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From your source: "the common portrayal of neighbors being fully aware but completely unresponsive has since been criticized as inaccurate."

Also, if you read the article, it mentioned Kitty Genovese, and how the tale was likely apocryphal. That being said, the issue isn't that there is a bystander effect, but why in China it seems like the bystander effect is higher than in other nations.
And there's the Google stock (a company which, last time I checked, made most part of its revenue through ads) sky rocketing to prove once and for all that ads are a thing of the past...

I see this more as a crisis of the "old" media than a global ad avoidance phenomenon. Brand avoidance, consumer activism and anti-advertisement movements are real, but their size and impact on our culture (at least in Brazil) is not that big for the time being.
I'm still waiting on decent attr() support.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435426

In an ideal world, instead of attr() and calc(). I'd like a simple pure functional language to calculate values for CSS properties. Properties defined by such a system could be efficiently cached and recalculated as required. Easy Parallel evaluation would be a bonus too.

I'd like to be able to do things like define a path as a mathematical function and then have an <UL> that evenly spaces <LI> items along that path. Preferably without requiring the browser to be specifically aware of the concept of a path.
But this is problem in western cities as well. There was study in London on busy bus station in rush hour, where man was laying on street in agony asking for help. Homeless guy got help in 15 minutes, man in suit in 30 seconds and well dressed woman immediately. It is few years since I read this, so no link.

I also remember woman who swallowed chicken bone and was choking to death for 10 minutes on busy train station, she looked drunk.
One idea to improve the state of things is to require graduate students to verify some number of external studies. In addition to helping with the problem of not enough review, it would make an excellent practical test for doctoral candidates.

It wouldn't work for every field and area, but it could work for a significant subset of research.
While Worldcom is one incident where one(?) person was punished, it is from 2002, and from that page, it was following that incident that they enacted SOX, which afaik hasn't been used since. Or if it has, the incidents have been few and far between. I will continue to believe the system is rigged.
Even without a cache (less than a minute after you posting this) it shows up as December 2012 for me.
Oh wait! hold on he's changed it back now
Sure, it's something the CFO thinks about, but it isn't really something that plays a factor into decisions about how to run the business for other C-level executives.
That was an actual game at some MIT presentations. Eventually the speaker noticed.
On what basis ? Snowden committed a crime and under existing extradition treaties would be sent back to the US.

Diplomatic incidents happen all the time. It doesn't affect the law.
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My grandfather just concluded a NZD$40mm business deal while I was in NZ visiting him. If anyone's short of time, it's him! :)
Not to mention that that is associated with a government ID and a photo. Why not just use a bank account...?
I can see that he's changed it back now, can anyone get a cache from that page within the last 12 hours?
Yes, but people who like "full-sized" notebooks aren't Moleskine's target market. The target market are those of us who prefer this format to the full-size.

Also I don't have Wal-mart here, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a cheap leather-bound (or fake leather, I don't know or care which Moleskine use) notebook with 190 pages that aren't pure blinding white, for 15 euro on the official site, or as low as 10 on Amazon.

Sure, there are plenty of cheap notebooks, but those usually don't have the same specs so the comparison is somewhat unjust. Hell, if you wanted to go really cheap, you'd just buy a stack of printer paper.
My understanding is that it's to comply with money-laundering laws. They limit the size of the transaction per-day and per-person.

I haven't bought bitcoins (online or through an ATM), but it seems any purchase of bitcoins from any electronic money transfer would have the same issue of breaking anonymity. I suppose there are ways to anonymize the funds once you have them.
> Also, if you're doing multiple backups of the same data to a filesystem over time, it's worth doing 'cp -al' from the previous backup to the current backup destination, then rsync over the top of that - that way multiple copies of files which haven't changed don't take up any extra space

Isn't that already taken care of by its use of rsync's --link-dst option?
I think they are trying to avoid fraud. Since they seem to be limiting to amount you can withdraw, they probably need some way to authenticate you.
See this is why I still don't think pure EVs are the answer for the next few decades at least. Give people plug-in hybrids to assuage their range anxiety. Left to charge overnight at home a driver whose 90% of journeys are short will get the advantages of an EV and in those circumstances you go a bit further, it can be topped up with fuel instantly like a regular car - no "long charging" worries.

As battery technology slowly improves, the IC engine can become a less and less significant component until it's really just there for emergencies.

Is this not the answer?
For some reason, it just feels like this is a prank. A really bad prank. And this will be my only reply to this person ...
Can you really trust other countries any more? If so, why do you think so?
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For every horror story, there are bound to be examples of people helping when they had no need to.

Near Lijiang in China, a middle-aged couple stopped to help my brother and I who were stranded and in need of a lift, miles from a town. We are 6'3" and 6'9". They didn't seem fearful at all (and had no reason to be) and were more than happy to take us along with them.

In Switzerland this year, I got stranded waiting for a bus near midnight in the mountains with full luggage, wife and a baby. A woman had her husband come along, pile us and all our luggage into their little car, and drive us up to the gondola so we didn't have to wait for 40 minutes with an hysterical child in the dark. (It wasn't overly cold or dangerous, just very uncomfortable and we'd been travelling for almost 12 hours.)

Maybe it's life and death situations where people are far more wary?
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I am currently a graduate student and I can say that I, without a doubt, worry about the quality of my code. I worry about this because I have to rely on other student-written code that often does not perform as advertised. I refactor both my code, and code written by other students very frequently even though the code is really only "proof of concept" because I need to refactor other people's code to get mine to work. I cannot stress enough how important it is to refactor (and document) code.
The title should read: "A subset of the Scientific Community has lost it's integrity, at a not so easily quantifiable cost to humanity"
If I were to create a startup incubator called "C Combinator," that would be as massive a ripoff as "cleantechnica.com" is.

Most people (myself included) don't know Latin. The number of people that know Latin probably outnumbers the number of people that have heard of Haskell Curry, but both cases are the same in a crucial respect: some guy sees an interesting name/domain, and creates a ripoff site that rides off of the trail blazed by the originator. The fact that they didn't translate "clean" into Latin makes this conclusion inescapable for me.

Here's the damage that the ripoff does: "Hmm - cleantechnica.com? That's probably a 'clean'-tech site made by the Arstechnica guys. I love Ars, so I'll go there and check it out." Suppose that cleantechnica.com puts up misinformation, which people attribute to Arstechnica, which causes people to reduce their visits to both sites - that's not good. True, not everyone will make that mistake. Arstechnica was there first, and the ripoff site should have to bear the costs of clearing up the confusion they've created.
They make A4 sized notebooks, so yes, people who like full-sized notebooks are part of their target market.

I wasn't trying to imply that the 15 cent notebook is Moleskin's equal, I'm just saying that the availability of adequate paper sets the expectations of expensive notebooks pretty high. There are notebooks just as expensive as a Moleskin that I would pay for, because I find them to be better in quality.
Just Like Honey reminds me of VU.

Heroin is great, but other songs like Pale Blue Eyes make me tingle more
Of course I would mind, what does that have to do with electronic cigarettes?
I live a block away from this machine and won't be using it because of nonsense biometric data harvesting. Why do I need to scan my ID, picture and fingerprints to trade a small amount of bitcoins? I will continue to use the Russian guy who hangs out at a Robson St cafe and doesn't want my biometric data.
I think this is like the second or third "first" ATM, though.
You are totally right, but this is a low-traffic blog, i wasn't expecting anything above 2k daily visitors and supercache, for some strange reason, acted funny before not updating the pages correctly.
Yes, but in the long run if you're depreciating assets and don't have capital costs to buy new assets, you end up running out of assets.
This whole situation seems very strange to me. In the left corner we've got someone claiming their GPL'd code was stolen and sold on Codecanyon by someone else who subsequently filed a DMCA request against the original author. And in the right corner we've got the person who supposedly is accused of stealing the script code and selling it posting here in this thread saying it's the other way around and the blog post author stole the code.

I've made some strange observations here about the situation:

1. The original author didn't post any copies of the DMCA request, no copies of emails, no links to the offending item on Codecanyon nor any links to the original repo that contained the code.

2. The person accused of stealing the code commented on this submission and claimed the situation is the other way around and the blog post author stole the code that was being sold. How did the accused know about this submission? There's a chance that maybe he frequents HN, but no links were provided in the post, so how does this commenter know it's even his plugin being spoken about in the post?

3. Why have neither sides of the fence provided any evidence whatsoever? Both the defender and accused have provided no links, no emails, nothing and it's been a word against word situation.

While I could be wrong here, it feels like this whole situation could be fake. I am not saying that it is, but it feels a little too weird that neither side have made their case clear with actual evidence. Is this a publicity attempt to get sales for a Codecanyon plugin? I hope my suspicions are wrong and that it's just a case of the original author wanting to give the supposed thief a chance to take his item down which given the situation would be unusually generous.
I've always thought that part of what made quitting cigarettes so hard is the social aspect. Laws preventing it force fellow smokers together in designated areas where I guess they smoke and chat. To suddenly quit not only means you're suffering from the physical withdrawl but also the social aspect. e-cigs seem like the only alternative to actual cigarettes which mean you don't lose that social aspect since you can hang out with other smokers while you vape, should you wish.
First of all, criticizing science is like criticizing democracy. Yes, it's flawed, but still far better than anything else we've tried so far!

If you look at the typical application for funding, you'll see questions that basically prod you to explain why your research/students/etc. are exceptional/revolutionary/ground-breaking. Everything must look like a Nobel prize waiting to happen if you're going to have a chance at beating out everyone else making the same application (and exaggerations). It's utterly ridiculous! It's as if thousands of guitarists were auditioning at the same time and, in an effort to be heard, each has cranked their amp to 11. The result is a cacophony where even each individual sounds awful because of the distortion. If everyone dialed it down to 5 things would be bearable, but there's always someone willing to nudge it up to 6 or 7...

A nice long list of high profile publications is great to hype when your amp is set to 11. If you have published many papers in high impact factor journals (again, often by inflating the significance of your work), you must be worth funding!

Perhaps scientific funding needs to be awarded in a manner that is more... scientific. Heck, perhaps funding agencies should reserve a certain percentage of their funding specifically for reproduction of results. Currently, if you apply for a grant to check other peoples work, people doing original research will win absolutely every single time. Unfortunately, the preference for original research goes right to the very top of governments. Politicians want brilliant nobel price winners, not competent fact-checkers.
Yup, that's a phone alright. Rectangular, shiny.
> The necessary equipment is usually installed on the upper floors of the embassy buildings or on rooftops where the technology is covered with screens or Potemkin-like structures that protect it from prying eyes.

Put a giant faraday cage around the US embassy. Won't stop everything, they're probably tunneled out into Berlin's telecom cables, but it would hinder cell and satellite.

Oh, you need access to American satellites from the US embassy? You'll have to earn your privileges back.
As a PhD student in CS, this is an incredibly good idea---even if it stops short of verification and stays somewhere at "reproduce". It can be a lot of work to reproduce a single publication, and often requires very careful reading and attention to detail.

I've done it a few times myself (partially because my work requires it and partially because I wanted to convince myself of the work I was using), and it was an incredibly valuable learning experience.
> Wrong. The guidelines aren't that clear on what hacker news is, but they're quite clear on what hacker news isn't.

The guidelines are not defining "hacker news" (or "not hacker news") at all. There is only a section which is called "What to submit" and both definitions (On-topic and off-topic) leave a lot space for interpretation. At the end it is really determined by the votes what is interesting to hackers (or the readers of HN) and what not. If something is breaking the rules, the mods would jump in - especially when an article is on top of the frontpage.

Actually I find those pointless "why is this on HN" comments a lot more off-topic than upvoted links (= interesting to more readers than the other options) that are not strictly computer- or startup-related.

People who want to dictate others what to post or upvote on HN and what not, should probably become mod or pg.
Nothing new here - read up on, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars almost 150 years ago.
require graduate students to verify some number of external studies.

That's how Reinhart and Rogoff's “Growth in a Time of Debt” spreadsheet error was finally unearthed, unfortunately that was after it had already been instituted internationally as public policy, but hey, you can't have everything.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/reinhart-rogoff-debt-GDP-spre...
Yup. For example, the Internet Archive in SF launched what they call a bitcoin ATM back in March. [1] [2]

[1] http://blog.archive.org/2013/03/05/bitcoin-to-cash-converter...

[2] http://blog.archive.org/2013/04/03/how-the-internet-archive-...
I'm not sure that a decline in the financial industry would have that effect.

I don't think such a decline would have any effect on the supply side; it won't suddenly create more houses, or release more houses from ownership to rental.

What effect would it have on the demand side? Well, people in the financial industry who could move to Singapore or Zurich or whatever might well do that, and so stop wanting to rent houses. But there are vanishingly few such people - you're talking about the elite. Their loss (if we call it a loss) wouldn't have much impact on demand. The kinds of stupendous penthouses and townhouses they rent mean they're not even competing in the same market as the normal middle-class mugs. The majority of people in the financial industry - from bank apparatchiks down to post-room clerks - aren't about to up sticks and migrate to a tax haven. If their jobs go away, they will be looking for other jobs in London.

Even if they decide to give up and go and become shepherds in the Dales or something, how many of them are there? Finance is big in London, but it's far from being a dominant employer. There are huge numbers of people working in all the other sectors of a post-industrial economy too - law, media, IT, corporate head offices of all sorts, academia, healthcare, culture, not to mention all those civil service jobs. If we accept the (forecast) 2013 numbers in http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/wp51.pdf then finance employs 357 000 people, out of a total of 4 859 000 - 7.3%. Significant, but not enough that anything short of a collapse of the industry will have a significant effect.
This is it really. There's a limit to the amount of cash they can do per person per day, and this is a way to ensure people don't go over the limit.
In the sense they are their role models (not only they, but pop culture celebrities in general)

People strive to be like them, rich and individualistic for their own pleasure (instead of being content, or wanting to be a bill gates in the sense of being good to other people beside himself)

The people I've met were usually highly materialistic, individualistic, consumerist, and willfully ignorant (ie: being seen as smart is bad, being seen as sexy but of average intelligence is good), and having a incredible sense of superiority and exceptionality.
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Where do I learn CSS3/HTML5? I have quite some experience with HTML and CSS, but I'm thinking of the "cutting-edge" webdesigns. Some designs out there are really awesome -- how can I learn to write designs like that? I am a Python and C++ programmer so I'm looking for a book for experienced programmers.
> It's simple supply and demand [...] but the supply is strictly limited

So, not supply and demand, then. Just demand.
Its not whether people are willing to pay for content, its can people really afford premium content? Ad-less content isn't very attractive when you have pay $99 per episode.

Essentially advertisers have been subsidizing content for years and the question is can people really afford premium TV content and in what capacity? I'm not sure what the exact numbers are but its something to consider when thinking about the " if people are not willing to pay for content is it that great anyways". People may like the content but might be priced out.

The next thing is consider is in the TV industry, you don't pay per content. Consider the film industry which is relatively ad-less, but they make most of their money from theaters. Imagine the backlash that would occur if comcast said it would remove ads, but you had to pay $13 for each show you watched.
Are you saying chinese are predominantly inbred?
I'm happy to explain!

Upon finding my code on his site i emailed him. He didnt reply, i commented on a post, he didnt reply so i sent him a notice.

4 hours later he sends me the same notice back + to the marketplace and my host. The blogs about it!

I click the tweet button on the blog to monitor why and what he does, i come across this blog, i send him an email warning him to remove my code, delete the blog and move on.

He hasn't done so and continue's his story so i'm happy to provide all my evidence to show this person is lying.

still, I've absolutely no idea why he would take a lie this far, but i have all the proof which i will be providing on this thread very shortly!
Surprised but deeply heartened see this at top of HN. I'm a long time fan of Lou Reed and was extremely saddened when I heard of his passing earlier today. Good to know his music and life also had strong effect on other hackers.

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Also! Why would it be a plug - if you can download my code for free off of his website!? ... and give him a donation for him using my code.
Underlying the issue of attention and ethics is the fact that most ads are not benign static elements. They are accompanied by increasingly complex, increasingly opaque, increasingly ubiquitous, and increasingly intrusive forms of commercial (and therefore also government) surveillance.
You know, I did this in my freshman chemistry labs. I mean, sometimes I just made up the numbers for my "observations", varying them by some amount from the predicted numbers.

At the time I definitely wondered how much of that went on in "real" science. I suspected (and still suspect) it's a lot more than is ideal.
Seconded. I set up `rsnapshot` some years ago to backup monthly, weekly and daily. It's been running ever since without interruption, and it's saved my butt on more than one occasion.
This sounds like a potentially useful thing, but putting up an ugly webpage with two links to a box asking for someone's email is the opposite of useful. FWIW, "flourcast.com@mailinator.com" will receive their spam.
Depends on how expensive your commute to the shop. I don't use Amazon because it's not available in my country. However, if it was, I'd probably use it even if it's expensive.

You spend lots of time in shopping + gas + car. Delivery is a nice thing.
May I ask if you kept a curriculum, or what the goal was for teaching, to keep the kids interested towards building a working feature/product?
I see your point now. However, it's important to note that the Fed's regime of low interest rates is temporary and everyone knows this. So yes, the market will discount investments that pay off in 1-2 years at a low interest rate. But since the low interest rates aren't expected to last, we shouldn't expect huge price increases for stocks whose investments will pay off in 5-10 years.
I seem to recall seeing information recently about one company that has taken steps to ensure that their technical people are outside the US and that the staff (& founder?) remaining within the US no longer had any access to network management, software, etc. so there could be no question of them being forced to backdoor anything. Is that PIA?
Science funding is what drives science now. So the article is correct as are you.
Its hard to laugh unless you know the financials. If advertisers are paying 10 million dollars for super bowl ads and getting a 15 million dollar return then they are the ones laughing at your naivete.
Motivation is an issue - each verification would require a bunch man-months of effort, so it won't happen unless there is separate funding for that or somehow magically started to be as prestigious as putting the same effort in a new experiment/publication.

"Requiring" has the same motivation problem - those who could require it, currently would rather require those students to do something that brings funding or prestige, so they won't.
It doesn't seem like the scanner is required for these machines and it does so using palm-vein scanning, not fingerprints. They are doing so to prevent any single user from withdrawing over a legal limit in a day.

"If enabled, the Palm Vein Scanner can limit a user's daily transaction amount by taking a unique, anonymous (no fingerprints) infrared picture of a customer's blood vessels to assist in AML compliance."