skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most interesting point about this story is the existence of "ghost employees" per se. One has to think of remote Yahoo workers ;).

The fraud involved biometrics, but I think it is a non-issue. Of course you can trick every system, and a finger-print system is arguably harder to trick than punching card systems that might have been used before. You cannot expect to log in with silicon fingers for a long time before someone will notice ...
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/ has all the information you need in notifying affiliates and filing a DMCA.
There was quite some controversy about [1] this C++ course. It supposedly was a collection of bad practices and an all round bad way to learn C++.

[1] http://ureddit.com/class/23620/introduction-to-c----a-video-...
The test is in the interpreter, not the compiler to byte-code. Every time the + is evaluated, the interpreter checks for the common case before resorting to finding the first object's method.
If you are terrified about all these, there is ADA.
I expected Processing to be higher. Well, I guess people who use Processing aren't likely to even know what source control is, let alone Stack Overflow.
Source? I have never heard that claim. And contrary to that, Go has facilities for implementing ORMs, like field annotations in structs for specifying column bindings.
This is very Gattica... Kind of find it amusing that we have finally caught up with the movies...
You also ignored your suggestion to "forbid binary thinking" when you broke things up into "old" and "new". The majority of my response was to show how the terms "old" and "new" were not useful qualifiers.

Michael Pollan's "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." is just as useful a guide, without making a needless distinction about old/new, genetics, processed/unprocessed, etc. I have no disagreements with his statement. I see nothing which you've written which gives better food advice than that statement. For example, when I wrote "but it doesn't make good sense", I meant "the use of the terms 'old' and 'new'" don't make good sense. That I disagree with your reasoning does not mean I disagree with your conclusion that plants should be preferred over pizza rolls.

You've changed the goalposts. You said "Drinking [alcohol] on a regular basis is about as stupid as eating arsenic or lead salts for kicks." I pointed out that humans have been drinking alcohol on a regular basis for 1,000s of years. Now you say "as much as heavy metals as possible." But I never said that people always drank as much alcohol as possible, only that it was part of their daily life. And still is in many cultures.

You suggest that my argument is that since paleo can't give a "detailed numerical analysis of which heavy metal is more or less toxic" then therefore we should consume heavy metals. This is of course a wrong interpretation of my view. I observe that we have cultures now and historically which drink alcohol on a daily basis. If there were a large toxic effect of "ethanol in your blood" - as there is, for example, with lead acetate - then it would be easily observed. Since it isn't observed, its dangerous effects must be far smaller than that of heavy metals.

You may have the opinion that they are of similar hazard, but that opinion is contrary to the pretty strong evidence that does exist. This makes your statement a moral statement, though I think you also want it classified as a scientific statement.

If the paleo logic concludes that daily alcohol consumption is about as toxic as lead salts, and observation shows that daily alcohol consumption is nowhere near as toxic as lead salts, then the logic behind paleo must be incorrect as a scientific theory, no? Of course, moral, cultural, and religious reasons also give valid reasons to avoid certain foods, but those don't purport to be justified by scientific reasoning.

You've also changed your previous statement from "Most of [your] meals" having a hunk of meat to just dinner, and not even every dinner. And not even a "hunk", but as part of soup, so with these changes your professed meat diet has been reduced nearly 10-fold. My statement was based solely on what you originally wrote, and not your updated description of what you actually eat.
not bad....
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The question would be if they just grabbed a static snapshot of the site and are using that or if they are actually still pointing back to some of the stolen sites files. If they are pointing back to the stolen sites JavaScript files then yes it would be very easy to redirect the traffic back to their site. Given that the code resides on their server they are completely within their rights to do so as well. I would also minify the JavaScript file as well, so the change is not immediately apparent to them. Make them work to figure out why the code they have stolen is not working.
Granted, it's not just the advertising but what I felt was dishonest promises. Anyway, I have unflagged it since.
Would these fingers be considered 'burglars tools' by the courts?
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The problem with these telemetric policies is that I bet they are actually aimed at peanalising risky drivers rather than rewarding low risk drivers.

Perhaps I am being too syndical and actually they are just trying to replace the, now illegal, female driver discount.
Go is... fundamentally different than most runtimes? Probably. Better? Maybe. Better than the comparable ones? I think it's losing that war. You don't even need a special runtime, it can help, but I think the amount it helps is overstated in Go's case.

Concurrency isn't that hard in practice. If you're willing to forgo automatic multiplexing Perl will give you Go's concurrency model in a library written ten years ago, and it works as naturally as it does in Go. Python seems to have similarly good support but it probably doesn't look much like Go. I'm not sure what Lua's doing these days, but in the past I've found concurrency dead simple. If you happen to be writing C, time-slicing the work isn't even that hard. If you know enough about Go's concurrency to tell whether a single goroutine will cause its scheduler to deadlock all by itself, you can easily write concurrent programs in all these languages.

I know this will be a controversial claim, but all of these solutions are easier to reason about than Go. Usually not by much, and it has primarily to do with the nature of its multi-threading support, but that's just the concurrency model being weakened by the support for convenient parallelism.

There is a case where Go is best: when you like writing Go more than the others. You can guarantee a little less about concurrency than most, but at least you can usually guarantee more about types than most. If you like writing Go you will either luckily avoid the problems or develop habits that prevent you from producing concurrency bugs, possibly even without realizing it.
That would be an abuse of the DMCA since its just a design (see Flat-Ui).
Here: https://cloud.google.com/resources/startups/
Similarly, in Japan one pronunciation of 4 is also the word for death, so it's frequently omitted.
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Thank you for this comment! I otherwise would have dived straight into the C++ course as I have been thinking about learning it for a while now.
That said, do you or does anyone have a reccommendation on an online tutorial/course for learning C++? I already have a few years of programming experience, mostly in Java, Python and Haskell. I hope it is not the wrong place and time to ask such a question.
Why? They are stealing OP's copyrighted works and posting them on their website.
It's a little closer to 3x as fast

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/processor-architecture-b...
Agreed. I started out solo in an incubator and had to be RUTHLESS with my time. Basically didn't really make use of the mentors / sessions / etc - too busy writing code / making sales calls. Didn't spend time networking with the other startups - too busy trying to network in my industry. Didn't spend time on pitch competitions etc - too busy trying to find real investors who knew me and knew the space.

I've since added a co-founder, but we more or less still operate the same (probably a bit to our detriment).
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"So then the decision came down to which language to use."

I find this tendency to constantly jackknife between talking about languages and talking about frameworks a little dizzying.

Shouldn't the decision have been what web stack to use? I'm sure you could get half way there with a bespoke Ruby web stack, maybe built on top of JRuby or with a sprinkling of C extensions. You could get the same poor scalability with some badly designed framework on top of Go [1].

There's a lack of meat in the post (hence why people are calling it out as PR). How do these features of Go make it easier to write applications or frameworks that cater to this particular scalability need? Could extra effort be put in up front to get something similar out of Ruby or any of the other languages, or will they always be sub-par? What is it about Go that makes it light up the rest of the stack in a way other languages don't?

Or have you just traded one trendy technology for another because it promises to be the magic bullet for your current itch?

[1] This isn't saying Rails is badly designed.
Yup. Agreed. I use 10MinuteMail for these situations: http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
I haven't tried this out, but I do know it is possible to roughly locate a user via SMS. A lot of government agencies already do this using SMS messaging, basically you can send a silent SMS to a user so they don't even need to 'receive' a message. I assume it works the same way, but not silent(?).

From Wikipedia:

Silent messages, often called “silent sms,” “stealth sms,” or “stealthy pings,” are employed to locate a person or to create a complete movement profile. They do not show up on a display, nor trigger an acoustical signal when received. The mobile provider, often at the behest of the police, will capture data such as subscriber identification IMSI. In Germany in 2010 nearly half a million “silent SMSs” were sent by the federal police, customs, and the secret service Office for Protection of the Constitution.[60]
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Has anyone hear worked for Amazon on AWS?

They work on some really interesting stuff over there and seem to deliver at quite a rate.

Would be interested in hearing more about what it is like.
You can't say it's a myth when it's based on opinion. If people have the opinion that iProducts are overpriced, then they are because "overpriced" is completely subjective. Simple as that. There's no myth, but the fact that you're tired of hearing it does mean that people think it.

I am of the opinion that Apple products are overpriced. They really have no value for me or other people like me who want more choices and more control. I don't like their whole culture or ecosystem, so really any price is too high. Furthermore, in purely practical terms there's nothing that I can't do on an Android device.
I agree, but on the other hand I'm impressed that google services are so tolerant of ad blockers. I've never even seen a single ad on youtube for example - although they could easily "trick" the ad blockers, or even worse, block the content when ad blocking is detected. Then again, this might all change if a large enough fraction of users start using adblock...
Thanks for the suggestions! We will be adding service areas later this to North America and Asia.

For our SMS delivery, we use an international provider - could be that Google uses the same provider.
I think in that case, the answer is "too bad, so sad". The patent system shouldn't guarantee some kind of monetary reward. If it does, it sets up the wrong incentives.

Independent invention should be a sign that the idea isn't worth patenting, that it was "in the air" at the time.
Looks pretty sweet! I'll be digging in tonight.

Looks like there's even an official build for the ODroid U2! Sweet deal, I happen to own two.
"Would these fingers be considered 'burglars tools' by the courts?"

A boxer's hands may be considered lethal weapons so probably yes.

They should invent something to use in Japan, just in case their social services /pension agencies want to see the 128 year old grandma before sending the next check http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071 :).
The best application of "embrace, extend, extinguish" I ever saw:

1) Replicate SVN workflow in GIT. SVNs features/limitations are a tiny subset of GIT so this works well. Not too proud to admit the first day had a handwritten translation cheatsheet.
2) Stop worrying about branching and merging being evil, last year rolled out git flow which mostly just formalized and standardized whats already being done, etc.
3) Shut down the old SVN infrastructure after its unused long enough.
Not sure if you read the description provided. They ripped the source code as well, not just the design. That goes under copyright, as would copying someones graphic assets. If it were using similar graphics or design, then yes, it isn't a copyright issue.
Great POV here!
Hm, i don't think it works like this, ... ? Must be some other technology... I don't have an iPhone to try, but anyways. I'll figure it out... thanks for the interesting info.
https://github.com/bmizerany/pat
> That just killed it.

Really? Not the terrible launch?

This says nothing about the game, only your preference of playing single player games over multiplayer games. There are plenty of great games out there with 'social multiplayer' or 'cloud-based saves'. These are not problems that drive away players.
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2) take cold showers daily
3) exercise
I think that there were a lot of players that were frustrated when they made a character offline, and then got invited to play with a friend on battle.net and had to start from scratch. I assume that frustration was part of the reason (among others) that they made all characters online/battle.net characters.
No.

This is directly using (even hotlinking some assets) the OPs copyrighted materials.

FlatUI had 3 icons that were "similar"[1] to icons in LayerVault. There wasn't any clear copying of assets.

[1] for some values of similar, including "not similar".
Both sides sound reasonable from their point of view. I wonder if, perhaps, there was a communication issue, and neither side expressed their position well to eachother until now?
"Just don't try to select it!"

Why - seems to select perfectly well when I try it using Firefox on Windows 7.
To my mind, "first to file" removes some of the moral basis of patents. That is, even if someone invented something first, whoever gets to the PTO first gets rewarded with ownership of the idea. We've taken away the reward that should be given to the First Inventor based on that sacred, difficult act of Creation.
> (Can't quite put my finger on why).

Lazy evaluation. Much of what you use Lisp macros for is to control when/if arguments get evaluated. Haskell just works this way so you don't need macros for it.
Crashes both Safari 6.0.1 and Chrome 25.0.1364.155 on OSX 10.8.2 over here.
Okay, I think I get it now. The check you refer to is done inside the BINARY_ADD implementation. That's why the bytecode is the same for both cases. Am I right?
It doesn't have the "pyramid of Doom" feeling of the "traditional NodeJS" version, but it does not make it easy to follow the flow. A better approach, IMHO, would be to use a promise library like q [1]

1: https://github.com/kriskowal/q/
I am a recent grad who is interested in NPL and Arabic. I am trying to contact you but couldn't find a way. My email is in my profile if you want to get in touch.
Actually most Clojure maps are Hashtables, which do have O(1) amortized lookup and insert. Granted, the 'amortized' is important.
Fooling fingerprint readers isn't really that hard. YouTube is full of videos explaining how to do it with nothing more than a bottle cap, super glue, some duct tape, and a regular laser printer.
It's very, very fun :)
That's not quite how it works. The subreddit and UReddit.com sites are not connected like that.

Teachers go in and list their courses, syllabus, and relevant information to make it easier for folks to find after the content falls off our front page. There is also a messaging feature so that once a student enrolls (adds) a class, the teacher can message them with updates. So it is an aggregator or sorts, but it's also a tool to increase communication and organization. As far as using the term University, unfortunately that was picked in 2010, and we often just go by UReddit.
Forget Wireshark, the article implies that some of the critics tried the good old fashioned "yank the Internet cord and see how long it takes to break" method and got 20 minutes of playability.
I should disclose that I haven't shopped on eBay in many years.

Here's why, and why it's relevant:

I have a terrible experience on eBay.

The prices are great until the excessive shipping is added. Until payment I can generally get a response from the seller but after that it's like I don't exist. Then there are the outright scams.

And please note, I'm a _buyer_. I shudder to think that I should ever be a seller on eBay; sellers are left empty handed if a buyer claims "not as described." Example: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57352136-501465/paypa...

When I try to shop for something online, even adding "-eBay" to a google search to drop eBay listings can be risky (it will eliminate any page that mentions eBay).

I believe this is relevant because the study is basically claiming eBay is well known enough that they don't need to advertise on Google. I'd argue exactly the opposite is happening: eBay is hemorrhaging users and a successful marketing campaign could change that. eBay needs Google more than Google needs eBay.

Amazon (mentioned in the article) and Apple are definitely innovative in the retail space. I notice they focus on targeted ads more than eBay does, because eBay's model is more hands off. And I think a direct consequence is Amazon and Apple can make good use of Google ads.

There's nothing wrong with "hands off" automation of big parts of your business. It works for Google.

But I can't really take eBay's study very seriously: if there are lots of customers and businesses who have grown tired of eBay (and PayPal), their advertising has got to be hurting.

Straighten out your house, eBay, and then people will want to stop by.
It seems to be translation from J (APL) to C...
I'm going to bet that this is a setup for the phishing scam. Random addresses and phone numbers, fake endorsements, blatant design rip-off - it all points rather unambiguously at a quick-and-dirty attempt at creating a believable online presence. It could've been just a designer's "sketch" or a proof of concept for a client if it weren't for two clones. This indicates that this is a redundant setup, with possibly more clones floating around, but with the JS files fixed.

Your best bet would be to contact the hosting providers and say just that.

If this is indeed a part of the scam operation, you should also prepare yourselves for a website redesign, because if the scam gets on its way, then your visuals may end up being associated with the scammy websites rather than with your genuine business.
Unfortunately Kickstarter did not work for us. This will just force our Open Compass to seek actual investors.
FlatUI was inspired by another website.
In this case, both websites seem to have copied all the assets up to the javascript from gocardless since they received sentry notifications.
> It's not really "go" that makes the difference. it's how the runtimes and frameworks are used and/or made.

Exactly.

For the type of product they sell, if the processing time isn't pretty much all going to the actual running of the customer supplied job code and network latency, they're doing something very wrong. The language choice shouldn't be much more than noise in a setup like that. The framework choice, on the other hand... Rails is hardly well optimised for a high traffic API that can't readily be cached.

I've done queuing and job processing in Ruby. Spending 90% of the time in kernel space handling network traffic or waiting is not hard to achieve for a pure queuing server. If you add delegating jobs to external code to do the actual work, you should spend less time in userspace in the code actually processing the messages.

If language choice nets you more than 10%-20% in a setup like that, something else has changed beyond language.

And that's fine. But a post focusing on the language change then makes it seem like they didn't understand what caused the performance problem in the first place.
Actually the default `println` already does that. ;)
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Use the "is this my domain" javascript trick and then remove all elements from the DOM. Better yet, location.href them somewhere else.
available for Android as well??
A forum site I used to frequent had a bug that allowed you to discover hidden email addresses. It was a "bug" that the admins knew about quite well and kept for their own convenience. You could search for users by email address, with a wildcard automatically appended to the end of your search, and it would display all of the users who matched, even if their email address was not displayed. So, you start with "a", then go to "b" and "c", until you see the user you care about show up. Then, you go on to "ca", "cb", "cc", "cd", etc., until you're finally left with only one user because you have "that_one_asshole_who_hated_me@my_own_damn_employer.com".
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"But are these the claims really that outrageous? ie. The biggest piracy site in the world has a slight effect on sales?"

Well, there has been some evidence pointing towards there being a positive effect on sales. So not outrageous but controversial still.
Most of the content listed on UReddit is actually housed on the teacher's own site or subreddit. We are really just an aggregate to help them organize and reach more people. Plus they have complete control and ownership of their content. Unfortunately our non-profit Open Compass hit a delay as we were hoping KickStarter would work out for us.