skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a couple of Texas brothers could corner the world silver market,[HB] there is no doubt that the U.S. Government could openly corner the world vulnerability market, that is we buy them all and we make them all public. Simply announce "Show us a competing bid, and we'll give you 10x." Sure, there are some who will say "I hate Americans; I sell only to Ukrainians," but because vulnerability finding is increasingly automation-assisted, the seller who won't sell to the Americans knows that his vulns can be rediscovered in due course by someone who will sell to the Americans who will tell everybody, thus his need to sell his product before it outdates is irresistible. This strategy's usefulness comes from two side effects: (1) that by overpaying we enlarge the talent pool of vulnerability finders and (2) that by making public every single vuln the USG buys we devalue them. Put differently, by overpaying we increase the rate of vuln finding, while by showing everyone what it is that we bought we zero out whatever stockpile of cyber weapons our adversaries have. We don't need intelligence on what weapons our adversaries have if we have something close to a complete inventory of the world's vulns and have shared that with all the affected software suppliers.

Source: http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI&t=36m45s
Correlation with median housing price and median income. That whole, what the market will bear thing.

Hopefully working in SF a person is able to save more money, maybe enough to buy a house every year in Chattanooga =) I see people doing this a lot approaching retirement, they work in big cities and retire in cheaper states, even different countries.
My only quip about this JSX is nomenclature: Oku et. al. at DeNA open-sourced a typed variant of ECMAScript under the exact same name a couple of years earlier: http://jsx.github.io/

With Facebook's brand and recognition, I am sure this JSX will eclipse the other JSX, which is rather unfortunate.
The correct way to implement chip-and-pin is alongside a paypass/paywave reader. Customers making purchases over $50 must use chip-and-pin, everyone else can just tap their wallets against the reader.

Some other problems with chip-and-pin:

- You get really cheap merchants who would prefer to waste your time rather than shell out for the contactless reader.

- You get international merchants who have no idea what's going on and make you sign two receipts in addition to entering your pin after trying and failing to swipe it twice.

- You have to type your pin in with your bare hands in -40C weather at the gas station.

- You have to tip waiters with them standing right there and judging you.

- It breaks square and the like

IMO it's an unnecessary mess for anything under ~$50.
Here in Europe everything's been chip & pin for longer than I can remember, lines are not held up. Takes seconds.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/
that doesn't solve the biggest problem I face when recruiting, which is highly specultive applications. Swipe right, swipe left is just a fancy ui for a simple folder system. When recruiting I want a folder system with more levels than just qualified(swipe right) and disqualified(swipe left).
In my experience, Stripe won't do anything like that. I manage a website that accepts donations. This tends to be a target that fraudsters like to utilize. They'll "donate" small amounts to the non-profit in order to check if the transaction went through. If the transaction was approved, they know the card is still valid. Meanwhile, we're stuck with the fraudulent transaction and have to refund the charge.

Now, these charges are clearly fraudulent. Without going into details, we can 100% detect the fraudulent transactions from real ones. I've suggested to Stripe that this could be a honey-pot setup to identify stolen cards but they've told me that there card processing doesn't have that type of infrastructure. Even if I know a credit card number has been compromised, there is no way to alert the card holder.

It's a shame really. It's not the fault of Stripe that we can't alert the card holder but it's important to know that there is no mechanism to protect card holders, even if you know their card has been compromised.
That's unknown. Work will likely begin in December after Go 1.4 is released, so the earliest we'll see this work is in Go 1.5.
> If WeFinance lenders are many times less likely to default than Lending Club lenders...

There is no good way for me to evaluate this claim. If you had a page like https://www.lendingclub.com/info/demand-and-credit-profile.a... (or any statistics about current loans) it would help.

I haven't signed up for either Lending Club or WeFinance, but it looks like Lending Club gives me significantly more information about the lenders' finances. I would rather see a potential lender's credit report than how I am connected to them on Facebook.

> In practice, we're committed to helping lenders and borrowers resolved problems...

Your FAQ states that lenders with loans in default should use "conventional legal means" because WeFinance "isn't a party to your contract". If there are other things you do, prospective lenders would probably want to see it.

> We've also individually interviewed each borrower and are confident on the identity verification front...

I don't know if this means you have exchanged emails with them, had a phone call, or met them in person. I don't know if you are using some third-party service to verify identity, or just verifying that they have a Facebook profile. In an earlier comment, you said that all borrowers have stable jobs and good credit histories, but your FAQ explicitly states that you do not check credit or employment.

It's possible that you're assuming that this site will be used by people lending money to people that they already know in real life, in which case most of my concerns above are invalid or irrelevant. I don't think that's clear from your language here or on the website.

Even if that's the case, you still might want to:

- use SSL to protect the borrower application at http://www.wefinance.co/borrower_interest or even the entire site

- reconsider the name, since searching for "wefinance" on Google brings up multiple financing companies with the same name.
Does http://www.iron.io/ fit your usecase?
In Canada, swipe doesn't work anywhere that has the chip-and-pin reader. No matter the amount, if you try swiping it says 'Use Chip'.
Very likely negative margins.

The product was best summer up to me so: "if you want a heavy tablet which can sorta be a laptop, surface is ideal. Otherwise if you want the robustness of a laptop and occasional tablet use, try a yoga."

Having used both, the yoga turned out to be the superior use case when I wanted a stable and robust screen.

If I wanted to sketch something, I wish I had a pro 3.

For me, and I suppose many other users - it's coming down to broadwell and the surface 4. (Or if they want to branch out with accessories, a stronger and more robust keyboard accessory)

But the device does cram an awful lot into its chasis. No matter what, MS did a good job on the design.
Uber for digitizing, storage and disposal.

I have boxes and boxes of tapes, disks, notebooks, books, and photos. All of which I'd prefer to have digital. Other physical things could be digitized with video, photographs, and scans. I would take them to my street corner and a driver would pick them up and deliver them to a digitizer. They could show up in the cloud a week later, or be delivered back to me in a hard drive.

Once the digital copies are received, the customer can request to have the goods responsibly disposed of. The service could also cover long term storage for customers who want the originals to remain intact. Possessions can be returned to the owner within a day or two's notice.

A service like this would allow people to minimize their physical existence while preserving the memories associated with physical possessions.
Police ban Drones from Mumbai skies
Table support for Firepad
http://www.firepad.io/

They do not promise table support for the library any time soon but I spoke to the developers and one possibility would be to sponsor the feature. Who is interested in sponsoring the feature?
A subscription payment service with easy canceling for both consumer & merchant, built-in pro-rating, and support for groups.
On the quote you say "may be paid", and not "must be paid". That to me gives Goldman the optionality to pay, but not the obligation. Don't you think?
> JSX standalone is a simple syntactic transform for XML-ish notation to JavaScript

But not necessarily the same translation as in your example (that is, tags to function calls and attributes to first arguments). Perhaps all existing implementations work like that, but the spec leaves the JavaScript representation undefined. The spec draws attention to this intentional ambiguity when it lists “a set of transpilers that all conform to the JSX syntax but use different semantics on the output”.
I tried to get scheme shell working recently and had issues. My memory is that it had assumptions about running on 32-bit architecture. Build process segfaults on debian stable, and it isn't available in package management for x64.
I like this a lot. I actually used this at work. With a simple function to translate JSON into DOM incrementally, it's a lot more succinct than JSX. And it's fully programmable in JS.
Swift Tuples, Structs and Enums
"Many Americans are poor not due to having no income, but getting themselves into too much debt through scams like credit cards and student loans."

See, the poor are already well-served by entrepreneurs! ;) Would make for a tough fight against that given that everyone wants to live ahead of themselves, have the latest things, impress their friends, eat more, take it easier, etc.
Yes, it makes searching for a job harder. If you start looking for a position outside the banking/finance industry as a developer, nobody understands what a "VP" or an "Analyst" is and that it's meaningless (especially if you don't live in the US or on the east coast of the US).

Recruiters encouraged me to change it and/or edited my resume to read "Software Engineer" and then "Senior Software Engineer."
If you are on Windows I highly recommend Pelles C http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/
Since all the scandals about security, I came up with a different approach, instead to increase cryptography, just build kind of a reverse surveillance. A place like gravatar that informs you who is accessing to your profiles on your social media. The idea is very simple, you provide a jpg that can send back a message every time it's being rendered by a client. It can be that it requires a new image standard that allows to send some info to the main servers.
I would say that lifespan lengthening is in the top tier of impactful technologies, but I think there are three equals in the top tier: strong AI, nanotech, and biotech. Of course, all of these four are quite intertwined, with some being enabled or perhaps even prevented by progress in another.
I make several payments per day using chip&pin, according to my bank last month more than 300 pin transactions. That's 10 per day (travelling I do this a lot more than when I'm at home).

Online it's not a problem either (fairly easy integration here with a system called 'iDeal'), typing in your pin at -40C at the gas station is still a requirement with the current prices of gas and I'm not one bit bothered by 'waiters judging me', that's a self esteem issue, not a technical one.

As for international merchants who have no idea what is going on: I spend more time abroad than I do in my home country and chip-and-pin have made my life a lot easier than it ever was before in this respect.

Something like 7 countries in the last 3 weeks and I have yet to use my 'cash backup' or my 'credit card backup'.

Contactless is a nice technology but it is as far as I'm concerned a step backwards, I can see the advantages only for bars and festivals where the risk of contaminating your card with fluids is significant and purchases are very small (<$10).
We are starting to see it in the UK as well, it is very fast.
I think that organ sales are substantially more complicated than this conversation is making it, but your point here could not possibly make less sense. It should be obvious with a moment's thought that "My family and I will starve right now" is way worse than "there's a small chance my second kidney will fail and then my family will starve" (and that's without considering the effect on the person who got a transplant).
What kind of performance issues are you having in mind?
one of the JSX designers answered your entire comment before you even wrote it: http://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/jsx-e4x-the-good-parts...

Also, you somehow managed to imply that JSX makes it impossible to use sweet.js macros. There's a sweet.js implementation of JSX, so that's absolutely bollocks. https://github.com/jlongster/jsx-reader
How to start iOS kernel development
Unlike android platform, there're little resources regarding to iOS/framework. I want to know more about how iOS runs from system level. Any suggestions? Thanks.
just to save anyone else the trouble

http://imgur.com/4vSKWik
But there's no connection between the lenders and the depositors. So it's more server based than peer-to-peer.
Would you like Software Asset Management by ex-auditors? – validating – Thanks
inovo.nl > the startup developing this "in-egg" (in ovo) scan tech in the Netherlands (home of Unilever HQ)
But if you say your system uses "Markdown" then that's zero help for someone who wants to submit to you a complicated Markdown document for processing.

Ambiguity is not a feature it is a bug. It is not optimal.
TagCalls is the Cheapest and the easiest way to make International Calls
Github, Reddit, Stackoverflow. Those look like several big sites to me (not just one). And as many people said, Gruber is not some sort of BDFL...
Researchers demonstrate direct brain-to-brain communication in human subjects
well, they are working on it. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Certainly depends on the source. But I believe you are about right. I wrongly trusted memory for the stat. The figure I used applies to a subset, green perception impaired males, which is around 5-6%, depending on level of impairment considered.

As you note, including the red perception impaired adds ~2% of males. And about 0.5% of females are also color-vision impaired. Overall it is around 9% of the US population.

The prevalence of color-blindness varies by racial/ethnic criteria, and between groups male/female ratio varies quite a bit. Color vision is a very fascinating subject.
I've been thinking about something similar, an autoscaling job queue that could run off your own servers (via API) so you could decide the pricing/power you want.
TripIt?
The journal article is here:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Kindle Kids’ Book Creator
That's an interesting insight. What do you think about sharing your location (anonymously), as kind of contributing to the crowd and aggregating data?
> As for international merchants who have no idea what is going on: I spend more time abroad than I do in my home country and chip-and-pin have made my life a lot easier than it ever was before in this respect.

Well YMMV, of course, but here in Vietnam I've had to go around the other side of the checkout to type in my pin because the terminal was bolted to the desk. Multiple times. And then they still make me sign two receipts anyways.
> Your assume that poor people are poor because they lack the savvy to be born into the upper middle class.

You're the one making that assumption here. The parent commenter was just assuming that the two co-occur; the causal relation can easily flow in the other direction.

It should hardly be a stretch of the imagination that being poor gives you far less opportunity for a good education and far less time to do research. Not to mention the fact that the day-to-day stresses and crises of poverty make complicated decisions much more difficult to deal with succesfully[1].

TL;DR: Parent commenter assumed the two were correlated. You assumed that the causal relationship went "not-savvy decisions --> poor". "poor --> not-savvy decisions" is a much more well-supported direction for the causal arrow.

[1]http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/povert...
I wonder if this will do anything to help turn Reno into more of a tech employment center in its own right.
I meant that the problem is calling Julia from Python. Thus the webservice example. Python makes it easier to have a frontend, in flask or django and it would be nice if you could call Julia background services easier.
Agreed! I'm a native Nevadan that left Reno for tech. But my parents definitely need jobs :).
almost forgot...
you can find my resume here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-vJfhWswxvdWGdJY1Zw....
And it should take over if StackOverflow's service is crappy.
Pure CSS is a great choice, it's just a minimum 4k of CSS, no Javascript is needed. It's a 'Bring Your Own Javascript' solution. It provides a css reset for uniform look and feel across browsers, a responsive CSS-only grid, styling for forms, buttons, tables, and it's themable via an online GUI, where a whole theme can be derived from a primary color.
I used to get the "Big Cheeseburger" from Jack In The Box when it was $0.99 and before they charged for lettuce and tomato... was way cheaper than adding cheese to a Jumbo Jack.
Ooo, ooo I just thought of the cutuest name for this project.... xmarkdown! Get it guys? You know like XHTML... Cute right?
Relax, Twitter won`t become like Facebook (german blogpost)
I hope everything ends up well for him. I've been a very appreciative user, and occasional committer to erlexec: https://github.com/saleyn/erlexec

It was kind of a shock when I put 2 and 2 together and realized who the author was, as I'd already been using the code for a while.
PILLARS: A System I’m Using to Track My Growth Hacks
What I've wanted for the last 35 years is my actual desktop to be a display.
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As a grad student doing entirely computational work, it's quite nice living in Tennessee (I'm in Knoxville). Eventually I want to live in SF for a few years just to experience it, but the relaxed pace here is enjoyable. Any kind of outdoor activity is nearby (Smoky Mountains), and I like the fact that we actually have trees here compared to the west coast.

I'd like to live in a variety of places throughout my life, but when I finally pick a more permanent place of residence, it will probably be something like Chattanooga. The low cost of living is one advantage over the bigger cities. While Oak Ridge is very cutting-edge in terms of science, the south isn't near the forefront of technology like California is, so it would be nice to see at least one city around here make a push in that direction, and it seems like Chattanooga is certainly working towards it. I suppose Atlanta is working on it as well, but both have a ways to go.
I suspect that the 'Vietnam' factor may be a larger one than the chip-and-pin factor.

https://www.pacnetservices.com/wpg/country.php?alpha2=VN

Has a pretty explicit note that Vietnam is still primarily a cash based society, I think that is where your problems stem from, not necessarily from the technological merits or lack thereof of chip&pin.
And, if we look at the list of people who were writing it, we see Github, Meteor, Reddit, and StackExchange people (plus JGM and Atwood) as the participants, which I think cover the top 3 sites using Markdown.

And Jeff is using Markdown for his forum project, Discourse, so that's another chunk of users.

This kind of coalition has the power of numbers to standardize on something, which is why this is so exciting.
Riak 2.0 is available
Donald MacKenzie on high-frequency trading
This is the dirty little secret that blocks innovation on Amazon's platform.
Wasting life, a bucket a time
Could you do a frontend validation? At the point of accepting a card, before it is tokenized?
Emacs Lisp is a relatively standard Lisp, slightly oldish.

> Lisps are Racket and Clojure

Racket and Clojure are languages derived from Scheme or Lisp . They are mostly incompatible to other Lisp dialects. Racket and Clojure are completely incompatible with each other or even Emacs Lisp.
JavaScript Jabber Podcast 124 – The Origin of JavaScript with Brendan Eich
Finding examples of Edicarian fauna would be exciting news.
This reminds me of a similar issue that happened within the Scala community. David Polak, the creator of the Lift framework (which is used in production in many top sites), had originally worked hard to create the framework (along with others) and make it production worthy.

Later, he realized that the releases of the framework he had created were happening without his involvement. But, instead of accusing the community, he said something remarkable which only multiplied my original respect for him:

I never "left" the Lift community.
Yes, I have other project and work in different languages.
What I did was cease to be Lift's benevolent dictator for life.
Lift has grown way beyond one person and the fact that
the 2.5-M4 release was done without me is a strength, not a weakness.

[1]

Because, that's the spirit of open source. When you release something to the public, for public consumption, then you must understand that someone is eventually going to fork it up and assign it a different nomenclature, sometimes even a nomenclature that you may not like. In this case, this particular project had no standardization and a part of the community decided to just standardized it. If you don't like this standardization, then simply don't use it. Use what resonates with you. If you feel the standardization has some flaws, then fork it and fix what's wrong. IF people agree with you, eventually they will end up using your fork. It's as simple as that.

What is funny is to see John Gruber who appears to be butthurt about this, when his contributions have grown negligent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8266574), inconsistent and his recent focus has been more on other (personal) things.[2]

This reminds me of Luca Pasani[3], who released the much popular WURFL repository as open source in a liberal license first, then one fine day, cried foul because other people (including companies) were using it for profit (in accordance with the license), deleted all online repositories and instances of the project released under the old liberal license [4], then re-released the project with a comparatively restrictive license.[5]

In my opinion, releasing something for open, public consumption means you have to develop an honest mindset of accepting that other people WILL benefit from your creation eventually. If you don't get that right, then open source is probably isn't for you. (And crying foul later, is a double standard, if you do)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12424617/comparing-lift-w...

[2] like writing controversial Apple articles at daringfireball.

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Passani

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WURFL#License_update

[5] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/09/169216/wurfl-founders...
Great page! How do I show all components?
What if I was a cloud?
I'm astonished at the number of top ranking SE questions I come across that are closed for irrelevance or some other questionable reason.

If the answer has a lot of upvotes, how is it irrelevant in the greater scheme of things?

If the answer has a high search ranking and you're using it to drive traffic to SE, and it's closed, is that even right?

I think they should back their own horse and remove closed content from their Google search index.

If anything this mod policy and closed tickets make it obvious there's a market need that's not being fulfilled.
Detailed release notes:

https://github.com/basho/riak/blob/riak-2.0.0/RELEASE-NOTES....

Goodies:

* CRDT : Convergent data types (counters, sets, maps)

* Strong Consistency

* Security Enhancements
Thanks Malcolm. This looks great. I'll check it out.