skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be alone here, but when I do code reviews I always correct guys when they use acronyms that are not "common knowledge". Things like ASN would be allowed (i can google that easily), but if you're creating something new, that's not a primary domain thing like FancyPowerControl, I don't want to see FPC all over the code.

It may be persnickety, but it just really throws me off when authors create a new acronym, and I have no idea what they're talking about.

Its all about the API for me. I don't want to see Device.FPC, when I have no idea FPC is a thing. I want to see Device.Power
That's where structural racism comes in, i.e. there is no shortcoming, no defect, no flaw in the black community (i.e. that Orwellian term People of Color to describe a pretty much monochromatic phenomenon) that can't be attributed to whites/racism.

Get with the program, please.
The tomato was known as the “love apple”
Red Hat brings Gluster to OpenStack shared file service
First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users
^this. A non-profit is just a tax structure.
Everyone should note that these TLS attacks may also work on EAP. i.e. WiFi authentication, or 802.1X. Since HTTP is so much sexier than EAP, no one pays attention to EAP. :(
Java at 20: The JVM, Java's other big legacy
The UK is pretty much copying the US with low interest rates. It was recently reported that since 2007, the richest thousand people in the UK have doubled their net worth, while normal people are suffering austerity.

My assumption is that they haven't worked twice as hard. And as the UK economy isn't really picking up, they clearly haven't added double the value to it.
People are celebrated for treason. Like George Washington.
Hah, I don't think anyone would disagree with you if your thesis here is "most people are generally uninformed".

That being said, technically speaking yes, it probably was a different set of people polled, just considering how the nature of polling works!

What you're not understanding though is that people actually seem to separate the content of the leak with the act of the leak. All it takes is a quick Google of "NSA spying program polling" to see polls affirming that hypothesis (folks disapprove of Snowden, but also heavily disapprove of the NSA spying program).

Snowden himself has been known to beg folks during his interviews to stop caring about him or what he did, and focus on the content of the information he released, and I'd agree. So what if folks don't like Snowden?
It's not just blacks and hispanics. It's a lot of other hues as well. And that's before asking what "black" and "hispanic" even mean, which is highly contextual to culture.

And anyways, "white" isn't even a color -- which is kind of obvious if you think about it for a second because a dark white person and a fair-skinned white person can be as far apart as a dark white person and a latino person. Rather, white is a collection of socio-economic attributes and their indicators, of which color and other physical indicators are only the most obvious/visible. And not all white people have always been white. See e.g. "How the Irish Became White".
Show HN: GIF GIF GIF 3.0 with GIF Collections
No, but capitalism works to reduce. The provider that can give you more for less always wins. The energy company that can produce more energy from a more efficient turbine wins. The cell phone company that makes your cell phone smaller (and with smaller packaging) wins.

Socialism has brought us unbridled wars and crony capitalism. My argument is simply 1) capitalism is preferred and 2) socialism inevitably creates crony capitalism. Therefore, we should perhaps see what happens without the socialism part. The USA during the 19th century was thriving, at a time when socialist restrictions were nearly non-existent.
Shipping libusb and Python would probably mean spending an extra 50¢ on flash or RAM per unit.

From the point of view of a race-to-the-bottom consumer hardware manufacturer, the choice is obvious.
New IT-Books App(2.0) for Android Is Released
This is in addition to the Libor interest rates rigging
Just checked it out, looks neat!
PayPal to Pay $25M to Settle Online Credit Claims
So what? What is the point of this? Is this again one of these "php developers are 'special' people"-posts?
Bounty: A online, real-time duck detector
A lot of people will say that they don't mind ads that are quiet, targeted and relevant.

It's popups for viagra that they don't want. Hell, even those that are correctly targeted by the ads end up being scammed.

The extension should really more be called "malware blocker" or something like this, since they are not really against ads.
Not entirely sure, but I am guessing it's for the same reason debt isn't a super desirable form of financing for small businesses - cash flow is hard to manage.
Coincidentally, today is also the day that Krakatoa started to erupt. It went on smoking for a few months before its infamous, earth shaking eruption.
Is there something like this that can transfer to a Android device? I found Chirp, but the app requires way too many permissions.
We were not advertising, we're inviting the hackers to join if they are interested to send they help requests from their communities based on their contributions.

We understand that it's not acceptable by some people and that's why we're going to change that.
"There's at least one major player (SAP)..."

I'm not very familiar with any of the other examples you mention, but, uh,....

Have you ever gone anywhere near SAP?
> You do not care what you're running on, just that you have a certain amount of disk, CPU and network available to you

Does Kubernetes provide those guarantees to the containers? And, if so, what does it do once those guarantees can no longer be met, say, due to neighbor growth?
Bits of every domain are obscure to someone. But it seems to me that the only domain for which use of acronyms in article titles ever seems to provoke this level of irritation is Microsoft's. Makes me suspect that this particular debate is really just a proxy for a different argument altogether.
Anti-NSA Pranksters Planted Tape Recorders Across New York
I feel kind of obligated to listen to each song to the end, like if I don't I'm kicking a puppy or something.
I do wonder how and why we're supposed to get people into treatment if drugs aren't illegal- "Hi citizen I noticed you're enjoying a legal activity with deleterious long term effects. Please take this pamphlet with a list of treatment centers and voluntarily enroll." It's worked so well with tobacco and alcohol.
"You don't always make friends being right"

I hope that statement's true. I'd hope friendship would be based more off of showing respect than the rightness/wrongness of a position.
Advanced Ligo gravitational wave hunt is green lit
Top Banks Fined $2.5B Over Currency Manipulation
Are meteorites a big problem?

I can imagine a several large domes to protect people and crops from the atmosphere, but the threat of them being hit by a meteorite seems like a critical issue, unless we also shipped some AA or powerful lasers to combat them.
Spy Dust
I expect that it's signed distance field ray marching.

You can see a demo of the tech here: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lwFVlNytq0Q

And a presi of how that demo works here: http://on-demand-gtc.gputechconf.com/gtcnew/on-demand-gtc.ph...
>but what he did was wrong.

It was illegal. Illegal and wrong are often at ends.

>Betrayal and theft should not be condoned under any circumstances.

Theft to survive? A child betraying an adult's trust by reporting abuse?
I can see the headline now... "Show HN: Pudding - A language for programming proofs". I could see a lot of uses for this kind of programming. In a language like Matlab or R, we just assume that the implementations correctly match the theoretical methods they implement, but anyone who has deleved into the internals of some published R library knows that's not always the case. With the expanded use of pure functional languages for more closely mapping method to implementation, proof programming could offer a useful form of unit testing to the development of libraries.
> I think the Snowden leaks have caused tremendous damage to the US geopolitically

I also think these MRIs that show the spead of cancer have done tremendous damage to the body medically.
> I wish Apple/Google/MS would realise that they could stop operating an App Store and start running an App Mall instead.

You mean, like the "internet"?
Which was originally based on a book!
The problem is, a substantial (and potentially growing) segment of the population doesn't agree with you.

If racism is _the_ problem, why does it produce perfectly antipodal outcomes for different "people of color"? i.e. Asians are economically ascendant (surpassing whites on most metric), while blacks, well... you get the idea.

Rubbing the amulet of "structural racism" so much has entirely debased the term.
How anthropomorphizing robots impacts our empathy towards them
That is, until I got to "Readings from D.H. Lawrence: Selected and Read by Harry T. Moore".
rgt said
It has worked out with tobacco, quite well.

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig...
I'm guessing he's just showing us the dork (search phrase) to find these vulns and outline how stupid... errr special people can be
Also, one could argue that if you lock down servers properly, something like this could be used for instruction passing between servers/datacenters/etc... its not a good argument, but its a way of doing things.
Beautiful writing!
Bin Ladin's Bookshelf
I don't get any say on the interest rate my bank gives.
> WCF is pretty obscure

Is this really the case? I've been using it since it's inception (never used "Indigo" in production). At the time it was a godsend because our company was moving to a SOA (ahh... the dark ages) using Oracle Fusion Middleware, and judging by the job postings over the years I suspect many other non-Java/Oracle houses also adopted WCF.

I did not realize it was considered an obscure technology.
This is probably off-topic, but in my experience a generation ago at Harvard, what they did right was have massive space.

Dozens of large buildings with libraries, nooks, sitting areas, auditoria with unlocked pipe organs (at Radcliffe), etc.

So one could always find a private area to study, read, think, play, and dream.

Silly, I know, but I think it's the ultimate educational luxury...
Lightweight Wallet vs. Hardweight Wallet
CodeCloudMe – Code on real projects, see how you rank against other hackers
US law only applies to US Citizens, while I understand your sentiment it's written that way for a reason. EU Law loosely allows for all persons regardless of country protection with the same laws of the EU.

Frustrated or not, Protecting their country and their countries assets is. If you don't think this is going on around the globe then you're not looking for answers. The fact that there were checks and balances (some that may not have worked) is still way more than the rest of the world. For example the russian SORM system flat out forces a 1:1 copy of all internet traffic to the FSB. Meta data at gateways vs full capture, where's the uproar on behalf of the Russian citizens? Not to mention russian provides internet access / connectivity for many African, middle eastern, and even eastern european companies (direct and through proxy organizations) all subject to the same SORM rulings.
Technically: sure. But I think you are touching some different skill sets going on a continuum from (1) 'sequential simulations on regular machine' to (2) 'parallel simulation on very high end, regular machine', all the way to (3) 'massively parallel on non-regular machine'. From (1) to (2) you can manage with existing staff and limited time. From (2) to (3) is quite the change in mindset, training et cetera.
Of course the US denies that. China denies they do it to the US, but they "hack" the US every single day. China has to deny it as well. Admitting hacking could be seen as an act of war. Use your brain.
Apple, Google , and others plea for Obama to support encryption
I once made a major purchase off eBay and received merchandise that was substantially different than what I ordered.

It took 4 months, many exchanges with PayPal via their "dispute center" and many phone calls to have my purchase refunded. They even closed my dispute at one point claiming that I hadn't returned the merchandise because their support staff was too incompetent to check the DHL tracking # on DHL's web site to verify that I had indeed returned the merchandise (at my expense).

I will never make a major purchase with PayPal again.
Okay, under that definition, you are correct. Note that the flight later lost engine #2 again (incidentally making the record of five engine failures on a single flight), so it landed with 3 engines operational.
Combining syntactic closures with the Scheme module system's ability to carefully control exports and imports seems like it should be enough.

However, high-security language runtimes have a history of being subverted anyway.
Scaling SaaS Pricing for Both B2B and B2C Customers
I can't argue with that! And appreciate the feedback. The site is actually built on a template service (Strikingly), so we're a bit hindered right now. Working on that, though.

LOTS of things we'd like to improve upon with the site and overall product, but we're tackling things in our wheelhouse first (I'm a marketing/BD guy, non tech). Enjoy the tunes!
This sounds a bit like Euclideon's Unlimited Detail tech demo video, which got some press a couple of years ago and then vanished without trace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4

(Warning. Video may contain critical levels of overhyped vapourware.)

To me it sounded like Euclideon had figured out a new wrinkle in efficiently storing and searching very large instanced voxel spaces, and Voxel Quest sounds very similar. While Euclideon's demo was obviously a rigged tech demo, it still looked very cool, and I'm glad that it's turning out that this sort of thing is feasible.
MIT says solar power fields with trillions of watts of capacity are on the way
He was forced to consent to having monitoring hardware installed. When the government demanded that he hand over the encryption keys as well he refused. You can read his side of the story here: http://lavabit.com/

I don't see anything childish about upholding his fiduciary responsibilities to his users and standing up to the agents of a surveillance state which far exceeds even the wildest dreams of the East German Stasi.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. What kind of radio station has a $30,000 promo budget for a one off contest, especially in 1980s dollars. That's around $60,000 today.

I imagine no one ever won that money.
http://www.wired.com/2013/07/wireduk-valve-jeri-ellsworth/
Except if the acronym is DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself).
No, but profit is what matters.
Just like every other language.

You either

- Expose the entire language and then there's not much you can do to prevent something harmful.

- Expose a subset of the language perhaps through parsing for harmful patterns or by somehow making potentially harmful functions unreachable.

- Expose a more restricted language (scripting like c/lua) that you control and know its full capabilities.

The only difference I can think of is that it's easier to write flexible and dynamically modifiable software in lisp than in most mainstream languages.
WCF has quite a bit of adoption in the .NET community. I am currently working on a major WCF project that uses TCP streaming and named pipes.

This is the third project I have worked on that uses WCF, and I have been working on the .NET platform since Beta.
Is it still allowed to have a set of prepared implementations for standard algorithms and data structures?
Still impressive to just need 5 minutes.
AIUI, it's not illegal and there is nothing to pay if you're under the relevant limits and it's for personal use. You can import up to 6000NOK of goods (3000NOK if you've only been out of Norway for < 24 hours) and you can bring up to 10 kg combined of meat/cheese etc from EEA countries. That's quite a lot of butter. In fact, the 2nd link below is ambiguous on the point of whether dairy products other than cheese are included in the 10 kg limit, but you'd probably want to assume so to be safe. Either way, you can import a lot of butter for personal use.

http://www.toll.no/en/international/english/shopping-abroad/...

http://www.toll.no/en/international/english/shopping-abroad/...
Some things are utterly weird. A jpg file with php code is not idiocy, it's either security learning or plain hackery. Reminds me of my beloved wordpress days.
> And it fails spectacularly. I mean, _it works_, but it's a disaster to work with and write software against.

Can you give an example of how it's a disaster? I'm genuinely curious because I've had to use it for at least 5 years (I still support 1 WCF solution) and this was never my experience.
I'm not Russian, I just don't buy into MSM propaganda.
Let me give you simple fact which you can search for. during dissolution of USSR, it was agreed between West and Russia that NATO wouldn't expand into Eastern Europe but look at now, NATO is in most of Easten Europe and with Ukraine under control, it comes right on Russia's border.
You say autocratic, what democratic government example you can give me in the world. Don't say US, it's just oligarchy bipartisan system where only those who comply with the elite interests reach at the helm and by chance if a true patriotic reaches there and wants to assert US people's true interests, he'd be brutely killed as it was with JFK [0].

0]: http://www.globalresearch.ca/jfk-and-the-unspeakable-why-he-...
Kubi telemedicine device gets HIPAA clearance for streaming medical data
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I'm old enough to remember "greatest generation" old timers giving "lazy" boomers a hassle because "so what if the factory laid everyone off, just work at the other factory". No old people, you don't get it, the world changed, those careers are gone and never coming back. Then the mythology of the "rust belt" developed. I don't think the greatest gen people EVER really got it.

Now its the same thing with boomers telling millennials "get that degree (you'll never be able to pay off) then use it to get that great job (that doesn't exist anymore) then buy that house (that you'll never be able to afford)". And when they don't, because its not 1985 anymore so they can't, they get labeled as "lazy". I would be interested in the analogy of the "rust belt" phrase, what will people call the plight of the millennials in a decade or two?

Its interesting in an alternative fiction style to predict how millennials will hassle the generation after them. "hey kids get that social media presence out there so you can get that startup mobile apps job" and their kids rolling their eyes replying with stuff like "come on dad, its not 2010 again, nobody does that stuff anymore".
Interest rates are set by central banks in order to cause and increase inflation.
He is called "Snow-dumb" around here.
Exiled for life with the possibility of assassination for saying what everyone knew what was happening.
I hope it will make people once again check their code.
I was in the regional (Asia-Kuala Lumpur) where Tokyo University team (3rd in the frozen scoreboard) solved all of the 12 problems in 2.5 hours (out of 5 hours). Yeah, it was really demotivating to see someone else have completed all problems yet you just solved 4 problems. In the end, although my team solved 6 problems and finished at 22nd place, I can say that joining ACM-ICPC regionals is one of my greatest moment in this uni life.
It's simply not enough. The penalties for such behaviour should be steep, such behaviour should not be tolerated from any organisation let alone those trusted with money.

Makes you wonder how in bed they are with the DoJ!
Monitoring Phoenix
The idea of using coroutines for asynchronous programming is quite old actually. ML has used it since the 80s [1]. Python itself had it way before C# with Twisted's inlineCallbacks [2].

What C# (actually it was F#) introduced was the specific 'await' and 'async' syntax keywords. Those are being copied in other languages, and they're just sugar over coroutines.

[1] http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/computer-scien...

[2] http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/14-Twisted-inlineCallbacks-...
Switzerland often gets bandied about in these discussions, because people see gun ownership rates and ignore the subtleties. All adult males are required to own and keep a rifle at home (with some minor exceptions). There is no "gun culture" here, people in general are very unenthusiastic and see it as a burden.

In the last 20 years they have stopped giving ammunition to keep with your military rifle, exactly because they started having problems with shootings. Switzerland is the worst possible "example" of gun ownership reducing violent crime.
It's my understanding that this came out of the programming language research community and is just now trickling into production languages (just like generics did).

We're basically just getting the up to speed with ML from the 80's.
Entirely true. Still, seems like if they were to open-source WPF, the Mono community would have an interest in trying to abstract out the DirectX dependencies and making it run on OpenGL. Shame we'll probably never see it happen - it would be great to see a true cross-platform GUI toolkit for .NET that's not GTK.
I'd look at checking if a GPU is a good match for the problem before thinking of even more exotic solutions.
> "We can't let our data touch any one else's network!"

In some industries that can be necessary if you want to stick to the letter of the law, especially here in europe.

You can outsource the processing, but then your provider has to meet fairly stringent certifications, you have the necessary "submitting to 3rd parties for purpose-specific processing" disclaimers in your privacy policies and a signed data processing agreement covering personal data compatible with national laws, which vary between countries.

The microsoft ireland email case[1] also made some data protection ombudsmen suggest that the whole safe harbor deal with US companies should be considered null and void because they cannot effectively guarantee the safety of your data, even more so given the threat of national security letters + gag orders. And without that deal you can't use their cloud solutions for sensitive data.

Personally identifying data has pretty high hurdles. Medical data (which might be processed by insurances?) raises even higher bars.
How Walt Disney Motivated His Employees?
White males are [X percent of the world population], but like 99% of the world's billionaires. Success and punishment aren't evenly distributed due to innate corruption/advantages built into The System.

How do we fix inequality? Companies run american prisons now, companies control elected officials, and voters are manipulated by basic psychological tricks to keep voting against their own interests (vote GOD, not basic human rights!). That's just one issue among 50 other giant issues america/world is currently failing at "doing the right thing" towards.
Yeah, when I saw the video on the VoxelQuest site it immediately reminded me of this demo of raymarching/signed-distance-fields: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27844576/raymarch/raymar...
I actually think "Typesafe" is an excellent name for a company - whether or not it has grown to be more than just Scala. It says to me: If you build on top of our software, you will be safe and protected due to our built-in guarantees. That is a good foundational brand identity for any company. I don't think you should change it.