skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Maybe I'm not part of the target audience for this article, but it seems to lack quite a bit of information.

I think for anyone with minimal assembly experience or a desire to learn this is pretty straight forward.

>>For example, you explain what op-codes are, but then only cover one of them.

He gives you a link to the list of all of the op codes... Did you read it?

>>I think at least a basic overview of common op-codes and how they work together would have been great

Maybe this is going to be in a follow up article. But after explaining the concept, giving you toy example and giving you the opcode list, with the provided hexdump you should be able to start doing this yourself. Try it! Its fun.

>>Also, the "hacking" you demonstrate is simply replacing a string, which is certainly not Java-specific and rarely useful

Intro to concept examples are often toy examples....
it would be easy to make it look like it is part of the machine....
Lately I have been feeling we as builders had this responsibility to build the Internet that the world needed, and we failed. We were distracted, we got rich, we ignored or misread the needs of our fellow humans.

The walled gardens that we now find so insidious and creepy are due to our own failure to empower the users. We made HTTP, SMTP, XMPP protocols. Large companies brought these to the masses, in ways the masses can understand and interact with in their limited capacity... for a price.

Can we reclaim humanity's birthright? Can we build a vision of the world we wish to live in, that is accessible to and understandable by many? Or is our entire collective fate to become a monetized click stream of suckers?

This article names Google, but to me that is beside the point. Google is a large system set in motion by shareholders and market forces that has equilibrium. It consumes click streams and subscriptions, and excretes money, like others of its kind. Can such an organism ever serve the best interests of humanity all the time?

If you find yourself hating Google, better to look within yourself. Do you have the courage to walk away from these kinds of services and build an alternative, however humble it might be, that empowers and liberates your fellow humans?

I am still working on this in myself. My email is still gmail, I would miss some personalities in my G+ circles, but I am uncomfortable, and I find current trends unsettling.

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>There will be 'gravity' -a force- in the opposite direction you are accelerating in.

Wouldn't there be a force in the direction you are accelerating in?

Anyway, when you accelerate a car, you are not feeling acceleration, you are feeling the force of the car on you. Imagine being inside of a box that is in free fall. What experiment could you run to determine if you were accelerating?
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You can login as Admin, client or staff (select it from the dropdown) and password is already entered.

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This is your assertion, not theirs.
The biggest blunder of this article is how they convey Google. Do they know a little more about me than I like? Sure. But so does Facebook, Microsoft, and OkCupid!. The difference here is that if I want out of Google, I simply go to the dashboard and erase my history. I don't know how deep their erasure goes, but it is certainly more comforting than what any other company offers.

Facebook holds your info for a week and if you sign back in, the week restarts. During that week they goad you to come back. Not exactly cooperative.

And lets vilify Google first and foremost (/s). I run Ghostery. I am much more scared by the number of unique tracking companies. I don't know anything about them. How could I even begin to tell nearly 1500 known tracking companies to leave me alone? Simply telling them to leave me alone gives them data about me, which they certainly must keep if I am to be left alone.
I would really like to see this Wiki!
Young men and women of HN: If you apply to Ben Milne's company, he won't be particularly excited if he discovers you have a penis. If he discovers have a vagina, though, he'll be much more excited.

Good for you, Ben.

As I'm sure many of you have noticed, it's almost always hyper-privileged men who triumphantly make these (and similar) pronouncements. And as always, by urinating on lower-status men, Ben risks very little social standing; his potential social benefits, however, are enormous.
Here are some things that I've realized are must haves for modern team chat:

- Email messages when someone is mentioned but are offline

- Integration with source control, CI, and issue tracking systems being used, targeted by channel/group

- Ability to filter channels by conversation/users (includes some way to attach and track conversation topics on messages in the same channel)

- Web app with desktop notifications and ability to mute those notifications by type

Do the hard work of making these easy to configure and use, and you may be able to compete with hipchat/campfire/etc.
I've found that if both users have their windows at full-size, it's fairly easy to read (at least, default Sublime Text 2 is readable) so long as the connection is good. As soon as either user adjusts, it shrinks too much unless you've got the text bumped up quite a bit (and even then, you might be dealing with too much connection fuzz for it to be readable).
Also note that the topology of dwave's architecture strongly limits the instance of the Ising model you can implement and so the blowup in the instance size is twice: from your problem to the ising model and to map this Ising problem to the dwave's architecture.
Ex-boss of political-group scrutiny at IRS now heads 'Obamacare' desk
I think the 37signals guys benefit from their corporate/individual brands in that case. If you're just some person popping up on HN without that kind of historical track record, it's a lot easier to be dubious that the proper precautions have bene taken.
They claim AES 256-bit encryption, and yet when I go through debug and networking logging they clearly only encrypt messages with regular SSL - so what does it mean when they say they encrypt? Just that they may store the messages encrypted? Which is unlikely if they have "near-realtime search" considering how difficult it is to implement searching over encrypted data.
The company I work for was located in a shipping container for a year. 3 people had computers and (eventually) a window air conditioning unit. It got cold in winter.

We create products and services for the shipping industry (usually bulk cargo, but sometimes containers).
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The Chase Sapphire Preferred is generally competitive with the AmEx Gold Premier Rewards card, is a Visa, has lower fees, no foreign transaction fee, and has better transfer partners, on average (though they don't do their special transfer bonus, if you ever take advantage of those). I wrote a little webapp to help compare card rewards: http://www.creditcardcomparer.org

I still need to add the other side benefits like warranties and the like, though, where the AmEx is generally better.
I really hate posts like this. It's full of vague statements like:

"When we found that Java did not seem to fit the
project requirements (no offense), we began exploring
the world of Node.js"

and

"By the end of the exercise, people understood the core
value of Node.js; indeed, some of the con arguments proved
to be part of the beauty of the language."

What's wrong with this? The pros and cons of Java versus Node.js aren't explained. In fact, I'm hard pressed to find any specific information in this article at all about what drove their decision making, or for that matter, anything in this article that's remotely technical.

This is a fluff piece that won't inform you about anything besides the fact that eBay is using Node. Cool story? But you're not telling us why
There's the package fishfish whose version is stable OpenBeta_r2.
Vigilance and self-policing, because you're right, regulation on this front has a highly chilling effect on expression.

This particular topic is near and dear to me - I do a lot of street photography which is, at least partially, defined as taking pictures of strangers in a documentary manner, and almost always takes place in public.

Countries with strong privacy laws, such as France and Japan, do suffer from this. The photographic community in the UK has been hit hard in the past few years as even innocuous picture-taking of popular landmarks has been hit with intense police scrutiny if your gear is too "good".

We do not want the heavy hand of government in here, because inevitably this will mean throwing the baby out with the bath water. Expression and art is usually at the boundaries of what society currently finds palatable, and activities along this border needs to be regulated by people, not immutable and slow-changing laws.

The only solution I can think of (and it's not a particularly good one) is to slam the door shut on people who would abuse their freedom of expression and whose actions will lead to the loss of freedom by inviting regulation. I'd rather oppose people rather than technology, though.
I think this is heading in the right direction but teaching methods of the best teachers have been studied for years and I don't think the algorithm is simple. I have no doubt that computers can be better than the worst teachers but I think we're far a way from beating the best ones.

I'm surprised at the negative comments here, I'm guessing there are a lot of education software entrepreneurs who somehow interpreted the article as a swipe at their industry. I thought it was a good counterpoint to the hype around online courses although it was also clearly a plug for another product.

My kids are already growing up with a mix of online and warm-blood teachers. They talk a lot about how they like or dislike this or that teacher and they try very hard to succeed in the classes of the teachers they respect. They use Khan Academy and stuff like that but it's just this thing on the web they can draw on, they have zero emotional connection to it.
After reading the article, I still dont see what you mean by complex. I saw a wishlist of things that might or might not be related to bookmarking.

Storing a URL, how ever, is more complex that you would think. There are no size limit on urls, so every time update your database schema (I know, SO '90), a longer URL will show up.

Short story; Ive worked on a bookmark service. One day, the database went all crazy on us, and we didn't know why. The commit logs kept growing, and the service was slow. The system pushed more data than normal, but all user metrics show normal usage. We spent some hours debugging this, until a guy poped by our office and asked "Have you seen google's new favicon?! It looks like a toilet seat!".

Then it hit us; We where storing a copy of favicon with each bookmark; suddenly half the bookmarks in our database got updated.. ;)

Next time, I'll tell you about that porn site that used the full size images as favicons..
I find that when companies say "better" usually they mean "more profitable for us".

Sometimes it involves end-consumer benefits, but often not. Google used to be one of the companies where this rule didn't apply as much. In their shift to becoming Microsoft2, this rule seems to apply more and more.

This isn't a critique of Google insomuch as it's a critique of any sufficiently powerful corporation.
I know what you are trying to say, but I'd argue that the time has gone and past on HTML-only. JavaScript is a required part of the internet presentation platform at this point.
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Your previous statement might be true - and also has nothing to do with a "universal reference frame".

A god that intervenes has nothing to do with whether or not the God is physical.

I suspect you are reading things into what people believe without actually understanding what they believe. i.e. that it's actually you that believes God has a reference frame, not that the majority of people in the US do.
You get the same in bash and zsh, it's not exclusive to fish.

Bash: shopt -s autocd

Zsh: setopt autocd
Presumably Law Enforcement couldn't compel Coinbase to disclose all the names they had though? They would need some kind of probable cause?
Occasionally, a large jackpot can return a positive average payoff, if it's powerball style and they accrue from round to round. However, the odds are so astronomically against any one ticket winning, that it would still be considered gambling. If a billionaire could risk enough of their fortune to gain a high probability of getting that winning ticket and therefore making an overall profit, then perhaps it would be investing from his perspective, but if you or I blows our $50k emergency fund and still has a 99% chance of losing it all, it's still gambling.
There are many interesting pages on this site. The brainfk and Intercal resources are a fun read, also the tiny executables. The Tile World downloads are a bit out-of-date though.
"There's not much you can do in Awk that you can't do elsewhere: Turing-completeness and all that."

The fact that Awk is Turing-complete has nothing to do with the fact (if it is a fact) that there's not much you can do in it that you can't do elsewhere.

The SKI combinator calculus is Turing-complete, but you can't read a CSV file with it.
SSL is secure connections, but not message encryption. This still means the messages are visible to Tesla.im or any server that transfers the mssages, even if you do not log it at some point is available is cleartext. That poses a privacy risk just like the mass majority of modern communication apps. https://www.cyphrd.com/ is working on a new communication app that actually poses client-side encryption with proper key sharing to keep communication private between the participents.
Their Blue Cash card w/ 6% cash back on groceries is particularly amazing: http://www304.americanexpress.com/getthecard/learn-about/Blu...

I end up getting about one "small grocery trip" free per month because of that.
My point is more that believing God created the universe is not really an obvious thing to believe. Why not just believe that the nobody created the universe and it has been around forever? Or that the universe emerged out of »nothing«?

No? That can not possibly be true? How could something be around forever? And how could something so complex and beautiful as the universe with all the fancy stuff inside emerge out of »nothing«? No way.

But wait, it is no problem for God to be around forever? It is no problem to have an entity, powerful enough to create a whole universe, without explaining where it came from? Or should we just introduce a super-god that created God? Unfortunately this just shifts the problem to the next level and we are again back at square one.

Besides that you can obviously build a house and enter through the front door after you finished it.
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No... see above. Even if expectation is positive, it is still likely a bad decision. Google Kelly Criterion - it tells you what percentage of your bankroll you can risk on those kinds of bets. For most of us, it would work out to a fraction of a penny.
This looks cool!

FYI your SMS tool refuses to work with my US cell phone number.
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Because its extremely handy when I'm traveling from the states to Europe.
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Ya know, with an estimated $600M prize I'll probably by a PowerBall ticket this weekend too :-)
set -e fish_greeting

-e to erase
I actually just bought a $1000 85 gallon water heater from home depot using Amex rewards points.
Don't debit card transactions have fees, too? I've heard conflicting accounts. I try to pay with cash, when I can.
This is something an agency might use more than a freelancer. The app seems adequate, though the fonts are a bit hard to read. Its OK, but I cant say that its better than anything else Ive tried. Not a bad thing in itself, but I dont see myself using it. I use trello for this sort of thing.
Intel's CEO Says He Passed On A Chance To Get Chips Inside The First iPhone
There's no real ID check when you sign up for a paid Apple developer account. A stolen credit card and an email address is enough.
Does Google Glass have stereo cameras? The specs suggest no:

https://support.google.com/glass/answer/3064128?hl=en

I have to feel v2 will, given the possibilities of applications as demoed here.
7 Minute Workout App Now Available in the Chrome Web Store
The original 7 Minute Workout App is now available in the Chrome Web Store. Featuring whistles to notify you when to start, stop and break for each exercise, as well as a burly bearded man to keep you motivated.
Not to stop there, it's in the page title too, so anyone coming in from Google (for example) is basically required to click on the phrase "web application framework" and acknowledge that the creators, at least, think that it's a framework.
Its a memory thing :-) Other conversations that fall into the general theme:

"This technology is going to disrupt (really big co) and with only 1% of their market I'll be a zillionaire."

"The proprietary use of carefully designed magnetic fields on the water actually turn it into fuel which allows us to generate power too cheap to measure."

"I have done all the homework I need to do before the weekend is over."
Yeah. "Militaristic" is the adjective I would choose to describe Korean corporations in general.
Showing a pixel-art 3d bike is a good idea. It's going to appeal to the Minecraft crowd.

Give me something like this that I can run through my MC worlds on and I'm paying.
Assignments != Equation

Assignments are pretty unmathematical since they represent memory operations and (usually) allow for mutation.

Wirth chose := in Pascal for a reason (with the comparison operator begin = instead of == there which is at least closer to the mathematical = operator).
We are a current rackspace customer and it's been YMMV with them.

We had a particular project that we needed to use the VPS for and noted the page on the SMTP policy. The sales staff were all over us with emails and follow ups but when we posed the question regarding something specific with the SMTP policy (pointing to the particular page) they went silent. No answer, no follow up no reply to our follow ups.

Sent an email to the page that says "if you have any questions write here" and got a link back to that same page (iirc or something literally that worthless).

The lack of follow up (for an important issue) and reply ( to questions) made it a non-starter to use Rackspace for this purpose.

Found it. So in other words we sent an email to abuse@rackspace.com. with a question (per what the page says) and got this auto response:

THIS IS AN AUTOMATED-RESPONSE

Please read carefully! This may be the only response we send you.

Thank you for writing the Rackspace AUP Department. We will make every

effort to investigate all reports of abusive activity in a timely

manner. The information that you have submitted will be used to

investigate the incident for violations of our Acceptable Use Policy,

which you can view at:

http://www.rackspace.com/aboutus/acceptable_use.php

When reporting unsolicited commercial/bulk email (UCE/UBE/spam),

please forward the entire message, including full headers, leaving the

original subject line intact.

When reporting scans, probes, hacking attempts, or malicious

activity, please include an unaltered excerpt of your security log files

showing ONLY THE INCIDENTS PERTAINING TO Rackspace and/or its

customer. Please cut and paste it directly into the body of the email

message, including:

Source IP Address

Date and Time

Source/Destination Ports

Any other brief pertinent details

Thank you!

Rackspace AUP Department
This does not sound rude at all to me. I don't understand the position that someone should be accepting of you wanting to "partner" with them by default.
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And I need to get stuff done, and learning a new [language/framework/shiny object] isn't always the fastest way of getting stuff done.

It is better to be an expert in a few languages rather than a dilettante in many.

Of course, the best of all possible worlds is to be an expert in many languages, but that often requires time that gets in the way of 'getting stuff done'.
Google glass only outputs to one eye, so 3d vision isn't possible.

3d input is still useful, but less fun.
The reason we have the grammar police but not the math police is that grammar is somehow encoded in our brains at a more fundamental level than math. I don't remember all the details but guys like Stephen Pinker argue that there's a fundamental language logic we are born with and it's expressed in grammar.

I don't think such a fundamental encoding exists for math, it's more of an abstraction we learn long after we've learned to speak grammatically correctly (or is that "correct"?).

Having said that - yes we absolutely need the Math Police! Especially because math is easier to agree on than what's correct grammar. "I didn't say nothin' to nobody" to mean "I didn't say anything to anybody" might seem incorrect when to some but still follows a fundamental grammar logic of its own so I think the Math Police's arrest to conviction ratio would be much better.
The IR filter helps, but (this is sort-of speculation because I don't have any knowledge of the system outside of reading the patents), I think the major processing gain comes from the shutters. In fact, I think the patents said that it could work (albeit much less effectively) without the IR pass filter.

The basic idea is a form of synchronous detection or lock-in amplification: The shutters are arranged so that a point source is occluded at a fixed frequency, while an area source will be only partially occluded at any given time. Due to the way it is designed, area sources should add little to the time-varying component of the photodetector signal. The lock-in amplifier is essentially a very narrow notch filter (centered at the "star occlusion frequency"), so it completely rejects the DC component from the sky.

There is a little more to it than what I'm writing, mainly because you need to not just detect the point source, but also estimate the star's position within the field of view (which IIRC is done by comparing the phase of the time-varying star signal to a reference point on the shutters).
You don't always use "fewer" when talking about discrete units. For example, you say "less than 5 minutes ago". The same goes for measurements of length (less than 3 meters). I think "less" works here because letters is a measurement of length.
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