skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the fact that PHP devs are relatively cheap. Especially compared to people capable and willing to learn your brand new homegrown language.
The cows connected to the internet
Great idea. Awesome name.
Bill Joy's own docs and comments on the origin of vi and the terminals it was designed for contradict your opinions.

I've given examples with supporting evidence. What evidence have you given to back up your claims?

I didn't invent any quotes. The quotes I posted -- using the widely-accepted quotation mark convention of English (assuming your keyboard has those!) -- are clearly indicated. The "vi is lame" statement is my own summary of your opinions expressed in this thread, it is not attributed to you as a quote but as a sentiment. Thus the lack of surrounding quotation marks.

But maybe let that bone go and try to produce any evidence supporting the meager meat of your arguments about early terminals and the history of vi.
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Well, although schools might not say they do, some actually do.
I know a teacher of a private school and there school has different classes marked from with letters A, B, C, D
The stronger students go into the higher letters and the weaker to the lower one.

This helps improve both the strong and the weak.
But i believe that the same should be done in all schools.
It might be harder to actually implement is state schools, as the delinquents will all be grouped in one class, thereby completely killing the class performance and any chance of the other students in that class in improving
cheap as in stupidly simple, relatively computationally inexpensive and largely ineffective. Not as in having a low storage overhead.
Gates is the man seriously for doing this. Feynman is such a great person I am so sad I missed seeing and learning from him. And Carl Sagan of course.
Are you an ad man?
You refer to them by their preferred sex. A transgender man is (usually) female-to-male or FTM, and would be referred to with male pronouns. Using the pronouns of their birth gender is considered rude.
These days there is no need for that. They can just visit a "pain clinic" and get a prescription.
Well I do use a 11 inch laptop, so most computers are bigger than mine. Better go get a second roll of foil!
Which actually would make sense as a bullshit job title, taken in context with the memes of certain online communities...
My wife took my surname when we married, but rather than hyphenate she decided to go with a space. Although the names are each quite short (e.g. "Jones" and "Smith"), this has proven to be a significant challenge for our bank, and even on her drivers license (which compressed her name to JONESSMITH). It never occurred to either of us that a ten character last name with a space in the middle would be problem to anyone other than people who want to cite her research.
I took the 'educational' to mean 'this should never be used in a real application' :)
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Sadly, I've seen companies that depend (like literally, if it were to fail the company would shut down) on a codebase that is on 5.0 :(
Yes:

> a transsexual man is a person who was assigned the female sex at birth [but] identifies as a man and is transitioning or has transitioned to a male gender role and has or will have a masculine body.

They're separate components of the person's identity: a transgender man is a man and transgender. From [it is common courtesy to refer to a person as their current preferred/identified gender] it follows that a transgender man is transitioning, has transitioned or will transition to masculinity.
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Since I read articles about this I just use a varchar-fields for 'name' in my databases. Never had any issues with names after that.

You can alway store name-elements as meta-fields as long as the original name is untouched.
First Class Android Slut.
I got "Sexy Undefined Evangelist".

Going straight up to my résumé.
You can also extract enough pure nicotine from a pack of cigarettes to kill a man, if you know how. It's not hard.

Nasty things.

Time for a cigarette break.
Not tried... but there's a way to get CakePHP run in HHVM http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/lorenzo/2012/01/30/runnin...
Was it Billy Hoffman's 'JavaScript the Evil Parts'? http://blip.tv/jsconf/billy-hoffman-javascript-the-evil-part...
Yeah, the world really would be a better place. But it is nash equilimbrium all over again and its absolutely pointless to shame one of the players(corporation or consumer). The only effectively viable path to making a world a better place is to change the rules of the game.
And built your own hardware and installed your own cell towers. And control all the servers, because even if they are made with 100% open-source code, someone could just modify it.
Also you must be sure nobody else has read access to it, because being 100% open source does not mean "no-one can read it".

I don't see how trusted networking can be possible in stallmanic world.
Madoff ran a Ponzi scheme and was convicted for fraud.
If someone cogitates to use this for real... it shouldn't be doing it anything at all.
eh the average person isn't going to be affected by not knowing exactly what a fork or pull request is. They managed to get the gist out, github lets devs work together on a project.

As long as they can get the basics of it correct I really don't care if they screw up the technical details. Now not being able to pronounce or spell repository is bad, its an English word that was around long before code.
It never occurred to either of us that a ten character last name with a space in the middle would be problem

Really? Because a space is commonly used as the delimiter between first, middle and last names. Wouldn't you think that, at a minimum, there would be some ambiguity about whether Jones was (one of) her middle name(s) or the first part of her last name?
And if the phone was not used for a call?

I'm not contending the "wasn't really yours" point. Phones get stolen, misplaced, left behind, etc. with enough frequency that "it's your phone and it registered/triangulated with this position" may be strong circumstantial evidence but still isn't proof. That it was used in a manner requiring your finger (still attached to your body) does.

Don't get me wrong, I'm with you on protecting the accused from compulsion to self-incrimination. Just observing that the fingerprint sensor, coupled with the enormous data being collected on/about the device, isn't helping 5th Amendment rights.
I actually reserved my most creative names for Mages. I am not sure why. Some left over love from my Diablo 2 mage? I would always just pick hard to obtain names on other characters.

A use case for this data is creating a game and reserving the most popular 100 names. A few years down the road sell them for in-game currency or real life currency. Auction em to help support newer updates, etc.
How long will it take till we see a decompiler? :D
"...explain why one in a thousand makes you ill, or why the bottom of the glass seems to fall out sometimes..."

Sounds more like current JavaScript and HTML/CSS. Unless you "drink" it using special kind of "glassware" like JQuery and BootStrap.
I don't think this was written with the output size of the code much in mind. In one example, there was: [+[[!+[]+!+[]]]]

Which breaks down to:
[!+[]+!+[]] === [2]
+[[!+[]+!+[]]] === 2
[+[[!+[]+!+[]]]] === [2] //again

So I think there might be quite a bit of scope for compression even within the parameters it's built in.

Highly impressive, in any case.
Why is google having my Wifi password a bad thing? I'd be happy to let EVERYONE have it, and the only thing I fear is neighbour teenagers overloading the connection with torrents so that it's not usable for me.

As long as I expect them not to overload my wifi too much, I'm perfectly happy with google or FBI or KGB or friends or random strangers to use have that wifi password.

If wifi routers were good at traffic shaping / quality of service tech, I'd put no passwords at all on wifi devices - if a neighbour wants to browse some web, then it's a good deed to make it easier.
At least Dodd lost his job, although he immediately became a lobbyist for hollywood. but you are spot on - they are both horrible human beings who should not have jobs
One less multiple.
If no-one significant did anything illegal and yet the result was the financial crisis, then clearly the legal/regulatory framework was/is flawed.

The most troubling issue is that there hasn't been any significant adjustments since then. Perhaps not that surprising given the amount of influence the financial industry have in policy making, but still. It's also distressing to see an individual like Larry Summers being nominated as the next Fed Chairman. It seems very little has been learned.

For anyone interested in understanding the events that led to the crisis, I can't recommend highly enough: All the Devils Are Here[1]. Of the many books written on the subject, it provides a very objective and thorough account.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/All-Devils-Are-Here-Financial/dp/15918...
>>[2]: Compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Pharmacology and http://www.energyfiend.com/harmful-effects-of-caffeine

Cough, was that completely honest? since you linked to Wikipedia for Nicotine, I suspect you did know you'd get lots of really good effects by linking to Wikipedia for caffeine. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee#All-ca...
Ask HN: Compelling uses for RADIUS?
I am now de facto the 'network' guy _and_ the linux guy, for an organization providing SaaS (eDiscovery). Go, me.

Reading up on the switches and firewall I'm installing I see that if I have a RADIUS server I can

- Authenticate users to the switch, and router.

- Control access to VLAN.

This is all kinds of cool, and will probably cause me to install a RADIUS server, because 1 is handy and 2 strikes me as a great way to assert control over my network.

Are there any other compelling uses for a RADIUS server?
WebAPI and SignalR (backed by Microsoft) replace WCF for most of unreliable stuff. The rest should be using message queues anyways.
Afaik it is not necessary that a root CA is compromised. Sufficient would be to compromise any intermediate CA who is not on a revocation list. How to circumvent Googles certificate pinning in Chrome, I have no good idea. They would need to compromise any certificate in the chain.
Indeed, where has the Department of Justice been all these years, when the banks were becoming "too big to fail," and now (per Eric Holder's insinuation) "too big to jail?" Where were the antitrust suits? Where are they now?

To a major extent, the bigness of these financial institutions is the issue -- the fact that they're so ingrained into our economy as to be deemed untouchable, save for infinitesimal borrowing rates and occasional cash transfusions.

In many cases it's hard to draw clear distinctions between "government" and "finance industry," as some pretty connected foxes were guarding the henhouse before, during, and after the crisis.

Government failed us here, big time, and continues to fail us. But let's not let the culprits off the hook, nonetheless. The reason our government gives this industry a pat on the back, a few trill, and an 'atta-boy every time it fucks up is because this industry has made a concerted effort to buy off the government. And it has.
"JavaScript Search Expert"

Bulls-eye! That's every javascript coder i know of. Who writes javascript anyway just Google it, someone already did it.
How does non-proprietary system help you in this case?
How do you know what I have on that system?
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QR codes could make entering secure keys in to mobile devices easier. Variations of Wi-Fi quick set-up can also be made reasonably secure, implementations just suck.
Explain the name? Right now I hear "Get Croup Again!" when I hear "Recroup". I hear the pun on 'regroup' (although don't understand how it relates to resumes and job seeking)...
It's quite usual to have two family names, one from your mother's side and another from your father's. Usually the father's family name comes last, but it's by no means a rule, more of a social norm (and somewhat fading).

Additionally, it's also perfectly reasonable to have two or more "first names".

The consequence of all of this, and having four names myself, is that I'm always confused what I'm supposed to fill in as my first and last names. I end up using just my very first and very last, but i always feel like I'm being disrespectful towards my mother's family for the omission.
Or someone else could do something that lands you in trouble... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6358837
not everyone is as bleak and uninteresting as yourself.
It's troubling to see this, but I've always used MAC Filtering on my home network on top of WPA2 to limit what devices can connect to my network.
The same could be said of anything including the keyboard I'm typing this comment on.
Use SignalR in .NET to get the number of online users in real time
Google cache version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.sch...
Acne in adolescent humans is fairly complex, specialized, and life-cycle limited, like the insect gears, but acne doesn't appear to offer teens any advantage. Acne is just ..collateral from another (beneficial) process. Those gears are probably the same thing.
This was my main takeaway, freedom doesn't necessarily mean time away from work...it's the freedom to change the direction of your business at any point or not to take on more customers (or even to hire people) or sell the business. It's the feeling of being in control of your destiny (not to be cheesy).
And here I was thinking I was being an all paranoid nutter when I expressed privacy concerns with US hosted CDNs and analytics services ..

https://2x.io/read/would-the-nsa-infiltrate-cdns-to-circumve...
The phone.
Grab some confidential client documents that a not-so-clever employee dropped in their shared folder? Your example is at one end of the scale, my example is at the other end and there's lots between.
Do they have USB-only chargers? I've only ever seen power sockets.
Have you ever met the owner of a restaurant franchise location? Their only responsibility is to pick a good store manager, and leave everything else alone. Effectively, they get the business off the ground, make it self-sustaining, and then extract rent (in the economic sense) from it.
I currently work in the UK Medical Careers Research Group at Oxford University. [edit: this post isn't an official communication from our group!]

To give a UK perspective, what our research has found is that, in general, female doctors are only disadvantaged in their career (in terms of career progression and so on) when they have periods out for maternity leave and work part-time for childcare reasons. And then, they are only disadvantaged to a similar level as male doctors who took time out or work part-time for the same or different reasons.

In medicine, in the UK at least, there is a lot greater gender parity than there is in the Tech industry (which being a programmer I also am part of).

This conference looks really interesting, aside from the gender issues, and it's happening right here in Oxford. Its a shame I don't have funding to attend conferences, academia can be very fickle like that!
Yes. My preferred name for example, is over a million million characters. You have to accomodate me. How is it my fault that you don't have O(ln) complexity on your string comparisons, or have trouble swapping out a gigabyte or two and are trying to keep it on the stack.

You should have paid more attention in CS school!
Huh? I think you responded to the wrong comment.
There is a ready made charge only cable from Mediabridge. Amazon: "Mediabridge USB Charging Cable - (6 Feet) - USB-A Male to Micro-B Charging Cable"
First name: [ANN]
Last name: [SMITH JONES]

Seems easy enough, right? They don't have one big field for [ANN BETH SMITH JONES] and then try to guess what name is forename or surname.

Some systems don't like hyphens, or don't like spaces, or appear to accept them but silently drop them kludging the two names in SMITHJONES.

Add the 'scunthorpe problem' and things get even more frustrating.

One of the Google feedback pages declined my feedback because my (legitimate, linked to my Googlemail account) email address and name contains "Cocks".
If it is true that the NSA MITMed Google connections, then one could draw the conclusion that the NSA doesn't actually have a direct connection to Google data centers (as claimed by Google).
If they had such a connection, then why would they use MITM attacks against people?
Are you focused mainly on tech startups or innovative entrepreneurship in general?
I've seen them in the Minneapolis airport at least.
This is great, reminds me of a story from when I was an intern.

In 2002 I was working at Freddie Mac for an internal business unit as a summer intern. I was tasked to create our internal group's website. After a week or two of my boss not producing a mission statement, I went online to the Dilbert mission statement generator, downloaded about 50 randomly generated ones, then slapped them into a script that would randomly display one every time the page loaded. My boss never really caught on, other programmers in the unit loved it, and I'm pretty sure nobody ever realised that our mission statement was both randomly generated AND changing with every page load.
It's fortunate that no private individuals did similar things - specifically misreporting their capability for taking on debt, particularly mortgages...

It was global crisis brought on by global creed. And when I say global, I mean capitalist 1st world. Stop scapegoating.
Try it letter by letter.

For instance, to get the string "a":

(![]+[])[+[[+!+[]]]]

Take the first part, `(![]+[])`. `![]` evaluates to `false`. Then `+[]` coerces false into a string, so the expression is `"false"`.

The rest of the expression (more complicated) evaluates to `[[1]]`, which will grab the `"a"` from `"false"`. Now why there is the extra surrounding brackets, I'm not sure, because `[1]` would have worked as well.
You make the false assumption that people in different divisions of a very large company would be more likely to help each other outside of the corporate reward structure than they would be to help someone outside the company, who they might just happen to have personal or social obligations to.

If there were an unscrupulous person in the gmail group, he would be more likely to break company policy (and, I think, the law) with someone who does not work for Google than with someone who does, unless it were motivated by someone up the chain at Google itself.

Saying that someone at Gmail is sharing your secrets may be a worry. That they would share them with Google Ventures is far less likely than that they would share them with someone else entirely. And frankly, if someone were to try to profit from stolen information, they'd be looking at hedge fund manager emails and investment banker emails. The very slight edge you might get from seeing some VC's email is worth less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks, if you risk-adjust it and discount it back to the present.
One more reason to not use any of the giant email providers like Yahoo, Google, and Hotmail.
> At recroup, we know every job seeker is different.

Every recruiter is also different. Every time someone gives suggestions on how to write a resume or apply for a job or things you should do, the advice can be contradicted by someone else in the same position at another company.

Hell, even spelling mistakes! I've known people who don't care (they are bad spellers themselves).

So, while I appreciate the goal, every recruiter is different. The best thing I can suggest is that when you apply, however you do it, do it the way you want. Make it represent you. Changing your style might get you the job if you match the expectations of the recruiter, but it might not be the type of job you want.
The source seems to be http://www.kidsinnscience.eu/upload/file/Pisa_2006.pdf where on page 22 it shows that the lowest scoring country, Kyrgyzstan, scored 322. What's more, these numbers are for Science only which is not mentioned in the infographic. I agree it's very misleading.
Holy shit.

This means that The Netherlands was a high-level target with Diginotar, and they hit the frickin' jackpot.

Just for reference, read this: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_bij_DigiNotar

The Diginotar hack basically exposed all of the information about the Dutch that NSA could ever want to digg through: Information about licenseplates (RDW) Tax info (DigiD) Phone records (OPTA) and the complete dutch encrypted government infrastructure (PKI Overheid)

Let's see what traction this new info will get now in The Netherlands...
We should not look towards drugs to satisfy the void in our lives.

We should not look to eating for pleasure, just for health.

We should not look to our career as a source of fulfillment - it's just a means to an end.

We should not look to our mates as a source of salvation - we should focus on giving.

We should not look to our kids as objects to make us whole - we should focus on giving...

Ok, so if we're gonna take away all these things as "drugs", what's left?
"Responsive is better than fast."

I don't agree with this.
But rotational harddrives probably will: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227382/60TB_disk_dri...

Disc (yes, optical) media could also perhaps get in 1-6+TB range.
I went to install HHVM to test my own code, but it turns out it's 64-bit only. Kind of sucks.
Probably cross-reference it with their data?
Unfortunately yes. But there is lots of good stuff outside the Diageo umbrella :)
True! I forgot that you only keep a pointer to the start.
"disrespectful to all Hawaiian people" some people will say and make themselves believe anything to get their 15 minutes of fame.

I am foreigner living in UK and local council and government constantly screw up foreigners names, we always have a good laugh about it with friends.
> And I'm not ranting

Sorry if I offended you.

I'm still surprised that poses a challenge for your applications. I thought fast non-cryptographic RNGs were a solved problem. How much random data do you generate? If you use a significant amount of CPU just for that I doubt it would be feasible for Intel to build a cryptographically secure RNG with the same throughput without significant extra costs (think one extra core). (I'm no expert on that subject though.)
For god's sake. It's just a piece of paper. If a name is too long for it, well, damn, spend some additional time and customize it and print this one special id.
Depends if your use case involves coming into contact with anything conductive.
> passwords are either easy for computers to crack or hard for humans to remember

Obligatory xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/936/
If you can't be sure your "backdoor" can be kept alive indefinitely, you better get used to using multiple approaches.
1. Plug your iPhone into a coworkers computer to charge for a minute
2. syncs photos
3. embarrassing picture.jpg.

There are numerous ways this can go down without even having to have some cool hardware device.