skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. There's a chance that your contactless card sends a different token that isn't your credit card number when you pay that way. I'm not sure. If so, you're right that it's basically the same level of security.

However, the new way lets you do the same thing in software without giving all your transactions to Google, which is nice. We'll be able to do online payments that are as secure and private as NFC, which we can't today.
Is there even a vaguely legitimate interest in keeping the nature of "cell extractions" and forced feedings secret? How can "the enemy" possibly use this information?

I suppose there's the tired argument used to keep most of the Abu Ghraib photos from the public eye: That even something of no strategic value can be kept secret if telling the truth about it might inflame hostilities somewhere in the world.
From experience with exchange students, staying with families and going to regular local secondary school (ages 15-18, look at www.afs.org for more information) -- that sounds typical for an adult in a non-native work setting, making an effort.

Generally students starting at zero will use 3/5/7 months to approach fluency, approaching native level at the end of a stay. The difference being the "jump distance" -- so German to Norwegian or Spanish to Italian is 3 -- Arabic to Norwegian might be 5 -- and Japanese to Norwegian might be closer to 7.

Coming to Norway, sometimes students with poor English skills will do better - not being tempted to fall back to English, breaking the immersion - and not having such a hard time "forcing" class mates to speak Norwegian.

Having spent a year in Japan myself, it's fascinating how one can go from seemingly "nothing" to fluent after those months of no apparent progress. But language learning tends to be like a staircase -- you can feel stuck at one level for a long time (and being in a foreign setting it can be incredibly frustrating to be constrained to a preschool level of speech) -- only to seem to jump up a level. And then you'll be stuck there... etc
For those interested in this learning approach, I recommend the book "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle [1] which covers 3 areas for mastering new skills.

Here the author only mentions about the importance of repetition (which she refers to as fluency). In the Talent code book Repetition is the first step, but we can learn that the brain is wired to master new skills by taking advantage of 2 others areas as well: A/ Ignition (or passion and motivation), and B/ Discipline and long term commitment.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Talent-Code-Greatness-Grown/dp/055...
Ok, point taken, but is the answer that there aren't any break-out successes from TS Chicago yet?
Maybe to fail the coursework but what about the real world where they won't have to do equations by hand on timed tests anymore?
Ello Says You're Not a Product, but You Are – The Atlantic
When I was learning C, I would write my program, then run it step-by-step in the debugger (I was using Visual Studio at the time) until it was pointless to do so because I knew what would happen next. If I made a change and did not have a mental model of what would happen, I would run the debugger.

Learning how to solve problems is a different process, but this gave me good understanding of basic code structures.
I'd purchase this if this ships from amazon
I've been thinking lately about a way to address this: get a "phone" with no cell hardware, and pair it with a cellular/WiFi bridge such as MiFi. Get internet-based replacement services for voice calls and texts. Now you have one less undocumented interface or super-privileged CPU to worry about.

There's a lot of practicality questions in terms of battery life, expense, convenience to carry around, but for certain security scenarios it seems like a step forward.
[i work at meteor]

Meteor's hot code push on mobile is more sophisticated than this. When you deploy a new version of a Meteor app, clients fetch and save the new client JavaScript bundle along with its static assets. Future launches of the installed app immediately run new code (even offline) without first requiring a round trip to a server.
I disagree that tiling WMs necessarily have a steep learning curve. From experience I claim: Anybody can learn to use a WM like xmonad in its stock configuration in about 30 minutes, and be proficient enough to have a significant boost in productivity in a day or two.
> It took me 30 seconds to think of those

> The revenue collected is minuscule

I think it also took you 30 seconds to assume that. Also, the dev already was doing various ways to get income from businesses, including some which you posted.
Best Buy is struggling with getting people to buy anything to begin with..
You might also be interested in Witch [0] which lets you switch between windows of different apps as opposed to only switching between single apps or between windows of a single app.

[0]http://manytricks.com/witch/
Not all planes broadcast ads-b.
I'm confused by the idea that a platform with a published kernel development kit could be considered "locked down, discouraging tinkering".
As someone who usually makes statements against the NSA and other rogue agencies (or other types of corruption), I'm going to have to defend them here.

While there are certainly people at the top that need to go to jail (and it obviously is an open question as to who and how many), I strongly suspect that many of the people working there are simply following vague or seemingly-unrelated orders. Also, cries of urgency and need are hard to ignore, especially when they are wrapped in patriotism and the idea that you're trying to protect others.

All of this is especially true at the NSA, which is historically very compartmentalized ("need to know"), which further confuses the issue.

As for the future once those responsible are jailed, vigilance is the price of peace. In this case, what would be making sure regulation/oversight happens and actually has the power to do their job. The problem of regulatory capture is the systemic problem across the government in general. We need to address that problem (urgently), but it is not an NSA specific problem.
Don't forget all of the acquisition activity over the last ten years. Providian was bought by Washington Mutual, which was taken over by JP Morgan. Add to that BankOne from the early 2000s, Bear Stearns, several other regional banks, and their massive student lending network and it's not unbelievable that they reach so many "households" even those households don't bank directly with Chase.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
I got tired of not having an intuitive understanding of particular mathematical concepts. The rote memorization was very limiting for be because I wasn't as easily able to grasp when it might apply to certain concepts.

Pretty sure Kalid is a commenter here, but I have to give him a huge thanks and plug for BetterExplained.com--really helped me grasp some of these higher-level concepts in a more intuitive manner, even if I didn't walk away with a full understanding of the intricacies.

His Cheatsheet is a great starting point if you are interested in a particular topic:
http://betterexplained.com/cheatsheet/
I'm confused by the subhead. Natural selection occurs at the population level.
The article doesn't say anything about credit card numbers being taken. It seems to imply just email address, phone number and physical address was taken.

That kind of information is nearly public (not that it's OK but it seems a lot less damaging).

If more was, it would be good know.
Im an MD for Techstars in Austin and happy to answer specific questions on this for anyone about our programs and results.

I don't know the details of this specific company, so I won't comment on any of those particulars, but I can for sure comment on the structure of our terms.

As I mention in another reply on this thread, the OP appears to have misunderstood the note terms as presented. Currently the 100k note offered is a 3mil-5mil cap note, 20% discount. What causes it to be 5 vs 3 is whether or not the company has had a prior financing event. In other words the cap by default is 3, but it'll float up to 5 if a prior financing is above 3 for a particular company. Those terms are written in stone for all time, but as of this exact moment that's what they are and that's what the were at the time of this blog post.

One other thing I'll point out that wasn't covered in the post, likely due to the timing of the event, is our first >= 100 million exit, which happened in the last month.

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2014/09/23/stratasy...
--startups do not fall into the category of traditional businesses with strong P&Ls and great balance sheets--

So as a bootstrapper are you still taking this approach past year 3 or 4? At a certain point you need to hone in on that repeatable / scalable business model and put up some numbers or fold.

If you're a couple years in and have bootstrapped past breakeven your funding options AND odds of survival are greatly improved- so why not orient around that outcome?

I'm not here to defend the absurd behavior and ignorance of commercial banks just pointing out that sometimes the game changes if you can afford to take a slower more incremental approach to growth than what is typically demanded by VC.
Nah, they'll just go about their business after offering everyone a year of free credit monitoring, and wait for the next security breach. Nobody from these negligent companies are going to jail, so none of them are going to change the way they handle security.
Your argument doesn't address the parent's first point, that many customers hesitate or refuse to use free software. By having paid downloads from their main front, they can market to these people, and use them to generate a modest amount of revenue that would otherwise not exist.
which is what i said but its at the bottom of this post.
Bitcoin legal guide: Seeking feedback from the HN community
Small businesses get screwed all the time by fraudulent chargebacks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargeback
Is requiring the signing of an LOI over the weekend typical of TechStars?
This is what happens when prosecutors get unlimited leverage and no accountability. I get it that the system is stressed; but the right thing to do in that case is drop cases, starting with the least violent. Sure, you'll release some (perhaps many) legitimate law-breakers, but that's preferable, in my opinion, than promulgating gross injustices like those suffered by Browder.

I'm glad, though, that Browder avoided suicide and is taking positive action against the system that perpetuated a gross injustice on him. Other New Yorker's would do well to pay attention to and support this case, lest they or someone they know get caught in the same horror show.
Likewise, I use it all the time and can't really say I begrudge them their one-off $5
BEST AND NEW EROTICA( unlike anything ever read before)
Jon Nordby demoed this idea with http://flowhub.io/ a couple of weeks ago: http://youtu.be/wCdKukf-dHI

1. Tap tablet to Raspberry Pi with NFC tag

2. Pi serves Flowhub IDE (noflo-ui) with the currently-running graph, ready for editing

This demo drops you directly into the source, but could easily have an interface layer first. It's just a link.
Hi Hacker News! Wanted to get your feedback on the following:

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This guide has two goals; to inform lawyers and the public about Bitcoin and to provide an overview of the legal issues relevant to Bitcoin (Both in the US and abroad).

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I am interested in this kind of topic, but came away disappointed. Not only is it long-winded, but also she never gave clear definitions of 'fluency' and 'understanding', which are the key ideas in the article.

I think the reason she has succeeded is quite simple: she is an avid learner. She has put in huge amount of effort into learning. It's not about some magic methods she discovered.

Carrying the formula f=ma in head all day long, thinking about it, practicing its various forms in different situations, that is not rote learning or simple repetition (as the author claims), it is working one's a$$ off to understand something.
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I used to swim pretty intensely every other day and I remember it being hard exercise but I loved it and never found it boring: you just get into this flow and forget about everything but the water.
Frankly, the hardest part was getting out of the house and just going and getting in the water (especially on cold winter days) but after that it was almost automatic.
I've also been using it for almost a decade. I usually have to:
+ find the largest source version of the font in question. common logos are frequently available in vector format (I'm assuming you're using the service because the font itself has been outlined; you'd have no use for it if the font is either embedded or referenced). if bitmap, use google image search to find the largest size.
+ create a high contrast version. if vector, simply open in a vector editing app and make the text black if it isn't already, and remove any background. if bitmap, open in bitmap editor and manipulate image via channel editing or using levels, curves, or other method.
+ edit in vector or bitmap app to remove any overlaps.
+ save to highest quality JPEG and upload to what the font.
+ use what the font's drag functionality to combine letterforms that it (ridiculously) doesn't automatically detect such as "i".
+ hope for the best.
It's highly likely that the FBI lied.

But I don't understand their agents mindset. Is it "the ends justify the means"? I don't get the thinking. If I took an oath to "faithfully uphold the Public Trust" or some such, I wouldn't engage in routine prevarication.

I guess that's why I'm not in law enforcement.
TS 2014 NYC

We found the program immensely valuable. The network you get connected to is almost worth it alone. The actual 3 month program is what you make it really. You get connected to amazing mentors, are expected to meet weekly milestones, and are offered the chance to hear many talks from prominent investors/entrepreneurs. How you decide you and your team act on these opportunities is where the value can be relative and vary per team. Some teams don't like the structure, some do, and some just keep their head down for the 3 months and pay little attention to who comes in the Techstars office door.

This person's critique of the program seems a bit off to me. As other commenters stated, his math is off on the equity calculations (we just finished our first raise and certainly didn't give up anywhere close to 50% of the company). Getting upset because a couple of people couldn't provide a detailed, helpful answer very specific to your startup after hearing a 10 minute pitch about it is a bit too critical, in my opinion. And I wouldn't read much in the request to sign the paperwork by Monday. It was likely oversight, and personally, if I needed time, I'd have told them that instead of interpreting it as some sketchy sales tactic and getting upset.

That said, the program isn't for everyone, and it can of course be improved, so maybe they made the right decision in the end. I just don't think they had enough evidence (or at least interpreted that evidence fairly enough) to ever know at this point.
Given that I work with our cloud program and in Austin I'm not as intimate with the alumni from Chicago, but one that I am personally fond of is http://www.giveforward.com/

They've crowd-funded over 125 million dollars toward medical expenses for people in need.
...hence the need for the tracker. I get the utility aspect for ladies. i agree that this is a rather big and silly oversight by Apple.

This being understood, digestive health is in a very poor place in my country ['murka] and if people watched their shit and urine color, they would lead fuller, more productive lives.

So, yes, i'm serious.

EDIT 01
To your point, most women who want to track do; i feel fairly confident in saying that most people don't even know you can track health through feces, much less how.

An index of colors, textures, warning signs, and the ever popular blaaaaaack pooooo caused by peptobismol. stories from sufferers of IBS, Chron's, Cancer. There is a universe in our guts, and a pantheon of actors, good and bad, vying for control of the reaches of the lands of greater and lesser Colon.

Dramatic? Maybe, but i think you might be surprised how much tracking your temple's output with the same fervor that many apply to their input, your health [==life] will be better.
As an aside, the Manhattan cocktail was invented for Churchill's mother.
Reverse phone lookup and address look up sites
What site do I use for free reverse phone look up and also peoples past addresses
I believe the comment was explaining why public shaming would be a moot effort, not that the practice was justifiable.
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What I learned working at Groupon
So you offer those people a paid support contract upfront.

* Click here to download Synergy with support ($4.99)

* Click here to download Synergy with no support (free)

It's common to call the no-support option the "community" version.
Does anyone here know anything about the nature of the attack?
Great post - I would stress that for me, one of the big limitations of Markdown is that it just doesn't do everything LaTeX does.

So although it might be slightly easier to get started with, it doesn't let you do everything you need (as a scientific writer).
> "may eventually"

That suggests a "Drake Equation" type estimate, probably something similar to:

density = current_disk_density * moores_law * official_estimate_of_project_lifetime
total = building_area * density * "round up for reporters/management" * propaganda multiplier
round_up_to_next_si_prefix(total)

The actual value is probably somewhere between "current (much smaller) need" and "how much do we need expand the budget", both of which are far smaller than those numbers.
you miss the point; tracking your shit is not a way to avoid public embarrassment or hours in a sink [lads get blood on our clothes to, though some not as frequently as others].

tracking digestive data [doota?log log?] is a way to avoid the doctor's office and the emergency room, make informed decisions about diet on a progressive, as opposed to resolution, basis.

Hunters, medical forensic researchers, detectives, your mom; all of these professionals know that poop is a massive data dump of valuable info.
Ah, the criminal justice system, a completely self-contradictory system of principles that only apply to random degrees of completeness, where 6 months means 3 years, and indictment is a low enough bar as to not even matter, and plea bargains and overly harsh sentencing mean proper results often don't happen.
Nope.

Sam Altman had a great post recently about YC's indictment of timing pressure tactics on accelerator offers. We completely agree with that position and try very hard to not give that impression. Clearly sometimes that pressure is still felt even if it's not intended.

One issue that is relevant to us given our fixed class sizes is getting a definitive answer from an offer as quickly as we can so that we know if should move down the list and give an offer to the next team instead. Having 10 offers out and finding out that only 8 want to accept would mean we are giving out 2 offers potentially much later than the others.

Purely as a practical timing matter we hope to have a set of offers out around the same time and have everyone accept or dismiss them pretty quickly so we know who the class will be.

There was good discussion of this on a prior HN thread when @sama posted that blog piece. If I can dig it up I'll add it here.

EDIT: found it -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8285994
Are we done yet with New York's tech hype?
Hah, cool. I remember using Synergy a lot while I was working at SGI, to connect between a windows, linux, and irix box. I never imagined there'd be a company built around it.
wow sometimes I'm scared if something like this will happen to me. Innocent people end up in jail nowadays for nothing they didn't do and end up doing time for 30 years or so. Happens all the time depressing stuff.
How well do two men policies work in practice? I'm currently reading "Command and Control" and I get the impression that even around nuclear warheads, people enjoy bending the rules if it will save them 15 minutes.

I'm not finished with the book, however.
Oh, I thought that would be included in my first category - I'm not assuming that the hypothetical criminals are necessarily Russian, just that it's easier for them to launch attacks from within Russian jurisdiction for whatever reason. But it's a good distinction to make, thanks.
I think it's safe to say that's the answer - SpotHero is doing quite well and just raised a $4.5M series A, GiveForward as mentioned has crowdfunded a good amount of money for people's medical bills, and FeeFighters sold to groupon relatively early on. None of these are "breakout successes" to the tune of a 100M valuation, however.
It's always the combination of conceptual learning and memorization when it comes to learn math. It's like performing a complex computation job once, and then caching the result for fast retrieval. Memorization is for efficiency: it clears the way for our brains to focus on higher-level thinking. The great Euler "memorized not only the first 100 prime numbers but also all of their squares, their cubes, and their fourth, fifth, and sixth powers. While others are digging through tables or pulling out pencils and paper, Euler could simply recite from memory...". Besides, math is all about making invisible visible, about discovery patterns, or about connecting dots. That means we need to have dots to connect, and need to have patterns to work with. If we don't remember them, what the hell can we use for?

On the other hand, there's no need for rote memory. Just practice by solving interesting problems. There are plenty of opportunities to use math every day. There is also a very effective way of learning: work on slightly harder than usual problems. When learning calculus, I started to work on Demidovich's Problems in Mathematical Analysis, and I thought it was hard. Then, I stumbled upon solution book for college math competitions. Man, that was a huge help. After working through the problems, a lot of concepts became clear to me, and Demidovich's problems became reasonably easy too. It turned out the hard problems were hard because they required me to make non-obvious connections, which nudged me to really understand, from different angles, the concepts that I learned in the classroom.

By the way, when did arithmetic become so hard? It seems kids nowadays are being spoiled by their parents...
It's important to know that without help, this is a dead kid. This is the kid you hear about getting shot by the police, overdosing, or going to prison for life for murder.

The justice system would have killed this kid if somebody from a magazine hadn't picked him as an example. Our society kills thousands of kids just like him on a weekly basis.
You mean "If requiring customers to go through the trouble of re-submitting all their payment information…", surely. Because what we're talking about here, not merely reminding them that they are paying.
Much higher than that.