skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you leave (and give up citizenship) you loose a lot of options to influence it. And you leave behind those who are either too naive, too poor, too sick, or otherwise unable to follow; together with the elements who made you leave, and who now have free access to a completely empty stage..
I was wondering how IPC was done. I would imagine that VBA works on in-process data structures whereas you'd have to marshal messages over IPC to get Python working.

How does it work? Is it more COM-like?
Please feel free to suggest any addons I should add.
Yep. We've had something like that in Eastern Europe during the communist era.
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IsNaN is literally f1 != f1
It is actually easier to perpetrate that kind of subtlety in higher-level languages than in assembly.
I thought about using pipe but the WebSocket library doesn't implement the Stream API, does it?
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Satan's Little Helper?

The country that seems to simply enacts laws and legislation that just mirror the US so they look like good little friends?

The country that assists the NSA as needed?

That Canada?
The prevalence of less/fewer errors everywhere is astounding. I saw a national ad on TV the other day with 'less calories' featured prominently. This error was the first thing I noticed on the page as well... but I'm guessing we're in the minority here.

All that said, the product is fantastic. Have been using it for a year on an almost daily basis.
Keep in mind that teaching is also a cyclic thing. Schools were built out in waves, so without growth, you're subject to the waves of retirements and the waves of school-age children, which vary dramatically. In my area of the US, people in my age cohort (high school graduation between 94-97 all got teaching gigs, no problem. People in my brothers group (2000-2004) are working in Starbucks.

I think the difference between "You should teach" and "You need to learn to code" is that coding is a practice, not a profession. I apply programming skill to IT infrastructure activity, but I'm not a dev. My wife is a financial analyst/Excel commando, writing all sorts of adhoc code snippets for BI and other purposes.
I would rather have bitcoins than any other currency for my savings. For spending, you just need the local currency, since Bitcoin isn't accepted in most places yet.
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I found it here: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/horse-care/horse-care-tips/ca...

The relevant part follows:

Originally “fighting teeth”, they have no occlusal contact, i.e. the opposing upper and lower canines do not meet, so they are of no benefit in the eating process.
It's saying that the "turn" happened in an unspecified time but less than two nights. Because the unspecified time period is a continuous variable you can't use fewer (which is used for discrete values).
The 'good old days' had drug dealers and violence, don't kid yourself. It got covered up and ignored.

What is a police dept to do, when the crimes are escalating? Its simple to chide Warren County (or whoever); but who are you to say the next bombing or public rage will not occur there? The others were in similar places; no place is safe.
My Slate programming language was intended to feature a module linking protocol that would have an ELF-like layer to link against native C code. And then the idea was that the object-slot graph would mirror or integrate with the file system. But the project has languished a bit, and I need to start over (would be glad to partner with somebody to share ideas).
Well, yes. It used to be OK. In some parts of Africa and the Amazon, it still is.

But human society as a whole has moved on from the practice of cannibalism.
That's the interesting part: Elsevier does not have copyright of these papers! The authors do. However, by publishing with Elsevier, you grant them an exclusive license for the right to publish and distribute the article.[1]

Note that this even includes the author copy of the manuscript (albeit with slightly more lenient terms - the author may only post the copy to a personally operated website or their institution's website).[2]

1. http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-polici...

2. http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-polici...
What a depressing article(s). Our reality is only going to get worse since there is little we can (or have the will to) do. At least in the Ukraine people are really contemplating change. Here we watch our football and our shows and fawn over celebrities and nothing changes.
> "They’re looking for intelligence about foreign entities of interest"

And the NSA can decide who is of interest, of course, so for me "entities of interest" and "Everyone" is the same.

I could just say that I don't care since I have nothing to hide, but I am concerned.

Your article did not convince me of the need to monitor the whole Earth communications for intelligence just because the law allows it.
"we’re all pretty sure that the Android royalties are larger in that division than the Windows Phone revenues." -Forbes

Please don't incorrectly paraphrase a speculative comment.
I'm really tempted to say "that's life"; there are no perfect people to run the govt any more than in any other sphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less

Less has always been used in English with countable nouns.
They are not. See stats.
That Auburn game was really something though!
> We have canines for a reason; meat is part of our evolutionary heritage.

Gorillas also have canines[0]; they're herbivores.

> by-products such as eggs and cheese (from animals who are well-cared-for).

In some sense, eating eggs and cheese is actually worse than eating meat.

0 - http://www.igorilla.org/assets/images/who/mgsilverteethcu.jp...
It is hard to detect subtle manipulation period. But assembly language is an extremely concrete representation of a program; it is not an especially great way to write underhanded code.

It's possible to write obfuscated assembly, of course, but it sticks out as obfuscated.

To further get your head around the lack of cover compiled code would give a backdoor, it's worth knowing that Hopper will give you serviceable C-ish code from x86_64 for... let me check here... fifty nine bucks.

(It's possible that my only message with that last graf is "Hopper is great").
Does anyone have an example of what a spear phishing attack looks like? I've always thought that it would be easily recognizable, but I've realized that's a naive view.
You should probably include a warning anyway. When I was starting out programming I would do stuff like exec-ing shell scripts from PHP, oblivious to the consequences.
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Ebay doesn't have to switch away from anything to accept Bitcoins. They just add another payment method.
Sounds like perfectly acceptable takedown notices then.
Don't think most users are looking to use this in a production environment. Virtually everything you can do with DN and Excel generally, you can do much more effectively without touching excel. It however is extremely useful for one-offs, prototyping, and for those unfortunate situations where you need excel.

Additionally, when I've had issues, they've typically been handled promptly and thoroughly.
Title is a reach. What about this lake made it especially appropriate for supporting life? Nothing that any body of water would have. More accurate: 'Evidence of freshwater lake; water is essential ingredient in supporting life'
Starbucks is a great example of another company that allows payment without a card or NFC, though you still go through the checkout person.
There's less of a precedent of them abusing their own citizens so (which is my anecdotal opinion, admittedly). Add that to healthcare costs that won't cripple you forever, and it's a solid choice for an English-speaking country.
"There's no way to rule innocent men.
The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

(From Atlas Shrugged -- Damn, it's bad when I of all people am quoting Ayn Rand).
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from https://www.datanitro.com/faq.html#faq-5

We don't plan to support Mac OS X or Linux.
Drats. So much for my version of Excel on Linux.

Seriously, OS X seems a pretty glaring oversight. I know I'll get snide replies about the amount of users, Libre Office, or using Numbers. That misses the point. I can share an Excel document with a normal bit of VBA and share it with any Excel user, dating back several years. This product must be installed on all computers that I'm sharing with, and it totally eliminates OS X users (as well as Excel 2003 users, which a quick check shows makes up anywhere from 10-20% of users)

This product looks to be a fit for a controlled environment that needs specific features that VBA simply can't achieve.
Sure, accept all of them. Why not? It's trivial to accept them, the only difficulty is the volatility compared to dollars, which for Bitcoin is a solved problem.
I'd kindly ask you to give us another chance :)

The product has come a long way in the past year. In particular, our Private Cloud offering is deployed at a number of large organizations, all of which are quite happy.

Regarding comparison with BT Sync -- I think their product is great, but we try to go beyond simply syncing files between devices by allowing for a lot more administrative control to the IT organization while still giving the users a really simple Dropbox-like syncing experience. Things like remote wipe, version management, conflict resolution, and so on.
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You have to consider more than just the employees that Google hired. They're also spending money in the region on a bunch of things besides salaries. One way to look at might be that if the facility remains open for 10 years, then that $1M/employee pays for salaries, and then they get all of the other economic benefits for "free". It sure sounds like a lot of money, but I wouldn't be surprised if it makes sense in some way. Especially since, as the sibling post points out, there would have been a large number of governments competing for it.
Probably like any of their other customers, there is a framework which was developed that runs on big-endian hardware and the development cost to certify (read: not the porting work) that calculations are correct if switched to x86 is not necessarily worth it as long as the machines follow Moore's law just like any other hardware.

These machines represent a tiny tiny portion of overall machines, but have certain properties that make them nice for certain functions. They can handle a lot of I/O and can reduce software complexity for certain jobs which actually don't need to scale horizontally.
The real tinfoil types believe that the government cloud research facility in Alaska controls the weather globally and can cause earthquakes and tsunamis on command. We don't have any indication to believe that's true yet.
I'm wondering that myself. Mint doesn't normally use XFCE, or at least didn't when I used it in the past. It was always a fork of GNOME. So maybe that's the news?

Mint is also pretty popular as an alternative to Ubuntu for Linux newbs, so I can see why people think it's interesting and upvote. We get a fair amount of distro release announcements on HN.
Actually, the question wasn't "does bitcoin have any intrinsic value" it was "does this type of currency have intrinsic value" in response to an article that was, nominally, about the US dollar.
The hard stuff is logic, and that's covered in geometry and pre-calc.

Loops and if/then aren't very difficult, I don't remember anybody struggling with that when I was a TA. Logic, on the other hand was a learning curve for the students who dozed through 10th grade math.
I can't say I'm exactly surprised. If you ran a police department, you're not about to turn down a free tank -- I mean, how cool is that, toys for the boys?!?!

What's bothersome is that a police department is allowed to do this. That DoD rules don't prohibit selling/giving military equipment to police departments. That state legislatures don't prohibit it. A police department, like any organization, is always going to amass all the power/capability it can. Where are the people who are supposed to be limiting and regulating it?
AeroFS is the solution to so many of my problems, its really pretty great.

I've been advising my customers to look at it for quite some time now :)
Thanks for the video, really nice. On one hand, I heard you guys talking about the difference between "subscribe", "pay" and "upgrade". Wouldn't it be more accurate to just fire an A/B Test for that button and see what converts better, instead of heresay?

A/B Testing on button title is pretty trivial and you can verify the result manually. No need for admin panel. Am I wrong?
This was, in fact, more or less pioneered in languages that aren't homoiconic in the same manner as Lisp is (code that used self-modification for reasons like time or space optimization was, if not common, at least known of in the early days of electronic computers). Arguably, machine code is very much homoiconic; what is beautiful about Lisp is that the underlying structure of program/data is regular and nicely-abstracted.
He tried to treat it with specific subsets of veganism, such as fruit-only and nut-only diets. My understanding is that he was vegetarian/vegan for most of his adult life; please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yep—I deleted my comment because it seemed too nitpicky and critical of your process.

My worry was since your post says "This is what design looks like", and doesn't mention the rest of the design process, it could be misinterpreted by fledgling founders looking to you for inspiration.

Your parent comment did a great job of clarifying that. Maybe consider adding to the blog post that it's a "part" of design at a startup? Too many startups only do the founder/designer cycle, and never get designs or wireframes in front of users.

Also, not sure why you felt the need to link to my Twitter... but thanks, I guess?
If Microsoft has been collecting billions in revenue with an invalid patent for years, could the court (or EU Commission?) force them to reimburse that money?
This is reasonable advice, and something we follow in our household that eats meat a couple times/week. Only the good stuff, but not too much of it.
> Korean TV shows like Running Man

I googled this and was relieved to see it isn't actually a TV show that involves gladiators hunting down and killing prisoners.
IIRC most (all?) browsers prompt you when usage goes above a certain limit (5MB, I think). Firefox was the only one that asked you before the site saved a single byte.
Unfortunately it leaves out encrypting the backup.
I think there is a tarsnap plugin for FreeNAS which does encrypt the data...
That was just the number one result, this post number two (9 total). I googled the quote without Hitler, and all results came up as a misattribution, but in my quick skim, there wasn't a different attribution.
At least the 113th congress didn't create many new laws. No SOPA, PIPA, or COICA yet either.
And cannibalize itself? Why would they do that?
Didn't see stats in the article; just lots of strawmen and irresponsible summaries of crimes.
These pictures don't do the diversity of the infrastructure justice. (perhaps that is intentional) When I was at Google they had just finished deciding that 'containerized' data centers were not a benefit and had just opened up the buildings in The Dalles, when I left they had brought up the Netherlands and their midwest data centers. Besides the different environments (can you use external air for cooling or not, etc) there have been investigations into power distribution, heating / cooling schemes, and packaging. I don't think any two data centers I walked into looked exactly the same inside. I found that kind of neat.
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Exactly. Things like this just deter people from becoming interested in "low level" things like compilers, runtime systems, databases, etc... and maybe becoming active researchers in these areas.
A bit trickier with microbial life, though. Though it wouldn't be impossible for it to bump into a stromatolite, say.
Animals are not sentient. Higher animals have some form of emotion and a great capacity to suffer but as far as we can tell today, they do not have self-aware and self-reasoning intelligence.
I'm really sorry about that. When did you use the software? We've fixed a number of memory leak issues in the past few months, so this was likely resolved.

Additionally, we don't wrap pyxll; we have a completely seperate architecture.
If the socket is terminated mid-command (thus emitting 'close'), one would want the process to be killed. Also, the socket doesn't know that no more transmission is required just because one particular stream is over. That is why close is called manually on the socket after the stream emits a 'close'.

This all provided you use a streaming web socket module like https://github.com/maxogden/websocket-stream
The thing is, diff and "get a list of filenames into an email/textfile" is not programming.
So basically replicate SSH in a half assed way?
And I heavily suspect you work for Microsoft.
I'm not a lawyer, nor have I thoroughly read the DMCA; is the text broad enough to cover such licenses, over and above copyright?
"This is what software crackers and antivirus writers do on a regular basis. For an enlightening write-up, see the Symantec paper(s) on Stuxnet."

Well, not really.

I was both software cracker and virus writer myself(just for fun, we never distributed our virus or our cracks, keygens and stuff outside).

I was part of a larger group doing it. I had contacts with people that became famous for breaking several important protections, specially for games.

You have no idea how big software is. A million lines of code is impossible to read by any human being in his entire life. Yes, there are automatic tools and great disassemblers like IDA pro, but even if you were to see the entire source code, it is very easy to hide some flaw into the code.

If you add undocumented hardware into the equation, then it is very hard to disassemble without significant resources.

This hardware took dozens of millions of dollars to develop, hundreds of very smart people to design, with all the documentation. It will take at least an order of magnitude more to decode not having that info.
Confused; Bitcoin remains totally volatile. What was solved?
> "Safely, and anonymously"

http://bitroad.io
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Okay. How about: "If Facebook wants to reverse your user privacy settings without warning, that's a matter between you and Facebook."

"If the RIAA wants to DMCA your YouTube video because there was a copyrighted song playing on a radio in the background, that's between you and the RIAA."

"If Microsoft/EA/Sony/everyone else wants to modify their terms of service to prevent you from suing them for any reason, and require you to agree to those terms to continue using goods and services you've already paid for, that's between you and <insert major tech company here>."

Vigorous public debate on corporate policy is clearly in the public interest, whether the issue is big or small. What's so difficult to understand about that?
I believe it is Gstreamer 0.10.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917

Gstreamer 1.0 is a work in progress.
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Cruelty is, of course, despicable and should be stopped. The vast majority of growers are decent and moral. It's easy for activists to find and focus on bad apples and make it seem like all meat suppliers are criminal monsters. This is simply not true. This would be like meat eating activists finding bad actors in the farming industry to then acuse the entirety of that industry with criminal behaviour. Ridiculous.

As for vegan vs. meat. Well, few things in life have more evidence than the support provided by millions of years and thousands of species who would not have survived had they not used other species' meat for food, for energy and nutrition. The species that did evolve to survive on plants (cows, for example) have radically different anatomy and mechanisms evolved over millions of years of adaptation to that diet.

We are meat eaters. More accurately, we are omnivores. The only reason one could even consider going vegan is that we've industrialized food production and distribution.

Drop two people on an island. One of them is constrained to eating plants while the other is able to eat anything, including any animal, plant and even his left foot. Over time the vegan will either get horribly sick and maybe even die. In addition to that, he would have to devote huge chuncks of the day to finding vegan food. The omnivore could easily ingest all the energy and nutrients needed to function at a high level of exertion for a full day during one meal. One could focus most of his time trying to get off the island while the other has to focus on eating constantly.

Here's another way to look at it. Veganism can be hypocritical in that one's ability to choose this approach would not exist without millions of years of eating meat. You are who you are and you exist because our ancestors, including your parents, grandparents, etc. killed and ate meat. A vegan is only possible because of millions of years of eating meat. Our species would not exist without eating meat.

Yet another view is that millions of meat eaters make veganism possible.

The vast majority of the people in a vegan's food supply chain are almost guaranteed to be meat eaters. How much of a hypocrite does someone have to be to rationalize eating vegan when tens of thousands of meat eaters --killing and eating hundreds of thousands of animals-- are quite literally feeding them their vegan diet. A vegan who makes sure their entire food supply chain is vegan is, of course, being absolutely honest in support of their choice.
Because the link you provided is for Surface PRO, and specific to the x86 offering.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Secure_boot

Microsoft's certification requirements eventually revealed that UEFI firmware on x86 systems must allow users to re-configure or turn off secure boot, but that this must not be possible on ARM-based systems (Windows RT).