skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have any insight into why Adobe and printer companies actually care about this? Are they being paid to do it by the secret service? (and wouldn't that be public information?)
http://www.fleapay.com gets most of its traffic from processors we integrate with like Braintree and Auth.net. Most have partner or app pages set up that we are listed on.
And the Vietnam war, escalation of the draft, escalation of the war on drugs... Those liberals way back when weren't as wonderful as many would like to believe.
Thought that was the stack overflow log for a second had to do a double take.
If you are an enterprise you would not be using modified kernels with the copy protection neutered in production.
> So what I'm saying is: If you need silence, cool. Seek it out. Do whatever it takes to be the most productive you can[1]. But not everyone wants to live in a sound vacuum, and some people thrive in the environments that are the polar opposite of what you think is ideal.

I agree that different people work better in different environments, but I think what you've said should be flipped:

If you like noisy environments, cool. Seek it out. But don't ruin the concentration of others just because you work best in a place with noise and distractions.

I used to work in a noisy environment and it was hell because there were literally no quiet areas to work. I would have happily moved elsewhere, but there was nowhere to go. Virtually every office space has conference rooms and break rooms where you can go if you want to be noisy or work in a group. Very few office spaces have "quiet areas". Silence should be the default around people's desks and noise should be taken elsewhere. If you're being noisy in an open plan office, there's a good chance you're disrupting a silent majority.
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Thanks for this link, Solomon!
Yeah, when it creates more work for the admins is probably when the admins would start being pissed, not with the trespassing or w/e that people seem stuck on.

And he killed himself in the face of what must have seemed like a hopeless situation, much of that hopelessness created by the massively overzealous prosecution. I think the prosecutors deserve a good amount of that blame.
From what I can find around the web it looks like the $50k is to get the version 2.0 ready. They've raised about $150k already to make the app and mount in beta so it looks like if you contribute you'll get your perk which is good.
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There are a few uses - mostly related to OSX anyways though. A buttload of Macs is very useful for automated testing of OSX or iOS apps, for example.

That said, the bottleneck for this type of usage isn't performance - you'd have to wait 200ms between taps anyways, so why bother with a fast machine?

I'm having trouble seeing any use for this sort of thing. The main uses for hosted Macs are very, very well covered by a boatload of Mac Minis - they're a lot more cost effective also.
Using mutable data structures is pretty easy in clojure, I'm going to dig around and see how they handle this.
Many Cocoa classes are immutable (NSString, NSDictionary, NSArray). You can use the mutable versions (i.e. NSMutableString, NSMutableDictionary, NSMutableArray) but there's no reason to if the immutable versions are a better fit for clojurem.
Do pros design websites in Photoshop? :)
The best I know jump straight into HTML / CSS after sketching wireframes per hand.
I actually did file one! But don't check it out until I install that exact build ;)
I thought you could legally run OS X on VMWare - am I mistaken?
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Like this? http://i.imgur.com/GXpLIYm.jpg
http://github.com/dotcloud/docker/integration should be the link, thank you!
well, I guess the severity is in the eye of the beholder, or victim. A phone number identifying my name to a screen name isn't a big deal...It's unfortunate, but the world hasn't come to an end, it's not like the hackers were code breakers of the Enigma machine, where thousands would live and die as a result. I for one would call that 'massive' and 'severe'.
They are also a target so that the head of the NSA can effectively control the country.
You can (per the EULA [1]) virtualise OS X on Apple hardware. VMware can run on Apple hardware.

run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple
Software within virtual operating system environments on each
Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the
Apple Software

[1] http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX109.pdf
The app and hardware are nearing completion, but we wanted to allow those interested enough in the product to get their hands on it before anyone else. All contributors will receive the perks they have requested even if we do not meet our 50k campaign goal.
I'd imagine the vibration would quickly drain the energy stored in an analog watch's spring.
I think if you're planning on running a business of OSX machines, you probably shouldn't rely on hackintosh stuff. Upgrading the OS on hackintosh is pretty painful.
Approving a large credit card transaction on faith seems like a pretty questionable move on the retailers' parts. Don't the CC companies have phone numbers they can use to manually approve transactions? Is it common for people to go into a gas station and buy a whole cartload of cigarettes? This seems like a crime that a little common sense would foil (get it? foil!).
I built quotes app to learn opensocial and virality and had it on every social network that supported opensocial then. It was a pain working with those and one fine day I pulled my app out from everyone of those, found a $3/month hosting provider and spent a day putting my app as a website http://quotbook.com/. It found a hit on chrome web app store and have been getting $100+ revenue since over two years now with little to no effort.
Last commit a year ago, unfortunately.
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I dunno, but it's interesting that if you think about it, even if he said to one person, "You have blue eyes." Only that one person would do anything.

Or, the other interesting thing is what if there were 500 and 500?

It's a very weird logic puzzle for sure.
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That's for sure. I wonder how safe these sort of implants are even when just playing around with other rare earth magnets. Having the implant ripped out because you absentmindedly picked up another magnet would really suck.
Very few people understand and are not afraid to say where the value comes from. Bitcoin is a collectible. Network does not care how much 1 BTC is worth, the price is determined simply by the amount of people willing to hold a coin or two. Why they want to hold it? They believe there's enough or even increasing amount of other folks sharing the same belief. And if it holds true, then they get awesome payment network which gives them real purchasing power: to spend their money as they please when they want. So the value is essentially based on leap of faith or some sort of a bet. As time goes on and more people get serious about their belief, the stronger the reliability of BTC as a "store of wealth". Like with gold.

See also excellent article by Nick Szabo (who is a candidate for being Satoshi): http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html
In my country (Norway) the seller, importer and manufacturer are obliged by law to fix or replace broken items the first 3 to 5 years after purchase depending on type of item.

So warranty/guarantee is mostly useless, what the law provides us consumers is already better.
He is talking about ensuring scientific accuracy in the press release. Press releases are not about accuracy and have never been. They are about rallying support for a particular business decision, and there is nothing wrong or immoral about that.
A designer needs to know the medium he's working with and it's limitations to produce a good design.
Thanks, I didn't know you couldn't legally visualize OS X on non-Apple hardware.

That's gotta be hurting them now they have no xServe
Hahah, I experimented with a collaborative WebRTC feature for our code editor this summer. It ultimately never made it off its feature branch. Fun to see someone else implement it!
Maybe he is, but he correctly points out that "awesome transaction technology" has nothing to do with value of total monetary supply. The tech works equally well when BTC is worth $0.01 as well as $1000.
What gets held up as an ideal gets followed, especially as children, when we're looking to establish our identities. I wonder if promoting a more diverse image of "hacking" to be included in other hobbies will help. While programming has always been a passion of mine, I also like astronomy, travel, and politics. Perhaps there should be discussion of how to change the practice and culture of programming to be one that more children can follow if they desire?
shouldn't docker pretty much run on any host platform that supports modern linux kernels (lxc)?
Apple say no problem: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6099?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...
What about for your kid's smart phone? What about in library computers, or the your kid's friends computer? Internet devices are ubiquitous. Most kids today probably surf the web as much if not more outside the house than in it.

Most kids are more tech savvy than their parents and can easily get around software installed on the PC with a Ubuntu live boot disk or by other means.

Many of these filtering softwares have less than current definitions, or need constant updating. Others have terrible fuzzy logic engines.

PC web filtering software has been around for at least 20 years and are not the answer to the porn industry targeting children.
I am firmly against the concept of internet censorship - but a line has to be drawn somewhere. The internet is ubiquitous. Four year old kids can surf the web proficiently these days and easily get to hardcore porn by accident. That is by design of pornography marketers.

The porn industry blew it. They shamelessly market to kids. anything to get them interested/hooked. Do you think that they would get away with putting porno mags on the lower shelves of toy isles?

There are laws to keep tobacco companies from marketing to kids. There are a slew of laws which prevent marketing all sorts of things to kids. How is the gist of this any different.

I agree that this should have been done in a different way. Each ISP potentially having a different blacklist is ridiculous. The organization and execution could have been a lot better. An exemption list should be standard across ISP's rather than only offered by a few and not shared (exemption list where say an actual sex ed site with an approved/compliant password protection and validation system for people to use to sign up for it is Not Blocked by default if it's owner registers it)

BTW, those of you who say that parents could install filters locally to block this content are out of touch. These filters need constant updating or the fuzzy logic is very poor. Today, most kids today are more computer savvy than their parents. They easily get around these filters, anyway what about smart phones and tablets? What about friends houses? Unfiltered internet devices are ubiquitous. Putting a filter on your home PC would be like putting a band-aid on a severed limb to stop the bleeding.

I wish there were a better way besides censorship. Anyone have any ideas?
At least it's open source.
I don't know if I ever thought "hacker" was only a term for someone who has been programming for 10+ years. I'm about to graduate from college, and I started programming my freshman year. I unfortunately never got to see the beauty and joys of programming until then, and it does suck a little bit. But does that automatically not make me a hacker?

Yet, I am arguably successful. I got a job offer from Amazon at the start of my senior year and took it, and of course, I eventually want to start my own company that's why I'm on this site. I understand the stigma because I personally have never told anyone I only started programming in college. I've never been asked either. I love playing around with new languages and learning all I can about software, but I don't feel I'm that far behind people who started programming early if even behind at all.

We need to stop acting like people who have been programming since kids have a huge advantage. It is much more about what you constantly put in, and there are numerous other ways to be a hacker then just programming. Most people who didn't program might already have the "hacker" in them and just need to attach the programming element of it.
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Only 3 people with 100k of funding in less than one year, impressive!
i remember back in college my friends would call them shitobas because they broke so often
If you're working solely in an environment so minimal and obscure that it can't view a PDF, I think you've lost the right to be catered to (and complain) when it comes to document format decisions.

The comparison to Excel is absurd; PDF is an open format and has been for more than five years.
The point remains, it was a more optimistic time. It was only three years after the first people had been launched into space, and it seemed that the sky was no longer the limit. Asimov had no way of knowing that so much of our potential would be wasted on killing each other instead of on building the future he envisioned.
Sir or madam, I've seen this done in production environments costing tens of millions of dollars.
I thought being a hacker was more of a mindset.
Result of a shit culture, then. Taking a reasonable amount of vacation means you're taking care of yourself, not that you're slacking off. Burned-out employees are certainly not a plus to a company's bottom line.
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Look, Bitcoin is without a doubt super cool; but to claim that the macroeconomics of it are known to be sound is utter folly. No one knows what would happen in an economy based increasingly around a deflationary currency, and there are lots of hints suggesting the outcome could be pretty grim.

At the very least, it seems like to be a very big (and disruptive) change. Fingers crossed ... !!
Implementations already exist for the CLR as well as Python, C, Scheme, and of course JavaScript. LLVM appears to be in the thinking stage still: https://github.com/halgari/clojure-metal
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I'm not a young woman so it's hard for me to say, but it looks to me like people are doing a much better job of encouraging young women to program. There are lots of programs to support women in CS. On the other hand, I don't know how effectively these solve the deeper cultural problems where it's not considered "normal" for girls to be interested in coding.
Seems the journalist and a lot of commenters here are saying that a service like this needs to be regulated so that there are consequences for negligence or carelessness. There's probably something in that, but in the absence of a regulatory framework for social media systems, snapchat surely has no liability or requirement around data security (beyond existing regulations).
"Lisp in Small Pieces" is very well-written. It will teach you a lot about how to compile (subsets) of Scheme.

If you decide to compile a Pascal-like language, I can't recommend "Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers" enough.
If I remember correctly the Pascal compiler described in the book can compile itself.
I'm sold based on this alone!
The prevalence of the 'hacker' stereotype hurts those who don't identify with it, such as women

The stereotype of prodigies in sports is also hurting everyone like Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, why should other sports people be disadvantaged by not starting at an early age. Really?

"Hacker" doesn't equate to the best software engineer, the best founder, or much of anything other than having benefited from a longer period of time to gain experience—extra time that may or may not have been used effectively to gain additional knowledge

This hasnt been my experience, seems like a lot of what ifs.
I remember in the late 90s I was 10 or 11 and I figured out how to use the public library internet for more than the limit of 30 minutes.

I wanted to use internet so bad but I was not allowed a computer so I always hung out at the public library and I wished more than anything to use the internet as much as possible.

I thought by asking how does the computer know when the 30 minute is up? There must be a timer! Can I prevent the timer?

Sure enough, for half a second there's a dos terminal in windows 95 that is displayed when I restart the computer. It took a few tries but I managed to close it. 30 minutes passed and I was still on it. then an hour, another hour passes and I'm still not logged out!

I used the internet all the day from morning to dark. I let my sister use it too when I wanted to take a 'break'. I would see people check the wait list look over at me and leave very annoyed.

The next week, the librarian who remembered me told me they would need my library card as collateral, and that they will be keeping tabs on the time. the jig was up.

This was my hacker moment. not exactly sophisticated but I wanted something so bad and I got it.
Obviously they do. What kind of naive child would ask this question?
I thought of this too!

This is why the question is such a good one. When 'Snowden's grandmother' tried to out them on exactly this minor detail of spying on a congressman she did not provide any primary first hand evidence, e.g. a tape recording. It was her word against the NSA's. Obviously we believe her, or at least we do now!

So when the NSA say they have never spied on anyone in congress, they will have to carefully craft their lie. I can't wait for it!
When you compare with other languages, PHP does a lot more behind the programmer's back, has a far larger set of built-in functions (many of which have bad interactions) and has a user base with on average less experienced programmers. And yet you think that RTFM is the answer.

Yes, programmers need to RTFM. Security isn't free. But PHP makes it much, much harder than it should be. And does so with a base of users who are not prepared to do it well.

If you want to get real security, you don't get it by simply saying, "Bad developer!" You do it with layering defenses. Developers who know what they are doing, using APIs that are clearly defined, with languages that do not introduce unnecessary potential security issues, with development practices that catch issues, with monitoring that notices stuff, and so on and so forth.

Yes, developers should RTFM. But if RTFM is the beginning and end of your thinking, you've got disasters waiting to happen. And the results are abundantly clear with PHP.

Now I'm done with this conversation. You are missing what should be a pretty basic and obvious point. PHP makes security harder than it should be. Not impossible. But harder than it should be.
I identify with the sentiment this person wrote about. My first language was GW basic/logo at around that age, learned some pascal/C around high school, and just tried to learn more.

I miss those days, being a youngster and programming: doing without totally understanding but still learning. I still do stuff on my own, though, but no one will look at it or care.

But now all I do is fix bugs. I got one job after school, where I created something new. Looking back on it now, it was garbage but it was my garbage. That was the last time, though. Now I do 'sustaining' work. I don't mind but it feels like the industry as a whole has turned their back on me. I'm considering doing a startup sooner or later.
Honestly this is the first I've ever heard of it... Now I'm kind of curious. Was it actually mentioned in the movie (the URL)?
Which software? Remote Desktop + SSL.

I don't know of a good self-hosted combination for that.
People who feel alienated of the unique culture of programming will say anything to change it. They want everything to be normative, everything must be diverse everyone must have the same opportunities and pointing to gifted people and saying hey your a hacker and thats really good is a huge threat to that idea. It is almost like thinly veiled socialism.
what is the thought on Clean Port 80?
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I don't think this belongs here. It's funny, but it's just a tumblr account. It feels like a buzzfeed article without the smatterings of text.
No one is promoting the hacker image, the image is defined by those seen to be the hackers. Who are you suggesting we point to and say look at what this person did to make the image more diverse?
Venture capital (excluding private-equity-esque VC) is not in the business of making bets on sure-things. If Snapchat was for sure guaranteed to become Tencent, then they would be raising at a $100B valuation instead of a $2B valuation. If investors were even confidently sure they would become the next Tencent, they would be raising at $10-$20B. But they're not. But if they had a 2% chance of becoming the next Tencent, that $2B valuation is justified.
Anywhere between 4–20% of patients refuse to go through with the MRI due to claustrophobia. Sources in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claustrophobia
Not necessarily. That $517 million would very likely have been spent on attempts to reproduce the technology themselves, not on economic development.
Agreed, to me a hacker was someone who liked to code at work and for fun and is probably better at it than the norm because of it.
For a hackable, open source collaborative framework, check out Mozilla's TogetherJS: https://togetherjs.com/
LaTeX was certainly intended for a document such as I wrote so you are wrong, as documented in Lamport's book.
Given that Adobe is attempting to move their software over to their Creative Cloud service, then that is probably quite possible now.

Beyond that, I think the bigger threat to privacy by far in digital images is in EXIF data and reverse image searches.
Professional sports aren't STEM careers? Athletes are often celebrities that young people look up to, whereas hackers are not.
I have a lot of female coding friends, we grew up together and one of the biggest barriers they had when we were at university was from their female friends. Suggesting that their choice would stop them from getting a husband and they would turn into a basement dweller.
Now I understand why people came and coming U.S..
2F now in upstate New York, and hilarity ensues. I'm from Alaska so I'm used to it; I would have expected New Yorkers to be unsuprised occasional cold weather but not so much...

I was standing in a grocery line in Fairbanks a few years ago when it was -50F, and the guy in front of me says: "How about all that global warming out there?"

Everyone get ready to explain the difference between climate and weather again.
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