skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point is that with Bitcoin I can opt-out of the overpriced fraud protection racket that is my credit card.

And right there is the crux of your disconnect from the general population. The vast majority of people don't view fraud protection as a racket; it doesn't cost them anything as far as they are aware and the benefits are pretty clear, especially compared with bitcoin where permanent loss of funds because of hackers or arbitrary technical problems is a real risk.

> then consider someone who wants to buy a $15,000 Rolex or gold bar online or place a $5,000 bet on a football game starting in 3 minutes.

Ummm, those all sound like pretty unusual use-cases that the general population has no use for. I never said bitcoin was useless so you can stop proselytizing, all I said was that credit cards are clearly much safer than bitcoin if you define safe to mean "protects my money from being lost or stolen".
Data cleanup is a contextual activity depending on business needs and capabilities. Using an API to heuristically cleanup and analyze data will very likely lead to misleading results, which is worse than having no results at all.
Since you have a switchboard have them ask 'he's in a meeting can I take a message', have them email the message to you, then you can respond back to your staff and them and have them return the call. You could also setup a block of time the following morning to return calls but I think training an assistant to handle them would free up more time for you.
Likely because your original comment did not add value to the discussion and you're asking about downvotes.

Both are mentioned in the Guidelines and FAQ.
Yes, that does make sense. Sorry I misunderstood.

I'm not doing the judging; academics are. The word I used may be imprecise or even anachronistic, but the thrust is the same, and validated by academic judgement of the texts. Genre criticism is an aspect of theology, and it crosses over with historiography. In the evaluation of practitioners in both disciplines, these are works that are not intended as historical accounts.

While, as you say, this does not invalidate them as historical sources, it doesn't mean that every event recounted and every argument made therein is one that can be considered a valid historical occurrence. Many of them aren't even approachable by the historical method.
A degree usually won't "diminish" you chances, but you spend a lot of time studying.

One of the most beautiful concepts in Finance is Future Value: 1$ a year from now doesn't have the same as value as it does right now.
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Yeah, me too! Any time anything bad happens under my econo-political regime of choice, it's not really my regime, since my regime ensures bad things can never happen. So any example that makes my regime look bad is by definition not an example. The two are mutually exclusive.
First time I tried Apple Pay in a McDonald's drive thru I ended up with an apple pie added to my order.
I did some research in sheep farming a number of years ago. One farmer told me a story of the incredible skill and instincts of dogs (in this case, Great Pyrenees). I'll give a brief re-telling here.

Farmer had two large flocks of sheep (500+ each). They lived a few kilometers apart. The farmer had about 15 Great Pyrenees dogs that lived with the flocks. Without any training, the dogs would divide themselves amongst the flocks. A 'sentinel' dog would travel back and forth between the flocks and if one had suffered some recent coyote attacks, the sentinel would adjust the number of dogs to increase 'security' at the affected flock. The dogs would remain with the other flock for days until they were able to fight off the coyotes. After the threat was dealt with, the dogs would naturally re-balance between the flocks and the sentinel dog would continue mobile surveillance.
FWIW, the code is still developed by Mozilla and open source; it just calls Pocket APIs.
Current submission title: "Sweden is Out of Housing for Refugees"

Current article title: "Sweden Feels the Refugee Strain"

The word "housing" doesn't seem to appear anywhere in the article.

I think the current article title better reflects the content of the story.
It's pretty common not to require a signature on smaller purchases. It depends on the merchant and the card, but most purchases under $50 are just swipe and go. Presumably they'll change to be insert and go.

I totally agree with you that NFC wins for convenience and speed. I just don't see much of a security advantage, and it looks to me like EMV should substantially reduce in-person fraud, since you won't be able to copy them the way you can copy magnetic stripes. The card companies seem to think this way, at least: the way they're pushing EMV isn't to require it, but simply to say that if you don't have it and you participate in a fraudulent transaction, you're liable for it.
Even with a zero-liability policy, the money is coming directly out of your bank account, and will be put back in eventually, after investigation.

Since the only person that's out money is you, no one has financial incentive to speed the process.
In this article someone who can't handle the fact that there are multiple types of engineers.
This is not a new argument. It certainly goes back even before conservative Russell Kirk's 1957 classic, The Inhumane Businessman [1].

It seems to me quite obvious a that the waning of liberal [2] education is a bad thing. But these fashionable leftist laments miss the point and fail to recognize some obvious causes of their own making.

In Kirk's time as now, the motivation to gain immediately marketable skills is a strong one. The difference is that elites like Robinson see such motivations as base and immoral, whereas Kirk saw them as deceptively un-utilitarian.

To the degree that ROI is a driver, the decline in general ed is certainly accelerated by massive price inflation of that last few decades. But there's another reason. The fact is liberal education in most American universities has become a shoddy product. In many, it's become quite illiberal.

This is not abstract for me. I recently helped my son decide on a college. It came down to two: School A, a school that's focussed on more practical topics such as business and engineering. Scarcely one-fifth of the coursework is general social sciences and humanities. And School B, an old and venerated bastion of liberal ed. Both are top 40 national universities.

Now, we had already weeded out all the schools that have entirely thrown over the western cannon for ideologically driven grievance-based curriculum. In other words, our list was pretty small. The last step in our decision process was to visit School B. I was hopeful because I want my son to go deep into great ideas, for the very reasons that Kirk gives.

Then came the orientation. Announcement: we have a new core curriculum.

Wha...?

Students, it turns out, will no longer choose from among courses in history, philosophy, literature, phycology, economics, etc. Now they will all be funneled through a few newly developed "integrated" courses. Courses where Greek classics are compared with Harry Potter. Classes that focus on the dying American Dream. Courses where science and history are now a branches of climate change activism.

No thanks. School A please.

This is what the market looks like when it's working.

[1] http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/detail/the-inhumane-busi...

[2] It's worth pointing out that "liberal" here means classical liberal, which is nearly the opposite of "liberal" in the context of American politics.
That is pretty much equivalent. Those organizations would join Facebook for some reason. And that reason is to reach consumers. FB would end up giving orgs more powerful ways to promote Pages and then you end up with essentially ads.
Thanks for the clarification.

Also, constraint of side effects at the language level allows powerful things like... time-traveling debuggers (does GHC provide anything like this, btw? Because it probably could...)

http://elm-lang.org/blog/time-travel-made-easy
I think the opposite actually. First person perspective of someone else will be the least exciting way to do a movie. I think it will be more like a really, really awesome guided tour of the movie's sets as the plot progresses. You're there, doing your own thing, examining what is most interesting to you, as the plot unfolds around you.
How Pantone Became a Global Authority on Color
Completely agree! I think it is ridiculous that financial institutions don't have a read only password for sharing with accountants, tax advisers and other programs.
Blockbuster didn't have legislative scaffolding and bureaucracy throughout the entire world on its side.
> what he does with his own money should be up to him within the realm of the legal framework

But what a private foundation and/or company promotes or demotes isn't up to its members?

Sounds like a double standard to me.
No, I'm saying that you can't force people to take medication against their will apart from a few situations.

If you want to provide MH treatment to people it's much better to start with children and young people and better drug and alcohol services, both of which would reduce the amount of homeless people, and also to provide better voluntary MH treatment for homeless people.

People aren't arguing with you because you want to provide MH treatment. People are arguing with you because you want to force that treatment on people against their will.
They should be required to provide a secure token-based API. The fact that Mint has to store your bank password in plain text is asking for trouble.
What is wrong with the statement "We won't lower the bar"?

It is the legacy of the famous Griggs vs Duke Power case.

Requiring IQ tests to filter employees was found to have "disparate impact" with respect to different identifiable groups.

Silicon Valley does a lot of different IQ test proxies in order to filter their prospective employees in a hopefully-not-racist way: programming tests, seeking college degrees, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
Ask HN: Are exclusivity clauses common in developer jobs?
How common is this in software programming job contracts for either freelance or full-time work, and does this clause usually depend on the level of compensation for the job?
Slack is built on Electron and has multiple subscription levels. So their license should provide you with some good ideas :)
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Auth0 Announces New Pricing, Including a Production-Ready Free Account
This looks seriously impressive, some of them look way to good to be generated procedurally.

Shame about having to wait 1+ day to test one. Would love to see a stand-alone desktop implementation.
This resonates with author's famous blog post about reading [1]

In that blog post he recommends reading several books simultaneously and abandoning boring books with no regret.

[1] http://blog.fogus.me/2012/02/22/reading/
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According to Mozilla, the Pocket button doesn't make money.
You are right, the carry bits will clobber the neighboring bytes, I think.
My company is using Vault as far as I know. I think HashiCorp is doing a decent job identifying the sort of things every company is trying to reinvent
A good reference on this phenomenon: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race...
> the carry bits will clobber

Actually, not the carry bits, the "content" bits. The 8-bit content must appear on more places there for the magic to work.
Those are all essentially infrastructure projects that (one way or another) add value to end user products that (not always, but quite often) are monetised somehow and in turn contribute or donate back, because they can. Firefox OTOH is an end user product itself, quite a different case.

Note that I'm no fan of the Pocket integration at all - to my knowledge there isn't even any sort of bundling deal or other kind of monetisation involved. I don't understand why Mozilla does this.
I'm not sure I disagree with those specific examples as much as it may seem.

I do think that if you're not shithubbing, you have a level of responsibility which perhaps[1] Gruber and TJ (the maintainer in the second link) weren't taking. And it's not clear to me how much you can claim to be shithubbing if you have lots of users and are discussing the project direction and taking pull requests. (It looks like TJ has since handed over maintenance of n to someone else, which I'd say was the right decision.) The third link also seems to be talking mostly about projects which can't be described as shithubbing.

The main thing I want to get at, is that you should be able to put something online without having to take responsibility for it. (Perhaps we need to distinguish "online" from "released".) That doesn't mean you never have any responsibility.

[1] To be clear: I don't know much about these two incidents, but the actual details aren't particularly important right now. I'm discussing them to bounce intuitions off them, not to pass judgment on anyone.
and choosing to let people do things that are bad for them doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the society.

True, but the discussion doesn't end there. For example: ".. and leaving them to suffer with the consequences of their actions " vs. " ... and supporting them through the negative consequences if it doesn't go well" are very different responses, and certainly do reflect on the society in question.
Here's my conspiracy theory for the day:

1) In the long-term, regulation is to the benefit of the incumbents.

2) Most in technology prefer light regulation

3) If you act as a "bad citizen" in such a way to piss off people you can change #2.

Thus the result of acting out is more regulation, which increases your costs, but also acts as a significant barrier to entry for future competitors.
nice read, the fact that no swedish publication can write anything without racist views beeing applied makes me sad.

the last paragraph @Some recent arrivals, especially those from Syria, are educated and may find jobs relatively quickly. Rama Yousef, a university graduate who came in 2013 with her family, spent five months in a government-paid intensive Swedish course, then enrolled in a program at Stockholm University that helps highly qualified immigrants find jobs. She now works in the Stockholm office of consulting group Capgemini. “The Swedish people have done a lot for me,” she says.

Is something youd never read in a swedish newpaper, or atleast thats how i interpret our news.
All you read is how ungreatfull people are for any help they get. Guess it's easier to sell newspapers to idiots if you write abous idiots acting like idiots.
It's a Youtube video, and it loads the HTML5 player for me. Try going to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and see if you can enable it.
Is a shining example of a failed economic principle which has caused unmitigated disaster whenever it is employed and is immediately rolled back by any group of human beings who care at all about what's good for anyone in the group.
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Entire sections of the Human Genome are patented, so unlikely.
Are you going after people or machines as your target? It matters which, because machines can't do human trust, so then the issue of how you exchange keys and establish trust is forced.

What's the stop a MITM between a client and any other client from intercepting the conversation? In your protocol, nothing, except that if the MITM isn't there at the start, they can't join in right away. This is not a very useful assurance. So please, keep working on it, but I think your challenges are pretty serious. If the problems are fixable, then go ahead and fix them. I'd be happy to take another look - after that.
This is cool, largely because of the functional perspective to dealing with pools of websockets. I personally think the next level for websockets infrastructure is building a paradigm for large pools of concurrent websocket connections.

Perhaps a microservces implementation with each step (handshake, broadcasting, http overhead) having their own cluster and communicating through channels.
Indeed, my dad got called a "Circuit switch bigot" by Vint Cerf just a few years ago.
It so much more important to take this stuff seriously if you only do it occasionally and for fun/recreation! Suffocation is the least of your worries, both H2S and CO are poisonous. And you don't have a team standing by with with air tanks. So response time is likely to be closer to an hour, on the off chance that there's even anyone to call for help. Think about the kind of brain damage you're liable to suffer if you do survive such an ordeal.

A couple of gas meters (the reason to have two, in case it's no obvious, is to try and make sure at least one sounds an alarm in case of faulty equipment etc) - and an "active" monitor to someone outside (aka: a rope) is generally as good as you'll get. And a lot better than what most people do.

Don't become the next anecdote at a search and rescue seminar.
> Now, universities by and large do not attempt to "prepare people for citizenship and democracy." Instead, they educate them to be members of a "docile, most skilled, working class."

You need to go to liberal arts college to be prepared for citizenship and democracy? Really? If by the time you get to college you're not interested in "humanities", you're very unlikely to get interested after being forced to listen to some mediocre lectures. And make no mistake, that's exactly what the wast majority of students will get.
If consistency was applied they'd either

a) lock the car and leave the property intact

b) try to contact the owner

Neither of which they are doing
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The Lost World of Soviet PCs
So.. where's that evidence? Both the company involved and the guy involved say it's "X", and you say it's "Y". I'd say you have the burden of proof.

Saying "X" usually means "Y" is not proof that it means such in this case.
> What about an 'engineer' (a person who designs components for a large corporation for money)? How are they a different bunch than a 'software engineer'?

I can't answer this question, because "components" is too vague a word. You could be talking about software components, or mechanical components, or financial instruments... sorry, I just don't know what you're getting at here.

> There have been engineers who have had their licenses permanently revoked, but nobody has ever been "barred from engineering". Those are not the same thing (though I doubt a company is likely to hire an engineer who is so bad as to get their license revoked).

An unlicensed engineer is not allowed to identify as the engineer-of-record for contractual purposes; that is, they can no longer 'stamp the drawings.' Sure, a company could hire a defrocked ex-PE to do the work, but they would still need an active PE to sign off on the work ('stamp the drawings'). So while obviously nobody is physically restraining them from installing AutoCAD, they are not able to meet (common) contractual requirements in engineering work.

> The way I think it should end is for software engineering to be separated from computer science at the university level.

I completely agree with your assessment, except that I don't see CS as being B. A. material, since it's basically applied mathematics, which has traditionally been B. Sc. territory.
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I agree with you. My interpretation of MVP is weighted by my interpretation of the words Product, and Minimal. A product should be something which really solves a real world problem, and is built with the appropriate level of quality. Good enough is not good enough, the bar should be very high. Minimal in this context therefore applies only to the scope if the problem(s) being solved, not to the effort put into execution or the level of quality.

Put another way, I won't call something a product unless it's something I'm proud of and something that I believe solves a problem in a way which approaches the best way (at least in my opinion at the time, there are obviously always improvements to make based on feedback). If it's minimal, this just means the scope of the problem it solves is very small, so that not too much effort has to be expended building it, even though what it does do it does at a high level of quality.

Anything which falls outside this is to me not an MVP, because it's not a product, it's a prototype of a product or a way of testing an idea the product may eventually be built to implement 'properly'. It's rarely something you're proud of, or would be comfortable charging for. When you'd be comfortable charging for it, that's probably the point where it becomes a product.
TSA remains terrible at securing transportation
and why does it need write access?
Government Is Disrupting Coding Bootcamps
I'm not sure what search phrase you used, but I'm not immediately seeing the company by searching what I've provided.

Nevertheless, perhaps editing it is a good idea. I don't see a way to edit the post, though - is there one?
Ummm deploy keys?
Hmm. The official source says "In this image the anomalous regions have been enhanced with red and blue shading to make them more clearly visible." (http://bit.ly/1MBXXHg)

That sounds a bit more than a different colormap :)

Also, can't we explain the dipolar variation with some motion in some direction we haven't accounted for (in our local cluster for instance)? I imagine that quadrupole and octopole variations are harder to explain through motion.
Because it was hard finding an article which mentions this very 'out of housing' fact which dominates Swedish media currently.
Hey all creator here, you can see the source https://github.com/jaxgeller/type-it-out.
Some folks advocate for a collapse-comments feature on HN.

I would like to advocate for a explode-to-frontpage comments feature ... so we could have a new front page item for "that great scotch vs. bourbon argument we had in the TPP comments".

It's why I come here.
The saddest thing about Twitter's path is that the tool is so good, but if they don't fix the problem you just described (brilliantly btw), they can be doomed.
I don't do automatic payments.
I won't do automatic payments.

It doesn't benefit me so I don't do it.

They day after payday, I sit down and determine which bills are due and I pay them electronically. It doesn't matter which bank account I use because I handle them individually, every payday.

I could switch banks today and my process wouldn't be interrupted at all.
Then what's to prevent Country B to access data replicated in its borders?
Some societies prefer strong individual rights and others prefer a strong state that tells them what to do.

That sounds like a false dichotomy. It isn't a choice between institutionalizing people or leaving them to fend for themselves entirely. Whether private or public, the choices made on this spectrum absolutely do reflect on the society making them.