skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So all I have to do to get a legal status is pretend I want to blow someone up? I suppose there will be a lot of people that will sign up.
It was a fairly obvious thing too, when they were suggesting finger print authentication one of the first snags to come up was 'how do you detect if the finger is still attached to the human it was born on'.

The bank teller had a function other than just being a cost on an itemized list, they were people and people are good at spotting unusual patterns.

Once we switched to ATMs and now to online banking the pin taking the place of your digital signature the push is on to make you the responsible party for your bank balance, even though the banks could (and should) take more responsibility and actions to safeguard your balance.

Even velocity controls are not adequate, as the torture case clearly shows.

But then again, in times before all that came to pass it was possible to take your family members hostage while you visit the bank too. It's just that now we don't need you to go to the bank (and potentially alert the police) but all we need is four digits. After that you are literally disposable.
What is a meta-class in Objective-C?
This is from 2003, the state of the art has likely advanced a bit (but not in principle) since then.
I have no problems with working 12 hours a day for a short time, but I would never do it over a longer time period. A work day should not exceed 8 hours (lunch not included) in my opinion. I actually find my work interesting and enjoy working there, but I need to keep my work life and personal life separate.

Life is short enough as it is, so I don't want to spend 50% of it at work (more if you count the hours you spend sleeping). After a week of working "overtime", I feel mentally exhausted. It completely ruins my Saturday, so that's more of my life that is wasted.

I do have some pet projects that I work on sometimes. Even if I could integrate it into my work, I won't do it unless it directly affects my work. My work ethic is strong, and I always look for ways to improve the systems during work hours. But there is a limit to what I will do.

If my ideas does not interest my work place enough to include them in my work schedule, I will use them in my side projects. Giving away free overtime to solve problems that my work doesn't think is worth paying me for is not an option.
I don't know if it's just me but when I open a new tab in the background in Safari 4.0.4, the Flash doesn't load, it only loads when I activate this tab. Which is a great thing, I don't some awful audio coming from the flash.

I don't feel the need of ClickToFlash on Safari.

The problem I have with ClickToFlah or Flashblock is that you can't see the first frame of a flash video.
In my bank one time passwords do a very good job. Of course I rather avoid doing banking from windows.
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I used their videos on youtube while taking a linear algebra course last semester when I needed an extra lesson on a particular topic. I highly recommend them. Everything I saw was presented in a clear, well articulated matter that made it much, much easier to understand than just reading something out of a book.
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Thing is, that crowd is not some cookie-cutter denier as often portrayed by their opponents. You have everything from cranky old farts to industry lobbyists (tobacco-company style) to actual scientists with substantial arguments. Just as the pro-GW side is also actual scientists, industry/political lobbyists and a bunch of tree-hugger liberal arts students who'd be hard pressed to name a difference between CO2 and H2O :)
The annoying thing is that a very simple mitigation against this attack is possible - don't indicate an error upon entry of a bad PIN. Even better is a duress PIN.
Greedy backspace. I use vim, and it's actually pretty smart about it; most of the time it kills two spaces when that's what I want, and only one space when that's what I want.
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Well, just to provide a single example, my wife is totally disinterested in games. Absolutely doesn't care, to the point where if someone tries to motivate topic X via games she ends up feeling that topic X cannot have any value to her at all. By contrast, she is very interested in math, and wishes that at school it had been presented as other than a collection of facts to memorize and processes to learn and apply.

I know of others who have a similar attitude to games, and now, as I approach 50, I can't care much about them either.

Games aren't "Real World."

If you want "Real World" motivation then find some stuff from the real world.

To add some context, I am passionate about putting things in context and making them relevant. I visit schools to talk about uses of math, and explaining how these subjects are anything but isolated and irrelevant stuff to learn and hoops to jump through. I've given talks in venues such as the West Yorkshore Playhouse, the Royal Exchange in Manchester, the Criterion Theatre in the West End of London, Navy Pier in Chicago, and others around the world. I give examples from GPS and SatNav through intercepting drugs couriers and on to gene splicing and DNA analysis. I talk about finding cliques and connections in social networks, and then apply that to detecting plaigarism and ranking web sites. I talk about weather forecasting, roulette, life assurance and debt management.

I mention them in passing when relevant, but I don't talk much about games.
Hmmm; back in the '80s and early to mid-'90s I found that the use of tabs for indentation was a reliable marker of bad code.
You haven't ever tried this, have you?
Taking the the title here at face value - nurturing terrorists, i.e. encouraging them to flourish and grow - is what the US is already doing, by invading various Muslim countries, and considering invading more - I hear Yemen is high on the list.

But of course the actual article is not about nurturing terrorists, but rather based on mistaken notions of the motivations of Islamic extremists ("they hate our freedom" and other bullshit, and I don't use that word lightly).

Islamic fundamentalists are playing a power game. It works like this: US-friendly regimes supply the US with energy in return for support in various forms. These regimes rule with a tight fist to keep everything in line, because in heavily resource-dependent economies money flows in from the top down - the people down below don't particularly need to be appeased. So, the ruling elite isn't exactly popular. How to overthrow them? Attack the elite's biggest strength, its closeness to the US. By selling the US to the relatively moderate Muslim public as the great satan etc., they can try to foment revolution. The biggest thing that would help this is the US out killing Muslims in very visible and arrogant fashion. The US invading Afghanistan and Iraq, making moves at Iran, bribing Egypt to blockade the elected government of the Gaza strip, etc. etc. all play in to Al-Qaeda strategy.

The US is its own biggest enemy here, especially when governed by self-described "strong" leaders who predictably (i.e. weak-mindedly) attack when provoked, and a populace with a strong streak of Old Testament style "eye for an eye" vengance.
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Since it seems like the writer's first language is English, I feel comfortable pointing out that this is poorly written to the point of incoherence.
How is it better than using zolved.com?
>> "get a new one directly from the bank once every year to avoid wearing down the keypad so the pin numbers stand out"

You could just get into the habit of:

* Put in card, type in PIN
* Take out card, press every digit that isn't in your PIN.

If you have a repeated digit in your pin you might need to press them all twice etc.
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Yeah, I love having tabs because I love inducing subtle errors in python...

Oh wait. That's right, I don't. Spaces all the way because tabs blow up some languages.
python... tabs == devil in python.
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This is awesome! Does it work on Linux too?
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Yep. Convenience is another reason for this probably, I guess the banks did not want to deal with people that have managed to 'lock' their pin card but aren't aware of it.
hehe, that's clever :)

How about simply erasing all the digits then, after all the standard phone pattern is something that is easy enough to memorize.
1. C Compiler Compliance question

2. Behavior of UL on a non-32 bit system according to modern standards and the compliance of compilers to that standard

and

3. That the declaration of a pointer to a constant int array was actually that. This is a prime case for using C-Decl or whatever the name of the program is that is mentioned in K&R, (or at least some googling).

All three of these should be looked up. If you have experience with a particular system that uses the last item a lot, then you possibly should not be looking that up. The other two items most assuredly should be looked up. Very very few people have the experience of writing code that works on all sorts of systems using processors of differing word size while compiling on modern compilers. Only those few souls shouldn't be looking up the answers to #1 and #2
> God cannot be proved or disproved, so stop wasting your time!

Just curious, what are your specifications for proof, and why should all things not meeting such rigorous criteria be a waste of time? I'd also challenge you to "prove" the sun will rise in the morning; I don't think it a waste of time to understand the physics in the movements of planets and stars.
Ask HN: Domain hacking
For those that don't know, "domain hacking" is using a TLD to spell out your domain like del.icio.us or blo.gs.

I'm considering using one for my next startup and would like to get some feedback on your experiences. My biggest concern is that a lot of traffic will be lost due to typing in the equivalent .com domain.

I've considered the pros and cons, which I'll list below, but I'd like to hear your real experiences in order learn about benefits or repercussions that might not be obvious.

Pros:

Very short domains
Availability/Price
Trendy

Cons:

Lost traffic/emails to the .com
Brand dilution
Not easy to verbally tell someone the domain
Trendy
Slightly risky using "foreign" TLDs.
At school, usually the vast majority of people is interested in games. Of course you can never satisfy everyone, but that's not a good reason IMO to not do anything just because a few people might not like it.
Tom Duff's rc shell has the same construct

xdvi <{curl http://www.diku.dk/~andrzej/papers/RC.dvi}

Another reason why you should have changed to rc shell 10 years ago

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc
Ph vs f in English
or /fd/0 or /dev/fd/0 (depending on OS)
Fog Creek Copilot (http://copilot.com/) one-ups this by allowing you to just fix the broken machine--and it's free on weekends. No, it's not perfect, and yes, Show Me What's Wrong and its ilk definitely have their place, but if it's just family and friends, why not cut out the frustrating reinterpretation of the screencast?
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> At school, usually the vast majority of people is interested in games.

"People" or "boys" ?? I'd be interested to know your basis for your assertion, and now that the question has been raised I'll start taking informal polls as I go out and give talks. I do about 90 talks a year, and I'll see what the feedback is.

And in what aspect of games? Being interested in playing various games is not the same as caring how they work, or caring about the idea that math is used in them. I'm not saying that games can't or shouldn't be used as motivation, but I have grave doubts as to the ubiquity of the appeal that people here seem to be taking for granted. To some extent it's the extremity of the view to which I'm objecting.

chaosmachine earlier said:

> All math classes should incorporate game programming

I really can't believe that such an extreme view is a good thing. It would be akin to saying: Actually math isn't interesting in its own right, we really just need it to write really cool games.

Leaving aside that particular comment, I still think that tying math only to applications is a bad thing. Motivation is essential, yes, but sometimes there's math that arises from the math, and only finds application much later, if ever.

In short, my personal feeling is that you're wrong that the vast majority of kids would be motivated by games, but I have no stats to back that up, just 25 years of giving talks to school kids. Majority, maybe. Substantial proportion, probably.

Far better to get the motivation by using math in a wide, wide range of applications. It's motivation at all, and the sheer breadth that really matters.
Just showed a blank page for the "pick a number" screen when I tried to make a number for my Stackoverflow reputation.

When trying to make one for my HN karma, it won't let me get past the next screen. Every time I click Create Numbr, it seems to do some kind of AJAX call, then highlights "Good Name!" with a red box. Over and over. A bug, I guess?
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However it's a leading question and it most likely she is either feeling insecure or spent a lot of time getting ready, either way I would suggest not saying "no" especially if it's your girlfriend.
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I found this a little interesting. It triggered something in me that made me want to go out and find numbers! I settled with making a counter for Britney Spears popularity which does a query on Google and takes the number of hits.

It's just a dirty shame that making any kind of long-term statistics will be hard due to the screen-scraping nature of the application. Anyone's who has ever tried scraping IMDB knows what I am talking about. :)

I like it.
Not to mention that I'm not really aware of all that many open Wifi networks just hanging around these days. In fact, I'm currently in Italy, where it's actually illegal to leave your access point unencrypted and open to everyone. (It's a real pain, hence why I'm on 3.5G right now). That would seem to be the biggest barrier to entry.
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And AT&T and possibly China...
All you have to do now is figure out a way to inspire them to want you to work for them ...
chaosmachine earlier said: All math classes should incorporate game programming

Just to clarify, that was kind of a joke. At least, it wasn't meant to be taken as an all or nothing extremist demand.

If I was going to rewrite that comment, knowing it would be taken literally, it might read something more like:

All math classes should incorporate fun
"real world" applications, beyond just theory. More people would pay attention.
Some of them already live normal lives. Therefore I would rather consider them to be like pedophiles: we simply don't know how to cure them, and they are too dangerous to be allowed to roam about freely. It would be desirable to give everybody as much freedom/chances as possible, but in this case (as for pedophiles), we simply don't know how without endangering everybody else.
Salman Khan is an extremely talented teacher. I would go as far as to say he is Feynmanesque in his ease with the subjects and ability to come up with good examples for abstract concepts.
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With just a computer and a pen-tablet-mouse, one can educate the world!

I'll say. Someone's been very busy. Thank you, Khan.

This appears to be an excellent resource. The 10 to 15 minute "bite-sized" pieces make it easy to check something out in your spare time. Most definitely bookmarked.

I also like how he has added a lot of business/finance stuff, which should probably interest a lot of people here. Looks like a slight change of plans today - I have to check more of this out.

[EDIT: I watched several videos in the Venture Capital and Capital Markets section. Definitely worth my while. This teacher appears to be able to make any topic, regardless of complexity, easy to understand. He even has a "happy cursor", which reminds me of football quarterback Peyton Manning's feet when he's getting ready to throw a pass. Funny how you can tell when an expert is in the zone. I'm going to put together a schedule to watch a whole bunch of these videos.]
I found that the best way for me to internalize a particular subject in hard science is to follow its history by reading the original papers. It's a hard way to do it, but it helps you understand the motivation, the progression of ideas, and the rigor that went into it. Anything else doesn't quite work for me - I feel like I "sort of" understand, but five minutes after I close the textbook (or the YouTube video) the understanding goes away with it.

I watched some of these lectures - they're excellent, but a bit too hand-wavy. Without getting through the rigor there's no hope to gain a complete understanding of the subject matter that stays with you forever.
Playing games in class
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To counter my own points being made in this thread ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058361

Here is an item about using games in class. I note, in my own defence, that they are not being used as motivation to study math (or anything else) but are being used as vehicles for the material being studied. To my mind there is a big difference. I'm all in favor of using games to carry lessons. I am less convinced that the majority of kids would see the games as motivation to study math.
One point Schneier made is about the "generational gap" in technology. But I think this is wrong - I left this comment:

The real divide is between people who are comfortable with technology and those who aren't. The divide is sharper now for several reasons: first, higher technology is harder to understand so fewer are intellectually capable. Second, even formerly high technology requires effort and fewer seem to be making even the effort to understand how basic electricity and automobiles work, how many people now routinely change their own oil or really do any other maintenance on their own cars (which was normal in the 1970s). Finally, the US (and probably other Western countries) have been picking up the aristocratic and Hispanic disdain for people who do manual work (see the chapter on Feynman's visit to Brazil in "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!" for how this attitude can screw up even academic physicists).

Learning to use the technology, more or less by rote, is not the same as understanding it. And I have seen no evidence that people who routinely use the Web and its accretions actually understand it any better than they do cars or electricity.

Those of you who are younger may not realize quite how things have changed since the 1970s. The majority of men I knew then usually changed their own cars oil, and often did a lot of their own maintenance work. How many of the people that use computers now know anything about how they actually work, can do any programming, or understand the basics of internet routing or how viruses and other malware infect their computer? Judging from what I have read on HN and the Daily WTF even many, maybe most, so-called computer professionals don't understand what they are doing.

Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1056904
Looks rather complex. Based on hypergraphs which are generalizations of graphs, and are difficult to draw on paper. Haskell of databases?
What's neat about this is that it essentially takes a skill, and packages it up, and allows anyone who can turn a wrench to do the same job with extremely minimal training.

Not enough Marines in the motor pool to fix all the broken trucks? No problem, augment them with some cooks.
Well at least we still have Go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go
I would consider it anti-religion rhetoric, not anti-God. How strongly can one oppose something they don't believe exists? And which god exactly would he be opposing?
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You're being modded down as that's not a complete sentence, but yes, since there's a standard (PEP 8) stating that spaces are preferable to tabs, and that indentation should be 4 characters, and all modules I've seen use that standard, tabs are indeed looked upon as being bad in Python.
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They got rich digging inside themselves, unlocking their entrepreneurs, not digging for oil. They took responsibility. They got rich by asking: "How do I improve myself?" Not by declaring: "It’s all somebody else’s fault. Give me a handout."

When I look at America from here, I worry. China is now our main economic partner and competitor. Sure, China has big problems. Nevertheless, I hope Americans see China’s rise as the 21st-century equivalent of Russia launching the Sputnik satellite - a challenge to which we responded with a huge national effort that revived our education, infrastructure and science and propelled us for 50 years.

Well, what is our national project going to be? Racing China, chasing Al Qaeda or parsing Harry? Of course, to a degree, we need to both race China and confront Al Qaeda - but which will define us?
This is really nice. We are going to try it for hard-to-reproduce browser issues in one of our apps.

Feature request: Could you add some meta-data to the notification email with user-agent info? Would be nice to get browser, OS, screen res, js and flash support, and anything you can get about network properties (DSL, dial-up, hostname and location, etc).
A great gesture by Senegal, In the age where countries are killing innocents over Land, there is a country in this world which is voluntarily donating land.
I personally think Israel should learn a thing or two from Senegal and put an end to Mid-eastern crises.
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Ask HN: quality (open preferred) book indexing software?
I have two walls of bookshelves filled with books I've collected over the years. I'm a bit of a book hoarder, so any subject I come across that I find interesting usually ends up with a book purchased. I have well over five hundred at this point.

Problem is, our house is rather small, and my wife is interested in reclaiming her breakfast room (aka my office).

Ideally, diybookscanner.org would be farther along and I'd scan them all to files. I'd give just about anything to have digital versions of all these books. Sadly, I don't think it's possible or feasible in my time frame.

So, I play to buy a shed, place my books in plastic, labeled bins, and store them away. The problem is, I'm a technologist and developer, and I can never be sure what books I'll need on a given night. I think I can keep a 5-10 book rotation going and be ok, but I need to be able to find and retrieve the books quickly.

Years ago, when I had a few of the misguided but cool CueCats, there were a few projects out there to let you scan a book's bar code, retrieve its data from Amazon, and store it in a database. I'm hoping some of you can point me to similar solutions today. Ideally, it'll let me scan the barcode, retrieve and store the book's data, and tag it in certain ways (Bin A, Bin B, etc). It'd also have decent search capabilities.

Finally, I'll need either a way to use my iPhone as the barcode reader itself, or suggestions for an affordable reader I can purchase.

Thanks for any help you can provide!
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