skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about doing the same. I have a trackpoint USB keyboard for my home PC, which is nice because it matches the keyboard on my laptop.

I figure that worst case if I end up with a new laptop without the trackpoint I'd just grab another Thinkpad USB keyboard and plop it over the top.

Back when "laptop" meant "can carry short distances in a shoulder bag" I work mainly on home-built desktop machines. That meant I got the screen rez I liked, the keyboard I liked, the graphics card, etc.

I keep hoping for the day when portable components are such that I can just use the CPU in my phone (or some other) with the screen and keyboard of my choice.

As it is one has to make a list of what things you can or cannot live without and see what compromises you need to accept in a laptop.
huh! I've met legacy Cobol maintainers, but I haven't heard of any companies doing new development in it. Do you have links? I'm super-curious to find out more.
I have heard programmers complain about the hellish nightmare of IEEE754 floating-point arithmetic. I'd heard it was a compromise between reliability and implementability, but I hadn't know until know how far it pushed towards reliability, or how much more of a hellish nightmare pre-754 floating point must have been.
Here is the reference the authors cite: [4]

[4] Bitter to Better — How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/fc12/bitcoin.pdf
Very interesting. I'm just sad they dropped Linux support in the process, just before Linux gaming is taking off.
I will keep Twicsy going until it makes much less than no sense at all!!!!!!!

But, I am already working on the next thing and we have generated more revenue in the last few months than Twicsy/Dumbfind/Searchles did in 10 years.
LayerVault as a Remote Company
Software infecting the running system could send packets received via audio to localhost. I'm not saying it's likely, but it's a remotely plausible explanation for the article's description of the attack and investigation.
Funding MathML Developments in Gecko and WebKit
Former HOA president here (for a 77 unit building in downtown San Diego).

Short-term vacation rentals are forbidden here and they are absolutely shut down when found out. You can't 'manage' every single guest that comes thru - most will be respectful, but it won't take long before a group of college students use it as as a party pad. I lived next to one used for that purpose, and while I was on the board we had 4 others we fined to the point where it wasn't worth their while.
Don't forget the floating-point walkthrough from the ever-lovable Ridiculous Fish:

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/float.html
I wasn't suggesting Iran and North Korea were friends. I was suggesting they lack capabilities.
BitMonet: Monetize your content with Bitcoins
Darpa developing implant to monitor brain in real time
>This.

Obvious samefag is obvious. Go back to 4chan kthxbai.
OllyDbg 2.01 released
I meant 'easily see-able', sorry for the wording.
In my mind there are a few reasons, but indeed it could definitely be implemented with a flat file. Sometimes you aren't guaranteed write-access to a file on the system, especially if you're using a PAAS like Heroku. That also complicates things if you want to build something to view/edit the data in an isolated instance. These are just the reasons that come to the top of my head, but in reality you're right, this could be finessed to be done with just a flat file.
What a Soviet spacecraft on Venus can teach you about failure
RIT has a pretty good coop program as well.
Is Mavericks always watching you? Not exactly
Swiftype is hiring software engineers
Ok - 100k and it's 50 an hour. You could be freelancing with that time. Unless you get enjoyment out of rebuilding homes and customer service. In that case, knock yourself out and do 2 more. Or plow the earnings into a housing empire and do it full time.
The electric eel has lots of insulating fat just under the skin - so it wouldn't be too much outside the realms of plausibility for it to have higher electrical resistance than something made primarily of muscle.

Of course, the insulating fat also likely provides a sort of faraday cage effect - any current that does hit the eel will just flow through its skin instead of hitting anything important.
Project is open-source and all the code is available at https://github.com/bitmonet
That is true if you want to maintain the direction the subreddit is going. But democracy doesn't work when the masses don't know what's best for them.

I believe that nevitably, without strong leadership, a subreddit (or insert any other internet community) will fall to image macros, memes, and internet raging. And that's because the masses upvote that content.

But maybe an appointed moderator is what the subreddit needs, even if that mod isn't what it deserves.
Pinterest is so hot right now. Twicsy is so not hot right now. That makes a huge difference when it comes to launching products like that. They also have much better engagement.
1) Your work will survive the need to restart your WM, or X itself. Pretend for a moment that you run NVidia drivers, which kill X hard, and you're dumped to GDM or similar with no warning. Your state is preserved.

2) Your work/state can be remotely accessed, assuming e.g. you work primarily on a desktop, and you wish to go home, and pick up where you left off, via VPN.
The original intent was to overlap the two meanings: to be both responsive as the user resizes the browser rather than to add scroll bars and to be responsive to the device capabilities: try to make buttons bigger for touch screens, etc. More direct responsive behaviour would likely be called user-centred, focused or, well, quick and efficient. :) perhaps even user-friendly AJAX to dip into some buzzword stew.
Doctors and research PhD, in general, would benefit from being able to program as well, and indeed I believe a very large number of them do.

And I don't think that learning to code is equivalent to working professionally as a programmer. The same way as learning how to read and write is different than being a writer or a poet, and yet no one argue about the importance of being literate.

And yes, even if you only know how to use VBA to summarize your research results, it'd still probably worth it.
There's something analogous to the weak anthropic principle here in that we mostly live in places where the problems that come with unlicensed hotels have been stomped out, sometimes for generations, largely through successful regulation.
Brain-inspired synaptic transistor learns while it computes
That "it's impossible to access the internal domain from the guest network." ended the moment you added a door to the guest network. Yes, you may have intended it to be one way, but how do you know that? More importantly, how can the company verify that it is, and what gives you the right to force them to have to spend time thinking about that?

"Access our guest network" to Facebook means you can willingly or unwillingly download stuff from the internet that you can't download from the internal network.

And yes, it is not a crime, but I can see that a company can see it as a reason for dismissal, especially if they instruct their personnel in network security.
Poor small fish :(
A little late to respond -- nonetheless, this is purely based on my initial customers and distributers. Of course the .com would be better, but so far the people I have spoken with haven't had any issues with the .co.

This being said, the scale of this business is small and wouldn't generate enough traffic to show even if I had access to the golf course's stats.

'co' is also part of my brand -- for both instagram, facebook and twitter user IDs. I think this also contributes to the success.

But like you said, there are plenty of unknowns.
OP, if you do go with Lua, this sandbox seems to work when combined with ulimit: https://github.com/jnwhiteh/luasandbox

If you test on Mac OS, you should be aware that ulimit is not capable of limiting memory in Mac OS.
Check out https://github.com/haypo/pysandbox/
How to replicate Google "Hangouts On Air" stream combining functionality?
Plus job training. Probably some schooling too.
8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell,
these forty years.

8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth
his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to
walk in his ways, and to fear him.

8:7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys
and hills; 8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees,
and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 8:9 A land wherein
thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing
in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou
mayest dig brass.

8:10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD
thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

8:11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command
thee this day: 8:12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast
built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 8:13 And when thy herds and
thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and
all that thou hast is multiplied; 8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up,
and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 8:15 Who led thee through
that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and
scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee
forth water out of the rock of flint; 8:16 Who fed thee in the
wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might
humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy
latter end; 8:17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might
of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
Worse yet, the tasks are public on the web, and anyone can see what's being posted: there's not even a minimal level of privacy.
I completely agree. Using option 3 has its own set of con's, and this is one of them. Many Users have been misused/tricked in the past and don't like the idea of associating a new (aka unknown) App with their Social Media Accounts. For all they know the App will steal their data and spam their friends. This is in line with some of the feedback I get when validating with potential customers.

You may have hit a sweet spot there with option 2. Keep us updated! An interesting Metric would be comparing the Bounce Rate between these options above (ala A/B Testing).
Find a church, shelter, or other organization, and send them a check each month for $100. (that's $3.30/per day). Try it for a year.
> He does address the high-frequency sound thing though. Basically, your laptop speaker will be lucky to transmit at near 20KHz

He asserted it but there are working demos showing this being possible. Which of the two is more convincing?

> As for the specificity of the BIOS environment - he's saying you'd need to compile the BIOS code against the manufacturer's libraries AND make versions specific to board revisions. ESPECIALLY if you're doing stuff like initializing and using the soundcard (which he also addresses).

The BIOS doesn't need to contain everything, only the portion needed to load an exploit which compromises the OS and uses the normal code to talk the soundcard, network, etc. Just as no operating system in existence needs to have per-board boot loaders, this doesn't need to do more than load the next stage.

> Way too many red flags here.

Again, I'm not saying the BadBIOS claims don't require proof - only that a post which is confused about those claims and makes arguments which are contradicted by running code isn't a good critique.
Most long term homeless Americans are severely mentally ill. That makes them eligible for Supplemental Security Income ($950/month), Section 8 (subsidized housing), Medicaid (free health care), and a variety of local grants and subsidies.

But if they could keep their shit together well enough to navigate that system, they would probably just get a job.
Oh, for Christ's sake! Netflix has a huge DVD/BD library. I actually have DVD queue twice as long as streaming. There's always something to watch.
I am in no way implying that they are stupid. Did you ever go out and shown computers to people who are not used to them? Not everyone in the world had access to one growing up. Some people are simply too old and never picked up on it.

I am actually saying to this person: "go ahead and help out there". I have shown computers to people who couldn't figure out how the damn mouse work!
There are multiple known examples of running code which does soundcard communication - see e.g. https://github.com/borismus/sonicnet.js. I can personally verify that it required no special handling to work on two laptops made by different manufacturers running different operating systems in a noisy room.

This doesn't mean that BadBIOS is true — only that it's annoying and tedious to play the skeptic with shoddy logic and trust-me assertions being presented as facts.
Yep, I was going with Faraday cage. If the special electrical cells that an eel has on its skin are conducting, then surely there is some form of cage effect happening.

Having just done a very very quick search of relevant papers, I'm not entirely sure that anyone has actually looked into this. So the scientific answer would best be "I dunno".
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I don't really consider myself as tackling this from the hardware direction. It's more that I'm trying to piece together a set of existing hardware and software that fits the need as best as possible. I'm trying to connect the dots of what already exists.

Some of that is motivated out of laziness. I don't really want to write a POS system from scratch. Not that I can't, I just have too many other projects on my plate to deal with such a thing. So doing a "literature survey" of the existing FOSS POS systems seems like a good place to start.

I fully expect to have to customize it to fit individual need. But that's the beauty of FOSS, you get to do that if you want.

But a good part of it is also motivated from knowing that there is a segment of people who are going to try to build their POS from scratch. They might have a touch screen already and need everything else to go with it. They might have bought a receipt printer on Amazon and didn't really think it much further than that. In the same way that Linux runs on just about anything you can think of, I want to eventually get to where you can fill in the blanks on what you have and get a list of what you need and be able to purchase it easily and have yourself a POS for great justice.

I have a friend who owns a bar and microbrewery just outside of Philadelphia that built his own POS system from completely COTS parts and FOSS software. It took him 3 years to get it to the point that it worked, but it eventually worked. I'm trying to make that 3 years turn-key for everyone else.

I'm still looking into payments. Payments are kind of the big, scary elephant in the room for this field. I'm betting it's actually not that big of a deal. It's probably just the classic problem of getting through the slog. I've worked on enough SOX-compliant systems to know that such things aren't really that complex, you just have to know the rules ahead of time.

Anyway, I'd be really interested to see what you're doing. Please, share what you've got so far.
I was blind to it for a long time. Now I use it all the time. It's very convenient, really.
There are many who could also benefit from adult literacy teaching. See if you can volunteer at your local library. Many of them have programs to help people read and read better.
Awesome idea.
Combine with Stylish (A firefox extension) to make it even better.
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater is preventing people like OP from doing what he's doing just because some guests might be a nuisance. What about we fine the house owner over those guests instead?
SEEKING WORK - Brighton UK
Microcontroller programming for sensors actuators and feedback loops - interface libraries written in c, c++ and python. Microcontroller experience includes PIC dsPIC and Arduino. Work includes automation of high precision physics experiments as well as digital interactive entertainment applications. website:
Nseymoursmith.github.io
I think this would be prohibitively expensive (every player requiring their own 3D printer is a Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicle-level device requirement), and this is a terrible use of "a modest proposal", but I love the idea and would put money toward it.
Slight bug, it treats param 3 as a map, so you can't put --render without the map.

You should also mention somewhere what no-standard libraries are needed (e.g. RestrictedPython). Maybe provide a requirements.txt

Otherwise, this is really cool. I especially love the game render. Great job!
Weird reasoning. So anything legal and profitable must be done? Even for shareholders I think this can't be true. And anyway it is easy to show that going evil is harmful in the long term, e.g. with developers.
Very cool.

For those who want to follow along at home: http://blog.mikeswanson.com/iosroundedrect

I modified this myself to produce better background colors for testing different icon designs with an angular gradient and some layer cropping. This script and a script to save icons at different sizes really helped when making 30 iOS apps for iOS 7 recently. (I don't have time now to share my changes but if anyone's interested, I'll check this comment later for replies.)
You don't need to fit everything in 383KB: the initial vector claimed was a USB key so there's no reason that specific exploits couldn't be selected from a larger collection.

For that matter, since this thing is claimed to be on the visibly network there's also no reason why additional code couldn't be downloaded — the sound part is claimed as a slow covert channel for an already infected system.
Ick. I meant I wholeheartedly support the EFF :-P

The ACLU's position in a lot of issues like Hosana Tabor v. EEOC was wrong (so wrong that all 9 justices disagreed with the ACLU and stood up instead for civil liberties), and they are for corporate free speech on political issues (Citizens United) unless that is discriminatory (Willock Photography). And so forth.
Why numbering should start at zero
For people in Canada:
http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheColbertReport?videoP...
We won't deploy any code even after Wed afternoon. Don't get ourselves in any troubles.
I'd like to know where Apple has been public about patents because I find that surprising. If anything, there seems to be hardly any corporate communication addressing these types of things letting the media speculate to their heart's content.

Your premise about Motorola is incorrect. Google was required to approve the patent assertions against Apple. From FOSS Patents:

>A few months after that Zeitgeist talk, in January 2012, Google authorized a Motorola Mobility lawsuit against Apple over six patents in the Southern District of Florida. The merger agreement was publicly available and absolutely unequivocal about the fact that Motorola needed Google's consent prior to bringing new IP assertions while the merger was under antitrust review.

But even if that weren't the case, there would be nothing stopping them from settling or withdrawing the case.
What if to Apple, the war started when Eric Schmidt stayed on Apple's board of directors while Google was developing a direct competitor to the iPhone?
Yes, there are a lot of immigrants in sweden. All of them that I have met (except for the ones from the E.U) have been productive members of society.

There's the turk system administrator, the iranian who's also going to be a system administrator (once he gets a visa and my employer can actually hire him), the chinese guys, the pakistanians and so on....

Ironically the people from the E.U. that I know have been the people that are actually abusing the system. Like the welshman who is being "burned out" (no, he's not), and the irish guy who keep bouncing between jobs, and there are more people like this.
As I understand it, most of Android's new features are coming in the form of proprietary apps rather than AOSP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6656764
No, this is about keeping the discussion focused on facts and logic rather than strawmen and assertions. Right now, the onus is on Ruiu to provide more evidence but it's just adding noise if people start attacking claims he hasn't made or asserting that their personal knowledge is the limit of what is possible (e.g. all of the people claiming the soundcard channel couldn't work).
I'd call it, "contemporary boilerplate rhetoric."
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Section VIII:

"Short term leases (leases with terms less than 30 days) are prohibited."
A quick list of gripes is a pretty unconvincing argument that hotels are "doomed". There is no guarantee that any of those things would be better at an AirBnB. Likewise, a corresponding list of gripes could be assembled for AirBnB-like services. Neither type of service seems "doomed", although the AirBnB-type stuff is probably on shakier ground at the moment, merely due to the legal gray areas.
its done in finance sometimes and the thought behind it is m = 1000, so multiply 1000 by 1000 and you get 1,000,000.

Personally I hate that notation and use capital M whenever given the opportunity. I feel like it used to show superiority or present another barrier to people outside of finance looking in.

a millimeter is = to 1000 micrometers.
Washington DC zip codes don't work (e.g., 20001, 20002, 20011, etc.).
Gruber is pretty clear about what's in his mind, so there's no need for terrible analogies.

>If you want to argue that the whole patent system stinks, and that all of these tech giants are abusing it, I agree. But if you want to argue that Apple and Microsoft are in the wrong, and poor Google and their Android partners are victims of one-sided abuse, I’m going to have to disagree. If there’s a difference between Apple/Microsoft and Google in this war, it’s not over nobility, but rather over how well each side has played the game.

These companies pursue what's in their self-interest, and attempts to portray Google as being somehow above it are disingenuous, regardless of how high-minded the PR makes them seem.
The original library I was experimenting with was from Main Concept. Basically we were just decoding the frame to it's raw format, reading out the bytes/pixels of two frames side by side with some black pixels in between, and then trying to encode this new frame. I hope there's an easier, more widely applicable way.
A large part of the issue with this in the US is that you have a market where the number of issues sold is higher than the number of readers, because reading comics is a really niche thing in the US, while "everyone" has heard the stories of titles selling at ridiculous prices.

Meanwhile, for comparison, a market like Norway, with 5 million people, have at various times had multiple series selling more than 100k copies a month. Donald Duck & Co. for a many years sold 150k copies a week.

More importantly, readership here is usually estimated at 3-5 readers per copy, as opposed to more than one copy per reader in the US, as copies would pass around the family and get lent out to friends.

In France, some new issues of the top selling album titles, like Tintin, Asterix and Spirou et Fantasio, have sold in millions in France alone.
Look into the MATE Desktop Environment. [1] "MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux…"

[1] http://mate-desktop.org/