skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More exactly, the kernel does provide a way for applications to mark memory pages as executable (which is exactly what Safari does, after all), but you need to have the right permissions to use the API, and App Store apps don't have those permissions...
Does OpenStep count? It's a clone of NeXTstep, which is what Cocoa is itself a descendent of
Do you have any good Go book suggestions?
Wouldn't pipes be implemented as monads (arrows)? I think it'd be defeating the point to bolt on a Bourne shell convention for Haskell shell, when there's a native capability to be used...
Oh, very nice! It's been about a year since I've worked in Matlab on a daily basis, so it's good to see they brought that into base.

I didn't have much trouble with datasets because it's fairly painless to convert to a matrix with double(ds) if you setup your text columns as ordinals and nominals rather than cell arrays.
AeroFS is not open source.. and really in this climate we can't say it is going to guarantee privacy.

(This does not mean that OSS guarantees privacy, it is just a necessary condition.)
Reminds me of "Ask HN: What will happen when everybody uses an ad blocker?"[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6382188
I think that's the real benefit. In the past 5 years, there's been an explosion of available tools, which is good for everybody. I looked at Python a while back, and it wasn't there yet. Now it seems to arrived.
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The mp3s that are commented out are the best ones.
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> How can they have legal standing for such a claim, unless one of the authors had privileged access to Wolfram Research knowledge to misappropriate a trade secret?

The absence of legal standing obviously is something that can be raised once a lawsuit is underway, but it doesn't prevent the threat of a lawsuit, and many organizations will knuckle under to the threat of a lawsuit from a wealthy opponent just to avoid the expense of consulting with lawyers if there isn't a big cost in avoiding the lawsuit.
All the more reason for OEMs to start shipping with Firefox instead.
They actually wouldn't agree with your assessment about value assignment, other than to point out that justice has nothing to do with it, that's how markets work.

Just because it mentions an unjust situation doesn't mean that's the thrust of the article.
It's a density argument.
missing from that list -- Google, Yahoo, Amazon... actual retailers with products

I don't care what VC hipsters are doing, and who the hell were the Winklevii before they started hyping bitcoin?
Can't predict the future -- but I do not think they will ever do it after talking to @radian at JSConf.EU.
By your logic, we should have not banned CFCs in household goods but instead made them more expensive.

Lots of people would agree with that or the point in general that financial penalties work better. Legislation should mandate results, not dictate methods.
Anand is a total class act. All the other top chess players only ever had good things to say about him. And Anand is one of the people who coached Magnus.

He's known to be focused strictly on the game and never do mind tricks to throw an opponent off. A lot of top players respect him for this.
> Seems no different than if the buyer had sold her Bitcoin and paid Virgin Galactic in cash.

I'm not sure if this differs for six-figure transactions, but transacting fiat currency generally costs a vendor ~3%.

Receiving bitcoins and immediately converting them back to USD/GBP can be done for less than one percent of the amount of the transaction.
Nice. There are also "games" [1] made with just GLSL shaders in WebGL. There are several of those on Shadertoy but I particularly like https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MsX3Rf.

[1] Edit: "Games" in scare quotes because the lose state doesn't (can't) persist in a way that requires player action.
I've broken one bulb in a decade. But by being an early adopter and using them for more than a decade I've prevented hundreds of times as much mercury from entering the atmosphere.
You probably have a big list already , is it possible to make one for hotspot SIMs? Like data / tethering only?

IIRC TMO and ATT both block tethering with DPI on phones and force you to get a second SIM for it, so yeah
Whitelisted Apps can. Mobile Safari for instance uses the JavaScriptCore JIT; Chrome however does not, despite using Apple's built-in WebView.
Congrats on the WSJ article.
No, the volatility has been entirely in BTC. Volatility should more accurately be measured against actual real-world goods that you can buy. Since pretty much all actual goods are priced in currencies other than BTC, with the BTC price merely set based on the current exchange rate with the currency that the goods are bought at, it's BTC that's volatile, not the USD.

This kind of volatility is actually really harmful to it being adopted as a primary currency. It's pretty dumb to actually spend bitcoins if you could just hold onto them and sell a week or two later at twice the price, and then spend the USD for twice the goods you would have been able to buy last week with the same number of BTC. It's also pretty dumb to accept BTC as payment, especially when it's at an unsupportable high, because it's likely to crash soon and you'll now have half the value you had earlier. The volatility is valuable for speculators, but could be ruinous if you were trying to run a business based on it. Yes, you could get lucky and it could go in the direction that favors you, but that's speculation, that's not business.
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Thanks for the info Ariel. I'll have another talk with the CEO, maybe in private this time.
In what way? I used to think that when I first tried them ~6 years ago, and switched back to incandescent. But I tried again ~2 years ago, and now I can't tell the difference between a name-brand CFL and an incandescent bulb. Visually appears to have the same color temperature, no flicker, instant-on brightness. I'm sure there are still low-quality off-brand CFLs that take time to get to full brightness, but it's been years since that was true of the good ones.

The only cases where I don't see a CFL replacement yet are decorative clear lamps where the filament being visible is part of the aesthetic.
I'm kind of trying to figure out _why_ I feel this way: I haven't specifically hated him before, but just seeing that description and name set something off.

It's weird.
> As a Go player I take this as an insult.

I'd be of the opinion that boring-ness is fairly subjective, so being insulted probably isn't warranted.

You make good points about the gameplay differences, though.
I think it's just a matter of time until it replaces Python in data science. (And I believe it's also the best designed general purpose dynamic language out there.)
Audio visualisation/winamp-like/winamp/take your pick, it's still a cool experiment. I'm digging the music choice too.
Looks awesome! I'm a huge angular fan and have been researching a bunch of frameworks and SaaS solutions for doing a mobile "app" so this should be awesome to get my feet wet!

Time for a weekend to-do app, because we don't have enough of them eh? :}
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So what's to stop me/farmers using ordinary seeds?
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Actually, with our Private Cloud offering you pretty well can guarantee privacy by simply firewalling the virtual appliance from the rest of the world, if you would like to :)

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Sorry, I should have elaborated. It's oxymoronic when it's the title of a paper which entire purpose is to tell you what it just said no one would ever tell you.
There are tons of potentially good candidates you would miss by rejecting per default when there is no public code to see. Just look into the comments here.

The group I want to point out.
Very experienced programmers who have been in the business more than a decade who get paid for doing what they think is interesting and challenging because they are so good so that they can choose their job and still get paid. Most of the time they throw themselves into work and their current project. Why on earth would they want to invest more time into a little pet project which is probably ten times less interesting than their current job?
The title does state that it's Winamp music visualisation.
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If you see many, many people getting obsessed with a game, and you think it's boring, it's usually a sign that you're not understanding something.

Go and no limit poker are getting massively popular. They are both like chess, but much less tactical and a lot more strategical games. In other words, computers can't beat the best players in these games yet.

For whatever reasons, the status of games is somewhat related to whether they are "solved" by programs. Chess, like backgammon and checkers, is really on its way down.

I love chess, and play it all the time, and same with many other games. But the allure goes down once it is solved.

maybe all games will be figured out by software... but at the moment, no limit and go seem extremely exciting in terms of their possibilities/strategies.
Editors and IDE's that do code high lighting make finding some types of bug much easier.

I can recall the old days of printing out on fan fold paper and going through with a highlighter to debug a missing " or }
The problem is that if someone finds a bug in say, PHP, the exploit could easily be worth 60-100x the $1500 you'd get paid when its fixed.
With Twitter automation, I think it's an understatement to say that following count is not a reliable measure of influence. Your two subjects here have real world influence, and it's reasonable that they could arrive at those huge following #'s without gaming Twitter.

But I've noticed that certain popular tech news blogs (for example) - every single time they have a post, there are hundreds of Twitter accounts that retweet the content, instantaneously. And of those accounts, they ONLY tweet that outlet's content. I think investigating those most popular tech blogs' average "what happens when they post an article" via this type of Jaccard index would be an interesting exercise in exposing some tomfoolery, and enlightening in seeing how much stuff is being gamed. Knowing what we know about human nature, is there any doubt that people are going to great lengths to juice their follower counts and game the appearance of getting "engagement?"

The threads being pulled in this post have really interesting implications for type of analysis of "what's really going on" both in terms of a Twitter profile's following, and the authenticity of the "sharing" that occurs among their followers when they post something.
Barring the possibility that you are in a jurisdiction with unusually draconian drug laws, sure it's legal. This site is just telling you how much different strains cost at different businesses where you can legally buy them (currently, if you have a prescription). The site itself isn't selling weed.
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Let's also not forget youtube-dl: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
I think perhaps you're still thinking of a value judgement. To me, it is obvious that we have different fields of science for different scales. For example, there are many aspects of physics that a biologist takes for granted or doesn't even reason about when considering biological systems. They may need to reason about, say, chemistry from first principles. But I would be surprised for many biologists to have to apply much reasoning from quantum mechanics.

Again, this is not a value judgement. A similar thing exists with computers. People who write web applications depend on user-application infrastructure, who depend on systems applications, which depend on operating systems, which depends on computer architecture, which depends on materials engineering and so on. As a systems programmer, I regularly reason about operating systems and computer architecture. But I never reason about the properties of the materials that make the hardware. The computer architects, though, may have to reason about the materials, as it can provide constraints to their designs.
when the OP commented it was: "Winamp in JavaScript. Yes"
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You can watch IM Danny Rensch & GM Ben Finegold review the game right now on http://www.chess.com/tv
> The platform would never tank because people know roughly what it's worth.

So what exactly is the worth of one ounce of gold? The current market price? Or another price? What's the difference to Bitcoin in regards to pricing?
Do you actually have concrete evidence that the hardness of this particular thing is similarly difficult to these other hard things that are regularly accomplished, or is this just "hard things are the same as other things also termed hard"?

My impression is that pushing atoms around and getting them to actually stay where they have been pushed are different things.
Think about it man, if the Bitcoin delusion ends it is worth nothing.

In a gold-backed online currency if it failed the users could just be beneficiaries of the trust. I'm not saying this is the ideal solution because I think maybe a completely fiat digital currency COULD work, just not with the Bitcoin scheme.

And I'm not saying Bitcoin can't work in the long-run. I'm saying it's not working NOW. It is not performing its intended function... unless that intended function is as a volatile speculator market.
If I were you , I will show the "guy" on the other side of the table some respect too after all he is a veteran and a champion since 2007.
The original Bitcoin "Rich List" predates that paper by years.

Sadly that paper is pretty poor. It's adequate for informing someone bitcoin isn't anonymous though— but the bitcoin.org website also does that without being littered with basic misunderstandings of how Bitcoin works.
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I think it's worth noting that Europe in General, and France in particular, is very anti-GMO, so this will mostly apply to conventionally bred (but still patentable) plants. If IP is your problem, I'll admit that GMOs aren't innocent, but banning them won't fix the problem.
> but as far as total energy output is concerned, it shouldn't matter. A watt is a watt no matter what frequency it is radiated at.

Ah, but if you are willing to have poor color accuracy then CFLs should be allowed that as well, and if you do that then their energy efficiency is better than an LED.

> glass tubes (CFLs) and tungsten wires (incandescent lamps) are much less sensitive to heat than tiny pieces of delicate electronics are

CFLs have switching power supplies in the base that don't like heat either. It's not just a glass tube. But I'm willing to accept that they can handle heat better than an LED emitter. (And I'm pretty sure it's just the emitter with the problem - it's certainly possible to make "delicate electronics" that can handle heat.)
Very true. Followers is a very weak approximation. It's almost like utilizing just pagerank on a search engine. In many ways measuring influence is analogous to creating a search engine. You constantly have to search out and avoid the noise.
A fair size chunk of the pre roll ads I see also don't show anything interesting in the first five seconds. They have some sort of banner and just as the five seconds are up the ad content actually starts.
ah, it was because i was on an idevice. it's rather obvious on a computer :)
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Google invested in Buttercoin (buttercoin.com).

You don't understand the virtual currency space. There are many good arguments against virtual currencies or bitcoin specifically, but the lack of Silicon Valley interest is absolutely not one of them.
The crawler is a bit hands on. Crawlspa refreshes the cache in the background after each request. For sites with frequently updated content, having to recrawl may become a headache.
I'm not sure what conclusion you can draw for that data. In a past life when I was doing J2EE development, most of the time I was Googling how to fix certain bugs or doing documentation queries. I bet f you included PHP it would easily top Java queries for that same reason.
The wires would be too big. You just can't send enough power at a low voltage. You'd need either lots of dedicated wires to each outlet, or a wire as big as a hose.

AC is nice because it's easy to convert to other voltages. With DC you'd need either the exact voltage - or a converter, and if you have a converter you might as well just go directly from AC.
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Totally agreed -- they pretend to support the platform for the hipster cred & expanded market, but I'm sure the corporate policy is "Bitcoin arrives. Bitcoin is immediately placed on exchange".

I'd be surprised if corporations would gamble so dangerously by keeping a Bitcoin store. As long as they price against USD and convert immediately, they can only suffer limited losses from price swings.
A universal DC standard isn't a silver bullet. Different circuits/devices and different batteries require different voltages, so there are still conversion steps to go through. Not so long ago when linear regulators (which tend to be better at producing heat than desired voltages) were typical, this would have just meant another wall wart for most devices. Even now, it still means some added cost, complexity, size, and weight.
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> The whole price of Bitcoin is an illusion that they use to get people to keep buying. It's the result of a bidding war.

The price of everything is an illusion according to the Subjective Theory of Value [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value
It's an evidence free nonsense article, but to answer that quoted tweet: YouTube for Schools doesn't contain ads http://www.youtube.com/schools
Engodo sounds really annoying - giving people incentive to spam their friends is like those marketing gimmicks where you sell amway or some other crap
You can see it is a joke by inspection if the claim is 100 sq yards of ocean raised from 47 degrees to 82 degrees. That is a change of 19.4 degrees C for an area of 83 sq meters. Assuming an average depth of 1m or 83 cubic meters or 83,000,000 cc and that is 4.18 * 19.2 * 83000000 joules. Or 6.7 gigajoules over 7200 seconds (2 hrs) is just about a megawatt of power.

It would work if that device on the beach was a compact nuclear explosive :-)
This thread led me to search for updated information about Julia's maturity. I came across a pretty informative post from one of the devs and posted it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6782015.
> Why do Bitcoiners believe so much in a currency that allowed the originator to pull so much wealth out of thin air?

All markets get created out of thin air. Everything you use now at one point had someone looking at it thinking, "what the hell is that ever going to be good for?"
Just to comment on this part:

>I like the idea of a currency which doesn't allow politicians to introduce inflation, but perhaps we should have one which has a finite set of tokens on setup, and doesn't attempt to also attract people as some sort of investment with mining etc.

I'm sure someone will correct me, but as I understand it this is how Ripple[0] works. From my recollection (I haven't checked in on how Ripple has been progressing over the past 6-8 months or so), Ripple's currency (XRP) are established with a finite supply and all XRP is in reserve, not requiring any "mining" or similar. Also, it looks like Ripple is kind of an exchange as well? It seems to be able to cross-process payments between USD, EUR, BTC, LTC, XRP, and more (I believe most international currencies are supported currently)[1]. It's interesting but, like I said earlier, I'm not sure if I fully understand it.

[0] https://ripple.com/
[1] https://ripple.com/guide-to-currency-trading-on-the-ripple-n...
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Who are these people? And if any of them are out there reading this thread -- reach out to me and let me know if want to invest in something that will help adoption of Bitcoin, which will result in its value continuing to go up...
Interesting. And after looking at Mathematica (the language) more this morning, I can see the influence of Lisp and other languages. I think my definition of "lisp variant" is stricter than others' definition. I wouldn't consider Rebol, TCL or Ruby "lisp variants", even though they both derive a lot of language concepts from the lisp family. So I can't really consider Mathematica a lisp variant either.
Then do it so we can find another way around it.
This sounds exciting! (Though I must say, I am all but married to Org at this point.)

On a different note though, I feel that Microsoft Word, and web browsers, really do a terrible job at rendering text. Kerning is often bad, there are frequent widows and orphans, pagination is often a mess, hyphenation is laughable. These are real issues and they are not solved by a different markup language.

So far, TeX and Indesign are the only software I know of that really manage to solve this problem. I would love to see a new export format that can deal with this.

Maybe what we really need is a new middle ground: A kind of LLVM for text processing. An intermidiary machine format that serves as a target for all different kinds of markup languages that can be further compiled to beautifully rendered text in whatever format you desire.
I want to quickly distinguish our Hybrid Cloud offering from our Private Cloud offering since I thinks this may keep coming up in this thread.

In the Hybrid Cloud offering (this is our 'classic' or previous offering that's been available for quite some time) we don't store any data on our servers. However, because some communication does happen with our servers (e.g. for registration), we heard from businesses and enterprises that they would like a completely on-prem solution to guarantee no data goes to our servers.

This completely on-prem solution is the AeroFS Private Cloud. It's a virtual machine that is packaged as either an OpenStack image or an OVF/OVA file (supporting VMWare/Virtualbox), and in this VM absolutely no communication happens with our servers, period.

(and you can easily verify that)
That seems a very apt analogy. The work in this post was fairly cursory since my primary goal was to "teach people how to be dangerous" as opposed to "prove" anything definitively, but once you start really working with the data, it quickly becomes so apparent that you could spend the rest of your career just in this "little" microcosm of the web.
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