skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often it is not. Funds are frozen without any due process whatsoever, or even giving the account holder a specific reason. I know of instances where tax authorities have simply seized accounts on their own authority without sanction from a count. I know of instances where real estate has been seized on the mere suspicion of Marijuana growing. Yes, due process is available to remedy such wrongs... by suing in court for relief. Good luck with that if you have no liquid funds to hire a lawyer. And your bank is foreclosing because you can't pay the mortgage.

More and more, KYC means asking permission to spend your own money. Putting all payment processing into the hands of a few middlemen is a dangerous concentration of power.

It's sad that we make retailers eat a 3% gross tax on transactions in exchange for bullshit rewards. In the end merchants just bill the costs right back to us anyway. Individually we feel like we're doing well. We get flights or 1% cash back. In reality we're buying these things for ourselves and we're overpaying.
The payment processors can restrict your activity based on their assessment of risk. They can impose those restrictions ahead of any actual freeze.
I will have to try Zathura but since KDE is my choice of desktop environment Okular comes natural. Long before I was using KDE, I needed a feature full PDF viewer and I found Okular. I mostly need annotations which it does fine. I have since then never felt a need for any other PDF viewer.
You seem to have misunderstood my claim. I was comparing the creed of orthodox Islam to that of the NOI. The NOI's official doctrine is clearly racist but you cannot point to a single tenet of orthodox of Islam which would indicate that Islam espouses racism.
Even if we disagree about the other matters being discussed earlier, I do have to agree with you about the misvoting you've been subjected to.

There is no legitimate reason for your comments to have been voted down.

I'm seeing this sort of blatant and unjustifiable misvoting happening more and more often here. It's really making it harder to read a lot of legitimate content, and it's discouraging participation in otherwise perfectly fine discussion.
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The levels with arrows seem PSPACE complete even. I wonder if the levels without arrows are in P.
Do you really think YC would stake their reputation
on such an abuse?

If they won't, Michaelt's Used Cars And Startup Incubator will accept any company with the application fee (2% preferred stock equity and $5000 per visa required).

Or will the government get into ranking and evaluating incubators?
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The government doesn't run the ACH system, the Federal Reserve does.
How Informed Consent Has Failed
That seems like a convenient average skewed by the top 1% of apps
That seems fairly likely to me. ( I don't think this contradicts what I said.)
@zenarrow

Yes, we think there's probably a separate product there as well. I'd always wanted to do something like the formbuilder but was usually trapped in more traditional dbs. Always got hung up on how you'd handle data migrations and the like. Moving to Firebase and working with essentially a string database in JSON really opened that side up. The only bummer is that we basically have to do lots of clean-up anytime there is relational data (which we allow through the system).
I had been using it long before I started using KDE. There aren't many PDF Viewers that could do annotations and handle 1000 page PDFs. Evince which is a premier Gnome PDF application is pretty basic.
You actually negotiate the interchange fee somewhere along the process of getting a merchant account. If you're a "Level 1" merchant you pay less and smaller merchants pay more, American Express and Discover charge more, if you're in a dodgy business coughPORNcough you pay quite a bit more. I think that Visa or MasterCard will increase your interchange fee if your customers do too many chargebacks and disputes, too.

I'm out of touch with that any more, but 1.75% used to be a very good interchange rate maybe 10 years ago.
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This is for EC?
I don't think it's necessarily that clear cut - the big problem is the lack of knowledge that encryption isn't good enough. There are probably plenty of developers who do care, and aren't aware that the clever algorithm they're using with the key hard-coded in the source code may not be 'secure.' And of the set who know that hashing !== encryption, probably a lot of them (at least in PHP land) will be told to just use md5.
You're right, but for the wrong reason. Crypto currencies are a canary highlighting general anxiety over the fiat currency model that has served us for many years.

End of the day, the irresponsibility associated with currency management and the harsh controls over capital at the individual/small business level are what fuels demand for bitcoin.
It's not directly a legal issue: Prior to Dodd-Frank, most/all merchant agreements only allowed for a "cash discount". That is, when agreeing to accept Visa or MasterCard, a merchant had to also agree to accept cards for all transactions and charge the same price no matter the payment type, excepting an option of a lower price for cash (but not for checks or debit cards).

Dodd-Frank made such agreements illegal: All merchant agreements must now include an option for the merchant to refuse credit (but not debit) cards for purchases under $10.

Convenience fees are apparently a rat's nest of state laws, litigation settlements and issuer policies:
http://www.cardfellow.com/blog/charging-customers-a-credit-c...
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So did you end up getting the phd anyways? In your experience, did you feel the departments' agendas placed importance on the field or were they more interested in career aspirations or money? My personal experience is that mathematics comes second to research grants and ensuring prestige. I do want to hear from other people though since that was just my own.
This was the early sixties. The US outclassed the USSR in nuclear arms by literally an order of magnitude. The US had tens of thousands, with thousands of those immediately ready to be delivered, while the USSR had thousands, with hundreds immediately ready.

For example, at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US had about 170 ICBMs, 100 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and 450 shorter-range ballistic missiles based close enough to reach the Soviet Union. The USSR had 20-40 ICBMs and no SLBMs, and of course the whole deal with the Crisis was their attempt to base short-range missiles close enough to reach the US, so they just had those few. The USSR had 160 long-range nuclear bombers, while the US had well over 1,000. This doesn't even include the British and French forces, both of which were fairly substantial. (The British V bomber force outnumbered the Soviet strategic bombers all by themselves, and was in position to strike quickly.)

One guy blowing up one weapon in one stockpile wouldn't have altered this significantly.
People don't trust Google as it is, why would they trust China's "Google"?
From a 'rate of employment in the population' perspective surely you don't want people immigrating who will replace native workers (or indeed any worker currently in post)?

What's the benefit to the country if a new worker from abroad replaces a current worker but at a lower wage if that means the person 'usurped' needs state assistance or becomes under-employed (and bumps someone else from work to benefit-reliance)? Sure business owners probably benefit but such benefit seems pretty localised.

How about if you let a lot of foreign workers come in who are well skilled and they flood a field in such a way that no students leaving college in that field can get a job. The incoming worker likely can accept lower wages which local [likely] debt-laden students can't. The field falls flat - the local population stop training in that field and you've either got a future skill crisis or a long-term reliance on immigrant workers.

If you want to preference native/endemic population over immigrants at all then I think you need to be very specific in the immigration you allow.
Loop quantum gravity is in competition with the much more popular String Theory, which is also "a theoretical attempt that has yet to find experimental support". The Grand Unified Theories all fit in that bucket. It's important to keep that in mind, but since there isn't a GUT that does have "experimental support" we can't really demand that at this point....
Forget the model, but Dell IPS 2560x1440 27" its a great combo of size and pixel density.
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The difference is that the Higgs was a necessary logical consequence of the Standard Model. Quantum loop gravity is purely speculative, much like string theory.

In the case of QM versus GR we have the very weird situation where we have two theories that are logically incompatible with each other, so we know at least one of them must be wrong. And yet neither one has ever made a prediction that has ever been falsified by experiment, so we have no guidance from nature regarding which theory is wrong or how. That's the reason that the theoretical physicists seem to be grasping at straws, and everyone is a little disappointed that the LHC hasn't done anything surprising.
You are totally twisting what they meant to suit your agenda
Cash isn't going anywhere. There is WAY too much money that's "off the books" floating around, and MasterCard is completely foolish if they think that's just going to disappear because some idiot banker tells them that cash is history.
Right on. The proposal had to be set up to prevent such obvious abuse.

One thought was admissions rates, since folks seemed impressed by the soundbite that "YC had a lower admissions rate than Harvard," even leaving aside self-selection biases in the applicant pool.

Another is a startup community-run Self Regulatory Organization (SRO) that would get into the ranking and evaluating business a la Mattermark, with official certification/recognition by the government.
It (or something like it) is a requirement for using node modules in the browser
Something like monasteries of mathematicians. Like the Concents in Anathem.
My apologies for posting a poorly written article. I came across it through Prismatic (http://getprismatic.com/). From my understanding their content is curated directly by them and not the users.

Just as @jeroen has commented, here is a less confusing article giving the same solution: http://lifehacker.com/5967424/keep-bananas-fresh-longer-by-s...
Well, the EU should probably do something about these regional card services. Ideally they should be forced to offer processing to all merchants in the EU. Here in Germany, they have EC and girocard, both of which aren't very foreigner-friendly. Expect foreign Visa cards to only work in the more commercial half of shops that take cards - maybe a third of all places you may want to shop.

I doubt Neelie Kroes is listening, but if she is, this is the kind of stuff that needs to go.
This is a pretty interesting approach...I assume your idea is that people will use this as just a "means to an end" for connecting some sensor service to IRC for notification purposes, or to respond back to the user(s). However, I do have one question: Why is there data duplication? Like, why do you have both `fullmsg` and `full_message`? Same with the incoming payload, you mean to tell me that I have to have both `"fromchannel":true,` AND `"from_channel":true,` in there? That seems a little silly.

One more thing, I noticed the README says "I'm also planning a 2.0 branch which will use ZeroMQ instead of Redis."...did you ever try just using Go's channels to make this work? It's kind-of like a built-in ZMQ...
If I am, I have no idea. If you'd like to explain rather than just point fingers, perhaps we could have a discussion.
Of course you'd have to get a debit card - just with zero credit.
Fascinating, thank you for sharing.

As I write this, it appears that the UK grid is running around 30GW, of which about 55% comes from local fossil fuels, 29% nuclear, nearly 10% imported from France and Holland, and a mere 5% or so from the major (non-nuclear) renewable sources.

There is an interesting note that coal (only 15% right now) is still the largest contributor to the UK grid overall, but used more in winter because running hours are restricted for environmental reasons so they do more in winter when it's more profitable.

I am surprised (and, honestly, disappointed) to see that so little of the total is still drawn from clean, renewable sources after all the concern about both fossil fuel supplies and environmental effects in recent years. Having just been on holiday to a country not a million miles away where they have essentially no native fossil fuels and so almost everything is run on relatively clean renewables, it's clear that we still have a long way to go.
So we can just tl;dr the better article a couple of people have posted and leave it at that: Keep Bananas Fresh Longer by Separating Them and Wrapping the Stems in Plastic Wrap (that's the headline from the better article).
New Rechargeable Cell Has 7 Times Higher Energy Density Than Li-ion Cells
The one built into Firefox is the one that always complains it cannot display the document properly.
Yes.

http://www.cohousing.org/
Exactly. Investors are afraid Amazon has found another low profit business to dominate. If they can't yield even a low margin profit at $80 billion in sales - eg 3% Walmart style, or $2.x billion in net income - why would anyone believe they will at $160 billion in sales. Not to mention they're a 20 year old, unprofitable business.
Can't see your email mate... Put it in your "about me" field if you want peopleto see it, the email field is private.
The posted article is just a cropped (and possibly plagiarised) copy of the one linked at the end of the Lifehacker one:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Keep-Bananas-Fresh-Longer-sl...

It seems that whoever tried to copy the article didn't read it and forgot to include the steps.
Wonder where the heck they're growing so many coconut trees to fill the supermarkets of the western world with.
"After all, if chipmakers deliver more and more transistors every two years, Amazon should be able to do more computing for less."

Pretty bad conclusion by the author, particularly given this is Wired. If chip makers deliver more transistors, customers of AWS will use them all up, Amazon will not be able to just sit on their hands and offer up the same computing at a lower total cost.
Zipcar. CityCarShare. A number of other organizations.

Zipcar now have differential pricing (i.e. more expensive on weekends), so a 24 hour rent Mon - Fri is under $100.

Expensive, you may say. But... I pay only $70 per year for a full insurance waiver, all fuel is included, and there are no maintenance costs or other hidden costs.

Last Zipcar I got I used almost a full fuel-tank worth in a 24 hour period. Subtracting fuel from the price put the days rental at about $40. And there's a pod across the street from my apartment (and about a zillion other pods nearby, here in Berkeley CA).

I have friends with a 2-kid family in Manhattan and no car. They use Alamo, and claim it's cheap and easy.

Renting is expensive. Owning a car is also expensive, with more 'hidden' costs that people frequently ignore.
I think it's an explicit assumption. Either a configuration language is Turing complete or it isn't.

I think I know where you're coming from - if you are a human reading the configuration then you can analyze the actual code. But that's only one dimension of the problem, because it requires a human to be in the loop.
Not an expert in this aspect at all, but you could always try a site like flippa.com...

From what I gather its just a place to bid on websites, apps, domains, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8085353
I like the creativity of the idea, but jesus, how would that work in reality?

Do you have to prove residency in Detroit? Do you have to work for a company in Detroit? What if you pick up and leave? Do you get deported? How would they even track that?
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Holy moley, the initial scrolling on that site is horrible.
NSA: Less need now for Snowden deal
Thanks! The data duplication is due to my laziness. I've been running tenyks for about a year now and I have written a large number of services for it in python. They expect "full_message", but I wanted to make the API more go-like in the core, so I decided to go the fullMsg route. I should have been more pragmatic about it and just stuck with full_message. I may just rip out fullmsg and fromchannel.

ZeroMQ isn't for internal goroutine communication. It's to provide pub/sub for external services written in any number of languages.

I hope this answers your questions.
Thanks. We changed to that from http://awareness-time.com/?p=4195.
I think google cache can show that you created the website with the game first, then create a text file or something on the server that the support could access to show that you actually operate the site. If the other developer that has stolen the code can't provide a proof then it's fairly easy for the support to decide. The problem is of course that you need sane support for this to work.
Amazing game, loved the stack on level 21. Made it to level 26, will have to come back and play more later. Go sell it on an app store and make some money for your time.
I've heard the theory for years that the "big bang" was this event.

If so, then maybe many other universes. Very weird to ponder.
That was actually really interesting
They have isolators to stop that from happening - the generators can't draw a current.
White hole could maybe also create its own universe with that matter projecting into it. The sheer volume and energy/speed perhaps.
I think this is a very important point to remember. Successful company histories are often glossy because the beautiful stories are easier to digest and are what we would prefer to believe. Success can sometimes take a lot of time. A successful friend of mine has a poster in his office. It's a cowboy and a horse and it says "if you've never been bucked then you've never ridden."
You got me wondering about other ways to scan, such as sonically. I'll bet that right now any kind of sonic scan would be crude and rough - but how long before signal processing can be cleaned up to make it good enough to guesstimate the lengths of the pin segments?

Especially if the scan included analyzing against known lock types? This is the sort of problem for which the Internet is ideal: An optical scan to narrow down lock makers and models, load custom signal processing configurations for those likely locks, perform a sonic scan of the lock and collect reflections, distortions, etc., and use the custom config to ease the decoding: Wah-la! A picture of the inside of the lock, with pin segment lengths.

Then print 5-10 likely keys on the spot.

Picking a lock requires a suspicious body posture and special tools.

Scanning a lock this way just requires you be close enough to the door. Checking your messages? Patting your pockets to make sure you have everything? Leaning your bag against the door on your knee to make sure you have everything? Many plausible scenarios for staying close enough long enough, and the tools are COTS, common.

Or maybe I "deliver" a "package" to your door, lean it against the door (UPS and others do this all the time), and the top of the package contains the scanning tools. I come back later (seconds, minutes?) after realizing I've made a mistake and take the package back.

The more I think about it, the more I cannot help but wonder if the physical lock of the future will not need a proof-of-authorization mechanism to vet the keyholder - at which point we eliminate the keyhole entirely and move to direct identification of authorized entrants.

And then of course watch for 0-day vulnerabilities in THAT technology.
2 Dell UltraSharp 24" IPS panels U2412M (1600x1200) (side by side, in landscape)

2 Dell 2007FPW 21" IPS panels (1680x1050) (one on each end, in portrait mode)
Not so great if it took 10 employees to create it.
Or maybe it's all one universe and the big bang was just a localized event within it, but since we can't see that far away it seems like everything. (Not a physicist, this idea may seem silly to the more well-versed in this topic.)
DIYbio has already started on this:
Experimental Robot for $4k: http://www.opentrons.com/
He was stating that they could be dropped of in a remote jungle and given an abstract command such as "turn this bundle of sticks into something habitable" and rely on ingrained problem-solving and teamwork skills to complete the goal.

Not that they could be told to napalm a small village and would carry out the order no-questions-asked.
Would be fascinating to see them compete in markets without state influence.
I was one of the Kickstarter backers for Webhook. I remember when I first heard of the project, I frothed at the mouth in anticipation. Most static site builders out there lack the nice features you get in something like Wordpress which is the void Webhook aims to build.

Even though I sadly haven't had much time to play around with it as I would like, what I have seen and used is fantastic. The feature-set and ease-of-use is great. I'll put this on my list of priorities to check out even further this week, I'm still using Wordpress for a lot of sites, so time to give myself a kick in the bum and use it.
Finished the game after some two-three hours. The last level and the 31st level were the most difficult for me. I know that the statistics page that no identifying information is showed but it would have been interesting to see some individual stats.

http://i.imgur.com/BP5dBde.png
A PhD in math does, however, require a motivated and interested supervisor. A supervisor who can tach you how to write papers, how to get them published, to tell you where you are wasting your time and to help you over the humps that may otherwise stop you. It needs a supervisor who can introduce you to others in the field, even if they live in other countries or on other continents!

That may exist as a culture in Open Source, but does not exist in Mathematics without universities - and I don't know how you make it exist for research that is hard (impossible?) to commercialise.

To do solid research requires a lot of time. Even if you don't need any expensive facilities, you still need a home and to eat, etc. If the government decided to fund maths PhDs directly, they'd need a ready-made corpus of people who could decide who gets funding. They'd need people who have published and who have proved that they know what they're talking about. These people would likely gather in central organisations where they could supervise their charges and collaborate on further publications to prove their bona fides. They may even teach lower level courses to bring in some extra money and share their administrative costs with similar worthies in other subjects...

You can rail against the cost, the prestige, and the lack of faculty positions all you like. Until your proposed solution is more than "do it at home and put it on the internet!", nothing will change.
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The argument made here is flawed. There is still plenty of "low hanging fruit" today but the cost/barrier of entry is significantly higher than it was in the early days.

"People in the future will look at their holodecks, and wearable virtual reality contact lenses, and downloadable avatars, and AI interfaces, and say, oh, you didn’t really have the internet"

Seems to me like even if developing a holodeck is looked at as an iterative process comprised of many small innovations it's still a lot more daunting and less feasible for a small team to do than building an online book store in the 90s.

With that said the internet is obviously in its infancy and the opportunities now are indeed boundless.