skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point, I just want one of these pay-with-your-phone solutions to win and be ubiquitous.

The current situation is almost comical. "Do you have Venmo? Haven't set that up yet, can you send over Paypal?. No, what about Square Wallet? Nope, what about Gmail?"
Indeed. There's a roaring trade in WordPress themes, even though they're all GPL (or copyright violations). (These frequently license the assets proprietary and call the result an aggregation, but you can still take a theme with cool functions and release your own version with your own assets.)
still?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_%2...
Ok, we all understand it sucks. Whats the fix? You think Unicode is racist and terrible. Its stupidly difficult to work with for sure, but racist is a stretch.

What do you propose? More complexity layered on a system that people don't understand isn't really a fix.
But Unicode emphatically does not define a rendering, a glyph.

To me it sounds like the rendering needs to be fixed, not Unicode.
The New ‘Meerkat’ App Is a Win for Music
Just redefine "the community" to be the logged-in users and poof, now it's the magnitude you expected.

Pretty much all I know about the hardware is that HN runs on a single core on a capacious server. Perhaps kogir will show up to say more.
"A biometric is both a 'username' and a 'password' "

This is true, but usually people don't go around showing their passwords to any camera they walk by or surface they touch. That is why people say that it is more appropriate for biometrics to identify someone than it is to provide their authentication.

"our password is just as at risk as your fingerprint."

Also true, but what do you do when these breaches happen if the data is biometric? You can't send out an e-mail asking people to change their fingerprints or face. With existing password infrastructures after a breach the infrastructure can be upgraded to prevent that breach, then the users can be told to change their passwords, then that vulnerability is closed. Once a person's biometric data is stolen (or just taken from the hundreds of sources of our biometric data we leave around daily in the form of pictures and fingerprints) that's it, you can't close whatever breach they used to get in and then move on, because the user can't change their "password" to one that has not been compromised. That account is forever breached.

Biometrics violate several of the requirements for something that can be used as authentication, which is why they are great as identifiers, but terrible as authenticators.
Heheh tricked me. I think it's a resume!
Being paid versus not (volunteer work) certainly influences mod behavior.

I for one wouldn't want to do it without pay. And considering it's such thankless work, it's only worth doing if you're being paid for it.
At least Gmail & Facebook are pretty widely used already though
Maybe Yahoo Axis really is that popular.
Considering we've had Venmo[1], wallet/gmail[2] and Square Cash[3] since 2013, not really.

[1]: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/after-2-years-in-be...

[2]: http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2013/05/send-money-to-fri...

[3]: http://allthingsd.com/20131015/the-money-is-in-the-email/
Now I see why they hired former paypal guys, David Marcus [1] and Stan Chudnovsky [2]

Although I'm sure the team had been working on it for a while (given these were relatively new hires), bringing in the paypal executives helps them have a smoother launch and scale process.

1: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmarcus

2: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanchudnovsky
> I could write the author's name fine: আদিত্য

Author here.

Well, yes and no. The jophola at the end is not actually given its own codepoint[0]. The best analogy I can give is to a ligature in English[1]. The Bengali fonts that you have installed happen to render it as a jophola, the way some fonts happen to render "ff" as "ﬀ" but that's not the same thing as saying that it actually is a jophola (according to the Unicode standard).

The difference between the jophola and an English ligature, though, is English ligatures are purely aesthetic. Typing two "f" characters in a row has the same obvious semantic meaning as the ﬀ ligature, whereas the characters that are required to type a jophola have no obvious semantic, phonetic, or orthographic connection to the jophola.

[0] http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf

[1] Some fonts will render (e.g.) two "f"s in a row as if they were a ligature, even though it's not a true ﬀ(U+FB00).
No experience in Asian languages, but J is pronounced differently in English and German. Should they have unique characters?
Wow, this is a really interesting play by Facebook to gather finance details of their users. I can absolutely see an scenario where friend X wants to pay friend Y who hasn't enabled Pay and they nag until friend Y does sign up. The cycle will continue. It's probably part of a bigger venture into eCommerce for Facebook.
> He proudly announces that there are ‘no fewer than 147 Indian dialects’ – a pathetically inaccurate count.

Wow. How can a country function like this? Is everyone proficient in their native language plus a 'common' one, or are all interactions supposed to be translated inside the same country? Regardless of historical and cultural value, if that's the case, it seems... inefficient.

I do realize that there are more countries like this, but the number of languages seems way too high. I am really curious how that works.
Or a second windows key. Or separate mouse buttons. Sigh
That doesn't make any sense. If people could take GPL code and switch it to MIT license then GPL would be meaningless:

1. Take the GPL project you want

2. Add a comment somewhere, publish the resulting derivative under MIT

3. Use it however you want, while flipping off Gnu

Sure, I can (and do) use GPL software, personally. But I can't use GPL sourcecode in projects I publicly release. If I did, that part of my sourcecode would have to be GPLed.

* Which means it couldn't be used by anyone (set A) who can't use GPL.

* Which means it couldn't be used by anyone (set B) who wants to share with people in set A.

* Which means it couldn't be used by anyone (set C) who wants to share with people in set B.

* So on forever.
I can't speak to security as a whole, since security encompasses more than memory safety. But regarding memory safety, they're similar. Rust has an edge in that it can use hardware parallelism while remaining memory safe, while Go is not memory safe if GOMAXPROCS > 1. However, the memory-unsafe part of Go is a corner (racing on a map or slice) that hasn't caused any real-world security problems I'm aware of.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Rust developer.)
HSA Foundation Launches HSA 1.0 Final Specifications
If you follow the same faulty line of reasoning about performance and portability that led the OpenSSL team to introduce their incorrect wrapper over native malloc(), you will find that you'll reproduce Heartbleed using entirely safe code.
Actually, the main reason I was feeling like I might want to switch from Grunt to Gulp was the extreme and measurable time difference between running the two. Honestly the "it's easier to set up!" arguments fall somewhat flat; it's not HARD to set up Grunt, and you don't need to do it often, so that stinks of "premature optimization." Broccoli seems to entirely be about how clean and tiny the configuration files are; not interesting, because that means it's actually harder to understand how to change them to do something the designers didn't expect. If it's even possible.

It does feel like each group has their own little fiefdom and they want you to use THEIR tool rather than a competitor. The Grunt main page says "THE JAVASCRIPT TASK RUNNER", as if there are no other options. As a new JavaScript developer, it made me think that was just the only option.

I am much more impressed with the integrity of open source projects that actively advertise the options -- especially when they cite advantages and disadvantages of the options. Actively misdirecting you to believe that there no options is pretty much the opposite of that philosophy.
The Parking Is Hell Freakonomics episode is pretty good. In it they estimate that there are something like 800 million parking spaces in the country and recounted a study by Donald Shoup that estimates that up to 30% of traffic in cities are people cruising looking for street parking.

Basically, we don't have a real market for parking in most cities, so people will keep their car parked on the street forever instead of using market forces to induce turnover which is better for the city(revenue) and the nearby businesses(more customers).

[1] - http://freakonomics.com/2013/03/13/parking-is-hell-a-new-fre...
[2] - http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/CruisingForParkingAccess.pdf
Snapcash. Send money that disappears after a few seconds.
I mean, in reality, we are just back where we started. cash & checkbooks used to do this very well, until people needed online payments.
> That person has every right to decide how their software will be distributed.

That's the part I don't agree with. I like actually free software.
I think it needs to be stressed that anyone can submit character proposals to the consortium and work with them to get them included in the next versions of the standard. You don't need to be a member (By paying the hefty fee. Someone needs to pay for the operational costs of the consortium.) to have your suggestions taken into account.
Facebook Messenger Payments Have Arrived
... and insurance-free, as opposed to credit cards
"why is no one using ftrace already?"
The video says it never stores image on the device: https://youtu.be/1AsoSnOmhvU?t=3m12s

I'd assume it's doing the equivalent of password hashing, so the authentication mechanism just verifies a hash match.
If only iOS updates worked the same way.

edit: over wifi is fine, was more referring to the incredibly slow downloads I experience the moment and iOS update comes out vs a few days later.
Develop for iOS and Android simultaneously and natively
The pile of poo is a great example. It is supported because the unicode consortium pays attention to the need of non western languages, not because it ignores them and would rather do silly things.

Japan has had a tendency to includes all sorts of crap, including this example of actual crap, into its character sets/encodings. Japan also has a history of working with the various standard bodies like the Unicode Consortium. Because Japanese systems had the pile of poo, unicode has it.
Yes, this is what the article says:

> Until 2005, Unicode did not have one of the characters in the Bengali word for “suddenly”.

The codepoint does exist now, but it took ten years before it was included.
You forget the fact that IE used to be the best browser out there.Netscape ended up being total shit.
I think their argument was: The characters look the same (e.g. Russian's first character and the English A) but have different meanings.

So in this example if you searched for the English word "Eat" that is also a completely legal Russian word (E, A, and T, exist in English and Russian), however it means nothing remotely similar.

I don't know if they're right or wrong. I am just saying that might be the point they were trying to make. You could make a Greco Unified unicode set and it would work fairly well, but you might wind up with some confusing edge cases where it isn't clear what language you're reading (literally).

This could be particularly problematic for automation (e.g. language detection). Since in some situations any Greco-like language could look similar to any other (in particular as the text gets shorter).
The LGPL also imposes restrictions on the finished product, including (but not limited to) requiring the right to reverse-engineer the product so that a modified library can be incorporated.
Windows 10 is looking like the Windows 8 that should have been. I'm especially interested in the OneGet module of PS 5 and package management that they'll be working on for it. A Linuxified Windows would be pretty interesting.

Why exactly do I see "leaked" in front of Windows 10 so often when one can download the tech preview relatively easily?
What's wrong with email? It's a 40 year old standard that still works great.
It's an interesting feature, but it seems unlikely that enough people will add their card information to Facebook to make it worthwhile, considering that both the payor and payee need CC information included for the payment to work.

On a related note, this continues Facebook's unfortunate user-interface decision to replace the simple "send" button in Facebook Messenger with a row of increasingly crowded and not-particularly-useful buttons to send various "other" things.
Father Witnesses Son’s Birth from Thousands of Miles Away via Samsung’s GearVR
I agree, but it seems tricky like it would be tricky to strike exactly the right balance between unifying too much and too little.

The arguments for Han unification could have just as well been applied to unifying the Nordic languages – the Swedish Ä is really exactly the same letter as Danish/Norwegian Æ (except that Swedish words never ever use the latter and presumably Danish words never use the former), so it could be argued that it should have the same codepoint, forcing us to use country-specific fonts and making it impossible to use both languages in a simple text file.

So, for example, running "git log" on a project with an international contributor base would render either Swedish och Danish names incorrectly, depending on which font the user has selected. That would look extremely strange to me, so I imagine Chinese/Japanese/Korean users feel similarly.

(Luckily for us Nordic users, our letters were already separate characters in ISO-8859-1, which Unicode is a superset of.)
How often do international transactions actually occur though (for small payments between friends)? I feel like it is such a small market it probably is not worth the extra hassle from a legal/fraud standpoint.

As for outside the US, I was under the impression that most banks provide a free service for these transactions.
Arkadium’s husband-wife cofounders swap the CEO job at game company
We spent a weekend contemplating fun uses for the Uber API. Here are a couple ideas that we abandoned - feel free to use as you wish:

* "Bar roulette" where you would hit a button, an uber would show up, then take you to a random bar sourced from Yelp.

* Last-minute ticket sales to events (e.g. in the hour before they start) that include transportation

* Having bars or clubs offer to drive people there for free and bid based on demographics of the user like an ad - e.g. "We need more people in this age range, of this gender, etc." They would set a bid, and the app would ping people that matched the criteria and offer to drive them there for free if the estimated fare was less than the bid.
Also what about the unknown cost of the fitness in a future setting. For example, losing flight may be more fit in any given generation, resulting in a flightless species that then gets wiped out when a new predator is introduced.
> I have seen a dozen people shuffled off to McLean or just kicked out for years until they could convince MIT to let them back in. In all but one case I think MIT overreacted and significantly damaged those individual's lives by isolating instead of supporting them

can you list some examples?
I had to see a Medical Center counselor (who I didn't like that much) for therapy for a couple semesters, but in general I thought the support offered was well-intentioned and appropriate.

> You know you've seen it too.

I saw some of that ('06), but always thought those people were idiots.
You mean it always relinquishes pages to the OS upon free and never reuses a page? So every malloc is a memset(0) inside the kernel?
Isn't this the question of a font? In which case the client chooses if they want to use a font with a double-story or a single-story g?
If his license to UMG for using the recording did not allow them to use it on YouTube, I would file a DMCA or similar claim (not sure about the territorial issue) against UMG for infringement.

This results in a different process than just a ContentID dispute.
Microsoft is scrapping Internet explorer
I should expand a bit. I know the idea is that by engaging with more people, one acquires empathy for more people and becomes a broader, more mature person.

In my case, the result was the opposite. I acquired misanthropy by discovering that most people aren't worth the time and energy to talk to.
“There Shall Be No Bugs” Is a Dangerous Pipe Dream
Like the thumbs up? Why is that the DEFAULT button there?
The Payee will be reasonably motivated to add their CC to retrieve the funds.
I've been happy with EasyDNS for domain registration and I use a couple of other places for my hosting.

I believe the general view is that better to have your domain registrar separate from your hosting provider. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than myself can speak to that.
https://transferwise.com/ run an absolutely amazing service. It's not instant but it saves a lot of money on forex fees.
Check out transferwise.com.
Complex Systems:Is America Heading Towards Collapse of Current Political System?
QLibc is a simple and powerful C utility library
Given the number of people that have their fb accounts hacked every day, I'd be pretty concerned about giving Facebook my credit card info too.
Yes, let's all use Webkit. Much better.......

Later edit : Multiple implementations of a standard is a good thing.
> How is a family that already struggles for basic necessities going to find an extra ~6-10k a year to pay for private school fees?

You do realize that those people already do pay for their children's education right? It's just indirect through property taxes.

Yes people who don't have kids in school also contribute but it's not as though there are 10x as many people without kids as with kids, it might be 50/50 kids/no kids meaning that the best you can get is a 50% "discount" over directly funding instead of funding via taxes.
As an project leader on ThinkLab, I'd like to highlight the awesome [markdown citation engine](http://thinklab.com/help/writing_in_markdown). Provide only a doi and ThinkLab takes care of the rest.
GC doesn't preven all the memory leaks. En easy example is a stack class backeed by an array. If you need more members, you allocate a bigger array and copy members. (The GC takes care of the smaller old array).

So far so good. But You forget to allocate smaller array (and copy members) when you consume too much memory. So 1000000* push(something) followed by 1000000*pop() keeps plenty allocated memory not in usage.

(It's not as brutal as malloc() and forget the result but still pretty awfull situation in a large project.)
Not their respective payment services, though. Receiving one of these Facebook payments won't work unless you've added a credit card to your Facebook.
You only need to convince the payer. The recipient gets an email that says "You have money waiting, let us give it to you."
Hey gov, how about promoting a transparent decentralized system for certificate signing that doesn't require paying a vig every year to a corporation that can easily be leaned on by not-so-well-meaning authorities?

Oh wait, nevermind... I just realized something.
Deleting Square Cash and Paypal...
What the Fox Did
> Go is garbage collected, so memory leaks cannot occur.

Well it depends on how you define memory leaks. Memory leaks can of course occur logically. Like say you create objects in a cache and never remove them. It is still a memory leak.

But at the level that you define the memory leak, it seems Rust can be just as good as Go because memory ownership is tracked by the compiler. One can say it is even better because of compile time checks and no need to have a GC @ runtime present.
Antiqua, Fractura, Schwabacher, Textura and all those other charming variants of writing European languages don't have seperate code points for all those presentational variations.

Do we white Western men happen to discriminate against ourselves?
It would be interesting if a user's social graph could be used to assess creditworthiness. If so they could remove a lot of friction either by reducing fees or assuming a certain degree of credit upfront.
Exactly. I can easily see someone re-implementing OpenSSL in Rust. Not so much with Go.
It is insecure in so many ways...
"Hey RELATIVE it's me here on Facebook I had to get a new account because I'm in trouble here in FOREIGN COUNTRY so please send me money. It's really easy and I need it bad! Just enter your credit card and I will be saved!"

I know, I know, it's not the tool...but I am reminded of a certain scene from The Fifth Element...

"I hate warriors, too narrow-minded. I'll tell you what I do like though: a killer, a dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would've immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun. "
I'm confused, could you elaborate?

I thought the way it worked is:
- User buys game on 3DS, links to their Nintendo account, can play on 3DS, iOS, and Android. Nintendo gets $10.
- User buys game on iOS, links to their Nintendo account, can play on 3DS, iOS, and Android. Apple gets $3, Nintendo gets $7
- User buys game on Android, links to their Nintendo account, can play on 3DS, iOS, and Android. Google gets $3, Nintendo gets $7
What did you realize?
Not true. Anybody with an email address can send feedback. And individuals who want to be more active and become an actual member have a $75 membership fee.
It really depends on the language, and it's not totally about the glyphs. Text entry is a huge challenge for languages like Mandarin where glyphs can have multiple pronunciations and meanings depending on context. Consider that Mandarin (which shares many, but not all glyphs with Japanese kanji) has upwards of 20,000 different glyphs, and that other languages have a similar level of complexity, and it becomes hard to find an encoding standard capable of handling all of that complexity and variance.

What constitutes a "glyph" isn't even consistent - in some languages a glyph is a syllable, in some (like English) it's less than a syllable, and in yet others a single glyph can be an entire word.

In a language like Japanese, multiple glyphs are often combined to create new composite glyphs with different meanings. For example, the word for "forest" is a glyph comprised of 3 "tree" glyphs, but has an unrelated pronunciation.

How do you handle text entry between these differences? It may seem like a pedantic question, but it makes sense to define the characters in the way they will be written, or else the text entry scheme will be so complex you'll need an interpreter to convert from some entry scheme into the Unicode format. I think this is the problem the Unicode Consortium is grappling with - and it's not an easy problem. I don't claim to have the answers here; but I do recognize the complexity.
Where do your old clothes go?
Denser displays use much more power.
which of these were a way to send money through a social network's chat client?
I wonder who doesnt have his pay service yet.

Id rather use bitcoin.
I believe he meant to imply that the government wants the ability to lean on the SSL cert companies.
Another vote from a happy customer of Namecheap.

I wish they supported DNSSEC, but it's not that big of a deal. I've been super happy with all of the rest of their services.
I wonder if they're gonna go with Webkit. There was some speculation that the "new" MSFT would be going that route.
It's $120k now but yes, one 40 year old engineer working full time makes that in 9 months. Why doesn't YC offer more attractive investment, say $500k, and allow non-SV offices? Is it just the presumption that this won't lead to large returns? Is there any data to support that?
looks like a good notebook. but I have lots of issues with nvidia gpu under linux. everytime the kernel gets updated, I get a black screen.
Running iOS tests from the terminal