skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uhhhh... didn't something like this happen with at&t a while back that is pretty well known now?
I feel Khan Academy and current MOOCs need to be treated like alchemy or Freud.

It's people creating half-baked initial versions of a potentially revolutionary idea, even if it may not live up to the hype and never quite deliver on the promise of turning base metals into gold.
Also on iOS6
Slow down, slow down. Is there a URL on this? When you mean soldiers, do you mean the US Army?
Drugs and supplements for over-achieving startup founders
I think he's the same guy who tried to raise money on IndieGoGo for it. He didn't achieve the goal, but he did it anyway:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/community-cell-phone/
The only way? I beg to differ.

There is always more than one way to skin a cat.
In the long run, the distros are also a dead end. Neither Square, nor "Carlhuda" share the same commitment as Brian Moolenaar. If you find them useful then take advantage, knowing that they are only a fixed point within the ecosystem.
Yeaaaah, you could probably fall afoul of the CFAA with this one... See: weev.

Edit: Ahh, I see you're based outside the US, carry on.
please read my comment again. It's covered in there
I had the idea that for men the standard deviation was bigger? So you have some guys that are less good at math than the worst women and some men that are better than the best women? Not sure where I got that idea, would be interesting to know some more numbers.
haskell has plenty of interpreters
Are all of those standard datatypes thread-safe? If not, they are not what the parent was asking for. Clojure's maps, sets and vectors are all thread-safe due to being immutable. They're all built-in to the standard library and have extremely slick syntactic sugar.

Sure, you could implement all of this in Racket, I'm not saying you couldn't; the advantage with Clojure is that these things are standard and that everybody else's libraries make use of this stuff.

This is probably the biggest advantage with starting any new programming language: you get a chance to redo the standard library (and tie it into some syntactic sugar) without worrying about compatibility.
New Features On Y Combinator Universe
Can you imagine the level of backlash any government would receive if it was discovered identities were being stolen directly from them?

Something like that would be grounds for a complete loss of trust in my books.
The state gets addicted to the revenue, people spend more time looking at their speedometers instead of the road, and the limits keep going down (instead of becoming more realistic) because the 'think of the children' crowd is just as powerful as ever. Source: Melbourne, Australia
This is brilliant news!

Would it be possible to drop a cross compiled Haskell library into a Xamarin project and call into it from the .Net (F#) world? That would be the killer feature for me!

Also not much mention of android here - is it possible to target android with Haskell at the moment?
In an Bitcoin-related open-source project I'm currently working on (still in early alpha stages), I'll be using a browser extension that verifies the response using offline signatures (with a way to verify the public key using the Bitcoin network) and compares against builds from the github repository (using travis-ci).

Here's some explanation from the website FAQ:

#### Browser extension
Our browser extension provides improved security by verifying the integrity
of the files served by the server. The verification is done using two factors:

- **Cold storage signature verification:**
In addition to SSL, static files (html/css/javascript)
are signed using standard Bitcoin message signatures on an offline machine
(the private key was created on that machine, and has no other copies)
and appended to the response body as a comment.

- **Comparing against the code on GitHub repository:**
The source code from the GitHub repository is built on Travis-CI,
and the resulting hashes are published publicly on Travis's job page.
The extension compares the web server response against those hashes.

If a potential attacker gains control over the web server, he still only has
access to information the web server already has (which is very little).
To get sensitive information, he would have to modify the client-side code
to send back more data to the server.

For an attacker to succesfully mount such an attack against someone with the
browser extension, he would have to:

1. Gain access to the web server
1. Gain access to the personal computer of a developer with commit access
to the Github repository
1. Commit his changes to the public GitHub repository, where they
can be seen by anyone
1. Gain **physical access** to the offline machine with the private key

For users without the extension, he would only have to do the first step.
It is highly recommended to install the extension.

<a class="btn btn-primary" href="TODO">Install extension</a>

#### Public key verification
To prevent an attacker from modifying our published Bitcoin public key,
its permanently embedded into Bitcoin blockchain in a way that is
[nearly impossible](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_computing_power)
to modify (and becomes exponentially more difficult as time goes by).

The public key can be verified by taking the following procedure:

1. Take the SHA256 of the domain name ("****.com")
2. Create a Bitcoin address using that hash as the private key
3. Find the **first** transaction with that address as its *output address*
4. The *input address* of that transaction is our public key

If its ever required to change the public key, the announcement
will be signed with the old public key.
> (which I believe could exist elsewhere in the universe...)

They are unlikely to exist elsewhere except for a few moments (not even a second) after a supernova. A regular star will not make them, and they decay extremely fast.
Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over
Brilliant, Thanks!
Very true. It's all supply & demand. That's how markets correct themselves: when the supply is vast but demand non-existent, the prices fall causing supply side (mines in our case) go bankrupt, have financial difficulties, etc. - forcing them to cut cost and improve, be more efficient. On the other hand in the meantime while the supply side isn't really there, the demand starts occurring again because the product becomes very rare. And then the rarity causes the prices to go up again. That's how it usually works not only in gold mining industry but eveywhere.

Let's say iPhone apps. Once they become so plentiful and cheap (free), supply side (developers) start doing other stuff, for example programming web sites, or desktop software. This causes rarity of new iPhone apps, so people start to be willing to pay more for an (let's say) iPhone game because there are less and less game issued every week. The prices going up makes new developers entering the scene, etc.

Another point, I'd like to make is that gold mining cost has been just $800 per ounce 2 years back. This just shows you how inflation works. Gold mining is energy intensive and labor intensive. Once labor cost and energy cost are up, gold price is up too. That's why the Government hates it so much because it just simply shows how big the real inflation is while the Government tries to tell us all we have below 1% inflation per annum.
Did firefox actually implement the default tor change? This mayb be the reason, if plenty of testers are checking out the new nightly builds?
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It's possible, but I'm not sure how robust it will be. There are a lot of heuristics being used to guess what the options are, if they expect an argument, etc. So when feeding it with a command that was typed by someone, which is most likely correct, it's fairly easy to look up each option in all the possibilities. Not to mention some commands have a very complicated set of rules (e.g. find), and the position of some options is context sensitive, which explainshell isn't (it could be, but that would require a lot of manual work).

It's interesting because I had an idea once to do the opposite: see if explainshell could use completion files from bash/zsh/fish as another source of options besides the man page.
This should work:

#!/bin/bash
cmd="$(cut -d ' ' -f 1 <<< "$@" )";
args="$(cut -d ' ' -f 2- <<< "$@" )";
url="http://explainshell.com/explain/$cmd?args=$args"
explanation="$(curl -s $url | grep '<pre' | sed -E 's/<\/?[a-z]+(\ [a-z]+=\"[a-z0-9]+\")*>//g' | sed -E 's/^\ +//g')"
echo "$explanation"

Example:

~$ tar xzvf archive.tar.gz
~$ explain !!
explain tar xzvf archive.tar.gz
The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
-x, --extract, --get
-z, --gzip, --gunzip --ungzip
-v, --verbose
-f, --file ARCHIVE

Save in /usr/local/bin. Gist: https://gist.github.com/backus/6387485
yeah by 'possible' I mean 'it would be a stretch, but it's not impossible'. You don't know that there might be a really efficient nucleosynthesis of these guys that we haven't found yet. Plus, there are places where energy is really abundant but hard to capture and store, like, really close to the sun.
Yes And No.
No
1. Should a developer will knew all business logic around ?Must knew accounting if erp ,must knew mechanical if do mechanical project.
Yes
1. Most developer come from business logic itself and normal CS degree.Some big system(ORACLE E_BUSINESS,SAP and so so on) not even cater for their environment business.Some fell back to Microsoft Excel.So to counter them at lease have business logic also.
Pretty standard for package trackers.

Only thing that helps is a sufficiently random tracking hash/string.
Where's Carlos Slim when you need him?
These sites go beyond lists of facts though.

Pretty sure that the text/flavour will be under copyright. The names might well be too.
I'd like to make it easier for founders to "claim" their startup on Seed-DB, which would lead to the ability for them to privately rate their accelerator and their VCs/Angels if they've received funding.

I'm not sure how many startups would do that, though... it's surprising to me how many startups from accelerators don't even have a Crunchbase or an Angellist page. Seed-DB is a nights/weekends project for me and I've already got a backlog of stuff I want to add. :)
or else https://www.coursera.org/
This regex is the one I used to extract options from man pages, not to parse the command line (which is simply a wrapper around Python's shlex).
Show HN: Tellyium. A web app for tracking your TV watching progress.
I'm not waiting on anything. OS X supports it fine, and with a desktop environment on top that's much better for me.
I don't know about freud, but alchemy did eventually turn into chemistry. You have to start somewhere.
No; it's probably based around using confluent data structures.
Seems so, the hardware is the same, according to another news article about the subject.
He did get the money raised, however, as it was using the Flexible Funding model:

"This campaign has ended and will receive all funds raised. Funding duration: February 10, 2013 - March 24, 2013 (11:59pm PT)."
https://startpage.com/ gives you Google search results minus personalization.
I'm a little late in the party but I wanted to express my feelings anyway. I wrote a book with 2 other authors 2 years ago, and would have LOVED a tool like this. Going over Word documents in revision mode was a colorful nightmare. In general, having to work with Word was not the ideal stuff anyway.

To my point: to be totally useful along the whole typical writing process with traditional publishers (authors -> technical review -> authors -> editor review -> authors -> punctuation/misc review -> authors -> editor) you'll need at some point to export as Word documents. Ideally, collaborate in Git like environment, export as Word, receive a new Word with all those colored revision and import into Git like stuff.
So it probably will be Colbertium.

See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert#COLBERT_Treadmi...
> Great to see some love for tmux.

It's not like tmux didn't get any love these days.
I think that's the point he's making: these are early days and what we've got at the moment is likely to be partly or wholly wrong, but it's necessary and pointing in a good direction.
> I'm in a car without any indication of which side the gas tank is on.

I absolutely hate it when they don't indicate which door on the fridge is a freezer. So annoying.

Seriously though, gas tank indicators make sense only in rental cars and most of them have aftermarket stickers that do just that.
It is a very clever feature that allows lazy people to appreciate the content with no effort (zero clicks). We got used to seeing upvote links everywhere and tend to ignore it over time, and thus become lazy to click it. Plus there are even websites that ask you for a new "user account" just for the upvote which, further decreases the chances of clicking. With all that, dcurtis increases the chances by actually "making" you upvote, not even with any "clicks". practical.
Gold isn't commodity - why the central banks of the world are storing it? And not oil. And not steel. And not coal? Because gold still functions as _money_ in people's minds. This includes central bankers. And gold historically, for the past 5,000 years, has been used as an indicator of economic levels. One of the good reasons is that you can't have a Government play with it. Did you know that if the same formula for accounting for inflation was used today as was used in Reagan years the US official inflation would be at 10% ? That's right, if we just used the official Government formula of counting inflation from 1980s we are at 10% today. While they try to push this propaganda it is non-existent.

I love your quote: "back when I was kid, gas was 10 cents a gallon, and now it's $3.50! Why aren't wages 35 times higher!"

I think mine is better: "back when I was kid, gas was 10 silver cents a gallon, and now it's still 10 silver cents! Why wages are 3 times lower in silver terms!"

Because if you google it, you'll know that barrel of oil price in real money has been the same for the past 50 years. About 1/15 price of ounce of gold. I.e. 1 ounce of gold buys you 15 barrels of oil. With +/- 5 barrels deviation depending on the market cycle. But the average is 15. Your quote presents exactly why gold is much better indication of inflation than some government burocrats and their ever-changing formulas to please the Government.
Oh, so in your version of history, Apple had about as much success prior to 1981 as they did after? Interesting.
Probably not in the US, but keep in mind that very often in many other places, what the person selling access is also doing is screening for the person whose access is being sold.

This sort of arrangement works pretty well if the person selling the access is actually offering a decent service to both sides. However, it needs to be mutual, pre-arranged, and with plenty of duties all around (in most of the world "duties" end up meaning "kickbacks" but the system won't work if it is limited to that).
Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
> I'm still undecided what technology to use to create it.

I've got friends working on projects a bit like this. Markdown served from github pages is nice, as you edit and compare diffs in markdown, but you can get it automatically rendered into a nice readable form too.

My own view though is that the most likely way to fail is to lose motivation, and having interminable discussions over minutia early on while writing is likely to suck away your energy. I'd probably get at least the skeleton of the whole story into your repos before encouraging others to contribute.
I'm still convinced that MOOCS are a scheme to keep research dollars in premier western universities.
I don't believe watching Khan Academy videos as someone who knows the stuff well enough to teach is a fair game.

The value and merit of Khan Academy is that it does the job better for a huge amount of people, than anything before. Self-studying text-book devouring students aren't really included.

Though, maybe, there will be text versions of the video... Maybe a wiki?
I guess he is talking about this: http://everything2.com/title/Mox+Perl
Benchmarking Amazon RDS (mysql) with Provisioned IOPS
This might be workable for some people, I tried DDG and results aren't on the same level. DDG is getting better every day, until then my temporary solution is using "Google proxy" (anonymised Google search) like https://startpage.com/.
Everything premier western universities do is a scheme to get more research dollars.

Not sure if that is a bad thing though.
I'm not entirely sure how the upgrade process works in Mint. I think of it as a "transition" distro in many ways. Most of the people I've recommended it to moved on to Crunchbang or similar after a few months of use.
Connecting mobile HTML5 to hardware
Why would anyone consider mtg something worthy of ridicule?
No response yet, I even tried a third time and left my voice mail. Can anyone shade some light on how to proceed or help me reach him?
Oh come on, am I the only one who wanted this to be a Bitcoin exchange?
Using C++ template parameters to create strong types
This is pretty old news (has been the case for years and years with DHL), however by grabbing those signatures, you've just put yourself in Weev's shoes.
Harward's new Transparent, flexible speaker runs on ions
A research team at Harvard has created a remarkable proof of concept device: a thin, transparent speaker powered by ions instead of electricity. Such "ionic devices" could lead to artificial muscles, telescopic contact lenses, and more.

In the electronics we use every day, a constant flow of charged electrons that we call electricity provides power for circuits, LCDs and motors. Ionic devices are powered not by electrons, but as you might guess, ions. These tiny charged particles have several advantages over electrons.

Electrons flow quickly and easily (so much so that, we think of them like a fluid on tap), but basic physical limitations mean you're unlikely to have a transparent cable or flexible circuit board.

Ionic conductors, on the other hand, stretch and compress without a problem, and with the ions suspended in a water-based "hydrogel," the resulting devices can be as clear as glass.
These days it's all about results: what are we going to get for doing this action? What purpose does it serve? The same thing has happened with our eating habits, among other things. How many calories does this contain? What vital nutrients will this give me? (I'm not saying it's a bad thing.) However I have a feeling it'll be a while before this approach will work with child development.
I believe this is the relevant project:
https://github.com/neurocyte/ghc-android

Joey Hess has been using it to build git-annex for Android.
http://git-annex.branchable.com/install/Android/

And much of the work we did simply improved support for cross-compilation in general, so Android support should be better than ever! : )
"There is a lot of high-grade corporate software being written in Java for the browser..."

The problem is the less than stellar sandboxing which allows non-high-grade software of dubious origin and function to run arbitrary code via the plugin on the underlying system. That puts it somewhat outside the spectrum of damage the typical XSS or HTML injection does; usually phishing or session hijacking.
Well, thats a much better source than the original indiatimes.

So it is an actual GSM network, and it runs OpenBTS. Awesome.
System Level Memory Allocation in Linux
Yup, it's easy to remove that specific functionality. But let's think of the big picture. The introduction of this privacy-violating functionality signifies the direction of Ubuntu as a whole.
"To start with the list of topics under the statistics heading showed a strong mathematics influence. This may reflect the state of the curriculum in the United States, but in no way reflects current understanding of how statistics is best understood."

Anyone producing teaching materials will tend to use the existing school or university syllabi as a guide. Search YouTube for a mathematical topic and include 'GCSE' in the search term to see a pretty good mapping of the range of teaching styles in UK/England and Wales (Scotland has a different system).

I think anyone here thinking of authoring materials for use by school age students should break the topics down as small as they can (high 'granularity'). That will allow teachers to include them in different programmes, and to shop around for different approaches.
A bunch of talented developers who all want to run their own show. I'm not sure they'd make great employees for a small slice of equity even after their startup's failed.
Even without an arrow, the tank is always on the same side where the filling pistol is on the picture next to the fuel gauge. It's on the right in yours.
It's not about volume, but concentration. We can't have adversarial countries attracting or retaining any talent, or at least a paying student body to utilize that talent.
Awesome! Any of you guys in London by the way?
Last week I wrote a blog post on OpsWorks deployment from the command line and via Codeship. The article is here: http://novoit.eu/blog/02-deploying-code-to-amazon-opsworks-u...
RabbitMQ supports HTTP and has a clean easy API. Scales in lots of ways. Supports very high throughput on a single cheap AMI. Has awesome GUI and UI. Etc. YMMV.
> What's so awesome about GitHub?

It isn't all reasons mentioned in this article ... the most awesome about github are the developers. This is the biggest reasons why a "github for writers" could fail
I get the feeling that you have no idea what we are talking about in this thread. "mattl" said "software sharing", and you immediately assume that he meant "money sharing"??
Yes thank you - too punchy to remember anything useful that late at night.
Ethics aside, this is a pretty large oversight on the part of DHL. All you need to stop the incrementing is to require a second param such as the recipient postcode or customer surname. Plenty of other companies get this right.
The Difference Between Web Marketing Channels and Destinations
The article says it's Carlos Slim's company that was ignoring the village because the population was too small:

"After being ignored by a company owned by the world's richest man Carlos Slim, a tiny Mexican village has developed its own mobile network with international connections."

"The village of Villa Talea de Castro, dotted with small pink and yellow homes, has a population of 2,500 indigenous people. Tucked away in a lush forest in the southern state of Oaxaca, it was not seen as a profitable market for companies such as Slim's America Movil. The company wanted at least 10,000 subscribers to bring the village into its mobile coverage, AFP said."
I agree. At least we should give them credits for making things change.