skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They desperately need to turn this into an auction system so only the best candidates get chosen. It is also tough for those of us who have to work with sub par H1B candidates and clean up their mess.
That was a reference to the original article, sorry.
Yes

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Information from resource:// is leaked, including the fact that I'm using Firefox, the platform, the browser's language (not just the content of the Accept-Language header), and whether or not I was using Tor Browser Bundle.
Don't know about KIK, but Shopify has a large development office in Toronto near King and Spadina.
Restaurants in Germany as well. When you ask them why they don't accept cards, they usually say something like "I don't like government surveillance" and you know whats up.

Some countries in the EU started requiring cash registers and receipts and some merchants were able to make some quite good revenue improvements in the month they were introduced :)
I like to develop with Ionic. It abstracts so much pain from a developer, especially given that you need one developer to put together an app that works on Android, iOS, desktop and (hopefully soon) Windows Phone, versus at least four different developers.
20 bucks says it won't.
Lets think about this on an even smaller scale: Individual abusive relationships. Given the degree of individual suffering they inflict and the degree of societal harm and crime caused when children grow up in an abusive environment, I strongly suspect that it is worth investing significant resources. Also, it may be that the same principles of justice and conflict resolution that apply to this problem can then be scaled up to larger problems.

On Earth, when we see someone in an abusive relationship, our solution is to provide them with resources that allow them to exit the situation. As this essay explains, that is not an option in space. How then can we prevent long-running abusive relationships (romantic or otherwise) in space?

Some lines of thought:

0) More clear-cut definitions. One problem in conversations around verbal/emotional abuse is that it is not very well-defined. You can easily find lists of "signs that a relationship might be abusive", but it is hard to have a discussion around the trade-offs to make in preventing a phenomenon when not everybody can agree on when something is actually an instance of that phenomenon.

1) Filtering: It may be that the most effective thing we can do is just to screen for people who have habits of abusive behavior. Given that both false-positives and false-negatives are costly, what are some good classifiers with a low error rate?

2) A conception of abuse-adjacent (or reckless) phenomena: Drunk driving does not directly kill or injure anyone. However, it has such a high risk of causing traumatic injury that the law punishes people for it nonetheless. Are there habits that have such a high probability of developing into abuse that we should prohibit them under some category of interpersonal recklessness?

3) Better tools for detecting and changing situation-triggered habits: A person's habits can be dramatically different in different physical settings and in different dyads of people. This makes doing #1 before a mission more difficult. It also means that if a crew notices #2 (and using #0, convinces the person it is a problem), the person can work on training different habits in one simulated situation and then copying those over to real life.
Modern web browsers are VMs. They are for GUIs what the JVM is for server software. I don't blame developers for moving towards using VMs everywhere.

It's really a huge loss for the JVM that it couldn't do what browsers did. I guess the server-money kept rolling in and they local-optimized themselves themselves into bad security (for running untrusted code) and a hopeless end user experience. It really shows the strength of open standards with competing implementations.
Puppies growing in open fields sounds adorable. But in all seriousness, no those activities do not generate "liquid cash" (if anything they're more likely to use physical cash as storage and withdraw it from circulation) and even if there was a plausible mechanism by which it could help US banks, the size of it is very small potatoes compared to the woes encountered in 2008.
They also just invested in a huge space (King Portland Centre) that won't be built until 2019.
A prediction market needs to have very concrete events that can be unambiguously paid out. I don't think we have one for science. If we did have such a metric for "when a scientist was correct", we could just use it directly. It isn't that useful for a prediction market to only work on multi-decade bets, plus one would have to consider the second-order effect of giving the original consensus position an even bigger monetary stake in maintaining dominance.
Girocard is cheaper than anything that could be used in the UK. I don't know the UK situation in detail but I would be surprised if there are merchants paying less than 0.3% for some transactions which already is double of what the large German stores do.
OMG. From the linked article:

Morgellons successfully lobbied members of the U.S. Congress
and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
to investigate the condition in 2006.[4][9]

You know your political system is broken when....
The main complaint I have heard from Toronto entrepreneurs is the difficulty of raising capital. You pretty much have to get on a plane to raise a series A, apparently.
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Many (not all) banks have requirements to keep your account free. Number of debit card transactions/bill pay, minium balances, direct deposit requirements, etc.

"Going to your banks ATM" isn't very convenient 99% of the time unless you never leave town. You end up going to the closest ATM. Especially if you are on foot.
I agree. There's certainly a continuum for the desire to be around others. kstenerud is very much at the extreme. But he's not the only one, and there's nothing at all wrong with that.
The issue with string theory isn't an inability to explain what standard QM can explain, it's the problem that so many formulations of it may not be falsifiable. Making predictions along aside another falsifiable, real theory, without offering falsifiable predictions yourself... that's where String theory finds itself for the most part.

There are still some formulations that haven't been ruled out by observations such as LHC data, but not many, and they're not necessarily the ones that were anyone's darlings.
Even my personal email goes to a GApps account, grandfathered from when it was free for individuals.
"I was going to paste the strace output of what gdb is actually doing, but it is 20 megabytes of system calls."

I think this is why you shouldn't run this on production server itself. Each call is very resource intensive on the production server.

I believe the right way to analyze memory is to use "gcore", dump the memory, download it to the local machine's VM instance that's running the same OS as the production using scp. Also download the same ruby binary that production is running, and use gdb on the VM to analyze memory dump.
It sounds like the Catharsis Hypothesis, which states that the release of aggression in small ways prevents large expressions of aggression. This has been rather thoroughly discredited. Small displays of aggression (e.g. ranting online) train an individual that aggression is an appropriate response, and leads to larger displays of aggression (e.g. physical attacks).

Source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/PSPB02.pdf
http://blog.uwgb.edu/alltherage/four-questions-on-the-cathar...
The thing is, all of those benefits to you come with hidden costs. Those costs will almost universally be dumped on the merchants, because the large payment services take advantage of their dominant position to set horribly one-sided terms.

In practice, that means you're paying more to the merchant, possibly quite a lot more in some cases. That 1-3% rebate is going to translate quite directly into a 1-3% increase in sticker price. That lack of liability if your card is lost or stolen is essentially a mandatory insurance scheme with everyone paying a premium on sticker price to fund it.

It's really no different to, say, all those offers to buy something on-line but then return it for a full refund if you don't like it. In industries like clothing, a significant fraction of customers will abuse this by doing things like buying some nice clothes, actually wearing them once or twice, and then trying to return them. Often the return will be accepted even though the merchant knows very well that the clothes have actually been worn and they can't restock them, because it's too much trouble to argue the point. The bottom line is that if you're that abusive customer then the refund deal is great for you, but everyone else is paying higher prices for your clothes to cover the merchant's wastage due to abuse.

Of course there are other advantages to digital payment in terms of keeping records of what you spent (and potential disadvantages in terms of privacy if others have access to those same records) but to me that's a separate issue to the direct financial implications of paying by different methods.
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> Following an evaluation of credit card transaction fees in Canada and the rest of the world, we have concluded the fees applied to Visa credit card purchases remain unacceptably high.

> (...) requires us to keep costs as low as possible.

Sounds pretty to-the-point to me. Remember that for 'budget' stores and chains the bottom line should translate directly to customer benefit (ie. lower price).

An added anecdote: I've run a startup with high-priced goods/services with low profits and card expenses are a huge PITA and will cost you a considerable amount of money.
Good instincts. The word 'Morgellon' in turn reminds me of Scientology. I hate to betray a bias here, but I wonder what percentage of that group are or were fairly religious? I know someone like this, and they were heavily involved with their church (Christian).
Many business owners prefer cash so they can avoid paying taxes and directly insert the cash into their pocket. Its nearly impossible to trace whereas there is a paper trail left when a credit card is charged.
Not the company, not the pr firm, not the reporter. Security Analyst that's familiar with the research she's doing for the stories.
What if you don't have friends in the city?
Terrible link, why don't you link to a page saying what's so terrible about this proposed law?

Edit: oh my bad, there actually is some content way down the page. Couldn't see it through all the scrolljacking going on. What happened to pages with plain text you could read and scroll through...
> Anyone who is serious about cross platform mobile development, whether it be Xamarin or React, needs to be well versed in Cocoa and the Android SDK.

Then why would I go the Xamarin route in the first place? The whole point is to avoid having to learn both platforms. Personally, I'd rather struggle with two native codebases than to struggle learning an imperfect abstraction that still requires me to learn both platforms.
Default news subreddits currently embroiled in censorship over Orlando shooting
It seems the default www.reddit.com/r/news subreddit, which has 9M subscribers, has been censoring, removing, and locking threads related to the shooting in Orlando.

It will be interesting to see how Reddit deals with this. One of the worst mass shootings in US history, and the main subreddit to discuss the situation is heavily censoring the coverage.

No mention of the shooting on the front page of Reddit currently (9 hours after it started): https://www.reddit.com/ (Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/mMCx5bU.jpg)

Censored megathread (See how many comments have been deleted)- https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/4nql8f/orlando_nightclub_shooting_megathread/
Most of these arguments boil down to things that benefit the developers, but not the user.
The shooter was an registered democrat[1], Muslim and his father said that his son got "angry" when he saw two men kissing[2].

So it's OK now, just a cultural misunderstanding. Islam is religion of peace.

[1] http://voters.findthedata.com/l/28019600/Omar-Mir-Seddique- Mateen

[2] https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/742007747349188608
Waterloo is arguably part of greater Toronto. The local commuter service (Go Transit) reaches all the way to Kitchener-Waterloo.

I say "arguably" because it's a two-hour train ride each way, which is pretty brutal.
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is this the secret behind the FBI's apparent tor fingerprinting ability they have been parallel constructing around lately?
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Well, they're more ergonomic because you can align your hands with your arms, instead of twisting your hands at an angle. This is a matter of fact. You are entitled to prefer a flat keyboard -- that's entirely your choice -- but it doesn't change the ergonomic reality.

> Besides, people also use laptops and may not want to swap their keyboard.

Laptops are not ergonomic, and nobody who knows the facts will use them for long periods for precisely that reason. However, you can make them less damaging to your health by putting the laptop on a riser and using an external keyboard.
I'd say it's a difference in desire, although I'm sure there's some amount of denial out there ("I'm not lonely, I'm just solitary")

If you want human interaction but don't get it, that's loneliness. If you truly don't want it to begin with, that's solitude.

If you don't want human interaction but get it anyway, that's hell (to an introvert, anyway).
People aren't willing to make their politicians accountable. It's always the other person's fault, the other side's extremes; never their own.

You've got Clinton running an email server exposed to the world as secretary of state, ignoring warnings about it and then lying about it. Yet she will probably end up getting elected because it's all a "Republican conspiracy". Meanwhile, Trump is calling a judge's ruling into question about his if not fraudulent, largely worthless "university" due to their race. Then there's Bernie who refuses to acknowledge any extremes of socialism. Oh, yes, and then there's the Lt. Gov. from my state Tweeting a statement like this after the worst mass shooting in US history. It's either sick or incredibly tone deaf:

"A man reaps what he sows." [0]

Knowing his stances on Muslims and the LGBT community, it's not clear what he's referring to.

This is a sickness and the modern tech industry is directly responsible. We are creating echo chambers. There is endemic corruption and misinformation at all levels. Will we do something? We used to have big dreams, even if the reality on the ground didn't live up to them. Now we just Tweet.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Texas-Lt-Governor-Dan-Patr...
If they only knew the real, actual surveillance they're under every second of their lives - every call, every packet online, every entrance into public space, every single move from one location to another...

It's scary that we call these people are "paranoid" for thinking people are watching them - mentally ill, even - when the reality may be (edit: is) far scarier than the fantasy.
While they do some interesting analyses, the mindset they express is just horrifying.
A copy of a fake is still a fake.
Wtf? Cannot read anything on a right edge. Performance is irrelevant.
64% of new energy from Solar Power in Q1 is not enough
I would imagine the standard radiologist "reading" of xrays for simple fractures, etc. would be ripe for automation. It's already outsourced halfway around the world in some cases, I believe.
Ideas such as "membership benifits" and "Americans pay more to Americans" seems to create an us vs. them mentality and imply that the us party receive govnt benifits. The idea that country A receives befits over country B can be abstracted to simple free trade theory.

If you abstract a skilled worker to be a countrys "resource" and accept the idea that country A and B can ingage in "trade", than it is easy to see how US h1b style imigration worker laws are basicly tariff. They distort the price to protect domestic, by making foreign more expensive.

David Ricardo (Supply/Demand economist) and many other economists have shown countless times that countrys are better off in the long run by engaging in free trade.

If we removed the worker "tariffs" we would get more engineers, companies would be able to make more / do more. In the end US consumers would be better off by having more/better choices.
I did in my original post, just not to your satisfaction apparently.
The only discussion is a censored megathread, and megathreads dont show up on the main feed.
Who is going to move to Toronto to join the tech scene? If given the choice who is going to choose Toronto over Bay Area or Seattle?

Without it having a massive draw it won't even register compared to Bay Area or even Seattle.
I know all the options I have and I have read everything Dave Cheney (and Rob Pike) has written on the subject. But to quote myself: "there is no way to add instance specific information to errors in a later version of a package".

Once you have decided to use a package level error value (sentinel error as you say), there is no way to change that.

As there is a huge number of such error values in the standard library and also a substantial number of other types of errors like PathError, "there is no general and reliable way to handle specific types of errors".
This has frustrated me to no end. I've given into using WriteAllLines as a work-around.

[IO.File]::WriteAllLines($filename, $content)

(from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5596982/using-powershell...)
The fact that you're using Tor is obvious based on your IP address. I believe TBB uses the same set of defaults for the other parameters across all platforms (i.e. Linux, OS X and Windows users all appear to be using Windows 7), so that fingerprint would be the same for all TBB users (meaning it's not really much of a fingerprint).
RACHEL is the technology developed by World Possible to provide important internet content in contexts with little or no internet access.

Executive director Jeremy Schwartz's elevator pitch:

https://youtu.be/yhAehSQoMl8

World Possible home: http://worldpossible.org/
She's been working with a few security firms for over a year doing research into a few threat groups. I think this was a better story than a simple network tap at a datacenter. In that sense, it probably was handed to her simply because it was different and more relatable.
Fast-schmast, I do not care, cannot read anything at all (chrome on android).
I agree with what you say, expect what you say about the tech industry being directly responsible.
Could you expand a little more on that? I don't really see the connection between the tech industry and the US electorate..
sounds like sense8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense8
The source of self-reported hours which confirms your dogma trumps the other source of self-reported hours?
I don't know if you've ever experienced psychosis, but this story sounds very familiar to those who have. It would be like reporting on people in rehab and writing under the assumption that maybe no one really has a problem with heroin and it would be fine to shoot up just a little bit from time to time.
I thought that was supposed to be Austin? Silicone valley of the prairie or something.
I think the burden is on the person saying, "To mars, very soon!" to explain what they feel has changed, or changing, to allow that to be something other than a one-way, dead-end mission.

If you want optimism for the sake of optimism, Facebook has some lovely mother's groups.
As someone who has tried to use screen readers in the past (I had quite bad dyslexia as a kid), I do find it impressive that people can program with them (screen readers more than stumble when trying to read code). In the end I only really used them to proofread my writing, and still do occasionally.

With regards to disability (I injured my knee a few years ago and use crutches to get around): It is amazing how people assume your brain is somehow also effected by and treat you differently. You see the best in people (the kindness) and the worst in people (those who either pretend you're invisible or will literally push past you to try and get the last seat). I actually find it's a pretty filter to save me time dealing with superficial people.

The worse part for me is dating, those few seconds when they first see the crutches. Especially when the date's going well and then you have to get up. Sometimes you recover, sometimes you don't..

There's also term for disabled people (don't downvote me, I didn't invent it!) a 'supercrip' - A disabled person who works hard to overcome his/her disability. While it may not be the most flattering term, it is prefixed with the word super!
Clearly you've never written an isomorphic app because your first paragraph is just outright wrong.
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You've misunderstood what this library does. You do not need a third-party package to reliably get error stacks. You can get stack traces from any point in a program --- for errors, or for performance monitoring, or anything else --- any time you want in Go, which is probably the reason they're not attached to errors by default.

Go errors are not exceptions.
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Perhaps we should continue this by email - you can contact me at infinity0@debian.org

> Debian moves to slowly [..] My counter argument is that we want to expand Sage's user base [..]

Beyond that - "too slowly" applies only for "Debian stable"; and users that are OK with less stability can use "Debian testing". Usually this is quite bug-free; things only enter testing if it's been in "Debian unstable" bug-free for 5-10 days.

It's also much easier to get your software into Ubuntu, if it's already available in Debian testing/unstable - and that would likely expand your user base quite a lot.

> some of the upstream dependencies of Sage refuse to accept patches [..] [we could] maintain Sage-specific forks of that software [..] swappable with the originals via update-alternatives if possible [..] [or] completely replace and rewrite [it] [..]

Yeah, the situation is complicated. We could try different approaches for each dependency too, and perhaps some of them will change their mind. Debian does (on purpose) make it quite high-cost to maintain forked packages, in the sense that we would have to argue our way through many layers of admins of different systems, to incentivise us to get patches accepted upstream.

When you have time, could you write up the details of the situation on your end? Something similar to the wiki page I posted earlier - or you could also just edit that directly, if you wish.
But, surely, if it's a GitHub Gist, it's fine?
The game's author Lucas Pope compares the new dithering with blue noise here : https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121719...

Visually Werness algorithm is the best, and Pope concludes: "What Werness built is a hybrid between noise thresholding and progressive error diffusion... he's turned the algorithm inside out - instead of spreading one pixel's error to its neighbors, each pixel sucks up the error of its neighbors... this affects a diffusion of the errors. "