skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that's quite the point. It makes you actually question whether what you're doing could possibly be construed as evil. Ridiculous, yes, and legally troubling, but thought provoking for sure.
I guess everyone is getting tired of the Arrogance and heavy-handedness of the NSA.

Arrogance - We (NSA) will sabotage, undermine and subvert legitimate efforts at security because we need the ability to Snoop on everybody. Thus making the Internet Unsafe for everybody else as well only to suit their paranoid needs.

Heavy-Handed: We will store all communications that we get get our hands on either directly or thru foreign lap-dog governments(Five eyes). The rights of Americans other nationals and everybody else be dammed.

About time some one held their feet to the fire for this nonsense. Snowden should be given the Nobel Prize for Human rights (A new category that needs to be set up)
Yes I think so because they specify that they use the photo and name that you use on G+ so I think you're good.
Ask HN: How do I make them pay up?
I had a contract with a client and had a sub-contractor. Client pays me, I take a cut and pay my sub-contractor - nothing strange here.

My client wanted to pay my sub contractor directly, so I worked it out with the sub contractor to pay me a "finder's fee". Basically, the same end result.

It's has been going well for several months but now the sub contractor is trying to renege and not pay. What should I do?

I have been open with everyone and all parties involved know that I am making money on this deal. I could go to the client and let them know that sub contractor is not paying me but that feels unprofessional and could potential hurt the sub contractor's reputation i.e. lose-lose for everyone involved.

I am extremely disappointed by the sub contractor's unprofessional and unethical attitude.

Any suggestions on how I can handle this situation?
What you mean like how people publish negative reviews right on the restaurant's Yelp profile?
IPhone 5S apps are twice as likely to crash
WebRTC screensharing for Chrome
Self-serving? Am I or anyone I know on the board of a corporation making morally reprehensible decisions? (Hint: no)

My point about shared/abstracted responsibility wasn't meant to defend or absolve anyone personally, but if you ever ask yourself how [CEO or board member of your favorite villainous corporation] sleeps at night, that was an attempt to explain it in broad terms. If responsibility is seen as shared, humans seem to have an increased psychological ability to internally deflect blame from themselves, in addition to the perception in some cases that they personally will not be punished or fined, rather the abstract corporation will. This in turn reduces the disincentive for behavior that they might not otherwise engage in.

If you'd prefer to believe instead that the problem is that people are running said corporations are simply evil to the core, feel free, but what do you plan to do about that? I tend to think any attempt at a solution should start with reducing the effect of corporate money on legislation and other areas of politics.
Modern x86 chips generally allow the onboard cache to be used as RAM during early boot for the same reason, too.
Could you fingerprint the browser to determine how many users are using the Tor Browser? Obviously this will miss the people who just use a normal browser through Tor. Or ask onion.to to log how many requests they are forwarding to you. Although, this will miss any other proxying service that happens to be running.
Of course, if backgroundhost.com/{slug} is OK then this wouldn't be an issue. I could use a shorter domain name too as long as it makes sense since it is CNAMEd to the CDN anyways.
The Pascagoula Abduction
Yes, it's been studied. You rapidly run into diminishing returns.

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1205/1205.1871.pdf

Here's a good thread discussing this:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.arch/number$...
It was VISA et al's way of taxing people purchasing with cash. They had contract terms that wouldn't let you sell at a discount when the customer paid in cash; under Obama the federal government finally banned them, and several states had already done so, but I think usually only for gas purchases.

I think the contracts (or consumer inertia) still make stores advertise at the credit-card price, and the different price for cash has to be advertised as a discount.
Former NY Fed employee sues over Goldman Sachs collusion
But I suspect we are mainly talking about the dominant use case the past decade and future decade: mobile and web back-ends.
And which was among the first additions to this list, because it truly is an awesome read !
I used to have the same reaction when stumbling upon lists like this. But it has never proved to be a great idea. You get easily overwhelmed by the amount and variety of content available. Before even starting reading one of these books, you need to filter them by topic, by scope, by usefulness, and by quality. You inevitably end up starting none of them.

I prefer focusing on one subject or programming language, search the internet for feedbacks and reviews, select the one book (free or not) that fits my needs and read that one. I'm consequently more informed about what my further needs are: do I want to learn more about this programming language? Or about a different but complementary one? Or do I need to reach for a more language-agnostic topic?

It's the usual "quality over quantity" issue, that prevents yourself from taking no decision at all when facing too many options.
Cash flow is the major priority for most merchants. You wouldn't get 0 rates anyway, and the majority would rather pay 2.9% instead of 2% + 3 month extra delay; especially growing businesses - for a stable business you can plan for $x being frozen; but with quick growth if you're getting 'old&small' revenue while having 'new&increased' expenses for the goods; you'd run out of cash in no time.

Don't compare the cost of money with a CD rate, but with the expected ROI for VC investors - you won't get cheap funding in the amount you need; intentionally shortening your runway by 3 full months will bite a noticeably hole right in your equity.
This was default off for my paid G Apps account with a regular G+ Profile.
Agreed, and it could effectively counter the increasing concentration of wealth that increasing automation in a pure capitalistic society would inevitably bring.
Oh ok, just curious! I didn't really understand why the event would cost so much money? Wasn't the whole spirit of the homebrew club kind of antithetical to an expensive event? Are people in the club asking for money to attend? Definitely not trying to take away from what you're doing because I think it's really cool, just wondering.
> It is my company, my private property. I should be able to do as I please with it as long as don't mess with other's freedom, this is a constitutional right in the declaration of human rights, private property is sacred.

No you should not, and no, that's really not what the declaration of human rights is about.

When you create a french company your create a “personne morale”, a legal entity, an entity on its own, that is viewed more like a living entity and not like an inanimate object. You do have rights on this entity, but you do also have obligations, not the least of which is to follow the law.

So no, just because you want to you can't employ underage kids for instance.

And just because you want, you can't just fire people at will without reasons.

One could argue that laws could be improved, but that's really not the point you're making.
Javascript is a fixed point
Awesome! The first thing I saw in autocomplete was my book. I assume people are searching for discussion groups, not bootleg copies.
I fear you are confusing systems programming language and operating systems programming language (or conflating).

Go is a great systems programming language especially for modern concurrent systems — http servers etc. It talks to C easily so you can integrate all kinds of system level code into your apps. Having a Garbage collector makes it trivial to write long-running daemons.

Modern operating systems have traditionally been written in C (and C++) plus some assembly language code. D can do everything C & C++ can do but it would still no doubt need the assembly language code.

Go lacks manual memory management. Some say that this would be a barrier for writing an operating system while others don't. The fact that you would have to use some assembly language code to talk to the hardware and you might need to add some manual memory management via assembly language code. After that I'm sure the garbage collector would make the OS more reliable and potentially a little quicker in places.

Either way I don't see why Go gets criticised for needing a bootstrap layer when operating systems written in C and C++ also need this.
One of the reasons I Am Not A Lawyer is this:

If the business is allowed to send its customers a form letter telling them that hey has given the master key to the government, I would understand the position that the interests of the other customers were reasonably safeguarded.

If, for example, one of them was discussing some business and then suspicious trading occurred, she might ask whether a government employee abused the master key and was doing some insider trading on the side.

But if the business is not allowed to tell the customers that their privacy has been compromised, I would not want to give the government the "benefit of the doubt" about their use or abuse of a master key.

Trust, but verify, as they say. How does one verify when these security letters are handed out like candy?
I would think it would take an incredible amount of bad PR for them to stop doing this willingly. The PR would have to be bad enough for them to be able show they are losing money over time using this method.

I can't see that happening.
It doesn't have autocomplete... I bet your browser autocompleted on the field named q
One of these languages is not like the others.
Serious question: can you still use Google Hangouts -- the video chat -- after deleting G+? It's the one G+-related service I use.
But you know that the groups that are continually pushing for expanded minimum wages, and other benefits would never let this happen. They'd find some paternalistic way of controlling the money, providing housing etc. And we have the last fifty years of The Great Society to show how well that works in fighting poverty.
Do I have to make a plus account to opt out?
"Note: the first company to market a USB stick with a light that indicates a write operation -- not read or write; I've got one of those -- wins a prize."
No, I think people understand that. They just don't care, and find it amusing that other people do care/must care.

Consider it an "anti-'people who take licensing seriously' license".
Google Glass hack displays GTA minimap
That's correct on the ACH bit.

In so far as large use cases, they have some really good traction in the bitcoin market. I believe that they are the go to for transferring USD in and out of MT. Gox.
I checked it out after you recommended it in another thread. Its great. Any other recommendations ?
I would be interested in opting in to share more data if I get a cut of revenue.
> We're doing pretty good here if a poor person is implied to have a house worth insuring ...

Basically I agree, but for many people, buying a house on a mortgage is a modern kind of economic slavery. Young people often don't get the big picture, and sign a mortgage or two before appreciating the meaning of compound interest.

House loan, car loan, a child or two, and your life is over. And there are forces in society who think that's a perfect outcome -- married people with these kinds of obligations have no political power or options -- they're doing all they can just to stay afloat.

>> rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is backed up by simple economics.

> It may be but it definitely is not backed up but what you said.

But it is. In a mathematical sense and in the long term, the distinction between rich and poor is a delicate balance, teetering on the fulcrum of compound interest. A few bad choices that at the time may seem trivial, like accepting an unfavorable mortgage rate, over time can decide your economic fate.

Also my point about credit cards -- if you run a perpetual balance on a card, you're in essence loaning money to rich people. Over time these and other similar factors cause a widening chasm between rich and poor.

There really is some substance behind this folk saying.
incentive to work

That's my other concern. $2800 a month isn't enough for me personally to be able to stay home and play video games all month, but it might be for a fair number of people. And they wouldn't be contributing much to the economy (other than to the makers of Cheetos snacks.)
Ask HN: We Built a Micro Donation Platform. Now what?
We are a team of four, who are still finding a "Idea that really really solves people's problems" and we found one. In Nepal (a developing country), there is no any payment/funding/donation platform yet - because of restriction from Central bank. We built something like "Kickstarter" but for social good cause, and for microfunding.

We want to extend it globally, and need suggestions and information from fellow hackers around the world about it. What exactly we need to know is - do other telecom companies provide their SMS gateway integration, and reduction in mobile phone's balance credit like they do in Nepal?

Here we have several services that deduct from NPR. 1 to NPR. 3,300 for a service. We can use that to let people donate for good causes. We'd love to hear from you guys, esp. if you have already developed a crowd funding platform, or worked on similar ideas.

We are totally confused about whether limiting our service within Nepal or try to extend globally.

PS: The platform was developed in a Hackathon organized by Geeklist. #Hack4GoodKTM

Here is the Geeklist achievement card:
https://geekli.st/njsubedi/we-built-sms-based-micro-donation-platform-at-hack4good-02-kathmandu

Here is the prototype app:
http://www.donate4good.net

And here is the simple documentation:
http://git.geekli.st/public/projects/njsubedi/donate4good

We'd really appreciate any suggestion or complaints.
Predicted market correct last 5 days in row
I was unaware of red boxing. Had to look it up. Pretty neat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_box_%28phreaking%29
It's good that they use flexible funding and will get their funds regardless if the goal is reached or not. Very ambitious goal indeed.
Friedman is a hack ignored by anyone with half a brain. Same with Ayn Rand. They say incredible things, if you don't spend much time thinking about it.
> living off the land and hard work at home

> go back to work

It sounds to me like they're working pretty hard already.
Its pretty obvious that the best drivers would go to the biggest teams with the most money to pay.
Why 'on month'? You'd get a 1% discount at most; if you 'buy' that discount by freezing all funds for the whole chargeback period (90-120 days) then it's 3-4% APR.

[edit] the thinking is, if your revenue is $100/year, then in (A) scenario with higher rate you pay $1/year more in fees; in (B) scenario with delayed funds you need a permanent loan of ~$25 which will cost you more than that unless you can get an APR of lower than 4%.
Latin alphabet's main problem is that it doesn't have any fricative consonants (sh ch j...) so every language has to roll out their own in incompatible fashion leading to confusion. Languages using alphabets specially tailored for them have much more consistent spelling.
Don't you need an account to be used in ads to begin with?
I'll add that the no moveable aerodynamic devices ruling has been applied very widely, and in sometimes surprising ways. The prime example is the ban on Renault's tuned mass damper from the 2005 time frame. It was a mass damper inside the nosecone, which meant that the moving masses were never exposed to the air outside the car. It was ruled that by influencing the movement of the front wing (maintaining it at a more optimal height), it was therefore a moveable aerodynamic device. The sad part of this story is that the regulators didn't actually understand what benefit the device was supposed to provide, which was to allow for a more compliant suspension (a non aerodynamic advantage), and in fact Mclaren had a suspension element, the interter, which did effectively the same thing, but was not banned.
"Seems like it would work better if the money were given as housing, food, and healthcare insurance vouchers that could only be used for those purposes."

I was asking myself the same at first. The thing is, all those would limit choices, the effect of which would be an object of hate. In addition, in USSR people were directed (or at most offered a choice of a few options) to planned working places where they should live and work, which was in fact just the way they were given many of the other things. As expected, that only spawned an underground markets (for products, services, and even for perspectives) on which were traded choices that weren't freely available. I think therefore that it's better to let everything on the table for the benefit of all.

About the quantity of money, maybe it would be best if this "citizen allowance" to be not a fixed sum, but calculated from how much the state can afford to give. Say it is 50% of the entire budget split on the number of citizens. More money gathered in budget - more per allowance, and if the allowance is getting smaller - the more people are encouraged to get involved as taxpayers. It would be a fair circle and a strong argument for everyone to either shut up or get involved.
Four veterans from BioWare, Cryptic and Volition jump from AAA to indie
Sounds just like tridges CCAN: http://ccodearchive.net/
Wishful thinking > actual APR of short-term, high-risk loans and difficulty of small businesses in securing them in the first place.
I agree. I inherited some code that did this and it was not immediately obvious what was going on. I thought the variables being used where numbers, and I was very confused.
Facebook is using Java CFML?
I just received a notification of that page in my G+ Notifications, so I think all G+ users will see it.

It's also being pushed to Google.com as a banner, if I understand correctly.

DISCLAIMER: I'm a Google employee, but I am not involved with any of these products.
Who wants to bet that checkbox does nothing...like the thermostat in my office to control the temperature.
This is exactly how opt-out pages should work.

I understand it took some bad publicity before it happened, but I commend Google for correcting their mistake and making it easy to disable.
Threats of Cyber Attack Mount
the easiest way is for me to just watch the referrer, it's all coming from VentureBeat :)

edit: Well, most of it, some is from feed readers
The idea was obviously to pick a test and environment that would make it look like V8 can beat something other than interpreted JS. Otherwise it would've been the complete package: string manipulation, numerical computation, multi-core etc.
I should add that XP also came out at a time when PCs were starting to come to a point that upgrading hardware began to offer only diminishing returns to this same set of people. P4 and first dual cores are fast enough to run the same 3 main things, net/office/music&movies with out being annoyingly slow (assuming you had a gig or more of ram). So perfect storm of good enough hardware and software.
There is a word for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida
Yes, but I don't get why your anger is directed at Google in particular.
Those are also not 'real' pure OO languages.
Technically, they aren't. If you're willing to start a new credit card company, and get enough people on board, you could compete on interchange fees. However, how are you going to convince the consumer that they want a credit card issued by you?
To me the first-order effect is much less valuable than the second-order effect of living in a society where everyone knows a safety net exists (e.g. reduced crime).
Yes, it looks like it. I just went into it and it said, "Hangouts get better with a Google+ profile" and these benefits:

http://i.imgur.com/4guE3FI.png

But I was able to click "Not Now" and proceed.
Just started using Pinterest to post relevant infographics.
I use buff.ly to manage all my social media postings, and I have them all linked together so that people interested in topics related to our technology can find us and learn about what we're doing.
The only users included in this are ones with G+ accounts so you are good.
It's phrased as "do this", but it starts already-checked. So you're unchecking it to make it stop.
Previous discussion (it got 532 points just a month ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6339917

GitHub mirror of the source: https://github.com/0ad/0ad
By no means am I recommending what to do, but I found this insightful reading when it comes to my own decisions on handling situations:

http://philip.greenspun.com/politics/litigation/philosophy.h...
Easier said than done? E.g. what's to stop a team from buying a part from "some company" that only had one item in stock? Or what if all the engineers on one team decided to work for $1/year because they all got rich from something else?

It seems like you'd need a huge amount of regulation on the teams R&D process to prevent extra money from somehow being spent.
I agree it is a flimsy argument. I'm sure arms dealers do have plausibly deniable cover stories and legitimate or sympathetic transactions occurring as well. The funnier thing is we can't call this the Twinkie defense, because that is already taken.
Yes, you need a G+ account to make reviews. Not having a G+ account means you cannot be used for Shared Endorsements.

Disclaimer: I'm a Google employee.
Most of the money that we're raising is going towards catering (it always shocks me to see how much catering costs). Some of the money will also go towards flying out original Homebrew members. The rest will go towards the costs of running the event, things like tables, chairs, a photographer, etc.
Understanding the BART labor dispute with d3.js
For me at least, flex funding is a big warning sign. If the target goal is not met, it's not clear how the funds will be used (AFAICT there's no restriction) -- it could just line the founders' pockets with no progress on the project
Sounds like D would be better-compared to Rust, then.