skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know politics is generally off-topic on HN, but I see this as an exploration at attempts to remain anonymous given the reality of modern society. I think three great examples of this over time are actually representative of the times.

Mark Salter (2011) seems mostly to have been revealed by social connections - for example, the publisher's rep on O was the same person as for Salter's other, ghost-written works - and by a 24-hour news system that has space to publicise campaign staff, and even follow them up post-campaign to their writing den in Maine.

This is by no means as impressive an exposition as the discovery that Joe Klein (1990s) wrote Primary Colours - that was achieved through textual analysis and computing power - to a degree that wouldn't have been possible by a university team on an unfunded project even ten years earlier.

And of course there's the greatest tale of Washington anonymity - Deep Throat, aka Mark Felt (1970s). He got away with it for more than thirty years, until his family convinced him and Woodward / Bernstein to open up just before Felt's death. The only clues were from All The Presidents Men and the information revealed (though mostly it was double-checked) in newspaper articles, and even then the book included some red herrings.

Given today's newspaper is no longer tomorrow's fish-wrap (at least, the electronic version), I doubt it would be that easy today.
Hodge's biography is great. Also recommended is "The Annotated Turing" by Charles Petzold (yes, that Charles Petzold) which is a heavily annotated walkthrough of Turing's paper "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem"), and for the hardcore Turing fan, "The Essential Turing" by Jack Copeland.
The trailer is utterly boring.

No tension, no drama, no rhythm, no appeal to curiosity, no humour, just bored people enunciating facts and opinions in a bland way.

I wouldn't want it to start with a gloomy "In a wuuurld ...", but still, the trailers have evolved to their current format for a reason: they trigger interrest. If you want to bring Turing to the awareness of the masses, you must fight your attention grabbing peers on their field. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

I hope that they'll fix it soon, and that film will be less boring than this.
Are you talking about the orientation of the hand relative to your lower arm, or the position of your hand in space? An easy test is to twist your hand while moving no other part of your body. If the Kinect game tracks your hand, this should be reflected in your avatar.

I suspect many games fake it in this fashion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbLOFGSEDo

edited to add: quote from someone on the Kinect Sports team:

And while designers admit that, unlike Wii MotionPlus bowling, the game can't track spin based upon a twist of my wrist—instead you exaggerate the motion within the entire scope of your swing—the flexibility keeps me immersed.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-xbox-360-kinetic-is...
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Very cool. But somebody's line in the trailer kind of implied he broke the german codes. AFAIK, it was done in Poland just before the invasion. Even the first "bomba" was Polish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma

I'd praise Turing on his last work on self-organizing life. That's still not very well recognized and might be his most important contribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Pattern_formation_a...
Where are you getting your results?
Tunisian here: What made the revolution are poor people. Period. Internet may help to spread the word, mostly to the outside world and media. But I don't think that will have much pressure on a mad government and dictator. Poor people don't have Internet.

How the Tunisian Revolution succeed: It's war (and not civilized protests) that made the revolution succeed. Police clash with angry civilians. Police cars and stations gets burned and destroyed. Hotels and resorts are key point, too. Properties that belong to the dictator are also a key point.

One Police man reported that he sleeps only 1 hour during the protests days. Protests are 24/24, non stop. Some go for it in the day and some in 3 A.M. Everything that belongs to the president is under-fire.

Big damages in Police will get it tired and exhausted. So it should last 3 or 4 weeks. The economy will stop and the police lose its' prestige. (After the clashes, the police men are afraid from citizen).

Unless this happens, there will be no change. It needs time and patience. Even if the dictator escapes, there will be a need for protests against the remaining of the system and the population should work forward clearing what has remained.

I hope all the best for the Egyptian and the rest of the Arabic World.
Actually the trailer quite piqued my interest. It made me go "Huh" and want to read Turing's wikipedia page so I wouldn't have to watch the trailer.
Great related read: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html
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That didn't seem very violent--it was too cartoon-ish to feel any sort of real violence. Am I just jaded?
From the FAQ:

How do you get your results?

From over 30 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites, Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko.

Just do some searches and compare to Bing, etc., e.g. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+news vs http://www.bing.com/search?q=hacker%20news vs http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hacker%20news
This is the feature that's got me signed up - I don't attend a lot of conferences (and even when I do, it's often to speak rather than primarily attend), and in part this is because it's hard to track ones of interest. It doesn't get much easier than 'in my inbox'.

It was also an interesting way to get a snapshot of my Twitter connections - knowing which conferences my connections are tracking reveals a lot about their various interests and global locations.
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Autogen very often fails if the WSDL generator of your provider and the WSDL consumer/code generator are one and the same.

Trying to generate code using a Java toolkit from an MS wsdl? 90% chances of failure. Same the other way around.
Isn't a lot of modern academic opinion turning against the idea of any kind of significant 'dark age' actually having occurred in Europe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages
Given that this blog post about an obscure website releasing a minor feature hit #1 within a few minutes of being posted, it seems pretty likely that there's some voting shenanigans going on.
It's a shame Australian scientists don't have Social Security numbers to embed in this software somewhere, to demonstrate how unhackable it really is.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lifelock-identity-t...
Alright. I think the spirit of what our ancestor poster was saying is that it's mostly just powered by an API (by which most of the "work" is being done). In a previous discussion I asked if you were going to do full-scale Web crawls, and you said:

>We never stopped crawling; we just scaled it back for specific purposes, mainly now for spam detection and zero-click info

So if you've scaled back the crawling and are mostly using it just for spam detection and zero-click info (forgive my ignorance, but I'm not sure what zero-click info is) then does that mean that you are getting the majority of your result data from outside APIs like BOSS?

Edit: And does that mean that you store those pages in your database and use your own ranking algorithm, or are you using their ranked results for a query and then rearranging them on the fly?
This "obscure website" caters very specifically to the hacker news demographic, most things they do are well received here.
Is it October yet?
"A new quantum state of water found in carbon nanotubes ... could have important implications for life"

Important implications for life... I guess that's an understatement of what would happen to life if our water molecules were replaced by all trendy Quantum Water :)
Native integration, mostly. I.e. clipboard stuff and a shiny interface. Also, colors.

Me, I compiled vim over ports and use it via rxvt-unicode or as gvim in an XQuartz session. That, and I run XMonad in that same session.

This way, my iMac at work almost feels like a Linux machine, and I can at least get work done here (if I'm not browsing HN.)
Views from an Egyptian
With protests growing, Egypt cuts links to Internet
This is one of the main reasons SOAP has been a catastrophic failure.

A protocol for interoperability that is vendor-specific? That's an oxymoron.
Sadly, mathematically proving that it does what the spec says does not necessarily mean that it's not vulnerable. The spec can be wrong too. Or the compiler. Or both.

Nevertheless, it's very interesting.
No, the spirit of the above comment was condescending, dismissive and only mentioned one source: They're Bing with some twiddles on top. (I believe he is a Google employee.)

About 50% of queries show information from my index. I've concentrated on the fat head of the search space, where I get a lot of volume (1 and 2 word queries). For long-tail stuff, yes, the majority of results come from external APIs, but even there it is inaccurate to say they are all derived from a direct call to one API. It really varies by query. Some will look like Bing for sure, but others will look very different. I'm not going to disclose everything I do of course.
I hated worked with people who did philosophy degrees.

The biggest problem with them, that they dare to reason about things, which they never learnt or have no hands-on experience.

They will substitute benchmarks and experiments by their theoretical logical conclusions.

Same thing happens with people, who have PhD in one field and try to reason about things in different distant domain.
Google is removing file sharing (torrent/downloading) related suggestions
Here is a new site by the arabist for updates on what's happening in Egypt
http://tallestpine.squarespace.com/
Not that I'm a big SOAP fan, but the author seems to be seriously confused:

"For starters you have to point Visual Studio (sigh) to the service reference, at which point nine thousand (yes, that’s nine-zero-zero-zero) lines of code are generated."

"Not a descriptive error, or an HTTP status code, or anything that could be used to track down the problem but a “SOAP Error.”"

"Long story short, in order to inspect SOAP messages you have to write a class that implements the ICLientMessageInspector interface."

These are supposed to be problems with SOAP? To me they look like a crappy implementation.

The conclusion is also crappy:

"In my mind SOAP’s biggest failure is what some people consider to be its biggest success – it abstracts away all notion of the underlying HTTP model and replaces it with crutches like code generation."

Jeez, man - SOAP has problems, but code generation!? It's not a problem with SOAP but with the way your environment integrates with SOAP. Code generation over any protocol would create the same problems and there's nothing about SOAP that makes code gen inevitable.
> I wonder how many of these were sold to anxious hackers :)

... who don't own Xboxes ;-)
Not to diminish Tesla's genius, but doesn't this read more like he predicted the hand-held radio instead of the mobile phone?

"The song of a great singer [...] may thus be delivered to an audience all over the world" sounds like radio to me. And the part about the businessman dictating in New York is followed by the qualifier "from his desk"--I'm not sold.

While technically radio transmission was invented earlier, according to Wikipedia the first radio station only went online in 1920 so there was still plenty of room for this kind of prediction in 1909.
vsvim also provides a lot of Vim goodness in VS. The main lacking feature (for me, personally) is macro support.
Nope they're just swamped by traffic. Check their Twitter for info: http://twitter.com/#!/arabist
We used Lanyrd for BarCamp Southampton - awesomely useful service, very easy to use :) This new email feature should make event discovery a lot faster/easier so sounds like a great new feature to me!
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>No, the spirit of the above comment was condescending, dismissive

Well, I didn't even think of it that way. Naturally you're probably looking at these types of criticisms under a magnifying glass since it's your project.

>About 50% of queries show information from my index. I've concentrated on the fat head of the search space, where I get a lot of volume (1 and 2 word queries).

See now that's actually good to know! From many people's point of view (including mine), DDG is Bing with some twiddles on top. Maybe out of ignorance, but what can you expect? If you aren't already enamored by the idea of DDG then you probably don't care enough to find out what you're really doing on the back-end, which is what really matters most to me in these discussions. (Not the results since unless I'm told otherwise I just assume it's Bing or Yahoo.)

Edit: It's quite humorous to be down-voted by the fan boys for expressing an honest and IMO helpful opinion to the owner of DDG. If all he gets is blind love he won't know how to get the rest of us on board. Believe it or not, the down vote button isn't the disagree button. If you have something constructive to add, say it.
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This might come across as an anti-American rant.

Well - a lot of your comment is worded as though it's a contradition to what I said, where it isn't. It's difficult to participate in a conversation where you're getting hit over the head with a world view like that.
It took me a second to realize that was you, John! :-) What an honor to be part of the documentary on Turing.

I hope the filmmakers are able to do him justice. He's such a giant and it would be great if more understood that.
IIRC, it's 9.x and up only.
Who cares? Nobody used it anyway!!
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For Computer Science, it also necessary to pass a Maths test in the beginning of November, which goes into the decision making process for whether you get an interview or not.

http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate...

(Previously this was part of the interview process)

In the UK system, if you tend to apply having done half your A-Levels, meaning you'll get a conditional offer asking for specific grades when you complete them (AAA etc). If you apply after having finished them (and after having met their requirements, obviously), then you can get an unconditional offer.
Shorter and IMO more practical introduction to AWK, http://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little-...
I'm going to have to get in much better shape. That is, in fact, my only hesitation that I have with the device: I get tired a lot faster playing games on the device.

Well, some fitness focused developer might read this and think "mission accomplished."

I think there's tremendous potential for a combination of real-time strategy and fighting games with this interface. Already, fighting games are about deploying "moves" which play out in a certain time frame. Fighting games which deploy moves based on forms from martial arts are an obvious first step. Increasing strategy elements and departing from close correspondence to hand-to-hand combat would open up an entire new genre of games. Perhaps adapt the rules of Magic the Gathering to real-time play and parameterize the strength of cards according to the correct execution of forms from martial arts? I think the result could look like the magic battles from "Big Trouble in Little China."
INAL but I imagine you are going to need hard and soft caps in your AUP/TOS.
I'm considering it too.
You should seriously give Vim a try; I bet you would never go back to any IDE afterwards.
Because it's installed on shared hosting servers and works sufficiently for what most people using those services need.
no, read the article again, Tesla electrical waves get damped when transmitted through the air, but he is talking about transmitting electrical current
I hardly think Tesla was proposing sending massive microwaves towards a huge metallic object as a means of power. Ever put metal in a microwave? Dont!
Definitely interested, Noah!
As Donald Knuth would say:

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Yes, it's called HAM radio.
> Find a good toolkit.

I spent a few weeks trying to find a good toolkit for the big hairy nested ape of a WSDL I was trying to consume, and nothing could parse it properly and expose the methods in a sane manner.

I ended up doing just what the OP did - hand-crafted the request payloads in soapUI and turned them into templates that I could execute programmatically.

I really hate SOAP.
Well, of course the relics that we've discovered were safe while they were lost. Because otherwise we wouldn't have discovered them. That doesn't mean that being lost is safer than being in a museum. (Perhaps it is, but where's the evidence?)
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I was also lucky enough to see Derek Jacobi and Jennifer Ehle in the play "Breaking the Code" - here is a scene from the BBC TV version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV67Sj2jkVg
:FufCoverageFile is what you're looking for.
>A society based on the principles of the free market will >create unprecedented human health and prosperity
agreed , but only for 0.005% of the population
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I think I understand now why the "otaku" cultural industry is so vibrant. A bright, working-class high schooler knows he can't become a president at Sony or Misubishi, but if he's good enough, he can write the next YuYu Hakusho or Naruto. He can start by publishing an indie doujinshi with a group of friends. That's how some of the best-paid manga writers in Japan began.
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simonw who posted it is a well known web-developer and one of the co-authors of Django. What's your definition of obscure ?
I'm sorry to be picky, but The President of the United States of America has the power. That office currently resides with one Mr. B. Obama, but if it's an obscure provision in a pre-WWII law it's hardly a power he's introduced against the grain of history and so can be personally tied to and held against him.
I would have thought that the theoretical concept of the Universal Turing Machine, the first theoretical model of a true universal stored program computer, would be regarded by most as his most important contribution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machine
It doesn't need to be a real threat to provide a plausible excuse for repression and deterrent from activism (even if the opposition are more afraid of being branded allies of Great Satan than they are of any American intervention)
Charles proxy works on OS X and Linux.
What PBworks alternatives are there of internal use?
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It doesn't really matter whether the current system was designed by Evil Overlords or not. The author's description of the current state of things was reasonably accurate, so the question at hand is "what, as an individual, should I do about it?"

The first step in working the system is knowing that it's a system that can be worked.

Knowing that advertising, consumerism, competitiveness, worries about job security, etc. can be safely ignored is a good start. It then follows that you can wiggle yourself some extra disposable income and a healthy disinterest in your "career". From there, you quickly get to a state of perceived freedom. Keep going and maybe you'll figure out how to be happy. (hint: it doesn't require the addition of any new "stuff" to what you already have.)
Good, less procrastinating on HN, more work done for the Egyptians...
Really? That's considered astonishing violence? I only skipped through it but I didn't even see gore, just a lot of fighting, explosions and robots. The beginning of Saving Private Ryan is 20x more violent.
That's incredible about Texas. I'd heard California was significant on it's own but didn't realize other states could compare to entire countries.
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>"most of them were teen hipsters"

What do you mean by "teen hipsters"?
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In general, when I have an issue, I try to produce a small snippet of code that shows the problem. I haven't done it as a unit test before, but I don't think I've ever submitted a bug report to a project that has them...

It helps both me and the developer, because the developer can run the code and see if he fixed -my- problem, rather than -a- problem, and I can run it afterwards to verify that it's fixed. I've also had it show that the same code will hit many bugs before it works... This allows the developer to fix it all the way down.
Earlier discussion: see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=760547
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Try "I HATE HATRED." and translate back to english.

Here's the result: http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|私は憎しみFacebookを利用しています。
kill the goverment who controls the net. freedom for egyptian.
I'm curious about how Lanyrd is going to make money so they can stay around and continue their awesome service. I love using it to stay up to date on conferences but I really would love to know that they'll be around for a long time.