skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at their website (https://even.me/)- this app both acts as a bank itself and interacts with a person's bank account. Some interesting notes - even is actually FDIC insured, so at least the money they are moving out of a person's bank account is insured in case the company collapses. Their linkedin page also notes they are...

"A bank that automatically manages its customers' finances. Pays their bills. Balances their budget. Saves and invests. And at the tip of the iceberg, gives each and every customer a weekly paycheck of purely disposable income. "

So not only is the income you get each week stabilized - the long term intent is the income you get is solely above and beyond bills and, presumably, investment goals.

At some point - Even could issue debit cards, link up with paypal accounts, and literally supplant the banks that they are working with currently.

Loans are a tricky concept, and Even is attacking a very appropriate market - more than 69% of payday loans are used just to pay normal bills, counter-intuitive to what I would have guessed (emergencies such as health and auto-repair are only around 16%).

Some math: $3 a week = $156 a year - savings of ~$360 versus average payday loan interest. 12 million people use at least one payday loan during a year, with numbers skewed as a higher % of population in states with "looser" regulations on payday loans (6.6% of pop) rather than states with "very strict" regulation (2.9% of pop). Average loan = $375, 8 separate loans taken during a year, plus $520 on interest payments across all loans. 6 of those 8 loans are actually extensions of just 2 loans!

If regular bills are budgeted for, and the money is literally reserved by Even, that eliminates the need for 70% of all non-extended payday loans. Add in budgeting for emergencies, and 84% of payday loans are gone - so whatever interest they do or do not charge for the other 16% is not going to approach normal interest costs.

As jawns points out - majority of loans are because people can't afford their bills...

Since they are FDIC insured - I'll assume they operate like a standard credit union overall and are buffering people's loans using other people's savings...again they also claim they want to invest people's money for them.
The work is here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.00680v1.pdf

According to the data, FBUs (future banned users, aka trolls) are significantly more readable in their writing than NBUs (never banned users).

That's certainly surprising.

Also of note is that FBUs tend to reply more than NBUs, which actually meshes with some features of HN -- the inability to reply to a nested comment from within the nest (one has to click on the comment itself to reply -- though this feature has always been somewhat ambiguous and not really deterrent of impulsive replies; I don't even notice it anymore).

Also, I think HN deflates the score of posts with many comments, a strategy supported by this line in the paper: "Prior work also identified post frequency as a signal of a low quality discussion (Diakopoulos and Naaman 2011)."

An absolutely fascinating paper. What are the consequences, from an IP standpoint, of taking this paper and implementing features based on its conclusions?
>while you shouldn't deploy PDBs onto your production servers

Why? I do it all the time and getting line numbers in the exception logging seems like a nice bonus.
Agreed. There is a very technical reason for wanting to encrypt downloads.

There's a political reason as well: "I see you just downloaded pycrypto - we're going to throw you on a watchlist since you obviously want to hide something". This speculation is based on past actions doing this very thing with Tor.
Python does not replace the Matlab language itself. For as long as we have Matlab code, we will need Octave.

My hope is to make Octave as obsolete as Matlab itself, but so far neither is. Matlab is huge and Python has not unthroned it. It will take a combined effort to do so. Octave is but another contributor to this effort.
> (I was not able to figure out how to pass a static option to rustc)

We statically link by default, actually: https://gist.github.com/steveklabnik/e9e744d23a7a14edcd47

Everything but glibc. Experimental support for musl landed a few days ago.

You can take this _really_ far: http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2015/01/151-byte-...
With Python 3. YESSSSS
This is an amazing thread and comment. I've been looking to do a similar thing to the OP, and his much more thorough research confirms what I had found - none of the map sellers provide quite what I want, and I would have to resort to building it myself out of google maps (ideally using the API, not the web client).

Mapbox looks like exactly the thing I'm looking for (I want a local street-level map), thanks!
No, there's not only one way. Also, IBM did not invent/discover the layout in question (I think?). The article does tone it down later on, at least:

> IBM's design shows the best potential to scale by adding more qubits to arrive at a working quantum system

The surface code [0] is a good bet in the which-layout-will-work-first race. Mostly because the existing manufacturing capabilities are limited to working on a surface (as opposed to in 3d), and because the surface code has a good threshold error rate (~1%).

John Martinis talked about the surface code in a google tech talk [1].

0: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.0928.pdf

1: https://youtu.be/HQmFEt6l6Tw?t=21m24s
I built karn to avoid situations where I've forgotten to update the config after cloning a new repository. With karn, any repository under `~/Work`, for example, will automatically be configured to use the correct identity. Also, since it's all in one configuration file, that makes it really easy to maintain and keep it in sync with multiple machines.
I don't think the parent is arguing that
I managed to get about halfway through FW before calling defeat, even with a guidebook that explained, paragraph by paragraph, what the heck was going on :)
Oh, classic address trap. I feel for you, my friend. It makes you wonder about introducing a new address system that takes into account your actual location in the globe (with GPS). Not a trivial undertaking itself. I assume it has been thought off before. Anyone have more info on this type of setup?
Show HN: Pop-up JavaScript challenges in your browser
Our 6TB Hard Drive Face-Off Revisited
How can you afford a high touch sign up process for a customer who is worth ~$144 a year?
Ask HN: Do you feel like you live in the future?
I was walking through the parking lot at work and a car moves silently past me, and I got the feeling that I am in the future with everyone walking around with computer screens in their hands and cars with mysterious propulsion.
HTML is too slow. My web dev method is so streamlined at this stage, if I'm writing <tags> individually, I'm spending too much time on stupid shit that doesn't really interest me.

Consider this takes me 45 seconds to write:

<div class="container">
<div class="container__item" data-id="#{item.id}">
<h1 class="container__item__title">#{item.title}</h1>
</div>
</div>

Versus 15 seconds:

.container
.container__item(data-id=item.id)
h1.container__item__title= item.title
Twitter's 'cost per impression' is much higher than Facebook's. This along with other downsides, such as the number of users, might not make it as attractive to advertisers.
ECommerce Startups
Oh wow, awesome to run into an Octave dev on here. Thanks for making such useful software!
I started learning it on Tuesday, via learnyouahaskell.com. Half of what makes Haskell impenetrable to a non-Haskellite is the syntax, IMO; now that I'm starting to grok that, it really is quite wonderful.

Very sad news indeed.
Very fun. Love getting the little ones trapped in a corner! Thank you
Part of the reason it stops readers quickly is the opening chapter is much harder than later chapters (that not to say that later chapters are easy, just nowhere near as dense ad the beginning). In that way is kind of like Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" in which part one is by far the hardest to read, since it is written, stream of consciousness, in the mind of a mentally disabled person. Later parts are easier to follow.
These people clearly did not have any experience with cats. What does a cat do when released into a strange place? It panics and then hides.
Why didn't the USAF hire him as a flight instructor?
Paul Hudak died after making a huge contribution to the world. The research field he set in motion will keep on benefiting people for decades to come.
Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't address the author's concern of keeping all IM sessions confined to a single desktop window. It's simply a method of using Facebook's Messenger platform without having facebook.com loaded in a browser. So it placates users with privacy concerns regarding opening Facebook on a corporate network, but it does nothing for the advocate of a single chat client.
It's always weird to me when people talk about using exceptions for control flow.

Exceptions are, pretty much explicitly, a control flow mechanism. That's what they do, they transfer control from one place to another. It's like people are getting hung up on the name.
You forgot the most important ML derivative: Haskell. I'd like to see how it measures up.
Farmer summons herd of cows by playing Lorde on trombone
How Old Do I Look?
I have to agree - the only whitespace-related errors I've ever come across are "IndentationErrors" - which are pretty easy to resolve.
Wish I had something more constructive to add than this hand waving, but perhaps an interpretation (via metaphor) of the first point: If you fight with a weapon, don't you become skilled with it?
Congrats Liz! This is awesome! I like that your company pivoted to a new model. I am in the process of doing this myself. Why do you need so much $$$ for site that recruites part-time employees? Seems like a big whole to dig yourself out of. Just sayin
Competition to Google Fi
It's only too bad they state "Presto Versions Tested [0.77, 0.87]" and facebook/presto is now past 0.100 version
> Isn't it what SRI does ? (plus SRI is backwards-compatible)

No it's not. SRI means you keep relying on multiple CDNs, so you keep having cache fragmentation, CDN unavailability continues to be a problem, and uncached items still require a second connection.
Bypassing Google PasswordAlert
Around 2003 at MIT I spoke with a guy who told me about a home lighting system that the French were using. Basically, you take an entire wall in a house and sandwich thin conductive layers between insulator layers. Then you have these special light fixtures with a sharp pronged tip that exposes three different wire heads at different lengths.

You just stab one of these fixtures into the wall anywhere you want; each of the three prongs travels to a different depth and makes contact with a layer representing the hot, neutral, and ground lines so that your light fixture is now plugged into 220 Volt wall socket current.

At the time, I remember saying "that sounds totally insane". I still think it is. But if you made a special map backing board rather than entire walls and ran a lot less power through it....
Why we made Vorlon.js and how to use it to debug your JavaScript remotely
I read changelogs for well maintained projects - I particularly love AngularJS's changelog, it is detailed and links to the commit each change is associated with
ManifoldJS – Building Simple Hosted Web Apps
The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, but More Must Be Done
Unless you buy JRebel, VS supports a lot more Edit-and-Continue (JVM hot code swap) operations.

I'm also not sure if you can execute Java 8 lambda expressions in the watch window while debugging.
He always sounds like he's quitting the game.
Creating Realistic Terrain with WebGL
Do you punish the guy who drafted the initial proposal? The guy who added the amendment that made it unconstitutional? Everybody who voted aye when it went to the floor?
MyToy: An Agile product development game
If you want to watch the video without having to install Flash, just replace "www" with "m" - Not the best video quality since it's optimised for mobile, but a nice productivity tip for Safari users ;)
Email is an interesting comparison.

Email itself is not monetized. RFC 5321 charges no license fees. Platforms built on top of email are monetized.
Twitter's 'cost per impression' is much higher than Facebook's...might not make it as attractive to advertisers.

No?

If Twitters CPM is much higher than Facebook's it's because it is attractive to advertisers. Otherwise they wouldn't charge as much as they do. (unless there's something else going on, which seems doubtful in this case)
Just because something is illegal doesn't make it any less costly to enforce. I agree that Even probably has some recourse, I'm just not sure what it is.

Part of me thinks that this is Even's first pivot. See if there is a market and then see if and how they can monetize it.
Confreaks railsconf2015
This is a nice data-processing trick, but obviously runs very little Python code.
The Hardest Part of Software Development
Is Facebook About to Obsolete Websites?
I've been following this project for five or six years now. Fascinating stuff that EvilDragon has been doing, and his determination and perseverance is admirable. (CircuitCo, who makes BeagleBoards, screwed ED/Craig out of 200k euro...)
Rumours Google Glass 2.0 in the works
Trolling is the inevitable reaction to groupthink. Predictably, groupthink is interested in ways of insulating itself from trolls.
That was just an extreme example. If I were a freelancer and having a great month / 3 months / year I would quick sign up for Even and extend the ride a little longer.
Congrats Liz, JJ and team!
I call people rich when they're able to meet requirements of their imagination
What is to stop someone simply opening two bank accounts. Then paying their unsteady income into one and then transferring a steady amount of money into the other.

Combined with the old adage about spending less than one earns and the result is happiness.
The focus of karn right now is to manage repository-level configuration.

I think setting up different hosts in SSH config is a better way to manage SSH keys.
That was my point. They said, one of these days he actually will quit for good, but I hope not soon.
I think many of those people were vile, hate-filled people to begin with, and Twitter only gave them a platform to express that.
How old do I look?
Materialized views that refresh on demand are are far from useless. In my experience they are often used on Oracle for both "analytics cache" where you don't need the newest data and the select is very complex and slow, or as parts of ETL processes to decouple data transformation from loading, merging or exporting.

(this makes me realize that postgres can do some pretty cool ETL by itself - and you can express a lot of it in simple SQL terms with foreign data wrappers and materalized views. One on-demand refreshed materialized view can be able to fetch data from many different sources, transform it and provide local access)

MS SQL server, on the other hand, can't do materialized views that update on demand, which makes them hard to use on complex and large datasets, and it makes the database less predictable (inserting one row may be simple operation or it may change 10 tables, you'll never know).

Materialized views in MS SQL have rather bad support for aggregation functions and other computations - you can't compute average in them, for example, as AVG is not supported and doing SUM/COUNT is also not supported because of the division, etc.

I'd say that materialized views in MS SQL are more nice for caching or something like that, but you can't very well use them for analytics or ETL, like you usually see in Oracle, though Oracle can do both on-demand and automatic refresh, of course.

EDIT: the materialized views thing was one of my most amusing experiences with SQL Server. I tried to use materialized view instead of trigger for updating data dependent table in geographic application and I needed to compute average and sums for zoomed out map layers.

The way you add materialized view is by itself confusing - you add a view, then make index on that view, then select from it, but you have to use special keyword so the system uses the materialized view and not just the view.

I tried to use AVG but was told by the server "AVG is not supported, use SUM/COUNT". I tried SUM/COUNT but was told "COUNT is not supported, use COUNT_BIG". I tried SUM/COUNT_BIG and was finally told "using arithmetic in materialized view is not supported".

To this day, I have no idea why one error message suggested doing something that's impossible.
It may be that Twitter didn't list your tweets in the search results. That's what happened to my first tweet, which is apparently an anti-spam measure Twitter employs.

Knowing no one else who used Twitter, I had no other use for the service and promptly logged off permanently.
Brilliant from a PR perspective though for your average NYT reader.

I would kill to get an article like that written - it's lengthy, detailed, has an accurate representation of the actual function of the app with tone a that's not breathless or sycophantic, and just the right level of skepticism thrown in so that readers believe a deep, detailed analysis has been done and that this is the future.
Yeah, I saw that article. Damn cool stuff. That's why I'm confused about static linking in Rust. Am I doing something wrong?

http://i.imgur.com/gtlJoO0.png
ZPM Espresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder
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The main limitation on a server capacity is CPU
She is qualified to spend the money to ensure her company dominates the market. There are 20 million college students in the US; if she helps 1 million of them get jobs, then she could position herself to receive at least 10% of their income. 1 million * $10 / hr * 10% = $1 million / working hr.
I worked with a company a few years back that did this exact thing, although we couldn't get past regulations and ended up shutting down.

http://finovate.com/videos/finovatefall-2011-tandem/
Damn impressive - minor glitch, mouths occasionally animate before voices are triggered.

Overall, fantastic and weirdly enthralling. Thanks!
Love this site. I have an account already. a2.devport.co
Phablets Are Eating Phones and Tablets
> ML languages are particularly suited for the classes of problems for which they were developed, e.g. fault tolerant high reliability systems

Are you thinking of Erlang? Erlang is definitely not a ML, although they share some similarities (immutability, pattern matching). Not sure what ML originally was designed for, other than maybe building compilers.

> So a person might choose to write a web application in F# because they are thinking about the problem in terms of a state machine

Algebraic data types in ML allow you to encode program state within the type system, so the compiler can help ensure the program is in a consistent state at any point during run-time. That is the real benefit to having a strongly static type system in the vein of ML.

Regarding the original question: the difference between static and dynamic types is, IMO, one of checking at compile-time vs run-time. (But the static/dynamic definition is fuzzy enough that there's often leeway for interpretation here.) Type inference is icing on the cake -- type annotations could be explicit (C, Java) or implicit (ML), but a language is not statically typed unless the types are known prior to execution.
Ask HN: What is your favorite power of 2, and why?
I've always had a soft spot for 2^8 = 256, the number of display colors on the first mac I ever played with. At Egghead computer in Bellevue.
Alright, what is the current architecture? Is the app just a dumb client and the intelligence lives on the server? Or is it flipped where the intelligence is all in the app and the server is just a central dumping ground for data? How In the course of regular usage, how many times would your app talk to your server? What would be the average size of those data transmissions? What would be the size of the edge cases? I'm not being pedantic for pedantry's sake. You need to have answers to all of these questions before you start thinking about capacity planning and high availability.
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Let me preface this by saying that I think having a third party oriented towards the interests and desires of people who live in cities would be totally, completely great.

> I don't see the political monoculture mentioned in any analysis about Baltimore, New York, St. Louis, Detroit, etc. These cities have been basically one party rule for fifty years (or more). If the police become too brutal or incentives become perverse, the party is not thrown out of office. If the mayor or council members are shown to be corrupt, the party is not thrown out of office. There's no real accountability.

This is off in a couple of ways. First, in cities where everyone avoids the Republican candidates, the real election is the primary. Or else you just save time and have a nonpartisan election. There are usually a number of points of view represented on the half dozen or so topics that city voters tend to care about.

More importantly, I think: corruption and culpability tends to cut across party lines in city and county government. As much as the two parties are very similar flavors at the state and national level, at the local level the differences just don't matter. You've got an office to fulfill, you've got people you need to work with, you've got corruption, and you are either an insider or an outsider. That is the distinction that matters, not party. People who play the game choose to be insiders because it's the only way you get anywhere. When corruption happens, Democrats and Republicans all get paid, or suffer if they do not conform.

In other words, the traditional party discipline dynamic tends to get replaced by a whole other form of discipline. brownbat mentioned a "network of insiders" below, that's what I'm talking about.

> To some degree, the problem is the two-party system. If the district is liberal (as is the case in Baltimore), there needs to be at least two credible liberal alternatives.

O'Malley was up against six other people in the Democratic primary in Baltimore in 1999. There were a diversity of views represented. The views probably all tended to suck, but I don't think that has as much to do with party organization as you think it does.
"Terrible" is a little harsh. I found the benchmark to be interesting because it's similar to many NLP-style analysis tasks I have myself. Of course reproducible ones would be great too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9466298

Repost
Not a snowball's chance in hell.
OpenBSD 5.7 will be released tomorrow (2015-05-01)
AWS will be significantly more expensive than DO. Unless you need enterprise-grade scalability at your fingertips and have the cash on hand to ramp to that, you may want to start with a handful of Digital Ocean or Linode boxes and see what the traffic looks like.
This was already proposed and got rejected because of cache poisoning issues.

IF you're able to create a hash collision and IF you're able to deliver (for example) jquery first, your malicious version would be cached and injected into every page that uses the targeted jquery version and makes use of this feature.

This isn't simple, but still an attack vector with huge impact, if successful.

Also:

* If you keep the file forever, you've poisoned this hash forever. If you clear it sometimes, there's a short time window in which you can insert your malicious version.

* If you target an old version of jquery, you're increasing the chance the browser hasn't seen this file yet or forgot about it, to mitigate the poison-forever issue.