skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but then they can trace it to where you exactly are. Makes it easy for yourself to get raided.
Combine this with the recently covered technology that determines user's pulse by using the camera.
>if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary. I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.

Then why are you getting paid for it? Clearly someone cares about it, roughly in proportion to the amount you're getting paid.

Consider these three jobs: making nails for local carpenters, operating machinery in a nail factory, designing machinery for nail factories. Designing machinery for nail factories helps carpenters the most, but feels least helpful.

Surprise surprise, reading children's books is not a good way to estimate the value delivered by people working in various occupations.
OT, how exactly do you find the google cache link, when this kind of thing happen? I looked it up earlier but didn't find it.
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OK, it Google's new Voice Search and not S-Voice. I still think that you can't say that it is vastly superior to Siri based on this video.
Living here in India it's surprising to see the mostly unregulated Gun sale in the US. I believe it's a right the constitution of US grants to its citizens. But I've read that this is a major cause for higher homicidal rate in the US. It seems like common sense to us here that allowing nearly everyone to purchase Guns is counter-productive and will only result in more violence.

Correct me If I am wrong, I understand this is a highly polarized issue in US and it's election time too.
It depends on how 'idempotent' the service calls are. If it's safe to retry the entire register method over and over again then it's pretty simple to keep track if anything blew up during the process and then just try from the top again.

If those services cannot be safely retried then you'll need to deal with calling other operations on the services to roll back the changes if anything goes wrong. I worked on a system that had a similar problem (not idempotent and we actually didn't have way to delete/rollback changes through their service) so we had to log every call made for context. That way if any service failed we could retry the whole operation and skip over the things that were successful.
And a good lesson as to why you should never make unannounced changes to your user's data. They will think you "broke" something, even if it never worked the way they thought it did.
I'm not an expert, but I think credit card companies themselves may be pretty unhappy with something like that. It's a tricky proposition in the first place, accepting CCs as an online (or even brick & mortar) merchant. You are effectively assuming some funky risk. Fraudulent transactions mostly your problem, at least more yours than the credit card company's, the bank's, the credit card owner's or even the fraudster's (in practical terms).

I wouldn't be surprised if by breaking or even nudging their rules comes with a high enough price to kill the whole thing. You would be open to being ripped off painfully and your merchant account would probably be shut down pretty fast.
I'm not a fan of powershell but I have to use it in my line of work.

The only thing that I find sucks is that the pipeline is slow as snails. For example, an svnadmin dump piped to a file which takes 8 mins in cmd.exe takes 14 hours in powershell...

Apart from that it's bearable!
Either search "cache:[url]" via google or you can do it via the address bar in chrome.

cache:http://www.guns.com/google-guns-ammo-accessories-shopping-re...
Take the original URL and prepend "cache:" in the google search box. In this case:

cache:http://www.guns.com/google-guns-ammo-accessories-shopping-results-9403.html
This sounds a little obvious but since you omitted it, have you done a gait analysis or seen a physical therapist?

After my first marathon my knee was unbearable, it turns out I cave inwards frequently. The PT gave me daily exercises to correct this and I can now run again.

I have heard great things about the UCSF RunSafe clinic if you are anywhere near there.
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This SMS Spam blocker for Android is just amazing
No need to break in, just find an open WLAN.
I just added these books to my "To Get" list.. Which is already large.

As a broke fresh college graduate, one of the most widely talked about books (and one I actually bought myself) was Eric Ries' The Lean Startup. It really helped me feel like I had a sense of direction instead of "thinking I knew" something,
If the patent system is so broken that it's abused by all kind of trolls (including Apple), do you think courts can fix it? Only patent reform can change something. And meanwhile, boycotting works too.
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Thanks, bmelton. Decided to go with nginx + gunicorn. Was a little hesitant to use virtualenv, will go ahead and use it based on your recommendation. Thanks again! :)
Leap Seconds in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Early morning is the key. I find running anywhere suburban when there's a chance of traffic, pedestrians, dogs, strollers, crosswalks, lights, etc.. deeply offputting, which is unfortunate when you live in suburbia and it's your only option without driving to a trailhead.
I would agree with the others who already replied that it was the latter, i.e., there wasn't a way to make all transactions totally anonymous. If you look at the protocol, you can see that there is no obvious way to modify the protocol so that it doesn't have transaction history.

For anyone reading this thread, I highly recommend the original Bitcoin paper:

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

It easily understood by anyone with the equivalent of first year university courses in computer science and mathematics, and it is just nine pages long.
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I value my time above anything else. I always have spare capacity. When an opportunity comes up, I'm free to grab hold.
If someone refuses to accept the need for a nuanced response, I am skeptical of their opinion.
It's a question of the trade-offs to achieve that week of battery life. I have an extended battery for my phone which makes the phone bulky, but the battery lasts for nearly two days on a charge. If I were to significantly underclock the CPU and GPU, turn down the screen brightness, disable apps from running in the background, turn off GPS, keep data off, get an even bigger battery, etc., I could probably get a week of battery out of it, if not more. That would take away a lot from the experience though, and since I'm almost always near a power source, I'd rather keep the above features and charge every day. If you weren't, you might think that those tradeoffs were fair.

That's an interesting point that the parent post made - we probably shouldn't be thinking about these devices as just underclocked versions of first world devices. I think that you could design a positive user experience with all of the restrictions that I listed above (not ideal, but still positive), but it's not going to be achieved by disabling features of a super phone/tablet.
Why you should still go to the hackathons
"Google AdWords doesn't allow the promotion of weapons or devices designed to cause serious harm or injury."

Swords are allowed?!? Which sword is not designed to cause serious harm or injury? Allowing swords and then disallowing knives is just weird.
I've started looking at Cloud Foundry (http://www.cloudfoundry.com/) which is an open source PaaS solution.

I found two ways you can get it up and running on a private server, either by using the Ubuntu package (http://conrey.org/2011/10/20/cloudfoundry-zero-to-server-in-...) or by using the install script from the GitHub repo and getting the latest version (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap).

I haven't actually gotten a chance to play with it yet so I can't tell you how it is, but looks promising :)
I have a few self imposed requirements for anything I post to my tech blog (https://grepular.com/blog/)

1.) Only post stuff I myself would be interested to read if somebody else had written it.

2.) Do not force myself to post simply because I haven't posted in a while.

3.) Do not simply regurgitate stuff I have read elsewhere.

A lot of articles on tech blogs violate rule #1 and the vast majority violate rule #3. Rule #2 seems to be violated by any site which is making a serious attempt at making money.
Dominance requires sound economics - and this is what will determine the future course of history. Lookout for China, it is not falling aprt - but will be the economic superpower of the world by 2018. And beware of India, which will relegate the US to third spot by 2030. And let us talk then!
I've recently noticed the contrary in my life : I'm not busy.

I have way too much time to think (and to think way too much). I don't meet that much people, and when I talk to my friends or new encounters I don't have much to say. And I feel like I'm wasting my time not moving forward with my life (personal and professional).

I even googled "How to get busy".

I know it can be a trap, but being busy is GOOD. Meet people, do things, learn things, gain experience, be active.

Also you'll become someone more like-able. Someone who is busy IS attractive (socially and romantically).
My hypothesis is that immunizations can be dramatically improved. Bacteria use a variety of secreted toxins, quorum sensing factors, biofilm scaffolds, and so forth. It would be very good if we could immunize against the few thousand most common virulence factors. Those pathways also provide ripe targets for conventional drugs.

"But antibody production is not instantaneous and can have a lag time of 7 to 10 days, which should be sufficient time for the phages to do their work."

Once, which don't get me wrong is very nice for the patient. But cutting the rate of fatal childhood infections 50% from the natural rate is not good enough. We want 99.99%.

"Also, since phages do not enter human cells, you won't get the typical response from APC's or Helper T-Cells, ..."

They do when their bacterial hosts are endocytosed.
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You say that you've "tried everything that [you] know" -- does that include seeing a doctor and/or physical therapist? If you haven't, please do: many (most) running injuries are curable with the right training and rehab. A good PT can probably set you on a path back to 6-7 miles per day (and beyond!)

Anecdote time: last winter I started having serious, eventually debilitating knee pain. I went from 30-40 mpw to a point where even a couple miles hurt like hell. I have shitty health insurance and resisted seeing a PT for months, worried about the cost, hoping I could just "tough it out." Yeah, not so much. I finally saw a PT in January, got diagnosed with classic ITBS, and started rehab. Within a month I was back to 3-5 mile runs, and by March I was ready to run a half marathon. I'm keeping up with the strengthening exercises my PT assigned, and the ITBS is just a painful memory.

And the costs I was worried about didn't turn out to be much of an issue: my PT was willing to work with me and my crummy insurance to figure out a way to make it affordable. I only ended up paying about $250 for a couple months of visits — a small price to pay to be able to run again!

See a physical therapist!
If you're going to write an article going after Jeff Atwood for criticizing PHP, you probably shouldn't host it on a poorly-written PHP website that can't establish a database connection. You're not helping your case.
> - The :func:`flask.url_for` function now can generate anchors to the generated links.

Should clean up my templates a bit! Nice little change.
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> As for flash having more bugs than IE, add some links for reference, I would love to read up on that.

Then I would recommend starting with Secunia's Advisory and Vulnerability Database and NIST's National Vulnerability Database.

Both list hundreds of vulnerabilities, nearly all of which are severe or critical; several of which interact with IE specifically; and most of which affect all platforms, including Android, Linux, and OS X.

Although IE has about 5 times as many vulnerabilities listed (3x in Secunia and ~5x in NIST's NVD), I think the point remains: Flash is one of the largest security threats on the Internet, especially considering its spread and profile.

Additionally, Flash still suffers from thousands of bugs, some of which have never been fixed (like "smurf video" on Linux). And that's just on their public (https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/) bug database.
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Now its trending on Twitter (at least it shows up on my twitter home page trend as number 7, but these trends change very very quickly). Its still trending on Google plus after 2.5 days. This is going pretty viral. I so wish that this will put some sense into judge and Apple to not ban Galaxy Nexus - a unlock hardware phone which is made for developers, hackers and has pure AOSP experience.
Their censors are very busy bees. Eventually a tipping point will be reached, and with 1.x billion people I predict "interesting times."
With $60B in cash, Microsoft is set to blow up its business
I find the key in naming is that it's memorable. Everything else, including the meaning, is secondary.

Here are some random ideas:

dishdrum.com

menubowl.com

plumplate.com

tastytango.com

menulia.com

foodflava.com

menusandwich.com

fooduppa.com

tastyrelish.com

tastytricks.com

You can tell I like alliteration ;-)
In the countries where investigative journalism would do most service to the public, putting yourself out there will get you jailed, beaten up or shot. Entire governments keep their reign in part by controlling media. And some organisations too, like the drug gangs in Mexico. One blogger was literally beheaded by a local Mexican gang. From this perspective it is more than a little naive to stipulate that "if you want to be a muckraker you can't be scared to get in the muck". The need for true anonymity is not fiction, it is very real in the world we live in, right now.
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My guess is it has something to do to the amount of crimes with knives vs with swords.
Google has long been unfriendly to firearms related websites. They don't allow their ad server to be used by them, or for adsense to be shown on them.

For example, my own site, http://bisonballistics.com, cannot use adsense because it links to sites that sell firearms parts. I dare you to find one word on that site that encourages anything unethical, unsafe, or illegal.

I'd be shocked if there was a good reason for this, but I'd love to hear it.

Entrepreneurs have filled the gap with specialized ad networks, just as Gunbroker did when ebay pulled similar antics.

EDIT: a couple of you have taken issue with my definition of ethics - fair enough. The broader point is that google just doesn't like firearms, no matter how they are used.
‘Leap Second’ Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web
I agree. Military fact: offense is always superior than defense (no tank is immune to rockets/artillery, there is no nuclear shield able to stop a missile etc). Same goes with guns: if someone wants to kill you, he will be able to do it, even if you have a gun with you (sneaking up on someone is not that hard). More guns indeed means more guns in the hands of violent people. Common sense (for me at least) says "this is idiotic"
It's 1.4% of discretionary spending today. That's only the principal; another 10X+ is interest payments. Exploring beyond what we have explored so far (e.g. humans on Mars) would take it far higher.
Well, somebody is starving for attention.
You might actually want to look at what kills people in the US statistically. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/deaths_2009_release.pdf [PDF]

Homicide is down at 15th and had been going down for a number of years. So increasing gun ownership is not tipping the balance up.
This is indeed oversimplifying.

A statement like "the government shouldn't" is a value-laden one that the recipient needs to be talked into through a good case being made for it; it's not a universally obvious truth. The person you're replying to obviously doesn't think so, at least.

Regarding your second point: yes, some criminals will still get some guns no matter how many laws are passed banning them or how much money is spent on enforcing those laws. But that doesn't mean they're wholly ineffectual. Criminality is not some binary state where either you're an innocent meek upright citizen or you're a hardened criminal with trivial access to any amounts of every sort of weaponry that has ever been devised regardless of legal status.

[Edit: I want to note that I personally feel ignorant enough on the topic to not take a strong stance for or against gun control — what has seemed to work for many countries to curtail violence would not necessarily work for the United States for a number of reasons including culture, guns already in the country, etc. But that's no reason to make bad arguments either way.]