skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But no-one in a hurry takes the train from Paris to Moscow either. Conversely, look at the distances between, say, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Ohio, and Detroit. The distance from Chicago to Detroit is only slightly greater than that from London to Paris, minimum time 2h 15m by train.
In many cases Kickstarter is not the only source of funding.
In my ROTC days they described the A-10 as basically a "flying gun" ... the rumor was they chose a massive gun, and then designed a plane to fit around it, done.
Because the most common format isn't really pay to win, it's pay to avoid grinding.

Gamers have weird psychological issues with grinding in games.

Some of them like the delayed rewards from grinding and feel that people who don't are lazy and lack a work ethic. This group finds paying to avoid grinding immoral.

The other major group hates grinding in games. These people see the pay to avoid grinding option as the developer asking for money to not be an asshole. Mid game. So they aren't thrilled about it either.

The other issue is that grinding isn't supposed to be a big deal in games because the grinding activity is supposed to be enjoyable. The F2P market is designed around it not being enjoyable.
> residents in Afghanistan from impacting the rest of the world

Isn't that what an defensive army and border police are for? If an residents in Afghanistan want to harm me, they have to first get over to my country.
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How could that be a pity! You can leave your hometown for your girl, i really think u are great and I sincerely wish you good luck. ^_^
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Pilots want to retain their control, and even a damaged plane can usually be controlled. Plus - surprisingly - many pilots claim to be afraid of heights, and cite this as a reason they'd rather not eject. And, of course, ejecting is no guarantee.
Given that Transsib is not HSR, Beijing-Moscow is going to take around 7 days by train. It's not a pleasant trip. Especially compared to 7-8 hours by plane.
Hope that was sarcasm.
My problem is that games can now no longer ask for an honest price upfront and not use manipulative tactics to extort extra money from players.

A car racing game should be advertised at $X, with DLC like extra tracks or cars being available for more money.

But manipulative tactics mean the player will be forced to grind a single track many times to get something that allows them to continue. They can pay to avoid that grind. Worse artificial delays are often built in and an IAP is provided to circumvent that artificial delay. Using our hypothetical race game as an example there might be a supply of tyres. Each time you enter a race you use four tyres. Tyres are replenished at a rate of one every hour, unless you've paid for an IAP - "tyre factory upgrade: never run out of tyres - $Y".

EDIT: plenty of people have bad memories of collectible card games and talk of feeling manipulated and exploited and addicted.
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Sorry for being harsh, but your "solutions" are mostly useless in the context of providing an API for phone apps.

Use OAuth or similar and make sure every user has their own account. That's the only answer. Don't roll your own! Especially don't roll your own when you don't have a solid security background. You have obviously heard some of the right terms, but how and where you can apply them is at least as important as using them at all.

1. Doesn't protect anything at all. Hash functions don't do anything when people have access to the program code. No matter how fancy you go with time limited hashes (and there are smarter ways to create those). At most it adds a few minutes to the reverse engineering.

2. Again, this doesn't protect against anything. HTTPS stops intercepts on the wire, not someone who has access to your app, people can still lift the secret keys and the hashing scheme from the app binary.

3.& 4. Both true, and would protect against mass stealing of the passwords like happened here, but it wouldn't prevent abuse of the API.

There are very many people who use techniques like the ones you suggest in 1. and 2. and the same very many people have vulnerable apps that usually expose all users' data to the world. There are a lot of apps that store e.g. user files or some sort of configuration not on a per user OAuth protected storage like OneDrive, DropBox or Google Drive, but either there but on just the account of the developer, or on another storage that is only authenticated with the developer's credentials. People who do that allow anyone to read and modify the data of all users, exactly the same as people are allowed to do to their own data, or more if the credentials aren't properly limited, even if it's blocked in the app.
I hope CPython could introduce more performance improvements, not just bug fixes and alternative features.
> I really do miss the US military of the 1940s and 50s, I feel they would have the gumption to put someone smart and weird on that project and really solve it.

imo They would not have fared batter. Vietnam is the prime example.

The problem is that historically the US doesn't do well in long term, large scale unconventional warfare, especially if it isn't conducted on open terrain. Even if SOCOM runs the show now, overall the strategy is still highly conventional.

Capturing Afghanistan is easy. Holding it every year is the true test.

The humiliation from Vietnam has improved our forces as a whole. However, the problem remains. How do you fight an enemy with little to no infrastructure? How do you fight an enemy with no real fixed base of operations or even command? Maybe the US does know how to win the war now. Winning hearts and minds of the occupied is the key. Unfortunately, knowing how to win and executing a win are two very different things.
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To a decent extent, statements like this are designed to get himself some ink on a national stage, and throw his name out more on the national spotlight. He knows perfectly well that the chances of SXSW listening to his request are somewhere between slim and none, but at the same time, he can use this to help any claim he wants to lay that he's tough on terrorism and national security. Wouldn't be surprised if he's planning a move for senator or governor in the near future.
Wow... storing passwords in plain text? Even worse, non-encrypted data transport and client accessible credentials? Those "programmers" should be shot!
One wonders how democracy and modernization became part of the Afghan project. Had the US stuck to its goal of vanquishing Al Qaeda whilst merely deposing the Taliban, things would be different.

The world is a big place, and we rich westerners are not omniscient. Why Afghanistan needs democracy I will never understand, and why the US must bring it there puzzles me further.

Let it be a Pashtun Sharia state. So long as the bastards running it do not provide a safe haven to those plotting harm to the US and friends, all is well. It's a simple rule for leaders of any ideology to follow - and most importantly the drone fleets provide strong incentive for them to comply.

George Bush forgot that the only reason for the NATO invasion in the first place was that the Taliban refused to turn Bin Laden & Co over to him.
Best resource I know, neither pro nor foe, is the Sinocism newsletter, a daily email of Chinese and English sources, that distills analysis from sources with multitudes of viewpoints.
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Higher freight traffic in the U.S. has partially something to do with it. Buffering strengths here require that a passenger train be able to withstand 800,000 pounds of force without deformation, leading to trains that are nearly twice as heavy (and thus slower) than trains in other parts of the world. Europe, on the other hand, doesn't have quite as stringent requirements, and instead of requiring rigid frames they mandate crumple zones, which are arguably just as safe. MetroLink in SoCal has started employing something similar on their cars.

To give an idea just how big freight traffic is in the U.S., freight by rail is something like 1.7 trillion ton-mile (39.9% of freight by ton-mile). The total across all modes in the EU is 1.4 trillion ton-mile, of which rail makes up 17%, so only about an eighth of the U.S. in freight. This has led to fairly different rail systems.
I think this works in way more than one direction. US has been in the business of impacting other countries in what are perceived to be negative ways. US is by no means unique to be in this position. The last one was British, and compared to the others that have come before them, they sort of unraveled semi-gracefully rather than implode in a cataclysm.

Interesting to see what our lifetimes have in store for us.
Maybe he's a Wikileaks supporter, cleverly drumming up attention for the speech.
Nothing mind blowing, same vulnerability really, there are many ways to extend the core issue.
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working as an Analyst at NSA is not 'credentialed' enough? He's not a Intelligence State loyalist so he must be silenced. That is what this is about. Nothing more, nothing less.
Before seeking explanation, I would suggest defining what one means by ruining.
There are only handful of language runtimes that got rid of GIL entirely. Namely JVM, .NET, and Rubinius. Other languages either use non-native threads or doesn't support threading at all. (E.g. Nodejs has no threading.)
i've seen many regx sites, this one is DEFINITELY my favorite

i especially loved the page - loaded SUPER fast, no distractions - GREAT job!

love it!
> determined to be uninteresting or useless.

Your thesis seems to be that we're so naive that we re-invent discarded or failed ideas and call them innovations. Can you give an example?

I'll give you just a two counter-examples off the top of my head.

1. Our frontend uses what turned out to be functional reactive programming to accomplish seamlessly interactive UI. And FRP is widely considered to be a Good Idea.

2. We invented the notebook-based REPL as the world knows it today, which is of course copied by iPython (to such rave reviews). In fact, our language embraces homoiconicity to such a degree that our notebooks are themselves Wolfram Language expressions -- iPython is just JSON.

Seems like we're ahead of the curve in those two cases.
A better solution might be to throttle multiple requests to the same domain. Also, they could prevent it from fetching the same content multiple times and use a cache instead based on ETAGs and file information.
The notion that the congressman is always wrong is about as wrong as the notion that he is always right.
"By September 10, search crews had found eight previously uncharted crash sites,[54][55] some of which are decades old,[56] but none related to Fossett's disappearance."

Wow.
Let's hope their security is good... or we may see headlines like this in the future:

"Hackers gain control of networked thermostats, thousands hospitalised and injured"
Okay, you can detect open thefts that way and Gox should've implemented that. But you still can't detect if you've lost control of the private keys - if you've split all your cold balance into many addresses of X BTC each, then you can remotely check if the addresses are still filled, however, if an [inside] attacker takes those keys and replaces them with garbage, then no auditor is going to know that the addresses aren't in your control anymore; the solution would probably be periodic (automatic?) proof-of-ownership tests on those balances.

In any case, securing BTC is hard and requires stricter controls and more discipline than securing general banking systems, as the nature of BTC makes it easier to get away with large amounts of funds. For example, you need a solid solution for multiple "write-only" offsite backups of 'cold keys' because otherwise you simply risk your assets being permanently destroyed due to a simple hardware failure, but if anyone in your company is able to singlehandedly recover&decrypt a single such backup then he can immediately abscond with all money.
i'm not sure if this puzzle is meant to be a joke, but it pretty much looks like it.

things like (O|RM|HHM)* which means match anything. who the hell would every write (.)(.)(.) when even capturing those is pointless in a crossword.

meh, i say.
And they have been exiting the hardware business.
Except the 'love affair' between a10 pilots and a10 is kinda like one in an arranged marriage. There was NO love at first but it kinds grew after they were forced to be together...
That's not what the author is saying. Their saying it's bad that the automated system didn't warn the pilot when something went wrong. Or that self-driving cars can't reasonably depend on humans to monitor them at all times. He's not saying that all automation is inherently bad.
Hackers Hit Mt. Gox Exchange's CEO, Claim To Publish Evidence Of Fraud
Hack my fb 
i dare you to hack my facebook :p

http://facebook.com/yunyunah
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Are the numbers for Series B & C still representative of what founders are getting in tech today? They seem about right for Web 1.0 dot-com boom days, but looking at some of the financings on TechCrunch, recent startups (eg. Twitter, AirBnB, Uber, DropBox) seem to be raising $30-100M Bs for about 5-10% of the equity and $100M+ Cs for under 10%.
I feel like an archaeologist trying to decipher the presentation from these artifacts. What was the creator's intent? The Beyonce motif must have been used to incite a response from the audience. Is the presenter Elmo, delivering a crushing blow to marketers, or are marketers collectively Elmo, slamming down the presenter?
If you're new to the whole concept, Elm has a good example of "lift" used in a somewhat practical application:

http://elm-lang.org/learn/What-is-FRP.elm
This.

Even the bus system is pretty solid between these cities - but an upgraded train system would be much preferred through sitting in traffic & stressing behind the wheel.

The hub system in different locations (NE, Midwest, West Coast) with a few connection points - would be an incredible option to have.
That's right.

We can serialize any Wolfram Language expression as ASCII, if necessary (and functions like Save do exactly that -- traversing the symbol graph to find all definitions that a piece of code depends on) and dumping it out.

But you wouldn't want to do that in the case of packed arrays, timeseries, or images -- the result would be incomprehensible (and incomprehensibly large).

Ultimately, Wolfram Language code consists of expression trees, these trees are "conceptually" the equivalent of their FullForm (http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FullForm.html). What makes a WL expression "code" instead of "data" is that evaluating it will change the state of the kernel so that it has new rules attached to various symbols (functions + variables).

Plaintext files are just one vehicle for WL expressions. And in many cases there are cool things you can do that require the code to live in an IDE that can render WL expressions natively, such as

Blur[<<picture of dog>>]

or

GeoLocation[<<NLP interpretation of "berlin">>]

For machines, the thing now known as the Wolfram Symbolic Protocol is used to talk WL expressions over the wire. And there are two efficient binary serialization formats: "MX" and "WDX".
Many of us have alternative backup solutions. Like I use CrashPlan to backup pretty much everything and the most important files are backed up also to my external hard drive and a friend's machine (all via CrashPlan). Having said that I still consider I've only one off-site backup that is CrashPlan servers and though they provide excellent service they have failed many times before and hence I need an insurance. My entire laptop (except OS and apps) glaciated by Tarsnap can be that insurance policy which I'll most probably never access anyway, until when My laptop and all those three backup destination fail at once and in that scenario I will be willing to pay that cost seeing I saved a lot during those years/months.
Would be an impressive train ride from sunny and snowy Dongbei.
Afghanistan has vast reserves of minerals, including valuable rare earth metals and oil. With a friendly (whether democratic or not) government they could be mined efficiently, supplying the world and making Afghanistan rich at the same time. Like it happened with UAE.

I don't understand why the locals would not want that. We're gonna get there sooner or later, anyway...

Plus there's the issue of Afghanistan supplying opium to the world, but that doesn't concern the US with Mexico next door.
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> I suspect these are still underpinned by plaintext dumps internally, though, judging by http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/VariablesInPu.... .

You suspect wrong.
Not at all. Antibiotics are added to feed in sub clinical doses.
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What? He's right - with $700 billion you could carpet bomb the place three times over...
I'll cop to hyperbole, but not FUD. I'm basing this on the following ideas:

- A "crime" is anything proscribed by any legal code. The term is not restricted to actions earning, or just potentially earning, prison time.

- US law is so vague that there is no way to assure yourself that you haven't violated it.

- US law, in its vagueness, covers mostly normal, unexceptional conduct ("mostly" here refers to the idea that of all the conduct proscribed by the law, "most" of it is normal and a healthy majority of pollees would happily agree that it shouldn't be proscribed at all).

- The proscriptions are so broad that if, in the course of your life, you interact with any other person in any capactiy, you are reasonably likely to run afoul of one or more laws.

- As the vast majority of people interact with multiple other people every day, most of your life is covered by this.

- The breadth of these proscriptions is not aberrant in the eyes of the system. It's considered an important feature that lets prosecutors take down those who need to be taken down, and making the laws more rigid would hurt that project.

If a guy on the street asks you where you just came from, and you lie to him ("Church. I don't visit strip clubs"), that's your right. Unless he was a plainclothes LEO. There is no pretense that people are even able to follow that law, but it's on the books and enforced.
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I noticed this as well. OP can detect it using window.devicePixelRatio on WebKit:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/06/devicepixelr...
Apparently they got used to violating the Constitution so much, that freedom of speech doesn't concern them either.
Mt. Gox CEO's blog hacked
It's a bit ironic that freedombox is using an expired certificate
I'm a fan of the over-orientation. No need to reach.
The Flying Phantom: $40k sailboat levitates two feet above the waves
I really think this issue is just as important as women failing to leave the toilet seat up for men.
I didn't even realize I had a preference until my wife pointed out that I put the toilet paper roll on "backwards" once.

I happened to find this Wiki page and was thoroughly entertained.

As it turns out, I was an over, she was an under.

Since I got a rather rowdy cat, I am now also an under.
Well saddle-up, my friend ;-)

In seriousness, recall the weev/AT&T case[1]. As I understand it, the attack was roughly of the sophistication of making a totally unauthenticated request to:

get_user_email_address.php?id=N

(where N was from a series of sequential integers)... and apparently the feds had a colorable argument that N constituted an "access control system", and therefore the act of iterating the entire series of possible N values (and downloading the resulting data) constituted "unauthorized access to a protected system".

Not quite in the same realm as coughing up plain-text passwords, I'll admit. But clearly some relevant authorities would set the bar for "access control system" fairly low. And apparently rank incompetence on the part of the site developer/owner appears not to come into things.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4808676
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Since when did HN become the random button on Wikipedia?
Well, the two main harms claimed by USA as their reasons for [continued] invasion - funding&sheltering terrorist groups and producing a majority of worlds heroin - don't need anyone from Afganistan to get over to USA. And you can't isolate a border from the outside even with total cooperation with all their neighbors (which USA doesn't have), even North Korea doesn't achieve that in their borders.
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very neat, but s/levitates/hydrofoils
Is he running for re-election or something?

He's a member of the House; he's up for re-election every national election cycle.

Given what I know of KS politics (I have friends and family who live there, some of whom are very politically minded), his taking a tough-on-Snowden stance will probably play very, very well to the people whose votes he cares about. For his purposes, little else matters...
I thought this was going to be some kind of startup new employee orientation process that all the cool kids are doing.

I guess it could instead be a meaningless question asked at an interview, "to see how you think."
If you let them build up without any restrictions, as AQ did under the Taliban and in Sudan, you end up with quantity and scale of attacks which border defense can't mitigate sufficiently.
FWIW never knew there was an angument for under so this was worth the post. It's valid with small children, aggressive pets, and in-vehicle holsters.
You can always change that to

=image("http://targetname/1.jpg")
=image("http://targetname/2.jpg")
=image("http://targetname/3.jpg")
uck, anyone who folds under clearly doesnt use linear thinking / logical languages.
Yes. I would have killed the drug war, at least within Afghanistan (if you don't legalize, you can still buy all their heroin at field price and turn it into medical opiates or just destroy it), as well as splitting AQ off from the Taliban ("anyone who wants to leave must be allowed to do so"), and trying to have some minimal restrictions on the Taliban while letting them continue to rule. This probably would have been mutually acceptable.

The other option would have been funding the CIA Northern Alliance program 2001-2002 and letting JSOC play, but keeping conventional forces out (i.e. not letting the Marines take KAF for Christmas, etc.), and having a few years of civil war where the NA took over the country and killed a whole lot of Taliban with no real difference.
Interesting, I said 'solve the problem' but nothing really about capturing or fighting.

Define the problem and solution broadly, and better ideas start coming out of the woodwork.
The number of cites on that article are mind blowing.