skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make a little more that the parent, but still don't think of Apple products as affordable. It's almost always a stretch for me to purchase them, but I wouldn't be happy with many of the other options.

In the case of my recent upgrade, I justified it as an investment in my future. I don't consider the money I spent on it to be a purchase that I would be comfortable making frequently.

Wether you are a college student of an independent developer, the technology you use affects your success. Apple has a reputation in both industries as being above-average, further demonstrated by the loyalty many users have.
Report: US & UK intel agencies exploit 'leaky' apps such as Angry Birds
I like how I had no problem, when I was sixteen, setting up Paypal so that I could buy some random components for some old PDA's from china on ebay.

But this is seriously upsetting, the tone of this writing wants to rip my heart out for the author. I can only wish that this gets resolved decently.

His comparison also reminds me how Amazon's customer service is absent as much as possible. Automation and all that. Yet on that topic, it seems people don't mention Google as much. (I wonder if they filter that out in their results..)
For me, the worst part is I went to high school in Brooklyn with this guy. Ugh.
first thing to learn on the internet:
a guy is a guy.
a woman is a guy.
a kid is a fbi undercover agent.

type wiseley
Sabertron: A Super Cool Real Life Light Saber That Keeps Score
This looks really awesome.
We recently had almost a thousand comments long discussion regarding which 3 letters can form a appropriate program name for female users.

Ask yourself how anyone would feel about that kind of attention.
As far as I can tell, the author does not work for Google, and moreover the article makes no mention of Google aside from the headline.
Stopping the Google buses isn't storming the Bastille and demanding for heads, but it ain't sitting on the couch watching TV either...
Damn, how this makes me yearn to leave the suburbs
There are also lots of reports online regarding Square holding payments to sellers, without much info why. Plus they have no phone support, only an email address.
This is a great idea. Glad someone is pulling this together
Your almost zero might have fewer zeros than my almost zero.

But my point still stands: it's trivial to create a synthetic short position that's dollar neutral.
Try and call paypal and ebay at the same time again but this time ask the ebay CS person if they can approve a reversal fee and tell that to the paypal CS rep.
If they approve it paypal will reverse your payment to Ebay and then once you receive the funds back you can make another payment to Ebay.

Just an idea.
What does google actually use python for? Certainly not everything...
How to stop giving a f**k what people think.
Calipari makes 5.2 last I checked, and he's tied into advertising all across kentucky.
That's true. But only a vanishingly small fraction of the possible brackets has come up in history. Similarly, the lottery ticket 1 2 3 4 5 6 has probably never won. Since all lottery tickets are equally likely, it still makes sense to avoid it, since if it did you have to do more sharing. (Similarly people tend to play their birthdays, so number that can be dates should be avoided.)

It is more fun here, because all brackets are not equally likely. So you want to pick your most likely brackets, but only if you don't think others will be playing the same bracket.
I'm sure your comment will get bashed plenty...

But, I'll admit to thinking the exact same thing. 2-3% transaction fees and the BS admin overhead that comes with accepting CC payments is ridiculous.

Oh yea, and merchants are (usually) liable if they accept a stolen credit card. What a crappy system...
I see where I was off by one byte (14 instead of 13) but that still doesn't explain things. The code doesn't load edx with 13 but instead loads it with 0x080480B1. If you wanted to fetch a byte from that address and load it into edx you'd need to use something like "movzx edx, byte ptr [0x080480B1]" but the code on the page just does "mov edx, 0x080480B1". In fact when you run this the code actually prints out not just "Hello, World\n" but also prints out the 0x0D length byte and then the entire rest of the page (all 0x00). Of course these aren't visible in a terminal.
I'm guessing the kernel tries to keep printing but it can't since the next page isn't mapped so it just gives up.
That's true--every system will fail. I took issue with Square because the humans supposed to fix things when it fails are not allowed to do anything (company policy?). Amazon and PayPal people were helpful.
What about the behavior of the NSA and their guardians in Congress and the courts makes you think they give a flying fuck?
We're not discussing the author but her post.

She may have unusual opinions on dating, but that's not the topic of this discussion.
>"Holder is saying the administration can launch strikes against al Qaeda."

He actually took great care not to say that. He is carefully not limiting the president to action only against AQ. The phrase "al Qaeda and associated forces" is deliberate. He is expressly reserving the power to decide who is "associated" to AQ and in a "leadership" position, and to take lethal action based on those decisions. All of these decisions are completely opaque and unchecked by any power outside of the executive.

The 2001 AUMF is a sideshow. Holder doesn't think he needs it. He has opined that congress has no authority over the president in this area anyway, and that includes military action on U.S. soil:

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/does_eric_holder_know_the_la...

I consider this a dangerous concentration of power that the president should reject. This appears to be the crux of our disagreement, yes?
Ugh, as a guy, that whole thread was silly. I got the joke, saw they were erring on the side of "dude" rather than "immature jerk" and stopped reading. What stopped me from contributing was that I couldn't find an easy way to cut examples out of a man page. Although it does occur to me belatedly that a grep for "<command> -" would probably do it for many commands. Or maybe there's another standard syntax that could be used. It also reminded me of that tool that could explain a command by annotating a given example. Hmm, maybe the sexist name debate stopped me from contributing more than I'd thought. That said, it was because the debate didn't interest me -- it wasn't relevant enough to the original subject matter, I felt.
Google plans to dump CSS regions to make Blink fast
No, because drugs being illegal pushes the drug trade into criminal hands. I don't do drugs (often) but I don't see why revenue should go to criminal cartels and war lords when it can be controlled and regulated by government, especially if the government is able to charge taxes- and I'd imagine, seeing how rich drug dealers are, that they can bring in a lot of tax revenue and still keep it less than street price.
Here are some examples just off the top of my head.

Go:

http://blog.gopheracademy.com/moving-to-go

http://blog.iron.io/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2...

http://blog.gopheracademy.com/day-03-building-a-twelve-facto...

Clojure:

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2013/1/14/bringing-functio...

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Why-Prismatic-Goes-Faster...
19 great reasons to include visual content in your online marketing
I think its more that the application of professional makeup is indicative of a prosecutor overly concerned with appearance. Its not the touch up here and there to avoid looking like an overworked zombie, its the going to the extreme to look like a hero. The suggestion is that such vanity can get in the way of facts, truth and justice. I don't agree with this perspective, but I sympathise with it.
Here's a good conversation on it:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2560310/heavy-usage-of-py...
+1 for POODR - very (very) well written, goes down multiple pathways reasonably (rather than "this is how you solve that" without any clue why you solve it that way), and gives some decent tools for any project. I only wish it were longer.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2560310/heavy-usage-of-py...
Owning large amount of steel or wool or orange juice could make you a billionaire. Billionaires usually have a lot of power.

>>> Is owning/dealing in large amounts of hamburgers specifically relevant for having power?

Sure, if you control hamburger market for a large city, you would have lots of power. See also agricultural lobby - they produce a lot of food and have a lot of power because they produce food.

>>> Do large amounts of cars lead to power?

Definitely. Having large amount of cars, you could cause traffic jams anytime and cause immense economic harm. Or you could deliver stuff really quickly and earn billions of dollars and buy a dozen of congressmen with these billions, gaining a lot of power.

Having a real lot of basically anything could give you power. And note that government controls even minute amounts of money which give you no power whatsoever - low boundary for reporting requirements if a puny $10K, which wouldn't even buy you a decent car.
Interesting move where Google can essentially veto a technology making it impractical to use it.
This reminds me of the distinction between random and arbitrary. Seems to trip people up sometimes.
Teenage Hacker Transforms Web Into One Giant Bitcoin Network
I think cab systems have a lot of problems, for example the under supply of medallions in New York. I would favor abandoning the scheme altogether, and just requiring Uber-like businesses to carry a lot of liability insurance and meet certain requirements for driver identification. But while the existing system exists, and cabs have restrictions Uber doesn't, I don't think its fair for Uber to basically run a cab company while ignoring cab regulations.
You know that when a bank does it though, nobody gets arrested right? They just get a small fine that is a fraction of their net profit from their illegal activities.

That is to say: 'You know that one of the times a bank did this, nobody got arrested right? ...'

You can hardly generalise from the one exceptional case recently involving HSBC to the conclusion that all banks everywhere always get away with money laundering.
The point is that drugs are a primary income for criminals- that is, people who are criminals for a living.
Google uses python for non production facing scripts. Everything production facing is C++ or Java.
It's very relevant. Square is just another broken implementation of a broken system.

Until we accept that centralized payment systems only benefits the central entities, we're going to be stuck with these problems.
It's for your job prospects that you avoid off color jokes? Not the comedic banality or actual disgust with sexism?
Google uses dozens of different languages in the services they offer. Heck, they even built a few languages themselves, like Go and Dart. Go is definitely used in production as well http://golang.org/doc/faq#Is_Google_using_go_internally.
Is there any data to suggest that Google writes a non-negligible number of apps in Python vs the dozens or so of other languages? I'm curious.
Poll: On-Site Consulting Rates for Engineers
What is your hourly rate (in USD) for on-site and out-of-town software consulting?
$0 - 49
$50 - 99
$100 - 149
$150 - 199
$200 - 249
$250 - 299
$300 - 399
$400 - 499
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$600 or more
Matt Levine who writes for Bloomberg is a great daily read. He posted about this about a week ago and it provides a good overview of how this type of thing is priced/insured.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-21/buffett-makes-milli...
I like this article because some notes I took at Walt Disney Animation Studios is referenced.

Yes, today it's all about me :-)
Well, not necessarily the only factor. When I was living in Bangalore (a few years ago), I remember that if I post a question on StackOverFlow at night (Indian Standard Time), I had a higher chance of getting more responses than if I did it during the day. I presumed it must be because that translates into about morning in Americas and mid day in Europe and probably these places had the bulk of the active users.
So...would you take the $500M or $25M/yr for 40 years?
"Drug law enforcement's job is to investigate and identify those who abet the illicit drug trade at all levels of production and distribution, including those lining their own pockets by feigning ignorance of any wrong doing and turning a blind eye."

Start with congress for making drugs illegal in the first place.
For me, Flickr is basically unusable. Slideshows are impossibly slow, information is positioned outside the browser viewport, and simply bringing up an image-page is reminder of dialup. I can only blame inertial lockin for their usage numbers.
Many mention they can't think of cases where gender would come up in discussions. While it doesn't often come up, there are some discussions where personal anecdotes leads to the inference of the gender of the author.

Personally, in my AFK life and online, I treat women with the same respect (and critique) as I do men. I also don't know many people who would treat people differently based on their gender. Well, obviously disregarding the case for romance/relations..

I do understand the interest in women in fields like tech and gaming. It certainly is something that can pique ones interest when a person of the opposite gender shares the same interests as you, but that doesn't mean you need to treat them differently unless otherwise hinted.

The only people I can think of that do (treat women the way the OP describes), are also people that are generally awkward in social settings, so it's not gender focused per se, just a bit more apparent there, maybe.
The US government doesn't hate Bitcoin at all. Indeed, the DoJ, FBI, IRS, and NSA love Bitcoin, especially the public ledger part of it.

For some reason, libertarians really flock to Bitcoin, not realizing that it's the worst possible currency to use if you want anonymity. (Physical cash is easy to hide, but a digital currency will always be traceable with enough effort.)
I'm not against Python by any means. I like it and I use it fairly often.

However this article is very unconvincing.

The arguments summed up in order are basically:

* Python has generators.

* Python interpreters are getting faster.

* Argument from popularity.

* Holy shit, guys! Did you know that CPython isn't the only Python implementation, and that there's a difference between language specification and implementation? Mind = blown, amirite?

* It's so easy... scientists and mathematicians can use it? (Not to say that Python isn't easy, but to make it out like it'd be so impressive for a hard scientist to pick up programming is silly.)
Related, one can now not use the Swedish name for "bridge" in projects. Bridge being a common technical term is the same exact 3 letter "bro", and will likely call down the storm if used.

My dream of bridging man pages and info manuals crushed.
I wouldn't assume that an expert in their field, someone with the expertise to potentially achieve global recognition, would care about a half-assed company not handling their security properly. More responsibility? They probably want less. They don't need or want anymore power than they already achieved with their own mind. That's how introverts roll.
The lottery is at least theoretically based on perfect information. I'm not sure it is a given that the 8-9 match ups are more likely to go to 8.

(but I did sort of overlook how few brackets have been played out)
Ian from the Immunity Project (YC W14) team here! Happy to answer any questions you may have.
Using Neuroeconomics to Increase Website Conversions
To skip the Tetris rules and read the A.I. parts, go to http://meatfighter.com/nintendotetrisai/#The_Algorithm
The decision to make Python an officially supported language inside Google was made a long time ago. It's anyone's guess whether they'd make the same decision today. If Go were around, perhaps they'd have chosen that instead?
LiveMocha isn't in YC and won't have to pivot in a few months due to a poorly thought-out business model.
hi there, I work at dropbox and am curious to learn more. what things did you run into that were unexpected and retracted from the UX? hopefully we can make it better!
Next Generation Robotic Whiskers Promise New Capabilities, More Cuteness
What actually are you?
Maybe. You have to keep in mind though that the two situations are not equivalent. Men have been the "in group" for a long time, and as members of the in group there are a lot of social dynamics that we don't tend to have a deep understanding of. See the parable of the old fish asking the young, "How's the water?"

Conversely, as "outsiders" who are greatly affected by the dynamics of the in group, women have had more of a reason to pay attention to the group dynamics of men for a long time. They are more likely to have a sense of these things, conscious or not. The same dynamic happens any time there is a minority. Black people tend to be more astute observers of white people's behavior than the reverse because a white person is more likely to live their life without having to understand how to get what they want from the black folks who have the power, while the reverse is less often true.
Some thoughts on this white paper, with the caveat that I'm not sure how much of what is discussed they have done and how much of it is what they are planning to do. The white paper is light on details and I re-iterate my appeal for them to release their data (at least in summary form). My apologies for some of the technical language--I want to write this first and then I can clarify the hard stuff (or you can google it)

This vaccine relies on inducing immunity to an HIV peptide* (i.e. a ~9 amino acid cleavage product of an HIV protein) that is predicted to bind to HLA molecules. At first blush, this sounds like a great idea--let's immunize people to the very thing that the immune system is supposed to recognize as bad! Unfortunately, this has been tried lots of times and usually doesn't work very well, if at all. It's been tried in cancer, it's been tried in HIV, it's been tried in practically any system you can imagine. I'm not saying that peptide vaccines don't ever work (hell, my lab has worked on one)--I'm just saying that they have had lots of promise and limited successes. In fact, animals and patients have been immunized to many cleavage products of many cancer associated antigens to little, if any, effect—or effects in animals but not in humans. We can hem and haw all day about what the specific studies show, but suffice it to say that peptide vaccines are an old idea. Perhaps Immunity will get lucky here, but I'd be surprised if there isn't a lab somewhere that has tried immunizing animals to every single breakdown product of HIV proteins already.

Immunity's white paper says that their putatively immunogenic human peptide cannot be tested in animal models because it will only bind to human HLA. So they are planning to use a mouse-analog of the human peptide to do their animal testing (or have already done this?). That is, they are planning to use (or maybe have already used?) a completely different peptide (probably 1-3 amino acids different from the human version) in animal studies than what they would use in patients. This may be a significant difference... or it might not be. There's no way to tell a priori. A more classical and IMO better approach would be to identify T cell receptor clones from patients with HIV (or without HIV) that bind to these peptides (using tetramer staining, phage display or some other high-throughput technology), demonstrate that humans are capable of creating T cells that recognize their putatively immunogenic peptide followed by T cell killing assays on cells presenting their peptide of interest. There are other approaches, but that is a commonly used one in the field.

* in some places the white paper says "peptides" and in other it says "peptide" so it's not clear if we are talking about 1 peptide or multiple. I think they are mostly talking about multiple peptides, because they want to immunize people no matter their HLA type. Different HLA types bind to different peptides. So if you have HLA A02 you will bind different peptides than if you have HLA A24... and so on for all the different HLA types.
I found a good article explaining all it's power. The Multiple Inheritance trick is cool.

http://mishadoff.github.io/blog/java-magic-part-4-sun-dot-mi...
It's not that they haven't accomplished anything in feminist discourse or that they weren't influential.

Rather, they contributed to the derailing of feminism into the contemporary postmodern feminism that dominates the public sphere. The one which gets uptight over private jokes between people at tech conferences.
It's a trick. The verbiage on the page strongly suggests you have to log in, but there is a little link or something to skip it. It has been a while since I bought through paypal, but I always skipped it because it was so much more of a hassle to log in.
Well. Already I'm in dangerous territory now arn't I? but let me be candid:

>it's for your job prospects that you avoid off color jokes?

yes.

>Not the comedic banality

no.

>or actual disgust with sexism?

no.

I'm not a crusader, nor am I a paragon of morality. I would suggest to you, that such personally held traits are dangerous.
Good to see the network growing. I may still be sorta impractical, but at least Tesla is putting a foot forward and expanding their charging network. In the end, this alone could push their sales higher since no other vehicles (brands) can charge on the supercharger network.

So in, lets say, 5 years...would you rather buy an electric car with an established and easy to use charging network. Or a different brand electric car that is just launching their charger network? Tesla for the long term
Can some of the risk be mitigated by sending the user an email to confirm the connection? If the user has a verified email address on file before the connection is attempted, the facebook profile information (in this case the information of the attacker) could be sent to them asking them to confirm the connection.
Interesting. Would Gates and a couple others be willing to cut a few large checks to just make it happen? This is something that should be fast-tracked. As in right now, please.
50 Cent Talks About Tech Investing Lessons From The Music Industry
SecureDrop Undergoes Second Security Audit
Are you affiliated with Optimizely? I ask because I know one of their primary marketing statements is also "A/B testing you'll actually use."
I suspect that far more of us would take:

5) I don't really care what your gender is (unless it is particularly germane to the topic of discussion) and I don't take it into account with regard to the content of my posts or responses.

People aren't taken aback at the office, when they deal with female engineers. Why should it be any different on the internet?

I understand women often have to deal with these awkward situations online. Granted. But let's remember that these are a minuscule fraction. It's like walking down the streets of New York and applying the reaction of one construction whistler cat-calling someone passing by and painting the other four million men in the city.

Of course, when you're on the receiving end of encounters with the one person in a massive group that always zooms in on you, it likely feels disproportionate.
Wasn't there a Phrack Magazine article on typing in software from memory using debug.com? COM-files are funny. I seem to recall "echo d > restart.com" (or possibly "D") would give you a quick way to reboot a 3.11 machine (probably due to some crash or other, I never investigated why it worked - but a couple of other random characters would usually end up with a freeze...
Were you already serving thumbnails over https? Or were they served over http?

edit: I was also wondering whether you can skip downloading some thumbnails based on the velocity of the scroll.