skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually thought of that, but I realized that BoingBoing (and the like) beat them to it but being the gatekeeper to the internet. From last I've seen, they have their own shopping portal (and Amazon was access was complimentary).
Why would I go out of my way to download the SkyMall app? What value would it give me?
IIRC it's because they can't just attach an extra IP to their load balancers for each SSL site, since Amazon doesn't allow you to attach multiple elastic ips to one instance. So, they need to use an elastic load balancer for each site, which costs $18 per month + bandwidth. So they are probably actually just breaking even or losing money on that $20/month fee.
As Scott Locklin said in a parallel comment, J already comes with excellent documentation and tutorials. This would be a better starting place: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/FrontPage

As a language, J isn't ever going to fit comfortably into a "Learn X in Y" format -- there are too many unfamiliar ideas, it isn't just syntax.
You're a fanboy for aggressively but completely ignorantly trying to address points and move goalposts. The smugness with which you say 'good luck' is defeated by the clear bitterness and defeated attitude of the rest of your post.
@SEJeff Exactly, what I just wanted to post! I think SEJeff agrees with me, when I say that people in that business have no mercy, be prepared and learn yourself before accepting raw advices. Question what we say too.

Net and low-level code... well only if they have a fpga-cluster running the .Net code through a specialized compiler like http://www.mono-project.com/Mono_LLVM and then run some commercial optimizers to tune the assembly. Even then, the risk of malfunction due to "undefined behaviour" is too high to take the risk. You're better of with just Ada,Fortran,C or C++ Backends

This is just to illustrate how ridiculous a .Net ultra-low latency trading system sounds.
This is not an 'Android strategy'. Downvoting you for lying.
Yes, but then the pros determine that you have a very wide range for going all in. If needed, they will pick a spot where they have a very strong hand to beat what you have, at best an average hand. Additionally, if you're a novice going all in a lot, the whole table will eventually recognize this and all of them will adapt their playing to take your chips. Certainly, you'll get lucky perhaps on a few all ins and win against a pro. And you might actually be right, that this playing style is better than just trying your best as a novice, but it's analogous on a true/false test to just filling in true for every answer. That's only recommended if you know you'll do poorly on the test even if you try. And it's also analogous that playing a pro would be like trying to answer true every time of a professor known to have false be every answer on some tests--i.e., it's a really dumb poker strategy, especially versus pros who are expecting your strategy and thinking one level deeper.

Also, the real reason you're wrong is that if you're heads up against a pro and you go all in, the pro can fold and live to see the next hand.
Someone else watches Drunk History I guess.
Apps, Phones, Tablets, Accessories, Cars, TVs, Home Entertainment systems.

While I agree a direct comparison is unwarranted, the future of Apple's closed ecosystem is slightly worrying.
It's also a good thing they differentiate between their 2D artists and their 3D artists. You wouldn't want to get them confused!
It implies that only men are the audience, who would be deciding whether to use Apply() or something else.
Perhaps you could just make something awesome instead
that was my initial thought earlier this month as well and went on preparing to get rid of IE7 support for our specialised cms' backend. until i found out that some of our best-paying corporate customers are still using IE7.

our lesson learned: it's not the quantity that is important here, but rather who is still (stuck) using older browsers - "don't bite the hand that feeds you".
Are there many sites not indexed by google a person would care about?

I think no one would miss a thing if we dropped all pages past 5 from the index :P
I think it's because it's not a hipster language, but a language for pragmatic programmers - ie. people who don't want to be forced into single programming paradigm (like in Haskell, Closure), who want easy interaction with tons of existing JVM code/libraries (unlike in Go/Haskell), who value platform independence, who need good performance where necessary.
This breed of developers (the "pragmatic" crowd) tend to focus more on just doing stuff and less on writing about it, hence less NH threads.
> It's weird that there is so much kerfuffle about governments slurping data when services like these pop-up and offer proxies

It's not 'weird'. This is a battle of privacy for law abiding adults. Most of public can't even establish that blocking porn requires a system of such depth that it will infringe on their private life, let alone have the know-how to seek or set up these proxies.
I definitely miss having the Morgan Stanley site license for K at my disposal. I can't quite justify the money to get a license, just for me, so I've been slowly assembling a poor-man's substitute built on numpy, pandas, and hdf5.

K itself isn't as consistent as I'd like (odd corners like the auto-casting arrays, especially dict arrays to tables, and skipping NaNs in sums), but it's a great place to start.

J really needs a table or dictionary data type, or at least the tools to make one yourself.
I shared same excitements as other folks here, but soon after I started reading, I discovered that it is very daunting unless you already know the music theory. This is not explicitly mentioned in the foreword. Actually, I was hoping to learn music theory with this book, along with deepening and refreshing my Haskell knowledge.
Erm, are you sure you are the first?
It would seriously surprise me if Stallman had much of anything to do with the current GCC IR, which is from 2003. But maybe I'm mistaken.

Do you have any reference for this intentional obfuscation in any version? It'd be disappointing even if it were the case in earlier versions, but conceivable, I guess...
For most things go is used for right now, you'd normally not run into issues with distribution as defined by LGPL and GPL? (If you use it to deploy something as a service).

Anyway how would the GPL make a difference to your forking of the std lib? Either you link to the standard lib and all your code (that is linked into that binary and distributed as such) falls under the GPL, or you don't -- whether you distribute a patch (set) doesn't seem to change anything?
Maybe we've got it backwards. The only true problem in software development is miscommunication, and the bigger teams get the worse they perform per-programmer, with the most productivity loss experienced by the most senior team members. On large teams, the most experienced team members are often handicapped by having to operate in a context that remains comprehensible for junior team members, investing so much time in communication that they spend not luch of it on building things. that in turn produces a sort of lowest common denominator effect, where designs are deliberatey kept overly simplistic so they will be easy to communicate.

The more expertise is applied to a solution, the less likely it is that people can cooperate on that codebase. The languages and frameworks of today try to minimize the need for expertise to get things done, because expertise doesn't blend well with communicating about code. I think part of the ideas in the article is that by running away from expertise we have often arrived at inefficient solutions. We scale out, with huge codebases that are like cities, sprawling and vast yet with each component isolated and easy to comprehend. Learning from the masters means understanding complex ideas which are based on scaling up, on building a project-specific grammar that encapsulates the problem domain so elegantly that it allows for one line features, at the expense of being incomprehensible to someone new to the codebase or the field.
signature process is almost the same, but this thing uses different approach to "trust" to the signatures.

In case of S/MIME email client will tell you that signature is good if it the key, which was used for creating it was issued by a known CA (Certificate Authority).

In case of OpenPGP(GPG,GnuPG,…) you explicitly decide if signature is good either by verifying the key (once) directly with the sender or by using web-of-trust (you trust keys of your friends, who trust keys of their friends, who trusts your correspondent)

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/7874/how-does-pg...
More evidence that virtual economies act like real ones (2009)
The Structure of a Real Apology
There's absolutely nothing "negative" about wondering how much was paid to do something, including the development of websites.
Mind to share some of the background of yours? How did you get to know it, what were you doing with it, how did you learn it, what did you like about it?
The UK is the "New Egypt" today, thanks Cameron.
One thing I love about Forth is that the Forth assembler is implemented in the same spirit as the Forth compiler, which is to say that it's fully integrated and programmable and extensible in Forth! So it has much more than a "macro" facility -- you can write full-fledged Forth assembly macros that assemble any code you like programmatically! And write your own assembler flow control constructs, and stuff like that!
have you really never watched TV with commercials about full refunds/money back guarantee?
Payment gateways have it somewhat easy - the system making the "make a payment" request doesn't ever need the actual sensitive data returned. That data can be stored on a heavily secured server that only can call out to the banks.
AKA the LMFAO effect
App updates do not imply the app is being adequately maintained.

https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/issues/detail...

If that's your idea of a maintained app, I think we have differing ideas of what that means. Users with more totp tokens than will fit on one screen tend to ditch google authenticator because of that issue.
Deep Packet Inspection... aaannd the game is over. Sorry, but the only the way to defend is to do something against it, protest, demonstrate, campaigns. And to attack the arguments of the politicians with a very strong backup or to leave the country.

Vote for: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/

If you know 'anything' that really circumvents DPI, please let me know, I will buy it, now! :) (Hopefully I can shoot my own Satellite into space someday..)
Trust me, a lot of people dislike Steve Jobs immensely.
VPS (debian) needed websockets and SSL
It’s OK to Wait 20 Years Before Writing Your First Draft
I don't really feel sorry for Phil. People are being mean to him? Yes, definitely. But the other way around is well known to be done. Phil is usually, put mildly, blunt when talking about other people. Guess it's just karma.
Cameron is asking ISPs to implement a filter that users can opt out of. If ISPs don't voluntarily implement this it'll probably become law.

Egypt - Egypt is a little bit different. (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/20137271645...)

We have excessive policing, but we tend not to kill protesters. (Certainly not in these kinds of numbers.)

We're not putting journalists in prison. (http://www.cpj.org/2013/07/egyptian-authorities-step-up-cens...)
Yes. The pharmacist almost certainly knows much more about drugs in general than a doctor does. The doctor is familiar with the drugs he prescribes, sure, but may not be at all familiar with the drugs that your other doctor prescribed. That is, your dermatologist knows all about dermatology drugs, but may not know much about your blood pressure or antidepressant medicine (in particular, that one of those drugs has a bad interaction with the dermatology medicine he's prescribing).

That's also why it's important to always go to the same pharmacy if you can. If you switch to a new one, make sure to switch all your prescriptions at the same time.
Data scientists and trust: Numbers don't lie -- but might fib a bit
It probably is post-apocalyptic of a sort.

~11,278 years is an extraordinarily long time in human terms. That's about how long it's been since the earliest stirrings of civilization. We've gone from the discovery of electrons to present-day technology in ~1.2% of that time.

A lot could happen in that time to reverse society to near-subsistence levels. Wars, climate change, major impact events.

It's also notable that we have only the faintest insight into anyone other than the two main characters, who are of indeterminate age, education, and experience. They might easily be teenagers. Go find a bunch of 16-year-olds of average intelligence in 2013. What do they really know about the world around them? If you ask them to name a sea which might be realistically drained and refilled, what will they say?

Now imagine their lives having been spent in 40-person village effectively knocked back a couple hundred years, focused on farming and fishing and just generally getting by.

Humanity might be aware of a great deal. These two might be aware of relatively little.
> But you'll be looking and working in people's mouths all day. I say, don't do anything you're not passionate about.

This is really another argument _for_ becoming a dentist instead of some other specialty. The mouth is one of the nicest, least disgusting bits of anatomy you might aspire to work with as a medical professional (after optometrists, I guess). People go into medicine for all kinds of reasons -- money, prestige, religion, a desire to feel helpful -- but not because they're easily grossed out.
If you can live with K3, you might want to take a look at kona: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/
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I disagree. In contemporary professional and technical society, the politically incorrect occupy a disadvantaged position. The person being accused of political incorrectness is automatically assumed to be a person of the worst sort - sexist, unthinking, mean.

Scott Locklin is playing the game of taking proud ownership of his own labels. "I'm not a member of your cool modern hipster club, I'm just a geek who cares about fast computation." For comparison, see also "I'm a man hating dyke, meh, I get more pussy than you."
Whack: Compile and run path-independent Linux programs
I made it. It was great!
Only very popular restaurants require a CC on OpenTable. One of the nice things about OT is that it's very easy to cancel (one click) which I suspect also helps restaurants maximize their yield, since they don't have to keep a table open for a reservation that never shows up. Taking a CC may discourage some people from making a reservation so if you're not already at capacity, it may not be a good play.
I'm kind of disgusted by the overuse of the word "bullying". But look at some of these comments: http://polytroncorporation.com/fez-ii-cancelled

"Cry me a river, Fishy-boy. No one cared for FEZ, no one cares for FEZ II and no one cares for the cancellation."

"Get lost you waste of talent. Shitbag telling others to kill themselves, you dont deserve your fame, money or attention."

"Good. I hope that you never come back"

"You are an embarrassment."

"Good news. Stop making games please."

I've scrolled 0.1% down the page but I'll stop there.
@DanBC I'm stepping into hot ground, but I would like to share my opinoin with you. What about the government supported public exposure of demonstrants Faces and criminalizing every demonstrant? Isn't that the foundation of a state that prepares to do whatever it wants with it's "human ressources"? How will you know if protesters got killed when this info is censored, you even learned recently that the UK has a PRISM on it's own.
wow! Costs 3-4 in Canada. I had a tooth removed about 5 months ago and had to get some liquid meal replacement. The packs cost 25 bucks. Where are you getting them!?
Ember's new guide for creating web components
My gf thinks I'm crazy
>Lady Gaga is very good musician

Compared to what? Beethoven? Charles Mingus? That she can produce some shitty pop tune to be forgotten in a few months after release doesn't indicate much.
Show HN: A Dashing widget that shows a world map with AWS EC2 statuses
There are two ways to view 3D images: parallel and cross-eyed. This page has some nice images[1].

What you're describing is the cross-eyed way. The parallel way has the disadvantage that the separation between the two images can't be too big (no more than about 5 cm at arms length is my guess), while cross-eyed images can have very large separation (e.g. two side-by-side images[2]).

In return, once you learn how to put your eyes into parallel mode, it's incredibly easy and quick to do so compared to cross-eyed viewing, and much much less taxing on your eyes (since they are pointing in only slightly unnatural angles), and with more easily discernable details.

(also, if you try to view an image with the opposite viewing method it was designed for, it'll come out with the depth inversed, e.g. the raptor image linked by another poster[3] should stand out, rather than look "punched-in")

[1]: http://www.vision3d.com/3views.html

[2]: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2073/1620326328_6dc93774bc_z.j...

[3]: http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/5069/diansor.jpg
That's nice. What if you get hit by a car tomorrow?
Dijkstra never had anything relevant or wise to say about any programming language (including the few he did like).

In general, he was good at the math part of computer science, terrible at the computer part.
What do you think could be done?
TTIP's "science-based" assault on democracy begins
Would you prefer an algorithm as your boss?
We keep encryption keys for sensitive data in active directory and have a front end firewall, web servers, midplane application firewall, back end service layer cluster, internal firewall before anyone front facing can get at the info. The decrypted data is never passed to the web layer.

To gain access, someone will have to root two separate active directory domains after breaking into multiple low privilege accounts and a database cluster.

Possible always, but we make it a hard target.
BTW, if anyone was unreasonable about their expectations that he'd be different, it was those who were afraid. They believed he would take their guns, was a Communist, not born in the U.S., raised taxes when he actually lowered them, etc.

They were so made afraid about the difference he would make that they formed a party to "take their country back". And, they continued to believe in wild conspiracy theories, even in the face of plain facts to the contrary. This wasn't some small fringe, but a fairly broad swath of the opposition, fueled by fear-mongering politicians on the right.

Maybe you should look into that.
I will take a sugary cereal over Soylent for at least the reason that cereal typically has some fiber and iron in it. Also, just eat oatmeal. Less sugar, whole grain, more nutrition.

Or, if you insist on Soylent-like stuff, go with something that has been around for a bit longer: Ensure.
You never stop learning. Why don't you explain me what the GPL is about?
This looks like it hasn't been worked on in a while.
Ssh vpn proxy in the USA, fairly simple and even dpi can't do shit about that.
No, it's not short-sighted, it's good long-term thinking. It may be too simplistic to be of use to somebody whose self-esteem has been reduced to ashes by long-term bullying without any viable strategy for dealing with it, but it's definitely a place that most of us can get to given time.

> At the end of the day, we are a social species, hardwired to function by looking for approval from others, and especially from those we hold in high regard. That's what makes us tick, unless you're a sociopath.

This is bullshit conjecture with some convenient nasty labeling ("sociopath") for anybody that doesn't fit your mold. It's not as hard-wired as you think. It's mostly software, a lot of it installed by our parents, all of it hackable.
No, the fact that he started paying is a pretty difficult argument to counter. I think, in general, if two people negotiate on given terms and then start acting as if they had agreement (guy gives him the storage locker, OP starts paying for it) that's pretty good evidence of the contract existing. As far as I understand, this often overcomes some kind of technical problem with the instrument in question. (For example in this case the lack of a signature, only oral agreement.)

If it weren't this way, then mutual misunderstanding (for example the actual contract two parties signed is simply flawed or doesn't state what they think it states) would preempt the terms the parties agreed to; moreover, it would mean that you could totally distort the reality of what the parties actually started doing (how they behaved) by narrowly technically reading the paper instead of the agreement.

I also think this is the source of common-law marriage: if two people act as if they're married, that's good enough after a while, even if the actual instrument is missing or flawed in some way.
Clay – A language designed for generic programming
I, for one, find it wonderful.

As for people saying "I wish people wouldn't use that kind of language" -- those are the scum of the earth.
>For some the cognitive dissonance that comes with such alienation doesn't sit well.

Well duh, its only cognitive dissonance if you accept the premise of the argument. I am challenging the premise itself ! The claim that unless you are paid a certain amount you cannot derive enjoyment from your work is silly.

Obtaining financial security while giving up the additional value of your work to your employer is the basis of every single company under a capitalist model. Also keep in mind that this is all theory. I doubt anyone can accurately quantify the value their individual work brings to the company. This value will fluctuate from month to month, week to week, year to year. And if the company briefly goes into loss you might be adding negative value ! So does that mean one week you love your job, next week you hate it? I mean.. seriously.. the argument as it stands does not pass the smell test.
300bps is complaining about the fact that as a person with a low actuarial cost, he is being forced to subsidize others with a high actuarial cost. I too share this complaint - I wake up and hit the gym from 8-9:30 every day - as a reward for taking care of myself, I'm obligated to subsidize diabetes treatment for people who wake up and eat donuts.

How would a public insurance option change this?
How about: lower your prices. Seriously, have you been to a Barnes and Noble recently? If they have any hope of competing with Amazon, or even other local book stores, then the prices have to go down. Attempting to sell books at MSRP is a death sentence.
thats kind of what i feel.

bootstrap is just a more pleasant baseline than unstyled markup.
I'm curious as to why bacteria didn't evolve to resist Lysin?
One that's not quite on their list is boardgames. B&N is pushing more of those for the higher margin, but they do little to nothing to get gamers into the store. They should be the ones partnering with Tabletop, not Target. Sponsor BoardGameGeek somehow. Host gaming meetup groups. Provide store copies of games for trial.
You're mixing-up VPN (Virtual Private Network) and VPS (Virtual Private Server). A VPS can be used as a personal VPN, among other things. As parent suggested, it would be hard to imagine a ban on VPSs.
Why Good Programmers are Lazy and Dumb (2005)
Not possible with Firefox.
All the API does is return healthcare.gov advertisements in json format.

I'm a little less impressed.
I was on the receiving end of bullying for most of my elementary years and I think this is an excellent perspective. Many of my former classmates have led pathetic little lives in comparison with what was expected of them. And the top muscle-bound jock has a beer-belly and is balding.

In any case, happiness has to come from within.