skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguing that something is unworkable based on the upper bound is incredibly terrible logic. It would be like me saying "a gallon of milk weighs less than 10,000 pounds, so asking someone to lift it from store shelves to their cart is unworkable."
Do you have any references to back up your claim? Stanislaw Ulam, who was the coauthor of the successful atomic bomb design, describes in his memoirs how in his students day he would think on a mathematical problem even for more than 10 hours straight, up to the point of almost suffering a mental breakdown on one occasion. I used to share this belief of yours, but reading memoirs and biographies of really successful people actually convinced me otherwise, they were working really hard.

In fact, you often have the illusion that someone is a genius, because he works so much harder than you and has done so for a long enough period.
For reasons not completely unrelated to the rant.
There is the same 'cultural acceptance' of prison rape as there is a Latvian acceptance of having 'no potato, only misery'.

Congress ordered studies to be started years ago and updated periodically to determine what's really going on... somehow I suspect you've not seen even a single one of the resultant studies though.
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http://steve-yegge.blogspot.in/2006/10/egomania-itself.html

Here he talks a bit about the perl community
CloudApp has already been mentioned (and the 'counterpoint' of anonymity has come up), but I might suggest that it's worth at least a cursory look, if nothing else because its copied links:

http://cl.ly/image/3j0h340v0O2E

can trivially be turned into direct links by appending '/content':

http://cl.ly/image/3j0h340v0O2E/content

I do this all the time - the /content links 301 redirect to the asset uploaded, so you can usually do everything from hotlink as stylesheets to enter the link into video players to stream from.

Files are up to 25MB free, 250MB paid and especially when paid, the unlimited files policy means that I no longer even stop to decide whether or not to upload files.

Just a satisfied customer. :P
Same type of deal as in Wine, copyright-type stuff.
Programming isn't just for heterosexuals either.
This is the premise of person of interest - does raise some interesting moral questions for TLA officers.
Maybe it's because you picked AngularJS last and spent your learning curve / wtf-moments on the previously mentioned frameworks.
I personally started with this one, then switched to Create Your Own Programming Language [1] and am working my way back up. This helped getting the main concepts across before throwing C++ in the mix.
[1] http://createyourproglang.com/
Hm, I was thinking more along the context of: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-computer-scientist...

In retrospect homomorphic encryption may have little to do with this particular idea, I'm not a CS wizard or anything.
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Right, I should've specified the Python version. Python 3's grammar for argument lists changed a bit and added kwonlyargs to the mix. IIRC the call node's arglist isn't just filled in left-to-right and handed names for keyword arguments anymore.

Python 3 is definitely a step in the right direction. I wish adoption was a little more rapid.
Source? Because that is insane.
I see one every few days here in Atlanta. Of course I see about twenty times as many Nissan Leafs.
Holy Jesus Christ.
That is possible, yes. Not many VPN services do that, but as Sanddancer pointed out, there are ways.

However, for most, it's an inconvenience that presents a barrier to entry. (Judgements aside.)

As for logs, it would be great to believe that they would be true to their word. However, that requires placing trust in the service provider. While I would give the benefit of the doubt in that most probably are true to their policy, I wouldn't want the weak link in my security chain to be the faith that my VPN provider isn't logging.

Regardless, since they are hosting the connection, they can discern the user. The capability exists, even if they promise not to use it. Removing the capability eliminates this source of worry.

Going back to the original post and kishor's comment, he/she highlights the point that regarding the technical solutions available, there's a range between having the most security solution, and the fastest and most convenient. Tor, VPN+anonymized payment and other methods will provide a greater degree of protection than say, using your credit card to simply buy a VPN.

At the end of the day, one needs to assess their security requirements against the degree of inconvenience they're willing to endure. Are they at risk of a nation-state ruthlessly pursuing them by any means? If so, then every protection is needed. If it just needs to be made difficult enough to protect against a cursory inspection, then a VPN might suffice. As with all security discussions, The likelihood and potential impact of the threat determines the degree of mitigations one needs.
At first I thought "this is so mean" when I saw the search query, but with your comment comes a silver lining...
Does that matter? Does being drunk make you uncharitable, or does it merely prevent you from controlling yourself before you announce it to the world?
This is exactly why society as a whole gets to decide instead of the victim or relatives of the victim. It's human that harm done to you or a close person is hard to forgive, but societies goals differ from the goals of the individual: The individuals goal is revenge, the societies goal is to keep the crime rate low. Part of that is betterment of offenders since it keeps the rate of recidivism lower, thus creates less future victims. It's certainly unfortunate that the two goals are not perfectly aligned. However, given human behaviour as it is your question is misleading the discussion: The answer is probably "no" and still, society should choose a different way.
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Yes, I wish they would, but if they really cared about boosting Android performance, picking up Myriad for their Dalvik Turbo would be a better choice. It's 2-3x faster[1] closing the huge performance gap between Google's JIT and Oracle's.[2]

Looking over the changelog from Android 2.2-4.3, there's no mention of performance tweaks to Dalvik. They even have the father of JIT, Lars Bak, working for them. But he's focused on the V8 JS engine and doesn't provide any assistance with Android.[3]

[1] http://androidandme.com/2010/02/news/myriad-dalvik-turbo-boo...

[2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2388956

[3] http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/califor...
Intel MPX hardware-assisted bounds checking
I gave an LLVM tutorial at PLDI2013, the slides are here: https://bitbucket.org/munin/llvm_tutorial/src/61f6300f76b8f0...

I tried to be more introductory and hopefully the slides stand a little on their own...
This does exist for iframes: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/sandboxed-if...

The sandbox attribute can contain any of these values:

allow-forms allows form submission.

allow-popups allows (shock!) popups.

allow-pointer-lock allows (surprise!) pointer lock.

allow-same-origin allows the document to maintain its origin; pages loaded from https://example.com/ will retain access to that origin’s data.

allow-scripts allows JavaScript execution, and also allows features to trigger automatically (as they’d be trivial to implement via JavaScript).

allow-top-navigation allows the document to break out of the frame by navigating the top-level window.
There are no false statements in the above.
I am pretty OK with not creating experiential entities merely to put them through a lifetime of suffering and a painful end. My ethics don't put that much utility on total amount of experience in the world, so having fewer entities in pain is OK with me.
From the article

"early indications suggest"

Early indications suggest based on graphs, empirical laws, and irrational extrapolation that I can run a datacenter off a AA battery for a year.

I always find it hilarious when wild guesses are presented with multiple sig figs like 55% as opposed to 56% or 54%. I suspect an error analysis would show a standard deviation of a couple orders of magnitude.
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She's a lucky woman. :)
Maybe. Maybe not. If any of those things did happen I most likely wouldn't be thinking logically, so I'm not sure how much weight my opinion should carry. My thought process right now is that it does absolutely no good treating prisoners inhumane. As soon as they get out and they can't find a job because they have a criminal record and no current job experience they will turn directly back to crime. Now we have to waste money and resources on them again. Not to mention that they could cause more harm to other people. It really does no one any good.
aren't these ads like, half a decade old? or sth new came up?
That effectively means "any other US/UK/AUS/NZ/CAN" company, not just PRISM-interfacing ones.
It doesn't even have to taste like normal beef. As long as it can be made tasty in other ways, I would happily pay more than for beef just to have another interesting source of protein.
yes could be an informant or a undercover cop - back in ww2 the ultra decrypts where disguised as coming from other sources.

You not going to tell some random cop this is from bob our inside man on the crew in case the cop is corrupt and sells out your DEA agent
> Before you choose another language for your project, ask yourself if it's not going to cost more to write everything you'll need, or if using pre-existing, time-tested code might do the trick for cheaper.

I believe 99.9% of the people will find any libraries they need in pretty much any mainstream language. There is a point where quantity stops being a factor.
> They might also decide that your product is very good and build a version of it themselves, using functions not available to you via the public API so that you cannot compete with it (Apple).

Can you give an example of that?
Thx for the link!

Of course the social structure will evolve, however we're not afraid of 'secret social structures' as the company is fully transparent and we all have similar mindset.

For 3 years we've been all working remotely from our homes - I can imagine, that during this time, any 'secret structures' would have already appeared.
In the US, all of those things require money. It cost $10-20k to have our baby, food certainly isn't free and food stamps aren't enough to more than subsist in poor nutrition, we pay $15k year for healthcare that covers just me and the baby, I can't get to work without gas money, etc.

If someone didn't have family to fall back in, an empty bank account would literally ruin the life of the average American.
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"I'm not sure why he's switching from Google search to Duck Duck Go if he's concerned about privacy."

Obviously you're not up-to-date.
Being drunk usually brings out the true you.
Let's tell Heroku to stop charging for the SSL endpoint.
> The ecosystem is weak not to say non-existent comparing to JS

In what circumstance is it appropriate to consider the CoffeeScript ecosystem to be distinct from the JavaScript ecosystem?

> [...] and every JS solution and example out there

It seems impractical to regularly code in CoffeeScript without being fluent in JavaScript.

FWIW I agree with you about CoffeeScript being a little finicky about the syntax. There's the bit a seemingly unimportant (non -leading) space char generating dramatically different results, and also things like:

if foo and bar is x

not grouping the way you'd (or at least I) expect.
http://notthesingularity.com/1192/more-men-raped-than-women-...
Well, they did not say "just kidding, we will definitely support Win by quarter X of year Y" in their appology. It is obvious they were NOT kidding.
I'm very curious if I can compile static Python code with LLVM and use it on Cortex-M4 microcontrollers.

I have seen some code which compiles Clang to STM32F4 microcontrollers and I have found py2llvm can compile Python into LLVM IR.

I am wondering if it is even worth it, (but according to py2llvm you can get almost C like performance).
I am not surprised. I'd expect the "jewellery-grade" synthetic diamonds to have the same artificial inflation of price that we see in natural diamonds. I would imagine industrial diamond dust has a different cost.
Very nice observation, and yes, natural numbers only. I believe it could be modified to allow for negative numbers.
> Maybe, just maybe buying animal-products, where the animals didn't suffer, where they were raised species-appropriate, would help, as it would be a ecological signal as well.

This is very hard to do in most of the "first world" places because agriculture or raising animals doesn't scale that well unless you do it on an industrial scale.

Now, you and me and a couple of others maybe can afford to pay extra for meat products, but for the vast majority of people who expect a shawarma not to cost more than 2-3 euros the reality is bleaker.
Do factory farms not give you the chills?
It's only cheating because it's winning. :-)
"Porsche (before they were purchased by VW) used to make rather expensive cars "

Porsche still does make "rather expensive cars". What are you referring to exactly?
> They would still have all that really matters: family, food, shelter, access to education and healthcare, job, no physical injuries

The first 4 you mention do not magically come for free in the U.S. You might retain the 5th, if you already had a job, and though you were nice enough to mention 'no physical injury' you somehow neglected 'no psychological injury'... though I can see why, since it would be untrue.
> but far from the real deal.

Your real deal has nothing to do with current brain science and these simulations.
"food, shelter, access to education and healthcare, job"

All of these things can hinge on having money.
I like the idea of a static binary with no dependencies. It would be nice if my static blog generator fit in with my usual unix toolset. So good job.

Just one nitpick on the marketing copy: why does it matter what it's written in? As a user it could be written in assembler for all I care. As long as it works as advertised on the tin and it's what I'm looking for, who cares if it's written in Go?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to checking it out and seeing if it'll fit my use case.
>I have a bootstrapped startup (a competitor to Moz actually)

Oooh, metric-y tools?

Might I ask for a link?
That's ours poor people who have nothing to lose. What do you do when a guy whose broke steals a million dollars?
Really? I'm on the Blue Line down the Kennedy most mornings/evenings, often looking out at the gridlocked traffic, and have yet to see a single one.
Good point. But it's just one small piece of what would be needed. And of course there's no indicator to users saying "This page is made to be more secure and passes validation."
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The main reason for me is that I'm not 100% sure I won't be running an exit node when I turn it on. TOR's website isn't 100% clear on this.
It's ^W^W^W, not ^H^H^H.
I'm very surprised by this. I see (or assume I see) the server you used to have. Nor can I find a ticket related to this issue. I don't want to flat out say "Will not fix -- can not reproduce" but on the other hand, I can't fix it if we can't reproduce it.
Seriously. I'm not offended by this ad, but shouldn't these people understand that modern technology only works because of programmers? Why would coding be a target of ridicule?
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The Guardian is pretty progressive in style terms. I think there's an increasing tendency to write it as internet and they're closer to the cutting edge than a more conservative (style-wise) newspaper like the NYT. Here are their capitalisation rules:

http://www.theguardian.com/styleguide/c#id-3043710
Not only that, They actively lobby Congress to keep up the War on Drugs.

Their argument is pure economical -- "If you tone down the War on Drugs then we will lose profits". Nothing to hide there plain and simple.

Or that case in PA when the local judge was funneling kids to the local prison/"treatment" center.
There are still 4 owners, just like before the changes. Still all the decisions about the company are made within tho whole team. Shareholders do not have any more decision power than the others.
We could just send let people choose one out of few perfectly healthy body templates and only send brain state and body template number. Think how much bandwith that would save.
In the US, white collar criminals very often get jail time.
Interesting that they declare phones with less than 4" diagonal screens to be barely smartphones, when that's the size of all iPhones before the 5...
One huge problem is the fake fur marketplace is already saturated with fake fur manufactured directly industrially rather than your alternative of industrially manufacturing skin which then grows natural fur, sorta. Its about a century old industry and reasonably stable market (well, as stable as women's fashion industry can be, anyway. Its demand is not nearly as stable as, say, coal demand.)
If I set my mom up with Tor, she would gain zero benefit. Given that exit nodes are snooped on, she would actually be worse off. Hell, I seem to remember the Tor Bundle itself saying that you need to do more than just install it if you want actual privacy benefits.

So, there is a bit more involved than running an executable.
Not really at the moment. I've been slowly refactoring it into a publishable chunk of code but progress is slow. I will publish it on github when it is done.
And if you prevent someone from getting sick via preventable care you prevent them from spreading that sickness to others. Additionally even non-communicable diseases often have large impacts on those related to the person with the disease, so I don't see how you can truly separate the logic.
http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/10-real-...
World's wind and waves have been rising for decades
Synthetic fur is just going to re-ignite demand for the real thing. It might not be socially acceptable (perhaps) and only the wearer would know for sure but that's a battle that should not need to be fought again.

Also, historically speaking, when it comes to fashion, pain and suffering of animals has never been anywhere on the list of concerns of those involved. It took many, many decades for it to become an issue.

As suggested elsewhere, lab-grown leather might be a more laudable goal, particularly if a way to avoid using the myriad of toxic chemicals could be found. Lab-generated milk would also be a win, but that might undermine the "breast is best" campaign which again took a long time to wage, but the idea probably has merit.
I'd like to join in on this game. How about this for an idea:

I disagree with both of you. Your categories are all are artificial and for people with "new money". It's a concern for those who seek to differentiate themselves from the rest the middle class by burning cash on these silly toys. Those with true wealth find this mundane and even distasteful.
Only if you're building from the source which is stored in a git repo and uses dependencies from projects stored in bzr and hg repos.
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Would someone please invent or do a kickstarter project for an "email server in a box" project. A plug and play email server with webmail, TLS, etc? Maybe running the whole thing on a pi that you just plug in to your home network so you can host your own mail?
Are you American? If so, the majority of your Congressional representatives have (or at least espouse) this mentality, which is both overtly and subtly reinforced by the money they receive from the industrial prison lobby.
Holy shit! Look at this! This is hilarious! https://github.com/bratliff/engconf/blob/0b8f003edc5f5d25fe1...
Salesforce did.

http://www.thedomains.com/2012/03/15/salesforce-acquires-ano...
What I find equally worrying and sad is the fact that mysql_* extension is so widely used although it has been deprecated 3 years ago.
As I see, it's free, but you have to register in order to download Genymotion.
The Guardian's style guide[1] has it in lowercase, as does the BBC News[2]. Reuters[3] is slightly more nuanced:

Capitalise as a noun, lower case as an adjective e.g. internet banking, internet cafe.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/styleguide/i

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/collegeofjournalism/how-to/news...

[3] http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php?title=I#Internet
Because it would be orders of magnitude more difficult. Muscle tissue is relatively homogeneous and has a far simpler structure than skin and hair folicles. Minced meat has had most of the complex macro-structure destroyed by the process of mincing, so it's easier still to imitate than whole pieces of meat.

There is also a very limited market for these products, as there are many satisfactory substitutes to leather and fur. Synthetic materials have replaced or augmented natural materials in most of the textiles industry, because they can offer superior properties.

I think a far more interesting development is Beyond Meat, who make a wholly plant-based chicken substitute that is remarkably realistic.
>Though if heroin was legal it could be manufactured in a sterile environment where you could probably get like 99% purity or something ridiculous like that.

This already happens. Diamorphine (heroin) is commonly used as a painkiller in hospitals. If you've ever been seriously injured and wound up in hospital with a tube going into your arm attached to a button which gives you a dose of painkiller, limited to something like 3 presses an hour, then you've probably taken heroin, likely in large amounts. The nurse may well have called it "morphine" to avoid scaring you.

Famously, "Heroin" was originally a trademark of the Bayer company.

EDIT: apparently this is only true in the UK. This might be why we don't have the fancy modern opiates here, oxycontin etc.
I think this is bad practice. You should not check your input but your output. So clean up the var that goes into the database.
Homomorphic encryption is interesting from a business standpoint (think: manipulating credit card numbers without being able to read them).

For anonymization systems, care must be taken: being able to manipulate encrypted data could very well create information leaks.

There have been some interesting theoretical uses of the Pallier cryptosystem in private information retrieval systems, though.
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True. And in-vitro meat will probably never dominate the market. But Android and Pepsi both sell quite well.
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How would me getting a girlfriend stop me from understanding code?
Biz Stone also just got into the meat-substitute space, with Beyond Meat - http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680007/biz-stone-explains-why-tw... - which I can report is vegan, gluten free and delicious.
"Dumb" scaling and lack of flow have been painful for a while and it certainly can't hurt to hear some arguments against them. However, the skeuo-flat wars' inclusion is oversimplified and seems like it stems from a marketing decision rather than actual data points. Attack poor hierarchy, obliviousness to information architecture, lack of designers' restraint, or the absence of focus and rigor. With specific examples and counter-examples, attached to the data found in their research, these topics all seem like valuable information. Maybe this is all hidden behind the buy link. Using contrarianism in conjunction with buzzwords won't motivate me to find out.
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They can't attack programmers on an intellectual level so they attack on a personal level.