skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most decent processors have processes in place for the transfer of CC numbers. I was involved with this process at a decent-sized magazine, it involved armed security, an encrypted hard drive in a locked container and millions of dollars of insurance. It's not an easy process, but is possible.
>You knew exactly where the attackers stood--American power is evil

Who gives a fuck where they stand they will all be hunted down and killed. For all you know this bombing was because they don't believe women should run in marathons.
What are the known facts about the Boston Marathon Explosion?
Used to be that a terrorist was defined as someone who likes to further their agenda by means of spreading terror. Explosions, destruction, loss of life - that's all completely incidental to the actual terror.

A person running amok, in contrast, may be a terrorist (and people like Breivik certainly fit the bill in some aspects) but their main goal is committing mass murder, usually culminating in suicide. A convincing argument could be made that in some respects suicide bombers are also running amok, but we tend to reserve the term terrorist for a more organized type of crime that is supported by an entire network.

> but yeah, terror spreads through news.

Absolutely.
The piece that I see ALWAYS neglected is maintenance. I rent and pay nothing additional to maintain the place. Washing machine breaks - landlord fixes it. Carpets wearing out (minus things that are obviously my fault) - landlord replaces it.

Everyone I talk to who owns is constantly upgrading or replacing or fixing something in their house. It seems, on average, home maintenance is about 66-75% of my rent check; and that isn't money they get back. It just prevents their home price from falling.
Is the web getting faster
How to Start Writing a Story
As a point of information,

that was a point of information, not a point of interest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_information
Best of Hacker News in March - Highest voted articles
Given that LEGO bricks are made of ABS plastic it very well could have had any number of formulations where some years it was weaker than others. Should be possible to test that.
It's closed-source, made by Adobe and seems to have a bad security record - there are 3 things wrong with it.

Besides, it's not the reason I'm leaving - it just makes me question them. I'm not after glitzy. If anything, I'd have expected Linode to have been written in Perl or something.
I found that ^^ on reddit, but also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22159004 reported (via a Boston based journalist student) a third explosion at the JFK library.

Apparently the third explosion was caused by the police to destroy a suspicious device.
There's no lack of transparency here. Linode expressly said in their blog post that no CC details were leaked.

> In addition, we have found no evidence that payment information of any customer was accessed.

The question isn't transparency, but trustworthiness. Either Linode is telling the truth, and this anonymous IRC person with a pastebin is trolling everyone, or Linode is lying (or alternatively, Linode is incompetent and simply didn't detect the CC access). At the moment I'm going with Linode is telling the truth, because honestly, am I going to believe an anonymous person on IRC over a company I do business with?
Are you American?

A majority of Presidential campaign platforms are issues which also need Congressional approval. Tax Reform, healthcare, domestic policy, spending cuts, and budgets. Obama did what he said, but congress blocked him. He's neither stupid, nor a liar for that. Any more than he would have been lying if Congress blocked healthcare reform.
At this point things seem to be pointing towards bombs. Police have reportedly recovered 2 or 3 undetonated devices (and set off a controlled explosion for one of them [1]). No news of who or why though.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/BostonDotCom/status/3238868777467...
The Boston Globe ‏@BostonGlobe 34s

BREAKING NEWS: Police getting multiple reports of unexploded devices around Boston

3.38 pm Central time.

Update:

The Boston Globe ‏@BostonGlobe 28s

RT @billy_baker: "It's not safe to be here." - Boston Police evacuating Commonwealth Avenue mall at Gloucester.

3.45 Central time.

Update:

The Boston Globe ‏@BostonGlobe 1m

Boston Police: If anyone knows of any information call about explosions: 1 800 494 TIPS

3.55 Central time.

Holy crap! UPDATE:

Apparently cellphone service is SHUT DOWN! To make sure new devices are not remotely detonated!

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/official-cellphone-service-sh...

4.10 PM Central Time!
I am a pretty extreme libertarian (kind of a nutter) and keep getting worse at it, but the reason that argument is flawed is that it assumes anyone can own electromagnetic radiation frequency.

Nobody owns a frequency, they have the right operate on that frequency.

It is a government construct that have no natural scarcity to them

The electromagnetic spectrum does have natural scarcity, due to interference. Have you ever had trouble getting a strong WiFi signal due to neighboring WiFi? You experienced electromagnetic spectrum scarcity. Now, you are probably going to jump in and argue that if only the government didn't constrain WiFi to 2.4GHz, there wouldn't be any scarcity. The problem is, there is still very much a finite amount of useable spectrum, and in fact a lot more of it is in use than you realize.
At the beginning of a mortgage, the overwhelming majority of your payment will be interest; a very small slice is applied to the principal. Over the term of the loan, those small cuts whittle away the principal owed, which in turn lowers the amount of interested charged each payment (a percentage of the principal owed), until at the end of the mortgage your payment is mostly principal.

If you do the math, a typical 30-year mortgage will cost you twice the actual cost of paying cash for a home, so roughly 50% of your payment actually gets converted into equity, assuming your home value was static over the term. This is why people often advise new homeowners to make an extra principal-only payment as often as possible at the beginning of the loan: to cut down the eventual amount of interest you'll end up paying.

That's what I've done with my mortgage. I've been lucky to be in a position to make frequent principal-only payments and should be able to cut a 30-year mortgage to 15-ish or so, saving a metric grundle of cash in the process. Given the nature of the conversation happening around this thread, I suppose I should state my reasons for trading away job-seeking flexibility: I LOVE that eventually, I'll have a roof and four walls independent of my employment situation.
Boston PD news conference coming up in ~10 minites
North Korea hasn't ever done anything like this so it's truly out of line to begin speculating that it's a "false-flag to start a war on the Korean peninsula" - way to blame the victim
Note: It took place on Patriot's Day, a Massachusetts and Maine holiday.
Stephen here, yes boothead is right. Using a combination of Haskell and Python you can make a really powerful trading system. Python has a lot of user-facing algorithm tools and Haskell has the robustness and parallelism for the backend that Python doesn't.

If you're interested in advice on how to bridge the two worlds let me know, there's a lot of of upcoming technology ( LLVM, Blaze, pipes, zeromq, cloud-haskell ) that could be very useful.
How about you guys cool it and stop organizing a lynching mob devoid of any real data? It's embarrassing. HN is supposed to be populated with lots of very smart, data-driven analytical folks. Yet, every time something like this happens out of the woodwork come people who would ran you and your children down in the event of an emergency rather than turn around, carefully evaluate the situation, and help you. Don't be a moron. Stop it. For all you know there's a serious law enforcement effort under way that prevents Linode from talking.

For the record, I am a Linode customer and just got a new server to migrate a couple of sites into. My plans have not been altered at all by this. I have no data to suggest I should.
> This too has been sub-optimal, given that credit cards were exposed

If that's even true.
Sorry, I knew it was intentional but I mean, despite the sarcasm, it still feels condescending. Just the pure existence of an article with the title "How to work with women," no matter how accurate, would still be condescending and bigoted. It's because all women are different, just as all software engineers are different.
Do this immediately if it is a debit card!
Yea, I'm not blaming anybody. Just pointing out that it was recognized that monads were useful beyond I/O in the early days. It's definitely true that I/O was a major impetus for them.
What sort of casualty counts did IRA bombings have in London?
> UPDATE: One report was of unexploded device on the glass footbridge over Huntington Ave near Copley place
Or a bunch of black powder, really. Multiple smallish devices in bags in a public place is totally within the angry or crazy lone wolf threat profile. I really hope it is that vs anything more organized.
You mean like final in Java? I don't believe there is. Go has a different way of handling OO and so far I have never needed "final". In Go embedding is not common and interfaces are used much more.

In Go, having final in an embedded struct affect the containing struct seems wrong IMHO- this would allow embeded fields to dictate the behaviour of things that embed them. I don't think most programmers would be happy with adding a field to a struct and as a consequence be prevented from implementing a given method signature.
You haven't traveled much lately, have you?
ah jesus. relax.
Linode already said they can't comment because of an ongoing investigation. What exactly do you want them to say?
No weird activities on mine either but I will give a call to my CC company anyway. I have had to cancel the card I use on linode twice in the past few months because of suspicious activities. I just didn't think it would be coming from Linode
The numbers for Hyderabad and Rangareddi districts in the state of Andhra Pradesh (in South India) show 3.1% and 7.3% respectively. Considering that the state capital and its metropolitan area are in these two districts, I expected highest numbers of people owning said "assets". But these two had lower numbers compared to other districts.

Then I came across the earlier post "We are the 5%" (http://datastories.in/blog/2013/04/01/indias-5-percent/), which had a similar map showing the "% of Households with TV, Computer, Phone and Vehicle, by District". This map shows Hyderabad with 22.7% and Rangareddi with 15.8%. These of course are more likely numbers.

Since TV and phone were among the lists of assets in both posts, the first set of numbers should be more in line with the second set. How is this discrepancy explained?
Yeah, I just migrated from Linode to Ramnode (just in time!) and I'm quite happy with the performance. Great network connectivity.
At least I could take nail clippers on an airplane in 1999.
Basically it searches and refreshes all of the social media networks in real time (twitter, youtube, instagram, flickr, wordpress, blogger) and shows them in three streams, allowing you to "favorite" the best stuff you see and separate it out.

But the really cool stuff is what we can do with data of what users have favorited.
If you are feeling bad, why are you saying it? This feels like you are standing on a soapbox and it's hard to think you are actually sorry for it when you are doing it intentionally.
APRIL 16, 2012
Most likely.

While I offer my condolences to the victims and their families, this isn't the most fatal or most gruesome incident even this month - simply this one happens to involve white western people, so it will be considered by news agencies as more important than the civilian suffering in Syria, Afganistan, North Korea, Somalia or Mexican drug wars.

If you and your relatives are safely far away from Boston, then your happiness would benefit from ignoring the news. Just as what people do when they and their relatives are safely far away from Syria etc.
I think I won't take your advice and instead will text my friends at MIT to make sure they weren't running the Boston Marathon this year.

Everyone should do what they think is best. As for me, being informed is one way I stay intellectually engaged and interact with my peers. So I'll continue to do so.
> That assumes that you don't get any value out of having a glamorous job.

The only value you get out of having a "glamorous job" is that other people think you have a glamorous job. Glamour has to do with perception, not reality.

> Sure, there are tons of people that want to be game developers. Why? Because a lot of things about being a game developer are awesome!

Wrong. They want to be game developers because they think a lot of things about being a game developer are awesome. Once again, this deals only with perception.

> You get a laid-back working environment, you get to work with artists and other exciting, creative people, the work is technically challenging, you spend your day looking at monsters and explosions instead of spreadsheets and forms...If you're lucky, you create something that people will form real emotional attachment to.

From the numerous comments on this thread alone, actually being a game developer is about as far from any of those things as you can get.

> People you meet will be excited to talk to you about your work.

This is probably the only thing on your list that is true, but if your happiness is primarily based on what other people think about you, you have a lot bigger problems in life than what your job is.

> You may as well try to make them be something you love.

I never said that you shouldn't do something you love. My point was that you should consider the bias of perception on market dynamics when determining your occupation, rather than falling prey to the trap of perception, like a lot of people do.
I thought my only edit had been to replace might with probably. If this was not the case I'm sorry. Maybe I edited it to add that right after posting and forgot-
Thousands die every day, but freedoms should persist.

Besides with a little luck this is North Korea and we don't have to loose any more freedoms (do we even have more to lose?)
That seems a little high like out of a video game... I took the USAR week long explosives familiarization course back in 93 at AIT at Redstone Arsenal (now why a minicomputer system operator had to take that course was a mystery, other than general safety and familiarization because it was a minicomputer for a TSA (basically what civilians would call an ammo depot)) and got to prime and set off a pound of old fashioned TNT and as a group we got to prime and set off a demilled 105 round. Based on crater size and general blast effect this is probably somewhere in between.

A pound of .mil TNT vaguely resembles a squarish soup can in size and a 105 round is, you guessed it, 105mm across so its dimensions are vaguely reminiscent of a 24oz/40oz big beer can. So what you're talking about is something pretty small, not the size of a car or truck or two 10 pound bags. But a bit bigger than a grenade. I got to throw two of those when I was in .mil and the damage is probably more severe than one of those can cause. Smoke pillar alone if nothing else.

I will agree that you could F up a 10 pound device such that all you get is the primer and booster and not the main charge. That sounds about right.
Couldn't agree more so. What "precautions" and new reforms are we gonna see in the name of security?
It's not so much that ownership is a hack, or that sharing will replace ownership, but that as technology improves the transaction costs for trading property rights decreases, allowing "ownership" to be treated in a more fine-grained way than previously possible.

You can see a fairly pure instance of this situation in spectrum management (which is a common area used to study property rights because it's easy to deal with theoretically). In 1960, Ronald Coase said we should break off big chunks of spectrum and sell it off for exclusive use, just like we do with land. Transactions in those rights will help achieve efficient allocations of resources, but there is a limit at which transaction costs dominate and optimal allocations aren't reached. If you think of something very coarse-grained like frequencies for broadcast radio, you're likely to get efficient allocations via trading of property rights. If you think of something very fine-grained like allocation of frequencies to a cell phone as it travels through a busy intersection, the idea of doing micro-transactions to yield an optimal allocation becomes intractable in the face of transaction costs. But as you make the transactions cheaper, through technology, it becomes more practical to do micro-transactions.

This basic phenomenon is generalizable to pretty much any situation where you have property rights that are coarse-grained out of accounting convenience. If you can make it cheap and easy to break off little chunks of the property right and trade in them, you'll achieve a more optimal allocation of rights. That's pretty much exactly what AirBnB and FlightCar are: not sharing, but ways of breaking off a piece of a coarse property right and trading in those little pieces in a fine-grained way.
It was automated in the early '80s at a manufacturer of switches intended for aerospace. I'm sure it was long before that. You would need to be Thor to press the roller switch used in landing gear for example. They even were under glass vacuum chambers so the testing could be simulated at various altitudes.
Are you kidding? We're demonstrably less free today than 1999. The TSA springs to mind, the patriot act..
> RT @ReutersUS: Boston police confirms another explosion at JFK Library #breaking
More tickets, more timezones, more fun...
> You get a laid-back working environment

Laid back, to me, means "Oh, we had to work 60 hours last week, so this week I'm gonna leave around 4 pm on Thursday. I'll send an email to the team lead to not expect me tomorrow"

From the stories I've heard, "laid back" in the game industry means "great news! it's 7 pm on Sunday evening, everybody go home and be with your kids"
Is it not relevant that they've copied a design straight from the NY Times?
> For all you know this bombing was because they don't believe women should run in marathons.

Or maybe their entire family was killed as collateral damage in an american drone strike in Yemen. Or they though the IRS is taxing them too much and wanted to get back at the country. Or they are just fucking crazy and didn't even have a reason.

Stop making assumptions with no information whatsoever.
Varies wildly depending on the blog, in my experience.
Anyone deciding whether to purchase a home should play with this calculation of the tradeoffs first: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...
Many Colleges and Universities Face Financial Problems
Drones are flying over Afghanistan and Pakistan right now, atatcking innocent families. A Zionist invasion of Palestine in the 1940s is pushing into Gaza, the West Bank, southwest Syria, and innocent Palestinians are being killed daily - with US backing. The US is doing this all over the world, or enabling it. It's a laugh to see the people who invaded Iraq and tortured prisoners in Abu Ghraib getting on their high horse. The chickens are just beginning to come home to roost in this case.
Turns out my cousin's wife got injured in training and didn't run today. They were just there to cheer on some friends who were running. Last I heard they were OK, but, as you can guess, the flow of detailed information in and out of Boston is pretty patchy right now.
Oddly relevant today.
A few things you're not accounting for:

* Leverage. (The most you can leverage a stock investment is 2x. For homes people can leverage their money up to an insane 20x, for example: by buying a 500k home with 25k down. The proper comparison is not to compare buying a 500k home vs 500k worth of stocks; it's buying 25k or 50k worth of stocks vs a 500k home.)

* Mortgage deduction. (Imagine if you could invest 500k in the stock market with only 25k, and then the government let you deduct your interest payments!)

* Inflation. (I've heard of people living in Manhattan in apartments they bought in the 1980s that pay a mortgage of $500. Inflation has reduced their mortgage debt to negligible levels. Time has in a very real way erased much of their debt.)
Edit: nevermind, that's to graphic to share.
The DOM is still a mess
Scientists make 'laboratory-grown' kidney
Are you really asking whether we have more freedoms to lose in the same sentence that you mention North Korea? Really?
I don't know this space well, but if I understood the SVForum EMTech talk I attended last week, that's what Ripple is doing.

https://ripple.com/
They're doing canned responses right now guys. Just got this exact same message myself.
Its things like this that really make me wonder how we can progress as a society with nutjobs like this. Without sounding like a hippy, the world is filled with so much violence and hate. If these people (and they're all over) put more effort into building society instead of destroying we could really progress.

It takes a special kind of asshole to do this.
If it's a debit card that can be used as a credit card (and it must be, otherwise it couldn't have been used to pay for Linode), then it enjoys the same protection as regular credit cards when it's used as one.
Update: (4:35PM EST) "A federal law-enforcement source confirmed to The Post there are at least 12 dead and nearly 50 injured." [1]

[1] http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/two_explosions_at_bost...
Good point. Regardless, there should be __something__.
Anyone ever see the movie "Four Lions"? Basically it's a dark comedy about a bunch of jihadist trying to bomb the London Marathon, but fail because they're incompetent.

Too bad life doesn't always imitate art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions
"but lots of people I could double their earnings if they weren't locked down to one location."

Likewise, many companies could have lower labor expenses if they'd embrace telecommuting and locate branches (or HQ) in lower cost of living areas.
verity stob said that first (and the essay did attribute it correctly)
No doubt some "reforms" will be implemented that will funnel even more money into the pockets of lobbyist-using companies and big-time campaign donors.
You still can today. That is a myth.

http://www.seatguru.com/articles/tsa_prohibited_items.php
It's pretty annoying to read articles like this about any topic - someone who doesn't appear to have thought through much of anything, let alone done a little research, bringing up 'thought provoking' ideas like 'did they consider that most of the submissions may have been from men?'. Well gee golly, if only anyone ever had looked at submission patterns across gender and ways to change them. Or there's the 'you think they dismissed awesome presentations from people who happen to wear a bra?' question, which is saying 'you must be accusing everyone involved of outright misgyny!'. Gee whillikers, if only anyone ever had studied the unconscious changes in reaction to a proposal submitted under a male name or a female name! etc etc. Do everyone a favour and do a little research before diving in to a controversial topic that already suffers so much from 'I'm a man/woman, I must know about this!' layman syndrome.
Take a look at http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking.htm...
TED talk, sheds some light on the how many people you need to make it big.

The industry launched her album, 25K bought it and it was a failure, on Kickstartet she raised 1.5millon dollars with almost exactly 25k backers. The irony, there are a lot of people and a lot of people like music, and even if its not the everyone, it's big enough that they can make a good wage.