skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea-- I agree. Plus, Google did this at a time when people
where still debating digital media. I agree with the ruling
out of self interest.
Jean Claude Van Damn in Volvo ad
Without a doubt.

Coin actually increases the complexity of an already complex and archaic system.

The product manages to create more headaches for the consumer and the merchant by consolidating various credit cards in a digital device with a nice "cool" factor but lacking any real solution to the many problems associated with the complex back-ends in the payments space.

Conceptually, it's not a bad product, and it sucks that the founders are probably reading hundreds of people slamming their hard work. But it's reality.
Ask HN: How much do you think SnapChat is really worth?
With the gossipy 3 Billion acquisition talk going around, I'm curious to learn what the HN readers believe to be a proper or more logical valuation for SnapChat (which does not have any immediate or pending revenue sources)
Hi Peter,

Thank you for the feedback. You can change the language in the settings page: https://demo.cozycloud.cc/#account
I am sitting right under one as I type in Doha airport. Only free power socket I could find.
here's a fun trivia question.

How many years did the Chamberlen family keep the invention of the forceps secret so they could enjoy monopoly profits?
Beautiful UI and very helpful implementation. Makes testing a joy.
As a person who was about to apply to PhD programs but changed my mind due to insufficient recommendations, I'm glad somebody else realizes that PhD admissions is utter bull crap.

185 dollar GRE that I can get in the 99th percentile on with ZERO studying? Grades that aren't normalized across institutions weighed heavily? Need recs from established professors who can slip in a good word for you?

Oh sorry, you were actually doing things that interested you, not necessarily things that would impress the right people. Oh sorry you took tons of hard classes at a prestigious institution and so have something less than 4.0. Oh sorry you hopped labs for a bit instead of staying with that boring CS guy that would've gotten you into any PhD program in America for 4 years. Oh sorry you spent a year or two out of college doing startup tech work without building credentials with other PhD grads but nevertheless solving research grade problems.

I've realized that the PhD admissions does not select candidates who actually want to do research. It selects candidates who want to be admitted into a PhD program. No thanks. I love science and math, and I love research, but I think the PhD application has been so harrowing for me, I won't consider it again unless drastic changes are made.
I suspect you might be right, but I am far from certain - can you elaborate?

My concerns are about things like PICs, but code generation is possible, so replacing functions to change PICs is one way to implement them. This is, I think, how the Graal project does JavaScript and Ruby, and they get very good performance.
I don't hate Coin.

I do find it astounding that magnetic cards are still the standard in the US though.
Younited collates your existing cloud accounts, making pictures, video, or whatever else you want to store and share available in one spot, including sharing options with popular services like Facebook FB +0.57%and Skydrive.

This is the opposite of "encrypted and impossible for authorities to access unless they get your key, which we don't have." Which is to say, the opposite of private. How does this service offer privacy?
Slight tangent, but I'm pretty sure sending money to phone numbers is pretty much how 90% of banking in Africa gets done, it seems like pretty cool stuff. Also, I have a bank account with PNC, and if I need to send money to a friend, all I need is their email address, and PNC sets up a transfer, and shoots them an email with a link and instructions for retrieving the money/depositing it into their (not necessarily PNC) bank account. Also the whole cashing a check via taking a photo on my phone is a pretty awesome feature.
This looks amazing, congratulations! I really like the idea of having a nice UI for keeping an eye on tests.

Does anyone know whether there's something similar for Ruby / Rails?
Jean Claude Van Damme shows Volvo's stability by a split b/w 2 reversing trucks
> The "at the cost of ongoing maintenance" part is a real head scratcher for me

Let's look at a common problem that DBAs are typically given: "The Database is slow!". Let's troubleshoot this ficticous problem on RDS:

Am I being affected by a noisy neighbor? Can't tell; contact Amazon support.

Can I look at top to see if the load is high on the box, and potentially why? No. I can look at historical trends, but not with enough granularity or information to be useful.

Can I look at the disk iops to see if there's any kind of problem there? No. Complete black box here; contact Amazon support.

Can I look at the slow log? Kind of. They'll push the slow log data into the database for you to query, but then you can't use tools to do aggregate tracking.

Pause for a moment for a quick MySQL RDS tip: pt-query-digest has a mode of operation that lets you do a processlist every 1/100th of a second and turn that into a pseudo slow log, which does work for RDS.

pt-query-digest --processlist h=10.0.0.1 --interval=0.01 --output slowlog > /tmp/fake_slowlog.out

Back on track - so no real analysis of a historical slow log, without writing your own tools. Possible, but time consuming.

Can I kill queries? Yes, using a stored procedure. Can't use any of the existing toolset around this (like pt-kill, which can help keep poorly written ad-hoc queries from getting out of hand).

So, after many hours swapping emails with Amazon support, we've determined that we're actually spending a lot of time waiting on malloc mutexes. The internet says that using a non-default version of malloc will help with that - can I do that?

Nope. You're stuck.

Other things you can't do:

* Offsite backups that are in any form but MySQL dumps.

* Take advantage of new index types and compression support from TokuDB.

* Zero downtime failovers (We were able to help someone fake this; it was a PITA).

* Cross-region replication.

* Automated failovers using a reputable tool (MMM, MHA, etc).

* Access the error logs.

* Run multiple instances on one machine.

* Alter the disk elevator (hopefully they're using something sane, like noop, but we'll never know)

* Alter the kernel swappiness.

* Troubleshoot crashes.

* Monitor and alert on a machine's vitals.

Now perhaps I'm just being a power-hungry admin, but these small things matter. They are the difference between a snappy DB which scales beautifully to 10,000+ QPS, and a sluggish DB that causes you to move to bigger hardware, because it's the only option open to you.

Databases just aren't that hard to set up. Install packages, install config files, start the DB, restore from a backup file, restart the DB, and you're golden. If you're particularly paranoid, set up the selinux contexts (I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that this isn't done on RDS instances), and create a security group that limits access to only the 22 and 3306 ports to your application hosts, and set up individual users.

This is particularly simple when you use an orchestration tool; I recommend Ansible personally.
I think you're underestimating how entrenched the CC companies are in our society. I agree that they'll eventually be replaced, but I doubt it will be in the next year, let alone the next 5 years.

I think Coin is a nice intermediate step between 10 cards in your wallet, and no wallet at all. Intermediate steps are viable businesses. I think Square is an intermediate step, and they seem to be doing just fine. They're obviously going to be at the forefront of eliminating cards all together, but they knew that credit cards aren't going away anytime soon, and so they leveraged that to get their foot in the door with the merchants.
Code Gangsta (certified) !!!

Fuck. Yeah.
unbelievable interesting. I'm working on studies of human behaviour in various channels, including darknets like those. I am curious how psychological manipulation can be used to subconsciously counter this, the CG-Sexbot was the missing piece.
That seems.... unlikely, on balance.

There is no way for the consumer to transfer all the necessary data from their chip to another device, and the banks probably wouldn't be interested due to branding and other concerns.
3...2...1..Backlash at Girls and Games Calendar
If you wouldn't be surprised by that, you must not be frequently surprised.
Love the idea!

I'm pretty obsessed with keeping the wallet light & thin - this seems to help out with that.

I wonder if this could potentially store other cards in some way as well? Gift cards etc - would be super convenient.

Incredible to squeeze that much tech in such a thin form factor - would love to see the internal hardware
It was the same story with javascript.
I hoped to see some useful information that can help me to see the world through the lens of software, but... Jeff Lawson should've been more clear about what he really meant by "looking at the world through the lens of software."
I could be wrong, but I don't think Amazon actually designs or manufactures anything under the AmazonBasics brand. It's like buying a "white box" PC from a company like MSI and reselling it under your own brand name.
I noticed that this is the case in C-like (low-level) programming languages. People seem to name their variables using one letter.
"Does It Have Green Unicode Ticks?" is my first go/no go heuristic when evaluating a test runner. Amazing how many fail! Glad to see there's an option in Go.

Seriously, no sarcasm here. I have a green tick addiction and need my fix.
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From the industry side of this - online payments suffer a lot more fraud and just generally have a worse risk-profile than traditional "customer-present" transactions.

Specifically online card payments. Unsure about through other processing facilities.
A lot of the increase is from non US countries. Presumably they realized they can request things, and are now starting to.
"The brothers went to great length to keep the secret. When they arrived at the home of a woman in labour, two people had to carry a massive box with gilded carvings into the house. The pregnant patient was blindfolded so as not to reveal the secret, all the others had to leave the room. Then the operator went to work. The people outside heard screams, bells, and other strange noises until the cry of the baby indicated another successful delivery."

Holy hell...
That is an interesting dilemma, yeah. To be a sharp homework-hammering undergrad is not to be a good researcher & fuzzy situation manager. It's why there's such focus on undergrad research these days, it helps identify the capable people and build their skills (as well as getting some amount of budget help).

The professor at Brown clearly enunciates some of the issues with the current system quite well.
If there is that much adoption then the onus will be on Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft etc to step up and accept the will of web developers.
Edit: and push for standardization.
There are lots of problems flying two-engined planes on one engine. Asymmetric thrust makes flying the plane tricky. Significantly reduced thrust greatly reduces performance. Managing the engines becomes more complex since you might not treat them the same anymore (especially if one is on fire).

In small multi-engine planes where single-engine flight is marginal, the safety advantage is terribly clear. You have a better chance if an engine fails, but you also have a lot more failures.

It's less of a problem in large airliners, where the margins are higher and the training more thorough. The safety advantage is clear enough that all large airliners have at least two engines. Still, there are accidents that stem from a single failed engine on a multi-engine airliner:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegworth_air_disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20060614/NEWS/60614001...

That last one is not technically an airliner, but it's the same basic category, and I think it's a particularly interesting example as they had four engines, but managed to screw things up badly enough after losing just one to crash anyway.
By that logic, SnapChat will never sell. They get a $4B offer...well, that company must think we are worth $5B...and so on.
I think the first comment says you have to purposefully be trying to break the law. If you went into a situation where you knew what you were seeing was a bot and not a person then I don't think that would count as attempting to break any laws. Or am I misreading that?
> Do attempted murder charges typically have a less extreme penalty than actual murder charges?

Yes.

> This is a concern to me because it doesn't make sense to me that somebody who tries to kill somebody but does a poor job of it should be punished less harshly than somebody who tries to kill somebody and manages to pull it off.

Typically, both the degree of "wrongness" of the act and the degree of harm inflicted by it are factors in setting criminal punishments. While attempted murder might be as morally wrong as actual murder, the harm inflicted is different.
The tech point of view is the most interesting! They made a reprogrammable credit card that's the same thickness as a credit card. That's impressive tech whatever your opinion of the utility.
FCC releases Android app to test mobile broadband speeds
Google Voice for credit cards is ... Google Wallet. Or at least, it was supposed to have been. Page killed it off before this year's I/O. http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/05/google-kills-its-pla...
What we can say is that with the Google case as a precedent, it makes it a heck of a lot more likely that a judge faced with similar use from a bootstrapped startup out of Austin will find for fair use, next time.
Strictly speaking that's been one of the card rules for a long time - you were supposed to swipe your own card in stores and absolutely never let a waiter wander off with it.

Reality was always a bit different to that.
It seems to me that the best way to launch a product for the "dark web" would be to just release the code.
Secularizing the Tech Debate
It looks like the Multi-AZ setup is using block level replication such as DRBD instead of the built-in replication:

> Database updates are made concurrently on the primary and standby resources to prevent replication lag.

Makes me feels better for setting up my own pg cluster on EC2 a week ago, which does allow reads from the replication slave. Plus, I can provision <1000 IOPS (provisioned IOPS is damn expensive with AWS), and get to use ZFS.
I did my Master's work part-time and semi-remotely - I lived and worked in the same geographical area as the University, and it was hard.

I would recommend against it in exceptionally strenuous terms for the PhD. Full-time on-site PhD or don't bother IMO. It just decreases the educational intensity and quality so much not to do that.
From the article it sounds there are some features/tweaks to Postgres that are not just config changes. I'm not sure but it seems reasonable that Amazon had to make changes to run the way they wanted it to. What else would take them so long in offering Postgres on RDS?
Most websites use email as the password recovery mechanism. "Authenticate by email" is strictly better than "authenticate by password or email".
I used to work at the Federal Trade Commission, so I'm quite familiar with this particular legal issue. What Coin is doing violates neither the spirit nor the letter of the Mail Order Rule.

The law states that orders must be shipped within the time stated by the company, and there is a default of 30 days if no other shipping estimate is given. In this case, Coin clearly and conspicuously states that they will ship in the Summer of 2014.

If they fail to ship by that time, they are required to offer purchasers a refund. However, the law clearly states that the company can set their shipping timeline, so long as they make the company aware of it.
Definitely. The callback style is horrible as a concurrency model. Truly awful. Compare callbacks to goroutines and it's insane how awesome goroutines are.

But, Node made it easier to write purely asynchronous code and using a language people were familiar with, that's why it became so popular. While Go is has an insanely good concurrency model, Node has it's quick iteration going for it and a large number of packages.

Now that generators (coroutines) have made it into V8, the concurrency model of Node is changing, for the better. Node is still very much limited in application (thanks to JavaScript and the event loop.). Whereas Go can be used for a lot of different things. But Node specializes in web applications, in web servers. Thus, it's going to be more productive than a general purpose solution.
What's absurd about the safety stuff, aside from the fact that most of us have the thing memorized by now and don't really need to hear it every time?
Fiverr and Google Web Fonts are your best friends.
This is great. I love it.
I want to know what did the girl do at 0:11 that he had to look away. :D
The moment this gets turned down by a merchant you visit frequently, there goes the magic. That means you'll have to keep your regular card in your wallet along with your Coin, and the whole value prop comes crashing down. It seems interesting as a novelty, but I'm not sure I'd pay $100 to play with the cool kids in this case.
Zulily prices IPO at $22 per share
That's a fair point in that yes, JavaScript was nonstandard when it was first included in a web browser.

But it is an incorrect point in that the field has changed a lot, for the better - most or all browser vendors want to play nicely these days. Even Microsoft is supporting the standards process and implementing WebGL, for example. The principles guiding browser vendors are more like these which Google wrote for Blink:

http://www.chromium.org/blink#new-features

> In practice, we strive to ensure that the features we ship by default have open standards.

That was not the case 18 years ago, but thankfully it is today. 18 years ago it might have been common practice to just ship a new VM in a browser, but to do so today with no regards for the standards process would be unexpected and improper.
If there's enough adoption, then I'd expect other browser developers either to build their own Dart runtimes, or -- since its free -- use or fork Google's.

And, then, sure, Dart2JS stops being important to Google because its unimportant to how Dart code performs on the web. But its unimportant to Google because its unimportant to anyone, since it won't matter to users, either.
In my limited experience (not on an airliner, so actually legalish), signal is usually good below 4,000ft, almost guaranteed to be gone above 6,000ft, and hit or miss in between.
I bet we'd reduce the need for extreme intervention like this if we'd encourage women to deliver in more traditional positions. Prone and sedated is just about the worst possible way to have a kid.
New Relic Pricing for Startups
"The Dart VM is not part of any web standard, nor part of a spec that has interest from multiple vendors"

Which is... exactly the same situation JavaScript was in when Netscape introduced it.
Agree ... We may not see PL/Python very soon until somebody solve the sandboxing issues.

But I was surprise to not see PL/V8 which is sandboxed
Except this "type of moderation" is harmful, not beneficial. When someone gets shadow banned, they go back and make a new account, and continue behaving exactly as before. If you want to improve behavior, you need to tell people what they did wrong so they can change. Shadow bans are only useful for people who are deliberately being disruptive, not for people who worded something in a way mods disliked, or posted an opinion mods didn't like.
Notwithstanding the fact that it makes no sense to discuss consumer marketing in a blog post about how technology is sold to companies, if we assume for argument's sake that I misread your post, your statement ("Non-developers respond to ads that entertain, inspire and probably feature celebrities they aspire to be. You’re selling dreams and feelings...They don’t really pay attention to specs and features") becomes even more arrogant.

Now instead of insulting the intelligence of non-developers who make B2B purchasing decisions, you're insulting the intelligence of everybody who is not a developer who makes any purchasing decision.

Do you honestly believe that folks who don't write code for a living never make logical, informed purchasing decisions, and that people who do write code for a living never make purchasing decisions based on feelings, aspirations or relationships?

I know that the SF/Silicon Valley "developers rule the world" mentality is intoxicating, but assuming that non-programmers are basically irrational, lesser beings is a huge mistake for any business.
Well, it was seven years ago they filed the suit. But yeah, they sure are sticking to it.

> It is like website owners suing Google for crawling, indexing and increasing visibility of their website.

Yeah, that happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Google_Inc..
That's not as true anymore. If you did some interesting independent-research projects as an undergrad, which you got published as conference papers, that strongly overrides your undergrad course grades nowadays, at most schools. Basically publications trump everything, and grades are only used if you don't have any publications.
Wait, isn't this exactly the same as "Coin" which got a lot of buzz today?
Consider this :

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> Coin is like "Google Voice for Credit Card"

Hopefully not "Google Wave for Credit Card"
I won't be surprise to see it supported soon.
I find this a bit misleading. Their post mentions $25/month, but the email I received from New Relic asked me to sign up for a minimum of $199/month for 8 servers
My understanding is that the problem isn't with the speed of the handovers, but rather with the fact that the horizon is a major block to radio signals, and the horizon is much farther away when you're at altitude.

Older networks were designed around the fairly reasonable assumption that a cell phone would only ever be able to talk to adjacent cells, because anything farther away would be over the horizon. So you might be able to talk to both A and B at the same time, but you couldn't talk to C without first losing contact with A.

Raise the phone a few thousand feet in the air and this assumption goes out the window, confusing the network. There's an amusing story of a pilot who called up his family to let them know he was almost home and ended up getting billed for the call (at expensive 80s rates) a bunch of times because several different towers all thought they were running the call.

There's certainly no problem today, anyway.
It's still more gentle than the forceps though.
Re: Loyalty cards - you can almost always just enter your phone number at merchants. I've encountered no exceptions to this, but I'm sure they exist.
Show HN: An Android app to create ranking ladders for multiplayer games
or G+ for credit card