skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am rereading. I am also asking for specific examples of how a browser has potentially better security than a custom application. Because, I just don't see it.

Unless you are trying to say that something in a limited sandbox of a browser has limited capability outside of said sandbox. But... how is that not just as true of any other sandbox approach.
It's short, memorable, and evokes positive emotion.
> In order for Walmart to do business within a jurisdiction and/or with a certain party, it would have to agree a priori to certain requirements

Agree with who exactly about those requirements?

The term "jurisdiction" itself implies some governing entity from which to exercise jurisdiction.

I'll assume you mean "the local commune", and when Wal-Mart ignores the rulings of the local commune and opens a shop anyways, what is the commune going to do about it?

Eject them by force you say from the local commune's militia? Wal-Mart will have a bigger army, because they can pay for it.

Eject them by force with a coalition of regional militias perhaps? That might work, but a regional coalition of actors with the right to use force isn't an anarchist commune, it's a government.
If you want to prove your point, using totally unrealistic micro-"benchmarks" such as those is by far the worst way about doing so. You're better off giving no evidence whatsoever than you are referring to those.
Adventurous web developers can try out goroutine-like concurrency patterns in javascript, with ES6 generators. I've enjoyed experimenting with these two libraries:

https://github.com/ubolonton/js-csp

https://github.com/odf/ceci-core
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It moved to a subreddit when the thread in /news or /worldnews got too big (I don't remember specifics).

In any case, the effects of the witchhunt weren't limited to that subreddit anyway... the users started harassing Sunil's parents on Facebook and began calling LEO with their harebrained theory.

There's a reason that vigilante justice isn't legal in most of the civilized world.
Brits visiting Alabama would be equally wrong to omit the ham from Birmingham.
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Trying to notify intelligent life that we exist has a high probability of being the worst idea in all of human history, because there's a high probability that there will be no more human history after we meet them.

But radio emissions swiftly degrade after not too long of a distance, so unless we build some kind of extremely high-powered transmitter then any scheme like this is doomed to failure. Luckily.
I'd say I was the most productive when it took me eight hours to write a seven line shell script. That replaced 2,650 lines of C.

The previous programming team had written a data transfer program with its own implementation of ftp. I just used the one which was already on the computer.

It took me a while because I had to read the Unix source code to find out if my program would work. In the days before Google, and even the World Wide Web, I used a combination of Gopher and WAIS to find a publically available copy. That was difficult as it had been released only to universities with a licence saying it must be kept hidden.
Everyone knows, of course, that these benchmarks don't tell the whole story. However, it's ludicrous to assert that providing no evidence is better than providing a array of microbenchmarks across a variety of different languages, machines and implementations. Further, the assertion that Haskell is "faster" (in some blanket sense) than Scala is completely evidence-free.
Indeed. If I recall the scene in question correctly, they did seem to be quite ginger in applying pressure, appearing to let the heat do all the work. (Mind you, I haven't seen that movie in at least a decade and my youtube/google-fu failed to produce a clip)
US should just adopt the European system for lawsuits. You lose, you pay. Yes, it has a downside, as does everything else in the world, but I think the downside is much smaller than the upside (compared to the current US system).
I know I'm a little late to the party, and it's very likely no one will read this comment, but after having read all these comments, it just sounds like the people who are poo-pooing CSS just... don't know how to use it very well. Sure, CSS has its quirks, but it's EXTREMELY powerful if you know what you're doing.

Try learning how to use the thing before you decide to change the thing...
Hey I think I was just playing with your quickcheck library and gave it a star earlier today! Small world. Nice project, I'm looking forward to using it for stuff :)
Your idea reminds me of Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness In The Sky", where an interstellar sublight civilization comes up with a STL transmission protocol: they broadcast information for free, assuming that by providing free information, they'll ensure that wherever they arrive will have a civilization that will a) have something worthwhile to trade, and b) be able to repair their ship and replace crew members.

I don't think that this would work with only one transmitter node; we need to build machines that travel to other solar systems, build receivers/transmitters there (one per system! we don't want to become a source of Aggressive Hegemonizing Swarm Objects, but rather a source of Evangelical Hegemonizing Swarm Objects), and re-broadcast from there.

(This also minimizes our chances of inviting unfriendly folks from coming down to check out who's being so noisy in the solar system.)
I'm not kidding. I am definitely old enough to remember the world pre google. I am also old enough that my kids can discover a crapton of stuff walking the isles of walmart.

Even now, I am more likely to discover a good game walking down the wall of gamespot than I am surfing the web. If I really want some discoverability, I go for magazines or similar digital fare nowdays.

Seriously, when was the last time you used google to find a game. Because, I don't think I have ever even heard of someone doing this. What I have done is browsed the lucasarts website hoping for news of upcoming releases. Or pulled up arstechnica's game section to see what is current.

Or, more recently, subscribed to humble bundle to see what they have to offer.

I am not (and can not) claim that the internet has not helped find some games I otherwise would not have found. I assert that this is because it hooked up some developers with a distribution mechanism they did not have before.

And yet, even as I type that I know how bloody stupid it is. I am also old enough to remember dialing in to a BBS in Texas, as they were the closest I could find to download Doom, Jill of the Jungle, Commander Keen... It is not like there were no methods to get games created and distributed pre google.
I'm just going to post what everyone was thinking when they saw the headline. http://i.imgur.com/BNDIpy3.jpg
Is that ad for real? Seems to good to be true? What is the catch?
That's where the Kiss Trust's attorney is located, according to the posted letter.
Ah great! Thanks :-) Feedback/criticism is appreciated. Still kind of learning the ropes of the Rust ecosystem.
I agree that the response was disrespectful. But I also don't think the original post showed much intellectual curiosity.
I find it amusing how I can tell what programming language you write based off of your "not equal too" syntax for me it's "!="
I love the messages we sent in Voyager 1 and 2 - they were quite capable of explaining our methods of communication.
Because that would make for a terrible sword fight scene.

It is interesting to think how you would do battle though, it would basically be the first person / fastest to swing, likely killing both parties anyway.

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Didn't Luke wield a lightsaber before he knew he was force sensitive?
Property tax could be enough to fund most of the essential things you listed and is still enforceable even if a cryptocurrency is a primary currency. While your currency and income might be hidden, you still need to live in a house on land.

ala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

Despite the extremely common misinterpretation by the public, ~90% of libertarians are not anarchists who completely oppose taxation. They are "small government" (aka minarchist), not "no government".
How many games are there that run from links off the web that are actually making money? (Not being an ass. I seriously want to know if there are any numbers on this.)
No, you just introduced an entirely different concern than the one introduced by the thread. The root comment suggests that Microsoft arranges to provide NSA with vulnerabilities that they deliberately do not patch so as to maximize their value to NSA. There is no evidence that anything like this has ever happened.

Your message is a red herring; I could debate your conclusions, but what would be the point? I'm sure you've got 10 more red herrings up your sleeve.
Check it out @ http://aws.amazon.com/appstream/
Note the key roles of financing, payment platforms, and software. It's not just about LEDs and cheap photovoltaics: in almost every project mentioned, the users prepay for energy through electronic cash transfers (directly from their phone), and the systems are profitable to run. The primary barriers to adoption are (i) upfront financing and (ii) software for managing these systems at scale. There are at least several SF-area companies working on hardware and software for the off-grid energy market, including ours (http://www.angazadesign.com/ - we're hiring). It's an exciting area.
I think some of the fear of crashes comes from the Great Depression. The magnitude and unpleasantness of that makes a great deal of fear seem quite a rational response.
https://github.com/visionmedia/co
All journalistic entities have been wrong multiple times before, so we should only trust the official authorities.

Oh wait, they're confused too.
I fail to see how I am the loser (I am on the left)
http://imgur.com/0S10kF1
Why? Did you only get up to the 512 tile or something?
Using mutexes isn't considered as idiomatic Go code
From The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing [1], there are five essential characteristics of cloud computing:

* On-demand self service
* Broad network access
* Resource pooling
* Rapid elasticity
* Measured service

If EC2/AWS doesn't meet that definition, what does?

[1] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145...
I'm not completely sure I'm reading this proposal correctly, but at first blush it seems like it would only support lexically scoped variables. If so then that would be an unfortunate limitation.

ClojureScript, for instance, supports dynamic bindings.
I complained that IDEA didn't understand Postgres sequence-controlled columns, a bug that had been open since 2012. A couple of hours later, it said it was fixed in the next release. I said on Twitter a few days ago that I wanted the power of IDEA with the editing featured of ST2, especially multiple cursors, and now it's there.

It could be coincidence, or... maybe I'm The Chosen One.
> hand-waves a ... power source into existence

This seems true to the source document.
Why do you want to know if an email is from a person you know?
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Yeah, I ended up moving them to the right instead, mostly so all the close icons would line up.
The node specific things are the actual tools he points to that help with that, which I thought were pretty neat.
Let me be perfectly honest with you:

I will not, under any circumstances, recommend a service that is not 100% open source to new Bitcoin users. This is not an ideological stance, but a practical one - if I don't know what you're doing with their money, I can't advise them to trust you.

Seeing as your service caters almost exclusively to new or unsophisticated users, that means it has no value to me.
That conjecture is much less certain than it is portrayed. Let's say we found a civilization of oyster-like creatures on a oceanic moon of a gas giant planet of a nearby star. Are we really going to go that far for a raw bar?

"Conquering" stellar civilizations only happens in space operas.
Well anything other than direct channel <-> goroutine is not considered idiomatic.
Serious question: How can they tell it's not a cloud?
I was under the impression when I first saw that scene that lightsabers were just meant to be technology - the more "civilized" version of a blaster in the way swords were once seen as more civilized than guns, but still basically just a device. Han knew where the button was to turn it on, which was all he needed to know. In the same way you wouldn't have to be a samurai master to use a katana to cut a watermelon.
Debunking the myths of web typography
A modem can't MITM https without the key. And all http traffic can be MITM'd anyway. So having control of the modem doesn't get you anything that you wouldn't otherwise be able to get by vacuuming up the traffic further upstream.

What's an example of exploiting system services?
I just mean that you have to care a little too much about where the servers are (by region and availability zone) and of course you know who owns them :)
Such frequency.
Sounds like a jet? Hardly any ram? Crappy drives? You can't just put any old hardware in these things.
idk about American inflation, but as a Canadian getting paid in USD, the value of USD has decline significantly since last year. Lowest since 2009:

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=CAD&to=USD&view=10Y

I got a nearly 10% raise thanks to a strong Canadian economy and weak American one. Keep it up guys.
List of unexplained sounds
Mineral hints at bright blue rocks deep in the Earth
> on('squirt.again', startSquirt);

https://github.com/cameron/squirt/blob/gh-pages/bm/squirt.js...

priceless!
I'm not sure that would elide the desired conclusion, or at least colluding companies could explain the lack of movement as company desirability, stability, and fair compensation.
Such names become much less memorable once there are numerous ones that share the same format.

It can rapidly get to the point where people remember that the name has an -ify or -ly or -joy suffix, but can't remember what the root word was.
Here's a similar one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7385563
My theory is that it encoded the uploaded consciousness of their best minds, along with a compelling argument that the only way to escape our gravity well is to upload our minds via a multigigawatt transmitter, along with instructions on how to build one (except those instructions won't work unless we propagate their signal). It might drive our civilization to the brink of our resource capacity to undertake this project, but it's the only way to propagate ourselves and survive, so what choice would we have?
Writing any fiction? Asking as as fiction writer who has brought a few bucks in to date with their prose.
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Heh, good ol' JavaScript!

It's weird though, because I mostly write CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript, which uses "!=" and desugars to "!==".
It's maybe a bit silly having a conversation about tone on Hacker News, but generally people tend to respond better when you don't state opinions, especially critical ones, as though they're fact. See "The article is flawed because you..." and "It would have been much better had you..." I statements FTW.

I don't think the original version was particularly flawed, and your description of why you think it was doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But I added a note anyway to make it clear that I do in fact know about the alternative approaches, and that I made the choices I made deliberately and not out of ignorance.

Regardless, I appreciate you taking the time to read it, and to give your feedback. Cheers.
Wow, so many options and themes, but honestly, it feels a little overwhelming and complex. I prefer the simplicity of:

http://bootstrap-growl.remabledesigns.com/
Mozilla levels up its browser gaming plan
As someone who is working in this space with a reasonably unsexy product, I'm a believer that back-office is where it's all at.
Why would Jedi not be master gun fighters then?
Celestial bodies are not random, otherwise the Sun could raise blue tomorrow.
> Colo space is fairly cheap

I'm not sure you have the same definition of "cheap" as I do. $5/mo for a 1GB DigitalOcean droplet is cheap.

Buying old-but-badass hardware seems to be similarly cost-effective for that purpose (if that link is to be believed), but where (other than "a friend in ops") can you get 1U/2U of colo hosting for anywhere near that price?

I guess, if you're talking about the marginal price of an extra 1U/2U on top of your existing production rack, it can be negligible. For non-business-affiliated goofing-around, though?
If unbufferred, is there any difference with mutex?

how about sending a errChan along with the delta to the deltaChan and and error will be guaranteed to be replied to the correct sender?
What is the best way to handle this so that I minimize damage to my career and reputation?

I must say, after reading the introduction, that was not the question I was expecting.

My advice is simple: do the right thing for others. Treat them well. That includes making sure money owed to employees is paid. People get enough notice to fall back on their feet. You should have been transparent with them already from the beginning of the startup, so they should all know that cash is very tight. Don't just tell them 2 weeks before the day you lay them off.

If you treat others well, you'll be fine. Silcion Valley is a very small world.

On the other hand, if your only concern is your own career, maybe your current employees already know your true nature. Hard to know either way.
This description says that there are physical glass filaments that they light travels through. So they hit against each other and can't pass through one another.

But the description says "beams from energy weapons hardly affect them and just pass through." But in the movies we see blaster shots being reflected by lightsabers.
I was hired from a regular HN post. But know of people hired through the job posts themselves. It works well.
A report commissioned by the Australian Government actually recommended that laws be amended here and this practice encouraged, because of the way companies don't provide content in Australia or often charge more than double than what you get in the US for no extra service (obviously there are tariffs, taxes, distribution, etc. but that should be 15-20% extra, not over 100%).

For example, when Adobe CS used to come in boxes, it was literally cheaper to fly return to the US and buy it there. They weren't providing local support or anything - just phone and online support from the same offshore call centres they use for other markets.
sadly its not working, can't find another player even when my friend and I are both waiting at the same time.
You mean in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
It's not actually a contract you have with Netflix - just a terms of service and those aren't legally binding. The worst Netflix themselves could do is terminate your account.
MH370: "I believe I saw the Malaysian Airlines plane come down"
Did anybody else notice it said DCMA on the original lawyers letter?

these posts infringe on our trademarks and copyrights in violation of the DCMA

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ki...
How can you combine Ayn Rand, Ray Kurzweil and Star Wars for nerd baiting?
Inside North America’s ‘$8m-a-Month’ Bitcoin Mining Operation
Email Enigma: When the Boss's Reply Seems Cryptic
Building an ERP for a single customer will skew your product to their vertical.

You need to look at some of the open source alternatives and see exactly how you can improve on them.

ERP technology is fascinating. It seems like practically every business needs some form of ERP, but it is not 'sexy' enough for the Valley and the entrenched players are raking in billions.
Not sending a formal rejection email is a sign of an company that is still immature in developing its HR function.

Unfortunately, we see this more often than not at seed stage companies.
But remember that the world out there isn't reading HN, nor is it likely that real customers are going to see multiple companies with the same meme in a particular vertical.
They probably would be, but presumably you'd run out of "bullets" pretty quickly if you were trying to block other bullets. Plus, a "blade" is probably more useful than a gun in most cases (e.g., breaking down a door.)
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This attitude still annoys me. Yes, there were a couple of users that may have jumped to conclusions - but so what. Overall, the Boston Bombing coverage through Reddit was an amazing, breakthrough experience in the realm of how we can experience a media event. It represented the first time people could experience the combination of a) freely available police radio signal b) satellite imagery c) a mass man-hunt - which resulted in an incredible, absolutely breakthtaking and adreniline inducing media experience. The mainstream media? Hours upon hours behind what we were experiencing. Now - that is now being repeated - to a lesser degree - with flight 370. It's a shame that a few trolls have obscured this event for what it was. So please don't tarnish all Reddit users with the title of "Reddit". Isn't that just the same as talking about "all those Muslims", or, conversely, the jihadist talking about "America"?
The fact that your first thought is about the feasibility of eating aliens lends tonnes of support to the idea that it's in the aliens' best interest to wipe us out.
The US is in a state of war, under the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists" act (2001).

In particular, Section 2(b)(1): SPECIFIC STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION- Consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution, the Congress declares that this section is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution.

This has been tested under law[1]. Notably, that the US was in a state of war wasn't even considered worth arguing, just if that state of war provided justification for indefinite detention.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama
Looks similar to Slant (http://www.slant.co/) but with more editorialising.
Kyle Katarn would like a word with you ;)
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One interesting use of Lua is in LaTeX. Recent distributions of LaTeX come with binaries luatex and lualatex. I'm not familiar with the exact details, but if you'll Google around you'll find many references to LaTeX internals being rewritten in Lua.

I've found LuaLaTeX to be quite stable already and used it to compile my PhD thesis.
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Perhaps they were intending to send a signal with their shiny new super-powered transmitter and it overloaded and blew up.

They've been trying to work out the bugs in the design for the subsequent 25 years.
He also goes on to say that no language meets his expectations today and despite that speech, he's still active in the Scala community.

https://github.com/paulp?tab=activity
Solar nucleosynthesis is deterministic?

Random doesn't mean without any limitations. You can have random variations in frequency that nonetheless remain red.
The Illuminati, dude!
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I do not have enough fingers to count the number of times CNN has been wrong.
Oh look! Pacabel's written down his/her "Mozilla is crap" laundry-list post again. It's getting a bit tired, Pacabel.
Awesome work! Keep it up!
California peaks at 4+ GW of utility-scale solar generation, meets 18% of demand
This is all utility-scale generation. "Behind the meter", aka rooftop installations, not included.
0% interest rates and the carried interest tax loophole bear the brunt of the blame for this situation.
It looks like the greater danger is the inability to spot satire. They'll come and and prank us and we'll humorlessly launch nukes on them.
Well said. Anyone who thinks Firefox OS is going nowhere obviously wasn't paying attention to Mobile World Congress 2013 and 2014.