skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figured that may have been the reasoning, but I long ago stopped thinking of the variable names in Perl as just the alphanumeric portion. To me, the native data types, which are denoted by the sigils, are intrinsic to the name.
If your observation is typical (and I will assume that it is) then if it's so common for people to leave something like that un attended then I would think there is an obligation on the part of the organizers to provide some type of security for the laptops because from what you are saying there is a defacto assumption of security by the way people seem to behave.

That could be as simple as something that would allow someone to easily lock the device to the desk and include providing the lock cable (depending on the cost).

Because from what you are saying it is not practical for a participant (and almost expected) that the laptop will be left unattended.

Edit: Defacto assumption of security or safety by virtue of the type of attendees and the venue.
What's the practical alternative, assuming a compromised RNG? random.org?
> Maybe what this approach needs is someone like Craig Venter to sequence all the bacteria found in generally healthy people and people with specific problems.

There are quite a few well-funded projects doing this on a large scale, see http://www.human-microbiome.org/index.php?id=30 for a comprehensive list. Not just the gut but other bacterial sites like skin, mouth, nasal cavity, urinary tract, etc.
I started with z80 on the Spectrum, and was pleased that x86 was largely similar. I guess it helps that people from Intel founded Zilog.
To be fair, I really don't think that the OP was trying to spam HN.
I like this approach from beginning to end. It spreads the financial hit amongst the group, spreads awareness and addresses the possibility of adverse effects of folks trying to take advantage of the effort and good will.
I think this is close to a "teach a man to fish" situation. If the community really cares shouldn't they be proactive in some way to work to prevent this from happening instead of reacting? And it seems that (from what others have said) from the behavior of participants (someone who replied to a comment I made) that this could easily happen many more times as the crowd increases in size.
Well, I do. And I'm not the only one.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sam-feltham/why-i-didnt-get-...
So are you going to post that iso parser?
Unless you're an Erlang or maybe Smalltalk programmer
I loved this feeling that I got when I found a web-page with good content that was hard to find. It was like opening a treasure trove. There were also a lot of different (rough) designs with personality making the experience much richer.

Now information is per page, accessible from Google. And everyone is mimicking other people's design. More and more people are consuming than creating and it changes the ecosystem. I would love to see more personal wikies that have traesures in them.
What's with the loaded question?
github.com/Peer5/ShareFest
sharefest.me
It says in the article he crowd funded his flight to the uk
All Java installations support only up to 128-bit AES by default. Oracle calls that "strong encryption". You can upgrade to "unlimited strength" by changing some policy files, after which 256-bit AES will be possible.

I don't know if that's what you're seeing, but there's definitely a class of clients that do not support 256-bit AES.
The Hands-Tied Presidency
That's just obscene! All that markup over just the label.

I understand that it takes R&D to develop new drugs, but the amount of profit sought by drug companies is stomach churning.
I didn't realize that Find My Mac works with the guest user under FileVault 2 (full disk encryption built into OS X — the guest user boots into a unencrypted partition that only runs Safari).

Source: Glenn Fleishman http://www.macworld.com/article/1163387/can_filevault_2_and_...
This reads like a parody.

"has even said that there is an inherent risk that every government is corrupt"

Corruption in the government? Gasp! How dare you?!
Samsung beats Apple and Google to smartwatch punch
As in most of these technological failures, the problem may just be between the keyboard and chair.

What slightly complicated matters is that it is not certain who's occupying said chair: a user or a developer.
I'm not actually a lawyer, though I suppose I do sometimes play one on HN.

Regarding your noted normalcy bias, I would suggest you're forgetting the very many more points through recorded history with a centralized purveyor of force and taxation.

In that light, pointing out isolated counterexamples isn't very suggestive of some realistic future possibility for most or all of mankind, just as pointing out that Athens once had a direct democracy isn't very useful as a way to organize the governance of a nation.

Of course, the agorism you point out doesn't even have voting. I can only assume the idea is for some type of useful emergent behavior to come about, but that only talks about how the society would function internally, and it doesn't even really provide details about how that would work in all the important corner cases.

Is there some type of existing emergent societal system that you can point out which works in practice and need only be scaled up?

> As a nash equilibrium, an involuntary centralised productivity extracting parasitic force initiating agency is not at all stable. It stands to reason that it will only be able to maintain control by either force or fraud.

If by 'stable' you mean 'impossible to overturn' then I would argue that no political system meets this. If you mean 'can continue perpetually' then it is certainly a stable equilibrium, though it does unashamedly require force. Fraud alone can't keep it going in any event, otherwise police wouldn't be needed.
Some datacenters consider things like MPLS labels as a secure boundary. That isn't an issue at Google scale, but google almost certainly uses public fiber at between many connection points.
I agree that different languages don't all have perfectly different purposes or philosophies, but I'm not sure why you'd think I'm claiming that.

I think you could pick better examples. PHP and Ruby are both interpreted, Perl-inspired languages started by hobbyist first-time language designers who released 1.0 versions about months apart. So yes, if you apply them to similar problems and use similar techniques in the same languages, you'll have similar experiences.

But even so, I think PHP's purpose, which is rooted in letting amateurs simply render web pages, is very different than Ruby's purpose, which is a flexible, general purpose, objects-first scripting language. I also think their design philosophies are pretty different. PHP has never worried much about elegance or consistency; Ruby inherited Perl's DWIM approach, but tried to do it in a way that was not just functional, but beautiful.
It's ironic that the typography of the website is totally broken on mobile.
Obscene? What's the "correct" markup?

I sell digital, single-player video games. My manufacturing cost is zero and markup is infinite.
The BIOS provides the programmer with basic I/O routines, but let's say performance wise it's far from being very efficient... And access from protected mode is quite tricky (but possible if you don't care about performance, security and reliability, but FreeBSD does it routinely to guess supported video modes from the graphic card).

When I read you, you seem to believe that writing to a disk (for example), is just a matter of having a "driver". That might be possible in a world where caching doesn't exist and where you don't have to support shitload of devices that claim to be a disk but really aren't or other drivers trying to pretend that they are a disk or other drivers trying to catch your writes to the disk, but really, you don't need an os I guess, just something minimal with hypercalls?

Tell me then, just as a thought experiment, if you get a kernel panic, what do you tell to the disk controller? Not today?

A snarky comment, I know, but I happen to be a kernel programmer and reading your comment was really annoying.
+1. Don't change your pricing until the results say you need to. And don't let the commenters here that feel the need to shit on someone's hard work get to you.
does it guarantees the same speed as any standard usb3.0 port?
If you read through all of the posts you will learn otherwise.
Why do companies keep pushing 3D TV? No one I know actually wants 3D TV.

Now if only they'll release a 42" 4K monitor at $500. I'll be the first to buy. The monitor market has been stagnant for years.
My ADHD medication Strattera costs $170 a month and since the generic version only saves me $20 causes serious nausea and vomiting I don't have any choice.

And its one of the only medications you can't develop a tolerance for.

Luckily I'm Canadian, working part time at a Canadian university where health insurance covers the costs.
Okay I'll keep it on my Mind.
Have been playing with this for a few minutes. It's been pretty enjoyable, I especially like the animated graphics. With things like this I always wonder what the experience is like for people who have never programmed. Do you have any idea? I am going to share with some of my non-technical friends but it's possible they won't ever get around to playing it.
Wish my Apple //c+ would have had it, would have made programming games a lot easier!
Generally these things feel awkward to me. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy is getting a stipend/support from Google since it is great PR for them (although I think the blogging rules would require he disclose it). I enjoyed the youtube videos of the guy dancing all over the world, that was just fun.
What OS are you running?

I've found that Linux machines which run OS's with older kernel versions (CentOS 6.4) seem to have unbearably bad performance - just speculating but I think it's probably due to a lack of hardware acceleration support in the video card drivers. The new Maps uses vector-based instead of tile-based rendering which requires quite a bit more computational power to achieve a nicer look.
They're still out there, albeit harder to find. Geocities dying was quite a blow and Tripod is scarcely touched these days. Squatters, I fear, are moving to NeoCities, but here and there I find some sites that are diamonds in the rough. Individually hosted sites are rarer still.

I.E.

http://www.nakka-rocketry.net

http://www.mcleanmonocycle.com

http://www.neogentronyx.com

http://rimstar.org/sdprop

http://www.matus1976.com

http://www.restrainingbolt.com

I tend to browse forums (barely have the time these days) where these links are shared. Once in a while Google will get these pages or you might see a Wiki page created for them, but for the most part, they're really spread through manual sharing.
The book, "Anatomy of an Epidemic", provides a really comprehensive look at how we ended up in this situation. Some of the keys here:

1) A desire to bring a level of "science" to a part of our physiology we don't understand. The thinking here is that while we do not understand the etiology of depression, we can at minimum begin to use blunt tools to solve problems. The issue as anyone who has studied complex systems understands, is that the feedback loops are so dense, there is no method to understand what is happening.

2) Financialization of treatment – drugs make more money than therapy and other methods. Or to use an HN phrase, drugs are more easily scaled to the population than other methods. The incentives throughout the entire system push people this direction, regardless of the underlying research.

3) Treatment doesn't happen instantly in any case. The issue with much of the research today is that we take a very limited time window to evaluate the efficacy of different treatments. If, instead, we looked at treatment over the life course, the results are often radically different.

This is where startups like Seven Cups of Tea will hopefully play the world. This mental health crisis offers a huge opportunity for disruption and creativity. As a quote in the Stanford alumni magazine said this month: "One hundred years from now, people will look back at the age of giving SSRIs and they will have a reputation that's akin to bloodletting."[1]

[1] http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?articl...
Show HN: Quake by id Software Chrome packaged app
Unfortunately, some of the side-effects of experience are distrust and paranoia. These are very effective experiences in software development.

If this theft happened to an experienced pro, then their data is encrypted and backed up, so all they've lost is hardware, and that's probably covered by insurance.

If the theft happened to a student, then maybe they're not the most experienced engineer. They might not have backups, and their data might not have been encrypted. They might not be ensured. The hardware cost is still - comparatively - cheap. But they might have to rewrite their thesis from scratch. Or risk having their personal data exposed to the public.

But at this point, the only help that financial aid can give, is restoration of the physical loss - i.e. a new laptop. In most cases, that wouldn't compare to the loss. But it might help, a little.
clicky: http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html
There is a lot in that last sentence - I am worrying how we will find the time to fill in football, swimming, parties and gym for my eldest - yet for me the memories of my youth were acres of time to do what I wanted (even if I felt bored !)

We should encourage just using up the time on anything - drawing, coding, playing an instrument. Anything that builds capital for later life.
We're a startup that just won the global demo day of AngelHack last week, and we're currently searching for a co-founder/CTO. FOSUBO (FOrget the SUggestions BOx), our start-up, allows customers to individually review employees. T-Mobile is already using our service in 7 stores, and we are planning on applying to YC for this round.

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Geekme About me in Geek style
Aboutme in Geek using a JSON file with all your details
I have plans on adding support for mobile and to make it responsive in the near future.

Thanks for the feedback!
Your marginal distribution cost is zero, but the manufacturing cost to design and develop the game is clearly not zero. The issue is that just because you can charge a lot doesn't mean you should. Although capitalism rarely works that way.
Yes. I just mean that it can run without any server.
FileSaver.js makes it possible to download any note offline..
That is nothing new, it is how Native Oberon works (1987), which is based on Smaltalk (1972) works.

In Native Oberon, every module can export functions as commands that are mouse callable in the UI and take input from mouse selections, which can even be UI objects (gadgets).

Most of the mouse/keyboard interactions in Rio were already available in Native Oberon.
It even runs on my ARM Samsung chromebook pretty well.
Props to SiPlus (https://github.com/SiPlus/WebQuake) who ported pretty much line-for-line netquake from the original id source code release.
Well assuming the Hackathon is on a razor thin budget (which I grant you it may not be) might be able to support adding some equipment which can be tasked to other things when not hackathoning and can be installed/removed in a variety of venues. The WebCam/Pi/Disk system is about $100 (less if you use the Pi's camera module).

You absolutely could go out and buy a video surveillance system of course.
Sure, that was in 1988. This is 2013, you can criticize the Russian president, but you can't criticize the American president because he is listening.
"London, Paris, Amsterdam, Harderwijk, Emsdetten, Munster, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Milan, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Athens, courtesy of Google+ users from one side of the world to the other."

So one side of the world is England, and the other is Bulgaria?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnage_Heart
i know this. even first i thought i'd use contenteditable attribute inside a div but later i decided to use textarea instead..
also this app can save the note locally...
All of the commercial licenses I've dealt with have prohibited distributing the software, hypothetical modifications thereof, and any and all hypothetical source code.

The GPL speaks for itself. You are free to modify GPL-licensed software and distribute your modified version with the caveat that you make the source code available. Thus you are in fact free to do whatever you want to the software. The restriction is on the distribution of the software, not the modification you make.

Why does that one restriction cause so much distress?
Cutting carbs? Anecdotal evidence to support it? How about anecdotal evidence against it - see 2 billion+ Asians, esp. Japanese.
Unfortunately, not everyone has common sense. Stating the obvious seems like a simple solution. Sorry for the Clutter.
The Lava Hardware Description Language
>while bringing disrepute upon a law school

Quite a feat, I would say.
I know the Internet can seem overwhelming at times.

Here you go:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cia+fake+vaccination+osama
I've done low fat and low carb both for over 6 months each. Really no difference except that low carb was a bit easier to feel satiated.
Maccentricity
and that'll work like a WYSIWYG editor whilw I need just plain text (no formatting).... that's why I'm not using contenteditable div, rather using textarea..
The 10 commandments for happiness and success
Are there any games made to help software developers improve their design or intuitive skills? Maybe something where you have to minimize dependencies or visualize program flow, or apply known design patterns to solve problems... I'm envisioning minigames that are basically koans with immediate feedback. I think I would find those very useful.
"...they will have a reputation that's akin to bloodletting"

Here's to hoping so! And sooner than that.
The trouble is, well-done deliberate sabotage is very hard to distinguish from incompetence. (It appears there is definitely deliberate sabotage out there - see for instance http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg123... which sadly didn't make the front page here.)
Hey, I started something like this sometime back and never got around to actually making it work. Nice to look at this and get some tips. http://iklsr.github.io/jot.htm
Facebook and Google Are Gentrifying San Francisco Neighborhoods
point #2 should have had a smiley attached to it.

-bowerbird
In the same vein, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindRover

this games main site is down, you're left to your own methods to acquire it.
>amount of profit sought by drug companies is stomach churning

What's the right amount of profit a company should seek? For reference, following are the latest reported profit margins of several companies:

Eli Lilly: 20.34%
AstraZeneca: 13.33%
Novartis: 17.33%

Apple: 19.53%
Google: 18.11%
Microsoft: 24.95%

It's not at all clear to me that drug companies are somehow seeking more profits than other companies (or that they would generally be able to attain them in any case).
A different perspective on a recurring topic.

While the title suggests intent,
I tend to think that the effect is
simply more market-driven than intentional.
I don't think I said anything about global disregard. I asked why I should personally care. It seems like there are a lot of people trying to tell me I should care, but I did not once say that others should not care.
Thanks to both. I nearly forgot that I resolved to act following the data.

It's kind of a new experience to me, but I'm learning a lot and that's what I always try to do.
For the last 18 years or so I have been taking some form of low cost Ritalin with a co-pay between 15-25 dollars.

This ancient medication that is a generic costs 130 dollars a month and that is the negotiated rate!

The money isn't going to research and it isn't going to manufacturing so where does it go?
I have not personally seen a good argument for differentiating between spam filtering and contextual advertising in terms of access.

Are you seriously proposing free e-mail and/or a spam filter is a good trade for one of the major pillar Bill of Rights? So goes my spam filter, so goes the constitution? What's ironic is that the spam guys use 1st amendment to justify the spam (same as junk mail and the credit rating agencies).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic_system#Insolation_...

I'm taking the lowest value of 0.75 kWh per day. A quick look with google shows average yearly consumption per home is ~10000 kWh or 27.3kWh per day. So you would need about 36.5 m^2 for a home. That is about 6x6 meters and would fit nicely on a typical house, but probably not on a apartment building and much less on a skyscraper.

I assert that the problem is in the cost of the cells, cost and storage problem of batteries(no power at night and not relying on other sources) and unawareness of the general population.

I am not an expert on the this field and would gladly be corrected.
Has it been verified that they can break most internet crypto? Or is it just a claim?
Hmm, I took that as him trying to be friendly, but making a bad assumption.
yes. my homepage is hosted on a free server so the server response time is the only problem that makes my site load slower than it should be...
As i mentioned to another commentor, I don't think we should encapsulate everyone under the same policies nor do I think everyone should feel the same. I believe it's OK for people to want a lot of privacy. However, through this whole NSA discussion, I've seen a large amount of discussion on HN basically saying that anyone who doesn't desire a high level of privacy is wrong or ignorant. That's certainly what Zuider's comment about the possibility of me saying "I'm not doing anything wrong..." asserts. I think it's more ignorant to believe that everyone needs to have the same values and beliefs as you regarding privacy.
the cayman islands.
I spent this Thursday and Friday migrating a pretty complicated site from 2 to 3, and boy it is a pain. My word of advice to anyone reading, do not use v3 for a desktop oriented website unless you specifically desire new hybrid grid system. It doesn't have fixed width elements anymore. It doesn't have truly flexible elements either. Form inputs are now screwed up (flexible) by default, lots of things are screwed up, some examples on the official website are still screwed up. It wasn't worth it, it looks and functions worse than it did, even with a bunch of new custom CSS.
> In the last year he has become more and more enchanted by antiestablishment ways of thinking and has even said that there is an inherent risk that every government is corrupt.

If not for that line I'd say that techer just wanted to say that the student is vocal, selfish jackass and failed to invoke proper euphemisms. But this line shows teachers ignorance. I thought that risk of governemnt being corrupt is something so obvious that it's taught on history lessons in primaryschool. Or maybe I am wrong and it's not established that all government can become corrupt? And if there are some uncorruptible goverment forms, then why we don't use them? Or there is some non-constructive proof known that shows that some goverments are not at all prone to corruption but we have no idea how they look like?

Goverment by definition decides about the stuff it does not own. And if you decide about stuff you don't own you can trade doing some harm to that stuff for improving your own status. And that's coruption.