skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My trick of getting the money fast is to offer 2% discount, if they pay within 7 days.

Great tactic. The reason this works, in some cases, is NOT because the company cares about a measly 2% of whatever they're paying, but because they may have a policy that says they _must_ accept discounts if available.
Adware is not a broken product, it is an illegal scheme to earn profit on other peoples hardware by deliberate deception.

Did they inform their customers in advertisements, in the stores, or in any way that sold devices was being used by Lenovo after sale? Were there a meeting of minds where customers agreed to have their traffic MiTM and have advertisement of Lenovo choice on their device in return for fair compensation? That could have made it legal, but as it stand, no aspects of consumer protection laws, advertisement laws, contract laws, computer crime laws, or data protection laws seemed to have be followed.

They secretly snuck into peoples private property, used a backdoor, and earned profits doing so. They didn't tell anyone for obvious reasons. Had it been a one-man company doing this, then that person would be facing jail time.
Splunk and ElasticSearch + LogStash + Kibana (ELK) are two popular solutions in the same space.
The 'two-sexes approximation' is boolean, not binary. Boolean involves two possible values; binary involves an infinite number of possible values, represented in base-2.[1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary
What about the DNA tied him to the crime as opposed to the just the crime scene? The article doesn't really go into that.

If they're just comparing the DNA that was left behind at the police station to DNA they found at a crime scene, I don't see any issue.
Other considerations aside, DNA analysis is so easy and getting so cheap, its inevitable it will be used in every facet of our lives. So learn to live with it. Or become a luddite hiding in a cave.
I've clarified my "single function hypothesis" to say that they would tend to not find "everything and anything" of interest which is what I thought I was saying in my original comment.

My point isn't that a Nobel Prize winner would be interested in "physics and society" or baseball or gardening or all three but they would not have a version of ADD (let's call it that for lack of a better diagnosis [1]) which caused them to continually fork on all sorts of things that just satisfied someone's curiosity so to speak. (I also noted in another comment that I found this as well in Physicians who I have known.)

[1] I don't have ADD but sometimes I wonder if there is a version of intellectual ADD.
Per the WP article:

The officers involved in the operation were suspended with pay, and the family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city.

Message to the officers, and to their brethren colleagues in the profession being, in so many words: "Aw shucks, it was just a little misunderstanding. After all, she didn't follow instructions, did she? Don't beat yourselves up over it."
I think anyone exposed to the issue's details will understand it very easily. My point is that they won't (be exposed).

The HN crowd is such an insignificant percentage of the overall population that I don't see how word of mouth will have any impact.
Some of us are quite happy to pay for it.

And yes we did get an audit and had to fork out a couple of average developers' salaries but to be honest we're fucking rolling in cash thanks to them, so meh. Time to market is stupid low - we can have stuff up on Azure and making cash before the Java guys have started Eclipse and the python guys have provisioned their virtual envs and written their first wsgi handler.

(for ref, we do run some Linux kit on Azure but it's memcached and ops stuff)
When I click that link it redirects me to the HN home page. If I paste it into the address bar and open it with no referer, it redirects to the Gamamia home page.
Yes, we should, because getting it wrong can ruin lives and even cause deaths.
And what about if I'm a camera enthusiast who just likes to shoot photos, but doesn't have time to read all the photography news sites.

Is that Canon ad on HBR relevant to me? Are Canon cameras subpar?
It is similar in SOLR (and other NoSQL data stores) currently .. at least as far as I am aware. It can be quite intensive especially since ES, SOLR, etc like to use as much memory as they can for fast access. Any non-trivial application should have duplicate servers / instances to soak up the traffic while a change like that is migrated.
Some of the unusual situations mentioned are birth defects. About 3% of babies have birth defects.[1]

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/features/birthdefects...
They are also shunned by many large shops on the server-side. Where I work now (70,000+ people), there is a strict "no Microsoft on the servers" policy.

The "average boring old cube farm" uses Java. Microsoft = Windows + Office.
cool. thanks for posting on reddit.
That would only happen if you removed human bodies altogether.
So I wanted to warn you about the sad state of Linux Wi-Fi [1], but Alas! That link is rotten!

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8075880
While true, this blanket statement does a disservice to the actual situation. The parts of the language/CIL stack that make .NET important -- apps on Windows -- remains closed. It is only the ASP web stack that has been open-sourced, and can now be run on non-Windows platforms. When the WinForm libraries are open-sourced (and, perhaps, Visual Studio), then there can be an honest evaluation about ".NET" being open sourced. That's my opinion, anyway, as a 20-year Linux fan and current .NET Windows developer. I don't have enough rep to downvote anyone.
Marking invoices with 2%/7 NET 30 or any variation thereof is definitely a great practice.

The shorthand means X% discount if paid in Y days, with full amount due in 30.
I think I found the problem. Had a query missing "AS" for a column alias. Could you try if this build works? https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/eggerapps.at/postico/post...
The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
Where to move from Debian on desktop?
I am a bit tired of the systemd controversy. And as years pass, I am also getting tired of change for the sake of change and of younger generations taking Debian into unpredictable directions.

Should I look into FreeBSD or even NetBSD? Or jump onto Gentoo? Any other alternatives to consider?
Can we agree that 70 million people is not a negligible number?
Steal these high converting email drip campaigns from Hubspot and Trunkclub
New FAA drone regulations draw inspiration from Canada, but miss key aspect
Apple sued for poaching A123 employees to build battery division
The Azure giveaway for startups is nice, but I don't think the cloud is MS's main goal here. It's about PR and company perception. They need to lure developers back to the ecosystem so that their app store can stop being an empty wasteland. That's why they're giving out VS, that's why they're giving free updates to Windows 10, and that's why they're trying to improve their image in the developer community. Without developers writing good software for Windows, people are going to keep hating the OS.

The other thing the store brings is a centralized source for reputable software downloads. The malware-infested download.com and its ilk are a huge issue for your average Windows user. Putting downloads in one place, making them sortable by popularity and ratings, and making it easy to pay for things would make a huge difference for the user experience. There was a bit of an uproar when Apple did it in OS X, but now it's an expected feature.

It's funny how Windows used to be the OS that had all the 3rd party software written for it. Now for any given task OS X tends to have one or two really great options, and Windows tends to have a pile of 50 abandoned weekend projects and open source UI trainwrecks but nothing you'd actually enjoy using.
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(I work for Stripe.) That's correct. Stripe does not currently support recurring or repeated payments with Bitcoin. The receivers can only be used for a single payment.
According to the CMA [0];

The offence of unauthorised access requires proof of two mens rea elements, (see section 4 CMA):

(1) there must be knowledge that the intended access was unauthorised; and
(2) there must have been an intention to obtain information about a program or data held in a computer - section 1(2) CMA.

[0] http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/computer_misuse_act_1990/
I think we are & will continue to see mass die-offs of the current generation of exchanges, as many were formed in a time where regulation and security were of less concern--combine that with the fact that they amass enormous amounts of untraceable value under what is essentially a single, private key, they're the ideal target.

The beauty of true P2P is that while a central authority still has the potential to compromise the network, the distributed nature at least distributes the attack surface equally. I imagine banks & security-conscious, established digital financial service providers will step in at some point to assume the role of the exchanges. It may be a step back for privacy and anonymity (sadly) but a major step forward for its legitimacy.

More importantly, the concept of interchangeability is emerging. When you find that BTC and $ transactions can be reconciled seamlessly (ie, agnostically with no logistical concern to source whether credit card, BTC, EBT, etc.) I think that P2P option may start to happen naturally. Providers like Stripe abstracting this is certainly the first step.

[edit] I would love to see what would happen if a company like Venmo that deals primarily in socail micro-transactions were to attempt a UX integration.
Not so fast. Often DNA can identify that you are likely related to someone who committed a crime. This can lead to interesting results in cases where the relationship is not known.

For example consider the case where a couple with fertility problems used a sperm donor. The child is never told that this happened. Then police identify that the crime was likely committed by someone who shares 1/4 of their DNA with the child. In other words that child's grandchild, grandparent, half-sibling, aunt or uncle. You can imagine the sudden disruption when the police show up?

It gets even worse if the child was the result of an affair. Or if the person who committed the crime was. Or if the child was in some other way the result of a family secret.

Oh right, and it gets more problematic. The traced DNA is not necessarily the criminal's. You find hair at the crime scene, but maybe it was present before the crime. The hair is a lead, it is not proof.

These cases are common enough that schools long ago learned not to use people's families for demonstration of how genes work in biology classes. Heck, they are common enough that I personally know people that I know are in these kinds of situations. And you have to get to know someone pretty well before you find out about stuff like this.

And now we're going to have law enforcement randomly exposing private situations like this. Maybe we as a society consider this worthwhile. But there is no question that privacy will be invaded here.
I agree with you completely. Cookies are an older technology and is well supported in all kinds of browser. Plus it does the client side of session management for you(sending the tokens on every request). Localstorage is newer technology and might not be feasible in all situations. Plus JS+XHR are also not available to all kinds of users. (People using Tor, NoScript etc).

Also, I don't see the advantage of storing session/auth tokens in localstorage over cookies. Both are stored in plain text, and can be read if somehow it is obtained. Also, using localstorage means writing your own client-side implementation of doing the session management.

I also don't see the advantage of using session tokens in URLs. Anyway cookies are included as part of header of the HTTP request, you don't have to have your application send session trackers. I think both are functionally same and the tokens in URLs just does not look good!

And public/private key-based signing system is still not there yet, unless we simplify some UX issues about having private/public keys for every user, we are not getting there.

So, it looks like, to me, there is no really effective alternative for doing sessions apart from cookies (even in HTTP/2)?!
Stripe (in this case) receives bitcoins and it is exposed to fluctuations. So, if Stripe guarantees the seller a price for the bitcoin, I would think that Stripe has a mechanism to limit or even eliminate the risk from that exposure. I am interested in learning how Stripe does it.
Do you know how Stripe does it?
That's not what I mean. What I mean is that given two products -- one with an open protocol and one with closed -- very, very few customers will exercise a buying preference for the former.
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Same here. I just ordered a Lenovo desktop 3 days ago for a family member. Seriously thinking about canceling the order now even though that machine should not be affected. I've been recommending Lenovo to lots of people, and I personally have a ThinkPad and a Yoga 2 Pro. I found the Superfish certificate on the Yoga this morning. This glib and dismissive statement is just adding insult to injury. As ambivalent as I am about lawsuits, I'm hoping Lenovo's management will get a class action right in its mendacious face.
I agree. Nowdays I read things like "IANAL" or "AFAIK" as words, not acronyms. When one reaches this point, such acronyms are pretty convenient.
Most ACD platforms provide work flow routing APIs so that third party applications can route tasks to the connected agents. Doesn't mean this is any less than an ACD with API's on it. Also task routing has become ubiquitous with the omni-channel multi-channel routing and CRM routing you see across all contact center vendor platforms.
The 'two-sexes approximation' is boolean, not binary. Boolean involves two possible values; binary involves an infinite number of possible values, represented in base-2.[1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary

note: this is a re-post of a comment made on a child of the OP.
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I also had to laugh when Jobs started talking about "antenna gate". Instead of saying "We made a mistake here" he started saying "other phones have similar problems", etc. So his response wasn't good, but people still buy Apple and Apply is currently the largest company by market cap...
My experience is that this largely depends on the procurement practices of the company and whether or not your price range is low enough to be below discretionary expense limits.

The greatest feature of SaaS has been the ability to take a 50k software package and make it a 500/month subscription that people who actually need it did not have to go through the official procurement process and could simply expense it.

From the orgs where I worked, $500 to $1000 per month seemed to be the usual limit for expense items, depending by company size and the position of the person expensing it. CTOs typically can get away with a lot more...
They were making money (tens of millions) from software illegally installed, so definitely.
Solr is a lot more configurable (Search Components, Update Request Processors, configurable Schemaless processing sequence, etc).

Solr includes Admin UI console which is free for production, ES has one that's only free for development.

Solr has contributors from a lot more different companies, so grows into multiple directions at once.

If you want to compare on a technical level, you can see my presentation from the Lucene/Solr Revolution back in November: http://www.slideshare.net/arafalov/solr-vs-elasticsearch-cas...

Solr is completely free. If that's not an issue for you and you are ready to pay, then you should compare Elasticsearch to LucidWorks Fusion, not directly to Solr.
Why defend a "highly accurate" approximation that also happens to be oppressive to the people who fall outside of it? So far as I can see learning to incorporate more nuance into our social understanding is the way these oppressive institutions are overcome, and how more diverse groups learn to coexist. Defending approximations like this runs dangerously close to committing the "naturalistic fallacy" of taking the way things are as the way they ought to be.
I relate. I so relate. We need some kind of support group.
Deceptive Simplicity
>sometimes we use science to justify intolerance, and time and again the science has caught up with what people have reported as their own life experience.

Do you have any examples of this?
You don't have to "waste" the windows license key you purchased... it allows you to do a fresh install and just use that key. You can use any windows ISO or disk to do the fresh install. In fact I think somewhere you can download the Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 ISO's directly from Microsoft.
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If you actually read all the guidelines, you would have seen another one of them:

>"If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Glad I could help!

One last thing: the core idea of functional programming is mapping state to state, the same way a transform matrix maps a vector to another vector. So, to accomplish something, you string together functions to map you from the state you have to an ultimate state that you want.

For something like calculating the average of a set of numbers, this would be:

[ set of numbers ] -> function maps from the "set of numbers space" to the "sum of all numbers in a set space" --> function that maps from the "number space" to the "number space scaled by a value (here being the number of original numbers in the set)" --> your final mean
Out of the funds earned for completing goals ("verified by the community"), what determines how much each individual goal completer gets...?
I don't think you need to buy them (unless you want to gamble on their value going up) - just be willing to accept them as payment in the future. As more people see they can easily spend bitcoin, they become more willing to accept it as payment, and the userbase grows (bringing more price stability, hopefully)
I work for Stripe. While people anywhere around the world can pay with Bitcoin (and we've seen payments from over 60 countries during our beta), we currently only support merchants who have U.S. bank accounts. (Fun fact: Our first Bitcoin user had a Canadian Stripe account, but also a U.S. bank account.)
This was a rape case.
Leaving fingerprints or even DNA on a bloody knife can only confirm you picked up the knife, and therefore that you were present at the scene. In this case the DNA identified him as the perpetrator of the crime.

IMHO the EFF have chosen the wrong case to fight here.
I lived in Mpls for about 28 years, recently moved to Seattle and don't regret it. It doesn't mean I won't come back, my family is there and I love northern Minnesota (cabin country!).

The cold didn't bother me much.

Things that bother me on the coast are the insane traffic, the seemingly lack of aid and/or housing for large homeless populations, yes the high cost of living. But it's mostly awesome.

I'm missing a lot of useful points here, just some ad-hoc thoughts.
The idea that some people fetishize disruption and heads-you-loose, tails-I-win situations baffles me. The utility has expenses beyond the cost of power generation. They don't exist to provide a subsidy to cool upstarts. They provide critical infrastructure for those cool upstarts and everyone else.

There are certainly a lot of perverse incentives and inefficiencies in the current model. Even so, its either ignorant, childish, or intellectually dishonest to act like it is outrageous that a utility has a simplified pricing model that doesn't accommodate the outliers among the outliers (residential customers with large solar and battery installations), or that their overall pricing allows margin for cost recovery and profit on power they deliver, whatever the source.
This is the missing piece in my dev environment. Thanks for a great app!
Quite right - they're not on the same level. However, both are certainly 'user-hostile'.

The thrust of my argument was that most large companies are bad at communicating about technical problems because of the way the message gets filtered through management, PR, lawyers etc. It's probably fair to say that Apple hasn't ever done anything this bad - but it's also disingenuous to hold them up as an unfailing bastion of niceness and competence.
Awesome work! I've been trying to push bitcoin at our company as a form of payment, we use Stripe already, so this will make it easier.
But trivial to make the data available in a machine-readable format to the taxing authorities and let them do the legwork. Which is actually required, per TFA:

"In addition, the city requires short-term rental companies like Airbnb to list the addresses of their rentals—information that could help the city crack down on hosts who don’t live in their apartments. The company has been reluctant to share information."
That's why they get paid the big bucks. These aren't some guys in a garage, they have a $13B valuation. They can afford to hire some people to implement and maintain that database.

In any event, we need not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. They can start with the low hanging fruit. In NYC they reportedly make millions of dollars a year. Certainly that justifies the cost of adding a line in a database? (<30 days, whole place, apartment).
Advantage: Identical twins.
I read this, all these tribulations over years, and then just chuckle as I remember all the people who love to call Notch incompetent.
The primary limitation comes from Lucene, which powers both. With Solr, you could change the definition and reload the core, but you will be getting some weird artifacts for the previously-indexed content.

Neither Solr nor Elasticsearch should be treated as a primary data store, so that's probably why reindex-in-place is not the highest priority.
Can they do the conversion realtime and charge the client whatever rate they get?
check, sometimes wire. some of the ones under $5k/monthly will do credit card or do net 30/60
When an approximation is confused for reality and policy formed, yes, the consequences can be very ugly. This must be avoided.

Does this mean approximations should not be used, or does it mean that one should be aware that the map is not the territory?
Not to be pedantic, but binary is entirely correct in this context. We aren't talking about computer science. Binary means relating to, composed of, or involving two things.

Boolean is simply a binary variable, having two possible values: true and false.
I just use smugmug to backup all my photos. It's $40 per year and supports unlimited photos
Anyone up for decoding the cert used by GoGo Inflight WiFi Service?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150105/09344429597/gogo-...
Depends on what you're dealing with and the significance of it. 70 million is not a significant number of atoms of most things, for instance.

The important question is the second one I posed. What is the acceptable level of error in an approximation?
I actually wrote a bit on how to disable the sidebar in Unity so that it doesn't show up, ever[1]. Since you can't sever it entirely for everything else, stopping it from showing up is the best you can do.

I did this because I like the Unity top bar integration and indicator panels which has a nice sleek look to it.

[1]: http://jonalmeida.com./posts/2014/05/08/ubuntu-14-04-without...
Stripe doesn't currently support recurring or repeated payments with Bitcoin—the receivers can only be used for a single payment.
So if you count out birth defects and dimorphisms that have no weight on "gender" you have an insignificant amount of variance.

Sounds to me like someone is reaching to make science match the way they feel about gender.