skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so when scanned it isn't visible

I don't much see the point, these days; presuming you work in black, you can filter out the grids and guides of any light color (green, blue, etc.) just by scanning in color, picking out a color-curve that exists in black but not in the guides (e.g. red) and turning off the others.

Before digital image editing, some scanners and cameras were set up to automatically perform an equivalent to these steps by using a lens to filter out the blue channel, thus allowing graphic designers to sketch in blue "non-repro" pencil, ink on top of their sketch, and then have the sketch-lines disappear in the scan. But today, any random color can be your "non-repro" color if you have a copy of Photoshop Elements.
I'm actually writing the official Java driver right now. We should have a beta version out in a few weeks

Follow https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3930 for progress updates
I think the best way would be to patch all the call instructions via something like a relocation table, depending on the results of the check.

Nearly impossible to do in a high-level language, but it's the way an Asm programmer would probably think of doing it.
Ah, I missed that, sorry. D'uh, you actually have a global right up top called HN_API_URL.
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While it's not JDBC, we are working on an official Java client driver: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3930
It won't be JDBC (since we have our own language ReQL) but we're working on an official java driver now: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3930
Language feature-wise, I think python 3 has very little complained about it. The chief complaints about python I hear are anything to do with packaging software and multi threading the second of which will hopefully be fixed by 3.7.

Obviously, the 2 to 3 debacle is a constant source of grief, but I don't think that necessarily fits in with the subject at hand: language features that people contest over.
Fair points!

I think we agree on everything. I was honestly just being coy with "Day After". I don't believe I can adequately predict tomorrow's complexity issues. I just picked something arbitrarily "complex", not really giving it much thought.
I'm disappointed this wasn't about Dick Tuck.
Google creates Alphabet but runs into BMW
Environmental Considerations in Military Operations
According to Rep. Capuano of Cambridge/Somerville MA, the reason he can't effectively evaluate the TPP is that he isn't allowed to write any notes or consult people who are actually trade experts.

http://capuano.house.gov/e-updates/eu2015-05-15.shtml
I'd imagine that OpenSSH is likely designed around using libressl for that, no?
Argh. You missed one letter. (And so did I.)
Someone using OTP like google auth would likely be affected on linux, but it is not default and you can hardly bruteforce it either. On top of that fail2ban should deal with such bruteforce attempts just fine.
The main reason we don't like insider trading is that we like participation in the market by relative amateurs. A system that allows insider trading discourages participation by amateurs, because they do not have insider information. Insiders would earn money at the expense of these amateurs, so it's better for them to stick to other sorts of investments to avoid this "tax".

This isn't necessarily a problem. As a society, we've decided that we like having amateur capital in the markets more than we want the improved efficiency of allowing use of inside information. It's a tradeoff, and while both options have their merits, society has chosen one way.
Erulite – Convert anything into an audiobook
Ted the Albino Ghost Dude
Basically, tab-napping[1] for TTYs.

[1] http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/a-new-type-of-phishing-attac...
Your numbers are pulled out of a hat and as a result, any subsequent statistical analysis is meaningless.
Paul has been doing great work here: http://repnop.org/pd/slides/bsearch.pdf
I don't think we are talking about the same thing.

To get sense of where I am coming from i would like to refer to some of my writing on the subject.

http://000fff.org/#/slaves-of-the-feed-this-is-not-the-realt...

and

http://000fff.org/#/how-to-think-like-facebook-and-twitter

It's about something slightly different than what you seem to imply, sorry if that was imprecise.
Rhodia is much better paper than moleskine.
They are disclosed, but offline.
Very cool. I have an entire box of shirts I've collected over the years and no longer wear but hate the thought of throwing away. I'll have to try it.
http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/fall_2014/contributor/j... if you'd like to put a face to it
Don't forget memcached and W3 Total Cache. :-)
Google terminates access to its undocumented autocomplete API
What I never get about analog RNGs is, couldn't you send a strong, cyclically repeating RF signal at the RNG, and reduce the entropy (sort of) remotely?
Sure he his. She's a stay-at-home mom. Whose paycheck bought the house, etc? His.
I'll buy it from you for $20 if you want to get out while the market is tanking.
How widely used are security based HTTP response headers?
That's not purely donations though. Paying to remove ads is more like a freemium model IMHO, since people get something (a nicer user experience) in exchange for their money.
I'm guessing it can also only run the new universal windows apps. The classical desktop apps are only available on x86 - which the Pi is not.
He has a childish idea that the purpose of surveilance is to detect the bad people, the enemies.

From his first SIGINT Philosopher column:
> I guess if we were a corporation, we could make our mission statement (or "corporate philosophy") this: "building informed decision makers -- so that targets do not suffer our nation's wrath unless they really deserve it -- by exercising deity-like monitoring of the target." Now that's philosophy.
Regardless or who is right or wrong in that case it's interesting that the US moral standard are being applied all over the internet. I mean if the main part of github community was from say Italy where there is less and a quite different social justice context we would not have this debate.
The SJW think differently all over the world , but we only apply Californian value . Same for nudity on Facebook for exemple .
As the internet grow more centralised , mostly over US based entities i'm sad to see different culture get dissolve into the US mold.
What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? (2009)
Yep, I get that's what was meant. It's just not logically sound.
They were not able to actually obtain enough access to the tape to do anything useful.
Future Node.js releases will be from the io.js repo
Or to decriminalize all insider trading.
Note that when a service says "we have now enabled [feature X] for ... SMS", without also explicitly specifying MMS, then they probably haven't done MMS.

Although SMS and MMS are presented similarly on devices, they're actually two wildly separate technologies and that difference usually bubbles up into how gateways handle them, translating to "update SMS handling" and "update MMS handling" usually being relegated to two different sprints.
Virtual Currency BitLicense Will Force Exodus from New York
The "crummy patents" and "having patents at all" are very much intertwined. The problem is the bit about obviousness to someone skilled in the art. Even though I am a programmer, I know nothing at all about video codecs, so nothing seems obvious at all. But to someone skilled at making codecs, it's a different matter.

I remember very clearly when Ogg Theora was being developed the difficulty they had in choosing a technique that would work and was not already patented. It's not like they were looking up algorithms in a big book and saying "I wonder if that one is patented". They were coming up with techniques independently and then having to search to see if it was patented.

At what point is something obvious to a person skilled in the art? What should be patentable? Should you be able to get a patent across a whole field of techniques because you managed to implement one example of that technique?

The overall approach might be obvious to someone skilled in the art, but the devil is in the details. If someone can patent the overall approach because they have implemented an example of that approach, then it shuts down everybody else. If you have a company that goes around buying up (or making strategic partnerships with companies that own) patents that cover all conceivable approaches, then they can completely lock down any new developments for a couple of decades.

This is the reality of codec development right now. Is this what we want? Is it good for the industry and society in general?

Imagine as a programmer being told, "No matter what idea you have, it is already patented. You are not allowed to program without paying someone a fee. If they decide not to sell to you, then you can't program at all". That's the world of a codec developer. It's something that I personally do not want.
I find the Kalman filter explanation in terms of the Chokesky decomposition by R. Eubank to be excellent. It has a prerequisite of knowing linear regression (the linear algebra actually know what you are doing type), but made the inference of what the Kalman filter does very clear. This is definitely not a 10 minute blog post explanation, but understanding how it functions on a deep level is worth it.

http://read.pudn.com/downloads158/ebook/707373/A_Kalman_Filt...

I don't know why people jump through hoops to start out with a multidimensional Kalman filter, and even sometimes dive deep into complex topics. The subject seems to suffer from the same terminology and confusion gap as pre-Kolmogorov statistics.
ExDOS is developed by Omar, “almost 14 years old”
I absolutely practice before a technical interview.

I do at least one or two quick problems from Hacker Rank or Project Euler, and briefly review a handful of key algorithms (trees, graphs, searches).

I wouldn't want to lose a good opportunity because I was rusty on something the interviewer happened to ask.
Shareholders have non-criminal recourse to deal with corporations not operating on their behalf.
> Jobs which are truly considered to be important have respect and pay well

Correction: Jobs that return a very positive cash flow (for someone) pay well. (Teachers, Cops, Firefighters vs Brokers, Singers, Pro Athletes)
Open source NFL database with live play-by-play stats
Just for fun, I'm curious if you'd offer an opinion on my old startup-turned-side-project, http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/. It's a home automation controller that allows one to recycle old Xbox 360 Kinects for advanced lighting and A/V control.
Computer Science is to Programming what Anatomy is to realist painters.

No, learning anatomy will not make you a good painter. However if you are already a painter and want to become great, then you will need to learn anatomy.
Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
They do! The product spec PDF show RHEL and Ubuntu as officially supported.
Would you say that barring insider trading is a way to encourage broader, shallower groups of investors so that the noise (as in signal-to-noise) caused by individual traders is smoothed out better?

If there were 1K inside traders who were the only profit-makers, would the price of a security be more volatile than if there were 100K "outside" traders who all had a virtually equal chance of profit?
If you believe that the entirety of the market is rigged, what possible reason is there to make an exception for index funds?
I'm not really sure why you've been downvoted, as this seems like a non-controversial statement. I am working on a crowdsourced content site, a large part of which is a replacement for Wikipedia's biography and news-based pages (see profile for link). We do gamification (badges for adding certain types of content) and we pay our writers in revenue share. That said, in my experience, the issue is not one of personal reputation, but one of creating a system where quality data can be added irrespective of the quality of the person adding it. The focus should always be on the quality of the edit, not the quality of the editor. This may seem counter intuitive, but a well-designed crowdsourced site does not actually need experts in the subjects it is compiling.
At a certain point we need to give up on the idea we can sustain these public spaces without public support - taxes to an extent, laws of the form of "Net neutrality" (that might be free speech) and well plain old public approbrium

In the Edwardian era in UK, London was dotted with gated enclosures, private gardens solely for the rich - During the Second World War the hates were torn down for their metal content, and almost none were replaced, the community gains had been so great. Taxes to pay for the upkeep of the gardens, laws to ensure they could not be re-incorporated.

Somewhere in this is the solution to what Wikipedia has started.
Yes. RethinkDB has very strict durability guarantees (that are the same as traditional RDBMS). However, if you need transactions compliance across multiple documents, RethinkDB isn't a good choice.

See the faq for more details: http://rethinkdb.com/faq/
I absolutely can't wait for self driving cars! Then all the slow, inexperienced drivers can be driven around in the right lane and those of us that know what we're doing can stay in the left.

Nothing is more infuriating then a senior citizen that can't look over their shoulder to see who's in their blind spot and driving 10 miles under the limit to be in front of you for miles upon miles of highway. Same thing with young drivers - texting and fooling around listening to music to loud to hear a siren a block away.

And thats not to put either demographic down; I hope to someday be a senior citizen and being a teenager with a fresh license was fun also, but being a good driver is a skill earned via years of practice. If self driving cars can take the less experienced drivers out of the equation, all the better.
I meant DDOS, nobody cares enough to deny access to your little site unless there is something else which is going on. Other stuff, nothing much to worry about. Just follow best practices: use a password keeper, keep your site updated, disable comments, etc.
ThomPete is talking about categories as silos probably. Just like most people come to HN for mostly startups and programming, but stay for nautil.us too. And serenpidity here is refreshing.

His idea makes sense.
wireshark as root? Honestly? I've got thousands of lines in there, and I'd not trust it. And this is no longer a "live cd" as you claim it as. Installation is installation. You'll use it for more than a one time usage btw.
How Uber Is Changing Life for Women in Saudi Arabia
Good work! That happened way faster than I expected
Good luck man, i wonder what the industry is doing differently than academia to speed up the process. Also what is the course of the most passionate people, academia or otherwise?
Not so intelligent if you risk everything on risking eventual deportation it seems.
People that buy aftermarket hardware RNGs generally operate under the assumption --- which I agree is crazy --- that Intel backdoored RDRAND.

But this is all so silly. So far as computer science currently understands, the modern Linux software CSPRNG on modern Linux distros is perfectly adequate for all crypto.

I'd probably use RDRAND if I could count on having it, and if I was designing my own virtualized cloud hosting environment that was going to run at scale I might spend a few hours figuring out how to provision cold-start seeds to new VMs, but other than that I never think about this stuff. Just use urandom!
Graph paper is also great for making tidy indented lists/outlines. I took notes on an iPad with Notability for about a year, and the graph papers made it very easy to keep notes organized when stuff scrolls off the screen.

These days, I am really impressed with the notebooks made by Vela Workings, they are at least as nice as Moleskine's offerings but at slightly better prices. Their E2 Engineer Research Notebook is my current favorite, and the N2 is a close second.

http://www.velaworkings.com/shop.html
how is that the same thing?
Check out http://rethinkdb.com/docs/sharding-and-replication/ -- lots of information there.
A vote for Pursuit of Happyness, in fact it moved me so much I used it in my company's about page: http://hyperlush.com/about-hyperlush/

As messed up as they are, I also liked Wolf of Wall Street and Catch Me if You Can.
What do you mean proxy?
The point is so people don't have to do all that work. Why do in software what you can do in hardware?
Who cares?

Still don't know anything about Benghazi either.

Point is, you can find out a lot about a person by whether or not they are angered by Watergate or Benghazi. But in reality, it's the jobs, stupid. Taxes. The American Dream. Get over it.
Please, security test our code!
The thing with ideas, is many of them aren't really unique or particularly innovative. Most build on other ideas and concepts, this includes audio, video and other compression schemes. The issue at hand is that with many ideas, they take heavy manufacturing and physical models for testing that are expensive and time consuming. Where as an idea expressed in software is an extremely small fraction in terms of resources.

I've always felt that if we allow for software patents (which I'm not sure even that is a good idea), then they should be much more limited (say 5 years) where commercial costs can be recouped, and some profits made as well as being a short enough time that the greater society can still benefit.

Both the scale and scope of what is being approved regarding software patents in this country are ridiculous compared to the natural rate of change and innovation... 20 years ago the average computer would have a lot of trouble trying to display a 1080p video stream. Today just about everyone has something in their pocket that can handle this. We can't limit software expression and bind it for 20 years at a time, for ideas that take a fraction of that time for multiple people to come up with and implement.
Ask HN: What is “Stacked Ranking”?
Hi folks! I've been hearing a lot about stacked ranking these days, and recently when Intel decided to mass fire some of its employees, I thought I'd get a better understanding.

So, what is it? What kind of variants are there? Who wins in Stacked Ranking?

Looking for something canonical here since I think there are lots of ways in which this policy manifests.
Google Embraces the Conglomerate
It's using private information for material gain in breach of a fiduciary duty to shareholders, so yes it is insider trading.
Are You Doing Enough to Win?
Interesting that they are moving forward with the name io.js rather than merging into node and keeping the legacy name.
The Hustle (a publication like Vice and Fast Company) is hiring writers
Why would anyone want to put such closed-source bloatware licenceware with no future on anything?

It's a trap!
Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane
They're really giving up one of the most recognizable platform names in tech (node.js)? Is this so Joyent can maintain control over its trademark? (However that implies they'll still use the name node.js for something.)

Is there an explanation of why nodejs became iojs somewhere and not the reverse? (and whether code will be updated to remove "node" references?)
I'm confused, I thought they were ditching io.js
The short form is that in a Stacked Ranking performance measurement system, you rank every employee in an ordered list. Most often the next thing you hear is that the top X% of employees are the ones who will be given raises/bonuses, and the bottom Y% of employees are the ones who will be finding new jobs.

Reasonable references to get you started:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/stacked-ranking
http://www.businessinsider.com/stack-ranking-employees-is-a-...
> Indeed, a slap on the wrist applied very rarely to those white collar criminals unfortunately politically unconnected to face punitive actions and another government initiative that also rarely applies any sort of punishment to the rich and connected.

I don't believe this is even remotely accurate.

> Meanwhile, on the other side of the tracks - snatched some swisher sweets? That's a shootin. Sass me while black? That's another shootin. You got a likky stik of collie and minoritous in nature? You going down: hard!!!

I don't deal with sarcasm and vulgarity. If you want to make a point, make it politely and directly.
That's a good idea, keep building it.
It makes sense if an idiot were to come up with a solution in 5 seconds.

The answer is NOT to give them free reign to do it. It's to prevent them from being allowed to choose stock investments entirely. They get enough perks, they don't need free reign over the market.
I could be wrong, but I don't think they are renaming anything. They just replaced the official Node.js Github repo with the io.js repo, and it has the old readme. I expect the readme will be updated.
Im surprised by this, too. Node is significantly more well-known than Io.
It's really rainy and cold 8 months a year, if you live in Stockholm or south of it. If you live up north, it's at least cold and snowy and beautiful4 of those 8 months, instead of rainy. I love the summer in Sweden, but it's so short. The Stockholm winter climate just sucks, sorry. It has to be either colder or warmer for me to like. Mud and rain is not my thing.
Apollo 13 provided me a solid and inspirational mental model for some of the work I do.

The astronauts are trapped up there. They are pretty much doomed to die. The people on the ground cannot physically provide any kind of aid. Everything they can provide is in the form of information, research, better answers, different ways of handling things and also a bit of enotional encouragement, but, mostly, they can provide better intelligence. And that is enough. It saves the lives of the seemingly doomed astronauts.

That has been enormous food for thought for how to approach my web projects, why they matter, and that they can make a real difference in the world while providing nothing but information.
Even Monsanto is giving up: http://www.euronews.com/2013/07/18/monsanto-re-thinks-its-gm...

http://www.gmeducation.org/government-and-corporations/p2134...
Everything is connected. Everything and everyone are merely shards of the same universe. And that is exactly the point. By my parents, I and my brother are one. By my grand parents, my cousins and uncles and aunts and I. By my ancestors, I am connected to the rest of humanity. And through me, my children will inherit this same connection. And, so, to take care of the world, I must take care of my parents first, and concentrate my resources on my children.

The same mindset that creates excessive high taxes for redistribution to everyone else, taken to the extreme, would abandon elderly in elderly homes, prevent children from receiving the love of their parents, take babes from the arms of mothers, and in doing so, tear the fabric of society apart, dissolving the connection between nodes and turning humanity into one giant glob, devoid of uniqueness of individuals, by equalising everything.

And the mindset to do that, as hackuser so fervently advocate, at its core, is narcissism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10038933 The idea that his ideas are all important and others have zero standing, to impose his ideas of how society should be structured on others.

I know nothing. I cannot convince him, and I cannot convince you. Are my ideas the only way people can build societies with? 100% no. What's important is for me to leave others to figure out their own humanity. People will find their own way and from your comment I can see you are already most of the way there. As long as I do nothing to meddle in others, there will be no need for me to meddle.
I'd thought so too and assume the readmes havent been updated yet
Detente is over, schism returns?