skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mass of habits and addictions, so behavioristically pessimistic yet quite true. I think a more useful question would be: what habits should you acquire?
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Postal voting has that. This isn't a new thing, at least in some countries.
I'm not sure that is it. I have dedicated far more time than that to other endeavours, but I can likely count on one hand the number of employers who would actually care.

I think the reality is just pack mentality. At some point, one successful business only hired those with degrees, and everyone else adopted the same policies in attempt to duplicate their success.
Passing the test and failing the interview
I did a quick real time news search for Delhi kidnapping news but nothing came up.

Why are you holding back information deliberately?
You say she was completely innocent, then why hide the story?

We all at HN, have no idea what the case is. So how can you expect help in such circumstances? We all can make a much bigger difference, if we know the true story behind.

Get the story to the Front Page, someone will push to the right person and the media will act fast.
Response to the EFF appeal here:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/no-copyrights-apis-hel...
Perhaps you desire the additional control and complexity that managing your own instances offers. If that is not the case, maybe try something like Heroku.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk (http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/) will make this easy.
It can partially solve the inrush current issue. There are still timing issues, if you slam a drive in you can shorten the timing of pin contact so much that its not effective. You also gain a real benefit in that one drive failing by something major, like a straight short, won't take out your entire system as the controller will detect the current spike and cut off the drive. Most hot-swap controllers also provide additional protection against things like pin reversal, ESD and accidental shorts on insert that you can't solve with just the connector. It all comes down to how robust you want the design really, how many failure modes you wish the system to survive.

EDIT: Those connector pins aren't normally solid gold. They are deposited metal (copper or tin) with electroplating of a few microns of gold on the surface.

Another reason to control insertion spikes is that when the first power pin hits you'll get a little arc (spark). This can cause small damage to the pins in the form of small chipping of the coating and/or carbon deposits(or oxidation of some metals). This contributes to a reduction in the number of insertions cycles the connectors will survive.
Fair enough ;-)
Yes, it is Roissy. I agree with everything you said. It's kind of like eating anchovies and Stilton cheese, rotten, but 'strangely compelling'!

For a more palatable experience, I recommend The Red Pill Room guy, Ian Ironwood, who has an excellent series of posts on the evolution of marriage, with cute artwork from a bygone age.

Sample:

'With the economic impetus for Marriage 2.0 removed, the sex-for-security trade of Marriage 1.0 becoming weaker, and cash taking the place of land as a holder of value, it was Industrialization that forced the development of Marriage 3.0, not feminism. Indeed, feminism is a by-product of the Industrial Revolution, just as Marxism is, an inevitable social response to an economic change. Women invading the workforce in large numbers greatly upset the socio-legal environment, and regulatory reform reflecting this fact was as inevitable as the rise of feminists.

Add to that the revolutionary development of the Pill, allowing a woman to control her reproductive destiny reliably for the first time in history, and between the two a tectonic shift in Male-Female gender relations was also inevitable. Liberalized divorce laws, open access to contraception and abortion services followed as a matter of course. That was as inevitable and predictable as the rise of the Civil Rights movement two generations after the end of slavery.

Marriage 3.0 is an entirely different animal than the previous two versions and their variants. Let’s break down the variants that have evolved out of the chaos and confusion, shall we?'

http://theredpillroom.blogspot.com/2011/12/marriage-10-and-1...
Thanks for reminding me to question my assumptions and think about my perspective. I'm going to have to ask around and try to get a sense of how some of my decidedly non-technical friends and family members view Google, search engines, etc.

I'm still not quite convinced about the Microsoft/Google parallels, though. I just spend some time reviewing the history of Microsoft litigation and behaviors in this respect. While admittedly no one was literally locked in with Windows, Microsoft had a long history of establishing artificial barriers to prevent people from leaving Microsoft products while simultaneously using that position to launch new products/services and drive competitors out of business. At the risk of sounding like a Google apologist, I feel like I'm more likely to see Google make decisions that seemingly place interoperability, standards-compliance, etc. potentially above their own business needs.
Gimmicky. Lots of people will try to access buzzmein.com regardless, specially if it's not a tech/nerdy product.
I've known some folk who were approached to work for G who don't have degrees. So it doesn't seem to be a general rule.
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so usually its a technical person doing the recruiting

Which, of course, never goes wrong ;-)

(I shudder to think of some of the early hiring decisions I made as a techie... I sucked. Hiring is darn hard. Being technical doesn't magically make you good at it.)
Besides, in the past, he had shown great interest in playing the devil's advocate. Doesn't do low profile cases.
"All of the companies do pay considerable amounts of other taxes in the UK such as National Insurance and raise large sums of VAT."
This observation goes well beyond enterprise software - this is preferred modus operandi of "legacy" companies, and in my mind the primary reason anyone that prefers autonomy has a hard time working for these companies. When you are the size of Walmart, unless you are strategist working for Walmart corporate, you want your employees to behave like soldiers in the military. This is not surprising given that the modern multi-national corporation, was built on the top down hierarchical model shaped after the military industrial complex. Whats further true is that, this was arguably the best way to organize a large group of people towards a common objective (increasingly share holder value in the case of the better run organizations, or executive compensation in the case of the worst type of these organizations) until very recently. However this model has run its course, and will have a very hard time defending itself against smaller, but very scalable and nimble organizations. Just as the US military realized post 9/11 that it was equipped to fight 20th century wars, but not 21st century wars, which look much more like insurgencies and are way more distributed in nature, large MNC's will have to realize that their top down, process first organization structure is doomed to fail! All we need now is more entrepreneurs to look away from social media a bit and follow Musk's lead in creating real, but more scalable and nimble companies.
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Exactly. I hate how he's pretending to make some elaborate statement, but in reality is just being childish and annoying.
If I were to guess, Skype is probably the most privacy breaching communication tool there is right now. They are giving the information way too easily to pretty much any type or level of law enforcement right now, from police to national security agencies and anyone in between, and it's not just US either.
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I don't understand the economic argument for legalization. It will turn the price of drugs into price + taxes. The current complex distribution and supply network doesn't have to pay taxes because they are already illegal, so they'll continue to charge the current price. The average addict will want drugs as cheaply as possible and would probably prefer to buy from someone in their neighborhood as opposed to a pharmacy.

In the case of mexican cartels specifically, I think there is more to it than just drug sales. They control large areas of mexico, entire towns. They're providing services of security and dispute resolution that the government can't or won't because the areas are too poor. Whenever a large portion of a country is ceded to a criminal group (like sicily used to be) unwinding the problem is more complicated than deincentivizing drug sales.
Beyond the social object
The social object is too limited -- as a design theory for social networking and interest graphs. Here's why.
I stand corrected!

Maybe I'm remembering the rules of left turns? As long as there was only one left turning lane (and you had the left turn arrow), you could turn into any of the new lanes (not just the left most lane).

Combine that with people who turn right into other-than-the-right-most-lane, and you've got a recipe for disaster.
NBC sites were hacked
I don't think there's a first world government that would survive legalisation of cocaine or heroin. It's not going to happen any time soon.
NBC's Saturday Night Live homepage hacked
Skype let my personal account of more than 3 years be hacked, charged with hundreds of dollars on my credit card. When I called they said they didn't see the charges. I changed my password right away and decided I would call my bank to contest them if they went through...

Two days later they cancelled the charges and locked my account, and I had to spend 2 hours with their slow customer service to get it unlocked.

Clearly that company doesn't understand a thing about security OR customer service.

I switched to Google Voice.
For a long time, the Motorola 68K family was ahead of Intel in every respect. What it didn't have was the whole PC industry depending on it and feeding it with endless financial resources.
The infamous group Anonymous pledged war against The Zeta cartel in 2011 with announcements that they had names, and even personal information about the cartel members. Unfortunately, anonymous decided to back down due to threats of aggravation. Though, in the end the hostage was released the cartel has killed numerous internet bloggers/reporters, and has kidnapped hackers to perform black-hat cyber attacks against targets...

It all seems to come down to the amount of resources one has to invest in such an effort. The various law enforcement communities are fighting with the "latest" technology but, the cartels are right there with them if not below or above them...

In the United States, the latest defense may be the use of various autonomous robots such as, submarines, boats & drones.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mexico-confirms-seeking-...

Unfortunately, similar techniques are being applied by the cartels to thwart the deterrents. It seems only obvious because, its less weight, and less people = cheap.

Like Autonomous ultralight UAV.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4415508

Autonomous ROV/USV
Submarines without life support systems must be cheaper.

Just mischievous robots in general,
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...

Think on it.
> Why are you holding back information deliberately?

Because her privacy matters a great deal to us. This is not just any ordinary person and it would harm rather than help if this blew up in the media.

> You say she was completely innocent, then why hide the story?

Because even people that are innocent are not always benefiting from having their plight spread out for all the world to see.

> We all at HN, have no idea what the case is.

No, you are wrong in that. There are a few HN'ers that know the real identity and some of the details behind this (pg for one). And I'm pretty sure they'd agree that keeping her identity a secret is of paramount importance with respect to her safety.

> So how can you expect help in such circumstances?

Well, I gambled (rightly it appears) that HN would be capable of judging for itself whether or not we were sincere in our appeal for help and that we had weighed properly the decision to keep her identity a secret.

> We all can make a much bigger difference, if we know the true story behind.

No, you could not. It would satisfy some curious people but it would not make a material difference. If this situation is not resolved in a positive way in short order and with the main protagonists' permission we may still have to do this, but if and when that happens it means we have lost the current battle.

> Get the story to the Front Page, someone will push to the right person and the media will act fast.

It may come to that yet. Better hope with us that it will not come to that.
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Here's one I wrote that wraps the algorithm with passwords https://github.com/ryancdotorg/threshcrypt and you can set the same password multiple times to accomplish the second 'advanced scenario'.
I know exactly what you mean ... I knew I couldn't really help but wanted to comment with support. I was afraid it would add to the noise and potentially obscure the valuable parts of the conversation so I simply up-voted the parent and the useful comments within the thread. In any case, I think it's amazing how well we tend to get along ... and how well we cover the world. Someone is always awake on HN!
> It will turn the price of drugs into price + taxes

The price of avoiding authorities, not being able to openly use legitimate financing, or other facilities (transportation, storage, distribution chains), and constricted pool of talented employees is very high and currently included in the price. Also, many potential customers are not being served currently because they're not willing to engage in highly illegal transactions.

Even with fairly high taxes, regular corporations would easily be able to deliver product of higher quality and generally better experience not necessarily more expensively. Just like they do with alcohol, tobacco, or chocolate.
The Freakonomics book has a counter argument to Gladwell's conclusions. They point out that crime went down nationwide and in cities at the same rate as NYC without the NYPD policies. They also point out a connection to the legalization of abortion.

// I am reporting on a book not expressing my own opinion
link bait. actual title: i fixed an obscure bug in the cpython tokenizer.
In Portugal is illegal have drugs... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
(Interesting wiki to read by the way...)
They not only "decriminalized" drugs, they also put a lot of money in prevention with TV ads and more... They educated people first... I will say that it is the best/only way we should follow.
I saw Mikhail Gorbachev speak yesterday and I'll remember it forever.
I work for a company that relied primarily on Google for it's source of revenue. About a year ago our traffic dramatically dropped because of a change in Google's algorithm. We always had plans to diversify our business but we never did. At the time it hit us hard, but we were able refocused our business. As a consequence our business is far healthier than it was in the past. Google is only a fraction of our traffic generation strategy, essentially we have a sustainable business model now.
Prescient visions of today's computing go back much farther than that, to the research of Alan Kay and others at PARC. I don't have the materials in front of me but my summary from memory is that they proposed the existence of small computers you would have with you at all times, which could access wireless networks. The small computers would use that access to retrieve information for their user, and to report location to an environment that would respond. It's not too far from what we have with smart phones now. And Alan Kay in particular conceived of a tablet computer very similar to the tablets we have today. I believe all this work was done in the 1970s and 1980s.
>I am pretty sure, the case is NOT as dramatic as it is being described (or the victim not as innocent)

Surely you realize how asinine it is to make a claim of being "pretty sure" with further emphasis in relation to something which you necessarily know nothing about?

You're trying to paint yourself as some kind of downvote martyr for "speaking up" here.

I'd expect the downvotes aren't for speaking up so much as they're for being stupidly assumptive and preemptively dismissive of anyone against your baseless assertion.
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I'm going to guess that this is the person who started Ask HN.
How does it show any decline? PC market is stable and only grows. Especially in the corporate sphere. All this talk about tablets killing PC - is pure idiocy. Tablets are toys in comparison to PCs. Only when mobile computers will develop to be real PC alternatives (i.e. offering equivalently ergonomic user interfaces - hollographic and what not), one can start talking about them replacing PCs. While they use touchscreen input, they'll remain alongside PCs.
What is the use case for something like this? Copyright infringing files? "Valuable" downloads?
> PC sales are declining and tablets are hyped.

> PC usage isn't declining. There is just no reason to upgrade any more.

And there won't be a reason to replace them 5 years down the road. PCs (as in lots of local software and data) will continue to be used while they last, but not longer. They will be used for longer and longer, until they break. Then they will be recycled.

> Now Windows 8 and surface aren't perfect, but they will become in time...

Time is something they don't have. If Windows 8 fails to generate enough interest in new usage scenarios for PCs, others will remain dominant in the post-PC era. Microsoft's strength is the 90%+ market share in an important segment. Make that share small or that segment unimportant and Microsoft will, once again, be both micro and soft.
1) Someone who has no choice e.g. there are no "honest" courts, or all service providers with whom an individual could contract with demand the right to choose courts of arbitration.

2) First, this is an unsubstantiated statement of faith. Second, we're not talking about bribes but systemic bias i.e. the entire private court is lopsided. You're thinking that the problem would be of the form of "I'll just pay judge X to render my preferred verdict." I'm talking about a problem of "all courts have a fundamentally pro-business bias and impose a severe burden of proof on plaintiffs pursuing business defendants."

3) Again, bribery is not the issue. Selection of the judges is the issue.

4) And in which court will these suits be heard!?

Perhaps you think that there will simply be other private court systems set up with select mostly "liberal" judges. Who will pay for these? Wealthy individuals?

And which business would insist on being heard in these courts? As it stands, almost every large business with whom you contract has an arbitration clause which you accept when you engage them. Those clauses always reserve for themselves the right to select the arbitration venue. Why would that change? Which business would ever decide to concede that right, or to choose a consumer-friendly venue?
I have no problem with you driving without a seatbelt on, so long as you sign a waiver that says that if you do not have enough money in the bank and your insurances will not cover you, theother emergencny room staff must turn you down before providing you treatment at my expense. So long as I am effectively buying you implicit insurance I sure as hell want you to be careful. Feel free to buy your way out of that.

That is a strawman for decriminalizing drugs. When you don't wear a seatbelt, you risk others' financial harm. We deal with that largely without loss of other people's lives. When you mug people for cash at knife point to buy heroin, peole get physically hurt. You cannot possibly sign a waiver saying that you will not mug, steal, break-in, etc. if you decide to try heroin.

Mind you I am not arguing against decriminalization or legalization of drugs. Just saying that your argument is bogus.
Where can I read more about this and/or a general history of mainframes?
I used to live in the US, now I live in Europe and I can see what you mean.

However I can argue that we should think twice before to make legal something that get you addicted with the first dose and mess up with your brain in a so heavy way.

(Yes I do know about alcohol but it is a cultural and, by the way, different issue)
It would have been even more profound for each daughter to have been made a prodigy in a different specialization. I suppose the availability of instructors in three separate areas would have been a barrier though.
Javascript in the browser comes to mind.
As an engineering manager - I'm all for pursuit of knowledge and excellence. I could care less whether a person has a degree as long as he has the subject matter expertise. Multiple well respected engineers in my group don't have a degree.

I think its really a personal choice. You can get a degree and not have to keep justifying your choice, and how good you are even without it. Or, you can be a strong man and choose to ignore the mainstream perception. Either ways, the knowledge and subject matter-expertise is non-negotiable to succeed.
Omg. After reading other comments, first thing I'd do when I saw a cop with that is pull out my phone and start filming him back.
When people use less and less their PCs they are less inclined to buy newer ones in the future. When it's time to replace my mom's PC, I doubt she'll need more than a small HDMI plug sized Android device connected to a large screen.
Interestingly enough this is exactly my sentiment as well. Saw it and then couldn't find it again for months. I'll play around with it a bit.
> Gommers contacted Skype, another of his firm's clients, and asked them for the suspect's account data.

This seems to be an ongoing theme: personal relationships causing people to do unethical things. It's particularly true in journalism. You want to help your friend, right? You don't want to make them mad.

Standards (like Skype's alleged "policy") need to be better, and much more strictly enforced.
Do you people ever know what you're talking about? Don't you think you owe it to everyone to explain first why the current system of private arbitration does, or could potentially, render better justice than public courts?

The private arbitration system approximates to a high degree exactly what you idiots are proposing, and yet it conforms to almost nobody's definition of justice. (except corporate lawyers'?)

But no. Let's dismantle hundreds of years of common law and the notion of equality before the law, the fundamental basis of our society, because some naive, uninformed kids were convinced by a couple of half-assed comments on Reddit.

Your entire argument hinges on the implicit assumption that all parties have the full and unlimited right to choose the venue in which their case will be heard. That is a complete fiction, given everything we know about human behavior and history.
In-sync brain waves hold memory of objects just seen
70% of the earth is covered by water. If need be we can always desalinate with nuclear energy.

Soil? Are you serious? 95% of soil depletion has happened in the last century, true, but we only discovered that soil can be depleted as a result. We also discovered that it can be replenished, and how to accomplish this.
That like every problem is still related to Education (note the capital E)
Of course it would be equally disturbing, but what I find disturbing is that any wall-mounted camera could have someone behind it as well. In fact, it could be on display on some URL (google for "google hacks camera").
OP did have a patch submitted and merged into CPython right? You are talking as though all the OP did was to add a strip in the program.