skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree with what? Keeping your own backups? Probably not - if you're not keeping offsite backups, you're begging to go out of business.

With needing a DBA, even if you're still on RDS? I don't see what that has to do with PCI compliance.

With RDS only removing the up-front setup pain, at the cost of ongoing maintenance... as someone who is also familiar with PCI (and HIPPA, and DOD) compliance, I respectfully disagree with your disagreement (well, if you're working with DOD, AWS isn't even an option to begin with).

Given the choice to run my own instance of a DB on a AWS instance (which carries the same certifications as RDS), and use RDS, I will run my own instance every time. The setup just isn't onerous enough to justify the daily productivity cost.
Hmm, pretty neat hack! I like the idea a lot.

I'm disappointed that they didn't mention that this is hooked to an online service until you get well into their FAQ:

Maintaining the integrity of your Coin’s data is
critical to your peace of mind. That’s why our servers,
mobile apps and the Coin itself use 128-bit or 256-bit
encryption for all storage and communication (http and
bluetooth). Additionally Coin can alert you in the
event that you leave it somewhere.

If this were purely a hardware device and software than ran on my phone, I might be interested. Adding in an online service appears to add more points of failure, and more opportunity for yet another third party to snoop on my behavior. It would be nice if they described in more detail why this online service was necessary, what data was stored there, and what privacy protections they provide.

Also disappointing that it doesn't support chip and pin. Whenever I travel to the UK, I find that people are increasingly surprised by cards that don't have a chip, and need to fumble around trying to remember how to use the card reader; it would be nice if this would be an opportunity for me to get a chip and pin compatible card out of my mag stripe card to avoid that problem (though on reflection, it's likely that a mag stripe doesn't contain sufficient information to make a valid chip and pin card).

$100 for something that lasts for two years and solves only a minor annoyance seems a bit steep. I'm sure that there will be plenty of people who will buy it, but I don't know if I would find it worth the cost beyond the novelty value.

I do appreciate their Bluetooth LE Arduino dev kit: http://blog.onlycoin.com/posts/2013/10/3/coin-arduino-ble-de...
This gonna be the key to Firefox OS success
1. you would require access to the user's system in order to gain access to the private key of the cert

2. it provides better security than username/password authentication

3. it makes our lifes easier because you wouldn't have to remember passwords
That's not ever been my experience at least, even when I carried every rewards card I'd ever applied for! In fact I can tell you where everything is in my wallet right now without even looking!
That's a very weird view of things. Do you really think this rule exists without a reason? Why not just follow the rules and turn your devices off, it's not going to hurt you, but a crash could.
> In my experience, the people who can do the D are better at the R.

Agreed. But less so, the other way around.

Which is why development jobs don't reward the PhD enough to pay for the opportunity cost. It counts as 6 years of industry experience -- which you could've gotten in 6 years of working in industry.
> Unfortunately, there's no explanation of the mechanics of coordination and fault tolerance, so the hard part appears to be vaporware.

I think it's unfair to call it vaporware - Amazon doesn't tend to release vaporware. You can also be fairly confident this has been in private beta for some time, so we'll probably see a few blog posts about it from some of their privileged (big spending) clients - typically someone like Netflix or AirBnB. But I agree it would be nice to get some more information on the details.

As for the client library handling load-balancing, fault tolerance, etc - that might not be ideal, but as long as I don't have to do it myself then it might be okay.
I honestly believe it will. Maybe not Watson per se, but a distributed Waston-like system that can provide cutting edge diagnostic / treatment suggestions to the entire world will be hugely beneficial.

Just imagine if anywhere on earth with cell-phone service can have 'first-world' medicine without the need for dedicated doctors. That'll probably be worth a few years of life-expectancy by itself.
You can get another 2x speedup if you choose the pivot better. Right now it seems you're doing median of 3.

When you're doing Order Statistics (ie Selection/Quickselect) with 1M elements you should be very very close to the theoretical optimum (1.5N) for complexity. See my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629117

If you're interested in choosing the best strategy.

HTH
The Robots Are Here
Occult drivel. Where on earth did you read that about Magnus Carlsen?

To say good chess players (not to say grandmasters, let alone world champions) don't calculate moves borders on insulting.
quote: "Three language extensions are included with PostgreSQL to support Perl, Python and Tcl"

(http://aws.amazon.com/de/rds/postgresql/#language-ext)
It was necessary and it's great.
Boingboing is a good place to find interesting things, but they value traffic more than correctness : http://lee-phillips.org/notmiles/
Because it formalizes thought and encourages people to use templates rather than actually thinking about it themselves. If you're "solving problems" by always referring to your sheet of "problem solving approaches", then you're doing it wrong. You might still be successful in solving a problem, but you've effectively turned yourself into a robot.
If the nerd population wants to be a less obvious punching bag it needs to do a better job of integrating in to the community and taking part in discussions like this.

As for the Ellis Act, I agree that it is indeed a complicated issue, and one that in it's essence can actually start to question core concepts like "private property", especially in the context of an urban hub.

Private property is pretty cut and dry in a rural context. However in cities, complete with a vertical axis and many other types of proximity effects, the border between public and private tends to get very blurred.

I feel that people who choose to buy property in cities should be aware of these things. They should know that when they buy an apartment for rental purposes in a city like San Francisco that it is not like an ordinary financial investment, rather it also includes obligations to properly house and care for the people who reside in it.

The people who choose to live in cities have other needs and desires on top of an expression of personal liberty. Anyone who moves in to a city should not expect to be able to comfortably bring their existing, external ideals and lifestyles along with them.
Franchise (2010)
Of course, I speak only for myself.
Yer hellbanned.

C:\TAD\Text\PARADISE.TXT

ighest place exposes
Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim
Your bulwark, and condemns to greatest share
Of endless pain? Where there is, then, no good
For which to strive, no strife can grow up there
From faction: for none sure will claim in Hell
Precedence; none whose portion is so small
Of present pain that with ambitious mind
Will covet more! With this advantage, then,
To union, and firm faith, and firm accord,
More than can be in Heaven, we now return
To claim our just inheritance of
Something that has been bothering me lately about my company is that the technical founders will make snide comments about old parts of our code base, parts usually written by people who aren't at the company any longer. I'm generally pretty well respected so I don't get these sorts of comments about my code (at least to my face!), but it still makes me less comfortable working here.

The other day, one of the founders was joking about how bad some CSS was on a particular page, not realizing that I was the one who wrote the CSS. I just laughed. I wrote that CSS 4 years ago when I had no idea what I was doing, and it took 4 years for anyone to notice a problem with it. It doesn't matter how smart you are. It takes time to develop skills and good practices, and shaming other people is really counterproductive.
Speaking of the Google analogy, I hope they do more with their acquisitions of Speaker Deck and gaug.es, as I can't recall a single feature being added or improved since their acquisitions.
I use my phone number for that purpose. Haven't had to produce a physical membership card in years.
What's going on with Amazon recently? We're seeing a torrent of new technologies and platform offerings. Are we finally catching a glimpse of Bezos's grand scheme?
The revenue model is out of whack. The average consumer is not going to pay $100 for something like this.
OP here. Thought a lot about the auction structure and decided the Dutch style (reverse) was the best given my goals.

I wanted to combine getting a good value with the ability to showcase the bid/price - and the process - publicly.

If I did a normal open auction, there is a chance everyone would wait until the last minute to bid. I'm managing bids manually, so it could get hectic. Plus, it wouldn't be as fun to watch for people reading.

Also, if there were NO bids early on it would really hurt the potential sales price with a lack of interest.

A full-on closed auction wouldn't be nearly as exciting for people to watch, and I wanted to generate buzz and interest, plus show the whole process.

With the reverse auction, the bid management is simplified - I only have to manage one winning bidder. It also allows the process to be showed publicly. Finally, it creates a sense of scarcity. If someone really wants it, they'll be more likely to bid early to prevent others from getting it.

So is it perfect? Definitely not! :-) Probably leaving some money on the table but I thought that this was the best structure to maximize value AND interest.
Smithsonian 3-D scans its artifacts so you can print your own
I didn't mean to imply that I don't appreciate intuition, I do. But I like to follow it up with reasoning. People with good 'instincts' often have excellent reasoning going on at the sub-conscious level, often in reflection they can tap into that bring it out for those of us who were wondering how they got there :-)
sudo apt-get install postgresql

Windows: Next, Next, ... Finish.
Dear github, please sort out your:
- Intermittent angry unicorns
- Slow data transfer (150kb/sec?!)
- Poor support
- Expensive enterprise licence, why don't you host a better service and i will pay for it?
Theory cs could care less about coding abilities. It's never a bad thing to know how to code, but I can go though the entire PhD program without coding a single line of code. (Well not really, one of the professors in my PhD program committee recommended me to do one systems course. other than that, I just prove theorems. )
Please don't attribute quotes to well-known people without reliable references. This is a false Einstein quote paraphrased by Bob Samples in his book Metaphoric Mind: A Celebration of Creative Consciousness.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Albert-Einstein/Did-Einstein-ever-say-%...
This is simply genius. It's surely going to be a great success. Preordered.
You should sell Google shares because it's overvalued, not because of an exploit in something that has no impact on their earnings.
I find the lower quality the bar, the more stuff they want to keep you from skipping out on a tab.
We're really excited to bring GIFs to the iPhone!
The Scala web framework inspired by Sinatra and powered by Twitter-Server
Note that AWS' PostgreSQL offering is more expensive than its MySQL counterpart.

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/
I can't wait to try Github/REDACTED
Thanks for the thoughtful answers.

Related to your #1, that makes sense if 100% of your prospective buyers know about the auction the minute it's opened, but in practice, many folks won't find out about the auction until, say, 30 days in, when they could have absolutely been interested in purchasing on day one.

In short, creating scarcity isn't the mechanism for the sale; knowing that it's even for sale is.

RE: #2, understood. I suppose it's just not clear that there _is_ additional administrative work that needs to be performed beyond the operational responsibilities you outlined, and it's not accounted for, where in virtually all other departments, it is.

Btw, in another post you talk about "illcit" questions; I think you mean "elicit," though it'd probably bring up both :)
That explains it. So the battery is the most expensive and fragile part of the car and requires a lot of maintenance the owner doesn't want to deal with... so the manufacturer says "we'll own and take care of the battery stuff, you just own everything around the battery".

I see where they're coming from, but it's a very odd solution. Owning only part of a car is darned weird, and feels like a hackish workaround to the problems of clumsy warranties and leases.
Correction, most applications coded in languages with manual memory management (C, C++, Pascal dialects), without use of static code analysers to verify correctness.
A wallet contains many different things that can be added and subtracted at will. If this Coin thing is to be used as I think it is, it is all your cards, all the time. I can't just bring one card, it's all of them.

Not to mention the fact that now one service has all of my cards and their information? Coin better know what they're getting into. I'd prefer the hassle of many sites than one with everything, just not worth it to me.
I don't know about the landing page. Maybe it works better on touch screen devices, but using the wheel on my mouse left many of the different section badly aligned. I had go back and forth several times which I found to be quite annoying and I still have no idea what the site is about.
Is "cool hipster dude" necessary? Not that your second sentence was informative either, really.
Thanks - appreciate that!
This is incredible. I like Loop a lot more than Coin, but I would not be comfortable handing my phone to waitstaff to take it to the back of the house. If they had an android case I'd buy immediately. I'm just not a fan of presenting my phone with the fob.

For what it's worth, my cards last have lasted indefinitely in my wallet.
Na endlich!
We've used pin (and now pin+chip) as long as we use cards.. I pay exactly 0% transaction fees and only a few euro per quarter. Merchants pay exactly 0% transactions fees and a small monthly subscription. It just works.
This is a bit hyperbolic - mistakes like this happen all the time and I have serious doubts you'd ever go to jail or even lose a job over something like this, as long as you get it corrected once you recognize the problem. The issue in my mind is that the hassle of correcting this kind of error quickly negates any convenience you'd have gotten from using the card in the first place.
Yes, we've got a bunch of people like that in our PhD program as well - but 100% of them, despite not writing a single line of code for years, could still easily get a paying job in industry and be mostly okay (though less happy) there.

If you can prove theorems, then you can also code CRUD websites by following a tutorial, and get paid for that.

If you can't write code if your life depended on it but can write papers on human interface or methodology issues, then you can get a job as a system analyst in any large software development company and keep not writing code there.
Can an author choose to opt in to Google selling suitably protected full copies with royalties?

This could be great for authors since Google will have already have done all the hard work of creating the electronic object and providing availability.
How is this different from Wallaby Card? Is this a live product? My understanding is that the networks were not allowing such products. For example, Google and PayPal both planned to issue dynamic "wallet cards" but were blocked by V/MC.
No it was not running Gingerbread, the first thing I did was hack it. It was running Cyanogen based on Ice Cream Sandwich.

I would not be surprised by the fact that it was poorly designed, and it's the main reason I will did not nor will not consider another Motorola phone in the future.
I think Coin is going to be wildly successful.

I was looking at my wallet the other day, and wondering why i can't slim it down even further to carry one digital card instead of multiple. i even thought it would make a good startup. and here we are.

the only drawback in my mind's eye regarding coin as a business is that there will be no reason to have "swipes" anymore if you can just scan a smartphone, as with the starbucks card.

however, the widespread use of scan technology is years away, whereas the swipe is ubiquitous now.

ergo, IMHO, coin will be a success if they can execute on the product.
Yeah, and even without that machine you can just look at the number on the card
Well , the new plethora of updates are centered on AWS since AWS:re-invent is going on at present. Historically, that is when Amazon likes to release new AWS services.
Wait, is it easy to toggle cards or hard to toggle cards? I don't think you can have it both ways.
Amazon's reinvent conference[0] has been going on over the last few days, it's an obvious time/place to announce.

[0] https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Github? Google apps?
Google Now gets Waze integration, voice commands and more
My apologies for accidentally hitting the downvote button (why is it so close to the upvote button and why is there no undo).
Their enterprise license is pretty comparable in price to something like Perforce, which does not include hosting. Do you also find Atlassian's Stash pricing to be high?
I find that's generally true on Linux, my preferred dev platform of choice - but I did pay for BoundsChecker/Purify for windows (valgrind is comparable) visual c++ 6 and visual assist (nothing is as nice is free. Not even vs 2012 which is not free)

I also grudgingly pay for one copy of ms office for compatibility reasons.

But generally, for functionality - I agree.
I think we're all missing a key point here. From reading the FAQ it appears that the application needs access to their servers. That blows my mind. Why should my mobile phone application, responsible for programming a local card via Bluetooth ever need access to the internet? Simply put - it shouldn't.

To me, this sounds like a big data play, except in this case the company is getting the user to cover the cost of acquisition. I imagine the actual cost of production on a card like this being well < $20 shipped (disclosure: I've been involved in shipping and starting up several physical products).

So now, I have something that collects and unifies data across multiple purchase vectors, sending that back to a single source. In other words, I've paid for the privilege of helping another company get the same sort of insight that mint.com was building, except that I'm also including loyalty data.

Colour me out.
The problem with the iCache was that it was very short lived, and once apple moved away from the 30pin connector, the icache folks never updated their case for the smaller form factor or new connector configuration.

My iCache is now sitting in a drawer with a bunch of other "good tech gone old," but, I've had issues with servers understanding what my iCache card was, had Enterprise Rent-A-Car flat-out refuse to rent a car unless they could see the raised digits on a card, and a shit-ton of other things.

I was lucky -- I didn't have any issues with the actual encoding on the card (apparently, there were some folks from kickstarter who couldn't use it at all), but, I'll deal with the five cards in my wallet and generally be happy about it.
I had to use ye olde magnetic stripe and signature at a Morrison's a couple of weeks ago. The card reader was broken for some reason. Naturally the magnetic stripe on the first card I tried was also broken and wouldn't swipe...
Slick tool --

Definitely amplifies the ability of anyone to create novel GIFs to share with friends.

Something tells me there is a pretty big audience for this tool. I dig it!
It's a more-specific form, used to distinguish a particular method.
Intel's first store coming to New York City, more locations to follow
Ask HN: How can a college student quickly launch a mobile startup?
I'm looking for guidance from the community on building the backend for an android app. Do you know of any thorough books/tutorials that include code examples of how to build a Web Service that would be used as the back-end of an Android app? I would be particularly interested code advice about security and crud functionality.
Please remove "[video]" from the title.

As of right now there's no video (there's a placeholder saying it's coming soon.)
I ordered the dev kit early on, got charged for it, now waiting anxiously to have it show up. Nice to hear they are moving along. I really think that something like this is a solid answer to some of the vulnerabilities in the current card system and for a subset of identity problems. My interest is in solving one such subset which is this:

At the time of account creation, create means by which both the web site and the user can prove unequivocally at a transaction later, that they are the same person who was there when the account was created.

Nothing about "who" they are, or "what" or "where", but just that the person or entity doing this transaction right now, is exactly the same as the person who created the account.
You can already do this with Google Wallet on Android. Enter your card into the Wallet app, then swipe your phone over any PayPass terminal and it will process the transaction. At least half the retailers I visit already have PayPass terminals (in Los Angeles).
Animated GIF are the worse-is-better solution of moving images, yet I can't argue with their popularity.
Generally speaking I won't use a "login with facebook" option, but I will do it if there is a compelling reason. Your website has absolutely no good information about your product or what I might expect to happen after I log in, aside from a generic/broad mission statement.

Regardless of your authentication options, I'm not going to try a service that I can't find any real information about.
Thanks! And it'll be even better once I migrate to Postgres. :-)
Oh, derp. Well that makes more sense.
Show HN: gifyourself.in - A site for putting your face on GIFs
This works if the ultimate goal is to sign them up for a free account. But what if the goal is to convert them to a paid account after a certain trial period? A user can just clear their cache or cookies and use it free indefinitely.
Can you please explain the value proposition of using Heroku Postgres vs RDS now?

Heroku's solution is 2 to 4 times more expensive for the same type of DB, and RDS even allows for reserved instances to further lower the bill.
Well I'd argue that suburban areas in Europe are sometimes even less dense, yet still there's much more places to go to. Maybe "bad" is a "bad" word here, but I think this is just a matter of urban planning. If you build a four-lane highway instead of one-lane street it discourages people from walking. Have there been a better public transport like buses, trams or subway, people wouldn't drive so much either. If they have to drive anyway, because there's no another option, they can drive further and thus don't care if the place they are going to is 5 miles away or 10. I guess the cities would have to make the first step and plan the new neighborhoods as more dense, more urban environments. Housing developers usually only care about earning money, so if it's cheaper to build everything the same way as before they'll do it no matter what. And people cannot even oppose it, because rents/house prices are already stellar in the Bay Area compared to other places even in the US. This makes it a vicious circle.