skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're quoting an online retailer there, not a brick and mortar retailer, so you're already off to a bad start. Furthermore, what he says only applies to the "card-not-there" scenario, i.e. online retailers accepting credit card payments without the physical card. But brick and mortar retailers do in fact have the physical card. Assuming the brick and mortar retailer complied with the rules of their credit card processing agreement, in the card-present scenario, the retailer is not liable for the fraud, although I believe they may be charged a fee.

Bottom line: you're blindly trusting the word of the operator of a sketchy online retailer and claiming that what he says applies to brick-and-mortar stores when it doesn't.
I'm thinking of trying to recreate this - does anyone know if this is covered by a patent?
"This wouldn't look nearly as good if they had to play it at normal speed."

For normal speed you wouldn't need this :)
but my choice is IntelliJ IDEA with Ruby plug-in

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/ruby_rails.html
Firefox with Disconnect should now load correctly. Needed some additional error handling to handle when "ga" is undefined.
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Honestly, I still think that 12MB for a system like Borland C is overkill.
Exactly my thought as well.

I believe we keep telling us stories about a "free will" because we're afraid of that thought because we misinterpret it. Most people answer unreflected things like "that would be like living in a prison". Also we have learned to judge everything and everyone. How can we expect people to completely drop all kinds of judgement?
They may have known they were dealing with Ebola, but they didn't have the equipment or facilities to take all the steps necessary to prevent transmission.
Because they drop frames, they aren't stabilizing they are throwing away frames that move too much.

This is good stuff, I like it, but it isn't as wow as the structure from motion work.

And for the folks saying just up the framerate, that won't really help because the head motion needs to back in the same position as a previous frame. It is a function of how much and at what frequency the motion you want to remove is.

This was on my todo list, item removed.
Yes, it's altona nord.
I love the part where he describes the heat sink as "meh" - it's true that it's probably the least efficient heat sink ever seen! But they had space (and surface) available in the console, so why not...
- "so your remedy is to cause further harm by sending the clients to jail?" -
The goal is not to imprison men, it's to change the cultural environment which permits and supports prostitution. The sanctions vary and incarceration is not the first priority, other sanctions include fines and participation in workshops in which the clients hear about the damages that prostitution inflicts on the people in it.

- "If there are women being forced into sex then there are laws already to protect them" -
According to a comprehensive study held in numerous countries, "71% of respondents had been physically assaulted while in prostitution, 63% had been raped, and 68% were said to meet the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder. ... 89% of the respondents wished to leave prostitution, but lacked the means to do so."[1]

- "Why do you feel its necessary to tell other people how to live their lives?"
Liberty is the freedom to live your life however you choose as long as you do not harm others. Clients harm people in prostitution.

-"Who are you to decide whether a woman and a man can agree to exchange money and sex?"
I'm someone who cares about the women, men and children in prostitution. Who are you and who do you care about?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Farley#Studies_of_sex_... [there's a link to the full study]
This is a very common logical fallacy. Because the concept of "right" itself was created by society itself thanks to deterministic events, to be used in practical applications to judge and be judged, where that judgement is itself deterministic, so your concept of "wrong" and "right" would have to be a different one that the one used by society in order to say "no of us can be wrong".

That can sound confusing so I will put a very simple example: A fireman is on front of a fire. The fire needs to be extinguish even if you think the fire is not to be blame for what it did because after all is only a fire, it didn't do it on purpose, but regardless it needs to be extinguish. The same happens with people, they are judged for what they do, for practical purposes, when they commit a crime, they are just like a fire that needs to be put out. But not with water by with judgement.
These days you should use Splitwise: https://www.splitwise.com/

(Not affiliated, just a happy user. And there's a nice network effect if more people use it, so more people should use it.)
As a regular CTF competitor for over 4 years now, I cannot emphasize the value in simply playing CTFs if you really want to learn this stuff. So many people seem to think there's a secret manual laying around that teaches you all that is involved in going from a compiled binary to a shell. The referenced book should be used as a resource for when you come across a new topic and need some help. If you want to get started here are some useful links.

http://smashthestack.org/

https://ctftime.org/

http://overthewire.org/wargames/

http://repo.shell-storm.org/CTF/

https://github.com/ctfs/write-ups
If you want humanity to progress then you should encourage critical and rational reflection. It's the capacity of thinking which society often lacks.
There was a proposal a couple of years ago to allow giant advertising signs somewhere in the most blighted part of Market St, San Francisco. I saw a talk by one of the proponents (who just happened to own one of the buildings there), and he assured us that giant flashing signs would turn Market St into a Times Square or Piccadilly Circus. I was skeptical, but hey, I guess it couldn't hurt.
Profile of Charles Singer, the British historian of science and medicine who was commissioned by Imperial Chemical Industries in the late 1940s to create the first (?) encylopedia of technology, http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/3219/1/Charles_Singer_and_the...

Singer's volumes are not easily available, but Frances & Joseph Gies covered post-Roman medieval technology from 500 AD to 1500 AD in Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages. It's available on Kindle, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=877
Unlikely, but that would've been cool. The monopoly of HTML etc. on the web has to be stopped somehow.
I wasn't referring just to your comment; I've been hearing this as the default response to just about every rational concern since Trump started tweeting and it became a de facto left/right issue.

Obviously he's a moron, but the response from the other side of the debate has been almost as one-dimensional.
On the other hand, the burden of proof is on the library writer who creates the typeclass instance, not on the end user - possible largely thanks to purity - whereas programmers may expect to re-implement various patterns by hand.
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> Managing people is absolutely, 100% for at least the last 10 years, being aggressively and successfully being reduced to low skill labor.

I absolutely agree. One of the startups I'm CTO at builds software that enables exactly that; however, it also results in new jobs being created at a higher-level (similar to the situation with robots I suppose).
The technology is already available via photosynth: http://photosynth.net/preview/view/df869f96-2765-4939-8eb3-2...

It appears that what they're doing here is simply extracting keyframes from the video, using them to compose a photosynth, then converting the autoplay of the synth to a video. If you load a photosynth and press "c", you can even see a the same point clouds and scene reconstruction seen on the research page.

Source: I worked on photosynth.
Ah, y'see that's why we, in Australia, stick our asylum seekers in camps in different countries like Nauru and Papua New Guinea, where whatever problems they cause are safely out of sight.

My opinion is that the world seriously needs a new refugee convention to prevent economic migrants from abusing the refugee system. The governing idea should be that you can't use refugee status to move from a poorer country to a significantly richer one. If you're a genuine refugee then moving to a safer country with similar per-capita-GDP is something you should be happy with.
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I'm surprised that people are so determined (heh) to pull determinism out of quantum mechanics. I don't believe in metaphysical souls or free will per se, but I also accept randomness in quantum mechanics (relational interpretation).
> I know plenty of talented Canadians and Europeans who don't want to live in the US due to the current political climate.

Don't worry, Obama will be gone in '16!
Here's the thing: most people get the flu by contact via "bodily fluids". You cough, sneeze, drool, wipe your nose, and so on, then touch something. Someone later touches the same thing (or you), then touches their face, and the transmission has occurred. There have been papers on this.

It's easy to get fixated on aerosol transmission because it's fancy, but "bodily fluids" are a damned effective vector for the everyday transmission of a virus.

(Also, HIV is a pretty poor model for this. As viruses go, HIV is pretty hard to transfer -- even heterosexual sex has a low rate of seroconversion.)
If we look at the history, the price of books were never depending on their _contents_; instead, it were always determined by their _production_.

This is what hardback books are designed to make you think, but they are not in fact significantly more expensive to produce - they are a way of encouraging customers who can afford to to pay a lot more for a slightly better product.

With digital revolution, the book production costs drop essentially to zero.

Printing costs are not the major costs in the product of a book, half the money usually goes to the distributor (shop or Amazon), a small amount to the author, a small amount to the printer, and then the rest to the publisher who pays other staff like editors, proofreaders, designers etc.

Amazon is being disingenuous here (aside from misquoting Orwell). They want to become the publisher, and capture more of the money for each book. They offer authors a better deal than most publishers though, which is to be applauded, and thankfully have not reached a monopoly status yet - they are still attempting to abuse their position in the market to bully publishers and authors to accept their terms though, which is pretty ugly. For example currently on KDP, unless you accept that Amazon is the only outlet in the world for your book, you can't sell below 1.99, or you only get 30% royalty, Amazon keeps 70%. You can't give away books for free even for a limited time unless you accept Amazon exclusivity, etc. The incentives are getting stronger and stronger to only distribute via Amazon, which is quite scary for authors.

Amazon is not interested in very low priced books, and wants to capture this market completely, so that they have complete power over authors and customers. At that point I very much doubt their incentives will be aligned to keep prices low. That is not a whole different issue, it is at the heart of this battle - authors and publishers see Amazon's obvious ambitions to own them completely and rampant abuse of their existing power, and don't like it.

This article is a good summary of the situation, reminding us that no corporation has our interests at heart, and when they say they do, it's usually a smokescreen:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/08/09/amazon-gets-increasing...
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>which by definition is everyone but the native Americans

Uhh, you do know Native Americans aren't actually native, right? They're from Africa like the rest of us.
Yes. Have tried it. Looks good to me.
You can apply for a Green Card while you are on an L1 visa.
The application is Qt.
Nope, the code is mean to run in Real-Mode, a mode where registers are 16 bits and memory is severely segmented.

No to mention the direct access to the VGA which modern Operating System forbid.
Yeah, I was raised in Vancouver and like the lifestyle enough, but moving back is a complete non-starter. Vancouver's tech salaries are lower than other Canadian metro areas, which are themselves far lower than US salaries.

I'm literally making 3x more here in NYC than a similar position in Vancouver. And housing prices (purchase, not rent) are scarily not that much lower than Manhattan.

The general small size of the tech industry also means that if you don't like this underpaid arrangement you're not exactly a very abundant job market. Vancouver is a huge employer's market, which works out great for founders, but not great for employees.

Vancouver is a lovely city - I have a lot of sentimental attachments to it - but the economics of it for employees is nonsense.
Is there a good reversing toolset for linux? For instance this book recommends a windows only tool called Ida.
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No need to do that, because Singapore and many other airports have screening at each individual gate. You go through a metal detector right before the waiting area at your specific gate.
DBAs must be proactive in order to keep their jobs
I take 1 second time lapse photos and feed them at 60 frames per second for a 60x speed up. I'm not sure if you've made time lapse videos before, but it wouldn't make sense to film something at 1 fps and then play it back at 1 fps.
You send letters to your brother Theo, cut off your ear and hope to be recognized as a genius someday.

You say "you're not the managerial type so leadership positions... requiring people management are a far stretch for my natural abilities" and you say you are "ready for something great for the long haul, primarily doing Product management."

Product management requires an enormous amount of work with people, so this makes me question your assessment. You don't explain what it is you actually do, but you're sure you're 500% better than any salary anyone can pay you.

If you're really that gifted, a consulting company should want you... but that requires being able to work with people too.

Guess you're destined to go down as a misunderstood genius. Unless of course you're not as brilliant as you believe.
Image recognition for text and local languages support for India.
Real-time Image recognition for text and supported local Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil and Kanada. Sample Web-app implemented in IIM-Bangalore Hackathon Event support UI for both desktop and mobile.
The team bought the old McDonalds for use as a hackerspace, and also to prevent it from being torn down.

Their $159,602 crowdfunding on http://www.rockethub.com/42228 paid for necessary equipment and services, the most expensive being access to large radiotelescopes to transmit commands and receive telemetry.
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Other people have answered this well, but I think that the question of determinism vs. indeterminism is essentially the question of an ordered universe vs. a random one (or picking a point between those two extremes). If that's the case, then what we are usually talking about when we speak about somebody acting freely or having free will has little to do with that discussion.

To get to your question about what free will would be then: I'm not a huge fan of a pure concept of free will, though we talk about people acting more or less freely often enough that it's worth thinking about. I think then that a useful definition of "free will" might simply be a measure how much somebody's actions are able to be in accord with their desires. How an outside observer would ever gauge that as well as what actions, desires, and the two being in accord would mean are obviously murky philosophical territory, but it's pretty late.

To answer at least one obvious rejoinder, actions and desires can certainly be reduced to particles and the like, but they are phenomena that have qualities we wouldn't ascribe to particles. For instance, it makes little or no sense to say that a particle has a nice smile. In much the same way, we generally mean something different when we say a person wants to do something and a particle wants to do something.
There are so many half truths and lies in this story. I wanted to mention just this one:

"Until now, when NASA wanted to conduct research, they’d collect data and disappear with it for a few months before publishing. But the data from ISEE-3 is going to be available to anyone who wants access to it."

This is grotesquely wrong.

Plenty of space weather data is available in near real time form, as soon as it is received by ground stations. E.g., for relevant imagery, http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/, but many other space weather sources are available. The time stamps on the images at the above link should be only a few hours old. Those are quick look products (jpegs), but the science formats are also available, for free.

Significant Earth science data (https://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/rapid-re...) are also available free, within hours of receipt, for anyone, including disaster responders.

Other data is broadcast directly, with open formats, so any ground station underneath can receive it directly. ("Direct Broadcast," http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=565052...).

The people involved in these programs have spent a lot of effort in engaging disaster responders (http://www.nasa.gov/applied-sciences/disasters.html#.U-hc5WK...) to make end to end data services that will actually be useful.

Sure, there are other disciplines in which space data are sat on by the PI -- planetary missions, cosmology. The reason is that the data is not well understood and there would be too many bogus results. But even, say, for Mars data, there has been a lot of outreach to make sure both US and international scientists can be part of the team and share in initial results. This slower timeline is special to these disciplines. The article is making a broad statement that is not true.
There is propellant left, evidenced by the heating rate of the propellant tanks, but the pressurizing nitrogen has leaked, so it's unusable.

Instead of continuing the mission around the preferred Earth-Sun L1 orbit, they'll collect science data from the Earth-like orbit it's predicted to land in instead.
I was including that in my calculations: I based the robot price at $30k, but that leaves room to include another $18k in yearly expenses ($1500 a month or $50 a day).

This may of course be on the low side, but I also figured in only working 250 days of the year. It's likely that uptime of a commercial product would be somewhat better than this.

My main point was that we're surprisingly close to the point where it's cheaper (in just a wage-versus-cost-of-ownership sense) to have robots replace more general purpose workers.
Not comparable and the bandwidth cost would be insane.
Yep, I've been following this work for awhile now. You can also do much better than that with incremental execution. See:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1892...

Frameworks like React take a very indirect approach, when it turns out that the immediate simple approach might be more viable.

For some reason, I'm getting downvotes even though my enthusiasm was genuine. The mystery of hackernews.
> if you ask those in US they might say for worse.

Rather than ask J Random Dude in the US, you should probably ask someone with a modicum of expertise in the matter, such as an economist, who will tell you that adding people is generally a net positive, rather than a negative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

60% of the largest high tech companies were founded by immigrants or their children: http://pando.com/2013/05/29/mary-meeker-highlights-us-immigr...
I've used StumpWM before and enjoyed it. It's pleasantly surprising to see how much development seems to have happened on it in the last year.
I bet that would make a deep rhythmic noise as it operated.
Ask HN: Where is the PHP community?
Where can I find PHP conferences or communities similar to what python has PyCon https://us.pycon.org/2015/. Where is all the great resources for Php where people can learn and understand the language more. I feel like a lot of 2014 + is going to be more about Python and Ruby and less focus on PHP but I could be wrong.

Share some resources, videos, projects, tutorials or cool things happening in the PHP community.
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Same here.
The good old days spent hanging in Fravia+, Woodmann and RETeam's forums..
EDIT: After clicking through to their website, I found this updated technique which shares one principal author that seems to work even better: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~yushuen/VideoStabilization/

Wow. Actually, if they that add that technique to the mix it might solve the deformed "pop"-effect you see in some videos, like the deformed building you see around 16 seconds into this videos:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype...
Was used in Unity's editor, I don't think that this is the case today.

I believe the project was migrated to github recently, but it has been around for awhile.
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It does matter, because determinism generally (but not always) depends on causation. People making (determined) predictions would still influence the (determined) future actions of other people. Punishing people who acted in a (determined) way would still affect the (determined) actions of other people. Lived experience allows for the possibility of a number of different ontological theories, which is a large part of why there are so many different and conflicting ones.
Great idea but hard to enforce, unless the country is Israel or an island. It's amazing how many migrants are trying to get illegally across the English Channel from France to the UK because of better benefits and jobs.

Meanwhile, Yazidi and Syrian refugees will have to pay thousands to smugglers or scale barbed wire fences to enter a safe country.
> Poor people already know this, which is why inner-city emergency rooms are overwhelmed with things like "my baby has a cough"

The idea that poor children are just left to fend for themselves on basic healthcare like treating a cough in the US is blatantly false.

Poor people who know about the emergency rooms also know that normal healthcare is available for poor children for free from the government, which they get and then take their kids to the doctor like everyone else when they have a cough.

Seriously, the hysteria around people not having healthcare in the US is just incredible relative to the actual facts on the ground. Even if you believe Obama's "40 million without healthcare" claim (I don't), that's just 12% of the country, and the two most vulnerable populations—children and the elderly–were fully covered by the state already without the Obamacare regs.

There are real problems with the US healthcare system; we don't need to start spouting nonsense like poor children can only get a cough treated at the emergency room for free.
It's not Windows only

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/debugger/index.shtml

it's still somewhat expensive though.
Truth is, that out of the huge amount of trash coming from BuzzFeed it's hard to tell what is an ad and what is not. So, considering the quality involved, it's a smart move.