skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not wrong.

It is a violation to make ID a condition of accepting Visa at all. It is not a violation to ask for ID from specific customers, regardless of whether the card is signed or not. It says this very clearly in the "Card Acceptance Guidelines for Visa Merchants" booklet. The closest they get to forbidding it is a recommendation that you don't make it part of your standard procedure as, and I quote, "it can slow down a sale and annoy the customer".

In the case of a suspicious transaction, the merchant is also supposed to call Visa for a "Code 10 Authorization". One of the things Visa may do is instruct you to check the customer's ID.

If a store asks you for your ID, calling up Visa to report a violation won't do you any good as they haven't violated anything. As far as your jurisdiction punt, we're talking about a product intended (and only really usable) for the US.
> So if i get it right, the way "Google" sees the future, there is Go at the server side and Dart at client side (which is in fact JS). Am I wrong?

Yes, you are, in fact, wrong. Google doesn't have so narrow a vision. Dart is server and client side (the native VM is, aside from a for-testing-only build, server-side only now.) But the client side isn't just Dart (or JS, in which Google has also invested heavily), its also C/C++, and other languages, hence PNaCl, which also just went into general release.

And, sure, Go is a server-side language that Google is putting energy into, but so is Dart. And I doubt their vision ends there, those are just a couple of the more visible active fronts.

> I would expect Google, or at least, a team at Google, to take over NodeJS which is based on their V8 and expand it to universal server client language and libs.

The existing NodeJS team is doing enough for server-side JS-on-V8, and its open source -- Google could throw more resources, but its probably not the best bang-for-their buck in terms of developing new technologies that might improve the options for the things Google is concerned about. Doing what other people aren't doing is a bigger win.

> Let alone I see no effort on their side bringing any of those language into the native world of Android

I've seen quite a bit about Dart on Android (though I think there are issues with building the current distribution.) Less on Go.
Multi_Viral: Julian Assange sings with Calle 13
Only until there is enough adoption for them to stop caring.
From examples I've read about and noticed over the last 5 or 6 months - things like "parallel reconstruction" leading to non-intelligence services targeting people for drug offences, things like journalists being bailed up at customs by DHS staff with printouts of personal email, things like the Perobas (the Brazilian oil company) revelations/suspicions. And _most_ obviously, the Snowden leaks themselves. Snowden leaked everything he did publicly at _great_ personal cost – is it even _vaguely_ plausible that others in similar positions to him haven't abused the NSA data collection for much-better-hidden personal gain? If I could have been snooping on all incoming and outgoing YCombinator email over the last 5 or 10 years, how many "lucky" investments do you suppose I could have made?

Even if I agreed that it was appropriate/acceptable for trusted NSA staff to have access to all global email/phonecalls/whatever - it's _obvious_ they don't have adequate protection in place to prevent mis-use. When they've got cutesy nicknames like "LOVEINT" for things that are obviously so common, yet are (or should be) criminal abuse of positions/power – how could anyone accept "the NSA dragnet"?

I understand "national security" is important. I understand "stopping terrorists" is needed.

I also think if the US government, people, and businesses think "the rest of the world" will just sadly watch on as they allow the NSA to continue doing what they are doing, they are mistaken - and the blowback will be _astoundingly_ counter-productive for the NSA's _important_ goals. When it becomes clear that we need (and can create) things like strong crypto with easily useable software, TOR-like anonymising techniques (but not, of course, your US government designed and probably exploited TOR), encryption where we trust both the math and the implementation (and by "trust" I mean trust mathematicians and software crypto experts from non-US backgrounds, and preferably from conflicting backgrounds as well - I'd take software/crypto advice agreed to by a majority of Russian & Indian & Brazilian & Equadorian & Chinese experts over conficting advice from Schnier or Zimmermann or and US or Five Eyes affiliated person/business) – we will. And when "the next level" of "secure against the NSA" communication tools become available and widespread - and widely made available to politicians, businesses, journalists, and regular citizens - guess who _else_ will have it? And how will the NSA conduct their "war on terror" then? (and their less acknowledged but very real "war on drugs" and "war on non-US companies profits" and "war on journalists critical of US policy" and "war on US citizens demanding their government be held accountable"?)
I might use it to analyze email conversations related to customer service.
From examples I've read about and noticed over the last 5 or 6 months - things like "parallel reconstruction" leading to non-intelligence services targeting people for drug offences, things like journalists being bailed up at customs by DHS staff with printouts of personal email, things like the Perobas (the Brazilian oil company) revelations/suspicions. And _most_ obviously, the Snowden leaks themselves. Snowden leaked everything he did publicly at _great_ personal cost – is it even _vaguely_ plausible that others in similar positions to him haven't abused the NSA data collection for much-better-hidden personal gain? If I could have been snooping on all incoming and outgoing YCombinator email over the last 5 or 10 years, how many "lucky" investments do you suppose I could have made?

Even if I agreed that it was appropriate/acceptable for trusted NSA staff to have access to all global email/phonecalls/whatever - it's _obvious_ they don't have adequate protection in place to prevent mis-use. When they've got cutesy nicknames like "LOVEINT" for things that are obviously so common, yet are (or should be) criminal abuse of positions/power – how could anyone accept "the NSA dragnet"?

I understand "national security" is important. I understand "stopping terrorists" is needed.

I also think if the US government, people, and businesses think "the rest of the world" will just sadly watch on as they allow the NSA to continue doing what they are doing, they are mistaken - and the blowback will be _astoundingly_ counter-productive for the NSA's _important_ goals. When it becomes clear that things like strong crypto with easily useable software, TOR-like anonymising techniques (but not, of course, your US government designed and probably exploited TOR), encryption where we trust both the math and the implementation (and by "trust" I mean trust mathematicians and software crypto experts from non-US backgrounds, and preferably from conflicting backgrounds as well - I'd take software/crypto advice agreed to by a majority of Russian & Indian & Brazilian & Equadorian & Chinese experts over conficting advice from Schnier or Zimmermann or and US or Five Eyes affiliated person/business. And when "the next level" of "secure against the NSA" communication tools become available and widespread - and widely made available to politicians, businesses, journalists, and regular citizens - guess who _else_ will have it? And how will the NSA conduct their "war on terror" then? (and their less acknowledged but very real "war on drugs" and "war on non-US companies profits" and "war on journalists critical of US policy" and "war on US citizens demanding their government be held accountable"?)
Haha sorry my bad, that is definitely true, but I meant the sound of that era, not boy-bands in general.
The military's interest in rockets was not limited to lobbing warheads, they took a very early interest in using rockets to put things into orbit.

The first US satellite, the Explorer 1, was kicked off by the Army and the first stage of the Juno rocket that launched it was a modified Redstone, an Army ballistic missile (not an ICBM).

Skipping forward to manned flight, the first two US manned Mercury missions (1961) used extended Redstones again for sub-orbital launches. The next four Mercury missions (1962-1963) used modified Atlas rockets (Atlas LV-3B's specifically, which were man-rated Atlas D's) These Atlas rockets were America's first ICBMs. Atlas rockets continued to be used for space launches for several more years, launching target vehicles for docking with during Gemini, launching a few space probes, etc. Literally dozens of Atlas D ICBMs were used as launch vehicles for damn near half a century. Some of the first GPS satellites were put up on Atlas rockets.

The Gemini missions (1965-1966) continued this tradition, all using man-rated Titan IIs (ICBMs, but with more redundancy for reliability). In the years that followed, the Titan II continued to be used for satellite launches, and like the Atlas, spawned a successful line of derivative launch vehicles.

The point that I am making here is that ICBMs worked swimmingly as launch vehicles, and weren't just pushed onto NASA for a task that they weren't fit to perform. Slap a Centaur/Agena/etc on top and they can do a hell of a lot, and with a few added redundancies, they got men into space brilliantly. Redstones/Atlas's/Titan IIs made quality launch vehicles. We are by no means talking "minimal overlap".

It wasn't until 1968, less than a year before putting a man on the moon, that NASA used a non-ICBM derived launch vehicle for a manned mission (The Saturn 1B, with Apollo 7, and a few short months later with the famous Saturn V, for Apollo 8).
Aside: many of these articles extol the virtues of static linking. I'm pleased that it is being re-discovered via Go. It was always unfairly overlooked from a deployment standpoint of desktop apps ("what if we need to upgrade just this library for a security fix?").
I stopped at this.
OP: it'd be great if you can post some snapshots before anyone is trying to use this.
TMNT Classic Collection Rocksteady and Bebop Should Be Hitting Stores Soon
I have resisted the Google+ Tyranny for long. I have refused to vote my fav. apps on Android, I refuse to comment on youtube videos and so on.
Yeah, get it! Shoplifting is also worthy challenge, though, that I feel the author underrates. Scams and shoplifting are two ways toward the same goal: exiting the store with goods without paying for them or getting caught. Sticking stuff in your pants or purse is a pretty simple move, sure, but it has its subtleties. And plus there's a bunch of complexities to worry about like security tags, snitching customers, loyal employees, security guards, loss prevention officers, and cameras.
My understanding is that US banks can write a proportion of the loss off against tax, so 50/50 splits are not that unusual. But it probably depends on the circumstances.

I'm in the UK and this is not really my area, so you'd probably have a better chance of verifying that than me.
What exactly is proprietary about it?

Browser vendors are free to integrate the VM into their products, and if they don't want to there is dart2js which is acceptable.

This isn't even close to the situation presented by Silverlight, ActiveX and I feel like you're being duplicitous by comparing them.
Because it's hard?
https://twitter.com/scottvdp/status/401111184092315648

> RDS 4XL vs Heroku Mecha: 40% cheaper on demand, 74% cheaper 1 year reserved, 82% cheaper 3 year reserved... with more features and capacity.

If that's true, Heroku's Postgres offering isn't going to do well. "Wiped off the map" may be an overstatement, but not by that much.
"A zero-day (or zero-hour or day zero) attack or threat is an attack that exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in a computer application, meaning that the attack occurs on "day zero" of awareness of the vulnerability." [1]

If the party responsible for fixing a vulnerability knows of it before it is exploited, then they had more than "zero days" to fix it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack
The design I was thinking about puts the lowest rotor below the gravity centre. First, it would lower the highest rotor, and second, crosswind would have the opposite effect on the low rotor. I really expect such a design to be neutral.
Theoretically, the creators of coin can implement some sort of security in these sorts of situations:

1) They require you to register this "coin" device
2) They require you to add some banking account details

Now, if you were to "clone" someone else's card without their permission, the trail would lead directly to you...
Are you kidding with this statement, i just finished reading some good research papers with focus studies on this. Do you think docs in the ER hold all the information in their head of the different types of diagnosis? The biggest mistakes usually happen when faced with a rare disorder but doctors don't have the time to find the edge cases in the ER so they go with whats familiar. My wife is a therapist and most therapist just push bipolar because they are lazy to go through all the material to find these edge cases. You should also read Mckinsey's latest report on the value of intelligent knowledge bases to the economy. This is not a some time in the future benefit, it is now and lots of business are making a shitload of money, you just don't hear about it in techcrunch, since snapchat takes all the headlines.

Regarding cancer specifically this is a huge help to doctors who are actually using it but when drugs cost $300000 a year and the drug companies then give the doctors rebates. This results in doctors then billing insurance companies $300000 and making up the difference as extra cash, which drug do you think a doctor is going to prescribe to you? A lot of cancer drugs will only be effective on maybe 6% of cancer patients and the companies know this based on genetic screening but they still push it onto everyone regardless of your genetics. A company like 23andme, paired with transparent drug trial results and a knowledge base like watson will save the economy a shitload of money, but a lot of drug companies will lose out on revenue and doctors on their kickbacks. At least insurance premiums will drop but this is capitalism.....goodluck!
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines.

Should be essential reading for everyone, especially men, in this day and age.

http://www.amazon.com/Pornland-How-Porn-Hijacked-Sexuality/d...
Hell-banning for anything other than blatant spam or hate speech is reprehensible.

Imagine participating in a community, enjoying your interactions with some bright people, contributing knowledge when you can, when suddenly you find that you've become invisible. After some period of time wondering, you eventually find out that you are invisible.

It's a horrible thing to do to someone. I like many of the HN commenters, and I often learn something from reading what they've written, but I have nothing but disdain for the site itself, its mods, and its creator. They all contribute to doing this to people, though they'll brush it off as necessary automation, necessary for quality control, or some other sociopathic nonsense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6736049
You call an API, and it returns a result. The Watson hardware is nothing more than a Power 7 box.
Google+ : making users angry ...
It makes sense, although Sarah seems to suggest that any linking between documents will lead to the problems she describes.

I am willing to accept that for a sufficiently stable set of 'documents' this might be surmountable, but it does seem like a major limitation of mongo as a general purpose store, and the quick dismissal of her point seems unwarranted.
EU law shifts pretty much all liability away from consumer.

There's a cap of EUR 150 consumer liability for lost&stolen (physically) cards up until you notify the bank; zero liability for lost&stolen cards after the time of notification, and zero liability for any fraudulent transactions if your card isn't lost or stolen.

Only UK law (and MC/Visa rules for UK) is a bit different, but another poster describes them below.
I'd use it for running optical character recognition on millions of pages of government documents to make public information truly free, at http://citizenaudit.org/. But I really just need the 26 cores with a master node feeding documents for that, not actually map-reduce.
You could always test your emails.

Yesterday, I found this service: http://www.yesware.com while reading Neil Patel's post on email outreach: http://quicksprout.com/2012/12/07/the-link-builders-guide-to... .
There is no "point". I asked a question and you didn't answer it directly.
I don't know if I can make a suggestion that might be seen with all the activity here - but if it were me designing it, I would have an option to lock-in a single card via the smartphone app.

Or, maybe only allow switching within a foot or two of your smartphone.

That would eliminate the concern people have about where the waiter accidentally pushes the button and switches the active card.
Diffs? Can you diff excel files somehow?
Was $1 Billion Too Little to Ask for Instagram?
The more (or less, who the hell knows) horrible aspect of this is that I foresee a cottage industry springing up where "good enough" digital replicas of children are used to provide sex services in the same way that phone sex operators work now -- only, it'll be known (or at least assumed) that the service is being provided by adults pretending to be children with digital avatars, and the quality of the service will be measured by how convincingly they portray their parts.

This will lead to all sorts of legal gray areas, wherein "I just assumed she was digital" could well work as a positive defense, or, even more eerily, a faux-pedophile service provider could staff enough adults to cover for the non-adults that they sometimes use.
Google should open up their search codebase.

All the benefits cited for book scanning will apply here too. Come on Google. We know you can do it :)

Nobody will deprive Google of any revenue. It will have lots of public benefits.
I'm not sure what your point (or that tweet's point) is. That they are absolute numbers? That there's not enough information here to know if all government requests to all companies have doubled? I think the implication is clearly that the requests that have doubled are the ones that google has received. You wouldn't be able to extrapolate that from a relative number anyways, as it would assume that all providers are getting numbers of government requests increasing at the same rate.

Now if our government was just required to be accountable and released those numbers themselves...

> here is another chart which factors in their traffic

that chart doesn't include traffic anywhere...
There aren't really any good definitions of consciousness that are easily falsifiable. It's in the nature of the problem. All of our collected data about other people's/organism's consciousness is third-person, while consciousness is definitely a first-person phenomenon.

I don't know for sure that anyone else is conscious; the world could be populated by zombies (in the philosophical sense) for all I know.

Anyway, the root of the word "science" comes from "knowledge", not falsifiability. These are still very early days for brain science and consciousness is its hardest problem.

Integrated information theory (IIT) in particular, does offer some falsifiable predictions, btw. IIT's phi metric requires both interconnectedness, but also heterogeneity. E.g., Koch alluded to the cerebellum. The cerebellum has half of the neurons in the brain, but they are arranged in a simple, almost crystal-like pattern. People who have had cerebellums removed due to cancer show no alterations in consciousness. If we were to find someone who had their cerebellum removed and it did impact their consciousness, IIT would be incorrect.

Likewise, IIT fits with data about the lack of consciousness during slow wave sleep and generalized seizures (simple, rhythmic firing patterns), but again, if we were able to find counterexamples, it would be disproved.
the law is not the same for the wealthy and well-connected and the poor

Precedent-setting may not be for the lone wolf without a nickel to his name, but it's rare in any ecosystem that the penniless loner can turn around as monstrous a ship as the US legal system.
Encrypt-then-HMAC is the only credible choice. Here's why
Trust is hugely important in society. If you have to stop and verify every single thing, it's hugely expensive, which tends to make everyone worse off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(social_sciences)#Economi...
I wasn't calling Heroku a monolith because they're a huge company -- it's because they suck you in & then youre forever stuck in their web of services. I bet they start bleeding a lot of money now that there is an easy-to-use alternative for Postgres hosting on a well-known platform. Heroku epitomizes the idea of overcharge + vendor lock-in & people only put up with their high prices because they don't have the time to figure out a better configuration. Database is the easiest thing to jump ship with, you just have to change 1 URL.

It's a shame that Amazon has some proprietary idea of a machine image, but my ideal hosting scenario is just App Server Machine Image + DB + any Machine Images required for extra services. Shouldn't have to choose between several paid services that are just different APIs into an app server component you should have direct access to.

I don't understand how the open source community can be so into Heroku given that it's basically just wrapping open source software & charging for it, getting away with it by saying they're charging for the admin UI or whatever.
The NSF GRFP provides ~3k/month plus tuition and health insurance are covered. If you do a 3-month internship each summer on top of that you can get an extra $20k-30k easy. I am not saying you'll have the same lifestyle as a Google employee but I think it's hard to argue that you will go into debt. Maybe I live a more modest lifestyle than others. Also all the schools I got into when I applied to grad school would pay health care/tuition, that's standard.
Actually, in the Netherlands, even supermarkets stopped accepting swipe cards. The machines are still physically capable of reading swipe cards, but the supermarket simply won't let you, presumably exactly because of this risk.

Note that a lot of places wouldn't accept credit cards in the first place (swipe or not), only debit cards.
Kudos for asking, and for your concern over letting a client down. The "varying success" comment suggests a problem, as does no more than "I built my own personal website" as a calling card. I would suggest offering to do things fixed price so you take the hit on the learning curve, but then the client still has the risk of you never delivering. I would say keep extending your own site with more and more amazing things until you do not have to ask this question. When you get there, your integrity manifested here will make you a great free-lancer.
I had a purchasing card when I worked for a state university. They monitored the transactions on the card extremely closely since it was tied to state money and federal grant money. If I had mistakenly charged a personal expense on it, I would have had to contact a couple different administrators, explain the mistake, and get the transaction refunded (and then pay for the expense myself). It would have been a bureaucratic pain, but I would not have gotten in trouble for it, certainly not jail.
Thoughts on the new Google+ Youtube integration(video)
> Making sure schedules are met? Don't have schedules. (1)

Did you forgot a footnote (1)? I'm curious to read more.