skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rust has relatively nice FFI, so I suspect using PCRE shouldn't be too difficult.
Oh boy, a site that automatically does GIF->MP4 transcoding!

One of the nice things about imgur, though, is that once you've uploaded an image it gives you a nice handy preview page where you can do things like add a heading above the image or a caption below it, and gives you sample HTML and bbcode to copy and paste to embed the image on your own site. If you could do that, especially if the HTML code used <video> with the GIF in an <img> as fallback, I imagine that would be pretty sweet.

I agree that redditors on the whole are pretty supportive of imgur, but a good part of that is because Imgur is very trusted: it got an initial burst of trust by being (a) from reddit and (b) better than the alternatives, and it's continued to repay that trust with interest in the intervening years. That's not to say that other sites can't or won't be better, just that (as I'm sure you've found) other sites will have an awfully steep hill to climb unless they're mind-blowingly better, or Imgur somehow shoots itself in the foot (by disabling hot-linking, or requiring Facebook authentication to upload images, etc.)
So, he threatens a WestGate-style massacre if we don't let him keep spying on us?

If one was paranoid, one might begin to suspect that the terrorists and the NSA are in cahoots. Even without invoking the weirdest conspiracy of all time; one can easily detect a commonality of purpose between the NSA and the Islamic terrorists: Both benefit from terror.

I, for one, do not want to be ruled by fear. Not from the terrorists, and not from the NSA, either. The appropriate response to these exasperating cretins (the ones in both camps) is a matching set of two fingered salutes, one in each direction.
Actually, this scam deserves to be there... Has anyone mailed it to them yet?
Yeah. Hourly rates helps keep things in perspective. But hourly rates also worsens the douchiness where people start feeling that the number of hours it takes is disproportionate to the amount of work being done.

But in that case, I try to first politely explain them that estimates do go wrong, especially in the cases where I am doing things I haven't done before. I recently setup a xmpp based web chat for the first time. I communicated beforehand that I am not familiar with xmpp web clients and whether I would be able to just use a xmpp web client or I will have to code something from scratch using strophe.js or convere.js, or if it can be done at all. The task is basically "it will be done when it will be done" but I will be able to at least tell you if it can be done at all in a week.

Reasonable explanations mostly work with people who start getting restless when things take longer than expected, mainly because I too vet my clients. But the thing with hourly billing is, if the stakeholders are being unreasonable, I ask them to go eat shit and cut my losses(if any) and I don't have to deal with unreasonable expectations that comes with a fixed price bucket.
I started reading your post thinking you sounded level headed and that I'd hear you out.

I checked the link. Nope, you are scum. This is theft. Shame on you.
That's not what the document says though! Scroll to the end.

It says that one of Google's motions to dismiss has suceeded, striking out part of the case as inapplicable, and that the case is being allowed to proceed. This is nowhere near even a first ruling. And it relates to "spying" in the sense of processing email to show adverts, not the NSA.
Even with that (ab)use of the term 3D printing, I don't see the connection of on-site fabrication and water.
> When a user goes to checkout of any online store, they're not going to read everything on every page. It's a process they're very familiar with so they're going to skim and click through quickly. I know this, you know this, and JustFab knows this.

This is the key point. If I know, you know, and JustFab know, then JustFab is without doubt acting in deceitful behavior. The act of deliberately portraying a subscription as an sale, usually comes down to the FTC (and sometimes State law) under the heading of False advertising.

Going to justfab website, nowhere on the front page or in the catalog does the word "subscription" become uttered. Not even in the linked checkout images is it mentioned. Justfab could argue that "everyone knows" that a VIP membership is the same as subscription, but it would be up to them to argue and prove that.

The front page especially could also be targeted, as it states clearly that 2 pairs goes for 39.95, and uses the word "buy" to describe it rather than subscribe.
The German site is a nice example how it should be done! Kudos!
"As a workaround, use an external camera for 32-bit applications that require a camera on MacBook Air (Mid 2013) computers."

Genius.
They serve no purpose, except proving that file formats not starting at offset
0 are a bad idea.

Au contraire–they are a wonderful idea. If, say, a polyglot pdf+executable could gain code execution enough to execute itself as a binary, it could just as easily execute far more dangerous code while being far less likely to tip off an automated scanner. So it goes for many of the other stackable formats.

The benefits seem to far outweigh the drawbacks. As an example, look at the concept behind ext[234]fs migration in btrfs (which is not fixed to block 0 in a volume)–Take an ext4 filesystem, generate new inodes pointing at the original b-trees, and away you go! You get a filesystem that is valid ext4 (retaining the old data), and valid btrfs (which, being copy-on-write, doesn't destroy the old data.)
The mere fact that the costs for VIP membership are not listed in the same box as the other prices you pay sets off my internal fraud detector.

If you really don't want them to look like scammers, make sure they include the monthly price right there.
Wifi bypass?
Can anyone help me to bypass my hotel's wifi login page? I used a VPN earlier and somehow they seemed to have blocked it and they take ridiculous money for using wifi. I've tried various other VPNs but to no avail.Please help me!
IPCC climate report: humans 'dominant cause' of warming
The point is that the ratings on consumeraffairs alone are meaningless as a criticism of JustFab, given that they rank Amazon so low and 1SaleADay so high.
When you create a new repo it allows you to automatically pick a license (and even a initialise a default .gitignore file).
I would be actually ok with that provided that they offered to pay for the overtime. I think they told you the rates they are willing to pay, and left the number of hours up to you. This kind of arrangement works for me. There isn't anything shady going in the background(paying for 20 hours, expecting 60 hours). I have an option to take it or leave it, but they aren't trying to offer a "t&c applied" deal.
A rebuilt SearchBundle using ElasticSearch and Sherlock - Kunstmaan Bundles
"It isn't a scam, it is just preying on the uninformed" - a bit oxymoronic, no?
Absolutely agree with this comment. Here's the impression that I see at a "first glance" that page:

1.) The item to purchase, along with the price of the item.
2.) A bright magenta "Continue Checkout" button.
3.) An ad for an upsell on the right hand side which I'm generally not interested in. (on the right side, light grey text, etc)

Only after carefully scanning the page do I notice the following:

3.) This isn't an ad, it's actually something important for me to read.
4.) There is a tiny magenta link on the right hand side with explanation text that says to click it if I don't want to save 50%.
5.) Way down at the bottom of the page is text.

So I went ahead and did try it out myself. I borrowed a friend's laptop (that doesn't have a developer-level screen resolution). The screen resolution was 1333 x 768 and FF is maximized there. Here is what it looked like http://imgur.com/9rHhhLV

What's missing from that page, is all of the important information about the VIP program. What is present is the price of the item, the quantity and a magenta "Continue Checkout" button.

I'm definitely calling "Dark Pattern" on this one. Hiding important text off the screen, coloring the important text a light grey, even when the text is visible it is far down the right side in a small font.
I'm happy you're an investor and I hope you get everything you deserve.
ISLisp is in many ways a simplified and slightly changed/extended Common Lisp.

See for example the object system, which works mostly like CLOS.

ISLisp is clearly in the tradition of Lisp 1, Lisp 1.5, Maclisp and Common Lisp.

The spec is quite a bit shorter (134 pages) than the CL spec, but it contains also much less detail about the various constructs. It is also object-oriented, where the CL spec does also provide structures (a kind of records) and then for, say conditions, does not say if they are implemented as structures or classes. In most real Common Lisp implementations the choice has been made to implement much of the data structures as classes - like what ISLisp specifies. That means in practice in both CL implementations and in ISLisp, conditions will be classes.

As such ISLisp is a nice and relatively clean old-school Lisp.
Let's stick to sound reasoning here. Whatever problems JustFab may have, since consumeraffairs ranks amazon at 1 star and 1saleaday at 4 stars, its ratings have no bearing whatsoever on actual consumer satisfaction with JustFab.
Sounds like Slide Masters in PowerPoint. Have you given it a try lately?
But most of my coworkers want to plaster their iMac's
with to-do post-its, put up photos, store snacks/Advil
/whatever in their drawers, keep knicknacks/doodads/plants
on their desks, etc. -- personalize their space.

I get it; I'm one of those types. I do like a small amount of space that's "mine." :)

I think the answer can be as simple as giving each worker a small home "cave" and then having some shared spaces that encourage collaborative work.

Not that different (and not even necessarily more space-hungry) from what a lot of companies do anyway, really, with the old "cubicles and conference rooms" setup.

The only problems with that setup are 1) the cubicles are rarely quite private enough for real deep, contemplative work, and 2) grabbing a shared space is enough of a pain (having to reserve a conference room through the receptionist, or whatever) that it's subtly discouraged for purposes of impromptu collaboration.

I believe Pixar's offices are arranged something like this. Each artist has private space, but the common areas linking private spaces are hubs that encourage interaction and cross-traffic.
She didn't check her credit card statements in 8 months?
I expect the same amount of corrective action and measures from our "leaders" and "representatives" to this global threat as we've gotten after the reality check offered by Snowden.

The reason behind it: Our fundamental system(s) being rotten and having become unable to correct themselves.

Conclusion: Change is only coming when rich people are directly and negatively affected by the issues. As long as they can insulate themselves from the problems, change will not happen.
Exactly. I think one of the failures of the current system is that we assume that people are rational. We are not and marketing makes ample use of it.

The company is not providing a better product (shoes) or a better customer experience & support. They are not making the world a better place. Their business model is to make most of human weaknesses. To me, that is not morally right.
> They (the company and the investors) know obviously why the conversion rates are so high - Because they are very subtle-y scamming people.

Indeed. This website could be used as an example on http://darkpatterns.org/

UPDATE: I have emailed Dark Patterns, I hope they feature it on their site.
2 million likes were probably bought or click jacked :) - likes don't mean a thing anymore with the advent of click jacking
Mine 3D
no such thing as a free email account
You mean like this?

http://demoseen.com/windowpane/magister.png.html

(I'm not the creator, I just happen to share an IRC channel with them.) There is a description of how it works at http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos
The frontpage talks about buying and what price of shoes are. In plain English, this is a sale, not a subscription.

In plain English, they could had enticed people to join a subscription, which in turn would give them special deals.

That would had been plain English, but they opted for the words "buy", "all styles is ...." and so on. Typical example of misleading.
Gas stations?
> To be clear, the syntax changes in this release were very minor

Yeah, only the entire for loop syntax changed. ;)
Admob mediation not working for  24 hours
He looks pretty convinced here.

http://www.matrixpartners.com/team/josh-hannah/
That was my thought as well after seeing the list of Free APC bugs. I can see why they'd want to limit the number of bugs that you can get free hardware for (to avoid trivial pull requests like fixing spelling mistakes etc.), but there should be a few bugs between the low hanging fruit and the ones you need the actual hardware for.
They decided instead of letting people have offices
they'd spend a ton of money on construction to knock
out all of those walls and put in an open cube farm.
The level of WTF from the employees was palpable.

The "level of WTF" is something I can't understand. How was this even decided in the first place, without talking things over with the employees?

Oh, I can easily believe that they decided that without talking to employees; I just can't understand it.

Even if I was purely trying to wring productivity out of my workers and didn't give a crap about my workers' happiness, seems like pure selfishness would drive me to at least consider their feedback and find out what they needed.
> lent legitimacy of VC funding.

Does VC funding really lend legitimacy to anyone except other VCs?
> and I'm sure with some tweaking of compression options you could make a .mp4 video with higher quality and a fraction of the size of the equivalent .gif.

No tweaking needed. Test it yourself: Download any of those huge gifs and encode it to h.264 with ffmpeg defaults. With no perceptive quality loss it's immediately 60-90% smaller. And then h.265 comes along soon.
Data isn't copyrightable. The format is, but the data itself isn't. Yes, it would be nice to sanitize a list. And yes it would be nice to not actually use real names with real addresses. But no copyright violation here.
You are missing the point: it's not about recession (which is behind us by now), but about change in habbits/needs. People rely more on digital communications and less on driving.

End result - car sales stagnate.
Size Comparison - Science Fiction spaceships
Seeing the comments, I wonder if the only person he was trying to convince was himself.

From what I see in his comment, it looks quite like a rationalization attempt.
The work performed by European scientists was probably mainly funded by European taxpayers, and the same argument that American taxpayers should be able to access the work they fund can be applied to Europeans too. As an European taxpayer (and scientist, BTW), I think freeing this work from the paywalls is morally great, even though it's illegal. And paywalled academic journals should adapt or die.
Thanks for the post. My wife shops online a lot and has a new sites checkout process almost in muscle memory. After looking at the site and the screenshots here I can say that she would absolutely fall for this scam and we'd end up dealing with the hassle of cancelling things and reversing charges and all that.

Total and outright scam. I bet in a class action, the plaintiff could even make a decent RICO case out of it and triple the damages.
>Seems pretty clear to me.

I consider myself a fairly savvy internet user, and, even knowing it was there, it took me a good 20 seconds or so to find the part about a monthly charge in the image you posted.

The user attention is focused on the "continue checkout" box. It looks very similar to a part of the checkout flow at most other online retailers. Nothing in that box indicates a monthly charge. Nothing in that box even indicates that there's a choice between VIP and non-VIP. This information is relegated to the sidebar. In most websites, the sidebar contains non-critical supplementary information. Titling the sidebar with "VIP membership program" suggests to the user that the sidebar contains information on an opt-in (rather than opt-out) program that they can safely ignore if they just want to buy a pair of shoes.

It looks to me exactly like a dark pattern designed to trick the user into signing up for the monthly service without realizing what they are doing.
If you are talking about normal user space applications, any encryption key would be in RAM as well, so this would be useless.

As a more advanced example for measures against cold boot attacks, the research project TRESOR provides a patch for the Linux kernel that enables you to keep the encryption key for your hard disk in CPU registers all the time, without ever leaking them to RAM.

http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresor
I can tell you from personal experience and experience of 25-30 others here.. Its a smoke screen. The last few people who tried to do what David says to media have either been canned or now serving in timeout zone. Again the President means well but culture internally is much worse. Its a company filled with people whose skills are way past their prime trying to hold on to what little mileage left. David wants things to change but the middle layer won't. More often than not they are the ones who make calls on day to day operations. Many senior execs who tried to get shit done were moved out by these politicians. Even today diplomacy/politicking is valued in the company over talent or Data or logic/reasoning.

as far as topic at hand is concerned, MR from Braintree will be working closely with DM and directly. So expect only good things. Buying Braintree is a business play. (Just check out their numbers and clientele). PayPal can try to get clients like AirBnB or Uber but those startups would try every other bush before PayPal.

Hope this helps

P.S: I work for PayPal and probably one of the strong proponents of it. The above opinions are purely mine. and No i have not been canned or put in a timeout box.. yet!
Dear Apple,

Do not ruin the Macbook.

That is the last thing from you that I still have lots of respect for!
Good. Google shouldn't be able to even "analyze" private communications and data, at the very least not without the user's explicit consent (opt-in). Being in the ToS doesn't count since nobody reads those.

Maybe if they aren't allowed to do it anymore, they'll finally take requests to encrypt their services end-to-end seriously. Because right now they probably aren't even considering encrypting Hangouts if that means they can't analyze it for ads anymore, which is just sad and frustrating.
> In particular you can get your shoes for past credits.

Still a scam. OP's girlfriend (and probably many others) didn't know about this deal and didn't (knowingly) consent to it.
> The reason the data is not released immediately to the public is both understandable and frustrating: scientists around the world compete for control of Curiosity's precious mission time.

The same applies for the giant telescopes (KECK, VLT, ALMA, etc). A scientist applies for some time doing observations with the telescope, and gets exclusive access to the data for 2 years before the data gets released to the public.

But I agree with you too, all scientific data that is acquired with taxpayer money should be released to the public at once.
I've been trying to get my own employer to get SSD's
for everyone and they're still dragging their feet.
It's so frustrating because I know this is costing
the business money.

Amazingly, I had good success "converting" my company to SSDs /because/ they're cheap and drag their feet on tech upgrades.

They're a very traditional and somewhat penny-pinching company in an industry that has been slowly shrinking and consolidating in the past few decades.

Once I showed my boss how fast my SSD-equipped laptop booted, he was a convert.

These days, he's using SSD upgrades to squeeze fresh life out of old desktops and laptops. A 128GB SSD doesn't cost much more than $100, and dropping one into a 5 year-old laptop or desktop makes it feel fast as hell again. Management likes spending $100 on a new drive better than spending $700 on a new machine, and users like the fact that the don't have to reinstall all their stuff.
Noted on the relevant issue: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/2072#issuecomment-252...
Would be nice, if the dick had a name....
IANAL but the Court seems to have granted Google's motion to dismiss only for claims under CIPA Section 632 while denying it for all the other sections.

> the Court hereby GRANTS Google’s Motion to Dismiss with
leave to amend with respect to Plaintiffs’ CIPA section 632 claims

This is Section 632:

> Section 632 prohibits unauthorized electronic eavesdropping on confidential conversations. To state a claim under section 632, a plaintiff must allege an electronic recording of or eavesdropping on a confidential communication, and that not all parties consented to the
eavesdropping.

However, the Court has not granted Google's motion to dismiss claims related to other sections:

> The Court DENIES Google’s Motion to Dismiss with respect to all other claims.

So one of the sections that still stands is Section 631:

> Section 631 prohibits wiretapping or “any other unauthorized connection” with a “wire,
line, cable, or instrument.” The California Supreme Court has held that section 631 protects against three distinct types of harms: “intentional wiretapping, willfully
attempting to learn the contents or meaning of a communication in transit over a wire, and
attempting to use or communicate information obtained as a result of engaging in either of the
previous two activities.”

Which probably explains the title. I still don't agree with the title though.
Why bother splitting? Just give a full month off. Use it as you see fit. Spent all of it and now you're sick? Tough luck.

I'm sure there's labour laws that mandate the split. I just can't help but feel that nearly everyone would rather take a guaranteed month of time for "whatever comes up" than "two weeks vacation" and "better make sure you (and your family) aren't sick for more than two weeks annually." Just as I can't help but feel that employers actually prefer the split because dealing with the "'work the system'" ones is cheaper than just treating every employee like an adult by giving them more than a pittance of time away from the office.
"Free Is The Most Expensive Price"
or another popular expression on these days:
"If You're Not Paying for It, You're the Product"
Very well said. I agree entirely - there should be a concrete change as a result of this thread. It's impossible for a reasonable person to read the opinions of the well informed people here and continue to think that everything's A-ok. This is an opportunity to prove your ethical bona fides, jdh.
That looks better, but doesn't mention that the membership comes with a monthly fee. Pretty sure it is illegal in Germany.

I think the law in Germany even states what kind of text is appropriate on the "buy now" button.
The businessmen's guide to open source licenses
You really should not have to find people working at GitHub on other parts of the internet for something like dealing with copyright issues if you're not the copyright owner because (I suspect) copyright owners will have no trouble getting GitHub to (at least) listen to their complaints.