skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no timestamp for view... it only says last updated. If it updates every 10 minutes many people could have seen it.
What advantage does aligning it have, given that you are already satisfied with using an allocater that cannot free memory.
imagine that as an engineer on any secret NSA project, being shown real information regarding atrocities that have never been publicised and knowing that you can help to make the world a better place.

Yep. Of course if that engineer had perspective he would have to wonder if there was more to the story than just what he was being shown. It is easy to doubt the people we already think are wrong, the hard thing is to doubt the people we agree with.
a bit off-topic, but Zigbee came up in a discussion with a friend recently when talking about adding wifi functionality to PLCs. he mentioned that Zigbee devices are pretty much unusable in existing Wifi deployments because they run over the same bands/frequencies. can you comment on this at all? thanks!
You got a copy! Email me peter@catonmat.net. :)
It comes with the ARC script does it not?
I'm not allowed for security reasons to have an iPhone

but we can fix this

with HOPE

CHANGE
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We already had free health care for indigent people, even illegal aliens could walk into any community health care center and receive free health care. The only real effect I've noticed is a lot of people complaining about various aspects of the ACA.
This health care debate is nothing new, and has been in the works for at least 20 years. One could say that health care reform was inevitable, and would have been enacted in some form, or another, regardless of who the President happened to be at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_19...

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/24/2828261/
Assuming they're using Apache's basic logs wouldn't it be insanely easy to track down all URLs visited by that IP?

After you login to Uber.com it instantly does a GET to /api/clients/[PERSUMABLY_USER_ID]?parameters which would be in the logs or they might have logs of user logins on their side (to show users a 'you've recently logged in from...' list somewhere)
It's simple. For every minute a developer spends writing an answer, many people read the answer. So if the best answers are voted to the top, and there is little duplication, the site has saved a lot of programmers time.
I'm honestly not sure if you are a troll or not. If not, do not start conversations with "Could you possibly be more self-serving?"

Libertarians, by definition, hold liberty to be a fundamental human right. It is incompatible to advocate for slavery.

As for buying out slaves from the South: obviously that would have been cheaper AND morally superior. When States joined the union they agreed to a constitution. When the constitution was changed to end slavery several states left the union. The unionists held onto military property that was physically located in the south. They were the aggressors in the war.

I don't sympathize with the slave holders, I find them abhorrent. But when you have bank loans tied to slave ownership, the impact of legalizing slavery should be handled rationally. The number of lives lost in the civil war could have been avoided.
The jury found that there was infringement.
Amongst other things, Bitcoin mining
There is a discussion in the article between Techcrunch and the Gawker editor about the timestamp.

What's weird is the editor hairsplitting between the source and the employee that happily helped the source access the data. I guess Uber might care about the intermediary, but I'm pretty sure they will be concerned about the actions of the employee.
Funnily enough, this would probably be the answer that requires both the least amount of work, and has the best odds of actually succeeding :P
"A definition of sexism : "behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex""

That's just plain silly. So anything that suggests any gender in a person is sexism? Good luck with that.

"Is there a stereotype that women are the toy/reward for a man doing a good job?"

Women liking a man in general is something men want, likewise vice versa men liking a women is something women want. Therefore both things are being used in advertising. If an ad is targeted at men it will often show women liking the man, if an ad is tarted at women it will show men liking a woman.

Do you believe there have never been any ads showing how a man falls for a woman?

Do you believe it is sexist to assume men like being liked by women and vice versa?

Do you believe in general wanting to impress the opposite sex is negligible as a motivational factor in people wanting to do a good job?

Women in print media are necessarily objects - they are blots of ink printed on a 2d page.

The "women as objects" discussion also needs to be questioned. What does it even mean? Men shouldn't be allowed to be attracted to the female physique? Before having sex, they should require women to pass an IQ test and recite the names of all American presidents?

Funny enough the other day there was a post about a guy complaining about guys hooting for Marie Curie. Unless he thinks they were into her grey hair, apparently being attracted to brains also is not OK. I suppose wanting sex in general is not OK because it objectifies people.

"In fact I don't think the average guy knows squat about where we are in this cultural evolution"

I believe you don't really understand what is going on. You and the feminists are actually fighting to rob women of their privileges. Good job! (Hint: children)
StackOverflow has been the opposite for me. I am someone who reads the man pages and does a lot of experimentation before turning to a Q&A site, I fully document what happened, the expected result, and the deviations between the two, and my hypotheses on why it happened, then post.

As a result something like 85% of my questions go unanswered or are eventually answered by myself. I have stopped answering my own questions on SO because some of the questions I ask and do legwork on I feel I should be paid for since it's shitty lack of documentation from the vendors, so screw them.
He is, but I made the assumption that due to his other markedly hawk-ish opinions that he might have suspended liberty in favor of security. I do not say this often, but it seems like Glenn Beck and I are on the same page on this issue.
> Liberalism had a history of "natural" or "negative" rights which during the expansion of the Great Society, it abandoned.

No, it didn't. While certainly some liberal thinkers had a view of rights as exclusively negative, that was not a universal view within liberalism long before the Great Society, and, anyhow, the acceptance of the idea of some positive rights (which isn't necessary to support of Great Society programs -- belief that government should provide things in a particular set of circumstances doesn't require viewing them as rights) does not require abandoning any belief in the existence of specified negative rights.
Reminds me of some of the advice early Islamic scholars would give people, particularly contemplating over God and death regularly.
you just described much of the government... FCC, etc.
Ask HN: Whats the math around Bitcoin on EC2
I get that Bitcoin mining is no profitable on EC2 (at least I assume it isn't). However, I have no numbers to back it up. Can someone please walk through the numbers so when someone asks me, I can tell them why it isn't profitable on EC2, even with today's high BTC prices.
How Node.js is Going to Replace JavaScript
I believe the term is [0] "libtard" not "libertard".

[0] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UubTrNKYf-8
There are indeed some (bad) laws for which that's true, but it's still fair to say that in law intent generally matters.
So because the ice cream truck was late to reach your house, and used to only sell frozen yogurt, you don't want ice cream anymore?
Ask HN: Is this SendGrid email excessive?
Facebook News Feed update to end useless meme photo posts?
EFF's 2013 Holiday Wishlist
There are definitely opportunities in this space. Whatever you choose to make, it will need to integrate with the biggest ecommerce platforms (magento, volusion, shopify, an probably even wordpress).

It's been a while since I looked into this, but there is a lot of friction in ecommerce. Any solution that can smooth out the process of dropshipping, fulfillment, billing, chargebacks, returns, etc. will be well received.

It definitely entails a lot of work which is why I haven't investigated it much. But there are opportunities for sure.
Wikipedia, Youtube, Google, StackExchange, should all get world peace awards.
Sickbeard is faster than the takedowns by a solid 20+ hours if your computer runs 24/7. As I said its very much dependent on how connected you are - access to high grade nzb aggregator sites in particular.
I understand what you're saying, but the average citizen wasn't alive for both John Locke and the Great Society. I guess I disagree with there even being a shift at all. They are quite different worldviews that unfortunately share the word "liberalism".
It's raw financial information about a well-known and much-discussed new business, a business about which we aren't often privy to any numbers.

It's okay that you don't find it interesting, but I -- and many others, thus the upvotes -- do.

(If your definition of newsworthiness stems solely from whether or not it effects you in general, then I'd imagine you'd have to eliminate 80% of Hacker News, as well as ~98% of all world news.)
That sounds like a stereotypical victorian thing.
That is, though, precisely what the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis claims -- I never said you were claiming anything of the sort, merely that the hypothesis did. Linguistics, in general, is a fascinating area of study (though if you are good at spotting straw men where none exist at all, you'll find yourself twitching a lot).
I'd prefer not to use this site since, if I'm affected, it signals to whoever owns the site that I'm a live person whose accounts might be worth probing.
>belief that government should provide things in a particular set of circumstances doesn't require viewing them as rights

Except that for the government to provide things to people, it has to take them from other people, which conflicts with negative rights. You pretty much need to believe in positive rights to justify violating negative rights.
Wouldn't something like image compression potentially distort this?
If you're looking for something more photo-driven, I'm working on a thing called Exposure: https://exposure.so/invite/hn (opening this week but we'll invite folks from that link ASAP)
I used to be a Perl Guru, but am well out of practice. I still use it in my regular job as a pragmatic way to do some data munging without having to start up a REPL.

I'd love to have a copy of the book.
Indeed, what a simple way to express powerful sentiment!
The personally-identifiable bit could be a watermark: slight coloration changes.

It could also be the last-updated time, or particular numbers in a column... which would have only been served to a single account in a logged transaction.

A company that cares about its proprietary information can easily log and/or watermark everything served via internal tools.
StackOverflow is good is some ways, but if you have a solid base knowledge of programming you shouldn't really be looking there all the time in the first place. It's a great website but it's also definitely made coders lazier.
The more mission-critical you get, the more you're concerned with reliability over features.

The reason the president uses a Blackberry is probably similar to the reason the latest Mars rover uses an ancient PowerPC. It's been battle tested long enough and subject to enough scrutiny that you don't have to worry about it as much.
I can learn and know one language incredibly well, excluding the html/css/js world, as those are effectively required at this point. For me, that's PHP.

However, when I need to go to work, and my boss decides "So that position we hired you for, now its going to be ruby as well, but later on ObjC and Java.", SO comes to the rescue.

The core concepts of programming languages were cemented in my years deciphering terrible notes and learning to code in college, however the little nuances of each language inherently evade me. This is where SO has shined the most. Most of the time, solutions with multiple approaches suggested show more about the language itself than the problem asked.
It is not like the robots will raise from the ground. Someone will have to build them.

The fact that Michigan industry died, is pretty much political. Tech changes helped a little, but in the end, it was all political. I am talking about grants and tax incentives and what not that happens behind closed doors in exchange for campaign support.
It is economic equality: everybody owns the same, which is nothing.

Envy is a powerful force...
But then you're in Texas.

I jest of course. Coming from Illinois, I get poked at about the corruption we have. On the other hand, the legislative climate is a bit different (we don't try to take reproductive rights away from women, and we've got same-sex marriages).

Caveat emptor.
That's basically Wayland. If we're lucky, the KMS+Wayland+XWayland stack will end up with a better architecture, backwards compatibility, and less code than the old XOrg.

(My hope is inspired by ZFS which, due to its "rampant layering violations", had more features and less code than the UFS+LVM stack it replaced.)
Last updated != time page loaded

Presumably if the time stamp is identifiable, the leak comes from an entry level employee.

On the other hand, this makes for a nice PR stunt.
Don't talk about it, stop upvoting god dammnit
Developers (should) prefer using Linux over OS X.

Mac gaming languishes like it always has.

Pro video users have jumped shipped (still waiting for the new Mac Pro sometime this month, 18 months after Tim Cook teased folks after WWDC, years after any serious update)

What future OS X?!
> Sounds like HList.

Maybe. I have never heard of HList until today.

> Do you avoid instantiating a JVM object for each entry?

Yes, a tuple, at the VM level is just a wrapped array. Our compiler backend does magic with certain language module types.

> Are you sacrificing Java compatibility, or is the tradeoff somewhere else?

Well, I dunno, a tuple looks like a regular Ceylon list to a Java client, but I don't think that really breaks _compatibility_ as such. Depends how you define "compatible".

> Having now paid attention to who you are, how do you handle ORM in what I presume is a more immutability-oriented language?

No clue. That's something we'll have to think about in 2014.

> hibernate seems to expect sessions to belong to a single thread, objects to belong to a single session, and updates to be performed by mutating an object rather than copying it.

Yes. That's definitely what Hibernate expects. It was never designed for copy-on-write. Because at the end of the day the database contains a bunch of mutable state and Hibernate reflects that in memory. I can't imagine that the solution to this problem is going to be straightforward.

> Anyway, to get back to the point, does Ceylon have a good story for this problem?

Not yet.

> Is it going to include a next-gen hibernate replacement?

I hope so, but I can't promise because I have not spent time thinking about it.
Would love to give this a review, if possible. More of a Ruby guy, but I really appreciate the elegance of a good one-liner.
CouchDB Conf Videos
Oops, missed that. Thanks.
Lamest (and most hilarious) Amazon review I've ever seen
Great! Email me peter@catonmat.net and I'll send you a copy. Once you read through it, you'll be much faster with that data mungling!
Is it completely impossible that when he was a senator he wasn't privy to all the information he has now about the possible threats that the patriot act helps to stave off? Now that he is president he might be able to make a more informed decision.

That being said I don't know if that's actually the case but I'm not yet at the point where I have 0 faith in government.
> Except that for the government to provide things to people, it has to take them from other people, which conflicts with negative rights.

No, it doesn't. It may conflict with particular concepts of negative rights, but a general right not to be taxed, for example, was never a part of the liberal consensus.

> You pretty much need to believe in positive rights to justify violating negative rights.

You seem to think that "negative rights" means a single absolute overarching negative right that the government should do nothing whatsoever effecting you. And, you know, you are entitled to view that as the proper relationship of government to the individual, but absolutely wrong to characterize that as something that was once part of liberalism that is no longer.
The only problem I've found with this method is the spammers that try to guess your email, so they end up sending emails to "admin@domain.com", "webmaster@domain.com", etc. The catch-all forwards them all to me.

The only way around this, I think, is to only have uncommon emails, like instead of admin@domain.com, use contactadmin@domain.com. Put a block on the common ones and you're good to go.
I would thoroughly enjoy a review copy!
My experience has been that technet's documentation is so unreliable that I've learned to go to SO first.
As far as I remember from back in '08, Obama uses a blackberry because he asked for it after winning the presidency. He used it heavily during his campaign, and wanted to hang on to it after getting the presidency. They had to go through some trouble to create an NSA certified version for Obama to use.
Yahoo here. How the hell did the hackers get the passwords in plain text? Were they seriously unencrypted?
It's not unusual. I did some work in civil avionics, and we were not permitted to use dynamic memory allocation due to concerns over heap fragmentation.
Emacs saves the day — again
here are some charts for profitability http://minercharts.com/
No second clause in the "whether"? That's "sneaking out", though.

Also, feh, descriptivists...
Right, that's a natural outcome of Rust's task model. Any borrowed pointer or structures containing such are never "sendable" which are the only things allowed to cross task boundaries, enforced by the compiler.
NSA says it obviously can track locations without warrant. It’s not so obvious.
NSA employees spied on their exes, so it seems likely.
Heuristics & Biases is a great book with more detail:

http://www.amazon.com/Heuristics-Biases-Psychology-Intuitive...
I took a look at the ACM Code of Ethics, and I don't see anything that would be violated by working on PRISM. Specifically:

1.7 Respect the privacy of others.
..

User data observed during the normal duties of system operation and maintenance must be treated with strictest confidentiality, except in cases where it is evidence for the violation of law, organizational regulations, or this Code. In these cases, the nature or contents of that information must be disclosed only to proper authorities.

That specifically allows the kind of work done by PRISM.
Pro video users have jumped ship from Macs? To what?
Language like Javascript but without closures?
Does anyone know of such an animal?
Many userland applications don't use X libraries directly, but use a toolkit like Qt and GTK. Both projects are working on Wayland support [1, 2], bypassing X completely.

1 - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/qt5.html

2 - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/gtk.html
I see these "embrace my programming paradigm via my awful, mixed-context, confusing argument" on HN more and more. Seems to me it's just some project-managment-type thinking in abstract high-level ways of how much easier his business would be if everyone thought just like he did.

Well, guess what, there's nothing particularly valuable about your perspective. In fact, it sucks and it's wrong. Even Jeff Bezos perspective is wrong and stupid, but he paid 10,000 developers to embrace it. Just because your job would be so much easier if everyone architecture their data so you wouldn't have to doesn't mean anyone has a reason to. Maybe instead of me creating a single standard API for you to scrape my content, you fuck off and take your money with you? How does that sound? I think we have an agreement. (this is what every website ever has said).
With new USB connector, no more wrong-way-up cables
Sure, remote display is no big deal if you're already using X11. But most embedded devices were not farsighted enough to use X11 in the first place; it's much more common to see the wheel being reinvented poorly.
Yup, you got the copy. You're the 9th person. Email me peter@catonmat.net with your details.

Talking about Ruby, take a look at this:

http://benoithamelin.tumblr.com/ruby1line

My friend Benoit Hamelin translated all Perl one-liners to Ruby a while ago!
It should at the minimum strive to create a business that could potentially support the team working on it? $1000 profit from 8~ people working 2.5 days isn't scalable to even the size of their team, let alone anything bigger.
Most of the lessons learned by this 208 hour exercise could have been learned by spending one hour talking to a seasoned salesperson.
I was aiming for sarcasm, they should totally be punished.
Lying to a judge is an incredibly serious offense for an "officer of the court" like a prosecutor or defense attorney in the course of a trial.

That's potential disbarment territory afaik.

Prenda Law is another example of lawyers getting a little too clever and running up against a judge who is as sharp as a razor and not keen on legal fraud.
The original version is from August 2012. I didn't look at the revision history. In any case, having that long of a revision history (31 versions!) also seems like a red flag.
Agilent could build Unix workstations ;-) ...
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> Much of the money saved has gone to vendors.

That's not a contradiction to the claim that wealth has been created. Of course it has to go somewhere.
In many companies (and GAAP), what is here referred to as gross revenue will be revenue, and what is called here as net revenue will be gross income. After that you deduct normal expenses that is related to create revenue, then that will be earnings before tax, interest and amortization (EBITDA). To get to nett you need to deduct from EBITDA the interest, amortization and tax, as well as abnormal items. COGS (cost of goods sold) is normally the difference between revenue and gross income.
I found it hugely useful in the .Net world. With closed source, obscure errors cannot be as easily tracked down, especially when they are not covered by MSDN or a prominent blog. A couple years after switching to an open source stack, I barely use it at all, and when I do finally hit a wall and ask a question, I get an answer ~20% of the time (compared to 90%+ when I was in .Net). I am a huge fan of SO, but good docs and readable code go a lot further.
You're 10th. You got the last copy! Send me your mailing details to peter@catonmat.net. :)
And Windows does 100% of what you want from a desktop?
I tried out the trick Jack Dorsey recommended during Startup School 2013: keep a two daily lists of things to do and things not to do. Read it when you wake up, throughout the day, and before you sleep.

Here's what's on my list:

Do: take a cold shower; meditate; throw yourself in; work on hard problems.
Don't: be annoyed or upset; lie down unless to rest without computer.

It's working for me pretty well so far. For me the list's main value seems to be in those small, split-second decisions: if I'm choosing between two things to work on, my mind will suddenly remember "work on hard problems," and I'll choose the harder one.
I don't appreciate you stalking me and posting that here (just because it's accessible somewhere on the internet doesn't mean I want to make it more public), but as a matter of fact I wasn't talking about that email address in the first place.