skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read this comment 3 times right now and, respectfully --- I mean this in a dry, analytical sense --- I can't understand the claim here.

Can you be specific as to how quantum algorithms are going to allow NSA to do "pre-crime analysis"? Could you talk a little bit more about the applicability of quantum algorithms to big data statistics problems?

You were very quick to comment on this thread, so I'm asking expecting that you have some interesting thoughts about quantum computing.
The code from Russ Olsen's book Design Patterns in Ruby
its really simple, you can make your own wordpress theme like others, if you know photoshop and basic about HTML/PHP, you can re-edit others theme, and make it yours, em webdesigner and sometimes my clients request for cheap website, i make der website in BLOGGER, and patch 10$ domain to blogger and made it static pages... ;)
Honestly, I think this is going to fall into one of those "it depends on your audience" statements.

If a popular greeting between people of the same culture was "F* you!" except the long form of that, or even something more grotesque (to you), is it wrong to, if you're a part of that community, say those things to one-another?

The internet, if anything, has created a large collection of very callous 20-somethings that can, off the cuff, say some really, really awful things, to a person that's not a part of their community. Huge parts of Reddit and 4chan are evidence of this sort of change in callousness.

Now, this particular instance of what he said, given what's happened in schools lately, was in terrible taste; and, if this is a pattern for him, he may need some real counseling, but the criminality of his statements is very suspect.

Long story short: what people are saying in normal conversation between each other is changing to things that older people, in part even like myself, find repulsive; but, it's normal and not-rude in their vernacular and it's a strong judgement call to call them socially inept and having poor taste - just different ones, and maybe "socially inept", if only in your social circles; but, when those statements cross the line to real threats or extreme circumstances, then yes, things must be done, sometimes through the judicial system.
You can also have carbon aggregate them for more efficient queries https://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.10/config-carbon.htm...
div{Tab} does the completion for me.
More is correct according to the US energy information administration [http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=9991]. Only about 10% more though according to their graph
I do not have children yet, and one of the reasons I am reluctant to move to the US (even with people sometimes insisting me to do so because of SV and all) is that I think US is one of the worst places in the world to raise a child, excepting other obvious bad places (ie: any country US attacked since the end of cold war, like Somalia, Libya, Iraq...)
Scalia’s dissent is wonderfully written and very much worth reading (whether or not you agree with him, as you say). I cannot offer the same praise for the other two.
Graphite committer / co-maintainer here...

Feel free to point out useful things graphite could do better (constructively only) and/or some of your favorite posts or tools used with graphite. We aren't too far off from 2 quite massive releases (0.9.11 / 0.10) and are thinking about departing from some of the legacy bits moving forward. I'm looking at you python 2.4
"I thought their laptops are off the shelf hardware"
The kickstarter.com project page redirects me from HTTPS to HTTP when I'm not logged in, so I don't think it is.
I guess you're one of those who would have boiled Jonathan Swift alive for his Modest Proposal.
Cpu: 42%
Could well be true! I'm not qualified to speak about that. Looking it up, seems like I mis-spoke when I said Urdu was Dravidian. But there are a lot of Indian languages that are (e.g. Kannada), so the overall point stands that the "averaging" comment is a bit misleading.

Incidentally, your comment led me to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi–Urdu_controversy which you may find interesting.
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Quantum computers are very well possible; whether they are feasible to data mine our large amounts of data is the actual question. You don't think the corporate entities in the tech industry would be just as invested? This is an area of research far too large to be concealed within the government. I wonder what the NSA program would look like if it wasn't for the surge in "big data" tooling after Google's MapReduce/GFS/BigTable papers.
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I replaced my AppleTV with a Roku around a month ago and I couldn't be more pleased. The overall app quality is inferior, but nothing beats being able to use Plex.
Or it goes to the CEO. Locally the head of OnPoint - formerly Portland Teachers Credit Union - makes $2 million a year.

http://www.oregoncreditunionfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/OnP...
No doubt. I would have been cloned just so they had enough bodies to put in gitmo, prison, and whatever the NSA torture dungeon that has yet to be leaked is called.

When I was young I had no idea that bitches in Canada be crazy and can actually send you to jail for talking shit.
I don't know how to look at memory usage in other modern JS interpreters like those used in FireFox and Safari. Anyone able to check to see if they have this problem? (And if they manage to avoid the memory leaks in the first two code samples?)
To anyone who really understands the NSA's reputation, it seems like a uniquely silly kind of fear-mongering.

The traditional rap against the NSA is that they've had productive breaks on all our conventional crypto constructions for decades (a more refined, modern bit of innuendo about NSA is that they have a cookbook of surprising implementation faults; side channels, for instance, that we haven't thought of yet --- here it's worth remembering that very few people in the world truly understand x64 and ARM microarchitecture, and Venn diagram overlap of those people and cryptographers is microscopic).

Crypto implementors have worked under the assumption that most crypto is suspect, given that they're outspent 100:1 by NSA, for decades.

"Revelations" about quantum computing at NSA as applied to cryptography would change basically nothing about how the smart money would bet on NSA capabilities.
When I'm not at work I can be found mountain biking, working on air cooled Porsches and neglecting my lawn. I also like to program on my own projects and hack hardware once in a while.
Plenty of different reasons. Personally, I'm looking for a solid language with broad library and interop, and fantastic tooling (from editors to debuggers, profilers, and more). .NET has a good ecosystem; MS loves developers (usually).

F# has nearly a superset of C#'s functionality, but with a far better fundamental design. It requires much less code, and results in far fewer bugs. And the biggest tradeoff is that Visual Studio's IntelliSense is a bit less capable with F# than C#. Performance wise, F# usually matches C#, but has more flexibility to outperform it in some cases.

The F# team has a strong background: They were the ones responsible for bringing proper generics to C# and the CLR. Without them, the CLR would probably have a lame generics system, such as Java. F# also demonstrated how to properly do async on .NET half a decade ago, which C# 5 finally picked up.

So if you're on .NET, there's little reason to not use F#, unless you're in a shop that needs replaceable warm-body programmers.

If you're not on .NET, there are perhaps better languages (Haskell), but that comes at a cost of having less tooling and libraries.
Re folding: what about inherited codebases, via github or your company or whatever? That seems to me to be the vast majority of source code being read / edited in the world, and odds are you can't simply change it on a whim.
The anger management training he could use is primarily, I think, because this person left the confines of the game and posted a comment, presumably in a place that the other person could see it.

In the physical world, this would be akin to someone saying, "Dude, you're a jerk" (or harsher) and then you, some time later, write over all the whiteboards in his office and the offices around his many explicatives and angry faces.

Someone's got a bit of an uncontrolled temper.

In the game is one thing, since it wandered OUT of the game that's ... a bit awkward. Deserving of criminal charges, I don't think so; but, needing help? I think yes.
Is this sort of thing less common in Canada?
Okay, I guess the question was is it possible to pull down a source AMI without starting an instance, then build the new AMI based on that.
Completion worked, but it was wrong. "<div/></" autocompleted as "<div/></div>".
With GOMAXPROCS=n*CPU, n is roughly the amount of pre-emptive (vs the built-in cooperative) multitasking that you want going on, with 1 being none. Handled by the OS, of course. Interesting that you noticed a speed up > 1.
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That this kind of issue exists in javascript should come as a surprise to no one - there are probably a huge number of these kind of issues just waiting to be found. It's actually the key difference between a 'designed' language and an 'evolved' language.

EDIT: I find the down-votes very amusing. Has javascript now developed a cult? Read up on the history of javascript if my message above comes as a shock to you.
Complicated board games. http://www.boardgamegeek.com
I know some excellent developers who write all their code in Notepad. Hell, I wrote a fairly large Java application in Notepad when I was in uni. It wasn't that bad.
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I find this supprising, would you mine expanding on that?
* * Minimum system requirements: Windows 7 or 8 or Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, AMD Phenom II or Intel i3 / i5 / i7 Processor, 2GB RAM, USB 2.0 port, Internet connection, Leap Motion ID.

There is also some linux API, Ubuntu bundle specific?.
Competitive Foosball.
It is probably a plugin. Mine has not crashed in months.
Shit. Nemeth is the author of _The Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook_, which is one of the all-time great Unix books, up there with Stevens.
You don't need to feel sorry for me, that loan is a government loan that every student is eligible for. The interest is 1.9%, so the government is actually losing money on it. I pay roughly $900 a year in interest, which is very manageable with a near 6-figure salary that this education gave me.

I think it's a pretty good system, it's good both for the students and their parents. Students don't have to rely on their parents (if they are rich enough to support their children anyway) and parents don't have to save up for years for tuition and living expenses. It still hurts though, it's not like it's free to get an education even without tuition and with subsidies and favorable loans. You also have to think about opportunity cost, you could be making money for 5 years, but instead you're in school. So I don't think you need the additional expenses to feel motivated.
This is complete hyperbole and you know it. Where are the secret police whisking away "dissenters" in the middle of the night? Where are the mass forced migrations of ethnic minorities? Where are the mass executions of political prisoners? Fraudulent elections? A one party state?

The fact that you made this comment on a public forum is evidence enough that we are nowhere even close to living in a police state.
Quantum computing is not known to allow you to compute NP hard problems in linear (or polynomial) time. Specifically, the relationship between BQP and NP is open, but widely believed to be not equal (just as the general community's priors are biased towards P \neq NP). Here's a hint as to why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm#Optimality

If you are interested in what exactly the D-Wave computer is doing, http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400 is a good source.
The problem of users mistakenly entering Facebook credentials into a Facebook-lookalike login form is definitely a honeypot vulnerability...but what percentage of these users would also, when asked to register an account on an entirely new service, would just end up deliberately using their same FB credentials anyway?
I feel bad for Canada. America is going to poison their society and culture... could you imagine if we somehow turned Canadians en masse from the kind and friendly people that we hear about to, well, Americans? We'd end up going to war within a decade.
Naturally, you should wait and check on the credit union periodically to see how their project is going, and when they come out of Beta.
Technology can create new problems by itself. The most obvious ones are Risks of Blowing Ourselves Up (or existential risks). Drexlerian Nanotechnology? Gray goo accident. Strong AI? Skynet, only it'll kill us all before we even realise it. Biological research? Pandemic disease from the lab. And of course the more mundane World War III and environmental collapse, from which it is unclear our civilization can ever recover. The difference with the last two is that it can run on current technology.

We could also create a universe that we wouldn't like at all, like Robin Hanson's vision of the future after mind uploading.

We could also modify ourselves for the sake of competitivity alone, or pleasure alone, or anything that doesn't encompass all that we want to do and be.

Sure, technology is only a catalyst. But it's one hell of a catalyst. Aim a knife in the wrong direction, and you might hurt someone. Aim a nuclear warhead in the wrong direction, and you might obliterate a whole city. In both cases, the root of the problem is that you aimed in the wrong direction. But technology makes quite a difference in terms of consequences. By the way, we're already aware of that to some extent: nuclear warheads tend to have more security around them than knives.
Altruism is just plain practical.

If you've seen 300, you'll know that a collective 300 was stronger than a dispersed 300.

People are simply stronger in large numbers, and altruism is the high level understanding that the only way to maximize collectivism is to help others when they are trying to achieve similar interests to that of yours.
Feedback loop? It's a simple lack of responsibility. They -- the state prosecutors -- have an extremely limited perspective on the work that they do, and furthermore they write it off as "that's how the law works" without considering justice and merit.
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1.3 -> 1.4 was trivial AFAIR. 1.4 -> 1.5 may need some more work if you depended a lot on function-based generic views.
I think the Heroku Rails 4 buildpack does this automatically. And Rails 4 and Ruby 2.0 build assets faster anyway.
This article talks about one person, there is others...

Beside whistleblowers, there is also that dude that defended Al Quaeda (he only spoke in favour of Al Quaeda), and some others I don't particularly remember now...
I feel like this every day of my life.
The process of getting graphite web up and running on Mac seemed pretty involved since it's broken up into 3 packages and depends on Cairo which can be finicky.

When I last checked there didn't seem to be solid documentation on how to get it all setup. Searching now, this looks promising: http://amin.bitbucket.org/posts/graphite-mac-homebrew.html
There's also this first act from the "Right to Remain Silent" from This American Life [0] and this story [1] that pmorici posted. So that's 3 now without actually looking hard at all.

0. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/t...

1. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/teen-jailed-for-ter...
To me the moral of the story is to include a notice that the user has only logged out of this (the auth consumer's) site, but may still have an active session with auth provider X. That exact language probably isn't appropriate, but it's at least the information a responsible auth consumer should try to convey.
Stand-up Comedy: I don't care too much if I don't have professional success in stand-up, it's something I'm going to do for the rest of my life. Also, I want to do more improv/acting.

Basketball: The gym I go to is great and there are pickup basketball games all the time. It makes me wish I played organized sports in high school. Also, it's made me realize how important getting enough sleep is.

Exercise/Biking/Swimming: I try to bike to work whenever the weather is nice. After work, I go bike to a beach. Maybe see if there's a volleyball game I can join.

Cooking: I like to learn how to cook new things.

Reading/Writing: I used to read more. Now, it's harder to find something I like. I'm trying to force myself to write stuff, whether it's comedy or something more serious.

Bars: I probably go to bars often enough for it to be considered an activity.
Quantum computers cannot solve NP-Complete problems in sub exponential time (we think). If we could measure the quantom state then they would be able to. However there is an exponentially small chance that when we make the measurement we will see the currect answer instead of no result (or simmiliar). Effectively, we need to repeat the computation an exponential amount of times to arrive at the answer.

There is a genneral algorithm that could solve many (all?) NP-Complete problems in the square root of the time it takes classical algorithms, but that is still exponential.
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plz call it conspiracy, but mr.gauck was the one
holding his thunbs on their secret files,...
Facebook's outmoded Web crypto opens door to NSA spying
I don't really understand how you're connecting these dots, so I suspect that I'm getting trolled here, but your comparison makes no sense. Paula Deen spouting racist nonsense does not show anything about "interpretation of speech" unless she claims that her racist nonsense was somehow misinterpreted. Was she being sarcastic with her slave-themed event? Seems shockingly implausible (and she certainly hasn't suggested as much.)

But you're correct, there is a vast difference between corporations showing her the door (though while you call it "political correctness" I would call it "the free market rejecting some old racist speech") and this kid who very likely didn't mean what he said literally.
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Here's a comparison of OCaml and F#[1], as F# is "descended" from OCaml.

Mono provides full support for F#. The F# compiler is open source (Apache license). MonoDevelop has some support for F#, but I haven't used it.

I don't fundamentally see the difference in deploying a runtime like the JVM over Mono. Mono even lets you pre-compile to native code (that's how the run on iOS, for instance), so you don't need to install the Mono runtime.

I use F# in production on Linux machines (telephony applications) and have so for many years. We use Windows to develop, test, build, etc. and then copy things over to Linux and it just works.

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179492/f-changes-to-ocaml
Shades of Jim Gray. :(

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist)#D...]
I mean confidence can be a part of execution... for example, when you are trying to sell a product. Ingenuity, perseverance, etc, are also attributes of execution and they are not strictly technical.

In other words, if you just have technology (and we're assuming not groundbreaking patentable-technology), you'll likely fail if you have no perseverance and no ability to convince people why it's useful.
Maybe the way around that is simply to bypass it. Create a mailing list for users who like a certain kind of game to subscribe to, then offer discounts on those games from the official market or some other source.

I get that the Top X reaches the widest audience, but there are plenty of users that want a more personalized experience, or want to play games that might not be in the Top X of a market.

I guess this would be similar to the Humble Bundle and other offerings, but less of a bulk purchase and more of a continuing stream of interesting offers.
You have obviously never opened a 200MB xml file in Sublime Text :)

Notepad++ is a lot quicker for those.
For those of us who are not mathematicians, what would quantum computing practically mean? Compare current math capabilities of computers and quantum computing in layman's terms, please.
Pretty cool design. Watching for a bit, I've seen a couple band I would totally go see. I always enjoy a concert more when I've heard a few songs before. This just might expand the music scene for good smaller artists struggling to build a following.
CentOS isn't right for everyone, oddly because of the Enterprise focus for stability. The system libraries on CentOS end up being quite old from the viewpoint of a lot of developers.

Sometimes the best solution is to ignore the system provided libraries and build your own environment.
But you're still clearly retaining a reference to the lexical frame, so I'd think the "zeroth-order" assumption would be that you'd be keeping everything in that frame.

It's nice that JavaScript will do enough tree-shaking that it will eliminate the single-closure case, but that's an optimization, not something you should be counting on.

Similarly, I bet if you had a call to "eval" in there, you'd keep the entire frame, but I don't understand the exact semantics of JavaScript's eval enough to really say.

I suppose this boils down to whether your mental model is more "frame-like" or more "upvalue-like". If you think of keeping around the containing frame, it's not at all surprising that you retain the variable. If you think of the closure as a discrete set of upvalues, then it's a surprise.
"Soldiers have had their mindset irreparably altered and they tend to ally with the institution"

When you've had your life in jeopardy for long periods of time, when you've seen humanity reduced to it's most primal state, when you've lived in a third world country amongst people who couldn't fathom a lifestyle that those in "poverty" in America enjoy, when you've been responsible for millions of dollars of vital hardware, when you've been indoctrinated to live with honor and integrity and been punished harshly for not doing so, when you've been responsible for the lives of other people, when you've saved lives, and had lives given for you... it sort of changes your perspective. Honestly, it makes the day-to-day things that people get upset about in this wealthy western bubble seem so completely f*ing vapid. Because of this I have a very hard time getting along with many people in the work environment. I see so much pettiness, or "fighting over crumbs" as I like to call it. Other combat veterans understand.

Quite frankly I can't even be frank about a problem, address a problem at work, or be focused on getting the work done because most people just want to sit around and talk about how they feel about it until it feels like the problem is gone. People get offended when I'm frank about things that are mediocre or ineffective. It's nuts to me.

Forgive me for the little PTSD rant.
Google Crisis Response project [Uttarakhand Floods]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law
I wonder if this will temper the rise of the server-side JS frameworks?
It's on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNh2TVQ2o0
And they are, apparently.
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Apple still haven't even released a console and Apple apologists are already quick to jump on the "Apple invented everything under the sun" train. Why am I not surprised?

If anything, it's Apple that's copying others here.
ah, missed that, thanks.
Building a Board Game with Node