skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) he would not be able to get an actual US bank account without getting the legal issues in order;
2) sweeping funds would not prevent either his tax problems or visa problems, which likely are much more serious than simply the locked money.

Sweeping funds would be a nice-to-have - it would have helped, sure, but it's not really a solution.
I'm not familiar with the "Pyramid of Doom" term, but I'm guessing Callback Hell? Apart from the mentioned use of promises, here's a short writeup of how to avoid getting lost in the abyss http://callbackhell.com/
I've worked in a bank, and we did freeze accounts on money laundering suspicions - it's not even a choice, the law requires to do so in certain conditions.

And the OP case description is quite unclear, but the details sound like that it might be not "assets frozen while check if business is legit", but actually a threat of "charges filed against owner for circumventing anti-money laundering laws and assets confiscated".
Rhetoric is not quite so black and white as you seem to want to believe. The moment you mention "engineering society" huge swaths of people will stop listening to you regardless of their inclination to agree with your fundamental argument. Most people simply do not have the patience to precisely understand any argument with the accuracy that an expert in the field feels is necessary.

Note that I am not saying you have to play fast and loose with facts or fabricate anything, but simply: phrasing matters.
Two things: It's a but late for this. Second, I don't think the world works that way. We like to think that public pleas for individuals to abstain from voluntary action are effective, but it doesn't seem likely.

Consider that the number of people reading the web is in the millions to billions. Even if that message made it to all of them, there is very little chance that it will do much to deter the 50 or so people who choose to write something up and the several thousand who upvote those write-ups. The spread is too wide and there are enough people who are likely to consider the issues around his suicide more important than something as diffuse and hypothetical as copycats.

TL;DR 6 billion people don't act like a village.
...and rich!
If you get a SSN on a F1 visa, you are allowed to work as a T.A. for a limited number of hours - but as soon as full-time commercial job or 200k of business income is reported to that SSN, your visa turns into a ticket back home.
> So i guess it just all adds up in a way.

It seems to "add up" only for experts from countries that do it traditionally (USA, Turkey, Israel) and recommend it, while basically no European country deems it medically necessary to recommend it, because there it is not traditionally practiced. In some European countries, like Sweden, Germany and Finaland, recently there were even attampts to legally consider circumcision as genital mutilation.

For me most of those 60% studies seem to be some sort of rationalisation based on a predetermined outcome: Let's find some strained statistical "evidence" that this stone age ritual that we are practicing, is somehow medically beneficial, so we can continue to cut our kids genitals to look like their father's without a bad conscience.

> There is compelling evidence that ... by approximately 60%

Did you ever read one of these 60%-papers yourselves and evaluated their reasoning, at how they arrive at their whopping 60%?

Their evidence is btw, even if published in medical journals, completely non-medical. All of those studies just claim that their strained stats show it, but they do not explain why. There is no established chain of causation and even the correlation is doubtful.

Here is a list of counter-arguments, basically claiming that the pro-arguments have been faked by circumcision proponents, many of them (like Prof Brian Morris who authored sevaral of these papers) being "circumfetishists", engaging in circumcisions for sexual pleasure, or having a Jewish background.

[1] http://www.salem-news.com/fms/pdf/2011-12_JLM-Boyle-Hill.pdf

[2] http://www.circleaks.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

[3] http://www.circumstitions.com/

[3.2] http://www.circumstitions.com/HIV-SA.html

[3.1] http://www.circumstitions.com/HIV.html

[3.3] http://www.circumstitions.com/HIV-SA-garenne.html
This is a bad idea. Getting an SSN does not solve the bigger issue of work authorization. Having an SSN would make Paypal happy, but he could be deported by SEVIS/USCIS/ICE for earning an income without proper work authorization.

F-1 OPT is the only status I know that allows you to earn an income while being self-employed.

Even on an H-1B doing what the OP did would be a violation of status, and could lead to deportation.
And there you go, another proof that Bios/Uefi developers are incompetent

And this is the unfortunate truth. Yes, I have worked for manufacturers, talking to the 'Bios developers' is useless (and see, this was for something much simpler)

Intel (and AMD, and others) should simply cut the middle man. Instead, they're coming with overengineered solutions and too wide specifications that only cause trouble (UEFI, Acpi, etc)

You can't have the manufacturer do this, the time of 'PC compatible' is over.

They can keep UEFI, etc, but here's the thing:

Intel should provide the main code for UEFI

Intel should spec "to change screen brightness, write a value from 0 to 0xFF to this register"

Much simpler and less error prone (I said less, not 100% error prone unfortunately)

Edited: small mistakes
A bit of revisionist history. There are so many versions of the "truth" even for events in recent history.
I believe he did it on purpose because the original article was already posted here 2 days ago.
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It will reduce the drag, not eliminate it. Shark skin use this concept.

http://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/content/pdf/2190-42...
A good introduction, and from a journal without paywalls, and having quality papers on the subject.
Another option might be to force paypal to refund money to your customers, and then once re-established, beg your customers to pay you into your new account. I suspect most will do so willingly.
Two things I don't like:

* multiple directional scrolling
* hijacking my back button

At least they're trying. I would think you'd need something more sensitive than a normal webcam for gesture detection, so that's a feat in itself.
Yet again another poorly edited title on HN.
I thought the arguments about how the market should evolve to handle piracy were very interesting.

With that, I truly appreciate Gabe Newell's perspective on the issue: "Our goal is to create greater service value than pirates, and this has been successful enough for us that piracy is basically a non-issue for our company... prior to entering the Russian market, we were told that Russia was a waste of time because everyone would pirate our products. Russia is now about to become our largest market in Europe." [1]

Valve's solution: Create an altogether better service. Be more convenient than piracy.

It's a challenge for many industries to replicate what Valve has done, but I know for a fact that I buy games on Steam I could easily pirate because the quality of service is so great.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-28-valve-piracy-a-...
To be fair, one should note that "only" the languages C, Python, Perl and Tcl [1] are officially supported by PostgreSQL. Also, there are 3rd-party bindings for other languages such as Java, PHP, R, Ruby, Scheme, sh:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/external-pl.h...

However, the PostgreSQL documentation doesn't mention JavaScript support anywhere. Are you sure there exists mature PL/JavaScript binding for PostgreSQL? If so, their docs should be updated.

[1] There's also "pgSQL", but that's a special-purpose language you won't find outside the database world. I don't recommend learning it unless you have strange requirements that make PL/pgSQL a perfect fit. For normale usage, use PL/Python or PL/Perl. In simple cases, use SQL directly.
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Paxuby, Paxos algorithm in Ruby
Just want to add, OPT (both pre-completion and post-completion) applications will take around 3 months to process; so you should get the paperwork in right now in order to get your OPT authorized (and receive your EAD card) by mid/late May.

Until then, hopefully you can trust PayPal to hold onto your funds (and not gobble it up for some stupid reason).
Do you still evaluate frameworks by bullet points of features you might never need (instead of evaluating the overall workflow and productivity)?
Instead of all the negative comments about Paypal (I still use them, but I make sure I withdraw money at least every month, in busy times more often), I would suggest not going to the US without stuff like this covered and enough money & insurance to defend yourself. It seems the US is overly aggressive in most legal matters and doesn't really consider the circumstances too much (I don't know if this is overall true, but it seems so from everything I have read). This could ruin a person's life while he only wanted to make some money; it should be possible to explain that and get some understanding instead of threats, bills of lawyers, putting his family in debt for paying his legal fees. He simply didn't know the consequences of what he was doing in trusting Paypal. That's not his fault and he shouldn't be punished for that by a crippled, lawyers take all, 'justice' system.

I'm wondering; when I travel abroad for longer times I have law assistance insurance; it's not expensive and, in his case, it would pay the lawyers for me (set aside some self risk of around E500 one-off per case); isn't this normal for people to close before going that long (and thus more risky) to the US?
> how these studies control for confounding factors like that

The answer is: they simply do not at all.

[1] http://www.salem-news.com/fms/pdf/2011-12_JLM-Boyle-Hill.pdf

[2] http://www.circumstitions.com/HIV-SA.html
I really think that it was a cool hack by William Walter Wu. When I first saw it I was expecting it to use Leap Motion[1], which made into HN's first page a few days ago[2].

Getting Leap Motion integrated with Chrome would be amazing, because, you are right, the webcam alone does not seem to be precise enough, as the author said:

It took me a while to write and fine tune the detection algorithms. Even then, the algorithms are only about 80% accurate

[1] https://www.leapmotion.com/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5179335 and was not the first time:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4250536

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170446
And notice that none of them break compatibility upon incrementing their major version number. They sure don't follow semantic versioning.
Dirt and grit still accumulates somewhere. Bins still need to be emptied.
Do you have a reference? This page of the Massachusetts Bar, like other more general discussions, suggests it also applies for any 'potential' or 'prospective' client:

http://www.massbar.org/publications/massachusetts-law-review...
>It didn't help that the OP is a student from Venezuela which is not one of America's trading partners.

It very much is. That's one reason for most of the anti-Venezuelan/Chavez propaganda: to get a puppet government like before to cut US companies better deals.
Some of the earliest color motion pictures you will see
Interesting. Like what fire-fighters do with bushfires: remove the fuel to contain the outbreak.
Religious tradition and dogma changes yes, but their "holy" books can't rewrite themselves.

Interestingly the bible doesn't make any comment to suggest there is no other life in the universe. In fact it does refer to extra terrestrial life; God sent "angels", literally translated "messengers", to the earth.
Do plants 'veto' bad genes?
Also, there are indications pharma spends about twice on marketing what it spends on research: http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/hs/sager/pdfs/020402/Pharmaceutical%... (2001), http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal... (2008)
Look at the 'mud' test with the gloves in the video - it's far cleaner than the untreated glove, but it's still not clean.
Bricking your victims machines is a very bad decision from an economical standpoint as you can't use bricked machines any more to, say send spam or hijack online banking applications via a keylogger.

Sure. Someone could be doing this for fun, but getting wide enough distribution of your malware is expensive (especially when you can't use your victims machines to spread out further).

This wouldn't even work for ransomware because that too would require the machine to run well enough to display the ransom note.

As such I personally find the scenario you described quite unlikely. Still possible of course, but also unlikely.
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Why does DNS propagation take so long?
I was talking to a friend at Silicon Drinkabout last night, and we were wondering why there isn't a "push" approach to DNS propagation? Especially for CDNs, and heavy cache users, such as mobile networks.. ? What are we missing in our thinking, here?
There was a long thread on Something Awful about this very, uh, "special" operating system written by one lone guy. Looks like it's renamed now: http://www.sparrowos.com/
There are a lot of for-profit companies that use GPL. I have one myself (albeit a very, very small one).

As for community - I think community is often more corresponding to usefulness of code, not license of code.

That's why there is often a huge "community" around very useful proprietary code.

To me, it's about choosing which kind of community you want and I want the kind that the GPL enables and protects.
When I was learning about process MRP in the 1980s, orange juice was a key example of the complexities. Some things never change. :)
A post in a post in a post. Postception: http://9gag.com/gag/1952310
Some of these studies are contested http://samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/5384/3655

Also, the fact that HIV rates in (mostly uncircumcized) Europe are lower than (mostly circumcized) US is confusing.
It's happened before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH
Yea, you're right it wouldn't be useful for much since it doesn't have any durability.

But if they ever get around to making this durable in a construction environment it would save tons of money. Having done the bookkeeping for a small concrete construction firm I can tell you the glove expenditure alone can be several hundred dollars in just one season. Might not sound like a lot, but to a small business it really adds up.
Nice article. I immediately had to think about "The soul of a New Machine" ... Different times, but this is pretty much how a start up works today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
Getting an SSN does not solve the bigger issue of work authorization.

That's right, but I didn't say getting an SSN will get you a work authorization. As an international student, you are legally allowed to be employed on-campus[1] on a part-time basis provided that you maintain your student status, which basically means you have an above minimum GPA and not serving any academic disciplinary actions. In order to get a permission to work on-campus, you need to file an I-9 form, then get an SSN, then you can start working, but you can get a job on-campus before any of these happens, as long as you don't get paid before you have I-9 filled out, authorized by CEVIS and have an SSN.

F-1 OPT is the only status I know that allows you to earn an income while being self-employed.

Generally, that's impossible, unless you incorporate a sole-proprietorship, which is generally not possible unless you change your VISA status to O-1 (alien with extraordinary abilities) or EB-5 (investor with 500K - 1 mil in the bank) or some other forms of partnerships with a citizen, and apply for an H-1 for yourself through the company. You are required to pay income taxes if you are "employed" or have any kind of income. You cannot show that information if you don't have the proper paperwork, and you can't have those paperwork unless you are employed under an organization that can issue you work-authorization.

[1]: http://www.bu.edu/isso/students/current/f1/employment/on-cam...
>TL;DR 6 billion people don't act like a village.

FYI, We're up to 7 billion these days by most estimates. This village just keeps growing :D
Mathematics appears to be universal.
wow, that's crazy? Holy crap
I'm actually experimenting with something Guy Kawasaki does effectively with AllTops - http://holykaw.alltop.com/9-ways-to-lose-the-trust-of-your-a...
I know. But back then malware was still nearly exclusively done for "fun". Nowadays it's all about money
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Personally I tend to follow the "1-2-N" rule. I'll live with one copy if it's justified. Two or more copies and it's time to refactor.
You should also display the avg. buzz per week for lets say the first 5 weeks. You could also display how many weeks movies held a certain buzz level (i.e. 5000 mentions). It seems the way it is currently movies that have been out longer are going to have a higher buzz than the brand spanking new releases.
"Images"? Really? What is happening to language? It took a photo! Imagine someone saying: "I went to Paris and imaged the Eiffel Tower".
Note that what you talk about has nothing to do with the underlying bug. UEFI provides a mechanism where any installed operating system can store and use named variables. The Samsung firmware fails if the size is more than trivial but not unreasonable amount.

Linux just happened to be first to hit the problem because on a kernel panic, it writes diagnostic information to UEFI variables (only 10kb - well within the spec). The panic happened to be caused by Samsung driver written to Samsung's specs, but that is coincidental.

Microsoft panics can be minidump format which are up to 64kb in size (also within the spec) so if they did the same thing then they'd hit the same issue. Or if Microsoft decided to throw some other stuff in there (eg information during upgrades, recovery information) they could cause exactly the same problem.
John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94
Done watching. Quite inspiring I gotta say. I sure do hope the people who ruled their sentences will watch this too, and thus maybe at least begin to grasp a tiny little bit what freedom in the internet means and the ways of thinking of those who understand the technology underneath. And that killing a man with an axe produced by Fiskars isn't a crime done by Fiskars and so on.
If that's all they wanted it would be easy - just post it on a blog. What they really want is access to the journal infrastructure - I'm reminded of the French newspapers who want Google to pay them for inclusion in Google news, on the basis that they produce the content.
Hey Emmanuel, long time no speak.

I would suggest you go to a lawyer as well, I know how hard it is for us Venezuelans out there. I had a PayPal block once as well and managed to solve, it takes time and a lot of documentation, however it was not even close to the ammount you're mentioning here.

There are alternatives like creating your own company and giving the info of your company to PayPal, that way everything will be as legal as they might need.

Let me know how it goes, best of luck bro
It's not that people shouldn't talk about the issues around it, really, it's just that they shouldn't make him a martyr. Every post is about the righteousness of Swartz and the big mean bullies who made him kill himself. Very few place any culpability or responsibility on him. He's getting a treatment normally reserved for victims of aberrant crimes, what with the law getting his name on it and everything.

Talking about Aaron Swartz and how and why he died is fine. Doing it sanctimoniously and refusing to recognize any personal responsibility Swartz may rightly hold, which is the vibe of most articles I've seen, is effectively idolizing Swartz as a martyr, and that kind of religious exercise isn't productive for this case imo. It communicates to others that if they have a minor platform and are well-liked, they can be martyred too.

Also, I don't seriously expect people to stop writing about it because of this. Just a thing that's been bothering me, and thought it may provoke some interesting discussion.
No donations to the victims of Microsoft Windows™?
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Elsevier and other large publishers publish many journals on behalf of societies, so the distinction between the interests of professional organisations and publishers doesn't really work.
One of the things that people don't get about refactoring is that it is not just a matter of extracting things or removing duplication. Sometimes you merge things or re-introduce duplication to get someplace better.

When you look at refactoring examples online, they often make that mistake. There's a straight arrow toward a "better solution" but without any backtracking. It's a hobbled view of refactoring.

To bring it home, in the blog example, I think is perfectly fine to remove duplication in the way listed as "bad", as long as you reintroduce the duplication when you have a bit of trouble. Much of the time, you're lucky and you don't.
> Ultimately, I think Haskell is the language that works best at scale.

While i agree on that, i think it depends on what one means with "at scale". I've seen that phrase used to mean something like "having a humongous team of 50+ developers and being able to add 50+ new (preferably cheap) developers (who might not be very well versed in the technology nor the business that we're working on) at any time and make them write code right out of the bat". I think Haskell would not fit very well with that "work at scale" definition :)
I so much want this...

The site the OP links to is called "Global Industrial" but the only country available on the checkout page is "United States".

(Why they call themselves "global" is beyond me; why they need a select box for only one option is further beyond.)
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You definitely should use WePay since it's FDIC insured.
Are you in TO?
The only problem is that it might be too arrogant for us developers to tell clients what will or will not work. In pre-twitter days, if a client asked me to build something like twitter, I would think he would fail. So it is like a blog but with 140 character restriction? I would also think wikipedia would not work. Why would anyone take time and effort to contribute useful information for free and how do you guarantee the integrity of the information. Of course, right now, it all makes sense. But it is very arrogant to think that you know what will succeed or fail.
You could probably say the same thing for the first gasoline cars on the road or even the Model-T. I'm sure there were people saying things like "Well, if you run out of gasoline you're stuck. I can just stop at a field and let my horse eat some grass and I'm back on the road."

Early adopters in any age will have a rough time, that's kinda the definition of early adopter. However, in a hundred years people are going to be as familiar with this technology as we are with liquid fuel. They'll probably look back at us and chuckle about how primitive we were with our "battery" technology. :)