skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just happened to register a Gmail account. You're given a Google+ profile by default but you can dig into the settings and delete it. It is a hassle and it is obnoxious, but it is possible.

That being said, I'm really frustrated with Google and other Social Media companies for this aggressive behavior.

There are hardly any laws in place protecting consumer information or regulating the troves of information being collected through social media. I imagine Facebook and Google at this point must have more extensive "dossiers" on more people than spy agencies.

It makes me a little uncomfortable, I don't fully understand why. Nor can I grasp what the implications of all this data collection/mining are yet. But here we are going full speed ahead.

Also I think this mindset officially makes me an old fart.
Did you read the article?

The EPA was the one issuing credits, apparently against its own rules. That is arbitrage of something with zero cost and greater-than-zero value in the market, not fraud. There is no "protest" against this rule evident in the article, etc.

Both the Canada Border Services Agency and the US EPA have launched investigations into the possibility of fraud, although the companies claim that the practice was totally legal.

So, according to the article, there is no evidence that there was fraud. But there is apparently a case of poorly designed or executed issuance procedures for these credits.

Also, the idea of the credits is a little odd. To promote the "measurement" of biofuels? Well, they are doing that...so, nobody is doing anything (evidently) against the policy intentions. So, unless there is some form of un-evidenced criminality...this looks like bad rules/management...more than anything else.

Ethics nothwithstanding.
The Haxe macro system is also pretty powerful.

As well as consuming Haxe AST fragments, macros can have compiler-managed dependencies on external files. We have an Omnigraffle parser that can run within the macro environment and do some simple code generation from diagrams.
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Apple killed the netbook
The 5 year old computer can easily run Ubuntu and now Mobile phones will, also. What don't you get: this is Canonical running ahead of the pack?
But this thing will need two window managers to be useful and applications optimized for touch AND mouse/keyboard.
Is rather have two computers. It's not like carrying a phone is a hardship.
Pedantry? No, geography. A traditional use of maps is for the living to draw the locations with emotional significance to the deceased (and then you'd post them in their tomb). Chinese and Japanese maps both were more concerned with political and emotional importance than absolute scale.

So it is with many tribal cultures. Map-making as Westerners understand it may be completely foreign. Certainly it was for the Native Americans, and you see maps in tribal cultures reference landmarks and geographies that you simply can't see or understand without a deep understanding of the flora and fauna, with (what we would call) "distortions" applied to emphasize danger, or emotional meaning, or cultural import.

Except they're not distortions. They're accurate to the user of the map. They're just not accurate to your GPS system. Absolute scale is the only thing GPS is concerned with, but being able to define anything absolutely is an incredibly modern thing.

I don't see it as "people around the world who are buying tools that improve their lots in life." I think you are expressing a very imperialist mindset with the words you are using. A GPS system which cannot innately apply emotional or cultural distortions to match the worldview of the user is, by that very nature, imposing the worldview of the GPS creator on it.

So, yes, I think manifest destiny is exactly what you're advocating for in your comments here.
This is almost always the first reaction from customers. They love that they are able be "everywhere" for relatively little money.
Rather an unfair summary - their own conclusion was more like 'Promising, but will face an uphill battle. Some lag that we hope will be cleared up before launch.'
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iirc re caches regexps. so unless you're using many (more than the cache size [edit: 100]), i wouldn't worry (well, and also measuring before optimising...)
Hi Everyone. First off, thank you all who gave feedback. It was all very helpful.

So I sat down for lunch with my friend about a week ago. As far as he was concerned, it was just to go over the first draft of the business plan. Mid way through our Jersey Mike's subs, I eased into the discussion by asking him how his work load was at his 9-5, and if he was handling everything okay. After that, I basically just voiced my concern over his bandwidth within the context of having 2 other full-time co-founders w/ no income being dependent on him and his output.

I made my case, and made sure that he understood it wasn't an issue of ability, but really just a logistical issue of him being physically available to do the work that's been tasked to him. And asked him if he was comfortable having the livelihood of 2 other co-founders (1 who JUST got married, and another with his 2nd kid on the way) in his hands. I think when I put it that way, it really dawned on him that taking a week to do anything when 2 of us don't have income is a huge responsibility on his part. Long story short, everything ended very amiably. We actually went to go see Hobbit afterwards.

Surprisingly, he said he still wanted to be a part of the project just for the sake of participating something he believed in. I told him we'd love to have him help to any capacity, but at least now instead of resenting when he was late on something, we'd be thankful for his help.

I'm 100% confident that I made the right choice. I feel we (the remaining team) have already benefited from it, because in the last 2 weeks of holiday... the ex-cofounder was supposed to help with some additional feedback since he wasn't doing anything, but I haven't heard from him since. Which is probably what would have happened even if he was still a co-founder. So at least our destiny is not in the hands of someone who doesn't have as much on the line.

Again, thanks for everything!

-Noah Kim, Kowop.com
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> Sounds legal

On the contrary, sounds a lot like a standard "carousel fraud"

> and I doubt they would have done it otherwise.

... Which happens despite being illegal.

> Good example of why most regulation is ridiculous

Laws aren't perfect, lets try no laws!
A lot of people are trying to fix this right now. A lot of people think that most API's, even though guided by Oauth or Oauth 2.0, are easy to implement, and it's a huge misconception. So many of the API's have quirks and issues all the time, making it incredibly time consuming to implement, learn, and keep up to date.

Making the process easier is a huge need right now. There are a lot of apps, and it's all becoming more separated. People want to integrate, and it's a pain in the ass to integrate quickly and cleanly.

EmergentOne and Apigee are helping people create standard API's.

Zapier and IFTTT are giving you a UI to meld them together.

Cloudsnap, Singly, and Webshell are all doing what you're describing, each with a different target of apps. Singly and Webshell are seemingly more social, whereas Cloudsnap is more related to business apps.

And of course, YQL, which has been around a long time.

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Disclosure: I'm a designer for Cloudsnap, and above is my opinion and not necessarily the views of the company.
One could open and close Notepad and Calc all day long and even do some light websurfing with IE with no problem, just to find the system bogs down trying to work with a real productivity app like an IDE, a video editor, or even a spreadsheet.

I think we've all seen a slow desktop before. Windows generally has minimum requirements well below that which you would want to have for serious productivity work. An OS has to leave some RAM and storage space for the user's apps.
Likely its an argument to use parameterized queries which fix the SQL injection problem altogether. I'm not familiar with Ruby, but surely they support it in 2013?
Show HN: WiFi for a Small Tech Conference/Meetup
> the matter of Facebook being the leading social network

Netscape was the leading browser when IE started being bundled. I don't disagree with you, but I don't think that argument makes a lot of sense.
You'll be happy with Ubuntu on your phone until the first update where they'll randomly replace the audio subsystem and break everything.

Not that I'm a bitter ex-Ubuntu user or anything.
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So this ritual isn't there to annoy you. Sorry that it does. Waiters do because it saves the restaurant money and because not doing so can cost them money.

Huh? How so?

Let me explain. My apologies in advance if you already know this. Checking on your table is called a food check and usually happens a few minutes after your food is delivered. It's to make sure you got everything your ordered, the meat is cooked to your liking, all you sides are there, the stuff you are allergic to isn't on there, etc...

Why?

Here's two example scenarios:

1. The wait staff does a food check and finds a problem which they can fix. If they did not fix it, odds are you won't come back. If you don't come back, the restaurant loses future revenue plus gets bad word of mouth that further reduces revenue. An unfixed problem meal means lower waiter tips too.

2. The waiter doesn't do a food check. Unscrupulous guests will eat almost all their meal and then complain to the manager. The manager often will give the meal away. Because the waiter didn't do a food check, some restaurants will take the cost of the meal out of the waiter's tips.

There's a even worst scenario with food allergies and lack of food checks where people can go the hospital. Hopefully it now makes sense why the ritual is there.
Market demand. It doesn't really exist.
Is Comcast The 21st Century Version Of Standard Oil?
But end users generally don't know and have no way of knowing what technology is inside a product. That seems pretty sketchy. While it's true that unintentionally infringing on a patent is not an excuse, if I'm liable for someone else's infringing without my knowledge my potential liability is completely unlimited.
> Most of our newfound forms of travel depend on engines, which haven't been around long. That's the reason travel was fairly stagnant for so long, IMO.

Indeed, the work source was a major factor: before the 18th century, there was no efficient and mobile source of work... outside of people and beasts.

> Bicycles on the other hand have been around for a while.

Nope. The first recorded and verifiable ancestor to the bicycle dates back to the early 19th century: Baron Karl von Drais's Laufmaschine in 1817. It had two wheels in-line and could be steered. But users ran on it, propelling it by pushing the ground with their feet (hence the name "running machine"). Oh, and it was solid wood (22kg)

The next elements we associate with an actual bicycle only appeared in 1863: cranks and pedals attached directly to the front wheel.

And in 1885, the "rover" with its chain drive to the back wheel and equally-sized wheels would be the first one you'd recognize as a modern bicycle.
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I wrote this article (and revised it a couple times) this fall/winter after helping a small conference get a 30 Mbps net connection serving about 200 devices at its peak.

I was wondering if anyone else has experience getting something like this going on their own. In researching how I was going to set up the network for this particular conference, I noted that there are very few articles discussing smaller venue WiFi.

There's a lot of discussion of huge conference WiFi improvements, and specialized companies and consultants for that purpose... but not much for a modest-sized local meetup—where one needs a short-term, cheap network that can serve anywhere between 20 and 200 or so people (a need I've seen fairly often).

Sometimes, just having a few people bring in 4G hotspots is all that's needed... but this (a) doesn't offer much speed when more than a few users connect, and (b) can't be centrally monitored/administered, and often leads to frustration.
Also remove the cap at which you no longer collect SS from payrolls. It's something around $105,000. You don't get taxed for SS on any income past that amount. The SS tax structure is one of the most regressive taxes we have.
The accepted answer is an excellent post. In it is this gem:

> Scheme's syntax-case is far more subtle and complicated than any one thing in Lisp.

While syntax-case seems complicated at first because it involves a similar mind-bending to that first time when you learned about lambda, it is my number one power tool that keeps me coming back to scheme (the other being a small 'surface area' that I can keep in my head without having to keep skipping between library documentation and code).
I am a region finalist & happen to know a few ICPC world finalists, and though one of them is very sharp analytically, I am not sure how good a proxy such problems are for a web developer, or even for most technical positions. Some of the best problem solvers I know CS-wise (not algorithmic puzzle solving, but real CS research/ implementation) are not that fast of thinkers to do very well in such circumstances without a lot of pattern matching through practice.
The Daewoo Kalos wasn't Korean, it was an American (GM) parts-bin-special.

Daewoo went to the wall, with a few projects in the drawing board, what would become the Aveo was one of them. GM bought them out, then set to work homogenising the assembly of the Aveo with wider GM techniques and parts.

There is undoubtedly some Korean influence remaining I'm sure, but it's predominantly a GM car - they were quite vocal about all the improvements they introduced.
I think the reason for this is quite simple:

Facebook can only sell you on privacy changes by trying to convince you of a better service/more convenience.

The U.S. Intelligence Community and Congress can sell you on surveillance by trying to convince you that such measures are essential in preventing American deaths.

It isn't that people don't care the government is spying on us, it is that the government has a much more compelling argument to do so.
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No one outside the US measures in F (since the parent post is about the UK, this is a weird question :)
It was super fun playing this! I made it out alive thankfully.
that never happens.
It runs desktop MS Office too. For many people/enterprises that's the gold standard yardstick for "usable PC performance".
I've been using Perfect Audience for Room 77 for a bit over a month or two now and I have some feedback to share as well.

- I appreciate the much better UI for managing campaigns and the funding/billing was all very clear. Kudos for creating an intuitive and simple UI.

- I think the CPA metrics should be broken out into click conversions only and click + view conversions as the view conversions are frankly much less attributable without doing an attribution modeling study. You also run into issues around double counting with any other retargeting or display platforms I might be using.

Wish List

- I'm moving my budgets on display more towards vendors who are providing more support for dynamic ads (feed inclusion, API integration) such as Criteo and Triggit which promises to use information about the products a user was interested in to create more targeted ads that deliver higher CTRs and more relevance.

- Maybe I'm missing it but can I adjust frequency caps myself to specific rules like "no more than 7 ads in a 24 hour period" etc.?
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Fair enough. I went back and read the article more carefully.

The EPA was issuing credits for importing biofuel.

So the company decided to ship fuel out of the country and back in to make it look like they were importing fuel, and therefore earn the credits.

Sorry, but that's fraud.

There's nothing here that is wrong about the EPAs program or behavior. They want renewal energy to be imported, and are offering a credit for that.

That this company is willing to misrepresent their goods to claim a credit they are not entitled to is not the EPAs fault.

That there was a glitch in the EPAs system does not entitle the company to take advantage.
They had skeletal tracking, but it wasn't reliable enough for consumer applications:

- OpenNI requires a calibration pose, while the technique Microsoft uses allows players to walk in and out of the frame. Kinect would not have succeeded if people had to calibrate it all the time.

- Microsoft does predictive analysis so it's much better in non-optimal environments (e.g. a living room) or in cases where it loses track of a body part because it's behind something.

- Also. To train it. Microsoft generated and processed millions of depth images from mocap data taken of people of all sorts of different shapes in sizes in all sorts of environments. It's insane. And of course they needed new algorithms to manage that...

- Lastly - no audio/speech or 3D facial expression tracking in NITE
Yes, let's blame the government for people abusing regulations. Except the regulations we like, of course. We'll call it "arbitrage" when we abuse regulations we don't like, and "fraud" when we abuse regulations we do like (like property).
I think this is a correct analogy, but you have to take something else into consideration: there are no chefs that don't cut fugu wrong from time to time. We should cut fellow programmers some slack.
"Speaking of globalization, TVs are still sold and classified in inches :-)"

Nope...
> You are going to have problems with this whenever you are composing SQL statement with any type of user-provided data as part of the raw SQL string passed to the server.

True, but Rails is not doing that, was never doing that, and the patch has nothing to do with this. So you're talking about something unrelated to this security flaw.
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Glad someone brought up CCS. I'm a member of both, and use CCS for all my in-city reservations--they are significantly cheaper (and provide 15-minute reservation increments).

Zipcar I mainly use for longer trips (since CCS has a per-mile charge), moving vans (through ZipVan), or as a backup option.

All the talk in this thread about this acquisition being an anti-competitive move by Avis ignores the fact that Zipcar isn't the only game around in many cities, and will continue to need to compete on price and service.
If the US government is involved in the prosecution, we can pretty much guarantee that we will make it worth their while. It's usually something like "oh you made 500m profit from fraud? How about 50m fine, any bigger might make you go out of business, like you would have without committing fraud."
I expect some level of proof that arbitrage is reducible to fraud in the average case. Do you have any?
i don't know ruby, so forgive the dumb question, but doesn't that mean that a single syntax has two different semantics? what if you want to pass a hash to a method as the last parameter? what decides whether it is treated as a hash or keywords?
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No, 5ESS was the switch that used out-of-band signalling and was not susceptible to 2600 tricks.
Blaming the EPA for companies abusing a bug in the way tracking numbers were managed is like blaming the victim of a home invasion for putting up a defective lock.
Will you do it for non-developers like

http://Zapier.com, http://IFTTT.com, http://rules.io and http://elastic.io, http://ritc.io , http://kynetx.com/

or more focused on developers like :

http://temboo.com, http://singly.com, http://webscript.io, http://cloudsnap.com, http://script.google.com , http://webshell.io

What would be your main paradigm and what do you want to bring to the ecosystem?

Disclosure : I work for webshell.io and lol to see that your post make reactions of lots of API of APIs company
(Singly, Cloudsnap, Ritc.io)

If some one in this page wants to reach us for open discussion for making the web programmable in an easier way team[at]webshell.io
This is hard for me to say as I'm pretty much the real world version of Dale Gribble, but being more worried about Facebook than the Government is a reasonable position.

The upside of government surveillance is that the government gains power by keeping your secrets secret, and when it comes down to it, the vast majority of people are simply uninteresting to the spooks and both parties know it. The odds of being extra-judicially executed for being a YouTube troll are nonzero, but statistically close enough that it's not worth worrying about unless you meet a very narrow profile.

Facebook, on the other hand, seems to have as a primary business model finding out everything about everyone, and then telling everyone else. It's this latter part that people worry about. They don't want their life broadcast to every potential employer, client, lender, local xenophobe, landlord, insurance company, lover, violent ex-lover, nosy neighbor, obsessive stalker etc. that they deal with in their life. The odds there are a lot more grim--You're about 1000 times more likely to be killed by your ex or soon to be ex than the President.
For many of the smaller sites I manage, I've been using git hooks on the server to simply check out the code into the live site directory after a commit is pushed, using the basic setup described here: http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto

I haven't tried anything with Capistrano, though; for the few sites that demand more code workflow control, I've just used different shell scripts along with git.
Not when the 66% of them get 0wned
Windows was the only viable OS at the time, and when Microsoft forced OEMs to include IE and blocked them from making deals with Netscape it triggered that whole thing.

Here Google is just a website on the internet, granted it's a significant website but so is Facebook, and you don't have to go through Google to reach Facebook. My point is that Facebook is a large entity that exists alongside Google, and so does Twitter and many others so it's not a one vendor market.
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> To whit, if you look at the bug report it says that the problem is when an application is passing user-provided data into the framework. They say "don't do that" and then apparently provide a patch to somehow get around if you don't

They never tell you not to pass in user provided data. I have no idea where you got that conclusion, but you're obviously off and running with it. Quit spreading misinformation.

The post includes a simple workaround for people who are not able to upgrade to a version that includes this security release. It's not a "don't do that" statement.

> To my mind, the problem is that Rails should be treating any data passed to it as user-provided data

It does. This is a bug. Please quit spreading misinformation.
Maybe it can be done in a Stand Your Ground state. I'm sure that the patent trolls won't mind, as long as it's "completely within the bounds of the law," just as their business is.