skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah sure – when it's appropriate. I've got a RaspberryPi within armsreach that's still got the stock ARCH-ARM image with it's default login of root:root.

Yeah, I wouldn't deploy it on a public internet exposed network, or give it to someone else who wasn't aware of the implications or consequences of such an insecure machine – but in the privacy of my home network it's just fine.

I assume this guy is the same – he needs some increased safety if he wants to show this thing off in public, but in hs own shed he's got every right to accept risks for himself that are inappropriate for other people.

I've seen equally and much more "dangerous" projects at Burningman – hell, if he gets this running with any sort of reliability, attaching it to a bicycle and riding it around at Burningman would be a _fabulous_ idea!
As someone not familiar with how patenting really works, that's exactly what I thought at first, and reading patents isn't exactly a clear way to understand what is "actually patented" either. In this case when I read it I understood, but sometimes reading them leaves me MORE confuses.
So you suppose that we don't (or shouldn't) put information on the internet that is the equivalent of someone photographing the inside of your house? That the internet, despite having password protected accounts is more akin to a 'public space' then a locked house? You assert that there should be zero expectation of privacy? Really, that is your position? I find that remarkable.

You also believe that we have reached a steady state, in which we wouldn't want to keep increasing amounts of or personal information on the internet? Or perhaps you mean we are putting more and more personal information on the internet but that in the future we should have less privacy then we enjoy now?

I do not agree. I consider password protected accounts by the very nature of keyed entry to cary an expectation of privacy. Weather they are effectively secure is not the issue, the fact that your back door lock is broken doesn't cause you to lose constitutional protection.

I still think my example is an apt,and predominately accurate (if simplified) "common man's guide" as to why they should care about the NSA's activities.
APL and K draw their inspiration from math.

Python wasn't cryptic, but it is confusing unless you have a programming background.

the fact that "and" and "or" short circuit.

The fact that "1/2 is 0" (at least before Python 3), and that "1000+1000 is not 2000", even though "1000+1000 == 2000"

Or that "0.3*3 <> 0.9" (if you knew that <> means not equal)
I'm curious about this too. Do patents only apply to US owned/registered companies or can companies/people from other countries get in trouble for hosting patent-infringing code on Amazon/etc
I see, so appeal to authority is your primary means of a qualifying truthiness?
I'm not aware of any existing examples of websites that let you pay for comment bling on individual comments, letting you preview your bling to get the style you prefer as described in section (b) of claim 1. So yes, it does seem novel (which is different to "inventive" but is the criteria required for patents).

There are plenty of comment engines that offer avatars or paid subscriber adornments but few of these are per comment, none are pay-per-comment, none offer different prices depending on the chosen style (the "dynamically adjustable" in the claim) and none let you preview the adornment at upgrade time (instead of at comment time).

The question is not whether the idea is good, whether the idea is radically different -- but whether you've seen this specific set of steps used before.
Well those wars actually had armies fighting back.

The current "wars" ended a decade ago. What you have now is extremely dangerous police work, not war. You have thousands of tanks, armoured vehicles, and aircraft against disorganized groups of criminals on bicycles wielding decade-old guns and DIY bombs.
HN has always featured sciencey articles from the popular press (as well as complaints about the decline of HN, for that matter), so your claim is at first glance untrue. It does seem testable, though. Do you have any data to support it?
This attitude is one of the reasons why so many people have such terrible experiences calling in to companies...Management tends to think "they just answer phones, so we can hire anyone, put them through a week of training and bam, they should be good to go, right?"

You've missed the mark pretty terribly on this. The reason why so many people have such terrible experiences calling in to companies is because of substantial training.

People in call centers today are trained to give you poor customer service. I can't tell you how many scripts I've seen that are written like:

1. If customer asks for X, tell them we can't do that

2. If customer insists, explain we can't do X because of A, B and C.

3. If customer still insists for X, tell them we can't do X but we are willing to do Y

4. If customer still insists for X, tell them we will call them back and then don't call them back.

5. If customer calls back for X, give them X

And these types of scripts are written for things where a company is legally obligated to give their customer X.

Sure, there are training issues but by far you are receiving poor customer service because the company doesn't really want you calling in the first place and they're training you not to call.
This is somewhat interesting from the point of view of Ninendo nerdery, but the author clearly thinks the SGB is great rather than hating it. I don't understand what she's trying to say with the title at all, it seems to be nothing other than linkbait.
You are confusing the speed limit with the speed at which the crash happens. Most people apply breaks before the crash, and do not crash at full speed.

http://www.swov.nl/rapport/Factsheets/UK/FS_Speed.pdf

Though that number is always going down, because modern cars are safer than previous gens.
Does your fertile window calculation account for the fact that sperm can live for 5 days?

The main problem I have with the symptothermal method is that it means the woman only has sex when she least wants to, i.e. outside the fertile window. Having sex during your period is the worst and after it ends there's only a couple of days before you hit 5 days before ovulation.
Misunderstood life
I'm not sure a general lack of useful commenting and a subsistence on single-variable names is defensible. It sure seems like a case of "You can write Fortran in any language".
FWIW, I regularly expose myself to pretty much exactly the same danger he's choosing to expose himself to - just because the engines I work on in my garage are made by Ducati or Mazda, it doesn't make my sitting down in non-protective clothing with open containers of gasoline and no eye protection noticeably "safer". (In fact my jeans still smell slightly of the gasoline I spilled on them on Saturday…)

I think you'll find a vast number of "grown men" who'd recognise the risks you identify here, and say "Yeah, it's not as safe as sitting on the couch watching TV. Grab a beer and stand back in case this explodes…"

And while you might question their intelligence – they'll just as incorrectly question your manhood for doing so…
You're fixating on the dollar amount. Other formulations of the concept:

* What if everyone had the purchasing power of one million 2013 US dollars?

* What if there were such an excess of capital that every human being had the equivalent of a $25k - $35k minimum yearly income?
Object fields are always passed implicitly by reference (if that makes sense). The value that holds the reference to the object itself is passed by value, unless you specify the "ref" argument modifier (in C#).
http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
I got that, but actually writing to the file? What I'm looking for is something like this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143375.aspx

It covers everything you need to know. The MOST important part being "example". I don't see any on Go's documentation. That just led me to being frustrated. Also, I actually only see a list of functions and a very short, vague description.
I actually agree, I wasn't making a good/bad comment, just speculating. Very few government contractors would bid a linux or open-source-software-based system.

I do agree, a well designed and implemented system running on Oracle and Windows can certainly handle something like 911 dispatch and do it well.
That would've been my initial assessment too, but I've never read reddit poker, so I didn't feel qualified to compare the two...
When it comes to the Rust tutorials, documentation and code that do already exist, a lot of the information is now very misleading.

This may even be more harmful than no documentation at all, especially for people new to the language.

While this is an issue for other languages, I've found it to be far more severe with Rust.
He is not saying much about your actual conversion rate. He is saying more that you don't have enough data to make the claim in the title. For example, imagine if your conversion rate was 0. Then one day you got a few sales. If someone made a post claiming 10,000+% increase in ROI, we'd be pretty appalled.
I think the problem is that you'd need a different X.509 certificate for TLS, for each and every single IP.
I expect an appeal to data to qualify my determination of truthiness, which the article lacks. That is, after all, the way of science.
Huge in Australia too, FWIW.
First time since I'm on the web (and that's since around IE4) I almost missed the content below the fold.

I thought it was a myth that people might not know that they should scroll a bit.

But this page? Flashy animation, logo, social icons. First thought "Maybe that's all? Seems sufficient for 2013", but the title on HN suggested that this page contains some content. Second though "I guess it's broken. I'm on linux. Sometimes server don't respond fully. Possible."

"Maybe I hover over some things? But the animation has no distinct features. Maybe I click around. Maybe touch mouse wheel. Wow! Whoever approved this design was an idiot."
Though one could argue there is a big difference between "actually has and is continuing to be so" and "almost, maybe, kinda, sorta"
I've never heard of these. Thanks much.
Huxley does not exclude Orwell. What we have is a Huxley layer over an Orwell core. People don't care enough to change, but, when they do, governments know and can act swiftly and forcefully.
It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery and genocide.

This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war. Furthermore, whenever any person or group of persons in a position of great power and without full knowledge and consent of the public, uses such knowledge and methodologies for economic conquest - it must be understood that a state of domestic warfare exists between said person or group of persons and the public.

All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. Beyond this remains only one issue: Who will be the beneficiary?

The public might instinctively feel that something is wrong, but that is because of the technical nature of the silent weapon, they cannot express their feeling in a rational way, or handle the problem with intelligence. Therefore, they do not know how to cry for help, and do not know how to associate with others to defend themselves against it.

When a silent weapon is applied gradually, the public adjusts/adapts to its presence and learns to tolerate its encroachment on their lives until the pressure (psychological via economic) becomes too great and they crack up.

Therefore, the silent weapon is a type of biological warfare. It attacks the vitality, options, and mobility of the individuals of a society by knowing, understanding, manipulating, and attacking their sources of natural and social energy, and their physical, mental, and emotional strengths and weaknesses.
Nonsense. This has nothing to do with Windows and everything to do with poorly-implemented software running on it.

I have seen Java-based systems running on Linux that stall/hang and run agonizingly slowly under what should not be demanding levels of use. Bloated, heavyweight software stacks exist on all platforms, and they are favorites in government contractor architectures.
How do I deal with a difficult programmer joining an open source project?
FWIIW, I couldn't get this to build.
Last time I tried to use HH, there was no proper php5.4 support. no traits made HH a no-go. Compiled with the fact that namespacing didn't work right, it was just not viable.

That was a few months ago though, so maybe things are better now.
I add this also to bookmark this thread as I am curious for more sources...

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
WOW, thanks so much for explaining it!!

After reading the pdf from @27182818284 (the first letters of 'e') until chapter 2 I still didn't get anything. But now I have the feel that I understand it much better.

Could one improve this technique by adding more laser beams, to triangulate the location of the 'point cloud' (that's the dust, right?) more precisely.

I think this could (maybe?, then) be even used to find out from which subpost a post originated.

words → dust
laser → ontology+semantic
3D → different semantic contexts/time

I am not sure if that would work, but I am thankful to having learned something completely new.
If the copyright holder has the same amount of power as the licensee, why does the FSF require copyright assignment for GNU projects?

Copyright holders retain all of the power granted by copyright. The GPL grants only some of that power to licensees. A BSD license grants almost all of it.
I want data, and analysis of data, and the initial conditions required to produce said data. If you don't provide that, you are not providing scientific value. Rather, you're writing an opinion piece that can only ever be as accurate as the author's knowledge, and well, The Rolling Stone doesn't produce scientifically educated authors.
You've never run a motor with the airfilter off, right?

My motorcycle motor produces a beautiful cloud of gasoline droplets standing maybe 4 or 5 inches tall above the carburetor throats when you crack the throttle open.

There's thousands of car/bike enthusiasts who see that in their garages every weekend. They're not dying in catastrophic accidents all the time.
> No. If used properly, it is crazy faster.

I've been impressed with, for example, Symas's lightning mdb: http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/

However, it's not as if someone replaced my Toyota with a Formula 1 car. Properly used mmap is very nice but some people are getting carried away with the superlatives.

I hope this doesn't come off the wrong way but I really wonder if the "crazy faster" amazingness you're referring to isn't a function of comparing K to Hadoop. Which, you know, might just be setting the bar way too low.
I don't know -- while I admire what he's trying to do here, it's just a little too cargo cultish.

There's a lot of engineering in internal combustions engines and all that info is readily available. Things like compression ratios, spark timing, and fuel-air mixture ratios; all very important but it seems he didn't give any thought at all to this before jumping in.

A little thinking ahead of time could have saved him a lot of time and money I think.

I'd suggest the author spend a bit of time looking at the designs of the Wright Flyer engine and that in the original Model T and going from there. These two engines are of very simple design and worked reasonably well. And there's a ton of technical information out there on these, too.

Oh, and some fabrication skills with a lathe and mill could be handy, too. I'm always amazed at the length some folks will go to with building stuff from hardware store stock. A community college class in machining and a cheap lathe and mill opens up a whole new world for any maker.
I can see the benefit. It is a totally different architecture to your service. Meaning no chance that the thing that brings down your service is shared by you services servers and the server running your status page.
Don't forget that sometimes you need to allow the site's CDN domain as well.

The problem with Noscript is that it doesn't seem to differentiate between allowing a domain when it's actually a site you're visiting (say, facebook.com) and when it's a domain that a completely different site is trying to load content from. A straight whitelist is too "dumb" for today's web.
If a proprietary company decides to modify and distribute GPLed software, then I would say they have been persuaded into a good business decision, because their users will have freedom with that software.

You don't need to work with anyone that you don't want to. The GPL doesn't have a requirement that you need to submit pull requests. All it requires is that if you distribute binaries, you must also distribute source code to anyone who asks, so that the users can have freedom. And if the users have freedom, then anyone can have as much influence on the direction of the code as they want.
Does that really matter? It apply for a patent and you can patent stuff that is clearly not patentable and sue people left and right. :-/

It is sad this serious problem has been so poorly addressed for so long. If we are lucky in the next couple of years at least the most egregious attacks on business using a broken patent and legal system will be reduced, though even that may fail to be done :-(
Erlang With Types
Proposal
I've actually never programmed in Java (just a little Clojure). I'm hoping to take a class in it this fall.

Felix is on my big list of interesting languages, but I didn't really think of it in the same category as these. I'm sort of aiming for something better than C when I get around to writing an OS kernel, you know, "someday".
Ember Vs Angular - Templates
Because of the constitution. Suppose you are running for President, I support you, and I am rich. I rent a billboard and hang paper on it saying 'northwest for President!!' Well, the other candidate (southeast) is not happy about that, but under the first amendment there is no question that I have the right to publish my opinion that everyone should vote for you. So southeast reasonably argues that it is unfair for her to be prevented from renting a billboard, which is true. And so it goes.

This is a simplistic example, but that's basically what the famous Citizens United case was about - did a wealthy third party have the right to publish something designed to influence an election (in that case, by saying negative things about Hilary Clinton)? The first amendment says pretty clearly that Congress cannot make any law that limits the freedom of the press, and so people who want to use their money to publish election messages have to be allowed to do it.

As a European I agree that it's far from ideal, but that's something you have to accept if you want the freedoms of the first amendment as it is written.
In the first case, what if we're running a service in a cluster that starts instances automatically?
TPS as in "Torsonic Polarity Syndrome"?
If these weren't depressing they'd be funny. For those who don't know the patent & trademark office (PTO) defines "obvious" as described in a prior patent or, sometimes, an academic paper. Even if everybody in the field has been doing the same thing for years it isn't "non obvious" unless somebody wrote to the PTO about it. But since it's obvious in reality those nobody except crooks bother to.

The whole system is rigged in favor of "people" who write up patentable junk -- those who have the time to write it into patents -- whereas people who actually build things are busy perfecting the trade skills the patent system was made to protect.

OK - tirade over. Back to my new app. My wife dreamed it up and we're writing it together. When finished and released, if it does well, some fat slob -- who never wrote or programmed anything useful in his life -- will show up to shake us down.
Yeah, and he government would never make that mistake…

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-asics-a...
One backup solution that 'just works'. Maybe the technology doesn't yet exist or is not just being applied correctly. I must be fast, easily expandable, easily accessed, secure, future proof.

Also a storage company which follows 'moores law', ie like a dropbox that automatically expands your storage size as time goes by.
Exactly!

At this point - every single "analysts" security-clearance worthiness has been jeopardized.

I don't trust ANY NSA employee at this point. NONE.
I love the reference, is it Asterisk based?
We process all of it =/. There are companies that take care of the entire fulfillment process but the volume we're doing is so low that we just mail them ourselves.
It's just so charming when an interviewee answers by reading pre-written responses in an style that would never be used in a real (even somewhat formal) conversation.
BitC isn't dead see here: http://www.coyotos.org/pipermail/bitc-dev/
That's what the Vikings thought too..
Except that Scala lacks Go's headline feature: green threads. Being able to write event-based code without the use of callbacks is a major paradigm shift away from almost everything that came before it.

Yes, Scala has loop/react ... but they are really just a different way of writing callbacks, and don't allow you write truly synchronous-style code over an event based system.
Congratulations for figuring all this out and getting to enjoy the rewards. But I'm curious: what do you do all day in Emacs if not programming?
There is an open source project called Open-BLDC, I really like the project and use it to help me make a regular Brushed DC motor controller, eventually I'll want to play with BLDCs and there is some fine work done by the author of the boards and code esden.

http://esden.net/2010/09/19/open-bldc-v0-3-hardware-based-cl...
So essentially like VIP membership of any dating site out there.

Or advertising in general.

On the other hand, if we implemented this across the board, we could do away with these cumbersome comment voting systems!
Transactions per second, I think.
Is there a domain where this is applicable outside of high performance trading? I'm trying to think of another use case that would legitimately generate 1M queries/sec.
I'm somewhat new to surfing but am thinking this is slightly different than what you are imagining. I also know next to nothing about acoustics and wave forms.

Wouldn't the wave be the height of the tube, and the vehicle be near that same height? That way you can't "miss" the wave. Unlike surfing their is no room below the wave for the vehicle do dive and throw the surfer off, and unlike surfing , a soundwave (to my knowledge) doesn't break, so there is no tumble. If you enter at the point where you're off the back of the wave, you're positioned to be picked up by the next wave, which because your vehicle height is near equal to the height of the wave, your vehicle automatically gets pushed along.

That's how I'm visualizing it, but I could be wrong.
It’s a magazine article about a science topic, a.k.a. the most normal thing in the world. Only in bizarro-HN-world would that even begin to raise any eyebrows.

Yes, journalists are in fact allowed to write about science topics and there is nothing wrong with that in itself. No, not everything that’s written about science has to have been published in a peer-reviewed science journal. Good science journalism is awesome and there should be much more of it.

It’s this honestly bizarre cynical and twisted worldview that’s wrong with HN, most certainly not that someone posted this article.