skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But bcrypt is just a few files of portable C (the .S is optional) with no dependencies whatsoever ?
The Bump guys did a "Scala on Android" talk at the last Scala Days. They didn't explicitly say it, but reading between the lines it sounded like, "Scala on Android…don't".

http://www.slideshare.net/michael.galpin/scala-on-android-ex...
You could try to recover the costs legally. In the UK we have a swift procedure which could make it a legal matter with payment due immediately or a plan to clear balance arranged.

It is a very difficult situation indeed.
I finally understand it.

Here are my events (taking 2 children as given):

B = I have a boy
BT = I have a boy and he was born on Tuesday
2B = I have 2 boys
B+G = I have a boy and a firl

Using Bayes' Theorem:

Pr(2B|BT) = Pr(BT|2B)Pr(2B)/c
Pr(B+G|BT) = Pr(BT|B+G)Pr(B+G)/c
where c = Pr(2B|BT) + Pr(B+G|BT)

Pr(BT|2B) = 1/7 + 1/7 - 1/49 = 13/49
Pr(2B) = 1/4
Pr(BT|B+G) = 1/7
PR(B+G) = 1/2

So

c = 13/49 * 1/4 + 1/7 * 1/2 = 27/49
Pr(2B|BT and 2C) = (13/49 * 1/4) / (27/49) = 13/27
Pr(B+G| BT and 2C) = (1/7 * 1/2) / (27/49) = 14/27

They main reason Pr(2B|BT) is around 50% is that
Pr(2B|BT) is proportional to Pr(BT|2B) while
Pr(B+G|BT) is proportional to Pr(BT|B+G) and
Pr(BT|2B) is about 2 * Pr(BT|B+G).

It's much more likely you have a boy born on Tuesday given
that you have 2 boys (rather than you have a girl and a boy)
so it's more likely that you have 2 boys given that
we know you have a boy born on Tuesday.
The problem here is the personal information is being voluntarily given to Facebook. And the FTC can do nothing about that.

As far as I can tell, most people using FB are trying to communicate with their friends (as they previously did via letter, telephone and email), not broadcast every personal detail and thought to potentially any person or organization connected to the web.

Alas they are not well informed that by sending all their communications through Zuckerberg's website, this is in effect what they are doing.

That lack of understanding is something the FTC can address.

So to comply with the FTC's requests, FB will make more disclosures.

But the problem remains. FB, whether intentionally or not, is receiving far too much private information and private conversation, and it's all being channeled over the web.
And why do you consider this unfair? Does the payment come out of your pocket or something?

Leaving aside that I have to ask this question (WTF dude?) for a $12 book you get something like 60 cents, considering a 7% referral fee. And you can make less than that per the number of items sold, as lots of people end up buying something a lot less expensive, like an MP3 (since they buy from Amazon and are right there anyway), with the more expensive items helping to balance that. And I haven't sold any tractors.

So the total fee pales in comparison with the revenue Amazon generated from that article and if Amazon wouldn't do that, then the affiliate program would be basically a joke.

(edit: misspellings)
His office was his bedroom. The rest of the people he worked with pretty much crowded the rest of the house.

So "under the desk" was pretty close to reality - he could pretty much reach his desk from his bed.
Another "design contest" post warrants another "NO SPEC!" link, warrants another comment.

Here's the thing. For a brand new mom-and-pop florist, they're trying to find a logo to put on their banner out front. There's a huge crowd of entrepreneurs who only have $500 to spend on branding their new company. These contests work for them.

There are lots and lots of creatives willing to do a little work for the chance of winning $500 and seeing their work used by people not related to them. Could be a janitor doing graphic design at night for some extra scratch, or could be some dude in #{foreign_country} where the USD exchange rate works in his favor. These contests also work for them.

If someone can't (or just doesn't want to) run out and spend $10k on branding, should they not be allowed to have a logo? What should they do instead?

Bottom line: If the payment and risk is worth it to them, and the work is good enough for the client, then why should anyone else care?
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As the article demonstrates, why wait for SOPA?
I am really curious how Google and Facebook will handle this...
With this decision they are subject to 20 years of audits. It's not like they got off with just a warning.
It's likely that few HNers have a strong enough grasp of the various laws to state how they would pursue Facebook based on law, but all of us have a sense of justice. Whether or not the two coincide is a different discussion.

My happy medium, based on my own sense of justice: give Facebook a year to implement systems that actually protect users' privacy (what that would entail is yet another discussion). If they don't comply, hit them with a hefty fine. We get our privacy, Facebook gets to keep its money - some of which was earned by neglecting our privacy.
I suppose it is reasonable to judge such an innocuous observation as "critical" on the Gruber scale of Apple commentary.
A look at Apple's website, from past to present
Even if some of these websites sell fake/counterfit goods, they should only be taken out of the ads.
Otherwise we are starting a trend of black-listing website once again. This could be another seedpoint for the freedom of speech and firewall-of-america discussion which was raised with SOPA
>Jump back 100 years, it's the same shit.

Yep. Jump back 100 years, and you're in the breakdown of the British empire. And look what we became, a pointless, miserable lame-duck nation utterly yoked to the next empire that rose after us, the USA.

Now you guys are gonna be yoked to the next empire, China.

Have fun with that!

I'll maybe catch you on a beach in Brazil, where hopefully things will be cool. Fingers crossed.
Facebook? Twitter? De-index? It sounds to me like the judge doesn't know much of what he's talking about. Taking down the companies and their assets I'm all for, but de-indexing them from search results seems a little bit unnecessary, especially since they'll go away on their own once the domains are dead.
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That "sugar" is in the wrong place for a project that names itself after a pattern intended to keep the models and storage separate. If Datamapper actually tried to implement the datamapper pattern, you would've put it in separate mapper classes, not littered around the models.
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I did not know about the {{.}} construct when I wrote that article, but have since been told about it a couple of times. It is indeed a useful thing that would have resolved one of the issues I wrote about. However, it is not in the Mustache spec, nor is it implemented in the particular Mustache implementation, Pystache, that I happen to be using. It could be that Pystache is just behind the curve. I don't know.

I have also since found out about Handlebars.js. It looks nice. If Mustache is the 80% solution then Handlebars.js is probably the 99% solution or something like that. Except I would need an implementation in Python, and I haven't come across one.
I assume that $16,000 would apply to each user affected, in which case that would be very unprofitable.
Is there really infrastructure available for this yet? Also "All Internet search engines"... Possibly the judge underestimates how many there are out there who will never even hear of this ruling without horrible SOPA legislature and infrastructure in place. Till then they can't seriously expect random search engine in my bedroom to track all legal rulings in this space. This is fantastically impossible.

And it raises the point of how tricky it will be to even suggest enforcing SOPA with out providing massive centralized services listing blocked sites etc.
Yeah, but there's a perceived risk.
If you still like the original place, you can always go back after a few years, using your new rate as a negotiating tool.

The other option (while still at the original place) is to get an offer from another company. Then, assuming you have your manager's support, take that to HR and ask for an out-of-cycle increase.

Often by the time it gets this far, people are discontented enough to be at the point of walking away anyway.
You guys have a red rating on WOT:

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/emotions.com

The sole negative review is:

"Spamvertised - Registered at GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.	"

Given that 370k+ people use WOT (on Chrome), and the add on has a 4.5/5 rating by 1881 users, I'd say that a decent amount of people use WOT and I personally don't look at sites with a red WOT unless the reasons are bad.

Now there's no reason for you guys to get a 1/100 for child safety just because you "spamvertised" somewhere, but you should report the review to WOT so they can adjust it.

As for the website, I'm not a fan of the "bienvenue stranger." Calling a visitor a stranger just sort of alienates them.

Also, you're whole site's pitch is "share anonymously," so why do I have to register? I know the reason is so I can track my posts, responses, and all that stuff, but even on the register post you say "Share your emotions anonymously" and right under you say "Register and join the community," and that just seems a bit contradictory to me. I would be more inclined to register if you made it clear that by registering I could track my posts.

Alternatively, let me post my question, and before I leave, ask me to register so that I can keep track of my stuff. Make it clear that there are advantages to registering.
This is identical to how the voice functionality works on my GS II.

-> "text blah blah"
-< "Send text message to {blah blah}. Speak your message."
-> "Content of message"
-< "Message "contents of message". Say send or cancel".

And so on. No hoopla or extravagance, it simply works. Perfectly.
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I really like this. Would it be possible to have show a short summary of the history of a paste? Also, a favicon would be great. :)
I would love to see the confirmation for a command like

"Harper has ballet at 4:30 on Thursdays and a Dentist appoint on December 7th at 1pm."
The paradoxes are important in highlighting the ambiguities in our language.

The annoying aspect is when someone uses a paradox to show off how mathematically clever they are, instead of to show how ambiguous language is. As XKCD illustrates:
https://www.xkcd.com/169/
The law has long been castrated on your points. The legal basis would be, of course, that private information is property, but that one doesn't exist in this country (yet?).
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I'm not sure that any laws were broken. It's not like we kept the restraining order active for 16 years, and his message wasn't really harassment, more like attempted atonement. At any rate, I do wish companies had to be held to their own site rules, legally. If Pystar break's Apple's TOS they get sued out of business, but if Facebook breaks their privacy settings they get a slap on the wrist from the FTC.
I'm afraid you give them far too much credit!
The movie "Gosford Park" is a well-covered instance of this state of affairs.
I've long been fascinated by the making of physical products. It seems to much harder than software. I feel like I can make bits dance from my keyboard, but assembling atoms is much harder. Any chance you could write a blog about how you made this, the challenges, and the like? Also, possible to bootstrep your way through it?
You'll have to let me know what the problem is with spec work when it's the designers choice to enter or not enter a contest. I didn't hold a gun to anyones head and say "draw pixel monkey!"

I posted a request. Told them I'd select a winner. Ran the contest. Worked with the designers. Selected a winner and paid. I even was upfront enough to eliminate designers that were never going to win so they stopped wasting their time.
In Thomas Hatch's blog he says that he wants Salt to be a viable competitor to Puppet.[1] It looks like Salt's grains[2] are similar to Puppet's facter[3]; it would probably be fairly easy to write a grain that would pull in facter data, so if you wanted to use both Puppet and Salt with common data, you could.

I stumbled upon Salt because I've been monkeying around with ZeroMQ[4] and it was mentioned on their Labs page.[5] As soon as I can, I definitely want to give Salt a try.

[1] http://red45.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/salt-vs-puppet-the-lon...

[2] http://saltstack.org/ref/grains/

[3] http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/facter/

[4] http://www.zeromq.org

[5] http://www.zeromq.org/docs:labs
Actually toilet seat is the cleanest place (http://mythbustersresults.com/hidden-nasties), as it is regularly disinfected, and so only 60% more is quite clean actually.
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It has more to do with standardisation. Every handset manufacturer seems to use ever-so-slightly different hardware even within their own models. Throw in some closed drivers and you have absolutely no idea what's going on.
I think that Amazon's affiliate program is perhaps the most benign, non-intrusive form of advertising on the internet.

If the blog post is a poorly-written list of links to books, then it probably isn't content that you're interested in, whether if it has affiliate links or not. I do not see why the presence of affiliate links makes the content any worse (or any better), though I suppose it may make people more inclined to slap up some poorly-written lists of links to books, so there's more low-quality websites to wade through on the internet.

But then again, there's already lots of low-quality websites on the internet. I hardly think there's any stopping that problem now, and I'd much rather see ads for Amazon, a place I actually shop at, than for some shady Nifty Larry's Bargain Basement or whatever.
Even if you accept it was a lie, it's not fraud.

Facebook "lies" like Subway "lies" about losing weight by eating there.

You're omitting the fact that Facebook has always stated they may change what they do with your information in the future.
I was wondering whether to add sets to the list or not. In the end I decided not to because they look just like lists for the purpose of destructuring and I liked how this list of things matched what JSON provides, plus as you say, they can be simulated. It also left me with one less thing to explain, except now that it didn't.
It is possible with Google to de-index websites. Look up Google chilling effects warnings. The judge can take it to mean that any search engines not complying are in contempt.
An article a few years ago talked about what privacy means to rich kids who have everything. Go to a $40k per year boarding school that mummy and daddy pay for? What do you have to hide? Not much.

Then the kids get older and decide "no secrets for anybody!" What's the harm in sharing your life? It's a net win. If you see James got a new turbo jet ski, won't you want to work harder to get one too? Sharing can save the world.

We can't seem to imagine a time when maybe you wanted to keep a secret. Maybe you're helping someone to not be found. Maybe you're helping someone through a bad time in their life. Then, with a profit-oriented privacy change, you end up in the parent's situation.

The world view of the people in charge aren't aligned with "normal." We'll see PR and lip service press releases, but steamrolling over normal people will continue.
According to who? When in the position of counter-offering, it feels to most people like it's extremely risky. Risk in this context isn't about actual danger, it's about how much danger is perceived.
Not really. If they provide clear and transparent notice to users on what they are doing with their data, then what they are doing is fine -- "caveat emptor."
Facebook didn't break the law. So I'm not sure what people mean when they say "get away with anything."
Look.

I know it's HN and we're all very serious business here.

And I'm not trying to be age-ist – my condemnation is strictly confined to mental state.

But what. the fuck. do we do with these dinosaurs who know nothing of technology policy but have decided to go and make it anyway? What do we do? The strategy of waiting for them to retire or whatever doesn't seem to be paying off.
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So after 15 years, software should have gone away.

Ok, then call me back when you've purged the world of C, lisp, Smalltalk and UNIX, and I'll give you a hand with perl :)
Datamapper implements the active-record pattern. It's the last thing you would expect.
Perhaps that is so in the US; I don't know.

In Europe, however, privacy policies play a significant legal role in terms of complying with privacy and data protection legislation.

Facebook has its international HQ in Europe and deals with personal data about EU citizens, and is thus subject to EU rules as well as US ones.
I'll give this a try. I did some research a month or so ago when I upgraded one of my machines to 11.10 (which I now really regret doing). At the time, everywhere I looked said alt+tab for switching applications, and alt+~ for switching windows within applications. If there's a way to get alt+tab back to just switching windows, I'll gladly give it a try.

The issue I had with virtual workspaces was that alt+tab still showed every app on every workspace.
The menu on top thing is annoying, but not a deal-breaker I guess.

Anyways, I know this is not the ubuntu forums, I just thought I would chime in with the regressions in my workflow. I spent 2 or 3 hours trying to make it work. I am aware of ccsm, and I don't consider myself an expert, but I'm not a complete n00b either. I gave up and went back to the GNOME fallback. My other machines I won't be upgrading. Backwards compatibility is important, even with new fancy window managers.
iOS has built-in tethering support for carriers that are OK with it.
I returned my Windows Phone (Samsung Focus S) today and picked up an Android (Samsung Galaxy II)... and you know what, I miss WinPho.

By comparison, Android (and I came from a Nexus One before this, so I know it well) is such an un-unified mess. I find myself fighting the UI often. Windows Phone has what I genuinely think is the best mobile UI out there, bar none.

Once they improve the Maps app (it's awful), add more third party hooks (so I can get GChat etc. in the Messaging section) and people start supporting the browser more (the IE in Mango is fine, but people seem to use too many -webkit- prefixes) I'll happily switch back. In the mean time I'll be developing WP apps in an emulator...
The next site-wide privacy snafu will cost $11 trillion dollars.
How can a judge possibly be so daft as to put a judgement against companies not even party to the lawsuit?

If we find out these counterfeit goods are also coming over from China, should we tell UPS and FedEx they can no longer fly planes out of there?
"When O when will we get regulators with some distance from those they are regulating?"

Oh, that's an easy one.
The government needs mindshare and advertises just like any other entity. Just like people use Facebook to tell people not to use Facebook, the FTC may buy or use services from companies they are taking legal action against. That's not an endorsement of the practices they are fighting against; it's simply how businesses work. Facebook is where the people are; if you want people to hear your message, you take the message to Facebook. It's especially relevant in this case since their work directly benefits Facebook's users, so it would not make much sense to not have their message heard there.

Also, they settled and all is good between the FTC and Facebook.
Sounds cool. I'll have to check it out when I get somewhere the kindle can actually connect to the internet.
Pre-bundled apps have a hard time... I automatically assume if it's installed from the vendor that it is corporate sponsored spam so it's as good as invisible to me since I've trained myself to completely and compulsively ignore the icons. (I can't even remember having seen Pulse on my Fire lol)
Spreading paranoia about the government is a classic tactic of disaffected "little" people, whether they are of the right or of the left.

There are plenty of things that are wrong with the government, but being paranoid and bitter is not the way to fix them.
I'm waiting for the day that a 15 year old files a patent on a new style of Capri's and ends up owning Levi, Wrangler, etc. for selling counterfeit products.

Oh wait, that would never happen. (Incidentally in about 98, before capri's got fashionable again, my friend took to folding and stitching her jeans, in a few weeks all the girls were doing it throughout the summer; about 4 years later she was pissed when Levi and Wrangler jeans started selling them, manufactured from regular jeans and stitched almost identically)

I dislike the whole anti-counterfeit programs because companies want you to spend $2000 for a leather bag with their name on it, but the bag is only really worth $20. They're not even complaining that you're not willing to pay for it (like pirating a movie), they're complaining because you're unwilling to spend a massively unreasonable amount on it.

There's no reason to target the counterfeitters as they're not hurting your business model. They're selling to people who know they're getting ripped off, but Gucci and what not are selling it to rich idiots who don't know they're getting ripped off.
As a sufferer of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporomandibular_joint_disorde... ), I know that I, and many others, grind their teeth when under large amounts of stress. Could it be that my body has already adapted to the chewing motion as a mechanism for improving cognitive performance? (Due to stress, I grind my teeth, both when sleeping and when awake, which contributes to my suffering from TMJ)
Which now means with out central infrastructure, it's going to be mighty challenging for any new search start ups to not get sued in the states
> But there are hundreds (?) of carriers worldwide, all of which support the iPhone. AT&T is just one of many.

All of these carriers can enable the built-in access point feature of iOS. In fact, it's enabled by default so all of these carriers can not disable the built-in AP feature of iOS.

> So I don't see what the AT&T TOS has to do with Apple's App Store. Five years ago, sure, but not now.

The TOS in question have to do with tethering/cell-as-modem, not with the appstore, I'd guess.
The classic example:

http://www.pickpocket.com/Pickpocket-Prevention-Tips.asp

"Be wary of signs that read "Pickpockets About" or someone yelling, "There's a pickpocket in the crowd." They aren’t always what they seem.

> I use this ploy a lot in my show. When people find out that I can pick pockets, the men check for their wallets and the women will check for their jewelry in the order of value -- most expensive first. Their actions clue me as to exactly where the wallets and valuable jewelry are located.
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I think the appropriate (humorous) response would be to de-index federal government websites, or websites which were pro-SOPA, or refuse to provide services the judge, or those who work with him, use.

After all, it's aiding and abetting someone who's not acting in their interests ...
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What can be done is encouraging more engineers and scientists to run for offices in the United States Government.
Those "audits" will be toothless, and the only effect we'll ever see from them is the occasional headline. Read up on Microsoft since the late 90s or IBM since the early 80s, among many others.

The FTC's presence in FB's business decisions will only lend an air of legitimacy to what would otherwise cause problems with their users, and transforms FB's business model from "users are dumb fucks" to "Mom said I could."