skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in my college days, I made this captcha as a class project.
This is based on the popular snake game. You catch the bug with snake, you pass.
If anyone interested, folk and make its web version.

https://github.com/ateev/Snake--o--Captcha
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Well, the hairless monkeys running around right now don't seem to be doing a good job of things, maybe it is time to try something new.
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Presumably a Go captcha is the more effective, since computers are worse and Go than humans. [Provided you are a professional Go player...]
This seems to be one of those arguments where we programmers tend to optimize for the wrong problem. Sure, we may be able to input more text more comfortably with the merits of one text editor over another, but really, I think most of the time spent during programming is reading APIs, headers, other code and most importantly thinking. Typing is hardly the bottleneck.
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I like this headline for it even better: "Lust in space: Russians lose control of gecko sex satellite"

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/24/space-sex-ge...
Rarely do I need a remote editor, where I don't also need a remote shell. So I'm using GNU screen all the time now.

Years ago, I finally made a little time-investment in learning Screen, and it has definitely paid off. I hear that tmux is better, but I don't have any missing requirements from my current setup, so I haven't tried to learn it.
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No actual captcha checking going on (submit button in own form doing a GET, Flash does no external network calls verified via MITMProxy), as many have noted it seems to be a joke.

However, this would be one of the easier captchas from a bot standpoint. You have the source image and only need to create the equivalent in another format (Flash)? Assuming no fancy bot checks in Flash, the process of duplication is trivial. The bot doesn't have to guess what it is, just duplicate and machines are great at that. In fact, this is more like an anti-captcha (hard for humans, easy for bots).
I think you have just proven his comment about the attitude of Haskell users.
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If it's the name you use in all your examples, that's what you're recommending your users do. Recommending an extended character for that is hostile.
Is there an equivalent program in Denmark or elsewhere in Europe?
For when the mods inevitably change the original headline (I'm assuming because it's good and entertaining and people like it):

>Lizard sex satellite floating in space and Russia no longer controls it
He seems like a sensationalist who has certain vendettas against specific companies and entities. I'm not sure why he's taken seriously at all...

(As in, I really don't understand why he keeps getting posted on HN, not just some throwaway insult)
Why would a native English speaker write "60 days mission"? Hypercorrection. which is a form of incorrection.
I agree, but it's not just mass surveillance. I was standing around recently and a guy was flying his drone around, presumably taking video of me and other people in the area. It was not pleasant and this was only an incidental, recreational use of the technology.
It would be nice if email just had a separate signature field (e.g. subject, body, signature)
In the late 80's, I snuck past the barricades and explored the engine room for over an hour. It was part of a boy scout excursion that had us camping on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, so we had after-hours access to the facilities.

The catwalks were partially intact and it was a very dangerous, decayed industrial environment. Lots of negative space indicated that some large components had been removed.
Better tip: Just bring your own hotspot. If you're a frequent traveler, your life will be SO much better. If you're not a frequent traveler, using the hotspot feature on your phone and paying for it just that month (if you don't already) is often faster and cheaper than a couple days of hotel paid wifi.

Hotel wifi is spotty and incredibly insecure compared to a wireless hotspot.
Chinese citizens worry they're being spied on (by Apple)
I think the issue is that Haskell people basically assume that if they don't have feature X themselves, it has to suck and can't count as a strength of another language.

For instance, Scala's OO/module system is one of the best ones out there, but is readily dismissed by Haskell people, despite modularity being a complete train-wreck in Haskell.
Your biggest costs are in heating and cooling, followed by appliances.

Some electric companies offer programs to cycle your air conditioning during peak hours. They'll cut the compressor but leave the fan running, and then turn it back on.

Example program: http://www.jacksonemc.com/home-save-energy-money/energy-savi...
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"I'm thinking that the drone pilot just got lucky." Does HN have the Slashdot equivalent of RTFA?
European Central Bank site hacked
While I'm a fan of the ICFP, I do feel as if the questions are a bit too full of themselves (for lack of a better term).

While I'm sure they are trying to remove ambiguity, but the way they are couched and their length make them a lot less approachable than they should be. I feel like in about 1/10 the wording and narrative complexity they could create an equally interesting programming challenge.
Besides using the field's notation (why we still can't werite greek letters easily?), I also like it a lot to use case to differentiate between kinds of elements.

For example, let's say you want to write code that communicates with an arduino. You can define a class named "Arduino", that'll be instantiated on other classes, and the instances can be called "arduino", with no problems at all. On case insentive languages one has to resort to worse names, like "arduino_t", or "arduino_instance".
That's what I wrote the "humans.txt" captcha for: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2010/07/15/humans-txt/
Keep those pesky humans away.
A credit card entered @ Heroku is required in order to do this. It won't be billed if you follow the readme.
Amazon's heavy investing eats into bottom line, shares drop
Thank you for taking the time to answer. My concern is that if you know the name in advance, then yes, it's easier to pronounce without the hyphen. But in case you see the domain for the first time, it's probably harder for you to "parse" the two words from one another ("name" is in my case a "made-up" word).
The article has two good points about IBM buying shares back and not being able to compete in the cloud market. However, I fail to see how the Fed directly caused IBM to fail in their cloud strategy? Seems that IBM management fail to spend/borrow money wisely.
There are many keybindings that conflict between emacs and evil/vim
I've had it with these mothaf--in' geckos, on this mothaf--in' satellite!
At the moment, it's working as its own enclosed terrarium, and sending back science, etc. It's unclear if they're getting the video feeds from inside the cabin still, but probably the biggest bit of science being jeopardized here is the microgravity experiments into semiconductor production. There's another article with more info on the science package here : http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1407/24fotonm4/
If you are looking to join or form a local group with similar goals, this is probably what you're looking for: http://codeforamerica.org/brigade/
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It looks similar to: http://www.bandycituska.pl/
this guy claims to be undergoing tortures inspired by Polish prime minister, thousands of people round the world involved.
He even has a botnet and sends tons of spam mail linking to his website. Some kind of a syndrome?

Sorry for my English, Pole over here :)
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We better start building churches to worship them before we become their (sex?) slaves.
Hey Jo!

Exactly what I'm thinking about, thank you very much for that link! Hmm, this makes me think why http://codefordenmark.org/ or maybe http://hackdanmark.org doesn't exist yet. I've attended several of these hackathons.

I like those a lot, though there's a recurring issue that they only happen periodically. What I'd love to see is a continuous stream of public problems that we who have the skills can just jump on and off whenever we have the time.

We do have some initiatives that connect "everyone with everyone's problems", but those are more aimed at crowdsourcing ideas for solving social issues and I rarely see local governments take much interest in posting a list of issues they'd like help for.

Again, thank you so much!

- Anders
Or you know just have a special dividend share buybacks (outwith IT's controlling discount) always struck me as a way to line the pockets of the advisors and not the actual shareholders.
If you know any journalists, I'm sure they'll have ideas -- They are (in my limited experience) intelligent and incredibly busy people, leaving them with little time to really dive in to every topic they see that interests them. Also, news organizations have been slow to catch up to the internet age. At least in the US, there are only a handful of papers REALLY diving into the app side of things. Thankfully that number is growing.

I'd love to see what you and your friends are doing with open data. I'm finding it difficult to stay motivated in my own area, with few developers and little free time.

Glad to see that people world over are investing time in open data. :)
If you are looking for existing open source solutions to adopt/adapt locally, try here: http://commons.codeforamerica.org/
Yeah it will confuse some but it'll probably pique some people's interest too. People like memorable little oddities sometimes.
So... what does ICFP stand for? I've looked on their site, Twitter, and GitHub, but maybe I'm missing something obvious?
Even though the link points to the Washington Post, I'm a bit reluctant to click on it at work.
There is a "Code For Ireland" http://www.codeforireland.com/ - I imagine there are similar groups in other parts of Europe!
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You know, I spent last night writing an article about Stalin apologetics. You're hitting most of the notes: deflect blame, minimise numbers, grabbing any ambiguity, implying the victims deserved it and simultaneously that it didn't happen.

It happened, LW did it entirely to itself, LW didn't give a shit about its distressed children and fully earnt every drop of the fallout. Denialism is unlikely to change this.
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> Do one thing well.

Do you really demand that an OS should only 'do one thing well'? :ø)
2.) Caused a lot of big troubles in companies I worked for. The customer signs. Turns out that developers can not make the feature till the launch. Shortcuts are taken to cover up. We ship broken buggy software just to make the deadline. Whops.

Of course, salesman learned that all went well, because all those bugs are going to be reported/fixed weeks and months after launch. He does not see the connection. Salesman do that again and again, promises conflict with each other, development is permanently without feature plan to stick to more then a month. Work get to be done redone again and again and the code is increasingly crappy and buggy.

Of course, development gets blamed for all those problems. Of course development can do nothing about underlying cause of it.

Feature scheduling by salesman during the meeting is horrible thing. That behavior is the reason why sales have reputation of being liers and why companies tend to produce crap so often.
This is true. I worked for a global telecoms company with hotel groups as customers for several years. It was shocking how slow some of their connections were, and expensive too.
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I would emerge myself into the world of data science and big data. It's the new frontier and is where the web was 15 years ago.

The trend I've seen with web development is that it's mostly a primary skill. While data science will be a primary skill for many, it has the capability to be a much sought after secondary skill in other industries like finance, health, and actuarial science.
"Functional" is really poorly defined. Instead, here are some reasons to feel ML/Haskell are valuable

ML and Haskell: ubiquitous use of higher order functions through standard library; concise syntax for lambdas; bi-directional type inference with principle typing; named algebraic data types including sums, products, exponentials, recursion, universal, and existential quantification; ubiquitous purity, generalization at higher-kinded types, ubiquitous immutability; effect typing.

ML alone: true modules; module functors; structural equality in typing (polymorphic variants); great metaprogramming (camlp4)

Haskell alone: bounded polymorphism (typeclasses), completely ubiquitous purity/completely ubiquitous effect typing; completely ubiquitous immutability; lazy evaluation; a standard library including many high-level higher-kinded type generalizations (functor, monad, applicative, traversable, foldable, category, arrow, anything else you can think up); ok metaprogramming (template haskell); programmer controlled rewrite rules, results in list fusion/vector fusion

I list more under Haskell partly because I'm just more familiar with it, but also because it takes more things further and thus derives greater differentiation for it.
Apart from the title, it is perfectly safe. Apart if pictures of lizards (doing nothing) are forbidden at your office.
They do work fine together, but unless you remap the Org-mode control key combinations then none of your Org-mode specific stuff will feel very vim-like. I think one good little project would be to remap all the Org functions to vim-like key sequences. The info in this newslist thread is a small start on that: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52815
One level up, at: http://icfpcontest.org/

[The ICFP Programming Contest 2014 is the 17th instance of the annual programming contest series sponsored by The ACM SIGPLAN] International Conference on Functional Programming.
An alternative limiting factor could be the lack of great, low cost ,measurement tools. But there are some signs we're getting there, like this[1] chip based platform that can test for 170,000 proteins on a single test, cheaply.

Maybe the thing behind this google move is an understanding that it's possible, in some time feasible for google's projects, to commercialize such testing platforms, and they want in at the opportunities that will result ?

[1]http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2014/03/led-based-la...
'hostile' is a pretty hysterical choice of word
Not even close.

The success of the product is way more related to it's market fit, timing and business related things.

Many of the big software products today started out with very messy code. Check facebook old source code as an example.
downvote? I thought HN loved "naughty" things?
They should collect all those pieces of art and expose them in a gallery.
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Hard to believe, but I've been working on this Rails app for over 7 years now! It started as a Rails 1.0 app waaayyy back when, and I've managed to bring it along through almost every major Rails version (still working on updating to Rails 4.1), which I'm pretty proud of.

You can see screenshots at http://church.io.

Being specifically church software, it might not find much of an audience here on HN, but still, I'm proud, so wanted to post about it.

Keep inspiring HN!!!
Since we've mentioned the article, I can't help asking about a particular tit-bit that caught my attention --what do primes have to do with quantum mechanics?
I don't see that much demand for it. For example if you look on the HN seeking freelancer thread, most people are still looking for RoR or PHP. I don't see much of "please analyze my data and help me make decisions".

Where are you seeing all the demand?
Just note this probably won't work in the US. Most hotels here do not use a Class C subnet unless it's a shitty motel running off of a linksys router.
Hey Koldark!

Thanks a bunch for your tip. :-) I did something similar a while back with 2 Head of IT from a local government at a very small hackathon and it was a very positive experience.

As a "one-man operation" this could work well, I'd love to have a coffee with representatives (they rarely have the time though, in my experience). Maybe I could invite a few of my developer friends and some people from my local government for dinner as a starter. :-)

Again, thanks for your reply!

- Anders
It is not overstated. What happens there is that development will end up in loose loose situation: fail the deadline or take significant shortcuts (ship buggy software). No matter what choice they take, most often second one, the development will be blamed.
I interned there too in 2011 and can testify that employee morale is ridiculously low. No one loves the company, the only people who were working hard were the lifers who'd joined after college and were still there at 40 or 50.
Minor comment in your sample code: When searching for factors of N you only need to search up to sqrt(N).
I think drip is in a different category.

I wouldn't argue your overall point, but my point is that it's not like those neighbors don't run their sprinkler systems. They're supplementing with hand watering. Not substituting.

And who has time for that except empty-nesters?

Don't get me wrong. I love my neighbors. Living in the city has been an entirely different experience for me coming from the suburbs. There's an actual feeling of community here I never experienced out there.

Maybe it's unfair, but I just expect City Hall would have a hard time going to usage based billing instead.
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Commenters on this site had similar observations about D language's forum, which is written in D.

http://forum.dlang.org/
Code: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

If one insists on writing a webapp in a C/C++ like language, D might be the sane way to do it.
Hyatt Santa Clara offers free hi-speed WiFi and no longer charges for WiFi access anymore. Its one of the fastest and best connections out there as this hotel was chosen by Hyatt and Cisco to be one of their innovation properties.
Hey there Lichine,

I can only answer from my perspective even though it'll look like a shameless plug (which it probably is).

I'm the technical lead for a project called OpenSpending (https://openspending.org/) which is a free/open source project that tries to track and analyse public expenditure and budgets throughout the world. We're always looking for people to help out.

You could either work on the main site to improve that for your government or help them get their budgets/expenditure datasets loaded onto openspending.org or, since you're a frontend developer you might be more interested in what we refer to as satellite sites (openspending.org can be seen as an analytical machine with an api).

Satellite sites are done mostly by people outside of the core team but use the api to visualise budgets and expenditure for citizens in a way that is easy to understand. Some examples of sites include: http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org (for Britain), http://budzeti.ba (for Bosnia) or http://openbudgetoakland.org (for Oakland, California). These sites use the openspendingjs library for visualisations (you could contribute new visualisations based on data from your local government).

Since I see you're based in Denmark you might be interested in this site from Politiken: http://kommune.politiken.dk/ which used our visualisations but not the openspending.org backend or an instance of the OpenSpending software (which is fine, but a bit weird).

You might also be interested in knowing that OpenSpending is now mostly led by Nordics. I, the technical lead, come from Iceland while the community lead comes from Denmark (but lives in Washington DC).

OpenSpending is a community project founded and facilitated by Open Knowledge which is an organisation you might be interested in. There are a lot of other projects Open Knowledge works on in various fields that most try to help either governments or citizens. Here's the Open Knowledge website: https://okfn.org/

Good luck finding an interesting project to do and you can ping me if you're interested in OpenSpending (I'm always around on OpenSpending's IRC channel for example).
And random side-rant, why are so many people looking for AngularJS developers when I see almost 0 single page application type websites in my day to day life? What are all of these companies using it for?
Purity, composability, correctness, and avoidance of mutability are hardly category theoretic or exclusively praised by Haskellers. You could claim that Haskellers are particularly enthusiastic in their desire to optimize for those things, but now you have to describe why that's a bad thing.

And it's still not related the gp's points of badmouthing other languages or being unmarketable.
As I'm writing a web server as well (just for hobby, won't be big and professional like nginx), I did glance at Nxweb's code a few months ago. It's pretty hard to grasp, and I consider myself to be a pretty experienced C programmer. Hard to grasp code usually raises some red flags, security wise. It does perform well, though, and has some pretty interesting ideas. It is well worth looking, even if for learning a thing or two.

The Reddit thread for Nope.c is generating a lot of constructive criticism. It ranges from stylistic issues to security issues to architectures issues. Nope's author might learn a lot of stuff and have a lot of fun -- I sure did when writing my own.

(In time, my project's web page is at http://lwan.ws)
Sure, but not in their code. All this does is blind people to the genuine values this project might have.
I have an interest in the brain and psychosis but do not want to "dip my toes in" without allocating sufficient time to research and study this. It's just such a complex issue and there seems to be such a large spectrum of psychosis, with schizophrenia being on the slightly more extreme end.

Then there is the drug induced psychosis/schizophrenia that can be turned on and off, which is equally fascinating.

Meh, the brain is too complex for me to think about right now. We could study it for years and would only know a small fraction of what's going on.
They have signs that say "Yield to Traffic in Circle" at each entry point. I agree it is a simple concept yet people seem to struggle with it around here.
Vim's home-row commands are great... Unless you use a non-QWERTY keyboard layout.

A lot of developers forget that there exist other methods of input, and mnemonic-based shortcuts are one of those things that make a lot more sense than attempting to optimise for a tiny reduction in finger-movement (which ought to be the domain of the input-device anyway).
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"Error establishing a database connection" Is this a bad (and sad) joke, right?
Ah, missed that in the wall of text. Thanks!
Hmm, codefordenmark does not seem to be used by anyone, so maybe the concept hasn't reached us (yet!). :-)

There are a bunch of local hackathon events, like "Hack Aarhus" etc., but in my opinion it would be cool to help out whenever you had the time and not only at events (and not involving prizes and competition, which many of these events do prefer).