skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the case well enough to comment on it, but my money would be the same explanation: badly coded automatic discovery systems. The DHS has been caring notoriously little about false positives and I wouldn't be surprised if some obscure rule got triggered because of her mother being on a blacklist for who-knows-what reason either related to her original ban to the lawsuit. The DHS must change because its mixture of incompetence, lack of transparency, and absence of supervision is a recipe disaster, but saying this particular case was made on purpose seems like sensationalist FUD to me. I could be wrong and it might be true, but I think everyone is jumping on conclusions way too fast.

There is no excuse to the government allegedly lying in court, but I have a hard time imagining anyone would do such a stupid move in their right mind. What could one hope to achieve by putting the daughter on the no-fly-list in the first place? That the key witness missing her flight would cause her testimony to be ignored? That stalling the process by a few days would tip the balance in their favor? That the consequences of the plot being discovered (which depended on the Malaysian airline keeping its mouth shut) do not considerably outweigh its benefits?
Also noteworthy is that this particular case is an appeal to a first decision back in in February 2012 that the DHS won, for reasons completely unrelated to Dr. Ibrahim being or not being able to board the flight: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1438741.html
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I assume that most hardcore bitcoin enthusiasts are morons but I guess there's a possibility that some legitimately evil early bitcoin adopters out there pushing bitcoin so that they can sell out of their positions at favorable prices.
You really should have done it 9 or 11 times. :P
An alternate view of Zimbardo's prison study: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=3025
>> I'm a developer but I've dabbled in graphics since the 70's with charcoal and paper then computers starting in the 80s'. My younger brother is more talented than me but it's relaxing sometimes. GIMP's UI never has made me feel comfortable but the application is immensely powerful.
You're reading into my statement above something I didn't say.
Thanks for the link.10 common misconceptions about couchDB and couchDB inside microsoft look really interesting.

I think couchDB team should add link to the videos directly inside the wiki. They could be a great resource for a new comer.
Would echoing the chracter on screen require a seperate video driver to mark the pixels that make up the character ? Considering how hard is to make the keyboard driver, wouldn't the video driver be many folds harder?
baby+hackernews12345@gmail.com
Goes to the inbox of user baby
It will, but for me the latency ruins the experience.
Bill Gates: Here Are the Books I Read When Out on the Road
Motorola is still Motorola, their radios are of the same quality as ever.
In Australia, our "welfare" system is taken care of by Centrelink. They have all of your personal details, as well as access to the amount you're getting per fortnight, and job history, resume etc. Lots of stuff you don't want compromised.

They also limit your password to 8 characters.

This is a huge government website that heaps of Australians have to access at least fortnightly.
Yeah, I did not hear about pwdhash and it sounds like a nice idea.

One thing I have noticed though is that when one enters the same site password, you get the same "Hashed" password back to use. Yes, there is an extra step involved here so that buys you some security but I will be cautious in reusing site passwords.

Imagine an attack where for the top 100 sites in the world, all of the most commonly used passwords are used to generate the "Hashed" (pwdhash) passwords for each site and compile that info into a big list. This can then be added to the candidate list of password that can be tried in cracking leaked hashes.

The take way here is that even though pwdhash gives you domain-specific generated passwords, you will make to sure that you use a different site password as input to pwdhash for each site.
There is the issue though that as young people, they may well not have the maturity or information to fully understand and comprehend the decision they are making.

I was going to detail this as a possible excuse - but considering this reasoning and the consequences has made me reconsider: You've made a bad choice [morally / ethically]. Now you have to live with the consequences.

Can be seen as a tough stance, but then again, so's life. Didn't really mean to fall of that cliff? Oh, here's your life back again.
Isn't that perjury?
Something is actually being bought and sold. This makes it easy to give a "real" valuation, rather than plucking figures out of the air based on buzz.

That is why unprofitable companies can raise so much money. You can sell the hope that it will someday make some sort of money, somehow. How much? Set your imagination (and your chequebook) free!
Actually couchDb has been doing a plenty of conferences for a long time. They are a regular feature in erlang talks. And they are pretty active on github as well. It's just that they don't come in the news much.
Right about the truck pumps - I guess the main thing is that because trucks and other large diesel fuel consumers exist and are popular, the overall infrastructure for diesel, including refining and distribution networks, also exist. An individual pump is only a small part of that network.
By the title, it looks like they're working under GAAP rules. 1 billion gross, 213 million revenue. Gross would be the overall moneys that come in, $213mm would be what Uber grosses for itself, and the difference would be contractor payments.

I'm just speculating, of course, but if the title is to be believed, it supports what you're saying, I think.
and I'd be fine with this if my choices of internet providers was greater than 2.
It's a one-off effect rather than -15IQ per fallacy, though I wouldn't deny that adding more fallacies could have some cumulative effect. Maybe deeper, rather than more extensive, understanding of fallacies, cognitive biases and so on may start to reverse the effect, though I wouldn't exactly bet on it doing do consistently.
Is Medium suitable for writing about programming?
There's a relevant book from 1715, which I discovered while researching the existence of "ever-burning lamps": The History of Many Memorable Things Lost Which Were In Use Among the Ancients - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6961227M/The_history_of_many...

I believe it does refer to Damascus steel, as well as many other lost Classical through Dark Ages inventions. It digresses into talking about bygone social customs in places, but many of the descriptions are excellent and illustrative.
OK, but you are still claiming that the correct interpretation of this evidence is very different to everyone in the article. Given that the facts you describe are very well known and basic, I doubt the people are unaware of them. They may, for example be using a measure of genetic difference that works better for distinguishing between groups.
"Nobody expected them to use the plane as a weapon"

Nobody ... except for Tom Clancy and every single person who read _Debt of Honor_, wherein a plane is used as a suicide weapon flown into the US capital building.
I am using this app for a couple of months and i am amazed how it do the stuff behind the scenes.

But it has very less human emotions. sometimes it get puzzled with the questions i have asked from it.
"they are". not a native speaker but we were thaught "they" as the proper way to refer to a single person of unknown gender when I studied for my CPE certificate.
> There's nothing stoping someone from offering a credit account (e.g. a consumer credit card) denominated in Bitcoin.

It's definitely possible to offer a credit card transacting in bitcoin though it would have a number of technical differences. One big one is that the settlement process would need to be immediate, otherwise the transaction would be rejected. With a normal credit card transaction the funds don't actually transfer till the end of the day (if you're lucky) or the next business day (most of the time). With a bitcoin backed card it'd need to be immediate and the credit card company would need to have the bitcoin "at hand" at the time of the transaction.
Most video cards (some newer ones have stopped shipping with it) have, baked in, a text mode buffer. It's included in the Vesa Bios Extensions.
PC video systems support text mode, where making a character appear amounts to simply writing the correct bytes to the correct memory mapped video buffer address. Graphics mode is similar but with more bytes (say, four per pixel).
Is this a question? Or a user with 31k points using skeptics.stackexchange as a blog host? The back of the envelope calculation was fun to read, though.
That's not how the mechanism works. The buyer sends the money to a special address which is like a staging area. The money cannot leave that staging area in any direction (including back to the buyer) until two of the buyer, seller, and arbiter agree on its destination.
Software Engineering: Predictioning The Next 50 Years
Almost 50 years has passed since the birth of software engineering. In the spirit of this blog post [1], what do you think the next 50 years will look like?

[1]: http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/12/software-engineering-the-next-50-years/
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Adobe is backwards and kludgy and needs to get with the future, get with Linux, get with the program.
You're correct. Which is why most reports of revenue for Uber, or even Airbnb, almost always use numbers in the hundreds of millions. However, both companies have gross sales in the billions.
Agreed- the frustration was more than enough!
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>> I appreciate and use Wine quite a bit, but it's far from perfect. A lot of things just plain crash from the get go.

This hasn't been my experience. Wine works great, Netflix runs very good on Ubuntu because of Wine. I've played several Windows games on Linux like Unreal which ran better on Linux under Wine that on Windows.
Please turn it off or I'll stare at it for hours.
"[T]he economy" does not 'decide' anything; individuals act in their own self-interest (, though not necessarily their long-term self interest).
I've been on 2-factor auth for a while, but only switched to a password manager after my "default" password got hacked in that Adobe incident some weeks back. (KeePassX!)
That is exactly my fear
Have they admitted to any of these?

Does the CIA admit to even owning drones? Or are these Army operations run by the CIA?
I don't think it was flagged off, I think Valleywag is in the banned site list.
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Who have they actually come for?

What group is no longer here because the CIA/NSA have decided they shouldn't exist?
If the goods you purchased are already in your hands, and your bitcoin payment has been lost in a blockchain accident, what is your incentive to rebroadcast your bitcoin payment?
Seems pretty similar to this one from a year or two back...

https://shouldichangemypassword.com/
My wife only needed one night to switch to Linux.
The point the article is making is that: Saying "Bitcoin transactions aren't reversible" and then using that as a premise for a "well it's fucked before getting out the gate" argument is bullshit. Reversible transactions will emerge with very little friction because the currency has the m-of-n feature and there's a clear business model for service providers to be the trusted third party.
Start engineering tomorrow, today. Reminds of something I saw on Twitter, you want to be one of the people using Lisp in the 60s, not one of those using COBOL.
Oh, god, it was glorious. Or at least, a lot of parts of it were. I made good friends on the Tolkien newsgroups there, back when they were the place for discussions of his work (with multiple world-famous scholars taking part, and intense debates between many deeply knowledgeable people that could last for weeks). Nothing I've found today can compare. Heck, even the huge, high traffic groups like rec.humor had a real sense of community if you watched for a while and got to know the regulars. I still miss it (obviously).
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I don't know about everyone else, but the print page still has an ad on it for me.
So there's Uber and then Uber X. Uber X are independent people with their own cars, but the black car service (at least in the cities that I've been) is farmed out to an already-existing car service in the city.

Those employees are also often contractors of those companies...
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I volunteered in Sudan. People tell me how bad they have it here. They complain about things. They tell me how their job sucks. How hard they have it.

Sudan was hell. I can't imagine places worse. I saw infants clinging to their dead mother in the street. Diseases that disfigured. Horrible treatment of women and children.

It is not all like that, but there are little pockets of Hell through out it.

I was there trying to help with water purification. I no longer take for granted many things. I know the value of clean water, vaccinations, sanitation, human rights.

I would say that everyone should go there once so they can appreciate how great it is to not be there.
On multiple occasions I've searched for an answer, found it on S.O., thought "this seems vaguely familiar," and then realized that it was my own answer from a couple years prior.

Saved me time the second time around I guess.
I'm not saying HAML isn't of value. Please don't misunderstand me, I like HAML. I use it for my template engine with Sinatra. But in the grand scheme of things if using HAML to increase productivity by saving keystrokes is what the company thinks is its competitive advantage, which is what they told me, then how do they deal with someone spending time just researching (i.e. stackoverflow, google) and thinking a problem and solution through thoroughly? The two seem at odds to me.
The odds of someone EVER actually opening the door mid flight are ridiculous. Plus how many people would stop that from happening once they knew was occurring - I know I'd be one of the first people up and trying to get on top of that person to prevent that from happening - and I know I'm not alone on that thought.
>> Linux forces user to learn about OS and computer in general, which is not needed for most of people.

My wife switched in one summer night in 2007, she hasn't looked back, she's a casual user, her laptop came from Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed. I guarantee you, she is the typical, non-techie user.
What differentiates this from, say, /r/games?

Just curious, because at a cursory glance it appears to be just Yet Another News Aggregator
Greenspan says Bitcoin's a Bubble.
Text mode is super easy - you just set bytes in the correct memory location (0xb8000000 if I remember correctly).

Writing an actual graphics driver is tricky - although there are some ways to get decent frame buffer modes (like VESA Bios Extentions), to do things really well requires thousands of lines of code before you can even get a pixel on the screen, and is different for every card.

It may be a bit easier now - you could look at the kernel mode setting code in the Linux kernel that exists now for Intel, nVidia (through Norveau) and AMD cards that didn't exist a few years ago when I was dabbling around in OS dev. Still, it would be a massively difficult task. You'd probably want to use the full Mesa stack and open source drivers that use it if possible, but writing the runtime to support it would be a big task.
lastpass.com/adobe will show you the list of hints of yourself and other users that used the password.
> Nobody ... except for Tom Clancy and every single person who read _Debt of Honor_, wherein a plane is used as a suicide weapon flown into the US capital building.

Which is almost how Samuel Byck planned to assassinate Richard Nixon. The difference is that Byck planned to fly into the White House. (No, they're not the same building. Many people are confused on this point.)

He utterly failed in his attempt to hijack the airliner (hint: don't attempt a hijacking while the plane is still on the ground unless you know how to get a plane airborne), however, and Byck killed himself before the police got to him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck

Anyway, movie-plot threats only very rarely come to pass. There are thousands of potential threats of this nature for every attempt, and the ratio of attempts to successful attempts is probably fairly high as well. It isn't worthwhile to try to protect against these kinds of threats.

https://www.schneier.com/essay-087.html
nitpick.

here's the spirit. Often people will dismiss the human consequences of innovation with the logic that it hasn't been all that bad in the past. But the reality is that for effected people it really has been all that bad.

Take the Luddites. They seem kinda silly ... going around breaking mechanical looms ... until you put yourself in their shoes. These weren't the poorest of the poor, unskilled laborers. They were skilled laborers who put effort into learning a craft whose skills were suddenly devalued by automation. And that was bad enough for them that they were willing to risk death to destroy mechanical looms.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.htm
"I remember back when you and Jeff were talking about taking over the way all online discussion happened."

Aren't they now -- or at least Jeff Atwood -- working on Discourse?
JavaScript goes from a mediocre language to nearly unusable without closures.
could it be "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Your data seems like, off. Ctrl+Alt+F1 does indeed give you a nice way to kill the game. On Windows, you have to hit power reset and hope you don't lose anything important.
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I think the most important design criteria in the evolution of Unix to Plan 9 to Inferno was that each step consciously made things _simpler_. Simplify the programming model, use fewer different concepts, get rid of workarounds and hacks by bringing useful features into the OS. Remove redundant utilities and even options to utilities, focus on improving the one may to get something done so it hardly takes any effort to do it, and integrate all the various bits well with each other. It's not an approach that asks for newcomers to hack on all sorts of things to "improve" the OS by adding everything possible to it, which is part of why it doesn't foster a big community.

I think the biggest difference between Plan 9 and Unix is that Plan 9 rids systems programming of many special cases by reusing the filesystem metaphor as far as possible. This is a deep and pervasive change, and makes doing most things on the system just a matter of reading and writing to files. This leads to neat things like the /env filesystem, which is a per-process view of the contents of shell variables as files. (This makes it easy to write make (mk) rules that depend on shell variables, just by listing the files/variables as prerequisites.)

Inferno's biggest difference is that it runs the entire OS on a virtual machine called emu. Kind of like Java, but not just a language. (Inferno has a language too, called Limbo, which is closer to Go than C.)
There is a great documentary talking to the guys who engineered the robot. Interesting story they are a couple of research students at University of Tokyo wanting to develop the robot for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, but there is a rule at the University that no military funded projects are allowed. So these guys are doing it independently, pretty awesome guys I wish them the best. In the documentary[1], you can see how SCHAFT robot works in detail.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKiXM7bUypk&t=25m0s
I never spent any time there, but it warms my heart to hear that alt.callahans is still alive.

My impression of Usenet's death is closely related to your "hard to use" summary: it required people to install and configure a separate client, in an era when many forums were becoming available through the web browser folks already had. (Standalone email clients are far less popular today than they used to be, too. But Usenet didn't remain essential until web interfaces became usable the way that email did.)
You just need a "wastegate" similar to what is found on an automobile turbocharger. If too much air is moving into the generator turbine, you open some vents to bypass it.
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Treadmills are like this too.
Presumably the password is stored to a file or in memory (of course that could be arbitrarily difficult to figure out how to decode, but it can't be encrypted since that would require another password.)
10k feet sounds a bit low. i thought the limit was at 60k feet and 600MPH
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Who says a competitor has to be the one to exploit security holes? It is much more likely that the source code would be sold on the black market to those who have no qualms about doing this for gain.
Aside from those who enter fake addresses or addresses they do not control, the folks who set up websites like this can also connect each email address with an IP address. This might be useful, e.g., for determining geolocation. It is sad to think that naive users are falling for this every time a data breach makes the news, handing over their email address to total strangers.
I saw infants clinging to their dead mother in the street.

Wow. That gives one a perspective on life.
A multisign service like this would be very difficult to make worthwhile. On small transaction, it would be hard to justify doing an investigation for a rate that would be worthwhile to the parties involved. It works well for Visa because Visa's already handling everything. Having these investigation services encourages people to use Visa, due to the peace of mind. It comes with it. With this type of service, you have to seek it out, pay for it separately and pay enough that this party will actually do an investigation. Obviously, it would have to work like insurance, were a majority of people aren't being scammed, but it's a difficult business model to comprehend.
> Funnier thing is mall securities, you can't bring a small knife into mall but you can buy a chainsaw

Can you fuel up (or charge up) a chainsaw in a mall? How dangerous is a chainsaw when it can't be turned on?

And that's assuming small knives really are banned from malls. Do they really care if you have a pocketknife on your belt? Maybe things are different where I live (Montana).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifiable_victim_effect
I actually did not assume based on her name. (There's nothing worse than a correction that is itself wrong.) I tried to find a biography of her in the third person, but could not find one. From her About page, I found out she was a member of Pyladies, which describers itself as an all-woman group. At that point, I felt I did my due diligence.

It really is an important point, not pedantry, to not assume based on names because many cultures have names that sound like the other gender to American ears (and vice versa, no doubt).
Figured it was something like that. Was surprised to be contacted out of the blue, but I figured if I ever really wanted to work there I'd probably have to be the one doing the contacting.
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I would buy one of those instantly, regardless of what weird ass CPU architecture or interpretation of Unix was involved.
You can. Put this line in the config file:

define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct');