skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When someone at my office spotted this story earlier in the day, a bunch of us quickly ran around playing with an android app (which doesn't have permissions to phone home and censors out some of the data) to see what info we could pull off our cards.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samj.CardT...

Name, number, and expiry are readily available. We figured you could probably replay that data to get some free gas with stolen credentials... but the scanning range with phones is more akin to "hold the card up against it for several seconds to read" than "walk through a crowded room".
> cross-cutting concern

Does this mean - they are doing stuff they would have been doing anyway; but with 10X the budget, and 1/10th the efficiency? (Yes, the minute a project gets a security clearance it loses efficiency - mostly because oversight and transparency is now heavily restricted).
Amazon was never in a high rise until maybe 2008, even then it was a few floors in one building with most everyone else in little buildings elsewhere.
As far as I am concerned, a sport is a sport. I primarily swam, but I did some track as well, and did and continue to do casual weightlifting. They work different muscle groups but they are all fundamentally the same (all have very low leadership/teamwork opportunities, all require a decent amount of drive and dedication, etc. These are all fundamentally "selfish" sports; most participants will spend most of their time competing against themselves). The other class of sports, the "team sports", are fundamentally different of course but also essentially all the same.

So do universities honestly think they have too many classical musicians, but not enough casual athletes? I don't think so. That seems incredibly implausible. I don't think they are thinking anything at all along the lines of "we better introduce some athletic viewpoints into our student body, lest all the musicians dominate discussion."

I think they are arbitrarily classifying hobbies as "well rounded" or "square" to allow themselves to shape their student body demographics to their liking.
PayPal launches node.js SDK
What eject button? Why would Apple put an eject button on a laptop with nothing to eject? Fucking retard.
I don't think it was actually launched as an "alternative to college." I think the media played up that perception, because the media loves X vs. Y conflicts.
This is the really hard way.

And it is going to fail A LOT.

Do this instead:

1. Contact a company that has a searchengine and therefore access to all your links. ( http://samuru.com ) springs to mind.

2. Do keyword extraction of those pages. Assume that anything that doesn't have any of the keywords of the page that is being linked to is a Bad link.

3. The ones that remain Google the keywords you extracted. (like 10 of the words) if the linking page doesn't appear in the top 50 results it is probably a Bad neighbor according to Google.

This method doesn't require NTLK, or Grammar checking. You can do it your self, and you are using Google to tell you if the site is on the Bad Neighbor list so you don't have to guess.
> How many people were caught and not publicized?

I can see two conflicting issues here. One is the need for the agencies to justify their existence. If they exist to stop terrorists, and they feel there is public scrutiny of their budgets, they should publicize the hell out of every capture. "See, we are doing useful work, look! we captured these people red-handed with bombs about to go off!".

The other one is not giving away their methods, procedures and tactics by keeping it a secret who they captured. Say NSA is wiretapping everyone and someone calls their cousin and asks them to buy 2 tons of fertilizer and a detonator. Ok, now they are on a blacklist. But arresting them right there and then is a pretty sure giveaway of the surveillance capabilities and a lesson for other perhaps more real and dangerous bad guys to learn.

Now actually there is a third, and more disturbing issue at hand. And that is agencies going and conjuring terrorists where there are none. Think about it, their budgets, salaries and bonuses are based on capturing terrorists. If there are no terrorists, should we be surprised if they start "creating" them?

Take the example of Craig Monteilh, FBI informant that joins a mosque in Irvine, CA then goes ahead and starts recruiting radicals. "Recruiting" was more like inciting hatred. Eventually he was reported to FBI (oh the irony!), FBI was sued but lawsuit was thrown out based on "secrecy" claims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Center_of_Irvine

Then there is a case where they caught "terrorists" about to blow a bridge up in Ohio. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/brandon-l-baxter All the details of it seems shady. There is a gray area between entrapment and undercover operations and I think with right type of people (read those who are mentally unstable) it doesn't take much effort to entrap them and still stay outside the legal definition of the word.

The point being that at some point we should not be surprised if agencies with hundred million dollar budgets that are told to look for terrorists (and remember according to the post 9/11 propaganda they are _everywhere_) will go start making terrorists were they are none.
China's Tech Giant Huawei Is Done With the U.S.
"You're guessing that these students are somehow federally subsidized, but if you're going to make that assumption, you need to actually substantiate it before composing an elaborate fiction of government malfeasance to explain it."

Essentially every student in a well known US college or
university is "heavily subsidized" in that they pay roughly
only 1/3rd of the real cost with the rest from US citizens
via gifts or taxes. Even paying full tuition of $50,000
a year or some such is not the full cost.

This situation has held true in essentially all US
colleges and universities for at least 50 years.

Read what I wrote: The US NSF wanted to flood US
labor markets with STEM majors, and one way they
did that was to write into university research
grants that students must be supported. Since there
were so few US citizens that were good students and
wanted to do graduate work in STEM fields, the
universities got a huge fraction, roughly half,
from India and Taiwan. So, a lot of TAs were
good with Chinese but not English.

And, whatever those students paid, still they had their educations paid for almost entirely by US citizens via
gifts or taxes.

A few students of wealthy families are a very
different matter.

This is difficult material to understand?
You can't use it to back up your cards for use with PayPass.

The idea is that you can scan a card in one location and simultaneously use it in another location by using two phones as a proxy medium.

A successful skim would involve one person attempting to complete a paypass transaction with their phone in McDonalds, and another person attempting to scan someone's card in the restaurant (by the looks of it, it needs to be over WiFi?).
TokyoCabinet API ported to windows
New Theory on Why Stonehenge Was Built
Wow- this is awesome! It's really cool how people's friend distribution by age is a convolution of their age and the age of the general facebook population. It's also scary in a way to see a snapshot of how I'm likely to change in the future with regards to my clusters of friends, my relationship status, and what I'll talk about.
I understand that customizing can improve productivity. What I haven't seen is someone name a particular task, and show how much easier it is to customize in their favorite editor vs emacs/vim/sublime/editor of the day. Sort of like a benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org or rosettacode.org but for editors.
They probably missed the clock-rate by a factor of 2x, or decided to use half the number of chips and overclock them to save money. It may also have been their backup plan because people are willing to pay 8x as much for power, but they're less willing to get 1/2 the hashrate.

If you run a CPU at the same voltage, but at half the speed, it uses 1/2 the power because CMOS circuits only really use power as the transistors change state. However you're also able to run at about 1/2 the voltage without getting errors. Because V=IR, 1/2 the voltage at the same resistance is 1/2 the amperage, and since P=IV, that's 1/4 the power for normal circuits. Of course CMOS circuits already run at 1/2 the power. In the real world there's also leakage and such, but in a perfect world doubling the clockrate takes 8 times the power.

Transmeta's Crusoe was the first processor to really take advantage of this, by varying the voltage and running slower to save battery life. Before this time (2000), laptops would use a duty cycle to save power. Soon all the major chip manufacturers started copying them.
No, it pretty much is a canonical format. You don't have to use it, but then you are out of sync with members of the Python community who wish to adhere to the standard format
It's about recruitment. Every IBank and top tier consulting firm recruits heavily from the Wharton graduating class. That's what you're paying for.

You're also getting the opportunity (not guarantee) to get a top tier education - but that can be gotten anywhere. Study for the CFA tests if you really want to know finance. Go to Wharton if you want to get a job.

Was going to jibe about "high paying" job, but that's not really it. It's just any competitive placement benefits from active recruitment.
clickable link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5601127
> 99% of the links posted on the internet are spam.

Oops, I just clicked Reply to your comment.
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Allow me to posit that a primarily intrinsically-motivated Asian student dealing with high-pressure immigrant culture is in a particularly shitty situation:

1. Feels forced to spend the extra time - at diminishing returns - to do well at everything with a grade attached. This comes at the expense of passion-based activities, regarded as 'useless' or invalid as a 'line item for the resume'. (There is wide understanding that you need extracurriculars to look good. As pg says, these are mostly bogus.)

2. The pressure itself is killing your intrinsic motivation, which means the surviving applicants are primarily conformist types.

3. Even if you somehow make it through intact, colleges will assume the stereotype and view your application through those lenses.
Quite interesting! Hadn't ever seen that but it's rather wise from an accounting standpoint.
Smart guys. Good move. Hell of a great advertising and deal flow move for $25k * X deals per year they do.
If I were to run any other OS with ZFS support it would have to be FreeBSD. I do not at all like the Linux eco-system.
Yes, it's a good thing to mention for python devs, but I don't know if it's necessary in any other context.

Also your wording about javascript is weird. 'var' for scoping is function scope, what is your 'but' for? And proper lua doesn't use globals for temporary variables, it's firmly in the 'block scope' camp.
I was thinking of something more context aware than a simple find/replace. If you're changing MyClass.getFoo() to MyClass.getBar(), you only want to do that on instances of MyClass.
From what I understand, companies are currently asking for the H1-B visa quotas to be increased. This suggests that they are finding plenty of people to hire who qualify for an H1-B visa but there are simply not enough visas to go around. With this in mind, dropping the degree requirement is probably not necessary yet.
When else does it make sense ?
The traditional way to plot the assortativity by age is using a scatter plot / heatmap. This is similar to what they did for country homophily on p12 of the Facebook anatomy paper. The result would be a plot with a prominent diagonal, illustrating that "same attracts same".

That aside, imo, Facebook is an incredibly idiosyncratic "app", which makes almost no sense. And yet, it gave us so many opportunities for interesting discussions, like the insights in this blog post. Nice job.
BaconBizConf and Business of Software are the other two software business conferences that I'd fly to America to attend even when not speaking.
So crude as to be worthless. I'll pick one:

"The students from India and China were there on various scholarships, indirectly paid for by Joe and Mary. Bummer."

I went to Cornell. The undergrads from India and China were often from extremely wealthy families (far more so than the average undergrad). They were typically paying close to full boat to an Ivy League school, after all. Currently, here's the guidance on scholarships for international undergrads:

"Cornell has a limited amount of funding available for international undergraduates, only 30-40 scholarships are awarded to students in each entering class."

That's out of an entering class of 3300, 19% of which were international -- meaning maybe 1 in 20 had a scholarship. For calibration, the Indian undergrad I knew best was in the immediate family of the president of Tata group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Group -- $100B in revenue).

Now, at some level Cornell was eager to get people of that ilk, just as prospects for future giving. No telling how much special treatment they might get. But in no way was the typical Indian/Chinese undergrad on scholarship (as the figures above indicate).

*

The picture changes dramatically, of course, if you consider international grad students. These were typically supported by research assistantships or teaching assistantships. But in either case, they were being paid the same ~10K/year as "domestic help" (like me) to do work on government-sponsored research projects (advancing US government interests -- NSF, NIH, and DARPA aren't charities), or to grade papers and hold tutorial sessions.

But that's poorly paid, the same deal as offered anyone (US or international). In fact, while there, I held a US government fellowship (NSF) that was closed to foreign students. It was paid for by your hypothetical Joe and Mary.

*

I think you do have a point that the H1B program is, in many areas, employer-driven to depress wages. But your surrounding narrative is wrong.
> I remember when Amazon.com paid workers in a Seattle high rise to call mom-and-pop book stores in search of a $8 out of print book that had been ordered on the website.

That act probably raised the expected lifetime value of many customers by far more than it cost.
I can recommend Business of Software. patio11 has spoken there, as have many other HNers, Seth Godin, Richard Stallman, etc.
Easy: The culture of a country,
as far as I can tell, any country,
takes a lot of time, years, mostly decades, and effort to
learn. In any country, someone
who recently arrived, to natives, obviously
has not been there very long.
It's easy enough in the US to spot
people recently from Canada, Mexico,
England, France, Italy, Germany,
and Australia;
spotting people recently from India
and Taiwan is much easier.

So, when the people clearly have not
been in the US long enough to
become US citizens, then that is
easy to tell.

Does that answer your question?
Man you sound like me 15 years ago :) I am Chinese American, got almost perfect SAT scores, top of my class, etc. I got rejected from all the schools Asian parents like (Harvard, MIT, I think Yale, etc.)

I ended up going to Cornell (I think my other choices were UPenn and CMU). Anyway, it ended up great. There were tons of things that interested me in school; I got very high grades but didn't concentrate on them. I played in bands and partied. I developed a reputation for being the guy who stayed out all night and still got 100 on all the tests people were cramming for. There is freedom in not trying to compete with others.

Like everyone, I had some rough years after college, but with a decade of hindsight it all turned out great. I also did better on the Asian parent metric of making more money than peers who went to Harvard, etc. I think it was mainly by valuing honest work (i.e. problems people actually have) rather than working on things that are supposed to be hard or prestigious. If you follow the advice of a lot of Asian parents, you'll end up working hard and not smart.

It sounds like you have a great head on your shoulders, and a great outlook on the situation, so good luck to you!
> About a year ago, there were some 745,000 people listed in the database.

Wow. Suspected terrorists outnumber the Army and Marines, put together!
Pretty sure the OP was assuming qualified people only...

Also, you say:

> The goal is really to remove obstacles that unfairly exclude some people from the field.

Which, to me, implies that you were also assuming qualified people only, since excluding people who aren't qualified is perfectly fair.
It seems beyond outrageous to me. 200k news articles is the amount of news that is produced by 7 billion people in 200 countries worldwide. Those 50k reports is what comes out of counter terrorism by one just of those countries. That's not including the usual declassified military or police reports. There is 1 person for every 400 Americans producing and/or reading these reports. That is more than the total amount of law enforcement officers in the entire US. Tracking every email in and out of the US which seemed impossible before, seems rather trivial now.
Exactly. Go is Borland Pascal for the 2010s. Funny how slow progress is.
Get Your S--- Together
Investors must invest responsibly and don't give money to clueless entrepreneurs.

These misguided investments pushed that clueless & reckless entrepreneur toward suicide.

Irresponsible investing is similar to irresponsible lending during the housing bubble (pre-2008).
100% margins? scratches head
> Feel free to believe whatever you think I really meant ...

Want to communicate? Communicate. Use words that have universally accepted meanings. Stop assuming that others will or must fill in your blanks for you.

So far, you've tried and failed to argue that incoherence is a virtue and your communications breakdowns are the fault of others. Sorry -- no sale.

> I already made my point ...

The only point you've made is that you haven't made your point -- instead, you assign to others the responsibility for decoding the things you didn't say.
This is the proxy method, but I think in a worst-case scenario, it is possible to emulate the card from the perspective of an older non-cryptographically-challenge-based reader.

Specifically, there seems to be interoperability between PayPass (PayWave) M/Chip cards and MagStripe terminals (insecure), so they may only be as secure as the MagStripe terminal, which they have to maintain backwards compatibility with (even though it's called "MagStripe" I believe it is still a contactless interface). I'm still learning about it myself, so correct me if I'm wrong.
Boston Bomber's 3-year-old daughter picture
You're definitely not naive, yours is actually one of the most thoughtful comments in this thread thus far. You can look through a lot of the posts above and easily identify who is defending the status they feel was conferred upon them by their undergraduate acceptance letter.

In addition to the comment you mentioned that Yale could have filled 3 identical classes from their applicant pool, I've heard quotes from Harvard admission officers saying 95% of their applicants would be capable Harvard students.

Another thing that is important to remember is that not only are some of the admission decisions arbitrary but they are differentiations among young people whose lives have been vastly shaped by their family and schooling. Whatever merit is, at the undergraduate level students are already being evaluated on resume and preparedness. This is not at all a competition on equal grounds for students across the country, let alone across the globe as elite US undergraduate admissions are increasingly a global competition.

Echoing your last point, instead of arguing that undergraduate admissions decisions are significant judgments we should be thankful that we live long lives that allow us to do great work outside of a system that at its highest levels does not have the volume or capacity to discover meaningful distinctions between applicants.
Bing is Down
> "There are many STEM individuals that did not adapt with the times that are considered no longer employable. Rather than reaching out to and training these individuals, companies want the quick fix -- thus the H1B path."

I think it is very easy for companies to lose their patience with people who have not kept up with technology and need to be retrained when, on the other hand, a large portion of the people that they are hiring are kids with no experience who trained themselves with current technologies and require less handholding with those current technologies.

So basically let's say 25% of your new-hires are out of school and ramp up in a few weeks. What do you do with the other 75%? Hire people who have more industry than the young 25% but require more training with recent tech, or look potentially outside the country for some more of those 25% types?
A Rationalization on: The Flattening of Design
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Is there a case for ‘publically’?
In my humble opinion this barely scratches the surface. But it is better than not investing, so I hope you and they do well with it.

I'm personally interested in projects that flip the incentive structure for people to use lawyers for tasks of all kinds, not just startup-related ones.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=http://...

On p 27, there is reference to merchants not needing to support CVV3. (The good stuff starts on p 20.)
I had a prof I was friends with after graduating tell me they 100% did judge test scores and gpa of asian applicants differently than other races.

His stance was that they wanted to select the very "best" applicants. Where best in his mind meant most likely to do great research and otherwise be brilliant. gpa and test scores are just one way to assess that.

His experience was that with asians, gpa and test scores were a particularly bad metric for determining brilliance because the culture demanded 4.0 and perfect test scores more than in other cultures.

Discrimination? Racism? I don't think so. Dangerously subjective? Definitely. But I'm not sure he was doing the wrong thing given the observable fact that there was low correlation between gpa/scores and performance. Not sure what is right either.
Shakespeare is not good english. His work is old, and the language has evolved, and his work is poetry.

Also, citation needed for using 'they' as singular. Apart from the fact that it very strongly sounds plural, one of my personal pet peeves with English is the fact that we do not have a singular plural differentiation in the second person. As long as we are re-working pronouns, lets not repeat that mistake.

When I am trying to be careful and gender neutral (for something that needs to be speakable, so no (s)he), I try to structure it to use either 'one' or 'that person' in place of (s)he.
New Battery Could Help Solar and Wind Energy Power the Grid
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If you haven't heard of graphite, you should read up on it. You should be able to easily grab anything in jmx via one of the many statsd java clients for 0 impact perf monitoring or as I call it, "application telemetry". Using the most excellent graphite web ui and one of the dozen+ dashboard apps such as Descartes, jondot's graphene, kenhub's giraffe, etc, you can throw up some seriously nice telemetry dashboards with system and network stats all overlayed.
thanks. I hadn't specified since I thought the point of difference was so blindingly obvious in context, but I guess not to everyone.