skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Spoilers ahead)

Digital Fortress is probably the book with the most bullshit representation of computers and cryptography ever. Dan Brown goes out of his way to do as little research as possible on subjects he's talking about. In Angels and Demons, the Illuminati want to blow up Vatican using jars with antimatter they stole from CERN. Jesus Christ. The Da Vinci Code is similarly flawed.

It baffles me how he manages to be so full of shit as to say that the descriptions, historical events and whatnot are accurate in his novels. In Digital Fortress he describes how the Spanish healthcare system is subpar and hospitals are filthy, when in reality it's ranked way above the US by some satisfaction index or whatever. Not to mention the NSA's supercomputer ("made by soldering together millions of processors over 10 years") which gets fed some ciphertext and a virus infects it... BECAUSE IT WAS ACTUALLY NOT A CIPHERTEXT BUT MALICIOUS CODE!!!11!1

I hate Dan Brown, dammit
I'm also not sure how the above projects relate. As far as the scope of the blog goes, Apollo seems to be ruled out as it is not replicated.

ActiveMQ does have replication, but they don't really sound convincing in the docs that it's first-class ;)
You can't expect them to keep up with everything. Important is who they turn to for guidance. The CCC does a great job advising law makers and law enforcement in Germany and the EFF tries really hard to play a similar role in the US. The Tor Project itself works directly with law enforcement as well (pretty much globally as far as I know).
How can you get an accurate average IQ? I've never taken a formal IQ test in my life. I asked serval people around if they have and no one else has in their adult life.
Why is the lego photoshopped onto a family playing dominoes?
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As usual the fonts look beautiful on Mac but horrible on Windows (both using Chrome).
Slightly offtopic: was surprised yesterday when publishing my first plugin at wordpress.org to find they use SVN.

Thankfully there was a deploy.sh script on github [1] which could be used to deploy your plugin from git repo straight to wordpress.org's SVN repo. :)

[1] https://github.com/pdclark/deploy-plugin-to-wordpress-dot-or...
Some more information on the legal action here [1]

The action makes repeated reference to the European Convention of Human Rights, and UK lawyers have already questioned [2] the legality of revelations around GCHQ's activities in relation to ECHR.

The current legislation [3] covering GCHQ's activities is from 1994.

1: https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/stop-breaking-the-...

2: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/gchq-mass-sur...

3: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/13/crossheading/the...
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This will be enforced only against companies big enough to be on Russia government's radar.

Big companies already have content distribution networks and server farms all over the world. And since Russia is hardly the first country to pass such a law, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and many others have already had algorithms in place to ensure user data stays local for certain countries.

Now they'll just add Russia to the list.
The overall average, sure. But just as that doesn't mean every single person's IQ is 100, it doesn't mean every country's average is the same.
Right. I bet they pay a lot, lol.

Since you're more concerned with attacking me ad hominem, I guess I'll just join in. You are paid by the NSA[0]. Mind-blown!Since, after all, character assassination is the way lead a discussion.

Additionally, your name sounds ukrainian. You must be a right wing ULTRA then! How is that for being a putinbot. See how ridiculous you look throwing accusations at people just because they disagree with you.

[0]https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/04/04/cuban-twitter-...
This can be called "The Professor Harold Hill problem", named for the character from "The Music Man".
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As someone who has walked away from a really nice offer because of the malicious (and I used that exact word when talking with the hiring manager) terms in the non-compete, not everyone can afford to walk away.

Oddly, before that incident I was in the "man, just negotiate them, it's all right" camp. Like the joke about a liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet, it really changed my outlook, and I'm now in favor of legislation nuking those things from orbit.
Good article, though writing the distances involved like this:

"twenty-four hundred and eighty vertical feet"

Makes it very hard to imagine. Partly because I would read 2480 as two thousand four hundred and eighty, and partly because they are changing between feet, yards and meters all over the place. The world will be a better place when the USA uses metric.
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So how successful would have been UNIX and C if AT&T reacted sooner than it did in terms of ownership and prevented universities access to them?

Edit: Removed stupid comment.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Mark Twain (maybe) [1]

The general public thinks statistics is some magical thing that has predictive powers bestowed upon it by the power of math. Invoking statistics in a conversation can often shut other people down and get the "point" across someone is trying to make while making it hard to attack because it's based on "statistics". Religions tend to operate this way, some amazing central figure said it thus it's true. I wonder if this is just a side effect of the human mind that we hope for something that knows the answer so we don't have to figure it out ourselves or that we can hope there is some sort of order in the chaos of our lives. Without the hope that there is some order to our observed chaos perhaps many people fear they have no chance in the world and are like leaves floating down a river out to the sea. I personally don't mind the floating down the sea and once in the while I feel like I can at least peddle to the shore for a quick adventure. But in the end we're all floating on the river of time and exposed to a massive amount of chaos that just doesn't really make sense from our vantage point.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statisti...

PS: Sorry feeling a bit philosophical this morning…
Well, it can be anything. TypeScript definition files, for example, can't be packaed with npm, since you can't know their location in relation to the package that needs them.

Other problems include that npm is not really supported on Windows and specifying a 'git'-based url always installs the package even if it exists on a lower level (which works completely different from other version types). There's also weird cache bugs from time to time (npm cache clean helps there). And if you have a single package dependency that's missing, you can't force it to finish npm install.
"We’re going to build a simple asap module, which lets you schedule some work to happen as soon as possible, but asynchronously. In Node.js, you can do this via process.nextTick," ... I thought process.nextTick wasn't the equivalent to an async, and that async could only be done in native modules ... Can someone correct me or the author?
With a large enough sample size small differences can be significant. It's bad practice to display a more precise IQ number than your confidence intervals, so I'll assume the differences are real.
Not if the line you're commenting out is the last item of a select or a join command or an AND within a where clause. Sorry Gould have made better example
But it was 4 am :)
_at least_ fonts presented there look stunning on Linux (using Firefox). Not sure,why they won't look great on Windows though.
The quoted law is Austrian, so this doesn't apply to the whole of Europe.

But yes, even running a package delivery service is now illegal because it can be used to transport drugs or firearms and such.
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Treat plugins as separate and independent modulse, just as you would in any other project and put each plugin into their own git repository.
Outside bubbles such as HN and others on the internet, the post Snowden world doesn't exist. What you'll see is just grandstanding as it was with Germany. There is no benefit to the EU or rationale to take similar measures.
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its in theory a normal distribution Two standard deviations include 95% of the population
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By 1992 I had already graduated...

Great. Now I feel a million years old...
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http://paulgraham.com/hundred.html
Even not that big telcos have to install SORM h/w. At their own expense of course...
Personally, I think it's the "repeating" part that is important - if you use it once then have 3600 explained with a comment, if for some reason you use the same 3600 a lot in a chunk of code make it a sensibly named constant.
Granted they could have done it before as well, it is just that the shining example of "open" and "free" has been revealed to suck up and spy on everything and everyone so now they can easily do it because there NSA did the PR bit for them. "Oh look the evil NSA is taking out citizens' data". You see, it actually is so and no matter how sarcastic you want to get it is still true.

Same with terrorism. When we attacked Afghanistan and Iraq with the War Of Terror. That opportunity didn't escape the Russians, they quickly issues a letters of support of American people blah blah and then proceeded to switch to running their own War of Terror in Chechnya. This was very nice as they just let the US Dept Of State do all the PR for them.

> of their democratic government.

Well presumably our democratic government is terrific. We have great income inequality, we torture people in some hidden loophole prison on a island, we invaded multiple countries with some WMD fake pretest. We are blasting away even our own citizens with drones in countries we are not even at war with. So one can argue democracy is not really that nice, it obviously doesn't work very well or out people are just mean and evil. Which, then, maybe they don't deserve democracy.
More than intelligence, performance on tests is affected by training.
Nope, it isn't. First birth age is growing like everywhere in post-transit countries.

(This also leads to statistics under-predicting birth rate)
Wrong thread? The guy got prosecuted for running a Tor node, not for committing a crime and failing to stay anonymous.
I have taken a couple taken cold as I was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child and later on my employer got me some extra tutoring for adult dyslexics.

I think my best was in the mid 130's or as I put it high enough :-)
Not exactly as described but close :) :

http://imgur.com/6jxS7aU

needs a bigger monitor instead of the small display :)

Also it would be good for a "walking on the beach" simulator with Oculus Rift (filling up the water as you walk in the ocean :D )
> At Yellow Yellow we like to blaze our own trail and in NoSitting we're no exception

I read this in Cave Johnson's voice.
Thank! Will be working on speeing up the site loads but it's a bit tricky. Someone else mentioned maybe uses images and preload them. Still thinking about how I should tackle this.
Russia as a country sees storage of internet data as a tactical disadvantage against US.

They are only moving ahead to level the playing field as much as they can.
I think you're conflating "not actively overthrowing their government in violent revolution" with majority acceptance.

That governments are inevitably an extension of their citizens' will is a thing that sounds nice to believe, but isn't necessarily true. It's easy to imagine situations where a small minority gains forceful control of a majority. Whether that is the case for any one nation is a much trickier question, but it certainly can happen.
Well, it's "you can run your fork for any purpose, modify your fork freely, and distribute your fork and those modifications under the same license." If you can also distribute them under a more restrictive license, the license is permissive. If you can't, the license is copyleft.
How about what is hot? ;) I know that that is not a filter, but it would sure be a nice thing to see. There will surely be a lot of content, but since I don't have time to constantly check X, Y, Z... I would really appreciate summary or some hot-list.
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> No, the number of seconds per hour is not going to change.

And by using a constant you're making sure that it's not going to change accidentally (typo in one of 17 locations).
I don't know what's wrong with Lato at 400 weight. Its either the rounded extra-wide dot or something else, but Lato at its standard weight doesn't seem right.
I have, in high school we were all asked to take a test.
Web fonts is nice, but one part of a font family is even better. Here’s a really nice list of all the Google Web Fonts Family
http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts/
Acquiescence is not acceptance.
Haha, I've heard this before. Takes some time getting used to :). I will be working on a history feature soon and should help with this problem.
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2013/08/05#.U7QAoo1d...
Yet, the quality of schools could be correlated to teachers and politicians with higher IQ. Chicken and egg...
Awesome video. The compilation he refers to is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RD9Zc2kwpI. As a Barca fan I remember the very early compilations.

Personally I think that if you grab another player's clothing or impede him with your arms or hands while he has possession, it should be an instant red card.
Amazon collects taxes for users living in states where Amazon operates. More to your question, Amazon also has to and does collect sales tax for customers buying from third parties in which they live in the same state. I'm not aware of specifically regulated items that can be sold in one US state but not another. There are restrictions on international exports though.
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> Are you aware that any journalist who spoke out against the Iraq war never had a career again?

Yeah we never heard of Michael Moore ever again.
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You don't, instead you use your existing connections with corporate management and your massive advertising budget to convince managers to force developers to use it. Even if they are perfectly fine using C++ or Smalltalk.
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What? There are tons of IQ tests online. I took one and found I had an IQ of 185. And for only $25 I could have gotten a certificate stating this fact. I'm sure that these tests are highly accurate. After all, who wouldn't want to think they are a genius?
I have a VPS with an Austrian ISP. Their Ts&Cs already state the following are specifically not allowed:

Tor/i2p/similar exit servers (bridge, entry and middle are fine until further notice)

Last update was Jan 17th, 2014, but this clause has been included for as long as I have been a customer, which is a couple of years. So, I would say at least some Austrian ISPs are aware of the risk.
I ignored the heading that points out this is parody, and while i found it bizarre, it seemed believable. I guess I've encountered enough wacky stuff that this didn't strike me as too "out there."
> No government can act without the acceptance of a majority of the citizens.

This is not a contradiction to the original statement. Even if the majority wants to suppress minority dissent (or do worse things to minorities), it's not the right thing to do.
Hey, I wasn't sure how I can lessen the permission usage. I've tried removing almost everything in my permission area and it's still says that. I've also checked out many other chrome extensions and this seems to be common. I'll be looking into this more soon.

In regards to the tab, I'll add the feature to remember that you collapsed the tab so it doesn't reappear until you uncollapse it.
AAISP act as the (completely unfiltered) baseline control group in this research.
process.nextTick is a native module. You can test this simply yourself:

var a = 1;
process.nextTick(function() {
console.log(a);
});
a = 2;
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Except when you need to have a guarantee of consistent response times. Response rates where the 99th percentile is guaranteed to be under, say 50ms is important in many real world applications, trading systems, sensor networks, controls networks etc.

The Java GC, no matter which way you tune it, fails at this in my experience.
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All it needs to do is generate motion, so they made it like those flashlights you charge by shaking them. Reciprocal! What will be revolutionary will be performing this with some kind of rotary engine.
I'm surprised you didn't point out that the diet itself was flawed. The basis of the plant-based diet was vegetables and fruits, and yet they explicitly excluded fructose. You can't have any fruits then! Nearly every fruit contains fructose in some appreciable amount, among the lowest in concentrations are raspberries and strawberries. Even vegetables have significant amounts of fructose, such as asparagus and tomatoes (though technically a fruit as well). I feel like with a study that self reports from it's patients, especially of this size, a diet this restrictive is nearly impossible to keep 24/7.
Have you considered legal action?
Maybe it's the only way to guarantee having a rockstar team for the next 5 years or whatever they all agree to.
Nitpicking should not be the point of a review, but would you consider it nitpicking to point out minor things that do not fall exactly in line with the current project standards? Naming is a big thing that comes to mind. Formatting is another.

Personally, when I review code I never look at it from an X or Y way, but from a current project way. I do not agree with how my current project does everything, but consistency is more important in a large code base until I can schedule time to change things I do not agree with across the entire code base.

To your specific case, someone who uses 3600 instead of making a constant probably has other magic numbers scattered about.

Also, remember the code that exists needs to serve as a guide for future programmers. The next programmer who comes in and sees 3600 now may think magic numbers are okay. So the minor thing you called a nitpick is picked up by someone else and made more of an issue, and so on.
It means absolutely nothing. Austria does not follow the common law doctrine of stare decisis, where each case is bound to follow whatever reasoning is used by a superior court. (Note that "constant jurisprudence" is completely different and is not really binding, since higher court chambers do not have stable composition and as such their reasoning may not be consistent.)

A different court is allowed to use completely contrary reasoning and interpretation of "enables or facilitates" ("ermöglicht oder erleichtert") and "intent" ("Vorsatz") in § 12 StGB. The more money you have, the more likely that is. Also keep in mind that sometimes juries composed of short-term politically-appointed local politicians ("lay judges") are used, so that also adds to the complexity.

Austria's women and landscapes are beautiful. Austria's legal system, not so much.
Is UK included in "the rest of Europe" by any chance?

Besides if the censorship were the goal, then it's perfectly doable as of now and regardless of the physical location of the servers. Just ask Saudi's. To understand the motivation you have to stop reading Washington Times and looking at Putin's origins and instead consider what he has accomplished in recent years - he essentially resurrected the national pride. In this context, it's only logical that they now view their dependency on (mostly) US companies as unbecoming, especially in the light of Snowden revelations, hence the move in question. You may also recall the hocus-pocus Visa did not long ago by showing a middle finger to some Russian bank as per directive of the US department. Now, swap the US and Russia and consider what the US reaction would've been.

If you are thinking it's all about censorship, you are missing a much larger picture.
> I can't speak for the GameBoy system, but I've spent years hacking on the NES.

Me too! Are you on the nesdev.com forum?
You're assuming and implying that this code is more bug-prone in its current state than it would be if it were rewritten.

I'm not convinced that's true.
for copy&pasting around this is very practical, also with arrays:

<pre><code>

$moo =

[

a

, b

, d

];

// insert c

</pre></code>

better than having the delimiter at the end, where you a) have to take care where you relocate the last element and b) could forget to remove it at the last element (most language parsers tolerate that though).
Goodness no! Obviously your employer owns whatever you create while on the job, but some companies try to lay claim to stuff you create while off work, others do not.

The problem with Amazon - and other giant companies like it - is that they try to lay claim to everything "substantially similar" to fields the company works in. Because they're a giant company, this means practically everything, so you can work on something completely independently, without using any proprietary knowledge, and still end up screwed because somewhere deep within the bowels of the company someone is working on something like it.