skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a bunch of lawyer words that they can stretch to mean anything. What we need are hard deadlines, say two days after the breakin. Not enough to full find out what happens, but enough to force the companies to act.
I think this whole article misses the point. There is no "best watch" that is being commodified here. What's the best thing a watch can do? Tell time, really really well? Then the million dollar chunk of metal loses to the $5 Casio.

Watches, as such, are not even functional devices at this point in time. They're entirely jewelry. Acceptable jewelry for men, with a historical reference, but jewelry nonetheless.

And commodified jewelry ain't gonna happen. You can't commodify fashion.

The Apple Watch, if it succeeds, will do so because it is a) not a watch, and/or b) fashionable.
Because it's neat to see how the cat moves about! Why is it a problem if it's "inexpensive" and "commercially available"?
because not every project in life has to be expensive and unique to be enjoyable
Yep, we (Breeze, http://www.breeze.pm) have used it for over 3 years without any issues.
Currently when there is a data breach, the source company is usually on the hook for nothing more than signing victims up for credit reporting for a year, a scheme that I would not be surprised is actually money making (e.g. providing thousands of great leads for a credit reporting agency has to be gravy). On the cost/benefit ratio, security of personal information just really doesn't matter in cases like this. There are some other companies, like Google, who would take a serious image hit, but for a pseudo-employer company like Uber there will be no ramifications.

It isn't surprising that they deprioritize security -- the market doesn't demand it.
I'm really excited about IPython as a tool for MOOCs. For example check out this ComputerVision class: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1186001332/pyimagesearc...

Ultimately, instead of thousands of going thru the same material, I think small groups could break out and build an independent project in Ipython as it documents the results and source in one place.
NSA Spying Wins Another Rubber Stamp
In the hardcore-communist days of China the setup was usually: factory on one side, block of flats for workers on the other, school and hospital adjacent. The kids played in the courtyard.

Actually not that bad of a setup...
I think the confusion is a page can render in 150ms but load time in the above comment was more about when the load event would fire on your site. 2 seconds for load event is pretty good. It's not google fast but it's not bad if your site has any images or loads css/js - most the WP sites I've ever dealt with have 50-60ms render times...
this is a MUCH needed app. well done.
Prolong and Erlang: Prolog, Erlang

What? :D
Nationally many countries have their own local market leader. In the Netherlands, iDeal is the most popular (and the most user friendly of those I've tried). http://www.ideal.nl

For moving money internationally and between currencies there is TransferWise, which I personally mainly use for c2c payment but they also support business accounts and I've used it to pay companies on occasion too.

With a TransferWise invite link you can transfer up to £3000 (over $4.5k) for free, here's mine: https://transferwise.com/u/5d78

Where I work we use mangopay, which is specifically for marketplaces. http://www.mangopay.com
It's been a surprising ride to see how on-point the story lines have become.

This week they stepped back from the AI briefly to look at how marijuana legalisation affects the criminal underworld and managed to tie in money laundering via online gaming virtual currencies. Love it :)
Though there is no indication on the web page, the "Last Modified" tag says 4/29/2000, 4:45:46 PM.

I believe that should be mentioned in the title of this post. Because the following text from the page felt misleading.

"The first IRC server (and still running) was tolsun.oulu.fi .."
Him, I scolded.

Is grammatically functional English.

He. I scolded.

also works. Though neither would be preferred form outside of poetry or oratory.
That "whatsnew" page doesn't mention it, but IPython 3.0 adds official PyQt5 support for IPython event loop integration (ie, time slicing so the text console with local kernel remains responsive) and PyQt5 support for Qt console. Spyder recently merged in PyQt5 support as well, and Matplotlib has it, too. We're getting to the point where everyday IPython users can finally move over to PyQt5.
Landfill gas generation is quite significant. In the U.S alone as of 2013, 621 LFG projects were operational producing 1,978 MW. Another 850 MW worth of projects are candidates.

See http://www.epa.gov/lmop/documents/pdfs/overview.pdf
Asciicam – Turn images into ascii art
Man, why does Kim insist on all the special effects? I've never seen a blog post take so long to load.
Android, Java and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (and how to fix)
At that point, though, once you no longer have to echo and escape everything, you have a templating framework on top of PHP. The number and complexity of 'helper functions' differs between this and something like Twig, but it's still using abstractions to manage what PHP doesn't do well on its own.

A lot of self-described minimalist templating languages do wind up looking a lot like that. I personally don't want to see raw PHP in anything i'm calling a template but to each their own.
I translated a post from a dying 24-year old on Reddit to Korean. Please help
Schiit Happened, 2015 Chapter 4: Bridging the Gap
jbk - With 3.0.0 do you have any plans to switch the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows installers from NSIS compiled EXEs to MSIs to make it easier to deploy and/or customize which features are installed?

The only reason for asking is that I came across the .wxs files on your Github page. [1] :)

[1] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/extras/package/w...
Are you talking about a small group all working together on an IPython notebook + source files? IPython doesn't (yet) support collaborative editing by itself, but SageMathCloud (https://cloud.sagemath.com/, source at https://github.com/sagemath/cloud) has patched IPython to have Google Docs-style collaborative editing. SageMathCloud is still using the latest IPython 2.x release (updated soon, probably in conjunction with upgrading the version of IPython in Sage). Still, it's probably your best bet right now for collaborative editing in IPython notebooks.

That said, several IPython developers are working on adding Google Drive support, and I believe they are working on the collaborative editing capabilities as part of that.
Optics: Super vision – seeing through opaque materials such as living tissue
That's easy: they were making money with it. Now for my question: what made them give up on all that revenue?
It's not much worse than blogspot.
I mean that I'm surprised it took this long for the payment processors to cease dealing with MEGA. I was expecting this to happen much sooner.
This is a really issue, and it can be bad. My bosses used to confront me with work issues and demand answers if we crossed paths while going to pee. At the time I was taking some meds that made me pee frequently, so it was impossible to avoid mixing toilet visits with high level boss of boss reports and agenda review.
Apple releasing their watch just makes me want this watch more:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/920064946/oscilloscope-...

Its going to be a real luxury to be carrying around a very useful toolkit with me ..
Alpha Fund Software Review
I love these. Looks like the cat's getting a few dinners.

Which tracker did you use?

I keep looking at G-PAWS (available for under £30) but I'd like to use it on the dog too and he'll take it into ditches and ponds. I suspect "weatherproof" won't cut it.
Bluesnap.com (Supports 180 Countries, 110 Payment Types, 60 Currencies & 29 Languages) - Dont know why no one has matched the features offered by this service ...

paywithatweet.com (pay with twitter)

chargebee.com

adyen.com

afex.com

securetrading.com

credorax.com

ccavenue.com

moneybookers.com

2checkout.com

chargebee.com

For India (stricter rules of double authentication:

payzippy.com

paytm.com

zaakpay.com

citruspay.com

payupaisa.com

indiapay.com

payu.in
I'm sorry, I meant "One version behind was was the newest before 2.2.0" I realise that was confusing now. I said it in case there was a bug in 2.1.5's updater that was not present in 2.1.4's.
I think it would be nice to be able to compare any languages side by side; say: python and clojure.
> nobody else is expected to use a .canon domain

Well, in fairness, I would have =)
Airbnb does have hundreds of thousands of hosts that are getting some of the revenue too. Looking at gross receipts double counts and doesn't make too much sense in sounding the alarmism.
This is why I desperately hope bitcoin would one day get adopted by the masses.
Gee, the majority here was all in favor of the FCC doing things without public review, why the sudden change of heart?

When will people here realize that ANY new law, regulation, or such, should be fully made in the public. Apparently the price of silence is promises of cable internet providers getting taken to the woodshed
Forth is missing.

Personally I found Forth implementation the most impressive, even more so than bash. Well, Make comes close :)
Interesting they call out other services the USA is okay with that also provide encryption. I believe all the other services the provider can access the data.

Except maybe SpiderOak.
On the other hand, the language chosen might ensure high turnover of the sorts of coders you'd really like to keep, assuming you could ever attract them in the first place.

Management has choices here, including simply making the best business will stay good enough, or even if it doesn't, prioritizing keeping an essential core of its technology people short of anything but completely closing down the unit.

One thing I've noticed that's very common in the long term success or failure of high tech companies is whether they kept their core technologists. Compare Microsoft to Lotus and perhaps Ashton-Tate (dBase). Companies like banks may not appear to be "high tech companies", but their "production" is done with computer systems so....
I like security as much as the next HNer, but that's how the world works. It's basic economics. This is reality:

Target paid $1.2 BILLION in dividends on $21.8 BILLION sales for 2014, its data breach only cost it $162 Million. Cost of doing business.

From https://twitter.com/spacerog/status/570719734230073344
This selective banning should be a concern in general especially with such monopolistic corporations like VISA/Mastercard.

Are there no regulatory requirements to force VISA/master card to accept payments as long as the business is not illegal?

Does anyone remember when donations to Wiki leaks got frozen?
First, I really like this concept! I'm hoping you guys will be able to suggest activities that are missing 1 person based on where I am and such.

I signed up and was pretty excited. But then there is only 1 activity nearby with 1 member on it (probably another HN reader). And I live in Manhattan -- I'd expect lots of activities. The biggest problem to address is the chicken&egg problem: nobody will use it if people aren't already on it. In this particular case, this means that you really have to go out of your way to organize activities. I suspect this means that you should only launch in a city you can organize a large number of activities in and then grow from there.
Kamcord (YC S12) is looking its 2nd Front end Engineer
AEG report warns rival Inglewood NFL stadium presents terrorist threat
Ask HN: Paypal alternative for adult sites
I know Paypal, Stripe, and other major payment gateway processing services providers won't work with companies dealing with adult videos and sometimes related content.
It's sometimes none of their choice (e.g. Stripe can not because their bank have a strict adult content policy).

Has anyone had experience with one of the adult payment gateway providers in the market?
I would move that part up by the first time the code is shown, replacing "This small snippit is enough to start with." with some more concrete description of the program, like "The smallest rust program that will actually do anything." (I'm not sure that is exactly true, just illustrating my meaning).

I would then go further than you suggest, saying something like, "The blank lines, 1,3 and 7, do not have any impact on the program." Then "Line 4 binds the value 5 to the variable x.", followed by the explanation of what that is called in rust.

After that, "Lines 2 and 6 are the beginning and end of the program. For this program, they also define the scope that owns 'x'." Followed by the explanation of ownership.

Once 'let' is established, a short explanation of 'mut' can follow.
So what's next? The banning of payments to VPNs?
Are you expecting the same government which shattered original Mega to now force payment providers to serve new Mega? Even if they had the regulatory tools, why would they?
sorry, but I wouldn't want to learn from a page looking like that...

I'm no professional, but:

- DONT CAPS MORE THAN 1-2 WORDS

- create clear hierarchy (a list with no real title ("ready? go!"), thin circled numeration and blobs of bigger text without sub-headlines...? Also color is a nice tool to use...)

- stay true to what people know (links have underlines, visited links change color etc.)

- I'd rather have a more raged right margin than having to read "ty­-[linebreak]pog­ra­pher"

- ...

rather go with this first: http://www.presslabs.com/blog/web-typography-for-non-designe...
Forcing someone to accept payments is the other side of the same coin.

I don't want my government to strongarm credit companies into refusing to process payments for politically troublesome customers. But I also don't want my government to strongarm those same companies into processing those payments.

If anything, this is just a wakeup call that the credit duopoly have more power than we realized.

Kim Dotcom is nothing if not resilient. It is morally and ethically complicated to root for him in every aspect, but I fully expect him to come up with a clever solution to bypass this duopoly in a way that the average user can accept. I don't know if there's any question for which Bitcoin is an unqualified right answer, but this may be as close as I've seen it come.
Stalemate
It's written in their own Slang language: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3392636/slang-goldman-sac...

And the whole system is in part credited with helping them survive the recent financial crisis ... although simply listening to their risk people was more important. But it's all intertwingled, I'm sure, because good risk people would want a system like SecDB so they know the company's positions in quasi-real time with a great deal of assurance vs. hours and days and through e.g. scraping spreadsheets, often manually, etc.
The business case for using Excel overwhelms engineering best practices up to somewhere around five or six sigmas. The big ball of mud software architecture is good enough to make money. Anyway explaining business logic to a technical programmer is also fraught with human error. TANSTAAFL.
6.8MB page load. More than half of the 168 requests were for javascript files. The largest file was a 620kB (23k line) stylesheet.

Those are some pretty wild numbers.
I am not suggesting that they should be assholes, but do you think Napster won the war by playing by the rules?
For latin america: MercadoLibre or MercadoPago. They are from Argentina and work very well.
Ask HN: Is this normal for Reddit – ban after 5 posts in 5 months?
4 of these posts were about an app I am developing (https://pagehopapp.com).

They were all submitted in the appropriate places - r/macapps and r/mac (no duplicates).

Why would they shadowban me?

The first time I tried using reddit I've made the mistake of submitting the same thing in 2 sub-reddits and I got shadowbanned. I tried apologizing but there was no answer.

I just made another account, read all guides and tried to play nice.

Is this normal for Reddit? So if you are a content creator - "don't share your stuff" is what I am supposed to take out of this action?

That sucks...

Edit: @benologist has educated me in reddiquette - reddit users should post at least 90% links that don't belong to them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9123751
"They regulate markets on our behalf..."

That would be awesome if it were true, but it's not. It's very naive to believe politicians and bureaucrats work for anything other than their own self-interest.

Now that the FCC runs the Internet who do you think is going to influence them more- Comcast's lobbyists or you?
Anaerobic bacteria for treating waste-water will actually produce methane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_digestion) - this can be harnessed and used as a low-cost energy source.

For drinking water aeration is probably sufficient to deal with methane content (but I don't think it's necessary very often).

Methane derivatives on the other-hand are known to be dangerous and can form as by products of disinfection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trihalomethane.
Lwitter – app to get tweets around you
Sometimes it is amazing how little Congress understands what they pass. Just look at the "Patriot" act.
Here is the post, for those who don't want or can't load the page:

PayPal has ceased processing MEGA customer payments effective immediately.

MEGA is aware of a report published by NetNames (partially funded from the MPAA supported Digital Citizens Alliance) that incorrectly claims MEGA's business to not be a legitimate cloud storage service. MEGA is aware that Senator Leahy (Vermont, Chair Senate Judiciary Committee) then pressured Visa and MasterCard to cease providing payment services to the companies named in that report.

Visa and MasterCard then pressured PayPal to cease providing payment services to MEGA.

MEGA provided extensive statistics and other evidence showing that MEGA's business is legitimate and legally compliant. After discussions that appeared to satisfy PayPal’s queries, MEGA authorised PayPal to share that material with Visa and MasterCard. Eventually PayPal made a non-negotiable decision to immediately terminate services to MEGA. PayPal has apologised for this situation and confirmed that MEGA management are upstanding and acting in good faith. PayPal acknowledged that the business is legitimate, but advised that a key concern was that MEGA has a unique model with its end-to-end encryption which leads to “unknowability of what is on the platform”.

MEGA has demonstrated that it is as compliant with its legal obligations as USA cloud storage services operated by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, Box, Spideroak etc, but PayPal has advised that MEGA's "unique encryption model" presents an insurmountable difficulty. The encryption models claimed by various USA and other entities apparently do not represent any problem to PayPal or the parties behind PayPal.

MEGA supplies cloud storage services to more than 15 million registered customers in more than 200 countries. MEGA will not compromise its end-to-end user controlled encryption model and is proud to not be part of the USA business network that discriminates against legitimate international businesses.

Until new payment systems are implemented, MEGA will temporarily not enforce its storage limits or suspend any accounts for non-payment and has extended existing subscriptions by 2 months free of charge.
Most obvious guess? MPAA and/or Rival cloud service lobby / complaints.
The UK Ruby Contract Drought Is Real
I just read The Phoenix Project, the book mentioned at the end of the article. It's an entertaining look at what DevOps is supposed to be like, based on things happening at various real enterprises.

The main character takes over an IT organization that's way behind on deadlines and experiencing one major disaster after another. He gradually transforms it with better practices, until everybody's living a stress-free, balanced life, and they're delivering much better results to the business.

These two things don't need to be in conflict.
How is a Core i5 2.9GHz with 16GB RAM not considered a "powerhouse"?
It's not actually. For compatibility, Japanese fonts display \ as ¥.
A small side project to encrypt files for Dropbox and Google Drive. Supports Chrome and Firefox.
C, Go, Dart, wait, Dart? The language compiles to Javascript?
13 Startups Attacking the Cross-Border Money Transfer Market
for those who dont want to download >5 megs of assets, I took the content and put it on pastebin. http://pastebin.com/FBEjGTqV
The argument is really compelling. There are good reasons to be suspicious when corporations want to go over the heads of national democratic legal systems.

That said, the basic idea of TTIP is a REALLY GOOD THING. It's not just about making it easier to trade across the Atlantic, which could give a huge fillip to both US and EU economies. It's also about the political results that will cement our relationship. Both the US and EU are facing rising powers which do not share our fundamental values. We will be stronger if we stand together. Binding our economies closer will help that happen.

Not wishing to close criticism down, but TTIP is too big an opportunity to be spoilt by the greed of some lobbyists - or by knee-jerk opposition. Fight over the details, not over the principle.
According to the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html):

Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News.

Please remove the "Show HN" from the title if you're not the creator.

The creator is clarkgrubb https://github.com/clarkgrubb (see https://github.com/clarkgrubb/hyperpolyglot ), not zatkin (https://github.com/zg).
That's not fair at all, AirBnB has that giant real estate portfolio it owns that it could sell off if needed. That's real value there.
Ok. Here is a Google Maps link to the Yamal Peninsula, the area the "crater" was found. It is filled with these same kind of little ponds:

https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Poluostrov+Yamal,+Jamalo-Ne...

If you somehow would get a hole in the ground, it does not sound that far fetched to me it would get filled with water over time.

And of course other people have noticed this too. It is just, that many times the most vocal ones are the people who have a belief system/agenda to drive. How things really are, is not a matter of an opinion.
Didn't ST3's creator try to get 100k in a Kickstarter-like site to open source it, and failed? I seem to remember this.
For a country which calls itself, non-ironically, the "land of the free" it is quite disappointing how moneyed US politics and the US justice system is.

It is pretty apparent in this case that a cartel of US companies has some powerful people in their pockets (namely Senators) and those individuals can wield their power to shut down legitimate businesses running abroad.

In this case they will likely wind up shutting down a company, but without even going through any kind of court. Since the last time they spent millions on Megaupload going through courts, and still got nowhere (since their whole case was baseless).
I think Atari had plans for such a building, they were scattered all over the valley and wanted to consolidate. But they got distracted by a couple buyouts and ended up dying before they could do it.
> Modern polyglot developers do not memorize dozens of programming languages. Instead, they learn the peculiar terminology used with each language and then use this to search for their answers.

This is the clearest explanation of how polyglot programming works I ever read.

Great work in general, very valuable resource for studying and comparing different languages. I'd like to add one more resource to the mentioned in the guide: http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages/ - it's similar to hyperpolyglot, but has comparisons between non-related languages too. And focuses solely on syntax.
Thunderbird Usage Continues to Grow