skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Application crash logs can create a blueprint of your network for attackers
I had hoped some HN'ers would end up purchasing it.

There was a fairly long string of comments pledging funds [1]. I'm curious how that panned out - in both terms of informal croudsourcing and how one negotiates with AOL-TW.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6777094
Is it breaking any laws to have a few rather infectious viruses on something you know will be searched? Presumably they allow for this though..
Exactly what makes you think that there's a "special NSA list"? There are anti-NSA activists who are routinely harassed at borders, but those people are actually implicated in the leaks themselves.

The USG does not give a shit if you donate to ACLU or Ron Paul.
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> Because otherwise we would see the trade market crash $3bn
A sale of SC hurts all other companies in the market? Hard to understand this posit.
I'm of the opinion that SF is a poor place to look for predictions about the future, and that it is primarily about the present it's written in, a playground for changing the fundamental assumptions of that mundane present.

But this one interests me: Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

I think, by and large, this is true in western society. We, here on this site, mostly tend to machines, giving them instructions, altering their potentials and adjusting their parameters, as Asimov might have said (he had a quite analog conception of automated thinking). Almost all the people I meet in a day tend to machines, except for binmen, mailmen, shelf stackers and the like - and they too have machinery that forms a greater or lesser part of their job.
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Do you seek iOS interns? There seems to be a bit of information missing on the "Intern" page! Just to let you know.

Thank you
"2013 was the year of the smartwatch" - did not really happen though.
Here's someone who was stopped and (refused) search at an far inland checkpoint who had not "crossed the actual border".

http://www.youtube.com/embed/WVMZUgmrJrk

Ended very badly for them. Very badly.

So cite all the SCOTUS you want, police are doing whatever the hell they want in that 100 mile zone including false triggers by dogs that are proven wrong most of the time.
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Many options:

1) Paypal check (can be used directly at Walmart and other places).

2) Pay-online-&-pick-in-store services.

3) Online buying; Amazon, ebay, etc.

4) Online groceries: Safeway, Walmart and others have this service.

5) You can buy a prepaid credit card so they can't steal more than the amount you charge in it but still can use it in ATMs and stores.
One trick that's not mentioned is unbundling the struct. Suppose you have a struct with a pointer and a character in it, and a huge array of those structs. If you resent the padding tax, refactor your code to use and pass around two arrays instead, one of pointers and the other of chars.
We really need to keep drugs out of the hands of the cartels.
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"2014 is the year of the Linux desktop with SteamOS!" - can't be 'desktop' since most of them will be under TVs.
> It almost seems like posts like yours–something tptacek is perhaps the master of–are saying, perhaps subtly or even inadvertently, "this evil is not new, and therefore you should not oppose it".

While I can't speak for Sharlin or tptacek, when I point out that things have happened before, my intent is to prompt people to stop being merely outraged. It is all very nice to say that wrongs should be corrected, but it is entirely useless to waste that outrage on complaining at a local watering hole.

Articles and comments like this have, at best, some vague hope that Congresspersons will notice and wish to pander to those particular constituents by authoring a bill. What kind of lackluster plan is that? Near as I can tell, most people are outraged because it makes them feel like they are similar to the other outraged persons and, action proving truth more than word, entirely disinterested in changing the status quo.
Oh ok, I think I understand what you mean.

Though working with QML in QtCreator has been a pretty streamlined and effective experience for me and for web development, at least right now (ie like you say, this will improve in time, in which case you may well be right) I see browser tools (eg the debugger) as a part of a much larger toolchain (editor, REPL, etc).

Though you can build a native editor that has, for example, webkit embedded to augment what the tool can do. Or do something like LightTable which is, AFAIK, build on top of an embedded browser. I think a hybrid approach gives the best of both worlds. Then again, with the trend of everything moving into the browser, I guess this shouldn't be necessary in the future.
Might be a good idea to document stuff like that ;)
I'd highly recommend checking out Stuart Sierra's component library. It's helps define your application into components that manage state and gives you lifecycle control of those components. basically dependency injection for clojure.

https://github.com/stuartsierra/component
This video shows a pastor being beaten and tased by border patrol after not answering their questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duSiAwGzU9c

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/04/17/20090417bo...
Get a new bank? Only transfer money into the debit account when you're going to withdraw that amount right then? Or don't use cash if you can avoid it?
Being smart and having a specific mindset will become mainstream? Cool!
Truth is, every law is based on people who ruin it for everybody else. That is how marijuana got outlawed in the first place. People has this belief that we are somehow rewarded for passing thousands of new laws every year. The resulting authoritarian society is just the unintended consequence. Nobody actually picks authoritarianism on purpose.
> "Why are we so obsessed with finding genetic reasons to explain thinking differences in gender(or race) when there are obvious social/cultural pressures?"

Isn't that another way of saying "Why do people care about science, when its findings might make us uncomfortable? And besides, my ideology already tells me how the world works."
Agreed.

I have a MMJ card in CA because it helps with some nerve pain I have. Half the time I use it it's a tiny amount to get me through the next couple hours (placebo or not it works well especially for the trivial cost) and half the time it's to get so high at night that I stop caring about it and hopefully get at least a few hours of uninterrupted sleep in. The benefits of the latter are severely underrated when you deal with chronic pain.

Not to mention I have no idea why society has a double standard with casual marijuana use especially given the use of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, prescription drug abuse, and more out there. I'm trying to drink less alcohol as part of my weight loss plan for my wedding and it really shocked me to realize that people around me easily kill a bottle of wine per person at a single dinner on top of drinking cocktails, beer and straight liquor... and that my restraining myself to 1-2 alcoholic drinks a week is crazy in comparison. Some of my friends persistently bother me for Adderall that I never give away because I barely have enough of for myself. Et cetera. Weed is pretty harmless in comparison I would think.
Given the way US allies behave, I'm not sure your data is any more safe at home. New Zealander here. Amusingly, I know of several people here who cc our prime minister every time they send an email, to save him the effort of signing any request to spy on a citizen. His mailbox must be something awful.
If a person or small group can grow it legally themselves, it's hard to imagine cartels cornering the market.

Moderately expensive, legal products like tea or (culinary) mushrooms are sold at markets without much fanfare.
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Like I said: 10,000 hours for boys, 8,000 hours for girls. But the environment has been colored, offset by slavery and sexual politics.

It is inevitable that agents like 'pg' (Paul Graham) must say and show, despite personal capacity toward self-interest.
Prime spirals
Right, but why do diffing in the first place? First generating a whole new tree and then computing the diff is (1) wasteful (2) leads to problems because you need to find the correspondence between nodes to preserve state. If you do something like Self-Adjusting Computation [1], you can still write your program as if you are generating the DOM as a function of your data, but the machinery under the hood can compute the diffs directly by keeping track of the dependency graph and the correspondence between the old and the new is fully automatic.

[1] http://www.umut-acar.org/self-adjusting-computation

Assume you have a function f that takes the model data as input and computes the DOM as output:

dom = f(model)

If we now do an update to some model data, that has some effect on the DOM. When executing f for the first time, the machinery of self-adjusting computation records the dependencies of the different dom elements on data in the model. If some part of the model is updated it can propagate the changes along those dependencies to compute the parts of the dom that change as a result.
If you try to get some "unreasonable" amount of money from them - probably. Anything that you're remotely likely to pay off in penalty charges is unlikely to get blocked. That means an unauthorized overdraft of $1k that you don't have is a good deal for the bank.
<grammar_police>I understand your intention, however your double negative currently says you like the site.</grammar_police>
Well, it still sucks.
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Here is a prediction: Over the next 50 years, mental health will become the primary affliction of humanity. The more discontinuity we have with the world we are evolved to inhabit, the less relevant we become to the world, the more mental health problems will loom in our lives. Suppressed by medications of all manor, perhaps. But an affliction nonetheless.
Basically, commercial online services (which includes mobile apps) need to add a sentence/paragraph about how they are handling the Do Not Track header requests. This is a California OPPA amendment starting today.

We/iubenda is giving away a special discount to those affected in California, which most of you may be.
Embedded IDEs already do this (showing the offsets of elements in a structure in a column when you are viwing structs).
I use CC whenever I can or iPhone Passbook for Starbucks, etc. but many places will not take CC for purchases less than $10, eg to buy a coffee or a muffin in the morning at some smaller non-chain shop. Often I get cash at grocery store debit with cash back and don't use the ATMs.
your case isn't air tight at all, several levels of the society I exist in ( and I suspect the society you exist in ) has solid precedents on the concepts of a lease.

It's a scam to you, and only you. No one would consider this a scam, and dragging a company acting in good faith through the mud because your philisophical issue with it is beyond childish. Grow up. If you want to argue, do it maturely.
I switched to credit cards a few years back for the same reason. My debit card got compromised and about $4k was missing from my account right around the time I was supposed to pay tuition. It was a giant pain in the butt, but eventually the bank got it all sorted and the university let me pay a few days late.

With a credit card, that money isn't gone until I pay the bill, so disputing fraudulent charges is much easier. Also, cash back is nice.
I think it's funny in a way that's symptomatic of us nerds' future predictions: much more focus on what's possible than on what's useful/enjoyable. We focus on extrapolating technological advances, at the expense of a basic marketing/human interest mindset.

In considering ceilings and walls that "glow softly, and in a variety of colors" the right observation is not that it will be feasible by 2014, but that nobody older than seven would genuinely want this in their home :)
I used to run into the VBV screen when ordering from NewwEgg. It's been a while so I don't know if things are the same. I refused to consent to the terms for the reasons you gave. Instead, I just closed the browser. The funny part is that my purchase would still go through.
There is something going on with pugs. Since getting one we've discovered some sort of cult following - in which we've become victim. For instance, one night I couldn't help myself so I hacked up a quick app - pugrodeo.com for posting pug photos.
like other people are saying -- HN is news by committee. just try to post a joke on here one day & see how many rapid downvotes it gets if you ever need proof of how lame & uptight the HN crowd can be once they hit that 500 rep.

i posted a joke on a comment of someone going "This. A million times this." the other day cuz that is the most melodramatic, overused, annoying, lame textual meme... the joke was pretty innocuous & immediately got like 5 downvotes.

I don't mean to hate too hard cuz it is what it is, i dont care about my karma, & obv its good enough that i still read articles here but posters being annoying/hypocritical/oversensitive/humourless/feeling that they are the protectors of society... very common on HN. I think it is some facet of the nature of people thinking they are real sophisticated by reading HN for some odd reason (basing this on all the wannabe devs I know on social sites who make it a point to mention it constantly in posts like "my fav sites to procrastinate on"), whereas there are lots of higher-level programming communities out there who seem to have less of this self-seriousness.

that said, occasionally there is that nice moment of a few reasonable people chatting each other & introducing to tech they may have otherwise overlooked. I'm heavy into Clojure & the other day a Lisper on here pointed me to freenode to get community help rather than SO, for example. It's all percentages, I guess :-/
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Apparently, we are working on it. Just read "The Crash Course" by Chris Martenson, PHd. The era of cheap X (X=oil, silver, food, soil, US dollar, Euro, lead, gold, etc.) is over, resources are going to get revalued fairly soon, and without an additional planet to mine/refine/plunder/exploit, we will be forced to switch to Prosperity-aimed living, instead of growth-aimed living. Or substanence-aimed/survival-aimed living, our choice.

I expect power structures and our economy to also experience significant change, although I will not conjecture for good or evil, just change. Those prepared may come out considerably better than those not. And with it, another chance to majorly rewrite the rule system.

The opportunity, as I see it, is that most current government bodies find the changes uncomfortable, so will likely pursue "kick the can down the road" policies, giving others a chance to set the tone, the beat, and the new rules.

But exciting times, regardless!
If you have a growth and the doctor advises you to remove it, do you ask him what will he replace it with?

In any case, replace it with a system that doesn't do all that stuff.
I knew you'd comment on this. You seem to show up on all stories about gender & race differences.

Anyways, note the part where I say "I'd feel better about these studies if they could somehow account for these outside influences." Without accounting for those factors, these studies are at best 50/50.

EDIT: I also knew the downvote-brigade would be right there with you to destroy my reply the moment I submitted it. 3 downvotes in 10 seconds.
Yeah, 30 is too much. I think 16 is an upper limit and even then you need to break it into groups of ~4 to actually have small group teaching. Of course the universities never have money for that many assistant teachers for the bigger courses. The point is that the group needs to be small enough so that people can get to know each other. Then you can have a relaxed atmosphere and then the real discussion can start.

I think we are on the same page about your last paragraph. You are right, you face a problem of a same kind that I wrote about when learning in a group. Someone seems to know the material well, they are confident and maybe even charismatic. They go through their solution and everyone just nods and agrees.

The trick is to get everyone tell their solution (maybe not for the same problem) and have an atmosphere where people feel comfortable correcting and getting corrected. That is a key responsibility of a small group teacher.

The "peril" in self-study is a bit different. You may find your enlightenment but how do you know that your mental model is correct?
Is medical grade tea a thing? It takes a lot of skill and either great weather or a big investment in indoor growing equipment to grow a single medical plant. Comparing tea and cannabis prices doesn't make much sense.
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I seem to have missed that trick. Thanks!
It has nothing to do with coding. The name is probably a metaphor.
It's not exactly what you're looking for, but clang can give you record dumps of C and C++ structs and classes. (In general, clang has lots of interesting tooling for C and C++, and I highly recommend looking into using it).

I wrote here [1] about using it in a KDE program (KStars) to cut 10% off the memory usage. In particular you can also use this tool to see some of the many bad effects of deeply nested classes: your class may be 8-byte aligned, so a 'char' at the end can take up eight bytes with padding, and it's not possible (AFAIK) to rearrange fields up and down inheritance heirarchies [2].

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[2]: C++ is not my favorite programming language.
Show HN: Post your Pug Photos
I couldn't help myself. I whipped up a quick web app for sharing pug photos. Those little stinkers circle 3 times and nestle into your heart!