skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has nothing to do with Bitcoin. The interest is in distributed ledgers. It's a way to do a distributed clearing house. When twenty or so mutually mistrustful financial firms maintain a blockchain between them, they can have a ledger that no single party, or less than a majority of the parties, can tamper with.

This doesn't require Bitcoins, a currency, or mining. It's a way to solve a problem that currently requires institutions such as the Bank for International Settlements and Depository Trust Corporation.

Bitcoin has demonstrated that the blockchain technology is resistant to attack. Even against massive fraud attempts, and even though many of the major figures in the Bitcoin world ended up going to jail, the blockchain held up. That's impressive.
Intel officially supports Android on x86 (for development, not daily use) via Android-IA: https://01.org/android-ia

They used to have an FAQ which acknowledged the unofficial Android-x86 project: https://web.archive.org/web/20140331192152/https://01.org/an...
Comma and colon are also quite different.
One solution which tends to obey all of these rules is to choose the names of people from some common category, such as famous mathematicians.
Thanks! Don't forget to report a bugs if you find any :-)
Whether to show ads or not is the content creators' choice. My YouTube channels are ad-free. I don't get paid for my videos, but I don't care because I don't rely on YouTube as a source of income. On the other hand, I invest little time and no money in my channels, unlike the YouTubers who create content professionally.

How would you like it if you weren't paid for your work? At least now, YouTube is giving you a choice in how to compensate the creators.
Porting Unix to the 386: Designing the Software Specification (1990)
Is twenty enough parties to give them each confidence that the network is trustworthy? Seems to easily manipulated it only takes a couple of dishonest parties to defraud the rest.
Yes, but OP is wrong when he says that there is nothing to see. He just didn't take the time to even look. The source code of the underlying layout engine is published on GitHub: https://github.com/gss/engine
The use of ligatures in Hasklig is very intriguing. Would really like to see more work in this vein. Could see benefits to Clojure (arrows) and even => in JavaScript.

EDIT: Looks like FiraCode has ligatures too https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
While on the subject of fonts could an expert answer a question for me - on Windows (10 if it matters) should I install the ttf or the otf font? Is there a difference?
Not to be confused with the YC-backed "Grid", which is apparently a spreadsheet app for iOS. I thought I had heard the name on this site before.

http://grid.binarythumb.com/
Fantasque Sans Mono is my font of choice: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
They do acknowledge the source of the font:

"Hack has deep roots in the libre, open source typeface community and includes the contributions of the Bitstream Vera & DejaVu projects."

It's a bit disingenuous though. I'd call Hack a straight copy of Deja Vu Sans Mono, with a few very minor tweaks. On Linux using the TTF fonts I can't even see a difference in line height:

http://i.imgur.com/wxTr0at.png

http://i.imgur.com/OO1bJFE.png

The only glyphs I can tell which are slightly different are 'i', '0' and '_'.
You just have to double click the ttf files (or select them all and double click one of them) and it will install. Don't need to move them manually.
Seeing Freedom in Their Future, Psychics Reveal All: ‘It’s a Scam, Sir’
The O looks like a zero, but the 0 has a dot, and therefore doesn't look like an oh. That's not enough? I'm happy if every letter has a distinct form; they don't all need to differ from the common form though.
The Grid has received $4.6M in venture capital: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-grid

Clearly the venture capitalists would have uncovered if the product was a scam during due diligence.

Right? :P
> If we lived in a bitcoin world it would be impossible for governments to mobilize itself to direct resources to solve social problems.

Thank god. Can't happen soon enough.
Actually, you can't reliably use tabs for column alignment with proportional fonts. You can get everything aligned for the font you're using, and the tab width you've specified in your editor, but when someone else views the code in a different proportional font or a different tab width - or in a monospaced font! - they will likely see "off by a tab" errors.

Proportional fonts do work fine with tab-based indentation. If you stop using column alignment, as I did many years ago, then it no longer matters whether you use proportional or monospaced fonts, and it doesn't even matter whether you use tabs or spaces for indentation. All sorts of code fomatting questions just become non-issues.

And column alignment was always such a hassle, I was glad to give it up anyway. Column alignment is a pain to maintain - it all too often just ends up misaligned after people work on the code, it messes up version control diffs, and the occasions where it helps readability are easily matched by the occasions where it hurts readability.
I really don't care if it's somebody on tumblr making youtube videos, but we need more words! Great website, but I wish it was more active.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10121382
Since everyone's mentioning their favourite code fonts -- any love for Ubuntu Mono? I know it's not trendy to like the OS default as a non-Apple user but I find myself always coming back to it when I see it in comparisons.
Android Dick
https://github.com/nathco/office-code-pro
As a novice programmer used to node.js, C, etc., how the hell is one supposed to get started with Haskell? I've tried multiple tutorials, read many articles like this, and still can't follow along.

It makes me wonder who ends up using this language for anything serious in even the slightest time crunch...
Personally, I've been scratching my head for a while at why Google is so dead-set on their "Chromebook" idea when they would have a great chance at killing off Microsoft for good if they put in some effort to create a great desktop version of Android.
A change in environment boosts productivity, doesn't it? I read somewhere, maybe in Peopleware, that in a lighting study, they found any change (brighter, darker) to a workplace imported productivity. The idea being that it was just the change, not really mattering what was changed.

Perhaps it reflects poorly on me, but I love novelty. Different places, new software, new languages (or improved features) - it's great. I'll get a huge boost working on a shitty desk in a cold hotel, for a week. I started learning Ruby, and while I find it revolting in a way (it's like the opposite of elegance), I'm enjoying learning it.

This must be a well known effect, as MS seems to make small but very noticeable cosmetic changes to their UIs. I feel ... something when using the older version. Something slightly beneath my conscious perception, something that changes and feels fresh when I upgrade. (Similar but not quite the same thing when I use a shitty cross platform UI that doesn't get things quite right.)

I should probably collect a few good fonts and color schemes and rotate them automatically.

And you know, it doesn't really matter when working. But the novelty is very useful to get me going. Once I'm rolling on a project, I can be in any broken environment and stay in the flow.
From the down link:

Take Action Now!

The FCC is asking for comments on this proposal. The most important thing you can do is comment on the FCC's proposal and tell them you want to be able to control your computing devices. Will you do this?

Comment deadline extended to October 9.

Instructions:

1. Go to the Federal Register and press "Submit a formal comment" (https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/08/06/2015-184...)

2. Start your comment by respectfully asking the FCC to not implement rules that take away the ability of users to install the software of their choosing on their computing devices. Additional points of emphasis you should consider adding:

- Wireless networking research depends on the ability of researchers to investigate and modify their devices.

- Americans need the ability to fix security holes in their devices when the manufacturer chooses to not do so.

- Users have in the past fixed serious bugs in their wifi drivers, which would be banned under the NPRM.

- Billions of dollars of commerce, such as secure wifi vendors, retail hotspot vendors, depends on the ability of users and companies to install the software of their choosing.

3. Enter your name and address. This is a public comment and your personal information provided will be publicly available.

Once you've submitted your comment, make sure to encourage others to submit comments opposing these restrictions on computing devices. Use the #SaveWifi hashtag on Twitter or your favorite microblogging services.

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
From the down link:

Take Action Now!

The FCC is asking for comments on this proposal. The most important thing you can do is comment on the FCC's proposal and tell them you want to be able to control your computing devices. Will you do this?

Comment deadline extended to October 9.

Instructions:

1. Go to the Federal Register and press "Submit a formal comment" (https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/08/06/2015-184...)
2. Start your comment by respectfully asking the FCC to not implement rules that take away the ability of users to install the software of their choosing on their computing devices. Additional points of emphasis you should consider adding:

- Wireless networking research depends on the ability of researchers to investigate and modify their devices.
- Americans need the ability to fix security holes in their devices when the manufacturer chooses to not do so.
- Users have in the past fixed serious bugs in their wifi drivers, which would be banned under the NPRM.
- Billions of dollars of commerce, such as secure wifi vendors, retail hotspot vendors, depends on the ability of users and companies to install the software of their choosing.
3. Enter your name and address. This is a public comment and your personal information provided will be publicly available.

Once you've submitted your comment, make sure to encourage others to submit comments opposing these restrictions on computing devices. Use the #SaveWifi hashtag on Twitter or your favorite microblogging services.

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Giving a quick look, "graph" here seems used more like a "relational nosql" than an engine to do perform complex/custom graph traversal or implement algorithms.
D'oh! Absolutely correct, kissickas. My fingers engaged before my brain.
This should hopefully answer your question: http://superuser.com/questions/96390/difference-between-otf-...
You should check out Input, which is exactly that. I've been using it for a couple of months, can definitely recommend it. The only issue I've run into is that certain features in Sublime Text don't work so well with proportional fonts, such as indent guides.

http://input.fontbureau.com
More at the web site for "Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation":

http://hi-seas.org/
It's a radar system, there is not much it can do if people are transmitting on the same frequencies as it's listening on. It sends out a pulse, it listens for the response. It doesn't know that your WiFi traffic isn't a return signal from a raindrop. And it has to be quite sensitive, because raindrops are small and are not exactly purpose-built radio reflectors.

The previous approach to monitoring for wind shear conditions was to have a surface station at the airport, and hope that the conditions at the surface station were the same along the entire final approach corridor. Sometimes this was true. Sometimes it wasn't and people died. Aviation is a lot safer these days, even though we fly many more planes in the same airspace. Even an imperfect technology adds to the safety calculus.

Giving that safety and capacity up so you can use a shitty low-power low-bandwidth frequency in the 5GHz wifi band is not appealing to me. (There are plenty of full-power, 80MHz-wide frequencies that are WiFi-only. Use those!)

The FCC should have never allowed sharing to begin with. It was nice of them to try, though, given that much of the US is not in interference-range of TDWR stations.
I don't think it is a joke. It is classic AI marketing.

From what I can tell their 'AI' chooses colors, and fonts and does some basic layout. All three bits can be done very simply. So you choose a template, it stores a few basic qualities, then uses those qualities later to choose how to parameterise its tools for adding new content to your site.

It's not strong AI, you might want to claim it isn't AI at all. But even backtracking best-first search qualifies as 80s-era symbolic AI. I don't think you need to have an undergrad CompSci to do that. My AI textbook is used by plenty of non-graduates, I certainly hope it contains enough to implement those kinds of tools without my readers needing advanced degrees or research credentials!

So I found the article overly cynical: I don't think they're claiming it will translate your human language into a site. I didn't get that claim, at least. I interpreted it as them using the inherent magicness of 'artificial intelligence' as a marketing term, confusing together things that their tool will do, with things that the AI code will do.

Overhyped product which is a big UX investment masquerading as technical IP? Definitely! A scam with no intent to deliver? I don't think so.

My first reaction seeing the video a few months ago was 'clever'. Not 'clever' as in 'clever AI or tech', but 'a neat use of very simple AI tools with a UX focus to make blogging / portfolio software a bit more flexible.'

[edit: add last para]
Free pentest-laboratory, based on a real companies networks
I'm not sidetracking. I'm pointing out that you are affirming the consequent by simply declaring statements about what emotion 'is'.
I suppose this is on the front page because NASA just began a similar experiment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11832279/Nasa-...
Government debt yields are a nearly 1 to 1 function of the interest rate, assuming there's confidence in the currency and the government's ability to tax and print money.
I've been using Trebuchet MS for coding, and it does a good job on this: all the confusing pairs are easily distinguished. For example, the lowercase "l" has a little rounded hook at the bottom to it doesn't look like a capital "I". It's not perfect, but I've been enjoying using it.

Before that I used Georgia, which is also fairly good in this area. I stopped using Georgia because it rendered poorly with too-thin stems in Windows 8.1 on a MacBook Pro Retina. Looked fine in OSX and on my ThinkPad's 145 DPI display.
You wouldn't complain to someone who couldn't afford to eat that you couldn't afford a Ferrari, right?

Same principle applies here...
> Almost the entire OSX API is built on the Objective-C object dispatch model.

False. Cocoa is a significant part of OSX, but there are C api's for most of the frameworks.

> Swift and Objective-C are built for this model specifically.

False.

Swift supports the Objective-C dispatch model only in a special legacy mode for compatibility that must be enabled on a class by class basis. Swift's default dispatch model is static, just like most other compiled languages and has no impedance mismatch with other OSs.

The rest of your argument is based on these false statements and is simply wrong.
Yes, they're infinitely easier. Unfortuantely, the human mind is super adaptable.

Molehills become mountains, and, once conquered, the next steppe of the molehill becomes another mountain.

And when you climb an actual mountain, and look down from the top? You're bored, because now you can't spend your time climbing.
MASQ refers to IP Masquerading or Network Address Translation (NAT)
This is the least useful conversation I have seen all day.
I recall teams playing “War in Europe” a couple of decades ago in Toronto’s original wargaming club “The General Staff:”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Europe_(game)

It may not have been a megagame, but it certainly was a monster.
The new rules would effectively stop users in the future from flashing third party firmware altogether. Right now with $100 of equipment you can get around the signature checks as its just being done in firmware. In the future you won't be able to because companies will (likely) have to adopt tougher and tougher measures including tech from Intel and others. Intel designed its tech to be licensed out to others not in the X86 world. That effectively locked down Intel hardware already and no recent generation hardware can be completely free'd. LibreBoot is a 100% free BIOS that only works on older laptops because the lead developer can't port it to newer hardware due to locks that can't be overridden. The signature checks are done in hardware and you can't even just wipe out the firmware. No firmware means check fails means system doesn't turn on.
Free+Xbox+Live+Gold+Codes+August+2015
At least in Germany (I assume in Sweden it's the same, but IANAL) it is legally very involved to offer equity - this is the reason why it's highly unusual to have equity as part of the compensation.
Not all struggles are created equal. Some struggles (like Notch's) are actually problems that people wish they could have.

He doesn't have it hard, he's just not creative enough to enjoy his new life. I guess it's unfortunate he feels so awful, but if he can't find something fun and fulfilling to do while sitting on a pile of money, he has absolutely no right to complain-- an entire world is sitting out there, waiting for him to engage with.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't several distros come with pre-packaged root CAs?
Another good reason to have nuclear power (fusion would be perfect, but at least fission) - it works anywhere, anytime...
Yep. I think it's much worse than stallman's ever envisioned it though. He is under the impression we can fix it. The reality is likely otherwise which is why we need to drum up massive support for this. The rules in some part have already taken effect which means not only will we all need to send comments in on this but there will need to be further campaigns to undo rules already in effect.
As a person who is building something similar, I do know this is certainly possible with today's technology. And most probably not a scam. The team is the same team behind noflojs.org, so they do have some credibility.

But there is a misconception about Artificial Intelligence in general and its kind of true that the term is being overused. Putting couple of If/Else statement nowadays or using a Machine Learning library (Say, to find a good colour contrast - http://harthur.github.io/brain/), developers claim they are using machine intelligence and the general public might get a notion that they are doing some high-end research, while in principle they might be using one or two generally available library that any developer can use with 5-10 minutes of learning.. They really do not need to be AI experts.
I flagged it for what it's worth.
There's a great FAQ post at the beginning of the blog (http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/269599704/fre...). The answer to your last question can be found there; I copied it below :)

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Q. “Are these words real or do you make them up?”
–silhouetteme

Both. They’re real words, that are made up by me. I use the standard of realness established by lexicographer Erin McKean:

“People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an arbitrary distinction; it doesn’t make a word any more real than any other way. If you love a word, it becomes real.”
Brunch: static asset build tool used in the Phoenix framework
All you need to know about Big Data
Latin changelog here: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Hack/blob/master/CHANGELOG.....
Well, you could think about in in the sense that quick mental reaction time is necessary but not sufficient for a quick physical reaction time.
There is no inherent reason why a person should be paid for work. In the tech sector if you can't effectively monetize the work you do then the attitude is very much "well do something else then", but for some reason media people seem to think that when they cannot monetize their work it is the fault of the consumer, not themselves. Some business models were just never meant to be, politely asking random people to download large adverts and watch them for example.
No, it's 4.4.4:

http://www.android-x86.org/releases/releasenote-4-4-r3

> The 4.4-r3 release is based on the Android 4.4.4_r2.0.1 (KTU84Q) release.

Their "What is new?" section on the front page says development on the Lollipop branch had started by 2014-11-06 (just two days after Google released the source) and that lollipop-x86 was updated to 5.1 on 2015-03-18.

I'm guessing part of the reason there isn't a stable Lollipop build yet is the switch from Dalvik to ART.
GradStop.js – JavaScript micro library to generate equidistant gradient stops
It may have an objective definition but I don't think I've ever heard it used in a way that didn't have a connotation like this from chc:

"The negative connotation of that word is the implication that you are bound and determined to defend some position and will not be moved — stemming from its roots of defending literal dogma. People take it to mean a sort of closed-minded, blind tribalism."
Questions to ask: will they eventually deliver something that roughly satisfies their claims? (Yes?) will they eventually deliver something akin to what their backers expected? (No?)
There are solutions that can resolve these problems. Like actively monitoring and going after violators within this area.
I'm slightly surprised that almost nobody here uses Menlo or Monaco, even though several screenshots in the thread are clearly made on OS X.

I'm curious why that's the case. Do people generally dislike the system-provided fonts or are the alternatives considered "better"?
Have you tried Source Code Pro (http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/)? It's my go-to now when it comes to monospace fonts. I keep it installed on all my systems, right along side my dotfiles.
If it makes you feel better, if you're interested in helping get people to Mars and elsewhere in the solar system, there are almost certainly more productive uses of your time than camping in Hawaii for a year. :)
I agree. Let's modify the dielectric constant of water so that it better reflects radio pulses. That should help overcome WiFi interference.
When the ledger is public, yes. Everyone can see tampering.
Right now, the top 3 Bitcoin mining pools have 52% majority control of Bitcoin. The top 6 have 80% control. Bitcoin mining hasn't been distributed for a long time now.
Remember, this is Miod.
Ask him why they support VAX still.
Or his 68k side projects.
Particles that appear to defy Standard Model points to undiscovered forces
Oh, sorry if I wasn't clear. Reaction time is strongly correlated with the overall speed of brain function. So it applies to other brain operations too.
You mean "nearly the identity function". A 1-to-1 function is something different (((namely, a function f such that whenever f(a) = f(b), a = b))).
I like Inconsolata[1] a lot.

I prefer the version of Inconsolata with straight quotes[2].

[1]: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

[2]: http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...
The company I work in Silicon Valley for pays our software engineering interns $5000/month (USD).