skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most machines do support swipe cards - though from what I can see they are almost never used (I think I've seen one swipe transaction in the last few years).
Most chip-and-PIN card readers run on GPRS, at least at restaurants anyway.
I agree with your sentiment. But I would add, Americans travel frequently, but this country is so vast that much of the travel is domestic.
I would recommend something like PhpStorm / IntelliJ [1] (I use PhpStorm for web projects), as that integrates well with Vagrant [2] which is great for quickly spinning up / building VMs in development.

[1] http://www.jetbrains.com

[2] http://www.vagrantup.com/
More than a decade right?

I am a bit pissed of that our current chip cards do not implement the full security that they are technically capable of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-VRsksSgM0
Do you have a source on that penalty? What kind of penalty is it, and does it relate to this challenge?
Yeah I was thinking of going with PhpStorm but wasn't sure to choose between MAMP or Vagrant/Virtualb to handle my projects.
The open source license is for self hosting, not OnDemand, so I'm not sure if there are really licensing implications there or not. Does an OSS license equate to an endorsement in a legal sense? I don't seem them generating a lot of ill-will from a PR stance.
>So Americans would continue to have cards which don't work abroad as is the case now?

American cards work just fine, aside from some toll/parking/etc machines.
Trying again worked out better: it loaded the results page and showed me three videos. It seems the design is mobile-oriented, so I tried it on my tablet. The videos load fine, but clicking on them opens the original page on whatever video provider it's coming from, which is redundant.

In general the site seems to work fine, but it's apparently designed for people who want to consume large amounts of any "brand" of porn, which is not really my goal. I'm usually trying to find the rare island in the immense sea of shitty (sometimes literally) porn, and this site doesn't help with that.
Silicon: After the chip, another revolution?
I think the real issue is the relative weight between the first votes and the rest
> Plus in the US you often have to show your ID

They're not allowed to do that:
"Both Visa and MasterCard prohibit merchants from requiring customer ID as a condition for accepting their credit or debit cards. All you need is a signed card, and of course the signatures must match [1]"

[1] http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/02/can-a-mercha...
Programmer salaries going down soon ...
Yeah, but I don't even like shoes ....

On a serious note, this does seem like a dumb idea. Why would you create a million corrective devices for the myriad objects in the real world. Why would you not rather create something small and portable that you could apply to all those objects equally?

OH wait, they have that. They're called eyeglasses, I think.
A lovely review. It also helps strengthen my understanding of why "The Black Hole" sprang to mind when I watched the Dr. Who episodes 'The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit'
The one thing you are definitely not sacrificing is availability. Making static content is far simpler and easier to make highly available via a Push Zone on a CDN. Cheaper too.
Uber app 'competing unfairly' in London
This is why I hate that cinemas offer a choice between 2D and 3D. I just want to see whatever the director intended and not have to try to hunt down which version is 'better'.

Offering a choice makes going to the movies socially into an awkward experience. Inevitably there are people with diverging strong opinions and suddenly a social get together turns into dispute mediation. I think that if there was only one option, people would just deal with it.

Now I dread inviting certain people to the movies because I want a social experience without endlessly dragging up the 2D vs 3D debate.
And the cost of going further than Canada or Mexico adds up very fast for a family of four. Hopping over to Europe could easily cost $5-6k in airfare alone for that sort of trip.
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That has nothing to do with the technical difference.

It's just that banks sometimes use the switch to simultaneously disallow a piece of text on a paper as an approval for taking money from your bank account.
I thought depression falls under anxiety-spectrum umbrella, but you're right - it doesn't, it's a separate disease: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders/inde...
The only thing he deserves around his neck is a noose. He's a self-righteous prig, a moral child (or possibly a moral cretin) who violated his oath, betrayed his country and leaves the world a far less safe place. His lack of maturity, patriotism and simple common sense have had grievous consequences, and are likely to continue to do so.

The system also failed: no-one like him should have ever been granted the access he received. That does not excuse his misbehaviour.

I doubt he'll ever get what he deserves; rather, he will be feted and glorified by similar immature, unpatriotic idiots. He'll probably never even recognise the magnitude of the evil he's committed.
Cronjob polling the Github repo, pulling new commits and rebuilding the static pages.
I had no idea that chip cards are not accepted in the US. I can't remember the last time I saw a magnetic stripe card... and I live in Serbia.
A lot of the gentrifying neighborhoods in NYC have histories that go much too far back to be attributed to the current residents, even if they've been there 50+ years. Maintaining a late 1800s brownstone is not cheap and without proper care these historic areas will just slowly deteriorate. I think it is an absolute positive that money is returning to these areas.

IMO, current residents have no more of a right to live somewhere than any newcomer.
I had my first contactless transaction a few days ago (I had seen the logo on my card, but didn't think merchants would have the machine).
I'm still unsettled by the fact that there was no pin required, it felt like in the US (the merchant told me it doesn't require pin up to 20€, but it might be a bank specific or a shop specific policy).

edit: but if the US is really about to get out of conservatism, change your freaking units and mechanical standards first.
She hasn't posted in two years.
The now-deleted comment was some donwnright vitriolic complaining about the use of the word "like" in the notification email. "We would like to inform you..."
Then you'd be wrong - if we're talking about popular opinion.
Do you consider dodging the draft during Vietnam to be "something wrong"?
Still afraid. Very afraid.
I think this is a great idea, and wonder why it took so long. I'd love to be able to take my glasses off and read in bed, or take my glasses off for a few hours at work while in front of my monitor.
Tools for development, building, and dependency management are all important. For web, I like Yeoman, Grunt, and Bower. These require NPM which is nice for dependencies too, allowing both local and global. These teams all are doing some fantastic work.

For editing I use both Mac VIM and Webstorm/IntelliJ. I prefer VIM, but Webstorm/IntelliJ are quicker to learn and good for navigating both between and inside of projects. I know there are good command line tools for this navigation but I haven’t started using one yet. On the never ending TODO list.

No recommendations for PHP dev. I tend toward JS and Python for backend tasks.
I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that Samsung (and Apple) seems to be the only one that is pushing for >= 10" tablets. I had a Galaxy Tab S Pro which is not that great (heard the Note line is very good). I ended up gifting it to my dad and I bought myself an iPad, even though I'm heavily invested in Android.

Nexus 10 has no successor, and LG is not coming out with anything with that diagonal, and now this.
you don't even require a connection, you can do an offline transaction, and it's still safer than a magnetic stripe, because duplicating a chip quickly is very hard.

Calling the bank to get an authorization is just an optional step in the process.
Don't your cards have a magstripe too, as well as the chip? I know my British cards have both.
To be honest, your objections sounds more like "It doesn't work for me, personally" and not objectively factual objections.

> - Can't edit anywhere beside the machine that has your source & access to server.

Eh? Use CI and push via Git & a Markdown editor? They have apps for these on your phone? Or just GitHub?

> - Refactor your posts' tag? You need to manually edit all your post one by one.

I can replace all in an entire directory of documents in ~5 seconds. This is a non-issue.

> - Refactor your theme? Same thing as above

I modify two files to refactor all my blog posts.

> - You can't have dynamic content, ever.

Eh? AJAX? Allows you to make calls to another api/domain to throw in dynamic content?
Ah, I understand what you're saying right now. Still, if this offer were to go through, I'm willing to bet that 95% of Americans will not know the parent company's name - as is the case today (a shock I see on everyone's face when I tell them that T-Mobile is essentially a German company, or at least owned by one).
I've always thought it would be interesting to correct vision at the brain/neural level rather than the physical level. Can anyone comment on whether this would be possible?
Sounds like the old "Magic Eye" pictures
That's absolutely not the reality on the ground. Just yesterday I got challenged for my ID when making a sub-$10 purchase in the US.

That isn't unusual.
Cashier instructions usually include "never ever swipe a chipcard" - since if you allow swiping chipcards at your chain of stores, then you'll get used for cashing out cloned cards, and in this case merchant will be fully liable for that fraud.

So even when the swiping technically works, people have incentives to disallow it.
Is it a new thing? I got a red card visa last year and it doesn't have chip and pin.
extreme scroll triggered animations make it impossible on my tablet to read much..

Edit: what's the use case, why? Who would use such an app, any use cases you think of?
Fresh cache run of your site took me 800ms vs. 400ms for OP.

I suspect you didn't try with a fresh cache for your blog. If all your JS, CSS, etc was cached locally already that would explain your "performance advantage" to me.
9 epic 3D printing fails
> Despite being banned, Unidan has already made a new account, called UnidanX, and has been posting for most of the day under that username. It's looking like he hasn't been banned with that username yet.

What's the point of trying again, he's already lost the trust of the community and his name is a red flag. Is that subreddit super-forgiving? Or maybe the turnover is so high people will just forget?
Most American cards lack chip and pin, if you travel to the UK for example a lot of vendors won't be able to even read your magnetic strip and some additionally have policies against doing so (for fraud prevention reasons).

Which country are you referring to? Because right now most American cards don't work in the majority of European countries.

You have to request a special chip and pin capable card from your bank in the US to be able to use your card abroad (although I believe Amax give these to you by default).
Even though I'm not actively looking to move, thanks for making this. Love the Final Fantasy VII reference. :) Perhaps I can finally make use of all those semesters of Japanese.
Not my one, at least. It's a regular old magnetic strip, without any chip at all.
You also didn't have a decades-old existing infrastructure the size of that in the US.
"Blue car syndrome" is also a name for that, and an older one than "B-M".
Why this matters:

Visibility on Reddit is essentially predicated on early votes. Get a few upvotes and even mediocre comments will often remain at the top due to momentum. Less than -4 and it's doomed to oblivion (ie. downvote the competition).

One of the most popular linked sites on reddit (quickmeme) got to where it was with only a few strategically placed votes for each link, and it took ages for them to be found out and similarly banned: http://www.dailydot.com/business/reddit-quickmeme-banned-mil...

More broadly, the algorithm reddit uses is not only known wrong/buggy:

http://technotes.iangreenleaf.com/posts/2013-12-09-reddits-e...

but also generally defective:

http://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/vqy9y/dear_circ...

It's possible HN suffers from the same flaw (initial sort and feedback loop from such) since it's the natural (naive) way to produce such algorithms. The machine can't tell if it's quality content or just easy to upvote, and the latter is more common.

TL;DR: Visibility == early votes from people who have no interest in depth and don't read the articles anyway.

edit: fixed links
QoS is a highly desirable feature of a network, iff you, the end user, control the QoS selection. If I'm playing a fast-paced online game, talking to a group of friends with VoIP, and downloading a movie from one of the online stores to watch later, I'd like to place the priority of the movie's packets below the game and voice packets. But if the ISP does that for me, gives me no choice in the matter, and/or prioritizes my minimum guaranteed allotment movie packets above or below the voice packets of other customers, that's not okay.

I've mentioned this strategy a few times before on HN, starting ~4 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049784

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7711264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7911677

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8058319
It depends. In my zone more and more cards are made without stripe for security reasons ( having it make them a lot easier to clone )
No, online purchases are unrelated.

You don't need to switch the millions of cards nor the whole POS infrastucture to do changes for online purchases - things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure cover it fairly enough, I believe - it will deny online purchases with stolen CC data or a physically stolen card or both-sides-photographed, copying all the visible data including the cvv code.
That was 40 years ago. We have had many pardons since.
Wait, I just realized that this means I'm not going to have to keep and securely store 7 years of signed CC receipts for my business! Can't happen fast enough.
>The Guy from Apple exits Good Guys, checks it off the list, and proceeds to the next store on his assignment. G-Man is surprised what we was able to do by flashing his Apple badge and adopting some bluster; just walk in, make some demands and start cracking open merchandise. That’s kind of disturbing, really.

It's kind of surprising that a criminal gang hasn't made off with a huge haul of devices on launch day minus one by doing exactly this.

I know that I would probably fall for it or not care enough to stop anyone trying.
> In the general case, it's really easy to detect

Why do you say that? I've worked hard on this problem and would not call it easy.
> It's possible HN suffers from the same flaw (initial sort and feedback loop from such) since it's the natural (naive) way to produce such algorithms.

I always assumed that's why blatant blogspam sometimes makes it to the front page of HN.
Nothing in your post is responsive to parent. Snowden broke the law and should be pardoned because he did it to fight far worse lawbreaking.
It's because for the most part he posts some very educational stuff. So hopefully he just learned his lesson.
Aww, I remember when Chris Slowe was reddit's favorite scientist.
Please explain, exactly and with cites, what grievous consequences have occurred.
Can someone help me understand the problems with gentrification? Do renters feel entitled to stay in their neighborhoods even when their leases end? When owners need to perform remodels on [unoccupied] aging homes?

The only real issue that comes to mind is the owner of a home on a fixed income having to pay higher property taxes because the area around them is improving. I can think of lots of ways to mitigate this problem ... but I'm asking about other problems of which I know nothing.
I think this happens to an extent. The poor focus of bad eyesight is effectively the same as a spatial low-pass filter, and based on my own perceptions, I think the visual processing chain applies sharpening or spatial equalization to try to compensate. However, it's not enough; it can't actually restore detail that was never provided to the rods and cones in the first place.
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HN does suffer from the same flaw; that's why voting ring detectors and flagging are necessary as a stronger countermeasure than simply upvoting.
> I don't see a reason to ban someone over this behavior as long as you can make sure that the fraudulent votes don't actually add any value to the content, which they shouldn't.

Visibility of the content is essentially predicated on early votes.

The problem is that an initial sort is built on limited data (quality content or just easy to upvote produces same results and latter is more common), and the subsequent feedback loop is built on initial visibility decisions.
If the input (vision) is not corrected before it enters the eye then anything done afterwards, like at the neural level, would likely be similar to image post-processing filters in image editors.

By no means an expert in this area but I would think the best that could be done with this type of post processing would likely amount to applying a highly specialized "Find Edges"/"Sharpen" filter in Photoshop to a blurred photo (except at a really high resolution and at > 60 frames per second).

An interesting possibility with that kind of neural-level post-processing could be an on-demand digital-zoom effect so you could do a 2X-32X zoom on a faraway road sign or to "zoom in" to something really close at a macroscopic level (for surgeons/jewelers).
Brilliant cover of Only Exception
This is indeed an interesting question. Why can't the brain develop a reverse blur function? We can do this with algorithms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics). There was a fad (I guess) once about correcting your vision with practice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method).

I guess this is a limitation of the plasticity of our brains. People who have hearing or vision or other losses as young children adapt faster and better than people who have these losses when older.

It would be interesting to understand if young children with vision deficits can learn to see better with time.

My personal recollection is that I had NO idea things were blurry until my first visit to the optometrist when they put glasses on me. Things were so SHARP!

I think the core of this is that out adaptability depends on sensori-motor loops. We can calibrate our responses for faulty sensors, but we don't correct just for the sake of correctness.
If I understand this correctly, this is a light-field display.

The implications are bigger than vision correction - LF display can reconstruct actual 3d images, as opposed to the stereo images being marketed as "3d" today. Stereo displays give two different pictures to two different eyes, but the don't provide perspective shift (the picture doesn't change when you move your head left and right), and they don't provide different focal planes (your eyes focus on the screen plane regardless of how far the object is supposed to be, creating a dissonance between the distance inferred from the angle between the eyes and the focusing distance).
You could just put up a QR code of a bitcoin address and let people scan over that with their phone and pay in one click.

Think of the money saved! Run a bitcoin wallet on some junker computer, print out a million copies of your barcode, and off you go.

Albeit, they have to manually enter the payment amount with static wallets, the alternative is to have any kind of localized computer that can transmit to the phone the address and debit (in any form - nfc, bluetooth, wifi, qr codes, whatever).
Collaborative flirting! Love it
They can weaken your part of the system by compromising your machine or your keys, but compromising the centralized node (either by an exploit or a subpoena) shouldn't change anything if that system is zero-knowledge; a compromised node can do no more than an actively malicious node.
Contactless took me a few tries to get the hang of, but I freaking love it now and can't wait for all machines to switch over.
What a formidable feat that this article could completely erase french invention from the carte à puce.
I wonder if there's an analogy to be drawn between the pinhole mask they use and the lithography masks used to etch ICs on silicon.
Thanks, fixed. Have no idea why they got broken.
I often forget the exact name of the fallacy this type of question embodies, so for reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

The common analogue being, "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
Exactly. Given that texting has become the primary channel for flirting, we feel that making this a collaborative effort makes it more fun for everyone.

Thanks for your comment!
If some secret police came to your house to kill you because they determined that that's needed in order to keep people safe, would you still stand by your argument? If not, why not?
If you're nearsighted, maybe you could use this in combination with glasses to project near displays to look like they're farther away. This would eliminate the need to focus on near objects when you're reading or computing.
And you can statically cache pages from a proper blog engine. In fact, that's actually built into some of them, unlike the functionality you describe here for static site engines, which AFAIK all of them require you to write yourself.
Hey you didn't cause a $125M catastrophe.
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Note, in particular, his "Corollary 4: The greater the flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true. "
Ask HN: Is the “new” page the right way to discover new submissions?
I'm trying to upvote "good" submissions...Is there a recommended way to do it? Does anyone use any other tool to discover new articles? Keyword-triggered for example..
Using subjects from the same population should make replication easier. If the research was only valid for westerners, it would be a step up.
You've just made his point for him. When he says no one has been able to ship one what he means is not that no one tried to create one or even launched one. What he means is that no one created one and launched it with more than a small group of niche users.

http://gnu.io/ will only ever be used by niche users and will never get to the size or even utility of Facebook,Google, and Twitter. Pretending otherwise is just willful blindness.
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In Canada we have had them for a few years, but still not all places utilize the pin. Chevron gas station for one all have the pin reader but have the card slot blocked so u have to swipe.

And if it errors on the chip read u can swipe anyways.

One annoying thing when it first came out and restaurants adopted chip readers.
Many didn't have GPRS/wireless card readers. There was always a huge line to pay and u had to goto the bar or front desk to pay, no giving them the card and they bring u back a cheque.

Most places do have wireless readers now.

I like the paypass where u just tap your card but for some reason some places don't have it working
If you allow the nodes themselves to determine which nodes are trustworthy (instead of a centralized solution), then an example Sybil attack would be a botnet with a huge amount of identities managing to either vote that Botnode12345 is totally trustworthy, and that all data should be sent to it, or that NiceGuyGreg, comex, peterisp and a bunch of other nodes "consistently fail to route things they claim to be able to". Both ways can make the system unusable.