skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really pisses me off and makes me not want to shop at the stores involved and or associated with it! Also, they want me to give them my account number, Target even???

Whether it's Google Wallet or Apple Pay users all these stores just ticked off thousands and thousands of early adopters/their customers!

ON a different note I have seen this topic appear yesterday on Hacker News. It quickly was at the top of the page then quickly demoted. This needs and I hope it goes to the top of HN and stays there for a long time! These retailers need their hand forced for their own sake due to a possible PR/consumer backlash.
Most growth hacks are inappropriate. It's not a risk-free endeavor. It hedges on whether the customer would actually be annoyed enough to stop using the service in disgust, which is uncommon. (of course, hacking a voicemail would have expected consequences)
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I have gone the other way with the languages I designed, from the system you describe to multifix, and have had the opposite experience. A proper implementation of general operator precedence grammars is much simpler than implementing prefix, postfix, infix and blocks specifically.

Now, I'm not sure how you implemented multifix, but a good general implementation for it is not immediately obvious, so I suspect you simply used an algorithm that's more convoluted than necessary and made you overestimate the scheme's actual complexity. Implemented properly, though, it's ridiculously simple. To demonstrate, I have hacked together a JavaScript version here (sorry, I didn't get around to commenting the code yet):

http://jsfiddle.net/ed37wy5k/2/

The core of the parser is the oparse function, which clocks in at 32 lines of code. Along with a basic tokenizer, order function, evaluator and some fancy display code, the whole thing is barely over 200 LOC. I dug around for XL's source and from what I can tell, what you have is not simpler than this.

I also never suggested making multifix operators like multiply_and_add. Multifix is for operators which are inherently ternary, quaternary and so forth. For instance, when I see "a ? b : c" I don't parse it as prefix, postfix or binary infix, I parse it as ternary.
The difference between "big tech companies spy on their users for the USG" and "big tech companies spy on their users....and then the USG obtains those data through any number of means, legal and otherwise" may not be so sharp and bright outside a comment about the technical details of key escrow (which you're right about, just to be clear).

Being clear on what the technical details of key escrow systems actually are is valuable, but may miss the crux of Snowden's arguments in this conversation with Lessig. Whether the Lavabit case should be construed as a law enforcement request for a mechanism that achieves many of the same goals as key escrow or should be construed as key disclosure points to the same sort of issue.

CALEA is one of many tools to be used and perhaps misused... mass surveillance conducted by eavesdroppers with a legal backing is just as morally wrong as mass surveillance conducted by eavesdroppers without one. Sometimes the scandal is what's legal, and sometimes the scandal is what can obtained without building key escrow systems directly into big tech companies' systems.
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Not spam at all. On many points. I'm on my iPad so I'll be brief (hate typing on this thing)

On advising he start a business. Launching a successful business is the greatest liberator. For OP's father a nice lifestyle business would provide him with security as he gets older. What happens when he is 60, 70, 75. None of these people talking about helping will hire him. That's an illusion. My statement could be wrong in this particular case but it isn't for the overwhelming majority of older engineers.

If your comment is about the link. No, it isn't spam at all. The registration period is now closed so I can no longer provide links to the content. I personally know somewhere in the range of 50 people doing this program through being a mentor for a local meetup group for members. There's an annual conference for the program. I believe the next one is in February. Sir Richard Branson will be the keynote speaker. So, no, not a scam or spam. The fact that people down-voted it or dismissed it as such is only a reflection of HN bias. I hope the OP did get a chance to consider it before this was voted down to the bottom and the registration period ended.
I don't know if hidden services behave better if they are actually jumping around between different access networks, or if they can actually hide more safely by staying at a single point (single set of guards). That would be something you would want to know before trying this :-)
What does perjury have to do with claiming that you don't remember something?
Grats to Blendle, but I don't really get the big deal. Isn't this just micro payments on bite sized content? Doesn't this just devolve into a reinforced bubble contest of which articles can get the most people to read them and thus editors (and data science people) know which articles/journalists to invest in? How do you publish unpopular stories in a world where only the popular get paid for?
So sad to learn it.

I think I should learn French Seriously
Reddit markup?

What specifically in the post is 'Reddit markup'? Looks like plain old Markdown and/or CommonMark to me.
The commenter may be referring to CALEA loosely and referring to the secret interpretation of S215 of the Patriot Act.
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You can't possibly imagine that lawyers, legislators, or judges are the least bit qualified to design an operating system.

That was my whole problem with the antitrust trial... it amounted to a bunch of anklebiting by well-intentioned but hopelessly unqualified people.
What would be the effects of legalizing all drugs in Mexico? Will this reduce the power of the cartels?
Maybe one day they'll even add a good payment system to it.
The big difference is that it's automatic on RT, Phone and 8.1 if the hardware supports it. Think Grandma's PC. Do you really want her to see the option window about where to store a recovery key?
For the other SKUs, an option window pops up when you enable BitLocker asking about backup location.
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c. The Apple product is shown only in the best light, in a manner or context that reflects favorably on the Apple products and on Apple Inc.

d. The reference to Apple does not create a sense of endorsement or sponsorship by, or other false association with, Apple or Apple products.

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to be honest I can't follow what you're even trying to say. It's making no sense, and in general just inaccurate.

I'm not talking about individuals, but in general, and in that regard we are all sex driven. Of course evolution isn't sentient, but when you think about it, it's a reasonable way to think about it because the results are the same. It just depends which way you're looking at the process, looking forward, you cannot refer to evolution as a design process, but looking backwards you can. The design we see today is the result of the evolutionary process. It's tiresome having to explain all this.

hunting skills are much the same as war skills and man certainly hunted (I believe that's what I said) but we are also a very violent species.
I'd push back on that first part. I think there are plenty of appropriate marketing tactics you could put under the growth hack umbrella.

To me, things are inappropriate when:

1. They're blatantly illegal
2. They cause damage or mental anguish to another (revenge, gossip, etc.)

Even with both of those though we're looking at some grayness, especially with measuring #2.

I do like the measuring stick of: would individuals be annoyed/disgusted/pissed enough to stop using.
I use president@sta.samsung.com for serious issues. It's a U.S. specific address for the mobile phone group.
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via matthew green recently: So per @justintroutman and now confirmed, Microsoft has substantially weakened its disk encryption in Windows 8. Now uses plain CBC mode.
I've bought many tables from multitable.com. They start at $550. By using IKEA tops and buying in bulk I keep the price under $500 each.
no, please stop spreading such misleading information, it is not survival of the fittest at all. go read about evolution please. You're right, evolution is not sentient, we're passed that, it is useful to think of it in that light when looking backwards at the process (as we can only really do anyway), we've all read the Blind Watchmaker and don't need this obvious point made over and over when it's been explained why we are doing so.
That video looks fantastic.

Thank you so much for working on this. Recently I've been experiencing significant repetitive stress. I am using a kinesis advantage keyboard and recently worked with a few physical therapists. I still feel pain.

I really like that by learning Plover, I may not only be reducing pain, but actually become a faster typer and coder. I just ordered a sidewinder keyboard, and I look forward to trying out this soon. I am prepared for a long learning curve, but by this point I am used to it and it seems like it will be worth the cost.
"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." --Oscar Wilde. [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6218-everything-in-the-worl...]

Mate competition is a powerful force in human evolution. Evidence: males are 20% larger than females, and the ancient male breeding population is about half the size of the total male population (these are utterly uncontroversial facts, and if you ask any biologist about them without mentioning the species they will say, "Mate competition, moderate polygamy.")

"Power" is the power to mate with the highest status member of the opposite sex available. You'll note this is a gender-free definition.

To deny this is to deny evolution, as it applies to humans. As you correctly point out, what is in our evolutionary history is not what is "right", but unless we are willing to surface that history and examine it in the cold light of day we're like to make a large number of very bad decisions.

So the OP is correct: "No human alive doesn't want power". It does not follow from this "Seeking power by any means available is right." Nor does it mean "Formal hierarchy is the best form of social organization." Sometimes "power" means "the power to boink the lady of the manor". Or as Aristotle might have put it: "Power is said in many ways."

But compared to all other influences on human behaviour, mate competition is pretty important. We forget that at our peril, because it might lead us to weaken social institutions--like monogamy--that tend to undermine mate competition's role as a social organizing principle.
> Always, always, always write code as if it will last 30 years.

Well said. But if i do 'git blame' and see a code is like 30 years old. First thing to come to my mind is it must me some kind crappy old legacy code

I know it is wrong. It is substance that matters. But lately somehow i programmed to myself to like newer code then older code. I need to step out that misconception.
> Well, drug consumers can stop purchasing drugs that you know that involve the cartels.

How is it possible to know this?

And besides, saying to drug users "Just don't buy the drugs" is like saying to the cartels "Just stop killing and terrorising people." People will buy drugs regardless of what we do—the war on drugs has proven this—and black markets (controlled by cartels) will meet the demand.

You ignore the point that the vast majority of the consumers of the cartels' product is not in Mexico. If these drugs were legal in the target markets, local producers would crop up and cut the cartel's profits. Given the choice, would you buy Cartel Brand® coke or Free Trade Cocaine®?

Large corporations are forced to be accountable to their supply chain, and markets have shown time and time again that consumers will pay a premium for ethically produced products.
Why would I care about Apple Pay? I love my credit card. It rewards me for using it. Besides, if you ever lose or damage your phone, you're screwed.
I was shopping for phones today and physically they're all bigger than my almost five year old iPhone 4. The user interfaces are essentially the same as on my iPhone or my even older G1.

I did see a curved smartphone for the first time though, so I predict in 5 years phones will be semicircular, about 40% larger than they are today, and have slightly faster graphics.
fwiw Salesforce announced Merrill Lynch as their biggest customer in 2007 and have added a few more since then.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/why-salesforce-coms-merrill-ly...

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/cloud-computing/2049/mer...
Stricter HTTP 1.1 framing good bye
That sounds terrifying. Can you give some examples of ten year goals? I don't even know where I want to be a year from now.
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...rather than the own up to the fact that they are contributing to the problem.

I'm not a user, so I honestly don't know, but is there a "fair trade" movement for drugs? If not, then the only thing users could possibly know is that, if there were no war on drugs, there would be no need for violent cartels to produce and distribute them.
Saw that too. In other parts "morning" is referenced more than once. I assume the "setting" sun is a mistake and should have been "rising" sun.
Humans are imperfect, they will buy drugs and try them. I don't recommend it or want people around me to but stopping them with force and violence is the same black/white problems we have all the time.

Dishonesty? Being dishonest is having the attitude like your position isn't directly creating armies/cartels to be more powerful and concentrated. Which is a bigger problem to you, 'dishonesty' about medical marijuana or active cartel creation? According to your logic, the violence/mafias of the prohibition era were caused by the people wanting a drink and to have fun. There was nothing wrong with that if done safely, it was made unsafe by policy and created more problems than it solved and a bigger problem than the initial problem.

Yes the medical marijuana thing is mostly people wanting to smoke weed but there is also actual patients of it. If you were in immense pain everyday and didn't want to eat or smile... sorry, @paulhauggis doesn't want you to smoke a joint grandma because you are being 'dishonest' about it. Grandma just wanted to be happy but I guess she has to be in pain first.

The first person to buy marijuana in Washington was a 60+ year old lady -- a grandma -- she said it made her happy (http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024022679_storesopen...). The first person in Colorado was a soldier back from Iraq who had PTSD (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/01/sean-azzariti-marij...). I guess they are both 'dishonest'.

I didn't want to get into this but, a large majority of Americans have smoked marijuana. As our police and oversight get better or more militarized and everything is tracked, we are going to have to man up and remove laws that are silly and harmful. We don't want to ruin college kids lives or take grandma's plants from her and throw her in jail.

In prohibition you had to get alcohol from an illegal bar or from the mafia, was that a better situation? That is what we have now with weed that grandma and possibly your kids in college want to smoke and nothing you do will stop them, not even force/laws/shaming. But you can make it safer where people slip up. What we need is to man up and deal with that reality and create structures to help people, and most importantly, reduce the concentration of funds going to cartels. Even if legal and the cartels turn into corporations that is better than black market/highly armed operations to fight the War against them.

Your xenophobia about the 'dishonesty' of it is the problem creating a war south of the border. It will continue as your attitude is prevalent as the US sees black and white not gray which it really is.
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...where...can we find existing models of legalization along with which there is no market that incentivizes drug-related criminal behavior?

I hear Portugal has had decent results.
I'm deathly afraid of that ever becoming true. An OS in a VM by default? Isn't that the end of all things nice and native? I know that's pretty much the state of affairs in the browser already but I do worry about how that would affect other parts.

Will system language become even less popular and "apps" even more popular? Will we completely live in the cloud by default? What will happen to our data in the long run?
Fuji and Sony's latest cameras are pretty amazing, feature full cameras at cheap prices. I bought and used the Fuji line for the last year, always hoping it would replace my desire for a Leica.

But in the end I use my Leica M. For the simple reason that it is a camera that allows me to manually control it without compromise. I can focus it faster than any autofocus, I can feel the exposure and set it before I raise it to my eye, and the lenses look like butter.

Yes, their price is about double of the equivalent of my Canon SLR and lens, but that's a small premium to pay for a camera that melds manual controls with my mind.

For many buying a Leica is like buying a Louis Vuitton bag, but it is still the best working camera out there for it's specialized purpose.

Source, I'm a working photojournalist based in Egypt: www.DavidDegner.com
Commercial CNC machines and other motion control applications will _never_ run off of web-based software. Not to say it isn't possible under the right conditions, but those conditions can't be ensured. There will always exist applications that require low response times that the internet cannot dependably deliver.

High end CAD and CAM software also falls under this umbrella. There is simply too much computation/rendering occuring.
Thank you for the tip ~! Praxis looks awesome.

Love the intro video you have - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VRtRazMYSA

I noticed you added some MIDI stuff a few days ago. Sweet :)

[EDIT] Found that createuniverses has a few Praxis videos here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC43RpT7id6sn995kR_F0RNw
Apple Pay doesn't interfere with rewards.
Mother of all selection biases. We only know their failures. Their victories, by definition, are unknown to us.

In what possible scenario could we ever hope to learn the full extent of their crimes? Intelligence agencies burn their records when they are threatened. The Stasi had to destroy paper records, which they failed to do rapidly enough to prevent the public from physically seizing them. The CIA watched this happen. They learned from those mistakes. And this time, only encryption keys need to be shredded to put those documents beyond our reach.
Only since January 27, 2013, and not in all states. [1]

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We live in a surveillance state.. I don't understand why the CIA can't find the leaders of these organizations and slip arsenic in their morning coffees.
>minority of the population to override the majority's decision

That doesn't sound like a good description. The largest group doesn't care one way or the other, and should probably be excluded from the decision.

If some arbitrary issue has 80% uncaring, 15% for, 5% against, I would say it should definitely happen.
It was a trip for work, so I was mostly accompanied by people who did speak Spanish.
Handling cash costs money too - security guards, safes, deposit runs, counting.
There's a lot of truth to that somewhat sarcastic response and I agree that Bitcoin probably won't be the kind of day-to-day mechanism that people use to buy lunch and concert tickets.

It's a shame you didn't really engage with what I had to say.
I was downvoted yesterday for criticizing someone's lame joke on an article concerning Michael Jordan, the computer scientist. Guess what the joke involved?
I must be totally dense because I am not understanding this at all. As an example, the security system in my home has a duress code that I can enter which disarms the alarm while silently alerting the authorities that my duress code has been entered. In most cases, this is probably sufficient. However, for certain adversaries who are aware that a duress code exists, they could make the "bargain" with me that if I enter a duress code, they will murder the rest of my family. They might not know that my duress code has been entered, but if the authorities come poking around, they will know.

So, in Alice's case, she gets kidnapped. The attackers are aware that she might have a duress code. They tell her that if she enters the duress code, her entire family will be murdered. If Alice lives in an area where authorities are in bed with and inseparable from the criminal element, is she going to take the risk that the authorities are alerted?

If we are talking about a panic code which erases all information on the phone, do you not think that the same bargain can be applied? In fact, such a system might get innocent people murdered and needlessly tortured since, if someone is suspected of having sensitive information - but actually don't - the attacker might get the idea that a duress or panic code was entered which deleted said information.

In any case, it doesn't seem like encryption is going to save people from real harm.
I think you may be misunderstanding ApplePay -- it doesn't get in the way of your CC rewards - it's just a better UX for the classic CC experience. And, I think, Apple has specifically planned for cases where you damage or lose your phone and you're not screwed (or, rather, you're not any more screwed than you'd be with a damaged or lost phone, which stinks in either case!) You just put your phone into 'Lost' mode (remotely) and load your CC details onto your replacement phone. Much safer than losing your physical credit card since your number will never be exposed.
>We could very well apply this logic to say, murder. Why not let us legalise murder, set up appropriate channels for people to hire hitmen to kill each other, so that the underground killers would not have any more customers and then they will gradually die out?

like a government sponsored drone-strike-for-sale hotline? put the hitmen out of business with pure capitalism and good old legal (international) murder.