skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strace gives you a quick, higher level view of what is actually happening, which is sometimes much more useful than slogging through the source code of something.
Because it's really hard to argue in favor of that particular RNG. It's kludgy, it's slow, the quality of the numbers out of it— by basic RNG tests— are not very good.

They could have tried to suggest all other options were weak for secret reasons but that seems like a pretty big risk.
Reminds me of:

"Instead, the technical talent goes to work on elaborate frameworks, trying to solve domain problems with technology. Learning about and modelling the domain is left to others. Complexity in the heart of software has to be tackled head on. To do otherwise is to risk irrelevance."

- From Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans.

Also in the original article is this:

"Except for the most senior software engineers, most of the creativity and innovation in software will move to specialised design and research activities using techniques that exceed the reductionist thinking that dominates computer science departments."

I think that part of the problem is that we need very few real computer scientists (but they are needed). However most people who want to build software are trained as computer scientists. The people who train them naturally teach them to value things that are useful to computer science research but this can cause them to be limited when it comes to solving real world domain problems holistically.

Or as patio11 says "Don't call yourself a programmer" http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
Why do that when you can just throw it at some poor junior employee to transcribe?
Just a few other (older) examples - Gore-tex (WL Gore), Patagonia and Semco have had structures that could be described as self-organizing or "flat". 3M is another example.

Edit: Another one that I reference, Automattic.
You don't even need an api, all you need is an rss reader and read - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
I always asked myself where the HN's data portability policy is? When I back up my submissions and comments I am forced to break the rules.

It would be good to have a way to download ALL your stuff. Ask PG?
For a similar software (that only supports IRC though), have a look at Quassel IRC

http://quassel-irc.org/
other than this
Heh:

> Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
Practical malleability attack against CBC-mode encrypted LUKS partitions
They were either corrupt or incompetent. This can't look OK for them.
Previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4796586

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915328

Also:

Refuting “The Mathematical Hacker”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4921953
I remember reading about that earlier this year. Not surprised by the outcome.
Are retina-like HiDPI displays supported here?
I really need to take a proper looks at Perl 6 -- it has some nice characteristics. Maybe that's my new years resolution.
Every branch has mandatory sexual assault training (I just attended one three weeks ago), but I agree it's not enough, nor working. Air Force JAG held a summit last week to address this very issue. Part of the problem is the way the military criminal justice system works. Commanders have too much discretion in whether or not to prosecute service members, and the ability to overturn or lessen convictions. A lot of victims don't report attacks out of fear of retaliation from their own command. Prosecutorial authority needs to be taken out of the chain of command for sexual assault cases, if not at the felony level entirely. That alone will have some impact.

There's been some effort to amend Article 60 of the UCMJ within the Senate; however, it's never gotten past committee.
This would have helped me when I was a kid. Some of the first programs I wrote were for TRS-80 model III. I didn't have an assembler so I would hand-assemble it using a paper cheat sheet, hand-writing the Z-80 machine code and manually entering it in the built-in binary editor. A mess, but it gave me low-level knowledge about how computers work that help me to this day.
I thought the whole point here was that Dual EC DRBG was clearly better at the time.

We made the decision to use Dual EC DRBG as the default in BSAFE toolkits in 2004, in the context of an industry-wide effort to develop newer, stronger methods of encryption. At that time, the NSA had a trusted role in the community-wide effort to strengthen, not weaken, encryption.
A day later...
"Adobe Acrobat Reader needs to update"
I think I get it now, thanks. So if Telegraph provided a much longer conversation to decrypt, the contest could be fair.
I'm sure there are many ex gamers lurking around on HN! I played clan games in the early days for a euro team called GZD.

What happened to the CPL was interesting to watch from a distance. Before I became good enough to compete at any level, I remember wanting to compete at CPL events. That, and legendary Doom tournaments, were a driving force for me to practice and get good.

What was your experience like working there? I can imagine it was awesome <sarcasm>until the discussion about money came up.</sarcasm>
How do these super flexible structures integrate accounting, HR, and legal roles?
Fantastic - thank you. Interesting discussions, and I hope people take the time to read the article, threads, refutation, and other comments.

I look forward to any additional comments and contributions people may choose to make here.
If you want to learn about Semco, make sure you read "The Seven Day Weekend", not just "Maverick!", since the former gives an updated view of the business from 2004 or so.

Would be interesting to see what Semco looks like today - probably nothing like what it was in 2004.
> Let's be careful about who we're valorizing

So perhaps this guy is indeed a slimeball.

Fabricated up claims are by their nature nearly indistinguishable from real ones, and outright fabrication isn't the only unethical recourse: there is always panopticon powered selective prosecution— how many felonies have you committed this month?

Regardless, we can observe now that the result will be time in prison and tptacek on HN diligently countering any claim of governmental misconduct. The insight here isn't related to Nacchio's character, it's that claiming that the government is retaliating for failing to comply with their unlawful demands doesn't provide protection.
Compared to what was done by the Nazis, yes, it's trivial.
Some musings on mathematics
Someone help me out: does the "DS" here mean data science?
It's kind of amazing that game still runs without any issues on new OSes/with new drivers/new hardware. Except now at a gajillion frames per second.
i think your initial thought is spot on unless they've figured out someway to automate the molds and store them for retrieval at a later time.

apparently they are on the verge of releasing an API and widget so that t shirt designers can embed directly onto their own site. http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/11/teespring-wants-to-be-the-p...

If they are able to allow single orders along with the widget I don't see whats stopping them from taking over the entire market as they are taking all of the hard work out of running a t shirt company.

good luck fellas
The NSA would tap it.
Can I Jailbreak My iPhone?
Let's 'disrupt' this extinction event. Hacker News is grossly focused on exits and profits and money. Fuck money, let's save our dolphin friends. Have you no heart?
A theme based on LightTable for Emacs24
The idea is nice but why is it so slow? (Or is it only slow for me? latest chrome on mac)
Distributed systems, I think.
We are not sure what will work but thats why new models need to be experimented starting now. Coming up with tools for teaching critical thinking and morality should be on high priority in SV.
Yes, magic pill invented 300 yrs ago would have had devastating consequences. But I am not sure whether that sort of thing is practically possible. It seems there is somewhat direct correlation between scientific revolutions(like renaissance) and moral values of the society(dont have data to back that up, just using history as an example).
If you understand the problem well enough to write a good domain model then you're basically already there - which is to say, you can only know you're modelling the right domain after you've found product/market fit. But to be able to find that out you need some level of product, which often means having working code before you fully understand what your product really is. At that stage, a schemaless database is very helpful; working out your domain model in detail and typing it out twice would be a waste of time when it's likely to change quickly.
TD-SCDMA are incredibly unstable technologies, or China mobile has implemented them poorly; I'll take 3G on China Unicom anyday over CMCC's 3G.

The problem with these home grown "standards" is that no one else uses them and they never get the international support they need to become stable.
That also depends on the efficiency. If this requires twice the power as input that it produces mechanically, those power packs would become a lot larger.

I skimmed the paper at http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/~jwu/publications/Liu-AdvMat-201..., but could not find anything about efficiency. that 68 degrees Celsius switching temperature does give me some concerns, though (hm. Bring it to 37 degrees, and this might become very useful for people with muscular dystrophy. Or does that show even more that ik don't really know what I am talking about?)
Cement my knowledge of Scheme as I work through SICP.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy
Or vice versa. Unicom was killing China Mobile at the high end since it had iPhone and China mobile didn't. Even China Telecom had iPhone for crying out loud!
Oh hell NO! Do not download from http://www.getpaint.net/. Its a VIRUS. I am now in the process of reformatting my PC. I would have notice the red flags of that site if I wasn't browsing HN late at night while drowsing to sleep.
He lost me when he claims that "Lisp culture is hostile to mathematics". I mean, has he heard of Maxima? Axiom?
It works fine with Firefox 26, but you need to manually change the "maxVersion" attribute in the install package's configuration.
I bet it's just a cost/benefit analysis. An API is a way to get more eyeballs by motivating 3rd party developers to integrate and publicise your service. HN does not need that: it has enough traffic as it is, and given the target audience, you would see an instant proliferation of half-assed apps hammering its endpoints. So it would be an additional cost for no real benefit.

The current situation (PG and friends optimise a basic but very accessible website, and a handful of third parties build APIs on top) is much more manageable.
This is clearly timed for CNY, like the iPhone 4 release was. January is China's largest retail season as there is a lot of gift buying for the early February golden week when everyone goes back to see their family.

But go to the Apple store any night and its extremely crowded. Its like IKEA but a lot more packed since the space is much smaller.
The "New Deal" for Software Development
An important aspect of the organizations you mention that isn't mentioned in the article is explicit profit sharing and co-ownership, not just options.

This is a feature that seems fairly at odds with the desires of VCs who often seem to do everything they can to dilute workers options pools. And also with wider investment market who often see employee ownership as a threat to the value of their investment capital.
But will they become too acidic so fast that no coral can adapt?

I know we are really good at changing the environment, but the oceans are huge.
> In China, how annoying is it to switch numbers?

Take out the sim card, put another one in. I've done it a few times. Free wifi is a recurring pain that is orthogonal to if you change your number or not.

But you'd better change your number with the banks, I don't have anything else that is really linked.
There is still tons of drudgery in software engineering (eg web scraping). Which makes me believe there are lots more machine learning revolutions to come. The are all, of course, math led.
Transponder Gem: Opinionated library for working with front-end heavy rails app
Well, web scraping can be fun, too! But depends on what you know about the page. If you don't know anything, it's tough. But if you have an idea about how it's structured... (see below)

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs3/download/2....
"Quiet" http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/about-the-book/
And a dozen ways to write a very simple function.
PHP yield and co-routines
The submit for has three fields: Title, Url and Text.

If you put anything in the Text field, then the Url information disappears and the submission is added to the /ask list (and to the normal list).

The Title doesn’t matter. It’s usual to put “Ask HN:” for general questions, “Ask PG:” for questions to pg and “Show HN:” for personal projects. But the Tittle doesn’t affect whether the submission goes or doesn’t go to the /ask page.
Mozilla's Rust because:

* It's memory safe

* concurrent (using light weight tasks like Erlang)

* practical (in terms of syntax, semantics)

It's also being used to develop the next generation of browser engine: Servo

http://rust-lang.org/
It actually proves that the rule of law is a joke.
I did a probabilistic approach before:-
http://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/09/probabalistic-scraping-o...
Companies like skyscanner employ loads of people to keep all the scrapers fresh.
incredibly slow for me as well
I've been building a t-shirt website at http://electricfairground.com so this article was a really interesting read.

How long did it take you guys to get traction?
Two Irish Lads debut single "Young" ( Fresh Ré )
can anyone say me how to get https://news.ycombinator.com/news through hnsearch api .
I want the api link -> [http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/] !!
When the U.S. Government realizes that Snowden has more credibility than it does on spying, it may come to realize better ways to improve its stature. The tried-and-true method for handling huge PR gaffs is to come clean and state everything you've done the public might consider wrong so no one else can, state you understand you shouldn't have done it, and take responsibility for doing it better.

The problem for the U.S. Government for doing anything remotely like that is that the decision to do so has to come from the top, which is Obama, and Obama doesn't seem to agree with the public that the government did something wrong. Or that somehow the system isolated him or twisted his understanding to where he doesn't understand the public's perspective, odd as that may sound regarding a lawyer who would understand the Fourth Amendment.
Seems unlikely, given it's been brewing for months (years?). China Mobile had already started selling iPhones a few weeks ago, with in store displays. Far more likely that someone was about to leak the jailbreak without the stuff they were (allegedly) paid to add, which would completely devalue/derail their own deal.
Not sure that mixing asset forfeiture laws and non-prosecution of industrial scale money launderers make for a clear argument...

But the rich escaping with a slap on the wrist where the poor gets jail time is nothing new, if I was any more lefty I'd say it's paving the way for a hardcore revolution, but then it's been going on for decades, people are just too apathetic...
If you have enough money you're OK, you can always buy your freedom.
Statistics & Visualizations: Two Lighting Talks by Brendan Gregg
This news has been happening for a while. All the way back to the First Opium War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hongkong_and_Shanghai_Banki...

Sadly, many massive crimes against humanity go unpunished when commited by corporations. Compare the crimes of HSBC to the crimes of Pfizer. http://www.fbi.gov/boston/press-releases/2009/bs091509b.htm http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Huge-penalty-in-drug-...

The laws of the USA suggest that corporations that are convicted of two felonies are subject to a corporate death penalty, but given the continued non-punishment of perniciously malicious companies like HSBC and Pfizer, don't expect the US Department of Justice to act anytime soon.
Why are countries in such a hurry to decide one way or the other, when Bitcoin's market cap is still very small in many of these countries? Can't they wait a year or two longer, and see where it goes and pass more appropriate laws after they've had a while to think about it? I imagine most people in Parliaments didn't even hear about Bitcoin until last month. So why rush to a decision now then?
What kind of t-shirts are you printing on? American Apparel?
Intelligent Probabilistic Systems: Ryan Adams (Harvard Prof) Interview
I suspect that 'Jack' might be a non-native speaker of English. I get the feeling that the first language of 'Jack' is probably highly idiomatic and frequently uses allusion and/or euphamisms. Also using the threat of the government power, rather than direct force (mafia et alia who more frequently carry out blackmail), while simultaneously engaging in clearly illegal behaviour. I would suspect this means this person's origins would be a country with high levels of government corruption and/or dictatorship. All together I would hedge that this person came from China (linguistical match, corruption match, huge population, national interest in Bitcoin), Vietnam, or maybe Laos or Cambodia. Obviously this is all conjecture of the highest order.
Right of privacy: We are all Satoshi Nakamoto
The way I interpret this is that we simply don't know what causes these extinctions. It could well be that they are perfectly normal in the sense that one gets them about every X years.

A bad year for dolphin food, possibly in combination with a harsh winter may make large parts of the population get susceptible to a disease that they normally don't suffer much from.

Predator-prey systems are known to show highly erratic behavior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka–Volterra_equation gives the idealized version for only two species. That is tractable, but discrete multi-species ones aren't) This _could_ just be an example of such behaviour, but there could also be a human-induced change that changes that system to one where we end up with zero fish and, a few years later, zero dolphins. Or, possibly, the system has been on a course of a catastrophic event for thousands of years.
In France, you can change operator, and your number comes with you. I haven't changed my phone number for 10 years!
That's actually true of the EU as well, I believe. US prosecutors would (in theory) need to agree not to seek the death penalty in order to obtain extradition.
Why do you have images of the design and (presumably you) wearing the t-shirt design? It looks duplicative and jarring.
Let me summarize...

1. Doing illegal drugs: Not Ok, jail.
2. Making illegal drugs: Not ok, jail.
3. Selling illegal drugs: Not Ok, jail.
4. Making tons of money off of people who do sell illegal drugs: Partially Ok (just pay a small fine).
California Careless: "Every single line is wrong"
This is pretty shocking if true. Can any HN person in California vouch that these errors are present? (I assume non-
Californians cannot view these pages.)
I am just wondering why did Dread Pirate Roberts go to jain and Lanny Breuer did not. Both were facilitators of Illegal narcotics trade, except what HSBC did was orders of magnitude larger scale than that of what Silkroad did.

One can argue that the people were removed from knowing exact nature of all transactions but trust me this won't float - you either recklessly incompetent or insidiously corrupt and involved in what is happening, especially when it happens on this scale.

regardless, war on drugs is more or less like prohibition - way to control the masses without loosing face in front of elderly conservative public - who votes.
Fukushima would be like decades of dirty nuclear bomb testing.
I have no idea how they actually do it. However if I were tasked with implementing it, here is what I would do.

Accounting: Set the ground rules about what reporting and data collection needs to be done by each team/unit/division and the business protocol. Assign qualified people to supervise.

HR: This one is easy, no HR whatsoever. Need more hands? Bring in suitable candidates you know and trust. Perhaps supervised by a quorum of peers.

Legal: I think that here you would need a liaison between the company and the legal firms.

I think that this could be a sane default, let things evolve from here.
>Sadly, many massive crimes against humanity go unpunished when commited by corporations.

And/or first world countries.
Security and digital spying predictions 2014 | Detectives Barcelona
My eyes, they burn...

Seriously, please drop the animation, it completely detracts from might be a useful site, but the carousel genuinely gives me a headache.
This article seems to be from last year. The AUSA in question is now back at white shoe law firm Covington & Burling, doing white collar criminal defense work.

One hand washes the other.
I certainly hope somebody is keeping an eye on Lanny Breuer's bank accounts; All of them, including the hidden offshore ones. I smell a big fat bribe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
I'm outraged that the US is able to control the Mexican operations of a UK bank.
Saying it's nothing new is nothing new. Let's change that mentality!

And revolutions usually take many generations to get to a boil. In these days given information flows a lot faster, it's going to take two or three instead of ten or fifteen generations.

It's just like scientific ideas, they become mainstream when the status quo defenders who are mistaken die.
I'll give you several: most Western European countries with "public intellectuals" and a vibrant public discussion, from Italy to France.
Looks like it's getting a bit more views than it was built for, :p.
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. ~ Richard -I am not a crook- Nixon
the animation is not the problem, it actually looks decent

the problem is this site has no caching going on at all... to the site owner: do us all a favor, and install some popular caching plugin for wordpress...
Reliable DNS spoofing with Python: Scapy + nfqueue + Twisted
Maybe, but the fake numbers and face-saving are real, not some result of blind hate.

Case in point: in Fukusima, the government and the reactor officials admitted they have lied about the significance of the thing more than once.
The oceans are huge, but we've already managed to decrease pH by 0.1 in the past century.

A pessimistic but plausible scenario has ocean pH decreasing by an additional 0.7-0.8 by 2300.

That's pretty fast. It's hard to predict how and how fast coral might adapt, but those are short time scales to expect evolution to act on.
> My bold and brave prediction is that this Conservative-majority Parliament will duck the issue altogether

I hope you're right. What you've proposed is likely the best we could expect from this government.