skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more concerned about the price point. Seems cool, but not a problem I spend a lot of time thinking about. I don't see myself spending $100 to solve the problem of carrying multiple cards on me.

I would maybe pay $50 for the beta card because I think it's super cool and I love trying new tech, but definitely not a price point I would pay to solve a problem that is hardly a problem at all. (to be fair, this might be one of those problems that you don't realize how bad it is until you solve it.)

I can't see myself paying more for this than I would spend on a wallet, which is less than $20.
Almost all of them. Technology is cumulative. Most of the technology that was brand-new the day I was born is still relevant today. Old technologies like cooking and projectile weapons for hunting are still relevant today, after all.
SF would be a much much better city if it looked like that.
I haven't read the Portable MBA, but a proper valuation is based primarily on the expected future profit, adjusted for risk. Past/current profit can correlate with future profit, but is not the determining factor. It is too easy to 'fudge' profit in the short term. A better approach is to base a valuation primarily on a company's average return on invested capital. For example If a company spends $100 this year, that's $100 that won't be current profit. But it should return more than $100 in the future. In fact, a company might increase their value in the same year that they have a net loss. The reason for this is simple: A company's value is not how much money it earned in the past, but how much money it will earn in the future. How reliably can a company produce future earnings? And how much are those earnings expected to be? Those are the two fundamental questions to answer.
Hackernews is sometimes a contrarian's paradise.
Things have changed. Oracle is a perfect example of a company losing ground because it courts CIOs at the expense of developers. Its rivals are eating its lunch.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/24/oracle-is-bleeding-at-the-h...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-20/oracle-losing-gr...
This is purely anecdotal: every time I have lost one card I have lost all of my cards (because it's when I lose my wallet or the bag my wallet is in). In this case I'd be able to go home and grab my 'originals' and use those as my backup cards.
Balsamiq for mockups, Sublime Text for webdev, Visual Assist for C/C++ on Visual Studio, PVS for SCA, 3DS/Maya for modeling, Photoshop for graphics, Office for business shit...

They're worth paying for for a reason.
> Renaissance? Open source has never been less healthy.

I stopped reading. We're not operating on the same plane of reality.
Site is down for me (timeout). Here is the Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=chrome-...
Best open source geospatial? It handily beats Oracle and MSSQL!
Try editing your images in the cloud via Mainframe2
it says you are willing to cheat to get a job doing governmental work.

No, it doesn't. That's the point.

When you start assuming that mere interest in a subject or an attempt to research it necessarily implies any particular moral position on that subject or future action, you're walking a very dark path.

I have read about, and in some cases seen videos of, things that I find horrifying. That doesn't mean I condone the actions involved, and it certainly doesn't mean I have any desire to emulate them.

What next, I'm obviously interested in cracking secure networks because I studied mathematics and understand how a bunch of exploits work? I'm a potential terrorist because I studied chemistry and know many ways to make something go bang? I'm a Nazi sympathizer because I have studied European history and seen some video footage of horrible things?

The logical conclusion if we follow your line of reasoning isn't even thoughtcrime, it's penalising people on the mere suspicion of thoughtcrime, and that suspicion doesn't even need to have any rational or objective justification. You might as well throw any pretence of justice out the window by then. And the danger of that is very much greater than the danger of a few curious people reading a book about something that might or might not work anyway.
Anything that you want to! So far I've

- Organized drinks with friends for the weekend
- Planned thanksgiving with my sisters
- Have a running place to make sure my friend in NYC and I pick a cool place to mountain biking next fall.
New Selfies App Fails to Protect Users from Cyber-Bullying
Cognitive Computing For All: IBM Releases Watson API
If you're an issuing bank, then it's technically not that hard for online purchases - have a button on your netbank that will generate a new creditcard number (virtual card), show it to user and add it to your auth system - and block the number after it's used.

But IIRC the rules allow such virtual cards to be used only in online transactions, not for normal 'card present' sales.
Well, don't give the card to the waiter? I was honestly spooked when my colleagues handed over their credit card to a waiter when I was in the US a while ago, leaving it out of their sight and hands for a while. We're warned in TV adverts here to never hand over your card - it could get skimmed by the attendant behind the counter. Less of a risk now that the magnetic strip is hardly used anymore, but still. Give someone a few minutes with a chip card and they can do plenty of things with it.

Paying by card here happens either by using a mobile card reader, or by just getting up and walking to the cash register before leaving. Much safer.
Oh come on, you've never done anything that you knew was a bad idea before you did it?
I love how you start out in one direction:

> I think the online service has the potential to be the most valuable part of this whole product.

This is assumed to be from the user's point of view (rather than from the point of view of the company -- generating revenue -- or from an interested 3rd party).

Then you end with this:

> a marketer's dream

So is Coin targeting marketers, and the users are the product to be sold like so many other start-ups to come out of the Valley?
Here's an interesting analogy. Suppose you own a small parking lot in NYC and a developer wants to build an 80 story apartment building. He has bought out all the land surrounding yours and offers you $X for your lot. Assume $X represents fair value plus a small premium. Would you take this deal? Or would you hold out for more, knowing that you're the final piece to the puzzle?
if it was a while ago, try VB today. It is quite speedy now.
Doh! Thanks. I'll ask PR to fix that.
Remember when the merchant used to imprint the cc with receipt paper and sliding a pen over it to get the card imprint. My how time flies.
Google should really just hire Glazunov and Pinkie Pie at this point.
Exactly, just more for Uncle Sam. At least credit card companies are re-investing their profits to cut down fraud and try to make money transfer easier in general. Could they be doing more? Of course, but the CC corporations have done a lot of good, even for the little SMB / mom & pop shop. The transaction rates these companies charge is very low, and that's all thanks to the competition that has driven down the price over the years
I have idle daydreams where Sequel Pro is finally ported to Postgres. pgAdmin is horrendous.
Get paid a pretty decent stipend + health insurance?
Most Ph.D student got less than $2000/month before tax, even less than $1500/month and should pay for health insurance by themselves. OK, decent, how to define decent.
Amazon Kinesis - real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale
Most animated GIF 'players' have zero controls for play, pause, feedback for buffering. It doesn't handle audio, and file sizes are huge.
I don't hear much more positive stuff about Mongo. The opposite usually.
Do you anticipate issues using JavaScript to combat bots, spammers, etc?
Our free tier will be:

26 CPU cores, 15 GB RAM, 60GB of SSD storage
1536 GPU cores, and 2GB RAM

for a certain amount of time. If you'd like a reserve instance, or more power/storage/throughput, we'll charge more accordingly.
> In Canada I haven't' seen a place that doesn't use chip and pin for about 3 years now.

All of the Starbucks in the Toronto area that I was going to only started using chips in the last year. Prior to that you had to swipe.
Note that MIME is also used for multipart uploads. I'm currently still using the builtin-parser.

Looking at a 100mb multipart upload I can see that email module takes 3.7s and allocates 265 extra MB to parse it, while flanker.mime takes 0.22s and allocates 0.2mb extra memory.
Rent could. If you try to create a start up in say SF or NYC you are going to be wasting a lot of money on living expenses when it could have gone back into the product itself.
Hm, that's interesting.

"Approximately 10 to 20% of patients treated for Lyme disease with a recommended 2–4 week course of antibiotics will have lingering symptoms of fatigue, pain, or joint and muscle aches. In some cases, these can last for more than 6 months. Although often called 'chronic Lyme disease,' this condition is properly known as 'Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome' (PTLDS).

The exact cause of PTLDS is not yet known. Most medical experts believe that the lingering symptoms are the result of residual damage to tissues and the immune system that occurred during the infection. Similar complications and 'auto–immune' responses are known to occur following other infections . . .

Regardless of the cause of PTLDS, studies have not shown that patients who received prolonged courses of antibiotics do better in the long run than patients treated with placebo."

http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/postLDS/index.html
I was about to write that!
You might want to do fewer, less frequent releases in order to provide training to end users. You might also want to do do fewer, less frequent releases in order to facilitate a marketing push centered around the release.
Interesting. Well I hope the founders worked that part out.

It looks like those cards will create a huge security issue if they are accepted.
Google Glass explorer program opens for public
Why isn't there an API?
I like the double meaning of coin:

1) Represents money
2) Creating a new phrase - or way to think about credit cards
Nextt is based in Madison, WI. A lot of people argue that the relative lack of density out here (as opposed to something like NYC or the Bay Area) would make it harder to get a lot of traction for something that relies on people.
"I believe my site is at least a good as the others"

But they were there before you. Which means you not only need to be as good as them.. you need to be twice, or 3 times BETTER than them.
Restlet raises $2M to facilitate RESTful API creation with APISpark
You must be joking right? Either that or spending too much time on HN. PostgreSQL has won in the same sense that Golang or Clojure have won: in frequency of frontpage HN articles.
Show HN: We built a Social Scheduling app
http://www.bitcoinway.com/
Thought that was all chip-and-signature instead of chip-and-pin.

Chip-and-sig is almost useless.

Also, I'm a stingy bastard with the fabled Unicorn Card (Zync) that's no longer offered. I think any changes would mean a forced upgrade. I'm worried about a forced upgrade when the card expires too.
This is precisely what it is. The problem is that people view historical success as a starting point (a "shoulder" of a giant) and work from there, rather than what need or problem the giant was solving, and it's requirements.

See: the example given of "Foursquare for hikers". Break down the needs of hikers from a social perspective, and start from there.

Similarly, break down the power needs of a car. Perhaps a battery isn't even the best way to proceed. Really, you just need power. Thinking a battery is the way to go is already making an assumption that other devices' success with battery power translates to "all problems requiring mobile power work best with batteries". That may not be the case.
This article does not do justice to Node and it is not even an accurate criticism of Node.

I can provide similar arguments about PHP, Ruby, Python as well as JAVA and say they are cancer too but they are not. Every technology has its limitations but there is no doubt that NodeJS has opened up many new possibilities when it comes to doing thing on web. It will never be able to do everything that say JAVA does but it will always do a few things lot better than say Java or Ruby.

A good developer will always pick the best tool for the job without being "emotionally attached" to any one tool.

I will also not criticize those who are doing crazy things like writing a JVM using javascript. These people are pushing the limits, faster we reach those limits it is better for the rest of the community.
I'm sorry, it was a presentation of an IBM researcher during the BioASQ workshop. Perhaps you can find the slides/a summary on the BioASQ.org website.
this seems valid to me - they put just as much emphasis on ensuring your window shade is up (for post-crash hazard identification) to electronics being switched off.

It's likely due to attentiveness should you need to evac
There's a great Jeff Bezos quote about never being asked what isn't going to change in the next ten years, and that those are really the things you should build businesses around and optimize.

Cars, for example, aren't really changing too much, or at least the need for them. The love of the automobile continues to run deep in Western countries, and even an innovative company like Tesla is just building a faster horse here. The idea of the personal vehicle is become even more ingrained into our lives if anything and we become a more individualistic society. Cars may become smaller, they may become electric, but they will still remain largely close their current paradigm.

Tesla to me is likely to be one of the most successful companies of the next ten years because they are building on a foundation that isn't going anywhere and incrementally improving a key product in people's lives.
Disabling comments and allowing only approved comments are options that uploaders can choose if they want. http://i.imgur.com/nhRsdK4.png
credit cards only make up 10% of what's actually in my wallet. Now if they could minimize health insurance cards, loyalty cards, etc.. etc... then we're talking.

With that said. I still signed up :-)
Yes, all mine are completely flat at this point as well. I assume all credit card issuers are rolling this out.
Why are you guys stuck on 's' definitely being a string? It could just as easily be a struct or anything else imaginable, in which case, you're back to not knowing anything about it from the name 's' without going to look it up.

You can contrive simple examples about basic data types all you want, the simple cases and built in types are precisely where it's not a problem. Go read the src for Go's Unicode package as an example, you get 60 line methods with stuff like 't1' used all over the place and the value of t1 is assigned pages away from where it's actually used.
I'm a great fan of the going from first principles - but I think it and your post ignores one big part of the reason for design by analogy.

A lot of error/bug fixing is evolutional and this knowledge is built up over time through the userbase and design team. You see this in software projects where there's always the temptation to start from scratch, but once in this process there's inherently a lot more bugs and quality control becomes an issue (even though the old clunky system feels low quality, functionally it can be expected to be reasonably error free).
I want to finally find time to put it on my domain:

http://c.gg

Q: can I made certain links password-protected?
() Battery issues with digitizing a non-battery product (credit card). Be in no doubt that more than half of users will forget to charge their credit card (as if we don't have enough things to charge). So you'll see people having lunches and presenting a dead Coin. And since you don't have any plastic, well, now you're screwed.

Clearly you didn't read the site. Maybe you should pay more attention to things you criticize.
Unless we make progress on building the matrix.
You don't need a waiting period to accept bitcoin converted to USD.

https://bitpay.com/

https://coinbase.com/
No. You are wrong.

> The card brands explicitly train merchants to check signatures against government-issued ID.

When the card is unsigned. Every card I have is marked "NOT VALID UNLESS SIGNED". It absolutely is a merchant violation to demand government issued ID when presented with a valid signed card. A card signed "SEE ID" is clearly not valid.

As far as you're other points, the US is not the only legal jurisdiction or market in the world.
It's an ideological framework (I guess you could call it that). If a giant's invention of X made Y and Z wildly popular, then we often assume that when designing A, if we want to replicate Y and Z's success, we should start with X.

That is, however, not the case. You need to work from the needs of A, and find solutions to those problems regardless of how the giants did things. The giants likely weren't wrong. It's just that your problem is different than theirs, and so their solutions, no matter how great they are, may not be appropriate.
I agree with you, and I hope that lighter devices like ebooks and phones will be exempted eventually. Personally I always opt for a window seat and spend all that time looking outside enjoying the view of other airplanes. So in short, I'd recommend becoming an aviation geek, that will do a lot to distract you from all those annoyances. :)
While Goldman Sachs is big, they're not big enough to move the markets on their own. No single firm is.

The idea that firms move entire markets is pure fantasy. Depending on liquidity they might move a single security one way or another (some stocks trade such little volume that YOU can move their price on your own), but not entire sectors, never mind the entire economy.
Congrats to Jerome and team. Hope you guys do great!

For anyone interested, here is the java and js repos

* https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java
* https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-js
I got it right, suck it half of MIT
I wonder if boiling it down into one thing up front would be an easier sell. I understand that it might not be possible but you're basically telling me use my entire infrastructure. It'd be an easier pill to swallow if I could do something to get notifications or something similar. Not sure if that's good advice, just brainstorming.

Btw, we're going through the exact same excercise.
I made the exact same thing at PennApps Fall 2013! Great minds think alike. ;)

https://github.com/kevincon/utilityknife
Not quite. The shoulders of giants metaphor is positive. We stand on what they have built and can see farther. The giant is a good thing.

The weight of history (I just made it up) is used more negatively, though much that ties us down is indeed valuable. But when trying to do something new you will be constrained by the structures history has left us. This is both good and bad.

Given the English connotation of giants from the existing quote, I'd avoid using it in the sense you meant.
The Night Watch
And The Most Popular Hashtag In The World Is…
I'm sorry, yes, all the chips on Amex cards are chip and sig, and are just as useless as you describe.
"Treemap Visualizer would like access to all files and folders in your Dropbox. This app will be able to read and modify everything."

Has anyone tried this yet? Something about "hey this app may or may not alter every file you have on Dropbox" makes me wary, even if the title does imply it's a read-only operation.
It would appear that this method is more or less common knowledge at this point. I knew most of what they listed myself, although it's not something I've ever employed as you can see from my submission history.
I believe it was done so that AES-GCM could be implemented in a FIPS module and would not need to depend on the uniqueness of provided nonces. Either that or some standard said that nonces must be unique. (I wasn't around for the discussion.)

I agree that a counter is perfectly safe.
I'm intrigued, but not enough to click. Ahh. Can someone else take the leap? Provide some details, screenshots, any credentials about who made this? Can't be bothered looking into how hard it is for someone nefarious to get something on *.mit.edu subdomain.
Sure, but one really has to ask themselves whether it's worth that trouble.

I'm certainly not saying you are wrong, but looking at a product like Bingo Card Creator -- something that's really only worth keeping up if the work is minimal and the profit's fairly steady -- I doubt I'd go to the trouble.

And as someone who works for a public service institution, the "only registered accounts can contact support" is a nice sentiment, but rarely works in practice. What ends up happening is that people didn't read that particular piece of fine print and now their pissed that you won't help them and you'll never make that conversion to a paid account. Obviously Pat tried it your way and made the determination that it would be better for his product’s future to limit engagement.

You're working on the assumption that engagement and conversion of the maximum number of people is the sole goal. Perhaps there are other considerations that creator has.

It's nice to work from first principles, but once the product is on the ground, you really have to revisit your own goals for the product to make a determination what will work best.
Swipe card? Completely useless in most places in the UK, few shops take them nowadays.
"Pursuant to their agreement with Blumenthal the IDSA guidelines were reviewed by an independent panel subject to strict conflict-of-interest guidelines and vetted by a medical ethicist. The panel supported the original IDSA guidelines, finding that "chronic Lyme disease" and "post Lyme syndrome" lack clear definitions and convincing biological evidence. Further, the report emphasized that several prospective clinical trials of prolonged antibiotic therapy for persistently symptomatic patients uniformly showed evidence of harm without convincing evidence of benefit.[22] Nonetheless, some groups have continued to criticize the IDSA guidelines after the 2012 review.[23] [24]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_Diseases_Society_of...

Also, see your sibling post by me with info from the CDC. It doesn't seem like they're dismissing the symptoms, they're just saying that antibiotics don't help.
The western man’s need for conclusiveness
Since Amazon has remote deleted Kindle books in the past, your statement is clearly incorrect. They have since "promised" not to do it again. The capability remains.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...
Genetic Test for Autism Refuted
So's jQuery, but that hardly stops me from using it. Unsure as to the point you're trying to make.
You shouldn't be able to read EMV chips with any authorisation - it's supposed to be safe from bank employees who make the actual cards, so they can't clone your card before giving it to you.

In the EMV process the private key should be unique to the card (if you make a replacement card with the same number, it's a different key); the private key shouldn't exist anywhere outside the chip after the card is made; and there aren't supposed to be any ways to read the key. Well, cutting the chip and scanning with a electron microscope works, but it's impractical.

I'm not saying that there aren't any bugs in the implementation, but I'm quite sure that there are no known bugs that allow simply to get the key; even full control of the HSM which holds the bank's private key should allow you only to make/sign new fake cards, but not recreate an existing card.
Sample output would be great.
Whether chip and sig is accepted in places around europe will probably depend on the software they have, the merchant's agreement with their acquirer, whether it's an unattended terminal and a bunch of other stuff.

Surprised to hear it's next to useless, but not really surprising that it's less useful.