skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Attribution of motive is never helpful or appropriate as part of a supposedly-technical discussion. If it were, then maybe someone should also mention Fielding's own interest in enabling insertion of ads by proxies. But no, that's exactly the kind of thing the IETF chair's message was trying to address, for all parties involved. If there's a problem with lobbying and conflicts of interest, that needs to be taken up at an organizational level, not as part of the technical debate.

In any case, whether you think that kind of behavior is appropriate or not is kind of irrelevant. That wasn't the question. The question was what motivated the IETF chair's message. Can anyone deny that the hostility and accusatory tone of a message that has been splattered all over the internet today might be part of that motivation?
Except, as we're seeing in cycling with teams like Sky, money will poured into legal ways to produce "marginal gains." See the kerfuffle during the recent Giro d'Italia when Sky provided their leader Richie Porte with his own motor home to provide more rest. The team also used a helicopter to whisk Porte off one mountain top finish, again in the name of recovery.

Professional athletics will always be a money-fueled arms race, whether the means are legal or not. Personally, I like to see "old school" athletes succeed (I'm thinking of cyclist like Oscar Freire, who eschewed most "modern" training devices, and simply rode based on how he felt). Of course, plenty of those athletes doped, so maybe I am living in a dream world.
More context on this project:

http://www.propublica.org/series/red-cross

After the first investigative story into their Hurricane Sandy response efforts [1], the Red Cross argued that how it spent its money was a "trade secret" [2]. It later stepped back from that position [3]. Later that year (Oct. 2014), ProPublica/NPR published their first indepth story about Red Cross [4]; I haven't read the entire project but I think the OP is the second big feature. And full disclosure: I used to work at PP but not on this project.

[1] http://www.propublica.org/article/long-after-sandy-red-cross...

[2] http://www.propublica.org/article/red-cross-how-we-spent-san...

[3] http://www.propublica.org/article/red-cross-reverses-stance-...

[4] http://www.propublica.org/article/the-red-cross-secret-disas...
In countries like Sweden I think the tax cut is around 60%.

Also, Europeans don't have near as much military power, there's where your money goes :).
There are a few things to keep in mind:

1) Ariana Miyamoto was chosen as Miss Japan by Japanese people.

2) The critics of Miyamoto are an extreme, vocal minority on Twitter and 2chan.

3) Although Japanese contestants often perform well at the international level, beauty pageants of this sort do not receive much attention within the country regardless of the contestant.

4) "Hafu" is a Japanese word derived from the English "half". It is used to refer to biracial people, but there is no connotation that they are "half" a person. I cannot understand the logic of the author who says that the word sounds derogatory in English -- it's a Japanese word, after all, and is not derogatory in Japanese.

The author uses point (2) as well as his short personal experience in Japan to make broad statements to the effect that Japanese people in general do not accept those whose appearance differs from their own. Japan makes an easy target in this regard because of the well-known (outside Japan, at least) concept of Nihonjinron, as well as the persisting sense that Japan is an isolated country where outsiders will never be accepted into the "in group". Due to this, there is an expectation (particularly in foreign media) that Japanese are racist, and any proof, even that of an extreme minority on Twitter, is taken as evidence in support of this.

Of course, living in Japan, I remember hearing similar broad statements about racism in the United States concerning the backlash against electing a black president in 2008.

The real lesson here is that we should not be basing our impressions of an entire society on a vocal minority, no matter how much their opinions conform to our expectations.
The biggest takeaway for me from this experiment was "always make sure you are gzipping your output".
Ask HN: Cheap shipping companies in Europe?
Anyone who owns an online store, selling physical goods, or someone who could help me on this matter?

What services do you use to ship the products(in Europe)?
How do you handle the shipping products?

Until now i found that my country(Portugal) post-office service is cheapest way too ship across the Europe, but it is still very expensive, around 18 EUR per 2kg.

Thanks!
Forgetting the exact cost, Apple has enough cash to give retailers an incentive and may have already done that with those that are already onboard. Note I said "incentive" not "paid for everything". This wouldn't be something that they would necessarily disclose either, for obvious reasons.
I don't know, perhaps they're particularly opaque about Haiti or other "big" disaster relief efforts, or perhaps other charities are just as bad.

I'm just summarizing what I took from the article, in particular skip ahead to around 4m50s. The audio is much clearer than the transcript on this issue.
Wouldn't that depend on the customers phone having a data connection? You need 2 way communication to produce a secure payment protocol.
In Houston the uptake rate is abysmal. I think Walgreens is one of the few places I see readers consistently. As a result it's not habitual to pay with my phone. Even if I am holding it while checking out. I do pay with the Starbucks app which I believe I would start using apple pay if it showed up there. The Starbucks rewards system is so incredibly broken that I rarely cash them in or think to use them. I could get a free drink for going a dozen times spending 2 dollars or 30 dollars. Does not compute.
Every product exists to make/save money for its owners. Apply pay and stripe are no different. The glaring question mark is whether a consortium of retailers, none of which are that strong in tech, can actually make a product that holds up and is, as you say, secure.
Also, several universities were risking fines because they collected the tuition fees but never used them for anything.

Part of the problem was that tuition fees were legally required to be used only in certain ways ("Verbesserung der Qualität der Lehre", literally "improving the quality of education") but most of the new projects the universities actually started were changes to the administration or constructing new buildings (including lecture halls) rather than hiring more teachers or actually improving the education.
the problem isn't in the hardware. It is in the backend payment processing. Both Apple Pay and Google Wallet have hardware support, just not the banking relationships.
"...old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form."

Reminds me of this Married with Children episode I've seen ;)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0642312/
Good case study of why Haskell was a good choice. I took a Haskell course at edX and the instructor Erik Meijer had a good metaphor: pure Haskell functions are like islands in the ocean. The ocean is imperative code, monads, etc. It is a design decision of how much of your code base is islands and how much is ocean.

I have limited Haskell skills, but I find writing pure functions to be fairly easy. For the monad ocean code, web search and stackoverflow helped find boilerplate examples. So, I try to spend my time on the islands.
Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction (2009)
Sad that you insist on paying a 3% tithe to the payment processor companies instead of bothering to carry a few pieces of paper around. This hurts your local, small businesses.
Landlords not reducing the rent when pensions get cut are equivalent to landlords increasing the rent when the pensions stay the same.

In other words: I see no problem.
Goodbye?
I'm at a crossroad. I either kill myself or I find some kind of way out of here. No matter the choice, thank you HN. So far, you've been the cornerstone of my life.
Don't have a citation handy but I have read that some banks would authorize cards for Apple Pay without any decent authentication.

So thieves that had stolen credit card numbers elsewhere registered those cards on their Apple Pay devices and then used those to charge them.

The credit card numbers had already been stolen, but Apple Pay was used to buy things on those accounts.

There is not - that I have ever seen - any indication that Apple Pay has been hacked.

The real fight here is not about Apple at all. It's about banks (who want a new secure standard) vs merchants (who want to maintain their tracking abilities and maybe get out from under the 2% fees).
Restricting Laravel Controller Access to Authenticated Users Using Middleware
The article basically implies they use exceedingly broad categories, and don't exactly characterize everything the way they should. See also this Propublical article:

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...

There's a chart half way through that shows, by NPR and Propublica's estimates that instead of 90% spent on actual charity, they only spend 60%. This would tank their rankings in places like Charity Navigator and Givewell.

So the short answer to your question, is that they are vague as hell about how they spend the money, and they probably cook the books.
What's the browser of the day for this one? My Safari window just stays black.
Habitat, which has built several hundred houses in Haiti, estimates $4000-$6000 per "core house"; core houses are expandable, seismically sound permanent housing structures.

Habitat also estimates 105,000 "totally destroyed" pre-quake houses.

Obviously, all of these numbers are better than the six houses the Red Cross built.

The larger problem in Haiti is legal, though: getting the rights to land to build on is complicated and slow.
I just finished reading The Big Truck That Went By [1] by Jonathan Katz. It's an amazing account on what happened after the earthquake has hit and why most development help didn't have the impact we had hoped for.

One of the reason he touches is that emergency relief groups like the Red Cross (and other, e.g. MSF) aren't setup to do the nation-building Haiti actually needed, but for more rapid and short term support as is needed in war zones, refugee camps or rural disaster areas (tents, water, food etc.).

I can only recommend the book. I found it through his article on the NYTimes [2] which touches most points.

Most embarrassing for a journalist, they were wrong in ways that would have immediately been made clear had we taken the time to ask some basic questions.

Food and water, for example. When I was in Haiti two years later, to research the relief effort for a book, I was shocked to discover that no one could tell me with any precision if there was ever a food or water shortage in the first place. No one among the responders had even contacted the Coordination Nationale de la Sécurité Alimentaire — the Haitian government agency overseeing food security — to find out what might be needed. Indeed, earthquakes tend to inflict the worst damage on cities, not farms — especially in countries that already have limited infrastructure — and Haiti’s urban areas didn’t have any sewers or piped drinking water to begin with.

People indeed lost their homes and incomes, and markets closed. But the World Food Program had enough supplies in its Port-au-Prince warehouses — which survived the quake — to feed 300,000 people one full meal for three weeks. There was no acute food or malnutrition crisis after the quake; that much we know. But it seems very likely that the city could have avoided one even without the frenzied aid push.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Truck-That-Went-ebook/dp/B009O...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/magazine/how-not-to-report...
RIOT and Snappy connect the smallest of devices
you can play new games on a steam machine in decades to come.

Decades? Decade, maybe. But then again they where still releasing PS2 games a decade after the PS2 came out and they'll almost certainly be releasing PS3 and Xbox360 games a decade after those consoles came out too.

No doubt that there will be lots of games coming out in both 2017 and 2020 that will run just fine on a 2015 steam machine, but unless it is ever single game they release for SteamOS, then we're right back to the classic PC gaming problem and you've lost the only real competitive advantage that consoles have.
Those are pretty spot on.
What tools, etc. did you use to manage the 40-node cluster?

How were you querying 40-nodes or were you offloading the querying to Lucene or something [e.g. like Parsely is]?
VICE on HBO did a good piece on the failure of USAID in Haiti: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/26018-hb...
Don't let the world stress you out like that.

Imagine in a few months how looking back you'd feel you were too extreme.
At the end of the story, they mentioned that local Haitian organizations were building lots of homes. It was also mentioned that there is lots of money still unspent. It seems that the Red Cross (or the US Gov) just needs to fund those organizations with a proven track record.

Sometimes I think news organizations are (unintentionally) exacerbating the root cause of these problems. They report on incompetence but don't report on how the public can fix it. I don't think the Red Cross will fix it without public pressure. It leaves the audience with a sense of helplessness that leads to cynicism and apathy. It would be better to end the story with suggestions on how the average citizen can fix these issues.
We found cassandra to be too finicky and flakey and ended up using mongodb - simple to get going, admin, use and maintain.
Cassandra was a huge pain in the ass, had to read all the source code just to get it running!
It's ironic that this effort is trying to get gamers to buy Steam Machines when gamers already have machines far more powerful than the ones launched. Valve will have a big problem if they want to convince traditional console gamers. Which are the benefits for them if the cost is bigger? It seems TCO is good on Steam Machines on the long run but that's a tough argument for people that want instant gratification.

Steam Link seems the way to go for most HN readers, I guess, and that is the device I would buy if I had to choose. BTW, a question on this: I've read somewhere that although NVIDIA Shield works only with NVIDIA GPUs, the Steam Link will work also with AMD GPUs. Valve doesn't confirm this but says that it supports OS X, Linux and Windows PCs. Any ideas? Doesn't it run on NVIDIA's GameStream, like NV Shield does?
Exactly. autotools is exceptionally well designed for dealing with more exotic use cases like cross compiling. When designing a cross-compiling linux distribution(http://exherbo.org/docs/multiarch.txt) we discovered that autotools is by far the easiest to deal with when it comes to arbitrary host & build targets, compilers, etc. I would be even bolder and say that:

Those who do not understand autotools are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.
I still think of Cassandra as the tool the Digg engineers used to kill Digg as we all loved/hated it at it's time.
> Fraud has gone up.

The only banks that have seen higher fraud are those who treated entering your credit card into your phone as a "card present" interaction. All banks who treated it as a "card not present" interaction have seen lowered rates of fraud.
Are you prohibited from disliking things because your own government is involved?

As an American, I sure hope not.
It's equivalent to every landlord in the country simultaneously raising rent by the same amount. Would you happen to be American, by any chance?
Because cash can be lost in the shuffle, and there is not necessarily a hard record of it ever existing.

If everything is on the level, then there's no loss.
It's fallacious to use the concept of "enumerated powers" and "limited government" to argue that "rights" in the U.S. are, or were intended to be, structured the way you describe. "Limited government" concerns the allocation of power between the state and federal governments, not the relationship between those governments and individuals.

State governments are not ones of enumerated powers and they are not limited. They are successors to the British Parliament and inherited the powers of that institution including the general police power. Against that backdrop, "rights" are those specific restrictions on the exercise of that power that states have bound themselves to by the federal Constitution and their own constitutions. There is no room in that framework for an expansive conception of rights that all exist so long as you're "not infringing on others' rights."

A great concrete example is blue laws, which were widespread at the time of the founding and regulated everything from alcohol sales to food consumption. Some of those have been challenged, hundreds of years later and mostly unsuccessfully, on establishment clause grounds, but there is little doubt the states, as a general principle, have the right to regulate public morals.
Hah, you think normal date math is bad, try dealing with the various calendars used in finance. US 30/360, Euro 30/360, Actual/365, Actual/360, etc, etc. That stuff will make you tear your hair out.
It wasn't until my kids were adults that I was able to make the jump into my lifelong dream of self employment. But I spent a lot of time training myself and laying the groundwork before that day. Keep pushing for your dream. The fight isn't over until you quit fighting! Age isn't a big deal unless you allow it to. If you keep learning and keep striving and keep exercising that will keep you young in all the ways that matter.
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The goal isn't to be secure. As far as I understand it would basically be similar to Starbuck's current mobile payment service, where the scanner reads the code which maps directly to an account and processes the transaction. No two way communication.
I appreciate this viewpoint, and maybe you have made charity a priority in your life. I know that if I don't set up some on-going donation, I'm just not going to do it. So I have a monthly donation set up for small, local organizations. For example, I volunteered a few times with the SF Bike Coalition and really liked them, and now they get my money :)
Looks like they're on a CN watchlist, as a result of this reporting.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.news&or...
> that much more experienced controller-makers have not been able to after decades of iteration

Decades of iteration and yet the Xbox 360/PS4 controller is pretty much the same as the original DualShock PlayStation controller from 18 years ago. "Experienced" controller-makers aren't doing shit to improve existing gamepads, they just go with the idea that gamepads are a done job. I don't know if Valve's controller will suceeded, but at least they are trying something.
I've always used https://www.charitywatch.org.

Both Charity Navigator and Charity Watch give the Red Cross a good rating. The NPR article doesn't seem to agree...
I've seen the inverse case: A translation of a programming language to another human language.

I've saw a Spanish version of Pascal and a Spanish version of Logo, it was in Argentina approximately 20 years ago. They were versions for students.

The problem is that is nice that the user defined functions mix well with the core functions. If the language has the "print" function, you can add the "println" function. You can translate the core functions, but now the user defined functions look odd.
Ah take the stillborn academic wasteland of a language, and apply it to the devtard fad of the day - the cloud. And this is the product.
Meanwhile, back on the BEAM, we have a proper platform and a commercially proven solution.
Haskell is not a technology in search of a problem, it is a waxy tech lost in a room in an academic hall, withh the dust falling upon it.
While I'm not sure every number is in pi (see my other comment to grandparent), there is a similar really weird feeling I get when I consider all digital data is really just numbers. That means there is a number, that when turned into a .avi (or format of your choice), shows anything you can imagine. Imagine yourself talking with Plato. There is a number that produces a 1080p video of you doing just that. Actually, there are a lot of numbers that do that, as every little difference in the setting would be a different number.

There is a number that produces a high def photo of when you married your high school sweetheart, even if you never actually married her. There is one of you being awarded the Nobel prize. If there is a proof that P = NP, or that it doesn't, or even a proof that it can't be proven either way, then there is a number that would be the PDF version of that document.
There is a lot of interesting info and history in the movie "Bigger Stronger Faster":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151309/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- "Do you support creating a state-sanctioned group that can detain or even kill you and your family at their discretion before you've been tried by a jury of your peers?"

- "Do you support local police?"
>> The problem is that they're probably nearly all life-threatening (or at a minimum longevity-threatening) in high enough doses.

Everything is lethal in high enough doses.
Don't kill yourself.

Get in contact with someone: http://www.befrienders.org/need-to-talk

And if you feel like it tell us what's up.
> but wouldn't they also have more responsibilities?

Not necessarily. In my case I had far more financial independence at 40, no debt, and all the kids were out of the house for the first time in my life. Car fully paid off. In my 20s, I wasn't in the position to start a business because I had mouths to feed, at least not without external capital sources.
Or maybe you can jam an SSD in your ear and use it as swap space?
It's not the carrying of the paper that's the problem.

I have to know beforehand how much I'll need, and keep that separate from the rest of my funds. This means that I can't use it for anything that would normally come directly out of my account, and can only be used for in-person transactions.

You are over-simplifying the entire process.
Call a suicide hotline, there are people there waiting to help you.

Find a way out, use your creativity. The pain you feel now can be a powerful motivator to radically change your situation.
They do have an entire Software category now, although it's mostly tools for game dev. You Need A Budget being the only outlier I can think of.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/#sort_by=Reviews_DESC&c...
Medical data, cybercriminals' holy grail, now espionage target
It's generally referred to as 'untested' I think.
What has been your experience using Haskell been like in production? I'd love to use it for my next project
There is a good analysis of this on skeptics stackexchange.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27927/has-the-re...

>TLDR: The article has accidentally or deliberately confused the earthquake relief project with the much smaller neighborhood renewal project, and attacked them both for not doing things they weren't intended to do. The Red Cross did much more in Haiti than build six houses.
On point 4, I'd wonder that it's because the author is British. There's a whole nervousness about referring to anyone using race as a differentiator (lest you be considered racist?). To the point where someone will describe someone else by imaginative means even when 'the black guy with glasses' would actually be the most succinct way.