skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either you've completely misread his comment or I have. He was pointing out that modern standards have changed quite significantly and quickly, and that the modern standard is ill defined.
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Seems like this might be relevant. http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf
Taking advantage of a taxation system that hadn't been updated to tax online sales always helps.

It always helps to compete on different terms than your competitors and incumbents.
tnuc, they definitely did just start there, I remember the HN post yesterday which was covering it! It's going to be interesting to see how they change their buisness model to better fit the Indian and South-east asian culture.
Do the funds ever sit in your (Stripe's) account or is the ACH transfer direct from the card to the destination account?
What's the big mystery here? There have been published articles on the ease of hacking car remotes (and even the onboard electronics) going back at least a couple of years. For example:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/01...

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/07/hacking_bmws_r...

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20085131-48/remote-unlo...

http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2011/03/researchers-car...

Here's a video (with no commentary, unfortunately) that shows someone who has apparently decoded the signals from a car remote and is using the remote and an arduino, to toggle some LEDs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doELL4g4cS0

I have little doubt that there are hackers out there who can easily build a device to remotely unlock / start cars that use keyless entry. In fact, I'd be far more surprised if there weren't.

Edit: to elaborate... when I say "What's the big mystery" I'm referring to a notion, which I interpreted from the article (rightly or wrongly), that people are totally unaware that this kind of thing is even conceptually possible. I don't claim to know the exact exploit or mechanism being used here! Just pointing out that this general class of attacks isn't something totally foreign and unknown.
Pedophilia is about sexual attraction to prepubescent children (generally < 11 years old). See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

The book you reference appears to address post pubescent children and specifically mentions teenage sex being natural. It does not appear to address pedophilia.
I'm not sure if this is a statistics or a philosophical (or third category) question: given you are the one making that statement, is it still true? I.e. statistically over a population it may be true that I could look at you and make that claim, but based on your own feelings, is it possible for you to know "I will never abuse or murder my children"?

That's kind of just a random food-for-thought that your wording put into my head, but I guess it leads onto a more interesting question - do sexually-abusing parents (and extend that to other sexual abusers, or indeed other criminals) see it coming from the start, and therefore are always at a state of either "I must try to resist" or "I must wait for a good time"? For example, fathers who raped 10 year old daughters, how many of them were waiting ten years for it, how many didn't think about it until shortly before? No idea if there's any answers to this question though.
It's worth looking at the timeline of the photo of the lady in the red dress. It's even more shocking when you see the policeman lurching towards her:
http://lucienballard.tumblr.com/post/52220098289/all-photogr...
How long does it take from the time I create the transfer to it hitting the user's bank account?
> And all this because of an arbitrary age of consent, which changes from country to country, culture to culture

Most child abuse happens in families.

Incest is a strong taboo in very many cultures.
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Is there a way to disable remote access to the doors? Other than driving an old car :)
My thoughts exactly, though it doesn't seem like the fellow you're arguing with is grepping it.
Looks beautiful, interesting pay model. Seems like enough people still use RSS readers...

Just 2 feature requests:

1.) Let us change the one color :) That red is pretty, but distracts from the content. Dustin Curtis got this right on his minimalist design in that the one-color isn't used in the actual content.

2.) Responsive design: Iv'e been removing apps from my phone for weeks and I couldn't be happier. Far less annoying update badges. Also, as something that is open all the time it would be great to keep it in a smaller window than the current design allows.

Great work!
It's not shutting down Google Reader, but rather a pattern of behavior where products built on open standards are replaced by walled gardens. Google+ hasn't taken off either, but Google is doubling down on it rather than shutting it off.
Looks like it's written in Ember.js—nice!
Smart people get into princeton on scholarship. Really smart people tend to find success in life. Or, more precisely, people who find a lot of success tend to be really smart. It's not a conspiracy.
I think BART dominates all the other ways of getting between SF and SFO, but when I go to conferences it seems I'm the only USian to think that way.
I'm facing the same dilema.

I'd be happier if there was an option for a monthly subscription that was somewhat equivalent to the microtransaction route. I'd feel more comfortable with that route than with the micro option, which as you mention, feels like a scam.
I don't know why OP's answer is marked "dead", it makes sense to me so I'll repost it:

I think you’re missing my point: there are millions of teens experimenting on the Internet, stripping and masturbating in front of webcams. The number of people involved with what you describe is orders of magnitude smaller.

I don't have the numbers but this seems plausible to me. And as OP said, this behavior from children will certainly get only more prevalent as time goes on.
Please list their qualifications.
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"Why aren't more companies like Amazon? EOM"
Dunno where you went to school, but my CS education taught me the full stack - computer architecture, a wide variety of programming languages and styles, abstractions from simple data types to objects, and language design/implementation. We went up and down levels of abstraction, and my teachers put an emphasis on knowing how things worked or how to use tools in a general sense (instead of just using C++ or Java or Objective-C or Visual Studio for the entire baccalaureate program). Being able to look at existing code bases was really helpful in this regard, even though Appel et al's Tiger compiler is a tiny little toy compared to real compilers like GCC or LLVM. It's anecdotal but I can tell you that so far in my career, being able to examine IT services from the business process (good ol' layer 8) all the way down to the electrons whizzing by has been a definitive advantage, and one not shared by many of my fellow IT admins or software developers.

As for your car analogy, I think we should do a better job of teaching new drivers how cars work, how they perform under different operating conditions, the physics and the mechanics involved, etc. Again it's anecdotal, but I saw my child's driving improve quite a bit after taking one of those car control clinics, in which a solid understanding of the physics and construction of cars played an important part.
Off the top of my head, their investment of $175M in LivingSocial [0] comes to mind.

Also, though they're generally considered successes now, I recall no shortage of naysayers trying to claim the Kindle, Prime and AWS as failures.

0: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/livingsocial-confirms-175-m...
A quibble, the individual in the article did not have child pornography on his computer. It was a case of the police in this instance classifying pictures of his grand children as child pornography.
That said, many of those things did actually result in "less IT" in the sense that fewer people can now run larger installs.

For instance, I have a team of four people to run 400+ physical machines, whereas in 2000, I needed a team of ten or so to do a similar job.
Same day to Wells, next day to else, I believe.
Appeal to authority, one of the weakest rhetorical devices.
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The difference is calc 1 is not higher level math and the derivative of a real function is not an abstract concept. Professional mathematicians/grad students/high level undergrads don't think of the determinant via some weird geometric intuition, as that won't really provide enough information or rigor to do anything useful.
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Agreed, I guess there is a minimum size that they could go down to but if it was ok I would buy one.

I think people forget how much a dog's mood is affected by their walking time - playing is all well and good but there is something primal for a dog about walking, especially walking with intent/purpose.

I think with big dogs it's fine to just exhaust them and they'll loll about and doze but with a small dog if you push it too far you just get a grumpy git.
Thanks for the KoL tip. My game is really rather simple card game strategy, with strict rules and requires skill to play, no luck involved. Players don't have "decks", they all share the same deck of cards. Basically, it plays like chess, all players are equal. So, there's no room for in-game economy between players.

Currently I'm considering the following models:

1. pay for some additional units (cards) which would basically mean that some players who pay have additional strategies available (not necessarily more powerful, but rather more diverse).

2. pay to play more. Amount of duels per day would be limited, and thus the player's progress. The game will feature a ranking system with levels, so paying players could advance faster.

The second one seems closer to KoL model. Which now gives me an idea. I could separate the rankings system (leaderboard) from the player leveling system, so that leaderboard is limited to, say, first 5 matches each day, while you could still play additional duels to level-up faster. Although, leveling-up has no effect on the gameplay, it's purely cosmetic.

I'm still not sure if 1. or 2. would make more money, but making more money is not my primary concern. I just want the game to be sustainable and attract as many players as possible.

I believe many indie developers like me are facing the same questions themselves, esp. when they read that Supercell is making gazilions.
It's next day, depending on what time you create the transfer.

https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/sending-transfers#transfer...
So, you are evaluating the probability that this drive is encrypted by taking the ratio of E/(E+R), where E and R are frequencies?

This is simple probability, and does not involve Bayes Theorem at all.

But how do you determine the frequencies E and R (or their ratio)?

Perhaps you could sample the population of drives (E+R) and decide which of these are encrypted, and which are just randomized. And how to decide? Oh... you can't.
I'm just gonna jump out there and offer a prediction: Erdogan ain't gonna be hold power till 2014.

Most of those victims pictured didn't look like young anarchists/WTO protesters to me... they looked like average citizens. Even if you've got a large contingency of black bloc (I don't know if this is the case and it simply hasn't been pictured), no EU-applicant country can/should be able to get away with such behavior.
Not bad, but doesn't really solve this problem. I'm fluent in emacs, but I'm slow with the drilling. The reason is that when I type the shortcut when I think about what I want to do. This test makes you associate the text you see with the shortcut that you type, which is different from associating an action that you want to do with the correct shortcut.

The other issue was that several of the shortcut key controls created unintended consequences in the browser.
$0.25/transfer, without a cap on the amount? Might expose Stripe to a lot of risk on large transfers?

Example: If something goes sideways on an $100k transfer, $0.25 is 0.0003% of the borked transaction....
Moral of the story is don't leave valuable stuff in your car.
1) You should be able to pass in "disputed=true" to the charge listing call: GET https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges?disputed=true

2) Definitely. We'll keep that in mind!
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Disk I/O, caching, searching & queuing are all key to your internet business performance. Manage the technical debt too, and you're on your way to real scalability.
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> Often, (not at all a majority,) the child feels anything but damaged

"not at all a majority" != "just about all"

Also, he's not saying it's OK and fine, he's saying it doesn't necessarily damage the children.
Great high-quality photos! Two points I want to underline: (i) the protester-driven excavator in photo 23 is a story onto itself (for those who can read Turkish, the full story can be found here: http://eksisozluk.com/poma--556945?a=today) (ii) note that all the protesters in the mosque (Valide Sultan mosque, in Besiktas) have not forgotten taken off their shoes, as is the custom, even in that furor, thus disproving that the protests were anti-Islam.
Cool idea and it looks very nice. After scrolling for a bit the first things I wanted to know were "How much?", which you have covered, and "Can I see a demo site?", which seems to be missing.

It would also be cool to have options other than an immediate modal, like a what's new link with a red circle containing the number of new features. Click the link and then show the modal.
this number may have been roughly accurate for Britain/ Northwest Europe, but not for the Mediterranean

I admit that I have significant holes in knowledge regading the "Middle Ages in the Mediterranean" region of space-time. I am biased towards the NW region of Europe partly because there's a wealth of material accessible to me pertaining to the area, partly because I derive most of my income from providing language services for the language spoken in the region, and therefore I am expected to have more than just a passing familiarity with this region's culture and history (although I am partially excused from having to know it to any significant depth as I specialize mostly in technical and engineering texts where this knowledge isn't all that important, and history is merely my part-time hobby). I haven't seen a general work dedicated to the Romance-speaking and Mediterranean regions either in English or in my native tongue yet, therefore I plead incompetent on this charge. :-)

I might, however, try to dig up some data pertaining to my native, i.e., Central European environment; however, not on such a short notice for it to be relevant to this discussion.

EDIT: I wonder about the tradeoffs involved here. Tentative hypothesis: in Northern climates, the labor of daughters was more valuable, so fathers kept them around for longer before marrying them off.

My take on this - I believe that some of the factors involved were:

- the necessity for young people to help their families work on the household,

- the necessity for young women to earn their dowry, if their families couldn't provide it for them (usually by entering into service of nobles or townsmen for a few years),

- the stagnation of land development outside periods of borderland colonization (different periods in various countries, in Central Europe, this period of colonization would have taken place between 11th and 13th century), meaning that someone had to retire first for another pair of young people to get their household.

I'm quite sure there would have been other reasons that I can't recall right now.
>Pedophiles are are a sociopathic rot, and should be treated as the worthless dangerous filth that they are. I'd feel worse stepping on a spider than I would putting a bullet in a child pornographer.

No, pedophiles are regular humans suffering from a terrible mental disorder. They are no less deserving of compassion and respect.

A child molester or someone who has otherwise abused a child is more deserving of your vitriol. The two are not necessarily the same and we need to stop acting like they are. Last I checked, thoughtcrime was a bad idea.
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I'd buy one of these as a cat toy. Don't know if it'd work out, but something like it ought to.
In my opinion, this is not because they expect Google+ to be a true competitor to Facebook.

The addition of information in Google+ user profiles allows them to compete with Facebook advertising in a key arena -- targeting ads based on self-volunteered user information which is more valuable and trustworthy rather than trying to derive this information based on browsing\searching patterns.

Google+ serves to enhance Google's ad products more than it does to provide value to customers.

Having said that, Hangouts (which most people consider a part of Google+) is a succesful product.
I don't buy the counter examples of Microsoft, Google, and Apple. All three of those have a history of entering new markets with large upfront expenses and turning them into successful businesses. What exactly is the difference between delivering groceries and creating the Xbox, Android, or the iPhone?
The way this article is written leads me to believe the writer has not played the game for long enough to make a fair assessment on the gems currency.

I have been playing this game for roughly over a month, and put $10 into gems in the beginning. My roommate started a little over a month before me, and refuses to put money into the game.

The amount of time to invest into buildings/resources/farming scales up with how progressed your town is, and gems are present to alleviate this strain. The implication that gems are necessary to win are unfound.

The game follows a simple town building principle, use currencies (gold / elixir) to build/upgrade buildings, however you can only upgrade them to the limit your town hall level will allow. The way to gain currency is attack other towns (to steal their resources), or use gems. Even if you use gems to upgrade your things, you are simply progressing further in the game, at the risk of opening yourself up to more powerful enemies. When you attack weaker enemies, there are diminishing returns (look up the loot multiplier). So while gems allow you to progress, you must also adapt and attack higher level towns. These higher level towns can be achieved without any monetary investment in the game. Gems just allow you to reach that stage sooner.

I bought gems in the beginning, because the game uses a builder mechanic to limit how many buildings you can build/upgrade at one time. When you start out, you have 2 for free. You can have a maximum of 5, however these are bought with gems and the cost increases each time you buy one. With $10, I soon had 4 builders. With this, I was able to progress much faster than my roommate. I am catching up to his level quickly, almost at where he was in two months time with one month invested.

Additionally, gems can be attained for free by clearing brush, however it will be a nominal amount versus buying them outright. But to say gems are required to win this game is not true, but it does save you time versus waiting around a week for a building upgrade to finish. The main thing most people need to realize is this game isn't about spending money, but investing more time into it. The game is a continual uphill grind where the true currency is how much time you devote to it, but I'm still having fun with it for now.
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It would be nice the possibility to import also from other sources other than Google. At this point many people stopped updating their feed on Google Reader.
A) You have forgotten basic physics. The beginning of the disk is faster. Locality is desirable but is not and has never been the only thing that matters.

If you haven't actually looked at the block allocation patterns of common filesystems, then you can't say conclusively that fuzzbang is incorrect. Arguments from first principles (e.g. "basic physics") cannot override empirical evidence.

Further, locality of reference will have a much, much bigger influence on spinning disk I/O throughput than location at the front of the disk. The difference between the outer rim and inner rim might be 120MB/s to 70MB/s, so reading a contiguous 200MB file will take 1.7x as long if it's stored at the inner rim (286ms vs 167ms). However, if that 200MB file is stored in 100 2MB fragments, and seeking to each fragment takes 4ms, your reading time will be dominated by the seek time due to fragmentation (686ms vs 567ms, or a mere 1.2x difference).

Based on my experience I'm inclined to accept fuzzbang's description of block allocation strategies. It used to be common wisdom that you could defragment a volume by copying all the data off, formatting it, then copying the data back on. I did this once with an NTFS volume (using ntfs-3g), then checked the resulting data in the Windows disk defragmenter. The data was primarily located around the center of the volume, with numerous gaps. Filesystems leave gaps to allow room for files to expand.

B) You have just named three uncommon filesystems that few people will ever use in the first place, much less with TrueCrypt.

"Commonness" for the purposes of forensics is a much lower bar than for market analysis. I'd also wager that, servers included, there are at least as many ext2/ext3/ext4 volumes on the planet as NTFS volumes.
Wow, even more douchey.
Good. Just in time for this:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/06/05/us-saudi-viber-idUK...

So what is UN going to do about it? Also, what are they going to do about their own ITU branch who's been pushing for the very same thing?
Your comment makes no sense. If their competition is pushing their profits to 0, then the competition's efficient too.
Agree - the red is way too much.
Honestly, I think this will benefit the owners as much as the dogs.

My dog has tons of energy and potential to exercise, but usually the problem is that I don't have the energy or time to take him outside.

I suspect that a major benefit of this product will be that it transforms owners' lifestyles, encouraging them to be more active and take breaks from being inside and/or online when necessary.
"There are unfortunate cases, like the one in this article, in which a person possesses child porn but may not have intentionally purchased or downloaded it. However, these are edge cases"

Did you RTFA? Are you claiming that this man having pictures of his own grandchildren playing in their yard naked is "unintentional possession of child pornography"? You might as well lock up every grandparent in the country now.

"going after the consumers in that economy is one effective strategy"

Yes, just like how effective it's been in the "drug war"...

I absolutely agree children need to be protected from being exploited, but this practice is not the answer.
In my opinion, the only reasonable time is when the company closes; anything else falls short of what they promised.

Which doesn't mean that closing in ten years or ten days would be the same, of course.
Exactly.

"Nothing says, "I love the Earth!" quite like bringing bulldozers into an old-growth forest to create a fake ruined castle."

Fuck you Sean Parker. Couldn't you have just flown everybody out to a real castle somewhere for $20 million?
Auctions. They didn't destroy eBay as many thought they would.
They are already tagged like that here on Hacker News thankfully: see the medium.com?
Our implementation might change over time, but we don't ever take title of the funds at the moment.