skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the early 2000s there were companies who offered server for quake3 / Counterstrike but these were usually rented to clans who wanted a private low latency server for practise or competition to play against other clans.

In these cases it was pretty common for clan members to divide out costs amongst themselves and basically every serious clan had it's own private server.

I wonder if the non competitive nature of minecraft makes this more difficult because there is no advantage to be gained by paying for a server beyond being able to control the rules.
__init__.py can be a directory [bug]?
Sort of.
The problem that the mainstream political parties have right now is that right-wing sentiment just scored high in the elections. They need a little bit of sabre-rattling and flag-waving to convince those on the left-most fringe of the newly-empowered right to come back towards the centre, and the only way they can do that is through winning the stupid, populist vote on simple issues again.

That of course, coupled with the lack of real achievement from the current government, the ongoing and incredibly unpopular austerity cuts, and a long and drawn-out recovery that doesn't seem to be materialising for most people means that any way to make political hay right now needs to be grasped.
Can't wait for the announcement about the Harlem data center written in african american vernacular and the one about the Shanghai data center, with the hilarious misspellings swapping Ls and Rs.
OCaml got updated libraries for Unicode 7 too:
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2014-06/msg00081....
I can recommend scrapy[0] if you work on a bit bigger problem. But even then if you familiar with scrapy it's incredible fast to write a simple scraper with your data neatly exported in .json.

[0]: http://scrapy.org/
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Minecraft doesn't have an official API, so modding involves decompiling and shipping recompiled Mojang-owned code. I'm pretty sure a restriction on that would hold up in most jurisdictions.
was just about to post the same comment. where abouts in scotland are you, out of interest? :)
Sounds good. I'll think of a meet up place nearby
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Unfortunately "decent" is vague with dacs and adcs because there's at least 3 figures of merit usually you only get to max out 1 at a time. Assuming your app needs to max out any of them. So if you want 24 bit input with a low noise floor good luck getting above "KHz" sampling ranges yet if you want 500 megasamples/sec you're looking at like 8 bits. Or if you want on board signal processing (differential inputs, maybe a built in multiplier, or 8 input mux on the input so you can read 8 things) you'll "pay" for that one way or another.

The good news is this board has a pmod connector and go to digilent and search for pmods and there's some great COTS plug and play A/D and D/A. The bad news is there's... one pmod connector. That really sucks as the amount of fun you can have scales with about the cube or so of the number of peripheral devices connected. If only this "stick" had two pmod connectors. My go-to screwing around board is a mere $90 basys2 and its got 4 pmod connectors and a ton of onboard stuff. So I'm paying an extra $65 to basically not have a headache and have a ton of fun. I can deal with that.

If you're willing to not go plug and play just get one of the breadboard to pmod adapter thingies and the RCA breakout and stick like two 8-pin DIP chips on, a D/A and a A/D and call it good.

You have to decide if you're trying to minimize spend, or minimize effort (plug and play) and WRT effort are you more into hardware or software.

One advantage not discussed about onboard peripherals is they work and are easily tested. There's always a certain distrust, did I blow that chip, can that GD thing actually successfully do I2C at all, etc. Well, if you've got a lot of onboard stuff, just load up the demo / test program if you're feeling worried... Also much as software programmers do a lot with extra added "print" statements for debugging, you'd be surprised what a FPGA dev can do with a bunch of onboard switches and LEDs.
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> "this is more in line of those graphical tools that claims you can create programs without having to learn programming"

There's a comparison to be made with graphical tools that let you create websites without knowing html/css/javascript, like squarespace.com for instance. It's enough to cover people's needs in 80% of the situations. See this article by Scott Brave for more: http://gigaom.com/2012/12/22/we-dont-need-more-data-scientis... .
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I don't recommend scrapy. Classic example of a framework that should have been a library. It will work up until a point and then it will railroad your app and you will have a really painful time breaking out of the 'scrapy' way of doing things. Classic 'framework' problem.

I prefer a combination of celery (distributed task management), mechanize (pretend web browser) and pyquery (jquery selectors for python).
I don't see how an app store model would necessarily help people monetise running servers.
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If you are still checking this, could you please send me an email at [ roomsomewhere at gmail.com ] ?
in my experience hdds have signs they're going to die soon, they go slow, click a lot, get smart errors, things get corrupt etc. where as with flash media it all seems fine, but suddenly isn't.

not that this is a rule, i've seen hdds fail instantly for no reason as well, and flash media throw a massive wobbler but still be recoverable. but in my experience this is not the normal behaviour.

but who cares as long as you have backups and a contingency plan?
This reminds me of something I knocked up back in 2006. It's not a scraper, it's not Python, but here you are:

http://giggr.com/?q=klaxons

Searches multiple UK ticket sites and returns the artist page matching the query.

Clicking a header label (i.e. Ticketweb) switches to that provider.

Double-clicking the header re-searches based on the value of the search box.

I use it for the 9am scramble for newly released tickets.

Oh, it seems Ticketmaster has broken. Maybe I'll fix that one day... I haven't used it in a while.
Sadly, even 100 years after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, and 200 years after the Declaration that "all men are created equal", we had huge resistance to the much belated civil rights acts of the 60's.

Yes, peterlawest is entirely right. Our indignation isn't going to going to change his mind, or that of many others like him.

"People don't change their minds. They die, and are replaced by people with different opinions" -- Arturo Albergati, via Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/quo.html)

"Science progresses one funeral at a time." -- Max Planck
You don't even need to have access to the content of the mail, the meta data are more than enough to find out if you've called a known drug dealer, went to an abortion clinic, used an escort service... It is more than enough to end a career or silence a critic.
Oh, and of course Bannerman promises that guards will have “physical presence for visual deterrence.” Translation: these guys are huge. That doesn’t come as much of a surprise, as co-founder Johnny Chin told me last week that most of the guards that Bannerman has recruited are veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Isn't that discrimination? "physical presence for visual deterrence" also translates to "we don't hire females" or small males either for that matter. Where I live, bouncers always work in pairs to offset the size and the "female" problem and for increased security.
"who by both trade and passion wants to give kids a vision for what they could have and don't see"

There's definitely a huge need for this- but I think for everyone, not necessarily just those in poverty. From my middle class home town, most people I was familiar with from elementary school seem to be working at restaurants and the like. I could have definitely used a mentor to help me see the possibilities that my parents weren't familiar with. Now that I'm finally developing the self-awareness necessary to really go somewhere (hopefully) I've tried to think on how to help kids realize their potential, but in such a way as to be scalable. While maybe apps could help with self-esteem, it's probably not possible at this point to replace the knowledge and experience of a good mentor with a standalone information system.

I know the frustration I've experienced, so I can only imagine what it's got to be like coming from less- props to you for making it.
Why would you think the UK would round up and execute its Muslim citizens? And if nothing like this has any chance of occurring, just finding out who is in contact with real terrorists and who isn't seems useful, whether they're Muslim terrorists or Breivik. It is of course vitally important that information gathered for this purpose cannot be used for commercial or political ends, which is the hard part (maybe impossible).
Does anyone know if there are pictures of the interior somewhere? I couldn't find anything on the website.
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Agreed. It's discussed in the comments of the article as well. Some quotes:

> For a drive that voluntarily went into read only mode, I didn't expect it to get bricked, especially for a consumer drive. I am disappointed with Intel's engineers.

> I'd like to be able to read my data, even most of my data, if my SSD has failed. Disabling writes seems quite fair, disabling reads seems unnecessary and potentially cruel, depending on what data has been laid down since the last backup.

> ...I think it's a big deal, I'd want my SSD drive to tell me when it's time to move my data safely to another drive, right?

> Not only Intel but all three. Read only, even with some corrupt data, is far far better than becoming inaccessible. The three failed miserably, SMART warnings and writing-much-over-spec notwithstanding.

> ...I find it concerning since the SSDs appear to brick themselves instead of going into read only mode, once they have reached their write limits.
> You could provide a simplified [STL]
Yes, and what if they use Boost? What I was trying to show here was that even a small amount of C++ code can be actually very complex, and that makes it impossible to transform to efficient hardware.

> And I don't think anyone thinks that is possible.
Well, you'd be surprised! Some fans of High-Level Synthesis seem to think that it is just that powerful...
Sorry for the quickness. Yesterday turned out to be a bit hectic. I meant third parties taking our work. (3-P being my own lawyer speak...)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5123165

I think Nate Lawson does a much better job of making this argument than I did:

http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/29/final-post-on-javascript-cr...
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I value the Unicode effort so much, I consider its
inconsistencies a major pain point in my life.

Why, for the love of Zeus, is there no codepoint for

GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ALPHA

Am I missing something? Why should I never want to
subscript α? I know a few physicists who gladly would.

It doesn't end there, see the article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...
which sports a consolidated overview.

Tell me I'm overlooking something very
obvious.
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That's not italian, that's mafian-american.
Unfortunately, that's the epitome of a blog post that's cringeworthy for anyone who's vaguely familiar with italian culture, let alone Italians themselves.
How much time would have taken to reach out for a real Italian to write and/or check this post before publishing?
Browser cryptography has its place - the simple fact is that PGP is too hard for everyday users in its current guise (your parents are not going to go to key exchange parties). And, requiring users to install binaries on their computer (which can feasibly come with auto-update) to use encryption has just as high a risk of being subverted by somebody with malicious intent who is trying to target the communications of a particular individual. (Which is harder: acting as MITM in a company's internet traffic, or breaking into the target's Windows desktop?)

Mass market encryption is a worthy goal, and browsers are a reasonable platform to achieve that goal. Educating users about not installing extensions that can filter pages in their browsers, recommending incognito mode, etc are good steps. And of course TLS should be considered a minimum requirement for transport. Browser encryption is never going to be military grade, but it's a step up over unencrypted communication.
It's not how the rest of the world sees your country, it's for what the rest of the world loves your country :)
the system works!
Do we really need small pictures in fonts?
$50? It's also on Safari Online, where you pay 17 EUR per month for 6 months, then 23 (excl VAT) for being able to swap in and out 10 books.
Agreed. I used BeautifulSoup in combination with Celery.

To me scraping is such a specific thing it's best to write your own 'framework'.
not that I am aware of, but in the AWS case, that is a good use case to justify that as an option so to reduce the boot up time for auto scaling up
The worrying part is : what happens in 10 years if the sabre-rattling was not enough? What is the next step? (And this is not specific to UK but most European countries)
This article is all over the place.

First of all calling it "JavaScript cryptography" only to immediately correct itself "oh, we mean browser client-side scripted cryptography, not JavaScript in general, say Node.JS".

Then calling it "cryptography", when all the article talks about is hashing passwords. There's more to cryptography than hashing passwords, and not all of it is susceptible to the attacks described.

So the real title of this article is "Client-side scripted password hashing in browsers less than ideal". I know, doesn't roll off the tongue as sweetly as "JavaScript eats babies", but what you gonna do.

Third, the faulty logic of "this new technique has a bad edge case, so we should completely reject it, despite any benefits".

The article just glosses over the situation where the script is served securely and yet you hash at the client. "We already have a secure connection, anyway" the author claims. Sure, but the server still gets the plain text password, because TLS doesn't hash, it encrypts (and you can decrypt). If the server is passing the login request to a third party to check the hash, turns out it's still a good thing to hash at the client so the intermediating party can't abuse its role, without the horrid UX of OAuth. Has the author thought of that? Nope, just dismissed the potential outright.

Plain old-school TLS/SSL connections have exploitable edge-cases as well. Should we "consider them harmful"?

Intelligent conversations about security require nuanced opinions that go into when something is useful, and when it isn't, and let us make the call if it's harmful or useful for a given project.

Calling something "harmful" outright and only listing the cons without the pros isn't this kind of intelligent conversation. It's just counterproductive scaremongering.
What's the difference? I mean, Shen is ported to JS, and doesn't require Node. Can it play with JS like KL? Shen is pretty cool with a built-in, functional Prolog too, and static typing you can turn on or off.
AMC still shoots their originals on film.
I would add that as a matter of fact Haskell seems to me like a much better starting point to create efficient hardware, especially because side effects are well isolated, compared to C/C++ and others. But then probably over 90% of people (me included) don't necessarily want to use Haskell. We're designing C~ with the goal of making it mainstream rather than perfect.
I don't think you've played minecraft and done modding.

If your server requires 1.6.4 and railcraft 1.2.3.4.5.6 well then anyone who connects requires MC 1.6.4 (free, no problem) and ALSO requires railcraft 1.2.3.4.5.6 and mods are stereotypically hosted on the scummiest pr0n-iest adfest drive by download sewers of the internet (sorry, but its true)

So say you want to host a server called "jiggy's minecraft". Simply require a mod to log into your server called jiggy-2014 for the entire year of 2014 and sell it in the in app store for "annual fee". Maybe drop the price by 1 / 12 every month thru the year. Guess the mod name you'll require in 2015, yes your mod will be called jiggy-2015 and be priced at your annual fee.

The mod might even provide something useful to the players. Maybe. This will probably kill/damage the ecosystem, maybe you'll never get to play railcraft, TE, and buildcraft on the same server ever again. That would suck. It is possible "real mods" won't be balkanized and only "subscription mods" will be balkanized.
Layman's - stuff like water it made of molecules, H2O in this case and the H has a positive charge and the O a negative charge (the electrons head over to the O atom due to quantum effects). These charges tend to make the molecules attract and stick together (the -ve are attracted to the + charges). The temperature of anything corresponds roughly to the kinetic energy of the bits of stuff it's made of. At 0K everything is still. At 373K (== 100C) the water molecules have enough energy at normal pressure for the molecules to fly apart and have your kettle boil. You can raise this temperature by putting the water in a pressure cooker to physically push the molecules back together - this works to about 120C in a normal pressure cooker. At some temperature however, no matter how much pressure you put on, the molecules do not stick to each other to form a liquid because they have too much kinetic energy and keep flying apart. This happens at around 647K in water. Above that the steam/liquid is called supercritical. This is important in power generation because you can squish it as hard as you like without worrying about it condensing.
Further cause for anger: In a democracy the people own the government, not the other way around. Yet our government can spy on us and lie about it without consequence, while it is treasonous for the people to be given intel on our own government's actions (e.g. Edward Snowden)!

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* Yet. As long as people such as peterlawest (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7903705) continue to be the majority.
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nunny state

No, that's Ireland (where the investigation of a mass grave of children in a nunnery is failing to get off the ground)
Combine this with Pushover[0] to get alerted whenever there is a new lowest price. I had to resort to scraping+pushover to snatch a garage parking spot in SF.

[0] https://pushover.net/
> The biggest problem holding back adoption for 4k media is vendor lock in.

That's where that government regulation and ten years of drafting standards mentioned above come into the picture.
In the case of Samsung, the opposition's products; in the case of [past] Microsoft, the users; in the case of Facebook, the advertising revenue.

At my day job I'm focussed on what's best for the client, not the website or the client's product itself; such is agency life. When I'm at home I can put away the compromises and make the best damn $thing ever made.
Oh, I'm sure that someone in denotational semantics will use it for something... :-)

(Twice having tried to learn DS, thinking it would be "good for me", only to rage quit after running into the next half dozen undefined hieroglyphics...)
Standing for election will potentially get you put on a list of "extremists": http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/15/green-party-...

The question is not so much can it be abused, but to what extent it is being abused. Remember, the security services are not above having people murdered if they're sufficiently troublesome: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21283169
It's easy to run your own server and invite some equally inexperienced friends.
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In what way is it unsolved? For what type of games? In my experience, for any games that allow you to easily run your own server for you and your friends (e.g. Counter Strike), finding servers is no problem.
"Capiche?"

Stop with that crap.
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I sometimes wonder if Minefold was too early too market. The market is much bigger now, and there are plenty of kids who's parents would pay a coffee per month for a server for their kids and their friends.

I've actually had a semi-serious look at having a go at doing it.. have Docker powered scripted setup etc all working.

But I think Minecraft Realms has (or will) sucked the money out of that market... maybe - it does seem quite highly priced though.
Disney wouldn't be here today as we know if if that were the case back when they were creating their feature-length cartoons.
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Not every cultural clash should be compared to the Holocaust. There are plenty of historical examples of societies that got eaten from within when they couldn't maintain their culture in the face of aggressive foreign ones.
And I think a PowerPC-based Mac can already qualify as "vintage computing" ;-)
You can see the sector reallocations and things happening with the SSD's as they wear.
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Windows Server has supported "Core" editions of its products back to 2008 where the UI is simply a login screen and command prompt for remotely-managed/headless operation. In my experience most Windows admins still prefer the GUI. And while it does obviously save some resources not to load the full UI, the cost of the additional cores/memory to run it is minimal by comparison.
Yep. But I hate when lists like that one appear on anything tangentially related to Italy -- although I guess it can be said about any country. At least this one doesn't include the mafia...
There is certainly a slippery slope, but I think we need to recognise that there exist at least some organisations acting under the "Islamic" banner that are extraordinarily dangerous. 'ISIS' and 'Boko Haram' are the two most recent that come to mind. They already have a track record of mass execution of their enemies.
Wouldn't it be more profitable to simply develop and sell mods rather than running servers since your costs will be lower?

Unless you mean just using the mod as a key to access the server in which case you'd be better off just charging for passwords to the server because otherwise you have to worry about people using pirate copies of your mod to connect.
Doesn't work for me. Which Python version is required?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./tickets.py", line 20, in <module>
for listing in soup.findall('p', {'class': 'row'}):
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
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> political silence on this issue is indeed deafening.

The UK Government does not comment on issues of national security. End of discussion.
It can be argued that arbitrary code execution capability in games on a locked platform are a feature rather than a bug :)
> Why is there no codepoint for GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ALPHA?

Could it be that (quoted from that Wikipedia page): The World Wide Web Consortium and the Unicode Consortium have made recommendations on the choice between using markup and using superscript and subscript characters: "When used in mathematical context (MathML) it is recommended to consistently use style markup for superscripts and subscripts."

Inconsistency remains though, since the Unicode standard defines characters for full superscript Latin lowercase alphabet except q, a limited uppercase Latin alphabet, a few subscripted lowercase letters, and some Greek letters.
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