skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTC issues guidelines for mobile apps
Seems kind of heinous of Ars Technica to refer to Aurenheimer as "Internet troll weev". I mean, he is, but they know his name by now.
I've also wondered if the incentives with regards to cheating have changed. It's certainly easier to cheat. And if grades are perceived as having a greater effect on standing, the rewards have increased as well.
Yes, Lebanon is a bad example. I was going with the fact that most people are technically Arab, ethnically. But you are correct, that doesn't have much bearing on the actual divisions in the country.
@cryptoz, can you give us a raw format for livestream data?

Thanks
Your philosophies are sound for banking software.

There are cases where startups, social impact organizations, or any fast moving team would pick rails for its fast movement, accessibility, and support, even if they thought that there were even more security issues than that have happened.
Where I live in America, pedestrians seem highly obedient of walk signals and drivers seem highly observant of crosswalks.

You got me as far as "confirmation bias". Still looking up that citation?
Do you suggest an alternative? That works on Mac/Linux.

Is Python/Django that much secure or just not targeted enough?

I'm evaluating languages/frameworks for a project and I really want to use Haskell and yesod or happstack, but after starting my project in them, I always end up going back to Rails for the documentation/ease. I may try and stick to it this time but any suggestions would be great.
That you think that unsourced opinion piece constitutes "secondary corroboration" indicates that perhaps you do not, in fact, understand when citation is needed.
It is possible to hook the Soda Stream up to a more reasonable CO2 tank. The Amazon reviews[1] are actually quite helpful and interesting, especially the top one-star.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Sodastream-Fountain-Soda-Maker-Starter...
Why would someone need leads for a job that doesn't exist?
Would you sell shovels to other people if the shovels mined gold on their own?

The real reason that the ASIC companies take preorders is to pay for the high upfront engineering costs. Additionally, a single entity controlling a majority of the bitcoin network would decrease confidence in Bitcoin, so it is in everyones best interest to spread out the mining devices.
Unmaintained ports are not constant hand-holding.
Correction: most recruiters are terrible at their job. It is much worse than any other industry except maybe real estate brokers in New York :)

In finance, it seems fake jobs are posted by every recruiting firm. And no, this is not the same as a company advertising positions all the time at their website. In the latter case the probability of hiring someone for the position is at least greater than zero.
You need something based on intrinsic motivation.

A lot of people saying "start with teaching problem solving and algorithmic thinking" and while I agree that this might be "the best" way to learn how to do programming from some angles it is probably not especially motivating apart from to people who are intrinsically interested in math/logic puzzle type things.

It probably works as an approach in a CS programme where you have the luxury of saying "do this or you don't get a degree" and where you are trying to weed out people who might not hack it in the long run. It may also be more time efficient in developing actual programming skill, but that is not necessarily the point here.

A good example is to look at minecraft modding tutorials on youtube. Based on the commentary it's clear that some of these people don't really understand Java and don't really know what they are doing and are mainly learning by copying others. However they are still getting the results that they want to some degree so they keep going.

At some point these people will inevitably hit against hurdles because of their approach. At this point they may either give up in favour of some other hobby or they will naturally gravitate towards reading the accumulated wisdom about debugging techniques, OO design etc.

I can see why the more formal approach is appealing to people who started as being self taught and are introspecting about their own development as a programmer.

There's certainly plenty of times where I think about older programs I had written and thought "if only I had read textbook X first, that would have been much easier/better".
Really great work, +1 for a subscription mode.

As a further feature request, it would be really great to be able to flag/vote a diff as alarming, so it could be highlighted for more people can notice it. For example, this diff by Geico is pretty questionable:

https://www.docracy.com/doc/diff?originalId=0ihn8solvd3&...
Maybe in population, but Singapore is not even 0.2% of the size of Norway...
I'm not disputing that what he's charged with (nothing that whitehats and journos don't do all the time) doesn't suck, or that potential maximum sentences in computer crime aren't oddly out of whack at times.

But lets cut the crap - Barret was a target because he dedicated a considerable amount of his time to being the mouth piece of some of the more radicalized groups inside anonymous, who went out of their way to directly antagonize the US government over and over, the more public the better.

If you're going to ask as a spokesman for an ongoing criminal enterprise that are making fools out of law enforcment you'd better hope to hell they get caught before too long. Because you will always represent a decent 2nd place trophy for them if push comes to shove.

I'm not saying it's right, it's just realism. It's nothing that wouldn't go down the same way (or much worse) in a vast majority of nations.

It's like rolling your cat in bacon grease and sending it out to play with the mountain lions. No doubt you loved your pet and it's sad that it died. And maybe you're dumb enough that you didn't realize how stupid that was in advance.

But you can't really blame the mountain lions, it's just their nature.
In truth, this is the way it should go

University should not be about a memory test. Not memorizing all the formulas, etc but building on knowledge, doing something you would be expected to do 'in real life', and of course with all the resources you have.

Unfortunately it seems this kind of work is more appropriate to math/engineering/science type of problems.

Most of work in other areas is bibliographical research.
A loaded coin may come up heads 75% of the time. Using that coin to make a decision yields a biased procedure. It's also objective, since the bias is unrelated to the experimenter.

That's just not true. The experimenter chose to record the results of coin tosses, chose the coin, chose the tossing method, and chose what variables to record (heads/tails for each toss).

Before the coin is tossed the first time, human subjectivity and bias have already had ample opportunities to affect the outcome. What does it even mean to propose that the resulting data will be "objective?" The resulting bias, if any, is entirely the experimenter's responsibility.

This is what the essayist means when she says "the people who own the model have the power." Her point isn't that using measurements is bad or that feedback loops can't work, it's that merely establishing an ambitious shiny new model doesn't offer any guarantee that the powers and influences that corrupted the old model won't corrupt the new one too.
I was recently talking to my boss, and my dad confirmed this, it is absolutely true that when suddenly the kids are quiet that you start worrying as to what they are up to =)
"We need to ditch this short, easily typed, prescriptive domain name into something that sounds like a combo move in Street Fighter."
What I'd generally prefer is tabs (keyed and stored) for block-structure indententation, and spaces for visual alignment of single logical expressions broken into multiple lines for readability (where you are aligning the following lines with some element of the preceding line.)

This, incidentally, will preserve correct relative indentation regardless of tab settings in editors (it would even work for python, since you only have the first kind of indentation in python given python's indentation sensitivity, but the convention of spaces-over-tabs is so strong in Python that its not worth debating, given how much higher the cost of inconsistency is compared to the cost of choosing the less-ideal option consistently.)
There are a lot of nonsensical suggestions

http://codingplayground.blogspot.it/2013/01/facebook-graph-s...
German exports are not contained to EU, it's a major exporter worldwide.
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Sorry, I misread you as suggesting that because the proposed bill wouldn't affect the closet access that it was an ineffective bill.

In any case, all of the MAC addresses he used were authorized to be on the MIT network until they stopped working without notice. Doesn't the bill now state that changing MAC addresses is not circumvention?
It is to build their list of employers to solicit for possible positions. They can put out a real ad for those positions, in order to get a headhunting fee. So, the 'real' job is several steps removed from the fake one.
Every time an article like this comes up, someone immediately pops up to say something like "the listed countries aren't multi-ethnic like the USA!"

This is a meme that should die, because it isn't based in any fact, but is mere speculation. A quick look down any statistics for immigration (as other posters have pointed out) will show very little difference between the US and other "Western" countries. The assertion that multiculturalism restricts good governance clearly does not hold up to scrutiny. Canada, for example, compares well to Scandinavian countries on certain metrics (education, economy, formerly healthcare...), and nobody can plausibly argue that Canada is not at least as multi-ethnic as the US.
So, the US is 87.2% native American? Or are we only counting the first generation as "foreign born"?
This reminds me of the U.S. News and World Report rankings. They were taken seriously for years before people realized that they were seriously skewed and biased against some larger state universities.

I've been to Sweden and stayed with a family there and got the impression that they are mostly an intelligent and compassionate people that tend to think alike. However the drive that set the U.S. apart (back then at least) was for innovation, business, and capitalism, while the Scandinavian/Nordics were making furniture and high quality items without really caring about making a lot of money from mass production, so their GDP was much lower.

To say now that they are well-governed because the U.S. is starting to suck economically based on biased stats? Worthless info, imo.
Thank you for that voice of reason.

You make two very good points here and in your other post.

1) Kids are different. There is a whole spectrum of right and wrong decisions depending on what your kid is like. Would anyone suggest that the same methods would work with a kid who is stubborn and one who is easy going?

2) These decisions depend on a kid's age. A 2-5 year old is not logical or rational, and can do outrageous things just to see how you would react. Don't deceive them, let them be kids, yadda yadda are almost funny to read. Like you said, walk a mile in the parents' shoes.

Anyway, getting back to the original post, I do see an issue with this approach (to parenting, not the technical solutions): I'd rather solve the bigger problem of the kids not listening to what the parent is saying rather than fixing this single instance. On the other hand, it is easy for kids to get rowdy without realizing it and this method seems to fix that particular issue well.
Even more than the security, the reason I use it at home is because I'm lazy and I don't want to go hopping about applying patches to lock things down. Most things take the least amount of effort to configure and, probably most importantly, things are predictable.

There's no "magic", everything must be clear, documented and open.

An old friend of mine also runs OpenBSD on his machine and I don't think he's restarted in 2 years. Granted, he's running ancient software, but it works, he's using sane configs so it's secure, although he hasn't taken his eyes off the news in case any patches are released. That's really the best you can do in the end.

As much as I feel bad for the Rails team, it may hopefully be a blessing in disguise in the end. Complacency is never a good thing.
If that is so worrying to you ... maybe it is time to put down the controller and pick up a tennis racket, or golf clubs and go outside. Either you are getting better and can master the game and win tournaments, or you can't.
It does affect security.

1. User visits site. Gets warned about expired certificate. Tells browser to go ahead and ignore the error.

2. Later, user visits site again. This time, though, someone is doing a MITM or DNS hijack. User gets warning about certificate not matching domain. User thinks it is just the expired warning, and so tells the browser to ignore it.

"Secure" is a whole system property. The whole system includes the users and their expectations. An expired certificate changes user expectations.
Of course he made the right decision! The CEO is Harvard Business School educated, "fluent" in English [1], and has mandated that all company meetings shall be conducted in English (even in Japan) [2]. Out of touch you say? Nonsense!</sarcasm>

[1] The reality is far from this, of course.

[2]http://asiajin.com/blog/2010/05/21/english-please-rakuten-ba...
Ah, noted. Evading rate limiting to a resource you have lawful access to still reads to me as bandwidth, not privilege, but point taken.

But still— unlocked closet, unsecured network, all, we are given to understand, because of a very lenient open network policy. If he was not "authorized" access, what is the authority, and when would the authorization have taken place? It seems a terribly tough row to hoe.
That's missing a `nub` or something to get the unique keys. You can also combine the maps first and the results will come out sorted and unique already.... since we're golfing:

go :: (Show k, Ord k) => Map k v -> Map k v -> String
go m1 m2 = orNone . intercalate ", " . fmap show . keys $ m1 <> m2
where orNone "" = "<none>"
orNone x = x
Ask HN: Shouldn't 'Flag' on HN Be A Two-Step Process?
Given how easy it is to 'flag' a submission inadvertently on all these touch devices, shouldn't flag be a two step process on HN, with an 'Are You Sure?'
Perhaps more interesting is the USA is ranked 8, just behind all the obvious Nordic, Swiss and Singaporean contenders. The general tone of most mass media and internet commentary would suggest it should be somewhere behind Russia and Mexico.
That's a very dangerous attitude to have.

Security is not something that should be traded off just to reduce development time or effort slightly.

Regardless of the situation, it's much more responsible to focus on doing security properly, while cutting corners on the UI, documentation or other less-critical areas of the application. Those are generally the kind of updates that can wait a little while. Implementing proper security should not be done via updates or patches "later on" in the project.
If they want to yell while playing games, then they can play games outside.

Not computer games they can't. And not in all seasons/kinds of weather, either.

I'm fairly certain that every mother ever has told her children to stop yelling in the house at least once.

And I'm fairly certain every parent (mother? what?) also sometimes allowed it. You know, politeness is kind of about a sentient counterpart, rather a fixed sound threshold in a panopticon.

From the single bit of data I have, your idea of repression seems to be anything less than complete anarchy

How so? If I think it's repressing if a child is under no circumstance allowed to yell out in joy or fright while playing? What does this have to do with anarchy? That's not anarchy, that's life.
Is it safe to install rails with something like 'gem install rails' right now? I'm totally new to Ruby and to the Rails framework, but I was going to start a side project with it this weekend (today). Any advice on how I can safely get setup while the community is figuring out how to cope with the intrusion?
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Constantly having to patch, re-test and update ports just because some Rubyists failed to develop their software responsibly is constant hand-holding.
Why in the world would it remind you of that? A development process is just a way to improve collaboration over basic informal communication. Without gyroscopes you are literally incapable of sensing your orientation. It would be like being unable to see anyone else's code.
Public education quality depends very heavily on demographics, doesn't it?
This is a pretty poor article. A bunch of drawn-out hardware specs comparisons using images for some reason and then this jewel:

>But the Z10 comes with the Windows Phone, the choice of applications for which there is very limited

I had to go check if blackberry hadn't lost their minds and decided to drop their own OS but instead of using Android went for Windows Phone.
If you are a student from a family with median income or below, Harvard and Stanford waive tuition (and Stanford will cover room and board too).

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/21/us-education-stanf...
I like the idea of Bitcoin, but it bothers me that the computational power gets spent on such a useless project (hash function calculation). Isn't there anyway that the system of Bitcoin could remain the same while the computational power goes into something like... I don't know... protein folding or weather prediction?
Awesome idea!! Any chance someone could curate it and highlight the changes that were meaningful? For example, Geico just took out the following:

"We do not save this data nor disclose it to any third parties."

(anything but comforting...)
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The most recent 'Special Report' (this weeks issue) focuses on The Nordics. It's a series of some 5-8 articles in the paper.

The previous special report was on offshoring and outsourcing.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/specialreports
You aren't doomed, but you have to act. Scurvy is bound to overtake the crew and now is the time to act...and dropping the boat metaphor.

It's about finding a way to ring the bell. There are no shortage of business folks seeking talented dev teams and with a little networking I'm sure you can find someone worth taking a shot at selling the product and making it a business. The question is would a sale reinvigorate the team. If yes, reach out and let's chat. Lord knows I've gotten some great advice over the years and would love the opportunity to pay it forward.

Email is in my profile.
You're conflating immigration, multi-ethnicity, and multicultural. The key factor in homogeneity, which is what translates to ease of governance, is limiting the number of subcultures. Scandinavia and Canada have far fewer subcultures than the US; yes, people may be of different ethnic backgrounds, but they all basically think the same.

There is nothing like the US difference between "red state" and "blue state" outlooks. There aren't huge debates over whether creationism should be taught in schools. You don't have people in the national legislature with radically different beliefs about facts like how old the Earth is. Of course it's going to be easier to govern.
We use Webex over a VPN which works very well.
I'm loathe to engage in more negativity, but dude, you're just engaging in software-bigotry and trolling now.

You're making broad generalizations about the ruby community and it's members, many of whom do not fit your stereotypes.

Has the compromise of Rubygems been an event of such massive proportion that it effects all ruby devs and those who rely upon them? Yeah. Do things need to be fixed? Yes. Can these things be fixed within the Ruby community? Yes.

So if you want to advocate that people shouldn't use Ruby or Rails, fine, your prerogative. But please, stop being an asshole while doing it.
I contribute to a lot of open source projects and used to be a fan of tabs but now I hate them.

If one dev uses tabs and another uses spaces then, depending on the tab width they have configured, the files indentation can look completely wacked.

100% spaces for me.
yes, all gems have been verified.
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Wow. I was just thinking of making something like this yesterday. Guess great ideas don't last long. I was also interested in seeing how similar terms of services are. I've been working on a paper studying how boilerplate terms seem to be growing more dense over time, and one of the things I've noticed looking at a lot of TOSes is how similar they all are. For example, there are really only two or three variations on the wordings of choice of law clauses, and almost all arbitration clauses look the same. Wonder if you can run a comparison on your database across various TOSes to see how similar they are (a la turnitin for essays).

I have a striking suspicion that the lawyers (or webmasters) are just copying and pasting a lot of these terms from standard repositories or otherwise from other services.
"The idea of changing behaviour, conditioning living creatures, to obey rules enforced my machines feels very disturbing to me."

I've made use of this technique on myself; I've got a concentration app that, when turned on, will make an abhorrent piercing noise if I go on Facebook/Twitter/Hackernews/ read RSS feeds / etc. It's helped me train myself to focus when I'm working.

I will grant that using this on someone else without their knowledge is more questionable, but I wanted to say that it's sometimes legitimate.
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builders and makers shouldn't drink coffee!
Off topic:

I disagree, when I have kids I will tell it everything my wife tells me not to tell it, if this includes telling it Santa Clause is not real- I'm going to do it. I rather have him learn from me then some snob egotistic kid who thinks he knows the secrets of life preaching about how unfair it is that other parents are lying to his friends or another ignorant kid, who is figuring it all by himself, confusing my kid. Having a kid who is aware might pay off..or not, like someone in the top said, us without kids don't know how the robot methodology isn't going to work.

On Topic:

Putting the tv to a certain volume level and a tablet, with a voice monitoring application- if it passes a certain threshold it will change the channel to a 1 minute pre recorded message telling him not to yell, sounds more productive than a white screen and a notification for you to go to the room and explain to him why that keeps happening or sending him to the room for yelling to loud after a few warnings. We can all agree there's a certain level of yelling one can stand from kids!
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This is seriously dangerous advice.
Full women's suffrage in Switzerland came mindbogglingly late, but more relevant would be ways in which they still fail today, not twenty years ago. Is the the system that failed to enforce rights nationwide is still in place, or has EU membership changed that?
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Given Kerr's expert status, that needs more awareness.

I just submitted it to the new queue.
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I don't see why that would change the dynamics: the men can still just skip the 2 months and continue to work and signal their loyalty to the company. I think there must be something cultural or economical going on: worker-protection laws, low unemployment rate, or something like that.