skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an European, so maybe it's different in US, but is too many cards problem that people actually have? Judging by the top 2 stories on HN right now, it probably is.

I have a card. It is hooked up to my bank account. It works.
Wait. Why not both wallaby cards in the coin?
Launched in Summer of 2012. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4161916

I had signed up and was in the second batch of users. First 1,000 users got it for free for life. Next batch got it one year for free.

I never got the card though. Something related to demand was too high and then nothing.
Honestly, I bet they have. Either:

1. The App Store approval process (and app sand boxing) is so good that no malware made it through that needed the kill switch. Or,

2. Malware has made it out to customers, and the kill switch was used. However, Apple certainly isn't going to publicize that fact, and the malware author probably isn't going to either.
how many cards we have? I have 3 and see no use in coin
- True.
Flying is serious business. You don't want to take any risks having your metal box carrying a few hundred people fall down. You really do not.

Sounds like an excellent reason to prohibit bringing untested electronic devices onboard in the first place.

The fact that such a prohibition is not in place means that the whole thing is just so much security theater.
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It is not a problem I have, but from looking at the responses on HN it seems there is interest. If there is a viable solution and market demand, why not?
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You mean '3 out of top 4'? There's a "Protean echo" too.
This YC's site, and it's always had job listings from YC companies. They can't be downvoted or commented on. Here's some from 2007 when it was still called "Startup News":

https://web.archive.org/web/20070713212949/http://news.ycomb...
The Value Heirarchy
Any news on Crinkle? Clinkle Gets $25 Million to Create Mobile Payment Standard
Exactly, who knows....
"It's IMHO quite questionable whether such a law suit must be insanely complex and involve hundreds of thousands of pages of documents."

There is essentially some minimum amount of documentation necessary to resolve a lawsuit. For something that involves a class of many thousands of plaintiffs, works, and claims, needing essentially 10 pages per person (or whatever) is just not a lot.

I mean, do you expect Google search to be 50 lines of code?

Also note that part of the purpose of discovery is to get everyone's cards on the table. You are often required to produce any possibly relevant info, which in this day and age, includes large volumes of emails.
The whole goal here is that there should be no surprises, and hopefully, the dispute should be resolvable without going to trial once everyone's hand is shown.

Judges are overworked because the judiciary is underfunded.
We are too busy making useless tanks to add to the collection we have in the desert.
Build a skill set, not a curriculum
Clearly the real solution is to insert the air hose from an impact wrench into the uterus, past the baby, to inflate the uterus and blast the baby out. This way the pressure isn't just on the baby's head.
What an awful world view. People should always come second to those who have more money than them?
Coin aka Wallet...
I'd be ashamed of being you.
It was an incredible collaboration experience. We talk about this in the "making of" video that should be coming out soon (assuming we make the cut...)
One card to rule them all ;)
Not really. Every request from a credit provider is a hard request negatively impacting your score in most formulas. Providers not checking your score do not affect it anyways (improving it or making it worse).

Plus it is harder to manage debt, adding risk of defaults and fraud operations.
I have...

a debit card, a credit card, a backup credit card and my corporate card

I would love a positively fail safe solution to get this down to one card, but to be honest, neither of these top stories offer that. Because at the end of the day, the most common reason for failure in my standard use case is user error on my part.
your list of stuff to learn is rather heavy on implementation - wouldn't it make more sense to use a poor implementation of an algorithm in hadoop that uses 10 machines than to squeeze every ounce of performance using GPU's, cache locality etc. in a single machine, at great expense in programmer time?

I think that one nice thing about the idea of "big data" is being about to parallelize the problem and just throw more cores at it.

But on the other hand, I do think that when people think of "big data" they have in some magic solution that doesn't really exist. At the end of the day big data is just statistics.
Google uses the STL everywhere in Chrome.
It's not really an issue for me. I have four cards and don't mind having them all in my wallet. What seems to have happened is a bunch of people with the same idea panicked and put out releases at the same time to avoid looking like copycats.
Very nice. It can be easily used to serve subtrees of another go web framework that accepts http.Handler (e.g. appengine):

m := martini.Classic()
// ...
http.Handle("/", m)
So you get a heap of credit cards to make it easier to get more credit (cards)?
I like Udacity, I did... If they want to monetize some of their content, good, but I wont be participating.
Coin does the exact same thing except with 8 at a time.
Or when another site disappears and takes the money with them Apple doesn't want to deal with people thinking Apple will get their money back.
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Securing your instances in what way? Elastic Beanstalk should initially provide you with instances that one would expect to be reasonably secure, but I wouldn't rely on that level of presumed security for anything important. It definitely does not provide a fully managed environment on an ongoing basis. One glaring example is that it does not handle things like OS-level security updates/patches, or provide you with instances running updated AMIs unless you re-setup your EB environment.
Don't give up so quickly. Sneaking in good ideas into companies is a skill that takes time to learn, and even when mastered takes patiences to exercise.
That's why we redistribute money. It's not the worldview that is awful, it's the fact the people prefer to spend money on themselves, than on other people.

Once you're done with redistribution, then the time for complaining that I can afford X while the starving artist who really appreciates it can't, is over.

EDIT: But to clarify, yes, if a person is willing to pay more for something, they should receive it. If you oppose this, then what you really oppose is that one person is richer than another. Hence the discussion on redistribution.
A lot of universities are definitely trying to push more and more of these sorts of courses though; check out, for example, cs229r at Harvard: http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~minilek/cs229r/index.html , along with some other course examples at the bottom of that page. Do you think things are changing for the better in this manner?
Researchers unveil 'shape-changing technology for computer interaction
I've got a United airlines CC, an Amazon CC, a dining rewards card, and then 2-3 other legacy credit cards without fees, and three debit cards for different bank accounts.
I am not sure this is correct.

1) How are abstentions counted? Does a senator that abstains more get pushed out towards the edge for having less connections in general?

2) If a party member votes 100% along the party line, then they will be towards the center of the blob. If a party member is less partisan in the fashion of voting WITH bipartisan consensus then that person is gets put in the center. If a party member is less partisan in the fashion of voting AGAINST bipartisan consensus then they would be on the edge far from the center.
I'm pretty sure the others were posted in response to Coin. I'm also entirely uncomfortable with the notion that some problems are less real than others. Problems will have different levels of severity, but one problem doesn't invalidated another.
I've just signed up, looks interesting
Google opens its spectrum database to developers
This is very disappointing. It's their house and you have to play by their rules I guess. This is why I have to keep diversifying where I acquire content from these ecosystems.

Hats off to the guys at Coinbase. I really like their approach to Bitcoin so far.
Gfycat
I live in the US and I don't get it, either. It can't replace my whole wallet - I see the utility there - so instead my wallet is.. a few mm thinner? With x extra added points of failure?
Slightly off topic, but it's sad to see so much brainpower and energy go into "innovation" in the financial sector.

We (society) have created a complicated game involving credit cards and we have to continue playing the game otherwise we lose. Merchants charge higher prices because they need to pay a 2% merchant fee, then the credit card "rewards" us with 0.5% back. Madness.

If the blizzard of credit card features--cash back, reward schemes, loyalty plans, interest options, perks, airline points--all disappeared, it would be a huge net benefit to society.

I realize it won't get fixed. It's sort of like simplifying income tax legislation. Almost everyone would benefit even if the amount of tax collected remained the same, but there's no mechanism to even start doing it. Same thing here with the credit cards.
Exciting! Thanks for the additional info, I definitely have a better picture now.

I think the recruiting industry can definitely use more help from technology.
Awesome tech, but I don't see myself handing over my phone in a busy restaurant/bar -- you don't usually get to swipe your card yourself there.
I just skimmed that at first, and really had no idea what had been said. Then I went back and really read the first couple of paragraphs.

They really, really look like they were written by an automated process. I can't imagine a humanoid writing this:

Quite simply, everything is encrypted, with the purpose of transferring the most basic data ownership and levels of privacy back to the control of the user, even when sharing through Facebook.

I mean, it sounds...sort-of kind-of human. But how do "quite simply" and "everything is encrypted" go together? There's nothing simple about encryption. A 14 year old writing a book report could put weird constructions like that together, but this whole thing had similar weirdness throughout, but with vocabulary I wouldn't expect from a bored teenager.

You know they are already writing sports articles with computers. Why not business articles?
I suspect that this statistic is true and not true depending on how you look at the numbers.

I have two credit cards, but when I pull my credit report, something like 8 credit cards come up. The other 6 have been closed long ago, and now they're listed as "account closed". But for a long time, they were listed as open accounts even though I no longer even had the cards. I had to call several times to get the account closure properly listed.

I suspect many people, over their lives, change from card to card as new deals are offered (50,000 free miles!), with varying velocity, but most people probably don't bother to call and insist that their credit report get fixed when these old cards aren't officially listed as "account closed".
Some people wanted to build optional-typing language for real world for decades, and finally made it. That is a great achievement.

From product point of view, Google would be much better to port Android Dalvik to Chrome. You can run GWT Java code in browser years ago. Running the same code using JVM would be much faster with much less code change. 5-10 man-year would be enough to do the porting, and it will share work between Android and Chrome for years to come. Of course, it would be much boring research work though.

From performance point of view, asm.js gets much better performance with way less work. No matter how good Dart performs, it would never make sense to port high performance C/C++ game code to Dart, so you end up having to use both Dart + pNaCl, which is an awful solution. Technically, TypeScript is more interesting if Microsoft can keep it simple and fast, but I doubt Microsoft would make anything simple.
There are two wallets available in the app store. Blockchain and Coinjar. I can attest to the security and great UI of Blockchain. I don't know anything about coinjar.
1) How are abstentions counted? Does a senator that abstains more get pushed out towards the edge for having less connections in general?

2) Is this correct: If a party member votes 100% along the party line, then they will be towards the center of the blob. If a party member is less partisan in the fashion of voting WITH bipartisan consensus (e.g. voting for hugely consensus PATRIOT act) then that person is gets put in the center. If a party member is less partisan in the fashion of voting AGAINST bipartisan consensus (e.g. voting against hugely consensus PATRIOT act) then they would be on the edge far from the center.
There's no way to access the audio ICs from I2C or SPI on the BP?

You might also need access to the PMIC to turn on the amplifiers, but most designs I've seen have access ports from both BP and AP. (This was on Motorola devices, Q and the EZX phones.)
First two years in the US PhD is like a master's degree studies - regular lectures/courses. That is way US PhD program is usually 5 years long and you apply with Bachelor's degree.

In Europe, mostly, you're required to have a master's degree to apply for a PhD.
This is a stupid article. Phone paying systems are clunky. I don't want to take out my phone, unlock it, open up an app, enter a PIN, choose a payment device, and then tap my phone to a payment system to pay, when I can just open up my wallet, take out this one card, and swipe it. Maybe you need to press the button a couple times to switch cards, but that's it.
$3 billion cash is a no brainer.

I for one would certainly feel schadenfreude if SnapChat becomes Digg 2.0, spurning a heck of an offer and then losing steam and becoming the redheaded stepchild of startups. $3billion is a heck of a price for a company that is super popular but has little to no lock in.

It's only worth $3 billion because there are three major competing social networks (Google, Twitter and Facebook) and Facebook doesn't need it, but doesn't want either Twitter or Facebook to have it.

I can't even imagine what companies like Tencent think they'll get out of acquiring SnapChat.
It's not a perfect solution, the audio routing might be hardware with simple impedance detection of a plugged in headset, which the software could ignore and continue using the mic.
How the iPad Got Its Iconic Design
I'd love access to the raw vector database if you feel like sending it my way.
It sounds translated. Badly.
Thanks. Here is the brochure for recruiting solutions, it has some more details: http://bit.ly/predrecsol2
As you know, any field is constantly advancing and sometimes it returns to an older idea and uses it in a new way. This is happening in obstetrics right now. It isn't that the downsides of sedated, prone births were "missed" so much as that they were part of the best birth technology of the time and innovation and changes in viewing that technology do not happen quickly. That model is now being replaced by births that combine medical advances with the mother's natural abilities more effectively.

Every scientific advancement must be preceded by a time when that advancement was not known or known but not used, no matter the age of the field.
No, you can figure out when the tickets go on sale to the event that you just can't miss and you can get them early just like the scalpers do, if you actually are such a big fan...
Fortunately, the market for expertise with computers is hot enough, that we don't have to work at these clueless companies.
My latest prank video... I've probably eaten alot of spit.
I hope you guys like it, or hate it even.
In need of a programmer to help a startup
i am a programmer and i just recently launched a website www.thestudybox.com, it already has a few user and i believe it will change the world. Its a question and answer platform for students and a great tool for learning. Right now i need an someone with php/web development skills to help me with the coding and also will co-own it, am just out of college, don't have an office, and with zero funds but what am working on is a great idea that has real legs and i guarantee anyone coming on board will be thankful that they did in few years.
email: hello@thestudybox.com if you think i should tell you more on why this is the next big thing.
Anything can be hacked, but sometimes it's good to have money on hand to pay bar tabs with. Can't do that with my buried-in-the-ground wallet.
Yes, because obviously nurses are just there to do menial labour that it would be demeaning for doctors to do. This is the most ignorant thing I've seen you say on this website, ever.
Except that REI isn't going from a normal return policy to a draconian return policy. It's going from the most unbelievably lenient and forgiving policy to something that's still far more lenient and forgiving than anyone else offers. I don't think it's quite a fair comparison.
That wasn't the reason that Apple provided us with.

e: clarity
"Airplane mode" is essentially and AT command sent to the baseband to disassociate and go to sleep, it doesn't disable the baseband CPU, DSP or anything else.

You could argue that "off" is the same thing, for instance, many Qualcomm devices boot with the BP first and and can do a lot before the AP is even taken out of halt, without initializing the LCD display, backlight, etc.
This is a fair counterpoint, but if your lack of fundamentals caused you to write an O(n^k); k>1 algorithm, you're not going to be able to pay your way to the solution with more cores if you truly have "big data". Even constant multipliers of a poor O(n) algorithm will cost you serious bucks if your default optimization strategy is "buy more computers" rather than a few afternoons of quiet thought.
Keybord (virtual/physical)
2005, Berkeley, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UIUC, and my alma mater UT Austin. Ended up at Cal. Granted, I was EE and admitted as EECS, so maybe a bit different.
I imagine there's a positive correlation between 'winging it' and being a successful professional athlete - over-thinking is severely detrimental to performing under pressure.
My purpose is to get people to question feminism and see outside a very narrow worldview in which women are always victims. In your case, I have failed. And the way you make this argument personal is really pathetic, although not surprising.
Interesting idea. I wonder if it has been tried.
oh yeah and it wasn't the only time either: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121213/08013521375/belgia...
I'm pretty sure loyalty programs are good for the smart consumer. I would speculate credit cards were all competing with one another while charging a 2% fee. They all wanted to go lower but couldn't and needed something to compete. Enter loyalty programs, designed to attract your attention but be too confusing to actually use.

TL,DR - I would guess cutting loyalty programs wouldn't lower credit card fees.
Sometimes you just need to start and try it. Get the inertia going.

You can start small. Help a friend or relative and charge them. Get practicing on itemizing cost, project proposal, contract negotiation, collecting money, figuring out how to get paid etc. These are importance freelancing skills outside of just coding.
I never disagreed that the overall quality of the code has gone down; I meant to suggest that such an observation misses the point.

Open Source is now much more accessible, and I think that's a good thing.

It used to be that if you wanted to own a car, you needed to basically have the knowledge of a mechanic. Now any "idiot" can own and operate a car. Is that such a bad thing? Cars are for getting you from A to B, remember?

There is arguably more mediocre code out there in the public eye now, thanks to GitHub. Is this bad? I'm not sure. But don't tell me that GitHub has made it more difficult for you to make software of the same quality as the stuff from 20 years ago.

Furthermore, why do I need to "choose" one of the options you gave? I don't care if I'm "junior" or "senior".

TL;DR: I just want to get my work done like everybody else. It's a matter of practicality; not honor.
They didn't bother linking to it, but the same news outlet gave more information back in August [1] naming Doug Williams as the other person instructing how to pass polygraphs. Another article released by a local news outlet two days later [2] stated that he was sought for questioning but not charged with any crime.

As for the other guy, he wasn't convicted of writing a book on fooling the polygraph. According to the prosecuting attorney [3], he was travelling around the US giving one-on-one advice to clients who wanted to pass the polygraph for $1-2k plus travel expenses each, receiving specific details about each case, instructed them to lie and provided instruction on exactly how to conceal those details. I think in this case the feds definitely have reasonable suspicion to believe that his clients are guilty of perjury or falsifying testimony in order to gain employment with the federal government, and they had enough evidence to show that he knowingly aided them. I'm not surprised at all that they took his business records for further scrutiny.

[1] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/08/16/199590/seeing-threats-...

[2] http://www.news9.com/story/23178002/authorities-investigate-...

[3] http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/pr/2013/oigpr_090613.pdf
Wow! I didn't know tmux works on Cygwin. Last I checked there was an issue due to Cygwin not supporting proper file descriptors.

Apparently tmux has worked under Cygwin for some time now - since July at least. The actual patch appears to originate here, and is a neat little read:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=308508...
US card-issuing banks compete by offering varying bonuses for using their card. Typical offers will be 1% cash back or 1 frequent flier mile per dollar spent, but this can flex up to 5X in whichever category that particular card specializes in, often linked to a particular merchant.

If you can shift the lion's share of your purchasing onto rewards cards, you can bank hundreds of dollars per year, especially if you use the card for business travel and expenses. There's an opportunity for that to increase by 2X or more if you can put your purchases on the "best" card.
Neat idea. I have to ask how FB comes into it. As most educational and work info is going to be on Linkedin?
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Right now, I'm connected with the Tether app - listed on the App store for less than a day, two years (and two iOS cycles) ago. So once you've downloaded an app, Apple does not generally disable it, even if they no longer approve.
European cards are typically a combined credit and debit card, so that's one less card alraedy.
There's also the possibility of reprogramming a PINMUX to move access from the AP to the BP on the same SoC for something like SPI.

Essentially, most of the pins on the SoC are re-programmable to have different functions or connect to different logical blocks within the SoC.

Along these lines there's also bit-banging SPI or I2C, which should work fine for infrequent updates from an accel or compass (and now things like pedometers being added to devices.)

As for microphone, if it's being read by the audio DSP, it's certainly accessible from the baseband, at least on Qualcomm . If nothing else you can load a DSP module that allows access to the raw PCM (or vocoder) data.

Same is probably true for the camera, which is usually on an HSIF or similar bus connected to the DSP.
- Where are you located?