skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not racist in the least. If Sanskrit is the ancestor of Latin and Greek, then there should be Sanskrit a superstratum in Latin and Greek. However, there isn't. But there are common elements in all three languages that could only have come from an ancestor language.

What you're doing is ad homimen: discounting the theory based on personal attributes of the person who came up with it.

Can the theory stand on its own regardless of the personal motivations of the person who came up with it? Then the theory is solid.
But this avoids the central issue - how can we know if a paper helps people make progress on solving problems? Citation counts are just a proxy for exactly that - to move away from them you have to come up with a better proxy or evaluation method.
It is in Andreessen Horowitz's best interest to get valuations for Series A funding down.
So I'm supposed to give money so two managers can buy out the shareholder of a company, with no expectation of returns. I'm sorry, is Hackaday a charity? Am I getting a return on my investment here? Am I getting any of that $14k a month? Let me get this straight, I'm giving money to two guys to do a buyout of a site that makes $14k a month, and I don't get a piece of the cash flow?

This is all so preposterous, I don't know how Kickstarter is even allowing this to happen on their site. Calacanis is one hell of a scammer.
From reading the other comments on here it seems like that option is broken because push doesn't work correctly with the iOS mail app? I'm just wondering if Mailbox's push works correctly, like the gmail app's push.
interesting, thanks. turns out there are even patches for ssh! http://srp.stanford.edu/links.html

but i get the impression that still doesn't mean that ssh can be made to work with system passwords without transmitting them (over an encrypted channel). i don't understand why - maybe srp requires a particular kind of hash?

ah yes - this answer http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/23821/srp-can-th... gives some details.
So what this means is that the license for the entire project is now effectively GPL. You cannot ship a binary without the source code. If you work on the codebase long enough such that you change every line, it will now be 100% GPL. Basically, it behaves exactly like a GPL project, along with all the restrictions, because the GPL modifications are mixed in with the BSD code.
According to released information most of the espionage occurring against Europe is economic. From the UK wanting to know what German interest rate policies were back in the 1980s to Airbus to current the current state of EU finances and what they are planning to do.

Germany is in a fantastic economic situation and has unparalleled soft power across Europe at the moment. So yes, certain European nations are enjoying it, and are not in the slightest bent over.
Use macros?
Right. It's a business. I don't get any of the ad revenue. Why am I being asked to donate money for what's essentially a private equity buyout?
The most important business question would be how they make their money. As far as I know their main service does not depend on violating the license in any way, so they are nowhere near being fraudsters. If they were leaching all their money off of Apple I would accept the judgement, but I don't think that's the case.

Edit: @downvote, am I wrong? I was trying to trust this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6047309
I loved that little essay.

If anyone is interested, there's a 27-video playlist of the author speaking about his experiences with DMT for the Spirit Molecule documentary.

His commentary is my favorite out of all the participants. Very heart-felt and fascinating:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM_PJoDA2lo&list=PLC3FC3395C9...
"For the right sized matrix, one is bound by compute speed and one by memory access."

I am not sure that is a distinction worth making. Memory access and computation go hand-in-hand: programs do not access memory without performing some computation, and computations cannot be performed without accessing some kind of memory (even if it is just a register). At scale an asymptotically faster algorithm will perform fewer computations and fewer memory accesses (for all levels of memory) than an asymptotically slower algorithm.
Whistleblowing would be a killer app.

Imagine you wanted to leak something but don't want to attract attention to yourself. You could encrypt it (with the public key of the organization you want to leak to), hide it with steganography and then upload the result to some public place you know the organization would be monitoring.

If you had ready access to tools to do so you could do all that inconspicuously.
What exactly makes `opkg` awful?

Sure, it's no aptitude or pacman, but you have to remember that OpenWRT is a full fledged distribution (package manager and all) that fits on an image of less than 4MB!
The reality is... JavaScript is here to stay. So stop your complaining, that's such as waste of time. Rather than complain, champion better solutions. Be bold and advance a new and more efficient agenda.
I completely agree with this. Only if there was a way to translate this into politics (e.g. not just the popularity should decide where we are going).
Yes, he is presenting common practice.

Many software engineers have read a few finance books and will understand that preference provides a large premium in preferred stock.
Or maybe those accounts are shared ones. It's common practice for kids to share accounts so they don't have to buy everything.
Super stuff this, that's a very interesting approach.

I spent the better part of the last two years writing a (closed source, sorry) library that does some of this, and some other stuff besides (state machines, events, 'proper' strings with automatic garbage collection and allocation, message passing).

Maintaining static typing was a big pre-requisite for that library, without it too much of value would be lost to offset the gains. It was a very educational project for me, it definitely re-inforced the 'half of common lisp' meme.

To program a piece of software using that library no longer felt like programming in C, every now and then you'd see a bit of C shine through in the lower level code. The whole thing relied to a ridiculous degree on macro cleverness (something to be avoided, for sure) and other deep knowledge of how C works under the hood to get certain effects, and I found this part of it less than elegant (even if the results were quite a big step up from programming in C).

The main justification for doing all this was to straighten out a project that had become bogged down under increasing complexity and a failure to abstract out the common elements. Choosing C for this project was a poor decision but since there was not going to be any budging on that front I tried to make the job work out as good as possible.

It's quite interesting to see how far you can push C but at the same time you really have to ask yourself if you are on the right road if you find yourself doing things in such a manner.

Like Cello, the lib I wrote is a way to force the language to become another language, which always has drawbacks in terms of unintended side effects and long term support.

Probably better to switch to a platform that is closer to your problem domain (in this case, such as erlang, clojure or even go), as much as I liked tinkering with C it felt like we were making life harder than it needed to be.
I am not sure it is "hidden" as much as poorly defined.

I can see the point as the closer one cancels to their rental time the less likely it is they can turn around and rent it. Yet I would still want to be able to know ahead of time I would be charged $X if I had to cancel.
this is pretty baller
But the project is GPL. I can't sell a commercial binary without the source.
For some reason, I'm always fascinated by governments releasing APIs for public data. It seems like a data set you could do some powerful things with. When governments take the time to build out a nice API to consume this data, it makes me like them more, too.

AT&T just did a civic hackathon in Chicago with Chicago's open data portal: https://data.cityofchicago.org/browse?limitTo=apis
Conferences are a good starting point: researchers meet each other, share work, judge others' work, and discuss research. I am not saying it is a complete solution, just that citation counts are a terrible solution that encourage the wrong things (and that we need something better).
This is what makes the Dagger Complex so special: Usually, locals are very friendly to the US troops and the local dignitaries are devastated when they leave.

Not here. The NSA people are secretive, hostile and their activities are unpopular. I read an article in my local (!) newspaper recently, where people, among them the mayor of the nearest town, complained about the installation.
This is true, but not the full story. Your parent specifically called out his lack confidence in U.S. companies, not in the U.S. government. While I agree that our laws shouldn't necessarily be designed to protect non-citizens, their design preferably shouldn't result in our companies losing access to foreign markets.
Nuclear physicists broke off the lever. The intelligence community has been holding things together with duct tape ever since, successfully so far.

We should seriously ask whether the NSA is broken before we try fixing it. If a mushroom cloud over Indianapolis is a 10 on the civil liberty infringement scale, many people would rank domestic surveillance as a 0.0001.
This is so factually misleading, I don't know where to begin.

On the subject of:

Now let's say one day you change course and want to close the source for future development. That is completely okay.

It may not be okay though. If your code incorporates other people's GPL code, you are unable to close that. And due to the "viral" nature of the GPL, the fact that your code may work together with someone else's GPL code could mean that you can't close your own code either. So you have to be very careful.

It is true that the GPL does not explicitly prohibit commercial use, but this is not the same thing as being broadly compatible with commercial use. In general, the GPL is hostile to commercial use by a whole variety of restrictions, including the requirement to share source code. This may not be immediately obvious to OSS newcomers who just want to share their code and have people use it freely.
That's a big probably. I could just as easily say that people would probably be surprised that someone could not contribute back. After all, it's sharing code!
> $100 per year for revocable permission to compile is awful

If you're making any kind of serious money on the app store, this cost is practically nothing. Maybe 2-4 hours of your time, tops.

Think about how much the Macbook Pro you use to develop on costs.
Good point. I guess I mean cutting out one of the middle men. As it is now with music there are two middle men: The publisher and the store. Publishers are getting decent money from streaming services, so that would be nice if it went directly to the artists.
Thank you. This sort of feedback keeps me going.
Companies should be commended for their efforts to fight these orders. However, let's not forget that Yahoo also handed over information to the Chinese government that led to the arrest and prolonged imprisonment of multiple people, and then tried to cover up their behavior by pretending they didn't know why the information was being requested.

I suspect that the backlash from those actions may have led the company to appeal the FISC orders, fearing similar potential future liabilities.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/11/yahoo-calls-withh...
Well said. I hate that it took the passing of Doug Engelbart to remind so many people of his work, his vision and his legacy, but I am at least heartened to see the renewed interest in what he had to say and his vision.

I also can't claim that everything we're building at Fogbeam Labs has been built with those ideals in mind, although I wish I could. But what I can say, is that we think there is significant overlap between our vision of a world where computers do more to help people solve problems, and the world Doug Engelbart was trying to create. And now, having been reminded of his work and legacy, we will be trying even harder to incorporate elements of what Englebart (and others such as William Ross Ashby, J.C.R. Licklider, Norbert Weiner, etc. ) were trying to create.

I think that sometimes the best way to find the future is go to back to the past, and now, going back and revisiting the writings and teachings of Engelbart, Licklider, Ashby, Weiner, et al., seems like a positive step forward to me.
Despite the overall ecosystem being rather small, the standard library and adjoining experimental packages are excellent. I wouldn't be surprised if go 1.2's stdlib would cover most of what Python's stdlib and Twisted can do.
I think pushing your suppliers hard to correct a serious flaw in a key product is pragmatic.
And if no-one had posted the password it's easy enough to use any of the online "hash crackers" to get the password.
I don't see a killer app for that - the whole point is not that millions need it, but that all tools needed for steganography are shipped also to millions of people who don't need it.

Someone (preferably multiple organizations) should bundle steganography just because it's desperately needed for a tiny minority - doing so would not be because of a killer app but simply a service for public good, facilitating democracy, free speech, whistleblower protection, etc.

This is aligned with the stated ideals of multiple FOSS organizations, so it is feasible to assume that someone with popular widespread software (like, say, Firefox, Ubuntu or VLC) could do that for purely idealistic reasons. The software size is tiny, so the distribution overhead would be trivial while making a serious strategic change. Do it just because it can be done.
A short and nice read is Unix for Poets by Kenneth Ward Church:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs124/kwc-unix-for-poets.pdf
Putin: Snowden will leave Russia at earliest opportunity
Dream Theater keyboardist unveils EarWizard and a chilean startup partnership
DHS is just another excuse for government contractors and unions to screw taxpayers.
I think I don't know what you mean? Why wouldn't someone be able to contribute back?
There would be an insanely high correlation between school prestige and karma though :\
What would happen if you stopped paying people?
> potential short term corporate hardships

You mean prison time, like what happened to Joseph Nacchio? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
"when the earnings cycle is at it's peak (as it is now)"

Why do you think earnings are at a high?
The Windows high resolution "support" is done in such a bad way, and I think Windows has the worst possible type of support for higher resolutions out of all the operating systems. They're only making some items "larger" to appear "normal" under the big resolutions. But all the other stuff won't. Plus, what are they going to do for 4k displays? Increase it to 300%?

They should've done it like Apple did it, and it would've been much more streamlined and would make a lot more sense. Here's how they should've done it.

With resolutions higher than 1080p you shouldn't actually get more density in terms of content per screen real estate (what's the point of that? 1080p makes things small enough as it is). Instead they should only support resolutions after 1080p that are exactly "double" (or 4x the pixels) of the lower resolutions. This way, those high resolution displays, can use the "effective" lower resolution.

So 2732x1536 -> effective 1366x768

3200x1800 -> effective 1600x900

3840x2160 ("4k") -> effective 1920x1080

This is the best way to jump to higher resolutions and easiest way to support them at the OS level, instead of these icon scaling "hacks" that Microsoft is implementing.
Attempt (failed obviously) to pull in Logan's Run.
That has nothing to do with DHS. As a result of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 put the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "in charge" (in an oversight capability) of the 17 major intelligence agencies we have here in the US.

For better or worse it dramatically increased intelligence sharing and cooperation, as well as effectively tearing down the walls between domestic and foreign intelligence work.
Shameless plug: here is a similar tool I wrote that prints not a progress bar but the contents flowing through the pipe, to help in debugging:

https://github.com/pjungwir/stutter
Is OpenVPN, both the clients and the server, fully open source? Can we look at each and every line of code?
Yes it is the question whether or not they exist. People will buy something else. It's not like people walked around saying. "I wish there was a band like Daft Punk."

People like music naturally and depending on what time in history you lived in will like different types of music, but music is the fundamental product that people are buying.

They would buy more or less whatever was available to them, cause that is how music works. Repetition and the more you hear a song the more you will end up liking it.

You can choose to play a game of semantics and not accept the term commodity but the reality is that 50 years ago people paid for music because there was real cost involved, just like they today still pay for a concert. Today to be in a position to have a band the price has come down many many times. That's the primary commodity part.

There is no "hard labour" involved for most of the music you hear today.

They understand that they should pay for it and there is a classic supply/demand principle in play.

With digital distribution and copying there isn't the same supply/demand principles in play. The artist don't pay for the medium that holds their music, they barely pay for the recording anymore, the consumers do themselves.

This is the difference in value. I like the music of bands and I am ready to support them, but I liked a lot of bands a lot before the internet and I didn't buy a fraction of what they were selling.

This has all changed and it is at no cost to music in genreal only to the individual musician. But I would much rather live in a world where record labels weren't the gatekeepers anymore.

Both the musicians and their audience is much better off.
More astute readers would notice that you didn't actually provide anything to substantiate your arguments other than an 'ironic' ad hominem.

Take for example this:
http://littlemissgeek.com/about

The image it's painting is rather obvious: women aren't just disadvantaged in technology, they have been falling behind over the last 2 decades.

And yet, we find that university gender ratios used to be about 50/50 in 1985, and are now 60/40 skewed in women's favor—that is, 3 women enroll and graduate for every 2 men:
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/ccap/files/2012/02/blog-chart...

Little Miss Geek is by the way Belinda Parmar, who has come out and said specifically she will no longer speak or attend women-only events in tech. But somehow she still fails to see the obvious.

"In 1997, Metropolitan Life examined the way boys and girls were treated and concluded that “contrary to the commonly held view that boys are at an advantage over girls in school, girls appear to have an advantage over boys in terms of their future plans, teachers’ expectations, everyday experiences at school, and interactions in the classroom.”[28] You did not read about this study in the media. And it had virtually no impact on the schools.

The impact of our belief in women-as-minority? It takes The New York Times almost two decades after women are exceeding men in college to acknowledge it in a significant story.[29] When they do, they devote more space to how the gap creates problems for the female students (“There aren’t many guys to date”[30] ) and how it turns men into dominant oppressors (“[the guys] have their pick of so many women that they have a tendency to become players”).[31] In contrast, articles about men being in the majority at the Citadel, or in the armed services, never mention men as victims because they have few women to date."

Here's another juicy nugget:

"The Lace Curtain’s power exists even in male-dominated institutions. For example, Dr. Charles McDowell, formerly of the US Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations, discovered that 27% of Air Force women who claimed they had been raped later admitted making false accusations of rape.[12] The admission usually came when they were asked to take a lie detector test. With these admitted false accusations he was able to develop 35 criteria distinguishing false accusations and those known to be genuine. Three independent judges then examined the remainder of the cases. Only if all three reviewers independently concluded the original rape allegations were false did they rank them as “false.” The total of false allegations became 60%."

You can read the entire book here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031216215957/http://mndnet.com/...

Note that this is the same Warren Farrell who's been protested as a rape apologist and whose talks feminists have boycotted by pulling a fire alarm and blocking the doors, such as a few months ago at the University of Toronto.

Find me a feminist talk being protested in a similar fashion, and then we can talk about male privilege.
I usually just limit SSH connections to one of my own static IP addresses, as well as disable password authentication and implement PSK.

At first I was shocked by the amount of intrusion attempts my servers were logging, but as time goes on I see that no attempts have yet been successful, so these sorts of intrusion attempts have probably made me complacent. (never a good thing)

That said, I found the article to be lacking in listing mitigation alternatives, such as those posted here in the comments.
Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups"
It was not a personal comment. The fundamental attribution error is that it turned out to be a compatible working relationship despite bad interviewing on the company's part. Aside from giving you an interview, nothing the company did during the recruiting process put the right person in the seat. It was just luck that it worked out, and just as often, if not more, it doesn't.
This whole dispute is obsolete. Pretty soon the 3D printers will be cranking out isotope separators. Afterwards everyone will be part of a total surveillance society, by process of natural selection. We should consider this a practice run for learning how to build a transparent society that works.
Thank you. I couldn't find much online like it so wrote it myself. I am hoping a actual expert does the same some day.
"Jolly good of them to only take a toe"
He definitely deserves the Nobel Peace Prize!
>With resolutions higher than 1080p you shouldn't actually get more density in terms of content per screen real estate (what's the point of that? 1080p makes things small enough as it is).

And that's why I'll continue to use Linux where I can make these decisions for myself. Outside of my systray icons, my entire UI is resolution independent and I get to make my own decisions about how dense things should be. (And I'm working on patching this so I can be quite happy -- I'm using KDE on a Chromebook Pixel for reference)
We aren't just talking about covers.

We are talking about passages, melodies, riffs, fills, rythms etc.

It is much more complex than you seem to be aware of.
Thanks for the laughs. It is fun to watch different kinds of Marxist argue over who is most oppressed :)
In Australia we have Clive Palmer. He's building a replica Titanic and a mechatronic Jurassic Park. And now has his own Political party named after himself with candidates in every seat in the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Palmer_(businessman)