skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't carried cash in months due to PayPass (and discovering my debit card actually had it). I still don't like the "always on NFC" nature of it (I want a button on the card to turn it on), but it's quick and seems to go through a lot faster then the old PIN systems.
Enthusiastic promoters inevitably breed equally enthusiastic critics.
Your ORM will give you whatever syntax is natural, eventually.
Just that I am not sure if either one is correct.

Hardware design (in HDLs for example) is very much like software development. There may be a very large number of lines of code (resulting in a very large number of transistors on the chip). Just like a language like C++ that can have many intricacies, the hardware can have many issues that are sometimes hard to nail down during design and simulation.

When thinking that anything imaginable is possible in software while comparing it to hardware, you must keep in mind that the software is ultimately running on the hardware. Anything imaginable is possible still.
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Your wallet being compromised isn't the equivalent of your credit card being compromised. You don't hand out your wallet to people and trust them with it, you can keep it safe and secure.

Credit cards aren't designed to be compromised, they've just accepted that they can't do anything about it and worked on controlling the damage.
Chris appears to be working on everything at present. Planescape, Wasteland, this small FTL gig, plus no doubt Fallout 4 in some capacity. Either indie game writing pays too little or Chris does not know how to say no.
I suppose this means that the question is whether you pay kudos to the immediate thing or to its necessary causes.

We can follow this line back to arguing that nothing is more disruptive than the Big Bang.
Why is machine learning experiencing such explosive growth today?
You don't know very many techies, do you?
The purpose of this lite-app is not to replace a heavy app. The original purpose was to allow you to do something quickly (1 vs 16 clicks) to generate some momentum to knowing what your choices are. If you can understand the lanscape with 92% less work, that allows you to leverage your 92% savings to deal with the brain damage of actually using the tool that is <not being replicated in full>. So, as a complement and not a substitute conintually raising this disction is not adding any value other than noise.
The biggest complaint in the mostly opinion links you posted regards people who are borderline members of one category or another. But in the categories where people are solidly one way or the other, the derivative information about how they prefer to communicate and operate is very helpful in group situations.

If a group attends a working session on its internal communication with an MBTI expert (so, everyone's already taken the tests and shared their types), the magic that ensues in terms of improved communications is striking. I've seen it done.
It's a wonderful telling, and whether or not this was the author's intent, I think the Stanford model is much more likely to make the founders rich. But while the MIT team may or may not achieve commercial success, but at least they are tackling something worthwhile.

Costs for sustainably produced chemicals are higher, but
the founders maxed out their credit card buying a
wholesale shipment and were able to sell a premium retail
product at a small profit.

At heart, the Stanford company in the story is greenwashing and repackaging a product that's already available. I have trouble getting excited about getting more people to pay more for a product that's already available. Isn't this just a zero sum game?
For new ones sure, but there's people selling used ones for a lot less. There's cheaper Bitfury based ones now anyway, so I can't imagine why anybody would spend their money so unwisely.
You could argue the same thing about twitter.

Most twitter users don't tweet, they just follow. Getting the big users on board and figuring out they everyday people don't need to tweet was one of the big epiphanies.

If you look at the google trends, they were basically stagnant until 2009 when they made that realization and focused on activating users by getting them to follow a certain number of consistent tweeters.

With consumer stuff, nothing is ever cemented, but I can assure you that RG is doing quite well wrt to growing that community.
Researchers use smartphone camera to figure out PINs
I don't know everyone but exploring github day to day is an entertainment for me. Your thought about mail is good but doesn't work for some people.
I have a bunch of scripts which are written in standard shell, and for simple stuff, it's fine. But as soon as it starts doing file name manipulation, or working with collections of files (say finding the age of the most recently changed file in a directory, and checking how long ago that was and changing color-extended attributes of the enclosing directory so projects untouched in over a month turn grey...), and you have people on the network who name files by copying and pasting from word documents (I didn't even know you could put a newline in a filename!), I've found python to be much more reliable and easy to write correctly.
Could you explain your comment? I'm guessing that you are pointing out that Blossom has origins in/has funding from MIT, and is doing hardware development aimed at producing an expensive product targeted at a very limited market? If so, I'm not sure how to distinguish their approach from Clover.
UK is about 30%, Australia around 28%, China around 20%. US, Japan, China, UK and Australia were topping iOS App store Revenue in Q3 2013.

http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-market-q3-2013/
Haha yes! Qualifying the importance of things against one another is usually a silly exercise.
iPad Mini release is Nov. 12, the Apple site also goes down quite a bit
Unless it is blackboard with chalk, its no fun following online. That's why MIT's lectures rock!
I'll second that.

I'm currently doing both the Coursera course and the Caltech course concurrently. I really like the level and delivery style of the Caltech course. It covers a lot of material, with good depth and rigour where needed and with a lot of colour. Makes you want to jump and try the techniques out.

In contrast the Coursera course seems a bit easy and dry. I also dislike the dependency on Octave.
This is one of the most perfectly balanced games I've ever played. I've come one shot from beating the end boss, but that final kill still evades me.

The great part about the game is that the beginning portion is actually quite strategic despite the battles being very easy. You really need to maximize your wins by either getting in as many battles as possible per sector or by killing opposing crews without destroying their ship. Your first 5 or so sectors really set the pace for the later game.
The hardware here is more referring to tangible, physical things rather than computer hardware.
I'm from Kathmandu, Nepal. My first thought after seeing the HealthSherpa name was this must be a website of a health foundation somewhere which provides health services and facilities to Sherpa families in Himalayan Region. For 30M Nepalese + NRNs worldwide the word Sherpa reflects the respected guides in Mountain Expeditions.

NRNs: Non Resident Nepalese.
Any alternative to Google Reader Play/Recommended Items?
10 things I learned at Google
The problem I think your wife had was that her work environment isn't designed for Chromebooks

Which pretty much means the pundits are right.

Chromebooks are not suited to anyone who isn't letting Google own all their data for all their tasks. i.e: most people.
>We can follow this line back to arguing that nothing is more disruptive than the Big Bang.

Well yes, but the Big Bang was not a discovery/invention made by man. Discovery of how to start a fire would probably be a good candidate for the most disruptive tech.
quarterto's law: Any headline which ends in a question mark will have a comment on it citing Betteridge's Law.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742893
Yes, exactly. They chose the wrong tool for the job, that's not a fault with MongoDB. It's like eating a soup with a fork, you'll eventually eat the soup, but if you used a spoon in the first place there would never have been a problem. Is the company who made the soup to blame or are you to blame for not consuming it correctly?

The problem with Diaspora was that it was a poorly executed good idea. Had they actually sat down and mapped out their requirements and chosen an appropriate database they would have realised that a traditional relationship was the right choice to make.

Databases are hard, for a project as ambitious as Diaspora proper planning is key and evident by the issues that Diaspora had when it debuted (delete controller with no auth checking...) it's apparent they had no clue what they were doing not from just a database planning point-of-view but a code one as well.

I would take whatever anyone who had anything to do with Diaspora had to say with a grain of salt. The real lesson here is to not get caught up in hype and trends. NoSQL isn't a magical solution that will make scaling problems disappear, traditional databases like MySQL have been battle-tested over a very long period of time. If MongoDB and <insert X NoSQL database here> were so great, the likes of Facebook and whatnot would use them on the scale Diaspora tried to use them on.

People have to realise when Diaspora used MongoDB it was a very early version of the database. A lot has changed since Diaspora used it, it is suitable for a large-scale Facebook clone as the sole database? Definitely not, but using it for aspects like messaging and notifications I think would definitely be a good use case for it.
Honestly, is there a viable alternative that is cost equivalent?
I can't even read the article. :( WSJ Paywall. Skip.
Except Bitcoin could potentially remove a lot of war from the Earth. If it becomes the world currency, it'll kill "deficit spending" which is used to move billions of dollars for production of jets and bombs.
The example in the article mentioned a user getting his first smart phone, i.e. switching from a "feature phone".

Personally, I've experienced that many people that are getting a 2nd, 3rd smartphone are switching from iphone to android based phones (mostly by Japanese manufacturers). Technical functionality-wise iphone lags far behind: no free digital tv (1seg), no touch-less payment (Felica: could be used as a train ticket, wallet). e.g.: http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/smart_phone/so02f/index.h...
I love FTL. I can beat it semi-reliably on Easy with a few of the ships, and occasionally on Normal. And that's part of the game's genius - there are quite a few practical ways you can build your ship and crew in preparation for the final boss, and each of the ships (and even layouts) is tailored towards facilitating a particular strategy. So even if you master one strategy, there are plenty more waiting to destroy you through your inexperience or ineptitude.
Somehow the second test always timeouts in IE 11 on Windows 8.1 for me.
Do you have any evidence whatsoever to support this idea?
The U.S. has an extreme obsession with credit (and debit) cards, but cash is still much more common in many other countries.

Some of this is probably just due to historical accident, but some of it is also due to differences in the tradeoffs between the various payment methods in different countries.

In Japan, for instance, (1) cash is both easier to deal with in many cases (e.g. ATMs will happily give you very large quantities of it, a lesser crime rate makes using it safer, vending machine bill readers are much more accurate, shops are much more willing to deal with large bills, etc), (2) the presence of other mechanisms like very easy/cheap bank transfers replace some of the use-cases of credit cards in the U.S., and (3) credit cards are more restrictive (e.g. by default you have to pay your entire balance every month).

Also I think credit cards started their climb in the U.S. by replacing checks (which were in many ways very inconvenient), and that gave them enough familiarity and infrastructure to continue from there; in Japan, on the other hand, checks were never really used at all, so credit cards never had that "in."
Now, the Web has matured into a fully-featured application platform, and fast JavaScript runtimes and HTML5 standards have enabled developers to create the rich apps that before were only possible on native platforms.

Eh, saying "matured into" implies that the current state is somehow better or more desirable than the previous state, and somewhat implies that this was the expected / desired goal state. I reject all of those implications. I posit that it would be more correct to say that "the Web has been mangled, bent, distorted, twisted and hacked into a fully-featured application platform..."

A Web browser should be good at browsing, trying to make it into an application runtime is a "separation of concerns" violation of the first magnitude. It might work, but let's not pretend there aren't other choices, or forget to continue researching alternative approaches to delivering applications over the Internet.
And along with "fewer than normal" the northern hemisphere also had the most powerful hurricane ever known "Haiyan".
Anyone wanna wager how much longer they hang on to that non-flat navbar design?
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C'mon I submitted my first project. And got acceptted after first time, soo ... Probably your template actually sucks or it's just another same template like rest of them or you wasn't lucky at assigned reviewer for your template.
And the best part : it's a free expansion !
... and this important little element from PG's essay on 'Inequality & Risk' [1] from 2005:

"... reducing investors' appetite for risk doesn't merely kill off larval start-ups, but kills off the most promising ones especially. Startups yield faster growth at greater risk than established companies. Does this trend also hold among startups? That is, are the riskiest startups the ones that generate most growth if they succeed? I suspect the answer is yes. And that's a chilling thought, because it means that if you cut investors' appetite for risk, the most beneficial startups are the first to go..."

Understanding this could mean a lot to SV VCs but then I'm sure they understand it already.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html
people will adapt, they are just used to a world where this is not so easily possible
One of the languages that originally featured REPL, Lisp, was always compiled, both to machine code or byte code. Ditto smalltalk. I am not even sure which "traditional" languages you are talking about.

When I mentioned state, I did not mean testing. Sure, a properly designed system will have all it's computaional parts abstracted in a functional way so it will be trivially tested compiled or not. However, REPL is incredibly useful during the development process when the abstractions required are not yet clear, so it allows one to easily explore design possibilities without committing signficant effort of implementing a correct compilable module.
AirBnB's Rendr library is not a JavaScript, and only JavaScript solution. It is however a library that allows you to mostly unite your web rendering layers on the web client and application server.

Look at the first diagram in the article and you'll notice that the author shows 3 environments:

1. Client (obviously the browser is JS)
2. Application Server (the server-side rendering environment = what he says can now change to JS thanks to Rendr)
3. API Server (use whatever you want here - JS, Java, Ruby, Python...)

And, in production you will no doubt need a "static" server as well (for rendering privacy, tos, etc. pages). Plus all of the other production systems (like a queue, stream processing, and so on) that are not JavaScript environments.

If you check out his example code you'll see that he actually sets up example 04 (https://github.com/airbnb/rendr/blob/master/examples/04_entr...) with a subapp for a static page.

Also, if you look at the react-moment branch in the isomorphic tutorial repo (https://github.com/spikebrehm/isomorphic-tutorial/blob/react...) you'll see that he's proxying a dummy API server to a route on the application server.
Thats a different matter though.

The lyrics sites are profiting by distributing someones work. That person deserves a share of the profits.
Part of the difficulty is that many discoveries and inventions reach the threshold of being necessary causes of the modern world. Once you pass that threshold, how do you rank them? The removal of any of them (eg fire, the wheel, mathematics, steel, steam ...) renders the current world impossible.

Are there degrees of impossibility? I'm not sure. We may be looking at a partially-ordered set here.
Claim: The answer is no.

Proof: Bitcoin requires the Internet to function. Therefore, the things disrupted by Bitcoin are a subset of the things disrupted by the Internet. The Internet can be used for disruptive things other than Bitcoin, so the things disrupted by Bitcoin are a proper subset of the things disrupted by the Internet.

Since the total number of things in both categories is finite, this means fewer things are disrupted by Bitcoin than are disrupted by the Internet.

QED.
I would have phrased this as a corollary.
yes but only if there is a same named branch on the remote end.

i kinda prefer the upstream (names can be different but i set up an explicit link) option to simple
the problem with your counter argument is that it ignores the basic, undeniable fact: what you are referring to as "money", presumably government fiat: euro, dollar, yen, etc.. has certain flaws that bitcoin does not (not to say bitcoin doesn't have it own, different flaws), namely: government fiat, historically, has always been deflated; with the vast majority of fiat currencies eventually becoming worthless due to the government abusing the currency or losing their power; and, contemporary "money" is subject to restrictions, capital control laws, etc.. which some people find to be too cumbersome.

bitcoin has answer for these undeniable flaws; and besides.. no one is saying that "the entire population" needs to do anything. bitcoin can (and at this point, almost certainly will) exist right along side all these "real" monies you refer to; and people can choose, or not, to use bitcoin (and part of what is appealing to me, and likely others.. is that regardless of what any laws say, I can still "choose" to use bitcoin even if some jurisdiction delclares it illegal--unlike fiat.. where if the government decides i shouldn't have access to my money they can simply shut me down with zero recourse if the courts (or despots, depending on jurisdiction) don't see my side.
Seems to me that the approach with best separation of concerns would be to redirect the initials requests directly to node, which would then call the Python/Ruby/etc API to get the data to render the template. After that, the browser JS could call the API directly, and so the latter would never have to know about templates at all.
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To expand on this: John Lewis is a chain of department stores and supermarkets (Waitrose), which is owned by its employees. Each year, a sizable fraction of its profits go to a bonus distributed in proportion to salary (17% on top of each salary last year, according to Wikipedia).
I already left reddit a while ago following trend of wise people who did it before me because reddit got buried in stupid memes, cats pictures and copypasta. Comments lost insight and the hive mind took over.
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They are replacing their current infrastructure with it, so I don't see it going anywhere.
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I originally thought this; but ultimately have to disagree.

Several problems:

1. "the internet" is a pretty nebulous term. bitcoin certainly requires computer networks, which generally require tcp/ip; but bitcoin could technically function on a darknet, which could arguably be "not the internet".

2. the internet relies on the power grid, which itself relies on copper wire; which essentially, and eventually, says, by your logic, that the internet is a subset of the things disrupted by copper mining.

now i actually agree that in the end the internet is a bigger disruptor; but i don't think your proof holds.
It's not clear yet that what they did is illegal. No court has ruled that.

These revelations have seriously weakened many people's belief in the rule of law, applicable to all. Secret courts and secret committees which oversee this activity lead us to judge actions as either moral or immoral, because we have no way to trust or verify the court decisions, or find out whether the law is even being followed, or even how it is being interpreted.

It's sickening to me that you can on one had assume that a group of people should be punished for something they may not even be guilty of while at the same time claiming to support due process.

When the law is applied inconsistently or not at all, people resort to vigilante action.

This is the fault of politicians who have proposed retrospectively legalising activities like metadata collection on every American, tapping every line they can get their hands on, or ignoring breaking into foreign telecoms outfits in supposedly allied countries in order to perform mass surveillance. I'd prefer to avoid vigilante action too, because it does lead inevitably to more evil, misunderstanding and mob justice. We see this from time to time on HN as the mob picks on a target (typically a web company) and tears them apart for some trivial misdemeanour poorly understood at the time. Once the mob starts, it cannot be stopped, and everyone just joins in because to not join in or raise questions makes you a target. At times something similar has happened here to those who oppose this surveillance. People feel angry and impotent and take it out on those who support these actions.

I do think this part of your statement is incorrect though and does not follow from the first sentence - something they may not even be guilty of. We now know with a fair degree of certainty what they are guilty of, the legitimate question you raise is whether it is technically considered illegal or not. For many people though, because of the misuse and perversion of the laws governing these activities, they don't trust the law, and the question has now become:

Is this right and can I support it, or should I oppose it at every opportunity, and any laws which support it?
It's hard to draw any conclusion from personal anecdote: where I work it's the opposite, all my coworkers who had Android smartphones (Samsung and Sony) are switching to iPhone 5S.

Note that none of them is technically savy at all: they can barely use a computer, things like Felica are in the realm of science-fiction for them. They just want a smartphone with a decent camera and Line. By the way that horribly tacky "gold" iThingy is a killer, everybody wants it (Osaka, probably different in other cities).
> "has always been deflated"

I think you meant inflated.
The trick to beating the final boss is to have maxed teleport and cloaking. This lets you avoid all missile volleys, by cloaking just before the first few would hit and boarding the missile weapon system to disable it. Also you should murder all but one of the crew during the first battle (this is tricky, but you can take your time), so you can disable systems quickly in the second and third battles without them being repaired.

Cloaking and teleporters are great early investments, too. Cloaking saves tons of resources that would have been spent on repairs, and killing the enemy crew gives better rewards compared to blowing up the ship.