skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling this is more about Google results getting worse really fast when you don't have a lot of relevant content. For example, I don't remember the last time I clicked or even saw those fake generated pages on English Google, yet every time I search for something in Portuguese those show up.
We already drop food -- MREs, essentially, whose meat entrees have been replaced with a variety of heavily leguminous, thus protein-rich, entrees intended to be compatible with almost all religious dietary restrictions. They're called "humanitarian daily rations", which isn't as cannibalistic as it sounds, and they're decorated with American propaganda -- the packaging says "Food Gift from the People of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and the like.

People whose nations we've occupied, though, unaccountably fail to love us even though we help feed them. Perhaps you're right, and it's just a question of sugar content.
The odds are 1.3×10^-23 times the number of times anyone has attempted it, so there's no reason to believe that it has ever happened.
Are you sure non-Iceland people were wiped out? I know someone who had an account at Kauphting and, after freaking out for months he eventually got all his money back.

Here, for example, in english it says: "Credit agricole and Keytrade save Kauphting's client" and explains how the 21 000 belgians who had accounts at Kauphting didn't lose a dime.

That's far from being "wiped out".

http://www.express.be/sectors/fr/ict/le-crdit-agricole-et-ke...

Or by "elsewhere" did you mean "Outside the EU"?

(honest question...)
Section 7 grants the recipient the permission to use, modify and redistribute. If the distributor is under contract which says he can not provide such permission, then the result is quite expectable.

BSD license says "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted". If the distributors is under contract that forbids granting such permission, the result is again quite expectable. The only option would be to add restriction on distribution on top of the BSD license, making it proprietary licensed. I will grant jwr that GPL is different from BSD in that aspect, since it do not allow proprietary licensing.

Neither has anything to do with patent agreements, because it all focus on permission for redistribution, use and modification. Patent agreements are one company contractually promising not to sue the other company or their customers over patents, and thus we have GPLv3. Since such promise are not conditions placed on either company, section 7 "if ... conditions are imposed on you" do not get invoked. Microsoft-Novell agreement is likely an example of this. See the wikipedia article for more details, including what the lawyers said at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft-Novell_agreement#Agr...
I used to live in a set of townhouses that did exactly your "drop box" idea. It worked really well, and I thought that it was quite common.
Give it a year and half of the new companies managing the some of the TLDs will be filing for bankruptcy
Edward Kmett is a Haskell evangelist (not to mention absurdly productive engineer) so it's natural for him to point out the inconsistencies in Scala, inconsistencies that the average programmer will never even realize exist.

He ends his semi-rant with a concession: there's a lot of good in Scala, and that's absolutely true, there is _so much good_ in Scala that only when you leave it's confines do you realize, shit, I miss:

immutability
lazy vals
case classes
pattern matching
named parameters
implicits
import aliases
partial functions
Option, Either (wish latter was biased)
map/flatMap/fold & collections FP friends

and on and fucking on, how can you not love Scala? o_O

Ok, compile times and IDE support leave something to be desired, but things have improved by leaps and bounds in the past 3 years, and more goodness to come with Scala 2.11 in (hopefully) March.
I'm with you, right up to the point of "an American citizen". As I see it, the right to a speedy jury trial, etc., don't come from being a citizen. These things came from the natural rights philosophy that Madison and others viewed the world through when creating our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Hence, the right to a trial comes simply from the fact of being a person. No citizenship or residency required.

(I grant that reconciling this with acts of war makes it much more murky)
Thanks. The drawdown is not ready for prime time indeed, I haven't traded it for that (among other) reasons. But I like the idea a lot and the futures linked ETFs seemed like an easier place to start that the contracts themselves.
Thanks for your insight. These apps are geared for our internal employee usage, and are designed to be more task-specific. A customer service rep has different needs from an HR person, for example. Hence, we have several apps designed to handle various job functions, as well as a couple that are geared towards all of our users.
Even "Bitcoin stability" has become news now? I very much doubt it's the longest stretch of stability in its history. Didn't it stay at $13-$14 for like a year? And I think even last year it stayed more at around $140 than it has at $800. If we look at their own chart that's only since September we can see it's actually been stable for longer in the September-October period.

I think it's just the BI guys who are obviously invested in Bitcoin, and are eagerly awaiting for the price to explode again, so it staying stable for a whole month seems like forever to them.
Errr, watch the "friends" solution; that come become a "voting ring".
Which international organizations are trying to arrest Snowden?

(Only States can do it..)
I once inherited an spaghetti PHP project with everything (code, comments and documentation) written in swedish. It was awful.
Fascinating read and a quick skim of the article index made me add the blog to my rss reader. Looks like quite a bit of interesting stuff in there.

It amazes me just how much more there is to learn, no matter how much I think I know about a topic. For example, I have never heard about the importance of smoothing the price between futures months. Even though I was in the front-office of a large energy trading firm for over 6 years[1]. (I lead a small tech team handling pre-trade research data so my experience was tangential to the actual trading).

It seemed to me that the traders compartmentalized the trading months. They trade prompt right up to expiry, then they start trading a new prompt (of course they were also trading spot and other stuff, not only prompt month). Nobody ever seemed to care about the price disjunction when the month rolled.

So I find this idea of different methods to smooth that price really interesting. What kind of trading are you doing where that matters?

[1] and I really miss it. Hope I can go back to something like that again someday.
Odd little Gmail change
Sometime in the last week Gmail changed so that messages composed in plain text mode change — to --.
Doesn't look very different from the equivalent diagram for Java. Have you seen how many different collection classes and interfaces there are in the Java standard libs?

AbstractCollection
AbstractList
AbstractMap
AbstractMap.SimpleEntry
AbstractMap.SimpleImmutableEntry
AbstractQueue
AbstractSequentialList
AbstractSet
ArrayDeque
ArrayList
Arrays
BitSet
Collections
Dictionary
EnumMap
EnumSet
HashMap
HashSet
Hashtable
IdentityHashMap
LinkedHashMap
LinkedHashSet
LinkedList
PriorityQueue
Stack
TreeMap
TreeSet
Vector
WeakHashMap
ArrayBlockingQueue
ConcurrentHashMap
ConcurrentLinkedDeque
ConcurrentLinkedQueue
ConcurrentSkipListMap
ConcurrentSkipListSet
CopyOnWriteArrayList
CopyOnWriteArraySet
DelayQueue
LinkedBlockingDeque
LinkedBlockingQueue
LinkedTransferQueue
PriorityBlockingQueue
SynchronousQueue
BlockingDeque
BlockingQueue
ConcurrentMap
ConcurrentNavigableMap
TransferQueue
Collection
Deque
Iterator
List
ListIterator
Map
Map.Entry
NavigableMap
NavigableSet
Queue
RandomAccess
Set
SortedMap
SortedSet

I've worked with both Java and Scala collections classes for years and I strongly prefer the Scala collections. If you prefer the Java collections they work just fine from Scala too.
That is just the "published" hierarchy as well. Paul Phillips likes to pick on the ParSeqViewLike trait, and if you ever find yourself delving into it, you'll see why.
Well they've discovered that many stresses can induce this response, including physical stress. So it's not just acidity.
From a short glance at the paper it seems that they don't know yet what the mechanism is that triggers the conversion. It might be that it is not triggered specifically by low pH, but by some downstream mechanism that can also be triggered by other kinds of stress.
Well it certainly would say something about the value of the NPP if one winner was forced into refugee status in one of the worst human rights violating countries because he couldnt get a fair trial from another NPP winner.
Jesus fucking christ. Stop making websites accept anything other than a username+password/token for authentication, and this kind of retarded shit would never happen. It's somehow still the status quo to make backdoors to recover your account incase you lock yourself out, which is why things like this happen all the time. You get what you deserve.
Botnet Bust – Russian National Who Made SpyEye Malware Found Guilty In USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy#Monte_Carl...

But was only 26 times in a row, and wasn't coins. Still, is not impossible, the rest of the article matters. And that it comes from literature remembers me of the case of Teela Brown, author's hand are the ultimate superpower.
I partly think the peace is like getting a bucket of piss since the time obama got it.
Both of your points are valid.

And frankly it does really depend on the company on which point is more valid.

At the end of the day, csmithuk viewpoint is a solution/enterprise architect's view point which caters more to the overall business needs of a company.

And based on my experience, the challenge of getting any new technology in a company that is mature and successful is really hard. The challenge of changing the status quo once that tech has become embedded in their business processes is twice has hard. There is always a benefit/cost ratio. The cost is not just development - it's training, its documentation, its lost time, etc.
I'm not a big fan of arguments based on "its the fault of other people's ineptitude."
There is more than one Dunbar's Number
If they're relying on such information for security, they aren't secure in the first place.
Fat Tony probably did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
Ask HN: Do frelancers cost/earn/value more than regular employees?
Hi,

I'm in the freelancing business since last autumn and still I can't figure out how to price my services. Many times even the clients tell I'm underpriced.

To figure out the complete picture I need advices on the following questions:

1. Are freelancers better skilled than usual employees?

Many of my friends go to freelance after working for a company. They say being employed is a good start to enrich your skills and learn your segment's business culture then you can do better on your own.

2. Are companies hiring freelancers because of their expertise?

Here I'm thinking about companies which have to decide to hire somebody even temporarily, or, to hire a freelancer.

They probably think like: let's employ somebody in-house and do the job as usual, or, let's hire somebody professional and do the job quickly.

3. Do freelancers cost less than an employee for a company, including taxes?

(In Europe) If a company has to pay X for an employee it means it will cost X + Tax1 after all; and the employee will receive X - Tax2 after all.

If a company pays for a freelancer it will cost X after all; and X - Tax3 for the freelancer (with Tax3 < Tax2)

Do the companies are willing to pay X + Tax1 for a freelancer or just X?

4. Does freelancers charge more than the normal market rates for the same skilled employee?

For example in NYC/SF a developer/designer costs $2,000 / week according to market rates.
Are companies aware freelancers might cost more?

Thanks for your patience,
Csongor
fine site
Ask HN: What will happen if I try doing this?
For the greater part of the day I've been repeatedly @mentioned in this Facebook comment thread. A lot of people seems to complain but I am genuinely curious what will happen if I follow the said instruction.

In Chrome CTRL+ Shift + J opens a developer console but I don't want to risk my laptop in pasting the code over there yet I'm genuinely curious as to OP's motivation.

I was considering making a fake Facebook account to do it instead of compromising my own account but I also feel that this may not just affect my account but my compromise my laptop for a malicious activity yet I don't understand one bit of the code (in the pastebin link) to make sense of it.

Can anybody tell me what this code is suppose to do so I can warn my friends accordingly.

The link:
https://www.facebook.com/AlbaniaHacking/posts/425791970900654

The actual code:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Vz50Em4F

Thanks
Bruce Lee's Productivity Tricks
Well, the dongle joke was kind of a play on the word "dong" as euphemism for penis. So it had some vague allusion to sexual content, but you're absolutely right that it had nothing to do with sexism.

The real sexists are the people - including the distinguished Miss Richards who initially reported the joke - who presume that women are such delicate little flowers that they can't exist in an environment for adults, where people occasionally make jokes that are unsuitable for kindergarten kids.

(i.e. I quite agree with you!)
All one has to do to avoid intellectual laziness as a programmer, is to have enough curiosity to constantly re-establish how much one doesn't know. The surprising part is that it might take 10 years to approach an accurate answer.

Also, as you probably know, it's possible to program static typed projects in a Lisp.
But who has that data? Google. And who else??? Big data is not just the tools to analyze that data. It's also HAVING Big Data.
TAPI – Framework for testing APIs
At the bottom in tiny text it says: "Published January 29, 2014"

Also, in the source:

<meta property="article:published_time" content="2014-01-29T01:49:03.309Z">
IMWebView. PhantomJS for Objective-C
IMWebView is a small library I created intending to mimic PhantomJS/CasperJS for Objective-C. It's a very simple library with lot of space for improvement. Fork & improve!
5 Things I Learned About VC’s
From what I've read online, this is a common occurrence on many blue ray players. The AACS keys expire every 12-18 months and require an update if you want to play any movies with newer keys.

I don't know how this is handled on older, unconnected players.
Amazon.co.uk: no correct invoices, refuses to provide proofs of payment
I prefer the English wikipedia to my native one. Also wikipedia is not SO. A good answer in English helps the whole world. A perfect in Portuguese helps only Brazil and Portugal. There should be harmonizing effort that at least takes the cream of pt.* and moves it to the main site. And I think there is a fundamental problem with SO and the way they manage the content generated - the current model is not working well for me lately.
I think that the idea is to not help out a potential attacker rather than to use this as an absolute security method. I think that we can agree that relying on any single security method is foolish. Maybe we shouldn't jump to conclusions that this is their only security measure in place.
Hmm. You think you are on par with someone with 10+ years experience.

As someone with +10 years experience, I now see my skillset a lot differently from ten years ago.

I know a lot more now. I can not do trivial pursuit programming questions as well as I could in the old days. Or clever hacks. I can't come up with a clever algorithm quickly like I used to. I can however design a database well. I think it is easy, but then my colleagues come up with some hacky solution, I can see instantly that it will cause confusion later down the line (e.g. using the same variable for two things), and suggest a better solution. I haven't read about design decisions in a book, that comes from experience.

Then again maybe the person you are comparing yourself to is a "one years experience ten times" person.
Great library for scrapping UIWebView content! Thanks for sharing @ianmurrays
This: "The audiences that Di Petta and Cameron have built are created with the work of photographers who they don't pay or even credit. They don't provide sources for the photographs or the captions that accompany them. Sometimes they get stuff wrong and/or post copyrighted photographs. "

Combined with this: "I'm sure the majority of photographers would be glad to have their work seen by the massives."

Nothing 'new media' about it. Theft plain and simple.
> I meant the concept of the word liberty, it was (which I thought was obvious) not intended to be a description of the cultural differences as a whole.

I wasn't talking about cultural differences, I was talking about liberty. This is the basis of my point about conflating communitarianism for authoritarianism. Most religious Americans, particularly Christian Americans, display many characteristics of communitarianism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitarianism. To them, liberty is not impinged by the establishment of religiously-based social standards and expectations. It's not totally consistent with classic liberal ideas about individual freedom, but is in fact quite consistent with a game-theoretic understanding of how totally free choice at an individual level isn't necessarily what maximizes free choice at a societal level. Rational secular humanists often believe in economic regulation, but ignore the fact that the same forces that lead to problems in unregulated economies can apply to unregulated societies.[1]

In Islamic countries, the prevailing mood is far more authoritarian. The practical importance of religious leaders and their edicts is far stronger. There is a chasm of difference between laws in a democratic society having a religious influence because the polity happens to be religious, and laws having a religious basis because of state establishment of religion.

> Sigh, this is the second time someone accuses me of angling for cheap upvotes.

For me, and I would imagine 'bananacurve as well, the purpose of mentioning upvotes was not to accuse you of angling for cheap upvotes, but to deride the upvoters.

[1] Right now, I live in Wilmington, Delware. There is an urban decay here. In 2011, we had 23 murders, for a city of about 70,000 people. Berlin that same year had less than 20, but is a city of 3.1 million people. The social structure has collapsed. Most of the kids are raised without involvement from fathers, gangs have replaced the authority structure that would've come from parents, etc. And "education" isn't going to fix it. Wilmington spends about $14,750 per year per pupil, as much as Switzerland, which is the OECD country that spends the most. Germany spends less than $10,000 per year per pupil. I'm not saying religion is the solution either, but you can't blame people for thinking it could be. Unrestricted individual liberty, where people have sex whenever they want and men abandon women and children as soon as they become inconvenient, clearly isn't leading to the greatest possible prosperity for the community. I'm not sure why European countries don't suffer from these ailments to the same degree, but I have a feeling that socialism has something to do with it, serving as a replacement for the communitarianism that is breaking down in many places in the U.S.
The fact that if you don't chose what you are looking for, any sequence you come up with is rare, isn't news. Since they specified a sequence, all heads, you can say it has probably never happened, even while acknowledging that a minute fraction of the various possible (but individually just as rare) sequences have happened.
I can suggest this free book called "PC Assembly Language" by Dr Paul Carter.

http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/

The tutorial has extensive coverage of interfacing assembly and C code and so might be of interest to C programmers who want to learn about how C works under the hood. All the examples use the free NASM (Netwide) assembler. The tutorial only covers programming under 32-bit protected mode and requires a 32-bit protected mode compiler.
It seems pretty simple to me. If you ask me to describe my best friend, I might say he's smart, studied this or that in school, speaks such-and-such languages, likes such-and-such music, and so on. His height and weight would be pretty far down the list of things I find important.

Similarly, we think of our mind as being our "self" in a much more fundamental way than our toes.

If a person is female in their mind but has a male body, it seems very clear that we should consider the former to be their "real" gender. Why should the body matter more or be more fundamental?
That's how I got my start. After TI-BASIC, Z80 assembly was the second programming language I learned, at age 12. It turned out to be a great foundation. For one thing, it was fairly easy to understand, from a syntactic perspective. Secondly, it gave me a much better foundation for understanding the lower-level aspects of C, letting me concentrate more on understanding the more complicated abstractions, and what they actually represent.
Agreed. It just makes it even more egregious, being that a citizen doesn't even get that right, which is written into the Constitution.
Hedge Fund Manager 'Shocked' at BTC Popularity
"intellectual laziness of dynamically typed languages"

What a claim! What an absurdity!

Dynamically type checked memory safe languages (eg. Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc...) enable styles of programming impossible in non-dynamically checked languages. So it certainly isn't the users who are being "intellectually lazy." Nor are the creators, who have focused on productivity and usability instead of waiting for proof systems (static type checkers) to catch up with their ideas. Laziness doesn't factor in on either side.
Social Media Marketing is Painstakingly Slow
Vim responds to SIGTERM while in the foreground, but if I suspend it (e.g. C-z), it does not respond. If I send a SIGTERM to a suspended Vim process, it does respond immediately after I foreground the process.
"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!"

- Richard P. Feynman
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
It seems totally unreasonable to me to intentionally misgender anyone against their wishes even after such intention was communicated. What possible purposes such action can serve?

I think it's more comparable to calling someone by their old name even after someone went through a trouble of changing one's official name because they hated the name given by their parents. You'd agree that's a bad manner.
It's just a proxy for the .bit domain since most users cannot access .bit sites directly (not yet anyway).

For example, if you cannot access http://explorer.bit then you can just add .pe to the URL and access http://explorer.bit.pe
Di Petta's flip attitude towards copyright is contemptible. But it's true that it is often impractical to get information about creators and rights. I wonder part of the solution isn't some service that decreased the friction (by a lot) for looking up the relevant information. (As I'm typing this I realize this probably isn't a new thought.)
Perhaps look at this as "write libraries, not frameworks". And write lot of small independent ones, not one big one, as much as possible
Some email providers actually already free up dormant email addresses for the public to register again. This poses a problem for exactly the reasons you described. I believe hotmail does, for example.