skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone thinks that. You only need more than 1% of the customers of a service to be paying with fraudulent instruments to be unable to accept credit cards, practically. 1% of your volume coming back in chargebacks consistently is the cutoff with most MAPs.
Thanks. I have added it to my recapitulating comment[1].

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1hhqs7/google_fl...
Nothing immoral about being introverted--however, you don't get points for being exposed to mainstream society and forming relationships.
> For all intents and purposes, you will be using Chrome.

But you aren't. You are using Chromium.

> Can you clarify what you are talking about?

Google's AppStore, and their Apps on the new tab page (I forget if they had anything installed by default). Honestly, I don't feel like setting up a fresh install of Chrome to check. But you could answer your own question by doing this.
Envisioning Our Interactive Audio Future
Somewhat OT. What is good way to use a vpn (not the sort of vpn connecting two networks which I have done before). Can I configure my router (or buy a router that supports this) so that all traffic leaving my house appears as though it is coming from the vpn?

I realise I can just search for VPN providers, but I am interested in what is considered the best/easiest/cheapest solution.
nice looking site! as for the testimonials, i think they transition way too fast for a vistor to read each set
Growth Hacking: How we got more customers with less spend
Final standings in 37th World Finals of the ACM Programming Contest
Leaked: More Low-Cost iPhone Photos
To me, socialism isn't meaningfully comparable to liberalism. It's apples and oranges.
Huh? Why do you think that? The normal encrypted partition can be used independently of the hidden partition. You just need to be careful to ensure that the free space of the outer partition is enough to contain the hidden, inner partition.
If someone successfully deanonymizes the data, would that make AT&T liable for damages? You really don't need that many bits of entropy to accurately identify someone.

relevant: http://33bits.org/
I loved the xterm "huge" font, simple and clear, great for high DPI displays. Windows Fixedsys is a passable replacement for low DPI displays.
I made the distinction between monetizable (yes, they can charge money for it) and profitable (they can have money left over after all the administrative overhead and upkeep). Yes, I've no doubt those were taken in to consideration. I just get the feeling that Google doesn't want to bother dealing with things unless there's extremely large profits to be had, vs just profits. And that's kind of sad, in a way (assuming it's true, but it seems to be).
I really want to do this at some point, but I'm still in college, and the schedule never lines up with when school starts and ends. Have any college students attended hacker school/what do you guys think about college students attending? (I'm a Comp Eng major btw).
Right now you should have complete functionality, but Its not fully tested and there are some "convience" methods that need to be added to some of the ReQL classes to make it mimic the official API ( for example row is not a member function of connection yet so r.update(r.row("foo")) doesn't work yet )
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One thing that strikes me really odd from the demo of the mouse, is how nervous and worried he looks. I mean I can understand the concept of computers were so foreign until people got use to it. I think he was really intimidated by the culture of people being close minded to things they don't understand.(I thing progress was more of a liability.)
Show HN: jist.in, displaying gist contents by client-side js for legibility
That's pretty cool yo, thanks for illuminating!
Are you female? They have tuition assistance for women. Apparently men don't need financial assistance...
"Doug Engelbart had this idea about amplifying the human mind."
Did anyone else notice that the "word processor" demoed here is really more of a flexible outliner, like WorkFlowy ( http://www.workflowy.com )? Actually, the more features he ran through, the more I was struck by the similarity.
Moving. Thanks for pointing it.
So you are good at math, but you need to eat.

I'm good at cunnilingus, and yet I need to eat, too! What to do, what do do...

Do you know the story by Thoreau in "Walden" about the basket weaving indian? Also, while I agree that something like math research is ultimately benefitting all, this doesn't really apply when it's done for spooks, since those tend to sit on it. So if math is all you're good at, and if you positively can't wait tables or learn anything else, so you can use your math skills for non-profit and the commons or teaching math on the side, then you might be screwed. And if you just go work for the NSA, you're not exactly beating a path out of that situation for future mathematicians either.
It's too easy to "steal" a primary by bringing all your friends to the local party caucuses, moving to replace the caucus chair (seconded and voted by your friends), then electing your friends to replace the local delegates to the statewide party.
After the SPDY protocol which reinforces HTTP
We will forever be indebted to Mr. Engelbart. Thank you sir!
And missing most of the centralized documentation people use everywhere.

But if you only have one application, you don't need centralized documentation.
I work at Apple and I still call it the Apple key.
Apple Should Not Dictate the (Music) World's Future
So if all your static files are on a CDN and your web server is only hosting dynamic content, Apache is still the better choice for PHP applications?
If you are going to use a VPN to charge stolen credit cards, you sure aren't going to use a real credit card to purchase the VPN service, which could then be linked back to you.
> I'll cry when its gone, but I don't think anyone should feel entitled to a free service.

But... it's not 'free' so much as 'doesn't cost cash'. There's plenty of cost in adopting a tool like that, an integrating it in to your life. And... it's not like Google was getting 0 in return - the usage data they could have collected (and probably were to some degree) was quite high, and they pretty much exist to collect usage behaviour and use algorithms to make money from that data. But they chose not to. Instead of continuing to foster the notion of people writing content on their own blogs, and simply giving people a tool to search it (ala google search), taking away that tool and pushing people to write that content directly in g+ gives them a number of advantages over any other search service that wants to even consider trying to come close to comprehensive search. this is AOL walled garden 3.0.
You Can’t Quit, Google Reader, Because I Already Fired You
The unfortunate reality today is that we are living in a country where you really have to be afraid of the consequences of exercising your Constitutional right of free speech and assembly.

I am going to exercise my right of free speech right here by strenuously disagreeing with this comment, and point to my comment posted at the same comment level

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988216

in this thread in which I announce that I am unafraid to protest publicly with my wife the first-generation immigrant naturalized American citizen and with my minor children.

I still believe we can fix this within the legal and political framework already in place. Next election be very careful about who you vote for.

I'll quote this part of your longer comment too, for agreement. Yes, vote carefully (that's why I'm a ticket-splitting voter, because I vote carefully). On the other hand, don't be afraid to protest as part of the Restore the Fourth protests. We can all express our opinions openly, early and often. I'm not afraid of exercising my right to free speech--not here on HN, and not anywhere else.
I don't think they mean it that way. They just want more women to participate.
Wingdings
Google Wants to Keep More for Itself
Apps and big data for conferences?
Here's the full thing with better sound:

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/VIDEO-Kim-Dotcom-GCSB-committee-f...
The linked cyberullying article is an interesting read; then again, I'd hate to use an internet where I never had to fear running across a mean person--would be quite dull.
I'm not arguing that there's a duty to join-and-reform. (Though, if that were the only or best way to fix the problem, it would be the most sensible thing to do, even if somewhat uncomfortable.)

I'm just saying the simplistic "you must quit if you have qualms" standard shouldn't have an automatic presumption of either effectiveness or righteousness.

This is especially true about an old, powerful, and sovereignty-claiming institution like the USG and its security organs. They are beyond easy influence through either simple boycotts or idealistic infiltrations, and you can't easily ignore them or wait-them-out.
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You must do it repeatedly ad infinitum:

> 5. Cookies are used to opt-out of these ads, if you delete those cookies, you will need to opt-out again.
In at least one of those states (Utah), the scheduled protest occurred last month. Edit: looks like a new one was added for tomorrow.
I used Consolas a lot, but eventually switched to fixed. Fixed just lets me pack a lot more text on my screen, which is very important for my functions.
Oh, you're the weebly bro! Cool!

How's business? Any good stories?
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There was a pilot who wrote an essay on the uselessness of the checks. Sure, check for firearms, but nail files and so forth can be found on the plane. One of his examples was to pull up a strip of emergency lighting and break it - now you have a pointy thing to use as a weapon.
"Ignore today; just think about it in terms of his goals."

reminds me of

"Do not follow in the footsteps of the masters; seek what they sought."
Ok, you've finally gone and proven that you know basically f-all about go and are just out to thump the Haskell Bible.
Usually they have lower chargeback cutout rate and higher fines. If the provider keeps customers within provided limits why not keep the service running?
Ruby and Python are strongly typed, but they're also dynamically typed. Certainly not untyped.

They also both have licenses, but they don't charge money to obtain a copy.
You may have something there, at that.

If the common man weren't so chickenshit that they keep voting the same folks into office and refusing to hold their government accountable, maybe we wouldn't have to deal with the alphabet soup agencies making ready use of society's intellectually-talented castoffs.
China does not have to win for the United States to lose.

The talented person might go to Europe, or to Canada. Or he might stay home and contribute towards the economy of his native land.
What about not deploying to a server that is resolving their DNS until payment is complete?

When final payment is received, final deployment occurs. Until then, it can be accessed via a URL you control.

Otherwise, if you're really looking for something like that, I'd suggest https://forwardhq.com
Rule #1 of life: never ever get in a windowless van with 4chan, regardless of who else is in the van.
Can someone explain why the CC companies ban high-chargeback-risk companies?

Why can't they simply ask for a higher fee?
Convenient for the folks in Provo, I suppose.
Building an online multiplayer Bomberman-like with CraftStudio
Mathematica has a Mac-native frontend, and always has. They've used Qt for the Linux/Unix frontend since 6.0, not sure if they're using Qt for Windows or not.
Many clients don't know anything about viewing markup and recreating work. Especially if there is something powering a site/application on the server. The HTML doesn't help them much.
In Finland, it is the symbol for a place of (usually historical) interest, and it's encoded in Unicode as such:

⌘ PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN (U+2318)

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2318/index.htm
Oh, I don't know -- desperate money never sleeps.
Do they make an infinite amount per user? Because if they are making $N every year from me watching ads, I could pay them $N + 1.
This book, "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counter culture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" is by the same guy who wrote the NYT obit with "the most facile interpretation of Engelbart" headline. It goes into far more depth about Engelbart's goals of augmenting human intellect.
No, I got a prepaid plan. They wanted my name, date of birth, a PIN, and $87. I used a credit card.
So you are contending that customers are informed of anything with ad targeting?

I worked in the online ad targeting/ad network industry for half a decade and strongly disagree with that premise.

The shadiest of products (penis enlargement, work from home, etc) are advertised with specifically "stupid" ads, because by eliminating the people who would never buy such a bad product in the first place they improve their CTR, screen before the click. That's the far end of the spectrum, but the premise is generally true for all advertising.

Informing your customers and competing on value is an inefficient method of advertising, it's much more profitable to find another, less rational, purchase trigger to exploit. There are many to choose from but traditionally this was still quite difficult and very risky. Now, with detailed analytics and advanced data processing you can just try them all and have the system cluster and optimize each approach.

"Relevant" ad targeting is sold as a method to display ads that will likely appeal to targets but an enormous part of it is screening those users who are informed enough to know that your product is not a wise purchasing decision.

And all of this lives in an auction model, so you either adapt to the more efficient methods or you get outbid on your keywords.
glaring omission
Thank you for this. I think this variant might tear me away from my long-time favorite, Inconsolata. It seems very close, yet even more readable. I love it.
Haskell is where this real work is happening already anyway (Data Parallel Haskell, stream fusion, etc)
Given that the NSA is likely to exist in some form no matter what, would an NSA with more fresh blood in it, of varying ages and competencies and ideologies, be more prone to abuse, or less prone to abuse?

You seem to be assuming that every person joining the NSA makes it worse, and that's not clear to me. In particular, a small, cohesive, monocultural institution will be more likely to commit abuses and more able to keep them secret.
This is a bit needlessly aggressive.
This is not extortion.

This is not necessarily lying (provided you have inquired about your options with an attorney).

This is not defamation.

This is not cybersquatting.

At best, this is stupidly prone to unpredictable backfiring that makes you look ... stupid. At worst, you look like a dick and the word spreads.
It's been available to download for free for a while, indeed, and massively advertised.
Two recent posts:

Learn Java in Minutes (73 points, 2 days ago, 50 comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5969685

"Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java" by Mark Watson (91 points, 4 days ago | flag | 41 comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5963448
The time between college and kids is when you need to both build up a house down payment AND your 401k base. It gets a lot harder after 30.
I never had more than a passing interaction with a full blown Smalltalk-80 environment, but that was enough to make me look at e.g. any Java system and just feel sick to the stomach.
I imagine a majority of small sites are still on cheap shared hosting providers, and nginx doesn't support anything .htaccess which allows individual site owners in a chroot jail to configure the web server.
It's called passion.
Twitter moves to cookie-based ads, bans automated following
Can someone explain the difference between the two programs?

I'm thinking AdWorks is some Phorm / NebuAd style of deep packet inspection... or is that the first program? I'm having difficulty finding information on how each program collects its data along with what data is collected.
While I happen to agree with her views, I think it was unfair to other students for her to unleash her rant during a recruiting session. She went there to intentionally cause conflict, evidenced by the fact that she recorded it. Everyone in attendance was well aware of the NSA scandal - they didn't need her to fill them in. While she may have the financial resources to take the moral high ground on such matters, most college kids need jobs when they graduate. She took away valuable time that those kids may have wanted to interact with a potential employer.
Tools To Help You Hide Online Raise The Ire Of Advertisers
You get the same performance out of writing your web services/apps in a higher level language like Clojure anyway.
"It's like being search bubbled, only from the push end of things rather than the pull end."

That is a good way of putting it.

I also like that you identified "you can tell whether I'll be vulnerable to having one specific thing advertised to me excessively". I got into that in a follow up comment because that's really what targeted ads are about, finding people's irrational purchase triggers because "hey, i'm well informed and this product is great value!" is an expensive trigger to target.
Actually, they are horribly afraid of getting sued for privacy violations. Not that anyone would win but the directors involved get a big black eye if anyone had data and it wasn't cleared through legal.

They got dragged into a class-action lawsuit involving credit data before my time and thus everyone in the marketing organization is very careful to follow the rules. Unlike the big banks, they don't view fines and lawsuits as 'cost of doing business'.
My point was that if there is a structural problem, looking for structural solutions is a better angle than moralizing. If mathematicians are working for the NSA, instead of yelling at mathematicians, I'd want to ask, what is causing mathematicians to work for the NSA, and what would change that?

Same reason that, if you think gentrification is problematic, yelling "die yuppie scum!" at the poor schmucks trying to find a decent apartment in an overpriced area isn't either an effective or an intellectually sound strategy. Instead, one ought to look at the structural forces producing gentrification, i.e. the developers and capital movements.

An article on that subject: http://jacobinmag.com/2013/05/the-fucking-hipster-show/
The citation, in this case, is Doug Engelbart. Bret Victor is reporting what Doug Engelbart told him about present day systems.
Your table is perfect: you can't roll 100 on a d100 or rand(100) call. My observation: 0-89 is nothing, 90-98 is consolation prize, and 99 may be meaningful if you're an early enough employee. 90+ is meaningful if you're a founder.
You could easily extend that claim to ISPs as well.
I haven't experienced any throttling, and I use 3-4 gigs each month. Is T-Mobile that much cheaper...?
They probably do do that, first
I can't understand why it took them so long. Seriously, not trolling. Fear of regulation, maybe?

The geospatial data they (and all other carriers) have is a gold mine for advertisers, researchers, marketers, etc. AT&T never had any trouble screwing users in order to make money, so I doubt it's scrupulous or moral grounds. The only reason I can imagine is that they weren't allowed to do it.

I guess this became so ubiquitous - everybody and their mother are now tracking you: Facebook, Google Latitude, Apple, Glancee, Banjo, plus thousands of other geofencing-enabled apps - that FCC can't say anything about AT&T jumping on the bandwagon, too.
I was under the impression that the main concern is theft of HTML/CSS/JS sources without payment. Anything that allows access to those files would still be vulnerable. The idea was to have the site rendered real-time in the cloud and transmitted so that no source assets could be stolen.
Also improved opengl and opengl binaries.
> I imagine the fear of not being able to provide for you or your family takes precedence over privacy concerns for the vast majority of people.

Convenience over principles is what got us here.
Honesty: I know nothing about open source, and obsessively take the newest version of everything.
I'm always amazed at how much aggression is actually needed in many situations.
Tornado when using Python. SpringMVC/Jetty when using Java.
Beijing to London on foot
It sounds to me like you're confusing two very different things - paying for a VPN for the sake of privacy confused with using a vpn to make purchases.
Bitcoin + https://www.privateinternetaccess.com.

What's a credit card?
http://www.hipmunk.com/cheap-flights/San-Francisco
Pre-9/11, my dad forgot a large serrated bread knife in his backpack when entering the French Parliament building. When he explained (very embarrassed and expecting trouble) that it was for his lunch, the guards smiled, gave him the knife back, and waved him through. I remember we admired how civilized the country was.
Please do read the readme for that repo.

I mean no disrespect or ill will towards GitHub.

https://github.com/isaacs/github/blob/master/README.md
> just about anything you can do via a VPN you can do by buying a VPS

I like my VPN service because my network traffic is mixed in with all the other users. Makes it harder to distinguish between my web browsing and their web-browsing.

The other major benefit I get from VPN is the ability to very quickly switch VPN egress points - so I get a new IP address half-way across the planet. That makes it harder to isolate my web usage too, it also is a work-around for geo-blocks on some websites.

I don't think either of those are functions of a VPS.
For every opening at a start up like this there is another one at a start-up that pays market rates, offered comparable benefits and gives a fair piece of equity (realizing that there is a tension between salary and piece of the pie).

Hopefully once you're passed 5 employees you have at least some of your shit together. Otherwise it's hard to recruit employees.
Well....Sutherland's SketchPad demo was done in 1963.
Java is extremely successful for example Matlab and Mathematica use Java for crossplatform GUI.
Security expert: All Occupiers’ phones were logged
> my suggestion here is not meant to prevent either the CIA or NSA from doing their jobs

Quite the contrary. The conclusion of your suggestion is the CIA and the NSA actually doing the job they need to do rather than making more enemies to a country that has already amassed an impressive amount of them.
HIPAA type records are not publically displayed when people walk outside.

No, but there are some things that ostensibly take place in public but should still be considered private, absent some urgently pressing higher need that can only be met by disclosure.

To the extent that a given condition is public people are allowed to note that. This is why assholes were legally allowed to call me pimple-face, for instance.

At some point of excess, wouldn't that fall under verbal abuse, harassment, or bullying, depending on whether you're considering laws or school policies, and thus not be considered free speech?

In general I believe people should be able to say anything they want, but if what they say or to whom they say it violates someone else's rights, their victims shouldn't have to put up with it.
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Thanks. You can always play with FontForge and make your own version. Just fork it.
Maybe it is intended by the author?... :)
for those who don't recognize the Baydin[0] brand (I didn't), they're the folks behind Boomerang[1] - which is pretty awesome.

[0]: http://www.baydin.com/

[1]: http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ http://www.baydin.com/boomerang/index.html