skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fire up the AC, put it by your desk and have a Popsicle! It's Summer, maybe go outside.
"GitHub stores all pull requests in your repository […] even if the fork is deleted"

That's great to know! I have a few forks that are there only because I wanted to offer a tiny change to the doc or the website, etc. but I thought I'd have to keep them around until it was merged. (I can certainly leave them there, but it leaves a big mess of mostly untouched forks)

edit: my git tip will be "git stash --keep-index". This stashes only the stuff that you haven't staged. I've been using it when I want to keep unrelated changes out of the build process before committing. Or you can run that, and then "git stash" to have two (or more) separate stashes from your current state.
Instant my ass. It took 2 weeks for the ACH transaction waiting period, then they said they couldn't do it anyway because they were being my conscience for me & decided I was being to risky. Said to try again in 2 weeks. Not to mention the initial account setup time I've waited.

Needless to say I'm looking for a new btc vendor.
Not every single one. Schiff and Pastor voted yes.

For the Democrats on the committee, it was 2 yes, 8 no. It was 0 yes, 13 no for Republicans. Overall, 2 yes, 21 no.
9th circuit upholds denial of preliminary injunction against dish's hopper
I second this, the only time I ever had wrist pain for prolonged amount of time was from having the desk too high. Ergonomics is not about buying different five different mices, but about making sure the position of your body is such that it can work effectively. There is a good basic description here:

http://www.ergonomics.com.au/pages/400_useful_info/420_how_t...

I don't think you have to go as far as to design your own desk (although the effect is probably great). Just avoid "computer desks" like the black plague and go for a simple large table top on regulated table legs - the keyboard drawer is the worst invention ever in terms of ergonomics.
And what would that show, exactly? That donors are more likely to donate to politicians who agree with them?

In order to be interesting, you'd have to demonstrate that a donation caused the politician's stance and was not just because of the politician's stance - and I'm not sure that's extractable from the data set you've got to work with.
To be clear, the EFF story doesn't mention this, but what was appealed was only the denial of a preliminary injunction against Dish.
(We'll see if they change the title, I changed it from the page title to remove the editorialization by EFF that lost some of the real meaning)

While the decision is quite good, it used a different standard of review than will be used if this case goes to trial and is then appealed again by Fox.

So, it's not the end by a longshot, but, is very good so far.
I still think it's truly awesome that I can just hapilly write my code in Haskell on a very high level, while in the meantime other people will hack on the compiler and core libraries and magically make my programs run faster!

Seriously, thank you for doing research in this area. It will put us forward.
Blueprints Of NSA's Data Center In Utah Suggest It Holds Less Than Thought
Really? How do you do Youtube/Netflix on your HTPC now? How about play music? If you are browsing youtube on your laptop and want to play it on your tv, how many seconds is that going to take to transfer the video playback?
Well I certainly won't be voting for her in 2014. I feel like she really let me down. Same thing happened with Obama when he voted to re-new the Patriot Act.
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"I do not like Nathan Myhrvold."

I dislike what Nathan Myhrvold has done with IV, the business model is despicable, and essential hacks major errors/bugs in the legal system to extrapolate money from productive members of society, and creators. The entire approach is a scam.

But, it's important to separate the bad that people do, from the good. Bill Gates and Microsoft (criminally) leveraged a monopoly to drive a good portion of a company (Netscape) I worked for out of the browser business.

But, that doesn't mean I can't respect and be amazed by the good that Bill Gates now does.
The color we are using is actually "blue iris." It's a mix of blue and purple, and we think it looks great. It was pantone's color of the year 2008. Heroku looks great, too, so we'll take that as a compliment ;).
Tweeted you :)
When Internet users in China try to access Skype.com, they are diverted to the TOM-Skype site. While the Chinese version bears the blue Skype logo—and provides services for online phone calls and text chats—it’s a modified version of the program found elsewhere. The surveillance feature in TOM-Skype, which has 96 million users in China, scans messages for specific words and phrases. When the program finds a match, it sends a copy of the offending missive to a TOM-Skype server, along with the account’s username, time and date of transmission, and whether the message was sent or received by the user

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/skypes-been-...
The amount of times they've given out rep is indeed visible on their profile.
How on earth can you defend Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures? If there was a single venture that I thought was completely indefensible, it was IV. "Genius" is not the word that comes to my mind, "Patent Trolling and extrapolating money out of productive members of society" is.

He may be a nice person, but IV is doing very bad things. Sometimes it does matter how you make your money.
It's the unfortunate logical conclusion of our private property philosophy applied to intellectual capital. I'd like to see some sort of 'use it or lose it' clause enshrined at the core of property law, but obviously that approach could bring its own problems.
So it seems not to be an actualy HDMI reciever that just outputs your devices screen on the TV so that you can do anything with it like playing back moviews, playing games on the big screen etc ?
Thats that, i had hoped it was basically a Miracast reciever..HTC has a similar device called the Media Link HD which does this, its $90 though but seems to be the way to go for me as i dont want to be limitied by whats possible in chrome.
I recommend signing up and getting your friends to sign up and use it. It's indeed a very good feeling when one of your friends reps you for something you may have done. It does feel good. And I'm not drinking my own kool-aid. I've been repped a few times, and it does feel pretty good.
Awesome stuff, Jennifer! Congratulations!
It's working the way it's suppose, to ;). Your friends haven't signed up, most likely, and 'John Smith' isn't a member of the site.
As an example, VoltDB. The memory footprint required for balances and such is not very much, and VoltDB gives you near-linear scaleout to dozens of nodes. A few years ago I tried it for a CDR/balance system (insert record, update balance - single tx) and had no problem reaching 100K+ transactions/sec on a 3-way system (3x $500 servers).
I wish someone would package this version of Mono for Debian Testing (or at least Sid). I am starting to love building things from source, but having no official documentation on how to build Mono/MonoDevelop from source the correct way really is tiring.

(Installing pango/gtk etc from source really takes the juice out of you.)
Still, a square piece of plastic is still more portable than carrying around a 2 liter bottle full of fermenting yeast. I'm not about to strap that to my backpack when I go hiking.
I would guess that you don't have it. The Roku Streaming Stick uses MHL and it only lists a handful of compatible TVs. http://www.roku.com/streamingstick#roku-ready
I don't know the specifics in this article but usually the analogy I would give is that async/await is to asynchronous programming as yield/generators are to writing iterators.

When you can use yield you can use regular control flow like branches, for loops, etc to write iterators in a straightforward manner. If you can't use yield you instead end up needing to represent all that implicit control flow using explicit stacks and things like that. Similarly, async/await let you write asynchronous code very similarly to how you would write a synchronous version of the same thing.
Your primitive types aren't LLVM's though, are they? I mean, I haven't looked at LLVM thoroughly (just enough to be familiar with it, a friend is writing a language he wanted some input on), but I would be surprised and disappointed if they had a C "int" type as opposed to "signed 32-bit integer" or whatever. At which point it's compatible with whatever else is throwing around a signed 32-bit integer.
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That _could_ be a prime example of security by obscurity. Who would spend time looking for a WebObjects exploit if you can spend that time looking for a Rails exploit?
Integrating with version control systems, such as git, is quite high on my list of things to do (but it's a big list). My next move is to try and get other users to add their content onto the website, and github seems like an excellent place to start.

Also, you mention about proving that it is an efficient way to learn. That's a good point. Rather than assuming that people will like the format I should try to prove that it works, maybe by providing a comparison with some existing documentation.

Thanks wanghq.
The title has now been changed to remove the reference to Intellectual Ventures. A well-known philanthropist has taken its place.

Maybe it's not true that "all publicity is good publicity". At least not for Intellectual Ventures.
When properly applied it stops sniffing the wire as well (i.e. anywhere in the path) and man-in-the middle attacks and any active attack against the encryption. Obviously there are other types of attacks that are unrelated to the "cryptographic" security but that's a different story.
While way more than $600,000/day of developer time goes into making thousands of lame, derivative cell phone games that less than 100 people will ever play. Fueled by the mostly-irrational hope of creating That One Big Hit.
If you organise a conference, then arrange flights and accommodations for +1s be they independent adults, dependents of any kind, family dog, company director, servant or journalist, you better have options for that +1 that include allowing them access to the venue for the period that your invited speaker is expected to be there.

Something as simple as am "Invited Guest" pass, to indicate that this person is allowed to the coffee shop, merchandise store and toilets unaccompanied, is the least you can do. It doesn't matter who invited them, just give them the Amulet of Warding From Security Drones. Job done.

Then when arranging insurance for the event, make sure you account for expected people +30% to allow for "Invited Guests" brought along by the organisers, stage hands, support technicians, attendees and the CEO of the company running the show who decided on the spur of the moment to drag a retinue of golf friends around the event to show off.

It is not rocket surgery!
OP here, some 5+ years after having authored that content and taught the class. Astonishing that this got surfaced - I was very surprised to receive a flurry of inbound requests to join a class I ran half a decade ago. I'd love to know how best to package the material - what would folks like to know? And how would folks like to learn it? Where are existing systems like Khan Academy and Codecademy falling short?
I started with Obj-C/Cocoa Touch 10 days ago
When the traditional nuclear plants were built, scientists and engineers said that they were perfectly safe. Now they want to sell thorium reactors, because they are more safe. What do you mean? More safe than perfectly safe?
The submission link points to that, the `[scribd]` is a separate mirror added automatically by HN.
I'm not sure about psychological studies as I am not familiar with them nor do I have a degree in psychology, so I am not going to try and be an arm-chair psychologist.

I can say that based on my own anecdotal experience I feel pretty good when I receive a rep, and I also feel good when I give people rep. Others who have used pplrep have reported similar experiences. And I think that's a good thing. Certainly better than dealing with the drama that occurs on other social networks.
Before, I made apps using Appcelerator Titanium. Don't ask why I even started with that, Obj-C rocks!
I'm currently using this style in a RequireJS/Angular project. Everything works great, but it's pretty ugly. We should strive to not write ugly shit, but good clean expressive code. This is so non-standard it hurts. There are plenty of other ways the Angular team could have gone; CommonJS or AMD would have been better choices IMO.
If you're using Ubuntu, the .deb packages need a lot of work. I've been playing around with this for the past week and there are all sorts of little glitches and gotchas. A big problem is that the package maintainers didn't use debconf, so you end up having to install, set some settings and then bring the service up.

This is definitely not the debian/ubuntu way of doing things.

If I find some time I'll see if I can repackage things to properly use debconf and push things upstream.
A link to a version of the '68 demo easier to consume:

http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Adougengelba...

And a link to the follow-up to the '68 demo that I explains how the text editor works better:

http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Adougengelba...
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Just like I commented on the original incident report post, I think systems like Redis are not suitable to work as a db for payment processing and transaction storage. Reading through the report I can't imagine something like this happening with a payment system built around Postgres. Not unless you are doing something incredibly stupid. And stupid those guys are not.

They are obviously bright guys meaning well, and yet they've designed and implemented payment system with such a bad failure mode.

I do understand that they have a LOT of billing events, and have to update customer billable amounts for each of them. But instead of holding the customer balances in Redis and doing payment processing on top of that, my paranoia would most probably lead me to only store 'amount to charge' in Redis and update it as frequently as needed, and store customer balances and transactions in an RDBMS. And only change during actual charge event. This way, if Redis data were to be lost, I'd under-charge my customers and not over-double-tripple charge them. The failure mode becomes less disastrous.
rhtrh
Symmetric-key ciphers aren't used because they "save a round trip". They're used because they're much faster. One could use a public key encryption system to encrypt the entire session between two parties (e.g. RSA) but AES is much faster than RSA.
There is no such thing as mastering a language. You can master a style of programming and you can master a set of libraries, but not a language.

Two things flow from this. The first is that once you have mastered the Java libraries or .NET libraries, you can easily add a couple more languages to your repertoire with different programming styles. But the other thing is, that learning a set of libraries is a lot like saying "I can code without using Google!". Is that really an achievement? It's like saying that you don't carry a mobile phone or that you only use human powered transport. Now that Google exists, why would you bother learning a set of libraries inside out.

Far better to learn how to do great work using different programming styles, object oriented, functional, domain driven design, actor systems with a supervisor tree, and so on. That takes practice and cannot be googled.
>That's a wild generalization which I don't think it's true. The "Linux community" you speak of is a loud minority of mentally deranged folks.

Nicely done.
I feel like we have an equal problem of thinking of intelligence and skill as immutable constants. I think of both as a muscle, the more I exercise them the better they become. While I realize that everyone starts with certain advantages if you find something you enjoy or want to do and you work hard at it, you will be successful.
Spain train crash: scores killed, more than 130 injured
From her Facebook, September 2009:
"If you don't know already, I've created an iPhone app! I've been working really hard on this and have had lots of fun taking pictures of myself and my friends. Oh, what it does is gives everyone in the picture a HOT or COLD rating. The app is called ruHOT and is available for download for the iPhone and Android phones. Check it out!"

So yeah, highly doubt this is truly her first rodeo. Cool project(s) nonetheless and impressive dedication.
I really like Helvetica Neue, but I think you're right -- it doesn't work too well when it's small, at least on screen. At a browser's standard 16px it seems to be pretty good.

But in five years we'll all have high-DPI displays, right? (For certain values of "high-DPI" and "all.")
Why is Mono "basically useless for server-side apps"? I've been running production apps, server-side, with Mono (first time was almost 10 years ago - near end of a payment processing project when some partner decided they needed a piece to run on a Linux box; just copied the exe over and done).

Java and .NET both have a wide variety of libraries and bindings. I'd say that for many projects, the CLR will likely have the bindings you need.

I believe there was probably a ton of in-fighting at Microsoft regarding .NET's cross-platformness. Microsoft did release an open source version of .NET (Rotor) that ran on Mac OS and FreeBSD. The CLR and BCL in general is not Windows-specific. For the most part, the runtime and core libraries are careful to realise they may operate in other environments. However, I'd imagine the argument of "why make software easier to run on non-Windows, which is a major source of revenue" won out. (After all, Sun put money into Java, which didn't seem to help their revenues, right? And then, when MS decided to adopt Java, Sun cut 'em off. Otherwise, .NET might never have had happened, at least not to the same extent, as MS would have sunk a lot of effort into J++.)

The parts of .NET that are platform-specific are for good reason. Cross-platform UIs, for instance (like Java's), seem to universally suck.

Meanwhile, the Mono guys are close enough to make cross-platform viable for many people. They provide a legitimate "it's not vendor lock-in" excuse. And Microsoft could always buy them if they wanted to get more involved.
The main argument against direct democracy is the danger of majoritarian oppression: e.g. imagine calling a vote to reinstate slavery and succeeding because 51% of the population supports slavery. Having a set of laws like the Bill of Rights that is agreed upon by consensus and enforced by courts is a safeguard against that.
Liquor Delivery on Demand
www.liquorun.com

We are a start up out of Melbourne, Australia.

Users can log on to our web based app and order liquor delivered to their home within an hour.

Right now we are in a space, where not a lot of liquor stores want to do delivery mainly due to risks involved late at night.

Planning to scale later in the year:

User logs on to the app
Order drinks
Order gets pushed to the closest liquor store in their area
Liquor store executes order.

Liquor on demand

www.liquorun.com
Price is already allowed to rise. Any company can offer a higher salary to its engineering candidates.
If it works with YouTube Leanback this will be possible for YouTube at least. Multiple phones/tablets can hook up to the same session and queue videos to watch next.
http://www.mono-project.com/Compiling_Mono

First result on Google for building Mono. Download the source, unpack, configure, make install. I've done this on many versions, and it seems to work just fine.
House narrowly rejects effort to halt NSA program
find me (aster1sk) at riboflav.in (irc) - I'm a dad and have considered developing this exact same thing.

EDIT : mention how you found me - otherwise I'll lolwut
I've been to this conference center. It's in a very decent, touristy part of town with plenty of hotels, cafes, and restaurants. In fact there are two hotels right across the street, one of which has a Starbucks in the lobby.

The real issue here was conference organizers being officious and failing to use common sense, which the OP had a legitimate reason to be annoyed about given he was a speaker and apparently went to some trouble and expense. No need to be over the top, it was bad enough without the hyperbole.
Ya, its always tough to figure that out. Design fail.
Nop. Have you seen the talk on SOAP fro Don Box (another Microsoft employee): http://blog.mattmags.com/2011/05/19/don-box-the-bathtub-lect... ? If above dress code thing is true then Microsoft has came long way...
What is like an MRI? And as someone who peripherally deals with this sort of proprietary crap regularly, they almost never connect to anything nicely. Things have got better recently with people starting to follow te DICOM spec, but brand new GE MRI, PET, CT and X-ray rooms will not interface properly with our radiology information system. They also have a bug whereby any image post processing is uniquely identified by time (hour, minute second). It turn out this isn't unique and will merge patient's imaging when you use an off-the-shelf and popular system like Intellipacs. Oops. Philips is better, just. Their scanners just dump these files all over the picture archive and communication system which are called PR files. No one knows what they are, they just come out the scanners and are spread everywhere. I'd like to think Siemens are better but I only have a small amount of experience with this manufacturer.
"DDT is generally safe when it clearly is not."

I'd love for you to cite your source on that. When used properly DDT is generally safe and has saved millions of lives. There is no arguing that it doesn't do a great job killing mosquitos. Resistance is mostly due to agricultural use. The video claimed we are using chemicals toxic to humans and flashed some footage of DDT being sprayed. That's simply a false assertion on the part of the maker's of the video and the product. They're trying to use junk science to push their product onto naive consumers.
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Probably not yet but that could change. PCI flash interfaces are going to be standardised as NVMe.
That's right folks!
On dev box :

1	213 21.3% vi
2	172 17.2% git
3	161 16.1% ls
4	135 13.5% cd
5	37 3.7% python
6	36 3.6% screen
7	32 3.2% rm
8	21 2.1% wget
9	18 1.8% mv
10	15 1.5% cat
The train driver claimed, under shock, to be doing 190Km/h in a 80km/h bend.

The automatic breaks, which only trigger at discrete points, didn't kick in, and that part of the line, in spite of being part of a high speed line, is not covered by ERTMS [1].

It seems that a fortune was spent on advanced trains, which get votes, but perhaps not on safety, which save lives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Rail_Traffic_Manageme...
Made in America 2.0: behind Google and Apple's sudden patriotism
ReSharper 8.0 Released
Google has come out and said that they don't believe in having sd card support in their Nexus devices, which is kind of a bummer.
Yeah, and this is especially the case with the cheapest laptops the companies usually buy: bulky, slow, not ergonomic and noisy.
On desktop :

1	124 12.4% ls
2	115 11.5% ssh
3	96 9.6% cd
4	91 9.1% git
5	89 8.9% vi
6	72 7.2% sudo
7	36 3.6% rm
8	24 2.4% vagrant
9	18 1.8% adb
10	17 1.7% cat
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Not my experience... I've been battling for several days now to try and get mono, monodevelop and F# installed from git (admittedly I'm trying to do that using a prefix argument to the various configure steps). My overwhelming impression is that linux simply isnt in mono's critical path anymore.