skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If PHP would enforce MVC by not being part of an HTML file, it would have been a very nice language (minus the $ signs everywhere)...
Really? Like what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Applications

Gold seems not to be the best choice of materials for very many things.

It's valued because it's pretty and rare. That's basically it.

Holding it physically is an anachronism. Most people who own gold don't put it in a vault in their basement.
Having never heard of SNPedia before yesterday and still not being sure of it's correct pronunciation, I have no recourse but to say it as "tinpedia."
Don't quote me, but I believe that the term "introvert" was coined by psychologists who were studying personality traits, and they had a very specific meaning in mind.
Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later
The problem is not that they want to be safe, but that they are willing to give up all the rights even against the minimum amount of danger.

First off, never give up all of your yours in the name of safety. If you do, then you better make sure it's very temporary in nature, and/or for very specific targets.

Second, it better be to save something like 1 million people a year, not like 100 people per year on average. Make sure that the compromise of giving up all of your rights (if you can even accept such a thing), is done for a very real and major cause. If you're going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and infringe on everyone's freedoms, it better not be just to save 100 lives that year. It better be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands at least. Otherwise, it's clearly not worth it, and that money and effort could be better used in some other place (such as healthcare, education, etc) where the return on investment is many orders of magnitude greater.

But even if it's worth it money wise, you still have to counter-balance it with the power you're giving your own government, and how much that government is going to abuse that power. Sure, the government will protect you from "terrorism", but is that worth the cost of losing your freedom, and having the risk of being arrested for anything you dare say against the government?

Many people in the past decided that they'd rather die than lose their freedom, so it's definitely not a clear cut choice, even if the government does save you from certain death. But the government is abusing all of this power today, and all of this money, and they have much less to show for it, to the point where the clear cut choice is to not accept what the government is doing.
Arguably you are paying for a license that covers support and the ADDITIONAL functionality. Everyone still has free access to the core code that people contributed towards.

If they were to take contributed code and lock it behind a commercial license, THEN you could get all uppity.
I remember reading about a study that determined there was a biological difference in terms of how "introverts" and "extroverts" (using your definitions) processed information. The nervous system of the introverts processed information along a slower pathway, and through a different route, but more thoroughly. If I can manage to track down that URL, I will update my comment.

"Introverted" and "extroverted" refer to the external behavioral differences that one can use to categorize people. "Introvert" and "extrovert" are different terms and more refer to people's mental focus, or Jung's explanation of where they get their mental energy. But you can't conflate the two. The most talkative person I've known classified himself as a introvert. I, on the other hand, can be extroverted, but I don't particularly like people nor do I get so much out of interacting with them that I feel compelled to be extroverted. In other words, "introverted extroverts" are the shy people - "introverted introverts" don't really give a damn.

But the OP's article is certainly useful; I'd say he just needs to be more precise about the terms he uses and how it's primarily about the behavioral aspects of interacting with people. The idea that it is "draining" to use underdeveloped skills made sense to me.
Write You a Parser for Fun and Win
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UhXivPyw4
Literate programming: TECO source (1978)
"Data" versus "metadata" doesn't go to the definition of "reasonable." It goes to the definition of "their" in "their persons, houses, papers, and effects..."

The basic distinction is your data versus data that's about you. If I own a store, and make a note that 001sky came in to buy a box of cookies at 2:00pm on January 23, 2005, that's my paper. It's not your paper. I can claim 4th amendment protection if the FBI breaks into my store and takes that note, but you can't. That's the legally relevant distinction between data and metadata.
Prevent the use of a computer program?

Sure, you may not be able to purchase things locally with it, but it's just a computer program and information, you can hardly prohibit with any force. Look at tor.
I guess they are pointing the fact that as soon as West Coast got access to the power through money, they did what the East Coast did: protect themselves from the plebe and create a new nobility with barriers to entry instead of using it for greater motives than simple personal accumulation.
One important aspect of Bay Area wealth to keep in mind is that Silicon Valley has a very supportive entrepreneurial culture-- wealthy exited entrepreneurs generously funding seed rounds for up and coming startups, lending a hand to pull up those around them. The mentality of modesty and collaboration greatly detracts from the sort of dystopian and polarized picture this article paints.
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Well, given that the UK government is coercing ISPs into implementing filters for a range of material that extends way beyond extremism and pornography, I'm inclined to let this instance slide:
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/uk-prime-minister-davi...
Honestly, the speculation around bitcoin is the least interesting part about it. The fact that you can do secure person to person transactions with no intermediary is awesome. The fact that it is a "push" system and not a "pull" system (the way credit cards work) is a huge advantage.

The technology is really cool. It's just been unfortunately overshadowed by the get-rich-quick types, druggies, and libertarian/anarchists.
Docile? How about we know when we're beat.
Roundup-resistant. You know that's bad.
There's a reason we have the word "Ambivert" Introversion and extroversion are not always the opposite of others, but in extreme situations can be. Someone that is really introverted cannot be really extroverted. Imagine someone who is so quiet that they can panic attacks in group/public, how in the world can they be an extrovert?
Large Employers Cite Obamacare ‘Cadillac’ Tax in Reducing Benefits
Still doesn't make it a good idea. Worse, it's "let's become a police state to avoid becoming a (different kind of) police state"
> Lets ignore the efficacy of security checks, and say that you're 10x more likely to die in the flight w/o security checks

You are justifying massive spending and time-cost based on your own unsupported hypothetical. Why do that when we already have data regarding airline safety with simple metal detectors? We know how that performs, and we know current efficacy is low and the cost to society is high.
> which gave rise to the ever-widening wealth gap

That is not widely acknowledged. While the wealth gap may be experiencing recent growth, especially in the postwar period, over the period in which paper currency replaced gold, the wealth gap has improved dramatically.
You are too late, the stock market already beat bitcoin to the punch on this one. We've been trading virtual assets for quite a long time now, and gold simply went from being a hard asset that you hold in your hand to a virtual asset that sits in a warehouse somewhere. Bitcoin is just another symbol on the ticker.
A movie might work.

It could possibly be made future-proof by using a flipbook format, assuming we can find a suitably long-lived material to print on.
Keep Your Business Plan Succinct Yet Impressive
Thankfully for us, business isn't science.
Dear Ms. Turnipseed,
As you are no doubt aware, you recently assigned young Snidely a grade of "F" for the assigned paper on Richard I due some 6 months ago. I concede that he did not, in fact, produce such a paper and acknowledge that you offered to work with him outside of class on several occasions. But, as you must agree, he has attended class faithfully, has taken copious notes, and has even been in the library on more than one occasion. Clearly, his chosen topic, "Richard I: Lion Heart or Lily Liver," promises a worthwhile exploration of an important subject. I'm sure you will agree that, had he laid pen to paper (or digits to keyboard), he could have produced a more than adequate paper. Accordingly, I insist you assign him full marks forthwith.

Sincerely etc. etc,
Snidely, Sr.
Why don't they just take the site down? Oh wait, it's somewhere else in the world out side the UK jurisdiction. Ok, so the game of cat and mouse begins, we all know how well that's worked with the pirate bay.
Show HN: Three losers, a confined summer and the application that came out.
That's true. The burden then shifts to the user. But in a way, that's also good because then you can choose which snapshot to follow.

It's a bit like maintaining your copy of an OS. You can stick to the "stable" branch or, if you're feeling adventurous, you can switch to "release". If you're really into the bleeding edge, you can go with the "nightly" build.

All-in-all, I really like this.

One concern I have is the possible increased bandwidth load for WP. Maybe you can include a small icon or notification to support it by donations. Couldn't hurt to have one there for yourself as well.
http://kmkeen.com/tmp/wikireader1.jpg

Though it is a reflective LCD and text-only.
I second the nomination of The Dread Pirate Roberts.
> However, I worry you want 23andMe to independently validate each of these results before informing customers about them. Worse still would be a demand that the company validate the results with its specific testing kit. It would be cost-prohibitive even for a single company like 23andMe. It would destroy any possibility of competition; even if one company did it, new startups would not be able to.

Looks like a case of the FDA doing what it does best--ensuring the task of medical innovation remains with big pharma, and leaving Americans stunned at the results.
> who are you to say what is crap and what is not

Someone who has seen lots of good forums wrecked by political bullshit. And to be perfectly clear, I do not mean "politics that I happen to disagree with", but politics, in general.
What this editorial gets right is that the oversight regime for domestic surveillance is inadequate. What it misses, however, is that big piles of data are inevitable with the current trajectory of technology. It will not be possible to have the piles of data not collected. As others have written, the government surveillance agencies essentially saw what private industry was doing and said "I want a copy of that."

I think we need to rethink some things:

1. In the short term, one of the biggest changes that has to be addressed is the current court doctrine that privacy has not been violated if no people are actually looking at the data. Given that much of the surveillance is directed by automation, we need to recast that doctrine to include some of the automated analysis of the data. It's a thorny question, and one that will take some time and effort to get right, but there's no time like now to start.

2. We need more forceful and more transparent oversight of surveillance. There is a risk that the surveilled might change their tactics based on lessons from oversight reporting, but it seems clear at this point that the trade off is necessary. To quote the editorial: "The usefulness of the bulk collection program has been greatly exaggerated. We have yet to see any proof that it provides real, unique value in protecting national security." Trade-offs are only worth making if you get something. Time to revisit the trade-off.

3. We need to address both the big piles of data in the government's hands and those in private hands. This is going to require rethinking ownership of the data, and probably moving the US more towards an EU-style privacy directive. Again, a longer process, but one that needs to start now.

4. As a country, we need to start toward a more rational view of terrorism risk. Plenty has been written about how disproportional our response has been. Time to rebalance the scales.

In the end, we're going to continue to have big piles of surveillance data as long as we continue our technology trajectory. We need to start figuring out how to work with it, rather than try to stop it.
--Regarding your screenshot--

That is awesome! I do believe that is a video driver malfunction and it doesn't pose a security risk
Why should PHP "force" anything? That's one of PHP's strengths: the ability to be everything from a simple dynamic webpage to a full blown app. That's like saying "I wish someone would make a hammer that only strikes nails, because I'm a poor craftsman and keep hitting my thumb."

Love it or hate it, PHP will be around long after elitist devs turn their guns on noSQL and server side JS.
A few details on the "standard linux support" part.

To remove the hard dependency on the AUFS patches, we moved it to an optional storage driver, and shipped a second driver which uses thin LVM snapshots (via libdevmapper) for copy-on-write. The big advantage of devicemapper/lvm, of course, is that it's part of the mainline kernel.

If your system supports AUFS, Docker will continue to use the AUFS driver. Otherwise it will pick lvm. Either way, the image format is preserved and all images on the docker index (http://index.docker.io) or any instance of the open-source registry will continue to work on all drivers.

It's pretty easy to develop new drivers, and there is a btrfs one on the way: https://github.com/shykes/docker/pull/65

If you want to hack your own driver, there are basically 4 methods you need to implement: Create, Get, Remove and Cleanup. Take a look at the graphdriver/ package: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/tree/master/graphdriver

As usual don't hesitate to come ask questions on IRC! #docker/freenode for users, #docker-dev/freenode for aspiring contributors.
I always wondered, if the unicorns are invisible, in what sense are they pink?
The government works for us, not the other way round. There is no such thing as us being beat, there is such a thing as us not getting our shit together to do something about it.
The next time you wonder why a major online game launch didn't seem to have exercised the proper care for quality, redundancy, and the other factors that go into keeping your site up -- go back and re-read this job posting.
I think frameworks such as Laravel and Symphony go a long way towards addressing a lot of these concerns. Although things such as global functions and naming persist, PHP offers easy deployment for new developers and is available on almost all low-cost web hosts that is a major benefit and a must-have for less experienced developers.

Depending on your project, if most of your code lives in the front-end, using Laravel/PHP for an API back-end is a nice option these days. It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish and your available knowledge and resources.
Just in time for me to throw some money at Newegg while I build out a new computer.
It's pretty common, though, for software & service companies to offer a kind of generic (no titles listed) "how to convince decision makers to invest in our _____" web page or whitepaper. Those generally have pretty concise high level bullets with use cases framed in business-speak. This is useful for anyone, though, because all too often the other pages on the site are all couched in useless salestalk that just tries to get you to contact a salesperson for more information.
Important in a historical context. In the grand scheme of things giving Zuckerberg the award was like giving President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize; Maybe OK later, but a little early.
I've been considering a switch to Office 365 and SkyDrive or even just signing us up for DropBox for Teams because Google Drive is so incredibly unintuitive.
1. Elon Musk

2. Satoshi Nakamoto

3. Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden.

Lot's of Elon Musk's though. Let's vote him as Person of the Century.
He doesn't have to and obviously doesn't want to go to Sweden to answer any questions.

Would you go to China to answer questions just because allegedly you have broken some ancient law about sex costumes during your last trip there?
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Any contribution to the project are seen as copyright assigned to Hampton Catlin, a human on the planet earth. Your contribution warrants that you have the right to assign copyright on your work. The intention here is to ensure that the project remains totally free (liberal, like).

That's a curious setup. The license is MIT so you're not getting the "if you distribute it you have to use the same license" that you get with GPL. So as long as the contributions use the same MIT license why does the author need copyright assignment? The MIT license is simple and standard enough that relicensing doesn't seem like a likely need.
No. Deterministic wallets just a bad idea. By using a deterministic wallet it becomes infinitely easier to brute force and your funds are at substantial risk. Even if you think you're using a strong password. There are already people spending a lot of computational power to build rainbow tables of brain wallets.

Please do not encourage people to use deterministic wallets, you are doing them a disservice.
I think you're just being a tad over-sensitive here (and I say that as someone who moved to Dallas in 1987). I've been on HN for 4-5 years and I've never heard or seen "Texas bashing" here.

Texas' population is almost 10% of the US. Texas is also the 2nd largest state, comprising almost 8% of the land mass of the US. Besides, I'd guess half of the HN crowd today are overseas - I doubt the average non-North American HN person could name more than 7 states. And of those 7, Texas, California, and New York are in every single person's list.
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Note that this is from 2009. Although the main details have not changed, the int type is more commonly 64 bits now (since 64 bit architectures are much more common)
Since a mention in HN a couple weeks ago I've been using the DDG extension for Firefox, and love it: even if you're not using DDG as a search engine, it adds very cool insights to Google result pages.
The problem is in the claim that they can be used to treat disease.

Anyone can make false statements and there should be safeguards to protect consumers, especially the sick and vulnerable.

Saying carrots are healthy is one thing, but that doesn't mean I should be allowed to market them as a cure for some illness because "vitamins".
It's worth noting that in the United Kingdom, you can already be fined or jailed for tweeting. Neither of these would be criminally actionable offenses in the US, and the first one especially would be clearly protected political speech:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19883828

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/27/student-jailed-fab...
The crime of defamatory libel (which I think is what you mean by criminal charges) was abolished in 2010[1]. AFAIK, UK libel is entirely civil law.

You're right that the UK has much stricter libel laws in general, though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamatory_libel
Good use of the word "Dolourous". Not heard it before, and had to look it up. :)
i like docker \o/
I tried to get into Julia, but I was put off when it seemed that the language doesn't support vectorization the way that Matlab does, but rather encourages writing your loops explicitly (which is fast due to the LLVM JITC). Yuck.

I am an Octave / Matlab fan myself, and think that Julia/ Python/ R/ etc don't quite hit the sweet spot for matrix driven algorithms and 100-1000 line programs that Matlab does. Call me old fashioned....
Or martini? I liked the look of martini but have not delved deep enough to make an informed decision. Might pick Go for my next side project...
I think the patent has expired. Patent apps issued before June 8, 1995 have a 17 year term from issuance. 35 U.S.C. 154. This patent issued in May 1995. See "date of patent" in upper right corner of the pdf doc.
While not enforced at the language level, PSR-1 states that "Files SHOULD either declare symbols (classes, functions, constants, etc.) or cause side-effects (e.g. generate output, change .ini settings, etc.) but SHOULD NOT do both."

Basically it stipulates that you should keep classes outside of the main page loader to be compliant.
This has been asked and answered many ways over the last decade: large wealthy companies are protected, individual TOR users are not. If you doubt this, consider which group operates in the open and which pins its hopes on anonymity and not getting caught.

US supreme court finalizes gift of immunity to the telecom giants
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/10/supreme...

Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-char...
There are already scores of people building rainbow tables of brain wallets. Someone will, eventually, put that BTC on the market for you. :(
That's so funny. When I look at $'s in PHP, it feels so natural. Then when I see someone use $ in variable names in JS, it gets me agitated.
Damaged US Currency can be replaced ONLY if:
(1) 51% or more of the bill is recovered (in some form)
(2) the serial number of the bill can be identified

(Or at least that's what I was told during a tour of a US Mint several years ago.) Money burned up in a fire is not replaceable.
I don't think speed is the only reason for using it - from my perspective in this context its more like free (in both senses) drop-in replacement for MATLAB, but with less "weirdness" than MATLAB (and Octave) that is also fast.

I also think any "immaturity" is only really in the package ecosystem, especially after the release of 0.2. Even then, the package ecosystem is strong for the things that people really need (naturally), and of course you can call any Python package from Julia if you want as well.
I think everyone here would agree about that, but you are ignoring that avoiding an intrusive commercial product, or obfuscating your private information from a commercial product is easier than avoiding state-actor pervasive surveillance. It would be a step in the right direction to reduce the state-actor threat.
The Quandary of Working With Legacy Code
One vote per voter or are multiple votes allowed?
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Andrea Rossi has started commercializing ECAT nuclear fusion devices
Maybe this is a good thing... Maybe it will make people that have much better health insurance realize what the real cost to most people are. Or perhaps it will expose just how bad our healthcare system is and help drive a nation that wants a government that provides health insurance to every citizen in the country. Like most of the rest of the world... Who knows I could just be crazy/stupid.
Nobody wants gold because they want gold. They want gold because it has value, and that value is purely based on what someone else will give you for the gold. There's no intrinsic usefulness to gold that makes it worth $1000 per ounce, or whatever the current price is.