skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mathematicians I know and who had expressed an opinion generally believed it was almost certain to be true, but that the techniques and machinery were not yet available to tackle the problem. There was genuine astonishment when Wiles produced his proof, but no real disbelief, as might be expected had people felt it not to be true.

It should be noted that it had been proven true for a very wide collection of possible exponents. You can read about the piece-wise progress here:

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Fermat%27s_la...

As a piece of trivia, in the Horizon program[0] mentioned elsewhere there's a point where J.H.Conway[1] (inventor of the game of "Life[2]" (don't ever ask him about it!)) is being interviewed, and he uses the word "prime." The editors dubbed the word "number" over the top, feeling that the audience might be put off, and knowing that "number" was accurate enough for the purpose. I don't know if Conway was ever told - I'll try to remember to ask him next time I see him.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FnXgprKgSE (roughly the 8 minute mark)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
There is much hidden unemployment. Prisoners, guards, government white collar workers. All those people and the like should count towards unemployment because they do no benefit to the economy and are occupied with government sponsored busy work.
>> If two parties conduct an exchange of products or services, where both parties were not coerced, then this is not a crime in my opinion.

Sure, and much of the drug trade should be legal in my opinion. However it's not and the confiscation of funds from criminal activity is commonplace and (IMHO) a good thing.

I disagree with the government about what should be criminal, but not on stripping criminals of their profit, and I think there are circumstances where people exchange products or services, without coercion or other people directly harmed, that should be still be illegal and any profits confiscated.

As an extreme example, trade in radioactive material like uranium.
If bcfg2 was a complete system, it never caught on because the documentation was entirely missing. Every time I looked at it, I blocked on actually getting anything done because I couldn't find an equivalent to these reference manuals:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html

http://docs.opscode.com/resource.html

https://cfengine.com/archive/manuals/cf-manuals/cf2-Referenc...
Language is for communication and by consensus. There are very visible differences (and whether there are underlying similarities is really beside the point) between the DEA and what most of us mean when we say thieves, and referring to one as the other only causes confusion.
It involves all the largest Silicon Valley companies so it will be of interest to everyone running a company or working with technology in the valley and the US.

I'd also argue all the linking from sites like HN and reddit are keeping this in the news since it gets the hits on the mainstream sites. The interest in it on these sites might actually keep the heat on to change this bad situation.

A week or two is too little to give to this immensely impactful story. With that said I am only up-voting stories that I feel are defining of our times and major breaks, trouble is so may of them have been recently.

Yes, we'd all like for it to end and get back to business which we must continue doing but ignoring it isn't going to change the general community interest in it as it is a huge issue.
How is leaking info about the US hacking Chinese mobile operators related to US citizens?

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266821/us-hacks-chin...
Bear in mind that there are at least five spying programs going on. One is server-based (PRISM), but the others (FAIRVIEW, BLARNEY, and two others whose names were redacted) apparently monitor the pipes.

This isn't so much of a technical problem as a political one. Although, in principle I agree- I would much rather have p2p so I could at least have a fighting chance via encryption.
You think that upvoting things on HN makes a difference?
This story has already dominated the front page for weeks. It has been discussed to death.

If this continues to dominate HN for much longer, there is a risk that people will just stop visiting this site and it just becomes a home for conspiracy cranks.
Incredible initiative! Where can I donate :)
One solution might be to link to a live blog or page which has the latest updates on the story, title it "Click here to get the latest on this story' and then make sure it stays in the first 10 or so stories and let people have fun in the comments with updates and what not.
I believe the OP was suggesting that two people could use the service as an alternative to Skype if the two parties picked a very rare language such that the odds are that they would be the only two.
Did you not even read the first sentence on the wiki page you linked to? Here it is:

In punctuation, a serial comma or series comma (also called Oxford comma and Harvard comma) is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually and, or, or nor) in a series of three or more terms.

Note the last four words. three or more terms

On that sentence though, I think it's different. The first part of the sentence is long enough that the comma is welcome as a natural stop (and breather) before delivering the second half.

Despite your feeling that commas should, be inserted randomly when we feel the sentence, has gone too long, that is not standard English. You also missed the entire, point of my comment. It has nothing to, do with commas.
This seems like a great book just from skimming a few chapters, I'll make sure I spend more time with this later. Thanks for posting.
Two solutions: pull-mode playbooks [1] and fireball mode [2] (temporary ØMQ daemon).

[1] http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks2.html#pull-mode-p...

[2] http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks2.html#fireball-mo...
Would you like to elaborate on your position, or just continue smugly toeing the party line?

For example, OSX has really bad (read: no) support for hardware slightly deviating outside of its niche. It also uses an arguably-broken UI metaphor, and has no truly good package management story.
version 1.0pre is released 11 months ago.
https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/commit/b1e7bb99746bd5916...

I think that now is about time to have version 2.0pre
Why do you believe every voter has not already adopted this belief?

Political campaigns certainly behave as if they believe voters already do vote this way. That's why Bush is the regular guy who clears brush from his estate, for example, and why everyone who disagrees with Obama is racist.
What an unbelievably awful defeatist attitude.

If everyone had your terrible attitude, nobody would ever do anything about any issue and just simply bend over, cry, and take it.

I'm glad this joker peterwwillis has absolutely no say on what is and isn't upvoted on this site.

Btw peter, I checked your submissions and I thought the majority were extremely boring, unoriginal and worthless, much like this post.
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I never thought I'd see the day when /r/programming was better than HN. However, it's happened ever since Bitcoin, Asange, Dotcom, and now Snowden has taken over here.

I've gone from checking HN, including the new section, a couple times a day, to taking a look every 4 or 5 days.
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C's quite fine for its problem domain.

However, I believe the analogy you are looking for is "C++ is to C as lung cancer is to lung".
There's been some progress on one already, the d3d1x state tracker from Gallium3d is an implementation of D3D 10/11 directly on top of the GPU drivers on Linux, without using OpenGL as an intermediary.
Any ism is reductionist, always with some loss of information. Sometimes they're beneficial, every thought we have is the result of extremely downsampled data. But without being mindful that simplifications are at play they can be much more dangerous. It is hard or impossible to know which simplifications are actually happening in many cases, because the blanket is the only handle that many data have been tagged with - not the sum of their intricacies.
They use AES and RSA but their implementation has had vulnerabilities.

http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.15.1.html

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21...

Here's a good article( http://missingm.co/2013/06/ansible-and-salt-a-detailed-compa...) with a comparison to Ansible that others are also mentioning here. Ansible uses KeyCzar which which seems more sane than rolling your own crypto as many readers here on HN know.
You put a pay-as-you-go SIM card in it, and you can text it and it'll text its coordinates back.

That suggests, though, if anyone knows your bike's number they could track it everywhere. I'm not sure I'd want that feature.
Sounds like a job for a matchmaking Web 2.0 CRUD app. I bet it'd make money.
Shortages forcing US hospitals to ration essential nutrients, even for preemies
Experts call the nutrient shortage a public-health crisis and a national emergency—and are astounded that the government and manufacturers have let the situation become so dire.

“Children are dying,” says Steve Plogsted, a clinical pharmacist who chairs the drug-shortage task force of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). “They’re not getting any calcium or any zinc. Or they’re not getting any phosphorous, and that can lead to heart standstill. I know of a neonate who had seven days without phosphorous, and her little heart stopped.”

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire career, and I’ve been a pharmacist for 40-some years,” says Michael Cohen, president of the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and a 2005 MacArthur Foundation fellow. “This should never be allowed to happen.”
Well, ansible by default runs with paramiko which is a python implementation of SSH protocol. It will also keep connections open for multiple commands. It also has a pull mode and it also has a fireball mode which uses 0mq:

http://jpmens.net/2012/10/01/dramatically-speeding-up-ansibl...

However, you're not forced to use this. In the beginning, you can just seed your CentOS or debian with a Kickstarter or seed file and then run your inital thing with ansible simply over ssh (using all the goodies, ssh-agent, password less ssh etc..).

One huge plus for ansible is also that it used yaml which is rather simple. I've been following both project for >1 year and it seems that recently ansible has picked up a lot and will probably make the "race" (IMO).
How could I set up a service similar to ZeroCater in my city?
I'm in a pretty cosmopolitan Asian city with lots of startups being set up, and think a service such as what ZeroCater offers would be very well received.

What would I need to do (as far as research, reaching out to restaurants and companies, etc) in order to get things moving? How could I overcome the chicken-egg problem without any initial traction?

Any pointers would be great.
Just because you failed to release interesting classified materials doesn't mean you weren't trying to. Just because you didn't kill anybody doesn't mean you don't get charged with attempted murder.
While your first point bears repeating ad infinitum, and everyone who has direct access to the DP and finds something off (however minor) should be filing rdar reports before blogging, the effects of your second point about the NDA is open to interpretation. There's a clause in the confidentiality agreement that prevents it from covering anything that's public knowledge through no fault of your own. Given the extent of the Apple news machine, very few aspects of DPs are outside of public knowledge for very long.
I've got nothing against philosophy or politics, the point is that in the USA as things stand, the DEA are not thieves by most reasonable definitions of that word. They are acting lawfully, in accordance with the rules set by the democratically elected representatives. If you don't like those rules, you should try to change them through the political process.

If you wish to enforce your own view of how things should be on everyone else without using the political process, you run the risk of being a greater tyranny than what you seek to replace.
M-Pin says it can do ECC based 2FA in browser - no usr/pswd DB
But C++11 changes all that!

It removes the bad old--ha, who am I kidding. Yeah, you're right: it's a terrible language.
Considering many of these stories are a pain to find in MSM sources (unless you are continually checking every media source's homepage), I appreciate the fact that HN is aggregating them all to one location. I understand that it can be annoying to see HN full of stories about the next plane that Edward Snowden may hop on. However, I would rather see that crap on here and still be updated on new developments regarding the issue as a whole vs missing out on new information because stories about PRISM, Edward Snowden, and the NSA are no longer being shared on here.

In addition, your defeatist attitude towards the whole PRISM ordeal is ironic, considering your willingness to speak out against Snowden stories being upvoted on here. If you were willing to channel that energy into action or ideas against PRISM, maybe things would change. Oh, and you're comments are in direct conflict with the second rule of HN.
I came from building a large puppet environment to loving ansible. I much prefer push method in daily operations.
Ship it with a t-shirt that says "this conversation may be recorded for quality purposes."
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This is great! i can visualize BTC Tip Jars, like this one http://btclook.com/txn/96964beec449005427a3ceb35d0e7db072c5a...
Yeah, imagine a "what if" movie where Snowden is on the Aeroflot flight from Moscow. You have journalists and secret agents on the plane. Some agents try to talk sense into him, others try to block them (no weapons allowed so they resort to slapping each other), journalists snapping pics and posting stuff on Twitter. All the while the plane is closer and closer to NATO airspace with trigger-happy generals. At the same time you have maybe 5 people on the plane that don't know what is going on and actually want to fly to Cuba (for a vacation say). And, there is no alcohol on board...
are you obtaining entropy through mouse and keyboard interactions?
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The origin of enterprise computing
The word enterprise is perhaps the most misused word in computing. Lots of software is marketed as enterpise, but actually don't say a thing about the product itself.
You can only moderate other upvotes by flagging the submissions they upvoted.
That's exactly what he said -- throwing a hissy fit because Russia is not treating the US as a superpower...
The problem is most dev-ops and sysadmins don't know ruby and that's a HUGE disadvantage. In the end configuration management will often by done by sysadmins.
A year ago, everyone in my office got memberships to a gym down the street. All the other guys had long discussions about what was best and this article and that one, including a lot of stuff about only doing strength training. I did the stuff that I found made me feel most refreshed and cleared my head best.

Now there are only two us that ever go anymore. I am fit. They are not. It must be remembered that the routine you design is not going to run on a cpu that will execute it exactly over and over without complaint. It runs on you, which in my case is much more fickle, and needs to be indulged a bit to keep going.
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I think at some point bitcoin might migrate towards some more useful proof of work so that the calculations might be used to solve some scientific problems.
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It's true when he wrote it but has also been true before 9/11. Most times the US intervenes in foreign affairs on behalf of economic reasons (Guatemala, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, etc)

In the case of Nicaragua in 1984, it went up the UN courts with the US being found to encourage human rights violations but it didn't amount to much since the US sits on the security council.

This is such a complicated topic that I really don't know whats the moral answer is. On one hand I don't believe we should be completely isolationist when there's so much going on in the world but on the other hand it's very easy to screw things up and impossible to predict the consequences. The best I hope for is having morally justified reasons for intervention rather than economically justified ones.

Lots of interesting stuff at the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_U.S._regime_change_actio...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States
While these aren't so much architectures as they are a list of tools, it's fascinating to see which ones successful companies are using.

I like that Trello has such a short list and still runs incredibly fast with a high number of users.
Are you upvoting because:

- you think people should be more aware of the issue, or

- you think that each of these links individually provide value to the readers here

If the former, then please stop. We are aware: identifying valuable contributions would be a more helpful route towards revolution.

Personally speaking, I am unlikely to click on these articles now because few of them are providing any new value.
Here are two comments you wrote that were downvoted, where you subsequently complained about being downvoted:

Thanks for what? Sounds like your opinion is made up. Still trying to figure out if this is a question. I like Ruby about as much as PHP; I think it's more about what you build on the language or what framework you use.

This is an empty comment that includes a (mild) personal attack.

Dude, I'm not your teacher. I come here to learn. Sorry, didn't mean to be rude. Just working right now. Maybe I'll post an example later.

This is just an empty comment.

In both cases, you'd have been better off saying nothing at all.

You were heavily downvoted recently for being supportive of Obama; I sympathize, but also wouldn't have written those comments because they're pointlessly asking for downvotes and anger. But your political comments don't seem to be a problem (you didn't complain after they got downvoted).
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When defendants can be over whelmed to the point of suicide, with many charges, knowing that a jury is likely to find guilt on at least one of them, and basically feel (s)he might as well plead guilty to get a lesser of two evils sentence, I'm not sure how any one thinks they can get a fair trial in the US, unless they have a huge amount of money to lose, let alone the likes of Snowden.

The idea of facing any sort of trial in a US court scares me senseless.
From the article:

Experts call the nutrient shortage a public-health crisis and a national emergency—and are astounded that the government and manufacturers have let the situation become so dire.

“Children are dying,” says Steve Plogsted, a clinical pharmacist who chairs the drug-shortage task force of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). “They’re not getting any calcium or any zinc. Or they’re not getting any phosphorous, and that can lead to heart standstill. I know of a neonate who had seven days without phosphorous, and her little heart stopped.”

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire career, and I’ve been a pharmacist for 40-some years,” says Michael Cohen, president of the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and a 2005 MacArthur Foundation fellow. “This should never be allowed to happen.”
But which is the best one? Any thoughts?
Further, setting a precedent of resolving conflict between laws by saying "These conflict and the constitution trumps statute" is overturning a law as unconstitutional.
Things that tend to have a natural monopoly (for example, water pipes) don't work very well in a truly capitalistic market where everything is privatized. Unless you start with everyone being on equal footing, the incumbents can employ a strategy where they force new entrants to the market to pay exponentially more and thus snuff them out before they become a threat, and therefore can set their price to whatever the market will beare. Imagine you have to spend the majority of your income on potable water, simply because you can't get it anywhere else! You will pay it, because its your life, and it has infinite value if you can't get enough of it. Therefore, whoever controls the water can control others thru this power.
I agree entirely that Apple's NDA is barely enforced. They don't put anything really special in the previews. They know anyone with $100 can see it, and that the rumor sites will get "emails from anonymous developers" with any interesting specifics not mentioned publicly by Apple.

(In fact, I read a theory somewhere that the NDA is really just about corporate competitive advantage for some legal reason. I forget what it was; it might have been something with the date a technology becomes public re: patent law.)

That said, more than almost anything else, I'd be wary about posting benchmarks. Performance is subject to change wildly between the developer betas and the final product. It could get better with optimizations and taking out debug code; it could get worse if some optimizations are found to be unstable.

If it was just, "Hey, this is awesome! They've implemented through OpenGL 4.1 and their implemenation is significantly faster across all OGL versions!" I'd be less worried. I can imagine a graphics programmer getting twitchy about early numbers.
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I kinda like the function litterals which are way shorter than the cumbersome "function()" default syntax
They're not actually arbitrage opportunities because there's no liquidity. All these exchange hang-ups are why the spreads look so unbalanced, and it's not like traders aren't racing incessantly to correct it.

Unless you have fiat in all the exchanges, bank accounts in multiple countries, and large amounts of cash on hand, you don't really have a chance here. Like most amateur arbitrageurs, you'll just going to end up in the red after all the delays and fees.
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Oh, that's really awesome.
If you give a billionaire a tax break he is likely to invest in things that make people like myself happy. Examples include SpaceX, Netflix, Facebook or whatever.

If the government instead keeps taxes high, the money will simply pay people not to work. We are all poorer as a result.
This is a horrible idea.... I love PHP but do we really need this? I think not!
Super cool, but it seems like this is throwing technology at a problem that could be solved in a much simpler way.

Since you will rarely (if ever?) be looking up a single question in a survey, storing the whole set as a JSON array-of-arrays makes much more sense. Then you can look up the set of questions with a dead-simple SELECT.
"the prominent left politicians"

Who exactly are you referring to? There are almost no politicians holding high office that can be called "left wing." At best, you have centrists.
As someone on leangains following a Reverse Pyramid Training program after Starting Strength, I agree that this is good general advice.

However, it IS general advice. "Cardio" is loosely defined, and can be anything from steady state (takes a longish time) to intervals (can be VERY quick) and anything in between. I'd be more inclined to say if you like to do it, be it basketball or gardening or running or whatever, then do it because you'll be more likely to stick with it.

I don't really buy the lack of time argument as a reason to not do something you enjoy that has health benefits. I see the argument here though, IF you believe you lack time (which I don't think you should believe) then MVF is a good way to go, but not the only option.
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