skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other counter argument: You have features, A, B, and C. FullStack Framework 1 provides A+B+C, Lightweight Framework 2 Provides A+C, Lightweight Framework 2 provides A+B, minimalist Framework 4 provides B only. Are you better off learning (and keeping in your head) framework 1 only, or 3 smaller frameworks, which still doesn't cover the C+B case.
github.com/karabijavad/cadet

easy embedded neo4j, via jruby!
Balanced employee here.

>The top two problems with getting customers to cash out are the security of giving away their bank account info, and the time it takes to get your check book and input the account and routing info. Another benefit is that the debit card information is validated in real time, rather than waiting 4 business days for ACH credit to fail.

This is the main reason that customers have asked us to add this functionality since a debit card number is much more accessible and safer to hand out.

>I've heard rumors about how it works where the company basically posts a refund to the card even if it had never been charged. Is that correct?

That would be the hacky way to do it. We're planning to push money via the ATM rails which would make the transfer instantaneous.
Expedia hit by 25% drop in search visibility
From a European perspective, it seems utterly strange that Americans don't simply use wire transfers for something like this.

If someone wants to send me money, I just give them my bank account number (IBAN). Transfers are free within EU and the handful of outsider European countries.

Why are Americans afraid of giving out their bank account numbers? The only thing you can do with an IBAN is send money to it, and that's hardly malicious.
Oh give me a break. He made a very good point -- the article takes the epidemiological model analogy too far and in a non-rigorous fashion. You are the one "lowering the level of discourse" by focusing on form instead of content and by writing in clichés.
How Quora Onboards New Users
Drake Weather: Check the Weather, Drake Style.
What is special about Bancorp?
SMBC did a comic on this. Kind of makes you think..

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20131122.png
Speaking of VR escapism I think a cautionary read about the implications of truly advanced VR would be Iain Banks' Culture novel "Surface Detail". An IV, a coffin-sized apartment and... a virtual hell? Who decides when you
wake up? If you wake up?
Thanks, yeah, for some reason I just considered the electron/positron case :)
Yep.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/ukraine-protest-vid...

Ready player one!

(comedy answer: It's like Payday!)
or maybe you just have no clue about what "the problems" actually are, and who needs to fix them.
On the contrary, if you consider that supernovae make our version of life possible, maybe life will happen someday at M82 because of this explosion.

We are all supernova dust, after all.
I would be 100% behind bitcoin if its value would stabilize. I would totally put a little into coins and keep an eye out for when I can use them if I had any faith they would hold their value.
How I found a Remote Code Execution bug affecting Facebook's servers
Right but we can do science here. Myspace, Friendster, Google+... We know a lot about how social networking plays out. There's enough of a sample size there to start doing some observations and making some hypothesis.
For Google to build their own fibre optic networks, that will be able to accommodate a lot of the USA and Europe, what's the costs/difficulties?

I am aware they were trialling some sort of netwrok locally to CA, how difficult/expensive is it to roll this out worldwide?
We certainly don't use Heroku for the price. I've got a fair amount of experience running distributed apps on AWS and I have found that Heroku do provide a lot of value-added services on top (from deployment to database provisioning). For us, the best reason to use Heroku is that when AWS has a problem, Heroku can actually do something about it. Try calling AWS support when a whole availability zone just went down!

Of course, we are a Rails shop who have been on Heroku since we launched, so Heroku is really tailor made for us. If you're happy on raw AWS, good for you. Every hour I'm not thinking about AWS is an hour I can be writing a feature for our 10-month-old startup. The extra cost of Heroku is negligible when viewed in that light.
I haven't seen such a thing. The easiest way to come up with something like that would probably be to find a magazine archive of something like PC Magazine and come up with some sort of methodology to pick a typical, say, Dell system for each given year.
Wire transfers are expensive here, $15~$30.

You can also withdraw money if you have the bank account information. A famous example is Don Knuth, who had to stop offering rewards checks: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
I haven't really had a look for my old fora so decided to have a go using the Wayback Machine [1].

Kinda awesome that they're indexed, cause I lost my own copies:

OneSports: https://web.archive.org/web/20050409093857/http://forums.one...

Philosophers' Cave (only partially :():
https://web.archive.org/web/20041024050540/http://www.philos...

I'm Wolverine in both cases :)

[1] https://web.archive.org/index.jsp
Freedom is something to use or lose
> It is possible to see banding at 8bit with a final product. Imagine a flat gradient across the screen from black to white. 255 levels over say 2000 pixels (close enough) on a screen like... 6 feet across. Unless the gradient is dithered (either in the TV, or at the source...), you get ~8 pixel wide bands, which works out to 1/4th inch bands, which is definitely visible in certain situations.

If you have a RGB image were each color component uses a byte to represent it, you should have a effective Luma bit depth of 8 bit. Well, this is false for LCD screens because they have a effective Luma bit depth of 7 or 6 bits (or worst), so even using a VGA signal (analog signal) you get banding on these screens, were on a old good CRT screen you never appreciate it.
I guess that some decisions are easier to make than others. It's quite clear, for example, that protocols before TLS 1.2 are inadequate. Forward Secrecy, on the other hand, is supremely important for some sites (e.g., Google) and not at all important for others (e.g., SSL Labs).

Also relevant is that these new rules are added on top of the 2009 rating guide, which does not offer an adequate framework for them. Just as an illustration, there is currently no meaning behind the A-F grades. A is good, and F is bad, clearly, but we don't know what the grades in between mean.

Same response to your ciphers question. I can't stretch the current approach to go handle those small differences. The calculations made some sense at the time, but they no longer work for everything we want to take into account.

I currently working a new version of the rating guide--from scratch--and it's going to solve all those problems, and a few more.
Try vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/) and spin up a VM!
Bancorp's business model is to design their systems primarily around integrating with other systems. It appears to be why most technology companies are using them for the underlying banking infrastructure.
Actually, as a poster mentioned above, Sunrise was compromised 3 months ago, and recommended all iCloud users change their passwords.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/3/5061136/sunrise-calendar-a...
Ukrainian Government's Tactics As Protesters Are Tracked And Texted
No, there's not. In what universe is (optimistically) 5 data points a sufficiently large sample?
I suppose you must come from a country where rampant corruption is the norm to understand what "declared the official winner" actually means.
I believe the problem they describe is both real and somewhat frivolous at the same time.

The minimum transaction amount that does not incur fees is currently .01 BTC, so I think there is an actual issue for micro-transactions as things stand now.

However, the smallest indivisible unit of a bitcoin is 1 satoshi (1e-8 BTC), and if the bitcoin fanatics are to be believed and 1 BTC will be worth anywhere from $40,000 to $1,000,000 in the future, it makes sense to deal in the smallest possible denomination that can show up on the blockchain. A 200K satoshi tip sounds a lot better than a .002 BTC tip, or even 2mBTC (hope I got those decimal places right!)
Dagger of Fire > Ki-rin Horn imo.
Thank you for your sound advice.
Click on first link in post to directly access visualization. Search for any investor in Crunchbase and find who else they consistently invest with and how big their network is.
I have not gotten the test harness (written in python) to run on windows yet but the level0 executable is just a ruby script and can be run on Windows with some modifications. If you try to run "python test/harness", it will pull the dictionary down locally in the test folder. Once that's done, make the following modification to the level0 file:

contents = ARGV.length > 1 ? File.read(ARGV[1]) : $stdin.read

That's just allowing you to send the test files in on the command line. From there, you can measure the time using PowerShell's Measure-Command like so:

Measure-Command {ruby .\level0 "test/data/words" "long.txt"}

Assuming ruby is in your PATH and the "test/data/words" is a renamed words dictionary file. It's a little work but you can definitely do it on Windows. I'm working on getting the python test harness to work on Windows.
Turn Facebook page into website
The developer helping me with my own side project built this. Seems like a good idea and it's cheaper than the alternatives. He's looking for feedback, but his English is not that good.
Google shows more information about websites in search results
People have their debit cards in their pockets. ACH account details are not as readily available to most people.
Great article, but I disagree with one point. I do believe the value of one Doge will reach one dollar.

A 100 billion market cap is just ~8 times that of Bitcoins. If Doge succeeds at its goal of being the tipping currency for the internet it will reach at least one dollar.

Update:

To expound on my point, I think Dogecoin solves the single biggest crisis the Internet has created, and that is "How do we compensate people who create digital works that are infinitely reproducible?"

This is Jaron Lanier's beat. Has the internet delivered in broadening the middle class? No, it has threatened the middle class.

When people work for Likes, or reputation, instead of cash, they become impoverished.

Dogecoin can solve this problem by being a viable micropayment system. It can bring a currency layer to the internet, undergirding everything. As coders, Doge allows us to work with currency as easily as we work with an API.

The economic security of creators depends on being able to extract revenue in amounts greater than what advertising provides but less than what credit cards are capable of. All of the micropayment companies so far have failed. The prize is huge.

I bought into Dogecoin because I was vexed by the problems Lanier pointed out to me and I saw it as a micropayments solution that has gained explosive traction in just six weeks.

This is coming from someone whose HN comment history has been very down on cryptocurrency. I now have the fanatic zeal of a convert.
When I am teaching someone programming from scratch with Python, I usually get to Flask by day 3/4. Other than having to use decorators that look confusing at first, it is very intuitive and a quick win for newcomers looking for results.
Rentyble is taking aim at AirBnB Management
But Rec2020 also only specs 10bit and 12bit color depths, so I'd assume that 8bit 4k is not Rec2020.
Well, there's obviously a saturation point - once almost everyone (in a given social circle) has joined, there are no more people left to join. At that point, those who haven't joined probably never will.
well...ok
Note: I work at Balanced

I think you mean ACH credits (payouts) and not ACH debits. The push to debits cards feature is less about the risk and all about the convenience.

The process of collecting bank account information from sellers/merchants has proven to be cumbersome for our customers for three reason:
1. People rarely have their checkbook on hand
2. People are less willing to provide that information (Whereas people are more comfortable giving out debit card information since they can always change the debit card number as an added security. It is also much easier to file a chargeback on a debit card transaction)
3. Bank account information cannot be validated in real time thus, increasing payout delays cause by typos.

I may have completely missed the mark on your question, if so please correct me.
I'll give you Chile as a counterexample, although it's not as recent as the others.
As a note, if you send us requests for Ubuntu packages, we'll happily install them — just send an email to ctf@stripe.com.
I think it's ironic that 'Small Numbers' in now #2 with 23 points and 2 comments (well, 3 now). The HN penalty regex isn't fine tuned. Also, ironic, that much of reddit has a financial incentive to promote it. Can I promote real estate and bulletin board stocks if I give it a tech slant?
I was thinking I could use this some how to create a process where two users can initiate and complete a trade between themselves.
"So the argument is:"

It's an interesting way of looking at it, but there doesn't need to be a more complicated explanation for the eventual fall of Facebook than the fact that it's always been the pattern for social networks. There's fundamentally more novelty than real value to it so people will lose interest and it will be supplanted by whatever else has the property of being novel. (And lucky, and in the right place at the right time.)

You just don't need something like Facebook to stay connected to your close friends, and the interactions you have with your larger "network" are inherently shallow and capable of being disrupted in the move from one social network to another or disposed of completely.
I switched from mining LTC to Dogecoin today. Feels good to get 100s of coin an hour compared to 0.002 LTC. So yeah small numbers and all that.
if you go with django, then in the long term,
you will have to replace almost every single component
of django with something else, the only remaining part
will be the url mapper.

That has been exactly my experience with a project and it has eaten a lot of time It is the single reason why I'm abandoning Django. Batteries are included, but they are Double DD batteries when I need AA, AAA, etc, etc.
> It's fascinating to me that people think that for any retailer to accept Bitcoin it's as easy as embedding a widget on their site.

The only downside you've listed is that you mistakenly tied your subscription code with one payment provider.
Well that really looks too disappointing!

London and "average 150KB/s" ??

You should be getting better connection than that with 4g on your mobile then?
You know most people don't want to believe that dogecoin is a real virtual currency.

[EDIT: Apparently some people on HN have not seen 'Cool Runnings'.]
One problem is that category 1 HDMI cables are only specified to support 1080i signals. They aren't guaranteed to support 1080p60, and a number of cables (especially no-name chinese cables or longer runs) are only tested to this spec, as category 2 has a huge leap in required bandwidth (all of HDMI 2.0's new stuff works with category 2 cables.)

So attempting to send 1080p over a category 1 cable isn't uncommon, and it often "works" with occasional dropouts.
An interesting line from the article:

Does extreme comfort deaden the will to be free

And so, with progress on things like VR and social networks and data mining, what can we do as developers to help encourage the will to be free--knowing that the box is already opened?
Onboarded is a euphemism. Quora belongs at #1 on the dark patterns sites, and I wish google would allow me to ban it from search results.
How GitHub Hired More Women—In Part, By Encouraging Them To Talk
Oh this will definitely take a bite out of paypal.

Please be successful!
Because basically the interpreter starts from square one on each request. While some things can be held over (e.g. db pconnects) it's far from ideal.
My first website was on VirtualAve which was the best free service at the time for those who wanted to host their own raw HTML.

I still occasionally hope someone kept the entire archive of that service and someday makes it available. :(
> Fiat currency is sustained by our obligation to pay taxes in it and the legal tender notion that the law offers to it.

The USD clearly ignores that property. It is used in many places where people have to convert it to pay taxes.

> the legal tender notion that the law offers to it

USD is debt (or is it credit) based so saying it holds value because it can be used to pay debts is a bit weird. It exists to pay debts yes, but whether that conveys its value is questionable.

> It's only power comes from the specificity of its installed client-base

Things are valued based on how much people are willing to pay for them, ECON 101.

A lot of people are interested in it because it is unique. You also have a ton (I am curious how many) of Gen Y's with Bitcoins who don't understand investing at all.

> anyone who sustains otherwise is either too less technical to notice the difference or comes close to border-line fraud to manipulate its interest in this bubble

There are two things people say.

* "Bitcoins can only go up due to the increasing interest" - That is just silly, interest can cause selling sprees just as easily as it can cause buying sprees (Now is my chance!).
* "Bitcoins won't fully crash due to the increasing interest" - IMHO this has merit, there appear to be enough people who have faith in Bitcoins to keep the system running for the foreseeable future.

So while you may lose 95%+ of your value, you won't lose 100% of your value, which many other forms of investment run the risk of.

However it is still a silly thing to have a significant percentage of your assets in, unless you are actually a risk seeking individual.
Your claim was: "it hasn't really impacted me as a developer." That's the claim I responded to. Also, if you read the actual article, you will see that the majority of the content is regarding whether or not math is useful for software development, not just whether or not it is necessary.
Yays to the intercomrades!
That's absolutely true. It's the Darien Gap, and you basically take a boat around the gap, from Panama into Colombia I believe. But the point is, pick a destination at the end of the road, and get there by traveling over the land/ sea; no airplanes, and no interstates. It's not about the destination, it's about all the experiences that aiming for the destination brings you to.
I know it isn't bad if you know the person is at the same bank, for example most of my friends bank at Chase so we can transfer money via wire for free.
Netflix warns it will provoke customer protest if ISPs violate net neutrality
I don't see tons of edge cases. Any current logic tied to your existing payment processor must be reimplemented to handle another one as well, in this case, Coinbase. Internally, everything is dollars. Coinbase handles Bitcoin for you.

This may be good PR for App.net, but it's bad PR for Bitcoin and Coinbase if the idea that accepting Bitcoin is complicated spreads. It isn't. Using Coinbase is as easy as using Authorize.net, unless you make things hard for yourself by pricing things in Bitcoin.
>Another rant about the dangers of software rotting away if it (gasp) hasn't been updated within six months. It appears people are really bad at assessing maturity of software, so they choose cheap metrics (like # of commits / last commit), rather than examining the actual quality of the code and design.

I've found that those shallow metrics, especially "last commit", are quite telling for a project's health.

Sure, a small project can achieve "feature-completeness". Still, if it's not being touched at all for over 2 years, I wouldn't want to depend on it.

Especially if it also has several year old issues in the bug tracker.

The thing is, I have zero guarantees that the maintainer even cares about this project, that it will be updated when something breaks of changes (e.g it needs some fixes to compile on a new OS release) etc.

That the project is Open Source and "anybody" could do that theoritically is not much of a guarantee. There are tons of open source projects that languish with no one updating them.

Including some I unfortunately had to rely on, but don't have the time/knowledge/etc to jump in and contribute. Case in point, wkhtmltopdf.
Programming languages come to dinner
This doesn't ring true.

Mesh-type networks fail for many reasons. Mainly, nobody seems to have found a good use for them, especially with everybody walking around with 4G hotspots nowadays. Seems very doubtful that the FCC would have gotten involved regulating some fledgling community network.

Can you provide any evidence that an adhoc network was ever regulated under network neutrality rules?
> Facebook doesn't have anything going for it at this point other than the fact that everyone is on it.

Which is pretty huge. Even if I never shared anything and never casually browsed facebook, I still would not stop using it quite regularly, say a few times per week, for things like event planning, direct messaging people (Who keeps a list of friends' email addresses?).

So the question then becomes: if facebook is slowly turned into a contact book and event planner, does that mean the end of facebook? Does facebook require billions of people hitting millions of like buttons and farming animals on their walls in order to live?
List of the world's largest employers
Of curse, is unnecesary (ie: the lack of have a math solution is not make this task hard/impossible to do).

If a person know database/sql, then "math" is not necessary here. Or what exactly are you talking about?
We're talking about the Speech API here, which isn't something an app like Hangouts would use. WebRTC, which is more suitable, does not have that restriction codified into its spec.
Wire transfers cost money in the U.S. essentially it seems like a way for a bank to make extra money to me (since it really takes little effort to transfer money). That's part of the reason paypal and bitcoins have been fairly popular in the U.S.
Oh, yes we had hard drives. 5.25 inch Quantum Bigfoot to be precise. Netscape was paid for software originally. EULA and all.
Wow. At that cost, I assume American banks must be using a combination of telegraphs and the Pony Express to settle their wire transfers.

"You see, sending money across state lines is not easy. There needs to be insurance in case wild natives attack and steal the leather bag containing those money orders... It's only fair that we pass that cost on to the customer."
I've got several hundred bookmarks, but they're certainly better sorted than the apps on my phone. I've got them in subfolders by type, and as another poster noted the address bar autofills from the bookmarks so it takes me no time at all to find any of my bookmarked pages.

In contrast I can only sort the apps on my phone on to one of several pages, and to find one I have to flick through them looking for a particular icon. I don't even get customized text descriptions, let alone subfolders, customized icons...
YES! Deutsche Telekom needs a public shaming. They are the former state monopolist in Germany and use their large customer base als bargaining chip, refusing to peer at internet exchanges and so on.

Needless to say that YouTube loading speeds have been sub-par with that ISP.
Not at all, I get it. This, and I'm just trying to give feedback, wasn't a very well written article for someone who doesn't already understand the problem. After I understood the problem, the post was much, much easier to understand.

If you'd like a method for processing ACH where those three things aren't a problem, gimme a holler - tommy@paidez.com
Same here, the remaining is the URL mapper... which I really dislike BTW.