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Probably can control position more easily, to stay over your service area. Balloons relying on air currents for position may not be as reliable.
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Super news for Nevada! This is a state that really needs some jobs outside of the casino industry.
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I would love to see the gc compiler support building dynamically linked executables against a libgo runtime Ala gccgo. Unless I'm misreading, this case doesn't seem covered. I love the standalone binary deployment ease as of now, but on a machine with tens of go applications, the binary size redundancy gets old. Or did I miss something?
While this is a very welcomed change, i feel the split diff view could do a much better job on some cases.

For instance, this is how GitHub renders a commit that adds a wrapper HTML element (and indents all its contents) and changes a class name: http://i.imgur.com/4Lcozgz.png. Not so good. Contrast that with how IDEA renders the same diff: http://i.imgur.com/RGf8psr.png. It makes it obvious where the wrapper tags where added, and which class name changed (which is completely lost within the green glob of the GH diff).

Now, the whitespace-agnostic view on GH (adding ?w=0 to the diff URL) is much better: http://i.imgur.com/AKNn1fW.png. It looks very similar to the IDEA version: http://i.imgur.com/NpDsYBB.png. I wish GH remembered the ?w=0 preference just as it remembers to use the split diff.
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Good point, I updated the title to include the actual title of the doc but left the rest to avoid confusion.

On topic: I'm really excited to see this, even though it's made clear this is just a plan and not a promise it's still great news for things like Android development.
If they mainly rely on credit scores, how will they remain competitive with lenders that have more information about the borrower, or has the resources to develop a business relationship with the borrower? Everybody else has access to credit scores too, you know.
I was at a home depot on September 1st and my credit card was declined for security reasons. I just moved to a different state, but I had no problem using the card at other stores that same day, including to make a larger purchase at the same mall as the home depot.
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> To me that is a good example of how email is flexible, and also simple.

I fail to see how a complex encoding is "simple". (Maybe I should mention that there are complex rules about where that encoding can appear, and there's two variants of it)

> It's flexible because it could support non-ascii text strings, without changing a thing.

No, clients had to be upgraded to support it.

> It's simple because the protocol doesn't care what the subject says. It only cares that it's an ASCII string.

Well, sure; why would the protocol care about it? But at some point you're encoding the email for delivery (say, you're a web service) or you're an email client trying to display it. At that point, its a deceptively simple not-ASCII string.

> but that doesn't take anything away from email's simplicity

I'm arguing that you have a twisted definition of "simple".
My point is that although they are static allocated, the moment you pass them as arguments, they are just another pointer.

Which leads to those beautifull security exploits.
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The doc doesn't mention a timeline or Go version when we may see the new planned features.
I wish they would deny merchant accounts to merchants too cheap/lazy to roll out contactless payments alongside chip and pin. There's nothing more stupid and frustrating than holding up the line doing chip and pin to buy a $5 meal at Subway.
think of standard markdown is an interface. you still can `implements` it and add more specific feature.
It is more like 10% (depending on the source, e.g. wikipedia provides 8% for males)
it might be that credit scores are cheap enough (or rather, finding more information is expensive enough) that they're the local maximum in terms of possible profit from the transaction.
Does the US use some byzantine tech for chip and PIN? Entering the PIN is about as fast as signing the receipt, at least where I’m from. I doubt it’s much slower than paying cash. (I hand over my card. Card is inserted in reader. I enter my PIN and confirm. Transaction is confirmed after a couple seconds. That can’t be more than ten seconds or so.)
I am a big fan of the Oberon family of languages.

It showed me workstation OS are pretty doable in GC enabled systems programming languages.

Sadly the industry hasn't yet decided to bet on it.
No exactly this, but take a look on http://www.picloud.com/
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Most low-cost transaction don't require any signature - swipe and go.

I was surprised to find in Safeway recently that a < ~$20 transaction required no signature either.
To be fair to Home Depot, its self checkout systems have the most payment options of any system I've ever seen. They include feeding the machine a check, paying with PayPal, writing in a bank transfer, among something like a dozen payment mechanisms.
Before Canada implemented Chip and PIN, you usually didn't have to sign the receipt for those kind of small purchases. It takes at least 10x longer now to do the insert, type PIN, remove than just a swipe.
Interesting! Do you know how they value the negative PR cost? My understanding is that "brand value" is notoriously hard to measure, which made me think it would be difficult to include in the type of cost/benefit comparison you refer to (the $.05 vs $.01 per pound cost).
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This is really cool. I gotta revive my Touchpad to try it. Thanks!!
Keeping track of indent levels is not easy with PEGs but can be dealt with by pre processing
Elon gave "hyper" a good buzz recently. Could try "Hypertext" Markup Language.
It's not an exhaustive list of JSX implementations.
Personally, I don't use anything. I just check in my .gpg files and open with Emacs, which will decrypt/reencrypt the files for me. Any other editor worth their salt should have similar functionality.
Since I am a newbie on this forum, I tried to address every comment separately last night and HN put a stop to my incessant commenting ;-)

I'll try to address some of the good points made here now.

First of all, I am a bttn evangelist, so I am a bit biased by profession, but hopefully sane enough to recognize a salient point nevertheless. But keep you salt shakers nearby, just in case.

As I've mentioned in my other comments, the point about the $99 price point is fair. It is too high. We want to bring it down, but early runs of new hardware tend to be pricey (and, as pointed out in other comments, our offering is not just the device, it encompasses the backend and ecosystem).

The point of the presales at this price is to offer the bttn to potential early adopters as early as possible. We are certainly not trying go gouge anyone.

As for the simplicity of the bttn, simple has been the #1 design principle. Looking forward, we want to keep the user experience very simple while still increasing the functionality of the bttn drastically. We have some stuff on the pipeline that we think is pretty cool and our major concern is properly balancing usability and power.

Again, thanks for the good comments and keep them coming. We'll be sure to listen and learn.
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How is http://rescator.cc/ still online and facilitating the transactions when they are clearly selling stolen goods? I assume they are in Russia or similar. Are they using bitcoin, or do they actually use PayPal?

Their forum is also utterly amazing, and downrigh scary:
https://lampeduza.so/

Would be interesting if payment processors such as Stripe, Braintree, Amazon Payments, and Balanced periodically got CC dumps, and proactively blacklisted cards before the issuing banks notice and decline.
The problem is that there's no formal grammar and the spec of "Standard Markdown", while being more specific than John Gruber's, is still full of ambiguities.

Some examples of ambiguities:

1. It does not specify precedence. For example, if a line like "~~~" (or "[ref]: /url") is followed by a setext underline, is that a header, or is that the start of a fenced code block (or ref definition)?

2. The spec says: "Code span backticks have higher precedence than any other inline constructs except HTML tags and autolinks". It says as an example that "<a href="`">`" is a HTML tag. What happens for different placement of backticks, like "<a `href=""`>" or even "`<a href="">`" is left unspecified.

3. What is the precedence or associativity of span-level constructs? For example, does "<asterisk>a[b<asterisk>](url)" result in "a[b" being emphasised or "b<asterisk>" being linked?

Thing is, a specification-by-example like this would have to keep an ever-growing list of corner cases and give examples for each of them. To get completely unambiguous, the list needs to be very long, and when it gets very long, it becomes unwieldy to handle for an implementer of the spec.

Hence the need for a formal grammar, which is the shortest way of expressing something unambiguously. But it's not possible to write a CFG for Markdown because of Markdown's requirement that anything is valid input. So the next best thing is to define a parsing algorithm, like the HTML5 spec. (Shameless plug: vfmd (http://www.vfmd.org/) is one such Markdown spec which specifies an unambiguous way to parse Markdown, with tests and a reference implementation.)

So if "Standard Markdown" is NOT unambiguous and wouldn't be, then it's not a "standard", so calling it "Standard Markdown" is not quite proper.
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Thanks for sharing this blog. It really jived with me how we could be in a dystopia no single person is responsible for creating, but which inertia keeps bringing forth untold misery.
Both cover design and interior layout are insanely challenging. I run a small press (everybody needs a hobby: http://www.siduri.net) and the amount of time spent on covers is way out of proportion to everything else.

In an ideal world, the artist has to a) understand the book and b) create a cover that sums it up and c) produce an alternative version that isn't too heavy for the e-book.

The difference between e-book requirements and print are huge, and a few of the recent Penguin e-books I've bought all have the same cover (the Penguin logo) which looks to me like the editors just punted on the issue.

So I applaud this effort. The problem they are solving is much more difficult than it looks from the outside, and they are doing an impressive job even though the results may look less than ideal to some. Things like Project Gutenberg would be considerably enhanced if they had decent covers, and any scheme for auto-generating them that isn't positively awful [] would really help.

[] I've gotta say the first purely geometric covers in the article aren't quite my cup of tea.
Sweet. I’m in the same boat, using buildbot to produce binary packages (from git) for Debian unstable and the most recent Ubuntu release.

I’m particularly interested in the orchestration part of what they come up with in order to quickly boot VMs on GCE (or other cloud providers), do a build, and turn them down again.
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What would you have changed/used if management hadn't insisted on something that "looks like Java"?

I guess one can't thank you enough for saving the web from VBScript!
Having chipped cards would not prevent this. It would slow down criminals cloning cards but the numbers can still easily be used fraudulently online.
There's a short story I read a while back showing where things will likely head. 'Zero Hours' - https://medium.com/futures-exchange/f68f17e8c12a
Where do you find these high-quality themes? Every Bootstrap theme I've seen that doesn't look like Bootstrap has been gaudy.
> Would be interesting if payment processors such as Stripe, Braintree, and Balanced periodically purchased CC dumps, and blacklisted cards.

Wouldn't purchasing them create just one more incentive?

Also, this opens the door to disgruntled employees blacklisting all of the customers of their former employers (assuming they have access to credit card data, which shouldn't happen but often does).
Even online I have to authorize transactions using my token and the chip on the card. So that definitely would make a difference.
How does the existence of other programs tell you how the phone records are used? You're making the same mistake as the great-grandparent in a slightly different way.
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> I wish GH remembered the ?w=0 preference just as it remembers to use the split diff.

Me too! I'm working on that, but it's a bit tough as it changes the order of the lines that are rendered in the browser. Thus, code comments would kind of be borked.

Bottom line, lots to rewrite before we can do just that, but we are 100% aware of it.
Well I have those hopes too - this can be a very positive thing, since it can attract more contributions to Scala.

After all, the Scala core probably has their plate full and could use some help. It's one thing to make a proposal for a feature to a group of developers with their hands full, it's quite another to submit a pull request saying "look, this is useful, people like it" - it changes the equation.
Wow, that really is a great idea. It would be a great way to discover new places based on where people have actually gone and not just people in your friend circle. Please someone work on this!

Although I guess you could do it on github if you had technically inclined people doing the traveling and wanting to post about it.
I mentioned it above, but we're working on that. No idea when it'll happen as it's a bit more involved than that, but it will eventually.
The chip-and-pin mechanism when optimized is very low overhead, probably faster than using cash and not nearly as slow as signing a physical receipt.

For instance, one oft used optimization is that you can insert the card in the reader prior to the register sending the amount to the chip&pin terminal.
Well, you are using the same tactics to feel superior to them all.
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Presumably because there were 5 defaults when 5.94 were predicted. On the other hand, if any of those 120 loans are still outstanding, then they could still default later.
Something like 50mg/day IIRC
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Ahhh read too fast :-( Crucial sentence is "Fortunately, we know about a data structure which can keep track of an active set of integer-keyed objects and return the highest one in O(logn) time: a heap."

But then again. If I read well, he wants to 1st sort the points, 2 iterate over them and using the heap. So we have n log n for the sort and n * n log n for the heap use.. Basically (1+n) n log n (or i'm still tired ? :-))
I could be wrong, but I think System/360 is like COBOL: utterly obsolete and useless outside of a small handful of multi-bajillion dollar banks and government organizations with decades-long commitments. Maybe it lives on, but any normal programmer is going to get a lot more use out of knowing x86.

That said, learning a simpler architecture before you tackle the rat's nest that is x86 isn't a bad idea. 6502, 68000, MIPS, and ARM are all good choices for different reasons. Pick whatever appeals to you most.
holy cow, that's a low cost of living. And, it is only 4 miles to a whole foods.

If you look around that neighborhood more, you will see that many of the prices seem more typical for a city of that nature.
Doing both things allows the maximum number of users to benefit. I'm pretty sure that's what you were getting at.

The diff convention of marking inserted and deleted lines by + and - provides a "channel" of info showing text comparisons. If the + lines were also blue-green and the - lines also red-violet then there's two channels conveying the same information.

Using colors or not, we'd definitely keep the +/- markers.

The highlighting methods are distinct, but line information is the same. The +/- notation will still be useful on a monochrome monitor or printed page. On a spiffy new 2500x1600 display, I'd personally prefer the color output to quickly find what's changed.
It depends from the service, everyone has its own lock-in. With us you own the data and you can take it anytime, the hard part is to code the backend from scratch on your own.
Could you just use a roth/traditional IRA and not have to worry about the taxes each year?
Yeah, interesting! It'd be cool if you had a generative book cover that was fed the author name (and maybe some other information) as a seed, where the function gives output from the same author to have the same colour, or patterns, or something, that created images similar to the gold leaf patterns. That's actually sounding quite interesting, I might have a go at it!
Well, 4.95% defaults on 120 loans would be 5.94 loans. And presumably you can't have 0.94 of a default, so we have to round to an integer.

In other words if you have 5 defaults, you're doing better by the smallest possible margin :)
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I hear this a lot and I don't really know how EU's chip and pin works, but wouldn't it be best for the the card to spit out an encrypted blob that only the originating bank can decrypt? IE, no number that's useful to anyone in the middle at all? That seems like a better design to me.
Yeah, right, there is lots that can be done. Sadly, also Germany is still somewhat backward in that regard. Every reader seems to work differently, so I’m always a bit hesitant to just stick in my card unprompted (and maybe prematurely), lest I get yelled at or something.

There is lots to optimise, but chip and PIN is not inherently slow. In fact, for me it’s already as fast as cash in most cases.
This is a mistake; I think we got it confused with andreypopp's sweet-jsx by mistake.
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Don't working immune systems create the same selective pressure already?

If an infection kills me, I'm not around to pass the infection on anymore… at least, once my corpse has been dealt with. If I do survive and the same pathogen wants to infect me again, or keep the current infection going, it has to find a way to dodge my immune system.

Malaria hides in red blood cells. HIV hides in immune cells, plus it mutates like crazy. HSV and VZV also manage to take permanent residence. HCV usually does too, which is particularly nasty because it can take decades for symptoms to appear, and those symptoms are caused by gradual liver damage.

Given what happens when we have spotty natural immunity, being able to immunize most of a population in short order seems like an excellent thing.
I shudder to think what the actuary tables will look like!
So you may have been lucky and avoided your card getting breached, if that's the only time you went to home depot that is.
Any idea when we'll see the hardcover copy available direct from Amazon UK?

For non-linear books such as this I often prefer a physical copy as I can very easily flick back and forth between sections.

I could buy the hardcover copy from amazon.com for an additional £7.55 shipping cost but would prefer to purchase from amazon.co.uk and pay less (or nothing) for shipping.
Funny how everything after the first paragraph is living proof of just how wrong the first paragraph is.

Turns out you can use reason and intellect to understand the world and justify values.
Contactless payment is more and more widespread in france for purchases < € 20.
Well, the good news is that at least the alternative method you mention works fine, even on the K811.
I have found it easy enough to just use json-serializable literals to represent html, e.g:

['div', {id: 'main'},
['h1', 'Some title'],
['p', 'Some text']]

I wrote a little function to turn this kind of thing into an html string (https://github.com/twfarland/don), but it could also be used as the view descriptor for some kind of view component ala React. Might work on that...
Where are you from? Around here (Southern California) every card reading machine defaults to debit transactions, where you have to enter your PIN anyway. At least when you do credit cards you don't have to sign them for small purchases any more (less than $50 at Home Depot, for instance).

I really can't say I've ever felt frustrated waiting for the person ahead of me to pay (except for maybe old people hand writing checks at the grocery store—and even then it's kind of interesting to see such old-school payments in action).
Goddam the links on that article are annoying. None of them are sources, just links to general "topics" under bloomberg. Completely confusing.

It's ILA: Internal Link Architecture. It was the hot thing several years back.

http://www.seobook.com/archives/002332.shtml
As a avid reader (and collector) of old books, one thing I hate is these fake computer generated book covers.

If no cover is available, I would much prefer a simple text label.

When I do find such a book, I waste no time in stripping off the cover.

Putting a fake cover on an old book is akin to vandalism.
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Well the FAQ on the homepage says "Do NOT contact us about Bitcoin transfer that has status of Unconfirmed Transaction on Blockchain.info" so I'm guessing they don't use PayPal.
That's the case for chip and pin too, low-cost transactions can be authorised with just a swipe.
> how might you contribute to humanity, and even deeper, to the well-being of the world, by pursuing mathematics

I cannot begin to express how much I disagree with this. Mathematics should fight child abuse? And artists enlist in the military to fight despots overseas, by way of art??

Mathematics should be an end in itself. You should be a mathematician, or a stand-up comic, or a painter because it fulfills you, because it lets you express something about you and provides you with a deep sense of satisfaction. Because it helps you live, not because it helps "the world". The world is big and doesn't care about you; there is no way to know what helps the world and what doesn't, anyway.

If what fulfills you is healing people, or getting them out of poverty, then by all means go do that.

But don't pollute mathematics, or art, with morals.