skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And google is the king of unusual business models. It can be in a company's wallet's best interest to be moral if it drives up sales and trust. I can think of countless companies that exist in the "we're green so buy us" space.
South Koreans Learning Talmud
Is America Less Mentally Healthy Than A Chilean Jail?
Which will also mean further contracts and recommendations from others.

Contractors who do shitty work are putting most of their effort in to landing new clients to replace the ones who will never repeat.
They're also presently working on CBD (one of the other common chemicals in marijuana, generally the second most prevalent after THC) derivatives for medical usage.
I'm not a right-winger but am disappointed that the healthcare.gov site isn't working at all.

It's 2013 and there are tons of technologies that allow this type of system to be set up fast and scalable. The fact that I can't even login (with a registration I made a month ago) and that it doesn't even give me an error message, and that support (phone and chat) just say "it's experiencing problems right now" is inexcusable when you consider that they had half a billion dollars to work with.

Is a secure registration and login system that at least gets people started on the site too much to ask?
Hi, I'm Jeff from the Facebook legal team. We were discussing this today and decided it's fine for you post it. Go right ahead.
do it! plus upgrade the ram and you will be happy for another 2-3 years with that machine!
I wait for the jobs to find me. It takes some extra work, but I think it's worth it.
For being the title, this didn't really explain at all how the poor might experience a different internet.
How to handle gaps in data (using R)
Your position is deeply irrational and unrealistic. It may give you some sense of moral comfort, but it has zero application to the real world, and is the fodder of a million asinine Facebook forwards.

People aren't "justifying" anything, they're stating actual realities of the world. 30 years ago South Korea was the sweatshop of the world. Today it is an economic powerhouse with largely first world living conditions. The same is increasingly true of China. Countries don't just skip that stage in their evolution, short of some mythical utopia project, however much we might like to think they can.
Whatever girvo did, he did while heroin was illegal. So how does what you said make any sense?

Prohibiting substances will never stop users from seeking them out. It will however make their use less safe (contamination, mislabeling, inconsistent purity, dirty needles, hesitance to seek medical attention for fear of prosecution, lack of available research on currently illegal substances hindering treatment of overdoses, etc.) and create a black market around the distribution of those substances (leading to violent crime, overflowing prisons, traumatized neighborhoods and broken families, etc.).

If fact, all of our available evidence from countries that have decriminalized hard drugs points to a reduction in abuse. That's just intuitive to me... wouldn't you be more likely to relapse if you were a felon unable to find gainful employment? Or a mother whose son just got shot for pushing crack on the corner? The repercussions of breaking up families, criminalizing and incarcerating our most vulnerable members of society, and exacerbating violence in our poorest communities cannot be understated. The drug war has caused a whole plague of societal ills, one of which ironically appears to be higher rates of drug abuse.
These are keyloggers and not skimmers, a skimmer looks something like this http://scams.wikispaces.com/file/view/camera02.jpg/30681221/...
> Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which concluded that “where one individual does not have a Fourth Amendment interest, grouping together a large number of similarly situated individuals cannot result in a Fourth Amendment interest springing into existence ex nihilo.”

This is a very shitty ruling that denies basic mathematical fact: a graph of nodes contains data that simply isn't present in a lone node.

Edit: The difference actually springs from a qualitative difference in the search. In the case of a lone person, the government is seeking information about that person in a vacuum; in the case of hoovering up millions of records, they're explicitly looking for interconnections, which is different in kind than if they were looking at each record in isolation, and just happened to have millions. The FISC court is essentially misrepresenting the nature of the bulk search by pretending it's merely many copies of an individual search, rather than a different type of search, altogether.
Curious what kind of foisting. I'm sure people might have preferred things in word format. Its just a matter of convenience. But I doubt its foisted. I've seen PDF files to be as annoyingly common particularly in academia. I hate it but I get around by just saving my document as PDF and move on. He's just being overly dramatic.
Paypal India responds one day later. Bad Customer Service?
I have recently (re)started using Paypal. I had transferred funds from my freelancer.com account to paypal.

few years back, i have had my account with a bank account. but it is now closed.

Bcoz of this, auto withdrawal has been initiated. I saw it immediately and tried to reach paypal via phone / email. Phone, i was not able. so i had sent the email on the same day on which transaction have been initiated.

Paypal responded next day saying that transaction already completed by the time they saw it which is next day. Now they say they cant revert any completed transactions.

And Wrong account / return amount will adhere to a fee oF INR 250 some thing.

when i called up customer care, they said they will always receive email next day and that it will take time to respond.

Is this how paypal takes care of their customers? even for urgent transaction related?

how many of you have faced such bad experiences from a reputed companies like Paypal.

I hope some one would solve my problem.
I expect it will be released on the 29th of this month given that last year Apple released Mountain Lion the day after their earnings call.
I posted a link further down in the thread about the majority of Texas supporting recreational and medical cannabis use, quoting from the study

"Respondents whose age fell between 30 and 65 were most likely to be in support of the measures, with the 18-29 age group being the most unsure. Those 65 and older showed the least support but were still a part of the majority approval"
I take it you use Windows..

Windows is known to be deliberately backdoored. Schneier has publicly stated he's got the Snowden documents, and has been reporting on them for the Guardian. I can't think of a better need for an airgapped machine. On what planet would he not be being heavily surveiled?

Next you'll be saying Snowden is a fantasist too.
It doesn't show a blue screen before rebooting. If you read the article you'll see that it's a tortured attempt to redefine any kind of freeze as a 'BSOD' in order to hang this label on Apple.

This is extremely likely to be a paid piece placed by a competitor.
Sometimes I think westerners just can't wrap their heads around just how poor Bangladesh is.

Their GDP per capita: $2000, adjusted for living costs (PPP). Please, everyone, try to wrap your head around that number.

That means a totally equal distribution of resources would give everyone $2000 a year. GDP counts all money spent on everything, so factory safety compliance costs would come out of that $2000. Consider Mexican migrant workers in the states scraping by on $10k are earning 5x as much as that number, and no, it is not made up for by cost of living, this is taking that into account.

Yeah the stuff that goes on is really messed up. And no, nobody deserves to live like that. But unlike in America, where GDP is at $50k/capita PPP, redistribution actually cannot solve the problem. $2k/year is unacceptably close to subsistence. It's just as important in this case to grow the economy larger as it is to redistribute more fairly.
The article title isn't very accurate. It's more about how big data and analytics (whether coming from online sources or not) impact our day-to-day lives.

"[Kate Crawford] and a colleague propose a system of “due process” that would give people more legal rights to understand how data analytics are used in determinations made against them, such as denial of health insurance or a job."

The only reference to social status in the article comes at the end, citing situations where social media may be used to prioritize relief from natural disasters (if a particular neighborhood does not have this technology, there will be no data, even though there may be a larger need for assistance.)
Wow, that's naive in the extreme. You'd be surprised at how awful the code quality is in most large organizations. It's often the programming equivalent of a skyscraper made from lego and band-aids.
Sorry, but this post is 100% baseless supposition. If you haven't studied the causes of PTSD or the results of sexual assault you're not really in a position to comment on it. I see this kind of post all the time on tech websites, where people think that the causes of human (or animal) behaviour is simple, because they haven't exposed themselves to enough information to know any better.

I think you should probably delete this post, I can see it doing more harm than anything.
Do you mean that it actually showed you a blue screen, or just that it rebooted once?

(My phone has rebooted a couple of times - iOS7 clearly has bugs, but I've never seen a blue screen or a pause)
"Clearly the society should not subsidize their medical treatment..."

That's one big problem - we do subsidize it. Many states even require drug addiction treatment to be rolled into health insurance. Everyone has to pay for it, so everyone has some right, or at least reasonable excuse, to tell you not to do it.

That's part of the rationale behind the Wars on Fat, Sugar, Soda, TransFats, etc etc. When your choices hit my pocketbook, then I have to care about all that stuff. It's one of the lovely side effects of socialized medicine, and socialized programs in general, that people don't like to talk or think about.
The reductionism isn't warranted. There are a group of people who liken drug use to drinking raw milk. I'm sorry, have you ever been to a town devastated by raw milk consumption? Do you see many kids born with birth defects because of raw milk consumption? Do you see raw milk addicts stealing to feed their raw milk habit?

I agree that we should end the drug war, but comments like yours are blindly one sided. Drug use isn't just high functioning professional recreational users. Its also people who poison their kids making meth at home, and people who coerce addicted women into prostitution using the promise of the next hit. Criminalization may be the wrong solution to it, but that doesn't mean its not a real social problem.
Assange is sure helping with this movie's publicity.
Wait. What? Have you tried collaboration with a Word before saying this? I make my living collaborating on documents in Word. Which part of it did you have a problem with? I have found only OneNote to be any better than Word but alas it lacks a bunch of Word features.
I once worked for a retailer which was connected via Megapath (they outsourced to whatever local ISP is available at the store location). The internet setup was so abysmal in security, in some cases the stores used wifi to connect to the front registers with the password being (not kidding) [storename:storenumber]. That's it.

These fools are getting caught doing elaborate plants. That's not how real criminals key log (btw, this is not a skimmer, but is a 'keylogger' as joenathan points out). Real criminals sit in the comfort of their car or nearby coffee shop and scan for open connections and insecure use of credentials.
I couldnt point to it directly, despite that was my first attempt.. it was already taken by another post; but that is the [better] link
Not good for travels to the US! :)
Forced Savings: Malinvestment and Overconsumption
If you read the article, it says that the screen actually turns blue for few seconds and goes blank.

Moreover, even Windows has not shown me the blue screen in a long while ( since Windows 7, now on 8.1 ), but still people call the restarts BSOD. Get over it.
If you try what ensmotko says, can you give an update? I'm in the same situation.
We had to solve scaling issues most of the time. VZ was running on a multi-tier platform with services written in Java, PHP, Erlang, C++ and Python. 17 million users with around 25 billion requests per month (without static content)...

Some numbers from 2010:

- 60.000 req/s (without static content)

- 2.5 mio. memcache ops/s

- 300k queries to the database tier

We've built that platform with a team of around 20-30 engineers and we had to solve the scaling stuff first - before we could add new features to the platform.

Today it's easy to store 3 billion files (photos). You could easily use S3, but 2007 these services didn't exist or most of the cloud services just started with their services.
Why would you want equal representation in the field if the unequal representation were due to genetic differences producing different abilities or inclinations?

I don't think most of the current inequality in representation is due to those reasons, but certainly understanding the extent to which those may exist and play a part in determining outcomes has something to say about the results that should be hoped for.
All those examples seem to be SME's or lifestyle companies a really big corp may well employ more developers than Google has employees.
Look up the guy whose blog this is. Also, it might help to read the article in full before blurting out trivialities.
Thank you for enduring the indignant replies!

Yes, this place is dominated by strata of society driven to justify organized child labor, even after seeing the face of one such 9 year old. Throughout history, such people justified all sorts of things.

I know many like them in person, and am constantly weirded out. (One reason I dislike hanging out with programmers, managers and investors.) The banally evil things stumbling from their mouths... For example, when something vaguely feminist comes up, someone often tells me that women are mentally inferior to men, apparently expecting me to smirk with them. (As opposed to wonder what planet these creatures come from, and why they thought they could randomly splutter that in civilized society.) Fortunately, I have the freedom to tell them what I think, and am grateful for the reminder that they're nothing like the person I want to be.
I found this through a friend and it is a very interesting analysis of the impact of artificially low interest rates on the economy, in particular this intro:

"We want to discuss the problem of forced saving as it seems to us that it is of particular relevance to the current 'echo boom'. Also, it complements what we have previously written about capital consumption and the pool of real funding. In Mises' rendition of the business cycle, we can find two different conceptions of the term forced saving. A classical boom based on credit expansion results in both malinvestment and overconsumption, as the accounting profits of entrepreneurs and capitalists in the higher order stages of the production structure, as well as the increase in wages of workers employed in them, leads with a very small time lag to higher consumption expenditures. Not only that, but the artificially lowered interest rate provides a disincentive to saving, so that consumption overall actually tends to increase relative to the pre-boom configuration of the economy. Consequently, resources are not only drawn toward the early stages of production (that are temporally most removed from the final goods production stages) as lower interest rates make these investment projects seemingly profitable, but also toward the late stages, which experience a surge in demand."

Which really resonated with me, it seems with interest rates so low people are drawn to invest in startups more aggressively than they might if there was a more reliable return in the markets.
Wow, they've appropriated yet another standout feature of Android phones, especially my craptastic Galaxy Nexus (unfortunately still under contract). I was going to dump it for a 5S in the near future, but between this, the HW sensor issues, and a technical conversation I had with some Apple engineers recently, I'm really scratching my head about what's going on with the company.
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I agree about programming methodologies being pseudo-science, so I'll defer to something much simpler and less cynical -- the vague wisdoms of Unix Philosophy:

"Rule of Representation: Fold knowledge into data so program logic can be stupid and robust."

This code violates this rule horribly and is quite deserving of the label "spaghetti code".
I'm working on a database of TV scripts (currently 706 shows and 30,000 scripts)
Looks like the day dreams of a Chinese nationalist. Or just a joke article.
You don't seem to know what a chip card is.

It is the second factor in a two-factor authentication scheme.
Appeared in pro-Communist Party daily newspaper Wenweipo (文匯報) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Wei_Po
This is one of the things that most baffles me about alcohol culture in general, but specially in the American tech industry which is supposed to have smart people. Although my primary reason for abstaining from alcohol is a religious one, I also certainly agree with your point from a secular point of view as well.
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but he's not building a bigger one....yet.
He said:

> Either your definition of sexual assault is much different that standard usage, or you hang out with deplorable people.

I was demonstrating that he was wrong.
It does. It auto installed when I ran IntelliJ.
You want OSX to keep network connections active while asleep? It seems to me that going to sleep means not actively doing anything.

The most common solution to this problem is to use tmux or screen, or just disable sleep.
In the UK and EU, chip and pin carry with it some nasty liability problems. That is, the consumer is now de facto liable for all fraud that happens, in spite of the statute.[1] A significant amount of skimming still occurs in the EU.[2] The protocol, just like the traditional charge card method, used is considered insecure.[3]

The U.S. method, where the low-security retailer is liable, is the most fair. The current charge back system works. Retailers that use inventory control, secure systems, and require ID with large purchases receive few legitimate charge backs. [4]

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/unattack.pdf

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3173346...

[3] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/chip-and-pin-th...

[4] http://www.internetretailer.com/2012/10/31/how-karmaloop-cle...
I’d like to call out the Visual Studio extension VsVim (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...) as doing a Vim emulation mode right. It actually does run your .vimrc, ignoring commands it doesn’t understand. So when I installed it, my custom mappings were already set up.

But I think supporting Vim plugins is too much to ask for in any other environment. Often, the reason you’re using another environment is because it has great plugins of its own that you want to use. It would be a lot of work for little gain to make an editor support Vim-style plugins if it already has its own better way of writing plugins.
I'm curious as to your definition of 'being a drug addict'.

>In fact it might even be good "for the environment" since drug addicts are unlikely to have many kids and they usually have shorter life spans thus leaving a smaller carbon footprint on our precious Gaia.

Am I about to pull out a Strawman? Probably.

A drug addict is also less likely to drive a car, fly on a airplane etc...thus not leaving a larger carbon footprint than somebody who decides to travel to the Utopia x times a year they strive; and has a society willing to 'subsidize' their medical treatment as they are not 'addicts'
This is pretty shitty analysis. I understand it is translated which may account for the wooden tone, but the actual analytical content is pretty weak.

In the post's world China is on an unstoppable 70 year (including recent decades) upward swing with an invincible military, manic bouts of conquest-lust, and a complacent global community.

Are people really so excited to see a rival to the US that they actually get these wet dreams about a belligerent and unstoppable China?
I'm a PHP programmer, but I haven't done much in terms of procedural code in a long time, I'm more or less OOP all the way using modern libs like Composer... This code although not bad per say, does make me twitch because of how it is.
The difference is, Enron was suspected of committing a crime. Lavabit committed no crime.

If the government subpoenas an individual for their encryption key, because they have reason to suspect the individual for a crime, it is different than to subpoena an innocent, indirect 3rd party. To me, it's like saying "We don't have enough police to handle this crime. So here - you have to take this gun and help us find the criminal. If you refuse, we throw you in jail."

Any service on the Internet could be used by all types of people, for good and bad purposes, just like a hammer can be used to drive nails or kill someone. You don't throw a hammer manufacturer in jail when someone uses a hammer to kill someone. Lavabit is an innocent 3rd party in all of this, regardless of how their computer system was designed.
Your argument assumes that distribution of wealth has no effect on economic growth -- e.g., that distribution changes are zero-sum not only over the immediate term but over the long term as well. I'd expect the propensity to spend money within the domestic economy to be higher at the lower end of the distribution and lower and the higher end, so I'd expect downward redistribution to, ceteris paribus, increase the domestic velocity of money and expand GDP.
Yes, I'm not sure about the US, but it worked like a charm in Canadian ATMs
The Activity Monitor has been significantly enhanced and includes a page that tells you what software is using the most energy. That should help people get more battery life out of their systems as well.
I call it outrage tourism. Most of the time, people commenting like this are simply trying on other people's purported outrage to see how it feels.
This is another interesting case because it points out how vulnerable this part of the financial transaction chain is. Of course even after they catch the guys who were installing the skimmers they don't get the 'top' guys who make the fake cards and then withdraw funds in Serbia.

I did see a talk where the folks noted (but did not remove) such devices and then began tracking every account that went through the modified device. This was to figure out who the bad guys were. By watching the fraudulent transactions that happened later they were able to roll up a carding group in the Baltics. But it does take a more proactive approach.

From a future products prospective the use of cards with embedded processors seems better and better.
Bingo. Do it right the first time. I'd rather take an extra hour on a bit of code the first time then go back and spend 2 hours refactoring it later on.
You shouldn't be. Ultra minimalist code using every language feature tends to be difficult to understand and maintain. It's usually written by young coders eager to show how clever they are.
The book "How the Mighty Fall" applied on BlackBerry
It's fine to disagree, but you need to calm down.