skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's faster than my old computer and a seamless upgrade.

In retrospect I realised that's what I wanted.

I charge enough per hour that I can quantify the value of the time I spent pissfarting around with Linux and Windows in order to "save" money. It came out as a loss.

If I was playing brand-new computer games, or doing heavy duty simulations, or running complex renders etc -- sure. I'd bite the bullet and buy a current PC, the hardware is much better.

But that's not my work. I don't like paying more for older stuff, but frankly it's not enough of a bother to waste so much time on in future.
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It's actually gotten more legit. Most of the coupons are seeded there by vendors themselves these days. Which is how they just IPOed for a billion dollars.
I thought about this too, but it seems to me more like sweeping the problem under the rug than addressing it directly. Personally, if this encouraged even two or three people engaged in an interesting conversation to contact each other directly, instead of continuing to engage semi-anonymously on the internet, I think it would be worth it.
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If you want it building for a reasonable cost then it's steel or nothing.
The point is: it would be easier for me to find work in the centre of the software-development universe than outside it.
A lot of people aren't, and a lot goes unnoticed, this hopes to help those who otherwise would not speak out.
Customers will call after the sale asking to proactively apply discount codes.

Affiliates will call after the sale asking to proactively apply discount codes (so they get credit).

Customers will complain if a discount code has expired.

Customers will cancel, return and re-buy just to apply discount codes.

Discount codes suck.
Personal anecdote: I correlated my RSI directly to drinking coffee (tea is okay). I notice when I'm caffeinated that my posture is very different and I hold postures (e.g. holding down the shift key) for much longer. If RSI starts to blight you, try substituting your morning coffee for tea or water. For me, a break program just increased the stress levels of 'wanting to get something done', which I think is the root cause of RSI (stress).
I'll let the actual expats weigh in, but you really do need to talk to an accountant. You will be told what your options are. Then you will know, and can stop freaking out.

This is 2013, so you can consult US-based accountants over the phone. The initial discussion will likely take an hour or so and cost at most a couple hundred dollars. Ask about the fee in advance. There is a chance that a friendly accountant will explain the steps for you for cheap, as part of the sales process for future business.

Who said anything about "every year"? Consult an accountant once, to learn the score. Then decide whether or not you want to consult one again.

That you are apparently culturally conditioned to believe that accountants are ultra-rare tools of the super-elite explains a lot about why you sound so nervous. Accountants are a routine in the USA. Mine costs a few hundred bucks a year, easily pays for his own services in taxes-saved, and much more importantly provides a lot of peace of mind. I often have to guess what laws and forms and fine print might apply to me, but accountants know, as part of their job.
Yeah, imo SFML's biggest weakness is that it is written in C++ instead of C.
I guess so, from what I read it was starting to turn around again with more projects before the earthquake.
That's a good explanation of me.

I just took a quick look at the manual. The class definitions look seriously verbose. I guess with some coding templates or macros, it wouldn't be too bad, though.
A substantial fraction of the work is at a terminal, actually. My original plan was to run Linux. After 6 different distros I gave up and used Windows, after 2 months of that hell I threw it in and did what I ought to have done in the first place and paid OS X tax.
Yeah, replacing all trains is impractical in densely-populated areas that are already well-suited to classic railways, but Hyperloop would make it possible to see similar numbers riding to and from central states.

Also, I bet NYC-Washington or NYC-Boston hyperloops would pay for themselves in two weeks.
It is not quite that simple. The government will have to say yes, since this is a big infrastructure project that wants land next to existing highways. I don't know much about politics, but I do know that, sadly, the net gain for the country over time is not a weighty criterion in such decisions.
> "have to roll my own low level binary parsing"

But that was the whole point from the beginning! Find out how can I do it myself.

> You read the bytestring package docs:

I repeat: the Internal module isn't listed in the locally installed documentation, and the link on Hackage is broken. Do I really need to produce for you the two top-level links where I was looking for the documentation of Internal?
Interesting interview, unfortunately she really says some things that are rather extreme, such as HIV being nature's punishment for homosexuality. Too bad.

How does the censoring on Twitter work? I did not understand your screenshot.

Unfortunately discussing anything on social networks is a waste of time anyway. If the network itself doesn't censor you (I hear Facebook also does not allow questioning of feminism), then the personal filters of other people will just mute you. And stuff you post to social networks is essentially lost because they are walled gardens, so nobody will find your brilliant arguments from yesterday again, ever.
The Space-X rocket isn't a rocket.

The Tesla Roadster isn't an electric car.

See what I did there?
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Minor quibble: Inheritance tax is paid by the beneficiaries, not the deceased.
It would, however, work as an addition to bottle lights, to be used at night.
Same in France,you're taxed on the capital (accounts, real-estate, etc) above a certain amount (something around .75M I believe)
If all companies are $q and the undesirable skill you have happens to be, oh, say, your skin color, ancestry, religion, or sexual preferences, things rather go out the window for you.
% whois microsoft.com.
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
My favorite brain tale:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavoisier

Specifically: http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_t...
(I think you mean retroactively not proactively)
Similar stuff can be seen with google.com, apple.com, Facebook.com and no doubt a bunch more of large sites.
The main problem is not any of these things. The many problem is that they still have not implemented one-process-per tab which makes the browser severely inferior to Chrome.
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I feel like a bit of a naughty schoolboy when I go off and find vouchers, it just feels a little bit wrong (but I still do it)
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Somebody added some wrong-structured data to some publicly available list (chain) of other data, which was not supposed to be there. And it was accepted by system. And this is what all fuss is about.
Same in Switzerland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax#Existing_net_wealth....
I recently tried switching back to FF from Chrome and I find FF to lag horribly. Downloads are frequently broken and stall. The <filename>, <filename.part> thing is ridiculous. It feels like there is a molasses powered queue between input events and response, FF feels like a drunken master. I am in Chrome right now, I wish I was in FF.
>We can support that decision by considering the behaviour of a subscript, or indexing operation. Should we index the logical character, or a specific code point? Again, looking at unicode combining characters, there is no actual representation, or even definition, of what a “logical” character is. Sequences of combining marks are unbound, thus no fixed size type could even represent a “logical” character. It would seem that operations on the string need to be done at the code point level — exactly the behaviour for the same operation on an array of characters.

Err, what? Indexing/slicing at the code point level?

That's about as useful for text manipulation, as a bicycle to a fish.

Makes me think the author never or rarely ventures outside ASCII.

Sounds like a bunch or rationalizations for providing half-arsed unicode support for his language.
Well, you have a ~ typing system for attributes, good roles, etc. And if you don't like the syntax, see e.g.

http://search.cpan.org/~ether/MooseX-Method-Signatures-0.44/...

http://search.cpan.org/~flora/MooseX-Declare-0.35/lib/MooseX...

[Edit: I might add -- the OO system is mature and largely inspired by Common Lisp. It is better than the "competition" among the scripting languages (says the ones with heavier background in those environments than me).]
Interestingly when I load up their demo gallery at: http://www.chromatic.io/FQrLQsb and click on one of the images to enlarge it, then click again to drop back into the gallery view, the gallery breaks horribly (about 1/3 of the images vanish).

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Why not build a tube around the span of earth? A joint world project.
whois 'domain microsoft.com'
According to a recent NSA memo, 1.6% of all online activity is monitored and collected. That’s enough to capture more than 50% of all internet communications.

== Leverage
Depends on the software you're using. Try:

% whois \=microsoft.com
In other contexts this is called "blaming the victim".

It's clear from the example of Linux and OS X that in the general case, I should not need to exercise constant vigilance and faultless scrutiny of every damn thing I install or use.
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Economics has suffered because of a lack of good models and ignoring a great deal of available data.

Source: economics degree, research of the neoclassical / neoclassical synthesis model, its origins, and various heterodoxies. I'm partial to thermoeconomics / biophysical economics.
They had a cadre of sports scientists who worked on a range of sports and shared findings. I'm most familiar with weightlifting because that's my sport, but from one of my textbooks you can see how they applied common principles across a range of sports.
Hope you were able to make some sense of this. Didn't have time to clean it up last night...
Personally, I run a Debian Wheezy desktop, and after the first week I haven't needed to touch a shell. (And most "regular users" wouldn't need to touch the shell that first week.)

Updates happen near-automatically, I get a dialog pop up when they happen that asks me to enter the root password and confirm that I'd like packages X, Y and Z to be updated. Those updates have never broken my system.

When I upgrade my system from Wheezy to... I think it's Jessie, next, I probably will have to drop down to the shell, however the instructions are listed quite cleanly on the Debian website and elsewhere. Ubuntu, otoh, goes the whole way and provides a GUI tool for upgrading the system.
These are glue records. If a nameserver is under the domain name he is authoritative for, it has to be declared to the registry with its IP address as to avoid circular dependency, ie:

* Q: What is the nameserver for bleh.blih ?
* A: ns.bleh.blih
* Q: Thank you fine sir. What is the ip for ns.bleh.blih ?
* A: Ask nameserver of bleh.blih.
* Q: But I just...

And so on. Such declared hostname/ip nameservers are called glue records.

Whois databases search glue records too (and only return a limited number), and this is what you see here.
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This is because under the Verisign GRS, name servers for second level domains also get entries created. So, you can create a Whois entry for an arbitrarily named server, like ycombinator.com.paulgraham.have.mychildren.com, and it will show up.

I haven't been involved in Whois and tld stuff in a while, but back in the day, these host Whois records were allowed because the gtld servers needed glue for domain names - after all, if your domain name is ycombinator.com and your name server is ns1.ycombinator.com, how can a resolver recurse to find that, unless te gtld servers also have an A record for that label/object?

So, you could just go create arbitrary A records at the gtld level, which would cause a corresponding Whois entry to be created. Hilarity for all involved.
Simple really, government is to large and intrusive that there is little to no room for private industry to implement them. Items that are easily transportable, or measured at the personal level, like phones, computers, and even cars, are still well within reach.

Some will point to Space X as violating that last line, but look at it from the perspective of that it really is only affected by one part of government. Large transportation projects like the hyperloop would require approval at so many levels and be subject to the whims of so many outside groups that it is insurmountable by private enterprise. Only government can build it because only government can ignore its own rules.

So its not a matter of that we can't think big, we can think big all we want. We just have to find frontiers where bureaucracy is not the primary obstacle.
If someone is ready to finance the $68bn needed to build that high speed "train to nowhere" that doesn't answer a problem, I really don't understand how nobody would be willing to finance $6bn (or even $12bn to correct for the optimist view of the paper) needed to build an Hyperloop-like project which, even though it may not answer an immediate problem, would give the companies participating in it a considerable edge against the rest of the world on the variety of research/technology/know-how needed to build it. That alone might be enough to actually give value to the project.
You're wrong, I think. Condiser: a phone call. Fed's are not allowed to tap a landline without a warrant. Its the communication that is protected, not the property. People have a reasonable expectation of privacy. What is reasonable? That's where the debate will be determined.
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Take a look at my response upthread - basically, they're not sub domains, they're arbitrarily registered name server entries to provide glue to other lookups. The Whois record is just the side effect
Broken / stalled downloads don't sound like a Firefox problem to me. If you can reliably get a DL to fail in Firefox (that works fine in another browser) and reproduce it, file a bug :-)
Of course a system such as this will not provide you with foolproof protection against any adversary ever. If that is what you need, email is not what you're looking for, period.

But there is in fact an enormous difference between the proposed system and traditional email hosting. With traditional email hosting, all it takes is one FISA rubber stamp, one hacker gaining access to the mailserver or any of its backups, one rogue or compromised employee to access the entire history of every email you have ever received or sent.

In the proposed system, assuming it is properly implemented, the only way to snoop on your emails is tapping the line between the local and remote SMTP server, easily prevented if both parties use SSL. The system could even, based on the user preferences, warn about this ("Warning: this email was not delivered via SSL, it could thus have been intercepted while on the wire") or block incoming/outgoing SMTP entirely if the remote party doesn't support SSL.

It's not a solution against (government) snooping per se, especially not a solution against a party such as the US government specifically targetting you. But it is a defense against half of the world population's email history indefinitely being stored in your friendly neighborhood NSA facility.
This is not prejudiced at all. All it states, is that the committee UNDERSTANDS that cryptocurencies have the POTENTIAL to be used for money laundering, etc. It is true, it can be used, and is used for those means.
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>But I don't understand the title of the article because I think taking pride in poverty is a weird position to be taking.

Weird? It's one of the constant positions on poverty since the dawn of civilization -- from christianity and buddhism (the original, not the watered down California style) to bohemianism, communism and so on. Including the "proud, hardworking people" in most rural communities, etc.
"P.M.: Laura started filming you from nearly the start. Were you surprised by that? Why or why not?

E.S.: Definitely surprised. As one might imagine, normally spies allergically avoid contact with reporters or media, so I was a virgin source — everything was a surprise. Had I intended to skulk away anonymously, I think it would have been far harder to work with Laura, but we all knew what was at stake. The weight of the situation actually made it easier to focus on what was in the public interest rather than our own. I think we all knew there was no going back once she turned that camera on, and the ultimate outcome would be decided by the world."

He intended to "skulk away anonymously". Then the journalists get involved, and it seems that it was too late for that. This seems to imply the journalists had something to do with that.

I don't know how to stop this sound like and accusation or judgement, which its not supposed to be, and generally speaking Im a Guardian supporter, but I get the feeling that he was led in much deeper than he wanted by these journalists. May be he was pushed? Maybe he decided? I don't know.

Yes, it hard to get off a moving train, as it were. But I wonder if there was as much coercion as there was motivation on his part. I wonder how much control he had once the journalists got involved. Or maybe that is normal for things like this.

I'd love to know a lot more about how this worked in general.
> try substituting your morning coffee for tea or water.

Syntax [edit:] tip:

"try substituting tea or water for your morning coffee"

or

"try replacing your morning coffee with tea or water"

EDIT: For the downvoters: Fairly or unfairly, in the non-tech world people judge you by your choice and arrangement of words. (Compilers do much the same thing, of course.)

</pedantry>
"But we had books and encyclopedias and telegraphs and telephones and phonographs a century ago. Just ... not as distributed, or portable."

Or as fast, or as comprehensive, or as cheap per unit of accessible data, or as connected, or as quick to improve and update, or as multi-functional, or as useful, and so on.

It's the difference between having "food" as a barbarian in 10,000 BC and having an integrated and highly advanced system of feeding an entire civilization of 300 million people. That is to say, the difference between night and day.
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Break your existing mindset about LA :)

Just metro:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Spring-20...

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Metro_Rail
If you wrote an entire system of opcodes and a currency around them, you wouldn't mess up on an obscure rule and render your coins unspendable.
> For example, the "San Francisco" station appears to be located in the East Bay and the "Los Angeles" station is closer to Burbank.

They did this a lot in Japan as well for the Shinkansen. There are a lot of Shin<City-Name> stations built expressly for the Shinkansen because the city center was too crowded. Once the train line is in, a new city blossoms up in the activity around the station.
This is going to be somewhat of a rant.

My formal response to this is:

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I work in the education industry, which has been often lauded for its tough security stance (note the sarcasm), and you would be surprised how common, CRUD apps do not pass muster. Zoho Corp's founder recently fielded a lot of critical comments about his Salesforce CRM competitor product and other products of Zoho-esque mediocrity. [0][1] I stayed out of it, but let me give a shining turd example of such a product: their ticketing system: ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. [2] We could not afford to purchase or implement something larger, more garbage ticketing system, say like HP Service Manager (which has the worst interface of any web application I have ever seen mind you, but it is far more business-like for this enterprise-y world which the article is addressing). We do, at a minimum, a Nessus scan for anything that requires FW rules inbound and/or a SSL cert in our org. This did okay (other stories to follow). Not soon after, many XSS vulnerabilities were found, in two versions. [3] This is, mind you, an enterprise-y ticketing system geared for people who do ITIL. Not only could they not publicly manage the situation, they show a complete lack of change control/problem management their product and garbage webpage embue. Now we only allow access behind our VPN; lord knows what would happen if we exposed this garbage to public Internet.

I give this example as one of my such tales. Bottom-line: even some of the priciest web applications would fail even rudimentary testing. We see it again and again, and there is always, rest assured, some marketing ahole pedaling software to a non-IT manager, hooks them on it, and that guy refuses to accept how something so polished is dangerous to the bottom line.

Frankly, I wish SOX-like/HIPAA/bank/government regulations were imposed on all of us, and THEN fine any companies promising these standards for failure to comply. The amount of garbage is staggering, and politics dictates software marketing will always target the guys sitting above the technical people who refuse when they know their product has "rough edges" (I say that because every company we talk to about such things downplays sec vulnerabilities; not once have I heard of one of our vendors handle it graciously, even big dogs like Symantec brush us off).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sridharvembu
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5836569
[2] http://manageengine.com/
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=servicedesk+plus+xss
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A few months ago I had an RSI problem so bad - able to type only a minute at a time, even sitting with hands on keyboard hurt - that I started down this route. This video was, literally, a life-altering motivator for me, and I was quite obsessed with it.

Ironically, after seeing a physical therapist - which, let me tell you, you should do at the first sign of pain, because while they can't help some people I personally am batting 1.000 with PTs for RSI over my many-year career - my recovery is now so complete that I've totally fallen off the voice-computing path... for now. But I intend to keep going, not just because it is hilarious but because, well, RSI happens and it really pays to vary the routine sooner rather than later. There is nothing like trying to do a ton of emergency scripting on Python and emacs at the lowest possible point of your productivity.

The most important hint I have so far is: do not waste time with Mac OS. You need a PC running the Windows version of Dragon. The Mac version is pretty good for occasional email but lousy for emacs because it doesn't have the Python hook into the event loop that a saint hacked into the PC version years ago before leaving Dragon.

The speechcomputing.com forums are your friend.

Yeah, they say there is an open-source recognition engine that works okay, and time spent improving free recognition engines is time that really improves the world for all kinds of injured people, but here's the problem: when you need a speech system you really need it, and there are a lot of moving parts. Dragon, and Windows, and a super PC to run it on are super cheap compared to your time, especially when your time is in six-minute increments punctuated by pain.
I very much enjoyed reading that placehacking article, thank you! :)