skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a weird one!

I've been out of the payments game a few years now (going back in on Monday though) but in EMV speak an 'application' is usually something like Visa, or Mastercard or something along those lines. Some cards I looked at in the past had a few on them for local schemes, for instance we had "Switch" cards here in the UK that were the equivalent of "Maestro" in Europe, but were different enough that a lot of UK debit cards had both applications on them.

If "pay in three installments" is a sort-of credit facility provided by your card issuer(?) then I suppose it could be coded as an on-card application. In fact if you wanted to give your customers that choice on every single transaction I can't think of a better way.

Would get damn annoying...
On my 5-year old netbook and my pretty decent spec desktop I just get a white page that goes grey when I move the mouse over it. :(
Paedophilia and ephebophilia have been around for far, far longer than the internet and porn.
The Multi-AZ options aren't similar, they're half the price as well (comparing a Multi-AZ RDS setup with a Heroku Postgres instance that has an equivalent follower instance.)
Slightly off topic, but still related: have you tried the mac os speech tool? I find the default voice, Alex, to be quite good. So good that I have completely stopped reading news stores and blog posts: I just let the computer read things out to me (unless there is code blocks).
Would be nice if it would tell me where things are located. I can tell they're grouped by folder, but it doesn't tell me what folder that is or where it is within the Dropbox folder. (I know I can find it in my actual Dropbox folder, just wondering why that information is missing from here)

Also, there seems to be a bunch of "undefinedByte"-sized files lying around. Anyone know what those are? Maybe 0-sized files or something?
so you are saying that the only reason to do research in CS is to land a job at google? huh. strange.

also, won't google always be there?
In the US it's illegal, as per a comment directly under the submission.
Sure! Can you expand on what you're interested in specifically, if anything? (Or is it just top to bottom/ basics to advanced OpsWorks that you're looking for?)
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This is a great read, but a bit of a tease as well. Does anyone have a link to examples on Management design patterns?
When you stat answering more questions on irc and stackoverflow than you ask about complicated areas.

Building basic sites ans blogs is easy, but say someone asked you to read data from an old database or connect to a payment backend that doesn't have a django plugin, could you write your own? You also need to be able to support every plugin you use if/when that plugin gets dropped by the author.

If your going to freelance I would get very familiar with your own cms and blog system so you know it inside out, or best yet, write your own from scratch, then you aren't maintaining other people's code.

My $0.02
Related...some stores have started entering the last 4 digits of the credit card into their POS. This will work even if the card is flat and is obviously used to verify that the card number encoded on the mag strip is the same as the one on the face of the card.

If this becomes more widespread coin will have problems.
My writeup, echo's that it won't be the final solution but with a different angle (as a stopgap):
ryanckulp.com/band-aid-markets
Maybe. I am more undecided. The thing is totally cool, but I agree about the increased failure points which is why I won't get one. But, if it turns out to work pretty well for people after a while, why not consider t?
> One is this has been done before, exact same approach, and it did not work out because the card issuers didn't buy in

The card issuers don't have to buy in to anything. You program the Coin yourself using your existing cards.

> I use two cards on a regular basis. I have others but rarely need to carry them with me. So I can reduce two slots in my wallet to one. Doesn't seem like enough of a benefit to me.

Ah, the old "It's of no use to me, so what's the point?" argument. You're not the person the Coin is targeting. It's for people who have more cards than they can comfortably carry in their wallet.

> Lastly, I can see all sorts of issues with merchants not knowing what these are, and being wary of accepting them due to perceived fraud risk.

I'll admit that I don't shop in many brick and mortar stores, but when I have, the cashiers have never so much as glanced at my cards. Most of the time, the scanner is out of their view anyway. I can see it possibly being a problem if they have to scan it for you (like at a restaurant or something), but I'd be willing to bet that most people just aren't going to care enough to make a fuss about it.
Crime is a combination of intentions, actions and results. Just because no-one is harmed doesn't mean there's no crime. If I try and murder someone and fail (perhaps I'm a poor shot?) then I'm hardly an innocent.

I'd recommend the webcomic 'The illustrated guide to law' to everyone, especially many of the commentators on here. It is disturbing to read some of these posts.

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=173
Great to know that everyone is trying to help out.
But as I said, they are ultimately bound by the laws of nature. Evolution can only happen so quickly; they can only evolve their genome so much in a given period of time.

What you're suggesting is they'll evolve to look like human cells. But that doesn't make sense. They would need to evolve that way in a single generation. Something that's "almost like" a human cell would just be wiped out.

Just consider how long it took for the last common ancestor (of humans and bacteria) to evolve into a single celled organism.
Dart is a better Java (that can run in a browser if you want).

Go is a better C++.
This is brilliant, design and implementation are absolutely spot on!.
Would you apply this standard to all potential crimes?

For instance, if I try to hire a hitman and the deal falls through (maybe I do not offer enough money, maybe he is too busy to take the contract, maybe he is an undercover cop), would you say that my actions should not be a prosecutable crime?
In the case of your ebay story, had you not done the arbitrage, wouldn't the owner of the iPod being unable to sell his stuff, hence worse off (the buy would still be buying the iPod at the same price you sell them - if they could have bought it cheaper, they wouldn't have bought it from you).

Additionally, your effort wasn't just buying and reselling the iPod, you have to compile the 2-page long search term, and then the knowledge of actually knowing how to do search properly with operators also took time to learn. Both the buyers and sellers could have got a better deal - had they spent more time. But they didn't, and you took the time to do those things for them. Isn't that a classic case of giving up a premium to save time?

Unless my ethical compass is way off ...
I think here in the UK there was a multi-year phase in. Started with the banks own ATMs, then the machines that smaller businesses loan from banks to take payments, then (when there were enough commercial offerings available) there was a sort of forced date for merchants to make the switch (or take more liability, that was the choice).

I think it took at least 5 years.

So yeah, non-trivial. And if (as it sounds like) the banks in the US have managed to offload most of their fraud problems to everyone else involved in the transaction, then there's probably little incentive.
The technical issues are solvable (by any reasonable issuer bank), but Visa/MC simply prohibit you to put competitors together with their cards.

Want to add some loyalty cards on the same chip? Sure!

Want to combine two different MC products? Sure!

Want to have Mastercard together with Visa or some local card network that we dislike? Nope, we don't want that so we'll not allow you to issue such cards.
Nano magnets arise at 2-D boundaries
More importantly, I think DSS requires DSA certificates. The AES-GCM cipher suites in current versions of Windows have the same problem.
That's a neat solution to the security problem also.

You go to the app on your phone and select the card you want. The coin will now function as that card for the next 5 minutes only. Otherwise, the coin is nothing.

Now even if your wallet is stolen, without your phone (+ unlock code, etc.) they don't have any of your cards!
This is more like being cheap
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Price difference seems huge. Looks more than Oracle? Can anyone explain why?
Very true. Forgot about that.

Share branding? Are you CRAZY???
Google web developers who want to deploy their apps need to use dart2js. Google web developers need to make sure their apps work in all modern browsers. If the Dart team wants to promote adoption even within Google (and they do) they need to support all modern browsers.

Dartium and dart2js already aren't quite in sync; numeric types work differently for example. But they're close enough that for most apps, you can develop in Dartium and deploy on dart2js and the language differences don't really bother you. The language differences between Dart-in-JavaScript and Dart-in-Dartium are a lot less than the differences between browsers that web developers deal with all the time.
The infrastructure for plastic cards will be around for a very long time. I think the author is ignoring the very expensive need for infrastructure changes. It's the same reason why everyone isn't driving around electric cars.
Why junior people?
Am I missing something or not following correctly? You can view processlist and kill queries like normal and you can edit variables via their control panel. I'd assume you can't edit every variable
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You should change it to: Go Fish.. or GoFish.
Some POS systems ask the cashier to type in the last 4 digits of the imprinted number on the card, which wouldn't work for this. I also know of several merchants (Hertz was one, a casino was another) that actually runs a card through a scanner and records an image of both the front and back. There are several scenarios where this wouldn't work.

On the other side of it, I love the idea, and the only way to get merchants and card companies to begin changing their policies is for someone to be first through the door. This will not work for all situations at first, but if it proves popular it could easily sway these policies. Imagine some of the possibilities. Just as an example, imagine getting a pre-approved credit card offer in your email, then having the new, swipeable card instantly downloaded to this device after a few verification questions. Credit card companies that worked with Coin could gain an instant competitive advantage in the cut-throat credit card marketing business. This could also revolutionize the loyalty card business.
They're also a quick way to liquidate tickets you personally can't use, if your seats are good enough that they would want to buy them.
What I get from these really great presentations presentations/posts/slidehows that Zach creates is that obviously GitHub is an interesting place right now, and Zach has got some really good insight but I can't help feeling that Zach really needs to get some experience with working at few more companies for some of the points he makes. Companies that succeed in different ways, companies that get bought out, companies that fail.

From the outside GitHub is in a really interesting space in that they can dog-food their own product very successfully, they have a huge market and intellectual share, and he writes as if this is the way that all companies could operate - but they simply can't.

For instances some companies have to play safe with what they say and do because they are in regulated industries, some just operate by people that have other values or outlets for their own time. I personally think it's fine if a company that I use has given up blogging or whatever to spend more time on creating a great product, or doing that while enjoying friends and family. I will leave/stop buying when the company no longer creates value for me, not when they stop talking at events or the original founders cash out because some people are born to create new interesting companies but are not suited to the 100+ person growth.

Zach if you are reading this, keep up the good work, but damn your writing is going to be interesting in 10 years time with a few more companies under your belt.
As an avid road fan, I've been in 47 out of 50 states (no Hawaii, Alaska or Vermont) and roadtriped around 50.000 miles, in the course of 7 years.

I've stayed in hundrends of small cities, from Ogalala, NE to Ozona, TX and Oatman, AZ, and used my credit cards for all kinds of purchases, from Kroger and CVS, to outlet stores, gas, local shops, small eateries, fast food places, restaurants etc.

Never had a vendor inprint my card.
I was with you til the last sentence. Yes, making pornography that appears to be child porn is illegal. Even taking a real adult porn star and dressing her up as a child is illegal. Why is this Orwellian?
Great suggestions, thanks! I'm sure a whole book could be written about HIPAA compliance and AWS, but a lot of general AWS security best practices will end up being useful towards a goal of HIPAA compliance. I'll definitely be covering encryption at rest, VPC, and multi-region deployments. CloudFormation DSL also seems like it could be a separate book (or even a series of books, like you see with Puppet/Chef), but I'll try to include what I can when it is relevant to architectural decisions.
What's next, asking if serial killing would be as popular as it is if it were not for action movies?
Well yes, most people don't make millions of dollars from a successful exit, so they literally don't have the resources to try to build a car company and a space company and run them simultaneously.
I upvoted both the Coin link and the link against Coin. I find it's an interesting discussion either way.
FWIW, simulated child porn laws aren't just about "thought crimes". They're motivated by the fact that defendants in cases involving real child porn sometimes claim the child porn is simulated, and it can be difficult and expensive to prove that false.
"Someone who is truly self-interested will strive to live in harmony with reality and with other people, instead of trying to constantly deceive and manipulate."

why?

"They will focus on producing real value they can trade, instead of the less efficient strategy of stealing from others."

less efficient in what way?

"In other words, do you think the author was happy? I don't."

i do. well, actually i really don't know, but nothing in the text really made me think he wasn't.

"The truth is that they are the same thing and you can do both."

i'll be sure to keep that in mind. it sounds so convenient.
I was trying to figure that out too, whether they're making money off the hardware or my data. I found their privacy policy but I am still unsure what they're going for https://onlycoin.com/privacy/

I really think hard about whether these services are really worth forking over that much of my personal data, and as cool as this product is I don't think it's worth it. If vast amounts of my personal data weren't at stake I'd pre-order for sure :(
I feel like some people on HN thrive so much on negativity. I don't even think this feedback is constructive.

Look, author has 1 or 2 cards. I have an Amazon card, a Target card, a Debit card, my FSA card, my Company credit card. I have rewards cards that I don't keep in my wallet because I like to keep my wallet thin.

Like it or not, Coin presents a hopeful solution to solving this for me. And don't go telling me I need to reduce the number of cards I have and simplify my life. I don't want to hear it. I just want Coin's product to exist and hopefully my pre-order is helping that.

On a side note, I'm not used to charge first ship later. Isn't Coin YC backed? I'm surprised they need to rely on pre-orders for funding unless that was their financial plan all along.
This is not a fair comparison. It would be if the original poster had said "personally I have no problem with people trying to have sex with minors, only if they succeed should they be punished." What he said was more along the lines of, I have no problem with people killing computer generated characters in video games, just don't kill real people.
Agreed -- they could get everything right technically; it's the legalities and the fine print that could be real issues here.
You are primarily attacking the supply side of the equation. Locking up those looking for this is working on the demand side. Both are valid means that should be done in concert.
Thanks, but I've tried that and it gives really messy results. For example, every accented character turns into a space, dividing the word into two meaningless pieces.

Edit: it also seems to put the entire article on a single line with no punctuation. But Google's word2vec examples run with each sentence on one line. Wouldn't this make a difference in training?
This is funny, but at the same time, I don't think turning it down was so crazy. The founders already got to take $10MM off the table, so anything they do now is fairly risk free. Might as well shoot for the stars. As a platform, I think it's much more interesting than FB. FB updates are more of an announcement (that I scroll through thinking "don't care"), while snapchats are like playful messages than make you feel like someone is saying "hey" without an agenda.
> Even taking a real adult porn star and dressing her up as a child is illegal.

Is it really? Isn't "catholic schoolgirl" stereotypically one of the most popular 'fetishes', right up there with "pizza delivery guy" (not sure I'd call roleplaying a fetish per-say)?
Doesn't their RDS add-on merely set DATABASE_URL to the URL that you provide when adding it? Are you sure it doesn't work with MySQL? There's no reason you'd need to wait for Heroku to add support for this, just spin up an RDS instance in us-east-1 and start using the URL Amazon gives you as your database URL.
First thanks for taking the time to post your thoughts.

1. You are right. We need to add more/all to home page.
2. This is a problem. Clearly we need to fix this!
3. We are working on the learning path and want to keep it under wraps for now. But a better CTA is needed. I always want site to provide me a good reason if I am going to give them my email address. We don't right now. same with #4

I had posted once or twice in comments of other stories about CB but was waiting until we got some of our site issues worked out before trying to get on the front of HN. Well the OP decided the time is now and hey I am not complaining.

I think you will find our offerings in the future to be much improved. Email me coursebuffet@gmail.com and I will keep you updated and any other thoughts would welcome.
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The problem is the signal-to-noise. You get cross-field insights sometimes, but they are very rare and more often come from someone who is actually versed in both fields. The majority of the time you'd spend fielding hare-brained ideas.
Because the reason child pornography is illegal is not that viewing child pornography is bad, it's that producing it is clearly wrong. The producers are hard to hit directly, but one can reduce their revenue by making it hard to consume their product.

Producing virtual child pornography is not obviously wrong. But no politician will speak up, because THINK OF THE CHILDREN (what children? DOESNT MATTER THINK OF THEM).

Thus orwellian thoughtcrime.

EDIT: I'm willing to agree that leaving real producers an escape path by letting them claim everything was virtual is bad. So the US clause for 'realistic' virtual porn is okay in my book.

But in the UK stylised drawings of child pornography are illegal. That's just silly.
It's certainly possible that one day we'll have desktop genome-printers. Any technology can (and often is) abused, and that would be no exception. Hopefully, there will be a Kaspserky for this era. A "Gene Kaspersky", if you will.
I remember looking into that one time. It seemed like a good idea but I don't recall why I never did it. Maybe because I mainly keep a small set of cards in rotation and don't really use different rewards cards at any given time. It is a nice concept though. I might need to look into it again.
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Costly? This is dirt cheap compared to what we've been using.
Agreed.

While the ideal solution to this problem might be server side, as the author suggestions, that is in no way a feasible solution. The card networks are in direct competition with each other, so there's no way you could get a single card with Visa and Amex/MC on it, not to mention there's competition between issuers.

Heck, I can't even get my Chase credit account and checking account on the same physical card and those two are tied to the same user account at a single bank and go through a single credit card network.

I can't wait to get my Coin. I'll probably still carry around the Coin and a backup card, but that takes me down from 4 to 2.
As far as I can tell, the BLE radio in Coin is only used for detecting location, and doesn't expose any card details in any form.
It's important to remember that the "goto" Dijkstra is talking about is very different from the "goto" that C programmers use. He's talk about unstructured goto: jumping from the middle of one function to another, or across scopes.

"Goto" as another local flow control construct is relatively innocuous.
Consider writing to the researchers volunteering for a clinical trial.

It does, of course, involve a certain risk. You should do a lot of thinking before taking such a leap.
Maybe you have too many files in your Dropbox for the app to handle? It only displays files over 10kb, though..
I remember the US refusing to rely on foreign technology, hence refusing to issue plastic money with chips.

But this changed after the CIA got their hands on the technology through in-q-tel acquisition of the french company gemplus then world n°1 company in the business.
Then cards with chips were coming the US and it was expected for the rest of the world to get backdoors with their US issued chip cards, years later the french government finally bought back control of the company but way too late.

Now that they have the technology, I'm surprised the switch has not happened yet, even more so since cloning and other kind of fraud is quite easy with magstripes (not that it is that much harder with chips, see yescards).

The coin introduced here seems anachronistic to my european eyes which have not seen a card being swiped in the last 30 years and a great opportunity for fraud.
Better use than reducing the number of card in a wallet is obviously to charge other people for your expenses by cloning their cards.
Very cool.

So you sync the DOM right? Wouldn't it make more sense to sync at the "model" level? I'm assuming most applications are generated from some model as follows:

model --render()--> DOM

in that case syncing the DOMs would not sync the models of the two applications.
Actually this is very much illegal. You cannot charge someone for a product and then not deliver it. Kickstarter doesn't charge you for a product, you pledge or donate to a project on Kickstarter and if it's successful, you get the item(s) for the level you pledged to for free.
Now, I didn't just "know" to prefetch the PyObject three indices forward in the array. I arrived at this value through experimentation.

There is a good chance that 3 is specific to the hardware you tested on. Different systems will have different memory latencies (and NUMA systems can make it even more complicated). It isn't likely that 3 will turn into a pathological case on any other hardware, but it may well end up being less optimal than say 2 or 4.