skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing about English use is, well, at least it is consistent. Everything uses American English, so if you need to learn to program, there is only one language to learn. Allowing other languages wouldn't solve much since English would still be present in all the API methods and so on, so I think consistency is better.
Looks like an issue and pull request were filed for that:

https://github.com/idiot/Spiffing/issues/1

https://github.com/idiot/Spiffing/pull/7
I've noticed this in some code I've been refactoring at work recently (a feed generation system). It's easy in Perl to suck in a large amount of data into one array and map/grep it into another array of hashes and output filtered/formatted data in a few lines. The problem of course is that your business'/project's own growth overwhelms the algorithm as the data structure balloons. This is further compounded by libraries which are designed to accept an array as input (reinforcing the idiom causing the first problem) since you end up with thousands of additional iterations.

I refactored the code to lazy load each item in the collection and map/filter/generate the XML at the end of each node's iteration. The end result is a nice flat memory space (save for the odd leak here and there) that's about 1/10th of the original program's, at the 'expense' of only a few more lines of code.
Half of the problem of being poor is even being aware that you are able to change your status. It's intellectually lazy to pull the 'just work hard' line, when most of what gets you wealth is what you know, not how hard you work.

Not to mention that in the end, even if everyone did 'just work hard', there isn't enough wealth to go around. The civilised thing is at least to give people basic services and let themselves work to higher wealth from there.
What about US (International) English? :P
There is more to this to diagnose a pump and dump. According to these criterias, the internet bubble of 2000 would have been recognized as a pump and dump too.
By "British accent" you probably mean Received Pronunciation or Queen's English... but there is more to Britain than the South East (we have the North, Scotland and Wales, plus plenty of regional accents).
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How hard is it to setup multiple accounts on Mt. Gox using Tor?

300 accounts would give you access to $3 Million USD. And Mt. Gox has a simple API that you could coordinate all of your accounts together.
There are quite a few people who hold exactly that opinion. For instance, check out Alex Berenson's The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America, or read any "alternative" financial blog, and this line of reasoning might start to make at least some sense.
I agree - not all developers can become good designers
> I think one month is a bit long to have to wait for a response.

You're certainly entitled to that opinion, but the amount of time that is "acceptable" is completely subjective and relative. Holding someone else to your own arbitrary standards of acceptability is exactly what I'm referring to when I say these sort of complaints usually ignore the possibility that someone else's life is different than one's own.

I can see how a month would seem like a long time, it used to seem like a long time for me too. But for someone running a company, someone with a crazy family life, someone maintaining several projects, someone getting married or divorced or having kids, someone buying a house or selling a house or moving, someone in school, someone having financial troubles, etc., etc.; a month can be a blink of an eye. You, of course, are welcome to your opinion. I try to avoid holding people for whom I know nothing about to my own arbitrary standards, and try to withhold indignation if they don't live up to them. I admit it takes effort; I often find myself doing exactly that. I just have to remind myself that I can't really know them to the extent that I know myself, and thus it's not always fair to expect that their situation lends itself to meeting my standards.

EDIT: All that being said, I think the pull request hack could be a potential solution. It does however bring its own potential problems. You're basically putting your reputation in someone else's hands, whom you don't know. Of course that may be preferable to what you're doing to your reputation by taking a long time to respond to requests. I'm certainly considering it for a couple projects.
I'm envisioning a cyberpunk future, where an internet connection is free and omnipresent, and computers are cheap enough to find in the trash. A homeless person kills time online and scrounges for money through online sweatshop labor, like gold farming or captcha breaking. He gets paid in bitcoins, which he uses to buy some food at McDonald's, using a NFC device that he found in the trash that links to his bitcoin wallet.
"So then I had to rewrite critical sections of the Python in C"

I think that's kinda the point; rewriting critical sections in C is pretty much Working As Intended. That's why it's a scripting language. The point is that you didn't have to write the whole thing in C.
it is neither the OS' nor browsers responsibility to launch correct application for a file. There are launchers that examine file headers (no need to dup it on filesystem) and keep track of your application preferences for a given mime type. They may be called file manager, shell or something similar and responsibility lies there. 8.3 file naming is a historical baggage and nothing more.
Go does not require "er", and in fact most code I've seen outside the standard library doesn't seem to follow any particular convention for using it. If there /was/ such a convention, it would obviously make sense to use the closest equivalent suffix in the language.
I worked for a company that did this years ago as a commercial tool. Also the solution worked on IE8+ with plugins for chrome and FF. Nice that Mozilla is doing the same.
"Conveniently forgot" is a very rude thing to say. Even if you think someone left something out on purpose, your argumentation won't benefit from the usage if that phrase.
You're over thinking this based on current information and developments.Seems pretty clear that the primary (and originally only) motivation was to create a decentralized cryptocurrency, just to show that it is feasible and practical, and for the satisfaction to see one's work have an impact.
The plebeian work stack / habits
If you ask what the difference is between ‘transparent’ and ‘opaque’, most people will answer correctly. If you append –y, people somehow get confused.
Ask HN: What is your favorite movie? And why do you like it?
Make sure to read the response from the man himself - http://eugene.kaspersky.com/2012/07/25/what-wired-is-not-tel...

And, yes, this has been on HN before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282126

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340309
The protocol could be updated to allow "mining" of addresses that didn't move for sufficiently long time. But that's never going to happen.
The Nobel prize is just around $1 million.
> ...but I did and do think it's rude not to reply at all. "Thanks for the patch; don't know when I'll have time to look at it" is enough.

You're probably right. All I can say is, when you get 100-200 emails a day, every day (it doesn't stop), it's hard. That's not an excuse nor a justification. it's just a statement, an explanation at best.

Also understand that your expectation of a maintainer's response, however small or trivial, is at direct odds with the time they spend working at their day job, or spending time with their family, or relaxing. That's not to say open source maintainers don't enjoy building and maintaining open source projects. Most do (including me). It's just the recognition that maintaining open source projects comes at the expense of other things which they also enjoy.

In the same way that I believe you're justified in thinking a maintainer's non-response is rude, I believe a maintainer would be justified in thinking your expectation of them is also rude.
Do you have any idea how big and environmentally unfriendly those batteries would have to be? Ready reserve is generally provided by peaking generators (the aforementioned natural gas turbines) and by hydro dams.
There aren't many batteries that can provide hundreds of megawatts for hours at a time.
That's only true because most companies admit defeat before trying: they hit the disk when serving. The big Internet companies (Google, Facebook, LiveJournal, hell, even Hacker News and Plenty of Fish) all serve out of RAM: they keep everything a user is likely to hit in main memory so that a request never needs to perform I/O other than network. In this situation you're absolutely RAM-constrained.

I remember trying to optimize some financial software a couple jobs ago and hitting a brick wall because that's the speed the disk rotates at. We ended up buying an iRAM (battery-backed RAM disk) and sticking the DB on it. You can get this a lot cheaper by avoiding the DB and using a RAM-based architecture if you're willing to sacrifice fault-tolerance under power outages (or if you have some other architectural solution for fault-tolerance, like writing to multiple computers).
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Show HN: Make your dotfiles follow you automatically when you ssh to a server
Armageddon! How much cooler can you get with NASA sending up a team to blow up an asteroid?!
Looks great tma! Will give this a spin as soon as I can.
I do give feedback and provide criticism on the Play and Amazon store. When a site asks for a username, I pick a username. If the site asks for a real name I'll give that as well. If HN wanted real names it should have asked.
The Third Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_third_man

Orson Wells. Black and white. Noir. Photography. Impossible love story. The score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEsWi88Qv0
The performance impact of the hashes is bad enough that people tweak designs in most unfortunate ways...

I think a case can be made that it is more important that the solution be simple and clean.
http://xero.com - Beautiful accounting software
It is clear that Kaspersky works with the Soviet/Russian agencies closely. In other countries this type of thing is also true sometimes. There are however significant cultural and political differences, which can be summarized by saying that Russia is a mafia state. People dealing with them must understand that. Those who do not bring trouble upon themselves as well as others (e.g. the Magnitsky affair).
very nicely written article, seems like 10x (or is it like 100x) difference between goog's contributions, and everyone else's creates a very asymmetric playing field for everyone else.

other notable stuff from the article: "... can’t just mine for more resources and build new developer barracks." and most importantly, "... And as a wise man once said, you come at the king, you best not miss."
Google Glass Emulator
The Mechanical Keyboard Guide
Why is this on the front page of HN? This is just uninformed ramblings with a reference to an article (Krugman) contain similarly uniformed ramblings.

It just seems lazily uniformed. I doubt he even bothered to actually investigate and corroborate his pump and dump claims, into instead of spreading FUD. If he did, one would think he would have mentioned the alleged DDOS'ing of the exchanges etc. which are widely speculated (even among the 'true believers') to be part of a market manipulation scheme.
Virginia Mall Shooter Apparently Announced Crime in Advance on 4chan
Blade Runner, but not the theatrical version with the phoned-in narration. Director's Cut or Final Cut. It's a beautifully-shot noir film whose special effects hold up even today, and has a very interesting take on the nature of humanity.

Edit: Harrison Ford on his narration: "It was simply bad narration." http://web.archive.org/web/20080603083514/http://www.harriso...
Nice tinfoil.
Step 1: Validate your idea. Ask people if they would use it.

Seriously.
A brief note to the Author of the Page in question

"...one must check whether one has PHP 5.2 (or newer) installed upon their Internet server..."

Should this not be 'one's Internet server'?

"Something our primitive stateside friends can understand"

What is this 'stateside' you speak of, Sir? Our Colonial Cousins may also resent the adjective that has been applied.

I personally rather regret the automatic recitation of Arne's ditty when visiting the page.
I watch mostly Chinese movies. I think my favorite one is "You Are The Apple of My Eye". You can watch it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4gZIolIrxw&list=FLSZdbc5...

It is a love story about first love. This is one of those stories which everyone can relate to some extant. It is a very very cute story.

It has English subtitles!
According to Mt. Gox, users of Tor are subject to having to submit additional anti-money laundering documentation.
I would like to add that you should get him to sign a legal release as part of a generous severance package. The last thing you need is a former employee bad mouthing your company all over the internet.
Enter The Void. A powerful parade of colors that takes you through the different stages of death. One does not simply watch this movie. One experiences it.
Lawrence of Arabia - man comes to believe in his own myth

(plus the stunning cinematography and incredible nature of the true - though dramatized - story)
Autoplay music? Are you kidding me?
I think movie media (with subtitles) is one of the best ways to learn a language. I have been trying to learn Mandarin for a few months now, so can you please make some more suggestions? Thanks!
"Everything uses American English"? Yeah, no. There's plenty of technical stuff on the web that uses British English.
Both of those are subjective.
It's not much better on a desktop. The background interferes with the text color, making it very difficult to read without highlighting the text.
Does transparency: 0.1; -> opacity: 0.9;

Because it should.
Chinese is often even indecipherable to the Chinese and because of this there have been many attempts to simplify it.
There is a subset that people actually use and the rest is avoided.

This is a similar case with languages like C++, Ruby and Python. The languages are terrifyingly complex, but the subset that most people use is reasonably usable.
If you stray outside this subset there be dragons.
Koyaanisqatsi. It reminds me how big the world is and how everything is ultimately connected together in some way or another. Plus, good music and no dialogue which is a bonus.
>I looked into legally building an exchange in Texas, but I would have to get licensed as a money transmission company or a currency exchange company. The fees were outrageous! $2,500 application fee, $300,000+ security deposit and requires the applicant to have over $500K net worth.

Doesn't it cost $30 million to get licenses in all the states that required it?

That certainly seems like a broken system. I'm not sure why there isn't a federal law or an agreement between states that one license can be used across states.

I've read that laws like this exist because of lobbying done by Western Union.

Contrasting with the EU. One license in any EU state means you can provide services across the EU.
If any Rubists want to play with it, I wrote a gem for it: https://github.com/muan/spiffing :)
Instead of writing a shell script, would adding this to your ~/.ssh/config work?

PermitLocalCommand yes
LocalCommand tar c -C${HOME} .oh-my-zsh .zshrc .vim .vimrc .tmux.conf | ssh -o PermitLocalCommand=no %n "tar mx -C${HOME} ; chsh -s /bin/zsh"

You could also use the ControlMaster and ControlPath directives to ensure only a single ssh handshake is made.

(Having said that, I get my dotfiles to follow me by keeping my home directory in mercurial.)
Yes people do need it in their lives to communicate. It's a fantastic tool if you use it like one.
"Most people do not have a need to hire 3-4 people. Growing up it was common to have a maid who helped with household chores due to the absence of amenities like a dish washer or washing machine. As these services become available there is no need to hire folks to do such work."

I completely agree with this. When I was living in New York, I rarely felt a need to "hire" someone to do stuff for me. Apartment didn't get dirty so easily. Clothes didn't get dirty so easily. Very easy and convenient access to laundromats. Dish washer at home. Easy access to fairly high quality groceries. Lots of places to eat around which had healthy food options at reasonable prices (relative to your salary). Anything you wanted could be ordered online.

If on top of all this, you just hired a maid by the hour, for a couple of hours, to come clean your house like once in two weeks, you didn't need anything else.

Here in India, it's hard to get by without a maid. Clothes get dirty fast, house gets dirty fast, no laundromats, no dishwasher, no space to keep a washing machine at home, poor availability of healthy food options, groceries sellers have bad quality of food and vegetables so you need to spend time picking them out, supermarkets have massive checkout lines etc.
Spy Game - starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt.
Guess it's the only spy thriller out there, that talks about the dirtier side of espionage, yet how it's up to the inhabitants of that dark corner, to not sell their souls.
Ew autoplay music. What is this, Geocities?
>If you can do so much, why not build a bitcoin exchange directly?

Because the margins are awful unless you are doing huge volume.
Anyone know what this might be? Looks like some kind of boats in a pond with solar panels in them?
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11
Just to clarify - I wasn't addressing you with the hellban call (I know you know, but, you know, other people).

And to further agree - I think "well, what can I do, they're hot!" (or its buddy "hey, what do you know - they might like it!") or any sort of that nonsense is the absolute maximum height of the shittiest relativistic thinking that humans are capable of.

Yes, laws can be complicated and yes any particular cutoff age is inherently bullshit. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it. Know why? Because it saves a whole lot of human beings from having their life ruined beyond repair, forever, by a guy who can't keep his dick in his pants. It's worth the bullshit. If you don't see that, you're simply an inconsiderate asshole.

And if you hide behind a throwaway (others pointed out it's 60 days old, so what, its probably your bogstandard reddit user branching over to HN, liking his new platform to spew idiocy), this site should hell ban the shit out of you.

Sorry about the rant. Relativistic bullshit pisses me off to no end. Especially if it's by frigging neckbeards who apparently think anything in the world should revolve around their ability to fuck whatever they think is "hot". Get a life.

(again, not really directed at you, analog)
The Matrix, first movie, I love how everything has a parallel with our own world, also a lot of the movies ideas, messages have underlying concepts in Buddhism, which is just cool.
I was just looking through all the Chinese movies I know on youtube.. It seems that most of them do not have subtitles... I will keep looking and see if I can find a few more.
I hate it so much when the only pictures you find on a web article are about advertising . More so when it is supposed to be about science.
Prescriptivists would say it should be "one [..] upon his", but the author may wish to avoid using gender specific pronouns and is thus using the singular "their" instead.
Ask HN: Would you choose C++ over Python/Ruby with Hadoop?
Met this guy the other day, who wants me to set up a Hadoop cluster for him - he's got this mobile app that uses crowdsourcing to build, maintain and distribute information on spam callers and text senders.

In the course of the discussion, turned out that he was heavily against me using Python/Ruby(stuff I normally work with) to write code. He believes C++ is..faster.

Of course, that is true. But I still have my doubts. I don't want benchmarks. I'd rather have experiences. What do you think?
Unmentioned Features of Ruby 2.0
well, there are memoryviews, but they could have been designed better
Also the same group that created Y Combinator, Hacker News, and the Internet. If you don't like it, you can see yourself out.
It has nothing to do with how the W3C is stacked. Us Australians and Brits use American spelling ('color', etc) when programming for consistency. We would rather our APIs are spelled incorrectly (setColor()) than inconsistently (sometimes setColor() and sometimes setColour()).
> Holding someone else to your own arbitrary standards of acceptability is exactly what I'm referring to when I say these sort of complaints usually ignore the possibility that someone else's life is different than one's own.

I agree with the spirit with what you're saying, this is indeed all opinion.

I see it like this; if you're walking along and say "hi" to your neighbour, he doesn't have to say "hi" back, but it's nice, 'sall :)
When I saw it more than half the audience walked out. There was even a couple that walked out just before the credits started rolling (for those who haven't seen it, it's almost three hours long).

Excellent film.
Other details suggest 1 & 2 are unlikely - they tend to make this manoeuvre when the predator is still some way off, and at least one species (Thomson's Gazelle) won't stot when a predator is within about 40 metres. It seems unlikely that the rest would outweigh the effort needed to jump 2 metres in the air (3), and I doubt a lion is worried about a kick from a gazelle (4).

But yes, other explanations have been proposed. There's a list on Wikipedia if you look up Stotting.
"Nakamoto’s work appears to be politically motivated, as quoted:
“Yes, [we will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography,] but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.” – Satoshi Nakamoto
“[Bitcoin is] very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I’m better with code than with words though.” – Satoshi Nakamoto
In the Bitcoin network’s transaction database, the original entry has a note by Nakamoto that reads as:
“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”
Some claim this quote implies Nakamoto had great concern or contempt for the current central banking system."

http://bitcoinreport.com/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/
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I used to create a Chinese movie list for a friend from France.
http://movie.douban.com/doulist/1317587/
Hope it helps.