skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even more intriguing. What exactly were you writing in Haskell that needed a super-paranoid html sanitizer? Yet another web server/blog/cms? Or something way more cooler?
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You mean the statistics demonstration? I'm sure I've seen it in several places.

I know of two tricks for detecting the students. The first is to look for six or seven heads or tails in a row. Over a hundred tosses, a coin will probably do that, but humans "being random" won't. The other is to look at the page as a sequence of "HHH" and "TT" strings and estimate how many there are. A coin, of course, changes from heads to tails 50% of the time, but a human does it more like 70% of the time.

I'm sure there are other characteristics, too, but those two are sufficient to throw out most human attempts at a glance. It's actually kind of obvious, when you see the two side by side.

Me "being random" with the numpad: 10110101001010010101011010100101011010100101010110101

Computer-generated random: 1101110100000000011111110111011000010001010110011111

See? Here's a few more. Try it.

1000100111011001010000001001010110111000011011101011

1101010001010010101110100101000101010111101001001000

1101111010110111100010110001000100001001111001001110

1100000010000010101001000001101001101011111100111001
it's just not consistent. All current assignment "modifiers" are "binary" operators and ~ is unary one.
Ah-ha, but you can automate so much app management through the admin API. Oh wait, they deprecated and froze the only API that handled that!
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Any game or app for that matter can benefit from a demo, trial or similar. Even though 5 euro is not a lot, it's still money. As there is so much low-quality stuff out there, customers are sceptical about buying something they haven't tried out to some degree.
> But it makes one wonder, why would they give this away for free if they could make money?

One reason is that you can't usually just flip a switch and sell it: moving from "throw up some stuff on github", even some pretty good, well-maintained stuff, to "sell to people for money" implies a significant step-up in commitment. People who pay for software often expect support, though there are some areas (like Wordpress templates) where that isn't true. Plus, free code on github that's useful will more or less market itself, whereas code you're trying to sell to people for money usually requires effort to sell (unless you get lucky).

Another is that many people with code on github have day jobs in the tech industry, and giving away an evening/weekends project for free is less of a legal minefield than running a tech business on the side of your tech day job.
I wonder if there is a way to calculate the total cost of lost developer productivity due to Facebook bugs, changes, and bad documentation. I swear I spend way too much of my time dealing with it, and it sounds like everyone else does too.
I read most of the article, and I think it is as flawed as his title. Of course, we aren't broken. If anything is broken, it is the system. If there is a problem between us and the system that we have created, then it is the system that we should change, not us.
You're making a distinction which is sort of artificial.

You're selling pain relief. It isn't terribly important whether the pain relief comes in a blue bottle or a red bottle. Your primary challenges are not going to be the bottle. They're going to be a) finding people in pain, b) communicating that you have something which provides pain relief, and c) convincing them to buy it.

There are many, many reasons to prefer being in the business of selling red bottles versus selling blue bottles, but that is a discussion for another day. (For one thing, it is vastly harder to steal red bottles.)
SFTP is a protocol, and that isn't what 1FTP is all about. 1FTP is about bringing the convenience of Dropbox-like sharing to FTP shares. There are still a b-zillion FTP shares that companies use everyday to transfer files to vendors, partners, contractors, etc. Even shares that are at the root of their websites. Many of those shares use a single set of credentials that are passed around. No, that ain't smart, but that's how it's done when the process for getting real user accounts on a server involves way too much IT red tape. 1FTP allows access control to move into an easy-to-maintain web app.
I'm totally not complaining at all. Bringing up a young child from a few weeks old when mom went back to work is quite a big deal for a guy in the US, and just a huge privilege that I've been lucky to experience. My daughter 'reading' and babbling and turning pages of books in her playpen is something to behold in a 1 year old.

But 'the fact of the matter is' there's just no way to work for the 10-14 hours you and the child are awake together, at least not on computer programming.

So I've adapted to working in short 1 - 5 hour long bursts either during nap time (short) or after bed-time (long). Using git and GitX has really helped me out with focusing on just one or two aspects and getting those to commit-able state in the time available, versus my usual touch every file and have my svn revision open for weeks.

I'm building my first commercial Cocoa app right now, and it just crossed into being developer-useful, for me personally, and will be more widely useful once the UI is all hooked up.
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Characterizing not wanting a lower middle class lifestyle as wanting "money or lifestyle [sic]" is ridiculous. Working in a wetlab is essentially me making a $80K annual donation to charity, and amongst other things, would turn my student loans from a minor nuisance into a major expenditure. If society actually valued medical and cancer treatments instead of mouthing the words (which is free), there wouldn't be disparities like that, and working in a wetlab wouldn't be a major life sacrifice.

In practice, we spend $31B or so on the NIH [1], but we have $170B in fiscal year 2010 [2] for Iraq and Afghanistan, plus all the tail costs involved.

[1] http://www.nih.gov/about/director/budgetrequest/NIH_BIB_0209...

[2] http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0933935.html
Defending against a patent lawsuit, regardless of how absurd or invalid the patent is, can often cost millions of dollars:

http://www.inventionstatistics.com/Patent_Litigation_Costs.h...

Filing patents isn't exactly free either, in terms of time or money.

Also, how exactly do you "beat up" patent trolls? They threaten to sue you, and you . . . threaten to spend millions of dollars on court fees to have their patent invalidated? That doesn't work so well unless you have millions of dollars you don't happen to need.

Are you really suggesting that all those small-time devs sued by lodsys over BS patents would have some recourse if only they'd filed a bunch of patents themselves? Or if only their predecessors had somehow flooded the patent office with enough BS patents that the lodsys ones got thrown out as prior art?

The whole "patent everything, let the courts sort it out" philosophy sounds nice in theory, but the whole problem is that it's freakishly expensive to sort those issues out in court, so patent lawsuits end up as shakedowns: you either pay up in licensing, or you pay up in laywer fees. Either way you're paying someone.
Translation:

"Just because my theory doesn't work in reality doesn't mean we should give up on the whole theory! Society should suffer what they must until this human experiment is refined"

Let's try to make this more objective. What's the goal of patents, how is success measured, and why are patents the only way to achieve this outcome. Furthermore, how did we establish that intellectual protectionism is more advantageous than open ideas? You seem to be at odds with the open source community.
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I figure it would be easier to make bags using plastic-like substances than paper bags, potato starch or genetically engineered bacteria oozing out some sort of bio-plastic.

The cloth bags sold to people must require a large amount of energy to make and if they are not very durable may be no better than plastic in energy usage i.e. carbon output.
Meh, this looks like a short list of Glassdoor interview questions. Here's the real deal: http://projecteuler.net/
Yeah. Electronic cigarettes have been our a while now. I know several people who use them.

http://e-cig.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette
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I'm not sure I follow. I've disabled notifications except for people adding me, mentioning me, or sharing with me directly and only receive emails for those. Particular people spamming your feed? Put them in a different circle and dont check that one as much. People who are not in your circles and are sending you things you don't want? Block them.

Also games looks like it's going to be contained to one place, so if you don't want to see it you don't have to.
Agreed, red bottles it is then :). I know the two have very different business implications, I was just curious what HNs position on the differences were. Thanks.
All I get when going there on my mobile is a login form.
Personally I think password entry should be done in madlib form. Each user would have a unique madlib prompt like:

Username: ___________

Password: Twelve ___(pl. noun)___ jumped over a ___(adjective)___ ___(noun)___ named ___(proper noun)___.
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How is this different from Facebook? I get a friend request from Mr. X. He looks like a normal guy, so I accept. Then I get his spammy stream.
1) You seem to think that a couple of books somehow form a complete set of all possible linked lists, despite others pointing out equally valid literature that describes things you are not recognizing as linked lists. This is the classic appeal to authority, and suffers from all the normal problems with it. Why do you think only the books you choose to cite are good examples? Why do you dismiss other sources, such as wikipedia and journals elswhere in this thread? Why are those books definitions more reliable than the way the term is used by many many people in academia and industry?

2) Don't try to extend my analogy about introductory vs rigorous sources to one about claims and invention and patents, the analogy doesn't hold up to it and such extensions to it are nonsensical. I was only talking about your choice of authority in your appeal to authority, and pointing out flaws with that choice - there was no attempt in that paragraph to discuss the wider validity of the patent claim.

3) You arguments are disingenuous which is why I keep calling them such. Disingenuous does not describe the number of words used, it does however describe repeatedly making logical fallacies that you point out and claim to understand elsewhere in your posts.
Another possible use, besides the mentioned 'Global Strike': next-gen SR-71. The benefits:

1. Can't be shot down by any known SA missile technology (which the Russians are pretty good at)

2. Isn't a sitting duck like satellites, can't be shot down with anti-satellite weapons.

3. Can go anywhere anytime, so adversaries can't time their troop movements and other clandestine activities around your spysat flyover schedule.

4. Perfect for keeping tabs on China's opaque military buildup, since the US's sats and humint isn't as effective at that as desired.
she doesn't want to move out, it's a good deal:)
It is essentially just a vaporizer like all the different e-cigarettes already on the market. The difference is this one uses buthane instead of battery. This product seem to have been released a while ago to a lukewarm reception.

It's a nice thought, but e-cigarettes / vaporizers simply do not stand up to regular cigarettes in neither usability, pleasure nor cool-factor (if there even is any such).
Similar story here. Mom died of the same disease.

I did join a stem cell related company from their beginnings. It was cool to see it grow thinking I was doing good, until I realized at least in my case it was more about making the owners money rather than finding cures for these kind of diseases.

Quitting the day job and switching to biomed maybe could help, but I believe instead there's a need to start something more radical rather than being +1 cog.
This is not entirely correct, we include non alphanumeric characters (punctuation) in our passwords occasionally because it increases the solution space for a brute force attack.

While this doesn't really improve any individual password the fact that we occasionally include non alphanumeric charecters increases the possible password set from 62 possible charecters ^ password length to a something more like 90^password length.

Similarly we dictionary attacks are more efficient than brute force attacks because we're talking maybe 200,000^(words in password) if we allow for some common word permutations versus 90^passwordlength.
Thanks for the pointer. It led me easily to http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/TrisectionOfAngle.html. Step 3 in that construction is not one I had thought of as allowed.

It also, to me, isn't evident to me how one can proof that that Neusis construction is possible to place the ruler in that way without resorting to analytical means. I guess somebody must have thought about that. Are you aware of more rigid geometric proofs?
Or position. I've been running the online branch of a news organisation, so a lot of the people who are in my direct network are journalists, people trying to get attention from the media, and of course advertising agencies.

I used G+ for about 3 weeks from launch and I found it a horrible experience. Basically none of the people I want to keep in touch with use it, everything else was spam. I'm also known under a pseudonym so I didn't see any point of using the service.

I found it more of an highly opinionated Tumblr clone (lacking the flare of Tumblr) than a Facebook clone.
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I can think of a number of solutions, some human, some programming, to the arguments you put forth here.

That you would even make these arguments, when counter-arguments are so immediately obvious, is why you will fail. Its like playing chess, but you can't see even one move ahead. You are basically arguing that h5 is a really silly place to put the queen because look, you can put your knight on f6 and attack it. [1]

You are engaged in a war of escalation, and yet you cannot even iterate strategy and tactics on paper. If you can't even imagine how someone might exploit the situation you describe, then you will forever be surprised when you encounter the exploit in the wild. You have no chance of proactively preventing any kind of cheat.

Your enemy is not the muggles. Your enemy is not your average programmer. Your enemy is someone who lives for winning the meta-game: of outwitting your programmers, not your games designers.

EDIT: For entertainment value:

Observe how I predicted what my "enemy" would do: Feel free to argue that this will require more than just replacing BNEs and CMPs with NOPs or JMPs. Or indeed making the executable bigger. Or indeed many other things that are "hard".

And how you did it anyway: Also note that hexing functions as opposed to flipping a value is very different.

Very different for you. You see, you replied anyway thinking that your statement demonstrated support of your argument. Whereas I wanted you to respond that way, because your statement actually supports my argument, which is that you are hopelessly outmatched and dont even know it.

EDIT: Adding link based on downgrade of expectation that the reference would be understood.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholars_mate
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This is also somewhat dated, although it does make it as far as the Pentium, and it is a brilliant read.

Graphics Programming Black Book - Michael Abrash

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/reference/programmin...
Yeah, I've got Mac Mini and laptop running Ubuntu, but I guess it's only for macbooks. Clever
It would be really great if one could view the pertinent parts of this site (users' pages) on an iPhone, but "WHOAH THIS IS MOBILE!" is the redirect I'm getting. Sigh.
I think smoking also has its appeal because it can feel really good when you do it. I started smoking not because it was cool, or because it was rebellious (in fact i resisted for a long time because i thought it was lame), but because when i did it, it felt good.
Read the article. It's a test platform for a strike weapon capable of striking anywhere in the world in an hour. Our current capabilities, ICBMs included, aren't capable of that to my knowledge (I worked on such platform up into the 90s).
The point of these games is to have the farmers play Call of Duty and the soldiers play Farmville.
As I noted in my other reply, alot of my friend are journalists and people in advertising agencies. The circles things breaks down when business and play over lap like that.

The email thing is probably fixed now. It wasn't jsut that it was also when I quite the first time people where still hassling me for invites. I signed back in and all my networks and even my profile picture where still active (a day later). I had specifically removed the connections and data before closing, I shut everything down.

I assume these where teething pains but I still wrote a stern reply.
The cpu structure is on several different lists. That's not exactly the same as being on one list with multiple links.
You are saying every player goes through 36k whites/slim whites a WoE, 5 times a week. I can see going through that many if you are an LK running around trying to break the precast, but if you are just sitting in a wizline you might go through 200 in two hours.
It's not just expense; due to nuclear early-warning systems mostly being keyed off ICBM launches, it's risky to launch one. You're gambling that other nuclear-armed powers will believe you that it's conventionally-armed and not heading at them, which is a decision they only have several minutes to make. So in practice ICBMs have usually not been considered a normal part of the conventional-force arsenal.
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Wow - 'harmless'?

From the ploom faq:
" Is Ploom "safe"? Ploom does not comment on the relative risks of smoking vs. vaporizing. Ploom is not sold or marketed as a safe alternative to cigarettes."
Also, there is detailed in the paper a $15 toy (the girltech imme) which can be reflashed to work as a jammer. There is a huge signal strength advantage to the attacker (13dB) vs. a regular transmitter. You could make $100 (with amp, antenna) disposable jammers, powered ~forever by some batteries, and just replace them every few years when discovered.

There's also a purely-passive direction finding thing for all radios (active or not); I remember a Dutch guy created a "fuzz meter" which would ID local cops; trivial to do with this description of the P25 protocol.
That's interesting.

Because every time I've seen Mozilla developers making note of memory improvements over the last few years, I run into someone claiming that every time "Firefox" and "memory usage" came up prior to whichever is current for the time, the developers steadfastly denied a problem.

It's getting a bit like the mythical proslytizing vegan; I've run into far more people bitching about however many instances of fuss-making by however many hostile vegans than I have of actual hostile vegans. (The count of the latter can be described as "basically none".)
To be honest, I don't think it solves the problem of system file being modified by a process of unknown origin.
Your memory is correct. Sad to say. :-(
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The technology doesn't matter. Customers don't care. Developing a good product matters.

Is the product good, or bad?
The fact software patents are published in their patent form isn't any better than "hiding these inventions". As others commented, nobody reads software patents (it's even legally dangerous to do so).

What we have no is the worst of all worlds: Invention secrecy and noncompetitive monopolies.

Also, software is a composition of far more patentable components than other things -- so patents are much more troublesome in that field. A software patent is somewhat like patenting a literary concept or a musical technique.
Yes, they do. My brother served in Afghanistan (Canadian infantry) and they most definitely played Call of Duty during the lengthy periods between missions.
Found this video showing some of the implementation details (Via Tom Anderson on G+)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTYzyIcp0mY

All in all, it looks well done. I want to be absolutely sure I don't see Puzzle crap if I'm not interested, but their statements so far are in the right direction.
The complete lack of a changelog doesn't help either. I never know whether something's going to break in a new release and almost every new release has some little semantic change that borks my system.
Groupon's policy is in accordance with CA state law. I don't see how it's pre-empted.
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Imagine the headline read, "Gas up to $8.23 a gallon" and only upon reading the article did you discover that the "gas" they're talking about is 110 octane race gas. Yes, race gas is a type of gas(oline), but the headline is still quite misleading, as the common definition, without qualifiers, is the pump variety.
Cons:

* inconsistent with other compound assignment operators

* looks like regular expression matching operator used in other languages

Pros:

* shortens certain expressions by one character

I don't think it's worth it.

What does the search query have to do with it?
I'll attempt to clarify, but these my own words, not Nilay's:

1. There is nothing inherent about "software" that suggests you can't create a patentable invention with it, therefore statements like "software patents shouldn’t be allowed" are wrong, or at least equivalent to "patents shouldn't be allowed".

2. Software has certain properties that result in undesirable side-effects or ambiguities under the patent system at present, therefore we should adjust the treatment of patents on software to mitigate those effects and clarify those ambiguities. An example would be reducing term lengths to something more compatible with the pace of innovation.
> I don't see a pressing need to use RVM in production

1. Gemset isolation comes in handy.

2. Sometimes you want to have multiple ruby versions (e.g. MRI for app and JRuby for memory heavy script)
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I have to use rvm in production because debian/ubuntu install ruby 1.8 and I need 1.9.2 for rails 3. Ruby isn't in the alternatives system (yet - coming soon) so I don't see a better way.
I find it misleading that this article suggests that this is some kind of revolutionary new smoking product. By the article and the video, the Plume product does differentiate its self from any other electronic cigarette.
Ironically, it is only because I thought you might be different that I went through the trouble of explaining why and how there was a better way.
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