skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How 2 of them were caught recently by a Mumbai citizen - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Mumbaikar-bea....

Given that non-productive responses (false positives) are harmful to the scammers, one can think of spamming them with false positive responses as well, right?
It was because Tesla would receive the full EV credit amount in California, which has to be paid by other car manufactures if their vehicles don't meet emissions guidelines.

California appears to be phasing out that requirement (ability to swap the pack), which is why battery swap stations are no longer being pursued aggressively.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/05/business/la-fi-elect...

http://gas2.org/2014/07/02/ev-battery-swap-stations-may-be-a...
I'm on Win7, but it looks exactly like the classic Win2K desktop. Grey bars, bottom taskbar, no pins, classic and functional.
I wrote a script which does basically this (takes a service name and a master password, concats them, and returns the SHA256 sum). It has a few added features, like checking the master password against a stored hash, flags for adding a symbol, capital letter, etc, and remembering your preferences for whether to use one.

You can find it on my github: https://github.com/alexbecker/useful-scripts/blob/master/gen...
Docker is a new technology- I suspect the poor support that Windows has for Docker is going to cut into Microsoft's bottom line in the coming years. Microsoft MUST support high performance docker in the next year or I suspect they are going to lose a lot of server customers soon, if Docker's exponential adoption curve continues for the foreseeable future.

Let's face it- Microsoft Windows is really just a legacy OS now... They either need to switch to a UNIX-derived kernel, which would allow for native docker support (amongst a million other advantages that come from sharing a sensible common infrastructure with other OSes) or they are headed for the dustbin of history pretty soon.
I believe Tesla is also working with utilities, where they can provide charge cost via an API, and the vehicle can initiate charging (or stop charging) based on the current price of power.
The way I think about economic systems is

- Level of business regulation. From left wing Marx style central production control to pure capitalism.

- Level of redistribution of wealth. From high taxation with redistribution of wealth and strong infrastructure for all citizens (think Sweden or Denmark) to low taxation.

I believe some form of capitalism mixed with somewhat aggressive redistribution of wealth would yield the highest productivity and the most humane society. This is basically how Sweden operates.
i like the ups and downs on different mediums. Digital goodtimes.
I prefer not to state for a number of reasons, but multiple large national chains, both department stores and clothing stores, ranging from discount to upscale. I finally found a menswear store which carried shirts that fit, mid-market, as well as dress slacks. Jeans turned up at a large retailer.

I also confirmed the sizing changes with multiple store managers at multiple retailers. It's possible they were lying, but comparisons with identically-sized earlier purchases showed that the sizes had been modified.

It's also become rather evident that numerous large retailers are in all sorts of hurt. Ironically it's the ones which are furthest behind the fashion curve which tend to have sizes that fit, but the in-store organization, stock, and staffing are abysmal at many of these.
That's referring to the time that the scammer needs if the recipient falls for their bait and initiates contact.

You only want the truly gullible to send that first email, or it would be a waste of time for the scammer to talk to all the people who wouldn't wire transfer their money a few days/weeks later.
Except that both emacs and vi can be (and have been) ported to a number of other operating systems. Systemd is tied specifically to the Linux kernel and the Linux infrastructure, in much the same way as launchd is in Mac OS 10.x. It might be more correct to say that in the emacs vs. vi debate, systemd is TextMate.
I was gonna try, but it's a lot of work to even begin deconstructing all the parts of this that are simply incorrect or ahistorical.
I believe that's the same with OS X. When I tried out Docker, you could only run on OS X with Vagrant.
It's worth noting that most/much of Facebook's usage is on mobile...all FB has to do is track when you left the app (via click-through) and when you resumed click-through. I assume this is pretty trivial if the 99%-use-case is the user hitting "back" on the FB app nav.

The same metric could be used for the web app too, in lieu of other sophisticated tracking code. Someone in the other thread mentioned that this would miss users who clicked through an article (or click-into-new-tab) and read it later, but I'd have to imagine that this is a very, very slim use-case.
It's like how they say certain intro classes for majors are difficult to weed out students who would eventually drop out if they reached harder classes. The logic there is students aren't wasting their time taking classes they won't use when they switch majors, and the classes won't be filled up before students who will make it all the way can enroll.

This way the scammer isn't doing a back and forth for 2-3 emails with those who would eventually realize its a scam. They immediately weed them out so they are spending time on those who will payoff.
Facebook is the only messaging system in widespread use with mandatory read receipts, as far as I know.

Which is damn useful, but also annoying.
Search engines do a similar thing to measure how good a search result is. If you come back right away and click on another result then that tells them the site wasn't what you were looking for.
On a scale of 1 to 8 I would rate this a 4. The idea is good but fails to deliver the execution I expect from a pre-workout glitch.
A big & tall store was one of the few where I found a few items which fit, but even there it was pretty iffy.

My body shape is athletic, not sedentary. This creates all world of problems.

The sizing was referring to shirts -- for slacks going up in waist size to allow for thigh fit eventually works. In shirts I simply run out of larger sizes to take in elsewhere.
Don't get too comfortable with that thought. At least a few years ago, plenty of victims came from developed countries such as the US and the UK. My guess is that it's caused by a combination of extreme gullibility and greed, and has little to do with the development level of your country.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/U-S-Internet-fraud-at-al...
I can't speak to most people: I'm personally aware there are multiple systems besides "Marx" and "Adam Smith". I would suspect that most people with at least a Wikipedia level of awareness of economic systems know this.
A lot to respond to, so I'll just make it brief. How to handle someone who has transition is well covered on the internet. Also very common on the internet is bad faith arguments that fret over whether they should or should not accept certain aspects of someone's transition. Simply put, just accept that transition and use basic phrases if you must refer to something about that person's past presentation. However, don't always bring it up or bring it up without need as you are basically performing a subtle misgendering of the person by always throwing that past presentation in the face of their current presentation, which is something that happens a lot for trans folks.
My cofounders and I developed Softcover [1] to support the business model used by the Ruby on Rails Tutorial [2], which combines "tech cred" with a profitable product business. I plan to reveal more detailed numbers soon, but I can say that the Rails Tutorial has made an order of magnitude more money than the "solid success" benchmark mentioned in the OP, despite (or perhaps because of) making the book available for free online. (I include revenues from screencasts, which are a lot of work to produce, but are much less work than initially writing the book.) Thus, with a platform like Softcover, authors don't have to choose between making money and building their brand.

[1]: http://www.softcover.io/

[2]: http://www.railstutorial.org/, but watch http://news.railstutorial.org/ for an announcement of 3rd edition draft chapters, which I plan to start releasing shortly
The hierarchy of IT needs
Chinese OS expected to debut in October
Building the AI for Hearthstone [video]
Interesting first comment:

>This caused conflicts with those who had the idea work consisted of doing as little as possible for the most finanical reward. Liberals.

The idea of a "work ethic" (a contradiction in terms if there ever was one!) is so pervasive in most people's minds that they label people who have appropriate capitalist values (i.e., work is a competition between the boss and worker; each attempts to maximize value for minimal cost) by their political enemies.
I was wondering how this thread got so long without anybody linking to ERB :)
Code for Education (with Pete Hunt  Instagram + Adraina O'Brien  Wolfram)
My daughters spend hours watching a hyperactive British guy scream at his Minecraft game. This, despite the fact that we limit the amount of time they spend online; it's the top priority for them.

When they play Minecraft, they make up their own commentary and they're dying to have their own show.
Al-Jazeera has some good ones too, and they often make specials that really dig into an issue and provide both sides of the issue as well as the context in which the whole thing is happening. I've been really impressed with their coverage in general.

But, and this is pretty annoying, a lot of the documentaries and stories that they play are not new and used to be available, along with a live stream of the channel, on their website. There's nothing wrong with recycling the content; that stuff takes awhile to make and demanding new editions every day is a big part of what made the 24-hour news cycle into what it is today. But now that I've cut the cord I do miss their coverage.

Anyways, AJ is a solid news channel so I wouldn't be too too upset about the acquisition.
I've wanted a replacement for CoreForce for quite some time:

http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=Wiki&actio...

It was a piece of security software modeled after OpenBSD's pf firewall which let you define policies around network, file, and registry access for applications. You were able to setup really fine-grained policies as well, for example to only allow access to the C:\temp directory for list and read access, but to deny delete access, and to ask the user to accept/reject if it tries to open a file for writing.

So instead of monitoring access after the fact, CoreForce let you actively grant permissions and would either silently deny or interactively prompt you when an application went outside the resources you granted.
I imagine there still needs to be some balance though. There's likely a set of people who may fall for the scam even if it's ridiculous, but if made slightly more ridiculous they suddenly would become more suspicious.
I'm not saying it isn't a win, necessarily. I'm saying we don't know if the training is what's causing the win, or if it's just the different demographic. Maybe you could get the exact same effect by either raising the driving age to 21, or keeping the driving age the same but otherwise (through fees and other burdens) discouraging people under 21 from driving. If that were the case (and I have no idea if it is or not), then you'd be unnecessarily costing people time and money, to no good effect.
Maybe people are rich because they choose to exercise rather than taking a pill; i.e. long term strategy and sacrifice rather than quick solutions. Who-da-thunk? Oh, and when is making $75k considered rich?
That's fun to play around with. One thing that could make it better: Use a text marker (say, the pipe symbol '|') to allow indicating the appropriate split point for the text. There's many non-four-word examples that don't split particularly well as it stands.
I owe my career to Halo 2
You first might want to start investigating COBRA. A good place to start is http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq-consumer-cobra.html.
It's either going to become one or the other isn't it? (not sarcastic)
There were a few such stores I'd shopped at, but between multiple take-overs and fashion changes, they ultimately stopped carrying old styles and cuts.

There is L.L. Bean and Lands' End, both of which have been very consistent over time, though I've found quality and finish of their clothing to be somewhat variable in recent years as well. The fact that it's mail order/online also makes sizing an issue.
As a point of interest: Nigerian scam letters predate the internet. In the eighties and nineties, colleagues in the oil and gas industry, and I, received frequent postal letters, postmarked Nigeria. One memorable one I received from a high official in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, requested I keep his proposal a secret so "that my image may not be dented." We assumed they combed the Oil and Gas Directory, or the Geophysical Directory, to obtain our names. Perhaps these original, truly Nigerian scams, were less sophisticated than the later Internet imitators, since targeting technical professionals isn't targeting the dumbest of the dumb. Or, the rich veins they mined were not yet depleted.
I'd like to see serious engagement with the subject rather than dismissal of the current state (such as you've done in your first paragraph). If it's so bad for people (it's not, in general - check out the Gates Foundation Letter from 2014), then we should be looking to improve it, not throw it out.

It's also interesting that circa the '30s, the capitalist/democratic system was also being tossed into the popular junkheap in favor of centralised/dictatorish systems. I don't mean to say this is like that, but there's a fun little similarity there on the surface.
Of course there's going to be conflicts when people have "appropriate" values while their "enemies" have "pervasive" ones.
Right, all contact after the first email has to be tailored to their responses. Even gullible marks usually need hours or days (at minimum) of building rapport before they're actually comfortable enough to be conned into executing a transaction. If conning people into directly handing you cash were automatable like phishing, you'd see a lot more con artists and a lot less of other crimes.
> What I don't understand is why Airbnb doesn't even make efforts to educate renters about this. They could easily add in an optional course for renters to take that educates people on rental etiquette, and awards you a 'Trusted Renter' designation in the same way they have Verified Phone and ID. A lot of people have never lived in an apartment building and simply have no idea what it is like to do so. Even a text message on check in that says try to be respectful of others in the building would go some way to stopping bad actors.

Redfin, the online RE brokerage, does classes in major metro areas for new home buyers. There isn't any reason Airbnb couldn't sponsor the same in New York. The cost would be minimal compared to the potential revenue. I hope someone from AirBNB reads your post!
That wasn't too hard, but obviously a non-programmer would have difficulty understanding it. But hopefully and quite possibly you're working on a better interface, so not much of a problem for the time being.

I've got another piece of feedback. The numbers seem to be off for me in the web app. I t says I have over 300 pages bookmarked, while the interface only displays 100(which seems like the more plausible number).

$5 is kind of a norm these days, and a lot of times, its too high, depending on what the service is. For instance, there's IRCCloud. Obviously, the interface is good, and they provide easy to use mobile apps, but all that doesn't justify $60 per year. Another example is Pocket. I really like their apps, but they also followed the $5 norm. They aren't providing me much value to be worth $5(every month) to me, so I switched over to Pinboard(which, by the way, is one of those few services doing pricing right these days). There are a lot of services that I can justify paying $5 per month for, cloud storage for instance, but a bookmarking service, nope.

If you want to see the kind of backlash Pocket got for pricing their Premium option at $5, just have a look at this thread on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/26qaif/pocket_intro...
Ballistic Squid, by any chance?
How can you say "most users don't know it's happening" when it's the first thing you see in the graph when you load the application?

We got your initial point..

I think you're just grinding metal at this point.. Ease down.. ease down...
Just in case Ralph Johnson is reading :)
There is http://devstream.tv/ which is just a listing of relevant twitch streams.
Back in 2000s, when companies were hiring Indian talent left right and centre, Java was main language being taught in new graduates. Learning Java, Core Java, Enterprise Java (whatever these words mean) meant you could get a job in US by hook or crook. Many families prospered this way. Back then, mediocre graduates learned only Java and for every kid in immediate family, extended family and neighborhood, Java became equivalent to Software. Today, since there is no other language that dominates the media so much as Java did, it is still being taught by the numerous coaching institutes in back alleys of Hyderabad, Bangalore, etc.

This I believe is where your knowledge comes from.
> your average start-up with at most a couple of Rails apps DOESN'T REALIZE THE VALUE-ADD YET.

FTFY.
I wish they'd try harder with their payments business - they could be in a position to compete with Stripe or Paypal but instead force users to pay with their Amazon accounts. That doesn't make sense as a business strategy to me.
Real-time Gaming with Node.js + WebSocket on Google Cloud Platform
...depends how much of the $1 billion is in stock, or is subject to meeting certain targets, etc.
Game programming and software architecture!

The full text is here: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
Here: http://www.quakejs.com/
> What does this article have to do with capitalism ? When you go right down to it communism, socialism, even mercantilism are all trying to maximize productivity and consumption.

Yes, a hundred times yes!!!

> I think it's probably the one thing all economic systems agree on.

There I will have to disagree. The three examples you provided are modern (post Enlightenment) economic systems. I am sure there are more examples along the world history, but it is far fetched to say it is common to all systems.

> Hell, even natural selection agrees on that.

Strongly disagree. Every instance of rapid growth in nature either finds a balance with the larger ecosystem or self destroys (by causing severe, though not necessarily terminal, damage to the larger ecosystem). Think cancer. Think the introduction of exotic species into isolated ecosystems. Think the depopulation of the Americas during the XV and XVI century due to European diseases.

> So is sleep an affront to them all ?

In a way, yes. At the end of the day, power means access to limited resources. Besides the obvious cases (access to actual raw materials), time is a limited resource for every human being. But you can expand in a way your life span by having other people do what you want instead of what they want. Ultimately, there is a hard limit on how much this vicarious life extension is available: Num_people_under_your_control * 24_hrs_per_day / biological_needs_factor. Given than people usually need in the ballpark or 8 hrs of sleep per day, this is the single largest component of biological_needs_factor.

Be it a capitalist robber baron, a communist dictator, or a mercantilist king, they get more power by having their people sleep less and work more... up to a point.
If you're asking yourself whether to apply or not, do it. Going through YC changed my life.

I'm happy to review applications, especially from international founders. Roberto at Glio dot com.
One thing I have been wanting to do for a long time about Nigerian like scams, but never got around doing it, was the following:
1. create some bait email accounts from gmail, yahoo, and so on, and expose them somewhere on internet so they get harvested by scammers.
2. write a dumb program that is able to do some primitive parsing of the emails from the scammers, and reply to them. For example, let's say the email from the scammer is:

Dear friend,
I am the widow of the former Prime Minister of Nigeria and I need your help to get out of Nigeria where my life is threatened, along with the $50M currently in my bank account. If you help me I am willing to give you 30% of that money, please reply me to see how we can proceed.
Regards,
Mrs Mary Noscam

The program would have just to reply something like:

Dear Mary,
I am very interested to help you, how can I help you to get out of Nigeria?
Regards,
Mr John Victim.

The point would be to make the scammer spend 10 minutes to read the reply and answer to it. After couple of emails, he will probably realize that he has been wasting his time with a bot, and just move on, but with lots of emails responding, he will have much less time to deal with actual victims, making his time worthless. I think writing a bot that is able to reply to the scammer is quite doable, since:

1. There are example of bots having actual conversation, such as SHRDLU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU) that was recently submitted here.
2. The answer doesn't have to be very elaborate.

Now I think I got blocked by the fact of having to make the bot be able to receive and send emails... maybe I will start that project some day...
As nice as that would be, I don't see this happening until gaming gets popular on unix based platforms. Ths would be because then it becomes easier for consumers to flee to another OS. With gaming predominantly on Windows platforms for PCs, gamers have no choice but to use Windows to play most of the games they're interested in, which locks them into Windows.
The other nearly-identical HN story has a nearly-identical comment. Did you read the article? It says something quite different:

One way is to look at how long people spend reading an
article away from Facebook. If people click on an article
and spend time reading it, it suggests they clicked
through to something valuable. If they click through to a
link and then come straight back to Facebook, it suggests
that they didn’t find something that they wanted. With
this update we will start taking into account whether
people tend to spend time away from Facebook after
clicking a link, or whether they tend to come straight
back to News Feed when we rank stories with links in them.
Amazon's purchase of Twitch is now actually confirmed.
(edit: I don't want to sound like I'm contradicting the parent post)
I first did a system like this for a FRP-like system called SuperGlue back in 2007:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2149

However, I was disappointed because I couldn't use signal abstractions in the implementation of this system; instead I invented something that was the beginning of the work presented here.

Once you have effects (implicit or explicit), something like Glitch will work for that system. However, it is very important to make sure effects are de-serialized syntactically (they basically need to be wrapped up in commutative monads), otherwise replay isn't well defined and you'd need to go with more of a self-adjusting computation approach that preserves partial orders.
Also playable by itself at http://kripken.github.io/boon/boon.html
Has anyone told Microsoft that new technology companies don't bother to support their outdated OS anymore?