skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You quote a sentence that says "Torture can get useful information (if the person being tortured has that information) - no one doubts that", and then say that is wrong, and then say that torture can get useful information.

Yes, if you torture the right people you will get useful information. People who are tortured will give up the information they have at some point.

The problem is that we often torture people who have no information, and so they tell us what we think we want to hear.
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Whoa, you jumped to some conclusions at the end there that just don't add up. Since how is formalizing something counterproductive to building sophisticated systems?

The systems you mentioned were actually built in a non-formalized matter (further emphasizing the OP if anything). Of course it is incredibly difficult to build even more sophisticated systems on top of these systems for that very reason. Many of them are needlessly complicated leaky abstractions - but persist due to industry inertia.

The methods you describe are exactly the problem causing this.
> right of passage

rite of passage
Obligatory: http://assets.amuniversal.com/668fea605e0a012ee3bf00163e41dd...
I'm sorry, but fields of filet mignon sounds great. Make it fields of bacon-wrapped filets and I would call it my own personal utopia (for as long as my heart held out)
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This is a golden opportunity to see cultural differences in the Western World. I remember distinctly that, at the height of the first Gulf War, a large communal childrens party that I (then a child) wanted to go to was cancelled, because it would be inappropriate to have a party while so many people are dying in the war.

Mind you, this was in Germany, which was involved only quite indirectly, with no troops participating in the fighting.
The Walking Dead: how a zombie game helped in a real-life gory emergency
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/10334/what-practical-appli...

You might enjoy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/unicode_url_h...

> Here's a demo: it's a Web page that appears to be www.paypal.com but is not PayPal. Everything from the address bar to the hover-over status on the link says www.paypal.com.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2742852/unicode-character...
Forgive me for not understanding, but how does having multiple large monitors help avoid alt-tabbing?

Seems to me that if you have several open apps then to type into one of them you have to either move your hand to the mouse and click it or you have to alt-tab. Even if you have "focus follows mouse" then you still have to move the mouse over to the window before you can type…
Some example PDF to HTML5 conversions to show what is possible
I love that there are people who say things like this totally seriously.

No, it was condescending.
(Say after me : )

Creativity isn't so much about making pink patterns on the wall as it is about solving the problem at hand using the available time, tools and materials.

OTOH: If that means splashing pink paint on the wall, that will do as well.
Have you checked to see if they're on http://what.cd already? It's the de-facto bittorrent tracker for music. It is possible that many of those clips you have are already on there.

And if not, you could seed them yourself :D
Occam's Razor:

For some reason he can't sell them. We just don't know what those reasons are.

Lots of people can speculate, but the reality is that we don't know.

The ones I've heard mentioned are:

1. He is dead

2. He cannot sell them without risking his anonymity

3. He lost them (machine crash / re-install)

4. He treated the early mined coins as test data and deleted them

5. If Satoshi starts dumping, then the market will definitely crash. If the public believe that Satoshi has lost faith in BTC then everyone is going to want to sell too. It is like putting a gun to the head of his own child and pulling the trigger.

Whether or not he really has 1,000,000 BTC is also debatable I believe. Often people quote this figure as the bulk of the early coins that were mined, and make the assumption that Satoshi was the only one mining. Nobody really knows which addresses Satoshi really owns. It is all "educated" guesswork.
Take my advice - throw away every email older than 2 years. Not only will you never need them, but they're what the black hats will hang you by should they get the urge. You will feel a huge sense of relief - a weight lifted from your soul as you relinquish the crushing burden of carting about all those dead emails.

(Unless, of course, you work in an industry where longer retention times are mandated.)
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Sweet - always good to see people using my stuff in the wild :)
I use Vimperator, not Vimium, but I had the same problem. The issue is the initial focus being on the static bar; if you 'tab' once to focus on the article, j/k works again. Alternatively, you can click the article to focus it.
Are most languages really a big loss? I suppose there are some interesting variations in grammar, but what else? What can we learn from some obscure languages?
One minor note: When discussing the continuum hypothesis, Suber refers to ZF (without the axiom of choice) as "the closest thing we have to 'standard' set theory". However, he implicitly uses the axiom of choice, or at least the axiom of dependent choice (I didn't really read enough to see whether there are other uses); without this you can't prove that aleph_0 is the smallest infinite cardinal. So there is a mismatch here; the implicit background this text is assuming seems to be more ZFC than ZF.
You are misunderstanding and/or misrepresenting my point, which is that once enough people over a long-enough period build systems in a top-down, systematic matter, well as it works, it becomes impossible for a single person to understand a specific issue about a stack of such systems, especially once the real-world kicks in with hardware issues, bugs, and so forth, in which case you have to resort to methods that do not require keeping all relevant aspects in the head and that do not rely on the truth of idealized assumptions. Like in going from mathematics to physics, in real-world software engineering is no longer sufficient for conclusions to follow logically from the premises, since the premises now also have to be true in the real world conditions. Having non-leaky abstractions only shifts the moment in which the shift from pure thought to empiricism has to happen.

It seems to me that you actually use the notion of being "formal" in an informal (sic) way. Remember we are talking about Dijkstra-style correctness proofs and developing programs via doing mechanical in nature transformations of program invariants.
Thanks to the entire Sony PlayStation team for taking the console to the next level. The gaming world wouldn't be the same without you!!!
There's no way to limit the number of instances that are started, but there is a way to limit the number of idle instances that you are paying for.
If much of that cable is copper then the material recovery could be a substantial offset to the investment.
david and goliath by gladwell is indeed a good motivational/justificational book for underdog or lean startup aiming at big corporate.
I bought the UK version one day before Black Friday. Well worth the full price as it's kept me amused every day since!
Carriers don't mean squat. They are the king makers.

They control a section of the market that every smartphone mnnufacturer relied on. The Radio frequencies. This gives them power via their marketing subsidies, and it was this power they leveraged before they screwed up and ceded control to the platform. It used to be the case that the carriers controlled your wallet. Every single thing you did on the phone, the money went to the carrier, they held your credit details. AT&T screwed up and gave up consumer power.
The best way to use Dropbox, as a developer.
Show HN:SocialYouTube - Watch and share YouTube videos+graph trend visualization
Many DC elevator systems also included Mercury Arc Valve rectifiers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve

They are still in use in some places and a few can be found in abandoned stations on the London Underground:
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=13197...
Please either define "exists" or formulate your claim without using the word :)
So what is the special technology it provides, perhaps you could give us a quick summary? Any advantage to using my phone as an access point?
If it doesn't happen the same as it happen to Alexandria's Library, that is.
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Or the extremely configurable Slate: https://github.com/jigish/slate
Singularity University plots hi-tech future for humans
No. Searching on Google is akin to using a public washroom where video cameras have been installed.
"I thought of that first" in XKCD: http://xkcd.com/827/
HTTPSeverywhere (ff-plugin) killed it for me, no text but a scrollbar. After disabling - no scrollbar but text.
Yes, lots of our customers do deploy to EC2 just to have the VM management facilities.
I would consider the extra $10/month far too much for the benefit of using my existing data on a different device (I pay $15/month for my entire phone service). A once-off fee for the SIM card is something I could handle, though.
Whatever happened to scrollbars?
Yes, this seems like the most likely arrangement - in a poker game if a significant fraction of your opponents are colluding without your knowledge then you're in trouble anyway, so you already have that level of trust. If you can use the same level of trust to claim the prize as you already implicitly have - maybe that 2/3rds of the players systems agree that a particularly player won, that would probably be good enough.

Another approach might be that everyone playing a game also automatically randomly observes another game somewhere, and their view of what happened is added to the trust calculation.
Imagine a world in which Google Glass other speech activated devices are the norm. A virus like this could potentially spread from person to person as they passed each other in the street, without anyone knowing, if it exploited a bug in the speech recognition tech. It's not interesting if it relies on the other computer already being infected, but exploits in image/sound parsing are not uncommon and could be combined with this. Another cool hack would be a physical real-world shape/pattern which exploited the image recognition software in something like glass to take over the device.

It's an interesting idea I think, which will have more applications in the future than it does now as more computers start to be always on, listening and watching, but mostly because audio or video is not an infection vector we take seriously yet in the same way that we do network infection.
"they are moving the world along with them"

You tried iOS 7, didn't you? I sure hope they are not using "Apple Maps" to move themselves and the world.
I wonder if the controversy surrounding their dickwolves criticsm and potential hypocrisy has damaged their branding. I doubt it but it would be interesting to see the numbers.
Well I dislike hype and self-promotion too. If that's all this is about (and perhaps it is) we could leave it at that. I think the OP shows a scene with some humility, and I don't think anyone is claiming that live coding is a panacea, but live coding is not "all hype".

Live coding brings up interesting aesthetic and political issues (see 'speaking code', MIT press), as well as research questions and potential wider impacts (both recently validated via intensive research council blind peer review). If you're a computer music person, check the upcoming Spring issue of Computer Music Journal for some interesting perspectives.

Algorave comes into the category of 'serious fun', and we have attracted audiences in the 200 range.

"Algorave is the future of electronic music" is a ridiculous statement by a sub-editor. Algorithms are part of the history of electronic music, and part of the future, but we're not striving to replace existing EDM production techniques or anything.

There have been pretty big international festivals dedicated to live coding in a few different countries. Last month I live coded in front of hundreds of non-live coders at a diverse range of events. The biggest was probably in Denmark, in the hundreds.

I wasn't there, but understand that Mandelbrots gig is outside, playing at midnight headlining a big stage. It's clearly a polished performance, but I believe they did four performances during that festival, half of which were blank slate.

Some pre-compose parts which they manipulate, some (including myself) go from a blank page. I thought you were in favour of composition, personally I love to improvise as much as possible live.

"Give it a go in the US sometime" - woah, you are special, aren't you? I don't know why live coding hasn't caught on so much in the US, it could be something to do with the top-down laptop orchestra model there, I don't know though, I've never been. Things seem stronger in Canada though and Mexico probably has the most vibrant live coding scene going.
Runsnakerun[1] is another simple interactive GUI tool for visualizing .pstat files that I've used quite a bit in the past

[1] http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/runsnakerun/
> When you say you know people who can't handle a 30" monitor, do you mean that? They would refuse to use a 30" even if they were given one? I've only met a few people who are of that particular disposition, and I personally consider them odd. It's a weird self-flagellation or quasi-Luddism.

The last computer monitor I bought was the original 24" Apple Cinema Display. I haven't used it for day to day computing in 7 years or so. The reason for that is because I bought a laptop. For the first year or so I plugged the laptop into the display but as I bought newer and newer laptops the difference in resolution got smaller. My current laptop's high DPI screen has almost quadruple the number of pixels as that display.

So, there are 2 reasons that I've not bought a large display.

1) I don't want to need it. If I get hooked on a large display, then I've killed the fundamental utility of the laptop—to be productive anywhere. If I suddenly need a 30" screen to feel as productive as "normal" then my laptop is useless to me. A tethered laptop is not portable any more. I really enjoy the freedom to work on my couch, in an office, coffee shop, or on a whim, out in the backyard on a nice day, without ever feeling like I'm compromised.

2) The current batch of 30" displays are not high DPI. Compared to my latop screen they look pixelated and downright primitive. That seems to be changing with these announced screens and I'm happy about that.

Also, there's technically a #3, which is that anything larger than my 24" monitor will not fit on the desk that I have (it has a self that isn't adjustable or removable). But that's kind of a weak reason and I could probably fix it if I really cared.
Drone footage from Bangkok
5 Drip Marketing Tips to Improve Your Product's Reach
Will Topsy still get access to the Twitter firehose?
Disagree completely:

1. I've gone into hardware stores for small DIY tasks and parts/materials are not stuff you can buy with spare change. Tools and equipment are even more expensive.

2. Getting up and doing something physical for some of us takes a lot more effort than a mentally strenuous task.
"When services like CodeAcademy launched, its implications to the world of computer education was quite immense."

From what I can tell, the correct branding is "Codecademy." Yes its kind of awkward, but its good to be respectful of competitors.
Will they magically conjure up an app store full of apps? Unless the plan is to leech off existing Android apps somehow.
I was talking about my own rules being a resident of the PRC. If you live outside the PRC, you can probably follow more lax rules to stay alive.
I grow more weary of how many clones there are in this space, especially considering how easy (and within character) it would be for drop box to flick the switch themselves on this.

yet I yearn for increased innovation in this space. I'd love to see this turnkey style hosting support php, databases and more...
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Better Touch Tool also has that functionality: http://boastr.de/

I primarily use it to map three finger click to middle mouse button, but when I discovered it also had the window-sizing-by-dragging-to-the-edge feature I turned it on and have been very happy with it..
Nice, can i see who is also listening to the song i am listening to?
There have been a number, it's just they're mostly small and don't get a huge amount of press. The oldest tech acquisition I remember is Bazee.com, which became Ebay India about a decade ago.
I'd like it if there was a Dropbox based Jekyll service. I could edit my file on any platform, and the site gets rebuilt to html using jekyll (or any other static-site-generator). This will make it as much powerful as GitHub pages, but without the additional git overhead (I'm fine with git, but not everyone is).
> Is it accepted for them to say: whoops building fell, guess i'll rebuild it?

This is pretty much why real engineers scoff at the title 'software engineer.'

Unless they program in Ada.
ATm3 would leave the speaker on for the duration of the call.
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consider perhaps that he knows what they mean and how he can apply them.... maybe?!
Your photos are amazing.
Pretty sure Light Table is built in ClojureScript (on top of Node-Webkit), which is pretty impressive!
The post office also ought to use this technology to make mail delivery faster. Today, sending a letter across town takes days, but with drones perhaps it could take minutes.
Glad you think so ;)
How the Manana app was built
Nothing is secure from the start. Everything has bugs.

Sure, all aspects of programming are subject to bugs. My concern with the site is an apparent lack of design for security. Admittedly the linked article only talks about symptoms, I'm inferring poor design from a previous article which said the developers put security at the bottom of the list of priorities.
This doesn't use dropbox to host content, just to share it with the hosting service. Unless Dropbox pulls the plug on "shared folders", which I doubt, I don't see such services going down.
The page source is still readable if you need a quick fix, unlike most other "requires javascript" sites.
Please try to follow the logic rather than just the talking points. I'm showing jbooth how (not EMH) => exists awesome trading strategy.
yep, this process just speeds up the process. Images are something that really can NOT be protected. If they are visible, they are steal-able
Excellent point. 5 years ago, bitcoin didn't exist. It has come a long way and it has been a long time in Internet Time. Amazon launched in 1994 but it hasn't been very long in Retail Time.
Top ten is not the target.
Top ten can mean that we are number one or in top 1%.
The reason why top ten can be used in discussion is that to compare top ten companies with each other is really difficult. I guess, all top ten companies have their target to be number one. But when each tries to be better than other you can't say who is the number one then.

As the author of the saying I did not intend to say that it is enough to be just in top ten. Just when one milestone is completed then let's go for another one.
Sheepishly noted.
I second contacting them. They hope to build a more expansive public data base of song metrics but need the community to help contribute http://echoprint.me/data -- your collection would add 0.5x the number of tracks. Though probably not the type of stuff people will be using Over The Air detection for but still, worth while to support their effort. Considering what you have I would think/hope that they would be happy to ingest the data with little work required from you. On the other hand they may tell you due to the antique nature of your collection that they would rather not "pollute" the DB since OTA detection often comes with false positive issues.
It's more for display than data entry. For example, when I'm debugging I like to be able to see the local variables, call stack, threads, modules, log entries and of course the code, without switching tabs or bringing anything to the front. But I only really need to manipulate the code.
check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install

The docking functionality is still in the works, will land in a future release of Ubuntu. Eventually the desktop OS and the touch OS will become the same Ubuntu.
Useless things die out - it's a natural process.
An excellent example of why it's valuable to learn how to program even when you're not expected to.
I think he/she was talking about the train tickets.

Walk-up/on-the-day fares for train tickets in the UK are very expensive.

Picking London to Edinburgh as an example (~400 miles in ~4.5 hours) you'd pay £125 off-peak and £150 peak fare for a train today (there are generally 2 an hour).

Booking in advance (up to ~84 days in advance) you can get those same tickets as cheap as £24 but you're tied to a specific departure time/date (and changing date/time can be expensive).
That is helpful, thanks! I'll recover the dates...
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Ask HN: What should I do with lobe.io?
I bought the domain name lobe.io because it's 4 letters and kind of fun to pronounce. Does anyone have any ideas for what I could do with it? The word lobe invokes lobes of the brain, earlobes, subdivided structures in general, ...

(I know, starting from a name is not actually a good way to come up with entrepreneurial ideas.)
Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines the web
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Male and female brains wired differently, scans reveal
My hunch is the jury really did try to judge the case on its merits. I think it's a lot more likely than your hunch.
D-Link DIR-XXX remote root access exploit.
Isn't this the same as site44.com ?
Materials are cheap, how much did the roommate spend?

First of all, the materials were "free" because they were already bought & paid for. Second of all the more important observation is that even though that first closet door was "free", he didn't have an infinite number of doors to mess up, throw out, and start from scratch.
To people who say Scala has too many features, which ones would you remove?

(Please don't say + to concatenate strings, because everyone knows its terrible, its there for Java compatibility)
I've had plenty of times in the past where I just knew some company was going to do really well and their stock would skyrocket. Every time, I wanted to buy stock but didn't know how or didn't have money, and, in fact, in one case I did buy some Apple when they introduced the Nano.

Every single time I was correct, and would have made somewhere between 40-200% profit. I only got the 40% profit out of Apple (because I sold too early), but generally, I seem to have a pretty good eye for this.

The big thing though is: I'm patient. I don't need to invest all the time. I only get this kind of insight every few years, but this kind of profit every few years is still pretty good. Next time I get this kind of insight about something, I'm going in big.
As an experienced backend developer and newbie at JS, I tried Coffeescript. JavaScript itself has lots of WTF stuff, but CoffeeScript makes it a nightmare with lots of implicit rules and assumptions about things you know. I assume it makes sense for an experienced JS developer, but as a newbie, it didn't help at all.
Only the NSA fits that category.