skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"stronger technology-oriented personalities at the table"

Women Techies dream team version 0.001:

Limor Fried, Jeri Ellsworth, Radia Perlman (noobs probably don't know who she is... hint... Spanning Tree Protocol and a epic 90s book titled "Interconnections"). "the table" needs techies like those three women, not some famous bean counters.

I would much rather have my daughter look up to those three (or about a bazillion others) than, say, "Job Destroyer Carly"
"srcip"
No, the whole plugin is slow. When I search for things for example, Sublime is slow. The website is not slow.

And no, I'm not worried about Sublime crashing when I'm away. The dialog that pops up when it asks you to log you time, popped up like a thousands of times and then Sublime crashed.
The same way you back up all your other important and private files? That is, frequently and securely.

Also note that you can have multiple keys, potentially one per device (useful in case a device could get stolen).
I still wonder if most of these problems could not be fixed by changing the manual system.

> Because a lot of the voters are poor another trick was to give to the voter an already marked vote and demand the original valid one back so the candidate could buy a vote in a election.

For example wouldn't it be trivial to make this impossible? Simply make sure people can get more than one paper and there would be no original vote that could be used as proof. They would have to have a guy standing there watching you which would work with voting machines too.
She seems to be good at getting nerds talking about Yahoo.
I don't think I was ever in the target market for any of their products, and I almost forgot the company existed, until the recent controversy about the ban on remote working.
Modern newspeak and equivalent English terms:

Department of Homeland Security - Department of State Security

Public Safety - Police

Department of Defense - Department of War

Enhanced interrogation techniques - Torture
Ever wonder what it would be like to say what you mean?
I figured. You'd be surprised how your reply still provided me great stuff to work with. It's what I was aiming for, actually.

It's a business. Not sure if I need a beta 2, how can I tell?
My market is small, but I'm doing this to see if I can start and run a successful business. As for willingness to pay, I've asked most them personally or by survey and most of them have said YES.
No, but it is not any better either. There are other issues to consider as well e.g. the lack of widely deployed public key stegosystems.
Okay, I guess I should have expected that to be taken literally. Sorry. I meant that they are tricking, to 1% margin of error, nobody. The core of their business is legitimate. They're not scammers.
Well, he doesn't want to live in your world either. So what do you do? :)
People paid billion dollars for site that makes $0 money.

With that traffic, this is not a bad deal at all.
> The BSD license is GPL-compatible

This isn't wholly true - the compatibility is only one way, which was back to my original point. "Compatibility" with the GPL is, according to the FAQ:

> In order to combine two programs (or substantial parts of them) into a larger work, you need to have permission to use both programs in this way. If the two programs' licenses permit this, they are compatible. If there is no way to satisfy both licenses at once, they are incompatible.

A BSD work which depends on a GPL work therefore, cannot be "Compatible" with the GPL because it fails to meet the criteria previously quoted: "You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License ...".

What you are trying to claim is that you can write BSD code which is API compatible with readline, but if you are not distributing readline with it, it is not a dependent work. (ie, there are other works which are API compatible with readline). The condition here is that APIs cannot be copyrighted. In that case, you can distribute only your code which uses the API under your license of choice, but you cannot distribute the work as a whole under anything but the GPL.
OpenSSH has long been an example of solid development (and crypto) practices too, and has had a few less issues. Search for "Use constant time memcmp when comparing HMACs in openvpn_decrypt." (the fix is my colleague's, but the bug was mine.)

That said, both are very good, and if you do want a full VPN there's a lot to recommend OpenVPN.
"Not all feminists are like that" is an intellectually lazy argument. Of course not all feminists agree. That doesn't matter in the slightest when I have feminists (who I count as friends, no less) telling me that I have no right to have an opinion on gender equality because I'm a white middle class male. "Privilege" and "Patriarchy" is shaming language used by even the meekist feminist (and again, said by people who actually like me) to make me feel bad for being born the way I am - a white male who wants to make a comfortable living. Anytime I make a comment about this topic, the response I get is what I imagine women used to get in Victorian era england; "Aww, that's sweet, now sit down, shut up and let the women talk."

I don't oppress women. Women oppress me. And pointing that out makes me the asshole.
We do have some prototypes, but we are yet to venture beyond scaffolding..and honestly, we are more focused to provide basic, universal tooling and let respective communities to handle their-favorite-language/framework bindings.

From what I tried, it is fairly easy to get "almost there", but the remaining 10% is dealbreaker. If too much editing constraints are placed on resulting application, it feels odd and it's easy to break them and thus diverge from original blueprint.

One possible approach is to maintain original blueprint, then say "Let us implement" and completely blueprint as "primary data source" into scaffolded application -- into module/method docstrings and start generating blueprint back from there.

However, we are yet to find something that feels unobstrusive and natural during whole development cycle. Suggestions certainly welcome.
"forced in" meaning that in order to continue to conduct business as is without trying to circumvent in the name of their users interests, they chose to align their interests with the surveillance state in order to minimize any potential short term corporate hardships.

It kind of reminds me of how a certain president received a nobel peace prize yet the actions conducted under his policies (or rule) are in contradiction to the ideals of what the prize is named after, but I digress.

There is always a choice to be made…
It looks pretty, but I'm already having nightmares about stepping through this in a debugger.
A [dead] replier, after being a douche bag about it, made the valid point that the problem could be overdiagnosis of boys rather than underdiagnosis of girls.

Two things about that. One is that even in that case, it still doesn't put boys at a disadvantage to girls. There's no indication that treating someone for ADHD when they don't have it will be disadvantageous to them.

The second is that contrary to public and media perception, ADHD is probably not overdiagnosed. Hilariously, this commenter supplied the following article: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/adhd/problems-overdiagnosis-... . Apparently s/he did not actually read that article all the way through, or even skip to the concluding paragraph, which begins:

>The public’s fear that ADHD is overdiagnosed and that stimulants are overprescribed is not generally supported by the current scientific research.
Both Twitter and Apple (Steve Jobs era) refused to participate.
Oatmeal: The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances
> Fighting for women's rights doesn't mean you don't care about men

How is ridiculing concern for men supposed to express that?
Windows 8.1 DPI Scaling Enhancements
So you're someone who clearly has spent a bit of time thinking through all the licenses, and has a good philosophical position on them. However, if you haven't done all that research, and just need a license right now, I think it's not wise to tell people to use the GPL, as it will have side-effects they don't intend, for features they're not interested in (perhaps, not interested in _yet_, of course).
I did not know that but I am pleased to know this information, it gives me hope that sanity might one day prevail here.
Well, oxygen deprivation does get you high... That happens to be one of the main reasons why huffing volatile chemicals is so much fun.
Yahoo recycles old user IDs with help from Facebook
(1) should be conclusively disproven by now. (3)'s probably closer to the truth. I for one would be flat out shocked if some US chips didn't have security overrides built-in
Probably they did not even think that PRISM/surveillance is a problem. If you look how the security establishment reacts, I think it is entirely possible that no one in their circles ever thought that total surveillance may be unjustified, when "we" do it to "keep America save."
I find that CEOs are often the last to realize or admit the reality of suckitude a company is under.

I mean if you did your job right as CEO, you are the dumbest person there. You spend all your time being upbeat and optimistic in public (maybe horribly depressed in private?). Your engineers and managers, who are experts in divining information out of the smallest bits of data (single line bugs anyone?) are much smarter than you realize.

I have rarely seen a CEO that I completely respect. They just don't have the ability to aggregately integrate every detail in the company and tend to lead things to a crash and burn as a result.
B2B Buyers - Educate or Confront them?
He's hopefully using screen width (window.screen.availHeight) rather than browser width (window.screen.height)
Previously, _serious_ belief (rather than a sneaking suspicion) that the feds collected everything was considered to be ... eccentric. Similar to claims that the government staged 9/11, or that we have alien bodies and hardware at Area 51. Court cases that reference this have been thrown out on the basis that "you can't prove that anything like that has happened to you".

Now, we have pretty concrete proof that that is NOT a silly belief to have, and that the government really does record everything it possibly can. Pretty much any nerd with sufficient understanding of the technology, and/or who has read very much in the cyberpunk literary genre, has probably always suspected this, but now we have proof.

I don't mean to belittle the Wikileaks cables: they showed that the US and our allies were often lying to locals. In this case, however, Snowden's leak shows that our government has been lying to US, about something that violates the literal founding principles of our country. I think that why so many people are considering this a Really Big Deal.
Michigan launches civic hackathon - Code Michigan
Well I commend you for moving things forward! Have you talked with any security professionals about possible pitfalls of using mail headers? I was sort of hoping tptacek would come on and tell me why my idea is no good. :-)
I tried finding more about the Twitter scraper, but didn't find anything. Could you provide a link? I think I'd get a good chuckle from it.
The GPL developer's idea of sharing is sharing on his terms. The BSD developer's idea of sharing is sharing on the other person's terms. Of course BSD developers would like GPL developers to share on BSD terms instead of GPL terms, and of course GPL developers have no problem whatsoever with BSD developers sharing on GPL terms, because they already do. So it's quite easy to see how from the BSD developer's perspective, GPL developers are greedy. To counter this, the BSD developers don't want to enforce the four freedoms, which is unprincipled from the GPL developer's perspective.
Agreed -- seems like you'd have higher construction costs, higher energy requirements, and similar right-of-way concerns.
asm.js is JavaScript. It executes according to the semantics specified in ECMA-262.

The 2x performance numbers for OdinMonkey are not "best case": they include compilation time and will certainly improve (they are better now already).

Regarding having a "real IR", throwing away backwards compatibility for surface syntax doesn't work on the Web. It was tried, with XHTML 2.0 for example. It failed.
GPL has never prevented use in commercial products, unless the author uses the GPL 3 and specifically adds a limited clause:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NoMilitary

What it ensures is that the source code will be released along with any uses. If a products uses your code and someone requests that code from them, they should be able to point to your repository, or theirs, and provide a copy.

Now let's say one day you change course and want to close the source for future development. That is completely okay. Only the code you have already released will be out there under the GPL and the future work will be covered under your new license. Any open source libs you use, you of course have to provide the source for. What this does for all of us is it ensures the source code is available to the developer/consumer and they can modify it as needed.

Just some background, I released an OSS SMTP library in 2000 and I've never had a problem using the same library in any commercial product and in fact I went on to build a small component business on it by offering new closed-source features, such as S/MIME, and support contracts to go along with the purchase.

Here it is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensmtp-net/
> Do you need to go to the powder room and have a good cry about it?

In other words: "I'm going to emasculate you by comparing you to a woman and giving you stereotypically weak female traits like crying.

But YOU'RE the one who is a sexist."
>The article tries to make the case that HBO, et. al., are trying to take down open source software.

I see an article talking about very sloppy practices and flaws in the DMCA. I don't see the case you're talking about at all in the article. I'm confused.
"A solution to this is to increase the "noise floor" by bundling steganography tools with common widely distributed software, so that obviously 99+% of people and computers with steganography software would be 'innocent'."

Good luck with that one. As a practical matter, this is unlikely to happen; hardly anyone requires steganography as part of their security solution (the MPAA stands out due to the use of watermarking). Email and online businesses were the killer app for public key cryptography; what killer app do you see for steganography?
Who said anything about "okay"? It's an explanation for there being less protest then there might otherwise be.
My friend made an easy to use javascript regex tool, feedback welcome.
Not a beer drinker? Drop him yesterday.
If you allow people a month to count the votes anything could happen to them. In Sweden we count them in a couple of hours to get a preliminary result and then count them again the next day to get a final result. The Swedish votes do not pass through many hands before being counted and always during the counting there are plenty of eyes watching them.

The exception in Sweden is pre-election day votes which quite easily could quite easily be tampered with if we were more corrupt.

The only reason I can see why counting the votes could take a month is to make it easier to rig the election. There is no technical reason for it.
Good != Popular
I'm nothing if not deliberate in my choice of words and phrasing. :)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_(law)
You're missing context. The phrase is used in instances like this:

Person A: "Women have it rough. Patriarchy."

Person B: "No, see, [bad thing happened to this guy one time], so there's no possible way there's systemic bias against women."

Person A: "Yeah, _what about teh menz?_"

Feminists deeply care about men's issues. But they won't tolerate using specific instances of things being bad for men as a means to deny that there is systemic bias against women.
Wyden and Udall have been consistently against these programs damn near a decade, and have been trying to reform section 215 of the Patriot act the whole time. Wyden and Udall have not had to "change" their opinion before or after this controversy, they've been consistently against it the whole time.

Their reforms are the same that they've been pitching for many years, its just that no one has been listening. If you notice, they are the ones who are forcing the NSA to correct their public statements.

http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/blog/post/wyden-and-udall-t...

They don't just listen to the NSA, they also correct the mistakes the NSA makes in public.
CLEP tests rocked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Level_Examination_Progr...

They're like $80 now... in the olden days they were something like $10.

A truly excellent startup idea which no one has apparently tried (that I know of) is a MOOC focused on the CLEP "curriculum", basically a semi-continuous monster study group. There's a giant hole in the MOOC industry for testing and credentialism. Well, there you go, take your CLEP test and they handle all the testing and stuff.

This also shows the ripoff of some industry specific cert exams. Why did a Cisco CCNP Routing test cost something like $200 a decade ago for a total cost for a CCNP of about $800 but a CLEP test in 2013 is only $80? I know there's economies of scale but this is ridiculous. Outsourced reasonable priced industry certs is another MOOC startup ripe for massive disruption.
Elon Musk fully funded SpaceX with his own money?
Why is this debate not in good faith? Because they disagree with you? Assuming they have no previous knowledge about anything solely because they disagree with you is arrogant and lazy. Don't engage in an exchange of ideas, just paint them as stupid and ignorant and move on, firm in your unchallenged convictions.

This point of view you harbor is WHY there can be no debate in good faith.
Vague.js
Vague.js is an experimental script that allows you to blur any kind of html element
The noise level with GPG is fairly high. Anyone with a modern Linux distro install has a copy by default.
Either the military is all about [insert alleged ideals and aims here], and then people would forego more lucrative options to do the right thing and work in the military sector; or it's not, and we should just stop the fucking charade. Maybe Smedley Butler is right, war is a racket, and the costs in lives and materials outweigh the benefits by far... how's that for an idea? It creates X jobs and destroys Y lives; so let's talk about both or neither.
Android contains a variety of performance strategies: Dalvik's JIT is transparent to the developer and it provides a performance boost for most Java apps, Renderscript is for compute-intensive operations. The NDK enables native code modules and makes it fairly convenient to support multiple architectures. Somewhere in there you should be able to find what you need. But I really don't see why anyone developing action games for a multi-threaded, multi-tasking Java OS isn't aware they are going to find it difficult to get a consistently performing game loop. Android just isn't designed for that. Perhaps if Google is really thinking of making a console, they will provide game-oriented scheduling.
Well - this looks more PHP now - given that PHP interpreter is actually a shell on native C - I think it already achieves this.
I call it "defensive" because the answer is not simply "yes" and I think it's a poor position to view clinical trials uncritically.

Clinical trials may indeed work, but it's absolutely not clear that they are optimally designed.

Although few people on this thread are experts, there are a plethora of different comments which illustrate the impossibility of perfect clinical trial design - there are always improvements that could be made and subjective decisions that have to be taken.

The point that you make about pharma companies being profit-making companies could equally be phrased as a very strong criticism: that any pharma clinical trial design is likely to be heavily biased by their desire to sell their most profitable ("optimal") products.
I think that is exactly the issue. John Underkoffler, who invented the interface for Minority Report and thought it was realistic, has been making collaborative digital platforms since at least 1999 http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/underkoffler.html and took it commercial in 2006 http://oblong.com/
> Bjarne Stroustroup is quite fond of demonstrating the superiority of vector even when complexity would suggest list was the right approach. [citation needed]

You might want to read his Fourth Edition of The C++ Programming Language, where he basically recommends std::vector<> as the default container unless you're dealing with large amounts of data that you add into the vector without using .push_back().

In essence, std::vector<> first, switch to std::list<> if profiling shows a speedup.

> Most of the time people who claim that vectors are outperforming lists on tasks where lists are "asymptotically better" they are actually hiding some asymptotic cost. Linked lists have poor asymptotic performance for most interesting tasks, just like vectors.

On the contrary, perhaps the most interesting task we ever do with a list is iterate over it and vectors kick ass there. There's also hardly any indirection or special 'short list' optimization hacks required, such as used in Qt's QList to make its performance reasonable.
Memory Crystals Become Reality: 5D Optical Memory With 360 TB/disc Capacity
This is a big decision. What is so bad about taking an hour or two to read about the differences? I know a lot about the different licenses because I went through this same decision when I decided to release a library I built under LGPL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensmtp-net/

I spent a little time and made a decision. I think everyone should do the same. Don't let someone embrace and extend your work unless you want them to.
Or we can put a different spin on it, and say that they are "only" tricking their major contractual business partner, the one entity without which they would have no business to begin with.
Stuff like typedefing a manual fixed sized int type to be cross-platform compatible

If you're lucky enough to be able to rely on C99: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stdint.h#Fixed-width_integer_t...
This is the right way to sell me on your product.

I hadn't heard of Screen Hero before this. If my first exposure had been through a features & benefits list, I might have said "hmm, seems neat, maybe I'll try it later." And that might have been the end of it, as I go on with my day.

This blog post shows something far more valuable than a feature set. It shows people who believe in something. It invites me to decide whether I believe in that same thing. When I read something like this, I don't just see a product with a market opportunity, I see a group of people on a mission.

As a result, I downloaded Screen Hero, and if it does what it says on the box, I'll be passing along that same feeling of purpose when I share it with others.

Well done.
No i am not. I am making the claim that most people that use something for free would not pay to use it if it wasnt as seen in countless fremium paying user percentages.
Did you read the article? THEY FOUGHT!
The state of Michigan is releasing API's this fall on five themes: jobs, tourism, safety, veterans and foster kids. The event will be held October 4-6 at the M@dison building in Detroit in cooperation with Detroit Labs. Register at www.codemichigan.com

If you want to use your skills to give back here's your chance. If you want to start a company and were looking for an idea here's your opportunity. For more:
http://www.michigan.gov/minewswire/0,4629,7-136-3452-308213-...

This is a project I've been involved with since the beginning. Here's my blog post:

http://www.codemichigan.com/post/get-your-secret-power
No thanks, OpenWRT package management is awful. None of the advantages of OpenWRT apply to a machine that has enough resources to run a typical distribution.