skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defining "rich" is important because if we don't do that, then we cannot have a sensible conversation.

Anyway, I am not the person that wants "rich" to be defined with such a low bar. Rather it is the SF protesters and their supporters who are setting that low bar. To them, the bog-standard tech worker is "rich", hence their objections.

Personally, I prefer a much higher bar for rich. The "1%er billionaire" is closer to my preferred definition.
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It can be more complex than that. An extreme pacifist could have no problem with taxes per se but feel that paying taxes today implicates him in war crimes (drones strikes, etc.)
True bugs wait in haunted attics.
Didn't I see a Law & Order about a woman drugging men and using a tazer to stimulate ejaculation? There's no such thing as 100% effective (http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities), though abstinence actually practiced (rather than simply intended) is certainly the most effective approach.
You could be right about that, I'm certainly no expert, it just seemed to make sense to me. Perhaps I was oversimplifying things in my head. However, it's hard to imagine that we wouldn't be more secure hiring educated behaviorists to have a quick chat with passengers before they board a plane.
Yes. Quite a lot of merchants do not ask for CVV/CVCs (Amazon being an example).
Part of the issue is that for word, the key to start "hidden text" is CTRL+SHIFT+H [1] and the stupid placement of the CTRL key means that hitting it at the same time you hit shift is not necessarily a "rare" occurrence. So you go to start a line with 'H' and you end up hiding some text instead.

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211982
A Watch without a face.
Articles like this make me wonder why software workers don't have a union. But then I remember the time I tried to contact SEIU to organize about 1000 people, and walked away wondering why I ever thought that was a good idea.
The profiling the Israelis do would never fly in the US.

Plus, all it would take is a few media reports about people missing or not being allowed on a flight and the system would come crashing down.

From what I've read, the Israeli system basically works like this:"if I'm not convinced I'm getting the entire truth, we're going to keep doing this until I do, plane leaving or not".
Matt said:

"Typically, web search results don’t add value to users, and since our
core goal is to provide the best search results possible, we generally
exclude search results from our web search index."

(Said here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-results-in-search-resul...)

So i have a question to him: "Hi Matt, can you please explain me how it's possible that softonic ranks so well with automated search content on Google?"
Finest Geekery
Cool! Has anyone here done this?
Indeed, you have to draw a line somewhere. Do you explain (1) 2+2, (2) user/kernel space, (3) what a _compat usually is for or (4) what this particular _compat does?

I for one would draw the line before (4). The original developer drew it after. If I would explain API conventions I would draw it before (3) but crypto _API_ for example has the line after (4). And there are appropriate places for (1) and (2) also.

The point is, you address to some audience. But even if the code is clean, a newcomer will have a hard time getting up to speed if he has no idea about the context. The way I see it, for some parts of the kernel, either the code is too precious to be touched or the maintainers do not have any interest in explaining it to an outsider. It's like they are loosing knowledge by sharing.

Think new comers. How can you make them contribute? Or maybe the barrier to entry is high enough on purpose?
Too true. I was in Israel just a few years ago visiting family and my cousin that is now out of the army, but still works for the army, told me the safest place in the world is the Israeli airport. Between the cameras the officers and the checkpoints it sure seemed that way.

From memory: there was a checkpoint driving up to the airport where my cousin had to tell the guy where he was from, purpose for going to the airport etc, that was brief. Then when I got into the airport there was just sorta a mash of people rather than a line and eventually there were 3 or 4 people taking id, and asking you questions about your visit. Again very brief. From there metal detector and then to the gate.

My fear is that the TSA does do a lot of the same camera stuff and the charade that they put on at the metal detector/body scanner is in fact just a charade.
Unfortunately the problem is as much with tenure as it is the lack of tenure. Once you have a class of tenured people who are making decisions, "Aprois moi le Deluge" becomes the governing principle.
I agree. The issue is not that there is anything intrinsically wrong with such examples, but because such examples cause people to get themselves worked up into a tizzy and miss the point. Picking those sort of examples is therefore a good way to be ignored.

I am nevertheless concerned by what I perceive to be the idea that such examples are inherently wrong, not merely ineffective.
Crowd Funding for Self-confident Game Developers
Yes. Physical transactions, card present, with chip and pin have lowest txfee.

You can run a card with only a number and exp even. No AVS at all. Just higher cost higher risk.
I will have to get on that!
They're not chosen for high ethical standards. The things you mentioned are attributes of painfully normal/boring people, not people of high moral standing.

They're chosen for being the best at being square and following orders without dissent. These kinds of people are the least likely to speak out by definition.
Node.js has linear speedup over multiple cores for web servers, no other language can claim that.
>It works; the last successful airport attack in Israel was in 1986, and they have prevented many since

I'd be willing to bet that shutting down all airports permanently would prove successful in preventing attacks. The question is, at what cost?
If you follow the letter of the law with gateways it's frequently the case that you cannot modify the payment data. At least that was the case years ago when I integrated with a couple (in the scary days before Braintree and Stripe).
Ouch, yeah it gives username.
That doesn't make any sense. They aren't changing the price on subscriptions you already paid for.
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Yeah, I sort of took poetic license with that one. I think the case could be made much more strongly if I was interacting directly with it, and if it indicated how I was supposed to do so.

In this case, I used the term pretty carelessly.
No, there are no such provisions. The card companies have their own fraud prevention/detection departments which mine transactions and look for abnormal behavior. If they spot something out of the ordinary (big purchase, foreign purchase, etc) then they will call you to validate.
Great article on Tcl, I wasn't familiar with it before but the event driven model and the ease of network programming is really appealing.
Two New Amazon RDS Database Engines in Eclipse
4 out of 10 rated this helpful
"The n in strncpy describes to what size the destination buffer (not string) should be padded with '\0'."

This is false.

From the man page: "The strncpy() function is similar, except that at most n bytes of src are copied. Warning: If there is no null byte among the first n bytes of src, the string placed in dest will not be null-terminated."

And the following code prints foo:ar on my system.

char buffer[10];
strcpy(buffer, "foobar");
strcpy(buffer, "foo");
printf("%s:%s\n", buffer, buffer+4);

Edited to add: huh, scratch that. Obvious error in above test :-P. Testing it with strncat like I had meant to, it seems it is in fact padded, not just (possibly) terminated. Interesting, and very worth knowing if you are trying to move a probably small string to a large buffer under time pressure.
How about Google AdWords ?
http://creditcardjs.com/
How To Become Uber Productive While Working For Yourself:

Step 1) Do work instead of reading articles like this.

Partially kidding. It was a good and inspiring article.
Except that Maestro cards start with 6 as well.

Also, many ATM cards (a foreign concept to this European until very recently) overlap with Visa ranges. In fact, my ATM card parses exactly as a Visa number. It even has the Visa trademark mentioned on the back. No, you can't use it for online transactions. Apparently, Visa Debit is not a thing in Canada ...

My point is, showing wrong UI is often worse than clunkier UI.
This is from 2009. The doc still exists, and the API still does not. But who cares; a workaround was posted and everything is working as it should.

That being said, documentation is really, really hard -- especially when you have thousands and thousands of pages. Unfortunately, things get out of sync. I just want to know how it managed a 4/10.
Well, I'm not saying we just copy what they do blindly. The situations are different. That doesn't mean we couldn't employee some of their tactics. Particularly, I've always liked the idea of trained personal (behaviorists) who have a quick chat with every passenger while doing away with much of the security dog and pony show.
It's a cute comment, but the answer is in there. I don't think Microsoft is highly motivated to update some of this ancient IE embedding lore:

hr = pDoc->QueryInterface(__uuidof(IServiceProvider),
(void **)&spServiceProvider);

hr = spServiceProvider->QueryService(__uuidof(ITimerService),
&spTimerService);

hr = spTimerService->CreateTimer(NULL, ppTimer);

(did someone at MSFT see this HN post today and update the comment?)
I don't have published version of data, but I can confirm from running a checkout flow that's processed $100M that fewer fields = more conversions. If you light up the logo people understand it when done properly.

It helps that more savvy ecommerce sites are moving to this model so more and more users are familiar with the experience.
It's an interesting point. However she needs to be clear that the measure that matters isn't student to adjunct, or anything like that. The thing that matters is % of student hours taught by graduate students, vs adjuncts, vs tenure(-track) faculty.

Tenured faculty often teach many sessions, however they may only be teaching 8 graduate students while the 175 student intro class is taught by an adjunct.
Well that seems like a silly leap. I'm not sure what "cost" you're referring to, but you're right in that some of what they do wouldn't fly here. That doesn't mean we couldn't take a hybrid approach. It seems pretty plain that much of what we do now is comical.
I'm confused, what is the context here? The comment is humorous, but the microsoft rep did reply back with (what seems like) working code. In 2009.

Also, why does one need the MSHTML Timer API these days?
Microsoft discontinues InfoPath, will support latest version until April 2023
I didn't mean to imply that I was personally interested in it--just that there are more guidelines sections that apply.

There have been quite a few discussions here recently about banks, regulation, income inequality, and that sort of thing, and these have drawn enough up votes and enough comments to indicate that they are of interest to many people here. It seems plausible to me that most of the people who found those things interesting enough to be HN-worthy would also find this HN-worthy.
>You have to factor in that we now get charged sales tax in California.

You have always been obligated to pay sales tax on purchases in California, its just that seemingly most people lie on their taxes and dont pay it.

see: http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/pub217.pdf
As a student who's been at several hackathons (and won some of them), fuck those guys!
Funny story: a professor I know was once asked at an Israeli airport whether he spoke any hebrew, when he answered: "no, but I would love to learn", the security officer didn't know what to do for a couple of seconds.

Anyway if what I hear from my friend who is a social worker in the Occupied Territories about security at Israeli airports I sure hope the US doesn't take a page from Israeli's book.
[Infographic] Super Bowl XLVIII Matchup
Scandinavian countries have some of the highest external debt per Capita, good job spending money you don't really own.
If you are handling the card number on your own servers (e.g. not using an iframe which you can't modify), then it's just lazy programming. There's no spec that says you cannot modify poor user input to strip characters.

Source: I run an e-commerece site and have written checkout flow.
>The reason we still sign receipts and yes, you still see a carbon copy here and there, is mainly because it protects the merchant if the cardholder does a "chargeback". Merchants typically store the receipts and only turn them over if a chargeback is received. Showing the signed receipt to your processor will usually absolve you from any loss.

I wonder what would happen in this case if you turned in one of these?

(taken from the internet archive site apparently went down)

https://web.archive.org/web/20050317031541/http://www.zug.co...
If they were able to let multiple companies offer service over their community-owned dumb pipes, that would indeed be ideal. But my recollection is that were hiring a single private ISP to manage it all. Maybe they were too small for Comcast or Cox, etc. to bother with in this unique setup? I'm afraid the same thing would happen in small towns if the town itself owned the network.
> I don't have a problem making more money now that I made myself valuable.

That could be part of our differences in outlook. I don't feel I've really "made myself" valuable, I just have skills and interests that happened to be valuable. I've liked computers since I was a kid, and am reasonably adept with them. When I grew up, somewhat to my surprise, I found out people paid quite a bit of money for that kind of thing. It feels sort of like playing careers on easy-mode; even if I were to totally wash out into a low-end programming position, I could still easily make high 5 figures slinging web templates or Ruby or PHP or something.

Other people who're harder-working and more talented than me make less, because they happened to be adept in the wrong thing (art or carpentry instead of coding, say). Were the era different, it could be the other way around, so I have a bit of a "there but for the grace of god go I" outlook: there are times when engineering was a poorly paid blue-collar occupation and skilled painters were highly rewarded. In that economy, I'd be poorer and some of my friends would be richer, through no change in our own skills...
Of course it's a silly leap. I was trying to illustrate that the argument of "Strategy X prevented crime" doesn't necessarily make it a preferable alternative.

As to the cost: I'm a twitchy sort of fellow. If I had to self-diagnose I would probably attribute it to OCD or some such thing, but regardless... what are these behaviorists looking for? Do I get profiled based on the fact that I probably look "sketchy" in public, regardless of my actual intent? Sounds like a cost to me (though perhaps one you personally would never consider).
Thanks for clarifying. I'm new to the world of design and am still struggling with some of the nuances of expression.
New species of ugly, big-headed fish discovered in Idaho and Montana rivers
All of the web testing over here at SMART is done via Robot Framework. It's verbose and tricky to use sometimes, but it's entirely accessible to a number of people who are not developers and can be very productive in it.
At times I am tempted to just order $25 of dead weight so I can get the add-on item and ship everything else back for credit.

I see what they are trying to do, namely get you to cough up $20 more to buy things you 'may' need but not yet (or ever) to increase revenue but it just feels particularly scammy.
Why your boss likes the cold, even if you hate it
I'm 100% agreeing with - I hope my comment wasn't taken as a snarky, "If you don't like it leave!". Take it as a "there are better alternatives, don't bother." :)
You have a First Amendment right to speech. You don't have a right to a government job. It's hardly Orwellian.

If you self-identify as a government employee, then it is reasonable to assume that someone might take what you say as government policy. Had he not said he was a TSA employee first, there would have been no issue at all.
Thank you very much. I've been annoyed by these extremely uninformative titles on HN for quite a long time already and now, finally, culmination — article as uninformative as its title. Oh my…

Anyway, it seems that nothing actually happened. Somebody was naive enough to believe that company thats power is in ability to show right ads because of knowing oh-so-much about you can possibly stop worrying about who you are at all. Well, fine. I guess all of it could be shortened to "Moot is dreaming".
Yeah, it's funny. A friend of mine got one B in high school and ended up outside the top 5% of his class (which matters for some scholarships) because there were twelve kids with straight A's. If he had been a year younger he would have been second in his class.
Entirely possible I've just been unlucky. I should have maybe tried escalating. Virgin Mobile's service was good to me and their website at least worked even if it was simple, and Verizion was pleasant if overly expensive.

But when Tmobile forces me to call, which I was trying to avoid, because their web engineering is so completely terrible, and then I have to wait on hold for half an hour, and then the cust service guy acts like I'm a criminal when I'm going through all this pain to give them money - a saner person would've given up.
Yelp 2.0: The Next Generation
Easy, just try "123456" and "password" (or the top 10 of the the biggest password breachs at a given time), you will have a great hit ratio in a random sample of people.

Try reading Asimov's Foundation. You can't predict individuals, but given enough number of people, you will get a great trend hinting. And if the group you try to predict have some password culture on it (like this community), you should not be able to guess, even simple algorithms for passwords like the xkcd ones are pretty safe to random guessing.
What's the source on your third paragraph? I want to read the backstory there.

Edit: Bias alert; I work for Dropbox on our infrastructure team. I'm just curious about that particular incident, since it predates me and I'm always curious about these things.
> This warrants respect, not insults.

Considering most of what you post is full of insults and attacks on people who have moral views which differ from yours in good faith, I would suggest you start at home with this advice. "I think the poors should stay poor because they're worthless while I create wealth, and I'm prepared to shoot anyone who tries to implement a contrary policy, be warned" is not a reasoned debate.
It's a bit off-topic, but I'd love to know what tool/service you used to create those slideshows; assuming it's not all homebrew. The simplicity , the annotations and the 'hover zoom' are really nice touches.

(Fantastic work on the site btw. Looking forward to seeing more.)
My typical airports have completely eliminated metal detector only lines except for Pre✓™.

Pre✓™ seems like extortion - I have a passport, DHS has my fingerprints (for unrelated reasons). Why should I jump through additional hoops, and give them more money for something that they've already collected from me? If they really wanted to know if I was a flight risk, wouldn't they have already used all of the information they already know about me? If not, why!?
I would feel comfortable calling FPS games "quake clones" if they have sufficiently similar gameplay to Quake. Painkiller or Serious Sam come to mind.
I think the argument goes something along the lines of:

Public enterprise, as we all know, is of course highly inefficient, massively expensive and badly organised. Which is why it is absolutely vital to ban it from entering industry as it would be unfair competition.
The Growth Mindset, Learnings from 6 months as a first-time engineering..
As a society, you have to allocate the limited supply of educated and skilled people wisely. I'd rather have them teaching, doing medical research, or starting startups than doing better traveler screening.
Yes, the CVV is not required. If you think about it, it is obvious CCV isn't since many self-serve card swipe machines (gas stations, grocery stores, fast food restaurants) don't ask you for it.
> We are talking about whether the name is a good choice, right?
Not entirely, or at least I wasn't. As to whether or not it's a good choice, you are absolutely right, how it's seen by your potential audience is important.

On the other hand, it could be an opportunity "take back" the meaning of "bro" by putting it into common use with a harmless meaning. I would rather the word "brogrammer", with its baggage and any link it may or may not have with "bro", fade into obscurity.

Thanks, bro.

(Taking back "bro" since 2014)
Institutionalized by whom?
In a society of voluntary contracts, those who have lots of wealth DO deserve it, and if they're clear under law then they DID get it all themselves, and "Society" is a mythical being: it has no right to forcibly steal from some more wealthy individuals.
"Oh, so you built this house from LEGO blocks during break hour while the other kids where playing around?"
"Yes"
"It'd be better off for all of you if we could take that house and give it to stupid kids who can't build it."
The famous and wealthy lifestyle of the high society is not for everyone, my friends.

> Then he took me to a bookstore and handed me his credit card. "Buy as many books as you want," he said. No man could have said anything sweeter.

Oh, yes, so sweet. Green and sweet.
This video is in regards to game design, but the lessons apply to web, as well. It's also the best explanation of affordances I've seen out there! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSXEKHL6fc
Why The World's Largest Experiment In Free Public Transportation Failed
Musk first arrived in Canada alone at 17 with very little money and worked manual labor jobs to make ends meet. When he first got to Silicon Valley he basically spent his first six months there locked away in his room coding the initial version of Zip2 which he co-founded with his little brother. What more do you want to decide someone succeeded by their own intelligence and drive as opposed to connections?
Did you read the article at all? It mentions unions constantly.
Very good points. A valid option would have been to release a torrent of encrypted files and then slowly release ways to decrypt the files one at a time.

This way the information is out there but only gets revealed a little at a time.
Try weworkremotely.com, it is a dedicated remote job site
I sometimes have the impression that msdn articles are from time to time depublicized and some information is taken offline either under management directions or just lost in migration. Its quite amazing that CodeProject is more useful than the docs of a company like Microsoft, who actually sells MS visual studio for money.
This was posted a few days ago - you might want to look up the discussion. I can't find it for you because the search function doesn't work on the Blackberry browser. Way to go everyone.
Sequence – JavaScript XSS game
Think of it as a fifth of your time budget spent doing nothing.
Netflix has 6748 movies: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/all?tv_filter=movies+only

I will agree its mostly crap though. I cancelled my subscription a while back, but I think I'd pay $15/month or so easily if they could increase their catalog.
Code red alfalfa. Ok that was a little redundant :)
My limited experience is that less-sophisticated users are either unaware or impressed by the light up logos option.
Skinny Puppy invoices US for using their music as torture device in Guantanamo