skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
State of the Nation: Shame of the Nation 2015 (South Africa)
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Or have no other way to feed yourself?
As a world traveler the only time I've ever had with booking a hotel is when I used a hotels own website.
One advantage of using a third party site is better ui. And if you use a large enough site, they have their own customer support
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That's why the ' in Let's is red!
Sitting for long periods increases risk of early death, regardless of exercise
I'm in the middle of the most productive streak I've ever had working on pet projects, using a combination of an IDEAS.md file and the GitHub contributions calendar.

IDEAS.md is always the leftmost tab in my Sublime workspace. Every project I have an idle though about, a concrete idea for starting, or a next thing to work on gets a heading. Most of these have just 2 or 3 lines under them. For larger projects, there may be a big bunch of ideas, with some picked out for the next release. Every time I edit what's under a heading, I move it to the top. This keeps a mix of bigger and smaller projects, big and small tasks, high-level and low-level ideas churning in the file, making it more likely to be able to find something I feel like doing right now.

(One of the ideas is to write a React app to automate this)

Above the first heading I keep a list of generic grunt work that needs done and high level things which could be tried with any project, like learning to use new tools. If I'm not feeling it on a particular day, a combination of these and not wanting to break the chain can get me started doing something, which usually leads to other things, even if they're just more ideas.

At the end of every day, I "Close all to the right" on IDEAS.md so it's the first thing I read every morning.

I've found that actively doing at least a little bit of development every day, even when I don't feel like it, has made me more likely to feel like it over the last 4 months and more likely to have a go at something instead of mulling over it. An idea becomes a quick proof of concept. A quick proof of concept gets fleshed out and becomes a project. A project gives you ideas for new features and other, related projects and on it goes.
x-(

DNS issues .. Have rectified them !

:-o
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Devinderjit Sivia and John Skilling
I prefer the (shorter) 1st edition
Aren't we loosing the focus by looking at the Lisp Machines only from "HW" point of view? They were "ported" on Alpha, and I can run them today on a x86-64 VM.

I think we're overwhelmed by nostalgia and this stops us from looking at what's important: software. We are missing the software pieces that made the Lisp Machines. We don't have those and this is more important than not having a CL CPU.

I would hate to have a Lisp Machine made with today's custom hardware and all the C/C++/Java/Python guys come and ask: what was the fuss was all about? Where's that IDE from 25 years ago you so proudly preached?
> The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1).

>>I actually can't do that with GPL code - not because my employer tells me
>>not to but because I know that could get my employer into trouble.

This is extremely loose and deceptive talk. That freedom is genuine and valuable. You are talking about something completely different, that has no bearing whatever on freedom 1.

The company I work for modifies and revises GPL'd code all the time. It causes us no problems whatsoever, because we don't release or distribute it. Instead we just use it internally for our own purposes. Nothing in the GPL restricts your use, abuse or modification of the code. It only restricts how you can go about sharing and distributing it.
"...maximize long-term reproductive success..." - where 'long-term' means 30 years based on observable health decline. We have to switch to metal bodies or something.
What's with the auto-playing music when you hit their main page though? It looks like a great project, and I do love Mario and all things Nintendo, but auto-playing music is just obnoxious.
Brings back fond memories of playing minesweeper.
They are publishing one. Also have a trading terminal monopoly.
It means I like your discordian nature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
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I don't enjoy playing these games but I might use it as practice and write a CSP solver on the weekend :)
I've been looking for some time for the whole paper but could not find anything but the abstract. Is it anywhere to be found?
Decrypting the Aphex Twin Soundcloud
Isn't this just minesweeper?
Yes exactly and from my experience it's really the best browser available on Windows XP.

I've even seen myself a Windows XP with Firefox installed in a shop just a few days ago.
That may be the case now that FLOSS is worldwide renowed and people are starting to realize that private forks are costly, but it wasn't always so.

The GPL was instrumental in forcing people to behave when nobody knew what to do, and it has been so successful that now people expect the behaviour enforced by it even when using more permissive licenses.
It could be named "A rather unfortunate architectural decision that can make browsers write keys in plaintext without users explicitly enabling it" but that would be a little verbose. A malicious program can add a SSLKEYLOGFILE environment variable (if it's not systemwide, it doesn't need root privileges for that).

I guess we can haggle over whether or not this meets the "definition" of a backdoor. "Can give unrestricted access to encryption keys" is backdoor in my book, but I'm not a fan of taxonomy, the retarded child of sciences :).

I can understand why this... um, this feature, would be useful in developer builds. Why it's present in anything that is shipped to users is beyond my ability to comprehend. It should be behind an ENABLE_DANGEROUS_PLAINTEXT_LOGGING switch that is off by default. What's the thought process by which someone decides giving this to users is a good idea? Is there something I'm missing here?
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Celebrating that is a recipe for resting on your laurels and allowing it to continue. There is nothing to celebrate here. You should be mad as hell and doing something about it.
Great analogy.

I have to avoid GPL and LGPL code like the plague because I have to release close-sourced commercial software for my employer, and look for BSD licensed code for my own software because I have to eat.
No. That's not it, and I'm tired of people lying and claiming that's all it is.
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Visting his Twitter feed is so strange... It gives me the feeling that in a way he's still here. :( https://twitter.com/carr2n

10h ago carr2n retweeted:
Watch @citizenfour @TimesTalks w/ @ggreenwald, Laura Poitras, Ed Snowden & @carr2n. Livestream starts in 15 minutes: http://timestalks.com/laura-poitras-glenn-greenwald-edward-s...
I have no idea. I think I read it a long time ago, but I'm sure I was in university back then so it may have been in the library or something.
Creating publication-quality figures with Matplotlib
Or just chips failing to read? Their failure rates seem to be much higher than magstripe.

In my experience if you try to use a broken chip+pin card you will almost always be allowed to use the magstripe "bypass" instead.
It's possible but I don't know of anything open source that exists yet. The stack I'm working on deals with the underlying issues you describe, including storage and identity/connectivity (which is the basis of the social network aspect you mention) [1]. I commented a few days ago on how such a system might work for the example of photos [2].

[1] http://nymote.org/ (which uses MirageOS unikernels http://mirage.io)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9026778
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Thanks!

I meant the 126! Duh! Thanks!

It was the incredibly noisy aircooled version I sat in.

I once went to a gig in my brother's Beetle but he'd taken all the soundproofing out as he was getting a new interior fitted; I was deaf by the time we got there, had an incredibly loud gig then got deafened on the way back. I don't think my ears have ever recovered.

My Beetle is a 1972 Deluxe, original username don't you think?
> But I'm a little confused by what the goals of the GPL license are besides a warm and fuzzy feeling that no-one is ripping them off though.

To make sure open source developers aren't used as sharecroppers by companies that take their work, sell it for a profit, and don't release any improvements or allow anyone else to benefit from the fact the original work is open source.

(Other version hidden by mistake.)
Wow, a great way to save money though I suppose? Best drive carefully and hope the accident is the other person's fault!

Personal liability for accidents is a horrifying thought.
I can't tell if you're defending this line of thought or making fun of it, but the term "regular language" has a specific mathematical meaning and perverting it to include how Perl uses the term is wrong, plain and simple.
He could put steel wheels on if they're alloys already. The steel wheels keep momentum better.

Also, he could just drive down hills, not up them.

And with a prevailing wind.
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>browsers could
recognize YouTube's boilerplate
embedding HTML and rewrite it with
YouTube's HTML5 video.

Browsers themselves don't need to do it. It could be a (very useful) browser extension or a user script.
By realizing that if I am not working on it, it's not a project but an idea.
Like you, I have a very long list of ideas and quite a limited amount of time.
So I tend to just pick one or two and ignore the rest until something makes me change my priorities.
Wow, downvotes, amazing.
This Startup Won the Drones for Good Competition of 2015
If the attacker can add an environment variable, they can add a command-line switch or about:config value or modify my firefox binary or install an addon that saves my password fields.
I'm sorry but who is he? Could someone update the title to be more informative?
>> complicated society, unlike rats. Which can muddle the conclusions of this study

Or rather of any study trying to deduce from rats onto humans. And that's not to say that rats have a non-complicated society.
No sockpuppet or astroturfing comments on Hacker News, please.
It's not theft because you can copy the "chickens" in this case.
Google cache of the original page in question,
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TSYSWNu...
ElectricMood’s lightweight scooter zooms past its Indiegogo goal in 24 hours
Wait a second...

Was the fake cert trusted by your phone? If affirmative, did you manually add the root cert from your fake CA or at least accepted that cert as trusted?

If you didn't explicitly trust that cert and the application didn't complain we're in front of another completely wrong use of SSL.
C99 tricks
I find httpWatch with Firefox and IE much better than Fiddler for HTTP debugging purposes. However it is not free.
Hope I'm not late to the party...Does anyone have an implementation(s) to recommend in Python?
I cannot take any GPL code and put it into a product and sell the product without releasing the source.

As the source would have to be available, people could take the source and compile the software and then wouldn't have to pay me, so I could never make a profit.

It's why GPL and LGPL code is best (totally?) avoided in commercial closed-source products.
I view writing a language as either a creative epiphany or evidence of psychosis, so when I see someone with a language on their CV I'm always careful to explore why they wrote it. Surprisingly often they think it's going to Solve All The Problems rather than allowing them to explore one of the deepest and most important parts of the programming art.

I've written little languages (mostly for generating code in other languages, which proved to be an interesting way to explore certain design patterns) but always shied away from going all in on a bigger language. Maybe when I retire...
When playing this kind of game, you are not actually playing, but training your brain to be like a cpu which is dumber in logic but stronger in following a procedure.

And your fun is over when you figure out the procedure, coz all you have to left is to get the input from whatever on the screen, feed it to the procedure and output the result to the mouse until u win.
Could somebody explain what the use is of HFT to society?
Because I don't get it.

Links are also welcome.
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I tend to make a quite strong distinction between 'work' mode and 'not work' mode. Certainly when working on your own business, there tends to be some gray areas.
I also aim to set aside reasonably fixed time frames for work.
So in 'work' mode, even if there's nothing to do right now (almost never in my case but well), I'm always doing business development, research, planning/building new features etc.

When I'm not working on my business, I tend to study (unrelated) topics, read, travel or spend time with friends.

But why not build an extra feature? Even if it's not requested, it can make your overall product better.
Or work on increasing your conversion rate?
If you're keen to contribute, get in touch: twitter.com/mahringer_a
Hi dang,

We are not connected to the above user. This is a project by my girlfriend and me, hence it is free as well(or at least till we can figure out a sensible business model around this).
> In that case you can't possibly read any code whatsoever.

Hyperbole isn't really called for. I can read MIT/BSD because that has patent allowances.

I'm not saying that GPL is bad, I am saying that GPL serves different freedoms to MIT/BSD which in turn serves different freedoms to proprietary (which does have freedoms, e.g. liability).

There is no one size fits all solution to licensing and there will never be.
No one should have to live with death threats. Even if most of them are from feeble minded idiots who couldn't carry it out they should be tracked down and treated the same as those who make such threats face to face.

Not many comments here. People should say something just as a tiny act of solidarity.
It depends a lot on what you do with the static method. If it's side-effect free, an Utils class with static methods can be a good way to test some business code without exposing private methods.

If it's impure, run away.
Shortening the bid/ask spread and increasing liquidity among other things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
I had fun doing Hecl. It didn't bring me fame and riches, but it did get used by a few companies, and it got me some interesting gigs.
So if the CEO of your company doesn't share your political views, and votes for or against a law that might harm you, that CEO doesn't belong in a position if power? Someone who is enacting his fundamental rights, and having an opinion shouldn't be in a position of power?
I'm curious, while he was a CEO did he do anything that would hurt his employees? Did he say anything that would indicate he would hurt his employees?
Could this type of investigation be done automatically. pulling data from FDA and cross referencing against medical journals and FDA redacted docs.

I would love to try however I don't feel i know enough about the available data to work out what would be required
As much as I like Rust, I have to say that it's not advancing a compelling argument for "fast compilers with complex types" (which isn't to say I don't think it can be done, just that Rust is by no means fast at compiling, and really only gets away with the slowness it has because its main competition still lacks a proper module system).
That's wrong.

The requirements are that birds in certain weight ranges, at certain stages of flight, when ingested will not cause an engine fire, will not prevent the engine from being shut down, and the engine will provide reduced thrust for a specified amount of time. E.g., one of the requirements is that a strike of a 1.35 kg bird at initial climb speed and takeoff thrust will not cause a sustained power loss of more than 25%, will not require an engine shutdown within 5 minutes, and will not result in a hazardous engine condition (e.g., fire). Another is that a 1.8 kg to 3.65 kg bird strike at that phase of flight won't cause fire, uncontained failure, or prevent shutdown and the engine will provide 50% power for at least 14 minutes, and that these requirements can be met with no thrust lever movement by the pilots for at least 15 seconds after the impact.

The engine will generally require extensive, expensive, repair, and the flight will generally have to declare an emergency so if this happens on or shortly after takeoff the flight will return to the airport, massively disrupting travel.

Also, those are the current standards. When an engine is certified, it is certified to whatever standard is current at the time. When the standards are later revised, engines already certified do not have to be brought up to the new standard. That are a lot of engines out there on standards from 20 years ago.

You can find many YouTube videos from plane watchers and plane passengers showing birdstrikes resulting in engines shut down and flights making emergency returns to the airport.
>GPL ensures freedom for users of the software, not developers of the software

GPL may be true for end user facing applications but it's terrible for libraries where the primary user is the developer.
Minesweeper was timed though, so the point was to go as fast as possible. But similarly to this, there was not much thinking involved after a bit of practice.

edit: just noticed you can enable timed game here, still liked minesweeper better :P
> It only restricts how you can go about sharing and distributing it.

Let me clarify this: the GPL allows you to redistribute your modified version. It only mandates you give your users the same rights you were given, so that they too can study and modify and share their work.

You get to stand on the shoulders of giants (for free!), but you have no right to prevent others from doing the same.
It looks like Hacker News is becoming NY Times proxy.
OK, via EMV commands it is not possible, but ATM's can run special (encrypted, signed and non-replayable) security scripts on the card to do card management. To be able to do this, you'll need keys only available to the card issuer. That is also the reason it only works at your own bank.
I am going off-topic but I have a question for you.

I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine who's into academics (2nd PhD). He's highly proficient in LaTeX/Perl/R and typeset his own papers (for publishing and for conferences) but he mentioned that researchers shouldn't do that because this is too much time consuming and it could be better done by someone trained for that: a secretary. But budget cuts ended up forcing researchers, who can hardly type with one finger (and aren't trained to use LaTex/R/etc.) , to type out their papers.

Wouldn't it be better if researchers could just send a rough draft to a service that would typeset and make beautiful plots out of it ? Isn't your officemate (may I assume he is a researcher too ?) running the risk to spend too much time on formating papers (and God knows you can spend a lot of time in LaTeX and R docs) ?
It's not gone from YT! It's certainly on its way out. But despite the announcement I still see Flash as default in Firefox and even in Chrome it sometimes falls back to Flash (happens to me when I start a video, put my laptop to sleep, and continue the video after resume).
Biometric security is one of the worst things to happen to security.
Personally I hate passwords, but biometrics aren't the answer.
How do you revoke the privilege when they are compromised?
How do you give the keys to someone else?
What happens when there is a life changing event that render your biometrics obsolete?
Can you still you a gumi bear to fool a fingerprint reader?
I worked for a client that was trying to develop a medical device (stents). I was told it was cheaper and faster to get approval in Europe.
A clever chap figured out a method a couple of thousand years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos
Could anyone tell me whether this supports markdown and whether it supports syntax highlighting? (kanban too if anyone knows). I tried reading on the respective github project pages but couldn't see anything related to those two questions.
Out of curiosity, what are the options on Windows XP? IE 8, Opera 12?
Nice to see someone pretend he knows all about social issues.

I don't even like that bar, now I'm going to go and have a drink there.
Please correct me if I am wrong in any of this, as I have a rudimentary knowledge of battery/capacitor/flywheel/Cox's timepiece tech at best. Li-ion make sense for supplying power for things which need Ah/kg high, but if you are not limited by mass, wouldn't maximizing aH/$ be the driving factor? Tesla has been making a massive push into li-ion fabrication and, as far as I can tell, not pursuing other energy storage mediums. Totally speculating here, but I would imagine a fly wheel, or even banks of lead-acid batteries, way out performing li-ion on total lifetime costs to the energy stored and discharged.
The secret is good insulation and thermal design.

If the house temperature doesn't fluctuate wildly day to night, your scenario doesn't apply.

Plus you need a lot less heating.
> And I believe your example with the T{val} is C++14 so I don't know much about it.

No, it's C++11.
> when people express this sentiment they are going out of their way to misunderstand things.

A very wise alien once said:

"Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom except the freedom to act irresponsibly."

It was a great movie, BTW.
Plus for Brown Coal, you must run dryers powered by the waste heat. These take DAYS to get up to speed.
>capable of fully unmanned two-way trip for starters

Nope. Technology and precision required for fully-automatic landing of such aircraft becomes available only now. That particular landing was remote-controlled by a closely following plane.
Any decent browser will display a certificate error for a Mitm attack. But yes, if you are using other programs/apps over an untrusted network, you can never be sure.
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> Game theory is a modeling tool that assumes all relevant utility is baked into the payoff matrix.

Correct, and they mostly use the prisioner's dilemma, which is very simplistic, and probably not what it happens in nature (or common situations) most of the time.
Neither MIT nor Harvard are public schools, they are both private.
I don't disagree with that in the slightest. Even a video that is not captioned today, could be captioned tomorrow.
Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk
I've used the ColorPy (http://markkness.net/colorpy/ColorPy.html) a bit before and had some good luck with it. Anyone know who colorpipe compares?
Is that a real number? I've seen a huge decrease in Windows XP users over the last year, from almost 20% to bellow 10%. But that was for different product, so I'm wondering if FF got it this bad.
I think the example appears to be in support of GPL. The farmer here compares to whoever releases GPL code and who feeds the chickens are the users of the GPL code. Am I wrong?
Also,

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Those are two completely different skill sets. one is knowledge of vulnerabilities and security, the other is about good web practices. There is no overlap in skill set here.