skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I used to think that way.

This isn't something you "alternate". There's a way of being where you can be in unity consciousness at the same time you are experiencing duality and the material world.

The other thing is that, any picture or image or story you form is always going to be the distortion of Reality. Reality is inherently non-dual, so defies description (even what I just said). It means, to be free of whatever box you find yourself in, you are constantly mindful of the present moment.

Sure, just saying this will give distorted teachings. Mystics from ages past have always tried to speak of this, and it has always distorted into things like "religion" for the masses. This is fine though. This is part of the human experience.
It would be legal to take BSD code and add an additional clause that said, "Not for military use." It's the same idea. You've changed the license by adding restrictions. The old version is under the old license. It's the same if you convert public domain code to the GPL.
A detective story's famous author is unmasked
Zach, what was the reasoning behind using such large text for the code view? Will there be a zoom in/out option? Or a text size preference?
Turbulent flow would increase the overall drag in this situation. You're essentially taking energy from the free-flowing middle of the pipe and using it to drag more air along the wall. The reason why turbulence helps a golf ball is because it decreases flow separation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_separation. Separated flow makes a ridiculous amount of drag, and it's worth the extra skin drag to keep the flow attached.
Mark, is there any info on how I can figure out my monthly billing cost easily? Do I just need to sum the /user/reports/summary data for an estimate?
Ding! We have a winner.

The first thing that needs doing is to decouple learning speed and interests from the classroom, and to invert the teacher relationship from being the mass transmitter to being a consultant an coach.

Educational software will almost always be able to explain any particular subject better than the teacher who is located near you, but you still need to learn how to use that educational software, how to focus (or not) your interests, how to interact with online communities, and know what to do when things go wrong.
Stiglitz: How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality
Leaked letter: UK government strong-arming ISPs
As far as I know, unions had no involvement in the creation of DHS. There are unions for DHS employees, just as there are for police, firefighters, etc...but, it's difficult for me to see a connection between the creation of the entity and those unions (which didn't exist as DHS employee unions until after DHS employees existed).
Codepoints' Unicode REST API, with JSON and JSON-P, CORS, ...
No, the question is, why wouldn't anybody do it if it were possible? Are all investors (even female ones) so against women that they'd rather leave billions of dollars on the table than employ women? That seems extremely unlikely. So it seems more likely that other forces than discrimination are at play, for example female job preferences (type of profession, flexibility, part time, location...).
A Talent Transfusion for Scrappy Startup Hubs
I wouldn't usually worry about accepting zero confirmation transactions on a website. Most digital orders are reversible and physical orders take some time to process (packaging, shipping, etc).

However, with brick and mortar stores, 0-confirmations transactions are much more problematic for the business. The customer could be long gone with your product by the time you notice the double-spend. OTOH, the 10 minutes delay is also much more problematic for the customer with physical stores (imagine a customer having to wait for 10 minutes to buy a pack of gum).

One interesting solution for making zero-confirmations safer to accept is fidelity bonds [1], where you would "sacrifice" some Bitcoins from your address, a sort of "safe deposit" that you never get back. From that point on, until that address is seen to commit a double-spend, merchants can accept zero-confirmation payments from it knowing that attempting to double-spend would make the customer's initial deposit invalidated. As long as the deposit is larger than the transaction amount, it'll make double-spending unprofitable.

Edit: Another interesting aspect is that fidelity bonds can also be used to make other kinds of fraud unprofitable, not only double-spending. However, while its easy to determine when a user committed a double-spend attack (just show two signed transactions paying the same coins to two different places), its not that straight forward to prove other kinds of fraud.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fidelity_bonds#Financial_Services
Whoops, the users profile page is redirect to desktop view. Is that on purpose?
> There is always a choice to be made…

No, there isn't, in case you haven't been paying attention.

When it comes to NSA, there is no "they" anymore. In the eyes of NSA, a company is not a whole, but rather a group of individuals that can face jail time, individually.

And yes, "legally" speaking, companies and individuals supposedly can fight back, but they are coerced into doing it in secret. Doing otherwise can lead to the labeling of individuals as national security threats or even potential terrorists, after which all gloves are off.

So let me ask you this - if the populace at large doesn't do anything, why do you expect a company of a few thousands to be up in arms about it? That's a really screwed double standard.
Yes, thank you. Everything post-9/11 was already on the table including DHS and the invasion of Iraq. 9/11 was for the Bush administration the simply a huge amount of grease on that wheel.
2013 discretionary budget was $68 billion: http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget14/summary/14....

Pell Grants were $22.8 billion, Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies (called College and Career-Ready Students now), was $14.5 billion. Special education grants to states was $11.6 billion (IDEA is state level, not municipal level, my mistake). $48.9 / $68 = 72%.

There are some more in there too ($0.1 billion in grants for Indian education, etc), but those three are the budget drivers.
Think about gasoline cars. People have been building those for ages, and it's not exactly difficult to make a car: you just put a frame, an internal combustion engine, and a steering system together, right? And yet it's still not that easy to make a well selling automobile.

The number of new automakers who enter the market over time and do very well is very small.

The thing about Tesla is not that they managed to make an electric car, the important thing is they managed to make one with all of the right tradeoffs and design choices to be a car that people actually wanted to buy. That's a big deal even for conventional automobiles.

Moreover, Tesla has done the most important thing possible with electric cars: they've made them no longer a joke. That will make a much bigger difference in the future decades regardless of whether Tesla continues to succeed or not. Now that electric cars are in many people's eyes a legitimate, and even perhaps enviable, vehicle to own people will start evaluating them on the merits and increasingly choosing to buy them. Which will lead to more and more successful electric car models and companies and a snowball effect in terms of the amount of cumulative profits from electric car sales which will get plowed back into R&D for electric car development. All of which is an absurdly huge win for electric vehicles.

Now, it's not as though Musk did something absurdly special with Tesla (heck, he didn't even found the company), but there's a strong argument he didn't do so with SpaceX either. The Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 are not technological marvels, they're simply, practical sensible designs well-executed. The same could be said of the Tesla vehicles. However, today it seems like simple practicality well-executed is hard to come by in most industries, and he deserves a lot of credit for putting his money and time on the line and staying the course.
I don't think it's font scaling. It's a fundamental change to the font renderer. Basically, subpixel rendering is gone and it's all grayscale.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/w...

I've not played with 8.1 yet, but hopefully it's been addressed.
Interview training videos for underserved people in tech
If interested, I believe he's talking about something like Holotropic Breathwork, pioneered by Stan Grof. I've heard great things..
Funny you should bring up Readline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_readline#Implications_of_GN...
JavaScript assumes a "web browser". What happens when we're not using a "web browser"?

A few days ago, I was actually downvoted for even suggesting that a user could disable JavaScript and that this might reduce her vulnerability to exploits. I'm always fascinated by the strength of the bias in favor of JavaScript.

I'm guessing that so many developers are now so heavily invested in JavaScript that if it were to become less popular they believe they would suffer somehow. They will thus defend this language with fervor. That's my guess.

Days ago we saw Dan Bricklin, who is no stranger to a world without a web browser and is responsible for the app that literally launched the PC into the mainstream, put in his plug for JavaScript. But we also learned he's written entire spreadhseet applications in JavaScript. It appears he's heavily invested in this language. It stands to reason he would defend its use.

On this thread someone mentioned that Bill Joy thought Java applets would power the web. Not surprising considering his company was responsible for Java, and he has called James Gosling, the father of Java, his favorite programmer.

I think when we look at JavaScript we need to ask ourselves who stands to gain the most from it. My belief is that it benefits developers more than users. It's aesthetically pleasing to most developers, but more importantly, programming in JavaScript requires less work than using a language with manual memory management that does not expect to be run inside another application (a "web browser"). JavaScript boosts productivity.

Users, I believe, do not see the same benefits. (e.g. I have seen Marissa Mayer while at Google state how important speed is to users. We might accept that speed is one benefit that users would recognize.)

Because the love for .js is so strong and criticism of it is not well received, I won't go into any more detail. But suffice it to say, if there are problems with using JavaScript, I believe it is not developers who would suffer the most from them. I believe it is users who would bear the burden.
Head-explodey. Thank you.
The DCMA takedown process is broken, the burden is on services to proved their innocence and there are little or no consequences for bogus takedowns
German police is monitoring Facebook and has been for years. We once had a Conference at our University. Someone posted something about a party (back when everyone was afraid of facebook parties) and 15 minutes later the police arrived.

They were not allowed to enter the premises, but by coincidence wink wink someone pulled the fire alarm in a then-vacant building 15 minutes later, which opened the gates and barriers for the cop cruisers waiting just around the corner. By coincidence of course.
From Windows Mobile 8, I see a blue border around images that are linkable [1].

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/bglIKU5.jpg
Totally agree, I just wouldn't want someone to have to have more friction when they're trying to do OSS for the first time.
I think the points simpler. 20 people have told you a flat out no. One person says "yes" That's all you need.
Ask HN: How can I be a better PHP programmer
know how to build a basic CMS site with framework from scratch, familar with wordpress,can't write plugin.

thanks
Only in 2005, Yahoo helped the Chinese regime prosecute a journalist. That wasn't the only time that happened, either. (Source: NYT - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/business/worldbusiness/07i... )
When you consider that the solar system is the only part of the universe that humans will explore for many generations, if ever, I'm not really sure why its exploration really isn't a higher priority. Everything else is too far away.
Double Secret Surveillance
IOS7. Move now, or be an insta-delete.
I'm sure some redneck sheriff would love to send a SWAT team. Can't let the expensive team just sit around all day, they need entertainment and the city gets nice law & order pictures to please the crime-fearing crowd.
To make it easy to read code. :) It feels pretty comfortable- squinting isn't fun.

We tend to avoid user preferences. If it ends up being a problem, we'll lower the text size at some point.
As somebody with the same query, let me hop on - how does "Learn C the hard way" fare? I've got it mentally bookmarked the for next time I touch C code.
Could the raise of anonymous and distributed services using bitcoin be the answer of people exasperated by government surveillance?
44 minutes. That's how long this thread took before someone called someone on it a shill for whatever position they argued. Thanks, 'mtgx!
I don't see how these projects serve humanity.
First to file only matters when someone invents in secret. Public is public, won't that block any other patent attempts?
From my point of view, your free software license represents a marketing effort. But it's a highly specialized kind of marketing - it's your marketing to development communities.

From another point of view (also one of mine), your license says something about the kind of community you see yourself being a part of. And, when you make this choice, you are excluding certain kinds of participants and inviting others. But community is not just a license, it's also how you treat others, how you see them, and how they see you, and the kinds of activities they find interesting (and/or sustainable - sometimes but not often the same thing).

A license is also a cost. For some people this will be a moral or ethical cost. The more desperate the startup the bigger an issue cost starts to become. Related is whatever small bit of return the startup can get - this is the babyfood that it will need to survive and grow.

Ultimately, I think our systems of economics (and if you pretend we only have one you are fooling yourself) demand diversity. There cannot be only one good choice when talking about all startups. There can be one good choice when talking about a specific startup (but for a few, multiple licenses might be a good thing).

Not that I have ever spent any time thinking about these kinds of issues...

Finally, note that while what I am saying here is so overly general as to be entirely useless, there are other [almost conflicting] ways of thinking about these issues which can also have value for a startup.

Carry on...
One word: Networking. Mac OS and Windows were awful at networking at that time (and Mac OS remained awful at network for some time beyond this point).

UNIX variants, OS/2, and the BSDs were the options at the time for decent networking...Mac OS wasn't in the running.
Author here. Yeah the syntax looks much better with correct highlighting. I've provided a custom definition for Notepad++ on the repo - and of course there is the definition used on the website too.

I'm also a big fan of DSLs and would love see some of the things you mention. My next (fun) big project is actually not so far from the same lines ;)

Many thanks to everyone for the kind comments! It really is encouraging. :)
I too find Robert Graham's libertarianism off-putting, because I'm not a libertarian. But let's get past the "typical libertarians" stuff and engage with the actual substance of the issue.

Do you think Congress should be regulating cyber-weapons?

And, how far through have you thought that position?
Science fiction author David Brin has some interesting suggestions for philanthropists looking to create a legacy, such as building a third-world university system, financing a freelance manned mission to Mars, or funding whistleblowers.

http://www.davidbrin.com/eon.html
Snowden says Israel, U.S. created Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran
That's also the reason why I stopped hosting my own email. I don't trust myself with not losing any emails while properly configuring spam blockers, keeping the system up to date, and staying on top of vulnerabilities.
Zepto I think. Can't tell if it's only the Zepto code but have a look on it here: https://gist.github.com/VictorBjelkholm/6003702
Sure, but compare "HTML + Web Browser + HTTP" to "ASCII + VT100"...

Right now the terminal is our window and it is nothing but colored ASCII. You can create something interactive and "graphical" like vim or emacs inside of it, but then you can't ship that complete dev environment very easily... it has to be rebuilt from scratch by the individual programmer.

The web makes it very easy to ship interactive, dynamic documents and environments around.
i hope this get more and more popular.. in a way that the next natural step would be implementing a special parser for it in GCC and Clang (as some sort of C subset)..

totally awesome!
They advocated for this part of the NDAA:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/zero-day-exploit-sales...

It's worth knowing that the NDAA comes up basically every year; it's the omnibus defense spending bill. Obviously, EFF isn't responsible for the whole NDAA.
Is there a way to change which branch of the repo you're browsing?
Are you thinking of Trumpet Winsock? ISPs bundled it along with their software and never paid the original author a dime.
I'm confused by what seems to be a non-sequitur. I'm talking about educational achievement, and there is an absolute, well-documented and undeniable gap there.

While it's true that within the highest ranks of Western society, gender plays a significant role, it's also true that socioeconomic background -- "class", for lack of a better word -- has a sunlight-to-candle relationship to gender in terms of getting into those ranks in the first place. Western society has drastically limited mobility right now, and the highest ranks are, unfortunately, more conservative in their views on gender.

And as an aside, there's a good example of a broader application of Kleinfeld's thesis there. Men dominate at the extreme high end, but also at the extreme low end. Efforts toward true equality need to address the root cause of that, which has more to do with rigid gender roles imposed on both men and women than with outright favoring of men over women.
As soon as we can make some new advancements in energy generation and storage, I think that we'll see this happen. Think about it, we're already practically bursting at the seams here on earth; I can totally see the human race expanding to other parts as soon as it's sustainable (food, acquisition of new materials for fabrication, etc.)

Who knows if it'll happen in my lifetime, but I'm pretty pumped about it :)
No, it's that EFF is advocating for government restrictions on the publication of exploits.
Chinese Dissident, Jailed on Evidence Provided by Yahoo, Is Freed (2012)
I was hoping that I would hear from Thomas about this article. We haven't tried any sous vide cooking yet at home (the latest project here is learning how to boil and bake good home-made bagels), so I'm curious about what users of sous vide cooking techniques have to say about that form of cooking.

The article submitted here was an interesting read this morning for its description of how slow adoption of microwave ovens was in the United States. I'm old enough to remember thinking that a microwave oven is a completely useless appliance, but of course now we use ours all the time.
Most of those studies suffer from a key flaw: they ignore maternal education/income. Since more educated women from higher-income families are more likely to breastfeed, you would expect breastfed children to score better in areas like brain development.

The bottom-line for my wife and I in making the choice was: is there any improvement in IQ in the long-term? And the answer seems to be no: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-02/breast-feeding-is-n... (study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633819).
The DHS is about to become much worse soon, if the NYPD chief becomes its next boss:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130714/22284823796/up-ag...
because we're learning about the universe by studying it
To be obnoxiously blunt, imagine the current situation with Snowden and assume he wanted to leak directly to Wikileaks and that they were using similar scheme to the one in my post below. This is what he would need to do:

1. Write a normal message discussing his favorite videogame on Ars Technica.

2. Encode his public key in it.

3. Use the WL public key (already available to him via the hypothetical stegano-crypto suite in common distros) to derive a shared secret.

4. Use the secret to encode and hide 20 top secret slides in his holiday family photos and upload them to his flickr account.

5. Write another post on Ars discussing some other videogame, hiding in it the URL to his flickr photos.

6. Meanwhile, WL monitors the several thousand posts per day on the most used internet forums, and detects a possible public key and tries to decrypt all the messages within the next 24 with the common secret that could be derived using it. One of them has correct checksum after decryption and gives the URL to the photos.

7. WL also daily randomly visits several thousand photos on flickr, including this time the one with the sent URL. After it gets it, it uses the shared secret and gets the message.

This whole process could be accomplished without leaving the room, without transmitting any suspicious data or contacting suspicious addresses, and would be indistinguishable from his normal online activity. As long as his computer or the WL private key are not compromised it should be perfectly untraceable.

I fail to see how arranging for a microsd card to be sent over to WL would be easier to accomplish, assuming he could be tracked and recorded constantly.

If it comes to wasting 2 MB per CD on the odd chance it could aid a whistleblower of similar importance every couple of decades, I'm all for it.
"It’s no secret that copyright holders are trying to take down as much pirated content as they can, but their targeting of open source software is something new."

first line.
> Actually use the 32 CPUs you paid for:

gnu parallel FTW!
I came here to say, "wow, isn't that reminiscent of Windows for Workgroups." Touche linus, touche.
Inside the Mind of The Angel Investor
Okay publishers, I get the hint, nonacademics shouldn’t cite original sources
Bitcoin, from its inception, has had deep ties with radical libertarianism. Suspicion of the government is the raison d'être of bitcoin.

(though of course the software itself is completely ideologically neutral)
They certainly were involved with smoothing out the rough patches in the beginning so they could get their piece of the pie:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08...

If one group is plundering another group, it makes little difference if they planned the plunder or are participating in the pillage after the raid.
Yes, In fact, warantless wiretapping actually began 7 months before 9/11

http://digitaljournal.com/article/352455
http://i.imgur.com/YrFvRzp.gif
From the page: "Cello isn't about Object Orientation in C".

So no. It isn't object oriented, but it does some nice-looking things with structured types.
Show HN: I made a simple persistent counting API
Can I just say that this is the worst "feature" in the world? It's not just mobile, desktop IE adds a border to images with links by default. As a non-web developer knocking up a site, I didn't think to suppress borders on random elements, and people were asking why the site was ugly in IE 9.

Why isn't there a common, default stylesheet across browsers? Please?
I had to read the title multiple times before I stopped seeing "undeserved."