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The first part of your comment specifically mentions bounty rewards for bugs, so I don't see what the problem is. The rest may be tangentially related, but it's still interesting.

I have to wonder if refusing to award bounties is a symptom of intentional maliciousness or if it is instead some degree of bureaucratic ineptitude. The adage "Never attribute to malice that which can best be explained by stupidity" comes to mind, but I think "stupidity" would best be explained away as the lumbering beast with little coordination among its myriad appendages that is most enterprises.

Your experiences suggest to me that it's also possible a matter of embarrassment. It's a shame really. Improving user experience through safety ought to be a matter of importance but it often isn't...
If they are actually engaged in selling weapons; well, arms trafficking is generally a crime unless you are very close to your government and very up to date on the paperwork. And even then most people would consider it a "moral crime", to profit from the misery of war.
For anyone who hasn't experienced it: Credit score literally determines your quality of life in America. I couldn't get internet for a new apartment at age 21 because I was "unknown risk" since I'd never bothered to use credit very much.

To be clear, I hadn't missed any bills. I just hadn't used much credit, so they had no data by which to calculate a score for me. Therefore AT&T completely refused to do business with me.

It's crazy how much power these institutions have over your life. That this company was able to ruin her credit for posting a negative review is a huge deal. If they're not penalized for this, then this will set a terrible precedent.
Again, what kind of behavior are you talking about? Are you seriously suggesting we pass laws prohibiting saying things that you find objectionable, tasteless or greedy? In a thread defending a whistleblower's free speech?
I wouldn't be surprised if they start putting severe limits on all non-food shops in the terminals now. There seems to be no end to the ridiculous measures they'll take, no matter the inconvenience to flyers.
Tnx for all the comments! Feel free to continue the discussion at https://www.facebook.com/groups/rocksdb.dev/
Wow! Truly amazing!
Programming languages are much more than tools; they are frameworks of thought.

Breadth of knowledge beats being an expert in a single language hands down every time. If you are not familiar with other programming languages and concepts then you will not be a good programmer in your own language. Each language only exposes certain concepts. Using other concepts in other languages lets you bring those patterns into your chosen language—albeit with greater difficultly. Without that knowledge you are more likely to just fumble through it rather than building something cleaner.

Also relevant is the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity). Language ultimately determines what you think.
Sorry, don't have one :(
But when those reports are fraudulent, as here, the consumer can also dispute the report, and the consumer should be able to come out with a clean credit record in the end.

This isn't what happened. See here: http://m.kutv.com/article?id=106632

Specifically: Jen and her husband also disputed the ding with the credit bureaus but because Kleargear.com says the charge is valid the the ding remains.

I've personally experienced what it's like when credit bureaus decide to mistreat you, so I believe this. She likely has no recourse to dispute it short of hiring a lawyer, which is effectively impossible if she happens to be living paycheck-to-paycheck. (It's hard to grok the mental burden placed on you merely to survive, let alone repel an assault from a big, faceless company unless you've been in a situation like "I have to choose between buying groceries or paying for my dying cat's medical treatment," for example.)

If the reported version of events are true, then what this company did to her is reprehensible and should be punished. Otherwise it will set a dire precedent for other companies to try this in the future.
I'm not wondering how to download songs for offline playing. I'm wondering how to toggle/filter so I can only see the offline content.

After reading through https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1250232?hl=en-G... I do not think the iOS version has this functionality right now.
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None of that matters. They can read what they're posting and filter out personal information. Who cares what the detractors think, it's the right thing to do.

"Two wrongs don't make a right"

EDIT: people understand that Stratfor is a small publishing company, right? They sell subscriptions to a security-focused newsletter of debatable influence. They have no operational capability.
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I still don't think one has to be the subject matter expert in everything a business does. Mulally should be an expert in building teams to make complex manufactured devices, and he should be hiring (or empowering) experts who understand services or tech functionality better than him. We can't hope that every leader can be a Steve Jobs or an Elon Musk :)
I find it ironic that I'm reading this link from a Las Vegas airport gate waiting for my plane... using their wifi.
I understand the sentiment, but as a sane product maker, I can't imagine providing a customer with a subpar user experience.
You know who else profits from misery? Doctors, and funeral home owners. Pretty much anyone in the media. I certainly hope my doctor isn't making terrible jokes about how much money he's going to make from my disease, but even if he was, it wouldn't be illegal nor would I find it a justifiable reason to leak his personal information (let alone his clients' information!).

You also assume everyone is already split into either the pro-Wikileaks camp or their detractors. As someone who has mixed feelings about Wikileaks, this definitely affected my view of them negatively. (Full disclosure - my card was among those leaked. But even if it hadn't been, if I had just been someone who knew about Stratfor rather than a subscriber, this would have put Wikileaks in a bad light for me).
I think it comes down to what people are willing to put up with. Personally, I don't mind any of the TSA stuff a single bit. I've stood in line for hours, missed a flight, and gotten home at 1am due to TSA and other security stuff, but I don't mind because it at the very least acts as a deterrent.

However, I think that most of these things could be solved with a second screening. None of these options would pass a secondary x-ray, for instance. Or, a better option would be to have all items purchased in duty free to be shipped as luggage, and retrieved in the destination airport. Those would both be a huge pain in the ass, however, and I doubt anyone would put up with it.
If more people followed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy), we could all go home earlier.
Spoiler alert: they aren't. The weapons they talk about supplying are "a net and trident" for India and "the shield
and short sword" for Pakistan. Seems pretty obvious that's a dumb joke. The closest they get to the illegal arms trade is reporting on it, eg. http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/global-arms-markets-seen-thro...
Yes it does matter. The right thing to do is transparency and that's what's happening here. If Bad Person & Associates are doing evil, they're not going to get a break just because their messages also contain personal love letters.
Lol ... Planned Parenthood.. Why go thru all this trouble, and not just use the black rod to stab someone ? would be way more effective no ?
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Coinsetter has a US bank account. ^_^
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Thank you whoever you are. May the randomness of the Universe be in your favor.

- It's blazing fast, much faster than the original.

- Doesn't have that stupid loading bar at the top.

- No more glitched video page loads.

- Isn't going to be redesigned every 5 months like YT.

- The video player is center aligned and not left aligned.

- Drops all the unnecessary UI elements and doesn't bother me to start using my real name with G+.

I've become so pissed off at Google for the way it's been handling YT redesigns (and Analytics redesigns too). It's like they get the most amateur designers out of high school, and go on an a/b test spree by changing absolutely everything they can. YT's gone through 3+ redesigns now. Each one getting progressively more annoying than the last. And they just keep tinkering with things that aren't broken. Remember the slideshow playlist at the bottom of the screen a year back? And who in their right mind would left align the div holding a video player?!

It's annoying when a company treats one of its flagship products like a never ending science project experiment.

Good job on FixYT, my only suggestion: give me the option to turn the color scheme black.
I think they're saying that people work when they want to work. Not imploring people to work on their vacations.
What great evil, exactly, has been done?
> Why does education/intelligence/morality not cull the inner devil of some?

Neither ignorance nor stupidity cause people to act this way.
I've been waiting for backlash against absurd restrictions to close the TSA since 2001. Don't hold your breath.
- Thanks for sharing
Yeah, I posted it to see what else was out there regarding this. It just caught my eye on Fast Company.
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The interesting part to me is leveraging the ssh agent. Yes, the secrets are all behind yet another key, but it happens to be a key that doesn't leave your local machine even when it's being used to get access to a remote secret, plus it's a key that you likely already have set up (and hopefully secured) for ssh access.
What's the risk of coinbase being shut down?
I think the title is somewhat misleading, maybe "What We Teach at Hacker School" would be more democratically accurate. This is a list of acquired skills, i.e. not fundamental. I think the only fundamental quality of a good programmer is that they really, really enjoy programming. When you have this indeed fundamental quality, becoming good is only a matter of time.

I recommend (re)reading "Great Hackers" by pg and (re)watching "Hammock Driven Development" by Rich Hickey.
Fraguccino gets the lithium from a battery.
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- Never Give Up My Friend, & Please Stay Positive.
What you propose wouldn't work. The only way to find the salt is to look at the Flash file, and, at that point, you'd notice the fake salt anyway.
My instinct is that online reviews are wildly unreliable and suspect. I certainly don't think they enjoy any sort of legal oversight.

I will take a large plurality as reliable, and someone able to write in the correct tone could certainly mislead me (that is, I will look at an individual review on its apparent merits), but I sure don't expect a couple of good or bad reviews to mean anything.

Also, the encyclopedia I ordered did not contain any murder mysteries, one star because I can't put no stars.
I love how he takes great pains to emphasize that it's "reloadable" and "break action" but when he fires it it just explodes.
Looks like you meant to reply to a different post. In any case, in the OP, it is described that their clothes are regularly cleaned.
Also, according to one of the original news reports, the husband ordered and (supposedly/arguably) agreed to the terms - but it was his wife who posted the review. She never agreed to the terms and thus cannot be bound by them.
I'd like to add being good at googling. Usually better programmers literally google better (find better results and faster) than weaker ones.
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- Here are the building instructions ~> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:101105
Seeing this 'nâ€™s' totally takes away from what the website is trying to say.
Does Stripe not have a dashboard for this?
- Im thinking of buying these and reselling them for a higher price.
I do precisely the same.
For the same reason (I'm using Ctrl+a in the shell), I'm using Ctrl+q as prefix for tmux. I'm quite surprised that I've never heard of anybody else using this combination.
Blowing Rackspace away on price is trivial - they're one of the most expensive hosting options I've ever looked at.
I am so glad you found this story helpful. This advice made a world of difference to me, and frankly I'm still surprised it worked so well. I hope it helps others too!
- It's funny how places where foreigners have been warned about, are the same places that many of us have no option but to live there.
Will San Francisco accept “upscale” residential hotels?
YT could disappear, but you'd have to pour a _lot_ of money into it.
curious to know if/how this affects Chromecast experience
Interesting, that is a good source, thanks for sharing.
You make some great points, Elon.
- CNN had a similiar version like this. Thanks for sharing.
I very much agree. I feel like every Google product is going straight downhill in similar ways.. even the ones unrelated to Google+. There must be some grand design to the whole thing but I don't see how it can all be money.
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- "When someones extends a kindness to you, write them a handwritten note, not an email" ~ NICE!!!
I think Candy Crush also sells gold for real money, and you can just add that using my script too, although I am not sure.
Those were stumbles the biggest failures are not as easily seen.

One of them was the way MS responded to the economic downturn. Despite having billions in the bank MS acted scared. They put the brakes on bonuses, promotions, and hiring. They indulged in a series of layoffs, giving many the impression that their jobs were not secure. MS had the money to project strength, to acquire talent from its competitors, and so forth. Instead they project weakness and abused their own employees.

And the result was that many of the most talented people left the company. People who saw that MS no longer had their back, people who had the easiest ability to find more interesting, more rewarding, or higher paying work elsewhere. And that exodus is still ongoing. It's a process of evaporation. As so many good people leave that diminishes the goodness of the rest of the company, which causes even more people to leave.

The changes in corporate culture and Ballmer's bad strategy decisions have had their role in people leaving as well. Moreover, Ballmer has been pruning the company of high level leadership which could challenge his authority. With predictable results.

Overall the difference in the average quality of people at MS is astounding. It used to be, even in the mid '00s, that the best and brightest work there. Now only a few people at MS fit that category and the ability of the company to execute on projects has been diminished in untold ways.
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When I got close to a pair of people, about 70% of the time one of them would make eye contact with me, so I'd introduce myself. The other 30% of the time they stayed intensely focused on their conversation, so I'd move on.

Just remember that everyone else at these events is there to meet other people too. They WANT to mingle, and by introducing yourself, you're helping them do so.

Good luck!
- They should develop one for football to track those who can't catch vs those whereby the balls aren't correctly targeted.
That's true, I'm not interested in the game itself at all. I barely played it enough to write this, really.
The real travesty here is that "General Aviation" flights (private aircraft) face no such TSA screening as we see in "Commercial Aviation" flight terminals.

So anyone who has the money to charter a private jet is also able to carry whatever they want onto an aircraft, which illustrates the double standard inherent in most tyrannical systems.
So glad I escaped writing clickbait! And I hope it helps you.
argh... must've happened when I made a small content edit from my phone about an hour ago.
> Thanks for the explicit heads-up.

It took me a long term to learn this one. I suppose if I'd read the MySQL docs from cover to cover I would've found it earlier.

One other problem that popped up was ignoring indexes on tables with TEXT fields during joins, which was a planner weakness. I understand it was fixed in 5.6; I'm waiting for the Percona version to stabilise before I upgrade.
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Have you looked at what Amazon stock has done over the past few years?
Thank you - definitely something to try when I have more time to experiment. I should move my C up a gear, grab the mplayer source and write a Pi driver for it as well.
In an unpaid internship, you typically get very little professional development - if the company can't pay you, then they probably don't have the resources to have a staffer support your learning either. With Tradecraft, we have paid experienced instructors (with your tuition money) to be there to help you to learn from your project work by giving guidance and feedback. We believe that this will give you the best of both worlds -- the transfer of knowledge that happens in a classroom, the assimilation of knowledge that happens on the job, and a feedback loop between the two.
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No, that's not the point. If you ever been through checkpoints enough times you will see TSA agents going back and forth skipping detectors all the time. If any of them can not smuggle hazardous stuff then we are living in a word where no cop is a bad cop.

Its all a show and unfortunately past examples shows that those who try to terror or did terror an airplane were either working with, willingly or not, the FBI/CIA or other gov agencies. And why wouldn't they? You take a mentally ill men, drug him big time, tell him government is bad and then you "catch" him on the plane with bomb behind his waist. Result? Another billion bucks spent on "terrorism" and Chertoff making $300MM on his radiation scanners.

So long story short; no, they are not interested in messing around with airport smallbusiness shops, even if this would stop a terrorist attack, because their mission is not to prevent one, but rather get american people used to deep searches, submission on demand and checkpoints everywhere.
it's actually sitting right here beside my desk. completely functional. ;)
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https://news.ycombinator.com
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.wired.com/
No I don't really think it would be. I doubt it would have been in recent history after Germans won either, and even if it did dynasties fall. "History is written by the victors" denies the fact that even the victors have their doubts, internal doubts, and some after reflection regret.
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> we bought and sold the Iraqi Dinar

I recall a lot of extremely scammy sites doing that a few years back.

http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/alerts/iraqi-dinar-scams.htm

http://www.mint.com/blog/investing/iraqi-dinar-scam/
I guess I could’ve phrased it more carefully. Sure, I think everybody can learn to program, but given the limited amount of time you can spend with each student and their predisposition toward some of the key elements of programming it's just unlikely that you can teach 30 first years how to legitimately program given just a 2 hour lab each week. Keep in mind some of the students are just 'tasting' programming and some students have ridiculous external commitments too.

I tutor people 1 on 1 now, besides working, and it's incredibly better. Never in this scenario have I met anybody who's never had those 'aha' moments.
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I really love that they had the strength of will to do science before they did philanthropy.

Often when trying to solve a hard social problem we just do what we think is intuitive. Raise the Minimum wage, cause the problem is people don't make enough, so if they make more it will be better. Then we find out that there is inflation and we only made the problem better in the short term.
A starting point. HN'd today.

http://firstround.com/article/Fight-Like-Youre-Right-Listen-...
Sounds vulnerable to a sybil attack.
New: over the past couple of hours, the woman herself has posted a number of comments on Reddit clarifying:

http://www.reddit.com/user/kaett
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Yeah, +1 for SUIT CSS. Modularity is clutch, particularly on larger projects that get tossed around a lot. I'm not completely sold on OOCSS, but MapBox's style guide is making a believer out of me (https://www.mapbox.com/base/). Minus the unsemantic grid, of course...
OK, how about airports stop selling aerosol cans and lithium batteries after the security check-in? They seem like the worst offenders here.
This is simultaneously an excellent hack, culture jam and an expose of the security theater that is the TSA.

There was also the people who were successfully able to get through with decoy explosives without a hitch, but this is much more whimsical.
See post by kid0m4n below. It's the worst kind of evil: warmongering.

I had a much better opinion of Stratfor until now. They were plotting how to best sell misinformation. Misinformation that could start a war in which millions could die. They thought they could get away with this shit.
Great. That way they can just sign it themselves. That way if a merchant does signature verification, it matches! And then when your CC company comes back and says "Chargeback is in dispute. The signature matches" you'll have to explain why you didn't follow the terms of the cardmember agreement.

Now, this is all very hypothetical for many reasons, but generally it's my practice to follow cardmember agreements that I am, after all, agreeing to follow.
Good question. What Facebook bug would you put a bounty on?

(ps I work on Facebook platform so this is not an idle question)
This is a good sign - now we know that all previous attempts of US Gov to destroy Bitcoin were futile. Including attacks on Bitcoin's cryptography (I'm sure that this type of attacks were tried).
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