skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
40hex was a zine; you might mean Phalcon/Skism.

NewHackCity was about as much a "group" as the cDc "NSF" was: it was a bunch of people who happened to hang out together (or, in NHC's case, live together). I suppose NHC got to look more like a group when they all left the east coast and set up a hackerspace.

I guess my point is: if you pick apart just the Boston scene, yes, it's going to look like everyone's interrelated. But that scene has, for instance, little to nothing in common with LoD (a bona fide "competitive" hacking group) or Haggis or whatever.
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> Which makes it rather difficult to obtain bitcoin in the first place.

Not true. They just need to sell something illegal online and they got bitcoin. :trollface:
Is it possible to do away with the typical Go project directory structure? I thought all that was enforced by the tools, but it's possible that I didn't dig deep enough to uncover greater flexibility.
>Nice to see SVG continuing to gain traction.

Not exactly SVG <script> tag makes it slightly malicious. If you don't actually inspect the contents of your SVG file. Yes SVG supports executing javascript internally.

I originally thought this post was going to be about that as a few blog posts have popped up about the malicious things you can do with SVG.
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Also used to use Testflight when they still did Android, and signed up with Hockey App yesterday. Hope the Microsoft acquisition doesn't mean that I'll have to find another beta testing platform again!
font awesome has many utility CSS classes[1]

[1]: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/examples/#spinning
I'm married. Met my wife when I was 32. Didn't really have a lot of experience with girls before that, but that didn't turn out to be much of a hindrance to being the happily married father of two kids today.

Don't let social expectations and peer pressure push you into things you don't want or are not yet ready for. While I certainly would have liked to have a girlfriend when I was younger, I had no idea how to do go about that. Plenty of female friends; that wasn't the issue, but no true "girlfriend". At least one girl who otherwise liked me, mentioned that I was friend material rather than dating material.

I now realize that I wasn't ready for it. Once I was ready for it (around 30-ish), I started dating, and soon found a woman who's way better than I dared to hope for. Don't be afraid to be too late; there's plenty of time to catch up later. (Though if you want kids, 30 is a good age to start catching up.)

So do you need a girlfriend? Absolutely not. Is it nice to have one? If it's the right one, absolutely! Still, I do sometimes miss my alone time.
I'm not claiming Turing actually built that computer, but I think he could have if he wanted to. Atanasoff and his grad student built a computer in 1939 with $650 in funding (equivalent to $8K today).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff
See here for an explanation:

http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/devops-technologies-vagrant...
This looks cool. Is there anything similar provide free personal account?
He never said what amount of gold goes into jewelry, which your source gives (the demand). His point was not the demand, but the value of gold associated with its use in jewelry or electronics (which I would argue is also high, but that's just my opinion).
“Great Artists Steal.” Really? Why?
I also browse with JS disabled and it sucks when people don't properly have a fallback in place, even if it's just one click for me. Even more when those things can be done by css and thus not breaking when JS is not enabled

But the question is: why? Why fade the text content from white to black when the content is below the fold and by the time I see the content it's already black? It seems quite a useless effect to me
Very nice, thanks for sharing!
The four rotor enigma change the Germany Navy adopted though was a significant change - and the decryption of that was something Turing was heavily involved in.

In 1942 the Battle of the Atlantic was far from undecided and without cracking the naval Enigma it is entirely possible that Britain would not have been able to effectively stay in the war, or send convoys to Russia.
Howard, since you're here and taking questions... :-)

Do you have any idea if a sqlite 4 release is imminent? Will lmdb work with it right out of the gate?

Thanks.
I would advise another 25 seconds of combined balance exercise/core strengthener on a fitness ball or balance disk, s.t. like this: http://www.fitter1.com/Classic-Balance-Board_p_22.html
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If you are both at the age of working on "making out with other people", I can assume you have quite a bit more living to do, and so does the girl. The funny thing about the teenage/young adult situation is that it's very easy to make broad, sweeping statements about the rest of someones life while having no clue what you are talking about.

Think about this: That girl has no idea what the rest of your life will be like, nor her own. It's very silly to make a comment like that. Programmers have girlfriends/boyfriends just like any other profession.

And as for the distractions, yes, girlfriends at your age can be a definite distraction. But that's part of the fun of teenage love. It is something new to explore and experience, but not something that everyone has to do.

Don't sweat it. You'll find somebody.
To develop an app like this one needs to know right interfaces that iOS Developer library offers to control other apps.

Suppose I had this idea, how can I figure out the correct API reference documentation. I tried it with various keyword searches and I couldn't find it. I find this the case on any other platform - Windows, Android, and OSX. I wonder how others solve this problem - finding the right reference among ton of documentation.
Egalitarians need the Flynn Effect. They are very bothered by the reams of data showing IQ is over 70% heritable and group differences are persistent over generations. The Flynn Effect is more comforting and makes it possible to wave your hands and say IQs are rising. Nevermind that Flynn is just some random Political Scientist, not a Psychologist or psychometric expert, or genetics expert. And also nevermind that Flynn is active in left wing organizations.
It unnecessarily accused him of treason via the whole Cairncross plot, I'm sure the concept of him being a hero cruelly treated by his country later would have been enhanced by leaving out that fabrication.
I'm doing a web ui for a debugger and have been searching around for nice run, continue, step-in, step-over etc. Anyone have any ideas?
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All - I'm a U.S. citizen with strong tech experience looking to move to Luxembourg. Where does one find positions or recruiters for senior level positions?
Been using Beta by Crashlytics since Apple screwed up TestFlight. If MS does continue to support iOS maybe I will switch to that.
OK. I think full disclosure isn't quite the norm. More like "FD is tolerated" than "FD prevailed". Project Zero is kind of remarkable. But I suspect we're putting different emphasis on the word full.
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As I previously had no idea what Rr is, I googled it a bit.

So for others: It's a tool to record executable execution and play it back later for debugging purposes.

http://rr-project.org/
http://rr-project.org/rr.html
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HockeyApp is awesome. They're very supportive, and the tooling itself is very good. Happy for them!
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Would this work with sub folders being synced from different machines onto a single machine?

Even better, could it grab data as required from other machines?
I see many people in this thread debating (1) whether Sunde is some sort of freedom fighter, and (2) the ethics of intellectual property law. In my interpretation Sunde is mainly arguing that people who are criticizing him for not defending TPB should instead get their hands dirty and make something that sidesteps the established internet control structures, for better or worse. I don't think that's such a controversial idea.
Leaked email reveals anti-piracy meeting with Google, Sony, and Homeland Security
Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with hockey...
So far the double app doesn't bother me (we'll see if it gets wearing ) - but staying in Workflow is clunky, so I finished my "Nighttime" workflow with opening safari. There's at least some chance I'll want to do that, and it's certainly better than staying in WorkFlow.
I think Keurig's and Lexmark's definition of success might be different than yours though. They don't need the DRM to be unbreakable. They just need to protect their market enough that the benefits (to them) of the DRM exceed the costs.

In the case of digital media, any weakness in the DRM means game over, because file sharing is so easy. But when talking about physical goods like printer ink and coffee capsules, it's a battle at the margins. They just need to discourage enough competition that their business stays profitable.
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If you dither properly, then if you use a small number of bits you'll have a sine wave with noise and with more bits you'll have a sine wave with less noise.

If you dither improperly, then you'll end up with a sine wave plus some noise (less than if you had dithered) plus some harmonic distortion.

When talking about audio, one typically doesn't compare in the time domain, since that's not even remotely how ears work. One compares in the frequency domain, and until your quantization error is very large compared to the signal, there will still be some of the original content in the result.

This isn't a great analogy, as eyes and ears operate quite differently, but it does sort of get to the issue. Look at this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither#mediaviewer/File:1_bit.p...

If you consider the original to have been an unquantized, but already sampled grayscale image, then essentially all of the pixels have large quantization error (since they were originally some shade of gray, but now they are all either black or white), so in one sense the original image is gone. But in another sense what you see is the original image, plus some noise.
This is written by Larry Wall's son (he of Perl fame), in case that matters to anyone (as a father myself, this fact seemed "cool" to me).

"In a move that is sure to scare off both high-level and low-level programmers..." - quite.
Police in Canada can now search cell phones with no warrant
> "to restrict further distribution you have to restrict actions of others."

... in a way that's not particularly different from the restrictions we place on physical books. JK Rowling doesn't give up her right to control sales/distribution of Harry Potter just because someone bought a hardback edition and owns a scanner or photocopier. Making a pdf or a photocopy of Harry Potter doesn't result in "stealing" any of her physical inventory, but if you resell it or even give it away (private personal use as a backup copy is OK) you can get in serious legal trouble (it would probably be termed "copyright infringement" rather than "theft", but IANAL TINLA.)

If you want to argue that purely digital goods should be handled differently than a digital scan someone made of a physical book, the burden of proof is back on you. Why should Rowling be entitled to sell Harry Potter in dead tree format and be able to treat scans as infringement, but not entitled to sell Harry Potter in digital format while treating unauthorized copies as infringement?
I love these light-weight approaches and tools. I do something very similar using a todo.txt file, except I try to do 5 things.
I'm pretty sure that was a clumsy attempt to portray the bind he was in because of his homosexuality rather than accuse him of treason.

He gives up the information to his MI6 contact in pretty much the next scene anyway doesn't he?
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>cards you can buy in various grocery/department stores

These are a stop gap measure. Say I have $500 and I put $400 into Xbox points and $100 into Steam points. Then some new game comes out on PC but I'm out of cash because its all tied into Xbox points. This transfer is one-way, so my money is now stuck.

With bitcoin, or some other non-vendor middle-man, I have value sitting in my wallet ready for any transaction that accepts this currency. For someone without easy access to credit, buying a couple bitcoins (or some other cryptocurrency) seems like the better move.
There are two papers by Julie Shah in NIPS 2014.

"The Bayesian Case Model: A Generative Approach for Case-Based Reasoning
and Prototype Classification" by Been Kim, Cynthia Rudin, Julie A. Shah

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5313-the-bayesian-case-model-a-g...

"Fairness in Multi-Agent Sequential Decision-Making" by Chongjie Zhang,
Julie A. Shah

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5588-fairness-in-multi-agent-seq...
You trivialize our economic system when you describe it as "only financial." People die over money.

I don't want to defend the actions of the copy-write robber-barons. I do not know what the appropriate response for infringement should be. I ignore violations of my own content. Yet I believe that I have a right to the content that I produce. And I respect the rights of others' content. Do you believe that content producers should not have these rights?
grandparent said that he disagreed with people being imprisoned or fined for copyright infringement.

Those are punishments.

Asking the violator to cough up the retail price of the pirated product on the other hand wouldn't be a punishment for criminal acts, it would be solving a civil dispute.

Of course making this work at scale is not something that can be done in courts. And making unilateral claims sufficient to require someone to pay up is a bad idea too.

That's why some propose a general copyright levy, or a "culture tax" that gets redistributed to producers.
There would be nothing I could do to prevent them from distributing them. All I can do is make the numbers useless.
I checked wikipedia on what is a positive and negative rights. There's a major error through what I've written above here (At best, I've got negative/positive backwards). Treat as suspect. Will brush up some more and come back better prepared for next time.
(As I posted elsewhere...)

Worth noting that the ASM monad is “just” WriterT [Word8] ◦ StateT Loc which provides the functor instance, the applicative instance, the monad instance, the MonadWriter instance, the MonadState instance, the MonadFix instance, a MonadTrans instance if the author is interested, and even an Alternative/MonadPlus instance (e.g., the ability to have branching, non-deterministic computation in assembly if we adjoin a failing monad into the stack).

This is not a critique of anything in the post—it’s just a note that monads (and monad transformers) are really cool! If you know how to recognize monad decompositions like I just did then you can exploit it to read off whole lists of properties and implementations of functions.
Hi guys, this is the follow up post of a new series I introduced 2 days ago: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Language Implementation. Today we'll be setting up our development environment, and get started with the actual programming next week.
I must be getting old... I saw the headline and thought "Isn't the elm mail client at a higher version than that?"
Theres an interesting story about Bob Dylan offering the song Lay Lady Lay to the band Everly Brothers, but they misheard the part where he sings 'lay across my big brass bed' and rejected the song.
AFAIK, p4p2p is unrelated to the source code from this paper. A very quick skim of its github seems to confirm this.
No, they just needed the new face to kick things off, so everybody can attribute the change and believe.

EEE. Watch and learn. This is why Microsoft will never die, no matter how hard some people's wishful thinking.
What makes entertainment so special? How is a hollywood movie different from any other product, like your laptop, smartphone, or even your web-app you charge money for?
You missed half of my point. It's not only "just financial". It's also "just financial harm only if we are pre-supposing the the rights whose natural existence you're trying to prove in the first place"
This chick wants to bang you and she has low self esteem.
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I love Rob Pike's contribution to the thread:

Ken and I ported Plan 9 to the SPARC in 6 days over one fun Christmas break.

I wrote the disassembler (for the debugger) and Ken wrote the assembler, so we could cross-check each other's work. The hardest problem other than fighting register windows occurred when we both misread the definition of an instruction the same incorrect way.
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"We abandoned them in favor of B-trees in OpenLDAP 2.2 because extensive benchmarking showed that BDB's B-trees were faster than its hash implementation at very large data sizes."

Didn't bdb's linear hashing scheme extend the size of the hash table enough to keep it at the required loadfactor?
It's easier to be a black hat than a gray hat these days. Much less public scrutiny.
They're using one issue tracker for everything: https://github.com/golang/go/issues
Issues for sub-repositories like this go there also.
Let's forget for a moment that, as you tell all those people your sorrows, you will in fact figure out that your product failed not because of piracy but because the product was not giving adequate value for its price...

This is about movies and music at large. Software piracy is a solved problem. In games, the majority of people now use Steam and nobody really cares about the few that look for it on random torrent websites or some such because:
1. They are a much more likely source of malware (you don't just play files, you run executables).
2. Games that care have adopted an online-only DRM model (which has its own problems but that's a story for another thread)
3. A lot of games have an audience comprised entirely of non-paying customers (children without credit cards). Parents are not expected to pirate, and if kids do then no harm done.

In office software, Photoshop and MS Office are the two big names in piracy and both MS and Adobe silently encourage piracy on their products to enforce lock in. And while that sounds scummy when I put it like that, it is an excellent demonstration of what I was mentioning earlier: You have eyeballs/ears which you can easily turn into wallets.

So please, give me a break, your company did not go under because of piracy. And Hollywood/the RIAA have more digits in their bank accounts than total employees.
I wonder how your system deals with write conflicts? The documentation is not clear about that...
You should put this information at the top of the readme.
all your wishes are granted: https://github.com/aphyr

To be sure, he revels in the discomfort of others too much. But he's a young kid just finding his voice, and his contributions to practical distributed database discussions are pretty much without parallel. Just ignore the bluster and you'll learn something new from kyle every day, even if it's about his buttcheeks.
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> even your web-app you charge money for?

Great example! With AWS the incremental cost of supporting each additional user approaches $0. So it's okay for people to use your $10/month web app, paying you the $0.05 or whatever covers their AWS costs? After all, as long as your hosting costs are covered, you're not any worse off, you've just lost the opportunity to make a sale.
Let me add myself to the chorus of people standing up for native desktop applications. Sure, there are bad and good examples of both desktop and web UIs. But whats so horrendous about the original Mac OS interface? What was so bad about Gnome 2?
Thanks for the repo.
As I said in a comment below, you too have it backwards. It's not about the "right of the people to download shit for free". It's about the right of the corporations to go to hell and beyond to justify a few bucks; putting people in jail and corrupting the judicial and political system in the process... for what is essentially a harmless offence.
So piracy is fine if done in my own home?
And then Konrad Zuse's Z1 before that, which was electromechanical but actually programmable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_%28computer%29

Sadly destroyed during WWII along with the original Z2 and Z3 machines.
Yeah that normally seems to be the case, but the domain was evolutionary information theory so he probably did mean a distinction like the one in the link above.
It's not about imagining what the best UI component would look like removed from any particular framework, but what the practical constraints are working within the already-existing android UI framework. Android APIs were simply designed for inheritance-oo style to work with them, and trying to avoid this will cause pain.

A similar situation has occured in ios development where the functional aspects of Swift do not complement the existing design of the coca framework.
Ask HN: Ruby or Python?
Which language should I learn out of Ruby or Python? My main aim is to create web applications, so my head tells me Ruby for it's Rails framework, but I'm not sure what my heart tells me.

Help! :D
It is practically a identity for any individual or collective to use to it's own liking. It has long lost it's original meaning.
What's a "grey hat"?
Replying to a comment removes your vote on it, so you've put him at net +1.
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> was a significant change - and the decryption of that was something Turing was heavily involved in.

It was still much more of a team effort than usually presented though. It does irritate slightly the way that people concentrate on the code cracking and Turing as it seems unfair in to directions: it forgets the other people who also contributed significantly, and pretty much ignores the significant work that Turning did do largely solo.
It seems that using of <object> - not the best solution. For example in construction like
<object data="image.svg" type="image/svg + xml">
<img src="fallback_image.jpg" />
</object>

fallback image will always be loaded. To avoid this you need to use additional tricks like conditional comments... We need some more elegant trick to do that :)
Sounds clear to me:

Because of no locks, the last write wins according to rsync update semantics based on file timestamp + checksum. In case two files have the same mtime, rsync compares the checksum to decide which one wins.

https://github.com/immobiliare/sfs#consistency-model
I doubt you know how Bitcoin works.
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I am a long time lurker and a first time poster. Currently, Disqus works wonderful for sites that do not want to create their own commenting system. But it does not support embedding mathematical and chemical equations and also code formatting for programs. I am planning to work on a Django + Python + MathJax project which will allow scientific and programming discussion. It will be useful for any educational site, programming site etc. Is there a demand for such a discussion tool? I would like to get feedback from the community.
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Uber and airbnb. What could possibly go wrong?