skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The audience for this app are already using Snapchat, and Slingshot offers no value above what Snapchat already offers - I don't see anyone switching.
Nothing. Google is not Apple or Microsoft. It's not hardware they are selling. There are many positive things but there's a big downside too: A new search engine, is a click away. No one has to sweat about it.

If 5% of the clicks actually like the new search engine, then Google would have lost 5% of it's clients in a day.
Those are things that are doable with pattern matching and big datasets. We're no closer to situational awareness than we ever were. Note we have self-driving cars that have precise databases describing the area they're driving through.
I believe so, but it can import from Word/ODF/RTF and other document formats (see footer).
This wouldn't really work, as he can just make a large number of addresses and spread the coins out across a huge web. You could theoretically track the web and all the addresses, but you might then be blacklisting companies and individuals who unknowingly accepted his coins.

Unfortunately that's the "beauty" of anonymous decentralised currency.
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Small typo where you define `CELERY_ROUTES`. `my_taskA` should probably have the routing key `for_task_A`, right?
Yup, every time I clear the intuit.com cookies, I get different prices.
Not sure there is. There seems to be a lot of optimisation done, and there only seem to be a couple of heavyweight implementations.
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"No"

now what?

Sorry Canada, I like you guys, but you don't really get to make rulings for everybody else.
I fail to see how this judgment is any different from those where the courts ordered ISPs to block sites like the piratebay. If you're ok with one kind of interference about third parties linking to stuff you should probably be ok with all of them, and if you're against interference in this case you should probably be against interference in general.

It's very hard to argue consistently that the one is ok and the other is not. I strongly believe any kind of interference is bad. If you have beef with someone sue them, don't involve the facilitator.
That is, nobody is going to say, "You're only an L4, therefore you can't work on this project."

Someone said exactly that to me when I was at Google. That's kinda how closed allocation works.

What I always tell people: If you want to get promoted, just start acting like someone at the next level up.

At any company, that's the quickest way to get fired. Getting into a turf war with someone with a much higher title? Not a good idea. To be honest, if I were to do Google again, I'd have kept my head down and said "Yes, sir". It can do a lot for your career to work there, but it's not a place where you can safely overperform.

However, there is a way to provide private feedback that can only be seen by your manager; in my experience this backchannel is rarely used.

"Yes, I realize that a murder count of 2,500 in a city of 1 million is horrifying. But look on the bright side. That means there were 997,500 people who were not murdered last year."

Managers take all of your reviews as input and determine a performance rating, which is a score in one of five buckets to indicate how well you're doing overall.

As of 2011, you actually get a score between 1.0 and 5.0. Almost everyone is between 3.0 and 4.0. The buckets are very large. "Meets Expectations" is everything from a 3.0 (acceptable for new hires, but damning if you've been there for a while) to 3.4 (slightly above average). If you're in this bucket, you don't know if you've been marked as a loser (and rendered unable to transfer) or are getting 65th-percentile ratings. You can literally waste 18 months on a loser project only to find you can't transfer because your boss gave you 3.0's.

These scores are also calibrated against other managers across the organization, to prevent managers from biasing their scores -- an individual manager can't game the system.

That's a nice way to present stack ranking. Each boss gets a finite number of calibration points and has to pick who does well and who doesn't. If he gets a crappy allotment and desperately needs to use all his points to promote the guy who'll do a startup unless bumped, you could get stuck with a (career-ending) 2.9.

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The important thing to remember about Google's promotion process is that it's bicameral. Manager-assigned calibration scores are one component. Peer reviews are another. You need both to advance at Google. Google provides multiple paths to failure, not multiple paths to success. If your manager likes you and gives you 4.0+, you can still get dinged for lack of visibility. On the other hand, if your manager is giving you shit for calibration scores, all the peer review in the world won't get you out of the muck. I've known many Googlers to damage their careers by playing their manager but not the crowd, or vice versa. You need to play both games at the same time.

For a better analysis of Google's promotion/review system, read Piaw Na's essays, such as this one: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/04/promotion-systems.html

This is also worth reading: http://valleywag.gawker.com/eric-schmidt-personally-ruined-g...
Device that is not dangerous by itself and wasn't dangerous at all until recently - the danger is created by people who want to monetize kids. There's malicious intent there.

A better analogy would be a kid getting mugged on it's way to school. Should we blame parents and parents only for leaving the kid unsupervised? Should we let the robber go because "it's parents responsibility to protect their child from danger"?
Apparently it's any site that sells the "Datalink GW1000".
Apple’s Online Store Is Currently Offline For Updates
Apple are currently;y showing the message: "We’re busy updating the Apple Store for you and will be back soon." on the UK store.

Apple typically take its online store offline ahead of new product launches, but what does this relates to today?

Also forum is down: https://discussions.apple.com/backsoon/discussionstempaway.html
The NSA now owns Bitcoin
Here is what I do: I ALWAYS give, and I NEVER judge.
When I had to do that for some apps, the main issues were
* while being offline some notifications get lost so one needs to get a sense of the general state of the central server
* I wanted to synchronize only part of the database to each client (data it has the right to see)
* pushes to the server could not be generic due to business logic (again, rights of the user)

Thus I started recording changes on the client, pushing them to the central server through functional endpoints and then pulling all changes from the server. To pull data from the server I found a paper[1] with an interesting way of encoding data so that the client can get a sense of the difference by getting a data structure of size proportional to the diff (no matter the whole dataset size). I developed a library for that, pretty limited for now [2].

[#2] http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2011/papers/sigcomm/p...
[#1] https://github.com/3musket33rs/mathsync
Hahahaha, that would be a good one. Probably extremely high fines. It's not the way a democracy works to say no. The appeal was the only sensible way to go.

The problem is not this case per se. The problem Google faces is the precedent. If this goes through, every one who thinks that there is an irregularity about a website will go to court in order to bring it down from google.

If many websites stop being listed on Google, people might start looking for new search engines and... You can imagine how the story goes from there...
url += "?share=1"
I stopped giving money to "beggars" long ago. I usually help them by buying them what they need.

I go with them to whichever close market or restaurant and buy them what they really need, I don't usually put a money limit but rarely goes over 20 bucks with a nice food basket.

Part of these process is also listening to their stories, sometimes you can even hire them for some tasks and I usually tell them to help others in the same way if they have the oportunity (or to teach their children this lesson).

Of course they could sell these items later but I really feel good about this and I don't think they do that.
The arguments against Soylent that compare it to some perfect diet are just obnoxious and disingenuous. McDonalds feeds 68+ million human beings A DAY... just McDonalds.

If there is a solution that is convenient, simple, healthier cost-effective replacement for fast food calories, I am all for it.
We need some sort of '5 year hiatus'

That's sadly unlikely to help, as can be seen in countries where such regulations are in place. The culprits simply delay the payment or move to alternate forms of compensation (e.g. arranging for a well-compensated 'job' for a close family member...).
If a social login button is the biggest of your worries, god help your poor soul.

It's a sad day in the community when you detract from the release of this site by chosing to point out and upvote the negative feedback. The least you can do is follow the general rule of thumb to provide some positive feedback followed by any qualms you may have.

My first inclination was to comment this is a cool idea and was glad to see that it had integrations with GMail and Wordpress. For Wordpress specifically, there's draft mode, but that doesn't afford you feedback directly in context of an article.
Hey Amanda,
If you're interested in Open Source, there're some projects listed over http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc... which are ongoing GSoC projects. If you wish to contribute to anyone of them, you'll be welcome by the community.
Personally; I'm also working on a web programming project. You can read more at http://brainfreez3.blogspot.com/
Hope it helps and you make the best of your vacation time :)
Colin, excellent sleuthing on the topic. I'll dig into those links but
the few I've checked so far seem to be fairly main stream regurgitations
of university press releases.

The two papers linked [1] from this article are new. One was just
published this month, June 2014 [2], and the other will be published
later this year, in August 2014 [3].

[1] http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/en/projects/multipath/

[2] http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/en/publications/paper-details/Heide...

[3] http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/en/publications/paper-details/otool...
Wouldn't discovering a huge dogecoin mine devalue it?
Advertisements masquerading as impartial opinion pieces are not evil? What is evil - strangling kittens?
There is a possibility that some authority in the US will (be lobbied to) require hormones/chlorine-rinsing/antibiotics in order for the food to be deemed safe for American consumers, yes. So sadly, there needs to be some "harmonization" meaning turning the clock back a couple of decades in Europe.
Well looks like you should get in touch with some group called "Nashi" according to The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/07/hacked-emails-n...
But that's hardly news, given Anonymous unveiled the scam in 2012 already. So why wouldn't Microsoft follow? They get press, you get cash, everybody's happy (well, except users and devs)
I don't give to charities or homeless people. I live by the old saying, "Charity begins at home."

If I can afford to help strangers then I can afford to help my family and friends, who are more important to me.
"the video links are unencrypted"

As I understand it, that's so you can show them to anyone quickly; if encrypted, various security issues are invoked.

It was considered to be an acceptable trade off because the greater part of their usefulness is so ephemeral. On the other hand, an adversary who routinely monitors them could figure out a lot of things about our general methods.
That's not true-- if you built it into the protocol/client, then transactions from the blacklisted addresses would simply never be accepted into the blockchain; there would not be the possibility to spread them around.

But I doubt any of the main bitcoin (clones) would ever do that.
I stopped giving money to these people, instead offering to buy them food.

I prefer to know exactly what the money is being spent on. I'm happy to help them, but I don't want to fund an addiction.
Can replicate for any of the endpoint links, not just /matches.

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Did you try searching the article for the phrase "Larry Niven"? He is mentioned about halfway down.
> the punishments for various crimes were originally intended to punish natural persons and have never been sufficiently adapted to punish corporations

Good point! :)

Jail == cannot conduct business for X years?
'The Guru' is a bad movie. Kumare on the other hand is much better and it is based on real life experiment to boot.
Good, basic practices to follow. Here's a few more:

- If you're using AMQP/RabbitMQ as your result back end it will create a lot of dead queues to store results in. This can easily overwhelm your RabbitMQ server if you don't clear these out frequently. Newer releases of Celery will do this daily I think - but it's worth keeping in mind if your RMQ instance falls over in prod.

- Use chaining to build up "sequential" tasks that need doing instead of calling one after another in the same task (or worse, doing a big mouthful of work) in one task as Celery can prioritise many tasks better than synchronously calling several tasks in a row from one "master" task.

- Try to keep a consistent module import pattern for celery tasks, or explicitly name them, as Celery does a lot of magic in the background so task spawning is seamless to the developer. This is very important as you should never mix relative and absolute importing when you are dealing with tasks. from foo import mytask may be picked up differently than "import foo" followed by "foo.mytask" would resulting in some tasks not being picked up by Celery(!)

- Never pass database objects, as OP says, is true; but go one step further and don't pass complex objects at all if you can avoid it. I vaguely remember some of the urllib/httplib exceptions in Python not being serializable and causing very cryptic errors if you didn't capture the exception and sanitise it or re-raise your own.

- Use proper configuration management to set up and configure Celery plus what ever messaging broker/backend. There's nothing more frustrating than spending your time trying to replicate somebody's half-assed Celery/Rabbit configuration that they didn't nail down and test properly in a clean-room environment.
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I'm guessing it'd devalue if they tried to sell at once, but isn't mining public in that the public blockchain already reflects the 500m mined?
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Regarding the bean counters, keeping promos down doesn't help their budgets as much as you might think. The bonus you get for "exceeds expectations" brings you approximately to the "meets expectations" total compensation of the next level up.

Or so I've been told anecdotally ... personally I have yet to be promoted or experience a bonus cycle where I hit exceeds...
I suppose it depends on where you live. In my city (Cape Town) beggars can make up to $400 a week at certain high-traffic spots. People who give them money are enabling them. Also, in my city certain organisations exist to help the homeless and IMO it's better to donate to these groups instead.

In many places in South Africa you are encouraged NOT to give money to beggars.

http://giveresponsibly.co.za/

http://www.capetowncid.co.za/docs/6268/Image%20from%20Best%2...
Most of them have some "boss" who is collecting all the money, and giving them just a bit of it.

So instead of giving them money, it's much better to buy them food or something else what they really need.
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There was one time, someone asked me for small change in order to buy water. I offered him to buy the water without giving him the money. He turned away and kept walking. This is why I tend not to give money (and feel really bad about it).
I liked that in the video he went to type "LEGOS" and then changed it to "LEGO bricks".
As per the other reply, this is open.

Can I ask why you want it to be open though? Do you not trust the site/me to exist in the future? Or do you not want to rely on something external?
An alternative is to contribute time, money or other items to an organization which helps the homeless or those with financial challenges. A local shelter, food bank, Habitat for Humanity, etc.
We live in the techno-utopia today. Food and shelter are not problems anymore. If it were otherwise, we would all be farmer-lumberjacks. It used to be like this, but it's solved now. We have enough for everybody - it's just about spreading the goods a little bit more evenly.
If you a rich, then yes. What's a dollar to you? Have a chat with them too.

Maybe share your lunch if you've got some to spare.
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Psychotherapy is still at a woo-woo stage in its scientific development. Primarily because nobody has a real clue as to what connects the "mind" to the "brain" at the fundamental functional level.

A century after Freud, Jung and a host of their 'intellectual' descendants, "therapy" might as well be a pseudoscience as much as it is (claimed to be) science. Sure, modern day variations may appear quite different in practice than what was being done a few decades ago, but just because "it works" (for some) does not mean we understand the working of the mind well enough to call it a science.

A (poor) analogy might be like saying that just because a 3 year old kid can use the iPad to play games (cause-and-effect learned from touching, moving the device), he/she understands the workings of the ARM processor inside. Or even the code that game runs on.
The article already singled out Android. So far as I can tell, "Generic Star N9500" phone in question is an Android phone: http://www.amazon.com/Generic-Star-N9500-Android-MTK6589/dp/...
Mad cow disease (BSE) was not related to hygiene or how many animals were crammed into how little space. It was caused by mixing their food with the ground-down remains of other cows, especially their brain parts.
One issue you're not considering WRT to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, vs. "Star Wars" as used by its opponents) is that even a partially effective system negates an adversary's first strike capability, since they can't choose which missiles and warheads get taken out.
It is in the general vicinity in air-to-air combat. I'm not talking about cruise missiles here.
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Your home isn't the streets where you live and work?
That's interesting, if it's true. Do you have a source?
I'd love to see that experiment and I'm excited to see the how the process of blacklisting would work.

What would be next? A list of "unshibeful" businesses that are blacklisted? Guns? Drugs? Alcohol?

This is the perfect experiment to see how an un-libertarian, every-man-for-every-other-man interpretation of commerce works out.
You're missing something. Filepicker is a great way to integrate on projects where you won't get paid $5-10k alone just for getting S3 secure uploads working. [cost of time]
There are charities in my country as well. But I suspect they are corrupted and I avoid giving them money. Regarding making good money while begging for it - I don't know how much do they make here.
Not really, that's just the name of the actual task itself ie. "def my_taskA(a, b, c)".
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what you should do is figure out why someone you don't know, to whom you own nothing, is able to make you feel so bad about not giving them anything.

Give money to beggars or don't, give money to charity or don't, give money to random people or don't.

Just figure out why you feel the way you do, I don't think anyone can do that for you.
That's quite a lot of money (assuming you mean USD and not ZAR). Do you have a source for that figure? Is that an average, or is it the largest amount that one person has ever made?
Have to agree here in south east Asia a lot of this is run by crime syndicates, only part of the money goes to people on the street.
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I think modern wars will be fought by tousands of pro-gamers using something like 3d rts ui.

For example if we have 50 drones doing some task it's stupid to hire 50 people to manage them like pilots. Much better to hire 5 people and give them better ui (construct 360 degree view from all the drones feeds localy and send only the aggregated information.
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As a security expert I wouldn't recommend this approach. The "as many layers as possible" is a waste of time and money (an overkill).

A proper threat and risk analysis should be done so you can have a cost-effective solution. Security is expensive and maybe the cost of a breach is way cheaper than the security appliance or experts you hire.

Sometimes the best security solution is not to have anything, because it doesn't really matter.
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I was really ashamed after I read your answer. I'm still not 100% sure that's the spirit I'm willing to adopt, but there is something to it that feels right. I will think about it.
I give to the top charities on GiveWell [1] instead. As an individual you can't help everyone, at least with GiveWell you can be fairly sure your money is making someone's life better.

[1] http://www.givewell.org/
Anything that questions mainstream media version of the truth is automatically labeled as conspiracy theory delusion and hence put in the same category as believing in reptilian illuminati . How is this different to cult brainwash mechanics? (to ridicule a view other than the cult-accepted view).

The sirya crisis is a perfect example: a few years ago the shariah law al'qaeda guys were the movie villains: religious fanatics that stone women to death and bomb our free countries, the media now portrays them as rebel democratic heroes because they oppose the siryan government, we almost send them an aircraft carrier as military support. If you don't see the contradiction and obvious attempt to manipulate your opinion to support an agenda, then (downvote me to zero karma if you want) you are a well educated fool.
The big feature that I want in an autocomplete is the ability to click on the text area and get a list of possible completions. I hacked that onto bootstraps angular autocomplete widget, but it's a bit of a mess.
Awesome stuff, tnx for these. :)
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I have heard a lot of people say that they do this, but I have never seen someone actually do it, nor have I heard a second-hand report of someone doing it.

I'm not saying that you're not telling the truth, but I am saying that most people who say that they give food actually give nothing (neither money nor food), but tell their friends and random message boards that they give food, because it avoids looking miserly (if you give nothing) or naive (if you give money).
Thanks, but if I understand correctly, not all tabs are there and this is not their total memory usage. If this is so, then this is not what I meant. I meant a single indicator of tab memory usage in a similar way PSS is calculated [1]. That is: all the memory resources this tab uses (including JS) plus appropriate share of the shared resources.

From user's point of view I don't care HOW the page/tab uses my memory - I just want to know how much of it it used.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/230975/