skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why you're being down voted. Your points are completely valid. Without Google's name behind it, Go would not have had all this hype around it.
I suppose I didn't articulate that point correctly. Facebook has a policy that basically says "if you find an exploit don't do it to real people, use a test account to reproduce it". So regardless of whether it's the CEO or Jane Doe, it sets a bad precedence that reproducing the exploit in a (real) environment is a very dangerous thing.
#HybridConf - thoughts, notes and opinions
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In a recent study, reported in Science magazine, researchers found that a social media “like” actually has the power to persuade someone’s friends. The study found that when a person “likes” an article that is shared on social media, odds are that that person’s friends will also “like” the article.
Well, I think what you proposed is better than Bitmessage. But to end user Bitmessage provides same benefits (+ a few backdraws). I have been thinking exactly what you have proposed. But based purely on DHT, with intermediate hops and message polling when retrieving data, without direct connections between clients. If you have read freenet's freemail implementation paper, that describes parts of the process. Because freenet is distributed encrypted key/value storage solution.

Basic feature of DHT is that data automatically expires after a while if not refreshed to group of nodes. This would allow more efficient routing that what Bitmessage does. That's one of the primary reasons why I don't like it. I also suspect that a key streams in bitmessage could become overloaded, because there's no way to loadbalance key streams.
The Uber-Process described is pretty much how taking a normal taxi works in Sweden. What backwards country is this article referring to? ;)
isn't bimessage a much better thought-out project with similar goals.
The system can instantly adapt to available bandwidth and does not need buffering of frames like h.264 or similar codecs. So even with a very bad connection you will have a snappy video. If you loose connection completely - of course the video will stop. But the ground station software will continuously try to reconnect asap.
By your logic people shouldn't be using Linux, Windows or any other software because people have found exploitable bugs in them.

There has never been a backdoor in Pidgin. Instead Pidgin has a very healthy security community and they release several CVE's each year.

I would use Pidgin over Tox without a blink since Pidgin has been around the block longer (almost 10 years now) while Tox hasn't released a single Security advisory yet. So I'm sure there's a lot of "low hanging fruit" exploits waiting to be found in Tox.
Windows 8 distorts RTC, giving misleading benchmark results
> Do you recommend a straight key or a bug to begin with?

I'm biased because (before the computer era) I never used anything but a straight key. I recommend a normal telegraph key for beginners -- they're easier to control and they produce an appreciation for the simplest possible form of radio and wired communication:

This picture --

http://www.mtechnologies.com/ameco/k4a.jpg

-- is of a real antique, but one still available today. Unchanged, it dates back to the land telegraph era, during which one operator, when finished sending, would throw the switch visible at the top center, thus closing his end of the circuit and allowing the other end to reply, in what was a simple two-wire one-battery telegraph circuit.

Interestingly, in 1859, there was a huge solar and geomagnetic storm, much bigger than anything that has happened since, and one of the few contemporary indications was that the telegraph system went crazy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

A quote: "Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases shocking telegraph operators. Telegraph pylons threw sparks. Some telegraph systems continued to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies."

It is estimated that, were such a storm to occur today, it would bring modern electronics -- and society -- to its knees.

> What works best for a beginner who wants to develop a good 'fist'?

Well, one, listening to good sending certainly helps. Also not trying to send too quickly at first, and listening more than sending until one acquires a sense of what good telegraphy sounds like.
Welcome to dystopia, friend. We have polonium-laden cookies, would you like some?
Just saw this is running on Blackberry 10. Are you building it in QT? I'd be interested in having a chat - info@londonhelicam.co.uk
Darknet is silly and confusing name for technology. Even if it sounds so cool. I think that Friend to Friend (F2F) network is much more descriptive name for technology, if you don't want to sound so elitistic.
Was half expecting Joe to roll the car into a ditch the way that first story was going
Same thing here in Denmark.
Seems more like its a third world problem, maybe this is in colombia?
I'm surprised you think Scrolls is a deep strategy game. I've only sunk no more than 10 hours and I already see everyone with the same decks (3 factions, 3 decks). Not much room for different strategy since there are hardly any cards. Scroll's complexity isn't 'complex' - it's needlessly cumbersome and tiring - having to do consistent mathematics in your head isn't fun (for me anyway).

Hearthstone is way more complex simply due to the 9 (vs 3) classes.
Fairly uncommon compared to your everyday website sure. But I can think of hundreds of companies that have ridiculous scale and brief outages would be newsworthy:

Airline bookings, Stock exchanges, Betting markets, Postal services, Major websites (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn), Online Games, Video services, Payment gateways, Banks etc.
At Google, they get put on a "Performance Improvement Plan", which is really intended to give you enough to find another job and resign (rather than get fired). I don't think they actually expect anyone on a PIP to have a rise in performance and to stay on board.
Looks interesting (great partners!). However, I can't discover what exactly what we will be hacking on (I must note that I'm on IE8). Is any further information available?
The same way that you perceive "a" and "A" to be the same grapheme despite seeing different shapes, Japanese speakers consider [r] and [l] to be the same phoneme /R/ despite hearing different sounds.

The same way that you might write A or a or even α to write the letter we pronounce as "aye", a Japanese speaker might choose to pronounce [r] or [l].

A Japanese speaker won't be able to tell that they're saying [r] in an English word that has an /l/. The same way that an English speaker might SWEAR they say writer and rider differently until you record them and they have no clue which one they said when.
HD 40307 f : New Jersey VI

I looked up this planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_40307_f

It still gets more heat than Venus gets (like Gliese 581 c),
and it has more gravitational potential than Venus has.
HD 40307 f is more likely a super-Venus than a "super-Earth".

Great, so it's an uninhabitable sweat box that's unlikely to contain any intelligent life. Name seems appropriate.
The core application UI is in OpenGL ES. For option screen etc. on BlackBerry 10 we use Cascades (based on QT).
Was I the only person expecting <microsoft> in IEx?
What Will the European Startup Scene look like in 2025
Personally:

1. Use app to find time of next train.

2. Walk to station.

3. Pay reasonable-cost, fixed fare using ticket machine.

4. Train takes me to airport.

5. Arrive at airport with one quarter of the carbon emissions (source: http://www.beagleybrown.com/planes-trains-or-automobiles-car... ) and without having screwed up the city further with the land take required for one-person transport.

No-brainer for me, but YMMV.
ZeroBrane Studio also seems to have a built in REPL
Needs at least some empirical validation/dis-confirmation.
Fair enough point of using a car for outdoor hobbies - I'd call it an exception to the rule, an appropriate use of technology. But let's face it, in most cases it isn't like that.

Regarding my suit comment, it's about looking into the mirror in the morning and thinking whether the person you see is really who you once aspired to be.

Some people like to wear suits. One of my friend's greatest days was when just off high school he got straight into finance and finally could wear a suit 24/7. It genuinely makes him happy, it's an extension of his personality. He wants to be the big-shot-80s-New-York-cocaine-snorting-penthouse-owner-investment-banker type of guy.

But for me and I guess many others, to walk the earth in a suit would be, I don't know...perhaps the antithesis of existence. I think most people never think about it and even enjoy the office culture in a perverse way. Perhaps it's some form of a groupthink empathy, a we're-all-in-this-together style of getting a kick out of this masked suffering. I remember being a small kid and swearing I'd never be like an office manager or the bankers I saw, all wearing the same suits and becoming an empty shell that just assumes whatever of a corporate idenitity, becoming an embodiment of a foreign entity. Really just a zombie or a host for a parasite until it chews you out.

Because it does chew you out exactly as stated in this Bukowski letter, you're not really getting out. All the prices, the whole economy is set upon this 40-hour workweek, wage slave reality. All value is derived from this standard. I saw this very clearly 20+ years ago without even knowing the proper vocabulary to understand it. It's surprising how simple and clear it is, yet it's collectively decided that we don't want to look at it, we don't want to face it. You want out? The only way is to become the embodiment of the hope of getting out - a well-known star that can sell us the dream. And we'll gladly pay for it!

But you're right, the binge-drinking, fixed-bike urbano hipster thing is also a joke. We're all a joke in the end. But at least we could maybe strive to be funnier than we are because the joke is getting old.
Definetely take a look a chess.com to start playing, and also chesstempo.com to practice tactics, both very helpful!
In all fairness, he was also braking the rules of eligibility regarding his country. It states one must love in a country not currently under any US sanctions. I'm pretty sure there is no such country as Palestine in Zuckerbergs map, let alone in the official US world atlas.
We have something that at low rezzes is driveable (not sure about flyable) at 1G speeds. It was tested on the public roads in Italy in 2010.

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that explains my issues with <10ms setTimeouts, thanks!
Yeah. My sense is that Android developers aren't nearly as interested in 'Java the write once run everywhere platform' as developers who were adopting Java in the 1990s. So, like Apple and ObjectiveC, mobile developers are just willing to go where the platform takes them rather than push for evolution of the language per se.

Maybe it's just that mobile apps are much smaller than the monsters enterprise devs need language help to manage.
I suspect that it was primarily an excuse to seize all his data. Perhaps they thought it would look less opportunistic if they held him for nine hours. With intimidation as a side-benefit.
>When I was young I did all of my programming on a TI calculator (BASIC, and z80 assembly with an on-calc assembler).

Those existed?! I remember reading articles on Z80 assembly language at ticalc.org as a teenager and desperately wishing I had some kind of calculator-native text editor and assembler that I could use to program in math class -- at least, that's how I would phrase it now. I assumed that none existed, and setting up a cross-assembler was beyond either my capabilities or comprehension at the time (not to mention, at the time programming was most fun in school when I was supposed to be working, not at home on a PC with a million other distractions). I didn't get that assembly language programming experience until years later. Instead, in between games of GALAXIAN and FALLDOWN, I messed around with horribly slow, illegible TI-BASIC, a language so crude that even Pong is an exercise in futility to write in it.

I just searched the ticalc.org archives, and yep, here's at least one such assembler, loaded up with the familiar MirageOS:

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/403/40304.html

I'm not going to lie, I'm kinda sad right now, wondering what might have been, if only I had known the correct keywords to search for at the time...

Anyway, I totally agree with the premise of your post. There's almost always too much to configure for novices to get a handle on, and novices don't know what the hell they're supposed to be looking for in the first place. If setup involves one step too many, or the novice is expected to figure too much out on their own before they can start, they think "I'm stupid, why can't I do anything" or "these programs are stupid, I wanted to implement that thing I read about but I wasted X hours setting up this completely unrelated thing and copying magic commands," and you'll likely lose them for good.

Which is, incidentally, why I think anyone that prefaces their programming tutorials with "you should learn to use a real text editor like vim or emacs" deserves a swift kick in the ass.
Of course it is.

wifman = female human
werman = male human
man = human

"wifman" became "woman" but the "man" is literally from "man" (meaning human). I'm not sure how much more related you can get.
I can't forgive Del Toro for making an horrible movie about robots anyway. That was painful to watch.
I think it may be the punchline in many cases, but still, setting up the right pigeons and holes is what makes proving stuff nontrivial.
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150ms is too long for FPV. Others have tried it. It might be flyable, but it won't be good.
> If I were Notch, and just got some renewed motivation to develop the game, I would have just told everyone "I have stopped - project's dead" so I could work on it in peace.

You might be correct that he's succumbing to the pressure. However, I don't think that'd have the affect you're after. At least not in the short term. Announcements like that don't bring peace and quiet when you've already got a bunch of kids in the back seat screaming "are we there yet?"
The goal is to make the world better through hacking together with people from around the world. The guidelines of what 'tools' are open as we don't want to limit solutions to problems. The one guideline that is strict is that this is not a "build a business" hackathon. While that could be an outcome, judging will be based on solving real world problems for social good. (No, that means hacking a beer pong game to make parties better does not count) - Thanks so much for commenting!
Neither ember-tools nor Brunch templates use an efficient system for dependency management for Ember, Ember Data, and Handlebars libraries.

I suggest using Bower to manage dependencies or (ember|ember-data|handlebars)-source gems if you're using Ruby.
Actually I did wonder about it at this year's Google IO, as it was hinted Dart is being used for some projects that would be in due time revealed.

That is actually the only way I see any future for Dart.
Code::Blocks is probably a better choice for that. DevC++ is very outdated: the bundled version of GCC is 3.4.2, released in 2006.
It's almost as if everyone has their own methods of learning and their own opinions.

I have two 27 inchers and one 24 inch monitor. And recently I've discovered that I'm more productive on a 15 inch XP laptop gone ubuntu from 2003 than on my high-end PC at home.

Workspaces are almost as fast as looking at another screen and I'm able to concentrate more at the task at hand.
And that's one of the reasons I think mathematicians overcomplicate things.

They use "for all X" "of type" Y (being "of type" meaning: has these properties) then Z happens in place of "if you have something that has these properties Z happens"

Yes, they are equivalent, but the first order logic version looks like "strongly typed" and the second version looks like "duck typed"

This is just my 2 cents.
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> That said, I can imagine that Minecraft has set dauntingly high expectations for him.

High expectations coupled with basically unlimited funding really is a problem. I see Notch as a highly creative (if unstructured) programmer and people like that usually do their best work when facing constraints.
To the site owner - your site isn't readable on mobile. Hiding the floating element on mobile may be enough to make it readable.
1. if Notch had your perfectionistic attitude, he wouldn't have released anything - so, no minecraft. Also, Elon Musk wouldn't have had three rocket disasters - no SpaceX. And Mark Zuckerberg certainly wouldn't have began The Facebook. Similar for google, linux, Windows (especially!) Of course, all these guys were lucky... but isn't it striking how fortune favours the brave?

2. Given that Notch had all this incredible success even though he's so "half-assed", imagine what you could do if you adopted his approach?

(For the record, I thought 0x10c was a stupid idea. OTOH I really liked the idea of the minecraft world - where the cube basis is universal and malleable, and sacrificing nicer graphics for that - though the actual game doesn't grab me. I think Notch is awesome and inspirational, and should keep doing what he values - regardless of my opinions!)
Maybe. I think part of this fear of technology is scary is that is seems like magic to most people. And I believe that's partially caused by scientists not selling themselves properly. I'm actually glad they don't, because they are doing best. But here's the part where skilled marketers can do a lot of good.

The word natural is the only working homeopathic. The more you dilute it, the stronger it seems to become. Hell, there are "Natural Taste Malboros" out there, with their packaging resembling coarse brown paper. They aren't exactly healthier, are they?

Yes, more aggressive public education in skepticism and rational thinking will certainly help to an extent, but it's preaching to the reformed. For those children which have been indoctrinated by their parents that science isn't to be trusted, and that technology is trying to repress us? It'll just play into that narrative. Australia is withdrawing child benefits from people not vaccinating their children. How long do you think it will take till that's another selling point on those anti-vac sites?
Java generics are an example on how not to do it, but it does not mean all generic implementations are like Java's.
Speaking as a sometime Android developer, I use Java for Android because I have to, not because I'm particularly fond of Java. The biggest upside of a JVM on Android in this respect is that I have alternative languages like Kotlin available.
Assume that the spacecraft has a small rotational momentum that needs to be corrected. The reaction wheels begin to spin, and the wheels' rotational momentum corrects for the spacecraft's rotational momentum, causing a telescope to stop rotating and point accurately at a given target. Now, the only way to maintain the spacecraft's new orientation and lack of rotation is for the wheels to continue turning, forever.

Such a correction might be needed simply to change the pointing of a spacecraft telescope from one target to another -- let's say, to depart one stationary angle, rotate 30 degrees, and come to a new stationary pointing angle. Such a change of pointing angle would in most cases require all three reaction wheels to change their speed of rotation, and all three wheels would have to continue spinning when the new position was reached.

Remember that rotational momentum is conserved, there is essentially no friction on orbit, therefore the initial rotational momentum must be present in the spacecraft or its reaction wheels. And trace gases, micrometeorite hits, and even light pressure, over time contribute rotational momentum to the spacecraft.
slices are not arrays in Go. Slices are built on top of arrays. You can still access Go arrays.
I have played it for around 2 months and still find new things to play, test and learn. The hex grid not only makes the game unique for a TCG, but also enables a lot of tough strategical decisions.

3 factions yes, a fourth on the way. 3 decks? No way! Decks evolve constantly and new ones pop up, some die out - seems very healthy for such a small, young game so far :)

Just my 2 cents and experience.
Now this number is scary.
That is nit allowed. The US government does a "control test" of sorts. You cannot be in any way in control of your employment. Owning more than 50% would definitely rule you out. Even in a startup with 5 co-founders (owning 20% each), the fact that you're a co-founder might lead them to believe that you're in control of your employment, and hence rule you out.

The primary test there is that there must be someone above you who can fire you.
So a proprietary, incompatible, version of a standard no-one uses. I doubt today's notice will surprise anyone.

This real-world (not actually parody) QR code instruction pretty much sums it up: https://twitter.com/peteashton/status/349499283038433280/pho...
Depends on the use case. If you want to do artistic FPV flying near obstacles, some analog systems might indeed be better.
More than any other field, correctness is important in mathematics, and thus strong typing is useful, even essential.
Yes, it is. It's wif-man, so a "person who is a wife" as opposed to an unmarried girl. That's why women is pronounced [wimen], because that's the original etymology.
That was my first thought too, but unfortunately asteroid naming conventions require one word for some reason. Ah well, when people are actually sending robots out to asteroids and claiming them properly we can name a few after culture ships instead.
That is correct, but had he posted a screenshot while it was still possible to verify its authenticity, that could have been avoided.
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The airport of departure (in your home county) will check if you have a visa or ESTA authorization (for waiver country citizens) before they let you board the plane.
You obviously haven't use any microsoft DRM
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Interesting that Go's lack of HM type inference is that problematic. In, Rust or Haskell, one could simply use that value further on with some type and have it inferred correctly.
"Release early and release often" is not connected to "(iteratively) fleshing features out", though. I'm currently learning this, and while feeling weird, it's a very powerful way to release features very early, check back with users and then extend from there. This happens in some areas of minecraft, but on the other hand, there's vast areas where it doesn't happen and people aren't happy about it.
Basically this. I love Uber, and even in places without dysfunctional taxi cab regulation they have their niche, but the sentiment of "I never want take a cab again" is pretty much relegated to places like San Francisco, Beijing and Bangkok.

I don't see Uber taking over in Singapore and Stockholm they way they have in San Francisco.