skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's hard to conceive, but you might not be the target market. Microsoft probably has people testing these things. I have no trouble skimming it.
For other commenters that really haven't heard about what's going on with the ITU, Timothy Lee at Ars Technica covered it (Google's side, at least) pretty well a few days ago:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/google-rallies-op...

ICANN is in no way ideal, but shady ACTA-style agreements that would increase the ITU's power is not an acceptable solution.
How I ran ThinkTank/1987 in Chrome
Our policy is 50% upfront before any concept meetings even begin and 50% upon completion before we deliver and launch their site. We never do Net terms anymore in the 15 years building web and mobile apps. We sometimes get the "accounting only pays net 15 or 30". Our answer to that is to invoice the balance and schedule delivery when the check arrives. If you are upfront with your terms, they will typically follow your standard. In our experience we had 1-2 clients in the beginning that did net 30 which turned into 60. We were small and cash flow was tight so it meant we needed to float expenses. No more.
Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883
"Microsoft probably has people testing these things."

It sure does. But what does Microsoft do with those recommendations?

The company had a group test the Kin devices, too. The group decided the devices were unusable, and Microsoft decided to launch them as-is anyways.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/unreleased-internal-m...
Russian Scientists Disprove "Out of Africa" Theory
Simply because in some countries/cultures/religions, men are superior to women. Women are treated as property, without same rights as men.
Are there airport-style security checks in train stations London? I don’t know, but I guess not.

At any rate, there aren’t any in Germany, even though two islamic terrorists actually targeted two German regional trains in 2006. They left suitcases with – luckily – non-functional bombs in both (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_German_train_bombing_plot). That’s pretty much the only (attempted) islamic terror attack that ever happened in Germany†.

Bigger train stations usually have quite some police presence and there are (horribly racist) spot checks, but that’s all. (Usually the police want to check your ID card and then radio in the name to see whether there’s anything on your name. I’m guessing they are also trying to look for suspicious activity, but the most permanent reminder of the possibility of terrorist attacks are regular announcements to not leave your baggage unattended.)

Even when there was a lot of fear of terror attacks on trains or train stations being imminent a few years back, police presence (in bigger train stations) was merely bumped and you got to see some policewomen and men with submachine guns.

Everything would probably collapse in Germany if airport style checks were introduced in train stations. It’s just not realistic. The way trains are used doesn’t play nice with security checks. I mean, tons of people use trains in Germany to commute. Those trains are already plenty late in many major metropolitan areas, add security checks to that and you have a recipe for disaster. Plus: There are so many train stations, do you need checks in everyone of those? Even just including every high-speed train stop would probably result in many more train stations in Germany needing security equipment than there are airports in Germany.

But everyone can see that high-speed train stops are not enough. The terrorists in 2006 targeted regional trains! Those stop at train stations that are no more than a block of concrete next to the tracks. And those trains are plenty packed, often more so than high-speed trains.

Traveling by air has a different pace. It fits security checks better. There are few airports and airplanes don’t make dozens of stops god knows where.

The economic cost of bringing airport style security checks to trains easily outweighs any benefits even security fanatics might fantasize about. That’s why it doesn’t happen, at least not in countries with heavily used and dense train networks. (Now, countries with very sparse train networks that are not heavily used are a completely different story. Airport-style security checks do happens in those countries. Uzbekistan would be one example.)

—

† In 2011 an Islamist shot and killed two US soldiers (wounded two more) on the way to Afghanistan who were in a bus in front of Frankfurt Airport (about to be transported to Ramstein Air Base).
Government incentives in the form of winnie blues and flannelette shirts then? ;)
I don't think translink and Uber are serving the same market.
Startups & Timing
My personal complaint with CCTVs is, "why are they so hidden?" I understand that in a public place (shopping mall, public park etc), people could be watching me. I'm alright with that simply for the fact that those people watching me are themselves subject to the same condition of being watched. CCTVs are often black on very dark wall/ceiling or very reflective against a light wall/ceiling making them very hard to pick out unless you are looking for them. It wouldn't be surprising to me if some of them are even more hidden (embedded in decorations, wall hangings, toys, mannequins etc). To me, some of these CCTVs are effectively an attempt at being robotic peeping-Toms.

I think a CCTV would afford more real security (if it does at all to begin with) by following the norms of a real watchman (being visible).

tl;dr I think I have right to watch the watchmen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%...), even though this is not guaranteed by any law.

If the police feel that hidden cameras are the way to go, then they should surrender the protection that claim to have (not being allowed to videotape or otherwise perform surveillance on a police officer). (I am not at all sure about this last part, please correct me should I be wrong).

edit: replaced <em></em> with *s
It's probably way cheaper with cameras..
I am reminded of http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/07/27/would-you-like-a... or http://lesswrong.com/lw/6vq/on_the_unpopularity_of_cryonics_...
This is for c# not c or c++, fyi
> Interesting that what you described is reminiscent of the Jahiliyyah

In what way?
It's been almost a decade since I used a CRT, either.
Sharp unveils an 80-inch touchscreen for the boardroom
The Row v. Wade decision inferred a constitutional right to privacy within the 14th amendment. If this right exists, then it makes no sense to limit it to specific subclasses.
Did you read the essay all the way through? He covers that. The prime focus is on explaining on what actually happened and how and what the ramifications are, but the author does mention that it's a problem that the government is inflicting this requirement on people who don't need it.
The difference being the Confucianists got jobs which they didn't deserve.
Not sure what you mean about SHOM?
I'm surprised no one has posted the official youtube video yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1HZIQliuoA
I expected a similar pun. Maybe someone will now have a chip on their shoulder to have a chip on their shoulder.
> Unless you are shown the other part of the world you may never realize the futility of your ideology and actions

Exactly. If you think christianity is any better, I've got news for you:

http://www.towleroad.com/2012/05/nc-pastor-wants-to-build-el...
Absolutely! But I also think of it as a responsibility to live and travel and experience, given that I have the rare opportunity to do so without being born into wealth.

In regards to the proposed tech: if this allows for cleaner, cheaper transportation down the road for everyone then the economic opportunities improve for the globe.
A lot of people may not be in that "target market" for the Metro UI, and yet Microsoft is forcing it on anyone who might want to still use Windows in the future.
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So many free apps. There must be some secret I'm missing. My free apps that I've tried just haven't made as much as paid.

Note: I haven't made any games with consumable IAP. Other app types with upgrades and ad removal.
Most of them are probably just reworked websites.
The website is beautiful, but I don't even think the notion of a "javascript shopping cart" should exist. It's stupidly dangerous. This is real money we're talking about! Wow.

Also, this confused me for a few seconds...I thought dials went clockwise ;) http://i.imgur.com/QEl7v.png
You're assuming that protecting people from terrorism is actually a primary motivation of these measures, and that powerful police institutions might might give up a chance at increased control of the population, which makes their jobs easier, for the sake of efficiency.

If you give the police free reign, you'll end up with a society that's only efficient for the police.
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It's debatable. Some steps have been taken to mitigate the impact (foil envelopes for your Passport Card, basic shielding on e-Passports, the introduction of MiFare DESFire as an alternative to MiFare Classic) but AFAICT it's still possible to skim the cards remotely. There was a period of time when these concerns were all over mainstream media (especially in Canada and Europe, during the migration to Chip-and-PIN, particularly for credit cards) but you don't see it often these days (except in extreme cases like the one in this article).
Scala and Clojure, the two leading alternative languages for the JVM, certainly have different strengths:

* Scala is statically typed, even using parametric types, while Clojure is dynamically typed

* Scala enables auto-currying when methods are defined in the Haskell style, while Clojure focuses on variadic functions

* Scala has easy-to-read syntax, with easy-to-remember operator precedences, while Clojure has syntactic macros instead

* Scala uses actors for concurrency, while Clojure uses its other approaches

Perhaps we shouldn't be considering them competitors but instead look for ways to more easily use them together, utilizing the strengths of each.

We could use Clojure macros to generate Scala source, e.g.

(defn object-main [s]
(str "object " pgm-nm "{\r\ndef main(args: Array[String]){\r\n" s "}\r\n}\r\n"))
(defn println [s]
(str "println(" s ")\r\n"))
(defn call-method [obj meth p1]
(str "(" (str obj) ")." meth "(" (str p1) ")"))
(object-main
(println
(call-method 1 "+" 2)))

We could create a whole library of such Clojure functions to generate Scala code, which would give us syntactic macros for the Scala ecosystem.

And when Scala AST macros are mature, we could use them to generate Clojure code.

Using Scala and Clojure together would bring the best of both worlds to the JVM. Wouldn't that just be the grooviest?!
I'm very excited about this as well. Any hints about what's on the roadmap?

Would love to see easy versioning with custom mime types and link headers for pagination and associated resources. Maybe that doesn't belong in core... but it would still be pretty cool.
> If Joe shoots Tim, is it your fault because you didn't stop Joe?

If you're a friend and supporter of Joe's, you testify that he's a good man in the court (or United Nations), if you elected a government that gave Joe the weapon, if you profited from Tim being killed, then yes, you're also guilty. You've basically delegated the dirty job of "finding cheap oil by any means necessary so I can have an easier life" to Joe.

I'm not saying you should be the world's police; what I'm saying is if you profit from others being oppressed (so the oppressor can sell you oil cheaper so you can have a better life), it's your duty as a human being to try to change things for your brother.

Of course, if you're not profiting from that oppression, or aren't supporting the oppressor, then it's NOT your duty but still it would be nice to intervene.

> ... don't shift the blame where it isn't due.

Not at all. Those dictators are guilty of all those crimes. No one's arguing against that.
The total power output of a 747 at takeoff is 90MW (90,000,000W), while cruising it is 45MW. (According to answers.com). A kilowatt is 1000W (you seem to have been mixing up megawatts and kilowatts).
Agreed. I wonder if you could put a clause in your terms of service that states you will not give refunds for modified price amounts?

Then on your confirmation page, just have a nice "Thank you for your donation. Unfortunately, you won't be receiving any goods. Please see our TOS for details."

Probably illegal though >_>
Yes, which makes innovation sad.
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Ask HN: How much user data can I get from user via web browser
Alright, this is serious. Someone stole the password of our customer and now he logins using this password. We need to know who he is. We currently log IP, session_id, login and logout time but this is not enough to know who he is. IP addresses are mostly dynamic, session_id changes so we need another solution. Can you give an example what other things that we can collect. Is it possible to found his address, name etc somehow?
thanks for complementing :-) commenting from a zte blade is a pain.

ps.: use distribute ( * )

* - Sponsored by the Ministry Of Packaging, http://s3.pixane.com/python_comrades.png
ask for offer in writing, explain why, and that you'd prefer A, see if they are open to matching B's offer. If so, you might want to take their initial offer to B.

Get B's offer in writing and go to A. Tell A if they match it, you'll work for them.

Do so, that is, if they match B's offer, work for A. Explain to B, but invite them to contact you sometime in the future to see if you are happy at A. Use B's contact to either move to B if A isn't great or to negotiate from position from strength at A.

But work at A to start with.
Huh? They're forcing it as much as they're forcing the UI of the desktop mode. What does that even mean anyway.
You should know that Translink (aka the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority) has nothing whatsoever to do with Taxi's. That's regulated at the provincial level.

> quasi-government (sic)

aka, the corporate structure used by participating municipalities to operate a unified public transportation system in a metropolitan area

> heavily subsidized by taxpayers

That's literally what the "public" part in "public transportation" means (gasp! that's socialism!)

> and is still running in deficit

Like every public transportation project everywhere? A valid and important criticism of Translink but at least a robot drives me to work on a monorail every day faster than I could drive there on empty roads, never mind in traffic.

All of this is completely irrelevant to the actual story unless you think that Uber is in competition with public buses, but you don't seem that confused.

> not shy to regulate it instead of looking out for consumers

You've clearly never lived somewhere with a booming unregulated taxi market. Do you take things like not getting extorted, scammed, robbed or raped when jumping into a strangers car in the middle of the night for granted? You can thank the people regulating the taxi industry.

Regulatory bodies, like any group of people given some power, public or private, will try to expand it's power base and will abuse that power but taxi regulation was brought about by people looking out for consumers.

I think this decision in particular is outrageous protectionism but your take on things made me think an adult opinion was warranted.
That it is is.
Microsoft probably has people testing these things.

Without knowledge of the test conditions and methodology, this is a meaningless statement.
Kudoster: A great app to send thanks to your friends tonight
You missed chacham's point. You are right that both parties have to agree to make a contract. But on top of that it's not a contract unless both sides get something out of the deal. If you sign a piece of paper to exchange $10 for nothing, it's not a contract.
I think Google is going for something which a vast majority can relate to. Making it detail oriented might give the perception that whatever this is, it only affects the techies.

That said, it should have still have details for those who fall in the category "I would like to know, but if it's not mentioned here, I am not going to do my own research".

When it says YouTube can be tolled, a detail page explaining that currently YouTube doesn't have to pay anything to the providers as consumer pays for it, and this is how it always has been, and how tolling will affect the overall web can help put things in perspective.

I doubt many people know how the internet works, and how putting barriers will affect them. Light details on how the internet works, with some scenarios on how it will affect a normal consumer will be the right mix.
You might try the 99 Prolog problems:

https://sites.google.com/site/prologsite/prolog-problems

The Scala version was fun and useful.
Testing won't necessarily help when there's a complete lack of design sensibility. Tests can be poorly framed and misinterpreted. This ui fails on basic ux and design principles.
It's because you need to be regulated to be allowed to operate a taxi or limousine service. That's because of the history of horrific things people do to each other when taxi's aren't regulated.

As to what logic is behind this other than protecting their members against the new guy I have no idea.
I'll just leave this here:

http://io9.com/5927112/chinas-worst-self+inflicted-disaster-...
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As long as we're playing number games, the combined population of Ireland and the UK was 28 million in 1845 according to WA. If we're going to blame the UK, we should probably include citizens of the UK in the tally. Really, it's hard to make a direct comparison since it appears to me that we're trying to compare a problem in a single province controlled by the UK and a general problem across all of China. If Canada, Britain, Ireland, Australia, and India had all had huge famines in 1845 that might be a little more comparable to the Chinese famine.

But as you say it's not incredibly instructive to look at it by the numbers.
Canada has the Bell (telephone) and Rogers (cable) duopoly. In addition, both of them offer internet service and cellular data service. Odds are, if the Canadian government (agencies and governments underneath the Canadian federal government or any of the provincial governments and their subordinate agencies) ever did need information about anyone they could call one of these two companies first.

Note: I am not at all sure if Canadian laws allow for this kind of thing, and I am not all accusing either company or any of their competitors of being party to such a request. I'm merely indicating that because of the market dominance of two very large telecommunication companies who practically own the cables underground, the airwaves above, and reasonable number of media outlets in Canada between them, the number of requests an entity would need to make to gather information about someone is pretty small. I would not be surprised if the order of requests for information went something like: call Rogers and get any info, call Bell and get any info, call Google and get any info.

Edit: added "In addition,"
Note that the Irish famine was so severe only because the English accepted Malthus' theory that human populations would expand to the carrying capacity of the land and then die back in famines. Therefore intervening would just lay the groundwork for a larger, later, famine.

Nobody at the time had come to terms with the fact that improvements in agriculture had massively increased the carrying capacity of the land. Whether we eventually are forced into famine or manage to curb populations before that point is still uncertain. But there is no question that the English could have intervened, stopped most of the casualties, and there would not have been a quick recurrence of the famine.
I worked on the original 1990s UK CCTV research.

The UK CCTV is widespread in large cities and operated BY THE POLICE FORCE. It is also on most major roads: look for the blue cameras.

CCTV does not 'cut down crime' in fact it does the opposite: it increases crime by a small but measurable effect.
I think this is a great idea, despite its obvious flaw.

To make it a better offering, I would probably add sample custom payment gateway "proxies" in common languages (i.e. PHP, Ruby, etc.) for security.

What I mean by proxy is provide some generic server-side code as a middle man for the payment gateway which can confirm the details of an order (on your server) haven't been tampered with before forwarding onto the actual gateway (PayPal, etc.)

This way, the shops who don't mind dealing with dodgy purchases can run 100% client-side, while more others can use this feature to prevent invalid orders being created.

Am I talking sense, or day dreaming and missing a big inherent flaw?
Checking visited links and browser config including plugins has a good chance to give you a unique fingerprint. Though depending on how the password was taken, it's possible that you are dealing with multiple people with the same access. Consider having the user contact law enforcement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/every-browser-unique-r...
If you read Amartya Sen's work on the Bengali famine, it is clear that imperialist democratic countries can cause famines in their colonies.
I don't think we are that far off here, but we're going to have to agree to disagree. I don't we are profiting from them being oppressive. We are profiting from a stable govt. I'm not convinced that random rebels (who are also Muslim) are going to be a huge improvement for women.

Maybe we should ask the current govt to improve themselves as part of our sales and aid, but I don't think that makes us responsible. The point is that the act of them oppressing women does not in any way shape or form help us. Stable govt helps us, and the current govt happens to be oppressive. That's where your argument breaks down. Killing Tim is not helping us profit. It's just happening, and we aren't stopping it. That's very different from that act helping us. We'd be perfectly fine with the current stable govt not being oppressive.
Judge orders sex harassment plaintiffs to produce Facebook passwords
Land surveyor and cartographer here. I just came by to say that while "traps" are common on land maps, in nautical cartography they are not. I don't understand why anybody would reasonably surmise that this is a "trap island" since marine cartographers do not use them.
Can you elaborate how the UI fails? Is it the horizontal scrolling?
Domain expertise is extremely important as brudgers said. But you can hire that expertise to some extent.
ANPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...) is a big mass surveillance operation.

"The UK has an extensive (ANPR) automatic number plate recognition CCTV network. Effectively, the police and security services track all car movements around the country and are able to track any car in close to real time. Vehicle movements are stored for 5 years in the National ANPR Data Center to be analyzed for intelligence and to be used as evidence."

"What we're trying to do as far as we can is to stitch together the existing camera network rather than install a huge number of new cameras," - Mr Whiteley chairman of the ANPR steering committee said"
Amazed by the turnout. What an awesome thanksgiving!

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