skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What was Everything2 supposed to be?

Aw, man. The perennial question of that site. What was it supposed to be, really? Roughly, it was just about anything that you could express with basic HTML and pure text. No images, no videos. It was,

* An online encyclopedia before Wikipedia
* A meme central before 4chan
* A social network before Facebook
* A blogging platform before blogs

and several other things. About the only thing it wasn't was a news aggregator, because that was already covered by Slashdot by the same crowd. Its fashions changed with the ebb and flow of users and admins.

It was a sister site of Slashdot (at a time, Slashdot would link to everything2 articles in order to define terms), and also associated to sites like the defunct JavaJunkies and the somehow still living Perlmonks, which shared the Everything engine as a codebase. The idea was to monetise the engine like Wordpress and Drupal later did, but this never happened, and Blockstackers Intergalactic folded soon after that.

Somehow, Everything2 is still up.
This post is quite old as others have noted. For those interested in the plans for secure package and metadata distribution, a proposal is available now:

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0458/
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0480/
Thats also an appropriate analogy, I think. The main point is, type theory is a tool for reasoning, while set theory is a thing reasoned about. At least in the context of foundational questions. You can flip them, but then it becomes kind of silly, imo.
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How is the climate worse nowdays than in the past 2000 years? For a sensible comparison, look at the (many) wars these buildings had to endure as well. It's easy to claim survivor bias, but the durability of these buildings is simply a matter of technical analysis and specification, as with modern construction. I had to choose the material for a building facade (renovation) recently and the best option for longevity was: natural stone, the worst being the most commonly used type.
IMO when already learning React it's no use learning Backbone at all. Better start with Flux.

Backbone is not needed with React and although it is possible for them to be together (hell, we lived React+Backbone for almost a year), everything gets so much nicer when you can finally drop Backbone baggage.

It might be possible though that in order to see where Flux shines, one has to sweat through limitations of Backbone. That may be valuable experience.
When you are going to take control over a machine you have physical access to while it is running, you should always dump memory because it might, among other things, contain disc encryption keys.
One thing comes to mind: Does putting solar panels on every roof (or some other environmental action) really cause less negative impact at a scale than the business as usual? I'm not saying it doesn't but I don't have any facts to back it up. It's so complex. How can we take grassrots political action on things that are so inherently complex? Getting the political ball running on climate change was hard enough. How can we efficiently make ourselves (as a species, not the experts) understand what actions are actually needed?

edit: Also, instead of endlessly nitpicking factual errors - could we please focus on what value there actually is in the article?
Update here: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-Decembe...
Seems mysterious but not confirmed to be LE raid.
An "option" for what? Tribler seems completely useless in the light of this article. People are even getting automated infringement notices from the MPAA! What's the use case for Tribler?
I think the Keynesian beauty contest is less relevant for structured products. If others don't share the same view of the underlying collateral you may not be able to sell them in the near future. But if the collateral performance meets your more optimistic viewpoint, you will be compensated and eventually the bond will be paid off. The securities aren't like equities with some some arbitrary value associated with them that can only be captured through sale to another party (excluding dividends, buyouts, etc).

There were probably a lot of structural issues that prevented many of the large players to purchases these assets though (mostly liquidity). This is probably the justification the Federal Reserve used to purchase said assets.
I'd say that before Google, "AltaVista knew". In my experience, it was AltaVista that transformed the web/Internet from a collection of disparate sites to a single place that you went for answers to questions.

Before AltaVista, I used to write the URL for any useful web and ftp servers that I found in a logbook, so I could find them again. Getting an answer was a matter of looking up the logbook, deciding which website might have the required information, then typing the URL into my browser. After AltaVista the logbook fell into disuse, as locating information was a matter of typing a few well chosen keywords into AltaVista and visiting a few of its top hits.

Google took over from AltaVista, but at the time it felt like Google was a "better AltaVista" than something completely new.
> to provide an anonymous enough way to seed and leech BitTorrent to keep MAFIAA befuddled until something better comes along.

People are getting automated infringement notices from merely running Tribler on their machines. So even for THAT it's worse than useless.

http://www.reddit.com/r/tribler/comments/2pyxmk/received_two...
I'm also a programmer with an ML(I)S, and while I do work in a library, I tend to share your negative analysis of the 'industry' and it's future.

But I'm curious what year you had trouble finding a job due to seniority things. In my experience from the late 2000's to now, programming jobs in libraries are not very hard to get for interested and qualified people. If you can make a good impression, are a programmer, and actually have an interest in working in libraries (with or without an MLS), and are willing to move (there are only so many jobs and might not be one in your city), I think you could find a job in a library. (University more than public; public libraries still don't really put much resources into in-house development, which is sad, I think).

Whether you'd want to or not is another question. The pay probably won't be competitive with the private sector, and, as you know, the work environment may or may not be entirely dysfucntional.

I love the idea of libraries. I don't think actual present day U.S. libraries are succeeding at achieving their potential in a post internet world. Before the internet, libraries and librarians were pretty much the experts at 'information retrieval', and I love the idea of "civil society" non-profit agencies that are experts at collecting, finding, and preserving information -- something society could use now more than ever. I don't see actual libraries meeting the challenge though, sadly. Perhaps it's unfair to expect to them to.
The problem with "how much" is this: as the dollar amount of loss increases, the distance between "the owners of the money" and "the people responsible for keeping it safe" also increases. I make sure I know where my wallet is, but Jeff in IT won't lose billions (or a clueless CIO, for that matter).
That explains it, thanks. Amusingly the wikipedia "longest common subsequence" page emphasises that this is different to and commonly confused with the "longest common substring". Illustrating this confusion neatly, the OP's repository implements subsequence, but is not only called substring but documented by a wikipedia link to substring!
Compiling to Rust is a really interesting proposition, because it means the resulting program has the same safe-without-gc properties as native Rust programs.
Imagine what will happen if you double the supply of those trades. I think you'll find they aren't pretty great anymore.
I knew it was in the same family as marijuana, but I didn't realize people could actually hallucinate from smoking it.
already updated. thanks for pointing it out
Jim: Dr. Rawlin, do you remember how we had helped build the runway? If we died like the others, our bones would be IN the runway. In a way, it's OUR runway...

Dr. Rawlins: No it's THEIR runway, Jim! Try not to think so much! Try not to THINK so much!

One of my favorite quotes of all time when I dealt with similar issues myself, from Empire of the Sun.
https://github.com/rusthon/Rusthon/blob/master/pythonjs/tran...

if '--cpp' [...] rust=True

Is that a bug?
Cython already compiles to C and is relatively mature.

In my opinion these hacks will always be specialty tools. What the world really needs is more languages that are both expressive and run pretty fast. e.g. Julia.
you can set up GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables and make a commit object dated how you want for example.
> .... but to do it with any sort of efficiency as opposed to so slowly that I'd end up beating myself to death with a hardcover.

I'd say you have the process down pat. It really was a matter of spending half a day locating a candidate set of books in the subject catalogue, writing down their details, then walking all over campus to locate the books in the various branch libraries and reading the relevant section of each to see if it was what you wanted.

The only reason people didn't beat themselves to death with a hardcover was because they didn't know any better, because there was no better. (Mind you, from a Body Mass Index perceptive, the old way was better!)
it is pretty likely the USB device is this

http://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/mouse_jiggler/

to prevent the computer going to sleep while this is utilized

http://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/hotplug_field_kit/

These are pretty standard plays in seizing computers these days.

One should note that the grsec linux patchset has functionality to not load drivers for any plugged usb devices, as well as log when it happens, possibly resulting in action being taken.
The other comment makes some points, but the bottom line is that the purchased bonds pay higher interest than the Fed Funds rate, and the value of them has also gone up a lot as long term rates have gone down. So capital gains and income over cost of funding.

The capital side might change, as bonds may fall in price before the Fed sells them.
Not sure how much diversity is achievable in a team of three. I suppose you mean here more established larger startups with 50+ employees?
Why would you use this over LLVM? e.g. pyston (LLVM Python) and then using llc -march=rustc/c/cpp/whatever to convert?
I imagine this would be extremely useful for bike couriers. Less so for people who ride the same route each day, but still pretty cool if you ride for fun.
Yes. You can do simple things to data to make the basic byte-at-a-time attack hard to conduct. But a comparable amount of effort takes you to strong authenticated encryption. Virtually all systems that use ECB and have attacker-influenced plaintext are susceptible to the attack we're talking about.
Ntimed – NTPD replacement
Soo... If we are unable to solve our problems we are worth saving but if we are not able we are not worth it? So it is up to us then, as always.
I've had job offers for programming drones. I was involved with computer security for a while, and I still have a strong interest in every computational and mathematical aspect of it. I have friends that work on those things. I like those friends. I write code. I write math. We all think. We all share abstract models, different ways of thinking. It's not just code that gets turned into code. It's thought, and everything else too. I hate feeling like my thoughts can be used to hurt people. I hate feeling like the act of choosing to exist can cause harm, but looking at it that way is like saying a tapestry is no longer a tapestry when one thread is pulled from it.

I still love math, and I still love computer science. I just don't want to use it the way the a lot of the world uses it, and I don't know how much thinking I have to do before I can create code that I am satisfied over being both intelligent and humane. It's absolutely ridiculous, sometimes. Sometimes I can just stare at a cursor blinking on an IDE and feel like I'm falling into a void of 'what ifs'. Other times it is like there is no difference between myself and the machine. And then I wonder whether I'm thinking enough, again, or am I letting calculation and logic get the best of me. Have I abstracted this problem too much, too far away from reality? Does anything I think matter at all? My life continues to improve, but suffering still exists, and I feel like it is almost taboo to talk about in this way. But what is the point of existing if you can't actually make real improvements?
Well they do have money, while they may not have members that possess the necessary knowledge I'm sure they could finance such attacks.

That being said, they do not look to me like a group that would be using, and generally be interested in, such tactics.
Yeah, probably. My money's on it just being a mathematical pattern.
A bootable drive for flashing backdoored bios/hdd firmware or keylogging? Snapshotting the HDDs? 0day'ing the kernel USB stack?

Or maybe just..

input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech Logitech USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1.3
John Day, a protocol and ARPANET developer, answered this exact question most completely and wonderfully in his book "Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals" [1].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Network-Architecture-Fundamen...
I just sort of picture humanity as ants, building a little colony made of silicon and symbols. It's just nature, a natural outgrowth of our existence. It can manifest in any direction, and the direction it is supposed to go in is the one it does. It's more zen than happiness.
It's not less possible, you're just more ignorant of it than America is.
I prefer no signup to both.

For me, if there isn't an obvious and strong value proposition, I don't want to be bothered by crap in my feed or spam in my inbox.

To put it another way, for any particular app, I probably don't care about it, so why would I want communication from it?
Even the worst climate change will not hurt humans all that much.

It will cause all sorts of changes I'm sure, but globally both humans and animals will be just fine. There will be different animals in different places, some will die, but as a whole all will be just fine.

> I'm more concerned with the question of if humanity is even worth saving.

A universe without a conciseness to appreciate it is quite pointless, and might as well not exist.
https://blockchain.info/address/1ABn5L14hXXJ9RowWEpUcsDc8HXq...

If you look at that and click on the destination, then do the same again you'll see someone pushing out 10s of thousands of very small transactions per day across the network. They do the same thing pretty much every day I've checked(the above is an old link since its the only one I had handy).

The days I've checked though these sorts of things have accounted for 30-50% of transaction volume.

They are odd not just because of the volume of transactions but the size of them and the fact that they pay a fee for every one. Ideally for the amounts and frequency they would be grouping many outputs into a single transaction to save on fees.

I think its safe you ignore transaction volume for the near future and recent past while this is going on unless you start accounting for it.
Not sure how I'm supposed to take this seriously when the author doesn't use logarithmic graphs.

If you look at a non-logarithmic graph of money and try to draw conclusions from it you will draw the wrong conclusions. It's inevitable, it's just how humans perceive graphs.

If you want to avoid this common error, use a logarithmic graph. The fact that the author did not points to a lacuna in his knowledge, and such a lack makes me wonder about the rest of his writing.

It's just such a basic error.
As I'm sure everyone, I was wondering, why... If you follow through from the top to the blog, there is authors reasoning:

Introducing Rusthon

Rust is a systems programming language, and too low level for quick prototyping, or simple web backends. It is nice to have all of the low level control so you can fine tune performance later, but it should be optional. Rusthon is a high level Python-like language that compiles to Rust. Rusthon started as a fork of Gython, which is a fork of PythonJS.

The goal of Rusthon is simple and clean syntax inspired by Python. Rusthon will allow you to code at a higher level than normal Rust code, and interoperate well with hand written Rust and the Rust libraries. You can start off writting your application in Rusthon, and drop down to hand written Rust where you need more performance.

http://rusthon-lang.blogspot.com/
> Sadly, grab only compiles on Linux right now.

the_silver_searcher is a great piece of software and I use it every day, but why would your main development platform be anything but Linux in this day and age? OS X has inferior performance, no official package manager and it's being produced by people hostile to open source developers. Why in the name of Jah would you subject yourself to that?
It should be noted that there are a number of birth cohort studies ongoing in Europe, where single payer healthcare makes it dramatically easier to follow people.
June 7.
Cystic fibrosis study takes new approach (2008)
Actually this difference between PC-DOS and MS-DOS has been there from the beginning.
somewhat related: someone on facebook pointed out that XCP is pushing a lot of small transactions on the network and pointed me to this link: https://www.blockscan.com/charts_transaction_all
i would have hoped they figured that out 1.2 billion $ ago
Read it again, I think it's just math. If there is a certain amount of transaction volume, at a certain bitcoin value in USD, that just adds up to a certain USD transaction value per day, right?
Keep perspective: 3% of the budget was used for risk analysis. The conclusion of that research was that it's not worth spending the remaining 97%.
It is a difficult place to operate from. One of the things that depressed me about robotics for a long time was all the investment in robots that could kill other people.

The logical conclusion though, is you can either own that problem and spend your efforts on developing and making available countermeasures to code that can kill, or you can let go of the problem. In a similar way when you have kids you want the best for them, but at some point you have to let them be the individuals they will be, for good or ill.

Letting go of that which you don't have influence over is, for me, the hardest part of being an adult.
What I meant is that a particular gas powered car cannot get more efficient after manufacture, while a particular electric vehicle can.
Really interesting how chips haven't changed much for almost 50 years - except for getting (much) smaller. This could have been a modern die photo except for the scale of things...
I use Google signup, but none of the other providers.
>That string theory unites general relativity and quantum mechanics is a profound success.

Hmm... I'm not a string theory guy but I was not aware that they'd done that in a meaningful way.

[edit] Googling I came across a quote from Peter Woit: "The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two mode and thus could provide an explanation of gravity, if one ever managed to find an underlying theory for which perturbative string theory is the perturbative expansion." Dunno if that's fair?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Woit#Critic_of_string_th...
Sadly legal concerns in Emacs 22 resulted in the Zippy quotations being replaced with the cabbage quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy_the_Pinhead#Appearances_...
Might be an interesting strategy to only allow one USB port to be used and if any other port is activated the machine self-wipes. Dell servers have an internal port along with the front and back externals.
Amazing aerial refueling photos
Tonight will be the longest in Earth's history
Certainly, I didn't mean to imply that you (EDIT: I mean chas) were wrong, just that it didn't feel like the examples that you brought up were in the 'spirit' of category theory. As I mentioned in a sister comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8780829), any sufficiently powerful formalisation can encode any other (proof: definition of 'sufficiently powerful'), so that there is no mathematical structure of which it can be said definitively that it is not an instance of category theory—but that doesn't mean that every structure should be so viewed!

For example, to pick on the lcm example (just because it's the one that caught my attention): as you mention, posets are automatically categories, but I don't think that the theory of posets is best viewed as a part of category theory; and, similarly, the product is just a special case of the limit over a discrete category, but I don't think that describing the least common multiple, say, as a limit will be educational to anyone! By contrast, viewing the lcm as part of an unusual algebraic structure on the natural numbers I think can be instructive.
An article doesn't have to be news, to be useful to somebody. Everybody has to start learning somewhere.
And the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8774833
> Are there any benchmarks of this vs ag (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher)?

Ask, and ggreer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8781374) shall give (within 10 minutes). :-)
Using "they" would be grammatically incorrect since the subject is singular. To be politically and grammatically correct I could have gone with "he/she" or "the OP" but statistics and history are on my side with "he" knowing the demographics on this site.
Pyston is a very exciting project. The commit velocity on github seems quite high [0]. Here's the latest status update on their blog, for those interested: http://blog.pyston.org/2014/11/21/pyston-status-update/

[0] https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/graphs/commit-activity
I'll be working on adding some new features to our Enterprise Social Network project, Quoddy[1]. One thing I plan to work on is the ability to insert a document, and the associated tools for operating on that document, into the stream of events. We already do a basic version of this for BPM events, where you can approve/reject/delay/transfer events from the stream, but we want to generalize that facility a bit and add something for working on files.

For now, that will probably mean Google Drive integration, but we'll probably also eventually do something for working with files in a repository using something like JCR[2] and/or CMIS[3].

Longer term, I think we'll do something with Apache Wave[4] and the Operational Transformation[5] stuff as part of this whole idea of putting interactive entities in the stream. It's not all fleshed out yet, but some of the ideas I'm toying with harken back to the old idea of "compound documents"[6] and "intelligent documents"[7], or something like Bret Victor's "reactive documents" stuff[8].

Outside of all that, I plan to finish reading Permutation City by Greg Egan, and Philip C. Jackson's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

[2]: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Management_Interoperabi...

[4]: http://wave.apache.org

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

[6]: http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/

[7]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_document

[8]: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
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Nim was also in the benchmark on the frontpage yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8778041