skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Visa debit card, at least the one I have, can "pretend" to be a credit card so you can enter it into a credit card payment form same as with an actual Visa credit card. It has worked for every online payment I tried so far. As far as I know, you can't do this with a Maestro card (at least not with mine).

The advantage of that over an actual credit card is security and cost control: I have a separate bank account only for my Visa debit card. This account has overdraft disabled and will bounce payments instead at no cost to me. I keep a balance close to zero on this account. When I want to pay something online, I quickly do a transfer in that amount from my main account to my "Visa account", then pay. This will immediately subtract funds from my account, or the payment will immediately fail if there isn't enough (but there will be as I just transferred it).

This means my card is fraud-proof except in the unlikely case of someone managing to make a payment during the couple of seconds between me pressing transfer in my bank app and pressing pay wherever I'm paying. And even if they did that, they'd be limited to the amount of my intended purchase.
Yuck no.
Personally I really truly believe that once you can make a torrent client in javascript that runs directly in the browser without any plugins or gateways/tunnels that you will see it explode.

Developers will code it into their download pages, decentralized systems like a p2p wikipedia will be possible and always accessible by anyone with a browser.
I chose to learn to code because I was 12 and wanted to make games. I suppose a lot of other developers today were introduced to coding via the prospect of game development, and video games were/are heavily marketed toward male customers. In fact, you start seeing women engineers dropping from software fields at an accelerated pace as consoles and arcades were becoming a cultural norm in the 80s.
You forgot your sarcasm tag.
The article is for lower upper class / upper middle class readers where obviously what the dr writes is what is done aside from questions about "why is money being wasted?". The actual strategy is for making money at the cost of poorer people.

Lets say the name brand is $75, generic is $50. If a poor person gets the generic the insurance company is out $50, well, depending on deductible, etc. If the bureaucracy can be mysteriously blamed for not allowing the generic, at least some percentage of the poor people cannot afford the medication at $75 therefore the insurance company is NOT out $50.

Its merely price based rationing. If you increase the cost of health care, some fraction of the population will be frozen out of the market, just like real estate or car prices or tuition. One of many failures of our current economic system is maximal profit does not coincide with maximal participation rate, some percentage will be frozen out for financial reasons, ranging from not too many like health care, up to most of the population WRT real estate in bubble areas. Eventually once a large enough percentage of the population is alienated and disenfranchised from the system, there will be enough support to burn it all down, until then its the existing slow boil.
If you go running into a burning building, you can't expect your allies to do the same.

We might, but that's on our own volition, not out of any obligation.
That's a technically precise definition that has a boolean-precise meaning, but it doesn't correspond terribly well to what people generally "mean" by the term. Eventually programs people think of as "iterative" will end up with cycles in the call graph simply due to sheer size, rather than the use of any recursive techniques.

You'll probably find that if you try to create a precise definition of what people generally mean, you can't. Since that's my belief, I didn't try very hard. Getting too wrapped up in labels is often an impediment to understanding anyhow; what's important is that there are legitimately two distinct ways of thinking about how to code, and we aren't really that well served by insisting that they can't be labeled because they can't be precisely defined. (Well, more ways than that, of course, but we're discussing two today.)
"I address them to myself"

Is that the relevant part? Haha

I am a mere peasant worthless dumb and powerless. Another gusano.
Perhaps because a lot of content is streamed live?

Streaming wants us to download A, B, C, D just in time.

Bottorrent (simplified) wants me to download piece P, you to download piece G, then I get P from you and you get G from me.

There are Bottorrent streaming apps but they kind of mess with the nature of BT.

OTOH things like RPM/Deb/WindowsUpdate etc it would make great sense.
I for one am glad that corporations are the ultimate arbitrator of what is acceptable political discourse. -s
The funny part to me was that when I graduated, in the early 2000 after the crash, the meme about getting a job in tech was "You need 10 years of experience to get an entry level job".

There was a strong bias for older workers. Eventually people said "fuck it", made their own startups, hired their newly graduate colleagues, and started making a big push about why younger tech workers were better.

Since the pipeline is growing (more and more people are going in tech), new grads around that time easily outnumbered the older ones, and thus the situation we're in now. It's almost a backlash to what happened back then.
They surely do cost money, but you pay it indirectly. Somebody first pays the fees and the card itself, and ultimately you are going to pay.

There are alternatives that are cheaper and work just as fine. Thankfully not every country is already majorly infected by credit cards.
You had me until the "Pricing" section.

The Old Way - Varies, depends on many factors. Requires ongoing investments, hiring developers or integrators

The New Way - GPLv2 license: FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE / Commercial License: CONTACT US

So with Mongoose OS, you don't have to invest, or hire developers? Am I being unfair by thinking that, while the other points make life easier, this is scraping the barrel a bit?

Why not just say "and the price which gets you all of these advantages is.." ?
I'm worried that is has something to do with gut bacteria and our food sources. My girlfriend and I have been experiencing more and more issues managing our emotions and having rational conversations and our current research is leading us towards how the meat industry is operating. It's our hypothesis that we need to get the antibiotics and hormones out of our food supply or this issue of polarization is only going to get worse.
I think your point was already addressed with:

>People's opinion on their coworkers is for private discussions with their manager and HR, and don't get precedence over their colleagues comfort and security at work.
> Two experiments showed that, as predicted, the performance of 4- to 7-year-olds (N = 192) was impaired by exposure to information that associated success in the task at hand with membership in a certain social group (e.g., "boys are good at this game"), regardless of whether the children themselves belonged to that group.

3- to 4-months old is quite a bit younger than 4 to 7 years. I doubt that any kind of group membership awareness can affect the things a baby looks at, especially when the task is so abstract. (Do you think anyone is ever indoctrinated to think that "boys do not look at rotated objects" or some such?)

The study you cite has no bearing on the effect you seem to dispute.

Edit: If it makes you feel better, the Wikipedia page on mental rotation also mentions a different experiment, where they measured reaction times of adults: "Also it was found that the male athletes in the experiment were faster than females, but male and female musicians showed no significant difference in reaction time." So apparently the right kind of training can eliminate the difference.
Haematologist here - your references don't support your argument.

Here is the referenced ASH abstract from 2015 [1]. It doesn't show any statistically significant finding. Even if it did, it is simply an observational study with few patients - there may be other confounding factors at play - you would need a randomised control trial to find out. I doubt that is going to happen. Also it should be noted that all authors disclose receiving payment from Novartis, and there isn't a follow-up paper by the same authors, from my brief googling. Actually, the figure looks very strange - they have an n=11 according to the number at risk along the bottom.

A published paper from Turkey compared 36 on brand versus 26 on generics. They didn't find any differences, but noted this[3]:

Among our patient cohort, the generics were at least non-inferior to the original molecule regarding efficacy and tolerability when used in the upfront setting, as well as when used subsequently (Eskazan et al, 2014). Prospective randomized trials with larger number of patients are needed to address the efficacy of generics of IM in patients with CML.

The chemical structure of imatinib, C29H31N7O isn't that complicated[2]. If a medicine can be proven to contain the same amount of the active drug, particularly when the structure is relatively straight forward, I'm inclined to believe that.

The story is a bit different for more complex treatments (i.e. antibody treatments like rituximab - C6416H9874N1688O1987S44) and for drugs with various preparations (especially inhaled or slow-release versions). In those cases you have to check the active ingredient and formulation - in which case the Brand usually does matter.

[1]http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/126/23/2778?sso-checked=...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib
[3]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjh.12937/full#bj...
Thank you for this comment. I'm an American but have lived abroad for most of the last 13 years in various countries and articles like this drive me nuts. Yes, the US has made a lot of terrible mistakes in our foreign policy, but we have also paid for and ensured (basically unilaterally) the security of free trade (securing shipping routes, underwriting NATO, projecting force against anyone that tried to disrupt international trade). We did this readily during the Cold War because markets were our strongest weapon against the Soviet Union. Now that there is no equal existential threat, we no longer have much motivation for ensuring global security.

When I read shallow reflections like this article, I think, here's a person that judges the wartime decisions of the past in the peace of the present, and submits to the vapid criticism every government levels against the world's boogieman.
Its from the "fermi paradox"[0]. Basically it says that there might not be any other life out there because there is some kind of "event" or "limitation" of life that makes it so that it can only exist for so long, or it is just extremely difficult for life to get past this "filter" (and then there is the question of whether or not that filter is ahead of us, or behind us).

In this case, I was trying to use it to ask if there is some kind of "unsolved problem", inherent limitation or issue/problem with torrent networks that prevents their widespread usage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
REO or real estate owned is the term for a bank holding a property.
A bank is exempt from paying municipal property taxes so they try to hold them until the market rises. If a bank ever sells a foreclosed property they must recognize the difference between the original loan and the sale. A loss factors in to how they must calculate the banks solvency. They have no incentive to put property on the market other than the maintenance fees.

This article seems to be trying to stir the pot of generational warfare. A better Target would be empty houses that banks won't sell at market prices.

http://www.realtytrac.com/statsandtrends/foreclosuretrends/
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No, it's not a design pattern. Yes it likely should be included in the language library.
In Europe, we're facing ridiculously hot summer back where I come from and very mild winters for a few years in a row.

To give an example - parents have a small garden, living in the valley under mountains. Till about 2-3 years back it was impossible to plant outside twice a year like near mediterranean, it was simply too cold for too long. My 90 year old grandparents never ever could do that, now they can. We're facing bugs (ie ticks) which were never there before. Winters moved from +-4 months of solid snowy winter to few weeks of snow and a lot of cold rain. And of course glaciers are retreating at ridiculous rate, ie 10m/year.
Google is under government regulation. They cannot discriminate against others for their opinions of what they say.

>"The source you provide, which is just an opinion, talks only about governments."

This is incorrect. Article 19 is a prominent humans right organization, specifically focusing on Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is also the second source agreeing that you cannot fire someone for what they say.

Here, I'll add a third: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/SDecisionsVol7en... pg 54, Ross vs Canada. This is straight from the UN.
I wanted to implement a distribured imageboard over bittorrent but I quickly realised it's hard to add data after the initial publication, and further to verify it, and the nature of trackers may make it prone to censorship. So I gave up.
Apparently you need to read the Airbnb terms of service a bit more closely:

https://www.airbnb.com/terms#sec14

Under "Prohibited Activities":

"14.1 You are solely responsible for compliance with any and all laws, rules, regulations, and Tax obligations that may apply to your use of the Airbnb Platform. In connection with your use of the Airbnb Platform, you will not and will not assist or enable others to:

...

discriminate against or harass anyone on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age or sexual orientation, or otherwise engage in any abusive or disruptive behavior"
Abiding by one's own moral standards is different from enforcing them on others.

Of course things get blurry in common-carrier-like cases such as marketplaces, ISPs, postal services, etc.
I'm fairly sure you'd have broken the terms of your visa doing that.
But some members of society find homosexuals immoral. "Civilization guidelines" could deprive members of their freedom.

Devil's advocate. Consenting adults should do as they please.
We destroy other nations for no defensible reason. We are what our "founding fathers" warned against.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelRealization
Are you saying that women are too good for plumbing, but men aren't? That's pretty sexist.
Does this post have more comments than any other in Hacker News history? Is there a way to sort threads by most comments?
> GPLv2 license: FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE

This confuses me, the GPLv2 doesn't say anything about commercial use, it merely says that you need to redistribute the source code to anyone that you distribute your software to.

Have they placed additional restrictions on the GPL (which I believe you are prohibited from doing)? or are they just trying to highlight that they are dual-licensing it under a license that isn't copyleft if you pay them (since lots of companies have no-gpl policies)?
I see several problems:

1) what happen if less than 40% want to be in the profession? Are you going to force them to join non-desire careers?

2) does it apply also to bad things? like for example the ratio of men in jail is higher, does it mean we are putting in jail wrong people and leaving women out that should be in jail?

3) will it apply to different minorities? like for example would short people be more selected to play basketball?
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a) to be sure. But I am not advocating for a world without military, this would be an utopia, but not realistic (sadly). I just wanted to point out, that the word 'defense' can also be used to justify a war of aggression.
It really isn't a complex problem. The "misunderstandings" trope is part of the system that allows it to continue. There is a huge difference between being rude to others and being asked to not be rude to others.
You're correct, I misread the source.
No one seems to understand that he is talking about the aggregate.
Also confusing as there is a small mammal that eats snakes called mongoose.
Garlic is simply too common in most cooking to eliminate, so the outcome will be extremely similar with obscure ingredients like lemongrass or papaya or thai chile paste.
How do you think companies work through their own policies or change direction?

Employees write strategy memos all the time.
Also an embeddable http server.
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Were good quality standards maintained when your grandpa started his Sunday routine?
It was said, that's the point. Claim that women aren't as good, is claiming they're stupid. Claiming they don't want it is claiming they're lazy.

It's just trying being polite about it. It's still an irrational bias, no matter how you dress it up.
Given overhead of chatting with coworkers, meetings, planning, hiring interviews, etc., I would indeed expect most programmers just write code productively for 4 to 5 hours and that longer hours don't produce any more value.

My personal experience: for past few years I have been at least as productive as most programmers, while only working 28-35 hours a week. And not all those work hours were spent coding, obviously.

I'd take it a step further: I believe enforcing a shorter workweek makes you more productive. It forces you to prioritize, instead of going off on yak shaving expeditions, it forces you to spend more time thinking upfront, since you can't (badly) compensate by working longer hours. More here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/10/work-life-balance-so...
Yeah this. You can live anywhere in the EU but every member state is free to determine criteria for getting citizenship.
Nobody is taking their freedom. They just don't want to do business with them.
> expecting equal representation is foolish.

That's the part I don't really get. Google clearly desires equal representation (take this as exogenous), and believes it won't happen on its own, so puts these initiatives in place to dig up qualified candidates from currently-underrepresented groups. This doesn't mean that the chosen candidates will be worse at their jobs, just that Google needs to work harder to find them.

Say you have 10 job openings for which there are 5 qualified men and 1000 qualified women. But, you want your employee base to be 50/50. Is that desire "foolish", just because it s unlikely to happen naturally?

I guess you could say that the resources of the business should not be spent on recruiting to hit that 50/50 target when it will be difficult to do so. Or that, given human frailties, maybe the recruiters would be tempted to dip into the much larger pool of slightly-underqualified candidates to hit the target. I think both objections can be answered with: well, it's a business that is free to make its own choices, and the market will decide whether they are good ones in the long run.
I don't think the grandparent quite expressed themselves clearly. If there is a group of applicants who happen to be equally qualified, but one type of person in that group is more likely to actually get hired - it's not reasonable to say that hiring a different type of person is taking an opportunity away from a member of the more popular type of person. A black woman getting hired isn't "taking a job away" from a white man. She's qualified, she gets the job.
Oh man I feel so dumb, you know despite what I can do. I guess that's the problem of trying to do everything you can only get so deep.

Use certificates? What is that not keypairs?

I logged into this Digital Ocean droplet and was surprised to see 15,000+ failed login attempts to SSH. I hadn't seen that before.

I don't know if using PHPMyAdmin is noobish. I still primarily use MySQL/Maria (only).

Thanks for the tips. I learn a lot though HN.
He only thought/suggested that, though. He's being punished for his thoughts.
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This is a good point, although I don't think I said "connections", I said "requests". The definition of requests is going to vary significantly. Yes, very slow clients are yet another problem that extremely robust systems don't have to handle.

In my personal case, nearly all of my work has always been on "internal" services that are being used inside a single organization inside a data center, where this is rarely a problem. This is much more of an issue for services that are accessed over the public Internet, where you need to handle malicious attackers as well as users that have horrible connections.

In any case, I believe what I wrote still applies, but you do need to set appropriate timeouts (yet another parameter to tune; yuck!)
I need more details. The article says it was lodgers, not hosts, who are affected.

But air bnb's stated policy of non discrimination is far more directly related to hosts, and in that manifestation is consistent with public Accomodations legislation.

However, denying lodging to someone based on their beliefs is dangerously in conflict with the same legislation.
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It's a genre. Like all genres, there are rules.

I don't think you can compare across genres. Over a period of centuries you can observe which ones come and go and which ones stay. Disaster stories, for instance, seem to come and go on regular intervals. This "I am observing so many things about my upbringing that were invisible to me until X" story? It feels to me a much older genre, one that originally had roots in verbal story-telling, not books.

The interesting question (to me) is how the genre changed moving from a verbal interaction to an essay form. You could extend that to this particular writer. Have they had experience with this form of story-telling, perhaps in a religious or social setting?

So looking at these multiple genres with the same theme, yes, it says something. There's something powerfully true about the human spirit at work. But 40 years of seeing this in <FORMAT_X>? Nope. At least not for me. Too soon. Check back with me in a hundred years or so. :)

ADD: You know who this type of written story reminds me of? Emily Dickinson. There's that same feeling of turning your life inside-out and looking at it from the outside. That's about as far back as I can go with the written word, but my Kung Fu here is quite weak.

It's also reminiscent of the flagellants, which had much the same message and delivered it verbally to whomever would listen.
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The EEOC interpretation is one of many (and only applies within the purview of the Employment Equal Opportunity Commission, so not here). As a counterpoint, the current administration's Dept. of Education is taking a different stance on this question. And neither SCOTUS nor any other binding authority has weighed in.
Interesting, I'll have to look into it when I build some prototype (just a personal hobby-type of project) with my ESP8266.
I bet FT Alphaville has some good ones.
I have a deep loathing for the whole self-help industry, 99% of it is nonsense and the majority of their customers seem quite vulnerable.
I once saw an apartment for rent where host mentioned only vegans are allowed. I wonder if accepting people regardless of their food preference should be part of Community Pledge.
Google has a long tradition of this sort of thing. It has always demanded that employees challenge it.

Other internal memos that caused internal upset - real names on Google+. Why Google Video failed. A post mortem on Google Wave (that directly criticised ex-Googlers who had been in senior management). Probably a lot more I'm forgetting.