skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

It makes no sense to pay for something that is not scarce, like software and content. The scarcity is in the service, and that is what we pay for.

I think that people are starting to realize that artificial scarcity is a net loss for society, and that we should strive to make what's abundant as widely available as possible. Once the information exists, the only work that's necessary is distribution. That's why distribution channels will likely be the ones investing in content creation.

This whole criticism of artificial scarcity probably explains why many don't like patents. It just makes no sense to prevent others from doing things in certain ways simply because someone claims to have discovered it first.

Now, how do we encourage people to create content if they can't use force to ensure that they get paid for its consumption? There are many ways:

- Pay up front (Kickstarter)

- Donations

- Recognition (content is proof of your ability to make things)

- Custom/personalized content creation

- Use of new media that are not yet easy to distribute (distribution channels pay content creators to produce this new media in order to have something to distribute on their channel)

- Getting "paid" in non-scarce appreciation/reputation/trust currency (likely to replace money in the future)

- Etc.
Wow. I don't want to say something wrong to you but I can't imagine not seeing my mother for 4 months, let alone not hearing from her.

I do live within a 3 hours drive (or 30 minute flight with a helitaxi) from my family though. So it's very easy for me to go see them.
You don't have to like to respect.
Ditto. It happens with physical servers too. If you can't survive unscheduled degradation or termination of a node, you aren't running a high availability service. (Note: not every production service needs to be HA.)
Thinking beyond JavaScript frameworks
Beware of HTTP Request Automatic Retries
It would be fun to see what Scala's performance is like with long-running simulations. Should be ideal for hotspot optimization. Isn't Java just as often used for HPC as C?
Why need a Mother's day for anyone to call their mom?
And, parents being human, sometimes even respect can be lacking.
I see 3 alternatives: use the original NaCl, use the unofficial fork libsodium, or use TweetNaCl.
The latter shares the same authors as the original NaCl, with the advantage of being much smaller.

I don't like the fact that TinySSH modified TweetNaCl, and
added back MD5:

/*
Based on tweetnacl 20140427 (http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to software.html)
- updated int/uint types to crypto_int/crypto_uint
- added crypto_stream_chacha20
- added crypto_hash_sha256
- added crypto_hash_md5
*/

I mean they use TweetNaCl because it has "state-of-the-art crypto", but then they add back MD5. Something is wrong here ...
I agree that's the ultimate goal, but I think if opening a REPL is sitting at the grown-up's table, then this is a booster seat. Having a game like this helps things get moving in a non-intimidating way or at least seems better than searching for analogies or sketching out pseudo-code. And after the game you can say, "Remember that for each card? Well here's what that looks like in real life..." and have it relate better (perhaps).

At least I now have a phrase for updating code written by several people who apparently didn't talk to each other: coding on monkey island.
> That's almost the very definition of an internet witchhunt.

Apart from the two defining factors of a witch hunt: (1) irrational (2) assumption of guilt.

I'll grant you the "Internet" part, though.

> Getting these people fired won't fix the underlying problems.

Arguing against taking action is almost guaranteed to let these problems fester and get worse for almost everybody except those very few who are profiting from the situation right now (the ones that you are trying to protect from an imaginary witch hunt, a currently non-existent situation).

Then there's of course evoking the medieval imagery of torture, stake burning and death. Which is maybe appropriate as long as you're actually talking about e.g. the old 4chan (and similar) style "Internet witch hunts", mob justice, personal harassment and bullying.

But it is nothing short of disingenuous when referring to people taking action and filing complaints when they notice someone doing a bad job in a high position of power. Even if those complaints may result in more than just a slap on the wrist (which seems like a likely outcome, anyway).

The fact that people notice this as a group or a community doesn't make it a "witch hunt". And arguing to not do anything just because a lot of people are aware of it, is really quite silly, counter intuitive or counter productive (however you want to call it).

I'd be right with you if there was any suggestion remotely like a 21st century equivalent of stake-burning or mob justice, but there isn't.
This topic was already ranted to death what ... 20 years ago? This post brings absolutely nothing fresh to the discussion, just reiterates the same old tired points, continuing to preach the choir.
Check out your skin using a USB microscope.

Seriously, your skin says a lot about your general health.

Also, try to supplement with Xylitol gum. This will keep you from losing the ability to masticate, as well as help with dental health.

Good luck.
I had these turn up.

party.marketing

crooked.agency

wow.bargains

I can see this being a cybersquatters dream.
Yes, imdb is a pretty poor source of data. From my research, a combination of the well organized freebase film database[1] (~19mm facts) with details filled in from imdb is a better approach. However, processing data from freebase is not trivial and requires a decent amount of time investment to grok.

[1]https://www.freebase.com/film
Will 3-D technology radically change the world?
New technology makes driving safer for seniors
Another benefit is that these millions lines less also translate into file sizes.

A bare-bones MirageOS deployment (e.g. a hello world TCP service) is only a few MB if I remember correctly.
"And all of this runs anathema to the usual sort of libertarian financial-might-makes-right of the tech world, unfortunately."

Is that the right usage of that word? It means to vehemently dislike or a papal curse. I think something along the lines of, 'but this is anathema to the libertarian ...' would be correct.
When I think of programming board-games, I immediately think of RoboRally:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18/roborally

While it doesn't necessarily teach you skills that would be practical in the real world, it's a ton of fun, and all the programmers I know that have played it have really enjoyed it.
For what it's worth I saw your name and instantly thought "pie menus" :-)

I can't remember if I actually did get SimCity for News/HyperNeWS working...

I did spend a few years in the early 90s hacking around with PostScript in HyperNeWS and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Cool to see that you still have a page with some HyperNeWS related stuff!

http://www.art.net/studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/hyperlook/ind...
What looks like an alternative in .NET: http://cosmos.codeplex.com/
Except AWS is an actual cloud, and DO is just a few VPS with barely private networking available in half the locations.
"necessitate additional software being installed"

Every computer on the market that can read Microsoft Word documents can also read plain text without anything being installed.

"you're asking people to optimise a standard behaviour"

"Standard" according to whom? Some rough numbers from Googling from a couple of minutes:

Number of personal computers in the world: 1 billion
Number of copies of Microsoft Word sold: 100 million

So, no, having Microsoft Word (or at least a legal copy of it) is not standard.

"for a marginal gain"

Again, according to whom? What is the relationship here? If he is your teacher, boss, prospective boss, or customer, the gains might be anything but marginal. It looks like he is a computing teacher, actually. I've had plenty of teachers who required work to be formatted in a specific way from which you deviated at your peril.

The assumption that everyone has Microsoft Office running on a Windows machine was never true, but in today's mobile world it's not true with a vengeance.
Did you try A/B testing your messaging?
It doesn't even make sense. It gets the hierarchy of email addresses completely turned inside out. What do you put in front of the @ in your email address? ceo@cocacola.ceo ? That's just weird.
Well of course some people have a terrible relationship with their parents, but I think it's fairly obvious that OPs post is not addressed at them. If your mom was manipulative or abusive to you as a child, and you don't talk to her anymore, nobody's expecting you to call her today.
Standard style in scientific literature. Partly due to blind peer review (using the more general 'we' instead of 'I' to mask the identity/identities of the author).
Ignite a paper idea – easy, fun, and incredibly inexpensive
Better have a look at http://illustreets.co.uk/
My sympathies. Take care.
Just yesterday we had a meeting off site, my boss was driving this computer someone lent. Finsihing the meeting he had to save a couple of documents that were the result of the meeting, he looks at me and says "how the fuck do I know what Office version was this saved as? How do I know I'll be able to open this back in the office?". Me: "I refuse to fight Office to find out what version it was, save a couple with different formats!"
It's not the first time I see people that usually call us "...nerds who get so agitated... " get bitten by the very tool they are teaching us should be used for some unknown efficiency variable.
I wont even mention the Office versioning nightmare they have on the Citrix farm ;)
"It’s hard to overstate the impact of energy on the economy..."
"Although energy constitutes a small part of the US economy..."

Seriously, does anyone get that energy is the economy?
You have my complete agreement on all points.
Wish this would have been here early in the morning for the dutch timezone! Now my sister reminded me while standing besides my mom and I told her: ahh! hehe, errr, yes pass the phone then! >.< It takes a bit of effort to remember these kind of things, but I'm starting to appriciate (and actually try to remember) them more and more.
That's quite sad. I can't imagine not (at least) calling my mother on Mother's Day.
AWS generally, although not always, shows an alert before this happens.

However, I totally agree - if you are running any sort of service where you have a financial penalty if that service goes down, then it's your responsibility to ensure your service's architecture supports catastrophic failure of nodes. 1 machine running all the things isn't high availability and shouldn't be sold as such.
Some hardware RNGs had poor deskewing or correlated bits or no failure detection or were outputing other non-random noise or were using weird sampling rates.

I post a link elsewhere in the thread with some description. RFC4046 has some more information.

So, while the hole-electron moving[1] through the pn junction is quantum there's a bunch of other stuff that can be sent to the output stream and that poor software implementations include as random.

[1] apologies to physicists for inaccurate terminology. I never really know how to describe what hPpens with holes and electrons in semi conductors.
JeremySchoemaker@JeremySchoemaker.CEO
This is a really great list but it missed hooking libraries/tools. A good thread about alternatives is also on the reverse engineering subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22crn0/gpl_alte...

Disclaimer: my company does one of the tools being discussed.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is not 20 years ago.
true, though now that it's here, moms still like it when you remember and call or visit on that specific day.
It's the common style in scientific writing.
What makes a cloud a cloud and not a vps?
Well, if it wasn't for all the people in this thread valiantly defending the status quo, we'd be about this close to literally burning some innocent individual at the stake.

That's certainly worth a few frivolous patents, don't you think?
It was late in the afternoon and we were late. I was thinking to myself ‘Oh God, let today not be the day’. I started to walk faster as I thought this. My wife was accompanying me to the place where my mother was staying. We passed down the corridor and reached the room. I knocked at the door, but there was no response from inside. I moved a bit to the left raising myself on my toes, such that her bed was visible from over the cabin’s wall. I could see her there, ‘Oh God please…’. “Mummy”, I shouted “Mummy uthiye..”. Normally, she would getup at our knocking and move feebly to open the door.

After shouting a few times, I got impatient and tried to open the door ourselves. Thankfully it opened. She began to move slowly, as we got in. Thank God she was there! She half rose from her bed, and sat in a confused state. I could see that she had wet her bed. Sad at that, but relieved that she was alive.

How she had raised me and my sister so caringly when she was young and had lot of energy. But now she was in her twilight, and had lost control over many of her functions. But she still could recognize us, and so retained the most important part of her brain function. I was filled with emotion and could not breathe properly. There was less air in the room I thought. ‘Oh God, please cure her of this, and I will be nice I promise’, I thought and continued to breath forcefully.

…

Then I woke up. I had been asleep and it was a dream. Normally, when waking out of a bad dream, one is very thankful. But not today. I was still breathing forcefully. ‘Oh God, please cure her of her ailments and let me see her daily. Let today not be the day, and I will be nice I promise’.

(via my blog https://shiningleaf.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-mother-a-drea...)
So you can sell cards.
The last time I looked, mobile devices were outselling desktops and notebooks by a comfortable margin.

So, no, he's not outnumbered.
Web pages aren't email.
There is a reason I flagged this thread.

This is not your personal Facebook-feed to farm karma by surfing on some novelty holiday solely invented to make you spend money on presents and feed the capitalist-machine.
This will happen on any VPS provider. DO isn't the "cloud", same as Linode/RAMNode/any other VPS provider.

If you really had a "huge fine" weighing over you, why didn't you spring for multiple servers to prevent these things from happening? Redundancy will hopefully be your lesson here, rather then blaming budget VPS providers for your incompetence.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

~William Makepeace Thackeray
Show HN: I Made My Mom a Website For Mother's Day
Disclaimer: I work at a company that provides this type of service.

We are huge believers that this sort of testing is purely a pre-interview step. You get everyone to take it and you save hours and hours of digging through resumes. That's the big money saver.
The answer seems to me quite simple: because they have a different coding
style. Just as no one is bound to K&R or the GNU style, nothing suggests that
crypto code needs to follow Linux kernel conventions.

Value consistency above everything.

Honestly, I am not convinced that the peculiar if-style isn't actually helping
readability and refactoring. Note, that a Apple-style "goto break" bug might
be harder to construct, when your one-line if's look like this:

some_code;
if (something) die(message);
other_code;

Now the surrounding indentation does not suggest that there's an extendable
block where there in fact isn't, as with Kernel style:

some_code;
if (something)
die(message);
other_code;

To be perfectly honest, the authors' style reminds me a bit of my younger
self's style: keep logically connected pieces of code tightly together.

You (presumably) and I have beaten ourselves into submission to the Linux
style; the authors' haven't.

On a side note: your second example even seems to suggest that the authors
made some effort at additional readability by refraining from using the
ternary operator construct.
Mother’s Day and Capitalism
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> why put multiple statements on the same line if you have nothing to hide?

Because it's more readable.

Do

you

truly

find having

only a few

words per line

more

readable?

Does

it aid

with

comprehension?

I find having a high word density to be the most "readable", and it doesn't seem to matter whether it's C or English.

The TinySSH source code is small enough that I was able to read it in about 25 minutes and I learned about the SSH protocol along the way.
Downvote! Care to explain, why? Its a near true account of my dream, and I thought it could be therapeutic for some people to read who visit this HN page, as people are discussing Mother's day.

I won't care about downvotes on another topic. But seriously either you are heartless or out of your mind to downvote me on this. Get a life, Idiot downvoter!!

Edit: I see several others have compensated, for that enough. Thanks! Sorry for being harsh. But downvoting this made me angry.
So what has changed then that invalidates the old rants and justifies a new one?
there's various degrees of 'important'? HA? failover(auto? manual?)? backup? none of the above(so its just a charade,eh?)? and i do believe SLAs usually compensate you based on how much you pay;its not insurance, its 'money back guarantee'..
I suppose it's an OK sentiment, but I'm not in contact with my parents and on days like these I keep getting reminded of that fact. I was secretly hoping there wouldn't be anything about it on HN, but I guess I'll just have to learn to deal with it.

<goes back to reading a book in pyjamas, today is not a very good day. />
Rather than calling your mother on a specific day of the year, make it a habit to call your mom. Be it daily, weekly or monthly, keep in touch with your mother.(that includes your father)

Better yet, visit them, spend time with them regularly. Mothers have done so much to get you to where you are now. They deserve more than a simple phone call.
That site is gorgeous. Love the icons on the top navbar.
Today's Dilbert is forecasting where this new approach to staff efficiency is heading.

http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000...
Not sure why they added that back but the website states that

no older cryptographic primitives - rsa, dsa, classic diffie-hellman, md5, sha1, 3des, arcfour, ...

It is actually used in the code though. I didn't look into for what it was used though.
They present a counterargument of the "heavy user", dismiss it, and don't seem to explain why it's not a fair example of why metering is useful. It seems that the main complaint of the article is simply that the overage charges are insane, as they are for cell. I agree. I also think that it's "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" to suggest an entire reversal of policy (when observing what unmetered use results in via the US) when a more iterative response would seem to be, "why don't we regulate costs to ensure that this pseudo-utility is actually accessable at a basic level (that grows with the times) to all people?"

I'll have to tag another question on here, but is there any system in place for utilities to prevent, say, my water company for charging me 300$ per gallon? I'd assume there's simply some degree of regulation, why not apply that fix elsewhere; have a "hybrid utility" rather than treating it as all black and white.
Extensive discussion four days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7708818
I am right handed and for me the left keys are the positive ones because they come first; in other words the writing system makes the left side dominant for everything writing/reading related.
maybe http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145... ?
This should work perfectly well with rsync -e ssh. Which is what you should use anyway.
More mobile devices sold than desktops and notebooks.
Why do you think an empirical evaluation wouldn't have picked up on that?

It strikes me you could easily record the interview and run it past a machine looking for the tempo of the conversation, the tone of voice and so on - and see whether that correlated with employment a year later.
I agree. When you don't run your servers yourself it should be a calculated risk that sometimes your server goes down. Of course, if this happens quite often, you should considering going to another hoster, but it can't be guaranteed that one server has 100% uptime with perfect recovery.

If the website of one of my clients goes down, it's not a disaster and it's fine when it's up and running again in a few hours, maybe a day.
I understand it's not nice when this happens, but it's the risk you take with essentially outsourcing your hosting.
That seems strange indeed. Some clarification is needed. Perhaps it's part of the whole NIST suite that's disabled right now?
Show HN: Implementing the pull-and-zoom effect on mobile browsers
Wished my mom,long before i saw this on HN. She was really happy and i could see it in her eyes. However she complained that my brother sent her a text. (he isn't away from home)

To all you people, albeit we shouldn't need a day to celebrate her awesomeness but it doesn't hurt to do that esp today.
I can't agree enough. They don't seem to understand that they're destroying a great brand. If they want to create minimalistic MacBook-like designs, they should come up with new models. But at least some T, W & X Thinkpads should stay true to their IBM origins.

Thinkpads are workhorses. MacBooks are mostly targeted towards the consumer market. Glossy screens are just one proof of this. They are great machines. I type this from a MacBook Air. But better laptops should exist for developers. However, manufacturers seem too busy copying Apple's design cues and upgrading their enormous product lines.
Conversely, if you have a poor relationship with your mother due to factors outside of your control (she is a narcissist, abusive, etc.), then do not feel pressured to pursue contact with her. She may be your mother, but a blood relation does not mean you should subject yourself to more agony, all because of the cult of personality we have created around the mother as some sacred idol.
I see a lot of people posting photos of their moms on Facebook and Twitter. It's good but in addition to that, please ... do call your mom!
check: OpenStreetMap database ( ODBL license )

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1875255/open-source-poi-d...

"Planet.osm is the OpenStreetMap data in one file: all the nodes, ways and relations that make up our map. A new version is released every week. It's a big file (XML variant over 400GB uncompressed, 34GB compressed)."

http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
> an elevated platform positioned at a first distance from the elevated platform

Anybody understand what this means? Something can't be at a distance from itself, so are there two platforms?

(except the rest of the texts keep referring to "the platform", suggesting there is a unique single one)
You might be right.

It's just that the optical system is simpler, and still predicts true randomness. So if I were forced to e.g. build a business based on true random numbers, I'd probably go for the simpler system.
I think your circles analogy is good.

To tie it in a bit tighter with OPs article, I would just add that if we could only perceive two dimensions, the inner circle would disappear as we "move the circle up and away from the 2d plane".

It would only reappear to us once we moved it back down into our plane of perception, safely outside of the other circle.

The relevant bit from OPs article that this is analogous to is:

> "What would we see if you watched this happen in real life? Since we can't see anything outside our 3D slice of 4D space, from our perspective the moving (green) loop would disappear, to reappear later in the unknotted position."
It complained about a Swedish character ('ä') and errored out for me.

Locally I use TeXWorks with the XeLaTeX "output" and it handles it fine...