skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your empathy would be a little more plausible if you did not rip the heart out of the live cow before you ate it.
> What if it's such advanced protocol layering and encryption that those alien signals appear to us to be "cosmic noise"?

Another interesting way to speculate is the "under our nose" concept, which is the concept that the existing distribution of stars and galaxies, as well as the recorded background noise, might be the byproduct of alien intervention. Binary star systems are a popular speculative example of "starivore" civilizations that consume entire stars that have been moved into the alien civilization's own star system, and perhaps some combination of multiple stars in a single system are not "naturally" occurring in the absence of alien influence. To an unsuspecting observer, some forms of distant astronomical-scale engineering could be mistakenly interpreted as natural astrophysics that the observers then incorporate into their standard models when refactoring to account for all of the observed data... Usually the simple explanations are correct, but when your models require really insane updates to handle the observed data, perhaps there are other explanations? At the same time though, what recourse would we have if 99% of the visible universe was already astro-engineered?
This very topic was discussed yesterday. For a given word, you can construct an automaton that matches that word within a certain edit distance in O(n) where n is the length of the word. Since the result is a DFSA, you can also see if a string matches in O(n). (See the work of Schulz & Mihov.)

Moreover, rather than going over each word in a dictionary to find out whether that word is within a certain distance, you can compute the intersection language of the Levenshtein automaton and the dictionary automaton (which is generally faster, intersection is O(mn) in the number of states of the two automata).

For an implementation of this and more, see:

https://github.com/danieldk/dictomaton
I, unlike, the sibling comment, believe that would be a great show, given the skillful background storytelling, and - possibly - scripted spectacular blowup here and there, carefully controlled with all safety measures taken of course.

My interested was spurred by a Russian book for children "Where do things come from" and Jule Verne's "Mysterious Island", but now I am tempted to watch Battlestar Galactica!
I think "0118 999 881 999 119 7253" was the third one you were looking for.
GE forms GE Digital, aims to be top 10 software company
Strictly speaking, isn't this false by virtue of latex compiling to pdf?

And I have been looking hard for years and haven't found anything to replace TeX that fulfills even half my needs (as a person who does math typesetting in large documents almost daily). LaTeX has its issues, but it's the best we've got.
Pretty sure we have seen this worked well with banking /s
But google throttles requests to popular docs right? I mean, the "Wow, this file seems very popular" thingy... Is there any way to calculate it? Maybe you could pass JMeter [0] or bench-rest [1] so we can have some numbers for orientation?

Anyways, it's really handy for simple and non traffic-intensive projects. Well done!

[0] http://jmeter.apache.org/

[1] https://github.com/jeffbski/bench-rest
Seriously?

"Then German received the results of the real-world tests.
“We were astounded when we saw the numbers,” he said.
On the open road, the Jetta exceeded the U.S. nitrogen oxide emissions standard by 15 to 35 times. The Passat was 5 to 20 times the standard." - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-19/volkswagen...

"As described in the NOV, a sophisticated software algorithm on certain Volkswagen vehicles detects when the car is undergoing official emissions testing, and turns full emissions controls on only during the test. The effectiveness of these vehicles’ pollution emissions control devices is greatly reduced during all normal driving situations. This results in cars that meet emissions standards in the laboratory or testing station, but during normal operation, emit nitrogen oxides, or NOx, at up to 40 times the standard. The software produced by Volkswagen is a “defeat device,” as defined by the Clean Air Act." - http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/21b8983ffa5d0e46852...
Nobel Physicist Frank Wilczek on Finding Nature's Deep Design
"Greed is a good motivator."

Greed in here can also be a cause for the tragedy of the commons, which is more serious than any opportunity progress! Because of the said greed the drugs reached agriculture having all kinds of unintended effects, the most serious of which being development of many drug-resistant pathogens.
What my uterus can teach you about being a tech leader
When you say "cheaper" you mean to partialy subsidised services. I'm refering to tollroads, train networks, healthcare, pensions, etc. What you "pay" is not the real cost, but paid for in good part by the Government's budget.
Is this reproducible?
I have, and I somewhat disagree. I agree that it can feel dirty to your programmer sensibilities when you start from the base template one and go "building from the ground up", but if you set expectations accurately with the client (and yourself) wrt the amount of flexibility a theme gives and what type of work you're going to be doing, you can get some pretty high quality themes (where "quality" here refers to the template's ability to fulfill the goal of offering a feature-rich GUI to non-techies). Some themes are so elaborate that you can change virtually every aspect of the template down to the most granular levels directly from the admin interface.

And where wordpress really shines is in the ecosystem. Subscription list popups, SEO, social media integration etc are just a few things that clients commonly want that take far less time to integrate into wordpress than building from scratch (because it's fairly common that authors of less popular developer-centric CMS'es didn't think to implement those things).
Ted Moesby is the artichect, right?
DBD::Pg: one ping to rule them all
Famous Children's Books as Minimalist Posters
Especially when they see their investment statements!
Tried to open from Chrome Developer Tools, it crashed it on hover too.
MT was fairly clumsy in some ways by comparison to WP, though my use of the word is very questionable. Updating templates was always a pain because we'd want to update a sidebar widget, and it would take hours to have that change reflected (regenerate all pages statically) because we had a legion of prolific writers and they churned out tons of content throughout the years. By comparison, WP was dynamic - change instantly reflected.

Of course, that difference had its disadvantages - you had to make sure WP traffic didn't melt the server(s), optimize for the traffic, then finally give up on caching strategies after traffic growth overwhelms conditions, and upgrade to a CDN to basically imitate a static site you were avoiding.

In some ways, we're making a full circle in blogging technology (and web in general), but here's a major WP disadvantage at this moment in time: it might take 32MB of ram to generate a 3kB page.
Stereotypically speaking, Germans love rules.
"NOx pollution contributes to nitrogen dioxide, ground-level ozone, and fine particulate matter. Exposure to these pollutants has been linked with a range of serious health effects, including increased asthma attacks and other respiratory illnesses that can be serious enough to send people to the hospital. Exposure to ozone and particulate matter have also been associated with premature death due to respiratory-related or cardiovascular-related effects. Children, the elderly, and people with pre-existing respiratory disease are particularly at risk for health effects of these pollutants.

VW may be liable for civil penalties and injunctive relief for the violations alleged in the NOV."

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/21b8983ffa5d0e46852...

More about health effects of NO2 exposure: http://www3.epa.gov/airquality/nitrogenoxides/health.html
A lot of our wars are funded with borrowed money, so we never really had it in the first place.

http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic
I've been playing video games long enough now that I've seen this as a major claim three times now throughout my life. I'm willing to bet this will fade away the same as the previous two times. I'm close to being convinced this is just a scam to take advantage of an easy target to make money.
So if everybody lies it is not lies anymore. Interesting.
Ask HN: Did anyone see that really weird Show HN bug?
It was live for about 2 mins.

There was a link that said something like: SHOW HN: A Totally Legit Website

When you hovered over it, it crashed chrome.

Was it just me? Or some kind of attack?
Hovering over this link also makes it crash like when you hover over the trees
Well, in german there is one word describing how to calculate something like this: "Leidensdruckanalyse".

It's a dark word, because it basically means: Why give people drugs for $13.50 if the disease is horrible enough that they will, in the long run, accept $750 to ease the pain or to not die.

We have laws preventing something like this, but then the industry just has to invent a "new" drug (basically the old one with a little difference in formula), sell it at a higher price and then discontinue the old drug.

Sad world, we live in.
They did just finish getting a criminal settlement and $900,000,000 fine out of GM...
Ha, yes i don't think an android phone or e-reader will last very long in a post-apocalyptic world. For a surprisingly slight trade-off in capacity one could opt to carry around a A4 sized microfiche (or 4 stacked microfiches) with 500 pages on it with 10K ascii a page (multi columned) which results in 5 MB uncompressed text. You can add a braille grade 2 or briefscript type compression (which is readable) and get 1-2 extra MB of data, contrast that to all the trouble of getting the 8 MB of data on the same 600dpi surface through multi-colored 2D codes and compression. In this case you just need a good portable magnifying lense. It uses even less power then an e-reader. http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=58324.0
Unfortunately these greedy companies are sinking billions into erectile dysfunction drugs.
A QuickCheck Tutorial: Generators
Hey, there's plenty of blame to go around. "Comprehensive immigration reform" is a buzzword meaning "either we solve all immigration problems or we solve none of them". Trump and other knuckleheads notwithstanding, there is wide acceptance on both sides of the aisle that immigration should be easier for high skilled people and entrepreneurs.
Wow... I thought my newly built Hackintosh was unstable until I realized it was the link and checked the source.

Why is this happening?
I want to offer another point of view: What if the guy simply doesn't want money. There are people who refuse a raise. Especially in IT I know many people who want recognition more than money. $75k is also a decent income in most places of this planet, even in most first world countries. You can pay for a house and send your children to university with that. But being appreciated by your boss for the work you do, or simply spending more time with your family at home instead of overtime in the office, that's worth a lot as well. I think with $75k, 32h/week and a boss that appreciates me being there, that would be an awesome life. And I already have more drive for money than most of my software developing peers.
> Even given that ad blocking apps have been top sellers, it's still only available on iOS 9, which has been out less than a week.

iOS9 penetration is already past 50%(1). New versions usually get mass adoption very quickly.

(1) http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/21/apple-ios-9-50-percent/
As an American, if we continue to turn down would-be immigrants like this, we are shooting ourselves in the foot.
If there aren't any regulations, they won't be breaking any regulations. Problem solved - right? :)
Introducing Android Developer Nanodegree in India with Udacity
Re 1980:

True, that's nearly too young even to properly qualify as space age.
It is below the human condition to ever work for a salary.
Actually every single report about this story has noted the cars would have failed the emissions test without the software specially designed to cheat and pass (if not there would be no reason to have said software!).
Spinning Synthetic Spider Silk
I did www.gotealeaf.com and my experience was great.
It's 100% online and "job placement" is not part of their core offering. It's much cheaper than most bootcamps, too. About 2500$ for a four month program.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/20/us/peanut-butter-salmonella-tr...
'Quink' Blue Black ink is dyed blue, the blue dye fades over 20 years or so as the black iron ink, that is permanent, develops.

The blue dye is necessary as the black takes ~20 years to cure but should outlast the paper.

It is well worth considering the permanence of your daily ink, many Universities have tales of lost Professors trying to re-create the now-faded notes of their youth.

Will your original writing last for hundreds of years ?

Pencil is a potentially very long lasting mark.
This was one thing, if I was evaluating the stock I would price in an increased risk of them having other skeletons in the closet.
This is actually kind of true. LaTeX is a Turing-complete language, which makes converting it to other things somewhat unreliable.

But, there's kind of an informal subset of LaTeX that you can use and not be too bad off with Pandoc.

In general, I'd like to do academic and report writing in Markdown (or Org!), but limitations of Markdown usually make it easier for me to do my writing directly in LaTeX, portability be damned. The biggest impediment for Markdown in academic / report writing I'm my opinion is the lack of internal references (things like "see figure X").

Org-mode can be converted via Pandoc much the same as markdown, but doesn't have the issue with cross-references.
As someone with active Toxoplasmosis (yes, it's very rare) in my very close vicinity, I say to Martin: Fck you, you fcking scumbag.

His Twitter stream is also full of shitness these days.
https://twitter.com/martinshkreli
Yeah, a lot of people seem to be missing that.

They're all talking about sending in the F-35 first, but to me you actually send in cruise missiles and or drones first to take out the known threats, and then send in the F-35 to take out in-flight enemy aircraft.

Assuming you have half decent satellite intelligence (which we know the US does), it doesn't make sense for the US to risk pilot's lives no matter what they're flying.
I saw it. It crashed my HN tab in Chrome. It contained the following:

<div class="item">
<img src="/favicons/44.gif" class="favicon">
<div class="itemtext">
<a href="http://google.com/%%30%30" title="Show HN: A totally legit website" target="_blank" class="link" onclick="clicks(131769);">Show HN: A totally legit website</a>
<br>
<span class="date">7 minutes ago by <a href="hacker-news_news44">Hacker News</a></span>
</div>
</div>

So it appears that the URL http://google.com/%%30%30 crashes Chrome.
Slightly unrelated but - isn't there a super cost-effective way of quickly whipping up a CRUD API with minimal configuration? Often I implement fairly backends in Java or Go that could might as well have been "configured" from the beginning, instead of implemented each time.
Farewell ActiveDen
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I have not been talking about VW in particular. I've heared the rumor that "many car makers" do this...
Google Spreadsheets is awesome as a quick and dirty CMS. I use it all the time at the newspaper i work for, in combination with Tabletop (https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop). Only thing i lack right now is some kind of library that could cache those sheets using Redis for speed.
The editor was trying to convey as much info within the given length as they could. They didn't realize that it would result in a title that was also clickbait. Remember, never blame malice where stupidity will suffice.

(P.S. Of course it was click bait and purposefully done so, there is an art to creating clickbait headlines that can be defended as not being clickbait.)
To get another perspective on this read this article:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/18/apa-studies-video...
The Gripen is specifically designed for cost effectiveness. If you want a modern jet fighter with the most bang for your buck, the Gripen is the most obvious choice. If money is not an issue, there are plenty of better jets available.
Off-topic but related, any article which challenge libertarian principles seems to have suspiciously high number of comments as compared to upvotes on the article (as far as I am aware, HN drops off these articles from the front page quicker).
Considering the way this is all working, there's a good chance Apple may filter ads out of RSS feeds. Or disallow launching a real web browser from Apple News in the future to keep consumers in one interface they control.
Android Malware Infection Rates Actually Decreasing
Anecdotal counterpoint. I believe your aggressiveness is due to the competitiveness, not the "violent" content of the game.

The video games I play are generally shooters (e.g. Halo series) or sports games (e.g. FIFA). I'm not a violent or aggressive person and video games have almost never made me upset. However, I tend to play mostly offline, either by myself or couch co-op with friends.

This past year, I started playing FIFA (soccer) online, against others. It's a rush because it's competitive, but for a while (during the learning curve) I was embarrassed and shocked by how much it affected my mood. After a bad session of FIFA, I was angry, short-tempered, aggressive and it easily bled into my actual life. I recognized this negative behavior and was able to stamp it out (which shouldn't be an accomplishment for a 30-something adult).

My point being, the trigger for me was not the content of the game (shooting vs. sports), but playing in an ultra-competitive environment against others, where winning comes at all costs (even unsportsmanlike tactics).

I imagine that if I went out to play a competitive soccer match (which I do play) and lost a tight game to an obnoxious opponent, I would also come home with higher than normal anger and aggressiveness - that is what competition can do to you, chemically.
Well Stephen ... it's ironic (to me) that you view SV (and more generally the US) as your technological Mecca when I've been considering where I might live if my government continues to engage in practices I can't endorse. The great thing about "software eating the world" is that you can make if from anywhere. I'd recommend you develop your on-line presence and start networking (virtually is fine) with those you wish to emulate.

Either way - Good luck!
Not at all sure of the legality of this, so if someone else can comment that would be good.
If your are coming to US, I would recommend you try to find a remote working job at startups,and then go back. The visa situation being what it is, as others have suggested, doesn't really leave you with that many options. Also it is arguable whether being physically present in SF would help that much to offset the cost of coming and staying there for whatever time required.
Windows malware over mobile networks dominates volume ...
What about the link of being aggressive, and playing violent video games?
Really great start! I could see this being very useful.

If you were to extend the functionality to include full CRUD on entities, I think I would start using it immediately on some proof of concept work.

For instance, being able to GET, PUT/PATCH, and DELETE by id (or per row) would be awesome.

Thanks again for the nice MVP work!
I'd say it was made as a temporary fix, until they could get emissions to the target levels and it was just left there, forgotten.
Kind of a facile statement. Radio waves are radio waves. The spectrum is the spectrum.

Any intelligent aliens are very likely to be using the electromagnetic spectrum for wireless communications. They might use it in somewhat different ways, but the technology is still essentially the same.
Problem - humans have been doing all of the above for decades, occasionally as a deliberate attempt to communicate, but mostly by accident.

So I can't see how your comment has any basis in fact.

You're only going to compress a data channel if you're in a hurry. When a message is going to take decades or centuries to get somewhere, you're more likely to keep the encoding as simple as possible to increase the chances of reception.

Besides that, I can't imagine radio being used for interstellar communication at all. It's fine for "Is anyone there?" but unless your aliens live at geological rather than biological rates, it's far too slow for almost anything else.
It's anti-corporate not anti-technological, not quite the same thing. After all the open and free Internet is the creation of government departments and government-funded universities.

I don't believe that anything as extreme as the parent suggests is necessary but I do believe that we should have enforceable transparency in the pharmaceuticals industry R&D costs and/or decoupling the drug trials system so that the trials have to be carried out by an independent third party.
"The Air Force’s F-35A version of the aircraft and hold 182 rounds. It’s slated to be externally mounted on the Marine Corps’ F-35B jump-jet variant and the Navy’s F-35C aircraft carrier version and hold 220 rounds"[1]

The F-35 has no hope of doing sustained CAS. It is another Air Force "drop your bombs and fire a few shots then run home" plane. An A-10 can keep insurgents away from your troops for a fair amount of time.

They should strip the Air Force of its CAS role and hand it back to the Army. Then the Air Force can concentrate on what it likes: strategic bombing and air dominance.

1) http://defensetech.org/2015/01/02/a-tale-of-two-gatling-guns...
The desktop client isn't working for me, but http://web.skype.com seems to work.
%30 encodes for 0, so %%30%30 should decode to %00, which is the urlencoding for a null char. My guess is that this either crashes the engine as it tries to open the URL with a null byte in it, or the GUI as it tries to display the tooltip.

A bit of reading on the null byte from a web development perspective: http://projects.webappsec.org/w/page/13246949/Null%20Byte%20...
You can do that with SpreadServe[1] now. Instead of Google docs it uses real Excel .xls spreadsheets and supports VBA and XLL addins. It turns your spreadsheets into async scriptable servers. There are Python & Java APIs.

[1] http://spreadserve.com
Travelling and what it brought to me
How we fixed a JavaScript issue on our site with our own monitoring tool
Drugs are a complex good created through the intensive efforts of highly intelligent, trained human beings. They are anything but a natural right.
> The provider that receives a DMCA copyright infringement notification is not mandated to do anything at all by the DMCA.

Ok sure they don't HAVE to do anything. But if they wish to maintain their safe harbor status [1] they must remove it when requested. Otherwise the copyright holder can, and probably will, go after them. Google et al can safely ignore some number of the notices because they are Google and can send a swarm of lawyers to defend themselves if they are taken to court. Many smaller companies don't have that luxury.

> 3) upon receiving notice from copyright owners or their agents, act expeditiously to remove the purported infringing material.

I don't know if you have noticed but Youtube and github employ a "take down now - ask questions later" policy for this very reason. You can file a counter-notice to get the content reinstated - but you better be sure you are in the right.

Oh and Google actually complied with 97% of requests between July and December 2011 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...

[2] http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...
Haven't (particularly longer distance) triathalons always been a runners race?