skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is why I am conflicted about all this. Two cases where this is iffy: Azhar Ahmed prosecuted for treason on Facebook for the statement: "All soldiers should die and go to hell" [1] and Joe Lipari getting a visit from a SWAT team for quoting Fight Club on Facebook as a joke [2].

On the other hand you have vicious griefer groups which stalk memorial pages like hacker groups do old Joomla installs. These are organized groups who will drive people to suicide by massive cyberbullying campaigns, then gloat about it online, for as much relatives to see. Real unadulterated meanness. They don't seem to get arrested as much as the people who will say stupid stuff under their real names. And complaining to Twitter or Facebook about these groups seems futile. In the case of blatant racism or harassment these forums have a responsibility too: They could remove it, say it is against their TOS and no complex or biased legal system would have to get involved. In my opinion it is a form of malignant spam and is to be treated as such: employ filters, community feedback and manual reviewers to solve it as a spam problem. Spammers, like griefers, will continue.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2012...
[2] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/t...
What is a 51 percent attack?
I'm so excited for Dangerous and Star Citizen. We haven't had any good space sims for quite a while, and I'm ready for their return.
Harassment laws should be enforced on twitter as much as anywhere else.

"Generally, criminal harassment entails intentionally targeting someone else with behavior that is meant to alarm, annoy, torment or terrorize them. Not all petty annoyances constitute harassment. Instead, most state laws require that the behavior cause a credible threat to the person's safety or their family's safety. - See more at: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/harassment.html...

"I'm going to rape/kill/etc you" should probably end up with you in front of a prosecutor in many states.
...Haskell will be forever relegated to academic circles.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlubParadox
Well done!

Just out of curiosity, if "Pixeltrek is a private project with a non-commercial and non-profitable background", then why isn't it open source? I'm sure the community would love to play with it! :)
And a complete copy of /bin in /z.
Or for Google-scale storage systems!
That's a very legitimate complaint. Gilad Bracha sometimes posts updates[1] to the Dart mailing lists, but I'm not familiar with ECMA, or if it has a standard way of posting information and updates about technical committee work.

I'll raise it with the team and see if we can have a place to post upcoming meetings, agendas, minutes, and decisions and draft specifications. It'd also be nice to have a way, besides the issue tracker (which like all issue trackers can seem like a black hole for issues for some people) to propose items for upcoming meetings. I find Python's PEP to be a pretty nice system.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/forum/#!searchin/mi...
Evan, I disagree. Your comment goes to great lengths explaining unhappiness in "achievement-oriented" people but you make the mistake of treating "achievement" and "success" as synonyms and therefore the whole reasoning is wrong.

The reality is that achievement and success are really quite different:

Achievement is (some examples)
- running a marathon,
- finishing a PhD,
- winning a prize at a competition,
- getting promoted.

Success is a higher level goal. For a large percentage of males (individual preferences may vary) this includes:
- being well off financially,
- the love of a girl/woman,
- being popular / respect from your peers,
- being powerful and influential.

Unhappiness and depression emerge when your achievements are not in alignment with your picture of success or when there exists the notion of a causality in your head between the two. Finishing a PhD can leave you feel empty and exhausted if your definition of success involves making money quickly. Running a marathon might get you nothing but sore legs if your final goal is to win the heart of a woman.

When achievement and success go hand in hand though I see little very room for depression.
With a few exceptions (which may be what poolpool is referring to), Dell's UltraSharp lines have been one of the better sources of consistently good consumer IPS displays for 10+ years.
That is like claiming a tool like lint can't be used to catch bugs. And... not all of them are. Did you read all of the tools in the "mixed languages" section? Quite a few of the really good tools can find mistakes in dynamic languages.

Shit, this is no different than the article making the rounds talking about the many "gotchas" in bash scripting. Just making a tool that spots those is likely to catch and help correct errors.
That's not a big deal. Browsers are in a desperate need for a non-transpiled client-side language competition.
In defense of Core Data (Part II)
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium#Compounds

The latter statement is incorrect, but it's an easy to make mistake. What he probably meant was that "in one tank, the vanadium releases electrons, turning from blue to yellow while in the other tank, vanadium accepts electrons, turning from yellow to blue."
I'd add VirtuaWin for virtual desktops

and of course Emacs for Windows
You can high five your clients
Dia has an option to flawlessly export output as LaTeX PGF macros and TeX PSTricks macros--I LOVE those two features. In the past, I've also used LaTeX Draw.
Haven't gotten into diffy-q but that's next up after I grock Swift and finish my Angular app.
Remove world cup tweets from your timeline
Pretty sure he wasn't asking a normal question, he was obviously implying they he didn't believe there monitors were good in the first place.

Which is wrong. They have their good monitors and their bad ones.
To put it in a different way, everything we do is because of the feelings we feel.

'Feeling' is a very broad term. My definition is the sum of your nervous system's activity.

What your nervous system decides to do - and what you feel like doing, are equal statements in my view.

That doesn't mean there's no inner conflict - there is. But if you imagine every neuron as a voter in a democratic election, the decision that gets the most votes is the one that you feel like doing, even though you are aware there are private interest groups of neurons that want something else.
Huh. Why would a book published in 1914, about treating lung issues with kerosene, top the list? Why would there be so much interest in that item?
Yinyang still. I want to release something soon, but need to find a purpose for it; right now it's just fly by night language design. I was also thinking about porting the editor to mono.cairo so more than just win users could play with it (going to javascript is a no go given no multithreading with shared memory).
10 years ago most virus scanners were vulnerable to it.

actually you can build your own collection of files with cat /dev/zero >foo.txt ... then zip all those into a final collection of zip's -> n-levels deep ... resulting individual zip files will be tiny, but once extracted the file eats massive space (idea is to fill disk on scanning server up and create I/O errors or keep the server busy with a DOS). Also servers usually limit now the depth they are willing to scan in a zip to avoid this type of attack (workaround: only use up to 4 levels ...)
Sorry, no reference. But I recall the term was not eligible for a trademark for some reason.
I think it would be a safe bet to wish that ES7 has a better support of second generation quantum computation primitives and a good implementation of exocortex interoperability APIs.
This is why i've been writing:

set -u

in every script i've written since i did exactly the same thing.
well, model numbers are fairly large, it's probably the case, but it's hard to infer what mean the last X digits.
People shouldn't have bought those brands to begin with since they add no value: http://www.storagereview.com/it_s_game_over_for_most_consume...

BTW, Apple does the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7689180
I purchased an ASUS Notebook X550DP-DS101-CA with a resolution of 1920x1080 last year.

Exact same model #, 1366x768 at some stores, 1920x1080 at others. (Same store franchise.)

I was run around three stores until I managed to get the "real model" that I was looking for.

Caveat emptor.
It's trademark, not copyright FWIW (you may have known it just looks unclear in your post).

Trademark is a registration mark unlike copyright (copyright is automatic in almost every state in the world according to a few treaties). Broadly, provided you pay your fees then you retain a granted trademark. There are trademarks that are unregistered, acquired by use in trade, but it's a very weak instrument. Non-use can be grounds to contest a trademark - so it's almost impossible to retain a mark and remain anonymous as you need to be trading using that mark and usually trading requires you to disclose identifying information in some way.

Also USPTO's TESS facility gives the trademark assignee information, http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=tm&qt=sno&reel... .
+1 for tikZ. I graphically present information using R plots and R's tikzDevice package enables me to export output to native TeX. I NEED tikZ to include external R TeX exports. When it comes to vector graphics, Dia is my friend and I export output as LaTeX PGF macros...
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way [Updated May 21]
NOD32 detects it as an Arch-bomb. Made me think of the somewhat similar 'Billion laughs' XML bomb but for archives.
If you have any plans to work on existing projects, especially in a freelance capacity, I would say definitely yes.

In fact the only scenario I'd say no is if your only plan is to build your own new apps from scratch.
Clearly (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...) is pretty effective for a wide range of internet reading irritations. It even kind of works on G+
See http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2112... if you haven't already. I have both time and phases; time is used for versions and discrete updated via event handling; phases are used to ensure state doesn't get "stuck" in a cycle on a non-monotonic change. Rollback is used instead of carefully updating anything in the right order, phases however suppress when updates can be seen during processing.

It's generally useful for writing reactive, incremental, iterative programs.
My father told me that before and during the Depression there was a chocolate bar that sold for a nickel. The price stayed the same, but the size of the bar varied with the changing price of chocolate.
There aren't that many languages that aren't "proprietary" in some way or another at their beginnings. C, Java, JavaScript, Rust, Go, Swift, Python, Perl, Ruby, Clojure, TypeScript... on and on.

Haskell is one of the few modern languages I know of where a language was birthed in committee. ALGOL and COBOL are some older examples.
They want everyone to think same way and use one single multi-purpose scripting language. JS as a bytecode is a less favourable outcome for them for some reason, maybe because everyone would stop caring about using JS directly. Hence the unfortunate lack of news on the asm.js side.
> If you want to try a fun little experiment, type this command into your colleague's shell and see what happens (and how long it takes):

> mkdir ./~

$ time mkdir ./~

real	0m0.007s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.004s

I don't get it. What's fun about this experiment?
> Only on HN, Reddit, and Slashdot is a recommendation of Bitlocker "inexplicably naive" because it's "closed-source".

I would be interested in seeing the argument of someone who is not part of "HN, Reddit, and Slashdot" against the proposition that cryptographic software that only few people have access to the source of is not trustworthy. I do not claim being involved particularly deeply in either the academic or the industrial security community, but my impression from the occasional academic discussion group I have managed to find the time to drop in on always was that this and/or some related proposition was part of what is commonly held to be true beyond the need for argument.

Regardless, there are two separate questions here - firstly, whether some sort of foul play actually was involved with the Truecrypt project closing up shop, and secondly, whether the recommendation to switch to Bitlocker should be considered sound or not. I believe that the recommendation is dangerous regardless of what happened with Truecrypt - at the very least, making no recommendation at all or telling people to stay with Truecrypt (7.1) for the time being and giving the OSS community some time to try and fill the vacuum is not worse than making said recommendation under any circumstances. In that light, even if your scenario is more compelling, I would argue that simply to err on the side of caution, one ought to refrain from pushing a narrative to the effect of "nothing fishy here; these perfectly trustworthy people just told you to use Bitlocker, make of that what you will" at this point in time.
FLAC is a streaming format. Each block of audio is compressed independently of the rest of the file.

Comparing it to any archival compression algorithm (PNG uses DEFLATE with some pre-filtering) is not an apples to apples comparison.

The utility of a streaming format is that, (a) your listeners can start the stream at any offset without having the preceding blocks, (b) the CPU overhead is generally stable and (c) decoding requires a minimal amount of memory and IO.
In the Foyer...there's ET???

EDIT: Screencap: http://postimg.org/image/6gggn4rsz/

EDIT 2: Btw, I love it. I'm having fun trying to get to the lower decks.
Obvious beginner question here, what use cases would this work well for? I ran the the code you linked, and understand vaguely whats happening. Could this say, be used to distribute database requests to another server?
Ikea C&D's 8-year old Ikea furniture hacking website
More like a narrative multiple train wreck. There have been so many retcons, resurrections, inter-series crossovers and changes of characterization that it's pretty much impossible to understand what's going on with marvel comics if you haven't read the comics since the 80's. Even they line they started to avoid that problem, ultimate marvel, recently got crossed over with the main universe, after it had prevously dropped sharply in quality with the ultimatum event. I never could get into the main continuity, and stopped reading ultimate comics after ultimatum, honestly the only marvel narrative I care about now is the cinematic universe, they've completely ruined comics as a medium to tell marvel superhero stories, which is pretty sad.
It's funny, first got to know about this a few days ago when I came across this [1, 2] interesting thread on Quora.

[1] http://qr.ae/sQnm5

[2] What is the most compressed file ever?
> The Cadillac DTS initially came with standard heated leather seats. In 2009, that feature became an option. "However, the price of the car didn't change," he said.

The price actually dropped, due to inflation.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
http://www.startssl.com/policy.pdf section 3.1.2.1 -- they sure don't mention that front-and-center, though.

quote: Class 1 certificates are limited to client and server
certificates, whereas the later is restricted in its usage for non-commercial purpose only. Subscribers MUST upgrade to Class 2 or higher level for any domain and site of commercial nature, when using high-profile brands and names or if involved in obtaining or relaying sensitive information such as health records, financial details, personal information etc.
Zip Files All The Way Down (2010)
Pretty significant factor in what? Write down all the reasonably popular programming languages you can think of. How many have been adopted by a standards body? How many have been adopted by a standards body in their current form?

I hardly ever write code in a standardized language. Actually, I don't think I know anyone who writes code in a standardized language, because nontrivial programs in "standardized" languages almost always go outside the strict confines of whatever mediocre crap some committee adopted.
Oz is weight and gallon is volume. This is not a metric vs standard issue.
Oh, cool. objdump has been an absolutely crucial part of the process of making my toy kernel.
Dell does this with their monitors [1], first by shipping certain models with IPS panels, then with cheaper PVA panels after good reviews are published.

That bit me w/their 2007wfp, which was a great monitor mostly for 1 reason: it was IPS at a great price point. Overwhelmingly positive reviews convinced me to purchase 2 of them.

Then buyers started noticing picture quality issues not described in previous positive reviews. After some research, it was found Dell had silently started shipping the 2007wfp with cheaper PVA panels, not IPS. After noticing similar issues with the 2 I purchased, I eventually confirmed they were PVA monitors. I was fairly upset.

There's a good thread on Hard Forum about all of this here.[2]

And despite very frustrated customers, Dell never acknowledged any problem. In fact, a Dell rep can be quoted: "... a 2007WFP is a 2007WFP ... It does not matter what panel is installed." [3]

I stopped buying Dell products after this experience.

[1] http://en.community.dell.com/f/3529/t/18107050.aspx

[2] http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1111100

[3] http://en.community.dell.com/f/3529/t/18286693.aspx
For starters, it's called >50% attack, not 51%.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...
Not the author here, just thought this was cool.

My dream is to find a fully 3d realized model of the Enterprise, with working comm and internal computer systems that my friends and I can all pile into and adventure around the universe.

At least with this I can run around and figure out where all those mysterious bathrooms are.
companies are most certainly people; corporations are not. Don't like corporate taxes? Do business as a partnership.

Of course corporations should enjoy freedom of speech, etc (because to curtail those necessarily curtails some individual's freedom), but do they get to vote? No.
I don't know why Bruce Perens apparently trademarked a bunch of things but not "open source" itself. However, as part of its trademark policy, OSI asks that people do not call software "open source" if it's not under an OSI-approved license:

http://opensource.org/trademark-guidelines#Usage_That_Does_N...
That's a good point though. Could you handle .docx files? I bet a lot of your potential users (the managers more than the developers) would be in the same boat: use MS Word every day, but never heard of LibreOffice. Even though they could obviously install it and convert their template doc from Word, that adds a lot of friction.
In the abstract of the same text by Raymond, http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral...:

>"By mid-1996 I thought I was beginning to understand. Chance handed me a perfect way to test my theory, in the form of an open-source project that I could consciously try to run in the bazaar style. So I did—and it was a significant success." //

OSI started in 1998 yet here is Raymond saying he did an open-source project in 1996. Not only that be he was copying an established style of software authorship which was already open source. Whilst the wording may not have been widely used, perhaps not at all, until 1998 open source was already a thing. OSI tried to create a tightly defined word but they created usage of the term to cover what was - as we see above - already a thing. The thing that existed didn't and doesn't fit neatly in to the OSD and nor should it. Usages change as well but here I think those who [it seems] coined the term and set it free used it in a different way to some of the community from the start.

It would be interesting to do a survey of the HN crowd to see what they consider the term "open source" to mean.
The Stan Lee / Jack Kirby duo reminds me some of other "business savvy" and "creative genius" duos. Seems like a common combination that works best when the business and creative learn they need each other and respect each other immensely.
so what's the content of the final files ? just a bunch of redundant zero's and one's ?
I'm probably missing something, but the points c. 1850 seem way too south for me. The Confederates had around half of of the population of the Union (http://www.mrnussbaum.com/civil_war/unionconfederacy.htm) and yet the population center is just south from the Mason-Dixon line (but north of the initial front).

Was the population concentrated around the border between North and South? The West didn't matter - California had less than a million inhabitants in 1860.

Edit: All southern states on the border with the exception of Virginia (except West Virginia, of course) fought for the Union, so they are probably included in the statistics for the North. Still, the North was more populous even if the border states had joined the South.
black text on dark red at 13px - not too reader-friendly
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wow, that has a Weissman Score close to the theoretical limit
If you can do a decent enough job that your book acts as an updated version of purley functional data structures then you've got my money!

http://www.amazon.ca/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Okas...

It's one of the few cs books that I refer to regularly when coding.
I know someone who works at the IRS. It is seriously being defunded, by people like Darrell Issa. If Issa wants forever records of all emails, that costs.
So this annoyingly helps sustain the myth that North America was an unpopulated forest until being 'settled' by 'settlers'.

Who believes in this myth?
Shamelessly off-topic, but I can tell the author is a legit pure mathematician:

(1) Haskell is Functional

(2) Haskell Insulates You

(3) Haskell Performs Well

[...]

(3) Haskell is Declarative

Not being ironic, by the way. From experience, often I can tell pure vs applied mathematicians by how hilariously bad/absent-minded they can be at basic arithmetic/algebraic manipulations.

Same for theoretical- vs systems-oriented CS people, I've found --almost as if being a horrible programmer somehow gives you academic hipster cred.

(EDIT - To clarify: I mean CS academics in grad school, not CS professionals in industry. Also it's just a silly anecdote only marginally correlated with reality: no offense intended to anyone.)