skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that where binary operations on screen coordinates tend to produce Sierpiński's triangle, ternary operations will produce Sierpiński's carpet (I don't know what happens as you increase bases beyond that, the number of possible operations does explode).
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The End of Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency as Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
That is a bit of an odd jump since the transaction takes place at the merchant where recycling doesn't.

The merchant is part of and in control of the transaction generating the sale tax, but has no say on where the product goes after the transaction. That part is all on the customer.
Acquire any number of FPGA dev boards with a video output. They're not expensive. Then go to opencores.org and browse freely available cores for seemingly everything ... except 3d graphics cores. Theres quite a few implementations of crude VGA framebuffer out, this is a stereotypical Uni-level FPGA class lab exercise (its not terribly hard). There are some opencore projects trying to accelerate graphics but not as much as you'd think. And there's nothing like the thing in the kickstarter.

I hope the kickstarter project is Wishbone compatible so it can talk to any CPU core I'd like to synth and they're not just making a computer card or whatever, and I hope it ends up license compatible with opencores.

The lack of accelerated graphics is a kind of a weird hole in free FPGA tech, everything else you can imagine seems available.

So for example if I wanted to make an ethernet connected stepper motor controlling FPGA based CNC machine controller, which is not so far fetched, every major software component is off the shelf at opencores except for the software I'd write for the synthesized CPU and ... accelerated graphics if I want a 3-d pix of what the machine is doing / done / plan to do. All the rest, CPU cores, ethernet, stepper drivers, PS/2 drivers for keyboard mouse, all thats off the shelf. It would of course be cheaper to use a COTS desktop PC or a rasp-pi but the point is if I wanted to use a FPGA I almost could except for no 3-d graphics.
I don't think Wiles is depressed by the lack of a Nobel for his work.
America sucks as a business environment:

* Crappy immigration. I can get around the EU (Schengen) and across borders without breaking stride. In the US, it's 3 hours minimum, and that's assuming you get in.

* Crappy legislation and tax. Your tax codes suck. Starting a business sucks. In the UK, fill in a single bit of paper, and pay your corporation tax when it's due. Flat percentage of income, two rates, one for most businesses, one for huge businesses. Don't get me started on the strength of behemoth corporate interests lobbies.

* Crappy businesses. The American way seems to be to hold a gun to your "partners'" heads, and use lawyers to enact your will. In Europe, people actually tend to trust one another.

* Crappy security. By this I mean not "THERE SHOULD BE MORE POLICE", but rather "I don't know if I can run a business in the US without the state meddling, and/or simply taking it away from me, and/or the state collapsing leaving mayhem both for a business and for anyone stuck out there when the brown stuff hits the whirly thing.".

I just don't understand why anyone would want to either start a business in the US, or do business with the US. We used to, but pulled out, as the EU is a plenty big enough market, and far more... humane.

Come to Europe, it's nice here, and there are paid holidays.... and a government.
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i'm actually thinking of getting my own place, because i work frequently from home and enjoy my privacy. can you give me an idea of how much a decent 1-br would cost per month in rent?

also, how's the weather there? is it always cold?
Looks like Google embeds this survey directly into content on many sites, probably through AdSense tags?

I'm not sure, I don't think I've ever seen one.
The Ayn Rand Institute http://www.aynrand.org/
Oddly, our teenager did the "sleep in" thing for about six months, now he bounces out of bed at 6:45 most mornings and 6:00 when he is going to rugby training!
App Annie launches tracking for ebooks
I'm right there with you. Thanks to my infant and a merciless cat, it's been a couple of years since I've slept past 4:30am. I try to get to bed early as often as possible, but it's hard to simply 'give up' and go to bed at the end of a long day when you've finally got a moment to yourself.
Probably upper management without sense of humour.
The ACM's SIGMETRICS[1] are the main group publishing this kind of research. Some of it gets very specialised -- just picking a title from the most recent Performance Evaluation Review[2], I get "YOUQMON: a system for on-line monitoring of YouTube QoE in operational 3G networks".

However, being the ACM, it's basically inaccessible unless you sell a kidney.

An organisation with a slightly more industrial focus is the Computer Measurement Group[3]. Like the ACM ... bring money.

[1] http://www.sigmetrics.org/

[2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2518025&CFID=252561427&CFT...

[3] http://www.cmg.org/
Goldman Sachs would disagree.
Sounds a bit like drug courts, which are more dispersed around the US and other countries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_court
I think that you are completely missing the point. The problem is not about false positives, the problem is about the abusive behaviour to false positives. I can totally understand that there are false positives but racial slurs, threats, shouting, refusal to provide water etc. are never ever justified.

Abusive behaviour of this kind might be just a personal failure of some employee... in that case they need to be fired and severely punished. If those things happen on multiple occasions and nothing happens, nobody is fired/punished, nobody apologises... than you have a reason to believe that it is a systematic failure to uphold to certain standards commonly associated with states that are not police states. That seems to be the case in the US.
http://explainshell.com/ is pretty funky too.
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Thoughts on the Rails and Ruby community naming convention that may be hurting some people.
I'm not sure whether it's died ... it used to be on main-stream sports shows, but now it seems that it's owned by HBO. Since I have no interest in watching it, I couldn't say how widely it's followed.

As an aside, another sad moment was watching a punch-drunk Muhammad Ali try to give a coherent interview.
Thanks.

It seems to me that the difficulty would be in going from unusual to usual without in the meantime being shot down by the Supreme Court.

Are there cases where something became usual before it was brought to judicial review?
What's a non-US citizen going to do if they're deported when attempting to enter the US?

By that point there's little point in trying to get justice, because international court cases are complicated and the tiny amount of money you get back is unlikely to be of much consolation.
Only because it is placing heavy taxes on fuel (which I think is a good thing). Compare with other oil-producing nations, which don't do this.

My point was that the fact that Norway produces oil doesn't trivially lead to more people buying electrical cars.
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When you say:"Do as much as you need to to pay your bills"

Are you alluding to freelancing part-time? Please further explain.
Anonymity Is Hard
I second you, mine is buggy (some times I cannot respond to a call) and missing needed feature for me (like a notification when new email arrive)
Only because it is placing heavy taxes on fuel (which I think is a good thing). Compare with other oil-producing nations, which don't do this. Also, the US has really low gas prices.
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Valid question - "any press is good press" and all that. I think it makes sense to change it if 25% of users think that way but 2.6%? "Oh, how cute. Those Brits..." would've been just as valid of a response.
Future instruction set: AVX-512
The first logo is not a dodecahedron; the geometry is wrong. In reality it would be impossible to see all the three faces drawn at the edge of the logo from the same perspective.

Perhaps people subtly pick up on this geometric imprecision and more easily associate it with something else?
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I'd much prefer an open-source ECU to an IVI.
I'm increasingly turning to -E to debug these hard-to-understand problems. I'd love a -E2 or what-have-you that would be even more verbose, and list all preprocess transformations applied to a line and the source lines where they were defined.

Unfortunately, the standard preprocessor output doesn't provide a convenient way to do this without a comment format. I guess you could use a do-nothing #pragma.

Eventually, I'm sure somebody will spin up some extension to clang to show you the complete evolution of a block of code and what other code contributed to that evolution.
You can pretend reading ,say 1M, emails passed by. I mean you can only understand those you can encrypted. But there is no way to analysis which emails have you encrypted through traffic analysis.

The best way to get invisible is to get into the crowd :)
I remain surprised that he operated from America, especially if he was truly as socially isolated as this post suggests.
I came here to post something like this as well. I'm less concerned with bootup time and more concerned with how much time it takes to get to actually using the system. its still in the 5~10 minute range for me.
This summer:
One man looked too deeply into the source code of his compilers and didn't like what he found.
Is Arch Linux still near impossible to install flawlessly on first try? Reporting in @ 7 tries here before I finally got it working.
It's interesting that he says this:

"Pedophiles, terrorists, serial rapists, and murderers, for example, need to remain behind bars"

It's an easy list to write. It sounds obvious.

Yet murderers as a group is one of the groups least likely to reoffend on release, with reoffending rates in most countries in the low single digits. If you exclude certain groups of murderers (e.g. someone with organised crime / gang backgrounds), the reoffending rate drops close to zero.

Murderers are a great demonstration of how the system is politicised and focused on retribution and vengeance, rather than protection and rehabilitation: You could release almost all of them, and society would be no worse off.
Why do so many Chinese bitcoiners use Linux?
For Jabber there is loqui: http://loqui.im/
It already works pretty good on my peak :) (although I am not using it that much)

According to the author it should get a new release next Tuesday 15.10.2013: https://github.com/waalt/loqui/issues/54
Enforcing the XDG data path via systemd seems weird.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s02...
Congrats to the GNU Make team.

I still use Make occasionally, but redo (https://github.com/apenwarr/redo) just fits my mind better - it's simple, consistent, doesn't require keeping another language with its dark corners (it's just shell scripts), and works well.

It also solves the bootstrap problem - there's a short script called "do", which always rebuilds everything, all of 177 of non-minified bash script. If you need to distribute anything, you should distribute it with "do" inside - and guarantee that your users can build without relying on an installed package (or a specific version of GNU Make).

p.s: OS/X, Linux and BSD supported. Supposedly, windows through cygwin or busybox - but I've never tried.
Yes I do. If you have a point you should make it:)
Wow. This would've been amazing news... back in in 1992.
White-bread? No way man, whole grain wheat. Each grain was produced on its own exclusive acre field.
Just did some more research, they have outlined a bit here http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/how sometimes it unlocks content (and the publisher gets a slip of the fee).

It seems that they somehow have you already targeted to a 10% accuracy level based on your search history.

Their case studies are also worth checking http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/use_cases
Stealth Seattle Startup Highspot Raises $500K More in Debt Round
It's a pretty stock force chart that would probably would have been a lot more useful as a horizontal bar chart. The industry breakout is useless without a legend since I have to switch to country breakout to understand what the colors mean. The circles don't quantify any data, especially unhelpful when you could have used the unique inventions metric to indicate a company's contribution.

So yeah, this is sexy, but also quite useless.
Like many wikipedia articles in areas where there has been intense political propaganda efforts, the one on debt crisis [1] which you quote but do not cite engages is badly confused and influenced by propaganda -- and the four sources for the sentence you quote are an opinion piece, a blog post, an infographic, and broken link, none of which (except, perhaps, the content which once was at the broken link) directly support the thesis of the sentence. By Wikipedia's own standards, that article is bad.

And while you say that the current issue with the House isn't the cause or the effect of the debt crisis, the only US examples of so-called "debt crisis" linked from the Wikipedia article you lean on are the current and 2011 debt ceiling debates. So, its ironic that you ask "Anyway, do you disagree with Wikipedia?"

Anyhow, the defining characteristic of a debt crisis is default risk, not debt vs. tax revenue (debt service cost vs. GDP -- not total debt vs. GDP -- is probably the best "easy" numerical measure for fundamental default risk, but the real source of default risk in the US is political games like the ones you discount from the "House of Immature Children".)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_crisis
Have you never had a customer service representative politely tell you to go fuck yourself?

When I was abused by my parents, it was never called for. As an adult, again and again I would create situations where I was obviously "in the right" so that I could get people to recreate that abuse and then subsequently feel and express the anger I had about it. For me, calmly provoking people is child's play, but I don't do it anymore.
People who thought the logo was underwear before they put it on the front page of HN: 2.6% of Britons who read their website.

People who thought the logo was underwear now: (How many people read a frontpage HN article?)
So not only does USA routinely harass it's visitors, the harassment is not even achieving it's stated aim?
> Corporal punishment would have to be pretty awful to be more brutal, humiliating, violent, or vindictive than prison.

Would have? Not really. Vindictive? What exactly do you intend to achieve by putting someone in prison? Revenge?

The fact that these things happen suggests that there is a problem with how prisons are run now. Full CCTV surveillance of prisons (including toilets) should solve the problem of rape. If I were ever in prison, I'm sure I wouldn't mind a camera watch me pinch a loaf, if it meant it's going to keep me safe from assaults. Even now, the offenders could be chemically castrated.

In any case, these problems arise because prisons prefer to treat prisoners as animals, rather than work on rehab.
But there would be millions of emails. If meta data is concealed, how would the crackers which email is valuable?

As long as it is not possible to crack a proportion of the total traffics, I think it is safer this way.
I've installed it about 7 times, and never had a problem. Haven't had to deal with drivers, though, as I always use it on server only.
> And why did the submitter use the term Pinay? People barely know how to spell Filipino, so I don't expect them to know Pinay either.

The title comes from the submitted article. The article comes from ABC-CBN, a Philippine news source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS-CBN_News_and_Current_Affai...

> ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs (formerly ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs) is the news division of Philippine media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. The organization is responsible for the daily news and information gathering of its news programs. Its current slogan is Panig sa Katotohanan, Panig sa Pagbangon ng Bayan (Tagalog for Sides for the Truth, Sides for the Rise of the Nation). According to the SWS media trust survey, ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs topped the list among Philippines news and broadcast organizations, garnering 68% of the public trust.

> But why is it on Hacker News?

What stories should be on HN, and why do you think this doesn't fit?
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Quite disturbing to think about it. There are probably millions of lines of code in the kernel, how confidently can you say that there's no other instance of something like this slipping in? I mean it's just one damn '=' character.
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health sector has more scope now to update their process and techniques. I think they should totally rethink their existing methodologies with the power of computation
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Shorter Peter Moskos: "Assume that the current function of prisons-as-torture-chambers arose totally by accident, and flogging suddenly sounds more humane."

Sorry, d00d, but our prison system didn't "fail" - it was deliberately sabotaged and bent from a system that tried rehabilitation to a system intended solely for retribution and exploitation of convict labor. Handwaving this away without identifying the forces responsible is sloppy journalism.
I love that interface in Xcode! Thanks for reminding me about FileMerge for non Xcode projects.
Hmmmm, oddly after 10 years as Scout Leader and 4 as a parent, I've never had to discipline a child for locking anyone up.

I do occasionally steal chips from my eldest when he steals chips from his younger brother so, you're right, I'm a massive hypocrite with no sense of perspective.
Hn isn't just news about hacking. You could complain that this story doesn't fit the guidelines, but saying "it isn't about hacking" is much narrower than the guidelines allow.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Corollary: "There's no such thing as a stupid question", because you're not afraid to be wrong. All creative and innovative people are like this, without exception, IMO. As Richard Feynman said in the title of an autobiography: "What do you care what other people think?"

Everybody wins when people leave their egos behind.
It's amazing how Forbes has fallen in the last 10yrs. It used to be the go to magazine along with fortune but Forbes now looks like a collection of amateur blog posts with sensationalist headlines to get clicks.
This example used a read-only squashfs filesystem, making sync() irrelevant.

Also, counting on sync() to write everything within two seconds seems problematic as well.
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Emacs has a "c-macro-expand" function which is quite hackish but extremely useful, IMO: it attempts to macro expand the region.

For instance running it on the following code in the middle of a C source file:

#define BOGO_MAX(a, b) a > b ? a : b

int test()
{
return BOGO_MAX(3 + 4, 5);
}

Creates a new buffer containing:

int test()
{
return 3 + 4 > 5 ? 3 + 4: 5;
}
There really is no "they", forbes.com is just a platform for bloggers nowadays.
> "Seven years after it was founded, the company with a catchy name had more than 2,000 employees"

This sticks out to me more than anything else in the article. I had no idea Twitter had such a massive headcount.

Does anyone have an idea as to the division of labor? 30% infrastructure, 10% design, etc.

My naivety must be showing, but I have a hard time imagining what all those engineers are up to.

EDIT: Sorry for the confusion. I realize that all 2000 employees aren't necessarily engineers, but I think it's safe to assume >1000 are probably in some sort of development role. To me, that still seems like a fairly large engineering base.
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A spam filter is different than an "amateur" or "unprofessional" filter though. I don't see how it could protect against that.
3 tries here, although I broke some things by the time I rebooted the next day.
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It's still mostly fortran :)
Faith does not 'need to expand'. If anything is true about Jewish mentality is that quality is always of more importance for them than quantity, this is especially true about faith itself (and Jews are explicitly banned from promoting their faith to other nations, unlike other major religions).

That's why there are few Jews, but they own the world.
As an earth sciences student I heard exactly the same myth about Nobel being cuckold by a geologist, explaining why there was no prize in geology. It's funny to see that the myth knows no disciplinary boundaries.
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The issue is less about any specific ideology, but rather the social environment he was immersed in. Other than radicals, drug seekers, drug dealers and undercover law enforcement officials, he doesnt seem have had much social interaction. His peer group was ideologically warped far away from societal norms. He had no outlet for either gaining ego validation (e.g. going to a bar and griping about his crap day at his startup cause some weed dealer ran off with $200,000); or social validation (e.g. "Hey everyone, my startup marketplace is doing really well! I've struck it rich due to my hard work and clever understanding of Austrian School economic theory!"). He had to talk with the same people that were drawing him further away from society, because he could not talk to anyone in mainstream society. This is a problem for almost everyone living a "high security" covert life.

I also strongly suspect that many of the undercover agents were acting as agent provocateurs, urging him on towards more extreme positions and actions. The Maryland Indictment reads like a set piece put-up job. I can believe that it was an operation with the dual intent of (a) documenting DPR committing a heinous crime, and (b) unmasking DPR, most likely though the wire transfer. Even if (b) failed, they would still have (a) to prosecute him with later.
While looking for this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l_DSZe8_F8 (boot to embedded real time application around 1 sec) I found this more recent desktop talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVcfjs02Srs (Integrating systemd: Booting Userspace in Less Than 1 Second - ELCE 2011)
In UK, particularly when international Rugby is being played, the South African flag is sometime derided as the "technicolour Y-fronts".
The lack of respect for candidates is kind of frightening, given the current job market. What I'm hearing is that a successful candidate (one who goes through the whole process) is 1/8 as important as a current employee (based on the hours they're willing to put in). This sounds like it will do a great job of filtering candidates - assuming, of course, that you're trying to filter for employees willing to put up with abuse from their employer.