skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too am jaded by Coin's delays (though after a year of Soylent delays, each one promising delivery "next month", I guess I should know better). As for the battery life I really don't expect to still be using the same Coin in 2 years. I imagine I will have an upgraded Chip & Pin version or just be using Apple Pay by then. I fear that all of these card-replacement solutions will be downed out by things like Apple Pay (I assume other companies will introduce competing services, and no Google Wallet is not a competing service IMHO). I might be able to get a Coin refund but I'm not a huge fan of pulling funding from them (even if it's only $50) and I still think it's a nifty idea. I'm still very much so looking forward to getting my Coin sometime in December (supposed to ship by the end of November), that is of course if they stick to that timetable.
How does actually commoditize banking products? It just reduces the number of cards that you may or may not have in your wallet, with may or may not be a real problem for a majority of people. My gut feeling as a tech guy with disposable cash is that this looks great and I'd love to have this as a cool toy, but honestly it does not fulfill any real daily need for the mass market or for general good.
Think of it in crypto terms. If you can know when an investigation is ongoing, you can learn something useful as an adversary.
While this is a valiant cause, I don't know what this buys Twitter in the long run. If they have the ability to disclose exact numbers, the only number that would really have any impact is 0. It would be interesting to know what, if any, this number would have on their business.
A bit pedantic but, at the bottom of [2] it says Net Income for JP Morgan was $21b for 2012 and the settlement for $13bn was in 2013. Looks like BoA's amount was indeed over their previous years net income. Is one years net income really enough? How many billions are the american tax payers on the hook for due to their behavior? They're also getting free money from QE which doesn't seem that punitive. Admittedly I don't know all that much about finance or monetary policy.

On your other point it would be interesting to see if a new Justice department under someone other than Holder does anything differently. Does anyone know the length on the statue of limitations of the sort of crimes they're accused of criminally?
I think people jumping to conclusions about what is or isn't a big deal is one of the biggest problems of the Internet.
they can't help themselves
Upgrading Your Django Reusable App
Nearly all arrests are for "suspicion" of some crime -- until you have plead guilty in court[1] it's always suspicion. And anyone has a right to make a citizen's arrest, while many security guards have limited police powers just within the private property they guard. With any of these, they can only hold you long enough to hand you over to police.

[1] Or, I suppose, found guilty by a judge. But that only happens with a miniscule portion of our legal cases in the US courts -- it is ignorable as an obscure special case.
Since we are nitpicking, I would say that water bottles are good for hiking camping and working outdoors, I would not recommend buying bottled water to carry on a walk.
You're the one who brought "being an asshole" into this, and the entire rest of your post is completely nonsensical.
I, for one, was just thinking about writing a scraper...

Thanks very much guys!
Glad to see that HN will still be written in a lisp after these major upgrades.
The belief of the IRS is entirely separate from the issue of theft and bringing it up in this context is just confusing the issue. It's like asking "If they believe he earned it, and the sun is rising, is it before noon?"
I doubt that it actually supports Chip & Pin; it probably supports the kind where your card number can be read via those contacts, but still requires your signature to complete the transaction.

Another option is just proxying your card; their card has a valid chip & pin and credit card number, and when they process the charge, they pay for it by charging your actual card. If I recall correctly, the credit card companies don't particularly like this, but maybe things have changed recently.
Law works the way we want computer programming to work. That is to say, "Do what I meant, not what I coded".

I think we get the impression that it's not that way based on our perception of corporations driving money-filled trucks through legal loopholes, but it's just not the same thing to a judge. Regardless of whether it is to you and I.
>Users send more than 700 million disappearing “snaps” a day and more than 500 million stories viewed daily

well, in Internet dollars - $100/user of FB and the likes - 70M users is $7B scale. 500M exposures point to the same ballpark - the ballpark where it doesn't really matter whether it is $5B or $10B valuation. Even 10 fold growth would bring Yahoo only $200M - peanuts, and obviously Yahoo makes that investment not for money, it is just a cover fee for entry into the club.
Wow I've never heard of this but that is a really cool app, I'll definitely check it out. Do you know of anything similar for reddit?
Disappointing they are still going to use Arc even with the update to modern HTML. I despise how with Arc if I leave the page open during the day and try to click a link later the link has expired.

They should really update to a modern web framework at the same time. Big modern frameworks like Rails are making ridiculously awesome improvements like replacing page loads with XHR (quicker loading since JS/styles/etc is all loaded already, no screen flash, etc.) in a progressive enhancements manner.

So Arc can't even generate fully functional links, let alone keep up with modern web advancements.
It's interesting that you mention the phenomenom of "I remember seeing it (or maybe even saying it) but I cannot find it". This has happened to me a lot. It is intensely frustrating to me because it's blocking - I don't get much done until I re-find whatever it was.

I wonder how many other people have this? And what their techniques are?
Another solution - Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey script:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Remove New Yorker navbar
// @match http://www.newyorker.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

document.getElementById('mobile-nav-container').setAttribute('style', 'top: -550px;');
If your tap water is unusable, you do not live in a civilized society with modern infrastructure.
Thanks for this. Have you considered using a GPU to speed up computations?
Government is just a word for things we do together. /s
Well, as a good software-engineer-and-qualified-lawyer friend of mine has said, "the power of the law is in its capacity for vagueness".

I often wish law was written more like a computer program, with lots of unit tests up front. But I have no idea how to actually achieve that. Real life is so much more complex than input to any computer program that an attempt to formalise law even more than it already is formalised would just result in it being totally incomprehensible to the people who have to follow it (as opposed to mostly). Plus the man on the street tends to get very angry when people who are "obviously" guilty get off on a technicality.
From reading the front page and only blog post, I gathered it is paired with bluetooth to your phone, and you set a timeout before self-destruct.

So if you set an hour, if your card hasn't been paired with your phone in over an hour it can erase itself. The phone probably rewrites the data as soon as it identifies the card again and the pin is entered.
But "bad guys" have no way of knowing that an increment of a digit is in any way related to their actions. Also, disclosures tend to be time-delayed, further obsfucating what was actually being investigated.
I assume you mean this as a joke, but homeopathic remedies are so popular here in Germany -- the pharmacy shelves are loaded with them!! -- that I wonder whether use of the placebo effect is an official component of the national healthcare strategy.
Unless you're American
The ridiculous number of features on this card makes it really hard to believe that an unknown startup has the resources to pull it off in the form factor as thin as a credit card. Coin still hasn't gotten there yet (they claim it works at 85% of the locations they visited). Adding more features including wireless charging coils and unknown method for duplicating chip and pin makes me really skeptical that this will ever make it to market.
I'm not blaming you. It just feels bad, you know? I'll definitely email you in the future about stuff like this. And don't get me wrong, it will be great to be able to throw out the cruft that comes along with parsing the current layout. The app is engineered to be able to drop in a new API pretty quick since I thought something like this would happen eventually.

It would help me out a lot if the current front end would live on under oldnews.ycombinator.com like that until the new API has write access, though. I think it's pretty cool to be able to be reading an article somewhere else, click "Share" in Android and have "Submit to HN" pop up in the results.
Agreed, if they did it would seem that this is a card cloner's wet dream. Maybe I'm missing something but I just don't see how it is possible to support Chip and Pin without proving the system is broken.
In theory, this could enable one time use magnetic stripe data, which would solve many security problems. I could get this instead of waiting until all merchants support chip and pin (which is never going to happen in the US).
The terror after a successful fund raise
Am I the only person here who still prefers to carry a wallet and pay with cash?
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Why wasn't the rate 50%? Why not 70%? It's not as though anyone else was stumping the cash. (Here's a hint: despite "how it all turned out", this deal was extremely risky at the time. That's why no one else stepped up. I thought they liked "capitalism"; why didn't they see what the market would have borne?) Neither is it as though the bailout was in any sense beneficial to the economy, because now all traders have priced an even more enormous automatic "Uncle Sam's Insurance" policy into all future deals these reptiles put together.

AIG had to lump it or leave it, because they didn't own the last three Treasury secretaries. GS should have been in the same spot. That they weren't, is the epitome of self-dealing. Fuck that.
It looks like it displays the logo, so it isn't out of the question for banks (now starting to be scared at being disintermediated) to maybe throw in some "support" (aka tepidly allow access). After all, apple pay also reduces branding (and Apple takes a cut), and threatens a lot of the industry as what you pay with becomes a minor manner (and also massively encourages a single default card).
Thank You Lennart
Not necessarily. Taking somebody else's property is only theft if you didn't have a legal right to do it. For example, if the IRS levied his property to satisfy the tax debt, that would not legally be theft because the IRS is legally entitled to impose levies for that purpose. It also would not mean that they didn't think he earned the levied property. It just means that they wanted the property and had a legal right to take it.
Say you have 10k stolen cards...now its easy to carry them all.
I do hope people do not take this joke seriously.

On a more serious note, medicine has a general problem dealing with the mind. The "placebo effect" is just one case where this manifests itself, but in case of drugs at least this effect can be scientifically measured.

In case of psychosomatic ilnesses (e.g. ilnesses which manifest with real symptoms, but the underlying cause is in the mind) it is much harder to quantify anything. How do you create a control group, if each person is so different? There is no way to "look inside the mind", no universal way to influence the mind.

Having gone through several ilnesses which (as I later discovered) were psychosomatic, I know the issue first-hand. Doctors tend to avoid even considering the mind's role, just as if we were simple machines, with the mind completely separate. On one hand this annoys me, on the other hand I understand them: a doctor is supposed to deal only with what is measurable and quantifiable. Cause and effect should both be measurable.

I've noticed that the number of articles about placebo effects, mind-caused ilnesses and psychosomatic problems in general seems to be increasing. I'm glad this is happening, as we definitely need more research done on these kinds of problems and we need to find ways to deal with them. From what I can see around me (now that I know about psychosomatic illnesses), many people suffer from them, and only deal with the symptoms.
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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.
I'd agree with that. You have to have a market's attention before the sell -- whatever that may be -- and Snapchat has that right now. I think this particularly applies to younger markets. For example, when I was a kid cartoons were basically 30 minute advertisements for toys and games. And you had better believe I let my parents know those toys were must haves. Snapchat might be in the best position to be that platform for the teenage market, a new MTV if you will.
Quadrotor Pod Racing
Yeah it would be like subliminal messaging, like they used to do in cinemas. Remind me why they stopped?
I disagree. AngularJS uses jqlite underneath for lots of stuff it does with the DOM. It can use jQuery if it's included, and if you create your own directives, jQuery is a great tool. No, you shouldn't create a single page app based on bare jQuery. Yes, you should use jQuery for manipulating the DOM vs the native DOM manipulation functions.
What is? Self-reporting?
HN uses 12 lines of javascript total, it's pretty damn simple.
This comment made me watch the video; my goodness that was grating.
switching cost for the users on all these platforms is essentially nothing, which would scare me off as an investor
The government’s position, the complaint said, “forces Twitter either to engage in speech that has been preapproved by government officials or else to refrain from speaking altogether.”

Isn't that the definition of censorship? I'm surprised they don't actually use that word in the lawsuit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/201...
I was comparing it to other relational stores, not other embeddable stores.

It works both ways too though, it's very small fast and reliable compared to Chrome or Outlook, which both can store data...
I use and love Rust, but I must admit this is true. GC has some advantages over the current options. Fear not however as post 1.0, optional GC will be most likely added to Rust. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/244.
I've always thought a good starting point would be to hook up Watson or similar software up to LexisNexis or Westlaw. Would be lovely to run a new ToS or Privacy Policy through such software and see where it breaks down.
Canaries still work, though, don't they?

I.e. put up a cryptographically signed and timestamped statement that you haven't received a request, then don't update it (or simply take it down) once you receive a request.

Don't some open source projects do this?
How to stop? Don't throw in gems like mad. With every gem (or egg, or module,
or anything in other languages) you give control over errors to somebody else
who you don't know and who doesn't know you gave it to him. Sometimes it might
be worth to do so, but often it's not.

Not to mention unnecessary steps when deploying the application. (And no, gem
install is not a sensible thing to do for production deployment.)
>Do you see "SQL" anywhere in "small, fast, reliable"?

You're right! It hasn't baked me a cake, what the hell?

Context is key. It's a database, it does database things. A key-value store with no relations is a different beast.
There are several variants on the NFC protocol. Some contain secure elements (with a CVV3, which is a cryptographically-signed incrementing number), but I believe they can also just dumbly-send the normal card data over the air.

I've also seen credit cards made from glass. I think they're NFC-only, though, because of the thickness, but I could be mistaken.
Yep, that's his point.
For the record, Chip and PIN is kind of broken...

• "Chip and PIN is Broken" (Murdoch/Drimer/Anderson/Bond, 2010) [PDF] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland10chipbroken.p...

• "Chip and PIN is Broken" (Murdoch, 27C3, 2010) [Video]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_w352BS-Q

• "Chip & PIN is definitely broken" (Barisani/Bianco/Laurie/Franken, 2011) [Video]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABJlvrZWbY ...and slides [PDF]: http://dev.inversepath.com/download/emv/emv_2011.pdf
famous last words....
The transaction fees and 15% interest they collect on your charges is probably more important than branding, though, and they'll still get that with this.
Does anybody know if Rust will reach all those nice goals or are there some theoretical / comp sci reasons why it might fail?
What is it about Arc that causes the unexpired link issue? I know very little about Arc. But I understand it to be a language whereas the issue you describe appears to be the function of some implementation decision. Can you please elaborate?
Please do convert it, I am working on a project with some of your code as a base!
I would assume the same thing, the problem is if I leave my wallet upstairs and take my phone downstairs (breaking the BTLE tether) will it also wipe? If so does it automatically re-load when I get back in range? If it doesn't auto-reload then it sounds like a PITA and if it does auto-reload it sounds like a security nightmare (Clone the BTLE MAC and get the victims phones to unknowingly push all their charge cards to your sniffer).
Dance to the (Circadian) Rhythm
Stealth, Countermeasures, and ELINT, 1960-1975
This is a faster horse, not an automobile.
True, I didn't mean for it to come off that way.

This is a pretty damn cool offer.
Fix for USB malware requires epoxy
It should require root to actually make the request.
I didn't say that types are tags at a different time, I said they
are different things.

And only concrete types are about representation. Abstract,
universal, existential and uninhabited types are all useful and
meaningful concepts without any particular relation to
representation.
Part of the problem in the past is that we've expected the justice department to go after the heads of the bank. This has been wholly ineffective when we do try because the people at the top do a great job as shielding themselves from hard evidence that implicates them. What I like about this new approach is that the focus is on the rank and file traders and other employees. The great thing about this new strategy is that it gives all these lower level employees caught in a criminal investigation net and incentive to produce the hard evidence necessary against their bosses as part of a plea bargain.

Once we go through at least one round of these types of criminal investigations, any future lower level employees would be stupid if they didn't intentionally keep hard evidence against their bosses in their possession as a get out of jail free card next time the shit hits the fan.

All in all, splendid news.
We establish a websocket connection and fall back to long polling when appropriate. This SO question has more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12591011/firebase-with-mo...
Ask HN: API to discover lat/long coordinates from a city name and country
Hi everyone, I have a list of city names say, all the cities in Germany, and I want to get lat/lng coordinates for each one of them.

Is there any API I can use to get this kind of data? Google and Foursquare did not seem to help with that

thanks for your time

UPDATE: you people are amazing, thanks for the responses!
I couldn't help but think that I would've handled this so much better than these two knuckleheads.

You don't need tens of thousands of dollars a day. Just go in to win one jackpot, lose money on some other games to lessen suspicion, and then go home with a few thousand dollars in profit. You could probably keep that up for ages without anyone connecting the dots.
Smart watches aren't really as bad as this. They tell the time, like normal watches, and are cheaper than many normal watches.

Credit cards are different. They are small, thin, and never run out of batteries.
Yikes! Perhaps it's best to leave "civilization" out of this?
This is so awesome – albeit a bit overdue ;)

I'm going to start diving into the API to build a simple, powerful "Google Alerts for HN" app on Assembly, and I'd love help from anyone who's interested: https://assembly.com/hn-monitor

There are some products like this out there, but they had to rely on scrapers and the HNSearch API, so I've always found them to be spotty. I think we can make something better.
Everything in this article already works (and has for quite some time). The author is using it in production.
So Vindinium in JS. Not a bad idea.
For those debating about reading the article:

I read it in its entirety. It's quite long, but it has some fascinating vignettes into life in Egypt. Topics covered include garbage collection and recycling, politics, marriage and divorce, and the roles of males and females in Egypt.