skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because murder is equal opportunity and is generally seen as abhorrent cross-culturally, while rape is skewed towards specific marginalized people and is generally seen as not a problem.

1 in 6 women are sexually assaulted. 1 in 33 men are sexually assaulted. Rapes in prison are skyrocketing vs. any other form of violent crime in this country, men or women.

Check out "corrective rape" for an example of how rape is different than murder and, perhaps, is way worse.
I have checking setup on my PayPal, maybe they should only allow direct confirmed withdrawals then, if VISA or Mastercard is the problem.
I encountered the same issue.
More like ActiveX components reborn, because these things will only run in Chrome. Much like ActiveX only ran in IE.
Mostly-unrelated question: could one build a desktop Linux distribution around Docker? Or rather, how difficult would it be? I assume OS X's application sandboxing uses a technology similar to LXC.
Do websites really change their themes often enough to warrant a subscription service?
And to be quite honest.. I know its a work in progress, but if your going to sell bootstrap themes under the notion that stock bootstrap is boring, then your site should probably have a really nice design.
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I read on my commute to/from work. Not sure about the # of books I finish a month, but I can say that I may be willing to "experiment" more with books I wouldn't have otherwise. No downside to read the first 3 chapters and then switch to another book, if you don't like it. I think, therefore, that it might be a nice DISCOVERY tool.
Cgroups and namespaces. Even though some namespaces are nested (typically, the PID namespace) why others don't need to be.

There is nothing special with nesting cgroups and namespaces from the kernel point of view. The interesting part is to work around the little details (as anybody who ran nested LXC containers will know) :-)
The vast majority are currently write in JS.
Amazon.com already has an option for renting textbooks.
Every single Nodejitsu site down ( again )
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What if there were a banking/credit card concept of "funds that are not eligible for chargeback per customer's decision"

AFAIK that's called Western Union, Bitcoin, or gold (ok, I'm kidding about gold). Dwolla tried to do this but gave up.
I like gmailunreplieds, but I wonder, is it going to tell me all emails un-replied, the most recent ones? Ones I flag for watch? I could imagine a long list of consistently unreplied to emails.
This kind of thing is easily handled with Kerberos. Joining Unix servers to AD doesn't require that you manage your entire Posix user database there. You can just use a Service Principal for this.
Wow. We'll have to grab a beer the next time I'm in town.
They would basically need to recreate the Android API in the browser if they wanted Chrome apps to be as good as native Android apps. So Chrome OS would become a virtual machine emulating the Android platform.

Right now, it's quite easy to package a web app into an Android app. But users generally dislike that.
Again, almost none of the controversy stems from the comic itself. Most of it comes from PA's reaction to their critics' feedback.
I really wish someone would make a netflix for audio-books. I'm aware of Audible and it's competitors, but they all seem to limit you to 1 or 2 books per month.
It also means that many of these apps won't be usable by anyone running Android pre-4.0. Chrome launched with GoogleTV on Android 3, and that version doesn't auto-update, so it won't get apps.
The Australian Apple leak story
That's a good question. The best answer is that the configuration needs to be a version controllable artifact just as much as your code is. Further, Windows Scheduler is known to drop jobs from time to time[1].

What was happening is that there was a job controller running on Linux that needed to contact the Windows machine and boot the job into action. One solution would have been to install a Jenkins slave instance, which turned out to be the solution eventually adopted.

[1] It's been a few years since I studied this, but it was a known issue in '08/09 or so.
So, did anyone actually read the comic? A slave is pleading to be rescued, and brings up that in addition to being a SLAVE he also gets raped.

There is nothing 'supporting rape' in the comic or the joke. Rape is used because it's literally the worst possible thing, that if even being a slave wasn't enough to make the hero care, maybe that would.

The joke is "The hero only cares about his quest, not the suffering of the victims". Slavery and rape were used because they were the two worst possible things the victims could be suffering from. How does anyone go from that to suggesting the artist is supporting rape?
Well, murder isn't generally perpetrated by one distinct group of people against another distinct group of people, so in that sense it's a universal problem. I don't think you're insensitive particularly, but surely you can imagine that jokes about rape come across significantly differently to men and women.
That's really not too different from what it takes to package HTML5 code into Android apps already, with the same result of apps with UIs that feel foreign to the system.

The trend is not towards HTML5, but actually away from it. Quite honestly the Chrome Mobile team are swimming against the tide on this.
My thought exactly! I still occasionally want to login to sites on, for example, my Android tablet. Given that Apple doesn't provide other platforms access to my data in iCloud, I find it hard to see how they would allow software on other platforms access to my login credentials.
Why hasn't this already been done by Amazon, or Google Books? I understand Prime has something similar, but only for select books. Is this purely a publisher licensing issue? If so, wouldn't Amazon/Google have more leverage to make it happen?
Yes, you can do that; I would personally ship the containers separately and provide minimal orchestration. Why? Because if you bundle multiple containers together, they will run on a single host. And if they run on a single host, it's generally easy enough to craft your own ad hoc orchestration.

But if you have multiple containers that require really weird, specific hoops to run together, it's definitely an option!
Also, as the post alludes, if they can figure out how to integrate the fingerprint sensor into the touch screen itself then they could, in theory, do the same with your touchpad on the Mac. So authenticating on your desktop would be the same as the phone assuming you were using a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad.
ACH also has chargebacks. Also, I think one of the merits of PayPal is its simplicity, so having to track the difference between "chargebackable money" and "real money" in every account would add significant complexity. ("I have plenty of money in my PayPal account, why can't I spend it at this particular merchant?" "Sorry, you have fake money but the merchant wants real money.")
Paypal is unavoidable - there are just too much more money that can be made using Paypal because so many people use paypal and have positive balances at paypal and considering "paypal money" as "cheap money" - which makes them easier to spend to buy or to donate.

Paypal is good when used for what it is good for - as a vessel to receive (and send) money easily.
But no one ever said that Paypal is a great bank to keep money at.

There are simple rules of the game to avoid disasters like that:

The rules of using Paypal: transfer paypal balance to your bank account as soon as it reaches $500 or more.
Once funds are transferred - transfer them to parallel bank account to keep them completely out of Paypal reach (as Paypal has full access to bank account connected to paypal account).

That's it.

Piling up cash at Paypal's account never been wise.
I'm saying no users care about apps, or buy phones based on apps.

*no = very insignificant
Whatever runs in Chrome. Wunderlist uses javascript, while Cracking Sands uses NaCl. Though the apps run in their own windows, opening chrome://inspect in the main Chrome window lets you examine the various open apps.
yeah, same here, I'm writing a CNC controller, the UI is a google chrome packaged app talking on USB.

it's a pain to use, with all the restriction, the buggy API (it doesn't crash, it just hangs, you can't investigate) and the browser bugs (I have to use a canary for development, I'm really far from a release).
I agree. When I first started looking into medications like Aderall, it was surprising to find how little we actually know about how medicine works.

Take the above example - we really don't know how it works. We measure the amount of dopamine/serotonin in the spine before and after you take it so we assume it increases the presence of those chemicals in the brain, but it's not really mapped out.

A lot of people have the misconception that we understand the body the way we understand other technologies. That you can balance a chemical equation and deduce how something will effect the body.

While we understand a lot, this really isn't the case. And for all practical purposes it sometimes is treated like "magic".
Why? I'd rather see them push Android as a increasingly more mature OS alternative to Windows. And you'll be able to run Chrome on Android anyway.

What exactly are you expecting to get from the mythical "ChromeOS and Android merger", when you already have Chrome for Android?

The only major things I see ChromeOS has over Chrome for Android is the security model, which will be impossible in Android, since you need native apps, too, while ChromeOS will only ever work with "web apps". Changing that could mean its security model will suffer.

And the second one is the upgrade process, for all Chromebooks, coming straight from Google, every few weeks. That's ideal, but I doubt we'll see anything like that for Android even this decade.
The "unless you use deep links" parenthetical kills the entire article. Not providing a call to action that allows your customer to make the purchase is just bothering the user to no effect!

Are people seriously sending out emails that say "This dress you might like is available in your size. Please open our app, find our search feature, remember the name of the dress we were telling you about, input your size that we apparently already know, add it to your cart, and checkout"?
"After a dozen cathartic strokes, he looked up, and there was Dave, his logorrheic caddy, yippy-yapping about: trickle-down economics and the importance of job creators (There being nothing wrong with making money!)."

Is that even a sentence?
Explain me how to do any async operation without a callback in ECMASCRIPT 5 ? You just cant. Callback is the only way to do async in JS <= ES5 .
It doesn't seem to understand valence shifters. It seems to have been trained on not good, but not bad is counted as negative too.
Lenovo’s new Yoga 2 Pro has the same flexible hinge, 3200×1800 display
DIRFS: A DragonFlyBSD File-System For Virtual Kernels
I'm saying there's more opportunity because the expensive applications built by large developer teams are still being built for iOS first. Android is still an afterthought in some app categories.

Most successful startups began with a niche. Look at AirBNB's cheap conference attendees or Microsoft's Altair owners.
Don't forget the Wankel (rotary) engine! Few people have even heard of them, and even fewer have any idea what they are or how they work. I love my dorito on a stick.
Corporate firewall when it happened to me.
I assumed it was meant to be read in Sean Connery's voice.
Note that future versions of Docker will let you ship and manipulate a group of containers as a single object. Currently this is scheduled for 0.8 (October release).
That kind of preconceived notion isn't doing you any favors. I'll agree with you most of the time (DS was actually the first, and so far only game I played with a controller), but just like keyboard + mouse is inherently a better control scheme for FPS or RTS games, a controller is simply a better option for a game like Dark Souls.

That is the beauty of combat in Dark Souls: it's not mindless button mashing, and it's not about precision aiming. It's about timing, reading your opponent, thinking ahead, and getting the right rhythm - it's more like dancing than combat, really. On top of that each weapon feels different to the point where you choose to use the weapon that feels right for you, rather than based on stats. It's a bit difficult to explain why, but that connection is a lot harder to achieve on keyboard+mouse.
I really like the polish of the site. The animations are a nice subtle touch and everything is pretty distinct enough to not be overwhelming at all on the report view.
Americans Go to Great Lengths to Mask Web Travels, Survey Finds
It's interesting how the decades of research in computational linguistics still come down to rating a single sentence + or -. And though they are getting better, the systems are still pretty open to 'obvious' attacks:

> I have seen many good movies, this one is not one of them.

> All movies, except this one, are good.

> I thought this movie was going to be bad, but I was wrong.

which rate positive, positive and negative.

I'm full of hope that the modern neural net and linear algebra type methods will eventually crack this though!
Person who uses GoDaddy is shocked when they have domain/registrar issues.

Person who knows to make backups but doesn't is shocked when they lose data and haven't made backups.

Person who uses PayPal is "shocked" when their campaign funds are seized.
It also depends which sensor version you have -- my older unit was terrible after a number of years of constant use but as soon as I upgraded to one of the newer ones, it was snappy and worked much better.
It acts like an app on ChromeOS. I have a buddy list that shows up in my dock, completely outside any Chrome window.
The geek connection is explained in the article. Penny Arcade is massively popular within the gaming community (because it's a comic strip about computer gamers), and the decisions to showcase your indie game (or not) at one of their conferences has a direct impact on sales.

I've never read Penny Arcade

Informing yourself before jumping to conclusions is more effective than arguing from ignorance. As with your question rape threats, you could perfectly easily use resources like Google and Wikipedia to get a handle on the issue.
Dave and Cam - you go!! I launched my startup in ecommerce/payments and can totally relate. Entrepreneurship is tough but the joy of doing it and success at the end is totally worth it
I feel like there are fundamental problems with MSFT (or INTC)succeeding in the mobile world

After the platform wars of 90s, the industry has scars (70% of economics went to two vendors - MSFT and INTC - Wintel)and would not want any potential repeat of the history

In many ways, ARM Holdings is anti-Intel. Same way, one can claim that Android is anti-Windows model (in many respects)

I am really curious what will happen here - and who are people in U.S. who still don't own a smartphone? (still 39% of the population - http://mashable.com/2013/06/06/smartphones-61-percent/)
I read that article with no previous knowledge of the comic or debacle in question. I thought they must have practically raped someone themselves, or paid someone to do it for them. The actual comic was actually a pretty spot on message about MMORPGs and pretty funny. I don't see any encouragement of rape or anything else worth all the apologizing. Plenty of comedians make much worse jokes, and believe it or not, comics are about comedy (and shouldn't be taken seriously).

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/11/
I found this NY Times article from a few years ago, "Embracing a Life of Solitude" (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/garden/15alone.html), a better read on the same theme.
Agrred. I want to add that this is why systems engineering is its own thing. Application developers seldom understand what's going on at the copying bytes around/syscall level.
On the other hand, "chargebacks for everyone if no evidence of goods delivered" is a global thing.

Fraud is very different from chargebacks - if you lose money in fraud, good luck getting it back from the fraudster; proper chargebacks mean you get the money back in any case, even in extreme cases if your bank goes bankrupt during that time.
>please stop attending his convention and urge other people to do so.

Isn't that exactly what the article is doing? Your comment makes no sense.
Cute, but I prefer just using Rubular to test out regex's
I've been hacking on a Chrome App for the past few weeks and have been wondering how to open a tab instead of a new window. That announcement leaves me confused: what's new exactly? Is it even possible that the new stuff has been in the docs for months?
You can find a great list of European digital rights groups on the EDRi membership page: http://www.edri.org/about/members -- EDRi itself, the European umbrella group, is in itself a really impressive organization, doing a huge amount of campaigning and advocacy in Brussels.

If you don't get to hear about their victories so much, it's partly because the US digital space is so well- (or maybe even over-) covered compared to similar battles going on elsewhere. But you can thank groups like this for stopping ACTA, software patents in Europe, as well as endless censorship proposals. They're also doing great work campaigning for the privacy rights of non US persons under the NSA revelations.

Here's how to donate to EDRi: http://www.edri.org/about

(Full disclosure: I work for EFF, which is an EDRi member)
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TokuDB vs InnoDB in timeseries INSERT benchmark (MySQL)
> The next milestone I expect to see is V8 added alongside Dalvik as a first-class runtime for Android. Maybe in Android KitKat?

Something needs to change, since the Oracle lawsuit, Java/Dalvik features have been frozen without any new update being officially communicated.
I suspect that as e-books become more popular, libraries are going to license them in larger quantities. They're a big cost saver for libraries since they take no space to store, no labor to re-shelve and can't be damaged or stolen.
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That language will be web, I suspect. Perhaps Google will offer prerolled components specifically for Android? I strongly suspect that Chrome is the platform Google wants to push for client development now, with Android essentially as a shell for it. While web may arguably be "worse" on Android now, Google has a very large, talented engineering team who could change that relatively fast. Java is a dead end at this point for them I think as far as pushing client development forward. My personal preference would be Android development via Go lang, but I don't think there's much of a chance of that.

I am not a web developer BTW, I am primarily an iOS dev who has done ~6 months of Android work.
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That concept looks good in photos and videos, but who's ever going to turn their laptop upside down whenever they feel like using the "tablet mode" - so a few times every day? I might do it in the first few days, but I think I'd get tired of doing that, and just touch the screen in "laptop mode", instead, and with that flexible hinge, the screen will wobble a lot (which is why I think touch on most laptops is a bad idea).
Yes, this is called the Nash equilibrium strategy.

Let's say for all the possible hand/board combinations and betting patterns you evaluate all of them (with current computing power this is not possible) then you can take the line that maximizes your value assuming your opponent maximizes his. Then you both end up close to even over a long period of play.

But it's even more simple than that:
Nash equilibrium strategy says that you have to bluff 1/3 of the time on the river in a certain spot and have a highly valued hand 2/3 of the time.

It doesn't matter whether your opponent calls you or not. If he calls you too much, your value hands get paid off more often. If he doesn't call you enough, he loses too much to your bluffs. If the bet is the size of the pot, then he has to call one half of the time as part of his Nash equilibrium strategy to not get exploited. If he deviates, he will lose to the bot in the long term.

And since this is limit it's actually very simple. Bet sizes in regards to the pot are tiny (1/5 to 1/10 of the pot) and there is no having to choose the bet size or allowing for players to overbet the pot (make a bet larger than the pot)

No limit is a much bigger challenge than limit for computers, because a small edge in limit is too hard to exploit since you'll get tired of exploiting a computer for pennies per hand
But couldn't it very well take more than 5 hours to set this up?
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SoundFocus is using http://hockeyapp.net/ to do distribution of betas. It seems very smooth from my experience.
1. Sorry that iOS sucks for multitasking and it's an inconvenience to use password managers on them. On Android, I tap the site, I get two notifications, one that puts my username on the clipboard, one that puts my password on the clipboard. All I do is longpress on the entry boxes and hit "Paste".

2. Fingerprint scanners are a joke. Mobile finger print scanners are a bigger joke. They're easy to defeat. They're unrevokable. They're a security nightmare. The first thing any admin would do for a corp connected device is turn that feature off and require a pin.
I'm not sure if you're too paranoid or I'm not paranoid enough, but at least in this case I'm moderately confident it's the former.
I think prior to release lots of people will lean towards dreaming about fingerprint recognition being built into the glass touchscreen, but I do not think the tech is miniaturized enough yet. I looked into this a while ago and all I could find were a handful of Polish researchers using ultrasound technology which required ultrasound guns around the edges of the glass which reflect the beams off the fingerprint:

http://www.optel.pl/article/english/article.htm
> The language isn't any better for it than any other language that supports closures

Which puts it pretty high up to begin with. Factor in the number of libraries that assume an event loop (all of them that care either way) and that are asynchronous by default because of this (most of them) and it becomes pretty hard to beat.
It's quite likely that I'm confusing "decent API" and "ease of extending and integrating" and all that gets wrapped up with my long term familiarity with Nagios.

Nagios check plugins don't have an API per se, but they have a very simple standard for exit codes to be interpreted by the Orchestration component.

Nagios reporting/alerting plugins primarily use RRD, so you always have that API to do interesting things like trend analysis.

(One theory I have is that there is a such a large and growing culture of technologists that are thinking "integration tool" but only know how to say "HTTP API")
I've been working with Scala for the last 2 years, and I also worked with C++. People claiming that Scala resembles in any way with C++ haven't worked with neither of them.

Also, when speaking of simplicity, I like languages with conceptual elegance. Scheme is simple too and that's a rather interesting example. You see, Scheme is homoiconic and has macros and continuations, a combination so powerful that you can easily build on top and efficiently use any pattern or paradigm under the sun. Also, being a Lisp, most builtins can be reimplemented in Scheme.

Now that's simple. What you're describing is actually easyness which is a very different notion. The main difference is that easiness is relative and depends on someone's own biases or limitations. The problem of course is that easy can overnight turn into hard.

Ever tried doing FP in Go? Ever thought about implementing your own data-structures? Try it.
My local library has been lending ebooks for years. Just a few days ago, they started "lending" online movies as well: http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Tips/News_flash/HelMet_libraries_...