skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In India, you cannot create recurring subscriptions as the RBI prohibits charging the credit card automatically.

I am really happy that this is how it is. There is no shortage of cheats and frauds in India. Thanks to the RBI I can rest easy without worrying about getting (unsanctioned) charges on my credit card from shady businesses.

The RBI does provide an alternate means for supporting recurring bills. If you are a business in India try looking into the ECS option: http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/ECSUser.aspx
Gluten Sensitivity Has Not Just Been Proven
You may also like to look at Weave[1], which includes an open-source network for Docker and DNS service to find other containers.

[1]: http://weave.works/

Note: I work on Weave.
I started with onenote but it shot my notebook. I never got on with evernote. I tried a number of open source ones but settled on google keep for quick notes and google docs for longer ones. Mainly because they have good sharing and concurrency support and I already use apps because I'm lazy and a cheap ass.

I have a rather shonky python script that exports the docs nightly in case google drive dies. That's good enough for me.

I know this isn't an open source solution but I couldn't find anything that worked consistently well in that area.
The goal is eventually to be able to, like what Authorea is trying to do now, just "slap on" various LaTeX style templates during final rendering (similar to how static blog engines format plain md posts using templates). It's going to be PAINFUL but I think it is eventually doable with enough elbow grease. Markdown is a nice starting point because the features are so spartan that you actually have some hope of finding the "greatest common denominator" document model that can pretty much map injectively to all the major journal-specific LaTeX document-classes.

I'm imagining some kind of online component like ShareLaTeX that will become a clearinghouse for a number of tested and proven conversion paths, and can handle compiling a ScholarlyMarkdown document to different formats. This project won't go anywhere if this can't at least be done for major houses like Elsevier, PNAS, Phys Rev, etc.
This is exactly what happened to me. DDG is good for my basic searches, but anything more complex often results in me having to fall back to Google.

Unrelated: I hate that DDG doesn't show dates, which I find invaluable for many of my searches. Is there any way to show those in DDG?
I have used startpage for about a year now. I like it but it's not as good as google.
Your comment assumes that more time spent on an activity increases proficiency. All other things kept equal, this is likely true. However, if dentist B works two days per week and spends one day per week on deliberate practice, I would quite likely prefer to see dentist B when I need work done. The salient point being that we ought to be able to work less overall, have more diversity of (work) experience and still be better at what we do.
I am quite satisfied with ixquick[0]. It forwards google results over a Proxy, utilizing TLS and it
relinquishes cookies. Pretty neat if you ask me.

[0] https://www.ixquick.de/eng/?
A hackathon is a good tool to brainstorm and have some Proof of Concept, but it is a bit silly to believe that it is a good way to build a lasting product and I must say a bit sad to think that what matters is making money.

Building web applications is a very small subset of software engineering with an extremely small subset of what life is about.

Just attend other meetups.
Related to this: in Japan the school children have to clean the class room and hallways. It's an integrated part of going to school and I think it is brilliant on so many levels.

Best case, it saves money on staff, teaches children how to clean and how to be respectful of their environment.

Obviously there are some potential for cruelty, like if you know it's Hashimoto's turn to clean today and you think he's a wimp, you can save some dirt somewhere for him to deal with.

I don't think this is a problem in Japan, and regardless, let's be honest: kids are real assholes sometimes regardless of what you do.
hmmm... What about those people who really are passionate about their field. These people might seek enough pay and lower hours, so that they can get back to problems that are actually challenging and interesting.
You'll likely find this Reddit post useful.

http://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/2a1a0e/why_is_th...

I'm currently trying out Laverna (https://laverna.cc/)
Using DDG in daily life with the !g or !g+cc (country code, quite useful) and with FF. So this new Google "ad" gets really bothering everyday and a quick "block element" with uBlock fixed it !
Been using it for over two years now. It works just fine for me, it seems to match my way of writing search queries well. I rarely have to try elsewhere to find what I'm looking for. (Hint: Add !sp to search google without much of google's tracking).

DDG is definitely not for everyone. My parents tend to search Google by entering questions into the search box, and Google does a great job at working out what they mean and want, while DDG is IMO a much more literal search (as in, are the words you typed in the page results).
HN is Google's bitch. And probably you are too
I received a mail from Google last week where they threatened to lower my page-rank if I did not do some updates to my homepage.

If you are a Webmaster, you have probably also received the same mail. And probably HN too as today when I opened up the HN page in my mobile browser, everything was "messed up", ruining my experience.

"These pages will not be seen as mobile-friendly by Google Search, and will therefore be displayed and ranked appropriately for smartphone users."

So Google uses it's powers to enforce "mobile-friendly", even though you can view most pages just fine even if they do not have the meta viewport and "mobile friendliness".

Google only use one single metric when they make decisions like these. And that is their revenue. They do not care about the user experience on your site, the only thing they care about how much money they get from redirecting to it.
Looks cool. I didn't know that project. I can't find any apps so far, but they provide rich API. I'm only sorry that SSL alert appears in their demo page...
>President George W. Bush’s Administration invoked the prospect of mushroom clouds rising above American cities to justify its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Not true at all! Afghanistan was attacked in a search for bin Laden after attacking the World Trade Center. Iraq was attacked for having and using chemical weapons. Is this author making things up?
You're really lucky if you don't know what's it like to live in a country where all the poor people are certain that things will never change for the best and therefore do absolutely nothing about it.

And yet the social mobility in the USA is quite low compared to other developed countries: "Several large studies of mobility in developed countries in recent years have found the US among the lowest in mobility." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the_...)

Empirically those countries with a highly built-out welfare system (e.g. those where the economic pressure on the poor individual is lowest) see higher probabilities of those poor people working themselves out of poverty.
Potentially a problem that internet = web, at zeroth approximation.
That sounds an excellent idea.

Although I would suggest you could almost automate the sports coach ...
Self Driving Cars to Be in 30 United States Cities by the End of 2016
So they're promoting Google. So does Bing. Is this a problem?

When you visit a Microsoft site with any browser but Chrome, you get an ad pushing IE. Is that a problem, too?
We Live in an Age of Irrational Parenting
yes,

paytm deems to be moving in right direction , lets hope with Tata's new found love for Paytm , makes it worthwhile
Counterpoint: https://thenib.com/girl-talk-12bebbf0b381
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While I am not trying to defend the RBI, I will try and give the reasoning from RBI's perspective. Note that I don't personally support these bans.

1) Banks in India do not provide easy ways to do chargebacks. Also, many people are not even aware that you can do chargebacks. I have to manually call a bank and ask them to do so after going through a couple customer service representatives.
Also, consider that a big chunk of the population is coming in the ambit of financial institutions for the first time. Many people are opening their bank accounts for the first time. Many people in India still do not trust the banks. If they see a couple hundred bucks vanishing from their accounts, they might as well abandon putting money into the accounts.
Incidents like Target or Home Depot if happen in India will rock the trust that people have in these institutions.

Banking in India is a business activity synonymous with trust [1]. And in my opinion RBI has done a fine job of it.

2) RBI banned Paypal earlier because it concluded it's not complying with regulatory framework of the country. These regulations are in place for a reason. If they are obsolete then we should campaign for them to be eased. But you don't get a free pass just because you are a big entity.

Paypal as they were operating earlier had to be regulated as a bank and PayPal does not want that to happen. Any entity which provides on-demand payments back then had to be regulated as a bank as per RBI rules. PayPal was basically circumnavigating this regulation so that they don’t have to answer questions to the government about how they conduct business. Also, getting a banking license requires a lot of regulatory oversight. The closed wallets regulations that RBI came out with later was a in my opinion direct response to this.

3) Uber was routing Indian card transactions internationally. They were in essence exploiting a loophole in the regulations. If RBI hadn't blocked Uber, then Olacabs, Flipkart, etc. will also have done the same. This will have directly undermined the 2FA policies RBI has put in place. Forcing Uber to comply with the policies was the right choice at that moment.

4) The proliferation of closed wallets has forced RBI to consider whether removing 2FA on small value transactions will be beneficial.

You should understand that India's economy has only been opened recently. A lot of the restrictions will go away with time. If you think they are harmful then convince the RBI of the same. But these restrictions cannot be removed overnight just because a new startup feels the need for the same. RBI's each decision will have far reaching impacts on the financial systems of the country and they need to be taken with utmost care and foresight.

[1] http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_SpeechesView.aspx?Id=587

Edit: Added more context for Paypal
I have a short write-up here: https://thepsychonautexplorer.com/minimizing-distractions-an...

But the tl;dr is setting productive defaults and actively not clicking on links you know are unproductive and stupid.

I honestly find that it can be difficult to limit time wastage because the dumb/completely useless sites can give awesome ideas or inspiration.. and it's only that one click away!

Some here are saying change host files or block sites but have any of you actually tried to do this for a good length of time? I just end up routing around my own blocks and ending right back on Reddit.
You can generally use them to model a situation or improve it. For instance, if you're doing a dictionary, you'll be looking into a trie or Bloom filter, and it's generally like that I'm using it.

Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual is great for the former approach, and has a cookbook feel to it, since most of it is just an index of different algorithms to use for different situations.
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I've actually been wondering if this is possible from a theoretical standpoint. I'm thinking you can use Pandoc's LaTeX to MD conversion mode, save changes to a copy, wdiff to get the total change set, then somehow convert that into a LaTeX patch. Whether you can guarantee that this won't break anything is going to be a really challenging problem, as my head is already swimming with edge-cases. I guess we'll know the day that some genius comes up with automatically generated non format-breaking Critic Markup diffs. At least the problem should be easier than LaTeX --- look how long it took for the latexdiff tool to be what it is today, and it still breaks often when you have anything slightly exotic.

I'm currently using a workflow in my thesis where I use ScholarlyMarkdown to write individual chapters for final inclusion into an existing LaTeX book document. I find that ScholarlyMarkdown works quite well this way, and it potentially allows collaborators, since individual parts are isolated.
Taught by Cormen, no less
RFC 2550 – Y10K and Beyond (1999)
I wrote this to scratch my note-taking itch. It's very simple. Online-only.

https://github.com/davidbanham/noted
Browsers have been doing this for at least 15 years. Is there anything especially strange here you wanted to point out?
I believe you just described the ScrumMaster and the Product Owner in the SCRUM methodology: https://www.scrumalliance.org/why-scrum/core-scrum-values-ro...
Don't underestimate network effects. If most people consent to being treated like shit for a lousy pay, those who don't will be singled out. Which makes it even harder to stand up for yourself… well you get the idea.

Demand better terms by yourself, and you will simply be dismissed as entitled, arrogant, or not knowing your place. Have everyone demand better terms, and you will all get them.
Synology NAS server has DS Note: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/mobile if you don't mind investing in one.
While looking at this from the point of view of AS is helpful to understand the ISP industry, it does not help to understand why giving away things for free is bad.

Lets look at the first thing that springs to mind about giving stuff away for fee: humanitarian aid. If a larger food producer "dump" free food into a region, this will decrease the incentives for local grown food, while driving up prices of alternative source of nutrition. A "evil" organization could, I guess, use humanitarian aid as a method to destroy local industry and cement themselves as the only game in town. The question then becomes, is the concept of humanitarian aid wrong and could there be safeguards that will prevent misuse.

I would suggest that non-profit charity that gives out food, medicin and knowledge is an acceptable line in the sand, while commercial monopolies and for-profit price dumping is bad. This still enables the good aspects of "free", while preventing bad actors from exploiting the side effects of giving away things for free. In the context of Internet this would mean that Wikipedia and similar non-profit information sharing sites would be acceptable, but not for-profit companies like facebook and google.
Cospaia: For nearly four hundred years, the smallest republic in the world
The bigger question is: how does Google know what your default search engine is?

Are they tracking referrers from DDG, or what?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205733 Is this related?
If you're doing that, you may as well define keyword searches in your browser. Which is the ultimate privacy because redirection to the appropriate search engine happens locally.

I have g for Google, gl for feeling lucky in Google, w for Wikipedia, imdb, yt, and many more I never use.
DDG-user for about two years now. With the latest iterations of Apple-updates, I'm using it on my iPhone as well. Using the terminal-like style :-)
Full disk encryption, close the lid of the laptop when you wander away from it.

No need for a VPN if your connection to the email, chat and vcs servers are using TLS. If not, why not? It is the year 2015.
I run a 2-3 person shop working on SAAS and iOS apps.

We don't use VPN, because most of the communication goes through HTTPS anyway (github, gmail). I just made sure that everyone has 2FA and strong passwords on key services.

Oh, and don't download user data to your machine.
FB (& Google) have reached a size where one of the ways to keep growing is to bring more people onto the Internet. If they can do that in a way that puts their product front-and-centre for those 'new' users, they can capture more of the market. I'm not saying I approve of this strategy, but I can see it as being a viable one for now (just as AOL was viable for its time).
It sounds like a very apt use case, unless you need the VM representation for some reason. 15 separate services is no problem for Docker. Hundreds - if not thousands - are quite possible.
> I'm seriously unsurprised to find the token why-does-anyone-like-Yudkowsky-he-doesn't-have-a-PhD-and-hasn't-even-saved-the-world-yet criticism in a thread about his Harry Potter fan fiction.

I don't think that this was the kind of criticism that was expressed, but on the other hand it's always easier to fight a straw man.
Happy Birthday to the First Dot-Com
Thanks for clarifying. At first I thought it was referring to the Personal Account Number in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7813
"...so that the house would “open up” as you walked into it."

This is a well-known effect that architects have employed for centuries. In fact, you probably encounter it in many places without even thinking about it:

- when walking into a cinema auditorium, you walk through a low-ceiling entrance or corridor and then the auditorium space opens up in front of you. This effect is even more dramatic in some old theatres and opera houses

- the historic concept of contrasting spaces has been used in many different ways by changing the type of space or the size/scale of a space. For example, the narrow streets of a medieval town that suddenly and dramatically open up to a large market square.

The Swiss architect Le Corbusier designed a block of flats (apartments) called the Unité d'habitation (housing unit) in Marseille in France. It was completed in the 1950s and had a huge influence on the design of post-war housing across Europe (it generated much controversy too).

The duplex flats have a narrow width of just 3.66 metres. As you enter the flat, the first ceiling height is 2.26 metres (which Le Corbusier described as "intimate"). This leads into the double-height space of the living room (i.e. the second ceiling height). The windows in this double-height space are 15 square metres. Light floods in to the apartment in winter and summer and, according to Le Corbusier, can penetrate to a depth of 20 metres. The flats are fitted with stairs without risers to accentuate the sense of space.

Here are some pictures of an apartment:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/88017382@N00/8562877755/
http://www.house42.com/2010/10/14/unite-dhabitation-duplex-a...
don't think Apple Pay is a "wallet", in that you can't store money, it's just your CC that's being charged.
ECS is really hard to setup for a consumer service. Maybe companies targeting enterprises can get this setup, but its really hard to charge a regular consumer for a regular service using ECS.
I received it for domains I have robots.txt set for Google to not crawl. I do suspect Google didn't think when they set this one up.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness is essential reading: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
For some reason when I read "Khan Academy" somewhere I instantly associate it with Star Trek and I can't take it seriously.
The non-webkit-transform is missing on the .t::before.
I feel the way I communicate has been influenced strongly by voice training - I've noticed in particular I say "I feel" a lot in similar circumstances. (Apparently, valuing emotions above thought is some paragon of femininity? I'm not sure I agree with that.)

I am reluctant to go for the direct "wtf?!" response, because as above, it bruises egos and people get defensive - and that is unhelpful to actually resolving issues. I tend to phrase it as "Perhaps I'm confused, but...". (One advantage of this is that sometimes, I am wrong, and this gives someone an opportunity to explain why, and in the process hopefully re-examining their thought process and testing it just in case.) I think I caught that pattern, as well as excessive usage of "though", from a good friend. One interpretation of this is that perhaps I've spent nigh-on 2½ decades being confused. <g>

There is, however, a place for the genuine WTF. I reserve it for "there's no way you could be that stupid" situations, like someone cheerfully telling me about the 256-bit encryption they used, and my discovering it's RSA-256.

The management-by-Perkele has however seemed to work to keep the Linux kernel clean up 'til now, although they don't really want to insult people.
Nice article..
one of the best reads..!!
you can read this too.. :) it is useful
https://github.com/stevekwan/best-practices/blob/master/java...

do you have any idea to reduce the bounce rate??
Get a cheap VPS somewhere and let it do all the Internet things like mail and stuff. Or use free services. You can communicate just fine using just text.

It all sounds like you are not living in the reality though. And the lack of good Internet is just mental excuse for the real problems, that you are too afraid to face.
I've been prototyping in this space for a while now - trying to scratch my own itch, as it were - and seeing as this is climbing the front page I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask HN: what exactly is it you want from this kind of application? I dislike Evernote because of it's lack of structure, dumb text with a few bells and whistles added doesn't work for me.

Would love to hear any and all suggestions: personal wiki, deeply structured personal knowledge graph, UI concerns...anything! I'm not saying anything will come of it for sure, and doing it open-source wasn't my plan, but I'd be very grateful for any input.
Nope, normality is necessary.

>>All that is needed for every work to appear is that each digit occur at least once.

Counter example would be a=0,123456789010011000111000011110000011111....
True, although many Apple Pay users have Visa/MC debit cards linked to a checking account, essentially making it a digital wallet.
Sure. DuckDuckGo handles most of my searches perfectly adequately.

For the cases when it doesn't, consider !sp for Startpage: "the world's most private search engine. (enhanced by Google [results through proxy])"

or !iq for "Ixquick"
But would you go to a hackathon with no prizes?
We’re finding out what’s in fracking wastewater, and it ain’t pretty
UPenn's CS program is quite good. Sure MIT/Stanford/Berkeley/CMU might have better programs. But I've heard nothing but good things about UPenn.
This is really messed up on my iPhone 6 plus. The header is broken in half and the fonts are huge. I would revert until the real solution. Sorry.
Its unlikely that anyone _can_ get as good as google since what others have searched on previously is one of the major paramters in their search algorithm, more people that search on google, the better it becomes...
I think admitting everyone IS possible. It's important to realize that these hackathons spend thousands to fly a lot of out of state hackers in (travel reimbursements). These hackathons will also send buses to nearby colleges, and even colleges out of state (e.g. anything within an 8 hour drive). If they didn't do those things (especially airfare reimbursements - kind of excessive if you ask me, or limiting buses to 3 hour drives) as much as they do now, they'd be able to narrow the pool a lot.
It surely can be used, but the lack of modifier keys would make the experience a lot worse than with an usual keyboard.

Cut and paste seems to have buit-in shortcuts, I'm not sure about things like cmd+space, ctrl+tab etc. There don't even seem to be an escape key.