skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In above hypothetical situation, prior “galvanization” causes controllable damage. If you don't do this, and the worst happens, does this mean that many people are now dead due to your negligence? After all, the information you had did indicate that chances of such a disaster would drop dramatically if you fake an attack in time.

This might be very painful to realize, I think.
It doesn't say "logo". Literally interpreted, it means that there is a giant octopus on the satellite. That provokes one to click the link to find out more.
Bizarrely, in the UK there is a law which mandates daily religious worship in all state-maintained schools:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/htt...

"Since the 1944 Education Act, re-enacted in all subsequent Education Acts, there has been a statutory requirement that all maintained schools must provide a daily act of collective worship for all registered pupils, unless they have been withdrawn by their parents. The Education Act 1988 removed the requirement for this to take place at the start of the school day. Collective Worship can now take place any time of the school day."

In practice, the law is widely ignored.
In the recent Brazilian protests, infiltrated undercover policemen made several violent actions as an excuse to lower the credibility of peaceful protests.
Science needs better disruption and I am very happy that a nobel winner is willing to do this.

Whenever I read these stories I feel a little ashamed that I'm not working towards this disruption right now.
I guess a next-gen console can just emulate the low-level APIs for older games.
"that JavaScript is only a crutch—a polyfill for something which is intended to undergo standardisation and formalisation as core browser functionality."

Thats excellent. However if the poster requires behaviour that's built into the browser, he may as well require behaviour that's supplied by the site.
> In Romania? Wanna bet?

Oh, I'm sure many would if they could. I mean, that's basically how the people-trafficking approach to running one of these businesses works; you bribe people so that the girls are in the country illegally and therefore can't insist on being paid properly etc. But the example in this article doesn't seem to be doing that, and in any case there's no reason to assume this is any more or less an issue with camshows than with fruit picking or mining or accountancy.

> Videochat studios in Eastern Europe (or at least in Romania, the one I'm more familiar with) are not owned by the men and women who star in the shows (obviously). Opening one is a pretty big investment, too.

Well, sure. Like a farm or a mine or anything else. I don't see how this is relevant to the rest of your argument.

> Typically, the "employees" aren't legally employed there, either, so there are no social benefits, no medical insurance and so on.

That's definitely an issue. But again, it's an issue in any industry; nothing specific to camgirls here.

> were it not to draw on a pool of poor people who cannot afford any other option, would fail.

Any business in a poor country is like that. But a simplistic response like refusing to buy products made in poor countries hurts those same people more than ignoring their plight. (Which is not to say that there aren't better options than ignoring them - but those options are not obvious or easy. Did you have a concrete suggestion for how to make these people's lives better? Because I don't think making camsites illegal would do that).

> Most of the girls who do this aren't doing it on Western terms, where they figured out going to college certainly doesn't pay off as well as this. They're doing it on Eastern terms, where they figured out it's either this or starving.

I doubt that - two years ago this option didn't exist, but very few people were starving, even in Eastern Europe. I'm not saying the alternative is good - we might be talking 14-hour days in the fields or similar - but it will exist and won't be starvation. I think many of these girls aren't being coerced because there's no need to coerce them - this career is genuinely a better option than the available alternatives. (And again, yes that sucks, but what's the solution? Not banning what's currently the best option they have)

> Edit: unless it wasn't bloody obvious already, the vast majority of videochat studios are actually brothels, or act as covers for brothels, as prostitution is outlawed in most of Eastern Europe.

It's pretty clear the one in the article isn't. And if a videochat studio can make the kind of money the article claims, while remaining just a videochat studio and operating within the law, why wouldn't they do that?
Cross domain requests are the real problem. Usually, allowing "example.com" to run javascript fetched from "example.com" is not a problem. It's when "example.com" fetches javascript from 10 other domains that the web starts to behave horribly.

RequestPolicy for Firefox blocks all cross-domain requests. Even fetching images and css from different domains. It has a blacklist/whitelist system very similar to NoScripts, so you have to allow for example, twitter.com to fetch resources from twimg.com etc, but you only have to allow it once.

[edit] I use both NoScript and RequestPolicy, but I consider RequestPolicy to be a much more powerful and useful addon.
A low GPA can keep you out of a good grad school. (A low GPA can keep you out of officer school, if he wants to join the military as an officer.) 5 or 10 years down the road, yeah, it doesn't matter. But for his very next step after graduation, it probably does. (And next steps lead to next-next steps which lead to next-next-next steps.)

On the flip side: Linus Torvalds inventing Linux, or Guido van Rossum inventing Python has, I'm sure, benefited their own careers. I'm totally down with doing the "crazy, hippie, open-source thing" because it's your passion.

But: I'm guessing that Linus and Guido (and pg and others...) all did very well as undergrads. If you're destined to be an open-source badass (or a startup badass), then 4 years of good grades shouldn't be too painful.

(And, I'll just say it, anecdotally: finishing my physics degree made me into a smarter, better person. At the time, my quantum mechanics classes were the hardest things that I had ever done in my life. And now, my own hobbies are just as hard... and rewarding.)

edit: I'd like to mention that I didn't graduate college until I was 28. I can totally empathize with following an unusual path in life that your family doesn't approve of.
Why I'm turning "run attachment in emails" off by default.

No script is simply the sane alternative to treat JS as untrusted software trying to run on your device. Its a bit inconvenient, but thats the trade you have to make if you want to retain control. The other alternative is that web browser developers work towards a more feature rich Style sheet language, say CSS, So JS Turing completeness can be exclusively used only when it's needed.
see Aphyr's comments here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/redis-db/Oazt2k7Lzz4/q9YDD7D...
I believe you are in correct on your last point. The renewed law only says "must be detectable." So the metal can be removable in this law. His amendment was to force a permanent piece of metal.

That worries us because even if the "full firearm" (assembled) might contain metal, the part that contains the serial numbers could no longer be made of polymer (this piece is technically considered the "firearm" for registration in NY, CT, and most likely CA).
What have you tried? how to properly ask technical questions
Bleach stencil shirts can be ridiculously beautiful. They are also, for obvious reasons, quite fragile. Temporary wearable art.
well i would first concentrate on fixing the GLARING errors on there already......

for eg. Basic C test

"What is the legal range of values for a int in C Language"

A) 0-65535
B) -128-127
C) -32768-32767
D) 0-255

None of these is necessarily the right answer
The shopping list demo really looks like org-mode to me. :)
yup new, but use a restricted jailed and chrooted shell. Ask your #sysadmin of choice =) You can even build a REST like API wrapper for this. That's what I was going to do.
Yeah, sure.. what about the twitter button from articles or jQuery library included in your pages?
Oh, good grief. That was the original article's title.
Your bitwise example reminds me of how much I dislike working with Haskell's Data.Bits:

(x .&. y) + ((x `xor` y) `shiftR` 1)
Richelieu famously said that given five lines by the most honest of men, he could find something to hang him by.

Today that role falls to the tired and unimaginative application of critical theory to, well, everything.
The Pirate Bay resurfaces at a new domain following seizure
From FTA: "Schekman is the editor of eLife... The papers are free for anyone to read".

So in answer to your question, "No".
Thanks for giving it a try and for taking the time to comment. Google hangouts is a temporary place for this - but I accept that it may catch some people off-guard. Would it help to note on the button that it is a google hangout?
Giving some workshops I did with non IT (marketing, middle management, ...) here at the company, I think a lot can be gained by some 3 hour workshops with e.g. Scratch/Blockly.

Understanding the breaking down of problems into commands, loops, conditionals using variables, data structures, functions, about abstracting solutions into more general solutions, about refactoring, legacy code etc. helps a lot, even if one is not "a programmer" afterwards.

I can only recommend to everyone doing this at your company.
Works for me, Win7 + FF 25.0.1.
Isn't this the 1th time this has been posted recently?
Techstars Seattle Raises $2.05M For Continuous Integration - Built On Docker
Not exactly. Those used to focus on "actually doing stuff" and tradesman type careers, which about half the grads eventually end up doing after dropping out of super expensive university. Socially that has an incredible negative opinion over the past few years (lots of marketing by the .edu and banking complex to spend more on schooling). So between irrational hatred of the trades and liability costs and/or insurance, shops have been mostly although not entirely removed.

Drafting is still borderline acceptable because its assumed you'll be an engineer and obviously the training you get in autocad 2003 at school will be about as useful on the job in 2023 as my experience with Bank Street Writer when I use vim today (In other words zero if not negative)

The STEM fad is less oriented toward practical tradesman type stuff and more toward physical learning... we're doin' it "engineering style" if we build bridges outta lego for fun time instead of playing dodgeball or having a spelling bee.

The fad is burning out... An inductive proof of all .edu fads, or all fads in general, is something like generation zero was real STEM, but n+1 was 95% of what passed for STEM in generation n and 5% whatever we used to do. Once generation n gets to a high enough number you end up doing whatever you feel like. Comes from not having a real definition, along with everyone loves a popular label, so kindergarteners attend STEM schools meaning ... um what?
Good post but I think it's too long relative to the target audience. If the audience is "Someone who can't be bothered to write more than two sentences", asking them to read 2,000 words is a bit much. I liked it though - good examples and such - but I think it would benefit from a good editor to tighten it up.
Huh?

Mike Hoye: "C inherited its array semantics from B, which inherited them in turn from BCPL, and though BCPL arrays are zero-origin, the language doesn’t support pointer arithmetic, much less data structures."

Martin Richards: "If a BCPL variable represents a pointer, it points to one or more consecutive words of memory. These words are the same size as BCPL variables. Just as machine code allows address arithmetic so does BCPL, so if p is a pointer p+1 is a pointer to the next word after the one p points to. Naturally p+0 has the same value as p."
Help choose which Linux distro saves the earth from alien invasion.
This post is for something I have made. So it is, by definition, self promoting. But I know many of you will be interested. So, with that in mind, I'm going to post it anyway.

I have almost finished a novel. And I need help getting some dedicated writing time to get the last ~10k words down and final edits in place.

The book, “Steve’s Laptop”, is a Sci-Fi Comedy about a developer named Steve who, while working at “the world’s largest software company” near Seattle, is trying to save the world from an alien invasion. Primarily with his laptop. Hence the title.

If I were forced to compare it to something I would call it: “They Live” + “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” + “The IT Crowd“.

I'm holding a "Help me finish this book" sale/fundraiser. A pay-what-you-want deal where you get my existing books, and get a chance to take part in shaping a small part of the book itself.

Specifically, you get to vote on which Linux distro is used on "Steve's Laptop". If you want to see Arch save the world from alien invasion... this is your chance.

More Info:
http://lunduke.com/2013/12/10/the-help-bryan-finish-this-book-sale/
Marketing Startup Shift Raises $6M For European Expansion
The only way one cannot understand "what the fuss is all about" is by ignoring the context under which all of this is happening.
Facebook Games of the Year 2013
Here's the link to additional info so it's more clickable :

http://lunduke.com/2013/12/10/the-help-bryan-finish-this-boo...
It is positive that economists are starting to "get it".
Dutch designers create mobile lab that looks like a futuristic fighter jet
In Memory: Grace Hopper To Programmers: Mind Your Nanoseconds
no. you can still chain xinetd.
I have a PS3 and don't know if I'll upgrade to a PS4. Maybe when there are lots of more games. (Dark Souls 3?)

(I might even have gone the M-soft way, since they seem to have better support for hobby developers, but I don't have time for work/hobbies already and ... well, Windows.)

Edit: I might look into Steam and an ok graphics card for one of my Linux computers. (Anyway, my 2 cent.)
SolarImpulse prepares for crossing the Atlantic
The military/spy agencies are not concerned about being politically correct. This is sort of a tradition, if you look at missile projects they all have logos like these and are called things like "reapers" etc... If we start seeing this on the White House seal I'll be concerned.
To me, saying: "Multithreaded programs are not difficult, you just have to know how to do them" is extremely similar to "Multithreaded programs are difficult, and you have to know how to do them"

I've done a lot of multithreaded programs, and, yep, you have to use some good practices to avoid making the code explode. You know, having to learn them and stuff is why they are "difficult". Just because you know how to get something done does not make that "easy". That's what experience is for.
Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA
Thank you! I had actually had this on a todo list and go to it about 45 minutes ago. Next time I will put things like this higher on my todo.

Thanks for trying the cafe.
Honestly - ex academic here - I've come across a couple of research topics that I'd really like to publish in, and I have zero interest in pissing through a peer review process.

I am thinking of throwing something into the glossy professional journal, and maybe doing a whitepaper or two on the corporate website. That way, people will link and refer to it if it is good, and they won't if it is not - and it will disappear or be referenced accordingly.

I intend to include the data and code, so everything can be verified independently.

That the rest of the publishing world is simultaneously going down that same path seems to me an inevitability.
Coming soon: traderjoes.soy birkenstock.soy wholefoods.soy

...and so on
... and to think we don't even wear helmets on our bikes.

And it's not that Dutch skulls happen to be tougher.
Google Erects Fake Brain With ... Graphics Chips?
Wow, that sounds like a racket.
QuickViz - Flowcharts toolkit for iOS
"Linkbait". I wrote a post on my own fucking blog on Friday. I was quite drunk at the time after a long week of working on web stuff.

Then someone else posted it on Hacker News.

Any chance I could write stuff on my personal blog in the future without being accused of clickbaiting or linkbaiting or whatever?
That's what Facebook does with content we post, what Twitter does with content we post (albeit 140 character), etc.. They're not generally doing it out of the good of their hearts. Those kinds of projects don't end up staying alive because they're not profitable - unfortunately, mind you. It would be great if hobby projects, used by even 100 monthly or 1,000,000 monthly, could be kept operational.
I'm using that phrase not because I've heard it recently, but because it conveys the nature of the sentiment I've seen. Many women, at least by my anecdotal experience, see sex as something that they give up, and are expected to, after certain checkpoints in a dating relationship. I've never seen a man express this particular feeling.

I mention Manhattan for a reason: it's got an unbalanced gender ratio and the highest percentage of single men in the country. At least anecdotally, women express a noticeably greater frustration with not being in a committed relationship than in other parts of the country. In a way it's quite the opposite phenomenon of what I saw in my engineering days, with a disproportionately male crowd dissatisfied by their dating prospects. However, there is a palpable difference in the attitude of the two groups towards sex. The men were upset they weren't having sex. The women date, and have sex if they want, but are somewhat resentful about it because they'd rather settle down.
Guilty Verdict in First Ever Cybercrime RICO Trial
Great feedback and thanks for trying the Café. To be honest the 'its free' was put on as an after- thought and I hadn't thought how prominent it needs to be.

This whole thing is a learning experience and this is a key lesson - be clear with the message.
Official Raspberry Pi User Guide: 2nd edition out now
That's really no different from .com ... Except for that people seem to have forgotten about the .com executables file extension.
I didn't fully "get" the implications of an exo-cortex until I read Accelerando by Charles Stross, really good read!

In the book a punk kid steals one of the protagonist's AR glasses and computing devices. When the kid puts these devices on he, in effect, becomes almost like the original owner. He is now "tapped in" to the original owners exo-cortex.
Docker Hack Day Demo Videos
"You better..." signals hat you don't agree because the quoted line does not fit your worldview. Meybe "You better" come with some support for whatever point you want to make?

Meanwhile:

http://beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/greece.ht... http://beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/hungary.h... http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/20496.php
> So maybe Notch does write bad code but I think being a programmer is more than just writing code. In the end Notch got the job done and people are enjoying the result.

But by that logic Farmville is a great game, too, and it also makes the script authors of some TV series objectively great authors.

Is success noble per definition, and sanctifies the means, or does the nobility of means sanctify the success they achieve? For me it's the latter, never the former.

Mind you, I said nothing about Notch being a great or bad programmer/designer, I simply disagree with the logic.
Plugging a PC into a TV has always been a faf, may not be now, but perhaps that leads onto the marketing factor.
Open source will let your fridge send messages to your TV and phone
Similar motif on NROL-66: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NROL-66_Patch.png

Can't make this shit up
In my experience, the Spotify desktop app has spotty[1]-at-best linux support, but the webapp seems to do fine.

[1] HAH!
I'd rather have a 20th century healthcare system, or a 20th century prison system, or a 20ths century set of .gov regulations, or a 20th century separation of church and state, or a 20th century social welfare system or ...

Don't get me wrong, I totally look forward to a 23rd century anti-matter power plant or whatever, but there's some huge issues to be solved first. "learn to code, but god help you if you get sick, because we won't" or "learn to code, in a for profit prison, because you smoked the wrong plant". "Or learn to code, quickly, before you get cancer, because we're business friendly now so we don't enforce environmental and food safety laws anymore"
I would add humourlessness. There is good old article on adult industry by Martin Amis:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/17/society.martina...

"But then humourlessness, universal and institutionalised humourlessness, is the lifeblood of porno"
“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say
Future Tech and Upgrading your Brain
Ok - debt is not a problem if you can repay it (i.e. the growth can compensate for debt). There.

Debt isn't the problem. If you however close yourself in your house for the fear of someone mentioning debt don't be surprised you lose your job and can't repay it.
She says the girls are exploited by the studio and the clients are exploited by the girls. A typical marxist way to view things. I see no one being exploited here. All I see is consenting adults passing contracts with each others and all getting satisfaction out of it. Nobody is being forced to do anything. The studio makes good money, the women and men work willingly and make a great wage even by american standards. And clients, well, they may be lonely indeed but for all I know, the few minutes they spend on the cam may be the the happiest minutes of their days, no one is forcing them to pay for the service and they seem extremely satisfied by what they're paying for.

So who here is being exploited? All I see is an exchange of transactions between consenting adults that all seem extremely satisfied with what they get out of each deal. What again is wrong with that? Where is the exploitation? I know it sounds good to say these people are all exploited and maybe we should ban these activities to protect these people from hurting themselves because they're too dumb to make their own decisions. This is generating great business for Romania and client satisfactions. Please, don't call it exploitation and let people live their life. Live and let live. Don't judge, don't prohibit things because they offend you.
Yeah, I was fully expecting the satellite to have a picture of Cthulhu on it.
Knowing you can plug a PC into a TV isn't something most people know about. You need special graphics cards or adapters and have to deal with weird resolutions and oversized images.

Consoles just work...
Developed on Hackaday: First Feedback From Users
Mosh - mobile shell
Tech giants call for spying reforms
The possibilities are endless, just add a websocket proxy as a front-server and you can allow dynamic and even secure control of an entire infrastructure (given that you add auth layer). Here's something you could use for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6880487
Or just setup haproxy with it.
Pussies are bullshit. Don't let them tell you any different.
Yes tech start ups were HUGE(Possibly bigger than now) in the 90's. It all came crashing down in the early 2000's.