skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I know far, far less about the regulatory side than the practical side. I gather it's focused mainly on merchants, but the card providers themselves founded it?

I'm not sure what I can say except not every bank seems to share that view (although as said in other comments, quite a few banks do indeed have paleolithic systems in unexpected places, and that tends to extend to their security practices - I am not able to name any names, but I can wave in the vague general direction of things which involve VAXen, COBOL and DES-and-I-don't-mean-3DES, all of which thankfully predate me). But I'm not exactly familiar with US banking practices (thankfully): did the credit union just not issue any Visa/Mastercard/etc cards? Huh.
About 20K uniques a day, so with 1 email a day that would be way less than 0.1%.
Google is working on a new VPN service for use on open WiFi networks
We don't want to have to rely on other nations for our food supply.
Which Microsoft, in classic Microsoft fashion, completely failed to recognize the significance of. XMLHttpRequest was used only by Outlook Web Access (the kludgey old MS Exchange webmail client), and never took off until Google saw the potential in it and used it in Google Maps.
> Bootable OpenBSD USB sticks are simple to make.

So are bootable CDs and coffee, but people still buy them.

This is a fundraiser for OpenBSD -- a bootable, branded USB stick would get the purchaser their copy of OpenBSD, be future advertising ("Oh hey! That's a nice Puffy USB Key you have!"), provide utility (as a general purpose USB device) after their laptop has OpenBSD installed/updated, and be a nice little collectable artifact too.
Ditto for Denmark: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.netbank.n...
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Yeah, I agree that an Objective-C target makes more sense because it's more broadly useful (and Apple is still making backwards-incompatible changes to Swift). Thanks for the link!
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This is going to put companies like Dell in an awkward position. For the longest time people have been asking them to produce several universal PSUs, but instead at least in the consumer space they keep producing a new incompatible brick every year or so, now sometimes shipping with chips in them to assure nobody can make generic/compatible ones.

So if USB-C laptop charging becomes popular, what will Dell do? Conform and lose the golden egg which is PSU sales, or keep doing what they're doing and let their competition gain ground?

PS - Yes, Dell already somewhat produces a "universal" PSU for their business grade laptops. As does Lenovo with their Thinkpad line(s). However in the consumer space few if anybody does.
Why not just buy the more important foods?
The waste brine water is pretty toxic to the environment. Nobody believes that this will cause people to die of dehydration. Worst case scenario, if you look beyond the severe inconvenience factor of having to regulate when you can water your lawn, or if you can fill your pool, lots of farmers would lose their jobs. Almonds and rice won't be able to continue under these conditions. Beyond that, there is plenty of water to go around to keep people hydrated.
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I'd prefer it the other way around, actually. Forget the rating, maybe just give a thumbs-up/thumbs-down, and require at least a couple of sentences' worth of review.

It's fairly easy to ignore a bogus review when you look at it, but the star system makes it too easy to take them at face value.
What would happen if the gov't did nothing?

1. Water would become more scarce in California. Not everyone would get what they need.

2. Price of produce would go up, since there is a smaller supply.

3. We'd start to import more produce (either from outside the country or other states) because the price is the same or lower than the new, higher CA price.

4. Other farmers, who don't grow what CA grows, would start to because it's more profitable as prices rise.

The gov't doesn't really have to do anything. That's the beauty of the free market.
Well, I've noticed that I have two very distinct modes that correspond quite closely to the Meyers Briggs judging/perceiving trait. INTP mode is open to new things, but unable to get anything done, and INTJ mode is closed off, but terribly effective.

To make real things with computers is actually a lot easier than deciding in which of the many possible ways you would like to make things with computers. You simply cannot let second-order concerns (shopping for tools) dominate first-order concerns (building things).

If you feel like you're in a rut, try solving some synthetic exercises that ask you to solve some simple string or integer array puzzles using no libraries.
Hi, thanks for the feedback.

Yes, we do have price notifications like CamelCamelCamel. It's more rudimentary, but I think that's what the common user would prefer.

1) Did you click on the button from the landing page, or signup page?

2) There's a bit of a problem here where it needs to load the DOM first. I think I need a way to create something that provides better error handling.
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Think of the difference as being like the difference between teaching future engineers and future scientists.

I think many CS programs are, or should be, how to engineer software. Of course, any engineer must study the science behind the field.
I think I was looking for a way to "hide" a project/make it private. And after about 30 minutes of clicking around trying different settings/features I felt like it was too bloated for me. For me - I love the simplistic nature of Google Code.
The problem is cashing out. Any method of transferring the money to somewhere you can spend it (including Bitcoin) is going to require an identity. Not impossible, but certainly not as easy as Tor.
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I need your advice, a film/tv production company wants me to sign a 3-year employment contract (full time sr software dev position). What terms do you suggest I negotiate? What if I want to leave before three years?
Hi! A new version of the Freeciv HTML5 client has been released today. I'm the developer of the Freeciv HTML5 web client. I would be very interested in hearing suggestions about how to improve this open source strategy game. How can I make this game better?

The source code can be found on github: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web
The reason nobody cares about IE today is that it has a far lower market share. On desktop far more people are using Chrome, and it's nowhere to be seen on mobile, given that it's tied to the Windows Phone platform, which is usually a rounding error in usage numbers.

I don't think Mac OS/Linux has a huge impact here. And as for the inability to test IE, try modern.ie - free Windows VMs with different IE versions. It's not that difficult.
If you want to see another success story using Haxe check out Motion-Twin.
I really like '!$' and '!:1' in bash. '!$' holds the last argument of the last command and '!:n' holds the nth argument.

$ cd /big/long/path/to/this.txt
Oops
$ vim !$
Part of the problem that IE has had for a long time, and that the CSS this article discusses is a continuation of, is that IE sits in its own world as far as CSS standards go. It sure sounds like the great tool for carousels that this article discusses is still IE-specific. That means you can't use it on any other browser, which effectively means it's DOA from the get go.
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Don't just downvote because you like the web as an application platform. I am serious. The exact reason that these specific extensions being discussed are not standard now, along with dozens of others that would make application development much easier, is because providing an application platform is explicitly not the goal of HTML, CSS, or the web in general.
Maybe they just prefer nano?

More likely, if this is meant to be a gentle introduction to the command line, vim is a pretty scary place. Nano works much more like a "normal" text editor.
From an overall design process, strong consideration needs to be given to the functional reason as to why someone who didn't grow up with with technology would decide to use it. It could be as simple as a need to communicate with grandchildren who live far away, or it could be as complex as finding ways to retain independence and being self-sufficient after moving into a retirement residence. This question needs to be asked before venturing down the design-path, "how much closer does this service get the user to fulfilling their need?".
Subsides for more important crops could probably work. However from what I understand, much of the popularity of almonds has to do with them being a reliable crop that are fairly easy to count on. You don't need to replant them every year, so they are less risky than other crops.

Subsidies for more important crops would probably have to match the profitability of almonds and offset the additional risk. Still, it should be possible.
With Unity 5 [0] and Unreal Engine 4 [1], it's no longer necessary to use browser plugins.

[0] http://blog.mozilla.org/press/2015/03/unity-5-ships-and-brin...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/02/24/unreal-engine-4-7-b...
I don't think there's a drop-in alternative to the Flash API other than OpenFL, but you can achieve the same outcomes in pretty much any language.

If you're just looking for multi-platform stuff, that's almost a minimum requirement now: unity3d, unreal engine, xamarin, javascript etc.
The figures used in the Wikipedia article include "environmental" water use (water that flows to the sea in streams, etc. most other sources do not include this in their figures. Environmental "use" accounts for 50% of total water use in the state and why Wikipedia's 40% for Ag is everyone else's 80%.
Still unpatched dartvm vs. dart2js numerics divergence:

http://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=1533

Could be addressed via asm.js bignum emulation and should be addressed by work (w/ Googlers helping) on bignums in ES-next.
Oh happy day! I never expected to see such a staunch defence and enthusiasm for central government command economies here on HN! Who knew that all it took was the idea of buying food from foreigners to bring out HN's closeted Marxists.
This is bound to happen, just like it happen for mobile phones (except iPhone).
There are plenty of web-based games using canvas / webGL that don't require any plugins.
This is a good use of influence, hopefully it's not only for a bulletin point.
A single person can have periods of shipping so damn much, and others of not shipping a damn.

I apply a few tricks when I detect I am in a low productivity season (like right now, I hate to admit):

- Drop those projects or activities that are sucking time but are not really going anywhere

- Create weekly and daily TODO lists (sometimes on paper, others in Trelll)

- Be more disciplined about my daily TODO list: won't go to bed until the last item of today's list is done

- Monitor my computer usage (I use RescueTime for that)
Please not WA. We have enough Californians moving here and driving up prices already.
When I said "gym" I meant rock climbing gym, but they do have some weight lifting and cardio stuff there.

The guy that invited me is quite a bit heavier than me. I'm about 15lbs heavier than I want to be, and he could probably lose 50-60lbs. He climbs way better than me.

Weight is an issue, and he and actually has a personal trainer who is focusing on his weight and diet, but just being a little overweight is no reason you can't climb. I've seen some a few "fat" people there doing wall climbing.

Climbing exerts a lot of energy and you will burn calories doing it, while building muscle. You can pick the easy routes and go up and down them over and over.
The article states the the National Bank of Greece was the nice bank, NOT the one harassing him. It was the SECOND one that harassed him.

By listing the nice bank's twitter first, you're going to cause a backlash against the one that actually responded nicely.
Stack Overflow already has a great thread on this very question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/764439/why-binary-and-not...
Can you explain a bit more why the recurrent network structure becomes necessary at some point? Is that because reversing a CNN naturally means rendering by (de)convolution?
Avocados are produced much more efficiently in Michoacán. Now that 85% of avocados sold in USA are imported, the conversion of these orchards to more sustainable agriculture would be less of a blow to the consumer.
I use keepass in Linux, Windows and Android and i think there is an iOS version as well.
For me, a lot comes down to that complicated "work/life balance". I need to make sure I get enough sleep, I get varieties of stimulation, I get enough time with the people I really love (love is a HUGE part of my life)... that I'm balanced. If the balance goes out of whack, if I overfocus on one thing, my broader productivity drops precipitously.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint. Every time you sprint, you reduce your marathon speed. Sprints wipe out energy reserves that need replenished. I'll bet if you look at the high-productivity people you admire, you rarely see them panicked against a hard deadline with impossible requirements. They don't get into those situations, because they know what it will do to their overall productivity.

Also? Success breeds success, and comfort with occasional failure breeds comfort with occasional failure. The biggest cause of procrastination and paralysis imho is fear of failure, of doing something wrong. Look at the billions of questions on internet forums of the "What is the best X for Y?" form. People won't try to do Y, because they don't have the "best" X. They fear that if they don't have the best X, they'll fail - which is in itself a magical belief that X is the source of success. It's not X that succeeds - it's I.

Really productive people also have good process. They're skilled at breaking down complex tasks into manageable pieces. And no, asking "What is the best process for maximum productivity?" will not get you there. Try processes, and see what happens. Refine by iteration.

Highly effective people are also very good at saying no. There's more interesting stuff to do, more demands on your time and resources, than anyone can possibly do. Learning to say no, quickly and firmly, is the best way to save your energy for the things that get a yes. Dabbling and dithering doesn't get work done. It wastes time and energy.

Wow, I should blog about this.
Yet both Apple and Google do this, frequently, and fewer people complain.
The other difference is the ground water reservoirs are significantly more drained now than in the 1930s.
People looking to set up their own VPN server are missing the point. Your run-off-the-mill hoster is not any more trustworthy than a run-off-the-mill VPN provider so you aren't gaining anything security-wise. In fact you are losing (slightly) by having your traffic exiting the tunnel stick out where with a shared IP extra effort (potentially non-trivial) would be required to tell your traffic apart from that of other users. A subscription with a reputable VPN provider costs less or as much as a VPS with a reputable VPS provider, so you aren't gaining anything cost-wise either.

If you do it for the skillz, sure, but otherwise it's completely pointless.

Edit: Just to make it clear, that wasn't directed at the project here, but at some of the comments in this and other VPN-related threads. Another VPN protocol and implementation is always cool. (although Windows users need love too)
The best way to protect your privacy is through multiple layers of protection. If one fails you aren't completely exposed.

1. Get a mailbox (eg UPS Store) and use that instead of your home address. This is worth the $5-15/m cost for package delivery alone. No worrying about someone stealing packages from your home while you're at work. Privacy is a bonus.

2. Use a phone service like Google Voice to protect your phone number.

3. Add WHOIS privacy on top of that if you really feel you need it.

Email protection isn't really an issue. I use domains@[mydomain] and all the spam I get is filtered.
I apologize I read that last line right after I hit reply. I still cannot transfer files. I use it to manage the existing FreeBSD\Windows\Linux boxes that we currently have and have a bunch of templates that I use already.
You don't see fields of corn in California because it's not an attractive climate for corn.

Why? I've seen corn grown in California. I think the lack of corn has more to do with the ability to grow more profitable crops than corn in California.

I can't see why corn wouldn't grow well here.
Pick eliminates the pain of scheduling by surfacing mutual availabilities between 2 or more users. Users also get a personalized link so they can share their available times with anyone.
Or just buy the books used, perform the review, and sell them back, taking a small hit on shipping....
Indeed, I wouldn't be shocked if the existing micro-USB standard for charging mobile devices in the EU is replaced/supplanted with USB 3.1 Type-C. It'd make a lot of sense, all round.
Just because they're your family, doesn't make them typical users. http://gs.statcounter.com/

Chrome is more widely used than IE.
> Senior Director of Business Development

Ah, "professional management"… the beginning of the end of any good company.
I like doing both. Previously I was working 100% remote and it was quite isolating. I don't really like being around people very much, so in that sense isolation suited me, but I still need to have some amount of interaction to feel "normal" and stave off sinking into depression.

Now I work in an office and work from home at least one day a week, sometimes more, and the freedom to work where I feel like working that day is quite nice. Sometimes you just don't feel like doing the commute, or you didn't get much sleep or whatever, and it's fine.

I agree the tools are not very good - using Skype-the-app sucks, but Skype is also the only video-chat solution I've tried where the audio isn't terrible or echo-y. (Sometimes the echo situation turns into straight-up feedback.) Actually, they all work fine for one-on-one video chatting, but when you start adding people to the call, things get ugly quick.
Snarky. I'm curious if you believe that's an effective way to interact with another person? Would you treat someone like that in real life? How would you feel if someone responded to you that way? Would you find them convincing?

In any case, you completely missed the point. Based on your model, we're not giving them any money, so there is no problem. Right?

Or perhaps you'd actually like to RTFA and my comment, and make a constructive, intelligent, relevant reply.
This thread is long so this comment will likely fall pretty quickly, but this page is pretty telling in terms of usage by sector: http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1108

1. Environmental 50%
2. Ag 40%
3. Urban 10%

(btw, this is particularly topical when my landlord just informed us he'd be swapping our shower heads for lower-flow ones due to increased costs in Southern Cal (bringing a toothpick to a gun fight?))

The thought process for how to decrease use, though, would be:
1. Can we tap into environmental use and, if so, how much, or is that verboten?
2. If no, which ag can we forgo with the least human/economic impact?
3. If no easy answer looking at both human and economic impact of ag, which ag can we forgo with the least human impact (e.g., if none of us had an almond ever again, would the world be worse off for it? That makes killing almonds purely economic)
4. If there's not enough from 1-3, then we've probably gotten to a life-threatening lack of water and so we get rid of crops that have the least "nutritional" value (i.e., crops that are best at sustaining life are the ones we keep)
5. If we still can't support life, looks like it's time to desalinate, create a pipeline from east or move

Of course, even though it's a drop in the bucket, we should just immediately save the 5% that's used for urban and residential landscaping (see article; ~50% of urban use is landscaping) because there's nothing "essential" about that even though there would be an economic impact (and a whole lotta angry golfers).
It's been a bunch of hours since I raised this objection and a lot is going on here right now but let me just raise a belated "I stand totally corrected".
Did I say I was saying that? I said "they", meaning the people referred to in the linked article.
Eh, I cut out Spotify (what, $9.99/month) and saved some $120/year. Woopty do. I cut out Starbucks ($2/day since I get regular coffee) and make coffee at home I save at least twice that. I cut out fast food lunches ($6/meal) and bring cheap cold cut sandwiches (no more than $2/meal with some veggies as a side) and I save close to $1k/year.

It's like profiling code. Sure there are some easy cheap gains, but when you find that 80% of your time is spent on task X you may want to focus your performance profiling on that section.

EDIT: I'd like to add, that in other parts of the country (I saw this in OK and GA, at least) golf is reasonably popular even amongst the lower middle class. I don't know how it is in CA (or what percentage of courses are accessible to that economic group), but it may not be just the rich elite that would lose out if you eliminated golf courses from the state.
Some crops would take years to rebound, like nuts, which are both water intensive and take years to mature.
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"...and the second best time is today"
We just released our second game in Haxe on iOS a few weeks ago and we're releasing the Android version in another 6 weeks. It's a Unity client with haxe-generated C# code and then javascript and node on the server. There have definitely been a bunch of hiccups and hitches along the way, but it's been pretty good overall.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/world-zombination/id68062469...
Put it back in the ocean? That's where it was before anyways. It's not like that would have any impact on the salt concentration of the ocean.
Yes, you should =)
What is preventing is from building canals from the Northeast to California? They are having devastating snowstorm s and we having draught. It make sense.
There are many politically active people who would starve the American public to death if necessary to prevent the exportation of riches from the US to foreign nationals.
But farmers aren't the only consumers of water, so is everyone that lives in CA. The issue as I see it is the drought combined with agriculture combine to drive the price of water up and it's unlikely the corrective (forcing farmers to migrate out of state to water rich locations) will happen before critical levels are hit for servicing residential populations and their needs.
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This reminds me of a conversation I had a while back with some other folks like me who had grown up in Ohio. We were talking about what sort of program would help turn around Ohio's brain drain to the states of the South and West, which has been going on in various degrees since the collapse of the industrial Rust Belt.

My thought was that, in a few decades, you won't need a program to make living in Ohio attractive; all you'll have to do is say "Ohio is a place where free water falls from the sky" and people will come running.
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Interesting research in this direction is making progress, helping to explain WHY red meat may be dangerous:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141229152226.ht...
This is a great point in that design for an older demographic is not actually about 'designing for an older demographic'. It's a call to go back to the principles of understanding intent and purpose. The end result is good design, not just good design for older adults.