skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's related. I got an email yesterday about the new limits until my new debit card arrives in the mail (I didn't request it). It re-iterated that I wouldn't be responsible for any fraudulent transactions and that branches would have more staff on hand to accommodate withdrawals beyond the temporarily imposed limits.
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Some websites should be unblockable (UK)
Looks like Sablono, which provides a Hiccup-style syntax you can use with Om, is your best bet there: https://github.com/r0man/sablono
The government clearly can't be trusted either. They said they didn't collect information on millions of Americans, which was an outright lie ("least untruthful" statements are still lies). In another comment I proposed a solution where there is a shared, recorded pair programming session where the actual commands to be executed are approved by each side before execution. What I don't know is if such a session could be set up without giving exposing your keys to the system capable of handling the shared session.
Ok, the graph animation is cool, an actually helps give a sense of scale, but after 2-3 searches it gets incredibly tedious. Apologies if there's some kind of skip functionality that I'm missing.
Asynchronous programming in C++ using resumable functions and await
Proposed Q&A site for Arduino developers
One tiny problem with this is that there is no 4G service is currently available in china. China mobile also does not run a standard 3G network they run a proprietary 3G network standard that only chinese phones made for their network can run on, it looks like the 4G is going to be proprietary also, 4G/TD-LTE and 3G/TD-SCDMA. I dont know how they are going to be ready to have 3G and 4G ready for the iphone by the end of this year. So this means those iphones to be sold by china mobile will be using the proprietary 3g and 4g standard that cant be used outside of china. Many customers who travel will be very upset when they realize their iphone data network wont work outside of china
Methods taking "self" as an argument is a dirty hack, ain't no magic there. The language is just pretty ugly. It's got the whole whitespace thing going on, which is forced, and some might think it gives a good aesthetic but that is dust in the wind in terms of help for Python's ease on the eyes.
The whole standard namespacing and mix of oop/procedural global functions is just..schizophrenic, the capitalization scheme is dastardly. I haven't seen many languages that look more _basic_ than python. It's a frankenstein of Perl/Ruby and Basic. Forced verbosity is egh.

Here's your magic methods and properties: http://www.rafekettler.com/magicmethods.html

Those magic methods kind of remind me of clever hacks while coding in PHP.
C++ future and the pointer
The point is that each of those vectors of exposure carry some obvious context. Which matters a lot: where you are in relation to the radiation matters immensely. Alpha is harmless from without, but deadly within. What are the energies of the decay, and what particles are emitted? Are there secondary/tertiary decays and when? Can the body keep up with the damage? Are we talking sunburns or cancer inducing high energy gamma or high kinetic energy alpha? Nuclear physics earns it's reputation as a complicated science.

Units matter, and context matters. Perhaps we should fear bananas, or use it as a point if reference. Either way, it's a useful, comprehensible comparison, just like the others mentioned. Just think it through, and you don't need to worry about falling for hog wash.
I've been taking Niacinamide + Resveratrol for over 2 years. Honestly, I don't see any positive effect, but neither I see any negative effects either. Given I'm 40 now, I'm not 100% sure if this is a negative or a positive outcome. For example, without any supplementation, maybe I should've aged more... but how can I know for sure. My point it, as long as the supplement is orthomolecular, the negative side of spending a few dollars per month is well-justified.
nice article and nice topic
NSA suggested decreasing DES's key size. IBM ultimately agreed to use effectively 56-bit* keys. This by definition makes brute force attacks easier. It was apparently criticized at the time, but it's worth noting that there's nothing secretive about it -- it's a basic and obvious element of the algorithm.

The public cryptographic community started brute-forcing DES keys for fun in the '90s; with the NSA's budget, they could have been doing it from the beginning.

* DES keys are 64 bits, but 8 bits are for parity, so the meaningful key length is 56 bits.
> but they wanted a voided cheque for my account

Any time an institution asks for a voided cheque, all they're going to do with it is copy the bank, branch, and account numbers off the bottom of it. You can just give them a piece of paper with those three numbers on it instead and they'll take it.
Slow app? Display template rendering times for your Django applications
> I stopped using it temporarily because it didn't work well on my Windows machine

Just to set the record, I use evil-mode on Windows and haven't had any problems. I also use it on Mac/Linux and haven't noticed inconsistencies.
A hammer.
I've thought about it, one part of what "shocked" me about it was the hubris inherent in the statement: "...someone I could save by argument.". As though those that cannot be "saved" are merely a passing fascination, not to be bothered with for fear of liability.

I wasn't "shocked" by the way. However, I was largely responding to the tone- which I shouldn't have done.

>"...most notably the ultrarich like the Zuckerbergs, would think it's not even worth their time to deal with 'crazy people'"

I don't know the Zuckerbergs nor any other ultrarich people, so I suppose we'll have to take your word for it.

> "Life is all about making compromises and finding the right balance. Looking out for yourself can be, and should be a part of the process when you're deciding to help out something."

I mostly agree with this.

I want to make it clear that I was responding to the attitude I saw in the comment (or at least what I perceived to be the attitude) that the mentally ill are objects of fascination until they expose you to civil liability.

I think a bit more empathy is in order.

> "I do think you should take a little bit of break. :) Be well, and take care!"

Yeah, I think I'm done commenting on Hacker News. Take care, as well.
I'm guessing that it might mean that Heroku's PHP runtime (or the common PHP buildpack, or however it works) doesn't come with a Postgres driver.
I still don't get how they had the mag stripe, the PCI compliance [1] documentation is pretty clear about that:

Sensitive data on the magnetic stripe or chip must never be stored. Only the PAN, expiration date, service code, or cardholder name may be stored, and merchants must use technical precautions for safe storage (see back of this fact sheet for a summary)

[1] https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_fs_data_storag...
Most surprising to me was the shockingly low cost of shipping on the long ocean haul. At or below ten cents compared to over two dollars once state-side. Incredible industrial efficiency and scale at work!
In the same way Firefox implements Silverlight today: It's still a binary plugin that talks to the OS for some "secure path", but it's only the decryption in the closed path, instead of the entire playback experience. I don't think HTML5/EME will get Linux/BSD et al users watching Netflix any more than they were before.

Though breaking EME is probably more interesting for a certain class of developer than implementing all of Silverlight with DRM is.
But with a real budget and people who are actually trained for the job.
The difference is that between the time of the fraudulent charge and its resolution, your money is not in your account. With a credit card, it never makes it that far.
I'm being reminded of this all over the place today, a MindVox pic of e running on Solaris from 2000 http://www.mindvox.com/pg/photos/view/2374/sun-sparc-y2k
> In civilised countries [...]

Name one.
They also said "... we also categorically state that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA’s products ...". You know, I'm having trouble finding a hole in that one. The full sentence is:

"RSA, as a security company, never divulges details of customer engagements, but we also categorically state that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA’s products, or introducing potential ‘backdoors’ into our products for anyone’s use."

Maybe it hinges on misleading commas and the odd "for anyone’s use" part. With some gymnastics, I might be able to interpret that as meaning "we have entered into a contract and engaged in a project with the intention of weakening RSA’s products for some people's use".
Nothing.

The difference is that, when fraudsters hit your credit card, you're not out any money, ab initio. You call the card company and make them take the fraudulent charge off your bill. If they refuse, they have to sue to get your money. But if the bad boys nail your debit card, your account is dinged immediately, and you have to deal with the bank to get your funds restored.

Therefore, you should use ATM cards at ATMs only and only use credit cards to shop and travel and dine out (and enjoy the float and the points and pay in full every month). If your ATM card has a credit card logo (called a "check card"), call your bank and complain, and they'll issue you one that is only an ATM card and cannot be used to shop without a PIN.

It's worth noting that the Target case is confined to credit cards, not debit cards. To hack a debit card, the attacker must intercept both the mag stripes and the PIN that goes with them. That's hard to do, given the way PIN pads work. Reportedly, in the Target case, they did not succeed in doing that.
I totally agree with this notion. Don't just go out and learn another programming language..it's an addiction to go after the next shiny tool/language/package that comes along. instead step away from it and focus on how you're career has evolved. what are the aspects of various jobs that you've taken on so far that really appeal to you. try to do more of it on the side.
I am currently in a similar situation where I'm trying to explore how my experience can benefit other younger students or early stage programmers. The end result of being enthused by them and also helping them with my broader perspective is very appealing to me. You can of course ease into such a role; don't have to give up your day job. family responsibilities are very real, very important and very satisfying...
Huh. I don't particularly like DiGiorno; I mean, it's not terrible, but considering the nutritive value of a pizza, I'm not sure it's worth it. I mean, a good pizza is worth it. Also, it's like 50% off actually getting delivery pizza (well, not quite 50% if you get a good one.) I'm probably better off throwing some frozen boneless skinless chicken thighs in the oven instead, if I'm not going to get something super tasty.

Also, I'm not sure if that counts as 'fully cooked' - I mean, it's not much easier than the aforementioned chicken thighs; also, the part of cooking I screw up most often? spacing out over the alarm and burning it. Really, some sort of convection oven that would automatically shut off (and somehow stop the food from overcooking?) would go a long ways towards solving that problem.

The /idea/ of fully-cooked food that you pop into the microwave for a specified period of time is pretty great for me; usually the cook time isn't long enough for me to get distracted and if I do, it's just cold, the fire alarm doesn't go off. But the reality comes up short. the only food I've been able to stomach like that is the "steam bags" of chicken alfredo.
Nasa robot loses darpa challenge and goes home...
and takes its website with it.

I would love to know why they lost.

I still love you NASA!
A large portion of my comment was a response to the tone. I shouldn't have done that.

Something about the original comment really bothered me. And I can't quite put my finger on it. I'm not a good enough writer to flesh out what bothered me without responding to the tone.

I do feel pretty strongly that it's wrong to casually talk about mentally ill people as objects of fascination. And then to advise against engaging them because it might be a liability to yourself, as if that's the only concern. e.g.: "...[if they happen] to commit suicide a week later and mention you in the note."

I think I'm perceiving a lack of empathy in the linked article and the top comment. Or something. I think I just need to stop commenting.
You can't live forever because the universe won't last forever. The earth will die out much sooner, of course.
You personally won't be executed. But your type will either be controlled, annihilated, or humanity as a whole will cease to be.

Psychopaths aren't parasites. A parasite doesn't threaten the life of the host, because the parasite's life depends on the host's life. If psychopaths were just parasites they would not be an issue.

When society uses competitions to pick leaders, many of the leaders will naturally be psychopaths because psychopaths will go to lengths that good people won't go to in order to win. It's that simple.

You have a contest. The winner gets a huge prize and becomes a leader of humanity. Good person could murder or blackmail to win the contest, but good person won't do that because he's not a psychopath. Psychopaths will do that, they win the contest, they take control of humanity and then run humanity into the ground because a psychopath only cares about satisfying their petty lusts.

All human problems right now are caused by the fact that our competitive systems of picking leaders always pick psychopaths.

If we murdered all the psychopaths when they were toddlers, today we would have a proper response to climate change. We would have a proper response to mass poverty. Corporations wouldn't look like they are actively TRYING to make our species go extinct.
how is this helpful? this is the classic 'works for me' response when a bug is reported..try to understand that other people may have other personalities, environments, needs, interests
I like that you use the term evil. Its good versus evil right? Bush didn't get far with that terminology. I'm not alone in feeling that a period of non-interventionism from America might help. The interventions of late have been fumbled and clumsy when put in a positive light. Torture, killing and ugly unilateralism. Recent acts in the Middle East may have killed tens of thousands of militants, but does anyone think it has knocked back the numbers? The hundreds of thousands of innocent (and not-quite innocent) killed and wounded have family and friends. Those people are no longer friends of America. The question that never seems to be asked, is why did September 11 happen. Sure, American intelligence failed. But somewhere further back, diplomacy failed. It takes a pretty unhappy situation for people to arrange such an horrific act, why did they end up like that? And what can be done to prevent it happening again? Bombing and invading hasn't worked. What's plan B?
It's nothing like thoughtcrime. Personality is not about "thoughts" it's about behavioral traits.
Me too. Suffered a mild heart attack :-)
Staff Mode for Instagram?
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Finding the right source for killall for whatever platform you want is trivial.
I don't think this is true bro. Android has taken over the world really means that Samsung has thrown 900 handsets at the market running Android. They want to home everything back in on themselves. Tizen is delayed but I seriously doubt that whatever new high-end Samsung phones drop, will have a hard time running whatever they've turned E into. I'm seriously looking forward to this.

I'd say your repeating a rumor. Impossible to tell until they release something, Samsung and Intel makes for one hell of a strong foundation for getting something besides Android off the ground.

Their phone is supposed to get shown at MWC 2014.
I don't think the "how" has been revealed, but theories are that they didn't necessarily get the data from any stored location but could have skimmed it at the time of usage (malware at the card scanner/register)
Symbian and iOS had/have data caging; apps can't see each others data.
Eh, cryptolocker will get those duplicates too.
this is not a direct response to your question but..'estimated 10M unique users'? this is an estimate for business you are starting? or are you building it for someone who already has traffic and expects to grow? if it's the former, I wouldn't worry too much about the scalability just yet..by all means use nodejs if it affords you luxury of using available resource skills and meets your feature needs..if it's the latter then it all depends on what is currently being used (for the tech stack) and why that's not good enough to scale
Because if there's one thing the MS ecosystem needs, it's more dev fragmentation....
Eidetic memory is vastly different from a memory aid/trick (and click bait). People with eidetic memory are quite literally biologically superior to the rest of us. While the TV series "Suits" is a fiction it isn't far from reality: my late grandmother had an eidetic memory and while she did not have the full range of abilities as the protagonist, she was able to recall any page of a book after rifling through it.

What is still up to debate is whether memories/knowledge can be electronically injected into our minds. I would say it is highly plausible at some distant point in the future, we are already coming to terms with electronically reading our minds.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-20/scientists-develop-ant...

I found this article on the subject more informative, it contains 2 media clips, 1 video, 1 audio, with the scientists involved with the study.
Samsung merged Bada into Tizen. Bada development was stopped.

Tizen native apps are written using EFL. Qt supported as well.

There are already a couple of Samsung cameras using Tizen.

More devices are scheduled to 2014.

https://developer.tizen.org/dev-guide/2.2.0/
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> Microsoft should follow Apple move and make its latest Windows 8.1 operating system free to all Windows users

Apples operating system is not free, you have to purchase an over price computer aka a mac to get it for free.
Snowden Criticizes U.S. Panel Overseeing Surveillance
its a fun tradition just enjoy it or ignore it. I don't think anyone ever wished someone merry christmas in order to offend them.

as for people who avoid 'christmas' because of materialism, even if christmas was called something else, corporations would still try to get you to buy their crap.
dressing up for halloween, carnival and so many other things people do all over the world have religious origins but people are not offended by them.
Got this error:

Directory Listing Denied

This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.
Think of strings in JavaScript. Those are already immutable:

var fooString = "foo";
var secondFooString = fooString;
secondFooString; // => "foo"

fooString = "bar";
secondFooString; // => "foo"

We set the variable fooString to point to a different string, but the original, underlying string hasn't changed. In JavaScript, we can think of a string as a value.

This is not the case with arrays in JavaScript:

var firstArray = [1, 2, 3];
var secondArray = firstArray;

firstArray[0] = 100;
firstArray; // => [100, 2, 3]
secondArray; // => also [100, 2, 3]

Because we can change the underlying contents of the array, an array in JavaScript isn't a value. It's a place: a reference to a location in memory. The underlying value could be changed at any time.

But, using Mori, collections are values, just like strings:

var firstVec = m.vector(1, 2, 3);
var secondVec = firstVec;

firstVec = m.assoc(firstVec, 0, 100);
firstVec; // => [100, 2, 3]
secondVec; // => still [1, 2, 3]

Instead of modifying firstVec in place, mori.assoc creates a new vector that is identical to firstVec except for the change we want. We then assign the result to firstVec. secondVec is unchanged. We are unable to go in and change the underlying values because a vector is a value, not a place.

The most obvious way to build this would be to deep-copy the entire collection when it's changed, but that would of course be way too slow and wasteful — imagine copying a one-million-long array just to change one element. Clojure, ClojureScript and Mori minimize unnecessary copying using a very thoughtfully designed data structure you can read about here: http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-... The short story is that, surprisingly, you get "effectively O(1)" copying when you use assoc.
Cancer does decrease with age. I read it somewhere that it is some professor's pet theory but they do have some evidence.
ocean warming and acidification will quite possibly cause mass extinctions.

There's no possibly about it. As soon as the oceans become too acidic for corals to form, whole ecosystems will collapse.
Only if people who take this anti-aging have more offspring. It's quite possible the opposite would be true.. "oh there is no rush, maybe next decade"
The real content of the article comes in the second half, after the coffee discussion is over.
I am tempted to comment on the coffee content as well, though.
This is sweet!

And starred on github!
Anyone wants to guess when the first spam runs start on the e-mail addresses from users? Don't know if the current owner is shady enough for it. But money is tight and the data is the only valuable thing they got out of it plus there are still debts to be paid.
Awesome article; My favourite line from the article?

"Treating code as a craft is entirely the wrong angle and approach to take. It’s a self-serving, masturbatory word that implies folly and indulgence"
Anecdotally, yes. A a friend of mine works under a neuroscience researcher. They are studying the effectiveness of a substance at restoring ideal brain function to those who suffer from a disorder. When they asked the researcher why they don't study the substance as a way to improve cognition in already healthy people, they were told that doing so would violate medical ethics.

I have no idea if that's representative of the beliefs of other researchers.
Huh, I have to say I'm surprised to see this here, he's a comedian who I haven't seen referenced on the internet before.
Don't forget Amsterdam Rob (Wob?), he was one of the original founders as well I believe.
> No one asks a philosopher if that philosopher personally thinks some act is okay or not okay...

I've seen counter-examples of this in newspapers, where they have them weigh in with their opinion (on the news pages, not editorial), being quoted as an expert.