skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to download this tomorrow.

Can you touch base on what this covers and how much experience you should have to begin this?
Maybe you're not familiar with the Federal Tort Claims Act, which provides a waiver for the federal government's immunity in the case that a federal employee has been shown to have caused wrongful damage.
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The best guess, at least in Israel, has been for a while now that Stuxnet was a joint Israeli/US effort.

I haven't heard any similar speculation about Duqu.
This is the ONE AND ONLY CORRECT INDENTATION STYLE for Lisp.

Because the defining feature of Lisp is allowing only one way to do things?
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I will be repeating a notion I read on YCombinator elsewhere - but I, too, find it incredibly cool that we live in a time when wars are fought online like that.

We have online revolutionaries anarchists and REAL nation-wide revolutions, started on online networks (talking about Arabic Spring here); we got FBI agents, looking through IP addresses on IRC networks to catch a small group of bragging attackers; we got invisible army of Chinese hackers that noone knows who they are, only that they are really good; some unknown entity making amazingly well done and thought out trojan like stuxnet and now duqu, that seems to be right from pages of some hyperbolic comic book; and, last but not the least, the Russian mafia lords employing Zeus trojans and whatnot to make botnets that mine bitcoin, purely digital currency.

It's an amazing world we live in. Can't wait what the future will bring.
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what, isn't this just /r/hackernews?
> No. It's not "coming to that". We're well past the security theater stage, and into the nightmare stage.

If you want to stick to the theatrical vocabulary while being pedantic, you could talk about security phantasmagoria
Link to the last example, from "Introduction to Newlisp, wikibook, 2012":

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_newLISP/Macros#...
It might just be newer people to Java development with Ant and Maven hell. Frameworks like Play are ridding the bulkiness of setups like that. But still they are a large part of the infrastructure of Java.
Not the hypervisor, just the management tools.
You seem to be pretty enthusiastic about rather worrying and even disturbing developments. This is not a science fiction novel, this is real life. One day it is Israeli hackers destroying Iranian centrifuges, perhaps the next day it will be nuclear reactor facilities that are sent into meltdowns.
Agreed. Writing compilers is easy; The "hard" aspects of creating a new language usually boil down to issues like tooling, documentation and support libraries. In the case of a virus, the only users of the language are the virus authors and the language can be highly tailored to the domain.
They used to before today. I remember the url's would be like /#::home or something along those lines.
nod for $500 a month, it might be worth it to rent it to shorten commute during the weekdays (or a place to crash after partying on weekends), then live the weekends and the rest of the time further out from the city where $1600 might even get you a 2 br apartment.
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Even Stroustrup has said there's a cleaner, simpler language within C++ struggling to get out. But C++11 is a big step toward that language and C++ is still the go-to language for a large class of applications for good reason.
"To date, most successful attacks against Chrome exploit Adobe Flash, which is protected by a significantly more porous sandbox."

I notice that pretty much every time I read articles about Pwn2Own and similar. It's high time that Flash was abandoned as a ubiquitous part of the web. It is to web development as Outlook Express was to desktop software in the 90s - sure it's everywhere, but it's not doing much good by being so.
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Oh I love the way Xcode handles this. Just setup multiple targets and use a preprocessor macro to switch between configurations. A nice drop down to select from when you're building. It's bliss! Learning the iOS way took me way less time than figuring it out for Android and it was a nicer solution.
Particularly considering that one of the main marketing thrusts is how cheap these places are to build. It's be hard not to feel like your getting shafted at $1600/mo.
That seems pretty strange, and some of those examples are really hard to read. Care to share some real Lisp code and not just (a (b (c ... ))) examples? And maybe some motivating examples in Haskell? I just can't see how any of these are an improvement and I'm curious.
I know who Ken Thompson is, and don't so much disagree. But that is a bold and oft-repeated statement, that seems to not be fully supported by the evidence.
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Do many Dropbox users see the dotfiles that are shared? Is that annoying to people? Is it useful to hide them by default, like OS X does?
Uh, ya.. yatch: http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/royal-huisman-yacht/3738-r...
I doubt it. The TSA only sees your name when they check your ID and boarding pass when you enter security. TSA agents probably don't care enough to memorize the guys name and then hassle him.
good lord !! I am an enterprise programmer !!! *self-flagellation everyday...
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I like this a lot. Would be amazing if integrated in a service like readability or other.
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But most of them don't have flat bottoms (or tops, for that matter).
It is even more frustrating if you are new to the iOS development - need to deal with the code sign, provisioning profiles, certificates, device ID, XCodeConfig, upgrading XCode 3 project to XCode 4 etc..

But I agree the Eclipse / Android SDK should have a better way to support the debug/release build.
With a response time like that it seems like antivirus software is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
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...I guess some guys just want to watch the world burn.
The more you focus on the computers part, the unhappier you are going to be.

Not necessarily true. :)
Do the new icons seem enormous to anyone else? It feels like a massive amount of space. I got the same feeling with the gmail redesign until discovering "compact" layout.

Can anyone figure out a way to make the list use space better?
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Agree it's not so bad. Just took 2 days to figure out how to do it. 2 days I'd rather have spent making the app more awesome. If on average other developers - I like to think I'm at least average :) - spent this long then that's like a million hours that they've spent on their build config instead of making their apps more awesome.
I thought the same thing and never thought I would find another game that could replace it. Then Hi-Rez came out of nowhere and redid the one other shooter that could pull me away. Tribes. I haven't touched TF2 since I got into the beta.

Tribes is also free to play and I'm curious to see how things evolve compared to TF2. Currently there aren't any things such as 'hats'. In fact, you spend your experience to just unlock the basic classes. I doubt that strategy would have worked well with TF2 since a lot of their balancing comes from the various classes.

https://account.hirezstudios.com/tribesascend/
As I think about it, you are probably right.

And yet, I can't help myself but watch in fascination as all this happens. Maybe it's because this time, the war is fought with means and tools I understand (if only a little)? Maybe.

Maybe it has something to do with the morbid fascination people have with anything destructive - the World War II books and movies are still sold like cakes, while noone actually wants to repeat the world war.
Objective-C the language has existed since the 1980s. I remember reading Brad Cox's book "Object Oriented Programming, An Evolutionary Approach" in the early 1990s.

NeXT dates back to the late 1980s so if you're counting that, Objective-C has been used on the OS X lineage for over 20 years.
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Can you cite a bank website where they DO explain how their passwords are stored in detail?
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Hasn't succeeded... that's one way to frame the extraordinary disaster of death and mayhem that the 'war on drugs' has been.

If we had to tally the financial toll, the community toll, the prison toll, the fiscal toll, the death toll --- you'd have to break out the Korean and Vietnam wars to find a good comparison.
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I'll concede that the former project lead for Unix might not be the best C programmer.

But then; who is?

If there's evidence to support that there's someone who knows it better than Ken, I personally would like to see it. (More from curiosity than anything else.)
Is that what the TSA actually said, or just your interpretation of it?
This is almost impossible to read on an iPhone. The text doesn't resize and whenever I try to scroll around it activates some blogger "next article" functionality
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I created a brand new iOS project, didn't have to deal with code signing, didn't have to deal with provisioning profiles, certificates, device ID, XcodeConfig, or upgrading from Xcode 3 to Xcode 4.

Then again, I have yet to submit my app to the App Store, or run it on a physical device. Getting started with iOS is a LOT less trouble compared to starting with Android development. I can't even begin to compare the two when started out anew.
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Typical charities like the Michael J Fox foundation fund the most promising programs and researchers they can find (they spend a LOT of time doing this).

Is there really any benefit to giving your money to some guy who wants to do research in his garage? I mean, if he was so good, why wouldn't he be working at an academic institution?
Very nice! I was a little concerned about the abundant whitespace, but after a bit of using it I can say it's quite an improvement. It feels much less like I'm using a webapp, and more like I'm simply browsing my files. Which is the way it should be.

Edit: The more I use it, the more I like this thing. It's hard to put my finger on it, but the small size of the old UI definitely made it feel a bit like a second-class, constrained tool compared to the desktop.
Forgive my ignorance, but it's been a while since I was in Tokyo. What's an ALT-haven? Is that like a residential version of a capsule hotel?
Personally, I just don't know what to make of your original comment, serious, or sarcastic, the clarity of what you are trying to get across just seems quite low.
I think people view this as too techy of a solution and I think people rely on their IDEs for this sort of thing too much, but after trying to automate my Azure deployments (local web, dev emulator, prod), I finally gave up and just resorted to having to manually comment/uncomment things in files and flex dropdown boxes across Visual Studio everytime I wanted to change environments. And I paid the 45-minute deploy time tax every time I forgot to change one of them when I deployed.

I'd have killed for a simple macro syntax to use within my config files. Hell, at one point I was actually (stupidly, one of the more futile tasks I've ever tried) editting the MSBUILD files by hand.
>“It’s completely out of control,” Mr. Robertson said. “Prisons are being overcrowded with juvenile offenders having to do with drugs. And the penalties, the maximums, some of them could get 10 years for possession of a joint of marijuana. It makes no sense at all.”

I never thought I'd agree with anything Pat Robertson said, but this is an extremely sensible position. California's (and the US in general) prison population and associated expenditure has exploded, while we cut spending in places like education.

Look at this picture: [0]. Has this huge runup in the prison population made us any safer?

I realize I'm probably preaching to the choir -- that HN tends to be younger and liberal on social issues -- but the needless imprisonment of thousands has ruined many lives.

>He attributed much of the problem of overpopulated jails to a “liberal mindset to have an all-encompassing government.”

Didn't the War on Drugs start under Reagan? The huge runup in the prison population began in the 1980s. Whatever. As long as more people support changing our current prison system, they can give whatever reasons they want.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_timeline-...
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The TSA might as well just move into Barbara Streisand's beachfront property if they are using these kind of tactics.
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Yes. I wonder what their reasoning for that was.
While I agree with the sentiment, GitHub is like crack for random hackers. At least it is for me. It's so convenient to search for <any big OSS project> and find that someone is mirroring it on GitHub for convenience. It's simply faster to use their web interface to peruse through a project or to search within a project than it is to checkout a local copy and then open the directory in Sublime.

That having been said, I don't really consider "it's not on GitHub" to be a valid criticism. I certainly understand developers wanting to use their own solutions or that they might have hurt feelings after GitHub's handling of their intrusion (not that I care, just saying based on the number of HN posting, many people seem to)
I thought the defining feature of Lisp was the meta-programming. Or am I missing some sarcasm?
Maybe so, likely though this is what the erosion of existing power structures looks like first hand. I think we should just be thankful it is relatively peaceful compared to the natural order of such events historically speaking.
You can do this natively in CSS with Firefox. Unfortunately, WebKit has yet to catch up. (Contrary to popular belief, WebKit is not ahead in everything.)

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Wow. Thanks for pointing that out. They definitely get the "shovel the shit" award this week. They have axes that cost $250. I bought a fine axe at Lowes I think it was $30 maybe?

Watch this piece of work:

http://www.bestmadeprojects.com/post/5427086342/peter-buchan...

Marketing like this is a few steps removed from the "pet rock" of the 70's. Wrapping an everyday product in some kind of crafty acceptability. At least with the pet rock everyone knew it was a gimmick.

Edit: Think our links show the same video?
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I sometimes got to sit next to Jim Clark during lunch when I worked at Silicon Graphics. He's just walk into the cafeteria and sit anywhere and sometimes it was with us systems engineers. Interesting to listen to the chit-chat.
More like arguing about the one right way to do things. And if no one agrees, write your OWN Lisp.
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Meanwhile, critical Android security holes remain unpatched for more than 2 yrs.
Neither NVIDIA nor AMD use it in their own marketing, nor does Intel for its Graphics parts.

Well, that doesn't appear to be factual.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...

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Git's stash and clean commands make it possible to test partial commits built up in the staging area pretty easily. There's even a section of the man page for stash that's titled "Testing partial commits". I think this is essentially the flow described there:

emacs foo.c # make two changes
git add --patch foo.c # stage only one change
git stash save --keep-index # stash changes not yet staged
git clean -f # delete untracked files, like build artifacts
# now the files on disk are in the same state as what you are about to commit

Sure, it's more complicated than just not having a staging area, but it can be really useful, and it's really cumbersome to manually tease apart changes in the same file.
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They're about to get some competition soon from Google. GDrive ( http://www.geekwire.com/2012/google-drive-wild-screenshot-lo... ) CSS sprites are already on Google Docs:

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What exactly is the benefit of obfuscating the source language? Your hypothesis that it's written in Scheme is reasonable, but a DSL by any other name is a basket of Lisp macros. It's not a new language, but at the same time, it's kind of a Domain-specific language.

At any rate, I don't think that if it was Scheme that the goal was to obfuscate that it was written in Scheme.
I was at the airport last week and got randomly selected for the backscatter x-ray machine. I was told to remove everything from my pockets, including things that I would normally keep for going through a metal detector (passport, papers, wallet, etc.).

The scan went fine, but on the other side, the TSA agent noticed that due to the fold of my jeans, it looked like I had something in my pocket. He said he had to pat me down to make sure I didn't have anything in there.

Which made me seriously doubt the efficacy of the backscatter machines. What's the point of the machine if something could slip through that would still necessitate a physical body search?
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Another important economic concept that bears on this issue is "positional goods." Baseball abilities are positional goods because the value is almost all in being the best or among the best, and any other level of ability has no value to society. This is not the same as, for example logging. Half the ability in logging is half as useful economically.
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I don't see how this is valuable. By definition a peering contract is not staying inside Comcast's network. The bandwidth for this (if Comcast were selling it) would stay entirely within the network, where it's not significantly competing with peered traffic.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're suggesting.
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In Haskell it is not uncommon to see things like

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Leaf -> ..
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which translates into the Scheme pseudocode

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Although such an indentation pattern (namely, multiple "unclosed" open parens on one line, which all get closed at once) is very uncommon in Scheme or Lisp code, I find it handy enough to trade off for certain other "competing" indentation patterns (namely, the one in the final example in grandparent) traditional in Scheme and Lisp.

I have been meaning to put my .emacs.d (5800 lines) on Github. Do you want me to email you when I have done so?
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At 8:16am, you drank 7.8oz of Orange Juice, totalling 108 calories.

It just occurred to me that the new breed of payment services (Square, Google Wallet etc) should combine with food vendors to offer this service.

In Australia at least fast food restaurants publish the calorie count of each food option. It wouldn't be impossible for the payment company to do the correlation.

Also sports (and weigh loss) food vendors should embed NFC chips in their packaging so you can scan them before you consume them. There are plenty of cross-promotion possibilities there...
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I wondered how I would feel looking about at an entire decade and seeing how much time I spent on emails. I'd probably feel a lot of regret.

Why should you feel regret? There is nothing more human than communicating with other people!
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I agree it is less trouble to make you first iOS app running in the simulator than Android app.

But after that, for Android app, what you all need is to export the APK file from Eclipse (sign with a keystore) for upload or copy the device; for iOS app, you have much things to do ..
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