skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2) "That shouldn't happen in C"

It happens every day and it will as long as there's C. Zero-terminated strings are part of the standard library and almost infinite number of other libraries. You can't pretend it doesn't exist as the most common convention.

For 1) see waps' comment with byte absolute.

One complete program from that time which uses that feature:
http://kd5col.info/swag/INTERRUP/0019.PAS.html
You mean, like 2-factor authentication? I like 2FA. Use a TOTP/HOTP scheme, for instance.
I think the poster meant IP not port.

Most proxy servers can be configured bind to a specific IP. So if your proxy server has an external IP and an internal IP, configure the proxy server to bind to the external IP. And then use IPTables to block any connections from the external IP to the internal network.
He is obviously intelligent enough to know that people don't think the number is meaningless. My guess is that he was just too lazy to add the undo, and also takes a small amount of pleasure in seeing people get annoyed at something he thinks they shouldn't get annoyed. Not the end of the world, and he actually does have a small point (accidentally incrementing a "kudos" count is not really something to get bothered over). But with the pretentious blog post, his underlying douchiness reveals itself.
Facebook: Open Compute Has Saved Us $1.2 Billion
The Internet Is the Greatest Legal Facilitator of Inequality in Human History
You could if you chose to do so, but that's a straw man.

Refugee health doesn't happen solely in Syria. There are Refugee Health Centres in most major cities, and refugee health is only a small facet of medicine, and medicine is only a small subset of activities that can make the world a better place.

Writing a better javascript framework will not make the world a better place.
I just sent it to you in a text message. Didn't you get it?
I'm writing a book currently - I've got another view on problem versus exercise.

A problem - a real problem - is something that doesn't yet have a solution. An exercise already has a solution.
Good point! The research group is still working on refining their system. So may be they will have another breakthrough in a year or two, you never know!
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Security oriented personal file sync / office apps
3D Printing Goes Carbon Fiber
Intent to implement: CSS "Will Change"
A MATLAB package is not useful on iOS or Android.
I think you're strongly overstating the significance of the "Business Plot" when you say it "almost" made the U.S. a fascist country.

Certainly your Wikipedia citation does not back that claim.
How to Dogecoin
Reverse Engineering an HDMI Extender
This looks so much better
Do you use GNU/Linux or OSX? Good luck claim Steve Jobs or RMS isn't a dick.
I agree - he's right that you should "make something people want" but ignores the question of whether the people who want X are in your target audience or not. Simply implementing the most popular suggestions can easily pull you in many different directions and take you away from your goal of making something people want.
This one is pretty simple, actually. They do obscure AdBlock from the store — if listed in order of popularity instead of being somewhat curated, it’d be at the top of the page. But to your point, imagine they did remove AdBlock from the store. Nerds would stop using Chrome. (Assuming it was not fairly straightforward to install from another source, as is increasingly true.) And we nerds tell our friends and family what browser they should be using. It’d hurt the overall popularity of the browser.

Also, it’s better for Chrome’s security reputation to allow AdBlock from within their store than to allow it from a third-party site. You don’t want to train users that it’s OK to install extensions with broad permissions from anywhere but the Chrome store!

It may become the case in the future that they re-evaluate these priorities, of course.
Billionaire VC apologises for Nazi comment in SF bus row
A lot of my friends use Backbone and I poked around at it during the 180 Websites project. Despite the somewhat high learning curve for me in the beginning, Backbone felt like a natural extension of how I was already thinking about JS and frontend dev. I haven't really worked with Angular but I'd like to play around with it (and Ember) at some point.
The future of Vagrant Berkshelf
Its not unheard of. There's another niche language called "Python" that does exactly the same thing. Comments are `#`, as anyone using a unix shell would expect.
This is much better, thank you for it.
Personally, the main reason I moved from vim to emacs is because I don't want to have to think about my editor, I want it to be pure muscle memory. I'm okay with hitting "jjjjk" to go 3 lines down rather than trying to guess that it's exactly 3 down and typing "3j". Emacs-style navigating/editing is great for this kind of error-tolerant navigation/editing. It leaves my brain mostly free to focus on whatever I'm actually coding at the time.
Kind of annoying that the first paragraph's links don't actually link to anything, I was interested in those would-be links.
.. tomorrow around 9am .. Google buys KeenIO for $900 million.
Seeing if anyone in HN community has been playing around with wearables by developing apps for them and whats your experience been like so far?
Steli is the sales guru
Just like anything else dealing with emotions, keeping them out of your startup is a sure way to put a bullet in it.

Emotions like joy, trust, interest and surprise are critical to engagement with customers. Marketing is basically raising interest. Product deals with the rest. The CEO broadcasts all of them, if he's good at his job.

You also can't keep negative emotions from injecting themselves at the most inopportune time. How you handle those negative emotions, on the other hand, has far reaching implications.
From what I've seen. Stereoscopic 3D 360 degree camera's are pretty much impossible to do. At least not without a gigantic compound eye like camera. Even then the problem of rendering in real time is even harder. So streaming with that kind of Camera will never work.

Not sure if it's possible to make a stereoscopic reflection based camera either. The distortion would make it worthless and the 3D effectively would be minimal.

Has anyone tried to make a globe like camera sensor? Everything I've seen it impossible or not actually suitable for VR.
Show HN: Easily build an "eventually consistent" Redis cluster across the globe
Amateur. Scale to [0,FLT_MIN*2]. There they are truly most dense, and the density is uniform across the entire range. It's almost like using 24-bit integers.
I think this is a fairly insightful analysis. Haskell seems to be semantically very dense - each symbol or function packs a lot of meaning.

Reading Haskell for me is like when I had to do math proofs in Real Analysis or Abstract Algebra - it takes a fair amount of time to get into the mode where I can understand what is written very concisely in front of me.

To me it seems that Haskell suffers from some of the same problem that mathematics does - it is very concise notation for someone already familiar with the concepts, and a lot faster to write if you are familiar, but reading requires unpacking all the meaning of the notation, so ultimately is far more time consuming unless you are already familiar with the concepts that are in the code.
Lawmakers demand Obama dump Clapper
As a futurist, I love reading quotes like this:

"What used to take two years or more can now be done in six weeks, says Zhang. "That's a big difference." For those who have spent years trying to make just one or two specific changes to plants or animals, this is revolutionary.
This is the most excellent comment on this thread! Thank you for the links! To add to the last part, living in rural Southwest Missouri, I see a great deal of diversity among our local agriculture- from rice to wheat to cows and corn, and trees (Black Walnuts are a major part of my local economy).
Updated the wrapper.js script we use to run uncompiled coffeescript files in node. It now checks for the existence of .register() and calls it if it's available.

https://gist.github.com/davidbanham/8678004
Stay strong dude. I'm sure you'll make it through and figure it out. Many have made it back from far worse situations. You can do it.
The level of dismissiveness I'm seeing in the comments here is really discouraging, and I'm disappointed to be a part of this community. In a community of startup founders fostering new ideas, I haven't seen such close-mindedness. I appreciate what dcurtis is trying to do, doesn't matter if I agree with it or not.

The kudos concept is different, the fact that people are writing him emails and tweets about decrementing their counts for a meaningless number is petty.

The "Elitism" invite-only being such an issue is silly. HN and reddit started with small groups of people that weren't connected to a larger social sphere, so they slowly grew organically with the content they wanted. Google does invite-only for their projects (Gmail, G+, etc) as a way to both fix issues early with minimal user impact and to scale properly. Medium did the same thing. To say the dcurtis should've made it open for everyone at the beginning is disingenuous. Curating a small community and taking feedback from them, along with having readers connected to a larger social sphere (HN) means it can grow slowly while focusing on its core users, especially as a side project.

Appreciate what others are doing, even if you don't agree with it. Don't follow the herd. Just because Medium opened its gates doesn't mean they're the end-all be-all of blogging. I made a svbtle account because I want to see how they evolve and capture what Medium is missing.
Society outside of NYC/SF/a few other places has never heard of the tech industry or it's exceptionalism. The middle of the country doesn't know that we exist. And in NY, our claims of grandeur are drowned out by the overwhelming swagger of the finance guys.
Companies do a fair amount of giving, but on an individual level, the Bay Area isn't particularly generous. San Mateo county is in the bottom 1/3 for '% of income given', Santa Clara in the bottom 1/4, SF is a bit better and is in the 42nd percentile for counties.

Long Link to Data:

http://philanthropy.com/article/Interactive-How-America-Give...},"obj_data":null,"conveyor":0,"noSplash":1}
If you are stuck behind the great firewall of china, no actually.
I do a fair amount of coffeescript work and every time I see the compiled source I'm so glad that I'm writing in coffeescript. It's not just that it makes certain JS gotchas almost non-issues (almost! there are still several things that can trip you up), it's that it makes clean, concise and correct programming so much easier. There are a lot of things, like curried functions (`f = (a) -> (b) -> result`) or testing for membership in a list (`if foo in [a, b, c]`) which one is much more likely to use in coffeescript than JavaScript because the syntax is so much nicer. Having good syntax doesn't just make it easier to read and write, it promotes good habits and discourages bad ones.
Netscape's founders had a 4.2 billion dollar exit that closed higher...following a 2.3 billion dollar IPO. Between internal decisions and the culture infused from AOL, suicide is a more apt analogy than homicide at the hands of Gates. I''ll take a moment to point out that it was Silicon Valley companies [don't forget "look and feel" from Apple] that were focused on litigation rather than innovation just a few years ago.

Anyway, few people who reach Gate's age have done nothing blameworthy. That's just the price of adulthood.

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True. I have one of their first models. I heard they added some hardware encryption, does your prototype handle the hardware encryption version as well?
This looks nice, but doesn't address my main complaint with the conversation/PR system: there's no way to batch comments.

When doing code reviews, you can sometimes have upwards of 10 or 15 comments. In the current system this means 10 or 15 emails in everybody's inbox. It's also hard to work through a PR without letting everybody know when you're actually finished.

I would love to be able to comment on things as I read through them, then after I finish publish all of the changes and have them go out as one email.
what a waste. -_-
Personally I believe Mexico and the US should be equals in whatever future association they make. I see nothing wrong with saying the US should equally be a part of Mexico. It is just easier to imagine the opposite because the US is bigger.

Close relationships? Sure. Visa-free entry? Sure. Trade agreement? Sure. Exclusive one way relationship and political meddling in another country's dealings? No way.
That sounds very odd to me, because you write proper sentences and express yourself very clearly by writing. If that can help you, I can arrange with you a mock interview on skype and tell you if I think there is something wrong with the way you speak (please note that I am not a native English speaker and have a strong French accent). Feel free to contact me on my email on my profile.
I thought that sentence was too good for an offhand comment, and sure enough, it's a quote from "The Green Door", a short story by someone called "O. Henry".

Not suggesting you're stealing it, probably it is more famous to you, but I'd never heard it, nor of the story, nor of the author before.
Brings a lot of clarity to what used to be a mess. Thanks for the good UI update.
What makes Apple's attempt so different from all the others in this area?

Because literally with the press of a button you can make the video playing on your iPhone or iPad appear on your HDTV.

Because you just plug in the Apple TV and hook it to your wireless network and it shows up on your iOS devices instantly as a recipient for video and music streaming.

No setup. No confusing configuration. It just works.

It's the same reason that Apple was the first company to really get video calls to work. Other vendors and phone companies tried to get video calls to work...and some of the tech crowd certainly made use of it. But Facetime was the first video calling system that made it ridiculously easy for non-technical folks to use.
Tell HN: Use hand grippers to alleviate hand pain when using your keyboard 
I start using hand gripper at work and noticed it alleviates hand pain from using the keyboard all day long. Just place it on your desk and when you are not typing, start excising your hand with the gripper.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005Y83SJI
Definitely is worth thinking about. Defaulting to another factor would still be an issue as well. There are a few discussions on this post that highlight them.
I'm sorry - what? Tens of thousands of people in an alliance, logging In daily, with dedicated support teams?

Is this a description of the future of corporations or just not supported by server logs?
Well, you don't have to trust me or some privacy policy.

On Android you can see for yourself whether an app tries to access data such as text messages, emails or calendar.

My app doesn't ask for those permissions, therefore it can't access that data.
Get over it and work for someone else, run a few side projects/experiments on the weekend and after hours. Your wife is counting on you.
Using hostgator?

Ads on a 500 error page is perhaps not the most confidence building place.
I got invited about a month ago. I think I'll try out ghost now instead.
I don't think "reinventing solutions to common problems" is a bad thing. This is how we all learn how to do something new. And sometimes the new solution is better than any of the other solutions out there.
Not a shortfall. They're in short position on cash though.

Law of large numbers says that most people don't need their deposits most of the time.

Lender of last resort (a/k/a central banking) says that a bank can always get more cash if it needs to, though it may risk insolvency. The depositors aren't at risk (subject to limits of deposit insurance, for private depositors, and yes, commercial depositors may, IIUC, be SOL, but businesses don't tend to stockpile cash reserves as people do).

One interpretation of HSBC's actions is that its reserves are falling and it needs to do what it can to shore up its balance sheets by preventing withdrawals. Again: ordinary private depositors should have limited concerns. It'll be interesting to see what develops over the next few weeks. Possibly months.
Yes, in retrospect, I think that was the goal. They were interested in me for work on their machine vision product (my area of expertise), but the spiel was very much around how they had built up one of the world's best machine learning research groups. Over the years I have seen many great academics fail to produce much commercially, so perhaps I was less impressed with that than I should have been. :-)
I find it a welcome respite from the normal echo-chamber, personally.

PS: Reddit didn't grow organically, it was heavily content and user seeded by the admins. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of...
Hey, this is fantastic. Kudos
Hardware is Not the new Software
Hardly. It doesn't take many brain cells to realize that technology is the one thing that may get a debt ridden society solvent - by creating tools that multiply the impact of every individual's wealth and reduces the strain of debt - much of which has been created by irresponsible government. Spray painting Big Bad Wolf on every technologist's street corner as seems to be the purpose of recent doom and gloom media efforts is nothing more than an expression of the efforts to magnify the psychological angst that someone, somewhere, has more money than someone else.
First American Arrested, Jailed With Drone’s Help
I think it's reasonable, but that doesn't mean it's wise. In software (vs food), the things you choose can impact your bottom line, and if you let your dislike of the authors get in the way of your decisions you could end up hurting yourself. That's not to say you shouldn't weigh the ethical implications of your choices, just that "the creator is a dick" is pretty trivial as far as ethical implications go.

But that's not really relevant here. It's a blogging platform among a sea of blogging platforms.
"We didn’t leave enough money in the bank to pay off our debt, so now we need to tell people we can’t pay. Are they going to come after me, or my house and my car? I’m broke and I’m scared."

Hoping the "well-known accelerator" knew their stuff and the company was structured appropriately so that's not an issue.
> Silicon Valley Is Now Public Enemy No. 1

No, it isn't.

For evidence, watch the Daily Show (a fairly mainstream liberal show) take on the Google bus incidents.*

Yes, there is animosity, some of which is deserved, towards rich people, some of whom are in the "tech industry".

But very few people without an agenda to push hold anywhere near the level of vitriol promulgated by the "tech press" (really a euphemism for crappy tabloids).

Keeping a sense of proportion is not denial ..

* http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-january-23-201...
Speaking from experience, failure is essential to becoming a good entrepreneur. I've heard we learn more from failure than any other learning technique. At no time are you more present in this life when you are failing, of that I can personally assure you.

I applaud your ability to share your failure with others, even in an anonymous way. Wherever you go and whatever positive choices you make next will guide you to the thing you were meant to do.
A doom dependent on full adoption of ES6 could easily be a decade out, to be fair. There aren't, as far as I know, any browsers that expose ES6 without non-standard compile/runtime flags, and we have to wait until there's enough adoption that the % of people using pre-ES6 browsers is negligible.

Hell, I'm still waiting for Array::map to be dependable.
Would anyone in SF be interested in a talk about Machine Learning for Hackers, or Machine Learning 101?
GEt out of the chair! Every half-hour or hour, for several minutes at least. An hour out exercising at lunch. Stay in the chair - spiral down.
I don't know Dustin but I know about him only by reading his posts. Given that, I have no reason to believe that he is elitist.

"Invitation only" model sometime works and kudos for him for trying that.
This was just a way how to make something different in very very crowded space. It did not work, so he is trying "plan B".

What is wrong with that? He is just trying to make something and we are here putting him down? Why not some encouragements?
Sorry to hear it. I'm sure you can land another job fairly soon if you were running a startup. Go take a small vacation to clear your mind first.
> Ukraine has existed as a country for a very long time.

Except it really hasn't. During the Kievan Rus era, there was no distinction between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine was the frontier region (hence the etymology of the word from old Slavic), and it's been contested by Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Austro-Hungary, Tatars, etc... After centuries changing hands, Ukraine was eventually held by the Russian empire (who had by then moved its capital from Kyiv to Moscow), and Ukraine only became a country briefly from 1917 to 1920. Then again in 1991.

To say its been a country 'for a very long time' is patently false, and revisionist history.

> USSR was Russia and Russia was USSR.

This is again false. When they murdered the royal family, suppressed the Church, and murdered millions of Russians, they ceased to represent the Russian people. They were a cabal of communists who oppressed Russians and many other peoples.
A lot of people are using 'gold' as the measuring stick, but i dont think gold goes far enough.

The basis of all wealth is trust. Gold has value because people have trust that it won't be duplicated easily. The worth of all gold in the world is ~ 10 Trilion.

The stock market has value because people trust that commerce will continue to happen regardless of much else on the world. The value of all the world's stock is around 600 Trillion - which means there is more faith in the continued operation of companies than there is in the demand for gold.

The REAL breakthrough of bitcoin has nothing to do with money; it's the blockchain - an indisputable public record. If people trust that system to continue - a system oriented around an irrevocable record - it could easily be worth some fraction of the stock market. What happens if btc market cap goes up to 100T?
I don't use vim, but from the parsing example he gives in the post, I'm guessing he uses C-c:

`Mihere's some text^Cyyp$bimore ^C0~A.^C:w^M:q

[…]

> The lexer correctly determined that I started in normal mode by navigating to a specific buffer using the `M mark, then typed here's some text in insert mode, then[…]
I'd like to be able to see a revision history when someone edits someone else's comment. Trust but verify. Sometimes people mess up.
Charge. Otherwise you're optimizing your product to satisfy free users, which isn't always what free users would want.
Well, it is probably easier now that the Access team has forked Jet 4.0 with Access 2007.
>> "Once is accident. Twice is coincidence. Thrice is enemy action."

I was hoping that this was a quote from General Patton or something. But it just turned out to be Ian Fleming :(
Bitcoin Crime Risk Sparks Warning at Top Nordic Forex Bank
This guy seems like yet another smart person who assumes themselves supremely rational and really is just bad at coping with their emotions.

As you said, running any successful enterprise depends on being aware of your emotions, your customers emotions, your collaborators emotions. You can't treat emotions as some alien thing you can ignore until they go away. All that will do is poison your project.