skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically they are cards delivered by Bankia (an important 'Caja', sort of a bank but politicians are in the board) without any limit and the expenses were charged to different expeses(e.g. a failure of a server)
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Interesting questions. I think that if you try to answer those questions, you've got an interesting essay right there.
Woah. These run almost as fast as Macromedia used to run on a Pentium 1! Maybe just 20 more years and browsers will finally catch up to 1995 technology.

In all seriousness, it really is too slow - the landing page animations play in about 2fps and the editor itself needs half a second to light up a button when I hover it. I'm running firefox 32.0.1 on Linux with integrated intel video, if it matters. Sadly your time might be better spent improving firefox/chromium so that the next generation will have a platform on which to implement your idea.
The whole function is trying to parse a float value, that loop is looking for the string "Infinity".

c|32 will do a bitwise downcase of an ascii character so,
"INFINITY", "infinity", "INfinITy" will all be accepted. In any of those cases i == 8 at the end of the loop and is still in scope, so the following if statement will ultimately return + or - Infinity.
Maybe, but I came to the same conclusion quite some time ago.

I saw the whole Maker movement with a kind of bemused "why is this news" kind of attitude because I (and many of the people I knew) had made things our entire lives and it never seemed in any way noteworthy. It was quite a surprise to find that there were actually people who found DIY to be an alien concept.
The banks' monitoring software is in fact a hassle for me. I've only ever had legitimate purchases denied. The retailer's order flow is not usually optimised for this case, requiring a tedious, often manual process to get my order reinstated, while at the same time often causing the retailer to treat me with suspicion (they can't tell why the charge was denied the first time, and are sometimes reluctant or unable to retry the same card again).

As far as I can tell, Final is not really about reducing fraud, which, as you correctly state, is mostly a non-problem for customers. Instead, its value is in increasing my personal convenience, by reducing the annoyances the credit card companies force me to deal with as a direct result of their absurdly outdated technology.
ASCII case-insensitive comparison of up to 8 characters from a stream with "infinity".
Anyone found technical documentation on they implemented this? Code or paper?
I bet Watson now thinks you like UKIP. And now me, so meta.
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Starry Chrome Extension – Lookup Startup Info with One Click
Normally when someone wants to know funding/traffic information of a startup, s/he will have to go to three different websites: CrunchBase, AngelList and Alexa, which becomes very annoying if you do these routines frequently.

Starry is a chrome extension that integrates these three datasources and helps investors and entrepreneurs lookup startup information with one click. Supports for more platform are coming soon.
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That's part of a larger set of questions about protected classes and targeting. We don't know until we see the full campaign and targeting criteria. RTB makes this even harder, as well as Yield management issues.

This is but a dance. If we don't know all the criteria of who is asking for what at a given time, no dice on if the FTC is right
This is from FUSE labs which is a little team inside MS who do research on new experiences and such. They don't really produce 'products' like Office, OneDrive, etc. They make neat demos and if they get enough traction try to influence the bigger products to adopt them.
I think this is a big point that gets overlooked. The question isn't really whether or not the current powers are trustworthy with your data. It's really whether every possible steward of your data is trustworthy over an arbitrarily long time-span.
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Normally when someone wants to know funding/traffic information of a startup, s/he will have to go to three different websites: CrunchBase, AngelList and Alexa, which becomes very annoying if you do these routines frequently.

Starry is a chrome extension that integrates these three datasources and helps investors and entrepreneurs lookup startup information with one click. Supports for more platform are coming soon.
On my Debian/Ubuntu systems (that weren't in production and that I was free to play with), I had a lot of luck pointing /bin/bash at /bin/dash and making a separate /bin/bash-really. The default scripts weren't using /bin/bash at all. Of the third-party scripts that did call /bin/bash, most of them were just lazily using /bin/bash when they could have used /bin/sh just as well. (A few that were actually using some bash-ism that it took me 5 minutes to fix, and only 1 was left that was using some very very weird bash syntax that I couldn't understand.)

Redhat apparently uses /bin/bash almost universally. That would be a nightmare to try to fix under pressure.

One lesson I've learned (and I didn't always follow it) is to write POSIX-compatible scripts whenever possible and point them at /bin/sh, which is allowed to point to any POSIX-compatible shell. If we get word that, say, a /bin/dash or /bin/ksh attack is coming, you can at least switch your default "runtime" to another shell.
Group within MS research, which runs more or less independent of MS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FUSE_Labs
http://fuse.microsoft.com/

not really branding as it is a one-off "what if we..." toy application
Here is the only bit in the campaign text about why this is so important: "Today, it's equally fundamental to learn to "dissect an app," or how the Internet works. Every young person deserves basic knowledge of how the world works around them and how to build technology that’s changing the world."

So, since the Hour of Code is teaching neither "how to dissect an app" or "how the internet works" (both of which are fairly difficult topics, IMO), the goal is, in a word, exposure. Hoping that by exposing 100M students to the most trivial of programming concepts, they will be thirsty for more.

Flipping through some of the offerings (http://studio.code.org/), all of which double as game advertisements, I'm not convinced this accomplishes even that. I want know why exposure needs to take the form of cartoons and games. Yes, children and teens will be more engaged if it reminds them of games, but that doesn't demonstrate results. My instinct about this comes from my own exposure to math; I remember hating the cute pictures and the word problems.
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This is the problem with such mottos. "Move fast and break things" means exactly that, i.e. move fast and break things. It's just a catchy soundbite, nothing else. It's up to every one of us to fill in the missing meaning; therefore everyone arrives at interpretations he/she likes, which might not be the same interpretation as anyone elses.
Those are mostly oil financiers providing capital to contractors who do the work, and project management. They won't care. Too much oil is used for transport and petrochemical (aka plastic) industry.

Some of the peculiar niche uses for petrochems are much less price sensitive than bunker A boiler oil, so they would make more money overall in the long run if people used oil more wisely, which sounds weird but is an economic truth. You care a lot about the price of gas in your car, but you probably don't really care about the cost of plastic in your legos, so if it went up by 10x it would still be a rounding error at the checkout line although in the long run they'd make more money.

The coal companies, on the other hand, are likely concerned.
I was careful to say "if you're a person who believes monopolies are bad" - it's ancillary to my point whether they actually are.
I'm not sure that's the thing he's most known for. I know his work mainly from SLOCCount [1] and his clever solution for Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" hack [2].

1. http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/
2. http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
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I honestly doubt any interviewer is looking to catch someone out by asking them to invert a linked list. Also 5 interviews must be pretty expensive, why would you try to 'beat' the candidate away at that point?
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> What does that loop even do?

for (i=0; i<8 && (c|32)=="infinity"[i]; i++)
if (i<7) c = shgetc(f);

It's a pattern matching loop. The 'c' variable is a character which is read from FILE * f. In this case, it's attempting to match the string "infinity" which has a length of 8. With ASCII, uppercase letters start from hex value 0x41 for the letter 'A'. Lowercase letters start from hex value 0x61 for the letter 'a'. Thus the difference between lowercase and uppercase is 0x20 which is 32 decimal or 100000 in binary. Thus, if you or the value of 'c' with 32 (0x20 or 00010000), you're setting the 2^5 bit of the character which converts uppercase to lowercase and leaves lowercase unchanged since all lowercase characters already have that bit set.

I'm sure you can figure out the rest. As long as the character matches the corresponding index position in the character array "infinity", the for loop keeps matching characters. Eventually, a successful match results in a return value of sign * INFINITY from the function.
Win by doing the right thing.

Would stay quiet if there was a similar situation in real life?
All of the human subjects (at least 6 subjects) whose hands are being tracked are wearing mirrored sunglasses, and fashion considerations are significantly less likely to cause "100% compliance" than safety considerations are.
A friend of mine has a newer Belkin router. It's actually kind of handy in the case that your cable/DSL modem is screwing up because the router will tell you that something is wrong with your connection. But I think it should probably have some "I'm sure my internet is fine, please continue" button or something.
A "golden key" only makes sense to me if it is exchanged for transparency of when it is used.

Imagine a hardware device that can vend session keys to any device, but will not do so unless it can push a notification to a public server that publishes the identity of both the accessor (who must authenticate themselves) and the identity being backdoored.

If the argument is that law enforcement will only use this when going through proper channels, let this be enforced by forced transparency.

The hardware device would be designed to never let the underlying key leave the device. So for the key to fall into the wrong hands, the hardware device would have to physically fall into the wrong hands.

The hardware would therefore need to be housed in a secure location.

This is what I personally would require before I could ever support a golden key.
> Paul Krugman [...] can't get past the idea that a currency needs to be backed by a state to be a real currency.

I've not read everything he's said on bitcoin, but I've never seen him explicitly make that argument. Do you have a link?
To be fair, "honesty and straight talk" from Linus Torvalds received mixed responses from the HN crowd too, as seen in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415729.

Of course, these two situations aren't the same. I still find their respective rhetorics interesting.
I'll bite:

It was 2008, I was a junior in college, I had been coding on-and-off for a few years (for hire) but was anxious to do my own thing.

I decided my "killer idea" was to sell safe-sex supplies online (condoms, lube, toys, etc). I built a site called "OrgasmSafely.com" and then opened 5 credit cards and bought about $15,000 worth of inventory.

I was renting a tiny room near campus, and my inventory filled it up. Boxes and boxes of condoms, gallons and gallons of lube. I had to put my bed against the wall. I slept in a ball in the corner.

I ordered dozens of T-shirts that said "OrgasmSafely" and handed them out on campus. I printed up thousands of flyers and handed them out at nightclubs. I setup an affiliate program. I ran google adwords campaigns. I setup an ebay store. I wrote to the school newspaper for feature stories, etc etc etc.

Nobody came.

Within a few weeks the minimum payments of the credit cards overwhelmed me. They were all maxed out. I was toast. I couldn't even afford to pay for hosting. I shut it down and walked away, with destroyed credit.

Sigh...

Post-mortem lessons: Don't buy inventory up front. And don't start a business you can't afford to keep running for awhile.

...Also don't sell condoms on the internet...
Do it. Lets throw in a <marquee/> too.. I'll even "git filter-branch" your commit afterwards. No one will ever know. :D
I'm unconvinced knowing how to manipulate data structures is useless knowledge.
Agreed. This is where bitcoin matters. It isn't that big a deal to those of us who live in a free country with a stable government, a stable currency and a readily available banking system. But to people who don't have those things, bitcoin offers freedom and prosperity.
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I've never heard of them either.

For the OP: People stirring the pot is just a ploy to attract attention. It's the same crap you see in soap operas/wrestling/reality shows.

If it bugs you, it's best to walk away and forget about it.
It is controversial, because half a decade of software development has proven it to be an oxymoron.

If the solution for correctness is 100% automated test coverage, then your forward progress will have significant drag (every new feature should break many tests).
He justifies his actions by comparing them to walking into a house with an open door[1]. Since when is it socially or legally acceptable to walk into stranger's houses? Last time I checked, that will get you shot. [1] - http://www.futuresouth.us/wordpress/?p=52
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Ah, that makes more sense. They're probably just waiting for it to get approved. The Android and Windows app approval process tends to be much faster in my experience.
Many banks offer a free service that will write and mail cheques for you every month. Getting a sensible insurance provider is fine too.
The effortless action described sounds like a flow state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29
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totally, why exactly does Bob need 37 watermelons, and why would he give 8 away?!?
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yeah i guess i thought too quick on the supermarket. but a closer analogy would be eating an entire meal of samples every single day.
When I was asked this they specified doing it in-place - I figured that was the only reason it'd be interesting.
A good movie, and the only movie I've seen in 3D that benefited from 3D. You can see how the painters used the shape of the walls in their painting.
> They need to be careful what they advise. That advice could (and likely WILL) result in people getting taken to collections.

> Don't like your ISP? Just cancel the CC number, then 12 months later get a bailiff turn up and seize your stuff...

Cancelling payments like that is what a lot of UK banks do advise their customers to do. Particularly with (but not exclusive to) insurance services. I've known banks actually recommend cancelling the payments through them instead of trying to cancel via the company itself.

Services like internet / phone lines, gas and electric would be different though since they're paid in arrears.
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There is a roughly 1:1 correspondence between C++ and C, so it's just one more step to go from C to C++. Just off the top of my head...

class data fields -> structure members
non-static methods (ctors/dtors included) -> functions with an extra 'this' pointer parameter
inheritance -> extended structures with matching prefices
virtual functions -> structure with function pointers
operator overloading -> methods with special names
default arguments -> automatically inserted by compiler
function overloading -> types encoded in name of function
templates -> whatever code they generate
exceptions -> special library functions are used, e.g. _CxxThrowException()

Some of those don't decompile so well (e.g. template-generated code, although a refactoring tool might be of help), and things like operators and overloaded functions are probably more of a stylistic choice than a difference in the generated code, but for the most part it doesn't look impossible to get some C++ features to show up in decompiled code. (And given that many of the C++-level optimisations revolve around removing unnecessary code, they could make the C to C++ step even easier.)
There is a similar concept coming to Windows: http://www.bromium.com/innovations/micro-virtualization.html
I think the vast majority of immigrants come here to work hard and make a better life for themselves and their families. They also end up making life better for a lot of other people around them. One example is that a lot of illegal immigrants pay taxes through a fake Social Security Number, and they pay into the system for years. However, they very often don't get the benefits because they'd get caught using the number (e.g the number was for some 80-year old white lady), or go they back to their country.

However, it's still important to acknowledge the fact that a small number of immigrants get sick, or descend into alcoholism, or get hurt badly enough that they can't really work. It's just the kind of thing that can happen to anyone.

I've grow up around a lot of immigrants, illegal and legal, and they have pretty much all been decent, hard-working people, and they have the same kinds of financial/family/emotional problems that everyone else has.
Why would identical C loops in the same program execute in different times?
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

- Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

As US law classifies cryptography as a munition, isn't it every US citizens right to use encryption?
This is a surprisingly simple idea which I'm surprised nobody else did first. Neat idea. +1 on you guys for making it so only one person needs the app too!
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unfortunately firefox is really slow these days. try it in chrome or safari, it's night and day difference in speed
Each insurance company is indeed setting up their own solution for online payment.
Marketing gimmick sometimes frustrates the hell out of me.

1. (No app required) - but the person hosting the photos need to install the app?

2. (Download on the Apple Store icon)- Yet clicking on it will give you a coming soon page. Will it kill you to put a "Coming Soon" text below the icon ?

Of course, I am still trying to wrap my head around the use case for this concept, especially when you have a dozen other ways to solve this problem. Oh wait, what was the problem again?
I've actually noticed a lot of merchants have installed chip-and-pin compatible terminals over the last 6 months or so. (mostly at the larger retailers)
Wow that's pretty intense. I hear more and more people are just taking the free shuttles to the rental car places, then calling a lyft/uber from there. Just as fast, and usually avoids the lyft-primetime / uber-surge prices that often happen at the airports.
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You're assuming that I buy into this so-called "doctrine of proportional harm" (whatever that is).

You know what happens when you assume, don't you?
That's interesting, but I'm pretty sure a physical dollar bill is more useful. A physical dollar can be used to make purchase stuff locally without a computer, and is easily accepted for a sale. In the example given in the article, the only reason the first guy in the article uses bitcoins is to buy an Amazon gift certificate (denominated in dollars) to buy stuff mail order.

The only real lesson to be had from the Venezuela situation is that far-left governments suck at basic economics and math. There is no lesson to be had about bitcoins in this situation.
A currency just has to be backed by something. Money laundering is something. Drug trafficking is something. The fact that Venezuelans are using it to launder money is not "proving those economists wrong", it's making those economists wrong.

And the more mainstream it gets, and the more tracked it gets, and the harder it gets to buy what you want with it without leaving some sort of record, the more it reverts to its natural value of zero.
It shouldn't be less scary. Any time proprietary software calls home it could receive orders to open a backdoor or anything else. It's a command and control feature disguised as a DNS check, or at the very least it could be easily turned into one at any point without raising suspicion.
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But I shouldn't have to give you my account number for you to send me money. I don't really want to maintain a mental list of who has my account number and who to update if I change banks or something. I'm not saying checks are the best solution for all situations but they have enough use cases to make them somewhere better than ridiculous.

Every time my cleaning lady comes, I just leave a check for her on the counter. I could leave cash but then I have to make sure I have that much cash on hand every time. I could probably get an account number from her and do some sort of transfer each time. But honestly, that doesn't sound at all easier for me than just writing a check. I think that is the only check I write on a regular basis anymore. I used to send my gardener a check but I started paying his invoice online through my bank. And I'm pretty sure they actually print a check and mail it to him on my behalf. :)
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Most of it happened within a 6 month window when we were getting serious traction and stealing big customers.
Yes you can use Python with these services and BlueMix. See a tutorial here: http://thoughtsoncloud.com/2014/08/getting-started-python-ib...
China which cares little about what people think and has huge air quality problems. Yet it is still building a lot of coal plants instead of nuclear. Which might suggest there not the ideal solution you think they might be. France was actually the most reliant on Fission of any country and even they are stalling far back from there peak despite having few actual problems of any kind.