skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But today there is no way to do this without money. That’s the difficulty. In order to do science you have to have it supported. The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work. This means you have to have preliminary information, which means that you are bound to follow the straight and narrow."

It's getting even worse, at least in Canada, where not only is the above true, but another pattern is emerging, namely that the government is "intervening" in the topics that get funded, by directing more funds to projects that have an immediate (or even a perceived immediate) impact on commercial activity, and/or topics of interest to the government (e.g. alberta oil sands)... and a concomitant decrease in funding to "open competitions".
Like in DS9 when the evil genius hid the subspace link in the waste management system, because nobody would search such an "unimportant" system.
Define "good". Obtaining oppressively long sentences for non-violent crimes isn't "good" for anyone imo. His brother made $500 million selling diapers. The world would be a better place if Preet were a diaper salesman like his brother instead of doing things like ensuring that poker players have to play illegally. The worst part is that he does all of this for one thing: camera time. He is angling for elected office on the backs of those whose lives he has destroyed while pursuing prosecutions that increasingly stretch the boundaries of criminal law.
Depends, but it doesn't seem hopeful - looking at their T&Cs at:

https://www.paymill.com/en-gb/terms-conditions/

Section 9.1 includes, amongst other excluded categories, "Sales of erotic articles". I suppose the only way to get an authoritative answer would be to describe your situation to them, and see whether they'll accommodate you.
Which countries do not pride themselves on the freedoms of their citizens?
Unfortunately, a great deal of the perceived "racism" in the US is actually cultural. The greatest example of this are Blacks. Yes, African Americans have an extensive, awful and horrific national history of racism and abuse, but there are numerous examples of African American culture holding itself back.

A couple examples: Bill Cosby[1], Jamaicans[2], black raised by whites[3].
(There are numerous others, but these are the easy three.)

Jamaicans for example, see African Americans as lazy and deserving of their place in American society and often hate being referred to as African American because it is both inaccurate, and because they do not culturally identify with them, seeing no conflict between their blackness and their ability to achieve the American Dream.

When you hear cries of racism, consider whether you actually see people being mistreated or considered inferior because of the color of their skin, or if their own (cultural) behaviors are ensuring their struggle. It's extremely unfortunate and my heart breaks for anyone suffering from cultural peer pressure or family pressures to not forsake their "heritage" by "acting white," especially since you don't have to act white in order to act successful.

My opinion is that you see this exemplified most in the Bay Area because you are viewing the top 0.1% of achievers in the tech industry. Adding a self-sabotaging cultural identity certainly cannot help, and I imagine going to non-top 20 public university probably also doesn't help, which is why so many in the Bay Area grads are from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, etc... graduates.

FWIW, I acknowledge that there ARE in fact some cultural pressure to conform to arbitrary FLOABW "white" behaviors, which have similar ramifications to racism, but that's not what I'm talking about here.

Lastly, self-sabotaging culture is not uniquely black, white, hispanic, etc... which is why it's has nothing to do with race or racism.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/cosby.asp
[2] http://www.jamaicans.com/articles/primecomments/1002_amerija...
[3] Barack Obama, Halle Berry, numerous friends...
Wow, armchair engineer, you sound like you really know what you're talking about.

When this old engineer worked on embedded MIPS cores and 802.11[abgn] at Broadcom, everything was under source code control. This was pre-git, so I think we were using cvs. How the hell do you conclude that releasing a zip file means the engineers don't use source code control?
Actually, this is an issue I'm trying to research and understand better which is why I asked you my questions. Sorry if I offended you.

One thing I did try to find before asking you was data on the size of the a la carte TV/movie market. Anecdotally I know no one who buys TV shows (probably because I'm poor and tech savvy), but I thought I might be able to find comprehensive data to change my beliefs. Unfortunately my Google Fu was not good enough to find anything. I thought you might have a source you could share with me.

(To be honest, I think your response was rude and I feel a little hurt. But it's ok.)

Edit: In hindsight, some of the fault was mine. Of course there are people willing to pay at every price (that is the idea behind a demand curve). I guess what I'm really getting at is what are the best estimates of the shape of the demand curve. Would HBO make more money if they made GoT more accessible/cheaper? Is there evidence that a $2-$3 price point would be better than $5 price point? What are the price elasticities of demand? I guess I kind of wrapped up those more subtle questions into the question of people being willing to pay for content.
> When this happens, please don't file bugs with Debian. Thanks.

We are all adults here. I believe the implications of using pip instead of apt on Debian are pretty clear for anyone using it. This is not an universal problem though.
sometimes I save them to instapaper, via their javascript bookmarklet. This is not ideal however.
I agree but Flattr does provide an interesting approach. With them you set aside a set amount per month you want to donate. Then when you tip a site it gets a proportion of that amount based on the number of tips you made in the month. This way you cap your total spend per month. You could do this manually of course. Maybe sites could start a system of including a bitcoin address in a file at a common location in the URL space.
No warning seems odd.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this was the doorbell scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/282975/Ferris-Bueller-s-D...

Seriously though, I like the idea but what happens if someone holds up a photo of a friend or family member who's face automatically unlocks the door? It would be pretty easy to get a suitable image from a Facebook profile, for example.
Dogecoin is doing a good job positioning itself as the internet tipping currency, as far as I know there isn't a dead-simple way of doing it yet though.
Not enough explanation as to what problems are being solved or why your solutions are "best practices".
In Texas, a New Law Lets Defendants Fight Bad Science
It's partly private. To say it is not part of government is also inaccurate. It is independent of several branches in many respects, but relies in the government in others, by design. For example, the chair and vice chair are appointed and confirmed. Congress has oversight of the system but does not appropriate funds to the system.
Unless you intend to (eventually) break your OS, system-wide packages should be installed with system-wide package managers. That is, dpkg/apt, rpm/yum, pacman, emerge or similar.

Failure to comply with this rule bites hard when you install some other package that uses Python and pulls dependency from OS repository that you had already installed from PyPI. That obviously fails due to files being already present (and probably from another egg's version) and you're probably already using this egg somewhere so you probably can't readily replace it. Manual clean-up of such mess isn't pretty nor fun.

So, if you want a non-project-bound package (like ipython), do so with `pip install --user`. Otherwise, virtualenv is the tool.

(Obviously, there are non-trivial exceptional cases where sudo pip is fine. I believe they're quite rare.)
I have a Netflix connection and I am in Finland. 98% of the time, when I search for a movie/documentary/series on Netflix, it's unavailable for streaming (mostly because the content for Netflix Finland is far less than that for US). Then, I have to head over to PirateBay to get the stuff. It's the fastest way. I could order a DVD from Amazon UK or Germany, but then it would take at least a week.

As long as content producers and distributors fail to find a faster way to distribute their offerings, I think piracy will continue and grow.
Inflation isn't bad and the only people that think it is are goldbugs with no understanding of economics. Asset backed currency have had MANY more crashes than fiat currencies. Bitcoin is a wonderful experiment in how long it will take people to learn the lessons the world learned over the previous 200~ years.
Without looking at the behind the scenes memory allocation/speed — the real world speed of the application surpassed my expectations.

I've jumped from ST to try and use this since I received my invite and am incredibly impressed without how little I feel the urge to switch back. Other editors that I try out (which I do far to often, ugh) are pretty, have unique features, but they lack the can't live without feature(s) that no one has matched in ST is the ease of line/text manipulation (find-next(cmd-d) + find-skip-next-next(cmd-k+cmd-d)+ undo + Multi Cursor, Block Select, Dupe...).

Atom got close with this version. The duplicate function is only duplicate line but without knowing any CoffeeScript I was able to override this function to duplicate selection if there is a selection before duping the line — for every selection. There are many other areas that are close and will either be closed out by myself for my own use, addressed by others via packages, or even in the core once it hits 1.0.

Anyway, this is a good write up and good look at the negatives of a web based editor, but I would argue the drawbacks of the DOM outlined are outweighed by the ability talk to it (and also the entire API) via the webkit inspector.

Also, the current version number is 0.6.0.
Great, thanks. I also figured out that I could put the following line into a file called `.env` (I was originally trying to use a file named `ENV`):

export BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs

This will use Heroku's version of the build pack, which already has a fix for the NPM problem.
> There is no institutional racism, what exists is a black latino culture that looks down upon education.

I'll bite my tongue here for what I really want to say, but dear god was this an extremely ignorant and offensive thing to say.
It would be "at the mercy" of the laws and regulators in whatever country it operated.
I wouldn't say so. "Function" is a pretty common term used to refer to somebody doing some specific task. There's an obvious correlation between an employee tasked with a carrying out a specific role or action, and a chunk of source code that does something specific.

And the same holds true for "variable". It's a very common term for things that change their state of being, including stuff that isn't directly related to programming or mathematics. Stuff like the weather, somebody's mood, and so on.

"Monoid" just doesn't have any everyday meaning like those terms do, especially a meaning that so closely resembles the programming concept like in the case of "function" and "variable".
The thing is there are people who won't click on ads no matter what. So in case it is pay-per-click showing ads will accomplish nothing. In case of pay-per-view it is just a waste of you and advertisers money. Maybe they are ok with that, but I am not obliged to help.
World's largest aircraft unveiled – hybrid airship / plane / helo
The vector register file is a block of registers 64 bytes across by 64 down which can be accessed horizontally (H) or vertically (V), and in units of 16 bytes (H8), 16 shorts (H16 or HX), or 16 32-bit words (H32).

Each processor has an accumulator that can be cleared (CLRA) or used (ACC).

This code is basically equivalent to the following C code:

uint8 in[2][16];
int16 temp[2][16];
int32 r1,r3,r5;
uint8 *r0;
do {
... code omitted
// vmul -,H(1,0),3 CLRA ACC
// vadd HX(3,0),H(0,0),2 ACC
for(x=0;x<16;x++) {
temp[x]=inb[1][x]*3+in[0][x]+2;
}
//vasr H(0++,0),HX(2++,0),2 REP 2
//vst H(0++,0),(r0+=r3) REP 2
for(y=0;y<2;y++) {
for(x=0;x<16;x++) {
in[y][x] = temp[y][x]>>2;
r0[y*r3+x] = in[y][x];
}
}
// add r0,16
// addcmpblt r5,1,r1,loopacross
r0 += 16;
r5 += 1;
} while (r5<r1);

This is code for the vector processor. This is not the same as the GPU cores which use a different architecture and instruction set (based around floating point calculations).
If a bank app wrote their own security code, and didn't use the standard platform library, then when a bug was found, they'd get piled on here for rolling their own and not going with the much more widely tested platform implementation.

Should a well-put-together banking application re-implement the entire OS? After all, there are lots of places where security bugs can hide throughout the OS.
They also took a lot of donations in BTC which they never returned after pivoting their project to a private closed source solution. Shame on them for sure.
The Art of HTML Semantics
Khet – Board game with 'LASERS'
Thieves Break Into Cars Using Mysterious 'Black Box'
I guess it depends what you are trying to do. As someone who uses packet captures almost every day to solve other people's problems, all I want to see is an unfiltered binary capture file on the right interface, which I'll then go thru with tshark or Wireshark.

I think learning to build effective display filters in those tools is more useful than learning to use a capture tool in complex ways.

This can apply to troubleshooting your own problems too, as you can then inspect things in your own time and gather evidence to present later, and even use a capture file to replay traffic.
I will emphasize that this is not my area and I am not commenting in an official capacity but IIRC it's less about 'registered in', and more about 'has state-specific financial licenses for' versus 'has a business presence in' versus individual state law. Somewhat like the mess that is US the domestic tax nexus. Anyway, I believe there are legal reasons why, owing to the above, we are not allowed to divulge state-on-state policy. We have a really good legal team. Yes, this sounds nuts and is entirely counterintuitive, but that's the US legal system for you.
The concepts themselves aren't difficult to understand. It's just that some people go out of their way to use uncommon terminology that ends up obscuring what they're trying to say, rather than making it clearer.
Hi,

On the demo backend, if I click on "download csv" or "get code" I can't go back except if I unzoom (because the closing X is out of my browser window, and it's almost true in fullscreen too).

On the demo form the buttons "view backend" and "view code" are strangely placed. If I go fullscreen then the page tries to adapt itself and the grey box goes from wide to floating on the right, but the form is still to large to be on its right so it stays under it.

Also it's probably just a matter of taste but I find it weird to have such bigs field but that the text I can write in them is still of normal size.

I could send you screenshots later if you want.
I'm not using a mobile. I'm using a recent laptop, I just don't like to browse in fullscreen. Is it okay with you?
> The main feature of BTC is that it's unregulated

The main feature of BTC is that, independently of regulation by any other entity that may be applied to it, it is "regulated" by the design of the protocol, which, among other things, provides decentralized issuance and transaction verification, and predefined supply constraints.

A popular myth about BTC is that it is unregulated (and, in some forms of the myth, impossible to regulate) by government.
From the perspective of the rest of the world, your Democrats and your Republicans seem so similar that it is bizarre these two had enough differences to argue over.
Pearl trees is a rather nice extension if you use chrome.
Win a Nobel prize (2000)
They don't even make an effort at KYC compliance.
You're comparing apples and oranges. If there was institutional murder and fraud then your comparison might make some sense.
If there there was institutional murder, say every left-handed person was killed at birth, and you did nothing about it because you're right handed then he's claiming you're actively part of that institutional murder.
While I don't necessarily agree, there are differences between the types which you are ignoring
Also posted about it in the other thread, but in case you missed it. At https://www.bitballoon.com we do a slightly different take on it since we integrate form handling with hosting and CDN configuration for your static site.
I've been through two earnouts, and am familiar with a bunch more, and four years sounds long. That's an enormous opportunity cost.
Radiation leak at New Mexico nuclear waste site raising concerns
In Russia you now obligated to register your site and keep all users' activity
Two finger swipe gesture fails, breaks subsequent scrolling (Mavericks)
Again, the NIMH argument from authority. I truly do not understand the laser focus on clinical psychology and the DSM, which, I agree, has some major issues. Clinical medicine was not always as science-backed as it is today, but the field evolved over time as our tools and methodological became more sophisticated. I would argue that the broad field of psychology is far closer to its infancy than medicine, as it only branched off from philosophy late in the 19th century, and over time (with better tools and increased interaction with neuroscience and biology) the field will evolve to be closer to what you want. It might have a different name at that point. I think one aspect of psychology that leaves it open to attacks is that it borders a whole bunch of other fields, because it comes from an inherently fuzzy place of human consciousness and behavior.

Despite that, it still doesn't make sense to discredit all other psychological research as non-science because you don't believe in clinical psychology. By the way, if you want to trade federal research organizations, the NSF funds psychologists and psychological research.

I just can't and won't see the value in denigrating an entire field because I disagree with a piece of it. It's counterproductive and only breeds animosity. If the argument goes "hey, there are some parts to this research methodology that I don't think are up to snuff, let's focus on improving it." It's a bit more effective than "The DSM is worthless, clinical psychology is worthless, therefore all psychology is not a science."

And hey, going back to my first comment, sorry I didn't know you were the blogger, but you didn't have to be snarky, obviously I wasn't accidentally mistaking a random website for an indictment from the head.
Had you worked on it directly, or were working on other parts of the chip while at Broadcom? I've always been hoping to see some hard benchmarks. I had worked on a video codec IP for a competing (but defunct) chip, hence my curiosity :)

I'm curious about the technological history of the VideoCore. The wikipedia page [1] and Broadcom marketing page [2] don't give a lot of information to distinguish it from competing cores (such as ARM's own Mali or nVidia's Tegra line). In fact, the information I see makes it seems pretty run-of-the-mill tech of 5 years ago.

I guess I could RTFM now that it's available :D

Edit/afterthought: none of this really matters actually, as there is no other chip on the market with the BCM2835's capabilities and that is more open-sourced.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore
[2] http://www.broadcom.com/products/technology/mobmm_videocore....
How Apple is Exploiting Android's Weakness
So far the suggestions here are better than my "Sublime Text document"
NSA's Catalog of Exploits for Nearly Every Major Software/Hardware/Firmware
Show HN: Goliath.cc Launch a clothing brand for $50.
I started my own clothing brand 9 years ago when I was 17. I wasted a ton of money ($18,000) trying to get things right. Luckily all of the money wasn't wasted because I did purchase some physical capital enabling me to pivot into brand management, production, & order fulfillment. I already run this business but am launching a consumer facing version soon to mainstream it.
Goliath.cc
Thoughts? Questions? Critiques?
Thanks for your time
Oh man. I'd pay $20 an episode if they had readily available. Even $50 if it had subtitles. I hate waiting, even a hour to download and crossing my fingers the quality is good.
Pitfalls and problems that arise when using standard statistical methods
"Scripting" is a pretty vague term. If you mean quickly writing one-off programs, then there are many languages that are just as good as Perl, if not significantly better.

It's pretty clear that Perl does not hold the prominence it once held in the 1990s. So, yes, it is clearly becoming a less-enticing option for a lot of people, whether you're willing to admit this or not.
Mayday: How Qantas went from national icon to corporate tragedy
> That sounds very smart, however if your money is held in an FDIC insured bank, then it's likely to be in a national currency that is systematically devalued by the issuing institution through progressive year-on-year inflation.

Which may be a good reason to limit currency holdings to what you need to use as currency (that is, short-term medium of exchange for things of value), and invest the rest in productive assets, whether those are stocks, bonds, real estate, or digital collectibles like internet funbucks. But if you aren't directly holding those productive assets yourself but are trusting them to account held by someone else who promises to transfer them to you on demand or dispose of them at your direction, you probably want to do some consideration of their ability to keep them securely and execute the trust you are placing in them.
Yeah, because no one ever had any problems with Maven, that thing is like package heaven, it's all rainbows and unicorns!
Something bad happened. Some people are sad. Let's bring up the topic of suicide and make sure they are all aware of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111 And then feel good about how kind and helpful we are.

People already know suicide hotlines exist. If they want one they can google it or siri it or whatever. You aren't giving them new information, just telling them, basically, that you wouldn't find it surprising if they killed themselves over this.
VaultOfSatoshi looks pretty slick, and currently accepts USD. I don't know its trustworthiness however.
I don't think bitcoin will ever be used as an actual currency because of it's built-in deflation. Deflation promotes speculation and hoarding of money (coin), which is absolutely the opposite of what you want in a functioning economy. I don't see any of the deflationary coins ever gaining traction as an actual currency, capable of supporting a market. On the other hand, the bitcoin protocol may prove to be useful in the future, and a more mature version of it very well may usurp the existing monetary system. I do believe we're a ways out from that at this point in time.

I think bitcoin, as a currency will fail eventually, but that the protocol itself and the encryption methods will evolve. The benefits of being distributed and efficient are too great to be ignored, but there's a lot of revision to be had.
hterm -- the terminal implementation that the Chrome ssh plugin and crosh is based on is pretty hackable, too.
Seems to be very slow, text can also be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7321609

More context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7320833