skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"[Building meteor] was hard. 'This is a challenge up there with building Unix or Windows'"
It would reduce friction in the bitcoin economy. Consider, in a more conventional economy, a significant tax levied by the government. This tax either reduces the profits for the seller or increases the cost for the buyer or both.

1. The seller can optionally soak the cost of the transaction fee. But this means less profit for them while the buyer sees no changes (until later when the seller finds this is unsustainable as fees increase).

2. The seller can raise prices by the fee amount (how sales tax works in the US, effectively). The buyer is then paying more and more over time as fee amounts increase.

3. Some combination, seller determines the amount they can afford to lose while keeping prices low enough to not lose too many customers.

In the end, all 3 options will create a drag on the economy. Either by reduced buying power or reduced profits resulting in reduced future growth.

We also see this with credit/debit card transaction processing. Sellers, per their agreements with CC companies, aren't supposed to have different prices between CC and cash transactions. This means they lose part of their profits on CC transactions, with some companies (AMEX) costing them more than others.
I don't see how this helps them. Was this an attempt at a viral campaign? Sort of like, hey look at us, we got rid of clothes because like, they were annoying.
It will be interesting to see how this progresses. As you said, false positives would certainly be a significant issue, and underlining that would be a question of liability.

If Google's scanner tells you that it has detected the formation of cancer in your body and is incorrect, putting someone through this could well be life altering in the short term.

Similarly, if you believe Google's scanner to be accurate and it fails to detect the formation of cancer, what then? If you get beyond the beneficial stages of early detection of this disease because your Google scanner tells you you're fine, how does that play out and who pays for it?

What if the device is compromised and someone can essentially have what they like reported to you?

Obviously I support any and all efforts to tackle cancer, but putting cancer detection into the hands of the end user has many potentially chaotic scenarios, and this is without mentioning the significant privacy issues that would surround such a device.
Indeed, the W3C's work on HTML5 is irrelevant. It exists only for the purpose of giving the W3C-qua-organization the appearance of being involved in the further development of HTML.
Arbitration clauses may not be legal everywhere.

Another shitty() reality is that companies love putting clauses in contracts that won't hold up in court because MANY people just assume that it must be legal and the rest of the contract is still binding, just not the illegal parts.

() This is really done to protect mom and pop business. If they accidentally put in a clause that's not legal, it'd really suck if the entire contract were nullified. But big companies with bajillion dollar lawyers use this loophole to essentially intimidate their customers.
Why?

Most likely followup question: Exactly how many hours have you spent on the Taco Bell website in the past year, anyhow? Why would you spend any time there?

(If it weren't for the XBox One giveaway I'd expect the average answer to the first question to be indistinguishable from zero for everyone reading this.)

Argh, I forgot my "HN is a big website and I'm sure there's a dozen people who will pop up and say they do" disclaimer. Yes, hello down there... but you are the exceptions, and frankly I still don't believe most of you popping up to post something aren't just being contrary anyhow. (Nutritional data I'll believe, but a mobile app will be better at that anyhow! I too have tried to use websites to get nutrition info... I've only only found one that was any good at their mobile experience.) To a first approximation, nobody uses the Taco Bell website for any significant amount of time.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.

One more reason, other than their food tasting like crap, why I won't be eating there anytime soon.
I think it is definitely not true that

"<i>Everything else in mathematics is just convenient representations of Gödel numberings to say what is equal and how much things aren't</i>"

It is true that it appears that non-negative integers are inherent from nature. Things come in discretized quantities. From non-negative integers one gets in an isomorphically unique way all integers. From these we get in an isomorphically unique way the rationals. The completion of the rationals are the reals. The algebraic closure of the reals are the complex numbers. At each stage the extension is unique. So in some sense complex numbers are baked into the universe. What is surprising, at least to some, is that these concepts are useful in making predictions about the universe and in describing how the universe works.
As the author points out in the abstract, "Optimal interventions need to understand and harness the motives of various stakeholders who operate in scientific research and who differ on the extent to which they are interested in promoting publishable, fundable, translatable, or profitable results." Yes. This is fundamentally a human behavior problem, and economics, "the dismal science," reminds us that people respond to incentives. If the incentives are not aligned to produce better research, all the ideas in the world about best research practices and best publication practices will not help. The author suggests testing interventions experimentally whenever possible, and that is what will best suggest what helps most to change human behavior in the direction of producing more true research findings.
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure of the point.
That's a very bold statement, must have required a lot of 'balls' to make such decision.
This seems completely insecure. I just spun up the small cluster, and it does nothing to firewall off or isolate the instances from the internet?

Eg, Zookeeper is listening on port 2181 on the public internet?

How is this OK?
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From the page, it appears what they'll be offering is basically a VPN tunnel with a routable IPv6 address. Also, it appears that they'll give you some additional control—custom firewall rules, private subnets, etc.

I can see many applications of this. For instance, I could have this set up on my home PBX server and my smartphone to allow me to make calls through the PBX from wherever I have a network connection. I wouldn't have to worry about firewall rules, IP address changes (my home connection gives me dynamic IPs), etc.—everything would just work.

There doesn't appear to be anything revolutionary about this service. There are alternative strategies for accomplishing what I described above: I could have my phone and server connect to a VPN that's set up on a VPS server I lease, or I could set up a dynamic DNS hostname for my home connection, and my phone could connect to that (either via straight SIP or [better] through a VPN). However, those take more work on my part.

Though, the more I look at their (fairly sparse) page and think about what they're offering, perhaps it is just a publicly routable IPv6 address routed over a VPN. Again, nothing revolutionary, but still very convenient.
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Soooo, no throttling by ISP's is next?
Does it link to "Google Health"? It might be interesting to have exercise data in an electronic medical record format.
So anyone that isn't on iOS or Android can't view any information about Taco Bell?
Do people actually think that wireless carriers have the bandwidth to handle everyone streaming HD at once? They throttle so there's headroom for spikes in overly-saturated network segments. It's not like they just don't like it when you use their service.
It seems they decided to skimp on hiring a web design firm and their marketing department thought they could spin it to seem 'hip'.

Idiots.
Misleading title.

The article talks about how choosing the optimal set of transactions to include in a block is NP-Hard, and the typical implementation uses a simple greedy approximation.

But I thought I was going to read about someone doing a security proof showing that a fast way to generate blocks and extend the chain would give us a polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT. Which would have been awesome.
I have read that there is no such thing as a harmless amount radiation when it comes to the dosage you get from a CT scan. Every scan increases your risk. I think my impression is that many doctors think there must already be a health problem in the patient that needs to be addressed before someone is subjected to a CT scan. That is use a CT scan when you know it will help, not when you don't know.
Looks like somebody forgot to tell the rest of the site.

http://www.tacobell.com/food/tacos
What do they aim to gain from this? All I see is that Windows Phone and BlackBerry users now have no way of accessing Taco Bell's online presence.
Honest and serious question:

Will this compete or compliment the notion that using canines in the cancer / disease detection process is an avenue for further study?

Re:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/training-dogs-to-sn...
I haven't, but that's a good idea. I'm guessing there are semi-legitimate reasons beyond just forcing people to the stupid NXDOMAIN search page. But I agree that it's pretty unpleasant.
http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-... has a more complete rundown of the still-extant issues in case you're interested. The whole post is well worth reading, because it does say something important that needs to be said: there are many individuals at Google who believe in things like interoperability, web sites working in all browsers, etc, and strive for that (sometimes against internal opposition). It just happens that Google as an overall organization cares a lot more about its sites working in Chrome than it cares about them working in other browsers, with predictable results.
[I work at Meteor and contributed to the MongoDB realtime driver]

Scaling low-latency data synchronization is a challenge for scalability for sure! We are gradually building better and better drivers with persistence to MongoDB.

The scalability can vary greatly depending on your application's data schema, usage patterns and amount of writes.

If you watch the mentioned talk carefully, the speaker describes a collaboration tool with log replay with a lot of actions and running from a single box.
Am I the only one who's seeing that bad JPEG compression on these app download buttons?
Yes. But it's less fair for everyone else to have to deal with your lack of maturity. The world would be a better and more civil place if people would move beyond the frankly medieval concept of justice as retributive parity, and certainly the internet would as well.

It's just words in a box. Unless they're threatening you personally, or doxxing you or something, just take a deep breath, recognize when you're dealing with someone who has neither the capacity or willingness to respect you, and move on with life.
While I believe this is a short-lived marketing ploy, the only reason I go to a fast food website is to look-up nutritional information.

Thankfully, every calorie-counter website/app out there has it built in for every restaurant.

edit: Looks like it's currently just their home page anyway: http://www.tacobell.com/nutrition/ works fine.
I'm not a taco bell fan either, but presumably we aren't their target market, so they don't care what we think-- nor should they. It's only stupid if their target market thinks so, right?

(Edit: I don't want to imply that you're not allowed to criticize their decision. I just don't think it should be judged based on how well it works for people that have no interest in being a customer.)
Type 1 diabetic here; Anytime I eat out I check to see if there is a website with carbohydrate counts so I can use the proper amount of insulin. Usually it's something like this...

Google Search -> How many carbohydrates in Taco Bell 7 layer burrito -> I'm feeling lucky -> Taco Bell's website with nutritional information.

Many restaurants if you ask at the establishment do not have this information, but it is typically available through their corporate websites.
And the people who are not on iOS and Android should go where for the storied company history and nutritional information?

All I see here are free ads for Apple and Google. Good job, Taco Bell :-)
Hang on, would that actually make you not stop by a Taco Bell? You're driving down the road, feeling like eating something dirty, and you don't stop at Taco Bell because they don't have a website?
I'd go there if I were curious about their nutritional data. And even though I don't eat at Taco Bell, I am interested in that data.

I am not going to install their app just so I can reference their data, which I guess is a win for them for hiding that information.

Maybe these are minor concerns but "app only" sounds like a half-baked MBA's new strategy.
Just installed the phone app. Less a "comprehensive view", and more of a pedometer with graphs. You can manually add activities but the only options are: Walking, Running, Biking, Other. And even then, you can only record duration. I suppose there is hidden integration with the wearables, but why can't I manually input the data?

If I can't record squats, then what's the point?
"Does The Browser Have A Future" by Tim Bray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pHx_1tlGN0
Is Google going to kill their SERP over this? They would for most sites, but they make exceptions for major brands being morons.
http://html5doctor.com/the-ride-to-5/ is an interesting overview of perspectives of various people who've been around HTML5 for years about its publication as a REC.
No, we know that neither relativity nor quantum mechanics is correct, so the premise is already not fulfilled. And, as I said, too, it is very possible that we or mathematics fails to give a unified and correct description.

But I just read the part again and I probably misread it the first time. He is not talking about having absolutely correct but inconsistent or contradicting theories, but about theories that are correct, consistent and non-contradicting where we can test them and maybe even where we can ever expect to test them, but ultimately lead to inconsistencies or contradictions if we extrapolate them beyond experimental reach. This leaves us in a situation where the theories are in perfect agreement with reality but on purely theoretical grounds it seems impossible that they are correct. This is more similar to the situation of relativity and quantum mechanics but we have not yet reached the experimental limits and the theories are not even in perfect agreement with all available data. (I will read it a third time, I am still not totally convinced that I got it right.)
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A partner and I incorporated a small web business (I'm not going to call it a startup), however I plan on de-escalating my role and responsibilities from a co-founder with 50% equity into more of a consultant role in order to continue to maintain the app. I'm hoping there's others with experience with this that can speak to their own and how it affected their business relationship.
> The new way to Taco Bell isn't on the Internet

> It's #onlyintheapp

Well, that's a relief. I'm glad to hear their app doesn't use the Internet.
If I'm running to taco bell for a group of people, I want to pull up a menu. It's static content. Mom and pops put up PDFs. It's not that hard and it makes my life easier.
I love this game - it shares a lot of the (re)playability that makes Flappy Bird so compelling. Great to see HTML5 being utilised like this. A couple of comments/questions:

- Is there actually a 'Moon Base' that I can get to? If not, maybe use a different narrative, because I'm being promised something (another level?) that isn't delivered.

- another vote for keyboard controls for the power-ups. I was very pleased to discover that I could use space instead of clicking the mouse, though :)

- a very minor issue: I think the graphics could do with a small polish. i'm certainly not the person to do it, i'm afraid, but I think the game could easily suit an '8-bit' style or some other reworking

Other than that, though, great work. I would happily pay to support your work - do you have any kind of account I can donate to?
I find the idea of potentially handing Google, a firm whose core model is selling ads and generalized user data, the details of my biochemical makeup quite troubling.
Vallejo has affordable housing and it's a nice city. This works well if the job is downtown. I used to take the ferry to downtown SF from Vallejo. Ferry runs about $300/mo. Ferry is comfortable and you can sit down and get work done with wifi.

You can find rentals in your budget:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa?query=vallejo
All of the above, and for corporate contact information.
Sorry, that's a nope for me then
i have a storage at home on a low-cost arm thingie, if i could easily share my webserver and files with my tablet, that would be awesome. the tablet could run a server to drop files to, too.
Why do you use a website instead of a calorie counting app with the data built in?
"Similarly, if you believe Google's scanner to be accurate and it fails to detect the formation of cancer, what then?"

The same as a CT scan that is a false negative?

" If you get beyond the beneficial stages of early detection of this disease because your Google scanner tells you you're fine, how does that play out and who pays for it?"

It's no different than it is now, where you got a CT scan, it said you were fine, and you weren't?
As for who pays for it, this is not a valid tort (medical malpractice is about accepted general standards of the industry. If the scanner meets those, it would not be negligence/malpractice no matter what it says)

"What if the device is compromised and someone can essentially have what they like reported to you?"

Uh, you realize plenty of these scans are remotely read already, right?

People can already report what they like, without any compromise.

Even ignoring that, the hospital machines/storage/etc are all compromisable too. Probably even easier to compromise than something built for end users.
Well, you know there's a taco bell in your area because you see it when you drive by it. I'm not sure they really need a lot of visibility in search engine result pages. It's not like you're buying tacos over the internet.

And really if taco bell loses search ranking for "taco bell" then the problem is with Google.
Yes, it's obvious something went wrong with their promotion logic but in a complicated enough system this is going to happen and if anyone is using a volatile store as anything other than a cache then this is going to bite them in the ass sooner or later.

I'm happy to see there will be features added to support the use cases that Stripe and others have in mind.
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From the meta description tag: the original website was used for 'nutrition guide, locations, franchise information, and career opportunities'.

While I've never seen anyone actually browse the Taco Bell website, it seems like they will still need a web presence for hiring and making nutrition guides available (if not legally, practically). Taco Bell probably doesn't drive many sales from their website, but I have heard of people applying for jobs or checking out nutrition info online.

[edit for clarity]
See my other post in here about the reason WHY this impacts me and how they have just lost a customer. I'm not a big fan of Taco Bell; but would eat there occasionally since they are open later than most places in my area.
http://www.tacobell.com/Company/newsreleases/Taco-Bell-Mobil...

Found the press release on their website (which isn't actually dropped I think). The press release makes it seem like its a temporary blackout on all Taco Bell social media. It doesn't specifically mention dropping the website permanently.

Appears to be a big publicity stunt that means very little except Taco Bell has a new mobile ordering app.

Excerpt:

"Today, Taco Bell’s highly followed social media platforms – including Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram – have gone dark, revealing the new way to Taco Bell is #onlyintheapp. While silent, each social media platform, as well as tacobell.com, will provide only a disruptive message and link to download the new app -- with all previous content removed. Consumers with the previous Taco Bell mobile app will receive an update for the new mobile ordering app."
It's weird that they use the exact same color scheme as the JackInTheBox weed food specials.

http://jacksmunchiemeal.com
Serious question: why would anyone download a Taco Bell app or visit tacobell.com (either before or after the "app only" transition)?
None on Taco Bell, but a lot of other fast food websites. Most common use-case is looking at the menu to decide what people want before we set sail to the establishment.

For example someone wants a salad. What types of salads do they have? What is in them all? These questions are better resolved before you're sitting at a drive-through window.

I often access menus using a PC/web-browser. I don't currently have any establishment's custom app installed.
Sneaky! Glad to have a better discussion focus point. Thanks for providing context to my comment.
They also closed their twitter account and reopened it. Seems to have lost all their followers.

App is not available on android yet (for me), though it does show up in the Play store autocomplete.
A better name would be "Google Cardio" (or Met Con if you want to be trendy).

Cardio != Fit. Strength is as much or more an aspect of fitness.
I don't eat at Taco Bell. But even if I did I wouldn't want their stupid app on my phone. Also, the app likely gives them additional access to you which they didn't have using the website alone. This is really bad for consumers.
I think that's disingenuous — even as someone who has been around the WHATWG for longer than the W3C has been working on HTML5. One clear reason that publication as a REC is important because it implies a royalty-free patent grant between all members of the WG.
I don't see why your first paragraph is true. Can you elaborate why we should expect mathematics to have 'fewer rough edges' in your parlance if mathematics was deep in the manner of Wigner? I don't see why this has to follow.
There are dozens of them! DOZENS!!1!
I don't know the answer to that, but I know that some people are taking full-body CT scans annually or bi-annually because of fear of cancer.
MongoDB? I think to be accepted and taken more seriously they'd have to at least have an option for something else.
I'm hoping for a scene graph standard for HTML6 and a spec that allows multiple documents per window (which themselves could be nodes on a scene graph) instead of the one document per window.
I don't think it's fair to say that consumers overall like either one more than the other, it depends on what we're paying FOR.

Why are consumers okay with paying a metered fee for electricity, water, and gasoline?

There's competition and/or regulations pushing those prices into reasonable ranges. Usage is fairly predictable. These are things that are horrible to have suddenly shut off without warning (like what effectively happens when you're throttled into unusability). They are things that people need in order to be a functioning member of society in the majority of places on Earth (in places with good public transit, gasoline gets removed from this list).

Aside from point #1, those also sound like the Internet.
T-MOBILE USED HARDEN! IT WASN'T VERY EFFECTIVE.
The most important thing about HTML5 is <video>? What a weird statement.
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