skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they refer to areas of water that are basically still, not moving sort of like the eye of a hurricane.

> they are essentially independent of their environment, surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable boundary and with little, if any, of the fluid inside them leaking out.
As a beginner this was totally invisible to me and nevertheless it's critical to understanding why pinning and skewering are valuable: you can control your opponent's behavior from a distance.

This is the curse of expertise. Experts have internalized the most important distinctions so well they're like air. Beginners haven't internalized any distinctions and therefore couldn't possibly see that their struggle is a product of not having them. They can't even express the concept of air.

"Just breath! Inhale! Fill your lungs up!" the expert says, as the beginner coughs and grabs at their throat.
I think you'd have to agree that C++ does not make it easy to learn how to do it properly, and nor does it make it easy to actually do it properly. Go at least makes it far easier for most programmers to do an acceptable job which has to count for something.
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Show HN: easy email forwarding for domains, my Sunday impulse project
Have you published any details about how you accomplished low latency? For example, you stated 150ms further up in this thread, what were the conditions for that test? Was it documented?

As sweet as low latency HD FPV would be, I'm hesitant to spend more money on a "newfangled" digital solution unless I I'm aware of such technical details.
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I launch quite a lot of MVPs and microsites and setting up info@, support@, etc. addresses for them is a huge PITA. The solutions while plentiful are all very clumsy and annoying (especially since Google Apps closed free plan). So I set out to create one that doesn't suck. Hope it’s useful to others!
For our GDI HTML/CSS workshops (http://www.teaching-materials.org/), I often recommend JSBin.com, because of the live feedback. Once we get to JavaScript and multi-file projects, I usually recommend Sublime Text/Chrome and just make sure to constantly remind them of the workflow and appropriate keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+s, alt+tab, ctrl-shift-r).

That's one of the surprising things about teaching web programming - a lot of it is stuff most of us don't think about, like using a file system and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Often times, that's the first hump for students to get over (like for the HTML first exercise), and once they're over that hump, they're good to go for a while.
Where there is space available, people will spread in to it. Once they get used to it, they are reluctant to give it up and will formulate any excuse under the sun to keep it that way. Screens, houses, land... same thing.
This makes me sad, because I was really excited for that game. I even wrote a small QuickBASIC to DCPU-Assembly compiler with Go [1] for it, which was a nice Go learning project for me.

I hope that someone will pick up this great idea and build a similar game, where programming is a first citizen and you can do crazy stuff that was planned for 0x10c like programming your own spaceship, sharing code with others on floppy discs, and so on.

[1] https://github.com/M4v3R/DCPU-Bas
You clearly meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6235930
If I remember Brooks correctly, second system syndrome does not refer to all successor systems, and frequently complex/over-built systems spawn elegant ones in turn (oversimplifying a bit, but MULTICS -> UNIX springs to mind). I seem to recall Brooks regarding this as cyclical, with leaner third systems spawning bloated fourth systems, and so on.
I would suggest to read "The geeky stuff" section on our campaign page, it explains how we achieve low latency. If you want to know specific details I am happy to elaborate.
For me, maintenance of large DBs can be very expensive. Some simple query like select count(*) from where ... can easily cost $10, and mysql will give you it for free.
Unless it's a strict liability crime. In the bubblegum example, I believe you could be convicted of something like manslaughter without mens rea. The CFAA is not a strict liability offense, however, as far as I'm aware.
The community-based clone's website is http://trillek.org

Really, it should have been linked in the article...
The EU came to be in 1993 :)
The tide of world opinion is slowly, but surely, turning :)
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For those who don't follow US politics and editorial writers, Andrew Sullivan is kind of a big deal to Democrats and the self-identified "left".

If he's changed his mind on the Obama's fundamental credibility on the NSA domestic spying issue, it could suggest the beginnings of a sea change in establishment political thought.
"Single port number" doesn't mean "same port number every time".
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Yeah, I agree with this. No more gibbirish.
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Here is a hacky "REPL" of sorts in Lua:

while true do
io.write("> ")
exp = io.read()
print((loadstring("return " .. exp) or loadstring(exp))())
end

Actually kinda works. Example session:

> 5 + 5
10
> msg = "Hello"

> print(msg)
Hello

> double = function(x) return x * 2 end

> double(2)
4
> a = 4

> b = a + 5

> b
9
"Each expert seemed to dwell in his own private silo, so that whenever she crossed from one discipline to another, she would run into the same wall of constricted thinking."

Keeping abreast of emerging tech is hard for specialists whom are focused deep within their silos. It's always good for teams to include broad-minded generalists that continually survey the landscape, connect the dots, and keep the team's reservoir stocked with fresh developments from the outside world. At some point a specialist may recall something from the reservoir that turns out to be the missing piece that enables your team to break through the silos and jump the curve.
The parent to eps's comment was also none too nice and not really relevant. It has, however, since been deleted.
Interesting ideas, not something I had previously thought of.
Uh, if you KNOW you're on their radar, you can't trust the mail. And you're mailing a letter which involves a whole lot of people carrying it and handling it. You've got a whole alphabet of persons.

Remember that this is a state level adversary. You're not going to get one past them. They know ALL the tricks. ALL of them.

Please don't talk tradecraft to me. You are doing it way wrong. There is a way to use the mail, but not the way you are describing it.
Actually I'm more surprised a question that simple would be a Google interview problem. Unless I'm missing something, this is pretty simple isn't it?
We (MakeGamesWithUs) have also found this to be the case. During our 75-person summer internship, many of the developers had old and slow hardware, and it made the debug cycle significantly slower and far more frustrating. I remember how much more productive I became when I upgraded to pro level hardware and can imagine the potential if they had the luxury of working on top of the line machines.
he's kind of a big deal because he's a self-described libertarian-leaning small-c conservative that often produces missives in agreement with the Democratic party. Contrast this with the libertarian-leaning small-c conservative Ron Paul, who often worked in conjunction with left-democrats - but generally not the Democrats (such as Kucinich, Barney Frank), and who is thus NOT a big deal to Democrats. To a large extent, the fawning over Sullivan is a sort of a political expediency. Now that the capital D Democrats have seemingly lost Sullivan, I would not be surprised if his big-deal-ness will fade, as he dismissed again as just one of those smarmy libertarians.
Uh huh. You gonna trust that setup with your life? Why not just continue to trust the one person you're SURE can tip you to compromise?

If Miranda ever gets his laptop/phone/drives back, they're as good as useless. Straight to the trash heap.
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Like the ppl using Eclipse over PHPStorm, it's just plain counter-productive and borderline ridiculous to endorse ZeroBrane over LuaGlider. Sorry, they have a ways to go.
Trading the ability to have multiline expressions for the ability to skip "return" sounds like a bad deal.
Disclosure: I work for Microsoft but that is a very new thing (the J++ dispute was many years ago)

IIRC, the J++ suit had to do with the specific terms of a license agreement that Sun and Microsoft had entered into. I don't think it was much like this where Google claimed to have done a non-infringing clean-room reimplementation claiming this didn't require a license from Sun/Oracle at all.
The president of Sun himself praised Google's Dalvik initiative. What legal trap were they trying to avoid here?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110724/11263315224/oracle...
2nd hand rewording of http://www.usgamer.net/articles/notch-puts-0x10c-on-icecommu...
This doesn't surprise me at all. To be blunt, Notch's work has continually been very... half-assed.

I first felt this when I played Minecraft; with successive patches and new added elements, it always felt as if Notch had had an idea, and gone to implement it, and then never bothered to flesh it out or work out the kinks. The Nether and portal system was pretty sorry at release, with basically nothing to do in the nether; rails and carts were always minimal given the possibilities as well as having various non-obvious mechanics that were somewhat frustrating; and so on. I feel you can really see this with the help of the modding community, where often a poorly implemented idea like villages or what not is decently fleshed out by someone who had a strong interest in it.

After Notch stopped working on Minecraft, and even before, there was talk of Scrolls, and the suit with Bethesda; after some time, that sorta fell by the wayside, was eventually handed off to the rest of Mojang, and Notch went to work on 0x10c. And now that, too, has been left in incomplete form.

I dunno whether its a matter of expectations, where the massive fan responses he gets damages his creativity, or if he just loses interest in projects (I have no lack of half-completed works laying around myself) but at this point I'd rather hear about a new project when its close to completion or released, rather than as he develops it.
You've been taking the wrong classes :P No, seriously, there's way more to DSP than matlab. You can pretty much do it in any language. For example in shool we used C++ combined with the Intel IPP libraries (which are really fast btw). The first book I bought for a job was C + bits of optimized assembly since it was written specifically for a TI Dsp. I've also played with it in Python but don't remember the lib name atm.
Correct. The Investor mindset is a bit different and they look for more safer bets.
>> First, editorailized headlines are not allowed by site rules. (EDIT: The headline is now changed. It previously read, "Change your IP, go to jail" or something like that.)

sorry if I find this amusing, the article is also about rules and people interpretation of them, freedom to access information, broadly speaking freedom. As journalists are free to make up their title when reporting news, interpreting by their PoV, why are we not allowed to do same?
Don't get me wrong, good rules are good (though yhey require trust), but that comment on this very news made me smile.
An issue is that an IP ban is not the same as giving a person notice that they are banned. For example, some consciously use tools which change their ip and or mac addresses on a regular basis; not for nefarius purposes, but simply to protect their privacy. These are the 'ordinary' IP changers in my experience. These people would never know that they've been banned from such a site if the site were to ban them in that way. The referenced case is different because the banned party was given direct legal notice.
Blaming David Cameron personally for this seems a bit of a reach: at this stage is there anything that actually shows that David Cameron himself knew about and approved of the detainment? He could still claim he knew nothing about the events of the last 24 hours...
You're best off to go through either Schiphol, Paris or Frankfurt (in that order). Paris has really good connections to Latin America as well (direct flights), Schiphol not as many but quite a few.
Markus was never involved in Scrolls development. Markus had been good friends with Jahkob (Mojang co-founder) for many years prior to Minecraft, Jahkob had been playing with an idea for a long time that Markus liked (what has eventually become Scrolls) and Mojang was formed, in part, to back Scrolls. Markus was never going to develop Scrolls; it was Jahkob's project and he formed a team to build it. Scrolls has become a full game that is being constantly developed, you can buy it now: http://scrolls.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrolls_(video_game)
Let's enumerate how wrong this is:

1. This was done by the British for a slight against the American government.

2. This is against a member of the media, who are typically considered noncombatants in political conflicts.

3. It's really against a family member; doubly noncombatant.

4. The supposed slight is only the truthful announcement of a criminal act by the government in question.

5. This comes after the government recently argued that they could be trusted with such powers.
Look, I've avoided bans on many websites on purpose. You're saying this should be a criminal act? If I get banned from Hacker News, and I make a second account using a proxy, I should get prison time?
They grounded President of Bolivia's plane (http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/07/08/inenglish/1373297508_109...) out of 'suspicion of transporting Snowden'.

So a mere citizen is pretty much a kid's play.
That is one of the biggest stretches I've read in a while. Bravo.
Yeah, a lot of the stuff on that page is true, but you can address it through "situational awareness" -- i.e. not letting a high-threat person get close enough to you to suddenly stab you.

The very specific case of someone grabbing a gun is the one area where I feel comfortable using a knife in self defense. Other than that it would be my absolute last choice (unarmed, even, might be better).

I'm generally in my house, in my car, or in an office somewhere -- all fairly secure environments, where I have 10-15 seconds to draw, or possibly even grab a long arm. My goal is to have a house/office on enough land that it takes >60sec for even SWAT to get to the front door after initially being noticed (a 150mph helicopter might be difficult, though), and maybe 30+ seconds to breach it (minimum).
eventually, within the context of the `go vet` tool, the http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.tools/go/types package may be used to analyze interface conversions ("I said I expected interface type A, but I'm using it as interface type B", which is unusual for go programs). i think that answers "yes" to your second question, but I'm not on the go team, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

short of disallowing interface-to-interface casts, it is indicative of an error and should be vetted as such. the particular case I described earlier was covered by the Go 1.0 guarantee, so it had to be documented rather than fixed.
"and their C++ is (I'm just guessing here) nigh unreadable by non-übernerds."

Actually google C++ codebase is some of the most carefully written and extensively commented codebase I've ever had the pleasure to work on. Of course a large amount of google C++ codebase is open source (Chromium, leveldb etc.) and you're free to read it and form informed opinions instead of guessing.
What the U.S. used to do in space... load it with shrapnel
I think where we have sympathy for them is in that they solve a problem / are trying to provide value to people when craigslist has refused to do so. We dont like that innovation is being thrown out because it isnt in the controlling companies best interests. I understand that the right to control your software/hardware comes first (and would not ever change that), but it just sucks that this is the result in this case.
i was referring to recent examples such as python 3.0, perl 6, or even, say, apache 2.0. eventually they were usable, but the blood sweat and tears involved did not make for cute blog posts such as the one we're commenting on.
So here's an interesting note on the UK Terrorism Act 2000 (available in a handy-dandy annotated form from the Legislative website: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/schedule/7/cross... )

(1) An examining officer may question a person to whom this paragraph applies for the purpose of determining whether he appears to be a person falling within section 40(1)(b).

...

(4) An examining officer may exercise his powers under this paragraph whether or not he has grounds for suspecting that a person falls within section 40(1)(b).

Italics mine, of course. One of many laws passed I suspect that makes what happened entirely legal (and all that much worse when you consider the implications). I think we need to disabuse ourselves of the ideas of "western liberal democracies" or "rule of law" protecting our liberties. What is happening now is the very definition of tyranny.

Maybe if enough people realize this is happening this can be changed? I suppose only time will tell.
Does anyone have experience with corporate policies regarding the movement of data through airports? I'm curious about the prevalence of the wipe everything and repopulate the hard drive via sftp at destination approach.
way to put someone down for being not only security aware, but principled as well.
Germany: Bitcoin is "private money" & Bitcoin mining is "private money creation"
I was a ling-lang major, and I fondly remember us all having the usual Windows and Mac fare. The professor told us for our Intro to Programming Course (all in C++ mind, you terrible first choice) that we needed to SSH into a Solaris box and compile with GCC (or g++ rather). Failure to compile with that, regardless of compiling with MSVC, Borland, or anything else was a 0.

I am so glad he forced me/us. He spent a day explaining Makefiles and their power, mentioning some people make their living fixing those up and paying attention could potentially help you out. That summer, I finally started using Linux, for personal interest, and I was so glad that class allowed to compile my own device drivers (back when wifi cards were still a novel PITA) and understand the basics of what was happening.

Good times.
> was put on hold indefinitely last week

This article is entirely false. The game has been put on holds for a year or so. More than 6 months ago people already knew that Notch gave up. No news here.

edit :

also if anyone is interested in the genre, it has been posted many times on /r/0x10c : check the game "Starmade". It's almost what Notch wanted to do, without the computer part.
>> "1. This was done by the British for a slight against the American government."

Not true. He also exposed British spying through GCHQ.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/gchq

>> "2. This is against a member of the media, who are typically considered noncombatants in political conflicts."

It was done against a member of the medias partner. He is not a journalist.

NB: I'm not defending any of what happened it's very clearly wrong.
Indeed, the mods for Minecraft are great. The only problem is nobody made a mod to REMOVE things. I'd remove the End any time - it's just a pointless place that a very few very specific things use.

Disclosure: I also run a modded Minecraft server (with an easy-to-use launcher and many nifty features), if anyone cares.
Thanks for trolling. It is not tinfoil hat. I just prefer to use open source and see the WIP of Chrome, which I get by downloading the nightly alphaware. I find security in open source not because I distrust Google, but I trust the open source development model to be more transparent. You can disagree, but I thought that was a common viewpoint on HN. But it is ok to make fun of me for it.

But I guess my brain does not breath as much as yours.
I think the fundamental principles behind release early, release often are sound. I doubt Minecraft would've been as big a success if it'd been released as a fait accompli. The continuous addition of new content is certainly what kept me coming back. In fact, the main reason I stopped playing was that my RSS feed stopped working, which made it seem like they'd halted development.

That said, I can imagine that Minecraft has set dauntingly high expectations for him. He wouldn't be the first to suffer under that pressure. Albert Einstein famously said that his years at the patent office were the happiest of his life, because no one expected him to lay golden eggs.
I was hoping this would be about "Dumb Holes" where the medium moves inwards faster than the speed of sound thus not letting any sound escape.
As a Star Alliance person, it's almost always Frankfurt. LH Senator made it a whole lot better, too.

AF had a cool "Petroleum Club" program, too, which let anyone marginally affiliated with the oil industry get free lounge access and other benefits.

I'd still almost always prefer making my connection within the US and flying nonstop from the US to my final European destination. I generally only fly ex-SFO, JFK, IAD so there's generally a non-stop flight anyway.
There's also a new supplementing one called http://go-search.org/ which makes it easier to search packages by keyword, and sorted by some kinda score.
Yes, I agree there is a difference between an accident and an attack.
The main point I'm making is the organisations involved are clearly using terrorism as a pretext, greatly inflating its media presence.
If the US for example really wanted to reduce terrorism things like better universal education and social welfare would probably really be effective as the vast majority of the US' terrorism is internal. (Killing of abortion clinic doctors and so forth)
yet there seems to be some (semi-?)scientific evidence that screen estate does matter: http://www.corecommunication.ca/4-studies-which-show-that-us...
Well, I'd say "mere citizen" is worse. Spain owes nothing to Evo Morales. But the only reason why Prime Minister has his job and why he's not just a random Joe from the street is because citizens put him there and entrusted him with enormous power. Abusing this power against the very citizens who are supposed to be the source of it is much graver crime than disrespecting a foreign dignitary to whom you owe nothing, it strikes right at the heart of the whole concept of democratic society. If citizens become routinely abused by the government, why should they keep giving it their consent? And if government has no citizen's consent, what is it but a pure tyranny?
shame on both sides. especially on you mkjones! you failed your responsibility and still blabla!
Javascript asynchronous problems
Yeah, it also flipped out on me (I had a load of green lines instead of text)
But I'm more concerned about the intended design. I think the act of scrolling triggering a full-window video is shocking bad.
I love that he can talk so comfortably about the strengths and weaknesses of himself and others.

A lot of people are uncomfortable talking plainly about their own importance or about other people's failings. And then you get the odd megalomaniac who's the opposite. It's refreshing to see someone who's comfortable talking about people honestly.
Most interesting, and quite different from media portrayals here in the US. Thanks for the insight.
Terrorism, criticizing the government, what's the difference?
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