skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, let's meet somewhere in the middle cologne or frankfurt.
For those that might actually want to write an assembler: http://homepage.mac.com/randyhyde/webster.cs.ucr.edu/RollYou...

Pretty interesting stuff, actually. Particularly when you see what's possible, e.g.:
http://homepage.mac.com/randyhyde/webster.cs.ucr.edu/HighLev...
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As far as I know, only applying in April is incorrect. In past years the quotas ran out almost immediately when they started in April, so that was essentially the case. This year the quota hasn't run out yet.
That too, but it's apparently a general ban. Well, except on newspaper articles; exactly whatan "article" is, I expect, not defined very well in this age of blogspam.
Fortran is the culprit
I would love to come, but on the 8th I'm busy :(
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That still doesn't solve the core of the problem: How to ensure that the lists are trustworthy?
Cause Fortran's integer types where prefixed by: I - N
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You could cultivate similar levels of foot traffic over a longer term for a lower level of effective spend by setting up your own mailing list, Facebook group, running targeted local ad campaigns etc. to distribute your own coupons. But that involves hours of effort. You could pay a third party to run the campaigns for you (my flatmate makes his living running them) but you're committing even more money up front, and unless the third party is supplying or buying a mailing list for you it's still going to take a while for the results to become obvious.
Sorry to derail, but can you give some more info about the Dutch programs? A google-able name would be enough. Cheers,
I still use 'n' and 'f' every so often.

Reason being, on the ZX Spectrum, it had all the BASIC keywords on each key, and pressing the key would input the keyword itself (depending on where you were etc). The 'N' key had 'NEXT', and the 'F' key had 'FOR'.

So to type 'next n' you just pressed 'N' twice. Typing in 'for f' you pressed 'F' twice.
I know several folks who have done it, and 75% are really, really happy with it. I know of 4 who have side effects (night glare, starbursts, etc) that they complain about, and 2 who needed one or more revisits.

Personally, I'm a borderline candidate, and glasses have served me well for most of my life anyway!
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I'll try to pop along...
That's interesting. On "Info War Friday" I simply added this to my /etc/hosts file:

213.251.145.96 wikileaks.org

DDos? What DDos? Although it's not the content of Wikileaks that interests me most, but the people who literally scream bloody murder about it.
Do you guys know what the situation is with GoGrid? I've been using them for about 6 months now but I've not been using encryption. Am I exposed to data leakage in the way you outline in your blog post?
Nifty, but my laptop already has LEDs that I don't use, namely numlock and scroll lock. There are many Linux utilities that can blink these and turn these on.
Identifying the first place i and j are used is a start, but it doesn't really answer the question. The question is "why?", not "where did it start?"

Of the explanations on the SO page, the fact that i is the first letter of index seems like the most likely. j is popular because it follows i.
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Not only prefixed, I barely remember my grandfather telling me a story about a thousand years ago identifiers where so precious, they were only ONE char long, from A to H were asigned to strings, from I to P were for integers and the rest for floats.

Oh those long gone years...
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As far as I can tell, the 'problem' is the huge gap between reality and what is generally accepted as 'true.'

I feel very much like the author of the post, as I imagine a lot of others do. I sometimes try and hold it all in my head; the government censorship, the people hating the censorship, the ever rising power of the hacker, the large sums of money spent on designer clothing, etc.

The only way I have been able to resolve this apparent paradox (how can everyone I know be so good when the world is so bad), is to recognize explicit, intentional, and calculated 'misinformation campaigns' are fully integrated into US society.

A strong, self-reinforcing (if everyone believes, it must be true) network of truth and lies is pushed as a zeitgeist; and some probably-genetic tribal mechanism gets the dissidents ostracized from the community when they are like, "no seriously.. just look at WTC7"

Having been "off" the boob-tube and most forms of "popular entertainment" for almost a third of my life now; I have noticed my world view splitting farther and farther from that of the average uninformed, top-model watching citizen.

I would expect a very strong correlation between consumption of popular media and totally-naive world views, including any world view that gives our regime the benefit-of-the-doubt.
In FORTRAN identifiers starting with I,J,K,L,M,N declared as INTEGER by default.
Is p2p webhosting a solution for e.g. wikileaks?
The whole wikileaks hosting problem got me thinking, couldn't we make a some sort of P2P webhosting system for websites like these? Basically unbreakable. No dedicated servers that can be taken offline. The website would take its resources from user's PC's.
Hamburg wouldn't be too bad either :)
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The future as fallen prey of the hand-wavy notion that things will be taken care of somehow by someone. Problem is, taking action can involve hard work, spending time in jail or other unpleasant activities so when there's abuses people just let it slide.

Maybe it's cynicism, maybe cowardice or just plain laziness. Anyway, gotta get back to watch Seinfeld reruns and stuff my face.
World peace is a pretty unrealistic goal at this point. The population of the world has grown too large, concentrated and different (ie, between cultures) for fair apportionment of the resources available to it. Therefor, there will always be competition and strife. The Internet isn't going to change that...
Video of Emotiv demo in Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, April 9, 2008. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970408
Any service that reuses the same physical drive space should be vulnerable unless they either store encrypted or do secure deletion. Having used secure deletion before on dedicated hardware it is really hitting the drive performance. That is why I am guessing vendors don't use secure deletion. Using encryption overall looks more efficient overall.
Yeah, I saw that, but why do they care?
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I always used and thought of i as "index", c as "count", and n as "number".
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This is a big issue in certain verticals. In my early research for AR I looked into the interaction of HIPAA (an American privacy law for medical information) and cloud hosting. My brief educated layperson's conclusion: sensible default settings at your cloud service of choice almist certainly lead you to be OMGWTF noncompliant. I immediately moved medical providers out of scope, because it looked like there were, minimally, several months of engineer time needed to merit a finding of compliance, plus whatever costs/effort it would take to deal with the lawyers.
$25,000 x 1,000,000 unemployed = $2,500,000,000.

Where's the U.S. supposed to get that kind of money, just print it out of thin air? Yeah, right.
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Traveling hackers should check in at one of these: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
Instant community of like(ish)minded people, pretty much everywhere.
Best to avoid any connection with ice altogether by keeping your spirits in the freezer.

There is nothing more dispiriting that paying over the odds for a cocktail and watching the ghastly wannabe shaking it for half-an-hour with slush so he can fill a 'large glass' with basically water.

Stir or shake is then a matter of choice as to how opalescent you want your drink.

At hypernumbers we only serve cocktails from Schumann's American bar:
http://astore.amazon.com/hypernumbersc-20/detail/1558598537

In particular I would recommend a Claridge, stirred and not shaken.

If you are a sloshed geek you might find this engineering schematic of cocktails amusing as well:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27580670/Engineers-Guide-to-Drinks
I don't understand why a zero wipe isn't sufficient when provisioning the storage. At least for this purpose it would seem to achieve the same result as encryption with much less complexity and no ongoing overhead. AWS takes a long time to provision new EBS storage, does anyone know what's going on there?
Yes, you can come.
> The problem is you're conflating child abuse with certain patterns of bits floating around on the Internet.

Please reread my posts. I am talking about the bits. The only place where I talked about actual child molesters (child abuse) was to point out a specific false-choice that jrockway put up--that we had to put cameras everywhere to enforce child abuse laws, which really was defeating an argument that no one made--ie, jrockway was the person who brought up actual child abuse, not the bits. He has articulated his position better in other posts now.
Yes, you'll be able to get in. But it'll be ¥3,000 and you'll get two drink tickets instead of the buffet ticket. Check the event description on http://tbtpe.doorkeeper.jp/ for all the details.
Anyway, hope to see you there. I'll be helping out at the door as well...
I am not convinced. There is a rising trend of altruism and people just generally identifying beyond their families or countries.

Not to say it's bound to happen, but I think our chance of having a reasonably fair and acceptably peaceful world in which some/many of us alive now will experience is far from zero.

Barring a catastrophic event (nuclear or otherwise), with information spreading at the rate it is, I would put our chances about 80% of having unprecedented peace and fairness in this century.
A lot of the compliance issues come from the mixing of infrastructure and the software and networking layers with many IaaS providers. In our cloud only the customer has root access and file system visibility. Essentially the cloud vendor then needs to demonstrate compliance with physical access and data protection/data leakage areas as employees don't have the ability to view data. This isn't a typical situation and for most clouds that are more like IaaS/PaaS hybrids it opens quite a can of worms.

As a Swiss based cloud currently we'd be excluded from many US industry sectors which required domestic hosting. This will change shortly (can't say more) and when it does we'll be working to put in place the necessary coverage/compliance certificates to expand into these sectors.

Best wishes,

Patrick
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Do you mean like FreeNet?
Indeed, a remarkable statement. Let us have some perspective, shall we. Literature is, if at all anything is, the collective mapping of human relationship (and an incomplete one at that). A shopkeeper like Zuckerberg (he sells ads) is not Shakespeare.
Well, Wired regressed to the mean, just like everything else does.

I thought they were basically over when they stopped being bi-monthly (thought I still have every issue.)
Secure deletion on physical spindles is extremely resource heavy especially if someone is deleting a very large drive.

Storing encrypted first does affect performance but it is generally much less and more predictable (doing a big secure delete on a drive inflicts an immediate and unexpected hit on that part of a storage array).

We think encryption is also just a lot more robust. If you don't lay down the data in the first place in readable form on the physical drives, its eliminates a lot of data leakage possibilities.

Best wishes,

Patrick
FWIW, non-block storage services (like Rackspace Cloud Files and S3) should not be vulnerable to these info leaks. I cannot speak to the S3 backend, but this sort of attack would not be possible with Cloud Files. Of course, the use case is a little different when you don't have access to a block-level device.
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Please do not propose technological solutions to political problem, one that needs political solution.

Meaning, centralized DNS system will work just fine, we only need a law prohibiting government blocking or removing domain entries. That is, we need similar prohibition that limits government actions like first amendment.
I run dnsmasq (both a dns cache and a dns server) on all my machines. Works great.
Hey dude, here's my past:

First grade, 1961-1962:

We had to learn "duck and cover", in case of surprise nuclear attack by the Soviets.

For field trips, we toured our neighbors' underground bomb shelters, which were about as common as home theaters are now.

We had to say the Lord's Prayer, whether we wanted to or not.

Some of my classmates wore braces, because the polio vaccine didn't quite make it in time for them.

We played with the African American kids in our neighborhood, but they wen't to a different school. Even though Brown vs. Board of Education had been decided by the Supreme Court in 1954, integration was still years away.

We didn't realize it at the time (no one did), but the Cuban Missile Crisis brought us perilously close to WWIII.

We only saw my dad on weekends because he got home from work after our bedtime.

No one I knew had ever flown on an airplane; it would be 20 years before I would.

I had never been to a restaurant or a movie.

We had no computers, internet, cell phones, cable TV, or air conditioning.

Our hopes and dreams were simple: to be happy (we were), go to college (we did), get jobs as good as our father's (we didn't), and to have wonderful families of our own (some of us did, some of us didn't).

We made a lot of progress since then but not nearly enough. We never imagined the opportunites we now have, not the threats. OP is sure right about one thing; our work is never done.
I agree, it probably comes from maths.

As a side note, the first letters are used for constants, the last letters are for variables; and it was Descartes who popularized this usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial#Notation

I believe they used i for index, and also for the reason that it wasn't used by other usages as above.

Similarly, the integration sign is actually a long s, standing for sum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_symbol
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That's it not how things tend to work out in my experience. Resources are almost never limited in the way you describe. Even if they are you would have to know the same people would be doing something better, which most of the time you don't. You're far more likely to transition into something useful when people are actually engaged. At least whatever you're doing can be proven wrong by it not working. If you're only complaining, you can be right forever.

To me entrepreneurship, startups, community open source software etc. is all about trying new things. Sadly I far too rarely get the feeling that people share this view in forums like this one. Even though the barrier to entry of these types of project are so low, people still rather be "right" than join in or start their own.

Politics is very different from these types of projects, in that the amount of responsibility is far greater. I don't think it's a valid comparison.

tl;dr: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Nature-of-Attitude---3-Types-o...
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There's an idea. Please check http://www.meetup.com/HackerNews/38938/ and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1971660
I don't know about this drink, but if you stir an oil based salad dressing you are not going to get the same result as shaking it.

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Why was this given negative numbers I was offering the guy some work.This is a strange system you have here
Simply overwriting with zeros isn't a 100% fix by any means and actually it does involve writing perhaps 1TB of data in sequence. For any storage array that's a lot of data to write. It doesn't matter if its 0s or something else. Better is to use random data but even so you still have forensic techniques to revert this.

You say encryption is complicated but actually as a vendor its implicit in our system. As a customer you just mark the drive upon creation and then its invisible to both you as a customer and the cloud servers that are using the drive. That's really the whole idea, to make security measures that are convenient so people actually use them. Our customers see usually about a 10%-15% performance difference and we've got pretty high storage performance to begin with so it rarely means taking a performance hit compared with other platforms. We also allow multiple drives so users can categorise data by drives for encryption or not. Of course I'm biased regarding performance but the principles stand.

The other point of the blog post is to ask; what do other vendors do and do their customers have the ability to find out? Security through obscurity isn't an acceptable approach in the cloud. Everyone needs to be transparent and work to build confidence through solid information and education on how to use the cloud securely and effectively.

Kind regards,

Patrick
And I'd like for people making similar comments to perform a test for Asperger's.

I have my suspicions of what the outcome would be.
I think it's more because you're a minority. Investment projects like this work because of the number of people investing at once. All invest a little and little is lost if it fails.

Kickstarter projects are cool and people love the idea of investing in something where they actually get to own a shiny gadget if it succeeds. Most startups are not and the thing that people own can take a long-long time to reap any value.
That may be true in some portions of the developed world (where I assume you are probably located), but I assure you that areas where resources are tight and there's a high degree of stratification in society, that's just not the case. Look at Africa. Furthermore, the altruism of the first world is not always beneficial for goals of peace. Intruding into other people's wars in the name of peace may in fact worsen them. Again, look at Africa.
> The U.S. spends about $3.6 billion a month in Afghanistan, according to data provided by the Congressional Research Service recently.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/63121-crs-c...
Hamburg Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/HackerNews/38938/ and story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1971660
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I find articles like this both informative and a good source of thought on how other entrepreneurs seek funding.Good luck to this company
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The Book of Numbers - John Conway. I wish I had read this somewhere around 12-15. I think this book would have quite an impact on a young mind.
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Not quite. Fortran enshrined the convention, so the question becomes "Why did Fortan pick that range for integers?"
Yes we believe that's the case too however like you say, object orientated storage services are a different use case to block-level storage devices. Customers running their own databases for example can have these data leakage issues if they aren't careful.

Best wishes,

Patrick
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It might be true for cars like Jaguars and Ferraris from the 1980s, but not today.

Do you think a Ferrari California or Lamborghini Gallardo becomes unreliable over 30K miles? They are made to last much longer than that.

Most current Lamborghinis have 4WD, but 4WD is not really necessary unless you are driving up a steep icy, snowy hill daily.
I like your disclaimer. 3 out of the top 5 vodkas I've ever tasted are from there :)

I'd avoid going over 55% on the vodka, the goal is to make it present but not to overpower the gin and vermouth.
Working in Waves is quite an interesting approach. Although it is best suited for young founders with little responsibilities who can do contract jobs.

Another option is the "Nights and Weekends" option best suited for those who have full time jobs.
And yet as bad as it is, CP isn't hard to find--it's just if you're found with it you're in huge trouble. The people found with CP aren't typically expert computer users...
I did this earlier this year with a 1911-style Martini recipe (from the Knickerbocker Hotel in NYC) and could tell the difference. A fellow Martini nut did it with Vespers and he managed to tell the difference.

The problem is that to do these properly is quite expensive and being fairly strong, you're probably not going to manage more than two or three of them if you're lucky.

To give you an idea if it's done properly you can actually see the difference. Stirred Martinis take longer to cool and are more watery. Shaken Martinis get little ice particles forming in the drink, making them look a little cloudy.
Right; I am in the developed world and I do recognize to some degree what is going on in Africa and rural parts of Asia and South America.

I think most of the first world's 'intruding into other peoples wars in the name of peace' are generally flat-out lies. We are invading their countries for resources, political gain, or strategically place military bases. So I am with you on that one, I think.

However, the rise of information sharing in the lower rungs of society, of which we are going to see all but the opt-outs being a part of by the end of this century, is going to breed (in my estimation) a feeling of camaraderie trans boarder.

It's really a matter of class consciousness. As people come to realize the similarity of their situation with others, those people will naturally ally with each other; and the shrinking middle class will see the direction it's heading and ally with the lower class as well.

The fact is, 98%~ of people on earth would greatly benefit from an fair world, its only the very very top that stand to lose something; and as people come to realize this (which they will as cheap information sharing gets to every corner of the globe in the next 15-20 years) the power will inevitably move away from those who keep their power by misinforming their constituency.
Total bs. We don't begrudge them for being commercial. We just don't agree that we should be spied on.

If it really comes down to personal freedom or a no-cost web browser, trash the browser. You can't put a price on my personal freedom.