skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most online card transactions in the UK use a system called verified by visa (or it's MasterCard equivalent), which shows you a phrase you previously specified (to prove it is legitimate) then asks you to enter 3 characters of your password.
I'm not sure you can do -"string" :)
Thanks, and that's totally fine. I agree with you, Snapchats definitely flawed from the start, but as long as we get rid of gaping holes in their security such as the find_friends exploit, at least they're halfway there.

(OT, but you have a really cool project list btw :P)
Could agree more. But just for the sake of discussion, why privacy matters? why do you care if some computer is listening /analyzing what you say to your friends/family?
This is so useless that it's awesome! I had no idea that could be done.
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I said the enum-style approach is what you want for something like that. "case KING | QUEEN | JACK | TEN => 10; case ValueCard(x) => x" is just as readable as anything you'd do in clojure, and the warning (not error - you can ignore it if your game really doesn't need to handle that card) if you forgot one is valuable.
holy crap that article scared the crap out of me, if what he says is true, I am not flying with pilots out of Korean flight school. What he says about the culture of rote memorization and lack of outside box thinking holds some merit before we all cry about how this has nothing to do with East Asian culture. I don't give a damn about culture but if it's preventing you from being able to pass a flying simulation test that is standard, it pretty much makes me NOT want to fly with that airline.

I don't care if American airlines offer crappy inflight customer service compared to Asiana airlines, I DEMAND a pilot that have the qualification to fly and land the airplane in all possible scenarios. If Asiana pilots can't even pass the flight sims, no way in hell I'm letting them fly the plane.

I'm just so angry after reading the article. How fucking hard can it be? I played Microsoft Flight Simulator since 4.5 since the DOS version. Of course the flight simulation is more difficult than a simulator on the computer but I am trying to illustrate how ridiculous the Korean pilots attitude is. It's like they treat it as some demeaning labor (Korean society judges a person a lot by their occupation if it's not a traditionally Confucius approved position like scholar, professor, lawyer, doctor, prosecutor). You are responsible for hundreds of peoples lives and you can't even land the fucking plane on a flight simulator via visual approach because you are afraid of screwing up or looking bad in front of your superior officer? You can't even say that the emperor is naked because someone above you says he isn't?

And why the hell did that Korean American pilot for Asiana or KAL get arrested and JAILED, for starting a union? Was he suspected of being a communist for wanting to be paid by the flight hour time?
6 reasons I'm skipping Christmas this year
1. I'm a grown adult. It's my choice. And in a year of running experiments (therapy, going on retreat, writing from the gut, being more honest than I'm comfortable with) it seemed like an interesting experiment to end the year with. The less Christmas-y things I did this month, the more I noticed how people around me were only doing things because they felt they had no choice not to. Christmas parties, getting pissed up for 5 or 6 days on the trot with work colleagues they didn't even like that much, etc etc.

2. Although I love them very much, my family are a pain in the ass to spend time with. And the pressure for everyone to "just get along" on Christmas Day makes things even worse. If I had my own family it wouldn't be a problem if I wanted to spend it with them — so why should that change because I'm single?

3. After a month of 7 day weeks, I need some quality me time. Just been on a solo bike ride around London. Not sure what I'll be doing with the rest of the day. But solitude is a fine gift to give yourself.

4. Christmas Jumpers. Is it just me or have they reached a new low this year? More moronic than ironic. For me they are seem to be symbolic of the hollowness of Christmas.

5. I'm £6,000 in debt and have boxes of unused items all over my bedroom. I don't need more stuff, nor do I have money to buy any. By opting out of Christmas I won't be receiving another stack of things I don't need.

6. The whole celebration of excess thing. With or without the religious layer on top of that.
It seems that everyone has plenty reason to be irritated with credit card technology except the thieves. Hopefully there will be sufficient incentive to replace credit cards with something more secure in the next 5-10 years.
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I hope I'm not breaking any rules replying to own post (tried to edit but wouldn't let me)

better tree:

test("\n:sparkles::sparkles: :star2: :sparkles:\n :christmas_tree:\n :sparkles: :christmas_tree::christmas_tree: :sparkles: \n:sparkles: :christmas_tree::red_circle::christmas_tree: :sparkles:\n :christmas_tree::ribbon::red_circle::christmas_tree: :sparkles:\n :christmas_tree::christmas_tree::christmas_tree::ribbon::christmas_tree:\n :sparkles: :christmas_tree::red_circle::christmas_tree::christmas_tree: :sparkles:\n :christmas_tree::christmas_tree::red_circle::christmas_tree::christmas_tree:\n :christmas_tree::ribbon::christmas_tree::christmas_tree::red_circle::christmas_tree: :sparkles:\n:sparkles::christmas_tree::red_circle::christmas_tree::ribbon::red_circle::christmas_tree::christmas_tree:\n :door:")

Can't believe I spent half an hour on Christmas day making an emoji tree
It's presumably a variant on the historic journalistic use of 'spike a story' where the editor would decide not to run a story, and the typewritten manuscript was places on a metal spike.
When has a university ever sued someone? Patents generally end up being bought by companies using them... Unless shenanigans are at play.
Not entirely true. PHP definitely tries to perform a numeric comparison on two strings if it thinks they are both numerical strings, but this behaviour changed in PHP 5.4 [0]. heron87's scenario was reported as a bug [1], changed in PHP 5.4 and caused new problems [2].

See the string comparison routine in 5.3 [3] and 5.4 [4]. The new implementation still inspects the strings to see if they are numeric and then tries to do a numeric equality check rather than string equality check, leading to amusing tricks like

var_dump("0xFF" == "255.0"); // true!

But if both values overflow the long type and their double representations are equal, the new implementation falls back to actual string equality. A quick check at [5] shows that both values heron87 compared have identical double representations, assuming (sizeof double == 8), so the new representation detects the long overflow, then it sees that double representations are also identical, and then it returns to string equality rather than numeric equality. The old implementation did not consider long overflow and ended up comparing the numeric values.

[0] http://3v4l.org/a0nKq

[1] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54547

[2] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62097

[3] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.3/Zend/zend_operat...

[4] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/5.4/Zend/zend_operators....

[5] http://babbage.cs.qc.cuny.edu/IEEE-754/index.xhtml
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Yeah, just turn off the "acceptable ads" too.

I used to leave them on, until I learned that they were paid for.
Let's put that another way: if you have enough salesmen to operate smoothly given a high-touch sales process... your product must, on average, be very expensive.
Offtopic - your name is confusing. I assumed you were Steve Gibson's spin-off into security, which is a poor association to have as he is widely considered an amateur in security matters. Very vocal and assertive, but an amateur nonetheless.

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This actually goes much further than you realize. There are companies buying credit card purchase data and plugging it into a Data Management Platform along with billions of data points a day and using that to buy their ad inventory from the real time ad exchanges. Were talking about mapping a purchase in a store back to a banner ad impression online.

I know of atleast one company actively doing this, and I am sure there are hundreds others.
I see a marked increase in the use of the word 'privilege' and how it 'should be checked' - usually in reference to not being black/hispanic, female or gay.

What exactly do you mean? Is it same as 'count your blessings' or shorthand for 'be aware that not everybody has it as sweet as you'?
Much of Clojure itself is written in Clojure. I would recommend going right to the source for idiomatic examples. https://github.com/clojure/clojure
Ironically, I was wrong about the buildings.
Probably as much as they asked for.
This smells like it would be illegal in the EU. I have no idea about ads because I AdBlock... does anyone see this technique used in the EU?
> Ghostery works for the advertisement industry by building profile of blocked ads to allow them to tweak the ads so you don't want to block them.

From the wikipage and the copy I have installed, it look like only if you enable Ghost Rank. (And as ways to use data goes I can think of worse things than making ads less annoying.)
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http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/univers...

(My impression is that UW is fairly extreme in this regard)
And this is why I don't let anyone tag me in photos.
That blog writer is a Korean American lawyer and easily hated for his inaccurate and biased reporting of Korean topic. He arrogantly claims to represent his erroneous views as what majority of Koreans think.

Who do I trust more, some biased Korean American lawyer who hates his job and rants online, or an officer who trained Korean pilots, witnessed that the Korean culture produces incompetent pilots?
Why do you hate democracy?
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ZenPen is great, but there's one thing I'm missing though.
What I'd really like to see is a focus mode like in iA Writer.
For those who don't know iA Writer's focus mode, it basically just makes the current sentence stand out more by reducing the contrast of the other sentences.
So that looks like this:
http://imagr.eu/up/52bab340db21e_Capture_d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cra...
The 992 accepted applications were for 2018 while the ad is for this fall.
Glad that you liked it! Thanks for the great comments and feedback.
There is now a neat options menu with all kinds of the obvious settings you would want to change. even some graphics things, though most of them seem to be for water haha.
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I guess I don't understand the revelation here. Isn't this true of any client? Video game companies have been fighting this battle for over a decade.

Maybe the problem is that I don't use snapchat so I don't understand why it's such a problem for them.
I have modern android, wp8, win8, os x and ios machines here; looking only at hardware, sorry but what is better than Apple? I'm in the market here for a better laptop that the haswell air; the windows ones, twice as expensive, seriously feel like bad ripoffs. Talking hardware;not OS. Phones I tried to like but if you sit a long time with a 5s, I dont know how they do it but it feels always miles ahead. And I am no fanboy but I am getting there; the competition is just simply crap. But you tell me what to get ; I will get it and live with it in Q1; I want to like something different here.

About the cable; you mean its no standard? I agree with that the EU will force them now so thats fine.
How is Russia not giving fair trials relevant? You suggested he throw himself at the american system, which we both know won't give him a fair trial but will torture him and throw him to jail for the rest of his life whether he's guilty by law or not. And yet you suggest this should be his course of action. You realize this is ridiculous right?

Everyone understands Snowden is hiding in Russia to avoid torture by the US. Everyone also knows Russia does worse than NSA things. There is no contradiction, and trying top highlight a contradiction smells of dishonesty.

You believe he's paid but you have zero evidence for it. Russia gains virtually nothing from it, Snowden can't live a normal life for the rest of his life.

Would you be content with the NSA continuing illegal oversight and building a total surveillance society?
Erm, it didn't support Media messaging, the idea being that people would simply use email.
> Those same android devices that were
> originally copies of iPhones.

By the same logic, the iPhone was just a "copy" of the Windows ME phones (iPaq etc). But with finger instead of a stylus.

Apple's revolution was in their magnificent marketing; and to a secondary degree the way they simplified the complex "enterprise" phones so that anyone could use them, then exploited that to build the App Store. In the short term they were less functional, but in the long term they "offered" exponentially more features (via 3rd parties in the marketplace).
I grew up in Korea and know very well of the culture in Korean society. It's basically a military hierarchy with people older than you, automatically being at a higher position in society. You do not question, it's considered "rude".

Having lived outside of Korea, I can completely understand the possibility that Korean culture plays a role in job areas where teamwork and hierarchial culture clash with common sense and the ability to express it freely without social barriers or repercussions.

I see a lot of fellow Koreans defending that culture is not responsible for producing incompetent pilots but based on what I've read, from that officer who have trained Korean pilots and have witnessed a near 90% failure rate on the flight simulation involving manual airplane control, I'd have to say I'm pretty fucking worried.

It's totally unfair to cry "STEREOTYPING!" or "THATS RACIST". I really don't give a flying shit, you are not changing the culture (or more like can't change it because it's considered an essential core identity of Korean culture) that produces shitty pilots, you are not flying my plane.

It would be fine if Asiana just accept it and try to change the root problem which is the hierarchial social barrier present in Korean culture clearly incompatible in this particular industry of flying airplanes where teamwork and ability to express one's opinion and observations without fear of repercussion or coming across as rude and losing face.

For now, if it's Asiana or KAL, I am not fucking getting on that plane.

It's one thing to be proud of our culture but it takes a bigger courage to accept that not all of it is compatible with new technological jobs, and finally fix it.
Its non standard.
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forced comparision.
This post is sitting at the top for several hours now.
Yeah I miss that RTS golden age haha. SC/War3 custom maps too man!

You'd think there'd be way more awesome RTS's for tablets, given the controls can work so well. The situation right now seems to be kind of stuck between the Farmville/Clans type stuff from the Facebook world, and tower defenses.
> With a total of around 590 unique functions7 in the Clojure core library alone that can be quite daunting when compared to C or Java which only range from around 30 to 50 keywords.

I count 19 special forms, 71 macros [1], 444 functions, and 29 variables in clojure.core. I don't think we should count functions or variables because these are like library functions and members (methods and fields) in other languages. But both special forms and macros are special in that they can't be passed around in the executing code. There's 90 of those, which is comparable to Java's 50-something keywords, or C#'s 70-something.

[1] excluding the 4 special forms `let`, `fn`, `letfn`, and `loop` which are also macros
Apple and Google apparently spent more on legal fees than R&D last year.

http://gizmodo.com/5949909/apple-and-google-spent-more-money...

Just sayin.
Nope.

This Downing Street's assesment of occupying Baltic countries validates my argument that it made sense from the strategic point of view. The same logic is perfectly applicable to the Poland occupation.
Criminal or not, you do what you've got to do to survive.

As a Western European you are probably okey with the idea of 10 or 20 more million of barbaric Russians dying as the result of not extending our borders to the West, but somehow I can't sympathize with that ;) Moreover, neither should you, for the war could've been lost completely. Unless your grandparents fought on the Nazi's side, that is.
Almost same thing happened with me today morning. I live in India and I was planning to buy a laptop cooler. So I opened homeshop18.com (a popular e-commerce site) and found the desired product there. I added it to the shopping cart. Facebook was open in another tab. Some time later I closed the homeshop18 website and continue to browse the Facebook. Later I found the first advert on the right hand side was exactly the same product on homeshop18 that I had earlier added to the cart.

I use different emails for Facebook and HomeShop18 website. So I guess this creepy thing has something to do with the Facebook's cookies. I think FB's cookies keep track of the other websites that we visit.

Anyway, I've decided to use "Self-Destructing cookies" addon on Firefox and remind myself to close facebook before opening any other website.
On the other hand this is one of the best things I've ever read.
That is what you would expect it to be, too. I see them dominating the world for next 2 years at least but where they go there will determine how strong the vision is of the founders.
I think they're supposed to be image credits.
Yes, the issues are mainly in hiring, labour code, and also privacy and IP issues.

Privacy is a big deal in Germany.

(And of course, doing all that in German, but in Berlin it's easy to do things in English. But not everybody speaks English)
So, it seems it's a PGP-based technique? Good.
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Thank you for posting this. I have at one point or another utilized many of these techniques. I've never tried Evernote, though. I'll have to try it out. How do you deal with lingering problems, things that require uncertain action/are at the whim of other people? Similarly, what tools and methods do you use for scheduling and intermittent tasks?
Are people seriously unaware of this? Retargeting is so common it's like posting about Google adding ads to your search results.
but, but, but, I never mentioned anything about forking === innovation (unless your response wasn't directed at me :) ).
The trend is that certain ideas are offensive and are therefore kept censored or ridiculed, until people can overlook those societal views of past generations and assess the ideas with a fresh perspective, at which point they become accepted.

There are things today which if you say you might lose friends over, but I am certain it's a case of nation-wide groupthink. Evidence? In other parts of the world these ideas are widely accepted already.
Bloomberg TV just showed a private key for a bitcoin gift certificate on the air
Wait, we did Excel in like 7 lines of code, but Santa takes how many? :-)

Can someone please explain how those bows are getting drawn? So neat!

And don't forget to compare it to the source: http://dribbble.com/shots/835890-This-guy
In the UK and much of Europe houses are not any bigger.
This happened 4 days ago. "Just" might be pushing it a bit.
So let me get this right. "Multitasking" isn't fast app switching? Care to elaborate? Didn't think so. My comment was made to illustrate how utterly banal the OP's comment was. I obviously wasn't clear enough that this was my aim. Sadly, prissy little assholes get offended at stuff like this and start relying on name calling (yes, the 'gods' comment is exactly that) to make 'points'. What you are saying is that it's OK to make these ridiculous comment that are no longer relevant, and that weren't particularly relevant at the time either, and I should just accept it as fact?

As to my 'leading' question; in context it's totally relevant. I'd like to know. I totally believe your version, although the evidence suggest otherwise. As I noted, Android didn't feel nearly as finished as iOS until 4.2.
We don't have sales. We are developers.
Are you seriously suggesting that there are more incidences of mental health issues because people have easier lives?
I did read it, that's why I posted it. It seems pretty clear to me. Google could've, y'know, joined them. Simple really. Surely a better idea than weaponising them? If you really believe that Google would have used them 'defensively', then you are either naive or delusional. Google knew what they were doing and knew what the ramifications of their actions would be.
I applaud this. I actually never remember when Christmas is exactly because I simply do not care. I know when it ends, and I feel better.

Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it special or have some intrinsic meaning. l'existence précède l'essence so to speak.

Besides, Christmas has become all about material gifts. I think spending time family is a good thing, regardless if it's holiday or not. Try to set apart some difference, at least spend a bit of time, like have dinner together and such.

Never mind the rest of the world as it carries about what was the holiday about anyway? Some dude that was born, grew up to be crucified, defies the laws of universe and physics to rise up from the dead?

I don't hate Christmas but I pretty much regard it like any other day of the year. For other's it's Christmas day but for me it's just Wednesday with more food and family time and christmas tree. I admit I really like the christmas tree.
imho bitcoins technology is amazing and and the near future we will see a lot of new products, such as this one, that are built on bitcoin technology but aren't related to bitcoins.
The poster seems to be asking how it's possible technically, i.e. how it's implemented.
I have been following with their API changes since it's major update in early 2013, and anyone could have exploited the phone lookup function easily, because everything is there in the open. I was surprised by how easy it was to decompile the Android app:

public static boolean NEEDS_FUCKED_UP_NEXUS_422_SETTINGS()

Timber.d("Looks like camprevs gon hide dis shit", new Object[0]);

There really is no way for the Snapchat team to completely prevent others from reversing their API. A client is the endpoint after all. In order to make things difficult for hackers, they could do the following:
1. Implement a custom protocol over TCP/IP, kind of what Skype does.
2. Obfuscate the hell out of it and everything else.
3. Roll out new updates with both APIs.
4. After a reasonable amount of time, break backwards-compatibility on server side.
I'm quite the fan of Steve Gibson, infact I use grsec on my boxes, sadly we only noticed this after our initial release, when it really was too late.

If Steve Gibson hears of this, or reads this, my apologies, this was not intended.

(also this was a reference to the movie Hackers, which in turn a reference to William Gibson)
A Christmas Message From Edward Snowden
I'm a bit biased, but I'd recommend giving Scala a try. There is a lot of non-sense floating on the internet about the language, but I suggest making up your own mind.

Tooling and IDE support is better than Haskell and Clojure, so you can focus on the language instead of fighting with tools.

If you know Scala a bit, it's easy to move to something else. For instance, if you decide that you don't need types, you can move to Clojure; if you decide you don't need unchecked side-effects you can move to Haskell; if you decide that you don't need functional programming, you can move to a different OOP language (or keep using Scala).