skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over a year ago, I wrote up an early product requirements doc for how law enforcement investigations will function if investigators could follow cases, evidence, firearms, events, suspects, persons of interest, locations similar to how we follow people on Twitter or Facebook. It would make it incredibly easier for them to be notified when something changes, instead of having to manually be alerted about something of relevance.
What the parent meant was "after you paid the bill". It's hard to go back later and say the charge was fraudulent after you received the bill and opted to pay it. In theory, payment = acceptance of charges.
Why should someone be forced to use one mode of communication when all of her written communication (memos, etc) is already on the record? This sounds silly.
I prefer this one by the Royal Institution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62S8SchxX4
I'm curious how this affects the people beneath her as well - if their communication patterns have to be altered to fit in with the boss.
Or people who can't shell out the money for SSDs
The problem is they haven't published the winning entries.

How can I appreciate the achievements of these coders if I can't see/run their code? There isn't even a description of what they've submitted (except for the clue given by the award title).
I'd feel pretty comfortable saying that no cabinet-level official really "understands" technology enough to make decisions on cybersecurity. They rely on subordinates who (hopefully) do.
He means after you've paid your credit card bill with the included charges on it.
Interestingly, George W Bush used to be big on personal email but decided to put a stop to it before he was inaugerated: http://gawker.com/5089305/presidents-gotta-give-up-the-e+mai...

I think though that his reasoning is not as cynical as you make it out - there would be some concern that personal email sent to the President from friends, family etc would fall under the official records act.
While this is a bit scammy, I couldn't get past the part where she didn't notice this for 8 months. Come on people. Do a budget. Stop being stupid with your money.
One of my favorite things about the code base I work in (with a over 1,000 engineers) is the codemod culture. Whenever we create a new abstraction, we mass-convert the code over to it. This means that for many simple things like renaming methods and classes, we can deprecate methods (by renaming them to oldSlowWay_DEPRECATED), and this is an automatic flag to any engineer that they need to dig into the code and find the newFastWay.

If you believe in self-documenting code, I feel like you need to do things like this because it's part of keeping your documentation up to date. (In our code base, we maintain separate documentation, but reading the code is essential to getting the total picture.)
checkout the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JustFab

The criticisms are mentions as well as a lawsuit. Also note that this HN page is given as a source.
I think #2 answers #1. AKA, they have pushed legislation to increase FDA requirements.
Prices are already down and it definitely isn't 2014 yet. 3T is about the sweet spot right now, it's never been much cheaper than it is today. 2T is a bit more expensive than before the floodings, but a part of that is that there is simply less production of them (which has switched to 3T models).
Simon Cowell & Will.i.am to debut X Factor for Entrepreneurs...
It is usually accepted that at the highest level of government conversations should be recorded, yes. If it wasn't for every conversation in the Oval Office being recorded and subsequently subpoenaed Nixon probably wouldn't have had to resign over Watergate.
Not necessarily every single one, but generally, yes.

I think government officials should have virtually no privacy in their official lives. Unless someone is actually saying nuclear launch codes or passwords out loud, there is no reason for official conversations to be hidden from the public (I'm talking about people making decisions, not the rank-and-file civil servants).

In fact, I think the absurd level of privacy high government officials have today is extremely destructive and dangerous.
it's annoying that the back button does not work anymore when I load this website. Are they trying to force me to stay on their page?
The browser support seems to be very limited at the moment: http://stackoverflow.com/q/8805635/92493
I see 6 month chargebacks on a regular basis (dealing with consumer fraud is fun), so these definitely happen, they're possible and if consumers can do it when they are the ones defrauding the merchants there will be a lot less trouble when it is the merchant doing the defrauding.

In many cases the cc company debiting your checking account is automated and there is no step for you to verify other than to periodically go through your statements to see if you have taken on any ghost charges.
So basically this is the Columbia House[1] of shoes. That's not a scam, it's "a catch". When a consumer hears the pitch -- in the case of Columbia House, it was "get 8 CDs for 1 penny", in the case of JustFab it's "get any pair of shoes for $39" -- they should be asking what the catch is. An ungodly number of businesses involve catches to survive. How about cell phones? That new iPhone is only $200... but you have a 2 year contract and a $400 fee for leaving early.

Columbia House and the Columbia Record Club were around for 60 years. I doubt this model will ever go away or be deemed illegal.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_House

edit: hey, there's a wikipedia article about this model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_option_billing
If you say his name backwards, you send him back to his home dimension.
Weeeelll:

1) As others have pointed out, the separate release of code/writeup. I wager that most people really just want to see the code. Why bother doing both? If it's just to attract attention, that's a reasonably valid reason -- but it probably has the opposite of the desired effect, people get annoyed that they can't view the code now, and therefore start disliking the contest in general.

2) Even when the code is released, the format they use makes it difficult to actually look at the code. Let's take the 2011 winners for example [1]. One would assume that clicking each entry (e.g., the top entry[2]) would perhaps show the code, perhaps annotated in a useful way... nope! Surely it must link to the code then... nope! Perhaps it links to a page that links to the code... nope!

You have to go to the 'Winning Entries' page from the main menu (from [1]), scroll down to the appropriate year, then play a fun game of matching up entrant's surnames to their entries (yes, I know the surname is in the URL of [2]).

[ 3) While not a 'real' complaint: the I-just-learned-how-to-use-a-3D-modelling-program logo really is awful. It makes the contest look juvenile, when in fact the quality of the winning entries is very high. The site looks much better without the logo -- try it yourself, delete the img node from the homepage using Inspector/Firebug/whatever. ]

In conclusion: show us the code, delete the logo :).

[1] http://www.ioccc.org/2011/whowon.html

[2] http://www.ioccc.org/2011/blakely/hint.html
My iOS6 maps experience comes down to the new Maps has a far better UI but sucks at figuring out where you want to go unless you provide the street address.

(It's not like the old Maps app was flawless. It's just that it usually worked and the new one usually doesn't. I'm in greater Washington DC, I'm sure your mileage will vary.)

The same can be said for Waze -- I often would convert a descriptive location (such as "San Francisco International" per another post) to a street address then copy and paste it into Waze. I use the conditional tense because I consider the new iOS Maps app to be superior to Waze for navigation, once you've found an address.

It seems to me Apple could easily cut a deal with a third-party-search-engine-that-isn't-Google to improve this simple flaw.

http://loewald.com/blog/?p=4918
Faster than light travel, since the year 2000
Similar sites like ShoeDazzle recently removed the monthly subscription model so they will likely follow given enough complaints.

Note that as someone pointed out below, the billing provides a credit so theoretically your girlfriend has $320 in credit at JustFab and she can go buy some one-price-fits all items which makes no sense to me at all (t-shirt at $39.95 wtf?).

VC investments in LA tend to leverage the celebrity power of the backers since that gives access to a large audience and guarantees marketing/press coverage right off the bat.
This particular set seems to be taken from the prints included in T.A. Heppenheimer's _Colonies in Space_, which my dad brought home to me as a kid. I'm going to grab it from my shelf now. (Also from the 70's)

EDIT: I was wrong. Some of those pictures are there, but not all. Still, it was a great way for a kid to become interested in science.
Internet – The Next Step
Yuck. [0] [1]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiFi_(snack)
[1]: http://www.bifi.de/die_bifis.asp
That's because they're still packaging them up and writing hint files and such. They just announce the names first and post the files later.
Also a forensic tool, a personal blackbox.
For a contest about obfuscation, the site could be a lot worse. ;)
The link is mobile. Here's the original link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-28/a-close-read...
I'm not sure what your point is to begin with, but I am highly skeptical of the scientific nature of this report.
As others mentioned, Clojure makes it fairly simple to generate a normal Java class containing your Clojure code. In addition, you can access clojure.lang.RT to run your Clojure function directly, like this:
RT.loadResourceScript("pkg1/pkg2/runner.clj");
RT.var("pkg1.pkg2.runner", "run").invoke(args);

However, in my experience, Groovy is about as simple as it can be. Just put your Groovy code inside a class and it looks exactly like any other Java class.
Yes. Especially this one: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6075/6072768811_5b4e69e14c_o....

And for those who haven't read that book, I highly recommend it!
You need to dig a little deeper than that. Of the 252 drugs, how many where minor modifications of existing drugs. And how many where targeted based on government funded research.
Yes, Persona does reveal your email address to the website you log in to. This is considered a feature, because:

1. It prevents lock-in to Persona. (If you want to migrate away from Persona, you can just send the users an email and introduce the new authentication mechanism.)

2. Most websites will need some way to contact the user, and will ask for their email address any way.

3. Users understand the concept of email addresses as identifiers.

If you care about keeping your email address private, you can always use the features your email provider offers such as forwarding email addresses.
They are not letting people run binaries without their code running in the same process. They have in essence started outlawing unmanaged code. Some don't need or want their "management". They have convinced many that the other ways are inferior, but that is just liars convincing fools.
Seriously?

Do these people have honestly nothing better to do with their time?
Please don't compare a framework with a language, even someone before did it.
All I'm seeing here is that Tim Cook will not be taking Apple in the same direction as Steve would've, as they're very different people.
No, that's unlikely. PHP's main advantage is its ease of deployment on shared web hosts: upload your files and you're done.
Indeed, the SSD that I bought a year to go at 180 Euro (Vertex 3 128GB) is now around 90 Euro. Yesterday I bought a 256GB SSD at 175 Euro. 256GB is probably enough for most regular users, and in about a year the price will be well below 100 Euro. There will be little incentive to buy a hard disk once the general public becomes more aware of the speed of SSDs.
Facebook I get, but how does he get access to bank transfers?
Pirate Bay Founder Remains In Custody
ridiculous ! ..

check this out too..... http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6368227
Why take drastic steps like abolishing all patents. A big problem right now are software and design patents. If we're not willing to outright ban them, why not limit their term to 5 years?
8 cds for a penny is ridiculous, so there has to be a catch. $39.95 for a pair of shoes sounds quite reasonable.

Having to pay for a membership without performance is ridiculous.
Consider Phlebas (1987) is 25 years old so I don't know if it still qualify's as recent.
I understand, but that's the point: for the audience it's not so interesting to see the results without the winning entries, so to maximize interest, the jury should wait to present the results until they're ready to publish the winning entries too. It's not as if the IOCCC is working on a tight schedule anyway.

This is like hearing who won in the Olympics and then watching the games later at night; sure, you can do that, but it's much more exciting the other way around.
The fact that I upvoted you means I might get charged as well. Hooray!

Are you based in the Philippines? Short of taking to the streets or "joining" Anonymous Philippines, what can we do as regular Juans?
<Series A> Gilt Groupe Investor Matrix Partners Leads $33M Round In Fashion Retail And Styling Platform JustFabulous — JustFabulous, a fashion retail and styling platform, has raised $33 million in <Series A> funding lead by Matrix Partners (who also invested in flash sales giant Gilt Groupe)[1]

The <Series B> Round was led by new investor Rho Ventures, with participation from existing backers Matrix Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) and Intelligent Beauty, JustFab’s parent company, which incubated and launched the startup in 2010. The total amount of money now raised by JustFab is $139 million.[2]

______________

From:

[1] http://www.techmeme.com/110921/p29#a110921p29

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/26/justfab-just-nabbed-another...
Clearly? No. It's buried in the last point in the second list. It's pretty scammy. Sorry, but porn sites aren't this deceptive. Hell, they talk about joining the membership, and go on to talk about how with the membership, you can buy things for 39.95. No where does it talk about credits or even implying that you can use the credits at any time.
Flying at No Mechanical Energy Cost: The Secret of Wandering Albatrosses
Do we need to sing our pitches?
That depends on the kind of services they provide. Simplest options that come to mind are nothing (like this wesbsite) or a printed reset code with owner notification on use and 1-day wait period. At the very least they can allow power users to disable password resets when they want.
Logged on and signed up. selected a shoe by clicking 'add to bag', aka 'add to cart' then went to checkout whereby I was introduced to the slimy payment page.
At it's core, Haskell is very simple. Functions are always curried. There is no subtyping. Typeclasses are the only method of polymorphism.

Everything you mentioned above is just a library on top of this.

In contrast, Scala has java-style subtyping built into the language, along with traits which are a weird mishmash of typeclasses and interfaces. There is quite a bit of complexity surrounding functions/methods. You have implicits to think about. Heck, just look at the type signatures in both languages and compare.
1) The primary reason to do separate releases is because the winning entries do not appear in the website as is. As far as I know the judges have to write separate remarks, the authors have to check any remaining problems and judges and authors have to agree on the finished write-ups. While it is a bit tedious, given the number of winning entries it seems reasonable.

2) Yup, agreed. For example the current website does not allow inspecting the code without downloading it first. (That's why I love www2.us.ioccc.org...)

3) They are not ordinary logos. They are made from the ray tracers from previous IOCCC winners (2004/garave and 2011/zucker, respectively). I do think that those logos should really link to the relevant entries, however.
Come on, are you being difficult on purpose? How are you going to boot the graphics card? Access network or disk resources?
Reality Distortion Field vs. Excellent Customer Service: Which is more effective?
Particle System - HTML5 Canvas experiment with Processing js
Do the 1-2 month chargeback, and then when you've got that, take the company to small claims court. The chargeback may bring you extra weight (or not, IANAL).
The difference, at least from my point of view, is that it is a realistic deal to find a pair of shoes for $39 dollars when I don't think it's reasonable to be able to buy X cds for a penny, for even X=1. The closer you get to the actual or expected value of what you're buying, the more unethical I feel it is, just because you're going to be tricking a greater number of people.
Personally, I've been doing Drupal for a few years now and found the knowledge and skills to be a lot harder-won than the knowledge and skills that I've picked up with Rails in the last few months. The knowledge and skills that I've picked up working with Drupal (HTTP, Databases, etc) more or less translate into general app development, so that surely has something to do with it.

I said this to my wife this morning - "you know what, building stuff in Rails just feels like it accesses my creative brain more than anything I've done before." Having been exposed to some of what Acquia is doing with their cloud hosting stuff I can say with a fair amount of certainty that almost anything under the sun can be accomplished with Drupal, but that's (the creative bit) probably why I'm on a Rails kick lately. It's just more fun (to me). The overhead does feel lower, too.

Sorry if that didn't lend any insight to your actual question.
No that's the other side of the coin. GMAC helps consumers finance their purchase.

The GMAC equivalent would be apple's credit card (with barclays) or an amazon credit card to finance purchases.
This link nothing but blogspam. Just go here for the video that the link pads with meaningless text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I
Theory doesn't matter much here. Especially not with automated debiting of checking accounts to pay the balance or some amount of interest or a combination of those.

As a customer of the card company you have the right to dispute charges as far back as you want, whether they'll honor that or not is a different question but typically up to 6 months in a card-not-present situation should give you no problem at all. And once the complaints about this company start rolling in it will get even easier.

Mass chargebacks are a very powerful weapon in the hands of organized consumers.
But for doing graphic manipulations, wouldn't it make sense that the net energy used by the GPU getting them done should be less than with the CPU?
You always need to move away from using Drupal for "highly customized web applications". Drupal is a CMS with something vaguely resembling a framework bolted on.
Thats pretty awesome! I have written my first program in Turbo Pascal :)
The quote (via two layers of blogspam):

Whenever possible, when the law is ambiguous or silent on the issue at bar, the courts should let those who want to market new technologies carry the burden of persuasion that a new exception to the broad rights enacted by Congress should be established. That is especially so if that technology poses grave dangers to the exclusive rights that Congress has given copyright owners. Commercial exploiters of new technologies should be required to convince Congress to sanction a new delivery system and/or exempt it from copyright liability. That is what Congress intended.

Translation: "The courts are in business to protect us, not you". This, broadly, has been their position from the beginning. It's ridiculous, sure, but predictable.
maybe it's just me but the prices still seem high and availability low...case in point the new WD Reds are all out of stock. And all the manufacturers are now consolidated into seagate and WD...a bummer since I liked hitachi and samsung drives a lot.
Quick correction: the Chinese translation of supporting iCloud should be 即将支持iCloud, but not 即将支援iCloud
NutsManager is a power/gas/water usage tracker using JSON and nice graphs
A Tech Way Around “Creative Block”
I guess it is just that hysteric advertisement of a bank?
You should list the actual service/platform offered. After half a minute of staring at it I know that it's something to do with questions and tutors.

Also, your testimonial portrait looks like a porn star. Find somebody that actually looks like the average user of your website.
Back in college, when Facebook was still pretty new, I met this fairly attractive girl who told me she put horseback riding as one of her interests, even though she doesn't ride.

When guys would approach her out of the blue and casually move the conversation into horseback riding, she knew that had been pre-stalking her on Facebook.

I always thought that was a rather clever social hack.
email is a useful messaging system.

However, email is not: 1) a reliable messaging system, 2) a secure messaging system, 3) a private communication conduit.
Architecture firm proposes NYC underground park
Exactly what I was thinking, and why I thought a 13% rate was outrageous. They should be able to offer much lower rates to at least some of their sellers and still make a nice return.

Edit: for comparison I can get a signature loan from my credit union for < 10%.
Taking just the title, not likely. The lesson of PHP is that it is easy to get something running for a beginning programmer, and (probably more importantly) it is very simple for a system administrator to setup. I get the feeling that the first web framework that spends and equal amount of time figuring out how to make system installs and administration easy will take over for PHP.
PC death is still here--at least of a fashion: it's a mature market, and people aren't replacing them on short timescales anymore. Instead of 1-3 years, replacement timescales became 3-5 years, and at this point it's probably 5-7 years. Desktops have largely been supplanted by laptops, and the new hotness is in the phone and tablet space.
If I were going to do this, I would: 1. Have done quite a few more people than I showed in the video, so you're seeing only the most dramatic. 2. Try to crack their email account by guessing their lost-password question from info on Facebook or other such sites, which is where I probably got the address as well. (Plus Facebook provides photo confirmation that you have the right $FIRSTNAME $LASTNAME.) 3. From there, the sky's the limit.

I don't know what the success rate of that would be, but I'm pretty confident I'd come up with plenty of fodder for a 2 minute video in well under a day of sitting in a tent.

And that's just my first knee-jerk thought. A few practice runs before hand and I'm sure I'd find some other easy tricks to pull.
Getting Started With Python in HPC
"z0mg guyz i just spent 300 euros on clothes lol dont tell anyone"
"terser code" is not an end in itself. It is neither a sign nor a goal of well written programs.
It's sad to see the slowdown in the increase of HDD sizes (and I don't feel that it was only due to the flooding, since it was already occurring to a degree before that). It used to be that there was some absurdly huge HDD available for $1000, but now we don't see anything more than 4 TB, in the $300-500 price range.
Are Entrepreneurs Really More Comfortable with Risk?
Attending PyCon Ukraine 2011 it was very interesting to hear about Distutils2. But I see that in the end they are still not in Python3.

But even without it I am going to try Python3 in my projects (hello Django 1.5, Tornado, Wheezy.web, jinja2 and a lot of others).