skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I could probably sit in a public library, pinning Amazon links a few hours a day and earn enough to get by."

--Really? I would have assumed that mTurk would have dropped the floor on this type of work.
One would expect that supply and demand would not increase together for any significant period of time.

Why would one expect that? The demand is increasing, and given the fact that the supply is increasing at a much slower rate, then it's quite normal for the value to increase.

That being said, I don't know what caused the "sudden" (few weeks) increase from $14 to $18, as I don't read about Bitcoin that often. But I do expect the value to keep rising as more companies start adopting Bitcoin payments and more people then get interested in it. And I also expect Bitcoin to remain relatively volatile at least until its market value is counted in billions or tens of billions of dollars, when each individual transaction will have a much smaller impact on its value, in either direction.
Similarly: https://github.com/search?q=token+.gitconfig&type=Code&#...
Writing code can be fun.

Writing code professionally should be serious.

These are not mutually exclusive points.
Because now you have ten times as many resistant bacteria going out into the world. They are marginally less resistant but they are still resistant, and you have so many more of them.
Hey arcatek ... a few things

1) you'll have to forgive our US-centricity. The page is choking on the special character, so sorry for getting your name wrong. awkward. Our support team forwarded the ticket to our design team. fix in process.

2) we have an unusually high amount of traffic today due to the HN mention, so imports are taking longer than normal. Your twitter data will show up. promise. thanks for the patience.

3) We didn't have Pikwik on the roadmap but I've just added it so it's on the product team's radar.

Thanks for checking us out.
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That's cool. Part of the reason I asked is that I haven't even disclosed my email, let alone name, on HN.

re:family - my family is (unfortunately) well aware of aware that this would be a scam, having spent too much time with health services. Also, the fact that I wasn't raised in the US puts me at a distinct advantage here :)

But your point is well taken: some intellius&friends, some social engineering, and you get what you want.
I'm not sure why you wouldn't expect supply and demand to increase together. It's been happening for things like tablets and smartphones for years now. In the case of bitcoin, supply obviously increases due to mining, and demand increases probably for several reasons (it's getting easier to use and accepted at more places, more people are finding out about it, etc.).
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> Dial down your indignation, friend: help us get rid of this reek.

I agree with you and gave you an upvote. Maybe my comments do make me look like a "tosser" - but these people were behaving like bullies, plain and simple. And man, I can't stand that shit. I see it every day. People will go out of their way to make others feel miserable. Or they use their power/standing/influence to pick a fight with someone weaker just because they can.
I'm curious to see what Joe thinks about Go.
The author declares that well-formed HTML can be recognized with a CFG, but it's far from clear to me whether that's the case. It's almost certainly not true for HTML5.
That's a fair point, I would note though that when Loeb hit #1 it was as part of a movie soundtrack that (with all due respect to Loeb) she probably would not have been included on if she wasn't friends with Ethan Hawke. She then went out and got signed to release her debut album.

This isn't entirely unique, but I do think it's a product of changing technology/culture which is interesting and novel in many ways.
Text messages are normally limited to 160 English characters, or fewer from other languages. I thought that was actually where the Twitter limit came from originally.
You've got it all wrong. First, it's the OP who wants to bully (browbeat) people, not me. When someone says, "Why do we tolerate [insert behavior that is neither illegal nor unethical]?" the implication is that "something should be done" about the "bad" behavior, i.e., the "offender" should be coerced into changing their behavior. That's a reasonable definition of bullying. Second, walking away from someone who is not a positive influence on your life is not "[running] away from conflict". It's only when you can't walk away that there's even a conflict to begin with. Sure, the developer could tell Linus that he needs to chill out, but the implied end of that sentence is "...or I'm out of here." anyway.
Cool! Thank you. I'll look into that!
Thank you very much. We're really looking forward to other people using this tool.

You raise some interesting points (for example, a frequently changing code), which we ran into as well. Our current approach to it is not as fundamental, and basically includes ability to force re-build any target and everything down the tree and methods, and you can also add your binaries as a step's dependency.

I'm sure as we and other people use the tool, we'll have better ideas. For example, Drake could automatically sense that the step's definition has changed and offer to rebuild or dismiss.

Other points you raised are also definitely worth thinking about.
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at this early stage in the bitcoin game, the price is much more affected by supply-demand of the currency than inflation of the USD.
Don't use link shorteners outside of twitter. This works better:

https://www.google.com/search?q=BEGIN+RSA+PRIVATE+KEY&as...
> Because he is suggesting that "someone said someone else's code was bad" is a more pressing and concerning issue than "the federal government threatened to destroy the life of a young man and drove him to suicide over a trivial non-offense".

As someone once said to me: I can't imagine how someone could make an honest, good-faith attempt at communications and come to that conclusion.

What pg said, albeit more politely, is that calling out federal prosecutors for lacking sympathy when you don't exhibit any yourself is rank hypocrisy.
Your opinion is no more than empty rhetoric.

A working implementation is better than nothing.

SQLite is public domain for Asimov sake!

Everyone can step up and fix it if it has problems, much easier than whatever you propose.

In fact, what you propose is a standard in the spirit of XHTML, with lots of text and good intentions and no practical use.
This is correct and I guess when I titled the article "reactive text generation from markdown" I implied it should be some kind of new markdown language, which is not what I want.

>The point is simplifying the writing of interactive documents

Yes.
Depends on what the project is. If I'm building a web app, then Ruby or Python. A mobile app is Java (android). A local script that does not need to be blazing fast or light is done with Python. If I need to deal with a lot of text then Perl. And I just want to get something done and have fun with it then Common Lisp.
This is kind of like saying you won't invest in Facebook or Google or Apple until their price stabilizes. Either it's worth it to you or it's not. Stability is overrated in a world where pricing updates can be automated. If you're concerned about exchange rate risk, what you do is keep your funds in a more stable asset (like USD) but ready to be converted. Put a small amount of USD in an exchange and you'll be able to buy when you want to without this exchange rate risk.
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Redo lacks features baked into Drake, especially the Hadoop integration, but I believe it would be easier to incorporate custom functionality into redo versus hacking Make or writing a custom build system. I haven't used Drake, so I would be interested in a small but complicated Drake script which tackles an intractable problem in Make. I don't claim redo can provide a cleaner solution than a purpose-built system, but I think it will be unexpectedly simple.
My College Experiment: Building a drone with financial aid money

You should have talked to someone before saying this. IIRC, financial aid is to be used in very specific ways.
I know Github banned bots, but I don't think it would be unreasonable to write one to warn all these users.
A lot of companies do org-wide MITM CA keys, so just hitting one Barracuda box, stealing the CA key, etc. lets you attack all of that organization's users everywhere.

Generally if you're targeting a specific organization, that's what you care about, anyway. You're not hacking into random companies to build a botnet; you're going after a specific organization to gain some economic or intelligence/military benefit.

I don't know what important organizations use Barracuda, though. It's generally SME-focused. Might be some interesting law firms and other organizations with sensitive data belonging to larger organizations, though.
I'm curious. What do you think the going rate for a bank robbery should be? Assuming that a weapon was plainly visible, but not fired? 30 years? 40?
Good to hear that, now we need to implement the same in US. Btw, any links that point to the exact qualifications for this visa?
But that's obviously not true. The value of bitcoins has changed wildly, independent of inflation in the dollar.

For instance, the dollar hasn't lost half it's value over the past year. Your rent hasn't doubled. Your grocery bill hasn't doubled. Your salary hasn't doubled. But the value of a bitcoin has: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg360ztgSzm1g10zm2g...
It's not illegal, but I am of the opinion it is utterly wrong, but that's another discussion for another day.
I tend to think that if someone is willing to pay $250k for permanent residence, they should be allowed to do so. I mean, most immigration laws are against the poor and uneducated, and not the rich guys who are bringing their wealth and knowledge to a country.

edit: the focus is not on the amount, it can be whatever amount the government sees fit (e.g. $800k as mentioned below). I just don't see any problem that the wealthy ones can buy a residence / "retirement plan" / whatever you name it.
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I'm using this js sprintf library: http://www.diveintojavascript.com/projects/javascript-sprint...
Exactly what @tomjen3 said.

Even if you have a plastic toy you spray painted black, that's the same thing as having one in the chamber. The teller still thinks s/he is going to die.
Honestly I'm not suggesting anything. All I'm saying is that this contract is optional. People can buy full price and say fuck-you to the contract. In fact I have gotten iPhones cheaper from AT&T by buying locked and immediately buying out the contract than buying unlocked from Apple.
That's not bullying. Bullying involves some sort of threat or intimidation, or at least the desire to hurt or humiliate. Telling someone that you think their opinion is wrong and that they're up in arms over nothing is not a threat, nor must it be done with the intent to hurt or humiliate.
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Granted they have a highly technical product, but it's also really cool to think that they have loads of devs, and not a single manager. jealous
The word "bullying" implies repetition. And that's not the only aspect missing from its definition in his posting.
This guy needs to stop being a pansy and grow some balls.

Oh noes! Someone on the internet doesn't like my work! My world is over!

What are you, a little girl? Nine, maybe ten years old. I'm seeing pigtails and a frilly skirt.

Get over it dude. It's impossible to make everyone happy. haters are going to hate. No need to make a big deal about it.
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----- I want to fight this -----

HN, my brother is just about to relaunch an unlocking site I made in 2002 (mockup here: http://j.mp/WRfm6A).

I really want to help him fight this ruling.

I'm guessing that petitioning the librarian is the best idea. Any ideas or thoughts on how to go about this would be very, very much appreciated.

And if anyone's willing to help, email me (email in profile).
Is it the same in all devices? Is it ever changed? How many people know it?
> There was no real interface before 2000.

Yes there was. This invalidates your whole post.
Seems to be trolling. I find that refusal to link to a claimed source in the face of requests to do so almost always corresponds to trolling. Also

There's actually a mathematical proof out there that no regular expression engine will safely extract from all broken HTML

seems like it has to be false unless it's much more qualified.
I commute by bus, with the most skilled of drivers who somehow manage to travel at freeway speeds with standing passengers without killing them all. But trying to work on a moving vehicle is an unpleasant experience. I really can't do anything more productive than a phone call or reading.

I don't think there's anything inherent in a self-driving car that causes it to have a smooth ride with minimal sensation of movement like a train or plane, it's more a property of the road.
> While I would believe you over many other people because of who you are and what you do...

Thanks for the sentiment, but on legal grounds for end users I'm quite often not the most knowledgable ;P. In particular, I don't like travelling internationally, and I now actively avoid it, so I also tend to know less about how things work in other countries than more reasonable people. I work with some people here, however (who are asleep currently) that have spent a bunch of time researching the landscape of international law with regards to jailbreaking, but they probably themselves only focussed on "citizen of that country in that country".

What I will say I tend to know more about than average is "stuff that affects myself and my friends", but the reality is that as an end user of these tools, you really aren't ever going to be prosecuted: I thereby would tend to care more about "what if someone took a trip to a conference in Germany, built an unlocking tool with some friends there, and released it while abroad?", and for that situation I can dig up enough to make it sound sketch (although the extent to which DMCA exemptions help people who provide tools is at least in question).
retries and email notifications is a good one. Currently I do something similar with cronjobs, rsync, shell scripts and some custom tools -- on multiple boxes. (Email notification with mailx) Works in theory pretty well, in practice race conditions become a problem, making it sometimes annoying because I need to run things manually when I need up to date processed data. If I had retries, this would be an improvement.
Documentary filmed just before Thrift Shop blew up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JErUzr8GSvU&t=10m14s

That link skips to the point where Macklemore and Ryan Lewis explain why they have stayed independent. They talk about record deals the exact same way startups talk about raising capital.
Stuff just goes up in January, people are optimistic. https://ssl1.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-stock-prices... Markets aren't rational. I bought in December & exited about a week ago on this strategy.

I think short term (1-3 years) there is a real issue with liquidity in the Bitcoin market (moving between currencies) & acceptance. I suspect to see a dip dropping below November prices March-July as people need access to cash later in the year (due to January optimism wearing & credit bills to pay) and in the process of trying to make liquid their bitcoin reserves discover the problems with liquidity, which have to do with shady exchanges: causing further dip. In person cash transactions are best at this stage, but require effort. Bitcoin has solid value though and isn't going anywhere.

Basically: what places that do accept bitcoin for currency are shady and uncertain, and few accept for goods.
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There are major semantic disagreements between Go and Erlang, and I would consider it somewhat dangerous to try to attach them too closely together like this. For one, the fact that Erlang messages are fundamentally asynchronous and Go messages synchronous (or buffered, but in Erlang terms, that still basically synchronous, just with weirder semantics); the inability to constrain message order coming from Erlang and going into Go is just asking for deadlocks if your Go servers are anything other than RPC servers (ie, one message in leads to precisely one message out, guaranteed, and no other channel communication within that handler). For another, Erlang messages are untyped and Go channels are typed, not to mention Erlang's type system and Go's don't really get along either. It's nice to hook them up like this, but I suspect in practice this is going to prove surprisingly less useful that hooking the two together across a protocol that carries a lot less semantics in it, like any existing messaging server. You're going to end up with that semantic translation layer on the Go side anyhow.
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just a note: Lua is basically a very cleaned up version of Javascript. if their APIs were the same you could practically do a literal transcription between them and most programs would run with little alteration. that includes things like object literals (lua tables).

example:

(function(a, b) { return a * b; })(1) //valid javascript (NaN)
(function(a, b) return a * b end)(1) //valid lua (runtime error)
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Knowing not much about network appliances and their role etc., when you're building a company, starting from scratch, are there good rule of thumb to not fall for the "enterprisey compromisey" piece of junk that such companies (Huawei -- state-sponsored espionnage-- ZTE, Barracuda, etc.) do sell?

Is there anything you can do to be at least a little bit safe?

Are there vendors that still value security or is it just accepted now that MITM and state-sponsored attacks are a normal way of operating?
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I'm guilty of conjuring up a regex to scrape image links every now and then

Any idea how to supersede that temptation? That is, what's wrong with the HTML-processing tool/sublanguage that makes regexes attractive instead? (For me, it's that I don't need to scrape HTML quite often enough to want to learn to use what's available. I'm probably irrationally lazy.)
When you run it. It tells you, "you're the fuckin' best, you da fuckin' best."
I experience this same issue a couple of times a month as well. I happen to have a few plugins that I use in GMAIL (Xobni/Tout/Base etc) so I assumed that might be part of the problem? Are you running Gmail clean or do you have a similar situation?
@phildub You should take it down, before Amazon sue your ass! IMO Unoriginal but creative
Locked phones go to landfills. Unlocked ones keep doing good when you donate or sell them.

You don't want to put all of those dangerous chemicals in the ground next to your drinking water source because of some silly "lobbyist-law" do you?
I too have tried to understand Bitcoin. Perhaps I just don't understand the basic economic principles that are important for Bitcoins. Perhaps I'm just not trusting of it or that the money I put into the system would not just disappear - but if they want mass adoption then people certainly need to be better educated regarding it all.
I do work with these everyday (JS HTML CSS) but the JS I write is basic and can't really be considered proper JS (in my opinion). I think you are right and I could give it a go... probably do a Win8 App and get the grips on JavaScript and then move towards a functional language (like Haskell or Lisp as someone else suggested).
I consider this to be an instance of the old adage (Mar's law) that "everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat marker".

Edit: fixed a typo.
I suppose, if you want to blame them for making use of on open-source code released by a third-party software vendor that was happy enough to release it under the GPLv2, but not happy to allow arbitrary changes to the license terms controlled by the whims of the FSF in rewriting licenses in the future, and who has no interest in relicensing now under the GPLv3, with or without an "or any later" clause.
At least facebook and google and apple have liquidity. All bitcoin has in that regard is a bot on mtgox that makes large fake bids and then moves them 50 cents cheaper if the market actually reaches that price.
Even if your you manager supports the idea, if it crosses over into other managers areas they may resent the change. And if you have a stack rank review system those other managers can kill your review. I've seen it happen.
Dude, YOU have no idea what you're talking about. I'm talking about C, the language, not what one particular implementation gives you. AFAIK, C11 doesn't have a 128-bit int type, so how do you get the full result of 64x64 bit multiply? How do you access the carry flag? The overflow flag? Etc.
I'm wondering if it's just a delayed result from Halving Day, in which case it should stabilize around $20 or so. But who knows.
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i wish some major computer company would release an easy-to-use plug and play server product that would enable consumers to run their own mail servers on cheap hardware, just by toggling a switch

just imagine... no ads, no privacy concerns, complete control.

if they were smart they would include some sort of automatic backup program that runs in the background and saves everything every once in a while, a backup that could be restored with a click of a button... like going back in time ... like a .....
Omitting the "or later" option does NOT make the license of the project stuck in time and unable to react to future legal challenges.

It just means that the owners of the project copyright are the ones who decide how the licensing of the project will change over time. This is not short sighted. It is the best way to ensure that they can keep their code free. If you adopt the "or later" option, you are letting your code be forked under the terms of whatever license the FSF decides to attach the name "GPL" to. The FSF has already shown that they are willing to back away from free software by adopting the non-free AGPL (it does not satisfy freedom 0). Why believe that they won't compromise future versions of regular GPL, too?

By omitting the "or later" option, the project owners can take a look at each future version of GPL, and decide if it is still free and meeting their concerns and requirements, and then update their license if appropriate.
It's not quite as simple as your making it out to be. It would be reasonable to ban any and all use of antibiotics on livestock for any reason. If instead of an outright ban you dramatically increased the cost you get similar benefits and still allow for edge cases.

PS: There is a finite amount of discoverable antibiotics FOR ALL TIME. Without a long term replacement or human extinction any and all systimatic use of antibiotics on animals will lead to significant human casualties (as in millions to billions of human lives.) Granted most of these people have not been born yet but it's way more important than a lot of other hot button issues.
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