skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've read, there wasn't a "crash", per se. There was a mechanical failure that was serious enough to require an emergency landing. The pilot landed the helicopter and then the team destroyed it. The wreckage that we see is the result of the team destroying the helicopter, not of the landing itself.
I have a question. It's a short question - just two words, and no question marks.

Space shuttle.
I'm thinking that the original title did include "Man Builds..." The URL still does...

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/man-builds-worlds-largest...
Emma: you're sending passwords by email in plain text. Please change that.
http://goo.gl/7ijUw

Are you storing them in plain text too?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/youre-probably-stor...
Considered by whom, exactly? House-moms and -dads angry that their efforts are underappreciated? Great, I'll make sure that our Office Supply Engineer (we call her a receptionist) sends 'em a card.
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It seems to argue that everyone is not an engineer.
I was wondering the same thing. How are they getting around using a celebrity's image and likeness without permission?

Are they trying to make the "thumbnail" argument?

I'd really be interested to see how they got around this without paying for a license....
This will be another occurrence of Streisand effect.
Can someone explain to me why this is getting upvotes, and why people think it fits the guidelines.

How is it something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." ?? ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )

How does it match the requirement that submissions "do have to be deeply interesting." ( http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html )

Please, help me understand. What is the interest?

Thx.
It may violate the ADA, but the lack of accessibility only prevents a visitor from benefiting from the DHS's message, not a site that they would otherwise use without trouble (as is done for IRL ADA complaints). Even if someone could get in front of a judge with this, I'm sure the DHS has absolute immunity for stuff like this.
Well, with the situation we're in now, only three noobs (or one noob with three accounts) can outrank two wise elders. As to your gp comment, yes, incentivizing karma gains could be a problem, but that's the tradeoff that's got to be considered.

I'm not sure what the best tradeoff is; personally, I'd probably go with something like Pagerank for a while and see if the comment quality (above the fold, at least) improves, but perhaps pg has a desire to keep things more neutral and fair, I'm not sure.
There are some awesome strides about to made for generating/maintaining POM (or WOM, in our case) - sadly, marketing has shot down all of my suggested names :(

That said, it's going to be a lot of fun, and I'd love to have someone with your experience and insight join in the conversation. I'll have to think of a way to do it - a Test::Right convore, or mailing list, perhaps?
I think that what they did is reasonable. I don't think even they think that running each test 50 times is best ("While repeating a trivial test many times isn’t a great solution, it does provide an opportunity for some optimization"). I think this is more of an experiment, less of a formal change request. I think it's appropriate to publicly post the results and code behind experiments.
> With code, there is no randomness,

... unless your software deals with input from humans.

> the outcome of a piece of software will be exactly what people have written, down to the microcode, it is completely predictable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_Beaver
They run the TSA... what did you expect?
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But that doesn't help. If I have in my hand what is supposedly a top-secret document then how do I confirm whether it's real or not? (Let's assume that the forgers haven't made any obvious mistakes.) I sure as hell can't go knocking on the door and asking whether I can compare this document with the original version.

A great example was the Rather-gate memos from the 2004 election, a supposedly "leaked" memo which got published with great fanfare despite the fact that the forgers did make some obvious errors (ie producing a 1970s document in Microsoft Word using default fonts, spacing and parameters). But if the forgers hadn't been complete dumbasses then how would we have ever known whether they were real?
So to avoid getting caught for tax evasion you only need to commit fraud and money laundering?
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I'm not so optimistic.

The airport security circus has been going for a very long time, and only getting worse.
The hub looks to serve the same purpose as the ducting around the tail rotor in the canceled Comanche project. It serves to reduce interaction between the main rotor and the tail rotor, thereby reducing the amount of noise the helicopter makes.
Code's there, example application with tests is there, go and try it.

We err'd on the side of getting this out (several developers were chomping at the bit even with just a bit of editing on the post) - rest assured that we'll have more coming. In particular, we'd like to have some more documentation, examples, and best would be quick screencasts talking about and demonstrating the techniques/benefits going on in here.

No worries about 'shut up and show me' - but the counter-challenge is 'dive in and try it' :)
Domains seem sort of like property but on some level are really speech. Were the NY Times to write an article that said, "The IP address of www.whatever.com is 1.2.3.4" would DHS try to shut down the presses? Ultimately, conveying that piece of information is what this plugin (and indeed, the DNS system before DHS got to it) does.
If the DHS had a legal leg to stand on they would have delivered their request via official channels.
Looks nice. You may want to consider moving it somewhere closer to iterationlabs.com though, to maximize the SEO benefits. (I forgot whether you need iterationlabs.com/underthesite or whether underthesite.iterationlabs.com would work; look it up or consult someone who knows what (s)he's doing.)
The time frame doesn't matter too much, there is a fundamental difference between intent based advertising and interruption advertising.

CPMs for social networks will always be lower because there are so many more pageviews per user, and the user isn't searching for anything or in a buying mood.
The cygwin Node install isn't so bad if you have a comprehensive list of prerequisite packages [1].
I also downloaded a script called `apt-cyg` that lets me download and install new cygwin packages from the command line rather than digging out setup.exe [2].

[1] https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Building-node.js-on-Cygw...

[2] http://code.google.com/p/apt-cyg/
That's the kind of sign up I really like. I hate having to make up yet another damn password, then record it somewhere because I know I'll forget it, etc. I much prefer to use just authorize you through Google Sign-in, FaceBook Connect, etc.
I don't know what to make of this. On one hand, he says a lot that makes sense, but on the other hand, if Red Hat fought patents owned by patent trolls the courts would have to deal with the underlying issues (software is essentially math, and probably not a good idea to patent) over and over. Sooner rather than later, the US Supreme Court would rule on it, hopefully in a manner that makes sense, although they have ruled in spectacularly bizarre ways in the past (separate but equal).
2. Get rid of the vestigial up and down arrow buttons.

I like having those buttons. I think it was a step backwards when Chrome for Linux abandoned them. Those buttons don't take up much space, and they're convenient for when you have to scroll a little bit in a long document.
When you manage to get enough of an important market that some giant company purchases your company, expecting it will help them make money in some way, it doesn't matter so much if you're profitable up to that point. If Google, Microsoft, Apple or one of the smaller companies that are still huge decide they want to counter FB comments with their own offering, Disqus would be the #1 apparent acquisition.
The Hex-Rays decompiler is very good, and I've used it for reversing several times. In particular, it was extremely useful for our analysis of the Green Dam censorware system (http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gd/).
They didn't actually mention what channels they went through. What would an "official channel" look like, in this case?

Also, perhaps they didn't want to spend the $5k on a lawyer to draw up an official document, hoping that a simple request would suffice. Understandable, and laudable - as is Mozilla's refusal to comply with what is nothing more than a request.
Then he naturally defines "sheet" to be "3x5 card". :)
Maybe they don't want or need more than $10 million?
It's pretty to make version one of your language's libraries clean and simple. The real challenge is how they hold up over time and the needs of evolution. Go's philosophy seems to be:

1. Simplicity matters more than compatibility.
2. Assume all extant Go code is easily mutable.

The purist in me finds that appealing, but I'm not sure how that will hold up over the long term. The language seems intentionally designed to not evolve which doesn't seem like a good way to stay useful for real people for a long time.

Maybe I'm wrong and everything will work out, but I wonder if several years from now, Go will just fall over from its inflexibility and become unusable.
My personal e-mail is in my profile, so I'm happy to participate in whatever manner you deem is best. Just send me an e-mail and let me know (or if you're in the Bay Area, you can catch me in person at SuperHappyDevHouse on Saturday).
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I was about to post this when I saw your reply. I'll add it here instead since it's similar:

The term 'competitor' is all wrong. Ostensibly, the point of WikiLeaks is to publish the truth. If WSJ wants to compete with that it sounds like they want their own truth. Of course the SafeHouse site doesn't describe itself as a competitor, but it doesn't compare itself to or even make mention of WikiLeaks either -- I think that betrays competitive intentions.

For WikiLeaks and similar sources to function, what's needed is redundancy in some kind of mutually-respectful oligarchy. Those two items will keep them online and honest in aggregate (to some degree.)

Sadly even the EFF is using the term 'competitor' to describe similar potential sites. See here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/will-rise-wikileaks-co...
The article itself is a factoid. It might be evidence of a "new and unusual phenomenon." Nearly 50% illiteracy in a major urban centre is surprising to me. There's also the potential for interesting discussion, and I expect that the value of this post will lie in the commentary. If we devolve to a reddit-like level where we discuss how this is what happens when black people overrun a city, we will get one thing. If we discuss the causes of this problem, the likelihood if it appearing in other cities, and possible remedies, we will get another.
One can't assume they don't use it due to worries about personal information being public. Perhaps they really just aren't as interested as the people who use FB daily.

Also, since they're very wealthy public figures, they really do have to be more careful about their private info vs. the care Joe Schmoe in Hoboken should take.
Shouldn't we just note the use of "X tax" as another indicator of what bias the author of a given article (anti-X) has? I mean, look at the example screenshots. Note who says "Mac Tax" and draw your own conclusions.
Yeah, I saw this rumor a while back and I wasn't convinced it was related. It's like saying Area 51 had a gap in the fence. That said, it's obviously indicative of bad security practice and will likely count against them either way.
Your use case falls into the bookmark synchronization category. Firefox Sync and Google Bookmarks Sync can synchronize bookmarks across machines.
It would be very hard to prove a correlation between quality of title and quality of writing, though

Especially since the author of the linked article isn't always the one who submits the article and therefore gets to choose the HN title.
Is there a significant amount of non-English speakers in Detroit?
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Please fully read the page you linked to :)

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Homeland Security is not one department — it's an umbrella for several previously unrelated departments, some of which (e.g. Customs) are involved in IP enforcement.
Opt-out newsletters are illegal in the EU, as per EU Directive 2002/58/EC.
The point about the macros being Turing Complete is trivial in this instance because if you wrote a macro that never terminated, you'd never compile anything do decompile ;-).
That story is an excerpt from the book mentioned at the end: "The Nuclear Express". It's a pretty interesting history of nuclear proliferation.
What projects do you need help with? I'm looking to get started on some open source (non-developer) work myself, so if there's any cool projects you're working on (or even not-so-cool), fire me off an e-mail (vorbby@gmail.com) and I'd love to get involved in any way I can.
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I'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts as well, since most of the people who I have polled did not find him creepy.
subset of a department being stupid doesn't make the entire department stupid. Classic class inheritance example.
>If the DHS had a legal leg to stand on

they would have raided the mozilla's offices and as GP mentioned seized the domain. When they can - they do.
I honestly can't tell if you're joking, trolling or you actually don't know that Feynman's first name is Richard (or, shorter, Dick). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick
Have you tried applying any of this to (segments of) 68k binaries?

You mentioned that a decompiler would have been only slightly useful for older games written in C/C++; is flow analysis not helpful in practice for simplifying code that was originally hand-coded in assembly?

Edit1: Thanks for the link to the paper[1], by the way. Do you know of any other good resources?

Edit2: Nevermind, I see you have them in github[2]. Thanks again.

[1] http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~grill/decompilation_thesis.pdf
[2] https://github.com/drx/ocd
Yeah, but instead of looking at if something got into the top-20 (binary 1/0), he's saying that they should have modelled the absolute score of an article. This would give you a way of weeding out the cruft that hits the front page and disappears quickly.

Another way of looking at it would be the amount of time that a post spends on the front page.
There's two types of boredom: the boredom that comes from inactivity and the boredom that comes from constant frenetic activity of no deep interest or challenge. Coding up a new algorithm every day still fails to be interesting if the only purpose of the algorithm is to squeeze and extra 1e-5 percent out of some transaction to help someone who isn't me make marginally more money.

Not that I have anything against the banking industry, it's just not for me. In Brave New World terminology it's a career for beta-pluses, not alphas.

(No offence, bank workers! Some of my best friends work in banks!)
John Cassidy wrote a piece for the New Yorker titled "what good is wall street?" that takes a dim view of the economic usefulness of the financial sector (1)

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_...

It's a long article, but this is probably the strongest case for banking as rent-collection (or even worth, wealth-destruction) you'll read in the mainstream press (ie., as opposed to academic journals).

(1) not an opposition to banking per se, which he sees as immensely valuable
That's fine that they're different. My point is that they're both formal processes. Adding AI to the mix will not help you arrive at formal conclusions. The conclusions will be probabilistic, instead. If an AI could use formal routines to show you formal conclusions, then you wouldn't need an AI, you'd just need your routines.
it's a very direct way of measuring the curvature of space. at least in theory. in practice it was such a delicate measurement that, by the time it was done, it was confirming a theory that we not only believe, but are already questioning / extending in other ways.

so it's a beautiful but largely pointless exercise that nasa is spinning in a "romantic" way because, well, astronomy and space science depend hugely on public goodwill for government funding.
Quite worrying development. I don't see why DHS should police IP.
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Unless you leak to them, they don't print it, and they leak your contact information to someone you don't want to have it...
Interesting, I really didn't think anyone used them anymore.

Just curious: do you not have a scroll wheel? I just tested, and it scrolls the same amount (WinXP (work)). The arrow keys on the keyboard also scroll the same amount.
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I know some guys who are ex-SCEA dev support. According to them, the attitude of Sony's American and European teams was one of frustration that the Japanese headquarters are hardware guys with no interest in software. They have always been severely underfunded compared to the Xbox dev support team and they've had to make do by pushing off a lot of the work to the third parties.
And it was selfless! This one singular goal to which he's dedicated himself, every one of the fifty years of work that went into it, ultimately ended up becoming--at least when boiled down to a headline--a footnote to someone else's greatness.

Don't forget that we do science because we don't know the answer, not because we do. The best-case scenario would have been that after forty years you prove that relativity is wrong.
SunSpider was deliberately designed to test JS only. What's regrettable is that folks started interpreting JS performance as the primary or even sole metric of browser performance. JS performance has improved by more than an order of magnitude in most browsers since JS was first created, so it's even less likely to be a bottleneck.

It's tricky to make good benchmarks. One interest area of new browser-based benchmarks is ones that focus on graphics. Here are some recent benchmarks that focus on graphics, which I think is an up and coming hot area for web applications, particularly games:

JSGameBench - http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=491691753919&id...

MainInBlue AnimationBenchmark - http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2010/03/22/

GUIMark2 - http://www.craftymind.com/guimark2/
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Except (and this is the point) it's a site for anonymous uploading. They don't have your contact information.
Well in this case, I think the stupidity attribute was probably declared on the parent class.
For what it's worth, I was referring to the attempt at a justification by the guy I was replying to. I thought I'd point that out for the record now that his comment has been deleted.

I didn't think you were being misleading.
... I expect that the value of this post
will lie in the commentary.

I'll return in a few days and see. I don't expect that to be the case, but I hope my expectations are confounded, and that there really is something interesting emerge. My question was sincere, and the fact that genuine enquiries such as this get downvoted further suggests to me that it's simply car-crash voyeurism and a form of schadenfreude.

If only we could define all these terms I'd be willing to stake money, but, as I say, I'll come back later and hope to find a decent, enlightening and constructive commentary.
"I'm not that into FP.... I tend to not like OO nowadays at all."

What do you like? Honest, straight question.
Depends on whom they were embarrassing. If WSJ (owned by Murdoch) published something embarrassing to the Obama administration then the machinery of the left will spin it as "Oh, that wicked Fox News up to their usual tricks again".
It's a pretty common prefix. There was General Atomics, General Dynamics, and of course, General Motors. Probably more too.
I would imagine DHS has their own lawyers on staff?
Personally, I'd like the option of using another signup provider other than FaceBook.
I honestly have no idea which way it will go myself. I'm sorry your question received downvotes. Although this didn't seem worth flagging to me, I didn't think it was beyond asking the question politely. But I'm just one person with one vote, I don't speak for the moderators or the community :-S
I have read it fully, several times. I'm not complaining, I'm seeking to understand. I haven't flagged it, as I am reluctant to claim that my understanding is "better" than another's.

So in reply, please read what I wrote, and don't assume that I meant something else.

Thx.

PS (added in edit): Why the smiley? Were you joking? Did you not mean it? I don't understand - can you explain? TIA.
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A better example might be: Mac is the computer equivalent of French cars. You know what you'll get, they have some really unique features and very dedicated users.
I'm not your target market, but I wasn't ready to buy on the front page ("30 day free trial"). I would prefer "only E5.99/month / see our featured galleries / sign up for our 30-day free trial" - especially since I was pleasantly surprised by both price and quality.

I'd strongly consider replacing your header image by something like a small version of (a/this month's?) featured gallery - they look pretty good.

Finally, if you are having trouble finding customers, a referral system seems to help some sites (Dropbox offers free storage; you could offer one free month for every referred customer that pays for a third month, or somesuch.)