skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was always under the impression that you want to put punctuation inside quotation marks. The only exception is in programming, as you don't want to put punctuation inside strings.

Looking into it a little bit more, apparently the British put punctuation outside quotation marks, and Americans put it inside. Interesting.
Considering the number of times they spoof the numbers I don't take calls from places I don't know the number or name. Even then its iffy as here in Georgia they were spoofing the name for the local EMCs. Have had cases where MY number was shown too
And Bridget, et al, with cardholder services.
I'm wondering to what level things are optimized here, because JS is such a dynamic language that the analyses that could point to opportunities for optimization could be pretty complicated.
Nope.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rainbow+grocery+cheese&safe=...

https://www.google.com/search?q=zabar%27s+cheese&safe=off&es...

https://www.google.com/search?q=24th+street+cheese&safe=off&...

https://www.google.com/search?q=fairway+cheese&safe=off&espv...

https://www.google.com/search?q=cowgirl+creamery&safe=off&es...
I told you so, again [Gnome screensaver cannot be trusted]
In the UK those protective measures don't work because of a difference in the way the phone systems work.

In the US when either party hangs up the phone the line is cleared; the call ends.

In the UK that only happens when the dialing party hangs up. The call is still connected if the dialed party hangs up. This used to be many hours. I think there's a 5 min limit now.

So, the scammer calls you; gives you the phone number and extension and name, and website. You hang up. You go to the real official gov website and see that the phone numbers given match. You then pick up your phone -- and the scammers play a fake dial tone; and you enter the number and they play a fake ring tone; then they "answer" the call.

This scam has been used to fleece people of their entire life savings - tens of thousands in one go, sometimes even hundreds of thousands of pounds. The scammers normally pretend to be the police investigating a criminal who works for your bank. They need you to transfer a bit of money into an account so they can trace it; then it builds up to a bit more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124056

There's an interview with someone who handed over £15,000 to the Microsoft fraudsters. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7868166

And these people do not get their money back! In England if you make a bank transfer to a fraudster it's your fault and you lost that money.

I don't think it's about being smart or not. Most people are generally trusting and compliant and scammers exploit that with a refined process that they've iterated on over hundreds of other victims.
A distributed blockchain could have promise. Regardless I know the blockchain will bring (already has brought) many amazing things to the world. It truly is a great innovation.

With that said I'm still not 100% convinced a distributed blockchain is essential to have legitimate cryptocurrency. I know the problem has been worked on for a long time by a lot of really smart people, and this really is the best implementation to date.

I guess for me the path is clear. Whoever comes up with the simplest, least-technical implementation will win the race for adoption. No matter what though, I'm confident cryptocurrency is the future of currency.
Yep, the mathematics behind it are discredited, I hadn't seen this development, thanks!
A direct quote from waterlesscloud: >There's some truly transformative tech at the core of Bitcoin.

Calling the blockchain technology transformative doesn't put him in a bucket with people claiming "it will stop wars, stop corruption, free the people".

Even if you disagree with that assertion, his comment was about the discussion culture surrounding bitcoin and certainly didn't deserve any downvotes. (the irony of seeing this particular comment grayed out was what triggered mine after all...)

My point is that painting bitcoin skeptics as irrational people

What's with the generalizations?

I wrote "many people" and not "bitcoin skeptics".

I was referring to people who can't be bitcoin skeptics by the sheer virtue of not knowing enough about it to form a coherent argument against it. People who seem to never get tired of regurgitating the ever same tulip bulb and "criminals" trites at every opportunity. People who downvote completely innocent comments like the one from waterlesscloud and make any normal discussion about the subject needlessly hard.

Bitcoin skeptics are most welcome (I consider myself one), but you rarely see someone who actually knows a thing about Bitcoin (e.g. 0xFEED) bother posting in amidst the shitstorm anymore.
The irony is they're not really photorealistic. If you took a photo of those exact scenes you wouldn't get that look, because the light has been deliberately abstracted and exaggerated.

They're actually more like vintage painted Instagrams, enhanced in an unnatural way for effect.

E.g. The Menzel has obvious impressionist features, especially in the background and the smoke around the ceiling. The von Werner has very weird lighting, with a source behind the viewer, or possibly off to the left, or the right, and another equally bright daylight source from the room behind.

This is not to be critical - they're both very good. But they both have abstracted light and form, and neither is a pure representation of physical realism.

If you want photorealism, Van Eyck pretty much nailed it in the 15th century.

Which is kind of the point with art - you get more points for inventing a new visual language, not for copying an existing one.

That's why Picasso is so famous - he totally killed traditional representation when he was starting out. But it was too easy and boring for him, so he moved on to other kinds of painting and drawing.

Modernism is partly about violently stripping away non-essentials, so first we had Guernica, then Rothko - and now we have Jony Ive and Material trailing along at the end of the trend, before everyone rediscovers 3D about five years from now.
@jbenet Interesting stuff! We worked on something related to your work for our master's thesis - including location-independent naming, a WebRTC-based Chord DHT and an ALM/PubSub layer using Scribe. Check out https://github.com/boplish/core and http://inet.cpt.haw-hamburg.de/members/christian-vogt for the publications.
Here is my procedure for anyone interested:

* I read all books through audio, with the PDF of the book and the Voice Dream app on iOS.

* I make highlights and notes as I go, then export to a text file when I'm done. So I have the highlights on one hand and the highlighted PDF on the other.

* If I think the notes are important, I will break the text file into individual notes and index them with SCAN and/or dtSearch. I've heard DevonThink is perfect for this, but it's Mac only.

I could probably integrate spaced repetition here, but I haven't explored that yet. Just my $0.02.
How Surprises Help Infants Learn
>Also did not know Comcast had transit in datacenters? Is that global or only in US?

I only have experience of the US... this was in silicon valley, in fact.
True, but like you pointed out, it might not have made a difference as he proceeded to go on a drinking binge and be bitter about the whole situation. Perhaps if he kept his head on straight, he would've still had a moderately successful career in boxing.

I couldn't agree more with true greats are persistent individuals. He simply let his emotions get the best of him.
It is excellent on pizza or when combined with prosciutto and fruit: some sweet and some fat combine with the bitterness in a pleasing way.

Mache or lamb's quarters is another plant that is either considered a weed or sold for $4.99 a bunch at Whole Foods in the US. Milder than arugula.
If you want Linux, it is available for Power.
1. As others have suggested, read W. Richard Steven's book (http://smile.amazon.com/Unix-Network-Programming-Sockets-Net...).
2. Read the HTTP spec.
3. Write a simple server, send requests through some commonly encountered firewalls, proxy servers, etc. while running Wireshark on the client and server sides and see what happens to your request and response data. One popular antivirus program used to (and maybe still does) rewrite HTTP headers.
No, the Asset Forfieture program came into existence in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs.

The USA has only existed for a couple hundred years, and the US constitution has as amendment 4 a specific prohibition on these kinds of thefts.
Announcing the Azure Resource Explorer
>Recently, she sent me an email to say that she had heated up a frozen meal in a plastic bowl (“I know, I know…” she wrote) and within two hours the bumps on her skin had returned.

Margaret told me if I ate those stale old biscuits I'd break out in hives, and I did!!!
A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1908)
OnePlus Launches OxygenOS, Its Custom Version of Android
George RR Martin, Game of Thrones and the Triumph of Fantasy Fiction
Not really. Being sentenced to incarceration at all is a relatively new phenomenon in human history. Imprisoning people used to just be what we did before the trial, if they were convicted the punishment was almost always something else.

Realistically, despite claims to the contrary, incarceration in the US at least has never actually been about rehabilitation. You had some puritans claiming that rehabilitation was the purpose, but that idea never really informed how incarceration was actually performed.

Think about it, the entire concept of sentencing somebody for "X number of years in prison, then you get released" is at odds with rehabilitation. Doctors don't set up treatment plans ahead of time like that; they don't say "well you have cancer so we are going to do chemotherapy for 6 months and then stop". No, they continuously monitor progress and modify the treatment with the most up to date information that they have on that person. If it takes 5 years, they'll give it 5 years. If at 5 years they still aren't better, they continue treatment.

Incarceration that is designed for rehabilitation is characterized by not having a set finite length. They keep the person until they are fixed, not release them after a predetermined amount of time despite no evidence of being cured. This is done in some cases, at mental health facilities in the US, and in other the criminal systems of other countries.

Breivik for example will be periodically reevaluated, and never released as long as he is not fixed. That is what incarceration for the purpose of rehabilitation looks like. Life imprisonment, with periodic review/parole consideration (preferably done by medical professionals, not random yahoos off the street).
It's broadly positive as long as the person's clothes are clean. Occasionally I've run into someone who seemed superficially well-dressed but when I got close to them I realized their clothes were falling apart, which is sad in multiple ways.

If you're going to do this, get someone to help you in figuring out what looks good, and spend money on it, ie if you end up wearing a blazer and jeans and a t-shirt, get the blazers tailored for a perfect fit. Fit is the difference between looking sharp and looking like a slob, no matter what you're wearing. Consciously or unconsciously, most people are going to judge you based on the quality of what you wear so you might as well give off a positive impression.

And I really mean it about soliciting someone else's input. If you are not 'into' clothes - and not wanting to spend time thinking about them suggests that you are probably not - then you are likely not a good judge of what suits you, and you may well have become comfortable with ill-fitting or poorly-chosen clothes through habit.
> one crime

Since there were thousands of separate victims, I think that thinking of it as "one crime" doesn't really do it justice.
New England states (incl RI, CT) are a bit of a funny example, though, because of the way they use "towns" in a way that that I (from the midwest) associate more with counties. Across RI, CT, and MA (and maybe the northern states too), every bit of land is allocated to a "town", even if they are well outside the central population concentration of that town, and indeed even if there are multiple, differently-named, population concentrations. (These latter are often called "villages", and may cross town boundaries and in a couple cases even state boundaries. They don't really have any formal legal existence other than having a name people use to refer to them.)

Anyway, so the idea that RI and CT have discarded counties as governmental units has mostly to do with the fact that they have replaced them with something else.
some job recruiters also hide their numbers for some reason
As an American in Wisconsin with Swiss roots (southwest Wisconsin has a strong Swiss imprint), your comment sounds so cool to me. It's much the same here... more cheese and sausage than the dietitians recommend, and while we don't have the Alps we have plenty of beautiful ways to work it off. Having visited family in Switzerland and seeing the country, I've come to appreciate how similar our regions of the world are.
no comments, story buried. sounds about right.
What stuck out is you can have a house over your head at $400 euros/month? In the United States, unless you get lucky(section 8, low income housing, family) at $435/month you are homeless.

On the other hand, the average wage is <$500/month, and the minimum is <$200/month.
Inflation, by the government's own numbers which tend to under report it, reached over %10 during the bush administration (and has been probably over %20 for most of the Obama administration.) "Inflation" as reported by CNN et. al. every quarter is a propaganda number that has all of the key inflation indicators taken out of it and is effectively watered down. (making it so that you can't even compare it from one administration to another.)
There's a little bit more to the "north east" than New York City.
pCell – 35 times more efficient than LTE
Is that true? I thought that you still needed a VID/PID, but you could use generic drivers if you support the proper HID or alternate interface types (ie: generic USB camera / speakers).
So, what's an example? It's really hard to have dynamic content with IPFS because it doesn't really have the concept of a "request", only a lookup-by-key type of thing. For example, consider how difficult it would be to make a simple messaging app with IPFS.
It's funny to see this link come up on HN, because I wrote this book (or much of it) years ago as a college student. I was taking some courses on microprocessor architectures and assembly code, and was in the middle of reading Reversing by Eldad Eilam (which had just come out at the time). I had a mantra back then that the best way to learn a subject was to try and teach it, so I wrote this and several other wikibooks as sort of a study aide for my classes. This also explains why the material appears to cover barely a semester's worth of material and why my name ("Whiteknight") doesn't appear in the edit history after graduation in 2008.

Despite the relatively thin and incomplete coverage of the material, I've heard from several people over the years who appreciated the work as a nice introduction to the topic and even once received a job offer because of it (which didn't work out, for a variety of reasons). All things considered, if I had to change anything it would be the title to make it a little more focused. It's not really a book about disassembly so much as it is an introduction to what high-level language features look like when translated into non-optimized x86 assembly code. Find me a short, catchy title that accurately describes that, and you win some kind of prize.

I doubt I'll ever get back to this book either. I haven't worked with this material at all since school, and don't feel like I have up-to-date knowledge of the subject. Unless somebody else wants to jump in and fill it out, it will probably stay the way you see it now.

I'm glad to see that this book is still around and I'm glad that people are benefiting from it in some small way. I know it doesn't cover nearly what would be needed for a real book on the subject (I do still recommend Eilam's Reversing for book-o-philes) but I think it should be a decent stepping stone to pique interest and get people moving on towards more in-depth treatments.
The early Congress wrote forfeiture laws based on British maritime law to help federal tax collectors collect customs duties, which financed most of the expenses of the federal government in the early days of the republic. Seizures allowed government to confiscate property from citizens who failed to pay taxes or customs duties. The Supreme Court upheld these forfeiture statutes in situations where it was virtually impossible to get hold of guilty persons on the high seas while possible to get hold of their property. During much of the 19th century there was not much attention paid to forfeiture laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_...
>Isn't it a solution for a non-problem?

Perhaps this is for enterprise shells, so yes :-)
When I first read the book, I remember this maxim resonated with me greatly. But these days I often feel that all I ever do is program by coincidence.

Granted, the coincidences come in much smaller increments now, and they're punctuated with unit tests. But they still feel like coincidences.

The deliberate stuff all happens later, when I'm refactoring and the unit tests are already in place.
Hackers Target Users with Fake Tax Refund Emails Containing Malware
Researchers Claim Facebook Tracks You Even If You Opt Out
You should read the book The Creature from Jekyll Island and learn about how the Federal Reserve was created, what it is (hint, it's a private bank), who owns it, and what it has done over the past 100 years.

The federal government has some influence over the federal reserve, but it's advisory at best. Their deal is that fed allows the government to deficit spend as much as they want and in exchange the fed gets an cut of the interest on every dollar (which are federal reserve notes-- eg: debt.)

The federal reserve has not kept the USD stable, and is, in fact, financially incentivized to destroy the USD via inflation, and is busy doing so. They are obscuring this destruction by using the power to print dollars to buy treasuries at auction making it look like there is massive demand for such treasuries, keeping interest rates low. They keep interest rates low, which boosts government spending (Because its "cheap"-- at least in the short term) and this boosts fed income because they get the interest.

The bitcoin protocol was clearly made by someone who understood economics an didn't want to allow such a scam to be perpetrated on the public the way the fed has defrauded us of %99 of the value of the dollar over the past 100 years. (probably more like %99.9999 ... but I'm not sure how many 9s there are after the decimal.)

It's not a deflection to point to central banking-- central banking is the reason for bitcoin being the way it is.
I had always wondered how iTunes and other digital music services go about verifying a musician's ownership of his or her songs when they're initially uploaded. If this article represents a pattern, the answer would be "blind trust" and zero due diligence.
Well, it's a good thing to ponder on and it's also a pressing issue. In most of the cases, I only remember those facts and incidents, which have affected me or appealed to me in a significant way. When I read a book, I can relate to particular parts based on my life experience, my culture and environment. Sometimes, longer retention of a book depends on how much the book is awe-inspiring and the age of the reader. I guess the pressing issue is to learn and retain relevant things for a longer period of time after reading a book
Its different to point to specialist shops, or have enormous choice of best cheeses in every large supermarket. In most supermarkets of continental EU you will have a large cheese and ham stand with qualified person that will cut it for you, give you samples and advice on the one to pick.

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XSLT is rather verbose compared to typical sed/awk syntax.

While it's not quite sed/awk (there isn't a programming language per se, just simple edit/select commands) xmlstarlet can do some of the things to an xml document that you might do to a text document with sed and uses xslt internally.
You are right about most things here, but I'll add a minor remark: "photorealism" is an established term for describing paintings that have certain characteristics of a photograph, for example, depth of focus. It's a 20th century movement and in strict cultural sense, Van Eyck is not photorealistic (he sometimes was deliberately skewing perspective or objects proportions). Instead, Gerhard Richter's "photo art" is an earlier example of photorealism, Chuck Close is a later one.

The most interesting thing about photorealism is that it actually opened new ways for painting, i.e. photography was used as a tool to better understand visual perception.
It's really too bad that there isn't a standard binary data structure format that we could process the same way we process stdin/stdout/stderr. Stumbled onto BSON the other day, which allows MongoDB to store binary JSON:

http://bsonspec.org

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

The main issue is that it doesn’t have arbitrary precision like, say, OpenTNL. That could probably be overcome somewhat with compressed streams.

It would also be nice to have a leaf-first format, or hints for depth-first or breadth-first traversal so that the stream could be processed as it’s received.

These are really old ideas so maybe I just haven’t stumbled onto a solution.
Yeah, that's why it's ridiculous to claim there's no good cheese in "all regions of the US and Canada."
I don't know exactly why, but I have some theories. First, the two instructions you list there aren't parallelizable, because you have a write to ESP and then a read from it, so the first instruction needs to complete first (or, get far enough in the pipeline for the partial result to be usable). This is almost certainly going to cause some stalls.

Beyond that, the best explanations I've seen are that the push/pop instructions are "optimized" in some way. I don't know if that means they are more optimized than just making the inc/read pair on the ESP atomic so it doesn't stall or if there is more to it.
Fascinating to just watch this drop down and off the front page of HN despite all the upvotes...