skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm wondering is if the database itself provides a standard set of such wrappers or if it's left to users to make them themselves.
Oddly, there's actually no language that I know of that has NaN and Infinity constants. Many languages pretty-print those float values that way, but none of the parsers can interpret them back in.
"# Continue to OKCupid" link at the bottom, which caches this preference for future sessions.

Still, good on them for taking this stand.
Wouldn't that be an article called "How to loosely suss out the 4 or so major card brands" rather than "How to correctly detect credit card type"? [Their emphasis]
Very true. Being able to fix tools and libraries is such a change. I'll never go back to Microsoft (or any other closed-source, proprietary) development if I can help it.
I have been joking with my friends that Obama called up Putin and told him to put on a side-show.
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iOS had greater than Android market share when it was released. It still has significant share. Windows Phone does not.

Did you know that Google Maps was released for Windows Mobile before iOS? That was when Windows Mobile had market share.
Sounds like a huge cost for little gain. Why doesn't the NHTSA require daytime running lights?
Updated the site a couple of hours ago with Ubuntu instructions, thanks to our German translator
You have to sign in the first time, but after that, you should be able to use it offline.
> The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw - or "back door" - that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption

I would very clearly draw the line at the point where the NSA is deliberately weakening national security by undermining widely used cryptography. Companies or even other government agencies are now easier targets because of the doings of the NSA.
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Free speech doesn't mean freedom from criticism or the repercussions of that speech.

I think Mozilla is a great organization and I don't like the idea of punishing Firefox users for Eich's views.

On the other hand, it's 2014 and being against gay marriage is a pretty retrograde position. If he were against interracial marriage, would we even be arguing about this? Would he even have been named CEO?
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I don't think they knew what RDS is/was. We heavily rely on AWS but can move off with little work. You have to decide from the start if you don't care about possibly migrating off AWS or not.

We chose to keep that ability to migrate off. In hindsight it was a little more thought up front but little to no additional overhead now.

AWS provides a ton of open source compliant services. When you decide to use a proprietary one just build in the appropriate abstractions.
yes, looking at lives saved seems like a rather silly metric to judge this by. Most accidents that happen while somebody is reversing probably cause a couple hundred dollars in damage and go un-reported.
How would you synchronise between versioning the symlinked assets and the app itself? Or do you just keep all images, for example, until you're simply sure you don't need them anymore?
It was expected that 73% of cars would have it anyway, so your numbers would be changed by that factor.
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+ there was another bug (or "feature") that allowed all access to all funds via API access key.

Sure, the user needs to allow the permissions first, but the warning where disproportionate to the power it gave away.

They've disabled this kind of access since though.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/7/5386222/a-string-of-thefts-...
To me Unity just made sense and if not for it crashing entirely too often and incurring a performance hit due to all the eye candy, I wouldn't look further.

To me the nice thing about GNU/Linux on the desktop is that each person can have the interface they want. This has secondary benefits where if you have your interface which is significantly different from my preferred interface, it forces application developers that really care about supporting their users to develop high quality abstraction layers that support both. The same goes for software packaging, driver support, general compatibility of proprietary software, etc. So, by all means, keep using Mint, it is in my best interest if you do (and yours, and everybody elses).
Considering that every restaurant, store or bar you've ever used your card at potentially stashed away your secret, how closely have you been monitoring your card for siphoning of funds?

It is not in the credit card companies best interest to even acknowledge this type of theft, because they have no way except machine learning to protect you from it.

On the other hand, it IS useful for them to acknowledge huge security breaches at corporations, because they can point to them and say: and look at how we protected you! (after their dumb security system endangered you in the first place)
How does this grossly misguided concern come up over and over again?! To quote myself from the last time this came up:

"What's with this obsession with jobs? If all we wanted were "jobs", we could create 100 million real quickly. Just go destroy a bunch of stuff and get people to work, rebuilding everything again."
'I think it is fantastic that the developers stood up to Matti, and refused to give him the story he was looking for.'

I agree completely. Nobody should put up with that sort of bullshit, and I'm glad the developers didn't.

However, a comment from the linked account:

'But the people responsible for hiring those who ultimately destroyed it – they all contributed to a toxic environment, and they should be held accountable for that.'

I must disagree with this. There is no such thing as precognition. How someone comes across in an interview is a weak predictor of how he performs on the job. With the best will in the world, sometimes an employer will make a mistake and hire the wrong person.

And this mistake is already punished by law and custom more harshly than it should be. The result is that employers are incentivized to err strongly on the side of caution, to never give a candidate the benefit of any doubt, no matter how ill-founded.

And this hurts everyone. It hurts good people who can't get a job because there's no absolute proof they'd be good hires. It hurts good people being abused by sociopathic bosses because they're afraid they wouldn't be able to get another job if they were fired. It hurts good people being paid below their worth because wages are bid down by the desperate. One way or another, it hurts you, and it hurts people you care about.

The blame for the fiasco needs to be placed where it belongs: on Matti, not on the people who hired him without perfect foreknowledge of his future actions.
Philosopher Karl Popper asserted, in The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1, that we are warranted in refusing to tolerate intolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Michael Walzer asks "Should we tolerate the intolerant?" He notes that most minority religious groups who are the beneficiaries of tolerance are themselves intolerant, at least in some respects. In a tolerant regime, such people may learn to tolerate, or at least to behave "as if they possessed this virtue". Philosopher Karl Popper asserted, in The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1, that we are warranted in refusing to tolerate intolerance. Philosopher John Rawls concludes in A Theory of Justice that a just society must tolerate the intolerant, for otherwise, the society would then itself be intolerant, and thus unjust. However, Rawls also insists, like Popper, that society has a reasonable right of self-preservation that supersedes the principle of tolerance: "While an intolerant sect does not itself have title to complain of intolerance, its freedom should be restricted only when the tolerant sincerely and with reason believe that their own security and that of the institutions of liberty are in danger."
I think I would use the camera to check clear for what it covers, but look over my shoulder for actual backing up. The camera isn't going to show cars and pedestrians coming from either side. I'd probably have trouble steering backward through a camera anyway.

Actually it'd be cool if you could see the display while you were twisted around looking backward.
April fools aside, over congestion and under utilized property is a problem where I'm originally from (Hong Kong) where the average citizen couldn't ever dream of owning property.

There are all sorts of businesses popping up that lets you rent your apartment out during the day, whilst you're at work etc... Obviously, they'll need to overcome security and user experience issues, but people are making headway in this area.
What taint analysis are you referring to? From my understanding, once a part of a Bitcoin has been tumbled, there's no way to verify which "part" that Bitcoin has in further transactions from that wallet.
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how closely have you been monitoring your card for siphoning of funds?

Closely. In fact, I get an email every time a transaction is made. Any fraud would be detected immediately: an email would arrive saying I've been charged, and I'd call up the credit card company and get it refunded in 10 minutes. So it seems to me that siphoning of funds from my credit card can't happen.

I needed protection from bitcoin fraud, not credit card fraud. The best thing for the bitcoin ecosystem would be to learn from credit card companies rather than villify them.

Also, people go to prison for many years for credit card fraud, whereas the legal system is still adjusting to bitcoin. I haven't heard of any bitcoin-related prosecutions yet. So bitcoin fraud is far less risky.
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I suppose the idea is to determine the so called "card scheme" (Visa, Master, etc), not necessarily the IIN. E.g. for some payment processors, the merchant service charges are different according to the card scheme (it does't depend on the issuer). I undertand this is a simplification and it might not work for cards that don't belong to major networks, but it's good enough for a lot of businesses.

For example, if I have a business here in Japan, I doubt I could easily charge a card issued by your company (I'll be happy to be proven wrong).

Ps: brasileiro aqui.
I prefer blind spot mirrors or segmented mirrors. I can't work out why they're not popular in North America, but the last two British cars I owned had them as standard. Two mirrors = no blind spots.

The biggest reason why I don't like angling the mirrors outwards is because it reduces visibility close to the rear on both sides - just large enough for a cyclist to sneak while waiting at a junction.
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How do you feel about http://99designs.com, in particular the competition model in regards to design?

I've personally used them a few times with vary levels of success. It is particular useful for lightweight projects such as logo designs.
How would rate limiting really solve this though? Wouldn't it just result in needing to use a botnet/spend more time harvesting?

Assuming that this is still the easiest way to harvest email/name pairs for phishing, then it seems like the time it takes isn't really a factor in the outcome since it can be parallelized and is still easier than phishing alternatives. It seems like the real answer is just to have it return the same response no matter if there is an account or not.
$100, including labour, does not seem so incredible. Auto electricians may charge more than that per hour, too.
The website is in concept phase. Testing the market to see if managers would find something like this of value.
Also how do you market to managers.
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Can you also make a better elance/odesk just for programmers? Seriously; elance isn't it and the average hourly rate on there is about $10.
Most succinct way to explain this: look at manual page section 2 -- you have to do everything in here yourself. Forking, sockets, files, redirection, TCP/IP, device drivers, ELF loading, virtual memory, multitasking/scheduling, loadable modules, etc -- you're on your own. ;)

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_2.html

Surprisingly, a lot of things don't require an OS. Lack of networking is the biggest drawback, IMO.
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The raw parts cost may be less. But it'll have to be covered by new-car warranty so it can't be complete garbage. It will also have to be worked into the design of the car and the manufacturing process, which are one-time costs but they are costs. Automakers will also have to amortize in the expected cost of defending lawsuits and paying awards to car owners who will claim the camera failed causing them to have an accident, etc.
Pkgr (and fpm, the program it uses) is not for shipping a package that people can install and depend upon as part of their own OS distribution. It's for using apt-get as your orchestration system, instead of puppet/chef/etc.

You package your application and its dependencies as .debs, create an apt-mirror containing those debs, add that apt repo to your deploy-targets' sources.list.d's, "apt-get install yourcorp-system-release", and relax.
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You must have missed the 2008 part, the same year we elected a president who was against gay marriage.
Also, email is fundamentally insecure. The to/from fields leak who's interacting with whom. On top of this, email uses DNS which has its own problems.

OP, read up on http://www.darkmail.info/ but I don't event know if DarkMail is the answer. Maybe something more drastically different like https://gnunet.org/ is better which is strictly P2P and replaces DNS too.
> make available every .. phone-location signal in real time

And yet targetted strikes intended to take out key military targets based on high-quality intelligence still took out hospitals and schools. Hmm.
This. Read the post, clicking through to the site, browsed the repo, still had to go look it up on Wikipedia. Copying a bit of their intro wouldn't hurt:

Call tracking software records information about incoming telephone calls ... it is based on the technological possibility of measuring the behavior of callers and is thus the equivalent in telephony to the conversion tracking used on the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-tracking_software
This guy wrote a great article a while back [1], great to see him turning this into a book.

I wish this kind of thing would go into the core python documentation though. So new Python programmers learn to 'think' python.

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[1] http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/10/04/writing-idiomatic-p...
I created this service in good fun of the recent Pokemon Master + Google Maps project. I want Pokemon master name cards and thought that if I want it, you will want it. Cheers and thanks for your support.
No way is that an obvious answer. The average consumer is massively more at risk of fraud & theft from their hosted bitcoin wallet than via their charge account.

All cards offer protection against theft and fraud including a means of disputing and getting refunds (chargebacks). Definitely not the case for bitcoin wallets.

Here's why. Cards may have weaker authentication but they have an intermediary party involved in governing the transaction. Bitcoin has no intermediary party, which places a heavier burden on authentication, and no recourse in case anything goes wrong.

So, the only way for bitcoin to increase protection against fraud is to ratchet up the level of security around authentication. Two factor, cold storage, all that. All things that are significant inconveniences for consumers. You can point to them and say "it's safer than card numbers" but that's missing the other tier of protection. Overall it's less safe, because if fraud does happen there's no recourse, and the more you inconvenience the consumer the less likely they are to secure things properly not to mention use the thing in the first place.

For everyday commerce, the two-tier level of protection that cards offer is much more amenable: a "decent" level of security at the time of the transaction that's still very convenient for the consumer, and the safety net of chargebacks.

By the way, you mentioned the lack of chargebacks as a security benefit.. but you're confusing merchant benefits (they don't like chargebacks) and consumer benefits (definitely benefit from the ability to dispute fraudulent charges and defective goods).
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And it begins. I hate April Fools Day. I have never understood why deceiving someone is comical.
Ugg. who decided to re-implement dropdowns without typeaheads/type a letter to jump to that part/any sort of keyboard bindings and use it for Select Your State?
If you're teaching yourself (what I assume you mean from bootstrapping), you ought to take a Coursera or EdX class on computer architecture or at least get a good textbook on the subject. The class should cover microprocessor architecture, assembly language and how the assembler works. My EE course on the subject at UT Austin used the 6800 micro family, and my CS friends at UT took a similar class that used MIPS.
Not sure about the Pi, but the Pandora which has similar ARM class of hardware can run Quake 3 at 25-30+ fps in 800*480 resolution. The GPU of the Pi may be more powerful while its CPU is weaker.
You do know that they haven't denied service to anyone? The bottom of the notice has a link that says "Continue to OkCupid". At worst they've inconvenienced someone the same amount an interstitial does on Forbes or a similar site.

Also is donating money considered "free speech"? Is that how Citizens United won their Supreme Court case?
I always enjoy articles that reiterate how the simple stuff really is pretty simple. I like thttpd for that reason, its a really simple (and a bit more featureful) webserver than this one, but not by a lot. Easy to comprehend, easy to keep all the moving pieces in your head in one piece.

Folks building embedded stuff have been using this stuff to create their UIs for like forever it seems, and this kind of web server works pretty well in that capacity.

[1] http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
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I think my project srvdir might be exactly what you're looking for: https://srvdir.net
Just another reminder:

In adult life, usually best to post from a position of strength, or people will dump on you.
Honestly, I doubt Obama was ever really against gay marriage, he's just a politician who panders to whatever position he thought would get him the most votes.

In 2008, the "moderate" position was to support civil unions, while opposing full equality. So that's what Obama did. Now, in 2014, the needle has shifted. Gay marriage has become increasingly mainstream.
Follow the money.

These days, April Fools has turned into a marketing gravy train. Do something cheap and mildly amusing, and the press will lap it up for free.
When private views become public, one should expect to be "judged" by others, especially when this person is explicitly enlisting the company he is working for in such a campaign and is a well-known field activist.

AFAICT he _had_ to tell what company he was working for. On that very moment, I'm curious to known what went through his mind. Was there any hesitation? Was he realizing he was bringing Mozilla into this debate?

My personal believes is that whether this was deliberate (bringing Mozilla explicitly) or not (being "forced" to list his employer), this was a really bad move you - as a board advisor or investor - will have to deal with and take public actions against.
It took me way too long to realise that was a joke...the prize allocation is pretty special though :)
For those of you who are interested in a tiny, safe, static file server that provides secure, public URLs from any machine (ngrok-style), I have a simple project called srvdir that will probably be useful to you: https://srvdir.net
No no -- as someone who works in marketing, let me assure you, 99% of attempted April Fools jokes go, for the benefit of everyone, completely unnoticed.
As the underdog competing against ESX, Microsoft had to make it easy for businesses to adopt Hyper-V.

By hooking up Hyper-V to the Windows management OS, they get to leverage Windows device drivers. And this, in turn, ensures broader hardware compatibility.

Of course, this goal became unnecessary for Azure, where Microsoft controls the hardware. But Hyper-V had already been designed that way.

Certainly, Server Core is pretty stripped-down. The Russinovich blog says they reboot about once a month, but the Azure support blog says they reboot every 2-3 months.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wats/archive/2013/09/24/windows-azur...
Surveying various languages’ string-search algorithms
Facebook buys Ubuntu producation company Canonical for 3 Billion
Have you read the papers on Tick-C (`C)? MIT, mid 90s. Pretty interesting stuff.
If you ever run into a VBScript on an old section of microsoft.com, it's likely to be signed. I think I've seen a Sharepoint Javascript file with a signature block on the end but I wonder if MS had more plans for this.
There's only 30 or so charges on my CC bill for the whole month. It's an online PDF I have to access in order to see how much I owe, so skimming it is both easy and convenient.

Given that a restaurant would face serious problems if they did this, it seems both low risk and not too hard to monitor.
Well that's not creepy at all...
Because companies like Facebook are more interested in stuffs like InnoDB improvements in MySQL 5.6/5.7 than those nosql/sharding features which they already have their own workarounds.
Is this possible? I get the impression that any such websites will always simply draw such rates, because that's what the market is willing to pay. I'm not talking about the market in general. I'm talking about the market that would be attracted to browse such websites. Anyone who's willing to pay more, they do things like browse github profiles. No?
Sounds like some marketing jobs opened up.
Quality isn't just cool graphics and complex plots and all that. Dong understood how people want a game that is simple to learn but insanely difficult to master. And he understood the need to make controls simple enough (tap anywhere on the screen) so that people can play even in the subway with only one hand free. So gotta give the guy credit
Pokemon on gmaps is an April Fool, this game is real
I used 99designs to get a book cover designed and I was very happy with the results. My designer was responsive, friendly, and made a wonderful design that went above and beyond what I was expecting.

However, I was unhappy with how little the designer actually received. I paid $799 to run the competition, and the winning designer only got $387! Charging >50% commission seems highly exploitative, especially when all the designers who don't get selected receive nothing at all despite spending spending time creating designs.
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