skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"governments would sell monopolies on the import or production of things in exchange for a lump sum"

Still happens: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/port-leases-garner-5-billion-windf...
I attend a course at Coursera by Dan Ariely on Behavior Economics, and he talks about the effect of signing an honor code. Interestingly, his experiments showed that people stopped cheating when signing a honor-code, even if no such code really existed at their university. Being reminded of moral seems to be enough.

[http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228263998_The_Dishon...]
Polygraph countermeasures-guess they do exist
This is where I'd put my pithy, scorning response.
Sure, some people will sell, the question is whether or not the amount of selling is large enough to keep the price from spiraling upward. If you predict that there will be lots of selling, then you're assuming that people aren't (on average) responding to the incentive to hold.
Thank you sooooooooooo much for the 36-40 group.

Im 40, and I really cant get my head round that. I cant even really accept that Im a proper grown up adult, with kids. So, being put in a 36-40 group in stead of a 40-whatever group has very much cheered me up.

My your god bless you, eve if she is your wife ;)
Not only circular citation. I think people generally have a problem with a chain of authoritative sources confirming earlier parts of the chain and adding their own information...

heh.
There are lots of people born before 1970 and any system processing birth dates as epoch times would fail immediately. I'd rather try Feb 29, 1899 or just some plain old SQL injection instead.
It seems that the ladder updates are slow. Is it intentional that each bot gets one match per hour? Is it processing power determined? If the latter, can we somehow contribute cycles to it?

I've got a piece of iron sitting mostly idly, so I could spare a VPS. I guess many people here could pledge something similar for a fun project like this.
And who said there was no need for caps lock?

We could get into a back and forth of yelling, but you are also it seems 100% wrong. Government funding underlies the vast majority of advances in basic science understanding, what you referred to as lower-level theory, that then is utilized by drug companies to direct their new drug development. A good example is the relatively recent isolation of the Angiotensin II receptor, which in turn is leading to drug development. The basic science and years of research underpinning that discovery is not a byproduct of private investment. Lower-level theory is not lower at all, and is of no less value or less important to the person who is at the receiving end of this entire system; the patient.

The FDA doesn't allow new molecules out very often because most of them are useless, harmful, or redundant. I think that their standards for redundancy should be tightened. Low hanging fruit have not all been taken, its just that pharma doesn't invest enough in basic research because they're trying to pick all the low-hanging fruit from other people's work.

Going back to my original reply; I objected to the unquestioned acceptance of the value of private research. I would also object to the unquestioned acceptance of government research as being inherently valuable. While I think it is fairly clear that I believe that the government funded research gives far more value per dollar for society as a whole, it doesn't mean that I will blindly accept either form as the right one. I asked for references to backup stats that reinforce what I believe, rather than just run with it as a bludgeon against your argument.

game recognize game, son.
George Carlin on forte vs. fortay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-okOWMzIOI&list=PL6D8A60...
Many, some use half hours, and there are three that use 45 minutes.
It's an indication to scroll to the right.
Central Australian time comes to mind - GMT+9.5 hrs
... Adelaide, Darwin, Alice springs.
Gut reaction: Trojita isn't far off Trojan.
I think people will have issues with that.
http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf, which is the fundamental piece of new cryptography which enables it to work, doesn't make any sense to me.

At the very least, the authors have made the formulation so unclear that you could start to suspect the authors were deliberately trying to obfuscate it. They define a function ZKSoK(c, w, r), and it would make sense not to use c, w, and r to mean anything else in the short definition of the construction. However, the authors chose to also use c for the hash used to make it non-interactive, and r_i for a series of random numbers. Using the same variable name for two different things makes it hard to work out what they mean, but as far as I can tell, the c that is the function parameter is public knowledge, w can be computed from public information, and ZKSoK does actually depend on the r that is the function parameter, and the validation of the proof does not actually check that S is correct (c is computed as c <- g^S * h^r mod p, but it is useless if you can spend a zerocoin using any arbitrary S that doesn't actually correspond to any real c) as it claims.

In the 15 page version, they claim that the proof of the soundness of the ZKSoK proof can be found in "the full version of this paper" - perhaps that text makes things clearer, but they don't seem to provide a reference to it.
I've used it the correct way only to have people try to correct it with the (traditionally) wrong pronunciation.
I have that option enabled, and it just defaults to 360p. As far as I can tell, that option just makes it not increase the resolution when you click full screen.
What does blue moon really mean?
I don't see GPG/PGP integration. I have been looking for a lightweight, multi-platform offline capable IMAP client with good GPG/PGP encryption for awhile now, and nothing seems to quite fit the bill.
Cancer Reseach UK  - Crowd sourcing diagnosis search
Hey, thanks, man! I didin't know that. :)
I moved my mail to Webfaction a couple of weeks ago, and I'm in the process of moving my web sites there. Just using Spam Assassin set to delete anything scored 5 or higher, and send to the spam folder anything between 1-4 has more than good enough so far. Webmail is Roundcube, but I'm mostly using Thunderbird.

Webfaction is technically shared hosting, but it's shared hosting unlike anything I've seen elsewhere. I can write my own procmail recipes, set up custom php.ini files for each app I host, and I have SSH access. You could probably install Pine or Mutt id you wanted to.
One of the most challenging math puzzles comes to iPhone Free today for HN Users
About

Century Puzzle is a very old puzzle from early 1900's made from pieces of colored paper. The app contains 100 puzzles with the same numbers but with different winning combinations. Your main goal is to turn the rings to make the numbers on all six columns add up to a total of 100 each. It is very difficult to solve.

Have fun!

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/century-puzzle/id627982930?l...
Solutions: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.130894287096976.107...
Clearly you forgot puberty, high school, and being unable to sign a contract or get credit. Having said that, to be 18 again...
I don't like to be a pedant, but what the hell.

Your belief about which is the "correct" pronunciation depends on whether you believe the "correct" etymology is French or Italian. It appears to me that people agree that the word came into English from French earlier, but also that (at least in 'murica) people have settled on the other pronunciation.

It's not that there's a correct pronunciation that got corrupted, as you suggest. There are two legitimate derivations of this word with different pronunciations and one has won out.

By the way, the word in French would be pronounced \ˈfȯt\, which is a common usage in Britain. And it refers not to a fort (which is the Italian etymology for "a strong point") but rather to the part of a sword between the middle and the hilt.

Source: I like to read about usage and etymology. Sadly my dictionary of classical word origins suggests that forte comes from fortis in Latin, which (while ultimately true) doesn't reflect either later usage or pronunciation.
You need minimum zoom, not minimum font size. Unfortunately Safari does not have that, which is one of the reasons I do not use it.
Greek government shuts down Indymedia
The crazies are the government, not US!
"How big is this page?

Huge!
The exact size depends on the screen resolution on your PC, but the page is almost 1 mile (1.6 Km) high and 800 feet (250 m) wide."

Wow - pretty crazy.
Youtube or this?
http://www.panic.com/blog/2009/12/on-calendars/

Another interesting post about the weirdness of calendars.
GDF out in full force, how is this joke of a comment that doesn't even understand the most basic of things like where webkit came from by the top of the list.
Neat, but shouldn't it show the commits first to last?
Hacking an Airplane With Only an Android Phone
I find it really depressing that this discussion immediately degrades into Apple vs Google, people feel a need to state that they are or have been a "fan" of Google before giving their statement and similar.
If we want to really discuss about what a desirable future for the web is, how to further that cause, and who might be allies and foes we first have to overcome these attitudes.
Yeah, it was a (poor) joke =P. But I really don't like Google anymore and I'm going to avoid their stuff.
Tech group representing Google, Yahoo backs CISPA
how awesome are you? thanks
8 days. 8,000 forums
yup, can't sign in.
Thanks, man! I'm going to try that. =)
Node.js Application Hosting Service running on Digital Ocean
The serial number is never revealed. You provide a zero knowledge proof that you know a serial, and that that serial has never been spent. This proof is currently a major issue in zerocoin, because it is prohibitivly large.
Is this a semester long course? Since you're teaching computational biology it sounds like it'd be similar to the engineer introduction to programming with Matlab that I had to take my freshman year with no programming experience. It's probably going to run like this:

Tomorrow you'll be introducing how to get Matlab installed, and basically how to get running. No one did this before hand except for 2-3 kids. You'll do hello world, then make a helloworld.m file and half the class will be confused. If you can add 2 numbers, make a variable, and concatenate a string I think you'll be in good shape.

Remembering back to my intro engineering class, loops and specifically arrays are the hardest things to get in an intro programming class. It's "omg hard" level for them right now, even though Matlab does a bunch of the heavy lifting for you. While loops, for loops that increment by more than 1,and do-while loops are where they might struggle.

One of the most fun things we had to do for a project was using Matlab to manipulate audio files. Speed up, slow down, or make the tracks louder or softer. You can also do mixes using it. It's all array operations and then they can save the result to a file. I still have my quadruple speed mp3 on my computer from a 7 years ago.
"Change your difficult to remember name on YouTube to your easy to remember real name!"

Yeah because I really want all those racists and gun nuts knowing what my real name is.
Wow, what a coincidence that someone curiously hit precisely the timestamp of this, and knew to use a site where question and answer would be rewarded with attention and votes.

(I am coming around to a suspicion that a lot of "wow, that's cool"-type SO questions/answers are more or less fabricated to show off something the person knows, rather than genuine knowledge-seeking, in case you can't tell)
The earliest archive reference I can find for "Apache" is dated 27 Feb 1995, at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/199503.mb... :

> As to the product, we seem to have decided to call it Apache. (If you're wondering about the name, say "Apache server" ten time fast. Europeans may want to fake their best American accent while trying this).

It does not give the origin of the name. That discussion must have been pre-archive or in private email.

This topic has come up elsewhere. Quoting from a Linux Magazine interview of Brian Behlendorf published in April 2000: and available at http://web.archive.org/web/20000711011824/http://www.linux-m... :

LM: Who thought of the name Apache?

BB: I had some friends at a company called Enterprise Integration Technology, and somebody there asked me, "What would be your ideal Web server?" So I wrote about a bunch of stuff that I thought was missing from NCSA's server -- some stuff that still isn't in a lot of Web servers like revision control and stuff like that. I put it on a page and said: "I should come up with a name for this." The name literally came out of the blue. I wish I could say that it was something fantastic, but it was out of the blue. I put it on a page and then a few months later when this project started, I pointed people to this page and said: "Hey, what do you think of that idea?"

[BB:] Someone said they liked the name and that it was a really good pun. And I was like, "A pun? What do you mean?" He said, "Well, we're building a server out of a bunch of software patches, right? So it's a patchy Web server." I went, "Oh, all right."

Quoting elsewhere:

On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 18:35, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> Apache was named after the Apache tribes -- "a patchy" server was an afterthought. We've generally avoided any discussion of the topic because involvement of a native american "activist" will only result in trouble for us. Those people are not Apache -- they don't even have a clue. The various tribes that are called Apache (by their enemies) have more specific names for themselves. Thus, we don't have any complaints from the Apache people (only from white folks who think they know better).

The best conclusion I can draw is that nobody is certain about why the name was chosen. Different people involved have different views, and no one has published an email from that time. (I can assume that if an email existed AND it was archived AND someone who had a copy cared enough to research it AND if it didn't jibe with the current FAQ then there MIGHT be disincentive to publish it. However, that's too long of a chain to be a useful inference.)

However, the FAQ should definitely not be so certain about its claim.
I really hope people are not that close-minded, seriously...

By the way, from the wiki:

It's a cool name. What does it mean and how should I pronounce that word?

It's a Czech word which means "triple". The meaning is an inside joke related to a Czech pseudo-word, blésmrt. The whole story is inspired by Mutt's "all e-mail clients suck, this one just sucks less". The real pronounciation is rather hard for English speakers, so you can stick with a Spanish-like style.
Interestly quite a few use 30min and three use 45min, but none uses 15min.

I wonder why...
http://www.epost.de is my favorite email for personal use, but it's only in Germany. You have to identify yourself in one of their branch offices, so all their users are registered. Email for free, fax for free and you can send billable letters via web interface. You can even send a pdf, they print it out and send it in an envelope. Or upload a cd-rom, they will burn it and send afterwards. Encrypted messages, authenticator via mobile phone and when you are on holiday they can scan your letters if you want and send them to you as email.
The second I read the title and noticed it was a Stack Overflow question, I knew that there would be an answer from Jon Skeet.

I'm not usually prone to hero worship, but I've got a lot of time for him. His book C# in Depth is absolutely fantastic, he's helped me (and probably many others on here) with questions on SO, and he comes across as such a nice guy.
>But I returned to LB as a better programmer.

In what way? (Not meant to be accusing, just curious)
Busyness is Not a Virtue
Get the HELL on with it then.

You feel bad now? Im 40 and feel worse. I would give anything to be your age again, and have to 16 whole years, plus the 7 you regret, to achieve......well...... anything.

I promise you, if you don't you will bitterly regret it. I'm a busted flush, but you have every opportunity. You can even fail lots until you get it right.

Oh, forget luck. It does not exist. Its just recognised opportunity.
Any depth in Open Source ERP's?
Follow these threads and you will see many an open source ERPs being hammered for lack of depth, usability, completeness etc

We went down that path ourselves, trying to implement some of the leading open source ERPs for large clients (>10k employees) and realized halfway through we had to do a lot better to provide something that can be used by large companies.

Let me throw a challenge, how about this http://www.A1.iO, http://Academia.A1.iO;

Our promise is Depth, Ease Of Use, Open Source, but are we there yet? Let us know...
How does GMail do IMAP?
About labels, I believe they are sort of in the IMAP spec as keywords or something like that, so if Gmail is being nice, they should work.

About conversations, I read that Gmail does some client-side sorcery with In-Reply-To headers for that, so if this client does the same, it should work.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531679 (net-security.org)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5527230 (net-security.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5528482 (net-security.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531702 (net-security.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531872 (gizmodo.com)
there are some public and private institutions where we can't use an english keyword for our variables and functions name.....I'm not joking!!
Good IMAP clients is something I always look out for. Be they command line, web based, or GUI clients. Most of the ones I have tried have had performance problems so I like they have it as one of their core goals.

Anyone know of any other good IMAP clients?
Pratt's Bottom BR6
Trojan also came to my mind at first thought because I have no other basis of the meaning of Trojita in English.

For me it's not about being close-minded, it's about the mind making quick decisions whether to engage or discard information.
I like to think of a very precise meat grinder. You can turn a cow into hamburger but not hamburger into a cow.

Want to store a password (cow)? Meat grind it. Store the hamburger.

How does someone login? Grind their attempted password (cow) exactly as you did their stored password and compare hamburgers. If same, they can log

This of course assumes hackers are hindus and value cows but not hamburger.
I'm not sure why I was surprised at how much it goes down after 40, but it makes me a little sad inside. BTW- You can remove one of the under 10 and one of the over 90 points. Was having too much fun with it.
http://support.google.com/mail/answer/78892?hl=en
> Everyone else has a "walled garden" why must Google be different?

Because they spout "Don't be evil" and "open" when they're backed into a corner.
Cost of leads is possibly much lower than competing on search phrases.
All your caveats relate to velomobiles not being popular, which is indeed a network effect problem and the biggest issue. I'm sure they would cheapen up fast with mass production and competition driving down prices, and when you don't have to worry about sharing the road with lumbering machines weighting a ton, safety isn't a problem. So yeah, I guess America is out for a good while, let's hope Europe gets this trendy fast. They sure look retro enough for their hipsters.
Saw it, only clicked to read article to see what new trojan I might have to be prepared for.
Jon Skeet (the person that answered the question) works for Google, has more than one blog, and rep caps on stackoverflow daily from old answers because he's answered so many questions there. He's written multiple books on Java and C#. He's plenty visible. Not to mention that the question is over two years old.

There's no conspiracy here.
I've been maintaining an open source LaTeX web API called the CLSI (https://github.com/scribtex/clsi) for a few years now. This powers ShareLaTeX and ScribTeX, and I'm really keen for others to use it, and for the standard to evolve with more focus than just what I decide to add on a whim! As far as I'm aware, it's the only documented API for calling an online LaTeX compiler, and the design of the API is meant to be separate from the backend, so that the other online services could also expose a compatible API. If you're interested in perusing some sort of integration for LyX, then we need to talk further! My email address is in my profile.
I just opened the page up in code inspector and deleted an element, am I going to jail?
They don't seem to actually get any smaller (faux perspective) as they scroll up, they just scroll up and fade out... :/
It's considered perfectly legitimate on SO to ask and answer your own question, so there would be no need to use seperate accounts.

I can imagine that a question like this could arise as a narrowed-down test case for a bug found in production.
If you're working with historical time-series data you could easily be doing millions of time comparisons. so it's almost inevitable that people are going to hit edge cases like this.
You're not too far off. Companies have to, with growing size, do more and more stuff in french. At large companies that aren't exempt you must have a french keyboard for example and code comments have to be in french.
Oh dear............ I think I have just found a way to waste a hell of a lot of time. :)
Maybe, but why not let it go or even reward it? I find that it often does bring specialized information. If this person had waited for someone to ask the question, it could have remained unanswered. While now, the information is out if anyone needs it.

In short, I find this kind of fabricated Q/A an acceptable workaround the "burden" of the highly specialized knowledge bearer who would like to share it and get rewarded.
"A guy took offence because he thought the robot had looked at his girlfriend’s tits basically and tried to attack it."

Finally proof that there are in fact robots smarter than some humans.
Hacking Google for #1 results
Theres an interesting hack being in Google.co.uk results for the term 'electronic cigarette' where a black hat approach has worked to fool Google into allowing a bunch of sites to dominate the results.<p>It's quite an interesting blackhat approach combining techniques and relying on a few oddities at Google for it to work.<p>1) so every few weeks Google cycles take place with filters and 'new sites' will have penalties applied (sandbox), allowing new sites to gain a bunch of links quickly then rank very fast between these cycles<p>2) the sites are cloaking their results serving up different results a) for Google bots, b) for people coming directly from Google, c) for anyone going directly to their site.<p>They are doing this because they have affiliate links which they wish to hide from Google, while the traffic coming directly from google will see affiliate links, c) anyone going to them directly is treated suspicious so they show them a blank page saying the site is closed.<p> "This website is no longer available.":<p>http://fabelectroniccigarette.co.uk/<p>If you go there from a Google search you will see affiliate links<p>https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fabelectroniccigarette.co.uk<p>The cache page shows Google Bot with out the affiliate links<p>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IhEEuWPbYpoJ:www.fabelectroniccigarette.co.uk/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a<p>If you look at the cookies for the site you will see the refer link being captured<p>wptt_referrer<p><p>The back links to the site are all black hat links: http://www.black-x.de/gaestebuch.php
<p>they are running a churn and burn system with a bunch of sites .<p>www.fabelectroniccigarette.co.uk
www.electroniccigarettegold.co.uk/
www.ecigaretteco.co.uk
www.awsomeecigarettes.co.uk<p><p>Interesting
Keeping People
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