skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wish this was In Seattle, WA I would have definitely joined this looks super duper awesome.
Articles like this lead me to think that really ridding ourselves of surveillance is not unlike getting the sugar back out of a cup of coffee.
"Won't somebody please think of teh menz?"

Wasn't the whole point of Hacker News to not have inane gibberish like this on it?

If you have a problem with argument, refute it. But acting like a child and mocking it does nothing but raise the blood pressure of everyone else reading the post.
Public Safety includes way more than Police; there's the fire brigades, the emergency medical services, the DMV and more.
Reading Finnish out loud (with a somewhat German-y pronunciation) always manages to cheer me up.
Why's there a Star of David in the middle?
The first one isn't a problem for ninty: you aren't perpetually entitled to new releases because you bought one copy on one medium. You don't get a DVD because you blight Snow White on VHS, and you really don't have standing to torrent it either.
How we used Crowdtilt to test a new product idea: the ultimate hoodie
That is not a literal translation though, just the closest English equivalent.
He's put hundreds of millions of dollars of his own capital into his ventures, yes.
"Closest", so we know that's not the whole story.

It looks a lot like a schematic Lofstrom (launch) loop. Just replace the rotor with air.
Apple investigates electrocution-by-iPhone report
Ah well I stand corrected. Other than that it's still just mostly the old information repeated yet again.
Indeed. That's a transmutation circle of awesome.
> awk '{print $3}'

is the same as

> cut -f3 -d' '

cut is amazing for what it does. and most people know only the subset of awk that effectively _is_ cut anyway :D.
It was recently the feature of a blog post: https://github.com/blog/1557-github-flow-in-the-browser
a) The author is Jewish

b) It's semantically relevant

(Probably the latter. Same goes for the typo in the copyright notice in the end.)
Do you have a bug tracker?

When I left my computer for awhile, I'm now getting infinite "You were away 17 minutes. Add time to current file?"

It's possible that it's not infinite and I just have THAT many files open, but gah. I have to uninstall this plugin for now. Let me know when it's fixed!
I think the poster's point 1 is really the key here. In addition, I think Intellisense-driven programming has a lot to do with it. I suspect a lot of .NET programming goes like this (I know I've been guilty of this)

1) Hmm, let's see what classes are in this namespace... Ah, this one looks like it might do the job so I'll type

var foo = new ThingWithInterestingName();

2) Dang, don't want to scroll through tooltips for 23 different constructors with poorly named params, think I'll just use the default constructor, they probably implemented that for casual users like me.

3) Now I can type foo. and let IntelliSense give me options. When I call a function I get an error for each call instead of some crazy exception for the whole thing. Maybe I can even test stuff out in the Immediate window in the debugger.

So, I think it's not only miseducation or layzness, it's that modern IDEs for static languages encourage discovery based development in favor of reading through API documents.
The most interesting alternative solution right now to make zero-confirmation transaction safe is rather counter-intuitive:

"However we can make zero-confirmation transactions safe without complex trusted identity systems, ironically by making it easier to double-spend. If we implement replace-by-fee nodes will always forward the transaction with the highest overall fee (including parents) even if it would double-spend a previous transaction. At first glance this appears to make double-spending trivial and zero-confirmation transactions useless, but in fact it enables a powerful counter-measure to an attempted double-spend: the merchant who was ripped off creates a subsequent transaction sending 100% of the funds to mining fees. All replace-by-fee miners will mine that transaction, rather than the one sending the funds back to the fraudster, and there is nothing the fraudster can do about it other than hope they get lucky and some one mines their double-spend before they hear about the counter spend. The transaction can also be constructed such that the payee pays slightly more in advance, with the merchant refunding the extra amount once the transaction confirms, to ensure that a double-spend will result in a net loss for the fraudster." - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251233.msg2669189#ms...

In English, if you want to reverse a transaction, IE cancel a payment, the most you can steal from the person you paid is the value of the transaction itself. But if we implement a system where you can change a transaction after the fact, sending more of the fees to miners, the merchant can always outbid you, so it's almost impossible to actually get away with the theft and gain anything. You'll still pay for whatever you stole, thus turning what was a profitable attack, into a unprofitable attack that at best is simple vandalism. Namecheap isn't going to care much if a thief lost $10 when their loss was at most a $0.17 registrar fee.

Disclaimer: I'm working on implementing this feature in Bitcoin, although it's John Dillon's idea.
I'm not exactly an expert on this kind of thing, but from what I understand, Eigen and Armadillo [1] are the best performing libraries in this space. I'd probably go with Eigen, since it appears to be used in more high-profile places and thus more likely to keep being maintained.

uBLAS, on the other hand, does not perform that well in comparison, but it is more likely to keep being maintained as part of Boost.

Blaze [2] is supposed to be very high-performance, but it is relatively new, so there's no way to tell where the chips may fall on this one.

[1] http://arma.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://code.google.com/p/blaze-lib/
It's actually a transmutation circle symbol from the manga/anime Fullmetal Alchemist
I had this create duplicate icons on my homescreen, which sucks since even after uninstalling the App and certificate, the additional one is still there. :(
I'm probably misunderstanding this. The way I'm envisioning this is basically a half-dozen parallel conversations, with only one of them being the actual conversation.

Couldn't it be easily defeated with contextual analysis? I mean, if it were English sentences, the attacker could just choose a set of packets that make grammatical sense. Or in more real-world examples, you'd just choose the packets that form a valid HTTP session.

To work around this, you'd have to choose your chaff packets to flow seamlessly from one to the other, which would make chaffing a really hard problem.
Whether they are legal or illegal immigrants is irrelevant to the argument presented. The market should identify a "business opportunity" and push salaries upwards to an equilibrium.
"There's no real reason that feminism needs to exist in a modern society, it's just path dependence (you can't take a bone out of dog's mouth - people tend to hang onto the rights they have), and the fact that most people (including most men) think that feminism is a "good" thing."

Can you clarify your point here? Are you arguing that women shouldn't have equal rights and opportunities?
What do you mean Apple wouldn't get any commission? For creating new GitHub accounts? Am I missing something?
Whether you like Rowling's writing or not, one thing she excels at is plot. I can see how a crime novel would be a perfect fit for her. In fact, the Harry Potter books were quite brilliant in the way they threaded clues throughout the story - all of which unravelled so cleverly at the end of the final novel.

In fact, this skill for storytelling or narrative is something shared by many "children's authors". Plot sometimes seems to be a dirty word in adult fction, especially literary fiction. You can have a good plot and good characterisation - they are not mutually exclusive. Another British writer, Philip Pullman, has also acknowledged the importance of story. I like this extract from Guardian article in 2000 on Philip Pullman [1]

he...is not afraid to acknowledge the importance of plot in his work. 'When you are writing for children,' he told the Bookseller in 1996, 'the story is more important than you are. You can't be self-conscious, you just have to get out of the way.' Because it is easier to write description and dialogue than tell a good story, very many contemporary novelists write bad plots...Pullman seems to know this...

It's in the importance he attaches to narrative that sets Pullman apart from all those highly-praised contemporary writers who cannot plot for toffee.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/oct/22/whitbreadprize20...
Africa’s homemade aircraft builders
I think she is trying to avoid being stereotyped, so she's deliberately trying other writing styles.

For her a failed experiment is worth it because it shows that she can write other kinds of books.

A less wealthy author probably couldn't afford to do that.
This happened a few years ago (~2008?). HNA (HN Academic) was launched and didn't get a lot of traffic. Reading papers just takes a lot of time.

There might be other models that work (other people mention Medley). The attention span for an HN clone is too short though.
Don't forget there are only ever going to be more unix newbies in the world. It's not like they're a dying breed. There are more people than ever who have never been exposed to unix tools who might benefit from them (myself included several years ago).
This guy's videos is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU8kWMMXrQ8 I'd probably watch them if they where like his.
Reply to self: we already have been building tunnels through which we move air at high speed. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_wind_tunnel#Power_r..., I read:

"The power required to run a supersonic wind tunnel is enormous, of the order of 50 MW per square meter of test section cross-sectional area."

A train would be, say, 20 square meters in cross section. That would be a GW of power to operate this. And that likely is a severe underestimate. I am sure one cannot lengthen a wind tunnel to kilometers without lots of power loss, but for now, let's ignore that.

For reference: Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV#Rolling_stock, a TGV uses at most 12MW at the relatively low speed of 300 km/h. Also, the three Gorges dam produces 22GW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations_...)
Very interesting article. As a side note, does anyone have links to solid research on the long term effects (physiological and psychological) of these psychedelics? It amazes me how little conclusive information there is, although I know gov stifling certainly hasn't helped.
I'm still on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS which has kernel 3.2.0-49, I thought 'old' was 2.6 or really old 2.4. What the heck is going on now, the kernel is already up to 3.11? Did I miss anything good in between? By my perceptions I would have imagined that newest kernel would be around 3.6 or so but I was wrong: https://www.kernel.org/finger_banner
I think what ocscardelben meant was that Apple wouldn't get any commission off of new, paid, GitHub accounts.
N-Queens solved by a Genetic Algorithm in Javascript
All this European posturing is just that, posturing, but it's the worst of possible worlds for Obama: be it in a friendly or hostile manner, every European government can now ask for favours in order to turn a blind eye to the whole mess.

Most politicians will likely ask for increased data-sharing agreements under the table, while publicly decrying the sorry state of things. The EC can be a real threat for US businesses, which is why Merkel and friends needed this statement: it's the big stick to bring to the table while we speak softly to our American friends.
I think you should be able to incr/decr by more than 1. Maybe allow http://arbitrarycounter.com/vb/fruit/apples+N where N can be any integer > 0
Most people are of the opinion that they have a right to make a copy for backup purposes - a copy that they could then transfer to an emulator, although I have no citations at the ready to verify the legality of this. If Nintendo were to release many games at once, bundled with the app, I'd agree with you, but if they were to let you download them individually through an in-app purchase, I'd tend towards the latter.
Why do people always ask this? Last time it was in the Visual Website Optimizer thread.
Hmm, I use perks as a significant way to judge a company, but more isn't necessarily better. You must always ask what? why?

Do the perks fit with the industry and intentions of the company? Are the perks well thought out and canceled when they are a detriment to the company and/or employees?

I've always worked for companies with unlimited coffee and some group outings. I would be largely for companies with unlimited fruit juices, functional athletics centers, well thought out awarded perks, etc.

Yet, I am very skeptical of companies with free soda. For example, Netscape was very short sighted and ended up with similar (and perhaps newly diabetic) employees. I love some of their results, but as a company I am glad they went and I wish they went earlier, certainly before their server products were considered an asset..

Similarly, I am not swayed by lots of stock options (is there a reason they are so frivolous with them? Is this place so miserable that vesting periods are all that can keep me here?) But I expect some together with a heartfelt apology for not giving me more from a manager who seriously tried.

Perks should be the food for conversation on the topic of compensation. (Or some such HR fueled poetic nonsense.)
Pretty good, in my opinion. It's fairly comprehensive, and focuses a lot of time and effort into pointing out why things in C break and how to be preemptive about fixing them.

A fair bit of discussion around your standard exploits as well.
Well, Neptune is in the top three most likely places to find more moons. Jupiter and Saturn have been pretty well mined out by the orbiters Galileo and Cassini, and we can see the inner solar system pretty well from right here on earth. But Uranus and Neptune were visited for just one quick flyby each, and Pluto never yet until 2015, so there's plenty of opportunities to have missed stuff there.
i wrote one a long time ago:

http://linuxgazette.net/67/nazario.html

i still use a buttload of awk for data science type uses.
Ruby method names can contain newlines
Making a JIT interpreter with LuaJIT
If there is already new syntax, why not just make a completely new language that compiles to C, like vala or something similar?
Great idea for a plugin, but it made my Sublime Text 2 install unusably slow. I'm not sure what could be doing that - the fact the developer suggested installing bind to cache DNS requests makes me think it checks in with the site very often and I have a poor internet connection where I am right now.
Advice is not last in first out
Nothing. As a German I have the right to obtain a copy of all personal information that public authorities (§ 19 BDSG) or companies (§ 34 BDSG) store about me - for free. There are similar laws on the EU level.

The problem is that U.S. companies, even if they have their headquarter in Europe (like Facebook in Dublin) just don't care. You can read more about that on the Europe vs Facebook page. http://europe-v-facebook.org/
While that may have been the publisher's intention, were I in her shoes I would have done exactly the same thing. Those positive reviews she got for her novel when nobody knew who the author was? I'm sure those were worth any amount of lost sales to her.
This seems like it would work if you wanted to encrypt a reply message, however how would you get another user's public key if you're the one initiating the first conversation?
worked great! excited to get them :-)
Yep. It's only an issue if you are giving the buyer something irreversible.

It's essentially no greater risk than accepting credit cards; any buyer can do a chargeback and get their money back at a moment's notice, but it happens fairly infrequently and when it does happen, you just revoke their rights to the service and ban them if necessary.
Both semantically and semitically relevant, in other words.
Do you use cash in real life to avoid telling companies what you spend, where you spent and what you spent it on? If your answer is no, then you probably won't find much value in doing the same online with bitcoins.
Perhaps POST requests would be more appropriate for incrementing/decrementing?

GET's may be either cached(skipped) or duplicated for various reasons, resulting in incorrect counts.
I actually rather enjoyed The Casual Vacancy, but I did find a few of the characters pretty tedious to read about. The same story from a less powerful and intimidating author would have been able to benefit from some aggressive redaction, but who is going to tell Rowling to lose large chunks of her book? I wouldn't be able to.
GET should never modify data. I would recommend changing that to a POST before something indexes it and decides to crawl it every 5 minutes. See here for more reasons: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/705782/why-shouldnt-data-...

I realize this isn't supposed to be highly accurate, but it's something to keep in mind if it continues to grow.
Interesting that the reviews for this book were so much better than The Casual Vacancy. I wonder whether it is in fact better written, or simply that The Casual Vacancy suffered for having J. K. Rowling's name attached to it. (Expectations too high, people wanting to see such a high-selling author take a fall, etc.)

As for this being a publicity stunt: maybe so, but I wouldn't take that as a foregone conclusion. It's easy enough to see that she would want to get away from all the hype and noise and just write books. And it's not like she needs the extra income that this book might bring. (If she were simply interested in cash, she'd certainly do better to write more Potter-related material.)
Could you be more specific how would those archives help?

Btw, thank you for the boundary devices link. The only weakness against Utilite is one Ethernet nic vs two.
The fact that the department was considered previously doesn't make its instantiation a panicked act. There are lots of contingencies and scenarios which are modeled and proposed in government. Only a small fraction are accepted.
Show HN: Kuhcoon, social media dashboard built by one college developer
I can see how a crime novel would be a perfect fit for her

The better Harry Potter novels basically were crime novels with magic. As a big crime novel fan, I'm eager to read this new one.
Apple wants devs to use in-app purchase to sell things in apps . If you don't they don't get their 30% cut of all sales. It's the same reason Amazon can't sell books in the Kindle app, they have to direct users to the website.
It's actually not all that hard and doesn't require timing more precise than a few seconds. You can try it yourself: https://blockchain.info/create-double-spend

That site isn't great because it's tricky to hit the two submit buttons in succession, but a fairly trivial script can do the same thing without much difficulty.

The reason why you don't hear about it is in reality there pretty much aren't any services out there that are actually vulnerable to that kind of double-spend in a way that results in genuine financial loss. Aside from some rare exceptions everyone accepting zero-conf transactions are either selling something that can be recalled after the fact, (tell the shipping department to stop) or has zero marginal cost. (like mp3s)
Fascinating. Even the README generator is on another level of meta: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/README.m...
There's a key difference.

When it's the government, there's a chance a big black van will pull up next to you and haul you away for the rest of your life.

A corp is likely just trying to manipulate you into buying their worthless junk. Not good, but at least you're not dead or imprisoned.
Which it goes on to explain that they did target it by mistake because of their horrible scattershot abuse of the DMCA.

I don't know, I guess I just understood it differently. I don't see an article arguing that this was intentional. Mikestew does, I guess?
I think that's a matter of legal opinion. I did find one legal analysis that agrees with you:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070114093427179

The analysis is clear that it is contrary to the consensus opinion, and there is further discussion refuting it in the comments. It has never been tested in court.

Since the commenters over at Groklaw are much more informed than either of us, and there is much more written than we could ever hope to figure out going back and forth like this, I propose we call a truce.
And, she can perhaps differentiate her "grown up" work by continuing to write under a different name. Not all pseudonyms have to be closed secrets. Look at Richard Stark/Donald Westlake.
Right, because all the people who are in a positions to make decisions about writing event-driven code needed to do so was a manifesto.
My memories of AppleTalk wasn't so fond - though I can't for the life of me remember why as it seems so long ago now and I've filled my brain full of a few decades more technojunk since. But I do remember being joyful when it came time to port the various Mac LANs over to TCP/IP.
Anxiety: Nothing to Do but Embrace the Dread
I've come across quite a bit of anecdotal evidence as blog posts (Damn it, can't find the links now) and scientists will often confess to being biased about prestige while reading articles. It's also probably the reason why mathematical papers do not print author affiliations at the front of the paper (they are listed at the back).

It's simply a matter of choosing where to invest your scarce time. A paper from prestigious authors/affiliation presumably has a better chance of being worth your time. So such papers get more attention and hence more citations, even if they might not have been the most novel or the most comprehensive. The same also applies to papers in high impact factor journals where citations have some kind of a positive feedback loop.
>I prefer to think of this as the on-ramp. Learn your craft by selling eyeballs, or some other relatively trivial technology, make FU money, and then go and do something real. The archetype of this is of course Elon Musk.

The archetype?

For one, he worked on real stuff from the beginning -- not ads or social crap: online publishing and payments.

Second, even if he fit the profile, he would hardly be an archetype, because I don't see many (if anyone) following on his footsteps.

People making FU money and leisuring or working on pet hobbies I do see. But people making FU money and "going and doing something real", well, can't think of anyone. There could be 2 or 3. I doubt there are ten.
Anyone care to explain how this actually works?
Good work != space ships.
Bamboo 5 Bridges the Dev-Ops Divide - Build-Deploy
Fully 30% of Jefferson's Original Declaration was truncated. It explicitly denounced slavery and blamed it on Britain.

That caused him great trouble. Till his death, he insisted that be the version preserved for posterity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_In...
I can't say I really understand the desire not to be typecast or stereotyped. I don't see those things as negatives; surely nobody looks down upon Agatha Christie for writing crime/mystery stuff almost exclusively.

If you're good at it, roll with it, unless you aren't happy with it I suppose.
Because most people don't get to charge the "outrageous hourly rates of most consultants"?
It usually takes distro developers a while to vet kernels and ensure stability with their userspace stuff. 3.7 and 3.8 had a few regressions, and were skipped by a few distros. 3.9 only made it into Debian Stable last month (as a backport from testing).

On Ubuntu, you can always get some newer kernel versions through apt-get, but the default will always be what they consider to be stable (especially for an LTS)