skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my casual experience with such systems, they are extremely limited compared to something like Max, which is in turn extremely limited and badly designed.

Max is not just 'click and drag' – you can do quite complex configuration, cross-modulation of signals and parameters, etc. plus general purpose programming. You can also script things with JavaScript or Lua and write new routines ("objects") in C, Java, languages that compile to Java, and JavaScript.

They key is that the dataflow environment specifies a strict interface between "objects" and an overall execution pattern, but you can dig in to the stuff you're clicking on and change/optimize the underlying code.

Recently Cycling '74 (who make Max) added a new lower-level dataflow language that maps to C code or alternately GLSL shaders, which makes it super easy for people who don't know how to program to write efficient, auto-optimized audio and graphics routines. Another system along those lines is Faust: http://faust.grame.fr/.

For a more open-ended system that combines dataflow ideas with traditional programming concepts, a time-line editor, and in-text GUI controls, check out Field: http://www.openendedgroup.com/field/.

DRAKON looks like a naive low-level attempt at sticking imperative routines into flowcharts. Diagrammed UML systems sound awful – you probably lose all the power of object oriented programming by transposing it into a GUI. Signal chain diagram languages like MATLAB's SIMULINK[1], Analog Devices' Signal Chain Designer[2], or Cypress' PSoC Designer are usually very basic and nothing like what a proper dataflow system could be.

[1] http://www.mathworks.com/products/simulink/
[2] http://www.analog.com/en/content/Signal_Chain_Designer/fca.h...
[3] http://www.cypress.com/?id=2492&source=productshome
we can use this list:
http://www.peerblock.com/
questioning authority is a good thing though.
Most ISPs already do DPI, albeit lightly. That's how they do 'traffic shaping' against bit torrent, etc.
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> Do people believe in a free and open Internet, or do they not?

Not really. They want a special kind of freedom where censorship is not allowed... unless the stuff that's getting censored is the kind of stuff that they don't like. Lots of people would enthusiastically support their moral standards being written into law.
its a forum.people simply asking their doubts. why they were hacking these sites.. I can't figure it out exactly..
I fail to grok the vastly disproportionate number of candidates from a military background. At the very least, it gives me a (mostly-unfounded) perception that the astronaut program must operate on a military-like hierarchy. On the flip side, this gives me great hope for non-government space operations a la Space-X.
Too bad the video's are very glitchy here on Chrome; black screens, having to scroll up and down various times before something loads; the snow article a while back was a lot better technically.
This is, stupidly, in direct opposition to the trend towards a popular understanding of "power exchange" relationships.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/books/fifty-shades-of-grey... (not even a new idea)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493829.SM_101

Dear Mr. Cameron, you just saw how the gay marriage issue went and you where quick to jump on board. You really want to be on the wrong side of this issue?

Beware the Red Menace--er I mean child pornography (insert fear of the moment mongering here).
Listen to this guy. I've know about FBP for awhile, but haven't delved into it beyond hanging out on the list briefly[1]. Seems like there are many great concepts there that go beyond the stuff I use and I bet there are many more to discover in that space, if only more people were doing research in the area.

Do you know of anybody using NoFlo in production? Would be good to put that on your site if you do.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flow-based-programmi...
Sorry it's easy to reverse.

There are sites you can just go to and they'll crack the passwords for you in no time at all.

Edit: aware of rainbow tables and salts and how hashes work etc etc. They are easy to crack if on password lists which they mostly are these days if you have a shit password which is 90%+ of us. Not only that, the $salt on a good chunk of vbulletin sites from vb2 days is not a strong salt.

Go here to get people to crack passwords for you: http://forum.md5decrypter.co.uk/default.aspx

With respect to the feasibility, it's really easy to do an md5 and you don't just do the whole list, you pick interesting email addresses and start there.
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This would be a good segue into blocking anonymising proxies as well. For the kids of course.
I was a PhD with an aspiration of tenure, AND I went into it to teach, I am actually quite a good teacher, but I happen to be much better at research, and enjoy doing research, and I enjoy leading researchers. However, much better is not quite good enough in light of that maybe being good at research is not what is selected for in the faculty search. I missed every single one of my attempts to get a position, two years running, so I'm giving up on academia and its stupid politics, and starting an independent nonprofit research institute. Since there will be no students, there will be no teaching, so in doing so I will effectively be giving up what I wanted to go into academia for in the first place.
There would be a list of people who want to be able to watch porn (which could be used for black mail). It would also require a lot of infrastructure to be set up for this kind of censorship. That infrastructure could easily be used to start blocking other content.

Besides if you want to opt-out of porn you can already install filters on your computer or your router if you want to.
May I suggest (at least for people who aren't trying to remain anonymous/pseudo-anonymous here), PGP/GPG key IDs and fingerprints in your profiles?

(Perhaps anonymous accounts could set up anonymous email accounts and single purpose generated GPG keys? A Gamil/Yahoo/Hotmai/Live email accunt in which you can spamfilter everything that's not GPG encrypted?)
Adblock plus will block those ads.
(So no sound to worry about.)
No, this is just a demonstration that it's really the Daily Mail that runs the UK.
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I worked for a company that Spitzer went after while he was attorney general, and he seemed more like he was running a political campaign than trying to uphold the law. He very effectively spread FUD through a willing media in order to coerce a settlement (and headlines). To this day, people in my home state are convinced that company did all sorts of things that they were never actually accused of. He was no prince.
In fact, the latest stable Postgres supports fast, index-only scans for count queries: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Index-only_scans.
In Russia we have a special commission that bans every internet page containing anything relevant to suicide and drugs. For example, famous australian ad "Dumb ways to die" is banned in Russia. Yeah, seriously, these guys have zero sense of humor. Apparently, it's to protect children from killing themselves.
I've got to read that book, if only because of how frequently it is coming up in discussion recently.
very nice :-)
That's pretty much the same as learning to say "parlez-vous anglais?" before traveling to France though.

On those rare occasions when I need to email "some random", I can either choose to communicate in cleartext, or the very first exchange can be "Hi, where do I find your public key?"
Interesting that he is/was big on reducing his tax liability so that he could give away more.
> The possession of "extreme pornography", which includes scenes of simulated rape, is to be outlawed.

Can we expect films such as "I Spit On Your Grave" and "Once Upon a Time in America" to become illegal also?
My understanding is that downvote privileges are limited. I remember reading something a while back that effectively said that if you downvote significantly more than you upvote then you temporarily lose the ability to downvote until your upvote count creeps back up.

This is entirely anecdotal, I have no proof for my theory only a vague recollection of an explanation offered for a similar question at least a year ago.
Another thing to take away from that: hire someone with kids if you have the option. Maximum output of intellectual work is achieved with a 30-40 hour working week. The author settled on a 50+ hour working week, which is higher than optimum, enough to degrade her judgment and productivity - but only somewhat, not catastrophically; she was still able to get good work done. It's clear that without children, she would have settled on a substantially longer working week, probably enough to destroy her judgment and the quality of her work.
That probably doubles your chances of making it onto some list.
_Hacker_ news? How?
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>Then, as a biologist, it can be incredibly difficult to restrict your working hours, as experimental (e.g. cell culture) work can operate with delays or intervals. Stepping out at the wrong time means your cells die.

That's where personnel management comes in. I've got an undergrad intern at the moment, who has only a modest amount of lab research experience. In a month and a half, I've taught him molecular biology from scratch (beginning with the fundamentals of PCR) and from what i taught him, I gave him a list of 48 mutations. He designed primers to make those mutations, does the molecular biology, checks the sequences, then does the biochemical experiment on the enzyme that's being mutated. He's finished about half of the mutants. We are able to get this done because the experiments were planned out to be paralellizable and scaleable, and if something is finishing up when it needs to be picked up at the end of the day (like a transformation recovery), I do it, because he comes in early and I stay in late. I also drop in on the weekends to start cultures- but usually only briefly -, to make the most efficient use of his and my time. He is in usually around 9:00-9:15 and I make sure he leaves at 5:00 and I really get angry if he's around past 5:15 except in exigent conditions.

Bottom line: Even in Biology, you can restrict your working hours if you're a team player if you have good management skills.

If you're overworking. Since science entails failure that you cannot engineer your way out of - you will wind up burning out, since the working hard followed by failure is exactly an optimal way of conditioning laziness.
Accessing the Pirate Bay?! We can't allow that... if only there was a compulsory National filter where we could block access to these corrupt sites.
My Kickstarter campaign failed but here is what I learned.

Start contacting people before your campaign about backing you. Also contact local newspapers and blogs in your niche. Send them a short email about why this is relevant to their audience, and attach a press release they can use when writing their article. On launch day, send an email reminder to everybody you know to get funding. Tell them if they do not have money to give, then to please share it on Twitter and Facebook.

If you have a big first day, then you can get on the front page of Kickstarter. Being on Kickstarter's front page will drive a lot of traffic to your page.

R/Kickstarter, the subreddit for Kickstarter is a good place to share and get feedback on your project. Also, read through past threads to see what lessons you can learn.
Really? It wasn't as bad as some of the others that I've seen.

When it's nearly unreadable, I'll just go to dev tools and quickly change the background to black or white.
Might be a good countermeasure. If people are bold enough in numbers, everybody put the evil words into Google search, rendering the data useless. Though it'd have to be done on a regular basis, which is not going to work out.
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>I do wonder what this will mean when accessing sites like The Pirate Bay

Don't worry about the pirate bay, it's blocked in uk

First torrent site, then pornography, then what? arbitrary political movements?

That's a really slippery slope here once the tools are in place, it's hard not to use them.

Personally I'm not against some filtering but IMHO it had to be an opt in plus made at the router level with an "offline" list that you can review and modify yourself. A list made at the ISP level is just too totalitarian
When you get a new credit card, only the last 4 numbers will change, and your bank might charge the new credit card for payments that were supposed to be going to the old card if they are deemed low risk (if it's something you used to pay for before)

Of course, YMMV, this is just what my bank does.
How is this legal? Seems like someone should be facing charges for this...
Wow, that's amazing and a superb idea. I always feel like the biggest weakness of cell phone cameras is that its hard to control exactly when the photo happens. With videos (from which you can pick a still) this would be way less of an issue.

Do you know if the HTC One Google Edition does this, or only regular HTC One?
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This is why I believe the 'opt-in/out' switching should be as seemless and accessible as possible - if it is, then to my mind this is no closer to censorship than the film classification system.

"By default the state assumes you don't want to see sexual content; if you do - thats fine by us"

Note that I'm saying this is how I see it balancing with civil liberties - there is of course the chance that it DOESN'T work out like this in practice.
There must be some serious mudbutt going on with the upper level executives right now.
What will be extremely interesting is when one of these databases of people who have opted in to receive pornography is leaked. Especially if it contains the names of politicians and other high profile individuals.

I believe that's when the issue of privacy will start to be publicly debated and taken seriously.
It's almost the exact same scheme as Turbo C.
I hope they used something sensible like bcrypt for encryption instead of MD5 which is too easy to crack these days.
I personally would prefer to be friends with exes. I don't understand why people find it so hard to go from dating to freidship. Of course it's awkward at first, just like your first date was awkward, but you push past it if its someone you'll enjoy in your life.
Also, the paranoid in me (and probably more significantly, the keyboard-activist-in-the-safety-of-my-parents-basement) suggests that it might be wise to access keyservers over TOR.

If _I_ were involved with PRISM, the pipe running to pgp.mit.edu would be one of the most monitored connections around. "Hmmm, someone just searched for a PGP key for FedRegister - lets see what else that IP address has searched for, and what's in all the gmail inboxes that have ever been accessed using that IP address…"
That is rather harsh and rather tangential. Sure, ultimately every personal relationship being destroyed has two parties at fault; one of whom is yourself. Fixing yourself doesn't mean that you magically become a mormon missionary like grin and become at ease with everything life. The 'stomach churn' is a very human thing.

I feel like your rant places the blame solely on the user herself and not on the usability problems associated in the Facebook era.

E.g. blocking an ex would be easy. Yet, it also means that you cannot see if the other person is going to an event or not. This is an issue for certain people who don't really want to hang out at a certain event if their ex is going to it. The other alternative is to keep seeing them appear in your facebook interaction someway or the other: your chat box shows them as one of the most frequently messaged people; suggested events may be because they are going to a certain event.
emails + password re-usage = profit
If you wanted to have a serious conversation about journalistic integrity, you would not begin with sarcasm and continue with condescension. That's why you didn't deserve a serious reply, and still don't. The entire thread you started is also off-topic and as worthwhile as your thoughts in it.
That system breaks down if you start dating from within your social circle (friends of friends). I know you'll tell me it's a big no-no but you'd be surprised how much more common it becomes as you get older
Actually I think they started with th Pirate Bay and then pornography.

A quick google search:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-bypass-uk-pirate-bay-blo...

(screenshot of the blocking page)

I believe protection against pornography has to do with education, it's more the problem of the parents than the problem of the government. "Childs" will always find a way to view some adult content, they just need to be educated about it
Certainly so; the effort put into making an actual smart AV is admirable. Alas, it doesn't seem likely to succeed.
It's like how more Americans are killed by police than by terrorists, but we "need" PRISM and more SWAT teams instead of better police training. Children are in far more danger of living in a nanny state than having their lives ruined by online pornography.
Email addresses + passwords + possibly other things as well.

Many people reuse the same email and password on other services/websites, so this is pretty valuable and sensitive information.
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Yes, both updates happened after that comment. In fact that comment provided a little extra motivation for me to get those extra features done :)
It's also expressly what Adblock was designed for -- essentially punishing websites who choose to partner with advertisers who ignore common browser courtesy.
For me, Markdown's issues relate to it's original purpose (which encapsulated use in emails) and it's use today (as a general long-form markup language).

I've found repeatedly that users dislike Markdown for the things that are hard to express in plain text (images, tables, links to some degree) and for surprising side effects of the syntax (in a hashtag age, headers appear too often and reduce readability, and the user misunderstands why).

What I would like to see is that Markdown is simplified further, and that some effort is made to find a better solution to links, images, etc.
Frameworks have a lot of issues. First of all, they tend to exclude each other, hence preventing you from reusing code that might be a better fit for a particular problem.

Second, they provide a perverse incentive to force every new application feature into the structure of the framework you decided to use at the beginning of the project.

Frameworks are like debt. They give us a head start at the cost of paying more down the road. Sometimes that head start is worth the higher overall cost and sometimes it's not.

I think libraries are a lot less problematic and still provide most of the benefits of frameworks.
As far as I remember they were running vBulletin, which uses salted md5.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-4/vbulletin-4...
> I don't understand why people find it so hard to go from dating to freidship.

You must not have a large sample set to work on then. A friend of mine came out of a two year relationship where his ex slept with a close friend. Sure it is "awkward", sure they have a lot in common. However, why does he need to go through all the pain in order to be friends with her (or maintain a friendship with the other friend for that matter)? There are millions of people out there to be your friends, your lovers. Delete, walk away works just as easily.
I see that Mattermark charges $499/month for its "professional" plan. If you're suggesting that the data it's using is imperfect, I'm curious as to why you believe anyone would have an incentive to pay this amount before Mattermark has the ability to acquire better data?

For what it's worth, there are already a ton of other sources of data for private companies (Dun & Bradstreet, Experian, FactSet, infoUSA, CB Insights, PrivCo, etc.).
Your best bet is probably MuteTab: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mutetab/nmkbaaijgp...

Chrome is also supposedly getting indicators to show you which tabs are playing audio (Feb 2013): http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/02/25/google-chrome-may-so...
I can relate to this comment. I had some really close friends in high school (who I'm still close friends with), but after two years out of high school we've mostly lost touch. We talk to each other once every couple of months, and I see them maybe a few times over summer. It's definitely kind of sad.
It's possible using two techniques called continuation passing transform and trampolines[1]. The downside is that the produced code would be a bit ugly and one of coffeescript's selling points has always been that it produces sensible code.

[1]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trampoline_(computing)
I wonder what will happen if David Cameron is found on that leaked list.
I'm going to hazard a guess and say that military people tend to be much better physically prepared than anyone else for the forces they will experience during space missions.
Really? Wouldn't less players mean each individually has more influence on the market, therefore price hikes?

Things seem to get more expensive in shrinking markets (magazines, for example)
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Hypocrisy isn't a partisan issue. Sure, I feel some schadenfreude when the other guy screws up, but it's intellectually dishonest to give someone a free pass because you share their politics.

Spitzer was going after human trafficking and prostitution as AG and Governor while he was committing Mann Act Violations on the side. I want the folks on 'my team' to have integrity so their agendas don't get derailed.
seriously. DC is such a moralist. I hope everyone just start's using TOR and this whole thing backfires.
Very true. It becomes harder especially if the breakup is messy. As a friend you are forced, like it or not, to choose sides. As a person in the relationship, you are in the awkward situation of knowing that some of your friends are going to side with the other person and so on.
Well that is an extreme example. Most relationships don't end that way. I'm friends with all but one of my ex's and consider them good friends, I couldn't imagine deleting them from my life, that seems so immature.
I interned my second summer of college. I highly suggest interning at a start up and a larger company, to which fits you best. I, like @misframer, also found my first internship at a campus job fair. Your college career center should have relevant information.

If you'd like any personal advice, feel free to reach out. My email address is in profile.
I'm not an expert but here's my humble opinion. Being an astronaught has very stringent physical and mental requirements. It's probably easier(or cheaper) to pick the smartest candidates from a group of very fit ones. To make a very crude analogy, it's easier to turn the star QB into a valedictorian than to turn the valedictorian into a QB.

Ps. I love the verb grok. Such a great book.
The purpose of the salt is to invalidate rainbow tables. With salt, the only way to reverse is to compute all combinations. With advances in GPU, it has become easier for some hash functions, but it easnt' easy to reverse by any measure.

What are these sites which will crack the passwords in no time? Try reversing this:

38b2cf16f7be6a1b33097084bed6a4b0:lsdjfldsjlfds
Instant app anyone? :D
If it's on a password list.
And they keep telling me to update my cover photo (not via email though), but the new cover photos are so big that most of the users need to scroll down to see my name. A horrible user experience.
The problem is that even visionary people like you come up with such lousy examples as personalized helmets and car seats. If that's the "potential" then the market is dead already.