skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In a fourth embodiment of the invention, the service provider is a lender. When an individual applies for a loan, the lender examines the credit ratings of members of the individual's social network who are connected to the individual through authorized nodes. If the average credit rating of these members is at least a minimum credit score, the lender continues to process the loan application. Otherwise, the loan application is rejected. "
Forgot to mention that i was the unofficial network and system admin for the school since i was about 14. I had access to everything except an old 286 with green/black screen that they used for grades. I still wonder if they kept it on that system because of me. I know they upgraded it 1.5 years after i graduated.
It makes the water mode dense, the opposite of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming_on_o...
Nintendo Princess Peach Plays Baseball on Commercial Set
The rich countries in the region are more interested in slave labor rather than desperate refugees. The refugees are making the rational choice here, i don't believe they are driven out of some greedy interest.
Like many commenters, this post brings back memories of similar experiences...

My experience with being silly on school computers was mainly in middle school (age 14) where friends and I would find more inventive ways to wreak havoc on the network. One of the favourite tricks was to hack open the command line (using accessibility options in XP) and remote shutdown other student's machines towards the end of a lesson before they'd saved their work... rather cruel to think back to it now. Another more daring guy sent a string of offensive messages to the principal on a LAN-chat type application that caused pop-ups on the receiver's screen. Come to think of it, there were so many 3rd-party administrative 'tools' that could be run trivially without root access on XP, such as drive-encryptors (rendering machines essentially useless) that it was easy to perform a whole manner of tricks.

Personally, I was only called into the deputy's office once, regarding a server-wide DOOM game installation. They confiscated my memory stick due to it holding the DOOM installation files. However, I somehow managed to get it back the next day without them checking it; thankfully they didn't, because there were so many 3rd-party executables and 'network guides' on there it would've been far worse. I can relate to the stress the author felt in that sense, because going home that night knowing they had my memory stick was one of the most gut-wrenching feelings of my teenage years.

Thankfully, all that was required of me was a meeting with a sysadmin trying to explain why I had filled an obscure part of the server's shared area with DOOM and COD sprites...
Neat game, but it gave me an incorrect hint about the target word. I had narrowed it down to somewhere in the Vs, then accidentally clicked "I give up" and it told me the word started with a letter that comes way before v (I'm being vague here because it looks like the word is the same for everyone and I don't want to spoil it too badly).
The whole situation is extremely close to being a civil war.

The "haters" are ridicuously outgunned with
the full power of both the media and the state arrayed against them, so they will lose. The imbalance serves to mask the nature of the conflict, makes it look unlike a classic civil war. Not enough carnage.
> the european media are doing a bad job at telling people the whole story in simple terms about how syria got in this mess

The BBC text linked "conveniently" ignores some influential players and even the recent history:

Compare:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-b...

The Washington Post, September 11, 2013: "CIA begins weapons delivery to Syrian rebels"

And:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_...

"The group gained prominence after it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in western Iraq in an offensive initiated in early 2014."

Also note, the state as of October 2014:

http://www.quora.com/Where-is-ISIL-getting-their-ammunition

(which refers to: http://www.conflictarm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Dispat... )

"Iraqi and Syrian government forces and moderate rebels now face a significant number of ISIL fighters equipped from huge stocks of captured American-made weapons. The report states that the majority of ISIL ammo recovered in Iraq appears traceable to these stocks."
That the EU has its own Press agents that work with all Member state media and the international Press Including the USA' is simply a truism. Policy emerges from Brussels and is widely reported across the media in Europe and the US.

Certainly the EU is heading for political and economic union and to that extent its report of itself is a conspiracy if you want to call it that but it doesn't really meet the definition.

Curious to know why it hurts! Btw stuff that arrives on HN that isn't appreciated is normally simply ignored. That's democratic choice; offering directives is a tad authoritarian, is it not?
In your mind, it should sate. But their stating, "this isn't fair" means it hasn't.

> Adobe has the right to price products how they wish.

In a free market, they must (for a loose definition of "must") withstand commentary they get for their actions.
Haha, this brings back memories. Starting in Jr. High some friends and I ran a website which started out as just some crudely drawn absurd comics, but later added a section called "Anarchist Times" where we would vent mostly about school in a news-article-esq manner, but also often politics which looking back we knew nothing about. We would let anyone who wanted to write and At its height we had something like 14 kids regularly providing content. A reoccurring theme was to mock the principals son, who was in our grade and acted like a prince. To my knowledge no one ever got in trouble, we did however get blocked by the schools IT department whom I went to and protested until it was resolved.

There was also some hijynx when we tried to enter the website for class president and were told a website wasn't eligible, so we ran a write in campaign and plastered the school in posters, which the school promptly took down.

This was how I learned PHP and MySQL, which has made me my living the last 10 years!

After high school it fell largely into disuse, but I have paid for the domain every year since then. I've ported it from host to host, and it still lives on my Nginx digital ocean server. Even done a few small upgrades like making the audio of our band "The Medium" playable through the site (html5). Lol, it's at the poorly chosen http://oasisband.net if anyone was curious.

A few people have asked me to change their names which I have obliged. People say some stupid things in highschool, I know I did.
> Has there ever been a case where a country received too many refugees and its economy deteriorated as a consequence?

One possible example is when the Roman Empire let in a load of Goths in 376.
Exactly. One of the best things Joi Ito has done at the MIT Media Lab has been to shift the culture from "demo or die" to "deploy or die," because in that demo moment we are susceptible to the narrow and novel circumstances of the idea as performance.
As a European I hope the EU is not guided by blind faith in abstract ideas, but is acting pragmatically and to the interest of its own people instead.
Please keep your tinfoil-hat antisemitism off HN.
"Has there ever been a case where a country received too many refugees and its economy deteriorated as a consequence? People provide labor which is what causes economic growth."

I'll get hammered for this, but it depends on the country? I probally shouldn't comment because I'll be labeled a racist?

Right now Canada is offering certain refuges $8000 to leave. I don't think they are being mean? They are just concerned about the long term consequences? Or, they are racists? See--there's just no way to discuss it?

I see the way the good liberal people of San Francisco step over the Homeless, constantly complain, harass, and arrest these poor people; what would that liberal city do with thousands of broke refugees arriving daily, all using the Starbuck's restrooms, and sleeping in Golden Gate Park?

Those rich Arab countries should be doing what Jordan is doing? Then again, their economies are horrid, and have huge unemployment rates. (horrid for the average citizen)
All true, but you rarely find an article that mentions the whole story in simple terms, instead of artifacts.
Disabling javascript makes Chromium eat less memory and makes pages load faster. Also all sort of annoying popups, effects, ads and social tracking buttons do not work without it while page content is usually readable. That's why I have JS enabled only for trusted websites like Youtube and disabled everywhere else. It just makes browsing the web more comfortable.

It's sad that Chromium doesn't have a way to disable CSS on a per-domain basis (and browser extensions are potential backdoors so I'm not going to install them).
The line between this and the classic fraud called a "bust-out" is very thin.

A bust-out can take many forms, but the basic idea is that control of a reputable company can be leveraged into an unjustifiable quantity of cash, which then disappears along with the perpetrator.

For example, a business might order more than the usual amount of stock from suppliers on credit, take out a commercial loan to cover expansion, and run a huge sale - even below cost - to pull in cash. Then the money and the owner disappear, leaving the business with debt to the suppliers, debt to the bank, and no cash.

On an individual scale, the same thing can be done with fraudulent credit accounts: establish a record of repayment, get a big advance, go. Identity theft is useful, since you can use someone else's credit-worthiness.

That appears to be equivalent to what's going on in PE.
> remote-control iKettle controlled by your iContact Lense, with the water fetched by a robot

Now that's a wonderful thought. This kettle sounds silly when I consider it in isolation, but if it was used along with other products which would then help automate an entire process that is just something I would throw my money at.

I mean come on, a "water boiling path finding tea making robot", doesn’t sound so bad :p
A library that is constantly changing and removing "dead" code is a library nobody can rely on for production applications.

At first the complaint about NLTK was that it was too academic and not appropriate for real-world code, but no real-world code is going to rely on an unreliable library that keeps changing how it works.
The whole point of HTTPS is to encrypt all traffic, including the request line. Do when you do a request like:

GET /customer/orders/?id=2348&order_id=3456 HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com

over HTTPS, the first line also gets encrypted. So no point in banning GET.
one more helpful criticism: the 'epic' music in your video, for me at least, evokes the opposite of a zen-like, concentrated state. it brings up images of action movies, war scenes or documentaries about bridges.
It looks quite coordinated because the same press was raging against eastern european immigrants, workers and gypsies for years before and accused them of parasitism and now in one, two months, with appeal to emotions, the new immigrants which have way higher chances of being hard to assimilate and drain some budgets are portrayed in rather a positive light. The father who recklessly took his family from the relative safety of Turkey to death on an overcrowded boat for the elusive european mirage is portrayed as innocent victim..
Doesn't org-mode already a kind of do that? I think it will handle most of the requirements just fine, handle LaTeX when necessary and what's better is that it comes within emacs allowing all kinds of easy customizations and extensions.
And there we have your true colors.
The book Wicked Plants gives evidence that the strange and "satanic" behavior by the young girls in Salem was actually due to a toxic fungus called Ergot which can distort thinking.

It had infected their rye and contaminated their cereal and bread.

The book: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/wicked-plants
The interesting effect that you see regarding almost any draconian and unreasonable law is that people simply ignore it and create more reasonable versions based on some kind of ethical philosophy they've concocted. e.g. abandonware, Persian rugs in the West, Cuban Cigars, Border Controls and Immigration Quotas
The actual simple terms would be too inconvenient to state them directly and certainly not many people would be prepared to even consider the story:

For example starting with this ("Remembering 1960s Afghanistan"):

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/01/28/podlich-afgh...

and then this ("Zbigniew Brzezinski Taliban Pakistan Afghanistan pep talk 1979"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYvO3qAlyTg

Zbigniew Brzezinski was the National Security Advisor to the US President Jimmy Carter at that time.

http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2003/04/2008410113842420760...

"When former US National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski bragged about prompting the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan so that it could get its "Vietnam" he was not making an empty boast."

"Brzezinski said he convinced Carter to sign the first directive for secret aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul on July 3, 1979 in an effort to goad the Red Army into invading, in a 1998 interview."
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There is so much media coordinated bull floating around in the EU and Germany right now it makes me sick. As a tax paying immigrant to Germany myself, I decided to look up the stats a little while ago and here's what the down and dirty actually looks like:

From 01.01.2015 until 31.07.2015 - we've gotten a total 195,723 Refugees, an estimated 500,000 will arrive for 2015.[1] Estimated costs will be around 5 Billion. For a comparison the Hartz 4 (Social Welfare System) had a total of about 32 Billion in 2013. [3]. Of all the refugees the majority come from Syria (~22%), and Irak / Afghanistan (~10%), which are countries with ongoing conflicts. [2] 39% of the refugees are coming from (Serbia / Kosovo / Macedonia / Albania), which have no listed ongoing conflicts according to wikipedia. The rest come from various countries the world over with around 1.7% from Nigeria and another 1.7% from Pakistan, which also both have ongoing conflicts.

So those are the facts, according to wikipedia and the BAMF (Office for Refugees and Immigration).

Now for the IMHO part :) The biggest problem currently with the whole thing is that we've known about this issue for a very long time [4], and no one prepared at all.

Even now nobody seems to have a plan about what to do with the refugees once they get here except give them food, housing, and living money, which personally I have no problem with as long as there is a plan to assimilate them into society, teach them german, get them jobs, etc. Why do I think some germans are upset? I think a lot of people have problems with the fact that this seems like another Hartz 4 type system where german tax dollars are going to pay for people who sit in the house all day and sponge off the system. Also, I think the media is just making this perception worse by showing thousands of refugees sitting around in camps or walking into Germany where they immediately get handouts.
Also its easier to rationalize a Harz 4 system when its for "yourself" i.e. family or other native germans who have also paid money and hard work into the system. It becomes less and less easier to rationalize this goodwill when you're giving handouts to people from other european countries (yes, as a EU citizen you can get on german Harz 4 if you want), and even less still when the people don't aren't even part of the EU. At least thats what I think is actually going on here with the negative attitudes...

There are open commercials against "foreigner hate" but seriously who would have a problem with this if instead of those commercials they would just show the refugees getting jobs and starting to work?

References:

1. https://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Downloads/Infothek...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...

3. http://biaj.de/archiv-kurzmitteilungen/36-texte-biaj-kurzmit...

4. http://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article132511959/Die-s...
> Exactly how are Americans stopping you from voting?

Who said “Americans”? I’m just saying “they”, and “they” are the bribed politicians [0] (both in the US and Europe). “They” don’t want us to vote [1] because they know We (the citizens) are not aligned with everything that USA or ANYONE says and does.

> Hate can be blinding. Has a there ever been even a single EU candidate that ran on an anti-US platform?

LOL, who is telling you that being neutral is being anti-american? chillax dude. I’m just anti-war and anti-media-bullshit, like any libertarian able to read between the lines (even american ones [2]).

Get your facts straight.

[0] http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/04/creative-commons-founder-l...

[1] http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/09/ttip-biggest-th...

[2] http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/
Wait... It takes ~1ms to write a line to a log file?
You should do some more research. It would be irresponsible if the EU did not have a large media apparatus. The reporting has been mixed. Some of it is overt and some covert such as direct funding for EU messaging campaigns concerning democratic referendums and so forth. 'Conspiracy Theory' is a bit of red herring in post Snowden age.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/culturehousedaily/2014/02/the-m...
The question is why do they insist on getting to Germany and Germany alone? Living in Poland, which is I think the second largest neighbour of Germany (after France) I have to wonder, why don't we see them staying here?

My SO works on immigration-related statistics and she says nearly 90% of immigrants who get to us and apply for refugee status immediately leave for other countries. Granting a war refugee status may take a while, but we provide them with food, clothes and shelter for the whole time. The conditions there are better than what most of our homeless can count on. We, of course, give them access to healthcare too. It may not be on the level of Germany, but it's there and I imagine, compared to Syria, it's still "too good to be true".

Most of the immigrants just won't stay here. I don't know why and no one really is asking this question in the media. I'd like to understand this. And please note: this is nearly exclusively about Middle East immigrants. We get some - not that many - immigrants from Ukraine, both refugees and economical immigrants, and most of them choose to stay here. Almost none of them decide to travel further West without first waiting for getting their formal refugee status recognized.

I'd really appreciate any insight into the reasons for this behaviour.
The Great Migration will be with us for decades
Thanks. You got us there and you are completely right. Truth is we at SmartCodeHQ are complete suckers when dramatic video shows up. What can I say, this was one of the examples we looked at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSye3T6FQZs
It might be too late to update the BCL with them. But that doesn't make it too late to bring the updates to people who work with C# all the time.

I maintain a bunch of C# codebases, and I'd love to have more updates to the language.
Check out also kontena.io .
Yup. We have a zero-warning policy, and there's a setting in every project you can enable to treat warnings as errors, which we use.
Perhaps a better quote would be "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want (a) quarter-inch hole(s)!"
Some solutions are to imaginary problems, has to be said though that none of the trees outside my window look anything like the 'bushes' shown here!
disk is slow, seems reasonable.
While IANAL, I am fairly familiar with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). This would seem to be completely illegal under FCRA as only those with a "valid need" are allowed access to your file. Depending on how this is done it could also be significantly damaging to an individual's social network if the inquiries made are "hard inquiries" as those directly affect an individuals score for a period of two years. (source: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0096-fair-credit-r...)

Additionally, I know of two people directly in my circle of friends who have had their identities stolen in the last couple years. As part of that I know from talking to them their credit took a significant hit and they have been working to clean it up. While this patent claims to take the average, that average can be directly impacted by something like identity theft if the sample is small.

I believe a better credit scoring method would be to utilize bills and banking that are paid more often, yet not reported to agencies. For example, I pay my rent, cable, cell phone bill monthly. I also keep a balance in my bank account for rainy days. On the other hand, I only have one credit card and only use it in extreme emergency and rarely have a balance on it. My credit score is good, but could be better because of this. I would rather be judged on the bills I pay monthly rather than the bills I pay rarely. The irony of things like rent, cable, cell phone, etc... is that they don't report unless it goes to collections. There should be an "all or nothing" law. If you don't report timely payments you can't report untimely ones. That to me would be a better use of the credit reporting system.
I know. Sorry, I should have been clearer; what I meant was Aphyr has had some fine results for SQL DBs, provided you avoided distribution. And he has had some fine results for NoSQL DBs, when distributed, provided you preferred availability to consistency (generally in certain scenarios, or with certain caveats). What he has not had, and so presumably was lamenting, was any distributed DB that offered transactions that passed any sort of muster, except for FoundationDB, which was made defunct. That, or any DBs he could recommend that met every claim their documentation made (as that's largely what he's testing for).

I meant that with this being the first distributed SQL store, he was saying there was nothing he could recommend that actually offered similar guarantees to what this was claiming. That is, ACID style (well, technically --ID I believe) DB transactions in a distributed environment. FoundationDB did (though it was NoSQL), hence his mentioning it. But that's different than there is nothing he can recommend, at large; he can't recommend similar solutions, but for a given problem he could likely recommend a compelling, different, solution.
This reminds me of one thing I hit 2 years ago, where several android mobile devices would be slow to call signal handlers, because the kernel was booted with user_debug=31(on production devices), which printk stack traces before calling signal handlers. The kernel command line argument was hardcoded on some code aurora branches for Qualcomm boards, iirc.
When you add artificial specificity, people assume you did so for a reason. Like if you say "women are [X descriptive property]" people will assume, rightfully, an implied "women, as opposed to men, are ..."

And of course when I say "when you add artificial specitivity," there is an implied "when you, or anyone else, adds artificial specitivity," totally contradicting the rule. This is English, not Aristotelian logic.
The high unemployment rate in EU seems to indicate no real need of labor. Quite the opposite. The constant pressure to reduce welfare and unemployment benefits spending indicates no availability to take in more medium term benefit receivers. The new immigrants coming from Africa and other less sophisticated economies are way less likely to find jobs in a EU economy which is more and more automated and high tech.
I had friends who could not watch the Simpsons because they said "Damn"