skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel it really applies here. Thinkpad are (were ?) tanks. Robustness people were willing to pay a premium. Now it feels like they just want the premium without the "too" expensive counterpart.
I see it - the whole system and implementation looks a fantastically neat idea :)
Each bank differs slightly, through a good summery is a blog post from 2010 (http://mfc.elmberg.net/2010/03/07/kontantuttag-vad-galler-fo...). I am quite sure however that most is not law, but rather the banks trying to increase earnings by pushing customers to use credit cards over cash. However, if you ask the banks, they will say its to limit the number of robberies at banks. Given the speed that we are moving towards a cashless society, the truth is likely a mix of them all.

I picked Swedbanks number in my post above, mostly because they are focused on normal consumers and less so at businesses. The numbers are also fairly similar to other banks, with only a few hundred dollars in difference compared to other banks. Their exact numbers are written on their website (http://www.swedbank.se/privat/kort-och-betalningar/kort/om-k...). However, I couldn't find a link for the procedure with larger transactions. The best I could find is this news paper article (http://www.sydsvenskan.se/ekonomi/bankerna-stoppar-stora-utt...). I learned personally the procedure by calling my bank and going through the process myself.
Fabrice Bellard is smart enough that he can probably work directly with obfuscated code without it having to go through a separate translation process. The "obfuscated" source could in fact be the original :)
It is widespread practice in the UK for "a certain type of organisation" to include a blanket IP clause in their standard employment contracts. I don't know of any robust legal argument that such a clause should not be enforceable (which isn't to say that none exists, but I've been involved in some fairly heavy negotiations on this score in the past and no lawyer on either side has ever questioned that aspect to my knowledge).

If you choose to work for that type of organisation, it is therefore similarly widespread practice for anyone who's any good to demand that the clause be replaced with something more equitable, probably using magic words like "in the course of your employment" or something similar.

I don't know what default rules apply under all possible circumstances in the absence of any explicit agreement, but if you work in an IP-related field and don't have an explicit agreement about IP rights in your contract, you're crazy. :-)
In that case, the joke should be called out for being inappropriate period, to men or women. A particular gender needs not be mentioned.
Fascinating. "Suspect publishing" must be what people who can't quite bring themselves to write banking trojans do with their time.
The Last Two Jobs on Earth
Pretty much never

Every successful startup was pitched at some point to some experienced startup person who thought it was a crap idea.

Ideas change, and are a very small indicator of success to start with. Successful startups are exceptional, just because you have seen 'yet another social image sharing site' fail 50 times doesnt mean the next one will.

Pointing out challenges and not feeling personally excited by a startup is absolutely fine, but saying something sucks and shouldnt be pursued is generally arrogant and naive.
Good question! Trading off false positives and false negatives is a big part of why we expose a score, rather than just a "yes"/"no". Each site has a different balance.

Most of our customers review each user we flag, and have a human make a final go/no-go decision about whether to accept the transaction. I'd recommend starting with that configuration.

Once that's working, then I think it makes sense to automatically block users who have exceptionally high thresholds. We can help identify a threshold with a low rate of false positives!
Yes. Smalltalk has the ifTrue: and ifFalse: methods on the Boolean object.

x > y ifTrue: [ Transcript show: 'Truthy' ]

So it is using polymorphism as the main mechanism. The True object implements ifTrue: by evaluating the block argument and implements ifFalse: by doing nothing. The False object does the opposite.
A link posted earlier by lightning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397414 has some good information.

However, if free users want to “add storage space” – i.e give RapidShare some money – they can keep their files.

For 9.99 euros for 30 days (or 99.99 euros per year), users can have 250GB of storage space. The 500GB storage account costs 19.99 euros per 30 days or 199.99 per year.

So what happens when users want to store more than 500GB? TorrentFreak was told that a user asked RapidShare how much it would cost to host around 2TB of files and was given a price of 120 euros ($155) per month. For less money anyone can buy a real-life hard drive, not just once but every single month.

So, it looks like they might also delete data from paying users, with only 24 hours notice.
My goodness, so many bytes spilled.

I wonder what would happen if we took the time and energy we invest in picking apart and analyzing unjust and immoral laws/policies (or playing armchair economist), and directed it at safely circumventing them, and helping others to do the same?
Electronic Arts Chief Resigns
I recently helped host a hackathon in Vegas and we had several high school kids, including girls, attend. They were nervous and felt out of place at first among all the older developers. But they went in to win a significant prize at the event and are now very active in the VegasTech community.

Thank god they didn't have to deal with anything like this.
He's not stitching the molecules for Soylent together atom by atom - he's mixing up various nutrients based upon his ongoing research.

Given the complete crap that many people eat and manage to live on, his attempt to educate himself and take control of his nutrition this way is worthy of respect and emulation - not derision.
>>>"The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present--and that's not fully valued."

That is the quote that matters.

What if IBM had wanted to buy Apple or Microsoft? Where would we all be now?
The rust ARC stands for Atomic Reference Counting, not Automatic Reference Counting. An unfortunate namespace collision.
Thanks Jason! Since every site is a bit different, we currently provide the score and let the site decide what to do based on their UI. I really like the idea of recommending specific extra steps though! Perhaps a good idea for a future launch.
You probably don't need this bit at all, but I feel unsolicity advisey. And in case it helps anyone else: One of the top 3 decisions I've made this year was simply to blog once a week.

This post today is on Hacker News and doing awesome. Tomorrow's likely won't be so lucky. Or next week's. Sometimes the Twitter followers grow a ton, and then it stalls for weeks.

Just keep doing it. Sometimes someone very important and influential finds that old post everyone else seemed to ignore months ago. Sometimes it's just a single email that says, "This really helped me today."

After doing it long enough, you realize looking back, it all built on itself. None of it was wasted.
Yeap. AMD did this with its Phenom II chips. Maintain the same fab process for a 4 core processor but sell it as dual or triple core if it was poor quality. AMD motherboards famously had the feature to enable the locked down processors. Obviously your mileage would vary but going from 3 cores to 4 was a pretty significant performance boost especially for the initial cost.

A while back there was a way to unlock an AMD 6950 GPU to a 6970 as well. Had something to do with unlocking some memory modules since the cards were identical.
I'm amazed how many people are willing to accept the possibility of this kind of treatment for themselves and everyone else, on the basis that weev is not a nice guy.
But then again they would have never been able to remove the risk of doing it no matter what they asked, so it's probably understandable they chose to ask for a psychological tap on the back.
The Inside Story of SQL Slammer: infected 75000 servers in ten minutes in 2003
Could try using alt+left instead of backspace, although websites could steal that as well.
Soylent green is people.
There's a "law" somewhere that says if a vendor can segment a msrket easily it will. Hence academic software pricing, lunch menus, military discounts for movie tickets, and so on. If there's a simple way to segment a market it will always be profitable to do so (unless you somehow piss off one of your segments, I suppose).
This is really socking news, for the first time google can crawl a website like cragslist
Lawyers and accountants tend to work for a firm rather than freelance project by project like actors and film professionals/entrepeneurs (e.g. lighting, sound, makeup, electrical, catering) will do.

The same is true of some programmers as well, but I would guess more programmers (and architects, designers, project managers, tech leads, etc) do the freelance thing compared to other professionals.
Why don't you read your contract and pay particular attention to the bit where it talks about transfer of title? As someone who doesn't sign these kinds of contracts and hasn't for years, I'm not sure what the exact position of the carrier is without downloading and analyzing a phone contract, which I don't feel like doing right now.

More like you're wrong, and are just assuming no one will take the time to read a contract and call you on it.

I just read through the T-Mobile contract (http://www.t-mobile.com/Templates/Popup.aspx?PAsset=Ftr_Ftr_...), and there is no mention of title at all. They do try to restrict what you can do with your device while it is on their network (including prohibiting you from "modifying the device", which should include unlocking), but nowhere do they claim ownership of the device.

The phone is not loaned/leased to you. There is no lien on it. The carrier has no recourse to repossess the phone. The early termination fee is there, of course, but is entirely unrelated from a contractual point of view. If you break your contract, they have the right and ability to collect the early termination fee, and nothing else.

As an aside, I'm not sure why you'd consider it so impractical for the carrier to repossess the phone if someone breaks contract. It's certainly feasible, and they could likely refurb and resell the phone for something on the order of the early termination fee. But yes, that would take more effort than sending a bill, so they have chosen not to consider the phone on loan. It's yours, contract or not.

But none of this is particularly relevant. The question at hand is about whether or not unlocking your phone is a DMCA violation and thus a criminal act. Depending on the particular carrier, it may or may not be a violation of your contract to unlock your phone, but that should be a civil matter, not a criminal one.

Why are you so hell-bent on ceding power to companies that have been granted mono/duopolies by the government, and are making use of a precious public resource (radio spectrum)? Do you seriously care so little for your rights as a customer -- hell, as a human being -- that you'd prefer that modifying a device you own (yes, own) is a felony? I just don't understand why anyone would side with one of the carriers... ever. For the most part they are as anti-consumer as companies can be. Individuals have little way to right that imbalance without government intervention.
With all due respect - there is a lot of selection bias here. I'm willing to wager that for every situation in which a founder/ceo turned down a healthy offer, and then went on to great success, that I can find at least one (if not two) in which mgmt. turned down an offer that, in hindsight, was actually quite lucrative.

I have close personal experience with an acquisition being turned down, and then a couple years later an IPO occurring at 1/4 the acquisition price. And I'm sure a lot of us on HN have experienced down-rounds followed by a diluted public offering, in which everyone but the preferred shareholders take a bath.

BTW, this is not to say that the central thesis of the article, that great companies are run by founders who have a vision for the future, and are relentless towards making that vision a reality, isn't correct. But, turning down an acquisition needs to be done on merit, not just because, "Great founders turn down $1B acquisition offers."
This news made look closer into Lua. I discovered that it actually does not provide any support for unicode. I am wondering now how this will impact the goals for Lua as scripting language? Or is there a special module for Unicode support that will be used?
I have chart.js downloaded.
Esuna: Front-End boilerplate with guidelines
2TB for $155/month? S3 would be $175/month, or $140/month at reduced redundancy. What a shock that you might pay market rates for online storage services.
Google's RSS extension restored to Chrome Web Store, "was removed by mistake"
Bitcoin - the other shoe drops
I'm not sure why this got downvoted, perhaps you're all missing the point:

It's not that I don't like open source. I contribute to it myself.

The point is that when you agree to something, that is binding.
SQLite 3.7.16 Released
Agreed. But if can't figure it out and/or they blow you off, point out what you believe their problems are and encourage them to get a second opinion.
A letter to myself as a junior developer
Five "laws" of programming paradigms
The World's Shortest & Sweetest Employee Handbook
When the PS3 first came out, they were having really bad yield issues. The design of the chip is one slowish "normal" processor, plus 6 "synergistic processing elements" which were really fast little vector processors. Well, not exactly 6... If you look at the chip http://www.trustedreviews.com/Sony-PlayStation-3_Games_revie... you'll see 8! OK so one was reserved by the OS for a hypervisor that would run in the background all the time and was not available for mere mortals to access. But that still only explains 7. Turns out they just disabled one of the SPEs. They tested each of them and if one happened to be broken, they would pick that one to be disabled. This N+1 redundancy improved effective yields even though a lot of the chips were still broken!
This event has traditionally booked up fast, although the new (modest) fee has helped slow down the rate at which that happens. I wouldn't wait too long.
Yup, totally agree. Running a blog is definitely a marathon. I did make the mistake of giving up too early in previous projects. So I will take this lesson to heart. Thanks so much for reminding me this.
Apps: The New Corporate Cost-Cutting Tool
https://github.com/danielsamuels/chart-js
Yes, this -- manufacturing Soylent at scale (including a well-managed supply chain with much-lower-than-consumer pricing) would make it far cheaper than it is now to make.

Also consider that Soylent isn't primarily optimized for price, but for quality nutrition and taste.

ALSO consider that anything normally paid for by medical insurance has hugely inflated prices... Abott's probably costs a fraction of Soylent's cost to make. The rest is profit.
Oh this is a classic move by Nvidia. I had a gaming PC with two GeForce 8800 GTX cards in it. I used a softmod to get them to be recognised as Quadro 4600's so I could work better in Solidworks.

NVidia makes decent video cards and such, but they're almost all based off a single reference design. It saves money on component costs and production time for third parties. Why make three different boards, using three different GPUs, when all you need to do is determine how much RAM you want to stick on it and choose the component layout for the specific product.
Some alternative JavaScript charting libraries...

* Highcharts JS (http://www.highcharts.com/)

* Flot (http://www.flotcharts.org/)

* NVD3 (http://nvd3.org/)

* morris.js (http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/)

* Rickshaw (http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/)

* jqPlot (http://www.jqplot.com/)

* gRaphaël (http://g.raphaeljs.com/)

* YUI charts (http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/charts/)

* Polychart.js (http://polychartjs.com/)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, but doesn't 90% detection imply a 10% false negative rate?

I agree that the rate of false positives is extremely important here.
I use one from Straight Talk, which just resells AT&T's service.
I have direct personal experience with 10x and I highly recommend them.

I found them to help me with a significant employment/management need.

10x focused on finding the best solution and provided ongoing contact and advice through the whole process.

I don't get anything by recommending them. I do believe fully in their business and value.
Automate Your Phone With Old Hotel Key Cards
Surely just casting to double is going to be a far more practical and efficient solution than using a global volatile float ?

The problem of extra precision provided randomly by the compiler for floats should be fixed by just casting to a double, ensuring that you always use the extra precision.
#Conclave13 Sets A Benchmark For Events With Its Brilliant Use Of Social Media
There are just so many good ideas that are originally decreed as failures that it seems like madness to try and stop somebody from trying. The Xerox R&D team that was told the gui would never really catch on. The investors that told Amazon nobody would purchase books of the internet. Even the Yahoo execs that turned down Google in 1997. Of course some ideas, like the chocolate tea pot, might seemed so doomed to failure that it would be cruel to not call them out. That is until chocolate tea pots become the next big food trend. For more concrete evidence of why this is a bad idea though you should look to the performance of stock market traders over the last 30 years, for the most part their average performance rarely deviates from a 50/50 success rate.
You have only one side of the story. Maybe the company doesn't have the rights on the code and cannot decide to open source it. Maybe they're making money with the code and open sourcing it is killing the business. Maybe they have a procedure before open sourcing code.

If tomorrow I wake up with a developer open sourcing part of the work he does for us I would sure be very unhappy.

You just can't condone that kind of initiative or in a couple of days your whole IP is on the Internet.
Ascii art for Go lovers
I agree, whether an idea sucks or not is a very subjective thing, and sometimes it can be naive to believe that what you think is going to apply to entire population of the planet. That being said, one should probably point out why in your opinion the idea is weak. Just stress the fact that this is just one opinion, not the ultimate truth.
This happened to me, once. I can't go into details but I know from experience what you should do now.

Start looking for another job, immediately. Don't hesitate. Don't think these guys are 'ok'. As soon as you find another job, resign. There is more and worse coming down the line. You need to get out of there as soon as you can.
The soft drink market is tough, you are fighting against two huge incumbents with a lot of power and money. Being purchased be one of them after you achieve a certain level of (local) success is one of the few options for a successful exit.

I've worked with a small soda company that folded after a dozen years. The incumbents did everything from buy their space out from their retailers to scoring a monopoly with towns for public areas and schools.

Selling low-margin (often with seasonal swings) products that have to be kept cool, with a limited shelf-life, and overcoming the retail and distribution hurdles is an achievement.
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Sorry but the company were judge, jury and executor, not her.

What would you do in this day if you were a company? No one wants to be dealing with a potential major sexual harassment case ever.
This country is based on such limited knowledge of how to communicate with one another, it is upsetting. This post upsets me because she just sounds like a typical American person in that she used others to attack someone, rather than talking to him. Judging by his response, he was not some crazy college kid with aggression problems that would have physically attacked her.

The tech community is not perfect, but I think people in tech are far more open to talking through things than any other spots. SF especially. Maybe these people are not from the bay area,.. I don't know.
I'd also recommend Wolfgang Banzhaf's book on GP:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genetic-Programming-Introduction-Art...
Find a new job. This is just a little taste of what is to come from your employer.
True to its roots: Why Kickstarter won't sell
Russian is now the second most used language on the web
Does anyone know any good alternatives to this?
Halide - language for image processing and computational photography
Is it really random or just a failure of imagination? Real world systems are horribly complex and beautifully intricate. Sure the evolution of grain pre-agricultural society was random but I'd bet that if you accounted for all the variables (don't know if you even could), then the reason for "why things are" would be pretty clear.

Also, citation on the steam engine bit? Slavery was illegal in much of the world by the time we developed machines to automate picking of cotton or harvesting other crops, which is where (I believe) most slave labor was used. (afaik inventions like the cotton gin did little to alleviate the demand for slaves).
Thanks, fixing it as we speak! Sorry!
Divesting in Google
Pretty much drink it when you're hungry. I usually had 3-4 serves a day at random times. A serve is 2 tablespoons of the powder mixed into a glass/tumbler of water.

Keep in mind I was nearly 100% dormant for those months, so I wasn't exactly building up an appetite. The most exercise I'd get would be a trip to the bathroom. I rarely got hungry with 3-4 serves a day.

Occasionally I would try eat some fruit and (real/natural) yoghurt. Just for taste/sanity more than health/hunger. Maybe once a week or so, and about a coffee-mug sized portion at most was all I could handle.

I believe the websites say they're a "supplement" for legal purposes? I'm not sure. The doctors, nutritionists, and specialists all agreed I could live indefinitely off it.

(Thanks for the well wishes, but there's no getting better from my particular case, just a matter of prolonging it now)
Cops: U.S. law should require logs of your text messages
I wasn't advocating for the company to use obfuscation. It's largely irrelevant in this regard. I was replying to the comment above mine which was left by someone who seems to think that obfuscated code is somehow less secure than compiled code.

I agree -- if I was the boss in this situation the open source thing would be allowed to continue.
Perfect. I cloned it. It says that it's under MIT. Good enough for me.
I suppose. But my understanding was that this 10x company would find you permanent as well as contract/freelance roles.
> Great founders turn down $1B acquisition offers.

I don't think that was even hinted at as qualification. It seems the focus was only on "Great founders have a very specific idea about where they are headed and what they want to do."

The turning down of $1B was just in relation to Yahoo as an anecdote why it might not might stupid and generally about products that didn't exist in this form before and thus are impossible to truly valuate.
I'm on accord with you, but not accord with the choice to have added photos of the people and never talked to them. I feel this is a tough situation now that the guy lost his job. Is his job loss been verified though? I'd be curious to know that...I mean 3 kids!? I can't imagine.
This is probably the best way to approach it. It doesn't come off as rude, it addresses what it has to address, and it lets everyone reach their own conclusions.
They helped you as an employer or an employee?