skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Social and green parties hide their failures well.

That's not polite.
Oh wow. That would annoy me too, thanks for noticing it. Fixed!
According to @congresedits someone from a congress IP is editing the "David Icke" and "Bohemian Grove" articles currently, just adding the word "allegedly" in a few places. At least they have a sense of humor.
> No, its not...intermittent fasting has been a fad in the last few years. There's nothing unusual about it.

Not everyone has heard about it. I found the article very interesting even though I'm not going to try it out.
It was T.S. Eliot. and the real quote is "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
Wouldn't surprise me at all if this technique is seizure inducing.
Why would anyone want to do such stupid thing? It would prompt users to bypass it just because. And there are tons of ways to make a series of screenshots or even a video of the screen.

Ksnapshot, imagemagick (import), ffmpeg, avconv etc. etc.

> let’s assume things on the web should be protected…

Let's assume DRM is a dumb and nasty idea which always leads to very crooked practices. Period. As if we don't have enough of this EME nonsense.
Some services like Gmail allow you to sign out all other sessions from a session. So in the case of logging out from a unsecured computer, you logout as normal and then immediately sign out all sessions from your mobile device - it's a bit like a two factor logout to go with your two factor authentication.
Is it even possible to take wired seriously anymore? After a couple of years of seeing stories like this pop up I think I finally understand what it's like for my wife (getting a PhD in genetics) to read the breathless science headlines I used to frequently show her.
Same with Garry's Mod. It even has it's own Lua editor included and the things you can do with the Wire MOD are just crazy.
1. You can't.

2. Stop trying.
The Rpi is now a totally open source platform though, unlike the Odroid. Same for the Novena laptop.

Also, I've heard bad things about the Odroid's stability under load. Do you have any problems? I've also definitely had problems with the Rpi under load, but I expect the new switching power supply to solve that.
Or a lock-out. If a language is multi-platform you have a lot more potential developers than if it is single platform.
It's interesting to look at what may be a homepage for the recipient of the letter:

http://johnen.shinshu-u.ac.jp/~mano/profile_e.html

The letter is from an excellent collection of Feynman letters, "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track". There's a thoughtful review of the entire collection (by Freeman Dyson) here:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/oct/20/wise-ma...
This is quite a weird idea, really. Even if Swift were open sourced (and it looks like it may be at some point: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/37...), would it _really_ be all that dramatically useful on, say, Android? Good luck making your GUI app through the JNI. There are a few Objective C apps on Android, but they're pretty much universally games (there's a Spritekit port).

It doesn't really change the story for developing cross-platform apps at all.
This seems a good example of the actual original meaning of "the exception proves the rule". The fact that he specifically states an intent for it to be free in those cases implies that he does not intend for it to be free more generally.

Coupled with the fact that you automatically have copyright on copyrightable works, and that by default you need license to copy copyrighted works outside fair use and similar exceptions, I think it's clear that if these mazes are copyrightable and if the maze wasn't independently generated (both of which seem more probable than not), then Kraft owes him some money here.
When I'm watching a video on my phone, I'm always glad when it's vertical so I don't have to disable orientation lock and rotate.
Unfortunately OpenVZ virtualisation only supports Linux OSs because they share the same kernel. Since *BSD is not Linux based they can't be installed. Sorry about this!
Crab mentality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
That was my thought as well, though I never really understood the point of Mongrel2.

It's basically a reverse proxy that speaks to upstream application servers using a custom protocol over ZeroMQ instead of HTTP over TCP? Why is this better than just using HTTP?

Does anyone here use Mongrel2? Do you like it?
If you've learned no languages learn Haskell first. If you have experience with imperative languages, learn LISP first. If you decide on learning a lisp but still want static typing, checkout Shen:

http://shenlanguage.org/
> Does the number of mazes created make a difference? Why?

I understand that in some jurisdictions reproducing a small portion of a larger work, then it may constitute fair use. Bullet point 3:

The amount and substantiality of the portion
used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

Of course, this is but one bullet point out of four, and the law is fuzzy, as it should be.
There's pretty strong evidence suggesting this isn't a problem. Or if it's a problem, it's not one that schools can solve.

Teaching "critical thinking" is basically a waste of time. You can't do it. It would be nice if you could, but you can't. "Critical thinking" simply doesn't transfer. (Well, they do a tiny bit, if they are done right, but there's more fine print than Facebook's ToS to any claim that you can teach students how to think.)

Let's say you took all those "creative thinking" skills you learnt in networking, did a course on photography, then got a job with a really good photographer. Guess what - you might have decent communication skills, but you'd still come off as a clueless idiot who can't "think creatively" or "solve problems", because you don't have the domain skills and knowledge.

If they've got a solid core of domain skills and knowledge, they can actually think for themselves. If they don't, they'll be clueless, and just try to memorise answers.

Anyone who can tie their own shoelaces knows "there's more than one way to solve a problem". Kids can actually think for themselves, if and only if they understand the domain.

Now, maybe the schools are teaching really badly, and the tests are geared towards forcing students to answer questions rather than solve problem - that's a problem. As in machine learning, getting students to memorise training data just leads to brittle learning. That might be the real problem - the blind are leading the blind, and some teacher who can't network is telling kids to memorise whatever was in the book, because no-one in the class has a clue. That's a recipe for incompetence.

And we know that high stakes tests with rewards for "good" teachers are like paying programmers per LoC. But that's not a problem with standardised tests anymore than code metrics are a problem. Idiots in management can cause issues, though.
> Dealing with suppliers and Chinese factories may present a logistical challenge, but it's still easier and less expensive than doing the manufacturing yourself.

Not true for mechanical things.

Injection molding machines are now all electrical and sit in the quarter million dollar range. CNC machines similarly. A million dollars gets you a very nice mechanical production line and machine shop that lets you fabricate precision metal parts AND high volume plastic parts.

Now, your only expenses are salary and production inputs.

I deal with this every day. How many tooling charges at $5,000 to $10,000 per charge do you have to take before that machine shop makes sense? Not many. I've eaten that charge 22 times in the last 3 years. I'm starting to accumulate the machine shop...
Very cool - I could see this as a very useful tool to have for personal git repos, email, and as a proxy for getting around firewalls / testing sites from another country (geoIP stuff).

How much free space is left on each VPS with the operating system installed?
This is what happens when you don't have real competition in the operating system market. Shameful.
http://teamsite.io - Over 6 months working evenings and weekend and am almost done... It's an existing space so I needed to have all the features of my competitors upon launch.
Given that he wrote the program, exercising creativity there, and (I presume) exercised additional creative activity manually selecting which outputs to post from the space of generated mazes, it seems likely that it's possible to copyright something like this. IANAL, though.
TL;DR You can't, stop trying. It's not worth the effort, it's tilting at windmills, and it pisses your users off. Just stop.
If you don't have standardized testing, how do you know if the students are being educated? More specifically, how do you identify schools that need help and focus resources effectively?
No problem, I must have spaced on the fact that this is OpenVZ based, thanks for the quick response!
A dedicated digital audio jack would be a useful addition, it could even take the place of the useless composite video RCA, so the port arrangement of the Model B would be kept.

With a digital audio jack a pi could be a decent hifi music streamer, better and cheaper than the AirPort Express. Now you need a $30-50 splitter (or the hifiberry add on) to get the audio off the hdmi, which makes the total cost more than double.
It bothers me as an older user(six years) because I see a lot of the same links. (Good lord the number of times certain Feynman articles get published is just too much—and I'm a fan that used to study physics!)

Lately though, this has seemed like less of a problem, so I wonder if something was adjusted in the HN ranking sort.
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Ah, sorry, I misunderstood your point, Carry on I completely agree then.
Github pages maybe?

https://pages.github.com
Submissions to HN are allowed based on unique URLs.

Each of the submissions to that wiki article have slightly different link structures. For example, one has a trailing "/" and one does not.
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My intent was not to comprehensively describe the graphic, but to give sufficient information to understand why it is relevant.
You can definitely find expensive private schools in every area. In my experience you can also find decently priced ones.

For my oldest we've moved through public, home school, private, and back to public over the years, trying various things. I have a criticism of each of them, and while we may have chosen the "wrong" private school, but it wasn't price that had us choose there.
> It is well understood that exercise does not generally lead to weight loss and can even be counter-productive.

Right, exercise is important in weight loss not because it promotes weight loss directly, but because it enables maintaining muscle loss during weight loss, which is critical to healthy weight loss--which is mostly fat loss--and because it promotes cardio-vascular fitness (which is often an important part of the real goal served by weight loss.)
However, "copyright theft" does have an effect on the value of the original.

Suppose you write a book report for school and another student copies yours and passes their copy in first. You still have your original but it is significantly devalued. Passing it in may actually have negative value as you maybe accused of cheating.

It may not be theft but I think it hard to argue that it is not taking something of value without permission.
Bank of America seems to have protection against this type of threat. If you have 2FA enabled, via text to mobile, there is a 2FA test on first login on a new computer. But they also have an extra 2FA protecting everything that would allow an attacker to transfer money out of the account. Adding a new bill pay payee, changing the address or account info on a payee, and any external wire transfer all require a new 2FA code to be sent and entered every time, no matter what the device.

I still wouldn't login to them, or any other financial account, on an untrusted device, though.
Sure, it depends, we'll have to wait and see what SpaceX decide to release about it. It'll be nice to see video if they have some.
It's kind of amazing how often SOA is rediscovered by people. It's not at all exotic either. It's fairly common in enterprise applications but I guess maybe most people don't write enterprise apps?

My first thought when I read the article was "Did he just reinvent the wheel?"

It's in Go so that's kind of neat.
Structuring Tests in Go
The answer is simple: you can't prevent (all) users from taking a screenshot in a web browser.

The solution is trivial: launch a VM, make a screenshot, hook APIs such as DirectX, etc.
Suburban or rural communities more specifically where finding people to collaborate on projects can be harder, especially for things that are more of a niche interest.

In a place like New York City where literally everything is going on, you can throw a rock and hit something interesting. In rural Montana your options are severely limited, and if you're not happy with the local offering, or what you can sponge off the internet, you're going to be pretty lonely.
You are indeed correct. Nonetheless, the choice of the exact same fibonacci tile grid, exit, entry holes, and about 98% of the interior walls being identical...
You should probably check out Kombu, Pika, carrot, QAM, Puka, etc.
So you can write the new functionalities in the new popular framework and keep the old one running. Why that's a better choice... well it depends on case by case.

However this is a bit like a reverse proxy that load balances many different web apps. You could have different applications written in different languages serving requests to the same url.

Furthermore I don't see anything here that load balancers haven't done since the '90s. Maybe I'm missing something but maybe that's why everybody is puzzled.
So here's a startup idea that can help with that.

1) Build a library for hiding encrypted information inside images. It should be hard to detect (indistinguishable from random) and robust (e.g. survive printing and scanning).

2) Build a web crawler, coupled with a key store. Crawl the internet for images that contain our encrypted info.

3) The copyright owners will be our paying clients. They will display images only to logged in users, use our service to embed the user information in the image, and deposit the encryption key with us.

4) Whenever the crawler finds a stolen image, we notify the copyright owners and send them the details of the user who leaked it. We don't notify the user, of course.

Right?
> Not everyone has heard about it.

That's not the same thing as "unusual".
It depends on the pseudorandom number generator that you're using, but you'd be hard pressed to find a standard library prng where similar seeds produced similar random numbers. That would be pretty bad design.

For example, here is some code I wrote to test my own prng:

srand(1000000);
for( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ )
printf( "%d\n", rand() );

printf("====\n");

srand(1000001);
for( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ )
printf( "%d\n", rand() );

And here is the result:

21585
18586
29373
4301
3304
21158
23657
21142
2144
26110
====
21589
29335
14469
28364
13618
25085
26770
18215
18656
19962

As you can see, they diverge really quickly.
I don't think standardized testing has that much impact on how people think. I suppose test prep teaching is less likely to break people out of lazy thinking, but I don't think it inculcates it.
It looks like a flickering interlaced TV screen to me. And, it basically is.
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This edit from the House of Representatives is pretty amusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=616911728&oldid=616...
I have no doubt that whenever Salvatore releases a distributed, Redis queue feature it will be amazing. But if you're on AWS, SQS is a solid at-least-once delivery queue service that is hard to beat. (at least when you don't want to manage your own redis machines)
The math and reading requirements are hardly unreachable. If history teachers are trying to teach history to students who can hardly read, they're not going to get very far. They should push back against the language arts teachers to do their jobs.
AMQP/Rabbit can use TLS (even if not leveraged in this project, something not possible for ZeroMQ IIRC). Also, define "centralized". An intelligent AMQP client properly falls over to another node in a cluster, and Rabbit offers good durability guarantees while still allowing quorum and tolerating node failure.
I am using it, works great. I tried a couple other similar services and they were slightly more complicated than I wanted--packagecloud is simple and straightforward. Also I like the clean design of the site.
Hadn't thought of that angle. You're right, there may be something in that (though I imagine you could argue each maze is a 'work')

I was more coming from the idea that just because there are lots of them generated surely doesn't mean they fall outsidd the law.
Hey dragonwriter. I think that I did a poor job of explaining what I meant by 'traditional writing'.
I consider the traditional writing process to be a mashup of writing and editing, whereas piece writing allows you to focus on just writing.

Agreed.. But I read somewhere that the occasional all caps in an iTunes description can help people figure out what your app actually does, so I broke convention :p
The shortage of IPv4 addresses is somewhat of a misnomer - there are a few sites selling huge ranges of them for about $10/address
I believe it will be possible (I'm expecting Apple to open source it after it is out of beta as they do with their LLVM changes) and that it could then be used on any platform LLVM supports. That doesn't mean that I think that it will be widely used, the Objective C compatibility won't be very helpful. It does integrate cleanly with C but C++ libraries need to be wrapped in C/Obj-C at the moment.

I do like Swift and it quite possible it will be used on other platforms but I'm not convinced. I haven't really checked out Rust and Go properly yet but compared with C/C++ Swift might be tempting for a new project on other platforms.
The point of the experiment is to see whether the work will get done faster.
One thing about this is paying attention not only to what he eats, but also how his body reacts to food. In high school, I would often only eat one meal a day (I could have had more meals, but I wasn't hungry). In college, I also still only ate the equivalent of one meal a day. Once I had a full time job that included lunch breaks, I felt obligated to eat more, and the more I ate the more I was hungry. Having more money and more freedom to eat what I want, when I wanted (compared to living with parents or in college eating on poor starving student rations), I stopped paying attention to what and how much I ate.
>for hiding encrypted information inside images.

otherwise known as Steganography.
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Funny, lock-in is the reason why I won't use it.
FWIW, I've often heard admonishments to refrain from editing while working on a first draft.
There is a distinction, but I think that primarily does imply that profit takes priority over ethical concerns, so I'd argue that in this case the distinction doesn't change the argument.
Messages in the Deep
Arrange to get a few minutes alone with the tests, correct a few answers on your worst performing students tests, or just swap out their answer sheets with improved answers.

Freakanomics talked about this in regard to Chicago public schools merit pay system.
Yeah but I get it with libraries: you've gotta provide compatibility so preserving old ways of doing things is fine. With a new language like this, it's just making one of the biggest problems with Objective C even worse.
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The conclusion I'm drawing here is that you can be a fortune 500 company with or without twitter, and that social engagement is ancillary to the core fundamentals of your business. Of course, I'd like to see where on the Fortune 500 those companies lie and their annual revenues - are the companies using twitter and social media outperforming (monetarily) from those late to adopt? Without that, I'm left with more questions.
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They all take roughly 0.75GB of space since they're minimal installs.

Yeah OpenVPN works fine on this setup.
Haven't you heard? Everybody is the same now, and nobody is to be trusted before anybody else. Can't judge. We're all heroes.
It doesn't actually hover over the water. For that, the rocket's thrust would have to exactly balance the weight of the first stage, with the tanks nearly empty, and even a single Merlin engine can't actually throttle down that low. As long as the engine is firing, the rocket is accelerating up, so the actual landing maneuver is something they call a "hoverslam", which is designed to zero out vertical velocity close enough to the ground that after they cut off the engine, the legs can take up the difference.

(Weight conditions at launch are obviously very different. In addition to the weight of the second stage and payload, there's also the weight of the first stage fuel -- and the fuel will be most of the weight of any rocket at launch.)
You can't pass laws that involve foreign citizens in their own countries to do your bidding. You either have to negotiate with that country, kidnap them in violation of international law (the US does this apparently) or start a war. Otherwise you just look like an idiot.
I don't have much experience in writing iOs apps, but the impression I always had is that the language is not nearly as important as it seems, to that end.

Regardless of the language, the important (and most difficult) part is getting used to iOS framework, the patterns and models it uses, not to mention all the UI widgets and how they interact with each other.

I don't think Swift will make it easier to deal with all that, regardless of how well has been thought out.
In theory yes, but in practice no. It's constructed around a solid core of the Objective C object model and runtime. Rudimentary open source versions of these exist, but they are _very_ rudimentary. The value in those technologies is all concentrated in the Coacoa and Coacoa Touch libraries and frameworks, which are proprietary to Apple.

Trying to use these technologies on another platform would be like trying to develop software using the core of the Python language with none of the standard library or external libraries (imagine they were implemented in another language you couldn't port). Or like implementing just the C# language on another platform, without any of the .NET libraries. It's possible, Mono did just that, but they had to re-implement almost the entire .NET infrastructure from scratch, a task many orders of magnitude greater than just duplicating the language itself.
The very next paragraph-

"...an enormous number of programmers have an immediate reason to use Swift. Today, hundreds of thousands of developers build apps for iPhones and iPads using a language called Objective-C, and due to the immense popularity of Apple’s consumer gadgets, these coders will keep building such apps. But Swift is a significant improvement over Objective-C—in many respects—and this means the already enormous community of iPhone and iPad developers are sure to embrace the new language in the months to come."
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They might sell them for that but when you're selling to a "low end" market at £4/year $10/address is quite expensive. Especially when we don't need a range bigger than a /27.

I agree there are still IPv4 addresses about but this teaches people that they are running out and we should look for other solutions.