skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is good that the same tools that can be used for creating and bypassing game DRM, trainers and hack does not work here ...
According to wikipedia [0], the code that recognizes money was given to Adobe as a binary blob. So no go even if you have acces to the Photoshop source code.
[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
A great place to start (and it's free) is http://fontstruct.com/.

It's a grid-based system that gives you predefined shapes to build with. It's very easy to get started and you can create some really amazing fonts with it.
I wish the US go home instead of seeding war anywhere they go.

I visited Ukraine last month and one of the best things I saw was that war there was contained and "light" using mostly light weapons.

Russia probably has not the tech the US has, but Europe does, and Europe does not need a heavy nuclear war or loosing their main energy supplier(Russia).
For a defence company Lockheed Martin is actually a surprisingly good* player in the VR/AR community and they always have somewhat sane people at conferences etc.
Interestingly they often mentioned fighter pilot helmets as the best state of the art AR technology but when asked about specifics the answer was usually..."classified, sorry" which I always thought was kind of sad.

They were quite involved in the Virtual World project which is open sourced:
https://github.com/virtual-world-framework/vwf

*from my perspective as someone who thinks building weapons technology is pretty bad and something I'd never do personally
Sure, I've been following it pretty closely, as 1) it's interesting, and 2) I live in Italy, where we could potentially see some repercussions.

However, this article - and especially the headline - make things sound quite imminent.

It wouldn't be the first to mention capital controls or something else happening the weekend following this one, but they make it sound much more probable than others have.
You can blame Compagnolo for the 'group' concept.

That's why you can't just replace one element of the drive-train with a random other, you'll have to find a compatible piece and this can be quite hard after a bike gets older and that particular 'group' is no longer supported or serviced.

The idea behind a group is that chain, front and back dérailleur and the two sets of gears form a unit which work well together. The main driving force behind this is that if you add or reduce the number of gears on the pinion you're going to want a wider or narrower chain which affects the dérailleurs.

So there is some logic behind it but it can indeed be very frustrating to have to replace all of the drive train just because one small part is impossible to source.
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>Andrew Granville “There’s no way that somebody I’ve never heard of has done this.”

What an asshole.
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That's still interesting technology-wise. I'm clearly not fond of military-related technology in principle, but that's an interesting piece of equipment nonetheless.

What does the context change in this case? That it is (or not) a propagandistic advertisement doesn't change the fact that it's an interesting technology.
My understanding was that he wrote an effective program and wasn't allowed to use it for homework and tests.
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The creditor failed that by not offering the credit at zero interest, as they would have liked to have done unto them. Why should the golden rule only be applied one way?
Hmm, people are often more expensive than what you pay them. That's even true on civy-street, where you don't usually pay as large a propaganda costs when their employment is terminated.
What an overly dramatic article written by a whiny author. It's not disrespect, you are no one special.

"I don’t know what I would have become if my gifts had been acknowledged and nurtured rather than ignored." Boohoo. Two tears in a bucket. No one in this life owes you anything. The only person that ignored your gifts was you, and now you are making excuses for yourself. If you had worked harder in school, then you would have nurtured your gifts.

Respect is earned, and after read that post, I can't imagine anyone worth their salt giving the author any respect.
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I'm pretty sure SATA SSD performance is bottlenecked by the SATA bandwidth. It's the same flash inside.
I think you missed the point of the article, you should've read it all.
The author doesn't say JS frameworks aren't productive. He said that developers should also learn software architecture. It's a good advice imo.
It wouldn't be about counterfeiting, but about learning more about the detection algo :)
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Training a US fighter pilot costs 7 figures last I heard so they cost that to purchase, never mind maintenance fees :p
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I'm not sure about that. Buying bonds is merely one of many mechanisms to stimulate demand in the assumption we are in a demand poor crisis. Demand in Greece is sooo depressed because of the enormous debt that relieving it at all will have a positive demand experience.

Add to which Keynes original idea is to bury the money in bottles and any form of monetary supply increase is good.

I think I agree with downthread - finances as a form of control - it's a banker mentality.
The simple solution is to polyfill: https://github.com/paulmillr/console-polyfill
too right, extremely annoying bug, because when you open the dev tools to debug it, it starts working again!
This was almost me at some point. Thankfully I got out but it's a constant struggle.
As far as I know many countries use Digimarc for their money.

EDIT: Here is a source:

Recent versions of image editors such as Adobe
Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro refuse to print banknotes.
According to Wired.com, the banknote detection code in
these applications, called the Counterfeit Deterrence
System (CDS), was designed by the Central Bank
Counterfeit Deterrence Group and supplied to companies
such as Adobe as a binary module. However,
experiments by Steven J. Murdoch and others showed that
this banknote detection code does not rely on the
EURion pattern. It instead detects a digital
watermark embedded in the images, developed by
Digimarc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

An interesting hack is that this Digimarc pattern could be used for a Copy Attack [1]. To my knowledge the mark is not tied to the image of the bank note in any way. So in short:
You could extract the Digimarc pattern and apply it to any other document, which then in turn could not be edited by mentioned software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_attack
Completely OT, but holy $#!+ that's cheap! I pay $2.50 a lb (GBP45 for a 12kg bag) for dog food that is only 20% meat / meat derivatives, and includes grain. It's far from the most expensive but it's the best I have found at that price.
LOXET bug bounty competition. Steal an oldschool Volvo
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Uggh. A hamster in a cage running. Children would simply refuse to engage, with the 'remedial' classes being flooded with 95% of the pupils.
This jogged my memory - I remember these coming out in 2004:
Adobe_Photoshop_CS_Banknote_Patch-TiGER Adobe_Photoshop_CS_v.8.01_Banknote_Patch-PARADOX
Technically, I just did.
I don't always agree with him but I always enjoy reading Hayek's writing.

Another little treat - Keynes and Hayek discussing the 2008 crisis in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
Could you argue it's a weapon for saving people? Over 140 Christian students in Kenya were just massacred. An F-35 taking out the perpetrator's training camps could have save a bunch of innocent lives. One of the worst genocides in history (Rwanda) featured machetes being used to hack millions of people to death. How great would an F-35 been against the Nazis? How many millions of people could have been saved?

Weapons aren't evil. Evil is what's evil. Burying one's head in the sand à la Chamberlain led to the extermination of millions. The Khymer Rouge had no advanced weaponry and slaughtered millions.

In Gulf War I, 35,000 total deaths, in no small part because of smarter weapons. An entire country liberated from the Iraqis in just over a month.

How would advanced weaponry have changed the game in wars across history?

Even the Iraq war, which has been one of Anerica's longest has resulted in about 500,000 deaths. In the much shorter WWI it was 16 million deaths.

High tech weapons save lives. Wars will always happen be it with machetes or spears or with billion dollar aircraft systems. A world without war would be nice, but there will always be evil in the hearts of men.
Oh it will be a problem for other countries. But there are short term consequences to a Grexit for Greece, the long term consequences may be good but immediately you'll be looking at; capital controls so people can't move their money around, Euros being forcibly converted to drachma, Greek banks going bust (combined with capital controls that isn't fun), a temporary inflation spike.

So short term Greece's social problems will be exacerbated - and that is the problem, arrogance suggests that there won't be a problem. The government may be looked back on a different light in 5-10 years time, but when there is renewed rioting in the streets in a month that isn't so good.
I believe that the point of the two trains problem is not to make things "relevant" but to develop the ability to translate from an English description to an abstract mathematical representation.
"The service and a $100 microconsole launched in late 2010, but suffered from noticeable latency and image quality issues in our initial tests."

Did anyone expect differently?

Heck, I expect this would present significant challenges even running on a LAN

It's not a matter of technology, it's a matter of physical impossibility.

I can ping google with 5ms latency. That's for the usual ping size packet, allows for 200 round-trips per second.

Do you really expect to push inputs and get streamed video back (and encode and decode said video, which also takes time) with any kind of reasonable response time?
They yellow dots watermark output with printer identification information. I think this serves CDS, but has potential to be used/misused for so much more.
Can't we just have encryption inside the TCP/IP stack?
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I disagree with the last statement:
"While there is room for apple-oranges none of these seem to be successful so far. It seems to be common sense that SQL-on-Hadoop just like an apple-on-orange is not a great idea in terms of performance. Limited success in attempts such as Hive on Hadoop seem to prove this so far. Using low-level programming languages such as C++ with RDBMSs is also possible (see e.g. SQLAPI). However, described above advantages of RDBMSs most likely vanish if you do so."

Actian Vortex has shown that you can have a fully ACID compliant database running on top of Hadoop all while providing exceptional performance.
http://wwwcdn.actian.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AAP-Hado...
Hi res images of a 50 bucks euro bill: https://lucb1e.com/rp/randomupload/euro/

If you zoom in, you can see 50 written in many places in a really tiny font, barely visible if you look at it with the naked eye. In number 1, the yellow dots are clearly visible (if I remember correctly these are what Photoshop looks for).
Why is it ridiculous? The parent-poster suggested he keep his work private to avoid copyright infringement. In fact, the owner should not view potential infringement as any threat to his ability to exercise his freedom of speech (e.g. display his work).
yes, very good Update. I had also thought of this and was wondering what the hell "randomly distributed" even means rigorously. I wrote the other respondent this by email (before your Update :) ) since I wasn't sure of my reasoning -- http://rifers.org/paste/show/3314
Financial Times.
Some things they do means well, but doesn't deliver as much as you would think. Having a single parent with no job, no education and no support means that frequently that money goes into buying alcohol. If you think the majority of the poorest have been uplifted significantly, you haven't been in the streets in really poor areas.
Hollywood's white Afrikaans accent?
I'm mostly concerned about experimenting straying into "reverse engineering".
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Where did you get the idea that Haskell is a complex language? The core language is just 6 or 7 different expressions, everything else is syntactic sugar - it is in fact much simpler than C.

One of the reasons it's not widely adopted is that the features that programmers take for granted, like built-in syntax for mutable variables, are missing, i.e. it's too simple.
History often does not tell who is right or who is wrong, particularly when it comes to economics - 'though no one will believe it - economics is a technical and difficult subject' - when you mix in politics and ideology as well, the truth is often obscured.

There are people who argue that the New Deal did not help end the Great Depression: 'it was ending anyway' or 'the second world war ended it'.

The Obama stimulus was (a) useless (b) helpful but insufficient (c) just right.
Do you think history will reach a consensus on this?

Regarding your 'another viewpoint': Greece has implemented eye-wateringly bitter medicine.

Like medieval doctors, when bleeding fails to cure the patient, they call for more bleeding, blame the patient for not being devout enough, and say that the suffering is a punishment for past crimes.

The fact that bleeding did not manage to kill their other patients clearly demonstrates it was a success, and that Greece is the one at fault, not the doctors.
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Europe is too important to US power to be trusted with their own defense.
Heroku moving away from free dynos
I didn't find a blog post yet, but when logged in to heroku, they announce new pricing, linking to this page: https://www.heroku.com/private/beta-pricing (which needs a signin).
Before the free tier allowed you to run 1 dyno for free all month (going down if there is no traffic). Now the hobby tier only allows you to run half a month, or you pay $7/month.
Be Your Own Bank
I was raised in communist Europe too (and still live there, fortunately communism died:)). The food was bad, but for different reasons than now. Now food is very cheap compared to the food during communism, even in absolute terms, and people got more wealthy as well. And food is cheap mainly because there's a price/quality trade-off that just wasn't there. You can get great food now, and it's not much more expansive than food during communism was, but nobody buys it, because you can also buy stuff that seems OK and costs 70% less.

Back then there was "a butter", or "a pig meat" and you bought it. No point in having 2 different butters, right? Same with most of the stuff. If particular factory happened to make a good butter - you eat good butter, if you could buy it at all - that is.

And then there was secondary market - more important than the shops. People made stuff for themselves and family/friends, or for barter. And that food was good, because people did it for themselves mostly. Yes the Salmonella scare, etc - you cook your eggs and there's no problem. The salmonella scandals mostly happened with ice creams, and very few people did icecreams by itself. The cold cuts were a lot better than most of the stuff people buy today (99% meat, not 50% meat like the cheap wędliny of today). And no insane amount of various sugars in everything. Yes there was the problem of no vet control over the meat, but the only reason you could possibly want such control was a parasite, that was very rare anyway (and small farmers with 2 pigs and a cow each wasn't a good einvironment for the parasites to spread). Of course if you had vet friend you took the meat to him/her and gave him a few cold cuts for checking the meat for you. It was a whole secondary (hidden) economy.

Also now food is cheap so you can eat meat and sweets every day. And modern processed food is carefuly designed so you can eat it non-stop and want more. Natural food usually has some secondary tastes that make you stop after a while. The end result is - people eat much less healthy now, despite having more money, and better food available.

Of course widespread alcoholism and lack of modern drugs during communism nullified all the statistic benefits of better diet, except that there was no obesity.
It's good-enough for less intensive / movement-oriented games. Not that that covers much of what people actually want to play, mind.

Also some people are just not that sensitive-to or bothered-by bad quality media that the pickier amongst us would consider non-starters. e.g. there are plenty of people walking around noisy streets enjoying their music via earbuds that don't deserve to be free gift with a Happy Meal.
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Added the servo blog to my rss reader, waiting for the article that announce a compiled release.
HNStatus: “Going to rage update the RAID controller firmware and drivers.”
That and the plans were online and hacked by the Chinese as reported by Snowden. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/snowden-chinese-hac...
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It's obviously a binary because no matter what program, the error message looks identical. It's weird.
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Why? Can you go into more detail?
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There should be a warning of some sort that this is a 7.5 MB book, not just an article. It just wiped out my mobile roaming.

There's a lot to be said for hiding technical details from the non-technical general public, but there's something to be said for having occasional warnings.
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I wanted to get back into programming largely bc of what I read here and on my collection of programming Reddits. So much interesting and beautiful stuff.

And I know the increasing popularity of the JVM (if it ever wanted), is that the JVM primitives allow for some threading, which means parallel/concurrent use of processors cores at all. Seeing as people whine about Python and Ruby and GIL, native threads have to be found somewhere while also offering the own risks.

But thanks, I like this site because I can get a programmer's education in "what I worry about and what to avoid unless I am ready" while I learn, not after.
Yes, but they're hearing music as an afterthought in this case.

Of course there are games in this category: those on a mobile phone/Portable systems.

But their sales point is: "leasing games and equipment", however, if I'm doing this I expect good/high quality (like going into a LAN Gaming center)

I agree low quality is acceptable in a multitude of cases, but it doesn't fit with their product.
Don't worry, done and done. I play with Common Lisp on my machine, and I definitely dream of writing a web app in Clojure and Clojurescript once I finish some Java coursework. Things will slow down and I will understand the underlying Java/JVMisms as well as bonus. (Taking Java for school reqs, not for this reason of course, but it would be nice.)
WRT electronic countermeasures:

You can get a bunch of motion detectors and controllable outlets for cheap through Insteon/Smarthome. BestBuy has a decently priced starter kit with a hub, which uses both X10 and wireless transmission for redundancy. I've seen reviews of more expensive home automation systems that aren't as reliable because they use only one mode of communication, so I'm happy I chanced on the right choice. The system also works with ultra-cheap X10-only devices if that's good enough for you.

I have a couple controllable outlets with sirens attached to them that I can trigger remotely if my motion sensors and foscams show me something undesirable, and control the hub with Perl-based Misterhouse software. I think I saw Python and Java interfaces out there as well.
Not really. Without such technology, war wouldn't be profitable. Without the profits, there would be no incentive to fight.

But as long as we carry the bigger gun, we'll always have an incentive to fight.
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Europe needs the bully who feels free to do whatever comes to mind (like grabbing territory of the another country) even less.
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Children should do boring, pointless assignments to teach them "the importance of following orders and doing their job -- even or especially if they don't care about it"?

This doesn't make sense to me. It's dehumanizing to expect people to behave like robots, parts of the machine.

Even if doing a routine, manual job, people should be able to see some point to what they are doing. If it really is pointless (like lots of jobs), they should feel encouraged to speak up.

In the janitor example, cleaning is an important job that people appreciate, the janitor making an important contribution to whatever is going on in the building (hospital, office, etc). But if the janitor is asked to do pointless busywork they should complain.
I applaud the Greek Government. They show how important a nationalistic point of view is (as in "Greece first").

For 70 years no German Government could win on a nationalistic ticket. The vast majority of German elites were pro-Europe. The majority of people saw the billions of $ wealth transfer to the southern and eastern countries as moral compensation for the war.

With comparing the elected German chancellor to Hitler, comparing the finance minister to a concentration camp manager and the talk of reparations, Germans felt insulted and black mailed and Greece created cracks in the above narrative.

The Greek government achieved that the next German government and generation of conservatives will win on a nationalistic ticket to fend of right wing anti European parties like the AfD (Alternative For Germany). Which is good, as the best for Germany is not a political union like the EU but TTIP and something like NAFTA combined with a China style currency policy. The EU helps small countries gain disproportional power and poor countries gain money transfers while it binds and hinders Germany and France. The US does what's best for the US for the last 200 years. A proud symbol to learn from.

Next step could be the UK EU exit, FN in France will help, TTIP and with Polish NAFTA love this could be the first stepping stones for an unpolitical economic union.
The flip side to this - as someone who bikes infrequently - is I'd like to be able to buy a bike that doesn't require any maintenance. Tyres would be foam or solid so they don't puncture. More parts might be made of plastic or stainless steel so they don't rust. Bolts would not need to be tightened.
I guess it's time to take a look at Der Spiegel again, but if I remember correctly, their focus is much more centered on Germany, Europe and the West, while the Economist has news from the whole world. And it's articles are short enough to read the whole magazine every week.
I can't stand the reliance on real world problems. The genius of maths and science is using mechanisms that are inherently abstract (and non-obvious) to help understand the world. Surely a main part of learning about maths and science is creating and using mental models rather than relying on your own understanding.
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