skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I understand you. This is something I found on the internet. I submitted the link here because I thought it might interest some HNers, and possible provoke some interesting discussion.

This isn't my form, nor is it a form I was being asked to complete. I'm not the person who took the screenshot, nor the person being asked to confirm my identity.

This is the way HN works - when people come across things they think the HN community might be interested in, or might like to discuss, they submit a link to it.

Or have I completely misunderstood? if you want to know more then you might ask the person mentioned in the screen-shot. here:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=idan+gazit

https://twitter.com/idangazit

His story continues: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s4/sh/a05b2608-0066-4adf-95b0...
I wonder if they get round that law because they don't ask for your shipping address until they ship the product meaning it's never a "properly completed order"
"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit" is the rest of that quote. This presumes that good is the opposite of evil, and the two are polar extremes. It is my opinion that "good" is a state, achieved at the perfect equilibrium of all of life's forces. Evil is the absence of equilibrium, the more the forces are out of balance, the the more evil the state becomes. This way, you can define evil as absence of good.

Oh, and BTW, poison is not the opposite of food. Lack of food is the opposite of food. Poison is the opposite of medication. Lack of food causes death. Too much food causes death (leading cause of death in US). Too much poison causes death. Too much medication causes death (through weekend immune system and by creating drug resistant bacteria and viruses). Like I said, everything in life is about balance.

So, coming back to copyright, too many copyright protections stifle innovation by preventing derivative works. Too few copyright rights stifle innovation by limiting creative peoples ability to monetize their work in a meaningful way and encouraging even crazier DRM schemes. Again, balance is a complex, and yet the only way, to achieve the optimal good in this situation, which is maximizing creative output of the future generations. “Truth resists simplicity.” ― John Green.
It's already well estabilished and detailed how attempts/failed crimes are handled; I won't go into details (did it fail because of external circumstances or your choice? what was the intent? etc).

But if I try to hire a hitman on a virtual 3d character or Easter Bunny, it shouldn't be a prosecutable crime. In attempted crime there should be a victim that I attempted to harm.

I can agree that the entrapment / undercover cop scenario might make it properly prosecutable, depending on how it's done. I'd be willing to bet that in most of the cases if you'd get a warrant then you'd get evidence of actually harmed kids making the case very clear. However, if the perpetrator knows that the "target" is virtual and noone is harmed, then it shouldn't be illegal.
It really seems like this author has some kind of bone to pick.

Banks aren't going away soon. Banks are not going to make it easy for third-parties to proxy transactions soon. NFC or other non-card POS technologies are not going to be everywhere soon.

Those are valid hopes or dreams, and I hope someone is working on it. But Coin promises to be a product that will reduce many cards to one now.

And arguing whether a "pre-order" scheme is legal or not is kind of a moot point: Pre-ordering customers show agree to the transaction, and show their intent give Coin their money now for something later -- even if it is forced by law to be done in a different matter.
Nope. I do not accept this explanation.

They're not the first to look at their product through the eyes of a hacker/technically knowledgable customer. But too many people aren't savvy enough to see past the confusion.

That's the only reason "secondary offerings" ever get installed. It's dishonest and makes the Internet less accessible overall by adding a risk which discourages participation by those who are still learning.

Furthermore, we all know they know what they're doing and their response is to treat those who complained like dolts by "explaining" their facade. Bad! Bad SourceForge!
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It is a meta-science. Not a nature science. I think that's it. Yes it's still a science. The reason it's not thought really scientifically is a different problem, common to this field.
I agree with the article in that non-card based payments methods (Square) are the future, but we've seen again and again that moving towards the future takes steps (look at tablets - we had so many iterations on tablet computing before we got to the iPad, and who knows if that's even the end all be all).

My point is that Coin is a much smaller stride for the typical consumer; only SV geeks (guilty) are as excited about NFC payments as HN is, and the typical person sees this aggregation of cards as 'technology' that they're much more familiar with. No surprise that it's blowing up.

Just my two cents.
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I'm not positive; but it doesn't look to me like they are really operating a child sexbot; they are operating a childbot that is soliciting sex work; which is very different. I find it unlikely (though, maybe?) that they are doing any nudity rendering or anything like that; just getting people to agree to pay money for some sex acts from the robot.
ag80, you appear to be hellbanned (ironically enough). Couldn't tell why from a glance at your commment history.
The comparison is between trying to hire a hitman, and failing because the hitman is an undercover cop, and trying to seduce a child, and failing because the child is an algorithm.

In both cases the person fully believes they're interacting with the genuine article.
Hence why Square was invented...
FCC Crowdsources Mobile Broadband Research With Android App
The group think that goes on in Silicon Valley and SF
Yea but it's still a wireless radio. Who knows what sort of exploit some malicious and clever person could come up with.
If I understood the article correctly, the video was presented in chat rooms as an actual girl, not a software experiment. Is that incorrect?
This reminds me of the S/N Meyers-Briggs definitions (Sensing vs. Intuition)[0].

Sensing is about analogy; we go with what exists, what I can upvote/pin/like/snap, and I improve upon it. I iterate until I've created something that we know already exists but in an improved way. We take what exists

Intuition is about what this article calls "first principals"; we notice the trends, the underlying reasons why we upvote/pin/like/snap and try to create something that satisfies that need. Or we find a new need and try to fill it. Doesn't matter.

So Elon Musk is saying something entirely[1] un-new[2] - that N types work better in entrepreneuring than S types. Common theory, no clue if it holds water.

[0] - http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-bas...

[1] - http://www.keirsey.com/4temps/inventor.asp

[2] - http://www.businessinsider.com/myer-briggs-personality-style...
fluidcruft was right on the money. You're painting quite a broad stroke on the comments there. To elaborate, my use case is this:

On YouTube, the only channels I read comments on are the educational ones (Crash Course, Grey Explains, SciShow, etc.). For everything else, I don't care much for hearing what other people think. So in my use case, I honestly haven't seen much profanity or bad comments in my entire time using YouTube.

For Google, I use strict Safe Search because I don't care for NSFW content. I also work at a school and when I need to search for images to use on handouts, I don't want any NSFW content to appear.

> Then wouldn't it make more sense to complain that Safety Mode should filter "bad" comments rather than all comments entirely than to complain that you want Safety Mode and Safe Search to be in different states?

No, because prior to Google forcing my G+ account to merge with my legacy YouTube account, I was able to have these in different states. YouTube had Safety Mode off and Google had Safe Search on. If Google is going to force people to merge accounts, then they should not be removing functionality that existed when the accounts were separate. Complaining for a feature to change, when it was working perfectly fine on its own before, is far less productive than pointing out how two features worked separately before they were merged together. This also ties in with what theOnliest says below. There is a very distinct different between the two use cases (reading YouTube comments and using Google Search). It does not make sense to merge the two features; especially if you aren't going to rename then into a single feature (there is no indication on YouTube and Google Preferences that changing one will affect the other).
I recently watched an interview with a very well known porn star. They asked her how she got to where she is today. Her answer was "I sucked a lot of dick. A LOT of dick".

The message she seemed to be sending was, if you don't absolutely love sex and aren't up for it pretty much any time and place, even from the person about to pay you a bunch of money to do it on camera, don't become a porn star. You'll just burn yourself out and feel taken advantage of.

An attitude of, "I'm a professional and you really should be paying me any time I look at a text editor," is the wrong one to have if you want to be successful as a coder. People are going to sense that you're not really in it for the thrill of mastery and they won't take you seriously when you want to move up to the big leagues.

Look, we all have different goals in life. My goal right now is to master programming. That means when I get home after work, I code. On the weekends, I code. Side projects, side gigs, talking about coding. It's my career and I take it seriously.

If you've got kids or whatever and you can't throw that kind of time into your career, that's fine. I'm not going to look down on you for having a family. But if you want to have my career prospects without putting in the amount of work I put into it, I'm just going to shake my head at the entitlement that displays. There's plenty of great jobs out there for coders with families. Take one of them and provide for your offspring.

I don't think it's inappropriate at all to ask for open-source contributions as a part of your resume. If you're a badass coder, you should have them. If you want a badass coder, you should compensate appropriately. If you take yourself seriously as a porn star, don't get squirmy over a blow job. If you take yourself seriously as a programmer, contribute to open source.
I think you were thinking of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit...

I'm not aware of whether the PROTECT Act (which I believe was a response to this decision) has been challenged in court.
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OP: how are you getting around 429 errors thrown by Dropbox when you do a full dirwalk like this?
Wow! Is that common in the US? I've never seen that here in EU. And I go to bars A LOT!
There's a great example of this kind of thinking on the homepage right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6736001. The last sentence in the article:

“But first, this problem needed someone like Jorge,” he said. “An obstetrician would have tried to improve the forceps or the vacuum extractor, but obstructed labor needed a mechanic. And 10 years ago, this would not have been possible. Without YouTube, he never would have seen the video.”
So postgresapp.com's installer is great, but due to some xyz thingie, it limits at 27 or so connections for 9.2 (maybe still in 9.3? - haven't followed the GH issue). Startled me when I ran into that and motivated me to move to a regular install.
Note that `ob_item[i+3]` could read past the end of the array.
Intro to R with Data Visualization
All of them accept online payments. It's really not a big leap to being able to pay for something through their website while in their store and walk out with it. Some places do this now, especially for bulky items, just scan the barcode in-store and they'll deliver it your house.

If I'm carrying a wallet or keys in my pockets in 10 years I'll be pretty disappointed.
That supposes experts know that they have a problem, and can express it in a way disentangled from their other problems.
For me part of the issue is that I have enough money troubles where I am in life (and I'll admit Coin isn't probably targeted at me in that case) that I don't have time to worry about there being issues with the device that delivers purchases. I don't need, for example, one of those issues being that something that should hit a credit card hits a debit card or vice versa. When I give someone plastic they can't change the payment account when I'm not looking.
Some of the 'hate' is coming from places (eg. Canada) that have already moved on to chip cards (which won't and probably can't work with this) and are now slowly moving on to nfc. It's just already late for this kind of development. 5 years ago? I'd have been all over this. Now? I'm just waiting for Apple to adopt NFC so we can all move forward on better solutions.
I have a feeling SourceForge won't have much life left in the coming years
>I thought you were serious and might know what you were talking about.

Thanks for the kind mature words.

You are no different from the Christian fundamentalists who accuse that the scientists (including logicians like me) don't know what they are talking about. Sigh.

I was being respectful, but you showed your deficiency by attacking my intellect. Thanks for that.

I can only point in the right direction. I cannot rectify a highly deficient education (ah, the US).
That seems a big harsh. I am not sure it is that black and white.
I guess the ethical thing would be to inform all people selling iPods the wrong way that their methods are flawed. The second best thing would probably be to give those tips for money.
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But surely without at least a reason to think virtual child porn causes child abuse we should not make the act illegal?
I had it happen at a Denny's in Oregon, and not because the electricity or phone lines were down, but because that's just how they processed cards.
This will never succeed, because having too many cards to keep track of is a $100 problem for only a small percentage of the population.

Also, I just bought one.
>Github optimized being lazy, and this was appealing, and in doing so they broke most of the technical and social structure that held together open source's ability to produce reliable, stable, well-documented software.

And yet, here we are, years after Github optimized being lazy and broke most of the technical and social structure of open source, and we still have hundreds of thousands of usable and awesome open source projects available to use and contribute to. The internet and the apps built on it still run just fine, people are getting more done with technology than ever before, and more people are getting their code out to the world than before Github.

I think that you're either overly cynical and negative, or you're upset because Github has taken away implicit social power you used to have or you're pissed off cause you have to deal with the plebs who use your obviously brilliant software in ways that aren't correct (i.e. ways you didn't think) then have the audacity to file bugs on it in ways that are wrong (i.e. ways you don't like).
Norton Fighter vs Botlas
For MySQL RDS instances, it's most certainly possible to do offsite asynchronous replication without the use of read replicas, as described in their documentation here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/MySQL....

The guide does mention using a read replica to replicate from, an intermediate RDS instance between your offsite, but I've had no trouble replicating directly from the master instance.

One thing they don't cover is replication over SSL. AWS has failed to mention this shortcoming in the docs last time I checked. To have MySQL replicate over SSL, the master and slave both need an SSL certificate signed by the same CA, which would require you to obtain a cert+key signed by the AWS RDS CA.

Of course you have the option of tunneling the replication connection into a haproxy or stunnel running on an ec2 instance, but that has it's other shortcomings. You can't use the ELBs, since you can't register the RDS instance with an ELB.
Looks like AWS decide to put this capability in their Kinesis Client Library, which keeps track of the checkpoints in DynamoDB.
Coin bests pre-order goal in 40 minutes
That's a good point.

If I did, though, you'd charge me with breaking in, not with stealing.
This is what I mean, yes.
From Homebrew Computers to Biohacking: Innovators of Two Generations
Interesting post! I wonder if the author experimented with different gcc command-line optimisation options as well? gcc might be able to insert some prefetches by itself with some settings?
It takes a lot of courage to share something like this publicly. The social dynamics in our community ensure that most of these stories never get told. Huge props to Marc for being so transparent and open.
> This will lead to all sorts of legal gray areas, wherein "I just assumed she was digital" could well work as a positive defense, or, even more eerily, a faux-pedophile service provider could staff enough adults to cover for the non-adults that they sometimes use.

Why would they use non-adults at all, if they have software that can cover the visuals? Adults are easier to control and completely legal.
Did Blade Runner have a hacking scene? I don't recall one.
Funny, I just experimented with __builtin_prefetch this week, and got no speedup. Does anyone know whether the kernel list.h always triggers hardware prefetching when going over a list?

BTW, my case wasn't the problem the kernel maintainers encountered with small lists, detailed here:

http://lwn.net/Articles/444336/
That's an interesting document. One would think that Coin would be used in "Card Present Transactions," however, none of the security features of a real card can be verified using a Coin, since they don't exist. Why would a merchant accept Coin?
Seconding this recommendation; the whole series is lengthy and consistently pretty great.
A seller on an open market quotes the price they want to sell for. They would rather have that much money, than the item they are selling. So it's not victimizing them to make the trade.

But it would be victimizing yourself to not make the trade, and instead tell the other person your inside knowledge.

And it's not dishonest, because in a market, there is no implicit assumption that the buyer doesn't know something the seller knows, on the part of either one.

This is especially obvious in the stock market. If I think a stock is a sell at $X and you think it's a buy, we trade, but clearly one person knows (or thinks they know) something that the other doesn't.

Regarding ticket scalping: People selling tickets know that that's going on. If they don't want it, they will forbid you from doing it, and if you do it, it's breach of contract and subject to legal penalties. If not, go for it. There is no reason to sacrifice your own interests so that people who didn't get in on the sale earier and can't afford scalped prices can have their interests satisfied instead. In other words, don't victimize yourself.

Regarding HFT: If you are market-making, you buy at the best price (giving someone a good deal) and sell at the lowest price (giving someone a good deal). Yes, these people could have matched against each other if they wanted to play the game of predicting which way the market is moving and waiting a few microseconds, but you can also lose at that game, so institutional investors don't want to play it. There are no victims here. I assume this kind of thing generalizes to other forms of HFT, except when people/exchanges actually do cheat (exchanges: people don't let people cheat, that is basically your sole purpose for existing).

> The moral of the story: It's difficult for me, at times, to discern when a "cool hack" becomes "criminal theft."

You only victimize someone (other than yourself) if you commit breach of contract (implicit or explicit; fraud is a form of breach of contract) or actually use physical force. Otherwise, you aren't.

tl;dr moral of the story: don't victimize anyone (yourself, or others)
I agree with the premise but not the details. I want my phone to be my keys and wallet. Coin will consolidate the 3 credit cards I have to one, but I still need to carry a wallet to hold my driver's license, gym card, medical id card, and Clipper. There are (few) cars and after market solutions that allow me to start/lock/unlock my car with my phone, but they feel half baked, and it's not ubiquitous yet... most new cars you can buy in the foreseeable future will come with keys and not an app. Replace my wallet and keys, Google or Apple or Microsoft or (YC company). It's time.
Can't the merchant just treat it like an online payment. Take the Card number, expiry date and security code?
Hmm. That is a tricky area. On the one hand, the presumption of innocence should be maintained. OTOH, any video could be simulated.
Coin is like "Google Voice for Credit Card". Its a layer that sits on top of an old, crusty infrastructure that hopefully crumbles with time, but until then, we have to deal with it somehow.
Which is why making pictures illegal is rather screwy.

Make causing actual harm to an actual child illegal. Make profiting from it (eg selling pictures of said actual harm) illegal. Make possessing pictures not illegal, but something that will get you asked where the pictures came from.

.

But really it is about thoughtcrime. Society (or at least politicians) have decided that having certain interests/desires is wrong (or rather, that those people are creepy and dangerous and can't possibly have the self-control to not fully act on said thoughts). And so anything that may indicate someone having said thoughts is made illegal, even if it doesn't hurt anyone, and even if it indicate that they know not to act in harmful ways.
How so? The crime is in the child abuse, not in someone getting off on it. No child is being abused here.
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No kidding. If you really can avoid all the caveats on MySQL, installing of PostgreSQL is nothing hard. It's just your belief that you can avoid all that caveats.

Also, why don't you use Heroku PostgreSQL app which is just one-click starting self-contained app?

If you're on FreeBSD/Linux desktop, how can you fail to install? Of course it doesn't work just right after install, and it needs manual initial configuration for security. But that shouldn't be hard to any Unix family server developer.

If you're on Windows desktop, why don't you run your own FreeBSD/Linux server VM instance for your own development?

If you're using Windows server… with MySQL… Hmm then I am sorry. I have no more idea.
It's "the way that they do it" in most places at least where I have been, that is giving the waiter the card and wait for them to come back.

In Sweden restaurants have started to come out with portable devices and you even have to put in the amount you want to pay (because they want tip which is already included in the price..). I find this really good but at the same time less convenient because I don't want to fiddle with their device.

I would feel much better if I had my cards stored "securely" in my phone and could do "Tap to Pay" over NFC instead and have the waiter bring over an NFC device to tap against my phone.
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"suck it half of MIT"

It is not clear if 50% means:

(1) "50% of the total"

(2) "in each school, 50% of those asked could not answer the question".
I can't believe I'm gonna write this, but in their defense, google user base had also likely doubled during that time.