skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 10% cut wouldn't be $100. It sounds like each person ran about 140(!) transactions, maxing the withdrawal on each one. That's 14 million yen per person or about 127,000 usd. 10% would be 12,700. Still possible that this happened but my guess is it was yakuza given the coordination and manpower.
This a south/east/south-east asian thing, not specific to japanese. You will find the same in vietnam, korea, cambodia, thailand, taiwan, ...
This is called systems research, a lost art in the US, but still very important if you want to write complex systems as as they do in CERN. By the way, that's why C++ was designed in the first place.
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He may have broken the law by possessing it, but that's not the same as "playing cop". What he actually did doesn't change according to the jurisdiction, only its legal status.
We'll probably throw all the data up on appsight.co site and let folks do the filtering themselves. Sign up on the site now and we'll alert you when we launch for Beta.
It'd be worse to have the radio quiet zone and not let them live there.
"I am worried about my stuff getting stolen"

I've spent some time on trains in the equivalent of the 3rd class, and its just not an issue. Most people assume if you were wealthy you'd be on an airplane, so unless you're showing off cameras and laptops and phones (or jewelry?) they'll assume you're a crazy and/or poor hippie and have nothing to steal. Third class type lodging requires prioritization... you don't put your passport and wallet in checked luggage on a rack somewhere, you put your dirty socks in checked luggage and if someone steals your dirty socks you buy new socks at the next stop. Local clothes are often pretty cool to take home anyway. I lost a shirt once in Mexico (or was it stolen?) and it was actually pretty cool. Also if you are in 3rd class and you're sleeping on your wallet and your loot is in a backpack with your leg thru a strap, the entire coach PLUS the attendant has to be in on it if some dude starts going thru your package between your legs or your pockets under your butt while you sleep, so if you don't wake up someone is likely to say something unless you've implemented extreme levels of ugly american protocol. I never carry souvenirs past a post office. The annoyance of using the post office helps eliminate useless clutter too.

If you are in a private room with a kleptomaniac in 2nd class there's really nothing you can do about it other than just hope it doesn't happen. It probably won't. Everyone else is worried you're the kleptomaniac axe murderer, you know.
I'll add a link to this epic story over many of the same rails: The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang 윈 - 모스크바 - 두만강 - 평양

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/?m=1
I don't really like talking on the phone and prefer face-to-face interaction. However, experience dealing with retailers (less enlightened than yourself) forced me to conclude that customers using the phone were more important. Too many times, I've had a retailer or receptionist answer the phone in the middle of an interaction.
There was also a good previous post on a developer who lived on cruise ships for about $1000 a month.

http://tynan.com/cruisework

But at the time (3 years ago) WiFi was a problem which meant it is not a good option to many of us who have the freedom to travel but not without internet access.
I see a business case that is orthogonal to privacy. Data that isn't collected/stored can't be stolen and cannot be demanded by court order [well o.k. it can be demanded, it just cannot be obtained]. The latter case of interacting with governments is particularly appropriate to a company of Apple's scale, ambition and global distribution.

The savings from managing legal risks over the long term could easily offset the highest potential valuation of the collected data.
Or you could consider living amidst the Amish; it's a lot cheaper.
You will find it elsewhere in SEA, but the prevalence in Japan is extremely high. I've been in train carriages where 40% of its passengers are wearing them.
Also Hong Kong. I always thought it may be related to population density. Another thing I've noticed in Hong Kong is sanitizing gel dispensers placed pretty much everywhere - corridors in metro stations, hotels, etc. Seems reasonable with the amount of people living there per square meter of space.
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We're doing something like this with lykke.com. Fiat money are implemented as Colored Coins on top of Bitcoin. It has a range of advantages over pure fiat - tracking of issuance publicly, lower settlement times, integration with smart money capabilities of Bitcoin, and more.
I don't think that having existing software is a bad thing. There were loads of DVD ripping packages, but at some point Handbrake came out and was better than the rest. There were loads of screenshoting tools, but at some point Monosnap came out and set the bar high.

Inventing and implementing soothing that is both compelling and has never been done before is really tough. How about instead improving on an existing idea that has not been implemented well?
10 if no_of_max_transactions / hour > 200 then quit

20 goto 10
Thanks, I'll give those a go!
Desktop is for sure at the end of the hype cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle but that does not mean that you cannot make money or not be successful when you write a very good software or you hit a particular niche. And I would not fear Google or Apple, I cannot remember when Google did the last time a rich and good desktop app for end consumers (was it Picasa, the last one?) and the only big professional desktop app I use from Apple (beside the OS) is Final Cut Pro. They (Apple & Google) do not compete a lot on the desktop applications software market.

IMHO it may be even easier in desktop market than in the high competing mobile market where people want everything for free or at very low price.
TL;DR Desktop will not die and there will never be a time were you can say "Everything is done".
Unfortunately Derek Low has a colorful history of plagiarism. He often steals other people's photo without credit.

I had a lengthy back-n-forth with numerous authors and photographers about this very post. You'll see that a few of the photos in the beginning of the post now have "Source: _______" beneath them, this was a last ditch effort so that he could keep the post up.

See the HN discussion last time a Derek Low post was submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10258972
The link points to the middle of the article.
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We had downloaded several 510(k)s early in our process, but found them so heavily redacted that they didn't really give the overview we needed. That's why we worked so hard to redact as little as possible in our own docs. I'll dig deeper into that set of links to see if there are some that have more info in them. Thanks!
No he didn't. Derek Low is a notorious plagiarist; these stories were discredited back when they first appeared on HN and Reddit last year.

http://andystravelblog.boardingarea.com/2014/10/02/singapore...
Zero mention of cryptography on their blog - yikes!
I'll send you the info we have on internal FDA contacts for startups -- they can be extremely helpful.
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That picture wasn't what I was expecting, which was more like this: http://i.imgur.com/Lx6OiIb.png
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> We ended up giving the lower difficulty levels a restricted dictionary anyway, but this was to affect players' perception of the difficulty rather than the actual difficulty (the AI on "beginner" mode shouldn't be playing a lot of words you've never heard of)

It seems to me like a restricted dictionary or smaller time budget (or, for that matter, dumber search algorithms) are all sensible measures of a low difficulty level. Otherwise you're using "difficulty" to mean "difficult for me to program cleverly" rather than "difficult to beat" or "like a human expert".
I wonder if it's possible to get some special ticket that lets you make the trip in separate legs at your leisure? Alternatively — I'm assuming it's possible to buy tickets at any of the stations where the train makes a stop — how large would be the financial overhead, compared to buying a ticket for the whole thing up front?

It would be awesome to take stops in interesting places for as long as you want during the journey.
That's absolutely correct; the goal should be to get an A+. (SSL Labs author.)
I was under the impression that the RSGs were secret until 1963 when an anti nuke campaign group exposed them?

But then, hey, Britain. We have a load of secrets that aren't technically secret but we'd rather you didn't know and would take a dim view of you trying to find out. Especially true during the Cold War (see e.g. Backbone, etc).
I certainly would hate to be watched all the time in my job, I don't see why officers should be.

It seems to me that a compromise can be reached.

Probably the rules already exist about reporting the headquarters when they are starting a police action, you just have to add the requirement to start the camera.
Python notebooks rediscovered the past and it is quite good that they did so.

Now imagine if that was the standard way everyone worked by now.
Vulnerabilities.
This was my main concern about how Snowden approached the whistleblowing - it seems that in practice, the whistleblowers got punished heavily for doing their job, so I have to say that I was wrong to question Snowden's methods, and the government needs to reform how it handles whistleblowing.
As long as you don't flash expensive items[1] and work on having a good relationship with your fellow travelers I'd assume you'll be fine. I just did the 12 day trip up the Amazon from the Atlantic coast to Colombia in cattle class (i.e. the whole deck is one giant space for hanging up to 400 hammocks): Nothing got stolen, friends were made even though we did not speak a common language and by the time we got off the boat (12h earlier than scheduled, at midnight, in heavy rain) people who were strangers to each other just a few days ago created ride shares to hotels and poor families were invited to crash on couches or floors in hotel rooms the more affluent had booked.

[1] If you have to, like your camera, just keep it with you all the time.
What was the name of the documentary?
Oh wow, thanks. Is that not him in the photos? Or is he only just plagiarizing the text?
also related to that is the community. not saying it is or is not, but maybe C++ is wonderful for machine learning, but so much of the community is doing it in python and R. i'm probably not likely to find help when stuck writing a histogram kernel in c++ on SO for example
In case anyone wants a tabulated view. https://gist.github.com/mdubbs/41c19c5384ee0386465cff19aa800...
I would think of them more like really big grenade launchers, not true artillery, and in their street fighting capacity it's probably good enough.
The blog isn't quite right. HTTP/2 requires ECDHE (or DHE, but don't do that) with an AEAD, which means one of the GCMs or CHACHA20_POLY1305 if you have it. It's written as a blacklist, but this was the intent.

What's going on is Chrome and Firefox don't do AES_256_GCM (but Chrome will be adding support in the next release, see [1]), which means it was picking a CBC mode cipher and HTTP/2 wouldn't allow it.

SSL Labs is, in my opinion, wrong about incentivizing AES_256_CBC over AES_128_GCM. The CBC mode ciphers in TLS are composed wrong and very very difficult to implement safely. They'll be gone in TLS 1.3.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/security-dev/...
In Turkey a lot of women wear burkas or some variation (depending on the specific religion sub-division). In Greece I've seen people (I might have done it myself) stopping with a motorcycle in the ATM and withdrawing money wearing a helmet and leaving, 90 seconds in total. This can't be done in some ATMs which require you to look at the camera before entering the ATM room[1]. However, that's like 5% of the available ATMs.

[1] In Greece this is illegal. The fact that Banks for years get away with taking pictures without any kind of explicit agreement adds to the narrative that Greece is (officially now) a protectorate and banks are WAY above state where it matters.
I'd rather see !important instead of this. This rule would call for quite a lengthy comment explaining just what in the hell the repeated .flat rules are for, and what other rules it's attempting to pave over such that you know when you need to add a 5th .flat as a "fix'.
It was on RT it looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTE04hyCRBw
Last time I tried Eclipse (2-3 months ago) it wasn't usable on high DPI screens. Have they fixed tat?
Modern gdb does have Python plug-ins, and e.g. I'll get "std::vector of length 3, capacity 4 = {10, 20, 30}" when printing a vector, and "std::shared_ptr (count 1, weak 0) 0x8059e10" when printing a shared ptr. But oh yes, it could be so much better. For instance, often you cannot call methods on template stuff (that is, everything) because 'it may be inlined'
yes, i like the cluttery look because i can arrange the windows in a way that makes sense to me.
Yeah, 'the trade body said fraud via the cards was "extremely low", at less than one penny for every £100 spent.' (bbc)
A modern LAMP app will probably require the latest browser with JavaScript enabled otherwise it will fall flat on its face. It would probably not be accessible at all to users with disabilities, but it would have a beautiful flat design and plenty of tracking and ads which increase the download size by megabytes to display what should essentially be a bunch of text, some images and maybe some forms.

The mobile version would offer half the features of the full version and disable zooming. When you first open the site you get a cookie notification followed by a newsletter subscription notification.

It will be a nightmare to maintain it for longer than a year, because by then most of the JavaScript frameworks it was developed with will have been replaced with newer and better frameworks.
With no particular effort into architecture or scaling, it will run out of resources as soon as a few thousand clients try to access it, but elegantly avoid locked for modification problems by displaying a 404 instead.
When AI can create prize-winning art (literature, art, film) then I will become scared, as the only role left will be consumer.
Fax machines are still present pretty much everywhere, especially in corporations and government facilities. When I've been working in the UK 5 years ago in a large research institution, I had a fax machine next to my desk.

(The only thing it did though was activating once a day and printing out some ads, mostly car dealerships or insurances, AFAIR.)
I see. I remember reading about the Starbucks mobile payment system taking off even though they launched recently, I believe the Summer or fall of last year.
I'm not sure it's population density or at least not that alone. There are parts of the West with comparably high densities, especially in large cities, and covering your face is generally frowned upon.

I suspect that the cultural focus on cleanliness has a lot to do with it, but given that it's Hacker News there may be someone with a more exact idea of the origin.
The reason often varies depending on the Asian country and with varying level of social acceptance. It is not limited to illness (contraction or spreading).

For example, in Taiwan, females will wear the mask to block the sun in an attempt to prevent freckles.

They are also often used to combat pollution. Many choose to only wear while riding scooters, while others any time outdoors.

In some countries masks have become commonplace such that decorative fashionable masks are sold at convenience stores.
This is a bunch of fear mongering to gain readership. We already know people can and will do bad stuff with new technology. There's very little of value to read here.
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And I'm tired of everything being dumbed down to within an inch of its life - filled with introductory noise, or worse, just avoiding complex arguments.

We're all reading this on the internet - if you don't know what a term means it only requires a tiny hand movement and a few seconds to fix that. That way we can have discussions that build on previous abstractions and move on to more complex ideas.

It's a shame that the "arrogant ivory-tower egghead" narrative sticks so easily. It's true that some people use words to obscure, but just as often it's someone trying to say something that's difficult to explain in any other way without ending up with a wall of text.
They don't listen/transmit until you say the hotword right?
This is a bit like asking "Have all good books already been written?"

Maybe all the trivial/obvious/easy ones have but certainly not all the interesting ones.
No, many great developers have their hands full because they have a number of ambitious projects. Certainly some tasks take enormous effort regardless of your technique.

Also, some don't care to write or proselytize.
Yes/no - it's complicated, I just did some research into that trip[1]. TL;DR: No, there are no hop-on-and-off tickets, yes, you can buy tickets at any of the stations but you might be out of luck because it's fully booked, leaving you stranded for a few days.

[1] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway#Ticket...
The best way use case I can think of is to view my own feed anonymously. It’s all public information (whom I follow etc) so I should not need to be auth’d.
I'm probably missing something obvious here, but is there a reason the article mentions this is regards to the Sandy Hook shooting incident? Because there aren't exactly any features here that would have helped much in preventing it, unless you think detecting the shooter's car by the numberplate is somehow going to have made a major difference.

If they really wanted to stop things like school shootings and terrorist attacks, then the robot needs to actually be armed in some way, since no one is going to take this thing as some sort of deterrent.

Really, it seems mostly useful as a sort of tourist attraction rather than anything more, since it's apparently really popular with the people visiting the mall.
Europa doesn't have any clear commercial applications.

Taking the "let's just wait for someone else to do it" approach seems like a recipe for it never happening.
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This is just getting confusing (and ridiculous), I dont' know if you're using long or short scale.

Currency conversion, plus bad editing/title, plus confusion around the short/long scale.
Cool, but I'm having trouble imagining how I'd use it in my workflow.. Is there a demo or something?

I've only used interpreters in MATLAB/R where you have to write one-liners to massage data into the format you need - which seems pretty orthogonal to the way you work in C++
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Like Lucid Energize C++ in 1993 ?

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

Or C++ Builder or C Set++ for OS/2 (might have the name wrong).

If it wasn't for tool vendors having switched their focus from C++ to Java and .NET, until LLVM and clang got created showing everyone what was wrong with their approaches, C++ IDEs might have been much more advanced already, in spite of technical issues with language.
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I am doing just that. A hugely ambitious project, with a very wide potential user base, but I have lost all hope in finding funding at a reasonable rate. I am consulting during the day to pay for what I need, and working on the product at night.
Maybe the best programmer you know is not that great. I'm not disputing that you can have a life and be a good programmer. You must have a deeper level of commitment to be an outstanding programmer.
The natural selection process, when paired with random variation, is a functional optimization algorithm for things that impact survival. Energy efficiency very directly impacts survival. Ergo, life has "optimized" energy efficiency to some degree.

With regards to quantum computing and nuclear fusion, I prefer not to count my chickens before they've hatched. We may get both (and more!) or we may find that they are only functional under specific contexts that limit their utility.
> "All" I have to do is prove that consciousness is supernatural in order to be right.

No all you have to do to be right is not demand impossible proofs of negative statements. The correct answer to a claim that "consciousness is not supernatural" is say it's an invalid claim as it's impossible to prove a negative statement except in maths. Done, simple as that. Negative claims are invalid and ought simply be rejected out of hand. Only falsifiable claims are valid claims, this is basic science, if it isn't falsifiable it's garbage.
Bullshit. The author of this article should see all of the clever improvised things the British planned to deploy if the Germans ever made it across the channel. Take a minute to see what the Vietnamese did with virtually nothing.

At best, this is mindless clickbait, at worst a distraction from important issues.
Someone might very well have said exactly this five years ago. One of your examples, Sketch, has only existed since 2010. In five years time there will probably be some widely known app that didn't exist today.

What are the design and creation tools for augmented reality? Or chatbots or whatever. There will be new niches created, and new ways of doing old tasks discovered.
Thanks! Btw, I think not all your counts are correct. AFNetworking has a count of 6, not 1.
It's because it's been submitted before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3220746
I think designing it after a known cyborg killing machine like a Dalek would make the feeling worse rather than better. Especially in the UK.

That said, a design based on a famous robot or cyborg would be a pretty interesting way to make one of these things fit in at a sci-fi convention or something. It'd at least help theme the event slightly more.
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You're right to point to the long history of improvised weapons, but I'm unsure what point you're trying to make. Can you elaborate?
My opinion on this opinion piece is that it is complete nonsense. I think that we can all agree that any demanding field of study (including even the fine arts like music, dance, and studio art) provides some benefit. Getting up, going to class, meeting assignment deadlines, working with others, dealing with rejection or failure, all are important life lessons conferred by almost any degree perused seriously. But to somehow equate the value of studying literature with studying the large, challenging, deep and abstract field of study that comprises Computer Science as preparation for software development is simply nonsense.

I know kids in their early teens that write programs, so yes, of course there are some folks that study English Lit and end up with programming jobs. English Lit, however, isn't likely to be the best use of one's time in preparation for a good paying software development job.
I was just thinking about this the other day. I'd like to develop something...
Even if you don't want to store your e-mail on Google's servers, a substantial part will live there anyway since you are likely to communicate with people that use consumer Google Mail or Google Apps for Domains.
True, but the poor browser support for connection type and even poorer support for downlink means it cannot be relied on all the time.