skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it's not really $300,000 worth of actual services. If I stuck a $300,000 price tag on a rock and used that as a ransom does not mean they got away with $300,000 worth of stuff. Plus all their groups information has been leaked (http://www.lizardsquad.info), so I put this down to kids with too much bandwidth rather than a precedent setting event.
You say "a group of hackers" or whatever and don't name them. Similarly with serial killers, school shootings, or anything of that nature you simply don't say the name. Psychologists have been saying for years that doing so only encourages copy cats, because they want to be in the media spotlight.
>Give Lua some love.

Pun intended? LÖVE (https://love2d.org/) happens to be a great way to learn Lua.
Neither of them mention money but neither of them mention the movie. So where does the news for this demand come from?
We can't comprehend intelligence million times beyond us, so speculating about their intention is very wild. Who knows, maybe an universal law of super-intelligence is to keep a low profile.
Why does the anonymity of the authors matter?
The toys I remember best from my childhood were all the building toys - LEGO, Capsela, k'nex, and this one where you built towers with beams and blew them up with a timed bomb. I had cars and action figures and such as well but can't really picture them and remember as well as the construction toys.
I remember these fondly! I also remember overflowing the bathtub in the name of science more then once with those water modules.

So what's the equivalent toy these days?
Perhaps they understand 'evening' to be a different time to you. In London I'm almost always in the office at 5 or 6pm when it's getting dark outside (except in the summer), and the time could be classed as 'evening'. It's subjective.
What they're supposed to? This is after all, news.

I think the point is that you just don't publish the names of the groups responsible for the attacks. The truly interested (security professionals, law enforcement) can go dig for the group names, other people don't really need to know, and likely don't care anyway.
Btw, if anyone tries to use it on Windows like I did: It almost works there, I submitted a pull request that fixes it. Writing this here so Windows devs reading this on HN don't dismiss this plugin over a few little issues.
New paper claims that the neutrino is likely a faster-than-light particle
Pardon the shameless plug, but I've recently used a similarly unorthodox approach for replacing the heap inside Dijkstra's algorithm, and got a speedup - I use an array indexed by the vertices' current distances, and scan it from start to finish.

A paper is currently making the rounds, would love to hear feedback:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zy1gx1azfvvqm6i/NetSciComm%20versi...
I've seen this concept before and thought it might be useful in my organization. The general opinion I got back was that people hate email, and the daily digest would be pretty well ignored. Once I was reminded of this, I fully agreed.

In fact, using tools like slack, asana, phabricator, and github enterprise there's an overall goal to do less and less email and something like this would be a step in the other direction.

What we're looking at setting up is a centralized dashboard to tie our tools together and include status updates. The tool I'm looking at is [anthracite](https://github.com/Dieterbe/anthracite) which bills itself as an event manager ("an event / change logging/managament app").

On the surface, this looks like something you use to track when code is changed or server changes are made. And that is a lot of it. But it's really a way to display events and you can have pre-made filters of events (call them event streams). You can integrate it with your chat system or email to post status updates by hand, you could have task management systems like asana post updates, etc.

Granted, I'm not entirely sure yet if anthracite is mature enough for what we're looking for, but we definitely are angling for that approach.
Geez. I want to say this is 1985. I had a bunch of Capsela kits. I really loved them. Thanks for bringing back some wonderful memories.
If you're familiar with some of the script kiddie communities these people hang out in, it's not that hard to check their work.

It's quite possible they got a few wrong; I have not independently confirmed the information and I'm not sure anyone else has. One can clearly tell what sort of individuals the perpetrators are, though, and US law enforcement typically does not have a lot of trouble identifying and rounding up egotistical script kiddies. Look at LulzSec and all the copycats.

Feel free to put my comment on a calendar: I'd bet a fair bit of money that 75% or more of the group will be arrested before Christmas of 2015.
So are MOAI, openresty, luvit .. Kademlua, elua, busted .. Penlight .. lapis, luarocks .. luamongo .. and last but not least, snabbswitch.

All projects from which I have learned a great deal of Lua. ;)
I guess we had a pretty good history teacher. She drilled into our minds that any important historical event usually had an underlying cause, a corroborating cause and a triggering cause (and often more than one of each category). So for instance on WWI, we learnt not only about Archduke Ferdinand and the Serbian "Black Hand" movement, but also about the geopolitical frictions that already existed between Austria-Hungary and Russia over the Balkan situation, etc.
I am not sure I understand your point here.

Short circuiting comparisons is still linear for integers of unbounded size. But besides that, it's incredibly common to assume that 64-bit primitives are done in constant time, because to the asymptotic analysis, what matters is that the integers are _bounded_ in size. As long as it's bounded, the asymptotic analysis here doesn't care -- you can pick any size you want, as long as it's bounded.

One thing to keep in mind here (which it seems you are maybe confused about) is that these bounds are _asymptotics_ of the input size generally, and have very little to say about any particular choice of input size. 64-bit, 32-bit, whatever, it doesn't matter, if the size of the operands is bounded, the they're the same thing to the asymptotic analysis. As long as they're bounded, you can say that the operations on those operands is proportional to a constant times the (bounded) size of the operands.

The consequence of this is that when you deal with operands of _unbounded_ size, all of this asymptotic analysis goes right out the window. You can't possibly have a meaningful comparison operator, for example, that operates in constant time on unbounded integers.
haha a wonderful article!!!!
not sure: “In aiohttp 0.10 we've added highlevel API for web HTTP server.” which must be understood as a very minimal framework. It's explained in the first screen of OP's link.

Also, quick hack to have websockets too: https://gist.github.com/amirouche/a5da3cf6f0f11eaeb976
I think it's pretty likely. Kim is one of the top Call of Duty players in the world for Xbox, and is known to be a very avid gamer.

The publicity sure doesn't hurt, either.
Be careful, that is a long road to go down...

http://www.amazon.com/If-You-Give-Mouse-Cookie/dp/0060245867
C implementation for Windows:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <process.h>

void sleep_on_it(void* param)
{
int n = *(int*)param;
Sleep(n);
printf("%d ", n);
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int ar[argc];
HANDLE threads[argc-1];
for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++){
ar[i] = atoi(argv[i]);
threads[i-1] = (HANDLE)_beginthread(&sleep_on_it, 0, &(ar[i]));
}
WaitForMultipleObjects(argc-1, threads, TRUE, INFINITE);
}

Compile with gcc -std=c99 (because of VLA's it won't work in Visual Studio).

Example:

D:>sleepsort 1000 9 2 150 1 7 17 624

1 2 7 9 17 150 624 1000
This is a forum for people, working in technology, hugely familiar with startups. You're going to face tough questions here, which I hope is why OP came to post.

I personally don't see the value in a service that emails a group of people and then gathers their responses when that data is probably already available and retrievable in an automated fashion.

I don't think you can compare questioning the value of Dropbox (which is a huge piece of software, handling sync across multiple platforms, even back then) to this.
I agree. That intelligent (much more so than us) beings would find the idea of littering replicating machines literally across the universe appealing doesn't make sense to me.
North Korea has a terrible education system and an entimated 1 in 10,000 people have access to the Internet in North Korea. This is not the kind of environment that fosters elite super hackers.

It's also not the kind of environment that fosters high-energy physicists, but we're talking about a regime that has indigenously developed nuclear weapons.

The NK government already has an "official" Linux distro, "Red Star OS," indicating at least some level of technical ... well, let's not say prowess, let's say comprehension. (Likewise, the proliferation of cheap high-tech goods smuggled over the Chinese border has forced the NK government to announce its own smartphone, though few people believe the factory to be anything other than a Potemkin fab, with the actual phones shipped over from China.)

You have to assume that a nation state, even one as impoverished as NK, can mobilize the kind of cash necessary to train a few hundred (at most) hackers, using Chinese or Russian instructors. It's much cheaper than hiring Makeyev OKB to design another ballistic missile system, and, unlike nuclear and missile tests, the international community doesn't have a unified playbook for dealing with target hacks, particularly against non-governmental systems. No one's going to war for Sony, but if NK is behind (or believed to be behind) the attack, you can bet that the USG has found Sony's experience to be rather bracing.

Having said that, I agree that the evidence favoring NK as the culprit is circumstantial and hazy at best. Even the best evidence they're provided is dependent on a chain of assumptions that I think haven't been properly validated.

This isn't a "WMD in Iraq" situation, because the USG would have loved for the Sony hack to be a bunch of anons doing it for the lulz (though now that the government has committed to the NK story, it's hard to backtrack). After all, we couldn't do much over NK's nuclear program, which is a crisis many, many orders of magnitude more serious than the Sony hack; calling out NK for this just underscores the fact that we don't have many levers to move against Pyongyang.
That's brilliant! How much more useful than arguing over the 'great man' theory etc. Just lay out the causes and understand how they contribute.

Btw I was at the WWI memorial in Kansas City (created just a few years after the war) and they list Darwin as a cause of the war! The leaders of the world had read his "Origin of the Species". It was variously interpreted politically to mean 'the strongest culture will win' and used by the German leadership to justify war. War was natural, it would winnow the nations down to just those worthy of survival, and Germany was the most worthy.
India? Sri Lanka? Thailand?
That `enum Counter` example (and Either in general) is a union type and not a sum type. It's either Counting (with a u32) or Halted (with a u32) but never both at the same time.
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Whoa! Noone mentions elm (elm-lang.org)?!

There is much brewing in language land. Rust brings a set of ideas that other languages will borrow (pun intended). But..

Elm restarts programming, treating events as lists, and this is how programming will change over the next 5-10 years in a most fundamental way.

Taken together programming is climbing out of the miserable non-composable mess that having been stupid bread-and-butter bit-fuckers have put us in. Elm just leads the pack.

You may not understand its ways, that is exactly because you think being a bread-and-butter bit-fucker is a feature, while it most definitely is not. It is a bug and it infests the code you write, up to the point where unlearning is an unsurmountable effort.

When elm's wave is through, the computer will replace you, and with it children will design much better programs than you do. Please stop making sense now.
The cost of atheism
I wanted to assess the interest. I wanted to know if there are other people out there who would love a linux laptop. This is actually a personal itch of mine. i feel the only thing holding back linux is quality hardware which truly brings out the best in it. Hence, after gauging the interest here I have started communicating with a few manufacturers. So stay tuned! :)
Right or wrong, many people that I've worked with view the 10-minute morning stand-up meeting as a "starting function" for their day. This would completely break that function of a stand-up.

I'm also not too fond of anything that would cause people to work later in the evening. The one problem I see this potentially fixing is the feeling of forgetting everything you did over the weekend.
"I apologize if what I said offended you in anyway"

No need to apologize (though I do appreciate the civility). I was not offended -- I just did not want anyone to think that my beliefs were based on no evidence, because that is not true.

Your point about believing in God as an omnipotent being is important. You said "...if someone chooses not to believe in such a god, then I don't see how you can make them believe virgin births or the integrity of 2000 year old eye witness accounts." I merely suggested that people read one of the accounts. I believe God is omnipotent. I believe those accounts are accurate, because God has protected them, because they are His testimony about Himself and how He has dealt with man's sin. And I believe these things because I read the accounts and was convinced that they were true, and that the accounts themselves were of divine origin.

I'm not trying to argue anyone into becoming a Christian. I'm merely stating my own beliefs, trying to explain the reasons behind them, and encouraging anyone who is interested to read the book that led me to those beliefs.

On the other point, the fact that "history is full of people who used religion to serve their own agenda (recent example: Al Qaeda) thus giving religion as a whole, a bad name" is really not an issue to me. It is cutting a pretty big swath to lump everyone who has some belief in a supreme being into one large group. There are vastly differing beliefs between people which lead them in vastly different directions. There are always people who will use anything they can for their own selfish gain. It think it is a huge mistake to ignore God altogether just because many people have done evil things in His name. My faith is not in other people. My faith is in Christ. I am convinced He is not just an ordinary man, but that He is God in the flesh. The things that He said and did, the way He talked to people, the way He answered people's questions. All of that convinced me of who He is.

Again, if anyone is interested I would encourage you to read the book of John (I linked to it in my other posts on this subject) and to draw your own conclusions.
Wow, so _this_ is what this toy was. I got several non-working pieces from a yard sale when I was in 5th grade, and had no idea what to make of it -- other than it looked
seriously cool. Since it was non-functional, the pieces mainly became incorporated into Lego play-time.

Really neat to see the full extent of the product.
Calendar Reform
This speaks to something I predicted a few years ago: professional workstation machines will go up in price substantially as the economies of scale start to disappear for the major manufacturers producing them. The only way for them to build them sustainably will be to increase margins by raising prices. By 2016, we may be paying close to $4K for such machines.
>If you thought Unix was good, the question should be "why don't you use plan9?"

Because I don't control the technical infrastructure of my employer or my employers customers and plan9 is not trivially compatible with that infrastructure.

... Which is why people are interested in what other people are doing with it.
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Does it really matter whether it's a scalability issue though? The bottom line is that the code has bugs, whether it's due to the fact that the codebase is large is somewhat irrelevant.
All "finestsquad" seems to have done is doxed various people the lizardsquad twitter has followed over time, I doubt they're stupid enough to follow themselves.
Suggestion: allow us to use left/right button to navigate.
> Post-Watergate, post-Snowden

The only times the state has been caught lying!
You are criticizing the GC process, not the h1b process. The h1b is to address a temporary worker shortage, not put people on a long term immigration track due to high skill.

It would be great if we had such a track (beyond people of extreme talent), but we don't.
Whether NK is behind this hack or not, you cannot deny that the president's statement is a show of force. It is a clear message to any country that plans to use 'cyberwarfare' against the United States - we will retaliate proportionally.
I agree. Why the assumption the Type 3 capable civilisations will necessarily wish to metastasise across the entire universe? One would hope that civilisations' ideas of what constitutes fulfilling and worthwhile activity will evolve and improve along with their technology.
How does this differ from FRP in Haskell?
This is good, and perhaps less about "not invented here" then about trying to solve social/organizational/human problems with blind application of technology:

> mindlessly replacing human labor with technology instead of solving the actual problem.
I've already started, there is a bigger challenge though. That is, how do you sell this? I can think of plenty of scenarios for the oil and gas industry, which is the biggest industry where I live.

For example drilling for oil in sea is quite expensive, could easily cost over 100 million USD. With machine learning we can predict the seismic ground pattern by predicting the amount of clay, lime etc in different locations and between wells. This can help us to decide if there is a good chance there could be oil/gas underground.

The problem when I present this, is that it quickly sounds like science fiction.
Yes that's it exactly. I've tried to use Linux on the desktop in several startups. Each time, the hardware had outstripped Linux support. We'd have raid scsi controllers; Linux would use them as single drives. We'd have good graphics cards; Linux would run in the lowest mode.

So we switched to running supported OSs, with Linux running in a virtual machine for the tools we couldn't get otherwise. (We were building software for embedded Linux devices)

I suppose it had something to do with Linux being done open-source. Which means it has to wait for some interested party to get around to supporting new hardware. I used to say, we could use Linux full-time once it had a 'have disk' button like other OSs. Meaning once I could install drivers from the manufacturer frictionlessly.

I imagine all that's been fixed by now? I haven't been tempted to use Linux in 5 years.
That is not what they have done at all.

These aliases and information are present on channels far away from Twitter.
Reading these replies just makes me sad. There's plenty of value in and plenty to learn from older technologies like Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk, and Forth.

Sure, there's a lot of hype around newer technologies. There's never a shortage of hype. But the glow around virtually all of them will fade, probably sooner rather than later.

Ruby and Python are no longer considered hot and new, but not so long ago they were. Java and Perl had their share of hype back in the day, but the luster has certainly wore off by now.

Too many people involved in the tech field are endlessly chasing the next shiny thing.
actually it has some websocket support https://github.com/KeepSafe/aiohttp/issues/194
Must haves for your ecommerce website [Quora]
Earlier this year, around 3 months ago, when i bought my brand new Macbook Pro 15" Iris Pro (the one without discrete graphics card). I was i disappointed in the performance of the UI, and i uploaded 3 videos to showcase the problems.

A 2000$ dollar machine stuttering when i drag windows around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqUHfjD6qWc&index=1&list=UUE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1xhpFRDNdQ&list=UUEhez4TDTd...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNGYjFRQrSM&index=3&list=UUE...
There are stuff out there normaly tough of as "concentrations of dark matter"[1], altought nobody is really sure. I never heard about a "half eaten" galaxy, but I'd guess you hypostesis keep them that way for a very short time, so this is not surprizing.

The biggest problem I have with this family of explanations is that, unless the aliens discovered how to revert the Second Rule of Thermodynamics, they must irradiate some low temperature wave. And we measure nearly every candidate nowadays. Unless they are extremely far away, the only thing that could escape us is some very narrow band that happens to be out of range of all current telescopes - and those are not the features of a good heat sink.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_galaxy
The simplest way to implement that would be two SETxx instructions and a subtract on 386+, SLT/SGT on MIPS, two subtracts (or one compare and one subtract) and two predicated moves on ARM. No branching required at all.
In my opinion Hilton is just about the worst hotel brand out there. I actively refuse to stay there at any opportunity. They wanted to charge me 10 euros to use the gym when I stayed in one recently (this was a discounted rate as well because I'm a member of Hilton Honours), regular price for guests was 20 euros. For one use of the gym!! That's not far off what I pay for a month of 24/7 gym access at home.

Wifi was 25eu a day. A small bottle of water from the mini bar was 8 euros, a small coke 12 euros. A pretty average chicken ceasar salad from the restaurant was 35 euros. It's just crazy when you/your company are already paying 350 euros a night for a room.
Too pessimistic. The new learns from the lessons of the old. I'd advise a new student to start with tools that reflected advancements in thought and practice. It might be cool to use the old tools because they are part of history; but its not helpful to the new student.
I knew that name sounded familiar.
... or, how about the hypothesis that we were intended to be a seed package (a.k.a. "biological rootkit") but due to a bug in the programming, we failed to develop properly. Just a mistake playing itself out...
http://elm-lang.org is a functional and reactive client-side (js target) language that is still young and getting great very fast. http://pragmaticstudio.com/blog/2014/12/19/getting-started-w... The idea of combining Elm with Elixir or Yesod (Haskell) on the server side seems exciting.

Another interesting project is Snabb Switch. If you want to learn networking at the lowest level and highest speed possible in software, Snabb a great platform for experimentation.

Finally, I'll throw in http://terralang.org. It's not networking related. But, I think it's terribly interesting and not getting any attention.
Interesting, I just built a service sort of like this yesterday and was going to 'beta' test it with my team starting monday. I don't like the "evening" and "morning" emails, as I work on a distributed team and "evening" and "morning" are very subjective.

Distributed and remote employees I think is one of the biggest challenges facing the work place at the moment, with no good solutions available yet.

btw, your ssl cert is broken when visiting non-www.
Given Kim his past there is no reason to not believe he is not behind this by either 1) seeding it for publicity or 2) working with law enforcement (those accounts will be used/sold once).