skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly wasn't aware that was the law. I thought it was all cookies, that's what the warning messages are worded to sound like they are saying, thank you for correcting me. My question then is, websites are phoning home through use of iframes? Because those cookies aren't accessible on different domains than the ones they were issued.

Am I to understand companies are loading their own domain in hidden iframes that phone home when I visit a website? Like it checks the iframe's top window location and tracks what pages I'm on? Now you have me feeling paranoid.

What can be done about that. Google analytics arguably is a very useful service.
So does OVH: http://weathermap.ovh.net/
What does your comment have to do with the topic at hand?
"If you are a normal user, you'll just go with whatever is bundled with your operating system or bundled with applications you use (iCloud, one drive, google drive)."

This sounds right maybe five years ago, but seriously flawed in this age where people have multiple devices based on different kinds of OS. When you have multiple smartphone, tablet, laptop, and desktop computers, and replace / upgrade those devices every 6 months or so, you will find one of the best "features" of Evernote / Dropbox is that they are not Google/Microsoft/Apple. This OS / System independent nature of these products is especially important when you need to have access (also choose not to have access) your data from all sorts of devices.

Just imagine when you want to switch from an iPhone to an Android phone, at that time, you will wish your contacts and all other personal data is NOT integrated in the OS's platform.
At many colleges, it is way cheaper to stay in an big apartment than in a cramped dorm. At Berkeley, I saved thousands and thousands of dollars by living off campus in a pretty big apartment with a "flatmate" but not a "roommate".
You can make Firefox prompt too, unless they removed it in favor of Pocket or video chat.
Nothing controversial (or particularly noteworthy) here.
>a 60 minute commute twice a day costs $1900 per month

Only if you're comparing it to a 0 minute commute, which isn't realistic.
Can someone provide a TL;DR? I'm finding it very hard to understand the article.
Here is the TL;DR. This regex matches Tarzan but not "Tarzan":

"Tarzan"|(Tarzan)

You can also include more than one case of what you don't want to match. This one also finds only the cases of Tarzan that don't match the first three patterns:

Tarzania|--Tarzan--|"Tarzan"|(Tarzan)

You can even use more complex regexes. This matches all words not in an image tag:

<img[^>]+>|(\w+)

And likewise this matches anything not surrounded by <b> tags:

<b>[^<]*</b>|([\w\s]+)
Repeat+That:+5+Things+Best+Not+To
So if someone else is having sex with their underage daughter, I shouldn't care?
Not in court but this is a resolution from the spanish data protection agency:
http://www.agpd.es/portalwebAGPD/resoluciones/procedimientos... (in Spanish)
From the year 2013, this was the first sanction in Spain (3500€ to a jewelry).

You can search for more sanctions here: http://www.agpd.es/portalwebAGPD/resoluciones/procedimientos...
Search for "Articulo 22.2 LSSI" or similar
Rep. Anna Eshoo represents the 18th District in California, home of Google and many other major technology companies. I would think it's reasonable and logical that she would advocate for technology companies, considering that probably tens of thousands of voters in her district work for them.

As for financial support by Google, Rep. Eshoo received a total of $6,400 from Google (individuals + PAC)[1], out of some $160,000+ in donations in the most recent election cycle. It seems unlikely that this level of support could be termed "buying off".

[1]https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N000...
Python 2 was broken when Unicode strings were allowed weak conversion from/to regular strings.
The word maskenfreiheit and its meaning were worth the time it took to read this article. Teaching is a role with easily understood behaviours and conventions - anyone who has shied (sic) away from getting involved with training or teaching through worries about introversion or shyness should be reassured.

One comment left on the original article mentioned the 'networking' sessions with coffee which are such a feature of academic conferences these days. My method for handling those is to go into facilitator mode (get people talking, set up groups &c). Can't help it.
> I don't see how you're replying to my core point, which is that getting "totally convinced" is a function of the intuitive mind, and the intuitive mind will be totally convinced of anything that is consistent.

Well, I think that was actually his point - that if you're not an expert on a topic and don't have the explicit knowledge to counter your intuition, every relatively consistent set of arguments will sound convincing.

> Could you help me understand the difference between "totally convincing" and proving? If you are "totally convinced" of something, isn't that a p=1.0?

No, it's not, and assigning probabilities of 0 and 1 to anything is a very bad idea. See: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/.

Otherwise, exept of pointing out that we have intuitive and explicit parts of reasoning that often oppose one another, I'm not sure what you're getting at.

> Whether the topic is history or pseudohistory, words like "true", "false", "prove" and "disprove" really don't belong. Those words are fine in casual conversation, but they can't be part of the thinking of a serious person.

Yes and no. They are shorthands. Unlike maths, in the real world you can't assign absolute true value to anything, but you can still be really, really sure. If I jump out of the fourth-floor window, I will hurt myself. That is true. Arguing that it's not true because you can't be absolutely positively 100% sure is just pointless arguing about words, a failure in communication. C.f. https://xkcd.com/1576/.
It might be for some as it's a common misconception that Python does not have strong typing.
The intended question is: is python statically typed? Strictly speaking, it depends on what you call a type. If you think of all possible values (integers, strings etc.) as being of a single type, then python is statically typed. However, most people wouldn't think of the values that way.
To play devil's advocate:

* Supermoon lunar eclipses are uncommon.
* The visible difference can be up to ~14%, and its significantly brighter too.

But viewing the moon on the horizon will get you a bigger apparent size difference, no supermoon needed.
I recommend this article going into good depth on how Python's name and binding model functions:

https://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/02/14/drastically-improv...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelthomsen/2015/09/26/manhat...
Um... that's what this post is about? artist-mode is an text art editor.

You don't need to use Emacs as an editor to use the "applications" built on Emacs, if that's your concern. Just as with any new application you'd have to learn how to use it.
I'm not sure you can call a billion people connected in a single massive network a "moderate" impact or "only for a limited time." Almost every aspect of many people's social lives now goes through Facebook, from keeping up with old friends, to sharing opinions, to organizing events.
I'm just happy that astronomy is making the news
That's exactly why they want to move to the WebExtensions format.
Oracle's own Hello World code will not compile
I am sure people in the know recognize what it is, but for the rest of us: what is it and what is the significance? Is it for communicating between Arduino and devices through a single wire? Why is it better than two wires or wireless?
I'll say what I said in another comment: Isn't it fine to just use Emacs for this purpose? You don't have to use it as a general-purpose text editor if all you want to do with it is make ASCII art. Just as with any new thing, you'd have to learn a bit, but not that much...
What does the `accuracy` measurement on your benchmarks show ? How did you estimate max transmit distance of 50m.

I know I am pretty negative but to me once you reach this level of complexity in your applications it is time to move on to microcontrollers with proper networking capabilites such as CAN, Ethernet, etc.
> How is this level of blatant corruption/conflict of interest tolerated in the USA?

With few exceptions, the people in top administrative and elected positions are not in it for the public service. Government jobs for them are a springboard into lucrative lobbying and contracting gigs.
The main thing I noticed was that it was impossible to scroll through the page due to the fancy images or whatever else was going on in JS.
The "misconception" probably comes from "strong typing" being less an objective concept and more an attempt to weaselly state language preferences.
It is quite the opposite of Rackspace who do obsessive hand holding (which I find far more annoying). For uptime I like AWS the best, for just cheap, heavy machines I like OVH the best (crawling, big data analysis, cpu intensive stuff; things that don't require all nodes to be up all the time, but requires them to have tons of disk space, cpu & memory) and I like Rackspace for making money (% kickback on client hosting and clients do like handholding).
Thank you so much for your feedback.

I think the first step on ATtiny compatibility can be ATtiny85 with a decent port on wiring. (I think will work also without external oscillator using only internal PPL clock tuned to 16mhz).

I am thinking to open a wiki defining the standard to enable people like you to build easily an implementation for a still not compatible device.

Why don't you open an issue on github and we will all speak together there :)?
Do objects really get a larger apparent size at the horizon? I guess there might be a small magnification effect from the additional atmosphere and angle?
Show HN: OCaml Bindings to Brotli and Command Line Tool
> The intended question is: is python statically typed?

Erlang isn't statically typed, yet you can't do what the OP shows.
https://www.ovhtelecom.fr/overthebox/
It's one of my favourites too.

There've been a few lists of his best posts created by readers, e.g. [0] and [1].

Personally, my absolute favourite is Meditations on Moloch [2]. It's long, but has high concept density and highlights the very important causes of problems in the world that many people miss entirely when discussing important issues.

[0] - http://nothingismere.com/2015/09/12/library-of-scott-alexand...

[1] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/mmg/yvains_most_important_articles/

[2] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
> The question is, who will end up holding the bag.

The founders and employees (mostly the employees), it seems like. The VCs and growth capital funds have downside protection, and the public markets are no longer receptive to such blatantly unfavorable business models.
beautiful url
“I thought … there should be proper rules and regulations,” Batth says. “We have a very corrupt society back in India. With money, anything gets done. I never thought it would be the same in this country.”

I found quite a bit of irony in this quote, The taxi industry has historically been very corrupt. Bribes to city officials to artificially keep the prices for medallions going up (not adding new ones) and to prevent competition are common. I do feel bad for this driver but at some point if you're paying $250k for a chunk of metal you have to stop and think that what you're really paying for is a monopoly in performing a specific action I.E picking up passengers that hail you and this is not a guarantee that that business continue to be worth what it was.
Yep. The implications of this on the health of such cities are really bad.
This is a great initiative ! Thought I'd call out, for the benefit of people here, that IDEO[1] (the largest design consulting company in the world, for those that don't know) had launched OpenIDEO[2] a few years ago with pretty much the same goals -- crowd sourcing solutions to solve ^big^ questions.

They went on further to provide the platform/framework as a service[3] for example with OpenPlanetIdeas[4]

I feel it is a good thing to focus effort in this manner and I hope this sort of thing picks up steam.

If you are interested in this sort of thing, you should definitely check out openideo.com

disclaimer: I worked on openideo for a while and I'm pretty proud about not just the 'work' that I did but what it stood for and what it achieved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEO
[2] https://challenges.openideo.com/
[3] http://oiengine.com/
[4] https://challenges.openideo.com/blog/congratulating-sony-open-planet-ideas
I used to get the worst service imaginable in English, but calling their French offices in French worked very well for me. They own/run the servers and services and they could help you faster. They didn't speak English at all. This was a few years ago, not sure if it still applies.
Try to find all the existing products that do a similar thing, and see if you can 'sell' them, i.e. get customers to buy or use them. You will learn about how difficult it is to make a product to address the need and, more importantly, discover whether the need really exists, and what you'd need to do to make your first few sales.
Let's set aside for a moment that the exact means by which people keep up with friends is not necessarily "world changing", and also that this has been mostly enabled by the internet itself, not any particular app-du-jour that rides on top of the internet. Besides that, it's not obvious to me that people in the world are actually more materially "connected" by Facebook than they were before Facebook.
I wish this was on GitHub where contributors can create pull requests.
So Java is "broken" because it performs "weak conversion" (whatever the hell that means) between integers and floats, or anything and strings? And Scala would be even more "broken" because developers can define "weak conversion"?
The first 15 years of my life in the 1970s and 1980s was spent going in and out of London to various hospitals on trains.

No. Absolutely not. It's much better now. Orders of magnitude better. Every train was late. There were engineering works overruns every Monday and weekend service was so bad you might as well walk.

And no not more expensive. People couldn't afford the train then and regularly took the inferior busses. If you went long distance, it was coach.

Either way you were doomed to a face full of diesel fumes from a Paxman or a Leyland and spend the entire day with your nose running black snot. Incidentally this is what killed my father; he was a bus driver.
Please allow easy editing of previous wrong guess
Possible explanations have only appeared in recent years. It looks like by trying to make an adjustment your brain gives you a distorted image. Truly amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion
Matching within escapable delimiters is not too hard. For instance this will match C-style escaped strings:

"(\.|[^"])*"

You just won't be able to nest them. You're either in a string or you aren't. You're never in a string inside another string.
They left out the practice of newspapers using terms like 'unnamed official close to':

> An official close to Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright said .... "This is not an easy report" for the Clinton administration, said another senior U.S. official last night. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/eafricab...

> A law enforcement official close to the case said prosecutors considered charging several ­Fokker employees but decided against it. - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/dutch...

> The decision -- which was also met with wariness on Capitol Hill -- reflects a desire to change the intelligence power structure, officials close to the selection said yesterday. -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01...

These are often cases where the government is trying to control what you think; perhaps because the unnamed official will be retaliated against for not toeing the government line, but also because it's exchanging anonymous influence for access.

A newspaper could decline these unnamed sources a platform for their anonymous influence, but then the reporters will find they don't get the juicy interviews.
Apache Struts2 – CVE-2015-5209
Sharing GitLab project just got easier – /r/coolgitlabprojects
Panopticon again? No matter how many features this building has it's still a panopticon
40M might cover capex & rent on a reasonably sized imprint in an existing DC for three years (say 100 racks/2000 servers)
https://www.udacity.com/course/configuring-linux-web-servers...
Yes. Not just the moon, but constellations as well. Maybe other things. There's no consensus on why. Refraction is one idea. Another is its the way our brains process the information from our eyes.
Microchips Could Help Stop the Spread of Ebola
you wish everyone would use the worse option?
People have been saying this about Dropbox since iCloud came out, but what has changed? Have usage statistics changed? Have Google Drive and One Drive come close in feature set? Has Office dropped support for them?

I mean the linked article suggests that this is the case without ever showing us the bases for the assumptions. As far as I know, if we are looking at major players in the field, iCloud should worry the most, since it is something that nobody uses.
I've built a Firefox extension (now abandoned), which even used XPCOM, and while the documentation was spotty (this was back in 2010, it may have improved), it wasn't particularly difficult. The fact that you can easily unzip any extension and look at its source makes up for a lot of gaps in the docs.
https://sourcedna.com/stats/
Frontierland
"Torvalds talked about security as something unattainable in a Perfect Sense". I would have been more curious to hear his response about Security in the Real Sense.

Given what most current OSes are engaged in: surveillance, tracking, data-warehousing, data-sharing with untold/unnamed "trusted" partners, civil rights violations, illegal search/seizure, 5th amendment rights violations, etal... his answer skirts the issue entirely.

I guess... what he was saying is that he's like Linux (The Kernel). To paraphrase him: He's an enabler. Perhaps an imp. Something totally hidden and out of people's mind when it comes to how OSes have been weaponized against people. He has no position on the matter.
Off topic, I didn't know the spelling "faire", and didn't come across having lived almost a decade in the US. My dictionary just says "obsolete spelling of fair". Does it carry a slightly different meaning? Why this obsolete choice?
It does for me. Who upvoted you? =:-O
I'm a french speaker, so this actually happened when I talked to their french branch.
Python is strongly typed with one type

This article about CL but it's applicable to Python as well:

http://xach.com/naggum/articles/3284289178877169KL2065E@nagg...
Minimal match is still OK, that will only affect disambiguation and won't allow you to write a pattern that does not denote a regular language.
Release Apache Open Climate Workbench 1.0.0
I believe the definition of 'supermoon' is 'closer than 90% of the time", so yes, it happens for about 10% of all eclipses.

Let's coin 'superdupermoon' for the 1% case.

And ... so what? As http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16... points out:

> Okay, the Moon is 14% bigger than usual, but can you really tell the difference? It's tricky. There are no rulers floating in the sky to measure lunar diameters. Hanging high overhead with no reference points to provide a sense of scale, one full Moon can seem much like any other.

About once a year Jupiter is in opposition. Should we call that a "super Jupiter"?
Ethernet jacks are actually surprisingly expensive - I'm guessing due to some combination of the integrated transformer and the difficulty of manufacturing the connector - so the BOM cost could well be more than adding a wireless chip these days.
IBM's BIOS put the boot loader at the end of the minimum amount of memory at the time (32KB). 7C00-7DFF get the boot sector, and 7E00-7FFF are scratch space.

Also once upon a time SCP tucked it into 0200-03FF because that ram was otherwise unused.
Very Simple Dataflow Constraints with Objective-Smalltalk
Two scary signs that a site is unsafe
Apache Solr 5.3.1 released
There is something similar: https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-pentest.
yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Typed_lambda_c...
``From a certain point of view, typed lambda calculi can be seen as refinements of the untyped lambda calculus but from another point of view, they can also be considered the more fundamental theory and untyped lambda calculus a special case with only one type.''
Facebook exec: Let's talk about my brain, not babies
It's just their branding, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_Faire.
Send me a 'Yo' if you think this article is cool
Since its an image you can't cut and paste it. Memory muscle probably capitalized S in string.
string != String
> Seriously, to all the silicon valley startups and investors: get over yourself. You are not changing the world.

Pretty much this but I find it admirable. Such is the spirit that ultimately changes the world if it means tolerating some pretty darn awful ones.
Your document root is probably /var/www

Your web server will let any visitor read the contents of that folder. If you put your code in there, then other people could read your code. When you were using php, this was ok, because your web server knew that it should not let people read your php files, but instead run the file and serve the output of the file.

With python, it's not the same. Your Python application acts as a whole. People aren't calling specific files like http://www.ggg.com/manage.py

They request a page from your server. The server knows how to use a wsgi file. The wsgi file runs your code, and tells it what the user requested. Your code returns a response, which the web server sends back to the user.

This code can live in any folder on your server, but if you want to keep people from seeing your code and database credentials, then it should not be in /var/www, but somewhere else. The book suggests your home folder. If you don't know what that means, find a tutorial on basic command line or basic Linux.

Good luck.
Prop 13 is across California, not just San Francisco. You're saying that home sales in CA have been suppressed because of Prop 13? You would be wrong.

There are about 6M housing units available in CA, and about 500k sales per year. That's an entire turnover of inventory in 12 years. Your anecdotal evidence is interesting but wrong.
[Slightly offtopic]
Since you seem to have lots of experience (and numerous ARM boards), I'm curious if you've had a chance to try Applied Micro's 64-bit ARM SOC[0]? I realize it's $1500, but that's probably to reduce support costs and qualify potential customers. Anyway, it would be nice to know from a first-hand source.

[0]https://www.apm.com/products/data-center/x-gene-family/x-c1-...
Meh.

I think an even greater Regexp trick is the regular expression that determines primality:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3296050/how-does-this-reg...
Closure Compiler » v20150920
X86_64 HolyC Compiler/Assembler/Unassembler for TempleOS
Clearly that would be a Supiter
Maybe not a useful term for science but what's wrong with a fun celebratory event? The general population isn't interested enough to tolerate news stories about every full moon but they aren't so uninterested as to want zero coverage. If people want to be reminded to go out and look up every once in a while and have a minor social event on the Internet where people are looking at and sharing photos and articles with friends and strangers from all over the world, supermoons and lunar eclipses happen at a frequency that's pretty good for that, and why not have a fun name as well?