skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't declining birth-rates. It's societies that are structured upon ever-increasing populations.

With respect to where and when declining birth rates -- and older parents, presenting greater health risks -- are considered to be a problem. (Such as, individual impacts upon well-being and quality of life, and the health of the child.) I agree with several other comments here that the contemporary U.S. is creating significant dis-incentives, particularly for those in positions where they are trying to prevent a decline in their own and their family and children's socio-economic status and opportunity -- and, again, health.

The U.S. is a democracy, so I'm not trying overly to blame "someone else".
Can you say "HoneyPot?"
Perjury, as a Federal crime, is defined under 18 USC § 1621 [1], which, to my reading, is silent about whether its commission results in a miscarriage of justice or not. It describes the elements of the crime as: an oath, an intent, a falsehood, and the materiality of that falsehood.

Not to disparage that august institution, but I think something more authoritative than a Wikipedia citation is probably warranted to establish whether the result of an action is necessary for that action to be criminal, instead of the usual Model Penal Code standard of mens rea coupled with actus reus.

EDIT: Once again, IANAL. Also, phrasing.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1621
UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Rewritten to Boot all Linux Versions
These are all excellent points. Having lived for long periods outside the US, I can vouch for them. Taking the other side of the question, two areas where the US tends to be better than many countries are: much less tolerance for bureaucracy and a greater individual sense of the need to improve/change oneself.
Not related to AT&T's crappy move, but I found it interesting that I went the opposite direction and now own a data-only plan. I get my voice and texting using VOIP for nearly free, and the data only plan is much cheaper than smartphone or voice only plans.
"Why people feel entitled to services at the price they choose is beyond me."

Sometimes, it's crazy, but people expect real competition versus oligopolists that mostly collude between themselves and show zero concern for regulatory action.
Muck Rack
This feature is built-in to Opera, in case anyone needs to use it regularly.

Right-click any page, and select "Reload Every..." and choose an interval. Very handy.
Is even worse in NY -- quotas are illegal, yet they exist. But there is no record of what quotas are assigned to a given detail of officers.
Reading that i think that the worst offender is the iphone that keeps phoning home. Not that at&t is not wrong as well. just that the iphone manges to screw the user even more.

if apple hadn't bent over so badly to allow telcos to screw the customers with the whole tethering fiasco (which is still going on. unbelievable. all you sheeple giving out free money) they wouldn't even know you had a special needs phone.
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Anyone uses Muck Rack? How?
> If there is no such thing as truth in science, that eliminates truth as a goal. And there is no such thing as truth in science.

This is nonsense. I graduated from MIT and I and all my classmates would be shocked to learn that science is not about truth. And furthermore, stating such nonsense is just fodder for critics of science. After all, why worry about climate change if climate change theories don't represent the truth? If it's not true that climate change will likely cause the deaths of many millions of people, then we need not worry.

Your notion of truth is too highly constrained. Science makes models, which are approximations of reality, but accurate approximations are a form of truth. Using models, we build such things as TVs and airplanes and vaccines that work. Things that work are a form of truth.
So having only glanced at the patent yourself, you felt confident enough to criticize me?

Do you honestly feel like you're adding to the discussion?
Right. It's not correct that people will blithely accept an error like "Error: this image failed to load." These people don't think about errors the same way we do. To them all errors are the same and mean there's a catastrophic failure. Developers understand that some errors are minor, but a user faced with an error, where he expects a reassuring "security image," will probably become fearful and bail from that page.

Of course, he might still type in his password even if he decides not to go through and submit the form, in which case his data is still compromised.
"I can't activate the plan because my sim card is not activated"

When you order the sim from T-mobile directly, you can activate it. You can purchase it online from them for 99 cents.
Please note my reply was meant to be taken as a joke. I expect most people don't need to refresh their Apple gear on a yearly basis, but that is a bit of the stereotype of an enthusiastic Apple fan, and your post can be taken humorously to fit that image. Of course with Apple the answer is always more hardware. :-)
Homosexuals in a homophobic culture are more likely to lie about sex. But it's entirely situational and tells us nothing about homosexuals in general.
If you are getting voicemail on an iPhone, you're using data.

The arguments here don't make sense -- you can buy a prepaid AT&T phone for $30 or less at any drugstore, target or wal-mart.
I'd say that depending on the position and company you can try and get a sign-on bonus, even using the fact that you saved them a 20% fee. Depending on your negotiating skills I could see it as a reasonable argument. Market conditions are such in a lot of places right now, solid tech people can make (and get) reasonable demands pretty easily. Worse thing anyone can do is say no, or cancel their offer. And honestly if they cancelled their offer you would be better off in my opinion.
You can run WebGL on InternetExplorer using IEWebGL: http://www.iewebgl.com/
Project management 101 ... not even a tool .. no new insights ... sorry, but for those of us who've seen a project before, it's fluff ...
This is true for a frequent user but honestly I log into so many different web sites that I'm pretty certain I'd not think much of anything if one of the login pages was redesigned without notice. Fortunately I'm also pretty sure I'd never fall for phishing links, but I'm sure the list of people who'd fall for both is sufficiently long that it doesn't matter.
YPlan (London / NYC). Full time, intern, H1B.

We're looking for:

+ Senior Android developer (http://yplan.theresumator.com/apply/fF7taf/Senior-Android-De...)

+ Data Scientist (http://yplan.theresumator.com/apply/4qvHMT/Data-Scientist.ht...)

I'm a co-founder and CTO of YPlan (http://yplanapp.com), tonight's going out app (think HotelTonight but for events). Together with my co-founder Rytis we've built the business from nothing to a very talented and hard-working team of 17 people now, raised $1.7m in funding last summer and launched almost 2 months ago in London. We've got tons of media attention (see below) and tons of happy customer feedback.

* Wired: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/26/yplan-launch

* Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/28/stuck-for-new-years-eve-in-...

* Stephen Fry: https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/279157424642994177

Now we want to move YPlan from iOS / iPhone only into a multi-platform / multi-city business, therefore I'm looking to expand technology and product teams.

Any questions please feel free to ping me: viktoras[at]yplanapp.com
In the US perjury is a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to five years.

Does that somehow not apply to the police? If a cop's performance is measured by number of arrests or convictions, and the repercussions of lying under oath is maybe a suspension with pay or worst case being fired, I do not see how this is going to change.

IMHO, law enforcement officials should be held to higher standard.
For example:

http://freeyourandroid.org

is a FSFE campaign.
I've only seen two step used to validate the user to the server. Are there sites that use two step to verify the server to the client?
Ah, but why do that when you can just charge usurious rates for those who don't have the "benefit" of a data plan?

AT&T (and most of the wireless industry) are merely toll-gate operators - they are very good at making sure you pay for any usage - even the usage you didn't want to make (ie, receiving an MMS on your non-data flip phone that you didn't intend - sorry, that's $2).
Well you don't need a lot of CPU for doing AI and motion. In modern games, game logic like this usually takes not even 1% of the CPU time.

And more complex stuff than 90ies demo scene stuff is possible easily. There are lots of sophisticated 3d libraries to choose from, take a look at the demos of CopperLicht for example: http://www.ambiera.com/copperlicht/

But you are right: Physics is a major bottleneck. Fortunately, you don't need real rigid body physics engine in most games. In most situations, you can live with a small subset of it.
> The images give you as a user a sense of situational awareness -- I know based on the picture which of a half dozen accounts I have (personal, Ira, business, etc) I'm logging into.

Cool you found a use for them, but that's not why they're there. Almost always when you're being asked to choose one, it's "for your security..."

> They also make it more difficult to misdirect people to a lookalike site via phishing. Even old people recognize that their login picture, normally prominently displayed, is missing.

First, it's not hard to mirror the interactions of the real site (there's actually a section in the post about sophisticated attacks which addresses this).

Second, I doubt very much that old people would notice anything missing, particularly if you masked it as a site redesign/upgrade. I myself am a fairly cautious user, but would I notice if the site for the MasterCard I recently got, which I've logged into maybe 3-4 times and never more than once a month, asked for my username and password up front rather than in a 2-stage format? I honestly doubt I would.
Apple’s 2013 To-Do List
Awesome, now that Siracusa brought his Hypercritical podcast to a close at episode 100, it looks like he's returning to writing.
Fine, so just omit the area for the image completely. Showing an error in place of the image is obviously a stupid choice over just asking for the password up front, and just omitting it (by pretending there shouldn't be one) will not trigger panic in non-savvy or forgetful users.
I couldn't agree more. The ability to appreciate others' work is a sign of intelligence.
The connection between philosophy, communications, pedagogy, and programming is fascinating (and I say that as a programmer who dropped out of education, years later still a programmer, and writing my first history book).

While this article is interesting... I particularly liked the phrase ''time-shifted retirement via distributed sabbaticals''... the proposal that Sontag makes regarding no school, free love and sex for 12-16 year olds is not only socially impractical (where is this supposed to happen?) but neglects some of the larger social benefit of an organized education system ... the capacity for children who may not be in a particularly nurturing environment at home (due to family issues, economic circumstance, etc.) to broaden their horizons as their minds reach their mental peak (~20 years old).

All in all, a very "period piece" .. Sontag shoots for some great ideals, but the projected route seems today more than a little naive - a quaint '60s anachronism.

How could we reconstruct some of the goals she's aiming for without the negatives? I think we could definitely work an option for children to spend part of their time in specific, opt-in, areas rather than in general schooling .. allow them to explore physical crafts, literature, art, computing in non-generic environs that provide ancient-university style rigid pedagogy-free environs to support individual speed, individual interest mutual learning.

Maybe as a pilot 20% of school classrooms could be converted in to such areas?

Having information on the internet just doesn't cut it for many subjects. We need a sort of Hackerspace-meets-teacher-available-meets-socialising place where young minds can flourish.
If you are charming like me you can get a SIM card at a T-Mobile store for free (did so last week in SF). Everything is negotiable.
What to expect from MongoDB 2.4
Well assuming they're given limited leeway the context of the event is captured as well so it could be determined if the office acted appropriately.
This all started with the first supplement the FFIEC put out regarding authentication in an internet environment in 2005[1]. This initial supplement was put out to clarify what was expected of banks especially with regards to the FFIEC examination handbooks regarding e-banking[2] and information security[3]. (This all began with 12CFR30B[4][5])

Are you familiar with reading federal regulator-ese? They do not ever come out and make blanket statements such as use XYZ, ensure X bit keys and so on. The entire process is based on the banks and the examiner's interpretation of the bank's risk profile. If you are interested in learning more about this reading some of the banking industry press coverage at the time may be easier to digest.

[1] http://www.ffiec.gov/bsa_aml_infobase/documents/new_5_2007/O...

[2] http://ithandbook.ffiec.gov/it-booklets/e-banking.aspx

[3] http://ithandbook.ffiec.gov/it-booklets/information-security...

[4] http://ithandbook.ffiec.gov/media/21989/occ-12cfr30-safe_sou...

[5] I say 12cfr30b because that is what got the ball rolling for OCC regulated banks and at the time I worked for an OCC regulated bank. Depending on who the regulator (OTS, NCUA, etc) is the "ball rolling document" will be different.
Or may be.. "You gotta be kidding me!" option
Just gotomeeting. Only one person can drive at a time.
folklore.org also has some great early apple stories, including many about woz.
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That's what I was going to say. I found the constant reformatting of the math stuff in the right pane extremely jarring.

Otherwise, nice and simple.
> Drupal has partnered with the Symfony (a dying PHP MVC framework)

Is Symfony dying? With Symfony 2, I thought it's components are becoming more and more popular.
Jobs must have liked it somewhat though, otherwise he wouldn't have had Noah Wyle reprise the role in an Apple keynote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os
Climb down from your rocking pony of mock outrage MIT boy.

He's talking Truth with a Kappa T, as in Newtons Laws were true but not True and as in Einstein's modifications were truer but we still don't Know if they are True.

You seem easily shocked.
> Perjury, as a Federal crime, is defined under 18 USC § 1621 [1], which, to my reading, is silent about whether the commission of perjury results in a miscarriage of justice or not.

So it seems. In researching this, I see that the "miscarriage of justice" issue has two effects -- it often determines whether a case of perjury is pursued at all, and it affects the nature of the punishment (the sentencing phase). But it's not part of the formal definition that might lead to a determination of guilt. So I was wrong to state it the way I did earlier.

The "miscarriage of justice" issue is important, but it's not part of the definition of perjury -- it only affects whether a case is pursued by a prosecutor, and it may then influence the punishment.

Thanks for posting and correcting me.
Auto Revolution: A Promising Future for Self-Driving Cars
To me, this juxtaposition lays bare the true nature of Hollywood for all to see: a bunch of derivative, hypocritical, entitled, self-righteous hacks that go around calling themselves "creators" while simultaneously attacking the rights of the public with their copyright-maximalist agenda.

OK, perhaps I didn't get all of that from a painting and a couple of movie posters but you get the idea. At some point everything in art derives from something else. The notion that, absent permission, this is somehow "wrong" just blows my mind completely.
Sadly sometimes tailgaters don't get off your ass if you slow down. I slowed down to 30 once on a 70mph stretch before one guy finally passed while flipping me the bird.

My new rule is to just floor it to get other cars in between me and them.
No, he was just following Machiavelli's advice for how a prince (ie dictator) should enforce law and order when extreme measures are called for. Namely assign the job to a henchman, and then when the deed is done, convince the people that the henchman was acting on his own, and execute the henchman:

http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/churchhistory220/Lecture13...
You keep saying your got "a service <you> didn't agree to", but, of course, you did agree to it. You didn't understand what you were agreeing to, but you accepted all of AT&T terms and conditions as you signed up for their service. And this is hardly news, as AT&T forced data plans on smart phones on Sept 6, 2009.

http://gizmodo.com/5342749/att-forcing-data-plans-with-all-s...

They have a humorous justification: to keep their customers from having massive data bills by accident. Yeah, right...

The key to having a WiFi only smartphone on AT&T is stealth. You must keep a dumb phone around to switch to as necessary, and then you can sneak a smartphone on the network that has never been seen by AT&T as a smartphone. For example, you might buy a T-Mobile (only) unlocked smartphone and then put your AT&T SIM card into it. Be sure to disable all the data network interfaces first thing, as they may give you away. You can buy a dumb phone to AT&T to verify for $15 on sales from GoPhone, or any number of other prepaid phones.

I would be interested to know if now, ab initio, AT&T is able to detect that a specific IMEI number is a smartphone. I think the worldwide range of IMEI numbers is too vast for that to work, and thank goodness T-Mobile didn't merge with AT&T.
Same here, I canceled my plan mid-month and T-Mobile sent me a bill for the whole month. However, I gave them a call and they simply took the entire month off, I didn't even have to pay for the days of the month I used. I called them again a month later to make sure I don't have any outstanding balance, and my account was all paid off.
Okay, how do you use /bin/login over HTTP?

Situations change. So do languages. I hope you can find an Algol compiler, but not Algol-68---that's too new for this code.
The course was "Government 1310: Introduction to Congress."

Give the ones who cheated A's and flunk the rest.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Eight Books Everyone Should Read
You should really talk to some cognitive scientists for some depth and perspective on the issues of studying the mind.

There are real things to consider about the study of the mind, predisposition and plasticity, dynamic systems versus symbolic computation, etc., and you're comparing p-values between particle physics and studies with human subjects? Armchair theorizing about autism? Calling all of psychology (which spans more sub-fields than one might imagine) a psuedoscience? Disappointing, to say the least.

p.s. The DSM is written by psychiatrists.
How about the 14 year old kid who stole the sesna and landed it successfully (after landing successfully he took off again and hard landed it - oops).
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159848,00.html
Isn't there anything between good and evil?
...how expensive would it be to have all policemen use something like mini-cameras with mikes on them and have a full video archive of all police actions? If things like Google-glass catch on, the cost of a one way system without the projector, plus a streaming system via mobile phone app will make this disposable cheap (yeah, then we'll get into the privacy matter - like a video of you being stopped for speeding with a hooker in your car risking to get on youtube for your wife to see... but still)
Is this running on Flask? Could be why it went down. I'm interested to see if the source code is available- I'm currently working on a python game for school and wanted to checkout the multiplayer code.
But Aaron Sorkin did write The Social Network. Any evidence to point that he is working on a truer rendition for the Jobs' movie ?
What did you use to create that presentation? Looks similar to Prezi, but can be hosted on Github...
Yeah, I switched to AT&T from T-Mobile and T-Mobile charged me for the whole upcoming month even though I made sure to switch over on the last day of my billing cycle. It was cheaper for me to just pay it then fight it...
On Python security amidst recent Rails/YAML vulnerabilities
You really can't hate a language (well, I do have a complex relationship with PHP). What people hate are stereotypes built around communities. Usually from the conduct of some individuals. Every community has them. I mean, even the COBOL guys must roll their eyes anytime someone writes some douche comment about the language.

Don't pay attention to them. There are many nice people in the Ruby community. People who are there for the code, and not the drama.

Now, don't get me started about those Visual Basic guys... :)
I would not go for polymorphism (specially with all that meta-programming) with this simple conditional.
Have you set expectations yet? I think you need to first discuss why he isn't pulling his weight, and tell your partner that if things don't change, then you are going to have to figure out how to continue the business without him. First tell him what you expect, and if he doesn't agree and you can't come to a compromise, then give an ultimatum.

At this point, it probably doesn't make sense to get in a legal fight. I think worst case scenario is you break off and continue on your own, and jettison the minimal contribution your partner has made to the project. It doesn't sound like the business is at the point where he is going to lawyer up and sue you. It would cost you both more than its worth at this stage.
Well you don't need a lot of CPU for doing AI and motion.

Motion means collision detection and keeping the right data structures up to date. AI means things like path finding. Both sets of problems require lots of loops with lots of maths.

I've looked at Copperlicht and it is nice (looks like you work on it?), but still very limited when you compare it to the non-WebGL competition. The demos are all small largely static scenes that can be loaded onto the card and left untouched in memory.

I don't mean to say that WebGL isn't usable or that people shouldn't use it. I was providing a grain of salt to what was a very good write up.

btw. I like the doco for Copperlicht, nice and accessible and the octtree implementation impressed me when I was reviewing Copperlicht last weekend.
You should watch this:
http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ , especially Part 2
My limited memories of the time didn't have them being so popular, but I was kind of young so might not be remembering very well.

Also anigbrowl has a good point that fashions in the USA and England were different. Your memories are from the USA, the BBC is concerned with England.