skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why aren't (free) podcasts distributed via Bittorrent? 
Why don't we distribute podcasts via Bittorrent? I started thinking about this after hearing Ira Glass' latest pledge solicitation on This American Life (which apparently costs WBEZ $170k/yr in bandwidth). I don't mean some tracker where powerusers go and download torrents and manage ratios and all that traditional "bittorrent" stuff. I mean WoW. WoW is a Bittorrent client. If you play WoW, you're automatically seeding the updates and patches you've downloaded to everyone else who plays WoW. That's how Blizzard can distribute large updates with maximal rapidity and minimal impact/downtime.

Imagine if iTunes (or podcast app du jour) did the same thing. If you download a podcast, you seed it. Instead of Chicago's public radio station eating the six figure cost of my listening to their free content from Portland, OR, we all just get to upload 70 or 100 MB without even knowing, no harm done.

So, uh, is this a good idea? I feel like it should have been attempted by now....
> Use Gunicorn instead of Apache for your webserver [...] This assumes NGINX is managing all incoming requests and serving static content.

Why not just go nginx + django the usgi way? Now you have friendly tutorials and docs for this like https://uwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and... . Maybe I'm weird or I've never worked on large enough apps, but I fail to get what the shiny unicorn and gunicorn bring useful tot the table...
Mir Display Server Now Uses XKB Common
I'm not familiar with Win32 APIs. Could you elaborate more as to how they would enable you to control the client like a zombie?
Bitcoin Mining Goldrush Has Begun
Andy Grove's prediction on wireless personal communicators in every pocket, 1992
Microsotf still confused about Microsoft.ba
Lectures: Efficient Route Planning, University Freiburg
There are four pairs of values modulo two, so if you have five points some two of them must be the same modulo two. Say these points are A and B. Then A + B = (even, even), and so (A + B) / 2 has integer coordinates.
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The whole point was to make a Mac client, not to "spam the system."
Seems to be down -- nyud cache here http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/YahooChatRooms.html?dis...
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How is overcharging clients a crime? You mean billing for time that wasn't actually spent on the client, right?
I think the .nyud.net has to go straight after the domain name: http://ridiculousfish.com.nyud.net/blog/posts/YahooChatRooms...
That is interesting, since the notable thing about them is that they are physical devices. Boards to ballance on, guitarrs to play, fishing rods to swing...
'Like a nuclear bomb': Deadly fertilizer plant blast devastates Texas town
"Coincidently I now work at a company with currently 4 dogs in the office"

Jesus, and I complain about how hard it is to concentrate in a noisy open plan office. A bunch of non-human animals roaming about might just tip me over the edge.
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China Overtakes U.S. to Lead Green Energy Investments
I think he's asking how it got so obfuscated in the first place. Seemingly, the spammers could just pilot a standard up to date client with a bot, rather than try and figure out the protocol.

I'm sure it's more complicated than that however, like client side rate limiting or something.
That was tough to follow, let me restate,

Let the two points be (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) such that x1 % 2 == x2 % 2 and y1 % 2 == y2 % 2, i.e., have the same parity.

Then x1 + x2 = 2 * x3 (is even) and y1 + y2 = 2 * y3 (is even), and (x3, y3) is an integer point.

Given five points, two such points must exist because of the pigeon hole principle.
Awesome! Network sniffing and analyzing is one of my favorite hobbies since being introduced to it as a security analyst for an MSSP and then writing Wireshark plugins at Sandia. If anyone is looking for a fun Saturday, I highly recommend http://forensicscontest.com/.
Having your paper published in PLOSone at age 14 is pretty impressive. Good on her, and good on Dr. Bauer at SMU who took her into his lab and treated her ideas with respect.
I missed something critical, as you pointed out.
Tracking = Advert dollars.

That is basically it
"When you apply for work, you need to have a good idea of what you're worth in the broader market"

Which is why coworker pay is not irrelevant.
Syrian Pro-Government Hackers Strike NPR Website
not fair!
That's like 4 Xerox drum cartridges?
Flawed argument based on generalization.

The sentence itself reveals the fallacy: "leads to corruption", suggesting at some point it is not corrupt -- contradicted by "every government is corrupt". Q.E.D.
I think they mean suggestions on how the colours should be used according to content - e.g this light blue for text on this dark blue background (or whatever) - but yeah great site
Use version control on your dotfiles.
Microsoft Makes 1,000 Windows 8 Quickstart Kits Available To iOS Developers
I just did, and didn't see anything I violated. I could be wrong though, and would love to correct my behavior. I said it was absolutely crazy because if you go frame-by-frame there is literally a flash of white in a single frame, then the explosion. No build-up, no nothing. It happened within 3/24 of a second. If you make some estimate of the scale, you could use dimensional analysis to estimate the energy of the explosion. The time scales are a little large, but it could be done to probably two orders of magnitude.
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That sounds very close to OAuth 2.
Miro is a good bitorrent + media player http://www.getmiro.com/

It solves podcasts and video.

But eventually creators and consumers need to agree on a platform

Possibly more people listen now their podcasts on iPods and iPhone and already have iTunes installed, which also satisfies their access to music
I think he means the APIs that allow you to simulate mouseclicks and keyboard input on arbitrary windows and controls
> This is coming from the perspective of a software engineer with 15 years of experience.

Which makes your opinion actually LESS relevant and interesting.

I would care more if this was written by a 50 year old father of two or a 14 year old girl. Those are the people you don't hear much from and whose buying decisions actually matter.
Actually it ranges from simple event spoofing (user clicked here, user dragged there) to injecting a DLL + spawning a thread under your control.

Event spoofing is pretty limited. While having a thread under your control gives you full power as you have full access to the process' memory and can call any function you want.
Ignore the trolls.
Yep, but ask the average worker if they know this. That law doesn't keep this clause from appearing in employment contracts either.
HackerEarth Screens Developer For Startups Through Programming Challenges
6 Reasons Why Africa Needs Raspberry Pi More Than OLPC
The intersection of public finance and constitutional democracy suggests that nope, this wouldn't work either.
>Ok, so what are your perceived advantages of knowing your colleagues salary?

This looks like a loaded question. It's not a perceived advantage, it's a real advantage to know how much you are paid compared to others. I'm still in college and I like the fact that scores are public. When I'll get hired, how do I maximize what I get paid if I don't know what others are getting?
Worship the glitch of GPU
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Look at the OpenSSL libraries for php regarding certificates. Its very close to unusable, you cannot get or set some pretty basic information like SANs.
I belive the 1% example is referring to trust your heart even when people discourages you but you know your idea should work...

Also i belive, being able to take orders is very valuable to the team, even if you are the ultra master chief... Closed to not taking orders? Then you are starting with your left foot in being a leader...

Just my thoughts...
IBM's penchant for providing bit-and-millisecond-perfect reverse compatibility back to the 60s is built on the fact that their customers will pay very, very, very high prices for it.
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back of the napkin:
take the first 4 points to be a unit box with the lower left point at the origin. You can draw any of 4 lines to the 5th point (x,y). These 4 lines will have slopes x:y, x-1:y, x:y-1, x-1,y-1. You can always arrive at a slope ratio that is evenly divisible through some combination of -1 and reducing the ratio to simplest form. An evenly divisible slope ratio will pass through another point.

example: 5th point (11,4). Choose line with slope 10:4. Divisible by 2, this line passes through the point (5,2). A ratio divisible by 3 would pass through 2 additional points etc.
Was anyone else heavily on the HTML5 crew only to be rudely awakened to all these inconveniences? It seems like there's a constant, persistent migration away from HTML5 for mobile style devices...and while every dev group says something like "performance, debug tools, etc." However, I'd say that the ultimate reason to do so is because of user behavior - opening up safari mobile or chrome is not a "pleasant" experience when compared with a native app.

Is anyone else moving away from html5 to native? What I find odd about this is Paul Graham's whole "web software" is the future - and yet if "Mobile" future and mobile users favor "native software" ............. then it seems that native would be the future.

Of course, one can just say "yes, but native is becoming hybrid with web." And that's definitely true, but it still makes things very dependent upon the client and not as "platform agnostic" as a full web movement would be.
I went to an undergraduates open day at IBM's Perth Development Lab. The exercises to try were in Rexx.
You can basically read anything from controls, and trigger callbacks at will, as if you had actually clicked a button or written some text. This means that you can write "expect-like" software -- just start up the program, and have another program read input from it's text fields and issue commands to it.

I have actually done a lot of this, putting old sourceless win32 and win16 programs run in the background on virtual machines on the server and building new web-based interfaces on top of them.
Not sure about elsewhere in the world but in the UK "shat" is a sort-of fun past tense for "shit", e.g. "Ian shat in his pants"
High precision wingsuit
Or you know, more likely - completely tank the market since the current price is incredibly unstable, but still represents an assumption that no one individual has a large stash of coins that might become liquid suddenly.
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Is it possible to tell if something's organic by looking at it?
A real proof would work for an arbitrary first four points (with any segment between two not containing a lattice point), but I think nikln already provided this :)
Why would 4 of the points form a square?
Why would finding him put you in danger?
One super-useful bash feature is anonymous named pipes, which allows the equivalent of multiple pipe "arguments" to a single command.

Instead of:

echo a b c > /tmp/foo

echo d e f > /tmp/bar

diff /tmp/foo /tmp/bar

Just do:

diff <(echo a b c) <(echo d e f)
How educators use the block-building game to inspire kids to code
The minidisk could have become the digital media if Sony weren't so afraid of piracy. It was relatively cheap, rewritable, couldn't get scratched and had (for the time) very large capacity.

Instead we got single-write cds (no one bothered with rewritable) until finally usb sticks made optical obsolete.
Another advantage of the dog is how it's looking to the right. After your eyes dart to the puppy, you naturally follow it's line of sight to see what it's looking at, and you end up at the sign up button.

If they use an image of a person, they would need to be glancing or gesturing in that direction as well.

Actually, I'd like to see them A/B test the puppy against itself, but flip it horizontally so it's looking to the left in one scenario.
So that means that there will be at least on line which the center is an integer point.
Crocodoc is having outage
This construction shows Villarceau circles[1], which are the nontrivial circle sections of a torus. This can be also seen on the POV raytracer hall of fame[2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villarceau_circles
[2]: http://hof.povray.org/Villarceau_Circles-CSG.html
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That it does.

Visiting http://example.com/index.html.nyud.net would send a request to "example.com" for the path "/index.html.nyud.net". That's not what you want.
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TimeGate loses appeal: Court orders Section 8 developer to pay $7.3M in damages
There are four possible coordinate parities

(even, even), (even, odd), (odd, even), (odd, odd)

Among five points two must have the same parity.

Between two points of same parity the difference has the parity (even, even).

As (even, even) is divisible by two there's an integer midpoint.
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Forget touch UX, make music with 3D motion and arcade buttons
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true, you can always make one of the 4 lines have a slope that is even/even. the point composed of x/2,y/2 will lie on this line.
At Microsoft, I once wrote code for a public facing login system where you had to make sure usernames didn't contain some banned words. I was surprised by how many words on the list were new to me and how, err, creative people get.

I always wondered who at Microsoft was tasked with keeping that list 'up to date'.
I recall patching majordomo to sort the huge subscriber list (wanting to know a court's actions as they happened) by reverse string, to bring like domains together, before splitting it into chunks of N subscribers and handing those individually to sendmail. Before that, sendmail would be given one email with a huge subscriber list and plod through the recipients, without sorting them so it contacted the same SMTP server many times, and one unresponsive peer would stall delivery for all that followed.
I suppose British people never really used the chat to talk about paedophiles. At least they looked for actual words rather than any occurrence in the string.
A report from the freedesktop summit between KDE, GNOME and Unity developers
Intel Announces HTML5 Development Environment
I think he meant that they came into existence ad hoc, with so many originators that its genesis would be nearly impossible to sort out.
And is it possible to tell if somebody eats organic by looking at him?
Because anyone motivated sufficiently to find him now knows that you know who/where he is, and can likely be coerced in unsavory ways to divulge that information.
doh, forgot to do the last and most important step, generalizing.
Games makers may reject HTML5 out of hand
Using PVS-Studio with huge projects (MSBuild integration)
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At least managing multiple files is a pain.

I've had to resort to

$ vimdiff <(pip freeze) requirements/prod.txt

You can't just do "pip freeze > requirements.txt" like you see on every tutorial. I wish there was a better way to do this.

And I would also like to only display without dependencies. Say I "pip install X", which depends on Y and Z as well. Then later I want to delete X, so I just "pip uninstall X", but I will still have Y and Z.
There's an important detail about market efficiency in the atomicity of the market. For an individual job, are there really that many applicants (living in the area, for example) to be able to consider them mostly the same? Inversely for an individual, are there enough equivalent jobs for him to consider a 'job market' in the way economists consider markets for houses/apples/cars?

I honestly don't know.
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Through your wage, the employer is already communicating to you the point at which they cut their losses on you and let you go. Maybe through hard bargaining you could inch a bit more out, but to do it you have to introduce an unpleasant penny pinching theme into your relationship with coworkers and employer.

If you're working in a situation where you feel you're tied to a single company needing to gouge out pay increases on the basis of what the guy next to you is being, you're already screwing yourself from so many angles that you have bigger problems to be thinking about. Instead of worrying about some fractional adjustment to your wage, you should be worrying about becoming more valuable, broader, flexible, self-sufficient.

This is an interesting topic because cultures have very different attitudes about negotiating. Here's a wave from the London morning crowd. The English tend to be silent-auction, sudden-death negotiators. It will be interesting to see what the Americans have to say when they get in.
This seems rather trivial.

Take two arbitrary points, named A and B, where Ax < Bx (if Ax == Bx, this becomes absurdly simple).

Calculate the delta ∂ between the points, such that ∂x = Bx - Ax and ∂y = By - Ay

Define a third point C such that Cx = Bx + ∂x and Cy = By + ∂y.

C is integral, and is colinear with A and B.
That makes it very difficult to understand how other parts of Japanese culture can be so focused on perfection. Even western programmers use he word "Zen" to describe the simplicity and perfection of code that we strive for.
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Technically, the problem doesn't specify that the points have to be distinct...
I thought the veto was because the bill was too lenient on companies.

"However, the Administration is concerned about the broad scope of liability limitations in H.R. 624. Specifically, even if there is no clear intent to do harm, the law should not immunize a failure to take reasonable measures, such as the sharing of information, to prevent harm when and if the entity knows that such inaction will cause damage or otherwise injure or endanger other entities or individuals." [http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57579905-38/obama-threaten...]

In other words, that corporations should be punished for not providing information.
Wouldn't there be a high chance to be caught on camera?
Thank you for pointing out that I can do per-file commits. I didn't know that before!

I use 'hg st' so much that I've aliased it as 'st'. It's just about muscle memory now.
The Limitations of GitHub for Writers
Why wouldn't he just reveal his identity, and become a minor internet celebrity (as well as rich)? It's not as if he's in any real danger.
One of the reason people hate php
My favorite was this one : http://youtu.be/ZiTX4dchAnQ

Necros / Isotoxin
C-r will search what you type afterwards, (e.g., "C-r ssh" will then show me the previous command that starts with "ssh") whereas this tip seems to be searching to match what you've already typed. Pretty cool, IMO.
4/7 of those websites are explicitly pro-Apple, which makes it seem unlikely that they are telling the whole story, given how, unfortunately, these things tend to descend into us-vs-them/clan warfare.

(I'm not saying it isn't true, just they aren't necessarily reporting everything.)
C does not lie on the line segment AB.
I don't see why being a competitor would make it impossible for Sony to build a media store. It worked for Valve...
GitHub Enters Third Dimension With STL File Format
Oh man, when I worked there in Localisation for Office, there were crazy length lists for every language, it was so much fun to read through with foreign friends!
It was a "retail" account, so they were probably happy to look the other way as long as the volume of "business moneys" flowing through it was below a certain threshold.

This would be analogous to a single dev using a [cheap|free] personal license on software for commercial activities, which is de facto OK till you hit a certain size. Then he would be better off purchasing a commercial license.
If you want to use bash, go to the source
Instead of just random code snippets in hacker news, just go to the terminal and write ``man bash`` or visit http://linux.die.net/man/1/bash .

You will learn a lot of useful features that even zsh, or fish doesn't have.

Bash is quite powerful but the default installation a plain shell.
why has this been downvoted? if this is wrong, a simple "no, this is wrong. see e.g. blah" would have been nice.
A/B Testing on 4chan
I read yesterday that GM food is better because it does not need to be covered with pesticides so much. GM plants have built in protection, on purpose, to lower the need for dumping chemicals in the earth.

Now they can make GM fruit and vegetables taste great and look great, they don't have to taste like plastic.
All I get is "Your browser doesn't support Javascript..." :)

Really wish people didn't require that to let me read some text.
Oracle releases Java security patch, but problems remain
(5,2) - (1,0) = (4,2)

(4,2)/2 = (2,1)

(2,1) + (1,0) = (3,1)
Apparently[1], they are 20% of South Korea economy.

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/whoa-sam...
Fuduntu Linux discontinued, team plans to move onto a new distro
3,1 lies midway between 1,0 and 5,2.
Not to poop on her accomplishments, but isn't conventionally grown fruit sprayed with pesticides specifically to kill and deter pests like fruit flies?
That's what I meant to use it for but the API is used at the root of applications to draw windows, handle mouse click events, accept keyboard input, create icons in the system tray and anything else that would involve Windows UI.

In the same way applications use the win API to create their UI, others could use it to manipulate and control the interface of other programs. It's powerful.
Apple shares lowest since 2011
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You're assuming companies like Monsanto haven't made some other undisclosed alterations which are detrimental to health.
http://bitcoin.org/en/development

Gregory Maxwell is listed as a developer. He also has contributed a lot of code to the project.
Samsung are also involved in building processing, rail and port infrastructure for Australia's Iron Ore region.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-28/samsung-c-t-wins-a-...
"Through your wage, the employer is already communicating to you the point at which they cut their losses on you and let you go."

The fact that plenty of people have gotten wage increases by threatening to leave their company disproves this notion. Your wage is not the point at which companies will let you go, it is the minimum amount needed to retain you.

"but to do it you have to introduce an unpleasant penny pinching theme into your relationship with coworkers and employer."

This is a sad sad culture where asking for what you're worth is considered 'unpleasant' to your relationships with colleagues and employers.
Some organic food myths:

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4019

Myth #1: Buying organic food benefits small farmers, and represents a blow to the big food corporations.

Myth #2: Organic foods are healthier to eat.

Myth #3: Organic growing methods are better for the environment.

Re 1) "...organic food is big, big business. The days when the organic produce section of the supermarket represented the product of a small local farmer are long gone. California alone produces over $600 million in organic produce, most of it coming from just five farms, who are also the same producers of most non-organic food in the state...."

Re 2) "When you take the exact same strain of a plant and grow it in two different ways, its chemical and genetic makeup remain the same. One may be larger than the other if one growing method was more efficient, but its fundamental makeup and biochemical content is defined by its genes, not by the way it was grown. Consumer Reports found no consistent difference in appearance, flavor, or texture."

Re 3) "Organic methods require about twice the acreage to produce the same crop, thus directly resulting in the destruction of undeveloped land."