skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That'd be funny if it wasn't such an infuriating brand of stupidity on their part.

With only one or two exceptions where I like to keep print copies around for reference (or for travel use where I want something disposable–don't want to leave an iPad on the beach or by the pool, for example), I'm the same as you: it arrives, it goes straight to recycling, and I read it on my iPad/Kindle/whatever. Last year I went on a tear, trying to stop all paper delivery while retaining digital access.

Turns out very, very few publications were helpful. Everyone understood why I wanted to do it, but they make their ad money off of paper copies shipped. So, as with the Economist, you have a lot of rags who're talking the talk about conservation, provided it doesn't cost them a penny.

Sure, they'll charge the customer more for less.

A couple were great about it: a quick email and it was moved over to Newsstand, or their app, etc. But the rest, the bigger publications, almost uniformly baulked, and could never make it happen.

I even considered trying to shame them by creating a site so everyone see who's forward-thinking, and who's myopic. I may yet.

It kind of reaffirmed my view that the whole print industry is a broken model. The end result is that I canceled a bunch of subscriptions, since the ones that are supposed to have credibility about world affairs just lost it in my eyes, I couldn't take them seriously (not that I ever should have).

It's also made me extra sensitive to the whored-out nature of publications that take ad dollars.

As a result, I canceled a bunch of subscriptions, and focused my energy on the ones that operate from subscription models (which are more expensive individually, but I saved more than that getting there).

Turns out I'm getting better information, paying more attention to it, and don't have a stack of magazines to worry about recycling every month.
The source code is really clean and easily comprehensible. I really liked how you handled cpu frequency with console stepping on gl updates.
Uber Hires a Security Chief from Facebook
"Meteor Kitchen" is now available for Windows too.
Aren't dollars are backed by the American economy and military? Unless you are speaking in a "Our reality is only our perception" type of way, at which point I'm not sure I buy the argument.

However, I do acknowledge that states invest a lot of resources into indoctrination, so the belief in fiat currency might be stronger than the belief in cryptocurrency.

I'm not sure how you think this will help anyone take you seriously?
Transaction costs on the order of $10 per transaction is not exactly cheap.
Announcing MongoDB's Ruby Driver 2.0, a Rewrite
California Exempts Industry Using 80% of Water from Mandatory Restrictions
I think that you could be right about this particular vision of Bitcoin as a financial platform.

It's my belief that the future of Bitcoin will be analogous to something like Linux; a great deal of financial infrastructure will rely on blockchain technology, but Bitcoin itself will have little visibility or use to the average consumer outside of a small, dedicated circle of enthusiasts.
We had it finished earlier, but it was undergoing review. Matt and Kenn _did_ want to release it yesterday, I suggested stalling just a day =P
What are you, a bumper sticker?

We're seeing the lowest level of conflict in history and you're still unimpressed? Does it kill you that much to admit that MAD is working?
Only in as far as a novel 'core canting' approach to protecting one engine from an unconfined failure of the adjacent unit. It didn't discuss protecting the tail or fuselage (unless I'm forgetting something; read it a couple hours ago so maybe I did.)
From my experience there is no comparison to the feeling and sensitivity experienced when using this. Almost feels like nothing is there (or close to it).

Women don't seem to mind using it either (and it is actually marketed or was marketed at one point as women taking control).

All in all to me no comparison to a traditional condom for men. Edit: And after using it it's hard for me to understand why it's not more widely known. [2]

The only drawback is the cost, about $2 each at retail. [1] In theory it can be re-used as well since it's not stretchy but simply a large sheath like protection.

[1] Planned parenthood gives them and and sells them. If you are nice to them they will give you a bunch at no cost for a small donation. (Call it $5).

[2] My guess is that it lacks the marketing budget to take off. The local pharmacy used to carry them but then stopped for lack of demand which mystifies me given my personal experience. Not a new product by the way has been around for quite some time but as I said primarily distributed by PP and to women, not men.
> you implement a MAD-like policy or you die in nuclear fire

This assumes that some "other side" is willing to destroy 1/3 of the Earth just to "get you". A ludicrous supposition only believed by hawks and ideologues.
Weightlessness could give 3d with evaporation.
This is pretty cool. Right now, there is very little there, but hopefully more will get put up. I've been working with maps a lot recently, and this would be extremely useful if maps were there.
In Vancouver they get handed out on the Granville Street strip by some crazy lady with a bucket full of them, as well as being freely available many other places.
As a possible consumer of Angular 2 in the near future, if React got something right about rendering, I would hope they implement it in this framework. What does it matter what system they use, as long as it's efficient and fast.
Hi, total noob to rendering architectures here. What do you mean by "it's basically React"? I'd love to hear more.
You Don't Want XTS (2014)
That's a really good idea! AWS is a no-brainer... but I might have to wait on the $300 Rackspace account until more people show an interest ;)
http://www.fourtones.io

Another resource for mandarin specifically replacing flashcards for simplified characters.
There are already middlemen in the bitcoin business. The most notable ones today are the centralized exchanges and online wallets, and more are sure to come.

The important difference is that Bitcoin makes it much easier not to use a middlemen. You can't have a credit card without a middlemen, and the choice of middlemen is limited. Bitcoin abstracts your choice of middlemen away and the person you are buying from or paying to doesn't even notice whether you have chosen to use a middlemen or not.

My prediction is that using middlemen like banks (or should we call them central wallets?) will stay the norm, but they will have entirely new market pressures because not using them at all is suddenly a viable option.
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Regarding NSA staying quiet for classification and legal reasons: I presented an instance of them releasing info when it served their ends, as a counterpoint to this, but I suppose ultimately we can't count on them announcing anything like that.

I am a bit bothered by the general response, "They would win this argument if they allowed themselves to tell you everything" that is often given in support of the spies. To outsiders, it's indistinguishable from "We know we'd be shut down if we admitted what's going on, but we feel the ends justify the means, or we like the money, etc." It feels unfair and underhanded, but I guess it is unavoidable and legitimate too.

That's a great point about the timing of that email. Also about "he hates the NSA and will make bald-faced lies" synergistically combining to discredit him (though I am not so convinced Snowden is the one lying.)

> the program has debated at length in public and in Congress since it was initially disclosed back in 2005

Yes, it wasn't really new, but if releasing new documents spurred greater public debate and nearly caused the House of Reps to vote to defund the program[1], is it not an effective activism tactic? I mean, you can call it traitorous, but you seem to be saying it was totally unnecessary, when its release caused a law to be drafted and voted on that probably wouldn't have otherwise.

> The story was presented simply as 'they hacked a Belgian telecommunications company - be outraged!'

And people wouldn't be outraged if there was no merit to it. Around here, we're all wondering if we will be personally hacked because of one user (or potential users) on a system we have authority over, and what consequences that could have on our personal life and reputation, employment, and our company's reputation. Yeah, it feels sort of silly to think NSA could bother me, but the targets of that hack would have said the same, until they learned the truth (or whatever filtered version the journalists fed them.)

Yeah, I was oversimplifying about the nature of those fiber lines, and you're right that it was irresponsible of them. Well, I guess you can thank Snowden for forcing companies like Google and Yahoo to clean up their act. If there's one legacy he'll have, it's that more engineers will think of the NSA bogeyman (justified or not, illegal or not, accurately portrayed or not) whenever they design things. Maybe Snowden's ulterior motive is to scare people into better security, by lying if he must? ;)

P.S. What do you think of William Binney? He basically supports Snowden and says some of the same things, but maybe doesn't have as bad of credibility issues.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07...
This Week in Meteor #8
Hi, Mithril author here

All three libraries have similar virtual dom implementations. In all of them, rendering to the DOM itself only happens on nodes that need it, otherwise nodes aren't touched at all. Diffing is what runs on the entire template on every redraw, but all 3 libraries provide APIs to skip diffing of certain areas of the template based on some condition (i.e. React has shoudComponentUpdate, Mithril has subtree directives, Mercury has thunks).

Diffing everything on a redraw might sound expensive, but it's actually a pretty good strategy performance-wise, and more importantly, it makes it easier to reason about and fix performance bottlenecks, compared the alternatives used by older frameworks (dirty checking, observables)

Between Mithril and Mercury, honestly, they are fairly similar in terms of what they offer. Mercury's modularity makes its parts popular among projects that aren't strictly web applications themselves, whereas Mithril has a very strong focus on powering web apps (e.g. docs-are-a-must policy, small footprint and API surface, no build system required, etc)
The mobile phone operators are well positioned to offer payment services, and they do:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

(I don't know how many others there are, that's one of the big ones)
Build and deploy automation with Docker
I really like the support for tls in syslogd. Unfortunately it looks like it is not yet supported server-side. At least in current, syslog.conf(5) doesn't mention anything about specifying a private key.
Many have argued that airbags actually increase auto-related fatalities through the so-called 'Peltzman effect' (also known as 'risk compensation'), and that removing airbags from vehicles would cause automobile fatalities to decrease or remain constant.[1][2][3]

I am no aware of the state of the debate of this effect on condoms or STIs/STDs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

[2] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2006/11/peltzman_on_reg.htm...

[3] https://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/2006/060927ManneringOf...
They already are: http://datacentred.co.uk/datacentred-world-first-openstack-p...
This is a good honest account of the Amiga, I'm glad to see somebody to admit its faults and quirks rather than blindly sing glorious praise to it as is often the case with its former (or present) users.

I was an Atari ST user back then, the "other 68000 home computer". When comparing the ST and Amiga it is easy to get caught up in hardware capability comparisons, but the ST was 2/3rds the price of an Amiga, and shipped with more RAM and didn't have the interlaced video. There was nothing like the ST's hi-rez monochrome monitor (very good quality) for the Amiga. Really the ST was like a budget Mac, but with a higher clock rate, higher monochrome screen resolution, and disk format compatibility with MS-DOS. Here's a similar accounting of the first genesis of the ST: http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n1/threeyearsofst.html

The Amiga was a great piece of hardware, and the games for it were generally the best in class. And it was made by some really inspired people. But it only took a few years and that hardware advantage meant little anymore. Mainstream Macs and PCs absorbed the multimedia capabilities. Game consoles from Sega and Sony were able to outplay it, and there were even machines like the Sharp X68000 that blew it away on the hardware front by the late 80s (and even outsold it, albeit only sold in Japan.)
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"He (Tim Berners-Lee)expressed the belief that Semantic Web technology will advance the information revolution he began with the World Wide Web, changing everything from how users set up their online address books to how they pay their taxes."

The semantic web is underrated.

http://goo.gl/YCc1Ly
Yeah, this is really annoying. Ctrl-f r emote and I just get millions of "no re mote" posts. I think most people assume it's not remo te unless stated explicitly, so there's no need to say 'no rem ote'.
Gnuapl 1.5 released
So, what does this look like for the rest of us? Is it a viable way to raise money, like for an enterprise company?
It looks very interesting ! It will be open source ?
If those are the biggest complaints you have those will be easily solved.
Good luck being born tomorrow
So you've two sides to Bitcoin in reality - speculators praying other people adopt it as a currency and those using it for nefarious purposes - both of which are off-putting to any normal person who'd consider using Bitcoin for purchases.

Don't forget the anarchists.
Are you javaman, as in, #cdc javaman ?
@rdeboo The Helms Burton Act is still in place. The embargo has not been lifted.
Thanks, potch! Currently using third party services such as PeerJS for signalling but want to roll my own solution. SocketPeer is a great reference point. Bookmark'd ;)
[...] transmit money across the world at practically zero cost.

Transaction costs on the order of $10 per transaction are only practically zero if you transfer $1000 or more. Not sure if this is such a common scenario for unbanked people in developing countries.
There are no middlemen if you manage to airlift in a bitcoin economy. Short of that, you probably get your bitcoin from a middleman.

At a glance, M-Pesa looks a lot more popular among the under-banked than bitcoin.
Well I think I do cool and exciting things aside from eating cereal. I just have no urge to share that with people I'm not with. I personally can't see how anyone would care about the specifics of what I'm doing so much that I need to send them an instant photograph or video. I mean maybe close family and friends but I wouldn't use an app like snapchat for that. I'd just text it.

To me I just don't see the point of snapchat, but that's fine. It's quite obvious that im not their intended audience.
Finding the Four Month Bug: A Debugging Story
Are we talking about water or costs?
No, they should be equivalent. The Ninja manual goes so far as to encourage you to continue using Make if Make is fast enough for you.

However, another way of writing your question is "if you removed the features of make that ninja doesn't have and then optimized the remainder for performance, wouldn't they match?" and that is maybe tautologically true -- that description is roughly what Ninja is, after all.

Because we cared more about performance than other things we maybe were a little crazier about shaving off milliseconds than other systems, so it might be hard to make make fast enough. But (as the Ninja manual suggests) this may only matter for very large (Chrome-sized) projects. You can read a chapter about some of the performance work done on Ninja here: http://www.aosabook.org/en/posa/ninja.html
I wonder why it's possible to get "better" programs for old hardware now.

Is it because the field of CS has advanced further, which means that we can apply modern ideas and algorithms?

Or is it because we can cheat and have a toolchain running on vastly superior hardware, which enables us to use it in ways that would have been too time-consuming to develop back in the day?
Sam Altman's YC Lecture at Stanford – Written Outline
Yes the second engine may be saved (not mechanically linked).

But the debris could destroy parts of the tail/wing/fuselage.
Actually M-Pesa has been enabling the unbanked to hold and transmit money by phone for many years now and is quite popular. It has a whole retail network and everything.

What Bitcoin primarily offers beyond that is bypassing rules and regulations around cross-border transfers. But that's consistent with the article's thesis.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
It remained in the commercial mobile app I'd used it for, and it's not my intellectual property anymore. There isn't anything ingenious about it anyway.

My point wasn't about how good my pet engine was (because it wasn't), but about the fact how the overcomplicated model of the HTML-CSS-DOM-JS makes it so hard to optimize web page rendering that even an unoptimized prototype UI engine outperforms the browser.

I am amazed by the people who develop browser engines because they do something almost magic of fitting that monstrous dynamically modified DOM into so little memory and making it so fast.

I conjecture that in a naive unoptimized implementation a web browser would consume gigabytes and took a couple of minutes to load an average page.
Classmill: Create online classes with links, images, videos and files
So there is now a complete truecrypt audit.

What is the checksum of the source tree that I can use to verify that I have exactly the copy they audited ?

I looked at the full report PDF and saw no mention of downloads, binaries, source trees or checksums.
But we already have imperfect solutions for all of those, and together they make up a very minor % of all currency transactions.

Are you saying that being debatably marginally better at those corner-cases will propel it into usurping the dollar and euro? I'm having trouble reconciling these use-cases with world-changing rhetoric.
I don't see how one can write an article about these funding rounds and not mention ratchets/liquidation preferences and executive/founder/insider stock sales.

I also don't see how one can look at these private, illiquid, balance-sheet gimmicks and think that the "valuations" are tied to anything in reality. It's a huge game of pass the bag, and it wont be pretty when these deals unwind.
I wouldn’t call it “myopic,” if anything it was forward-thinking...the cost of memory in the early 80s was high enough that including more than the 2 KB of built-in RAM might have made the Famicom/NES way too expensive. They designed the machine with internals that could be extended with extra memory and additional chips inside the cartridges, so that over the ~15-year lifespan of the NES as technology advanced and the cost of memory dropped, the cartridges enabled ever more powerful, impressive games, but stayed about the same price ($40 iirc) the whole time.
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What are the actual use cases of WeakMaps in JavaScript?
DPRK attacks film studio = sanctions, counterattack, TO WAR!

China attacks Github = nothing, silence, heads kept in sand.

The attack itself is irrelevant. The scale of response is only related, inversely related, to the political size of the attackers. Small countries and individuals are to be punished. Large countries holding billions of US debt are to be forgiven. The extent of damage done doesn't enter into the equation.
Jon Skeet, highest rated user on staklckoverflow, is a C# expert and he works for Google UK. I remember reading somewhere that parts of teams in Google's London offices are Microsoft technology driven.
A 1-Megaton explosion has the same energy as 46.55 grams of matter. 50-Megatons is thus about 2.32 kilograms, or 1.16 kg each of matter and anti-matter.

A kilton of TNT is said [0] to be equivalent to a cube 27.8 feet on a side. 50-Megatons would be a cube over 1000 feet on a side.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent
From the article:

"carrying 180 passengers 3,000 nautical miles in a coach cabin roomier than that of a Boeing 737-800"

I would LOVE it if a bigger cabin meant that people got more space. But considering how we've all accepted being crammed into ever smaller coach seats, I suspect that any breakthrough here will simply to go make airlines more profitable while ticket prices drop a miniscule amount.
The automake manual has a description of how to get the dependencies right for multiple outputs: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Multip... . (Disclaimer: I'm no expert, and the Make book mentioned elsewhere in this thread may have a better solution.)
Amiga was a major success, it did catch on after the jury-rigged A1000 was put out to pasture. It was Commodore that squandered it, by milking it financially and stagnating technologically.

I wish Acorn Archimedes had had half the opportunity Amiga got.
Shouldn't Bitcoin have given him magic immunity?

All the people who transacted on Silk Road, do you think they should sleep well at night? Or do they all nervously await the statute of limitations expiration?

You don't think the FBI has the blockchain loaded into Palantir where they can map all those transactions against all the other data they have? The more traces you leave behind the greater the chance for that one slip up that links it all together.

Maybe the seller slips up and orders a pizza from the wrong wallet. Now they have him, and using the post office scan data they got you. Add as much complexity as you like, there's a way to unravel it. And you can't go back and take it out of the blockchain.
Yeah it's funny, the Amiga is kind of a spiritual successor to the the A8, and the ST is kind of a spiritual successor to the Commodore 64 (lead designer on the ST, Shiraz Shivji, was a designer on the C64).
A tool for tracking trending security news, issues, hacks, etc.
Great! It's an interesting experiment, eh?

A couple of other students and I did this same thing, but in Python, for the final project in our Python class. The result was excruciatingly slow. It still has some bugs, and we haven't touched it in almost a year, but we all learned a lot along the way. If you're interested in taking a look, or providing some feedback, the repo is here: https://github.com/billymeter/pynes