skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credit card fraud has a LOT of federally mandated protections, giving you a lengthy window of time in which to report it, capping the maximum amount you're liable for to $50 (I believe), etc.

Debit cards tend to have fewer protections, though they still have some. And because the money has already been taken out, you can be more detrimentally effected; the bank has to investigate and decide to give you your money back, basically, which takes time (and hopefully you have an uncompromised account if you need to pay bills or whathaveyou) whereas with credit cards the bank has to investigate and decide it's not actually fraudulent behavior and re-charge you (not sure how all that works though). Just plain inertia works in your favor when it comes to credit cards.
That CodeCity idea is very very interesting.
Eloquent Javascript : A Modern Introduction to Programming by Marijn Haverbeke
http://eloquentjavascript.net

Imho, the first chapter is a must-read for anyone in the industry, even and maybe especially if not a developer.

"When a program works, it is beautiful. The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity. The great program is subdued, made simple in its complexity."

... and also, maybe not as "mindblowing" as Eloquent Javascript, but really good for diving deep in a low-level land (yet made very accessible in this book) that is probably overlooked by most of us when optimizing a web app for speed :

High-Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/index.ht...
I don't want to come off as a folio hat but what is the actual evidence of the suicide? Has any of this stuff been made public?
Are there any kind of odds that the U.S. will join a fully-automated transfer network with at least other western countries? I recently did my first EU->US money transfer and was amazed at how much worse the experience & cost was compared to doing a Denmark->Germany transfer. Within Europe, even across borders and currencies, the transfers are now cheap and fully automated: you just identify the destination account by IBAN, and it's routed automatically. It doesn't seem like it would be impossible to link up U.S. accounts to allow IBAN-identified fully electronic transfers too, versus the current really primitive system where you enter a bunch of information and some humans eventually enact the transfer. But afaict there's no movement in that direction. There's talk about an EU/US free trade area, but why not a rationalized transactions treaty?
I still use screen remotely. This workflow is for the Mac in front of me. A lot of the terminals I have locally are associated with a screen session remotely. But keeping the local sessions open, active and logically grouped helps me remember what I was doing, and need to do.
How can we donate to this project?
You've also got to love how the menu is always done in flash, so you most likely can't view it on a phone...
I was going on information from Red Hat that RHEL7 can't do that. Turns out, Red Hat was right, RHEL7 can't.

systemd-journald-remote was added with systemd 212, RHEL and CentOS ship with 208, so no, journald on RHEL7/CentOS7 can not do remote logging.

I also like completely ignoring how journald breaks every log analysis tool.
Plants Respond to Leaf Vibrations Caused by Insects’ Chewing
Textnet: Introduction
I guess the server is getting slammed, as I cannot get to the main page.
Enterprise SaaS Lessons Learned in 120 Days at Percolate
Apple hires sales director of Swiss watch maker
So that makes what 4 or 5 new bookmarks extensions for chrome in the last two weeks?

They all suffer from the exact same problem: online and not nearly as fast as the current default option in chrome. Don't get me wrong, I hate the default bookmarks manger in chrome and wish that after 6 years they'd update it already (or at least ad api's that allow someone else to) but all the latest get same basic things wrong while not being very different form one another.

EDIT: I guess I should clarify, I don't mean that online is bad, I used xmarks for a long time, I just don't like online only because it affects retrieval and search rates. There's just no way to beat the speed of a local directory.

[I've installed Dewey, dragdis, and fetching.io. fetching is really more of a history extension than a bookmarking one but the idea behind it is the same. After about two weeks I stopped using Dragdis because the UI makes looking for things impossible and Dewey I installed but never enabled because it was just too much of a hassle]
Apple hires sales exec from Swiss watchmaker
> it's also much simpler and faster for the programmer to write one function with one return type, and later modify it to add a return type if the requirements change.

How is this different? When you compile, your compiler will say "Hey, the requirements have changed, your code is wrong here, here, here, and here," and you modify those things, and you're done.
Nice idea and good luck to them, but all we really have is a video and a notion.
Why? Is AngularJS spreadsheet software?

It also would have been more honest if it said "Web Spreadsheet in 99 lines using AngularJS and 11,331,980 lines of Code[1] in a modern web browser like Firefox."

[1] https://www.ohloh.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_su...
I was thinking that was the more interesting backstory when I submitted it, actually.
Not sure if I understand you correctly, but:

>But physics is not kind to small rockets.

Why start with a small rocket, then?
Most recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7869246, and previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512928.
I can think of an use case for semantic <center> [0]: snippets of text that are somewhat connected to the current text (so they're not an <aside>) but serve a presentational role in the context of the text.

An example:

Now a ghost, Mr. Smith was surprised to see the words on his own gravestone.
HERE LIES
A MAN OF NO VIRTUE

[0]: Now that I'm capable of thinking up obscure cases, I just have to hone my ability to sanctimoniously ignore real needed uses and I'll be on my way to join a standards body.
> Also, Stross is not starting out.

No, obviously not. My comment was aimed at readers, not at cstross.

You can uncheck 'DRM' on the KDP, but the way, they don't require it, although I think you have to say yes if you sign up for certain benefits.
Note that this is a 400 kg class launch vehicle, so much smaller than a 10 tonne level Falcon 9. Even smaller than a Falcon 1.

Beal Aerospace also tried to bring pressure fed composite launchers in the nineties, though he used hydrogen peroxide and kerosene:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beal_Aerospace

While methane has the advantage of self-pressurization, it is also about half the density of kerosene, meaning there will be double the volume for the same mass, and the pressure vessel will be double the mass. Pressure vessel mass is proportional to volume and pressure. That's why Beal used very dense fuels, even when they have less exhaust velocity.

The heavy tank is a worse problem for sea-level launched rockets that need high engine pressures to reach passable engine exhaust velocities.

The rocket equation shows that exhaust velocity is important to reach high rocket velocities:
delta v = v_exhaust * ln(m_full / m_empty)

In a pressure fed rocket the engine pressure is the tank pressure (minus some pressure loss in the injector). If you air launched, it might be a bit easier, since ambient pressure is only a quarter of sea level at 10 km. Airlaunch LLC tried to use these synergistic technologies some years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirLaunch

Basically in the atmosphere you exhaust at ambient pressure (or not very far from it). If your chamber pressure is low, then you can't expand much before you're at ambient at sea level. Thus the nozzle can't produce much thrust for the propellant flow. The upshot is that low pressure rockets suck at low altitudes.

But for relatively small rockets it might work well: apparently because of some minimum-gauge issues, they need to have pretty thick walls anyway so going to pressure fed is not such a huge overhead. Also equipment like turbopumps does not scale well at the low end. (I haven't studies this in detail though.)

Armadillo Aerospace has tested oxygen-methane self pressurized rockets years ago and they are simple and work well. They can also be controlled precisely. NASA bought one from them and flies it occasionally. I think it is a blow down pressurized version though (helium is filled directly to the main propellant tank head spaces for pressurization):
http://morpheuslander.jsc.nasa.gov/

So auto-pressurization is nothing fancy, in fact it can be seen as a simpler version of blowdown pressurization, which is simpler than regulated pressurization.

If I had to create an orbital launcher with minimum capital, this is a reasonable design, though I'm skeptical about the aerospike.

To convince me, they need to first fly some sounding rockets.

There's been many rocket startups in the recent decades, with little flying hardware, and even that has been no guarantee of going further.
Can you ever have all the data? Or are you just advocating for more? If advocating for more, agreed. And the author says it's not a complete dataset and also only shows the first touch by the company (ie when they first got funding). So it doesn't take into account repeat rounds as the founders age.
Pitch. Presentation. Proposal.
In Toronto, average SFH cost is now $950k, amortization period is 25 years, with most common mortgage term of 5 years, and yet the houses get snapped in less then 26 days on market, while year over year price increase is 10%.

It seems like real estate prices are increasing rapidly in every major city around the world. I hear the same story from London, Sydney, SF etc.

BTW, I would take that 50 year and 30 year fixed mortgage term any day. 30 year fixed at 4.4% seems like extremely good offer from this side of the fence.
The writer of this passage weakened an otherwise good message with this empty and needless use of "liberalism."

I see this was published in a Dallas based newspaper. Ok, I'd like to go build a 20 story cinderblock apartment building called "the proletarian towers" in the middle of a wealthy, republican-leaning Dallas suburb. Hey, I bought the land, I should get to do what I feel like with it, right?
They offer an easy way for business owners to update their information. It's not difficult at all, just have to order a confirmation code to a current business address and take some other verification steps, then you can modify your business page however you like.

If the business owner doesn't understand technology, contract it out.
The joy of the web is in its ease of access, and whether it will still exist depends heavily on your definition of the web.

The "internet-of-things" is only just now starting to happen (outside of anything but the main tech centres), and it'll likely take those 10-20 years until everything we live and breath globally is connected.

There's a hell of a lot of "disrupting" to be done between now and then, so it's going to remain an exciting focus for many.

That said, if HN is anything to go by in general, there are one hell of a lot of extremely smart people currently working to engineer the future of the web, and I can see their focus turning more and more towards the likes of space travel as the next exciting thing to concentrate on.
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...and then close eyes and pretend that IntelliJ supports C#, F#, Xamarin, UnityVS and other useful things.
A fun example I worked out of a situation that is a bit of a problem for frequentist inference (i.e. designed to be compatible with Bayesian inference): http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2014/07/frequenstist-inferenc...
The role of the dollar is a function of the size of the US banking system.

And the BNP fine is kinda light for funding genocide, if you ask me.
This Week in OpenStack: Why OpenStack matters, celebrating four years, and more
In Ceylon even local variables must be explicitly annotated `variable`.

The reason for that is that a local variable could be captured by an anonymous function or nested function, and escape from the local scope, so it's exactly the same situation with a local variable as for an instance variable of a class: both kinds of variable break referential transparency.
A very simple & cool responsive menu
iOS 8 Privacy Updates
Automatically detect colours in your CSS that are close and should be merged.
The choose a bad name, as the /r/firefly is already taken ;)
There are companies that exist who target that market. squarespace.com for example.
Not fully valid until a Peace Treaty is signed (thus ending the war). The US is intentionally not allowing Germany to pursue such things so that it can maintain its bases on Germany without fuss. Also, I reiterate: the US runs Germanys' intelligence services.
Likewise, it's very easy to write off actual observation as "bias" when the test isn't "scientific". That's one of my big gripes with what I thin of as the right wing of the hi-fi industry... the idea that human experience can be reduced to measurable and mechanically reproduceable observation in all cases. This reaction leads to "blame the observer" rather than questioning whether the scientist actually understands the problem domain or the question they're asking sufficiently well. It's every bit as emotional and reactionary as the "left wing" hi-fi subjectivists. But at least the subjectivists are owning up to their magical thinking.
You are, but maybe the article isn't :p. I can identify with the post, but maybe a bit differently; when I read code, especially in a language I'm familiar with, I see patterns instead of individual lines of code. So when a piece of code breaks the patterns, or breaks a rhythm, or looks different from the other code, my spider sense tingles and I frown upon the code. There could be nothing wrong with it, but it looks different so I end up refactoring it until it fits the rest of the codebase and I understand it.
So where's the evidence that Google Map Hackers Can Destroy A Business at Will? I can't find it in the article. Certainly the article lists a few tactics that have worked in the past, a few loopholes that have been closed, but all of these appear to, at worst, provide temporary inconveniences.
The key word there is "is." When Java was at the same point in its life as Go, the big selling point wasn't tooling. Tooling came along with the success.
Are you the original author of that project? Did you ever find someone else to take over development? I remember reading about that last year.
Software Analyzes Apps For Malicious Behavior
Three Essential Questions Entrepreneurs Have To Ask Themselves
One thing to keep in mind is how high salaries are across the board in San Francisco. According to sfgate and us news best jobs, registered nurses earn an average of 122K a year in San Jose, and dental hygienists earn 106k in San Francisco (software developers fall between these two groups).

So this means a nurse and dental hygienist couple earns a family income of about 230K a year. They probably aren't buying in palo alto, but they aren't priced out of other nice suburbs. The sad thing is that most of the high salary is dumped into the housing market (and child care, which can be 25k per kid, which becomes a huge issue when you need two incomes). I guess it all depends on how much you love living here (if you have the right setup, it actually is pretty incredible, but you truly do pay).

It's not easy, but you don't have to scratch your head and wonder "who are these people". A two income middle class couple is in striking distance.
2048 Heroes 3D
This is true. but, for perspective's sake, more needs to be said about Shalom Weiss than that he was sentenced for a "white collar crime." He looted a company of more than $450 million, which made it, up to that point, the highest-loss crime of its type in U.S. history.
Natural Earth: A public domain map dataset
Go is a narrowly-specialized language though (no cross-platform mobile, lack of generics is bad for some projects etc.).
I think the real problem is this google has the half baked crowd-sourcing. Where you actually have a closed system and then let some people crowd source on top of it and have different ranks and people approving. It's the same reason Wikipedia is losing editors, because people don't want to wait for some admin to approve it.

In OpenStreetMap as a community project which is know as such people are much more likely to report things (on the German website there is even a big button for that). It takes longer for a edit to be approved in google map maker than people get easy stuff fixed in OpenStreetMap in my area. If I check my notes RSS feed after 1 week then most of the errors are already fixed.

Edit: +1 Cthulhu_ Google=private company
I think cloud sync is good idea! Because you can access bookmarks not only from your current browser, but also from mobile app/API. In near feature Raindrop will have mobile app and powerful API for third-party developers
I agree you that the second proof is complete.

I've been experimenting with Coq[1] recently, which I really hope could be the best of both, where everything is formalized and complete (or else the compiles yells at you), but it's easy to build new abstractions and reference prior proofs, in a way that lets the reader just to the definition with a keystroke.

It's harder to use than I want it to be though. Still, I would recommend checking it out if you like explicit formal proofs. It's really good at that.

[1]: http://coq.inria.fr/

Also, I know how hard it can to get started. It really does help to have someone to ask dumb questions to, so feel free to email me (email in profile), or ask on SO.
It works very well for Wikipedia though, but that's because Wikipedia has much more people that care about the information and maintain it. Google Maps lacks that community feeling of providing correct information, probably because it's owned and operated by Google.

Maybe local business organizations can provide help in this, have a few people dedicate some of their time to making sure all listings are correct. Alternatively, counties / local governments could take this responsibility upon them; after all, local governments dislike seeing local businesses go out of business or get less customers because they can't be found on Google.

At the same time, Google could do better in verifying changes; cross-check them with official address books and business registries and the like.
The yelp review paint a picture of
2010: Great food, great service
2011: Good to great food, horrible service
2012: Horrible food, horrible service

I usually don't trust yelp, but the decline is way too visible here.
Meh, he's making a mathematical argument that dynamic languages are a special case of static languages. That has nothing to do with whether a language is good/productive for writing programs in.

I forget who said this, but programming language design is basically "applied psychology", and if you admit that, your language will go further. For example, the difference between Python and many similar languages is that it looks nicer and is "intuitive" to read, and that contributes a large part (perhaps the largest part) to its popularity.
Yes, and more than that: he didn't know what Google Map is. He is 74 and can be excused for that. Fast forward ourselves into our 70+: how many new things we won't know or care about then?
Would the server then do two writes, both to the binary log for systemd and then to rsyslog?

I suspect so, because systemd needs it's logs for internal analysis?
Arrogant know-best has long been the rule of the day. People don't feel comfortable in this talking-head universe unless they are an authority about something, and this is such an infectious social mode that its unavoidable in our industry.
Ask HN: Should flagging be public?
HN's flagging mechanism is available to users who've been here a while. The guidelines say "If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link."

Having been here for a while I begin to wonder if having the usernames of people who flag a story listed next to the story as a deterrent against flagging things an individual 'doesn't like' as opposed to flagging something that is spam or really off topic.

WDHNT?
No inert pressurant is needed for Methane; the fuel itself is used to provide the working pressure for the engine.
Mobile Loyalty that works: Eurobank & Warply presented at MMCGR 2014
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes
Don't feed the troll

http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2014/0701-plants-re...
1 Mb/s now, it was really slow the past days.
>So you have no directives, no routing, just 2 way data binding..

Well, there are directives, but not custom ones...
What gives you the idea that any of the people involved in this are private contractors? This is for Federal prison, and as far as I can tell, everybody involved in it is an employee of the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the Marshalls.

And calling it torture strikes me as ridiculously over the top. But then, I've come to think lately that the word torture isn't very useful at all. The only real use is to allow people to make inflammatory claims that compare some practice of the prison system to racks and thumbscrews. If you object to a specific practice, call out that practice explicitly. If it's actually unnecessarily bad, then no inflammatory rhetoric is required to get people to object. Suggest something more reasonable to accomplish the same goal instead. Making vague claims of torture makes me think that you're reaching in an attempt to make something sound worse than it is.
Scala has all of those things, plus typeclasses, for comprehensions and scoped duck typing.
Do Bugs Feel Pain?
Speaks a lot to the character of the average Harvard student, more disappointing to hear the lack of backbone with regards to the TA.
wait... I don't understand comments like these. You're not the only one to make these claims, but I'll address yours specificially:

> but intrinsically you can't look at XML file and know how a codified representation should look like...

Let's compare:

<book>
<title>How To Be Awesome</title>
<subtitle>Surviving on HN Posts</subtitle>
<author>
<first_name>Max</first_name>
<last_name>Power</last_name>
</author>
</book>

vs

{
"title": "Being Awesome",
"subtitle" : "Surviving on HN Posts",
"author": {
"first_name" : "Max",
"last_name" : "Power"
}
}

To me, it seems that both of those:

1. need a schema to be useful as a standard
2. express their hierarchy
3. don't specify data type (although I could add that info to both if needed)
4. have a level of annoying to them (commas, colons, angle brackets, etc) which modern IDEs have taken care of for us.

> if you have an element it will have properties and child elements... said child elements may contain children, strings, or ???

I need to use documentation to use `package.json` files too, because each node may or may not contain children. Node graciously tells me if I missed something. Docbook also tells me if my XML is malformed. I see no difference here,

> JSON maps much more naturally to an object model in a given language.

It maps to a hash/dictionary. I'm not sure that qualifies as an "object model" unless you only write JavaScript.

I'd really like people to understand that XML is, like HTML, really great at describing and marking up content so that something else may process it.
No you misunderstand. I'm not the phpvirtualbox author. I worked on the backend components, the API, the networking support and the VNC server.
Aren't there large-scale services to whom a small business owner can pay an annual subscription fee, where the service will monitor the accuracy of their Google, Yelp, Open Street Map, Wikipedia, Yellowpages, etc. information?

The article mentions some person on a retainer who does this on a shop-by-shop basis, but it seems to me that this is something that can be automated and scaled.