skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could even use way-point coordinates...like with an Xbox controller. Tell it where to turn and the computer will safely do the maneuvers that take you that route.
Same basic idea for my credit union in the Atlanta area. Sure nationwide banks have better mobile apps and on-line features, more branches, and are not regional... but my credit union is still usable as a bank.
Unless you do a copyright assignment to them, they couldn't sell your GPL3 contributions under a non-GPLv3 license. It wouldn't just be distasteful, but would be against the license.
I think the US (like always) is maybe a little lucky when it comes to CU's, but copying from my postscript I think if you were to look at the three things I mentioned - online, non profit and open source, non profit is the one I think is least differentiable if that makes any sense. I think an online open source bank is the real innovative part, not the non profit part.
We desperately need to bury EME before it becomes an ecosystem where no other browser vendor can enter the marketplace and innovate with new technologies. If it takes us forking HTML5, then we better do it.
Sigh... they're completely clueless. I'm starting to think that I'm the only one who understands consciousness and it's not that complicated really. Hint: the first and most important step is to define "consciousness", specify what exactly does that word mean. Investigating a very vague word with many possible meanings is pointless.
I tested one out last night a little bit, guy said it was about half as accurate as a normal retail FLIR model (accuracy in temp differentiation, which surely has an effect on distance). Here's a pic:

http://imgur.com/vT4vl2o

I was too absent minded to ask about distance specifically.
KYC is about not doing business with terrorists or other undesirables. Madoff was not one of those. He was running a ponzi scheme but was otherwise an upstanding citizen. No bank would have any reason not to do business with him due to KYC due diligence.
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Is there anywhere that discusses/describes SAFE and its benefits/trade-offs in detail?
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My credit union (in USA) is awesome. It offers all "other stuff" like checking accounts and atms. They are open "normal business hours" which doesnt matter to me since I live out of state anyway, theyre exceptionally fast at allowing me to withdraw, and are 100% online. I mostly interact with my credit union via my iPhone, and have no problems.

Yes, Im way out of range of my credit union's ATMs. No biggie, they pay me $20 a month to cover any ATM charges! In fact, just yesterday, I got a free $80 long term member award (its been more than a decade).

Basically my credit union kicks all kinds of *ss. If they ever grow huge and get pwned by big bankery, Ill likely change my mind.

Im totally down for the open source non profit bank though.
Even better, you don't have to do subpixel hinting at 'retina' resolutions.
I suspect the real problem is that if you take a dysfunctional office culture and change it from one-person-to-an-office to an open plan it's (shocker) still a dysfunctional office culture.

I believe this is probably true, but noise and distractions are still noise and distractions no matter what your culture is like. My feeling is that (almost) all teams would be better off with people in private offices, regardless of the culture.
Interesting read but my knowledge of what I am going to call "advanced banking" kind of leaves me wanting to do some sidebar research.

Can anyone suggest any accessible literature for learning the more complex areas of banking/finance?
I think if you were to look at the three things I mentioned - online, non profit and open source, non profit is the one I think is least differentiable if that makes any sense. I think an online open source bank is the real innovative part, not the non profit part. So I'm not trying to be an alternative to credit unions, I'd prefer to be an option for 20 something year olds who spend most of their life online who want to bank online with a bank that's different to other banks. Not sure CU's have the best online systems (have experience in this)
>Credit Unions [...] don't offer stuff like checking accounts, atms etc, aren't really open that much, are exceptionally slow at allowing you withdraw and are completely offline. That's just my experience, but I don't think you could actually bank with a credit union, which is what I'm trying to get at.

I'll chime in with a bunch of the other people in the thread and say that none of these things are true of my (US) credit union. Their online banking could use a design refresh, but fulfills all of my needs pretty well.

Plenty of atms and free checking, also a few convenient physical locations in case I need to look someone in the eye. Been with them for 10 years.

edit: branches close at 6, but the drive through is open until 8. Also open on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
This is meant to be pretty basic. Can you think of anything that could replace it? It seemed to work well when I demoed it, but for pro stuff obviously you wouldn't want to rely on it.
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that all sounds really amazing, and so many people love VI, I'm wondering if more IDEs have copied these short cuts. I know sublime text has a plugin to add VI shortcuts.

I always found it a bit awkward to get in and out of VIs 'edit modes', it just seemed so unnatural.
For some those issues (mental health, substance abuse) are the causes of their homelessness (e.g. financial struggles), but for others, they are a symptom. Reduce the amount of people falling through the cracks, reduce mental health and substance abuse issues.
> mindless hedonism.

Ignoring the fact that this is a pretty offensive reduction to apply to most people, I'd ask:

Does it really matter? And if so, why?
It's all atoms bumping into each other, designed by Darwinian evolution working over a period of 3.6 billion years to design mechanisms so complex that describing and simulating their complete interaction will be the work of generations. Along the way new physics theories may arise, but that won't change anything about the fact that it's all Quantum Mechanics. Just like you can have thermodynamics without knowing the lowest level of interactions, or in fact like Darwin was right about evolution without knowing about DNA.
Racket shows how, with strong module support, a whole "tower of languages a.k.a. macros" can work reliably. Else not so much.
Isn't a news source like the NYT also just a content aggregator? They're aggregating all sorts of content (business, technology, sports, weather, etc.) and displaying it to you to consume.

In both scenarios (reading HN/reddit or reading the NYT/Chicago Tribune), you're consuming content from some sort of layout. I think it's fair to compare those two to each other.
Interesting.. but I think you can go further.
You can clearly see the studs in in the second picture:

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/flir-e4-thermal-imagin...

That's a 1927 house with plaster & lath walls.
And this is the real question (not the rhetorical "why does everyone need to have a job?"). Can people adjust culturally to the idea that guaranteed income/wealth/whatever could be a good thing, and lead to a pursuit of creativity and innovation, not merely hedonistic, fleeting pleasures?

I.e., can we as a society accept the possibility, and make it a reality, that a guaranteed income (in whatever form it takes), frees us from mindless grunt work and inspires us to pursue our dreams, or do we force those whose jobs have disappeared to suffer poverty because there is no 'need' for them?
You can make software use different speakers and other your headphones. iTunes has this in it's interface even (mac anyway).
Yes, my business account as well.

I love open source software, but from a bank...I just want them to give me a good deal and be helpful.
I totally agree with most IDEs and even the number of menus and capabilities in Sublime Text being overwhelming or hidden.

Discoverability is important, and the ability to 'get out' of any mode easily. But at the same time, not visually overloading the user, which I think most IDEs are guilty of.
I think like always, the US is a bit different. As I think I mentioned, I'm not thinking of something like a credit union, rather something quite different.
I took of pic of one in action last night:

http://imgur.com/vT4vl2o

Seemed pretty responsive. Good enough to capture the residual temperature from someone touching a table. Not pro level stuff obviously but worth exploring for basic thermal imaging applications it seemed to me.
In Italy we have
http://www.bancaetica.it/
it's a 'popular' bank, it means that collects money on the local district to borrow to local/italian entrepreneurs. And it's ehical, it borrows only to projects with high levels of sustainability: green economy, innovation, alternative energies etc.
Now it's quite up also the concept of 'social banking'
http://www.social-banking.org/the-institute/what-is-social-b...
"Rational actors" my ass. We are all a bunch of chimpanzees.

I think it's a little bit more nuanced than that. My guess is that people are mostly rational in many ways, but far less than totally rational in many ways. Some economists and social-science types refer to the term "bounded rationality".[1] I think that's about right.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality
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Very different here in the States. They have ATMs, are open about the same hours as banks, checking/business accounts, offer credit, mortgages, car loans, etc.
No, my answer was unclear :)

We will be doing all Light Table development in the open. We will be accepting pull requests (actually, I think we already have) although we require a CA (https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/blob/master/CONTRIB...).
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False color [1] images are like that. Some or all the RGB channels will be replaced with other data picked up via sensors tuned to other ranges.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_color
Also "=" is compulsory for setting some named function arguments that have a default value. E.g. format(pi, digits <- 16) only prints with the default number of digits, format(pi, digits=16) works as expected. I think it's nice to have a syntax that distinguishes between object and argument assignment.

Also you can do things like this when you're bored:

((a <- b <- 1) + 1 -> c) + 1 -> d

(Someone also once told me that "=" for normal assignment sometimes fails in unexpected ways in tryCatch blocks, but I don't know how or why.)
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No book has helped me overcome procrastination more than Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art":

http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Art-Through-Creative/dp/193689...

Instead of overanalyzing procrastination, he identifies the invisible but real force of Resistance and how to deal with it.

EDIT: grammar
Talk about entitlement. People choose the GPL because they don't want their code used in proprietary software. We don't want to help the proprietary game development industry. We care about user freedom, not programmer freedom.
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This is great, Light Table is starting to look like the spiritual successor to emacs.
Are there limitations on the number of possible sounds? If not, each keyboard could use a unique set of sounds.
Thermal imaging sensors have been export-restricted for some time, though the details depend on the type of sensor. Here's a handy chart from DRS Technologies, which makes thermal sensors:

http://www.drsinfrared.com/Support/ExportGuidelines.aspx
Chris mentioned this at the end of a previous post: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/

ClojureScript on node-webkit is looking like a very interesting platform for desktop apps, especially with om/react.
"CTEs are defined as being optimisation boundaries and databases are not allowed to optimise across CTEs."

No. You can optimize them however you want and still comply with the SQL standard; you just can't produce different results.

Different results are really only a problem when the CTE is non-deterministic or has side effects. If you know that the CTE is deterministic and has no side effects, you can just treat it like a macro.
Agreed this is absolutely great news. Really looking forward to see where LT goes as an alternative to the pay2upgrade hassle of most modern code editors and as an antidote to plain ole text editors.
This looks like a pretty good place to start:

http://ycombinator.com/safe/
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C# with the WinForms API is the only desktop GUI programming I've done and I found both the process and results very pleasant. IIRC I was fairly well behaved and used the "BackgroundWorker" in a few places :-)
My Flir E4 camera arrived just yesterday and today I plan to investigate if overheating is the reason for my 3d printer (Ultimaker 2) to be unreliable on large prints. Also, I hope to have an insight which parts are getting hot and estimate the best place for a fan.
I autocross and take my car to a private track for time trials, I'm starting to face the fact that this is not the best plan because there is now a karting track (0-120 in 6 seconds) that is closer to me.

My car, that I justified it's sportiness because of this hobby, is more expensive at the track, burns more, fuel, has more maintenance issues, and could just never perform the 3gs that a kart can.
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I know of at least one Atlanta-based accelerator that is using them too. They seem to be fairly sound and better than other financial docs.
Here's an example: Imagine if your bank account had a profile, almost like a social network, and you could go to someone else's profile and quickly see recent transactions you've had with them. I'm not thinking of something like a credit union, rather something quite different, and I really feel there's lots more that can be done with banking from a tech pov
In my younger days I interviewed with them twice, but every aspect of the hiring process was so protracted that I ended up accepting jobs with other companies instead. Inevitably, several days after I had started at the new company I would get a phone call from Amazon to schedule the next round of interviews.

This was before they were as desperate as they are today, but even then the questions were hardly brutal.

Here in Seattle the reputation most often associated with them is "sweatshop". This isn't universally true, of course--some teams are better than others--but just about everyone I know who works there always tells me, "Thankfully I work on a good team. I wouldn't want to be one of the guys working on XYZ, though. Those guys are chained to their desks." The people who had negative feedback about their own team didn't work for them anymore, of course.

Anyway, churn and burn. Bring on the H-1Bs!
The goal is clear, but how do you motivate "bar raisers" to work against themselves? If they hire smarter people than themselves they will be made obsolete. If you are not smart enough to see that you will be replaced by someone who will and the next iteration will correct the problem. It's a system that always converges to a "shrinking, but reasonable and politically correct cap on the performance".
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They actually can't, since your contributions have to be GPLv3 and thus their inclusion of your code has to be as well. The entire point of the GPL is to prevent what you're suggesting.
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In Ireland, Credit Unions are primarily for loans and savings accounts. You don't get web based tools, or credit cards or any of the other practical parts of having a checking account at a bank here.
So, you think the punishment should fit the revenue rather than the crime? JPM reported Madoff to the SEC in the 90's. They also reported him to the British banking authorities much more recently. The "crime" is actually looking at Madoff's activities and divesting themselves from him.

I have no problem with JPM shorting or otherwise taking advantage of this fraud. Given that the SEC is asleep at the switch, the shorts are the best way to protect the financial system.
Not to mention, the headphones are probably also for blocking out background noise, which you might not want even if you are fine with being talked to directly.
Not ultra-sonic but this app sends photos from iPhone to iPhone using the speaker and microphone.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/acoustic-picture-transmitter...

Fun to play around with and think of the possibilities of using sensors in unintended ways.
I went to the University of Texas right before they made this change and I will say that my Programming Language course using Haskell was one of the toughest classes I took there.

I was barely a novice at an imperative language, and all of a sudden I had the comfortable struts of local mutable state ripped out from under me. Having to solve most problems via recursion was incredibly challenging at that stage and I'd be lying if I said I left that class feeling like I understood Haskell.

That course did have the desired effect that Dijkstra was hoping for though. I never programmed functionally in my coursework after that, but it stuck with me and the feeling that "there is something different out there" in the programming language world has forced me to never be satisfied with one language or one approach to solving a problem in my professional life since then.
My shot from last night (a cup of hot tea): http://imgur.com/XQRD7fj
BMW has a joint research lab with Google in Munich. My guess is this is the result of its work.
curious about your 'text search per solution'. Are you saying 'text search across all projects'?

Does having the configuration files and project files not saved within the project solve most of the problems you describe with user-settings and project files?
Definitely check this. You might find https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data helpful.
I'd think that very often by the time things have gone wrong, it's too late to prevent the crash even with perfect intelligence. Unless perhaps you have the system take back over so often that it's more frustrating to manually drive than to just leave it on auto-pilot anyway.
Standardized payment tickets that can be used to pay rent, utility bills, personal payments, etc. have been in use in Brazil since the 1980's.

In the system they have over there any person can print out a sort of invoice that can be paid in cash at the teller window at any bank or at an ATM or your own bank's website. It's useful since people often don't have bank accounts but need to pay bills. All the banks are on this network and any bill issued by any bank can be paid at the teller window for any other bank.

Look up "brazil boleto bancario" if you want to research how it's done. The system isn't perfect, but it's quite serviceable and commerce in that country would grind to a halt if it stopped working. Nobody uses checks to pay for things like credit card bills, utility bills, rent, etc.
SV isn't interested in 'progression' or 'disruption,' only generating disproportionate returns for VCs.
I have no problem with JPM shorting or otherwise taking advantage of this fraud

How is that not profiting from crime?
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They paid taxes on the ill-gotten gains, so when the gains are taken away in a judgement, there is no need to pay whatever weird quasi-reverse taxes you are thinking of. If the judgment isn't enough after a tax deduction, then just up the judgement.

Don't complicate the tax code even further making it start taxing losses.

(One fair point might be if they paid capital-gains rates or foreign taxes in Ireland or something on the gains from shorting Madoff and yet could deduct the judgment from full US taxes. I don't think that was the case.)
My startup, Casetext (YC S13), has the full text of the SAFE annotated by lawyers, investors, and founders: https://casetext.com/contract/simple-agreement-for-future-eq...
That'd be ~120,000 (according to Wikipedia). In case anyone else didn't know that off the top of their head.

A better analogy for Americans would be Springfield. You can almost just pick one: IL, MA, MO (OH is a bit too small).
Tell me about it. I am constantly surprised by how close I need to get to the target in low light conditions to realize it is really not what I earlier recognized it to be.

It usually makes me wish I could enable some sort of Splinter Cell heat sensor.
At the same time, the entire continent is finally pushing back on that 1-hour commute. People are returning to cities, transit and infill and dense construction are becoming political issues, etc. Part of the impetus for this re-urbanization is the misery of commute.

Beyond commuting woes, density is also more efficient for providing services and for environmental concerns.

So I'm slightly worried that a move towards self-driving cars will allow us to backslide on this progress. Obviously I want the technology - it will be safer, more efficient, and healthier - but I'm worried about how culture could shift around it.
There is very little gold at the end of the tunnel for an acquihire.
It get really tedious and error prone when you start repeating the same subquery multiple times in a statement though.
"them".

This is the problem. "They" made billions of dollars illegally. Now, "they" are paying back 1.7 billion dollars. The question is- is it still the same "humans" behind the pronoun?

Certainly Madoff is not paying the lifetime of fuck-you money he has blown. At least now he is in jail (or "camp" as he thinks of it).

The rest of "them" wont do a single day in prison.
I think 99% of people aren't going to bank with an unregulated, fluctuating currency that they don't understand or control.
"Of course I might have been told something that's not quite correct or I might have misunderstood."

I think it was a partial truth. In many cases, you can't optimize because you need to produce the same results as if you had evaluated the CTE in full exactly once.

CTEs are also a convenient place to have an optimization fence, which are sometimes useful. Yes, this conflates the logical and the physical, but that's the way it is in postgres.
I don't care if the Firefox OS wins, as long as its APIs are standardized and incorporated into other OS's.
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The only differences from my credit union seem to be mobile-first web design and an open API.

I usually deal with my cu through my phone, and I do have to click "Mobile" to get the mobile site - but it doesn't bother me very much.
Embrace the Kart. My dad used to do that as a hobby and they're impressive machines. Just remember that you've got no crumple zones and your legs are right at the front.
Aside from the typical methods I used to pick up other languages (trial and error, practicing with sample projects, banging my head against the desk), the two most helpful resources I found were the book Modern Perl (http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl/chapter_00.html... a site I stumbled upon titled "Learn Perl in about 2 and a half hours" (http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html).
By the way, Jeff Bezos owns both Amazon and the Wall Street Journal, which published this particular fluff piece.
"Cross join" means cartesian product; i.e. no WHERE clause.
I know there are sublime text plugins for VI bindings (I think they are the same as Vim bindings), and it is also highly customizable with plugins.

I had difficulty getting into lighttable for some reason.
Further, once all the cars on the road are automated, they can alert one another to their own changes in routing, mechanical failures, etc, allowing everyone else the chance to reroute and avoid as needed. We could eliminate traffic lights and stop signs and we'll not only get to our destinations safer, but also sooner.