skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hypothetically, let's just say 1% of the world ends up with 99% of the Bitcoins.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Doesn.27t_Bitcoin_unfairly_be...

> it won't be difficult for the 99% to get control of the network

What does "control of the network" even mean? Do you realize that at best this would make bitcoin totally useless resulting in a lose-lose scenario? Yes, that's totally a worthwhile attempt.

> If you think the 99% of people who missed the Bitcoin boat will be "OK" with Bitcoins replacing fiat money, then please explain why.

Bitcoin doesn't have to replace fiat money to be successful. Besides, why would they not be? Seems to be the same argument as above, so https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Doesn.27t_Bitcoin_unfairly_be...
It seems like you could pretty easily explain it in terms of having a million virtual police listening to all calls at once versus the old way, which involved humans, and so naturally limited itself to conversations of interest.
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>I've just spent 5 minutes trying to learn what Vagrant is and how it works.

Well, it's 2013 and you're on HN. If you don't already know what Vagrant is, then perhaps you're not the most qualified information seeker.
It's indeed not mandatory. Biking in general is still much safer than in the US though since we have a strong biking culture, good infrastructure (separate bike lanes and traffic lights) and laws that (nearly) always hold the car responsible for any damages.
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I am genuinely interested in finding a good strategy to deal with memory allocation errors

Try allocating less memory and switch to a slower but less memory intensive approach. Try freeing up some memory from other places where it isn't needed right now and deal with the performance hit of reallocating that memory later.

Of course both of these approaches require a fair amount of architectural changes, but neither is unreasonable.
I must admit things like that make me angry because of the implied "women are victims" message.
The 300 Fahrenheit club: from a 200 °F sauna to the -100 °F outdoors and back.
We built a new way to learn to read and write Chinese:

http://whizzlearning.com

Would love people's thoughts as we are currently building the next version.
I wonder what hapenned to pesky old CO_2 there :)
All of your proofs are personal anecdotes. If you need some empirical evidence check this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6879195

Or do some research on computer science demographics.
FindGLEW.cmake is a standard CMake module from v2.8.10.
Previous versions do not have this file thus cannot build the project.
You can install a newer version of CMake or get this file from CMake git repo and copy it to /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/
If only these things would work so that the whining could eventually stop.
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The situation in regard to what is and is not a state is more complicated and subtle than you make it out to be. This Quora answer provides a good summary of the situation: http://qr.ae/IsPAq
Well, I'm not a statistician, but since nobody seems to be answering, I'll give it a shot.

Choosing the statistical method is slightly tricky; we have binary data (which is a bit different to the methods most people are used to). Guidance from measuringusability.com [1] tells us that our scenario is very similar to their "example 2", essentially where we have two groups with simple totals (1/12 and 11/12). Their advice is to use a N-1 two proportion test [2] for this.

Plugging in the values 1/12 and 11/12 here, we get a 99.994% probability that the distributions are different. This is because although the sample sizes are relatively small, 1/12 and 11/12 are very far apart. Slightly surprising, nevertheless.

A more reasonable comparison would be 5/12 vs 8/12, and in this case the same test yields a 77.108% probability that they are different (i.e. not particularly significant).

[1] http://www.measuringusability.com/blog/what-test.php
[2] http://www.measuringusability.com/ab-calc.php
We need more women in the industry but I am not sure this is the way to do it. It is specifically for those "who cannot afford to live without an income during Hacker School." What does this mean exactly?

To me it sounds like getting those who are poor or not well off into programming. I like that idea as much as getting more women into programming. What I don't understand is why this would be limited to women only.

I have never been a fan of positive discrimination. Wouldn't it be better to advertise more to women to try to get more applicants this way? Perhaps go into local schools to rustle up a more diverse selection of people to be the next generation of programmers. Perhaps use the money to give away raspberry pi systems to the underprilliaged kids to inspire them to get going young?

It is nice of Google and it seems like a decent inititive. I do feel though that the money could be used in a far more effective way.
starting from a single compromised wallet, how difficult it is to follow all the ramifications until you end up with branches with that sum?

even if you end up with one coin per wallet, you just found all the wallets the thief created or people/exchange that he used to off load it...
Nonsense.

The application running out of memory isn't the responsibility of the application.

If this is a job for anyone, it's a job for the operating system, however malloc() fails infrequently enough that it hasn't yet been worth it.

Or does your minecraft implementation in C pre-allocate memory for its nice error message at startup, resorting to direct I/O operations against video ports if that allocation fails?
California has cheap community colleges. It's $99 per credit (a class is 3 or more credits) where I grew up, plus books. http://www.ccac.edu/default.aspx?id=137210

$400 for a life skill might sound like a great deal, but it can be hard to afford.
What goverment does your android phone connect to 
how to find out in a few easy steps
ok so i have seen on some android phones they connect to goverment servers from your network provider
here how to test
go to settings, then about phone, then status scroll down till you see an ip addy do a whois search on that ip what results you folks get
heres a good whois online tool http://www.ismyipdirty.com/ or just use google find a whois service

some folks showing DOD in the uk and they from usa
I'm shocked by the amount of comments here saying things like "they didn't planned to kill, they just took advantage of it" or "they planned it but didn't do it", so it's ok. It's not ok, it's miscreant attitude that demonstrates poor human skills.

I want to be represented by people with high human skills. Call me an idealistic if you want, it's ok for me in a world where vice is common place. Any way, we can't do anything great if we don't expect much of ourselves.
There is more than six billion people living in Earth, and I bet that there is at least one person getting something valuable out of ones writing. It doesn't matter if it is not 'novel or unique' as long as it is "out there" :)
Mostly they end up across a variety of clients in my Mac and as I use spotlight and notice them in emails/messages add them where needed. Not ideal, but I haven't put much thought into it. Email/cell/IM/linked in contacts come in where they will. I prefer something algorithmic like Spotlight to surface them for me in near term searches...
According to a few people both IE11[1] and Firefox[2] disable hit testing on scroll if you don't move your cursor while scrolling.

[1] http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/pointer-events-60fps/c...
[2] http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/pointer-events-60fps/c...
Keep in mind you only get a certain number of flags. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6803917
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It's perplexing that to avoid gender discriminations, the solution is to discriminate against genders. I don't like these, I think they further the stigmatism that is native to our industry about gender discrimination.

Specifically I'm bothered by direct benefits due to gender, I have no issue with educational programs as long as they remain open to all.

I don't want to end up in a workforce where people are working because it was a good financial decision from yesteryear. I want to work with people who are truly excited about what they do. And choose it for no other reason then it was: fun, interesting, and exciting. Those would be awesome people to work with. Welcome!
How about we give them 3/5ths as much...or ditch the discrimination all together.
What about men who have financial need?

This isn't an academic question. The tech industry is one of the very few left where large numbers of men from diverse backgrounds are doing well. For many who are struggling, it's the best shot they have. Men receive less financial aid for college and graduate with more debt... if they graduate. Women now outnumber men 3 to 2 in current graduating classes in the US. Far more men than women suffer poverty and homelessness. Amazingly, it's common for shelters to refuse single men.

Does Hacker School and its sponsor's "need based" help truly discriminate against the very group—poor, non-degreed men—that society treats so callously?

The last thing I want to see is women being dismissed or shut out of opportunities purely out of chauvinist ignorance, but when it comes to poverty and need it's almost like our society has empathy only for women and children. Recognizing this doesn't mean becoming blind to the glass ceiling that women often hit at the high-end of the career ladder. Both are problems. This really is an issue where two wrongs don't make a right.

Disclaimer: I earned well under $10k living in SF last year and faced some of this pain personally. I overcame the obstacles in my path and am now in a great situation... but I can't help but feel for those I know who aren't.
Superconductivity has been observed with transition temperatures as high as 138 K (−135 °C) [1]. I doubt the Earth's surface is getting any colder or that we'll discover much colder surface temperatures. We've gone from requiring 4K for superconductivity to 138K in a century. Even if we don't find room-temperature superconductors, going from 138K to 180K means it could be possible to have superconductors in natural environment for short periods of time. As the range is raised to 200K - 220K, we could have outdoors superconductors in the far North.

If we don't have to cool them manually, is there a limit to how large we can make them? Mini train-track sized maybe? Come to Alaska and ride the levitating train! Someday...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconductiv...
Pretty poorly written article...Still trying to digest what they were getting at, maybe it is late.

Specifically, they do not specify what the MSFT investment is now worth. Sure MSFT peaked at above 500 billion dollars, and aapl was closer to 3 billion at the time. Now Apple is peaked around 500 billion and MSFT is now closer to 300 billion...but..well...no mention of the actual financial return on investment...

Oh, and, while widely profitable, most of the world considers apple, like microsoft in transition.

This is the wonderful world of viewing things through quarterly earnings eyes.
This mischaracterizes what happens by leaning on an unreliable source.
> If Google would say that teams that only consist of men, or white people would get $2K extra everyone would explode.

Surely you can understand why? The industry is already dominated by white men. They (we, in fact) don't need extra support to enter and get accepted by the industry. We don't suffer lots of subtle forms of harassment and discrimination, simply for being different from the norm.

I don't think money by itself is the solution, but in order to make the industry more accepting of women, it helps if people get used to women in the industry, which means there need to be more women in the industry, which means some additional encouragement is probably necessary. Addressing the sexism in the industry in the absense of women doesn't seem to work very well. We need more women in order to become more accessible to women.

That said, I do think it's odd to do this through larger prizes for women in a contest. Encouragement programs and networking events seem like a better way to do this. Then again, in sports, it's generally male competitions who tend to have far more prize money.
We built an arcade football game for mobile devices. We're working hard getting online multiplayer integrated for our next update.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-heroes/id543009156

Would love to know what everyone thinks of it!
That sure is a lot of words to say 'because indices are memory offsets'.
Outside of human trafficking (which I acknowledge as an important problem) it's pretty hard to get coerced into prostitution.

No, not hard at all.

I had a friend from high school who met a guy at a party. He gave her drugs. Before long, she was addicted. She couldn't afford the habit. He let her get into full withdrawal, then offered her drugs if she'd have sex with his friends. She did. A week later, she had dropped out of law school and was working a street corner.

My understanding is that this is a fairly common path into prostitution.
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Lisp macroes have access to code that has already been compiled (which means, everything above the macro, and everything defined in imported files). This gives you access to the entire standard library in your macro.

Also, because Lisp code is data rather than strings (code is represented as linked lists) it's much simpler to manipulate code in Lisp macros.
It would be interesting to see numbers for a country like the Netherlands that actually has cycling infrastructure.
It's more of a too-many-flags-in-a-certain-time-period.

Source: Am flagbanned, likely after giving 10 flags in 1 day. (yes, there's that much blogspam on HN nowadays unfortunately)
My friend suggest as the 64-bit address space is so big you could just throw out random numbers and get a working 'wrong' malloc.

void* malloc(size_t sz) {
return rand() << 32 | rand();
}

Or in rustopia:

fn extern "C" malloc(len: uint) -> *mut u8 {
unsafe {
std::rand::random::<uint>() as *mut u8;
}
}

Insert more so that it actually maps to memory.
I've just soft-launched a .travel: http://cycle.travel/

It's pretty much the only .travel I've ever seen, but the domain was just right for the content; it's memorable; and I figure that in an age where people find stuff via Google and not via an increasing number of obscure TLDs, the old "it must be .com" doesn't apply so much. (Probably the leading cycling site in the UK is road.cc, for "cycling club", and they seem to do fine.)
Neglecting lack of infrastructure, could viable economic gains be had by putting fossil fuel or nuclear power plants in these super-cold areas resulting from the increased efficiency due to larger temperature difference?
It is, and those are great examples. But it's only accessible to the most sexy, most accessible, most 'fun' disciplines. The harder stuff just cannot be crowd-sourced right now. Biomedical research is expensive, dull, and removed from most peoples' experience, and so it'd be very difficult to get a crowd interested in funding basic biomedical research.
I'll probably always be a bit wary of people who learn coding from a school or who need a school to learn coding. Since most of the time you have to learn new things while coding (new libraries, new languages, new challenges), I don't know if these people will be able to keep learning by themselves without courses provided for them.

Not sure how good a programmer you can become without being inherently excited about the whole thing.

In a way I believe everything can be learned the same way. I suck at design, but in theory I could see how I could learn it. The problem is I would have to be constantly absorbing new things. While talking a walk I would have to notice the typography on shop signs, when browsing the web I would make mental notes of designs I like, and so on. Totally doable, yet I am not doing it. On the other hand I read about programming all the time, even about topics I don't really work with atm like scalability, 3d programming, machine learning and so on.

Perhaps a course can be a good start, but I suppose it only gets you 1% of the way...
So what other mayhem did you try causing with your WRONG malloc?
Yeah. I'm sure women will "get accepted in the industry" much more if every man who looks at them is thinking "she's being given $2K extra for winning the same prize as me" or "I wonder if she's working here for her merits or because she took advantage of one of those positive discrimination programs". Brilliant idea.
Isn't this simply to increase female participation? What does it have to do with "women are victims" message?

Nightclubs are known to offer free entry to females. Isn't that to increase female participation? I don't think clubs are victimizing anyone.
Given that this is for an institution called `Hacker School`, and I have a feeling that your stats aren't P(x | studying CS), I don't really see how this is particularly relevant. The grant isn't give as part of a `help women in financial need` project, it's given as part of a `help increase the proportion of people in the tech industry who are women`.
"They are excellent articles, and I feel bad about doing so."

Then you're part of the problem! The attitude is, if it doesn't fit the "Hacker News" relevancy stereotype then flag away. Have you not wondered or even humbled yourself to consider that perhaps your own view is more short-sighted than the posters? I guess flagging in general takes an error ratio into account but it's my experience that it's far too swift here on HN, meaning more weight is given to the flaggers than the posters.

Honestly though, thank-you for asking and posting your actions here for discussion! That, in my opinion, is a lot better than the countless silent flaggers everywhere flags exist.
Then again, why not pick up a book for 20$ and get cracking?
> You can't do it in C unless you also implement a compiler or evaluator.

Someone else already did that work. Your C compiler is very likely, in fact, already written in C. We don't expect a C-importable library interface for the C compiler, because none of the traditional old C compilers had one (gcc, MSVC, etc.) But libclang exists, and it's pretty easy to write a C REPL using it. From there, only a few steps to automation.
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Sadly, the PC industry doesn't deserve a place as nice as the Microsoft Store.
a little harsh ... but actually and unfortunately true :/
If it's stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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Sure, I just did. As a New Yorker subscriber it seemed a little short.
Hahaha, very funny! Thought i miss Haskell.
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How is that working for you in the long term? I've got 600+ pending requests that I haven't accepted because I don't know them. At the same time couldn't bring myself to ignore or reject them either so they are "pending".

So I'm really curious about the advantages and disadvantages of accepting everyone and having lots of connections (i.e. 1000+) in LinkedIn.
Maybe you are right in this case. However, nightclubs need women because a major reason to go there is to hook up. What is the reason to bribe women into showing up at hacking competitions?

Actual cynical me thinks "more sexy workplace" is part of the unspoken motivation for the "more women into programming" movement. But I don't think that is the official message they want to send out...
I'm a man and I would judge a woman just as I judge a man: by their actions.
> And notably, they are sorted oldest first, just as I predicted.

This bit is actually misstated. Those posts all have a comparison value of 0 (assuming score is simplistic), and are not affected by the oldest-first ranking of negative submissions. The ordering here is likely insertion order, which just happens to be the same as oldest-first.
A few months ago, I removed an almost identical piece of malware from a client's account. Looking through the server logs, I noticed that the script was still being accessed on a fairly regular basis. I dropped a simple script to dump the contents of the cookies and request variables to a file when accessed. It didn't take very long to obtain the key.
Hi Derek.

You know me by my real name. We talked in the past. I use a pseudonym so what I write here is not affected by my name and I have better feedback or just go unnoticed(just your name alone could make all the responses negative or positive).

As you already know, what someone who has traveled the world* considers "normal" is very different from what the rest of the world does. You just understand how much you know when just talking with normal people and you see how less they know.

Remember the Parable of the talents, how fear could immobilize, fear of not doing good enough work.

What I would do is to start writing, not caring about publishing or not, you don't need fear. Then ideas will come and you will be astonished how much things live in your head.

Greetings!

*Or lived in a circus, by the way.
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Well to be fair the "Why Vagrant?" page [1] isn't exactly clear about whether this is a tool for building throwaway environments or if it's something I should use to build out production systems:

"If you're a developer, Vagrant will isolate dependencies and their configuration within a single ==>disposable<=="

"If you're an operations engineer, Vagrant gives you a ==>disposable<== environment"

All I can infer from the page is that this is a tool for building throwaway/local environments running on VM's on my desktop. But there isn't any context given on how this relates to my production environments, i.e. getting from Vagrant instance to production, there's a disconnect there for me.

[1]: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/why-vagrant/
For fossil fuels at least there would probably be a point of diminishing returns, oil gets thicker as it gets colder so more energy would have to be spent warming the fuel and lubrication.
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This.

CMake is another barrier to entry.

what happened to a nice simple makefile? Been using just standard makefiles for literally 20 years.

The only thing I do is put a checkdeps dependency on which tests for the presence of dependencies, like autoconf but without the eye poking. Have built everything from small network servers to Motif behemoths doing only that.
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basic working literacy about how the digital world around them actually works

I think it's useful to draw a distinction between "coding" and automation, and I wrote about it here: http://www.workingsoftware.com.au/page/When_does_automation_...
Why is it impossible? Nothing about women oppressing men, doesn't sound as ludicrous than vice-versa? Human capacity for evil is evenly distributed between genders.

Don't forget that there was a thing like matriarchy. I'm pretty sure that oppression on some level occurred even then, but since there was little written evidence, its just hard to prove.

As for hiring someone that might have children, and need to take time off, that part should be handled by the state. If someone leaves, the state pays employer and/or women caring for her 1year child. You are effectively down a one person but they are not to blame for things running their course.

That thing shouldn't come into equation at any point.
Better performance, especially on cheaper machines through use of C++

Easy extensibility via Lua scripting, no need for Java disassembly

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