skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got kicked out of an Apple store. I questioned a Managers
managatorial expertise. I took his angry picture at the
door(Eric in Corte Madera). I am tempted to post it on youtube, but feel punishment enough is working there?
Oh yea, the reason he was furious at me, is because I
didn't like the way he was treating my salesman. I've
never understood people who let a title go to their head?
Off topic, just venting.
Isn't it by definition artificially high if you have to enact a law to enforce it? I mean, if it wasn't artificial, that would already be the wage...
What the hell!? One in five teenagers has witnessed someone being shot? I must live a sheltered life…
UFCW still enforces minimum wage, no benefits, and still feels like it is okay to take your money and tell you to go on strike and take a financial hit.

I worked in a UFCW store. Absolute worst mistake you can ever make. The hours are chopped so they can sidestep giving benefits, etc. There is no protection. These unions are an utter scam, selling an ideal and a myth.

I wouldn't be surprised if Walmart effectively pays better than their union competitors.
You miss the point. Without evidence, "they" tell everyone (pregnant or not, male or female) to avoid all sorts of things for imagined or minor harms.

And if you decided to light up and expose others to harmless secondhand smoke, "they" certainly would freak out.
I would like to see that study if you can find it. IQ is generally believed to become more genetic (that is, environmental effects start to wear off) as people get older.
My conclusion has been that those who are "normal" want some fame- they don't want to be splattered across tabloids everywhere, they just want people to know their name and what they do. People who are super famous probably want the same thing- not to be unknown, but maybe a little less famous.
A Social Network for 2nd largest most popular sport in the World
CricketHuddle is Cricket's very own Social network, a sport that comes only second to Soccer in its popularity thanks to the 1 billion Sub-continental population.
I don't know enough about OpenID to comment on it.

In the quoted sentence I was pointing out that it's not unusual for websites to be completely unaware that they were hacked. It would certainly be unfounded to assume a service couldn't be compromised.

I think it's unreasonable to ask consumers to maintain a large variety of unique passwords. It's a noble goal but it just doesn't happen. LastPass/1Password do solve the password duplication issue, but at the cost of centralizing your passwords and having sites still manage authentication.

Why trust every site you sign up for to properly handle nuances like password character limits and account reset protocols, what if sites let a third party with a narrow focus handle these details?

Password managers are an easier solution to implement, but I don't think they are better than a well designed solution that's similar to Mozilla Persona. If you think otherwise, I'd be happy to hear why.
Do you think racism harms crack users more than their crack use?
Ansible - Radically Simple IT Orchestration
> Germany was divided in two after WWII, something almost no one anticipated.

Nonsense. Haven't you heard of the Society for the Prevention of World War III, not to mention the Morgenthau Plan, both of which advocated the dismemberment of Germany well in advance of Berlin's fall? The real surprise is that any Germans whatsoever managed to survive the post-war forced expulsions and near-genocidal 1,200 calorie per day rations.
Because you have a technical argument, or because of the poor user experience that a research platform provides?
Pretty sure it'd be easy to sell that list for several thousand dollars, over and over.
"He's a very lucky boy, but as parents we just have to say no to a lot of things to give him a normal life. The most important thing is that he can relate to his peers and not be seen as any different."

I can't say I agree with this at all.
True. I've never used A/V software because I've never used Windows.
I find the stories of kids who sue their parents for misusing their funds quite sad. I never could figure out what the right way to deal with that was, put the money in t-bills and while 'safe' you get sued for being a poor financial manager. Put it into a fund and have it lose value and find yourself in trouble again.

You can ask your child's wishes but if they want to spend it all on candy do you?

The whole live a normal life thing is pretty straight forward if all the money gets whisked away into some trust account somewhere. When you start trying to use it to "improve" things where it often causes problems.
The British spelling of "apologise" is also a giveaway.
Running Localtunnel with directory listing enabled and root set to / (inadvertently or not) could not be a good idea.
My suggestion would be to offer an nginx + php-fpm configuration as well.
I think, if you have a system administrator, you're not the target audience for localtunnel. This is for home users who don't understand how to get their computer+router+apartment building's switch+etc to cooperate in getting them a public route.

Maybe they should just make it bind to a port below 1024, so it requires root/Administrator privileges to run. Then, if you are your own sysadmin, you can let yourself in--and if someone else is, you'll have to take it up with them.
Eventually, tablets will be free and will make money from services & advertising.
> Erm...in health and safety related contexts.

Exactly. The rule is not "put on your seatbelt except when you don't plan to exceed 10mph and there are no obvious nearby hazards, or if the windows are open and you're near a body of water," the rule is "always wear a seat belt."

If American society would tolerate it, surely we'd have anti-drunk driving laws that allowed no higher BAC than naturally occurs due to metabolism.
Sure, but that doesn't guarantee Microsoft's relevance in that space. I still have a feeling that many of MS's cash cow products in many cases could easily be replaced by FOSS, and increased irrelevance on other platforms could make things suddenly swing that way. Though I guess I'm kinda talking about the year of the Linux Desktop here, so yeah...
My observation of people I know is that "euroasians" (mixed eurporean and asian) are better looking than average. The ones I know are also smarter than average, but that's harder to be sure of.

It seems it's simply "hybrid vigour" - when you cross strains, you can get the both of both pools. But there's a logical dark side - you can also get the worst of both. (In nature, hybrid vigour is a net positive, because the weaker ones are selected against...) I say "logical" because I haven't actually ever observed this in reality.

Anecdotally, Elvis Presley, Keanu Reeves and Tiger Woods seem to demonstrate this with other gene pools - but I have no idea of the statistics with respect to other actors/athletes. And there are other factors, such as non-standard features being considering more striking, the parents being strong-willed, self-determined and courageous enough to go against the norm, the other being considered so attractive and valuable to be worth the hassle, etc.
Are You Really Solving a Problem?
Gladwell writes very well; the content involves carefully layering anecdotal evidence, oversimplification and over-generalisation of scientific theory (that is already brittle) -- bad science. I stand by the epithet.
I fail to see why some gifted children can't appreciate the world and their existence enough to at least have a good time and explore it a bit.

Then why are you commenting?
The paywall is more restricted now than when it was first enacted. I won't pay for much online, but I recently signed up for the weekend papers + full online access because I thought the journalism is better than most of the crap found online.
Great blog post.
And all this time, I thought my x86-64 workstation was BIOS free!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Int...
The 10,000 hour rule is not just about 10,000 hours. If you read Gladwell's book (or better, the research that Gladwell seems to cite), you find that there are important things that go along the 10,000 hour rule, probably the most important being a great teacher with a great teaching technique being there for you all the time (such that he/she can give you instantaneous feedback), who keeps pushing (vs. sticking to basic things for too long), deliberate practice, etc.

Perhaps the reason why Mozart immediately sticks out is it's hard to conceive in your mind someone becoming that good so quickly. The reality is, with Mozart and probably this prodigy, he has parents who're exemplary in their respective domains (music and art), and they both live in a nurturing environment that served them well. (Oh, and as for Mozart: he didn't become good that quickly. He started composing early, but the compositions that solidified him as a genius came much later on).
Beware the data monopoly
Completely with you on this =)

I'm a bit of a 'metal-fanatic' - I think lots of everyday objects should really be made from some suitable metal, simply because that would make them last much longer. And sometimes thicker metal, too: I can't keep track of the number of times I've seen a metal thing break just because it was a bit too thin. A 0.5mm increase in thickness can make a substantial difference when we're talking about metal.

There's an aesthetic barrier, of course, since lots of people prefer more 'natural' materials, but I bet reliability-focused people won't mind.

(Of course, if the general user ever gets their hands on this, there would have to be very clear guidelines on things that definitely shouldn't be made from metal - e.g. obvious stuff like items you intend to shove into a microwave. There's the problem of unintentionally dangerous things (not just intentionally dangerous things like guns) coming out of 3D printers, especially metal-based ones.)

(Also, a huge question is what kind of metal, since there's obviously massive variation there.)
Aereo as Bargaining Chip in Broadcast Fees Battle
Good, maybe this "name clash" will prevent the illicit silk road from getting so much MSM attention (I say this because I think bitcoin has a lot to of very positivie things to offer and SR distracts from this.)
Specifically, the magnetic stripe contains the CVV1, which is used for card-present transactions. The number on the back is the CVV2, used for card-not-present transactions.
How to be the Boss Your Team Deserves: Stop Coding
Frog: An Open Source desktop and mobile Bitmessage Client gets crowdfunded
You do not need the CVV for recurring billing. Indeed, card processing standards explicitly forbid you from storing the CVV at all.
Why shouldn't the "sum" of an empty set return 'NULL'? I could understand why a 'count' of an empty set should be 0 (which it is in SQL Server).
Thanks for that.

It's hard to say whether that augers well for 3D printers or not. In what must be a big early adoption community only 8% of people have one but that 'maybe' group of 60% is huge.

Who knows, perhaps it will be like having a good workbench and tools. Not very rare, but far from ubiquitous.
Summary: If you're leading a development team, stop coding and focus on being a great boss!
That's because the portal is down and people can no longer log in to revoke their developer certificates.
The top comment at the moment (by tokenadult) expresses the hope that the story misquotes the parents when they say "The most important thing is that he can relate to his peers and not be seen as any different."

My guess is that is exactly what they said, and they didn't mean that they'd do anything that discouraged their child at all. It's just a case of cross-cultural mis-communication going on.

Another case in point : I'd say that his paintings are 'pretty good' (which is high praise in the UK), whereas in the US 'genius' gets handed out far too easily (to my ears).
You're not in the phone book, then? County property tax database? I mean, your home address is not exactly something you can really hope to keep secret.
Look closer, it's already done :)

https://puphpet.com/#webserver

You can also choose PostegreSQL

https://puphpet.com/#database
Apple blames days-long Developer Center outage on “intruder”
Well the article touches some good points, since it made me think...

The problem is the language and paradigms used not the framework or how many levels you abstracted the problem at hand.

The way as i see it, writing programs by manipulating data excessively, will lead us nowhere but complexity, which unfortunately is introduced by the program itself. Mainstream languages such as C++, Java, C# etc., should not be taught in schools as if they are the ultimate solution, and fp is sth not practical, it is a twofaced claim while stealing ideas from fp and patching these languages, nowadays.

Another one, saying how fast the IT changes at every chance and sticking with ancient programming languages. When someone points out the dilemma, then claiming not to having enough developers for say Haskell, Clojure, Go etc.. May be you should fix the education system morons, instead of building more complex frameworks, platforms.

Of course there are particular areas, such as simulations, modelling time dependent large data sets, embedded development etc.. where some languages will be the best suited while others will be overkill or not just fast/ viable etc.. Of course, I am not blindly saying, "Death to imperative languages" :P However, they shouldn't dominate.

As a final comment, The future of programming is already here, The question is are we ready for the future...
Even better - how about simply doing a form of OAuth with the service provider? A token would be authorized for recurring billing or anything else. I think Verified By Visa is an example of something like that...

If such a provider could also SMS you on your chosen # to confirm the purchase then the system would be secure!
sum(A) + sum(B) = sum(A ∪ B)
sum(A) + sum({}) = sum(A ∪ {})
sum(A) + sum({}) = sum(A)
sum({}) = 0
Those are just some of the big ones! The list goes on: Polycode, Field, Overtone, ChucK, LuaAV, Plask, Lubyk, and many more.
In a case like this, there would (normally) only be one secret to find. (IVs, or at least the information IVs are derived from, and so forth would be stored with the data.) That doesn't necessarily make it easy to break if the key was securely handled, but it does make it catastrophic if the key is determined.

Apple's email essentially says, "we don't think they have the key, but..." And a complete investigation, along with changes to the system and an opportunity for users to change data as soon as possible under the new system, is the right way to go about it.
> How come all that spying did not identify the bombers before the attack?

Because the current measures aren't sufficient, obviously. We need more power and more tools to monitor everything all the time to prevent tragedies like this in the future. This "transparency culture" and the outmoded laws that tie our hands (when people are watching) are anti-American and cost American lives.

(Yes, I am being sardonic.)
Correct. There is no racism is South Africa.
I'm not even sure that "everything is a file" is particularly appealing as a philosophical position.
The best use case I have dreamt up so far is replacing this annoying plastic guide that broke off my shower door. I have looked everywhere but cannot find a replacement. In short, I see your point.
Maybe a riff on the burgeoning "green hat" practice of selling exploits instead of simply disclosing them, versus black hats releasing them publicly for free?
This appears to be confirmed - from https://srlabs.de/rooting-sim-cards/ :

A rainbow table resolves this plaintext-signature tuple to
a 56-bit DES key within two minutes on a standard computer.
The cracked DES key enables an attacker to send properly
signed binary SMS, which download Java applets onto the SIM.

It's particularly sad that the same key is used for the MAC in both directions (network-to-SIM and SIM-to-network).
No,because rent in Harlem (a few train stops away) requires less to live on.
As Paul Graham says, "Do things that don't scale"
In my area there is a Target and a Wal-Mart directly across the street from each other which makes for a good comparison.

The Wal-Mart has a very large surface lot that currently has a LED sign like used by interstate construction crews to display a rotating message that shop lifters will be prosecuted, has RVs and sketchy vans parked overnight and the 24/7 security roaming around feels necessary. The customers are obviously poor and unusually overweight (which is saying something for the US!). In short, it's depressing.

The Target has a parking deck because there are stores below it (a Whole Foods and some others). There aren't rent a cops rolling around, but it feels safe. Partly because parking lot is much smaller (and covered) because there are multiple floors. The customers don't all seem to be on public assistance and since it's not 24 hours there aren't suspicious characters hanging out overnight.

The difference is very stark. Wal-Mart is more like Dollar General than Target.
Vim Introduction and Tutorial - IMHO
Then let me clarify...

1) The site was down since Thursday, not yesterday.
2) You can't "overhaul" and expect to deploy "soon", so wtf are you doing apple?
3) "Soon" is not a timeline, at least not in the real world.
4) What info got owned? What could be effected?
This makes me long for a djb vs. Linus flamewar. Well, no, not really, because that would be counter-productive, but man, it'd sure be epic.
Pascal is not exotic. It's one of the foundation languages that's been around for decades. If you want to learn top-down, structured programming, Pascal is easy to learn and a perfect language for small, quick one-person projects. (It's one of the first languages I learned, and the one I remember most fondly.)

Having worked professionally with Ada for decades, I can tell you quite unequivocally that it's not fun; not in the least. The only reason to learn Ada is if you want to work on huge projects with hundreds of other programmers for defense contractors.

I've never used Cobol but what little I know suggests that it may be even less fun than Ada.

If you want to bend your mind into new shapes, Prolog would be useful. You can do things with Prolog that are much more difficult than with other languages. Prolog lets you program using the backtracking paradigm, which is useful in solving some artificial intelligence problems.

If you want to learn functional programming, Lisp is often recommended, although I would probably suggest that the Racket dialect of Scheme is a better choice.

As far as the other languages go, Forth is usually used to program microcontrollers, Fortran for mathematics heavy applications, Erlang for multicore applications.
First that's a comparison for the shopper, not the retailer (and we are discussing the retailer here).

And second, you can only buy at Costco if you need the quantities they sell. Everything you can get at Costco you can also get at WalMart, but the reverse is not the case - it's not "a few extra thing" - Costco doesn't carry a huge amount of stuff you can get at WalMart.

So for the consumer buying at Costco is exclusively about what quantity they need. (Or if they have a lot of storage space + budget to store extra.) And then they also have to go to WalMart to fill in the rest.

Or in other words they complement each other - they are only partially competitors.
The Apple Online Store is a completely separate system. Different servers, very different codebase.
Ha. That is debatable. Define "force".

At the very least, I'd say there is strong coercion. If not in favor of using names, then certainly in favor of deprecating the use of IP and port numbers (e.g., for email). Lemme guess, now you'll say "No one is forcing you to use email."
I don't entirely agree with that characterization. I believe Plan 9 offers fundamental technical advantages that would interest a small but significant and sustainable population of users and developers, and that it's not the inertia of other platforms that it can't overcome, but itself. Its user experience is utter crap, a combination of poor/lack of design and annoying idiosyncrasies by certain of its developers.

It's a research platform, and no real effort has been made to turn it into something more practical. If someone were to pick it up and turn it into something people wouldn't hate using, I think we'd see a community on par with NetBSD or OpenBSD.
The Inevitability of Smart Dust
RPG MO's first anniversary (html5 mmorpg)
How long have you had it? The rubber on mine was very sticky at first, but now it just slips off. (I've had it since November) I'm wondering if there is some type of adhesive that comes off.
Security Pitfalls in Cryptography (1998)
Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks (1997)
Usually, whatever software PC's "ship with" is crapware. Go figure.

"Crapware" is just my opinion. Although I've heard others note the same thing.
I don't believe the market is particularly good at determining value in anything other than the most short-sighted terms. I think there's a hell of a lot of teachers, social workers, and others bringing more value to the world than some software developer cranking out brochure web sites, making banner ads, cranking out another zynga game, etc or some management consultant that talks in nonsensical corporatespeak that is paying paid hundreds of dollars an hour to advise some company on its decision-making processes.

I'm not complaining, I'm the first person to admit about the inefficiencies and shortcomings of the modern non-profit industrial complex, I'm jut saying most of the world rolls their eyes when they hear people talk about how hard it is to be offered all these jobs. I chose to go into debt because I was studying interesting things (non-linear systems modeling as applies to social systems/problems) and I thought the academic credentials could provide an on-ramp to being able to work on big social problems on inter-disciplinary teams. This didn't happen, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which because social work itself doesn't value itself as a distinct and credible field the way, say, economics does.

All that being said, most of humanity still doesn't have the luxury of picking and choosing how they want to put food on the table, so it just smacks of privilege anytime I hear anyone whining of too many job offers, etc.
I like Pascal and still use it. You're basically writing your program in English, so you're not using many symbols or making any syntax errors.
Thanks for making this!

I'm wondering if you would mind elaborating on the choice of Silex over the other options out there. I've been playing a bit in this realm and would be glad to know how you came to that decision.

Thanks again