skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not completely sure how much the rank and file scammers earn over there, but if I recall correctly, it was 1200 $ (or was it 400?)per month for some very basic ordering from Walmart using cracked credit card type of affairs. I had this conversation a couple of months ago with a guy that tried applying to my school (wrong one), and asked me for advice. I pointed him to the university he was actually trying to apply to, and I asked him what he does for work.

Compared to their rough average wage of 120$ or so monthly (I haven't been able to find quite credible sources on this, so if I'm wrong, correct me), that sounds really good.
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It is relatively straightforward to control for things like "exercise from other activities" and underlying comorbidities in an attempt to compare "like with like" even for non-randomized studies.

One should also keep in mind that while correlation =/= causation, showing a strong correlation is a step along the path toward showing causation.
Two more games not on that list:

SuperTux – http://supertux.lethargik.org/ – a Super Mario Bros. clone. It actually has a lot of original level ideas.

SuperTuxKart – http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/ – a Mario Kart clone, though with more simplistic kart physics.
Military spending isn't exactly a large part of the GDP in America either. And much of that spending is to support international treaty obligations that go toward ensuring the security of Allies in west Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region, so perhaps your comparison of west European budget isn't entirely apples:apples here.
This makes for an interesting thought experiment:

Maybe all the people I follow on Twitter but don't know in real life aren't real, but merely a series of pre-generated messages, served up by a scheduler.

Replies are done with fancy natural language processing and monitoring of what's popular on the web. Retweets and follows are triggered by your social graph and cookie history.
I had trouble finding this with Google-fu but was there not discussion a while back of a format for stringifying file content and encrypting it for printing and dead-tree archiving in a safe or whatnot? I am having trouble finding any info about. I found OllyDbg Paperback, but I am not sure that is what I was looking for. Anyone remember?

I am curious if someone could "paper up" something like PGP to be stored in a safe, if the format I vaguely recall did not go that far.
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From vague recollection - there was some pretty damning evidence when it launched that entire swathes of css were direct copies - not just functional equivalence, but identical class/id/selector names.

(Note: this vague recollection might not have been about the particular WordPress theme in the parent comment, but I do recall looking at one of the early Svbtle WP clones and seeing this)
True, but with modern materials and design you don't need such big zones. This is somewhat related, a big old car vs a new small one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBDyeWofcLY
Chess and music are very narrow domains. If you think that abilities in music or chess make one great, then your worldview is extremely deficient. In fact, computers have already surpassed humans in terms of chess or musical ability.

A word like "greatness" should be reserved for more ambitious and helpful pursuits, such as creating inventions or new social structures that improve the human condition.
For those interested, Matt Mullenwag on This Week in Startups: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP7B0oWTR3o
More specifically, we put the "Northern Alliance" in power. These are essentially drug lords with roots in the North of country. Thus the narco-economy has been operating in spades since they have come to power. This creates a situation where foreign aid and illicit drugs are the only real sources of money.

See the palaces they construct:

http://trueslant.com/pjtobia/2009/07/12/narcotecture-a-photo...
"You know what they do with engineers when they turn 40? They take them out and shoot them."
Teen here. I don't see how this is considered a bad thing. I've never needed to mail a physical letter before. We're experiencing a shift of paradigms. Physical communication is dying.
The most practical example for a LCARS-like UI is the Flat UI bootstrap templates.

Unfortunately, most attempts at making LCARS practical have failed because it was designed to look good on camera. Just try to use lcarscom.net[0] or lcars.org.uk[1]. Not to mention that CBS Studios Inc. holds the copyright, and enforces it[2].

[0] http://www.lcarscom.net/databank.htm

[1] http://www.lcars.org.uk/Adges%20Welcome.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS#Legal
I'd argue that google's search changed the world. android is also changing the world.
Amazing how there's no single ex-vWorker that's out there saying how happy they are about the no-heads-up-whatsoever acquisition. The could've done a much better job.
I've been in IT for ~20 years. I started in Unix systems programming, in C. in 2002, I shifted into Java/J2EE. Another decade later and I find myself shifting again, this time to modern lightweight systems (Rails, Node) and NoSQL (Neo4J). They're just languages, not that big a deal. What's more important is my ability to put problems in perspective.
Also, the population of the falklands is around 3000 total people. Even if it were an "occupation" (which I agree it is not since most people there identify as British), it would be like occupying a tiny village.
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Take a look at the article: http://bit.ly/Agile2-UltraLight

Having Agile that is process heavy, is precisely what we have. But there seems to be already answers to improve the state of things. Those new methods are part of Agile 2.0.

Early Agile methods, like Scrum or XP are indeed process heavy. =)
Oh wow, I actually remember downloading PGP from PGPi back in the day. My 16 year old mind was blown that they actually scanned the code from books.
Wouldn't shooting down one of these constitute attacking a comercial aircraft of american origin? I think the implications of that would rule out organized military or other very well-financed organizations unless they are run by lunatics. But I've never attacked commercial us aircraft, so if anyone has experience with it...
> 2. Google doesn't let you create a local account on the computer without creating a Google account. I find that unacceptable for an OS.

I don't understand this problem. The entire premise of the Chromebook is that there is no such thing as a local account.
There's a way to trick your iTunes into thinking you're not in Canada. All you need is a second account and a gift card situated in the US. (I've seen people in the US use this trick in reverse to get BBC shows in America without pirating them.) Granted, it's retarded (and potentially still illegal) that people should have to do this in order to pay for content rather than pirate...but the option is there.
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I second this. I try to sit on an exercise ball as much as possible at work (sitting, bouncing, stretching on it). I can't usually make it for a full 8-10 hour day, so I usually switch to a regular chair with back rest in the afternoon. Other than walking around, the variety helps me.
Of course there is no magical process, and focusing on product, people and market are always good principles.

But what Agile Development should also provide is a framework, a tool kit to deliver value with minimum overhead. That is precisely what Agile 2.0 should be all about. Please take a look at the article and you will get my point: http://bit.ly/Agile2-UltraLight
As much as The Star has been critical of Ford, other papers would at least give him the benefit of the doubt. If he said he was working on something, or that something was a done deal, that's what they reported.

I'd read that the math worked out to $10M a year, not $100M as requested, and that $55M would be under extremely optimistic circumstances.
In a healthy system, that's what should happen.

In the meanwhile, people should pay their taxes!
Good point actually, I'd really like to extend this idea into a fully fledged (1000-2000) post.
I just grilled & ate a hamburger. Under $1 for meat, sesame bun, and salsa (easy mix of vegetables).
Yes! It makes me wonder if all those good ideas I had for domain names are cuss words in other languages.

Is there a site that will check this kind of thing? And give examples of idiomatic usage?
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I'm glad I replaced my comfortable Herman Miller chair with a very cheap ball chair which encourages active sitting
Also Dropbox offers offsite secure backup. If I loose all my machines I can at least rely on Dropbox retaining my data.
23 y/o I usually have to google how to send a letter and fill out a check.
When all you can vote for is people like Ford, people who don't have a recognizable platform, or people with a reputation for reckless spending and massive cost-overruns, you end up with Ford coming out on top.

The previous mayor, Miller, while not universally adored, would have had little problem getting re-elected. There wasn't much in the way of serious opposition. Why he didn't run is a matter of speculation.
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I love how much the same scene has been re-use since Blade Runner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
When you use something like this, do you have to have the laser bouncing into some type of mirror? Is the laser burning his walls while not burning the objects? Or does it's power diminish over longer distances?
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Sure, but the U.S. could not decide to install the Taliban as their preferred strongman. The proximate cause to invading in the first place was to break up the Taliban who had hosted and provided the breeding ground for Al Qaeda operations against the U.S.

Given that the idea is to stamp out terrorism against the U.S. they can hardly decide to have the terrorist-friendly strongmen back in charge.
Sure, but there can also be tax advantages to buying outright. Germaine to the discussion of SaaS is the fact that, in the case of packaged software, I can either elect to deduct 100% of the purchase price immediately (up to a certain annual dollar limit) or depreciate it over three years. All other things being equal, a $3,000 deduction this year beats a $1,000/year deduction for the next three years.
> My theory is that the U.S. leadership are actually True Believers in democracy. The above method of rule makes it impossible to spread democracy, because the occupying power must choose the strongman - the locals cannot choose the leader via elections. Since the U.S. wishes to spread democracy, it cannot use this method of rule.

Actually the U.S. has done this many times before. We know this because the U.S. has been reviled by people around the world for installing preferred puppet dictators (the "strongman") in other countries.

So I believe an additional constraint to your theory is that the U.S. leadership may have felt compelled to actually go on a path towards a democracy this time to avoid having that complaint levied against them.
Obviously didn't get the joke: http://xkcd.com/528/
I'm not sure I agree about the "do not want to know" part. After 5 minutes with Git I don't see how anyone would want to stick with FTP…

But yeah, the fact that WordPress hosting plays so badly with git is a big part of the reason why I probably won't be using it again.
Check out matchist.com

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"by _pius 1 day ago" PG didn't post it here and the original article was published in 2009.
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Comments on the animated UI aside, as someone who recently pulled their hair out trying to get StackOverflow oauth working, a simple solution would be extremely welcome.
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Well, if you're tying tax to the algorithm then all the money should go back to the mothership. I have no idea what the rates of tax in Ireland vs California are.

It's not that debatable - we'll see unified tax codes across the EU. Some companies (not just Google) pushed things too far and set up weird schemes that exist only to reduce tax to a minimum.

> Google is just taking advantage of that complexity.

"Taking advantage of" also has negative connotations. Exploiting.
One datapoint from Chicago: Got laid off at age 56 last year and had two offers within two weeks. But I interviewed at several other places without receiving an offer whereas in the past I almost always got an offer if I got an interview (Google excepted). Here is some speculation about why my batting average dropped. I do feel that age worked against me but I don't think it was because of the companies having institutional biases against hiring older people. Rather, I think it was just the mindsets of individual 20-something/30-something interviewers making individual decisions based on what felt comfortable, based on the vibe feeling ok. Nobody here is doing anything wrong.
>I'm pretty sure that Foxconn and Apple are separate corporations, so I have no idea what you're getting at.

Apple US is a separate corporation from Apple China too, that's how all of this works. Apple Ireland ends up with all the profits and is a distinct corporate entity from Apple US.

You keep talking about use of government services or where employees are. Those things are not corporate profit. If you want to tax companies that employ your workforce then you can tax payroll. If you want to tax companies that use local government services then you can tax commercial real estate. What you can't do is try to tax corporate profit at one of the highest nominal rates in the world and then be surprised when international corporations arrange to stop reporting any profits within your jurisdiction. Profit is a highly mobile asset. It's like trying to levy a local property tax on gold bullion -- the people who own large amounts of bullion are just going to move it out of your tax jurisdiction. If you then say "but they still live here and use government services" they're just going to shrug and look at you like you're a crazy person for expecting anything different to have happened, because you're trying to tax the wrong thing.
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The guy is putting together a botnet. Controlling it on cvv4you.ru:6667 channel #rails.
> Rust2JS

Pretty please! Excited to see pcwalton's zero.rs work, which I understand to be a prerequisite for a Rust2JS. But deeper JS integration than emscripten currently provides (e.g., mapping rust structs to harmony binary data StructTypes?) would be even more awesome. When are you going to land 749786, anyway?

Re: Dart and PNaCl--they've been useful for providing political cover to people who want to evolve JS more aggressively.
Metal is a substance where the electrons flow "freely" in a lower potential created by the nuclei. That's different from, for example covalent crystals, where electrons are "locked" into a region, and ionic composts, where electrions distribution is quite like the one on free atoms.

Now, I put "free" and "locked" inside quotes because they are not completely so. There is a continuum, and no substance is at the extrema.

Also, at astronomy "metal" has a completely different meaning.
I work in finance. We are teaching plenty of fresh-faced graduate recruit devs COBOL.
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A corporate entity is simply a registered company. I have several corporate entities, which I would describe as "typical" corporations. I would have no strong feelings one way or another about using such a service.

You might be thinking about a publicly listed company, which is far from a typical company.
This looks promising, I'll check it out.
What surface are you using? Can the lift still move up and down?
Haha I love that, "the Excel guy".
I made something a while back that compares lists/tables and visually shows results:

http://skratchdot.github.io/list-tool/

Some of the algorithms aren't optimized (as to keep results in the order they were processed).

It was more of an experiment to play with web workers and responsive design.
Where does the downloads information come from?
Why not just fork the pypi code and fix it, then?
Is this the study you refer to:

http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/study.asp?id=13
there are 6 levels. so presumably level 0 is people who started (ie requested) but did not complete level 1.

a level is a day or two of work, in my experience (unless you get stuck and need to sleep on something, or get entertained and go off exploring something), but i doubt most people are doing them full-time, so timing data is going to reflect mostly how busy they were with other things.
All the paradigms are wrong
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Really? Why do they strcmp() over half a gb of strings, that seems pretty stupid and inefficient.
Too much of anything is bad for you. Too much sitting? Get up and move around. Too much standing - take a load off. Too much sugar, too much caffeine. How's this any different than the standard saying of "all in moderation".
The people who made Caesar 3/Pharaoh later made Children of the Nile, which has a much more refined mechanic.

That said, I still play Pharaoh and the walker mechanic is part of the game, it's part of what makes it an interesting game.
Coursera, Udacity etc are killer for this. Sure they're not work experience or academic credit but I've gotten positive comments "It shouldn't be a problem [that I didn't know their tech], you've picked up a lot of stuff". (Thinking about it now, I only assumed it included the Coursera work. But it can't have hurt.)
Spotify is legal and the artists on the platform are on there of their own free will (or their publishers will who they signed that right away to).

They could decide that they on want to steam on another platform if that is a better deal for them.
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You just described every member of the Baby Boomer generation that I've ever worked with.
This just searches on the first page that shows up in Google results? Is there any spidering involved?
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That's a fair question for sure.. In my opinion, the Ford brothers have been escalating things with the media (who are more than happy to reciprocate) for a while, and things just came to a head with this crack video thing, and everyone decided "let's do this" and the gloves came off..

Oh, and I think they've been doing a fine job of ruining their own reputations (I'm half-joking about that one but Rob Ford really does have almost-weekly blunders)..
Except Iran was nothing like Afghanistan; it had democratic institutions that Iranians had been fighting to build since 1906.

And nobody "took" territory, Whitey arranged a coup d'etat. Which destroyed the Iranian democratic institutions.Details here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

If Whitey hadn't smashed them up, Iran's institutions might have been able to stand up to the religious loonies.
I read there was something coming in next season to prevent same time iTunes release in Australia? Is this currently the case as well?
I have some experience with cases of excessive force and I am fully aware of the level of discretion that the court affords to the professional judgement of corrections officers (admittedly restricted to NYCRR). I certainly am not under the impression that the metal bars delineate the good people from the bad people.

My "TeeVee" time is long over and I have done a little research into how how reading a book can land one in solitary. I have not been able to find anything concrete. Most of the things that I have found are consistent with my experience with the NYCRR and everything that I have found is consistent with the Furnace case[1] from California (the most notable and recent case). From everything that I have read I have not been able to find any instances of solitary confinement solely due to reading a book. And certainly no instances of solitary confinement for reading a mass market book that is currently #19 in its category on amazon that the prisoner received via mail and therefore screened (where assessment is based on the individual receiving the book).

Could you point me to some source material?

Side Note: Why so passive aggressive with me or the parent comment?

[1] In re Furnace (2010) 185 Cal.App.4th 649
Newton's First Law of Motion. Keep moving, stay moving. Keep eating healthy and exercising, stay healthy and fit. Keep learning, stay sharp and knowledgeable.

There are more life frictions as we age that dissuade us from continually learning. If you realize this and work against it, there is no way someone significantly younger than you can realistically be a better fit for a job. They may have knowledge, but you'll have that and decades more experience and wisdom.
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I was giddy when I discovered Ur Quan Masters a few years ago. I had played a lot of computer games as a kid but for me (and my friends at the time) Star Control 2 was one of a handful that I continued to play over and over again. It was the first time I'd played a game realizing that the artistic relevance of a game could exceed a book or a movie.

I know it wasn't necessarily a "first" in these categories, but it was my first experience with a game that: (1) Was primarily quest driven with the player having a great deal of choice on which quest to take when (it wasn't spelled out the way it's done in modern implementations). (2) Had excellent dialog (it was legitimately funny at times and poked fun at itself). (2) Had a universe that felt impossible to succeed in exploring all of it. (3) Had a great balance of strategy, exploration and arcade elements. At no point did it seem like any one of the three components were after thoughts.
I'm not sure that a US business can take out $200k from the bank, bring it across the border into Canada undeclared, and give it to a random person without any kind of paperwork or tracking..

Maybe I'm wrong! I'd just be pretty surprised about it..
The best part of this article is the comment hiding at the bottom.
You're still mirroring the structure of HTML/XML in your json documents though, which is a pain for large templates. Still feels like you're writing Artisanal Hand-rolled JSON.

My vote for this sort of thing has always gone to Plates: https://github.com/flatiron/plates

There should be ZERO logic in your templates — Mustache doesn't count. Bind JSON to HTML through a mapping of data to IDs/class names/data attributes, and your templates will be more re-usable and render faster.
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