skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, IDEs, when used correctly do help with getting better architecture. Refactoring tools and dependency analysis are there for some reason. How often do you get the right architecture the first time? Seriously, I almost always get it wrong and I have to refactor. If there were no easy way to do it, it would just stay like that and technical debt would accumulate up to the point where you'd have sloppy, huge interfaces with 100s of little functions (little functions are in fact OK; huge functions are the real pain).
Not handling ## directive would not be a big loss
They suck at JS but...

Modifying what is served to users and the fact that they ISPs can technically enforce things such as x-strikes means that we're just that close to disrupting major botnets.

All it takes is one major ISP to start serving pages saying: "You're computer is infected with a virus / trojan. If you take no measure to remove it in x days we'll cut your Internet access. (click here to know more)".

It's not fool proof but it potentially could ruin the botnet industry.
Thank you for the princing clarification. I missed that, my bad.
Fair enough. Most of my recent readings have been in the founding of civil rights law in the 1960s, so pre-second wave(?). Problem is, I can't make that fit into the 1st/2nd/3rd wave view.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-wave_feminism says the movement started in the early 1960s, and that first wave ended when women were enfranchised in the early 1900s.

But the Civil Rights act of 1963 had decades of work behind it. The National Woman's Party, which was the militant branch of the Suffrage Movement, started pushing for the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923 and "the Republican Party endorsed the ERA in its 1940 platform, and the Democratic Party followed suit in 1944." (Quoting from http://www.jofreeman.com/lawandpolicy/titlevii.htm ). The Equal Pay Act also has its roots in the 1800s.

It feels then like 40 years of work towards gender equality in the workplace - including the inroads made during WWII by seeing that women can definitely hold jobs in industry - are ignored by the three-wave view of history, and that the successes of that ignored era are claimed solely as 2nd wave victories.

In any case, that's neither here nor there. It's idle musing that I wrote down so it's easier to come to mind next time I talk with someone who can tell me about the history of feminism.
"Good code" that delivers a lot of value and is high quality and maintainable is still better!

I'm not jealous. They don't make more than me. I said they make more than you. And I'm not hating—I'm just telling it exactly like it is, because I understand it, and it's insane, like the truth tends to be when you have huge amounts of power and money being controlled by puny incompetent humans.
I guess what I'm getting at is if he can't pay the electric bill today, if I finally get around to reading his 5th culture novel in 2015 that's unfortunately going to be a bit too late to help him out. So he's better off if I buy a copy today even if I don't read it for awhile. On the other hand if he's very "comfortable" then there's little point in my accelerating my purchase. I'm enough of a fan to have read and liked some books but not enough of a fan to have crawled up into his financial life, for all I know he's the richest author in the UK. I just don't want him to have to eat canned dogfood like PKD supposedly had to.
WTF? AT&T’s profane-password ban lets some swears through
Sort of. I think HN is where you come to talk to other smart people about a topic. A blog's comment section is where you communicate directly with the author and a much broader, more random group of people. The latter is hit or miss with regards to quality but sometimes people surprise you.
The cell damage inflicted by the cryo process is readily acknowledged by its proponents. They argue that the neurological damage is not so large that the original brain can't be reconstructed either by scanning it while still frozen or by repairing it with nano-bots. Much like data from a wiped hard drive can still be recovered by digital forensics.

As for the problem of outer layers freezing faster than inner layers, I think this is mostly addressed by filling the brain with anti-freeze first.

Now, I'm rather skeptical of the whole process myself, but the crynoics guys understand biology 101.
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"we charged your credit card without your permission so we will keep the money and continue charging you unless you tell us to stop" - lol WUT?
As long as you are not putting some shady redirects, I think you should put some affiliate links. People will buy it for the same price, the difference is that you get a cut for the trouble :)
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so using 3d/scenegraph/scripting engine for 3d and twisted (python networking engine) for networking. What's so special about that? Unity doesn't work on linux btw.
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The cellphone is 40 years old today
I was working as a radio presenter at the time this song was around, and I remember it getting on our playlist - I played it a few times. I remember it being trailed as a "YouTube sensation" on the little cheat sheet of artist notes that accompanies the new music playlist.

Next time the playlist was issued by our Head of Music, it had disappeared. Usually, we kept a current song on the playlist for 3-4 weeks at least. It was highly unusual for a track to disappear after a week! The only other songs I can remember with such a short shelf life were novelty / charity / Christmas type records which lasted a fortnight or so before dropping off as public attention drifted elsewhere.
>>follow traditional inflation and not disproportionately reward early adopters

Otherwise it will, too, reduce to a currency of the geeks, by the geeks and for the geeks.
Of course not, the important thing is that they understand and respect the complexity of the situation they live in, and understand how to think about it—not what to think about it, but how.
Is anyone else also getting a 404...
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They fixed it: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-is...
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Wow, they just skip all the pretense and add a "show full pr-text" button.
Exactly. Tax the negative externality [1]. Let people make decisions factoring in more of the costs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
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It is a fascinating article, but one also has to consider the timing - there is a huge pile of ill will heaped upon Google these days (due partly to the Reader shutdown) and a well-placed articled in WIRED to please the geeks out there smells like a PR effort on the part of Google to claw back some of its good name.
One should note that we already get 250GB/s peak on the GDDR5 used in NVIDIA Tesla K20x. Intel claims 320GB/s peak for the fastest MIC. What is claimed in this article is not that new then. From experience with tesla, you can usually expect about 70% of the peak bandwidth (and using Intel MIC with conventional x86 codebases it tends to be less, but that's second hand knowledge).
There are various laundering schemes, and there's nothing stopping you using new wallets constantly.

But yes, in effect, every transaction is traceable and public, AFAICT.
If that's what you have, your options are presumably use them, or run out and get a dozen iPhones. I know which I'd go for.
"…destroyed by the early Christians in 6AD" — there's something wrong with that statement.

Edit: according to http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/gate-to-hell-f..., it was in the 6th century AD.
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> mining could have constant difficulty, so that the cost of a million CPU cycles in this currency would be more-or-less constant

As I understand it, in Bitcoin the difficulty goes up so that the rate at which new coins are mined stays pretty much the same. The issue though is that each of the different mining architectures (CPU, GPU, FPGA, ASIC) can do a magnitude more amount of work than the previous could. As such the difficulty goes up, so now there is the problem that unless you've got the fastest hardware you probably aren't going to get anything (as a solo miner anyway). If the rate at which they were mined was kept constant I'd guess all Bitcoins would have already been mined - in that case you'd still have the early adopter problem, but magnified even more.
Fair enough (regarding the title).

As I wrote, what you saw here is typical of most volunteer-based project. There's not enough people working on a project to cover all of the details, and those people tend to do the things that interest them. Reviewing others' patches is low on the list, unless it's something which involves them directly.

It's likely that you'll get similar responses in other projects. As I wrote, there are ways around it. Mostly be putting a lot more effort into helping the project before you demand things from people. Again, I point out that a couple of my bug reports are 10 years old, and still getting infrequent attention.

Another way to say this is that if you're the person who wants so much attention or quick feedback, then you're not the type of person who would do well in a volunteer-driven, distributed project. But there are other volunteers who are a better fit, and the Django team doesn't know how to specify which type they are looking for.

In any case, the response email wasn't scolding.
This reminds me of an interesting article I read about Doctors being more likely to refuse cancer treatment - on the knowledge of trading quality of life for a shorter period rather than hanging on for longer.

http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/08/06/how-doctors-die...
The downside: lower security (tradeoff for confirmation speed).
given nearly every country has some form of gambling regulation, someone certainly thinks their values, with regards to gambling, should be imposed on the masses, yes.

Given that Zynga has hired skinnerian behaviorists, and that they optimize their games by the effect on their bottom line (not entertainment value), I expect more than a few single mothers to spend their money on empty facebook thrills to the detriment of family life and the UK in general.
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Hi founder here - Hopefully the github page does a decent job explaining how it all works. If not, I can answer any questions you guys have.
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observation: companies get big and successful if the founder is not driven by money, but by the desire to be right (and prove it to others).

however, this does not mean that every companies main goal needs to be to get big. if you're driven by other desires, your style of business will follow. be aware of what you want, visualize it, this makes it far less frustrating.
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Thirty centuries from now I can imagine someone boarding a starship:

'I am the Iain (M) Banks,' the ship said, through the drone.

'That's a weird name. How did you end up calling yourself that?'

The remote drone dipped one front corner slightly, its equivalent of a shrug. 'It's a long story . . .'
No they understand how to fleece gullible people.
Or by doing the actual medical research that will fix these problems. Seriously, not everything is solved by money - most is fixed by smart people figuring stuff out. If all the smart people spend their time trying to make money, who is going to do the research?
Show HN: A Ton of OpenSource iOS Sketch.app Templates
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Sorry, but there is a lot of assumption and ignorance in reply to your comment.

1. Modern supportive care means that chemotherapy does not involve constant vomiting, pain and torment. Some patients work and look after their family in between having chemotherapy. For example, in a large study on the efficacy of chemotherapy in biliary tract cancers including gallbladder cancer the rates of severe vomiting were only 5% (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0908721). And when it does happen, it doesn't go on for 'months'.

2. If you shrink the cancer people feel better ie treatment can improve quality of life, that's why we do it.

3. Some cancers are indolent. This means that people can live for a long time with them, whether they have treatment or not. See Stephen Jay Gould's essay for example (http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html)

4. Participating in clinical trials is a standard part of cancer management. You don't have to be famous to receive experimental therapies if you want them.

Having said all that, chemotherapy IS primitive and doesn't work as well as it should, and hopefully we won't still be using the same stuff we are now in 50 years. But it can help people, and trying it is not crazy or hopeless, and an extra couple of months might mean a lot to a particular individual.
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New Hybrid Memory Cube spec to boost DRAM bandwidth by 15X
There is one thing that I don't understand:

> The RSA signature was located, and the signed data is a PKCS#1 1.5 encoded hash value. Older processor models use a 160-bit digest (SHA1), and newer process models use a 256-bit digest (SHA2).

Why is it assumed that any random 160-bits digest is SHA1 and any random 256-bits digest SHA-256? I don't know all Merkle-Damgard hashing algorithms by heart, but are SHA-1 and SHA-256 the only ones using 512-bits blocks and 160/256-bit digest lengths?
This is the Internet. We take other people's code even more seriously :-)
It is just different enough to be separately viable at the same time; the blockchains are incompatible down to the hash level. Second it rewards people with lots of hardware and not specialized hardware, which is where Bitcoin is going crazy right now, because a few players have got their hands on something that the rest of the network won't have for some weeks or months to come (ASIC).

ASIC miners for bitcoin are not viable for litecoin because the litecoin scrypt hashing process is memory dependent, not CPU-bound like bitcoin / SHA256. My information comes not from any technical expertise but from interpreting what I'm told by people who have done more research than me.

Maybe someone could explain better?
End of life for three Ubuntu editions on 9 May
one aspect is speed. every ide i've tried is orders of magnitude slower at startup, and switching from 1 big codebase to another quickly is something I can't do without.
Namecoin (Bitcoin powered DNS)
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Secure boot has nothing to do with it, you have to drag non-technical people kicking and screaming to do something as simple as switching their browser from IE. It's a minor inconvenience for the people that will actually be doing the work.
Google jukes the stats
HMC Consortium Gains Consensus for Final Specification Hybrid Memory Cube
Hah, there are tens of millions of professional developers out there. The majority of them use Windows and don't have a C++ compiler installed. Look outside the bubble ;)
I'd rather subsidize technology that's going to make our lives more sustainable in the future, than continue to cover the externalities for gas driving car owners.
I had just moved my blog to a new host. I had done an import of my blog using the Wordpress plugin instead of just exporting the entire database to help clean things up.

I forgot to install the gist plugin so my blog post no longer contained the code. I also had 3 different domains serving the same blog due to a misconfiguration with Nginx which caused my blog to take a temporary hit on Google.

I've since addressed those things so hopefully those will make my post actually appear in a google search.
Another reason to use an SSH tunnel or VPN for all traffic, combined with HTTPS Everywhere.
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Do you have to be a jackass in order to be legendary?
Is there a crypto coin that doesn't need to be mined ? Say, one coin = $1 USD and would still benefit from anonymity those coins provide ?

edit: for those who reply with 'the 1 dollar coin is worth 1 dollar', well, actually you can't buy online anonymously with it, like on the silkroad. You don't benefit from internet payements like you do have with bitcoins.

The question would be : is that possible to have a virtual currency indexed on a fiat currency that would have the same benefits of the cryto ones we are using ?
What if you'd limit coins by time instead of cycles? You'd still need some crypto magic to keep people from playing with time, but in general, most people agree what the time is.
How did it go? I'm curious to hear what did (and didn't) work.
Yes, I had to read the description on HN to actually understand what it does so this is a good suggestion.
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You don't care who owns all the gold by which was all the currency once backed.. why would you care who generated bitcoins? This might be a very sloppy comparison since I have no idea how gold-currency worked, but my point stands. Bitcoin shouldn't be about mining, it's about exchange (for goods and services, not dollars). It really doesn't matter from your perspective how the coins were once mined. You just acquire them (as you acquire money now) and spend them. That's all. Yes, there are and will be people who made fortunes out of this scheme. But that should not affect you.
Mozilla and Epic join forces for powerful browser gaming
As someone who just started mining litecoin on a mid range CPU about 10 days ago and has scene my payout per day decrease as the price has spiked I agree.
I imagine there's a startup opportunity to start making lower denomination coins for consumers. Anyone interested? Where would you get custom coins manufactured?
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I see that too, and the open again behaviour is flaky in Chrome as well - the label switches to say "See More on Github" but the instructions still tell you that's the toggle button, and the link to "Open it again" (which actually toggles) is covered by the overlay but still active.
I can't help it but feel that the current boom in P2P-currencies is not healthy.

1) There are some people out there sitting on fortunes in *coin. If and when they sell, the boom goes bust

2) If that does not happen, or even if it happens for some time, the future of a currency with no inflation seems to be limited - as long as there is any interest by merchants, it will always gain against fiat money. This upward pressure makes those currencies fight with gold for the role of a long-term asset but makes them impractical as a day-to-day trading vehicle.

Remember the 10,000 BTC pizza? That pizza would now be worth $1.4M - this is absurd and even if we switch to micro-BTC, such a trend leads to hoarding, not spending.

A P2P-currency with a built-in Tobin tax or demurrage would be more interesting.

edited out the factor of 100 in the pizza.
No, it doesn't really matter. Each of the Culture novels is basically standalone. They occasionally reference events amongst each other, but more in an "this is an interesting story too" manner.
Punchline of old joke:

Hitting engine with hammer - $1

Knowing where to hit engine with hammer - $9999
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> Have 2+ instances of the same network

It's different network where mining is done with different algorithms. As far as I know hardware for bitcoins is useless for litecoin (and vice versa).
I am a math Ph.D. student, and one of my professors went straight to Princeton after 3 years of college without his degree. He impressed a Princeton professor enough to have him offer a position there, which he could apparently do. My professor took the offer, not only because it was fantastic in its own right, but also because he only took math courses as an undergrad, and getting his bachelor's degree would have meant taking a year of humanities -- a nightmare!

This isn't that strange. A lot of universities are private institutions, so they can accept whom they please.
>340 MB is heavy? What are you coding on? A netbook?

I take it that you haven't tried coding on Visual Studio? Just because you have the memory, it doesn't mean that you should be using as much memory as you can.

> I work on some really huge projects in IntelliJ Idea, sometimes 3 or more at the same time and it never needed more than 512 MB of heap

That's because that amount is set as the maximum heap size. If any more memory is required, the disk swapping becomes heavier and heavier. Have a look at your idea.vmoptions file to see what the maximum allowable usage is set for your install.

> most of the C++ editors you mentioned don't support them to such extent, or sometimes at all

They don't support it for C or C++ due to inherent limitations in the compilation of the language - not because they are unable to do so! Visual Studio does all of what you've mentioned for languages which compile to an IL code (i.e those that rely on the .NET framework) with great ease.
I think the term you're looking for is "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics"
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Thanks for the info. You're right, I'll rewrite my comment to be more relevant.
Two of my favorite authors now... Three if you count that some people consider K.J. Parker to be a pseudonym of Iain (M) Banks.

My two favorites of his I think will always be Use of Weapons and Look to Windward. Coincidentally, I just started re-reading Excession last night.
Ask HN: What are the newest jobs you know of?
My brother works as a Graphic Facilitator, a job/discipline that did not seemingly exist before 2008 (according to google):

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=graphic%20facilitation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_facilitation

I also recently heard about the field of Knowledge Mobilisation, seemingly born in 2010:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=knowledge%20mobilization

http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/mar/09/introduction-to-knowledge-mobilisation

I find this fascinating, and am curious to find more, so I put this to the brilliant people of Hacker News:

What are the newest jobs/disciplines that you know of?
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nice to see this initiative in country Like Pakistan
Well, without a caveat the advice is plain wrong in 99% cases, since that caveat changes the advice completely.