skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair. I apologize if my message sounded snarky. Let me try to explain.

1. There are people who support TOR as a technology here in HN. There might even be people who "need" TOR and gain sympathy here. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that people who manage this forum necessarily support that viewpoint. Again, just because members of a community want something doesn't necessarily meant that private community supports that.

2. Re. LotF. I have lived in many countries. Of all the places that I have lived in, this would be the only country that would make a comfortable, free place for people like me. If ever I decided to call a place home, America would be it. However, I am practical enough to understand that LotF is an ideal. In practice, there are lots of things that happen and have happened that make that statement relatively meaningless. So yes, America is more free than a lot of the world; more accepting than a lot of the world; yet it is not free by the abstract ideals set out in it's founding.
In Mastering Machine Intelligence, Google Rewrites Search Engine Rules
Wsend – The opposite of wget
From what I've always understood, the philosophy isn't "everything is a file" (the unified namespace variant), but "everything is a file descriptor" (the API kind).
I built a 7-key chording keyset based on the Spiffchorder. It should be adaptable to almost any configuration. Mine came out a bit blocky and hard to use due to crappy buttons.
Be aware that GNU netcat and BSD netcat are incompatible. Many a time have I attempted to cat a file from a Mac to a PC running Linux, only to have found that Nothing Happens (tm). I just recently realized that installing BSD netcat on Linux solves the problem. Not sure what the actual incompatibility is, just a heads up.
a) I didn't read anything that suggested he was protesting the law. Perhaps you could point out that part of the story.
b) He didn't release proprietary source code. Or did I miss that part?
MIT students release program for 3D printing and laser cutting keys
Did anyone else notice the stock price? From $35 in March to $138 today; that's pretty impressive growth
This might be off-topic but if you want to see some good examples, elementary OS uses it for most of their applications. I tried it a while ago and really loved some of the features (integrated contract driven programming, yes please). However, as with most new languages, had problems with availability of tools, tutorials and libraries.
http://99.com ?
you'd have a point, except for the part where an appeals court unanimously acquitted him
Apparently Undergraduate Finance Students Believe in ESP
More than just bidirectional: It supports a lot of other socket types, and other shenanigans. I use socat a lot for testing network services, gluing together applications, and lots of other places where writing a little C program would otherwise be needed.
If you don't care about webmail, this might be the best option.

I've been looking at this myself and have a couple of questions:

What software would you recommend (Linux server)?
I've been looking at postfix, which seems pretty easy to configure.

What about issues with sending from a private ip - are you ever blocked or marked as spam because of the vps ip (just sending normal emails)?

Spam filtering - what do you use for this, does it work?
The notion that once be tried by a jury of one's peers is practically meaningless for any 'crime' involving scientific knowledge or any specialized competence.
A Comparison of Human and Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Sounds like the OP has to justify his large mental investment he made in CS by bashing others who have different opinions. "I'm not a blub like them. I'm not close-minded like them. I'm not doing mundane things like them."

It's a telling sign about a language when the language advocates have to employed negative psychological ploys to convince people (or convince themselves) to use the language.
are you really trying to give hints on how to use HN to a YC partner?
So github is turning into the old Source forge then? There was a page on there years ago where projects could advertise who are they looking for. I found a couple of projects that needed packagers this way and learned more about maintenance. I think it's a really good idea.
Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail
Your second example though exists in exact the same way in python and ruby. Some people prefer to hunt for missing comma's and brackets, others for spaces.

I think that's a matter of taste. Coming from python, I've quite enjoyed coffee-script's syntax and I've actually done something in between, using brackets for objects just because I like the readability of it, but avoiding all semicolons and taking advantage of the indentation for code blocks.
Each neuron is growing, making decisions about it's environment, reacting to a multitude of neurotransmitters with a mulititude of complex reactions. Deciding where are when to make a new connection. If each node is a little computer system how do we even begin to emulate its probably extensive and convoluted 'programming.'
> I'll start with the conclusion: making backwards incompatible version of a language is a terrible idea, and it was bad a mistake.

> So let me fix that: I do recommend a single code base as the solution.

> The original advice to think very separately about your 2.x and 3.x codebases was very wrong, has wasted a ton of time (since you end up porting to python 3 twice), and overall slowed down the adoption of py3k, a slowdown that fortunately is finally lifting.

Is this opinion common? Do Guido and the other core developers admit they were wrong?

> Python 3.0 will break backwards compatibility. Totally. We're not even aiming for a specific common subset.

That a single code base is now possible, albeit "not entirely idiomatic", does support the conclusion that the original aim to break compatibility was misguided at best, and raises questions about the governance of Python overall.
I tried various compression and density settings on my Fujitsu scanner, and didn't see any problems like those mentioned in the article.
mkdir {js,cs}

coffee -cwo js cs &

echo "alert 'x'" > cs/x.coffee

echo "<script src='js/x.js'></script>" > x.html

open x.html

echo "alert 'x2'" > cs/x.coffee

refresh x.html
Devs Do Art
Yes, the second is a bit forced, couldn't remember what was the other case I banged my head against the desk. I'm a Python programmer too, maybe that's why I expected the language will prevent me from mismatching blocks of code. Well, even sass and haml (which aren't full-blown programming languages) aren't that easy to mess up. Using Python convention (4 spaces indent) instead of the unofficial but common ruby/js/sass ones (2 spaces) helps a bit to spot out obvious bad indents, but still - in general I don't find the language trustworthy enough to jump into something big with it (for all the reasons I listed before).

btw added a link above with some more syntax gotchas.
What does it mean by "Half of Tor sites compromised". Was not it just "Freedom Hosting" which was compromised?
Here's a plug: https://github.com/thekarangoel/Projects

A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language. These projects are divided in multiple categories, and each category has it's own folder.
The most interesting part of the reaction from the Vanity Fair piece for me is how so many geeks had no idea of this story until it was spelled out to them by a mainstream magazine (even though the Aleynikov case was extensively covered here on HN).

Now would be a good time to highlight the cases of hackers that Michael Lewis doesn't have time to write about: Bo Zhang, Michael Meneses, the Madoff programmers, John Kane (has had most charges dropped now), the Liberty Reserve guys and almost everybody ever charged with Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Well zed seems to agree

https://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/364118939233554432

> they've been keeping this "dual mode" option mostly a secret so as to not have to admit they fucked up
I know you want to make money, but consider making a self-hosted version, you could even charge for it.
This puts us one step closer to commercial mass produced superconductors.
On Nexus 7 (1st gen) the background is visible, but in portrait mode only covers 3/4 of the screen. In landscape looks normal.
Yeah. I understand the sentiment on some level, but when you find 10+ broken implementations of the same thing in a large codebase because every team decided to do it slightly differently you start to really, really appreciate those meetings for a change.

Not to mention the (usually) resulting inconsistencies in how it works which can really annoy users.
There's no relation to his incompleteness theorems. Gödel proved that every universe V of sets that satisfies the (ZFC) axioms has a subuniverse L that satisfies both the axioms and the continuum hypothesis (CH). L is constructed by transfinite recursion. At each stage of the construction, the only new sets you admit are the definable subsets of the set of all sets you admitted in earlier stages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godel%27s_constructible_univers...

Unfortunately, proving that L satisfies ZFC and CH is a very delicate and technical matter. On the other hand, it can be fun because it's extremely meta. One of the steps of the argument is proving that L is the L of L. I learned the proof from a graduate textbook chapter titled "defining definability."
Hardly at all:

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I was disappointed in that previous discussion. Take away the off-topic stuff and it seemed like most reactions varied from "Good, throw the book at him" to "God that guy was dumb".

If Lewis' portrayal is accurate, then Aleynikov is pretty clearly an otherworldly technical type. That doesn't mean he should be exempt from laws, but it's not irrelevant either. For one thing, to anyone who knows the type, it says something about intent: his intent was likely not to exploit someone else's secrets, but to work on interesting things. A programmer like that wouldn't download code because it contained secrets; he'd download it because it contained library routines that he didn't want to have to rewrite someday. Why would he steal secrets? Anything important, he could just derive later. He probably thought that Goldman's technical designs were all wrong and would make a point of not copying them anyway.

There are countless stories of otherworldly technical types, including many heroes to people here, running afoul of laws or regulations and having to be rescued by the more worldly members of their scientific/technical community. I expected this technical community to recognize that pattern in Aleynikov and react with some empathy, because we all know someone like that or have a little of the type in ourselves. Instead we got a bit of a Colonel Blimp chorus. I hope that was just sample bias.

I wish we could see that source code. After reading Lewis' article, I would be shocked if it contained anything of nontrivial value to Goldman.
Well, there is currently zero chance of the Pirate Party winning seats in the fall election in Germany and even less (yes I know) chance to become king-maker.
Yeah, your comment is complete nonsense. Goldman Sachs didn't prosecute him because corporations can't prosecute people. He stole source code. What else is to say?

The discourse on Hacker News is hysterical and braindead.

It wasn't always like this.
This is awesome! I've been meaning to build something like this for my Dropbox anonymous upload site, http://dbinbox.com (shameless self plug). Would be super nice to be able to upload stack traces or log tails as a text file to a Dropbox account without worrying about Auth stuff.
I love to stick it to Goldman as much as anyone else here, but I think the story is probably more nuanced than "Goldman jails innocent programmer for leaving the firm". I know that I have on occasion kept copies of source code for projects that I'm proud of (and there was often some open source code involved; that changes nothing). Not to give it to someone else, but because I was proud of the work.

That is probably a breach of contract but I don't think it should be a crime punishable by jail time (unless someone can prove that said code was used to aid another company).
The headline is complete nonsense. Goldman Sachs didn't prosecute him because corporations can't prosecute people. He stole source code. Why is there so much hysterical bullshit on Hacker News?
The unanswered question upon reading this article for me has been, "how do these two afford this kind of care for decades?" Wealthy parents? Generous relatives? Great national healthcare coverage in Brazil?

It's just unthinkable for a normal family in the United States (I understand that these two are in Brazil) to be able to afford this, at least in this day and age.
Just about to follow the link.
Bit worried it'll be to an unstoppable 20 minute video.

Tally ho!
> What I find sad, though, is that most people who dislike CoffeeScript don’t truly know it. They haven’t taken the time to really learn it, or even try it. Their reactions are usually knee-jerk, or based on fallacies.

This sounds a bit like the bi-polar LISP programmer. Belief that he groks things much better than most programmers grok things? Check. Belief that most people are behaving irrationally? Check. Belief that it's foolish to make an obvious choice? Check.

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm

JavaScript is now a moving target. It's what the examples for new "HTML5" features and libraries are written in. It's what an open source library should be written in if you want it to get traction, and to attract other developers. While it may be a good choice for quickly modifying code on a single project, it isn't as good of a choice for something to get great in as JavaScript is.

There's the saying that you need to know JavaScript in order to write CoffeeScript, but you really only need to be able to read JavaScript in order to write CoffeeScript. My guess is that a lot of developers who mostly write CoffeeScript would trip over simple things for a while if they tried switching to JavaScript. This might keep them from seizing opportunities for JavaScript developers such as contributing to an existing JavaScript project or an open source library that's implemented in JavaScript.
Pretty flawed writing on Dave Winer's, like this part right here:

"Ayn Rand's philosophy might have worked in an agrarian society when people lived far apart, and couldn't pool their resources."

Agricultural coops were some of the earliest, most intense and long lived Socialism in the U.S. in fact some of them are still going. Building grain elevators, pooling expensive machinery, getting fertilizer and seed in bulk and at a reasonable price, shipping crops to market and trying to avoid getting screwed by middlemen, are things were Socialism had its place.

Atlas Shugged was written for and about railroad barons, industrialist and to a lesser extent Wall Streeters.

Classic Dave, say something that has no basis in fact, and hope no one calls him on the B.S. because he's Dave Winer.
I knew that. It's still disgusting.
While avoiding the question of whether or not teleportation is a possible thing — I'm most certainly not qualified even to speculate meaningfully — the headline of this article reminds me very pointedly of an Arthur C. Clarke quote:

"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
I can confirm it is still displaying sensitive information.
How about whenever you're writing a non=temporary file? I do this all the time:

1. Create temporary file in the same directory as the target path.

2. Write and fsync the temporary file

3. Rename the temporary file to the target filename

Oh, and on Linux you can open even deleted files by using /proc/<N>/fd/<M>. It may look like a symlink, but it's not.
According to Wikipedia it seems that Brazil has universal free health care http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Brazil
The overhead of having an additional dependency. The more moving parts there are, the more things can break.
Is there some way to make a shim with angular, that only applies the directive if autofocus is not supported
I suppose most programmers do this. I'm just playing the devils advocate here, but the difference might be in the type of code that was kept on file. Nothing I've ever kept was rocket science or novel in any form - No competitor would ever gain an advantage by peeking into it. But they could supposedly be something novel in a trading algorithm.
I'm using ShareX (http://code.google.com/p/sharex/) for some time now and find it really great. You can configure different upload services for each filetype.
This is just my opinion, but...

I don't see GTK and Vala lasting very long. For one, GTK3 doesn't even have a windows version, there are some random people who made one, but no community supported windows version. GTK3 is also less popular then QT, GTK3 only being more popular on Linux. While QT looks better and runs better on both windows and mac.

I like Vala and GTK and I've contributed to elementary OS for a while now. But every day they get questions about why they use Vala. So... People don't generally like it or use it.

But... really use whatever you want. If you like or need C, use GTK. If you like or use C++ use QT. If you use C and want a little more, try Vala. If you need Windows or really good mac. Use C++ and QT, or do the backend in C or C++ and platform specific frontend. Even with QT5, Mac users will know, because certain things still look off

Another popular idea seems to be using HTML and JavaScript for your frontend with things like CEF.
Now, that'll teach people to be concise!
Ask HN: Which itches can I scratch?
We're always told, "Scratch your own itch" when it comes to entrepreneurship. I think that this is bullshit. I want to solve problems where the money is.

What problems do you have to which I could create a solution?
Now to the important question: How can i easily assert that my scanner, or the next scanner i buy, does not have the same issue?
I submitted this, but I completely agree with you. To be honest, I was mostly interested in the discussion I knew it would generate on HN.
Dilution will always happen with user submission sites as the number of users grow, specially if there is no moderation.

Digg/Reddit,they all started as some niche tech site and eventually turned into political/media/news sites (atleast digg was, reddit's savior is its subreddit feature) once the userbase increased.

The only way to keep HN niche is by introducing categories and let people subscribe/unsubscribe to those categories or through strict moderation.
My first thought as well. It doesn't make it a bad idea at all. And the execution of it could be a lot better than Source Forge's was/is.
An in-depth guide to Freedom Hosting, the engine of the Dark Net
Moderately interesting...
Reality is dirty. I love it here in NYC.
Do you think it's plausible that 8 MB of source code, consisting of modified open-source libraries, represented a theft of critical Goldman Sachs secrets?
"[Slashdot] never really elevated itself to a place for serious discussion."

I profoundly disagree with this, as an early Slashdot user. Slashdot had quite a bit of serious discussion - HN scarily replicates much of the feeling of discussion 1998-2002, just with different topics but all the same ups & downs. HN even has its perpetual flame war of Android vs. iOS that mimics Slashdot's Gnome vs KDE.

Yes, there was quirky trollish humour that was forgiven, but the moderating system, once it settled down in 1999, promoted quite a bit of very in-depth conversation.

Columbine and Jon Katz was the first real "political" side track for Slashdot, but it survived and moved on from there... and basically just wound up dying out due to Taco leaving and Reddit/HN.
If it's a good domain, you're certainly not the only one who contacted him about the domain just out of curiosity. He's getting a lot of emails about it.

If he did what you suggest and replied to everyone with a ridiculous price -- "Hi, USD 20 million, ok?" -- then he'd just get a second wave of emails from people trying to haggle:

"That's outrageous! The domain is worth $100k maximum. I'll pay you $2k and give you 0.1% equity in my awesome startup. Deal?"

And if he doesn't reply to that, then the person will send another email with the worthless offer slightly tweaked, and so on... So he's better off setting a precondition that prevents the pointless replies, basically "I'll talk to you only if you have a legal department with more than 20 people."
In that case the Tesla isnt a luxury car either because it competes with the likes of 5 and 6 Series BMW and Audi A5/A6. It clearly is not an A8, 7 series or S Class rival.
Size != Functionality
Genuine question - what happens for these types of cases in the US if the patient isn't rich? Does the patient get turfed out onto the street once they run out of money?
> early simulated minds would be insane and in great pain

Insane maybe, but why in pain? Why would you add pain signals without also communication?

Even currently existing lower animals (lobsters and down) don't feel pain - why would you expect a simulation to do so?
I was confused by that as well. From what I understood how JBIG2 worked, those symbols don't even have to have the same size everywhere (as would be quite common with proportional fonts anyway). So there is no "patch size" per se; just the low resolution confusing the classifier.
Dbinbox – An inbox for your Dropbox
FreeBSD jails already provided those containers for over 10 years. Even chroot is some kind of container.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtua...
Recent research has shown glial cells, the uncelebrated insulator of the axon, in fact provide significant chemical signaling and modulation to the process of neural activity. Only phenotypical changes have been observed, it's not understood yet. Suffice to say that computational limits aside, we still couldn't simulate a brain because we wouldn't know what to make.
“Such tests are blind to a student’s high school record—instead, they are intended as an
independent, objective measure of college “readiness”.”

Claiming that the SAT measures “college readiness” is complete and utter bullshit. The SAT measures intelligence and the College Board knows it. “College readiness” is a liberal euphemism. It actually turns out that if you try to test specific skills (I think the writing section kind of falls in this category) instead of overall intelligence, the results are less predictive for whatever purposes the test is being used for, since specific skills can be learned, whereas overall intelligence is largely stable and has broad effects. The fact that scores cannot be significantly improved by coaching is evidence that the SAT does in fact largely measure intelligence.
Why be bitter about something you missed because you weren't around back then? Manhattan was acquired by some Dutch guys for a handful of guilders back in 1626... That wasn't the end of real estate business.

Every era has its own opportunities. You should look around for stuff that's happening now, instead of looking back to what you might have done in 1993.