skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty funny that on one hand you say security is a big issue but with the other you are frustrated they haven't moved away from paper fast enough. Paper based systems when used correctly can be very secure. That being said they aren't without their issues e.g.
http://www.databreachtoday.com/800000-penalty-for-paper-reco...
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I'm native Chinese, and I never see people spike beer with baijiu over the last 20 years in China. I'm not sure it's how ABC (American Born Chinese) drink baijiu in America.
Why would you need premium providers for an eyeball network these days?
Currently I think it's just through shared links. They're trying to enforce the idea of getting customers through social media. I think Reddit is the perfect platform for this so I've made some subreddits (/r/sello and /r/sellosale) in the hopes of boosting the community.
How would you word it?
Sad and interesting. I rear ended a vehicle who turned into my lane, and the officer cited the other driver for an unsafe turn.

I guess it depends on officer mood and how long the car was safely in your lane before the breaking. Mostly officer mood.

Still, there are lots of completely legal sudden braking activities that would cause a collision over 10% of the time. People don't actually drive totally defensively all the time.
It's a sort of drug, isn't it? I went perhaps 6 months without Facebook a few years ago, and I was very happy. I went to less social events, which were actually mostly events where I drank to feel more socially adept. I did not really miss those events. I was also working on a side project regularly. I created a Facebook Page and new account to try to spread the word of my side project with people I knew... and I ended up going down the rabbit hole. I haven't really been able to leave it, and I never did make any more progress on that side project.
Most PACS get data from devices and send it to workstations unencrypted. The security model implemented on them is usually no more than a white list of IP addresses the PACS will talk to. (To be fair, many of the servers have better security available now, but hospitals haven't taken advantage of it). Combine that with insecure, unsegmented networks, and hackable WiFi, and you don't need physical access to the server room.
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Ten kilos of HEU may or may not be a concern, it's hard to say and I don't see the actual enrichment in the article. "Highly enriched" means any enrichment above 20% enrichment but below "weapons grade" (85%). It usually means something close to 20%... 10 kg of 20% enriched is scary but is a small fraction of what you need to make a bomb, so while it's scary it isn't necessarily that some terrorist group almost bought a pit for a bomb. I expect that has something to do with the apparently light sentence.
Does everything have to be a service? With how insulting breaking up with your significant other by text can be, now the text doesn't even have to come from you?

Thanks for sharing though, it's an intriguing article.
> It is misleading to print more decimal digits out of a double than DBL_DIG

If you want round-trip conversion for all `double` numbers, i.e. from `double` to text and back, you need 17 digits of precision (%.17g).

Likewise, if you want round-trip conversion for all `float` number, you need 9 digits (%.9g).

The reason for this is that even though these types can really only reliably give 15 and 6 digits of precision, some of the numbers they can represent are closer to each other than that.

In C++, you can get the former limit using std::numeric_limits<double>::digits10, and the latter using std::numeric_limits<double>::max_digits10.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/numeric_limits/max_di...
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How to create a hidden Tor Space on your Nexus 5
I work at one of those sites (XP and IE 8). That's the standard for over 100,000 employees in our province.
Do you have any recommendations for beginners?
Misleading title. He didn't actually break up with his girlfiend, he just wanted to test the service.
Taxation in a democracy is inherently legitimate. And the reasoning behind it is explained clearly in Rousseau's Social Contract, although the idea goes back centuries. Simply stated, if you decide to continue living in a society, then you implicitly agree to abide by its rules. In most countries, the agreement means paying taxes set by elected representatives.
Ah, thanks! I hadn't realized they had rescinded that particular daft restriction.
Basically, they would log on from their control server in Eastern Europe to a blood gas analyzer; they’d then go from the BGA to a data source, pull the records back to the BGA, and then out. Wright says they were able to determine that hackers were taking data out through medical devices because, to take one example, they found patient data in a blood gas analyzer, where it wasn’t supposed to be.

Not to minimize the problems with the BGA or with other devices, but this points at least as much to a problem with the "data source", which is left unidentified in TFA. One reason the BGA wouldn't be worried about protecting PII might be that... it should never have PII in the first place. There's a HIPAA violation somewhere, but I don't think it's in the BGA, and the BGA isn't the only host that's assuming a safe network.

Target, Home Depot, etc. have been justifiably criticized for operating their POS devices as if firewalls could possibly be sufficient to protect a large network. Hospitals might consider themselves more noble than mere stores, but it doesn't make a difference to a hacker.
Opera got around it by remote rendering.
Am I alone in finding SQL/normalized relational databases to be easier to learn?

In the relational world, you can get a lot of insight into what will and won't work with simple math. There certainly are surprises in every database, but most things are not surprises.

NoSQL databases tend not to leverage such a clear and complete model. You have to study each implementation to learn where the surprises are, and there are more of them.

That's not to say they don't both have their role, I just wonder if people who have a little (and in my care very little) CS theory still remembered find RDBMSes easier than those who have learned development without theory.
Just got through reading "The Dead Hand", which is the story of the end of the Cold War. Highly recommended for those interested in how it all played out.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PXFYPQ/ref=dp-kindle-re...

It's frankly amazing that this hasn't happened much sooner. The amount of biological, chemical, and nuclear material lying around the former Soviet Union, basically guarded by people with starvation-level salaries and no future, was beyond alarming.

In fact, as bad as this is, the chemical and biological material was much worse. Some of that stuff could take out a city, then proceed to decimate an entire nation. Extremely scary stuff.
How native are they after food science has been used to optimize the flavor profile for consumers in other countries?
Patent. It costs about 10k. March to bank and negotiate it. That sum is somewhat easy to earn if you fail, they have almost no risk.

Once you have "pending" you have your idea protected enough. Marketing should start as soon as it's filed.

Nobody cares to copy as long as your patent is seen invaluable. If it's seen as valuable, you can easily sell it to someone who will defend it. Or raise funds to protect it yourself, as it's now reasonable investment.

I'm in the same boat and have been for few years now. It sucks and it will continue sucking untill it's filed. I'm honestly scared.
Precision medicine and data science
I think $1/pound is too high.

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) has it at $1102 to ship a forty-foot container (FEU) from China to the US west coast [1]. A 40' container has a 61,200 lb payload capacity [2]. That's 1.8 cents/pound. How close the cost gets to this depends on the payload density, but $1/pound seems high.

[1] http://www1.chineseshipping.com.cn/en/indices/scfinew.jsp
[2] http://www.dsv.com/sea-freight/sea-container-description/dry...
How very undemocratic of you. Sometimes the law from top down is incorrect. The experiences of stakeholders matters.
A few years ago there was a report [0] listing weaknesses in the protection of nuclear material and smuggling possibilities.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2006/12/how-to-get...
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Also does chrome auto update on Android?
Having a problem with the performance is perfect criticism, but the commenter i was replying to was bashing it because of it's choice, not because of it's performance. He won't even try it before saying that.

web rendering doesn't automatically make an app slow. And in my experience choosing a "common" platform like the web allows an app to run everywhere. I'm not suddenly going to be able to triple my development speed, so without the common platform that means that i'd only be able to support one major platform, or all platforms but with a small fraction of the development speed, and most likely many more bugs.

And to be fair, saying slack is nothing more than "text on a screen" is really oversimplifying it. There are tons of formatting options, code highlighting, embedded HTML, embedded video and images, attachments, coloring, emojis, and more.

It seems like a pretty obvious choice to go with a web rendering engine seeing as it supports almost all of that "natively".
>And in a proper Chinese hotel, even orange juice in the breakfast table is hot.

I believe that is due to a cultural aversion to cold drinks.
PostgreSQL is nowhere near Clustering / HA / sharding features. Afaik it's only a master / slave architecture by default.
And a large part of this is Mountain View's refusal to allow housing and deploy public transit, pushing people into becoming traffic.
brewer2mpl moved to: https://jiffyclub.github.io/palettable/

Great package, thanks for sharing!
The same thing is happening in Belgium. Once the post (Bpost) was profitable our elected overlords began selling 49% their shares in it to something-i-dont-remember and... the danish post.
Less terrifying as opposed to governements hoarding massive amounts of weapon-grade enriched Uranium?
Implicit parameters are no prize either, though. They seem to lead to massive, massive snarls in the codebases I end up exposed to regularly.
It's not my claims I was talking about what a lot of people say when it comes to this discussion.
Please, don’t commit commented out code
What do you use instead? Just curious.
I used to think that, but in reality how do people who don't have to work spend their days? I can think of two categories of such people: those unemployed who are paid benefits and not obliged to look for work (in the US through accidents of history this is largely those on disability) and the children of wealthy parents. Neither seem to live happy lives, and in the case of the children of the rich (and, equally, retired people), those who are most fulfilled tend to be those who found conventional employment or something very much like it. I've known friends who took a sabbatical intending to e.g. write a novel, only to find they actually preferred working.
> I don't even see why public access cable was forced on any company to begin with.

That's a great question... and the fact that we have to consider it is a testament to how thoroughly the corporate-state has succeeded in refiguring our concepts of natural resources and democratic participation.

The justification is that natural resources are the property of the people with the government managing them as an entity where distributed individuals can not. The key is to realize that not only clean, safe, air and water are resources, but also the wireless spectrum is a resource and the infrastructure to support cable television. Hence entities like the FCC to manage these natural resources. When the cable television infrastructure was set up, it was clear it was going to be an enormous windfall for the corporations at the cost of public and private land.

It was also going to divert attention, including sources of information necessary for running a democracy, such as the ability to organize communities, away from existing media. They were afraid we would become an isolated nation of television-watching dummies. (Imagine that!). Furthermore, access to these public resources is not free. You have to pay, further limiting the ability for everyone to participate. So in negotiation with these industries, our government from several generations ago gained us the right to participate for free in the communications process through community access television. It wasn't perfect, but it was a serious attempt at democracy, the town hall process through which everyone gets a say.

As opposed to the market sense of democracy, in which expression and participation in governance is cheap, but still costs money. That's what you're talking about when you say "I can rent a VPS for a few dollars a month and generally do with it whatever I'd like." The issue here is that while "noarchy," a Hacker News reader for over five years, who could probably be considered an expert and well beyond the top 1% of skill level in their field can express his desires, that's cool and the gang, but that doesn't further democracy, the ability for everyone to take part in the governing of their lives and country for free.

It's worth pointing out that the effect on cable companies has been absolutely minimal. They've never been burdened by this requirement, just look at the billion dollar mergers. Also, the FCC has finally pushed off the corporate forces of NPR and allowed Low-Power FM radio for community organizing.

I hope my discussion has been persuasive to you. You seem bright, but maybe just a little overtaken with the notion of pure meritocracy - in this case meaning that people get to express themselves once they've earned enough money to produce the media to do so.

If you look at history over the last century, you'll notice that the cellular bandwidth allocation, with absolutely no concessions to the public, as resulted again in overwhelming corporate success and greater community isolation. It's a shame, I wish we could get back to the days of CB radio, but I have high hopes for Low-Power FM.
Interview with creator: http://esoteric.codes/post/101675489813/interview-with-ben-o...

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4042148
So, when the USSR disbanded, many ex-soviet states (i.e. Ukraine) were stuck with a nuclear arsenal they couldn't maintain and didn't want.

In theory, Russia took the warheads back and looked after them.

In practice, there was an initial period of everything that wasn't bolted down disappearing from silos, and the response was to fill them with concrete to prevent any further access.

What then happened is gangs came in the dead of night with diggers and drills and unearthed silos, and took who knows what.

My source is a lengthy chat with a chap at Pervomaisk, a Soviet missile silo in Ukraine, who used to be the guy who'd press the button (there are two buttons and two keys, but he explained that you could use the soviet flagpole in there to press the other button). Now he gives tours to tourists. $1 for Ukrainians. $5 for Russians. $10 for ex-USSR members. $20 for foreigners. $100 for Americans - or something like that. I laughed heartily at their pricing structure, before straddling the Satan missile for the obligatory "riding the bomb" photo.

This same phenomenon was mirrored elsewhere in the ex-USSR, and wasn't limited to fissile material - Degelen mountain in Kaz, for one, where they not only dug up left over Pu, but also thousands of tonnes of radioactive copper (cabling used for remote monitoring, power, and detonation of subsurface tests), which made its way into the global electronic supply chain, and was only discovered after they installed x-ray detectors at Dover for scanning for stowaways. My original source for that was a British truck driver who was paid to keep hush and not talk about why he'd ended up with (mild, flu-like, had to retire) radiation sickness - but it hit the press a few years later anyway.
Thanks for radicale! I switched to it from Google Calendar and Contacts. The git integration is amazing.
Really? I am the exact opposite. Few years ago I would always run a custom firmware on my android phone, now I wouldn't touch a rooted phone with a bargepole. Mostly because none of my bank apps work on rooted phones, but also because CM was always an unstable affair for me - fantastic at the beginning, more and more annoying the longer I use it. The "customization"(which I used once to change some icons) is simply not worth the loss of stability.
A dirty bomb would be trivial to create, but an actual nuclear device would require some serious expertise and hardware to create
My understanding is that "progressive tax" is more typically defined as a rising average tax rate, which would make "BI plus flat tax" represent a set of smooth progressive curves.

It's very much worth noting, though, that there are plenty of progressive curves - including those currently in use by many jurisdictions - that have no close approximation in that set. And in particular, if what you want is an increasing marginal tax rate, it does not do that.
Not sure about Finnish example, but where I am right now (Switzerland), social security does exactly that, without major costly experiments with god know what results.

In fact, system is so effective that if you end up unemployed, for one year you'll be given 80% of your former salary (capped, but to 120,000 CHF!) so you are not burdened with looking for cheaper accommodation etc which is very hard here. If you cannot find anything in 1 year, then other services kick in, of course with much lower cash flow. It works remarkably well.
Basically, NoSQL became the big trending thing, everyone was pushing it hard simply because other people were as well. Because of this, many people used a NoSQL database when either a.) They were using the wrong technology for the problem they needed to solve or b.) They have very little/no experience with databases and working with data in general and they really screwed themselves up. Then they took to the forums and went on NoSQL crusades.

Nothing is wrong with NoSQL, used correctly and for the right purpose, it is AMAZING.
The prices I quoted were actual prices I pay for food at Kroger (not even the cheapest supermarket) in North Carolina.

The food you proposed as an alternative would result in pretty bad malnutrition, so it isn't really an alternative. You might as well just compare a gallon jug of generic vegetable oil, the results in terms of health will be almost identical:

1 gallon vegetable oil, ~$5, containing ~30,000 calories, comes out to 6,000 calories per dollar.

Finally, note I didn't say healthy food was cheaper than unhealthy food, only that healthy food is completely affordable. Obesity is extremely common among poor people (_far_ more so, in fact, than among the affluent), they clearly can afford a slight increase in marginal cost per calorie.
Indeed. Logical consistency would dictate that you should either be for both or against both, but not for one and against the other.

But humans are notorious for allowing emotional concerns, religious beliefs, and simple self-interest override logic.

Maybe they just don't like the reverse-lottery aspect of funding the government. Rather than a lucky person getting a windfall from the government, an unlucky person loses everything to it. You can avoid the lottery by not buying tickets, but the only way to avoid the anti-lottery is by not having anything to steal. For most people, that would be a pretty miserable existence.

People want to believe that their government exists to serve their interests. They may be more upset that the government is spoiling the illusion of fairness--that the government is doing all this publicly--than the fact that the government is doing it at all. Because as bad as they might have it now, if there is a rebellion, the new boss might, in fact, be worse than the old boss.
And that's why I moved from the rural area I grew in to the city, even though I would have preferred to stay there.
A very similar story w/ the Amiga:

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/23-unseen-images-of-...
No problem Mr Asimov.
Google autonomous car pulled over for impeding traffic
Yep. Implosion devices are tricky and require serious hydrodynamic engineering, but you could build a "gun" or "layer cake" type device without too much expertise. They have the added "advantage" of being very dirty (inefficient).
I have to say, I believe this could actually work (and to be clear I don't endorse the ethic/morality of the idea).

It seems to me that most services in the dating space are designed to avoid all awkward moments. Dating websites are there to avoid having to cold-talk to a stranger, apps like Tinder are there to avoid going on a date; I don't see why we wouldn't have an app to avoid having to breakup with someone.
The military is a terrible example. It is literally illegal to leave. If you leave during war, they can execute you. Boot camps are meant to deeply change how humans behave so that they can survive war, a deeply traumatic experience that often results in lasting psychological damage. When people apply boot camp models in civilian contexts, abuse is widespread:

https://www.google.com/search?q=boot+camp+abuse

> but I don't know how much it matters for performance.

Sure, we can agree that you don't know. Maybe you should try it and find out. But I'm saying that in my experience it has mattered a great deal, and as recently as yesterday.

You're saying that you want people to be different, to learn to take harsh criticism and subtract the harshness. I prefer to work with people as they are, which is as human beings who are sensitive to harshness, people who have a much easier time listening to people that they trust than people who are assholes to them.

I'm not particularly good at it. I'm arrogant and self-centered enough that I'd rather just say what I want in a fashion that is convenient and emotionally satisfying to me. But if I am going to work with other people, I often have to choose between the thing that is easy for me and the thing that makes change easy for them. Even if I didn't want people to generally do well and be happy (which I do), I just won't get very far in having the real-world effects I want if other people are indifferent or hostile to me.
Hi, I'm Ross one of the developers at Force12.io. We just launched a major update to our container scaling demo. You can now run your own container images and control how many containers appear in the demo.

We've also added sign up with GitHub to make it easier to create an account. If you've got any questions or feedback on the demo we'd love to hear from you.
My experience can confirm this as well.
100G transceivers from Fiberstore, the Amazon of fiber optics
http://www.fs.com/c/100g-transceivers_1159

100G connectivity comes in different flavours. Some use MTP and multiple fibers to transport 100G others use normal LC connectors and transport 100G over multiple wavelenghts on a single fiber pair.
The legal rationale is the one for civil forfeiture. Namely they sue the possession, not you. The possession has no rights. And you have no standing in said lawsuit unless you survive an uphill battle to prove that you actually owned the possession in question.

Ever tried to prove that you really own the money in your wallet?
I use Firefox for Reddit.com (Chrome keeps freezing when I hit the [-] buttons on long comment threads); but holy heck does it drain battery like crazy.

I could use Chrome or Chrome Beta all day long and my phone doesn't get hot and the display is the biggest battery hog, I run up Firefox and the thing turns noticeably hot and Firefox overtakes the display for battery usage.