skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have a 3.0? Dont have any drug arrests or convictions?

The first two things are the reason why a lot of people I knew had to go to community college instead of directly to university. Florida has a similar program (Bright Futures) that has similar GPA requirements (and also community service and test scores). These programs are nice and all, but a far cry from actually making education beyond secondary school reachable for most people.
I just like imagining the discussion that happened at the conception of this idea. It probably starts something like this: "Guys, we need a way to monetize the reddit."
TL;DR: Germany, Finland, France, Sweden, Norway, Slovenia, Brazil.
I was thinking more that compactness and/or convex polygon-ness could just be necessary constraints, not sufficient. You'd still get to draw the lines in ways that split the state's population according to shifting population and demographics, but you wouldn't be able to draw districts that are quite so crazy looking.
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I can't speak for myself since I'm German, but e.g. at the university and technical university in Hamburg there are lots of foreign students who seem to enjoy themselves :) I do not have any hard numbers at hand, though.
Some of the operators in that file make even the craziest inventions of Scala users look tame.
Nice work!!!
>Project Ara is like old-fashioned 1980s-era Southern California punk rock music; it is whatever you make it to be.

What a narrowcast reference. It made me smile, though.
>Is a university really an appropriate place to send someone who couldn't keep up with high school coursework, whatever the reason, in the first place?

A really good question. I'd say the US does a very poor job of either providing that preparatory edu for those who need it or guiding those who fall out of the educational system into trade schools and other vocations, something that Germany also does very well. Not sure what the solution is for the US... we're so focused on the people at the top and the bottom that everyone else is left out.
This is true, but generally aid and scholarships aren't enough to cover costs for one full year, let alone two. Many students will take out loans because of this.
People keep saying this won't work and that modular HW was really only good for games, but there's lots of examples of modularity already in consumer space:

1) Many mobile phones are already modular to an extent. Replaceable batteries, replaceable SD cards, replaceable SIM cards. Then there's an entire ecosystem of add-on cases for phones. Sony is shipping add-on camera lens even.

Ara is just proposing to make some additional things "add-on", like swapping the camera module. If they only made battery and camera the swappable modules alone, it would be a big win, and plenty of people would choose different camera modules.

2) Look at the prosumer camera market, both DSLR and new mirror-less models. A significant population of people desire interchangeable lens. A phone with interchangeable camera module could have all kinds of possibilities.

At a certain point, phones will be so powerful and capable that losing 15% of size/weight efficiency to achieve flexibility, especially as devices become commoditized will be a tradeoff worth making.
I hope this turns out to be compliant with Betteridge's law, and I think it will. In a different thread yesterday I pointed out that deception is a reasonable and legally acceptable aspect of law enforcement, but that stops where the penal code starts. Cutting off communications services to the building as a pretext to gain entry seems like a clear violation of law, and (IMHO/NAL) should render all the evidence gained pusuant to the search warrant inadmissible as 'fruit of the poisonous tree,' because the probable cause offered for issuance of the warrant was defective.
Strange. It works okay for me.
I'm reminded of this quote from Steve Yegge's platform rant[1]

... I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more
important than Security because dialing Accessibility
to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing
Security to zero can still get you a reasonably
successful product such as the Playstation Network.

1: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
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Don't use sock puppet accounts to comment/upvote. It doesn't work. (Which you can verify since you have the data :p )

Asking your Hack Reactor friends to comment/upvote has the same effect.
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the author isn't leaving any books. he'd previously downloaded everything purchased and asked for a refund for the one book he could no longer download.
I love tools that make it easier to get a version 0.1 out the door quickly. Thanks for putting this out there!
and the best bit -- the very best bit -- is should you be so stupid as to trust these idiots, you provide them direct access to your bank account. So when these morons donate your data to some smart hackers, instead of your credit cards getting drained, your checking account balance vanishes. It's not entirely clear what protections you have in that case.

Tell your friends and family not to be stupid -- never use a payment method on the internet besides a credit card. It's really simple: by law, you have no more than $50 liability for a fraudulent credit card transaction, vs $500 for a debit card. Plus in the former case, no money vanishes from your checking account, while in the latter, it may take several weeks for your money to come back. And while you are protected, in theory, under nacha rules and regulation E from liability for fraudulent ach transfers, you may still be out the money for a very long time while you fight with your bank. Here's a useful summary: http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/finance/1023728/m15101053/#m...
This is too fun. Unfortunately, seems that an excellent and simple strategy to win is to just place entire columns full of life, particularly on the front and back ends (with whatever subdivisions you can afford also).
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found it... here it is http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/absolute-must-watch-office-...

the one with the airport thingie starts at the 35th minute
One thing also disturbing is that it doesn't say what they actually saw inside, and apparently that wasn't recorded.

This goes to show that, even if they don't see anything to justify a search warrant, merely letting them in allows them to say they saw something in order to obtain a warrant.

Similarly, if you speak with police without a lawyer present, the policeman can say that you confessed to them (or said something that damages your case, at least), regardless of whether it's true.
Side note: “prout” is French for “fart”. For a French speaker, this product’s name hence sounds like “sfart”.
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Many credit cards have an NFC chip built in that is powered by the payment device's RF signal. Your credit card does not need a battery.
Ahh yes, it's just the HN title that says "crowdfunding" thanks!
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They expect CurrentC users to get discounts that you wouldn't get with using a normal credit card.
So, more or less the same as it has been...
I don't think you're understanding redis or this problem correctly.

Redis lets you have slaves which mirror the master. Hundreds of thousands of redis installations use this pattern to provide read scaling and offline master-loss persistence, and in the normal case, this works great. I myself have implemented systems with hundreds of redis instances which have gracefully survived the loss of the primary.

In this particular instance, the user turned off persistence, didn't understand the ramifications, and then brought the master back up with an empty database after a hard kill without thinking things through.

Fortunately, the user was savvy enough to have kept backups off the slaves, as is the usual pattern, and so was able to continue service.

This is not a normal pattern and goes against the general practice.

Does that help?
This is true, and you can easily view this as a form of abuse against userbases: your data will be exploited and not properly secured while a company profits and you suffer the consequences.
For ads posted by recruiters on job boards, it's surprising how often you can Google a key phrase from the ad and figure out what company it is. I'm not sure if this works with mails from recruiters - I've never gotten those at a time when I was looking to move on from my current job. It reminds me of how you can catch student plagiarism by Googling the sentence that sounds like they didn't write it.
I guess that depends on the culture on your team and something to assess for yourself if it would be appropriate. I wouldn't give it a second thought with the people on our team!
Wii or Virtual Boy?

Ambitious in any case, glad HP is trying!
Ok, adding them now. I have sone translations for Days of Week and Months.
The MCX org can always pivot to some other payment system, that is still not Apple Pay.
None of those things are used by gamers.
I'm really interested in this. Especially Germany. Do any one of you have a link handy for me to see the good Universities in Germany? Please? Thx
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> there's a usable alpha, ready to download and use right now.

Back in 2004 we had to choose the programming language for a new project. PHP5 (which was just released at the time) was the top candidate, but I really wanted to use Perl6 which a lot of people were very enthusiastic about and whose weekly mailing list updates made it look like an early partially usable version which could be used for staring the project was just around the corner.

In the end we went with PHP. 10 years later it looks like we made he right decision.

I realize that a lot of factors contributed to Perl6 being this late, including several cases of plain old bad luck, bit I still can't help being disappointed that the language I thought would be the next big thing might not get much use at all...
If apple had released this product, it would sell like crazy. I think the fact that HP made it will prevent it from getting traction, but it would be nice to be proven wrong.
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MCX's privacy policy is a hoot, and worth a read if you like picking such things apart: http://currentc.com/50D6A97C-4B72-44D6-9021-BE0884ED2F8D/pri...

Where you see "enhance services", read it as "mine the hell out of your data and sell it". Amongst all of that "service enhancement", there's this gem: We do not respond to web browser “do not track” signals at this time.

They'll also track which pharmacy you go to, and the time and frequency of when you get your prescriptions. And so on, and so on. Apple and the rest of the NFC stakeholders could have a lot of fun with this. But I think they'll wisely just sit back for now and watch the whole thing blow up on its own.
I'm happy you like them. We worked hard on the product.

Credit for the animations goes to http://chika-yeah.com
The server code is on GitHub, but I don't know offhand where the offline geolocation scripts are. The Stumbler app's map will show your phone's GPS position (blue dots) and Mozilla Location Service's estimate (red dots) so you can compare the difference.

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea

We store signal strength for possible future use, but our current location algorithms don't use it. Wireless signal strength is notoriously flaky. From some reports I've read, signal strength is more highly correlated with the user's orientation (i.e. is their body blocking the signal to the source) than with distance to the source.
This is actually a bit of a boondoggle, because your university will either not recognize your community college credits, or they will have their own requirements likely to be incompatible with the credits you took at community college, leaving those first two years basically wasted. So you get to pay for 2 years at a community college, then 4 years at a university. That's not saving money.

Hell, it might not even work to transfer from one university to another! I transferred after 2 years at a satellite campus of Penn State (where the curriculum is identical to the main campus) to a state school, stayed in Computer Science, and had to cram 4 years of CS at that school into 3 years just to be able to cut some of my losses because apparently taking intro to CS at a school that does it in C means you have to take it over again in a school that does it in Java.
That was legit, by contrast. In this case, if the butler had acceded to the initial request (to come inside to 'check the network') that would have been totally legitimate too. There's nothing legally wrong with tricking people, or undercover police work would be impossible.
How does this compare to something like Cloud Foundry?
Damn, that's clever. I knew you needed a segment with the Long bit set to run in 64bit from IA-32e, but I didn't know windows kept a public one ready at all times.
> Of course, as it stands anyone can make a website of their own that links to and/or embeds anything stored in the archive, but I gather that hasn't happened often.

Yeah, and I've even debated it enough to think about doing it myself. For me at least, it feels kind of wrong to just put up a site that curates and organizes somebody else's collection. I'd also be worried about going through the effort and then having archive.org change the link-to urls or rules or whatever (even though they're a benevolent organization) and then have to go through all the effort again.

It really is a lot of work to find stuff on archive, even when you know it's there.

And again I attribute that to too much effort to keep track and give credit for the provenance of an item rather than organizing it in a reasonable way. As much as I'm glad that the Universal Library (Million Books Project) donated their work, it doesn't do anything for me as a user when I'm trying to find the Collected Stories of William Faulkner.

I think a better way would be to categorize the archive like any other library, and then for each individual work, provide alternative scans/recordings/transcriptions, etc. and a link to the donating organization that goes to a page that then gives you links to everything they donated.

But honestly, it's a fairly mild inconvenience. Most of the stuff they host is fairly long-dwell. Once I find a book or whatever, I'll be tied up with it for quite a few days and don't need to be bouncing all over their site several times an hour.
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It's not our intention though, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527999
Okay, I'll bite. I'm an employee so you'll have to take what I say with a grain of salt.

The video was produced with a cosmetic device and with actors. You're right that the card has to be in the device during PIN entry. The scene you're referring to, however, is depicting tip entry.

The device does not have an ethernet port but we will be shipping with a separate charging dock that will provide wired connectivity.

I can assure you that all of our antennas are not behind LCDs. While compact, the device does have a number of non-LCD surfaces.

The customer facing camera is pointing horizontal. We'll continue to refine the angle (if needed) as we continue testing with our early adopters.

We did in-person demos with over a dozen news agencies. If you have any doubts about the existence of the device, please feel free to reach out to them for confirmation.
Wow, you really, really nitpicked OPs argument and completely ignored things to make your point. The comment was "you're either using the wrong medium or thinking too far". Assuming the false dichotomy here (notably, of a quick comment on HN...), maybe, just maybe, it's not that people who can't fully express their thoughts in around 300 characters are thinking too far, maybe it's the other part -- that they're using the wrong medium?

The only portion of OPs comment I can find to "describe the benefits of terseness" would be the last paragraph. If I shorten that paragraph to the last two sentences, it fits in a tweet.
Sorry if this is off topic. But I wonder how many websites like these the US government creates in an attempt to control their environment. Maybe I'm paranoid but what if (as an example) companies like Popcorn Time were shutdown and replaced with a government version? All the more reason open source is important.
You might find Revenj (https://github.com/ngs-doo/revenj) interesting too. It maps DSL schema to various Postgres objects and offer 1:1 mapping between view in the DB and incoming/outgoing Json.
> so even now we're not "just" a frontend for libvirt.

I would certainly prefer that virtkick was 'just a frontend' for libvirt. Then the people who are making use of virtkick can seamlessly rely on the huge amount of existing software that supports libvirt. You can provide a REST API that is translated to the existing libvirt API rather than replacing it.

If you have task-scheduling improvements for libvirt, they should be upstreamed rather than only exist in your software, so everyone can benefit from them.
Because they're a VC-funded startup that seems to have a pretty good grasp of marketing and will no doubt attract users even if their security apparatus is a cruel joke.

In other words, for their users, not them.
"Currency" would have been a better answer.
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I personally love to browse my local libraries (and archive.org) to discover new things.
So if project Ara isn't finished by early next year they'll axe the whole thing? Why aren't all projects managed this way?
Neither of these have either:

1) The same accessibility for a passerby outside of your house.

2) The same constant, location identifying properties or information content.

The things you mention cannot be described as beacons.
I've done this as well, and it's interesting/demoralizing to see how many different recruiters or placement agencies are trying to fill what looks to be the exact same job.
HN thinks I am bot so replying as different user... :(
Sure, but the parent said anyone can get the scholarship, which is not true.
This is an impressive bit of coding, especially since it displays the battles in real-time.
"Money needs to be free from electricity and endure the elements."

He's talking about the consumer side, not the merchant side.
Kudos to them for trying something new! This looks great. I can't help but think they would have a little more credibility if the industrial design wasn't a wanna-be iMac. Oy.
There are really not very many middle class students at these elite institutions.
Considering AppSec harmful is ridiculous.

I know a particular startup that received millions of dollars in VC to start a payment processor. I RCE'd them in under 5 minutes and they remained vulnerable for more than a month after I reported it (this was within the last two months). This is frankly ridiculous and is a good extreme that shows why appsec being harmful is just not the case.

There is a difference between emphasizing only security, and building software with appropriate security measures in place.
This is absurd. The idea that a university should teach you to think rather than teach you job skills isn't a new idea, it's the core principle of a traditional liberal arts education. Visit virtually any liberal arts college in the US and you'll find a place where the professors value teaching critical thinking and communication skills. Typically there are small discussion based classes where participation is a portion of your grade, and lots of writing assignments.

That said, according to the article there is one interesting innovation here. While traditional liberal arts schools value critical thinking over tangible skills, students still pick a major and working on a major within an academic department usually means being prepared for graduate school in that discipline. Instead this school tasks its students with creating something novel within their concentration, which is potentially a great way to compromise between the lofty ideals of a liberal arts education and the non-existent job market for academics. Instead of "learning to think" and being prepared for a fictional career in academia, you can learn to think and try to apply those critical thinking skills toward making a tangible impact on the world.
I'll switch when Python 3, IPv6, and IE11 are the most-popular.
Thanks for the video, which led me to the footage service:)
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It is still bluffing because the scenario is not being presented as a hypothetical.
I had a 2.8 in high school, didn't get Hope, and ended up in community college. It's not as trivial as you make it out to be, honestly.

Interestingly, a report came out a couple of years ago recommending it be changed to a 2.5 minimum and a $100k income cap[1], to broaden access to lower-income students. Didn't happen, though.

[1] http://gbpi.org/hope-on-a-tightrope
I wouldn't call it vaporware, Project Ara phones simply won't be top of the line, but that doesn't mean it can't happen; perhaps the compromises in performance and quality will be worth it for what modular phones enable.
Will give it a spin.
Seems like no tech name is safe with the French. Just the other day someone was stating the name of "Puer" someone chose for their server app means "to stink" in French.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8513314
Well, because otherwise you can:

1) not vote for them next time,

2) overthrow the government (happened quite often throughtout the 20th century in lots of E.U. and others countries. Governments can and do get thrown off mid-term by popular protest)

3) put politicians in jail (also happens)

4) eliminate their whole political party (e.g take it from 50%+ to less than 10% of the vote).

5) full blown revolution.

Against powerful private interests on the other hand, you can't do as much. Especially if they work together.
Of course most research shows that it's not actually possible to teach critical thinking, but when has reality ever gotten in the way of venture capital.

http://www.aft.org//sites/default/files/periodicals/Crit_Thi...
This is a great point and I have successfully used it myself. It is really that simple sometimes. In fact, some recruiters will leave out the name of the company but will leave other unique piece of information that only applies to that company lol.
Not sure if you read the rest of my previous comment but Hanlon's razor is predicated on malice, so I still disagree.

I never assumed assumed malice here. But it's still preposterous that a company with such skilled engineers wouldn't know until they were sued that they had been collecting large volumes of additional information over the span of years.

That claim basically requires that this global mapping endeavour involving many people over multiple years was run by people who didn't understand the most basic aspects of wi-fi protocols but somehow flipped wireshark into monitor mode and then never looked at any raw captures anywhere to extract information from them, even while setting up collection systems used across the globe.

Doing that once could be a mistake; even collecting all of the data could be a mistake; but not even realizing they had collected vastly more than beacon packets--probably over most of the planet--for multiple years?

Hey...I guess anything is possible, but it doesn't pass the smell test for me.
Canada could be a good option for many people. International tuition fees can be competitive with in-state tuition at public US universities. There are also funded masters degrees in some disciplines, which is extremely rare in the US.
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