skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than that: unless you buy the premium subscription, you're actually acting as an exit node for their network. So be careful of that.

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Likely dead.

While I like the idea behind coin and similar systems like the stratos card and would use the technology, usually these systems don't make it past prototypes.

Visa/MC/Disc/Amex put an end to a lot of these all-in-one cards. If they do get released, they don't last long.

Storing full track data, which is what these systems do, is against card company regulations. They own the magnetic stripe data and keep tight controls over how it is used.

For a simple overview see: http://www.visa.com/dropthedata/data.html
But aren't the vast majority of possible orbits unstable? If the Earth were travelling just a bit slower wouldn't it slowly spiral into the sun?
Like anything in this world, more money means more opportunities. There is nothing wrong with organically growing your company, but sometimes taking investment can help you realise your goals a little faster. If you have a truly unique product or application, you'll want to get it out there before someone copies your idea and executes it better. I think the biggest advantage of investment from a proper VC is you will usually gain access to helpful resources, business advice, mentoring and support. It is in the best interest of the venture capitalist(s) to guide you as much as possible (consider it is their money).

The downside to investment is you'll have to give up a piece of your company and if you don't need investment, why lose a piece of your company just because someone gives you some money? The reality is once you take investment, you no longer just get to call the shots anymore. It becomes a collaboration, a team effort and anything you want to do which could affect the investment will need to be run by the appropriate entities (this can result in you not having as much freedom as you would without taking on investment).

My advice would be to hold off. If you don't need it, don't seek it. You will only be giving up a piece of your own company for possibly zero benefit other than a little more cash buffer. Especially considering you are planning on selling the business in a year, what if you don't sell it for as much as you needed too? Then the VC gets everything and you get nothing.
I assume this is about https://onlycoin.com/ ?
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Why would anyone even write a bsod() function? That's tempting fate.
Indeed, that's not funny.

But I was born in 1974, and I have never actually seen or heard a funny April Fool's joke in my entire life.
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The citation on using the orange peel is a Tropicana spokesperson response to a Baltimore Sun article in 2010.

>"Everything in the juice comes from the orange," she said. "One hundred percent juice is mixed with natural oils found in the peel. Nothing artificial is added."

I think you could synthesize the compounds in a lab and still get away with that statement. Barely.

Not that it matters whether the compounds are organically sourced and purified or synthesized, but they have a vested interest in making their product appear more natural and have been misleading consumers for a while.
FWIW a lot of this history is covered in PBS's "Triumph of the Nerds" documentary without the dramatic license. Kudos to the producers for attempting to make BIOS reverse engineering look exciting, though.
The tax refund workout (Refund or tax bill?)
You can - withdraw all your money as bank notes and convert to gold bullion coins in suitcases, sail in a hired boat to the middle of an ocean, drop suitcases into the ocean. Sail back to port, yell "The lustre of a shiny coin is not what rules me!".

Or do what this CEO did and buy it using a reduction of income.
Not everyone does a computer science degree.
From a quick glance over Crockford's other repositories on GitHub, it doesn't seem like any of them have unit tests. Is this something he's known for not believing in?
These words set my mental anti spam/BS filter of. This article was on latter category.
Wow! finally flipkart too realize the importance of net neutrality. They got effected in a big way.
Nature is opportunistic and, to some degree, utterly immoral. The "pollution" of cyanobacteria creating an Oxygen rich atmosphere or of lignin rich trees littering the world with their branches, trunks, and stumps that wouldn't be biodegradable for tens of millions of years, all of that pales in comparison to the raw brutality of the food chain. Organisms murder one another in cold blood to steal the nutrients of their bodies. It doesn't get more opportunistic and selfish than that, but that's nature. It's only since mankind got the upper hand on nature that it's been possible to view nature in any other light than primarily harsh and uncaring (like a supernova or volcano). Humanities tendencies towards selfishness and opportunism are perfectly natural, asking us to be different is actually asking humans to be unnatural.

Which I think is justified, but we should make clear what is being asked and not painting humans as being something their not (i.e. uniquely exploitive, violent, selfish, etc.)
except that workers, perhaps especially lower-wage workers, aren't typically paid based on the value they provide the company, but rather on the market rate it would cost the company to replace them with someone else.
If the important thing is to be pedantic, I guess you win?

But if we want to be pragmatic, we can acknowledge that many women, disproportionately, confront sexualization and objectification throughout their regular daily experiences and that this therefore suggests that sexualizing things unnecessarily effects them disproportionately as well. And since we're all very aware of this imbalance, it's completely reasonable to suggest that the behavior is sexist.
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Coin has been replying to backers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/coin/with_replies
Agreed that rum is probably the cheapest, high-quality, aged brown liquor (with the caveat that I don't really know anything about brandy/Armanac -- just a little bit about Cognac) available.

> I don't know what Laphroaig is doing, but as a long term drinker of the 18 I've also noticed a steady drop in quality (shorter finish, less complexity).

I have a similar impression of Laphroaig 10 (the only one I drink from time to time) -- but I assumed it was me getting more accustomed to more complex single malts. Perhaps not.

No question that NAS-branding has much to do with, well branding -- an steering volume sales. But I think it can/could work in favour of minor distilleries starting up (in terms of esp. single malt whisky, also "new" blends).

"Years in barrel" is a pretty silly guide anyway -- it matters a lot what the barrels have been used for before etc. At any rate I have no confidence that the industry (any industry, really) -- is going to be able to come up with branding that gives a reasonable idea to the consumer what they get for their money -- without tasting the product.

But like solid gold speaker cables, people will buy based on brand and branding, even if they might be able to make better decisions if forced to do a blind-test... (and, as they say -- if you can't tell the difference in a blind test, go for the cheaper one every time...).
There is also https://github.com/mbostock/queue
415 bytes minified and gzipped!
GOTO: Agreed, it can be a very effective way of error handling in exception free languages.
I feel I could benefit from having a consistent routine like this, though it doesn't help that I work part-time and due to various factors my hours tend to be scattered throughout the week. (Ultimately doesn't really matter for me any more since I'm finishing at my current employer shortly and will be going 9-5 in-person very soon.)
What a weird article. I get that airlines are sleazy and their shitty systems are causing more people to not be able to to choose a seat in advance.

But do people really commonly refuse to move out of somebody else's seat? I fly a couple times every month, and while I have found people sitting in my assigned seat from time to time, I have never had anybody actually refuse to move once I politely point this out and show them my ticket stub.

Is this really a thing?
Care to back up your deforestation assertion with research?

The reality is that there's been a significant amount of reforestation around the world. Some parts are better off than others, but in the US and Europe, for examples, there is more forest today than there was in the late 19th century.
Well, once every 120 seconds is still quite a leap from 10 every second...
Yes, boost the lives of already rich people instead of figuring out where that money could do real good. And he gets reinforced for it by getting a news article.
People can be moved from team to team, and the Echo and the Fire gadgets need hardware and software engineers just like the Kindle does. Given how little the Kindle software evolves, it's hard to say whether it even has a proper team.

Amazon is famous for taking all profits from one product, and investing them into other (new) products. This is precisely what annoys me here :|
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Maybe if you used your Kindle more instead of making snarky posts you would get a clue.
Self signed is one thing in an internal environment/infrastructure role but quite another in a web server interacting with the public role. You're comparing apples to oranges.
The same corporations that use the Linux kernel, various database engines and various language runtimes, all of which contain C or C++, many platform specific byte manipulations and various other unsafe features?
Ford was more or less forced to do it due to technological advantage he developed (assembly line) and increase in amount of training an efficient worker would have to go through.

There are businesses that survive on innovative processes (and highly trained workers to follow those processes) and those that survive on dumbed-down any-idiot-should-be-able-to-follow-this processes. In some industries you get an edge by choosing the former, in some you have to choose the latter.
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Women preferred 2:1 over men for STEM faculty positions
I mean honestly I just bought a VPN connection. Costs me $45 a year and (probably?) doesn't steal anything. I realized how much time I spent trying to find mirrors and torrents for things that were widely available to stream in the US, and decided it was more practical to spend the money.
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How I built my first Android Game and realized creativity is all about iteration
Nah, I am saying two things:

1. Mutability makes your program harder to reason about.

2. There are better ways to spend your time than writing tests for conditions that could not exist with pure functions.

You could totally extrapolate a ton of statements from those two statements though. But I'm not doing that now, and not here.
Of course the meaning of any particular instance of language depends on context, but the most common case of a straight man (for this is about behavior by men, and most men are straight) calling something sexy without additional context is unlikely to be interpreted as "sexy like James Bond".

More broadly, on average, men who are used to operating in all-male social groups are less likely to have thought about, and more likely to do, things that would make women uncomfortable in particular than things that would make anyone uncomfortable, because they wouldn't have gotten (as much, or any) negative feedback in the past. Therefore, while one should be concerned with anyone's discomfort, it makes sense for such people to give special thought to the former. That seems pretty obvious; I hardly think it constitutes discrimination. (And of course, you could substitute any common descriptor for "all-male", and stumble on other real issues, but writing like the present article provides evidence that today's tech culture has serious dissonance with gender in particular.)

For the record, one could also argue, like the argument you originally replied to, that people already set on edge by previous discomforting events are more likely to be negatively affected by additional ones - i.e. women (in tech) are more prone to be uncomfortable not inherently, but because of externalities only partially under any given person's control. That is not discrimination either, but a reason to be extra empathetic.
I would hardly call earning 48k "rich" in the US. Sure, the same money could buy education for lots of bolivian children, but do we really have to point out a "more noble cause" any time somebody tries to do some good?
Chrome vulnerability lets anyone DOS attack on forums at whim
If a function receives immutable state, returns immutable state, and does not depend or modify outside mutable state, then that function has no side effects. Mutating state within the function itself will not affect anything outside it and so mutations are not side effects, at least by default.

About your two situations, I am guessing you mean that the functions rely on state not being passed in, but rather on state referenced from the outer scope? I agree that that complicates both reasoning and testing, and so it should be avoided. In C/C++ this type of design (i.e. relying on static scope state) is practically always avoided as there's rarely any need for it.

If instead you mean that mutable references are being passed in as parameters then logic wise isn't this similar to assignment/binding in a functional language as long as you avoid propagating the side effect to other functions?

I am personally a great fan of immutability, just not functional languages. I can see the justification for limiting the tools at your disposable to guarantee certain things, it's just that in this case I think they are not sufficient.

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For those downvoting, gee thanks. I see how trying to have a discussion is hurting your feelings.
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You'll probably never be able to do that due to security concerns.

It can be much more damanging to a website to allow arbitrary changes to the URL posted on their homepage Vs. a string of text.
Women are one of the groups who have particular bad experiences in society in their day to day lives. Other such groups include the elderly, children in dysfunctional families, adults with abusive parents, illegal immigrants, the socially inept, the autistic. Each of these groups are disproportionately confront a specific problem aspect of society, every hour of the day.

If you want to be pragmatic about it - "have courage, and be kind".
So what you're saying is all that non-technical HR people have ever to do is normalize all of the employee salary data and load it into a database and then run this query? Easy peasy!
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Well this is depressing. I was always meaning to install ML, now I'm not sure I can trust the developer for doing something so stupid and not feeling and contrition for it.

Is al3x also g3gg0?

so a warning to everyone being pranked yesterday:
you are not prepared for serious shooting with magic
lantern, if this was a real problem to you.

why?

if you use ML for business make sure a failure, no matter if serious issues or not so serious (like yesterday) wont get you in trouble!

- take ML-free backup-cards with you
- make yourself confident with rescue procedures and how to temporary disable ML
- ML, especially "latest" versions can introduce troublesome behavior

yes, its cool that ML is being used in a lot of serious stuff. we really love that.
but we expect users to be prepared for the moment when ML is going nuts for some reason.

this day will come.

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=14850.msg14...

There is also a picture in that thread (scroll up).
But in production this takes 3 Java developers, 2 Oracle "specialists", one year and a couple million dollars to implement.
What a dreadful example. The old code was relatively short and could be read sequentially and without scrolling. The new code requires hopping up and down to see the helper methods (which are called only once) and exist only to replace a comment with a function whose name is basically the comment!

Only the very first change (changing the name of the parameter) was an improvement.
It should be mentioned that in German usage the golden ration (Goldener Schnitt) refers more to the proportions of the spaces separated by the cutting line than to the proportions of the surrounding rectangle. Its common application is basically a finer form of the rule of thirds.

It shouldn't go unmentioned that William Hogarth already proposed a similar system, based on a serpentine line [0] (and, more important, in its three dimensional form, on a spiral) in his "The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctating Ideas of Taste." [1] in 1753. Sidenote: While Hogarth observes this as an important regulating idea in the work of Michelangelo, he explicitly complains the lack of any notion thereof in Leonardo's contemporary "Trattato della Pittura".

[0] Hogarth, The Painter and his Pug (see bottom left) http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hogarth-the-painter-and-...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_of_Beauty
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Don't quote me on this, but I believe that HN previously has let me change URLs but I did notice the same issue that gjkood mentioned on a recently submitted link...
Don't muck with the DNS record. Use an "A record" associated with a secondary/floating IP; then simply move the IP associated with the A record to the new machine and issue a gratuitous ARP.

You can avoid setting arbitrarily low--but not low enough--TTL, etc.
In some way, it's a lesson to not uncritically install whatever on your own devices.

I install custom firmware on my Wi-Fi routers, my smartphone etc., never really thought about how it would affect me if it were to get bricked in the process.
If it's not a bother can you elaborate on the way(s) it's irreparably broken?
I often wonder if there is a way to fix the dislike/uncomforted of pain without removing it. Rather then bombarding your body to inhibit this feeling.
The first season start of well with lots of cool dramatised hacking and startup culture scenes. But near the middle of the first season it had turned into a unbelievable soap opera with a bit of tech as a backdrop.
Not to mention, the EMV rollout will kill this dead in its tracks anyway.
~4000 USD a year, given paid vacation time? Did I get that right? Any tax/medical/etc comming out of that? I knew there was a big difference from the US to Mexico... but... wow.
These ideas are based partly on faulty reasoning, I made a post on exactly that topic a few days back, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9357326

In short, it's unlikely that a civilizational reboot would be bereft of fossil fuels to spur its early stages of development and growth (they most important stages, by far) because such stages require very little fossil fuels compared to an industry in full swing and many small, lower quality, less profitable (though still easily exploited) reserves will have been passed over by modern industry. It's unlikely that even in a severe future resource crunch that every coal mine will be stripped bare and every oil well pumped dry. We won't resort to digging out a pittance worth of coal out of some abandoned mine that is now in the middle of a suburb, we'll do as we're doing now, adapting new technologies to push the boundaries of new, substantive reserves. Such as open pit strip mining of coal using drag lines, fracking, tar sands, deep ocean drilling, etc.

But those small reserves, those reserves that are economically disadvantageous and inconvenient for us to exploit today, they would probably be adequate for bootstrapping industry again, likely sufficiently to enable them to develop more sustainable approaches. Or simply other ways of doing things. It would take hundreds of years of intensive use for humanity to exploit all of the easily extractable coal in the world, I put the odds of that happening as very low (if humanity can survive a few hundred more years then they have a pretty good chance of surviving indefinitely, in my opinion). And with coal you can do anything else, make plastics, make hydrocarbons, what-have-you.

Mind, I'm not advocating this, I'm simply pointing out the flaw in the logic here. Personally I'd rather we switched over to mostly nuclear power sooner rather than later.
The article does not ignore architectures like ARM. You do need fences, but not all the time - the compiler can avoid fences in places where there is no danger of violating sequential consistency (e.g. on accesses to provably local objects).
This does not work in businesses with either low margins (profitability) and/or high labor intensity. You will not be able to obtain any new funding. In addition, this policy being only selectively applicable will increase wage differentials.
Well, they could apparently afford half to one-third of that by paying Price more than the "value he provided". Maybe. I don't really think they can measure that in any meaningful way, anyway. Can you?
What makes you trust other devs? You don't know them nor their intentions.
I was very surprised to learn from two Stanford CS alums that functional programming was not a requirement in that program.
Sir nostrademons,

"Software Features Engineer" vs "Software Infrastructure Engineer" is an excellent differenciation. Actually I'm an SFE and I have always felt that I am not a real programmer. SFE will always write more-shiny less-durable features, more often working under an unreasonable management. I feel like I'm tainting the reputation of real SIEs.

Question is: I've always assumed I had to evolve into an SIE or die (or become a Product Manager if I'm lucky to be better than 90% of my colleagues at understanding users). Is it a correct picture of the reality, or is it possible to strive as a "good" SFE?
I've had it happen to me twice in the last year. One wasn't even a refusal, instead a simple dismissive hand waving gesture. I didn't relent and eventually got my seat, but had to have flight attendants intervene.

It's kind of astonishing to experience, to be honest. To witness someone committing to a thought process that is completely unfathomable to you.
Silicon Valley, on the other hand, is great.
Why yes, I run a company and have no idea how much my employees are compensated, and funnily enough, not even my own salary. This is probably why my books never balance every year. I knew shouldn't have fired our accountant.
Yeah, what a crazy world where a person who creates 70 jobs after taking on great personal risk and working hard gets rewarded after 10 years. I suppose you'd rather that he never got rich, and didn't even bother to take on risk and work hard and create those jobs in the first place, because why bother if he's just going to make the same money he would otherwise?
http://phys.org/news/2015-04-bittorrent-digital-fingerprints... — skip the click bait blog, go straight to the source.
That. I have managed to get through the steps but there was nothing simple about it and I wouldn't be able to replicate it without looking it all up again. Unfortunately, SSL isn't even an option on my el-cheapo shared webhosting service (as I understood it, it needs a dedicated precious IPv4 address).

Contrast this with Dan J. Bernstein's wonderful CurveCP. It's so simple to set up and requires no CA involvement; you just need to be able to add a NS server entry.
I'm so glad I live in an area where I almost never have to fly anywhere, I can think of no reason ever to give an airline any money except in an emergency.
I have one, it works in a lot of places. Sometimes it has issues on gas station machines, but besides that its great. 7/10
But the math is currently broken for Java. See http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.112....

Here the authors show that most common compiler optimizations are JMM incompatible.