skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool hipster dude = Adam Lisagor. Really smart fellow with a history of success.
If that small startup had presented the case similarly to the 200 in-house lawyers, probably yes, he would have.

The 200 lawyers aren't some magic wand you wave at judges, the 200 lawyers work together to come up with a fantastic argument for whatever it is you're trying to accomplish.

The fact that it was Google may have made the judge realize that this is the kind of thing that could change the world more quickly than if it had been a no-name startup, but Google's track record of blowing the doors off of innovation is something they've earned, not bought (necessarily).

I just don't think it's really a criticism of Google that they won this case at all.
Some of the best company blog posts are adverts only in the sense that an astute reader will want to work at or with the company.

But, yes, still adverts.
Can we all pitch in and buy this guy a certain book on eBay?
I didn't see any concept of locking in their video or faq. I hope you're right and that this either has that in v1 or is added in v2.
Neat! A quick skim of the referenced article in that comment (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/icp.jsp?arnumber=6193457) shows that it solves a problem I'd wondered about for a while now, about how to optimally choose the pivots when computing order stats. (Yeah, I'm just doing median of 3 right now). If you want to sort the whole list, then clearly you want the pivots to be as near to the median as possible. But if you just want an order stat, then that's not necessarily true; if you wanted, say, the 10th percentile, my gut feeling would be that you should aim for your first pivot to be roughly the 20th percentile or so. I'll read that article more closely and see if I can improve even more.

Thanks, that's really helpful!
Assuming that Google has much of an overall strategy here is probably a mistake.
Some of the cards in my wallet are 7 years old and are in the same shape aside from the faded colors.

Clearly you need a better wallet >_>
Neat concept, but doesn't Google Wallet already integrate this kind of functionality (via NFC)?

I'd much rather have my financial data stored on my phone as I keep the device encrypted and can erase it remotely.
How would you define uneducated? Do you consider yourself educated?

Why do you consider yourself someone who understands people?

Also, why do you use profanity in your HN comments. Profanity can certainly add some rhetorical impact at times, but your use of it comes off a bit more like trolling than rhetoric.
Obviously their actions are calculated, unless you pull in some notion of a non-materialist brain (some sort of strange "dualism" for which there is no evidence), everything they do is calculated in the strict sense. Saying that is missing the point of what is being said though. He is saying that Carlsen does not perform some of these calculations at the same "level of consciousness".

For instance, I know that if I have two apples, and give one away, I now have one apple. I also know that the prime factors of 87 are 3 and 29. One of those I "calculated" in my head, the other I know intuitively. Of course for both my brain performed calculations, but thinking of it like that is rather missing the point.
Thanks! I picked the niche purely based on where I thought I could make money. When I started it, I had been running another drop shipping site for a few years already and wanted to try my hand in different market.

Finding drop shippers is actually a lot easier than you might think. You can't find them for every niche and market, but if you're willing to spend some time digging through Google you can usually find legitimate wholesale drop shippers without too much work. I did a video on it (see below) that might be helpful:

http://www.ecommercefuel.com/drop-shipping-wholesalers/
Unless I'm missing something: if I lose my Coin card, ALL of my credit and debit cards are compromised. That's a showstopper. A thief could drain not just one account, but every account I have.
There are a variety of differences overall.

One area is we're focused more on delivering more guidance and expertise around what you're doing with your database, in addition to ensuring your database is healthy and running. An example of this is notifications that we deliver around unused indexes, where you may benefit from other indexes, or other places where you can quickly optimize your DB. This starts to free up a DBA to add higher value tasks or for smaller shops lets you get by longer without a need for a DBA.

Another big area is features we deliver on top of Postgres. This ranges from followers which all you to easily scale read traffic, or allow for your database to be replicated across not just AZs but also regions. There's the other spectrum of this as well including dataclips. Dataclips make it easy to share data in a simple way, as well as build richer dashboards by integrating with google docs, or quickly prototyping APIs.

If you're curious on various technical details we'll be documenting that soon but would be happy to correspond via email, craig at heroku.com
As the old adage goes: NEVER EVER build your business as completely dependent atop a Microsoft product. Or if you must, expect to go out of business at some point. In the 21st century, you can replace Microsoft with Google or Facebook or whatever else pops up that gets to their level. I'm willing to bet people will next be burned by relying too much on AWS.
There are only two really difficult problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
Short-lived staging environments (eg, a temporary clone of a production environment) certainly have a place, such as when making architectural changes, but these kinds of changes are generally not happening on a regular basis if you are making incremental changes and doing continuous deployment.

I'm sure that there are companies that have a valid engineering need for perpetual staging environments rather than feature flags, but I've seen absolutely no evidence that staging servers are commonly engineering driven. Certainly in every part of the web startup world I've had contact with or heard about, staging environments have consistently been for product QA in organizations with heavy-handed processes and/or product management by non-technical stakeholders.

Edit for the people responding: This is not about haphazardly pushing to production. You should familiarize yourselves with continuous integration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration) and the various deployment strategies of major web companies.
Anyone operating in a template-driven manner is not reasoning by first principles. I'm not sure what legs your argument has, we might as well say that speaking an existing language like English, French, or German makes us robots by forcing us to communicate within a well-defined and rigorous communication structure.

The fallacy of an individual with regards to reasoning is not a function of the fact that methods of reasoning are identified - they are failures of the individual to effectively apply their own creativity. Don't blame the linguistic constructs.
According to a presentation I heard two month ago it's not good enough yet. They can make accurate predictions in many cases, yet not in all/enough. At the moment they see more potential in analyzing health insurance claims, as falling back to a human expert is easier.
It's this easy to clone a credit card? Why is anyone using credit cards? I feel confirmed in not having one.
Awesome! Thanks for the link :)
Judge Sides With Google on Book Scanning Suit
Well, even allowing that its feasible in the medium term it would give you worldwide 'first-world' diagnosis, not treatment.
I have this habit of highlighting text as I read, and on this website, I find that the text is gray and the highlight is a very similar shade of gray.

Does this bother anyone else?
In cases like that it would be unwise to put your company card on this card. You'd now be carrying two cards. In the case of having to carry two cards, it still fixes my George Costanza wallet.
Starting with $0 would be difficult. I think having at least $1,000 or $2,000 would be helpful for web hosting, some basic design / logo work, and a small advertising budget.

I started with $1,500 (for my first site, not this one. This one I invested a LOT in early on - not all of it prudently!) so you don't need a ton to begin, especially if you're willing to invest a lot of sweat equity.

But you do need a little bit to fuel the fire.
That's funny. I didn't click on the link cause I thought it was a video, until I saw this.
IF ONLY he had said, "One coin... to rule them all" at the very end!

What a product, I love it, and I love this guy's quirkiness. Love. Love. Love.
I'd argue that, yes, they are difficult to manage. Not from a logistics point of view, but from a physical one.

I carried my wallet in my back pocket from 16yrs of age to 34 and always ended up with broken or bent cards. After taking a cruise outside of the US, I started carrying my wallet in my front pocket for security purposes and started researching minimalist wallets to reduce the bulk. I've backed 2 of those on kickstarter and am eying a 3rd, because the first two don't allow me to acces my cards quickly enough when I have more than 2 or 3.

For me, this solves multiple problems: it makes the minimalist wallets out there that much for functional because now I only need my coin card, my ID, my insurance card and perhaps a backup credit card for any merchants I run into that won't take the coin. 4 cards down from 9, not including any rewards cards which could push it up to 16 easily sounds like a good deal to me. It also keeps me from forgetting lesser used rewards cards and credit cards at home because they're either in the coin already or in the iPhone app and can be switched into the coin when needed.
What is LAN sync?
We are about to deploy Kafka in our ecosystem and I am curious what maintenance you have? Can you explain or write a blog post? Is it on 0.8 beta?

We are choosing Kafka over other solutions like RabbitMQ because we like the persistent txn-log-style messages and how cheap consumers are.
Facebook and Microsoft help fund rightwing lobby network
> because they're usually referring to woodworking tools

Says the guy with the wooden name!
BTLE tether, card gets deactivated if its not near your phone.
Denmark surpasses 100% wind power
Dynamics have had the tech offered by Coin for a really long time, but for whatever reason, they switched from offering a credit card to a rewards card:

https://www.dynamicsinc.com/

I'm guessing the reason is mostly PCI compliance. They also hold a number of patents on reprogrammable cards which makes me wonder if Coin have licensed them or not.
Lots of soon to be vacant land in the city of Detroit. Google could be the catalyst to remove blight and create a city within a city.

I bet the city would be wiling to even give them the land.
Mr. Bitcoin Goes to Washington
Thanks very much -- I've just done a band-aid solution and moved the payment modal up, but we'll get a better solution up soon. Much appreciated!
"These packets belong to you, but the packets get to you through hardware that belongs to Comcast. You are free to access these packets and do what you want with them, but Comcast has every right to limit how you use their hardware [and subsequently charge you extra for using some hardware paths, such as the ones going to aol.com or anticomcastpolitician.org]."

I don't like this argument, not one bit.
My thoughts exactly. I feel like there should be some sort of locking mechanism tied to toggling.
AngularJS: Learning the First Steps to Build a Music Discovery App
I believe gaug.es has been sold, or moved home. It's now being run by FastestForward.com
Google Books ruled legal in massive win for fair use
For Overwhelmed Founders, Less is More
To me, the MySQL query optimizer (single index in a query) was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

My group is developing all new applications in PostgreSQL and we would like to migrate our legacy apps away from MySQL.
While I'm not a historian of NASA (but see: http://history.nasa.gov/factsheet.htm), I think your summary in the first paragraph is way off. It's more accurate to say that the military had rockets in development, and they were pressed into service for the new space agency.

From 1945 to 1957, the US military (Army, and later, Air Force) was sponsoring rocket development, e.g. von Braun's team in Huntsville. But after NASA was created in 1958 following Sputnik, it was made a civilian agency, and the crossover with the military was much less.

NASA doesn't have a genuine connection to ICBMs. There's a lot more to space technology than rocketry, so there's little overlap between an ICBM (at the whole system level) and an earth-orbiter (again, considered as a system). For instance, one of the main ICBM design issues is target accuracy -- there's no such counterpart for an orbiter.

Additionally, divergence between NASA goals and military goals is great enough that, even when prompted from above, the technology does not mix well. I'm thinking of the notion that the Shuttle would be used for military/intelligence satellite launch, and the NPOESS combined NOAA/NASA/DoD earth-observing satellite.

The notion that there is a DoD "minder" in the back room seems kind of fanciful. In the late 1950s, maybe, but by the mid-60s -- I really doubt it -- except for some of the basic rocket engine technology.
Your first point is an argument that you say "conclusively answers the question". I claim this is correct but not interesting.

Your second point is:

> But the other thing to point out is that this question presumes an old idea about the passage of time, which is that things happen in a sequence A, B, C, D, ... and that if you are at C then D "has not happened yet". But if you look at relativity, this appears to be a naïve viewpoint.

Again, this is true but irrelevant to the question at hand, due to causality.

I claim that both points are irrelevant. How is that agreeing with you?
Thoughts on our not being included in Google’s Dart 1.0 announcement
Some thoughts on our small team's not being included in Google's Dart 1.0 announcement today. We were the first Dart production app and had been looking forward to being part of the announcement, which is gold for a startup.
If github goes down/becomes evil wouldn't it be trivial to just push your repo to another host? I guess there's other things that might tie you into their ecosystem, like wiki/issue tracking/static hosting, but git itself makes it pretty easy to just push elsewhere...
That's harmless. But if you have someone who continuously messes up shared equipment, leaving it for the next person to fix, and who won't improve their attitude, no matter how often you tell them, that's deadly for morale.
How related are these encryption vulnerabilities to encryption we may do in our own software (stuff that necessarily doesn't depend on SSL connections)? As in, is AES-CBC still okay to use if I'm using it correctly in a program that is self contained (ie it's not going to the net and using AES-CBC to encrypt the communication between server and program)?
Google defeats authors in U.S. book-scanning lawsuit
That certainty served him very well in the first 1/4 of his career, not so well in the final 3/4. :)
He cares today because he now has an option.
Incredible High-Resolution Interactive Map of the World’s Shrinking Forests
Very happy to see efforts like this to bring new languages as alternatives to JavaScript.

I'm sorry but no amount of spin can convince me of ever liking JavaScript. Why can't we just admit that we're stuck with it for now because there are no viable alternatives? 5 years ago, people were ragging on it just as they do on PHP now. And now all of the sudden it's the poster child for good programming? Please.

Good news indeed. I look forward to the day where we no longer have to use JavaScript. If this offends someone, sorry.. but just my opinion. I can't stand JS.
At least you were doing some form of code review.

Generally when doing web work our team is ultimately pushed for time. The solution normally complies with the request, but most of us are embarrassed with the code, and hope for a time to sort it out later, only to never get that time. There's always a flaw.
Spot on. I have managed so far to get other people to pay for the tooling so far :-)
I'm skeptical of OP, because I remember him on reddit saying he made over six figures on his drop-shipping sites... Unless he has other successful sites, he flat out lied about his successes, possibly to sell his ebook.
Yea I was using MySQL on RDS just to escape the Heroku monolith. Funny that Heroku announced a new Postgres pricing model that is VERY expensive compared to old setup (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712570) just in time to be wiped off the map by RDS.
A = bat price
B = ball price

(1) A + B = 1.1
(2) A - B = 1

(1) + (2) : 2A = 2.1 => A = 1.05 => B = 0.05.

I don't understand the fuss.
I don't know why the US hasn't adopted EMV. It's not perfect, but it has cut down fraud massively here in Europe.

They're very hard to clone (I won't say impossible, but attacks against EMV have not generally been of this nature) and the transaction records at both ends will tell you whether the actual, real card was there.

The liability is more clear-cut as a result. If the customer claims the charge was unauthorised, that's between the bank and the customer.

--edit-- of course with EMV cards Coin would no longer be possible or relevant. Neat product, only useful in a magnetic-stripe world, which is at least a decade behind the curve now.

Theoretically with EMV you could put all your credit-cards on one chip and the terminal will either choose a supported default or present you a list, but that would require cross-bank cooperation, never going to happen.
at least in the non-us market, this awesome idea comes a bit late: not only are chip + pin pretty much standard nowadays, and new means like contactless payment creditcards / nfc-payments are being rolled out now.

i really would love to see a one-card-for-all tho that supports chip + nfc, but my understanding is that card issuers are eager to ensure that this will not happen.
> I tend to be a reasoned sort of guy, this doesn't mean I don't say stupid things, I do, but when called on those things I can tell you how I reasoned to them and you can help me see the error in my reasoning. ... When they won't even talk about how one might reason to the point, I find it unacceptable.

I'm not sure that the outcome would be different in this case, whether you reasoned by analogy or by first principles. Neither accept a complete lack of reasoning, and both expect some basis for that reasoning.
The real source of the issue is the nav bar itself, regardless of which element follows it. Absolute positioning doesn't push subsequent elements down, but it does allow you to use z-index. Earlier today I made a demo of one possible way to get "the best of both worlds": http://cdpn.io/wyuBg

Like a fellow commenter said, this may be a deliberate design choice, so the point could be moot.
It's like having a library run by a book retailer, with advertisements inside the library.
Imprint was just an example. You can take a picture of it, view the CVC, etc. No one imprints anymore.
eh, for me at least, if they have my Coin card, they probably have my wallet.
I can see Binary Options have limited hedging value as compared to Vanilla Options. But it's incorrect to label it as a scam.

Most futures/options on "traditional" markets are settled in cash rather than physical delivery.
Now, that concept I'm familiar with. In fact, I think that's a rather common feeling, not even exclusive to chess or pros.

Intuition (whatever that is) plays a great role, especially at the top level.
There's an app called Key Ring that I've used for some time that accomplishes exactly this. It works quite well.
Then go to fiverr and get a decent one for $5
These are "electronic" credit cards, they've been around for years and they are flat so not to be usable for offline processing (that's when they take an imprint, you sign it, they take the imprint to the bank and it settles in a week).
I really like your perspective on this. You seem very open to the idea that more public infrastructure needs to be built.

I think the first steps that we need to make are towards making the lack of public infrastructure feel more painful to the new implants. We need to do away with the private bus fleets and perhaps explore policies that would limit private and quasi-private modes of transportation like cabs, limos and car "shares".

Cities without any public infrastructure are terrible places to live and work in. We need to stop making "privatization" such an unarguable positive in the tech community. It is at ends with the needs of a population the lives practically on top of itself.

I'm all for the supposed decentralized and sharing-based economics of services like Lyft, but we can't forget that these are not democratic institutions. If we are intending to wholesale replace our existing methods of public transportation with something like this, we need to make sure that we retain public oversight in the matter. I believe the colloquial term for this is "to not throw out the baby with the bathwater".
Blazon - Tool for delivering technical presentations & trainings
The entire smartphone industry for the last five years has been driven by people paying hundreds of dollars to make their phones a few mm thinner. Why not their wallets? This isn't for your ATM card or your driver's license, it's for those random cards that you either never carry or fatten up your wallet.
Your "Good summary" is in a journal that's pretty far from what I'd call reputable. The PLOS One article on Rhesus monkeys isn't terribly definitive either - it's a big step between persisting in a host and capable of producing disease without manifesting any laboratory detectable presence.

To jump from "This might be a cause" to "Lets treat people with long term courses of antibiotics, which have known and often severe side effects" is a pretty serious leap in logic.

And I know very few clinicians who would tell someone who believes they're suffering from "Chronic Lyme" that they're not sick. Just that they're not sick in this particular way. Non-specific, widespread inflammatory disease is something the medical community is still struggling to figure out. But antibiotics are fairly nasty drugs for "We have no way of diagnosing this, fleeting evidence for a causal link, and no population-level studies."
but if its just a blog use mongo not mysql. non relational is a benefit and you have backups... postgres for real stuff.
I carry around the following:
1 Debit card
1 Credit card
1 Drivers license (usually I travel with public transport, but I'm required to carry an ID by Dutch law)
1 Ov chipknip (card for public transport in the Netherlands)
1 Health insurance card
2 Loyalty cards for competing grocery stores (I attend both of them on a regular basis)

Even though Coin doesn't solve this problem, especially since it doesn't have EMV which is required in Europe, I'd love to have all off them one card. I have another boatload of cards at home that are rarely / never used because I never have them on me when I could use them.

So basically: very cool idea, needs some more thought for the european market though.
The link is inaccessible, but from your comment - The fact that some exist in one group and none in the other still says nothing about the median or mean. In itself it might be a weak indicator of higher variance at best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Persistent state (e.g. documents, settings) only available to signed-in users?
The Snapchat employees who will become millionares
Because it's a massive cost for almost no gain.