skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think honestly, the only thing that's kept this from being a problem with greater consequence is that to date it hasn't been clear that there's a real path to monetization of health data. It's been a lot more profitable to chase down credit card #'s and mass email/password combinations that lead to banking access.

Stealing CC#s is easier, but pretty much everything you'd need to engage in wholesale identity theft is provided in your average ADT transaction.
OS 9? Was it added so PC USB mice would work on the iMac?
Yes, Eclipse was terrible. Perhaps it is better now. I'll take another look at IntelliJ though, thanks.
The Internet of Things Is Far Bigger Than Anyone Realizes
That's not always true, and with more and more hosts supporting key pinning technologies like DANE, it'll be less true with time.

My mail server is set up to know that mail to Google domains (and others, like those hosted by Google or Microsoft) must be encrypted and the certificate must be correct. I occasionally look through my server logs to find more domains I can add to the list.
The oldest british creature alive is changing its sex
Was I the only disappointed that the game play description didn't include having to use an "Ok to go!!!" audio command to start each mission?
We're talking about a government that hasn't even been able to get its own annual budget in order for years now, remember. So a guaranteed basic income might indeed be a big lift.
Yes. But my decision to buy from you is still independent (mostly) of whether you'll buy from me. The premise that cmsmith presents is absurd. I'm healthy, I don't need anything from the pharmacist. But I own a restaurant, and he wants a meal. Would he really not eat at my restaurant because I don't shop at his pharmacy? That's an absurd principle.
I would probably be prone to agree with you in 2011. Things are very different in 2015 and it wouldn't hurt you to try. My devs all use IntelliJ with it and have never complained. I use vim personally :)
The Seth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive... This has to be different Seth MacFarlane than the one I am thinking of right?
Afraid not. When I click on the Install button in the Purchased tab for those apps it tells me "[App name] can't be installed on this computer, because a 64-bit Intel processor is required" or "[App Name] can't be installed on Macintosh HD, because Mac OS X version 10.7 or later is required."

(Thank you for trying to help, though!)
Geiger Counter / Radiation Sensor: http://www.adafruit.com/categories/73
How do you get those kinds of speeds with Comcast??
There's a serious problem with quality of representation already. Simply having more public defenders seems likely to me to help, even if some of them aren't as emotionally committed to the job as others.

There's also the possibility that someone who starts out just checking a box will discover that there are more shades of gray in these situations than they had realized.
Catching bugs and writing more robust code using mutation testing
Square – what its really worth
Sequoia's Sprawling Network of VC Scouts
PiinPoint (YC W14) Is Hiring GIS and Full Stack Developers in Waterloo
Also, Kerbal Space Program.
Have you ever seen a copy? According to Google, the book is totally unavailable. It isn't listed on Amazon or Alibis. I would love to get my hands on one, Widlar sounds a lot like Richard Feynman
Microsoft Hyperlapse Pro Comes to OS X
If you don't have a WSJ subscription: https://www.google.com/search?q=sequoia+scouts+wsj
Writing code doesn't mix well with oration
The movie was also responsible for a variant (HP 200B) of the very first Hewlett Packard product, the HP 200A audio frequency oscillator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP200A

http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/TFTNB-Disne...
Thanks, I have full drawer of boards ;-). If only I had enough time to work on them. esp8266 port progresses, but quite slowly. We need more people to contribute (spreading a word is helpful). Another option to give it more momentum is some company to sponsor it, or Kickstater organized. Let me know if you have any ideas/interest, otherwise, well, feel free to keep that in mind in case suitable occasion comes out later. Thanks!
The Real Problem with Cognitive Computing
Nope. He was also behind the remake of Cosmos if you haven't heard that one yet.
>Does ISIS have a lot of redeeming qualities that we're overlooking?

We likely won't know without talking to the people who make the choice to join them. For the Taliban case, I only learned of this recently because it was so largely ignored. In a few decades who knows what we may know about ISIS that we don't currently know.

What I do know is so often pictures have been painted as black and white which are in reality many shades of grade and that due to this I am hesitant to believe this case really in black and white.
The Password Management SDK for IT Admins and Developers
The quantity in an individual device is likely to be so tiny (milligrams) that it's not a risk. It's also likely to have been melted down and put through the global recycling chain which would have substantially diluted it. But it was a risk to people handling the original material in bulk. An unknown number of workers in the global copper supply and recycling chain were likely exposed to above-limit doses.

A lot of materials safety concerns are more for protection of workers than end users. Lead removal from electronics is an example. There's not really any risk to owning electronics with lead in them unless you are incinerating them or enjoy licking circuit boards, but it is a serious occupational risk to factory workers and also a disposal problem.
You are right, at a first glance it's just a list of resources. It's designed to break down 'how to minimize procrastination' into a subset of jobs, and then matching them with the best resources to solve them. Users can challenge the subset of jobs, and resources to achieve them. This way it will become easier to tackle procrastination over time.
Math tells me there is an infinite number of floats between 0 and 1. 64 bits are really not enough to address that numberspace...
The article says people who watch TV watch as many hours as they used to. It's not true that as many people watch TV as they used to. I don't think there's a good reason to think TV viewership will go anywhere but down over time

In any case, I'm not saying we're there yet
The evolution in tasks a Developer Advocate takes on are still very much misunderstood by many people who think of Advocates/Evangelists/Relations as primarily "pitch & demo" people.

Thanks Kelsey for distilling your perspective on your time at CoreOS -> Google here.
exactly, if its a java dev you are re-training their solutions will probably java in Scala, if its a javascript or haskell dev they would different probably. Whats interesting to me at least is if its someone with no previous experience.
I wish companies and products like this would do a better job explaining the use cases for these tools. When your sales pitch is "BIG DATA IN THE CLOUD!!!!" it's hard to evaluate how I could use it to my advantage.

I'm really excited about using their "Functional Cloud Data Flows" and "Partitioned Cloud Vectors"... if I knew what the hell that meant and what it would do for me.
I don't think there's ever been a Tsunami in Galveston Bay. Now hurricanes... Like another poster said, they're safer out there than closer in, and having them inside the actual Galveston bay would be incredibly dangerous due to congestion.
Not sure if it would be helpful, but I'd love to do a charity someday which focused on providing infrastructure services (power, communications, medical support (testing and other things to make local doctors more effective), logistics, data, maybe utility restoration) in disaster and especially conflict zones. Essentially what the US Military can accomplish on its own bases, as a service for other NGOs (easier) and for local population (harder). Being able to secure part of an airfield, run logistics and communications which are head ends for domestic infrastructure, would be a huge improvement in quality of life for the civilians stuck in these places.

There's a void in the NGO and commercial space between people who do good stuff, and people who can provide security and operate in denied areas. Some orgs like MSF can operate in semi-permissive environments, but not as well as states can. There are a lot of downsides to state involvement in this kind of thing -- unless you're neutral, it's really hard to get involved in a lot of conflicts, and states are pretty horrible at providing IT services in general, and have all kinds of incentives to scale too big/inefficiently.
Indeed. Note also that there are recommended minimum precisions and exponent sizes, which are followed in practice by CL implementations. That means that if double and long are the same type, the precision and size is at least the one recommended for long-float.
This just doesn't seem feasible in the real world. Sending out high frequency sound from a device is one thing, but having the other devices actively listening for the sound, is quite a feat. It's mentioned inside a block of text in a quoteblock in the article: "The inaudible code is recognized and received on the other smart device by the software development kit installed on it.". From where does one get this SDK installed on their device with enough permissions to actively listen for its counterpart ad? There's just too many points of failure for this to be a real threat, or a real marketing tool for that matter.
>Today's mindshare is tomorrow's market share.

Even if so, you're overestimating RethinkDB's mindshare outside of the HN echo chamber (and I say that even though I'd prefer RethinkDB myself).

If mindshare equals to developers knowing "this product exists", thinking "this product is good, I should use it", or deploying it, then Mongo wins by a factor of 4 or 5.

There's also the mindshare that Mongo has in companies building integrations for it, third party products etc.

And of course millions of CS/IT students today know about Mongo and will use it in this project or another, whereas very few know about RethinkDB. Those will be "tomorrow's market share".
You can log in to Sandstorm using any email address.

Eventually, we plan to support logging in using a PGP key.

We see "internal user stores" (e.g. basic username/password with no connected email address) as problematic because a major design goal of Sandstorm is the ability to move data between hosts easily. Say you and five friends have been using Rocket.Chat on Sandstorm Oasis, and then you decide to transfer it to a self-hosted Sandstorm server -- or vice versa. It would be nice if after moving, Rocket.Chat can still recognize your five friends and being the same people, so that you don't lose your PM history and such. This is only possible by using some form of federated identities which all Sandstorm servers can independently authenticate. Username/password is inherently per-server so doesn't provide that.
Nope, same one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane#The_Seth_MacFa...
Verizon to charge new $20 activation fee
Nope! He actually had a major role in producing Cosmos <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395695/> with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and also has a major interest in space.
TL;DR
How to minimize procrastination - stop procrastinating.
Tim Cook Is (Almost) Right About the iPad Pro Replacing a PC
> It's not as if there wasn't a way for Apple to detect this

Assuming developers were statically linking the old OpenSSH versions, how would Apple detect this? Are developers forced to reveal source code before submitting to Apple? Does OSX executables have some format to specify what libraries it's using?

I don't develop for OSX so I'm genuinely curious.
JVM doesn't care about checked exception. It's enforced only in the java code by javac.
Own cloud is great. I have used it quite a bit. I am using nanobox.io to set my personal cloud. It works really well.
Here's a short article about his involvement in the new Cosmos. [1]

[1] http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/whatrsquos-seth...
Whereas with SQL there is more or less a single canonical way to do it and it's mostly independent of the app. I.e. the data design is minimally coupled to the specific use cases.

Right now I'm building a data store and I don't know the app(s) that's are going to be built on it.

It would be really great if computing could stop forgetting it's history. Object databases failed for a reason.
These aren't true of MSP430 or AVR, both of which are RISC-ish designs. Also, you still have to save the link register inside functions that call other functions. I also didn't explain SPARC register windows. :)

But hopefully these nitpicks aren't so much "annoying" as they are an example of how little you need to know to follow a discussion about super nitpicky details of different architectures. AVR has a general-purpose programmable condition flag 'T' in its status register. What do you do with the 'T' flag? I'unno, but hopefully the basic idea makes sense after not- too- much reading!
Looks like a sad state of affairs for that project. While I think Bower is a great product, I have often wondered why not use NPM for everything in the first place anyway.
The woes of building an index of the web
Unfortunately using dpkg and yum to detect installed software means this isn't a secure audit. Anyone can add known bad binaries after the fact and pretend to provide a "secure" base image. I'd be skeptical of trusting anything quay.io says is secure based on this scan.
In some cases, string conversion is different, and the same calculation is going on, but the output is different.

In some cases, the internal representation isn't binary floating point at all, so the errors resulting from approximating an exact decimal with a binary float don't occur.
We were trying to use terraserver back in the day to provide additional value to our business offering which was highly terrain based (we were doing 3d terrain analysis and wanted imagery to add to it).

But let's be honest it isn't just that Microsoft didn't see the value in the data, it was they weren't very friendly in the terms they offered for using the data. Not saying Google is a panacea, but Google realized if they let small businesses generate some traffic (with no to minimal costs) that the end result was "addiction" and revenue as those small businesses grew.

Microsoft was too focused on dollars and proving their engineering chops. Not that I have anything but respect for the engineering chops, but still. Ironically, we were also based on Digital Alpha servers running Windows, damn was that weird but fun and oddly extremely powerful.
This reminds me, there's a good YT video about how to deal with procrastination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0

;)
Star Citizen perhaps, since they out of the games you've mentioned hew closest to established astronomy.

The rest just invent whatever through the magic of procedural generation, which is cool but not coherent with using actual astronomical data.
By reading the article and the comments I procrastinated finishing a project for 30 minutes. What do i win?
No, it's absurd because you're stating a very hard-line vow over a single incident. If you had said "I'm not going to buy from MAS when reasonable alternatives exist", that would be a reasonable stance to take. But instead you're saying "If an application is available only on the MAS, I will refuse to purchase it, no matter what the circumstances are". Even for applications that don't provide mission-critical functionality (e.g. that you can tolerate breaking for one day).
According to the recent earnings report from North American Tanker [0], their cost per day is $12K, while they charge $35K/day on the spot market. This is for their Suezmax, which can hold 1M barrels of crude.

[0]Warning PDF:http://hugin.info/201/R/1966091/717954.pdf
Students want more than they did before. More counseling, more recreational activities, better housing. There are still a lot of other gaps too that students are demanding to be filled, like workers compensation for graduate students who run labs and get injured when things explode in their face. Universities also partake in expensive undertakings like performing research and hosting conferences and the like, the cost of which tend to increase more than the price of bread and gas over time.

I think people see higher education as a huge bill that just has to be cut because it's big. It is much more complex than people think. I have been a part of this system literally my entire life, starting from my birth while my mother was in law school.

If you have suggestions on how to reduce the cost of higher education, I am all ears. Just know that people who come in and think they can run it "like a business" are a laughingstock from California to Cambridge.
Interesting that even the author of the original work seems to put aside the point of the original work for a game adaptation. Contact is about the search for god(s) and higher powers and the human religious experience, and contacting extra terrestrials was the mechanism to talk about that.
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Apple is able to scan iOS code for e.g. use of nonpublic API's; certainly they can grep a binary for a recognizable chunk of OpenSSL code, too.

(Neither the iOS scans nor the OpenSSL scan will catch everything, of course.)
Aviation Startup Cobalt's Sleek New Plane Stars a Canard
This search string

canadian basic income experiment statistical analysis repeated

on Google got me a lot of hits including these that refer To Dr. Evelyn Forget's analysis in 2009:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/23/mincome-in-dauphin-m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINCOME
I don't have too much to say but you're on to something. I was at the Humtech conference in May and the Navy came in and said basically they're the only ones who can do what they do.

It'd be nice to have a non military option for that kind of operational support. The place where I work now can do some of that, but it's hard to convince donors to invest in those sort of "someday we'll need this" resource.
Mmm... fair point. I'd expect the nuclear bomb to do a better job of vapourising the plutonium than conventional explosives, but I don't know whether that would actually do more damage.

Maybe we're better off forgetting about a bomb completely. Grind it up fine, watch while it spontaneously catches fire (plutonium chemistry is weird!), dissolve the plutonium oxide in nitric acid, water down and then drive around the city spraying it into the air in a fine mist...
One thing that seems strange to me as an outsider is how all your tech startups and companies are clustering in areas with very high cost of living. I don't know much about the US since I'm European but I do keep track of stuff around here on HN.

I can understand it from employee point of view - large city - big job market and naturally those places are also more desirable. But if you're going down the startup route you're already going to sacrifice things for a potentially big payout down the road (assuming you have stocks - right ?) which is why I would have no problem relocating to a cheaper/less desirable area in order to lower the operational costs and increase the chance of success.

Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong but unless you are doing B2B or direct sales location shouldn't matter more than having funds to stay operational/becoming profitable ?

One explanation I can come up with is that if you are looking for investors instead of profitability it makes sense to be closer to them - but at the same time that kind of feels like perverting incentives.

I was under the impression that the costs differences can be huge (2x) between regions - maybe that's not the case ?
The Norm Chronicles
If the US govt hadn't lied to us for the past few decades, I'd tend to give them the benefit of doubt here, but something tells me this is more US propaganda. I hate having to say that about my own govt but they have motives to make Russia look like the bad guy in every regard.
i procrastinate so much, i read the first section then clicked the "save to pocket" icon from the chrome toolbar. i'll get to reading it. eventually...
The nice thing is this gets easier all the time with tech, in that it requires a smaller footprint and thus physical security on the ground. I could run UAV communication relays, satcom, etc. over Syria right now, from bases in Kurdistan, with no personnel physically at risk, for <$10mm/yr.
You won't convince these guys, they're mostly jackasses. The only thing that will get through to them is something that pulls their negligence and horrid practices out into the light.

You need headlines to break them. They will not do the right thing until they have to, and the FDA isn't going to get that rolling.

I'd want good disclosure practices if someone was targeting my products, but I'm also not stubborn and defend terrible products with "Well, no one has been hurt yet!"
luckily almost all biological and chemical weapons are not stable, and quickly degrade without sophisticated storage.

This is especially true of the most nasty stuff (nerve gas, viral agents, etc), which can break down within days of lacking precisely controlled refridgeration.
Nice, I may use this.
you run some gradient descent :-DDDDDDDDDDDDD
Li-Fi Wireless Internet Runs on LED Light Bulbs and Solar Cells
It's intended to identify known security vulnerabilities, not identify malicious actors. Someone could add known bad binaries after the fact, but they could also add unknown bad binaries.
...by testing the apps still run?
Maybe the additional value that must be paid should increase with the time that it is held?

To pay for the opportunity cost of the person not having access to the money for the period of time.

Also, forbidding the police from keeping the items.
Protonmail DDOS turns out to be a Israel Defence Force job
Demand is huge compared to supply, so prices are high. (A low interest rate for a bond is a high price, and a high interest rate is a low price.) Why sell bonds for more than you need to?
That doesn't make sense to me. A single query is faster than a join. Designing things for your application's purpose seems fairly tangible to me. It's application dependent. I use both for different B2B businesses I work with. One works very well with Mongo and would simply be slower with SQL. The Mongo app has one point of access for writes, while everything else is reads. It's near impossible to become inconsistent. The other application would be an absolute shit-show if it used Mongo. I'd never sleep at night with a fear of it failing. Nothing is black and white, and choosing the wrong technology isn't a failure of the technology.
Thought too. But in my opinion, an OS has larger responsibilities when it comes to improve inter compatibility, instead of breaking things to have developers who stay loyal and ending up with apple-exclusive software. I really wonder about the value objective C brings, especially since NextStep did not work as a project. You can't always put the fault on library devs.

What boggles my mind, is that OSX is an unix underneath, so I don't understand why it would do anything different and force developers to learn new habits. That's not how you attract devs. Apple has made an habit to break backward compatibility, something neither linux nor windows tend to do.

I think it's not so much to think that OS manufacturers should not to be different than their competition by separating even how their development tools work. The only objective of that is to have developers who stay loyal to apple because they can't have their app running on both windows and mac. Not to mention I had to re do everthing at each new XCode version.

So in the end, having my project run on both XCode and MSVC, was too much time lost, so I just sold that aging laptop. Apple is just so special, and I guess I was not good enough for that.
The Exotic Taste of Rice