skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disclaimer: Heroku PM here

By default our followers and HA is automatically cross AZ. You also have an ability to create followers across region, but we do not automatically failover on those due to latency.
It's already on the way.
Thats a sweet idea, i would really like to have something like coin.

The problem is that in Finland there is very few places that uses the "swipe" your card and sign method anymore. Back some 2-3 years ago it was a custom, but for security reasons (anyone can swipe a stolen card and sign it, the law does not require an ID unless the amount being paid is over 100 euros) it was abandoned and now you simply enter your PIN and that that.

Im not sure about other countries, but atm this is the norm in Finland.
Glad to see that they've finally backed off from the "Watson will revolutionize healthcare" pitch.
Their website hurts my eyes
Try refuting the assumptions without falling into self contradiction. You are just asserting that the assumptions are false. The assumptions are not beyond debate, but at that same time, they are not trivially false like you claim.
I cannot imagine attending a hackathon without a branching strategy. It may be out of touch for some beginners but I highly recommend Nvie's GitFlow (https://github.com/nvie/gitflow).

My first hackathon was one of the best coding experience's I have had since jumping into the programming community but... man, it would've been so much better if my team didn't have an anxiety attack every time we merged code. It also saves you a ton of time which is crucial at a hack.
I feel like you're trolling by mentioning "haxx0r" and bitcoin, but here goes anyway.

The fact that Renault is trying to sell a tangible, vendor-locked, remote-privileged/DRM-reliant device is more interesting than the "what if some jerk hacks the protocol?"

>Which do you think is going to happen more often: bricked because you couldn't afford your monthly payment, or bricked until you transfer 100 BTC to the haxx0r?

The former and by large a large margin.
Microsoft’s Unified Store Gift Card Might Bring More Revenue In for Devs
A few questions:

* Why is Q4 Projected so low compared to Q1-3?
* Why are Gross and SDE Margin % falling consistently from 2011-2013?

I think one thing that pops out at me is that while most business get better margins as they scale, your margins are actually declining or stagnant, which seem to be driven by the decline in COGS.
I agree with the other sentiments here on losing the reverse auction. There's no need for it; pick a number that's objectively fair and leave it at that.

I'm trying to figure out what the incentive would be for anyone to buy this, let alone folks in HN-type circles.

Yes, technically it's an ecommerce business, but with wages and salaries (outside of the general part-time site administrator) being non-existent, I don't see how it can stay afloat. You allocated a portion of the shared infrastructure expenses with the parent company; why is a portion of your salary not also included? Surely work goes into finding and brokering relationships with the motor manufacturers, selecting opportunities, setting the vision, etc.

On paper, even if you allocated 100% of the profits to pay for a person's salary, it can barely sustain a single person. The only realistic outcome is for it to be added into the fold of an existing company that wants to get into the high-end trolling motor space as a break-even business unit. Potentially serving as a loss leader to sell other higher margin items.

This reduces your prospective buyers down to about ten in the entire country.

One thing I love in your data: tracking traffic -> revenue. Cool!
Sure, but in the spirit of longevity, you're talking about a stop-gap solution at the most. There's also this: they aren't solving a real problem. My wallet going from 1 inch to 1/2 inch isn't a selling point.
> There is no name you can give to "s" to make it more meaningful or useful.

Again, an opinion others don't necessarily share.

> Thus a longer name is not beneficial.

Again, an opinion others don't necessarily share.

You seem to have a habit of stating your personal taste as fact; it is not. Some of us always prefer full words as names as a matter of style.
Since the first bid wins, the bidder in your example also risks losing his chance to purchase the business at his desired price by waiting.
I know mistakes happen and things do get charged to the wrong card, but can you imagine your boss being a happy bunny if he or she found out you've cloned the card?
OTOH in other companies you might be in serious hot water. Or, if you work for the government, potentially going to jail for putting personal expenses on a government card.
Early adopter tax. Once they find other ways to monetize (and they will, considering they have actually planted a physical device in a revenue stream), the device cost can drop precipitously.
Hi, founder here. We're trying to change the way developers use and manage cloud servers. We'd love any feedback, questions, or feature requests you have.

Thank you!
People have found success in managing large Javascript codebases through good design choices like module systems (AMD/CommonJS), using the SRP to keep modules tight, and testing. It's tough (nigh impossible?) to retrofit those design choices onto an existing codebase.

Dart and TypeScript seem to offer a more familiar path to people who are used to Java/.NET/etc and who have been burned by messy JS codebases.
Some analogies are more robust than others. But all analogies snap when stretched too far. I think this is one of those cases where you unfairly stretched it too far.

hammer : painting :: tool : finished_product

Though cliche, it's not like the analogy is misleading. Nails might not be "tools" since they can't normally be used on the next project, like a hammer can. But nails are still a means to an end, e.g. "hang painting on wall". If we really wanted to, we could stretch the analogy ad infinitum. "What's the nail represent? What's the room represent? Who bought the painting? etc." But the purpose of an analogy isn't to draw parallels between the objects' irrelevant particulars. Its purpose is to abstract from the objects an equivalency of relationship (i.e. means/end). In this case, I think the equivalency is preserved even after we extended our analogy in ways it was never intended to be.
> i will vehemently argue that a Ph.D. in CS is one of the best ways that a young hacker can spend his/her 20s

No need to argue that point, because I'm not arguing against it. Look at the comment that I was replying to:

> For those interested in a career in research and development, a PhD is almost a must.

A PhD is a must for a career in research. It is not a must for a career in development. We use the term "R&D," but those are quite different things. There's a lot less "R" around, and a lot more "D."

When I say that the PhD is "rarely helpful," I do not mean that it is totally useless. I mean that the person who would otherwise have done the PhD is probably a self-starter who would've done other equally-valuable things in the meantime. Different things, certainly. But unlikely to be worse than what you would've done in the PhD. Thus, it is not helpful compared to what else you could've done in the meantime.

For a career in the "D" side of computer science "R&D," it's about your technical skills and experiences. Doesn't matter if you acquired them while doing a PhD, or in a company, or working on open source. This is very different from a career in research, where it is much more important to have a piece of paper with "PhD" written on it.
From the article you linked to:

> The attack didn’t defeat Apple's sandboxing technology otherwise they would have earned a lot more.

Also Google makes more money from iOS than Android.
Did you really have to come up with a name for it: "reasoning from first principles"? Does it not bother anyone else that this is just "thinking"? I mean, if you can deal with the cost of re-engineering the battery, then why not? Is this not common sense?
I'm usually pretty generous with Facebook login and I find the paranoia surrounding it ridiculous, but when your site posted directly to my wall THE MOMENT I SIGNED UP without any kind of notice, I was fucking incensed. Not only was it unsolicited, it was spam that offered no compelling content except a link to your site. It doesn't help that you have no option for turning this permission off.

Out of hundreds of facebook logins, Joday.com was the first site I manually removed from my account.

F- not visiting again.
Why wouldn't a VC back this and subsidize their business model until they could get critical mass, then sell to retailers and create the first real competitor for the major card companies.

Conversely, if I were MasterCard or visa I would bar merchants from taking this card for my transactions to maintain competitive advantage.
I grew up in the UK and know that the UK abides by the European Convention for Human Rights which has a clause 8(1) concerning privacy. The Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. Article 8(1) of the Convention provides guarantees that such personal matters are kept private unless you explicitly provide consent for them to be released.

The European Union takes this matter pretty seriously - hence the whole do not track and cookie notification policies that you see with European websites these days. I live in Canada now, and here they have two federal privacy laws, the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act - though some provinces are deemed federally exempt because they have their own legislation that is substantially similar in nature to the federal mandates. I guess this "right" isn't accounted for in U.S. law?
It seems like this would be rife with data collection and selling to 3rd parties on the back end.
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It's hard for someone in anything remote to math/science without coding anything in their entire undergraduate life.

It's like you say no one can be admitted to a PhD program in US without first learning some English.
The trolling motor niche is seasonal, with demand peaking in the spring and summer and dropping off in the fall and winter months.
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Deja vu is theorized to be a data-recollection issue, where information is stored in short-term memory before it's consciously processed -- giving you the feeling of having experienced something before.

As for activities or exercises to improve the functionality, I imagine things like meditation or even yoga could help. Though, to be honest, I'm not exactly sure how.
Honestly, JavaScript has orders of magnitude more usage and a lot more momentum than Dart does. I don't think you'll be harming your career prospects in becoming proficient in JS.

I also think there are better choices than Dart if you want to learn something that will expand your mind. Dart strikes me as a very practical language.
> less cost == lower fees

In a perfect world...
There's a table at wikipedia (though it obviously lacks the detail in the post)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Ciphe...
Three reasons for me:

1) Establish and grow credit rating
2) An extra layer of defense against bad merchants (the CC companies will be your goon squad)
3) Bonus miles/points/etc
This is an awesome article, and I totally agree with it... but, it is an advert disguised as a blog post. Or are all company blog posts actually just adverts?
Absolutely.

As I mentioned, we have 150+ rooms that we chill in, and most of our day-to-day work practices are tied into chat. Mention someone's name in a room they're not present in and we send push notifications to their phone and desktop- works great to pull people in as needed, without needing to distract them with the noise of being in the room 24/7.

Our ops team is particularly in deep with chat. Instead of siloing everyone's process off individually in SSH sessions, many operations happen in chat, so everyone can learn and help out when diagnosing problems. They've built some really fascinating tooling around the problems they face- if you're interested, check out @jnewland's talk on ChatOps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NST3u-GjjFw
I have a mix of both TBH. So you'd still have to carry the rewards cards that don't have a magstripe!
See how this idea has progressed in six years:

Here's how it works. Users register their cards on the company Web site and upload the information into the iCache. When they want to use it, they activate the device with a fingerprint on its biometric strip, scroll through a list of cards on its screen and choose one. Out pops a plastic card with a magnetic stripe, temporarily loaded with the chosen card's data. Just swipe the card and pop it back into the iCache. After one use, the information on the card disappears. The device even works with loyalty cards, such as those handed out by supermarkets.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/23/technology/one_credit_card.b...

The hardware technology is certainly more advanced, but I'm of the opinion that the true endgame is going to be a scannable or NFC "card" stored entirely on the user's device (ala Passbook), not using a physical middleman.
On the other hand, real names have the potential of 'outing' someones gender, ethnicity, etc allowing people to 'google stalk' you and/or be sexist/racist towards you which would not have happened if they didn't know your info.
I have spent time with both Dart and with JavaScript + Meteor. Both are good stacks. If you are already up to speed on Meteor, why not just use that for a year, build applications, and maybe look at alternatives later.

It is probably best to start writing web apps, and not on learning many tools.
That's actually a bit of a dated response:

See recent study on Rhesus monkeys:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

The "no bacteria" perspective is usually based off of IDSA guidelines. Unfortunately, they've been successfully litigated against for providing incorrect information that appear to be linked to financial interests:

"My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful IDSA panelists. The IDSA's guideline panel improperly ignored or minimized consideration of alternative medical opinion and evidence regarding chronic Lyme disease, potentially raising serious questions about whether the recommendations reflected all relevant science."

http://www.ct.gov/ag/cwp/view.asp?a=2795&q=414284

Good summary of Lyme:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636972/

Needless to say, we've got a lot of people we're telling that they are not sick when symptomatically they appear to be.
Inertia, largely. Postgres is more scalable and has quite a few nonstandard additions that are insanely useful from time to time, but it's not always a drop-in MySQL replacement. If you're just writing something simple like a blog or CMS then you don't need the extra functionality.

Plus Wordpress has a hard requirement for MySQL, and like it or not a huge number of projects still use it as a framework.
Musk's thoughts are a great read -- thanks for sharing this.

Much innovation lies at the intersection of a mindset existing in possibilities, fuelled by creativity and ignoring what has, or hasn't been done before and really cut to the root of why people desire something or have a particular need.
That is wishful thinking, the US dominates the internet now more than ever.
Funny how it's a tiny bit more expensive than the mysql counterpart
Reasoning by analogy is also "thinking". What's wrong with giving different names to different ways of approaching a problem?
I happen to have nothing to hide, and am not someone too concerned about others using data about me, but I also possess a security clearance & am a Marine reservist, so as someone involved with national security to a minor degree (I'm just a junior infantry rifleman in the Corps) & living in DC, I have some familiarity with the policies set on sensitive information & some insight into why things are done a particular way in the federal government. Civilian career-wise, I don't work for the government in any capacity & wouldn't want to (I'm a mid/senior web developer).
I agree that with basic income, flat tax would make much more sense, and would be easier to sell too. Write that as another potential advantage :)
From the FAQ:
Q. What if I lose my Coin or someone steals it?
A. In the event that your Coin loses contact with your phone for a period of time that you configure in the Coin mobile app, it will automatically deactivate itself.
That's a very Google-centric way of looking at it. From their point of view, merging everything may be a big convenience and make them more money through more detailed profiling of users.

It's a very every company ever way of looking at it -- if you have multiple systems that do largely the same thing, you take the better or more encompassing of the two (or three, etc) and let it win. This is 90% of the purpose of companies acquiring systems and companies.

As to tracking, do you think Google didn't already track you with complete accuracy and knowledge? I don't think this does anything at all to improve their profiling of you. Literally nothing. They probably have some hopes about engagement, but I would wager the primary motivation is simply rationalizing systems.

And let's be clear -- YouTube's comments before this debacle were a garbage dump of noise. They represented the most notorious, least signal manifestation of comments on the tubes. Now, apparently, distaste for Google+ is enough for people to black that out of their memory?
Is it transactional?
The iCache (from 2007) had an interesting solution to the security issue that everyone is mentioning:

[A]ctivate the device with a fingerprint on its biometric strip, scroll through a list of cards on its screen and choose one. Out pops a plastic card with a magnetic stripe, temporarily loaded with the chosen card's data. Just swipe the card and pop it back into the iCache. After one use, the information on the card disappears.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/23/technology/one_credit_card.b...

Although I'm not sure if the information disappears after the swipe or after it's loaded back into its case.
And Test driven development is really just "Development"... why did they need to make a name for that?

I think what Musk is trying to do here is provide structure, and intention to the WAY he thinks.
Yes, everyone should, but the real question is what the answer to question of whether you're being a jerk should be.

If you're being a jerk too much, maybe you ought to re-evaluate your personality, and make a bigger effort to empathize with and respect your fellow man. I don't think much of anyone here disputes that.

But I would also say that never being a jerk is just as big of a problem. If nobody has ever thought that you were being a jerk, maybe you need to learn to respect yourself and stand up for yourself more often, or else people will tend to not take you seriously or respect your opinions.
They need make some changes in Chrome for doing this right. They aim to make DOM nodes garbage collectible with project oilpan [1] AFAIK. Both Dart and V8 VM will benefit from this. So this will take some time. But Dart is already very useful with Dartium for development and Dart2Js for deployment.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...
All the teams I have been part of have used chat together with Github. First team used Campfire, on the second team we started out with Hipchat, but we decided to give Flowdock a try, and now we can't live without the chat threads that Flowdock provides.
Throw enough money and brains at the problems, and it becomes a thief's nightmare. They've already got a good start, it seems. The credit card industry already eats significant small-scale fraud, so if you can create a system that makes it harder, rather than easier, to defraud cards, the big companies will be all over it. And THEN there will be big, big money.
Right, so I think that's the reason why the standard Income line is replaced with Seller Discretionary Income. Since it's assumed that there is very little actual work on the new owners side, all of the income of the business becomes profit. You'd be investing 1.6-2.8x an earnings of 65k, with the assumption that 1) the business would continue growing and 2) you wouldn't have to put any work into it. If the business continues to run as is, you'd get your money back in 1.6-2.8 years and the rest would be your return.
Revenue is interesting because it shows how much is going to each company. Like how many people are buying Dell computers or Google ads, not just the amount of profit each company makes off them which can vary vastly for all sorts of reasons.
> From a very quick glance at the small end the Amazon options are a little more than half the price (Ireland single AZ instance pricing and even less reserved) but multi-AZ options are probably very similar.

Did you add disk? People seldom do, I can attest it's a big part of the bill...

> I don't actually know whether Heroku can failover across an AZ failure.

"Followers" have preferred another AZ for quite some time -- almost since the beginning -- and Heroku Postgres HA is based on similar technology. So, yes.
If you can "code" so poorly that you're unable to get paid, I can't imagine how you'd get even close to getting into a PhD program, even if your specialization is math of finite state automata or human interface guidelines.

Coding (or being DBA or analyst, depending on your area) to the level of getting an okay salary is quite trivial compared to that - from the PhD students I've seen the 'most unemployable' ones would be so not because of their ability to code but because of social/mental issues.
That would be a pretty neat solution, but still has a window where it could be an issue.

Perhaps do the card selection from the app? Or at least an option to require confirmation in the app?