skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially if you design everything about individual components being potentially either backdoored or just buggy, and make it hard for failures to lead to successful outside penetration or inside data exfiltration. It doesn't help if everything is compromised fully, but if some things are not, they can usually block or at least detect problems. Defense in depth, and all.
I guess you know the answer to that.
Roll your own key-value server in Go
Graeber's essay "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit" describes the "tyranny of managerialism":

"The growth of administrative work has directly resulted from introducing corporate management techniques. Invariably, these are justified as ways of increasing efficiency and introducing competition at every level. What they end up meaning in practice is that everyone winds up spending most of their time trying to sell things: grant proposals; book proposals; assessments of students’ jobs and grant applications [...]" (http://thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars)

Doesn't answer your question, because it's about deeper institutional forces than the mere existence of business schools. But I found it an interesting read.
these distinctions are not for consumers, they're for IT managers when they're rolling out across a large number of machines, not all of which may be 64-bit compatible.
Are you counting the crime as happening at the place of business, or at the home of the perp? It'd be hard to quantify, as WHERE a white collar crime happens is not particularly material. You can cook the books at home or at work.
Perhaps that was worded wrong, but what I meant was the idea that you have names that map to things, and that you have an evaluation order for those things. So that if you see

(foo a b c) and it isn't quoted, we know that foo will be resolved and evaluated, so will a, b, and c, and then the objects to which a, b, and c resolved will be applied to the object to which foo was resolved.

So, if I then type (a foo b c), we get the same behavior with different object resolutions.

And that should work everywhere, all the time.
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM vs. Sanity
This seems like a great idea, but only if you also enjoy working in shared co-working spaces. I think doing the context switches of getting thrown out of what I'm doing and hearing someone else talk constantly would drive me insane (or force me to just mute the chat).
Next time I have some "Here be dragons" code, I'm going to use this.
ah yeah step 3 seems pretty bad -- cool that you found that bug!
Here's a gist showing the basic steps, using the unix utilities host and netcat: https://gist.github.com/jwmerrill/6502014
For kids from poor or middle class families, Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Caltech will usually cost less than an in-state public school when it comes to what the student and his family actually have to pay.

In-state public school has a lower sticker price, but have less non-loan need-based aid so students have to come up with a high percentage of the sticker price. The top private non-profit schools have higher sticker price, but provide a lot more non-loan need-based aid, so students have to pay a much lower percentage of the cost. At Princeton, for example, the average debt at graduation is only $5k.
Only the shell remains in Montreal. The dome plastic burned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Biosph%C3%A8re
Your only previous comment on hacker news was praising their product. Your only submission to HN is a positive plus url about them. I wonder what made you change your opinion. Would you mind sharing?
Of course, the hard part is to detect whether C1 and C2 "match." Just because 2 different compilers generate different code for the same source doesn't mean one or the other compiler was compromised. By Rice's theorem, it's undecidable in a general case to decide whether two computable functions are equal, so you technically can't do this step in a general way.
Wireless Power Revolution
This Man Has Spent 30 Years Mapping the Imaginary Land of Ukrania
Statement of Condemnation of U.S. Mass-Surveillance Programs [pdf]
Credibility Will Win the Day; a Strike on Syria Is Inevitable
It’s predictable Obama will attack Syria. Credibility will supersede all else. But like the “shock and awe” of Iraq, also to be of short duration, America may find itself hunkered down in another conflict of our own making ten years from now.
Unfortunately you public in-state advice is almost now outdated; many privates are cost-competitive with public schools and it's not because the private schools are cheap. e.g.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/nyregion/seton-hall-univer...

This is definitely a trend in private education pricing as sticker shock is a real problem for students considering private schools and the privates compete for the same students the publics do.
Excellent story. It took me a while to realize it was fiction!
I kinda like it when big, but then when I set it small, I change to a bitmap font like 6x13 and it looks better :(
An experiment that could help slow human ageing
My “One C++” talk from GoingNative is now posted
Error in Apple's Siri illustrates what may be biggest problem with existing AI
It depends on what you mean by long-term and probably how well you take care of it. Growing up, I lived in one for years with no issues. So did my best friend, for even longer (at least a decade, no issues with sagging or warping). And this was in the rainy, wet Pacific Northwest.

I dare say they are better built than the flimsy plastic tent we saw linked in the OP.
MIT center receives $25 million to unravel the mysteries of human intelligence
As to the last part of your comment- it's all imaginary anyway.
OP was pretty clear that they were coming from a "collaborating in open source" point of view, I thought.
If your interest rates are not fixed, they are likely to go up next year. Sorry, if you were hoping for a handout.
A large part of the problem is all the shitty for profit schools. They get students to take out large government backed loans, then are defaulting, since they can't actually get a job.

I knew several people I grew up with who went to these schools. They took out huge loans, 10k plus, and they never landed any kind of job with their "certificates" / degrees.

[1] Half of all defaults are from these kind of schools.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/career-education-corp-will-pa...
Disqus Python, https://github.com/disqus/disqus-python

Nice comprehensive list, Thanks!
I have and found that one man could comfortably support a family of five on a 40-hour-a-week factory worker salary. Such niceties began to fade in the 70s and 80s, though, as the world progressed.

Now, do your part and honestly evaluate the world around you. Keep in mind that the appeal to progress is just as much of a fallacy as the appeal to tradition. Tomorrow is not inevitably better than yesterday.
In your specific case, you could just just grab all the classes in a big list [1], and pick at random from them.

You don't need to do much to figure out the url from the names, so it's really only the list of names you need.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/allclasses-frame.ht...
Is there a browser extension that ensures I'll never see anything from The Atlantic, Slate, and Business Insider ever again? These sites are profoundly annoying and stressful.
So can you tell us what you did for the land/property part? Your Twitter profile says Asheville. How far is this from the city? Were there zoning issues?
Very good article! The Data Science Toolkit he pumps as an alternative to pirating google's APIs looks awesome, and deserves a direct link: http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org
Africa would be an awesome idea, but you'd have to do a lot of work with the locals to get them to see this as a viable shelter.

I worked on a project that tried to bring new types of homes to Haiti. This was a HUGE problem because if the locals don't like it (no matter how cool) your idea won't take off.

The fact is that most Haitians thought that wood and corrugated metal were what a "house" was (assuming you couldn't afford a concrete home).

This isn't only African's. You could look at forward swept wings in a similar manner (I'm oversimplifying some of the technical difficulties there though).
The best college advice I ever received was from my middle school history teacher: Go to the cheapest college you can. Harvard doesn't have a secret extra organ to teach you about.

Just about everything in undergraduate education is well established enough that you'll learn the same material anywhere. You'll find variation in the material covered (e.g. Catullus versus Ovid), but it's mostly window dressing on the same core concepts. By the time you get to a graduate level, it becomes important to pick the right institution to ensure that your personal area of research was well represented, but paying extra for undergrad is simply a waste of money.
These sort of attacks need much more public scrutiny. The US government is performing covert attacks in the US public's name, and potentially start international conflicts, like they did with Iran decades ago because of the coup. At the very least the public needs to know about them. But US is increasingly using CIA and NSA more to attack other nations, so the public is not even aware of it.
Sure. You can totally work on master. But I find that it's a lot easier to get confused about what's been merged, and to accidentally make mistakes, when you make a habit of working on master.

That's why I find that I make a lot fewer silly mistakes if I just get rid of the local master branch for any repo that I am actively contributing to in a team environment.
As someone with student loans, I wish this wasn't the case for the previous generation. But at the same time, it's hard to blame current 23 year olds for decisions their parents and communities make about their kids' future finances when they're 16.

The majority of fault lies in the previous generation of parents, who both failed to vote out politicians supporting these policies and who pushed their kids into enslaving parts of their lives to lenders.
Since it's labeled as a "Chrome Experiment", I don't think its aim is to be cross-browser, but rather a showcase of bleeding-edge web technologies.
"We work in a sort of strange field where intelligence and ability are highly prized, but some of these same qualities made some of us victims of aggression and abuse earlier in life."

You USA-nians really have to work on changing your high school culture. Statements like this are so frequent yet so foreign to me... why is aggression and abuse frequent? Why is it tolerated? Why is it aimed towards those with "intelligence and ability"? Why don't you work on changing your society once you grow up? women rights, end of racial segregation, etc. prove that you can change the society you live in in a relatively short period of time. Why you all complain but don't try to change it?
USA is one of the most shitty "partner" to rely if you're a foreigner. So in the first place, why SF? There are lots of great places in Europe to do business.
Richard Gabriel did a great write-up of the trade-offs during the ANSI Common Lisp standardization process:

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Technical-Issues.html

What I took away from it was that macros get more tricky to write when you have possible variable capture for functions, which we humans seem to be a little more blind to than for values.

Item 18 contains the compatibility concerns for existing code, which the guys writing the standard seemed to think critical to keep the various vendors on board.
You probably hit the nail with the popularization of science as the culprit for our captains-of-society’s obsession with measurability. And even more so with the institutionalized greed of law school sycophants. I don’t know about the role of the business schools — maybe I’m to harsh for my colleagues. But I noted that at least at my alma mater and its acquisitioned satellite colleges, the managerial caste consists of civil engineers with an MBA, only, and it’s a recurring pattern.

The noble idea of a res publica litterarum, or a universitas scientiarum — it’s lost since the post-war baby boom.
Here is some perspective on the size of US student loans:

http://statspotting.com/outstanding-student-loans-in-the-us-...
Wow. Can we please have a mechwarrior / descent renaissance?
I agree. In my opinion the whole notion of a baked-in "type system" is silly. Type systems themselves aren't silly, but including one in the language proper seems to be stopping at the wrong abstraction.

Let's say we see:

int add_two(int a, int b)

We're so used to seeing those "ints" as types, but why? There's a better abstraction here, mainly one of:

ensure_conforms_to(int) add_two(ensure_conforms_to(int, a), ensure_conforms_to(int, b))

I'm not arguing for that horrific syntax, I'm saying that type systems are just another part of your program running at a separate time. There's a LOT more you can do with that concept than just enforcing and deducing the tags and acceptable conversions that go with values. Contracts, powerful dispatch mechanisms, ad-hoc optimization strategies, complex lambda cube stuff like dependent types... all of these things can be served with the right abstraction.

And there is no reason that your editors, documentation browsers, code completion engines, syntax highlighters, debuggers, and every other part of your environment can't use it!

Shen seems to get that.
I love how manufactured homes aren't on this list.

Oh wait, I forgot this whole thing was about status and "conspicuous authenticity", not about actually living cheaply.
The original essay on Stross's blog that led to that FP article is linked in Schneier's post.
The most secure setup for administrative services is to whitelist their ports by IP address. For example port 22 (SSH) on our servers can only be hit by known-good IP addresses. You can do the same for MySQL's port, or use an SSH tunnel to hit MySQL through localhost.
I would love to see them tackle t-shirts and dress shirts. I'm a tall (6'4") slim man and a lot of the times when I get a t-shirt there's so much extra material sticking out on my arms. I want it to wrap snuggly around my arm like it does for people who have bigger arms. Once in a while I buy a t-shirt that does this but it's very sporadic.

For dress shirts I usually do 2 things. I get mediums, never tuck them in and roll-up my sleeves (this is my preferred method). If I want my sleeves to actually look like they fit me I get a large and once in a while I get it tailored, if I don't tailor them it's because I usually wear that shirt with something over it like a sweater/vest/blazer/jacket/etc so it hides the bagginess around my back/waist area.

I would really like to pre-order this but I actually don't see any examples on their site of what their different sizes are and how they'll fit. All I see is the same model type. You can tout that you are going to have all these amazing different sizes for all types and not showcase that. I'm particularly looking for someone of my body-type.
Twitter's Tormenta (Scala extensions for Storm)
So cute cat
This is a really cute cat that I am sure you will like a lot!
This looks nice, although it might be a little wide for my tastes.

One feature I would love to have (for some reason) in a programming font would be ligatures for multi-character operators. For example, >= would turn into ≥, != into ≠, && into ∧, -> into →, => into ⇒, etc. Obviously all of these would have to have extra spacing to preserve the monospaceness (although I'm not sure really how crucial that is, as long as you don't go into fractional character widths).
Exactly. This structure basically assumes you're living in the country somewhere. If you're willing to move out to the country, on a programmer's salary you could quickly save enough to pay cash for a smallish, newly constructed home with many modern comforts, such as "rooms".
The dragon glyph is rendered correctly in IE10 on Windows 8 without any custom fonts. Hooray for the most underestimated browser ever ;)
When I'm between jobs I tell my friends "I'm not unemployed. I'm a man of leisure". :-)
Absolutely loved this article. Very impressive! I really hope you go on to write more about this dome. I would be very, very interesting in reading more about its construction and some of the challenges you faced along the way.
Turner & Warner Bros Create Media Camp
Coach who taught people how to beat lie detectors headed to prison
The Land of Lisp is a fantastic book. Absolutely fantastic. I am not a Common Lisp fan AT ALL, but if you want to learn Lisp without feeling like you're trying to gain admission to some Hacker Buddhist Monastery high in the mountains where a bearded guy named Master Foo may just condemn you forever to Visual Basic if you so much as ask the wrong question, then it's a great start. :)
Do a binary diff of the executables. That's unambiguous.

Remember that C1 and C2 are generated by two different compilers generated from the same source code. The same source code should generate the same binary.
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Given that GDP/capita has expanded plenty, I don't think that's a very good explanation. An economy in which actual growth can't keep up with population should see a falling GDP/capita.

Can we explain why we seem to see an increasingly competitive society despite there being more actual stuff to go around?
I don't use MySQL anymore and I use command line clients everywhere. But that wasn't the point.

Also, sequel (rubygem) comes with an awesome console to write SQL queries in.
Agree 100%. I didn't mean to say the blame rests fully with the current generation, I'm just saying government policies going forward are just going to increase the moral hazard even more.
Rice's theorem is nice and all, but in the real world we can model executables as things other than turing machines and answer questions about them.

If I was trying to detect a "trusting trust" type backdoor, one thing I might do is model the control flow of the executable as a graph, and use something like approximate graph isomorphism to detect additional large blocks of code.
Is it possible to see the colors that will be available?
Yes, I could do that but I just wanted to check if there is already some service that does this.

I think this could be a nice side project - A daily reminder service to go over a subset of some content.
The best experience I've had so far was with the Proton Pulse Rift demo, probably because the head tracking is the only means of movement or interaction. If you're finding cockpit-based games easier to process than FPSes, I'd recommend PPR.
We've faced this issue ourselves when doing videoconferencing — with more than 1 person in any location, no solution works effectively. We've wondered about getting into this, since it would definitely solve our issue, and most likely solve similar issues for teams all over the world.

I agree it's surprising that this still isn't a solved problem in 2013.
The chain also breaks if the detected compiler source code pattern changes enough so it is no longer detected.
I suspect that in part it's more common because demand for skills massively outstripping supply means that organisations have to put up with ahem personality quirks they wouldn't otherwise tolerate (or would at least avoid).

That said when I first started in IT I was surprised by how few people conformed to the cliched socially awkward stereotype. Yes it was more noticeable than in a typical a cross section of the general public, but I think that the damage someone being a complete jerk can have in a team context means that even given the difficulty in hiring it's selected out to some degree - you've either got to be really good, or at least be able to hide your true nature at interview.
Always ask if the school is Regionally Accredited in the degree you intend to take: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accreditation#Regional...

If not, the credits are generally non-transferrable and many businesses will simply toss your resume.
Well, there are cable cars but thugs and crooks don't like to ride with tourists. There are some social lines one simply doesn't lower oneself to cross (unless mugging them directly -- that's like social justice).
Here's another reason that I wish was more prevalently discussed: it's not okay to violate Terms of Service anyway. Don't accept the terms? Don't use the service. We'd all have a field day if "big brother" violated the terms of an open-source license, but the freedom we enjoy in the community comes with a responsibility to honor our agreements.
Sococo does exactly this — have you tried it out?
A social aggregation service I've had good luck with:

https://www.rebelmouse.com/

It can pull in feeds from any website, or from social APIs by linking in accounts. You can also manually post items. It creates a page with a Pinterest-like layout and drag-and-drop rearranging.
Isn't that problem solved by having everyone wear headphones?
I couldn't agree more! Another unintended consequence is that people who previously wouldn't have been able to get loans at all due to default risk can get money. But they don't have the credentials to get into a fancy school. This means there is a lot of excess demand and it makes it possible for these for-profit schools to even exist (they probably wouldn't otherwise).

Since the job market doesn't necessarily need double the number of college grads it means that competition for the jobs that do need filling is fiercer. And that means that people who need to pay back loans for school don't necessarily have the ability to. A race to the bottom in terms of accepting a lower paying job ensues, and people are left with very little agency.

Sometimes it seems like the better-intentioned a social justice law is the worse it'll end up being years down the road.
Retrovirus was okay-ish, and despite 6DOF very nice to use with a mouse. I hope they make a sequel and include Rift support.

The Descent1/2 source is freely available, so some brave soul will probably add Rift support.