skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am glad its Python support is better. I wonder if it would help or hurt if something like Lua came along with it as its 2nd default scripting engine? From what I have read Lua is small, fast and relatively easy to learn.
I upvoted/liked/approved/upmodded the story; I just don't think it's time for everyone to start acting like chicken littele, is all.
Another problem is: I know I shouldn't roll my own, but I can't or don't know how to identify implementations that meet my needs and are written by someone sufficiently competent.
The MST wasn't just on products manufactured in the country and didn't have much to do with either international or domestic competitiveness; moving to the GST merely lowered taxes on luxury goods at the expense of raising them on what would be considered necessaries in contract law. By waiting a month to buy the (all foreign-made components) stereo God would have had if he could afford it (I had the audiophile bug bad back then) until the system transitioned, I saved over $5000. Meanwhile, folks buying cheap, basic clothing, cleaning supplies, toilet paper and low-end fast food (all of which were exempt from the MST) were making up the difference.
You two are having a useful and interesting conversation.
Uh, you have a strange view of
1. what the average engineer does all day
2. What the average lawyer does all day

Most lawyers spend time working on client's problems, not "argue all day".

Lawyers bill their time often in 5 minute increments, and only charge for time they are actually doing something.

If the average engineer sat down and tracked what they did every 5 minutes of the day, i think you'd find they are a lot less productive than they think.
How is ST at working on Solaris in a terminal?
It takes some seriously deep-seeded, institutionalized indoctrination assaulting your mind through most of your life to believe taxation is not theft.

If you do not pay your tax, violence is threatened and will be brought upon you if you do not comply. This is theft. It does not matter if the thief uses it for altruism. It does not matter if the thief forces roads and other services upon you by outlawing competition.

The fact remains that the initiation or even the threat of violence against an otherwise peaceful person is wrong, and trying to argue otherwise is an indefensible position.
I would supposed wrapping it with a little tinfoil might get you down to littering.
Tax is paying for services you use, which is very moral.
> See also the film "The Abyss" in which a rat is submerged in an oxygenated fluid ...

And then a person, if the events in the film can be taken as reflecting reality.
discussion on bitcointalk.org: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=271486.0

blogpost about weakness in java.security.SecureRandom:
http://armoredbarista.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/randomly-faile...
3D Printed Robot Moves Like an Inch Worm on Power Lines
Although the original post wasn't about it, here's a version of exact arithmetic in the field extension containing phi.

I wrote in Ruby a long time ago: https://gist.github.com/jfarmer/82500f2b52c540df5fbc

You still have to implement the exponentiation algorithm, so you're never really going to get O(1). This is better than O(n), though.

With those things implemented it becomes

def fib_phi(n)
((PhiRational.new(0,1)**n - PhiRational.new(1,-1)**n)/PhiRational.new(-1, 2)).a.to_i
end

which is the explicit formula. I'd love to see the same thing in Haskell, which I imagine would look less crazy.
There is something deep about software that thwarts our dreams of making it re-usable, and makes debates about what primitives to put into the stdlib difficult. For one thing, it seems like we should be able to collectively determine a DAG of concepts, starting from simplest primitives and progressively building up derived concepts, like the tech tree in a game like Civilization, or Principia Mathematica. But that tree is so vast, and the most-useful points so sparse along it (ex: I don't think anyone's asking for Church numerals in their stdlib) that we end up debating which are the most-useful derived concepts to surface. Moreover, there's no language or compiler that is sufficiently smart to efficiently map all those concepts to the hardware we have, we instead go with expertly-wrought implementations.

To take this example, you _could_ count enumerations and permutations by passing a range(n) list to itertools and then counting how many actual results you get back, but that's silly when you could also just use the binomial theorem to get there directly. A compiler that could generally perform such transformations would be miraculous -- well beyond the territory of automated proof assistants like mathematica or gcc -O3 that trundle along cultivated routes of expert system rules, into the realm of actually discovering deep linkages at the frontier of our knowledge.

Until then it seems like stdlibs will just fracture along lines of strain among the userbase. Presumably, most Python users don't need anything beyond what a financial calculator would provide, and anyone else should head to numpy.
I have never heard anyone describe "Autodesk" as "cheap software"

However the "Sell software cheap and then charge for service" is the OPEN SOURCE MODEL, where the software is given FREELY, and if you need professional help you have to pay, that is certainly not the model Autodesk uses.
You could perhaps inhale and exhale a small amount of gas through a CO2 scrubber?
I really doubt that he's doing that to create a better legacy. It's just that people at his level can do whatever they like, absolutely anything. So some are buying Hawaii islands and others try and help other people. Gates is one of the latter.
It's not used because the available oxygen density from the liquid is too low - a rat might survive as its volume is smaller but I am not sure of any long term research, or even anything other than a rat that might have held its breath.

The abyss was making it up.
You could integrate this, but you don't want to send every single asset to them on every deploy, only the changed ones. You should just keep a manifest file of all krakenified images, and only push them up when you add/alter one.
The bigger problem is oxygenation, at least in the short term. You can worry about ventilation later.

Lack of oxygen delivery from the blood will kill the brain sooner than the acidosis. Specifically, if this substance actually existed in a working form usable by humans, I could imagine its frequent use in pulseless electrical activity arrest. In PEA arrest, you fix the arrest by fixing the underlying problem; hypoxemia is one of the catch-all problems, and such a technology could permit you to intervene on hypoxemia even before you get airway control.
Yep, I was thinking about it too. I probably lacked those little tweaks to get my item approved on themeforest.
At least I see now what had to be done :)
Integrate it in an e-mail service that is very popular like Gmail, lead everyone through an initial set-up to create their public keys, and then tie that key to their profile. Then you won't have to know anyone's public key anymore, and everyone would be using PGP by default.

The only issue is that Google would have to ensure you're creating the private key as "locally" and securely as possible, without them being able to copy that key to their servers when they're creating them. That might be very tricky, while still remaining convenient, and they may have to allow for independent audits so we can make sure they aren't transmitting the data.
A typical BusinessInsider headline. If it's alleged, it's not shown. If it's shown, it's not alleged. Except in sleazy journalism, "shown" and "alleged" are mutually exclusive.
No. One of you needs to be the adult in the relationship.
That is a good note. But Sun circa 1987 (the year they introduced Solaris) was not exactly the household name that you remember from the dot com era.
You need to have a recent util-linux for most of these. If you're on Ubuntu, you probably have 2.20.

From the release notes:

2.20: supports new command line options: --clear, --console-on, --console-off, --ctime, --decode, --facility=<list>, --level=<list>, --show-delta, --notime, --kernel and --userspace

2.21: supports new command line options --file to read the log from a file rather than from kernel buffer

2.22:

- reads kernel messages from /dev/kmsg on kernel 3.5

- supports new option --follow to wait for new messages (kernel 3.5 required)

- supports new option --reltime to print human readable deltas

2.23: supports new command line options --color, --human and --nopager, the --human option enables relative times, colors and pager support.
More of a programming than a CT introduction, but very useful nonetheless: Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire (1991), by Erik Meijer, Maarten Fokkinga, Ross Paterson
"Manning's blanket leaks provided no new major revelations"

This is simply not true. Sorry for the biased sources, but they were the only ones who made these kinds of compilations.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=10...

http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more/what-did-wikileaks-...

http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2013/06/as-debate-con...
I said the area, where they all share a similar development policy. You have to include Mountain View, Menlo Park and Sunnyvale. They are all contain Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Symantec, etc. Not to mention many several hundred employee companies such as Palantir and a bunch you haven't heard of.
Strongly disagree. You should fix trivial bugs before you ship the app, and Objective-C silently hiding them from you makes that much harder. It's one of the things I hate about Objective C. Makes it seem more like PHP with warnings off.
This !!!!

You can also do this

position: relative;
margin-top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
So why does it have one set of controls in window mode, and a totally different set of controls in full screen mode? Who decided that?
Vulnerability Discovered for Android Bitcoin Wallets
Benchmark Nazis will always complain about any benchmark, no matter what. Don't let them dissuade you from continuing work on this amazing project.

Personally, this project has prompted me to change my career path from C# to something else, due to the abysmal performance of ASP.NET. I'm still waiting to see more tests, especially the asp-stripped one, and hopefully some OWIN/Katana in the near future. But for now, I'm seriously considering JS/Node.js or Scala/JVM as my main development platform. So thanks.

Is there any date for the next round?
4 Pics 1 Song : Guess a song by watching 4 pics
I do this for a few dozen smaller less important sites. I have the master copy in a git repository on the server (in /var/www) and then create a symbolic link into my dropbox folder which sits in my home directory. This solves any permission issues, and I occasionally SSH in and commit the changes in git so I know its all safe in case dropbox mucks up.

Next enhancement will be to have something which alerts me if dropbox suddenly deletes my files so I can recover from git.
ClojureScript testing tutorial
> And unlike mplayer, mplayer2, wmp, and most other players out there, you don't have to goto some random website and download some random codec pack, and install it with who knows what malware.</FUD> All the codecs are included with the program.

You're absolutely right to tag that as FUD, because I have never had to download "random codecs" from "random codec packs" in order to get videos to play in MPlayer on Linux (I don't know how it is on Windows).
You can, if you don't mind it breaking in IE < 9.
Quote: "So, it's like having many URLs and many headlines which lead back to the same big, multi-faceted article."

Translation: old wine in new bottles.
Carmack talks practical use of Haskell, Lisp in game prog at Quakecon keynote
either approach avoids leaking useful information, doesn't it? one does so by guaranteeing identical times. the other by passing the information through a one-way function.

the link given in the advice you point to includes a fairly detailed discussion / comparison - https://www.isecpartners.com/blog/2011/february/double-hmac-...
I was going to say I've never seen him identified as "co-founder" in a headline rather than just "founder".
Ahh, yes, "nature red in tooth and claw" and all that.

Social Darwinism went out of fashion about 60 years ago. In part because its philosophical underpinnings had little to do with Darwin or evolution.

For example, an alternate view is that taxes are part of kin selection, in that those people who pay more taxes end up with a social system which is better at raising successful children who continue that culture and practice.
Hilariously, all 3 "unique" MAC addresses in that marketing image are identical: 00-14-22-01-23-45

They changed the font colour of the word "Mac", but not the actual address. Plus, Mac should be MAC.

McFail.
Another problem with simplecrypt is the password is exposed in plain text to any other process.

http://www.gnupg.org/faq/GnuPG-FAQ.html#why-do-i-get-gpg_war...

Also the source code looks like encrypted text. I can't figure out what much of it does, or why it does it by reading it.

Also, I think the API is not the best, because it asks for a password. Where are people storing the password? This promotes easy mistakes... like for example, saving it to a file, or reading it from a web input form.
IBM (Lotus) Notes with encrypt on receipt set (and without transaction logging enabled, which works at the routing rather than the storage level) would do it. There is no central repository as such, each user has their own mail database, and each of those databases can be RSA-encrypted. Reading the messages requires the user's private key, which an admin can get by requesting from the user or recovering the ID from the vault and using the password recovery utility (a Shamir-type back door) or brute-forcing the password. Without transaction logging, there is no global index to search other than a domain search (which requires plaintext). Even without encryption, it may be necessary to know which users to look at, since they may live in different Notes domains within the org, and the messages of interest may be in archive databases.
OK, you're trolling here, and if I could downvote you for it, I would; but since I can't, let me try to raise the level of discussion:

> I would prefer to pay for services I use

I invite you, sometime, to think about which services you really use, and try to figure out how much it would cost to purchase each of them if you were doing so on your own. Don't forget: police protection, fire protection, military protection, paved roads, functioning traffic signals and signs, groomed parks, trash collection (some places), up to sixteen years of education, enforcement of workplace safety standards, financial protection if you become suddenly disabled, a legal system in which to resolve disputes. I don't know what your specific situation is, but just about everyone benefits from those government services in the U.S., and you personally may benefit from many others. I'm guessing that purchasing the first three alone, as an individual on a private market, would probably outrun the total you pay in taxes.

You could lower the individual costs to you of a lot of these by finding a bunch of other people who also need these services, and pooling your money to buy them together. That's just how democratic government begins.

> have the money stolen from me by force

This is a dishonest characterization of the authority of a democratic government to levy taxes. Yes, if you don't pay taxes you owe, someone might come and take your property, and those people might have weapons or threaten you with imprisonment. But that is a measure of last resort, which will surely only be taken if you fail to respond to a long line of more reasonable measures. It does a great injustice to people who actually live under oppressive regimes to compare the collection of taxes under a democratic government to the kind of arbitrary, might-makes-right authority those people are subject to.

Furthermore, by characterizing taxes as 'stolen' money, you are implying that you somehow have an absolute or natural right to have it. Why do you think that? No matter what you do for work, the amount of money you take home is not the product of your exclusive efforts. It also depends on the protections you get just by living in a society that provides some of the services I listed above. You would take home a lot less if, for example, you couldn't rely on the police and legal system to prevent armed bandits from plundering your place of business whenever they please. You'd also probably be a lot less productive if you had to worry about such things on a daily basis. There's a lot standing behind 'your' money that isn't yours, by any reasonable measure.

> while people pretend it is moral because it is called "taxes".

A democratic government's authority to levy taxes does not derive from the name, nor from the force that it can, in extreme cases, use to collect them. Like the government's other kinds of authority, it derives (most people think) from the consent of the governed. Behind that phrase are some important and difficult questions, to be sure. But you are not helping to answer them by characterizing taxes as 'stolen' and 'immoral'.
Pixel Shaders: Proposal for an Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming
Well, there's where the problem is. I want to do a clean build on each deploy, and there will be many devs on many machines building it, so handling it locally isn't really possible. We could handle it by having a DB keep track, but that's not broadly applicable.

I bring this up because kraken is competing with free programs I already have installed. This is something I can do with those programs that I can't with kraken.
Thanks, Sker. I really appreciate your kind words. We're not dissuaded at all! I figured I wanted to catalog my thoughts in response to questions about unfair comparisons into a single place. To be clear: I don't slight people for having strong opinions about right and wrong in web development. I just ask them to realize there are varied points of view, including many who have enjoyed looking at the totality of data.

We've been really busy of late, so we still don't have an ETA for Round 7, but believe me that we are very eager to get that completed. One thing we're hoping to include in Round 7 is Windows on physical hardware.

Also, just another aside, some folks might hate the background animation. You can turn it off at the bottom right. Consider it my trolling you if you must. :)
This is very interesting.

So I never was much of a network analyst, forgive me - is there any way to guard against this while still leaving your wifi on, without something like cycling MACs? I wasn't aware that when you scan for Networks, that you're actually exchanging some packets with those networks - I thought you were just picking up on a broadcast one way. Shouldn't there be some sort of "stealth mode" where you're not leaking packets everywhere?

It actually seems like if this was the case, I'm surprised it hasn't been used in other ways. Say a burglar breaks into my house with his iPhone in his pocket. Could I later prove it was him by pulling up some log on my router that was picking up MAC addresses going by? And why isn't there some software (to my knowledge) that does the same thing for surveillance - logging all the MAC addresses and creating alerts if a new one comes into the area?
What an absurd argument. Of course no one enjoys paying taxes but that doesn't make them theft. My guess is that 90% of children would rather be outside playing than sitting in the classroom, yet still we objectively know that they're better served by learning.

Likewise, people who gripe about taxation fail to recognize that it's an important, though often annoying process. The number of essential government services that you use everyday, even without leaving your house is surprisingly high.

What's more, this concept that we should leave everyone to fend for themselves and should simply ignore those who are less fortunate borders on sociopathy. I, for one, take comfort in knowing that even if everything in my life falls apart, there are some basic social safety nets in place to keep me from starving to death of the streets.
These slides may be of some help.

http://yogsototh.github.com/Category-Theory-Presentation
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Please critique: A Non-Proprietary Model For Autonomous Internet Services
Is this mostly gibberish and nonsense or there is some value to it?
Imagine having consciousness having an evolutionary advantage. Imagine the possibility for a complex neural network to "bind" a part of external consciousness to itself. Then you have external but brain-trapped consciousness as an evolutionary possibility.

How to prove: First step is to find some creature with nerves but provably lacking consciousness.
I remember an aside in a neuroscience textbook which asked if, one day, a mystery like "where consciousness comes from" might seem as oddly posed as "where life comes from". Once you've broken "life" into its biological and chemical components - cells, proteins, chemical reactions - incredibly complex as they all are, the notion of "life", or of some kind of essential "life force" just kind of disintegrates. Once you get down to that microscopic level, the illusion breaks down.
Google, Facebook among toughest interviewers: Their questions revealed
this could be a big blow to Bitcoin adoption... Is this a part of Android that can't be touched by anyone but Gooogle? Or is it a piece of software that can be improved upon by open source devs?
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I agree, I'm sure that is a big factor here! I was just emphasising the usual excuse for ignoring FOI requests.
Does it concerns only Bitcoin wallets? What about other encryption under Android - like files, etc?
I would guess that the service does something more along the lines of `pngcrush -brute` which is significantly more taxing.
MA is actually in the lower third of states both in terms of their income tax rate (5.3%) and sales tax rate(6.25%). They could increase one or both of those by a small amount, raise a ton more money and still be a low-tax state, without getting into crazy crap like this.
Lawmakers tasked with overseeing NSA surveillance programs feel “inadequate”
i don't know a good way to avoid the in-memory password from within python - if that is possible, please show me how and i'll fix the code. the larger point about passwords is, i think, part of the reason for keyczar's approach. but that is not yet available in python 3 (certainly not when i wrote the code; i did check since and last time i looked there was a patch being considered).

however, i was quite proud of the source - https://github.com/andrewcooke/simple-crypt/blob/master/src/...

edit: i've added some warnings to the project page - https://github.com/andrewcooke/simple-crypt#warnings
Is Open Office Impress really that unusable that you have to turn to Windows for presentations?
I really don't understand how that comment section could come from typical BusinessWeek readers.
Ok then, I'm using Ubuntu atm.
They don't seem at all similar to me. The only thing they have in common is that they're both dashboards.
They can use /dev/random if they so choose.