skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? The only places I've run into regulatory requirements for audit logs of seeing data is when the data itself is sensitive government data or is legally protected personal data; outside of national security, those aren't the kind of things that generally apply to code (and in the national security space, I'd imagine that you'd need more comprehensive monitoring of your systems, desktop or server, such that using centralized VCS for the purpose would be redundant [alone, centralized VCS for that purpose has holes big enough to drive a truck through, since it can't monitor who sees information once it is checked out, only who checked it out].)
I use it for a project that is static generated via stasis. Stasis creates a public/ folder with duplicates of JS and CSS files, so I slugignore the originals.
Damn Ivor Horton, somebody ought to call him and make him apologize.
It is complex, because the U.S. is a very, very complex society. In many parts of Europe you're looking at a much less diverse and separated population compared to that of the States. Public discussions in the U.S. have a vast number of voices coming from a similar number of interests and backgrounds. This convolutes and masks various points of public discourse in ways/degrees I'm not sure you see as much in individual European or Asian countries. But this is only my two cents.

I do admit I haven't spent much time in abroad (I'm in the U.S.), but living my whole life here I find it a full-time job at times to follow public debates in an educated manner and make meaningful decisions at the ballot box.
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It's about the typical reaction to each image. A normal person will repulse from depictions of gore and violence because most people are not naturally inclined to that kind of imagery, so it's less important to regulate because its effect on the vast majority of the viewership is not dangerous, though contributing to the desensitization toward violence and crime is obviously counterproductive and individuals should take care to control their personal intake.

Pornographic or erotic imagery is different. It taps into a natural impulse that almost every person has and most likely doesn't promote particularly virtuous deployments of that inclination. Sex, and by extension sexual imagery, has a very powerful pull on most people and the use of sexual impulses must be tightly controlled if reasonable social cohesion is to be maintained.

Will and Ariel Durant, prominent historians from the mid-1900s: "No man, however brilliant or well-informed, can dismiss the wisdom of the laboratory of history. A youth boiling with hormones will wonder why he should not give full freedom to his sexual desires; if he is unchecked by custom, morals, or laws, he may ruin his life before he understand that sex is a river of fire that must be banked and cooled by a hundred restraints if it is not to consume in chaos both the individual and the group."

I find that description extremely apt. Sexual imagery provokes a more fervent reaction because it has a much more dangerous effect on a much wider segment of the populace than violent imagery.
We still are limited by all the information theory stuff.

Sometimes the point is not about the 'processing' power as much as it is about the fact that some problems need massive quantities of information to be solved, information wich might be simply unavailable, for example.
For your information I grew up in Canada. A long time ago I would have immediately agreed with you.

But then I made the mistake of posting my views on Usenet. Unlike most people on either side of these arguments, I actually followed up on the deluge of references I got in return from both sides. And did my best to create an informed opinion for myself. Here are some basic points off of the top of my head from what I have learned over the following two decades.

- Gun ownership and gun violence are nothing like linearly correlated. For example Canada has a third the guns/capita that the USA does, and a fifth the gun violence.

- The USA's violence problems are tied closely to racial problems. Over half of homicides are committed by blacks, and over half of the remainder by hispanics, despite the fact that there are more whites than either of those other racial groups. I just ran across a reference that I'm not sure is trustworthy indicating the the homicide rate among US whites is actually 0.32 per 100,000. If true then that is down with Singapore and Iceland - and is under half of most European countries.

- When two areas have easy transport between them, the one with more restrictive gun rules tends to experience worse gun problems tied to crime.

- There is some evidence that removing guns increases levels of violent crime, but reduces odds of death during that crime. Whether you consider this an improvement is likely to depend on your politics.

- I've seen and found believable (but have not researched) the claim that in the short term after a major gun ban, the use of guns in crime actually goes up. (It is believable because criminals still have their guns, and have less fear about using them.)

- No matter what the truth is, there is no way in the US system that we actually could ban guns. It would require changing the Constitution in a way that most Americans do not like.
Centralized version control doesn't have any advantage over distributed version control for either of those scenarios. Particularly, it doesn't give you any more control over where the code goes after someone with authorized read access to the repository makes their own copy of it.

For that, you need comprehensive monitoring on every system from which the repository can be accessed that tracks what is done, and once you have that, it doesn't really matter what you do for VCS for that kind of monitoring.
I don't know a ton about crowdfunding... but what could be the downside of using Kickstarter? Seems to me that it comes with free audience and offers some security for the backers.
IE 10 is auto updated as part of Windows Update, is that too messy too?
Regular here does not mean regular in the technical sense, it means there aren't any weird special case constructs that break the rest of the parsing (for a particularly egregious example, consider the Perl report sublanguage, which is nothing like the rest of the language).
Crowd-anything is rare right...
Two turkeys doesn't make an eagle.
This is a common symptom of lack of physical exercise, drinking, smoking and too much weight.

You could try running, if you do it before 7pm it will help you sleep sooner and wake up more energized.
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Is the Surface really a tablet? From the marketing, it seems clear that the presence of a semi-integrated keyboard is considered a selling point, so I'm not sure there's really much of a conflict here.

As an owner of both devices, I don't think that the Surface hardware is really all that comparable to the Nexus 7. Aside from the obvious size difference, the build quality is vastly better on the Surface, it has a rear camera, it has a USB 2 port that can be used to charge other devices or attach a wide variety of peripherals, etc. Whether that's worth what they're charging is another question, of course.
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I'm not sure I follow - how are they legally being willfully blind? They can't offer private encrypted hosting AND know what they're hosting at the same time. Those two things are mutually exclusive.
I think if that were their claim, they might be running up against the laws of physics. Wires aren't going to carry 30x their current throughput no matter what the protocol is.
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> (...) as if though drug trials aren't already expensive enough, retarding scientific progress and costing millions of lives from drugs that would have been otherwise developed.

Isn't testing a vital part of this development, and by extension a crucial part of what you call scientific progress? The fact that we need more and more sophisticated testing techniques is because we understand more about the intricacies of human body and the ways it can interfere with treatment process. Placebo is an obvious example of such interference.

To me, calling a scrupulous testing process a factor that's retarding scientific progress is like saying QA is retarding software progress.
You say novels have deeply impressed you - at a conscious level, with moving themes and new ideas. Despite violence, evil characters and events, maybe even genocide. They all happen in novels.

Compare a video game - you kill an NPC, scoop up some loot, scrounge around breaking all their crates and pots, then move on. Not thinking about it, not caring what it is you're doing or what it means to loot a body or take the pathetic remains of some poor wretch's miserable existance. Ha! This gun is way worse than the one I'm wielding! Throw it in the trash, or keep it to sell for coin.

Clearly they are very different experiences. You can't tell me killing innocent bystanders, looting strangers' homes, fencing stolen goods not once but 10,000 times to get to the final level - none of this penetrates, not even a little? You mention Doom which is disengenious - that was riveting when it came out because of the tension, the surprises. But we're way past that now. Now we hear the screams of carefully simulated civilians, see their blood, then loot their wallets and cars.

Why? What moron thinks this is entertainment? It substitutes shock for any scrap of intelligent gameplay, until it becomes meaningless. Until its just abstract gameplay.

Anyway maybe I'm off the mark here. But until we admit that something is going on here that's different from a book or movie, we've not begun to figure out whether it matters.
That already exists, no? Pretty sure my Facebook app on Android asked me for sync options when I first signed in.
Anyone I know who talks about Blackberry never says RIM or Research in Motion.

I even suggested it once over at reddit in /r/blackberry that RIM should just change its name to BlackBerry but was down voted into oblivion. Now there's a post about the naysayers who said it should happen.

I'm Canadian, proud BlackBerry are Canadian and I agree the name change makes sense I'm glad they did it.
It worries/amazes me that along with all the nostalgia that this thread has brought up, it's made me realize I can still remember parts of my 28.8k modem's initialization string. AT&F&C1&D2 from memory.

Reading someone else's post about the Apple Cat II just reminded me of the sheer joy of experimentation at the time. While what we have now was what we were ultimately striving for and would have switched to in a heartbeat, I'm glad for the experience I gained at the time. And I didn't know better so I still loved it :)

I just want to know how I got my first BBS numbers - I was visiting NZ when I got my first modem, and somehow got hold of some local numbers and then found other BBSes from there... but how did I get the first one?
There are millions of American people suffer from misery, depression, living way below poverty line.
Is helping African people is more noble than cleaning mess at home?
It has no problem to run a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter until Kickstarter disallows you to do that on their platform.

SelfStarter was created by the Lockitron team to run their own crowdfunding campaign because Kickstarter didn't allow them to run their campaign on Kickstarter.

Eventually, I still see Kickstarter as the main/most important crowdfunding platform. Like many closed platform versus opened platform plays, it seems like most of the closed platforms win eventually.

I might be wrong on this but I would like to see example on the opposite case.
Did you read the article? TCP does not deliver line rate 10 Gbps between Japan and Europe, especially with packet loss.
I've got good news for your 8 yo self.

http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
A lot of bootcamps are popping up in the bay area. To me it's weird and speaks more about how broken our immigration laws are than that the bootcamps are fulfilling a market niche.

There are huge leaps between the introductory levels (covered by CodeAcademy or Udemy reinventing the ...for Dummies series of the 90's) to the intermediate levels to the expert Google/Apple/Facebook levels (trained by the traditional college systems or just talented enough to self-learn).

That intermediate level is a big opportunity and I can see the pitch of the bootcamps being able to launch candidates from intro levels to get as close to the intermediate level as possible. Yet, that's a big jump.

Things like knowing about message queues, tasks queues, server provisioning, or creating REST APIs are still a lot of information to learn. If I were a funded business organization my options are to:

- hire internationally and relocate them (thus far expensive)

- setup offshore (expensive but cheaper)

- hire a 12-weeker (cheap)

In my experience of working at big corps and startups, there's just not enough introductory work to go around to make hiring a 12-weeker worthwhile.

It's even worse on the startup scale since there's just not enough money to keep a newbie around long enough to make good use of them or provide technical training. Not to mention how often people jump from companies to companies these days and OTJ training just doesn't work anymore.

I don't know how to fix that. I keep hearing that DevBootcamps are pretty successful at placing people into work though I would love to have a deep dive with the employers to know what's going on because to me they just don't seem efficient enough.
i have this confused dream that somehow people will implement different cryptographic "elements" as web services and eventually someone will find a way to tie them together into something awesome. i think this could be one; my own (much more pointless) contribution is human-readable timestamps (like taking a photo of yourself and today's newspaper): http://colorlessgreen.net/ (also open-source)
A marketer from App.net reached out to me so I figured I'd share below what I told him. This is my experience, and I doubt it's representative of the majority of people. I was merely venting frustration about a refund process that (apparently) requires a special incantation via email support.

As for feedback, from an end-user experience I have not found the product very compelling, certainly given the price. The API is great but that doesn't really matter if I'm not interested in using the product. When I signed up amid the hype I guess I misunderstood the product and in the meantime hoped it to evolve into something it has not -- namely, an infrastructure-y social layer that I could build into other apps and not a closed social network with a high barrier to entry.
I wonder. And I'm curious what other readers think Dijkstra meant by that.

I think, as far as the part about mathematicians goes, that the point is that once the problem is stated sufficiently abstractly and sufficiently precisely, there is no problem.

Forget all the nonsense about trains and toilets and rail yards and whatnot. You start with a single linear, symmetric object, and you don't have a problem. Then you break it into two sub-objects, one of them asymmetric ...

|-T-| = |-| + |T-|

... and now you have a problem. If you want the problem to go away, just un-break apart the pieces. QED.

(As Dewey said, "A problem well posed is half-solved." And sometimes doesn't even exist.)
I'd like to just use apt, it won't work for me. At least with Python, pip easily integrates virtualenv, which isn't true of yum or apt as far as I know. Plus, python devs can package once for pip and have it work on any system, without having to package separate deb, rpm, txz, etc. This strikes the balance of having too many package managers for devs to support and having too many package managers for me to use. I've made my peace with a single package manager per language plus apt for my OS.
essentially 14 Stanford and Carnegie Mellon guys

I'd love to be proved wrong, but I imagine that funding isn't going to last for too long with that many developers.

I'm making a social app right now, as it happens. I will never use an API that requires every user to buy a subscription to it- simple as that.
Is it any less? They are suffering beyond anything most Americans can conceive of. Should we strive to raise average grade testing 5 more points in an American inner city - or give some kind of education to a poor 3rd-worlder?

Our problems (if you're reading this site on a computer I include you) are 1st-world problems. Its easy to piss on somebody else making a real effort, sitting in a stuffed chair and snarfing cheetohs.
For those who don't follow this closely, from @MuscleNerd (of the gang-of-four): https://twitter.com/MuscleNerd/status/295964113270620160
You bet!

I'm trying to collect computers from that era. I have my own Atari 800XL, C64 and I recently found a Sinclair QL (kinda super hard to find at a reasonable price).

Didn't found any Oric-1 nor any Dragon 32/64 yet.

:-/
Testing Facebook Open Graph Search - just awesome navigation
I just updated my profile with a little bit of information.

The rest you can find with Google.
Google Play merchant changes - YES of COURSE
Email from Google Play:

Hello,

We are committed to providing you with a consistent and reliable payout experience while we introduce new forms of payment to better serve your users and create more revenue opportunities for you. In order to do so, we are shifting our payout date to 15 days after the month’s end.

Starting in February 2013, we will transition you to a schedule from being paid two days after the end of the month to 15 days after the end of the month. In an attempt to ease the transition, we will make two interim payments before you are completely shifted to the new payment schedule as follows:

- February 2nd: Payment for January sales
- February 15th: Payment for February 1 - 13 sales
- March 15th: Payment for February 14 - 28 sales
- April 15th: Payment for March sales

And every month after, you will also receive payment on the 15th.

We remain committed to offering a best in class marketplace for developers to sell their apps. These changes will allow us to ensure users can buy your apps and we can transmit payments to you in a reliable fashion.

If you have any questions, please contact Google Checkout Merchant team at http://support.google.com/checkout/sell/bin/request.py

Thank you for your continued support of Google Play.

Regards,
The Google Play Team

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How the hell do you improve my merchant experience by giving me my money 15 days later?
I don't disagree I just don't see how this means he could be "awsful". I think "awful" is an awfully sensational word for describing someone who is famous, playing on the radio, makes it to #1, and isn't even signed. Awful is me trying to rap.
This is great news.

The sooner TFS goes away, the better the world will be.

(No, seriously. There is one thing that VCS should never do: lose your changes. Ever. TFS does this in some specific circumstances. Yet, despite this, and the other problems with it, people continue to champion it and use it because of the tight VS integration. The sooner this stops happening, the better)
good luck buddy. pass.
what you had planned is irrelevant because business will be willing to pay for BES infrastructure for a while
I can't speak for the entire Office suite but the things happening in Excel are impressive. First, Excel 2013 has the PowerPivot engine built in. If you don't know about PowerPivot, it allows data analysis over very large data sets (think millions of rows). It has other features like pulling data from multiple sources, tabular data modeling, and others. Power View is another option that is now built into Excel 2013. And there are a bunch of plugins available like the Data Mining. They are throwing all of this into Excel for no additional cost.

You have Office 365 now, is that not something? You can get a hosted version of SharePoint now with it. Again, is this nothing?

Windows 8 has a new OneNote app available that has a very innovative interface. Again, no recognition on this?

Like I said, I don't know what's going on with the rest of the suite but I do not think this article is warranted.
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I suppose it's a matter of whether governments have the means to improve the lives of their citizens. The US certainly has the means to improve the welfare of its citizens if they spent less money on overseas wars.

Most African(and developing) countries are still reeling from the effect of with civil wars and centuries of European colonization. Whilst many Americans do suffer from misery and living way below the poverty line, at least they're not dying from famines en masse. So in this sense, yes. I would say it is nobler to help them than Americans.
Thank you. I have some ideas for you guys. KickStarter doesn't want to go the route of "being a store" and selling pre-sales. This is EXACTLY what a lot of us want and the direction I think you should go in.

In fact set it up in a way that makes Pre-Sales the main attraction. It would make things so much easier.

When I was running my ToDoCal kickstarter the biggest pain in the ass was trying to set up prizes and calculating the cost to fulfill them. Because kickstarter isn't set up like a store that accepts pre-sales I would have to double the cost of all my "prizes" so as to buffer the cost of fullfilling expensive orders. Shipping to Chicago would be $6, shipping to San Francisco was $10, international shipping was $16. But I can't charge different people different prices, so I had to forcing everyone to pay a higher price to keep it safe.

By designing Crowdhoster as a pre-sales store you can eliminate that completely. USPS shipping api's can calculate the exact cost each backer should pay down to the penny. You could offer your backers discounts based on bulk orders and have an idea of where your products are going so you can design packaging to be more efficient.

Basically make a pre-sales store with minimum order requirements where anyone can place orders and their card is charged only when the minimum order is reached after X amount of time.
What is the general feeling about out-of-area applicants to something like this? I would be very interested in attending one of these (can't make this one), but I live in Dallas. I would be applying as an individual.
Very true regarding workstations.

Although when the bottom dropped out of Sun workstation market, resellers started dumping stock and end users started stock piling.

I was slap bang in the middle making cash. I made enough to buy a new Land Rover Defender in a week :)

Gone are those days :(
No, you miss the point. The idea is that if, say, Rails were signed, someone wiht an exploit couldn't attack rubygems to _modify rails_ without it being discovered, because they wouldn't be able to sign their modified rails.

The point of signing gems is not that any signed gem is neccesarily trustworthy. It's that any signed gem is neccesarily what the signature owner distributed, and has not been modified by someone else since.

But to make that so requires a bunch of things, it's not quite as simple as 'everyone just has to sign their gems'. But that's the idea.
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This is just what it does: You shoot a result and it will be displayed and be added to your score-list.

(Please mind the parody on stepwise disclosure: Hit once to see the rank, hit twice for the originating host, and finally hit a third time to reveal the abstract and to add this item to your score. So each asteroid has a result item associated to it and you will see results in the order as you shoot them. You may click the scores' title to re-order them by rank.)