skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>On other side many people lost unemployment support, because they refused to work in brothel as cleaners or maintenance personnel.

It's my understanding that what you've said is a myth. In any case, all reasonable social security policies have a "ethical objection clause", e.g. people can't be forced to work in occupations that they ethically object to - and this should mean that social security should be impossible to lose for refusal of employment.
This could be valuable, especially for VC firms, and for startups who are looking to pitch themselves.

That said, I'm a data scientist, and if your startup ranks poorly, there's no way for big data to estimate your ingenuity and ability to creatively improve your product.

Data science works, but it doesn't govern the universe.
>This progression seems somewhat interesting to me. As does the desire to not have to simulate code in your head.

But none of that has anything to do with monads.
"You got so tripped up in the terms and concepts, you didn't even get it right."

Where did I trip up?

Sure, people will need to adjust their thinking, but I think you overestimate the obsession with rising salaries/costs.

"In a deflationary economy, people always buy LESS of your stuff and you have no idea if that's happening"

[citation needed]
Good. Solicitation threatens girls and women simply walking in their own neighborhoods.
That's a rather funny comment to make in response to speculation (that I do think sound a bit far fetched) that the NSA has used its influence to reduce the amount of EU anti-trust action, supported by pointing out how easy near-monopolist US companies have had it in Europe.
Human Cloning At Last
I might want to take loners.org from you, and create "facebook, without the ability to add friends".

/joke
Meet the music companies behind many of those YouTube copyright claims
It's not that it would eliminate it, but it would make the margins to due pure latency arbitrage so small as to make it not worthwhile (in theory anyway).

That said, there is and always will be an advantage to players that can respond more nimbly to changing market conditions (news being one input to this) and there is no inherent problem with that (and there may be lots of positives to the market as a whole).
You really need to shorten that to wdwee.com which is
available.
Alleged Top Moderators Of Silk Road 2 Forums Arrested In Ireland and U.S
I was just thinking whether I had ever bought anything at Target, and then remembered, yes, but that's 7 years ago, and I've gotten new credit cards since. But then I wondered which other online services I had used with my credit card, and it occurred to me how awesome it would be if I had one-time throw-away credit cards, that I could use for only one purchase at one retailer and then throw it away. Now, I know that gift cards work this way, and could theoretically be used in such a way, but they're usually locked to a specific retailer or one can't use them for online purchasing.

Then I realised that, really with all the flack it is getting, Bitcoin is such a solution. Once the conversion from $ to BTC is done, there's no way to get your credit card data or anything. You're practically immune against any data theft at the place where you're purchasing.
Now, of course the problem only shifted as you have to guard your private keys now, but that's more or less a question of tooling and usability of proper BTC clients (which hopefully come up in the future). I'd rather have the valuable information stored in an open source application used by millions with strong code review, than in a closed source web app where an intern wrote the code in php and forgot the salt or stored everything plaintext.

This alone sounds to me like a pretty strong incentive.
haha, that's actually a pretty funny idea
There was a scare in 2005, I guess it got reasonably adressed since

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/148...
I don't not agree, it was perfectly not unclear at all.
You might want to spell it out because I have no idea what those acronyms mean.
Figuring out who their best people are is more than half the battle, if they are interested in moving at all. If they are, there's a lot you can do without pre-knowing their exact salary to encourage them to move.
Fair enough. My experiences have left me very cop-shy.

In 2007 I had removers sho, rather than taking my belongings from A to B, took them from A to an auction house. The police started with a stance of "it's a civil matter" and ended with a stance of "we will prosecute you for wasting police time".

In 2002 my girlfriend at the time was receiving unsettling, perverse text messages from an unknown number. When I responded in an equally threatening tone, I had a call the next morning from East Kolbride police for sending a threatening communication to a police officer.

In 1996, I was arrested for being outside in the snow, aged 13. I was kept in a holding cell and denied food, water, or the means to contact my parents.

I have a very, very low opinion of the efficacy of the current application of the rule of law.
Yes, see, this is why writing benefits from having an editor. Facepalm.

First draft:

most johns are after a so-called 'shemale'

Second draft (removing redundant quotes, following writing advice of Bill Zinsser)

most johns are after a so-called shemale

Third draft (shorten that sentence! Tighten it up!)

most johns are after a shemale

....Fourth draft (after walking away and coming back to my writing, suddenly hearing it): most sex-industry customers are after an MtF no-op transsexual -- a 'shemale', in the derogatory parlance of the industry.
"Of course East Asian kids test well. They are tested every day, even when they are sick. " -- This is a silly statement based on a nonsense assumption that all the tests are the same: all tests only test testing skills.

Test is not just about testing skills. The most important part is understanding and mastery of the subject. PISA (http://www.oecd.org/pisa/) test is designed to examine students high level understanding and application of subject knowledge and skills. The fact of Chinese students did well in PISA test cannot be just attributed to "obsession with testing". You have to understand the subject to do well in the test.

Some people like to say Chinese /Asian students are only good at rote memorization. But, you know what, PISA is not designed to test rote memorization. You can try some PISA questions by yourself at http://www.oecd.org/pisa/test/ to see how rote memorization can help you in the PISA exam.
I don't think the term "misreport" implies malice; just that the report be inaccurate.

A temperature sensor that both reports both high and low temperatures is said to misreport the temperature.

I understand your comment, however, if you are saying that it wasn't malicious - it was misreports stemming from decisions about how to implement the rules.
> Most companies spend endless time and money writing and enforcing HR policies to deal with problems the other 3% might cause

I would emphasize the word might in this quote. The small mountain of HR policy poured on us slowly grows each year. To my knowledge, none of it is in response to any problems ever actually encountered. It's as if there is a certain legal mindset that every potential problem must be anticipated with a formal statement the receipt of which must be acknowledged by all employees. We have to acknowledge receipt, but I doubt anyone reads the nearly 100 pages (spread across a dozen documents) that have to be acknowledged each year.

I bet this is just the default activity of any corporate lawyer, and that if senior management just said "write the policy that's necessary, but try to keep the burden on our employees to a minimum", the lawyers would do just that.
That article is almost more enjoyable than the movie.
Guy creates video game to propose to his girlfriend
You've probably heard this before, so can you tell me the best way to ask how you spell the word meaning "the opposite of tight?"
80 Percent of Scientific Data Gone in 20 Years
Target's Redcard login site crashes after data breach
2013 DonorsChoose.org classroom shopping spree
It's quite possible that this is not a disorder, but a stable evolutionary strategy.
Haha, it would be quite a coup for tech to disrupt the "world's oldest" industry.

I imagine that doing something across jurisdictions could actually make things worse (I'm speaking as a non-lawyer and general ignoramus here). Maybe if you maintained plausible deniability at all times. Might be worth consulting a lawyer considering the size of the industry ($$$). OTH, there are other potential sources of liability than legal (going up against organized crime might prove more difficult, than say taxicab unions, for instance).
Precisely. Publications require data. Data costs time/money/brains. Grants/promotions/tenure/survival cost publications. It's not hard to see that data serves a role as currency, and there is little incentive to give it away as long as publications are what puts bread on the table.

Additionally, the discussion over shared data is usually a cry to improve reproducibility. In this publication-centric world, one can't publish a paper that is just "we reproduced an existing paper", so outsiders look to "poach" new applications or findings from the data.
Taste of JMX Using the AWS SDK for Java
I think it's a side effect due to the lack of empathy. On the other hand, they do enjoy their domination over weaker beings, so this might be pleasurable to them.
I'm no expert in the SD job market, but my feeling is that there are many tech jobs but not the kind HN people are thinking of. There are large bio and defense industries there, along with some hardware companies like Qualcomm. It's definitely not a software haven though. I actually worked in SD in defense at graduation - I wouldn't say the pay was worse than the Bay, unless you were a rockstar Ruby ninja.
That reminded me of one false positive that may be of interest to the HN community:

I was buying a custom-made suit at Indochino's "traveling tailor" event. It was at a pop-up storefront in Seattle (where I live) but my bank thought their mobile point-of-sale card processing system was in Vancouver, BC and declined the transaction until I explained to them what happened.

And the suit? It's wonderful.
URGENT BLACK DEATH
The NSA never used the information they stole. They targeted an oil company before a major auction out of pure intellectual curiosity.

<sarcasm>
Imagine the maillist of all your coworkers and you want to let them know you are selling a few items. It's not rude to force responses to be only to you. This reduces the amount of email everyone gets.
The Data Behind What Makes an Effective Sales Process
Domain guy here. Years in this business.

From my experience I've seen plenty of domains over time that have been deleted that end up getting purchased by someone sometimes for a large amount of money.

The carrying cost is quite nominal.

As a general rule if you own a large amount of wacky domains that you think have little value (that are .com I have to stress that) someone will come along at some point and offer to buy it from you.

If you want proof of this go see some of the domains
that are listed on buydomains.com and the price for those domains.
Ask yourself if you owned any of those domains whether you would
have let them go or not (I'm talking about the ones that
sell for $750 to $2000 not the obvious hi value ones).

Here's a few I just found (random)

sourcingintelligence.com $1488

pearline.com $2500

...etc.

Add: One thing I have to stress is this.

When someone comes along and wants to buy your wacky domain close the deal. You very well will not have another chance for 5 or 10 years. Get as much as you can and do the deal.
Except gmail doesn't support reply-to in a per message basis.
2422 a) specifically seems to refer to persuading (et al) an individual to travel to perform such an activity. Or am I misreading?

2422 b) looks promising as it's pretty clearly saying you can't pimp someone out - but it only applies when the individual being induced/etc hasn't attained 18 years of age.
Meh.. My Citi Card has one-time use codes with the benefit of the normal protections of having a credit card (insurance, fraud prevention, customer service, etc). This problem is solved for people that care to solve it.

I'm not trying to shill for Citi, I'm actually dropping them for other BS, but I assume other cards have it as well.

[1] - https://www.citibank.com/us/cards/gen-content/messages/van/i...
Yeah, I guess I'm not counting the "buying" of a house as much towards CoL, renting is still fairly inexpensive, assuming you don't want a "luxury apartment," but gas prices (still paying less than $3/gal in my neighborhood), food prices, utilities (let's not talk about the water bill!) & etc. "as compared to other major cities."

That last part is important =) You'll live a lot cheaper in Luling than Houston, but outside of great barbecue, there isn't much going on there.

The inner loop is really expensive for housing stock, definitely, and even it has nothing on the memorial villages! That being said, the whole east side is still pretty cheap. The same house that would cost you $500k in the Heights can be bought for $250k in Eastwood/Idylwood.
Great idea! Signed up.
Aye, I don't get all this widescreen crap either.
I don't even understand what I'm looking without someone to explain it to me.
By that logic one could state that, for instance, Chrysler cars are "Ford clones" because Ford was the first manufacturer to become very popular and commercially successful.
I used to have a credit card from a company (FIA, I believe) that offered this exact feature. You'd go to their website and request a one-time-use (or perhaps it was a very short time limit) credit card number and specify a purchase limit for it. It was a great feature. A bit cumbersome to use a lot, but it worked.
I think the GP meant, if a prostitute went up and offered her services to a john, and the john said yes, that would be considered "solicitation" on the part of the john. Which is to say, prostitution was legal for the prostitute, but illegal for the john.
In honor of Winamp, Spotify releases Spotiamp
This is a really unhelpful post. Please refrain from such kind of posts without any additional content. Thanks.
>In almost any other language, were such a thing to exist, monoids would not be called monoids but by some descriptive term which conveyed an intuitive sense of their meaning and use

There is no such term, that is the point. Offering up misleading terms that do not convey a sense of their meaning is much worse than a word that is unfamiliar.

>My point isn't really specifically about monoids; they're just an example of what often goes on in Haskell, which is that people put theory before practicality and mathematical (and hence often esoteric) definitions before practical, real-world definitions.

But it isn't an example of that. It is quite bizarre to see people insist that this goes on, and give examples that do not support that claim, while being fully convinced in their proof.

>As it turns out, I'm not one of those people; I love the mathematical side of Haskell and I love that I've learned what a Monoid is and developed an interest in type theory, category theory and all kinds of other things. But not everyone is like that, and that's the point I'm making.

You don't need to be like that, that is the point we're making. I am not a math person. I am not a CS person. I am a high school drop out who taught himself to code in PHP and C. I learned haskell just fine. I learned monoids and functors and monads just fine. I am no more mathematically inclined now than I was before. I know nothing of category theory, and care nothing of it. They are very general abstractions that do not reflect a narrow, specific use case, and thus do not benefit from a word that describes some narrow, specific use case.
Probably not very much - look on Ebay, computer magazines of similar age show up all the times; huge amounts of people have garages full of old computer magazines, and the demand is fairly low. Only way it'd fetch a "high" price would be if someone managed to hype up the connection to the movie to ridiculous levels.
You're way overgeneralizing. I mean you and I, users of Hacker News, to help one specific person. That's all.

It should be blatantly obvious that, were the situation different, I'd feel differently.

Not everything is a moral crusade, Internet warrior.
They seemed pretty common to me at least. I snagged a couple more T60's C[1]D's with SXGA+ IPS panels pretty cheap this year.

(also, the Panasonic 9-cell batteries are still good.)
You mean something like this?

http://cipherbit.org/
came here hoping for a comment like this...was not disappointed.
Don't drop loners.org

It's worth holding on to for sure.

Not great that it's a .org but as a general rule
a name like that is worth keeping and paying the reg fee on.

stretchier.com same thing. I would hold onto it it's worth the gamble.
Can I have Stretchier?
I was hoping this was going to be about semiconductor yields or TDD...
Ruby 2.1.0-rc1 is released
> For instance it does not seem beyond the realm of possibility that firmware in your webcam could communicate over the PCI bus with firmware in your ethernet card to transmit video.

IMHO, it does. The PCI bus isn't something that gets shared on a whim. The functionality you need for this would have to be built in the BIOS.
Quantum Computing Lisp
So you think America made the EU have foolish regulation?
Those docs are pretty well done. Nice work!
At least 4 companies offer surreal cyborg telemarketing services.
> the first command I wrote was "comment-or-uncomment-region-or-line"

verilog-mode (and I imagine others) includes something like this this. C-c C-c comments region, and C-c C-u uncomments it. It handles embedded /* */-style embedded comments intelligently.
I'd never heard of Unix Surplus! Looks fun. I wonder if they wipe all the media they sell, or if there's fun to be had recovering data.

I'd also recommend Halted off of Central Expressway in Sunnyvale. It looks like Haltek in Mountain View closed some time ago...
Atari ST Buyer's Guide from STart 1987
Two of the GA144 evaluation boards on my bench here in my office both shoot UDP packets out to learn the date and time when they boot. UDP over IPv4 over bit-banged 10baseT. You may ping one of them at g144.minerva.com.
Seattle is actually set up fairly well for this. While it isn't painless to commute between Seattle and the east side, it is certainly simpler to do so than commute to/from San Francisco and its suburbs. We are located in Bellevue and we have a pretty good split between people who live in Seattle and people who live on the east side.
Social networks are pretty much played out. People have made a social network for almost everything, and very few of them, if any, have gained any traction.

As sharemywin[1] said, you might be able to get a fair number of users; however, the problem would be with monetizing those users. According to [2], you will make very little money with advertisements. (I'm assuming this project is for the money; if not, you can safely ignore this whole post.) I doubt that there would be very many people who would pay for any social network, so it would be difficult to make any money off it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942207

[2]: http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2012/03/website-ads-are...
Lead and they will follow. Or post meta-commentary without helpful value.
> But a modern cryptosystem ... would use a AEAD mode, like AES-GCM

But really, it is funny how rigidly you stick to NSA Suite B Cryptography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_Suite_B_Cryptography

That, your fierce battle against everything unconventional and the fact that you get emotional instead of actually proving your point makes me think some "best practices" are indeed intentionally promoted in the crypto-community (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938622)

Disclaimer. I'm not an employee or shareholder in Telegram. I support them like I support some other non-profits like Wikimedia Foundation. As a reader here I would prefer to see an actual mathematical proof of how a certain system could be hacked instead of rhetoric like "No cryptosystem in the world would use...", "the fact that you do argue it is extraordinarily damning" or "Why? Why? Why would you do that?".
Xtreme Download Manager (xdman) is an download manager app based on Java. it advanced and powerful download manager app which claims that can increase download speed up-to 500%! It also support pause and resume broken download and capture FLV videos from any sites .
As someone who's made sure to keep the data from my PhD thesis around for almost a decade now, I know that most of it is totally obsolete and will never be looked at by anyone. It is a laudable goal to keep data available, but it'll be a cache with very low hit rate, I think.

However, this was simulated data, it could be recreated by checking out some old version of the code and rerunning it. These days, it wouldn't even take that long. The situation is different where someone's made measurements of the real world, since those are truly irreplaceable.
> Sex workers may not have another choice, but the clients do.

Of course a client has a choice and the choice to use services offered by sex workers is just as valid as choosing not to. Even if you don't care for it yourself that doesn't justify the status of law as it is today.
Well, this is a tutorial for Ruby programmers.
Great work! Kudos for the perseverance.
I completely agree on Chuck Moore being one of the computing heroes of the last 4 decades or so.
As far as I can see it, he (or Forth or GreenArrays) needs proper communication/marketing/lobbying staff that ensures that his ideas are being understood by the politicians, decision makers and investors.

Power consumption and processors has always been an issue, they get to warm and need cooling,
server parks consume huge amounts of energy,
batteries wear out to quickly etc...
Wouldn't it be nice if the surface of a tablet (I am talking about 2015-2020) contained a 10" solar panel,
and the processors inside the tablet would need only the energy provided by this solar panel?
that would be a nice start.
If anything, it's a bug in the language design: If the client is written in C or C++, a wild pointer could potentially point to any data in the process's memory space, including sensitive key information, and from there it's a small step to revealing that information in a core dump or similar. (Or, you know, printing it to stdout because something hinky was passed in to printf.)

The solution is to make everyone only write code in languages which use a runtime that controls memory access better than the OS can. Python or Java, for example. Failing that, relying on the OS is the safest way, and the simplest, most secure way to do that is to keep GPG in its own process.
The bus remained where it was, the thought of driving to Mountain View with a broken window and flooded with cold air an unthinkable horror they could not endure.

Or maybe because it was a crime scene?