skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two kinds of SEPA direct debits (Lastschrift):

- SEPA Core Direct Debit
- SEPA Business to Business Direct Debit

(source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastschrift#Arten_der_SEPA-Las...)

Only the first one is used when you buy things in the internet (the second one is only important for B2B transactions). It can be reversed without giving any reasons for 8 weeks. If you have not authorized (in other words: it was fraudulent) even for 13 weeks. If you reverse it, though it was legal, it's the vendor that has the problem (and has to collect the money). That's why often only larger vendors will accept SEPA direct debit (small vendors will often insist that you use SEPA credit transfer instead that is a lot less customer-friendly in case of a fraudulent vendor). SEPA credit transfer is in my opinion not suitable for "fast, spontanous" payments, though, for reasons I won't explain here.
I think I agree with all of that.
It’s Not Uber’s Fault the Job Market Is So Lousy That People Want to Drive Ubers
I don't think you read my comment right; I was saying that NSMBU will look as good as you thought SMB1 looked as a child.
Simpler as in the complexity of the library, a web browser is orders of magnitude more complex than this lib.

Simpler as in ease of use? Well that's subjective, some might find HTML easier than learning a new layout model, other might like something more focused on just PDF layout like this.
Visualizing keystrokes and application usage with Elasticsearch and D3
Check out whetstone labs. Their Bayesian grid search tech is awesome
Well, I can't source it via a link at the moment (I'm looking) but I have had multiple face-to-face conversations with people who have told me that Rand Paul has been invited to NSA 5-6 times, and refuses to visit.

Ignorance is truly bliss.
Excellent point about PDFs. Some Weboob modules scrape PDF statements as well: at least Amazon Store Card, Wells Fargo and Citibank (disclaimer - written by yours truly). But even with these statements sometimes whole history cannot be restored. For example, Citibank stores statements for only so many years.
Well, I'm sort of running that logic in the reverse direction... I'm pushing microservices because our organization is already set up with a lot of independence in the teams, and we've been struggling for years with coding methodologies that fight that by trying to enforce monolithic coding practices.

Conway's law is really important, but like mathematical equality, it doesn't really have a direction. You can bring organization into conformance with code, or code into conformance with organization. The full situation, as always, may suggest one or the other is a better idea, but Conway's law just says that you really need to do one or the other, or you'll pay a price. (Which may also be one you find yourself having to pay for other reasons... sigh... "ask not an engineer whether something is a good idea, for he shall say neither yea nor nay...")
You mean clean, cold water is ideal for avoiding the bacterial infection (e.g. streptococcus pneumoniae) that causes pneumonia?
It's one guy:

http://www.nirsoft.net/about_nirsoft_freeware.html
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I have my cellphone automatically back up pictures to both OneDrive and Google photos. Handy enough.

But, I like the OneDrive (or Dropbox if you don't mind the politics of Dropbox) model: keep all photos and videos in chronological order, edit file names, if desired, to add description after the file stamp, and generate one off share URI links for friends to share pictures.

That said I appreciate having the extra backups, even if lower resolution, on Google photos.
>The scientific consensus used to be that the Earth's crust was not formed of separate moving plates. The current scientific consensus is exactly the opposite. If you have a concept of wrong according to which it's possible for neither of P and ¬P to be wrong, then I'm not sure where we can go from there.

That's the whole point of Asimov's article - the relativity of wrong. The example he gives for this is not at all different from yours (earth being flat and earth being non-flat are also opposite propositions). So it's not like the "plate tectonics" examples changes anything in his argument.

The argument is that P and ¬P can both be useful if the first could explain a phenomenon to the best degree available at a time, and the second to an even better degree available at a later time. In that sense P and ¬P are degrees of wrongness and truthness.

His is the argument that "wrong" depends on utility, as there's usually no absolute match with the objective status universe (ding an sich), so we just have approximations with different degrees of wrongness.
Good article. It was indeed too far ahead of its time. That's despite compelling benefits in the field it's designed for:

http://www.adacore.com/knowledge/technical-papers/safe-secur...

Interestingly, languages such as Rust are still trying to accomplish the combination of efficiency and performance Ada has been doing for decades. Meanwhile, Ada developers (esp at AdaCore) haven't stood still: Design by Contract, provable absence of certain errors in SPARK code, more programming in the large support, zero-runtime deployment options, web app support, separation kernel runtimes for highest security, and more.

So, it might be a verbose, old language. It might not support the latest 1,000 fads in IT. Yet, here is a language designed in the 80's that does what modern systems languages are attempting to do, does it well, and has great tool support. So, I'd say the case for using Ada is long-made and companies doing mission-critical software have plenty reason to try to use it. Just try a project or two to see its benefits, at the least.
"what have the Romans ever done for us"
Yes, you can just configure the spdy plugin for nginx and place it in front of your webserver. Easy and we measured significant load-time wins.
True, but 1TB is probably the absolute worst spot on the capacity/price curve for a home server. For 4TB of space on a home server, your opex costs are identical ($160/yr) and your capex costs are only $120 higher. Yet 4TB on Google drive runs $480/yr. Go beyond that, and the cost delta continues to improve. That Dell server takes 4 drives for 12TB of usable space for a total capex of $1,000, and $160/yr in opex, compared to $1,440/yr in opex at Google. You break even in the first year!

There are plenty of places where self-hosting makes sense. 1TB is not one of them, but many other sizes are.
Sometimes when uploading a video to youtube it's initially made available only at low quality while it's being transcoded into all of the different formats for different clients and bandwidth rates. I'd recommend checking back in a day or so to see if the quality has improved.
"Operating system" is a really bad choice of words for this. I would call it "Node.js-based CMS". Which, at the moment, only seems to serve static files.
> Who decides what is right?

The scientific method. This is what we call it 'science' and not just 'opinion' or 'novel'.
Although this has been featured on HN a few times before, I hadn't realised it was put together by a couple 14 year old school kids. Well done them:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/page/scale-universe-cary-mi...
I don't know what you want besides the explicit quotes from prosecution during the trial itself clarifying what they were and were not claiming. Whatever your interpretation is, it seems to be either wrong or irrelevant. Which interpretation should be trusted more, a crypto guy on HN trying to interpret indictments or the prosecutors during the trial?
Simulation testing using simulant is very intriguing to me. But up till now its been pretty impenetrable. Glad to see somebody picking up the education baton.
Basically it caches requests per referrer so the next time a request is made, it can guess what subsequent requests will be made. Documentation is still sparse and a lot of it is carryover from their SPDY features.
I sort of disagree, HTML as implemented in PhantomJs, wkhtmltopdf and all interactive browsers is incomplete for paged/print output. However HTML with CCS page media is pretty close to being a complete solution, unfortunately the only implementation currently is the commercial PrinceXML.

If someone (Apple or Google) would get wise and implement the full paged media spec then PhantomJS/wkhtmltopdf/your browser might be a viable option for full fidelity print output.

See:
http://www.webkit.org/projects/printing/

http://www.princexml.com/

Until then our apps will have to suffer with one layout language for viewing (HTML) and have another for print like this lib.
"It's my opinion that white people as not as fast as black people on average, but I will treat everyone in the race fairly."

Would this be an unacceptable opinion for an Olympic track referee to hold?
> The defense witness was an expert-witness-for-hire who resigned a position as Rockland County medical examiner under a cloud of accusations about incompetence.

That would be a good point if it were medical incompetence but the criticisms of Taff were that police did not like his management style and thought personnel arrived at scenes late because they lived outside the county, no? I didn't see anywhere that the prosecution brought this up, even though hearsay is allowed at this point.

> The defense attempted to refute the autopsy using their own pathologist, who did not conduct an autopsy.

He doesn't need to conduct an autopsy to point out problems in how things were done (waiting 4 days to do Wilsdon's autopsy? not doing an autopsy at all on Bridges?) or that the prosecution is straining to associate any death it can with and trying to ignore the long histories of poor health or multiple drug abuse and multiple drug sources.

> Jordan M. did in fact receive an autopsy, which confirmed he died of an overdose of drugs of the kind he ordered on Silk Road.

The Lewis affidavit says that the autopsy confirmed the presence of brain hemorrhage, liver problems (in addition to spleen), and that specifically, "the autopsy report correctly attributed death to multiple/combined drug intoxication. Heroin/opiate, however, was not singled out primary cause of death, and of course, for reasons unknown, the brain hemorrhage was ignored by the authorities conducting the investigation of Mr. Mettee’s death."; in addition, he had other drugs such as diazepam in his system which the prosecution does not claim he bought from SR.

> an accusation I would not have considered making about you.

Nor one I would make about you... about your area of expertise, as opposed to the DNMs.

> All of these documents are available from a Google search, from DOJ, "FreeRoss", and Cryptome.

Not all of them. They are all in RECAP, but that seems to be broken tonight and not allowing downloads of any of the Ulbricht filings.
Because visiting the NSA would enlighten him in any way?

Critics of the organization would likely be granted zero visibility into their decision making process. Just look how they have treated their own high level employees who voiced concern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake).

It would be a waste of a day. Maybe he could have met with Clapper - the man that perjured himself before Congress. Or Keith Alexander - the profiteer who is making millions off surveillance tech he was developing while head of the NSA. ( <-- That's the guy that made policy decisions on how invasive surveillance should be. FML) If the cronies want his ear: they should come to his office.

If anything, a visit to the NSA would bring negative connotations in the public's eye.
I'm surprised the main timeline is a flat list. I have 30,000+ photos and sometimes have 300 photos of the same event. It's impossible to browse the overall contents with every photo shown.

I created a prototype[1] 5 years ago of a hierarchical timeline using timestamps. It had it's own problems, but I would have thought by now someone would have figured out a solution. Machine learn a hierarchy where each coarser level has a subset which reasonably summarizes the next more detailed level.

[1] - example http://pixtimeline.com/view/#105946173008403248796/553914066...
How do you warn someone 24,000 years from now to avoid our radioactive waste?
If not, it's hard to see how Mint could still be alive.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
For example take this jerk Bolden who turned the nasa-spacex relationship into a measuring contest

http://gizmodo.com/nasa-says-nobodys-getting-to-mars-without...

Now we know what he means, that he thinks there's no way that musk will sink the acrued capital of spacex and go to mars.

But even if he's wrong and elon does just that he's already won the argument because spacex is a government contractor and there has been government help nevermind that spaceX has saved NASA so much money
Why Stegosploit Isn't an Exploit
>Yeah, you pretty much have to be a homophobe to laugh at a joke that disparages homosexuals

Strange, because many gay friends of mine laugh at those and even make them. In fact lots of famous gays are notorious for this kind of disparaging humor, against other gays but also against everybody.

And I often laugh at jokes about a kind of handicap I have. Heck, I often MAKE such jokes about that thing. Also consider most comedians making jokes about their shortcomings, insecurities, appereance, etc).

It's part of having a sense of humor.

>There is plenty of humour, plenty of belly rupturing spit out your beverage humour, without disparagement.

Not that much as you think. In almost every great comedian (and I'm not proposing a "no true scotscman" here: check the top-50 commercially or critically accepted acomedians of all time) you'll find all of these kinds of jokes you condemn about all kinds of groups.

>There is never any need to disparage or be sophomoric to get a laugh. Ever.

No, you can also tickle people. But being disparaging or somophoric is another great way. Heck, Aristophanes, probably the most celebrated comedy writer in the classics, had fart jokes and silly puns in his plays...
I'm not sure what you mean by that. If I have a troubling ethical decision to make, I might very well answer all of your questions and still be unsure whether the action I was going to take was right or wrong.
There will be a Neo4j hackathon for beginners in Berlin, Germany later today: http://www.meetup.com/graphdb-berlin/events/222114664/
It said they took 15 days reviving him.
"An Italian boy who fell into a canal…"
"The 14-year-old, who is said to have jumped off a bridge in Cuggiono…"

It sounds very much like 'journalist-speak'. When they start with "He fell into a canal", they're establishing the boy's innocence - i.e. he wasn't trying to kill himself, wasn't up to anything dodgy, etc. They're also establishing plausible deniability in the event of a libel suit. When they add 'who is said to have jumped off a bridge", they're probably adding conjecture from bystanders, but holding back from saying this as fact, perhaps because of the risk of a libel lawsuit (maybe it's a criminal act due to a byelaw forbidding jumping from that bridge), perhaps because they haven't had enough confirmation to say confidently that he chose to jump - they just know he ended up in the water. So they end up beginning with "He fell into the canal", followed by the reports they've had from one or more witnesses "He is said to have jumped".
Even that is only partly what the article is about, but ok.
I think it's that the same mechanisms that heal pneumonia heal lungs full of clean, cold water.
Is there some deep reason all of this functionality is jammed into one binary?
> Where is the radical change?

You mentioned one of the radical changes: the change from a continuous model to an atomic one. I mentioned another radical change in my post (Rutherford).

As for the claim that matter is close to being continuous, I am not a physicist, but I was under the impression that this was false. I.e., speaking naively, there is far more "empty space" than there is "stuff". I realize that QM makes it difficult to give precise content to that kind of statement, but something like that appears to be true.

> It's quite possible that both viewpoints--the universe had a beginning in time, and the universe didn't--are useful approximations to something deeper.

I can't really answer speculation. However, your only reason for making this speculation, so far as I can see, is your desire to deny that any scientific theory has ever been flat out wrong.
A Mosaic from Pompeii Recreated in LaTeX
I usually confuse RuPaul with Pope Paul II
Yep, that's what I said in the first paragraph of my original post. In purely empirical terms, scientific progress is usually quite conservative. However, if you look at the content of the theory, and not just the predictions that it makes, scientific progress looks much less conservative. In the case of the flat earth example, it is indeed true that the flat Earth theory was not totally wrong in the sense that it made some approximately correct predictions. However, it was totally wrong in its assertion that the Earth is flat -- it simply isn't.
Person-first terminology has been under debate since the 1990s[1][2]. The consensus among professionals (I just now spoke with a clinical psychologist Ph.D student who specializes in ASD research) is to use "individual with ASD/autism". Academia disagrees with you[3].

To be clear, if you would like to be referred to as an "autistic person", no one should have a problem with that. Similarly, you should not have a problem with the majority of people with autism preferring "person with autism". This means you should stop referring to this language as "pretentious, SJW-inspired nonsense".

[1] https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-16514166/person-...

[2] https://aqr.uaa.alaska.edu/dss/information/upload/PeopleFirs...

[3] http://aut.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/16/136236131557...
I'd hope you'd try for an adult too.

But anyway, thank you for your life-saving service.
The rich buyer trick is present in every other movie. It's still works. Why?
Ugh. How awful. Apostrophes and (full stop) dots repurposed as letters within words. But at least there aren't any accented characters or other diacritics.

Phonemes aside, why would anyone design that, and imagine it as a feature and not a bug?
>Because when you print money you don't pay interest to anyone so instead of borrowing you could just jump the middleman and just print he is printing anyways.

>Because when you print money you don't pay interest to anyone so instead of borrowing you could just jump the middleman and just print he is printing anyways.

While that's true technically, when governments borrow from the central bank they tend to roll over the debt instead of paying it back, so the interest is never really paid.

The big advantage to borrowing from the central bank is the average person thinks you can only borrow deposited money and doesn't realize what's happening.
Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work
Oh yeah. I've worked in on a couple of products where there was a "client floor" and a "server floor" and the two groups would integrate their stuff every three or four months . . . or five, or six. Didn't work all that well.

At the last place I remarked that a better seating arrangement for the project would have been to place everyone at random, and I wasn't kidding.

I really like the model of movable desks. An engineer and a finance person need to sit together for a while? Just find a spot, or make room where one of the parties happens to be. Oh, we need a designer, and a lawyer? That's easy. Need to go find a spot where you can work alone for a couple of weeks? Done. Of course, this sends shivers up the spines of people who feel the need to exert control in the workplace.

You're still up against Dunbar's number. At some point you can't keep everyone in your head. Meatware doesn't scale well yet.
Plenty of people use C++ for web apps. It doesn't take a good coder a lot of time to use them. Those apps also run crazy fast compared to Python apps, even on embedded boards. Plus they support every security, speed, or reliability-enhancing tech ever developed for native code.

So, I'd rather use a higher-level language (and do) for most web-application development. I also love Python for its tradeoffs, esp productivity & readability. Yet, there are valid use-cases for native web apps esp where performance or memory-usage matters.
Thanks for this, best answer on the thread.
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That's what i thought when he was talking about the Inca rope bridges: much of our modern construction requires so much maintenance that it seems to be closer to the annual replacement cycle of the woven bridges than to the near-eternity of stone arches.

But not steel and concrete is not only cheaper than cutting natural stone, they are also cheaper than the cheap alternative that dominated the millenia before (even when concrete was available in some periods): bricks, the main architectural workhorse from ancient Babylon to Rome to deep into the industrial age. Exposed brick has a quality of functional beauty that reinforced concrete can never achieve, because there all the function is hidden inside the concrete and the outer shape is completely disconnected from function, either completely plain or arbitrarily ornamented. Brick on the other hand has a visible functional structure, the arches never lie and ornaments (which are never entirely afunctional in architecture: they distract the eye from dirt, and dirt will be unavoidable over time) can easily be included using standard or special blocks and blend in perfectly with the "natural" details that are there for technical reasons.

Occasionally i dream up a future that would have swarms of bricklaying bots that would turn architectural drawings into houses cheaper than poured concrete. Never did any calculations though, so i don't know if the price advantage would even be possible with hyopthotical zero-cost robots.
There's a GNU Octave PPA for Ubuntu but it's still at 3.8.

Is there a plan to update this to 4.0?

https://launchpad.net/~octave/+archive/ubuntu/stable
I'm sure it's willful blindness on my part, but in 30 years, I can't think of a single example of a design I've helped create that was a reflection of the organization's communication structure. I've built object databases, distributed share-nothing databases, a sentiment extraction system, and a mobile geo-locations application. Can anyone give a real world example of Conway's law?
MIT, where Ochsendorf is a professor, has the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture [1] (Harvard has a sister program [2]).

Stari Most is also a well-known tourist destination. Its destruction occurred during a war the US was involved in and its destruction, rebuilding, and symbolism in the war were widely reported in US media. [3] Today, it's popular on mainstream sites like reddit. [4]

1. http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/generalinformation.htm

2. http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do

3. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nytimes.com+%22mostar%2...

4. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+%22mostar%22...
Interesting project. If Rust is to replace C++, then we need to see it exercised in all domains C++ has succeeded in. As I told another commenter, C++ with good frameworks does very well in web applications albeit with fewer libraries & utilities. A team of Rust programmers could catch Rust up to one of the C++ web frameworks and do a shootout between the two on realistic web apps. The results in terms of efficiency, productivity, and maintainability for each should tell us plenty about Rust's success in terms of its objectives.

That experiment among others, of course.
Interview with Co-Founder of Voice and Exit – A World's Fair for Decentralists
Is there a properly digitized PDF available anywhere? I appreciate what http://thestandardsmanual.com/ is doing here, but their hover-photo-to-zoom thing is hard to read.