skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so bad it makes me angry, so I'm sorry for ranting, but, seriously WTF? Did Walmart just think, 'Blast those Visa and Mastercard scum with their excessive fees! Lets create our own eWallet and save that 2%...'

He also that found that its Terms Of Service leaves high
liability for fraud to the user if someone else is able to get
access to a user’s phone and make CurrentC payments.

Wait, what? What do you mean consumers don't want to be on the hook for the full charges if their phone/wallet is stolen and nobody at Best Buy cared to check ID on that $10,000 electronics purchase? But sure glad we're saving those interchange fees though.

I'm pretty sure they didn't actually intend for this to be a badly timed Aprils fools joke, but come on. QR code based, no fraud protection, built in spyware, loose integration with any kind of platform security, collecting health information. Introducing CurrentC -- all the safety of carrying your entire bank account balance in large bills in your pocket, all the privacy of HTTP over Verizon LTE.

It's so easy to use, just unlock your phone, open the app, click to active the QR scanner, hope that it scans (but don't worry you can type in the QR data by hand if you need to). The bit about paying at the gas pump had me facepalming like Picard.

I can't even imagine how much they would have to pay me to use this. They take away my free 30+ days of float, my fraud protection, take away the firewall between my bank account and the world. Take away the chargeback defense against a misbehaving merchant. Not to mention a dozen other perks of credit cards, like the cash back rewards, purchase protection / extended warranty, price protection, etc.

I guess Apple couldn't have asked for a better counterpoint to demonstrate the difference between building a product to serve your customers versus building a product to serve yourself. Apple is trying to make credit cards more secure and more convenient, building on top of the existing system, and rent-seeking to the tune of whatever costs they can wring out of the system. Kudos and good luck to them. This CurrentC abomination on the other hand... how did this even see the light of beta?

Edit: In a few months the credit card networks will start to see the difference in fraud and chargeback levels for Apple Pay purchases. I'm really interested to see if there's a significant difference, and what implications that holds for merchants which don't adopt or actively block Apple Pay.
It's an expert system. You can create if-then condtions. "If under attack, attack nearest enemy." It looks like lisp because every statement needs to be surrounded by parentheses, but it's not anything like lisp.

It's extremely limited, at least if you expect it to be a complete programming language. On the other hand, it's very easy to learn and use, which is what it's designed for.

The random map scripting is a programming language I believe. You can create scripts that generate maps.
What does "reversing course" mean? It seems to me that these are markets that build up in response to our declaration of contraband. Do you think that the U.S.A. should simply legalize some fixed subset of all drugs, or just say, "is it a chemical that some portion of our public urged their congressmen to take action on because our kids were doing it behind the school? If so, OK!" Even the definition of "legalize" seems like a messy problem, to say the least. Like it's easy to say "legalize" but where (geographically) can we find existing models of legalization along with which there is no market that incentivizes drug-related criminal behavior? (Asking sincerely because why should I just believe in "reversing course" without knowing what the plan is?)
> Drugs are a fact of life, they've been used since the dawn of man and will be used likely until the end of man. They're not going away.

Did you decide on the truth of all of these assumptions by yourself?
Why can't mexico be occupied by foreign forces? Because there isn't natural resources for the liberators to pay themselves with?
You can add your own AI scripts. There is an entire community around AI scripting, if you want good AIs to play against. I believe there are also a few in the steam workshop.
And much of the blame lies with you and I for not shouldering some of the risk and uniting with her to be a stronger large force against the murderers.
Nice shots. I especially like the 2 pictures of the women in the rain, and I'm a sucker for nice cloud photos.

I wholeheartedly concur, the E-1 is as close to Leica-like quality as any camera I've used. In one way the E-1 is superior: the ergonomics of the E-1 surpass Leica RF. I say this from experience, I still own an E-1 and an M6.

Nowadays I mainly use an EM-1. With the 12-40mm attached, the experience comes close to the E-1 with 14-54mm. The EM-1 is more compact, lighter weight, and image quality is way ahead. Not quite the same "feel", but on balance excellent overall.
Miles2Run.org is now open source
0ad kinda lags in later rounds. It utilize only one CPU. I heard on the forum it's due to Engine's design in early development times.
That was really interesting. I never knew there was this kind of strategy behind flak evasion. Man, must have taken some stones to do a bomber mission. I knew an old timer that flew bombers in WW2 and he said towards the end of the war the germans were running out of metal and all sorts of things were used as flak. He said nuts and bolts were pretty common. He'd find them embedded inside the cabin after close flak fire. Pretty scary to think that your end might come from a washer.
> Cash has close to zero fraud

Employees skimming off the till?
Oh, I read it. I read it again to make sure that I wasn't missing anything. How exactly does it prevent Alice from being tortured? How does it prevent the torturer from using game theory to entice her to give up the "correct" password from the jump?

I'm not being rhetorical... if I'm missing it, please help me understand.
Walgreens has supported Apple's Passbook on iPhone since it launched, allowing me to always have my Walgreens card ready. Heck, I don't even have a physical card. Sure, I don't get coupons through Passbook, but if I cared about that, the Walgreens iOS app presumably has them. The same approach (Passbook for the card, and a separate app for added functionality like coupons) should work for any other retailer too. Heck, if the coupon thing really is an issue, they could join together to come up with a common app for retailer coupons without trying to muck with payments.

Which is to say, store discount cards and coupons is basically a solved problem already. Trying to tie that to a payment mechanism just seems futile.
Hardly. These are distant problems in my opinion and even if they were to become critical in addressing, their scope is not so large that they would affect Google as a company in any noticeable way (IMHO).
Are you suggesting that we legalise everything that is currently illegal, so that we would have no need to prohibit anything and turn nobody into criminals?

We could very well apply this logic to say, murder. Why not let us legalise murder, set up appropriate channels for people to hire hitmen to kill each other, so that the underground killers would not have any more customers and then they will gradually die out?
In 5 years you'll have to know C++ and emscripten as it will be the main way to develop frontend applications.
"Now, however, the pendulum is swinging back."

Yes, "now". It's not like books such as the the bell curve were published during the whole period from 1940 to today.

The problem is that when you go back and read those books they are sexist, racist, misogynistic, paternalistic and borderline fascist. So every decade or so you need to pretend academia has unfairly tarred modern research into these topic with the gilt by association from the past.

The unfortunate fact that they just reproduce the least disgusting "findings" of the past with the same methods is just glossed over.

Reading the Bell Curve today you already see all of the above inside it only after 20 years. But I'm sure this time it will be different.

"In 2010 a study published by Dr Fowler and his colleagues implicated a gene known as DRD4 in the development of political affiliation."

Yes, totally different.
Just thinking out loud here, but if identical twins were much closer in, for example, appearance, couldn't this induce more similarity in other traits. That is, if being identical made twins have closer relationships, might that not result in higher correlations in certain traits, which weren't due to genetics.

Do people tend to know if they are identical or non-identical twins?
People downvote based on disagreement, just as they upvote based on agreement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Given your reputation and experience, don't you think is it possible that you never saw one because people would know better than to include you in the types of project that include such backdoors?
>The development team received a cease and desist order due to the name 'FreeCraft' causing possible confusion with the names StarCraft and WarCraft

Good job blizzard on preventing any games from ever ending in "craft".
>>As the browser becomes home to more and more software that traditionally would be desktop only

Sorry I don't see that. All of my desktop apps are still desktop apps. On Windows I still use Office, VS, Adobe CS, Amira.

I don't see this happening any time soon due to legacy codebase as well as performance and ease of coding issues. For example, with great difficulty one could port Photoshop, perhaps using clever off-screen WebGL buffers to do the heavy computation, but why would you do that?
> I'm not sure if it's usually the mix of a "smart" C programmer writing a program that is patched by a "hobby" C programmer, or the fact that getting C right is just too hard -- or that people don't -Wall and don't run fuzzers and static checkers -- but whatever the reason, we keep seeing serious bugs in C programs.

I think the problem is that people don't take programming seriously. The basic flow of development seems to be to write the first thing that comes to mind as it comes to mind, and then incrementally patch things up until the code seems to work on every test case you've thought up.

This approach is at best inefficient when working with "safe" languages. With C or C++, it's nothing short of irresponsible. Part of the problem, I think, is that programmers are never taught to reason formally about their code: to catalogue their preconditions and postconditions and verify with some semblance of rigour that the code they write respects these. At best, they might be treated to a passing reference to object invariants if they happen to take a class or (God forbid) read a book on "OOP."

It's perfectly possible to write good, safe code in C and C++, but not if you're hung up on a "smart" or "hobbyist" programmer mindset, and not if you're not willing to put in a fair amount of effort into thinking before you write.
Great analogy, but i'm not sure it's accurate. Any kind of abstraction (functions, interfaces, objects, macros, DSLs, frameworks) could be considered a pneumatic nail gun.

Software development is built on layers of abstraction that directly allow one human to frame a 2-story house, while typing very little. The amount of actual machine code generated by a simple CRUD application can be massive. Optimizing the raw typing is only useful when you have no control over the deeper abstractions (like if you are stuck with C++).
Please cite the portion of CALEA that requires commercial enterprises to subvert encryption in any way, key escrow or otherwise.
s/coke/crack/

White people use coke.
They don't have to simulate us in order to be intelligent. They would have to simulate us if they wanted to eclipse our intelligence in all respects. I argued that they will be intelligences alongside us. Different. Better in some ways and worse in others.
The problem with using ACH is that you can't prevent overdrawing your account. Unless this has the ability to query your bank account and ensure you don't accidentally overdraw, then using a credit card is far superior. At least you will get an error message immediately as opposed to a day or two later.
Multiple concurrent screens (phone, tablet, desktop, living room) as viewports onto your cloud-resident stuff.

The cloud will move away from being largely passive storage, into hosting active applications/agents.

The underlying OS API will lose its grip, but the cloud framework(s) will take over the role of application platform(s).
It would be interesting if you could have 2 codes to two different user accounts on the phone so she could give them the passcode "5555" and have it link to a harmless twitter/FB and then have another one to use for a private user account.
It's in section 4.3:

4.3 Persistent Attacks

Consider a scenario with panic communication and a persistent adversary with goal . In addition, preventing both signals and screens is important.

Working Example: Consider the previously defined improper influence problem in Internet-based voting. Alice could be coerced by Oscar into voting a certain way. Alternatively, Alice may want to sell her vote to Oscar by casting her ballot in his presence. Bob's observable response will be the report of a successful casting of Alice's vote, but he will take the unobserved reaction of disregarding any votes cast under a panic password.
I'm confused -- the start of the article says the accident happened in the evening, right after sunset. But later, it says it was during the morning commute.
That pipe is almost certainly fabricated out of multiple parts. It isn't a turned piece of solid bar. I'd guess it's a (relatively) thin pipe with a thick flange on the end and rings that slide and lock on to the thinner part of the pipe.
> much of the blame lies with you and I for not shouldering some of the risk and uniting with her

How do you figure?
How crowd sourcing and super computing are helping beat ebola
> No human alive doesn't want power. That's the basic evolutionary fuel of our entire species. There's no other desire humans even have -- anything else is just a means to that end.

Demonstrably wrong.

Desire for power is certainly common among primates, but there are a number of basic drives. Drives people have it in different amounts. Further, there's no particular reason to think it was a huge evolutionary driver for us.

If you're really looking for the evolutionary driver that made us what we are, it might be a taste for cooked food. [1] You could also make a case for tool usage, or an arms race in language capability, a peacock's tail that happened to let us do far more than woo mates.

And even if power were a major drive, it doesn't really tell us much about what we should do. People are naturally violent, but we mostly set that aside. What's natural tells us nothing about what's right.

Of course you won't believe me, because you write like a fundamentalist. You can't tell a Freudian that it isn't about sex or a Baptist that it isn't all about God. Fundamentalism always makes me a little sad because it's so stunting.

It'd as if somebody put on a pair of blue-tinted glasses and ran around insisting that since they only see blue things, blue is the only real color and everybody else is just fooling themselves. They can't quite get that "everything they see" isn't only about everything; its also about how they see.

Could you be pulling our legs? When you call him arrogant and then explain how only you understand the deep, hidden truths of the world, it's kooky enough that I wonder if you're just trolling.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/14...
"Direct access" came from a Washington Post story and it has since been walked back. PRISM is a program operated by the FBI, through which they make FISA court requests of data companies (like Apple) and then share the results with the NSA.
@kolev great question.

1. First，I need to say: puer is created before browser-sync (more than one year).

2. puer provide some features that browser-sync that not supported(debugger, mock request, qrCode generate etc.)

but puer is not support the user-action Synchronization that browser-sync supported.

puer is aim to providing a simple foundation for common frontend workflow .
Exactly. Who do you think I want packed off to the border?
> Why would we/it make every generation start from scratch the way a human brain does?

Intelligent agents optimize to be good at solving the problems of the past. But different problems require a different training window. There are some problems that are best solved by an agent that is looking at data across 30 years. Other problems are best solved by agents that are only looking at data from the last 30 seconds.

It's not true that more old data is always better.

> The "child" of an AI is going to come out being immediately as good at math, for instance, as its "parent".

That's just not true. If that were true, why are there 25 year olds making mathematical discoveries that 40 year olds miss? It's not because they are somehow mechanically better, it's because the slate was wiped clean and they began from a different starting point.
A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
Calling this PR is a stretch. Other than the linking to Sidecar and not linking to Uber and Lyft, this post is no different than Warren Buffet drinking Coke during a TV interview.
>The basic evolutionary drive behind our species, and all others, is to reproduce and spread your genes. Everything else stems, however circuitously, from redirected or misdirected reproductive drive.

Actually, it's you who's misdirected. Increasing inclusive fitness is the end, not the means, of an evolutionary adaptation. In humans, and in other social species like great apes, the evolutionary adaptation that exists in the species is the desire for power over the environment. A species is an adaptation-executor, not a fitness-maximizer.

>but to say that my motivations are identical to those of a senator or a billionaire is ridiculous.

It's a matter of ambition, and degree, isn't it? Plenty of people who are otherwise powerless take power through drugs. It's the same game. Some people win more objectively than others.
>Cognitive dissonance,

Please elaborate on this.

>just-world fallacy

I don't see how anyone here is subscribing to this fallacy. No one thinks the victim's actions warranted her fate.

>hammers and nails

Crypto would clearly have been more useful in this situation. Sometimes you really do have to hammer in some nails.
I think in the next 5 years the focus will be shifted from desktop and web apps to virtual reality (Oculus) and smart hardware apps (smart homes, wearables etc).

Even for web apps it is going to be more mobile oriented than actual standard web view
Blaming the customers is what we do with pedophiles. It seems to work even though it's immoral.
Here are a few:

http://dailysurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/EbolaToy.jp...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4022/4677635235_a54880f12a_z.j...

See http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/ebola.html
Good links. I was actually writing a blog post on entry-level Javascript. A lot of that stuff looks relatively high-level, though - interesting, but not something that's very applicable until you've gotten a decent understanding of Javascript basics.
Ultimately, I think that core FB experience is what will allow the site to last- the most direct person-to-person experience, of using it as simply a method of communication between people who know each other well in real life. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how that can be monetized, unless the site was to offer a paid subscription to this "True Facebook" in some dark dytopian future.
I'm on my mobile so can't do much linking, but there is evidence of narcotics use dating back throughout recorded history.

Drugs are extremely popular today.

Using the two above, I made the assumption that people will be using narcotics so long as our species continues, unless their effects can be explicitly replicated and induced by technology at some stage in the future, although I wouldn't necessarily say that such an act would not be doing drugs.
That isn't Bit Locker, it's device encryption which is supported in 8.1 (Home) and Windows RT where naive users are more likely to forget to backup the key and hence lose data.

BitLocker is only available in the professional,enterprise and ultimate versions of Windows 8.1 and it does not automatically backup the key to an MS account.
HN also makes it hard to connect from Tor... "Prove you're legit" and the captcha never lets you through, even after solving it right. This is a common problem with Cloudflare sites. Cloudflare is an enormous security hole as it is and it's making it worse by actively working against Tor and making SSL certs largely untrustable (if they weren't already).
I have heard some great things about Amicus: http://amicushq.com/
Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database [pdf]
It is not the case for Mexico. Mexico has plenty of oil reserves. But, the war between cartels is a different phenomena. Not everything revolves around oil.
But it's mot than a luxury item. It's a camera revered by pro and semi pro photographers because of its history in the hands of some of the preeminent photographers of the 20th century.

From Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Winogrand, Friedlander, Nachtwey, etc. Lots of up and coming photographers want to imitate the masters of the past and present and see they use Leicas --so even though photography has changed to them the manufacturer of choice remains Leica, if they can afford it. So it's a bit of traditionalism.
Thanks for that explanation. Two followup questions if you don't mind:

1) Why doesn't dark mater clump together to form dark galaxies?

2) Do we see dark matter's influence in the motions of the stars in the milky way?
> Anyone else know of similar live-coding environments for 3D?

You might like praxis. Its being actively maintained and the author is happy to answer questions and requests.

https://github.com/createuniverses/praxis
Apple should make a better Macbook Air and not fret about ipad
I agree completely: It isn't standing desks that are needed, it is more actual movement and breaks from sitting. I'll admit I would have used it some as a student, but I'd have been just as happy with a space on the floor I could move about on. Recess and down time is important, not just movement, which the article tends to overlook. Finland does this already - less lecture and breaks more often and have had fantastic results.

In fact, recess and free time are something I noticed quickly after moving from the US to Norway. The nearby elementary almost always has children outside playing. Actually playing. In wet sand, in puddles, climbing, running, soccer... so many things kids do that they would forbidden to do in the states.
Perhaps a move away from apps to widgets -- users will continue to be impatient with anything other than the fastest way of getting things done on a device. So rather than launching an app, reaching a home screen and then selecting an option from there, apps will provide direct links to specific actions that can be invoked from the OS. For (a simple minded) example: you don't launch the Twitter app to tweet, you invoke the 'tweet' action.

And possibly, the concept of API's might hit desktop environments and we might be able to string together such actions much like we do with UNIX piping, allowing for more automation (e.g. 'append this text to document x with time stamp', where the doc is rich text document)
It's hilarious to me that someone linking to less wrong isn't rational enough to know that reddit markup doesn't work on hacker news. Somehow, the rationality never much further than discussing fictional AI scenarios.