skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iPhone 6s preorders sell out within 30 minutes in Samsung's home of South Korea
Thanks, url changed to that from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/20/western_digital_bad_....
Take the UK rules for stop signs as an example:

"In the UK, stop signs may be placed only at sites with severely restricted visibility, and each must be individually approved by the Secretary of State for Transport."

They are rare, I can only think of one in the county my parents live in. (No doubt there are a few more, but on all the routes we often used when I was a child, there was only one.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign#United_Kingdom
Excellent article. I have always been fascinated with how conscious / subconscious brain works and deeper I dig stranger things are there to observe. Almost all that appears on the surface is not what it seems after analysis. We are all actors, whether willing to admit or not. "You are not really John" http://www.wimp.com/goodactor/
Awesome work. This may be a college project, but if everybody accomplished this much in life, the world would be a better place.
Back to the Future II – Today's (21 Oct 2015) the day Doc arrives in the future
Nobody stores all shortest paths, that's just silly. With some rather simple preprocessing you can answer shortest paths queries on the US road network in microseconds [1], with preprocessing time of less than a day on a single machine. Surely Google can scale that up to larger graphs.

[1]http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~dmatijev/papers/DIMACS06.pdf
As another European I concur. Moreover I'm British but I left to live in "continental Europe" over a decade ago, so I've seen some of the Anglo, Anglo-Saxon and the southern European models.

When I worked in the UK, many businesses had a work environment that steered towards the US model, but 9am - 5:30pm was the norm. More flexible working hours are starting to be more common, but statistically the total hours worked is very static over the last decade. [1]

On the other hand, here in Germany the concept of "Feierabend" is sacrosanct. Feierabend is the word Germans use to describe the time after work (and the point at which they "clock off"). Germans start work earlier than in the UK, but many finish around 4:30pm or even earlier on a Friday.

That being said, the productive hours of work here in Germany appears to be different (possibly just observer bias). They seem to get a lot done in those hours. I see less meetings and less general chit-chat throughout the day. In the UK I would often experience the collection of people around the coffee machine discussing last night's TV programs. I've never seen that kind of thing here.

Spain was a completely different experience. People didn't appear to work so much, but that was simply because initially I didn't realise that many people have two jobs, with siesta parked in the middle. They often start earlier and finish late in the evening. The statistics show that Spain (and Greece more so) have a higher number of hours worked annually than Germany (and the UK).

From an economic perspective though, those extra hours haven't traditionally produced growth in the same way as the Germans have. That's not to say that the Germans are particularly more productive (I think that is rather hard to quantify and there are many more factors in play than just being "productive"), but in terms of pure economic success, Spain and Greece are certainly well behind their northern European partners.

A lot of that is also due to the kind of economies these countries have though. Germany produces things for export and benefits greatly from a depressed Euro and has done so for the last 15 years. Spain and Greece do not have such economies, and have been hit with the triple punch of economic depression, reduced EU financial support and forced austerity. It is like taking a heroin addict (EU grant money) and forcing him to go cold turkey, but also removing all the furniture in the room and leaving him with a cold concrete floor and walls and leaving one barred window that overlooks a methadone clinic day centre.

[1] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS
You claim that some are not open-source and not for sale, then for what purpose are they made?
I call these the "reminder to actually cancel/close my account" emails.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10423742.
> Similar to the idea of having a second PIN on your credit card that allows access but indicates acting-under-duress to the bank.

Sounds like you are alluding to being able to use a reverse version of your PIN on an ATM when in duress?

It's a trope [0].

[0] http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
I think the poster was referring only to ionizing radiation (the kind proven to increase cancer risk). Light fixtures and heaters (infrared) don't fall into that category.
It is already present in Mozilla bugzilla : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044522
Right now, I don't see any advantage of embedding the DSL into Rust code, when instead I could have the DSL completely separate from Rust, and just use Rust's FFI to access what the DSL compiler generates. One benefit of the FFI route is that the result wouldn't be Rust-specific.

Remember that one of the goals is to become confident that the implementation is correct without also having to analyze whether rustc is correct or whether the Rust language has meaningful semantics. If we involve rustc in it, then we've greatly expanded the scope of what we have to analyze.

Even if asm! were stable in Rust, I would still prefer to have my assembly language in separate .s/.asm files. rustc gets updated every 6 weeks, which is great, but I'd really kind of like my assembler to be more static than that. Assembly language benefits massively from having macros, but Rust actually is not as good of a macro language for assembly as existing assembler macro languages. I'd rather see rustc improve at compiling Rust code than have it try to also compile ASM code.
Ask HN: What are some hard coding projects I could create?
So I want to push my coding skills. I've spent more than enough time on coding challenge sites now and implemented enough datastructures/algorithms. I've developed enough simple Saas sites. I want to start doing something useful and challenging.

I've thought about writing a database, but the world really has enough databases already. I've messed with compilers, but the world has enough languages out there already.

I have no itches out there I feel I need to scratch, I just enjoy coding.

What are some other challenging projects out there that aren't already over-saturated with implementations?
His experience doesn't matter. The result doesn't depend on what you've done.

Try to imagine how it feels to be one of the last two idealistic volunters who work on a critically important open source crypto library when a major security bug is found and many thousand people decide to tell you what a shit you are and what shit your code is. That's not what Brent did, but if Brent and those two idealists were to meet and compare their inboxes, I bet they would look similar.
I think you've hit the nail on the head with the spam comment.

In a federated system, it is up to everyone to protect themselves against spam.

We put up with it for email, because in the most part it pre-dated other solutions. I don't think people will put up with it for social networking.
The TigerVNC binaries on bintray run fine everywhere I've tried them and they don't require installation. Encrypted too.
Author(s) would really gain some credibility by adding information about their identity inside the hubzilla website.

I first wondered whether this was a mozilla project, then looked for a name, thing is visible. Why should I trust them then...
Rollup bundles multiple modules into a single module. The output module can be in several different formats. If you're bundling an app, you can use an IIFE ("globals" in the demo).
A mini roundabout in the UK is usually just a big white circle painted on the road [1].

It means "yield to the right" (driving on the left), and presumably costs a similar amount to other markings painted on the road.

The one pictured has very poor visibility, so it's expected that drivers will almost-but-not-quite stop until they can see. [2] is more typical. A driver where the camera is can proceed, since they can see the other car is turning out of the junction and none are following it.

Large vehicles like buses can drive over the white dot, since it's just paint.

[1] http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/images/7/75/Tiny_mini_rou...

[2] http://thumbsnap.com/i/LKjHG2eP.jpg
Especially as the product is named after her... This for sure doesn't hurt her image, but some lawyers might have a problem with this.
My god, I totally forgot about this. I didn't even have internet. Learned HTML on it.
Tht old wiki magic :)
> Then, he says security in his testing improved from 4 minutes to 1 hour to break thanks to awareness from all the breaches in the news that he implies are partly due to full disclosure.

We can think of it as a silver lining.
Sorry, missed "live" word. I don't have any (recent) experience with that, so can't comment on that. But in case of OP's page the video is not live.
If the car drives itself and you rent a trip rather than buy and own a specific vehicle, why would most people care to pay a premium for a Tesla trip rather than just getting a Nissan Leaf With Google or Hyundai e10 With Uber or a self-car2go or...?
I dont like it either but most of this stuff already exists with them in email, texts, im's etc.
Candy+Crush+Soda+Saga+Latest+Version+Free+Download
4-way stop intersections are extremely puzzling to me. We don't have them in most of Europe (I suspect all of Europe, but I can't speak for everywhere). STOP/Yield signs always come paired with right-of-way signs, so much so that having a stop/yield or right-of-way sign on just one street of an intersection automatically means the crossing street effectively has the other sign on it, even if it is missing. I think this is because they used to be stolen from time to time and sold for scrap metal. In the case of an intersection with no signs, the person on the right has the right of way, and the person going straight has the right of way respective to the one making a left turn. For T-sections, the person on the main road always has the right of way. For more complicated 5- or 6-way intersections, they put signs, traffic lights or roundabouts.
Academic Phrasebank
> there's always somebody blabbing on about their "investments" or humble bragging about exiting or buying a tesla or some other rich person nonsense

Is that true? I don't see much of it.
Knowing where you are is truly disruptive. Having better maps is just having better maps. GPS has been so incorporated into daily life that we don't appreciate it any more.
What did they get right:
- News drones
- Hands-free video games
- Smart glasses
- Biowaste fuel
- Wearable tech

What did they kinda get wrong:
- Hoverboards (were getting close to this)
- Flying cars

more links:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34569759

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/20/entertainment/back-to-the-...
http://allmydroids.blogspot.de/2014/12/xiaomi-mi-band-ble-pr...

This is a nice post about their protocol, although it seems that they are trying to prevent reverse engineering by obfuscating it in newer releases. There are also links to some useful libraries. Remember that MiBand can be connected to just one device at a time.
I don't think that's correct. British Regulars redeployed from the Napoleonic Wars burned down the White House. But if you're referring to the fact that it it was largely in retaliation for the sack of York (now Tornoto) by the Americans, then you'd be correct.

That's not to diminish Canadian achievements in the war; they seriously mauled American attempts at invasion and held Detroit at once point. Canada was very much a British colony at this time, and was just beginning to form a sense of national identity (of which the was would play a large part.)

Glad all that mess is behind us. =)
In security, impossible is a marketing word
> threats that non-cooperation will result in heavy/fabricated charges.

Being DA 101
Except they don't sign up for privacy violations. They sign up to make music, or act in films, or whatever it is they do.

I'm sure some famous people purposefully encourage paparazzi to follow them, but certainly not all of them. You must have noticed how most of the photos coming from paparazzi feature someone who's famous in particular circles looking pissed off at a gaggle of photographers following them around as they go to the shops with a hangover.
In my city (Lyon, France) we look down at the rich people. So much that every time I go to a start-up pitch session, I hear words like "My goal is NOT to enrich myself, it's to serve the community" and the people make choices accordingly, such as belonging to a cooperative and not earning dividends, etc. It seems like an obligatory language to gain the support of the society in order to do our business. A striking example: my coworking space is awesome and the founders don't get dividends for it, apart from having a free office.
Thinkpad T450S
What happens if your connection to redis dropped and a pub was made in between?
There is situational impossibility though. Apple not being able to decrypt a powered down phone is possible if they did their design work properly.
The staggering impact of IT systems gone wrong
what if this is parallel construction? Can it state as 'impossible' to 'unlock'(crack/backdoor) in civil level but unlock-able on DoD/NSA level?
The rings would be cool to hijack for watermarking, but they look really fussy.
Perfect moment to mention my little project.

http://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam

I have to admit, that the quality is not good. But it also works on embedded systems.
The IKEA Effect, by Dan Ariely
"The OS has to control atoms, photons". Uh, every OS does this already. Unless you mean directly in which case that sounds like some pretty amazing software+hardware if you're instructing atoms and photons directly in the OS.

All these folks have to do is find someone trusted to go get a demo and put everything to rest. A simple tweet from a well-known, non-celeb would do it: "Tried it. Looks like demo."
A few thoughts:

- If NYPD has it, other large port cities or metropolitan areas must have them as well. Florida jurisdictions have featured prominently for Stingrays and other military tech, wouldn't be surprised to find Orlando or Miami or what not sporting them as well.

Edit: Read the rest of the article, apparently U.S. News has found "[more than] 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside." The use case is to intentionally expose people to the xrays.

- Are they getting warrants for these scans?

- What ombudsman process or other audit-able legal infrastructure is in place in New York City that allows non-police persons to establish the veracity of the warrants they get to run these scans?

- How do we confirm scans only expose the specific people identified in the warrants to x-ray radiation?

- If collateral private spaces are scanned along with the intended target, how does NYPD ensure those images are destroyed (as they're outside the scope of their warrants)?

- The court discussion mentioned in the article indicate the specific technology used in these vans has been repeatedly banned from use on humans, by US and other authorities. Where is the non-company-funded, reviewed-and-published study data showing this backscatter x-ray tech isn't harmful?
My experience[1] in India has been kind of mixed. While many companies didn't have a proper email address where one could disclose the bugs, after disclosing the bugs some of them were very quick in fixing them. So, speaking of India, I think the IT industry is still in nascent stage where they do not think about bug bounties programme much. I hope that changes soon.

1. https://medium.com/@fallible/we-discovered-severe-bugs-in-11...
do you see any reason he put this book in the list?
Finally the End of Internet Explorer?
Yes, so PyPy can win on small arrays because there is no per-call C FFI overhead in calling into RPython-Numpy. The smaller the operations, the greater the win over CPython.
Steve Jobs Was Wrong – Stop Trusting Your Intuition
I had this stray thought the other day, that dark matter is really the rest of civilizations shielding and hiding themselves from us and other unevolved civilizations. That's why we cant find life in the galaxy, and once its unblocked we will see all of the 1000s of civilizations that exist.
Right off the bat, I can see you've worked at some toxic work environments because you see managers as impediments to work because what their MO is to play act, exert authority, and get off on paperwork.

On a good team, a manager is worth their weight in goal, and will work tirelessly to remove road blocks from devs.

The agile manifesto was written by developers for developers. But these developers were builders who liked building and solving customer problems. Not people like you who seem to think everyone in the company is useless and just gets in the way of devs who do the only real work. If that is really the only experience you know, I urge you to work hard to find a better job.

Any philosophy or process is only as good as the people attempting to practice it.
Hi pitaa,

Thanks for your comments, all valid an need to be addressed by the service.

LCL shipments usually consist of many different vendors and are very expensive and slow to despatch (waiting to consolidate) and deliver (unpacking the other end). What airfcl will allow you to do is 'hitch a ride' on a container with spare capacity on the same route. Less waiting time and less expensive.

We are integrating a feedback/rating system to help with, amongst other things, possible pilfering by one of the importing companies.

The loads will be balanced and rearranged if required at point of loading like any other shipment.

Customs are always a problem, I've had goods held for weeks for no reason and you can get unlucky. Having said that, we'll integrate a tariff guide and make shipping stages/requirements very clear to all parties to make sure shipments clear customs cleanly.

Please let me know of any other issues you've thought of, as they're v useful for development! Either here or jonathan at airfcl .com
Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
From the pictures this type of clock has a 9v battery for when the power goes off, not enough power to drive the display but enough to trigger the alarm. This would also explain why (maybe) he didn't realize it would go off during class.
Tell that to the cities that don't sync their traffic lights. It doesn't matter whether I'm driving or cycling, that always pisses me off.
Swift or Objective-C? What do prefer iOS devs? And what should they?
There's a setting, in the most recent iOS at least, you can enable where 10 failed fingerprint attempts will trigger the phone to wipe itself.
500 DPI amounts to less than 200x200 pixels in a circle if I got the numbers right. A camera can't get that resolution from your fingerprints?
I'm certain thats doable, but is there a guarantee that the watermark is in a fixed location? I would think the software would adjust placement to avoid being drowned out by blocks of yellow, etc.
Buying the 23andme kit several years ago was the best $99 I ever spent. I originally did it for the ancestry information which I found very interesting. But I have to say I was blown away by the health information. The information is simply presented perfectly.

As for most people, it wasn't all good news but it gave me a roadmap to prepare or prevent things I am genetically predisposed to.
I want this for wikipedia.
It would be awesome if you added a weighting/priority value for each friend. As I am adding my friends from Facebook, I am only including those I want to keep in touch with; however, there is still a dramatic difference in precedence across friends (with some I want to contact 10X over others).

This should be trivial to implement since weighted sampling is trivial.
It's certainly better than Ben Discoe's setup:

https://www.quora.com/Which-Googler-holds-the-record-for-liv...

while Brandon has made a whole project out of it with regular blog posts highlighting his eco-friendliness, Ben was forced to live at Google's parking lot in a van, in order to pay for alimony.
Of course you probably already know this, but I think the root problem that OP is driving at here is that if you use /dev/urandom then you risk getting predictable values from /dev/urandom at startup[1], e.g. when initializing your server's SSH keys (or whatever). I seem to recall this being the root cause of thousands upon thousands of home routers being having weak keys. As such, it's important to point out.

[1] That is, before enough external entropy has been gathered.
Surprised to hear they did that but I guess it makes sense. I'm sure working with the FDA to pioneer new health testing isn't cheap.
Well, my last 4 cars have all been VW Group (Passat, Golf, Golf, ŠKODA Yeti) and I've never had any problems with them - mind you I kept them for 3 years so they were all within warranty.

Worst electrical problems we've had was with a Toyota my wife had - problems with the sunroof caused the instrument panel to fail!
Does this count as a breach of contract in the sense that we're not getting what we paid for in a product that doesn't do it's job as advertised?
How do we know 'life' can't evolve in some other way? I find it interesting how scientists are always looking for 'earth' like planets... then again it is a good place to start.
On the Future of OpenStack, Orchestration, and Containers
This is the most comprehensive and useful guide on sending emails I have come across so far. Going to implement a few ideas right away and track the results.
Benedict Evans from A16Z did pretty much exactly that today;

https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/656678054064865280

He's not completely impartial (A16Z invested in Magic Leap) but Evans seems to be pretty quick to call out underperforming companies even if they're an A16Z investment.
This looks good. Please email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you would like us to send you a repost invite. This is an experiment in giving good stories a second chance at attention on HN.
Because that's not the evidence they present, they use that to figure out where else to look for evidence, pretending they found that randomly or by guesswork or suspicion or following an anonymous call.
If the projection is into the eyes, how are these demos being recorded?

Or are these demos just being 'rendered' ?
Back to the Future Part IV: The TVs, cars and mobile devices of 2030
Can anyone explain the version numbers?
PyPy 2.6.1 compared to 15.11, which will eventually become 4.0.0...?
I wonder whether any over-zealous publishers started to put EURion constellations in their books in order to deter photocopying and scanning.
Only for people that live in high-population-density areas with meaningful public transit. Otherwise it's a practical necessity, unless having a job is a luxury as well.
Apple says "we have no ability to" etc, not "noone has and we never will have" etc.

An Apple officer making a sworn statement that Apple has no technical ability to extract data from an uncooperative customer's phone is significant, even if it applies only to the present, not to the past or future.
I guess they would be used in a service that sells voice recordings, are developed for internal use or are born in research.
5 reasons we love Docker
> Gladly and hopefully the software culture is going in the bazaar way.

That is, towards chaos, inefficiency and fragmentation? :P.

In software world, we pride ourselves of having at least some semblance of sense in the discussions about approaches and methodologies; the cathedral/bazaar model is not an evil/good model; both approaches have applications for which they're the best.