skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C# has kind of an equivalent of that, at least for this purpose, of nullable value types. Thus, you could do:

int? result = int.TryParse(s);

if(result.HasValue)
{
Console.WriteLine("Parsed {0}",result.Value);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("{0} was not an integer",s);
}

And in C#, you could do the second kinda like:

object result = int.TryParse(s);

if(result is int)
{
Console.WriteLine("Parsed {0}",result);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("{0} was not an integer",s);
}

Though there's nowhere simple to make it clear that this TryParse either returns the parsed int, or a string describing why the parse failed. And returning object kinda goes against the spirit of the language, IMHO.
It makes their monopoly only stronger. So to say, for any innovator who wants to use his OWN Internet connection to host whatever s/he deems good, it is prohibited by Google. Ok, that's unfair!
Except that there is never going to be an open source jailbreak. If it were open source, then Apple would be able to easily see what exploits are being used and patch them. In the past, has there ever been an open source jailbreak?
A biopen that draws bones
> I've never actually noticed any site doing that to me as I usually browse with NoScript.

Not necessarily a solution, as you can do it with css only. For example, people can put a 0-sized snippet at the end of the text, and then pad with some non-copyable text, so you select ABC, end up copying AB<something else>.

IIRC twitter does this for urls (think "http://oo.com…").
Good luck with this, seems cool!
I'm confused, nobody knows what's going on inside this jailbreak? People with enough technical knowledge to want to jailbreak will install something like that without it being open source?
> And personally, I don’t think that there is such a thing as free will. I think it’s an illusion.

If the natural state is that no one controls any of their actions, then putting people in chains takes nothing from them.

It's these sort of reductios that make me suspect hard determinism is silly.

But free will seems silly too. Decisionmaking comes from a physical process, or it comes magically from somewhere else. The latter seems, to use one of Quine's insults, "ontologically profligate."

Maybe the debate between free will and determinism is just an artifact of language.

A sentence like "He chose to take the bus" make perfect sense to me; it conveys information. But so does a sentence like, "He comes from a long line of bus takers, and that provides a fully adequate account to explain why he took the bus." (Even if that sentence sounds a bit silly, I get what it's conveying.)

The hidden premise fueling the debate between free will and determinism is that it only makes sense to explain any phenomenon in exactly one way. But why is it hot? It's summer. You're standing next to the open oven. There's an atmosphere to retain heat. Atoms are hitting you. The universe is nonempty. None of these explanations need crowd out all the others, they're each useful in a different context.

Similarly, "Why did he kill her with the knife?" will have different answers for the domain of law, psychology, biology, and physics.
I am a CBRN specialist in the Marine Corps. These ships run constant radiation detection, everywhere, especially in the water desal. The only probable cause for these kind of biological responses, would have to be inhalation of radiated particulates, but even that would be extremely difficult given the range from the source. Even the most basic respiratory protection(shirt over face) would prevent most of that type of contamination.

The entire CBRN community was hyper focused on these operations Navy wide, and the possibility of an entire group of ships not taking every precaution is very very very low. I am not discounting the possibility of equipment failure(unknowingly) or execution failure by individuals, but the chances of that with so much attention on the issue would be low.

EDIT: What do people do when they see snow? Think tounge out.
Not if you've tied up $200 to buy your house as you could have made more than $10 on investments or even cash in the bank.

In other words, the opportunity cost of capital is not always accounted for in these comparisons...
Ok. But in my area rent is often more than mortgage + taxes. I know it is different in other places but that's why it is a simplifying assumption.
Hence why Monads have been named "Warm Fuzzy Things" in some Haskell papers about outreach.
Chinese evasi0n7 jailbreak installs pirated app store, pushes Cydia to the side
Bitcoin – Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
For lower volume "push" data, it would be nice if there were a convention in REST for how to request a subscription in which you provided the callback URL where the updates would be PUT.

Not that this scales as well as message service "topics" (with multiple subscribers/listeners), but it's a start, and doesn't sound much worse than the load for point-to-point queues.
Practicing artist here.

There is one Rule of Art that supersedes any and all rules people may mention: All rules are actually guidelines. They're just things that people have noticed usually result in a more pleasing image; they're easy things to check for.

Another way to look at it is that they are markers of here there be dragons: when you know a rule, being aware that you're breaking it reminds you to make sure you're breaking it with flair, and to not break twenty other rules at the same time.

(You can even make pretty interesting work by choosing a rule and deliberately breaking it as much as you can - I've seen some very neat pieces that aggressively break the rule of "avoid tangents", for instance. Edit: even in the article at hand - halfway down the page, you'll find a sequence that is shot with everything dead center, because the moment calls for the static, deadening effect of that kind of composition.)

Or another way: all of these "rules" of art are like "patterns" and "code smells" are for programmers. Observations about broad patterns of design, notes on little stylistic tics that can add up to a big difference over the course of a large project.

tl;dr: it's a broad simplification of a complex problem into a short phrase, experts can and will go far beyond it.
It's the New York Post. Don't trust a word it says.
> provided by a non-profit organization

huh?
They claim to not want piracy, but I can't imagine they didn't know.

https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/414820772931067905
Make so that the end of news auto-loads next page.
Intro to TDD with Django and Python
Newry united in anger after callous thieves steal charity money
Can you talk about why django-devserver is so useful for you?
Oh I know. I use 1Password. I forgot to mention that your solution works better but I believe blazingice mentioned it above.
Because we want both openness and the iPhone, and are unwilling to compromise.
HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS, obviously.

http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/
Atheer Glasses the newest most impressive wearable device!
Yup. Browser defaults, Swype selection, and f.lux alone are enough to jailbreak.
I suppose I approach this from a background of Computer Science, rather than a background of Software Engineering. As such I'm interested in computation rather than "Mr Jones needs to manage his cats, etc".

If you described to me some scenario I could probably tell you I wanted a data-structure that offered constant time lookups, or that your graph was sparse and therefore I would prefer an algorithm that ran in O(E) over one that ran in O(V).

I certainly couldn't tell you the right class out of the Java Collections library.

In any case, it's holiday work.
> Firstly, the cost is not totally fixed for the ISP, higher usage involves investment in their own infrastructure (routers, transit etc.).

You want to find out how small a portion of the total cost that actually is? Require the ILECs to lease the physical wire from the customer premises to the central office and space in the central office for the lessee's terminating equipment, prohibit the last mile provider from sharing ownership with a backhaul provider and then have the likes of Level 3 and Verizon compete with each other to sell connectivity from your local central office to the wider internet.

> Secondly, it's arguable that heavy users derive greater utility from the service so won't object to higher prices.

Also known as price discrimination.
They have standards. They pick a Tumblr at random and say, "I bet we can have higher journalistic standards than that guy." And 50% of the time, they're right!
An iOS device making periodic requests to https://*.update.microsoft.com might be one of many red flags.
Cryptolocker 2.0 – new version, or copycat?
> I treated college math and physics as symbolic manipulation
> games, and graduated cum laude with majors in both subjects.

Interesting. I'm not saying this about you, but I've met several people who treated math as largely just symbol manipulation, and indeed, they ended up being great at solving the sorts of problems set, but I've sometimes had a feeling that they're sort of "barking at print". I've heard people reading perfectly well, but with no sense they they understand what they've read, despite the perfect production.

Similarly, some people can "do the math," but sometimes there's no sense of any real understanding. It's hard to explain.

This is one of the problems with interviewing. Some people can really talk the talk. They know all the words, all the phrases, can solve the problems, can produce the code for the set problems. And yet, after conversation, you start to feel that there's something just not quite right.

This is just one reason why interviewing is hard.
Great, I was worried the entire ecosystem of Geocities-UXed VB apps on Windows might disappear with the change to flat UI. ;)
Apple will find the exploits for binary-only jailbreaks, no problem. Also, there's been several source code releases for jailbreaks before, like https://github.com/comex/star_
If actual measurements of radioactivity were produced rather than measurements in terms of "tons of water (with some tiny unknown percentage of radioactive component)" or "300 times the level considered safe (without saying what that level actually is)", then it would be possible to talk sensibly about how it compares to other exposure sources. Such as eating bananas, living in Colorado, getting a dental x-ray and so on. And it might still be scary if we knew the numbers, but without real numbers we can't know that it's worth worrying about.
Auctioning a Conceptual Copy of Banksy's Art
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks.
M$? What decade are we in?
Benefits of Partnering with a Global Technology Provider
I don't know why you were voted down. Had I invested heavily in learning Silverlight a couple of years ago, I would find myself with my thumb squarely secured up my own ass.

I can't imagine spending so much time and effort learning how to use a framework only to have it discontinued in it's infancy. Silverlight dying was a good thing and ultimately it's a win for everybody as HTML is more open, but still - I feel for the devs out there who waste their time.

Edit: On the plus it does use HTML and JS, instead of something much more closed. :)
I may be wrong, but I think programmable completion and /* globs were in zsh before bash.
This is not feasible with current battery technology. See the article for more information.
Can you buy things online with chip and PIN?
"HyperCard for Windows 8" rather: It's a Windows 8 application for making Windows 8 applications (which can use the network). Which makes this much less interesting to me.
Good point regarding getting things done. I would add to that list that the things should work.
> Well, I wouldn't want to walk around outside with levels at 300 times what is "considered safe".

Wouldn't that depend on how many orders of magnitude of safety margin went into deciding what is "considered safe"?
New Salt Compounds Challenge the Foundation of Chemistry
Did your check this out?! amazing!
"A course in mathematics for students of physics" (volumes 1 and 2) by Paul Bamberg and Schlomo Sternberg. [1] [2]

I loved both the books! I replaced my course textbooks with these and am eternally thankful I did that. Volume 2, in particular, is really cool where you get introduced to the exterior calculus formulation of circuit theory, leading to Maxwell's equations.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Course-Mathematics-Students-Physics/dp...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Course-Mathematics-Students-Physics-Vo...
This is quite sad, for a better alternative starter check out Paul Irish's which seems to be based on mathias's. The link is here: https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles
http://www.learneroo.com/
Clickable
Full-Size, Air-Powered Lego Hot Rod
Sean works for Microsoft. They provide free kool aid.

And Visual Studio is in fact pretty handy.

Anyway, Haskell has an Eclipse plugin. EclipseFP, which integrates with some standalone programs.

But Sean's implicit claim that Power she'll style object passing is good...ew.
It really is an issue that cuts across party lines. I've found that people of a libertarian bent get offended when I suggest this. If they're Republicans, they think that the GOP is the bastion of liberty and the Democrats are the authoritarians. If they're Democrats, it's the converse. But it seems to me that the issue is pretty close to orthogonal to party affiliation.

One example is California's two senators: both Democrats, but Feinstein is famously authoritarian, while Boxer AFAIK tends in the other direction.
Ah BEEP. I had a grad school project to create a domain specific modeling language that allowed you to diagram the steps for communication and between to systems using BEEP. You'd define the order of messages and the content of the messages the DSML would generate C code that implemented an API to do the communication you'd modeled.

God how I hated grad school.
Craig Newmark named "nerd-in-residence" at Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Not a lawyer but one reason may be that the activities are in a legal grey area where they have secret interpretations of laws. They work hard to keep cases that involve these interpretations out of the courts because as soon as a judge declares it illegal they must stop. Kind of like asking for forgiveness rather than permission.
Thanks, you're right. I don't know why I would have ever thought "!" was bitwise... only on a Saturday night.

It just goes to show that sleep is very important for interviews!
I edited the post with the following comment (in bold at the bottom), as I did not notice the timestamp on the post, nor did anyone else bring it to my attention:

EDIT (December 22, 2013 1:24PM EST): Actually, I made a mistake in failing to notice the timestamp of the post. It crossed my news feed yesterday, and I mistakenly assumed that it was news. In March of 2012 Google could not have known about DNSNMC specifically, but they could have known about Namecoin and [other DNS projects](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6950592). Therefore, I take back my accusations against Google, apologize for them, and withhold judgement until I learn what their current-day plans are on this. If anyone knows off the top of their heads whether they are still planning on going in this direction, please comment below!
Was Alan Kay wrong? And why does that matter?
DDT is great tool. This is one of those things that should be much easier to install into a standard Django install, IMHO. It might not be a battery to include, but it should be a battery that is really, really easy to install.
Actually, it looks like Bashstrap is a fork of https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles. A lot of the commands, file structure, and even parts of the readme are a direct copy-paste…
Eclipse has a headless mode accessible from other tools. Eclim, for example.
Now owned by Intel.
Not sure if this is serious or snark, but...no, you use the card number, of course. Similarly, the magnetic stripe is not typically used in online transactions either.

The question is whether the chip-and-PIN technology would have revealed less information (i.e. insufficiently much to allow online purchases, etc.).
It doesn't. But the discussion of the common sense idea does, because otherwise the conversation becomes unwieldy getting mired in aspects that aren't all that significant, in general.

For example...interest payments will not eat 100% like rent so the fact that interest payments could be higher is nearly irreverent.

You can pay $400/year for maintenance protection for your home so the maintenance costs are nearly negligible.

This is the most significant factor you mentioned:

The middlemen payments amount to less than 5% of the purchase price (for the purchaser). This can be a problem if someone needs to buy and sell relatively frequently but as long as it doesn't add up to the difference between rent and the amount of equity stored in the time that the person owns the home it is still better to buy. But, you are correct, this is a significant risk.

Keep in mind, we are not talking about owning a home as an investment. We are talking about owning a home compared to renting. As long as you are not taking a a full loss and then some it is still superior to renting which is a guaranteed 100% loss.
Indeed, looks like Bashstrap is a fork of my dotfiles (without giving any credit, sadly). A lot of the commands, file structure, and even parts of the readme are a direct copy-paste.
As I write this, the title is "Majority of Web Sites Blocked by O2 Parental Controls". How does the link in question justify that title? It links to a lookup tool.

(Straight question; if there's an answer to that I'm just not seeing, great! I'd love to hear it.)
Eclipse can be used as a plugin in vim.
You have to disable TRIM on the encrypted filesystem with the discard option in crypttab and then set issue_discards to true in lvm.conf.
For reference, here is Obama's executive order to close Guantanamo (date: the 2 days after inauguration).

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/closure-guantanam...

Just because he could convince congress to stop blocking him doesn't mean the concessions he would have to make would be reasonable. They probably wouldn't be as bad as Clinton/CHIP (Republican congress holding health care for children hostage to secure a 33% cut in capital gains tax during an economic boom), but if said history is any indication the concessions he would have to make to fulfill his mandate might cost thousands of American lives.
If any of them have manage to ingest any of the snow, then they could be subject to long term internal exposure and depending on the type of source, it could be very difficult to scan for.
It looks like the middle "Default Safety" row is the normal mode however, and that doesn't seem particularly onerously restrictive. It seems to only be blocking actually NSFW sites, plus selected pages on Reddit, Tumblr etc.

The bottom row appears to be an (properly) opt-in service for much younger kids that must be whitelisting only a few destinations, which is not the same thing at all as the filters that Cameron et al are pushing for.
How a Bitcoin block-chain hardfork might work
I was thinking exactly the same thing, I would love a clarification too please.
Where's Silex?
My solution to these problems is to use OpenVPN while travelling. Bonus: access to geoip restricted content.
It may be a whitelist filter. Inevitably, isn't that the result of every whitelist-based filter?
Restructured: "Maybe they're not commonly used in interviews because too few people insist on being able to use them in interviews?"
Because incompetent electricians never cause death anywhere but in military combat zones?
Maybe things are different where you live, but around here, the realtors take 3% each (buyer's and seller's), and then there's taxes, title company, appraisals, etc. It's not 5%, it's more like 8%.

Yes, if the amount you save by buying outweighs what you spend on buying, then you're better off buying. That is actually "common sense".

But the problem I have with your supposed "common sense" scenario is that it completely ignores this by claiming that having a small amount of equity after a year is a win. Buying a house loses money up front. The only reason it's worthwhile is if the long-term tradeoff is worth it. That long-term gain almost never happens after a single year. It's typically 5-10 years before you break even.

So no, $10 in equity is not better than the $0 you'd bank if you rented, because you're ignoring the tens of thousands of dollars you paid out up front.
Motorized reaction-wheel cube that can balance and walk on its edges
Just built a new one and it's WORKING. Add http://justgetflux.com/cydia/ to sources and report bugs to email please? We will post later today.
Your reply seems almost identical to pjscott's, to which I already responded (so my response to you is the same): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949269
Still missed it. What's going on here?
If you e.g. try "gmail.com", it's blocked. Same for nytimes.com, or stackoverflow.com. I think this has to be the point.

Now, of course, this doesn't prove the "majority" of the internet is blocked.
> How does the link in question justify that title?

Spot check some sites.

slashdot.org Parental Control (opt in u12 service) Blocked

news.ycombinator.com Parental Control
(opt in u12 service)	Blocked

news.yahoo.com Parental Control (opt in u12 service) Blocked
High Tech Engineering From NASA
Guam turned us away

That sounds suspicious. Guam is a U.S. Territory.
The O2 Parental controls feature is designed to limit access to a whitelist of “sites that have been classifed as suitable and interesting for children under 12”. It must be explicitly enabled for each device by the account holder.

There has been a surge of Twitter outrage about it this weekend, though many of the outraged appear to misunderstand what the feature is designed to do.
Fair enough. I fell into hyperbole...

Of course when you are down to a 1% storage of wealth other investments become much more attractive. You could rent the equivalent house (assuming price is the same) and be confident that you could make up the difference by investing what you would spend in transaction fees etc.

It doesn't take much improvement in that storage rate, though, for that confidence to evaporate.
It's not pedantry when your simplification is off by at least an order of magnitude. Believe it or not, an error that large could make a difference in the calculation.

And because you "simply" forgot to include maintenance and property taxes, you end up being just plain wrong. In reality, a house is a money pit in the first years of the mortgage. Whereas in your simplified example it looks to be a good deal because it's assumed one is gaining $10K in equity every year.
Right - in this scenario, a user should absolutely consider Telegram to be the adversary. If they can read a message that is sent from one use to another, then the system is broken.
The differentiation relative to indiegogo, firstgiving, fundraise.com, causevox, rally, and so on is unclear to me. Anyone know how this is special?
there is literally zero reason to block sites such as the NSPCC and Childline. Zero. Parents being fundamentally able to block these sites is wrong.
CBOR [0] is a proposed standard that seems much more efficient than BSON - check out the appendix [1].

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049#appendix-E.6
The details of exploits used in jailbreaks have typically been released [0] or reverse-engineered [1], so open-source or not, Apple will typically fix them in the subsequent release.

[0] http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2013ams/materials/D2T1...

[1] http://blog.accuvant.com/bthomasaccuvant/evasi0n-jailbreaks-...
400 tons of slightly radioactive coolant water, I believe. Or of groundwater that had been mixed with the slightly radioactive coolant water.

Journalists don't seem to realize the more water there is, the less harmful it is per unit volume, or that the sea rapidly dilutes it further into harmlessness.

There's a little more detail on the claim here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/fukushima-radioacti...