skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a bunk rule anyways. If there was the remotest chance of a phone / kindle / whatever interfering with in-flight systems, bringing any electronics onboard would be expressly forbidden. They'd take them away from you at the security screening (like they do with the extremely dangerous water bottles and nail clippers these days..)
Ordinarily I would agree, but in this case, the poster said that there's not a lot of data yet so it would be easier to migrate. Choosing a database is a pretty major decision with long-term impact that might not be obvious now, so it's worth exploring a few options if you have that luxury.

I think there are two times when it makes sense to consider a DB migration: (1) early on, when it's easy; (2) if you are in major trouble with your existing DB.
I don't agree with it; I think time is proving him wrong.

But that is hilariously written. I love a well-executed embittered screed.
Comments on videos of the DIY nature are very helpful for increasing the breadth of information.
I'm not sure what people are expecting. YouTube is a site that has a wide, general audience that includes adults and children, of all backgrounds and nationalities. The popular videos are almost exclusively lowest common denominator pop crap or viral trends. I wouldn't expect anything resembling actual discussion on the latest Miley Cyrus video. You can't even get that from HN or reddit. People seem to forget the Usenet days, where a conversation could last weeks or even months. YouTube, HN, and reddit are all hit-and-run sites.
There are plenty of Big Data applications that aren't unethical. Back in the 90s (before the term Big Data was conceived) two of the biggest users of Teradata were P&G and Wal*mart. It was more about supply chain and retail store efficiency than anything nefarious. Big data helped make sure that store shelves had what people wanted.

Today there are mass spamvertising campaigns on Big Data, but there are also applications on financial services (making sure our pension funds take the right risk), engineering, telecom and elsewhere that help improve our lives.
The point of view within Google that spawned Dart is that JavaScript as a language has major and unfixable flaws that severely raise the cost of developing large apps. It's nice that node.js uses V8, but being based on a Google project does nothing to address the language issues.

Note that that point of view is not universally shared at Google, and many people are fine with JavaScript, and probably would use node.js.
I'd argue that there already is, in well written libraries, an artificial boundary. Library APIs often have to be written for the consumption of others, so more care is usually given (in well written) libraries.

You don't really need to create any function interfaces for most expressions since the most common ones are pre-defined (Supplier, Consumer, Predicate, Function, UnaryOp, BinaryOp, etc), and the basic rules allow a lot of flexibility.

I've been doing a lot of Java8 recently due to work integrating it into GWT (https://plus.google.com/+RayCromwell/posts/C4QYmWWQguT) and the experience has been delightful. In actual use (as opposed to testcases), it's been very economical, especially the this::foo constructor vs the JS equivalent which needs bind(), and the fact that you get good auto-complete is great.
Are the card issuers going to be happy about what amounts to card cloning, or am I missing something here?
Because it's not worth the cost. On the consumer side, chargebacks are easy. Credit card companies bear the brunt of the cost of fraud. They all have the incentive in the world to start rolling out chip and pin technology. The fact that they haven't probably demonstrates that the math doesn't work out.
Why not just pay with Bitcoin? Really, after Bitcoin, using credit cards seems like an invitation to be robbed.
I believe Google is using Go for completely different projects (i.e. fast backend services that don't really interact with the browser).
Yeah, "what ad?"
You mean the USA has non standard tech/standards and companies have to produce two SKU's one for export one for home - you fail production engineering 101.

The fiasco over not implementing GSM like the rest of the developed world did is a good example - less NIH might help.
"Interesting, posted by some guy named Josh, wait, that was me!"
> Why does everything always have to be the latest and greatest thing on earth?

Go is less than the "latest thing" and more of an evolution of some old ideas, especially when compared to other "latest things".
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Seems crazy that it only holds 8 cards. I'm not about to go through all this effort only to replace some of the cards in my wallet but not all of them.
I live in the Chicago suburbs. The CTA ("The El" and the bus lines) and the Metra (light rail to the suburbs) are just barely adequate to be called public transportation. I'm in SF often, and would say its easier to get around SF without a car than Chicago.

Just my two cents. Demo: 30, male, owns a car but hates it.

EDIT: Our bike lanes are coming along very well in downtown Chicago, and almost everyone loves the new Divvy bike sharing program.
You are most likely eating something you are intolerant to.

You need to do an elimination diet, SCD diet, and eliminate all grains temporarily.

Curing this with antibiotics would only be a temporary solution, and antibiotics in general are not a good strategy for dealing with long term infections.
Sorry - I think the leather wallet and credit card are already going to be replaced by the cell phone itself, not an additional card accessory.
It's not even that great an analogy. If I use a particular hammer to build a table then I could throw it away at the end because it is no longer important as long as the nails are in the right place. I could even use a different hammer to drive every single nail if I wanted to and it wouldn't matter.

Languages , libraries , frameworks and runtimes on the other hand literally become a part of the end product. In many (maybe most) programs the total LOC count for the project is dominated by third party code vs original work.

So in this case they are not the tools, they are the nails.
Portable Class Libraries just got really useful.
The majority of credit cards still have actual numbers on them.
I use node, .net, java, php, python, ruby, different horses for different courses. Sounds like this guy just loves to argue, bet he's fun to work with....
For some reason, all the cards I keep in my wallet get destroyed. I have a decent leather wallet but they still crack and chip and the paint rubs off. I don't know if I want that to happen to a $100 device.

Does this happen to anyone else? It has happened with the last two wallets I've owned.
My screen is 1280x1024 which isn't /that/ small and it sits underneth the introudction.

I also thought it was related to the primary subject... and the real image, I thought was an error message from the advert company for clickabuse or something..

So when the author brings up usability and UI issues... should probably recitify those on his own site, before reaching out to others.
Seems to be missing the point. Courts pass judgment, typically, on areas of law that are not covered directly by existing legislation. If there was a Federal law saying specifically "You shall not scan and store books without the permission of the author.", it seems unlikely Google would have won. The upthread point wasn't that "benefits the public" was the only criteria for courts to use, just that it was the guiding principle to use in cases of ambiguity.
Samsung smartphone with flexible wraparound display
Does this whole concept creep anyone else out? Forget downgrading to a three-star hotel, I would rather sleep in my car than share a private room with a stranger and I'm a younger guy who is generally not too concerned with my own safety. I would guess that only a very small percentage of women would be willing to do this.

Not only is safety a concern but also just personal habits as well. How do I know the person I'm sharing room with would not come back to the room drunk at 2:00 AM? Or spend over an hour occupying the bathroom in the morning? Would someone assigned to share a room with me mind if I stay up to watch the end of a basketball game on TV or that I snore?
You won't lose any rewards. It's cloning your credit card number and info and using it like it was your real card. Their FAQ's address this.
I'm just thinking about the reaction I would get if I walked into my grocery store and handed them my Coin. I'm not sure they would take it. Debit and credit cards may be a problem too, although they're diverse enough that unfamiliarity is less of an issue. Plus, you can handle the card yourself in many transactions. Usually loyalty cards need to be given to the merchant.
I love this idea, but I don't think it would solve one of the biggest reasons why I would want something like this:

Royalty Cards. I simply don't use them because that's way too many cards to have in your wallet. But say I'm at a restaurant, without coin, you give the waiter your credit card and your royalty card. With coin, do you make him run back twice so you can hit the button to switch from your credit card to your royalty card?

I guess you could get 2, one for credit / debit cards, another for royalty cards, but that seems to start defeating the purpose.
And Dart is not a plugin, it gives you the whole DOM (though a _much_ improved API), unlike Silverlight, ActiveX, Flash, Java or any other plugin.
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How will this work when CC companies finally migrate to cards with SIM chips?
It doesn't seem to apply to inserting, and in Europe we don't really use swiping (also we have to type a PIN code).

Although as a US product only it seems surreally cool and practical. I wouldn't use that for my credit card, but for a membership card? I have way too much H&M card, Levis' card, Virgin Megastore card, Cinema Card...
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Great technology solving what's a small, but real inconvenience with a great, simple UX and product. Just bought mine.

My only question was can I use for my ATMs too (which pull card in vs. being swiped)?

And the answer is yes, great FAQ by the way:

https://onlycoin.com/support/faq/
It certainly goes a long way to explaining the persistence of generational poverty, and pointing to a necessary prerequisite to solving it. You need to do more than supply money or opportunities, you need to gradually change ingrained behavior so that opportunities can be capitalized on rather than burned for warmth.
I just requested your ebook to read later tonight - but do you know of any other good resources or books on drop shipping-based eCommerce sites?
According to "The Portable MBA", the selling price for a business like this should be about 2X gross profits, so we'd logically expect about four price cuts before someone bites (predicting a sale at $145k).
"Q. Will my Coin work outside the U.S.?
A. Not in all cases.

U.S.-based customers: Coin will work overseas, but we recommend that you bring a backup card when you travel.

Customers located outside of the U.S.: Coin does not support EMV yet. If the country you live it requires it we recommend holding off your purchase for now."

Found this in FAQ section.
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An in-depth study by Forbes into social selling and found that sales agents using social media to sell, bring in up to 78% more business than those who disregard it as a legitimate business tool.
> How do you reward excellence? There will surely come a time where an employee has been working considerably harder than his colleagues asks for a pay-increase. How do you envision this would go down with the other employees? Your Client-Manager salary infact seems to be based purely on duration of service, not output.

First, it's worth noting that this is a work in progress. We have quarterly meetings where the whole company decides on what changes they want to see made to the compensation scheme, so this stuff might very well change over time.

Secondly, they are rewarded for their hard work already - but as a team, rather than individually - via the bonus scheme. Whatever's left of their 50% of revenue is in the bonus pool, so if they generate an extra £100k of revenue, that will translate into an extra £50k of bonus pool.

Are there individual incentives? Not at the moment. They may well come in in the future, of course.

> Also, your company seems very unique to only have two roles, which perhaps explains why you can reveal this information freely. Full transparency would include how much you get paid, how much the office admin gets paid, the lawyers, accountants, coders, etc.

My cofounder and I get paid the amount of wage and dividends that allows us to pay no income tax. It's pretty standard (and not all that high) in the UK. There's just one director and one office manager, so I'm hesitant to post their current salaries as that is private and specific information, at least outside the company, I think...
Two notes:

1) This can already be done using a simple stripe reader.

2) Coin can identify, investigate and proactively block anyone who has more than the average number of cards, so Coin actually seems well positioned to reduce fraud. Also, Coin could identify that multiple Coin cards have the same credit/whatever cards on them and, the next day, prompt you to swipe your card again to confirm. [Provided that Coin uploads suitable data to its servers...] In fact, using a Coin card could be a signal to fraudsters not to commit fraud against your card.
Yes, in densely populated areas with high frequencies (3G/LTE). In more rural areas the antennas cover a bigger area. My experience in light aircraft (operating below 10000 feet) is that 2G GSM connectivity is pretty good, 3G not so much.
My understanding was that the "real names" policy was replaced a while back with a policy that your account only had to correspond with an "established online identity" and look vaguely name-like. (e.g. no throwaway accounts, no single-word "handles")

Accounts with odd names might still get flagged by the "does this look like a real name?" filter, but at least according to policy you should be able to submit an appeal if you can show other cases where the name is used online.

Also, I'm not sure what's happening in your case, but I personally have a G+ account and Wallet account under two very different names. If you're still experiencing this, Shish2k, please send me an email with some screenshots. This would seem to go against the "established online identity" policy, and I'd like to ask the G+ team about it.
Like nowadays one side could advertise that after killing soldiers it will slaughter all civilians. It's possible but strongly frowned upon.
This situation reminds me somewhat of the situation of music before song purchases, where you'd be forced to buy an entire CD just to get one song. It may very well be that the modern textbook is the wrong model, and authors in the digital age should design their books to be purchased or consumed in a more fine grained fashion.

If a $200 math textbook instead was published as a series of $2.99 chapters, students would be less likely to try to steal or avoid payment.

Most cases of piracy come down to distribution, delivery, and convenience simply being improperly aligned with consumer demand. Do people pirate Game of Thrones because they don't want to pay for it, or because HBO makes it too inconvenient and expensive for the majority of people demanding it?
If you are looking for a structured language (for front end dev), Typescript is a better alternative imho. Javascript devs can still read it and it's compatible with any JS library out there.

Dart not so much since the semantics are different.You can still interact with JS libs but it's not as straight foward as TS.

I tested a number of options (GWT,Haxe,CS,Dart,Opal,Jsx,...),while i'm not a Microsoft fan(by a long shot),Typescript is the solution that allows the best integration with legacy code and pure JS libraries,while making easy to port old java/C#/as3 code to JS.
What has it won?
Out of curiosity, how many do you have? I think 8 would cover all of the cards I use at least once every 4 months.
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> by the same company

nitpick: Nissan Motor Company, Limited and Renault S.A. are not the same company, they cross-own shares and have intimate technology agreements, and Ghosn is the executive head of both at once.
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Is Miley Cyrus dating female artist, Evon Latrail?
I will get one for loyalty cards only, will reduce major clutter. For credit/debit transactions, Canada has high penetration of chip/pin terminals and Coin will be useless here.
This looks really useful - thanks very much for releasing it!
It seems to me that the creators would have investigated this before building hardware?
I guess it depends on how many cards you have. I suspect it's also a limit of the first run costs, and could increase in future.

Personally I only have one card, so I don't really have that problem :D
The guy who buys cigarettes is making business for his future oncologist too. But fooling yourself into thinking that this is economically productive is the broken window fallacy.
"Q. Will my Coin work outside the U.S.?
A. Not in all cases.

U.S.-based customers: Coin will work overseas, but we recommend that you bring a backup card when you travel.

Customers located outside of the U.S.: Coin does not support EMV yet. If the country you live it requires it we recommend holding off your purchase for now."

Found this in FAQ
With all the news about Bitcoin these days, why would they choose a confusing name like Coin?
How's the Emacs mode?
I assume that the Chip-and-pin system isnt standard in the US like it is in the UK. Can a similar technology be applied to chips?
stringlength may not be clear enough.

Need some underscores in there to separate the terms, maybe a prefix to indicate the type, and a url to the parameter documentation.
I'm a little confused about this. He complains about Node violating separation of responsibility, and then about putting HTTP servers in front of Node. Would anyone with more sysadmin experience mind explaining what the drawbacks of this approach are compared to a more traditional setup?
I would totally pick wallaby over coin if they would put a picture of a wallaby on the card.
The app holds infinite cards, as long as you carry your phone.
Ah, cool, my mistake. Thanks for the clarification!
Most fields within economics fall within social science, not natural science. That doesn't make a non-science, but like psychology there is a lot of weak ground for shills and hacks to cause major damage.

I'd rather know Shiller's ideas on how to throw out the bad ideas in the public consciousness than if his field of study will make it in the long term. Policy is too often treated more like a religion than an implementation of tested ideas.
Same for me. Canada also uses chip/Pin method. Membership cards is where I will use one.
I'm not sure of the prevalence in the US, but does this support chip + pin transactions? They're the standard in the UK now, and I suspect it's a little harder to mess around with than the magnetic strip.
I've worked with many Lebanese, and found them to be very intelligent and resourceful. The country had a huge brain drain to France and elsewhere during their civil war.
It is just an attempt to justify our unjust system, it is definitely not an science.
As cameras become ubiquitous, more safeguards on privacy will be needed
It's not really an analogy though.. Languages, technologies and frameworks are just tools to build stuff. Said differently, to build stuff, you need tools. Programming languages are programmers' tools..
Swipe only? What is this, 1980?
80% of this product already exists in Simple (https://www.simple.com/).
We've moved off AMZN for more custom hosting. But this is a big win for open source devs. More deoployment options is always a good thing.
That the semantics are different from Javascript is one of the big selling points of Dart. :)
How would you prevent mass credit card theft in this case? Couldn't an unscrupulous person, say a waiter at a restaurant, take your card, use his/her own Coin to make a copy of your card, add it to their own Coin, and then use that card at their leisure at a future date? I know, the same question was asked re: Square and the like, but the difference is that you need a Square account to steal other people's cards, and that's traceable, whereas here, you can use the stolen card easily and surreptiously with little notice. Except for the fact that using a Coin in itself is noticeable.
Don't forget the ONSP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
Cars without access to official batteries will probably create a market for Zoe batteries from third parties.
I haven't seen a merchant where you swipe in ages. This seems really ancient and insecure.
That is extremely out of date and no longer relevant.
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It is though, because they're usually referring to woodworking tools or car fixing tools - not the generalized term "tools".
Thanks for replying. That makes sense. The number of included features is what I liked about Chicago Boss as well and I can see how a small community would make it harder to get started.
> It was certainly true that in the US and the Soviet Union that the space program's primary "customer" was the military.

Not just in the US and Soviets, France's Diamant[0] was derived from its military "gemstones" sounding rockets program, the UK's Black Arrow originates from the Blue Streak MRBM program[1].

> It is an acceptable cover story to be "exploring space" when you are working on technologies that make for better ICBMs. And that was one of the interesting things about SpaceX to me

I don't believe that's been the case for ISAS (now part of JAXA), it's unlikely the WWII peace treaty would have allowed for japanese ICBM development.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamant

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Streak_missile
Shopify and I collaborated to put out a drop shipping specific book which really gets into the nuts and bolts of drop shipping vs. general eCommerce. It's free, and you can read it via the link below. The eBook on my site discusses drop shipping as well, but not in as much granular detail:

http://ecommerce.shopify.com/guides/dropshipping

I'd also recommend DrewSanocki.com for some solid eCommerce / drop shipping material. (Disclose: He's become a friend of mine). He started a drop shipping business in the early 2000s and grew it to mid to high 7 figures before selling. Writes a lot of great stuff about eCommerce in general:

http://www.drewsanocki.com

For solid eCommerce, would also recommend Andy Dunn's Medium blog / writings. Great insights into eCommerce that I've really enjoyed recently:

https://medium.com/@dunn

Hope this helps!
Additionally: simple stripe readers have been available for years now, and fit quite easily in one hand.

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Good question. Heroku offers an RDS plugin now only for mysql: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/amazon_rds

If/when a Heroku RDS plugin for Postgresql arrives, competing benchmarks, a cost calculator, pros and cons would be very interesting, indeed.

Heroku pricing: https://addons.heroku.com/heroku-postgresql

Amazon pricing: http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/
The new Google space will actually be in West Loop.
There is http://www.12designer.com/en/. Which is similar to 99Designs.
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On Twitter, Vi Hart denies this: https://twitter.com/vihartvihart/status/401035312819736576

"I repeat, I have no plans to stop uploading to YouTube. I like @doctorow but that article's title was sensationalist and quite incorrect."
Nice website. Will be viewing the rest of your screencasts...