skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Gulen the leader of the Hizmet movement? yes

did Gulen followers infiltrate the judicial system, police, and army and undermined secular forces under Erdogan's reign? yes

Did Gulen and his followers turned against Erdogan when they disagreed on how to share power? yes

Did Gulen's followers attempted a coup to ovethrow Erdogan? yes

All of these happened in the span of +12 years in front of our eyes, those gulenist did all this with impunity under Ergodan's protection(until fall 2013) while praising their precious Imam living in U.S.A.

In The past when you asked a gulenist why their "saint" leader lived in the U.S.A and not in a muslim country under sharia law they would say that he is so sick that he needs 50 doctors around him...They actually view him as the Messiah, you know the reincarnation of Jesus...

yes we can't prove it, but how can we do it? The Hizmet movement is in some ways similar to Scientology, you know they are shady as fuck but they're so slimy that you can't catch them with their hand in your pocket.

It is ironic that the only group that now is pro-american in Turkey is an Islamic sect which is at war against the secular order in Turkey.
Google should be on that list too.
Those are two separate ideas. You don't need to bypass the PAL if you just want to blow it up conventionally to spread radioactive material around.
I disagree. I'm glad that science is becoming less associated with the "hard" sciences and is being used more broadly. After all, science is much more than simply the sciences that strictly use the scientific method. The "soft" sciences like psychology are sciences even though their methods are sometimes not easily reproducible. But we shouldn't be resigning outreslves simply because the "soft" science methods are more difficult than the "hard" sciences.
The grants page says that they offer between $500 to $7000 to cover housing, food, childcare, transportation, etc, so that's a reasonable ballpark range on what someone not on a grant might need to spend as well.

https://www.recurse.com/diversity
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I recently found out about messenger.com and I've been using it over facebook.com.

Result? I don't use facebook anymore, it's just a colossal waste of time.
This is a very interesting intro to some ways that a C program can manage memory.
This must be the most elegant vulnerability I've seen in ages. It almost feels like the pieces are interacting as designed. You politely ask the server to use a proxy -- and it does!
This list is great! Reproducibility and verification of results is key!

Pachyderm (disclaimer: my company) is building infrastructure tools to help data scientists reproduce results by offering "Git for Data."
I feel the same was as Linus, which is why I started the Trivial Patch Monkey (and hence my mention in this post). Note that it's still going, as mentioned in MAINTAINERS:

TRIVIAL PATCHES
M:	Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial.git
S:	Maintained
K:	^Subject:.*(?i)trivial
I think it's great you did, but... People are not reading the permission request dialogs. How likely do you think it that they read the actual source? ;)
a.k.a. rockstar developers.

It's not doing anyone any favours, I agree.
As an aside, it would be interesting to adopt a convention where certain links included a hash of what it pointed to, avoiding the case that the (sub-)resource changed out from underneath the link. This implies that you'd want to link to a specific version of a (sub)resource. E.g. you could do something like what github does with:

https://github.com/USER/PROJECT/commit/COMMIT_HASH#DIFF_HASH

where the DIFF_HASH is a fragment pointing to a particular resource within the commit.
I was getting closer to that for many years -- enjoying the process -- until I decided to try and start a software business. All of a sudden, there's a huge downside to improving code without having a clear material benefit.

I'm with you on losing the fear of writing crappy code being freeing. At some point I realized that everyone's code including mine is crappy code, and there's no way around writing crappy code or introducing bugs. Realizing that did make me a better coder and a better manager. It let me be a bit more humble as well as empathetic to others, and led me to think more about the importance of testing.
Do you have any resources to show how this is potentially a fire hazard? Genuinely curious.. because I often hear people talk about even the most basic electronics as this Big Scary Thing, and in my mind, it is quite simple and harmless.

Please share.
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It is as practical a matter as the adoption of Indian numerals by Europe in the 1200s in favor of Roman numerals.

English happens to be an Indo-European language and does not seem as 'foreign' to Indians as Indian numerals might have appeared to Europeans.

As an aside, English has recognizable weaknesses as a medium of expression to Indian minds, and if a replacement will be found, chances are it will be synthesized in India.
The wikipedia definition is good: "Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyse or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running."

In my own words, code that can read and write code (whether that's at compile time or run time).
I've written two books (O'Reilly and No Starch). Do it for the pleasure of having a physical token you can give to people as a gift. The money is poor, it takes forever, but when it's over you've written something and have learnt from it.
Clientside code execution makes sense. Every last thing that can be offloaded to the client should be. The tooling around this concept may be insufficient or difficult to use, but the underlying premise is undeniably sound.
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That's the approach I took to hand-rolling my personal website. All I care about is delivering my content reasonably well -- the elegance or modernity of the underlying engineering seems irrelevant. (Not to mention that this minimizes website bloat...)
Failure data can be useful in a more fine grained way, too:

http://www.nature.com/news/computer-gleans-chemical-insight-...
Deep learning to play a key role in security and beyond
I'm somewhat skeptical of this separation of concerns
Do you have any plans in the near future to open up the code to the world?
I would like to this become well supported, a while ago I wanted to have a Python codebase that would use the native widgets of each OS (you can program cocoa with python, although I tested it barely) and being able to have the same python codebase in all OSs with just display wrappers would have been nice. In the end I decided using Swift and C# for what I needed, but still would have preferred using a single python project for both targets.
This is how NASA got many billions of funding from the USAF for part of the space shuttle program - look through the list of flights in the 1980s where the payload was an unspecified national security satellite. The capability was promised and it was funded for it - but almost never used. The actual ability to grab a big thing and return it was hardly ever used, such as the LDEF mission. It doesn't help that a huge percentage of Soviet satellites that they might want to have grabbed would have been unreachable from a space shuttle launch site (IMINT satellites in 90 degree inclination polar orbits, satellites in molniya orbits, radar naval observation satellites in MEO orbits) all beyond the orbit/delta-V capabilities of a shuttle mission. And of course geostationary orbit where no human has ever gone.
Ironically, I find that tree format unnecessarily complicated.
Could you describe to me how they looked different? I'm not looking for cultural body modifications, but descriptions like skin color, skull shape, and cranial capacity.
Yeah, I ask because the highschool workload and expectations have frankly changed. Being a solid B student doesn't get you into MIT (at least, that's what is drilled into your head)
SpriteKit UIButton like control in Swift
I do that. Web dev is not my main focus, but I have to deal with it all the time. I try to attack the problems with an initial prototype that's a combination of plain HTML+JS and Node.js. Instead of a database, I tend to reuse a simple Javascript class I wrote a couple of years back that provides a minimalist layer of persistence for collections using an append-only file. (It's really just a single file I copy to any new projects when it's time to store something.)

Over 90% of the time that prototype turns out to be good enough, either because the problem is abandoned or remains at a level where a rewrite isn't worth it.

So far I haven't regretted not investing time into learning Framework X every few years... Although I'm probably going to start deploying React instead of plain JS soon. The library is very useful for real-world UI problems, even though it's surrounded by a deafening amount of toolchain fetishism which tends to cloud React's fundamental simplicity.

(I'm 36, started writing C in 1990 and HTML in 1995, so I feel somewhat old in this industry already.)
Interesting read, but somewhat disappointing. I expected something like a demonstration of a card reader dumping the contents of the card, and an Arduino-controlled magstripe spoofing it. Excellent writeup nonetheless!
Wow! I wonder what exact steps are involved in getting from "I want to build a fusion reactor" to actually having a working prototype in your room. He mentions fusor.net; am I right in assuming that there are entire communities dedicated to building this kind of stuff? What is their history? How did they get started? Were they around before the internet? Fascinating!
Never thought I would see a submarine article for p411.com.
I look at Unity as a Camera. 100 years ago you needed to build your own camera if you wanted to shoot a movie. Now, almost no directors build their own cameras except for special needs (filming underwater for example).

So, do you want to make cameras or do you want to make movies? Translating to games. Do you want to make game engines or do you want to make games? Like the camera example, if you have some special needs maybe you want to make the game engine but for most games, like most movies, just using an off the shelf game engine will be good enough.

I agree with you GL is dead. There might be one more version of GL but after that there will be zero pressure to update it because all the top graphics people will be vulkan/metal/dx12 only
It's definitely a worthwhile educational experience, even if you never write in it professionally.

If you can solve the problems in K&R, a good book to work through next is Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective [0].

Coursera used to have a course called The Hardware Software Interface [1] which covered the same material, but it doesn't seem to be availble right now.

[0] http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

[1] https://www.coursetalk.com/providers/coursera/courses/the-ha...
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There's a $450 million RFP out for it:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/12/11416362/mta-nyc-fare-paym...

So, considering how gov software projects tend to go, it'll probably cost $1.5 billion and come out in the early 2020s.
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I actually have dumped MetroCards using a reader, but I'm saving that for a third post ;)
> I personally have used and highly recommend one (which I can let you know in PM if you require)

Sounds like a good idea.

> However if this is something within your possibilities, I'd love to pass this offer to anyone who needs it.

You have my permission to pass the offer onto somebody else who needs it. Send details to my email.
As a first-time writer, you might not even be offered an advance (contingent or not). I certainly wasn't. My contract was merely royalties.
Yeah, I'm surprised they mentioned using longjmp for "exceptions". I think that just shows the age of the nethack codebase - maybe when it was being written people were trying to find ways of incorporating those error handling ideas into C. I doubt any modern C programmers would seriously consider using it over just returning an error code.
What's the syllabus and prerequisites for this course? There is not enough information about it
I would have to imagine these days average high school GPA for incoming freshman to MIT is > 4.0
You can still write great code (meaning: clean non-leaky abstractions, proper separation of concerns, functional testing, clearly organized, and unintuitive bits documented) without having market validation, and I'd suggest that doing so will actually make it a lot easier for you to shift the pieces of the project, remove them, rewrite them, extend them, etc. as you start to hone in on the marketplace fit, and doubly so as you need to start growing your development team and need to on-board them effectively so everyone can be productive without just rapidly accruing compound interest on the technical debt that's already there.

It doesn't take that much longer to write great code when it's just part of the first-principles of your engineering process. You just do it as you go, but best-practices need to be scaffolded and modelled for everyone beforehand to give them a solid starting point for what "minimally viable" actually looks like. A single well-placed sentence that describes something necessary, but non-idiomatic or non-obvious, that takes 10sec to write can save you hours or days of tracing and debugging at that crucial moment right before you're onboarding a pilot customer or pitching investors.

Very often the bar of "minimally" is set way, way too low and the trope of that just being "startup life" is usually just laying problems at the feet of engineering that don't belong there by justifying, sometimes horrifying, technical debt which are really process and management failures, and later eventually scapegoating engineering for it.
"Let's be honest" implies people are denying the perks of the jobs or living in the area. I haven't seen any such denial.
Indeed. Some time back (more than one year ago), I contacted support to delink my paid account from Facebook. Their suggestion was to create a new account... and I think they helped with transferring my playlists, then deleted my Facebook-linked account.
That's the definition for science and doing resesrch. This line of reasoning brought us Theranos and http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...

So no science as a field should remain well defined in scope and meaning, in the same way crafting shouldn't be blurred with engineering.
Barry Eisler and JD Konrath have also written a lot on self-publishing.
Do you happen to still have that card? I'd love to see a dump of it (and line it up with known fields circa 2006 on tracks 1 and 2).
Makes note never to fly Emirates internationally incase I get stuck with these anti-customer audio jacks.
Honestly, there are bunches of people with really impressive EC's that also have top GPAs and 99th+ percentile SAT's.
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I take it that if you figure out you can write a stripe that overflows the scanner firmware in a way that unlocks the gate you won't post it until you're done using it...
Is there something lesser about going to a state school?

I didn't build a Farnsworth Fusor in high school but my school is ranked about the same as UCSC, hah.
What object do you want to call attention to in the Street view image you linked
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Sure, with C, you will learn about some "low-level" things about computers that you never will if you only program in most other languages. I am talking about things like memory, bytes, addresses, the stack, binary arithmetic, bit twiddling... But that's pretty much it. Yet, there is much more to how computers work than that, and many (far from all, though) of those things you can only get a feel for if you learn some assembly programming. From there, you will see that C is a high-level, rather abstract, programming language, if only somewhat reflective of the idea of a computer of the von Neumann type. That's all. In the end, even the "machine language", of which assembly is a human-readable representation, today is usually interpreted or otherwise translated into a "true" machine instructions that get executed by the hardware. To get but a glimpse of what is going inside a computer - still on a somewhat high level - take a look at an excellent article by Mark Smotherman at https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/uprog.html. If you really want to go deeper, there are transistor-level CPU simulators that run in the browser, such as the famous "visual 6502".
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It's generally agreed that you are unlikely to make money from the book alone, but there are other reasons for doing this too.

Is the topic is something that you really want to promote? Do you have the spare time to do this for the experience and learning alone? Will this lead to career advancement or consulting opportunities? Often things like this are the reasons why people write books.

It is going to take a lot of time though, so you need to make sure you can spare this time for what is not going to generate a large income on it's own.
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very happy with the result of my first test:

https://imgur.com/VbJddGr

edit: https
Firefox and Safari already don't use the OS modal dialog and Chrome is working on it

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wtV5rmLhbf1OZkbg7crtCt6h...
Which step in the proof succeeds on the integers, but fails when applied to the ring of {a + b*sqrt(-5)} ?
This is pretty neat, and I managed easily located plans for a DIY fusion reactor at home [0]. I'm curious if OP's build differs from these plans, and if so, how/why.

Digging into the wikipedia article I found this interesting/surprising:

Recent Developments [1]:

"Most recently, the fusor has gained popularity among amateurs, who choose them as home projects due to their relatively low space, money, and power requirements. An online community of "fusioneers", The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, or Fusor.net, is dedicated to reporting developments in the world of fusors and aiding other amateurs in their projects. The site includes forums, articles and papers done on the fusor, including Farnsworth's original patent, as well as Hirsch's patent of his version of the invention."

Apparently there's an entire online community of amateur home nuclear reactor builders [2].

[0] http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-A-Fusion-Reactor/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor#Recent_developments

[2] http://www.fusor.net/
It was in Croatia, Europe. Same story all over the world though (at least where I was at). And, they were so "high-res". At the time, I believe only screen I saw on a workstation that had such a high resolution was on one HP-UX machine. They were also a great sight. Shame about later models (Octane) being such loud beasts though. Not really for desks.
I went into it for the "feather in my cap" and "fun experience" aspect as well. It's grueling, stressful, and the piddly amount of money you'll make for it doesn't do much for motivation. I stopped about 3/4ths of the way through writing it and finally admitted to myself that I couldn't go on.

Some other folks have put out information about the advances and royalties, and it's about what I saw as well. If you're doing it for the money, I think you'll be disappointed, but at least you can gauge that before accepting. If you go the self-publishing route, I'm sure the amount of money you can make can increase if you have the right network, but you may lose that sense of "making it" by being published by one of the big names.
Not necessarily. The client device may be old, underpowered, slow, and running out of battery. Which isn't to say thick clients are always a bad idea, but they're not the One True Answer™.
Second that. There's ELB + EC2 which can give you auto-scale but data persistence needs to be handled separately. There's AWS ECS which is/was quite unwieldy but I am hopeful for GAE's Flexible Environments (beta) built on Docker containers, putting it midway between Docker and Lambda with some interesting features https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/
Max voltage there will be about 2V DC. (Could be up to 3.4V, but much more likely to be 1.73V).

Dry paper is roughly as conductive as glass: that is, no fire is going to happen here. You can't get a spark.
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If you're asking whether I'd exploit it, the answer is a firm no. I'm not the biggest fan of the MTA (nobody who lives in NYC for any substantial amount of time is), but the personal benefit would be minuscule compared to the consequences.

More to the point, making a public display of weaknesses in the MetroCard might finally get the MTA off their ass and onto that modernization project they've been promising for the last 15 years ;)
This is likely to be the more useful answer here. The biggest benefit comes from listing "author of [book you can buy at bookstore]" on your CV or web site. The marketing power of your name being seen by potential employers (or their employees who point to you as the domain expert of a topic). Not from actual royalties past the royalty advance which, as others have mentioned, would be rare.

Of course, the value of that would depend on if you trade on your name; e.g. if you're a freelance consultant.
90% of the code is locked to the vendor?

I've been using lambda lately and perhaps 5% of the code in my Lambdas is AWS-specific; the vast majority was rapidly extracted from existing projects, wrapped in a simple Lambda interface, and done.

While I don't advocate Lambda for everything, there's almost nothing there to lock you in - its a simple function that accepts two parameters. Even coupled with API Gateway, its just moving my routes definition to a slightly different layer. I could easily port any of this work back to any common Web framework with almost zero effort. I won't, because Lambda solves actual problems for me now.
"Cooking is getting unnecessarily complicated." - Caveman

Compare food nowadays to centuries ago, I'm glad things got unnecessarily complicated.
Science just costs too much, and scientists have paid too much to be considered scientists. The Ph.Ds that I know just want jobs that pay the bills, that pay off their loans. They do research because it is what gives them grants and enables the climb of the hierarchcy, not because they're driven by it. The system has beat out their lust of curiosity and exploration.

The root problem is cost. We have to make science cheaper. We have to put it back in the hands of the curious and adventurous. Science should be possible by anyone - even teenagers. If science can't be done by the young, the poor, the autodidacts, what's the point?

Currently, everyone is on the 'teach everyone programming' kick. U.S. states are now starting to require that everyone learns programming. But, what about science? Let's create the 'github' of science - where anyone with a hypothesis can create a notebook, gather up like-minded people to collaborate, gather data, analyze it, 'fork' others' research into new areas. That's how we will make it cheaper and accessible.
One of the crazy aspects of Unix text editors is that "yank" means nearly the opposite in vi (where it stands for copying) as it means in emacs (where it stands for pasting).
Very very cheap, as long as you're writing your lambdas as performant as possible we've costed our app at ~2c / user / month with heavy api / database / lambda usage