skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Some of them have received criticism for getting rid of their things when many families are barely getting by, that their behavior is only for people of a certain income level."

Dammit, I laughed very loudly at this and might have woken people up.

Thats the most American thing I've ever heard.
They didn't even have reader available for mobile when I clicked. News sites are all but impossible to use without being able to isolate the story.
Apple iOS 8 v Android 5.1 – which is best?
LG: “Apple has also announced that they will release the iMac 8K”
The 386 was certainly an ambitious design in comparison to the 286, but the iAPX 432 which was several years before that was even more complex. I wonder what errata there were for the '432...
Bugs in Tor network used in attacks against underground markets
If I only owned one pair of shoes I'd choose a pair I could comfortably walk ten miles in.
1. Isn't this that negativity we were trying to avoid?

2. Who's Moodle? Never heard of them.

3. Coursify is a more memorable name for the product than "Moodle", isn't it?
Adult Swim did a skit on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
http://buahapel.jigsy.com/entries/general/kandungan-dan-manf...
The thing that always escapes me is that these fixed gear fanboys seem to ignore hub gear bicycles.
That's what I grew up with in Europe. That's what comprises the majority of bicycles that people ride in cities (hilly or not) in Germany.

They are literally service free and if you select the gear with the 1:1 ratio and never change gear, there is no difference to a fixed gear bicycle except that you can switch, whenever you want/need.

After a year of being flabbergasted at his utter rejection of Derailleur gear cycles, and praising of fixed, I learned that an Italian friend of mine wasn't even aware of hub gears!
Him, a self proclaimed bicycle aficionado!
He had grown up close to the mountains and all bicycles sold there have Derailleur gears. Even those that people ride in the city on the plain.

Similarly, my ex GF who was from South Australia, had never seen or heard about a Derailleur gear bicycles until she first set foot on European soil at the modest age of 30.

Given that, the hipster hype around fixed comes as much less a surprise.
However, knowingly ignoring hub gear bicycles in favor of fixed still borders on imbecility to me. Kindly pardon my bluntness.
Bitcoin is tremendously thermally inefficient; see https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction which is roughly the cost in electricity per single transaction.

Bitcoin's efficiency is "regulatory", like Uber; by transmitting money internationally without requiring KYC/AML compliance, and by putting all fraud costs firmly on the victim, it allows for nominally low transaction "fees". The fee ends up hidden in exchange spreads or covered by the losses of people who want to play with unregulated forex trading.
Elasticsearch Caches – Fielddata
What if I wear something terribly ugly according to a street artist and he throws a pie at me?

What if I paint the walls of my house and a street artist decides my taste is intolerably poor and sprays the walls?

What if I own a shop and advertise something in that painting and it gets sprayed?

What if it's a corporation who puts up the ad?

What if a guy (say Bill G) runs a corporation that someone dislikes and throws a pie at them (as someone in fact did?)

What if someone doesn't like seeing women or people of color on ads and sprays them? (a real-life situation)

Where's the line - when are you free to act in public disregarding others? I for one would imaginably prefer a pie thrown into my face to having something I painted on a wall sprayed over. Why is the former a question of "dignity" while the latter isn't? Is it because corporations have no dignity? What about a model whose image is altered by misogynists - is she entitled to "dignity"?

I think that being too particular about rights ("ads are just ads" hence not covered by rights etc.) is the way to lose all the rights.

(By the same token - not being too particular - all the cases above should cost the perpetrator the same IMO, 15 days of detention, tops I'd guess, although the guy throwing the pie at Bill Gates is much less scary to me than the ad-spraying misogynists; unless you manage to prove the latter constitutes hate speech or such.)
GNU Hurd, the Daikatana edition.
$9000 bounty paid for Python bugs
YouTube Twitter Facebook Blocked in Turkey
Great - but then those boots are too heavy for walking around in a city - and are those boots suitable for wet or dry conditions?

I'd love to have less stuff, but I don't know how that doesn't turn into simply having the wrong stuff.
I get your point but I think a lot of people overestimate the amount of special gear they need to pursue certain activities. Sure, if you're going to be in the wilderness for days, hiking boots and outdoor clothing are a good idea. A few hours walking through the forest, you're fine wearing whatever.
I don't think you need to worry about the economy collapsing because of a wide spread adoption of minimalism, conspicuous consumption seems to be an innate trait.
If anyone wants to generate Diceware passphrases, I wrote a small JS library that does this in a portable manner.

https://github.com/resonantcore/lib/blob/develop/js/diceware...

It's identical to the one that ships with the EFF's OpenWireless router firmware.
Mutation is a function over time, for sure. Most people understand the change and not the continuous function behind the change, and many processes are too chaotic to be described by nice clean continuous functions (a physical simulation with instantaneous collisions...). I believe even FRP uses steppers for those kinds of things.

Most people think in terms of mutation, not in terms of the abstract functions that cause values to change over time.
Bitcoin Marketplace Buttercoin Folds Despite $1.3M Investment
Yes, besides what the sibling posts already mentioned.

They also use Ocaml[0] and their very own F#.

Erik Meijer was also an Microsoft employee and responsible for bring LINQ and FP programming into the VB.NET and C# languages. Also provided lots of lectures about FP at Channel 9.

Usually many FOSS advocates tend to be unaware how much money the big bad Microsoft has invested into the ML eco-system and making FP concepts mainstream.

[0] https://ocaml.org/community/support.html
Concurrency requires the someone else to see the change. Persistent collections work by throwing out concurrency.
I actually don't see the value in the comment you just made, besides making an Ad for moodle. This guy made an app, open sourced it and you pay him if you want him to install it for you. I do not see a problem here. This product is not geared towards programmers, it for people who do not have technical skills and if you have you can build your own or use his for free. I think your feedback is very unhelpful for someone that is trying to make money from their skills why not say something positive or encourage rather than call them a beginner and tell them to go hang out in their sandbox. Well he is on the front page of hacker news so clearly other people here see the value in what he is doing.
I suppose there are two ways to interpret that trope. First, that it's easier to teach someone carte blanche to program at some goalpost level of skill via Haskell than other languages. Second, that it's easier to teach someone who has no knowledge of programming otherwise to understand Haskell than it is to teach someone with "imperative experience" to understand it.

I wonder what your thoughts are these days on each of these. My understanding is that you have the requisite experience to talk about it, like few others!

It's finally interesting to me to state that I think the best version of that trope, though one that is impractical and untestable, is that it's easier to teach a newbie to program Haskell than an experienced Java programmer ignoring some set of standard, non-linguistic training points. This is the most interesting since it gets directly at there being some kind of "imperative mindset impedance" which is presumed to exist, but it's the least testable since I'm certain nobody will ever agree on what those "non-linguistic training points" are. It's probably folly to assume they exist, even.

Anyway, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
This new camera sensor could turn your phone into a 3D scanner
>To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison

I fear that all of this minimalism will lead to people being unable to fix things, or to imagine new usages of things; the only reason my cables on my computer desk are cleanly attached and not on the floor is that I had a powertool and some wire attachers and the knowhow to use them. I don't own a dryer but I do remember my dad fixing the family drier several times - I suppose if you lived a minimal lifestyle you would go without a drier, but what about a vacum?

Heck where would we be if we didn't have a bunch of junk computers to play around with when we were kids?
There are security problems with this idea:

1. Your twitter password leaks information about your facebook password. E.g., "e" is encoded as "Rj" in both of them.

2. If attacker gets hold of your twitter generated password and assumes "twitter" is encrypted somewhere inside, he now knows how you encode "t", "w", "i", "e" and "r" in your other passwords. Numbers are easy to guess or brute-force.

3. It's too tempting to just add a number to password in order to change a generated password for some site. But the generated password barely changes (and remember that attacker could know how you encrypt numbers):

Password: facebook
Generates: 6F9xk6RjGVyp6yp6Hj8

Password: facebook1
Generates: 6F9xk6RjGVyp6yp6Hj8y
In the automotive industry (at least among german OEMs which I'm familiar with) CanTP was used for bigger messages. I'm guessing that the Autosar Stack that is now commonly used incorporates that or a replacement for it. Don't know if Tesla uses Autosar, but it would make sense.
Google saves incognito searches (iOS)
(really a reply to sibling)

I just did exactly this. There is now ten miles a week of walking in my commute. I wore out three pairs of shoes before spending a bit more for some Doc Martens; they meet exactly this requirement. Not too heavy for "city" walking, although a bit heavier than trainers. No problem in the wet. Durable. The only reason I wouldn't go hillwalking in them is wanting to keep them clean.

(This is almost literally the "Vimes boots theory of poverty" from Pratchett)
The people in the Times Square interviews (from the linked video) are literally uninformed. It's not an attitude to say so.

Much of the segment is spent illustrating that people do care about the dynamics of the issue, but that they don't understand the details.
The web today is two things: a document delivery system; and an app delivery system.

Sadly the two functions have merged and so people deliver their documents in their apps. It's incredibly restrictive and a step backwards. Content that would be fine with a bit of html and css and leave the browser to display it is now wrapped up in extra css and javascript just because PHBs and bad designers insist on pixel perfect cross browser design.
Cracking Windows passwords the easy way
Touché, though I would say it is the most effective way to show disagreement.
Cascadia Cypherpunk Convergence- April 11th
A cypherpunk is someone who uses cryptography and similar methods to
achieve societal and political change.

-------------------

Over the last two decades we have seen the Internet transformed from a
tool of emancipation to the most insidious threat to human liberty the
world has ever seen.
But amidst the seemingly intractable rise of a transnational
surveillance society, there is a small spark of hope endowed on us
through the power of mathematics.
It is possible to formulate a math problem (an algorithm) so difficult
that even the mightiest superpower cannot decipher it. It is this
fundamental property of our physical universe that provides some
measure of hope in what otherwise seems to be very dark times.

Through this conference we hope to increase how networked our movement
is and raise public awareness about issues of privacy, technology and
social change in the digital age.

Downtown Portland Oregon
Portland State University
Smith Memorial Student Union Building- Second Floor
Saturday April 11th 2015 10am-7pm
Gmail users hit by software glitch
cascadiacypherpunk.net
How about:

* "publicly distributed information" is a shop's name and a perpetrator adds racist slurs to that name (the shop is operated by a member of a race disliked by the racist in question.)

* the act of "rearrangement" performed by a "street artist" to a human being is having a pie thrown at them. the human being in question ran a Ponzi scheme and just got out of the courtroom, having proven plausible deniability.

Which one feels subjectively worse? Is this example consistent with "rights assigned to information" and "rights assigned to human beings" residing on entirely different planes?
I've seen a bunch of companies in my region use this service: https://www.centili.com/

I'm surprised it didn't catch on sooner. It's a genius idea for enabling online payments in places where credit cards, PayPal etc. aren't as commonplace as they could be.
"If it's worthless, why did I pay money for it?"

It doesn't start off worthless. That's why I singled out furniture, it has a huge gap between cost and resale value despite being "durable".

Then there is sentimental value. Not everything is pure economics. We need some things to satisfy the part of us that isn't utility maximising robot.
Medium abuses nofollow
And throwing my (everso slightly different) hat in the ring, I wrote a lookup that uses the different word lists here: http://www.diceware.net
I used to use 3 monitors but now I use 2 (one is the size of 2 monitors, 32"). On the left side of one I have the ide and on the other side usually whatever references or document I need to work with, and then on the second monitor half I have for skype and half I have for the debugger/console.

PROTIP: Windows 10 makes it exceptionally easy for a multimonitor setup due to the new snap behavior.

I can't imagine developing without 3 screens worth of real estate. If I had room for another I'd probably put it to very good use.
Yes, the discussion can and often will turn into an echo chamber of the same argument. I have seen this happen many times as well as been a part of it without realizing.

However, I would like to know what counter points to my comment you are referencing so a more dynamic discussion can be formed.

It's one thing to say that the conversation is one sided and lacking logical diversity, and another to explore counter arguments.
I think this is just a vocabulary difference, not a genuine mental one.

When I see a ball falling I don't think of it moving forward and accelerating in an infinite number of infinitesimal mutations---I see it as being in the state of falling and recognize the space of actions I could perform in time with it. There's mutation in the sense that I cannot arbitrarily go back in time. There's immutability in the sense that the rules governing that motion are not "staged" in any way outside of the interference of my hand.

A better example is perhaps catching a fly ball as an outfielder in baseball. I absolutely cannot be processing that motion as a set of mutations in order to function---instead, I predict according to a "mathematical pattern" if not a formula, where it will land based on scant observation of segments of its space-time trajectory.

And that's all more or less instinctual, I believe. It must be in order for me as an outfielder to execute my task. That stuff needs to just be built in to my brain.

So while ultimately FRP and physics might be "implemented" (ha, ha, philosophers forgive me) in discrete steps, there's a vital model of each which is continuous.
Try this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykfGWcmUbbk
Computer Criminals Brought to Justice – Lance Ealy
Bad luck if you happen to be on a week's holiday when they made this announcement...
Did you look at https://github.com/agrafix/funblog ? It shows how to use Spock with persistent.
And then the weather turns and you are in deep dodo.

I wonder how many times i have read a news report about some tourist that needed to be rescued because he or she tried to visit some view or other in shorts and loafers.
Depends how you use them for webdev I think on monitor for your main IDE a second for the Database IDE(work mangler or what have you) and a main one for the application is a good setup.

You want to hide distractions like Skype,Outlook and so on.
In some companies to have more than one monitor is just a status privilege.
What a horrible article. They are not "abusing" anything; it's their site and it's common for large sites to deploy nofollow. It discourages spammers from creating lots of outbound links for seo purposes and weakens the overall value of outbound links from their site.

"Medium hosts 300,000 articles published by half a million users, and yet none of these links back to external website, because of something called "rel=nofollow". - what are you talking about? That's not how it works at all. The hyperlinks still operate just fine.
I can to some degree understand urban minimalism, but that just means you are betting on others providing services as needed.

Start living more suburban, never mind rural, and you quickly start to get into a "for a rainy day" mentality.
:-) One of my uncles has just retired from the main UK collage for training Merchant Marine officers - he commented that a lot of the younger officers don't have much experience of using the traditional methods of fixing your position.
Optimized Parsing Algorithm of OneNote Documents
Don't forget about the computers that run the internet.
We don't need practice minimalism to extremities. Personally, minimalism to me is like having as few as possible in third and fourth buckets If I have things bucketed like compulsory , necessary, good to have and luxury.
Next, I think the author needs to try a tiling window manager; to better manage the small amount of screen real estate.
3 monitors might not solve your problems, but switching to Linux sure would.
They're not done via cffi . its all compiler supported primops that get optimized and lowered to target native assembly.
It was hilarious to watch.
'Revenge porn' site owner faces lengthy jail term
I love my Waldviertler boots:

http://w4tler.at/schuhe/jaga-schwarz-herren

Perfect for almost everything all year.
This guy [1] walked 15.000 km with them. He needed just 3 pairs of them.

[1] http://www.globalchange.at/home/willkommen.php?main=home&sub...
Post 30 years from now, I would have lived a major fraction of my life span. I would like to see myself in good health. I would like to travel and enjoy with my family and friends. Perhaps, I would regularly write on my blog.
So the governance structure you have identified was for two individuals in some position of "power" to voluntarily decide to take a certain action because they see it in their best interest overall?

They could have just as well, seeing as they had the longer chain, decided to continue working on that chain, but they voluntarily decided otherwise. In the process, validating the inbuilt incentives of bitcoin.

The decision therefore wasn't "independent", but reached by consensus and further supported by everyone else. Had there been some disagreement, for example if what the devs were proposing was not seen by the two "powerful individuals" as being in their best interest, then matters could have developed far differently.

So, what exactly requires trust in all of this?
Ansible 1.9.0 Released
This amazes me, but it saddens me more.

On the one hand, I applaud the brilliance of John Oliver for presenting the NSA affair in an immediately alarming way and attracting the attention of the average people.

On the other hand, people really have to think rationally and responsibly to tackle serious political issues. John Oliver is not going to work every time, and sometimes we don't have a John Oliver at all.

I am deeply depressed by the political ignorance of the common people in the US. I have always assumed that political ignorance stems from political oppression, which seems to be case in China (which is my home country). But now it seems to be a consequence of universal human stupidity instead.
While I agree that multi-tasking is a bad idea for productivity, three monitors don't necessarely lead to multi-tasking.

It really depends on how much screen space you need to efficiently do one task. Having three monitors myself, I mostly use two of them, sometimes one or sometimes all three, depending on the task. So you can still minify distraction.

And there are definately tasks where three monitors come in handy and save me a lot of window switching / aligning.
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” - Voltaire

“There are no right answers to wrong questions.” - Ursula Le Guin

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” - Tony Robbins
One of privileges of running your own business, is that you do not have to explain yourself to anyone.

I have 4 screens now, soon will upgrade to three 40" 4K TVs. I also have 24 core machine with 192 GB RAM and water cooling.
Yes, I think it depends a great deal on how you use your three monitors. The author was using them in a way that led to distractions and then concluded that it was always bad for productivity.

What I used to do was this:

- One monitor for IM, email and ticketing system on the host machine. IM is left in DND while working, but occasionally there are IMs and emails which do need to be responded to immediately. Having email open also lets me browse through any emails associated with whatever work item I'm looking at.

- Two monitors devoted to a full-screen development VM. These two windows get the IDE, database windows, and the browser.

I was hugely productive like this, and going to two (or worse, one) monitor was a noticeable impact and I would get annoyed at all the alt-tabbing.

To me, having three monitors is analogous to having three stacks of paper on your desk. If you were working on a task that required you to look at three different sheets of paper, you wouldn't stack them on top of each other. You'd lay them out side-by-side. If you couldn't do that, you'd drive yourself crazy.
Ansible and Containers: Why and How
Yes, it is extremely important to note that the majority doesn't care. That also means that there is no way to reign in the NSA by democratic means. But at least the issue is in the open now.

Well, some people may say that U.S. citizens are brainwashed by their media. But that is not true. They choose to listen to the media they listen to, they often pay for it in some form.

There was tons of media coverage about Snowden's revelations, but people chose to ignore it and chose to forget most about it.
Give me a T series Thinkpad, or a Panasonic Toughbook and maybe i'll give it a shot.
Another one for fast UML sequence creation http://jumly.tmtk.net/try.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_charti...
The Rise and Fall of Unit Testing
The issue with arguments of the form "Mutation is..." is that all these things are models of mutation: merely representations. Different models help us elucidate different properties of the same underlying phenomena. This does not mean that either one is "correct" or the one true representation of mutation.
But why was the premise of reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely taken seriously to start with: "what it’s like to be on campus now ... where not only is rape so prevalent but also that there’s this pervasive culture of sexual harassment/rape culture”? This is clearly nonsense, there is no such thing as rape culture, unless you take the Andrea Dworkinite position that all heterosexual intercourse is rape.