skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was not up on my case law regarding Buckley v. Valeo, but I do remember now after having looked it up. Unfortunately, I don't have the legal backbone to discuss case law proper. I was trying to discuss more akin to philosopher language.

After having slept on why money in politics bothers me, I think I can better explain why it does.

Normally, a vote from me counts as the same as a vote from any resident in Indiana. And I can extrapolate that to show that my vote is pretty much equal to any citizen in the US. When we add money, it changes that "1 person, 1 vote" to "1 rich person, lots of votes: 1 poor person, 1 vote"

When we distill that down, we are saying that a rich person is much more important than an average income person, or even that homeless indigent voters are worthless. That doesn't sit right with me.
Whether or not that is what Kickstarter buys you, I don't think it is unreasonable that people feel a sense of possession when it comes to projects they have backed. I'm not saying it is _right_ that they feel this way, but I can see how doing your own little part to bring something into this world could cause a person to hold on to it more than if they just bought something off a store shelf.
Shame it's not broadcast, nowadays it should be a given, in my opinion. Why keep it closed to "members of the media", particularly when we all know how often they screw up these stories?
The essence of the argument here is that Java is a poor language as it doesn't offer simple abstraction to copy standard input into standard output; that Java is too verbose and low-level for the task.

The lack of direct abstraction is not a valid argument, because as a programmer, you shouldn't be writing the logic in Java, Python, C or Scala but rather a higher order domain language implemented in the chosen host language and that's what the process of programming is all about. For the majority of real world programming tasks it's unlikely that a language that fits the domain perfectly already exist, so you have to create one.

In Java one can say:

copyStream(System.in,System.out);

And then one will have to implement copyStream but only once:

long copyStream (InputStream src,OutputStream dst) throws IOException {
long bytesCopied;
byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
int bytesRead = src.read(buffer);

while(bytesRead!=-1) {
bytesCopied+=bytesRead;
dst.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
bytesRead = src.read(buffer);
}

return bytesCopied;
}

I prefer programmers taking this approach of implementing domain specific language first and then expressing the logic in its terms instead of trying to express higher order concepts without resorting to available host language abstractions.

Let's say Python or Perl let one express stream copying more concisely straight out of the box. However when faced with real life programming challenges one will very quickly encounter limits of what a language can express out of the box with one-liner. But as a programmer one has the power to create one-liners from scratch!

Disclaimer: I am not a Java expert, so the code above is just to illustrate the idea based on my very limited knowledge of Java.
Event Horizon has returned.
Such access is highly audited in Google. That audit trail was used as evidence against the person in question here in a criminal trial.

(That link isn't working, for whatever reason, so I'm just assuming it's the same case that I'm thinking about)
If the gamblers are obviously addicted then I believe the casino is legally required not to serve them.
"Today the bans on Tesla stores are such a naked example of stifling innovative competition to protect an incumbent industry’s business model that they look positively French."

This remark is stupid regarding how much money the US government spent to protect companies like General Motors. I'm not saying it was a bad thing, just that this remark was too easy.
Expired Domains – Sorted by Original Registration Year
Technological advancements have a funny way of producing important side-benefits.

A change as massive as VR - we simply don't know how big a deal it is.

For example, as one of the smaller potential side-effects, imagine VR became good enough that there was no practical reason to have people travel for face-to-face meetings. That would have a significant knock-on effect (closing on single-digit percentile worldwide) on carbon emissions, global warming, and potentially catastrophic climate change.
What Makes a Successful Level Executive – Insights from Mike Volpe, HubSpot
Could Carmack have been lured by an interest in being the guy who nails Second-Life-done-properly? That would be a pretty massive thing to put on your life CV if you got it right.
Scoff.
Not some schmoe. I am a Google engineer (and a bit schmoey) and there's just no way I could do it.

There are people who can, though that number is small. However even then, the access is highly audited.

The only way around it would be to just steal a disk, I think. That's why you can't take any hardware in to or out of one of the data centers.
I half expected this to include a mention of the Oculus Rift.
An obvious concern is that independent developers will be barred from developing for the Rift, or forced into unpleasant licensing terms in order to do so.
>"Facebook creeps me out"

While he says this on Twitter - many of whom are ex-FB employees doing essentially the same things.
Scientists film inside a flying insect
I feel horrible for having made my dad get me one of those TERRIBLE Tiger Rzones. Le sigh.
Not only there is no broadcast, but there is also strict embargo on the information, until after the conference.
If you came late in this thread or somehow still believe keybase.io equals rolling your own system, sokrates wrote a good description of what keybase.io does lower in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7465349

The big assumption keybase.io seems to challenge here is that your online identity doesn't consist only of your public key.
I see it the other way around. It's easier to find experts in esoteric languages because you don't have to sift through the same piles of dullards that use main stream languages. A person who has chosen to use a language like Haskell is probably not your average brogrammer.

Also, PHP in particular is so bad, to become an expert in it suggests a willing blindness to its problems, or a general attitude of "live with problems" that converges to a complete shit sandwich over time. When one could have just switched to something else so long ago, PHP is a point against any claim of being a software expert.

It is just like the traffic in DC: whatever your arguments against doing anything about a bad situation because "we don't have the time" or "we don't have the money", it ain't getting any better in the future. If you don't fix it now, it won't ever get fixed.
I guess Zecharia Sitchin was right. They be a comin' for our gold, dontcha know.
No, for improved security.

The http/https question is completely irrelevant to the PRISM-complicity question. I'm not sure why you brought it up.
Sick Again? Why Some Colds Won't Go Away
The perks are not a gamble. If the project creator fails to deliver, you are entitled to a refund. Straight from the Kickstarter Terms of Use:

> Project Creators are required to fulfill all rewards of their successful fundraising campaigns or refund any Backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill.
I think this is a bad filter. I'd rather filter prospective employees based on an ambitious algorithm or a complex project they've done. Most of the people I know that like solving hard problems with novel data structures, algorithms, or mechanically-sympathetic implementations are averse to spending time on learning new programming languages. It seems to them (and to me) like focusing on bling rather than on substance.

Of course, this is a crude generalization, and obviously, anyone who's interested in learning any new, perhaps unappreciated, and difficult skill would make a good hire, and Haskellers are no exception. But I wouldn't filter based on programming language preference.
There could be multiple interpretations:

1) People hate Facebook in the same way I hate cheesecake: Facebook does such a good job at hooking me in and spending so much time reading content that it's a delicious evil. I hate how cheesecake makes it so irresistible and would like to eat less of it, but that doesn't make cheesecake bad per se. =)

2) Not everyone does hate Facebook, it's just the Yelp effect: you're more likely to hear about how someone hating on something MUCH MORE than you are likely to hear about someone loving (hell, even just _liking_) a product/service/etc. My buddies and I connect on FB messenger all the time and find it convenient, but we're not going to rave about it on all comment boards, Reddit, etc.

(Sidebar: I find that it's more of the exception, rather than the rule, when the Yelp effect is broken. For example, Evernote made a killing off primarily word of mouth in its early development, and people rave about it everywhere.)
"Question: What does his nationality have to do with it though? Seems like an odd addition to the headline."

Seemed strange to me too. There was another instance of this a few days ago with the article "How British satellite company Inmarsat tracked down MH370" [1]. Is this a journalistic practice?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7463181
Planet X???

:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune
IRS Says Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency, And Forms 1099 Are Required
I clicked and expected something about "Elderscrolls Online". Damn shortcuts for everything. :/
Yes it would seem.

"Google Engineer Fired for Accessing Teens' Gmail, Chat Logs"
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369188,00.asp
How to write a proper Angular Directive
Oh for sure. Carmack really needs an extra line on his CV.
"An Alenia Spazio spokeswoman said that none of the company's officials were available to comment because of a company-wide summer vacation period." Typical Italian... (I'm Italian myself btw)
The IRS document used as source material for this article can be found at:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf
The funny thing is, every major game company does exactly that. Want to play this offline, single-player game? Well, let's first create an account in our service, so we can enhance our experience! Wow, you collected your first item! Here's an achievement that will show up on all of your friends' feeds, along with how long you've been playing. Surely you want to announce to the world you spent your last twenty hours playing Lawnmower Simulator 2014? Hey, how about we add a button to your controller to make it even easier to share videos with all our friends?
Not much.

First, don't underestimate the power of the auto companies along with their associated labour. There are many votes there.

Second, most of the country has no clue who or what Tesla is, and as an "issue" it's the least of their concern. They want jobs, a good economy, sometimes to know whether the president believes in god, and other things. Whether rich people can buy their expensive cars in New Jersey isn't a priority, and that's how this story can be sold.

These laws will fall, eventually, because they're stupid.

>Few capitalists today embody the Ayn Randian entrepreneur-as-hero persona quite as convincingly as Tesla CEO Elon Musk

I don't think John Galt would have taken government subsidies.

Edit: replaced "No it won't" with "Not much", since I'm sure there will be some sort of effect.
The one that Notepad has configured by default in your OS version, unless you choose a different encoding when saving the file.
Early leak of press announcement:

"Brazlian researchers discover asteroid with rings"

"The European Southern Observatory announced this week the discovery of rings around an asteroid 1.4 billion miles from Earth. Chariklo is the largest of the class of asteroids orbiting the sun between Saturn and Uranus known as Centaurs."

Google cache before it was thaken down: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

http://www.wral.com/discovery-an-asteroid-with-rings/1351096...
The problem I had with Haskell when trying it out was that every time I wanted to use a package with dependencies I ran into "cabal: Error: some packages failed to install. The exception was: ExitFailure 1.". The solution was most often trying earlier versions of the package until it worked or not use the package at all. Cabal just seemed so broken.
How to return the number of dimensions of a variable passed to it in VBA
You mean, exactly like you do with character encodings for different alphabets?
Perhaps I missed it when I read the article: Why did he originally have the hunch that the radio wouldn't work when Doppler shifted?

Also, I guess something like Manchester encoding wasn't use because of the data rate limitations? IIRC Manchester encoding is self-clocking, which seemed like the issue here.
PG said he lowered it to 500.
The French do the same. I see nothing wrong with it.
This might well be right. VR proponents like to present people who disagree with them as conservatives, but is it not in fact the case that the VR proponents are the real conservatives?

That is, the ubiquity of computing devices that you get with smartphones, which the iPhone kicked off, is something genuinely fairly new, which not a lot of people had previously imagined. VR, on the other hand, is something people have been imagining for decades, producing compelling fictional versions; but every attempt to implement it suggests that it's not actually a very good idea. VR proponents are stuck with a nostalgic vision of the future, rather than trying to imagine something genuinely novel.

(On the other hand, people were imagining video phones as the next big thing for years, and they seemed to never take off, until they did; Skype hasn't replaced non-video phones, but it is ubiquitous.)
> I just don't see how people figure Facebook might ruin this product.

To make the product valuable, it has to be a good platform which other companies can use.

Facebook has ruined many companies that relied on the facebook api to build their businesses. Sometimes facebook reimplemented someones else idea and then remove features from the api to kill the original company.

Making a product based on the Oculus rift platform is a high risk operation. Facebook has already ruined the trust.
Hot on the heels of the discovery of Big Bang's gravitational waves there's now news that for the first time ever alien live has been witnessed, in the form of Silver Surfer ridin' dat wave.
What's to prevent more open initiatives to also benefit from a possibly huge uptick in development on VR now that Facebook put it's weight behind it?

Don't get me wrong, I'm just as upset about this news as most people here seem to be, I'm just trying to see different perspectives, as I'm not quite cynical enough to think that Oculus VR only did this for the money...
Wow, completely the opposite experience here. The majority of the prog. lang. enthusiasts I know are deeply into other aspects of computer science. They love high level languages because they can express their ideas so cleanly. Lots of devs are drooling over Rust because it allows us clean code with C-level control over memory layout and allocation.
I don't know. We've considered a number of names but haven't found one we really like. We're open to suggestions :)
Brazilian Congress Approves Pioneer Bill of Rights for Internet Users
Redbull over the last few years have been really getting into the internet side of things, such as sponsoring eSports and the like, which is a fantastic marketing move as the "internet demographic" is their target market.
Website is horrible.
It lends human interest. Humans are inherently tribalistic, and one of the key ways we understand and categorize other humans is according to tribal affiliations.
If you're gonna read one intro guide to startup metrics, this is it
Not true, it really is fairly random. Usually if it's cool to you it will probably be cool to a bunch of other people. However, the chance that those other people are in a position to upvote it is pure chance. One it gets a bunch of upvotes, then it will stay around in a position that enough similar people will see it and keep voting. Getting those initial upvotes are pretty much pure chance though.
Well, that is pretty boring. But still, thanks for providing some actual information ;).

By the way, I find it a bit excessive that, if it is in fact this what they found, they set up a media embargo and everything. It's a pretty nice finding, but nothing massive.
Parse.com hooking up user registration and authentication
An Anatomy of Key Tricks in word2vec project with examples
That's a good point. I think the difference is that instagram had an existing userbase and social ecosystem that complemented Facebook nicely as another content stream.

I don't think you will need a Facebook login to play games, but Facebook will likely monopolize any social aspects. Even if they don't overtly lock out other social players, I think that developers will be skittish to invest a lot of time and money developing the new Second Life with the risk of Facebook cutting them off at any point if they are seen as a competitor.
Kendo UI the whole package – Part 3
It was especially funny when Andre Geim won the Nobel prize and the Brits, Dutch and Russians all claimed him. Science and those who practice it know no borders.

Scientific funding, however, does. This is one reason why it is crucial that taxpayers can connect with scientific success. For ESA this is problematic because their success gets distributed, consequently most Europeans might not even know it exists.
>"Facebook creeps me out."

So you lose out on an audience of 1.2Bn people for Minecraft and comment on the situation on Twitter -- a social network that does pretty much all the same things Facebook does.
This would destroy most of the business models of most of the companies on this website.

I fail to see how a social media company buying a headset manufacturer would even hint at anti-trust.
I found the weakest parts of the book to be the endless nerd pop culture references. The parts that dealt with the consequences of VR, identity, and withdrawal from society were great, but it felt like it was all wrapped in a self-conscious veneer of "hey, you recognize this nerd reference, right?" as if the author felt that the ideas couldn't stand on their own.
My UVerse Router is the "entry" point into my system. but, everything else is behind a Cisco RV042, which routes around static IP Addresses.

More info on my setup here:

http://www.jeffryhouser.com/index.cfm/2012/3/26/How-can-you-...

I also have a Wifi Router plugged into the RV042, so Wifi is completely turned off at the UVerse router.
If it was legal, there would be a kickstarter-like middle-man who would deal with this hassle, leaving everyone happy.
The beginning of The Fifth Element ..
How to keep companies from tracking you online
Brazlian researchers discover asteroid with rings
Some recent papers by the team's leader, Felipe Braga-Ribas, are at [1]. I'm not any astronomer, but they mainly seem to concern studies of the atmospheres of the outer planets and mintor planets using observations of stellar occultations.

Maybe the announcement is about Pluto's atmosphere, or detection of atmosphere around an asteroid or one of the Centaurs?

[1] http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Felipe_Braga-Ribas/publi...
The majority of PL enthusiasts might well be interested in other aspects of computer science, but I was pointing out the the converse isn't true: the majority of people interested in the more challenging aspects of comp sci are not necessarily interested in programming languages, which is why this would be a bad filter.

I drool over Rust, too, but I wouldn't switch my company's (little) C++ code to Rust tomorrow. Also, Rust appeals mostly to C/C++ programmers, who don't usually need as many OSS/OTS libraries as application-level programmers (and those, usually specialized, libraries they do need, either work with Rust or don't; if they don't, that alone would be a deal breaker).

People who risk their company's investment (or make any important decision) based on stuff they drool over, might need to get their priorities straight.
I had no idea redbull ran a media site.
Tera Group Seeks to Protect Bitcoin Price Stability
Not to diminish the Cabal problems here, but you run into similar problems with Maven as well. Version management is a real hard problem. Especially when there is little awareness in producing compatible successors. Especially this problem made my experiences with Haskell somewhat bitter. But I have the same problem (in really productive code) with Maven. Writing a working Maven plugin can be made pretty challenging by that as especially the stuff you want to use in Maven plugins is burdened with incompatibilities.

So, Cabal is in good company in that regard.
Mistyping coffeescript.org as coffescript.org takes you to a phishing site
I was going to go check out the documentation for Coffeescript at http://coffeescript.org/, but I mistyped the url and used just 1 "e" instead of 2, so I ended up getting redirected to a PHP site that tries to impersonate Adobe and says that my Flash player is out of date.

So, just a warning for anyone else if this happens to them too. On a side note, is there anyone who I should report these sort of phishing scams too? I also still have the urls and url parameters for the sites that I got redirected to if anyone wants them for research.
I commented on impusle. I'm going to be echoing the sentiment here. I was seconds away from buying the development kit when I heard the news. It's with a heavy sigh that I contemplate this news. I may just buy the devkit, get comfortable with the platform and then switch once the market has caught up.
Sounds like an ad ...
Yup. And I bet he felt good doing it, too.
Hmmm until you're presented with multiple $billions (BILLIONS!) of dollars, probably money many of us will never see, and you have to make a choice between your product or probably an early retirement, it's impossible for us to judge a person and call him a "greedy businessman." I might have made the same choice.
Good. I hope everyone ditches Oculus Rift for non-facebook-owned-alternatives like they ditched Instagram for (the far superior IMO) Telegram after that acquisition was announced.
Duh, typed the wrong example there. The Leef Supra (24.99) is to the right of the Integral Neon, but less expensive.
> No it won't.

The article even backs this up by saying that Rubio and Perry may try to use it against Christie. At the very most it argues that Tesla could help decide who isn't president.
> Nobody can make predictions so it's also hard to see where the future is going.

People make predictions all the time, many of them pretty good. Did a significant number of people think Color was going to be a smashing success?

I'll happily predict that the Pono is going to fail pretty thoroughly, because I simply don't believe many people are going to spend tons of money on clunky hardware that plays very expensive music at dubiously appreciable improvements in quality when they already carry a phone that has unfettered access to way more music at lower prices at quality they already think is fine.

Likewise, if anyone wants to take my $100 on a bet that in 2019, we won't be strapping a scuba mask onto our face to use Facebook, it's available.
I guess saying "This." didn't seem verbose enough.

Let me propose an incredibly controversial idea: Haskell isn't a better tool, it's just yet another tool. Which is aggressively promoted not so much with actual benefits, but by trying to shame people who prefer other tools by calling them dullards and telling them that they don't know what they are doing.
Clojure web security is worse than you think
memcpy() and strcpy() and a whole bunch of functions inspired by them have take (dest, source). Maybe it's not theoretically superior, but it is familiar to a whole lot of programmers.