skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What "recent activities"? I'm afraid the very powerful nations that have done what TFA says have also frame your understanding of what Russia did.

Some thinking points: a) Russia is next to Ukraine, so it's like they're dealing with a dispute in their borders (e.g not like certain countries that go across the globe to the middle east or asia to assert their "national interests"). b) Ukraine's legitimate voted for government was toppled by a minority (including nazi sympathizers) with western support. c) The population of Ukraine has tons of people that are pro-Russia and are of Russian descent. Crimea in particular had voted to unite with Russia time and again.

Imagine Mexico's legitimate government had been toppled by a Russian-supported coalition (with pro-nazi's among them). Imagine Baja California had 90% people of USA descent that had voted for union with California. What the US response to that would be?
Will they kill children by slamming them against trees or killing people with shovels? Or will they "interrogate" people until they die? Will they kill 20% of population in 4 years?

Your comparison is inappropriate and cheapens the suffering of people who lived under Pol Pot.
1 times annual revenue is actually a bit high. I've seen affiliate sites sell for 4 to 6 months of revenue. The reason is that after paying for the labor to maintain it there is very little profit in those websites. You are buying a job basically.

Also, it's not unheard of for a small physical business to make 10% profit margin and to sell for 10 times profit. So that's around 1 time revenue as well.
Sure: http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlanti...
Same for me. Adam has a very tech-CEO quality about him I just assumed he was in charge of both Coin and Navdy.

For some reason when I see a startup video I associate the main "actor" as the CEO/founder vs when I see a TV commercial for some MegaCorp I instantly know they are actors.

Maybe it is just a bad stereotype I hold of beard+glasses = techie
Evidence that the US spy agencies engage in large scale espionage on its own people is outrageous. Evidence that US spy agencies engage is foreign espionage is expected.

What is the difference? The US has made explicit commitments to its people through things like the 1st and 4th amendments to protect their privacy.
Just set up something like GetSatisfaction and let community try to help itself, while you rest and get your sanity back. Take as long as you need - a week, or a month, whatever.

You are probably in the best position to fix/improve it going forward, so selling it is not an option IMHO. Instead, look around campus for a partner-dev. Even with just one partner developer, to bounce ideas and priorities off, things will become clear for you long term.

Good Luck!
Ah, Nu Pogodi. The handheld everyone played in rural Poland around 1990. This one mimics the look-and-feel of the original rather well, but, sadly, I have yet to see a clone that faithfully implements the gameplay of the original.

From memory (remember that I was only 6 back then, so I might have screwed up some things):

* There were two levels of difficulty, denoted "игра А" and "игра B" ("game A" and "game B"). The A version was easier: in it, the bottom-left roost was disabled and eggs would never fall off of it. In game B, all four roosts were in use.

* There were multiple stages of the game:
- Score 0 to 5: only one egg falling at any given time, the next egg appears only when you catch the previous one
- Score 6 to 20 (?): two eggs active at any given time
- Score 21 to 50 (?): three eggs active at any given time

And so on, up to a limit of, I think, six or so at a time, at certain thresholds. Also, at certain score thresholds the game speed would accelerate. I think this didn't start to be noticeable until the score of 200 or so; by the time you got to score 500 falling eggs would become moderately fast, by score 700 quite fast, and getting past 800 or even 900 would require your fingers to be extremely snappy.

* If I remember correctly, getting past 999 would cause the score to wrap back to 0 and the speed to wrap back to as slow as at the start, but you wouldn't get three lives back and you would still have six eggs to catch at a time. I managed to do this only a few times ever; I think my high score ever was approximately 1050-1100, and average score might have been around 700-750. This was in game A, which I mostly played.

* Also if I remember correctly, the order of falling eggs, at least in the beginning phase of the game, was deterministic (top-left roost, then top-right roost, then bottom-left roost (skipped in version A), then bottom-right roost, and so on). The order of subsequent eggs was probably deterministic as well, but this wasn't noticeable anymore. The initial roost might have been chosen randomly.
OT, but the correct term should be `cracker`
Couldn't resist; I had to check that "size of a planet" claim: 2.7 * 10^36 erg in tons TNT gives me (on Google) 6.45315488 × 10^19 tons TNT.

The area of Earth is around 5 × 10^8 km^2. So, 'planet size', that's about 10^11 tons TNT per square km, or 2,000 Tsar Bomba's per square km (Tsar Bobma was around 5-6 × 10^7 ton TNT equivalent).

Volume-wise, it would be about one Tsar Bomba per cubic kilometer of Earth.

So yes, I guess you could call that planet sized.
Show HN: Am I late? Morning routine for children (Android App)
Not really on topic, but anyway… I can see 48 problems in "Latest Problems" section — from 1 to 48 inclusive, yet there are "47 unsolved" and "0 solved" (that is total of 47) problems on the left of the screen. Why so?
Edited: oh, there's no 43d one.
In many cases, technology is just a symbol of status. People buy iPhones, kindles iPads, macs etc because its on tv and movies now. That is what it means to become mainstream. I think that's what the first meant about only using for calling and texting.

Excuse me if I sound a bit like what Munroe says is the 'revenge of the nerds', but to me a nerd is someone who has very specific interests. Interests which most of the time, alienate most people, since they are specific. You identify yourself not because you own a tech device, but because you are very interested in a topic. I see nerds as producers and not consumers.

Nerds are people who write fanfic,or make drawings of Game of Thrones. Not someone who simply watches a TV show.
"I grew up with social anxiety"..."diagnosed"

Remember when that used to be called 'being shy'?
>That's a rather odd thing to believe. As an American, I certainly never felt like I was immune to foreign governments spying on me.

That's mostly due to cold war propaganda, and the tons of movies and shitty shows like 24 that legitimize the notion that small nations (e.g Yugoslavia of yore, or some insignificant arab country) have spies everywhere and perform high-tech James-Bond like operations...

Foreign governments never cared/dared to spy on Americans like that. Most don't have the means, and even if they did, they have no power to do anything about what they find. And of course it they were caught they'd have to face the consequences from the 100000-pound global military, diplomatic and economic gorilla. Plus, most world governments are in cushy terms with the US.

The worst offender was USSR -- and then again it was insignificant to the level that is going on today, and USSR was a paper-tiger in lots of ways itself. Smaller countries, at worst, try to spy a little on delevelopments involving their country, e.g to spy on some diplomats, large businesses with interest in their area, etc. And that's talking about countries like France, Germany etc, not Belize or Albania or whatever.

Believing this is like believing the school bully is equally bullied himself from the other children.
I don't know if it's a bad idea if you can get someone to buy it for a price you find acceptable. I think you might have trouble doing that though, which will make the the question moot.

If you did get someone to buy it for say $60k (or $10k?), and they ended up making millions, would you feel ripped off? If they end up not even making back what you paid, how would you feel?

You can also just sit on it for a while, and see what happens, see how your attitude develops. Yes, that might mean you end up losing the chance to sell it (note, it's not clear you have that chance now), but you say you didn't really do it for the money anyway. You could wait a month or two, remembering you don't need to respond to every email or support ticket, and see what happens. Does the success continue? Does it trail off? Are you still stressed about it and want to get rid of it, or do you have a renewed enjoyment?

There's nothing forcing you to rush, you are in complete control here. I suspect you are worried about doing the 'wrong' thing, and maybe being judged for it, and maybe then feeling like you missed out (on making money, or whatever). Don't worry about it. You didn't do it for the money. It's an experiment to see what happens.

If part of your stress is feeling an obligation to your users, maybe actually turn off the freemium pays (for now), so it's all free. If you're getting enough income from adsense to pay your costs, just let it coast a bit see what happens.
...and that's it folks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

Hitler was mentioned.
It's a little bit pedantic, but Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Arduino are not programming languages. Also, C/C++ is not one language but two. But I don't suppose that detracts from the value of the exercise.
I'm not really convinced.

The article's arguments for "geek culture" (might I add there is no such thing as a homogenous geek culture, but hey) proliferating are:

a) The recent popularity of sci-fi and superhero films.

b) The mass spread of consumer electronics and social media.

c) Computer technology becoming more accessible.

d) The information age enabling us to find trivia at a much faster rate than ever before.

e) Recent tech company acquisitions. (Twitch, Mojang, Oculus)

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a) is not indicative of any long-term acceptance and popularity of "geekdom". Sci-fi, superhero and fantasy films have fluctuated in popularity on and off over the past 40 years. We're simply at another point where they've picked up again. In fact, the article does mention this quite neatly: "In the past, there have been plenty of pop culture phenomena nerds could get behind — the frenzies surrounding the “Star Wars” and “Lord of the Rings” movie franchises are two potent examples."

This is out, then.

b) is a technological inevitability. It has nothing to do with a spike in "geekdom". It's just progress, and in fact, one might make an argument that it is, to some extent, a regression. This is due to the locked down and obscurantist nature of consumer electronics, which discourage hacking and where everything is buried under a smoke screen. Social media? The Web is becoming ever more ubiquitous, so of course social media will as well. Social media has become more practical due to advances in web technology.

c) is closely related to b). As I stated, it may actually well serve as an argument against proliferation of "geekdom".

d) This means little, again. People have always been passionate about fiction they're invested in, so it's only normal that they'll memorize factoids and trivia. Honestly, if people think the best thing that came out of the Information Age is being able to look up factoids about television shows, what a miserable failure it is then.

e) is just tech giants being tech giants. Hurray?

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Finally, I'd like to state that The Big Bang Theory has a rather... mixed reception, to put it euphemistically. In addition, installing a printer isn't always so simple. CUPS is nowhere near as bad as it used to be, but I still find myself having to reset the printer driver for the UI quite frequently, as it just arbitrarily blocks. I don't know.

And of course, the irony of taking a jab at that "homogenous, sexist geek culture" while writing about how a very watered down variant of it might be becoming popular.
I read about it from a bunch of sources, which eventually pointed to https://www.change.org/p/intel-allow-silverstone-and-asus-to....

But there hasn't been an official statement about why they've been refused from Intel, so I can't link to it. You mention you still believe Intel has refused to license the hardware - what reason do you think applies?
Harvard students are buying into the idea that knowledge of the basics of computer science and programming is useful in a wide variety of fields. Malan's CS50 has also definitely contributed to a significant increase in the number of undergrads choosing Computer Science as their concentration (what Harvard calls majors). Other concentrations offered within Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have also seen increased enrollment and there's been an increase in the quantity and proportion of women in SEAS concentrations. But being a CS concentrator doesn't necessarily mean they'll seek "careers as devs," CS is not just "how to program" and Harvard (College) not a trade school.

I took it in 2009 through Harvard's Extension School (CSCI E-50 is now its course number through that School); it was a great class and from what I've seen it has only gotten better since then.
I think there needs to be a distinction (when using the term Nerd) between people who use technology, and those who create it. Users of technology are more commonly called "Customers". Or "Consumers" in the new parlance. Whereas traditional Nerds are far more deeply involved with the technology, and grok it in it's fullness as they combine it into things never before seen.
I get the same ordering with gzip, but it seems sensitive to compression algorithm. With bzip2 (default settings, v1.0.6), homogenius seems to actually worsen the compression ratio, at least on this one example:

52093 verbose.json.bz2
56298 packed-homogenius.json.bz2
68521 packed-homogenius.json.gz
79222 verbose.json.gz
213742 packed-homogenius.json
265177 verbose.json
All the addon cards I've seen are PCIe-2.0 x4 cards, thats 2GB/sec each direction. A single thunderbolt 2 ports would need ~2.5GB/sec each direction to 'max out', a pair would need 5GB/sec. They seem to be assuming a significant amount of the TB bandwidth will be used by the video passthrough capability. That makes these cards a not so great option if your goal is only to connect high speed external devices, not monitors.
No, we're not, at last not in the original meaning. Nerd used to mean someone obsessed and therefore knowledgeable about something (book nerd, comic nerd, or... The War Nerd[1]). Later geek took over that meaning and nerd moved towards someone socially awkward but smart.

Owning a smartwatch, reading a best seller novel, or watching a blockbuster doesn't make anyone a nerd. Not any more than wearing aviator sunglasses makes me a pilot. Which is actually what nerd tends to mean now, a style, a fashion fad inspired by the original.

Ironically, yet also completely predictably when you think of it, the original demographic is starting to look down on the nerd interests of yesteryear. You can read very dismissive (and downright insulting but that's a given) comments about anime and computer gaming on 4chan of all places.

[1] http://exiledonline.com/cat/war-nerd/
How does all these plugin managers deal with plugins which require manual tasks to be performed during installation, like CommanT's and YCM's compillation?

Also, is there any way to create different sets of plugins for different install types and environments? I would like to have a "light" install, with only necessary stuff, and a "full" install with that plus everything else.
What do view as the purpose of the API existing?
You are projecting your experience with therapeutic doses on the current discussion about doses that would be orders of magnitude lower, similar to naturally occurring levels in some water supplies. Even at therapeutic doses I think you are generalizing too much, as many people do not experience such side effects.
McOther's  (what's new)
Well, nice this is getting ready and usable.

Now I think we need some easy way for everyone to deploy their own MTAs.
Can someone pleas provide further context for this doc?
Replying to all the comments above here:

Yeah, and average drivers don't face even 1/10 of the speeds and situations a jet fighter pilot faces, including the G's.

Things I didn't say but people still replied as I said them: a) that jet fighters and car drivers have the same skills, b) that jet fighters tweet.

My comment was plain and simple. To rephrase: if HUDs work in such quick-response situations, in a vehicle with 100 times the complexity of your average car, 10 times the speed, and missiles against you, then sure the "average driver" can look at a HUD to see a new tweet, if he doesn't have to de-focus from the road with this technology.
It really is that low.

BCC might get a slight premium because I have better options for buyers than Flippa, it has an exceptionally long history, and there's some value from association with me, but websites are not valued like businesses or startups.

There exist plenty of excellent reasons why this is true: extreme risk from sites which are overly dependent on one or two traffic sources, implicit cost of operation often not being counted as a cost by the owner (BCC runs itself... It only requires the very occasional attention of a Rails-competent Ubuntu sysadmin. That's "free" to me but not free to the new buyer, and that sort of stuff adds up quickly when compared to five figure revenues.), transaction costs (time, training new owner or staff, etc) having to get recouped, a risk premium because it is a market for lemons and buyers feel that sellers may sell because of material no disclosed information like "I recently pissed off Google and the site may vanish from the Internet", etc.

Ultimately of course things are worth what a buyer will pay you for them, but market is about 1X for "typical" sites at the moment.
I yield to no one in my appreciation for the Mars trilogy, but 2312 is a lazy, stupid book.

Its world is incoherent -- the premise is that in 300 years of advance, in a solar system where Mars and Venus have both been terraformed in a timescale in under 250 years or so, where humanity has near-magical technology, the problems on earth are EXACTLY the same problems that an academic liberal like KSR thinks are the problems today (basically: global warming + the developing world is poor). Somehow, we can turn Venus into a pastoral world but we can't scrub a few trillion tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere? Really?

His thinking on every issue makes those plastic wading pools look deep. His treatment of economics in particular makes me think that he once heard someone describe economics, but only in a language he only partially understands.

His proposed solutions range from the simplistic (really smart computers make the planned economies that he longs for right now more plausible -- novel) to the utterly insane (the way that we solve environmental catastrophe and poverty on earth is literally to air-drop animals into northern Canada).

As a political novel, 2312 is deathly dull. Go to any college campus or most of the internet, and you can hear every concern KSR raises described in much greater nuance and detail, and reasonable attempts at much more convincing solutions thought up. As a science-fiction novel, 2312 reiterates the Mars trilogy without adding anything. But its true, breathtaking failure is in stitching together its (bad) political novel with its (rehearsed) science fiction novels, the terrible amalgamation making both components worse due to just how poorly the two sides fit. The science fiction part makes mockery of the political part -- these political problems simply do not make sense in that world. The political part drags the book off trap in the science fiction. It's really quite impressive how bad it is.

There is a way to address poverty and environmental catastrophe in a technologically advanced future of terraforming. 2312's approach of just ham-handedly putting today's unaltered problems into a setting that is otherwise quite alien is not that way.
I'm not sure what you're getting at? Sure, we're often trying to do the right thing, but it doesn't invalidate the fact that it's worth it to investigate whether what we do actually works. Otherwise, aren't we just going back to the issue you raised in your first paragraph and invent non-existent cause-to-effect relationships, because we are working under invalid assumptions?
Very cool to see progress to this stage. Thank you!

I get the desktop layout on Firefox OS, though. Is there already a phone-friendly layout and it just sniffs Firefox OS wrong or is a mobile layout still to be done altogether? (The announcement says small screens need work, but it's not clear what the current expected state is.)
Suggestion for next time - long sleeves. If a hot spatter lands on your arm, you could flinch and drop the crucible. And now you have a bigger problem.
Howto secure openssh-6.x (Ed25519)
It chills me to the core when the legal system needs to shield itself from the citizenry.
Building a Data Oriented Entity System
For anyone with an interest in implementing a basic garbage collector, I recommend SICP[0], specifically section 5.3[1] and the lecture that goes along with it[2].

[0] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-33.html...

[2] http://youtu.be/2s2_FAf-yQs?list=PL8FE88AA54363BC46
For possibly a better overview than Wikipedia, here's the Encyclopedia Astronautica entry on the Polyus program:

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/polyus.htm
EFF also posted this link alongside with the PDF in their Twitter:

http://truth-out.org/news/item/26159-local-and-state-police-...
I disagree about Coq. I think a well-curated Project Coq would be delightful. Proving can be a lot of fun.
Up until 2 years ago, Virgin Mobile USA rate limited PIN attempts using cookies:

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/open-season-on-virgin-mobile-c...

(VM USA was a VMNO, but now it's more of a Sprint brand, since 2009 Sprint owns them outright)
>I'd rather be obese than give up my ability to eat products made with refined starches or corn sugar.

That's a really bad choice, though, that a lot of people make. Perhaps it will be good if that choice was eliminated, or made more difficult with a large tax. At least then people would think twice before ordering a $10 corn-syrup soda vs a $2 no-sugar one.

>Wouldn't this have a big impact on the food industry, too?

Well, the smoking bans also hurt the tobacco industry too. If an industry relies in causing people harm by using cheap substitutes (e.g corn sugar for sugar etc), or selling addictive shit, let them be impacted.
The simple truth is this: Anyone who supports the war on drugs as it is currently being run has abandoned what the US stood for at its founding regarding liberty, freedom, and the rule of law.
Semi-OT: i am amazed to see how many big sites do not have gzip/deflate compression enabled in their webservers. Especially on mobile connections this can actually make a difference.
If you use sandwich, it seems like your video becomes a sandwich branded video rather than your own branded product video, as Adam and his team star in every video. So, even though the videos produced are catchy, I believe, as a founder (http://www.dialmedirect.com) you need to figure out ways to brand your product, so that it's stands out from the crowd and at the same time expresses your value, vision and mission.
What do you think is Mailpile's biggest issue? Not something you'd mention in a FAQ but the type of issue that's almost inherent to the project and that bothers you the most?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-ph...

In the mainstream media, no less.

Here is the 'powerpoint':

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/782287/database.pdf

You have nothing to hide...
Yep we had the same thing here in Romania (ex communist) in the 90's. From what i can remember it was a clone of this but the implementation was the same as you said.