skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there something like "Learn Java in 15 minutes" for programmers knowledgeable in other languages? I'd like to see idioms, keywords, basic data structures described in a condensed form.
Those crank-powered flashlights make a lot of noise and induce cramps in the hand used to crank it.
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Great security. Hey, it's more secure than LANMAN, right? I mean, that one had 14 characters..
Awesome. I strongly recommend both "Little Brother" and "Makers" to every single developer I know. Makers is more directly relevant to techies.
I'm not sure if this is complete ignorance or trolling.
Well, yeah. If the U.S. was that concerned about spying as a rule, we wouldn't treat with Israel, China or Russia... ever. Undoubtedly there are other nations with an interest in U.S. secrets that simply don't hit the news that often.
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To be honest, I think what the author is seeing is more about pacing than it is some grand conspiracy to make law enforcement look better.

To apply the same basic logic to another topic, consider hacking (the system intrusion kind). Hackers in movies generally slam right through the security system of new-to-them supposedly ultra-secure systems using software they wrote previously and just had sitting on their hard drives. Is Hollywood conspiring to show hackers as evil geniuses who don't need to work hard to break into the securest of systems? Nah, it is just that nobody wants to see all the mundane and time consuming shit that goes into the real activity. It is easier to just flash a screenshot of some program like nmap doing some scanning followed by a successful login prompt to the CIA supercomputer. Likewise it is easier for cops to just have easy access to whatever information because that moves things along faster than seeing them fill in paperwork in triplicate and bring it before a judge or whatever else it is they have to do IRL.
Where do you get your ideas?
Why not just leave things as they are, but arrest any protestors who harass or intimidate? Those are already illegal, after all.
Thanks for sharing -- I love puzzles like that.

Just curious: Were the lldb session snippets taken from the original debugger session? I keep getting weird looks when I use a command-line debugger just to have a transcript afterwards. (The weird looks being from people who'd rather send me a screenshot of their GUI debugger's call stack.)
Isn't this exactly one of the problems that "pair programming" is supposed to help?
Exactly. Five years ago Ruby was the savior - now everyone and their mother is out to show how node is the new hotness.

If you've used js on a serious project you know this is just another dead end - which is why the big bucks go to jvm or clr jobs.
> You have no idea who I am

Well you're the one who just had to note you don't buy sexism in tech.
UK Government Launches “Open Government License v2.0″
Unfortunately, our (German) current government - which will in all likelyhood be the next German govt too simply does not have the balls to take a firm stand.

Germany is pretty pro-privacy, but they still signed the "safe haven" agreement with the US which more or less allows US companies to do anything with the data of German citizens, local laws be damned.

However, I believe Ms Merkel has had some colorful things to say in private about the slick Mr Obama who came over on a visit just a week ago. Must be nice to learn that he was blabbing about his high ethical standards while at the same time his spies were wiretapping her communications.
Yeah, basically each benchmark there has a python script to run it. For example in benchmarks/asmjs-apps it is possible to run

python harness.py [SHELL_NAME]

and it runs all the benchmarks in that directory using that shell.

Regarding building, I've tried to build all of the Qt port on Linux (what the online guides mention), but always fail in the dependencies. Perhaps I'll try the gtk port.
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Lyft, you’re fucking awkward.
The closest thing to the reader I always wanted is Hackernews; a selection of significant, educational and relevant articles on topics I'm interested in.

This is a crowd sourced, human curated list, different from a feed reader, where the crowd consists mostly of humans competent in the field.

The problem of course is such crowds do not exist for so many other fields, but I would pay for good human curated content.

Alas, none of that is in any feedreader...
Somehow you ended up at AskHN instead of Ask Jeeves. Did you bother to search for this before asking HN?

Please don't treat other people this way on HN. It's mean, and it corrodes the site for all of us.
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Protip: We can't help you if you don't tell us your IP, since there are about 2^32 possibilities.
Closest I could find. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffileadmin.cs...
anecdote, N=1: I was explaining some basic trig to a child and while I was at it also explained the concept of tau. The kid said he liked tau better :) (I was careful to also explain that his schoolteachers probably didn't know about tau so he needed to know 2pi as well)
"Notice how Keynesians responded to the partial failure of a prediction: by asking what they got wrong, and how their model of the world needed to be adjusted."

One could make that argument about the ptolemaic system and epicycles. While krugman admits his prediction was wrong, it is a subjective argument as to whether what Krugman did in the end was to admit his model is really wrong, or if he decided it needed mere "adjustment". I know where I stand on that judgment.
Somebody should post a "list of the top 10 lists that every programmer should read" which is a listing of article listings.
The amount of disruption a peaceful demonstration can cause is proportional to the number of participants. As it should be.
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>collect the inflation tax

What does this mean? I do not understand.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWo...

http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Stunning_Hypocrisy_of_the...
Can I ask you a couple of questions privately?
This $15 thing will help with those first 15 C. Fancier ones exist.

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The first responsibility for a nation is to the security of its people. Everything else is an extraordinary distance down the line.

This is a horrifying line of thinking. It reminds me of the quote, "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
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>why shouldn't Germany give asylum to Snowden?

Because we have an extradition treaty with the US?
Pretty soon I expect stuff like "US _doesn't_ monitor <X>'s communication" to become the news. The fact that US is monitoring everything will become the default state.
Interesting, I'll buy this for more AI research.

Some people and I are working on Bitcoin Skynet. Basically we are seeing if we can code an independent bot/agent that can support itself through paid hosting with bitcoins, that makes income from automatic exchanges between cryptocurrencies. The bot is given intelligence and set free to see what it does. It switches hosting every month, and can decentralize itself to protect against denial of service, and also sells other services and escrow brokerage.
The author of Scala also makes a good case. He briefly compares Scala and Clojure, then talks about the benefits of functional programming in regards to multicore processing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiurd7KaSEI
I'm not interested in news reader apps but I had never heard of Ur/Web before... I'm glad that was mentioned in the title as it's not obvious from the site; always nice to hear about new frameworks.
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> uses the unreasonably invasive tools to save the day and is never brought to account for it by anyone.

Except that no one knows about it besides he and Fox, so how can he be brought to account for it by anyone?

Except that he tells Fox to destroy it precisely because it is so powerful and invasive.

> The problem is that it's still oversimplifying.

Except that in the exact movie I gave as an example, in the end the CIA explicitly is shown to be covering up the events of the movie and it is indicated that they will continue to do immoral things.

See my original comment about the reason why you find this theory so attractive.
Pretty sure there is no dev tools on the mobile version of Chrome.
Does paraffin melt at body temperature? Not even core body temperature, hand temperature at a time when the air temperature is substantially lower.

Maybe there's some way to lower the melting point of paraffin?
Hardly solved. I want it to be so simple the average Facebook user will want to use it.

Emacs hardly fits that bill. Nor does popping up any other editor I think.

I would just like to use the native browser interface and right before doing a POST, have the browser do a pop up and ask me which of my friends I would like to share the text with.
If you own a car, and your license is suspended- what are the chances you are going to either a) loan your car to a friend or family member; b) ask a friend or family member to drive you somewhere (possibly in your own car) to get groceries/run other errands? I think the odds are pretty good.
And don't forget that the object of study is actually sensible to predictions about it, in multiple ways, which gives a new dimension to that can of worms.

I'd say that the main problem is that economists are using numbers, and they really want to use them, but they're using them blindly. They'd love to be treated as physicists, but, sorry, they aren't yet. Economy is a very green field with little actual prediction capabilities (at least on a macro scale), and the sooner we accept it, the better.

And the bottom line: never ever trust anyone trying to justify the application of some economic policy based on mid-term or long-term predictions, no matter how many numbers may they throw at you.
Ecuador's Correa says Biden asked him to deny Edward Snowden asylum
Acme would give him an easy interface to sed/awk for search and replace, and any command-line tools to refactor.
Is this point and click adventures for people whose first encounter with computer games was farmville?
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Google 'fleshlight' and I'm sure you'll agree it would be a pretty bad choice of name.
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I have no problem admitting it was not the most polite response. Do you think HN would be corroded by people flooding HN with AskHNs anytime they are curious about something but can not be bothered to do the most cursory of searches on their own? I do.

I typed the AskHN title verbatim into google and was presented with a number of pages that explained the origin of the symbol.
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Is the AUMF a declaration of war? Did the executive have special wartime powers? When do these powers expire?
If you want to cheat, open the devtools, and type candies.nbrOwned = Infinity.
His ISP also likely only guarantees 70% of the advertised speeds be available and that the advertised speeds are theoretical maximums. This is what companies like AT&T and Charter do.
I never claimed that developers or the vast majority of users are going to suddenly abandon Javascript once they heard my oh-so-compelling argument against it.

In fact, I don't expect them to.

Most users are ignorant, technologically illiterate, blind to security issues, and lacking of any concern for their online privacy. Most developers aren't much better, and aim for the low-hanging fruit, without many scruples as far as respecting the privacy of their users goes.

No. Most of them aren't going to change. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to suddenly give in and start using Javascript myself. And though I be a lone voice crying in the wilderness, I'm going to stand up for what I know is right.
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I use ddg because of their hacker-centric features like a nice python api, !bang search, and their "goodies". Plus their plugin allows you to add their 0-click results to google searches. I agree, google is a better product, but I've found that I only have to use them supplement my searches. ddg makes it easy to do that. I just add "!g" in front of my query and my search is sent to google. They are definitely a work in progress, and I cannot wait for their product to mature.
Hypothesis: The Seebeck effect, combined with the heat from a human hand, can generate sufficient power for an LED flashlight at room temperature.

The hypothesis was approached from both the theoretical and experimental side.
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TLDR; Anarchist systems have existed throughout history both alongside and within, and most certainly in awareness of hierarchical systems which they often explicitly reject.

Most assertions about the nature of those societies are based on ignorance. Most relevant to your comment, they tend(ed) to maintain rules, conventions, personal property, arbitrate disputes, take care of the weak, and do any number of other things considered impossible without government. Various types of egalitarian social order have existed, it isn't one monolithic concept, and it certainly doesn't necessarily result in chaos or might-makes-right.

If you want specific examples and actual information, take the time to read the pdf. It is written by an anthropologist, so it is his gig to footnote all this stuff.
There are no atheists in foxholes, and there are no conservatives when the pork is being passed out.

But regardless, everybody believes spending raises GDP. But one side is afraid it will work too well, and will have undesirable side effects for their constituencies, and finds bashing on the grounds it doesn't work has populist appeal.
Sooner or later, the vast treasure-trove of data that has been collected will be exploited for the purposes of blackmailing, intimidating, harrassing, stalking, or stealing the identities of powerful individuals.

And sooner or later, news that this has happened will leak to the media, and there will be widespread fear and outrage among the powerful.

Then, and only then, can we expect anything meaningful to get done.

Until that point, expect a lot of talk, but no walk.

Some years back, it was revealed that the US had bugged the offices of foreign dignitaries at the United Nations. It was just just a blip in the news. Sure, there was some grumbling, but nothing was done. And now we can see that the practice continues.

Besides, all these countries spy on each other. What do you think their spy agencies are for? Do you really think that their spying is only reserved for their "enemies"? Do you think they can resist using their sophisticated spying technologies to spy on their allies? Is anyone really suprised?

I personally would be surprised if they didn't spy on their allies -- just as I would be if the US suddenly started using swords on the battlefield because they were more honorable weapons than guns which kill from a safe distance.

Welcome to the world of Machiavelli and realpolitik. We don't live in Disneyland.
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I'm with you on that. Or it should force someone to comment if your down voting, but that has notable drawbacks when a comment is just plain inflammatory.
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Mainstream cable dramas enforces fear and stereotypes to shape public view much more than hollywood I'd say, just because more people watch those shows and every single one of them is the same theme.

For instance take any cop drama. The kid who uses drugs for the first time ends up raped at a rave or overdoses, the couple who has a pansexual relationship with other people ends up killed because of their "shady" lifestyle, anything that is out of the bounds of religious morality is demonized and will always lead to doom.

Cops who beat up suspects in interrogation are shown in the best light because they never beat up the wrong suspect, all animal rights protesters or eco activists are portrayed as total loons, national security always trumps individual rights and turns out for the good.

Propaganda like Red Dawn, Olympus Has Fallen or Zero Dark Thirty which showed torture lite and even tried to justify it isn't watched nearly as much. The articles slamming Zero Dark Thirty weren't as numerous as the criticism that show "24" created with justifying torture and pandering to the imaginary ticking bomb interrogation scenario where the intrepid hero must use torture to save the world.

I can't remember how many cop dramas on TV I've seen where they could catch the evil criminal if only they weren't blocked by annoying restrictions like warrants. Message: cops are always good, judges are out of touch with reality, defence lawyers are evil unethical parasites and warrantless spying or searches should be the norm. Watch this scenario a hundred times and when the media finally starts promoting some new "necessary" warrantless spying the government is trying to pass you're likely to allow it after being inundated with constant pro state propaganda, and a chorus of media pundits who use fictional TV scenarios to compare to real life situations like the CNN anchor I witnessed who was constantly bringing up that stupid 24 morality play about the evil bad guy in the good guy's captivity and only torture is the solution while interviewing a lawyer who was trying to laugh off the questions as nonsense and tell the public what is really going on.

Whatever that lawyer was trying to say was drowned out by bringing in decades worth of reinforced stereotypes. The guy had a ton of stuff to say but his interview was sidetracked by this ridiculous fiction and "that's all the time we have today stay with us after the commercial break for our Paula Deen exclusive"
Did you really just put a Lady Gaga in with SCOTUS? :)
By printing more money, he government has more money. By increasing the supply of money, the "price" (which is to say "value" - how much you can trade it for) of money goes down. So value moved from "those who hold dollars" to the government, which can be viewed as a sort of tax. By not using dollars, you reduce demand for dollars (hopefully more than you reduce supply through decreased velocity - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money) meaning the government has to print more to pay for the same things and so you lessen the ability to raise money in this way.

I am skeptical about this being significant, because the amount of money raised by printing money has historically been radically lower than the amount of money raised by levying taxes.
Well, it _is_ their explicit purpose, or how else do you interpret their mission statement?

Other governments doing the same is exactly why the NSA and the CIA can be justified. Not having them would put the US at a serious information disadvantage.

A completely different issue is _what_ and _how much_ information gathering they should be doing. For instance, the US has been complaining about Chinese computer attacks for a long time, and it now seems that the US is at least as guilty in doing this. So the US certainly don't seem to have the moral high ground anymore.
Definitely for me! I plugged away in Microsoft Notepad and did all this fun, interesting stuff locally in the browser but I never had a place to share it. It was getting kind of lame not being able to share it easily. Enter: Geocities.
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No need. New cars in California come without license plates. Instead, you get a temporary registration document affixed to the inside of your windshield and plates are mailed to you in a few weeks. It's your responsibility to put them on.

OR, you can simply not put the plates on and blend in with all the other new cars -- and there's no shortage of new cars in the Bay Area. Usually, the dealer has placed their own cardboard/paper license plate with their own company logo in its place. When I bought a new car, I just flipped it around so it was just plain white.

As long as your car is a late model and reasonably clean, with the registration stuck to the windshield, cops probably won't bother pulling you over. Parking tickets may still be issued from the VIN. If you are pulled over, you might get a dressing down and a fix-it ticket to put your plates on within x days. You can do this for as long as you'd like to press your luck.
it is always possible to explain why some particular program is running slow and in case of programs running inside JVM, JVM itself is almost never the (only) reason.
Where will Google Reader traffic go?
villagers are one of the cheaper resources in that game :)
I am a physicist working on complex systems. When I read Krugman I get the vibe of a scientific peer using the scientific method within the constraints of the information available. Pretty much all other economists that make it into the mainstream press fall very much short of that. Most don't even have a falsifiable model.
Empirically speaking, government is utterly horrible about taking care of the elderly and disabled. The mentally disabled historically were far better treated by their communities before the government instituted sanitoria.

Block Island, RI, is a good example of a community thant functions to help each other without government aid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUxu02GPAqg

And government has been similarly horrible at taking care of the poor. a large part of social equalization in the 1900-1950 era was the ascendancy of private community associations, mutual benefit societies, and so forth. The remnants of these are the Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary club, etc... But these have been squeezed out by government sponsored programs, and we have seen economic inequity rise. Part of this is probably also because the poor have been squeezed by money printing - but that's another issue altogether.

Especially the way that the government engages in charity. By spending money that is borrowed to bail out the poor (the anti-austerity argument) - the government transfers funds to the poor (which, let's assume is fine) by borrowing from the rich and politically connected. But it's a loan, so the rich are getting paid back, with interest. The net resource flow is to the rich, even though you have paid the poor.
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This article is a Rorschach test. Some of us will read it and savor what we see as our powerful, well-oiled work environment, and some of us will look and despair at the unproductive tedium that envelops us. Maybe a bit of each for most.
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