skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are consumer protection laws that protect both consumers and sellers when mistakes are made like in this case (at least here in Québec and Canada, it must be similar in the US).

Let's say you're selling a 10$ gift card on your website but through some bug/error it's now worth 1000$ (an easy mistake to make, just forget the decimal place). What if someone bought the 1000$ worth gift card for the original intended price of 10$? I'm sure you would invalidate that purchase and send them an email explaining that it was a mistake, and it would be perfectly within your rights to do so.

It goes both ways too, if a mistake is made that advantages the seller, they have to fix it.
There are different types of advisers. Some charge a flat fee and generally provide unbiased advice which can be helpful for people who don't have any idea what they're doing with finances. Others are basically salespeople who are paid a commission to sell certain funds or other investments.
Hell, why shouldn't they. The USA has already done it, why not them too. Maybe there is actually even some sort of kind of MAD principle in that concept. I don't really see how it would end up well, but it at least has a chance of a positive outcome relative to the USA dominating and spying on the world unilaterally.

I guess the ideal situation would be a transglobal civil intelligence corp that hacks and publicly publishes the secrets of governments their officials and corporations. A crowd-sourced intelligence organization that tracks public figures and agents and activities across the globe.
Neat. Now I want to be able to give the gears mass, and configure the "engine's" power output; and or maybe helical gear teeth.
There are plenty of nice places to live in Manchester.
Great, I've been waiting for this to happen before recommending it to my acquaintances. It's the only FLOSS app that I have been able to find with all the following:

- a sane user interface,

- offline mapping and navigation,

- and a good search engine that doesn't force "Country/City/Street" fields to find streets and POIs.

It's a bit slim, but now that's under the Apache license it will surely grow features faster.

I wonder what the company's monetization strategy will be?
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Funny, factual, whatever. Can you summarise the most important phases of your life so far, in 10 lines?
> Prevent what outcome.

From the link I pasted: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/appeals-court-uph...

"The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has upheld (PDF) a 2013 jury verdict finding that Motorola must pay Microsoft $14.5 million for violating its commitments to license certain standard-essential patents on a "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" (FRAND) basis."

>Motorola and Microsoft did.

As the timeline I posted shows, Google owned Motorola for a significant portion of the duration of the lawsuit, most importantly the part where they got penalized.

> If your argument is that after the the acquisition, Google should have went behind the backs of Moto's lawyers who had been working 8 months on this case and done something...

Uh, yes? If you're putting out a bunch of PR about how other companies are using patents to "attack" Android, you should not end up the only company penalized for actually abusing patents. You can't say, "Oh, it's a company we fully own, but we can't really control their lawyers and waste their efforts." You know who else plays the "shell company" game, right?
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Im torn. I don't want to use an ad blocker. But if it saves me data or rather $$, then I want one. I'm not really surprised by news sites and the ads/data. They usually have a ton. Has anybody done a study like this on the top 100/1000 sites?
Why the dismissal of kinesiology?
It seems to be closely related to what you say in the next sentence: "If your burn more energy than you take in, you lose weight".
Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/opinion/is-your-financial-...

99.9% have no basic knowledge of Technical Analysis (TA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis thereby not applying it in basic investment decisions they advise on. TA is valuable even though it tends to break down in very bad markets.
You significantly underestimate the last 20 000 years of progress. It's easy, because progress was very slow, but it was still nessesary for the later stages, and there's no reason to think it will take less time the next time around.

Domestication and farming alone took tousands of years, if you restarted the culture in year 0 - we wouldn't have to wait 1600 years for industrial revolution, but more like 10 000 years.
Thanks for this. I really like postgres community.They are vibrant and you will almost always learn one thing or the other from them.
I love the EFF, but honestly, I'm not sure what they can do about this, other than educate and inform.

The US, the rest of the Five Eyes, France, China, Russia, along with every state that has the ability has been, and will continue to spy illegally on the rest of the world.

Passing laws to either allow or prohibit this activity is nothing but political posing so long as the laws have no determination on the penalties applied to breaking said laws.

Did Clapper get imprisoned for lying to congress?

Did Litvinenko get a fair trial for "exceeding the authority of his position"?

Does anyone believe that Snowden would get fair treatment from an unbiased jury?

This is the theater of international espionage. Without transparency, honesty and consistency, complaining about the laws, or lack thereof, is pretty much a waste of time.

Or maybe I'm just overly cynical and we'll eventually get an Erin Brokovich of international espionage to blow the lid off the whole deal and hold the bastards accountable.

I'm not holding my breath.
How does this compare to Osmand?
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I never thought I would see Marc Andreessen in tears! That's when you understand importance of Andy Grove in silicon valley.
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I was a bit foggy on some of the details of course, but imagine a culture where you only took what you needed.

That was indeed the culture of ITS, but it was mediated by very competent and humane admins. The nature of AI research meant that there were times some would need to pretty much take over the machine to do something hard, or quasi-real time (e.g. robotics, or a demo). So this was allowed, but e.g. I remember ... Jeff Schiller, I think it was, telling about how someone upped the priority of a long computation on MIT-MC too high, and rather than kill it and lose what it had accomplished up to that point, they set it to a lower priority (which, I note, anyone with the requisite system knowledge could do) so it wouldn't interfere with other users, and then educated the user about how to politely accomplish his goals (e.g. MIT-MC had a lot of spare cycles at times, it was bloody fast by the time dawn broke, and logged in from the VT-52 in the middle of it I could see lights advance every time I typed in a character).
Is it April First already?
I've worked in it for a long time and read many books plus lived in London for 12 years.

The UK was known to be "light touch" that's why all the banks locate there. No criminal prosecutions were brought from 2008. Lots of US banks put their bad deals through London.

You have no clue what you are talking about.
There certainly was USA/UK friction in the aftermath of WWI. The Washington Naval Treaty was written to stop an incipient naval arms race, in which the USA and UK were two of the major competitors.
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I wasn't blaming anyone. Merely observations.

(Although, are you seriously insinuating that MH370 were caused by the US?)
Again you can't take your single rags to riches or rags to middle class or whatever anecdotal story as evidence of a larger trend. I feel most sociologist who have looked at the numbers and they'll tell you it's not too pretty (although I agree it is often overblown and there are some obvious benefits for poor people in London who can benefit from a city with tons of solid infrastructure, e.g. in education which can be really beneficial).

Anyway I hear a lot from friends in London that the gap between poor and middle class isn't all that bad. The poor get quite a bit of state support and seem to manage with a whole 'lot of compromise, and benefit from the opportunities of a metropolitan city with lots of talent, good schools etc more than say the poor would do in say Glasgow. But for (upper) middle class in London is where it gets tricky because the pricing is upper class, your income is middle class and state support for the middle class is negligible, and then for upper class it's fine as their income matches the city's pricing, their biggest worry is probably a possible housing bubble popping over the next decade, something the lower and probably much of the middle class too might even benefit from.

This is just what I've heard, can you comment on that from your experience?
I live in Northern England, and this disparity has long been a source of irritation to me.
In the 19th century there was a reasonable balance between north and south, mainly due to the wool and cotton industries in the North.

At some point in the last century that parity ended and moving to London to pursue ones interest was the only way to further ones career. This created a virtuous circle as far as London is concerned and a brain drain for the rest of the country. The BBC's Evan Davies touches on some of these points in his TV programme 'Mind the Gap'.

If you want to work at a decent tech company and work with like minded folk in an inspiring environment, London is really the only answer.

The friends and family I have in London who have a similar education / skills / upbringing to me generally earn more and work for better companies but their quality of life is nowhere near as good as mine with respect to general living. The main trade off is the paucity of like minded friends who live near me.

The price of property in this country is absurd and I find it very difficult to see how the situation has not been gamed by the land owning moneyed / political elite over the last 20 years or so.
From personal experience there was a 4 fold increase in property prices between 1997 and 2005. There was not a corresponding increase in wages. Who does this benefit?

I'll end with a joke:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/northerner-terror...
It is more desirable because the UK is having a big fire sale to try and stay afloat. Got your money running drugs? From a corrupt regime? No problem - the UK won't check. Plus all the UK population are busy working hard paying taxes to pay the police to protect your property.
Just make sure that if there are any launch daemons plist files, those should be root:wheel. Otherwise "launchctl" won't load those daemons.
I'd happily pay $15 a month for a note taking application as powerful as Evernote, that was also more usable.

Unfortunately, this does not address the core usability issues with Evernote.
I'm aware how much relocation costs. It's still less than what the developer costs you in a month.
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The propagation of cracks results in a very minimal amount of energy absorption.
Yes. The V in HSV is a greyscale value.
This is the kind of thing that ends up being just another 'don't have to try too hard to succeed' story. It's like Einstein being bad at math.

People like to just believe that brilliance is only possible at random, and nothing they can do will help, unless they get lucky.

It's the same reason the lottery still exists.
Is there an open source server implementation or equivalent for people to host it on their own server, similar to the Gitlab CE vs EE SaaS solutions?
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Sadly that's the UK in a nut-shell. Finance crime is just "bad luck" down the Mayfair clubs.
pkgsrc allows you to build into any directory you want.
I've been deliberately avoiding talking about what should be banned. I would expect Apple to remove such an app from their store once they found out about it, yes.
no - (red) meat is not fine:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22red+meat%22+site%3Anature.com
Yeah this is Poe's law to the extreme....
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/global-hou...

And that's UK prices not London! Please come to the UK and instead of re-investing your profits give them to a rentier.
The more likely case is that nobody will know or care about it and it will remain unnoticed forever.
Have you seen this yet?

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/registry
I don't accept or agree with their judgment, but that's irrelevant, because I respect that it is their judgment, and Apple has the right to carry what they want in their own store.
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Screenshotting DOM elements is almost perfect, except for one thing. Once you take a screenshot, a file save prompt is opened, so unless I missed something, you can't save it in the clipboard.

Which is a shame, it would be a killer thing if you could screenshot a DOM element, save in clipboard, and copy&paste in gmail or slack. I don't want to keep littering my desktop (or wherever) with tons of jpgs :(
What is the latency like?
London gets a large chunk of public transport spending and investment which the rest of the country does not: http://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/transport-...

London extracts money from globalization through the financial services industry, which has to be in one place because it's dependent on all going to the same pubs. (The back office work is a bit more distributed across the country, but none of the high-value jobs).
>> if we had a wand, we would not wish away MOOCs but rather transform them into a more effective educational product called a massive adaptive interactive text (MAIT) that can compete with a professor in a classroom. We further argue that computer science is a discipline in which this transition is about to happen.

Makes me think of the interactive books in Neal Stephepsons 'The Diamond Age'.
I have the same issue. So much FUD articles around on nutrition. Sticking to scientific studies works but it's a lot more effort.
That is insane. Why are working people paying someone's mortgage? The personal situation this woman finds herself in sounds dire and my sympathies go out to her.

However from a financial point of view this is simply the state preventing mortgages from ever failing. Banks are protected by our taxes.
You read the article? I just looked at the lovely pictures.
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Technical analysis is the financial markets' equivalent of astrology. It is especially bad, if you are considering investment horizon of over a day.
I have been suffering from similar problem but not that extreme from last one and half year. I hope people here will provide some info that would be useful to me. Doctors are not helpful.

My problem started when switched my job in April 2014. Before I was perfectly fine. The office space was not properly ventilated. Initially (from the very first day) I used to feel very drowsy in the office and fine outside. After few days the problem became permanent even I am not in office. I was feeling like mentally blocked. Also started feeling disinterest in everything. After a month in that office, I had to travel to USA for a month in the same company and there I got severe itching and doctors there gave me some antibiotic. After taking the antibiotic, my problem even got worse. Then I had severe headache and severe metal fatigue. After returning from the US, I had to go on unpaid leave. It was feeling heavy brain fog, feeling extreme stress and metal fatigue all the time. I had visited three neurologist. All of them prescribed anti depressant. I even took an antidepressant (setraline) and it made me even worse after taking two and half months. I had got few check up done in August including MRI. The doctor told me that the MRI is normal. I have also visited few ayurvedic doctors and the ayurvedic medicine worked to some extent. In fact I am continuing the ayurvedic medicine till now. The ayurvedic medicine at least not letting the problem to get more worse. I had difficines of vitamin B12 and D and taking injection for B12 and supplements for vitamin D. Later I consulted a psychiatrist but again no help. The psychiatrist got me the EEG test which was normal. On the net I found a guy ( who is not doctor by education) describing about anti oxidants and its role in brain fog. I consulted him and he prescribed different kind of stuff (mostly for antioxidant functions) that seemed to help a bit. At present I feel little better than but the problem still very significant. Neurologists have nothing other than antidepressant to prescribe and antidepressant has worked negatively. Right now taking Ayurvedic medicines, vitamin supplements and antioxidant supplements.

I have not got the sleep test done yet. None of the doctors I visited asked to me to do that. Right now I am planning to get that done too. Is there any test that I can get done?
All of the studies show that you are statistically better off going in an indexed fund, v. a managed account with a financial advisor. The answer to the titular question is "duh." Even without the conflict of interest.
You have to do it when you want to reach "general public" which is far-from-science type of individuals who refer to themselves as "not interested in politics, space and that kind of stuff. I'm interested in people and events that directly affect me today". These personal life descriptions helps them started. Shows quality of journalism actually.
Why are they using asymmetric encryption for passwords, SSN, and tax information? I've never heard of that done.
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In a world of land value tax.
And what do you see as core usability issues in Evernote?
The search engine is much better. You can do google-like searches, just type what you're looking for, and select the best match from the results list. In Osmand and all other open source apps, you have to first type the country and region where you think your target is located.

Also, it's very easy to start downloading an offline map for any region - just zoom in on a new area, and it provides the link for that region. Right now it's free, unlimited and it works all over the world (though of course that can change in the future). I haven't figured out how to do the same thing in Osmand, and it says the free version is limited to 10 maps.
I'd go with passive ETFs tracking a market index. Very few mutual funds can beat them, especially when you subtract the management fee.
We used it as well some weeks ago in New Zealand for the same reasons. Very useful, even if the paths were sometimes a bit ... alternative.

"natural=bare_rock" as a POI became a bit of a private joke in our van, as it seems rocks are well mapped in OSM and displayed with that bare tag in Maps.me.
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This has a simpler an cleaner user interface, but Osmand has many more features.
Obscenity is always going to be subjective. When it comes to what Apple is willing to sell in their store, it is their idea of obscenity that applies. At this point, I think they have made their stance clear enough that both you and I understand what gets apps banned.

I suspect what you and the others really want is for Apple to be bound by some kind of common carrier status that prohibits them from exercising their own judgment in what apps they publish. If you actually want that, you should say so. Arguing that Apple should have to publish apps it finds obscene just because the apps don't match your own definition of obscenity IS irrational. Well, strictly speaking, perhaps not irrational. Let's say shitty.
Ah, found it. [1] They plan to integrate it with hotel and taxi booking services.

[1] http://blog.maps.me/2015/09/mapsme-launched-its-walking-dire...
> Big Bang Theory

> it's actually cool to be geeky or into tech

Is this satire?
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I know FIDO will be in charge of this, but please don't make web payment authentication or any other "next-gen" authentication APIs biometrics-only. At least make it so people can use 2 or even 3 factors at the same time to authenticate, such as say fingerprint, USB key and Bluetooth-enabled unlock from a close device. Or face + fingerprint + password. Or face + gestures + voice, and so on.
Up North is better. London is a circle-jerk.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/london-property-m...

As ever the mash nails it.

> Property prices in the capital are rocketing as people behave like a structurally unsound ex-council flat in a post-industrial wasteland is a spectacular place to live.
You're still being condescending by assuming that their views are wrong and that they only believe those things because of something else that went wrong in their lives. That's not going to lead to a sincere conversation. That's what I mean by preaching.
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The flag link for comments is a little hard to find if you don't already know where it is. If you don't flag things, there's no way your flag privileges could be taken away.
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We all know reddit is a terrible place for self-promotion. It's also a shitty place in general.

I built this to remind startup marketers how to post their content on reddit (don't).

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What financial centres have brought prosecutions from 2008?
It says the same number of Calories in the post directly above.
> The USPTO isn't required to follow court rulings.

While technically true, it does not match reality. The PTO does update its processes to reflect recent cases:

http://patentlyo.com/jobs/2009/03/ptos-current-examination-s...

http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/06/issues-examination-instr...

> The CAFC -- the patent appeals court -- is relentless in overturning Supreme Court precedents against software patents.

If this appears to be the case, it's mostly because as you said, the Supreme Court does not understand software, and has consistently made everybody's lives harder by issuing vague, non-concrete opinions about patent eligibility and validity, overturning well-established procedures. The SC's current stand is "we know an invalid patent when we see one and will make up arbitrary reasons to invalidate it", but that does not help the PTO or the lower courts clear guidelines that they can implement.

Also, it is not true that the CAFC overturns Supreme Court precedents, as can be seen in the spate of decisions following Alice: http://www.law360.com/articles/662776/a-look-at-everything-t...
What did I read into your summary that wasn't there? You were talking about the need to "educate" people so that they can agree with you.
Of the millions of people in London, how many of them do you know? Presumably a statistically significant proportion or you wouldn't mention it for risk of appearing blinkered and living in a bubble.
Lottery exists because for some people the thought of being rich is more enticing than the reality of owning an extra buck.
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