skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be absolutely lovely.

Since we're not viewing headers manually on 80x25 terminals anymore, we could do away with multi-line header values. That alone would drop off most of the complexity. (Being perfectly honest, even though it's part of the standard, you don't have to parse them now, anyway. I don't, and I've never had anyone complain to me about the site not working. Nothing mainstream sends them for the important fields.)

Add a Server-Push header (filename+ETag), and we could eliminate most extraneous 304 Not Modified requests. Have browsers actually acknowledge Connection: keep-alive instead of opening tons of parallel requests. And leave this as the "hobbyist level, can't afford wildcard SSL certs" option, and I think it'd be quite beneficial.

If browsers want to warn that it's not encrypted, fine. So long as they don't go into ridiculous hysteria levels like they do now with self-signed certs.

One immediate potential downside is Apache. It completely ignores the protocol request. If you ask for "GET / HTTP/1.2", or even "GET / HackerNewsTP/3.141e", it will happily reply with "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"

As a result, the negotiation would be trickier than with HTTP/2.

But like you said, it could be done in a way that it's 100% backward-compatible with existing 1.1 software, so long as their responses are also in a compatible, simplified format (and most already are.)
Coming soon: Firefox Safe Browsing: If you attempt to go to a site that is not on Mozilla's whitelist, it blocks it. Also for 'security' purposes.

Mozilla are using 'security' in the same way oppressive politicians use terrorism and/or "Think of the children!".
In answer to the title question: No.
I think most common way of thinking about Marx' work today is that he was often right in describing what's wrong with the capitalism, but he was mostly wrong at the solutions.

Marx' apologists point out, not without a reason, that one of the problems with the attempts of bringing his theories to life is that those attempts were done in countries not well suited to do it. Marxism, according to Marx, was supposed to be another step in the evolution of capitalism, yet it was tried in countries that didn't yet have any capitalism or had it in some very immature form, e.g. in post-tzar, soviet Russia.

On the other hand he was claiming that capitalism is unmaintainable and will fall by itself and that didn't happen either.
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

That said, building a $8 DIY version sounds like fun. Does anyone have more details on how the light is supposed to work? :)

edit:

https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=30153 has some good discussion of this and similar projects. Specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine, which is fully specified and was apparently pretty popular back in 2005: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/garden/20mach.html

As far as hardware goes, LEDs turn out to to easily support 10-30 flashes/sec. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/531 is $0.95, more than bright enough, and will work fine directly wired to a 3.3v arduino. I've ordered two (one for each eye) to be wired into an old sleep mask :p
though people argue that even if you make the distinction, one thing tends to lead toward the other
Sidenote: at the bottom of the motherfuckingwebsite link is a link to a blogging tool called txti:

http://txti.es/

You just type some stuff into the text box, submit the form and you've got a web page:

http://txti.es/4t17s

It's remarkably similar to jottit, a tool built several years ago by the late Aaron Swartz:

http://www.jottit.com/

Exact same thing: you type some text into a text box, submit the form and you've got a web page:

http://www.jottit.com/3bn7r/
Mozilla took the power user out around the back with the shotgun long, long ago, unfortunately; just the latest sacrifice in their futile war to copy everything chrome does (and yet the PHBs making these decisions still wonder why they are haemorrhaging market share). Time to move to Pale Moon.
My experience tells me that there are no correlation between these variables: one of my best friends is a great musician (pianist) and is terrible with foreign languages despite having had several language courses.

IMHO, would make more sense to rephrase it as:

Are singers better language learners?
How do i get boost my app downloads
Hello everyone,

I have a app that's been there on playstore. I have to boost it downloads. What are the most important steps i should take to boost it's download. Apart from using facebook,twitter. Please suggest.
I'm afraid you are - while things have improved for the reasons you outlined, corporate IT still going to be a major party pooper.
I don't know what they are referring to. I noticed that Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group owns 123.30.128.0/18 and 203.162.0.0/23 and a lot of IPs from those subnets have a PTR record of static.vdc.vn.

However, static.vdc.vn resolves to 203.162.0.78, not 127.0.0.1

There is another large network, 113.160.0.0/113.191.255.255 that seems to have PTR records of static.vnpt-hanoi.com.vn for all IPs, however that hostname has no A/AAAA record.

Pretty sloppy.

Looks like this has nothing to do with DNS, instead it's the hostname the machine displays in its banners for services like FTP or SSH.
Where the entire working class controls the state and sets policy, which the Soviet Union clearly did not have. I never said it was a good thing, my second paragraph highlights the flaws I see in it.

That is what Marx coined it as. Perhaps dictatorship wasn't so strongly associated with tyranny at the time of writing as it is now, which would make sense since we have much greater access to information now, especially accounts on what all the dictatorships of the 20th century were like.
I wrote an article on this a while ago which may be of use:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/01/you-are-...
Not poster, but:
http://www.ahbl.org/content/ahbl-policy-blocking-hosts-rdns-...
Yandex accuses Google of breaking antitrust laws in Russia
VN here. It's hostname of DNS server. I traced route to any domain and got the server IP.

http://www.ip-tracker.org/locator/ip-lookup.php?ip=113.165.1...

BTW, I don't know why they did that.
My PhD was made possible by the great HST. True testament to the infinite science made possible by great Space telescopes. Here's hoping JWST [1] is considered in a similar light 20 years from now.

[1] http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
What problems did you have exactly with sln/project/config files? They are plain text after all so if there are conflicts they should be of the same 'level' as conflicts in code files (i.e. can be a breeze to merge or a f*ing pain depending on the situation).
Introducing EMMC 5.1: The Next Step in Relentless Flash Innovation
Ah I've heard these referred to as 'login banners' or '<service name> banners' before. Thanks!

One wouldn't normally 'resolve a banner' though, since it might contains the version of a service used, and other information other than what a Unix `hostname` command would return. You'd resolve the hostname mentioned in the banner.
There Is Value in the Items on the Right
If you read the blog, there won't be. Mozilla ditched any pretence of caring about people with an IQ over 75 long ago.
They acquired Nokia with 30,000 employees then fired about one third of those.
No, those seem to be IDEs in browsers. I'd like to have complete environment.
>The light sells for around $20,000 ... the firm typically sells the machine to holistic therapy businesses.

No, I don't see any glowing 'SNAKE OIL' signs here, not at all.
"The sense of self-satisfaction from being feted by the high and mighty did begin, on occasion, to creep up on me. And what a non-radical, ugly, corruptive and corrosive sense it was.

My personal nadir came at an airport. Some moneyed outfit had invited me to give a keynote speech on the European crisis and had forked out the ludicrous sum necessary to buy me a first-class ticket. On my way back home, tired and with several flights under my belt, I was making my way past the long queue of economy passengers, to get to my gate. Suddenly I noticed, with horror, how easy it was for my mind to be infected with the sense that I was entitled to bypass the hoi polloi. I realised how readily I could forget that which my leftwing mind had always known: that nothing succeeds in reproducing itself better than a false sense of entitlement."

Unfortunate that the most important thought was buried at the bottom.
AT&T Offers Data Privacy – For a Price
Developers from Bolivia,Jamaica,Panama and 9 More Countries Can Now Sell Paid Apps
They get thrown under the bus.
It's certainly not the same thing, and I prefer the subtle stuff myself, but both types are sarcasm.
It's not the first game to feature doing this and you certainly wouldn't play these kind of games without knowing that this is happening (since that's the main gimmick of these games) so you can't really complain about their behaviour when it's been made quite clear beforehand.

But if you really wanted to play this game without it viewing your porn collection / whatever, then you can always manage it with ACLs, chrooting or even virtualisation. It's not hard to sandbox processes and/or deny read access to specific sub-directories these days - even on home user orientated machines.
A program that tries to find a solution to the Goldbach conjecture will eventually halt. Either it finds a solution or the numbers themselves become so large that they overflow the computers working memory. The halting problem I think is only interesting for Idealized Turing Machines. For real computers, the Second law of thermodynamics should be enough to prove that any program will halt sooner or later.
The Reading Level of the State of Union Address Is in Decline
(Nearly) Getting Started with ClojureScript
Would you recommend a resource serving as an introduction?
You're talking about reddit. I thought we were talking about academic work in philosophy.
I'd really like to know what this means in the context of MeteorJS - particularly how the HTTP Push feature will affect MeteorJS in the long run. Does it make MeteorJS redundant?
"On the other hand he was claiming that capitalism is unmaintainable and will fall by itself and that didn't happen either" yet...
very useful article....
No true Scotsmen fallacy.

I read Capital and some other bugs. Problem is that Marxism defined as 'class struggle' is essentially hate movement, they are defined by their enemy. Once they come to power and the 'class struggle' is solved, it does not have any more solutions. So it needs 'constant revolution'.

> For one, a dictatorship of the working class, such as direct democracy, is a cornerstone of communism but clearly did not feature in Soviet states.

It did. But 'working class' was defined as factory workers, but 90% of people were working in agriculture. Marxist solution was to convert everyone into factory worker and kill rest.

> It was a distortion by Stalin, I believe, since it's also called Stalinism.

Stalin was not distortion, there were other leaders similar to him, who would take his place if we would not exist. Also other countries followed similar fate (China, North Korea...)
It's one of the false westerners' believes that keep from fighting ISIS effectively. Just yesterday here was a good article on this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9061725
Ah yes! I'm so unconsciously middle class I forgot about the Magaluf crowds, etc.
New insight into how brain performs 'mental time travel'
Show HN: No More – Android Tracking App to Quit Addictions (Promo Code for HN)
I have recently finished developing an app called "No More!" which is meant to support you in defeating any addiction or bad habit you'd like to get rid of. It's your classic day tracking / don't break the chain app, with a few extra features like milestones, motivational quotes and quick in-app website/contacts shortcuts, all wrapped in a nice material design interface.

http://www.leoncvlt.com/apps/nomore

The app comes with advertisement plugged in and an in-app purchase to remove them - however for the launch window I'm giving away a promo code to you HN guys to disable them.

* Go to the Settings
* Go to "Credits & Licenses"
* Tap "Enter Promo Code" and enter the code "hackersrule". Enjoy!

Thanks for checking this out.
Reductio ad Hitlerum is rarely a constructive addition to a debate.
Yes definitely. Investors (Tech. Angels, VCs etc.) are all open to the idea of 'free' products as long as there is a monetisation/revenue model in play.

You don't need to charge users to make money. Data for e.g. is a great avenue for revenue.

Why do you think all those investors invested in the likes of Google & FB anyway?
The problem with Marx is that he usually provides insightful diagnostics but lousy solutions. As Varoufakis says, social-democracy was very influenced by a subset of Marx's ideas. There have been plenty of prosperous social-democratic countries.
There is a paper by a Qualcomm engineer that talks about how standards are set and how patents play a role in it, specifically in the context of 3GPP. It is a pretty complex process involving attending meetings and casting votes, and many participants do not contribute any technology. Surprisingly, patents seem to be an afterthought.

But then Qualcomm makes a billion or so every year in royalties, so that's something to keep in mind. Will link the article if I can find it.
I don't quite understand this also. My guess would be the PTR record to in-arpr s are messed up with "localhost."
What happened in 1969 that can change the way you look of software development?
no, there just is no such thing as "Marxism" as a nation-state level policy.

Marx was a critic of capitalism, and did not propose any vision of how society should be constructed beyond "workers should own the means of production" (which, of course, has never been tried as a nation-state level policy, and was not tried in the USSR, Mao's China, etc.).

for more: https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/2uegfi/karl_mar...
Perrin Sequence
"Academic research has found that people’s susceptibility to flattery is without limit and beyond satire. In a study published in 1997, B.J. Fogg and Clifford Nass of Stanford University invited people to play a guessing game with a computer, which gave them various types of feedback as they played. Participants who received praise rated both the computer and themselves more highly than those who did not—even those who had been warned beforehand that the machine would compliment them regardless of how well they were doing. Yes, even blatantly insincere, computer-generated flattery works."

From: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21639500-being-good-n...

And thus the winners of the system justify our inequality.
As someone who voted for his party (mostly for anti-corruption reasons), i think he was the worst choice for finance minister. I never understood what his (so called modest) proposal was in any way since it was always hidden in a nebulous universe of words that in the end amounted to nothing substantial. This article is equally vague. I know he 's a media darling, but he 's too narcissistic and argumentative to be taken seriously.
We need some system to assign XKCD score to discussions - how may relevant XKCDs were linked in them :) .
>how easy it was for my mind to be infected with the sense that I was entitled to bypass the hoi polloi

Well a first class ticket costs far more than the economy class and offers more perks. So actually he was entitled to walk past them because he purchased that privilege. And he was able do so even though he wasn't born into aristocracy/nobility.
Example.zip is a valid domain
Thanks for clarifying, and good luck with the app. Data transfer between phones and computers is frustratingly painful right now, so anything that can bridge the gap is welcome.
Rebased fixes are easier to audit, so I can see an open source project preferring them. Otherwise, just freely merge to/from trunk. Prevent criss-cross merges though, those are a pain.
It was once presented to me as a fact, and they asked for a proof, that n|k(n) if and only if n is prime. I immediately said that it couldn't possibly be true, so I was challenged to find a counter-example.

This was in the days before languages like Python, with arbitrary precision integers. I used C to find the first place it failed, and indeed, all counter-examples less than 2^32.

There aren't many, and they have interesting things in common. It's a fascinating mathematical and programmatic playground.
Yup. His Critical Mass is possibly my favourite game of all time; more than any other, it really captures the "a minute to learn, a lifetime to master" ideal.
Did Marx explicitly state working class as factory workers? Farmers who did not own their land would fall under the same category, surely?

From what I've read about Marx's theories and the Soviet Union, they are two separate things. It's like comparing communism to state capitalism.

Stalin also lived a life of luxury whilst many starved. This is exactly what communism was meant to prevent. This is just capitalism gone wild but where the state has a monopoly. The man at the top still eats 3 meals a day whilst enjoying movies and fine wine where a whole strata goes hungry.

Funny side note: I was born in Scotland but told I'm not Scottish. I'm literally not a true scotsman. Made me laugh.
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Oh no!
It wouldn't be a mess of glitching, flickering, sliding about "dynamic" content slots that would actually work better as a plain static website...
There are webpages that cause firefox to need more RAM than AAA games
Sarcasm for (I hope) sarcasm
Oh dear... I got same certificate at $3.50/Year at https://www.cheapsslshop.com

I did comparison at the time of purchase and I never found lower than cheapsslshop. They also sell other certs at huge discount.
> every customer's IP resolves back to localhost

What does this even mean?

First of all, what does it mean than an IP resolves to a hostname? I thought it's the otherway around: hostnames resolve to IPs.

Second, isn't this .. normal? localhost is always your local machine.

Please help me understand
Same effect at about 1/1000th of the price: http://cornfieldelectronics.com/tripglasses/trip.home.php

(I can verify that the effect is real. It works better if you're already high, though.)
I agree, and have no problem with a binary protocol (you always have to go down to the byte layer if you want performance networking or storage). But they could have made it much easier, just look at the spec on http://json.org (BSON isn't that bad either). I sometimes wonder if RFC's are designed to be human readable..

I think 5% is a very conservative figure. HTTP has massive overhead for lots of small file (look at the http joke), even with browser caching it still requires multiple round trips (empty TCP frames!) and compression has a negative impact on small files (overhead & bigger files)

The problem is, that to use this effectively (sending a page, plus any CHANGED assets down a single request). Requires quite a bit of work on not only the webserver, but also the application.

Another plus with reusing connections, is not having to re-authenticate every request.
> They have basically laid claim to the mechanism of any electronic device that communicates in any way.

Just so we know, could you point out the relevant portions claiming that?
He knows it was paid for. He either questions whether the money was rightly apportioned to him and his flight or he questions whether money should be able to buy that privilege. See also Sveme's comment.
That's like saying: so there is no example of existentialism working? Marxism can't be reduced to a ready made model for how society should work.
"This is an excellent article." - the comment section on this (Guardian) website is hilarious.
I'm working at a Minneapolis (well... Minnetonka...) based startup as well and I agree completely. Finding talent in the city is really difficult. I've been wondering if this is unique to the Mpls/StP metro or if CS talent is just getting really hard to come by in general. We currently have 2 (soon to be 3) openings and I still haven't seen a really exciting candidate.

CS talent, please come to Minneapolis. We have beer!
Privacy is a much larger topic than Google. The point I am making is that it's a bit past disingenuous to hold forth on a topic when you are not an honest broker in the overall topic itself..

Find the down votes interesting though...heh...
Google accused in breaking antitrust laws in Russia
Li Ching-Yuen (1677-1933)
If you're talking about Exile: Escape from the Pit, it predates Icewind Dale by 5 years.

I doubt either side would intentionally rip the sounds from another game when there are relatively cheap and safer alternatives available. If you're right, it's probably a case of the same sound pack being bought and used - this type of thing happens all the time with anything related to audio.
How do I identify an ‘early adopter’?
This is a specific case which is part of a broader fundamental principle. This principle might sound reduntant, and it's basically that "people who learn how to learn are better learners".

Learning how to play a musical instrument is something that never permeated our general culture as much as it should've had, which implies that doing so requires the acquisition of -in some level- unconventional skills.

This ability to acquire unconventional skills can be extrapolated to any other area of knowledge. For example in my case, the shift was from music to CS.

EDIT: BTW, I speak 3 languages.
One issue with the more traditional marxist point of view is that it tends to treat "capitalism" as a permanent, monolithic entity. The capitalism that Marx observed in places like Manchester in the XIX century effectively fell a long time ago, along with the British empire and the steam machine. If one wants to translate Marx's principles to the modern world, a very critical eye is needed. I believe that is what Varoufakis is trying to do here.
What you said is really key. Defining any movement by hate is pathologic in the first place, no matter the rationalizations. What's worst, it will focus on self propagation of that (un)prupose.
You really exposed the bug.
> This is ugly and pollutes your history graph across branches. After all, a merge should only occur to merge a finalized branch in.

>> This sounds like a completely arbitrary rule to me. I just don't get why people try so hard to avoid merges, and instead go down the rebase route.

I agree, I think that graph looks fine. I often end up with this, not just to avoid a big merge later, but because functionality I'm working on can benefit or depend on other work done on the main branch.
All those northern European social democratic parties started out as parties devoted to bringing about communism through democratic means. The countries governed by those have done pretty well.
The Communist Party of China is not exactly Communist anymore, is it?

China could have had its current prosperity (and more) much earlier if not for the Communists :(
So based on one counter-example you're implying that a correlation doesn't exist?
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