skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A/B testing could determine whether my hypothesis is correct, which is: more people will use and share a site if an account is not required to use its minimal functionality (think pastebin, jsfiddle, and Wikipedia) because account creation is a barrier to usage.

Thought-experiment. Imagine two nearly identical websites: one requires registration and the other does not. What site will people be more likely to use?

There were other solutions to the troubleshooting problem. For example, only registered accounts can contact for support. Note that there are three types of accounts: an unregistered account (free), a registered account (also free), and a premium account (paid).
I'd argue that shopping a believable picture of a credit card that stands up to scrutiny is a higher barrier than the imprint - which really just involves some movable letters and carbon paper...
The digits of pi are public domain. However, my Internet Pi Server only lets you copy 10 digits per day. These 10 digits are served up as a PNG file that carries a watermark across them. You can't use them for commercial purposes. You also can't query my Internet Pi Server in an automated fashion.

None of this means that I'm holding the digits of pi hostage. My digits are only a copy. You are free to calculate your own digits of pi and serve them up under whatever terms and conditions you choose. That's the nature of public domain. If you don't like the way Google serves up its digital copy of a public domain book, you are free to do what Google did: seek out the book and make your own digital copy. You can then let others use your copy however you want.
Actually, I'm kind of glad that the link said "video". Because I might not have clicked it if it didn't, and I almost just closed the tab when I saw the video wasn't available.

Amusingly, I'm also glad that the video wasn't available yet, because I clicked through the slides, and I suspect I got the gist of the talk at just about the right density for my interest (and it took very little time).

Funny how things work out like that sometimes.
I've recently became interested in Hadoop, map/reduce, HDFS. I would like to use it for learning purpose.
Thank you for the awesome article and sharing the details!
One random question from looking at the charts, how do insurance/product liability for drop shipping work? Are they generally not needed or covered by someone else?
No worries! :-)
"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." -good point! i agree with that a lot. i see what you mean now.
Does this also escape the Android Application Sandbox? It makes not mention of this, only escaping the protection offered by Chrome.

If not, then it is obviously still bad because Chrome has fairly extensive permissions but it is not "take over your whole device" bad.
Looking really, really good.
Worth looking into! Thanks. I know there's been at several cases where we specifically lost because of lack of imprint, but another thing I've learned in dealing with the credit card issuers is that, despite what we hope, there is MASSIVE inconsistency in the application of chargeback rules. Sometimes you'll lose a chargeback because the issuer just wants to be nice their cardholder (Amex is guilty of this) and they'll literally make up reasons for the loss.

We actually had Amex _negotiate_ with us over a chargeback once. I had no idea this was even possible -- they actually said "So how about we'll agree to split the loss. We'll cover half, you guys cover half." I had no idea that was even an option.
This isn't going to work for your zipcar card, access card for your office, and possibly your bus pass.
It enables the following:

- less liability for the merchant
- either the transaction was explicitly approved or wasn't
- sense of security for the user
- card never leaves you
- if you ever lose the card it doesn't matter
- there's no reason to sign anymore (less opportunities for fraud)

I can't quite put my finger on it but it does change the dynamic between wait staff & consumers when you're out dining - it just makes things simpler & you have to wait a lot less when you decide to leave.
I got a 1000 X speedup by removing a sleep(100000) line once. Not as impressive though.
Sometimes the primarily responsible person isn't a developer on a given team. Especially at smaller firms, hats of responsibility are passed around to multiple members of the team, regardless of that member's particular talents/core competencies.

We call them project champions. I work in an agency model, so we have many clients who have many projects. The project champion usually knows the client, their wishes, etc - acts like a product owner (if you're familiar with the term from agile methods).
One problem that I can think of is that the palette for each frame is restricted to 255 colors. That being said, there really isn't any other widely-supported option at this point :-).

I like the app concept! Nice work!
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> so leveraging all the work that has gone into making e-mail secure is a win.

What? Email isn't close to secure.
That's odd, how far out in the sticks were you? I've used my european chip card extensively in Japan for the past 3 years with no confusion whatsoever, and most places that take cards have a chip reader that they use immediately. Nobody has ever said my card doesn't work. There's actually way more confusion when I pull out a WAON card or something.

It's been more of a problem in places in Thailand and Singapore where they're not really equipped to hand over the card terminal and sometimes I have to go behind the desk or something.
This is so nice. Thank you Amazon!
no chip...
I have an AmEx but not Platinum. It's not worth the extra fees to me.

If they get some sense and implement this on their lower-end charge cards, I'd be a pig in shit. I try to have this be the only card I use.
I was more wondering about working capital management RE: cash flow. I was originally an IB analyst @ BB.

The series 7/63 issue only applies if you don't leave the usual "forward looking statements etc" disclosure.
Nonsense. There is absolutely no question that emissions from papermills include chemicals and particulates that are harmful to human health. Whether you, personally are cognizant of it consciously is a different matter.

From http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_paper

"Pulp and paper is the third largest industrial polluter to air, water, and land in both Canada and the United States, and releases well over 100 million kg of toxic pollution each year.[5]

Worldwide, the pulp and paper industry is the fifth largest consumer of energy, accounting for four percent of all the world's energy use. The pulp and paper industry uses more water to produce a ton of product than any other industry."

This affects each of us negatively regardless of whether we notice or are concerned.
Any chance any of these could be applied to legal corpora?

That's a pretty broad question, but generally speaking, I'd say the answer is "yes". It depends on exactly what you want to do.

Feel free to email me if you'd like to talk about that in more detail. I will issue this caveat though: We haven't - to date - focused on the legal world, and it's not something I have a lot of specific knowledge of, vis-a-vis the domain specific parts.
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This needs to be brought to Europe.
The model on the Obamacare website felt bullied by critics
Are they ever going to support DB2?
It's not about Windows: The repairable PC is dead
This reminds me of the AliveCor device, which excites and frustrates me. I'm excited because I'm hopeful that when such monitoring becomes dirt cheap and unobtrusive, people might find conditions earlier and have a better chance to treat them. I'm frustrated because in the U.S. it currently requires a prescription from a doctor to buy one. This feels like regulatory nonsense to me. It seems like an obviously low risk that this could do any harm.

I'm a bit hopeful it will go on sale in some other country soon that doesn't require a prescription and I can have one shipped to me.
EnterpriseDB has a nice set of PostgreSQL installers for all platforms. It also bundles PgAdmin 3 if you need a GUI. It's not as hip as PG Commander, but it's a real client that can do pretty much anything (vs PG Commander where you can't even create a new db instance).

Postgres.app is nice when it works. When you install the latest version the psql tool it bundles and exposes in the menu assumes you have a db that matches your user name, which, of course, doesn't exist, so you can't connect to the Postgres :-)

It also doesn't work that great if you already have another version setup running on the default port.
You're not being totally honest here by using "lebanese" in the English corpus, as "libanais" in the French corpus has been mentioned at least from 1741: http://goo.gl/Mu1Qlv
You can (and some people do) say the same thing about a web search engine. It doesn't exist and has no purpose without other people's content. However, it is not the content that the search engine is serving, it is serving the ability to search that content, which is something completely different. That's what's meant by transformative, and there are many many things that could not exist if you could not take other people's ideas, transform them substantially, and release the results.

Copyright and fair use is a balancing act, and I agree with Judge Chin that the benefits to having all of the printed word fully searchable (someday, at least) is a middling loss for the content creators and a huge gain for the public.

To address your specific analogy: you aren't being deprived of being able to release your work, and they aren't releasing your work with ads inserted, so I don't think it really applies. Google Books doesn't have ads today, but I wouldn't have any problem with them on the search results page (just like I have no problem with (text) ads on web search results pages) since they are in fact providing content very distinct from your copyrighted work.
For me, the money clip and keys are in the right pocket, and the smart phone goes in the left front pocket.

The keys and money clip are distinct enough that I have no problem pulling out the right thing. And the keys are not going to damage the money clip like they would damage the phone.
I think the online service has the potential to be the most valuable part of this whole product. All your transactions, across multiple accounts, tracked in one place allowing breakdowns of your spending and clarity on our outgoings. I also see a big win here for Coin, think Mint but with an opportunity to also suggest better products & services to spend your money on (since they'll know almost everything you're buying) - a marketer's dream.
My girlfriend's family wanted to rent bikes at Blazing Saddles in SF and the cashiers there threw a big fit when they realized her card wasn't imprintable. They wouldn't photocopy it or write the number down, they just flat-out declined the business.
Fidaxo also may not be that great or cost effective[1]. Optimer, I believe has been bought by Cubist and delisted from Nasdaq. 1. Clin Infect Dis. 2013 Aug;57(4):555-61
But what this device is proposing to do is dynamically change the magnetic orientation of the ferrite on the strip. I don't see the Coin demo guy running his card through an encoder before presenting it at the cash register.

Best I can find so far is this website which kind of describes what is going on:

http://www.cardlab.com/Dynamic-Magnetic-Stripe.html
The chip is available on all of the Amex charge cards, green through platinum. Just ask customer service for it.
I like what they do. I see them as a good place for taking on this type of standards definition project, which is an activity better suited for a foundation like Saylor than a startup.
I'm sure there are plenty of engineering and architectural solutions to building upwards.

How about instead of putting our resources in to "seasteading" and other libertarian ideologies, we put instead explore more humanistic and social endeavors like Buckminster Fuller's "“Proposed Tetrahedral City"?

The thing with trying to leave and start your own community, be it on a floating platform in the middle of the ocean or in outer-space, is that it will still heavily depend on the rest of humanity for support. We don't have any self-supporting mechanisms for life other than Earth.

The irony is that the idealic hippie communities that were inspired by the musings of guys like Fuller fail from the same basic principles.

I think the lesson here is that at least for time being, we can't achieve true self-sustaining communities. An effort needs to be made to interact with humanity at large, no matter how ideological impure that endeavor is.
Yeah, I think that was the big hurdle that finally made Postgres acceptable to people and started the wave of switchers.
> In order to do so though, they should at least make a spawnString (like isolate's spawnUri) or even better, have the ability to JIT dart code by string but not execute it right away.

Of all of the core libraries in Dart (core, html, io, async, etc.) the isolate library has had the least attention so far. Now that those other libraries are stable, I'm hoping the corelib folks will have the time to give isolates some much needed love.

I definitely want spawnString() too and we've had to do some gross workarounds in pub to deal with its absence (dumping stuff to temp files).
The RC4 vulnerability is in the algorithm, not in TLS. Do not use RC4 in your own software. (If you absolutely must, you can avoid this vulnerability by using a variant of RC4 that discards the first several thousand bytes of keystream, but please just use something else.)

The AES-CBC vulnerabilities are specific to TLS, so as long as you don't repeat the same mistakes TLS made, you won't have the same vulnerabilities. Specifically, encrypt-then-MAC (instead of MAC-then-encrypt) to avoid padding oracle attacks like Lucky 13, and actually choose new IVs for each message instead of using the previous message's last ciphertext block (to avoid BEAST). Or better yet, use a high-level crypto library that doesn't make you worry about this stuff.
What types of jobs are you trying to implement?
> Except the commercials.

DVR. Start watching one hour after the game starts. If you want a 'no-huddle' mode, start two hours behind.
Mastercard and Visa might be able to embrace the technology - adopt it as a part of their cards and allow people to add on store cards and such. They might then be able to capture processing info from all the other cards present too.

The big card issuers then are warranting the card as a token and allowing others access to verify the token holder. Seems like the way forward to me.
Unfortunately battery swapping is dead. It was an interesting concept, but after the spectacular failure of their Israel based partner Better Place Renault made it very clear that battery swapping is no longer a valid option.
Again, what the executive does is sometimes classified. This includes foreign surveillance by the very definition of national security. The U.S. having a FISC at all is unusual compared to the standards of other nations, where foreign surveillance may very well be done completely at the whim of the executive. We should push for improvements to the oversight process, but I can envision no such feasible improvement that would allow the public to see exactly what the government is doing (since then Russia, AQ, etc. would also know by definition) so at some point you're going to have a trust a third-party.

The safe and conservative option is to assume that the executive is doing literally anything permitted by the public law without the aid of 'activist judges' (as the GOP would say) on your side of the argument. This is exactly why it is so important to be judicious in crafting legislation, as the judges will operate by what's in the written law not contrary to the Constitution when the law is clear. They only start worrying about "what the legislators meant" when the law is fuzzy.

That's also why it is important to quickly get a legal framework around foreign surveillance that includes recognition of the fact that the Internet is global while the Fourth Amendment is domestic. MUSCULAR is a pretty shocking breach of what we all understand the Fourth Amendment to mean, but I guarantee that it's technically legal. It shouldn't be, but the Fourth Amendment has long been known to effectively not apply at all outside of CONUS.
I guess that means "No, it's an unofficial, third party toolkit".
But the consumer doesn't notice.
Ask HN: funniest amazon review ever...
http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Gummy-Candy-Sugarless-5-Pound/product-reviews/B000EVQWKC/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1

i almost shit in my pants laughing reading this review.
There are at least two problems with adding the Dart VM:

1. Standards. The Dart VM is not part of any web standard, nor part of a spec that has interest from multiple vendors, so it should not be shipped in a standards-compliant browser. This is a matter of principle that most browsers agree on these days, see for example Google's Blink guidelines: http://www.chromium.org/blink#new-features

2. Effort. Adding a new VM into a browser is a huge amount of effort. The VM can't just be added even if it is open source (which it is) - it's very hard to integrate such a thing properly into a browser, technically speaking. Also aside from technical effort, there is also effort to start a new standards process for a new language.
I had heard DDB had erased those before he left. Never heard why though, unless it was supposed to be one last 'fuck you' to Assange before he got booted out.
Understood. I'd just question if it needed JS - if JS actually added to the UX and outweighed the considerable dev cost.
Many Americans do, indeed, keep bulging tri-fold wallets in their rear pockets. And they even drive their cars and sit at their desks with them.

Often you will spot them with a month's worth of paper receipts crammed inside so the poor wallet is about to burst.

It is just conventionally where a man's wallet goes in America--One of those things where you don't apply common sense because it's just "how it is" and you've never really thought about it.
I hear you. But the flip side to that is that probably comes from a hiring/recruiting/interviewing culture that features this anti-pattern:

"Let's see here, you've done C programming, C++, Java, Python, Javascript, shipped lots of great working software, fixed all kinds of bugs, worked in all these domains, various platforms, clearly shown mastery/application of concepts that are core and universal to software development such as A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L and M... Yet. Do you have any ActionScript 3.0 experience?"

"I'm aware of it. I know what it is. But never written a line of code in it, no. It is almost exactly like Javascript, however, which I've been writing and working with since 1997."

"No ActionScript? Sorry. You're not qualified then for this position. Best of luck with your search."

repeat ad nauseum
they should stick to things they know, like cars.
But does it kill the host as well?
First thing: Goldman Sachs makes a lot of money because they are making the rules, not because they are good at anything.

Secondly: The economist Stimuli to which you are referring, and the effects of international trade can be read up-down-sideways depending on which part of the Earth you live. They are not universally good as a huge part of the USA-EU middle class believes. If the USA were not imposing rules that give an extremely unfair advantage to USA (oil for example) corps, they may not be so omnipotent.

That said, Goldman Sachs is really the worst example I can think of. Even in Lehman's case, the USA gov let Lehman fail but GS was too big to fail. Paulson (ex-GS) called Blackfain (Goldman Sachs CEO) in order to examine Lehman's book because he knew better. Of course Blackfain and Paulson (who had huge amounts of stock of at GS) decided to let Lehman fail and create a huge gap at the market, while saving AIG who owed money to GS and GS of course. Indirectly, they ensured huge profits for GS by killing the competition and that...

Now, what economics have to do with GS and the financial sector is beyond me. I don't see any theories applied there... It's all monopoly, a win-win situation: You buy high-ROI financial products and if things get out of hand, don't worry: You're too big to fail ;-) that's one hell of an economic theory. Too bad you can't apply it elsewhere... (oh yes, there are no laws that can be bend in chemistry or physics...)
But the author of that gruesome piece has a few points: RDF, OWL, XML specs are tl;dr, too cumbersome to be of practical use

I don't think that's necessarily true. While RDF, RDF/S, OWL, etc. can get complicated, it isn't that hard to learn the basics, and the 80/20 rule probably applies here. You don't have to walk around mumbling about Horn Clauses, First Order Logic and Godel's Incompleteness Theorem to do useful stuff with semantic web technologies.

developers don’t bother, and founders don’t care.

This developer / founder does. We are baking semantic web technologies into our offerings, and that stuff enables some really, really wicked cool functionality, IMO.
> I see no effort on their side bringing any of those language into the native world of Android

The Dart VM supports ARM, and I've seen prototypes that get it running on Android. The team hasn't had much time to put into it yet, but I wouldn't infer that that says much about what we'll do in the future. (Not that I'm making any promises, either.)
Developers don't sign huge checks, yet. Unless it comes to hosting or other very critical infrastructure, you're hard pressed to find developers paying a lot. Developers look at a SAAS product and think I can build the core features of this in a week.
Great screencast....thanks!
What about bars? A lot of bars I go to hold onto your card until you tab out. I'd hate to keep getting notifications about losing my card every time I'm out on the town. When you go back up to the bar, they ask what your name is to tab out. I didn't see anything on the Coin to do that. I also wouldn't want the bartender to press the button and change to a business account or something similar.

I'm not being a hater, this is just an occurrence where this might not work well. I still think it's an awesome idea though, and I'd like to get one.
I was also in the dropshipping realm, it's possible to start with very little money (probably not $0 though).

I think bare minimum you need to register a company which costs $10 or so, dropshippers you want to do business with expect you to have that paperwork. That's enough to get you started dropshipping on eBay or something similar. You'd definitely be smart to spend a little more setting up a site with a logo, but it's not hard to get Opencart running and you could create a simple logo with open source editing software.

If you really did a lot of the work yourself I'd say you could get an eCommerce site up an running for $20-30 depending on the domain name and hosting options (many of the lower cost hosts expect you to pay a year subscription up front for the lower cost hosting options, so it would make more sense to pay more in the beginning to get the lower rate).
Censorship is all the rage in America.
Thanks!

Oh, thanks for pointing out the oversight! They were floats generated with random.random() and then shuffled with random.shuffle(.) Shuffling them removes any locality that might have arisen when the floats were being generated, even though the distribution remains uniform on (0, 1). (And indeed, empirically the code runs faster if you don't shuffle them).

Yeah, I'm not sure how well this would work if you were sorting different objects. I would guess that it depends on two things--how large the objects are in memory, and how long it takes to compare them.