skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha. It brings nostalgic feelings.

Gyrojet rifle was the ultimate weapon in Jagged Alliance 2 (my favorite game in college times).

I always thought that it was pure sci-fi element in game until somebody on forum posted information about this guns.
London Can Take It
Really? Interesting. Which direction from Philly is your suburb? I've been to a decent number of cities and their suburbs and usually found Uber or Lyft to be available in the past year.

Locally, living in either Jersey or Connecticut, Uber/Lyft have been available for a while now wherever Ive been in those states. I do remember when taking an Uber or Lyft from a suburb 40 minutes outside of NYC in NJ, the driver complained that he had two tickets from Philly airport.

Are Philly and perhaps the surrounding areas in PA just more strict still with laws? I know Uber made a big push a year or two ago to be available in all of Jersey. And since Philly or say, Hershey Park, can be pretty close to a portion of NJ, I assumed it was available there in mass too.
I couldn't care less about Islamic. I'm not calling it "state".
I really wish they would have separated sugar and fat into different slices. Grouping them makes them seem equally unhealthy and perpetuates the falsehood that fats are inherently bad. A culture can have a high fat intake, with a low sugar intake and still be healthy. You can't really say the same for the opposite.
HN: Intermidiate Security Testing with Kali Linux 2.0 – FREE Download
Hmm... how does that play with video recording? We argue that it is fine to take video in public because of no expectation of privacy, but video implies an audio track too.
North Korea, Vietnam and India are the ones with over 50% grain consumption (63%, 57%, 57%). Grains here would mean both carbs and protein (pulses). It would be interesting to see the same chart with a carbs and protein split.
Which is not quite as long as it's been since the time we had a recession of this magnitude.
Considering the Chromecast can do it, it's pretty likely that this can too.
Fat == 9 calories per gram

Protein == 4 calories per gram

So if a culture's fat : protein ratio is higher, then for a given weight of meat there will be more calories consumed. Anecdotally, in China it seems meat-dishes tend to be much fattier than in the US.

For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=hong+shao+rou&tbm=isch

That's pork belly ; AKA the thickest bacon cut imaginable and naturally very fatty (also delicious).

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Source: I lived in Shenzhen, China for 4 months.
Mostly because it is the reality of the situation, even if it quite dim.
The most dangerous terrorists have probably already reverted to couriers with one-time pads. One-time pads are uncrackable, yet they were used extensively before modern cryptography was even invented. They're cumbersome and constrained but very effective. No amount of mass surveillance will alter their efficacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
This comment and the ensuing subthread cross the line into generic religious flamewar. Please don't do that on HN.
I've found that teams (and individuals) function best when tasks are either scope-delimited or time-delimited. Not both, and not neither. If the task is concrete enough that the desired outcome is crystal-clear and there's not much risk in completing it, then just say "It's done when it's done" and let someone work at it. If the task has fuzzy success criteria - "Make this UI better", for example, or "speed this up as much as you can", or "explore new approaches for this module" - put a deadline on it. It's possible to spin your wheels forever if you don't have a clear destination and clear timeframe.
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And here is Tom Dale's reply: http://tomdale.net/2015/11/javascript-frameworks-and-mobile-...
I think the post had a bit of a frantic working backwards and managing PR tinge to it. A cyclone/tsunami also takes place over an extended period of time, and is very similar to a human disaster.

In any case, it is a really nice feature and the fact that they will start using it for more disasters is undoubtedly a good thing.
Flattr sort of tried to do that. It never caught on, unfortunately.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr
Adafruit Learning System '85
Does anybody know vim/Sublime Text/Atom plugins that do just that?
I don't know the intended goal. It might just be clicks or page views, but what typically happens is:

- Article launches with sensational, buzzfeed quality linkbait headline.

- Article gets lots of clicks

- The title is quietly changed to a more restrained version which often matches the print edition title.

At first I thought there must just be different editors overseeing the web and print editions, but now I think it's an intentional form of viral marketing or activist editing.

In some cases, the sensational headlines really diminish the journalistic quality/seriousness of the article, or create the impression that a minor point in the article was the main thrust of the article.

Similarly, there has occasionally been a headline that appears intentionally boring so that the paper can publish a story but effectively hide it from view.

So in a nutshell it's classic misdirection, enabled by the digital medium, since tracks can be fairly easily covered making it harder for those who care/notice to call attention to it. For a while I thought about creating a screenshot archive of changed titles but eventually just stopped reading the paper.
It's not just that federally-mandated backdoors increase the chance of compromise (although they certainly do). If the U.S. government can mandate that technology companies provide access through encryption, then so can other countries. Sovereignty is still a powerful concept under international law.

So imagine if Apple, upon condition of selling iPhones within China, must provide the Chinese government with a backdoor through Apple's encryption. Do you know how many federal employees use Apple technology? Including the President himself, who totes an iPad everywhere?

I don't think that federal intelligence and law enforcement officials calling for backdoors have fully thought through the consequences.
Just for shits and giggles, go ahead and google "atlantean church". Some fun stuff there.

"When Jesus was born, it threatened the growing rule of the roman empire and catholic church"

http://anunnakifiles.com/history/jesus-the-atlantean/
Yes yes yes. I am from the Chicago burbs and a UIUC engineering alum ('09). Even though I would have preferred to move back to Chicagoland, there were simply not any relevant/compelling jobs in that area, or really anywhere else in the state. Around graduation, I got offers in several different states and inevitably moved. Most of my classmates - at least the ones who decided to continue with engineering after graduation - did the same.

ps - Chicago might not be famous for counter-culture, but it has amazing live comedy and various other fun cultural trends. It is a generally nice place to live and I would have preferred to move back after graduation, if there had been any good work for me there.
Certainly, there was a huge change when the Barclays Center opened in Brooklyn.
Geez man, you almost make me want to apply again..

"The truth is you're applying to YC just to be in YC, part of the club."

This line resonates with me. I come from a place where there are not many people to relate to on a technical level and sometimes it's lonely here. I love this city and will not move away because I value the friendships and family that I have here. It seems kind of silly now, but I wanted to bring some of that SF money here. I wanted to make a place for me to belong here. I wanted to bring some of that overflowing wealth into my border city. I'm still trying, just in a different way now.

"You need to have a great idea and show you can execute and make a return for investors who believed in you and took your bet."

This is probably where I have failed. I have built a few "prototypes" on github and deployed a few instances for local companies but besides a modest return, I haven't been able to convince anyone to "bet" on me. At this point, I've pretty much given up. I work full time to support my family and find little time to dream these dreams anymore.
'BadBarcode' Vulnerability in Barcode Sensors Allows Shell Command Execution
Based on what evidence?
I wouldn't doubt it. Nintendo was revolutionary in tech.

(Then they started making underpowered, awful consoles. They're still revolutionary, but focus on changing the experience instead. Even if the OS design and the console is not great, the games are often very fun.)
What's the procedure if you break or lose the FIDO hardware key? (Not a rhetorical question; I'd never heard of them before either.)

This is the sort of the thing I always worry about when discussing or considering strengthening security. At some point the risk of accidentally locking yourself out outweighs the risk of someone else getting in. Particularly so for something like gmail, where there's no customer service as a last resort.
Unless you already have a product with some traction and at least some revenue coming in, I think 3 months is not enough runway. Something like 1 year is more realistic.
I have no idea, I'm just going on my experience from conversations & observations as a customer. People do definitely use multiple apps.

As far as a controlled price, that is why you want multiple apps, so there is competition pushing for efficiency.

As a customer it would be far more annoying to use the app if you had to screw around with a price auction every time you wanted a pickup. If I set a price too low, I could be waiting a long time for a ride, if I set a price too high I lose money. The automatic price system makes it far faster.
This is where you get into the nitty-gritty (and stupidly difficult) type of parallel algorithms. When you have e.g. cells that are dependent on their neighbors you can no longer use the trivial divide-and-conquer strategy.

Usually the strategy is to break the domain into chunks, with each chunk being multiple cells. Inside the chunk, the processor already has the data for adjacent cells so it can just read it. On the boundaries where some of the adjacent cells are in another chunk and on a different processor, it has to ask for the data... the vast majority of scientific codes here use OpenMP (not so bad, shared memory) or MPI (absolutely miserable to use IMO, but powerful distributed memory) to communicate. There's other tools for the job that are nicer than MPI, but they don't get much attention from HPC people (who tend to be very conservative with new technology, especially "high-level" abstractions).

Inter-processor communication is orders of magnitude slower than querying local memory (especially if that processor is say on another machine), so on top of that there's lots of clever methods of what is essentially figuring out how to slice up the problem domain; examples include Red-Black schemes, domain decomposition and Wavefront propagation.

To answer your question specifically on boundary conditions (and here I'm talking about the edges of the whole image where there's literally nothing in some cells nearby, not boundaries between partitioned regions like I was above)... you just have to choose something. There are three common approaches, which I'll illustrate by imagining you're doing a blur that decides how to blur a pixel by looking at the 8 pixels that surround it and that you're on the far right edge of the image (so the right three neighboring pixels would lie outside the image):

1. Zero - treat the three pixels as black/zero when calculating. Equivalently, treat them as whatever arbitrary value you find works best (e.g. white/1).

2. Reflective - treat the three pixels as whatever value the pixels on the left side at the appropriate positions would be. That is to say, wrap around to the other side.

3. Symmetric - treat the right three pixels as if they were the same as the left three (or the center three if you like).

This is a common problem also when solving something like a differential equation on a discretized spatial grid. In this case, the edge values are determined based on your boundary conditions- method 1 corresponds to vacuum boundaries, 2. corresponds to periodic boundaries and 3. is a specific type of extrapolated boundary.
I agree. Earlier this year I read an article highlighting just how extraordinarily rare it is to overcome morbid obesity in adulthood and maintain this progress indefinitely without medical intervention. Ultimately, we need to accept that our bodies, including the organ which gives rise to our behavior, are physical systems subject to occurrences entirely beyond our conscious control.

I've not dealt with obesity personally, but I would speculate that many of the people who enjoy "fat shaming" are unfamiliar with the experience of having internal conflicts which lead one to take actions that are obviously irrational, even to the person performing them. This is an area where more empathy would lead to greater mutual understanding and perhaps increase the probability of finding solutions. (Of course, finding this empathy is perhaps a similar challenge.)
Use a zero-sum, no-operator, donation-capable lottery contract script.

Coin that is contractually unspendable is sent to the lottery script as a non-playing donation. The eventual jackpot winner gets an unexpected windfall from someone else's failed dispute.
The Loss of Cod and Liberty
Can anything twart "Large Terror Attacks"? Is there really a socioeconomical measure that can twart a determined attacker?
Those are some pretty big claims, have any evidence to back them up?
A related /r/UIUC thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/3qh5ja/dean_cangellar...
Unity Devs, stop using GameObject.Find
This is some seriously scary data. It would not be hard to de-anonymize this data if you know a person's address, and I'm sure there's all sort of nefarious activity that famous people/politicians/other people might not want to be public knowledge.

On that note, I think that "with a Vengeance" is a bit disingenuous, considering that that this data could be used to personally attack people (but wasn't)... That's almost certainly not a bad thing, though.
the URI for the question and answer is likely to remain stable...more so than the typical personal website

Considering that my personal website has been around for longer than stackoverflow, I'm inclined to disagree with you here.
That goes for a lot of issues, it's hard to empathize.

Addict? Just stop using

Alcoholic? Just stop drinking

Gambling issues? Just stop betting

Depressed? Just cheer up

Unmotivated? Just try harder

There are underlying, complex factors to most of these and many other issues. It's easier to ignore them when you've never directly dealt with it.
The article doesn't say "learn to do it by hand", the article says "pick a framework, but pick one that was originally intended for building production websites with".
To be fair, most of the money in mobile apps is in helping big companies put out apps to engage their customers and show they're not obsolete dinosaurs.

Come to think of it, pretty much all of the money in startups comes either from making lucrative big companies obsolete or selling software to big companies to assuage their fear of becoming obsolete.
Lock Pick Laws, Rules and Regulations: Is the Hobby a Crime in Your State?
> [..] as the last of the Abrahamic religions today, Islam [..]

I presume you mean "latest" here? The term "last" implies that Christianity and Judaism are no longer practiced today...
American, Delta and United are all up-front during the flight search process about what type of seat you're getting.

Either you are booking regular economy (awful), or extra-legroom economy ("Main Cabin Extra" on AA, "Comfort+" on DL, "Economy Plus" on UA), or first/business class.

Delta is also up-front about when you're booking its "Basic Economy" fare type, which has extra fees for basically everything other than walking through the door of the plane. AA, when it rolls out its version, will almost certainly do the same.

And once again the reason why those "basic" fares are coming into existence is the tried and tested knowledge of the airlines on what matters to most of the people buying airline tickets: price, only price and nothing but price. They're not dumb; in fact, some very smart people are doing the behind-the-scenes work of deciding what fare classes to sell, how many seats in each fare class to sell, etc., and they have access to mountains of data on customer behavior to guide them.

For a more HN-friendly analogy, treat having a disaggregated ultra-basic fare among the five cheapest for the route as being in the top five results on Google for a search term. It simply does not matter what else anyone does: the low fare and the high Google search-result position are going to overwhelmingly win.
I agree that they are seeking universal condemnation, which at the same time confuses me. It seems to me that no matter what the differences are, eventually everyone will unite with a single goal to defeat them. Angering the entire world in order to get publicity and instill fear is only going to backfire on them in the end. It seems that they're already on a steady path towards failure.
ISIS actually tweeted in the clear before this one. Forget crypto, nobody was reading the open sources even.

http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/islamic-state-tweeted-of...
> [Taylorism] include analysis; synthesis; logic; rationality; empiricism; work ethic; efficiency and elimination of waste; standardization of best practices.

To be fair, you have to accept that Taylorist doctrine states very emphatically that analysis, synthesis, logic and rationality are the exclusive domain of management. Boss's responsibility is to think very thoroughly about how work is to be done, and worker's responsibility is to do exactly as told. In Taylor's work it goes as far as to dictate how ofter and for how long workers are to take breaks (so the maximum amount of labor can be extracted from them without exhausting their muscles before the end of the shift).

To complete your list, empiricism and work ethic are the tactics that are to be used to apply all that management's brain power; efficiency and elimination of waste are the end results; and standardization and best practices are the institutionalization of those end results so that the manager's enlightened intelligence can move on to "fine tune" the next process in the assembly line.

I am not saying that there is no use of standards and best practices. If anything, in the software industry we need to be more strict, not less, about the best practices we already know and have known for several decades. But there is a big difference between that and the kind of micromanagement that this kind of tools elicit in practice.

i.e. Professional athletes do need to drill until individual movements become second nature, and proper technique matters a lot if you are competing at the highest levels. But you do not see coaches trying to dictate what each player will do on every conceivable situation. Even in extremely structured sports, like football, the coach dictate a general strategy and changes tactics according to the dynamics of the game, but each individual player needs to apply a minimum of discretionary judgment to react to situations that arise mid-play.

A coach that tried to move his players like puppets would be crushed by the competition. An army with such general and soldiers would be crushed in a more literal way. Why is it not the case with software companies?
in vi/m, you can use `1,$!par`
It’s been festering for a while. Three years ago, I overheard (in SF):

> [Overheard]: Online advertising is getting bizarre; it’s almost like derivatives trading…

(original: https://twitter.com/AlanHogan/status/268458504673693696)
The article actually suggests this near the end, and discusses some reasons it doesn't happen currently.
Nobel Prize winner say poverty issues is a political issue
That's only a part of it. Between 1960 and 1985 Japan's per capita GDP quintupled (even adjusting for inflation). That huge economic growth on the back of a strong manufacturing and high-technology base made Japan seem like it had unstoppable economic momentum. But, of course, it didn't. Japan's economy is still very large and very advanced but it stopped growing and hasn't been able to keep up with innovation in the rest of the world.
Your whole second paragraph has literally nothing to do with the rule of law, just a basic functioning state.
You could compute a few [x,y] values for an equation y=f(x) and plot them using any line chart plotting library
No sane court? Come on now. If it's inadmissible then it's inadmissible. That's not how the law works. You can either force law enforcement to get warrants for public recordings (which isn't much of a barrier considering the rubber stamping happening now), or you can allow the public to also make such recordings admissible.

I want to have just as much a right to record law enforcement in public as they have to record me. I'm not grasping at straws, I'm arguing for openness rather than privacy in public, which I think is a much better and more achievable outcome.
love it, would love to hear the pros/cons from people in the know...
Ask HN: Should I tell that I had cancer to my interviewer?
Hi guys,

I'm stumbling out of a Lymphoma, which might be cured (we'll have to wait another couple of years to know..). This was quite the life changing experience for me, being 29 with 2 kids (one was 1 month old when I was diagnosed).

We decided to move to the country side with my wife, to provide a less stressful environment to all of us, which also means that I'll have to quit my job soon. My bosses agreed to allow me for remote working but only temporarily so that I can get the time to find a new job in my new location.

I will be starting sending resumés and so on soon, but I'm not quite sure what to say about our reasons for moving, and especially telling them I could go back to chemo and medical leave for another 6-8 months at very short notice if the cancer decides to flare up again.

On the other hand, hiding this kind of information would be a bit awkward, especially since I have quite the scars where they performed biopsy and inserted the port.

I know some people here have businesses and interview candidates, what would be your reaction to an interviewee telling you that?
The Cook and the Chef: Elon Musk’s Secret Sauce
The most important lesson to learn from all this is that so long as we live in a world where grownups can publicly use religious beliefs as a justification for serious decisions, we will also have to live with other people with guns using religion to rationalize their crazy actions, too. We simply have no grounds on which to tell them they're wrong.

The solution is, as you say, to stop talking about them.
The device could instead have a display that displays a password, QR code, one-time-key, etc... and then you would scan it using a webcam or your phone (or type it manually).
Dynd: Next generation multidimensional array library for pydata python
> Economic growth depends on resources

That's a point from ... long past.

Dollar, yen, euro, bitcoin(!) have no direct relation to resources.

So, I agree with your opponent that economic growth is not limited in principle.