skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to make a contribution to BASH recently and went about trying to figure out how, ending up at Savannah.

I don't know if I've just become spoiled by Github, I remember just mailing patch files in the past and being okay with it, but when I came across Savannah, nothing about it made me want to contribute. It turned me off completely and I moved on to work on something else.
> Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being; that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment; things with which we can fill 20 minutes, half an hour, while we’re waiting to die. It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

-- Alan Moore

How many hack writers can hustle in the non-existing wriggle room between this and what Bill Hicks said about artists suc^H^H^Hselling out? Whenever I pull up the analytics dashboard, it just reads "way too many".
Does this crypto-currency have a chance of taking off?
Shameless plug: a while back I wrote an assembler-and-VM for a similarly hypothetical assembly language that I was studying in class. Just for kicks, I wondered if I could fit the entire thing into 1KB of JavaScript, whilst including features as step by step execution, a "debugging GUI" (as much as you could expect from 1KB!) featuring the stack, register contents and program counter, plus the assembler on top which performs full syntax/opcode argument checking.

The result (which I'm pretty pleased with) is here:
http://chengsun.github.io/ocremutiny.html
Out-of-band information can't practically be analyzed through algorithms (at least, not without getting a lot spookier). They know that a company is in violation of their link-sharing rules; acting on that doesn't seem unfair.
I suspect it forces the magnets to have a certain alignment. E.g. the bike light ends up pointing exactly in the right direction even when he just tosses it on. With one magnet and a steel plate you wouldn't have that behaviour. In some cases that might be a good thing, though.
Damned ! Here is an information that should be uploaded to Wikipedia.
http://download-facebook-videos.com
I am not so sure. I have an issue with them obfuscating their code. They are using technologies to keep other people out just like the people they are going against. Its jarring to me.

I am all for jailbreaking though but I don't like the trend. The point being jailbreaking moved is no longer a political statement thing, its more to make money and a name for oneself.
ok, but even without these things the corporation has a massive head start and exclusive connections

even if it's not with governments, it's with other corporations
On Nervousness
The DOGE market on Cryptsy has held its value. The 21M stolen coins pale in comparison to even a single day of trading - last 24 hour volume report say 973M coins traded.
Greatly thankful to Christian Buchner, and now Dave, who have helped double my hashing
It's missing a proper EU cookie disclaimer. Tsk tsk.
I wont argue about your experience in the class room but both styles of programming have been around for about the same length of time and yet their adoption rates speak volume.

We can debate this ad infinitum and probably wont come to an agreement.
Google now shows JS documentation snippets in SERPs... from w3schools
Is the performance comparable?
It's not clear what kind of dialogue they mean. From my reading, it could be pretty much talking to a google 800 number and they made it sound like they were being treated specially to spin their screwup to the public and investors.
Show HN: A small (less than 2 kb) CSS framework
Show HN: cryptolalia, for creating ciphertext puzzles using many amusing ciphers
Yes, on three machines (10.9 and 10.8).
2.1.0p0 :001 > x = def foo() puts "hello"; end

=> :foo

2.1.0p0 :002 > def eval_it_now_bitch! lulz

2.1.0p0 :003?> eval lulz.to_s

2.1.0p0 :004?> end

=> :eval_it_now_bitch!

2.1.0p0 :005 > eval_it_now_bitch! x

hello

=> nil
As long as people go to that site with the intention to learn languages, and not learn the concepts involved, they'll quickly realize that like wikipedia, the quality of the submissions is sometimes lacking. In fact, a lot of pages have multiple versions of the same program, say, in ruby, with an imperative style and a functional style, or using different language features and degrees of idomatic...ness.
1e6 is a million. I assume he's talking about buying a place rather than renting.
Reminds me of Intentional Programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming which I think is the furthest along in this area.
The number of people in this discussion not understanding a difference between a web wallet and a coin is too damn high...
This is one of the best things I've read in a while. Though, I did was this movie every single day before I went to sleep for months at a time. Great job.
Well, I'm impressed. Looks sort of like an old bootstrap.
So his claim is that anarchism = absence of government + no rent and profit. It's not a common definition nowadays.

By the way anarcho-capitalism is compatible top down with other form of more strict anarchism. You can make a voluntary anarcho-communistic society inside anarcho-capitalistic society.
Did you even read, let alone understand JamesLeonis' post?

Bullying, by definition, arises from a powerful position onto a weaker victim. However, reversed situations exist as well.
Power in this case doesn't have to be social power, like a higher job position or higher popularity. It can also be a more powerful personality e.g., due to better eloquence or more aggressive attitude.
That is why in so many if not most case gaining your own allies who are aware of the issue is the only solution beside ignoring or fleeing.
My confidence in dogecoin as a viable alternative currency has been shattered.
I was with the In-Laws the other day, and overheard the following conversation between my Father-in-law and his son:

Father: "Where were you the other night?"

Son: "<name of street>"

Father: "No you weren't. Don't forget you have a car tracker to give you cheaper insurance, which I'm paying for. That means I can log on any time I like and see exactly where you were."
The adoption rates do say a lot of things, but not about the claims you're making about human reasoning.
> they got paid to write the song, they're done.

In the vast majority of cases this is wrong. Most songwriters do not get paid to write songs. They get paid only when they receive royalties on the reproduction of their song.

This is good for society because it means that the songs that everyone likes will provide the most reward--so songwriters have a strong incentive to write the best songs they can.
Found a similar article from Slate [1] recently.

[1]:http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/longform/2013/12/si...
This is one of the things where there is no clear right or wrong.
Perhaps you didn't intend to imply it, but unfortunately that message was communicated to several of us. Thank you for clarifying that you don't hold that view. This apparent miscommunication emphasizes the importance of not deleting (and not substantially editing) posts once they've garnered attention.

I, for one, hope the author feels no remorse for their article. It was a fun and interesting article, and they reported the story well.

I continue to hold the belief that if this incident creates a material problem for RG, then RG was already a ticking time bomb. That said, I have plenty of faith that RG will weather the storm, and that perhaps this will be a wake-up call that inspires them to do something more creative and valuable than a spammy link-swap.
I wonder how well an automated recreation would work. What would come from taking scans of works using the typeface and taking the intersection of each instance of each letter?
Cool. I checked out your page, it seems your tool logo is very similar to ours (MS) :).

I'm not sure if it is appropriate to think about specific groups of developers in a general purpose IDE. You really can't guess how they will use your tool, which applies to PL design in general. Personally speaking, there are functional programming enthusiasts who think wildly different from the way I do, and I guess they would sort of select out given my lack of understanding of their psychology as reflected in my design.
I think that's a broad mischaraterization of functional programming. It is certainly not obvious a priori that people think procedurally. It certainly does not match my experience teaching programming to complete beginners--even concepts like mutable variables and loops are not particularity intuitive.

People really like to think by analogy and think based on relations. Functional programming makes this much simpler by giving you simple abstractions and, crucially, letting you not worry about extraneous machine details. In a functional language, even the order your code gets evaluated is below your level of abstraction.

Ultimately, functional programming lets you talk about what where imperative languages force you to talk about how. That's pro-human. It's exposing the underlying machine and computation--imperative programming, in a word--that's anti-human!
Installed fine for me.
My point was that Finland etc wasn't covered in your reference to excuse Soviet for ignoring all international law. But you knew that.

But you didn't touch my other points either, so I guess that wasn't so bad.

>> How big is your 'lots' compared to a single Nazi concentration camp?

So you say "Soviet was ok, because its enslavement, murders, theft etc in East Europe was less bad then the nazi ockupation before."

You really keep high standards.... :-)

Etc.

You argue crazier for every comment, I will write you off as a troll.
An Entrepreneur Who Wouldn’t Be Stopped by Anything
Edward Snowden's Channel 4 Christmas Message (video link)
Writing 'Rudolph': The Original Red-Nosed Manuscript
I think it just shows how this works; when a site gets penalized, it's across the board, regardless of search terms. And personally, I think lyrics sites without every single line being annotated by mostly lame jokes and pictures are actually better quality.

> they are willing to go so far as to give their users an inferior search experience just to punish RapGenius

Another way to look at it is that RapGenius was willing to go so far in their mindless quest for bling and Bieber fans that they overstretched the rubber band. Google basically gave them what they begged for, and now all that is left is HN to get over it.
Free Left 4 Dead 2  Merry Christmas
If I make make a few suggestions (mostly from a desire to see a more familiar sort of spec):

> Add arithmetic shift left/right

> Add logical shift left/right

> Add exclusive OR (XOR)

> Pick a word size so your integer and bit ops have meaning

Questions:

> How do I set the program counter from my assembly?

> Do I have registers (seems like a stack-based VM, so no)? If not, can I have more stacks?

> Can you setup a dedicated block of memory to use as a framebuffer and render it to a <canvas> tag?

~

Good work so far!
You should read up on flow and how it applies to programming, start here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

The reason straight jackets lead to poor usability is that human minds are fairly diverse in the way they solve problems, and rigid constraints imposed by a tool are likely to trip up your thinking.

There is a tension between flow and feedback, but its not clear at all that one dominates the other as you've stated.
What's up with the witch hunt?

If someone wants to remain private, why don't we just leave him alone?
There's been some interesting work by Conor McBride on Epigram where he uses structural editing to help communicate the proof burdens that the compiler can infer and what remains for the user to do. Epigram is long gone, but there are still papers describing how it worked.
I find dynamic languages break my flow badly by eventually losing clarity on what things are supposed to do. Haskell is annoying as he'll to begin with but eventually those constraints give very tight, very fast feedback that's very flow-compatible.
Irc has a weird encoding by default. I think it's called Latin1/irc hybrid.
I had to write one of these (in C) for a class a couple years ago.

https://github.com/tylerkahn/MIPS-Virtual-Machine
Anyone looking for Co-Founders in NYC? (24 Year Old Male Here)
I am looking to join someone or a team to work on a start-up. I had two startups before and they both failed. I have learned so much from each one of them. I know about the ins and outs of startup marketing, project management, and sales. Entrepreneurs never quit, so I want to take the lessons learned and try again. I have tried posting on HN before with little luck. I started my first business at the age of 15 in high school and my family is full of entrepreneurs so entrepreneurship runs deep in my blood. Looking for someone who wants to start their own business just as badly as I do.

I am currently in NYC, and I have bunch of savings saved up that I can survive for at least three years without a job while maintaing my current

Here is a little about me:
-I graduated from one of the top undergraduate business schools in America.

-I am willing to work my ass off including weeknights, weekends, or whatever it takes.

-I have worked at Google and Salesforce in San Francisco for about a year and a half prior to moving to NYC. I am a 24 year old male.

-I am really good at people's skills, presenting, networking, and business development. I have high emotional intelligence and am pretty easy to get along with.

-I can SELL! I am also well-read.

-I am a go-getter, and do not need to be told to do things. I literally can do everything and am a fast learner.

I am looking for someone who is extremely dedicated, hungry, and willing work their asses off to make a successful startup. If you are action-oriented, hacker-type, and are looking for a non-technical co-founder that fits the description above then please contact me at matt.gerboth@gmail.com. I would go more in-depth about my background and experience but HN has a character limit for posts so please contact me.

-Matt
Haha...the logo similarity is pure coincidence...

Incidentally some time back I posted about the similarities between Google and Microsoft logos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6678308 :)
How unfortunate that it'll be a c:/Documents and Settings/ throrium reactor.
I did one using golang too. https://github.com/shenfeng/http-watcher

It monitors a directory for change (using notify facility provided by the OS), upon change, will execute a given command given by command line arg `-command`. If any browser connected, it will try to refresh the browser too.
For 200 pounds www.linkaudit.co.uk does it all for you
I haven't been into the SEO stuff since Panda, so it looks like quite a lot has changed. If Google is giving more information about what you're actually doing wrong, then that's great.

Previously (like 5 years ago) you'd just see a massive hit to your rankings and would be scrambling to try and fix anything and everything you could think of that may cause it.
Yay MIPS!

Also, let us not forget the Halt and Spontaneously Combust (HSC) instruction: ftp://reports.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/csl/tr/86/289/CSL-TR-86-289.pdf .
Man, no linux games :(
Wow. When the NSA gets around to listening to their smartphone-recorded tapes of you, they're going to be very, very worried.

(Yes, "tape" is a colloquialism - I realize they probably use solid state media.)
Why should we explore?
I put up 3 domain names. So far I've only been contacted by one of the people I'm supposed to exchange with and gave my domain name to that person.

While I will give away the domain names that I committed, I don't think I'm going to accept any of the domains that I've been matched with.

If anyone wants:

- http://fusevox.com

- http://lastsongkillsaudience.com

- http://bumbafly.com

... you can contact the current owner and see if they'll give it to you.
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:/
Why anyone would use an online wallet is beyond me. Yeah your personal computer could be hacked, but a website with thousands of wallets and millions of coins is a much larger target.
"At present rates of consumption in the US (20 million bbl/day, or 7.3 billion annually), you'd need 30 - 75 million acres devoted to fuel production, if I'm getting my math right. Yield claimed here are for 280 gal/acre, or 6.7 bbl/acre."

My math disagrees with yours, I'm getting 1.1 billion acres? That's about 1/5th of the figure I got for the globe.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%2820+million+oil+barrels+%2...
Quill - a simple theme for the Ghost blogging platform
Thanks for the invitation! I don't have any concrete ideas, just hopes, but, sure, maybe we could chat. Unfortunately, I failed the Turing test: I can't find your contact information on the Python Practice Projects page.
You can bet anything that Google is A/B testing revenue each time it does an index/penguin/panda update. All you need to do is compare Adwords revenue from Google owned sites versus partner sites to see what is happening.
There is also a text editor called [Yi](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi) written in Haskell, that seems similarly to pursue the idea of continually parsing a program as it is written. Is there any similarity or relationship?
I suspect the "joke" is that the maximum possible number of bitcoins is ~21m.
Better yet: add RapGenius as a %s-bookmark (or Chrome calls them search engines): "http://rapgenius.com/search?q=%s"

My favorite use for this is a Google IFL search restricted to site:wikipedia.org, so now "w something" in my URL bar takes me right to the Wikipedia page for Something.

So yeah, outsourcing to Google... but fast and handy and almost always what I'm looking for.
Constraints are what prevent fallacious reasoning. It's better to have a tool/framework tell you you're wrong then not knowing about problems or believing falsehoods.
Maybe you can add a invite and rsvp feature. That lets the business send out an invite to all attendees asking them to download the app and submit photos.
Yes working for me in dev and production
Is it really a witch hunt? People are just fascinated with the enigma that is Satoshi. He's (they've?) done something amazing in many people's eyes but has avoided taking credit for it -- in an arena where people are often seeking credit and fame (financial, if you'd call it that).

It reminds me a lot of Isildur1 in the online poker scene a few years ago. This guy played an insane style at the highest stakes, went millionaire to busto more times than I can count on my hand, and completely hid his identity -- all in an industry where people nearly always seek fame. People suspected he was Victor Blom (along with a few others) but I'm not sure if they were more fascinated because of what he did or that he did it while hiding behind an online identity.

This situation bears many similarities, so its no surprise people are very interested for no other reason than that he's made an effort to be an enigma.
Apple Did Indeed Acquire BroadMap and Catch Earlier This Year
> Google [...] is so big, its essentially infrastructure, and needs to be regulated.

Not sure I agree, but let's see why you think it's necessary:

> More likely, they could work with oppressive governments to remove certain unpleasant historical events from people's sight.

...um, that's an example of government regulation of Google. You can't use preventing X as a reason for implementing X. That's like saying you should smoke cigarettes to make sure you don't get cancer. >.<

What you seem to be saying is "I trust the EU, and I wish they would regulate Google AND their regulations would trump the regulations of all the other governments I don't trust". Unfortunately, that's not how the world works.
Linkify looks to improve mobile search, announces SDK beta for iOS platform
Well Satoshi and Hal definitely worked together in some fashion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=show...
This is an interesting question but there is not really a definitive answer in the way it is asked. "Backed by" gold has a very literal meaning in the sense that you can trade something for gold. "backed by government" doesn't translate since you cannot trade money for government (unless you're a lobbyist!); but the fact that an entity with a monopoly on force accepts a certain type of paper to relieve debts in a sense "backs" it.. or at least gives reason for people to use; not to mention you are legally obliged (at least in the states) to accept us currency for a debt.

You say yourself

> Paper money imo is backed by regional Economy or iow labor + what labor can buy/buys/saves.

In this sense, bitcoin is exactly the same. And this is actually more important than the government part; as evidenced by every fiat currency that has ever undergone hyperinflation. You can pay taxes with bolivars in Venezuela; but everyone would rather have dollars. The local economy runs almost entirely on bolivars; people are paid in bolivars, yet.. people want dollars. Why?

You can buy things with bitcoin; you can trade it for labor, services, goods. this begs the question of course.. why would anyone trade it in the first place? This is what the 'regression theorem' [1] tries to answer; not for bitcoin, but for everything that becomes a medium exchange.

The notion that money needs to be "backed by" something is just conjecture and a relatively recent idea. It only comes about when we use fiat currencies; when gold coins were used, or cowrie shells in africa.. no one asked what a cowrie shell was backed by.

The real question is "what makes bitcoin sound money?" Opinions differ on that and I will leave the question to the reader; but, there is no fundamental difference between a US dollar and a bitcoin in terms of 'backing'.

A government decree is worth nothing if you don't have sound money, and sound money is sound regardless of a government decree; again, this is evidenced by countless government-mandated currencies becoming worthless and bitcoin, gold, silver, cigarattes, cowrie shells, and rai stones acting as currency without anyone ever declaring them to be currency.

1. http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Regression_theorem
>Satoshi's mining has been timezoned to indicate that he probably lived in the UK.

It's possible that 'Satoshi' deliberately scheduled things to give the appearance of living somewhere else.
Oh, don't worry. I don't believe the white paper is at that level. It has typos, smilies, movie references, it's clearly a work in progress, it's very short, and it's written at a high level. Clever logo by the way. http://okturtles.com/other/dnsnmc_okturtles_overview.pdf
Taking action which poses a stron disincentive to the kind of black hat SEO campaign RG was runnin benefits Google's users—tolerating such an action (especially as widely piblicized as RG's campaign had become) would have hurt Google's users far more than penalizing RG ever could.