skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the efforts look awful.

There's no analysis whatsoever of the number of similar-degrees-of-freedom different-meaning decipherments that would seem equally credible, or likelihood of deciphering a random text "successfully" given that many degrees of freedom.

Granted, what I'm complaining about isn't easy to compute. If I knew how to actually do it, I'd publish a paper.
Create ten million dollars worth of value and claim a quarter of it.
You'll get no argument from me about holding judges accountable it's an interesting issue though. Was the warrant issued by a state or federal judge? Federal judges are appointed for life and not elected so the people can't exactly kick them out of office during the next election.
I am unable to try Safari at the moment, but while having tcpdump show my laptop’s network communications when typing into Chromium’s omnibar, I see that there’s a lot of communication with Google domains – so suggestions such as “testosterone” after having typed “test” are probably dependent on external servers.
I sympathize but, ultimately, do not find your argument compelling.

Mexico isn't the only poor country in the world. They just happen to be the one that's closest to the US. When my parents legally immigrated here, South Korea was a poor nation. Look at the history of US immigration and you'll see that this is a pattern (eg. Irish and Italians in the 1900s to modern day immigrants from Africa and Asia).

I'm from LA so I'm well aware of the economic contributions of the Mexican illegal immigrants.

With that said, I don't necessarily agree with your positions. Due to the massive rate of illegal immigration, agriculture has been able to thrive on low cost economics. If they didn't have that labor, it doesn't mean the US would shut down. What it would mean is that the US would have to adjust the economics in order to make it viable. This could result in the following:

a) A much larger legal guest worker program.
b) Importing more agriculture from countries like Mexico.
c) Higher wages for legal farm workers (including legal residents of Mexican origin).

In all 3 of these cases, it would lead to be a better situation for Mexican-Americans or Mexico. In the case of b), it would help the economics of Mexico.

I sympathize that Mexico is a poor country. Like I said before, there are many poor countries in this world. I don't want to sound callous but I don't understand how this is specifically the responsibility of the US. We don't even have a nationalized health system.

Also, allowing illegal immigration does not help Mexico in the long term. It won't fix their lack of economy and unemployment problems. Saying there are "physically too many people" is an excuse IMO. Every country battles the problem of unemployment.
The Zeppelin Bend deserves all the praise it gets.

A clearer way of tying it can be found here:

http://goo.gl/SLfBv

The Grapple Hitch, which is also discussed on the skytopia page is overhyped. See the following discussion on the International Guild of Knot Tyers Forum:

http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=1091.0
BFT... big freaking tapes.
I wonder if it's really tape though. You can get 'tape' backup systems where the cartrige looks just like a tape, but it's actually a special hard drive. I wouldn't be surprised if that's it.
Otherwise, I wonder how many miles (of tape) long my gmail inbox is?
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Just finished responding to all the inquiries. Could you email me saying which one of you is "bigohms"?
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It'd be cool if they added an option to subscribe for $10/year for a quick SMS and email notification if your account is compromised. I'd get it for myself and my family.
Sounds like small price to pay for what clojure/core provides.
Not really. PG says that just seeing if people will pay you for a certain product is the best validation of it. I want to see if people will pay for a simple MVP.
For all the downvoters I got a question: Does the article give any proof or are you just taking it for truth?
If you think the privilege of an H1B is "indentured servitude", it seems that immigration is not for you. I don't expect to enter a foreign country and immediately have all the same worker rights as a citizen of that country.
You mean like we're all writers, instead of having to rely on a few professional scribes? I shudder to think of the programming equivalent of the blogosphere.
This is Josh, CTO of card.io. Those are definitely challenges, but we've put quite a lot of effort into handling exactly those sorts of problems, and we do pretty well with them (if I say so myself).

One interesting tidbit on this front, from someone who spends a lot of time admiring credit cards: Only some cards have silvery ink on top of the numbers. Some others have silvery plastic underneath the main ink layer (usually part of the card's overall graphic design), so the numbers become more silvery with wear, not less. And yet others have no silver anywhere at all. TAANSTAFL. :)
How is he stating it that makes it a fact? It's clearly a blog entry which would immediately categorize it as an opinion. I think you already have a certain distate for David so anything he says, no matter how true, will fall on your deaf ears.

If you've ready any OpEd articles in reputable newspapers, they're not going to start their column with "this is my opinion of x". Rarely would writers use phrases like "I feel" or "I think" -- it's already implied.
I sure hope that there will be a jump at some point allowing life quality to increase, and not bureaucracies, as Parkinson's Law seems to suggest (life quality hasn't improved during the last 30 years in the developed world, referring to general happiness and well-being). I am optimistic that brave politicians will make the necessary changes at some point - the world is too rapidly-transforming for huge changes in our lives not to happen.
This sounds like an option, where can I learn how to flip sites?
To you, no.

Consumers have an irrational understanding that swiping a credit card is safe. Taking a picture of it is likely the sketchiest action a merchant could take, in the eyes of the average uneducated consumer.
Someone did.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640756

Self plug: I cleaned up his original repo and put the patch against the official PHP git repo.

https://github.com/sc68cal/php-src
http://github.com/adelevie

http://www.linkedin.com/in/adelevie

http://www.alandelevie.com
Even better, they can use that information to build or enhance profiles WITHOUT getting any kind of judicial approval or oversight. Yay, Patriot Act (not).
I'm surprised by the comments that imply we'll solve traffic congestion and be snoozing safely in the passenger seat as our robot cars zip us to work in 10-20 years. I live in a technical world where a team of geniuses can barely keep a system up that exchanges 140 character messages.
Only in the same sense putting on a bandaid or taking some aspirin makes be doctor. Using specialty items created by others in rather uncreative ways according to well known rules.
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I can't speak to your personal understanding, of course, but one thing to be wary of is that buzzword-laden speech often forms a tabula rasa. Since it means so little, listeners "fill in the blanks" and make up their own explanation for what it means. It is not surprising that the listener's interpretation closely agrees with their point of view.

Thus, people who use a lot of buzzwords can often be perceived as sensible and their speech as intelligent. Not for what their speech actually says, but for what the listener thinks it says.

This is one of the reasons buzzwords have become so common in business and politics. They are an effective means of selling the speaker to listeners, each of whom believes that they understand what the speaker is saying and agrees with it.
True, in Safari I get "Top Hit", "History", and "Bookmarks" returned (instantly). I'd prefer it Google returned local results immediately and then added the search results as those came in, but I guess that just means my browser preference in this case is Safari.
It seems to me you could have a huge explosion of creative work if the type of compulsory license that exists for musical scores could be applied to, well, pretty much everything under copyright.

The losers, of course, would be copyright lawyers and the artistes that want complete control over their work even after it's published.
i don't buy it.

haven't people been saying that since the 70s? even SQL was designed with the intent that accountants could use it. but programming is really hard, especially if you want something that's done well.

i've also yet to see any general purpose robots that can do anything useful. i still think it's a long way out, if at all possible. there are tons of considerations that go into just about anything and if there's no magic AI there's really no way to program every useful (nevermind adaptable) constraint into everything.
Worse health does not even remotely explain US health spending
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I don't get it. So you can use heat to make a magnet. We already have permanent magnets. Magnetism, in and of itself, doesn't create energy. You'd have to either pulse the magnet, or move a coil past the magnet. The former seems impossible since you'd have to cycle its temperature, and the latter just gives you an alternator, which we already have.

If I'm missing something, I'd like to know. It just looks like, "hey, magnetism!" and some hand-waving.
Woah, slow down, I think you whipped up a 4 paragraph reply before you ever got to my last sentence.

Or, go on and tell me more about all the things hashes are used for as if I just fell off the turnip truck.

This discussion is not about checksums on files. It's abotu passwords. And your "perfect hash" in your example about passwords is "freakishly fast." In fact, like the other guy that replied to me mentioned, this is the entire point of the workfactor in bcrypt, right?

Of course, bycrypt is really, really not meant for checksums. Good thing nobody was talking about checksums then.
I think the fingerprinting part is similar to pHash: http://www.phash.org/ but echoprint is more focused on music and they are building a database of fingerprints.

I think pHash also has functions for fingerprinting music but might not be as precise since pHash is not strictly focused on music.
The Netherlands, Sweden, etc. provide pretty good coverage and is where a lot of the seedboxes for torrenting are held. If you have something you want the government to have a almost nonexistent (depending on what it is) chance of getting to, go with Russia, China, etc. and other countries that probably don't have the best relations with the United States.
RIM seems worse off than nortel. Individuals can change mobile phones much faster than companies can change telephony infrastructures.
America established immigration system in order to make it NOT fair [for immigrants].

Prior to introducing that immigration system there was no legal discrimination by country of origin.

Whether there should be no concept of citizenry is a different topic outside of scope of this discussion.
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Use them in that order." — Unknown
I didn't say anything that could be remotely construed as calling enterprises dumb. I said that they have not, and in my opinion, should not, be Firefox's target.
I'd love to, but there are things politically complicated about all this in the very small startup world. So maybe one day, but I can't do it right now.
Want to get started? I did some work for a US client that wanted to develop a political tool for people to organize themselves. It was released under BSD. I can dig up the code and repost it if you'd like (original site expired). It was developed in 2009.

[UPDATE] Found it: http://districtbydistrict.summerhilldesign.com/source.zip
I was confused be cause I typed "password" into that box and it told me I was safe.
Interesting, thanks for that! I know lots of DJs are using SoundCloud now, so maybe a TT-Soundcloud type integration with some branding elements and the like would do the trick. How great a tool would TT be during say, Armin Van Buuren's weekly A State of Trance show to interact with his fans in realtime. I know guys use Twitter now but I feel like Twitter is being forced into being this tool because this tool doesn't really exist. This would bring some context to the conversation.
You'll probably not have to wait that long as VW has recently bought Porsche.
My god man, at least mention the existing technology called thermocouples at least once, since they have better efficiency than this thing.
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This is a clear-cut case of fair use - it seems Maisel would likely have lost had the case gone to trial (see Blanche vs Koons).

To your second point; the original photograph on the Miles Davis cover has absolutely become an iconic piece of American culture - I take it you're not a jazz enthusiast?
What's the top going rate for a kidney?
If the hardware is in hand then I don't see any practical way to protect the information. The only way that works is to not store the information in cloud servers.
Ah, that's too bad. Thanks anyway.
There's nothing inherent in the language that makes building non-spaghetti code difficult. All the weird annoyances and idiosyncrasies are a big pain in the ass but, unlike say COBOL or Basic (or even C), they don't fundamentally prevent you from building nice organized easy to understand code.

That being said, I totally agree with you -- other people's PHP code tends towards spaghetti in the vast majority of cases. My take from this is that if PHP were to disappear tomorrow all these programmers building spaghetti would just inflict their level of skill on other platforms.
Any chance you have a link to the list you mentioned? I'm sure I wouldn't be the only person interested.
I won the hackathon at PayPal Innovate for one of these. You can see it live here: http://twitter.com/#!/paypal_api_help

There's a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVFns851r8&feature=playe... if you're interested. Anyone have questions about developing these?
Isn't the first month, like, the least indicative month, out of ALL the months? If they have 200,000 next month and a million in a year, we'll talk, but this site has all the indicators of being a that's-cool-move-on thing.
Why isn't Facebook having their servers seized? Google? Amazon? If the FBI is really targeting the "badguys" I'm sure there have been more badguys using facebook/gmail/AWS than any single colo.

Why haven't there been similar seizures of any larger corporate entities? Even if the current FBI practices are valid, should the application of those practices be a function of size/wealth/power? Which servers of Sony's were seized after distributing rootkits?
I know this will be an unpopular viewpoint here, but the pixel representation looked really similar to the original, to the point that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference at 5 feet.

I appreciate what the author was trying to accomplish, and my geek side totally understands the transformative nature, my photographer side thinks it is too close, especially for a commercial work.

I don't think this was a case of "Internet entitlement", but rather a case of two cultures clashing, which is unfortunate, because the cover fit the album so well.
Why on earth would anyone use MySQL when there is PostgreSQL and both are free?
If you're in the USA need to adjust that equation by 2x to cover taxes, CPA / Legal fees that come w/that kind of dough.

EG - Create 20 million in value, claim a quarter of it, pay half out for the pleasure, and move on.
I agree there is bad reporting and in his example the bad editing that let the story though. I'm interested in hearing where other people find good reporting.
Is Nanosys’ awesome new screen technology gonna be in iPad 3? I hope so.
1. Get into the billboard business and pick routes that increase expose to Google-owned billboards.

2. Alternatively, if they don't want to get into the billboard business, sell routing influence. Bidders can pay to route cars past points of their choosing. They could both sell general place-based influence (bidders simply bid to have more cars come past their chosen point), or end-point based influence (bid to have people going to/from specific points routed past your chosen point).

For instance, suppose you have a new French restaurant, on a side street. You could pay Google to increase traffic down your street, so that more people will see your restaurant. Even better, you put out a sign announcing your grand opening, and prominently proclaiming "Higher Rated than Le Pretentious Bastard" (the top French restaurant in town), and pay Google to specifically route people who are going to Le Pretentious Bastard past your place.

3. Route based on conversation in the car. E.g., if the people riding in the car are talking about comic books, route past comic book stores (that have paid Google for this).
Rush hour crowding on public transport is a big negative. If we embraced more flexible work hours, it would bring about its own efficiencies.
"which isn't even going to power my wristwatch"

Not true, thermocouples can produces hundreds of watts, it 's all about the size of the thermocouple and the temperature difference used.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
It's not the photographer's work, really, since the pixelated version was hand made by a pixel artist, using the photo only as inspiration.
Generally: Unless our demand for goods and services can grow at a pace that matches worker productivity as amplified by automation, there eventually simply won't be enough work to be done to keep everyone fed & housed.

This is paradoxical, since our productivity will be at an all-time high. Eventually we'll arrive at some sort of alternative economy but at least in the US there will be some serious unpleasantness along the way.
gcc 4.6 warns about returning the address of a local variable by default (you don't even need -Wall):

% cat foo.c
#include <stdio.h>
int *bad(void) { int a = 42; return &a; }
int main(void) { int *p = bad(); printf("%d\n", *p); return 0; }
% gcc foo.c
foo.c: In function ‘bad’:
foo.c:2:30: warning: function returns address of local variable [enabled by default]

g++ 4.6 doesn't catch the error you mentioned, but valgrind does:

% cat bar.cc
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

using std::vector;
using std::cout;

void bar(vector<int *> &v) {
int a = 42;
v.push_back(&a);
}

int main(void) {
vector<int *> v;
bar(v);
cout << *v[0];
return 0;
}
% g++ bar.cc
% valgrind --track-origins=yes ./a.out
...
==8210== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==8210== at 0x4EBAFE4: std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> > std::num_put<char, std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> > >::_M_insert_int<long>(std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> >, std::ios_base&, char, long) const (in /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.16)
==8210== by 0x4EBB305: std::num_put<char, std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> > >::do_put(std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> >, std::ios_base&, char, long) const (in /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.16)
==8210== by 0x4EC62BC: std::ostream& std::ostream::_M_insert<long>(long) (in /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.16)
==8210== by 0x400B98: main (in /home/leif/a.out)
==8210== Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation
==8210== at 0x400B78: main (in /home/leif/a.out)
...

I don't know how hard it is to use valgrind "properly". I ran it with no arguments and it gave me the error, and even told me to add --track-origins=yes. If you're writing code that needs to be even remotely reliable and you aren't using valgrind, what the hell are you using?
A lot of tech journalism looks like it was written with a markov chain generator.
Yeah they've been saying it since the 70's:

"Everyone needs computer programming. It will be the way we speak to the servants."

-John McCarthy, creator of Lisp and coiner of the term Artifical Intelligence.

But I don't think the age of the claim is in itself a reason to not believe it.

The more you know about programming, the more you can do with general purpose devices when they arise, and more importantly, the more devices you can make into general purpose devices.

A simple recent example is Kinect. It isn't a general purpose device. It was a gaming doohickey. Thanks to programming, you can turn it into a (more!) general purpose device.
Well that's embarrassing. Yes, you're quite right, I read everything except that box and I the bottom text (which was just outside of my scroll view).

The only defense I can offer is that the name, introduction and the feedback text (which should at least check for "@") is kind off or misleading.

Anyway, my fault, I apologize to the web site creator.
This will definitely benefit bars. I would love to see drunk driving become a thing of the past at some point in my lifetime.
We use sqlite, as well as MS, PostgresSQL & MySQL.
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I think you are missing the point. This is not meant to be used like Square is. This is meant to be embedded into other application that accepts in app purchases that can't be done with the In App system provided by Apple.
Thank you. Can't wait to implement.
Could you explain why immigrants should not have equal rights with born in the US citizens?
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You laughed at FORTH, ignored it, well now you'll pay. In the all new blockbuster, FORTH is back, and it's wearing the black hat now.

ROP, revenge of the TIL, coming to a computer near you.
That's the date of the Gawker hack.
PagSeguro might be an option. But I believe they only operate in Brazil, and to be honest I've never seen a store that accepts it.
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Would be nice if MS made a decent javascript engine that embeddable in my own project,like V8, kinda like JScript was that is no more.

I would love to use javascript as a scripting language for my .Net programs, and I can't use the one MS built for IE, instead I need to go with less than complete codeplex projects.
They will. Prototypes of web sites with rudimentary systems for logging in and changing things can be sold. You can also sell for considerably more than $500. Aim for $3k or more.

Many people would love to get a working but not very good version of their site live so they can start raising funds from other people to develop the full service. It's far more convincing when you have a draft than just an idea. People will pay for that.
yes, it should be the artist's choice how their work is used. that's not the question. the question is when it stops being their work, and starts being the work of the artist influenced by it.
"Robot cars" don't need to deal with the sort of scale or coupling that causes systems like the one you described to fail (the system you reference itself doesn't really need to be that way, technically... it is that way for the purposes of centralized control).

The "robot car" I may be sleeping in doesn't have to worry about what the other 300 million cars on the road are up to, only the 10 or so that happen to be immediately around me.

Yes, there are real problems to be solved in this area but they are very different sorts of problems than scaling and at the current rate of progress I wouldn't be too surprised if automated driving were available as a high end option on some cars within 15 years.