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I'm european, and hold my wallet in the back pocket or in my jacket. I just take it out and put it on the table when sitting.
So, will they actually let you run your code on Watson supercomputer? Or is it just an access to API documentation?
This line of reasoning puts a glass ceiling on your own intelligence. Are you sure that's a good idea?

"Oh well, I probably won't be able to anyway" seems a mistaken way to go about life. Or at least a dull one.

I'd rather know the truth than believe everyone else's mistaken ideas. The only way to do that is via first principles.

Personally, I rather like pg's belief: we're only accomplishing 1% of what's possible. More people should believe that our very way of life is malleable; after all, it is. Mentally buying into the life your generation happened to be born into isn't a good idea, because it implies we've figured everything out.
The Netherlands. I looked up pricing. It is actually not 0% but €0.06 per transaction above the first thousand transactions (which are included in the bundle). The rent for the box and connectivity (mobile or dsl) is also included.
You're missing the distinction; Nobody kept their MySpace around or created a new one once is was replaced because it was unnecessary. You could say it's like AOL Instant Messenger, but if anything that's a weaker analogy since nothing really replaced it so much as IM became a commodity.
Open source encompasses permission to modify and redistribute. Disclosed source != open source, which is what was advocated upthread.

Parent claimed that modifying the source wouldn't hurt anything since your phone can't transmit in ways you're not licensed to, but this is incorrect.
Don't bring underscores into this, underscores scan quicker and are aesthetically pleasing!

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumb...
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CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY, ALTER, and others. Batteries included.

This has saved our bacon a number of times. The only kind of DB-related downtime we have is when we're doing a Postgres upgrade.
Phone is too big to be comfortable in a pocket, so I use a horizontal belt clip, which is pretty unobtrusive, especially if you wear a jacket or loose shirts. Wallet and keys in front pockets, leaving my arse free for comfortable sitting.
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Those highly technical posts give me such a headache at the end of the day.
I wish your phone had some kind of a unique ID it could broadcast. Then you could take it to the bank and they would associate it with your account, then you could just use the phone as your card. You just hold it over the receipt thing and push a button on an app and boom done.

Now if you could get my phone to be as slim as that Coin that would be pretty sweet too.
Not even close.

SF Bay Area: 395/sqkm

Sao Paolo Metro: 2,469/sqkm

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_S%C3%A3o_Paulo

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area
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That might be true. But typically no one steps in to correct a wrong so quickly.
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“Sass’s new placeholder syntax is pretty great, isn’t it?”

You say: "I haven't taken a look at it yet, what do you like about it?"

They say whatever.

You say: "Wow, that does sound pretty great, I'll definitely have to check that out." And then you do so, sure.

Human psychology is such that they often will actually react by liking you BETTER than if you had (presumably truthfully) said "Oh, yeah, it's great." Because you demonstrated that you valued their opinion, listened to their opinion, and then told them that they were right on!
I don't know anything about what went into deciding which companies were mentioned in the announcement, but I know for certain I and others on the team have a ton of respect and gratitude for all of the help you and Kai have given us. Thanks!
Any suggestions on how you'd treat the layout?
I've seen card readers try to read from both sides of the card in case it's swiped on the wrong side - you might have some problems with those.
Apparently, you don't seem to understand that this is how things works in the United States, where this product is intended for sale.

Perhaps learn/read about how the payments process with respect to credit card transactions and chargebacks work in the US before commenting.

Additionally, read about Coin, which doesn't work in Europe and doesn't support EMV.

:facepalm:
Would like to use it primarily for configuration purpose. Admin/devops kinds of jobs.
Seriously, someone downvoted you for knowing where your stuff is. Keep it classy HN.
You say that "Bitcoin['s] price growth made it more popular."

I guess my issue is what you mean by that. When people see Bitcoin's price shoot through the ceiling, I totally agree that it attracts them to speculating on the currency, further exacerbating the increase in price, causing an exponential shape.

It is not clear that its price increase would attract people to using Bitcoin as a currency and not speculation though. I consistently hear about the importance of a currency having a relatively stable value so I wonder if large, rapid price changes actually discourage using Bitcoin as an actual currency while encouraging its use for speculation (or at least not encouraging its use as a currency).

It would not make sense for anything that has independent utilitarian value to have anything but a growth rate that is correlated with that value. It would seem that exponential deviations from such a growth rate could only be due to speculative mania. If people are only or mostly buying Bitcoin because its price has increased, hoping for a further price increase, then there is only so high the price can go before collapsing.

Rereading your comment, maybe we're actually saying the same thing here.
It is a bit surprising how long it took for that to land. On the plus side, replication is very easy and low latency with 9.3.

There's still a bit to do on the auto-failover front, but that may end up being more of a third party undertaking. Postgres has failover facilities included, they just have to be driven by something external right now.
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I don't know where you get that definition but zero day means and used as a vulnerability that's not publicly known / previously unknown.

So if you found a vulnerability that's not publicly known / new, that means you got a zero day. It also implies that it's not patched.
How exactly would you be racking up debt as a computer science Ph.D student? You don't pay for tuition, you get paid a pretty decent stipend + health insurance and you probably will do many industry/research internships (where you get paid very well). I say this with experience, as I am a CS Ph.D student and make more than enough to live on with a modest lifestyle and I have no debt. Plus if you get an outside fellowship, which most successful students do, you'll essentially be able to work on just about anything you want (I don't think this can be said for a random Google employee, however this is probably true for a YC founder). The Ph.D lifestyle is pretty great imho...at least in CS (non-CS, that's a whole other story).
You've clearly never been to one of the many sites that insists you log in through Facebook.
I love cash-only places. You know all your money is going to the hard working people making your sandwich instead of the big four credit card corporations.
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One big advantage of top-level declarations is it is possible for the VM to use a snapshot for fast start up.

This is not really possible if you must interpret top level code to build up your top-level declarations, as done in JS.

Using snapshots, the Dart authors have said it should be possible to improve script start up time by 10x over V8. This is a big win for large script heavy apps.

Edit: link https://www.dartlang.org/articles/snapshots/
Me too. That's why I write them.
Why indeed, Mrs. Sartre?

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/imxb8IShtoc/hqdefault.jpg
We started with a MEAN stack but are in the process of stripping out Mongo for MySQL... I guess that still makes it a MEAN stack.
It's a neat idea, but what I'd really like to see is a way to use randomly-generated numbers as my credit card for one-time payments instead of handing over my full credit card details to an online store. I hear this is done by a few credit card companies now but I have yet to see it in Canada.

Coin could even take this idea one step further and allow you to store your credit card, but when you swipe their card it provides the merchant with a randomized credit card number useful only for a one-time purchase. Now that'd be cool.
NO it's not. Repeat the same experiment using Italian or Greek or African or Chinese or Japanese students. See if you get the same results in conditions parity and then we can start discussing about it.
I think we can somewhat offer Google the benefit of the doubt here too. It's likely that there's someone else targeting Google's algorithm to get that spammy video suggested to as many people as possible.

As you (mcphilip) said you don't have a YouTube account, so presumably Google has less data on what you might like or dislike. Suggesting more relevant results to you means that Google needs more data about what you like individually. It's balancing that whole "tracking me is evil" vs "showing me stuff I actually want to see is good".

I stay logged into my G+/YouTube account and the suggestions I get are generally acceptable, sometimes even great. I've never found them outright obnoxious in my case.
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Could you provide me your preferred email? Is it the one in your HN profile?
My apologies, that should say Brian Burke, not Silver.
>I hate to sound incredibly cynical

You picked a valid point of concern (if Coin requires connectivity for basic operation), assumed the negative, and then used that assumption to denounce the company as "Silicon Valley fluff that will never become mainstream". Stylised: if A then shit -> I think A -> hence shit.
You wouldn't.

You actually increase the chances of fraud/loss/theft/errors with Coin.

It creates more problems than it solves (which is unfortunate, since it does have the "cool" factor going for it) That only goes so far.
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Wrote a quickie on how this is a stopgap, but purchased one nonetheless..

http://kulp.me/1gOpV7I
Well, I always heard that the problem was rapid handoffs between towers causing a lot of extra load on both the cell network and the phone itself. I can tell you anecdotally that on a few of occasions I haven't put my phone in airplane mode during a flight, and it seems to drain the battery muck more quickly than normal.
Isn't this back to front ... surely you need a trusted player and then you need Amex/Visa/Mastercard to be able to use that token (the credit card) to aid identification of a person.

So the card would be like Coin's but would have fixed credentials. Then when you open an account you'd provide your ID for the bank to register (or sign the registration with your public key); that account would be added to your card as an option.
lmao, so do I. I got a slimmer wallet though, no coins and not much room for junk, six cards and a note container. Made out of plastic. Lasts forever. Kinda destroys the magnetic strips on credit cards though, oops, and cards in the back aren't very accessible.
Careful with that though. You're creeping pretty close to some of the more absurd thought exercises of a pure libertarian utopia, the types of thought exercises that show pure libertarianism to be flawed as a universal sociopolitical scheme.

In the actual U.S. it is entirely probable that Glen would be made to get rid of the dam instead of cutting off water supply to the rest of the county, for the same underlying common-sense principles that have caused things like easements to end up in property law.
I am reminded of the Syndicalists in 1930s Spain. After their mini-revolution, they abolished money, hooray! The next day they introduced "tokens" so they could get anything actually done...
What is it that you don't like about Bitcoin? What do you want to do with Bitcoin that you're currently not able to do? Or do you simply have concerns with its security?
Great article. But it seems somehow unfair to characterize this as a 'one-line change'. He had to run various performance experiments that will be invisible to someone else reading the code, and the optimal prefetch distance might silently shift over time, like say if each object grows larger. It's a little like the Carmack magic number in that respect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

I've had this idea for some time that our representation of programs is fundamentally broken, because it excludes a detailed characterization of the input space. I took a first stab at a solution with http://akkartik.name/post/tracing-tests, which lets me write all my unit tests at the top level, showing how each piece of functionality augments the space of inputs my program can address. See, for example, https://github.com/akkartik/wart/blob/3039fe6d03/literate/02.... I suspect reading other people's 'code' could be an order of magnitude easier and more convenient if 'code' included the right information. I'm still working to flesh this idea out.
Well, I admit Flippa looks worse than the last time I checked it out. There are plenty of auctions with just as much detail as this post though. So, it's as transparent as a good listing on Flippa.
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> A good business and a slick offering but it's not going to suddenly transform your software projects or your abilities as a programmer.

I'd wager a pretty penny that Github has exposed a few orders of magnitude more people to the actual source of open source software than its predecessor, SourceForge.

Edit: grammar
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I replied with a blog post, which goes into detail regarding what I believe is the single, critical aspect that is currently holding up innovation in spreadsheet technology: the ability to run untrusted code without compromising security.

http://dbpokorny.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-online-spreadsheet...
Actually, most places WILL take the old 'swipe' cards. But most cashiers and either never worked with or forgetting about swipe cards. You just have to be very verbal and upfront and let them know yours is a swipe/ swipe and sign job.
I generally enjoy admitting ignorance and asking questions that seem dumb as a way of educating myself. You do have to be mindful of who you do this with. The person you're speaking with has to have a certain level of maturity themselves in order to not consider you stupid for your admission of ignorance.

In an ideal situation, you're speaking with someone who will allow you to probe them on the subject with a series of "stupid" (sounding) questions till you have a good basic understanding of the topic.

Unfortunately, many people are not like that. They will simply think that you're stupid and move on to the next topic. Sometimes these may be people you want to make a good impression on, for a variety of reasons, so some diplomacy is required.
Huh? Your post begins with, "Programmers will tell you the reason they’re replacing chief information officers in choosing third-party software is because CIOs don’t understand what’s going on" and has nothing to do with consumers, who don't make the kind of technology purchasing decisions you're discussing in the first place.
The one in my HN profile should be good. Thanks.
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>() The obvious issue of losing Coin and losing everything. People like backups. It's a mindset.

I fail to see how Coin is a lack of backups. If having two copies of a card isn't 'having a backup' what is?
If nothing else Dunbar's number will creep in somewhere. And of course the whole reason we don't use flat hierarchies unless the company is really small is because of the explosive growth in the company communications graph.

People could form ad hoc teams to reduce the exponential growth (instead of having such teams pushed on them by management), but then it's not a flat hierarchy anymore. Instead it's a self-organizing construct which may or may not be better than actually designing a proper org. structure.
I do synthetic scrolling (translate3d() + touch event interpretation and inertial math). Then duplicate the DOM for the top and bottom bars, adjust the positioning to make them look fluid and apply the CSS blur filter.

It's easy with React :)
What's so dark and evil about "we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes", "Please do not remove it" and "Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal."

It doesn't look like they are claiming the slightest right over any of it. Can't stand Google of late, but is there a single word of evidence for "we’ve reserved unique rights for ourselves?"
On many sites, an unauthenticated user gets content faster since it's much easier to very aggressively cache unauthenticated content -- since there is usually no user-specific page customization (e.g., so the entire response can be easily cached via varnish). Additionally, if the user cannot modify state, the cache can be made more incoherent without loss (e.g., such that the cache is only flushed every few minutes; unauthenticated users don't often notice the stale data).

In some situations under high load, the same response from Varnish (which may only available to unauthenticated users) may be an order of magnitude faster than the application server, even if they're co-located on the same physical machine.
What's up with Bitcoin?
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This is an awful headline change. National Geographic's title (Killing Sleeper Cells and Superbugs with Assassin Janitors) wasn't very descriptive, but at least it didn't leave room for a headline browser to take away the false conclusion that the CDC declared public health crisis of antibiotic resistance is near resolution.

According to the article, this new antibiotic has only been tested on mice and rats. These sort of preliminary results go bust all the time, and so I think that in this case, it's irresponsible to fail to indicate that these are preliminary studies and that the effect hasn't been demonstrated in humans. This could have been achieved by leaving the title the same, or by changing it to "New antibiotic kills off persistent infections in rats".
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Yeah, I realize that the effort was high on Google's part, but if they're claiming that their right to lift the text from a book (that takes effort to create too, mind you) is drawn from 'fair use', then can't I make the exact same argument for lifting the same text from their servers as well?

Google's the one making the claim that publishers should do the work and not benefit from doing that work, so why can't I benefit from Google's efforts as well?
In fairness to JavaScript, it is absolutely possible to write very large apps and keep them organized and maintainable.

I think the issue is that JS doesn't have strong conventions for how to do that, so you actually need to make good choices that work well with your app.

I have no doubt that Dart makes that stuff easier, but there's nothing inherent to JavaScript that makes it unsuitable for larger applications. It just forces you to make decisions.
I guess the fuss(and the point this little experiment was trying to prove) is that people, when faced with seemingly simple problem like this, do not start thinking like you've just portrayed and go with the gut feeling, because the question is so seemingly simple.

To be honest the number 10 also came up immediately for me as well, then I stopped to think 'wait, there has to be more' because of the title.
I like this randomized credit card numbers idea but I don't understand how it would work?

How would the terminal know it's debiting your account?

Where would the authentication take place?

Where would the randomization take place? And what would this be based on?

Credit cards are actually very simple in nature (and why there are billions of dollars of fraud occurring every year). It's simply an account number printed on a piece of plastic. But this account numbers is solely responsible for the transaction behind the scenes.

Who does this random number now? I've been studying payments for years and have never heard of this.
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Perhaps he 'claims' to be 20 years old..
Comments generally get disabled because people were Saying Mean Things. Next time you see that, look at how many likes/dislikes the video has--odds are it may have a lot of dislikes. Or the owner could just be taking a stand against the terribleness of Youtube comments by not allowing any.
I'm the publisher of OSNews. We would still like to cover the hobbyist and alternative scene more, but indeed it's not as vibrant as it used to be. And of course, over the past 6-7 years, we're covering mobile a lot more. We always covered mobile OSes, but of late the mobile OS world has been more interesting than the desktop OS world, which is becoming a little ossified.

To be honest, desktop OSes are getting boring because they're all so good now. Even Windows 8, for all its goofy UI is really a respectable OS now. (And of course there are no upstarts challenging Mac, Windows, and Linux).

But back to alternative OSes. We could use a shot in the arm. If there's anyone out there that's interested in lesser-known OSes and would be willing to do a little bit of reporting on it at OSNews, we'd love to have you. Send me an email.
Torrents are awful if not many people like the same things you like. Hooray, I'm downloading at the speed of someone's tiny upload limit! Similarly, downloading a file and having to find/reopen it is extra overhead that's annoying for a several-minute distraction that's a Vi Hart video.
> The secure AES-GCM supports 96-bit nonces

That's correct. However, TLS takes four bytes from the handshake key material and uses them as the first four bytes of the nonce. The remaining 8 bytes are all that vary over the lifetime of the connection.
Valuable to whom? Having a complete record of all of my purchases and where I've been evey day might be a marketer's dream, but it's not my dream.
Some of these are pretty funny: http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/the-26-best-amazon-reviews...

Not sure this is HN material, but... whatever.
No you are clearly disillusioned if you believe that an economist understand is the only one who can run a monetary policy. Understanding how currencies work is not easy to grasp at first, but surely any educated man will do.

And what does this has to do economics being a science anyway? Do you think that if you will apply the same economic policies in two different nations, you will get the same result? Please, don't make me laugh. Theories are made to explain outcomes and every school (Austrians, Socialists, Communists) justify their failures by trying to explain things that they totally don't understand.