skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poor record keeping is essentially providing blackmail material on thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or occasionally millions of people.

We put blackmailers in to jail, and we should put people who provide enough sensitive material to blackmail an entire city in to jail as well.
A consistently mediocre cup of coffee. I drink it every day, but it doesn't fool me into thinking it's good coffee.
Iceweasel actually modified Firefox, this sounds more like bundling Firefox with other stuff in the same installer package. Vaguely reminiscent of distributing a Linux ISO that installs Firefox, along with other stuff...
I'm still struggling with how to handle this. On the one hand, it makes a lot of sense for it to be public. On the other, I've given up a lot to spend time developing it (including going part time on my day job), and I would love to be able to devote more time to it, which would require making some money off of the material in some way.

I've been thinking about doing a kickstarter, but I'm interested in exploring other models. I don't have a ton of time, and I'm always torn between spending time trying to figure out how to publish/market/exploit the material versus spending the hundreds of hours reading history and math and trying to actually write the curriculum. So far I've just been punting on it till I get this first course done.
you actually can depict all colors in a gif, you just have to redefine the palette for sub-images a lot.
Android Overtakes iOS in Tablet Market
2/3 of those are subjective and in reality for me personally, the Keurig meets 3/3.

"Good" - Keurig coffee is good enough for me. I don't think I have the palate to discern the difference between my K-cup and the $7/cup coffee in the high end cafes.

"Cheap" - I don't have the time to prepare drip coffee in the morning (or prepare the night before) so for me it's either Kcup or purchase at work. So Keurig is the cheapest option for me.
True. The doctor can still be held liable for damages, so the law is actually there to protect both patient and doctor in this case.
I've found a happy balance developing with rails by adding two strategies:

1) Use presenters for display-only logic to keep controllers concerned with managing requests only.

2) Using service object / custom classes in /lib for actions on models as well as abstracting any common related functionality. Creators, Updaters, Processors, Orchestrators, etc. Keep your models only concerned with data and not data transformation, and your controllers from doing it as well.
Is there no source code link or did I miss it?
Background Checking Solutions
> I waste 7 pounds of petroleum driving to work .. My time has value

Why do you value time in the car (or monster truck) so highly?
I'm from Belgium and we're not willing to buy everything on Apple.

Come on, the newest Apple computer costs like 3000 $ . Anyone who wants it, is willing to throw out cash.

Even a friend of mine (who is a serieus Apple fan), is going to buy a Windows pc (but he'll keep his iPhone). I suspect that he is going to get frustrated by the frustrating experience that Apple brings on other platforms.
Hi rdl, the question of which interest rate will result in the best social impact is one of the most frequently debated topics among Zidisha users.

We allow borrowers to offer any interest rate they wish, up to a maximum of 25%. Lenders are then free to fund the loans at any rate up to the maximum offered by the borrower. Many lenders opt to fund loan applications at well below the offered rate, resulting in an overall average of around 5%.

We have not taken a position on the "optimal" interest rate, other than limiting it to no more than 25%. It will be interesting to see whether the average interest rate changes over time and as we continue to grow.
One of the best ways of understanding something is to implement it yourself.

To that end Jon Skeet has already documented how to do it in his Edulinq series[0][1].

[0] Link to series: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/tags/Edulinq/defau...

[1] Download of series (found in link): https://code.google.com/p/edulinq/downloads/list
> This is NOT end-user stuff here.

Did he claim it was? How is that relevant?
I hate the "feudalization" direction that OSes are moving in -- requiring certificates, app stores, etc. At the same time, I get why it's happening.

It really mirrors the historical reasons for feudalism in the real world. When the Roman empire collapsed, people needed protection from marauding hordes. So they cozied up to the nearest powerful group, forming kingdoms. People tolerated the abuses of kings and nobility in exchange for protection from anarchistic threats.

That's exactly what's happening to OSes: people are accepting feudalization in exchange for protection from malware.

Unless we find ways to really empower the user here, it's only going to get worse. We will end up with a fully feudal Internet.
I'm in Ontario at a government-funded organization, so it seems the legacy schedule is alive and well.
OK, so that says the situation is bad within academic science. It still does not support the idea that women (in the tech industry) who negotiate are punished, it says that in academic research they are offered less.

In fact given that the article we're allegedly discussing is about how there is no pay gap in tech, there's reason to think that this sort of outcome may not apply across the board.
Is the state a good nanny? 400K children are wards of the US government
Is a large /lib a sign of experience or inexperience? I try to keep as much as possible out of /lib and moved into gems.
The only reason is Bang for the $, at least for me.
You're misunderstanding what I mean by "good faith". If you don't allow negotiations, a good faith offer is exactly what that person is worth. This is why employees should prefer no-negotiation employers - either you're getting what you're actually worth, or the company is making lowball offers that can't be fixed by negotiation. This makes them vulnerable to market forces (and will presumably go out of business if enough possible employees are shopping around).
No no no - perfect healthcare at a granularity that was not possible before! Plays much better with the voters!
Fwiw. Folding shouldn't (big shouldn't) crash it but navigation is not like vim is.(the cursor is hidden inside the fold while you do navigation stuff. It eventually moves out of the fold though. It's on my list of things to fix with xvim.
>The way I would account for human behavior is to intelligently disable certain functionality as the car is moving. Compared to someone else's life, how important is that text message?

Thereby ensuring a situation where the person takes their eyes off the road and looks at their seat for their phone, picks it up, and starts reading and replying to texts while barreling down the road in a high velocity chunk of steel.

That's what happens now. Apple's technology aims to prevent that.

>Even dictating a text message takes some cognitive load.

Yes it does. It also is much safer than doing it on your phone as people can and will continue to do, even in states where it is illegal. Apple isn't a legislature. They can't tackle unsafe driver behavior by crafting laws, but they can do so via software offerings.
The precision of associative memories
French press. 0% packaging garbage, extracts 100% of the good of coffee. Numerous suppliers. Compatible with any hot water devices and coffee packaging. Larger models are easily configured to produce single or several cup amounts. Portable models can get you out the door as soon as the water is hot and you can drink on the way.
By this I hope you mean that the smaller it is, the better.

/lib is intended for non-app specific code. The halfway house before code is extracted into either a Rails PR or a separate gem.
I've had mine for two years. If it breaks I'd consider getting something else to replace it out of principle.
Holy shit; so many great points. First off, you are quite adept at explaining yourself, via text anyways, so your effort is paying off.

I agree completely in regards to Pity. It is worse than hatred in my opinion. More insidious, crippling, and degrading, but that is my opinion.

My message was not out of pity, nor does it encourage it. It was a little reminder to make an extra effort to talk to people you know want to be talked to but are for whatever reason having a hard time expressing that desire. There have been so many posts about the first part of deepening our social awareness of the lost and lonely. I want to push further.

So i will do this from time to time. Take it as pity, call me weak, i care not. I am here because someone took the time to talk when i was not able to but desperately in need of it.

I do not hug, but i will firmly place my hand on your shoulder and look deeply into your eyes.
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Are you collecting network information/statistics from both sides of the call? That may assist in troubleshooting.
>I'm thinking someone should build a (Linux or other *IX) that scans the HD of an infected machine (booted with this distro or the HD was removed and put on another machine) to scan and remove everything.

Kaspersky did it.

http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk
Thank you for teh link.
Why not complain to Google though? They have policies about the use of trademarks in ad text.

https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6118?hl=en
Screw Email – Let’s Create Something Better
So how do you handle any sort of software development planning? Do you just tell the client "It'll be done eventually. I'll let you know when.", or would you accept that reply from your employees?
Except that the Linux ISO is not called "Firefox." It would be OK for the Linux distribution to use the Firefox trademark descriptively to say that it includes Firefox, but that's not what these adware vendors are doing. They're calling their "Firefox bundled with some adware" Firefox.
As a mathematician, how much time do you spend studying proofs written by other people?

I'm genuinely curious, because I think that if I wanted to be a novelist, I would spend a lot of time reading novels before trying to write one. I feel like we never have children read the great "literature" of mathematics, but then expect them to write their own proofs and are surprised when they hate it.
So you're saying that you're going to stop burning so much petroleum to get to work, and to do that you have to ignore anything that you do that has a lesser impact on the environment?

I can't say that I understand the single-mindedness, but congratulations on the electric car or the not commuting so far or whatever.

Unless what you're saying is that you're going to ignore everything that pollutes less than the important high-impact items that you're also going to ignore.
You and me both, brother. The coffee infused taste of cream and sweetener and vanilla is what makes my morning.

Thank you for having the honesty to say what I've been ashamed to admit all these years.
Having worked with sensitive data on physical media - you couldn't be more mistaken about how carefully it is monitored and handled.
If by "pretty well reined in" you mean "given 30-day paid vacations when they misbehave" then I suppose you are right.

What you won't see (or will see very, very rarely) is a cop losing his job and standing trial for assault if they wrongfully use physical force on a civilian. They can always get away with "well, I thought he was carrying a weapon" or other such flimsy excuses. Combined with the fact that cops always look after their own, it becomes very difficult to successfully and meaningfully persecute a cop for abusing their authority.
"white men"? Why malign the minority in tech, people of European ancestry.
8tracks is an awesome music startup you’ve probably never heard of
A phone is a sufficient but not a necessary condition for using Bitcoin. It makes sense to mention phones instead of computers since in developing countries there are significant numbers of people with a phone but not a computer.
I really like the sound of this feature, but until it becomes more widely available I'll continue using "Harken For iPhone" in the car. It's much easier to use than Apple's music player (bigger text, large buttons/touch areas). There's also "Harken" on the iPad but I need a new cradle for my iPad so I can't use it at the moment.
Chemex[1] is hard to beat. I recommend it to all of my aspiring coffee-aficionado friends. Easy[2], inexpensive, and very high quality.

1: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/ristretto-chem...

2: http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/preparation-guides/chemex
Teachers should have the place of manager and coach with specialists brought in who are subject matter experts. We had this in art (painting,music), PE and computer programming when I was in public school.

To force or demand that teachers be skilled and have deep interests in everything they teach is not realistic.
Pretty well if it's a regular layout, depending on algorithm, since almost every successive pixel is different from the last by exactly one level in one channel.
Most people just throw away those compostable paper filters and they wind up buried in an oxygen deprived environment where they will never biodegrade. I wonder which one compresses into smaller land fill space: the paper filter or the plastic k-cup.
This is a fantastic thing to do. I do have one question. Do you plan to do the same thing (maybe in a smaller scale) in the US? Say, help people in some impoverished area of the country with some small funding to help them get micro businesses going. Not arguing against the choice to do so in Africa (its great), just interested if there would be a push to do it "locally".
>> You're misunderstanding what I mean by "good faith". If you don't allow negotiations, a good faith offer is exactly what that person is worth.

As an employer, how do I calculate this ahead of time? It's next to impossible. This is not a hard science. We may find that gender biases exist here as well, as worth is very subjective.

If you mean "expected revenue potential for the company" then they pretty much have to try to lowball to some extent, because an employee that makes exactly what they bring in is not a net asset.

--edit-- I probably sound a bit pompous. Maybe there is a way to calculate this stuff ahead of time, I genuinely have no idea. I know in sectors unlike ours, where there is a shortage of positions rather than a shortage of people, that non-negotiable salaries are indeed used. In that situation you can easily say "We need a person to do X, this pays Y" and you'll get lots of worthwhile applicants.
We are collecting anonymous data about the network, browser, etc. and tying it back to core metrics like call length, but there's always more we can do. I'm really hoping that more browsers start to support the network information API natively too: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Network_Info...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b708iZ5A_I
Got a chance to meet Randall at the YC interviews. Great guy. Congrats and good luck!
OpenStreetMap provider CloudMade shuts its doors on small users
> everybody who's doing serious commercial programming ...

Really, so anyone using a higher level language for line of business apps isn't doing serious commercial programming?
Best countries to work in if you're a software engineer
NHS number is clearly ridiculous.

But, I can see why all the other data are statistically relevant in analysis.

Postcode, so you can track viral outbreak etc with a fair degree of locational accuracy.

Date of birth, so you could analyse if people born in certain seasons had higher incidences of various diseases. (You could probably drop the day and just have month, but there could be cases where there were more hospital deaths for babies born on a Monday, etc).

Gender and ethnicity are obvious.
Sorry I wasn't clear about my statement. I meant in S Korea in general Samsung as a brand is considered a notch above Hyundai brand.

I wasn't talking about car business. Just in general Samsung is considered more sophisticated and a brand notch above Hyundai.
Are you joking? Since when does a DDoS constitute a hack, GigaOm?
Some performance comparisons would be useful... especially since the point of the project is to increase performance.
Here is the full quote:

People will forget what you said, People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou
"Jet Fighter that Could Have Won Battle of Britain for the Nazis"

Jet?
Wow, I feel like a lucky man! I bought one of the low-end models for ~$110 3 years ago, have used it making 8-10 cups a day between my wife and me with the re-usable plastic cups, and it's still going strong!
Review: Jony Ive by Leander Kahney
Yeah. I have a nice burr grinder, and I loved the ritual of preparing coffee every morning. Then I had a baby. The Keurig machine we got as a Christmas present two years before got pulled out of the closet, and we've been pod people ever since.
Yeah - I feel like concerns are a bit of an anti-pattern, especially as they're normally used in Rails.

You've got a God class that exposes 500+ public methods, so you split it into concerns. But now you've still got a God class with 500 methods that's split across 10 files. Good luck understanding that.

Concerns are useful when they're genuinely sharing functionality between classes - not just for splitting up "Big Bags O' Methods".
Ask HN: OData is REST – but would you use it?
I'm going to create a public API and i love OData for using (querying data, ...). Everything is build in.

But off course, odata is supported by Microsoft. And i'm curious if this would be appreciated when creating a public API?

It is RESTfull, but it's also a protocol on it.

You can find some examples here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh169248(v=nav.71).aspx

But i'm actually curious if any of you would appreciate/use such an API?

If it's not appreciated, i'll just go with REST, but it seems to me that more can be done with OData...
With the DMCA it is illegal for competitors to reverse engineer the DRM to produce compatible products.
OData by example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh169248(v=nav.71).a...
You can't disagree with my reasons for leaving academia. I never said academia was at fault, simply that I wanted to build useful things and couldn't achieve that when I was only going to be measured largely on how novel the solution was.

I would also suggest that most valuable research conducted today is incremental. Even the amazing breakthroughs are usually the final piece of many years of work by many varied teams.
Mozilla Security Blog: Update on Plugin Activation
Just because someone is from India, it doesn't mean they know everything about (incredibly diverse) cultures from every other country on the same continent. It's like asking an American of the culture of Brazil.
I don't have a lot of knowledge, but there are websites that allow for the monetization of lesson plans. Maybe workbooks and videos to help teachers present the materials?

I do think a kickstarter would definitely help as would getting it out in other teacher's classrooms to get earlier feedback.

I totally support this.
Attacked by hackers != hacked. There was no intrusion (that we are aware of) in their servers or databases, just a distributed denial of service attack.
In Spain a company is using them to make a kit for having your own mushrooms at home and then reuse it (again) as compost : http://www.resetea.es/#!el-kit/cgmn (sorry only in spanish and the google translate wasn't working)
Yes, definitely.

One of the future posts (coming soon!) will be on Presenters / Decorators.

I would argue these custom classes should still live in /app, rather than /lib, but I may be wrong.
Can anyone recommend a github repo of a Rails app implementing interactors or any of the similar concepts listed in the comments?
Yep, I posted this link downstream a little bit ago. The processes different people use are interesting.

What's fun is that we are so tuned to color differences that a slight change in the algorithm — what color it "resorts to" if the desired one is used — might produce a small absolute difference (distance-wise on the table) but a massive perceptual difference, or create a much greater effect far down the line when greens were exhausted early or unused bright reds are speckling a neutral zone. Certainly an interesting exercise!
Weird, my latest test with less made me download extensions and all of that...

But thx, i'm going to check it out :)
So...Where is the Pandora integration? Building playlists is fun when you're bored or want a new set of tracks to work-out/drive/[insert bland activity here] but I hate doing that.

Radio features are sweet and I may explore it more but... With the thousands of hours of listening pleasure I've gotten out of my years of Pandora subscription, why the hell would I want to switch? Building new stations is an investment of time and effort in teaching it what style of music I want, being able to import this would be sweet. I might even build playlists out of the songs I like.

To be frank without Pandora integration this just strikes me yet-another-playlist-streaming service, among the dozen others that I don't use.
I do think that there is good in a only women conference. But i also do think that your suggestion is incredibly smart.

Minimize criticism of those who think this is sexism, while keeping its goal of both making a statement that there is inequality and providing inspiration to women - and still giving a chance to a few men understand how difficult can be to be on a environment dominated by the other gender.
Health Hack: How to Think Your Way to Better Health
This is interesting because, in contrast to the (many) other discussions of basic income, the author's proposal is to make it run by the Fed, not Congress, and to distribute money on a whenever-the-Fed-wants-to basis, rather than every year.

This wouldn't really address the concerns about poverty that make many people interested in a basic income, because it wouldn't happen regularly and there's no guarantee that the money would be enough to make a difference in peoples' lives. But it could still have a good effect on the economy as a whole, which seems to be what he is aiming for.
It can be done !

http://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/popa-cryptdb-cac...

That said, I doubt that Google is doing it. More interesting is that this tech appeared two years ago, I thought the world would rush to pick it up and as far as I know no one has!
"access please"
with double space between words
I'm amazed that anything this obviously correct is entering the Overton Window. Next we'll hear someone advocating land value taxes.
Russian Uroburos Malware Devours American Files
The sanest solution to the problem is for OSes to fix their permission models and realize that app isolation is as important as -- or more important than -- user isolation.

Easier said than done, of course.