skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm. Given your financial situation I don't think your problem really has anything to do with 'not being rich'. It just sounds like you're depressed about something.

Why not consider donating a portion to a charity? If anything it may absolve yourself of some responsibility regarding your cynical outlook? Be the change you seek :)
It doesn't have the Aum Shinrikyo Australia event. So it's good that they're not including speculation.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/21/science/seismic-mystery-in...

> LATE on the evening of May 28, 1993, something shattered the calm of the Australian outback and radiated shock waves outward across hundreds of miles of scrub and desert. Around the same time, truck drivers crossing the region and gold prospectors camping nearby saw the dark sky illuminated by bright flashes, and they and other people heard the distant rumble of loud explosions.

[...]

> The evidence was ominous. Investigators discovered that the cult, Aum Shinrikyo, had tried to buy Russian nuclear warheads and had set up an advanced laboratory on a 500,000-acre ranch in Australia near the puzzling upheaval. At the ranch, investigators found that the sect had been mining uranium, a main material for making atomic bombs.
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For Debit cards payment scheme's are already joined on 1 EMV chip. The terminal configuration decides which one is used. To join issuers on 1 card I agree cross-bank cooperation will never happen.

Credit cards are divided by payment scheme's. Banks just issue cards for 1 of the scheme's eg. Mastercard or VISA, ... don't think Mastercard. In this field I don't think Mastercard will want their competitor on the same card. Even technically it's not so easy to implement for a payment processor (I work for a payment processor).
Real-estate, retail, etc, are important parts of "the model"... but note that many Japanese private railroads do not cross-subsidize, and their rail divisions are profitable on their own. [I do not know about the HK MTR.]

In that sense, the various divisions in this model are more like symbiotic organisms, with each changing the environment in ways that allow the others to be more efficient: convenient rail transit makes nearby retail and real-estate (much) more attractive, and the traffic from popular real-estate and retail increases rail usage (significantly).
That's interesting - thank you. I'll check it out.
oh wow. Just a month ago I and a couple of colleagues were talking about this very idea and that this would be a great startup, though we dismissed it because none of us had any experience in this field and we were afraid of possible legal issues.

It's great to see that someone actually brought this to life!
He definitely did - for example, Apple banned several cartoonists back in 2010. http://gawker.com/5524983/cartoons-banned-by-apple-a-gallery...
I'm still trying to grasp Snapchat's worth. I can't quite
figure out exactly what the patent protects(I'm no expert
though). If Facebook is will to give them 3 billion dollars, the patent must be Bullet proof? If not, we are
in a bigger Internet Bubble than the 90's. I'm still
dumbfounded they didn't accept the money. I guess I getting
old, but the right person(honest nonprofit) could help a lot of people and animals with that kind of money. Yes, I would help the poor, and start up free clinics for any animal that needs medical assistance.
On the enterprise space I am yet to see anything better than Sonar.

http://www.sonarqube.org/
Not ING in the Netherlands. I have an ING bank pass and an ING credit card, and I didn't see any option for combining them, unfortunately.
Man's grasp is always greater than his reach. Why don't you desire what you CAN grab? Doesn't that make more sense than desiring what another person can grab.

Another way of looking at it: You are alive. Being alive means you have the ability to change the world around you. Change the world around you.
Shameless plug: the 2nd problem "Create a list of computer science faculty by crowdsourcing" has been solved:

http://phdtree.org/toplist/field/cs/
I don't think it makes it any easier. To be honest (as someone who deploys a lot of Windows machines) PowerShell only makes it fractionally easier. There are always packages and bits of software that just don't have a programming interface at all (not even COM) at which point you are, to use the technical term, fucked whether you use PS or Cygwin.

The platform as a whole stinks for programmability and I hate working with it.
I've found network folder sharing (cifs or vboxfs) to be quite slow and buggy for certain tasks. Is there any known good alternative?
We shall see :)
"The average British woman spends about £279 on beauty and cosmetics but she spends about a third more, £394 on technology products.
By comparison the magazines she reads gives about 20 times as many column-inches to cosmetics than they do for tech.
The disconnect between how the glossy mags choose to fill their pages and how British women actually spend their money suggests that traditional publishers are out of touch with their readership.
Women spend more on smartphones than men, they spend one and a half times as much on technology and influence 57% of new technology purchases. The glossy mags have yet to acknowledge that women are now fully involved as technology consumers."

The most damning evidence

It makes me think that these magazines are not actually designed to optimally interest their readers, but simply to grab their attention and then mold it to their advertisers interests.
Any info on the bandwidth? Looks like it might be a good alternative for businesses in areas without a great selection of telco providers
And it's up again
Thanks, haxiomic.

I hope my comment helped. It's good to take a step back and look at this in the grand scheme of things - there is no need to panic :) Best of luck with it all!
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Snapchat turns down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook
Windows is mainstream for developers. There are millions of them. Probably more than the open source community.

They just suffer more!

(Note: I do both 50/50 and certainly don't prefer writing code on windows)
There seem to be a bunch of people who have the same opinion -- stick to the corelibs until it hurts. Do you want to articulate why?
If you were rich enough to have a jet to fly to Vegas you might just shift perception, and be jealous of the people building space craft or deep sea vessels or hyperloops.

There's always going to be people richer than you.

To me, $1m is a fantastic amount of money. If you want to give 0.1% of it away send me an email - it would be very very useful to me and my son.

There are almost certainly local groups who need volunteers. Have you considered helping them? Not financially, but rolling your sleeves up and getting involved. This would give you rewards that are not based in money, and help you shift your perceptions of wealth.

> I really see myself crashing and burning, becoming homeless or committing suicide.

This is very troubling. Please see a doctor. Please consider seeing a therapist. Thoughts of suicide are worrying signs of depression, which can be a fatal illness. Modern treatments are getting better, especially if you have the money to access medication and therapy. And early intervention helps.

I'm sorry you're having a lousy time. I hope things improve for you!
I know... and there's nothing I can do about it.

I wish I could contact reviewers...

I just hope it's not a bug, but it would be extremely surprising.
Actually you have a pretty good amount of money for your age, if you keep going like this I'm sure you will get what you want in maybe 20 years.

But seriously. Money is shit. What EVERYONE is striving for is experience. You want to feel the experience of boarding that private jet, gamble 10mi or something.

The experience you are wanting to have is very empty and there's way better stuff to do out there. Learn to draw, paint, do something you are proud of. Be the CEO of a big company. Help homeless people. The experience is what matters, go after it.
I don't really have any knowledge about this, but the discussions around the Aaron Swartz case had the consensus that this is because of the asymmetry or resources: Federal government with unlimited resources, vs. defendant with little to no resources, in a fight for multiple years.
> I'm thinking an integration with CoinMap, where if you walk into a store that accepts Bitcoin, it shows up on your home screen (if this is possible).

That would be awesome actually.
Pretty sure samsung and all the other Android device makers care about profits though.
Do you know what the article means by: "why some become Muhammad Ali and others Mike Tyson"?

I think it's contrasting the success of Ali with the (inferred) lack thereof of Tyson. Maybe? But that doesn't make any sense to me; the first paragraph of Tyson's Wikipedia page will tell you why.

Unless it's talking about social success. In which case it seems out of context of the article.
As a European: Chip and Pin?
Yes, but if women want to read about technology they can buy a technology magazine. How much of Men's magazines column inches are given to tech?
Works for me.

It is Atlassian so it's probably down for "reindexing"...

(only JIRA admins will get this)
We also, historically, tend to test in ways that limit damage. We doubtless have enough weapons to eliminate 95% + of the global population if that were the intent.
I'm not sure I understand what the offering is.

How does:

"everything is encrypted"

work together with:

"The Younited service automatically scans all files for malware that you add to the cloud?"

... presumably that makes it server-side encryption in which they're reserving the right to perform some manipulation of files first (virus scanning, deduplication?)?

... but if so, how can they include the statement:

"we like what dropbox and skydrive do, but where is the privacy?"

Isn't this exactly what dropbox does? I presume they will use ssl to transfer the data, perhaps even encrypt it in storage after they've scanned the plaintext, but surely this is as as vulnerable to their own staff and their government as any other service?
Yes, a stock buyback can replace dividends provided the IRS views it as "not essentially equivalent to a dividend". I.e., if you issue quarterly share buybacks, the IRS will kick your ass.

(Google the phrase in quotes, it's a legal term of art.)
Well, I guess they can focus on integrating Litecoin into their system now...
For free? Really? No, people give you money, as they are building a great big database of your consuming-behavior. Not only what you buy, but when, where, in which quantities, what goes together with what, and so on.

That is the currency, that you do pay for these "perks".
I can't help it, but I absolutely LOVE BitBucket.
I found that the fact of reviewing others is what actually was the most interesting. Not even getting to see good stuff I wouldn't have come up with myself, but also trying to figure out why people have issues understanding the subject at hand.

For more direct and "valuable" feedback, the forums are great. In every course I took there were fantastic discussions on the forums.
Considering merchants' reaction to NFC is already somewhat uneasy, I'm not really sure how this would work out.

After using (and attempted using) NFC in many places, I started feeling like NFC as a replacement of credit card is not a right direction considering it doesn't really solve the problem of credit card (other than not carrying so many cards with you) especially when you can use a credit card for just about any purchase big or small.

Perhaps the only way these can take off is if you can approach as "NFC as extension to cash" which may be why it was embraced widely in Japan for instance, where micro transactions (and some extent, any transactions) with credit card is somewhat discouraged.
I carry a debit card, a credit card, and a joint account card.

My problem is the 15 loyalty cards I'd need to carry to get my free mocha/chicken/subway/points/etc/etc, give me an amalgamation of that shit and I'll love you for ever.
I love how the stop button is just a link to the page. Smart.
Investors are not stupid or blind. Hyperloop is similar to the Maglev train technology developed in Germany and Japan for the last decades. The inventor of the maglev train even thought about hyperloop. But so far just one single commercial maglev train route has been build.

And the suck costs are extremely high. The six billion Musk estimated are wrong, it won't be six billion, it will much, much more than that.

Investors don't invest in hyperloops not because of the 9 theories the author is mentioning but because hyperloop are not an alternative to conventional trains.
>perl is a language which has not seen any new adoption by developers...

This is incorrect. Perl is still seeing good adoption by new developers.

Now your argument could be that it probably not at same rate compared to some of the top languages around at this moment but Perl is still growing.

Some facts...

- CPAN continues to grow - http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/uploads | http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/authors

- According to this tweet Perl still produces more new repos on Github than languages like Scala, Clojure & Go - https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/395922559151009792

>was it a design decision or they chose it as no alternate mechanisms/libraries is available in perl

No idea what their decision criteria was however they are plenty of alternative mechanisms/libraries in Perl.

See PSGI/Plack for Perl's state of the art solution - http://plackperl.org
or, Rhizome? :-P
I don't think it's a symptom of "how broken the economy is". If you're paying each off when it's due, it can be a good way to make a small chunk of change.
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If the keys are stored at Coinbase and the app is just using APIs to talk back to the site, is there anything the app was doing that couldn't be replicated through a mobile website?
What problem does this solve? After watching the video, their value proposition is: "my wallet is filled with cards, too many" - i.e. using one card instead of a few. Is it gaining popularity because of the technology, or because we're addicted to gadgets like this one?
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there's one thing I generally agree with the article. Coin is a gimmick. Also, I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who like to carry wallets that are moderately full rather than empty.
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"The average British woman spends about £279 on beauty and cosmetics but she spends about a third more, £394 on technology products. By comparison the magazines she reads gives about 20 times as many column-inches to cosmetics than they do for tech. The disconnect between how the glossy mags choose to fill their pages and how British women actually spend their money suggests that traditional publishers are out of touch with their readership"

It does suggest that, but it also suggests that they're in touch with the "beauty and cosmetics" companies who spend money advertising in their magazines. Anyone got any data on how much technology companies spend advertising in women's magazines?
On the chip&pin terminal when you enter pin and ok the transaction, there's a selection for "debit" or "credit".
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I think the point is that a "lab model" would be useless, since the problems change non-linearly at scale and speed... and computer simulations of fluid dynamics and physical systems are pretty good these days, since computers got so much faster (physicists add more and more complexity/realism to their modelling such that a simulation always takes ~3 days to run, however good their computer. Our computers are awesome now.)

Also, some parts of it are tested, e.g. the roller coaster magnetic thrusters/brakes.

I do understand the difference, but the point stands for all revolutionary, as opposed to incremental, technologies. We will need some, how do we fund them?
It makes me think that these magazines are not actually designed to optimally interest their readers, but simply to grab their attention and then mold it to their advertisers interests.

The whole point of the editorial content in trade publishing is to sell advertising pages.

Back when I was a columnist for Computer Shopper (in the UK, circa 1999-2005, during the golden autumn of the computer magazine publishing era -- before direct PC sales over the internet gutted it) the ABC audited circulation of the mag was around 135,000 readers (multiply by 5 for an equivalent US readership). Cover price was on the order of £2.35, so you could expect revenue of £317,000-odd per issue from paid subscribers/store customers. Around 120 pages consisted of editorial content, plus up to 550 pages of advertising. (This ratio holds in the US, too, where to take advantage of printed matter bulk postal rates magazines had to have no less than 20% editorial content mixed in with the ads.)

I don't have exact revenue figures, but a half-page black and white ad in CS sold at the time for roughly £2000. So, ignoring the premium for colour and blow-in ads, we can approximate the advertising revenue to £2.2M per issue. In actual fact, colour ads sold for a lot more, so the revenue per issue would be closer to £3M.

The take-home here is that at most 14% of the magazine's revenue came direct from the readers -- indeed, the readers were probably getting the colourful 650-page object for the cost of printing alone. The remaining 86% -- or more -- of the magazine's revenue came from advertising.

Now, from a business perspective, whose interests do you expect to weigh more heavily on the mind of the publisher -- the readers, or the advertisers?
T.D : Do you know what a hyperloop is?

N : A sort of train that moves in vacuum

T.D : It's just a very fast train. Now why do guys like you and me know what a hyperloop is? Is this essential to our survival? In the hunter gatherer sense of the word?
Is this not simple supply and demand? If people didn't want to read magazines such as Hello etc they wouldn't buy them and the publishers would realign to what people do want to buy (be that reading about technology or anything else).
Is money spent relevant though ?
I spend more on car insurance, gas and other maintenance fees than on entertainment, and really don't care about cars as long as mine doesn't break. A lot of women might have as little interest in the next Samsung phone.
(Another recent graduate speaking)
Not everyone is having same social skills.

You tell me that, then I shall take my ass out and make friends in a foreign country. I agree with you, as am working on it and myself, but at the moment - zero friends.

As a result I very often eat alone too. On the other hand, I still am highly against replacing my eating rituals with some shaky shakes.
How does a project that's been horribly managed being much worse than this suggest that this is suspect? (Unless you expect that horrible management is a given in any CA government-related project)
The MTR runs metros and other mass transportation system around the world. And most of those are subsidised.
I am asking to learn.

If I have to use this card, do I also have to have my cell phone with me all the time? If I go downstairs to get a Bagel in the morning, I need to take my phone, or else no Bagel for me? And it seems from the "Iphone will alert you using Bluetooth" facility, that I need to have Bluetooth on all the time, which I normally do not, to save battery life (adds an hour or so on my Iphone4). To me this is a functional gridlock.

Does it also need to be connected to some data network or the other to work?

If I lose this Coin card, then is it same as losing all my cards? If my assumption is true that this needs to be paired with a phone always, then will it not be possible to nullify the card, using the app on the phone, in case I lose the Coin card?

Thanks
> How much of Men's magazines column inches are given to tech?

As a rule, shit loads.
That last line seems a little snarky. Not everyone knows built in prefetch directives in gcc.
For anyone who hadn't read it yet, there is a relevant very short story by Isaac Asimov called Hell-Fire: http://www.tep-online.info/short/hell.htm

“That these bombs are man’s death sentence. We don’t seem to be able to learn that.”

These must have been incredibly scary times. The first time in our modern history that we came close to our own extinction.
I was going to say: Since technology sales are higher, why aren't technology companies advertising more? But the markup on cosmetics (scented water with fancy labels) is huge, so the cosmetics companies have much more money to spread around in advertising.
"In the United States, the development of the computer was underpinned by massive government investment in the technology for military applications during WWII and then the Cold War. The latter superpower confrontation made it possible for local manufacturers to transform their machines into commercially viable products. It was the same story in Europe, where adoption of computers began largely through proactive steps taken by national governments to stimulate development and deployment of the technology."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware

You're arguing there's an interplay between the public and private sector. That's true. But you would be hard-pressed to find an example of a major core tech that developed independently of significant government investment -- particularly in the highest-risk, most capital-intensive stuff. And that's why Hyperloop doesn't get funded.
The amount of money you spend on something does not equal your interest in it.
There's also 40South Energy in this space: http://www.40southenergy.com/wave-energy-converters/the-tech... (its founder was my linear algebra teacher).
Dbvisualizer (http://www.dbvis.com/) works with lots of databases and is really pretty cheap. Disclaimer: no connection other being a long term customer, I use it with Oracle, MySQL and Postgresql.
I've always thought that the real solution for the "too many cards" problem is to get all credit card companies to agree on a card-less payment protocol that anyone could implement on any device. (And in the process, make all the transactions a lot more secure by using modern cryptography.)

Alas, I'm afraid that kind of disruption cannot be brought forth in a market context...
You might find this helpful: http://roymurdock.com/essays/2013/11/snapchat-is-intrinsical...
Currently, tech magazines for men is nothing fun to women.

In majority, women want artistic fun rather then numerical fun.

Again, in majority, women has no interest on benchmark number stuffs, and more interested in which app look more beautiful. Such as "Best sexy looking app top 10" rather than "World fastest super-computer top 10".

In other words, their behavior has not been changed. Only the medium has been changed. It was fashion and beauty stuffs before, and now it just expanded to electronics.
We saw them having issues for about ~20 minutes via https://zapier.com/status/.
Those stats are pretty much useless.

Technology is more expensive. Hey, women spend more on cars than cosmetics, should they include car columns too? Buying a laptop, an iPhone and a tablet or something will cost way more than a year's worth of make up, doesn't say anything about a person's real interests.

Also, the average British woman is not the average Women's magazine reader. It's more likely that readers of women's magazines 1. don't spend as much on technology, or 2. if they do, it's simply the case of buying an expensive smartphone or whatever to listen to music or browse Facebook.
My wife reports to me that if she wants to buy a copy of Android Magazine she has to shoulder aside men who are much larger than she, and fish among the magazines about fishing, cars, "Lad's Mags" (ugh (her words)), and similar things.

"Not fun" (direct quotation).
Some good points. The mistake here is assuming technology magazines have male only readers...