skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Progress of technology decided. If you hurry up, you may start putting some social/legal fences but understand that privacy is becoming mostly about what one shouldn't do, and not about what one can't do.
Heh, I guess I forgot how weird things look from the outside.. but no one knew how to properly destroy coins, or that there was even a proper way. Despite there being all these altcoin "Developers", 95% of them only actually knew how to copy-paste-search-replace to create a new altcoin.. The focus in altcoins was always the marketing side: pretty graphics, good branding, and a viral community that expands until it implodes on itself.

So yea, people used it because they didn't know better.. And because of how backwards the altcoin community is, most of the time it's the inexperienced people asking other inexperienced people for help.. so bad habits spread very quickly and pervasively
good read here --> http://amzn.com/0805082409
I think the argument is that if bad guys didn't have guns, then there would be no reason for good guys to have guns except to fend off wildlife.

However, even if the bad guys didn't have encryption, we would still want good guys to have encryption to prevent the bad guys from intercepting private and sensitive communications.
Religion is a smoke screen. Does it matter if you chop bits off your kids "because a book told me to" or "because my mom told me to"?
All religions are silly ridiculous relics. Let's stop talking about them.

The problem is the culture as a whole. Does it work? Or does it not work?

The way to know if a culture works is to look at migration patterns. People leave cultures that don't work and go to better cultures.

But people from shitty cultures are still people, so this obvious enormous fact goes completely unnoticed. They are not going to accept so easily that their culture is not good. It takes generations.

Or it _took_ generations. Now it may not happen at all, because some people pride themselves on respecting and _preserving_ other people's silly cultures, instead of just respecting the people.
I'm an atheist as well, but I realize that this may be just out of ignorance since I don't really know why somebody believes. Would you be willing to have a conversation about your faith so that I can understand the perspective of somebody who does believe?
One of the anti-Bootstrap websites she links to looks like total crap in Firefox. Oh the irony. :)
Excellent point and what many people miss. Look at history.
I expect all/most communications are and will continue to be monitored/recorded by someone (NSA, gov, fbook, goog, etc.)

If this monitoring does prevent an attack from happening that's great but I don't think we have or will have a choice or even will know what is being monitored and logged or by who.

I mean we are all paying to carry around tracking devices (phones) 24/7.

If someone told you 10 years ago that in the near future everyone would be forced to carry a device to track their every move and that could listen in on their communications what would you have thought?

The privacy ship has sailed.
The (destructive) assignment is an extra concept in imperative programming compared to functional programming.

It is also a form of resource management and incur resource management issues (do I need that value in this variable? Can I overwrite it and discard old value?).

The implicit state also is an implicit communication channel between different parts of program. In FP this communication is much more explicit, especially if you use something like Software Transactional Memory.

I think I listed enough points for you to reconsider your stance about Python being easier to grasp.
Fair enough, but in that case you're not really a supporter of free speech. If you believe in outlawing certain kinds of harmful speech, why not other kinds of harmful speech?
I'm picking up your cynicism and I've got plenty of complaints about Facebook myself (mostly related to how it's a closed-off system that requires you to use their service to communicate with people, unlike email where you can choose your provider/host and still communicate with people who prefer others).

That said, the idea that you automatically use such services for shallow, mass communication with large numbers of fleeting friends is sort of disingenuous. I keep an account there because like many people, it's a fairly effective way to coordinate with friends and family without creating long email chains or massive group texts.

Not everyone is trying to be a social butterfly, resigning themselves to quantity over quality or neglecting sleep and hobbies. Plenty of us have people we'd like to keep in touch with and a place to announce events (cookouts or parties we're holding, concerts or camping trips we're attending, etc) so our other friends and acquaintances can find out about them and join us in person.

I've currently got a closed group on there where 4 or 5 of us have been sharing our progress on some neat electronic art projects we're working on. It's not something we use at the expense of hobbies and interests but rather a common tool for us to casually collaborate and share the things we're interested in and working on.

So yeah, I'd love if I could use Google+ or some other service where I like the interface and features better and I'd love if that didn't require everyone to "jump ship" at the same time. A common protocol between social forums (again, like email) would go a long way toward addressing the complaints I have with them.

But since that's not likely to happen, I'll take occasionally checking my Facebook accounts for things people have shared with me over missing out on those conversations due to distance or personal time constraints. I don't live on Facebook but I stop by a few times a week when I feel like looking at Facebook. Haven't lost any sleep over it yet and I've developed quite a few hobbies around the communication that FB and other services foster.
NIH-ism is apparently still strong with web developers. For consideration, sure, you can write your own PNG reader for your back-end by following the spec, and you might make it a bit faster than the commonly available libraries by coding in some assumptions about your use case, but should you? The answer is rarely yes (but rarely isn't never).
The U.K went from a debt to gdp ratio of 225% to a low of 33%.[0]
The U.S. went from a debt to gdp ratio of 120% down to 37%.[1]
This isn't the first time countries have had to run large deficits.

[0]http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/11697/debt/post-war-boom/
[1]http://dailybail.com/home/chart-us-debt-to-gdp-1940-2015.htm...
Ah, I see your point. Yes, using that word can easily mislead the general population. But what word would you suggest for a site (like this one) where people like to think they have a clue?
beams of light have never been able to cool liquids

stopped reading there because article is already incorrect

every record breaking cooling achievement has been done by laser cooling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling
I think you're technically correct that there's no guarantee, in that it's not part of the definition of a hash. A magical function which somehow returned an incrementing counter value for each unique chunk of data you fed to it, globally, would fit the definition of a cryptographic hash.

Real-world cryptographic hash functions, however, just try to approximate a random oracle. They attempt to achieve pre-image resistance and collision resistance by making their output look random. Certainly that's the case with SHA-224, which is what this code uses.

Some real-world CSPRNGs do just use hash functions directly. Linux's /dev/random implementation, for example, just returns a SHA-1 hash of its entropy pool contents. Yarrow (used in Mac OS X, iOS, and FreeBSD) does a final pass on its output using a block cipher, but requires that the hash function used in its earlier stages produce random-looking output. Fortuna is similar.

Of course, this code is insecure and should not be used in production, regardless of the internal details, simply because all of the inputs are known to a third party i.e. Twitter.
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Google Search now understands the meaning of questions
"The Kremlin leadership saw the space shuttle primarily as a carrier of space weapons and discounted its advertised scientific and commercial applications as an elaborate smokescreen"

Which, to be fair, somewhat reflects the involvement of the DoD and NRO in the US shuttle design process. After all, the USAF built Vandenberg for a reason, and all the SDI people wanted x-ray killsats, kinetic bombardment satellites, etc.
And Germany managed to do it in cooperation with unions (rather than eliminating them, see UK, US).
https://gist.github.com/Holzhaus/ed4ac1675a57f11c3057 contains a simple reverse grep for doing this.

You should still have a modicum of trust towards the host you're pulling from, as they can also insert something to potentially break the parsing code, which opens up a whole 'nother host of issues.
Fortunately that unicorn has been shot in the nineties already. Several times. Still, it won't completely die.
Facebook's editorial control of users' posting is the natural consequence of you having way too many people in your circle of friends. Average FB user has how many - 100 friends? 500 friends? If Facebook showed you all updates from everyone, as well as the large mass of fanpages you've subscribed to, you'd drown in the noise.

The point being, any usable social network will have to filter user postings.
Extending the Web’s capabilities in Firefox and beyond
Compare it to smoking, for example. Addictive, harmful, billions of people doing it.
How much traffic SHOULD your site get?
> someone tech savvy can get around that

Or someone who has a strong incentive to keep their communication hidden - like a terrorist or a drug enforcer. This leads to a situation where law abiding citizens are punished when their right to privacy is denied, while criminals aren't hindered. "When you outlaw X, X will only be used by outlaws"
Attempt no landing there? Yeah right–we’re going to Europa
If that was feasible, the entire bitcoin network would be destroyed(because you could now spend other peoples money by figuring out their private key based on their public wallet address)
Steiner's esoteric views are hardly a part of the day to day discussion at any Waldorf scool.

Rather (from Wikipedia):

"Waldorf kindergarten and lower grades generally discourage pupils' use of electronic media such as television and computers.[38] There are a variety of reasons for this: use of these is understood to conflict with young children's developmental needs,[50] media users tend to be physically inactive, and these media often contain inappropriate or undesirable content which may hamper rather than exercise the imagination."
Cry me a river about the 6 trillion Jews but please don't mention the 10 million Ukrainians that Jewish Commissar Genrikh Yagoda killed, because that would not be PC and it makes the Jews uncomfortable.
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I don't think writing a custom grid system is reinventing the wheel, since it's a task too small to even employ such consideration. It's like saying creating a folder structure for your project is reinventing the wheel.

Anyway, there's a rather diffuse line between reinventing the wheel and optimizing/fitting your own particular needs. I can easily agree that I've ended up - many times - in the first region while trying to reach the latter. Still, I'd say "no harm" if a) you got a cleaner, more legible source code; b) you got a better grasp of your solution; c) you're learning; and d) saving a few milliseconds from each of your users.
If you got in and made some of that money you wouldn't be complaining. Its the nature of VC. A lot of failures and a few big winners.
I built the first version of platform.org for Hank and his co-founder Jonathan a couple of years ago. He was a real pleasure to work with, and I was very sad to hear this news. :(
What hedgew said was based on empirical research. Sure it may be a flawed conclusion (and that was noted), but yeah, research allows you to make (tentative) claims about the world.
Perhaps you are a little too hard on YC.

Here's the thing: You do not need YC to succeed/make money/do great things. YC is a tool that comes with a cost (it is a business, after all). If you do not need that tool, then please do not denigrate those who do.

Having said that, perhaps you should view this as an 8 year education in philosophy/business. Just don't become bitter or vitriolic. Rather, you should put your philosophy and ideas into motion, and in so doing fulfill the idea that you have towards success. In fact, I wish you well in your endeavors, because you, me, and the rest of the world will benefit from it. Good luck, and enjoy the ride!
It was already a week in planning when I told you, but hooking it up to twitch was relatively trivial.
>What's your point? That Islamic terrorism is compatible with open society because of a bunch of things were done to them over the past thousand years?

The question in the thread wasn't whether "islamic terrorism" was compatible with open society, but whether islam itself is.

And my point it, whether it is or not, that "open society" is not as "open" as it pretends to be either.

If some family had done "a bunch of things" (of enslaving, torturing and murderous nature) to your family "over the past thousand years", would you see them as friends? Especially if they continued those things in one way or another up to today, while celebrating how "open" and "tolerant" they are, (as opposed to you, who hates them).
For me it's like 150 / 20. I guess it's just that the vast majority of people who are satisfied with Facebook don't have anything to whine about, so we don't notice them.

(And yes, they're there - you can hear them whining for a month every time Facebook does a significant UI change - a month it takes to get used to it.)
What happens when people's contemporary attitude regarding privacy and government is applied to corporations? Silicon Valley is in a perception bubble: people won't likely be happy with privacy invasions forever.
So, what is my ideology then? That violence is a means of last resort? That problems should be tackled at the root, not by attacking the symptoms? That religion - which I personally do not subscribe to - has problems, no matter where but that freedom of speech automatically implies freedom of religion and so it's here to stay and will have to be accommodated, in all it's forms?

Pick some, they're all true.

Bombing civilians in a trumped up war about resources is to the victims exactly the same as shooting randomly at people. Ditto blowing up weddings with rockets, killing a few hundred thousand civilians to stop them from subscribing to another ideology and so on.

All of these activities are deplorable. I'm all for national defense, I'm not a pacifist (try harming me or someone I love and see how that ends) but at the same time I'm all for restraint and very careful consideration of the consequences of actions.

Note that there is a fairly direct line between the Iraq invasion (which France was adamantly against, remember the 'surrender monkeys' and the 'Freedom Fries'?), and the attacks in Paris. Action begets reaction, so before you react without considering the consequences you should hold still. And only when and if you've identified root causes can you go and attack the problem.

Attacking Iraq on false pretexts after 9/11 was a step on the way to Liberating Fallujah (or should that be 'wiping it off the face of the earth') which indirectly led to the US leaving Iraq which led to a power vacuum which led to on the raid of Mosul by IS which was one step on the way to IS becoming more coherent which was one step on the way to a bunch of murderers shooting up the Paris nightlife.

It's not that hard. Context and intent are a lot more complex than they seem to be at first glance, ideology has precious little to do with it.
Sour grapes mate?
The other alternative that is not mentioned in the article is Basscss: http://www.basscss.com/
Isn't France still collecting some form of colonial tax from African countries?
At the risk of Godwinning this thread, that's something I read in some old documents too. That time it didn't work.
This was exactly my first thought as well!
As the OP points out, ISIS is much more horrible to their own people.

ISIS and their ilk kill far more Muslims than any other group.
Including the "2nd hand" problems when people that don't have an account are referenced or included in an email.
I'd like to think there's a key difference between losing sleep all night making the latest social media fad and raping helpless women and girls after beheading their husbands, fathers, and brothers. Between siphoning off another million with a tweak to your high-frequency-trading algorithm and shooting dozens of people to death in a concert hall.
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves" - C.G. Jung
HA! Well, that's hilarious. I was just talking to @eliot at Hackaday supercon about making this with WaterColorBot and CNCserver at his suggestion, I guess if it's out there it's out there. Definitely a different setup than I would have done, but it seems like it might work.

Really though this is just asking for people to write interfaces and use twitch IRC chat as a terrible API. I'm forced to think that only when it's unpopular (but popular enough), anything resembling what a user intends will be created. At least in the end you're guaranteed to get art.
It sounds like you're blaming others for your failure. Perhaps that attitude is why you didn't get in.

As an entrepreneur, it's always your fault. Stop blaming others.
But so many people around you do. I don't use it either, but it still affects many around me.
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That's one hell of a bubble. You do know that for a lot of people, it's simply impossible to move out of their city, especially in countries like Syria and Pakistan? Family ties are the least of their problems. Most people simply don't have a wad of cash to do this with.
ah true. I might have been too violent in my previous post. Sorry about that. wishing the death of another human being, no matter how horrible we consider him, should not happen.
And 90% of 10yos can make a perfect toasted marshmallow in a fraction of the time.
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When the message starts with a private 'revelation', not to me but to others, that I have to unquestionably accept giving some other mammal total control over my mind or be tortured forever, I don't need to be told anymore. It's insulting, childish, it belongs in the infancy of our species and it needs to be outgrown, never mind how 'good' it makes you feel inside.
Well I will gather a bigger rally and convince them to defend me. Or will convince them that you are the real threat. Or I will convince your people that you are just a phony that copulated with pigs in high school.

Here is a good rule of thumb - any restrictions on speech hurt the weaker side more ...
French flag as FB profile picture? Congrats on your corporate white supremacy
Religions are nothing more than organized ignorance, so it is completely unsurprising that violence sprouts from them.
Shoaling underwater robots
Everybody should read this. I'm skimming through it, and I'm realizing how little I know about the complexity of Daeshi culture. I think many of us, whose extent of exposure to the subject is listening to and watching the news, have no idea what is actually happening, and are completely unaware of what life is within ISIS borders. This magazine is first hand information from inside the minds of ISIS members. Yes, it's a propaganda magazine, but how can we even being to try to understand ISIS without knowing what they believe, and what their media says?
I have got to admit that I strongly prefer the 'simple demo' implementation to the more complete one.
The different waves and reflection effect in the "Demo With Animate.css" feel overcrowded and distracting to me.

It is probably a bit subjective though
In a way, I wish the US had something similar as the French's idea of reservists. Technically, we do, as the National Guard. However, they are abused and used on foreign deployments.

Then again, I doubt they would accept me, given I have an arm injury that prevents a bit of motion above shoulder height.. (I'm 6'5" or ~2m tall)
> Second, I don't try to justify or excuse (I mean, Jesus!), just to put in perspective and explain.

That's the point, you are putting in perspective unrelated things and unrelated places and unrelated times...

None of the events you listed are related to the polling results that almost half of Muslims think that death should be the penalty for apostasy. That's something inherent to the ideology and its resulting culture.
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Migration patterns, really?

People have been migrating from everywhere even from the west to the Gulf countries for quite some time now. Does this make their culture any better than any of the migrants'?

Of course not as national wealth and net immigration numbers are not relevant in this discussion.
What setup would you do?

Also, I was at hackaday too!
>French state is not doing it's job

What state would be good example? What is good measure for succes here?
"It is not in any realistic sense a recession."

It fits the definition of a recession. I guess you are arguing that the definition of recession should be changed to use per capita GDP numbers. This isn't clear, however. From the standpoint of an investor, say, you want to invest in an enterprise that will grow. If your business is shrinking, it doesn't help you that it is growing per capita.
I am particularly amused that this submission is getting a lot of upvotes. :P
I'd say a PNG reader and a CSS grid system aren't quite comparable in scope and complexity. See my reply to the sister post. Also, bear in mind that "grid system" doesn't always mean "float-based,12-column and 4 breakpoint based grid system".
Exploring Meaningful Motion on Android
Weird Al gets it: https://youtu.be/YY6I4MwrX7k?t=438
I really don't see how.

There's a ton of useful stuff with HKTs, type families, GADTs, etc that you can't hope to achieve with ocaml's type system.

Recently, I've found myself using extensive type-level arithmetic for automatic hardware generation and verification. This requires a number of powerful type system features (type level literals, kind promotion, type functions and equality constraints a la type families, type normalization plugins) that wouldn't work at all in ocaml.
> Bombing civilians in a trumped up war about resources is to the victims exactly [jacquesm's emphasis] the same as shooting randomly at people.

This is absolutely, truly, astonishing.
I live in a suburb of Austin and I would wager the ratio of cars to adults is pretty much 1. There are quite a few homes with two adults and three or more vehicles. My home is like this (I have a car and a motorcycle).