skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be noted, of course, that Citizens United itself was a hit-piece on Hilary Clinton. Is that really the kind of thing everyone wants to suppress?
It's still possible to circumvent this by creating a one-liner using semicolons. Just grab a code like [2] and append `; rm -rf` to the selection. If the original selection was a one-liner, it'll still be.

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/4777746/
This doesn't make any sense. You could just mail out links to each person and get the same data (IP, geolocation). Usernames themselves leak much more info.
FYI, I visited on a multi-day pass (4 days this last week). I didn't rush home to post, in fact, I did it on my last night after packing for home so I wouldn't lose the motivation and things were still fresh in my mind.

Also, the front line staff was pretty clueless (IMO). I was told it's for our 'guest's convenience'. However, I didn't really engage in a deep discussion with them because my family was waiting to have the fun I promised.
App Is Not Enough: Why We Might See More Mobile Land Grabs After Facebook Home
What about gender neutral students? They are increasing numbers. I have friends who don'tcare some times if it's for girls or boys.
Most devices that launched with Android 3.x have been upgraded to Android 4.0.
> What does LCK being white have to do with anything?

Even though in this context, absolutely nothing, Louis C.K. has discussed being white in his stand-up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY (NSFW audio)

Interpretations vary, of course. I think he's underhandedly criticizing the discussion of white privilege; other people who saw that special with me disagreed.
Best-selling business books
the general concept of this UI (besides the spherical part) is similar to that of a site I'm freelancing on right now.

It even has some of the same hotkeys :)

it's for girls only though...
http://www.stunable.com
Or -Ofast
Sure, but also notice how they never (in history) tried to control your dollars in such a manner.

If they had set their mind to do just that, I bet they would succeed. For one: forbid all cash, arrest at once anyone using or accepting it (or any self issued barter system) and only allow credit cards and e-money.
> I have friends who don'tcare some times if it's for girls or boys.

Then they just browse both.
You can see similar stuff on http://sta.sh/muro/

(Draw a bit, then play with the "filters" menu. There's also the ability to import other images as layers, but you'd have to sign up for an account to try that, so it's a bit more hassle just for playing with it.)
Do not let the user interface fool you. Bloomberg is about as "advanced" a trading information system as you can get. Its main competitor, Reuters, is also no better looking and often used simultaneously. Together they sew up most of the trading information market, 60%+.

A trader will also have a third application/screen for trade input into their firms systems.

Bloomberg terminal was designed for non-computer users back in the 80s and the whole physical layout, especially the Bloomberg keyboard, is a part of the design. The emphasis is on speed of access by keyboard, consistency, information liveliness and responsiveness.

It also means, that Bloomberg can iterate to add functionality to the core of the application (which is not the UI itself), a hell of a lot faster than new competitors.
Well, Bungie has some good writers, but the very concept of the game they created is inherently xenophobic. You're pitted against an Other who exists only for you to kill. Eventually, you are allowed to see that this Other is more complex than that, and therefore maybe not worth killing unnecessarily, but now you have a new Other to mindlessly kill, and there's not a whole lot of awareness that there's an irony to the change.

The story of a game is told through gameplay, not through cut scenes in between. The gameplay of Halo is, "kill these things". Not much more complicated than that. The writing can self-pity itself as much as it would like, but the fact remains that Bungie created a game in which there is only one possible course of action, and that is to kill. That multiplayer is such an aggressive shitpile, legendarily so in Halo's case, only goes to show that beneath the facade of "story" in Halo, there is pretty much just "shoot things and feel like a badass for doing so, or else get pissed off that somebody is better at shooting you than you are for them."

Jonathan Blow, who's a brilliant game developer in his own right, gave a lecture in 2008 about exactly this sort of dissonance between storytelling and gameplay. He does a great job pointing out that even the best titles in gaming, like Grand Theft Auto and Half-Life, do a poor job of aligning in-game story with the actual play. It's long, but if this is a subject that interests you, then it's absolutely worth giving a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGTV8qLbBWE. (Whilst studying this subject for my undergraduate thesis, I also took notes on this whole lecture, so if you're feeling lazy I could upload them for you; let me know if you'd like that!)
Whatever the correct term is for people who use privilege outside academic discourse is, Marxist is not it. I would suggest Social Justice Warriors™, they're the kind of people who don't believe in racism against white people or sexism against men, as possibilities.
You should basically compile everything yourself and read all the source code yourself if you want to be secure.

Good luck with that though. (Escpecially with things like, I don't know, browsers.)
> If you don't see any difference between advocacy (on your own dime) and literally handing a check to a person with regulatory power over your commercial interests, then you are well and truly lost to reason.

The law is that you can't hand a candidate a check bigger than $2,500, nor can a corporation hand the candidate any such check. Citizens United does nothing to change that (because the Congress derives its power to ban that from its control over the candidate, not the donor).

What was at issue in Citizens United was precisely the question of advocacy on your own dime.
But do you trust the website, email, or other source, where you copied the command? If someone can spoof this link on the official kernel website, they may as well have access to other, way more sensitive resources.
I was trying to be sarcastic, but OK.
Accessing Ex-gf's MySpace Account and Posting Offensive Content = Conviction
Looks nice. Though it is annoying that the browsers back button does not work.
I wish we could consider different terms for the different aspects of copyright. Copyright is not a single right--it is a bundle of rights. In the US (whose law I will use for all of this comment), for instance, it includes:

• The rights to make and distribute copies,

• The rights to make and distribute derivative works,

• The rights to publicly perform and display works.

The power to even have Federal copyright law comes from this grant of power in the Constitution:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing
for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right
to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

That gives a purpose for the power (promoting science--which is used in its archaic meaning, which means knowledge, rather than its modern meaning, which is what once was called natural philosophy), and also the mechanism by which it is to be exercised (giving authors a limited monopoly).

Shorter terms promote progress by making works more widely available, but longer terms ALSO promote progress by letting authors make more money which improves things on the supply side, so setting the term requires balancing these, and I see no reason that the optimal setting for, say, copying should be expected to be the same as the optimal setting for, say, making derivative works.

I also see no reason the term needs to be the same for different types of works. Music, literature, movies, and computer software are very different so why would we expect that a term that is good for music when it comes to balancing wide distribution vs. author incentive to also be good for literature, moves, and software?
Could someone explain why anyone would be foolish enough to pay in bitcoins right now given its meteoric rise over the past few weeks?
You can also inspect the wgetted/curl'ed script if you so choose. It's just a URL. I don't understand your point.

Even with the "exploit" in the article, it will be detected as soon as the user pastes the URL in his browser location bar. People who don't inspect what they run are screwed no matter what.
I've installed Opera Mini on my own, so it's not customized.
This article seems to miss the main threat of Facebook Home - it's pushing aside Google+ integration and subverting Google's strategy to weave G+ into their user's experience. While that is eventually about advertising, the advertising is a far removed long term goal.

Nonetheless, the Play Store is the beating heart of an android phone, and as long as all the Facebook phones are running it I think Google's going to be pretty philosophical about this. It's a lot better than Facebook launching their own phone or teaming up with Samsung on Tizen or something like that. And while ever Facebook is playing on Google's turf, Google can afford to give them a pretty long leash, knowing they always hold the reigns through the Play Store requirements, and their ability to out code Facebook on their own platform is always going to give them a big advantage.
I might copy the command, quickly paste it in my URL bar to make sure it is indeed what I expected, and then paste it into Terminal
Personally, I would say that leaping straight to 'compiler bug' is a little unwarranted. If you really think it's a compiler bug, you should compile the code (they provided it) using the settings they used (I think they provided that too; you can see them in a comment in this thread, actually) and then look at the output assembly and find the bug and file a bug against the compiler.
Don't forget it was also used to prevent right clicks.
My neighbour has a squeaky toilet roll dispenser in their bathroom, which I can hear through my bedroom wall. Thanks to this, I'm convinced I can sell my knowledge of poop-frequency to someone. A hardware store? Insurance company? I don't know, but there is profit to be made here.
Do people/institutions pay to be on the list?
Wget does not validate certificates by default because there's no CA bundle provided with wget. It does check for /etc/ssl/cert.pem, but it doesn't provide one. So you have to provide one or set up /etc/ssl/certs/ as OpenSSL libraries expect.

Curl does provide a CA bundle (/usr/share/curl/ca-bundle.crt) and by default libcurl validates certs against it.
Implementing a Partial Serial Number Verification System in Delphi
No, because in Python's interop model, importing a compiled module involves a shared object (so you don't have to relink the interpreter to add one).
While you are at it, print all your data using Paperbak[1] and store it in your attic. Make a few extra xerox copies and distribute to friends and family.

[1] http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
What's the unminified size of the editor files and how many files are you down to for a completed page load? Thx!
You know what, it's totally possible! I've studied games from a critical perspective, but never a historical one; while my criticisms of Xbox's marketing make sense from the games that I know, it may be that I have completely misinterpreted what the games that game before it were like. Age is a factor when we're talking about the change of games over time.

I still think that there's been an unfortunate shift in games over the last decade or so, and that Halo exists along the spectrum of that shift. This guy's essay made a lot of sense in the context of what criticisms I have of games in general, but I might be giving it more credit than it's worth. Sorry for being so annoyingly wrong about things; I'll try to understand this better for future discussions!
I dislike this whole trend. How about we start thinking in terms of leaving the user's default environment, and system, alone, and “installing” software into nice sandboxed areas where we can easily enable/disable it, or delete it with a simple “rm -rf directory/path”
My point exactly. No one is ever actually going to read all the code, so you have to start your trust somewhere. Especially if you're going to type `sudo make install` at the end (which is why I advocate things like ~/.local to prevent the need for that, but I digress).
Unfortunately most users are annoyed by services like Heyzap and Openfeint. Ironically, Game Center seems to get out of the way the best, but is still pretty superfluous for a default app on a mobile operating system.
Actually Personal Responsibility
Renewal model would work for commercial uses of copyright. But copyright is not limited for that only. Other uses artistic control and ideological (eg. copyleft).
> Calling Go code from a second thread will currently cause the code to raise an exception (i.e. all calls into Go code must be made from the same thread)

That's ... interesting.
Read your first post and checked out the Noah Kagan vids, thanks to this post. Awesome stuff, you've got a new fan.
Everyday Git Aliases
No Population Bomb
I'd love to hear what aliases other people use in their workflow
Slick connection pooling
isn't that equivalent to asking why anyone would be foolish enough to not have 100% of their money in bitcoins given its meteoric rise over the past few weeks?

There are reasons to not have all your money in bitcoins, therefore there are reasons to sell bitcoins (even if you just bought them specifically for that transaction (for the anonymity for example))

edit: I realised this sounds a bit snarky, but I'm honestly curious. Is buying with bitcoins really that different from not investing in bitcoins?
I wonder if you set a price amount in bitcoin or it just does a conversion between BTC and USD (or some other currency).

If you set a price in BTC then if there is a drop in value, you might find wake up the next day and find that lots of people took advantage of that as a way to dump their BTC and managed to buy your $10 game for $1.
Minecraft-style lighting in Scheme
What a creep! Glad he was convicted. the immature baby will have his time in jail. This reminds me of the sexists in the tech industry.
Quit Your Job Now, Before It's Too Late
We should all be scared of Bitcoin at this price.
So you're trusting opscode to provide the primary centralized control system of your entire server ecosystem but you're concerned they might be embedding something malicious in their installer shell script?

Don't get me wrong, i'm no fan of the practice especially sans tls, but this seems like a poor example.
Just subscribed, and thanks for the Yesware tip, just installed
I believe it was Confucius who said "the man who says they can and the man who says they cant are both generally right" which means conversely the man who tells others they can and they cant is generally right on both assumptions...... I couldn't disagree more with your opinion. Im going get this thing done one way or the other but i guess we will see who was right.
Children in strollers did not get scanned (like my 4 year old), but any child on foot (no matter the age) was scanned.
I would love to use such a thing!

I'm bugged with programs I don't use anymore which start on system boot. Even after removing some programs, they just don't go away.

A sandboxed environment would be really good to use!
to remember Wolfenstein and Doom being released. And you're completely wrong. Those games were not simple and playful and colorful. They were gory, and violent, and brutal and complex. I had to play them when my parents weren't paying attention because of the excessive gore and satanic overtones.

I was early 20's when Wolf 3D came out. It was shockingly graphic, but like everyone else at work I played it all the way through.

Doom on the other hand... just too gory and satanic. No thanks.

Fast forward to the present, I've played all the Halos. They're completely mainstream and not very gory.

Currently playing Borderlands 2. I dislike the constant theme of sadism and torture, but it's fun game and I manage to get past it.

I bought an Xbox magazine the other day. Literally 80%+ of the games involved shooting rotting-corpse zombies. I really don't get why people like that stuff.
But you don't select text by selecting an area technically, you select a sequence of characters.

You could do a per character visibility test at the time of copying, but sometimes you want to copy test that is not currently visible on your screen.

For example doing Ctrl+A in a document.
30 days to do something awesome, and then...?
Awesome and relevance aren't always aligned.

Some days, we do something awesome in the office (laser cut a table from aluminum sheet, or print hundreds of digits of \pi directly onto a storebought pie [0] for example), and everyone around says "Whoa! That's awesome!".

At the end of the day, though, we're physicists, and we need to ship some physics out the door.

[0] http://guavaduck.com/laser/
It sounds like a handy way to let everyone with push access to your project also have a login to a build VM you host.
That is one of the reasons I wrote the post. I was completely unaware of the scanning that was required of my family. Also, there is no 'Privacy Policy' for park admissions (like for a website). They are not required to say what they will use the data for or how long they will keep it.
I had been in favor of replacing the save icon until I saw the branch discussion a few days ago, and seeing that even the best of them weren't a more logical choice than an antiquated piece of technology no longer in use. The author's arguments pretty much cemented by conversion to "meh, let's just keep using the floppy." And really if people don't seem to have a problem with gears for settings and magnifying glasses for search what's all the fuss over the floppy for save?
"If we are hiring you because you are awesome, then you have 30 days to do something awesome"

I'm curious about how much autonomy and latitude people need to do something that breaks the awesome threshold. It seems to me that the more guided or directed someone is, the less likely the work they do will be considered awesome.

I tend to prefer more quantifiable terms. For example, having a clear million dollar improvement to the top or bottom line in one year. However, I very much agree that everyone should add something to the team.

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That's an easy question: it almost never happens. The most frequent occurrence (by far) is that there are no comments at all, just a wall of indecipherable code. Even an old comment describing intent and usage is better than no comments at all.

In your example, even if that comment is outdated, it's still incredibly useful. It tells you, in under 5 seconds, the original intent of a piece of code, and how it was supposed to fit into the entire system. That's something you'll never get without a comprehensive understanding of the project, which takes far more than 5 seconds of reading. The real problem here is not that there is a comment -- the problem is that a bad coder fucked up by not updating the comment. There's no excuse.

That all of the commenters below will spend paragraphs explaining how they shouldn't have to document their code with the occasional descriptive comment is an amazing testament to the overwhelming power of human laziness and self-delusion.
Lynx user not affected: http://tinyapps.org/lynx_not_affected.png
I might be wrong, but I would like to think everyone getting a new job has something in them to do something awesome. Well anyone with a decent amount of experience anyway.

A fresh set of eyes and no history is all it takes a lot of the time. I am not sure this makes someone really awesome though.
Useful link... but I think intro is a little ambitious based on all the content there.
Edge framework - A web application framework for Vert.x
What constitues as visible though? There is the obvious non-visible CSS modifiers like display: hidden; - but at what point does an off screen rendered text actually count as hidden? If you were wanting to copy the entire contents of a page, and the browser assumed anything off screen was invisible then you would not be able to copy everything at once when it goes below the fold. Different screen resolutions and devices would cause other issues there as well.
Not gonna be that easy at least for another couple of years. ;)

I will say, most of my stats for clients show some IE10, more IE9 and fewer IE8 these days; about 5%/65%/20% split for IE versions with 10% for older ( IE/other browsers split at about 60%/40% ), and these aren't techy sites either. So there's some good news there.

IE9 Isn't too bad actually, though sadly, a lot of eye-candy projects featured on HN break outright on it or are prevented from loading upon browser detection.
> I also see no reason the term needs to be the same for different types of works. Music, literature, movies, and computer software are very different so why would we expect that a term that is good for music when it comes to balancing wide distribution vs. author incentive to also be good for literature, moves, and software?

The problem is that attempting to categorize works might be futile. Eg. chiptunes (a form of music) originally were software written for the sound chips. Would they fall under "software" or "music" category?
NASA's Going To Catch an Asteroid
One system that I've been pondering lately (maybe it has an official name), is that you directly choose where a portion of your tax dollars go. So on your tax return, 50% (just pulling a random number here) automatically goes to the government as it does now, to spend as they see fit. The other 50% is yours to spend, so to speak, within the constraints of maybe a few dozen pre-selected options. If you want it all to go to the military, then that's your call. Some to infrastructure, and some to healthcare, then, boom, done. In an ideal system, you'd have 100% control, but you can only trust the public so far.

Which brings up the point of whether one of the basic theories of "pure" democracy is sound: that the public can rationally govern itself. I don't think current democracies really prove it one way or another, but if the theory doesn't hold water, then my idea would probably be a disaster. Fine-tuning the percentages could yield some interesting results though, effectively reducing the importance of who gets elected in the first place.
Two intersecting sets: (a) trustworthy people; and (b) skilled programmers. Both difficult to observe. Having good information on at least one set is a definite advantage, both for screening and for avoidance of sub-optimal candidates. One would need to make assumptions about the relative trustworthiness of the candidate pools to decide which is more beneficial. It may be that in certain areas, at certain times, its rarer and more difficult to assess character than competence (the latter even at high levels).
Here's 10 mins or so from Louis CK at a tribute to Carlin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R37zkizucPU

He says his first hour of comedy took 15 years to build up, and he hated all of it. Then he heard an interview with Carlin where he said every year he threw all his old jokes away and would have to come up with a new hour of material, forcing him to get to the core of what was important and real (or something)... And that's when Louis says his career took off.