skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for clarifying. This is the sort of implication I had in mind. Law can be funny this way.
90+ yard plays are extraordinary, so the defensive score will not be a large factor.

The main thing is that they are tweaking the 1 point kicks to be slightly less certain, if there is an imbalance I think they will quickly adjust things again.
> neither native Windows apps or Unix xterms work like that

That's because it's middle-click instead of right-click in X. But windows traditionally did not have 3-button mouses, so right-click it is. I use middle-click to paste several times per hour.
Interesting observation: out of the 105 comments in this HN thread, none mention the company that owns whatsapp: facebook. Is whatsapp still a separate entity? Aren't whatsapp laywers facebook lawyers? just asking as I'm curious to know.

In related news: "Facebook drops hint about MAJOR changes to WhatsApp – and you are NOT going to like it" [1]

[1]: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/57826...
Most miners sell their bitcoins to buy more hardware and pay their electricity bills...

Why go through the trouble of running a mining rig instead of just buying the coins sold by miners in the market?

It is true that the majority of Bitcoins are held by a few early adopters (NB: not today's miners!). They will diversify out as time goes on. Wealth can come from skill, hard work, luck, politicking, etc... Rejecting Bitcoin because it enriches a few people in a manner that you find objectionable is... myopic.

Look around you, almost everything you do enriches one capitalist or another. Many intelligent people have tried finding a way around that, with limited to no success. Good luck.
I dropped out of my physics degree at UCSC not because I wanted to found a startup, but because I wanted to pay the rent.

By six years later I had grown weary of always being asked in job interviews why I never graduated, so I went back to school part-time until I did.

There's not a whole lot of use to quantum mechanics in the code I write however my insight into physics gives me an approach to my work that I don't see in those with CS degrees.
Yes there is. Public disclosure of private facts but only if it's not in the public interest AND it needs to be offensive. But realistically this is the United States and you're going to have a hell of a time convincing a judge to go for it. US libel and privacy law is very weak.
As recently as today I thought IPython might be worth looking into -- I've heard too many good things about IPython to ignore it, but I didn't really know how to get started.

I guess I don't have that excuse any longer! My only concern is that my mind will have trouble adjusting to the evolving state of the "app" I'm working on -- it seems like values in lines above others change, which then change values at other places, not just below the code? Will take some getting used to.
Walmart Has Officially Euthanized Walmart.horse, R.I.P
If, for example, things like impulsiveness and self-discipline (cough Conscientiousness cough) have high degrees of heritability, it can be simultaneously true that one's birth place correlates with one's destination and it also be the consequence of one's own chosen behavior. (And to the extent that the environment is equalized and optimal, genetic factors will matter more, not less.)
hey - welcome to HN. Some comments:

* editor is mega tiny

* the plane isn't exactly a well known logout icon, if you want to keep it I'd recommend some kind of tooltip.

* pressing the down arrow leads to a name 'undefined', not sure what that means.

Looks nice though.
> Also, TOR was funded with illegal uses in mind. Beneficial to the US government, perhaps even legal with the US, but illegal in their intended application.

In what way is browsing the internet without someone recording your every move illegal? You may choose to use the anonymity for illegal purposes. But you may also choose to use your car or house for illegal purposes and no one says that these should be illegal.
The uselessness of Apple Watch seems to be a thing
Damn, this is a beautiful site.
Did you mean "random-ass search", as in searches without reasonable suspicion, or "random ass-search", as in inappropriately adding a body cavity inspection to an otherwise justifiable search?

The fact that I cannot determine this from context may be a problem all by itself.

And while it's true that there is usually a reason for throwing people in jail, that reason is often an arbitrary, capricious, or morally dubious reason. I prefer that people go to jail for doing a specific, non-accidental harm to someone else, rather than doing something that merely offends a moral principle held by someone else.

Get high on a PCP dipper, and you are only hurting yourself. Get high, strip naked, and go out to jump on top of cars, and you might do time for all the auto-body damage, proportional to the cost of repairs. Get high on heroin, and you are only hurting yourself. Share some of your heroin with someone who doesn't know how dangerous it is, who then dies from asphyxiation, and you might go down for negligent manslaughter. Get drunk on alcohol, and you are only hurting yourself. Get drunk, and then try to drive home, taking out 14 mailboxes and one step-down transformer, and you might be doing some time.

...unless you have money, or know the right people. One of my former bosses occasionally mentioned at work that he grew weed inside his house. He probably went months without ever even seeing a cop. No suspicion means no searches, means no evidence, means no prosecution, means no jail. I have known people who drove drunk on at least a weekly basis, and never got cited for it even once. They all either had money or a few cop friends.

It isn't just that the justice system is not enforcing malum prohibitum offenses among that class, but they also look the other way for more serious malum in se crimes. The rich can afford more skillful lawyers. The connected can get the police and prosecutors to back off a bit.

I know someone who quit a prosecutor job because she got tired of putting people in jail for being poor. That's what modern policing is doing. It's packing the prisons with poor people and the jails with the untreated mentally ill. I didn't vote for this. I don't know anybody that would. Yet the people around me keep electing representatives who promise to be "tough on crime" and the "law and order" candidates, without stopping to consider that those people may be inventing new crimes just so they can get tough on them, or that their new laws may encourage more civil disorder.
It seems to be more a rhyme analyzer and arranger than a rap song writing bot
Most successful technologies didn't succeed because they are and always were perfect; they succeeded because they were good enough at the right time.

Who knows whether or not Bitcoin is past that threshold - time will tell. But I have to wonder: is it really worse than the financial system we use right now? Any argument against the use of Bitcoin is also indirectly arguing that something else is better. What is better in this case? An altcoin? If so, I haven't seen it yet - at least not in a way that puts Bitcoin in inadequate-without-a-doubt territory.

Could you really write a bullet-proof case for using our current financial system instead, especially if the roles were switched and we were coming from something Bitcoin-like to a proposal for using fiat currency?
That's a very different kind of case. This one refers to creating third-party presences on WhatsApp's messaging platform by talking to their servers remotely and mimicking the official client software in order to gain access. The Oracle case is a matter of Google implementing a Java standard library so that their Google's Java VM could run the same code that runs on Oracle's.

Aside from an overloaded meaning of the term "API", the two situations have very little in common.
The arguments we hear about bitcoin are in similar vein as what was said about the WWW in 90s

"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." - Paul Krugman

I remember the days when people said email wasn't better than a fax, that websites are not better than paper catalogues for shopping and that only nurds use computers to socialise...
Trolley buses are common on hilly routes where electricity provides torque needed to navigate steep grades. Very common in the pacific northwest (Seattle) and much of the alps (e.g. Lausanne).

Buses tend to bunch in Beijing also, bad traffic prevents them from passing very well.
From their website (step 3 of how it works)

TransferWise converts your money at the mid-market rate and matches you with people sending in the other direction. That's why it costs so little.

My understanding - after you've given the money you want to transfer to TransferWise, they find someone in your destination country who wishes to transfer money to the country where you are (kind of like a swap). This way, they cut off the banks and their fees and charge you a lower fee.
Great folks, great technology. Well done Nicolas, Julien and team!
While this is very cool, it seems like this type of development supplants TDD by running the intermediate results manually once and is forgotten.
Thanks for at least responding.

I just noticed a flurry of downvotes on all of my comments in this thread. It'd be nice if the randbots could at least try to talk, instead of knee-jerking on the little down arrow.
So for a full test, I would recommend https://tls.so/ or https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/. But if you just want to check if your server has the logjam vulnerability, I would suggest http://security.uwsoftware.be/logjam. It just says No, Yes or Yes by the NSA (for 1024 DH keys). A little bit humour inside a scanner.
> For me, it's not that I prefer PayPal, it's that I don't want to give my credit card details to a business if I'm not sure they can keep it reasonably secure.

This is exactly why I use PayPal. I would far rather use a more reputable interface system, but I am NOT keen on handing my CC info out to every shop online.
How powerful is autocomplete, when statically typed languages also provide it?
They already practice and develop plays for short yardage. The short down field at the goal line is different than first down conversions, but it isn't all that different than a red zone offense scheme.
The whole article seems written around "Stellar good, Bitcoin bad" premise, when the author ignores that Stellar is basically Ripple with another name, and we know how that ended up eh
Perhaps.

However, even if they did keep the source code, there are issues and other information on github that would not be preserved. I think it's safe to assume this information is very relevant to litigation involving a scenario such as this one.

Even if that wasn't a factor, the court may get the idea that the repository was wiped in order to destroy evidence. Convincing them otherwise may be technically challenging.
When you are building WCF services and clients, in conjuction with a DI/IoC framework it can work REALLY well... I wrote an extension for MS-Unity that would generate service clients from a simple app settings string for the resource endpoint... that would automagically create a generic client on the fly in production.

For the server-side mounts, I had utility methods to mount several services into a single MVC web application, and it was just about seamless... for the project there was a base interfaces project that defined the services, so that the client and implementation were abstracted from eachother. It really was pretty slick in the end, and far from the default visual studio implementation.

I've also used WCF services as a message bus between a Flash/Flex simulation front end, and a connected backend service for that simulation instance. It wasn't bad.

That said, I much prefer to use node.js and simple JSON RPC and/or REST services these days over http or websockets (socket.io/sockjs), depending on what is pragmatic. It wasn't an option 8-9 years ago.
Stone tools dating back 3.3m years linked to apes
Btw, to delete a single word on OS X, alt + backspace. For Windows, ctrl + backspace.
Why I Switched from the Odin Project to FreeCodeCamp
Unless bitcoin collapses there will always be huge amounts of energy wasted on mining, because the miner fees kick in as people compete to have their transactions recorded.
One of the authors of the Rosalyn compiler has a different opinion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5149315. And he gives some examples of much better books.

It used to be good, but it is not any longer thought of that way.
What was it like to go back to school? It sounds miserable to me.
Artificial Sexuality: A Roundtable Discussion on Screwing Robots
5 minutes for Russian Science
I've never liked Expected-Value type calculations because they don't take variance into account. You could have a theoretical messed-up lottery where the payoff is greater than the odds, where EV would tell you to blow all your money on the lottery even if the odds are totally against you winning. Similarly, this wouldn't really imply that coaches should go for 2 all the time (like... you've just scored a TD to tie the game at 6 at the end of regulation, and a tie would mean you'd miss the playoffs).

There's a cool equation called the Kelly Criterion to solve this but it only works for single bets. I don't know how to use it to compare between two bets, or for a case like the extra point where you are essentially betting nothing for a 92% chance to get one point.
As stated in the title, this is an introductory article... but the information is good and HaaTa has excellent street cred as a keyboard hacker

FYI here's the github repo for his controller firmware:

https://github.com/kiibohd/controller

TMK's firmware is also excellent if you are interested in this sort of thing:

https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard
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You view bitcoin as as "investment" not a "tool" there in lies your problem.

"Why would anybdoy buy into Bitcoin when it means only fattening the pockets of a few (already rich) mining syndicates?"

Replace Bitcoin with USD in above sentence and "mining syndicates" with "banks"
This kills the firefox.
There is a spam filter acting already, but it looks like we already have our first troll spamming it.. great. Knew this would happen, hoped it wouldn't happen two hours after launching. =/
GDBase – An offline parallel debugger designed for scalable execution
To diversify tech, hiring teams need to walk the talk on unconscious bias
How I Use Sourcegraph, with Cory LaNou of InfluxDB
No pants? Was there some kind of taboo regarding the mention of trousers?
Please go check when the last Windows version of Safari was released.
Sounds like we should change how electricity is produced?
Isn't an empty string still a string?
It would be nice, when you do this, to know what the original title is, to know what the issue with the original title was.
How did Meteor fail and cause harm?

It sounds like you were in an organization where there was some fundamental disagreement that caused the contention.

I don't have any skin in the game, but I find this account to be an unfair characterization of Meteor, so I'd like to refute some of your claims.

First, I really don't know where you got the idea that Meteor is an all-or-nothing stack. Sure, it provides everything you need, but you're not compelled to use what it provides. Meteor works very well with all sorts tech.

* The website has a whole subdomain devoted to using it with Angular: http://angular-meteor.com/.

* Here's talk given about using React: https://youtu.be/-QtrkXKvQFc. I'm currently doing this with great results.

* Here's one of a few projects providing support for PostgreSQL: https://github.com/meteor-stream/meteor-postgres/wiki/Gettin...

Basically, if there is javascript support for it, you can use it with Meteor.

Secondly, it's disingenuous to say that Isomorphic Javascript is just bad tight coupling by invoking "universally accepted anti-pattern" because someone can come along and spout equally broad and obnoxious engineering-speak, calling it DRY and touting its core principle of code reuse as best practice.

Now, I am genuinely interested in specific shortcomings and outright failures of the technology. If you had a bad experience with DDP, I'd like to hear about it so I don't make the same mistake.
The biggest political science study of last year was a complete fraud
>Rejecting Bitcoin because it enriches a few people in a manner that you find objectionable is... myopic.

That's not why I think Bitcoin is dead.

It's primarily the fact that nobody can mine it anymore, thus nobody will be interested in it. All of my friends who I introduced to Bitcoin (and were fanatics while they were mining) don't even talk about it anymore. They're all just steadily hoarding their coins, not using them for anything, in the hopes of cashing out millions of dollars once all of the later "suckers" come along and buy into the blockchain.

It was the "free money" aspect that really sold the idea to most people. Nobody cares about the "exchange money for Bitcoin just because Bitcoin is so much more fluid" aspect.
Why has PayPal not started some sort of program (extra verification, etc) so that legit people attempting to do these things can use them without running into anti-fraud?
It works by them having $90m in VC funding from people like Richard Branson and Peter Thiel which they then use to subsidise the super cheap transfers with the aim of growing big.
Modifications can be localized in each cell or voxelized. The old method I used just voxelized the modifications. In ray marching with SDF union and subtraction are easy. You can load localized modifications for a cell with one set of texture reads. Will prob be roughly approximated and limited.
The development experience for statically typed languages is often _amazing_ compared to that of dynamically typed ones; we sometimes choose dynamically typed ones anyway because of the flexibility and speed of development they give. I'd be very happy with an environment that provided dynamically typed languages the same analysis, checking, completion, etc that statically typed languages take for granted.
It depends on what you mean by layman. I found the book Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson to be very easy to understand, but it does require some linear algebra and complex numbers. I don't think you can get a good overview of entanglement (where the madness lies) without that basic level.

Check http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/ and see if it works for you.

Otherwise, you are in the realm of popularizers like John Gribbin, who I found entertaining but not very enlightening.
One downside to the change is that it eliminates one of the NFL's most exciting occurrences: the surprise two-point attempt.

Now wherever the offense lines up will be a clear indicator to the defense of what play is about to be run.
The thing is there is not such thing as "perfect technologies", but just "good enough". And Bitcoin have (at least) demonstrated that is in fact good enough for now.
You forgot a big one: you have to be technically proficient to use the currency. Regular members of the public are usually terrible at computer security and even just keeping their files safe. It'll only take a few lost wallets (with all that juicy money in them) and there'll be enough horror stories to prevent wider adoption.
In Chicago on very rare occasions when the train is running late they will have an impromptu "express" train where they skip the next 4 or 5 stops. They announce it so you know not to get on the train if your stop is being skipped.

It seems like such a huge deal for them to do this - it's very rare. It must be a giant pain, even though it makes a lot of sense. Not only does it get the train back on schedule, but it reduces the riders on that train, which further speeds it up. If there was an easy, intelligent way to allow the bus to go into "express" mode and alert the riders then the busses could avoid getting bunched up.
Cool to see. Is its release a reaction to Sy Hersh's article (about which I'm agnostic), or is this a coincidence?
> Nobody worth having as a customer is going to build their business on your platform if your attitude whenever something goes wrong is "you shouldn't have been doing that in the first place".

My favorite set of APIs is AWS. You know why? Because they've realized they hold two very weighty sticks that they can use when designing, and they've put them in place all over.

1. They can make any arbitrary message to the API cost the user money every time they send it, to disincentivize using that part of the API thoughtlessly. That's whether or not they expect this to be an actual revenue stream at the rates people are charged for reasonable usage.

2. They can put a "soft cap" on any arbitrary resource, so that you have to phone them and get the cap raised if you want more than [some reasonable number] of something. This likewise disincentivizes bad designs that use a nigh-infinite number of costly somethings to accomplish tasks that could be just as easily accomplished some more idiomatic, less costly way.

AWS doesn't prevent you from doing stupid things... but it makes you really not want to. I love it.
I would love it if the multiplayer would eventually pair you with faster typers.
Oof. I guess I shouldn't hate too much as there are still some API's out there that use it. Exchange I'm looking at you.
What is a good alternative to WCF if I want Binary+TCP. I used WCF in the past and didn't have trouble with it, but there is seething hatred for it in this thread.

For the record, I eschewed XML configuration for code and instead of supporting a range of protocols/transports, I used binary over TCP.
Wish there was an option to pay to remove ads. I have adblock on and I get an nag ad saying "View ad. Be upset. Keep us running. You may not like this ad, but it supports the developer and keeps this site free." which is fine but please offer me the ability to pay to remove them.

Nothing is more distracting when trying to learn touch typing than ads flashing all around.

I initially learned on TypingWeb.com (I think that is right) and keybr.com beats it in many ways. The extra book marklet to turn any web page into a lesson is the 1st, the 2nd is the ability to upload your own text.

A 3rd I would like is to give the URL of a Github repo and select a tag then you would be able to type every single file of the repo. It would keep track of your progress for that tag. You could even compete with others for typing say the entire Drupal 7.32 release etc.

I had bought a domain of doing something like this a while ago but only becuase nobody else had done it. keybr.com seems like it has what it takes to do this and I am going to just see if I can get the owner/maintainer to do it instead!
I agree here, from my observations teams struggle far more from super short yardage (<3 yards) worse than they struggle from ~10 yards.

The lack of space before the goal line limits the routes you can run. The defense clogging the middle becomes easier because there is no deep threat to allocate safeties and linebackers to.

I think the more 2 point plays that are run, defenses are going to get better at stopping them. I also wonder what percentage of successful 2 point plays were fake kicks, where special teams defense was out there. Rather than actual defensive starters. I wager that if offenses have to face real defenses in this situation they will perform worse.
I assume he plans to completely wipe the repository after a short time of this notice being public.
> Admitting hacking could be seen as an act of war. Use your brain.

It's less about the US openly admitting to it, and more about the general public not using their brains and eating up what the politicians are serving them. Many in the US take those "evil Chinese hackers" statements at face-value and would believe that the US would only be hacking military targets in China (rather than hacking the Chinese general public to create botnets, etc).