skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my first too. What's listening for this? Good luck getting me to grant random apps permission to use my mic.

It could be a "Smart" TV though, listening for your phone/tablet/laptop, or a device installed in places like cafes...
I will always use the themes of first-contact, intergalactic civilizations, and video games to plug the excellent scifi novel Constellation Games, by Leonard Richardson:

http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/constellation-games-debut-s...

You may also know Richardson's other writing, such as the O'Reilly books RESTful Web APIs and RESTful Web Services, or the Python HTML-processing library Beautiful Soup.

Comparatively, Constellation Games has more action and satire.
I wrote already some time ago a post about which books to read to learn F# (see http://jorgetavares.com/2015/01/01/reading-list-for-f-learni...). In the meantime there are a couple more (e.g., Deep Dives) which are also good.
Anyone who isn't running a firewall such as iptables on a production server, probably shouldn't be in charge of running servers. Know your weak points and protect yourself by always learning about security. Lots of sites have simple articles to help understand how a simple firewall works. Check out Linode's or DigitalOcean's articles.
On this topic, the recent doc "Poverty, Inc" is probably worth a watch. Giving well is more than getting a good buck for the dollar - it's also thinking about the second order effects of your donation.

(Note that there are two films with the same name launched around the same time. This is the one by Michael Miller, not the one by Gary Null.)

[1] http://www.povertyinc.org/about/
Although not a "true" live coding demo in the normal sense, but this talk won't have nearly the same effect if done via video instead.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
It's my belief that equality shouldn't be the goal of capitalism, rather a fair representation of talent and productivity.

Someone hard-working with a 130 IQ versus someone depressed or maladjusted with a 90 IQ are, in fact, in entirely different classes. It isn't "dangerous" to admit that, it's simply reality. Capitalism does a decent job handling those extremes.
> The HITECH amendment added a lot of breadth regarding which parties must comply, but did little to proscribe specific controls.

I think you mean "prescribe", rather than "proscribe".
Back in the early to mid 90's the root DNS servers were also left in unlocked rooms of some Universities according to stories that I read around that time.

Also for .info domains when they first came out I happen to be at the headquarters of the registry (Afilias when it was in the US) and they had their servers sitting out in the middle of an office that was quite unprotected like you would any tower computer. The janitor could have taken it off line with a vacuum cleaner. (This was early 2000's iirc.)
Proprietary means not open-standard/open-source.

I remember this coming up on tech news sites a few years ago when I discovered f.lux... this article also makes mention of the patent-pending nature of the software: http://readwrite.com/2013/09/23/flux-a-hack-for-your-devices...
Welcome to the Internet of 2015.
Been reading up on this. The facts so far;

- Happened right outside Stade de France (stadium) where France is playing Germany in a friendly soccer match.

- President Hollande was present but has been evacuated. Match continuing, and people are kept inside the stadium.

- Shots fired in a cambodian restaurant. 10 people feared dead. Hånd granades thrown near the location.

- The suspect is male. Only one suspect as of now. Someone managed to periscope some of the incident.

- Reddit post with all the live updates:https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3sphue/shootings...
I always worry about benchmarks provided by a vendor, but here's a presentation with benchmarks comparing this to Hadoop:

http://www.slideshare.net/EirikGeorgeTsarpalis/mbrace-cloud-...
Do startups commonly have traditional employees in US ? As in people working for a paycheck and no shares ? I feel like if I was going to work in a startup I would have no problem moving for a couple of years and taking less money in exchange for shares in the company (ofc. if I thought the company was going somewhere)

From what I can see* locally it's usually founders with shares in company and there's also a growing number of investors/incubators in Eastern Europe (where the cost of doing business/living is considerably lower than Western Europe). Perhaps it's because Europe is more separated legally and governments also play a big role (trying to imitate US model) so investors are "forced" to go to multiple places instead of bringing everyone to them.

*I'm very superficially familiar with startup scene, I'm considering getting in so I'm trying to figure things out :)
Agree with this. In my undergraduate, 2nd year course of Opeating Systems, one day (pretty soon after the start) the teacher decided to write a small terminal emulator in C to show us what it really does, just there, in the classroom. It took him 2 hours of coding, but it really changed my perspective on how things really work in a UNIX based system, and on always checking in depth whether something that sounds like almost impossible really is.
The movie focuses pretty heavily on a Christian or at least monotheistic God, and the book has some different depictions of gods and how humanity relates to them. Hadden is the most obvious: a maybe immortal man, living in the sky, who saves the plot with a deus ex machina.

I remember Hadden having built a theme park/commune in a jungle somewhere which had polytheistic and maybe sacrificial elements.

The protagonist discovers that existence is neatly ordered, down to the digits of pi.

It's not proselytizing, but it looks at how humans react to higher powers, whether they're called aliens or faith or gods. It's a skeptic's inspection of the humanness of belief and faith.
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Since I'm the author, I absolutely use it as a matter of "eat your own dogfood" and because it is actually convenient.

TXR is not "big" in this area because it is very difficult to get people to notice new things like this.

It is being rapidly developed. OpenHub stats: https://www.openhub.net/p/txr

In the last half a year or so, I added major features such as: structs with good OOP support, an interactive REPL (based on "linenoise" with a lot of my hacks applied), and delimited continuations.
MIG was started in 2013, and osquery did not exist back then. Even today, osquery does not provide a good way to remotely investigate your infrastructure, it's mostly a local-only tool (I know they are working on that now, but it's not a core feature).

GRR was and still is a very strong inspiration to MIG. I interact with the GRR team regularly, and we exchange ideas. GRR takes the approach of transferring all data from endpoints into central servers for analysis, which adds high bandwidth and storage costs. It's fine if you're Google and have tons and tons of storage, but we wanted to go with a lean approach for MIG, so we pushed the investigation to the agents, and only return results, never any raw data.

Not returning raw data has the added benefit of respecting the privacy of the endpoints being investigated, but also means that MIG is not your typical digital forensic imaging tool: it's a distributed search framework. If you want to take images of your systems, you need to do it via other means. (That said, we almost never need that capability).
You're reading my raw notes from pre-internet days.

Please stop!

:)

Try my main article index, http://amasci.com/ele-edu.html

> Fair enough for him to make that choice

No, it's just that someone has found a deep link to my buried page of raw notes from 1989. I guess I should hide it better.

But from there the finished articles link is in the SEE ALSO, and also in the top edge nav bar.

MAIN INDEX: Articles Electricity http://amasci.com/ele-edu.html

Electricity FAQ: http://amasci.com/elect/elefaq.html

INDEX: Electricity Misconceptions http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html
Misleading clickgrab title.

The whole article is rather bad too, making far fetched conclusions.

The examples are kind of funny too. How many CEOs of big companies are in America? What's the chance of me or my wife becoming one? Why do we use them for any examples then? :D
"Efficient" has a very specific meaning in this case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
They could even do something really crazy like telling everybody about the change in advance so third-party developers could double-check their code and make sure it still worked.
> What bothers me is that I was under the impression that if you have a HIPAA compliant information system

The idea of a "HIPAA compliant information system" is largely empty marketing speak (less so in terms of the Transactions and Code Sets rule than the Privacy and Security rules); HIPAA and its implementing regulations do not establish specific standards for information systems (in privacy/security terms), it sets specific standards for what organizations holding PHI must do, and most of the technical features of software related to those functions are unspecified and, to the extent that there are requirements, whether the software as used is compliant will be highly dependent on the relation between the policies, specific functions performed by the organization, and how the software is used.

At most, software has features which facilitate compliance with some parts of HIPAA, but you can't just drop in a piece of software and achieve turnkey HIPAA compliance.
I've heard him talk. He's a futurist and a technologist. He needs to be out pumping the future of operations...for all of us. :)
HIPAA does require the data to be stored in a secured way. It also requires a certain level of security to get to the data. Don't let the name fool you.

Your second point is extremely valid. You can't really restrict a medical professional from looking up health information. It could cause loss of life. Mostly, a large organization can't be expected to lock down the data of an individual.

What you can do is log the access (GxP regulations). This means that you will know who accessed the data after the fact.
Anything you eat or drink is "optimized" to the local pallet either intentionally or through the use of local ingredients.
You won't find most of the "traditional" dishes in any "ethnic" restaurant in their native country, and if you do they usually won't taste the same.
Chinese and Indian food has been almost completely westernized, to the point where even the dishes them selves don't even exist, Japanese dishes have also been heavily effects from deep fried sushi to even the use of Salmon itself (most modern Sushi varieties even in Japan today were heavily influenced by western Sushi) and the list goes on.
I think the only restaurants where I've noticed almost no difference between an ethnic restaurant in the west and local cuisine is Ethiopian food (when ingredients can actually be imported and not locally sourced) which tastes, smells and looks pretty much like the local dishes I had the pleasure to experience in Ethiopia.
Native food is pretty much non-existent, it is always fused with external influences even in it's native countries, this has especially been true for the past 30-50 years in the developing world as electricity becomes more widespread people are able to get fridges which means they can use perishable ingredients.
This means that milk, meat, and other ingredients which would normally spoil and hence would not be traditionally used in local cuisine are becoming part of the local pallet.
The use milk products and butter especially in Ethiopian cuisine is quite new but to this "westerner" it was quite clear the difference in the taste when it was used, and many people like it as well even simple things like Couscous have changed traditionally the likes of butter which is a common ingredient now would not have been used because they would be quite hard and expensive to get, and you can't really keep butter from going bad in African or Middle-Eastern weather.
Gourmet Coffee? High-Protein Insects? There’s a Desktop Gadget for That
I like the jump starts Microsoft do but I agree the live coding should be replaced by explaining pre-written code snippets. No one wants to see a guy spend 10 minutes debugging code he wrote in 20 seconds.
Good analogy! Perhaps judicious use of libraries is like those little bowls full of chopped and measured ingredients.
How about an airline then: http://qz.com/533501/half-of-american-airlines-revenue-came-...

> ... American Airlines president Scott Kirby gave a peek into the lopsided economics of his company, saying half of its revenue last year came from the 87% of its customers, who only flew the airline once.

The flip side is 13% of the regulars providing the other half of the revenue. But those passengers are already familiar with you and using you regularly. The "light buyers" comment is showing that the long tail matters too, and that they aren't that familiar with your business/brand, and also are unlikely to hang out/be reachable in the same way those 13% are.

The regulars are a known base - it is the irregulars who do need focussing on.
From 2013 but probably still relevant:

"Teachers outnumbered in schools by administrators, support staff in many states, study shows"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/28/teachers-out...
Being in the crowd during this talk was seriously like being at a rock concert.

Beazley was 'playing' the keyboard like an instrument. Every square inch of floor space had someone sitting or standing. The crowd was incredibly invested - nary an eye nor ear wavered. Even Guido looked on with a hawk eye.

I was in a small circle on the floor of people who had just smoked some amazing herb before the talk. I was hanging on his every word and every expression. I've rarely felt so engaged by a conference talk. I'll never forget this one.

He received a raucous standing ovation that is not evident from the conference video.

I asked a question at the end, and I was so giddy I had trouble getting it out. :-)

As a core contributor to an async framework, I felt that this talk gave me a lot more enthusiasm and confidence about my work which has lasted to this day. I think about it often. Definitely a track for the PyCon greatest hits album.
Great post. On a side note, I loved the blog design. Simple and elegant, and the font is crisp!
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Well, there's one more reason to block online ads and avoid watching TV. It's as if the people developing this tech want to be put out of business.
I tried to watch Fantasia as a child a few times, but was never able to make it all the way through. It remains sort of a misunderstood anomaly on the shelf of early Disney movies.

Haven't given it an honest try in a few years. Perhaps some 'adult substances' would help. I still enjoy most of the others.
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What Indian startups are doing wrong with recruitment?
There are tons of talks where there is live-coding but it's not boring at all. But it would get hard to get by when the guy writes more than 10 characters. The it's just messy and time-consuming.

The "video suggestion" in the text is a good way to get around this and display an awesome feature without wasting time and any eye-rollings. Also you can only give a link if the code is too complex or too much to display it your slides.

Thanks for your consideration! :D
At that stage the UK had no reason to declare war on Germany other than our promise to Poland. We could have sat back and just watched things play out. Indeed Hilter thought that we would do exactly that.

(Bear in mind that there was not evidence of the holocaust for another 2 years. The huge (and real) moral basis of the European side of the second world war was largely discovered post facto.)
He signed up for their 'Blast' plan ;-)
Ask HN: How do you evaluate a potential cofounder?
These are wireless prices, correct? Do you not have a wired option?
I don't really agree with this. There are certainly some really bad ways to give live code demos, but I find that when its done well it can be very effective. I feel like the small delays and the slower buildup of code can give me in the audience time to understand and follow along.

It makes me think of my college math classes, I always preferred the professors who would work through the problems by hand on the board during lecture because you could easily follow along through the whole process. I had some professors who used examples prepared ahead of time either on powerpoint or overhead projection, even though the same steps were there, it was harder to follow. I found it more difficult to learn from the prepared demos because it was easier to get overwhelmed, you went from 0 to a lot of content instead of slowly building over time, additionally the professor tended to move a little more quickly than they would have otherwise.

I also think live-demos can be potentially more interactive. Obviously it depends on the situation, but I've seen demos where the audience starts asking questions and its very effective when the presenter can respond with, "let's try that".
1939 we declared war. We had virtually no army at the time and virtually no air force. Certainly nothing that could have defeated Hilter's forces.
Oh, so you have devops people and dev people. How strange, given what's typically behind devops buzzword.
I didn't read the book, only watched the movie.

And i am saying quite seriously: Until i read the post above i did not see anything religious in the movie. Whatsoever.

I do realize that this is highly likely to be due to being not an american and coming instead from a culture where religion is looked upon as at most a hobby, something a vanishingly small percentage of people spend time on and even less take seriously.

Thus: Interpreter matters. Whether Contact manages to touch on religion at all is highly dependant on the subjectivitiy of whoever watches the movie.
If untrusted code has this kind of access to your microphone, you have much bigger problems.
External pressures help. I've been trying to learn more about data science through MOOCs but starting a Masters degree is what really forces me to spend my time engaging with it rather than procrastinating. It's an extreme case but you can create external pressure for most things. For example if you're trying to stop procrastinating on a side project, set up a demo with someone in 2 weeks' time and you'll suddenly find it easier to focus.

YMMV of course, but it works for me!
Reddit Live: https://www.reddit.com/live/vwwmdb26t78v

EDIT: If you're anywhere near these events in Paris, please get to safety now!
Free-Fi: Free SECURE Open Wireless for IoT
The UK has learned a valuable lesson. We entered the first world war due to a treaty guaranteeing Belgium's safety and the second due to a similar guarantee to Poland.
Great, another broken whizbang slideshow.

http://i.imgur.com/RZIlKvV.png
Banks actually don't have or need a ton of law to lock in customers. They use fees and consumer apathy pretty effectively.

But if you think that even pro consumer banks like Simple had better costs, think again.
Reddit Live Feed: https://www.reddit.com/live/vwwmdb26t78v
Dan Abramov's talk on Redux and hot loader at ReactEurope really nails live coding for maximum effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs

His presentation is web-based, so his live coding interacts with his "slide-ware", e.g. changing slides is accomplished by setting application state.
If you have never attended a presentation that includes a live coding session, one might find parallels in improv comedy.

Not all rehearsed comics, who assemble written jokes beforehand, and tell them as part of a routine, can be nearly as entertaining during an improv show. Watching a UCB or ComedySportz or Second City live show, or Whose Line Is it Anyway is very different from watching an episode of The Daily Show or Saturday Night Live.

While good improv comedians can usually do rehearsed shows, it is much harder to go the other way around. So unless you do a lot of live coding--perhaps you teach a university class that requires it--you probably shouldn't inflict it upon a big audience until after you know you can do it without boring everyone to death.
> I was in a small circle on the floor of people who had just smoked some amazing herb before the talk.

This is a thing at software conferences?
I get the feeling that the original poster never actually played Star Raiders, a game in which all one does is blow up the enemy, occasionally pausing to chase the robot that delivers recharges from the starbases...

That said, 36 years later, it's still playable...
Postgres gives the same response.

# select 0.1::float + 0.2::float - 0.3::float;
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5.55111512312578e-17
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The second explosion can be heard here during the game broadcast;

https://vine.co/v/iBb2x00UVlv (Sorry about the Vine)

They did finish the game, but many people are afraid to leave the stadium so now many of the fans just came onto the field until they can be assured they'll be able to leave safely.
The Fixer: MGM’s Eddie Mannix and the Lives He Ruined
Other HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562601

Been reading up on this. The facts so far;

- Happened right outside Stade de France (stadium) where France is playing Germany in a friendly soccer match.

- President Hollande was present but has been evacuated. Match continuing, and people are kept inside the stadium.

- Shots fired in a cambodian restaurant. 10 people feared dead. Hånd granades thrown near the location.

- The suspect is male (there are now three shootings and several suspects...). Only one suspect as of now. Someone managed to periscope some of the incident.

- Reddit post with all the live updates: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3sphue/shootings...
the good old days, when only the crazy people were suspicious of their appliances spying on them.
I think it's a thing anywhere people gather, no? It's probably more a thing at community conferences than corporate conferences.
I think that live coding can serve as a really good tool if you do it right and it applies directly to what you're doing. For example, it works well in this demo https://youtu.be/Agu6jipKfYw because it's a demo of how Elm can help you think about what's going on and debug your code on the spot. This presentation would have been a lot more boring if it lacked a live demo.
You're the one who made the claim. I'm the one that said that you had absolutely no evidence for the claim, and that you created it to fit your rhetoric.

> But somehow, I don't think so.

Reason by whimsy?
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