skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I concede that some South Koreans have a very naive view of North Korea, but it doesn't logically follow that the US saved South Korea from similar fate. In fact, historical economic data shows that South Korea was as shitty as North Korea in its early years[1]. Nor was its pro-American leader Rhee much better in terms of human rights: he murdered some 100k-200k of his own people[2] for being communists (many of them were anything but).

So, what you propose offering to North Koreans is not in fact "democracy and freedom". With high chance, you're offering a civil war, followed by yet another dictator with horrible human right records, except that he would have close friends in Washington DC instead of Beijing, and the US will tolerate this dictator because at least he's fighting bad guys and giving a semblance of "stability" in the region. Honestly I don't think the US could make a better outcome even if it wanted to (which is another question).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Two_koreas_gdp_1950_1977.j...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre
This is hardly new. I've been looking at the background of people's reflected pupils in posters (think of the big posters at hair salons and stores) for many years.
With the advent of 3D-printing we should be prepared for the inevitability that everything will eventually be just as difficult to tinker with.

3D-printers enable you to construct devices that are so intricately and tightly closed.
These two paragraphs seem at odds. Taxing the accumulation of wealth and distributing the results seems an effective way of disincentivizing the behavior and putting the money "back into circulation", and doesn't involve any money presses.
The cards aren't plugged into a expansion slot like most computers. They are mounted on their own boards. The PCB's make a triangle, 2 sides are the Graphics cards, the last one is CPU and RAM slots. (With the SSD above it.

Apple probably didn't want a contract with both companies. AMD probably had a better deal (in Apple's eyes) than Nvidia did.
1. Output all permutations of the input
2. There is no step 2.

You've technically outputted the input list in order...somewhere
I don't think that as arstechnica states that it's really accurate to compare the D-series FirePros to the Wx000 series of firepros; they seem more like desktop radeons with a memory bump. AMD's press release ( http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/new-amd-firepro-2... ) regarding the D series doesn't mention ECC memory, which is what tends to make the FirePros so expensive and is mentioned in the specs of every other FirePro AMD sells. Maybe there will be later clarification, but so far, I've seen nothing to suggest that these are much more than souped up radeon 7900s.
Well, it was 3 years ago. Not that long ago in the scheme of nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Yeonpyeong
Shameless plug - one of the reference articles was my blog piece on Canons of Layout. http://51elliot.blogspot.com/2009/12/canons-of-layout.html

Grid systems have really helped the layout issue since then, although none of the ones in current use seem to be based on the golden mean.
If "Xv6's use of the x86 [is intended to make] it more relevant to students' experience," then why use AT&T assembly language syntax rather than Intel?
The ultimate answer is to ask your young siblings to sort them for you. The price is a little time and some candy. Or since so many people are unemployed, ask them to crowdsource and work for something in return!

Or just ask wolframalpha.
http://runnable.com/Ur4mzpVUigJbAALD/christmas-tree-%5Bt-*-s...
Here's Milton Friedman, an esteemed libertarian, proposing a negative income tax (giving money to the poor as the most efficient kind of welfare):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM

You have to judge based on the libertarian. Many political philosophies attract hoards of what I call "SWE Groupies." When you apply the Small World Effect to political philosophy, you will find that you can easily blame all the worlds problems on anything you want (the government, the patriarchy, the market, etc) because everything is interconnected. Based on purely anecdotal evidence, it seems that almost everyone who eventually wanders away from the political philosophy they were born into falls into the trap of blaming exactly one of these entities when the usual state of affairs is that they all hold blame to an uneven and debatable extent that changes depending on the issue in question. The worst result of such naivete is that it creates blind spots. Libertarians fail to propose measures to control market failures, socialists fail to propose measures to control bureaucracy, etc. In any case, most people are eventually confronted with enough counterexamples to shake them out of their blind faith and they move on to a mix-and-match philosophy that proposes systems more similar to real, proven governments (funny how that works).

This leaves the problem of finding a label for yourself, which can no longer be done in an absolutely precise manner. Milton Friedman, a "philosophically mature" libertarian, might agree with a devout socialist on a great many things (giving money to poor people), even though they identify with philosophies that look like polar opposites to the corresponding SWE Groupies. I bet that you show segments of the video I linked to SWE Libertarians and get them to swear up and down that this guy was a socialist.

People like Milton Friedman don't deserve to be lumped with people like Ayn Rand, and just because SV is infested with SWE Groupies of the libertarian persuasion (it's convenient to be a libertarian when the market is smiling upon your profession) doesn't mean that you won't find yourself on the wrong end of a political philosophy debate if you attack libertarianism as a whole rather than individual points raised in the argument.
"trollsort.c:43:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’"

Epic. Epic I say.
I'm not a libertarian and I believe in intervention for humanitarian reasons on principle however the cost has to be considered not just the benefit.

How many lives and injuries, (North Korean, South Korean and American/allied) would it be worth to free the survivors in North Korea? Even assuming China and Russia managed to stay out of it.

There is a cost in life that would be worthwhile but there are also costs that would be too high. I would like it to be possible but I'm far from convinced it is.

Practically any solution probably has to come through China or internal leadership succession.
I think it's more "buy only Intel if you have crazy reliability requirements and no periodic backups." For a typical user who just wants their stuff to load faster, it doesn't really matter: laptops shut down gracefully when they run out of power and power outages don't happen that often.
The Crucial M4 had no power-loss protection. The newer model (M500) does and would be a more interesting test.
Wow.

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/16274
That's more of a caricature of libertarianism. Libertarians are against government for various reasons (some view it as inefficient and corrupt, others because they believe it's morally wrong to violate property rights and force people to do things.) However none but objectivists/ayn-rand-types would say "fuck you, help your own self". They would just support private charities and the like over government.

I am not a libertarian anymore mostly because I believe people should be forced to help others, but I do understand what they believe.
Do The Work. Write Before You Die.
Not as impressive as this http://www.jsfuck.com/
I really hate when people are sloppy with notation.

20GB = Twenty Gigabytes

NOT

20gb = Twenty gram bits

and:

20MB/s = Twenty Megabytes per second

NOT

20mbytes/sec = Twenty milli-bytes per second ( If you got you B's and b's correct about you would need to write out "bytes" )
No one suggested sleep sort? That's the ultimate trolling-but-almost-legitimate sorting algorithm. :)
Sorry about that - I thought it was clear from the context of those off-the-cuff estimations that it was 6666 numbers (since that was based off of how many numbers you could scan, not users).
We've added some clarification just to be sure, thanks.
Something else I just read which is related but lighter is How Mathematicians Think by William Byers.
Real hackers know Git. If you don't know Git, you don't know Shit. Am I right fellow hackers???
Forward security for journalists
It doesn't. He is just knocking down a strawman.
The odds of a given user ever replacing the CPU are low, because premium Xeon CPU's tend to retain value - 2.0ghz HarperTown quad cores are really cheep, 3.0ghz quad core parts cost enough to make system replacement more attractive in many cases.
Could you clarify what you don't understand about what I said? Sounds like at least one of us has some space to learn, here - quite possibly both.
It's pointless to talk to someone who concludes that the NSA is willing to ignore the law simply by extrapolating from things it has done that demonstrate intent to stay within the law as understood.
And it even has the best time bound you can get for a comparison based sort. Most OS schedulers would use a heap/priority queue internally for timers, which makes sleep sort O(n log n).
My brand new crucial M4 ssd stopped working after few days. To be precise, the system would show the drive for about 2 minutes after each reboot then after that the drive would not show up anywhere at all. Whether you try in windows explorer or device manager or any where else. I contacted their support team but they never replied.
Startups Need Role Models Too
Rapture of the Nerds, Corey Doctorow.
This reminds me of learning Git. It was hard. Probably the hardest thing I've ever learned. But it was worth it, because I Did The Work, and now I'm a hacker.
When I was a kid, owning CDs with Parental Advisory logos was a signal that you had cool parents.
I'd imagine the students at charter schools have families trying very hard to overcome the ambient culture.
> over $30 million, which seems appropriate.

Appropriate to who? Maybe Disney, but not for the vast majority of people who are creating works every day. Just yesterday, we had a guy doing a Song a Day make the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966581. He started it in 2009. Doing very rough math, that puts his burden as:

2009: 365 x $5 * 2^5 = $58,400
2010: 365 x $5 * 2^4 = $29,200
2011: 365 x $5 * 2^3 = $14,600
2012: 365 x $5 * 2^2 = $7,300
2013: 365 x $5 * 2^1 = $3,650
TOTAL: $113,150

Even if you adjust the scheme and make the first 10 years free or change the exponent/constant, it still puts the burden on the creator. Automatic, unregistered copyrights were deliberately designed to take the friction out of creating, and I fear this would add friction instead.
- Like any writing, it (assuming you're not Doing It Right) forces you to think through your premises, gather references, and think about the details

- Due to the above, it helps you understand the topic you're writing about better

- It can help find other like-minded individuals

- For business blogging, it can help you find potential collaborators/partners, and maybe just as important, the existence of competitors. As might already be obvious, it can help drive traffic to other things you might care about (your startup, favorite causes, whatever.)

- Based on the feedback you get, you can refine (or rethink) your arguments

- It can help establish you as someone knowledgeable about the topics at hand. Due to this, you may receive inquiries for your thoughts on some aspect of the subject, related ones, recent news about the subject, etc.

HTH
Because the GNU toolchain uses AT&T syntax and most students have the GNU toolchain readily available?
We don't :) (but we'd be happy to take Snapchats money and help them out!)

We documented two exploits, which are exploits, because we are exploiting code that has been incorrectly implemented.

We also noted that Snapchat must have lied to Goldman Sachs (is this what you were referring to?), as we noticed during our research that there is no mention of gender in the protocol.

Does that answer any questions?
Is not compatible with Erlang R16B03
Resting is part of working
ECC server memory isn't that much more expensive than normal memory (it includes one more chip). Any reason it would would bump the price of the pro radeons? My thought was that it'd be The low volumes and additional design/R&D/enterprise margins. Apple buys in sufficient quantities that most of those things should be substantially decreased.
A web app with simple artificial life simulator with simple AI. All the computation would be done by the client through Meteor to do the real time stuff.
This would leave the copyright open-ended forever, so long as they continued to evolve the character..
Translation: "We exercised common sense in taking a video and have patented this." Prior art, I would have hoped, amounts to framing and take a video of anything and capturing essential attributes to deliver a valuable online experience. I'm a subscriber to yogoglo, and I'm ashamed. Any alternatives without scummy patent tactics you can recommend?
" Strict libertarians are all about keeping our nose (and military) out of other people's business."

That depends on whether you're referring to Party Line Libertarian or a "libertarian" who is actually pro-liberty. Regarding the latter, liberty definitely condones coming to the defense of another person's liberty, regardless of borders.
I'm not sure we will ever see mass produced 3D printed items. As it stands injection moulded thermoplastics can be churned out at absolutely incredible rates that just can't be matched by a deposited powder or extrusion printing. I think it's world changing, but not for mass produced items like the Mac Pro.
Yeah, they're just metal pads on the CPU now.
You've even got a real example to draw on; U. S. Grant wrote his memoirs to provide for his wife and children.
yeah, that's why i don't code in perl
For what it's worth, pinch zoom works for me on a Windows 8.1 tablet.
There's probably not much of anything that would survive that many power cycles in a day.

The test is pretty pointless.
Happy new year and goodbye bzip2
Because he is from Brazil.
I just want a DNS system. That is, I want to know whether what I am buying is original or not. Let the market decide whether they want the original or fakes. Even the original creator shouldn't have a say on whether other people buy and sell derivatives (or even direct copies!) of the creator's work.

The only thing I care about is truth. If you make a claim X, e.g. branding your item as in a trademark, then it should be true. But I see no harm in allowing products that do not make any false claim at all.

Abstract art doesn't belong to the creator. Once it's published it has a life of its own, like a mathematical proof of a theorem. The only thing that is yours is the claim that you did it. I wish the world worked this way. We'd see more innovation in everything.

The whole patent/copyright thing, I find absurd.

For patents, imagine if the population were a million times greater than it is now, some staggering number. Would you feel comfortable with a patent system then? Probably anything you could come up with would infringe marginally upon another's protected under a temporary monopoly. People would be shut out from selling anything at all, except those who already had resources to discover new inventions.

Copyright is different because perhaps the scope of possible interesting discoveries or inventions is much broader so anybody could participate and create something unique. But even then, who is the creator of abstract art to tell others to not derive joy or economic sustenance from his/her creations? As long as the transactions were based upon truth, e.g. no lying about who the creator is, ideally with correct attribution, then it's none of anybody else's business! If the consumer wants to purchase "fake" fan-fiction, just take it in stride. It does not affect you, your creative ability, nor your economic condition.
> If you imagine that, then you would be imagining Watson right out of the scope of copyright, which covers creations, not discoveries.

More precisely, copyright covers expressions, not inventions or discoveries. And any patent on Watson has long run out.

So it seems to me that writing new stories involving Watson, even ones where he played rugby, should be perfectly fine. Just reproducing the later stories is not allowed without permission.
I don't need a guide to leaving the best computer currently made. If I had to use a PC I don't know if I would bother with computers at all except for my job. PC laptops have the reputation they deserve and I think they not only tarnished personal/mobile computing as a general concept (only to be rescued by Apple), PC laptops should be the first category of the PC family to die out completely and save people the misery and disillusionment that when you buy such a thing, that you think you actually bought something.

And Im not even saying Windows laptops, this is a commodity hardware issue combined with fantastically disappointing software (Windows or Ubuntu), but I wouldn't want one running OS X either.

It's time for the PC industry to take out its own trash.
I can't imagine them ending up with a worse regime than the present one.
Cerberus - o melhor aplicativo de segurança para Android
We know how the theft of smartphones permeate the day today, is not it? If you fit this example, it is time to disrupt the lives of thieves and protect your data...
I wish they had embraced the interior triangle design and the ultra-high tech look of the components instead of hiding it behind a garishly bad taste chrome trashcan cylinder. The bits with the case off look like something an alien civilization might have left behind or pieces that fell off of a top secret surveillance aircraft or a small nuke -- stunning.
I like how almost every stage has a trash bin. Sometimes good ideas don't take off and just need to die and die quickly. A true implementation of lean.

The disconcerting part (which may have just been left out) is that there is no trash bin in the tweak it stage. That seems fairly standard and how you get into a piece of bloated software that just keeps piling on features without making things easier. It could also be that these ideas are also getting rid of features rather than just adding them but that is not how it read to me.
Twitter Reverses Rally as Shares Dive
Judge Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal
SFUD starts at $46k plus $4k pension contribution plus $6k-8k health insurance contribution. Plus Extensivr time off. That's not top of the market nationwide, but its very good for non-STEM people. Arguing otherwise is totally oblivious to the job situation currently faced by non-Stanford, non-UC liberal arts and humanities majors in this economy. Remember, nationwide the full time employment rate for recent grads is below 50%. Even a $40k per year job with no benefits is great outside of STEM.
If you are looking at the lower end, have you checked out the Audioengine A2 speakers? I have the black ones and while they aren't the sexiest, pure black is pretty good looking.
Twenty developers you don't know, but should
Not speaking for the GP of course, but I often like to see the Latex source of a well laid-out document. I learn from reading it as an example.
Chicago Boss might fit the bill for you; I tried it and found it felt like it was trying to force a foreign model on Erlang a little too hard. I ended just putting something together myself with cowboy and other pieces like erlydtl, and ended up quite happy with it.
Also ridiculous. That some institution granted you a degree doesn't compel the rest of us to call you by a special name. When I ask medical doctors about that (my wife is one, for example), their main reason for supporting the "Dr" title is that it creates a sort of formal separation between the patient and the doctor which keeps things professional, similar to how we had to call our elementary teachers "Mr" or "Ms". I don't buy that argument; for example, why wouldn't that apply equally to nurses? To me, it's seems like a trick for lending them an artificial air of authority.

I know a lot of people with PhDs, but I can't think of any who want to be called "Doctor", because that's exceedingly silly. I know it works a bit differently outside of the US.
How many people do you know that went to a school where you can get in with a bottom third SAT, in the lat five years, and what do you know about their job situation?

I graduated during the boom, and knew people who went to Georgia State and the like, which require top half SAT scores, and finding a $35k/year job outside STEM was a great result. Bottom third is pushing your luck for places like Valdosta State, and even the STEM people I knew there had trouble landing real engineering jobs. Not uncommon to see a Mech E working as an HVAC technician.

This is not snobbery. I'd never hold the school someone went to against them. But if we're projecting expected outcomes of a large group of people, it's totally relevant.
Yes - but the reality in most large cities (where the problems are) is 1 union and 1 employer. Once you get to the suburbs, there is a lot more mobility amongst the teachers. If they don't like a school system, another is 5 miles away.
Trolling people looking for easy answers is pointless. Folks like this won't use a single source to send in their work. The problem with this approach is you often penalize people who are truly curious and not trolls.

If you were to allow the masses to determine whether a question is a troll question or not, using an OR, allowing anyone to flip the bit, then almost every question would be considered a troll question. You get a lot of false positives.

Providing a thorough, quality answer to a troll question won't help advance that troll's career, they will pay the price later, for sure, when their intellect is on the line.

Providing a trolly answer, and treating the question asker as insincere will inevitably treat a sincere person like shit, and turn them off entirely from entire genres and disciplines.

Treat resources as sincere, and those who wish to abuse them for temporary short term gain will, and I am very confident about this, end up fucking themselves over.

*If you downvote this, please let me know what you disagree with, I'm open to debate.
Good riddance; for text files, gzip is mediocre compression and fast, lzma (xz) is high compression and slow. Bzip2 is medium-high compression and _really_ slow [0].

[0] http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html
Yes, that too. But what's wrong with giving all those families opportunities in schools that allow it, rather than forcing them into cesspools that people are afraid to close for political reasons?
Would be more useful to hear a retrospective after six months.
Just checked and you still have this completely broken paragraph:

"Given user_base = 8,000,000, and a numbers crunchable per minute (ncpm) of approximately 6666, we can assume that it would take approximately 20 hours for one $10 virtual server to eat through and find every user's phone number (hours = user_base / (ncpm*60)). At our worst case of ncpm = 5000, it would take approximately 26.6 hours."

Look at it this way: If they only had 5000 users, would you estimate the time to find all their phone numbers at 1 minute? No.
I was searching for the same thing myself recently, and it seems that DHH is against having any sort of logic in the database - he believes that all validations and constraints should be in the application instead of being in both (which I believe is the correct way).
This is what happens when you blow soap bubbles at -9°C