skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree, especially with the last two paragraphs.

Native mobile apps rub me the wrong way if they could have been open standars web apps, with some reasonable definition of open standards.

The web is a repository of knowledge, with also a lot of cruft, and that knowledge should be accessible well into the future.
What about General Power who, while head of SAC, said:

Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Power
> we reached the point of having an astrologist in the loop for international decisions.

I'm a little bit curious, did you mean to say astronomer or does the US government have an astrologist advisor?
Yes, it seems the feds had a blast, taking down darknet markets.
now lets get some israelis to take down the apartheid wall in palestine. Lets stop israeli colonialism and racism, and oppression of the indigenous arabs that live in palestine.
brand of flash matters.

before the raspi came along and popularized arm computing, there was a very lively scene around arm hacking out of existing devices. sheevaplug started the trend and people found that things like the seagate dockstar (a nas based hard drive dock) could be easily modified to boot a linux distro from usb and run as a low power headless server.

we kept a list of results from our experiences of what issues we had when trying to use new/different thumbdrives in the dockstar.

various issues with some brands included being unable to cold boot (boot from a power off state) or warm boot (boot when rebooting the system from a power on state). the brands that gave us issues were fairly consistent in this regards. we had the best luck with sandisk based thumbdrives.

i imagine the situation and cause is probably similar, if not identical, in this case.
You might be right. But our current system is already egregiously abused with minimal cleverness.

One can predict with high accuracy a SC Justice's vote on most cases based on the political party of the president who appointed him/her.
Anyone else here never have dreams?

I can't remember having a dream for at least 18 years now. So even if I have the flexibility to sleep once at dusk and then work for a couple of hours, I'm not convinced I'll see any benefit.
Static compilation is not too far away:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8656
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8745

Being tied to LLVM is real, but we do have JavaCall.jl to call Java code.

https://github.com/aviks/JavaCall.jl
Sensationalist title, just like saying "Bitcoin - an untouchable crypto-currency for drugs".

This has the potential to be used by everyone in the world to sell anything.
But they ~got away with it.
AI websites that design themselves? Why I'm skeptical of the Grid
I don't know about vanilla emacs (because I don't use it), but when using emacs in evil-mode, you can record a macro to a register and then edit the register. That way you can correct your mistakes. You can also append to registers and combine registers, so you can continue recording macros where you left-off.

Since evil-mode is a vim-emulation mode for emacs, the above is possible in vim as well.
It depends. The trick to using new correctly is to put it in a function whose sole purpose is to immediately store new's result in the smart handle. I.E. You're writing a function that's analogous to the make_unique function.

You might need to do this if you're implementing your own smart handle or writing a factory function for a class with a private constructor (make_unique will not work).

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any good reasons to use delete.
Perhaps this is why the have "invested" in Go.

They also do some Common Lisp on the airline search division.

btw, Common Lisp is a "strong typed" language, and many large enough code-bases were here. Lisp machine ecosystem is a good example.

A lot of banking software has been written in 4GL and stored procedures (SQL). When Oracle stuffed its products with Java it was not necessarily an improvement, rather things became more difficult and messy than before.
Just as an aside, use of Craigslist obviously avoids these fees, with the caveat that market participants be within the same physical vicinity. I wonder if there could be a potential for some sort of integration. I bought my truck in another state using CL, and flying one-way with cash in hand.
Reagan got advice from an astrologer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley
The JuliaGPU organization pulls together projects that address this:

https://github.com/JuliaGPU

However, we personally feel that the path Intel is taking with Knight's Landing, is likely to be the best of both worlds - GPU and general purpose - assuming it materializes for real in 2015.
What about foreign contributors? What laws and rules apply to us?
Meet Joan Quigley. White House astrologer to the Reagan White House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Quigley
I switched to nognus for better speed, and recently made the jump to mu4e with offlineimap. And I'm already in love, so fast and non-blocking when refreshing emails! Of course, I could have had offlineimap with gnus, but it was a tedious setup (when I checked) and mu4e was quite a breeze. Local indexed search is so good I'm don't care that much now about filing emails anymore.
I am definitely going to have to look more into Rust.
OPEC Thinks Elon Musk's Tesla Revolution Is a Pipe Dream
That emergency food supply would feed a family of four for a year, that's not "multiple years" of emergency food if you actually have a family of four. If you have a family of six it won't even last one year.

Emergency food supplies are also useful for things like earthquakes and other natural disasters where you might have to stay put for awhile but you won't be able to make it to the grocery store either. You might need a week of food instead of a year, but if you don't have one and your neighbor does you'd probably be grateful if he shares.

Alternatively, you could just eat it and reduce your food expenses to less than $84 a month.
I've always wished that other editors would have a full featured vim mode. Either something like RStudio/eclipse using a real vim instead of a few key bindings or a more modern editor like atom.io with a complete vi implementation. Just a thought.

Good luck with your project.
You seem to know a lot about the "government is evil, taxation is theft, global warming is a hoax" fringe crowd, but when questioned, you refer only to your father. You're extrapolating to a whole group of people from a personal family anecdote. Your comment is devoid of data and that's why such drivel is not appreciated.
wbhart This sounds like a really interesting project! Is it already on Gitub? I suspect there are others in the Julia community who would love to join the effort too when you have something ready.
Pkgsrc-2014Q3 packages for OS X now available
That's great to see. It's sometimes hard to keep up with everything that's going on. Incidentally I really got a kick out of the recent s/Uint/UInt/ rename (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8905). It took a day or so to propose and do it. To compare, java will probably never fix it's spelling oddities (for example int and Integer). Very refreshing to see fundamental things like that be fixed and so quickly!
No. That's not a view that I've heard over the years. We hear that Reagan's policies led to severe economic pressure on the USSR which in turn led them to have a more hands-off position with the Eastern-Bloc countries.
I've been using Julia for a few months and I love it! Being able to process arrays in a function as if it was a single variable is super awesome, and as a result my code uses far fewer for/while loops.
Learn the Why behind Best Practices for your current platform so you can switch between them more easily.

To actually respond to your question, kick ass at iOS and you'll have two of three. Slack at iOS and dabble at android and you'll have one of three.
Once you get the bugs fixed, kill the curiosity and disclose the website name. They aren't running their program on BugCrowd or HackerOne, are they?
I toured Stalin's secret bunker this summer in Moscow where USSR'S top generals held up during the entire Cuban Missile Crisis. This bunker was the control center for the Soviet's nuclear arsenal at the time. According to the guide, the top leaders debated back and forth whether to preemptively strike the United States.

The entire thing was surreal - complete with a freighting nuclear attack simulation (America strikes first, of course) that included clips from Dr. Strangelove, genuine nuclear launch terminals and original bunker sirens going off. It was emotionally heavy realizing how close the end actually was.

If you're ever in Moscow, go take the Bunker42 tour: http://www.bunker42.com/index.php?lang=en
You are changing the background image property when a user hovers over the logo. Browsers will not load the background image for any element which is not visible, or where a CSS rule is not active. As a result, the hover version of the logo is only downloaded the first time the user hovers over the logo. A good workaround for this is to create a file with the regular and hover versions of the logo in it, and use the background-position property on hover to show the hover version.
APIs that simplify DDOS attacks from sites with JavaScript should not be copyrighted?
If authorities acted against OpenBazaar users, they could arrest individuals, but the network would survive.

This sounds exactly like the current physical marketplace for anything illegal. Individual drug dealers are arrested, sometimes even big distributor organizations are taken down, but the trade network always goes on.
No, they got greedy and decided it had to be PG-13 to try to sell more tickets. After watering down the content, it didn't do well as the rated R ones before it. Not that big a surprise when you're not blinded by dollar signs.
One of the many interesting facts about Threads is that it is based on a rather optimistic view of what a Soviet nuclear attack on the UK would have been like! They used the official "Square Leg" exercise as a basis:

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

A real attack would probably have been far worse.... :-|
You Should Write More
Doesn't have to be open source. Just cause you don't have the source or its not free doesn't mean you can't still fuzz it. Though If some company is running some home brew solution then yes. But plenty of people run services based upon technologies that are semi widely available. Even if not open source.
> I see several comments questioning the legitimate value of a peer-to-peer marketplace.

The problem with P2P is that it requires a much more complicated architecture than if you simply use a more centralized model. There's the old joke: I had a scalability problem so I switched to a distributed system. Now I have n^2 problems.

It is true that many architectures are moving towards a more decentralized model, however, they still have a central controller typically.
It is, essentially. https://github.com/wbhart/Nemo.jl

See the wiki for a few bits of our planning that have actually made it online. Our current focus is twofold: 1) interface to Singular (http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/) from Julia 2) write a Singular interpreter in Julia (as an independent implementation of the Singular language). (Of course Julia will always be the main language of Nemo. The Singular interpreter will simply be a way for current users of Singular to benefit from Julia/Nemo and for users of Nemo to leverage the vast quantity of Singular library code out there written in the Singular language. And to have that code run faster of course.)

Yesterday we called the Singular C++ library, initialised it and created a Singular ring from within Julia for the first time. So very early days in that direction.

What is already committed on GitHub is a Julia interface to the flint library (which is pure C). Nemo is still a prototype, but you can Pkg.clone/Pkg.build it (Windows 32/64 support is there but clunky).

I will be visiting the Pari/GP people in January and working on a Nemo interface to Pari then.
Not leaking a half-baked version of a movie trailer is dangerous for society?
Jawbone Releases Affordable Fitness Trackers UP3 and UP Move
Multiple cursors only seem to work for simple things, which is good enough a lot of the time. However, incremental search in a macro is very useful, for example.

C-( do-searching-ESC-deleting-etc C-)

There's a new Emacs StackExchange: http://emacs.stackexchange.com

Maybe it'll become enough of a database that it'll be much easier to figure out how to add the "missing" features in Emacs. Currently 720 questions. Let's see how often it's used.
nightcode or lighttable or sublime in that order probably
You're liable for clawbacks. Madoff investors who pulled out early and received more than they should have at the expense of others were all sued by the trust responsible for recompensing victims. Best to just stay out of it.
It seems a little troubling that the Turkish military was supposed to be the pivotal factor in World War III. Was there any particular reason for that, other than Turkey being right next to Russia and the Crimea? What if the Soviets went after Turkey first?
There are absolutely legitimate uses for this kind of platform. It's the online equivalent of the local boutique retail shop, street vendor, or home yard sale.
I don't think a significant number of people actually think Reagan was responsible for the wall coming down. I think the article projects that opinion onto the populace as a straw man to make its point work.
I don't notice any font rendering differences from ST3 to Emacs with my setups [1].

[1] - http://a.pomf.se/ytaujl.png
You get teleportd, we get teleportd, everybody gets teleportd
10 things you need to know about growth hacking your startup
True. Tight hierarchical social conditioning from birth. If reasonably fluent in Japanese and of European stock what is an all too frequent response to unorthodox queries? Shikataganai. In English that's usually translated as "it can't be helped" but the kanji suggest an even deeper meaning. A more literal translation would be: an official received methodology does not exist (so no action on my part will be taken). By extension this suggests that only received ways of doing things should be employed (which you should know already, gaikokujin). At least that's the way the social concept was explained to me by a Tokyo-based book illustrator friend with a philosophical bent during a recent visit.
767 LoC of code including comments describing the grammar. Strip out the comments and you're already do to 600. Move opening brackets and a other very few steps, and you get it down to 560. Getting this below 500 lines should be fairly trivial.

So if your comparison is the completely unreadable otcc, then I'd say yes, this qualifies.
>Can a more open platform for sellers without the stigma of illegal activity be realized?

Probably not.

Cars weren't invented to make bank robberies more difficult to stop. These networks were invented, to a degree which shouldn't be dismissed when considering their acceptance by the mainstream, to make enforcing laws against trading in anything more difficult, if not impossible.

I think most people (not most people on HN, or in tech, but most people in general) would rather pay the extra few dollars than support the premise of a truly free market. While I would agree completely that there are perfectly legitimate uses for these networks, and there is nothing at all evil or malicious in the technology itself, I also think it would be disingenuous to state that their use in illegal activities is somehow orthogonal to their purpose.
This web page has about 5 sentences in total and I have to scroll 5 pages to see that. Sick of this design. It's everywhere these days. Just stupid.
team page is up at stopcoin.com/about
Thanks I didn't know about Nightcode!
WiTricity's CEO paints a picture of a wirelessly powered future
"the top leaders debated back and forth whether to preemptively strike the United States"

At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis the strategic balance between the US and the Soviets was very one sided - the US had the capability to completely destroy the Soviet Union whereas the Soviets only had a very small number of functioning strategic weapons systems.

However, the Soviets could have done an incredible amount of damage to Western Europe with medium range missiles.
its called #seeyouindeposition
Security bugs are just bugs. Use your own judgement on reporting. And do not make the mistake of violating the law in attempting to test on remote systems (that you may have limited access rights to).

"So I personally consider security bugs to be just "normal bugs". I don't cover them up, but I also don't have any reason what-so-ever to think it's a good idea to track them and announce them as something special."

Linus Torvalds Tue, 15 Jul 2008
10 minutes before so that you have enough time to put the stuff from your desk in a box before you walk out the door. :)

All joking aside it depends on what projects you are working on and how friendly your superiors are.

If you are leading projects that cannot be easily picked up, and your superiors are friendly, you might want to give them a month notice so that your last month can be spent passing on crucial knowledge and shifting you out of projects that depend on you.

Generally giving 2 weeks notice is all you need as that is required to get vacation and stuff paid out. ( in the USA at any rate )
And it also means (thought this used to be more significant) that porting it to a new platform "just" means re-targeting the code generator and recompiling.
Some great features listed for Emacs 25, sounds promising.

Personally I hope that Ergo Emacs can be merged into the main Emacs branch, as an alternative keybinding option (not a mode). Some might say, why not just use Ergo Emacs? The way I see it, it's too much work for a small group of developers to create new key bindings for all Emacs packages. By moving it into mainline (as an option), package developers know the option is available by default and can choose whether they want to support it.
A lot of those applications are the "bullshit jobs" of software, ie they are not actually needed. Many only exist because of insisting on only minor changes to existing processes. Many should be contracted out as services as they do not add value and differentiation. There is some stuff left of course.
After a dermatologist prescription I suddenly dreamed every night very detailed and surreal dreams for three weeks. Weird brains are weird.
The distinctions are quite arbitrary since there currently isn't anything like a size-competition for compilers, but if forced to make categories, I'd consider <1kLoC to be "tiny" and <10kLoC "small".

In contrast, GCC is nearing 10MLoC - 4 orders of magnitude difference - and its C parser alone is >10kLoC: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c/c-parser...
Customer retention makes money too.
I think the article was painting with a broad brush. Saving money for clients adds to their bottom line and is therefore valuable.
A couple of years ago in Australia a security consultant noticed that firststatesuper.com.au had a gaping security hole in that he could manually change an ID in the URL and gain access to other users' account information.

He kindly notified First State like any good samaritan, and so what do First State do in return? Disable his account, report the "offence" to the police, demand that their IT dept examine his computer, demanded that he sign a letter to admit liability and threaten to pursue any costs related to the matter.

Luckily the Police had more common sense, realised what had actually happened and decided not to take any action.

Reference: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/super-bad-first...
Awesome. Hope I didn't rustle any feathers! I knew if I was thinking about it, someone else would probably have the same thought.
There are also customers who have a tendency to not accurately value projects.

For example, if you are making revenue of $1mill/year, and a "IT specialist" consultant convinces you (legitimately) that they could increase that by X% or give you X% in savings, then how much is that person worth to you? Certainly some non-trivial fraction of X%. But often there are people who don't do this math and are confined to thinking of consultants as labourers and then they try to drive it on price.

They are not stupid people, but if you step back and take a look at the company, you can see who is holding it back.
I am looking for interesting projects that I can be part of.

Most ideas have limited funding behind them and eventually die out because they can't afford to get the product out.

I hope to help develop the initial iteration of the application. If its successful, maybe I join in full-time.
Our error messages do require a fair amount of work and so do line numbers in stack traces. Keno's debugger is almost ready though, and will greatly help.
GT Bankruptcy Provides Rare Look at Apple’s Relationship with Suppliers
Off the top of my head I can't think of any major changes that have really impacted my use of Emacs, but there have been a lot of smaller changes that made my existing workflow smoother, or look better, or faster, etc

To be fair, I've customized my .emacs to be just how I like it, and it usually "just works" for me, so I don't change it much any more. It's entirely possible there are a ton of great new features that I just haven't bothered to look for yet.

Also, when I make changes I don't check to see when the feature was added, so it's possible I'm using new features, and I've just assumed they've been there forever and I just hadn't discovered them until recently :-)
There's a fascinating chapter in 'the strategy of conflict' by Thomas Schelling [1] about accidental nuclear war.

The theory is once both sides had nuclear submarines, any first launch would trigger mutually assured destruction - so no rational actor would ever launch first. And because of that, any threat to launch /intentionally/ sounds like a bluff.

So if you want to threaten your enemy (for example, to make them withdraw some missiles from Cuba) you use a randomized threat - the increased probability of accidental war - which you can demonstrate with lots of near misses.

Just look at a list of nuclear near misses [2] once you know that and you can see the message being sent to the Russians: Missiles in cuba = Defcon 3 = High chance of accidental launch = Not in your interests.

In other words, the capacity for accidental launches is a feature, not a bug.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling#The_Strategy_...
[2] http://nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issu...
Your "sarcasm", which I assume are coming from your own strongly-held "beliefs", is not "positively contributing" to this "discussion".

Let's stop here.
Presidents (mostly rightly) get the credit or blame for what happens on their watch. Reagan was not there opening the gate on that night, no, but his policies and strategy to bring an end to the Soviet Union made it possible for that to happen.
Fantasy Quantum Physics in the app
> 4. Remember that employers don't give notice when laying people off.

But they do pay severance sometimes--paying a little bit of extra money for 0 extra work. People who quit never throw in extra work for 0 extra money.