skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's more to the welfare of a community than its monetary value. This is event is absurdly demoralizing ("Whatever, USA"?), and I personally couldn't be paid enough money to get over the lasting effects.
Are any of these software tools available as open source so I can see the advantage of using Lisp?
May be that's how they get ardent devotees, like the Sufi masters of yore :D
We're really talking about two different kinds of "security" here. There's blocking access to anything but a Tor gateway (including in the case of a compromise at the kernel level), and blocking access by the Tor gateway to anything but Tor relays.

But that raises another point I'd neglected. On the Tor gateway, you can block access to the public internet by anything other than the Tor process.

The security benefit against maliciousness is iffy, since the most likely route of compromise for a Tor gateway that's been set up with even a little care is the Tor process, but it certainly reduces the chance of accidents.
Adieu, Koku
Thanks for making this point. I wholeheartedly agree.

I didn't anticipate this response. You're absolutely right about taking responsibility for the example we set of project management. I personally hate pulling all-nighters, and did not intend to legitimize the unhealthy "larval stage" hacker culture archetype (re: http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-open-source-identity-...).

This was a project with crazy bounds that we all consented to sprint towards. We are a team that has worked on many projects together across years, and are wholly comfortable with each others' constraints and limits.

It's usually the case for our projects that inspiration arrives at the most inconvenient time. For this one in particular, the idea came up 3 days before launch. We had several discussions during those days where we could have pulled the plug on this due to scheduling concerns. Each of us decided to push forward because we wanted it to exist.
-soundcloud link or mp3s would be nice

-how do i run the java app?

-I grew up playing several instruments from age 5, and love the vocabulary of chords and harmonies 12-TET gives us. It has a strong internal logic. But something bothers me about the fact that it's a man made system, not aligned with natural overtones that are rooted in physics

-This guy is nuts. But I really want one of these big pythagorean monochords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCZO6rPcY8

-using an ipad as a playable instrument with harmonic tuning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o965af7w6_o
What incentive does a cable provider have to progress and become a dumb pipe? The only value Comcast brings is owning the license to rent a wire that brings Internet signals to your house. After that, the content creators/curators can take care of the rest. Of course, being a dump pipe means less profitability, but it should have already been treated like a utility in the first place, like in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

It's a huge, profitable, conflict of interest to have your content provider also be the internet signal provider to your home, and I don't see them wanting to innovate that away. If anything, their R&D is probably in figuring out how to box out movie studios and other content providers like Netflix/Amazon Prime to make their own offerings more attractive.
Immediately after high school, we got a "revision" class on maths. We did 12-years worth of it in 4 hours.
For the curious, book available at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/200133822/The-Book-of-Knowledge-of...
'Anti-router' stops drones, cameras, and Google Glass
I have these apps, my kids love them,and they do get many concepts across very quickly. It's good to know that they are part of a bigger cause.

However, if the apps described in the article are the same as those in the App Store, then some of the concepts are very simple (the early levels can be done by a 2 year old) so it isn't surprising that older children do very well after they are exposed to them.

The later levels on number-lines and fractions are a bit more challenging, it will be interesting to see how well children do on those.

Regardless, even though some of the exercises seem boring and repetitive to an adult, they do seem to have the knack of holding children's' attention.
You might want to check the Stackoverflow FAQ. Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers.

It is expected that people learn a programming language and when they have actual programming problems, then they come to Stackoverflow.com.
I just realized it's made for use with a scroll wheel. I use a Wacom pen, not a mouse, so the instructions were confusing to me.
Well, I thought my comments did answer your question.

- the fact that this signature works today (and I am not convinced it is actually so unique and stable to be really useful, again you don't have flash or java on iOS nor can you really customize the browser, so you will have lots of collisions) doesn't mean it will forever, for instance flash, java and silverlight are on their way out of the browser. And the more plugins and fonts you have, the more unique your signature is, the more likely it will change as a result of updating something (typically at least once a month) and therefore the less likely it will be useful to tracking you (your identity changes regularly).

- the fact that there is a flaw already doesn't mean we should introduce another one.

- IP protocol is evolving much more slowly than browsers and therefore a flaw in the IP protocol is a lot more problematic than a flaw in a current version of the browser.
Totally torn about this potential acquisition as (1) a longtime RAX shareholder who would see good returns from such a move and (2) as a supporter of their OSS contributions who fears the effect such an acquisition would have towards the resources put toward their OSS efforts.

Not sure how to reconcile this within myself, though (somewhat sadly) I find myself rooting for the acquisition. :(
Netflix has little chance in the UK so long as they have such a dismal choice of content.
median would be a more relevant metric.
If your kid likes wizards. This looks like fun: http://codespells.org/

They claim to have tested this with kids at their university with great success (watch the video).
Very interesting to observe that Alaska is politically conservative, yet shows "liberal" values in important ways.

I visited parts of the state again this summer, and impressed with it's the breadth of its multicultural history and the extent it's celebrated and preserved. There is enormous environmental awareness and effort made to take care of the state's natural bounty is notable. I always much to learn about things and places I've never seen or known about first hand.

To the extent "conserve" is the root of "conservative" that must be regarded as indeed a positive attribute.
$RANDOM isn't actually in POSIX, and /bin/sh might not implement it at all:

/tmp$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM
/tmp$ ./test.sh

/tmp$

In a shell that implements it, though, such as bash, you can't override it via the environment. However, it's quite difficult to write privileged shell code if you don't trust the environment, notably $PATH. Too many shell features depend on variables, and shells don't automatically sanitize those.
Likely from all the preparations, and hiring the local restaurants/bars/etc on the main drag. Who is going to clean up all the blue paint and throwup? Local guys I guess.
So we have a pretty good guess of how they did it, and while their affidavit doesn't give a lot of important details, ultimately they were just interacting with a web service in the way it is supposed to be interacted with - by sending it http requests - and the buggy site revealed itself to them because the guy who wrote it wasn't a very good web developer.

I can understand why they wouldn't want to give more details than they have to; it makes the prosecution's work harder. But I and many others have been arguing for years that there's nothing illegal about sending messages to a server and looking at the responses, if you aren't trying to damage anything. I can't see any reason why it would be less legal for the FBI to do it.
This is a great summary of the recent drama. As a person that by no means identifies as a "gamer" but is a hobbiest game dev that has had computer games included as a major part of his life, it is important to know about this controversy without having to be a part of it.
The whole development process for Apple's OSX or iOS is not 'free'. Many libraries for OSX or iOS are not free and not open source.

Apple's Cocoa is not FOSS, for example.
Device Diversity in App Development
There are also regular Coverity scans on the whole system (kernel and userspace) for the BSDs; the NetBSD one has been ongoing for quite some time and a lot has been fixed (a lot of the errors now seem to be in gdb...)
It was £306000!
Proper name would be
"Frankenstein's ___.sh 2.0 or why build a static multimarkdown generator in 84 lines of bash", but that wouldn't fit in the 80 characters limit for the title.
|getting drunk and partying is fun, but this kind of thing really seems to cater to the lowest common denominator and ignorance.

Right or wrong, from a business standpoint that's exactly the market Anheuser-Busch is trying to appeal to here. The college party scene.
Eh, no. A software licence is a set of 'conditions for use' which you apply to code you have written and/or to which you have copyright.

Unless you as a copyright owner explicitly allow use under other licenses/conditions, then that's it.

This is basic copyright law, it doesn't matter if it's GPL or BSD etc.
Interesting comment. And i might have quoted wrong, it might speak of "engagement".
> I will unequivocally say that crippleware is no longer a viable approach to achieving significant developer mindshare. The landscape is open source

$4500 is definitely steep, but I sure hope you're wrong about commercial development tools no longer being viable. Not because I develop such tools myself, but because I want good tools. How will developers be paid to create great development tools, if it doesn't happen to be in the best interest of a company like Google, Apple, Red Hat, or Joyent to fund the work? See also: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/of-wizards-and-magical-machi...

We've become really spoiled. And that applies to me as much as anyone.
Ask HN: Bitcoin Faucets
if one site gives 1000 satoshi every hour (you have to insert captcha text) ; to earn 1 bitcoin (100,000,000 satoshi) you need 100,000 hours, approximately 4166 days (11,5 years). Who is trying to earn free bitcoin from these sites?
"Make them high quality, and backed by fast seedboxes,"

Another option: directors cut type content. So you get 2 minutes extra content of dubious quality, but there's a 10 second diet coke ad at the start. Well, you could try to find a torrent of the extra content without the ad, but its got slower seeds, so you're better off with the diet coke ad...
What does it add to the discussion?
They do indeed file a SAR and it doesn't matter if it's a property sale and you have legal documents.

I do somewhat regret not splitting it into £10k slabs and putting them in deposit boxes but I needed the cash for another house! :(
> Entrenched ISP buys hip hosting provider

Not a fan... though, as a former small-time customer, RAX just couldn't keep up on the drive to the bottom with pricing ala DigitalOcean or others.
Bittorrent the protocol was built so that you can fetch any part of the content in any way order you want (that's the beauty of it: traditional forward streaming is not different than out-of-order streaming)

Bittorrent the network, now, lives because peers have an incentive to behave correctly and spread the content on nodes as much as possible. It's a specific use of the protocol, but not the only one. The problem is that many people (even technical) conflate the protocol with how it's used the most: spread stuff illegally. In order to do this there is a need for peers fetching parts out-of-order. But if, say, Netflix were to distribute its content over Bittorrent, it would be perfectly fine to stream in-order, because the Netflix peers all have all the content so there is no need to spread the content here.

And there already is an enhanced protocol, in the IETF pipeline: PPSP [0]. It integrates a lot of good things that were incompatible with Bittorrent yet desirable. It's also called swift (before it was cool), and has 2 implementations [1] [2].

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protoc...

[1] http://libswift.org/

[2] https://github.com/skunkwerks/swirl/
Sometimes it is the only method. You won't get far trying to explain that taking money from their owner is bad. This ship has sailed.

So now the working way is sarcasm, shunning and ostracism. Making it personal for people who invented and enacted this system.
Would using ag help? No longer maintained AFAIK, but fast for me.
the piece relies on "We never saw a down/mass market product morphing into a premium media", so yes, for him it is unimaginable.

I don't know if that is true, but if you argue against the letter you should refute _that_ argument.
Debugging Go Code with GDB – The Go Programming Language
TechCrunch Hackathon App: Shower with Friends Lets You Gamify Water Consumption
where did you get that idea? last commit was 7 days ago, no mention of abandonment
Nvidia announces cuDNN, CUDA deep neural network library
It's bittersweet. He talks about how engineers now don't care about making things robust and repairable, or making things by hand, and he's probably got a point there. But he's also missing out on the opportunities of the Internet, where he could share the stuff he does and exchange ideas with people who do or want to do similar things. Especially with the increasingly prominent "maker culture," I think he would find there are a lot of people out there who share his passions.
The big difference between Scheme and CL is probably that the former encourages recursion, hygienic macros and is a Lisp-1. Moving from CL to Scheme is very annoying for this very reason. The lack of portability and a SLIME-like IDE doesn't help either.
In the gold old days, Tricks science was what we know now as Mechanics. This was a smart naming for this new science field, so people won't link it with Magic, which is forbidden in Islam.
Not the parent, but I recently wanted ssyntax[0] in Common Lisp, so I decided to write an implementation for it[1]. In doing so, I created a DSL for defining ssyntax (made up of defssyntax-test, defssyntax-macro, and defssyntax-sym-mac). Just note that my implementation uses a library of utilities I wrote[2] and is not pure Common Lisp.

[0] http://arclanguage.github.io/ref/evaluation.html

[1] https://github.com/malisper/Clamp/blob/master/experimental/s...

[2] https://github.com/malisper/Clamp
How do you actually target the Tor gateway machine though? You can attack a Hidden Service, because there must be a webserver that responds to requests. The Tor gateway just passes traffic from the network to your client device.
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> Mojang obtained rights in the project over 2 years ago

To me this reads as "obtained [some] rights in" which seems correct.
Please tell us about your stack. Which implementation of Common Lisp do you use?
>Of course, Bukkit itself was a derivative work of the Minecraft Server (the decompiled java bytecode) in violation of that piece of software's license, so the whole matter seems to be a tangle of license violations.

Yes this is an interesting issue, I find it hard to believe that decompiling Java code would possibly count as a clean-room implementation, even if you later rewrote everything.

Back when I did clean-room reverse engineering (which was admittedly long time ago), it was one guy (whom I never even spoke to) who disassembled code and wrote down what how it functioned, this was then sent to me and another programmer and we made an implementation based upon his descriptions (which of course contained no code whatsoever).
"Of course, being a dumb pipe means less profitability"

If you have a strong, legally enforced monopoly, I'm not seeing this.

Is walmart really less profitable than mom -n- pop main street? If they aren't, why did mom -n- pop main street all go out of business when walmart moved in? The future seems to be big dumb profitable pipes and much less profitable content sources.
I think this could just be a question of implementation. For example, Duolingo's gamification is fantastic as an adult.
You write "which I hadn't known about before". I suppose it depends on what you refer to as "before". I assume it means before you read the article.

The other alternative is that it was not the book which you hadn't known about before - but rather that the article had the link to the book .... but in this case, what does "before" refer to? Did you submit another comment earlier in the thread?
We agree, but one reason we'd want more details about the FBI going to greater lengths to trigger the bug, is that when the court confirmed that was legal for the FBI to do, it could add precedent that it's legal for others to go to those greater lengths too. (legal or just general consensus, which effects judges decisions even when it's not a legal precedent)
for US-waters there are free charts. For other waters one has to pay dearly!
e.g. maps for Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca, Formentera 55€
It was always a fake excuse for Netflix. They bear the guilt of pushing this DRM garbage into HTML standard.
Is this an infomercial for standing desks?
No technical reason, but it'd probably be a pretty big drop in revenue.
Both yours and tedunangst example (SSH) have one important commonality which is not present in IP: they become immediately available to two parties as soon as these two parties upgrade.

With IP, all the intermediate nodes need to upgrade to use the new protocol (tunneling tricks aside).

This difference would probably be a significant factor in the speed of adoption. Tunneling obviously can emulate the 2-party model, but then we're left with the problem of managing the crazy amount of tunnels (and security issues) and sunsetting them.

Now if the ideas like http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandevelde-idr-remote-next-... were discovered/implemented a decade ago - could that have been used to turn an N-party transition problem into a 2-party transition problem ?
The question is not about removing privacy addresses from the protocol but whether users will be able to use them. If network administrators, or more worryingly ISP force onto users things like RFC7217 then I think this is a problem. All I am saying is that I am a bit worried of reading lots of comments advocating effectively static IPs.

I wonder if the genie is not already out of the bottle anyway. I think pretty much every recent version of windows that support IPv6 has randomized IPs turned on by default so this will require a lot of efforts to reverse this.

I am not expert enough to form an opinion on the problem described in the article but it looks to me more like a problem with the implementation of multicast than with randomized IPs, and therefore disabling randomized IPs (the solution the author opted for ultimately) is in my opinion not something I would like to see generalized.

And again browser fingerprinting is a short term problem. How many versions of each of the major browsers have we seen in 20 years, versus how many versions of the IP protocol have we seen over the same period?
Its amazing how many newspaper headlines around the world are dominated by their relationship with the US.
Are you saying their plan all along was to bait readers by pandering to their needs, THEN slowly spoon-feed them smarter content?
Built this hack with the Intel Galileo Gen 2 board and an AdaFruit flow sensor. Had a blast building this with fellow Mashery engineers. Thanks fellas. :)
We definitely should have known better. Admittedly none of us had watched television in front of a TV for quite some time. I think this was a case of focusing too sharply on what was broken vs. what our audience would consist of. xkcd's audience typically slants away from IE, so we anticipated the TV influx would be more average. That being said, the record high 6% IE numbers achieved didn't quite justify the time spent. ;)
The prefix-notation is annoying when you're doing anything mathematical. It's sad that CL doesn't come with a infix reader by default, I'm sure there is one on quicklisp.
Oblong Industries brings gesture-control technology from Hollywood to offices
Is that prosecution automatic?
It is 17px for me, but most browsers support zooming into a page, that will make text easier to read on almost any site, but could make it more difficult if accidentally zoomed out.
Please continue posting such links. I know some people would like only links about "hacking" (i.e. coding), but such articles really make me understand the "we are standing on the shoulders of giants" quote.

Especially about lesser advertised cultures such as the Islamic one.
Ordinary materials, fantastic opportunities
Learning Javascript : Coding something production-worthy and non-trivial in a short timeframe :: Learning English : Writing a compelling novel
How do you actually target the Tor gateway machine though?

Not the OP, and I don't know much about Tor's protocol, but at a guess one might start with deliberately malformed layers of the onion, so you route through a Tor entry node, the outer onion layer is removed, then the packet is forwarded to a Tor relay.

The Tor relay then unwraps the next layer of the onion, but the data within that layer is deliberately malformed to trigger a bug in the Tor code running on that relay.
You could look a look at some related discussion which happened recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8216068
Yeah that's sad. We had to load it since 21 years...

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/...

What a step back from my Symbolics Lisp Machine, where the infix reader was included...
They are made for two reasons, one they volunteer, one obvious: 1) Show beginners how does it feels to "own" fractions of bitcoin (educative?), 2) Make money. The second is accomplished by advertising, very heavy advertising.

Needless is to say, it is mainly an advertising pit, and the only one making real money is the one running the "faucet."
What alphabet is used for the letters in the diagrams[0]? It's not Arabic, and it looks sort of like Greek (or maybe Phoenician), but different.

0. Such as this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Al-jazari...