skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its clearly mentioned that it will lock up your browser. If you had tabs open I am sorry for that but you would have given the title of this post some thought :)

the while(1); thing could be explained easily, but the code for this one (written below) is not simply an endless loop
Agreed, other than the bad attitudes everything went as it should. The police only keeping the computers for two weeks and then handing them back personally is better than I expected and shows the Danish police is professional.
An upstream contract that required detailed information about paid users, for instance? I could imagine wanting information like that for auditing if there were complex restrictions on permissible resale of the upstream data.
I understand about the /DYNAMICBASE flag, but I has hoping to understand why they would choose to not set it.

My assumption is that they disabled it for stability/reliability reasons that are specific to their application, and I was further hoping to understand what kind of bugs could be triggered by having ASLR enabled. I've written plenty of C and C++ over many years and can't think of any bugs that I've introduced or found where assumptions about address place layout were involved.

Since we're talking about Windows, I assume they're using Visual Studio and its linker.
Since bitcoins can be transferred much more efficiently than electricity, eventually it makes sense for such large scale bitcoin producers to produce bitcoins on-site where cheap electricity is produced.
This isn't "piracy." It's easily shut down if the provider wants to.
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Two questions:

* did police payed the damage caused by confiscating computers? It could be easily thousands euro.

* crime was a few stolen theater tickets. Confiscating stuff seems like over-reaction, when bike is stolen (similar value) they do not even bother to come to crime scene.
There's a gender issue in the balances of sexes as reported in the article.

I don't know how American schools work, so I can't comment on your question.
As I understand Layer also has offline/sync functionality, contacts & some UI goodies to glue all of these together.
He's upset that men are naturally stronger than women and female orderlies would delegate the heavy lifting to male co-workers as their preferred tool. At least that's what I gathered.
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For those interested in buying cheap land in the US and constructing a permanent residence I also recommend checking out "earthships": http://earthship.com/

Will be more expensive than a dome, but they have ideas and systems for building a complete off the grid house.

See also: http://www.garbagewarrior.com/
You are right about the pscychology. I thought we did a bloody good job of hosting the Olympics. Leading up to it I thought it was going to be a bit rubbish but when they actually started there was a sense of national pride.

The problem is that the pride only lasts for a few months. After that I was (and many other people were) back to thinking it was a massive waste of money and the only place that would benefit was London. Basically what I'm trying to get across is that if you had asked me during the Olympics I'd say let's do it again, but before or after? Not a chance
> Important to note Gödel's completeness [sic] theorem [sic] here!

ITYM incompleteness theorems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_the...
I have $1000 here waiting for you if you can break from one container to another. I need valid proof in the form of source code for your exploit. send it to hello @ koding.com and we will paypal you the money.
I would suggest Unity. They just announced 2D support for the upcoming 4.3 release. The free version can deploy to both Android and iOS, as well as desktop and web.

LibGDX is a good choice if you don't want to target iOS. They just switched to a brand new iOS backend that is still very young.

MonoGame is great for cross-platform, but parts of the build process are still Windows-only.
I posted this because this code crashed IE, Chrome on Win7 and it also crashed on my iPod, Android and WinPhone8 devices.
The transformation of East London which I believe to have been the main reason for choosing to host the Olympics in London, has been fairly spectacular. The Stratford area where the Olympic park was built, used to be a wasteland. Although I don't know this, I conjecture that the Olympics were used as a mechanism to force through a substantial number of planning permissions that would not have been granted otherwise.
Even though I'm very anti Erdoğan I would not be happy If we got the Olympics with or without Erdoğan. Our Economy is projected as a heaven and Turkey as in growth but on the contrary it's way too bad and currently sky diving. Putting one more economic burden as big as the Olympic games would be catastrophic. We are nearly paying taxes just to breath. (exaggeration yes but not too well off.) Getting the games would mean more "temprorary but never to be lifted" taxes to fund the games but in realty just for making more funding for politicians.

I'm really happy for Istanbul to loose and feeling bad for Tokyo to win.
On the other hand, if you're a guest in a country, shouldn't you be responsible for making sure you can understand and be understood, either by learning the language or knowing someone you can call?

Personally, I think a middle term would be more appropriate - police agents should have a decent grasp of English (i.e., better than mine), and visitors to the country should know either the local language or English. An "interlocutor of his preference" seems an excessive requirement.
I think you should look after cocos2d-x. It allows you to make 2D for a lot of platforms. It's using C++ http://www.cocos2d-x.org/
I use Linux and install always Consolas.

Programmers designing fonts is cute but it's not good idea. Lucas de Groot knew what he was doing.
It's an argument that, if certain logical conditions are met, then the principle of the existence of God is inescapable. Note that I said the principle, not the fact -- the fact was not the matter under discussion.

It's like discussing the concept of an honest politician -- such a thing can obviously be proven to exist in principle, but that doesn't require that it exist in fact, in everyday reality. A good thing, too.
Ta. Been a while since I did my masters (astrophysics & cosmology), and ideas tend to drift into things which aren't quite right without steering and practice.

That said - re: the measurement of a volume within a gravity well - how would you measure said volume? If you were to use light, surely it would take more time from an external reference frame to traverse (external chronometer) than it would within (internal chronometer), ergo meaning that the space is equivalently larger to the decrease in the time vector (as you can only convert space into time and vice versa).

Re: voids - I know that their hypothesis is that there's more space in the voids - but why could it not equally be the fact that there is less? More time (due to very low mas density/near-absence of gravity), ergo less space - and therefore redshift due to photons decelerating relative to our frame of reference (but constant v of c in theirs) as they move back into "normal" space.

Re: spacetime "keeping time" - true - but that also depends on your premises :) I like loop quantum gravity, and view time as an entropic thermodynamic process which can't exist without interactions... although the lack of quantisation jitter seen from pulsar light suggests that this might be wrong.
E-volo to get aviation category of its own
Would that be platform independent ?
One can complain AND work on fixing things at the same time.
hopefully. it's great to hear of rent seeking ventures failing.
Many routers sold use their own serial number as the WPA key though, and have a lot of the serial number in the default SSID. It's something I'm constantly telling my friends to fix.
Unless you burn out, in which case you might achieve considerably less and have bad consequences.
I wonder what 2D game developers are using in practice -- although these have been around a while, they sound like they're still gaining traction on the cross-platform story.

I'm on Windows, so a Windows-only build process is ok.

Thanks for the reply.
I prefer:

"Work smarter". If other people are putting in a 40 hour week, then you can automate yourself and increase efficiency, then do a 20 hour week and do stuff you want to do rather than must do. In my case that means spending time with my family.

Elon does a miserable job of family by the looks.
Burnout much?
Pissed off towards the police, yes; not the landlord
With a cleaner you have greater insurance/liability issues. Both in terms of protecting you from theft, etc. and also in terms of protecting you legally if your cleaner has an accident on your property.
> It doesn't need to a privacy invasion.

Of course it does. If a user could grant permission, then a hacker could pretend to be the user and grant himself permission. It would represent a huge vulnerability, because at the exact moment that a hacker figures out a user's password, he also has access to that person's browsing history, including everywhere the victim shopped online, which would quickly become places that the hacker shops online, using the victim's identity.

No, a history log accessible to anyone pretending to be John Doe, would mean the end of the real John Doe. It would make identity theft much more dangerous that it is already.

> There are many potential benefits of allowing access.

There are also many potential benefits to doing away with privacy altogether, but that doesn't make the idea persuasive.
I guess the one VM is Adobe Flash.
That presumes you want to send a lot of binary data. Sometimes you just have five bytes or so. (E.g., as in the article, an un-decoded string.)

(Still, you're right, I admit to having been able to avoid any work painful enough to teach me XML arcana. I was actually thinking of one of the many variants of "Binary XML" I had read about recently, and assumed the typing was bijective to XML's own types. In other news, BSON of all things has a raw-binary type.)
> And then the threats of violence started: "The author of this article is a whiny bitch and needs a good beating to be put in her place." Ten minutes later, the rape threats began, and I shut down our comments site-wide. And then the emails started...

Seriously? I am thinking a little exaggeration. I don't think trolls would send e-mails, what is the point if noone reads your trolling.

And what is the fault of the teacher (other than visual basic). "Guys, please don't harass this girl", yeah tell that to a bunch of boys and see how that works. I don't think students would just openly harass her. He might be a bad teacher but harassments is not his fault.

If there is one to blame, I would blame the parents. Didn't he researched the school before applying her daughter? Doesn't her daughter already above high school programming?
I love spending time with my family and running trails too much. The fresh air, the exercise, the wind and rain in my face!

'Work like hell' sounds a lot like, well ... Hell?
No need to say "forward slash." Just "slash" is fine.

Only Bill Gates was dumb enough to default to a backslash.
Minorities(race/color/religion/gender etc) definitely suffer harassment and discrimination of all kinds.

But your point on liberty is spot on.

I have a feeling if you were to get rid of this harassment and discrimination thing overnight. It would make negligible impact to ratio of representation which existed before.

>>Because women are free to do what they want, and they're choosing not to. This discrepancy manifests everywhere. More deeply in countries with a focus on personal liberty.

In countries with personal liberty you will suddenly have new sets of problems. You can't blame anybody or anything for your failures, and that's a bad situation to be in. You are no longer the victim or the under dog and no one sympathizes with you anymore.
When I read articles like these I often get the impression that we don't have the full story.

How do we go from "After she finished, she'd help classmates who were behind or struggling in class" to "my daughter emailed to tell me that the boys in her class were harassing her"? Those two statements are one sentence apart.

I was in a technical cursus in high school, there was exactly one (1) girl in the class. And not for a single course, for all the classes. I don't remember her being harassed, but I can't speak for her obviously.

I'm not saying that "she asked for it" or anything equally terrible, I'm just curious to know how things degraded seemingly very quickly? It seems important to understand what's the core issue here.

I'm obviously not very familiar with US education, maybe the culture is just different over here.
Same reason you'd host any sort of expensive party. To look cool and feel cool. A lot of international politics make a lot more sense when you remember we're all in high school.
I signed on to HN just to answer this question (I've consulted for 8 years). If you continue to allow this "client" to treat you like a beggar pleading for a crust of bread, it is YOUR FAULT, not his.

From now on, get full payment in advance. Explain to him why. Give him the truth.

Contracts are often more trouble than they're worth. You need leverage. If you have that, use it. And refuse to do any more work until you're 1) paid in full and 2) paid in advance.

If you don't do this, your problems will continue and you will have no one to blame but yourself.
It's a team effort, no doubt. But how do they introduce Linus Torvalds, Kevin Systrom or David H. Hansson? 'The man who created Linux', 'the creator of Instagram', DHH introduces himself as 'the creator of Ruby on Rails'. Obviously, singlehandedly they haven't created what we understand by those products, they started them and were principal forces, but haven't CREATED them. This simplification (the proxy of the reality) is the accepted norm in respectful introductions. My statement about Chamath was merely that.
Note to self: Put all the stuff in truecrypt.
I hate to say it but I always misuse the terms. It uses marching.
Both good things to do, but they don't really solve the problem IMO. In order for any kind of mouse-over effect to work, the user has to move the mouse up into the corner and mouse over the logo. If they're doing that, they probably already have a good idea that the logo goes somewhere - likely the homepage. I'm wondering what percentage of people have no clue about that and would be likely to just get to your homepage however they got there in the first place (probably Google) if they can't see an explicit "Home" link. I expect this depends a lot on the audience though.
I really like this font at 9pt for the code as it becomes not antialiased. are there other pretty not antialiased fonts out there?
Charlatan.
But any bit of trivial JavaScript code can crash a certain class of browser (the class without independent threads) -- it doesn't require even a small bit of cleverness.

It's just not newsworthy, and it's a public nuisance to post such examples -- I mean a working example, as opposed to an inert code listing.
That's not emulation that's decompilation / recompilation. Which is a very challenging task. TransMeta worked on this under the name of "code morphing". It's a promising technique but I don't think it has the maturity to be able to run cross-architecture code at close to hardware speeds (say, 50% or higher) without introducing new defects, especially x86 on ARM.
This is exactly the scenario I was guessing led to the choice of VB. I'm also going to agree with many of the comments saying Javascript might not be a great first language for new CS students.
Only an economist could ask a question of the form "why would anyone want to do <activity without clear economic benefit>?"

I wonder how they manage to reproduce.
They are one in the same, really. The rate of extraction is driven by demand, which directly equates to price (supply and demand). As oil becomes harder to find, it becomes more expensive, but extraction rates can continue upward until the very last drop if people are willing to pay the price.
Enormous amounts of fuss and it turns out it was just people talking bullshit and other people believing them.
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Ok harassing is out of line and as a teacher he should have intervened. WE all agree on that.

Pointing out that the reason the other students were saying that is because of envy that she is so far ahead of them should have been enough.

But talking about the low numbers of women and lack of diversity in IT is like saying we should treat women special because there's not many in our field.

We should treat the like a fellow human being and colleague but stop making us idolize women, that rubs me the wrong way.

Bottom line the teacher had no passion for programming and shouldn't have been teaching in the first place.
First prestige and second corruption opportunities.

Basically its like a high school party for cool kids, with an added bonus that some of the cool kids get a lot of money at the expense of others.
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Oracle is a database. What features of HTML5 have anything to do with databases? How is this related to the article?
ignoring burnout completely - even for the medium term (anything more than a couple of days), I very much doubt that someone doing a 100 hour week is 2.5x as productive as someone doing a 40 hour week
You should see my effort at doing that previously. Ugly stuff! Had problems with even a light wind and the plastic staying in place, sagging, etc.

What I had in mind with the dome of plates was something that would almost stand out as a feature in the garden.

I guess an issue with the dome approach that'd need solving was making it fairly airtight so warm air and moisture would be retained.
And then you die
About to graduate, unsure what to go with my life
I will be graduating with a MSc from a Top 10 University in the Engineering/Technology field in the spring.

I have greatly enjoyed the collegial interactions between students and in some lucky cases, TAs, and the enthusiasm exhibited by everyone involved in learning. However, the level of desperation and depression and daily drag on the research side cemented my decision not to further pursue my career at the university (i.e. a PhD position).

I have been involved in Software Engineering and Computer Graphics topics throughout the last 5 years, but I am definitely not in the top 15% of students who somehow manage to build voxel rendering engines while simultaneously working on their thesis. I'm just a decent student, with decent grades.

Now everyone tells me that I really have the whole gamut of jobs to reach out for with my MSc, but I still feel rather lost due to my past experiences at university.
I can follow current research topics, but I definitely don't have the mathematical insight to develop them.
I can implement methods in a way which I might even describe as somewhat fun, but I certainly don't thrive on programming like I see others do. Programming is something that has to be done, and I am not the quickest or most efficient programmer.

I have been thinking of either joining the plain Software Engineering sector (at any of the handful of companies willing to employ fresh grads around here), or fighting my way into the video games sector, where I might rekindle my passions, but where employment opportunities are certainly more sparse, and a MSc is already somewhat of an overqualification (compared to 2-3 years industry experience).

I would appreciate the input of any fresh grads around :).
Any browser that can be locked up by a bit of JavaScript that hogs the thread really needs to have NoScript enabled. The reason is there are too many easy ways to write a processor hog, either intentionally --

function hog_processor() {
while(true) {
}
}

-- or unintentionally, by not knowing something about programming:

function beginner_error_run_forever() {
for(var x = 0;x != 10;x += .1) {
// code here
}
}
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It's target hardening. If you have some security, the criminals will simply move on to someone who has none.
The question should be: Would that transformation have happened anyway?

London has been re-developing brown fields since the mid-80s and shows no sign of slowing down. The Olympics may have accelerated it, but I'm not sure anyone I know who lives in East London or works in Techcity would buy that this re-development wouldn't have happened anyway. The pressure for space is just too great.

I'm fairly pro-Olympics now, afterall... that velodrome is something beautiful and I'm going to ride it.
As much as I normally hate political/police over-reactions of anything because it's digital, I think it's not reasonable to make a tickets--bike comparison.

They weren't there because someone stole theatre tickets, they were there because someone stole credit card numbers - which is more serious, largely because it's a lot more scalable than stealing a bike.
It can slow down your program slightly and cause non-deterministic performance. This shouldn't really be an issue for Dropbox though.
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> This right does not spring solely from the US Fourth Amendment; it is a human and natural right as well.

As a "non-US-person", I found myself particularly moved by this line.
I respect Elon Musk immensely for what he has accomplished. Leading SpaceX and Tesla to market dominance at the same time is insanely impressive! The guy is obviously very brilliant and very driven.

But I don't envy him one bit. I remember an interview with Elon where they asked him why he doesn't just relax, now that he has so much money. And he replied that he's not the type of guy who can sit on the beach. After a couple days he gets so antsy, he has to go do something incredible (like start the next multi-billion dollar company).

I would rather be the guy who is able to sit still and be at peace (even if it means I just have a "regular" job, whatever that means). Why? Because Elon doesn't have a choice. He HAS to start the next multi-billion dollar company. He makes it look like it's his choice, but it really isn't. Put him anywhere else, and he would probably be the most miserable person on the planet. Even if he DOES successfully IPO all his companies and becomes worth $10 billion (instead of just $1 billion), he will not be one bit more satisfied. Because it's not like the additional $9 billion will give him the thing he's missing. If it were like that, then the first $1 million would've taken care of that (or the first $2 million, whatever). And so after his current companies succeed, he'll have to do it all over again. And then again.

Compare this to someone who could decide to work hard and strive to be successful, but doesn't HAVE to. (i.e. he wouldn't feel terrible if he wasn't insanely successful)

So while I think Elon is a totally awesome entrepreneur, I don't envy being him.
It's reasonable for Elon to say things like that as he truly found his life's work. As Steve Jobs once said, "You have to have a lot of passion for what you do because if you don't, any rational person would give up". Those of us who were not hard-working <strike>less fortunate</strike> enough to find IT, have to resort to more reasonable '4-hour workweeks'.
So... can I run Erlang code on it efficiently? (This question also disqualifies LLVM, the JVM, the CLR, etc. When most people say "universal VM" they really mean "universal VM for running mostly-serial code that might at most have 5 or 10 threads, and where killing and restarting the entire VM (to, e.g., spin up a newer version) isn't a big problem for the clients talking to it." This is not future-proof.)