skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For that matter, it shouldn't include fork (unless you are talking about the eating utensil), Meego (WTH is that?), Dalvik, etc.
I am hoping reasoning is in a non-print application the type of the captured value will be compile time checked elsewhere. But if the language is willing to cast both ways between int and string then there is no safety (no idea if it does do that). Also I do agree with your points (explicit and implied) I don't see "hey free parsing" as a big enough advantage to infect the language with these sort of implicit conversions.
Visions and Revisions
But he has his photo and text on his website, so the NSA can see that, so a photo on Facebook would not add anything new?
This is handy for something like:
scala> print("The result is " + iResult)
Oops, I looked things up wrong. So no need to be shocked. Sorry! That was the number for Mountain View, Arkansas...

Now Mountain View, California, that's got a median of $91k, which is maybe more what you expected. Only place in the $50k-median range on the Peninsula seems to be East Palo Alto. Oakland's about the same.
It's the recommended method for obtaining Bitcoin (semi) anonymously, ever since exchangers started complying with AML regulations. That, or cash-in-mail sent with a fake return address.
presumably GNU grep is GPL and incompatible with their BSD license
Isn't that just a default in the bash implementation?
Sony turning off some PSN features to ensure smooth PS 4 launch in Europe
How is the possibility of using listening devices near the border "conspiratorial"? There are many ways to accomplish this using publicly available technology. Using the C word to dismiss a conversation prevents us from having a legitimate discussion about whether something is appropriate.
The same privacy leak story came up in Sept 2011 [1] when Wikileaks exposed the practice and I guess nothing has been done since then. And yet people still hold to the flawed argument that "if you have nothing to hide..."

Ironically (and sadly) TFA says that the US cannot talk about the issue due to privacy laws. Ha! That takes balls to say.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/canada/story/1.1034903
I didn't want to turn that comment into a novel, but the reason they tell that story is because it's generally accepted as fact (among many other local border town residents) that the USA has means of listening to you speak in your car before you even approach the gate.
You'd like to think so, but some of the intransigence around scheduling and tracing would suggest that's not always the case.
Maybe laser microphones aimed at the windscreens. Lots of ways.
It's inherited from Java, where adding something and a string will implicitly convert the something into a string.

The C++ behavior is notably worse, though: "5" + 5 in C++ is undefined behavior, and will give you a pointer to some mystery data.
Indeed, and ZFS has quite a high CPU overhead. There's always tradeoffs.
"I’m writing my own DNS servers"
Since print() most likely expects a string, isn't the result exactly what you would expect? Why would you want a warning in this case?
ArkOS self-hosted server crowdfund reaches 100% of goal
If the car motor is on while on the waiting line a laser microphone would probably just register a huge amount of noise
I think that's the result of anti-money laundering laws and know your customer regulations.
FYI, this works in Java too.
System.out.println("5" + 5);
That's a nice site. Having seen what you can do with live webcams, e.g. livejasmin (NSFW), I was thinking a similar model could work for language learning. The teachers could be paid. They wouldn't be contracted and they'd be minimally screened, but they'd accumulate popularity. Maybe this could be combined with the readlang model so that you could learn by reading a text together with a teacher. I think it's evident that learning from an actual person, especially one you can hear and practice with, is the most productive way of acquiring a language.
The point is on his website, he chooses what photograph of himself is put there. On Facebook, you have no control when others are sharing photographs with you in them. On your own website you would presumably not post photographs of yourself that compromises your privacy, but when others do so on social networks, there is no guarantee like that (unless every single one of your friends on Facebook explicitly gets permission from you for every photo they post to Facebook that contains you before sharing, which never happens).
Standard parabolic mic might be good enough.
Sort of like people are making a decision to carry a (smart)phone in their pocket wherever they go and thus implicitly having the opinion that "Yes I am being tracked, so what?", right?

While it is optional for an individual to opt-out from this behavior, it is not optional for masses of people to do so. It will not happen, because people don't care. They don't know, they are ignorant, they can't bother.

It would be outright foolish not to try to exploit all this data which can be gathered. It has enormous value for example in terms of commercial use and also national security. It isn't hard to come up with legitimate uses where data analysis is benefitical. Besides, if it goes through the internet, along the way there most certainly are hops/parties which would benefit from this data too. It would give "foreign" parties(whatever they might be/mean) an advantage, and that's not going to happen.

I think it is inevitable that lots and lots of data will be gathered about and of what we happen to do in our lives, online or otherwise. Either it is done openly(transparency) or secretly(sort of totalitarianism), but it will be done by someone somewhere. First, because it is possible, and second, because it is valuable.
Actually more interested in a DIY calculator. The milled enclosure by Yoav Sterman looks realy great.
Those are incredible.
Scala inherits essentially all its expression syntax from Java, including the string +. This was done because a lot of other things in Scala are new, so we did not want to rock the boat too much with changes that might seem arbitrary. That said, I believe string + is probably the most criticized feature in Scala's expression syntax. People are generally moving away from it, towards String interpolation, which is available from Scala 2.10.
"MIT discovers a new syntactic feature to PHP"
Yeah. Try sticking a more abstract game like Go in front of a random person and see how that works out. Without being taught the rules, a human will have absolutely no idea how to proceed. This would put a human in pretty much the same boat as a computer.
On Facebook, you have no control when others are sharing your photograph.

The same is true of the Internet in general.
For me, the trivial C program appears to run faster than the empty file:

$ touch empty
$ chmod +x empty
$ time ./empty

real 0m0.002s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

$ echo "int main(){return 0;}" > trivial.c
$ gcc trivial.c -o trivial
$ time ./trivial

real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

Timing results are consistent over several repetitions (provided everything's in cache from disk). Linux x86_64. `mov` takes ten thousand to a million times less than a millisecond ( https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 ), so I can't find out this way whether removing 'return 0' changes anything.

(If I use my default zsh shell to execute ./empty, it gives me

zsh: exec format error: ./empty
./empty 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.008 total

So I used bash for this.)
Way to make this woman even more depressed... WTF!
> Of course, you can also just reduce the Unicode pattern to bytes

Ah, right. I was under the impression this was unsafe, since you could end up with spurious byte matches that are not on character boundaries. But it seems the keyword is "self synchronizing", and UTF-8 (but not UTF-16) is safe to do byte-oriented searching on.
I agree. It helps to have something tangible and to refactor later. I think the main issue that some people (myself included of course) have with that is refactoring too late. You never want to build something big on top of sketchy code. I've done this a few times myself to try to meet a deadline, and it's really bit me in the ass. We're talking weeks maybe months down the drain.

"Sketching in code" is a great analogy. Similar to how you'd trim off the rough edges in a sketched drawing, I've found myself cutting a lot of cruft when refactoring.
> On Facebook, you have no control when others are sharing your photograph.

On a public web site you could simply copy a photo and put it on another web site.

> On your own website you would presumably not post photographs of yourself that compromises your privacy, but when others do so on social networks

Differing how from if they just posted it on a public web site other than Facebook?
USA USA USA etc.
Also, 22k people like his fan page.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Richard-Stallman/112830992063...
"Would a mobile network provider allow an open firmware to connect to their network?"

They would likely not be happy about it. I assume it would be something like the relationship between tivo and people running hacked tivos ... a cat and mouse game that a bit of effort can keep you ahead of.

BUT, instead of trying to bake up a ground-up open firmware, which would be wonderful but VERY difficult, better to just pick an existing firmware, like osmocom did with the (very old) calypso chipset. You would pick a firmware with very wide market penetration so that it is easy to get handsets, and then try to pick one that was easy to hack.

So ... whatever very widely adopted firmware has the most holes in it.
Even better:

scala> println("5" + 5 + 5)
555
SQLite is not identical to any of the SQL standards. For example it is typeless

http://www.sqlite.org/datatypes.html

which is different than most RDBMSes.
I bet you could remove it fairly easily. Use another laser to count the revs or something. Your brain does most of the work in removing noise from speech.
My favorite:

Indiegogo fund raises enough money to buy random things each month from Amazon
Andrea Rossi is a scammer. You can search the full story of his previous scam on Google ( searching Petroldragon ). It should, however, spend a few more words to talk about his academic qualifications: Andrea Rossi graduated in PHILOSOPHY and has also acquired a fake degree in chemical engineering from the "Kensington University," a university-scam that was closed by court order years ago. In this fake university has "graduated" even Kim Il-Sung from North Korea ... :-)

http://news.newenergytimes.net/2012/01/11/rossi-engineering-...
What has evolved a resistance to bleach? It seems for as long as we've been using it, something should be able to withstand it now.
I got this and it seemed a bit.. too real:

Two Senators Say the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata
Yes it is true for the Internet in general. But Facebook is a bit special in that you can easily search for a person by name and have all photographs of him/her in one big organized pile, which is not possible on the Internet in general.
The stores are mainly one-item things (one guy selling only lightbulbs, another selling only security cameras). But there are stores in the area that sell lighbulbs AND security cameras close by. Most of the stores in it have equivalent stores in the area anyways.

The one thing that I'd miss is the "antique" electronics on the second floor. There was a decent amount of interesting stuff seen up there.
One of the things I like best about Lean-derived software development methods is that they maximize the amount of work not done.
If only the mainstream media would listen to humanitarians like RMS. Instead they choose to listen to greedy slime balls that end in BERG.

Money is the root of all evil. Combine that with privacy, and Facebook IS the new root of all evil. I deleted my account years ago, and I know with 100% certainty it will never be purged. It's criminal, and I fucking loathe this fact. I would pay to cave in some of the faces at Facebook.
In Australia, I can vouch for CoinJar http://coinjar.io/

Took me about 30 mins total from wanting to buy to having my order placed.

(If you use NAB it will be even faster, I had to make a cash deposit at an NAB)
It may be huge evidence in favor, but it would not be definitive proof, simply because we would not be able to rule out said intelligent manipulation (or other potential scenarios that would lead us to believe we reside in a simulation, when in fact we do not).

I know requiring a standard of proof that deals in absolutes may seem unreasonable. However, consider that the question these experiments seek to answer not only concerns the very nature of our existence, but whether this existence is a synthetic illusion as well.
But if I had a blog and posted pictures of an event where Stallman is present, doesn't it come out to the same thing?
I want to work for Porsche! It sounds like they're getting shit done.
Please don't argue for Facebook you come off as anti-human.
It's not about what data is on Facebook or a public web site. It's about the so-called "social graph" sites like Facebook create. That is, the relationships between people indicated directly between people (friends) and the inferred relationships worked out by mining data.
On earth it's entirely true that heavy things fall and light things float (like dust, feathers, etc). So you can't blame someone for applying this experience to the moon if they've never thought it through. Also, I wonder if the "heavy boots" part comes from the fact that the Apollo astronauts on video look like they're underwater. In water, you'd need heavy boots to stop yourself from floating. I wouldn't call these misconceptions. More like non-conceptions: there was no preexisting idea before the question was asked that could have been incorrect.

There's also the issue of quality of effort. If you apply effort to reason something through, you can weed out obvious misconceptions on your own and give a better answer. Part of the reason why the people that gave ridiculous answers got lower test scores could be that they are not in the habit of applying much effort when asked science-type questions, so they blurt out the first thing that comes to mind and move on. I suspect that on a more-favored subject most of those people would apply effort and give higher-quality answers. Otherwise, they'd be crippled in all aspects of life. This explains why my mom can't use a computer and I can't use her ultra-sophisticated microwave. She doesn't want to expend effort on the computer and I don't want to expend effort in preparing food.
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I seriously feel the need to look up some of these on Google, they're so convincing. All from the same batch, lookback=2:

SOPA sponsors break their own IE6-countdown site.

The Arduino Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines

What Major World Cities Look Like It Was Made By Samsung

WordPress Discontinues Support for SOPA
You say tomato, I say tomato, let's call the whole thing off.
Might want to take a look at Nimrod (http://nimrod-lang.org/)

* (Mostly) Python-ic syntax (indentation-based)

* Type inferance

* OOP (but only when you want it)

* Good expressivity

* Compiles via c (FAST, easy linking with C libs, no runtime required, prodoces standalone binaries)

* Lean core (Not a "kitchen sink" language, but has good support for FP and OOP)
SHAMELESS PLUG: we've build a PHP PaaS: http://fortrabbit.com which brings you a system that feels pretty much like your ususal LAMP stack but comes with a lot of candy on top.

The main benefit is: it's managed. You don't need to care about dependencies, updates, patches yourself. It's made for the needs of PHP web application development – continuous development, multi-staging etc.

We believe that the convenience we offer is more important than the few dollars (well actually Euro in our case as we are based in EU) you can save.

Curious what you think. Is it a fit? Are you missing something? Is it too expensive?
What you are missing there is that cost of the liquid is negligible compared to that of the logistics.
Wow. Thanks for this, I haven't had such a good laugh in a while.
Here's what I got:

Hashify.me - store entire website content in the cloud
Obama administration is still so offensive
This Internet provider pledges to put man on Mars
EFF: Apple Should Stand Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
Video shot from the ground up.
Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make tons of money?"
Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the TSA
I’m tired of the Solar System
37signals.com - Evolution of a working nuclear reactor
IE11 to support wiretapping
Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than food
RSS Is Dying, and You Should Too
As modeless said chargebacks. Think about it this way: If you can buy Bitcoins online without verification you are basically opening up a goldmine to people with stolen credit cards. A user may make 100 fraudulent purchases on 100 different cards through 100 different accounts to 100 different Bitcoin addresses from 100 different IPs. You are stuck with 100 chargebacks, and he is stuck with a nice chunk of anonymous money. Now if you can find a way to avoid that, you have hit the jackpot :)
What if we tried to mirror the evolutionary process by starting with an objective like survive, reproduce, etc?
> On a public web site you could simply copy a photo and put it on another web site.

On your own public website you can choose what photos you want to put there. If you put a photo on a public website, clearly you have no issue with the photo being seen by other people. This is not true for photos that others share with you in them. Your real life friends take photographs of you and publishes them on Facebook without your consent, some of which you may not want to be public.

> Differing how from if they just posted it on a public web site other than Facebook?

Most public websites do not index user photographs by time/event and are easily searchable by name. But yes, it is not that different in general fundamentally. Facebook just allows the information to be much more easily aggregated and browsed
> The problem is nobody has a good plan for what else to do.

There are plenty of plans, if one is willing to listen (anarchism). It's not the lack of plans that is the problem, it's people not having the guts to let go of what we have now. Constant indoctrination, since childhood, with the idea that is the best we can do is also a significant factor.

> I'm not worried about a group of teens in the military coming in and raping my wife.

The lack of official, internationally recognized state apparatus is not the reason this happens. For overwhelming majority of people, if they woke up the next morning and realized the state is gone, I'm pretty sure their first thought wouldn't be to go out on the street and start shooting. Those few that would are not deterred from such behaviour in the presence of state either.

> But "wouldn't it be nice if everyone was nice" is the kind of political plan I'd expect from a 5 year old.

It's not about people being nice. It's about creating a system where there is no reason or incentive to be bad, a system where it doesn't make sense to be bad to others. But even if people are somehow inherently bad, isn't it logical to not want a system where such people can rule over you?
Only the people of Facebook, or external entities who are explicitly granted permission, can perform that search though. It's not like I can just hop on Facebook and find all the picture of you, unless you have already permitted me to.

If you are an entity like the aforementioned NSA, searching the entire Internet for your photo isn't really any more challenging than using Facebook. The computing resources necessary are considerably larger, but that is a relatively small barrier.
I can't believe that no pixels can be seen on a 4,5" screen with a resolution of 960x540. That would be a worse density than my > 3 year old HTC desire. A mistake in the article?
As a software engineer I find Scala to be a very powerful tool, but one which takes some time to learn. I could see it being a useful teaching tool if they stay away from obscure corners of the language. I'm glad that they didn't go with Java, but I'd only go with Scala if the students are a sharp bunch. Python would also have been a suitable choice.
Have you considered posting a link to it on HN while pretending to ask for marketing advice?
Asian boy sing … MUST WATCED :D
Huh? This isn't the same thing. What happened in China at that time was extensive and more complicated than this very basic system.

It worked great in a small village in India recently; http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income
I just love the way government agencies and companies refuse to discuss for privacy issues, when the information is out and the person has given his permission. Seems that is the only situation that they respect the privacy.
After nearly two decades, MetaCrawler is moving
It is in a way. However it is much harder to aggregate all these pictures and data when you need to scrape everybody's personal blogs. Facebook makes it very easy to gather and use this data (they even make you organize it for them by putting photos into different collections). Fundamentally though there is no difference between posting it on your blog vs Facebook.
A literal belief in fairy tales leading to them making major life decisions based on the collected, millennia-old edited ramblings of a desert tribe. Start with lynching witches and go from there.
Minor nitpick: I don't know how to say "Jolla". I mean I know that "Jolla" is pronounced "Hoya" in European Spanish ("Hosha" in Argentinian), but in most European languages it'd be "Yolla" with a soft "j" and the naive English pronunciation would be "Djolla". I don't know which was the intended one.

Not that it really matters I suppose, but why go to all that trouble building an apparently lovely device and giving it a slightly cumbersome name?
Can You Lose a Decent Amount of Weight in a Month
Odd Things Happen When You Swear At Your Internet Company
I think what the parent means is that the derivative of the appearances is a lot more interesting than the number of appearances (and possibly as a percentage of the total number of appearances). Google moving from 100 to 105 isn't very interesting, but a new language going from 0 to 10 mentions might be very significant. (edit: and Google owning x% and staying there isn't very interesting either)

In other words, frequency of occurrence is interesting, but statistically unlikely occurrences (more or less frequent than expected) is even more interesting.
YEs this is all good but who determines whether something is "good" or "bad"? That's the interesting part. Who sets the goals? And how do they score an intermediate situation on the way to achieving them?

Don't get me wrong, a machine can achieve goals is really, really useful. After all, chess playing programs use the AlphaBeta algorithm to prune future positions intelligently, but to score the positions they still need human input. It may be, however, that they infer their OWN rules from past positions, with absolutely no human input. Then it becomes interesting. Still, the initial rules of the chess game have to be set down.

So while this is intelligence, this is not sentience.
Did you try this?

http://commoncrawl.org/get-started/

I haven't tried that one, but I've poked at other of the Amazon Common Datasets collection:

http://aws.amazon.com/datasets

If you're already familiar with using Amazon's virtual servers, it's pretty straightforward.

I also note that the Common Crawl project publishes code here:

https://github.com/commoncrawl/commoncrawl
It's simpler and less conspiratorial than that. It's the same reason you can't buy a money order or cashier's check with a credit card. You're not selling a product, you're creating a situation where your customer can get a cash advance on a line of credit that you did not approve.