skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that voice calling is almost free even internationally and you can email your parents at anytime, I do not know why this would be a useful service? Calling someone or writing a letter or even emailing directly has a more personal touch than using a service like this which emails your relatives to write about their life.
I disagree. The community decides what the community will be, and there's nothing wrong with asking for someone to keep the level of discourse to something above that of jokes a 12 year old would make.

I'd rather the community decide not to be the kind of place where novelty (mildly sexist) usernames are common. The conversation suffers when cheesy jokes are the norm. There are places and times for those kinds of things; many subreddits are totes down for "pm_me_X" novelty accounts. Take it there.

I'm not saying jokes are wrong, but there's a reason the cheap joke and image meme is discouraged here. They tend to rise above the deeper comments, because they're quick and easy to digest, and so get a lot of upvotes because of it. But, as a community, we're deciding to favor the deeper comments...even at the expense of missing a few jokes and image memes in these conversations. If that kind of selection doesn't suit you, there are many places that don't impose those guidelines.
Stairway to Tax Heaven – ICIJ
I remember building a subscription system back around 2009-10. Very few of the tools available now existed back then, and things were much less efficient. Or at least that what it seems like looking back. The service targeted competitive gamers (teenagers, early 20s) and I've always suspected that we had to deal with a higher incident of attempted fraud than would be the case with other audiences.

If I never again have to deal with a situation where some kid 'borrowed' mommy or daddy's credit card, I'll die happy. No amount of fraud detection can prevent that situation.
> I won't even get into the impact on stockholders who buy the stock to, in general, make money with their investments not for social issues.

Several years ago, in response to a request that Apple commit to only agree to measures that wouldn't impact the bottom line, Tim Cook told an activist investor "If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock." (It was in response to a question about Apple's environmental stance, but Tim likened it to a request to ignore accessibility issues.)

If I disagree with Paypal's disagreement, I'm free to withdraw my investment and go to a company that will ignore social issues.
They probably sent the picture in the first place.
The new C7 'vette is leaps and bounds ahead of the previous generations. It's not the same as you might expect from other performance vehicles in terms of fit and finish but it is quite a bit better than what they used to produce and you'd be hard pressed to find a better bang for your buck.

With that said, I personally chose to spend more for a very boisterous German muscle car...
Why did you guys choose Ceph instead of OpenStack Swift? Just curious.
I don't trust crappy companies not to abuse the hell out of that system.
CUDA 8 Features Revealed
Not a response to my question at all.
Prices were already going up a lot in the dot com days.
Would it be possible for Facebook to introduce a backdoor later without breaking the Signal protocol, or alternatively "forking" it while keeping compatibility between their clients?
>It amazes me that we can put an SUV sized robot on Mars but Cadillac can't make a car the bumper doesn't fall off of.

You realize that your Escalade would cost millions of dollars if it were produced to the same standard as Curiosity, right? It really is amazing that we can put an SUV sized robot on Mars, but aside from approximate volume, Mars rovers really have nothing at all to do with consumer vehicles.
Thank you! I hope it does too.
a phenomenon that is nearly unprecedented

Not at all; people camped out/stood in line to buy Windows 95.

Tesla popularity is a pop culture fad/novelty. Not to say the car isn't a great technical achievement, but these kind of responses have been seen before.
Every salesperson points out flaws in competitive products and claims they're doing it better. I'm willing to bet that HID's sales people can find lots of stuff their competitors do that they are doing better. We just happen to be focused on security here.

not a real feature in this market

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case. It's very likely that since security in an access control product is key (heh!), the customer simply assumes everything on the market is secure.
What if a real users mistypes their credit card number... your order was successful.
That proverb seems to have many origins and variants, including religious roots.
But is idleness really the problem? One can choose to occupy one's mind with better things and even suppress negative inclinations.
Yes, my sense of entitlement is being challenged.
Working now. Strange...I got redirected to 127.0.0.1:8000
If you reduce everything that Lyons is saying that that one quote from the CEO, perhaps the evidence is slim. But if you take the observations he's making together, as a whole, a different picture emerges

I guess I don't see the fact that there's beer in the fridge or that people drink at work as evidence of the CEO's ageism. It seems to be evidence of a relaxed attitude towards alcohol.

Similarly, calling thirty-somethings "old" is...maybe insensitive? I dunno, maybe it's ageist. I'd think it would be hard to say without being there.

Clearly the author feels discriminated against, because his CEO doesn't see how amazing he is at his job. It's definitely his right to feel that way, and who knows, maybe he's right, but in any case I'm not inclined to take his observations as direct evidence of discrimination.
So you're going to make it a web page. How are you going to secure it? How are you going to make sure the website can't go down? How are you going to make sure that the only thing that device is running is the web browser, and that the only page it's allowed is the one to your app?
Moreover, given the fact that Tesla only delivered just over 50,000 cars last year, no matter how quickly Tesla scales it will almost certainly be years before this first week of reservations is fulfilled

Yes, because there's no such thing as production scaling
> agree with this, but I think they are not making a wise choice on the level of quality

The entire premise of the article is about illegal age discrimination- a criminal act, not one of poor judgement. Making bad decisions is not necessarily a crime.
Are these the same two people who got fired from Capital One's Fraud Department because while working there they were using the Capital One database to make investment decisions?

Edit: nevermind, looks like it was these two: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-22/capital-on...

Seems like these two should have been offered a promotion in Captial One's portfolio management division instead!
They were trained to be inquisitive. Silicon valley socializes to not rock the boat.

Boyd FTW.
Whatever. If they can't control their urges, and they sexually abuse people whom can't give consent, they need to be put away.

Whether that is a mental health asylum, prison, or somewhere/somehow else, so be it.

I don't think they should be abused either, as it's a popular trend in the penal system to use rape as an informal deterrent for criminals.
How does this compare with Telegram? Same, better or worse?
What's the best way to do "no immediate feedback" when you're selling something that is instantly delivered? (Site paywalls, for instance.)
The technical term for them is adsorption dehumidifier.

Here is a video of a guy tearing down a typical household unit and he explains the basics of operation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR57FhytzFk
That's what I am thinking. Its taken me my fair share of making crappy choices in the past to know how to make better ones now.
Yes, that kind of "transaction-based" memory management is beautiful in applications where it's appropriate: just leak memory until you're done with the current task, and free it in one chunk. That's hard to beat for performance and simplicity.
I don't think I should be hired to run gender initiatives. Guess I'm a sexist.
Basically Telegram is _nothing_ compared to this.
I thought the issue was that companies acquire say an Irish company and then instead of 35%, they are paying 10% and then instead of paying taxes in the US, they figure out how to move around goods and services to make it look like the profit was territorially gained in Ireland when in fact it was in the US. That is the issue. The greed is typically on the corporate side, more so than the government.
How does this compare with Telegram?
I'm working on an immutable Twitter especially for politicians or predictors. No images but all other features are there. Hoping for a better no bs society :)

HTTP://Writedown.co
I think most people are reading that example and imagining a one-off harsh interaction with someone who doesn't usually snap like that, while the way you describe it:

> how unpleasant social interactions persist and grow into a climate of alienation and dysfunction

is more like someone you expect to be rude to you all the time unless you tell them not to be. If that's not going to happen, then just letting it go could be a reasonable response. There's also the fact that this is being recounted after the fact, which implies not just hurt feelings in the moment but a lasting grudge held over something most people wouldn't be bothered by, which can also be toxic to relationships.

> > You can't delineate a set of criteria for when to take a statement said to you "personally".

> Sure i can. When it affects you, personally. People who disagree with me can't come up with a set of criteria.

Fair enough. Everyone takes offense at different things. But if your threshold is set so low that interactions that most people wouldn't find "uncomfortable or harmful" are "unacceptable" to you, then any interaction with you becomes difficult, and that difficulty will drive people away and alienate you.

That's how you're coming across here, and that's why people are suggesting you try to change yourself, change the way you view these interactions, instead of just insisting that everyone else change to accommodate you. "Don't take it personally" doesn't mean "don't react to things that bother you", it means "don't let it bother you". For things that have no ill intent and don't bother most people (even when it's directed at them), that's good advice.
His party and also their coalition party are trying to keep the parliament together because if it gets dissolved then it's likely the pirate party will win in an election, so they're trying to avoid that.
Twitter Wins NFL Deal to Stream 2016 Thursday Night Football
I'm hoping they deploy some from of key transparency. E.g. CONIKS or CONAME, the version Yahoo and Google are working on for e2e that already has a productionish grade sever and client[0]. Either that or give the community a practical reason why it can't be used as is, and then we can start working on alternatives.

[0] https://github.com/yahoo/conam
Don't forget Ricochet†, it only does synchronous communication but it does solve the problem of leaking meta-data. All the other clients except Pond leak meta-data.

† https://ricochet.im/
Quit bringing up the Renaissance Society of America!
I wrote a Space Invaders applet in Java back in 1997. It was multi-threaded.
> you probably earned that money in large parts due to the support of the people and infrastructure of the United States. You don't get to drop your duties once you win big.

i agree. the american people and their infrastructure owe their existence to the british crown.

so, anytime you can send that check, that would be great.
Would you want to work at a company which has a bullet point "some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women"? That one struck me as particularly egregious. If you said that completely out of context, the average person is going to picture this coming out of some chauvinist white male. Ironically, it's coming out of people aiming for "diversity".

Even in context, apparently the background is an article called the "Trouble With White Women" (http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2014/01/28/trouble-white-wo...). It's hard to take seriously this article when it pretty much begins with the well known "friend argument" used by racists everywhere (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Friend_argument).

While these people may be discussing some legitimate biases, countering racism / sexism with reverse racism / reverse sexism is completely wrongheaded.
> The unix principle works quite well for stuff like grep/find/awk but there is just now way you could make GIMP follow the unix principle.

It seems that the unix principle is most relevant when compiling a C program takes too long and no interpreters exist that are fast enough. So, you figure out all the higher level functionality that you will need for system administration and compile that long before needing to do any sysadmin work. When a problem arises on a system, you can write a shell script that uses those already compiled commands, instead of writing a C program and waiting for it to compile. If your initial code sucks, you don't have to debug and recompile; you just debug and re-run the script.

Compiling C programs is now substantially less time consuming, so you could use C for sysadmin work (shudder). C shell was perhaps a similar attempt to get the benefits of C, but without the downside of compilation times. I seem to recall some essay on the harmfulness of using csh, so C will continue to keep its place.
Would love to be able to use my GitHub username on GitLab as well. Currently occupied by a dormant user with zero activity over the last 10 months, no repos except a fork of GitLab CE and no added commits to it. Of course I don't know if he has private repos or not.
@dang I'm sorry for this. Please understand I was inebriated when I posted this comment, but I will always appreciate your work and if you ban me for the following comment, I understand.

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syste - I love you man. You are an amazing CEO. Your company does great work and has a great product. I always become so happy when I see you actively responding to the comments here. You are a role model CEO.

Something so many companies overlook is actually listening to their users and taking their feedback seriously. I love you man, if you wrote an autobiography I would buy it. Congratulations to you and your team.
From what I can tell, the main difference between this and what Signal was using as of December is:

- WhatsApp uses AES-256 instead of AES-128 (both are CBC mode)

- WhatsApp uses HMAC-SHA-256 instead of HMAC-SHA-1

I think everything else is the same. (I need to re-read the Signal Protocol specification later today to make sure.)
I always think that too, although I can't be the only one who has used HID prox tags in virtually every company I've ever worked for, virtually every datacenter I've ever visited, etc...
> Yeah I was just talking to an employee of a CC fraud prevention company and that was my thought: they proudly talk about how they can identify fraud and refuse the transaction, when my question was, why not just look like you're approving the order and then follow it right to the fraudster?

You can get disposable physical addresses as well.

It is part of why some companies flag a mailing address I use as a fraudulent order. I primarily use it to avoid handing out my RL address on domains that don't allow whois protection.
Is there any documentation on the old custom protocol?
Here in Minneapolis, Lyft seems more popular among my crowd, but people still use "Uber" for the verb a lot. Like at least once a week I hear some variation on:

Person 1: "Are we ubering to the game tonight?"
Person 2: "Yeah, I'll call a lyft in like 10 minutes"

Which to me is really interesting from a linguistic standpoint. (Both that Uber became a verb so quick, and that it is becoming a generic term already). Incidentally, I've heard people say "lyfting" as well, but that always has referred to getting an actual Lyft, whereas "ubering" seems to refer to both just fine.
I have a website that processes a fairly small number of monthly credit card transactions, 1-4 per day. However, it didn't take long for the website to be used as a place for requests, mostly from Vietnam, to check the validity of CC numbers. It cost me a lot of money in chargeback fees.

I ended up implementing a system using Braintree to do
1) Request an AUTHORIZATION for the amount
2) If the AUTHORIZATION fails, return the error (sounds like I need to change this part, but how to do it without hurting legitimate users?)
3) Send information, including IP and email address, to minFraud
4) If the minFraud riskScore is >= 20, request a VOID on the authorization request
4b) If the riskScore is low, submit a REQUEST SETTLEMENT on the AUTHORIZATION

This has worked extremely well, but a few still slip through the minFraud check.

Even though Braintree offers it's own fraud checking, I still feel more comfortable with minFraud. I really wish that processors like Braintree would put more effort into fraud detection.

I NEVER have this issue with PayPal transactions. Even if it's fraud, they just reverse the transaction and there's no chargeback fee.
Apple is in a unique position to do that because of the cash that they are throwing off now and their popularity. That was not always the case with Apple (as you are aware) and also is not typically the case with your average corporation. When you are riding high there are many things you can get away with.

> If I disagree with Paypal's disagreement, I'm free to withdraw my investment and go to a company that will ignore social issues.

If you are a long term investor and if the stock is not trading at a good point for you that may not be possible. Let's assume you have a large position in the stock and it has lost money since you bought it as only one example.
It sounds like that Icelandic PM is a complete jerk who deserves everything that has happened to him. Obviously not putting the country first.
My examples should have been more national such as the military, our National Parks and all of the national institutions that provide public goods that we share in like the FDA, NASA, etc. Even then though, don't local and state projects often tap into federal matching grants such as for major infrastructure projects?
Amazon API Gateway Custom Authorizer and OAuth
Já ég veit. Það var bara spaug. :)
If you're like me and wondering what the title refers to - it's a play on an old Ford commercial - "It's a Ford"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-YO5gzw6xg
Ecgo.
Why?

"Axolotl" at least has seriously pronunciation issues so I am glad it is not used "user-side".
Thank you for your kind words. Two funny things:

1. We're now at Git Merge http://git-merge.com/ and I'm looking forward to presenting at 4pm Eastern.

2. I said it was merged but Douwe used our Merge when build succeeds. A HN reader commented about a mistake and I was able to fix it in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/79d6513f360d7... Thanks Greg!
More like, they'd do CP and run a node in the background as an afterthought just to cover.
You check the card number via the Luhn algorithm, and tell them about it? That's not giving any data to fraudsters.
not mac specific, but magit[1] is just extremely useful and fast/easy to use. Some times even if I'm not using emacs to code, I just open it to commit/work on git.

[1]: https://magit.vc/
Instaparser API
You're absolutely right, you could do this yourself. In practice though, I've found that people really like the questions we suggest, and the fact that we automatically send the questions, reminders, etc. It just makes things easier, and therefore more likely to happen.

As for the personal touch, the question is really just a prompt to trigger a meaningful conversation which might otherwise not have happened.
What is a shell company?

Because most of them are obviously shells, but if you want to outlaw something, you must define it first, and if you don't want your law being used to persecute whoever the police/government wants, you'd better have an objective and clear definition.
Wow, the described feature set sounds pretty good. I'll definitely look into this.

However, I will say the demo is a bit odd. It's pretty much impossible to look at the code diff because there are comments everywhere. And the code diff appears to default to not actually showing a diff (the left and right diff bounds are both set to the latest version), which is especially confusing when it shows side-by-side since it's showing the same revision on both sides.
Agree, it works in some places, but in dense cities with a lot of driving and traffic idiosyncracies a driver who's reliant on turn-by-turn is frustrating as all hell.

It's part of why I've started using Ubers a lot less - their driver churn seems high and there are a lot of new drivers who just don't know the lay of the land, and here in NYC that's pretty critical.

A driver leaning on a GPS unit to get around is the difference between missing the Manhattan bridge on-ramp on the Brooklyn side 3 times in a row vs. getting back into Manhattan at a reasonable hour :P True story, that one.
There was a recent Planet Money show on this topic.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/30/472452808/episo...

I was interested to hear the example they had for a legal reason:

JOFFE-WALT: But again, Daniel and David emphasized they do not help people launder money or do anything illegal with offshore entities. There are lots of legal reasons to have companies like these. They would repeat again and again as we spend time with them. For instance, they said, imagine, you know, you have a international T-shirt making company, and you have investors from Canada and Mexico and China, all over the world. So sure, you could set up your company here in the U.S. But if you do that, then the Canadian and Mexican and Chinese investors, they all have to file tax paperwork in the U.S. And sometimes it's just easier to set up the company offshore, have the company file all the paperwork. You know, the same amount of taxes gets paid, but ultimately, it's just less paperwork for all the investors.
People can go to high school and become interns at their 50-ties.
Forcing everyone to build parking makes building more expensive (http://www.thestranger.com/news/feature/2015/07/29/22612207/...) and spread out (google "parking crater" for examples, e.g., http://www.gcpvd.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/parking-cris...) which makes it harder to walk, bike, and take public transportation, which causes more people to drive, which causes more need for parking.

Parking your car costs money. People should pay to use it if they need it, but the rest of us shouldn't have to. Right now, drivers are subsidized.
In his position, I would immediately cease operations after that police software was used on the system. Resume operations only after restoring from a clean backup taken prior to the raid.
> WhatsApp has no way of complying with a court order demanding access to the content of any message, phone call, photo, or video traveling through its service

Unless the NSA/FBI/CIA secretly orders WhatApp to release compromised app update with a backdoor.
This was my understanding too. All parts of the world pay a "Licensing Fee" to the Irish company worth almost all of the profit on the good/service, and now all income is made in Ireland.
TSA's $1.4M App Takes About 10 Minutes to Build
4 downvotes for stating an informational fact
And twenty years of doing CRUD in COBOL with no source control

Just curious, are bringing up the 20 years of COBOL with no source control because that was your manager's background?

Or is that your impression is of what the typical older tech worker has under their belt?
Thanks. I was about to go with customer.io for a new client project but I'll have to check this out first.