skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John C. Dvorak complaining about Microsoft? Don't waste our time.
I'm not a python programmer. But shouldn't this be possible at runtime by modifying the AST to change it back to import in the AST? That way you could have a module you can just include to run this without a custom interpreter.

Edit: Looks like this is doable by messing with the tokenizer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214881/can-you-add-new-st...

You could create a loader.py where you tokenize the script yourself, and replace accio with a custom import that again loadds imports by tokenizing them yourself first. And then after you've modified the tokens you should be able to build a valid AST and run it :)

I'm pretty sure you can just throw a SyntaxError there yourself too if you encounter a real "import".

Nice hack nevertheless.
I tried using iPads with keyboard covers. Having to constantly switch between tapping the screen and typing was a dealbreaker for me. There's zero integration for keyboards beyond the ability to type in textboxes and a few system shortcuts. You can't even select apps with the arrow keys on the homescreen!
Before iTunes there was Napster. Without Napster I very much doubt iTunes would ever have evolved. Maybe Popcorn Time is the first step to getting a truly decent movie application that people can purchase through?
I bet it intentionally lowballs so you're then forced to enter a value that makes sense. Correcting a bad estimate will probably be psychologically easier than coming up with it from scratch.
If/when he gets in office he should put the bills he sponsors, cosponsors etc up on github as diffs to the main corpus of US law.
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Cohort Analysis: A (practical) Q&A
Nobody just sold $100 billion of US Treasuries
Vanity Fair Report: Google Glass Broke Up Founder Sergey Brin's Marriage
I don't understand why it got so much attention, it looks just like a ripoff from zona.ru, even the frontend website looks similar. And zona has been out there for quite some time already.
Original article for reference> http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda...
I'm guessing you've never been to jail. There is a pervasive subculture with a long history there.
> H1B visas should not have citizenship tied to the employer

Absolutely agree with you. That they are reeks of indentured servitude.
You'll have to enable it first
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq )

sysctl -w kernel.sysrq = 1

Stuff kernel.sysrq = 1 in /etc/sysctl to make it permanent.

I do not really understand why it isn't enabled by default though...
Wait, I'm confused. I would think that the opposite would be true. You don't even have generics in Go. Rust is probably more what you're after.
Not everyone works in webdev. Some people do embedded development, and use a reasonable subset of C++.
> Right now 'The Wolf of Wall Street' is available from Amazon Instant Video at $20.

As an aside, that movie is one of the worst I've seen in a long time. I wouldn't consider it worth my time to watch it again if I was given $20.
> functions are functions in the algebraic sense

This is a minor nit, but there are effects in pure Haskell functions, namely partiality and non-termination. (In other words, the sense in which "functions are functions" is actually a deep question)

There's plenty of academic discussions on how to solve this problem. See stuff like this: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2003
They're disagreeing about whether or not you're allowed to say anything bad about speech.
I'm not sure an iPad would have enough computing power to run VM + QEMU + Wine + Office.
Challenge accepted. Will try to find a DVD with some of that stuff tomorrow (it's 3:18am, parents would not appreciate).

Edit: Does searching a dvd count as time spent before being able to watch the movie? Since you can't, ahem, copy dvds to your NAS (they're encrypted with CSS to prevent yarr pirates y'know).
Well yea and nobody would want that. The touch interface necessarily limits the amount of functionality you can bolt in without excessive UI overloading.

> Frankly, I would say IE on metro is already better than any of them.

Care to qualify this? Chrome on ios for example is fantastic.
I love that people can even link to the law, but still have demonstrably no idea what it is.
Let's not forget the $500M loan Uncle Sam, er, The American Taxpayers, made to Musk, which in the case of Tesla failing, would have been a write off for us, but in the case of Tesla succeeding, only makes us a bit of interest, while making a billionaire more billions.
Language Study: What is a foreign language worth?
Depends on a car.
If AltGr is right Alt, it does print a bunch of stuff. On my system, SysRq is under PrtSc. Does that mean I have to do Fn+PrtSc to get SysRq or just PrtSc is enough.
> The restriction is only in place for Windows RT apps, of which Microsoft has a rather negligible marketshare of the tablet market.

The restriction against using browser engines other than IE's Trident applies to "Windows Store Apps" for desktop, too.

Mozilla and Google managed to claw out a half-hearted concession for the browsers themselves on the desktop (though not RT), but even then the other restrictions that mbrubeck noted still apply: the browser needs to be installed outside the Windows Store and only the default browser is allowed to present a touch interface. I'm not sure what purpose is behind the latter restriction, other than making switching or experimenting with browsers slightly more of a hassle.
> GoDaddy is the perfect example of a company killing it with the mainstream while getting (often unjustified) hate inside the tech community.

Either you're a shill for GoDaddy or you've never done a cursory Google search on the company. Hell, every month or so there's a horror story posted on HN about someone who got royally screwed over by GoDaddy in new and astonishing ways. And the common reply is along the lines of, "You're a tech geek. You should have known better." And I think the same could be said of you.
We've probably all been there at one time or another, thinking that "unix timestamps" are all that's needed to represent and perform date/time calculations.

Along with the recommendation to never inventing your own cryptography, you should also never write your own date/time routines. Use well tested functions in your database or programming language libraries.
I have had several domains purchased out from under me if I added them to my cart. If they go into my cart, I know I better buy them within 90 minutes or they become search suggestions, or who knows what. Makes me want to keep my ideas to myself until I'm sitting there ready to buy.
Actually they have every intention of doing just that. Look at the decline in movie ticket sales year by year over the last 4. Emerging distribution platforms like Netflix and Hulu get lots of attention from production companies because they aren't afraid to shake it up and provide an alternative to the studio giants that don't develop small movies anymore.
Atomic Car Revisited: Thorium Could Power A Vehicle for 100 Years? – Yahoo Autos
Do you play games? Do you play console games, or desktop games? Do these games support 3D rendering? Soft shadows? Physically based lights? Pathfinding of crowds of people or units? Literally hundreds of thousands of projectiles? Networked replication? Leverage all the cores of your desktop/device/console while doing the above? Support unique or specialized data structures? Execute a runtime that CAN'T tolerate non-deterministic GC pauses?

I make games. What am I supposed to code that in? Fucking javascript? Ruby? C#? Go stfu and die yourself. If you want to come up with a language that can get the job fucking done than by all means, go for it and fail miserably. Otherwise, stop using any of the products that leverage C++. We don't want you.
Finding a paradigm better than language, i.e. an abstract symbolic system, would be a such a revolutionary turning point in the ... um, everything that I think programming would at that point seem just silly. What would that even mean? We would become some sort of gods. Mathematics as we know it would certainly become irrelevant. I'm not sure this is even science fiction.
This is exactly what I am talking about haha. Nabster was the precursor to iTunes. iTunes disrupted everything legally.
Even with the necessary knowledge, competence levels vary.
> I could see a company like Netflix buying them out

Really? I think Netflix would "suddenly" have each and every contract broken and no content can be watched on Netflix services ever again.

Well, with the exception of anything that runs on Popcorn, of course.
Breaking news AMERICA MAY HAVE HIJACKED PLANE,
Check out the js console to see output of the compiled s-expression as you modify the nodes.
This is simply brilliant! I've dreamt about such tools. And now you have reached into my dream and turned it into a reality. We might as well be soul mates you and I.
You make it sound like this is the only opportunity for disruption yet fail to bring a point to the table to back up this claim. Piracy is a violation of copyrighted content plain and simple. It is illegal. We will find another way.
Anomalies: Why Flight 370 and your keys are *hard* to find.
Human beings are not wired to understand "anomalies", things that don't "normally" happen.

And thats why we call them that. But worse, they blind us to incoming information and prevent us from finding the truth.

First, as preamble Ill make a bold statement. Flight 370 out of Malaysia is in the South China Sea exactly where it went off radar.

The "investigators" have a case of "I cant find my car keys" syndrome. And are spreading misinformation through the press to search the Indian Ocean.

When humans are confronted with anomalies, they quickly look back to "where did I leave my keys the last time?" They go back and forth each time using the same perceptive lens to find what is right in front of them but cant see it.

Its only the 5th or 6th time that they find out it was "exactly" in front of them.

Happens all the time, therefore, NOT an anomaly.
I think you wouldn't be able to generate a valid AST to begin with since the parser would probably complain that it doesn't know the "accio" keyword, but I'm note 100 % sure if there isn't a workaround for this.
>One easy way to get kernel lockups is to use fglrx.

Yup. Changed my GPU to nvidia, no more core lockups.
You can leave off the VM, as it's redundant to QEMU. Also, there are emulation strategies that rewrite the machine language to the native ISA instead of interpreting. One of those that cached the translated code would be more appropriate than QEMU emulation. WINE Is Not an Emulator, it's more of a library.

It would be hard, but it would be doable.

EDIT: New iPads are supposed to be equivalent to a low end dual core laptop from a few years ago.
LiveCode is much better, cross-platform, supports mobile and is free for non-commercial development.
I here by announce, that C++ next version will be called D! More links here: http://dlang.org
I worked as a lawyer in Chicago in the late 1990s and represented a client who was on the FBI top ten most wanted list. His name is Nate Hill. He was a Chicago drug dealer.

He fled to Africa and was running a coffee business as a front. US Marshals flew to Africa, found him, kidnapped him, and put him on a flight back to O'Hare.

More details on his case: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-05-25/news/990525017...
It might not be a goal for Mozilla for it to be a production browser but it does seem to be for other people working on it and this is affecting what is being worked on:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.servo/-dmlVwMknJ...
I haven't checked, but I'd guess he means the public key id whose private key should be used for decryption.
Remember, on HN "I and my friends don't use it" implies "that company can't possibly have revenues". Just look at any thread about Yahoo.
I'll forgive your self promotion because I've been trying it for the last thirty minutes and I like it very much. Good job.
I've read every single comment. I think there is 90% bias.

I've been a GoDaddy customer for a decade at least, and yes, it has sucked. But in the past tense... when it comes to customer support, checkout ease of use and honesty, etc.

SOPA? Right now even ICANN is a US only institution, so I am not expecting registrars to be entirely respectful. The Bill & Monica factor works for registrars too, like it does for married men in positions of power. I am adamantly against what I see people do, but I don't ever expect it to change unless it changes systemically first.

As I commented elsewhere, yes - domains get bought out from under me all the time if I leave them in my cart and don't buy them immediately. Do I think that's shady? No. I think my ideas are golden, and I treat it like - "if I'm stupid enough to share before I just flat out buy - my bad." They've capitalized on so many things, subtly. Key being subtly.

Their checkout process absolutely looks better, and is not like exiting Tijuana and avoiding buying "chicklets" any more. It is radically different. Their management interface too. Perfect? No! Way better? Absolutely. I am almost to the point of recommending them to others. Now, I just say "I'll deal with it" and use GoDaddy anyway. Not out of any real loyalty, just out of the inability to really say there is anything better to the point of wanting to migrate away hundreds of domains, or starting to monitor two separate registrars. Call me lazy, but they haven't given enough incentive to leave, and they do provide incentive to stay.

Case in point: my wife wanted to surprise me one day and saw that I had domains expiring while I was out of cell reception on a business trip. She obviously has all the necessary to verify she is my wife, and has access to my domains. If she used this to do something bad, this would be a different story. Instead, she was able to have a good conversation with someone who ended up giving her discount codes because she "knew I used them, but didn't know where to get them" and she wouldn't make the purchase until she saved at least 35% as I always said I did, minimum. All my domains got renewed, with a new card being added just to be sure it wasn't using money I didn't authorize - no matter who called. She is afraid of breaking things and still got through the process with positive experiences!

I am not finding the horror stories in my experience, now.
This guy's lost bet benefited him more than anything
Because this guy LOST the bet he is now famous for his dance moves! He's been on the front page of Yahoo, the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, The Blaze, People.com, and much more!
What is amazing to me about your comment is that you have harsh words for Musk without any defense whatsoever of why the law is just.

What is "immature" about calling out a stupid and corrupt law?
> I have transferred over so many domains with absolutely no issues. Unlock, get your transfer code, give it to the next registrar and done.

It took me close to 6 months to transfer domains from there the last time I tried. Throughout the entire back and fourth, shit getting switched. Waiting periods, back and fourth emails and everything else I found it amazing that any of that was legal.

In retrospect I could have likely transferred my domains away from them faster if I'd hired a lawyer. Why anyone considers that 'ok' is so far beyond me I can only come to the conclusion that you work for or have some kind of stake in GoDaddy.
In the Netherlands I believe any tool that is only used for illegal purposes is in itself illegal. For example hacking tools that are not meant for penetration testing would be illegal. Whether this would apply to applications providing copyright infringement on a huge scale, I don't know, though with the initially lost Pirate Bay case (which I have yet to see legal grounds for) it doesn't look too good.
They use a different subdomain, but both the official login page and user docs are served from a *.google.com hostname. I'm not sure if that counts or not.
I think it was their choice, the way they go about it. They've given a huge middle finger to the copyright industry while staying within legal bounds and showing off their programming skills. Can't say they're set for life, but odds are they made themselves a pretty solid future without being dragged along with this project any further.
Bitcoiners, Police Yourselves
Well, if your expectation is to just turn the iPad into a laptop, it's not going to work out. If you want to turn it into an iPad you can type faster on, it will be much better.
A nice wrapper around something like btcat: http://jordic.com/btcat/btcat is all that's really needed, a great part of popcorn time was purely in the marketing and presentation, the technology is relatively straight forwards.

Now it's clear there's a demand for similar tools this isn't a tide that can be stopped.
Boost has a macro that's usable in plain C as well, since it uses only the preprocessor.

#include <boost/utility/binary.hpp>
char c = BOOST_BINARY(01011010);
Exactly - I could have believed one back office app even, but cross platform? Yeah right...
My son's iPhone physically (and probably electrically) fits a USB, but the phone requires that it receive some Apple only signal from the charger, or it refuses to charge. It's one of the reasons his phone is often dead. The regulators need to kill this kind of hostile behavior.
Sexy lady talks marketing
Marketing and real business ideas this woman is hot
That's not the right way to think about it. Taxes are only a small portion of the economic activity a bunch of car dealerships in a state generate. A dealer gets to keep some of that profit margin that Tesla gets 100% of right now. They then pay the dealership owner (1 job), the receptionist (2 jobs), the finance guy (3 jobs) and pay the commission to the sales guy (4 jobs) and then you bring back the car to the repair center manager (5 jobs) the mechanic (6 jobs) the car wash guy (7 jobs). There's also the sales tax on the car + the income tax for those 4 people + the consumption taxes on those people as they go about their daily lives. All those people then go out in the local economy and eat pizza and do whatever other local economic activity people do with their money. Which also generates more jobs.

In the Tesla model, you eliminate all those for a "test drive experience genius" or whatever they call it, 3 or 4 to a "test drive experience center", NJ gets the sales tax on the car, and whatever they can squeeze out of the 3 or 4 guys who work at the Tesla dealership and the 2 mechanics who work in back.

If Tesla, an extremely minor player in the industry right now, gets to do this, why doesn't everybody else? Overnight all those endless seas of car dealerships, representing millions upon millions of dollars NJ wants to capture into it's state economy go bankrupt and now nearly all of the money is going to CA, Japan and Detroit with a handful of in-state jobs to man the direct-to-consumer "test drive centers". And now for the out-of-work accountant or phone engineer? He used to have a chance to at least work a commission only car salesman job for a few months till he found better work. Now he has nothing to go to in the interim and overall state unemployment ticks up a half percentage point.

As an engineer I see lots of built-in inefficiency in all this. So I understand the HN outrage. But NJ doesn't want efficiency, they want people in jobs and off welfare. Each person in a job is a chance for the State to capture a few hundred dollars off of each car sold -- not as taxes, but as GDP (which will eventually float the government's coffers as taxes anyways), rather than paying out for social welfare programs. It's in the interest of good governance to have an inefficient system, so that there's lots of places citizens in the state can reach into the car-to-consumer pipeline and extract some money from it. And they can do all this without having to put in place unpopular social welfare programs or increase taxes or some other public works program because they can regulate the private market to force it to be more inefficient than it should be.

From a macro perspective, NJ's behavior here is completely rational. I don't agree with it personally, I think there's better ways to do this. But it's easy to explain without resorting to name calling or disparaging thinking about the competency of NJ's governing officials.
im using ff metro ui in ff nightly and its like IE except its firefox. too bad its going away, its pretty good.
Ask HN: Which CDN do you recommend for my application?
Hi,

I have a website project that would need the use of a good - yet affordable - CDN. My project is about storing, viewing and sharing videos. My needs are the following:

- multi TB of data storage (in the long run as content is uploaded by users)

- Analytics

- API (manipulate the site library, upload, etc... and access to analytics)

I did a quick search and found Limelight Network that covers all my needs and then some - they have an explicit solution for video distribution, but pricing is not available and I expect they are on the expensive side of things.

Do you know a CDN that fits the bill?

If you are using a CDN right now I would like to read about your experience.

Thanks!
Youtube VIEWS booster
Why not share your videos by posting them to loads of other users and view and subscribe to others videos that way we all get views the legit way without a bot
you gotta setup the ssh user, modify/install ssh keys, install python if it's not there, possibly adjust firewalls, setup the hostnames, possibly tell the machine where to find the private dns servers, etc.
I command this VP for also actually saying "it dead jim" when it is - unlike the "its going to community-mode". I think its a much nicer, transparent communication from mozilla and exactly what i expect from mozilla, too. Props!
Accessing localhost From Anywhere
Notmuch is sublime. I used Sup and it was wonderful, but I switched to Notmuch after sup stopped getting maintained. It seems like it's starting up again?
It's higher than that, because the CPI does a lot of adjustments to the offical figure. Moreover, your years are cherry-picked; there was a wave of deflation (that occurred in 2008-2009) as loans went though a cycle of defaults to clear out bad debt. Finally, the effects of top-down stimulus take a long time to propagate, especially since the current money multiplier for dollars is still quite low, and bank's lending activities have been relatively stagnant (roughly speaking, base currency went up, but debt expansion, which is what really counts, has not caught up yet because people are reluctant to go into debt - hence the popularity of debit cards vs. credit cards). Eventually as people start using debt to paper of catastrophes and emergencies, the overall indebtedness will increase, and the inflationary increase in the base currency will propagate into the debt burden, and we will have a sudden increase in inflation.

I personally think it's unlikely to be hyperinflationary, but it will be very uncomfortable, especially for poor and middle class.

But, perhaps i should not have used the past tense.
If using a cloud, another often overlooked option is to just tear down and replace the instance rather than try to update/correct its configuration. In that case, a shell script or Userdata script will be more than enough and represents a single source of truth for how a server will be built (never upgraded).
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