skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Venmo and use it with a number of friends but I'm getting sick of the "Do you have Venmo? No, Ok PayPal? No, Ok, well I can setup snapcash if you have it setup? No, ever heard of square cash?....." As much as I hate caving into the "Almighty Book of Faces" I will probably enter my card to help facilitate payments with friends. I use Venmo to pay my parents for loans in their name, for my sisters sorority dues, for pizza, beer, etc. I will keep Venmo for sure and prefer it over FB Pay but I'm really worried FB is going to kill Venmo with this move....
Amazing what you can do when your brand is synonymous with a chemical that so many people are addicted to (either chemically or mentally). That's not a knock on Starbucks or on the campaign... just an observation.
It seems like that is due to the GPL. If they could distribute a version of MySQL with sufficiently useful improvements under their own license then they could charge money for it and go into competition with Oracle. Since they can't do that they no longer derive that possible benefit from denying the improvements to others, so they have a greater incentive to contribute them even if not required to.
Kindel's Law: "Every new payment system rapidly transforms into an anti-fraud system."
Do any of you know if there is an equivalent of gofmt for scala, e.g scalafmt?

If such a thing existed some portion of this long list of sensible conventions wouldn't have to be memorized and/or constantly referenced and manually enforced.

Such a tool would empower scala programmers to focus more on that that which is most important- the functionality and logic, rather than manually applied aesthetics.
With ffmpeg. It's the swiss army knife of media tools, and it can capture from your desktop [1].

[1] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop
Sorry we're not hiring yet, still just the founders for now.
Yet a million feedbacks go unanswered...

I'm getting the "old Microsoft feeling again" i.e. prescriptive features rather than what the end user wants.

Edit: please back your down votes with some kind of discussion.
It's interesting to note that this is yet another trend that came from Asia. Like stickers, another feature that was recently added to Messenger, this feature has long been in apps like Tencent's WeChat.

And it's used extensively there. Just last month, during Chinese New Year, WeChat added a feature that let Chinese users send money to their WeChat contacts, following in the tradition where people give red envelopes of money (红包) to family members and friends. From what I hear, it was incredibly popular—I even received one myself from a Chinese friend.

I wouldn't underestimate the potential popularity of this move. Especially once they open this up to countries outside the US.
When there's lack of objective direct information, the evidence of adoption or "churn" might be a good substitute: http://www.quora.com/Is-LinkedIn-getting-rid-of-Scala
Of course, it's difficult to judge LinkedIn's motives but it certainly raises valid questions and concerns.
> - Go can still have data races ... To catch them, you must use the race detector...

To catch _some of_ them :) No guarantee that they will all be caught.
It's bizzare that our financial sector is the largest area of the economy and yet has not managed to produce any innovation in this regard. Shouldn't banks be giving us easy ways to transfer money? Isn't this their function? Financial services?
This seems again to be a perfect place for rendering rather than encoding. The english letter 'a' can be rendered as a ring with a tail (the way I handwrite), or a ring with a cap and a tail (the way the font usually renders). Both are the same letter, if rendered differently based on my (contextually sensitive) font.
In Japanese, "te" means hand, and "kara" means both "Chinese" and "empty", so karate originally meant "Chinese hand", since it was derived from the Chinese kung fu, but its meaning later was changed into "empty hand".

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate#Etymology
Which horrendous country are you living in where ATMs charge $44 for a withdrawal?
If you don't know the specifics, why the hell are you even arguing this point?
That's pretty common in enterprise sales. It's a way to have some leverage in implementing pricing gradients. For example, you might want to charge $200k to Microsoft for a given technology, but charge much less to an indie game company since there's no way in hell they could swing $200k for whatever you're selling. Different companies often even want different terms in their contract, so it makes decent sense.
Neat! We hadn't heard of them. There are a handful of companies using natural methanotrophs (methane-eating bacteria) to make chemicals. We hope that moving methanotroph enzymes into the standard industrial strains of bacteria and yeast will open up many more applications for these amazing enzymes.
And I don't care for the independent keys on the top row. It's a stretch with how often I use them. My argument isn't "It's not that hard to...", it's "I prefer this." Different (key)strokes.
How do companies create value?
> He was using some ugly purple "modern" version of an AOL browser that I didn't even know existed.

That was probably Netscape 6 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_6), or Netscape 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_%28version_7%29), the two versions of Netscape that AOL managed to squeeze out after acquiring them before giving up on the "Netscape" brand entirely and laying all the developers off.

The thought back then was that there would be a "Mozilla" brand working on the core browser tech as open source code that was strictly for developers, while AOL would take Mozilla tech and use it to periodically release consumer-facing browsers under the brand "Netscape." This turned out not to work in practice, since the main contributions AOL would make in turning Mozilla into Netscape revolved taking a perfectly useful browser and making it less useful. (An example: Mozilla included a pop-up blocker, but AOL disabled it in their "Netscape" builds. Yes.)

AOL/Netscape ought to be a business school case study in how to completely demolish the value of a brand after paying out the nose for it.
Brings me to the broader question: why are Californians so bad at urban planning? LA is a disaster, SF has endless issues and pitfalls, the Bay Area is a sprawling mess.

For a people who seem to pride themselves on being progressive, "enlightened" etc they sure are bad at livability, almost as bad as Texas.
I may be wrong, but I believe that they replaced the old rendering engine (Trident), with a new one (EdgeHTML.dll).[1]

But Trident will still be around, for compatibility with old websites (especially for enterprise applications).

So, it's not just marketing...

[1] http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/26/inside-microsofts...
Before about 1932, karate was written with the characters 唐手 (Tang/China hand). Then it was written with 空手 (open hand) - same sound, different characters.
I think the author misses the point completely.

Things like this:
"No native English speaker would ever think to try “Greco Unification” and consolidate the English, Russian, German, Swedish, Greek, and other European languages’ alphabets into a single alphabet."

The author probably ignores that different European languages used different alphabet scripts until very recently. For example, Gothic and other different script were used in lots of books.

I have old books that take something like a week to be able to read fast, and they are in German!.

But it was chaos and it unified into a single script. Today you open any book, Greek, Russian, English or German and they all use the same standard script, although they include different glyphs. There is a convention for every symbol. In cyrilic you see an "A" and a "a".

In fact, any scientific or technical book includes Greek letters as something normal.

It should also be pointed out that latin characters are not latin, but modified latin. E.g Lower case letters did not exist on Roman's empire. It were included by other languages and "unified".

Abut CJK, I am not an expert but I had lived on China, Japan and Korea, and in my opinion it has been pushed by the Governments of those countries because it has lots of practical value for those countries.

Learning Chinese characters is difficult enough. If they don't simplify it people just won't use it, when they can use Hangul or kana. With smartphones and tablets people there are not hand writing Chinese anymore.

It makes no sense to name yourself with characters nobody can remember.
Agreed, the network effect works seriously in FB's favour here. Do I add my payment details and get back the £20 an acquaintance sent me or do I wait until I see them and hope we both remember?

Once you're signed up then FB have dropped the barrier to making further payments with their platform, which presumably is the purpose of this from their point of view.
120K * 842 companies
I use Simple, and Square cash, and I have to say that Square Cash is far superior for sending money to friends.
Nice, I'll have a look at integrating it into my Android Widget (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.factorialp...) so you can order an Uber with one hit from your home screen!

Pity the affiliate program only gives you Uber credits, and not actual cash.
The argument that author makes is "every letter in English alphabet is represented, why not every letter/grapheme in Bengali/Tamil/Telugu/Name your language" argument is specious at best
So you think bitcoin is harder than:

1. Learning how to open a bank account (requires tons of personal information)

2. Learning how and why to use a debit/credit card (insecure)

3. Signing up for (requires e-mail) facebook and tying your credit card to it to send money

?
In certain kinds of abstract thought experiments, it might not match.

If you're doing orbital calculations, it's often wrong.

In the vast majority of real world calculations, it's not approximate. It gives the same answer as relativistic calculations.

Oh, I have an analogy. It's like using 64 bit integers instead of bigints. Any time you input real world numbers, they never go above ten million. Both models give you the correct answer, no error.

No model ever captures the entire nuance of reality. Even a notion of speed is misleading when your objects contain heat. So don't peek inside the model and judge it based on how the pieces interact inside. Judge it based on the results. And Newtonian physics typically give you ideal perfect results.

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Or maybe I should put it a different way:

Newtonian physics are an approximation for the question "In a counterfactual thought experiment where my measurement had infinite precision in trailing zeroes, what would the answer be?"

Newtonian physics are exact for the question "What is the answer based on my measurement?"
Its not your actual class, its what people report their class to be.

So if you prayed daily, you would be more likely to rank your class higher, then someone who says they never pray. Someone who is unemployed but makes 200k a year isn't going to rank themselves low on the class scale. Especially versus someone who only makes 30k, and has to work full time.
He turned this into a book: http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Mr-Albert-America-Einsteins/dp...
> the fact is, GMO crops are showered with pesticides that are finding its way into our food.

You're confusing pesticide usage with intentional genetic modification. Non-GMO food is also commonly treated with pesticidal products. Heck, even some GMO food is pesticide-free.

One of the key selling points of many GMO products is that you don't need pesticides (or at least as many of them).

Edit: For anyone wondering what this poster is referring to, here Starbucks' page regarding the allegedly false accusations. http://news.starbucks.com/views/starbucks-response-to-questi...
You may be right. I think there are other handling flaws in the iPhone 6 as well - enough so that it's the first iPhone I've had since my first one (iPhone 2) that I've liked less than its predecessor.

I blame losing Steve Jobs and his ridiculous sensitivity to such details.
Not to mention a federation-friendly XMPP server that supports external domains via SRV records. For this and the features you list, I've also been a very happy FastMail user for the past few years and could never return to the walled garden that is Google.
Stories of successful founders who can't code
Do one thing. Do it well. vs Do everything. Do it OK.

Companies have always started in the former, and expanded to the latter to not only diversify their "investments" (using that very loosely), but increase revenue.

It just makes sense. And from a tech company it makes sense in a world where internet banking is still only adopted by ~60% of consumers. (I know, surprised me too.)
> "Our analysis of Asian communities often stops at the broad data points," said Farah Ahmed, an analyst with the Center for American Progress who studies racial demographics. "Families who are newer immigrants, who don't speak English as a first language, or those in certain communities are more likely to face poverty. We talk about data in an aggregated way and that misses many realities."

I'm curious if the analysis stopping "at broad data points" is applicable, maybe more weakly, to the American Hispanic demographic due to an analogous inability of non-Hispanics to distinguish between Argentinian, Peruvian, Spanish, Venezuelan, Colombian, Mexican and other Hispanic groups.
Simple lover here, I agree, I love being able to Simple Instant money to friends but I agree with the reply to your comment about how it's a bank and not a payment service. While I will stay will Simple for the foreseeable future (AMAZING customer support, beautiful app and website, goals, and instant transfer) I am somewhat disappointed in Simple as a company. They came out saying they were going to be a full bank and have an API and all of that and then backtracked on a lot of it. They are just a layer over an existing bank (which limits them somewhat) and there is still no API to be seen.

Also it feels like improvements have been VERY slow coming. Goals finally got some much needed attention but it's still lacking. I have to do everything manually when my paycheck comes in because their goals come out daily. I don't get paid daily, why would I want that money coming out daily? I just want to set aside money for car/rent/insurance/etc when I get paid, maybe things like "wants" (a new TV, computer, etc) work better for the daily pull but even then I'd rather just set aside $XXX when I get paid through goals.
This only pays for signing up new users
Bizarre, I actually like the apple or hhk Fn-arrows way.
A halfway decent barista will likely be able to tell without either of you saying a word. Some customers are all business, others are chatty or want a bit of banter.

I'm guessing this initiative won't change your particular daily interaction at all.
I don't understand your false premises. I've never had C marketed to me as a language that promised safe, perfect code. It does what it says on the tin.

However I think you have some false premises: the Linux kernel is huge, has a fairly high turn-over in contributors, and is written in C. Hardly anyone "knows" the entire code base. I've yet to meet anyone who can even name all of the compile switches... some 1000+ of them. Yet it's hard to argue that it's not useful or impossible to contribute to. I'm not a genius and if I can figure it out I'm sure I can teach others.

Yes, you can write bad code in C. I don't think you can blame C for human error. There are sins of commission and those of omission and the ANSI C specification documents them both quite well. Designing a language that protected an ignorant and uneducated programmer from making mistakes wasn't one of their goals I'm afraid.
I am seriously implying that one is easier on the eyes than other.
I've Had My Startup(s) on Product Hunt 3 Times. Here's Some Data
I think the idea is to get adoption for friend-to-friend transfers first; I have no doubt that if this gains traction, then you'll soon be able to send to non-friends.
Nothing in that example was asynchronous.
While I certainly don't love the CA system, this isnt where I see the biggest flaws with SSL.

Regardless of who is "trusted", the true critical points are in the Private Key and the Cryptographic primitives. Fixing the CA model addresses neither.

Symantec CA does not ever get to see my private key when I purchase a certificate from them. They dont get to determine the encryption methods I use. All they do is verify my identity (and do a damn good job at it in my opinion). Server Authentication is an important part of SSL, but its only one part.

The other part, encryption, is able to be undermined in many other ways - ways where we have much more direct proof of gov't surveillance and tampering.

You can perfect Server Authentication all you want, but if there are holes in the encryption, thats all for naught.

If I was going to 'fix' SSL I would start there.

I think this is a great initiative.
That's all the data I could think of (admittedly not a lot), but happy to dive in further if you guys and gals have suggestions!
If you open Google Chrome -with your finger- on Ubuntu 14.04 (and 14.10) it will allow you to use touch for scrolling. If you open it with the mouse...it won't. Weird.
There are a lot of assumptions behind the idea that if you see "bad packaging," which you don't define, then it implies the company doesn't care about the rest of the package.

The author's example of "standard packaging" is not bad packaging, as it does its job well. It protects the product, the reason for the purchase, and it isn't difficult for the user to unpack. It might arguably be more environmentally friendly in its use of corrugated cardboard, and I have no idea about the foam. But it is likely less wasteful on this measure than Apple's packaging when you consider the entire process required.

When you tack on the "customer experience" aspect of this packaging, not caring about creating luxury packaging doesn't mean the company does not think about the user's experience or care about the product itself. In the author's situation, the user is more aware of how wasteful and unnecessary this packaging is, and it doesn't help his experience. It also makes the product unnecessarily expensive.

Apple only has the best packaging in every way if you ignore these negative aspects.

Apple has also used the more standard packaging approach for some of its products, such as laptops, in the recent past, but with white printed cardboard. Does that mean Apple didn't care or pay attention to detail back then?
I live in Bella Vista, a tiny neighborhood between Center City and South Philly and echo @angdis' sentiment. The Philadelphia subway system leaves a bit to be desired, but considering the trolleys, buses, and "regional" rail options, as well as the ease of making connections between most of these systems, Philly has a more than adequate public transportation system altogether.

Also -- Philly is one of the most walkable cities in the country. It's not difficult for someone to walk river-to-river or throughout University City to get where they're going.

I know plenty of folks that live and work within their neighborhood and rarely go elsewhere, but I know more people that explore all over the city and towns outside.
One thing I like about passwords is that they give me the choice to not unlock something, should I wish that, which isn't the case with biometrics. Say I'm a journalist who gets stopped at the border of a country and am asked to open up my computer. If I want to, I can refuse - and face the consequences but still, i can make that choice. With biometrics all they'd have to do is force my finger onto the scanner, or put the computer in front of me and scan my iris or face. That's a big downside.

Also, after everything we know about Microsoft and and the security services, there's absolutely no way I'd give them my biometric data.
Sorry if it's boring :( But I think it may be because the experience was such a surprise due to both the stats involved and the quality of the early adopters that came from Product Hunt. I hadn't even heard of the site before I came out here

(btw the reason I mentioned Y Combinator is because that's the main reason our launch was mainstream news on TechCrunch)
Here's a talk cataloging them: http://confreaks.tv/videos/pnws2014-towards-a-safer-scala
Why are these reports always from "leaked" versions? MS publishes new builds like biweekly through MSDN. Is it only "clikbait"? Because I'm sure the writers didn't find how updates (or anything) work, rather someone who has legit access to those builds.
Chase actually has a great solution, Chase QuickPay. Here in Chicago it is very popular. https://www.chase.com/online-banking/quickpay
I don't think you need to be friends with a person in order to do this. You can send normal messages to users who are not friends so I think payment will also have this ability.
Nintendo Teases NX, Its Next Dedicated Gaming Console
I'll have a tall drip coffee with room, a toasted bagel and some awkward conversation please.
That reminds me of this in Mexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMPBlZMQhgo
Thinking of it as "kicking people under the bus" a little reductive. There are 2 classes of people using your work: developers who want to make a derivative work based off your code and end users who want to use either your code or the derivative work.

Who exactly are you kicking under the bus? The developers, or the end users?

The GPL optimizes for end-users, "kicking developers under the bus", and the BSD/MIT licenses optimize for developers and "kick the users under the bus".

Which group do you optimize for? Arguably, if you want "maximum freedom" in the world, you'd optimize for the end users, since there are going to be more of them than the developers.
I remember a day when the most compelling reason for me to use Windows (over Linux) was that Windows had IE.
You can get valet in most places downtown on-demand with the new valet apps like Luxe and Zirx.
That's all great, but I have a bundle of cold hard cash here waiting for the XPS 13 developer edition. All this time I see lovely things to spend it on but still I wait...