skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2012/05/22/248566.... says NASA self-insures, and the CRS missions appear to carry commercial insurance http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2014/10/29/345...
I'm sure they can do it if they wanted to. This will just take users completely out of WP and into Android, though. At that point, they're better off developing their launcher, apps, and other services on Android and simply releasing another Android phone.
Discovered instances of the ISIS Help Desk that support terrorists worldwide
Maldacena conjectured a correspondence. It's never been proven.
It is important to get a diverse set of opinions about this situation. Here is a response to the article: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/wha...
The ultimate goal with AI/ML is generalisability and adaptability in unpredictable environments. If you want those, you make it very hard to produce 100% predictability.

I would ask, why do you need predictability? If we are talking about reliability, then simulations and live testing can provide those metrics.
Wow what a great entry level synth. Checks all the boxes... price, simple but standard features, open source... I am getting this for everyone I know with a keyboard. Great if you are scared of "all those knobs" but still want to have a few important ones to twist.
"""It was inconvenient for this administration that climate data has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades. The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made. NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration’s extreme climate change agenda."""

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/congressman-doubles-d...

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I don't know your personal circumstances, but I do know that there are roles for mathematicians to play in many areas outside of academia, and that your age wouldn't preclude these possibilities. If you haven't already, there would be no shame in beginning a PhD at your age (even some successful academics have done so).

We are all lucky and unlucky relative to someone else. I think time used on regret or "longing for what could have been" is simply time misspent, much like you might regard your childhood. Best of luck overcoming this natural tendency.
> I recall one interesting method involving no third-party services is a concatenation of a random string combined with some of the letters of the service I'm using. E.g. the first and last letters of the website I'm on. So if the random string is xPv4rz and I'm on HackerNews, the string becomes hsxPv4rz.

I don't see this as really that useful -- if someone gets your password from two leaks they can probably figure the pattern out as well as you can.
What exactly makes this any better than MacDown (OSX), and Markdown Pad 2 (Windows)? Both have side live preview, and accomplish pretty much everything. There could be some QOL improements in them, but I don't see how caret.io is much better.
I'd second this. Although for part time and less than a year, I think more like 0.5 - 1%, especially if the other cofounder is the one with the debt. (It also depends somewhat on the contributions over the year, level of traction, etc.)
For us prices add 7-9% sales tax to the $85.
The cryptography in gpg is less than optimal for this purpose and I have to admit I just don't like gpg because it's so big and supports different ciphers, big codebase means more exploitability. But it could work for this purpose, it just seems really inefficient to me.

Is there browser integration or a better UI for it?
> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview

Atom has this with the "Markdown Preview" that pops-up with SHIFT + CTRL + M. It does most of what I want today, but still feels lacking.
Write a book, start a company or a band, volunteer, learn to meditate or Kung foo, do whatever.

It's not a question of being a kid, it's a question of living your life as a neurosurgeon because you decided that sounded cool when you were 8, and never really rethinking it until you had a lot of debt.

Sure, if this is what they really want then great. But, thinking this is a good path and they would be wasting there potential being a raft guide is terribly hollow. Getting out of high school at 15 is cool, starting collage is not a goal just a path to something else.
I'm quite happy with VS Code and this Markdown CSS theme:

https://github.com/mahonnaise/vs-code-markdown-theme

The automatic table formatting was pretty cool though (even if it's purely cosmetic).
I think a bit different about humanism. I think a basic humanistic education is more like a drivers license for society. Know nothing about WW2? Well, you should not be allowed to vote, because it could turn out really bad for all of us. Democracy can be really dangerous without proper education.

What does all technical excellence mean as long as the Middle East is a clusterfuck? Most really big problems have little to do with technology.
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Take Schneier's advice and write down your passwords: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_yo...

I suppose this is a problem if someone breaks into your home and gets into wherever you keep your notebook and steals it but frankly that's hardly the only problem you have in that scenario.
There currently isn't a Rails engine so rails won't get auto-detected yet. The nodejs detection is listed in the New column on their trello board: https://trello.com/b/4nVFzmNZ/nanobox-desktop

Looks like it never got added as an issue on the nanobox project. I'll do that now.
Stop derailing this discussion about Go GC vs. C no GC.
I listen to a lot of podcasts and found them interesting. Tech communities around the world are vitally important.

I think the next level is better audio quality and tighter story telling...well that and persistence. Hanselman has advice born of experience regarding equipment and technique:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToStartYourFirstPodcastEqui...

Good luck.
Well, maybe, but states don't just have more resources to buy exploits; they also have more resources to devote to finding them in the first place.
Frankly, I think the response completely missed the point of the article, which is about the intentions of ISIS.

However. There is definitely an ideological fight here over what Islam is. I just think it is a separate discussion altogether. I didn't read the article as attempting to do anything but discern the intentions of the state. Could someone explain? I'm having a difficult time not seeing these issues as a projection of fears.
No, I'm not saying it's unbelievable. More that some of the comments here seem to be assuming that the kid was just pushed quite hard, but there seems to be more to it.
> Therefore a faked broadcast from tapes would have had visible transitions as they switched from tape to tape.

In other words you're saying that one should believe NASA landed on the moon, because broadcasting a fake recording would have been technologically too difficult for them?

I don't doubt that they landed on the moon, but I'm not quite convinced about that logic ;)
Every programming language, programming language update, and programming tool since the dawn of time claims to make it easier to produce high-quality software.
ossreality, you appear to be hellbanned.
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I've thought about them again, but no.

IMO, mass surveillance can be effective, but only when it is utterly comprehensive. I.e., law enforcement monitors your conversations (audio and text), your location, your activities (shopping, watching videos online, etc.) and anything else they care to find out.

However, this basically means giving up any and all pretences to our rights of privacy and freedom of thought, information and expression. In the end, a government that implements that kind of surveillance would be way more dangerous than terrorists could ever be. And all that without making us feel safer - for who feels "safe" in a police state?
But this is obvious. Eventually wars with be fought with machine intelligences. It's inevitable. People who say things like, "We need to think about the implications of AI because these machines will do things we can't understand."

Of course they will. Just like people do things we don't understand. What is the alternative? Technology can't be stopped.

Expressing a wish for caution is pointless because no one will heed that wish, there is almost no rational actor who would not choose to invent machine intelligence knowing that others are pursuing the same technology.

At root, your comment just seems alarmist but not persuasive. How should I change my beliefs even if I concede that yes: machine intelligences will be dangerous and unpredictable.
Send them an apology with a link to this comment, and you may still. (Personally, I found your comment heart breaking, and I hope you can mend the relationship.)
Too bad it is not based on CommonMark. They made a great effort to make a standard.
I wish I had the drive / focus / interest that you sound like you had when you were at school. I hung around with the wrong people, didn't put enough thought into what I might like to do for a career, valued the wrong things, and as a consequence spent my twenties in lots of meaningless, unsatisfying jobs. I'm in my early thirties now and am lucky in that I've managed to change my circumstances and begin a career as a software developer. But I feel I will never be able to achieve the success I could have if I had only gotten my arse into gear and taken my education seriously when I was 16. Now I find myself spending most of my free time trying to learn things that I should have learnt when I was 18.
I disagree. It's a race to learn as much as you can before your brain loses plasticity.

I certainly wish some of my teachers had spent more time teaching the people that cared and less time helping the D students that didn't. It definitely resulted in a few wasted years of education for me.
I've had the same issues - with some updates it gets better or worse, it's pretty annoying. Another thing that concerns me with the app is that the setting to only download/stream tracks on wifi doesn't seem to be honored; if I have autoplay on in my car, it will start streaming songs I've never downloaded over 4G.

Apart from that, I love the service, and I'm sad to see it go!
It's not only unpredictable environments. Actually, a lot of the cases that we want to handle are very predictable. We want to automate solutions for problems that we understand, and create general solutions for problems that fall into the same class.
A possible mitigation of the obvious problem (the pattern itself) is instead to use a hash function on some aspect of what you're trying to log in to: a hash of the main domain, the human name, whatever. That way if a password is compromised, it may look like a common pattern is being used, but the "random" part of one site's password won't do any good on another site.

The challenge being to implement a hash app everywhere you might be that will generate the correct hash. Maybe a very simple mental hash function would be enough; mass attacks would probably be foiled, and individual attackers may be too lazy to bother figuring out the hash.

There remains the problem of changing the password due to some necessity, like policy or compromise.

EDIT: If this was app-based, then each time you change a password, the app would record that fact, and incorporate it into the hashing data, so that a different hash is generated. The problem then being synchronizing that fact among all your installations of the app. And if you were using a mental hash, I don't know how you'd remember this across all your logins; possibly some central piece of data that you could easily look up, to see that you've changed your password one or two or N times, that is easy to incorporate into the mental hash.
Which still doesn't make much sense. One thesis, "better software", three supporting arguments.

It's ok to be pedantic, but only if you're correct about the thing you're being pedantic about.
This seems to have been drawn from the same statistical distribution of many stories that center around this idea that "MIT students are smarter than students anywhere." The ideology of MIT is that you should go to MIT daycare, then MIT kindergarten and all the way through to the PhD and beyond, and if they had enough people in that pipeline they wouldn't bother taking applications from anywhere else.

That idea is definitely one of the things holding Boston back in terms of startups -- you definitely see research labs at MIT that don't hire postdocs from Stanford or Cornell because they only want to hire MIT people. There are plenty of MIT grads who are mediocre at best but many local startups (particularly those started by MIT grads) don't realize this and often make up all sorts of excuses about why things went wrong.
To the average South Korean, North Korea is surprisingly a non-issue. Most people just don't all that fired up over it and view the efforts around it (mandatory military conscription, etc.) as a huge inconvenience and not much else.

China is mostly seen as a source of cheap stuff and transient air pollution (even when the pollution is clearly caused by domestic activities). When China comes up elsewhere its for reasons of economic competition or having to do with those weird ethnic Koreans that live along the border between China and North Korea.

What South Korea has as its most pressing problems are mostly economic, stagnant wage growth in an advanced economy, pending shrinking population, very limited agriculturally suitable land, an export dependent economy with economically depressed customers and so on. A few years ago the price of cabbage shot up a few hundred percent and almost caused riots. [1] Feeding the population cheap stuff is a national political priority.

You are right though, that the rocks are politically convenient to saber rattle over without having to worry about Japan too much (who does have bigger valueless rocks to fight over with China -- who is solving their problems my simply manufacturing new islands where they want them).

1 - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/world/asia/15kimchi.html
The article does offer a suggestion as to why the Patriot was so inaccurate. Hitting a missile means you need to get within a few meters of the target, and the conversion error would exceed that after just a few hours of operation. It also gives a plausible solution to how it escaped testing: The tests would likely have been run on freshly powered up systems.
This is excellent. The first one is totally unknown to me. I wish there is a comprehensive changes between 2.7 and 3.X with code, release notes is okay but falls under different version and hard to grasp at once.

It's really hard to keep up with language changes and implementation changes.

EDIT: I am so surprise at the number of downvotes in this HN thread. I bet there is some haters out there today :-)
Can a $150 laptop be any good?
Also a big dan of the design but I do find it to be much too dark, I'm in a well lit office, with a calibrated Dell UltraSharp display and the site's color scheme is really quite hard on the eyes, even if the design itself is beautiful.
I'm not OP, but I think you're misreading their comment. Their point, if I read it correctly, is not about the technical correctness of the ML in place, but the sociological effects. You can see this happening already: I'm sure FB's machine learning algos that they use to filter the stream are 'correct' in some way, but their effect is insidious and polarising on the way we consume information.
I think this paired with LastPass would be great. Email and Banking all on paper with a backup at home. Everything that only has my credit card info and my address can be done through a password manager. Because in my mind those can all be recovered through email, and easily opened through LastPass.

Also that advice is from 2005, I wonder if he'd agree with what I said above or disagree.
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FlowDroid: a static taint analysis tool for Android applications
Small copy/paste error on the php section:

There are two ways to run a PHP app on nanobox. You can eitherconfigure the generic ruby engine, or use a framework specific engine.
Given that even a relatively inexperienced developer can easily port 2,500+ lines of Python 2 to Python 3 per day, there's really very little reason for anyone to still be on Python 2 regardless of the benefits or lack thereof of Python 3. This is especially true if you're not trying to take advantage of all the performance benefits of Python 3 right away, and are content just to wrap iterators in list() or whatever just to get the functionality working the same without much effort.
I've been trying to design something along these lines now that Firefox aggressively prunes history with no user override ( it keeps barely five days worth on my laptop ).

However the main challenge is that much of the web is now SSL, so a light caching proxy isn't feasible unless it does MiTM which I don't want.

My current idea is to log DNS lookups but that doesn't, of course, provide page content data.
High dose of vitamin C kills cancer cells in mice
Isis releases image of the bomb used to bring down the Russian plane
"conspiracy to do X" is still a crime, and he's on record as searching for vehicles, sourcing bombmaking materials, up to and including pressing the button.

And this despite being given many, many chances to rethink his actions.
The Iraq war still boggles my mind. Dick Cheney was the President of Halliburton. Then he became Vice President of the United States. Shortly afterwards, he pushed the US government to invade Iraq. In the process, billions of dollars of no-bid contracts to destroy and shoddily rebuild Iraq were awarded to..guess who? Halliburton! Are we supposed to think this was a coincidence?
The big thing I would like to see in Markdown editors like this is a pdf export. It'd be nice to be able to send a rendered markdown document to people without them needing to open a web browser to view it. There is a similar open source project here: https://github.com/dvcrn/markright
indeed, this looks interesting how to do stuff with an fpga, but for basic embedded projects, I think arduino can lead much easier to results.
this project looks also hard to reproduce elsewhere.
How would you sense that without risking either deflecting the beam (which could cause harm/cancers in other body parts) or reducing the beam's intensity (which could cause treatment to be less effective).

This is one of those ideas that sounds a lot easier than it likely is.
UK cops allegedly snooped on journalists to hunt down police whistleblower
You're not actually arguing against the standing rule. If the government is violating your constitutional rights then you have standing.

The problem is you may not be able to prove it.

The government could have trivially helped everyone out simply by admitting that they're spying on all these people, and then the issue could have been decided before it was important to a real criminal case, under circumstances where nobody bad is let out of prison if the government loses.

But then the person whose rights are violated in the deciding case ends up being a highly sympathetic journalist or civil rights leader instead of some highly unsympathetic terrorist wannabe. The government doesn't want that (because they don't want to lose), so instead they purposely try to force the situation in which bad people go free if the courts rule against the government.
> Many people don't, though. Many people run their Python scripts in cmd.exe.

Did you know that cmd.exe supports unicode just fine? It's Python that does not (out of the box). The development version of Click for instance supports input/output in cmd.exe with both 2.x and 3.x.

Unicode is not a feature of Python 3.
Because we live in a democracy and I want to be sure that people how have actual power over me know some basic facts about politics, art, geography and history.
He seems to have tremendous breadth of curiosity, it will be interesting to see what he ultimately ends up specializing in. MIT is a big place, and trying to "major in everything" will almost certainly not turn out well.
I would just put self employed consultant and describe the what you did "for the project" If you're looking for a technical role. Find someone that can be a reference for the work maybe the VC. Wash over the company you did the work for. Learn from your experience and find something 10x bigger to work on for your next project.
> I'm sorry, but given how much high quality software is written in Python 2

The reason for that isn't "Python 2 is intrinsically better than Python 3," though. It's the sheer inertia of a language whose last minor version (2.7) was released five years ago and the persistent meme that Python 3 is buggy and unusable, despite clear advantages as noted in the article and the added compatibility of popular Python 2 packages in recent years.

As with hardware, Python 2 will only die when the top packages completely drop support for it, and it wouldn't surprise me if that happens sooner than later. (Django, for example, will be dropping Python 2 support in 2017: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun/25/roadmap/ )
The only feature I think is actually pretty useful is the autocomplete of the title underlines.
Great article, but IMO it missed one of the most important bugs of all, the one with the Hubble Telescope and its mirror
Unicode works just fine in 2.x for people that give a shit :)
We are moving in that direction. Please, consider that this is still a beta.
Is their EIR the new CEO? He was VP of Fax Development at TeleCorp and increased ARR by nearly 10% in the early 00's. Also has an MBA, a great haircut, and enjoys wine and golf.
Hm. I feel that I've written poorly, because I don't understand why you're making your argument from my writing. I feel like you're just restating my argument without the personal experience.

My point in writing was entirely to say that I've been through a similar journey, as have others in my family, and (while I didn't mention this originally), I have friends who have done the same thing. Thus, I have observed this situation from several different perspectives.

Based on what little evidence I have from this article, Ahaan Rungta's family is taking the course of action that has the best probability of a positive outcome. However, as my own story and that of my family illustrates, some kids will do fine and others won't, coming out of essentially the same circumstances.

Will Ahaan Rungta be fine? Depends on what you mean by fine. I mean that he's likely to graduate from school no more messed up than any other college student, and that his family seems to have positioned themselves to do that the best.
We are working on PDF export - it's possible that it will be a part of the 1.0.
> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview

Perhaps devd¹ with livereload is a good option here?

¹) http://corte.si/posts/devd/intro/
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These fights give politicians something to do and more importantly, get people to rally around a nationalistic cause. We have always been at war with Europa.
The problem is mostly that parents and teachers have expectations for students beyond what most of them are intellectually capable of. There is also an excessive emphasis on empty credentialism. Both problems could be tempered via a recognition that people are not blank slates, some people like Ahaan are simply smarter than others, and the average high schooler should not be compared against him.