skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm either old as hell or we were broke (maybe both), because I only got quarters!
Thanks for the feedback. The comments make sense.
US Government only had credibility in the 40s, when the office of censorship stamped out anti-war propaganda and the DoD spent millions (billions in today's money) on Pro-War propaganda.

The trend continued in the 50s and 60s with McCarthyism being a "soft censor". It wasn't technically illegal to talk about Communism or other governments... but if you did, you'd probably lose your job.

We've got freer speech today compared to back then. So naturally, anti-government claims are going to be louder today than ever before.
Of course, but the discussion has taken places several posts per day for the last week. Unless the FBI releases more information or Sony releases more information there's likely nothing new to discover.
I have similar experiences and generally like it. We had to fix one ways in Java at one point (now fixed properly) and not all languages have equal support. We wanted SSL support on a .NET service but nothing official there last I checked. FB updated and standardized SSL on C++ but left out other languages by and large.
Moreover, there's nothing wrong with proposing conspiracies, given that clandestine operations have been sort of essential throughout world history. Once they become historical fact though, people simply cease thinking of them as "conspiracies" due to the tainted meanings the word evokes.

It's really strange, actually. In secondary school history you see a trend of authoritarianism being the most widespread form of governmental structure, yet for some reason we've been told to accept that during the past few decades the world leaders all had a change of heart and first world governments suddenly became all benevolent.

Or maybe it's a US-specific thing related to their sense of exceptionalism.
How messed up is "our industry" - internationally speaking - if succeeding outside of SC is a major feat?

Or maybe it was more about succeeding in software in Sicily.
I think the key is for developers to understand coupling. There are lots of kinds of coupling.

This book, is not specifically about coupling but the first chapter is an excellent overview that all developers should read:

http://www.apress.com/9781590596432/
I invited Yannick. Couldn't invite the other id because of the "egg" on the id pic.
> A big problem with Rust right now is that the documentation is awful.

Could you get more specific for me, please? There's certainly much room for improvement, but I can't fix what I don't know about!

> If you have to clearly explain in writing how something works,

Are you aware of our RFC process? Changes _do_ have to have extensive, written explanations.
Virtual reality isn't about “escaping reality.” If anything, this technology makes it possible to relive your experiences, and, much more importantly, show somebody else the inside of your own mind, both of which are reality-affirming activities.
How do you cold call? Who do you cold call?
What sort of evidence, in this case and in general, proves a negative?
> Hence implementing parsing via recursive descent is sufficient

And why exactly do you want an overbloated parser implementation full of leaky abstractions, while you can nicely generate it out of a BNF-like dense description?

> Can anyone convince me of the value of parser genaration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar
That is analogous to someone having the key to your house, but you don't know it until they've stolen your gold. I don't think it's substantially different. On the other hand, if you have a brain wallet and have never even put your device online, you could have bitcoin sent to an address that has a level of security impossible to achieve for any physical asset.
I agree with this article -- VR is so fundamentally compelling that even saying it needs a "killer app" seems to miss the point. Did TV or radio need a "killer app?" Certainly at the time there were major things TV or radio were applied towards that helped get them into the mainstream, but at the core TV and radio were inevitably going to spread throughout the world in some form.
I think it's a bit hyperbolic to color the recent HN posts as "conspiracy theories." While I don't find them persuasive, the posts I've read have simply been honest attempts to evaluate the public claims implicating North Korea.

What I do find interesting and objectionable, though, is that these articles have, in my view, been of uncharacteristically low quality. Ironically, it would seem that the collective HN wisdom and skepticism becomes dormant when confronted with an article seeming to confirm their antecedent skepticism towards the U.S. government.
BBC: ISPs Should Assume Heavy VPN Users Are Pirates [Sept. 2014]
I find I am having a much easier time upvoting people I disagree with here than I do on Reddit. So I systematically do so if I believe the person has a worthy point.

As for articles, I upvote anything that I think has had an impact on me, however minor. Usually it's articles that actually made me think for a few minutes, but sometimes it's also serious lessons I learn.
Why do we fart so much on planes? Explaining air travel's embarrassing problem
I hate to feed conspiracy theories, but with the focus on state sponsored cyber security threats, we completely forget that corporate sponsored threats are equally potent.

Every time there's an attack on intellectual property of Western companies, fingers are raised straight to state sponsored groups in China and Russia. It's bewildering to me that privately sponsored attacks are hardly considered seriously.

With the Sony attack we have been focusing on the movie, while the movie could've been just an excuse for an attack that was aimed to financially dismantle Sony, which it did.
"Do people /honestly/ think that they have to have haircuts "in line with a socialist lifestyle"? "

My father grew up in communist Bulgaria and long hair was prohibited. I don't doubt that long hair and extreme hairstyles are also prohibited in North Korea.
I mean, Obama has straight up said that he plans to attack NK.

He said absolutely no such thing, and it is rather incredible if people think this. The US has warned that they will respond, which will end up being a complaint in the UN.

Just to be clear, North Korea regularly warns the US of nuclear annihilation, imminent attacks, and so on...and people think the thing that will put the US over the top is a minor Sony hack?
I've been thinking about forming a co-op for a trusted network of freelancers, to handle the crummy parts of the job (sourcing, selling, collecting) while encouraging the good parts (building, branding, partnering with quality colleagues). I had similar experiences being left with fake jobs/bad credit through freelance markets.

Thanks for sharing! I generally take longer-term gigs, so consistent dealflow isn't as big an of an issue for me. OP, what are you planning to do to fix your offline-network problem?
It also doesn't even appear to generator initializer lists for the constructor which could lead to some fun behaviors down the road...
I used Elsa a lot for static C++ code analysis, it was long before Clang was available. Cannot compare to antlr, since I've never seen a usable antlr C++ grammar implementation.
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Yeah. It rocks now :D

I use EAGLE to make the breadbord, Proteus for simulation, and NI Multisim to produce the schematic to print on paper (they look nicer than Proteus' or EAGLE's schematics).

I also use LT Spice for simulation. It depends.
Prime is the pattern?
I know I was being hyperbolic. You nailed it in your second paragraph - that's my problem. Several posts per day regurgitating what was posted yesterday. Until we have more information from Sony, the FBI, or the hackers I wouldn't mind not seeing these posts from 'experts'. Trust me, I'm always skeptical of the Us government. I don't know whether to believe them or not in this instance. But these posts are just getting irritating.
The nature of the Internet is that many resources will be used globally. It should not be surprising that a few well-known open proxies would be used by bad actors of any nationality - the fact that (Nation State X) was accused of using (globally accessible resource Y) in the past does not in any way mean that resource Y is used ONLY by State X, so the use of resource Y is quite, quite unsuitable as a means of identifying anyone.
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"Gladly" isn't quite accurate: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/4146#issuecomment-114...

This is exactly how I'd expect to see `unsafe` used: as an additional optimization in situations where you can't get better in any other way, and with a big-'ol comment explaining exactly why. Well, one of the ways, at least.
No it is exactly about escaping reality. It's literally fooling your sense of sight and hearing with with more believable simulations than ever before, so much that we now use the term "presence" to describe the feeling you get when your reptilian brain believes you actually are in the place the headset has transported you to.

It's the culmination of thousands of years of technological escapism that began with literary fiction and has progressed to movies and video games. But this new evolution promises to be the most potent form of escapism yet due to presence.

Whether escapism can be used healthily is a different question, but it is certainly escapism. Right now the technology is still primitive, but we do need to begin to ask important questions about the priority we place on the real world vs simulations. As we work towards brain computer interfaces, we must decide the proper balance between inhabiting, playing in, and working in the real world with its unbreakable physics and rules and the virtual world where we may change the rules of the game whenever we wish and many constraints are mutable.
that behavior is definitely analogous to volunteer work in one's local community. i used to spend a lot of time on Imgur; now i just spend my time in User Submitted.
Would you mind also answering https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8783393 , then? Thanks.
I actually read many articles on the topic of handwriting so saying "go to google and find my arguments for me" is wasted on me. There is no research that is simultaneously believable and saying what you are saying. Most I could find that was supporting your opinion were people comparing some canonical cursive script to other forms of cursive writing and saying that fastest writers are not using the canonical script the schools in the USA are teaching but are writing connected letters as opposite to typing each letter separately.
But just to be sure I did a search as you suggested and found that cursive is now the new enemy of the Left in the US (the Common Core thing, right?). This explains the hostility and points to the futility of any further discussion so I will bow out.
And the proof for these allegations is? I cannot see why the North Korean government should have such an existential problem with this movie since on the one hand they control anyways what kind of information reaches their citizens and on the other hand they can use this movie greatly for propaganda purposes to show their citizens how aggressive and vicious the US is towards them.

It just all doesn't make sense.

Edit: This article seems to be written by a South Korean. I could just as well ask a Pakistani what he thinks about Indian aggression.
Nice revelation :) Thanks. I resigned.
I mostly upvote intersting articles in 'new' (coding and science things), comments that advocate rational and logical approaches to problems, and replies to my comments that challenge my assumptions. I rarely upvote things on the main page because they're already publicised, and I rarely downvote things because a comment explaining why something is worthy of a downvote is far more useful than a downvote.

I also upvote articles in 'new' that I've commented on so they're more likely to hit the front page and get my comments votes. I have no idea if it works but it makes me happy.
depends on your definition of patterns..

Eratosthenes sieve is a pattern of sorts, but one with many dependent variables that we are unsure how to make agnostic from the pattern back to its initial state.. essentially we are unable to find the nth prime number, but if we already ran the pattern up to the nth prime number, finding n+1 is possible with enough effort

.

mersenne primes are primes that all share the form of 2^p-1 and they appear all through out the momentum of prime numbers, but again, our problem is finding when the next one will occur and our best solutions boil down to rote testing..

.

one person involved in the discovery here reported has a theorem named after a colleague and himself that is more along a traditional pattern, they call it an arithmetic progression, here is one such example..

6,171,054,912,832,631 + 366,384 · 223,092,870 · n, for n = 0 to 24

each of the 24 numbers in that sequence will be prime

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i came across this momentum sometime last week:

n**2-n+41

the first 40 values for n, 1..41, will produce primes.. after that the distribution of primes for whole values of n becomes erratic.. why? unsure and investigation quickly proved a difficult avenue of research so i let that distraction lie for another day

(i) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes

(ii) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime

(iii) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%E2%80%93Tao_theorem
Does anyone have a good alternative? Like many people commenting, so many people are willing to do insane amounts of work for next to nothing - where do those who provide value-added services look to outsource or tender?
Jerasure ECC library pulled out after StreamScale assert patent claims
Jerasure website and bitbucket repository have been removed after StreamScale claims on some patented IP (United States Patent No. 8,683,296) [http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/12/prweb12368357.htm].
Jerasure is used by CEPH cloud storage as default plugin to deliver Erasure correction code features ( http://ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/erasure-code-jerasure/).
While I agree that going that fast minimizes or negates the saftey of the helmet, your hour-record link is useless here. While cycling on a flat surface, I easily club up to 30 mph (for a stint). On a downhill, I've had to use my breaks to stay below 40 mph. The parent post did not say she was sustaining that speed for a whole hour, plus this was downhill. Despite how fast she was going, she should have been going slower and riding defensively.
I am thinking this guy is very exact and precise in his phrasing, especially with regards to a canary. He's a crypto-geek, anarchist and running an exit node and this crowd knows Alice is not Bob.

He knows what he says will be scrutinized by thousands. Why wouldn't he be very careful in what he says?

Based on his first canary vs the last, he could, as you say, "reasonably" be withholding information on request. Perhaps terrorists, kitty pr0n or the threat of jail is reason to him. Good resons, who knows.

He could also be under the control of someone that asks him to add new, lie or modify information.
Worse reasons, perhaps.

Either way his first canary reminded us that whatever he says now needs to be treated as possible disinformation.
2014 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Many corporations in China and Russia are state-sponsored. The whole communist / socialist thing blends government and corporations in a way that is alien to the typical US Citizen.

With the Sony attack we have been focusing on the
movie, while the movie could've been just an excuse
for an attack that was aimed to financially dismantle
Sony, which it did.*

But they didn't attack Sony proper. If they attacked Sony and stole the tech to PS4 something, then it'd probably be China or Russia.

But these guys attacked Sony Pictures Entertainment... not just any part of Sony. The scope of the hack IIRC doesn't go any further out than Sony's Hollywood branch. Frankly, there aren't any corporations in the world who actually care about a (probably) awful movie being made at some studio. And the Chinese corporations that make movies are distinctly not competing against Sony Pictures.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is the parent company of "Columbia Pictures" and "MGM". Tell me, who the hell would attack "Columbia Pictures" ??
I get the point of the article that VR needs to be interesting enough for the early adopters to do something interesting with it. That much seems to be happening.

What has to happen is something that is good enough to drop the $200-400, plus other accessories. Realistically you're talking about a $500-1,000 purchase, which is still in the niche category.

When VR gets down to $200-300 total, it will be more interesting for the average consumer. That being said, every technology platform needs a killer app.

For PC's it's still Office, Web, and Email. Smartphones are web, email, and photo/social apps. Game consoles are usually one franchise game like Call of Duty, Halo, Mario.

I struggle to think of a significant platform without a killer app or a big hook.
Inspired by Google Chrome's hidden game with dinosaur? :) Same control, same layout.
the -vote habits of users (HNari is how i refer to this particular crowd) are an interesting window into the community itself.
Weapons of mass destruction, Syrian rebels, CIA torture, Snowden is a traitor, the Wikileaks suppression, ...

I think that it's not entirely irrational to believe the opposite of whatever USG says about foreign policy.
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Fixing Our Healthcare Disconnect
I meant that the probability of losing a civil suit, in the event that the threatened disaster occurred, was high enough to impose heavy cost on showing the film. Criminal liability would of course fall to the perpetrator.

In retrospect, I was wrong - it was the theater chains who would be exposing to themselves to that risk, so they (very logically) cancelled their showings. As a result Sony was forced to pull the film's theater release.
add schneier to the list of skeptics: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-best-thing-we-can-do-ab...
Aside from the technical argument, I don't get why North Korea would deny the hacking if they where really involved in it. What do they have to fear, an invasion because a company got hacked ? More trade blockades that they already have ? It doesn't fit the persona I have built of them.
It's a little bit sad that at -3 votes, this is the lowest voted comment I've ever had in my ~4 years on HN, lower than a number of controversial political comments.

To clarify, I'm not claiming that everyone should start using Rust. Now was I claiming that PHK is somehow unqualified for the task, far from it. I'm not even saying C is a bad language (I like C), or that people should stop using C altogether. But if you're building an security-critical application designed to be used in the future across millions of servers, and one that requires low-latency, I simply don't understand why you wouldn't strongly consider Rust, which offers strong guarantees about memory and type safety along with low latency and a very modern and complete standard library. Or Ada. Or OCaml.
You can largely eliminate bounds checks by using iterators.
> The reason very few people care is that "works" is not a binary, but obviously a continium

Not necessarily. If there is a formal model of a specification, and a piece of software provably implements that specification, then that is an example of software that works in a very clear, not-a-contiuum sense.
Criticism of PHP will be down-voted?
As a western developer, is it possible to earn six figures (US) from any of the bidding sites? Which would be the best to focus on?
do you thing some sort of color code to the upvotes would be worthwhile? say, a red up- means a lurk up-; a blue up- is an upvote from someone actively commenting? it might be an interesting perspective on how the discussion is proceeding.
Man, I don't really fart on planes.
North Korea has a history of only threatening violence, but the United States has the history of following through. The last time the US said it would respond "at a time and place of its choosing", I believe it decided to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, did it not?
Pretty sure most people treat the downvote button on comments as an "I disagree" button, which I don't think is helpful.
I have anecdotal experience that might confirm the economic plausibility of a LA-LV line. Driving south on I-15 from LV on a Sunday will likely drive you absolutely up. the. wall.
> inability of anyone to accurately predict the future

sarcastic response: "sorry hun, we can't get married cause i'm not sure we'll be together forever and i don't want to pay money if we break up."

real response: There's risk in everything you do, and if you aren't willing to risk some of your time and equity into another person then you wouldn't do well in a marriage anyway
It's impossible to address 100% in C++ without breaking backwards compatibility. "Modern C++" is significantly more safe, but still isn't completely safe.
How much parity should there be?
Twitter OAuth for Snooping and Spamming
North Korea said in June that The Interview was a "wanton act of terror" and promised "merciless" retaliation if it was released. Said it was an "act of war" and "is absolutely intolerable"

http://time.com/2921071/kim-jong-un-seth-rogen-the-interview...

Edit: In July they made a complaint to the UN about the film, saying: "To allow the production and distribution of such a film on the assassination of an incumbent head of a sovereign state should be regarded as the most undisguised sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war,"
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/10/north-korea-un-t...

<sarcasm>I'm sure they had nothing to do with what happened to Sony
Gridcoin uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing as a way of obtaining useful work for cryptocurrency.

http://www.gridcoin.us/

Edit: This is perfectly relevant to topic of discussion and informative. BOINC is a completely valid platform for distributed computing for many different areas of research including mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics.
Noticing incentive structure common to a government can be helpful in making judgements like that, but I'd wager that anthropomorphizing an organization with >20k employees as a single persona would do more harm than good to my predictive ability. I was asking more in a technical sense - are these comments coming from somebody with no knowledge of network security, or from an expert? Regardless, we now have much more information.
I deserved that :D

And now I have one!