skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're obviously not familiar...

So to combat my personal opinion that advocates of naked Libertarianism are essentially juvenile, you provide a naked display of naive realism:

The three "tenets" of naive realism are:

That I see entities and events as they are in objective reality, and that my social attitudes, beliefs, preferences, priorities, and the like follow from a relatively dispassionate, unbiased and essentially "unmediated" comprehension of the information or evidence at hand.

That other rational social perceivers generally will share my reactions, behaviors, and opinions—provided they have had access to the same information that gave rise to my views, and provided that they too have processed that information in a reasonably thoughtful and open-minded fashion.

That the failure of a given individual or group to share my views arises from one of three possible sources—

- the individual or group in question may have been exposed to a different sample of information than I was (in which case, provided that the other party is reasonable and open minded, the sharing or pooling of information should lead us to reach an agreement);

- the individual or group in question may be lazy, irrational, or otherwise unable or unwilling to proceed in a normative fashion from objective evidence to reasonable conclusions; or

- the individual or group in question may be biased (either in interpreting the evidence, or in proceeding from evidence to conclusions) by ideology, self-interest, or some other distorting personal influence.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_(psychology...
This isn't goto's fault. A return, or a "finished = true;" or a ton of other code could have had the same result. Using a goto means it is easier to find it than some other similar mistakes.
Come to think of it, I don't think I hear teaching described as an industry very often.

What would be different if teaching were considered an industry? Would it be better?
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My thoughts exactly. On a crowd-sourcing platform based on consensus you shouldn't need moderators messing around with the stories being posted there.

As PG put it "if it's what the community wants, it's what the community wants" (even though I'm very disappointed he's still heavily penalizing stories with "NSA" in them).
Doesn't it mean we can do CA-free authenticated HTTPS? That would make it useful for me.
Awesome! Thanks for making my day :)
It would be interesting to put these transactions, or the whole blockchain, in a graph database like Neo4J. Dealing with it as a graph would make it easier to find the sinks for all the transactions that started from that wallet. It would also be interesting to look at deviations from the historical statistical distribution in the aggregate of these transactions as a function of time, that would show when a single actor moved a lot of bitcoins even if it is allocated among many addresses. I would bet that the thieves didn't bother to match their transactions with the background statistical distribution.
I use Astyle to enforce both braces and indentation automatically. In VC Pre-Build Event add:

Astyle -A1 -j -c -v asterisk.cpp asterisk.h
(Sorry asterisks italicize on HN)
http://astyle.sourceforge.net/
Strongly agree with the lesson. I got burned once, produced a security hole by merging a messy config file. The problem was quickly detected, but I have not checked in a single commit after that without first going through all the diffs. Plus, I sometimes notice possible improvements during such a review. It's very helpful.
I don't think that anyone got censored here, and I'm a big Greenwald supporter.

I think reddit needs to reform their moderator system immediately. Whether it's issues like this one, or the /r/standupshots fiasco, content is simply too controlled to be useful.

It's very similar to what happened with digg. Control of the medium became less democratic and more centralized. This time, it's in the hands of moderators rather than very powerful users. The problem is the same.

I'd like to see reddit eliminate the default subs and allow subs there by way of voting. As it is, it's too easy for a moderator to control a sub, and no easy way to get rid of them.

Subreddits are amazing, don't get me wrong. They're just subject to becoming less useful as they get bigger. Ironically, the subreddits I really like are usually the ones with very strict moderation. Reddit needs to find a way to bridge the gap between the users who unsubscribe from all the default subs and the users who never log in.

I'd like to see a reddit clone that used dogecoin for up votes and featured both increased mod power and increased transparency.
Microsoft is switching to a "Devices and Services" company, didn't you get the memo?

Anyway, MSFT should really just charge Enterprises for software, give it away to consumers, and monetize services/devices, as they have stated.

Charging any amount of money for a consumer OS is stupid: it's not about the revenue but getting lock-in to the ecosystem. Microsoft is in dire risk of losing the consumer mindshare (to the extent that they already haven't).

Startups are all using Apple products. Go to almost any large corporation and you're going to see a lot larger proportion of Mac products than 5-10 years ago (MacBooks).

I don't believe it can be understated what a potential disaster this represents for Microsoft.
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If you exclude investigative reporting from "news," then that means that the veracity of news is predicated on perfect trust in institutions. You must assume that all the pronouncements and press releases of governments, corporations, and interest groups are completely honest and accurate.
Nothing fake about accessor properties. Means you can lazily generate the string for .innerHTML and such, though!
> I disagree with the premise that news shouldn't contain any opinion

Nobody's asserting that premise. The question is whether /r/news should contain opinion.
You would know, if you did this to someones brain it would have lesions and damage. Although you would have to give them an MRI to find it. It would appear as if they had died of a stroke.
But tracing bitcoins through the blockchain is largely a computational problem. Compute only gets cheaper. Identifying a robber in a ski mask is in a different problem domain.

I had never really thought about the consequences of a public blockchain and the decreasing cost of analyzing that blockchain.

I seem to recall a news story about how people who spied against US in the 40's and 50's were caught later in the 70's and 80's because the intercepted cipher texts had been kept for decades until technology was able to break and decrypt them. Looking at the blockchain reminds me of that feat. Of course, that could have also been a poorly written thriller I'm remembering instead...
a. This struck me as dramatically unprofessional. How could they not do caching? Mind blowing when you consider that they knew their audience was a significant part of the country.

b. The explanation of cache seemed a bit too plain and didn't give enough context in the article. I was thinking an analogy might have work better, such as:

Caching is way of reducing the amount of work that needs to be done by a system. Suppose you had a system that was hooked up to a thermometer and reading the temperature from this thermometer takes 1 second.

Without caching, every time you asked the system what the temperature was, it would do a new reading from the thermometer. If 1000 people asked the system what the temperature was, it would do 1000 readings, which would take 1000 seconds collectively.

With caching, the first time the system was asked, it would do a reading and it would save the reading somewhere it could get it much faster than 1 second, let's say 0.01 seconds. For all subsequent readings, it would use the saved reading, until enough time had pasted to do warrant doing a new reading.

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Obviously, my version is 3 paragraphs long so it's not ideal either :D
I thought this was largely taken care of by Google Panda?
that's true but there are other, material changes in the file including conditional logic very close to the bug - to me that says there was at least some additional editing going on, giving opportunity to introduce an error.

if the entire diff was just + goto fail; that would be extremely suspicious, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I also don't understand what point you're trying to make with these responses :)
I believe this is by design and with agreement from Snowden.
No, it doesn't. It means that a different set of huge organizations, this time explicitly including world governments, will get added to the list of CA-equivalents.

Post-NSA-revelations, DNSSEC-based browser security is lunacy.
The problem is that "objectivity" is often used as a way to frame the debate. I think you should listen to some Chomsky. He has a lot of examples of this happening.
I dont see why Windows 8 would be any less developer friendly than OSX for example. Of course they have their own platform stuff (and OSX has as well) but you don't need to use it. Even for web development as most people today use vagrant to virtualize their development enviroment, i don't see a difference.
I am actually thinking about going back to windows because i grow worried about the Apple platform lock in and their general direction with OSX/iOS
> You can not understate its importance!

Challenge accepted! It's not important.

;-)
Hush; mathematicians got their very own letter in "STEM".
> "As a former CoffeeScript user, I love TypeScript: it's a more consistent language driven by a real language designer"

I have a lot of respect for Anders Hejlsberg but this is a pretty unfair slight against Jeremy Ashkenas just because he hasn't created another language before. CoffeeScript was pretty revolutionary in its approach, as evidenced by the 30+ other to-JS languages that followed it. As long as you agree with its ideaology it is well designed.

I'd also argue that a community, and at the very least a team, is what designs a language and not just a single person. The language might start as a vision by a single person but ultimately it is driven by something more collaborative.

To be the contrarian here, the belief of "fixing" a dynamic language by adding static types to it is a bunch of crap.
There would be precedent, in the form of cash seizure "civil forfeiture" proceedings at both the State and Federal level:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_...
You are at least partially incorrect.

Last year Google was testing reproducing entire Wikipedia articles within their site for their mobile site. You could read the full article within going to Wikipedia (allowed by Creative Commons, of course.) Between that and what they did with Google Images, I would say this reveals intention and is the direction web publishers should expect Google to be headed in.

In order for Google to continue to meet their growth targets they must increase the percentage of outgoing click from free to paid.
Or just piggyback an antenna into the hardware otherwise installed at each consumer location. There was a theory almost a decade ago that Google would do something like that on top of all the 'dark fiber' it was buying up at the time.
Atom won't be closed source, but it won't be open source either. It will be somewhere inbetween, making it easy for us to charge for Atom while still making the source available under a restrictive license so you can see how everything works. We haven't finalized exactly how this will work yet. We will have full details ready for the official launch.

> http://discuss.atom.io/t/why-is-atom-closed-source/82/9
Hails Web Platform Framework for Untrusted Plugins
A web framework for building web platforms instead of websites/apps, where a web platform provides a plugin architecture for integrating untrusted and mutually untrusting 3rd party apps/plugins/etc (like Facebook & Twitter plugins, etc.)

See GitStar [1] for a simple implementation - a code repository like GitHub except where all functionality is implemented by untrusted 3rd party plugins.

Code at github [2] and hackage [3].

[1]:http://gitstar.com/

[2]:https://github.com/scslab/hails

[3]:http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hails
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Agreed. I'm not liking this latest trend of saying journalists that attack the government are "biased", especially when they have strong facts to support their reasoning, and it's not just the daily senseless Obama-bashing we see on TV. I think there's a pretty big difference between these two.

I really don't want this to just "fade in the background" like it happened the last time around with the NSA:

http://pando.com/2014/02/04/the-first-congressman-to-battle-...
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Ah cheers. I'll have to start checking it out again. had a little look

Default thing is what's hot. Good good.

I think the only thing with pineapple.io is that you kinda want something super simple to look at like a list with HN but it's cool. Already drawn to how to build your own flappy bird, flappy tyto?? lol
> make a determined effort to control for as many "third factors"

How can you tell if you missed one?

> [...] gives you a level of evidence which is well above guessing

> It is better than guessing

Why? Without any support, this seems to be an appeal to probability.

> a well conducted observational study

> a really bad study

The fallacy of moving the goalposts; also the no true Scotsman fallacy.
That's a fantastic book, but it goes into a great deal of detail. There are a few overview papers that are easier to get into.
Fascinating research suggesting how consciousness as an emergent phenomenon needs to cross an activation threshold to boot up.
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As stated, MS needs to adapt to this changing market, but still their business model has been fundamentally different up until recently. It's not like MS desktop market share is in danger though.
I would advise him to close the bank account the money went into. Wire transfers can be cancelled... and if the bankruptcy folks are quick on their feet the first thing they'll do is cancel every completed wire transfer they can.
I actually think /r/askscience is one of the best moderated subreddits, which is impressive given its size and traffic. The example you linked is incredibly frustrating to me. That blogger has a very specific mindset about a subset of problems in parts of the general field of psychology that he is hellbent on applying generally to the entire broad discipline.

I went to an engineering-heavy undergrad and I saw that disdain from engineers on "softer" sciences all the time. I did not major in psychology, and parts of the field do have some serious issues, but to paint with such a broad brush and be so sure of yourself in casting aspersions on fields you have no formal training in is really gross to encounter.

EDIT: Hell, I'll go a step further and say that as neuroscience continues to intersect and grow with psychology I would consider a greater portion of psychologists as scientists than engineers.
And still they are only providing vague information. "We have lost Bitcoins due to weaknesses in the system" could mean anything - from theft to improper storage. Are they hiding something? Or don't they know themselves how they lost them?

Publishing the relevant addresses would help a lot in explaining everything.
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"If including computer implementation in a patent automatically turns an abstract idea into an invention, then almost any idea that can be expressed in programming code could be patented and controlled. The Constitution does not allow that kind of intrusion on freedom of thought."
All three of those patterns are something which would lead me to consider is there a more functional-style option available to rewrite the method in question. I'll take a gigantic nested if over a split-end method (multiple exit points) any day of the week ;) But of course, such things cannot be avoided completely, nor will avoiding them magically eliminate all bugs in the universe..
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A simple service for web designers, agencies & biz where we convert any graphic design, mock-ups or existing website to responsive html pages. Since we offer it as a service, it can be quite cost effective than doing it on your own or from front end developer.
My question: Would you take it if it saves time & money?
A web framework for building web platforms instead of websites/apps, where a web platform provides a plugin architecture for integrating untrusted and mutually untrusting 3rd party apps/plugins/etc (like Facebook & Twitter plugins, etc.)

See GitStar [1] for a simple implementation - a code repository like GitHub except where all functionality is implemented by untrusted 3rd party plugins.

Code at github [2] and hackage [3].

[1]:http://gitstar.com/

[2]:https://github.com/scslab/hails

[3]:http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hails
Sadly, everybody does that, and you can get by for years before something happens.

I.e. since 2000 the EU started more than 150 "violation procedures" for violation of the treaties, against 15 countries.

It it sometimes just more convenient to ignore a treaty now and fix it in a decade.
causation or no causation. we need to rethink the whole idea of work anyway. at some point something went seriously wrong.

how can people accept that it's right that we get taught in a certain mental pattern for almost 20 years and then we are to work for 40 years in that pattern so that we can spend the last 15 years of our life in peace anyway?

i spend ridiculous amounts of time trying to get great at things - you know, human nature.

but the times i spent in traditional work structures i actually got lazy and stupid, because they encourage you to create things that are just good enough at a slow pace, because if you actually perform too well you become a liability.
How should a malicious actor have better crafted an exploit of equivalent scope and potency?

Considering the possibility that any system managed from a compromised device could be compromised to any degree, how does the use of static code analysis and testing in the future uncompromise those systems?

Short of finding a unicorn and seeing who can ride it, there's no guarantee that a system isn't pwnd or connected to one that's pwnd. The certificate failure means binaries could have been pushed.

The problem is that you can't trust trust.

http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomps...
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> The change likely won't impact the output binary - compiler should issue a warning, which devs might ignore; then the optimizer would remove it as unreachable.

It's not unreachable - it always executes if the if condition is false.
That is the right question. And, I think at this point, it's become abundantly clear that default subreddits should not be "randomly" moderated. Policy (written by Reddit staff) should be set for moderators to follow.

When you have a website that gets visited by more than a hundred million users, this just won't do. Why are a few handful of anonymous random users dictating what is seen and not seen by millions and millions as "news? That makes no sense, something has to change.

There is something quite different about "news"... from, say, "biking". Most subreddits can stay as-is, but r/news and other subreddits would probably do better with officially picked staff.
> Numbers supports only iCloud.

FYI Numbers supports both box and dropbox (via "open in another app"). For example, to upload to box:

- hit the share button (the box with the up arrow)
- "Open in Another App"
- Choose format (e.g. Excel or CSV)
- Hit "Choose App"
- Hit "Open in Box"
[now the box app opens]
- Hit "Upload"
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing that with us.
Thx. Spent years working in oncology, so I'm quite familiar that people can survive. My point is that American medicine is insanely expensive because we don't know where to draw the line. Now, more than before, we focus on anything to keep the heart beating and the lawyers from suing, regardless of whether the quality of life and and dignity of the patient is non-existent.

Given this, I would argue the "poor person" in this argument could easily get similar levels of necessary care as the insured individual through Medicare. The insured (preferably rich) person could however travel to all the best clinics, participate in many medical trials and experimental operations, and quite likely simply spend their final months of life as a guinea pig with a similar outcome as the "poor person." The only upside is the insured individual gets to bankrupt themselves and family in the process as insurance doesn't cover most of these non-standard therapies. I've seen it happen to too many people.
Transaction malleability was probably just event that pushed the withdraws past where they could ever recover.
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Maybe if he didn't want to be censored there he should have posted teen girl creepshots or some other reddit-condoned content.
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Well, it's not that much ...
The very selection of what is "news" constitutes an opinion.
It complicates all economic calculations by unnecessarily introducing time and rate variables into the equation, and puts the entire economy on a treadmill, so people have to work just to stay in one place. Since those variables are often only rough guesses, they can be wrong, and cause misallocation of funds.

When you print an additional 2% of the money supply, you are essentially taking about 2% of the entire economy and assigning it to yourself.

Back when money was gold, and gold was money, in order to increase the money supply by 2%, you had to mine 2% of all gold already in the marketplace, which required a lot of labor and capital. If the price of gold was high, you worked more expensive mines. If it was low, you idled them as temporarily unprofitable. The effect of the increase on the money supply was diffused throughout the economy by virtue of the sheer amount of work required to accomplish it.

With paper money, all that is required is a press and anti-counterfeiting measures. The transfer of value into the new money is far more concentrated, both in terms of actors and time. The buying power of the new money is higher, because people don't necessarily know how much you printed until you start spending it.

It is a great virtue for Bitcoin to make public the exact amount of new money added to the economy. Monetary inflation can therefore be predicted exactly. It's still inflationary, and does not account for changes in demand to achieve a stable money price. What it needs is a feedback loop that connects mining rewards with demand for the currency. I imagine that could key from the hash rate of the whole network, but I'm not certain how.
Correction, if you own what you create and perform too well, you become rich.

It's when someone else owns it and has given you no incentive to perform well (99% of startups) that you become a liability.
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Highly relevant here would be the GCHQ/NSA slides on the topic of how they've infiltrated positions of power (i.e. moderation) in online communities - reddit is specifically cited. It's all about FUD, discrediting, and censorship on fallacious grounds. It would not surprise me to learn that BipolarBear0 is a plant. It would also not surprise me to learn that he's a pedantic basement-dweller, but I don't think, given what we've learned, it's conspiratorial or paranoid to suppose that this is governmental control. It's perfectly feasible.