skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one of the recommended ways to install oh-my-zsh

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | sh
Well said -- as you imply, it's much scarier to contemplate we have the government we more or less want than to think it's being imposed on us by shadowy forces.

To add on a few additional points of evidence:
1) In the most recent set of national elections, there was not much correlation between money spent and probability of victory [1]. While second-order effects may still be problematic, I think it's worth reemphasizing.

2)Congressmen doing things that are against the will of their constituents leaves them massively open to primary challenges. See what's happening with Chambliss or other republicans in the recent budgetary crisis.

3)I do think there is a particularly pernicious form of corruption in Washington, stemming from the fact that lobbyists and other non-governmental entities often draft a large number of bills. This doesn't manifest as a specific national policy goal not being achieved, but rather causes subtle aims to be achieved in quiet fashions. This is not a problem of money, though -- it's simply a function of availability, and the convenience factor of who sees whom on a daily basis. Perhaps this could be fixed by empower congressmen and senators to carry larger staffs (staves?) than they do today?

[1] http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/11/09/how-much-did-m...
If it is for writing extensions, then PyPy would be a better option if it is to stay in Python land.

For writing new code from scratch, Julia is a much better option. The language is not yet 1.0 and already achieves parity to C compilers in many algorithms.

Go compilers are yet to match JVM and .NET speeds, let alone C.
Are you going to type that string into your terminal manually, or are you just copy/pasting that line from a web page, still leaving yourself open to this issue?

I find it hard to believe anyone will be reading that line on a web page, then typing it out correctly in their own terminal instead of just saying, "ok that line looks fine copy paste"
I mean, untarring a downloaded tarball from somewhere and running `make` is just as dangerous, right? Only there you can make sure the checksum matches, but people skip that step all the time.
If the shell had a protection against text pasted together with an ending newline (and would just strip that newline), it would help, I think.
It sure does. And, dare I say it, I would like to see someone experiment with it on a modern design. Or maybe I played to much with my 3DS today and should go lie down.
BTC $161USD
damn excellent. Id love to see a filter forwards region if you grow the aggregator sources.
Why are you comparing consoles to mobile devices? Its apples to oranges. This is like comparing Netflix subscription to Xbox/PS3 consoles sold. People buy mobile devices and get the added benefit of playing games. I don't think there is a majority of people who prioritize games when looking to buy a phone (But I could be wrong).
Implicit in all the discussion about his site is whether it could signify a major industry shift - that's what I thought the question was getting at.

I'd have preferred him to take a position: "I think I have a better way for the industry to work" or "Don't infer too much from my success, it's a red herring". Or he could just say that he's only focused on his brand and not the industry at large.
Pity the Men on Top
The real underlying problem, though, is that pretty much the only people who are going to change who they vote for in an election based on copyright reform are the people who feel their livelihoods depend on the current system.
So what you're saying is modular technology and modular politics would be the most optimal situation.

If one part of a system is outdated it makes more sense to replace that the broken part rather than an entire system.

Unfortunately both political and computer systems want us to be 'all in' on whatever current version is out.
If Haskell beats C on that loop, then that is a compiler bug. Did they try repeating these experiments using say icc?
> Before Mickey mouse and similar ilk came along, copyright was 7 years. 7.

It was 56 years (28 year first term, which could be renewed for a second 28 year term) when Mickey Mouse was created. The shortest it has even been under Federal copyright law in the US was 28 years (14 year first term, renewable for another 14 years) under the Copyright Act of 1790.
There are legit criticisms against the copy-paste-curl-command style of installations. But on the other hand, I've yet to see a critic proposing a viable alternative. With viable I mean that said proposal must:

1. Work on all major platforms.

2. Be easy for the developer to create.

3. Be easy for the user to execute, with as few steps as possible.

There are those who advocate that the developer should create a platform-specific package for every platform. While this fits their purist views in which only their own platform matters, this is not a good solution for the developer, who often has users from multiple platforms. Creating platform-specific packages places an unbelievable maintenance burden on the developer.

This is not to mention that platform-specific packages, too, have their own security flaws.
"The Contagion of Violence - Workshop Summary [1]

In the past 25 years, there has been a shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that violence is preventable. In exploring the occurrence of violence, researchers have recognized the tendency for violent acts to cluster, to spread from place to place, and to mutate from one type to another – similar to the infectious disease model, in which an agent or vector initiates a specific biological pathway leading to symptoms of disease and infectivity.

On April 30 – May 1, 2012, the IOM Forum on Global Violence Prevention held a workshop to explore the contagious nature of violence. The workshop focused on the epidemiology of the contagion, possible processes and mechanisms by which violence is transmitted, how contextual factors mitigate or exacerbate the issue, and ways in which the contagion of violence might be interrupted. This document summarizes the workshop."

Free pdf download available from [2].

[1] http://iom.edu/Reports/2012/Contagion-of-Violence.aspx

[2] http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13489
""I didn't get my password reset email yet, so I'm going to go try and score some karma on HN with Browser Wars link bait." is how I interpret that response."

Not at all how I intended it. As for taking open source for granted, in this case Mozilla has hundreds of well paid people, they'll make it without my input.

It really was just a random goodbye, since I couldn't do it on their site.
Until now Google didn't really care about manufacturer skins/customizations, because at the end of the day, they were still getting growth with Android, and to put their services on each one of those devices. So no matter what they might've said to the users that they care most about them, it's been pretty clear that they didn't care enough to force out all OEM customizations.

But this time - well, this time it might be different, because instead of being complementary to their services, this one actually threatens them. It might finally make them ban OEM/3rd party customizations, and get everyone to use stock Android, just like every PC out there has to use the same Windows interface.

As an Android user who would like to see more phones without OEM customizations, Facebook Home couldn't make me any happier, if it actually forces Google into banning it and any other such customizations, starting with Android 5.0.
So, half-baked ideas are the topic, right?

Turn the idea on its head: Find a way to use SSH based authentication for services and allow people to connect with their GitHub account, find a clever way to map AuthorizedKeysFile (via fuse or something) to https://github.com/%u.key (yeah, won't directly work that way of course).
The PyPy memory usage also keeps increasing linearly during the benchmark, reaching 220MB at the end. The CPython version is using exactly 23MB for the entire run with zero fluctuation. I'm guessing the recursive nature of the program is killing PyPy.
No, they're actually using this trick to do the exact opposite.

If you right click and say 'copy link' you'll get the t.co URL, but if you select the partially rendered URL and ^C you get the full (non-shortened) URL in your clipboard.
would it be a problem if it runs for a whole second?
Oh, nice, you are right, should be compiled against OS' key storage. Actually it's wget who often doesn't care of that.
Ah, so that's an indicator of where verbalist's comment[1] was coming from about "developers wanting to be paid in Bitcoin"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508031
... if google somehow manage to reap their 30% of the ad revenue, they may think it's all good
I think you could hack this up in an afternoon with PAM, but is PAM even distributed with modern Linux distributions? I thought I read somewhere that its un-loved and doomed.
Perl was my first love in the programming world. The first one that (or, "who") understood me.

And s/he had some really nice friends. It was always fun, and interesting, hanging out.
Well, if I had really wanted to build a serious attack instead of a harmless PoC, I'd have downloaded a second stage via `curl <url> | sh`, and that script would, for example, set aliases in your shell for `su` and `sudo` that call the real commands but log your password in the background. Unless you're using requiretty, of course, but I don't assume that you're using a real tty.
I went digging to figure out how I came up with this loopy notion, and it brought me right back to HN. It looks like the seed was planted back on the 4th when I saw this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5495982

Basically, I saw that and went "wait, how does it get the key?", went digging, and found the keys endpoint. The rest evolved from there.
I think you've got some serious nostalgia going on there. I agre with the other posters - Wolfenstein and Doom were considered shockingly violent at the time of their release. Before Wolfenstein there were no high-speed 3d shooters; 3d was mostly the preserve of adventure and maze-solving games, or required settling for vector graphics. It looks silly and fun now because it's so primitivebut at the time it was startling.

Doom was also fun, but I don't think of it as playful or silly. it was horrific and scary, because it set the standard for realism back in its day - of course the monsters were unreal, but nobody had ever seen such a detailed or fluid-feeling environment before. And gameplay-wise, both Wolfenstein and Doom were largely blast-and-hope type games, because the AI wasn't very sophisticated and sniping/stealthing your way through was generally not an option.

When I think of playful and silly from that era, I think of early Duke Nukem and Rise of the Triad, which started out as a serious game but rapidly went into silly territory with unlikely weapons, wildly unrealistic platform mechanics (giant trampolines) and wacky pickups (magic mushrooms that caused on-screen 'hallucinations'), and practically encouraged the player to cheat (god mode etc.) for the giggle value. Incidentally, there's a ROTT reissue in the works: http://riseofthetriad.net/web/app.php/features/
There's an idea taught by marxist academics that being white means living life on "easy mode"[1]. A lot of people on hacker news believe it because there is a high level of average education on HN. This belief is often used to denigrate the achievement of white people. In Wisconsin, the K-12 school system asks white students to wear a brand to remind them of how privileged they are for being white[2].

There are a lot of poor, underprivileged white people in the country, but racism is not logical.

[1] Stuff like this is taught in class: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...

[2]http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-schools...
The problem is that interfaces will typically change over time. So really you are talking about maintaining backwards compatibility which means maintaining a bunch of old stuff riddled with technical debt.

If you are designing a new product to a tight deadline, it seems very attractive to leveridge all the features of "the new hotness".
Probably because quite a lot of people who buy and sell bitcoins do not understand financial markets and their regulations.
An Election Puzzle
The Haskell assembly is using the 3-op AVX instructions, but not 256bit registers. The example is simple enough that it may not make a difference (2-op vs 3-op instructions), but in a more complex function with register spills it could have. ("-mavx" should be enough).

all that said, it is still very impressive work!
You are trusting some third-party everytime you download a proprietary or just big open-source app. Even on Open Source, you just have trust in the public review.

In that example you can read the source before, the chances of an evil change just when loading it with your terminal is quite limited, MITM doesn't work that well on SSL, too.
The re-emergence of time-series
Google negotiating $1 billion acquisition of WhatsApp
Yes, I got the idea from all the sites that do it using Javascript, but I wanted to post the example to ##security, and half of the people there probably has the browser set to "block JS by default" :D
Agree with this-- I tend to naturally look at the next picture while it's coming in, but the way it transforms hurts my eyes. Just sliding it in would be much more comfortable, although look less pretty.

Also: the man/woman pictures on your main page repeat in Chrome for windows that do not have a specific shape.
That sounds like a really good approach.
That may be, and if so thanks for correcting me, but I think my point still remains pretty clear.

Copyright was granted to benefit the public, arts and sciences. It was not created as a right to profit indefinitely to mega corps.
Definitely interesting, and more options are (in most cases) a good thing... the best application of this that's immediately obvious to me, though, is for financially successful devs/shops to mark one of their games for bitcoin income and use it as a test case.

I do hope, though, that it's not presented to small shops as being the same as [insert traditional currency here]; while it's certainly our own responsibility to be careful how we're paid, glossing over the realities of Bitcoin could end up with busy or otherwise inattentive devs accepting something that's just not the sure (or at least predictable) thing they need in terms of payment.
Youtube does that voluntarily. And their system also has no regard for fair use.

Facebook can't be forced into deleting stuff on their own, since they are not responsible for the user content. Unless you send a DMCA for it...
I want to play with OS X like I do with Ubuntu. Modifying whatever I want.
While I'm not a pypy developer, I know they treat any python* code running slower than cpython as a bug. They love to try and help with it if you stop by #pypy on freenode irc.

It's best if you can give them a self contained example they can download and run themselves to track down what is going on. If not (because it is closed source or such) they may or may not be able to do much, but are still more than happy to try and give some advice at least.

Janzert

* pure python, certain methods of interfacing with extension modules will probably always be rather slow and the solution is generally to either get rid of it or rewrite the interface to it using cffi.
Matches against what? If the website is compromised the checksum can be compromised as well.

If the tarball is not pgp signed by the author (e.g. Bazaar and Tor Project do that), checking the checksum is basically checking if the server you’re downloading from didn’t have any silent data corruption (see recent KDE hosting incident), because in transit TCP does its own checksumming anyway.
Gotta' give a point cause I partied with y'all at University of Alabama.
I guess there are fewer of those games on Xbox, but I bought my wife a Katamari game on that platform.
Homebrewing an update file for cheetah c50 console
You MUST hold your government responsible
I denounce the democracy that "defends my homeland" but perpetuates mass murder , torture and rape abroad. All US, Russian and EU leaders (current, and of the past 10 years) MUST be persecuted and held responsible for crimes against humanity, for grossly and intentionally disrupting world peace and for actively encouraging murder and rape in Syria, Kosovo, throughout Africa, and many other places in the world.

In the world in which I live, my "homeland" has no meaning to me. Peace and prosperity are either global and universal, or they do not exist. We elect our leaders to preserve this peace, not to disrupt and exploit it.
I feared someone would do that. :D Well, it'd be easy to work around this if you have JS enabled... without it, it would probably not be so easy to trick you into copying multiple lines.
Wget has the --no-check-certificate flag, I've had to use it to work with self-signed certs before.
Not tough. The answer to that particular question is "yes". The number of lives saved using rifles far exceeds the number taken without just cause. And when it comes to defending my family, "proportionality" is irrelevant: statistics mean nothing when they happen to you. Careful how you apply your reasoning, lest every right you cherish be denied you in kind.
Um, GNU wget does check the key, and it requires the lengthy `--no-check-certificate` to disable it.

Perhaps busybox wget doesn't check the key? But if you're using busybox, that's a whole other can of worms.
Washing cars without water in Dubai [video]
I hope this works, but I'm a little nervous.

I don't know what the law is like in the US, but in Australia a new commercial vessel has to have its plans approved by a survey authority before construction can even begin. I couldn't find word that had been done, apart from "extensive research into regulations".

If there was a lot of maritime expertise on the team, I'd expect them to be announcing it on the Kickstarter. Buried in a page on his blog[1], it mentions that he has help from a pair of boatbuilders.

It wouldn't be the first time a professional woodworker has decided to build a boat[2], and it wouldn't be the first time that it's worked. I hope they know what they're doing.

[1]: http://vermontsailfreightproject.wordpress.com/about/
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notorious_(ship)
Don't forget 'sudo'!
Totally with you on that, its awful, completely colored my expectations going into the article.
The First Gun In America
Really sad, especially when something like Chef-client is also installed in a similar fashion [0], one would expect these guys to know better:

sudo true && curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash

[0] http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Omnibus+Chef...
This made me think - It would be kind of awesome to have contest or show of extremely convoluted Rube Goldberg style systems to obtain run of the mill targeting data.

My entry would be to mass import everyones commit logs and use a machine learning alg to find gaps that correspond to popular broadcast television shows.
Never trust the cloud. Never trust local storage, either. Never trust any one thing to keep your data safe. Keep multiple backups at multiple locations of anything really important.
I agree with those, and I'd add another point: if the government has a mandate from the American people, it's one thing: give us jobs. Look at the distribution of entities that have the jobs in this country: http://economics.about.com/od/smallbigbusiness/a/us_business...

"Some 19.6 million Americans work for companies employing fewer than 20 workers, 18.4 million work for firms employing between 20 and 99 workers, and 14.6 million work for firms with 100 to 499 workers. By contrast, 47.7 million Americans work for firms with 500 or more employees."

The line between 'small business' and 'big business' is arguable, but in any case small businesses are generally politically aligned with big businesses.

Is it any surprise than that our government supports pro-corporate policies?

My wife was a lobbyist and she once gave me an interesting hypothetical: Excelon (big power company in Illinois) doesn't have to donate any money to get the ear of any politician in the state. All they have to do is look at their records and call up and say "we've got 7,000 employees in your district..."
I like the visual design.

The UX is a little weird. I clicked the top image expecting it to move into place but nothing happened. Ditto for the image to the right of the main one.

It took a while to notice the controls at the bottom, and a little after that to realize they were keyboard shortcuts (maybe I am just slow). After I realized that, I tried '=' to show the bottom bar and nothing happened.

I'm not sure what 'Z' does but for me it just cleared the page.

In the bottom bar there's an orange square that is darker colored, and empty, was curious what that was for.
Q: And HBO will let you do an online release of “Oh My God” later in the year?

A: Another reason I was willing to do it there was because I had told them I have to be able to sell it on my site. At first HBO was like, “We can’t do that.” And I said, “Well, let’s not do it then.” The power I had was to be able to keep saying: “I’ll do it myself. I do not need you.” They took a while on that one.

I think this doesn't get the press it should yet, but it will. When Louis C.K. discovered he didn't need the networks to distribute his comedy shows, and then proved it, it was like a tiny squirt of water starting to come out of the side of a dam.
Katamari, Lego anything, narrative-type games like LA Noire or Heavy Rain, strategy-shooters like Metal Gear, Flow...I could go on. I don't feel like there's a shortage of options; I am not that great at multiplayer shootouts and as I've got older I've become really sick of horror/gore gameplay, so I play very few FPS games any more.
Was Chilean poet Pablo Neruda poisoned?
Ctrl-x e in zsh is '_expand_word'. The function you are talking about is 'edit-command-line', which is not loaded or bound to any key by default in zsh. You have to load it manually.
That song is not the best example, as analyzed in excruciating detail here (warning, 1990s CSS ahead): http://fgk.hanau.net/articles/ironic.html
Jumpcut is fairly close to what you're asking for. I guess you could map command + v to Jumpcut & override default paste functionality. Personally I prefer to use option + v.

http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net.
You might want to mark the newlines in that command... without those, the attack would be pretty boring.
I'm pretty sure the poster would also be in jail if it were 'pot' rather than just some regular plant in a pot.
It'd be funnier if you invoke 'sl' in their shell.
Hey nclod,

If you are still having an issue, you can email me directly at graham (at) dropbox.com i'll do my best to help.

Graham
Dropbox Support
In modern Britain old people are freezing to death
The problem is that you're making an ideological statement. You may well be totally correct, but it's also possible for someone to disagree that decentralisation is good, while still supporting the same end-goals as you.

As a small example, I actually think that USA would be better off if you had a much stronger federal government and reduced the states to minor importance. However, my opinion doesn't count much because I live in New Zealand!
Give HN: 2 domains qranberry.me & trendgal.com
I'm not putting more time on those projects, then I'd like to pass (free) the domains to 2 fellow hackers if they already have projects to put on those domains. No squatters please. If you don't have a project now but want to buy the domain, make an offer please.

It would be cool to give trendgal to a woman because it's more female oriented.

thanks.

romama at gmail
Ubuntu 13.04 goes beta: What's new, what's missing.