skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every knee will bend.

God says...

Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Sunday September 15, 2013 13:11.02 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 50214

81:5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out
through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood
not.

81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered
from the pots.

81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee
in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of
Meribah.

Selah.

81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if
thou wilt hearken unto me;

81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship
any strange god.

81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would
none of me.
Inevitable Fact About Programmers
Agreed. The status change seemed very unlikely.

It really got me to cringe during the mouse hovers on the buttons though. That was pretty great.
Fukushima used a more than 50 year old reactor design, it has very little bearing on either the risk or feasability of building new nuclear plants.

Was Fukushima considered a safe design or not? Did the regulatory authorities consider it safe? Did TEPCO consider it safe?

The answer is yes, yes of course they did. If they thought the plant was too dangerous to operate, they would have shut it down or revoked its license. Ever since it was built, everyone involved has been insisting over and over that it was a safe design. It turns out that the regulators, manufacturers and operators were all wrong about that.

So, why exactly should we trust them when they say that a new plant design is safe?

How can nuclear power plant operators, manufacturers and regulators retain credibility when their previous statements have been proven so catastrophically wrong?

I personally don't think deaths due to nuclear power a big deal; my greater concern is that the costs for current nuclear reactors don't make any damn sense. Certainly the long term costs of remediating the Fukushima site are going to be enormous.
Probably better advice would be to just get rid of coupon code fields altogether and have special links during sales.

The fields are what trigger most people looking into that in the first place after all
Here is my thought on climate change, and something each party overlooks while paying scientists to do research that supports their point. Lets just pretend that hypothetically, we are 100% sure global warming is not caused by human-manufactured pollution. With that being the case, what do we do? Take off pollution controls? Turn every city into a place where you need to wear a mask to breathe? If you've ever been to Shanghai or even Los Angeles it is pretty obvious there are problems with pollution beyond damaging the ozone. Personally, I think that millions of people being able to actually breathe is more important than chemical company x stock price going up because they didn't have to "waste" money on proper disposal and soot filters...

The fact that we get bogged down in a discussion of whether the ozone is being damaged and overlook whether our lungs are being damaged just blows my mind.
It's closer to the actual pronunciation of "folk•sel"
That's not really how "audits" work. Coordinated public audits are responsible for a tiny fraction of all vulnerability discoveries. Most discoveries are independent. There would probably be a fairly poor return on investment for funding an official audit.

Bear in mind also that even though you've never heard of an audit of GPG, GPG is actually a pretty high-profile target. Smart people have already looked at that code pretty carefully.

Since GPG is an open source project, a better approach would be to find a way to sponsor a bounty for vulnerabilities in GPG. But here too you'll run into problems:

* It will take fo-re-ver to adjudicate what does and doesn't qualify as a serious finding. Google and Facebook manage this problem by hiring very smart vulnerability researchers and allowing them to come up with criteria pretty much by fiat. Here, you're going to end up in a 2-month-long argument about whether man page bugs are vulnerabilities because of the nature of the project.

* Output of these programs is nonlinear and unpredictable, so it'll be tricky to figure out how much money needs to be set aside to satisfy reward payouts. In the meantime: who holds that money? And where does it go when the bounty outlives its utility?

If you really want to do some good, consider starting a project (which would require no funding) to either:

(a) Build a replacement GPG in a more modern development environment, or

(b) Annotate all of GPG's source code.
The thing that bothers me the most is that every single one of these climate change skeptics seem to turn off their brain when it comes to the obvious effects of pollution. Even if climate change isn't occurring, many major cities are covered in smog. Is the next step to deny that breathing dense fog is harmful?
(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

[1] https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
I sincerely hate the term "selling data". No one "sells data". It's a term I think people use because it sounds scarier.
Squarespace claims: "You won't find a better deal on any third-party site."

This statement is not true; the current offer code on the Back to Work podcast is for 20% off.
C has quite a few features, and the language design is pretty arbitrary. (Yes, it's often based on (old) hardware, but then hardware design is pretty arbitrary.)

I haven't used Clojure much, so I'll mostly talk about Scheme. I suspect the two are similar in all important ways.

If you look at the matter critically, you'll find that Scheme (and, I suspect, Clojure) are actually simpler and smaller languages than C. Neither has nearly as much syntax. There is far less undefined behavior. C has way more corner cases than Scheme: there are a ton of C quizzes out there which basically nobody can solve; I couldn't imagine much of that for Scheme. You just have to memorize the relatively obscure rules for what types get automatically coerced to each other.

C has whole classes of hard-to-solve bugs that other languages simply do not. Bus errors, segmentation faults, buffer overflows... All the exposed low-level details obscure the meaning of the code; unless they're important to your application, they just make your code harder to follow.

Moreover, common C idioms (some of which are just workarounds for missing features) make code much harder to follow than it should be. Thanks to the use of out parameters, you never really know where the result from a function is, without reading the documentation. I recently wrote some code that depended on ioctl--that single function sometimes returned the result as the return value and sometimes modified fields inside the struct you passed into it! Hard to follow is an understatement. Errors are signalled as integers instead of some semantically meaningful data type.

Of all the languages I know, C is the one that makes it the hardest to write non-trivial programs that are easily read by others. I suspect you're just making the common mistake of confusing familiarity for some sort of innate quality.
Someone should make an automated dmoz-like directory of wikipedia external links with thumbnails.
I've just travelled through Europe for three months as a location-independent consultant and what worked well for me was to stay at least a week in any place, and travel only on weekends.

This got me into a nice rhythm where I could be as productive as at home.
If you ARE going to make pretty patterns on your Github contributions graph, make sure you view them with my "Conway's Game Of Life in Github Contributions Page" Chrome Plugin: https://github.com/mk270/life-contributions
I wish more people followed what Hal writes in here :

> A second goal of this book is to provide a view of machine learning that focuses on ideas and models, not on math. It is not possible (or even advisable) to avoid math. But math should be there to aid
understanding, not hinder it.

No book (yes not even PRML - Bishop), follows this diligently.
But if you are using SSH for administrative purposes on anything important that you might be reomte from in a time of crisis you don't want to layer something else on top of SSH that might fail and not let you in, or even if the port-knocking arrnagement is OK you might not be able to access it from where you are (perhaps on a mobile/wireless network that is blocking all but the most common standard ports in an illconeived effort to block P2P traffic, which would affect people who put SSH on a non-standard port as well). OK so if it is that bad maybe everything is down/inaccessible (SSH and all), and anything that important has local hands-on support available, but it still strikes me as a bad idea to potentially lock yourself out.

The worrying thing in this report though is how many hosts seems to be running ancient (now unsupported) versions such as the stock variant from Debian 4. I bet most of those hosts have no key-based auth and easily guessed passwords too...
my friend's mother-in-law makes $76/hr on the internet. She has been fired for 9 months but last month her payment was $14190 just working on the internet for a few hours. this big57.com
I've seen a superior pattern employed elsewhere: a "grab code" hyperlink on the label of the promocode's text input that brings up a modal or opens a new tab that promises a 10% (or similar) discount in return for sharing on twitter/facebook etc. It can solve two problems - people looking for promocodes can find that tab instead of websites that show your promocodes while redirecting users to your website with their referral link, AND your website will get a bit of free publicity.
Can also confirm. It's just like in 8.0 - lower left corner of the backup dialog.
I'm thinking he had trouble finding enough space to use his laptop.
>(a) Build a replacement GPG in a more modern development environment

(c) Build a replacement GPG that developers can (easily) use as a cross platform library.
You can specify tables in the mysqldump command line.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html
How I got a root shell in my NAS:

Went to "Terminal" in the web control panel.

Enabled the SSH service.

SSHed in as root.

This is an off-the-shelf device, not an OS I installed myself.
I don't think this is really true.

The biggest public policy advocated by people who care about climate change is a carbon tax. The effects of such a tax on the margins are more energy conservation (better weatherization, green roofs, smart grids, etc), and shifting fossil fuel consumption to natural gas and wind/solar. Every single one of those changes yields significant non-CO2 related environmental benefits.

The worst you can say is that natural gas burning requires higher temperatures that produce more NOx emissions, but they also take out a lot more mercury and SOx emissions produced by equivalent coal fired plants. Moreover, because old coal fired plants are grandfathered in, they face less stringent air pollution control regulations than brand new natural gas plants that replace them.

Finally, the costs of doing serious air pollution control in power plants is generally tiny and such controls probably pay for themselves just in reducing asthma cases alone.

My source is my father, who designed air pollution control systems for power plants for the last 30 years or so.
Well, that's true.

Experiments are usually so expensive that you want to get the most out of them, so most people work discovering what experiments they should do, and what they do with the results, instead of just jumping in the lab and doing the experiments.

Then, sometimes, people with that culture face a problem just like this one, where blind experiments are the fastest, simplest, cheapest route to understanding something. Except that nobody knows it beforehand.
I always wonder if there is a website to organize this. I have my own house but would like to stay here only 3 months a year and move for other 3 places elsewhere (fixed places). It would be a good idea for a startup.
In case you didn't know, the EFF takes bitcoin donations now.
Actually, the health of our social programs isn't that based on continued population growth; they'd work pretty much the same with a stable population size.

However, the bane of those social programs is quickly increasing lifespans. No matter if population growth is zero or huge, if you're currently below 45, you anyway have to "prepare for yourself" rather than expect them to survive in the current form - unless the retirement age moves beyond 80 within this decade.
I have the same learned habit (from using typewriters) of using two spaces after a period.

But I think you are overreacting here. In common spoken english the phrase "I hate X" often does not literally mean that, it means "X annoys me."
Costa Concordia: How ill-fated cruise liner will be raised from Italian seabed
Apples A7 Chip
Very interesting discussion as I am just starting my digital nomad life. Like the author suggests, I strongly believe in staying at least a couple months at every destination (where you'd like to get some work done).

One thing I'm curious about is if some of you have tried finding local clients in destinations you visit?

This is obviously easier in big cities than in Kho Phi Phi, and will most likely pay less than a US-based client. Nevertheless, I'd imagine it to be a great way to get immersed in the local lifestyle and solves some of the issues mentioned in the post (eg: timezone, workplace).
Interesting. I like it. This is very similar to Titanium Mobile's architecture.
Anyone care for a little tdlr; ?
It would be useful to quantify this for various projects with an estimate of how many hours have been spent probing the codebase by well-intentioned security experts. Just like negative experimental results in the sciences, such findings are rarely published.
I've been looking for something like this for a very long time. Anyone know of something like this with a GUI?
A Sneak Peek at Eric Schlosser's New Book on Nuclear Weapons
So, you think the U.S. would be much poorer today if it had implemented tighter vehicle emission standards, as Europe did, in the 70s? Do you think human development requires Lincoln Navigator-sized cars with zippy acceleration?

Would progress and wealth creation have been significantly impeded if it were more expensive for people to build massive homes in the desert?

We get to make lots of choices. We get to decide how we spend our free time and what our preferences are. Much of GHG emissions are the product of relatively arbitrary (and often externality-exploiting) human druthers. It would be nice to see this fully quantified, but I suspect we would see a massive reduction in GHG emissions if we all just chose to value reading, soccer, hiking, and vegetarian food over Jetski-ing, NASCAR, motorbike touring, and meat at every meal; if 90% of the people driving < 17 MPG cars went to driving ones that did better than 28.

CO2 emissions would go down a fair bit; how would human progress and wealth creation be hindered if our value system changed thusly?
You're assuming I check my phone. I don't. Unless I get a call, which is when I say "excuse me I'll be quick, sorry", answer it, tell them to call back, carry on with conversation.
They should go to source links... Unless they're comments or text posts.
Say No to Good Ideas
For a beginner to machine learning I'd recommend Andrew Ng's course notes and lectures over any textbook I've seen. But I prefer his Stanford CS 229 notes to Coursera for exactly the reasons you state: they are watered down. After you really can understand Andrew Ng's course notes I'd recommend a textbook because they go in more detail and cover more topics. My two favorites for general statistical machine learning are:

* Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop

* The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman

Both are very intensive, perhaps to a fault. But they are good references and are good to at least skim through after you have baseline machine learning knowledge. At this stage you should be able to read almost any machine learning paper and actually understand it.
Decomposing as far as you can is a good practice ... you'll still be way off, because you think you know all the problems that you're going to need to solve. So about halfway through the project your list is going to be longer and management is going to be freaking out.

The elephant in the room: Debugging. I don't know how many times I've been asked, "When are you going to find that bug?" Sometimes they are very easy. Sometimes they are very hard. For the really hard bugs, you need to be clever, scientific, determined, methodical and LUCKY. I don't know how to know when I'm going to run into some luck.
This has already been done by people who understand the fundamentals of crypto. Check out http://nacl.cr.yp.to/

It is even available natively in Go http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.crypto/nacl
Why not specify the amounts in centiliters? All the amounts end with 0 anyway.
>If it isn't rude, why are so many people offended by it?

Because they're old and trying to apply old customs to new situations, instead of adopting new customs. No, not every single bit of dinner conversation will be riveting, and it's natural for our attentions to wander. So we alt-tab from the conversation into other sites, sometimes bringing something new into the conversation. This act is also a highly effective yet passive body-language signalling technique -- it allows us to more definitively signal our disinterest in the topic-at-hand without interrupting the speaker or others listening, and if everyone is on their phones it tells the speaker to change topic or let someone else speak.
Colonialism.

The British created the place to exploit copper mines, but the Belgians were able to get control of the copper.
Niklas, the author or RoboVM, just send his first submission to the App Store, we'll see how that pans out. In the meantime, lots of folks from the libgdx community (JVM game dev framework) already ported many non-trivial games to RoboVM, without any big issues, e.g. [1][2]

Current limitations: no debugging, Boehm GC (though anything except stack references are collected precisely) and the ObjC -> Java bindings are a bit in flux.

I personally would like to see the ObjC bindings ala Xamarin get done. JavaFX is a trainwreck in my opinion. I think that would also be a really good business opportunity for Niklas/Trillian, i can see tons of enterprises wanting to code their iOS apps via a JVM language. RoboVM already has Maven/STB plugins available, so development is very smooth. And compile times beat Xamarin easily.

What gets me really excited is that RoboVM supports Scala out of the box. Writing iOS/Android/desktop games and apps in Scala would be amazing.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Ro41uamD0
[2] https://twitter.com/RainerBasso/status/378621566206369792
Hacker News would not qualify as a reliable source on Wikipedia as it is an aggregator of user-submitted content without much oversight.
162 days here! Was about to write a blog post about it - but I still need to finish the vaporware blog engine I've been working on for the last five years :)
Random question: What would be a good backup option for Windows? Even Windows 7's backup option was often unusable, failing backups with strange errors or taking two days to complete so I'm not too sad to see it gone completely. I'm just missing a useful alternative. File History is nice for accidentally lost files, but for restoring a working state of the machine there are probably better options.
Related: http://stfucontinentals.tumblr.com/
I just wanted to point out that the author is a politician and not a scientist. Also, the globe has warmed by 6-8 degrees F since the last ice age. The temperature difference that the author considers "beneficial" is the difference between Manhattan being a vibrant city and being buried under a mile of ice.
The spirit level - how inequality hurts us all
Keep going and report back! :)
Some of these make perfect sense:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoffeeScript links to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2037801 with the sentence "On December 24, 2010, Ashkenas announced the release of stable 1.0.0 to Hacker News, the site where the project was announced for the first time."

"80legs has been criticised by numerous site owners for its technology effectively acting as a Distributed Denial of Service attack and not obeying robots.txt." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1056960 (which makes sense because the discussion includes site owners)

Others are questionable:

"While ZumoDrive encrypts transport of all content with 256-bit SSL, and stores that content encrypted on Amazon S3 servers, that content is still accessible to ZumoDrive administrators" It would seem that the direct link http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-03-11-zumodrive-rolls-a... is far more relevant than the comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1183308 (and many of the comments actually are opposed to the claim)
So if you have the data, de-anonymizing Tor traffic is easy. Your only question is does the NSA care about people using Tor? Well, if we remove people using it to get child porn, i'd imagine an appreciable fraction of Tor traffic is of interest to the NSA. For the most part it's people who think they have somewhere to hide. This includes foreign embassies apparently

So to the NSA, Tor is probably a flag that you might have something to hide. They are probably more likely to look at it than normal traffic.

Put another way, hide in the network should mean hide in the majority of traffic, not some small subset that partially self selects for doing suspicious things.
Depressing an yet true; I have seen this myself with friends
Not sure it qualifies as "something like this", but for Linux/GTK, GTG [1] comes to mind.

http://gtgnome.net/
Have a look at the changelog. It's not as if people haven't been looking at it.
Like ZeroGravitas says, Wikipedia isn't zero sum. He frames the issue as being paid to make Wikipedia better. It's not clear that what he's doing is wrong, though it does leave a funny taste in my mouth. I suppose it really depends on how much the money biases him.
As long as they weren't Jewish or other unpopular ethnicities.
>Is this what college students are like? Studying a lot is bad? Asians studying a lot is 'the worst thing'?

Yes, most college students want to study only the week before midterms and finals, so they can maximize their free time with friends. And I have seen Asian friends complain about other Asians for "living in the library" and "being too Asian".

(I was in an Asian fraternity at a 25% Asian campus...)

Yes, everyone's racist today, and the new equality is being an equal-opportunity racist. It's a brave, new world.
It was mentioned before in the thread, but I'll just go ahead and leave this here again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy

Trying to improve developer estimates is just another case of doing the wrong thing, righter.
Interesting. I guess I'm part of that small percentage! But I really do think that's the case. Even if people say the words ("the host opens a losing door"), they may not be processing what it means ("the host purposefully opens a door that is known to be losing"). I wonder if I'm wrong.