abuse real world children.

Obviously it's very hard to test that, but it's at least credible.

The other point about pseudo-photographs is that it's a historical remainder from times before we had photo-realistic rendering.

People would take real images of children, and manipulate those into images of child sexual abuse. Sometimes combining real world children's heads onto real world images of child sexual abuse, or images of adults having sex.

In that case two images are created from one instance of abuse. Two children are shown, but only one has suffered abuse. Or children are shown, but adults were used for the sexual parts of the photograph. Since people thought strongly that possession of images of child sexual abuse was a signal that the person would go on to commit actual abuse they made sure to make these images illegal.

I find this very hard to talk about. I strongly want to protect children from harm. Images of child sexual abuse cover a wide range of harm, from sexually suggestive clothed posing of 15 year olds at one end to brutal rape of small infants at the other. My instinct is to keep these images illegal, but I realise that the demonisation of paedophiles does not help them seek help to stop their offending behaviour, and drives them to "support groups" that attempt to normalise their behaviour. And if we did proper research and found that virtual images reduced real world offending it'd be hard to keep those images illegal.
Which side of your brain is more dominant Left or Right? [TEST]
BBC-News/Imager.js - Responsive images while we wait for srcset
Having a hard time getting over being not rich
My values don't even gravitate towards money. I realize how foolish it is to chase money.
Yet I feel very sad when I think about Mark Cuban just hopping in his private jet, gambling 10 million dollars away in Vegas, and then heading to New York to spend 10k on a sushi dinner without thinking twice.

I know I will never have that.

I have saved over a million dollars and I make over 60k per year in passive income (actually made 160k so far this year), but I worked for 8 years for that money. And I went to school for 4 years in order to get that job.

At that rate, I will never know what it is to be rich. I am an INFP on the Meyers-Briggs personality test. I guess we aren't supposed to make the best entrepreneurs, but I can't imagine myself doing anything else than running my own enterprise. Maybe I just like the thought of it, but maybe I don't have what it takes to make it happen.

Everyone is out for themselves nowadays. I have reached out to so many people. So many.

I have had a year to think my way out of this, but I keep going in circles. I think I should just shut up and get a job and try to be normal.
I mean, I don't think I have the intestinal fortitude to do that, but I guess maybe I should.

I really see myself crashing and burning, becoming homeless or committing suicide. This world seems like a lie, and I will never get what I want. That is only for people who aren't me.

I am pretty sure all this is true and I won't pull out of it. I wish so bad it wasn't true. I really want to live a happy life. I just don't think I will. I don't think I will ever be rich, and it really bothers me.

And I know that none of the comments are going to get me out of my situation, but I post this in hopes that I am wrong and cynical. But I have seen it too many times where nothing changes, things just stay the same.
I like the idea of scheme functions to output machine code. If you know scheme, you're probably already familiar with this, but since you say code generation is a mystery, let me recommend SICP (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html).
BEM - Technology for creating web applications
A DIY take on magswipe emulation (2011)
Excuse me?

This exact behavior happened all the time when Steve Jobs ran Apple. Remember Google Voice, or the countless other apps that Apple banned from the walled garden for whatever reason?

If anything, this is evidence that Apple hasn't changed.
"solely" being the key word here that allows them to get away with pretty much whatever they want by claiming the reason they insisted on id was that that something else caused suspicion.
If someone starts about Dark Web, VPN and privacy and then states: "so if a request for your data is legitimate, F Secure will not stop a proper investigation from the authorities" it renders it immediately completely useless in my opinion.

As the last year proofs authorities are the ones that do the snooping. So if it doesn't protect us from them, what's the point of such a service. Also linking to Facebook and Skydrive that have government-backdoors seems not so private to me.

Does F-Secure really understand in which world we live in today?
Oh well, neither do I, back to my coffee.
You're comparing a irreversible hardware problem with a policy problem.

Short of recalling all Iphone 4's there was nothing he could do.

Why do you thing they gave out free rubber straps? That was them basically admitting they messed up.

And no I'm not idolizing him I have never owned an Iphone or an apple product in general but he was a great leader.
> The devs still at the core need to understand JavaScript it seems like.

No, that's not the case. You need to understand the browser DOM, and the various APIs available to you, but these are presented by Dart libraries. If you have knowledge of Java or C#, then that knowledge will be useful, and if you have knowledge of JavaScript's functional elements, then that is also useful, but none of that is mandatory to be effective with Dart.
However, the increasingly large-scale integrated circuits that led to microprocessors were largely defense driven: missiles, etc.
U.S. military may have 10 robots per soldier by 2023
You are wrong for thinking that these innovations aren't helping society.

Even a brief thought about it and you can see this is much better than having to go to your bank, withdraw a large sum of money, walk to the shop with that large sum of money.

It helps business, reduces the transaction friction.

I once actually pondered that wouldn't it be much better if the government controlled internet search rather than google. Fairer? Less open to their constant land grabs from other aggregators? No advertising?

Can you imagine what a nightmare that would have been like? What a silly idea that thought was?

That's essentially what you're saying about a different industry.
I've seen this in some countries in mainland Europe. Problem was it asked me on my regular UK debit card, had no idea what to choose, trial and error until one of them didn't spit my card out... Thanks for enlightening me
Why do you need to learn JavaScript to use Dart? You need to understand the DOM and the browser APIs (presented through Dart libraries), and HTML, CSS, but you very much don't need to know a jot of JavaScript to build and deploy Dart or dart2js applications. Even the Dart2js output has sourcemaps letting you view source in the original Dart.