skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you own the apartment, you can formally present to the building board that solar panels should be built on the roof. They would be owned by you, some group of people living there or the housing association.

If you're a tenant looking for an apartment you can keep asking it from landlords. Hopefully they start seeing that it's something that can be a distinct factor.

If you're a company doing real estate software, you can incorporate info about solar panels (and things like energy efficiency metrics) to the software.
This was one of the best investigative reports I've read. Thanks for sharing this cover-up.
Data Science Descriptive Statistic: Sample Standard Deviation
Then we can use GPUs to speed up VeraCrypt's PBKDF, too.

The point is that there's no need for a PBKDF that takes 10 seconds on modern hardware.

Sure, that 60-bit passphrase is weak. But it takes a trivial amount of effort to increase the entropy of a passphrase. Let's say I increased it to 80 bits. In terms of brute-force resistance, that's equivalent to increasing the PBKDF's iteration count 1 million times.
You are correct, but "regulatory capture" refers to a different form of corruption than what you are talking about.
This is a great tool, thanks for sharing.
Reminds me to keep things straight and fast.
I find a nice little program called Daz Loader works much more smoothly than Lenovo support. As long as you have the correct SLIC code in the BIOS you are golden.
Visual Studio should not be crashing. Also bash scripts are famous for fucking up server instances, too. And crond, while simple, is equally deadly. Everyone's had a weird ass permissions problem there that took three nights of logs to figure out. This is general life in the trenches regardless of platform. Also, I'm certainly not a PowerShell fan but you have to admit it does bring structure to the madness.
For staff only, for the actual congresspersons they are online:

http://clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial.aspx
Probably because they can't legally disclose the reason.
Take that, Penrose! LOL
I don't see why not, given that the threshold for plenty of Show HN entries that make it to the front page isn't high at all.
Ask HN: Any HN stats analysis been done?
I was just thinking of some questions about HN discussions - things like what does the average discussion look like? How long between replies is common / polite (I seem to let the other end hang for hours)

I don't particularly care about best time to post (that's defined by me as when I am struck by something) but there are many interesting questions one could ask the corpus

(Which leads to the other question - is there a good way to get hold of the corpus?)
And this is why we homeschool. Have a weird fascination with the human eye? Here's three medical textbooks, knock yourself out kid. Suck at math? No problem, we will take it as slow as we have to until you feel comfortable. There's no grades and pressure there's just things you've learned and things you're still learning.
Don’t Blame Tech for the Wealth Gap
How to Turn Your Android Smartphone into a Super Spy
Create meme from a thousand templates easily
elsewhere too
What an unfortunate name...
>And this happens constantly, people that follow looking for followers and then unfollow without any sort of shared interest or connection.

These are mostly bots and automated tools. It's like that in every social network ever.

>What is the Twitter promise and is it succeeding to deliver it?

To bring you short snippets, news and opinions on topics that interest you, in real time (or as close as it gets).

I believe they deliver on that promise, but the bigger problem here is that they're being compared to facebook, while being nothing alike facebook with a completely different user base. This causes trouble in their user growth.
I would just add, it took them nearly 4 years to add these guidelines!

>November 29, 2011 First publication

>July 8, 2015, 2015 Revision to include security guidance and requirements
Информация.+Члены+жюри+шоу+Главная+сцена+2+будут+….+»+
How many people learned shell scripting while engaged in morally ambiguous activities? For me it was scraping for porn ~25 years ago. I imagine lots of people learned scripting while "penetration testing".
It's called "cognitive bubble"
I don't think it was a joke. If people are interested in checking this out, the Hurd name for this functionality is "translators". And it seems to do what I expected.
Being a good citizen now doesn't reduce my obligations in the future, so I'll be avoiding a solar retrofit as long as possible.

Personally, it would take something like a decade to recapture the capital costs associated with a solar installation. I don't have a 10-year commitment to my home, and don't have a capital gain tax liability to offset. So with solar I save a few bucks a month, and pick up alot of risk that my electric utility bears right now.
Even in the UK with a massive government tax break our set of panels will take 8 or so years to break even - and we have an almost perfect south facing roof.

Makes sense if you own the property and have the spare cash to take the free money (8% yield tax free) - though the UK government is reducing the subsidy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_Nobel_laureates

Blacks are like 1/6 of the world and throught the whole history of humanity they accomplished almost nothing noteworthy.

And the history of Africa. A gigantic, resource rich continent with a great climate getting conquered and outplayed by a speck of land called Europe.
Even now they don't have any strategic vision and just sell out their resources and land for nothing to Europeans/Asians. It is the same amognst MOST of the US/Europeans blacks, short-sighted and emotional decisions, or a lack of thereof
Uhm... Using "-1" to assign the maximum value is in fact as standard and cross-platform as using std::numeric_limits, which was basically my entire point.

The difference between those is only "textual solution" VS "mathematical solution" and thus a matter of personal preference.
Looks like it was people clicking google code's "export to github" feature before you got round to doing it ;-)

I wouldn't worry about it - the clones will probably not go anywhere and just die off, abandoned. True they don't link back to your now-canonical repo. As viraptor said, maybe contact the users. They might prefer to fork your repo now it's on github.
On a couple of projects we figured that if a customer is motivated to break in to the device, they're welcome to whatever is there. That doesn't mean we made it easy, but we didn't go out of our way to obfuscate things or erect barriers: There's SPI, there's the flash bus, have fun.

We disabled the debugger that we had on the UART, though. We're not totally crazy.

Just getting something working out the door is challenging enough. Firmware always comes in hot.
Your story on thenextweb was excellent - it's a complex story and you managed to explain it all very well.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/12/lenovo-used-a-hidde...
Didn't set the number of threads for Spark to use. You should oversubscribe. This is probably the biggest misstep.
I know it doesn't matter security-wise, but the hardware still has to do the (crypto) work, whereas hardware TRNGs can get it for "free": the price per bit of entropy can be smaller for a well designed TRNG.
But mathematics is about the only field where merit is clear-cut enough that there's no outsider mathematics, even if crank mathematics is clearly recognizable by professionals and even by college calculus-educated adults. If, as often is the case, someone draws a sketchy proof for an ambitious conjecture that seems promising enough, entire communities of professionals spend thousands of man-hours fixing the holes.

What's more, mathematics has consistently avoided the "Lakatos trap" of chasing "narrow-minded" research programs that it might be argued that plague science in general. Even physics: Alan Sokal's mock article accidentally zooms in on how we have failed to understand (and persist on failing to working on, at least since the Kolmogorov formalism) the everyday phenomenon of turbulent fluid dynamics even as we've grown to astounding heights in esoteric reductionist physics that are spuriously compared to a new metaphysics. And don't get me started on economics or even econometrics -- just the vast swaths of subjects we've given up on.
That's correct. I don't think we should blame the PDF.js devs either.
I used to think this way until I started dating a geologist. She brought down my optimism when she detailed the ways that the environment is ravaged to extract the materials necessary to create solar panels, wind turbines, and so on. Rare earths are great for handling high heat, but their resistance to reaction also means it takes a LOT of nasty chemicals to purify the ore. Not that we should keep on burning fossil fuels, but we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking that renewables are a one-way street to environmental prosperity.
potential tldr; Get and set are just words, use something else. At least that is what I got out of it.
Freedom of choice: 7 top Linux desktop environments compared
Tips and Tricks on Optimizing Amazon Web Services
Eh you PC SJW crowd are truly amusing, just downvote me without providing anything that would show I'm wrong.
Considering the number of blacks in the world there should be abundant resources that show their significant contributions to humanity, science and culture.
It is like reddit 2.0, downvote whatever doesn't fit the cireclejerk
They used 8 cards for that test.
Now that is brilliant
I've had two of the Lodge cast iron pans crack completely, and being able to dishwash the nonstick pans saves me a lot of time.
hey,

maybe the active spideroak project with nimbus is something for you

https://github.com/SpiderOak
https://github.com/SpiderOak/nimbus.io
I have a 7 year old Tefal pan, I mostly used it in a dorm. I often lent it to my dormmates and even they couldn't destroy the coating.
Orthogonal means 'irrelevant'? Might be, CSS and JS comes in many flavors.
actually [ is same as test and the last ] is just the last (useless) argument of [, iirc
Well now we're arguing semantics. But okay.

I think that in the context of a newspaper when you read, "Attack on the pentagon" the first thought that most people have is that there has been an attack on The Pentagon. That's the whole reason it's a pun, right? Because you're lead to believe it refers to The Pentagon when it really refers to a 5 sided polygon?

That's an inappropriate thing for a newspaper to do. Go ahead and make puns, just not about attacks on government buildings.

The SPJ ethics code clearly states,

> "make certain that headlines, news teases and promotional material, photos, video, audio, graphics, sound bites and quotations do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context."

At the very least you must admit that it's pushing the envelope, no? The fact that the HN mods changed the title from what OP submitted is evidence enough that I'm not alone in thinking it's a misleading headline.
Is this associated with http://www.222labs.com ?

If not, is there an email or somehow I can PM you or @ajvb at?
Yeah, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation_theory and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
There are a lot of reasons someone might clone your repo.

Personally, I've frequently cloned repos to read and play around with the code. Making changes to the code is a good way for me to verify that I understand what's going on: if a change does what I expect it to do, then it means I probably understood the code. In that case, I don't really care if I miss updates.

As for people not knowing what the real repository is: there's not really a such thing as the "real" repo. Git just isn't centralized like that. Probably since you are the original coder, yours will be the most popular, but if you're worried about not getting credit for your work, there are a few things you can do:

1. As viraptor said, you can put a link to your repo in the README.

2. It's a good idea to put a LICENSE file in your repo. You can choose one which requires people to give you credit.

Keep in mind that you can't force people to pull your code with these changes, and if they've already cloned it they have it under the original license (which may be no license at all). So this doesn't really fix the problem you have now, it only prevents more people from cloning w/o a link back in the future.
Back on those days I was using Q with its Wordstar key-bindings and Clipper 5 with its OO extensions, after some learning with Summer 87.
Fiddlers for JSON, XML, HTML ,JS and More
Why most photo editing apps suck and this one is awesome – and raised $10M
A conical projection from the middle of each step would help recenter the slinky after each drop. Sort of like a docking probe. It could also be made asymmetric to help the high end lift off cleanly for the next drop.
(Disclaimer: I didn't read the paper. I'm not sure if someone knows a link is cross-cutting before clicking it.)

So if I'm reading that correctly, liberals are more likely to click on a cross-cutting article. That alone doesn't really tell me much. So without trying to inject too much personal bias...

Does that mean:

1) Liberals are more likely to click on something they disagree with.

a) Because they are more open minded, they click on articles from contrarian points of view?

b) Because the article just looks interesting, but it turns out they disagree with it because they are more closed minded?

2) Conservatives are less likely to click on something they disagree with.

a) Because they are more open minded, they agree with more of the things they read than liberals?

b) Because they are more close minded, they don't even bother opening articles they think they will disagree with?
Bummer, so much so sub space communication. It does sound like it would be useful for extremely safe encryption where the two parties would have an ever changing shared key.
There are still a handful of cases of bubonic plague in the US every year. It's all San Francisco's fault: http://io9.com/5978781/why-people-in-the-united-states-are-s...
You probably also should include the CO2 footprint of energy storage/batteries if you plan on going 100% solar.
It arises from their _collective dynamics_, this is a very important point and an excellent distinction you are making. It probably has more to do with their nature as fermions than anything else - see Wikipedia on a Wigner crystal for a similar phenomenon
> In the US eggs at the supermarket are very clean. In Europe, it's forbidden to clean the eggs in any way. Often enough, you will have feathers and feces on eggs bought in the supermarket.

Cleaning them removes a natural antibacterial layer that protects the eggs, which is why the US has to refridgerate theirs and Europe leaves them out at room temp. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/why...
Waiting for Oracle 3DSMax now. :)
They're not making it better out of the goodness of their hearts--they're profiting from the situation.
Docker 1.8 released
This will get buried here and is worthy of a separate thread. But... what are the "gateway drugs" for a Windows-centric dev? A Linux-centrix dev?

For me it was Postgres to show what open source was really capable of (a more current example would be LLVM), and Python and SWIG as examples of things that simply don't exist inside the Microsoft ecosystem but which solve so, so many problems. And even on weeks where I'm sitting in Visual Studio all day, I still couldn't live without Cygwin, wonky as it may be. Also: your fears about licensing and quality and some of the other FUD I see in threads like this are largely bullshit.

On the other side, any Mac or Linux dev who prefers Eclipse or Xcode to Visual Studio really needs to have his or her head examined. There's a culture shock, yes. Now give it a few days and deal with it. C# is superior to Java -- much smarter language architects and bigger, better teams, better tech, better docs. F# type providers will make your head explode in a positive way. Azure kicks ass on AWS, sorry. And the sheer depth and volume of everything Microsoft does really can't be understood until you dig in. This is a company that spends $10 billion every year on R&D. And they're the most developer-focused company on earth by far. Also, they're actually not stupid, though you may have to take that on faith to start. There is also PLENTY of open source code. Also plenty of "pay $149 for something with support instead of beating your head against a bunch of snarky bastards on a mailing list for a week" options too for those moments when you have more money than time. Also: all your fears about lock-in and secret API and some of the other FUD I see here are largely bullshit, too.
Which works better depends on if you're in a class based authoritarian society or a democracy.

Clearly we're headed back to the middle ages as fast as we can, in general, at least economically. Is it better to pretend otherwise hoping we'll change direction or at least the lies will pacify the general public, or knowingly step on the gas to get the suffering related to the transition over as quickly as possible or hoping the general public will rise up?
Atomic Web Design
That's pretty nifty.
If you're crawling different origins in parallel then you could gain a boost in speed by threading. It's usually bound by the network/processing on the receiving side. Your server can probably handle several outgoing connections at once.
Messaging app Wire declares war on crappy conference calls
I don't have a list handy, no, I've just read the discussions on the bugtrackers at the time.

A good place to start investigating if you're really interested:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2871

That's a list of the original planned features for the TBB. You can clearly see they intended it to be a temporary thing until patches were pushed upstream, but it's still around and still adding new patches to fix leaks. You might try to search for the tickets for the issues above in the mozilla bugtracker and you will see many WONTFIXes.
Inline Puppet Manifest with Vagrant
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I intend to this year. Studying to be an Actuary. Actually, the Actuary thing was Plan A. but I majored in CS and been doing a software development job for the past two years so that my software side could be a viable Plan B. I love programming. Always have, always will. Actuarial science just seems more challenging at the moment so it attracts me
True. Our robot uses a particle filter since we're mostly localization by odometry and lidar returns. But if we had an outdoors robot using GPS like the one in the article then our uncertainty would be a lot more Gaussian and I think we'd switch.

Also, for determining the position of your own robot the efficiency isn't a big deal. But if you're tracking a lot of objects in your environment then it becomes more important. And since you're looking at the objects and are tracking relative position the distribution is uni-modal too.
ipython notebook works on command line, jupyter notebook does not, even after upgrade
Recursive descent is a very elegant and simple algorithm, which is quite easy to understand even without going deep into language theory. Deriving precedence climbing from it is also not difficult:

https://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm#more_clim...

Precedence climbing is an even more elegant and simpler solution to multiple precedence levels, allowing things like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822
> I'm not reclusive I just don't enjoy those things as much and would rather be doing something else... if I can recover 3hrs of my time on a work day, or hell after hours as mentioned in the article for < $100, I'll take it.

I totally agree for something as routine as a physical, but if i'm sick, i probably don't want to squeeze in more to my day. It may be more convenient to stay in bed, but if i'm not doing much that day anyway...
I think it will be more like "Google's parent company, Alphabet". And I think when they mention Alphabet it will be along the lines of new ventures.

The reason why is simply -
1) Changing Google to Alphabet is way too confusing.

2) Google is still here and operating as Google for the most part. Only real difference is that most of the R&D tasks not pertaining to its main business structure are placed outside that space. So, what I can recall, things like Google glasses and cars and whatnot will be a project that's under Alphabet.

But seriously, Google will still be referred to as Google. Youtube, Maps, Music is still under the Google business.

Alphabet are for existing/new project (from A to Z (get it!)) that the Google guys (Page, and Brin) wants to pursue. If they are profitable, they may become their own businesses or even put inside the Google brand.

NBD!
Indeed, it was no joke.
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Very cool, thanks for doing/sharing. I am curious why he says "non linear SVM are the most accurate but can't scale". I've used the good old C svmlight on pretty large datasets, it was not real time but..
Some things are just not open for discussion. Whatever I was before transition isn't who I am now. I think it's best to focus on who I am and not what people think I was. My identity is fairly simple to comprehend. Dead naming as it's called (when using or asking for a transgender person's previous legal name) isn't something you should do once you're informed that it's rude and dehumanizing (because the question itself assumes someone's name isn't their own in the first place).
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so what happens if you suck at maths, and took an extraodinarily long time to get to the same stage as institutional schools would have? When would you know you are ready to leave homeschooling, and move to university?
Actually, if we go by recent claims, GM is the winner (loser) here
The sandbox -X command doesn't work: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103622 - and hasn't worked for over a year.

The author is mia from the bug and seems to have given up: https://danwalsh.livejournal.com/72697.html
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043152
If you use any standard open source license, users are not obligated to fork your project. You can request that they do so, but there's no obligation under any OSI-approved license (MIT, BSD, GPL, Apache, etc).

For various reasons, I occasionally clone instead of fork an open source project I use, but I'm always careful to put a link to the original project at the top of my README.

Also, updates are not magically merged to upstream Github repos, regardless of whether they're forked or cloned. The user has to merge any updates manually either way, unless you script these merges using Bash or some similar approach.

tldr: forking is a tool, not a rule.
LOL, Steven Cohen is your example of SEC getting it right?

He's the best example of how the insiders are allowed to do it, while everyone else is not. As long as you call it an "experts network" and as long as you structure your corporate hierarchy properly you can do insider trading all day every day! Just ask Steven Cohen.
> paranoid patient with a baby...

What?! That's such a weird category you've created right there. Babies need immediate attention for medical issues because it can go south much faster in them than in adults. Most pediatricians are easily accessible after hours and have 24/7 triage lines.
> You must have spaces inside your test expressions (so [[-z $FOO]] won't work; [[ -z $FOO ]] is correct).

That's because '[[' is a special bash extension which started out as a better '[' which is actually a binary (/usr/bin/[). And, well, you have to have a space between an executable and its first argument.

(nowadays '[' and '[[' are builtins in most shells, but the external binary still exists).
Please add postgres support.
Lessons I have learned from being queer