skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my game (https://technomancy.itch.io/bussard) I consulted star maps of nearby regions of the galaxy (http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/starmaps/mapindex.php) and placed systems accurately.

However, I felt that using their astronomical names/numbers would be unrealistic--if these stars ever ended up being colonized, they would be given colloquial names, so I made up my own names for most of them.
Sometimes. About 5 years ago, I walked off a plane from Baltimore to Rome and out of the airport like it was a domestic flight. No stamp or anything.
Below is just a little bit of relevant source from the demo app. As you can see it certainly appears to be listening for audio beacons. Now the interesting part would be to find an easy way to determine which other apps are using this.

void a(String s1, String s2, String s3, String s4)
{
i();
p.setVisibility(8);
w.setVisibility(8);
s.setVisibility(0);
s2 = Uri.decode(Uri.encode(s2));
if ("video".equals(s4.toLowerCase()))
{
s2 = new StringBuilder();
s2.append(s3);
t.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", s2.toString(), "text/html", "utf-8", null);
q.setText("Demo : Audio Beacon Detected");
r.setText(s1);
q.setText("Found a match !!");
return;
} else
{
StringBuilder stringbuilder = new StringBuilder();
stringbuilder.append("<html><body style='margin:0;padding:0;background-color:black;'><a href='").append(s2).append("' ><img src='").append(s3).append("' height=250 style='margin:0 auto;display:block;' /></a></body></html>");
t.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", stringbuilder.toString(), "text/html", "utf-8", null);
s3 = new StringBuilder();
s3.append("<html><body style='margin:0;padding:0;background-color:black;'><a href='").append(s2).append("' ><img src='").append(s4).append("' height=50 style='margin:0 auto;display:block;' /></a></body></html>");
u.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", s3.toString(), "text/html", "utf-8", null);
q.setText("Demo : Audio Beacon Detected");
r.setText(s1);
q.setText("Found a match !!");
return;
}
}
But Coda is already popular among Mac developers. We can't say the same about less popular apps though.
Any explanation for that?
I'm running steam on Arch and it kicks ass. Most games are as good a couple are better and a couple are worse.
I am surrounded by expert Dilbert-ers! That's not the one that I had in mind, but I agree that it is quite similar. Probably, like all serial cartoonists, Adams consciously or unconsciously winds up ringing changes on a few common themes.
Well a lot of late '90s non-embedded C++ style was a very poor fit for embedded; everything dynamically allocated, lots of templates.
I'm guessing that they didn't want his example to be one which other 12 year olds would aspire to follow.
Compounding terror with terror. Doubly sad.
Article from 2013 analysing and comparing Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) and Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) - Pennies From Heaven (http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588385-giving-...). The evidence suggests that they're both pretty effective, and you would choose between the two depending on the initial conditions in the region and budget available.

There are benefits besides poverty-reduction. For example, this study by the World Bank (http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServ...) concludes that CCTs reduce child labout.
How do you name your company?
Religion is never going anywhere, despite your pleas.

And in case you forgot, secularists brought us the most violent conflicts in history, just last century. US slavery didn't need religion, nor did Apartheid. nor climate change or the atomic bomb. Pacifism is pretty much a religious concept, exclusively so until relatively recent human history.

I don't really see how fanatic rationalism has any leg to stand on, really.
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Are you saying that France is a big supporter of Israel?
I got lectured a bit by dad when I showed him a cool "violent" video game in 1987 or so. I think it was a C64 game, maybe Commando. He told me it was neat but he'd much rather see my brother and me creating things and learning. We would later leverage that little fact into our its-an-education-system arguments when we asked for an upgrade to a Commodore Amiga.
The package name is obfuscated, correct?
Terrorism is anti civillian warfare. Planting sabatoge devices that kill and maim innocent people is actually terrorism/ Is it just not as effective because it maims more than it it kills? I don't get it with these pedantic aruments.

eg lets say we load a bunch of shrapnel into a tree so it maims or permanenly injures whoever the next logger is...tha is basically the same thing as lobbing hand grenades into the public square. the attacks are meant to target random people, caught unawares, in a way that conveys a persistant threat of continued, scalable future action.

Now lets take some other shady randome violence like the KGB assinating a civilian in London with radioactive isotopes in his tea. Is that terrorism? No, its a specific threat carried out in a limited capacity against a designated target. It might be criminal or a war crime or wahatever bad thing describes it, but its not "anti civilian warfare", in the same way that not all war casualties are "war crimes" in the normal usage.
I hate including WWW and love short URLs: but there's a bit of a problem.

Technical things that are trivial for people reading this comment: knowing the difference between right and left clicks, copying and pasting, using keyboard shortcuts to find a bit of text on a page, or even recognizing that a URL is a URL without the context that WWW provides, is hard for many non-technical users. Really.

There are some people who will not understand what "Visit us at no-www.org to find out more!" means unless you write out www.no-www.org.

(And even then, there will still be some people who are confused and go and physically type in www.no-www.org.com into their web browser.)
There is a movie based on this man's life called "Too Young the Hero". I enjoyed watching it a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Young_the_Hero
The print function was one of the worst offenders. It is a pointless vanity feature (Guido prefers the new syntax), hardly worth the economic cost of upgrading all Python code in existence to adopt it.
Windows 10 runs great on Linux under qemu/kvm with QXL set as your graphics and installing the VMware drivers on the Windows side.
From reading the results, they found out that you could guess someone's name when they put a year in the username and that antisocial words meant the person was more likely to be a jerk.

Am I missing something here? The idea that SatansDick2007 is probably an 8 year old troll won't come as a shock to much of anyone.
Unless you want to do actual damage. In terror attacks, deaths are only collateral, the real damage is the overreaction of the attacked nation. It's an effective thing if you blame a country.
I'm not sure what real world deployment tools you're talking about, but 99.99% would be pretty good. Actually distributed deployment is "a hard problem".
It's a good article, but I think it fills the same function as waitbutwhy.com's articles - and they are stronger in this case.
> The number of assets registering large moves—four or more standard deviations away from their normal trading range—has been increasing. Such moves would normally be expected to happen once every 62 years.

This is very troubling. It means traditional models are not working to capture the market correctly at the moment. It was a leading indicator for the 2007 financial crisis - 3 sigma events happening with increasing frequency that were ignored because there were profits to be made from poor risk management.
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As someone who runs a fairly large multiplayer game with a good mix of children, teenagers, and adults, I've always been convinced of this[1] but haven't had any data to back it up, and I certainly didn't have the time or drive to conclusively demonstrate it like these fine folks did.

I would love to see someone tackle some solutions to this problem with some A/B testing. Sadly I don't think my userbase is large enough or antisocial enough for me to effectively test it.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/3op7e2/wha...
I agree that with asymmetrical warfare resorting to terrorism is rational. What seems irrational is our inability to recognize the struggle of our enemy for what it's worth and our refusal to negotiate. I can't think of an example where negotiations (as in granting that your partner in negotiations is your peer) haven't led to a net positive outcome. To take but one example close to home: The Soviet Union was founded by a terrorist group. The ultimate recognition of the state by western powers and their foreign policy of engagement -- aside from the Cold War era -- was instrumental in bringing the enemy to its knees (whatever the wider repercussions of this outcome).
You don't think devices such as the Amazon Echo could do such a thing?
"blindly agreed to so many things"

you mean one permission prompt, on one app they may have downloaded years ago?

everything else is just the advertisers including high-frequency beacons in their ad spots—it doesn't require any knowledge or cooperation of any of the intermediary steps.
Any large enough game will use C/C++ at its core because short of using assembly, it's the only real choice we have. C#, Lisp or whatever else are nice for gameplay scripting, but underneath there is a need for control that most languages will not give you. Same thing for anything with hard real-time requirements.
It really depends on what you're transporting.

If you want to move 100 tank cars of crude oil, or 100 cars of coal, then a freight train will accomplish that pretty easily. You can even move a truck trailer via rail, that's called intermodal.

But if you want to deliver 50,000 pounds of freight across the country in three days, you can't do it by rail. You pay a tractor trailer "team" (e.g. often a husband and wife)* to pick up your load on the West Coast on Thursday and deliver it on the East Coast on Monday. They'll take turns driving all weekend to accomplish that.

Bulk stuff moves by train or barge, relatively heavy relatively time sensitive stuff moves by truck, light and time sensitive stuff moves by air.

*Edit: that sounds complicated or risky, but it's not. Manufacturers use logistics companies to handle these details. Logistics companies are also good at quickly moving LTL (less-than-truckload) loads across long distances by consolidating multiple shipments into one trailer.
I played LoL briefly during the beta and before the Tribunal was implemented, and even won their first contest (logo lookout) when Nikita was still an intern for Riot. I was very interested in the community and the lore since Riot was proactive in words and, for a brief time, actions.

I even have an email dated Oct 12 2010:

> 2. Has the idea of a "Summoner Spotlight" ever been discussed? I think a small article written by a Summoner about their own character, and approved by Riot Staff could do wonders to enrich Roleplay almost to the point of The Hollow.[0]

Suddenly, on Oct 22 2010 Summoner Spotlights showed up! Probably a coincidence since the content was totally different, but for a fan like me at the time it was exciting. [1]

To say I was drooling the Kool-Aid at the idea of having a positive community would be an understatement.

Then something must have happened internally because Babaganush was soon fired and nothing was really done to stop the community from suddenly becoming overwhelmed with adolescents describing their urges surrounding "Nikasaur" once the Spotlights did show up. That, coupled with the in-game behavior, made the whole community smell of rot.

I left after it became clear Riot was not actually focused on really cleaning up the community. Riot took the game towards the e-sports competitive scene which, sadly, helped shape the community into what it was and is. I've heard the Tribunal has helped, but it's not one of those features that is going to make me come back.

[0] http://imgur.com/VfUvarl

[1] http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Summoner_Showcase

EDIT: To the downvoters, if you disagree with how I am recounting history, please do elaborate. Riot got rid of a significant amount of their moderate playerbase by their early business decisions, which was a contributing factor to having a negative-attitude playerbase in the 2010-2012 years. That negative attitude at this point has become a stereotype, and perhaps it could have been avoided.
No, code that has to run fast. Most c++ popular libs are callable from other languages. Whatever you feel about it c++ isn't a dead dinosaur, most the things you use were probably written in it.
APT of 15 years ago is a pretty far cry from APT of today. In fact APT was abandoned by it's original maintainer and kinda sucked until something like 2007 or 2008 when someone else started working on it again. But you know rose colored lenses.

WU has never really been about software installation or upgrade, it's focus has always been about bug fixes and security patches. Silverlight and IE are the only apps that have ever been upgradable via WU and for IE that's been a relatively new occurrence primarily driven by getting users off of older insecure versions. So really Silverlight is only app ever distributed via WU.

You also have to consider that APT was a solution to the horrible experience of getting and installing Debian libraries and applications which still is a pain in the ass without APT. Windows never had the problem, apps that were available for download were easy to download and install.

Keep in mind that APT is for opensource software and doesn't have to deal with authentication and authorization of software licenses.

And since WU isn't a store front and most Windows software isn't free, opening up WU to 3rd party apps would probably have come with distribution costs that I would wager most app developers wouldn't pay.

So again not a very fair comparison.
Volkswagon. Breeze. Whatever.
I don't think most humans would be able to figure all that out.
> Data from League of Legends reveals links between real-world and online personality.

Surprising?
Like what C did with bool? Ick. Gross. Ugly. Me no like. I understand why they did that in this case: by the time they got around to fixing the lack of bool, they had to work around everyone else's workarounds! But that was an extreme case. Let's not do that more often than we must.
I don't get the urge for this -- its basically obsessing over other people's sloppiness. Make it a warning -- if you care about code quality you have warnings as errors anyway -- and you don't need to break everything in the process.
The US terrorism alert level has not been raised, and there are no US terrorism alerts from Homeland Security following this.[1] PJM and CAISO (the two biggest US power grid operators) aren't showing any emergency actions or warnings. So the US anti-terrorism community isn't seeing an imminent threat.

[1] http://www.dhs.gov/news/2015/11/13/statement-secretary-jeh-c...
Hey thanks for the answer. Business for dummies book is probably a great start for what I am looking for. Any other book recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Also a quick search for Business workshops in my area came up with "How to Start a Small Business" for $10.00 next Wednesday. Nothing to lose by going to that.
It's possible but I don't think so because he refers to his issues with MAS in the present tense and his issues with WU in the past tense. MAS is 2 years older than the Windows Store and WS is much more permissive in comparison so I find it hard to believe he's had issues with WS for longer than MAS.
"Notably missing are the Beatles, who reportedly wanted to contribute "Here Comes the Sun" but couldn't secure permission from their record company."

I found this line hilarious, originally taking it to imply that they were forbidden to cast their song into the void on the basis of copyright.
That is only because up until recently you could buy blank fire guns in Slovakia that were easily converted to real guns. Otherwise most of the weapons are from the Balkans as a consequence of the war.
XCode wasn't poisoned, someone released a hacked copy of it on a popular file sharing site
Do you think it was broken for $1M without using an already existing computing infrastructure that costed much more?
I'm more interested in knowing how much the real total cost involved here is. Maybe it's not a pittance that any VC in SV could cough.
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Software doesn't fall off the Apple train, it's bound, gagged, and shot in the back of the head before being thrown off while on a bridge over deep water.
I find this relativism disconcerting. Please explain how targeting innocent civilians for their ethnicity or beliefs is equal to military vs. military operations. Most of the world is shades of grey but one has to recognize when an ideology is clearly a danger to human society and needs to be fought against. Whether and how violent the means need to be is up for discussion, I just can't understand why people would downplay what ISIS, Boko Haram, Taliban and similar groups are doing. Just because the term "Freedom Fighters" has long been intemixed with Terrorism doesn't mean that it applies here. IMO most of these groups don't want to 'liberate' people, instead they want to either bind them to their religious ideology, kill or enslave them.
This tech gets them more business... they know what they're doing.
Remember hero exists, because tragic scenarios exist.

Without tragedy and wars, there will be no heroes and that is a good thing.

Remember, the people who get medal of honors are either dead or are involved in horrific situations.
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Oh hey, someone from Reddit decided to comment here instead.
How long have you been gone? I think you might be out of date. Most games aren't negative (compare to, say, voice chat in CS:GO...) and they've rolled out plenty of features to report people who are being jerks.

That said, honestly, you can't prevent people from saying things you don't like, especially a bunch of anonymous kids. They can always sign up for a new account or whatever. Better just to punish and move on, especially as they have plenty of things to lose for being a jerk (IP, rank, champions, money they've spent, etc.).

The Tribunal is gone, but you can file reports, some punishments are automatic (did they spend the entire game swearing at their team and get reported?), you can mute anyone you like, etc.
Actually, he prefers the old syntax. The new syntax is there because he got swayed by practical considerations. For instance, back in July 2000, there was this:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0214/

Where he basically said "Maybe print should be a function, but... nah".

Two years later, he says he regrets it:

http://legacy.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/regrets/PythonRegret...

And the benefits are explained here:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3105/
It's a sad day when Apple are the company I trust most with my privacy.
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What level of disagreement with the holocaust narrative gets one thrown in a metal cage in Germany?

If somebody said that about 4 million Jews died during the years of WWII instead the popularly promoted 6, or even just 1 or 2 million, would that be illegal? What if somebody said that about 1 million Jews died specifically at Auschwitz instead of about 4 million, would that be illegal? What if one disputed some details such as methods of execution or other popularly promoted facts? Would it be illegal to conduct historical research and come to the conclusion that 5 million jews were shot and 1 million were gassed instead of the other way around?

To avoid any issues: I'd please request precise notes from the thought police on what opinions are allowed to be expressed or thoughts are allowed to be disagreed with.

Thank you
I think the bar is to commemorate Gene Amdahl.

I think the bar appeared before the attacks.
Wasn't the black bar already up for Amdahls's death?
What about cultural references in user names? The use of non-English words can reflect cultures other than American. Someone with the name "Browncoat" (a Firefly reference) may be younger than the name "Krell" (a Klingon in the original Star Trek).

I imagine there are other types of information that can be inferred from an alias. It supports the argument that metadata contains private information. As well whether use of pseudonyms provides anonymity.
flippant answer—tptacek doesn't "copyright" anything. in territories that recognize the Berne convetion of 1989, everything created that meats the standards for copyright is protected by copyright. you can't "copyright" something—something either is, or isn't protected by copyright. IANAL, but as tptacek's comments are tangible forms of creative works, they are trivially protected by copyright

less flippant answer—because he's probably had problems with people stealing his answers and posting them on other forums or similar issues.
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The most interesting part of this to me was that fact that players tend to use their birth year in their username. And that the number 88 was a statistical outlier because for some reason people must really like that number.
About 66 million years ago there was probably quite the Tsunami in Galveston Bay. Courtesy of the Chicxulub impactor.

But you might be right, I'm not really sure what the landmasses looked like so long ago. Also I don't think the place was actually named "Galveston Bay" at the time. :)
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Please do go on, if you will.

I'm primarily a Python guy and with the 2/3 split, I've had my eye on .Net Core to migrate my business platform to. Pretty much been looking to dump Python for anything over a line count of 500 and keep it that way.
I'm open to any speculation as to where it's going because I'm finding the .Net platform to be more attractive than ever. A few years ago it was looking pretty sad but MS really turned it around and I'm interested in a permanent migration.
I really can't find much, that I enjoy using, that approaches Python's broad use cases than C# on .Net. With dotNet Native and Xamarin, I'm very seriously considering the plunge.
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The OP began by saying "Islam soils the reputation of islam. It has a massive problem of large percentages of Muslims supporting (or being okay with) violence and terrorism." Without further proof, that statement is an allegation at best and a slur at worst (especially if the following proof doesn't hold up).

He then went on to say "42% of young Muslims in France believe suicide bombings are justified (35% overall)." So why wasn't his original statement "Islam in France among 42% of Muslims less than 30 years of age (that were prompted to answer a survey question in an environment we know nothing about) soils the reputation of Islam?"

So, he began by making a broad generalization about Islam as a whole and then quoted a statistical observation about a small percentage of Muslims. Sorry, but 2 + 2 = 4. Broad generalization + no proof = slur.
At the very least you have some form of self defense. Do you assume all gun owners to be incompetent oafs? I probably shoot more than most police.
> Plenty of terrorism? USSR funded and commited plenty of terrorism, but I've yet to hear of any terrorist incidents prior to the perestroila..

While the regime exercised strong control of information prior to glasnost, and had plenty of motive to repress information that would indicate weakness of the regime, there are numerous known hijackings, the 1977 Moscow bombings, and others. (While reliable information about responsibility for some, and any broader organizational responsibility that might be behind those clearly responsible for others, is hard to come by, there does seem to be a disproportionate link to Armenia among the known incidents, with some specifically linked to Armenian nationalists.)