skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent.

Although I'm not sure the correct word here is "hacking". Law and government should stop using the word to mean "any adept use of computer knowledge or skills that result in undesirable effects for some party". That could be used to accuse anyone with a computer and an opinion. There needs to be a proper legal definition (similar to how we distinguish between degrees of murder, manslaughter and involuntary homicide).
Heartwave-Sensing Wristband To Keep Your Bitcoin Safe
If this didn't have the word bitcoin in it, people would have flagged it to oblivion.
Well, I didn't necessarily mean 'mix tape' in the traditional sense (where someone just compiles a list of songs together). I meant cutting individual sounds from a song (or songs) and using them to create a new song (possibly combined with some original sounds as well). I don't consider that to be 'fair' use. It seems courts often don't find it to be legal 'fair use' either, based on the history recounted in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_surrounding_music_....

But for something to be a parody of something else it needs to comment upon or mock the original. Most songs, whether they use someone else's samples or not, don't fall into that category.
IMO, C in a unix context is an excellent first language. It is useful in many contexts to learn to look for all the compiler warnings available :). Once you find them I don't think it is particularly hard. I agree about assembler, although I think just learning system calls and C is a good start. "See MIPS Run" is a great way to learn assembler IMO.

I first learned Pascal and was very relieved to move to C. I don't think such limited languages are good for much of anything. They just frustrate users.

I don't know Python but from what I know of it it seems like it would be a fine first language too. Anything else I know of seems like it has significantly wose issues than C IMO.
Specifically why? Because I am really tired of DSL and comcast is the only broadband I could get.
I'm really on the fence with this one. As has been pointed out, the fact that there's some auth somewhere on the server doesn't necessarily mean that those specific documents were supposed to be private. However, as a journalist he decided to publish the documents on his blog which I think we can take to mean that he assumed they were, in some way, "juicy." And he wouldn't think that if he didn't at least suspect that they were supposed to be private.

This is all assumption, of course, but I think it's pretty logical assumption.

Still, freedom of the press is a strong right. Though freedom, as they say, isn't free (there can be and often are consequences to exercising your freedoms). In this case I think he's lucky to just get what amounts to a hefty access fee. If he had stumbled onto U.S. documents he may well have found himself taking a ride in a black helicopter.
Is it as clandestine as the name would suggest?

https://www.asio.gov.au/About-ASIO/Overview.html
Set them up with a unique password; then, even when this situation repeats, you'll only have exposed your Comcast account (likely not that important).
>Good luck on that

Yes, partly because there are too many countries and partly because each time the government of one country tries to shut it down, and fails, it makes bitcoin look stronger and more viable to the others.
> Edit: Many of the subsidies the car-only lifestyle gets are really negative externalities the burden of which is shared by everyone: the public health nightmare of obesity, pollution in the form of smog and runoff, political downsides of dependence on oil. How could those be dealt with in a way that doesn't feel to you like an unjust sin tax or someone forcing their way of life on you?

I don't want subsidies. I don't want any of them. Get rid of them. Car subsidies are just as much an imposition as sin taxes are.

There's no such thing as a free lunch. Automobiles, and in general, industrialization, come with a cost. Externalities (positive or negative) that are a result of hundreds of millions of people acting cannot be eliminated without coercion. And of course, coercion introduces its own form of externality.

There's no such thing as a free lunch. I'd rather we all plead our case to persuade others than shove it down everyone else's throats.

"Oh but that would be great if only people weren't idiots..."

And around in circles we go.
Strongbox: Aaron Swartz's last gift to Internet privacy (May 2013)
FWIW, Windows has an equivalent of /dev/urandom. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa37...
>Part of it is rarely seeing a person of color in a computer engineering role.

It's sad that we live in an age where it's acceptable to avoid a career field because you don't want to be around people of a different skin color.
No I'm not referring to upstart. Incidentally, I'm pretty familiar with apt in the Ubuntu context, but this is not what I was referring to.

For example, take a look at this - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/turpial-3-available-ubunt.... How do you get this into Debian? This is what I mean by software that is published for ubuntu. I do not mean that it cannot be built for debian, but rather that it is not PUBLISHED for debian.

Or is the only option to do a dpkg-build?
Sites that hijack my back button can die in a fire.
Pointers, raw arrays, manual memory management... So, really, you were teaching C. Now, I'm all for teaching beginners the basics, but don't pretend you were actually teaching C++ as it would be used in the real world.
Sure; and you'd have to import the thing that contains 'by'.

It's still ugly, and would prevent e.g. a radix sort being used when projecting an integer as the sort key, or American flag sort for strings.
The shuttle is representative of a class of problems that occur in almost every software project: uncontrolled complexity. It's easier to fix the symptoms in software than in other fields, so this issue runs rampant throughout all of IT.
Then some landlords would 'grow rich' from selling property made more valuable by etcetcetc.
>I don't think either of us is capable of making definitive statements on the harm of women-only education programs

Well, it's pretty much a given that they're increasing sex based discrimination in the world. Both as a primary effect ("we only take people with vaginas") as well as a significant secondary effect ("wait, so I can't go because I'm a boy?").

>I do believe however that it's completely and utterly impossible to improve gender dynamics without putting emphasis on it.

It's a free country, so you're free to believe that. Just acknowledge that you're an advocate for sex-based discrimination. Incidentally, this makes you a sexist.
So does FF (normally at least)
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The State is cruel and merciless.
Mattermark's a great example of building something you NEED today. love their story and product, it's a game-changer.

i hope they develop a product for founders. we shouldn't have to crawl ALL OF THE SITES just to do market/competitive research. it's time-consuming and inefficient.
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How serious are the risks to the company's other assets? Can a company limit the damage to its other assets if the money it set aside for insurance gets used up?
http://www.random.org/ uses atmospheric radio noise to generate random numbers, similar to what you are proposing.
I don't think "you" did anything. It was the preferences and decisions of millions of cooperating parties that affected underlying value.
Article should define PAE (never use an acronym without defining it, that should be SOP).

Patent Assertion Entity: http://www.generalpatent.com/glossary-terms
Wow. That is hilarious. I was going to comment that it should be an Apple/Android app just for shits and giggles but after a cursory search I discovered that it already is! And it costs $1!
>Ever since that generation the gender gap has been widening

Well, it might have something to do with the huge emphasis on judging people based on their gender that the feminists and sjws have been shoving down everyone's throats lately.

Seriously, she doesn't like the increasing number of women only events because they make it harder for women (at all stages of their careers) to be accepted like everyone else. Surprise, emphasizing someone's gender as the most important thing about you makes people more likely to treat you differently because of it.

I'm part of the younger generation, and I feel exactly the same way she does. These sexist policies are making my life WAY more difficult. I'm jealous of people who got to experience tech before it got popular enough to become a target for feminists.

>You do not represent all women in technology. You get to represent yourself.

Any given feminist will happily claim to be the voice of all women everywhere. It's only when a woman disagrees with their dogma that a woman is only allowed to speak for herself.
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Everyone, literally everyone who I know who advocated this type of position became silent when they had children.

Unless you have a parent in the household who isn't working, life gets pretty crappy without a car. The person who doesn't work spends half the day running errands that would take 45m in a car. If both parents work, You pay 2x for diapers at CVS vs Target, spend half your evening on the bus to pick up your kid from daycare and huff groceries home for dinner, etc.
> that the free market demonstrably cannot achieve on its own

Are you referring to the free market that caused suburbs to become a thing only "due to the subsidization of the automobile infrastructure"?[1]

So somehow, people are blaming sprawl on the subsidization of automobiles---which, let's not kid ourselves, is done only by government and corporations in bed with government---but you, you, are saying that this is really a demonstrable failure of a free market? (Which, of course, you proclaim because it doesn't meet some arbitrary standard that seems impossible to measure. Which apparently---and conveniently---seems to line up with what you happen to like as a way of life.)

Have I got that right? Or are you referencing some other failure?

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7208650
Same premise as Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger
>Recent bank reforms in the US created a requirement for any institution offering any checking account to offer at least one checking account option with no fees and no overdraft protection.

Can you show this option available for, say, Chase? I hadn't heard of this reform, and I'm a bit skeptical it exists. (Although I'd be happy to be proven wrong.)
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Monopolistic tendencies. High prices. OK quality. Terrible customer service. They're repeatedly ranked among the worst companies in the US in customer service and they've actually gotten lower scores than the IRS in the American Consumer Satisfaction Index.

In the ACSI Comcast's Internet service gets a score of 62 - the lowest of any ISP measured.[1] The IRS gets a 75 for individual e-filers and a 64 for self-employed and small business filers (scores are lower for big business and paper filers)[2].

[1]http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
[2]http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
"No word for entrepreneur", blah blah blah. Good on Quebec.
But their devs can't charge as much if they say "I implemented the random number generator, is one line of bash code" rather than "I created a thermal system that is connected to our server where we will use its data as seeds to generate cryptographically random numbers".

Capitalism, we all play it ;)
Previous discussion of The New Yorker's Stronbox implementation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5712030

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/stron...
>I could be wrong, but I think PTSD can be induced with images.

You're wrong. I know tumblr likes to use the word "trigger" for just about everything, but real diagnosed PTSD is predicated on events significantly more traumatizing than seeing some photographs. There's nothing life-threatening about an image, no matter how disturbing.
Spam account created after 6 or 7 other accounts were banned for spamming this network of sites.
Yeah, Chapter One of any economics textbook makes clear that it takes two to tango.

Actually, a lot more than two.
The bus network is also crazy-extensive, and used by a large portion of the city:
http://media.metro.net/riding_metro/maps/images/system_map.g...
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The money spend where '1/10 the money' was needed to save their lives is additional money spent, not 'instead money'.

In this particular case, the 'instead money' was pure profits for a company (and some taxes for the government).

Do you really think that the 'instead money' would have been a better choice?

Money is just money and is completely replaceable. Actually, we have machines to make it: it's printable. Actually, we don't even have to physically print the money to 'print the money'... It's a number in a computer file.

Every dollar is the same as every other dollar.

Each and every life, on the other hand, is unique.
> Muni is the slowest major transit system in America—and among the least reliable and most overcrowded.

http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2010-02-01/learning...
Someone has.
http://www.amazon.com/King-Bitcoin-Kayleen-Knight-ebook/dp/B...
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Nuevo estudio certifica el peligro del wifi en los testículos
On some level, this is the profitability dream. Engineer something that doesn't cost a lot to run, doesn't need to be changed, and makes a ton of money. Engineers don't like to hear it, because it means less demand for our services, but it's what's best for business.

You can't always drive increased revenue through increased R&D. At this point, substantially everyone who wants a DVD delivery service uses Netflix. As long as someone doesn't come out with a service that makes it significantly easier to rent DVDs over the internet, and as long as attrition caused by the software is very low, any more money spent on Netflix's DVD service is throwing bad money after good.
Yeah, we try to compensate for that by increasing the data volume to balance out outlier feedback and identify whether something is a trend or not. But it's not easy.
What's the best way to determine quality over quantity?

Is it best to wait languages out for a while and see how much they are adopted by others first?
The market failure to which I was referring is the ongoing situation where demand for housing does not lead to communities being built, only housing developments that force a car-only lifestyle with all its negative externalities. As I've said, suburbs can be done right, but that's not what's getting built. This should surprise nobody, because the housing market hits pretty much all of the exceptions under which free-market capitalism isn't even theoretically optimal.

But yeah, in my area the cost of upgrading the road network is mostly not borne by the people moving to the area and necessitating the new and wider roads. That's one of the reasons our new housing developments are too big.

> "Which apparently---and conveniently---seems to line up with what you happen to like as a way of life."

This is not a coincidence, suspicious or otherwise. It is part of the definition of Pareto efficiency.
suburban areas 20 miles out worked before the car (100 years ago) and before the car was convenient (60 years ago).
The New York City metro area is about 25M people, 8M live in NYC itself. It's an area stretching from eastern Pennsylvania to Suffolk County, and Central Jersey to Kingston, ny and Commecticut.

Lots and lots of people live in the New York suburbs, millions actually. They left the city because the costs of living there are just too high. Many/most businesses did too. Many of the buildings in the manhattan skyline are mostly empty. The diversified industry and commercial businesses that made NYC such a powerhouse of economic activity in my dad's youth are long gone. (To suburban hellholes in the South)
I've lived in Toronto. And San Francisco. The TTC is a thousand times better than either BART or MUNI.

You can actually sit on your seats (see: BART). There aren't giant shit-stains on the carpet (who the fuck puts carpet in a public transit vehicle?!). The trains run on time for the most part (see: MUNI). The stations don't literally smell like shit and piss (see: BART). Oh, and it takes 23 mins to travel 7 mi, instead of 55min (York Mills - Union station, compare with Ocean Beach - Embarcadero).

The BART and MUNI are horrific transit agencies. The TTC ain't perfect, but it is strictly better in every single way. You Torontonians have easily the second- or third-best mass transit system on this continent. Nothing in the SF Bay Area even comes into the same league.
>>>That compares to San Jose's fourth-quarter median price of $645,000; Sunnyvale's $964,000; Milpitas' $648,000; Oakland's $435,500; and San Francisco's $867,000.

Can anyone explain why Sunnyvale has a higher median than SFO? Is it because SFO has more apartments compared to individual houses in Sunnyvale.
I don't think any would walk into a high risk venture at that age. Its more like doing something that can bring in money without putting much at risk.
That sounds strangely like the problem systemd was created to solve. It's supposed to detect double forks in the started daemon and track pid files named in it's configuration file.

At least that's how I read it in numerous articles on LWN and mailing lists, I haven't tried it on an actual system yet.
Worst idea ever! It's like "upgrading" humans to walk on 4 legs.
Does C#/.NET have a fully supported runtime for any operating system that can delete (or rename) an open file? ;-)

Quick advice: if you have a valid point, you should state it in a form more conducive to debate. I agree with you Java has some quirks "more modern" languages don't, including C#, which started its life, more or less, as a replacement to Microsoft J++ after Sun successfully made a painful point Microsoft could not "embrace, extend and suffocate" Java just because they wanted to.
You should use init-checkconf before enabling the scripts.
Ask HN: Good library/tool for realtime audio streaming in ARM Linux?
Hi everyone, I'm building an application for ARM Linux that requires playing audio (voice) streamed in real time over the net. We have a websockets connection set up that we will use to pass the audio packets over. I'm wondering what tools people might suggest for buffering, decoding, and replaying the packets locally on the ARM Linux device. gstreamer looks promising, although it might be much more powerful/complicated than we need. Are there other libraries out there for this kind of thing? Open source apps that might be easily adapted? Thanks!
It's worth noting that their Facebook page has a cover photo of a woman in a bikini, so it appears that they are actively trying to restrict their client base. This is their wholes strategy.
The 2,500-Person Tech Mixer That Was Not a Party
Worthless article, the author should be outright ashamed of even bothering to write it.
> In my experience TAing an undergrad course that used C++, almost all of the things that left students scratching their heads were things that are present in C.

Then why are you teaching C++ like you are teaching C?
SIGSTOP is actually pretty clean, but it takes away some debugging methods from the sysadmin. Please note that systemd uses PID files to track services, which is an incredibly horrible method (although not as bad as ptrace).
If we assume C++ and Lisp are local maxima, dragging C++ developers halfway to Lisp may not be the best thing to do.
You've missed the point..
Why Uber Might Become a Call Center That Also Delivers Pizza
Well why can't we go further? We have the technology for self-driving cars, and public transportation that doesn't suck, but for a multitude of reasons we don't utilize this. And beautiful living spaces really is a superficial reason to want cars to go away -- definitely secondary to (if you reread my OP) the financial, environmental, and mental burdens of driving, as well as the countless deaths caused by drivers every year.
Reminds me of Arthur Benjamin's talk on focussing on statistics instead of calculus.

http://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_s_formula_for_chang...
I left the reply in jest. But while we're here. Capacitors vary widely in price by type, capacitance, and quality. A 1uF multilayer ceramic is probably one of the most common and cheapest to buy capacitors there is, except maybe the .01uF. Output coupling of an audio amplifier requires a lot more capacitance than ceramics can muster. That cap, if present is going to be an electrolytic, and it is going to cost more than $0.001 or even $0.01 at qty. Although I'm reading that direct coupled amplifiers are all the rage these days, probably so they can get the expensive electrolytics off the BOM.
>still doesn't have basic features like a respawn delay

What are you talking about?

http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#respawn-limit
Because when the good times stop rolling, these high-earning tech workers getting bussed in to wherever they go will vanish.

My uncle owned a few properties, mostly outright with no mortgages. Once he found a good tenant, he'd generally only raise the rents to absorb new property taxes.

Everything has a price. If your investment horizon is 30 years vs 30 months, the safe gets are good bets.
your comment is highly degrading to the significant portion of the population that can't afford cars and do have children.

studies also show that children who venture on their own (walking and biking) establish greater independence and a better happiness index. (and more than likely fewer asthma /allergies if not in a car centric area )
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When you eliminate zoning laws and allow greater density, housing supply increase and housing prices decrease (relative to what they would do if there was less housing stock available). With greater density, public transit makes a lot more sense.
Not sure if trolling. I use NJTransit on a daily 2 hour commute. The main problem with NJTransit is that the ride home is almost never on time. 90% of the time, it's 5-10 mins late. But I can count on one hand how many times the morning ride has been delayed over the past 2 years, most of which had to do with atrocious winter weather affecting all the trains. If Caltrain had to deal with Northeast winter weather it would be 10x worse than NJT.
the elderly and the handicapped are most likely to need public transportation or a walkable community. Both of these situations inhibit income (especially blue collar). A car that can pick up a wheel chair is not cheap.
I find the notion of syscalls as the interface to an OS more intriguing than the world according to C. C as it stands may be ubiquitous, but other languages can conceivably be implemented as peers to it (rather than on top of it - it took me far too long to realise that). It's fundamental neither on bare metal nor in the presence of an OS.
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systemd post 204 requires that it is the only cgroups writer, and tramples over every other writer. Some have said that this is because of a decision by upstream kernel maintainers to allow only one cgroups writer, but this decision has not yet happened. Do you know what version of systemd coreOS uses?
NSUserDefaults Best Practices
Proxy adviser backs Apple in stock buyback fight with Icahn
Visit a second day and see if your opinion remains. Muni is the worst major-city public transit system in the nation.