skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a related note:
http://www.sciencealert.com/40-patients-are-about-to-be-infe...

It seems that having certain parasites inside you can increase your capacity to digest hard/heavy foods.
I wonder since liver health is associated with a woman's fertility[1] (and also digestion), that by introducing organisms which increase digestive power, you are reducing the stress on the liver so it can tend to other bodily functions such as fertility.

[1]www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110201122223.htm
Notice we don't see calls for more surveillance after domestic shootings/terrorism. Well, body cams for police is maybe an exception. But schools, churches, and movie theaters get shot up weekly.

I think the illusion that somehow the surveillance apparatus filters out white people and only focuses on terrorism lets Americans feel okay with it.

Also I don't think most people realize how almost every action and thought in their lives ends up on a computer or going over the internet. Everyone just focuses on cellphone metadata, maybe because the full truth of what's being surveilled is too painful to contemplate.

I would like to see some politician formulate a response the involves boosting these Middle Eastern economies and schools and "bombing" them with movies and music from LA. If we give these radicals some chance at a life then maybe they'll stop blowing themselves up and taking us with them. Also maybe we can consider that they're responding rationally to the endless intervention by the West into their affairs. Not that I'm justifying their actions, at all, but it's not healthy to dehumanize the enemy. It's what we did to the Japanese and we ended up fire bombing and nuclear bombing them.
I really wanted to try FreeBSD because of ZFS. Then I've seen benchmarks of ZFS between FreeBSD and ZFS on Linux on Ubuntu. Ubuntu was nearly double the speed in the benchmarks. I was sold to Ubuntu. Simple.
There are several tiers. Nowadays installing a release version of FreeBSD, packages will get updates quarterly with security updates in between as required. In effect the system is suited for production and very stable by default.

Other tiers include the stable and current branches which track development more closely.
I'm very suspicious that this particular trend that's driven by well-paid 20 somethings who just can't bring themselves to live anywhere but in the trendy areas of a handful of coastal US cities is going to be looked back upon as a somewhat amusing transitory early 21st century phenomenon.

Smaller self-contained apartments are less ridiculous but I suspect that by the the time you take into account shared space like hallways, stairwells, possibly parking, and so forth dropping an apartment size from 800sf+ to 400-500sf doesn't let you offer it that much more cheaply at a huge cost in livability.
You could use Electricity over IP
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3251.txt
If the headline is true then that is excellent.

But I think Pavel Durov should make a system that gives up terrorists' communications if it detects indicators eg words that will lead to planning a violent attack. And without informing everyone about it.
So, the best way to talk to a computer is... a programming language?

Lets ignore the fact that, for some reason, he thinks his particular programming language is better than all other ones for interacting with an AI. Am I missing something here? This seems kinda "duh" to me.
This is impossible. One of the problems with the blatant misuse of forecasting is governments using it it to compare outrageous black swan futures against real history. It leads to claiming that "spying on everyone 24/7 to prevent an infinite number of terror attacks" is in everyones interest. The reality is that a limited number of black-swan terror attacks is actually a minimal cost compared to destroying social fabric modern western society is built on.

This type of false thinking is what allows government officials to manipulate public thought into agreeing to give up their rights. This has literally led to the FBI radicalizing young men in order to 'catch them' in the act -- thus justifying their existence by creating the very black-swan event they are supposed to stop.
I only wish there were some roadmap to see this on the iOS side.

Yep. Actually, I'd love to see Microsoft aggressively adopting this for Windows Phone - it has a real lack of apps, and this could help. For the rest (i.e. the vast majority) of us that don't use Windows Phone, it would still be great to have another major player adopting it, and highlighting that iOS is the only platform left that doesn't adopt it.
if you want cooking hardware cheap its fairly easy in the u.s. Thrift stores' more reliable items to find are always cooking hardware, all manner of containers, utensils. things like a large crockpot can be had for under $30 new. Also people state that fresh veggies are expensive, but frozen vegetables can be found for cheap. The practice now has been flash freezing for a lot of these I think so nutrients are preserved.
> we'll work out some way to semi-automate it

no. It will be automated completely. You set stuff up once and the certificate will be kept up to date.

>Ok, where is it for those of us on cheap cpanel providers who barely know what we're doing

let's encrypt support will be added into cpanel or even into the web servers powering cpanel. All you'll have to do is check a checkbox or set a configuration file entry in the style of `enable_letsencrypt=yes` and you're done.

You won't have to care when the certificate expires. At that point 3 months starts to become interesting because expiration provides a nice hard cutoff date for revocation which works independently of OCSP and CRL availablility.
The userland and kernel are developed together by the same group of people/project. So the design is consistent across the system. In Linux the kernel comes from Linus and the kernel development team. The userland usually comes from the GNU core utils team, the distro creator and several other places. This can cause disconnects between how various things in the system work, kernel patches to get a random features to work, etc.
There is a lot that can go wrong benchmarking filesystems, especially one like ZFS that relies heavily on its caches being filled.

I find the claim hard to believe and would like to see the benchmark if you can dig it out.
So, let me try to understand: Let's take the order 1 case. If I pick a value on y-axis and hold it constant, this refers to a particular "1D hole". As I move left to right, increasing the radius, the graph is colored black if this particular hole is present for the given radius and not-colored otherwise. Is it not misleading, then, to label the y-axis as the Betti number since this is a single, global number?

> the 0-th dimension case is relatively uninteresting

It was explained to me that the zeroth order Betti numbers have applications for clustering.
I think I should make a bookmarklet for HN to do additional things like this.

Useful?

I would call it Show.hn :-)
Yes and no. The key here is that it isn't a webpage, it's a webapp. So it can do things like preload resources that aren't used in the current page but will be used in the next screen. And preload the HTML for those screens.
> the current sub-standard understanding of Best Practice infrastructure

> Best Practice has been established. It's ridiculous to try and reinvent the wheel.

> It's simple if Paris wants it to be.

If the author thinks that the understanding of "Best Practice" is substandard, maybe he should post a link to what he means, instead of leaving the term undefined and then acting smug about it.

Googling "Best Practice bicycle" returns a number of documents from different cities. It's unclear which of these (if any) correspond to the author's idea of "best practice" for cycling infrastructure.

I did find a post by the same author (http://www.copenhagenize.com/2013/04/the-copenhagenize-bicyc...) which advertises itself as a "planning guide", but is actually just a poster made by someone who was apparently more interested in graphic design than in actually conveying information.
I feel like you are projecting your domain specific experience on a larger more general audience than is appropriate.
Hela cells are don't actually closely match human cells any more. Genetically chimps are much closer to humans than that cell line. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/famous-hela-human-...

"Steinmetz’s team confirmed that HeLa cells contain one extra version of most chromosomes, with up to five copies of some. Many genes were duplicated even more extensively, with four, five or six copies sometimes present, instead of the usual two. Furthermore, large segments of chromosome 11 and several other chromosomes were reshuffled like a deck of cards, drastically altering the arrangement of the genes"
> If your understanding of the server OS does only allow you to copy/paste random strings from Stackoverflow, you might not really enjoy FreeBSD (or anything besides Ubuntu) — but then, why are you operating a server in the first place?

To serve stuff.

(To expand on this -- most people don't use software, they use software to GET STUFF DONE. Very few people want to operate a server. They operate a server because it allows them to do something they want to. If your FreeBSD pitch is "you should want to operate a server," you're already not reaching most of your possible audience.)
Fair enough...
What's the difference between Wolfram Language and just any other programming language?

Also, one of the advantages of natural language is it's imprecision: it makes communication more robust, and leaves room for interpretation.. in much the same way as imprecise duplication of the genome allows for evolution, imprecision in language allows for alternative interpretations of the results.

Plus, if you want to, you can check interpretation and understanding just by asking some questions and creating feedback.

Actually, I just don't get how this is advancing the art in either direction.
Turn your internet connection off and try to reload this page, or even with your internet connection on look at how many pointless http requests are made that slow the page down on every reload.

HTTP Caching does not have explicit guarantees about the availability of things in its cache, ServiceWorkers and AppCache do.
What do you think about https://threema.ch/en?

https://threema.ch/en/faq/why_secure
https://threema.ch/validation/
"One major reason Congress ended the broader program is that it didn’t work. Millions of dollars and over 10 years of effort later"

That's the thing. They are convincing everyone that it's about security, but it's not. The military industrial congressional complex (the correct term before editing of DI's famous speech) has latched onto "cyber" as another money extraction through fear pipeline. We need to stop assuming their real purpose is security, and understand that instead it is about money and power.

William Binney is the perfect man to go to about this sort of thing. He designed a system that would cost in the two digit millions that would be placed at core nodes and would encrypt/anonymize American's data unless a FISA warrant was obtained. They scrapped his program, and implemented a multibillion dollar program that didn't protect privacy, didn't ingest or connect data as well, and this was from the very top of the Agency!

Corruption is a root cause of these issues. Congress isn't as dumb as they pretend, but they get big donations and re-election support when they pass stuff like this, and they are more concerned about that than any principles. All three branches of government are affected by this level of corruption and cronyism. Programs like this are designed for two things:

1. Make the middle-top MICC men (the startups in Mclean VA for example) lots of money.

2. While the middle men are rolling in that money, having torn up the constitution to get it, the oligarchy siphons the data through loopholes, and suddenly, they have enough data to plan the next evolution in the facist world government plan.

You remember the saying, follow the money? Well, at a certain point, when you have billions, another few million isn't that big of a deal. At that point, it's all about power. Be wary of future calls to world governmental style bodies to be formed, and remember centralization is a weakness, not a strength! Mark my words.
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The words of Robert Frost come to my mind.

> I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

I applaud those who chose not to go to college, instead opting to learn and grow independently. Its not for everyone, but when its the right choice for some, it can make live tremendously better.
I like how the EFF is described as quixotic and cynical in the same story (albeit by different commenters)
Daily Bite of Python: Why you should avoid locals() to populate view contexts
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I've been repeatedly told to be wary of using too much lambdas in Java because some of the cow-orkers have problems with while loops, so... well, my experience with professional programming so far is that most people barely know how to code and there's little incentive to change it, since modern professional programming is just plumbing - connecting libraries together with snippets from Stack Overflow. And I'm being only a little cynical.

(And the whole argument about avoiding to use language features is ridiculous. In commercial space, people don't expect others to learn anything, as if programming wasn't a craft and as if people were born to do it. Imagine a boss telling construction workers not to use power tools because some of the young hires have never seen a powered drill in their life.)
I'll remember that the next time I'm using python.
Who's going to be the first person to try this and report back?
Are they payed merely to hold certain positions or to take action (legal challenges, software dev, spread awareness) on issues that are important to many of us?
The significance is that you have one group building the kernel and userland which allows for implementation and testing of features that cross that boundary. A non-FreeBSD example is the recent work on pledge in OpenBSD. Kernel changes were made in conjunction with changes to a significant part of the userland. That is a minor example, but gives the feel of how having the same set of eyes look to the whole system can be a benefit.
Article is from 2007. (And as someone else writes, details have changed and the article is rather detailed.)
AWS has a wizard for bucket storage policy where they tell you this information explicitly with a big warning sign.
There is HardenedBSD http://hardenedbsd.org/, which is working on filling gaps between OpenBSD and FreeBSD security.

OpenBSD is definitely more secure out of the box than Linux.
Workers who were short of the quotas might have their hands severed. Leopold II is a forgotten monster. Arguably it birthed the international human rights movement.
I could be wrong on the facts here as I have not been following the story closely, but I believe that the unencrypted SMS found on a phone outside the Batcalan helped lead police to St. Denis where they killed the mastermind and several other terrorists and likely prevented a further attack. Between St. Denis and the raids in Belgium, it seems like the police likely (1) already knew a lot about many of the people involved and/or (2) were able to quickly piece together clues, both of which were probably aided by the ability to monitor digital communications. Look also at the number of targeted killings of terrorists over recent years (e.g. Jihadi John) which I would assume were aided by digital monitoring.

And the terrorists are aware of the above and are now training their followers to use apps like Telegram.

With 7 billion people in this world, preventing every single attack by mass surveillance alone is impossible. But I think its naive to believe that surveillance is not helpful to law enforcement or that the pro surveillance crowd is motivated by some sort of ulterior motive to blackmail people. If you are the head of the CIA or NYPD, you probably spend a lot of your time genuinely worrying about letting an attack happen on your watch and you would be strongly inclined to fight for every tool you can get.

The question is whether the benefits of dragnet surveillance and weakening encryption outweigh the negatives, and like others here, I'm inclined to think they do not.
You tried kale before spinach? WTF? What's the story behind that?
This might be the case for people who travel a lot and only hold money in bitcoin and not their native currency, but even then its worse then using USD. There are much better debit cards for travelers which don't charge foreign transaction fees or ATM fees (Schwab Investor Checking for example).
Wiki could work for updating this writeup efficiently, good example is the way linux booting was described using github.

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
Yup, one of the premises of this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-B...

Its also humorous to note that the in many schools of Chinese Yoga (Qi-Gong) and Tai Chi, the first pose given is a horse stance. Where you simply stand and relax into the bone structure of your body, then continue for hours on end, (for sometimes many years with this single pose depending on the student).
The only thing that I'd tell you to do, is that if you really want to make this a success, you'll need to open source it, build a movement around it, one that is bigger than you and the library and start thinking about pitching this to people.

You also want to start learning about VCs, and what it takes to make it through their assessment rounds.

I'm a big python fan, and if you think your library really is better than Kiwi, and will stay that way for years to come, then go for it.
Kernighan wasn't the one claiming that C was mostly used for embedded systems and drivers; that was the guy who posed the question. Kernighan only agreed that C is still popular in that space.

As for C99, I would love to see some hard stats about rate of adoption. Personally I can't imagine starting out on a new project and not use C99, but then the hard-core C contingency is a pretty conservative bunch. (Are there still systems where you can't get a C99 compiler?)
I hope they'll provide a convenient tax document covering the capital gains for all these transactions, given the IRS ruling that even small transactions have to be reported that way.
I actually did upon first reading, but it was very late.
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HardenedBSD http://hardenedbsd.org/ has completed a fork of FreeBSD with ASLR.
The thing that sucks more is the unexpected and shitty conversion rate you get. I'm not too sure yet what's the best way to go about this, open bank accounts in all those countries and do your currency exchange yourself?
Not sure what the author's sources are, but Google does not use FreeBSD in production.
Those interested in FreeBSD for their desktop might want to take a look at PC-BSD http://www.pcbsd.org which is a FreeBSD variant geared towards desktop users.

Also, BSD Now http://www.bsdnow.tv and BSDTalk http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com are excellent podcasts for BSD.
So even if the experiment fails, the housing will still be used. It seems rather efficient to me. They have to live somewhere right?
Empire of Code is the first game for coders where you can win without any coding
Remember to install the dlv (which requires fiddling with certs on OS X) if you want to launch and debug programs. If you don't, Code won't complain, only silently fail to launch the program.
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Hypothetically, if somebody went out to halloween as Foetus-Eating Penis Hitler, I'd think we'd agree it's tasteless and inappropriate.

At that point, everything is a spectrum between the banal and the monstrous. You just draw the line in different spots from others.
Though this isn't PERFECT, it's better than nothing. Just my opinion.
HardenedBSD has ASLR, they're working on upstreaming it to FreeBSD.
Seems like nobody understands how this can work, or why would they do that.

Easy. You swipe your card, Coinbase pays with $, then Coinbase tries to sell enough of the bitcoins you have there to make it even (there might be a fee).

So you need to have a bitcoin balance in Coinbase when you want to use this card.

Now why would you do this? If you're asking yourself this question, there are high chances you are not the target of this product.

There are a lot of people who made a lot of money in bitcoins, and who hold a LOT of bitcoins. This is going to be an easy way for them to spend it on a normal day-to-day basis.
>Article is from 2007.

Do you mean the article? Do you mean an article? There's a missing article in this comment.

Edit: downvoting doesn't make it any less true. However unrepentant about bad grammar you may be, the point stands and I don't regret the comment.
>Pardon my lack of knowledge but wasn't the whole point of bitcoins being anonymous?

It is about decentralization and trying to establish trust outside of the normal banks.

An interesting possible example is in the Genesis block. Satoshi added the newspaper headline:

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

This serves the purpose of a sorta time stamp by using a newspaper headline, but a lot of people like myself think there was also a reason of choosing that headline in particular--we think that it was part of the motivation for the creation of bitcoin--something that would be decentralized and away from banks.
I'm a programmer, not a professional sysadmin, but for my side projects I have to manage my own servers (well, small VMs, but you know what I mean) and for this I definitely prefer BSD.

In fact, I prefer BSD in general over Linux, and while I tried to run it on my main dev laptop, a never ending trickle of minor frustrations with hardware support (suspend/hibernate never worked right, weird issues with docking/undocking (I have a Dell latitude), audio, etc.) eventually forced me back to Ubuntu.

So, for the time being I think I'll stick with Linux for my workstations and BSD for my servers :)
For now it seems that terrorist attacks made more impact on social fabric than US or French surveillance.
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Also, worth mentioning is the excellent FreeNAS http://www.freenas.org/ storage appliance based on FreeBSD & its ZFS capabilities.
The drone regulations will be used to control robots in the future. All uses of robots with advanced AI will be limited by such rules. Self driving cars are next, especially since a self-driving car could easily be programmed to commit a criminal act.

Robots will put everyone out of a job because only a certain few will be allowed to program robots that could hypothetically commit criminal acts. Writing a program for a drone or a self-driving car will require the same level of scrutiny as developing a medical device or aviation flight control systems.

That's the problem with our robotic future: the technology will be controlled by a priesthood of highly regulated experts that work for large corporations because the technologies are considered too dangerous to be left in the hands of average people.
I wonder whether spammers and phishers will make use of that? We often tell people to look for the lock symbol or "https" - those will no longer be (weak) signifiers of trust.