skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a restaurant who doesn't want your reservations system gamed with, yes.

Scalping reservations isn't innovative, it isn't clever. It's just plain old douchebaggery. Don't be a dick, and its not a problem.

EDIT: With regards to bringing the right card, concerts and other businesses that sell tickets online with a will call option require the same card in person that you purchased with online. I don't believe it to be a burdensome requirement.

EDIT 2: @jack-r-abbit: Okay, how about requiring an Apple ID to make the appointment? And limiting the amount of appointments you can make online? Low hassle yet still effective.
Never said they did. Looks like you should brush up on your reading comprehension.
The future of HTTPS on Wikimedia projects
Is interesting that the FBI have said there was a police visit from specific departments, although those police departments themselves are dancing round the issue.

I wonder if the police misrepresented themselves.

“They were officers from the Nassau County Police Department who identified themselves as such,” said Kelly Langmesser, the FBI spokeswoman. But mysteriously, neither the Nassau nor Suffolk County Police would confirm their involvement in the investigation Thursday afternoon. An officer from the Nassau County Police repeatedly refused to even give her first name; a Public Information Officer in Suffolk County said she would comment when she had more information.
It made me instantly close the tab.
Any evidence or even subjective reasoning why I'd believe Apple is any different from any other company? In the absence of evidence I wouldn't accuse Apple of anything but only a fool would give Apple a pass on something that "every company [supposedly] does".

Except in this case I don't think this claim was true at all.
Behold: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&sortby=p...
Domain Names Up For Grabs
Some countries do a "penalty points" system where you get (say) 2 points if you're speeding, and if you get (say) 12 points, you're off the road for (say) 2 years. Your proposal of "let people break the law" means that you'd run out of ambulance drivers.

You then have the problem of whether someone can be fired as an ambulance driver if they don't speed. Many countries employment law says that you can't fire someone if they refuse to break the law for the job. So what happens there?
Like this? https://www.taskrabbit.com/blog/taskrabbit-news/after-nearly... People ate that up in gulps.
It's supposed to be an em-space, not two normal spaces, but that is hard to to in ASCII.
Microsoft Needs To Wake Up
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I know a lot of people in their 30s and 40s who don't have a college degree. They make no less and have no fewer job offers because of it.

Go to school because you enjoy learning something(1), not for better job offers. In the technical realms nobody is going to care about that. It's more important to show that you can do good work.

(1) and honestly even if you want to go to school just because you're curious about a subject I'd recommend checking out MOOCs like Coursera and Udacity first.
While we're at it, change the leap-year scheme: every 4th year except every 128th year. It's both simpler and much more accurate than the Gregorian calendar, with bonus binary-number geekiness.
No love like developer love
Immortal Truth
They don't need to ask google for anything sent in plaintext, they can get that at the ISP.
Who the hell auto-plays music in web-sites? what is this 1999?
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Eg. http://www.trifacta.com/ founded by the guys who started DataWrangler :)
Reminds me of "the Phantom of Heilbronn", and alleged female serial killer the German police used DNA to link to more than 40 crimes. It baffled the investigators for more than two years until they found out that the DNA was from pollutions in the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
Maybe not and maybe yes?? What a stupid title. There is basically nothing the writer cites to absolutely negate the claim that a Google search possibly resulted in a visit from the police?

She searched for pressure cookers, and police came to her house asking her, among other things, whether they own pressure cookers and if they know how to make a bomb out of pressure cookers. Those are the facts.
It don't, I just wanted to mention that.
A picture of consumer-grade fireworks posted on July 4??
Google 'Pressure Cookers' and 'Backpacks,' Get a Visit from the Cops
I'll try to address some of the questions and issues raised here; the Mill has been more fully discussed on comp.arch, and there is more material at ootbcomp.com/docs. Sign up at ootbcomp.com/mailing-list to get announcements of additional videos, white papers etc as they become available.
God Bless Russia.
Recent UIUC Alum.

I'm not sure if this will sway your decision, but a lot of lower level CS classes there have "proficiency exams". These exams allow you to test out of certain classes, so if you don't want to take the intro to CS you can just get the credit by passing the test. This could cut your time at school from 4 years to 3 and possibly even 2 if you're smart about it.
I know about basic data structures and know about order of growth. That (and intelligence) will get you through most CS-y interview questions.

Otherwise, the reason I get these offers is because 1) I'm skilled in something that is in particularly high demand (Ruby), so people are more willing to excuse inexperience (but I get rejected often anyway), and 2) I apply to a lot of companies/startups - you only need to have a good day once.
You're also aware that Twitter could at anytime disallow your use of their entire API ecosystem, correct?
The only exception to that rule that I personally make is indenting in-line comments; I've found that some comment-heavy code benefits from alignment, but multiparagraph alignment is a futile and counterproductive goal, so the tab mark is a good fit.
In case you were wondering, that stock picture of fireworks was posted on July 4th.
I have a feeling most people who are up in arms about this haven't been visited by the police because they live in a bad neighborhood and "there were reports of X" happening in their apartment. When their neighbor was wrong, or the dispatcher had the wrong number, or whatever.
Data isn't "locked up" in CSV, rather it is available in CSV.

CSV is one of the most open things possible.

As a programmer I do a lot of one-time makeshift data reports for other people, and I always use CSV (or precisely, tab separated) because that's what every program happily emits and consumes. If it does not, it's trivial to transform thanks to UNIX sort, awk and uniq.
The Mill compiler is a conventional three-phase tool. The first version used the EDG front end and home-grown middle and back ends, but we are converting to a clang front end, LLVM middle, and home-grown back end. All optimization is done in the middle end; the back end (the "specializer" runs at program install (or load) time and does only scheduling and emit.

All Mill family members have a common architecture, that the middle end knows about. ME output (specializer input) is a complete CFG and DFG for the abstract Mill. The specializer first replaces operations that are not present on the target with calls to functions; on a Mill function call is semantically equivalent to an op like an add.

There is no instruction-selection phase. The Mill in general has only one way to implement any given source-level action, and the correct (abstract) code has already been selected by the ME. The BE does instruction scheduling, introducing spill where necessary, using standard schedule algorithms long used for in-order machines and VLIWs. The result may be listed as assembler source or emitted as binary. The schedule algorithms have quadratic worst case but in practice are linear. The generated binaries are cached in the load module, so subsequent runs skip the specializer step.

Current status is that work on the new (LLVM-based) compiler is on hold while we complete the patent filings, and the old one is out of date already. When the filings are in we hope to make the tool chain and sim available on-line for those who want to play. We could do that now with the assembler and sim, except that the asm instruction set exposes some things that the patents aren't in on yet. Grrr - patents!
Does that lessen the probability that someone saw it on Facebook and called the police?
So, your first possibility is incorrect.

The second is worth investigating, and in the interest of teaching others I'll provide a helpful link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy

It's unfortunate, because that article and the base rate article have some contradictory conclusions--but, the linked article shows its math.

What's really troubling me here though is that you seem unwilling even as a thought experiment to entertain the notion that this sort of behavior could be purposeful by the government. In many, many prior discussions you've held this view, you've advocated for stripping rights, you've advocated for screwing over people scraping public unauthenticated APIs, you've advocated a great many things against the general notion of the public good, of privacy, and of exploration.

Perhaps come down here and--in the name of intellectual honesty--try and understand what exactly has so many of these people bothered. As it is, due to your choice of message and presentation, you often come off as at best aloof and at worst willfully ignorant.
Why then do you do it?

For kicks?
Nice, now it makes the whole thing even worse, we have police scaring people because their 4th July fireworks.
1959?? In Brazil there were no three-point seatbelt on any car until the 90's!

I wonder why, since all our cars were from international big companies (Ford, Volks, Chevrolet...).
They were locally produced, as we had a very closed market, but the technology was available for the big companies to introduce them here. Maybe it was cheaper to built the two-point one and as the brazilian customers didn't have to know that a three-point version was even available, no one complained.
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You'd think so, but they take 2-10s to recover from a photo and you ... don't. Clearly there's some room for optimization there. :)
This is a problem that only "walled garden" languages like Java and JavaScript would ever even have in the first place. If you're not trapped in a gilded cage, you just print raw bytes directly to a socket and then read data back the same way. The only concern is byte ordering, which is easy.

Regarding this specific approach, "only 20% overhead" sounds pretty good, but base 64 encoding has "only 33% overhead", is completely general, and likely already has faster implementations than this.
Huh? they're running a story that implies that the feds or local police can monitor Google searches without evidence, they are cynically exploiting recent headlines to pull traffic. If you want the press to be taken seriously on serious matters they need to get this shit together.
Sure, if you use a portable set of primitives you only need to understand how and when to use those primitives and only the relaxed memory model they are based on. But even that is a lot to ask for, and too much for many programmers.

And this particular solution only works inside the Linux kernel and only using GCC. It doesn't matter what we think a sane compiler-writer or a sane computer-architect would do. Many times we just have to live with the choices other people made.

I think you got something wrong here. Architectures with strong memory ordering put more burden on the hardware and less on the programmer. That was the point I was trying to make: weak memory ordering is not worth it, because it is better to let the hardware do the hard work and not to burden the programmer with it.

Linux may work well with relaxed memory ordering, but that does not come for free, a lot of people had to understand first, what a relaxed memory model is, etc.
I've got one of these chargers:

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Battery-Charger-2100mAh-Includ...

+ bought an extra battery (for a total of 3 batteries for ~$30).
I don't see how it could. Tail doesn't use more memory as it reads more lines. It sets up a fixed-size buffer and then continually re-uses it. Yes, "tail -f" could be a long-running process, but its memory usage should remain constant over its entire lifetime.
A New Version of Google's PageSpeed Insights Has Just Gone Live
The abusive father should definitely be responsible for being abusive and if that abuse breaks some type of law, then they should be punished for their actions. But should the father be responsible for every bad thing their kid does as an adult?

If adults who were abused as children become alcoholics, and then they drove drunk and killed someone, it's the kid who should be arrested and not the father.

That's not to say that we shouldn't have support systems in place for people to go get help, but moral responsibility has a clear line to me.
Instead of drawing the most likely conclusion, she instead blames this on local Long Island cops MONITORING HER GOOGLE SEARCHES.

Any hard sources on this besides this guy blabbing off and making more drama?
check it out - discuss future of chromecast and how google is killin it.
This one sounds almost like peephole optimization of sorts. How exactly is that "clever"?
Base rate fallacy
In terms of square millimeters the caches dominate chip area. In terms of fab yield (which is the cost driver) they do not, because caches are regular structures that are built with built-in sparing.

If there's a bad gate in the cache then the fab process simply uses one of the spare cells inside; the user never realizes that a spare has been used. If there's a bad gate in the core proper then that chip is gone, lowering the fab yield.

The same can be done at the level of other regular structures. Your two-core chip is really a four-core chip with a couple of bad cores. That's one of the reasons why the vendors are so eager to convince you that multicore is the Pearly Gates - it increases their effective yield.
Re cache area:

To a first approximation, power cost of a cache is constant independent of size, whereas core power is superlinear. Consequently the limiting factor for increasing cache size is latency, not power. See ootbcomp.com/docs/encoding for how the Mill doubles instruction cache size without increasing latency.
This is an issue we've been aware of for some time.

This isn't quite as easy to do as you might think however. While the cost might be low to run the ads, typically most RTB ad networks do not actually allow you to use external ad tags that can call arbitrary JS.

That said, some do allow this (like the one the speaker used), and the ones who don't police their JS ad tags are going to be wide awake tonight thinking of how they can.
Politics is a life-consuming activity. It's not one you can make a significant difference in by taking a few minutes or hours every once in a while. (Sure, you can send a letter or call a relevant elected official, and by all means do so, but that's not the level of "get involved in politics" that will actually get non-trivial things changed unless there's already a strong push to do so, led by people who have more time.) Unless you're prepared to spend your life tilting at your chosen windmills, "get involved in politics" is not really an option.
Both you and Chuck see this situation as naturally arising out of some aspect of open source software. I see this as being simply a side-effect of particular compiler developers enjoying optimization more than portability. Couldn't it just be priorities on these teams that led them to this situation, without it being some kind of indirect result of some over-arching political/economic phenomenon?
1. It's not silly to think that. See: Game Industry and Game Blogs.

2. You rarely hear about journalists getting blacklisted from events because a. the general public rarely cares or b. if they do they call the journalist, a 'whiner'.
It's certainly possible: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/09/21/crime.html
Hi Guys. This is Fast Camera. I'm callin' out SnappyCam!

Are you up for an old fashioned DUEL to see which app can shoot the most "native camera quality" 8MP images per second in 60 seconds without crashing?

On an iPhone 5 with all apps closed, SnappyCam manages to save only about eight 8MP per second over 10 seconds on average and loses the other 12 per second. And these are not 8MP images at least as far as comparing resolution against the native camera app or Fast Camera. All of this technical discussion sounds great but is anyone actually testing this like I am? Just download a stopwatch app with hundredths of seconds and burst for 10 seconds. You'll see. Then shoot something with a LOT of detail at 8MP in both SnappyCam and Fast Camera.

Fast Camera is capable of 10-12 native quality 8MP images per second (more than SnappyCam) We throttle it back on purpose.

And what's with camera-shutter.caf John? ;)

Michael Zaletel
Founder, i4software
Fast Camera, Vizzywig, Video Filters
LOL, thanks for leaving that! I'd already thought "the poor bastard" when I'd only gotten as far as "SOAP".
Yes 10 cans for the complex, which consists of ballpark 50 units. Awareness is definitely a huge part of it - a lot of once "progressive" ideas like recycling and sexual equality was taught to us as kids, and the kids ended up educating the parents.

Your point is valid; when you "abstract" away recycling to a centralized plant, the individual most likely won't consider the environmental impact of his purchasing decisions and habits nearly as much.
Strictly speaking, he never claimed you did.
No - AdWords is bidding on search and only allows text in ads. He is most likely using one of the less-policed RTB trading desks.
>It's absolutely the fault of the ad network/ad buying tool/DSP/whatever.

So which is it? They generally know whose fault it is, but not whose fault it is (person/team/some developer) is what they probably meant.
I don't see how this is busting her story much. The FBI confirmed that cops went to her house, just not FBI agents, but local ones. Still, if the FBI knew, then clearly it was a joint operation in some way. Then, the WP says that the reason they went could be something other than Google searches, and instead something that they posted on Facebook or a jumpy neighbor (although that's doubtful because they never actually bought any of the stuff, just search the web for it). But does it really matter? Whether the feds got the info from Google or Facebook, it still appears to be the case that this family did research online about various items, and then cops went and knocked on their doors. No actual crime, no presumption, purely based on search terms. That's still pretty ridiculous.
> There have not been hundred-thousand-death terrorist acts.

Little Boy and Fat Man would like to talk.
Ahh but it is exactly when we are celebrating our superior freedoms and democracy (which the whole world is naturally jealous of) that the terrorists will attempt to strike a cowardly blow at those very same things we are celebrating. Therefore any and all expressions of said celebration are veeery suspect indeed.
It's sounding more and more like the cops were just following up on a "see something, say something" report from the public.
Police were busy that day.
It means showing people not living in a monogamous stable relationship dedicated to upbringing of their kids, that it is "normal". I'm not a homophobe, so I guess I won't fuck off, asshole. I have nothing against gayness, I am actually a bit bi, also unmarried. However, I know that if everyone lived the way I do, this society would be MUCH, MUCH, worse off. Therefore I would not advertise my lifestyle and tell people it is okey, and they should live it.
To quote this little gem from Ghostbusters:

"I've worked in the private sector... they expect results!" - Ray Stantz
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Whatever you do, don't search online ... for anything ...
Not really an issue - Google doesn't allow you to add arbitrary JS that other sites use to their tag.
I knew Michele a long time ago when she blogged regularly about politics on A Small Victory (asmallvictory.net). Back then she was very sensationalistic, and would go out of her way to artificially inflate or dramatize stories. I'm not surprised she drew the conclusion that the visit was due to Google searches; I also wouldn't be surprised if she intentionally inflated the story, she has always had a talent for getting attention.

Also worth noting. She was a pretty loud blogger post 9/11 and during the Iraq invasion. She ran a very popular Iraq invasion blog, lauded for updating about the invasion faster than the mainstream media. It would not surprise me in the least if the Feds have her on some list or another (not saying that's ok mind you). The Washington Post article about this talks about whether she'd be on a watch list, and Michele talks about searching for how to cook lentils and ending up on a watch list ("This is where we are at," Catalono wrote. "Where you have no expectation of privacy. Where trying to learn how to cook some lentils could possibly land you on a watch list."). That part is Michele knowing exactly how to craft a sound bite for media consumption. I suspect this story is demonstrating a real abuse by the terrorism obsessed police / feds, and the rest is Michele throwing fuel on the fire for the headlines.
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I'm curious... when is one "ready" for SICP?
Nor have there been reports to support her claim. As to the police visit, there are plenty of other speculative reasons for it: https://plus.google.com/112961607570158342254/posts/FWAVRVaN...
I liked the original idea for this better (when the GiantBomb podcast pitched the idea of doing this for Facebook friends) but I'm just glad to see somebody implemented some form of this.
> There are protocols on the clearing of desks at the end of the day, with particularly sensitive documents being locked in special cupboards

FWIW, this sort of thing is standard in every classified facility in the US. It would be messed up if they didn't do that, it is just basic opsec.
I wonder what the credit card ownership rate is in China
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I meant, a legitimate customer -- one who has no link to scalpers -- might forget to bring the proper credit card.
This is in reference to HN item - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140545 right? So is the question why are police visiting her house about fireworks, or why she thought they connected her pressure cooker and backpack Google searches? Or is the question about why are news establishments doing little to no fact checking before they publish something?
If I were to build a MVP for any type of data charting or visualization or analysis the first data format that I would think of supporting would be CSV.
Agreed.

I do want to know what network it is - probably a fly-by-night outfit.

We can allow HTML/JS in our ads because we inspect them and only allow direct references (no external libraries) in-ad.
My city (Oslo) has reduced some of the cans by having an optical sorting robot at the garbage processing facility. You can use one can for general, biodegradable and plastic by using different colored bags.