skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was a decent blog post, but the title makes me think of this. http://www.27bslash6.com/brochure.html

And of course in deference to the post above you, the 10yr 10,000 hour rule still applies, but I expect someone like yourself taking a disciplined approach should be able to make a better designer than your average crappity crap for crap Art Institute.
Steve Jobs Discusses His Legacy in Rare 1994 Footage
> Since no general use browser implements the Dart VM, no one would do that, so its really pretty irrelevant.

That's right. My hope is that it continues to stay that way, absent browser-manufacturer consensus.
Data Dealer: Online game about personal data and privacy
Self-Finance or Raise Money? A Quandary for Start-Ups
I think google still associates searches with 'you' even if you are logged out, via cookies, browser/os/ip fingerprint.
Section 215 of the Patriot Act has a secret interpretation
All signs point to the fact that clkbank.com is ClickBank.com. The website, WHOIS as well as the fact that their CEO just chimed in.
Russia promises legal action over NSA surveillance scandal -> http://rt.com/politics/internet-surveillance-western-prevent...
> It's not like the subpoena is a new and novel legal instrument.

Subpoenas are intended to recover specific pieces of evidence to prove guilt in a trial. They are not meant for blanket vacuuming of data, or for discovery.
I have not read the law, but I think a gag order can't force you to lie. Lie to a directly asked question, gray area; issue a lying press release or blog post, not mandatory.

I am not a lawyer.
This is something we experienced on The Wedding Favor. It was a trade-off we were aware of. On the other hand, it did trouble me that we were able to transfer money same-day to Chase bankholders with Balanced. It sounds great, but somewhere along the line that means that Balanced was "floating" our credit card charge and fronting the money to pay out to the end-recipient. While I appreciate this, and we benefit from very low chargeback rates (our users are friends and family), this seemed like a "too good to be true" risk.

In Stripe's case, you can make the business choice in your logic to pay out quicker to your end user, so long as you understand the risks (which you assume) and keep a comfortable account balance to cover it. Payouts to you, the Stripe account holder, is another matter!
I think the "software vs. hardware" disabling of the Kinect is very similar.
I guess every smartphone and every tablet is a surveillance device too eh?
Indeed, never offer features that you don't intend to fully support. People hate change, but they hate you more if you take away something they use, especially if they feel they paid for it.
It's very specifically defined in law, and has been since 1994: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2332a
If it's data that describes a call rather than the data of the call itself then maybe the term applies...
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The author presupposes that rich people buy more expensive things. Some rich people are rich because they are frugal consumers.
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> The fact that many can use a computer without understanding the underpinnings of an OS is a testament to Jobs.

Isn't that a quirk Windows users are usually derided for? And that OS is far more pervasive, even now...
Formatting it:

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

CNN.COM.UNIMUNDI.COM
CNN.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
CNN.COM.IS.0WN3D.BY.GULLI.COM
CNN.COM

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
For each drone you have one expensive pilot, and maintenance costs also. Plus you have to factor in that the range is extremely limited, the speed is 1/15th of a chopper. Taking those factors into account the chopper is cheap, considering what you can do with it compared to a drone. The cheap toy drones that can stay up for 20min max, are like 90K. Pretty limited use cases, although they do open up new capabilities . Comparing them to a heli and saying they will save cost is not the right argument. It's like saying the city should replace their garbage trucks with bikes and trailers, cause you'll save so much money on maintenance.
My thought. If somebody does not have a job, all they look for is a job. Most people in this economy do not have the luxury of choice.

If they do have choice (lucky them), the salary offered will most often decide which job they choose. Not the career path.

Plus... think about it, how many people these days stay in a job for 10 years. How many people actually want to knowing they can progress faster if they jump ship every few years?
System76 introduces new high-end Ubuntu Linux laptops
Doesn't this suggest that the NSA may have broader, more illegal actions planned for which their corporate partners want cover?
And when email didn't exist, people were used to having a physical totem of the message. When were they ever able to instantly communicate with their brother who lives across the country?

You're not really contradicting the grandparents point that If you're going to make the argument that discs are "good enough" you sound a bit like people saying letters are "good enough" compared to e-mail.
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I love how simple Stripe's APIs are. This is a great overview of Payouts, thanks for posting.

<shameless plug>

I'm working on a guide to integrating Stripe with Rails and I'll be covering Payouts and Stripe Connect in a whole section about building marketplaces.

http://www.petekeen.com/mastering-modern-payments

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US Sen Bernie Sanders: 'This is a massive effort to attract cheap labor.’
> For example, would one say "Captain Picard would have lived many years after Captain Kirk"?

Not for that specific example, but one might certainly speculate "Picard would have retired to his ranch in Marin County after retiring from Starfleet" (I'm guessing the later years of Picard's life have been covered by the fiction, but let's pretend like the series just ended and we're speculating about what the Picard character's later years were like.)

All this having been said, I do think there is supposed to be some ambiguity, or at least some missing information, about what happened to Ingsoc.
I am 100% not a vegatarian. But I don't like steak, and the only seafood I like comes in pre-frozen sandwich-sized squares. Do enjoy the steak and lobster though, and let me know if you want to trade it for some pizza rolls!
This is now one parties word against another's. Kim says he tried to contact them, they said he never did and sent him a notice.

Leaseweb kept the servers a year at their own cost, if the end result is bad PR from Kim, they should have just cleaned them right away. Alternatively, they could have coordinated a positive story for both parties.
How does MegaPipe compare to Van Jacobson's "netchannels" for Linux?

https://lwn.net/Articles/192767/
Wow sorry responding on my phone is hard. It's drop in if you're on 2.2. We do not have some 2.4 features (FTS, geo).
You are correct, but the amount of trust you have in products you buy and use is your personal choice. If you think that's what they're doing then you probably shouldn't buy sony products.
Php.net goes new look, enable the alpha version.
Very cool. We'll probably test this out very soon and could easily make our massive deploy sets easier to deal with.
I honestly think it's an emotional reaction due to the similarity to Orwell's telescreen. There's something about your TV watching you back that gives our collective unconscious the willies.
"Always on" is a price I'm willing to pay for fully voice-controlled functionality. If someone looks at the power usage and network activity of the XB1/Kinect and determines there is something untoward then that will give me pause, but at the present I'm not going to run from the technology because I think Microsoft is trying to record all of my actions.
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+1 I guess this is a very good solution. It merges the best of two worlds. However, with the mixing of digital and physical world, I wonder how many fraudsters will sell their games digitally and then try to sell the disk on ebay? Or vice versa.
PCI is designed to protect credit card fraud, not customer's address information. Banks don't care about the risk of identify theft, but rather credit card fraud.
This is fucking wrong.
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The same party is already in control of the world's PCs and laptops - things everyone with an XBone will already use for many of their favorite illegal activities. What new danger does this introduce?

I also expect that if video/audio are being saved or else transmitted to Microsoft/NSA or else being dynamically analyzed using the latest wank-detection algorithms, then someone will detect this by the resource usage.
The difference is doing research and applying research. As long as they base their treatment on effectiveness rather than prayer, I don't care that they pray. If it makes them a happier and more peaceful person, it might do good. Unhappy people make for shitty doctors.

I don't see the difference. I don't trust either of them to do their jobs properly if their mental model of reality is based on religion.

And you consider that rational? Do I care if my car mechanic believes in ghosts? Why would it matter? Because it might mean he could have other strange ideas as well? How about I cross that bridge when I get to it and first meet the person, and maybe start caring about their beliefs once they actually do fuck up, instead of plastering my beliefs about their beliefs, and how it influences their work, all over it and calling it a day? At any rate, I would sooner look out for their office being littered with gifts from pharma salesmen and ads, if you catch my drift, and you can worry about bogeymen in the meantime.
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Every electronics retailer in my area sold out of launch PS4s close to immediately. They still have launch Xbox Ones for sale, and indeed I got a pitch from Microsoft themselves for it today.

That doesn't say that much, as we don't know the actual numbers, but of course on Amazon the PS4 absolutely owned the charts, and the only reason they don't now is the sales "split" between a number of bundles.
I logged in and, after re-activating my long dead email address, was greeted by two full height tower animated banner ads. I clicked around for a few seconds and got a nearly full screen animated ad. Yep, now I remember why I stopped dealing with Yahoo.
OP actually works in the industry. Like full time. But I'm sure that you, random Internet commenter with no apparent expertise in the field, know better than he does. Thanks for your well-informed, well-cited input.
Since no one explained it, it is whois spam. You can find more info through searching, they are not hacked they are just popular sites so they attract the spam.

And if you don't want to google people just register name servers with xxx.com.xxxx.tld and their name server will show up when someone searches for xxx.com
Wrong, if they are tapping at the wires they only see that your using gmail, not the content of your email or who you are speaking to (Unless you turn off ssl for some strange reason).
Sorry baxer001, I did not understand your point.
The once per day is to ensure you still have legitimate access to the game.

The point of restricting used games is that all games are treated as digital downloads, whether they are delivered over the internet or through a disc install.
Yeah, the idea that this somehow maps to wealth is rather silly considering the data comes from geotagged tweets.
C was introduced in 1972, that's a year before I was born (and it had been in development for a couple years prior).

The first computer I programmed on ran at 1 mhz and had 64 kilobytes of RAM.

Is it really so hard to see why C didn't historically have bounds checking? Bounds checking was pretty controversial in languages even as late as the early 2000s because of the runtime cost.
You could very well do that. You could also crack open the kinect as soon as you buy it and change it so you can disable it by a switch or something like that. Although permanent disconnection apparently isn't a good idea as saying "xbox on" will I hear be the only way you turn the device on.

Really though I think it'd be easier for them to just give customers the option not to plug it in, but my guess is that they're trying to make sure everyone uses the kinect that they ship with the console (its not necessarily being used for nefarious purposes), but with that being said I still don't trust Microsoft.
Not true. Discovery subpoenas are well-established legal instruments; the term 'subpoena' just means 'under penalty,' in other words it carries the authority of the court or issuing agency to impose punishment for non-compliance with the terms. See for example http://www.weil.com/files/Publication/9f7ab3cd-f7d4-4eb5-b98...

The term 'discovery' has a specific legal meaning, and I'm not sure if that was what you actually meant.
UI supercomputer Blue Waters decodes HIV capsid
I'm going to guess performance. Sure it's tiny today, but what about back then?
Not if you compile via LLVM/clang.
Staying up to date is not an all-or-none proposition. We use feedback to drive direction. For example, even though we used 2.2 as a base, user feedback compelled us to include hash-based sharding, a 2.4 feature, in this release.
This is nowhere near being new, but invaluable for anyone trying to get past the terrible AngularJS docs.
This is not true, I used to work in the industry and you can use a hosted credit card solution (where you transfer customers to a secure payment page) without needing PCI compliance.

If it were correct, and the card holder name needed to be secure, the company I worked at would not have received level 1 PCI compliance. The solution sends back the truncated card number, expiry date and the full card holder name.

Of course I'm assuming the banks wouldn't want you to make that data public, but you are allowed to store it without needing to be PCI compliant.

CVV code is another matter, under no circumstances are you allowed to store it, unless you're a level 1 compliant payment processor.
You really should be specific about technologies and everyone will have their favourites but heroku is a good starting point and has a free tier.
Wow. This is more than 2x my most optimistic estimates when I first heard the rumors, but I was banking on a larger cash component. I'm in agreement with other posters here who have suggested the purchase is for the brand name and I want to add that control of Thingiverse is no small matter either.
Do you think this would ever get merged in to the official release? Are / how are you intending on commercializing it - MongoDB is AGPL?
"...believe that all individuals share responsibility for maintaining the security of personal information that is posted online."

You (CLICKBANK) posted this information online--not your customers. Are you seriously trying to blame them for the fact that your development team seems to have no concern for security and privacy?
FYI - the source code isn't published with the videos, but @mattfriz created a github repo with all of the code used in each tutorial: https://github.com/msfrisbie/egghead-angularjs
Except that they'd have to do so in court, and the NSA would have the option of filing an amicus curiae brief saying 'oh no we didn't.'
Yes, but their argument is that iPhones are concentrated in the enclaves of the rich i.e. less widely distributed than Android. The way that they presented the data is actually biased against their thesis.
According to the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) which is an expansion of the current Data Protection Directive and is planned to take effect in 2016, companies that are located outside the EU and that process EU citizen's data are supposed to be compliant with the GDPR. The GDPR allows much greater control over one's own data.

The current Data Protection Directive apparently does not take into account many of the foreign online services, but the new GDPR does.

On wikipedia:

The proposed new European Union Data Protection Regulation (a draft for which was unveiled in January 2012) extends the scope of the EU data protection law to all foreign companies processing data of European Union residents.[1]

I'm wondering if and how the EU will enforce this law?

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulat...
I love Stripe, they're so easy and so fast and SO PAINLESS.
I've had to deal with "legacy" solutions and I basically
hate them all. Stripe saved me significant implimentation time, so they are currently the ones to beat IMHO.

Frankly they are what makes the easy user experience possible @ CryptoSeal (http://privacy.cryptoseal.com).
Well Done, Microsoft
I like turtles? No I like customers
Probably more of a hipster detector :)
The charts are of dubious value. As others have send, the z-order puts the iPhone on top, occluding Android. In the "rich" areas, Android and the iPhone are close to identical.

Which, of course, makes sense, as there are high end and low end Android devices.
Freshplum is looking for relentlessly resourceful business interns
Intern will be given ten leads and coaching on creating an account entry strategy. The goal will be to set up an appointment with as many of those leads as possible over the course of eight weeks.

You’ll might spend time …

- On linkedin and salesforce searching for contact information and then hustling to get a meeting.

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- Cold calling.

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Basically, doing whatever it takes to (tastefully) get a meeting.

We’ll work together mostly out of our home office in SF. You’ll be given a weekly stipend, account penetration training, catered lunches, and become well connected to a team looking to fundamentally change online commerce.

You must be in the Bay Area and able to commute to SF.

Interested? Start by contacting our Director of Business Development, Jonathan Chen. Contact info is available to those who are relentlessly resourceful.
Google Search Engineer Defends SEO On Hacker News
For those who only browse the headlines, the U.S. is charging two Americans with plotting to build a weapon to be used to inflict deadly radiation poisoning using X-ray.

The victims were to be Muslims and other "enemies of Israel and the U.S.".

One of the accused works as an industrial mechanic at General Electric, the other worked at the G.E. plant as a contractor.
The validity of your statement pivots on the domain in which you are applying GA. I do not think your three conditions cover the the following case.

In a previous life, we applied GA to finding defects in design and implementation. The genes were atomic actions one could take with the product. Chromosomes were scenarios. In this case two valid scenarios can be crossed to expose a defect. The system was monitored while the scenario was processed, and fitness was measured as whether or not a defect was detected.

One excellent side-affect of this process was that when defective scenarios were used to seed population, we received convergence to a minimum reproduction.
Isn't the whole point of all this outrage that NSA have equipment or data exchange arrangements with GMail etc. so that SSL is irrelevant?
And yet, the iPhones show up in the wealthier areas just the same.
Linux is popular, but not exactly the gold standard of async IO APIs. Comparisons over more platforms would better support the claim that it's cross-platform improvement over Berkely sockets.
> perhaps I am simply living the banality of evil.

Possibly. Since we've already gone godwin, IBM sold computers to Germany. Those machines were used for something we do these days as a matter of routine - a census. It's hard to get more banal than a census. Yet that census was invaluable in identifying and segregating large chunks of people based on ethnicity. It was so instrumental to the Third Reich that James Watson of IBM was given a medal of honor.

The tech is just a tool. It's who you give it to and what they do with it that matters. The question is, what do you do about it? You can't really restrict the dispersion of technology. Every attempt to do that so far has failed, for everything from munitions to cryptography. You can make certain uses illegal. That doesn't seem to be stopping the government or police these days. All that seems to do is put a lot of private citizens in jail. The only solid solution I can come up with is to come up with countermeasures of some sort.

How to solve a problem like human nature. It's quite a humdinger.
I'll ask the same question that I had about RethinkDB last week [1]: how does TokuMX handle secondary indexes on a sharded database?

Since it doesn't support cross-shard atomic operations, I'm assuming it takes the same approach as RethinkDB, i.e. co-locating data with its index entries, which means index lookups require querying every shard in the cluster. But I don't see this explicitly stated in the user's guide, so it would be nice to get some confirmation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876168
Why Google is fighting back
When I first learned about Spark, I knew this team would go on to build great things and they've gone beyond my expectations all the while being very friendly and supportive of the community.

Among the things I love most about the Spark and the eco-system:

* repl -- so great for running short little experiments or even full blown jobs. saves you time compiling small changes and really get to know your data quickly.

* caching -- processing in-memory opens up many possibilities beyond doing iterative, machine learning jobs. quantifind, for example, demoed a system that allows them to run ad-hoc queries using Shark on the fly across GBs of data (think OLAP, a bit) in seconds or less.

* scala -- makes for very succinct code using closures and built-in operations; check out some examples here: http://spark-project.org/examples/

And some of the upcoming projects are also very cool. Tachyon, for example, will enable users to share data with a very robust in-memory file system. A teammate and I, for example, could have used it recently because we were simultaneously running different analysis against the same data, so we had to cache duplicate instances on two clusters.
New attack cracks iPhone autogenerated hotspot passwords in seconds
Added to the fact that wear is per tire, it's also per time, thus any vehicle causes more wear when waiting or moving at very small speeds in a congestion.

And the wear increases again at very high speeds, for unrelated reasons.
Michael Hastings told Wikileaks FBI investigating him hours before death.
I heard that a similar thing happened in another city, I think it was Sacramento. Maybe they should charge a quarter instead of making things free. This would make things close-to-free, but keep it from attracting lots of homeless.