skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't Atlassian afraid of getting sued, though? It seems like a HUGE risk to take on a project like Popcorn Time. Then again, Atlassian makes millions of dollars annually.
An additional problem with research into things like social priming (and the attempts to replicate it) is that they all use a sample population of American undergraduates.

This paper goes into interesting detail about why this is a terrible methodology: http://hci.ucsd.edu/102b/readings/WeirdestPeople.pdf
He was expelled from USSR and eventually end up in the USA.

He thought too that he will never be able to return.
> That's assuming your gateway has stellar on hand to provide as conversion.

That's not the only way that gateways can talk to eachother. Given this is ripple we're talking about, anyone who has a mutual trust connection between gateways can facilitate a transaction, as can any market-making trader.

Looking at MIRI's gateway and my own showed dozens of such connections. Ripple has 100,000 users, any of which can be part of the connection between any two given gateways. Stellar is planning on growing that large and larger, so it should be expected that this will happen there, too.
That's an interesting document.

It mainly contains assertions for what one should do. Do you know if there's an explanation for the rationale anywhere? For example _"Passwords must be 8 characters or greater"_ or _"Privileged accounts - Password for privileged accounts should be rotated every: 90 to 120 days"_.
You can click through the full Nature article, which is nice. I haven't read the article in depth, but it looks like interesting stuff. A bunch of models in Bayesian non-parametrics are, like the described model, based on Polya urns. It should be a simple matter to use this model for some interesting clustering tasks, perhaps as an alternative to the CRP.
It seems like this is a good step, but it seems limited to physical card present transactions.

Does it do anything to address online purchases?
Yeah, the proposed rewrite was public. A lot of slvr's more vocal criticism wasn't, though -- some private emails were leaked. But yeah, it was the doxing that made him quit. And that sucks.
Why? In the end, its only goals that matter. Everything else might as well be counted as a miss.
> Broad computer-science skills that include technological awareness and analytical thinking are more important than narrow programming skills, Hartovi said.

"Learning how to code in any one particular [computer] language is not going to be worthwhile beyond 10 or 20 years," he said. "Learning how to problem-solve using algorithms and how technology works and how it's built is going to last a century at least."

I fail to see how you could write an algorithm if you don't know how to code.
We're getting there, albeit very slowly. Almost all the new readers I see at major stores now have the slot to slide your card in for the chip and pin. Every Target store I've been to appears to have been upgraded.

Wells Fargo has also started rolling out chip and pin credit cards, not sure if it's by default or not. I've had one for probably a year now.

That being said, I have no idea if the chip and pin even works end-to-end yet, as I haven't tried it. I'm likely part of the problem!

Also, we'll see what happens with the liability shifts in the US. Right now consumers have it fairly good with regards to fraud protection and getting reimbursed.
It would be politically controversial to do so, so I doubt it would ever happen. Definitely not from Obama, whom he exposed as a traitor to the very ideals that got him elected.
I believe it's relatively common to gamble on dominoes, and gambling is often illegal. Even so, it's an innocuous crime and probably not the real reason they were hassled.
Ioannidis' "Why most published research findings are false" (http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...) is particularly relevant here, I think.
You'll find out when you hit your forties and you're trying to decide whether you need glasses or just slightly longer arms.
Charity school with 25 tablets, shared among 500 poverty-stricken children in a third world country. If the correction can be adjusted in software and this can be made cheaply, it's a no-brainer application. The video indicates that it can indeed be made cheaply and adjusted in software.

Sounds much simpler than trying to ensure a continuous supply of glasses for 500 energetic kids
There's no set distance from the Sun for where a comet tail will develop, as it depends a lot on the size of the comet and the magnitude of the solar wind at the particular position.

This comet's aphelion is around Jupiter, and comets have been observed with tails (from telescopes, not naked eyes! :P) at that distance. This comet probably is too small though.

See my other comment for a better explanation of why the tail wouldn't be visible in this image.

Here's a cool image of Comet Humason that was taken while it was near Jupiter in the 60s, it's pretty epic, one of the most awesome comets I came across in my studies, this image is from an obscure journal that I can't find now, but I found the image on a forum :P

http://foro.tiempo.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=12940...
I've used a magstripe a lot before getting a new card that uses a chip. But even when using a magstripe, I still had to input my pin. Just allowing the card to be used freely on it's own seems reckless, it means that if I drop my wallet, a thief could access not only the cash stored in that wallet, but all the money I have available on the card.
Personal servers are almost certainly the way forward if we want to de-feudalize, but they're not the whole solution.

Now somebody just needs to make a personal server platform based around CoreOS and Docker.
From the OP, 70% of goalies chose the opposite direction of the previous kick after 3 kicks. That's the "gambler's fallacy".
It's like a flashback to the late 90s!
That was my thoughts as well. But I don't think most people think that way, especially given the misleading wording of the article. I hate to contribute to the "rest of the world is stupid" theory, or pretend that I'm immune from such things, but in this case I really do think the vast majority of people won't evaluate things in a probabilistic way like that. Most people just aren't trained to think in terms of odds instead of emotions (and it constantly annoys me.) At least that is my experience, and it may not be representative.

Anecdote, I go swimming in a river known to have Caiman (small alligators) downstream and everyone thinks I'm a huge risk taker. Nobody comments on the 3 hour drive to get there and back in heavy rain and high speeds. It's obvious, mathematically speaking, which is the riskier activity.
Certain parts of software engineering research are moving in this direction, psychology as a the primary toolbox for research.

Not sure how I feel about that. As far as science goes, Psychology isn't exactly the epitome of rigor. On the other hand, the problem really boils down to asking hard-to-investigate-scientifically questions, mostly about humans.
I pay for pretty much everything with a chip-n-pin debit card here in the UK and I feel it is generally much faster than the the old swipe and sign (which always seem very clunky any time I visit the US).

NB The approval step on newer terminals seems to have got a lot faster - I'd estimate the payments step at the Sainsburys self service machines where I usually buy lunch takes about 5 seconds after I enter my PIN.
> Some suggest that we should wait for a newer and more secure standard before expending resources shifting systems.

So Americans would continue to have cards which don't work abroad as is the case now? I know Americans notoriously don't travel very frequently but even still...
> I fail to see how you could write an algorithm if you don't know how to code.

You never followed directions until you learned how to program?

I learned addition, multiplication and division algorithms before I even got a computer.
In terms of real politik it looks like a net win for the US, which is presumably why foreign policy hasn't changed much.
> Static blog generators are the next big thing.

I don't mean this in a hipster way at all.. but static blogs have been around and popular for a long time. It's been at least 5 years since Jekyll got popular which is one of the first static site generators that I remember catching on. There were surely ones that came before that that I hadn't heard of. I was building blogs and websites with Hyde (a Python clone of Jekyll) in 2009.

What's old is new again?

It feels kind of silly to call this a movement :).
> Every Target store I've been to appears to have been upgraded.

Additionally Target's own "Red Card" (store card) utilises Chip and Pin only.
True. Pardons are usually only given to people actually did something wrong.
informatimago is absolutely right, chip based (credit) cards is a French invention. If you want to read in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV

"The first standard for payment cards was the Carte Bancaire M4 from Bull-CP8 deployed in France in 1986 followed by the B4B0' (compatible with the M4) deployed in 1989. Geldkarte in Germany also predates EMV. EMV was designed to allow cards and terminals to be backwardly compatible with these standards. France has since migrated all its card and terminal infrastructure to EMV."
Another reason that the article doesn't touch on: there is so much extra money sloshing around in the US system due to high interchange fees that fraud pales in comparison. I don't see how you can ignore this as a disencentive to change.

IIRC, fraudulent charges account for ~40 bp of total transaction volume, very little of which is the responsibility of the issuing institution. Interchange fees are ~200 bp of total transaction volume.
Schmucks? No no no no no, that is a clever ruse that you should not fall for.

There is an agenda here. We may not be able to see all of it at once, but it exists, and projecting incompetence is part of it.

I wouldn't go so far as malice (history's greatest monsters thought they were doing right by their country), but to portray the NSA's behavior as incompetent does a great disservice to you, me, and everyone else who should be outraged by this. We should feel as if these intrusive searches and such are a direct attack on us and our culture and our country.

Because that's what they are.
This feels like a way to export money from China.
Plus in the US you often have to show your ID (e.g. driver's licence), whereas I've never been challenged for my ID when using Chip and Pin in Europe.
What is referential transparency in programming languages?
How is that in any way relevant? User emails != extensive world wide spying, HK != mainland China
icebraining: thanks for the feedback !
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Technically the outgassing is considered a sublimation since it's not a liquid ;)

The outgassing is mainly a function of the magnitude of the solar radiation (which varies quite a bit) and the cross section of the comet, so it's doubly variable and may outgas really far from the Sun if the conditions are right.
No matter what you think of Snowden, he did break the law. He did break his oath, he did steal government property.

That aside.. this is the least significant piece of information here. None of this is in question.

The most important one, and the question that should be the only one that matters, is were those actions justified?
...and he has been downvoted. Way to go, HN!
> Looking at this graph objectively, one can imagine a second inflection point that goes to 1000, etc.. maybe leading to an asymptote!

It looks more like exponential growth to me! Or are you hoping to asymptotically approach death? :)
Theory: dad hacker is Bob Howard, pre-laundry. Cstross, are you listening?
I agree that it still seems unlikely, but it requires deeper thought to deduce that than "Google engineers can't possibly be looking at every email".
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I probably get asked for ID less than 1% of the time. In general it tends to be in odd locations too. In my experience a less than $20 dollar purchase is more likely to have the employee ask for my ID than a $200 purchase.
In the UK the IWF provide information about what to block and take reports about hosted images.

CEOP are the group that Google would report people to.

http://ceop.police.uk/
I REALLY can't understand the "static blog movement", it makes no sense to me. As others have said, why sacrifice flexibility and availability....

The only reason I can see for bothering with static blog software is because that in itself might be fun. At least you have something to blog about...
In short:

Technical debt, network effects, and resistance to change.

It won't be a problem for much longer. EMV is supposed to become a standard late next year, and the "liability shift" (basically amending the processing rules so that accepting the old-style card means you're more responsible in case of fraud) is supposed to happen around that time as well.

I wish IT people had that level of control over their environments. We wouldn't be dealing with Windows XP anymore :)
>I fail to see how you could write an algorithm if you don't know how to code.

I teach introductory programming to college freshmen. We usually spend the first few classes talking about, writing, and refining algorithms in clear and simple English before we even start talking about the programming language they're to learn.
Not necessarily, see this guy for example: https://www.ted.com/talks/josh_silver_demos_adjustable_liqui...

Although I'm skeptical that third world countries will have access to high tech vision correcting tablets but not eyeglasses.
There are already tablets for the kitchen, for blind people, and so on. I think the "tablets for old people" niche could be a pretty big one, and all of them could feature such displays.
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If someone's far-sighted, as many people above the age of forty are, they might be able to see the street perfectly well, but have trouble reading a GPS screen that's only fourty cm away from their face.

And speaking as one of the people whose vision defect can't be corrected by glasses, but only by uncomfortable contact lenses, there'd be immense value to me in a computer I can use without lenses - especially since reading on a screen is basically the only thing I need the damn things for while I'm at home. For someone whose work is mostly computer-based, you might be able to get away with taking your lenses out for the entire day and only wear them for the drive to work and back.
Seldom, while it's true that it does happen occasionally, it ends up being very rare in most places except for very expensive purchases.
Wait, what?

South African here. We barely have broadband internet, yet we have chip-based credit cards.
"entitled to a safe neighborhood and legitimate opportunity"

That's kind of a meaningless statement. What does it even mean? Let's say you're correct and people are entitled to living in a safe neighborhood. Now let's say they live in an unsafe one. Now what? They're entitled to a safe neighborhood! It's their right! Who is required to give it to them exactly? Me? You? The states? The feds?

You can call something an entitlement or a right all you want. Go ahead. But in cases like this it's an incredible hollow gesture.
The whole internet in one app? Sounds too good to be true!
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I need to backorder and obtain this domain reliably. What are my options? What registrars/services have you tried and found to be highly successful in this regard?

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Radio UserLand was statically building blogs in 2000, predating WordPress and Movable Type.
It happens to me significantly more than 1% of the time, I'd say closer to 10%. And as you say it has nothing to do with the amount, $8? ID. $500? No ID.

I think it is more related to the amount of fraud the vendor experiences and they get pressure from the processor to reduce it, therefore they implement ID checking to counteract it a bit.
> There aren't any decentralized alternatives to Facebook, Google, or Twitter because nobody's been able to ship one.

Untrue.

http://gnu.io/
We're even at a point where our swipes have the chip slots but they have rubber inserts blocking them.
Create your own wireless sensors
Is Yelp still penalizing listed businesses that don't pay them?
Visa payWave and MasterCard Paypass are even better - no swiping at all.
Ask HN: What's your Workspace like?
I'm getting into Web Development more now and would like some tips or suggestions. First things first I would like to know how most freelancers or Web developers develop? in other words. What is your Setup look like on your machine?

For example do you use Sublime? PyCharm? MAMP? or VirtualBox & Vagrant I just want some basic ideas of how people build projects on their machines(laptop, desktop).

I am getting into PHP and it seems confusing how I can manage multiple projects like Drupal, WordPress, Laravel all on my macbook. How do you manage working on multiple projects locally on your machine?
I (USian) recently visited the UK and knew from previous experience to use only visibly chipped cards (staff will sometimes refuse to take run a swipe-only card -- not sure if the machines don't even support it?)
Anyway, the systems never asked for my PIN and printed out signature receipts, which seemed to surprise people.
> I fail to see how you could write an algorithm if you don't know how to code.

Algorithms have existed for centuries. Computer programs have meaningfully existed for 100 years, if we're generous. And for a lot of that time, you had to design the entire algorithm correctly before running to code, or else you'd have to wait a day or two and try again (unless you were important).

Even today, if you're designing a truly novel algorithm, you're very likely to spend the bulk of your time not coding, and then coding only at the end as a sort of check to make sure you ideas work out. Of course everyone has different processes and YMMV, but mt general impression is that most people who design significant (read publication worthy) algorithms do the bulk of their work away from the keyboard.

And honestly, having taught high school cs students, the best students have this process: 1) try a niave solution, notice it won't work before they even compile. Maybe finish the program just to confirm their suspicion that it's wrong; 2) go to the white board for a while, and probably talk with their friends about potential solutions and pitfalls; 3) design the algorithm, and then code it up. Usually there's no pseudo-code before they start programming, but they have a pretty clear idea of the general structure of the algorithm; 4) test on inputs that they identified as reasons the niave solution(s) discussed at the board didn't work.

edit: the very worst students are the ones who sit in isolation hacking away at iterative improvements on a fundamentally flawed idea. Usually they're trying to get their for loops sorted out and working correctly so that the program actually gets around to giving them any answer, and don't even get around to noticing their solution is completely and fundamentally broken until the end of class.

Which is to say, from my observation, coding-as-problem-solving is not very effective until after you've thought things through in more general, mathematical terms.
Watch the second half of kicks in the most recent World Cup, you can see that some kickers seem to wait for any indication of the direction of the goalie taking a dive in a particular direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLlBIJekQTc

At the level these guys play, they kick so fast it is difficult for the goalie to get to the far reaches of the net even when they guess correctly, so I can see why they jump early. In this situation, the bigger goalies definitely have an advantage. Changing the direction you jump randomly isn't going to help much.
Ignore downvotes. They usually self-correct over the next few hours as people see unjustified downvotes and supply an upvote. And sometimes they're just fat finger errors.
Solzhenitsyn only returned after the USSR was dissolved - he essentially returned to an entirely different country. The US government is unlikely to be overthrown anytime soon.

I also think that people are underestimating the sheer level of hatred that government types have for Snowden. My guess is that eventually the CIA will kidnap him and either return him to the US for prosecution under a story that he was traveling somewhere and got caught, or they will simply torture and kill him, making it look like a robbery or kidnapping gone wrong. He wouldn't be the first we've done it to.
This is very familiar. Did this use to be a desktop application?
Most places, the readers don't seem to be hooked up yet. Least the ones I tried in 7-11 and Lowes did absolutely nothing. Haven't tried many other places. I've had a lot more luck with contactless readers, Walgreen's, CVS, even Jack in the Box seem to have those working well, with 7-11 again not having theirs working.
I'm pretty surprised reddit's backend doesn't just automatically devalue this kind of vote cheating. In the general case, it's really easy to detect, and if your cheater is a bit more sophisticated, it's still not that hard, it takes a really serious person to have five accounts on five different browsers/vpcs that each come from different IP addresses consistently, even then, when you see them colluding together, you can still devalue those votes simply because it's an obvious clique taking early action consistently, so even then it should be pretty detectable.

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.
I am pro-net neutrality, and I think that particular packets getting QoS guarantees is exactly what I'm against - and pretty much completely describes what I'm against.

I don't know what net neutrality with QoS guarantees even means. Unless QoS is a promise that the ISPs will be making to me, guaranteeing that I will always have a particular amount of bandwidth - but I don't want any of the packets that I am sending or receiving to get favorable treatment of any other packets that I'm sending or receiving.

I'd even like to see law about the variables that upstream caching algorithms can use, and I think that situations like the Netflix appliance could absolutely legitimately be declared a no-no. Packet throughput should be fungible, and it is before people start slipping each other cash.
For anyone who wants to try/use it, I created a terminal.com snapshot at https://terminal.com/tiny/dPQPwKVMho
And then nothing happens, since "static site" ≠ "hosted on Github"?
> Controversies like these make me glad I work in the field of programming...while arguments over what algorithm or frameworks work best are less sexy than what the sciences cover, at least with narrow claims, it's easier to concretely argue for one or the other

Yeah, it's pretty ironic when the field with (Comp) Science in the name isn't really a science but math.