skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, ok, still - for an article that was put on cryptome, the whole thing seems pretty staged. If you buy from kinda-sorta Amazon, put your data on a device you don't want, send it back without checking you erased the data, just kinda-sorta trust that they will do it for you...

At some point this seems less like a * World Exclusive * FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION and more like... fishing for drama.
25% is close to a U.S. angel investor's cost of capital. Capping rates across a market does not lower the cost of capital, it depresses capital availability.

For a lending charity, rate caps reduce interest income. This, in the long run, depletes the charity's capital base. An interest rate (>5%) lower than the expected default rate (~10%), as it appears to be here, amplifies the effect. That said, the decision could make sense. If "non-usurious lending" increases donor interest enough, it could offset the capital depletion effect.
This smacks of a publicity stunt. He carefully manages to pull in Amazon and Apple into a story about how there appears to be a mislabeled package after the author did business with a storefront.

> The Customer "B" is Secret Bases author Alan Turnbull, infamous for exposing the MI6 Chief's family on Facebook and many other internet/tech related exclusives in the media.

Christ, what crap.
If reassigning a case is part of the domain, it belongs in the model.

I don't know how to put this gently, but this concoction looks like a hot mess with no separation between modeling and controlling.

These commands have a ton of domain logic all tangled up with activity reporting, formatting, and parameter parsing. It looks like a big ball of mud to me :(
I think your answer is a bit self-contradictory.

The only way for the $100 million not to enter the money supply is for the wealthy to hold $100 million more in cash. If they invest it in bonds and stocks, then now the previous holders of those bonds and stocks hold the cash.

The point of distributing the money is so that money is worth less and prices become effectively lower, causing people to buy more stuff and businesses to make more stuff (i.e., monetary stimulus of aggregate demand).

Here is a blog post on the hot potato effect: http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=23314
I brought down the white background to #aaa and it made the code much easier to read.
This. You can even get travel mugs with the press bit built in. -eg: http://www.bodum.com/gb/en-us/shop/detail/K11102-01/
Hi pratyushag, in general, I am not a fan of handout-based approaches to charity. In my experience the negative psychological effects of handouts outweigh the short-term economic benefits. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-kurnia/about-to-send-a-d... for a more thorough presentation of my views.
The idea is that two stores shouldn't be able to sell one unique product. I would argue otherwise..
This is (partly) why I install from the official Debian repos even if newer versions of a piece of software are available on the web.
This doesn't refute my claim that buying treasuries disproportionately benefits the wealthy.
In a way that actually highlights problems with the proposed policy change, rather than have me scratching my head about what scantron cheating has to do with this.
This "I believe in GBI" line rarely is backed up by objective reasoning, and grossly underestimates the percentage who would, if freed from the obligation to work to survive, indulge in whatever non-productive luxuries they can acquire. While certainly many would improve productivity & economy & education should they have the financial liberty to do so, my experience in helping many up tells me most are down for a reason which only they, internally, can change - and won't.
`Fraud` seems like exaggeration to the point of falsehood here. I'm not in the retail business but I was under the impression that there was nothing improper about restocking and reselling non-defective returned-as-new goods. For anything less personal than a hamburger I'm not offended by the idea that another customer briefly touched the product I bought so long as it's physically clean and in 100% new condition.

It was clearly an error to fail to wipe the system but it's just as clear that this was a routine oversight (on both customer A and the vendor's part), not malice.
It's an interesting story, not sure why everyone is talking about it today though - here's one from November with substantially the same stuff:

http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Manufacturers/Green-Mountai...

The new Keurig is supposed to come out in late 2014 or early 2015, from what I understand, if you're curious.
My access to coffee is a human rights issue. The ability to use a printer is not.
In that there is an "obligation" to defend our liberties there is an obligation to defend attacks on scoundrels insofar as such attacks strike at fundamental freedoms.

Scoundrels are the easiest targets but denying them of freedoms ultimately denies everyone of those same freedoms.
Why would the delivery of the emails fail? Because your SMTP server is down? That's an exceptional state, handle it with exceptions -- not with conditions.

Or maybe because the email addresses are invalid? Handle that when they are captured. It's way too late for that here.
I really like Joe Celko. "Thinking in Sets" opened my mind up quite a bit.

http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celkos-Thinking-Sets-Management/dp...
My day-to-day dealing with Windows being very limited, I find this interesting. Is it your impression that the security features introduced since Vista have been ineffective and only taught naive users to always click the "yes" button?
You have... a million dollars worth of bitcoin? Goddamn.
Why does MIT require funding from the NIH?

Because research nowadays is very expensive. Seventy years ago you could win the Nobel Prize with a cyclotron half a meter in diameter, nowadays you need the LHC at CERN to do that. And it isn't just high-energy physics, it's biology, chemistry, even computer science. Big data requires big storage.

Research grants go to research and upkeep of facilities (the dreaded indirect costs), tuition and endowment is for salaries, building projects and startup grants.

It's accepted that the mission of universities is to conduct research on behalf of the taxpayer, and that these results are public. Google is not serving the taxpayer, and that's why what falls out of their research is a trade secret.
Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn (along with other big tech companies) all produce a lot of academic research that documents the architectures and protocols that they use, along with their performance. These companies innovate, and the material from their research often makes it into these "textbooks ... describing the techniques".
Hows the crypto?

Do you plan to implement anything like TextSecure's ratcheting? Described here: https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/

Is the protocol asynchronous?
Hackers hijack 300,000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes
The USA has just had a period of quantitative easing, which injected a load of newly made up money into the economy. The inflation rate is about 1.5% after doing this. If you are going to predict massive inflation from increasing the money supply, where is it? It should surely be here by now.
Keynotes:

* Walter Bright : High Performance Code Using D http://dconf.org/2014/talks/bright.html

* Scott Meyers : The Last Thing D Needs http://dconf.org/2014/talks/meyers.html

* Andrei Alexandrescu : State of the struct address http://dconf.org/2014/talks/alexandrescu.html
New Microsoft CEO boosts ex-Clinton aide in staff shakeup
Double edge Safety razors are better than 3 blade disposables.
Regular tooth brushes are better than electric.
Stainless steel pans are better than non stick.
Percolators are better than pods.
etc.

It's somewhat interesting when higher price, lower durability, more waste, and lower quality win out economically over the opposite. Marketing is a strong thing.
Better release notes: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5....

Personally Pulseaudio has always been "that thing that fixes all those problems I never had with ALSA." I realize there is more to it than that but I have never really understood what pulseaudio does for me a casual sound user? Sound on my computer is exclusively produced by mpd, vlc and flashplugin-nonfree and I do not remember the last time I used a microphone on a linux machine.[1] I have browsed through the docs a couple of times but I have never figured out why, let alone how, I would want to change anything.

The only thing about Pulseaudio that I am confident of is that it is less overkill than jackd for my use cases. What am I missing?

[1]: I guess I have used the microphone a couple of times but it was always because I thought I would try Skype again. But this always resulted in a ton of wasted time with 32bit libraries and an avalanche of qt dependencies. I would get skype to work but I used it so rarely that by the time I needed it again I had to go through all the nonsense all over again.
Shame about the name -makes me think it's something for the car or to unblock a really stubborn drain.
USAF Certifies Falcon 9 v1.1 Debut Launch Despite Glitch
Insofar as "social security", as implemented, confiscates from me money I need now (and will use to improve my life later) and completely fails to invest it in any meaningful manner other than write IOUs and pay someone else in the Ponzi scheme, yes.

BI still takes money I need now (and will use to improve my life later) and gives it to people who don't need it ($0 net change after theirs was confiscated too) or have disturbingly high odds of squandering it. I'm all for helping the few who actually need it, which I could do better if that money weren't taken from me in the first place.
Usually open box deals are (or ought to be) sold up-front as such, with a nominal discount for the customer.
> Not to sound like some crazy person with the word SOCIALIST written on the inside of my forehead in neon colors, but:

Oh give me a break.
And where are you going to get the hashes from to verify them?
I agree with both of you. On one hand, when you have a personal pissing match like Apple v. Samsung, if it wasn't about patents it'd be about something else. On the other hand, requiring a showing of willful violation would cut down on patent suits against smaller companies.
I think the author needs to let his ego down a little and stop jumping to conclusions with no evidence.
Thanks for pointing out CCC's ability to do a bootable backup to a remote volume. I've had the question on how to do that many times and it is one of those things that is hard to google for when you're not sure how to ask.
Soros doubles a bearish bet on the S&P 500, to the tune of $1.3 billion
> it won't solve the real problem.

you keep saying this. what, in your mind, is the real problem? the article lays out a very clear real problem in its view: lack of aggregate demand. they then offer a solution to fix said problem.

if you disagree with the article, please at least point out what you think the problem is. proposing a solution would also be nice...
Control Circuit Malfunction Troubles China's Yutu
Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget
Yet despite it being nearly impossible it happens everyday for 99.99% of users.
Free coffee is coffee that respects the drinker's freedom.

You know there's something wrong when one starts to use such statements unironically.
Let's just say I have philosophical differences with the views presented in that presentation.

Also, I never said never. I said this particular example was a poor example and the general principle derived from it was equally poor. Garbage in, garbage out.
My dentist has always recommended electric over regular toothbrushes.
Hmm, have you tried having them do the actual problems on paper? No numbers or letters, just copy the screen onto paper:

Like write out:

Side 1 | Side 2
Fly Box | Mushroom

And have them solve into:

Side 1 | Side 2
Box | Mushroom Inverted Color Fly ("Dark Fly")

From there it's just a visual replacement to turn Box into x, Mushroom into a 7, and Fly into a 2. The game introduces "inverse color = -", so going from 2 to -2 should be a visual translation that doesn't actually require them to understand subtraction or inverse.

After they're all done, they might notice "hey, wait, I recognize 7 -2 and it can also be written as 5!" But that's not relevant to manipulating the equation, is it?

Sure, without arithmetic they won't be able to calculate the most simple form (7 + -2 -> 5 or 2/4 + 3/6 -> 1) -- but that's a different skill. And people seem to have more issues with handling the equation than actually doing the arithmetic part.
Consider the following. I am the Fed.

(1) I announce that my general policy will be to buy treasuries when I want to spur inflation

(2) I announce that next week I am going to buy $100 million of treasuries.

(3) I actually buy the treasuries.

A very interesting question is: At which point (1, 2, or 3) was demand increased?

(I would argue that if Fed purchases are expected, they do not change the price and treasury owners do not benefit.)
Women aren't expected to do anything; the proof is that birth rates are falling all across the developed world.

Consider two women, A doesn't want children and B does. How do you think A will feel having worked hard for a year while B was on maternity leave, only to find that B's seniority etc has kept up with zero effort or contribution to the company on her part?
Ask HN: Functional programming before imperative?
Hey guys,
I'm currently a CS student trying to figure out functional programming (OCaml). For most of what we have to do, I come up with a simple imperative solution, and struggle to come up with the functional solution. Of course, I started out with imperative languages (C, ObjC, Java, etc) before learning functional.

Wondering if anyone got started with functional before learning imperative? How might that change the way we learn to code? Would the transition from functional to imperative be easier than imperative to functional?
>There was a hacker news article a while earlier about a reseller of garage/estate sale music being put out of business because Fulfilled by Amazon doesn't necessarily send the item you put in the warehouse to the customer.

If I remember right, this was the story in question:

http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-b...

Some other seller was sending shrinkwrapped "new" counterfeit versions of the same movie titles to the warehouse for fulfillment, while he was sending used copies. They were getting co-mingled in Amazon's warehouse because as far as Amazon was concerned they were just instances of the same piece of inventory.

Then some DVD distributor buys one of his items, receives a counterfeit one from Amazon's warehouse. Not only did they report this to Amazon to get the unfortunate person's seller account revoked, but they sued him as well.
I pine for a Mac backup service that would let me backup from anywhere, and in the event of failure, I could fire up a new Mac, point it at the service, and boot to restore all over the net.
I think the problem is what to do with that money once collected. With taxes in general.

Currently we just let politicians spend it as they see fit.
So is it Amazon's responsibility to police other storefronts? They certainly have liability if they know storefronts are engaging in illegal activity. Is Amazon's legal strategy to ignore requests from help from customer (as author alleges.)

Amazon had "Apple" iPhone chargers that were counterfeit labeled as "Apple" for sale for years. Based on the reviews and prices (not 1 cent anymore) I assume this problem is fixed.

There is an exploitative/arbitrage gap with Amazon where you can list counterfeit items as the real thing. Some categories are plagued by this. The iPhone charger issue makes me think Amazon intentionally ignores some of this behavior given how damn obvious it was for so long.

In this stories' case the big question is what is going on with the storefront name change? Are there loopholes which allow sellers to indefinitely break the rules and continue to do business on Amazon?

By the way, I think this presents a very important technical problem -- how do you detect counterfeit goods? Read this story in for a more dangerous area of counterfeiting: http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/the-hidde...
> "The way I would account for human behavior is to intelligently disable certain functionality as the car is moving. "

This is about the only way to enable intelligent control over device functionality. Absent this additional link, a modern cell phone can't tell a driver from an occupant.

With this, Apple and the car companies offer people a carrot so that they pair their device [1] and now they can limit the distractions: you can control the apps that are available on the car interface, you can pare down the notifications they're receiving (enable DND mode by default while driving), you can disable direct use of the paired device while the car is in motion, etc.

[1] The carrot being GPS and music-selection features already available on many modern car dashboards.
Please do share the 3 or 4 controllers all sharing this logic. I'd be happy to play code pong with them.
That's well put. It is probably a mark of good management that the IOS7 roll out went as well as it did given the short time frame.
I think the advantage of a bootable backup is that it is there, and you can just boot from it (or copy it to an external hard drive if it was on a remote volume). The point is that the backup was already in the right format. I think internet recovery is more about restoring from a time machine backup, which takes forever.
Destroying the Atom editor Asteroids-style
At least on the razor front, I wouldn't say that the game is over. Bevel[0] sells double-edge safety razors and (as far as I can tell), their only competitive advantage is their marketing and customer service. I'm pretty sure that the razors they sell work with any blades.

(By the way, I totally agree with you on the rest of your point - I'm just curious to see if it's possible for a better product to win over an inferior one with lock-in in this case. I certainly hope so)

[0] https://getbevel.com/
Predicting who you will call in the next five minutes-What did Gurdeep mean?
Funny. I've written to several of my local MPs and always received a direct response regarding the issues I have raised.

How many times have you received boilerplate replies?
The underpaid work is different for each PhD candidate
I'm currently in the middle of a PhD, and you've touched on the exact fear I have. I intend on finding a job in industry after I graduate, and the biggest fear I have is a restriction on freedom. I totally get that there are jobs out there that still give you some amount of freedom to pick your own tools and/or approach a problem in your own way.

Every now and then, I casually leaf through job ads and I have no idea how to tell which are which. I think that's what scares me. I get this feeling that when it comes time to join industry, it's just going to be a crapshoot---maybe I'll get lucky and maybe I won't.

(Note that this isn't a criticism lodged in comparison to academia. I've already made up my mind that I'll be leaving once I graduate.)
Ask HN: What do you, Russian hackers, think about the situation in Ukraine?
As far as I know there are many great Russian hackers out there. I have heard about many accomplishments by them. So, Russian hackers, what do you think about the things that your government is up to do (or rather already doing) in Ukraine ?
I've regularly been curious about this, but Crashplan has a stable reputation and seems much less expensive for large backups. For those who have researched Crashplan, why did you choose Arq instead?
Mozilla's answer to Google translate
why don't you send your kids to school with 100 trillion dollars, if you're just going to give them lunch money that falls from the sky.
Note, just tried it, and if you put in a more likely cased "Putty" or "putty" in the URL, the official site badge isn't offered (though PuTTY official page does show up in top 3).

It's really AOL keywords all over again - nothing bad, but just not Google's style.
Cracking Linksys “Encryption”
God dammit! We kill every site we stumble upon; maybe there should be a delay to show links/comments based on time-zones, that way we don't DDOS any site by mistake.
Looking for beta-testers: adaptive time tracking tool for tech consultants
Physicist running for office in Illinois as underdog
I think there's a difference between "someone who wants to learn databases" and "someone who has a specific project to implement in a specific time frame". If you are in the former, then stay at the high level - learn what SQL is, what RDBMS' are, and then learn a little about logical database design. If, though, you want to build a product, you need to (a) pick the product, and (b) start with books/videos on that subject matter. You can pick up the basics along the way.
Nice Halo reference! Microsoft already has Kinect, so they are not starting from scratch in terms of voice recognition/processing.
Freedom of the press, man.
Good luck with your campaign! If you don't mind I have a few questions if you happen to know the answers:

1. Did those 80% of people see it through a "featured campaigns" thing or was it totally organic?
2. How did the remaining 20% find your campaign?
3. Can we see the campaign page? :)
If your school had invested in compatible projectors, he could have just installed the plugin:

http://www.negativland.com/archives/015squant/plugin.html
Quick endorsement: buy this. Arq has allowed me to be insanely careless about backups and has never failed. Makes the whole backup thing cost effective, too with Amazon being dirt cheap these days.
The case for Clojure
Hi notahacker, a few of our lenders have requested non-withdrawable accounts. The idea is that the full amount credited to these accounts would be tax-deductible, and lenders would retain control of how the funds were lent out. Informal consultations among our lenders did not reveal strong enough demand to justify the cost (mainly in additional complexity for newcomers to our platform to take in), so we refrained from introducing this option for now.