skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good thing of life is having the change to discover. If you knew all, how would you feel? Failure will be the food of your interest for living and progressing.
It had been north of 5 years since I had last bought a laptop. It was a VAIO. I loved that computer as a man can love his bread-winner. Nowadays I work on an old trusty Acer (which feels close to a VAIO in finish, build quality and even style) and an old MacBook Pro (also top notch.)

Well, I just got a Samsung Ativ Book 9. What crap. I'm deep in buyer's remorse. For a computer supposedly with high finish, the keyboard is completely cheap and crappy and scratchy, the screen is meh, it's oversized (despite being super thin) and just overall feels cheap, cheap, crap. Don't buy it. I could only get Fedora 19 working (not latest Ubuntu, not latest Mint, all graphic driver issues) and it was laggy as hell, my keystrokes took a half-second to materialize. Presumably the graphics driver. Gonna try Fedora 20 right now, or I'll go after driver updates or something. Don't buy this sucker. I know I won't buy Samsung again over this. Wish I would have bought a VAIO. But then they sell out.
Silk Road 'mastermind' Ross William Ulbricht charged
Yeah, perfect title, just add a couple more words...

"How I Learned to Stop Procrastinating, and Love Letting Go Garbage Collect"
We don't, we just have to guess at the likelihood of that kind of thing actually happening for $40+ million in bitcoins.

Also, it's less likely to be a lie if they do it sooner rather than later.
Yet another reason to leave javascript off.
Using Python, IBPy and the Interactive Brokers API to Automate Trades
"The reason Google seemed a bad idea was that there were already lots of search engines and there didn't seem to be room for another." - Paul Graham

"It already exists" is a terrible reason not to do something
Is Paper Solving the Right Problem for Facebook?
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Big shout out goes to his (former) partner as well (Jian Zhou) who was just as much as a boss. But yes, to put it quite simply, he's a boss (and so is his small team).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_Zhou
Give it time with this new 'cloud' guy.
Big plus for making tab work in editor
Not really newsworthy, just obfuscation. If it was yet another libtiff CVE, then I'd be worried.
If you live somewhere warm, a suit is quite literally 'stuffy'. You'll sweat a lot more in a suit than in a T-shirt.
Gox's explanation is that the 2nd largest bank in Japan was so inundated by Gox's wire transfer volume that it could not possibly cope with it.

An alternative hypothesis very popular in the community: Mt. Gox has been functionally insolvent since the US froze about $6 million in their accounts when they closed the US subsidiary for being a money laundering operation, and Mt. Gox has been delaying hard-currency withdraws to the majority of their customer base to buy time until their transaction fees make them solvent again.

A point in favor of the alternative hypothesis: I don't have to be an idiot to believe it is true.

Another hypothesis I'd grant greater than zero credence to: Bank: "We think you're a money transmitter." Gox: "Really!?" Bank: "Certainly looks like that." Gox: "We prefer to think of ourselves as a technical firm which is compliant with all the laws of Japan as long as nobody asks any pointed questions." Bank: "No technical firm requires more than, say, 10 outgoing wires per day. If you need more than that, we need to ask some pointed questions."
I'd say Java is far more popular than C#.
It really depends where you live.

In Sydney, I find it impossible not to see the suit and tie as an arbitrary cultural hold-over from a different climate.

The suit causes the company to waste thousands of dollars on air-conditioning, and introduces a gendered Cold War, because we simultaneously make the female staff wear clothes that strike a delicate balance between professional and attractive.

The suit is so impractical and stupid in this climate that it's hard not to think negatively about an office culture that demands it, or those who haven't questioned its place as a status symbol.
Perl in klingon
Thats a question regarding when a combined work is created (not about code communicating over a network...).

Its not that difficult question to look into. Imagine that I would "convey" a photo by using img tags and "link" proprietary photos inside advertisement banners. Would the banner count as a combined work, or as two separate and disconnected works?

I would lean towards the single combined work, because thats how I think a non-technical judge would look at it.
> It sounds like an annoying limitation of the API that (apparently?) you can't cheaply validate whether a bucket exists.

It looks like there now is: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTBucketHEA...

I'm guessing (hoping?) that didn't exist back when the feature was added to Boto, 7 years ago: https://github.com/boto/boto/commit/8410c365ee0120e073bf00bd...
Hrm I thought this was true at first. Spending lots of time consuming materials on how to increase my motivation, etc. Nothing worked! But then, why would it? I'm obviously motivated to do what I want to do or else I wouldn't be trying so many different ways to stop putting off!

The best results I've had have been from a) just doing and b) reducing anxieties. Nothing I have tried has been sustainable but I still keep trying.

If I wasn't motivated, why would I keep trying?
Why is quality of pseudorandom number generators important?
The library is a few K, which is nothing, and it's not "just for that", it's a veritable utility belt with lots of other utilities.
My son's got an ADHD diagnosis and he seems like you. Whatever is slightly uninteresting is terribly difficult for him to focus on but if there's something interesting, he can maintain perfect focus for hours.

I imagine it might be days if he wasn't interrupted.
> Very few subcultures are less tolerant of people dressing differently.

Are you saying nerds are intolerant, or did you mean few cultures are more tolerant?
Stop using underscore. Start using lodash.

http://lodash.com/

Faster and more complete.
I'd hazard a guess and say that they didn't use it much and only noticed »Whoa, I have to type Get-ChildItem instead of ls? That's so bloated, get me out of here.«

(Side note: I'm a developer, not an administrator and I use PowerShell as such – I have no clue of how to query AD or manage IIS, but I do know the language very well. I also was a technical reviewer of the PowerShell Cookbook 2nd ed.)

From my experience the language has some quirks (that are being slowly remedied in recent versions, e.g. handling of one-element arrays), but otherwise is quite well designed. The quite consistent naming of cmdlets give you enough hints to figure out what a command would be, if you only knows it exists, e.g. querying things always start with Get, projection is done with Select, etc. In a way, PowerShell is more unixy than traditional Unix utilities in that they really do one thing and only one thing. This can lead some to consider PowerShell overly verbose, because the pipeline often looks like

Get-Things | Select-Things | Format-Things

But to me this is actually nicer because I can concentrate on each part individually and not figure out the switch to ls that tells me the file size. And well, PowerShell passes objects through the pipeline so most of the time you can cut text processing to a minimum because you already get what you need directly (which is not to say that text processing is poor in PowerShell – -match, -replace represent grep and sed and switch -regex is very nice for quickly writing parsers for semi-structured text content).
No one can make laptops as great as Apples. It isn't because of skill though, no one else can expect to sell as many of the same model. The current MacBook Air is magic and the Retina Pros are amazing performance wise. All while retaining a great look and build quality. Hard to do that when you sell dozens of skus the way sony, dell, hp, Lenovo, etc do.
Microsoft Enterprise Library – Open Development Model
Wasn't this the country that wanted to be part of the European Union? When they said that, I thought they were going to take steps in the right direction. But years have passed and that's obviously not the case.
Article calls this steganography but...I'm not sure it really is, as the payload is hidden in the file format's metadata...not _encoded_ into the pixel data.
> Microsoft could come up with their own license that was "open source" but not "free software"

The important question then would be: Could you legally port directx to *nix from this? If not, then what'd be the point?
Agreed. Plus, underscore's implementations are not as fast as their native equivalents. At least use lodash if you're going to be using an entire library, as it is faster. Otherwise, you could just use the .reduce, .forEach, and .map constructs that are built into JavaScript (of course browser support is an issue there - but they are available for use in most modern browsers and definitely in node)
Yep. As a South African I felt the same way about my high school's overly warm boys' uniform. (And unlike wealthy corps, my school didn't have air conditioning.)
New Trojan discovered in png images
Agreed - the response was rather rabid.

Frankly, men are easy to taxonomise into dressing habits. Female fashion is much more diverse!
Reading this article made me think that Bill Gates might be The Archibald Putt.
I could see it being done with annotations + processing them perhaps, as some frameworks do for database properties such as index/uniqueness. An object for every scalar datatype is just overkill, even if it solves a legitimate problem.
I read "hippies" and rejoiced. If only...
wow that's a joke every 4 days! Who knew we were having so much fun.
Just finished reading the essay, and one of his points about professors struck a chord with my personal experience back in college. It always felt like the classes that seem to offer the least "financial return" in the real world (i.e. theology, philosophy, or some obscure liberal arts subject) usually end up to be the ones with better qualified and more enthusiastic professors.
I want MS to buy Unity. Love unity for how well it uses C# and javascript and is definitely right up their alley.
This, suits look classy. They also can be quite comfortable.
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An ad deal with Twitter comes with an analytics dashboard and an ability to run surveys on users targeted across various dimensions.
I also loved my vaio. It was white, solid, and computed, and the keyboard was lovely. I lost it in the divorce. I exchanged it for a Samsung netbook I gave her as a present, because she was having problems with her eyesight.

That said, the netbook is rock solid and very reliable. It saw me through a squalid period of sleeping on couches on top of it after drinking heavily. The keyboard is tacky crap, sure, but it types well. I also have a samsung smartphone and tv (complete coincidence that they had my favourite product in each range), and I would have a hard time knocking their engineering and reliability.
How Video Games Nurtured A Generation Of Entrepreneurs
With a bank, you can be pretty confident you can go to an ATM and get small amounts of money out, but even there we've seen system failures block withdrawals for longer than this one. Also, there's small daily ATM limits and at least one major British bank has a policy of refusing large cash withdrawals (several thousand pounds or more) full stop through any means unless you can prove to their satisfaction why you need that much cash: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25861717
The assumption isn't that they ran off with the btc. It's that someone else did, now they are insolvent, and to prevent the fallout they are trying to live off the float and hide their insolvency until they have made themselves whole again.
Alleged Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Hit With 'Kingpin' Charge
THe Dealissime(Living Social) founders are back with Selectionnist
I hope (probably in vain) that it might work on type 1 as well..
What about using it on anything that isn't windows or mac os?

Isn't it kind of the point of web browsers to render webpages in a common open language instead of being a host for proprietary vendor specific plugins? What's the big advantage over standalone applications in that case anyway?
But they are in Javascript! Both map and forEach were added in 2009 as part of ES5. Problem is they weren't supported in IE until IE9.

http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/
This makes it sound so easy... browser bugs and idiosyncrasies still cling to web development like barnacles. Maybe one day when the old IEs and Firefoxes are dead, web development will become this. I hope it does, at least :)
Sony is to sell off its venerable Vaio PC business
I wanted to watch a HD Netflix on my laptop, but the Silverlight client had no hardware acceleration so it played terribly. Turns out, there is a hardware accelerated HTML5 version of Netflix that's only usable using IE since only IE has the necessary DRM.

I was quite surprised. Ignoring the potential ethical quagmire here

Let's not. DRM on the open web is bad.

DRM on the open web is an open specification for how to close the open web.

If Netflix had decided to use a standard mechanism to deliver video, instead of relying on closed, proprietary DRM-plugins, everyone would be able to provide this good user-experience.

Not saying MSIE hasn't improved, but enabling DRM on the web is not in any way improving anything.

It's bad. All bad. Bad for the present, bad for the future. It needs to die.
That's madness or desperation. Sensible people ship bauxite as far as necessary to find cheap energy.
Forget the technical content, or the political point here - that thread is worth reading just as an excellent example of how to conduct a civilised discussion even in a situation with serious potential for strife.

Of particular note is how, even though it does get a bit stressed in the middle, everyone very carefully allows the discussion to calm down and restate their points with no emotional content.
They can start by starting again. EL is a stinking shitpile of horribleness and always has been. It's the result of the P&P team who obviously wrote the whole thing in a silo whilst the rest of the industry did something wholly different, and better.

Use of EL in a product is usually reason enough to step away from the company.
> Microsoft tried to create a closed system, but they were prevented by governments worried about them consolidating their power forever. Now, we are faced with two closed systems fighting for power, ios and android.

Am I in opposite world? People want microsoft software on their mobile devices because an open source OS is too "closed"?

I would believe what you actually want is an alternative to google apps on android...
I think what he's saying is that although Docker will support other Linux ABIs, it will stay with Linux.
British Intelligence Agency DDoSed Anonymous Chatrooms to disrupt communication
I don't see how the embedded JavaScript can be used without the accompanying malicious loader script.

As I see it, this is just another form of obfuscation. Not an entry vector.
If you do it after you've established your competence, you'll get interrupted a lot by "witty" remarks.

If you do it at an interview or something, you'll get a lot of people questioning your competence and fit.
Last week, I was giving a lecture on HTML5... and realized for the first time that Google is often playing a similar game

I'm not going to be calling you names, but if you've been looking this has been obvious for at least a year now.

Chrome was released to enable all the bad stuff Google is doing now.
It's a clever idea, but not a malware attack - just a way to hide what the attack does and make it more difficult to detect. It still needs some javascript code to extract the malicious payload from the image.
No, I understand why you might want a digital version.
What I don't understand is why you think you're entitled to a digital version.
These are two independent authors making their own informed decision about which medium they'd like to publish in. Their work, their choice.
I also said that I had yet to encounter a task where Go competed with C, which is completely consistent with "Go can't compete on performance with C".

I also went on to point out that since Go can't even compete with C it then clearly cannot match or beat it either :)
"But, you only had Goxes word for that."

Roger Ver, who is well respected in the Bitcoin world, also posted this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP1YsMlrfF0

It's a little creepy though, like he's being held at gunpoint, forced to read a statement...

I agree it's risky to keep money in a Bitcoin exchange that's showing signs of trouble.
What Perforce is good at and what Git is good at don't overlap too much.
Does this mean you recruited some people who couldn't explain the structure and you found they were no good anyway?
Thanks! Will check that
well, there are 2 other options available:

one is to use "--pointer_alignment=1" so that all accesses via the pointer are treated as unaligned OR

use "--no_unaligned_access" flag to tell the compiler to not knowingly generate unaligned access
Good god, the comments on this article. You'd think the author went deliberately out of her way to not photograph women, and that she did so as a personal affront to the commenters.
Thanks! Sounds like I will have to get serious about finding time to get it under my fingers then.
I lived in Turkey (Istanbul) for one year, made some good friends and was active in the Gezi Park protests. While the country is now highly polarized, all sides have some things in common which help explain these measures.

Turks typically have a feeling that everybody conspires against them. Not only against the country, but also against them personally. Americans and Jews are always among the prime suspects of any conspiracy.

The kemalists have nurtured a strong national identity with flag, anthem, the infallibility of leaders, language and territory. Criticism is simply not welcome, but the internet is full of it.

Istanbul, and let alone the rest of Turkey, despite the rich cultural past is not international or multi-cultural. It is a given that most people are inclined to distrust cultures they are not familiar with.

None of these factors are exclusive to Erdogan. That helps explain why internet censorship is prevalent in Turkey and does not cause much uproar at all.

Now the AKP movement is extra zealous in 'protecting' the people from sex and gambling. That does not help either.

* disclaimer: I tired giving a generalizing brief on Turks, plz don't take it personally.
Yes. You are right.

I trained classifiers with hand annotations (about 1000 contents or so)
> XBox is a fantastic product, all things considered.

Fantastic in what regard? Can I put my favorite linux distribution on it? Can I even write and release software for it under GPL? Without "applying" to microsoft and waiting for them to "approve" it?

Maybe it's just me but I don't really see why I should buy hardware that is 100% controlled by microsoft when it can't do anything that a general purpose computer couldn't do...
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Reading about google shipping unpolished things too fast in chrome makes me smile, since i've just decided to stop using it as of yesterday, after realizing how bloated that software has become ( cpu & ram wise ). Wonder if that's a coincidence.
Agreed. I thought, "Great, more political correctness juking on HN, exactly what it needs." What percentage of VCs, engineers, and coders are men again? To write an article like this isn't sexist. It's describing fashion for 90+% of the field as it exists now.
It's nice idea. I will try it.
Haskell still has some boilerplate - actually quite a lot if you don't use -XGeneralizedNewtypeDeriving (which has known problems when used with other extensions). With newtype deriving, this is about as simple as it gets:

{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}

class Degrees deg where
toK :: deg -> K
fromK :: K -> deg

newtype K = K { unK :: Double } deriving (Show)
instance Degrees K where
toK = id
fromK = id

newtype C = C { unC :: Double } deriving (Show)
instance Degrees C where
toK = K . (+ 273.16) . unC
fromK = C . (flip (-) 273.16) . unK

newtype F = F { unF :: Double } deriving (Show)
instance Degrees F where
toK = K . (+ 273.16) . (* (5/9)) . (flip (-) 32) . unF
fromK = F . (+ 32) . (* (9/5)) . (flip (-) 273.16) . unK

Without newtype deriving (or other generic deriving extensions), one would need to implement instances of {Num, Real, Fractional, RealFrac, Floating, RealFloat} for all three types, which do nothing but map to the Double equivalents.
I mean that I run my searches through DDG, I dont think there's a way to even allow them to have anything else as they strictly don't track.

There's no other way to have a search engine other than by having an IP and a search query so I think that's about the best I can do.
If you do implement this, you can also avoid validating every submission server-side. It should be enough to check a random sample. If you suspect someone, you can start checking them more aggressively.

If you want to get serious, there's actually a lot of research into cheating prevention :)
It is a bit offtopic but since you brought up the smear campaign -- the campaign is much broader than just the hacking, it includes the LGBT rhetoric
http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Olympics_of_Hate_in_a_Nat...
When you're an asshole, most people ignore you because they don't like confrontation. Some people are kind enough or offended enough to say something. Sometimes you see yourself for what you are. After enough time goes by, you might see that you don't want to hurt people. All that was sort of it for me.

I'm not finished.
Understanding Apple
Life is not a game. And that's because, unlike any game, life has no rules. By following this strategy guide, there's absolutely no guarantee you will succeed (btw, what exactly is it to succeed in life?).

People might get a sense of comfort in thinking that life has a recipe, that it has some sort of inherent quest you must conquer. But there's isn't. Religion, technology, culture and art are our way to deal with that.

Life is open for you to make whatever you want of it. And this is the beauty of it all. Do you want to make it a game? Go ahead, lay some rules, build a strategy, get your achievements. But I think there's more to life than following rules and managing your resources. I wouldn't be surprised if the rules changed without warning or if my resources were suddenly depleted without apparent reason. Because life doesn't care about the rationalizations you came up with.

Life is a unique experience that, fortunately, cannot be framed within a metaphor. There are many ways to live (life as a game, life as a movie, life as a story, life as a poem, life as a checklist, life as a tough math problem) and all of them are right. So maybe we shouldn't bother too much about living the right way and instead just enjoy the ride.
The data seems to be coming from these URLs:

http://octoverse.github.com/data/totals.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/shipped-drinkups.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/requested-sponsorships.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/daily-activity.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/sample-events.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/world-110m.json

http://octoverse.github.com/data/world-wo-a-110m.json

and displayed with d3.js (see http://octoverse.github.com/javascripts/all.js)
Steganography is about hiding, not necessarily encoding.

One of the earliest examples of steganography comes from ancient Greece: the king of Miletus would shave the head of his messenger, write the message on the top of the head, then let the hair grow back to hide the writing; the recipient would then shave the messenger again to see the message.

I do not think this qualifies as encoding.
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