skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And these practices are in a way unfair against the rest of us workers!

> Most users who were interviewed said they got pills by feigning symptoms of A.D.H.D., a disorder marked by severe impulsivity and inattention, to physicians who casually write prescriptions without proper evaluations.

And thus these practices disturb statistics about the true prevalence of ADHD.
It's not their knowledge as much as their experience.

The map is not the territory so to speak.
To my mind the bandwagon has been and gone, with those companies moving away from Scala being those who arrived on the bandwagon and departed with it. But I guess it looks different from the inside.

If you're treating Scala as "just a better Java" then you're not writing inefficient code; you're writing code that could be better Scala code but is still better than the Java you would otherwise have written. Even if you never move beyond the "Java without semicolons" stage, hey, it saved you writing all those semicolons.

But Scala absolutely is a full language and not just a better Java; Java 8 barely scratches the surface of what you can do in Scala. I don't think I could bear to work in a language without higher-kinded types again.

Kafka has some very particular constraints that I don't think apply in general; remember they're making a framework rather than an application.
Hearthstone, from the makers of World of Warcraft. It's quite fun. It's on most mobile devices.
There's been articles the past few months about Costco's relationship with Amex, with the conclusion being that the Costco Amex cash-back card will be cancelled in 2016.
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Does anyone know how these services are secured? What do I need other than a phone to send money to someone? What happens if I lose my phone?
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I have fond memories of MTS. While it was clunky in many ways, it was generally adequate and occasionally turned out to have features more advanced than contemporaries. For example, the ability to limit access to a file by "program key" (PKEY) as well as by user/project was a far superior alternative to setuid. (I learned about this in 1985 or so; not sure when the feature appeared.)

Ah, the good old days. Perusing the previous user's history on an Ontel terminal, chatting through MERIT concentrators, and good old MTS. I don't miss the punch cards of my first year, though.
There are stores that accept only one type of card? Is this kind of thing common in the US?
smart idea.
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I'm not sure why you're refusing to see the value exchange here and instead keep focusing on your ability to do something vs. whether it's acceptable.

Terms of use dont require a signature and online/global environment makes it more difficult but they are real and do apply. Perhaps you've never actually created any content but you can talk to the millions of creators out there who would like to be paid for their work and get some more perspective.

Users do want to get stuff for free. The creators/publishers give away content in exchange for ads. If they choose to have paid access, then that's your option. It's up to the publishers to decide how they want to give access to their content and service. If it's through ads, then that's the deal.

If you don't want ads, then you should only stick to publishers that offer paid subscriptions without ads. You don't need to research the publisher, if they have a paywall then you'll see it when you click. Otherwise they're opting to show ads instead. Tampering with their response to only see what you want isn't ok just because you have the technical ability to do so. It's similar to pirating movies, just because you can doesn't mean you argue that its legal or right.

Maybe more people are willing to pay money to read articles without ads, that's something content publishers need to research and offer themselves but that's a completely different topic. Adblocking right now is somewhere in the gray area of legality and morality and while you can choose to do it, please don't assume that means it's right or fair or that we're all idiots trying to force it on you.
I was similarly confused. But now it makes sense that every American seems to have a dozen of different credit cards in his wallet.
I am making an app for education. For now it's a website but I will port it to Android soon. Wanna talk?
AC wireless can be pretty fast.
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Are the speed increases also coming in May?
Costco is somewhat of a special case. The shopping pattern they encourage means that getting an additional card to use there isn't a big blocker.

The majority of stores take Visa/Mastercard. Many do not take American Express. Many stores do offer their own branded credit card (maybe with some incentives specific to the store), but they do that in cooperation with a lender and do not limit payments to that card.
The limited formats (draft and sealed) remove the issue that your opponents' cards might just be better than your cards, but they make the cost problem much worse. It's several times more expensive to play limited (where you have to buy new product every time you want to play) than to play constructed, where you're allowed to reuse the cards you own.
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It should be possible to do this without malloc(), by allocating the co-stack as an array within the current stack. Something like this...

char stack[STACK_SIZE];
int anchor_[unoptimisable_];
char filler_[(char*)&anchor_ - (char*)(stack + STACK_SIZE)];
...

(Haven't tested it, but it's basically the same principle. The same caveats about stack layout and VLAs apply.)
Well on the pragmatic reason Iran wants a corridor to the Med, and ISIS is both a threat and an opportunity to get it.

ISIS in Syria threatens Iran's only fully sponsored stated in the region, but if they do manage to get control over Iraq trough intervention against ISIS they will have an agency to exert control over Iraq, Syria and Lebanon which gives them a very nice corridor to the med.

On the religious side Iran's supports the mirror of ISIS in the form of the Zaidi groups operating in the Arabian peninsula and Africa, most prevalent of them are the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Yemen might seem like a very uninteresting place to most however they have control over the straights of tears (Bab-el Mandeb).

If Iran manages to get sufficient control over Yemen it would put them in a position to fully blockade Saudi Arabia and very large portion of the world's oil supply with it (Persian Gulf, and Bab-el Mandeb), as well as control any ship wanting to traverse trough the Suez canal which means they can also blockade Israel, Egypt, and all traffic from Europe and North Africa towards the Indian Ocean and APAC countries.

Sadly Iran's demonetization in the west makes it very hard for many people to be able to really look at the map and just see the international game of Risk which is being played currently in the middle east.
Iran should scare you not because they are crazy religious zealots as most of them are not, they should scare you because they are extremely pragmatic and are seeking to establish themselves as a regional superpower and a world power and have both the capability and the strive to do so by any means.
If both customers and retailers want a different method of payment, but can't get it, there seems to be something broken.

Also credit cards are supposed to be expensive because of their insurance function. But who needs insurance on their groceries?
I did say "likely". It is of course not necessarily true. It could also be that you want to work for free.

To return to the topic, is there an ethically good reason for a company to want to know your current or previous salary?
This study performs a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled (all good) trial to determine the effect of probiotics using a self-report survey. However, the trial is horribly underpowered [1] (N = 20 per group). There's little reason to believe the differences are true effects, rather than statistical noise.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_power
It is worth noting that Costco currently accepts Visa and MasterCard debit cards, but not credit cards. Most likely they will continue to accept MasterCard debit cards (and perhaps also American Express prepaid debit cards) after this change.
> At that level of accuracy, however, you will find that the rotation of the Earth itself doesn't keep time that well.

If the main purpose of the clock was to measure longitude by observing the position of the stars, "only as accurate as the Earth's rotation is consistent" is as good as you could possibly need.
This story is about a retailer getting a great deal.

(at their volumes it is quite likely that this deal is cheaper than accepting cash)
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Thank you for taking the time to explain. In the past couple of years I've noticed businesses are less beholden to one specific platform. Heterogeneous environments are becoming the norm. As a .NET consultant I've noticed a pattern of node websites, CLR (C#) domains and the JVM rich ecosystem offering systems like Elastic Search or Storm. Knitted together with something like Rest APIs and Rabbit.

I really want to appreciate more of the wider ecosystem and the tech that underpins it. I don't see the point in implementing what is proven on the JVM on the CLR.

Concentrate on the businesses business (the core domain), not plumbing. In short learning more about these techs in paramount.
That's not what you should take from the article. What you should take from the article were:

- Costco was an oddity in that they only took 1 credit card network. American Express

- This was extremely lucrative for American Express

- This odd position made Costco very attractive to the credit card networks and thus allowed them to bargain for a much better deal than normal.

- Visa has signed a deal with costco which is wrecking American Expresses share price, but might be overly aggressive from a risk perspective for Visa.

If you encounter someone with a wallet full of credit cards (American or otherwise) they are either A) rotating debt or B) gaming the credit cards. Nothing about using credit cards in the US is significantly different than anywhere else in the world (with the large exception of the lack of PIN infrastructure)
I don't find this very useful. It's too naïve for a real-world usecase.

I didn't look at the implementation, but the "classy party" looks like it simply matches for a sequence of 'a', 's', and 's' bytes in a string.

It would be better it it tokenized the sentence using punctuation and white-space as terminators. So, it would detect `big-ass sandwich` and `smart-ass person` but not `classy party` or `bass instrument`.

Furthermore, it would be cool if you created a configuration format for this kind of thing, so one could do something like this (excuse the config format, I realise it's probably shit and problematic):

[smart][big][fat]ass
!sex[ual]+education

which would detect all of the following: smartass, bigass, fatass, and ass itself. The second rule would not filter `sex(?:ual)` token followed by an `education` token. You get the idea

These are just some heat-of-the-moment ideas, because I think this is exciting and could be useful. :-)
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Some text editor programs do this for you, either automatically or with a key-stroke.
That's a very specific question, and I'm no expert on the matter. Although I think that comparing it to "placebo meditation" is like comparing two types of exercise to each other, within the larger debate of whether exercising in general is useful or not.

Here's a visualisation by Information Is Beautiful, along with the list of sources used:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/what-is...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m_tiYlDIyNpp6WGUgKd5...
Probably the same grounds that prosecutors and police use to seize all liquid assets of a defendant before they are even tried, so they can't afford to pay for a defense lawyer.
You can run MTS yourself today using Hercules under Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix. See: http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/
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Where is the overwhelming evidence that customers want a different method of payment?
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$20,500 of $15k Raised by 820 people in 4 days

That was fast.

Edit: now up to $20,735, an hour later. She's certainly getting lots of support.
Great, but where does that prove the police were involved? The source article mentioned no evidence for that, and it doesn't strike me as the most reputable source in any event.
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Costco has extraordinarily thin margins, so this is a very big deal for them.

Operating profit margin: 0.0285%

Net income margin: 0.0182%
It's probably a good idea to leave old technology behind. But I was surprised to see that the new technology is linear digital radio, instead of using 3G/4G/internet to transmit 'episode' like radio.

Linear radio is an artifact of the transmission medium. I'd guess many won't bother with it when most of Norway is already draped in internet access.
I'm gay, but I don't consider it offensive that the word is in there.

A lot of people use the term "gay" in conversation as a synonym for "that sucks"; a friend of mine does it all the time. I don't think they mean anything by it.

To differentiate between "I am gay," and "Oh that's gay. I'm sorry that happened," you'd need a NLP with a politeness preference.
It went missing right along with "Land of the Free".
I don't think it's entirely self promotion.

Despite their looming fall and whether or not you feel betrayed by the switch to closed-source, IMO MakerBot played an important role in turning 3D printing from "a thing in movies and high-end research labs" to "a thing hobbyists and consumers could do". Their place in history may not be as large as they would have liked, but it's definitely there.
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Something will replace coffee eventually. I refuse to believe that technology will never find a better productivity enhancer, with near-zero side effects like coffee.

Adderall is not the answer as these journalists like to claim though. It's useless for basically anything other than very rare usage and has difficult to manage loss of productivity during withdraw. It has an incredibly fast tolerance buildup. If your work requires steady output instead of rare bursts, it's questionable whether it even surpasses coffee because of these downsides.
I clicked on the word "tweeting" in the article twice before realizing it wasn't a hyperlink. I totally assumed it would be. And now I see why EFF didn't link to this.

I'm sorry, but that tweet actually is threatening in my eyes. Note that I know __nothing__ about airplane-system-security, but that looks to me like he gained some kind of cmdline and/or admin-tool access and "PASS OXYGEN ON" looks like something that would cause the oxygen masks to drop down for all passengers. And he did this while on the plane with other passengers while it was flying? If so, he got what was coming to him. Sorry.

____

EDIT: Screencap in case someone(s) decide to delete tweets http://i.imgur.com/Uqfh0oL.png
It's an excellent question if people pay attention - the question, (at least as asked in Singapore), is, "Did you pack your own luggage, are you aware of everything in it, has anyone given you anything to place in your luggage, and has your luggage been under your control/observation the entire time."

Every time they ask me that question - I do a quick mental checklist, always mention that my luggage did leave my control when placed in the boot of the cab - which they always understand is an acceptable loss of control.

There are a couple alternatives that one could take to further increase security - first, presume that 100% of people are threats, and do a full security scan, and hand check/rejection, of 100% of checked luggage. Likewise, enhance the carry-on security check, and further restrict what people can carry-on. In particular, shift the carry-on check to the gate (where it should be).
Are you suggesting the page was shut down on purpose to prompt internet mob support already? If so, seems it worked.
Yeah, this seems like a non-story compared with, for example, advertiser interference allegations at the Daily Telegraph, a 160-year old British broadsheet with a reputation for investigative journalism.

The Telegraph saw its politics editor resign after claiming that the newspaper had suppressed stories other reporting investigations into money laundering against HSBC, a major advertiser, run the Chinese government's version of the repression of Hong Kong protests to similarly protect its relationship with HSBC and carried paid Russian and Chinese government propaganda supplements (although the newspaper proper did take an anti-Russian editorial stance). When the Guardian gleefully reported the troubles at their right wing rival, the Telegraph responded with an anonymous front page story insinuating the Guardian's advertising sales management were responsible for suicides on their team.

A content mill deleting some questionable opinion pieces that wouldn't have passed editorial review at other media companies doesn't seem to fall into the same level of scandal...
Machines are replacing higher and higher levels of abstract thinking.

One of the biggest illusions of how we humans see ourselves is to think that our function as humans that make us valuable on the job market.

Yet we mostly use just a small subset of our abilities to perform jobs even the intellectual ones.

And so the irony is that a Radiologist spending a decade getting educated and makes 300K a year is more likely to be loosing their job than a cleaning lady.
Going back a few posts:

> There was a guy at work who insisted on using .format() for everything that soured me on it, sometimes even simple string concatenation

It sounds like you are soured on new-style .format() because someone else doesn't use it appropriately. You concluded that it's intrinsic to .format(), even though s%{} is even more verbose, because of what seems to be an idiosyncratic preferences of one person.

I empathize with your other arguments. I too am much more familiar with printf-style % arguments than the Python-specific .format() syntax, which still cause me to reach for the documentation. But I do not think that it's reasonable to complain about its verbosity.
Draft is O(N) and constructed is O(1), but the constant factors matter. You can draft once-a-week for a year and spend less than you would on a constructed deck. Better still you can cube draft (i.e. reuse the cards).
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Although this perhaps makes sense from a technical, maintenance and cost perspective it's, contrary to the NRK owned radio.no's opinion, an absolute horrible deal for a large part of the users.

«55 per cent of households have at least one DAB radio, according to Digitalradio survey by TNS Gallup», which leaves 45% not currently having access to a DAB radio. Many of the having _one_ radio has this in their home and perhaps not in their most important place: the car.

In order to elegantly implement a DAB radio in your car you need to attach a dongle to your window and run cables into a (sometimes) new radio altogether. Whilst this may be a simple procedure for _some_ it's for the vast majority a huge burden - both in terms of time and money (often costing around 3000NOK - 380USD).

It's well and fine that they started the implementation of DAB in Norway in the mid-90s, but it's just in recent times that we've seen cars come with DAB reception by default. They should at least wait until 80-90% of all cars have access to DAB before switching over - which could take I'm guessing up to 10 years.

This is like only supporting Chrome on important governmental sites - which would rightly cause an uproar on HN. Radio should be about accessibility and content, not the medium - which should change naturally and over time.
Mine was the lady bird book on how to make a radio

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Transistor-Radio-ladybird-mak...

Though my dad did take over a bit - we actually used a gas powered soldering iron he had from the 40's - you heated it up over a gas burner
Doesn't this cover it quite well?

> The "gap" in the left-most part of the graph is caused by MtGox bitcoins that we temporarily lose track of (likely as they pass through old cold storage that we have not yet mapped out). They later reappear in known addresses, which marks the "end" of the gap.
I've found that's the case with almost all software projects.
We've started expirementing with using Typescript, and this alone relieves this issue of knowing whether your object is jQuery-wrapped.

But honestly,the $-prefixed variables is so commonplace that I mostly treat it as gospel
The one I'm writing now: "Creating and implementing deterministic multithreading programming language significantly harder than hoped"
> tech hipsterism

Thank you! I have been looking for the right words to describe this for ages. You nailed it.
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You still need linear radio for things like emergencies.
The pressures are very high (you are pumping the fuel into the combustion chamber of the rocket engine). A tank that could be pressurised that highly would be uneconomically heavy. Edit: this says it better http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/73571-rocket-engine-with-...
I think linear radio still has its place, like linear TV. If you want full control over your playlist, just use a podcasting app and hook it into the aux port of your stereo.
Radio is essential infrastructure, it needs to reach all corners and valleys of the country. I don't think that's feasible with 3G
"If he was going to harm the aircraft, he wouldn't have announced it in a tweet."

Many, Many bad actors have a pretty good trail/history of signals that made it clear that they were going to do something stupid. And a lot of them are stopped because authorities stepped in when those signals were reported.

Would you want to be the person who was notified that someone was communicating they were considering interfering with the proper operation of an aircraft, and ignored them, only to discovery they later on did do damage to the aircraft?

I think at the very least, people responsible for flight safety can engage with those making claims they are going to endanger airplanes, and subject them to a strenuous interview to determine what their actual intent is.
Being able to disrupt your own work is a sign of greatness, that you aren't satisfied with resting on your laurels. Unfortunately, many companies don't get this (Apple being a notable exception with the classic iPhones killing iPod sales).
Possibly interesting to someone: Costco in Canada no longer has that Amex relationship. Instead, they are associated with Capital One and their Mastercard. There's a page on the costco.ca site with a heading of "Credit Cards Accepted at the Warehouse" that says:

The following cards are accepted in our Canadian warehouse locations and at our gas stations:

MasterCard
Debit cards
Costco Cash Cards

I didn't even think to try last time I was at Costco, but this does seem to imply we can use our normal Mastercard credit card there now?
Believe or not, telnet://ptt.cc , one of the bbs in Taiwan, is still highly active with more than 100k concurrent users normally.
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Yeah, it's kind of surprising that they didn't mandate inclusion of DAB-capable radios in cars years earlier. Had they done that, it seems like the consumers would be much more prepared for a hard switch. This sounds like it's going to be pretty disruptive.

Also, why do the radios require a dongle?