skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have RGB+W LED strips that light my home office.

http://imgur.com/a/JgWV8

The LEDs are 5050's (not individually addressable), and it alternates between white and RGB LEDs, controlled via analog/PWM (there are +5V, R, G, B and W connections).

I bought this from ebay, and it came with a remote and controller (and a crappy wifi controller that I've never gotten to stay connected and working for more than 2 minutes). The remote is kind of crappy, but it does allow independent control of white brightness, RGB hue, and RGB brightness.

My office is a 10x10 room with a vaulted ceiling, and I have two boxes each with two 1m strips (4m total) mounted on top of cabinets on opposite sides of the room, shining up and mostly reflecting off the ceiling.

I'm very happy with this. That said, I primarily use the white (which is a "warm white") though often mix in some subtle color (eg: 50% brightness of the white). At night I'll often have more of a 1:1 mix or even the color slightly stronger, just because. When turned up full, it's significantly brighter than the 50W halogen floor lamp I used to have in here.

The key thing that makes this usable for me is the white LEDs. Just to see if the RGBW vs RGB strip was worthwhile, I did actually try turning the RGBs on full when I was building it (the controller I have doesn't let you do this) and it's just not quite the same. Even though I have the strips projecting onto the ceiling (so it's indirect, soft light), the color is just.. off.

If you're considering RGB LED strips as general purpose lighting, I'd highly recommend to either go with RGBW or mount a white LED strip alongside the RGB one.
No reason to ask them, just search for their name -- it's all public in the US. https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

> CME-credit holidays

Many/most healthcare companies do not allow pharmaceutical and device manufacturers to reimburse their providers for their travel/accommodations for CME anymore.

Market segmentation is a big part of the difference in costs between here (US) and there (everywhere else) -- not because the cost of marketing their drug is more here, but that people/insurance plans are willing/able to pay more than they are elsewhere.
Oracle – has lost interest in Java
I bike daily to work in New York, and I don't buy the argument that it's that hard to stop. Assuming your bike has gears it's almost no effort to get started again from gear 1. I fully stop at every light. I have very little physical endurance (I can't jog for more than 1 minute without panting), but doing this repeatedly doesn't cause me to even break a sweat. I bike at roughly 10-12 MPH on a heavy bike.

Not yielding for pedestrians is common among bikers here, but very rude and dangerous. I've had a lot of close calls as a pedestrian with bikers blowing through red lights. I wish the police would crack down on it.
Whoever owns the machines is going to be paying a lot of taxes on their outrageous income, though.
Also, so that unauthenticated users can't use DNS as a tunnel method, which is pretty damned cool, but insecure.

You can put TLS into a DNS tunnel too, it's just even slower.
Corporate logos dataset?
Anyone know of places where I can obtain a corporate logos dataset? Commercial or FOSS
Only saying that "he broke the law, hence he is a criminal", is almost meaningless. Its like, the sun rises in the east. Everyone knows he broke the law, and its not part of the debate at all.

The question is... knowing all that we now know, should we treat him like a criminal?

Many people broke the law and became criminals, in order to do what was right.

Gandhi became a criminal by refusing to pay tax on salt.
Americans became criminals by refusing to play ball with 'taxation without representation'.. (or the boston tea party).
Rosa parks became a criminal when she refused to sit in the back of the bus.
In taliban's view, Malala became a criminal when she decided to go to school.

Breaking the law is not always bad... sometimes, it is essential to break the law, in order to do the right thing.

I find it difficult to believe that you really don't care, don't have an opinion or have no moral stand on this issue. It reminds me of this famous line...

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Mass surveillance and punishing whistleblowers are not just American evils. They are the evils of the powerful, who are everywhere around the world.
Why is the top post on every single HN story negative?

We have to stop chugging the haterade.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation w/ Asana & have no strong opinions about the redesign
I wonder if Apple enabling ad blocking in iPhones and iPads had something to do with this. Many see it as a direct shot at rival Google, which makes most of it's money from advertising. Days later and suddenly Microsoft and Google are besties. It will be interesting to see what comes of this.
I just tried opening it in private browsing (not logged in) and I could access the LinkedIn article just fine.
Band-Aids Can’t Fix Bullet Holes: Silicon Valley and the NSA
Samza Scala example project released
Lockitron has an API and is a great company afaik.
Isn't everything in the BTC blockchain public? How/why would you upload private information about insurance claims there?
If I don't want children of my own because they're ridiculously expensive, why should I subsidize yours? There's no reason a private employer should pay you more because you want a kid.
Coming from a social democracy I think the main difference in viewpoint is that the downward spiral has to stop somewhere because otherwise the damage not just to a person but to society can be too great - e.g. see communist revolutions. Letting whole families go bankrupt because of a medical issue is counterproductive even just using capitalistic values. Long term you want people to be prosperous enough to buy your stuff and educated enough to create value. Too many pressures towards negative social mobility is therefore a net loss for society. Thus you can simply regard social health care and social services as an investment towards future growth.
That really misses the point of how R&D works in most fields. LTE wasn't invented by people tinkering in their basement. It took rooms full of PhDs and those cost money. At the same time, it's not technology where having a first-mover marketing advantage matters much. It may take six months for someone to reverse-engineer your technology, but much longer than that to recoup your initial R&D.

There is a reason companies like Qualcomm and most Internet companies are on opposite sides of the patent debate, and its not because Qualcomm is evil and Twitter isn't. It's because what it takes to make their respective products, and what it takes to protect their markets from copycats is fundamentally different.
The problem is that in certain segments, most specifically in terms of software development... the "valuable technology" can generally be implemented by anyone skilled in the crafy, and generally speaking doesn't have a lot of outlay in terms of research/development. That's not to say there aren't segments of software development that should qualify, but imho if allowed should really be more like 5 years, not 20 for software patents. And most software patents should simply have been denied outright.
Sorry to hear about your situation. But it looks like you havent started looking yet. Whether you are in India or in the UK, someone with your skills will easily find a job. Just start contacting your team at Intel and ask or you know you can easily look on Intel site and start applying. There are many open positions and since you were not fired, there is no reason why a new manager or your previous manager wont consider hiring.

And start working your contact network, start sending CV. But I suggest you do this now with an availability date of Jan. If the hiring team likes you, they will wait or they will try and find a place in the company for you.

Large companies typically dont take on temp workers directly. So I would avoid proposing that. Just say you are taking care of family and need the time to settle things so you can focus your energy on the job, come Jan.

good luck
Not sure about that brother, I mean people have been growing this stuff for thousands of years man. I got mine on that good good extra potent ja feel?
Split-horizon DNS
Can there be a national referendum? A vote by everyone in the USA on whether the charges against Snowden should be dropped or not?

Why or why is this not a good idea?
Another one that comes to mind is "Are you blocking ads?", although I should probably stop before I give them any more ideas...
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Well, not exactly. You can maintain individual skills and can build any kind of network you want while working in a non-profit.

It's that you're in a domain with other people who are not focused on making money. That's not really about your network, which mostly means people you don't work with on a daily basis. It's about the people you do work with and the opportunities and choices that emerge from those daily interactions.

You will not find people in a non-profit focused primarily or even secondarily on making money. In fact, many people deliberately sacrifice earnings to align with the mission of a non-profit.

Non-profits are also structurally unable to participate in many of the vehicles that enhance earnings for employees in for-profits, like profit-sharing, equity, tax-related benefits (non-profits don't pay any taxes), and so forth.

When you're young, you might be "really good" at football and baseball, enough to have the opportunity to pursue one or the other professionally. Nearly everyone in that situation has to choose one or the other, and being a professional football player will necessarily mean you are not a professional baseball player (Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders aside). Non-profit vs for-profit is a similar choice when it comes to earnings.

At the end of the day, an accumulation of decisions, some of which you would make but many of which would be made around you, that all entail sacrificing opportunities for making money, will mean you will likely wind up with lower earnings.
For once we get what we need to know. They used bcrypt and everything is nicely salted.

Congratulations Patreon, you just executed a textbook "good" public disclosure of a security breach!
Would this/could this replace Hangouts? Or maybe WebRTC is a good complement for Project Fi?
I think this is what you are looking for - https://www.dipjar.com
I'm not sure what your college experience (if any--I don't want to presume one way or another) was like, but I've had a chance to see it both from the science/industry perspective, i.e. the CS/engineering subjects, and from a language/art/music perspective (I myself have accumulated most of a couple of different degrees, in wildly divergent subjects, but not yet a whole one).

Seldom have I ever had the conversation with anyone about, "what kind of job will we get after ___?" For me, it isn't so relevant because my tech background lets me make money pretty easily. For others, it seems like the focus is almost always almost exclusively on finishing the schoolwork.

The schools themselves certainly never bring up the subject of any kind of career planning or job readiness, because that isn't really the role of the university--these aren't trade schools, after all.

Maybe they should, but if everyone's making the same mistake, then I find it hard to say "everyone is dumb/wrong," with an implication that they should all just suck it up and deal with having made some mistake. I think it makes more sense to look for social causes for why everyone's making the same mistake, and find a larger-scale solution than individual suffering of consequences.

As for this: "Not me. I've said otherwise for 40 years." I'm quite certain you weren't a part of the adult/authority figure group my peers and I had access to in the K-12 period of our lives. I find it commendable that you have said otherwise, but your ideas were absolutely not well-represented among the adults present in my generation's upbringing. So, it's great that you've been saying so, but not all that helpful in advancing the discussion.
rough calculations, but an iPhone 5 screen's area is 4656mm. this process makes 1mm/hour. So, does that mean it'd take ~191 days to make 1 screen? have i missed something major?
If I put plain text into a note, I'd expect to get plain text out. You put plain text in, and you get something that still have to extract the text from. That isn't what I'd consider "pretty good".

My point doesn't apply so must just the plain text. It's everything. You put it in in source format, and you get .enex out. It's not so cut and dry.

Going in, it's one step. Coming out, to get it back in the same format you got it... it's multiple steps, and manipulation with other tools.
That's only assuming that costs go up or stay the same. They might, but if the tax burden becomes higher than the net increase in production, they could very well lower prices to better compete.

Long story short, you MIGHT be right, but if the economy is depressed by all the newly jobless, it seems a stretch that prices would skyrocket, or even stay flat so long as automation provides more wiggle room at the margins.
NYC is still very much a cash-based economy. Most people have cash, most of the time.
As always, these disclosures are an opportunity for all of us to learn something without having to pay the substantial reputational price for doing so. I'd encourage everyone on HN to read the How We Ended Up Here parts carefully and take simple remediation steps in your own projects/companies.

The unauthorized access was confirmed to have taken place ... via a debug version of our website that was visible to the public.

This is a ridiculously common way for attackers to get into your network. You both want to have an accurate inventory of the apps/boxes your organization has (highly non-trivial at scale) and you don't want dev/staging/etc to be publicly accessible. The simplest way is to firewall off traffic to them.

If you need them to be accessible for e.g. callbacks from public services, default-deny everything and control access at the network or frontend web server level before things get to your applications (which are likely going to be your vulnerable underbelly).

In most cases, the dev servers will not themselves have really interesting things on them. They will instead be used by attackers to pivot to other, more interesting servers on your network. Patreon's understanding is that the dev servers lacked SSH keys to the production servers -- that's a good thing, but after the bad guy has a dev server with local network access to interesting machines, they're going to do things like e.g. probe for exposed admin consoles to network appliances, outdated RedMine instances, internal tools, etc etc, and they will eventually own every machine that talks to any machine that your dev server can talk to. You will eventually lose the entire deployment if the bad guy wants you to.

The development server included a snapshot of our production database, which included encrypted data.

Never, ever do this. (It's been a firing offense at most shops I've worked at in my career, and that's for good reasons.)
Donald Trump's Heavy Debut Single “The American Dream”
Gear Generator
I remember a Slashdot article back in the 90s about a guy who renewed hotmail.com for Microsoft when they accidentally let it expire. The guy needed to get to his email but couldn't and he quickly discovered the problem and fixed it for them.
> While in the US, to become a CPA, you would need masters level education in most cases to even appear for the CPA exams.

Source? This sounds ludicrous.
The best part of this is that you can output the gears as SVGs. For example, gear + Glowforge =
http://community.glowforge.com/t/gears/143/4
Logistics is considerably more difficult than most casual observers realize, whether it's delivering a $6 burrito or delivering a life saving organ. The tech involved behind the scenes to pull it off successfully is downright impressive.
There used to be this great video online, 'Three hours of MTV from 1983' [1]. It began with the VJ giving away t-shirts to promote the new Police album, Synchronicity. Looks like it went down when Youtube ate Google Video.

[1] http://www.appelogen.be/2008/01/25/3-uur-mtv-uit-1983/
>there are teams of people whose job is to prevent something like this from happening in the first place.

Reading that along with the rest of this thread reminds me just how bad it is to have so much of the internet rely on large sites like this. The amount of trust and dependency that rests on Google is very dangerous. The amount of damage to the world that could result in a failure of their service is beyond imagination.
IIRC, all Chrome users are pinned for *.google.com
Banner Blindness in Ballot Design
The article appears to be based on this press release: http://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/press-releases/articles...
or how about the adobe CEO trying to defend their product's costs in Australia?
The last sentence of the article: "The big banks have surely drawn a lesson from the crash and its aftermath: that in the end there is very little they will not get away with."
He never actually owned it. This was just a bug in the Google domains control panel. The source of truth (I believe ICANN) would never showed a change of ownership.
Not as a criticism of your logic but out of curiosity I woul love to know if the per capita health care cost statistics you read or are thinking of, are including or excluding people not paying for health care. Its a common tactic in the manipulation of population statistics to "chose what's included" and in this case the inclusion of people not paying would lower the per capita cost and excluding the would raise it. If the Massachusetts and nation stats don't make the same choice on this matter it makes them much harder to compare fairly.
Proactive Server Log Management Techniques
As best I can tell, AOL was named America Online (no space or camelcase) in 1989.
Sweet. Do you have an example of a planetary gear reduction?
> literally hundreds of thousands of pagers of them, nobody really understands them

BaselII[+] and friends are relatively clearcut and are designed to prevent credit meltdown. The rules and reporting requirements are baked into Bank software and dataflow. Auditors will spank you with fines, and will revoke your accreditation for serial offences. This can force an involuntary acquisition.

> there are tens of thousands of Somali refugees in the US. To my knowledge there is no commercial bank that will help them send money home to their families.

That is the result of draconian anti-terrorism laws and has nothing to do with regulations around credit reserves.

You seem to be concerned around over-regulation, however the article is clearly arguing the opposite: "Deregulation has allowed perverse incentives into the very fabric of global finance."
This sounds like some kind of PR stunt for google domains.
Wow that's the book I was thinking of when I mentioned Foghorn Leghorn. The little genius kid makes a plane from that book.
Also, student loans are pretty different[1]. For example, the only company allowed to give them is a non-profit, and they get cancelled if they have been outstanding for a (fairly long) period of time[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_Ki...
Atomic Resolution and the Home Hobbyist
> It is a large country and has existing infrastructure.

The latter part is the real elephant in the room here - the former reason is by now a cliché putdown when it comes to infrastructure investment in the US. Kazahkstan and Uruguay are not small, even less dense than the US, and poorer - yet have better LTE coverage.
Did we just identify SLJ again? :)
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309079
Don't forget that at the time, HDTV was almost non-existent, and VHS tape at ~240p resolution was the most common recording medium.
Not to derail an otherwise interesting article, but the OP picked a not-great anecdote to lead with. The Red Ash Kickstarter was controversial because it was launched by the studio that was (and is) behind a high-profile Kickstarter: Mighty No. 9, a game billed as the spiritual successor to Mega Man which raised $3.85M. At the time that Red Ash was announced, Comcept claimed that Mighty No. 9 was pretty much done and that they needed to get another game into the pipeline. Midway through the Red Ash campaign, people noticed that Mighty No. 9 was marked by retailers as being delayed. When Comcept was questioned about this, they claimed that it was a mistake...only shortly after the Red Ash Kickstarter failed did Comcept admit that Mighty No. 9 would be delayed [1].

As you can imagine, that led backers to think that Comcept had tried to be hush-hush about the delay so that it wouldn't affect the Red Ash campaign. It hasn't helped matters since then that Mighty No. 9 continues to be delayed, even failing to meet a deadline to produce a demo that was meant to make up for the delay.

So...to use Comcept in the lede of this story, as if it were the use of these "secret developers" that pissed fans off and caused the Kickstarter to fail...That just seems...a bit misguided...The OP couldn't find any other anecdote to lead off with?

[1] http://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mighty-no-9s-shady-delay-...
The data is not stored in the blockchain.

Instead, Tierion generates a blockchain receipt for each record, which provides irrefutable proof that your data was recorded in the Bitcoin blockchain. Anyone with this receipt can verify the timestamp and contents of the record.

It's not practical to store large amounts of data in the blockchain for the following reasons:

1) Bitcoin can currently handle seven transactions per second
2) You can only store 80 bytes of data in each transaction
3) The average transaction fee is currently $.03

Tierion is able to overcome these design constraints and generate blockchain receipts for millions of records. The specifics of how we do this is described in the following white paper: http://Tierion.com/chainpoint
You mean the incident they mention in the article that was linked?

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-r...
It doesn't always do that.

CIS countries (like Belarus, Azerbaijan and Russia) have quite low infant mortality, and yet life expectancy is second only to Africa, from the bottom of course.

I'm kind of surprised seeing Iran in the same basket, why?
Yeah, the aspen tame thing really got me wondering about the ethics here. It is one of the most attacked substances, yet it appears basically harmless.

If we assume it is in fact harmless, then it is actually quite ethical of Coca Cola to spend money defending it.
I'm particularly curious how they protected SSNs.
Looks like an awesome book. Added to my list of "books I want to read but have no idea how/when I'll find to to actually read."

There are some other gems in this collection as well. This looks like fun:

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/78