skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is not whether enough identifying information could be obtained this time, but rather the fact that she (arguably) did not really consider that when posting the image, and that she could do it again (and this time reveal enough identifying information). Had she tilted the camera a bit further down the whole signature would've been visible.

Imagine an employee in a company accidentally leaks some user data, which does not really contain personally identifying information. I don't think it's completely unjustifiable to fire this person even though no damage was done.

Of course the owners of the restaurant could've dealt with the situation a lot nicer (warning her about the potential danger instead of firing her). But I don't blame them for taking the more drastic measure that they did (not saying that I would've done the same).
I hope the 80 hour standard doesn't spread to the rest of the world, lest the games biz loses all the talented workforce with any sense ;)
Don't open this link on Mountain Lion
I did a quick experiment to see if I could force-crash safari by exploiting the File:/// issue, and lo and behold it's entirely possible.

I simply created a textarea pre-filled with File:///, then with javascript triggered focus, click and blur on the field in that order.

It seems Chrome is not affected and I haven't tested any other browsers yet so your mileage may vary.

Anyway, not much else to add, other than in the link I posted it's probably crashing because the text field with the code in it itself is being parsed. A true test would require the code be placed stand-alone on a web server...
The Segway was actually pretty complex -- definitely not just a spin-off. (Though I agree the iBot is awesome.)

If you want to learn the full story, I recommend the book Code Name Ginger. http://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Ginger-Behind-Segway/dp/1578...
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According to a 2012 Gallup poll, 43% of Americans would not vote for a qualified atheist candidate. For comparison, the numbers for a Muslim candidate or a gay or lesbian candidate were 40% and 30%, respectively.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/155285/Atheists-Muslims-Bias-Pres...
If a god exists and created us, not second guessing him with the brain he gave us is to deny his essence.

Either it's exactly what we should be doing, god's a complete idiot, or he doesn't exist.

Regardless, not much concerning ourselves with.
I do like the site, but I've seen it on the front page multiple times...

e.g.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549802

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4925367
> We should all put in the most amount of time to our lives and passions

Should we? Is that the ultimate goal here? The problem with trying to tell people what their life is about, is that you are wrong as soon as you start.

> how are you not a slave to that subsistence lifestyle?

Subsistence is 'surviving' (like, not dying, not not unable to pay rent).
I had no idea Jay-Z was so introspective.
Except, in this case, the person actually paid the 18% tip directly to the serving person, and didn't want the restaurant taking an additional "service fee".
...typing and using computers? So you're comparing 20-30 year old programmers with 40 year old people who aren't even comfortable with computers? Yeah, I'd say apples are way better than oranges.
I felt the need to use "[sic]" because that is the correct way to identify an intentionally transcribed error (An error in any context outside of twitter and txt speak).
In software, there is still economy in scale of a person's time. Throwing more people on a project is still detrimental even if you use something like Agile. It is a major loss.

The easy way to combat this is to have longer timelines for projects, or, if necessary, crunch periods followed by more relaxed recharge periods.
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Wages for a lot of the positions you described are adjusted to take into account the fact they receive tips (in the case of serving people, 18%).
The word tithe means tenth, and it is the biblical standard of giving - a tenth of your income. However, it's not related at all to tipping a waitress a portion of your dinner bill.
I readily grant that there's a huge amount of selection bias to this, but from this remove, it's difficult not to read this as, "pirate all the software you please, we'll still end up as billionaires."
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Netflix is available in Norway, but House of Cards will also run on a cable channel in March
as it supported a subset of the functionality of Micro-Soft BASIC.. http://www.hqew.net
I enjoy reading The Verge but I don't believe that they're any less vulnerable to advertising influences than CNET/CBS.

Their gaming site Polygon ran afoul of this
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497693
http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/30/3575978/halo-4-avatar-cost...

Essentially one of their first "articles" was just a copy/pasted press release from Pizza Hut for Halo 4. When people began calling them out on it in their comments, rather than take the link down and post a 'mea culpa', they began censoring the posts and then later deny there was even a controversy because they didn't receive any money from Pizza Hut for it.

Oh wait except they took $750K from Microsoft (aka the IP owners of Halo 4) to make their "teaser trailer" for the website.

Some would say that it's SOP for gaming websites to just copy/paste press releases but I say if you're going to call yourself something different and do "game journalism" with ethics, you shouldn't be doing stuff like this.

It makes me really think twice about any articles on The Verge regarding Microsoft.
Python Vs. Lisp
Even if $100mm seems a bit much for the show, Netflix's first entry into the exclusive content business had to be a hit. Once they've established themselves with quality content, they can later add some less expensive content without harming their reputation.

I'm interested to see how well House of Cards does and if it becomes popular enough for them to afford more exclusive content as well as negotiating lower content costs from other publishers.
How much did he get for those exploits? 60k each?
"It seems I was fired not because Applebee’s was represented poorly..."

Actually, that is probably why she was fired. Saying something publicly about a customer, especially in a way that could look bad for the customer, does not reflect well on the restaurant.

If you interact with customers, it's your job at risk. The customer is sometimes, but often not, risking much by being rude in one way or another. Is it fair? Maybe not. But that's unlikely to be a productive discussion.
Wow.

A PC train wreck indeed. It doesn't even matter what the original thing was about, this will be entered into the text books as a classic 'social media: what not to do' lesson.

If anyone should be fired it is the persons making the decisions and handling this response. You can see them digging their own grave deeper deeper with every new statement.
Exactly.

Look at it from the other side, Applebee's has to
protect their brand. They can't have waitresses posting information about customers online. That is why she was fired.

I was immediately shocked by the waitresses' behavior. That one comment set you off that you had to violate your customer's privacy?

Also, I wonder if some media outlets are rightly masking the customer's personal information but I saw some posts with the fullname in the image.
as well as negotiating lower content costs from other publishers. http://www.hqew.net
Almost every job. From factory assembly to designer / programmers, you are usually expected to work around 9 - 10 hours a day, including saturdays. Some big enterprises like banks have start to give us 8 hours weekday work time, but most still not there yet.
We spread it out over 6 days, but still around 9 - 10 hours a day. Still longer than avarage 8 hours in most first world countries I think?

As I said above, some big enterprises like bank have started to give 8 hours weekday work time, but most company haven't.
The PC port was developed in Square's offices in LA and only published by Eidos.
The Human Brain Project's ultimate goal is to simulate human brain but its decade long project with 80 institutes and hundreds of scientist involved. I am sure simulating simpler brain systems will be part of the agenda before they move to much more complex systems.
The size of the brain is also bound by the huge amount of calories it consumes, and by how delicate it is. 5 minutes without oxygen? Boom, the organ you spent 20 years grooming is gone. Have the munchies? With your brain burning up to 30% of your calories, it may be the culprit.
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We do know more physical minutia, ie., slates and chalk have fallen to iPhones, sandals to sports cars, and yet the essential spirit of man is the same as it ever was, and that is what the Stoics are addressing.

Somehow we know, collectively, not to keep slaves anymore, or go to war so often. I find it difficult to label that as physical minutia.
Actually, the wealth has accrued quite nicely to the top 1%, even more so to the top 0.01%. Whereas the rest of the population has seen real pay flatline as you say. That is the real problem.
Funny you say that, PinkiePie is (allegedly) 18 years old.

Reminds me of Gennady, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Korotkevich) who keeps getting crazy good scores on TopCoder, Google Code Jam, etc. -- and he's 18 too.
A counter philosophy to this is that we should be striving to find jobs that we enjoy and find so fulfilling that we don't mind working 40+ hours per week... until we're 80...

I say that wondering how realistic that is and whether that's a yet another imaginary carrot dangling over our heads to make us work harder. I like my job a lot (software developer making medical software for clinics in Kenya) but flip I'd love a 4 day week because there's always something more enjoyable than work. And I'm not sure if every single job we need people to do can be that fulfilling raison d'être for someone.
To me it's quite obviously sarcasm based on a counterfactual and I don't see how one could interpret it otherwise.
How did you get all of these details? I would assume that some are in dispute -- e.g. the tip left on the table (how would we know unless both sides confirmed?).
I don't think anyone's claiming the opposite. I have a sister-in-law that was a waitress for many years, so I've heard lots of stories. It's a crock for them because they RELY on the tips as their wage. Since it's really their wage, why not just pay them the wage in the first place? Alas, I don't think it will change unless it's legislated.
It doesn't even matter what the original thing was about. The way it was handled by the restaurant's PR team is what turned this small sub-reddit topic to a social media nightmare.

In one single night, that PR person, probably drove away tends of thousands (if not more) of customers. It doesn't matter who is right or wrong at that point, them not catching which side the public was on, and just arguing back and forth, is what turned this into a train wreck.
Probably to the tendency to produce n slightly different versions in an attempt to segmentize the market.
I find that argument valid for functional programming languages with no type system like LISP. They promised us black box abstraction without giving us hints about what kind of data a procedure takes.

but with Haskell the type system usually gives sufficient hints on what is happening within a procedure
There is no reason that you can't have a teacher lecture students over the internet or lead a discussion over the internet, using voice, voice and audio, or just chat. There is no reason why students can't do interactive labs with help from teachers online.

So I think that in most cases, there really doesn't have to be any qualitative difference between online and in person learning.

But there are lots of advantages, starting with the increased ability for students to work at their own pace. And for computer assisted learning, i.e. interactive learning activities on a computer, possibly graded automatically by a computer. Also the ability to communicate online can be a big advantage over having to physically walk to an office hours or library. And of course the obvious one is the ease of distributing electronic textbooks and other learning materials online. Or for example delivering a live or recorded lecture online to an audience of 10,000 students from all over the world rather than to an audience of 100 students at some expensive university.

This is just one of many areas were social institutions are lagging far behind technological progress. The arguments against using technology are not rationally motivated.
This approach worked for me. I worked on a free Windows program for about 8 months or so and it because fairly popular. At one point I decided to charge for it. I released a new version that provided basic free features and additional features for an upgrade. My first month was only $400 in sales but the second was $1800. The large use base I had was great at word of mouth and I made those sales with no advertising costs at all.
> On religion and her being a pastor (of a 15 member church). Why should we expect rational, conscientious behavior from some random pastor? The world is shocked that she didn't want to give a tip and then made a reference a God while doing so. It is religion, I don't expect thought-out, kind behavior from religious people. Why should we? They are just people and are going to make these kind of snide comments just like anyone else.

Er. Historically, clergy are expected to be the voices of reason, neutral third parties for arbitration and trust purposes, and also minor authorities at minimum. It's a stereotype. That doesn't mean it disappeared because you aren't religious.
This is exactly why Applebee's fired the waitress. She wasn't fired because the customer called the store. She was fired because she was the catalyst for all of this bad publicity.
I just finished watching the 13 episodes of House of Cards season one this weekend and my very good friend is in acquisitions for a major network.

House of Cards is phenomenal, period.

"We believe that February 1st will be a defining moment in the development of Internet TV...The constraints of the linear TV grid will fall, one by one." - Page 5-6 Letter to shareholders http://goo.gl/VBGv6

Look beyond the short term $100M price tag for this one show, this is a shift in power. Netflix is building an old stone house...

“Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone house that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn’t see the difference.”
- Francis Underwood on House of Cards

Netflix is becoming truly vertically integrated.
Would you care to share your measuring system for how do decide if it is 1:1 or not? It seems complex to measure health, "wealth", happiness, and security. I sure haven't found any actionable or reasonably complete metrics in my readings, maybe I am bad at searching.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_life
I use ShareLatex often.

They did just roll out syntax completion for some of the common items (begin, subsection, subsubsection), and their new 'split screen' feature is rather nice.

I do see it on HN often as well....
It wouldn't have happened if the waitress didn't post that image of the receipt online. She acted with malicious intent and I am glad they fired her.
Why is this on Hacker News? I can't think of any relevance it has to software or entrepreneurship. This kind of thing should stay on Reddit, methinks.

I'm not going to flag it though, as it isn't spam.
Why would someone write "I give God 10% why do you get 18"... then leave 18% tip, just in a different way?
> Why should we expect rational, conscientious behavior from some random pastor?

Because the attitude is (like it or not) Christians are better, they are saved, and they go the extra mile to show that charity, giving, and compassion are their main attributes. When a pastor writes that stuff on the check, it comes out as very hypocritical to most people in this country.

This includes both Christians who are outraged because "she is doesn't represent us" and also atheists who see this as an example of hypocrisy.
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Let's get 6-8 weeks of vacation like Europeans too, that's what I keep arguing for...
Who coined the term Big Data?
Quite a few according to the infographic linked to in their FAQ:

http://500.co/2012/04/06/visualizing-the-last-18-months-of-5...
Hope I can make it!

Many thanks for organising this. It's like a lifeline for me. :-)

Peter
Why would anyone write anything on a receipt.
Have fun guys!
What? I thought the bad publicity was caused by Applebee's firing her, not the other way round.
French guy on radio shouted, "Milk is for baby cows!"

"I must put every class header in a different file because it can be reused. Breaking into more files means more code reuse."

More namespaces, the better. Minimal permissions.

"It is not enough to alphabetize soup cans in cupboard by letter and date..." Make-up shit like "const" in your compiler to make it a royal pain in the ass.

Make it as bureaucratic as possible with source code control and shit.

A hash table is a cryptographic thing and you should use SHA.

if-then-else is just as good as switch().
I see it as a human acting human. There are 7 billion people, their behavior is not predetermined.
Generally speaking, vulnerability discovery is fairly straightforward, just requires tenacity and a knack for knowing where to look/fuzz. Exploitation on this level requires a huge amount of creativity, to know how to fit the building blocks together into a functioning exploit. Regardless, I'd put them on about the same level of difficulty, having done both (though I've done far, far more discovery than exploitation).

> the other impressive thing is the lack of generic fixes even thus we know how to make them happen (which involve using pretty much using a "written-from-the-ground-up" OS), apparently, security is fairly low on the "it makes us lose money, let's fix it all properly" scale ;-)

This is the real meat of this comment, though, and it's what I really want to respond to. We don't have generic fixes that actually meet our requirements in terms of performance and developer time. The real, fundamental problem is simple: memory corruption should not be possible; put another way, pointers considered harmful. Possible solutions to this are the Singularity/RenrakuOS/SharpOS/MOSA approach, where you have a tiny, trusted compiler that takes on the security risk and generates native code, with the entire rest of the system running in safe, managed code.

I promoted this concept for a while -- RenrakuOS is mine -- but at the end of the day, the performance is just not there yet, and won't be for quite a while. But even more than that, it doesn't solve any of the problems with logic-related vulnerabilities; these become more and more important as you eliminate the lower level bugs.
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Also, the cost of entry for creating a high quality book is much lower than for creating a high quality movie/tv show. This allows a wider variety of viewpoints, forms, styles, and ideas to be expressed in book form than tv.
Our pastor showed this picture in church this morning. Didn't really get the back story and some things still don't add up:

The picture on Reddit (linked to from this link) is cropped. I seem to remember seeing the entire receipt.

Usually tips are only added automatically for large parties (>= 8) but this bill was only $34. Makes no sense. Was this just 8 people getting iced teas?
Didn't people work longer back when there were no labor laws?
I'm aware of its meaning, I was asking why you felt the need to use it. Admittedly I'm pretty tired, but I'm not seeing the error you noticed.

Side note for when you've pointed out my error: in many places [sic] is extremely useful, in contexts such as this it serves as a rather passive aggressive way of complaining about a typo.
Add Epictetus to that list, as well.
My point was it doesn't matter at this stage. It already happened. Time to deal with it. This kind of stuff happens all the time probably and it shows up in local paper at most, or in some /r/wtf sub-reddit.

Regardless of what side you are on, you can't deny that the restaurant lost a considerable amount of business in just a couple of days. That should be a fire-able offense.
The design of the homepage is pretty awful, in my opinion. It lags on anything a few years old and the multiple columns make it hard to pick out articles. I don't read The Verge specifically because I think the homepage is terrible.

I'm equally annoyed with ArsTechnica's three column layout. I either have to skim titles horizontally which is confusing because each column is a different category, or scroll down, back up, down again, back up, etc. just to look at all the headlines.

People read left to right, top to bottom. The homepage layout should follow that pattern. Anything else is counter-intuitive.
You're forgetting the smoking gun: The customer actually wrote "I give god 10%, why do you get 18" on the receipt.

There's no way around the physical evidence. Internet judgement has convicted the customer of class-A asshattery and sentenced her/him to public ridicule. The waitress is going to come across as a hero in this story no matter what bureaucratic rule she broke.

Any sane business owned and run by humans would have had a good laugh and ignored the whiny customer. Instead we have an example of what happens when you try to formalize every decision from how the steaks are cooked to how to respond to customer complaints. Protip: If your company responds to crises like this, it's long past time to get the hell out.

I ate at an Applebees recently. It was exactly the kind of soulless microwaved food I would expect from a nationwide, lowest-common-denominator corporate chain. This story does not surprise me one bit.
As a general rule, restaurant managers at these chain stores have to respect the brand. According to Applebee's:

"Employees must honor the privacy rights of APPLEBEE’s and its employees by seeking permission before writing about or displaying internal APPLEBEE'S happenings that might be "
considered to be a breach of privacy and confidentiality..."

She was fired for breaching the the customer's privacy. And you don't normally do that (putting information online) because this kind of shitstorm can happen. They are probably sending a message to other employees, don't pull this kind of stuff or you lose your job. Now look at the shitstorm we have to deal with.
Thanks for the link. I am not sure if any of these companies have gone through the accelerator program though.
I'm not sure how many of the restaurant's customers will actually boycott though. People are quite fickle and you'll see many claiming boycott just to get some attention. Besides, I'm not sure just how many of its customers even know about its facebook page, let alone this incident.
I really wish the US was on that chart!
Developer here. This was a ~24 hour hack put together to try to raise the funds that we need to subsidize 15 financially at-need students (myself included) to this fantastic event. Many of us have already started companies or are pioneering some incredible research but don't have liquid capital to afford the trip and event costs (includes lodging and food).

We are working on a full-length blog post that will be posted tomorrow to go into the details of the opportunity that we have in front of us.

As with any fundraiser, any help is absolutely appreciated.