skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless, of course, the things you are doing on the internet are wrong and misogynistic, in which case people are sending you articles and comments for a reason.

Fortunately no one sends me anything like that, they just end up in my news feed as I have many friends involved in feminism/minority movements, and because local media loves to spin everything as gender issues.

> Certainly if you are a man who doesn't do the things someone is complaining about, then you have nothing to worry about.

Well, even if one has nothing to worry about personally, it's just tiring and demotivating to see all those broad accusations all the time. sigh
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the drawback for me is the barrier of entry for a small company. You'll have to deal with 50 different laws.

I do like the idea of a loosely federated and decentralized system as you say but nothing is perfect.
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> A form of government that doesn't protect the rights of the minority from the tyranny of the majority concensus is a dangerous thing.

Are you implying this is possible without blockchain technology, but impossible with? I can't imagine what attribute of an unforgeable ledger would do that.

People who believe in the mythic notion of "social contracts" should embrace blockchains with open arms. Minorities now have a concrete method to create enforceable agreements among each other. Isn't that what government should be -- an agreement amongst the people?
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This is paranoia.

Much more likely that your card was flagged as bing possibly compromised by some other factor than your spending behavior.

For example If a a bank sees that many cards used at a particular retailer end up having fraudulent charges associated with them, they may suspect a problem with that retailer. They may then re-issue all of the other cards used at that retailer to be safe.

Also, people assume that because they sometimes get a call/email asking them if a purchase they made was valid, that they always know about how their credit card is used. This is not the case. Obvious fraud may be declined on the spot (think brute-forcing a CVV code, or a brand new retailer in Vietnam processing 100 cards while your last charge was in Kentucky). Some charges may go through but be flagged, reviewed, found to be fraud, removed from your account, and your card re-issued. Both cases are issues between banks and card processors, and may not necessarily show up on your transaction overview.

The likelihood of this happening is so much higher than the bank tracking your phone, that I would need a lot more evidence before I'd believe it.
The question is which browsers you invest your time and money supporting. If the vendor doesn't support a browser, it becomes increasingly hard to justify investing your resources on it and a single block-list makes everything consistent.
A green thread is a "lightweight" thread, meaning a thread that is managed by a user level process, not by the OS. This main advantage is you avoid OS thread context switch time, which is comparatively very large. The disadvantages are:

- you have to balance load across true OS threads to take advantage of multiple CPUs. (You often pin an OS thread per CPU.)

- if you make a call to a blocking OS function you have no way to pre-empt your lightweight thread.

HTH.

Update: "you have to balance load" --> I mean the green thread library implementer. Users of a lightweight threading library typically don't concern themselves with this, though they might if performance becomes an issue.
I'm not so concerned. Because it will remain binary compatible, people will be able to choose which language version to use on a library-by-library basis (as is the case today). So it's a lot different from, say, trying to mix two versions of Python. As long as the APIs remain presentable in both forks, it may end up being fairly transparent to the end user.

Merge compatibility is an even bigger bonus, as it should actually help push along the Typesafe compiler, in parallel with the feature roadmap Typesafe is focusing on, because we'll be able to see innovations actually working in production to prove them out.

The only big question mark to me is what this foundation will look like, and whether it can meaningfully contribute to the ecosysytem.
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Effective C++ by Scott Meyers

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Exciting release ! Could have been 2.0 to me with new migration system and specially with the App loading revamp.

Is it me or AppConfig.ready() looks like a great place to put signals setup ?
You may find it interesting that BillGuard is developing a new anti-fraud feature that (I believe) compares your phone's location to where your cards are used.
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Dragging around a mattress to protest Columbia U's rape response
I'm assuming that most of the pitfalls I wrote about a couple of years ago are still applicable today, with either South or Django's own migrations:

http://andrewingram.net/2012/dec/common-pitfalls-django-sout...
This is an excellent product built by a talented marketer, I wish it all the luck in the world. Great for a quick pairing session.
I know I'm going to get called on Godwin's law and/or hyperbole for this one, but this is the exact route Hitler took (using the Reichstag fire) to escalate his authority from Chancellor to Fuhrer.

[edit]

to clarify, the reason I made this comment is to note a case where this strategy has been used in history, as mentioned by the parent post. Not to compare Obama/Bush to Hitler.
From outside the byzantine complexity of the USA having 52 different sets of law and an overly complex tax system is all downside.
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http://tonypolito.com/zodiac.pdf
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B76hkhc6PJvJbWVpMUUx...
Why ISIS is our problem
I wonder what the power drain would be. That keyboard can probably operate on a couple of AA batteries - would running a USB hub take more?

In any case, I don't see this as a main keyboard replacement. But I do have a crappy computer that sits under my TV to play video/Netflix/etc. - this would be ideal for it.
shut up and take my money!!!
I'm not adventured, nor do I care to give my opinion on the issue, but two proposed solutions are:

1) Fixing the commons by eliminating them - grant property rights to the users which align their incentives with a longer-term health of the "thing" and allow markets to emerge.

Free Market Environmentalism has a few examples of this working in the real world: http://www.amazon.com/Free-Market-Environmentalism-Terry-And...

2) Allow local communities to form their own rules on how to manage their own resources, and monitor each other.

Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom (winner of the "Nobel in Economics" by her life-long work on these issues) has empirical data of cases from Kenya to LA: http://www.amazon.com/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutio...
Sweet. I will check this out later this month.
>Somehow Europe, Canada, Japan, etc, all make health care work but we can't.

The countries you mentioned largely have outsourced their national defence concerns to the United States, allowing them to have defence budgets of <10% of spending while the USA's defence spending stands at 17% of spending. That is not irrelevant to this discussion.
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Well, as long as you ignore all the cultural and social elements that got him into that position in the first place. Oh, and the $44.
Seconded. This is a great idea, please submit it here for discussion.
Oh, whoops
This is the key result in this conversation; this should be higher. Basically: if we insists on Deutsch's causal fixed point propety of CTCs, they do not give you P=NP, they give you P=PSPACE. That is, all problems which can be solved in polynomial space can now be solved in polynomial time, and vice versa.

So for a time-travel computer to give P=NP or P=O(1), it would have to violate Deutsch's causality criterion. I have almost zero knowledge of either field, but it sounds to me like it makes Deutsch's model more plausible.
Or maybe:

"I am the Eschaton; I am not your God.
I am descended from you, and exist in your future.
Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky
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The problem is capital. It takes a lot of capital to flip homes. Most of the people I know are in a pretty good spot financially, but almost none of them could afford to flip homes unless they got a really good deal on a teardown and they did all the renovation manually (and you're certainly not going to become a millionaire in one year at that pace).
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Then you're the sort of person who is not necessarily close to their phone. If banks are in fact doing this sort of thing, they surely take into account past behaviour to compute the probability that unexpected behaviour is related to credit card theft.

Maybe they don't even know that they are doing it. Maybe they just trained some neural network to attain certain levels of precision/recall. Maybe they feed the network with all the signals they can put their hands on. Things are not this simple anymore. Which also means that assuming phone tracking is a huge jump to conclusions, of course.
The battery time is probably my biggest gripe with it as well. I keep the backlight continuously on at the lowest setting (it turns off when inactive), and I think I get around 3-4 days of heavy usage (note: ballpark estimate!). The battery is also not (easily) replaceable. So while it's no problem from day to day (and you could keep the USB cable connected at all times if you wanted too), it's quite poor compared to regular wireless keyboards. The USB cable is only for charging btw, so I've played with the thought of gluing one of those superthin Qi pads to the back of the keyboard :)
What about setting up show-rooms everywhere so people can see the product, but only sell online? Would that get around all these local dealership laws?
>Running OSX on standard hardware, Apple OEM or not, is not very hard...

So... instead of just buying a portable bluetooth keyboard I need to build a hackintosh? Oh okay.

The Apple fans here never cease to amuse me with their asinine suggestions.
Comcast bets on hyper-local by reviving EveryBlock
>"which look exactly the same to humans but neural networks can't classify the images correctly anymore. What does that imply on the ability to generalize?"

Usually that means that the model is experimenting overfitting, and that's actually one challenge on any machine learning model.
-Backs up all of his computer, changes all passwords and enables 2FA everywhere- It's in times like this I feel good I'm a nobody in the internet.
> What happened to free market economy?

An effective advertising slogan for "the West" during the Cold War, also a nice ingredient for speeches and trade pacts..
One thing that annoys me with this, and I keep noticing time and time again from people who are presumably more used to lecturing selected groups than writing for public consumption, is that there seems to be an assumption throughout the text that the people being referred to within it are not going to be part of its audience, despite it being posted on a publicly accessible web page.
Imagine you're a time traveler from the future, and you've read all about the NSA from 2009. Would you want to risk making your presence known?

What do you think the government would do if they got a hold of a real life time traveler?
Great article, I love seeing finished projects with walk throughs.

We've decided to move to Ember from Backbone instead of going to Angular, articles like this make me doubt my decision!
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IEX, Upstart Trading Platform, Raises $75M in New Financing
Nice thread, thanks.

Checkout impromptu meeting of the "ScalaWags" recorded last night [1]. As usual it's a bit of a meandering, relaxed discussion, but they do manage to get on point at times re: Typelevel forking Scala and other issues pertinent to Scala's future.

[1] https://plus.google.com/events/c574immvc8319s8ks2a8brjqt34
That's just how employment is handled here in Portugal. Something along the lines of: "Don't want to enjoy our amazing company culture and below average compensation? There are dozens who would, for even less pay".
What happened to free market economy? How are americans totally fine with a company being denied its ability to sell its product to its end users?

What happened was: The car makers used their position of power over the dealerships - power they had as a result of the free market economy, more or less - to screw them over. The dealers fought back with custom legislation.

It's been this way for 70+ years now. The "free market economy," then as now, turns out to be its own worst enemy.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/04/dealers-choice-...
I use Akka Scala/Java JVM actor framework daily, and it manages to get by without bytecode weaving. The lack of type safety is irritating, though.
Stupid question: what's the encryption used on this?
What's my other practical alternative? Some $80 box at Best Buy riddled with security holes? While I agree that using something like pfsense is probably superior, its also fair to say that if you understand basic linux administration, you can roll out a firewall that's a lot more secure than the never updated boxes everyone else uses, and enjoy features like ssh forwarding, openVPN, etc.
I've taught beginning programming courses at the college level to adults for more than 20 years. In the early 1990s we used Pascal, specifically Turbo Pascal for Microsoft DOS and Windows. It worked very well for me as a language and environment for learning to program. After two courses in Pascal, students went on to C, C++, and Java.

My university has since changed the curriculum so that the first language of instruction is C++, leaving out objects and classes until after the first three courses. I experience and share the frustrations of beginning students wrestling with the minutiae of C++ coding, which leaves less time for seeing the "big picture" of programming. These struggles drain a lot of the energy which can be generated by making progress learning to program.

Some of the rationale for dropping Pascal, I think, was that "nobody" in the real world used it. This was untrue, of course, but the Pascal community didn't have the self-promotion and media buzz that Java did.

I find it curious that two languages deliberately designed for ease of instruction -- Pascal and Scheme -- should have such a bad reputation in some quarters.
Here ya go: http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=cs533

I haven't used it, but I have looked at it for the same reason.
Jack Monroe has a political agenda behind her claims.

Note that she voluntarily gave up a full time public-sector job (emergency services dispatcher) with a decent salary to go on benefits.

Why does she have a child if she doesn't have the income to support them? Where is the father?
Just to confirm this: Turbo Pascal (at least the versions I had contact with) allowed for inline assembler and (as I read on Wikipedia page) machine code. You can't get much "closer to the metal" than this.
Nice but keys are so tiny -- why dont anyone get inspired by IBM/Lenovo non-chicklet keyboards ??? sometimes OLD is GOLD and Simplicity is blessings :)
It would also be interesting to see a model where these agents are allowed to combine to form monopolies and cartels. To see how fast it happens.
Why does the US government insist on being an "inefficient dinosaur"? Stacks of paper forms processed by hand? It seems as though the process is designed to be as inefficient as is possible. Perhaps the US government delays paying the war veterans on purpose because it saves money. 9 months of being unemployed and disabled with possible mental trauma from war:

>In the past 5 years, the number of vets who’ve died before their claim has even been processed has tripled.

...can be restated:

>In the past 5 years, the number of vets to whom the US government has avoided paying disability (due to their death) has tripled.
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No. It takes at least $6.8 million to be in the 1% [0]. She was only offered $1 million plus another house and some medical care.

[0] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732330040...
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I have personal experience with this from working with multiple single mothers while working retail as a starving student and the most effective way to get single mothers out of poverty is to get rid of the single part of their description. Patching the symptoms temporarily didn't seem to help much.

I'm not talking about some retroactive guilt shaming idiocy or a very niche dating website (although I've seen that work...) just from personal observation one chick and one kid in one apartment is just doomed, absolutely doomed, but you get three of them in a house having each others back and watching each others kids when they have to, and they get somewhere, at least better than the one trying to go it alone. And from direct personal observation, usually way the heck too much interpersonal "reality TV show" class of drama. Maybe the key is fixing the drama, somehow.

I know this sounds hideously 2009-ish but a social network for single moms is probably not the worst idea ever. Once you organize them, your list of three problems kind of takes care of itself.
Well, my point was more that I do want a single password storage solution across the board. I use Linux, Windows, OSX, and Android regularly. I tried 1Password in the past but dropped it as it didn't have a Linux client. I now use KeePass as I can sync my DB across all my devices.
Yeah, Mikrotik routers are insanely feature-rich. I got RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN (Level5 licence). I would recommend RB951G-2HnD (Level4) actually, because I have no use for SFP optical cage or 5 extra 100mbit ports (both have 1+4 gigabit ports). Both run on Atheros AR9344 600MHz CPU.
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It is a human rights violation because printing more money steals value from currency holders. Stealing is immoral.
Dude, if IE6 is still around, there's not chance email is going out of business any time soon. Period. However, with the rising of new communication channels, we might get better at communicating certain pieces of information over time, that's what it's all about, anyway.
>would running a USB hub take more?

Well, USB spec (pre USB 3.0 anyway) is 5v @ 100mA per port.
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If they can't afford it, then it's not really a solution to their problem is it?
If they are using it they have the option for AES as stated by the BlueTooth 4 protocol.
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can anyone recommend a smaller, tablet sized BT keyboard that would have this kind of a "slot" for making either a phone or tablet stand on it?

I just need something super lightweight that works as both a stand and a keyboard with my phone or tablet (hate phone touch keyboards)
The four types of users you need to grow a community
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge with an entirely new kind of curved display
I donate money to various charities and causes and do use microlending too, but it's not something that I end up talking about with my friends, so they're probably not aware that I do it. Maybe that's the case with your friends too. I probably look like I "don't care about the poor" because I usually don't give money to random people asking me to support causes (like at events or stores) if I'm not familiar with the cause because I prefer to research where my money goes before giving it.
How secure is Apple?
Beyond the coreboot argument I don't see a whole lot of value in the SBC router arena anymore. I used to be "that guy" as well, but since purpose-built hardware exists that does routing better there's no point.

AMD and Intel CPUs are pointless in this space - you can get far more packet performance, accelerated in hardware, with CPUs like Cavium (MIPS). I happen to work for a company that uses a lot of Cavium processors in it's products and they are the defacto standard in networking gear that is accelerated today. There is a little company called Ubiquiti (not who I'm employed by) has one of the best values in this space for the money. You can buy a $99 router that has a dual-core 500MHz Cavium which will do 1M PPS, oh - and I forgot to mention it runs Vyatta, so hack away.

http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/

I get it - there are people who want to run soup-to-nuts on a SBC, and there are legitimate use cases. The reality is that Wifi in those platforms is flat out: horrible (again, go buy Ubiquiti UniFi for $80 and get real RF performance - http://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/) Putting an underpowered mPCI card that's sitting around all kinds of other RF noise and likely deployed in the wrong location compared to where your users are anyway isn't ever ideal.

But if you have a hypervisor laying around your house (and 9 times out of 10 on HN that's probably the case) throw your voice at a small instance - or a Raspberry Pi if you're worried about your carbon footprint / electrical bill. There's no shame in that - and at the end of the day you're going to have a far better network in terms of performance and reliability. SBCs are at that weird middle ground of being not worth the money when there's much better hardware targeted at what you're trying to accomplish. They feel, still, very 2005ish to me as they haven't really changed or added value - but the cost is still outrageous for what you get.

At the end of the day don't get caught up in MHz at your router - it's about accelerated packet performance. The Cisco and Juniper's of the world have known this for, well, ever. I have no relation to Ubiquiti what-so-ever other than having purchased a lot of their products over the years for personal use - and the brand is nothing short of undervalued IMO. I'm enthralled that they've branched out from a great line of cheap and reliable RF products to switching, routing, voice, video and even a small nugget of security (although - the L3/L4 firewall of days gone by is nothing more than useless in today's landscape).
C'mon! Project the score and win/lose effects directly on the table!

If you're gonna go graphic-y and fun, go big!
The link has nothing to do with the physical hardware. It's an application that shares the keyboard connected to a Macintosh out over Bluetooth.

That's hardly a replacement for a portable keyboard.
Hmm, should have done a search. Just assumed it would have found the previous thread on submission. :\
Yet it still uses AAA batteries...
Payday lenders' circumvention and bending of laws to continue their own existence are equally logical.
Don't normally do "pedant" posts but this is the second time I've seen it in this thread. The author is a she not a he :)
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Frank : In which way do you make a difference between User Interface and user experience?

Svilen : In my opinion we need to look more generic on the matter, searching rather for the similarities in the UI and UX, rather than the difference between these two fields. I believe that this will increase the productivity. ;)