skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I have to turn this over to a bartender to keep behind the bar when I go out and drink? If I forget to grab it before I take a cab, now I'm out $100 and ALL of my credit cards. No thanks.
They won't! We're in great shape and I think Everpix customers will help make us strong. Thanks for the kind words!
Nate
This would not work in my country, since most places also ask for an ID to check you are the owner of the credit card. Maybe for debit cards ( because of the pin), but I can see it raising some fraud alerts ;)
I see it as possibly the reverse opportunity.

I typically hand out a Google Voice # as a sort of DNS for phone calls so that I can change my device number at will.

Wouldn't this allow me to swap out credit cards in a pinch without having to carry new plastic? Or, as you suggest, if I lose my Coin do I have to get all new cards?
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I never said there are no disagreements, only that they are less extreme than critics of economics would have us believe. While Krugman and Lucas seem to have some sort of personal beef, their 'philosophies' aren't that far off (Old Keynesian vs. New Keynesian economics) when you consider disagreements in other fields...

I'm also sure that you'd find even more agreement between say, Ben Bernanke and Mark Carney.
Credit card theft like you describe is already possible and already happens
Probably not. I imagine they'll also absolve themselves of liability if your card is ever misused or stolen.
Shouldn't the invisible hand take care of this? No one is forcing you to buy a Renault.
One of the things I noticed about the chip and pin migration in Canada was that when merchants all upgraded their point-of-sale terminals to handle EMV, many new terminals also happened to handle contactless payments.

I've been on two internships in the valley, and despite the availability of Google Wallet, I couldn't find a merchant that would accept it (apart from McDonald's) because everyone was still using magstripe-only terminals. (There were even a few merchants at trade shows who were still using triplicate carbon-copy forms...!)

I think Coin is a product that makes sense for the US market right now as a transitionary product, and wouldn't be surprised if Google acquired them some time in the next year or so and rolled them into the Wallet product offering. When and if US merchants upgrade to chip-and-pin capable offerings, (almost) everyone who owns a Nexus device made in the last two or three years will be ready with unified wallet offerings that already exist.
So no holography technology like that in the video? I'm disappointed.
Oops. Didn't see that. I got this link in my email.
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What do you think of their plan?
Oh, man, I hope you don't find out about this terrible place called a library where people do that kind of stuff all the time.
We need IPv6 first I feel; then we need the idea of a personal IP address that can act as a personal gateway to your computer. Then there needs to be a social platform which merely acts as a caching proxy for connection to you.

At that point we can do FB but have it decentralised, you won't need a sharing service you'll just need to give people your IP - this I felt was the idea behind Opera's Unite "server in a browser".
Pretty sure it's "Cloud and Enterprise."
In theory, your phone will alert you that you forgot it. Also, you'll still have the original cards at home.
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How about an altcoin card with all my cryptos in it? Pick a coin, swipe and deduct from my account?

There is a huge window of opportunity in the altcoins market right now.
They would do that only if they have to fight a competitor, for sure. The whole idea of this rental is to follow the quite successful model one sees with ISP or mobile operators. Currently, they sell a car and that's it. They don't get more money if you use it for 20 years (my car, which is from another french brand, is that old).
From the FAQ:

Q. Can I lock my Coin?

A. Currently you cannot lock your Coin, but you don’t have to. Coin will automatically deactivate if it loses contact with your phone for a period of time that you configure in the Coin mobile app.

Bummer! Seems like there should be a way to use your phone to lock it down. Either way this is cool as hell.
I'd really like the ability to add all my shopping cards, membership cards, and whatever else that constitutes 98% of my wallet. Replacing two credit cards/bank cards isn't that compelling.

And then really, while I'm dreaming....I just want my phone or an app on my phone to deal with paying because carrying around a card just feels so 2000s.

This is a slick implementation, though.

I'm also more worried about actual merchants refusing to take something like this.
I'm more disturbed by these comments that are pro trolling. I personally like to have thought out technical discussions without hyperbolic yelling, but I guess that's just me.
$100/2 years lifetime for something that is just a bump in convenience seems high. I was real excited but don't think I'll find it worth it at that price.

A "better" solution would be a reverse square. Something that connected to my phone / had an app that I could then swipe in a card reader.
I find it insane that human with AK47 still poses any threat in the warzone. I look forward to the times when human with small arms has absolutely no value on the battlefield. War should be only for the richest kids.
No, Dart is not CoffeScript.

It really compiles, so you don't have to worry about it.
The languages are so similar that stuff that is fast in Dartium will work pretty fine in JS.
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Thanks! If you have any suggestions or episode ideas, please let me know!
Clearly you don't live in the U.S.
The (Heisenberg) uncertainty is a specific, computable quantity associated with the expectation value of an operator for a given quantum state. If that state is an eigenstate of the operator to be measured, the uncertainty is exactly zero. The only way for a state to have a non-zero uncertainty in its expectation value is if it is a superposition of more than one eigenstate with different eigenvalues.

So I stand by my "superposition" phrasing. :) Taking a measurement of a system that is in a superposition of distinct eigenstates of the observable being measured will give a probabilistic distribution of measurement outcomes (with probabilities derived from the amplitudes of the corresponding terms in the superposition).
> We've got the Giants, soon we'll have the Warriors, we'll have a few huge high rises going up, a huge Salesforce campus in the works, and maybe we'll have a Google office.

Sounds like a boon, not a burden!

Maybe Google should move to somewhere people would be grateful to have them. People here in Philadelphia would love to see some business and industry come their way.
Wallaby is a passive/proxy card, routing to a BIN range controlled by them. Cheaper to produce (it's just dumb plastic), more expensive to run (since they're sitting in the middle of each transaction) -- but that's also where they can build value.
This sure makes it easy tho, no?
You must not be from the Bay Area. San Francisco is "The City", "San Francisco", or "SF" to anyone who lives or has ever lived in the Bay Area.
Dynamics Inc out of Pittsburgh created the first card with a programmable magnetic strip in 2010. I wonder if Coin is licensing their technology. Does anyone know?
Let me just say that I absolutely love soundslice. It's a great application!
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I understand chip+pin is still a novelty in the US.

Back in 2009, I was (apparently) the first person to use the chip+pin machine in one of the biggest bookstores in Toronto - the cashiers got excited and all gathered round to watch. It was a little bit bizarre.
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Right, but what I wanted to highlight - a person might be able to code quick sort algorithm or breadth first search, but unable to get paid doing real world coding - when it is the client or employer who needs to be satisfied.

So basically when you have a choice of being unemployed vs doing PhD and getting some studentship, you obviously prefer the latter path.

And I believe there are quite many people who can "code" but unable to get paid.
This is innovative, really like this concept. Wish them Good Luck !
Really excited about this. I'm a huge fan of carrying as little as possible, and this alone will remove 90% of what's still in my pockets today.
What happens when the waiter accidentally clicks the button & charges your business card when it should have charged your personal card? I guess they can just peruse your cards, see what you've got, and pick which one to charge. :p
I hate PostgreSQL. Yes, I am a dummy application developer who doesn't understand database software.

Every time I try to install PostgreSQL it fails. Every time I install MySQL it installs successfully with no problems. Actually, that's the extent of my experience with it, and I guess I'm fine dealing with a database that doesn't validate date formats strictly if I can use the damn database without hassle. I am totally fine using Postgres at a company or with another DB developer who knows how to set up databases properly, but if I am starting a new project, I am going to use MySQL, period.
Heroku will still be my go-to for quick tests and experiments. But for larger projects it would be foolish to not consider PostgresRDS + Docker on AWS. *assuming they both leave beta.
But with Coin, they can potentially copy all your cards, instead of just one, by pressing the button multiple times.

It's not obvious how to prevent that without affecting the UX.
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What really annoys me is this particular blog post, not just the existence of the course, for example this thing:

“What is Big Data?” They will teach you fundamental principles of Hadoop, MapReduce, and how to make sense of big data. Developers will learn skills that provide fundamental building blocks towards deriving maximum value from the world's data. Technologists and business managers will gain the knowledge to build a big data strategy around Hadoop.

In my experience, to be successful in engineering in general, one has to learn whole design spaces instead of just individual technologies. This means taking a programming languages course instead of another C++ course, taking a distributed systems course instead of taking a Hadoop course, taking a databases course instead of a MySQL course and so forth. You of course have to fiddle around with the various tools as well, but you don't need a course or an instructor for that, otherwise you often end up just following written or spoken instruction which configuration file to edit, what command or query to type, etc., which is actually much _worse_ than self-directed learning. Once you have this theoretical background and bits of varied practical experience, you can do mature decisions about which tool to pick for a particular job.

So, I would really, really like to avoid anyone I might have a chance of working with learning about "how to build a big data strategy around XXX", whatever product XXX is. You don't build anything "around" up-front assumed technologies. This is just pumping the "big data" bubble, which is certainly good for Cloudera, which makes a living based on that, but doesn't exactly sound like teaching people to make informed technical judgements. I am also not to partial to the stance that learning Hadoop and MapReduce makes you a big data expert (they offer a certificate in big data after completing the course).

And no, there is nowhere near enough algorithms courses at all. The things taught in most undergradute algorithms courses are often not really the things you need for practical large scale data processing. I posted the Jeff Ullman book precisely as an example of how good courses in handling data might look like. This material is taught very rarely.
In your original post, you state that we might as well assume determinism. Why? Given the widely accepted nondeterminism of quantum behavior, why wouldn't we assume nondeterminism instead?

I realize what you're grasping at is that deterministic behavior might somehow underly this seemingly nondeterministic behavior. Bell's theorem, however, has made it difficult to reject that the this fundamental aspect of the universe is hard to explain without assuming nondeterminism (or superdeterminism).

I agree you can't prove it. You just haven't really explained why you're leaning toward the deterministic side.
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OK, but what says merchants are required to accept this "coin" card as your Visa?

Even if they aren't allowed to check ID, they certainly are allowed to check signatures.

Since merchants are held at least partially responsible for fraud, I would be surprised if most merchants accept the "coin" card. It doesn't look like a normal credit card.
> A profoundly disagree. Javascript is a great language, but that does not mean there is not room to improve.

Disagree with what exactly? Where did I say that JavaScript is perfect and can't be improved?

On the contrary I actually said that TypeScript is a good way to improve upon JavaScript, because it actually takes into account real problems that web developers are facing and solves them.

> There is a reason tools like CoffeeScript and TypeScript (and even ASM.js) exist: there is a lot of ceremony building large applications with correct, readable Javascript.

There is a reason why LOLCODE exists too and I highly doubt that ASM.js code is either correct or readable, also I already mentioned TypeScript.

> The Dart community is full of folks who have written huge amounts of Javascript and consider Dart a welcome advance.

And if you look at it the other way around there are probably a lot more developers who have written a lot more JavaScript and dislike Dart. Arguments like these have no value.

> I'm a bit confused how function emulation -- useful, but certainly obscure -- could lead one to simply discard the whole project as tools for lazy Java devs.

Let me elaborate on that a bit: the fact that you have to actually emulate functions means that the language was designed for people who are used to not being able to define functions directly and think everything must be a class: Java developers. This clearly shows that the Dart designers are not even trying to play nice with JavaScript. It may seem far fetched but considering Google's GWT and Closure toolkit, you can clearly see a pattern here.
From the FAQ: "As an additional safeguard, the Coin app will only allow you to add cards you own."

So it sounds like if the name doesn't match, it won't work (you have to take a picture of the front).
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Google releases Dart SDK 1.0, a JavaScript alternative
haha, thx again Josh!
Great news and for people who ask them-self the questions but the version is Pg 9.3.1.

Not all Pl are available, and it misses the PL/V8 and PL/Python at least.

And it seems that all fdw (Foreign Data Wrapper) extensions are missing.

But it's a great start, I'm looking forward to try.

If anybody know if we can still access the WAL log then it will be very useful

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_P...
Letting the public know that the machines do not work as described should have the effect of reducing the machines effectiveness as torture devices.

The public should not fear the machines, and the public, knowing that the machines cannot be used to make them seem innocent, should never consent to being hooked up to one.
>The cool part is the "what" which is bridging the gap between the client and the server.

This is what loses me- how is that cool or good? I would much rather write a static html/css/angular frontend and have it talk to a Go webservice on my server. I want to use the best language for the client and server side, why do I care if they are the same? I want them to be basically completely independent apps where I could replace one or the other with a new implementation.
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No kidding about the soufflés. Even walking by the oven at the wrong time can spell disaster.
While copying magstripes is already easy, no merchant will accept a stock magstripe card for a credit transaction, because it's clearly fraudulent.

If merchants will accept coin, it creates trust for this devices, and lookalikes. I think it would be much easier to create Coins, or Coin clones with stolen credit card data. This is rather concerning.

On another note, I really want one of these to tear apart and mess with. The hardware is pretty slick.
I don't agree with your first statement, but i'm totally fine with your conclusion.
There are already crazy small devices that accomplish the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0w_ktMotlo
I wish it allowed a card selection process to be made with iPhone instead of clicking on the actual card itself, so that the person who charges it does not toggle between your cards. With a fingerprint sensor that would be really cool!
From the FAQ:

Q. Does Coin support chip and pin (EMV)?

A. Coin is currently designed for the U.S. market and does not support chip and pin (EMV), however, future generations of the device will include EMV.
> Because it's not worth the cost.

Neither are airbags in cars, yet the government stepped in and made them mandatory.

> [Credit card companies] all have the incentive in the world to start rolling out chip and pin technology.

No, their incentive is to make sure people keep using credit cards.

They've done the math and concluded that the amount of user confusion resulting from chip and pin technology resulting in less credit card use is less than the cost of fraud. The fact that chip and pin works in Europe, and also that credit card processors still exist in Europe proves that implementing chip and pin isn't going to drive Visa and Mastercard out of business.
This happens for me only with one bank card and not my others. I think it's partly the fault of cheap material used for the card.
Hey at least it throws a warning on the bogus date conversion (MySQL warnings should almost always be treated as fatal errors).

The thing that kills me with MySQL (technically it's with InnoDB-based storage enginges in MySQL) are the subtle quirks. Like the thing where it insists on writing temporary tables to disk if you do a query that selects TEXT or BLOB fields. Even if they could have easily fit in memory, it's not smart enough to be able to determine that with variable length fields. A very non-obvious performance killer unless you're specifically looking for it.
"no money in drugs that someone takes for 14 days and stops. Pharmaceutical companies are driven by stockholders"

You wonder of course why, if that is the case (and I do agree), that the government doesn't get involved with more funding or subsidies for these types of less profitable drugs. The same way they spend countless dollars on other things for the public good (and company profit obviously).
Simple looks like a completely different thing to me. It looks like a debit card connected to a fancy budget tool. It looks like a tool for people who have basic finances and need help to avoid overspending.

Coin looks like a device that replaces my existing cards, which is a problem I want help with. I don't want to close my business bank account or get rid of my credit cards, I just want a lighter wallet.
> OK, but what says merchants are required to accept this "coin" card as your Visa?

Nothing. Coin is not an authentic card. BTW that wasn't my point, it was that it's a merchant violation to demand ID when presented with an authentic signed card.
No, because chips, by design, can't be copied by the user. They are roughly small computers which encrypt messages with a secret key, but the key itself is never let out outside the chip.

You would need some cooperation from the card issuer to clone the card, or some sophisticated technical equipment to open up the chip and read it.
The fact that they built this into their office makes it very clear that they have a quite laissez-faire attitude towards their business.
Is anyone else still seeing the old UI? I even tried removing and re-installing. On iOS.
I'm a simple user but I don't see any % of this existing in my Simple account. If I've overlooked a glaringly awesome feature in Simple I'd be happy to find out.
Have you tried Heroku's PostgresApp postgresapp.com?
Um, point of this announcement is you no longer have to install PostgreSQL!!! You can let Amazon do it for you, and scale it, back it up, maintain it etc.
The FAQ says that they do indeed require the names to match.
Not for lack of trying - Google and Microsoft would on-again off-again "work together" and suddenly the requirements would be different or the result would be insufficient. Most recently, they decided that the Windows Phone app must be an HTML5 application even though it isn't on iOS or Android. Microsoft expressed interest in using the advertising APIs to adhere to Google's requirements, but for whatever reason those were never made available.

The whole Terms of Service for YouTube is very anti open web - everything about it screams distinguishing between privileged and unprivileged user agents. Now, of course neither Google nor any other company is beholden to making their platform work on every platform, but these actions seem deliberate.

For more on this, look into the blocking of Google Maps on Windows Phone, which was based solely on the user agent string sent to Google's servers. Or look into the curious case of IE11 receiving a different search page on the date of Windows 8.1's general availability, making it appear as though the update "broke" Google. Curiously, for weeks before Windows 8.1's general availability people using pre-release versions and MSDN/Technet versions had no problems whatsoever.

It's not clearly deliberate, malicious evil, and I'm perpetually a fan of Hanlon's Razor; but it definitely gives me pause every time I hear another one of the stories of Google's interoperability with Windows and Windows Phone.
I lived in Chicago for three years without a car. In terms of getting around downtown, the El is fine. METRA is far better for getting in from the suburbs than CalTrain.
You can buy a 20$ card reader and just copy someone's magnetic strip. It's already pretty easy!
The one I am using (and I don't even remember which one it is or if there are multiple ones) does basic highlighting. There is no re-factoring support that I could find yet.
And how exactly is this verified? I don't think there's OCR there to verify that it's your card you just snapped a photo of.
Keep up the good work guys! Excited to try the new hotness.
you've actually probably done this yourself. it's often called "featurization". for example, instead of applying a linear learner on vectors x in R^d, you apply it to vectors f(x), where f computes a bunch of features on x. a popular choice for f are the d-th order monomials. hashing families are another good idea (Alex Smola does this). more generally, any random nonlinear function f is a good candidate (i call that analysis "Random Kitchen Sinks"). when x is structured data, f usually just returns counts in histogram bins of some kind.
Yeah, it's absurd how many SF residents are reacting to all this economic activity. There are so many cities across the country that would love to be in the position SF is right now.
Nevermind… waited a couple minutes, and the update showed up. Strange though, that a fresh install installed the old version…