skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easier to adjust than to create from scratch. Find an open source project you admire or use a lot, and try to tackle some minor task. Or, search a source code site (e.g. github) for a project with a relatively small codebase, and just play around with the code, to see how changing something in the code brings about a change in behaviour or output. You could begin by changing hard-coded data first (such as strings, or initialization values), then move on to change actual logic.

Make it a point to explore more than one language -- hopefully at least three. It's easier to work with higher level languages; I recommend that your list of languages to try includes Ruby or Python.
Great idea! What RIM needs is a Blackberry Kin for the social-connected workforce of the future!
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I think the best things in the world is to be successful without people knowing that you are. So you can live peacefully with your FU money.

I am sure plenty of people are successful in terms of business growth and earnings but they get no media coverage.
Yeah, not totally sure where he's coming from here; presumably, he means something like 'x-www-form-urlencoded' and the reserved & and = characters.

His broader point is that you can't count on ?a=b&c=d formatting if you're writing a tool that needs to exercise any web application it finds. There are definitely some goofy alternatives to that format lurking out there.
Looks like somebody did get raped and it wasn't those women.
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Good point.

I've been thinking about lazy registration a lot. I'm considering implementing a service where the user will be prompted at some point to enter their email to be remembered, but making a password optional.

The service would be worthless to hackers, but I suppose griefers could still have some fun.
It was closer to two years all together. And on plenty of days more than 12 hours. But I always was a pretty high energy person.

This is not something you should give me 'kudos' for, it's just something I was born with, though I feel as I'm getting older that I'm definitely slowing down.

The problem with quitting was that there seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel all the time, only then when you almost got there the tunnel got longer.

And in the end, it did work. The software ended up working as advertised (ok, you can keep adding features to something like that forever, just like any other cad program) and it ended up as the basis of a reasonably successful company that is still in business over two decades later.

It's just that to do this sort of thing properly the first time out of the gate you'd need at a minimum 3 people, a domain expert (which 'Fred' definitely wasn't) driving the specification, a UI guy and a low level person.

If it had been like that I could have saved literally months of rework based on the assumptions that were fed in to the process early on as 'immutable', only then to be changed at a later date anyway.
How about math is the study of interesting axiomatic systems?
Loving objects to learn to like them.
I met him about 10 years ago at an astronomy conference. Very nice man, and a great speaker.

His talk was about the influence the appearance of comets had on politics in classical civilizations. It was an excellent presentation.

As a visual aid, he brought out Roman era coins, from his personal collection, which commemorated comets and various leaders, including Cleopatra if I remember correctly. As he finished talking about each one, he would hand it down into the audience to be passed around and viewed by everyone.

I remember thinking that that was pretty brave of him, considering the size of the audience and the low lighting conditions. But he got them all back.

He will be missed.
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That was a very stupid rant.
Related to the "security of a network":

one of my Facebook friends got his account compromised recently and a scam email was sent to many of his contacts. I think the scammer got the FB account somehow, and found the email of my friend as well as the emails of his FB friends shown on FB (like mine…).

It made me realize that your info on Facebook is as safe as the weakest account of your Facebook friends. I'm in control of my own passwords and make sure that all my passwords are different. But I can't control my friends' password policies, which are probably very weak overall.
Why would my ego be satiated by possible beings who have no interest in me?
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How disgusting that we can't just assume that these 100 year old photos are public domain. In the US, the Constitution doesn't really even allow for copyright protection on works of purely historical interest, but modern copyright laws and treaties don't take this into account.
Its really interesting to see this play out. One of the big questions is this a ploy to discredit WikiLeaks? If it isn't then why are these people coming up with these allegations? Is it because he is a celebrity?
Ah, I see. I had thought that a single dispatcher value was required; but I see that a list of them is acceptable, and Clojure then uses the more regular means on that, rather the original list of arguments. Then, the point of the dispatching function - which is what it's called in the Clojure docs - is rather a classifier function, rather than dispatcher.
This is an even worse PR disaster, unless they have an ace up their sleeve. Suddenly, the CIA (doesn't matter if it even was them in the first place most people would just assume it), the scary CIA, of conspiracy theorists dreams whimpers and drops charges in a smear campaign?

This is why I doubt it if it's over yet. No one trying to run a smear can be this stupid. It simply doesn't make sense.
The article says the women were afraid of his power. That's a laugh. His power as Wikileaks founder is the ability to publish leaked documents! I'm pretty sure individuals are safe from him.
http://www.tropicfan.com/The%20Many%20Phases%20of%20Jack%20H...
Thank for that pdf, reading it right now. Having a bit of Forth experience probably helps tremendously in reading it.

I noticed the 'pipeline' vs 'function call' equivalence a couple of months ago and I'm still working out all the implications of it.

It may be that stack oriented languages and functional languages are a lot closer to each other conceptually than you'd normally think they are and I think the pdf you linked here illustrates that nicely.

Also there is some equivalence between a process pipeline and either of these two. (for instance 'cat file.txt | grep x | wc').

Even if it uses a series of inter-process communication the effect is much the same. In factor that you could code up words for 'cat', 'grep' and 'wc' and then it would probably look something like this:

:cat (filename -- lines) ascii file-lines;

"file.txt" cat
x grep
wc

Not sure if that's exactly correct but it seems a trivial expansion of the example in the pdf, more complicated pipelines would simply require more steps but the principle remains.
It should be noted that the beer was probably heineken or some variant. I reacted the same way the first time I saw it, but it turns out that particular brand on rocks makes a refreshing, frothy and very tasty drink to sip on in hot weather as long as you don't let it sit. I don't even like heineken that much, but paired with a glass of cubed ice it's now replaced corona et al as my hot climate beer.
Subtext: these only work if you're willing to subscribe to a webfont-DRM service like Typekit. We do, and we like it, but it's a stretch to suggest that things like FF Dagny and FF DIN are immediate alternatives to Arial today; they're not, without a fair amount of black magic.
Lol.

I meant: wouldn't we know if we met aliens and did something bad to them?
Interesting that the x86 32 bit version only supports processors with SSE2. SIMD support in the language?
A key part of that problem is that you can't vote against closure. Only after a question has accrued sufficient votes to close it can you start voting to open it again; it's a ratcheting flip-flop.

But it appears Jeff is oddly against this issue:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-...

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote...

Heavily outvoted by the community, he persists in obduracy.
Fascinating. I imagine you are ludicrously rich via these obvious and well-publicized methods? How long did it take you to learn and implement these tactics? I would also love to see pictures of your yacht and/or Mansion.
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It reflects the old paper tape usage model, where you typed it in in the order you wanted to perform the operations.

Apple's Calculator.app works similarly, although their default state is better. If you open up the "Shown Paper Tape" window, and type "1 + 2 * 3 [enter]", it replies "1 + 2 * 3 = 7" If you then type "1 + 2 [enter]", it replies "1 + 2 = 3", then if you hit " * 3 [enter]" it replies "1 + 2 * 3 = 9".
Look at the binary representation of acc.

11 00 00 01 00 10 01 00 00 01 10 00 01 00 00

When you take each group of 2 bits (starting with the least significant group) and take the bitwise AND with 3, you'll get 0, 1, 2 or 3 (obviously). When you run those results through the print statement, you'll get the correct pattern of Fizz Buzzes for the numbers 1-15. This pattern of Fizz Buzzes will repeat. So, acc >> 2 | c << 28 moves the last 2 bits to the front, making the pattern of bits repeat. After 15 iterations of the loop, acc will be 810092048 again.

Communication isn't my strong point, so I hope that makes sense.
Send him an email instead of calling him out in public like this.
It's not new. It's an old vulnerability. And no large application would survive an audit without this geting flagged.
His comments may be reasonable (for some value of the word), but you and I have very different definitions of "specific". I can reduce the entire talk to a one sentence summary ("debt is risky; redundancy is less risky."), with little loss of information.

More importantly, nearly everything the man says about debt or deficit spending revolves around a cartoon charicature of statistical reasoning, and boils down to the thesis that debt is always riskier than surplus, because the downside is larger. That's fine, but it's basically just folk wisdom. Even the notion of the "black swan" is just a goofy way of saying what every third-rate insurance agent knows: given a long enough outlook, improbable events are guaranteed to occur. But the important question (the relevant question) is: do you actually care? That's a far more interesting discussion (one that plays a prominent role in everything from insurance contracts to option pricing), but one that eats away at the simplistic appeal of his thesis.

His remarks about "spare parts" and "functional redundancy" are so vague as to be meaningless...sometimes, "spare parts" means cash surplus, but other times, they mean having more than one marketable skill. Maybe he means both. When you speak in glittering generalities like Taleb does, it's easy for other people to project their thoughts on to your words. I suspect that's what makes him so popular.
I don't think there's much of a lesson in this. It's a matter of the Heisenberg Principle. If Yahoo had bought Google it would not have become Google.
I agree. Like everyone else I was really excited when the new series was announced but the jokes and characters feel like they've been written from bullet points on a whiteboard. Bender steals, Amy is sexy, etc.

But what bugs me the most is that South Park already did it. These episodes seem to close with some life lesson the writers feel we need to learn. Even South Park is getting ridiculous with it's preaching and Futurama should just stop trying.
I'm saying that you see when a couple friends check into a social meeting location, and say, hey, that location is near me, and seems like a good time, I think I'll check it out... Or maybe you ask yourself where everyone is on this Saturday evening, see that all your friends are checked into a local party spot, so you immediately know where the action is. I don't see using it as a way to make new contacts through leaderboards and achievements and such, but I'll admit I'm not all that interested in meeting new people through such a geeky venue. Might as well go all out and join a D&D club at that point.
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Some documentary makers briefly filmed him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOdCiuf5tvY
What made you decide to look into this?
Speaking of the episode with the time machine. Wouldn't they have changed history dramatically by killing Hitler? Maybe that's why they missed the second time around but the professor should know better.

If I were them I'd have gone back to visit the land of the hot chicks with no guys and the backwards time machine instead of going straight home. Of course, I'd only be going there to get the backwards time machine.
My personal favorite : example.com/outsourcingIsAnEducationalExperience?a=bamp;c=d

This, naturally, broke the existing query string parsers, but never fear, they built a custom string tokenizer (which did not actually descend from StringTokenizer) which segmented the string around "amp;"

It was brought to my attention after a lecturer in web design at $CLIENT couldn't post a homework assignment for his students because it included "&amp;" in the message body text field.
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That "should" is definitely debatable, and mostly culturally informed rather than reasoned. Balance of power and marginal impact of a termination is skewed against the individual.
That is the case, and that is the point. It is very hard, in fact impossible to do for more than a few seconds without practice. Which is the problem you are solving by practicing. If you can make yourself just sit there, not scolding yourself as you drift, but always returning to silence and the breath, you can go longer and longer without thinking.

Its just like physical exercise - repetition makes you better. And just like physical exercise, it makes your entire life better.
There's also an upscale clothing chain in Malaysia and Singapore called "British India," oddly enough.
A bunch of cash from the conference. They're making a ton off these events.
...says the man who sold a $5.9 billion dollar domain name to Yahoo.

Who else here has sold a company for $5.9 billion?
Yeah, this is one of the links that I have here marked as a starting point.
So what's the truth about gold?
Meditation is for the mind what physical exercise is for the body. That is why people do it, because it pays off in enhanced performance and mood. It is as difficult and painful to sit in intense focus for hours at a time as it is to exercise intensely for hours.

In my experience, both kinds of exercise pay off about the same amount. Taken together, they constitute a major self 'upgrade.'
"... Futurama's always mixed highbrow with lowbrow. ..."

and language is the best bit. Got a Russian mate to translate for me a great Bender quote: "... Поцелуйте (Kiss) мой (my) блестящий (shiny) металлический (metal) зад (ass). ..." ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingpersonal/4484582814/
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Yes, I can see how the 'enter' would force the precedence.

The '=' key will do the same.
Probably uses a magnetized needle and a steady hand.
Right, and that's why I thought to comment about "It's not at all involved" - it is that involved.
I see the cool kids here, Erlang, Scala, etc.. but Google Go is missing, can a kind soul add it? :)
I think I read somewhere in the book that concentration isn't all that important (& in fact you don't want to develop it too far). You're mostly trying to observe yourself lightly, & to catch yourself.
Stock buybacks are an excellent alternative to providing dividends for a company that wants to return money back to it's owners.
In case this wasn't clear or you didn't read the article, 4sq is using HTTP Basic authentication:

>>> base64.decodestring("dXNlckBleGFtcGxlLmNvbTpwYXNzd29yZA==")
'user@example.com:password'
What a fool. No one has any right to complain about a service they get for free.
Sounds like the Prime Directive
Qualifiers are certainly important in this case, it frustrates me no end that mainstream media can't distinguish these. Thanks for your insightful comment.

Steve Keen has an interesting article on endogenous money at www.debtdeflation.com. Bernanke has increased M0 drastically in an effort to stave off deflation (I guess asset price deflation is the key in this case), but Keen believes it won't work because our system is not a true fiat money system but a credit money system with a fiat money subsystem tacked on, and in the current circumstances banks/companies are not going to expand credit no matter what happens to M0. That is, banks lend money first, then go hunting for reserve supply (M0) to back it up, opposite to the text book theory for how the money supply works.
"... The story of the "Lone Woman of San Nicolas", mentioned in the 5th paragraph of the article, is dramatized in the novel Island of the Blue Dolphins. ..."

Saw this film as a kid, pretty powerful as I remember quite a bit ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins
The universe will expand forever?
Zooko's Triangle
sessions are a one-time token. passwords are an all time token. biometrics are a forever token.
Back in February, Jim Bumgardner wrote up his experiments with gaming Foursquare:

"Eventually I amassed a huge number of mayorships, spread among multiple accounts, including the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Lincoln Memorial, Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal"

http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2010/02/mayor-of-the-north-pole...
Isolation is not about distance. The man this article refers to is more isolated from other humans than, for example, any of the first astronauts that were put alone in orbit.
As far as he cares we can probably just call him Brazilian Bob. He's living out the rest of his days in complete solitary isolation from the rest of the world--I don't think he even cares exactly which term for "indigenous person of the Americas" Slate uses to describe him.
Some of these problems would be aided by instrumenting the web application itself. Of course instrumenting a legacy web app is its own set of hairy problems, especially if you want to handle production servers, but even a little bit of instrumentation and logging might catch exceptions or map requests to methods actually executed.
[The US government is poorly equipped kill people]
=>
[The US government does not wish to kill Julian Assange] ????

As an argument, this seems clearly fallacious.

... while the nature of a world of multiple actors, motives and methods hardly cannot be fully pieced together with syllogisms, if you are going to try, at least use some are plausible.
My first thought was: Clean some of your crap out of your mail folder! Temporarily, at the very least, to stop the bounces.

Personally, I think a hard bounce is more courteous to the senders. Sure, it'll mess up list subscriptions, but that's what you get for not keeping tabs on your quota. But a bounce will alert the sender so they can follow up with a reliable method of communication.

I know people will get their knickers in a wad over this, but I don't think that anyone should rely on email for anything of real import. 2010 or not, it's not (obviously) very reliable in that you'll never know if the recipient actually read it. Fax it, call them, send a letter.

I worked support for an email provider for a while, and I regularly shook my head in awe of the epic stupidity (ignorance, if you prefer) of people trusting such an ethereal medium for "important" correspondence.
Interesting. I kept seeing some topics opened, closed, only to be reopened again. I thought the admins couldn't make up their minds.
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>ceases it's development.

s/it's/its/
I haven't read the novel or seen the comparatively recent film yet, but I saw both of the other film adaptations of the novel (The Last Man On Earth starring Vincent Price and The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston) and there may indeed be some parallels with how the eponymous man in either of those films views the strange, apparently subhuman creatures who roam the streets in the night. As other comments in this thread have noted, many indigenous people didn't recognize outsiders as quite human upon initial contact.

This is all very speculative, though.
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Perhaps not quite as extreme. I'm sure this guy can venture to the edges of the territory preserved to him and observe the outside world, or at least see airplanes flying above him.

In fact, it sounds less like the Prime Directive and more like a type of basic respect--if the man wants to be left alone and seems to be leaving us alone, then live and let live.
Your first problem is closely related to screen scraping.
Iran is fueling up their first nuclear power plant
Some technical details: the plant is a Russian VVER-1000, a solid and dependable design with a good safety record. It's a pressurized water reactor, pretty similar to the plants in the US, and will produce 1 GW of electricity.

A fun thing about the VVER and similar reactors: they're great for providing a steady chunk of power at a stable cost, but they suck for making nuclear weapons. For producing weapons-grade plutonium, by far the easiest way to go is by making a specialized weapons-production reactor. Commercial power reactors (with a few exceptions, like Chernobyl) just aren't set up for making plutonium that could be used in a nuclear bomb. And because of the international supply and operations chain for these power reactors, it's extra-hard for the country operating them to use them nefariously.

It's counterintuitive, but the export of nuclear power plants may actually help with nuclear arms nonproliferation, by making any attempt to create weapons-production reactors that much easier to spot. After all, why would a small country try to make its own reactor designs when there are cheaper and better designs available on the market already? It would stand out, conspicuously.
here is some video of the guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOdCiuf5tvY&feature=chann...
Well nowadays in US you pretty much can't (or don't) do it. And many other things.

My father laughed a lot the first time I got drunk at 13, no big deal really, but here that would be taken as bad parenting.
Yes, theoretically. In practice, managements have a long history of buying stock back at inflated prices and buying back stock simply to hide the shareholder dilution that is occurring due to management equity compensation. I prefer dividends to buybacks.

Companies tend to announce buybacks when things are going well and their stock is fully priced. How many companies were announcing buybacks in December 2008 when it would have really made sense?
So what if I want to write a "reminder" app that lets me know I need to do something (controllable via the web as well)? Very, very basic example but I don't understand why this shouldn't be allowed.
Who was lining up at the Apple store today?
In addition to the above, I'd think about the situation of the VC industry and the firm in question (particularly where they are in their investment cycle(s)). For a variety of reasons, including the post-SarBox near No Exit issue, a lot of people are expecting a severe contraction in the industry.
You can be just as lonely in a small town if not more so. At least in a big city like NYC you're basically guaranteed to find people with similar interests, no matter what they are. In a smaller town it's far easier to become an outlier. Especially if it's small enough that everyone knows everyone (< 10k).
I thought RIM was in Waterloo, not Toronto.
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