skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have comcast. My router is configured to enable IPv6, and my local machine appears to have an IPv6 address (though it appears to just be an IPv4 compatibility address, as it contains my IPv4 address with an fffe in the middle). But this site claims I don't have an IPv6 address: http://test-ipv6.com/
It's a sloppy article, but the title is apropos.
The problem with AppleScript isn't so much the language as much as the OSA[1] itself which is really hit-or-miss depending upon how much functionality any particular app chooses to make scriptable, much less actually document in its dictionary.

As to AppleScript's deficiencies, in the past I've used py-appscript[2], though apparently it's no longer developed.

1. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/apples...

2. http://appscript.sourceforge.net/py-appscript/index.html
I don't understand. Why would you write a markdown parser? Theres like a million implementations already. I use https://www.npmjs.org/package/markdown-pdf
If you like to use German names, please observe that "Das Referenz" is not correct German (for native German "Das Referenz" sounds like the German spoken by less able Turkish immigrants, especially when combined with an accent). "Referenz" is a female noun - thus "Die Referenz" is correct German.
Looking good and working good are not mutually exclusive.

I like the magic mouse, but for day-to-day mousing, I use an original Microsoft Intellimouse Optical.

Another mouse that looks good but doesn't work good is the Microsoft Arc Mouse (the bendy one). Love the design. But after 15-20 minutes I'm getting cramps from it.
Is this just a WebView with a custom UserScript loaded? I don't have an iPad to test it out.
So, I have actually spent a lot of time thinking about these exact problems, but it would have been too overwhelming to try include that information in this initial deck.

I'm not even sure if I can adequately summarize it here :-)

(I'm planning on covering this stuff in a subsequent presentation.)

I played around with a few approaches to the things you're asking. Had good results with specialized interlocked container-type classes (e.g. xlist(); a simplified list-type object) that parallel threads could use to persist simple scalar objects (string, int, bytes).

I think there's definitely room for sharing techniques that exploit the fact that threads inherently share address space -- I don't want to say that shared-nothing is the only paradigm supported and all communication must be done by message passing (like Rust?), because that's not the best solution for all problems.

As for the main-thread/parallel-thread pause/run relationship... it won't be as black and white as I allude to in the deck -- the main thread will still be running, albeit with a limited memory view (i.e. you'll be restricted with what you can do in the main thread whilst parallel threads are running).

Ideally, the only time all the parallel threads get paused is when global state needs to be updated by the main thread. Constantly pausing the parallel threads just because the main thread needs to do some periodic work won't be ideal.

The application you're referring to... is it something that exists, or are you just using hypothetical examples? I'm always curious to hear of architectures where threads need to constantly talk to each other in order for work to get done -- does your app fit this bill?
Digging in London ised to be difficult, especially if tou were digging a tunnel. There was an extra step where the security services could veto your plans (without telling you why).

Not sure if that still happens. Here's why it used to happen: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/oct/18/london-underground...
>Do not tell me what to do.

Why? Are you perfectly capable of making the best decisions without any external input?

Or you'd rather make your own decision (even if its BS in some cases), than an externally informed one?
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Another huge collection is John Hancock's, he's a frequent guest on various retrogaming shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR-mRPh23n0
At this point I honestly believe the only way the patent system gets any better is by becoming so overbearing that it collapses under its own weight. The lobbying machine in place to protect patents essentially as they are now (with maybe some token changes to look like progress) is way too big and way too strong for reform otherwise.

So in that sense, I'm happy about this.
tell application "Mail"
set msgs to every outgoing message whose subject is 'JavsScript'
end tell

So, yes :).
This is awesome. OS X in the cloud!
Startssl give them for free anyway
Well, the fact that I can't recall ANY Groovy core developer answering a comment on HN ever, also speaks volumes. Or even some devoted Groovy contributor.
Have you guys looked at the patents in this case? They look thick and serious, but if you actually read the claims, you will soon realize that it's nothing but an obvious and straightforward procedure for deciding when and with whom to establish a VPN. None of these patents make sure that a VPN connection is more secure, more reliable, or in any way better.

Majority of the patent is explanation on how a VPN works, different mathematical explanations on how to generate random numbers, the theory behind secure communications. But none of that stuff is actually covered by the patent, so don't be impressed by it. What is covered is basically the straightforward and logical application of the explained VPN concepts, but the VPN concepts them selves are not patented.

I am not sure if the patent examiner of this patent was dazzled by the 50+ pages of VPN theory and just granted this thing. To me it's stunning! It's like filing a patent that in intricate detail explains how an automobile works and than sneaking in a claim that you invented that an automobile can be used to move personal belonging from place to place.
100 years is probably not enough time for this sort of selection to take place.
> People need more performance, particularly multicore performance. Traditional Python supporters can put their head in the sand about this if they want, but these highly-performant new languages have clearly found a niche among Python folks tired of trying to optimize all the time.

I agree, the status-quo isn't great at the moment if you want to use Python and optimally exploit all your cores. I actually cover that in a more recent presentation: https://speakerdeck.com/trent/parallelism-and-concurrency-wi...
Worked fine for me, Firefox 29.0.1 on Cyanogenmod 11.
Stop working for an hour and go for a walk.

Repeat 2-3 times a week and you'll get some color + light exercise.
The human race would save so much time, money, and energy if it tackled problems at their root instead of dossing around in the details, oblivious to the actual issue.

Nobody's oblivious to the actual issue; it's just that the root of the problem is inaccessibly mired in a tangled web of lobbying networks, conflicting interests, and impenetrable committees.

Opportunists are just as guilty of making the world worse as the laws that enable them.
Japan's A-Bomb project
'Secur[ing] the Blessings of Liberty' is certainly a key constitutional imperative, but so is 'provid[ing] for the common defence'; failure of the latter arguably results in a de facto abridgement of the former.

I will argue that the inverse of that is equally true. If we don't have Liberty, what exactly is left that's worth defending?
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Even though there are some good points to be made for abstinence, that reminded me a bit of this:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

Hope you have a good sense of humor about it all. :)
The "definition" of a patent troll (per google search):

"A patent troll, also called a patent assertion entity, is a person or company who enforces patent rights against accused infringers in an attempt to collect licensing fees, but does not manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents in question."

This is always the definition that I understood.
So sort of like Universities?
I don't think scanning a library book, or a book borrowed from a friend, for personal use, is breaking the law in any country.
I'm just talking theory, but there is a whole class of applications that are very difficult to express without any shared state, or state shared by relative expensive message passing.

The Lonestar benchmark suite from Texas includes good examples http://iss.ices.utexas.edu/?p=projects/galois/lonestar.
> VirnetX is a company some call a "patent troll" because its only business is now patent enforcement.

I believe this viewpoint is shared by a number of people. Specifically, that a litigious NPE is, by colloquial definition, a "patent troll." There is a conversation to be had as to whether the practice is good or bad, or if they are acting more appropriately than their peer group, but I think the term fits in this case.
I don't consider myself artistic, but for a few months in college took up sketching and found I could produce serviceable impressions of still-lifes and even a self portrait, after a fashion. Practice. It works.
Quickly scanned both those papers -- they look very interesting, I look forward to reading both in detail.
> I have to wonder if there isn't some NIH fear that if VP8/9 get any degree of success it would make it that much harder to switch to Daala later.

As the person who

A) leads the Daala project, and

B) made the decision to ship VP9 (a conversation that went approximately like this: My Boss: "Should we support VP9 in Firefox?" Me: "Yes. Duh."), and

C) has been fighting hard to make VP8 Mandatory To Implement for WebRTC...

I can tell you that nothing would make me happier than to see VP8 and VP9 be wildly successful. Hell, I'd've been ecstatic if we'd successfully managed to get H.264 Baseline made RF (there was an effort to do so a couple of years ago: it failed by 2 votes). See also OpenH264.
Whats with the Obsession for the German word "Das"? It's also wrong in this case.
The media will say almost anything to stir up controversy and get page views.
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That was my emotional reaction too, but my thought was different. I saw the article and thought, "Maybe if 2 or 3 more trolls win big against Google, Microsoft and GM or GE, we'll see some legislative action."
"It was intended to compete against or replace Google Maps for iPhone users, but it turned out to be filled with errors and distortions, some of them hilarious — the Brooklyn Bridge imagery was so twisted it looked like it was collapsing into the East River."

It bothers me that the genuine usability issues stemming from some incorrect landmark data at the launch of Apple maps are still confused with eye candy hiccups due to the fact that pixel-perfect automated city reconstruction is a hard computer vision problem. The distortion of the Brooklyn Bridge's imagery when projected onto noisy height-map data had no effect on routing people to their destinations correctly. You'll find countless examples of funny-looking projections, weird shadows, etc. on Google Earth as well simply due to the nature of projecting imagery captured from one viewpoint onto incomplete proxy geometry and viewing from another viewpoint.
Is this just 5s or does it work on a 5 as well?
Yeah.. If you're gonna give your app a name from a foreign language, at least look it up in a dictionary. "Die Referenz" would be correct.
Bandwidth limit. Any mirror?
The source code is available on his website: http://www.haripyla.com/research/

There's also a journal article under submission which is a more consumable version of his dissertation work: http://www.haripyla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11...
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He says, posting on a website he visits daily on the "main" internet...
Your definition is wrong.
One doesn't have to study Buddhism with "seriousness" in order to be considered a proper Buddhist. Buddhism differentiates between the Sangha - the monastic community that requires real devotion and study, and Upasaka - "laymen" Buddhists who are required to take 5 not-very-demanding vows, and do very little otherwise. In fact traditionally the "serious" study of Buddhism - including the practice of meditation, which today is available to everybody - is reserved to the Sangha only, while the laymen are there simply to support the Sangha by giving alms.

The "Californian kind of Buddhist" of today probably knows more about Buddhism than the average layman Buddhist did 1000 years ago.

It should also be remembered that part of Buddhism's historic success is exactly due to it's flexibility and lack of dogma. There is no school of Buddhisms that has monopoly on what it means to be Buddhist: it has evolved differently in every place it appeared in, and the practices of the Buddhist community have changed drastically throughout time.
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> it was clear from the beginning that using Wikipedia means reading articles,

> The most important use case for Wikipedia is filling the search field and choosing the correct search result.

See ? That's why your redesign will never _ever_ be even considered by the Wikimedia team: The most important use case for Wikipedia is editing content.

Wikipedia has become what it is and lives because every single human can bring its knowledge and share it with other humans. The Wikimedia (and Wikipedia) team isn't involved in editing content: it "merely" hosts the application. It's up to us, the humans from everywhere, to fill Wikipedia with our knowledge, and it's up to you, the UX/UI designers, to make sure we have the best experience while doing it, so it doesn't feel clunky/difficult/unpleasant. If you remove the edit ability, you effectively kill Wikipedia.

Please stop this. (At least we agree on one point: there are too many attempts at redesigns, and too little work done on actually important projects[0])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor
Nonsense.

Opportunists are faced with the decision "Should I attempt to make a bucketload of cash, and secure my family's - and my stakeholders families' - future, or should I take a moral stance, make no money, and console myself in poverty because I'm a 'good' person?"

Contrarily, lawmakers have all of the tools required to make a better system, and yet choose not to, for the same indecipherable reasons so many political decisions are made.
the best part of hurd is that systemd does not support it :)
Funny, we get a modal for "Web hosting that rocks!" the second dude's website hits some arbitrary "CPU limit" (no mention of any such limits in the premium vs. free featurelist below)

F- would not host there.
I have no idea what you just said. Given that we're talking about type checking in python, care to give an example of a weakness of type checking in python?
"Libertarian" is sometimes the refuge of "I'm a conservative but don't want to endorse all Republicans"-people.
In US you would argue fair use while the book publisher would argue that you infringed their copyright by harming the market for that book. Once you scan the book, you no longer have any need to buy it, thus they loose an extra sale. Of course, practically speaking, as long as you don't go around selling your newly scanned copy of said book to all of your classmates, you shouldn't run into any problems.
Interesting concept. A year or two ago I was pretty interested in the various dark/mesh-net projects that kept popping up, but there were a few problems. Namely the fact that they were somewhat difficult to set up, and the fact that they were somewhat like TOR in the sense that accessing the "regular" internet required someone to tunnel traffic through.

Packaging this up into an app pretty much solves any difficulty of setup, making it accessible nearly to anyone.

I have no idea about how secure/sound current implementations are, but this looks like a cool first step.

Combined with something like TOR to bridge local communities, it certainly has the potential to become a truly useful technology.
Here's a mirror: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192234503/jspy/index.htm...
I'm really sorry that my hosting's down.
Unfortunately, it seems like I might have a lot of questions to get the story straight for myself. It would be a lot of back-and-forth commenting. Thanks for the reply, though.
In my sample size of one, I've been using python for new projects almost exclusively for a few years (still maintaining a bunch of other legacy code) - but now in cases where Go is suitable (things where I don't need Python's enormous and well-versioned third party library ecosystem) I've been switching to it. In general, it feels like Python and C had a baby and it inherited the best of both, so I can see myself pushing for it a lot more in future.
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Or you can use ham radio.
The fact that a viewpoint is shared by a number of people is hardly an argument for its validity.

We need to understand what we're fighting. Defining a patent troll as any NPE who files an infringement suit is clearly too broad, because the only way to prevent trolling under that definition is to shut down the patent system. As long as patents are issued, and can be bought and sold, it will be possible for NPEs to own them. Furthermore, independent inventors, of whom I believe there are still a few left, and whom I think we all believe the patent system should protect if it protects anyone, are generally NPEs.
> as long as they're upfront about the ads/cost when I purchase the app

They don't mention the ads explicitly on the app page, but the app (with ads) is free, and you can see a list of top in-app purchases which clearly list "Remove Ads" alongside the associated price.
I think you missed his whole point. Whoosh.

His point was about using the language with the most productive / fastest libraries. Single-thread python vs 8-thread python vs java makes no difference if the majority of your processing time is spent inside a highly optimised native library.
A mistrial is a trial that occured, but was fraught with mistakes.

And regardless of the common parlance, or the tendency of usage, disinformation still draws its latin prefix from absence or denial, misinformation draws its latin prefix from errors and problems.

You can slang it up any way you want, but the origin of each word still stands.
It is a common definition, but a very unfortunate one. See my reply to 'ghayes upthread.
> especially after Google caved and gave up making youtube webm based

They didn't remove h264 from Chrome, but when I watch videos on youtube, right click -> stats for nerds it lists the video as 'video/webm; codecs="vp9"'. That includes videos with ads, which didn't use to be the case.
An odd mistake considering they're based in Germany.
Even worse, it's a german company. So they're probably screwing us on purpose.
Can you explain the specific technique you are using?
I heard a talk by this group saying they were the answer.

http://www.parabellumlabs.com/
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We're even, because I don't know about what "weakness" you're talking and why the heck you're bringing Python into abstract discussion on static typing.

Basically, my parent said that static typing can express many things that testing (which is not static, because it runs the code) can. This is true, but there are things you can't express in any of the commonly used[1] static type systems and I just gave an example of such thing.

Other than this there's nothing wrong with static typing in general and I'd be happy if Python got some kind of (optional) static type system, maybe in the vein of Typed Clojure and Typed Racket or Erlang's Dialyzer. Still, static type systems are not silver bullets and have their drawbacks - and that's all I wanted to convey in my comment.

Edit: [1] the type system feature which would let you encode the example contract I posted is called "dependent typing" and is available only in a very few languages.
What? Of course it is.

http://www.soas.ac.uk/infocomp/copyright/library/photocopyin...

http://www.reading.ac.uk/library/finding-info/copyright/lib-...

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/using-this-library/copyr...
There will be great irony if Apple complains about patent reform after this.
Here's the paper on how this works: https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Stone-Pixel-Perfect-T...
The naming was a bit jarring to me since "Lincoln Lab" is MIT's massive off-campus, DoD-funded research complex.
For the curious, the source[1] mentions "Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks" by Paul Stone[2].

[1]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/192234503/jspy/scripts.j...
[2]: https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Stone-Pixel-Perfect-T...
At my university we can just keep the book for the whole semester.. so the students here rarely buy books anyway (except when the library is selling it's old books.. lots of bargains to be had :).
I'm measuring the time it takes for the browser to render a known visited link (this page) and a known not visited link (random url). Then after it calibrates itself it goes through every link in the list and measures the time it took for the browser to render it. The bigger the time, the bigger chance the link was visited. It then loosely compares the times against the calibration values. It also uses some advanced css techniques to slow down the browser, like having a large box shadow and opacity. All links are hidden with opacity and absolute positioning but it's technically still visible so the browser does render it.
Then they probably wanted to sound hipster-wise, but nevertheless the hipster-usage of "das" rather reminds me of the following excerpt from a German comedy program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21uhFCljlU - where "das Bus" is used with a Turkish accent (the comedian Kaya Yanar was born in Turkey).
From the readme:

"Right now it will only work on an iPhone 5S, as it requires the M7 motion coprocessor."
This resume makes me feel inferior.
I don't disagree it's a common viewpoint, I'm just saying it's not very useful to call every NPE a patent troll. It lumps universities together with companies that seek nuisance settlements using the cost of litigation as leverage.

In general, the law allows you to sell your cause of action to someone else. For example, many investors who had suits against big banks over mortgage-backed securities sold their causes of action to funds that could bring them efficiently in one go. That's just property rights in action. At least in theory, it's more efficient to allow rights of action to be sold like property.

Now, maybe you think that these sorts of suits shouldn't be brought at all. There's arguments to be made for that. But in that case, I think you need to lump companies like Apple in with companies like these.
You could have also said the same thing about "Buddhist monasteries in China" when they first appeared there 2000+ years ago, or about the "Buddhist monasteries in Tibet" when that happened. Same with Japan and even Sri Lanka.

Buddhism owes its continued existence to the fact that similar opinions were never taken too seriously.
It's worth watching these short videos from years ago to get an idea, though this is a different game. Chimps outperforming humans in memory games:

1. "Man Vs Chimp - memory test"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlJv7ZkvGA

2. etc.

https://www.google.com/search?q=chimp+memory&tbm=vid
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If it was developed for the CIA, why aren't the resulting patents owned by the government?
If I was still in college, I would:

1) Record the audio of the lectures
2) Do a quick mind map with an tablet.

That way you get all the technology benefits with none of the reported issues.