skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! And, yes, will definitely be doing a follow-up post when everything is finished.
Where did I say to use payment details as user information?
iPhone only, no chip and pin, won't work with any cash machine in the UK, no apparent protection against people skimming random cards (I'm suddenly very suspicious of anyone putting my card anywhere near an iPhone) AND it stores all your card details on their servers for no apparent reason?

Where can I sign up?
New York Will Be Holding Hearings On Bitcoin
The currently available docs reveal the client-nodes coordinate through a DynamoDB table. Processing with the library yields "at least once" semantics.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/kinesis-record...
Google Employees Speak Out About Government Spying
Quantum physics proves that there IS an afterlife, claims scientist
https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/online_alter_tabl...
Merchants aren't allowed by their merchant agreements to require your id in order to accept a credit card. They are supposed to check your signature. https://www.privacyrights.org/ar/Alert-FS15.htm
> DSS: fine

With the caveat that DSA fails exceptionally catastrophically if the random number generator is bad. If you re-use the same random number for different signatures, an attacker can recover the private key. Given how subtle RNG bugs can be, it's probably imprudent to choose it over RSA.
Essentially ...

"The New York Department of Financial Services has announced it will hold hearings in the coming months to discuss regulating Bitcoin.

Among the topics they'll discuss is whether to begin issuing what they're calling "BitLicenses" to businesses deemed in compliance with a possibly new set of financial statutes created solely for digital currencies like Bitcoin."
Sounds awesome, can't wait to see this implemented.
The parent is referring to a different phenomenon. "The weight of history" might be a way of describing it. In many domains you can't just start over fresh.

"Standing on the shoulders of giants" refers to the idea that we owe much of our knowledge to those who came before us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_gi...
So is being 'under religious' (what a ridiculous phrase by the way) in their view correlated to being morally suspect?
i have manually operated multiple JVM per server, maintaining /etc/services to track the ports, and apache+modproxy as front end. start/stop services and let apache detect the active state. with mesos and cgroups we get even more a dynamic assurance that services have the minimum guaranteed resources and access to scale across the entire compute cloud. we will soon be able to scale up/down on demand maintaining an 85% or greater utilization reducing allocation. with cgroups we remove the overhead of multiple OS that traditional VM brings.
Staging servers are not only a great idea, they are a life saver (read: job saver/career saver) when you are running large, mission critical apps.

I push things right into production when I'm playing with a new site. I use a staging server when I'm working on something serious.
We can endlessly argue over the correctness of this decision but I am little surprised that authors guild actually sued Google for this. It is like website owners suing Google for crawling, indexing and increasing visibility of their website.

Clearly, what Google had done was beneficial for the entire book industry.

May be the Authors guild was more interested in some kind of rent seeking rather than actually protecting anyone's interest. I am sure even that must have been noticed by the judge.
Absolutely. It's run on the Magento OpenSource shopping cart, and it's a LAMP environment.
A simplicidade artística de Javier Pérez 
Nascido no Equador, o diretor de arte e ilustrador Javier Pérez vem apresentando uma série divertida de ilustrações em sua conta no instagram que combinam objetos do cotidiano, como clipes de papel, uvas, unhas e anéis para criar obras de arte deliciosas de ver. Inspire-se!
Windows Phone not supported -> fail.
Isn't this a fundamental piece of the US court system? You take the stand and swear to tell the truth.

If there were no consequences of lying in court then we'd have much bigger problems with the justice system than we do now.
I'm always skeptical when companies say they have "no managers" and are a completely flat organization with 100+ employees. I don't pretend to fully understand organizational theory, but I take it that at some point, there will be someone doing the "management" work. Whether that's someone with the title of ninja/hacker/product guy/project manager/director/CEO/BDFL
IBM opens Jeopardy-winning Watson to developers with a self-service cloud
Serial API to read 3D printers, etc.
There's nothing wrong with settling in cash. There is something wrong with failing to maintain the separation between marketplace and counterparty. There's no meaningful settlement at all here; there is literally no way to get USD into or out of this site--you just get BTC back on take-it-or-don't terms.

You're playing craps, only the dealer rolls the dice for you behind a screen and tells you if you won or not.

I wasn't familiar with the specific subspecies of this called "Binary Options" before, but even basic investigation makes it clear that yes, Binary Options are a scam product. There do not appear to be any legitimate binary options marketplace/peddlers.

There's no reason you couldn't structure an exactly equivalent product out of legitimate securities, so there's no reason for this product to exist outside of running cons.
Q. What if I lose my phone?
A. When you pair your Coin with your phone, it is associated with your account and not that specific phone/device. If you lose your phone, it is possible to pair your Coin with your new phone after installing the Coin mobile app and signing in.
The Percona Toolkit works with mainline MySQL and is trivial to install.
But Flanker's full-message parser is still 8x faster than email.parser's full-message parser, according to their benchmark.

It's pretty unlikely that many well-used and years old OSS language libraries have orders of magnitude speed ups lying on the table...

Normally I'd agree with you, but this is the python stdlib we're talking about.
You took the words out of my mouth. No merchants should accept this card unless they want to be liable for chargebacks. If this product is actually released I wouldn't be surprised if a clause is added to merchant agreements to explicitly disallow accepting this type of card.
Why Go will kick ass in your next project
I work for a merchant also... high volume low ticket. My thought is: Since most of our customer transactions (swipes) occur without any cashier involvement - how would V/MC know that the "real" card wasn't present?
>Merchants pey exactly 0% transactions fees and a small monthly subscription. //

Where's that?
Anyone with half a brain knows the NSA and other agencies have been capturing data from telcos for decades. That's the nature of their business. And frankly, given the world we live in and the amount of sick fucks roaming the land, I don't blame them for doing some intelligence work. PRISM, MUSCULAR and whatever else we don't know of (yet) are without a doubt abuses of power and they have simply gone way too far. So this is wrong and needs to be changed. But the Internet will never be the Internet of the 90s.

Companies like AT&T have dedicated rooms for the NSA with spliced fiber to dumb daily terabits of data to. For decades. This is nothing new.

with regards to payments and consumer awareness of breaches and security issues, well, consumers today are becoming more AWARE of these facts brought on primarily by the Snowden leaks. Sure, a lot are still clueless and that won't change but there is still an inherent reluctance to trust new products/services/technologies especially when it comes to banking and finance.

The status quo are not early adopters. Never have been, never will be. The mainstream products are the success. When you sign up for an Amex or a Chase card or whatever bullshit they're selling on TV, they sell a sense of security, confidence, TRUST.

The problem with a startup like Coin (aside from the dozen or so issues mentioned above by me and a few others reading the thread now) is a narrow focus. They aren't really solving a problem, rather they're creating many more.

They've created a product that a handful of people in the SF Mission district will use to buy a $7 coffee and a croissant while they Tweet about it (from the Coin app hopefully). But this focus forgets the rest of the world (which is a big and lucrative place).

I think this is the problem with a lot of Bay Area startups. They're so caught up in the YC dinners, the SF startup scene, the networking, and the conferences that they limit their focus to a very narrow audience.
I think this highlights how insecure cards are that just rely on magnetic strip information rather than something like EMV (chip & pin). It should not be possible, or at least extremely difficult, to clone a card.

I'm from the UK and EMV (Called Chip & PIN) has been around for years now. No-one issues non-EMV cards anymore, except perhaps for cards designed exclusively for use in ATMs. Something like Coin would not be possible and, frankly, I'm happy this is the case. While having to carry multiple cards around is not an optimal solution I'd much prefer this over the ability for my cards to be trivially cloned.

Aside from the security issues how would this work in relation to fraud with your card issuer? I'm not sure if it is different in the US but if you are the victim of fraud and you were not seriously negligent (i.e stored your PIN in the same wallet as your card) then the issuing bank will refund any money fraudulently taken/spent. Assuming something similar operates in the US, would using this service give the issuing banks a excuse to hold you responsible for fraud? I'd also wonder if you were breaking any agreements you have with your bank in relation to your use of the cards they issue you with.
Personally I don't think the Pinterest / waterfall layout works well in this case, as it's a little overwhelming.
This wouldn't work in the UK, we use chip and pin here. It's extremely rare these days to find a place that will swipe your card and loosely verify your signature.
don't forget postgres didn't officially support replication until late 2010, which was a total non-starter for many/most production uses
Do you use zookeeper for addressing and assigning ports? One of the things most lacking in the outside-Google datacenter world is an addressing scheme like DNS that allows you to find some resource by name, including the port.

Using well-known ports severely restricts flexibility of scheduling.
Do We Live in the Matrix?
Javascript lost a decade because of that.

People without an investment in Javascript have lost over a decade because of Javascript's monopoly on clients being maintained. If we had not been forcibly locked into Javascript all this time, then competition would have produced a better alternative or whipped the process designing Javascript into shape. Now we are stuck with this ridiculously tall, messy stack which uses an application scripting language as a compile target, still lacks basic features like a standard package system, and pushes trivial language features like iteration into third-party libraries like jQuery. So now we are constantly pushing megs of JS, using insanely complicated build systems to get anything done, and for all this trouble our code runs at a speed roughly equivalent to C in 1998.

(Now that Flash and Silverlight are dead I think it is safe for me to complain about Javascript without being an enemy of the open internet or whatever.)

I don't really care about Dart, but it's way past due that there was something serious to challenge Javascript. All the triumphalism about how Javascript is already a perfect language to use for eternity is explicitly counterproductive. Making the whole internet depend on the fortunes of one language just sucks.
My Discover Card is like this as well. Totally flat, no ability to imprint.
Then, sorry... I am an asshole. My bad OP, my bad...
I have a money clip, a smart phone and keys. Phone needs to be in a front pocket so that I don't sit on it and break it. Keys need to be in my front right pocket so that they are accessible and I do not sit on them and never sit again.

Thus my billfold must go in one of my rear pockets.
It looks identical in scope and execution ... someone mentioned they did something at Amex like this 20 years ago, wonder if the patents have expired now.
We use PRP in any situation where someone explicitly takes responsibility for an outcome, no matter whether the outcome is some software or a clean office or an accurate tax return.
Imagine my dismay when a coffeeshop in Amsterdam would not take my magstrip only American Express.
Both. They aren't mutually exclusive. I don't believe ads are a valid source of monetization. Once you start showing ads, you invariably become evil.

Free to use, free content by default, with premiums and ratings/comments to help people decide what's worth paying for.

There are a number of shows I watch on YT that I find very entertaining. If the latest 3-5 episodes, posted daily are available to a channel subscriber for something like $2.99 a month, and episodes older than that are free, you can either watch things for free or get access to them as they're made and be more involved with the author via comments, etc. There are more options than "free" or "paid" or "advertisement supported." Unfortunately we're still stuck in a world that's riding the coattails of the cable industry, which is now dying, so perhaps that's a bad model to emulate.
In theory, merchants should recognize the Coin as not a valid card according to http://www.mastercard.com/us/merchant/pdf/BM-Entire_Manual_p... part 8.4.2.

Coin apparently aren't a MC/Visa issuer, so they can't claim to issue a valid card or mobile payment device. In addition, merchants are supposed to judge cards by the system logo - and Coin can't have MC or Visa logo if they aren't an issuer, and certainly no card is allowed to have both MC and Visa logo (even if they would technically support both), MC/Visa prohibit that.

On an anecdotal basis, the recommendation given to cashiers when teaching them how to handle cards and detect fraud is not really in-depth but more or less "if you see something suspicious that is not a normal card, call the cops", or something like that.
Couldn't you get a combined debit and credit card?
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's letter to CTIA on device unlocking
As a former credit card thief I would have loved this. You mean I don't have to buy $10,000 of card printing and embossing equipment to create a fake clone of a card? Yes please!

As a consumer I'd love to have something like this but it will never fly. Stores will lose liability protection since there is no security. Unless they partner with card issues to provide some kind of secure card verification it will end up being banned by merchant agreements. No store in their right mind would accept it.
The VM already works on Android (x86 and ARM - not sure about MIPS).
Thanks, you had my curiosity, now you have my attention :)
Will sure give it a look on my next project.

I saw it has very nice HTML DSL, but I assume I can't consider Ceylon as a full stack framework yet? anything in the making? is there a Node.js / Rails / Seam migration project that someone works on at the moment that you know? it might be an interesting open source project to contribute / follow.

Thanks again, and all the best
If you look at it from the perspective of CPU cores it lines up more:

~2002: move everything off to its own dual-cpu server
~2007: move everything to its own dual core vm on an 8-core server
~2012: put everything on each 16/32 core box but manage its resources via cgroups (or just overprovisioning)
Bitnami MEAN stack: MongoDB, Express, AngularJS & NodeJS
> Personal Finance: How do we know diversifying your investments gives you the optimal risk-reward in a given timeline?

You mean that you have to study in order to to come with a straight answer right? Study economics OR do the math?

Public policy: I don't know why monopolies should not be formed. But I guess you do, right? :-) Care to explain?

> Jobs: Why do you have a specific job title instead of being a Jack of All Trades?

You probably see a connection among Jack-of-All-Trades and economics as a scientific field, which I do not. Enlighten moi please.

> Population: Why has the birth rate been declining?

Because they apply policies based on things that politicians and other ignorants (economists) think they understand, when the examples we have at hand shows they clearly DO NOT understand the how and the why. All they offer is a translation after their policy had failed miserably for the n-th time.

> Second, your analogies make little sense. The architect doesn't build the house, the construction crew does. Regardless, each specialty (hmm, that specialization again?) plays an important role in building a house.

Really? Have you take a closer look at Wall Street to see how many % of the population working there (financial sector) studied economics and not physics or some other math-intensive science?

How many doctors do you know without a degree in medicine but with a degree in physics?
Some do, of course, but some of the rest of us are more interested in future advantages. If you need to target legacy browsers, legacy technologies are widely available.

If you'd like the future to be as good as possible, you might want to build new tools without the same old constraints.
understood

personally I think HN has both a pro-PhD, pro-academic, and also an anti-PhD or anti-academic segment. Sometimes within the same people! I certainly do.

I think it has both strengths and weaknesses. I think to the extent that universities and PhD track stuff serves an unnecessary and embarrassing anachronistic echo from the Middle Ages then that is a bad thing. But to the extent it helps teach disciplined thinking, cultivate a new generation of teachers and researchers, and helps to cull out noise or invalid/false/dumb contributions to the advancement of an art, it's a very good thing. The weed-out effect is good. I think some antipathy comes from the folks who perceive there to be a lot of non-weeds outside academia, and weeds within it. All discipline and curation is good. But it's not the unique providence of universities or professorship tracks. A lot of programmers have a libertarian bent too and dislike profit-maximizing monopolies or priesthoods, and universities/academia has at least a little of that aspect to them.
My American card has a chip. It is rolling out here.
Dark Mail Alliance - Digital Email Encryption Kungfu
This lists are basically meaningless. However, I wouldn't argue with the top 10 or so.
> The source could be released for inspection and audit,

Dude, that's exactly what he asked for.
A new look for the Gmail app on iPad
http://creditcardforum.com/blog/chip-and-pin-credit-cards-us...
True. I've found many good and useful things there, but every so often they post something that is clearly dubious or a hoax. That's fine as things go; people make mistakes.

But when caught out they tend (to the extent I've seen) to either say nothing or to just delete the post, rather than make an effort to correct mistakes.

(On a related note, I'm amazed at the level of snark and bile in the some of the comments on Boing-boing; the nasty ones rival or out-do the worst of Youtube.)
'() Merchants will hate it since there is no physical imprint / swipe of the bank-issued card. This will lead to chargebacks in favor of the customer. So this alone kills this company/product.'

Apparently this criticism is not valid, since physical imprints / swipes are rare in Europe.
The EMV transaction process has "application selection" as one of its early stages, and some cards do contain multiple applications. However AFAICT this is never across banks or across schemes. So you may get a card that has (say) a Mastercard application on it for domestic use and another for foreign use.

In theory, you could slam mastercard, visa, amex, credit, debit, whatever else you want, all on the one chip. Depending on the exact card and terminal implementation a transaction would either use the default application or get an on-screen display asking you which you would like to use. But you'd have to get the banks to load the app on there as there are sensitive keys involved.

That's not exactly the same as Coin - you couldn't pre-select which card to use in which situation, and you couldn't load them yourself. I suppose in theory you could have multiple EMV chips on a card like Coin and have a circuit-switching arrangement of some sort. There would need to be a way to embed them there and that would put a limit on things...

--edit-- about the stupid loyalty card things - in Australia I noticed most of them had started working on barcodes, and people had smartphone apps that gave them a menu and displayed the right code, pretty cool.
Meet Cheddar Up - Collecting money just got fun
This makes me so happy...just had to share...
The government is involved, but through academia. For example in Canada we have the CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) which would fund develop of drug develop (among many other health research).
The problem is the Socratic Method should only be used on someone who accepts that you're trying to teach them something. It's insulting when used in another context.
Amazon Kinesis, A New AWS Service To Process Real-Time Streams
You make some great points. By "nondevelopers," I was referring to consumers rather than CIOs.
There are too many topics to be an expert on everything. I've found that honesty leads to better conversations and higher trust long-term relationships.

"That's not really my area of expertise, what do you mean by that?"

"I haven't looked into that much yet"

"I'm sorry, I don't know that word"

"I've been meaning to look into ____, can you give me the 5 second overview"

I can separate the world easily into two types of people: those who will asks questions if they don't understand, and people I'm unlikely to trust.
Bike-sharing in the U.S. expected to reach 37,000 bikes in 2014
I've found my chip and signature Amex Platinum Card to be just as useless in Europe as my old magstrip-only card.
> Had it been a small non-profit, or some bootstrapped startup, they may have been able to get cheap representation via the EFF or some other group that defends the public interest.

And they very likely would have lost.

I think that cft is insinuating that the law is not the same for the wealthy and well-connected and the poor.
> I will never understand why Microsoft basically killed ES4.

Simplicity of the language.

I'll easily agree that ES4 would have been very interesting, but ES5 (and its spiritual successor features in ES6) gave us subtle low-level power that would have lacked otherwise.
It's funny that the example given is of Musk reasoning to how batteries can be much cheaper than they are. And yet Tesla buys their raw batteries from third party manufacturers just like almost all other EV manufacturers. So I'm a bit confused as to the value of this particular example. Furthermore, batteries still do not cost anywhere close to what Musk predicts. Perhaps that's because he completely ignores manufacturing costs in his analysis. The price of a sewing needle costs a lot more than the cost of the raw materials.