skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an apocalyptic crackdown situation it wouldn't really matter to the government whether the government is being paid. They are the sole issuers of money. Sure, this damages the economy, but if they have disregarded public welfare to such a point they may as well do a little economic damage.
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Who calls back on an unrecognized number with no message left? That's bizarre.
Pixel dungeon is one of those games that you need to sink 1-5 hrs into before it starts to get fun. Once you know the basics though it's super fun to play and very addictive.
The problem is, its very hard to deter a government from surveillance. And its almost impossible to even build tools that will stop governments from prying - if they wish to do so (The problem is not crypto of course). That is why we started building http://bit.ly/blibonline - but then its no match to any government.
I hope not everyone at GitHub is so afraid of BitBucket that they need to slander it with an article. Don't they know whining gets you nowhere?

I personally didn't see any striking resemblance between any of the pages. Most have obvious content which needs to be displayed (seriously, this guy is complaining about the source code tree being shown the same way? SERIOUSLY? How else do you expect them to display it?).

Probably doesn't help that I enjoy the layout of BitBucket more, but this article has been the kick in the shins I needed to get off of GitHub for good. There's obviously something that BitBucket is doing correctly to warrant this amount of attention from the employees of Github, might as well jump ship before it sinks.
But your body constantly repairs, too, right? So maybe it's able to repair a few errors, but gets quickly overwhelmed during a CT scan?
How does ingress mine my social network? It doesn't ask for any logins and doesn't have any social connections in-game as far as I can tell.
Passion is continuing to learn, because you realize that what you learned in school is not the end, but the beginning. Passion is continuing to learn, and having an opinion about "node.js or some other technologies" because using the right tool for the right job is important. Passion is being given a spec, and can not only reliably execute it, but can also offer ways to improve that spec, and not just be a coder without an opinion.

Thus, the only way to be effective and competent is to have a passion for what you do. Otherwise, if you limit yourself to 9 to 5, you'll be treated as such. And it works like that in many industries, and in those industries, those with a passion will routinely do better, whereas those that don't, will stick to the 9 to 5 places.
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It's not necessarily difficult, and it's not prohibited, it's just not very profitable. The problem is you're cutting out the whales. You might have a $5 gate, and get 2% of people converting, whereas unlimited IAPs might only get 1% of people converting. But now some of that 1% can (and will, believe me) spend $30k a year on your game. And almost all of them will spend more than $10.

Games used to do this somewhat frequently, they just don't anymore because it leaves so much on the table.

Also the much lower RPUs will make paid acquisition unprofitable, and paid acquisition is the only reliable method. App stores are great if you get featured or by some fluke work your way to the top of the charts, but for 99.9% of developers, you're either doing paid acquisition or getting no substantial amount of customers.
This may just be a function of the blogger's particular interest.
I haven't heard much positive things about Windows since version 7. Is it dying?
I recently did a job interview and I'm waiting for a call. So, honestly, I might call back if this happened to me.
A lot of CT scans are well under 2 mSv. A lot more than you would expect from reading the worst-case estimates, as I mentioned above.

The increase in cancer rates is interesting though, although if the main cause was radiation you wouldn't expect a few specific types to increase significantly and not others.
I blame the phone company. Absurd that you can be secretly billed just for calling a number back.
What someone does with their money (virtual or not) is their choice, and not for you to decide...
You'd still have to choose your preference, either to redirect to non-www or www. I prefer www, but that's just me
Is there a relatively inexpensive portable Geiger counter or something that can measure this type of radiation?
This is why people should stop paying before the government grows into a monster.
Why? Many companies have on site daycare. It helps parents who need to commute by saving them a trip and the stress of arriving late to daycare on the way home.

Clever pun though.
It's not a problem with the API itself. In Gecko, the time between starting playback and the audio actually beginning is perceivablely greater than in Webkit browsers. It could be resolved by simply delaying start in Gecko, but that's a less than ideal solution.
> Calls typically originate from outside the United States

It surprises me why someone would ever call back a long-distance number they didn't recognise. Sure, the Internet has made long-distance communication seem like it doesn't cost any more than local, but that doesn't mean the same rules apply to more traditional phones.
Love to see Docker becoming a desirable trait for hiring purposes. I know some great guys in the community; let me know if you'd like some references.
Lots of good discussion on ##hott and #agda...
#{Id := Val} = State

Val = orddict:fetch(Id, State)

Sorry, I don't see the benefit of one over the other. I do know that one ties me to a specific implementation of a map that may or may not work well for my data if I use it, and that merely by existing, prevents O'Keefe's frames from being implemented in an optimized fashion.
How should one focus on cultivating a quiet confidence while never taking action?

I didn't say it was an either/or dichotomy between attitude and action, simply that there was zero thought given to the attitude, which is the source from which all of our actions and behaviors flow. Obviously there must be some balance -- because we are called to act with courage even when the confident attitude isn't quite there yet -- but a list of "power tricks" is 100% focused on just imitating the actions without improving one's inner attitude.

We're all just faking it until we make it.

Sure, someone who imitates actions/behaviors without any change of heart/attitude is "faking it." In fact, this is the greatest reason why people fail to achieve long-lasting personal change, because it requires too much effort to "fake it" in every area of life.

But this trite saying about "faking it" does not apply to the man who does the hard work of reshaping his inner attitude (along with acting in the face of fear as life demands). If you want oranges instead of apples from the tree in your back yard, you don't spend your days hanging oranges on the apple tree. You dig up the apple tree and nurture an orange tree.
I think a daycare that's close enough to mom that she can go nurse her child 2 or 3 times a day is going to be a simpler solution. Nursing is the crux problem. I'm a dad, but I have never heard any mother speak kindly about pumping. It's a huge logistic pain, and quite unpleasant for most moms.
Do you feel it's ethical to take $30k a year from 'the whales'?
Metro is just too flat, too radical UI change. It seems refreshing at first, then gets boring quickly. iOS 7 is also flat, but not completely. It incorporates subtle gradient and shade, and kept the around corners mixing best of both worlds. The bottom line, it's not a completely new UI. It's a incremental update. Users are somewhat still familiar with the new UI. OS X pretty much evolves the same way. Incremental changes seems to be much a safer bet.
It'd be really funny if Orwell were alive and writing essays about how surprisingly responsible the use of power was.

I'm not saying I think he would do that, but hey, who really knows what he would think about things today.

(Maybe take this as whinging that people should try to speak for themselves)
Hm. I wonder how Amazon/other affiliates see this? I mean, it's obviously different from, but reminds me of, those malware operators/dodgy ISP's injecting their own referral id into links.

Is there any precedent of sites with user submitted content doing it on their own sites?
In Asia, you can walk into most malls, go to the Electronics section, and almost every other vendor will have a dirt cheap (in US standards) offer to jailbreak your phone for you. From there, a basic upsell (or free with jailbreak) is to install any iOS app they have in their library for free.

Just because it doesn't happen here in the US, doesn't mean it's the same everywhere.
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Yes, lots of it. There are even service (e.g, Viglink - http://viglink.com/) that specialize in replacing/modifying affiliate links automatically.

What the companies running the referral programs think of these services is unknown. I can't imagine they like it...
Like the idea, needs more work on the interface and content, recipes, machines, user interaction etc.
How about machine ratings & higher quality pics.
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I added a custom search provider to Chrome with an affiliate tag for an organization I like to support, so whenever I want to find something on Amazon I just type "a [query]" and it automatically applies the affiliate tag and takes me to the search results.

Here's the URL for EFF (with "%s" for Chrome search templates):

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
There's no guarantee the original software doesn't either...

And if it's precracked/modded/etc. then it's definitely not the original, but those who are downloading those would consider the modifications to be value-added.
I live in one of the countries mentioned in the article and people living here normally get these calls from European or African numbers. We also report these calls to our version of BBB and telecom providers.
You get a call, answer it, the line cuts off, you call back the number, your credit finishes.
Normally its just elderly folks who get caught by these calls

Don't call back strange numbers
I don't know why this was down voted; while in an elevator one is not supposed to use a cell phone, because of this effect. At least in the elevator at work there is a sign that says so.

http://microwavenews.com/news-center/using-cell-phone-elevat...
No, that would be too simple and logically. We're talking about telcos here.
BitBucket - Unlimited private repos for free. I don't care of anything else.
Security cameras have face recognition (and other identification technologies) behind them already. Putting recognition technology in the hands of the people will level the playing field: Is that the cop or TSA agent starring in a YouTube video abusing someone? Is that previously anonymous bureaucrat helpful or a time-waster?

So it's not a matter of choosing between those two futures. "They" have already got their database about you. Do you want the same tools, or not?
I've actually been working out of this space for the past few weeks. Don't have kids but I see everyday how amazing it is for all the people who work there who do. The daycare is sectioned off so there isn't a whole lot of noise or distractions from the kids.

If you're based out of SF, freelance / work remotely, and have kids, I think this is a fantastic setup.
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Another rant on IAP in the games market.

Here is the sticking point for me, if its suicide then great these things will fail and like the original DivX idea it will be some cautionary tale in the past.

But what is really the rant? Is the rant it costs me more to play this game? Is that it? Your $5 game is not as entertaining for as long as your $50 game? I agree that the nickel and diming is annoying but they offer the "big bag of tokens" for some big price $50 - $70. If you buy that you can whiz right through things, and they don't "re-lock" so in the case of the racing game the cars are there forever, except you had to pay $50 for that game instead of the $1 - $5 you thought it cost.
Yes, they do. The moderators of /r/conspiracy are notorious for banning people that question the conspiracies, no matter how out there.

Oh, and /u/flytape, a mod of the subreddit, is a holocaust denier.
Apparently CS5 used to be something you could purchase for download, so that was an option, but is no longer.
My aunt did this, too. Not a stupid person, either. A doctor.

She believed that the indian on the phone was from Microsoft and somehow detected that her computer (and every other computer in the house, including the 27" iMac I bought my mom for mother's day) were infected. They pinched her for $250 bucks per machine ($750 total). Gave them her credit card number. Let them install shit on the machines. Everything.

Even after I called her and explained to her what just happened, she took a ton of persuading to cancel her credit card (I don't even know if she ever did that), because she was STILL worried that despite what I (a software engineer of two decades) told her, it "might still be legitimate".

Also, who calls back numbers they don't recognize? If you're a number I don't recognize and you don't leave a voicemail, then fuck you!
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That website is horrible. Completely unusable from mobile.
AWS doesn't automatically upgrade your OS image or anything like that. If you want to do that you have to do it yourself. And AWS isn't going to troubleshoot shit unless you pay a huge amount for support which is hard to even find the option for that.

However, on Ubuntu server at least there are literally about two commands to run for upgrading the OS.
Your body repairs tissue tears and damaged cells as well as fighting off infections and things but I don't believe it is well-equipped to deal with damaged genes. I could be totally wrong, though.
"although if the main cause was radiation you wouldn't expect a few specific types to increase significantly and not others."

How do you figure? I don't think all of the causes of cancers are well understood. But, I know that cervical cancer is highly correlated with HPV, skin cancer is highly correlated with sun exposure, stomach cancer is highly correlated with H. Pylori, and lung cancer is highly correlated with tobacco smoking. And, for that matter, that cancers seem to have wildly different occurrence rates to begin with.
I have no concept of "long distance" anymore. Neither my cell phone nor my "land line" (actually a VoIP box) care where in the country the destination number is, it all costs the same (minutes for the cell phone, nothing for the land line).

The trick here is that these are numbers that appear to be American but are actually international. That's a whole different level beyond "long distance" and people would generally not call those without checking, but it's not well known that there are certain area codes that are mapped to other countries entirely.
> the idea that patents are handed out like candy is utter rubbish. Try it sometime.

Patents are not handed out like candy, but that's mostly because most patent submissions are still done by people who honestly think there's still some merit to the patent system. Those who try to game it are, in fact, handed patents like candy:

A patent examiner has ~8 hours to examine a patent over its life, and rarely looks at prior art that was not listed in the patent. Said patent examiner is rarely an expert in the field of the patent.

With this situation, a patent examiner can mostly check the coherence of the application, not its novelty or obviousness - so as long as you (or your patent editor) can write a coherent, term-obfuscated, long enough document, and are willing to persist through resubmission after the first rejection, you'll get your patent.

And the patent people (editor, legal, tech) like it that way.
will read more if continued.
> contemplating a world in which such an idea has taken hold

Like any conference for the past few years already?
I'm definitely going to be testing this on my own server. I've been looking forward to this since it was annouced.

One bit of constructive critism: You got to lose the Mailpile font (which looks like some bastarization of Museo). I know it's part of your branding, but it has no place in the UI. Not only is it much less readable than almost any simpler sans-serif, but the huge x-width makes the text take up so much more space than it needs. Your backup Helvetica Neue with the weight toned down to 400/500 is a huge improvement alone.

Keep up the good work! This is a true service to society.
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That's exactly how I feel. CT sure sign me up. Ive had so much chemo therapy and radiation xrays and scans that I am sure my lifespan is shortened a lot. However I am alive 6 more years than I should have been, and I have a son and a wife that I would have never experienced.
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this is a much bigger and more widespread scam that is happening. where I live, there are at least 2 call centers dedicated to doing this all day every day. I know this because I went in for a job as a network teck (For their own internal systems) and saw what was going on.
Will the next Traitorous Eight or PayPal Mafia come from the games industry?

The guys that started Activision did this already 30 years ago. Do we have a catchy name for them, too?
I think that at this point EC2 should almost be described as a scam, except for cases where people are going to rely on several of the AWS services like DynamoDB that has little to no competition, and are also relying on having very low latency connections to those other AWS services from their EC2 services. I think scam applies just because the cost differential is so much and only exists because people don't know about other services.

But it is weird that people don't know about Linode or Digital Ocean (which is incredibly cheap compared to AWS and actually works, which the micro EC2 instances often stop working if you put a load on them). Even Rackspace would be much better option.

So even if you are just thinking of very popular companies, there are well known reliable options out there that are vastly better values for most things than EC2. Then there are probably dozens or even hundreds of small companies that would probably provided even better value and service.
Bind itself is slower than doing it by hand with a closure, and the return value is an order of magnitude slower than the hand-written closure and pollutes type information for your entire application, making all your code slower.
I hope to see more innovations like this pop up as our "demographic" starts shifting away from the 20 somethings and into the 30 somethings.
The number of times I've had to type element(3, Record) (or whatever ordinal) for a filter/map, after manually -counting- the fields in the head of a list of records, because I didn't have the source with the record definition handy to rr() in my shell...
I work with donation processing. We found the same response from the banks, so we've started trying to look up the identify theft victims in the white pages and calling them. Sadly, we only get a 20% hit rate for working phone numbers and typically only get in touch with half of them.
That "big bag of tokens" is never, in any of these games, enough to just "buy the whole game". At best it's 25% cheaper than the "normal" price, which in every case still runs in the thousands.

Anyhow, the question you ask, what is really the rant, is this:

A large portion of human effort in the game producing industry is spent on an activity that can honestly only be described in one manner:

Legally defrauding customers.

This will in the long term breed distrust to the entire industry and wastes talent that could be used in furthering the art.

And while, yes, eventually this will die out, the problem is that in the western world it will take about half a generation and in the eastern world might never happen due to certain cultural differences.
To me it seems that all this talk of "Google took away my data" is rather silly. From what I can tell, Google Analytics previously would get keyword data from referrer data, which is not passed on when using https. Thus the lack of keyword data is attributable to Google improving their search experience.

I have heard arguments suggesting that Google does indeed have the search referral data, but it is not as easily attributable as when you could rely on http referrers, since it requires matching clicks on a SERP (which powers the webmaster tools data which you get) with people landing on your site. Not impossible, but not trivial either.

It would be really nice to know which search terms people are converting on (for reasons othan SEO). Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury at the moment.
If Canonical wants to develop a new file manager, power to them! I, too, am looking forward to seeing what they do better.

My comment was specifically in regards to the idea of 'what's wrong with Canonical reinventing everything', e.g., discarding Wayland for Mir. Sorry if that was unclear.
I'm surprised at the www supporters. Do not do this. Down the road, you will want to use subdomains (app.example.com, dashboard.example.com) and choosing www out of the gate will make it more complicated then it's worth. If HTTPS is required, then a certificate with www will always get in the way, get a non-www and add a subject alternative name, or get a wildcard.

It is much, much easier to redirect all non-www traffic to www if a subdomain is not specified then otherwise and a wildcard or SAN-enabled certificate will make it much more flexible in the future.
$10? I'm guessing you don't collect anime figures.