skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct, but please don't refer to the bastardized version of the Jargon file. Wikipedia has a much better and more accurate article, with actual quotes and citations instead of unsourced politically motivated mythology attributed to "some victims":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM

>Critics of DWIM claimed that it was "tuned to the particular typing mistakes to which Teitelman was prone, and no others" and called it "Do What Teitelman Means" or "Do What Interlisp Means." - Guy L. Steele Jr., Richard P. Gabriel, "The Evolution of Lisp"

The person who bastardized and maintains the Jargon file is a racist, sexist nut job who built his career on attacking the Free Software movement, and who doesn't deserves anyone's respect or attention: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
Felicia Day Opens Up About GamerGate Fears, Gets Doxxed Minutes Later
First of all, thank you for your feedback :)
We are very proud, that we bootstrapped Cutters Lounge, other than our competitors which are well funded.
This allows us to grow slowly but steady while offering the service for free (we only charge for reminders and invitations).

Germany is horrible at e-commerce. There are still so many opportunities to "disrupt" this sector.
Great piece. Also submitted just 3 days ago, and attracted a great deal of discussion then. If you're interested in the things the HN community says, you might like to read that thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8484312
He claims that his political advice is independent of his financial interest and I'm inclined to believe that.
Thanks, but I've heard stories about the german Hetzner hosting lots of suspicious stuff and not caring. Especially in minds of russians and other eastern-europeans, Germany has been considered a safe harbor for grey and outright illegal stuff. That was during the 2000s as far as I know.

Is there an up to date german side to this story?
I'm honestly really surprised that someone on HN would assume HoneyPot was anything but a reference to the "technical" honeypot. Guy deserves a downvote.
I think the clients care more about the ability to comply with state issued contracts than the actual privacy.
We wanted to allow groups of friends to play without the need to pull out multiple computers.

Thanks for the feedback! We are in the process of implementing a method to view the game through MMS / SMS!
Not in my version of OCaml (OCamlWinPlus v1.9RC4, OCaml version 4.01.0):

# if false then print_endline "false" ; match () with () -> print_endline "match";;
match
- : unit = ()
> It's funny how people used to complain that America is the world police. But the second they scale back their global intervention everyone starts whining they aren't doing enough. This is a war mongering piece, with antiquated views of geopolitics. This sounds exactly like the localized nonsense Europe has been consumed with while the rest of the worlds economies advance at a rapid pace.

A sovereign country(Ukraine) buying weapons it needs from another sovereign country (USA) is hardly USA policing anything. USA sending its military to Ukraine to fight would be playing world police.

Also, the author George Soros is an American of Hungarian descent and his opinion has very little direct effect on European foreign policy and decision making.
Second metaphor about the oyster seemed perfect. Can't say I have had raisins in jello before, but it was easy to imagine and understand what he was getting at.

Really like the oyster pearl one though, gonna have to steal that one. I'm sure I could use it daily at work.
I think either would solve the problem the article describes. I actually prefer your solution.
(I'm speaking more from a moral standpoint than a legal standpoint. IANAL)

It doesn't matter if it's trademarkable. The entire purpose of VIDs is to distinguish between different vendors' devices. If I'm allocated a VID it's not my responsibility to ensure my drivers interoperate with other vendors' products.

How many products using counterfeit FTDI chips don't advertise USB compliance?
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Donations, subscriptions, tshirts?

There are many alternatives, none perfect (otherwise everyone would be doing it), but enough to generate income of the company is willing to use a "combined arms" approach.
It allows people to signal that they care about privacy, their data, and stand against commercialism. Both the users, and the operators.

It's like asking "what value does Nike/TapouT/Starbucks logo have?" Sure, you can get better coffee for less, but good coffee is not really what they're selling.
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Ello Has Converted to a State of  Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) [pdf]
You hit the nail on the head. Twitter built an empire on the backs of devs using their API, then left them to rot or actively burned them directly as soon as the money got real.

As they say: fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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No, do you have any ideas?
I'm sceptical that any number of people disliking a law will lead to it being changed.
I think you can solve that one with only three cursors, maybe even two. In some levels you don't need to open the last barrier at all. You can just wait in front of it, and if you have opened the other barriers in the right order, they will close in such a way that you are displaced into the goal.
I always wondered what a fantastic resale value Apple gear has and always had.
Ping me too, please. Thanks.
How is purchasing a good analogous to burning money? How is donating to any charity somehow immediately more appropriate?

I'm not sure anyone knows the absolute correct way to allocate goods, services, and resources. Charities don't always prove beneficial to the cause they are supporting and investors and corporations can do a lot of good.

Who knows where this money will go eventually, but it certainly won't magically burst into flame. Perhaps preserving and apple 1 will provide a huge benefit to society one day?

People thought computing and lasers were pointless endeavors for decades as well.
Is there any evidence he is NOT the first dread pirate roberts, aside from his saying so?
18 hours a day, 7 days a week. Typically only people who get paid high hourly rates (like lawyers) do it, but it is possible.
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If Ubuntu is not avail now, then I have to go payment course for learning Windows

Ubuntu is pure white box to learn. I am enjoying it from my college life where I just touched the computer initially, then immediately ubuntu was loaded.
> outlawing Russian as a spoken/written language

Are you kidding? When was Russian outlawed? Everything that happened in Ukraine happened not because Ukraine did something, but because Russia did it - their forces invaded Crimea (and did a laughable 'referendum' there), and then they invaded Donetsk and Lugansk regions. That's not something that happened because of local unrest, it happened because of foreign military force.
On which exchange?
Ello has a few USPs as I understand:

1. They let you choose any name you want (none of the "real name" stuff)

2. They are very friendly, focused and responsive to the needs of LGBT community

3. No ads (and thus less incentive to data mine the users, one hopes)

4. They simply don't have the history of Facebook and co

5. At least right now they are young, hip and very exclusive with invite-only membership (unlike Facebook that has everyone AND your grandma)
Sorry I realized my mistake and deleted my comment before I saw yours.

FTR, I was saying that the ";" in the `then` clause of the if statement didn't end it, but it actually does. I see that arjunnarayan got this wrong too in his comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8498187.
The investors have to have some way to convert their ownership in the company into liquid assets at some point. Either that's on the open market through an IPO, by another company through an aquisition, or maybe Ello can have enough cash-on-hand to buy back those shares or pay dividends to their investors.

If there's other ways, please tell me; I'm genuinely curious about this! But as far as I can tell, even "run[ning] an actual business" has to have some sort of "exit" for the investors. It's my hope that Ello can buck the "acquire or IPO" trope, but their investors have to be on board with it. And with $5,500,000 invested, even the most patient investors have a limit.
Meaning well, doing harm (or why VCs need to go away sometimes) – berlinvc
Best I can tell, they have a presence in India:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-EFI-RVW5844...
http://www.justdial.com/Bangalore/efi-india-pvt-ltd-%3Cnear%...

So my guess is that they are actual EFL, India, employees who are flown in for some time, probably on a tourist visa (I've seen that elsewhere), but still paid their normal salary while they work here.

The truly exceptional situation here is that their salary happens to be so low it's below the minimum salary (edit for clarification: exceptional in that it also happens with employees whose salary is above the minimum, but then article would seem a lot less sensational).
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I read it as a kind of a second-generation solution: it takes a previously solved problem (a social network) and tries to solve a perceived problem with the existing solutions.

Whether it succeeds or fails will hinge on if there is a market for something that has similar features to Facebook/Twitter but solves a problem that people have been objecting to.
A fast algorithm for parity would be interesting. There is currently no better way to compute parity than factoring N.

There is a well known hand wavy-argument that computing any function on the prime factors of arbitrary integers should be difficult. Very roughly the idea is that if you can compute such a function over the integers you can probably also compute it over other rings. Applying it over certain number fields would let you get information about the low bits of the prime factors which is thought to be hard.

There is a bit more information given in Terrence Tao's answer here
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3820/how-hard-is-it-to-com...

His answer is about counting the number of distinct prime factors but I think that it can extended to the parity of this value as well.
When I read that line you quoted, I wondered "how did the author ever finish the gem, since it didn't exist yet to help them with their typos?"
Fremont has a scammy for profit tech school, Northwestern Polytechnic, that always seemed a bit shady. I also once worked with a grad of that school, he was a very piss poor 'senior' engineer.
If you're going to present yourself as more knowledgeable than the rest of us as far as the law goes then it would be prudent to read the article and get the defendant's name correct.

Given that the information that would implicate him in Silk Road might very well be from the same area as the alleged murders then one can reasonably assume if he walks on the SR charges then he could also potentially walk on those charges.

In response to your comment about the indictments, is it not also possible that the jurisdictions that obtained the indictments (because they're so easy to get as you say) doesn't actually have sufficient evidence to present even a prima facie case or perhaps the information they did obtain was obtained illegally and thus they don't want to lose on those counts so to save face they drop the counts? Perhaps it is as the author states where the indictments were used to obtain a no-bail status so Ulbricht doesn't flee (assuming he has other funds hidden elsewhere).

All of what I said is what some folks (myself included) in the non-legal world would consider to be "reasonable doubt."
Andy, any reason this is on Medium and not waxy.org ?
I believe that is the most common argument made, but also therein lies the fallacy.

I'm not developing anything new when I implement a quicksort algorithm; Tony Hoare certainly was back in 1960 when he created it. The same goes for the hash; someone at IBM made a big leap when they first used hashes back in the early 1950s.

Since that time numerous people have made some improvements to these (and other algorithms of course), but by and large companies are just testing is the developer interviewing able to code existing algorithms and explain their Big-O notation.

I think you end up with 4 subsets that the interviewees fall into.

I = {interviewees}

A = {I | bad programmer and can't solve algorithms}

B = {I | good programmer and knows the algorithms}

C = {I | bad programmer but knows the algorithms}

D = {I | good programmer, doesn't know the algorithms}

It is subsets C and D that concern me.

In subset C we have someone that studied the algorithms really hard, but just can't write good code and solve real original problems. One approach to this is the "hire fast/fire fast" mentality, but in some organizations "fire fast" is not an option; so you would rather not hire them in the first place.

In subset D we end up missing out on good developers. In a bad job market there isn't much need to worry about this; if we miss a good developer easily enough we'll find another. Right now though developers are in such high demand I see this loss as a bigger deal.

I also think that this type of interviewing technique works better for the tech giants (MS, GOOG, FB, etc...) than it would for a lot of smaller organizations. A good set of programmers will self select out of interviewing at these companies because they don't believe they are "good enough" for MS(or alt). Additionally a good set of developers that do believe they are high caliber enough for these organizations will do some research about the interview process before hand and end up studying up on the right things before going in.

With smaller companies or businesses with non centralized hiring processes for developers interview candidates may just not know what to prepare for in the interview and while an algorithm may seem obvious in hindsight; there is a reason nobody was using it until it was "discovered". I can't reasonably expect someone to devise the answer to that type of question when I interview.

Honestly I would love to hear some ideas on this; as it has been a pretty major concern for me for the last couple of years.
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A modern clone of the PCB has been done:
http://www.willegal.net/appleii/apple1.htm

Sourcing all the required components is likely to be difficult.
...and these religious documents they've curated, why did they do that? Presumably because they illuminate spiritual matters. Their dissemination directly relates to that goal.

Or, they stole them because they were worth coin, and they are greedy. Which conclusion would you prefer I make?

Never mind, either way they should pay the freight on this task.
These namings seem to suggest they don't plan a lot of future expansion (not down to the national level)?

Not at all. Look at the US, which has:

us-west-1 US West (N. California)

us-west-2 US West (Oregon)

Or Asia/Pacific:

ap-southeast-1 - Asia Pacific (Singapore)

ap-southeast-2 - Asia Pacific (Sydney)
It was sold to a (wonderful) museum, The Henry Ford (http://www.thehenryford.org/), which every geek should visit at least once.

As an artist walks through an art museum and can see the progression of ideas from antiquity to the present. As an engineer you can walk through the history of technology at The Henry Ford, from a black smithy to a tour of a modern assembly line and most all stops in between.

You would be hard pressed to think of a better home for this machine. 900k is a lot of money, but I am glad it will be in a great museum, rather than at a private collector's home.
Austin airport tracks cell phones to measure security line wait
I came to say essentially the same thing, but not quite. Fingerprints are not like passwords. You can't reset them or change them.

Something you know: Username/password
Something you have: security key/phone
Something you are: fingerprint/facial recognition

Those are three factors of authentication. Can anyone think of others?
Their Windows 8 app is utterly broken, and although I tell the Android app to remember my password it frequently makes me reenter it. I really wish they would focus on polish, I've very close to moving to a competitor.
Is ProductHunt the new Twitter for product producers and the tech-savvy?
I wonder about the ethics of a related scenario ... get a remote person to login to machines to do installs and manage. In this case, the remote person gets paid in Rs but I guess that is okay since their cost of living is in Rs (not in the case of the story, obviously)?

IANAL
Thanks for your kind words! We're hoping the site can be a place where the voice of many individuals can be aggregated into a single voice (in many instances) to improve anything and everything around us.
I believe Knoppix was the first to formalize the debian live cd concept—I don't think they did the major work for supporting hardware and supporting installation from the live cd.
The Vatican (by which you mean the Catholic Church) may be a "multi-billion-dollar outfit", but the vast, vast majority of that money is used for charitable works... and in fact those billions of dollars all come from (wait for it!)... passing the hat... so what's wrong with that?
Their forces didn't invade they had no new troops, the troops where there as part of a rented military base to practise water maneuvers on the black sea, and I dread to think what would have happened if they hadn't been.

the referendum was legitimate and acknowledged by the EU.

and yes, Russian language was not allowed anymore.

officially it's supported by their constitution, but that was rectified when the new government got to power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine

also, lets not talk about her phone call with the Estonian prime minister urging them to "nuke all the fuckers".

doesn't reek of stability to me.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/03/25...
But none of these points solve any problem. They're "features" of the product, but what is the product for?
They're building apartments like crazy in Austin. There was at least one downtown condo project that got repurposed as apartments.

The city is investigating the feasibility of micro-apartments: those under 500 sq ft (46 sq m). They're more affordable, and move some shared space into communal areas.

http://kut.org/post/tiny-apartments-could-be-big-answer-aust...
Doesn't surprise me that this was in Fremont, California at all.

Out of curiosity, why? (I don't know much about Fremont, other than staying there occasionally when I can't find a closer hotel to my Silicon Valley customers.)
Right! The presentation showed some of those design documents in a picture in a slide. Are those documents available? That's exactly what I thought when I saw that slide, that I'd love to read those documents.
There are also state mandated immigration laws that prevent those indian workers from offering their services on a level playing field. That company is basically using the state as a tool for their extortionate practices. I don't see how that is "good on them" even by the most libertarian of standards.
For reference only, and I post this purely to illustrate why it's folly to pass judgement on what people and institutions spend their money on, your $250 could have fed the Chadian family of six from the below Time article, for over 200 weeks.

http://time.com/8515/hungry-planet-what-the-world-eats/
It's definitely not their primary mandate, but as a curator of these important relics and historical documents, it's definitely a good idea and worth doing.

The Vatican has, in fact, supported all kinds of research over the centuries, and still does.
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We're working on improving that functionality, but currently the easiest way is to search for them. For example, this search will show you ideas related to Apple:
https://www.theupswell.com/search?q=apple

In the future, we're going to make this more overt so that both consumers and organizations can better organize and digest ideas.
> The truly exceptional situation here is that their salary happens to be so low it's below the minimum salary.

Not in India it's not. In 120 hours at $1.21 per hour, these workers earned almost 9,000 rupees. While $1.21 doesn't sound like a lot here in the US, in India about 100 rupees will buy you a nice meal out. 400-600 rupees will buy you a hotel room for the night, etc. The dollar has a lot more buying power than the rupee.

This is just to say, for a contract worker hired in India, these wages are "acceptable". I think it's likely the company didn't understand US law dictates that while the India workers are in the US, they must abide by US minimum wage laws (which would make for a substantial salary increase for these workers).

I think it's more likely they didn't understand the law fully rather than malicious intent. The workers were after-all, temporary and were not going to be staying in the US permanently. This would coincide with the symbolic fine of $3,500 plus wages-due.
Fantastic product ! Great idea !
Me as well, if you're offering.

I find iPython interesting but haven't figured out how to integrate it into my current workflow of Sublime/Terminal.
if <expr1> then <expr2.1>;<expr2.2> else <expr3>

Actually, this will not work, I was also confused by it.

# if true then (); 1 else 2;;
Error: Parse error: [str_item] or ";;" expected (in [top_phrase])
# if true then begin (); 1 end else 2;;
- : int = 1
# if true then ((); 1) else 2;;
- : int = 1

The confusion comes from the fact that it doesn't behave the same way in match expressions:

# match true with | true -> (); 1 | false -> 2;;
- : int = 1
Anti immigration reform nativists from the south are no doubt going to use this to tar all the SV tech companies and H1Bs even if these poor schmucks weren't here on an H1.
Amazing to me that a site that is both hard on the eyes and not nearly as usable as its competitors has raised $5.5M. How do investors think they will make their money back? Simply by microtransactions and paid features? Perhaps the investors are that optimistic, and they think this is the future of social networking.
Why? I have a hard enough time separating my political opinions from my financial interest, and both my political influence and financial interests are negligible compared to his.
The wife of the person the article is addressing seems oddly absent from the article. I am guessing a lot of men do not go out for drinks alone with women in a professional context out of respect for their wife's feelings.
> 2. They are very friendly, focused and responsive to the needs of LGBT community

What special needs does the LGBT community have, that are not being filled by other social networks?
So keeping containers from different users on the same host is a bad idea (think VPS setting)? Why? I thought unprivileged containers in the newer versions of Docker are pretty secure. Is there an issue giving root access in this case?
Fortunately, the weather aspect of Wunderground hasn't been adversely affected by the purchase. It appears that TWC treats Wunderground as a separate property. They have allowed some level of autonomy. The extra funding has dramatically improved their web presence. Basically Wunderground is TWC's web property that targets weather geeks.
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Glad to see it, especially when compared to the fate of Mayan codices that fell into catholic hands:

"We found a large number of books in these characters and,
as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction." (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices)
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