skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is misguided. The Occupy protests were often focused on providing privileges like housing, shelter, and amenities to those who didn't have access to it.
Javascript has/had an obvious competitive advantage by being right there in the browser, what's perl's edge?
i'm not arguing that the president deserves an outrageous salary, i was simply pointing out that "attending parties thrown by wealthy alumni" was not an example of his taking the money and not doing his job, even though it may seem so on the surface.
I said authority doesn't work, not science doesn't work. I think science works in a way other than authority.

Being right more often does not mean you're right in any particular dispute, so how exactly does it matter? Every dispute has to be resolved based on the actual ideas in question, not the authority of the person who said a particular idea.
It's not "He"(Mark) anymore. Article has since been updated, it's MtGox as a whole that resigned.
Awesome suggestion Jamesk. I love the idea of curating full playlists too. What if we sent you redemption instead of actual files of music?
Nice document you supplied. Did you read it?

This lawsuit is about repeated assurances to the MANY plantiffs that the only plans for the property were for "low rise" (below the tree line) water tanks and the company later deciding to violate existing zoning regulations and seek to built the 160 ft water tank.

Your bias on this issue is only exceeded by your laziness.
There is no way in hell the aggregate interests of the telecom industry will allow broadband to be declared a common carrier.
Why are you massively editing your comments hours later? You are a troll.
It's usually available on every single *nix install by default?
I think the crucial thing to understanding this is this diagram -

UserAgent Proxy Server
TLS Session #1 TLS Session #2
<------------> <------------->
HTTP
<----------------------------------->

which makes it clear that the point is to be able to say "I trust this proxy sufficiently that I'm ok with it acting as an intermediary, but I still don't want my stuff in the clear between me and the proxy or between the proxy and the far end server."

So it's about enabling the user to trust -only- the proxy, whereas currently in order to get utility out of a proxy you need to send the traffic as plain HTTP which then trusts both the proxy and the networks over which the data will travel.

That seems to me to absolutely meet the requirements for "strictly better".
You list five countries, only two of which are in Africa, and yet you generalize your prescription to one continent. You do know there are some 52 other countries/economies in Africa?
I used DS3 as an example. But no, even in 2014, you've only paid for a DS3 (or whatever) worth of bandwidth in theory. It's not just the last mile that's oversubscribed -- so are all the trunks leading up to it. If that's changed between then and now, I would lay pretty good money that it's changed to make things worse, not better.

Without meaning to express either approval or cynicism, market power has always been the only thing that matters in this business. But CDNs have paid big ISPs special rates for years, because they really do put special strains on infrastructure. And my impression remains that that's what this particular battle is ultimately about.
To your last point about regexes: I think the general idea is to discourage their use, at least as a default. It is so easy to use them in Perl that they are used way too much, e.g. when you could do a regular (and faster) string search.
I disagree. A long list of the things that replaced Perl in various applications obscures things rather than revealing the basic trend.

The overall trend is Perl died everywhere.

I personally think Perl's death was proper.

During Perl's upswing, it's various absurdities were all touted as virtues. The weird symbols and the ability to do amazing things with a single line were both proof that Perl was the language for the people who knew more than us. At the certain point, the emperor's cloth just faded and people wanted languages to accomplish things rather than to prove they were smart.

Perl has positives, Perl's weirdnesses have positives. But once it lost it's cachet, none of the tradeoffs between obscurity and power look good. And yeah, other powerful interpreted languages arose. But which still doesn't matter which one won because once the "magic", the reality distortion field, was gone, every other good interpreted language looked better.
The exact same thing is happening with MtGox: https://www.bitcoinbuilder.com/

Looks like Gox bitcoins are currently available for roughly a 60% discount.
People have been crying bubble for the past n years... Seems pretty pointless by and large.
Yes, there are Mt Gox BTC, trading for about half of a real world BTC: https://bitcoinbuilder.com/

There is some fear that funds may have been lost on a large scale, due to this bug, and that Mt Gox simply won't be able to make good on their accounts. Some have suggested that Gox is buying BTC at the current deflated price to try to cover the gap. All of this is hearsay, and I don't know how much of it I would believe. It's difficult to take the Gox folks at their word, however, given their reticence about providing details of what they're up to, and the slowness of a return to normalcy.
Why you should read more.
There is some use in this article though, because it gives some good examples of terrible crypto. Oddly enough the "combine different hash functions!" meme isn't just limited to amateurs: "An Secure Hash Algorithim (SHA) hash of the received challenge string, the peer challenge string, the session identifier, and the MD4-hashed version of the user's password."

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc957983.aspx
Or you know, I could just snap a picture, and be done with it. Again, optional, but would complement your app! Good luck.
I decided to get a mohawk (and dye it purple) last year. I also decided to wear nothing but business suits with tie and french cuff shirts when out in public during this period. The company I work for slapped pictures of me all over their Facebook feed a week after I made the change. I went to a developer conference and got mugged by a dutch film crew. I caught people using me as a landmark when the main conference hall got crowded. I popped up on instagram more often than the keynote speaker for the event. On several ocassions I had total strangers approach my table while dining out with my wife to tender complements. I'm not sure what my point is here other than I don't feel any pressure to conform to a given uniform and my intermittent refusal to do so hasn't seemed to impact my career so far.
JSON and a side-by-side view would make this invaluable.
If Mt. Gox crashes owing as much money as I think they do, Charlie and Mark will be sharing a cell.
Stupidity and greed. Many people arguing about this at the Wall Street Journal, for example, are convinced that there are no such things as broadband caps or QOS levels and that everyone who uses Netflix streaming is freeloading without paying for the bandwidth they use. In their mind companies like Netflix and people who argue for net neutrality are identified with welfare cheats and socialism. I wish I were making this up.
I think it's a bummer that there aren't some option in between. I could see 64 meg pages being really nice.

Ultimately it would be handy to be able to tune page size for the loads that you see. I could see page sizes jumping by 4x or 16x (2 bits or 4 bits) each time being reasonable.

The real issue the author is talking about isn't "how much memory does a process allocate" but rather "how many total pages does the OS have to keep track of and what percentage of those fit in the TLB at any one time?"
Good point. They should be spreading things around more.
Have you actually used a Firefox OS phone?

You seem like you can't conceive that html apps on a FirefoxOS phone can be just as fast as any good app on another phone.

If you tried Cordova/Phonegap on Android and didn't find the performance adequate, if you tried a web view on iOS and didn't find the performance adequate, just don't take the shortcut of believing that you would get the same inadequate performance on Firefox OS. The whole stack is different.

HTML5 based os need a lot of processing power,webos already proved it in the past.
WebOS and its fate proves nothing regarding the performance of mozilla's OS.

That's why firefox os will fail,it's not designed for lowend devices.
It IS designed for lowend devices. My Keon boots more than 3 times faster than my HTC Hero. In its early days, B2G was even booting in 10 seconds (flat). You just didn't see it with your own eyes.

I suggest you revise your 'pure crap' opinion when you actually see the OS running in front of you.

If this was a troll (feature phones? are you kidding me? We're talking about a phone that can really browse the web, here), I don't know what to say. Otherwise, you're just full of FUD.

Disclaimer: I have only used the Keon. I don't have any experience with the ZTE or another one, but I'm still pretty confident they're not 'pure crap and a total waste of money'.
Whatsapp's ARPU is a little under $1. By your numbers, they have 42 years of revenue in that figure.
This is what happens when Randall Munroe nerd-snipes Norvig. Its a beautiful thing, very interesting!
I highly recommend Programming in Objective-C by Stephen G. Kochan. After that, a free Stanford course on iTunes U is a great resource for wrapping your head around Xcode and iOS development concepts. The course number is CS193p taught by Professor Paul Hegarty. I think the newest semester is called "Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPhone and iPad". iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-7-apps-for...
Authorization via sphinx? Interesting!

In any case, we use Perl heavily at Craigslist and are helping to sponsor the continued work on Perl6. I don't think it's nearly as bad as people seem to think. But time will tell, of course.
This is a great post, but in these comments there is a strange fixation on the terminology. Is it really a mockup? Is the author describing an interface or an experience? None of these comments really say why the distinction is more important than the point of the post, which is to get an idea in front of users.

But if the obsession over the term is forcing you to ignore the point of this post, possibly this will help: a guy at Google apparently decided that the distinction was enough to coin the word "pretotyping": http://www.scribd.com/doc/62418833/Pretotype-It-Second-Preto...

(Even if the terminology doesn't matter to you, skim the book--it's free here and has got some great ideas).
It seems the perception of Perl 6 as a long delayed update to Perl 5 is a serious problem for the languages. Perl 6 is not really the next version of Perl 5, it is more like another language.

Perl 5 is still under active development. The latest stable release was version 18.2, made in January. Perl 5 will continue to exist even when more people start using Perl 6. Also, Perl 6 is available and usable already.
A Star In a Bottle
From the perspective of someone who uses sims in the UK, the US and Australia I can say anecdotally why it makes sense to me. There are many more choices available in the UK. As far as Germany or the Netherlands, Spain and so on are concerned, I can't really say though I suspect it's for similar reasons.

In the US I've tended to go with an MVNO like H2O on the back of AT&T. In Australia Optus on a pay as you go. Both are choices from a limited range when compared to the UK.

You can walk past even a 3 store in the UK and see things like a monthly £5 deal with variants that increase data allowance at the expense of SMS. ( forgetting for the moment MMS which simply value adds the later proposition ). It makes sense to spend as little as possible, especially given the austere conditions, to obtain the highest data allowance with adequate voice minutes and to use WhatsApp as a replacement for SMS, which rationally appears as a tax on data allowance, given the expectation of free texting. ( And now add MMS ).

Include the street stalls selling sims for £5 to £10 with a greater focus on expat segments of the population, with data included and so a bundled international SMS substitute. Add mix and match packs from Dolphin and so on.

It's highly competitive. Use wifi when available, back up is the carriers, and get as much data and use that up.

SMS was a surprise cash cow for telcos. WhatsApp played that massive user base well I have to say. The US and AUS I think lacked the competitive market to notice it as much.
I've tested content locking skins with hundreds of thousands of visitors per month and can tell you that design and colors matter. But a big part of it is matching the design to your user's mentality. If the website looks like garbage when its supposed to communicate professionalism, it doesn't matter what kind of small adjustments you make - the outcome will always be minor.
Uhuh. Now here's the question though : which problem is easier, and will be solved first. Because the second problem solved will be stillborn.

a) make humans immortal

b) make a non-human conscious being that's immortal

I would argue that we're much closer to b), and that it's a much easier problem to solve.

Even if the above is wrong, an artificial lifeform would solve many more problems that merely immortality. How do you let humans operate in tiny spaces (e.g. in tubes with a diameter of 2cm). How do you let humans operate "in the large", e.g. moving 5000ton concrete blocks ? How do you let humans operate in unstable conditions (e.g. mining, handling explosives, on the battlefield, ...). How do you build a star-trek transporter (for computer programs, that's a solved problem). How do you keep them alive in space, underwater, in the ground ?

All of those are things where an artificial lifeform would have a massive advantage.

So I believe in the matrix prediction. We'll build artificial lifeforms. We'll get our collective asses handed to us by these lifeforms first economically, then militarily. And this lifeform will colonize the galaxy in ~1 million years.
I'd be hoping for the safety of a prison cell if I were Karpeles. I'd imagine the security situation is very bad for them right now. It seems like the BTC are there, though, especially if Gox was following even rudimentary security procedures...

BitCoin just got very serious and much less fun. I guess that's what happens when it suddenly accounts for real, actual money and real actual livelihoods. I sincerely hope everyone gets through safely.

I use CoinBase which (seems like it) is slightly more reputable.

Edit: Madoff was much more. Still, this would be significant.
Carriers _are_ dumb pipes. Carriers are fighting to get rid of that. Internet _is_ dump pipes connected together. Carriers are fighting against that.
This does not look like a merge error. The added line stands alone and it's very well located for an exploit.
The issue is not wether spidermonkey or v8 is faster than dalvik, the issue is wether the UI feels responsive or not.

On a low hand device,you cant honestly say, an HTML5 ui on firefox os will be faster and more reponsive than an android ui coded with the android framework. Wether X javascript engine is fast or not is irrelevant. Users are not stupid, they can tell a fast and responsive ui from a clunky HTML/JS one.

Finally Javascript gives you 0 tool for manual memory management,which is central for any embedded programming. On Android and Iphone one can go down to C/C++ if necessary.

The idea of a 25$ device that would run javascript programs/uis efficiently is preposterous.
Ironically that whole thing is essentially all about NetFlix as well: Australia with decent broadband would be a tempting market to enter, and would obliterate Foxtel overnight.

Currently Foxtel also signs all sorts of exclusivity agreements to make sure no one can offer streaming services for regular TV in Australia either - hence the mystery of us still receiving American TV shows up to a year after they finish running in the US. There's a reason we're #1 for torrent piracy.
webskills only existed some half decade later or more...

one thing i learned fast was that a 1 line dial in bbs had good attendence, so i started to run mine after some time. was interesting, and damn cheap since nothing beats free
Why we invent new programming languages
The solution to inequality in San Francisco
The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1999)
Why Super-Fast Internet Is Coming Super Slowly
Inequality, Productivity, and WhatsApp
Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker/Ultimate Bet were the 3 affected by what is known as "black friday" in the poker community. Poker Stars paid back players relatively quickly so I'm not sure anyone sold any of their frozen assets on that site. For Absolute Poker, the exchange rate began at 50 cents on the dollar and plummeted quickly from there all the way down to 1 cent on the dollar. For Full Tilt, the exchange rate started higher but also eventually went as low as 1 cent on the dollar. 14 months after black friday, Poker Stars bought Full Tilt Poker and has since returned all funds owed to Full Tilt players. Ultimate Bet still has not paid any players back and likely never will.

Fun story: I was a professional online poker player when black friday happened. And I just happened to be in Guatemala, on my honeymoon. Prior to going on my honeymoon, I had experienced the worst downswing in my career and all we had left (about 20k) was now frozen in my Poker Stars account. When we returned home, we didn't have enough to make the next month's mortgage payment. What we did have was about 1k in cash from our wedding gifts. The night after we got back, I took that 1k to the local casino and played in the highest cash game I could buy into. It was high risk but I didn't have time to grind it out at lower stakes. Luckily I went on an amazing heater, ran the 1k up to 10k and that was enough to last us until Poker Stars unfroze my account.
Except that we won't either, as the media companies (funnily enough, many of which are tightly tied to US ISPs) and Governments impose filter upon filter on us.

Tor, i2p, and GNUnet, will be the only places free from censorship, and even they will be labelled as being for criminals only; why would we want to bypass the filters, we must be either pirates or paedophiles. We're witnessing the swift end of the very short-lived era of free information for all over the next five years.
I believe you meant to say 'shit is wack'
What Do Data Scientists See?
Since bitcoin is a decentralized currency that is controlled by algorithms rather than one or a small handful of individuals, there is no option to simply “print more money”. This precludes governments from instituting reckless monetary policies and subverting entire economies on little more than a whim.

Countries will just have fiscal rather than monetary disasters in such situations. Look at Greece. Really, hyperinflation is a pretty rare occurrence - obviously it's bad, but bitcoin boosters and gold bugs seem to think it's practically the norm or that all fiat currencies eventually fall victim to it. This is simply not the case.
Madoff was at least $10 billion. Gox never had that much of anything.
NSA moves from bugging German Chancellor to bugging German ministers
I tried the ZTE model. Honestly at that price,it's a scam,especially when for the same price you can get an Android 2.3.X phone,which has a browser and all the apps you'd ever want...
The author didn't say those were continents, she said 'foo has occurred across continents', then gave examples of countries on different continents where it occurred.

The sprinkbok is native only to South Africa, Botswana, and Angola - would you rail that it should not be described as an African animal because it doesn't cover a majority of the continent?
Should we list bugs in the header of a source file?
this. is. awesome!

hollywood pressures comcast.

comcast shakedown netflix.

netflix offers money to comcast, comcast and hollywood is pleased.

so far it sucks... but then:

netflix pass that as tax to user.

users flee from comcast.

new providers appears.

hollywood cant shake them down.

for the first time, ISP in america have a truly competitive market.

the end.
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139321387226212&w=2
When I came out of Google I could see the Python features that endeared it to Googlers (although I expect Go to replace Python pretty much everywhere there eventually). Blekko is a perl shop and it certainly felt a bit strange, but having gotten acclimated I can see the appeal. Every now and then I come across some really idiomatic perl and find it mind bendingly opaque, but for the most part I can code up a quick script in it faster than I ever could in Python.

Of course when you write code in a dozen languages you stop seeing the language after a while and just see the code. And at that point it really is all the same.
Apple's Security Mess Extends To Mail, Twitter, iMessage, Facetime And More
Silicon Valley (HBO) Season 1 – Long Trailer
Ah, I always thought "WhatsApp" was a weird name for a messaging app. Makes sense that the first version was just a status-update-sharer, a "what's up?" app. Nice.
The problem with saying "equal" is that there are two ways to achieve that.
If those BTC are gone, this is either the largest-scale loss of money in history or the largest scale theft of money, dwarfing even Madoff.

12,437,700 bitcoins have been mined, with a market cap today of around $7.4B [1]. Madoff scammed investors to the tune of around $50B [2], so even if MtGox owned every bitcoin ever mined, they would have a bit of catching up to do.

[1] http://bitcoinwatch.com/

[2] http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/12/madoff-ponzi-hedge-pf-ii-in...
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you are some 5 yrs late... ISPs already put usage in the contracts.
I worked with a group once that stored both MD5 and SHA1 hashes of passwords. Their reasoning was that it was WAY harder to get a collision with TWO hash functions.
Just wait until this begins to affect our online gaming sessions.
Except for the last bit, also Bitstamp (a slightly more reputable site) had the same story. They fixed it in a few days, though.
Unibody.js skates the safer side of the line.
Ah I see. Well it is encouraging in that it is not totally crazy! Any way I have never heard of such a system in India, where I live. So maybe if I or someone else can make this work there is a lot of money to be made here.
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