skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not limited to Chase. It's called clearXchange and was started by the 3 big banks (Chase, BoA, Wells Fargo) and is now extending to more: https://www.clearxchange.com/payments/member-banks

clearXchange allows account holders in any of the member banks to send funds to each other and it takes about 1-2 days after the first transaction. It also allows sending funds via cellphone. If you have a Wells Fargo account, you can send funds to a BoA account holder using just their phone number.

I think the banks have done a horrible job of advertising this free no-strings-attached service.
Is solving this problem at the DNS level really necessary?

Apple already has tech in place to both associate a native app with a domain name (so you can share login keychain items between a native app and its corresponding site in Safari), and to associate a specific HTML page with a native app + optional deep-link URL (see: the 'open in <X app>' banner in Safari).

The fact that Apple hasn't connected the dots to provide a better experience is bizarre, but seems to be one constrained by product decisions rather than pure technical limitations. Mucking around with DNS adds in a lot of complexity for few apparent gains.

(To say nothing of the major problem this doesn't seem to be trying to solve, which is iOS not having a system like Android's Intents to manage routing a single desired action to multiple apps that could all potentially handle it)
At least good that she didn't signed-up for antispam.ir or antispam.cn service :)
Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places
>>> Is it being withheld? Have you asked?

Does it needs to be asked? Isn't it transparency in operations and responsibility to people who believed and invested before in terms of effort or money? It is unbelievable, if they are hidden/undisclosed to remaining stakeholders.
1. Use an iOS or Android Nexus device. Apple and Google do a good job of keeping iOS and Nexus devices very up-to-date security wise. (Specifically avoid non-Nexus Android devices as companies other than Google do a bad job at deploying timely OTA updates.)

2. Use a deterministic wallet app so there is no need to back up anything whatsoever (all your addresses and keys are generated from a password): Greenaddress, Breadwallet, Mycelium.

Then all you need is one strong unique password, and you have a decently solid Bitcoin wallet. If someone specifically hacks you with a 0day to compromise your mobile device, you have a lot more things to worry about than losing your bitcoins.
Will those torrents be encrypted too? If they are actual torrents, hopefully that means ISPs like Comcast won't throttle torrents anymore - or maybe they'll just get Microsoft to pay extra for the privilege.
> 1. The system has to be told exactly how to perform a task. 2. The system has reasonable defaults on how to do it. You push execute. 3. The system knows what you want and just does it.

This. Interface is by the very definition a barrier between your brain and the system you want to change (by "system" I mean a system in general sense, a hammer, nail and a piece of wood also form a system). What matters is your goal and the change of system's state - everything else is cruft and we should aim to remove it.

Your brain actually tries to do that by its own. You can see it when e.g. driving a car. At first you're aware of everything - the steering wheel, the pedals, the gear shift knob, etc. You consciously manipulate them to move the car around. But at some point, with enough accumulated experience, you don't really think about the interface anymore. You just think "I want to be there" and do all the required movements to steer the car to the right place.

What is important for your brain to learn to ignore the interface is the interface being predictable and consistent. This is where, I think, smartphones are a step backwards compared to old featured phones. As we moved from firmware to full OSes, you can't rely anymore on timing. For example, on my old SE K800i I could do most frequent actions without even taking my phone from my pocket, because my brain learned the position and timing of various options. "Press Right Function, move down twice, press Right Function, wait 0.7 seconds, press Right Function...", etc. It's something that you can't do on a smartphone, because the new tech is laggy and full of unpredictable interface delays.

> The next step forward is probably to geofence your car and when you're near, a push notification asks you if you'd like to open your car door.

Or we could, you know, use NFC for opening and/or BLE for determining if the phone is near/inside the car.

Geofencing is totally a wrong tool for the job (and so far every time I heard it being suggested for something, ot was wrong for that as well).

> Finally, we get to the two step walk to door, open door.

We could do that decades ago. The way smartphones are getting introduced into the equation seems to be a huge leap backwards.
Yeah, I think that would work.

edit - I think the need for explicit types for each SAM was fixed by https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-8310
From experience, people who engage with me for any length of time tend to find me very interesting. Perhaps I'm simply an exception to your rule.

Now that I write it, that sounds egotistical.
There are companies that already do this:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-c...
Understanding SQL's Null
Ask HN: Is it alright to fork an apk and sell it without making much changes?
Given Psiphon's popularity, and the usage of VPNs in places where there are restrictions on the usage of the wireless network, this guy ripped off Psiphon's APK, changed the logos and other assets and uploaded the same on a Play Store account, without any credits given to Psiphon.

Whenever I see an update on Psiphon, like a feature to save data usage, I see the same reflecting in the copied app's changelog which is, I guess, a bit weird.

Shouldn't something be done to actually stop the duplication of apps?

Play Store URL : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifreedomv2&hl=en

I just found out that the person doing it created a new account and removed the app from the previous account which had a paid version.
Speaking from practical experience, iOS' Safari is quite a different beast from the desktop version. `position:fixed` in a scrollable, element, for example, has completely different behaviors depending on the platform Safari is running on. You have to treat desktop Safari and iOS Safari as different browsers for development and QA purposes.

Windows Phone uses Trident + Chakra for its IE deployment, as well, so if we're going to make that argument, then IE is multiplatform, as well :P
I'm fairly certain you're wrong about that. A quick googling suggests that a commercial wind turbine produces about 1M kWh/year, more or less. That's a great deal more energy than it would require to manufacture and install.

By comparison, it takes about a pound of coal to produce 1 kWh of electricity, more or less. So a single wind turbine produces the equivalent energy of a MILLION pounds of coal every year! How much does it cost to mine and transport that coal, not to mention the construction and operating costs of the plant?

That said, what problem is this solving? Well, the core solution is converting to wind-based power. The kites are just a cost reduction for the conversion process. They presumably cost less to make than standard towers, and are easier and cheaper to install. They probably have long-term cost/kWh benefits as well.
Ask HN: Review My Startup – ShareShoot
ShareShoot is an event-based, cross-platform, photo sharing app. We built it after taking a large group trip to Mexico and dealing with the difficulties of coordinating photos after the fact. Someone sent out a link to a cloud solution, everyone intended to upload and only a few ever got around to it. It turns out the same problem exists when small groups go out, when people go on trips or when someone has family abroad that they'd like to sync photos with.

We have a few users, but are trying to bridge the gap between "it mostly works" and customers get the value and can experience the mvp without manual intervention. So, if you have any feedback, we're all ears.

shareshootapp.com

Thanks!
Facebook Introduces Free Friend-To-Friend Payments Through Messages
Cream in that? Yes, make it a III on the Fitzpatrick scale.
"Blackstone is the biggest vulture fund in the world,
spending up to 100 million dollars per week on foreclosed properties in the U.S. Completely lacking in social responsibility, Blackstone specialises in buyin up devalued properties, upon which it then raises rents. In this way,
Blackstone systematically places the families that live
in these properties in danger of eviction and in a situation of extreme vulnerability.

Source [english pdf]: http://afectadosporlahipoteca.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03...
Does it bother anyone else that this site isn't on HTTPS and doesn't provide identity information?
Note that while frowned upon, such issues arise altogether more often than they should in real systems.
clickable: http://www.shareshootapp.com/
Depends what your software is all about.
But there is a compiler flag -XSafe which could guarantee none of your code uses it, meaning GP's answer could be yes.
pdf.js. It's the same thing github is using (as stated on the article), and it's also what firefox uses to render PDFs (yes, firefox renders PDFs with html+js).
I think in comparison to existing fossil fuels (price/ROI), in this WIki article they talk about how the drop of oil price meant funding for these types of projects went away:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_wind_power
The premise of Someone's hypothetical was to explain to theon144 why it might be both hard and important to guess. The hypothetical assumed that the difference already existed. It echos the larger context of Han unification that com2kid started, but with an example that's a lot easier for native English speakers to understand.

So while I agree that they haven't yet diverged, that's outside the context of the hypothetical, where they have diverged.
Any sane reason to store PDF files into git repositories? Why would you version binary files; version LaTeX, or whatever's generating your PDFs.
Thanks for taking the time to explain your views to me. Sorry to have bothered you and eaten away at the precious time you could be spending on more meaningful persuits.
Golang has possibly the best TLS library implemented in any language. Maybe you instead mean that nobody would drop a Golang TLS library into a C program, but that they might do that with a Rust TLS library? That's truey, but not particularly interesting. Most languages can't be dropped easily into C programs.
Every time this topic pops up, I'm reminded of the scene from Continuum (I checked it out recently, it's in the third episode of the first season). There, a time traveller from the future buys a bluetooth headset and reflects on the 'ridiculous amount of packaging for something so small'. "No wonder you had a trash problem [in 20th century]".

(I recommend the show strongly, btw. While often more "fi" than "sci", it has an extremely good discussion of the interaction between people, government and private interests. In the show's universe, corporations have bailed out the failing government and formed a Corporate Congress...).
What about adding safer checked buffer types as part of the standard library? A fixed buffer for things of "up to this size" where it remembers how big the current thing is.

Seems like it would be a pretty easy problem to fix if you're not playing fast and loose.
Sure, but that was really my point: I was just offering a tiny data point on the progress towards the goal that the person I was replying to expressed:

> At this point, I just want one of these pay-with-your-phone solutions to win and be ubiquitous.

I'm not saying this is a clear winner, just that Venmo is well on its way to ubiquity in this market, at least within my demographic/peer group. I'm fairly social, and I try to keep an eye on the tech that people I meet who don't work in tech are using, and Venmo certainly stands out in that regard.
I've been eyeballing this for awhile now. The keyboard layout is so ingenious. The ergonomics are derived from ErgoDox. The only thing missing is a version where it is literally 2 halves of a keyboard which would make it more portable and essentially a smaller version of the ErgoDox. Seems like a great project for an amateur electronics engineer too.

Sigh, if only I had the time, money and skills.
Then you should convince your employer that they're wrong with that ban. If they don't wish to pay the fee for using the work of others, then they need to make their own, just like anything else in the world.
Ajit Nazre wasn't Pao's supervisor.
OP, i'm going to add another comment here to what i said earlier. before you quit, go in and talk to someone in senior management.

ask for a meeting with someone senior, let them knows it's important. when you get the fifteen minutes you asked for, raise you concern. it undermines trust between sales and senior management, it's a big stress, etc. give them a chance to respond. there may be a perfectly sound reason for it - the money may piss you off but it may also mean the business can stay around longer for everyone.

if you don't like what you hear, pull out your short letter of resignation, sign it, and hand it over. don't make a stink, just say, "i'm sorry, i don't think i can do this. i have to resign."

but you gave them a chance, you were heard, and you made an opportunity. they'll connect the dots, but no harsh words should be spoken (no "get bent you jerk!"). don't burn any bridges, but this will be a way to be clear about what happened, and it may create an opportunity, in fact (who knows).

i hope that helps.
This does not, however, oblige us to hand these people sticks, particularly the ones they have already shown great fondness for abusing.

Repeated and egregious abuse of a tool - the thing being discussed in the comment you are replying to - is in fact an argument against the tool.
Apple MacBook vs. Google Chromebook Pixel
This may be a bug in wpa_supplicant, I'm not sure. I looked at the code, and it seems to be trying to avoid using the SSID in a probe unless this value is set to 1, but the code is structured such that the check needs to be done in many places so one of them may have omitted it. Should be in scan.c.
C-v and M-v in Emacs and friends and CTRL+b and CTRL+d in vi and clones.

EDIT: and if you were fine with reaching for PgDn then SHIFT+up, SHIFT+down in vim is probably a viable option as well.
That's not a downside. Why should you be allowed to smuggle contraband into the country?
WebKit + JavaScriptCore ("Safari") is available on ALL platforms.[1]

1. Within reason, of course. It's not on my router (but maybe it could be)
Americans are below the replacement rate so having more generations results in fewer not more offspring.
Ask HN: Macbook Air as WebDev machine?
Dear community of HN, any of you uses a Macbook Air as a developing machine ?

My story: I already have a nice desktop which I use mosr of the time with win8.1 and OSX Yosemite, this was my first time using osx as a dev enviroment and I really really liked it.

But there are times when I need to be ob the go and keep up with thr work, also I sometimes like to work on the couch (I work remote from home).

For this purpose I have a thinkpad x201, but it's starting to fail slowly, also I don't really like the 12" 800p screen.

I'm not really that interested in a retina screen, if I need real estate I already have a couple of good monitors.

And that's why I'm interested on the air, lightweight, good battery life and so.

But I'm curious on how well is the screen and how's the performance on programs such as phpstorm, sublime, macvim, running vagrant boxes, etc.

Can you guys share your stories ? Thanks!
Magician Harry Houdini's death certificate
You don't think that Thelema's "Do what thou wilt" and the BSD licenses' "Permission to use...this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted" are very similar?

Also, if you're referring to the K2 summit attempt in 1902 led by Eckenstein, I was under the impression that no one died despite the fact that they failed to summit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2#Early_attempts

However, Crowley's 1905 trip to Kanchenjunga was an unmitigated disaster. Crowley, who insisted on leading the climb, behaved extremely badly, going so far as to decline assisting in the rescue of fellow climbers and porters caught in an avalanche as well as later stealing money from the expedition. I'm under the impression that Crowley was only interested in setting a high altitude record. Four people ended up dying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Kanchenjunga_expedition

Crowley did go on some kind of climbing holiday in New York State later in life, but I doubt that was anything like his earlier trips to the Alps, Mexico, or the Himalayas.
Definitely second transferwise. I use it all the time, and it's fast and easy without seeming skeevy like Western Union or whatever.
Or Tinder even.
Rabbit Hole
and, of course, DMARC -- so rejection policies can be set.

PGP FTW!

Now if only STEED would be implemented...
http://g10code.com/docs/steed-usable-e2ee.pdf

But, unfortunately, even mail from a properly configured mail server on properly protected domain will still end up in gmail users' spam boxes by default. Domain and server rep systems are a bear to work with.
Some people are going to stick on the old OS no matter what. Their computer still works, why buy another?

We can stamp our feet or work with that reality. We have 70% of China on Windows XP with no hope of a modern browser from MS (http://www.computerworld.com/article/2484761/microsoft-windo...). At least Chrome will work on those old systems. At least web devs can use modern features on those systems.

If the browser is the primary carrot to get someone to upgrade your OS, the OS value prop sucks.
I'm sure that they have statistics to back up their target demographic, but I would probably apply a geographic layer onto those numbers and see where that leaves 'em.

I just did a quick run through of my office (Minneapolis/St Paul snowboard, etc. online retailer): asking who has heard of it or uses it. Of the 30 or so I asked, 1 person has it on his phone and he says he never uses it.

I _did_ have a conversation where I was told 'I usually pick it up then they get me back later' which a few people in earshot agreed with.

Maybe there needs to be an app to track who owes you drinks?
Proper HTTPS is secure at MITM attacks. HTTPS can be MITMed if the certs or local systems have been breached. But the MITM is just a byproduct of a different failure. Absolutely any secure communication protocol has to be honored by both parties for it to be secure.
Acronym professional
> Well, the simple reason I suggest such a thing is that, assuming you are varying people, situations, and topics, it is the only variable that remains constant throughout. While you may not agree with how I see things, perhaps you can at least understand why.

And that's fine. You're not wrong. Your perspective is just incomplete. You erred in assuming that new experiences and ideas can come only from a particular set of sources.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio.
I don't see any value in arguing over whether a hypothetical program written in Rust would have had one specific bug.

What is more important is whether using a language like Rust will prevent some severe security holes, and the answer is quite obviously that it will. Sure, it's possible to create bugs in any language, but it's much harder to prevent bugs in C than in most languages.
Thank you for your reply. I used to live in Scotland where there are a lot of wind turbines and I remember controversy in the news about the fact that while the expected lifespan of a wind turbine should be around 20 years, the actual lifespan ended up being in the region of 12 years, and the long-term maintenance costs ended up being higher than expected. There was also controversy about the environmental damage done to forests and birds, as well as noise pollution, though I guess this isn't directly related to the subject at hand.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of clean energy, I'm genuinely trying to inform myself about the pros and cons of each solution.
Encryption is not separable from authentication.
The GPL kicks people who want to take and not give back in turn under the bus. You're completely failing to make any case that this is a flaw.
That would be an interesting construction. From an engagement perspective it is probably easier to get a lawyer on spec based on class action status but if the DoJ could be brought in it would certainly give us something that the courts might be able to use to clarify automated takedown as it relates to the DMCA.
It's actually very important for me and people like me to engage on this subject. If we don't, we get marginalized by people who don't even realize that we exist.
That's what Vectors, slices, and arrays already do. See that v.len()?
Buzzfeed and Kickstarter = the Future of Fashion?
Zawinski's law - "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." Humorous and relevant.
> I would actually support the author’s “Greco Unification” strawman if it could be done in a principled way

A 5 year old tech note by a Unicode Consortium member at http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn26 gives 7 reasons "why the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts have been separately encoded, rather than being encoded as a single script", and 12 reasons why the Han script was unified.

Edit: These 7 reasons make a good case why such "Greco Unification" wouldn't work.
I see how you subtly equated boring packaging with being shoddy or bad. The reality is that you can have perfectly good, reliable, strong packaging for cheap, it just isn't necessarily beautiful to look at, but maybe some pink shaped foam that gives 3 inches of crush protection all round and fits inside a double box.

You want the packaging to be part of the aesthetic experience, rather than purely functional. OK, so you like Apple's packaging, but 'best in the world'? Japanese people have been doing that sort of thing for centuries.
IE has been evergreen since version 10. The biggest change is that this is not Trident. It is a new rendering engine, called EdgeHTML, which started as a fork of Trident. That might sound odd, but Trident and the rest of IE had accumulated years of technical and backwards-compatibility debt: All the different document modes and obscure features from the ActiveX era that couldn't be removed because enterprise intranet sites relied on them.

So what Microsoft have done is create an entirely new browser, using the EdgeHTML fork, while keeping IE around only for enterprise installs. Then they went on a killing spree in the EdgeHTML source, ripping out all the crap that they were previously stuck with, then adding new features into their newly cleaned-up codebase. This will then form the basis for the new, consumer facing browser in Windows 10.
Bitcoin has its problems, but getting a bitcoin address is much less friction than setting up a bank account.
I remember when people not getting the GPL was entire threads on Slashdot ...
You mean public previews, which are meant for end users and press, but the development builds are being released much more often. Latest is less than a week old.
Yeah! hate these kind of websites.
yes, though it's probably worth noting that a video of their CEO talking about it is probably pretty hard to fake
I was glad to see discussion of a technical track. I just finished reading Skunk Works, and that is a great example of what you can do with a team of outstanding technical contributors. Also one of the messages of that book is that such a team requires less oversight and management overhead. (Not none, but a fraction of other teams.)