skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a lot of cards. Between gift cards, loyalty cards, and credit cards, I have at least 20-30 that I'd like to carry on me. I end up leaving cards I don't use every day in my car (and am always paranoid about the valet as a result). I use a KeyRing app for loyalty cards, but it's a pain and requires me often typing numbers into things. I often find myself in a Starbucks, realizing I left the Starbucks gift card in my car. Etc.

This would let me get away with a much slimmer wallet and is therefore quite convenient. If it works.
Does anyone know how docker the company plans to make money?
1. With respect to e-ink on a flexible substrate... it was announced but I've never seen it happen. I've dealt with e-ink fairly recently on two projects. They don't have a flexible design to sell you beyond prototype. and for custom sizes Their MOQ to begin exploring a custom option is 100K units.

2. There is no coil in a charge pump :). They use capacitors and switches. There is no inductor. For a charge pump to drive an eink like screen you need caps of about 10-20uF. I've designed about 3 different boards that drive high-res e-ink screens. You can't get those caps below 1mm at the very best.

3. Are you sure you are getting 0.2mm PCBs? That is only 8mils thick! Most standard PCBs are 62 mils ~ 1.5mm. Can you tell me who these guys are that would do super thin at prototype prices? I would want to use them (no sarcasm).

Minimum IPC thickness for 4 layer board (which is what you need for the EPSON driver to those e-inks) is 12 mils but even at that you'll have mechanical problems with that PCB. Credit card thickness FYI is 30 mils = 0.030".

What I would say to these guys is: "show me a prototype with the appropriate thickness. You have a prototype, right?"
Geonames.org has files containing zip code, city and, lat/lon:
http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/

Hope this helps.
It serves the company's need to insert itself into the financial data stream. You know the story: "It's a $2 trillion industry - imagine if we just captured a fraction of that! Step 3: profit."

For users, this must be some retro fad jumping the gun. Given the value of the transaction data going through this thing, it should be free at worst.
Oh, come on now. Most of these are edge cases of passing in invalid data into functions that try to make sense of it, using discouraged functionality (e.g. not using strict-mode or using obscure parts of the language that are only supported for backwards-compatibility) and the rest shows just a complete lack of understanding of the language.

One of the "WTFs" is `"true" == true` being false. Double-equals comparison being discouraged aside, the only language in which I would expect that to be true is PHP. Another is about `getElementById` -- that's not even about the language, it's about the DOM (which has WTFs of its own right and still would have them if you used a different language in the browser).

If you want a good laugh about JS, I recommend Destroy All Software's infamous WAT talk (which also contains some Ruby).
And what about the backend? Last I heard it's all stored as files on a handful of machines, so it's not like it's some off the shelf database you can just keep throwing machines at to scale. Also it's written in lisp originally by one person, so have fun figuring out how it all works and ramping up to it quickly.

There's also certainly a big support overhead dealing with the moderation of stories and comments.

I'm not saying it should take hundreds of dedicated engineers to run the site, but I think it's silly to look at it and think you could run it in your spare time because it's just a list of stories.
That's what duct tape is for.

Not joking.
(I'll take a crack at explaining this momentarily...)

Good grief, that took a long time. Here you go: http://pastebin.com/bSW5dfRQ [1]. I'd better stop neglecting my duties now!

Edit: One thing I forgot to put in there: one reason the closure technique is powerful is that you're leveraging the programming language and runtime to do most of the book-keeping for you. Whatever data is handy, you just reference. The system will remember all the references. That's why using things like query strings and hidden form fields is more complicated: you have to handle all those details yourself (not to mention serialize and deserialize them if you're passing through any other format than what your program keeps in memory). That is tedious, and when your app has many kinds of request, the complexity quickly piles up.

Of course there are other abstractions you can build over this, but closures are an elegant one—especially in cases where programming simplicity is more important than scalability, which is most cases.

Edit 2: A few people thought this should be its own post, so I made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425011.

[1] Originally http://pastebin.com/dETyYtpX, but I added the above bit etc.
One little step. I am all for better tools on Android. I don't think it necessarily means replacing Java, nor that Go would be the only solution but I do think Android development could use some big improvements (in all fairness, the Android Tools Team is bringing more and more cool stuff).

If Go is the future of Android though, what we really need is a way to call Android's API from Go.
Congratulations! You successfully responded with negative sarcasm and absolutely no constructive criticism or counter points. You sir are the winner of the internets! Enjoy your day.
It's not going to be soon :(
Just to clarify, Coin is 100$ not 50$. Not sure where you're getting the 3x factor from.
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You say that, but it is the same as the dotcom days, everyone thought it was a "new economy", yadda yadda. Right now, ALL these investments are highly speculative. Any of these companies could do a MySpace overnight.
Thanks for that. Great stuff.
There is a possibility to say that you have graduated in 2013, so you don't even need to be a student?? Didn't get. So if you hold a university mail and you've graduated last year, you can get one?
I'm not aware of any jQuery alternatives. Most things that predate jQuery (prototype, mooTools, YUI) have long since fallen out of favor, and the 'alternatives' to jQuery are mostly API-compatible subsets (jqLite, zepto). What exactly do you mean by 'abundance of jQuery alternatives'?
...and the realization of the reality of toxicity when one breaks on tile right in front of your toddlers.

Methinks if CFLs were promoted by one political party instead of another as a tactic for a particular sociopolitical strategy, we'd be hearing loud denunciations of promoting a product which uses a toxic & environmentally-unfriendly gas encased in a fragile housing.
What would actually be slightly lower in cost and leverage existing infrastructure better would be this Plastc card but remove the bluetooth, the touch interface, chip-n-pin, and the internal battery. Just have an app on your NFC phone and have it send the card data over NFC to the card when you want to use it. In this way you could just have an app on your phone which can work with the bank over the Net to generate throw-away numbers for every transaction.

Having any credit card number which you've ever used only usable for one single purchase would make fraud have to change to adapt. But you could probably sell such a thing easily today with all the recent loss of credit card number news. Granted, the vendor of such a card has to partner with a bank to enable this feature set, and then only a small number of people will want such a card as it imposes a new workflow for paying for things.
Hm, that's nice of them, although this page states you aren't allowed to do that: "Keep in mind that we only allow one promo code per account, so if you’ve redeemed one in the past you may not add another. To see your promo code history please visit your billing page."

https://www.digitalocean.com/help/pricing-and-billing/
> Clojure is much, much less complex then Scala and it is functional and OO.

Until you need to decipher someone else's code full of NIH macros.
thanks! That is exactly what I was looking for!
"In 2009, during the worldwide epidemic of H1N1 swine flu, the Ministry of Agriculture decreed that all Egyptian pigs had to be killed. There was no evidence that pigs were spreading the disease, but the government went ahead and slaughtered as many as three hundred thousand animals. Some Egyptians believe that the decision was driven by a desire to appease Islamists, who had become outspoken critics of the regime, and supposedly hated pigs even more than they hated Mubarak."

wow.
Yes yes...Finland and California are the same everything. So interchangeable that one could live in CA or Finland and have the same life style....no. Cost != value. On that though...worse national defense...you realize the US has the largest armed militia in the world...the people. Good luck with Russia!
Maybe, however for me, I haven't found anything that has replaced full albums of events (vacation, wedding, new baby). Or atleast haven't found anything that has had enough adoption to justify me leaving FB.
"Smile!" is one config file away from putting his head on her body. It might be hilarious, but it's not AI.

Citation of hilarity
http://manbabies.com/
I don't understand you either.

I don't know what you mean by a 'sorting filter', but what I'm talking about is an algorithm that takes >40Mb of data as input (pictures of Bolt and Athens for example) and uses this data to output ~40Mb of Bolt in Athens.

I mean human artists to be an analogy: humans can 'select' a picture of Athens Bolt without enumerating all others. I don't see why computers couldn't.
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No, other developed countries have generally comparable results in concrete outcome measurements to the US, as well as lower (per capita and per GDP) public + private costs, and better access (universal, generally) to non-emergency care.

Additionally, several also have lower public + private costs than the US's public costs (which in turn are lower than US private costs).
Sure it helps! Even if this database does not contain every city that I wanna check, it definitely helps.

thank you very much
Would it be too gushing of me to say that Twitter is by far the most heroic of the large tech companies in the US? Good for them!
Yeah, it's extremely weird to see homeopathic "medicine" all over in a country with an otherwise excellent, modern medical system.

Germany generally does a good job on evidence-based herbal medicine (like standardizing St. John's wort extract), but I worry that the line can easily be blurred between them and homeopathic products in the eyes of most consumers. You really have to look carefully - they're not clearly marked.

So honestly, you're probably quite right about it being a deliberate exploitation of the placebo effect. Because otherwise, there's no reason not to ban them.
I did use your app for learning purposes - I studied the code quite a lot when learning Android. Thanks for good job !
If the card presented by the customer can show the picture and signature for authentication, my hacked plastc will show my picture and signature along with my fraudulent magstripe.

It's security theater...
It could be handy if when it runs out of battery it remains as the last selected card. Not sure if the re-programmable strips require a charge to hold their pattern.
"Flash Memory (up to 20 cards)"

Good luck with that.
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True. Some are based on evidence.

But you still haven't shown any and the only thing mentioned in this thread is a collection of "WTFs" that range from obscure facts (which you will find in pretty much any language that has been around for a while) and novices being astonished that the language doesn't always do what they think it would do because they treat it like a different language they already know (IOW being lazy).
I worked on online casino software for several years and we had a number of bugs like this. They would usually involve someone writing a client to hit our API directly and fiddling with the xml messages. The operators would usually catch the issues within hours, turn off the game and often deny the players their winnings, if it was a legitimate win. Several people wound up in jail for exploits.

In the early days of the company it was a fairly significant problem with incidents pretty frequently. The lack of QA and a release process really bit them a few times as well. A game was put into production with the result hard coded to a win. Goes to show that just because a company makes software that deals with money and is financially successful it does not mean they are at all competent. It took 9 years for them to turn things around and transform the company into a highly effective dev shop, at least by industry standards. I am proud I was part of that. Unfortunately the industry had some major problems in 2009-2010 and they ended up having to find a buyer who even more unfortunately does not appreciate or understand developers or software development.

We did integrations with many other gambling software companies and not a single organization was what I consider competent. I would love to see a new company with serious technical chops break into the world of online gambling and school the crusty behemoths. Hard to do however because of the network effects and importance of reputation and deal making.
Is this true only in common law jurisdictions (most of the USA and UK), rather than civil law jurisdictions (Louisiana, Europe)?
Also see http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/05/05/us-afghanistan-pig...
This annotation:

http://meta.genius.com/4127010

That picture of Bruges is from Seeing Like a State[1], which should be required reading for all managers.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300078153/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
I have the same problem, and I think the best solution would be to index my web browser search history and be able to search through that index. However that would probably generate a lot of junk. My current solution is to bookmark anything that's vaguely interesting. And when I remember something, I search through the bookmarks. I never look at them, they're just for keeping the stack of stuff to search through.
The Extropian Roots of Bitcoin
I don't know if GitHub added it afterwards, but when you click to get the promo code from DO, they say underneath

"Contact DigitalOcean support with your unique promo code if you have previously redeemed a promotional offer, credit card required for activation"
Well remembered. I also heard a history about chicken legs years ago.

I also worked on a firm, in Brazil, that make a ERP software for Chicken producers. Some of our clients told me all chicken legs was separated and send to Asia (I think it was Japan), where it is a really appreciated product.
How about going after some of the human beings who directed and profited from all this illegal activity instead of just milking banks for more money.

This country is so screwed up. We send in a SWAT team when someone is growing okra in their backyard (apparently it looks like marijuana from a helicopter) yet let the rich and connected get off scot free after stealing billions of dollars.
This story via the API: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8422599.json?prin...
The larger a conspiracy, the more doomed to failure. There is no way a couple of schlubs like these two could recruit eight other people to follow their directions precisely and not get greedy. The first guy couldn't even recruit one person he could convince to do that!

Perhaps a charismatic religious leader could inspire enough loyalty among brainwashed acolytes for such a scheme, but that's about it. Normal people are greedy.
American prosecutors have too much power. Hand some of it to judges
Interesting. Might give it a try. Thanks!
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their point is that this is a package meant to financially aid those in the process of learning, but it's restricted to learners who are already privileged enough to be part of the expensive system (maybe some of them through grants or loans).

Isn't it worth mentioning that a package meant to give people access to expensive learning resources isn't available to those who need it most?
I guess you don't use HN very often. We fixed that in nearly all cases a few months ago :)
They could be doing something else funny, like providing their own credit card info to the merchant via the chip and then just billing your credit card in the background, like how Google Wallet works...
> this isn’t about whether he’s right or not, it’s about whether we can have the discussion about whether he’s right in a calm, civil, technical manner.

Yes, that's the main point. It's mind boggling that people like Linus Torvalds and some others find it acceptable to throw curse words and use foul language in the public technical mail lists just because they feel frustrated or don't like something (even if it's justified). Or may be they feel they have some privileged status which puts them above normal manners? They don't. As Lennart writes, such attitude greatly discourages any participation just because the environment isn't healthy. This simply should be unacceptable in any decent community.
Well, if you found a bug that allowed you to log into someone else's bank account and remit all their money to your own account, would exploiting it be right?
He's not assuming any such absurd implication. He's assuming (quite charitably) that you are not completely ignorant of the basic facts of the healthcare debate: that the US system is vastly more expensive than any other country and produces sub-par outcomes when compared to other developed countries. (In the US, the rich can get top-notch healthcare, but this does little to bring up the averages.)
Slash for all HUMANS! it's basically the best book ever – i'll add a link in to the annotation..
Google military surveillance complex
It doesn't have to deallocate dead objects. That is sort of the point of most collectors.
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> loss of branding on their cards and the additional fraud risk

Loss of branding is a fair point, but I think this would reduce fraud risk. Automatically deactivating itself when lost or stolen more than makes up for the risk of trusting Plastc.
Oh well, the place where I live has tap water with better health standards than bottled one, but when driving, one still has to look for potholes. So much for civilization :(.
Oh yeah - I totally forgot about my debit card. So I guess I carry 4 and would carry at least 8 without space constraints.
Products for People: The UX Drawing Game
Coin is $100 now but it's original pre-orders were $50. I didn't know they raised the price after I bought it.
Arena allocation has similar efficiencies as GC.
Yup, prices have become quite palatable: still high, but between longevity (1 LED ~= 10 incandescent) and eliminating replacement hassle (obviate 9 climb-on-something replacements), and that the color issue is resolved to my satisfaction, they're preferable.

Only issue now is consistency in group replacements. While I'm replacing independent bulbs as they burn out, things like a vanity with 12 bulbs means dropping some $150 at once to replace all the bulbs so they will all be exactly the same model. Styling & performance is still changing rapidly enough that occasional replacement of a burnout in a group will result in inconsistent bulbs, looking sloppy.
Really? I've had namecheap domains from Ireland for years.
>Many 'students' would probably be in a better financial situation than a non-'student' who is trying to learn. Somehow 'education' has turned into a tool for passing on privilege.

What? You mean to say that students, who spend all their time studying (and pay tuition in some countries), are in a better financial position than people who has either free time and don't pay tuition, or has a full-time job?

They give it to students because that the reality is that students often don't have any spare money for tools, but they do indeed need/use them for their education etc.
I think part of the angst centers around the bit where the markup is going to change. Lots of apps for HN that scrape the UI rely upon the current site to enable things like voting and other signed-in-only actions, for which there is (currently) no first-class API way to do these things. Even if the endpoints for voting change, getting other information (i.e. which items you voted on, so the vote arrows hide) is still markup-dependent.
This is Coin with a larger e-ink display, NFC and "Chip and PIN"
I love this https://www.wealthfront.com/tools/startup-salary-equity-comp.... It uses D3.js
They're not playing poker though. "Double Up" is not a feature of poker. It's a feature of this very specific and state-approved game.
> The diode itself produces only a peak in the spectrum. Phosphors are used to convert the light to a wide spectrum. There are different kinds of phosphors, and there can be multiple coatings of different types. So you can also have different qualities -- and the quality can be very good.

Thanks for the explanation. I've been learning a little about light sources; based on my limited knowledge, I wouldn't expect that the full spectrum (or spectral power distribution (SPD)) of daylight could be replicated by hacking together LEDs and phosphors, though perhaps the untrained eye would not be cognizant of the difference. Can they really pull off 'daylight'?
How to Build a Master Details View When Using CQRS and Event Sourcing
Worse yet, I recall a study that found placebos are actually getting better over time. As in: drugs that have been tested successfully before fail in new tests because the placebos perform better than before.

I'm not entirely sure what the plausible explanation for that one would be. Other than that the testing methods have changed to create a bias in favour of the placebos being successful.
n is big, and depth-millimeters count for a lot in pocket world.

If you're a lady wearing jeans, this could make the difference in whether you need to bring a purse.

For me, it makes the difference re: whether I need to carry a wallet at all, or whether I replace it with a phone case that has a pocket for this and my drivers license.
You've just described the bigger startup/crowdfunding scene, my friend. Technology is religion these days - most people aren't able to penetrate the mysteries, and instead have faith in a positive outcome.
That's true, though I think once major retailers, gas stations, grocery stores and ATMs are accepting mobile payments, you'd be able to get by without any "legacy" forms of payment pretty easily.
Took them no time at all to add it to my existing account, thanks for the tip!
It's meant to get future paying customers to use their stack.

It's not a charity. The open source hosting tools (which github offers) are more charitable.
How can I find the current rank of a story via the API?
How much do product companies like Yahoo pay in India?
One thought pattern that's helped me with that kind of dread-feedback is to say "No problem, I can just lie here awake all night. At least I'll rest my body, and I can handle an occasional day without sleep."

I do often fall asleep shortly afterwards as a result, but it requires actually not stressing over in the odd case that I don't.
But very, very few languages are 'weakly' typed, to the point of it almost being a silly way to talk about them.

Like Perl and PHP?
Perhaps few (in number) languages are weakly typed, but they're also a few of the most commonly used languages in existence.
This would be so, so useful to me as someone who left college last year & has been self-learning programming since (college was for a CCNA-esque qualification). I applied, but I don't know if I will qualify for it.

Could any of the github people in this thread let me know if I have a chance? The Digitalocean, namecheap, hackhands would be so insanely useful for me.

EDIT:

Thanks to John Britton from github for manually approving my request.