skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What to make of it? Seems clear enough; he's (half-jokingly?) afraid that someone in the federal government will see the page and think "oh no! bombs! explosions! TERRORISM!" and identify more clearly that this is only a computer analogy.
Mathematician may have uncovered election fraud; Kansas tries to silence her
I think it is related to the word "bomb" existing on the page
If that actually worked it would already be happening... but honestly it isn't.
Britain is hardly alone in this. Prices in Vancouver and Toronto are absolutely insane when one considers incomes in the region. Sensible minds have been claiming a crash for years but property prices continue to go up. Funny thing is that the crazy housing in Britain/Canada make Bay area housing appear like a good deal :-p

If anyone has a book/documentary suggestion on understanding what is going on, would appreciate it.
The mores relating to sexual activity are rapidly changing in the direction of liberalization in the US-- 10 years ago being gay wasn't popularly acceptable. On other fronts (polyamory and the galaxy of other sexual options) are rapidly becoming more acceptably and may be mainstream in another 5 or 10 years.

Necrophilia, zoophilia and pedophilia aren't on the radar for acceptance yet-- possibly these will come after poly-acceptance (so maybe in the 2030s? hard to say) but I wouldn't be too surprised if they end up sticking around, considering that beyond their reputations those philias are actually harmful.
Limit on Apple Pay and other contactless payments rises to £30 in the UK
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Really, because I always think of dentists as inflating their own professional stature in order to promote their supposedly indispensable remedies, much like economists.
> any library with a GPL license will eventually be replaced with a library with a more liberal license

That's probably true, but it is not an argument against using the GPL.

If your GPL library is original and useful, the cost of reimplementing it will probably higher than the cost of making some depending piece of software Open Source.

So during the time until somebody else wrote that ISC/MIT/BSD version (which may be decades, think of GCC versus clang!), lots of other software may have been made Free Software that would otherwise have been proprietary.
Yes, portfolio. Thank you.
Political sorts in Scotland like to produce statistics like "70% of the land area of Scotland is owned by 500 people!" in order to shock people into supporting their generally redistributive political views - it is endlessly brought up.

But when you factor in land area value - if you could distort the area of Scotland such that the land value and the area were 1:1 - then suddenly it doesn't look anything like as bad. As the market says that owning a 4 bedroom flat in the west end of Glasgow in fact is worth more then 10,000 acres of land in the highlands.

Given as well that Scotland has very robust "right to roam" - people can walk on privately owned land as long as it isn't your back garden - and also laws to allow "wild camping" and so on, it just doesn't seem like that big of an issue to me either.

But nationalists in every country become obsessed with who owns the country, especially if it is people outwith the country, people against their cause etc - the SNP are no different.
Running Apache Mesos on Cloudera Hadoop
I expect to see data like

http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

out of these results
> I can't see any reason for this other than that they're storing them either encrypted or in cleartext.

I can't see any reason for this conclusion other than the fact that you've never worked for a large corporation where product development often dictated by departments other than IT.
You're overdoing it a bit. I believe the most popular API/library for server-side manipulation of images is ImageMagick, and it has a few options for specifying limits that will easily protect against decompression bombs.

That being said, even with these limits, it's undeniable that something like ImageMagick still has a very large attack surface (especially since it uses many third-party libraries), so it should run in its own heavily unprivileged or sandboxed process.
Looks nice, I'll have a look at one of the clones for vim.
There are benefit to the British system too. The real problem is common with both systems: bubble seller market like in London, and month long administrative procedures for what should be trivial matters in 2015.

With the British system (in short, non-legally binding offer, deposit 5 days before getting the keys), you have plenty of time to do survey and make sure everything is correct without risking your deposit. For better (buyer market) or worse (seller market) negotiation is open till the very end when both parties have maximum information.

I have seen friends struggling in similar seller market in more "civilised" countries. They had less risk of gazumping, but the risk of betting blind is very real.

As for the lease holding, there is no simple "flat ownership" as it is part of a building and that means shared responsibilities on the common and weirdo syndic / condominium / association of owners. I don't mind the British way, but I suspect that is mostly because I have a good landlord but had a flat in a shitty community in Spain.
Is alcohol actually bad for you?
The fact that the EVE tokens even can be destroyed is always a source of amusement.

Just google "eve killmail plex" and you'll find quite a few examples of players getting blown up while carrying thousands of dollars worth of tokens.
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What was the potato starch and ground sugar for?
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Everything in Go is passed by value (i.e. copied), even the pointers. The sooner you will understand this, the less problems you will have.
I guess that's what sunk them instead of having:

crappySearch(searchTerm.remove("Jeeves how do I"));
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Because vim is best? =)
Wallop – a minimal JavaScript library for showing and hiding elements
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Central London is really the only place in Britain that makes the Bay area look OK in comparison.

According to Numbeo.com's cost of living comparisons, SF is a bit more expensive to rent in than London, and a bit cheaper to buy in. But of course, these are very generalised/averaged numbers, not looking at anything as specific as "the bay area".

SF
Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre	3,321.03 $
Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre	2,580.00 $
Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre	6,393.33 $
Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre	4,928.57 $
Price per SQM to Buy Apartment in City Centre	14,819.28 $
Price per SQM to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre	9,543.88 $

London
Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre	2,510.87 $
Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre	1,700.43 $
Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre	5,099.81 $
Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre	2,985.64 $
Price per SQM to Buy Apartment in City Centre	23,868.09 $
Price per SQM to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre	12,413.72 $

Obviously there are specific stupidly-expensive areas in London, and indeed outside London in the UK.
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Hey guys! Here's an insightful interview of Michael Cook from Cookicons (cookicons.co), which includes a 10 step guide to design quality icons.
I've seen a lot of references to skylake "supporting wireless charging" but with no explanation on what that means. I read this article hoping for an answer but it was not mentioned.

Can someone enlighten me? What does the chipset and CPU have to do with the power supply method? I'm assuming they're not including an RF power antenna on-die, so is this just code for "we got peak power consumption below the threshold practical with today's wireless power transmission devices"?
Sometimes, to attract attention, you need to say things that will get people riled up.
Bogleheads wiki: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page

The book containing similar content: http://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Investing-Taylor-Lari...

Don't forget the forum: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php
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Go's simplicity is merely syntactical. The semantics can be subtle and not entirely aligned with intuition honed after x years of working with C-like language X.

This is an observation and not a critique.

> I learned yesterday that `x == nil` can return false even if x is nil so long as ...

In other words:

http://play.golang.org/p/YV5ylbQN4j

Thanks for the heads-up! That was news to me.
Here is the popular Color Brewer implementation in R. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RColorBrewer/index.h...

A tutorial on how to implement RColorBrewer in R. http://www.compbiome.com/2010/12/r-using-rcolorbrewer-to-col...
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I wanted to see how it looked, enjoy your penny (and probably my details).
Security is a mindset, not simply a process. This article goes a little into the mind of a Counterintelligence officer but when they talk of "paranoia" it has more of a negative connotation than I think is warranted.

I would offer that the way the CI officer approaches security along the spectrum (PERSEC, INFOSEC, OPSEC) is an extreme and fractal form of the "Front page rule." So the question is always: "How would this look on the [insert increasingly public channels]."

Compartmentalization and segmentation are really the underlying theories behind defense in depth and I think it is valuable for other people to look at how these principles should be applied.

The last thing I will say is that, it's probably best to ignore the "Well NSA does that but look at how that failed." In fact what you see with leaks and hacks etc...is a failure of the implementation - usually in the form of a person or persons who tried to make things easier or more user friendly. That should not indict the theory of compartmentalization, but rather prove that the human is the most important element in the security system.
Room temperture microwave laser
Most of the "foreigners" seem to Jersey, British Virgin Isles, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Isle of Man. Are they just tax dodges from UK citizens?
Is stock investing your filltime job, or a side hobby?

As a side hobby, does it pay more than doing your main field of work (say programming?)

As someone who has spent a few years working a dayjob in finance (but is currently far far away), here is how I play the stock market.

1) Work a day job

2) Use some of profits from 1 to invest in low cost index funds

3) Do not touch any investment no matter what the talking heads may try to convince you to do.

Will I get Warren Buffet level returns? Nope. But my money will grow steadily without my intervention.

Sure you can outsmart the market. But there are a lot of really smart traders and programmers and robots working against you. Why would I expect to beat them in something I only give a few hours a week to?
Hi, for node-only usage, how is this different from Racer[0] (part of DerbyJS)?

[0]: https://github.com/derbyjs/racer
> It makes the library unusable for anyone, but open source software.

Using the GPLv3 is more restrictive than that -- it makes it unusable except for GPLv3 software. Even a preference for open source -- even copyleft -- software doesn't mean a preference for the use-based discrimination in the GPLv3's so-called anti-Tivoization provisions.

> If you want your library to popular don't use GPL.

Lots of GPL libraries are popular, though perhaps in some cases less so than they would be if they were not GPL.

> What happens is that someone else comes a long and creates a MIT version. Eventually it gets replaced with the MIT version.

IF you do permissive (MIT/BSD/etc) and a sizable fraction of the people interested in your library are also GPL partisans, the reverse happens (and potentially much more quickly) -- some relicenses your library as GPL, and the active community ends up there. So, making decisions on that basis can go either way.

Use GPLv3 if you want to control what downstream users do and you prefer the particular controls in the GPLv3. Use a different copyleft license if you want to control downstream users and don't prefer the controls in the GPLv3. Use a permissive license if you don't feel the need to control downstream users.
Written by THE Russ Cox?
Nice quote. I just looked it up and it looks like it's not Bertrand Russel's: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
True. Though I don't work at JPL or speak to what they would allow or forbid, but if you did implement your own memory manager, I imagine that you'd still need to write code that guarantees it will never run out, which might be harder to do if you have this abstraction. The spirit of these rules is to be enable code writing that is obviously correct and finite in time and space, at a glance.

So I'm in pure speculation land here, but I could see JPL frowning on rolling your own memory manager. Though I also imagine many applications of these rules happen on hardware that is small enough to make writing a memory manager overkill anyway.
Collaborating on different properties of a single object is no problem; for working on the same property we don't do diff/merge yet, it's just FIFO.
Was it this one?

http://henrysstories.blogspot.com/2011/03/catacomb-part-1-of...

This story made a big impression on me when I was a kid.
We're using a combination of should, assert, supertest, mocha and istambul right now. We're still working on a larger code coverage, but we will be releasing the tests along with our next release.
I have all those boxes unticked, and yet Little Snitch shows me it still keeps trying to connect to Google's servers, around every 15 minutes and on start up at the very least. I asked it not to store passwords too, and it still pops up the password box to access my keychain.

You're putting too much faith in them.
>The image is almost entirely zeroes, with a secret message in the center.

too pressed for time, did anyone look? What is it?
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I want to know how much of a difference in terms of speed/range was observed by the author when compared against the Asus router.
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> The thing about Go is that some parts, like channels and goroutines (also some of the library designs and tooling), are so addictive that pretty soon it gets hard to imagine ever having to live without them.

Honestly, I'm fine with actors.

Go is a good language but its for, frankly, good for a very narrow set of applications [cli; microservices]. Outside of those two applications, I find myself never wanting to use Go, honestly.
Quite amazing that was overlooked in CMS the first place.

Kudos for pushing it during the match.

I've also seen that in the middle of an event people often get social, especially if it is a bit slower moving (cricket game to military parade) and sociability is a major part of being there in the first place. To talk cricket.
.. and HEDT (ie. Haswell-E 6/8-core CPU's). Only problem is that the latest HEDT platform is always at least 1 generation behind what mainstream gets.
Great for job seekers and employers! I'm using this in the 'who wants to be hired' thread. Hopefully that will be a recurring post.
HOW ARE IDENTITY THEFT AND CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY RELATED?
In startups, it's all about the network
By default, I dump money into low-cost index funds with dividends reinvested. Usually into well-established, suitably diverse indices. S&P 500, FTSE 250 (but not the FTSE 100 - not nearly diverse enough for my liking) and so on. I've got about three times my annual income currently invested; it's about 75% indices, and 25% individual companies, and two lumps of gold that I've lost somewhere in my house.

I don't specifically go researching much in the way of individual stock picks. I don't set my criteria and then go looking for companies that meet that criteria; I keep an eye on the news and trends and so forth, and build confidence that a sector (or sometimes a specific company, but that's rare) will do well.

Some examples; when the UK government made it clear that they will do anything to prop up the UK housebuilding companies (which to my mind was when they started underwriting people's mortgages with the "help to buy" scheme) I piled into UK housebuilders, and they've done very well.

When I found myself noticing that the dollar seemed awfully cheap a year or so ago, I looked for reasons why (and where it might go next) and I altered my balance of index funds to buy into the US some more (which worked out pretty well).

When Nokia started getting grudging good reviews for their phones, I looked into what else they were up to and bought into Nokia right before Microsoft bought their handset business.

It hasn't all been good; I bought into ARM and IMG, hoping to ride the spread of mobile phones, and while ARM came in like a Viking, I made a loss on IMG (although the gains on ARM far outweighed the loss on IMG). A couple of UK retailers have been very disappointing (although still better than just cash in a bank).

I rarely sell. I bought into BP some time after their big spill, anticipating that the run of bad news would slow and they'd start to recover. As it was, the run of bad news went on and on and on and it looked like they'd be dealing with it for years. Sold up, put it into a US railroad company (which came on like a viking - another pick based on the idea that as the economy recovered, there would be a renewed global interest in new railroad technology; I picked the sector first, and then went looking for good companies in that sector).
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Now, go find an API/library for dealing with PNGs that allow you to pass in such a limit

The article itself links to http://libpng.sourceforge.net/decompression_bombs.html

These new libpng versions do not impose any arbitrary limits, on the memory consumption and number of ancillary chunks, but they do allow applications to do so via the png_set_chunk_malloc_max() and png_set_chunk_cache_max() functions, respectively.
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> Matlab is using a roughly perceptually linearly luminant colormap they call Parula now. Good job Matlab.

And Matplotlib is switching to a perceptually-linear default colormap called "viridis" with the 2.0 release (due early this month): http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html
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For perceptual color theory another good one is the Munsell palette which has been around for a while: munsell.com
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The opening paragraphs could be an allegory for the immigration debate in the US.
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I used to work on a scanning SMTP/HTTP proxy and even back then it wasn't unknown for people to send crafted decompression bombs to attempt to crash the services. We handled it by estimating the total uncompressed size upfront (including sub archives) and throwing out anything with a suspiciously large compression ratio.

I imagine that .pdf files are another avenue for mischief. They contain lots of chunks which may be compressed in varying ways.
Many of them will be British. But regardless of nationality, there's a logic in domiciling your holding company for British assets in a tax haven familiar with the intricacies of British property law. And Crown Dependencies make up a surprisingly large percentage of reliable tax havens...
You're not crazy, and I kind of wish there was an option to not include the GPU as well. But the fact of the matter is, it's very difficult to have several very distinct manufacturing methods for this kind of silicon.

Intel has had a lot of problems shrinking the die size recently, so it must be cheaper to just give every processor a GPU that isn't used, than to produce several different dies.

I guess it's just because for most end user needs, the integrated GPU's are becoming powerful enough.
So if two users are working on the same textfield there is no way to merge their changes at the moment?
> As a physicist, the models that I encountered in economic theory always left me quite disappointed. The main reason for this was that -like the article says- most of the models used in Economics are based on abstract reasoning about "ideal" markets and actors

I recall my family's PhD. economist relating an anecdote about an colleague explaining that he's making the usual set of assumptions like, say, "people live forever", before doing some math for students. :)

Assume a spherical cow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
A large chunk of the Highlands is already a National Park:

http://cairngorms.co.uk/
I'll add mine: https://brage.info/hello

It's a 1MB file that decompresses to 261 tredecillion bytes of "Hello, World".

No terribly clever stream manipulation; it's a perfectly normal gzip file, other than the size. The generation script is here: http://sprunge.us/VhFc, but see if you can figure it out without peeking.
This is a very easy form of attack in security circles.