skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lively Chat and the plain text “escape”
Inaction is rarely if ever a 'dick move' (unless you promised action)
I read somewhere that masturbating makes you go blind too.

I use an AU Visa card all over the place. Once it was blocked (after a purchase) because I charged $1200 in a bangkok furniture shop.

One call to the bank and it was useable again, and they knew I spend a lot of time in thailand so it's not automatically "suspicious" behaviour.
Plivo has an open source framework too. Currently this App is built on the cloud, but feel free to port it to open source version!

http://plivo.com/open-source/
HN readers discuss some military issue.

Mmmmmmmmm, sounds like Obama shared a story about his programmer life. He had completed a successful side project -- a health care website, for example. And he proudly mentioned that his project is written in VB6!!!
1. Prenup or common-law (in some countries/states) can be a FAR safer contract and generally far more fair and ethical to both parties.

Any person, be it man or woman, should seriously screw off if they can't respect you enough that they expect you to be half as capable as you once were every time you marry.

Put simply, your finances should not define your marriage.
You mention COBOL, I was aught COBOL the JSP (Jackson) method and did lovely code. My first job they used GOTO and I was like argh, COBOL has a GOTO verb. Performance and the like, much less cleaner code but effecient :\ and with that the first steps from the academic world into the real world open your eyes up to many weird programing ways and features.

But I did always liked the COBOL, OCCURS DEPENDING ON ( http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v7v91/inde... ) and how you could use it to write variable length records to files, saving space on tape or DISC and with that faster and cheaper.

it is after all effeciency and getting that extra drop of performance that drives the weird and wonderful quirks and usage and practices that this topic aspires to highlight.
Damn that was too funny. I would love to see something similar with other games.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Viable implementation is a different story.
How exactly does the UK clinging to a backward tradition justify the Chinese clinging to a backward tradition?
"My experience in working on Graphite has reaffirmed a belief of mine that scalability has very little to do with low-level performance but instead is a product of overall design. I have run into many bottlenecks along the way but each time I look for improvements in design rather than speed-ups in performance. I have been asked many times why I wrote Graphite in Python rather than Java or C++, and my response is always that I have yet to come across a true need for the performance that another language could offer. In [Knu74], Donald Knuth famously said that premature optimization is the root of all evil. As long as we assume that our code will continue to evolve in non-trivial ways then all optimization6 is in some sense premature."
Yes, seeing some phony SMTP requests from Comcast and Cox (easily blocked by Spamhaus), but not in a larger amount than the usual. By how much was it a "massive up tick" on your systems?
C++ is a play on the increment operator (++) in C. The language was originally called C With Classes, but this was dropped in favour of the less wordy C++ or C increment. To describe a language which was C but a step improved / increased.
Plivo WebSDK (http://plivo.com/voip-sdk/) allows graceful fallback to Flash for non WebRTC browsers.

WebRTC alone won't run on all browsers!
How Does Mapbox Offer a Job In JavaScript Output?
...and people talk about the death of privacy like it's no big thing. Remember, the real creeps don't post their research on a public forum (unless it's for harassment).
Yes it is: reflect on the interview process, not just on the rejected eventual successes.
This code is open source. Feel free to send a pull request with "who is talking"..

XML to use is here - http://plivo.com/docs/xml/conference/

Hint: use the floorevent param.
Try Chrome which will use HTML5, No-Flash!
Thought this was a joke, but in case you are serious, you may be looking for the C-based object-oriented version of ABCL [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCL/c%2B#ABCL.2Fc.2B
Stripe doesn't seem to try at all when it comes to intangible + chargeback.

It's tougher to prove illegal chargebacks on virtual goods (intangible). Paypal is willing to take any logs, communication, correspondence, and user information you give them and use it to challenge the chargeback with the card issuer.

Stripe not so.
A similar product is https://skylight.io, built by some very formidable people (only a Ruby apps yet though).

https://serverdensity.io is another great product!

I don't want to take the spotlight away from Amon here, it looks like a good product and the idea of focusing on meaningful analysis is nice (instead of only storing droves of raw stats).
New high-def footage of Felix Baumgartners record-breaking sky dive
yes good point. The Indo-China War of 1962 was rather strategic, then brute.

As someone obliviously said that Indian Air Force was superior, is true partly. But they are forgetting the batter terrain was the himalayas. Unless you are flying over, its suicidal to even fly in Himalayas.

In short, A axe can't do a toothpick's job. Thus, nor Navy/Air Force was deployed.

Also, China/India are both relatively young sovereign nations.. 1962 was barely 10 years into independance for both ravaged nations. Economically/Politically it was a bad choice to continue it.
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The (C)C-130J, which is what's used today, has little in common with the C-130A other than appearance. These aren't 50+ year old aircraft.
Agreed, neat stuff. I installed it on my windows workstation.
Being open-source is a very important point.

But any communication system that is built for the future must at least be (public-key) encrypted.

Then you, make it 100% decentralized and you're ready for our time where unlimited mass surveillance seems acceptable for "democratic" governments.
Mon - Fri (wake up, bath, go to work, code, lunch, code, go back home, eat & watch movies/drama/code, bath, code/read, sleep)

Sat - Sun (wake up, bath, breakfast, code, lunch, code, night out/code, sleep)
"I picked C++ because it was short, had nice interpretations, and wasn't of the form "adjective C."' In C, ++ can, depending on context, be read as "next," "successor," or "increment," though it is always pronounced "plus plus." The name C++ and its runner up ++C are fertile sources for jokes and puns - almost all of which were known and appreciated before the name was chosen. The name C++ was suggested by Rick Mascitti. It was first used in December of 1983 when it was edited into the final copies of [Stroustrup,1984] and [Stroustrup,1984c]."

The Design and Evolution of C++; Ch. 3, p.64 - Bjarne Stroustrup

Based on that excerpt, I'd hazard to guess that there was never was a C+. If there where, it's extremely unlikely that its Stoustrup participated in its creation.
ok, IANAL and I'm not even a patent amateur, but I'm not an idiot and making my way logically through the idealized process, this is what I see:

Now you've heard the old adage that invention is 1% inspiration, right? Well that's the problem with our patent system. With these 'idea' patents, you simply have to have enough money to pay a patent lawyer to submit the application and it's suddenly a patent. Meanwhile, you have not produced a product, maybe you can't, maybe you never intended to! Edison would roll over in his grave if he could see the charlatan inventors all over America proclaiming patents of things as silly as this--skipping to specific audio tracks is as intuitive as having bookmarks in a book. I'm not saying the method itself is not creative or novel--I am really not in a position to judge as patents are inexplicably incomprehensible. (I mean the first diagram on that patent is ridiculous, did they really have to sketch the CPU?)

Invention is about the 99% perspiration. If you can't produce the product or convince someone else to make it into something useful, you don't deserve a patent.
I have friends in a similar situation: living in France and both speaking a perfect French, but the father is a native German speaker. His main technique, during the first 3 years of his son, was to talk to him in French, but immediately repeat the same thing in German, and making clear that it was just the same thing in another language. Now his son is 8, and truly bilingual.
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The United States Department of Defense should take a look at this article and stop asking for more military expenditures. They are wasting Americans taxes actually.
Just let Japan release its military power, such as Gundam or Ultraman, then China will be scared.
Just let Indian do a military parade. Imagine many HAL repaired fighter aircraft flying across the sky and China will be scared again.
China will show its real weakness.
This is a perfect strategy. I thought the United States Department of Defense should give me a BIG GOLDEN MEDAL as a reward.
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"Where are the good old days, when it was all about learning, and being something people aspire to, instead of just being a business entity that gets funded by all the big names in the VC arena, and goes on to make a profit, but not really do something awesome?"

The problem is that money and profit are the life-blood of your company. Many things of value are difficult to turn into a profitable business.

I think of how to make a profit..and then build something of value around it. My current company has been profitable from day one because it started with the business model. I don't even choose to work ideas that don't have a business model.
How do you mean address verification is fairly expensive?

Expensive in terms of lost sales (i.e. users giving up in frustration due to mismatches) or something else?

We've had AVS in place for years and get reduced fees as a result. How many people give up on payment due to AVS mismatches, however, is another matter.
Yeah, now people are starting to realise that running a payment processor isn't as easy as it seems. People bash paypal but there are very good reasons they do what they do, to strike a fair balance between protecting consumers and protecting sellers.

Companies like stripe put forward how good their technology is, but honestly most of the real work that a payment processor does is the processes they have for dealing with this sort of stuff.
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The case with cryptographic currencies
Popular Indian cars fail crash tests
Non US person here: what happens in rest stops in Florida?
Nothing?

Okay, I challenge you to eat zero calories and still maintain weight.
You've never lobbied before, right? Emails, letters, petitions - all useless. Although a hand-written letter probably will get read by an official's staff. Probably ignored too; but you might get lucky.

Phone calls are ignored too. There are too many. And most of the calls are from "professional callers" - folk payed by lobbyists to call.

The absolute best way to lobby is to show up. In person. Either in DC, or even better, when they on the road locally. Especially during election years. NOTHING scares a politician more then a scene they can't control at a local event.

Congressmen are easy to get to when on the campaign trail. Senators are harder, but not much harder. But one piece of advice.. BE PREPARED. Know what you plan to say before the meet.

And you'll probably be shuffled off to a staffer. That's ok. Really. Staffers do most of the work anyway.

PS: Another way to get your message out, is of course money. A nice donation to a congressman will get you a meet. You'll get a few minutes with the congressman himself. But much more time with his staff. And if you give enough (a that level 3 or 4 thousand is more then enough) you get his top staff. And that's the best. Of course, the higher you go, the more money it cost. Example: you can get 20 seconds of the President's time (or his staff) if you drop 10k at certain dinners. Depending on your issue it can be money well spent.

By the way, the TSA is not gong away. Despite how much we all hate it. It's a jobs program now. And theres too much money involved now.
A creepy 15th century language experiment ...
No. I'm pointing out how, in spite of that, I believe this mark as applied for is not distinctive in the least and to me creates confusion with the marks of people who used them in commerce first.
Link to single-page version of this article - http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/181135-facebook...
Things like the Rifleman's Creed aren't political indoctrination?

Every army has political indoctrination - it's how you motivate people to put their lives on the line for your goals.
Flash and voice only.

This is really extremely misleading. I do not understand where the upvotes come from. The project may be interesting, but the headline is borderline sleazy.

Also, "allow s3.amazonaws.com to access your camera and microphone"? Yeah, I don't think so.
Cast away: Shipwrecked man makes land 'after 16 months adrift'
@ajcarpy2005 what pieces of hardware do U think are missing?
But I disagree with the primary reasoning in the article: "when you have an adjunct professor instead of a full-timer, you are getting a substandard education"

I came here to make the same comment.

This flaw in the article comes about because of trying to square the circle; the idea that the interests of "academic-aspirational" postdocs are aligned with that of undergraduates. The supply and demand dynamics of these two stakeholder classes are in many ways decoupled from each other, especially with the current structure of academia, so there is no reason to believe that the interests of one should be so facilely used to leverage for the interests of the other.
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Nifty, and—I think—looks worthwhile. But, I'd be far more convinced if it used the word "you" more often, and better explained what's actually going on and why I might want to pay money for what's being offered.
> I know ES6 brings a lot of new shiny to the table, but JS is a poor language.

When started working professionally there was no web. So I do know JavaScript since the LiveScript days.

I never work alone, so I only care for languages ALL team members know, have proper support at the browser tooling[0] and are allowed to use by the customers.

For web development JavaScript is the only one that fullfills those requirements, so I don't care about anyhing else.

[0] good luck with source maps on mobile platforms
Hold on. Politicians aren't afraid to talk about the TSA to constituents. I don't know one politician (Rep or Dem) that's doesn't rail against the TSA. It's a hot topic in Florida.

But journalists are not constituents. And no politician wants to be on the record about anything. ;)
If you want to spend your time being your Owncloud admin use it. Security updates, finding reasons for Error 500 after updates and version upgrades - there's always something to do, you never will be bored.

If you just want a solution to sync data with your server use bittorrent sync.
>> For that reason, the PLA has to engage in constant “political work” at the expense of training for combat. This means that 30 to 40 percent of an officer’s career (or roughly 15 hours per 40-hour work week) is wasted studying CCP propaganda, singing patriotic songs, and conducting small group discussions on Marxist-Leninist theory.

I very much doubt the conduct "small group discussions on Marxist-Leninist theory" the last 20+ years. When was the article written?
What does exactly make it a "backward tradition"? That you have other ideas about how things should be?
(I work at Stripe). I agree that our chargeback management tools are far from perfect, and we're working to improve them. We introduced PDF evidence uploads last year (unfortunately too late to help in this case), and we're currently exploring ways to make illegitimate chargebacks a non-issue for all our users. We're also constantly fine-tuning our fraud detection systems which also helps reduce chargebacks across the board.

If you have thoughts on how we can improve this process further, we'd really appreciate hearing from you. Email me at anurag@stripe.com.
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This uses HTML5 audio on Chrome and falls back to Flash on other browser.

The WebSDK is currently hosted on s3 and hence the request. Will fix this.
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Which means that mobility increased.
> PS: Another way to get your message out, is of course money.

As a european, I find it incredible that politics works this way in the US. It's corruption, plain and simple. Fully institutionalized and out in the open.
Try the app in Chrome, which uses HTML5 audio. Flash is for other browsers with graceful fallback.

As Firefox and other browsers support and stabilize HTML5 audio a.k.a. WebRTC, this App will support it too.
As of a few days ago it is complete enough to compile bootstrap-sass :) https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/issues/231#issuecomment-3...
If you're flying from Amsterdam to the US, you do. They have usually blocked off the metal detectors and claim that you have to use the body scanners (you do have the right to opt out, but it's not stated there).
Sounds like if they ever met, big explosion !
There are a variety of websites that will give you at least some cash for your cards (useful if you have accumulated cards that you otherwise won't use).
Mentoring Devs into DevOps.
Umm, no, it's not a class thing. It's an "I need to get to Seattle and you're an asshole getting in my way without any useful reason" thing.

You'll feel a lot less giving towards TSA the first time you show up two hours in advance of a domestic flight and end up having to sleep the night in an airport because they detained you for additional screening (for no apparent reason other than perhaps not liking your look) long enough to miss the last flight out to your destination.
Quick strace command that I use all the time to see what files a process is opening:

strace -f <command> 2>&1 | grep ^open

Really useful to see what config files something is reading (and the order) or to see what PHP (or similar) files are being included.

There's normally other ways to do this (eg using a debugger) but sending strace's stderr to stdout and piping through grep is useful in so many cases it's become a command I use every day or 2.
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>what a great asset horses would be when both sides have used their precision missiles to take out all of the supporting infrastructure. No maintenance or fuel supply line needed, they even double as their own horse manufacturing line.

Think about what you're saying for a second. It takes years and plenty of manpower and supplies to raise a horse for riding. Riding horses most definitely do not self replicate in any useful fashion or time-frame.

Horses are in no way useful, at scale, in modern warfare. They require far more training, manpower, and time
per-mile-covered than a motorized vehicle. If both sides have obliterated their respective infrastructures to the point that they rely on horses, each would have long since lost the capability to wage a modern war.
Is this a viable way to find people to work with? – Routes.se
This reads as if the author considers himself in league with Edward Snowden.
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Here’s Why Bill Gates Would Step Down as Chairman of Microsoft
It is a certain commitment to Germany over Christmas.
An interesting read. I don't think I agree with the argument that emotional involvement is the foundation for understanding. I see the author conflating memory and understanding where the emotional connection he discusses are just associative memory triggers. We can use associative memory tricks to recall many things we do not understand.

IMHO what unlocks understanding is use not emotion. I can "kind of" understand a mathematical or programming concept by reading or demonstration but only through active use in dozens of exercises or practical experience do I really come to understand it. This is what matters about the Brett Victor example he shows - it proposes environments for people to use and play with concepts which IMHO is much more significant factor in understanding.

Maybe the author is only talking about the motivation to understand. To take his example of topics with the depth of QM then such an investment of time and effort is just so vast that there has to be something self-motivating about the topic itself for someone to excel.

Its the reward of the topic in-itself that has sustained abstract topics like math and I find "ways to make the topic more appealing" almost always doomed to failure. If people are not inclined to substantial abstract thought then putting it in a frilly dress isn't going to change much. What makes these topics special to me is the loss of self as your mind becomes infused with abstract concepts. Its the elegance that becomes exciting and takes you deeper from curiosity and wonder. I don't need a game to understand a programming concept, programming itself is already my preferred game.

Finally, I would say that emotional connections are a distraction from achieving such flow mental states of understanding. If I feel I have something to lose by not understanding, if I might be shamed or under some other emotional pressure, it will interfere, not encourage my understanding.
Instead of becoming an ISP, wouldn't it make more sense for the town to wire up each house with fiber optics and then let ANY company provide services over those cables?

The ISPs will have to pay the town a flat fee per subscriber for using the municipal fiber optics network, or they could roll out (or keep) their own (existing) infrastructure. This way companies will still be able to compete, but the "last mile" will become an utility like the sewage system.
I can add that this is not my page, but I am thinking about doing something similar. Do you think it is working for these guys? Have you ever done something like this?
and no video for me. just a blank grey screen. screenshot: http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/52ecb7fe4992f4-1130851...