skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been charged about 10k and going up...

Looks like their auto-recharge balance test keeps returning 0 or less than 0, it charges your card, and loop.

EDIT: Looks like they're doing something - the UI at least now displays $500, rather than $10k before. The only real confidence I'll get is when I can see todays account transactions from the bank.
"nterestingly enough it takes congress to declare war so in effect what we've had here is a very blatant power grab[2], an invocation of emergency procedures in the name of National Security."

The United States has declare a very few wars and fought many more, of varying degrees of length and intensity.
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OK, fair enough. Going with your figure (which I think is pretty low), what is the benefit to 99% of users from breaking tools for %1 of users? As far as I can tell it just a bit of additional storage space. Do 99% of users actually benefit from that extra storage?
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Oh dear, not nice at all if you're on a budget
Using a German Business-Social-network, I do have 120 contacts (first hop and I am not a power-user there). After the third hop there are about 1.1 million people.

And that is just one network. Use telephone, other social networks, snail-mail, et al.

Might be massive...
I disagree with pg on this one.

The first mobile phone users looked like smug jerks and show offs as well (What, are you too lazy to walk to a wired phone ? Are you so important that people must be able to contact you at any time ?) , yet the functionality offered was so useful that in the end everybody followed suit.
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Interesting. Is that why most engineers are guys?
Pah. Why are old-people's 'experiences' not also 'plausible-sounding bad ideas' from another time? In fact, that's the only mechanism your pessimism permits.

I'd guess, instead, that these modern bad ideas are possibly good ideas that just don't jibe with your experience.
Why do you presume less "lobby time"? I'd think a train twice as fast as a plane would inspire at least as much security theater.
Which wasn't shy about competition or large-scale conflict (like the Peloponnesian War).
Airport to Airport is a lot different than city center to city center.
Because the alternative is doing nothing. If your every decision at your job is qualified by the possibility that someone else will come along someday and exploit your actions to the worst possible end, you would never get anything done.

I'm building software. But who says the algorithms I develop cannot be used maliciously, just because I won't do so myself?
Has anyone tried making a tick trap? I read once that you could build something simple with dry ice on a piece of cardboard surrounding by double sided tape. The ticks are attracted to the CO2 and get stuck on the tape.

I wonder why there are no simple commercial products like that?

Other ideas I've had is a company that runs dogs or horses around your property for a few days hopefully to pick up all the ticks. They obviously then carefully remove the ticks from the animals.
MIT or whatever. We haven't gotten there yet... we haven't really launched per say. :)
Wikipedia has a whole page on "black sites"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site
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When the vibe turns to over-moderation I.E. strict enforcement to the point human beings are forced to act as functions with predictable output, it's tedious, Not Constructive (ironically) and overall unpleasant to even browse let alone ask questions.
I can say without a doubt I prefer buying a laptop from Apple to anyone else I've tried due solely to the lack of options.

Over the last couple of years I've tried a few times at different vendors to find a different laptop, and every time I've given up because of all the options.

My problem is that when I'm presented with so many options, I spend hours trying to optimize them, and being unable, I give up.

I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More... has something to say about this.
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I would also like to point out that merely taking a video of animals is now--according to utah--an act that transforms you into a terrorist. The abuses have only just begun.

Http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865550866/House-passes-bill-to-stop-animal-rights-terrorists--shooting-video-on-farms.html?pg=all

[Edit: Utah's house, not the US congress]
From my personal experience places I go will either have lots of ticks or none. The best explanatory variable I can come up with is the deer to human ratio. In places with a lot of deer but few humans the ticks are all just waiting around to bite people that come by. But I'm guessing in places with lots of people, other people have already come by and "used up the tick supply".
Ubuntu 13.10 Can Outperform OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" On Intel OpenGL
I can totally relate to wanting to extend log output without (too much) fear of breaking consumers with every change. I was excited to read http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424 where section 6.3 describes structured data storage in syslog. However, I have yet to see anyone using this in production, and I haven't had the opportunity to try it myself.
Same for me, except I was also accused of not knowing how to "network."
Worse, when a moderator closes a topic, it stays closed, even when they're wrong. I recently asked a question, but moderators misunderstood my question so they closed it as offtopic. I explained my question in more detail, and it should have been apparently that it is clearly on-topic, but they didn't do anything about it.
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You should try a cruise ship sometime.

It's amazing how easy it is to get in and out of different countries. Even getting on the ship is pretty easy.

I don't think there'll be much security theatre until a train gets blown up - most of the theatre so far seems to be reactive. "An idiot has explosives in his shoes. He is so incompetent that he tries to light it with a match" and now everyone has to take their shoes off.
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Obama does it again. He tries to play down the domestic upheaval by telling its citizens that they are not the primary subject; foreigners are. He did the same thing with Prism, and I don't know why the rest of the world just accepts it. (By the way, note that most of the EU doesn't care about Prism, and that the EU only became agitated when it became apparent that it's officials/embassies are being wiretapped.)

Furthermore, Obama promises that he will not abuse the right, but he can't vouch for his successors; having such laws in place is just an accident waiting to happen.
The real value of a stock option is zero, with an expected value higher than that. Perhaps this is more about balancing realistic expectations and real income against the pursuit of a dream?
It is of course an exaggeration, but my point was more that the technology is now there to make that list.

As a foreigner, this list could prevent me entering the United States. Comments posted on Twitter and Facebook have been used as reasons to reject people from entering the US in recent times.

Remember that US citizens get different rules to everyone else. UN charters such as those on prisoner's of war, human rights and torture have been ripped up by the last two US administrations. It is pertinent to note that the US does it's brutality outside the US and generally away from the eyes of its own citizens. Other brutal regimes tend to fall quickly because they do that to their own.

As I see it from the outside, your country has been stolen from you without your knowledge. It is organisations like Wikileaks and people like Edward Snowden that have started to tell us all the truth. This is why they are so important, and so very very dangerous to the powers behind the throne.

Ok, tin foil hat time:

Imagine for a minute that Obama and Bush both entered
into power without nefarious aims. Imagine that you sit
in the Oval Office on day one of your presidency when
some guy in a black suit gets shown in.

He says "Good morning Mr President" and presents you
with a little black folder. You open the folder and flick
through the pages and pages of documents, reading it slowly.

You look up and say to the man, "Who are you? What do you want?".

The man gives you a cell phone and says, "You keep this phone
with you at all times. You do not question the person at the
other end. You do not speak about this to anyone else. You'll have
some wins as president if you play ball, but otherwise we own you".

"I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the President, if I had a personal e-mail,"

That kind of power makes sure that politicians do their bidding. Whoever "they" are.

Ok, tin-foil hat back in the drawer...
Hmm, so I wonder if short term tick exposure actually functions as a rudimentary vaccine then? It would expose your immune system to the bacteria in very small quantities?
Could somebody please remove Lennart Poettering? This systemd thing is a mess that tries to do way too much. I've had a huge pain rewriting couple dozens of init.d scripts with custom logic to service files. Friends of mine complained on that too. I'm really glad that systemd is not adopted Debian so I won't have this pain on servers. Also journalctl is not a convinient tool, less and bunch of files were working much better for me.
Nokia loses $151 million in Q2 2013, 7.2 Lumias sold, only 500k in North America
$30 an hour is about $60,000 a year which is a pretty good starting salary. An amazing one in my part of the country where $45k is the average just-out-school salary.

And all the recruiters I've dealt with are paid a flat fee by the hiring company, they don't take a percentage of pay. Then again I've never worked directly for a recruiting agency, either.
If you're getting integers, that's nowhere near the bottom end of the distribution.
I'm glad they (and most of us) are not in the business of making insulin pumps or other software where such bugs could have potentially lethal consequences.
Alright, half is hyperbolic--but you can get a fairly-large portion of the population aping all sorts of crazy messages by putting them in the mouth of a candidate during an election. I'm guessing there'll be a whole lot of "disgust" coming from the Republicans in 2016.
Something like the proposal for C++ Concepts captures some of the semantics via axioms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts_(C%2B%2B)#Axioms) seems like a really interesting solution for this idea.
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I actually like the strict style of Stack Overflow.

And i find the "Not Constructive" to be exactly that.

Yes, it can be annoying when a question is closed and you really wanted to discuss it, but the rules are quite clear on what is and is not classified as "Not Constructive", and the discussion should just move to some of the discussion threads instead.

And i don't know what you interpret as negativity?
I have never seen unfair or non-objective use of moderator functions?
I would like to point out that that was the Utah House, not the United States Congress.

(EDIT: In case this looks like an argument it isn't, parent's comment originally referred to "our congress".)
Yea, but any excuse to avoid the TSA.
"two or three" is the same as "at least three", in other words "everyone".
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If it were we'd see "moved to programmers.stackexchange.com" instead of "closed as not constructive".
Wow. Seriously? Learn to code.
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It's a very frustrating site. I take the time to carefully write up a question, and many things can happen to that.

* it doesn't get answered
* it gets closed pretty quickly (and usually in an offputting insulting manner)
* it gets changed(!) and a question I didn't ask gets answered

I suspect there's a lot of frustrated wikipedians taking it out on Stack Exchange.
Debian is likely to switch to systemd as the default in the next release, fwiw, though you will have the option to use sysvinit if you wish.
A train doesn't typically have explosive fuel, which renders it a pretty poor weapon.
> Thankfully, people back then weren't afraid to notice that the first generation of Polio vaccines actually gave Polio to some who took them. Instead of denying the possibility that their vaccine was imperfect, or telling everyone "our vaccine is good enough!, sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet", they improved/perfected the vaccine

This is untrue. An experiment in the 30s at New York University did indeed give polio to some people, but that was never marketed as a workable vaccine. The vaccine developed in the early 50s, which was marketed, was extremely effective, developed by different people, and is still in use today.

The oral polio vaccine, which was developed later, is also in use today (though it is being discontinued in the developed world), and that one _is_ known to very occasionally induce polio.

So, to be clear, the first generation of polio vaccines did _not_ give polio to those who took them. The second generation, which has historically been more popular because people are more comfortable with oral than injected vaccines, occasionally does, though it's extremely rare.
Let's review the situation. We have a quite high speed transportation system in modern aircraft. We choose not to disrupt cities by building them downtown. (And "we" choose all those security/time trade-offs.)

You suggest that we will tear up the hearts of LA and SF to build direct train-tubes, and then we'll let people breeze on board?
An important note (that doesn't justify US government in any way, just completes the picture)

The father of the boy was Anwar al-Awlaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
from wikipedia:
U.S. government officials said that he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda.

With a blog, a Facebook page, the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, and many YouTube videos, the Saudi news station Al Arabiya described him as the "bin Laden of the Internet."

U.S. officials say that as imam at a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia (2001–02), which had 3,000 members, al-Awlaki spoke with and preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers, who were al-Qaeda members. In 2001, he presided at the funeral of the father of Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who later e-mailed him extensively in 2008–09 before the Fort Hood shootings. During Al-Awlaki's later radical period after 2006–07, when he went into hiding, he was associated with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who attempted the 2009 Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner. Al-Awlaki was allegedly involved in planning the latter's attack.

According to the original article though:

The government repeatedly made accusations of terrorism against Anwar — who was also an American citizen — but never charged him with a crime. No court ever reviewed the government’s claims nor was any evidence of criminal wrongdoing ever presented to a court. He did not deserve to be deprived of his constitutional rights as an American citizen and killed.
LA's Most Wired Building Sells for $437 Million
Climate plays a big role too. Ticks have a pretty narrow band where they are active. We have ticks in my area for a couple of weeks in the damp, cool spring. After that it's too dry and hot.
I don't get it. Isn't Yemen friendly to the US? That's why they allow these drone strikes, right? So why not just go and arrest the guy?
It sounds like many of us here would streamline aircraft boarding. We might even have tech ideas for that.

... so we'll do it with trains because no one will stop us?

(faulty social analysis)
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I've gotten a couple customized recruiting emails recently where they actually looked up my background and thoughtfully explained they the position would be a great fit.

I was impressed, and I figured the least I could do is write back and ask for more information. Well, it's been two weeks and I haven't heard back from either person! It's almost like the twilight-light zone. Why spend all that time researching and writing to someone only to never respond again?
Colateral damage aside, doesn't bombing rescuers and funerals classify as terrorism?

Seriously...
More proof that the United States government is no longer considering itself under jurisdiction of the constitution.
The problem is that the ideal place to host these discussions is... Stack Overflow.

Their policy on open questions is dead wrong.
I wonder how accurate this chart is. The last time we really wanted to port something from .net to mono (3 - 4 years ago) windows forms was supported, but it was a mess. It worked 90% - but the 10% never got fixed. Problems popped up in the strangest places (rounding of numbers). Impressive as a proof of concept, but we've stopped trying to support mono and never looked back.
Agreed, whenever I happen across a closed question, I always sit there and scratch my head "but that's a great question!". I think it's a similar phenomenon to the over deletionist problem on Wikipedia.

There's certainly questions on SO that should be moderated away, and WP articles that should be deleted. But there's so many of both kinds that are obviously genuinely good one has to wonder at the motivations of the people closing them.
This has gotta suck. Many cards have steep overdraft fees.
>The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
-L. Ron Hubbard

also

>You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Still very true. If you want to hit it big, create a religion. See Tesla or Scientology for examples.
Goodbye, twilio...
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How is that constructive at all? Shit happens. My code has bugs, your code has bugs. Just about everyone has something break at some point.

At least Twilio has some reasonable disclosure of these issues on their dashboard to inform people of what is going on. I'm sure they will rectify the issue as soon as they have everything back up and running.
> This is an orange

Well... ok, let's assume it is.

> If you were told it's something different you wouldn't believe it.

Sure I would. It could be an apple wrapped in an orange shell. It could be a hologram. It could be a picture of an orange with a small kitten hidden behind it. It could, indeed, even be a chroma-shifted live-view of earth from space.

> What does it look like to you?

Looks like all the supports gave out at pretty much the same time. Like if there was a large fire and badly maintained fireproofing on them. Or maybe a gang of small kittens chewed them off. You have to admit it looks precisely like it would if you had a thousand kittens scratching at the supports simultaneously (assuming robot kittens, of course).
Listen to yourself. The last paragraph is utter nonsense. I actually agree that we aren't being told the full story on 9/11 but you make these accusations with zero grasp on the reality of how much work it takes to down a building like that. Demolitions like what you describe take months of prep, a gutted building, and precise explosives wrapped around multiple central supports. A few bricks of C4 on remote detonators stashed above a drop ceiling is never going to take out an entire building, let alone in the controlled way you claim occurred here... just synchronizing wireless detonators to explode simultaneously is a non-trivial technical feat. (Independent synchronised clocks and all the calculations for the travel time of the signal through various materials to different locations) I'm not saying it's not possible, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

I'm adamant that we're being lied to about things related to these attacks, but making things up to fill the vacuum of information is behavior that belongs back in the middle ages.
Presumably the pressure wave is maintained by a continuous array of big-ass subwoofers along the whole length of the tube - If this is the case, then keeping the noise pollution down will be a bit of a challenge - unless some sort of active-noise cancellation technology is used for the outside.

Hmmm... This should not be too tricky, since you are generating the original signal yourself, but if one of the exterior noise-cancellation speakers breaks down - it's gonna be LOUD.
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The modals barely work in chrome on this HTC one. However, everything works beautifullyon an iPhone 4s. When will mobile chrome catch up?
This is interesting, we usually don't have such comments here. What happened?
I had like $240 billed, when there was nothing used... fuck.
Doesn't matter how good you think are. If you write code professionally for long enough, you eventually experience an event like this first hand. It's an absolutely horrible experience for a developer.
Don't forget, "Home of the brave".
Judging by the points by time by rank in the front page, I 'd say this has some flags. Which would be a shame, as that kind of censure is exactly what the site is against.

Every time there is any criticism of SO here, however constructive, the flaggers come out in force :(
I believe the AC on casters the author refers to is really a swamp cooler aka evaporative cooler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
That's Russia for you. Anybody going against the corrupt ruling party is either killed or imprisoned.

Actually, it's worse than that. The conviction rate in Russia is something like 99%, meaning that if you get charged with a crime, you will be found guilty. There are judges that have NEVER issued an innocent verdict in their career.
It's too bad you guys don't have a hair-trigger for Motions of No Confidence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence) like we do in Canada. We have elections every five years at the most--but it rarely ever gets to be that long, because some issue or another inevitably comes along that causes the rest of the House to be upset with the party in power, and it's very easy to throw down the "well, if you think you have the citizens' consent, just get them to vote you in again" gauntlet.
Aw, I was kind of hoping it would be about this kind of Tesla: http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/Tesla
This is bad. It'll badly affect people with low bank balances and high overdraft charges - it'll be interesting to see how Twilio reimburses people for charges banks levy on customers.
"So if security feels it is necessary to search some cars in the name of safety, why not search all of them?"

This is exactly the question they want people to ask, then TSA will come back, that they will. Maybe they will cry and moan about how they don't have keys to other cars and force the auto industry to provide them with a way to unlock any car. We should stop asking why not search all of them, but why are they even searching valet cars?
> Not to mention there is http://programmers.stackexchange.com which is exactly "a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow" so really, what's the point?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/201263/when-s...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/202220/moving...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163004/what-i...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/49806/reasons...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/2815/what-wou...
The United States has become empire. We have the trappings of a democratic republic, but it's obvious that the law of the land is broken for those in power. No one should be surprised by this, it's evolution in action and the writing's been on the wall for years.