skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those of you who found this interesting and wish to know more, I would very heavily recommend you research permaculture and particularly check out some of the videos made by Geoff Lawton, which are extremely informative and entertaining. There is also a fantastic documentary case study of similar techniques being used by a farmer named Sepp Holzer on his farm the Krameterhof in Austria, though I don't remember the name. It was compelling enough to persuade a 16 year-old me to dig up about an acre of the hard red clay in my back yard and try to create a self sustaining food forest.

Slightly more on topic, I'm very glad to see people trying to make a business out of these techniques and I wish the people at Aforestt all the best.
What other pieces of software are there in this class? Who are the competitors?
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We're not marking up the exchange rate. 0.5% is the only fee.
I don't see how this would be different from lifting fingerprints from a discarded cup. Does that happen in real life or is that just a movie/tv thing?
I'm not saying it is acceptable or that it doesn't matter. Just that, when it comes to my own personal computer, it isn't worth worrying about.

I have a lot of friends who haven't figured out the whole security-as-a-spectrum thing, and they spend a lot of time giving themselves grey hairs over adversaries that 1) they can't beat, 2) aren't worth beating, and 3) don't care about them anyway.
This Back to the Future iPhone Case Is Totally Ridiculous and I Want One
While you are technically right, that kind of thinking gave people access to a ton of MongoDB databases last week.
Cloudflare. I used to work at F5 and everyone pretended they didn't exist. Than all of the sudden they have like half of the market in their pocket. Taking an old product, making it seemless and offering it for freemium.
The bigger problem with mainstream consumer adoption is the fact that mainstream consumers don't have any bitcoins to spend.

Then there's the fact that you have to use an exchange to buy the coins in the first place and... let's just say bitcoin exchanges aren't exactly known as secure financial institutions. It seems a large bitcoin exchange is hacked and shuts down just about weekly:

Just hours ago: Cavritex, Canada's largest bitcoin exchange, announced that it was hacked and will shut down

4 days ago: BTER of China was hacked and lost $1.75m

Last week: Exco.in was hacked, apparently lost all customer-held coins, and shut down

Last week: Hong Kong's MyCoin died and was apparently a ponzi scheme that had $387

And that's not even counting the abrupt closures of other exchanges telling users to get their funds out ASAP or lose them.
This Android App Clones Contactless Credit Cards in Seconds
Stop buying their products. I was already considering moving away from Lenovo after the ruination of the -40 series. I was almost swayed back in by the -50s but this put the final nail in the coffin.
I've been wanting a better Postgres client. Pgadmin works but it's a bit dated. Postico looks promising. Download and setup went seamlessly and the ssh tunnel functionality worked great. This error message was shown when I connected to the database and I wasn't able to browse catalogs, etc.: PostgreSQL said: syntax error at or near "num_total_pages" To be fair, the Postgres server I was connecting to is old and obsolete (8.3.7). I'll look forward to trying this more!
Absolutely. Case in point: the missing Malaysian airplane is yet to be found.
Ahh yes the typical Indian attitude of look at the other guy who is worse than me.
I'm not sure what you're saying. If your model does not accurately reflect observations, your model is wrong. That's not to say it isn't useful - we still teach Newtonian mechanics, after all - but you wouldn't use it in any serious discussion of the topic.
Even large programs can be structured such that they have small modules.
The same can apply to companies.
Not sure there would be any point to unsigned integers in Java. Most cases where you would want to use them you are better off writing in C and calling it via JNI. That's what is done on Android when you need performance, anyway, that or RenderScript.
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> should I buy bitcoins with my dollars when I can just pay with my dollars directly?

Cheaper fees (0.5% vs 2.9%) can be potentially passed on to consumers.

And anonymity.
Can someone tell how Stripe (or other providers) guarantee immunity from price fluctuations?
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You're correct. Smartphone usage growth basically coincides with Twitter's growth, and early Twitter apps had far fewer constraints.

Twitterrific was a jailbreak app before Apple even launched the App Store. Did Twitter even have an official iOS app before they bought Tweetie? That seemed like it happened around the time of the first big API lockdown.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned tarsnap yet. Simple to use (I simply run a cron job to backup my home directory once a day). Backups are incremental (you don't pay for a full backup every day). Rock solid security (powered by cperciva). Reasonable pricing.
Granted, the UI is a little rough around the edges when compared to e.g. crashplan but I live in a terminal already anyways.
"It's simply not suited for the everyday user."

True, but it seems like a reasonable secondary/off-site backup. If my machines and primary backups are both destroyed or stolen I'll pay whatever is necessary for to recover data (within reason)
Neutrino scare
I think the argument (correct me if I am wrong) is that DNA actually contains encoded information, where a finger print is just a unique pattern.
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Yep, that makes it about 4% of the deficit. Try to figure out any way to knock 4% off by being mean to disadvantaged people.
Yeah, it's like driving by a house and seeing a sign on the lawn "This house is protected by Brinks" and from that concluding that none of the doors or windows have been accidentally unlocked.

It does show some kind of theoretical preference for security but it by no means assures one -- nevermind making any kind of a guarantee -- that said preference has been successfully translated into reality.

I would suspect that the rate windows or doors left accidentally unlocked between houses with security systems and without isn't a substantial enough difference to be meaningful. Sure the right might drop in half, but if it's from 4% to 2% that doesn't do much.

Having an SSL certificate is really the bare minimum that someone can do to have even a hope of a prayer of keeping data safe. There are about a dozen steps beyond that which must be taken. Worse, the effects are not additive, but multiplicative. If any one particular defense is handled improperly the properly handled other portions lend little/no assistance.

Naively one might assume that the total security score might be tabulated this way:

( 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 1 ) / 6 = 0.833

But in fact, it's this way:

1 * 1 * 1 * 0 * 1 * 1 = 0
CO2 is 0.04% of atmospheric air by volume. Would it be a highly accurate approximation to say that air has no CO2? Could we then say that it is not possible to have problems with too much CO2 in the atmosphere, since our highly accurate approximation says there isn't any?

The article stands well on its merits. It's not political. It's talking about specific, measurable things with specific measurable effects, and 1% of a large number is still a large number.
Yep. MIRV's also make it incredibly hard for any kind of "Missile Defense".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta...
One of my favorite features of the RSS reader I use is that it can hook up to a Twitter list, effectively giving me back an RSS feed of tweets.

(Previously I'd been scraping together Yahoo Pipes or Google App Engine based things people had made, each of which would work for about six months before something finicky would break 'em...)
Scientists Discover a New Way to Block H.I.V
These questions were asked when Vessyl made the front page months ago.

1. It can't detect date rape drugs.
2. It can't tell if your water is clean.
3. After detecting what you're drinking, it will tell you on average, how much sugar that drink has. Maybe that's useful for diabetics. Not sure. But it's not being marketed to diabetics. It's being marketed to tech people who like tracking things.

BTW, Love "Pencil". Especially this quote: "An artisanally crafted tool. The body is milled from a solid piece of premium-grade walnut that has met rigorous standards for sustainability. Each Pencil has a unique character that will subtly change with years of use."

Ha. Artisinally crafted. Walnut. Stylus.
> not nearly so large that "male" and "female" cease to be useful concepts for our everyday lives.

Who says those are not useful? The point is to not make therm exclusive by forcing everybody to be identified by one of them when it's not a good fit.
This will vary by contract size and type, but for us, it's a split down the middle of monthly check or wire on annual contracts. In our experience there is a line somewhere around $1000/month where credit cards aren't commonly used.
AirBnB collects that information as well ("entire place", "private room", "shared room".) They make no effort to filter out illegal listing, in spite of the fact that a decent (but not perfect) implementation would be utterly trivial.

They are willfully leading a massive conspiracy to violate the law and the company and its executives ought to be held liable.
Too bad BitCoin isn't default and more of an opt-out kind of thing. Eventually...
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You wouldn't use Newtonian mechanics in any serious discussion? This is a strange claim.
And now you got it completely wrong. Where did stuff like canvas, CSS animations and transforms appeared and who was driving that?
Joel Spolsky on his time in the army: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080301/how-hard-could-it-be-le...
The difference is that lifting fingerprints can only tie you to a crime scene. In this case the DNA evidence tied him to the actual crime.
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http://www.meetup.com/Quixey-Developer-Network/events/220505898/

Hey guys, We're having a developer meet up here at Quixey in downtown Mountain View. If you want to learn more about deep linking come on by!
Lol I am hardly "sitting around and complaining." At my last agency gig we had to support down to IE6 for several months until we built a strong case to only support down to IE8. Even still it was much harder and protracted battle than it should have been.
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I picked up Navicat Essentials for PostgreSQL in the Mac App Store for something like $14 when it was on sale. It's more than enough for my needs when I want to visually view my data.

BTW, Postico is a successor to PG Commander

http://eggerapps.at/
For comparison: Approximately 1.3% of black males are born with polydactylism.
It's important to also note, that retro designs where quite frankly a lot more simple than modern designs. One of our inspirations for http://rivalz.io/ was the Mac OS 1 (1984) because it easily organized all of the features you wanted, without any extras or bloat.

Today's design is so superficial, that a large chunk of applications/games/ui is just fluff and sometimes distracts from the main experience.
Genius tests 'annotate everything everywhere' feature
Optimizing MongoDB queries with Elasticsearc
>$1k/month is by wire/cheque. Below that is credit card.
Cash is as anonymous as it gets.
If the DNA is just used for uniqueness identification like finger prints then I don't see the argument.

People have learned to wear gloves in crimes to avoid finger print collections. With DNA, they will need hair nets, exfoliate and more skin coverage to avoid detection.
But law enforcement is not using the encoded information, they are just taking a unique pattern from the information and using it for identification purposes.
First:

"Open protocols power the web...RSS, SMS, plaintext-email, HTML5 - these are the easiest, fastest ways to get users into your system."

Then:
"Flipboard just announced their migration to full-canvas"

Unless we have different understandings of what HTML5 is, I think you just invalidated your own point.
From github "Inspired by Gerard Ferrandez's 3D experiment. Thank you." And if you go to the about url of this story it appears to be Gerard Ferrandez's personal site. (http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/about)
> you have to use an exchange to buy the coins

No you don't. You can sell stuff on Craigslist for bitcoins. You can mine. You can buy coins in person from a friend/from localbitcoins. You can receive remittance from your oversea family in bitcoins. You can buy them from a Bitcoin ATM. Etc. There are tons of ways to acquire bitcoins without "having" to use an exchange.
I agree. If you insist on having it be animated make it a video. I'd actually just prefer a few screenshots showing the key things that I can go back and forth between so I don't have to sit and watch something that could be summed up in 3 or 4 slides that are digested in a few seconds.
As simon_ and Symmetry point out, that binary is in fact a pretty accurate approximation. So it seems we have both a binary measurement and an approximation in one. Perhaps we should consider that something can be both a binary measurement and a reasonably accurate approximation of a spectrum.

Regardless, my earlier question stands. At what point is it acceptable for an approximation to not be accurate in detail? What's the acceptable level of error in approximations?
That even had a transmitter, and wasn't designed to be difficult to find.
In favor of Stripe: developers cost at least $2k/week, and .5% of $2MM is $10k. Ease of integration can easily dominate transaction fees.
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1) Push data to S3 and keep it there for 90 days. If I need something, it's there (testing, retrieval, etc).

2) After 90 days, allow the data to be moved to Glacier. At that point, the data is good to have but I wont need it any time soon.

It is really about risk management. How often and how far back you need to pull data? A good strategy is required to minimize risk.

Glacier is for cold storage only. You should not expect to retrieve data from Glacier unless it is absolutely necessary. I think the pricing is justified but some use it incorrectly.
Entirely trivial to implement the coding, and entirely a nightmare to implement and maintain the database which stores this information on the current laws of every locality in which airbnb operates.
We sell to large healthcare companies for anywhere from $1,000's to $100,000's and it's almost exclusively checks in the mail.
Can I interest you in developing this for MongoDB?
Jealousy, plain and simple.

Not even slightly. People are upset because homes surrounding theirs are being rented out to short term tenants that do not care about the long or even medium term future of the home and it's surroundings.

If you lived in an apartment building filled with tourists drunkenly stumbling around the stairwells, breaking fixtures and otherwise ruining the shared facilities, you might appreciate the concept.
Merchant sets their price in dollars (for example) and the price in Bitcoin is calculated when a transaction is made using the current btc exchange rate.
I've read a few counter comments here which indicate I may be off in my thinking.

That said I don't think your one example proves my theory wrong simply because I didn't say that someone couldn't have other interests what I believe I was trying to say is that they aren't "all over the place". The question really is "how many pet topics" do they have I guess. I would just think that that type of brain has to be more focused.

I've also noticed this with Physicians as well (anecdote of course). I've told them different things and they tend to react as if "wow who would know that or think of that" type of stuff. Because my brain (and I'm not even saying this is an advantage) tends to be all over the place in what I find interesting. So maybe it's a matter of degree not an absolute that can be measured.
Not really. There's 600 people in my office. The chance that all 600 match your approximation is about 0.2%.
During the development of http://rivalz.io/ we have been using Flurry analytics, and its been an excellent alternative to the bloat that is GAnalytics.

I'm very happy to see that Yahoo is pushing Flurry support and integrating it into so many of their products.
They are obviously generating revenue, if they keep sending mail.
Thanks for making that!

I hadn't considered the rotation, because as you point out, it doesn't exactly match up. It's gaining distance from the center of image as it moves.

It could still be some kind of internal reflection artifact (even dust?) which varies in distance slightly, I guess. I'm pretty sure the team looking at these images would have gone over every object in depth, so it's unlikely I've spotted something they haven't :)
That is fucking infuriating. What was their reasoning for removing it?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013OctDec/...

>To be clear - we will still define how to use HTTP/2.0 with http:// URIs, because in some use cases, an implementer may make an informed choice to use the protocol without encryption. However, for the common case -- browsing the open Web -- you'll need to use https:// URIs and if you want to use the newest version of HTTP.

Someone explain to me when "an informed choice" would ever come to the conclusion of, "Encryption? Not Necessary!"
> or you can transfer any amount from Glacier to an EC2 instance in the same region

Note that it's only the transfer that is free. Telling Glacier to retrieve something, even from EC2, comes with all the same fees as if you did it from your own machine.
Interesting syntax, a bit SQLish but.. friendlier? The source link is broken unfortunately, I'm wondering how performant it is.

It made me immediately think of articles recently discussing using plain text manipulation through tools like awk, sed, cut, and cat as opposed to the current batch of distributed processing tools. A language like this strikes me as a step up from those tools in terms of writing readable and expressive data manipulation and a comfortable step down from complicated object notations.
The article is referencing "DND" or Disorders of Sex Development. This is a far larger group than what "intersex" covers.
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As someone who used to work for a Barracuda competitor and would love to spill some hot soup on them, I'm very confident in saying: no way. Even if they were dumb and incompetent enough for this (they aren't), enough of their customers are savvy enough to demand they change it.
Also there is the fact that not all forms of atypical sexual development are really relevant to daily life.

For example it did not surprise me that the woman described in the beginning had no idea about her chimerism - after all her sexual organs were straight female (proved by the fact that she got pregnant, three times), so her blood was probably circulating lots of estrogen instead of lots of testosterone. Sure, her color vision was maybe working at the reduced, male level, but really - it is not that important.

On another note it is worth remembering that in vitro fertilization increases the risks of mosaicism and chimerism.
Right, but if they have to launch from the middle of the ocean, their advantage over ICBM's becomes much smaller, maybe none if they can't strike & destroy hostile C&C and launch sites. It is already a very small window of time that boomers are most useful for in a hot war. SLBM's utility in peacetime/pre-war is contingent upon people not knowing where they are.

OTOH, relying on ICMB's is contingent on enough people at SAC being sober, which may not be a safe bet.
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Yep, I was just thinking the same thing. Pretty horrifying to read "The SDK has anti virus capabilities and each compiled version generates a totally new version" and realize that a major PC OEM knowingly installed this on new systems. It's malware in every sense of the word.
Could be promising but falls short for my use cases, which mainly consists of running ad hoc queries. I don't like Squirrel, but here are a few things squirrel does that are nice that I wish this did:

1. Auto limit

2. Syntax highlighting

3. Multiple queries can be written in the editor; spaces separate them. This seems to run the first query in the editor afaict.

4. Key bindings (I discovered that cmd-enter appears to run the query, but I didn't see these documented anywhere nor are the configurable.)

Also, stylistically it's a little spare. Alternating textures per row might be nice.

I do like the live table editing and the quick auto-querying of tables (though, there are cases where I might not like that.) Another thing I like is the query history -- one thing that would be nice would be to highlight those queries that failed due to syntax errors in red or something, to help you read the list, but even more importantly, a search feature (like Sublime's cmd-P).
1% of the world's 7 billion people[1] is 70 million people. That's a little less than the population of Congo, a little more than the population of France. [2]

I'll admit that what you're willing to call a "highly accurate approximation" is pretty arbitrary. There are some systems where I would call an approximation with a 1% margin of error a highly accurate approximation. But it's a pointless argument to make when your 1% margin of error includes 70 million people. I think we can all agree that issues which affect 70 million people are not negligible.

[1] http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
> the readers of wsj are brokers that might take them public, investors that might invest pre-ipo, vcs, pension fund managers that might be investing in vc funds, private equity guys looking to acquire companies.

There are 300k brokers in the US. [1]
WSJ has 2.5 million daily subscribers. [2]

[1] http://www.bls.gov/ooh/sales/securities-commodities-and-fina...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal
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In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin has been worth between $232 and $238, so that could be called a 3% fee on top of the 0.5% fee, and that 3% is just from the last 24 hours. If you look at the last week, the fee could be considered even higher (more than double or quad that).

The problem with Bitcoin is that it is extreme volatile. So you may gain or lose money. So while a 2.9% free on dollars is fairly predictable, you really don't know what the final "fee" would be on Bitcoin.
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I'll usually buy a mac Apple refurb that's 9-12 months old (they're indistinguishable from new), then sell it a couple of years later. E.g. my 2010 MBA I bought for $900, then sold for $450 after two years. I'd rather do that than buy one new and use it for 6 years, which would cost about the same.
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I'd say it very much depends on the country and the price range.

In Germany for example by the far the most common method for business payments is invoice / bank transfer. Up to a certain amount (about €500) credit card payments are accepted, too though (because that's what middle managers in larger companies commonly are allowed to spend on their own account without asking for permission).

In the US paying with credit card is much more common even for business.

Then again, enterprise pricing can easily exceed the usual credit card limits.

Larger companies like to pay annually, smaller ones especially startups are more likely to pay monthly for obvious reasons.