skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forth is basically at the level of an assembly language, but somehow it feels much more high-level and flexible. Having written a bunch of x86 and some Forth, I would say Forth is more pleasant to use once you’ve gotten over the small initial hump of stack-based programming. And anyway, if you write your functions correctly, the stack becomes an implementation detail. It definitely affects your thinking in higher-level languages, though—naming bits of state ends up seeming way less necessary than naming and composing behaviours.

I’m writing a statically typed functional stack-based language called Kitten, in which the type system and local variables help you work compositionally and avoid managing the stack. It’s not yet ready for prime time, but you might be interested in following its development. Check it out!

[1]: http://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten

[2]: http://kittenlang.org/
Please call me when Wordpress and thousands of plugins and themes have been expunged of all MySQLisms.

Otherwise, heartily agreed.
A classic psychopathic behaviour. Blind your victim with carefully spun web of lies. Distort the reality and then when the time comes, abuse them.

Psychopaths are so good at lying that they self-deceive themselves. They believe their own lies. That's why it's so easy to fall for what they say.

They always fly to the top - be it at corporations, governments, crime organizations. The more psychopathic they are, the higher they get.
I dunno.

Pretty sure we've always been at war with Eastasia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
FPV on RC planes with head tracking+servo controlled cameras is already pretty common in the hobby.
"Those companies are full of hipster kids with fancy Ivy League degrees, spoiled with perks and massive salaries, making useless products that are scary because your kids understand them and you don't. They're coldly taking steady jobs in manufacturing, retail, and service just so Google can install another ball bit.

The NSA has put them in their place and now they're whining. And don't forget, these programs keep you safe."

People will believe whatever spin fits better with their pre-existing point of view.
http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/175/new-libreoffic...
Just pointing out :-)
Nobody starved while working at Zynga. The people for whom i feel bad are the homeless.
Don't get me wrong, i'm actually a big fan of limited commerce power ("cumulative effect on the national economy" my ass), but i still see it as a bit larger than you do.
CSRF protection is not about preventing bots from interacting with your site - it's about protecting your site from other sites (hence the name - cross site request forgery).

Without the hidden 'fnid' input, it would be possible for other sites to vote on and post content to Hacker News on your behalf without your consent.
Can't someone just file a FOIA request to get a copy of the entire website?

(Just in case archive.org or other archivers missed some of it)
We're talking about different things.

I am not talking about an app that is distributed to be installed "on" OS X, BSD, Illumos etc.

I am talking about an app that is packaged to run "on" Xen, VMWare, or maybe docker (LXC) for some cases. Or zones for others. Or jails. Whatever.

The point is that you, the application designer, ask yourself, "what happens if I have total architectural discretion over everything from the virtual hardware up?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
For a modern relative, check out Factor (which is mature) or Kitten (which is not).

[1]: http://factorcode.org/

[2]: http://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten
So just to be clear, President Obama's staff took down a transition website that was primarily a link to whitehouse.gov, and this is somehow a scandal because of one of many campaign promises included on the site?

Sure, I guess it could be some sort of conspiracy, but it's equally possible his staff wanted to consolidate web presence. The title on the other hand, implies some direct connection to the whistleblower segment, which has no supporting evidence.
It seems naive to consider it a coincidence that something so blatantly pro-whistleblower has quietly been removed within the last month. He obviously broke an election promise to protect and encourage whistleblowers who speak out against abuse of authority, making this text a political liability.
The war on terror is Obama's Vietnam
CSRF tokens are designed to protect users from CSRF attacks from other sites. The example you posted requires the username and password, which renders the token anyways. A cross-domain post to HN from a rogue site will not be able to know the CSRF token since it does not have knowledge of your SID, rendering this attack not viable in practice.

More Info: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(...
"When one knew that any document was due for destruction... it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away..."
New relic is not a distributed tracing system.
Wouldn't that impart an improper spin on the light?

-cough-
"Yes, we could."
The crazy thing is, I kinda need a laundry service, but I have no idea how to find one. Do I just go on yelp? It's a form of business I've never used, so it makes me sort of anxious to try it.

Startups that make interactions with businesses less anxiety-provoking tend to get my money.

Take Uber for an example: there are Taxis all over SF. But hailing one is intimidating. So I'd rather push a button.

The difference in fees don't matter much to me. I'm paying Bay Area rent, remember! The money I spend on laundry and taxis and food delivery and whatever is basically a rounding error - too small to meter.
But doesn't Microsoft also have good relationship with other governments? Wouldn't that make them play diplomatic? If Microsoft is found inserting backdoors into their core OS, every other government using their product would dump it for something else. From a business perspective why would someone willingly take that risk?
I'm not saying that the commerce power doesn't give Congress the right to preempt state criminal law in this case. I think we're in agreement that it does. But I don't think it's the purpose of the commerce power to make running an inter-state business easier simply by preempting state law that doesn't regulate commerce, simply to make compliance easier. By that reasoning, Congress should preempt state tax law, financial laws, etc.
Flippa. It's not a small marketplace, but there are constantly sites ranging from $100 - $X,XXX,XXX+

https://flippa.com/
Under what conditions does sentient meta-cognizant life evolve? How does it develop culture, religion, mathematics, art, philosophy, language? (has the Church-Turing thesis been formulated identically somewhere else than on Earth?) Which of those are constants amongst such species, and for the ones who aren't, what leads to their creation? How intertwined are they to biology? (e.g., death and religion) How frequently does the notion of "gender" happen in complex living structures? Do principles of cultural development such as the ones presented in "Guns, germs and steel" hold for non-Earth civilizations?

It could well be that all advanced civilizations decide that it's easier to answer these questions with simulations than observation. More interestingly if that is true and you also believe the odds of a singularity in our future is high, then the odds of us being in a simulation now are quite high.
I recently got into the hobby and found that Youtube was honestly the best source of information. There's a channel called RC Model Reviews that's particularly good. It's run by a guy named Bruce Simpson that's a bit of a crazy old Kiwi but he has a ton of really solid explanations of nearly everything you need to know getting started out.

One cool thing is that the past couple of years have seen some serious disruption in the field. Open source firmwares for controllers are a thing now, and it's had nearly the same effect on RC that the WRT54G had on the consumer router business - you can now do things with very cheap hardware that used to cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Some links for you:

ER9X Firmware - https://code.google.com/p/er9x/

FrSky, a company doing a lot of interesting things in terms of radio equipment - http://www.frsky-rc.com/

The aforementioned RC Model Reviews - http://www.youtube.com/user/RCModelReviews
They work hard to track how little security the cloud has.
When I read the headline I thought... is "Prim" the name of a robot?

If it's not a laundry robot, I'm horribly unimpressed.
As wallflower pointed out there are plenty of ways.
If I needed to find someone I would ask here (HN) as you said on a job offer.
Anyway, I'm a developer and I'm looking to do apps to create a more concrete resume and experience, if you need more information I have a thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6077474

By the way, don't use approach 0 (spam everyone on LinkedIn) it's horrible.
Concurrent memory allocation had some interest in the past decade - I did work in it, as did some others.
More specifically, it's protecting your site from other sites taking advantage of the fact that you're already logged in. For example, in the absence of CSRF, if you're logged into HN, any other site could just embed a form element using the right input IDs, and make submissions on your behalf (clicked on this link? just made a post on your behalf. moved your mouse a little to the left? just upvoted this post).

The "hack" outlined in the article requires knowing the username and password of the person you want to "hack". Of course CSRF tokens don't protect you when your credentials are lost.
That's a good idea: crowdfunded elections for the underdogs.
Well, it did happen two days after the first Snowden revelations. What support for "web consolidation" have you found to continue to correlate them as "equally possible" in light of that timing?
Where Did Legends Like Atlantis Come From?
Ah, I get your point now.

But, rather than the panacea you envision, what I think would actually happens is you end up with a lot of people doing substandard OS release engineering jobs, neglecting security patches, etc.

Or...

Cargo culting around a small number of "thin OS distributions", which is substantially the same as what we have today.

Heck, "total architectural discretion over everything from the (virtual) hardware up" is pretty much the definition of an OS distribution. Am I missing the point here? Is there something about this other than the word "virtual" slapped on there that's unique from what we have now?
What happens is that end users get stuck with complex black boxes that they can't fix or debug. VM appliances haven't take off for a reason.
Change I'm forced to believe in.
False memory planted in mouse's brain
"Sometimes I've play Neo from a pub connection with recycled hardware (not buy with my card number) but at most one week to the same target."

Could you explain what you are saying here?
Idea: Train Siri To Pay My Bills Online
What's the ouch?

> Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws

2012: President Signs Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act[1]

> Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.

2013: Whistleblower Edward Snowden is charged by federal prosecutors[2]

Has something happened to Snowden that I'm not aware of? As far as I understand, he fled to avoid a trial, not because there was some imminent threat to his life.

1. http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/42-2012/2380-president-sig...

2. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/world/us-vs-edwar...
Don't we know this in high school. Of course the universe is full of planets.
I think we're passed the point where someone on the internet needs to clarify they made a 1984 reference.
You're misunderstanding how CSRF works. Say a user is logged in to the site JoeNotProtectedByCSRF.tld with a session cookie or similar authentication token. SpammySite.tld comes along with a form to POST some change some value on JoeNotProtectedByCSRF.tld such as a password field. Because your browser always sends along the cookies to the end domain, your session cookie will be abused. With a check against a unique-to-the-user CSRF token as a hidden input on the form this doesn't happen.
Scat - Shrodinger's `cat`
Can't deny the man can talk - and can identify a damn good speechwriter when he finds one.
It comes from French in the first place - it's something that involves you deeply/stimulates you on an emotional/intellectual level. You can't use this for people but you use this for things or works of art usually.
I think you misunderstand what csrf is. Here it is in layman terms http://crazyviraj.blogspot.com/2009/10/xsrfcsrf-attacks-in-n...
This is basically like Seamless, but for getting your clothes washed instead of getting yourself fed. It organizes and simplifies a very chaotic market and presents it with a nice brand, and what sounds like great customer service. Also, you send them a picture of your key and they'll come in and get your laundry. That's both innovative and awesome.
I'd your architecture is that complicated, you might be architecting your systems poorly.
No, criminals, you are Owned.
Pity no internet/computers are allowed in jails...
> "As far as I am aware, folk aren't really writing distributable applications that target the VM up. "

We are. You might want to check out Mirage [1] microkernels, which is an OS that targets the Xen Hypervisor. You write your application code and select the appropriate libs, then compile the whole thing into an 'appliance'. We have big plans for the kinds of system we want build using this and if you'd like to keep up with it, pls drop me an email. The devs are presenting a Developer Preview at OSCON so there'll be more activity soon.

[1] http://openmirage.org
Predictive policing: Don’t even think about it
Fast inverse square root from Quake 3 source
http://fpvlab.com is a good forum for all things FPV.
Sorry about that. We made some mistakes when rolling out from scratch and did some things that I'd be more careful about now. There was no malice intended and hope that you'll take another look in the future.
This section of the site has been removed and "revised" before, notably in 2008: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/changes-at-cha...
Ubuntu Forums security breached
God said 640x480 16 color.

God said single audio voice.

I can win the lottery if I have to have money.

God says...
once_upon_a_time Montana followed contrition conformity
receive disprove bewailing soul US disalloweth disclosed
strike slay strength preparing bad_ol_puddytat stung

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Why did this Bible guy say this? (Highs and lows balance)

Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.
NSA and CIA has been used for Industrial espionage purposes in the past, so I wouldn't be surprised if this whole PRISM program was in part for enriching the wealthy and connected even more (and their enterprises).

We already moved our servers & data back to Germany right now evaluating few replacements for Google Apps.
> As far as I understand, he fled to avoid a trial, not because there was some imminent threat to his life.

Would you write your comment again after knowing this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/opinion/15tue3.html?_r=0

http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/bradley-on-abuse

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/29/justice/manning-wikileaks

Enough?
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Sources? Numbers? Specifics?
Ask HN: Any Startups Interested in PRaaS?
I know many startups/developers struggle with pr and getting coverage and I was thinking of starting a PRaaS (Public Relations as a Service). It would be a no BS startup service that would help create compelling copy, a strong product description and reach out to the press in order to get coverage and help with launch. Other services could also be offered. Would anyone be interested in this?
No. All those "actions on the internet" are opaque. They are designed for human-computer interaction, not computer-computer.

For example, in your online bill pay scenario, whenever the bank's website changes, the software will break at best and send money to the wrong account at worst.

Do you really want Siri to have access to your bank account?
I liked and agreed with your description and particularly the transparent reading of your `conversational tone'. There's a career for you editing mathematics journals my friend.
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I wrote about this 31 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5933806

But is this news surprise to you??

We needs to focus on jobs and middle class and stop wasting time on phony scandals!!

[1] http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/24/obama-repeats-carneys-phon...

This comes after:

- IRS scrutinizing and unconstitutionally profiling people while spending $5MM on "trainings", shutting down operators due to gov cuts while giving contractors 80MM in bonues? phony scandal!!

- 4 US Officials dead in Benghazi almost 1 years ago, no answers, no credibility (people in charge promoted) phony scandal!!

- 1 US Official dead, hundreds of people dead mostly on Mexico soil after DOJ's Fast And Furious mismanage? phony scandal!!

- DOJ spending time on possible civil lawsuit against Zimmerman, while since the tragedy at least 600 murders done by one race on another in Chicago alone. phony scandal!!

- NSA spying on all americans and foreginers intercepting all possible traffic illegally unlawfully and unconstitutionally? phony scandal!!

- Salandra: hundreds of millions given without proper checks to Presidents friends? phony scandal!!
They aren't temps, they're staff of an outside janitorial company. How they staff up I have no idea.
ovh, they just release new server today at 3£/month https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml
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Agreed, sort of. I actually referred to Mirage in my honours proposal and it was one of my inspirations.

I had in mind to use the facilities of an existing OS and tools rather than reinvention. My other major inspiration was OK Webserver (and through it, "Staged, Event-Driven Architecture").

I host blogs and one of my pain points is that slow plugins hold up rendering.

What if, for instance, rendering is a graph of pipelines, and there's known logic for failing to meet a rendering deadline? So if you have the blog page and the %#%^^ "Popular Posts" plugin is running slow again, it doesn't slow down the whole site. That <div> merely shows old content, or is excluded.

You can then use standard operating system facilities to ensure that, for example, the "posts" and "page" modules get top priority. Then "comments". Somewhere way down the list might be "complicated plugin that talks to five remote servers which crash half the time".

You can do some or all of this within a programming environment. For the common case, only some. But why not use operating system facilities? They're already there, they're battle-hardened, they enjoy universal coverage of the system and are closer to the metal, real or virtual.

Mirage is I think more of a programming-lanugage environment. Some of the facilities I'm point out exist. Some don't. I don't feel like writing all the missing bits from scratch when they're already available off-the-shelf.
4-10pm Pacific time is what they said on Twitter.
Your wish is granted. In addition to my comment above, you can check out:
http://oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/28956
I was about to come back here and yell at you for making a post about accessibility unaccessible to the hard-of-hearing (and those of us who browse with SOs sleeping right next to us that we never, ever, ever want to wake.) Then I saw the transcript below the fold.

Cool post, thanks!
changing the world, eh?
Carmack was a damn good game designer. Considering the reception and the financial performance of RAGE (id's latest release), I'd say he isn't that good a game designer he once was.
Wow interesting link
Watching US Government since Obama took over, I would rather imagine US gov going after archive.org, first nicely sending C&D, then with help of IRS thoroughly auditing all archive.org employees' files, then if that doesn't help, ask DHS and take over their site and plaster it with nice eagle logo with "DHS seizure" notice on it.

Edit: oh yes we are still in country of freedom and democracy. Archive.org would be welcomed to sue the government; you guys just prepare yourself for couple years of tough fight and make sure you got couple mil in bank for legal fees; oh and of course you cannot operate your site until you get the judgment that you were right and we were wrong, but even then we will appeal and after another couple years, IF and IF supreme court decides on case against us, then we will still put the file under internal "review" (read: put it on hold for couple more years) and then what are you going to do?? Its not like Eric Holder will prosecute... Enric Holder to release your domain back to you.
How do you handle case citations in latex? I never found a easy way to do legal citations in latex that came anywhere close to bluebook format.
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> Is there something about this other than the word "virtual" slapped on there that's unique from what we have now?

Yes: virtual machines and VPS hosting make it possible to bypass shared hosting. That means you needn't write apps which have to aim for lowest common denominator.

Edit: I agree that the approach I'm advocating introduces new problems. But obviously I think that it's still better than the status quo, which is largely set by path dependency.
I think whether it's applicable depends on your job. Two immediate ideas for me were modeling query cost (I work on a high performance server at work, and one of its responsibilities is to guarantee certain rates of queries to certain users) and anomaly detection (for monitoring that server). In my workplace we already have better tools for some of these things, but it's nice to know I could whip up my own if I spent a little time to think about the random variables.
I may have a 12-year-old's sense of humour, but this is some damn fine copy writing:

http://www.shopinprivate.com/inexpensive-travel-shaver.html
I see this as largely coincidental, and nothing nefarious. If you follow the link from the page to the archived version [1], look among the dozens of subjects, click on Ethics, scroll down to near the bottom of the page, you'll see the single paragraph he's referring to. It makes up for about 0.1% of the total content. It's unlikely the administration took down an entire website just to hide Obama's whistleblower promises.

What's more likely is that that, since Hope/Change was the old slogan and "Forward" has replaced it as the new slogan, it's time to take down the old site because it's simply outdated.

C'mon guys let's show a little critical thought and stop looking for conspiracies where they don't exist. It's bad for our credibility. Things are bad enough as it is with the stuff the NSA is actually doing.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20130515024407/http://change.gov/...
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StarOffice was already good enough over a decade ago for me to buy it. Back then, WordPerfect was still around. Today, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are the last of their kind but the latter has a much quicker development pace. They could just box it up and ship it like OpenBSD does, 10/10 would buy again regardless of how they call it.
California tries to Mandate Retirement Savings for Private Workers
Valve isn't an ideal place to work. It has a floundering management structure, hidden office politics and a failed bonus structure. It's only relevant because of its meteoric success of Steam and skill of acquiring/courting quality teams/devs.

It's been a long while since Valve has worked on one of their own ideas.
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Open Letter to Shareholders from Michael Dell