skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too used to use those Radio Shack kits with the spring terminals, & loved it! I wound up teaching myself so much that I was able to start in 'Year 2' of a local vocational school for electronics repair- just from what I learned from those kits.

Later on, I felt limited by how they were designed, and found that 'Free Radio Berkeley' sold kits to build pirate radio stations, which I thought was the coolest thing I'd ever found, so I ordered some kits from them to work on. It turned out that the kits were missing quite a few parts (which weren't available through Radio Shack), so I had to search & find mail-order electronics suppliers to order the missing parts from. Another thing that was 'wrong' with these kits, which I had to find a solution for, was that they only included pictorial schematics- no use of standard electronic schematics like you'd find everywhere else. So I had to draw my own schematics based on what was present on the circuit boards. This eventually helped me in the long run, as I was able to bring the transmitter + the schematics I drew up to job interviews, & I landed my first electronics repair job based on my work on the transmitter.

EDIT:
Another thing you might look into that I found educational/fun is mods for CB radios. A good CB shop can sell you a CB Radio & parts which allow you to make some changes & add extra functions by making simple alterations to the circuit boards. I added more wattage, a frequency slider, extra channels above & below the standard 40, & sideband to a Cobra 148GTL back in the day. There was a small community of people on the radio where I grew up, & I would stay up late at night talking with them on my fancy radio. Later I got a linear amplifier, but was always afraid to use it since they're illegal- so I got rid of that to play it safe.
Much more precise as well as much more simple: test whether or not she is able to distinguish some wavelength from any combination of red, green and blue.
It depends on how you define "you". If it's the conscious self, then it does exist, even though it's anywhere near in control of as much as it believes. It's more like it's sometimes notified of what happens in the hood, and it got some veto on that.
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I would have flunked out of such a school, instead of being my class valedictorian.

Group projects and emphasizing socialization is a crutch that incompetent teachers use to force their intelligent students to do their job for them.
It was mentioned by one of the candidates in the republican presidential debate for example (I forgot who), so it definitely is part of the mainstream discussion.
No one ever flew to space until we did. I don't think previous failures are a good indicator of future success. Also fusion power would be a game changer, another variable in the equation so to speak.
Obama Hints at Asking Silicon Valley to Magically Block Terrorists from Products
Isn't the likelihood of an Anon member infiltrating ISIS just was likely as a ISIS member infiltrating Anon?

This seems like a brilliant tactic.

1) Join Anon and provide "stolen" intel on low level terrorist plot
2) Gain confidence of respected entity (This Michael Smith guy?)
3) Create conduit to pass phony intel to feds to distract from real plans

Best of all, nobody will question your motive to stay anonymous.

Normally I wouldn't worry much about this as I am sure Intelligence agencies are working to verify intel and sources... but... are they?
General education of 8 year olds does not require expensive computing devices.
I dont intend to coddle my children.. At 12 I will make them fight Bangle tigers! Last one alive will be my new 'child', the other will be dinner.
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The system is designed by us. We can change it if there is the political will.
Germany is a more egalitarian society than the US so the failure idea is overblown.

We can treat food, housing, and basic healthcare as public goods without going full communist. In fact due to the concentration of state power historical communist society's are less egalitarian than Germany is today.

PS: We also know a lot of things that don't work. Price controls for example cause lot's of problems, so free markets are really useful. The problem is when power is concentrated into the hands of a few you end up with what is effectively a planned economy. ex: Intel's on CPU GPU is good for them, but not the wider economy.
I swear many people would be better off just manually generating paths on their own. It's not difficult.

D3 is pretty awesome and all but it is NOT a charting library. It's a data binding framework. It adds several layers of incredibly hard to follow abstraction.

It's super duper cool when it does exactly what you want and all you desire is to drop your in your data. A+++ would recommend. But if you want to do something slightly different it's a huge pain in the ass. At the end of the day it's just a handful of SVG primitives. Draw them yourself and move on with your day. I promise you it's easier.
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FYI, Autoplaying video
X/Z are used in the 'program structure' example without introducing them beforehand

Probably intentional. A big part of the skill of reverse-engineering that they're introducing here is the feeling of "I don't understand what this line does, so I'll just accept it and move on, and see if I understand it later". Using X/Z before describing it is definitely in keeping with that feeling.

The whole document reads as "we're intentionally throwing you in the deep end by giving you not quite enough to understand completely, but giving you enough that you can understand with some work". It's a similar approach to Microcorruption, and to the crypto challenges. I like it.
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How much mental energy does a politician pour into moral due diligence?
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I found it interesting too when looking at it from the lens of Inform 7. The reasoning that E-Prime gives to avoid "to be" is largely the reasoning that Inform 7 works very well with its multiple uses of to be. Primarily in that the "god-like objective" sentences make sense when authoring establishing facts in a world state ("The house is blue.").
You have never been told to "not act like a girl"? I'm genuinely curious, as that would be the first time I've heard that.
Globalization is a big political solution that favours only the ultra-wealthy. Ensuring people have purchasing power is the only way to ensure the economy doesn't become a zero-sum game. The way things are going, companies with only a handful of employees can be worth billions. Where does that leave the rest of us?
True, but it's further from the sun. The amount of stuff hitting you decreases with the square of distance, and Mars' closest distance from the sun is roughly twice Venus'. Assuming the simple "sun as a point source in a vacuum" model holds, Mars gets less than 1/4 the radiation of Venus.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law)
But that is what they do anyway. I learned a lot from using school computers - like how to access VPNs and routing proxies so that I could defeat Bess[1] and access the Sun Java docs to do my AP computer science homework.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Web_SmartFilter_EDU
This isn't a story about money and/or inflation. It's a story about goods and services and our ability (or lack thereof) to make more and more of them.
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I'm guessing too.. Still, there is undisputed progress being made in the field of rapid software development and dev tools and AI ...
While not there yet, if the progress continues at the same pace, we will be there within a decade.
I grew up with a TV that had no boundaries around it and don't feel like it kept me from experiencing a full childhood either. I did waste a lot of time in front of it but television was mostly just a fallback; I preferred playing outside and with other kids.
The thing about TV then that is different from technology now, is that we were limited more by whatever programming the cable networks had scheduled between all those commercials. TV was actually boring most of the time, especially during the day.

I have kids now and know that with my oldest at least (11 year old boy), when there are no boundaries around screen time, the screens are always on. There is a lot more going on in the world of video games, movies, the internet, etc. these days which make it easier for kids to get lost in.
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
print open(__file__, 'r').read()

Seems like cheating!
As you said, schools are afraid of teaching kids real skills. I agree pretty much with everything you said the way you said it :).
This is one of the first scripts that I made myself after migrating to ec2. I initially programmed it in ruby, but just recently re-wrote it in Go. I don't cache the hosts and it usually takes around 0.5 - 0.7 seconds. My ruby implementation was much slower due to the libraries I was using needing to be loaded in each time it ran as opposed to the Go compiling ahead of time.
Dont make me laugh. The revolutionaries were talking about fraternity while chopping heads by the 100 000s. Study your History my friend. France has always had an authoritarian face.
> iPhone production can increase as much as demand asks for. If we let anybody build one, there'll easily be an iPhone for everybody that wants one.

What? This statement makes no sense. Here, let me demonstrate by quoting an ancient islander who likes to build statues:

> Tree production can increase as much as demand asks for. If we let anybody grow one, there'll easily be a Tree for everybody that wants to cut one down.

It's absurd! and exactly the thinking that will lead to people cutting down the last tree. iPhones depend on resources just as much as those trees, if not more.
I had the same feeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29#.22Cheat...
> When calculators were brought in instead of the slide rule
> we heard it would be the end of actually "knowing" math.

Plato argued in Phaedrus that literacy would be the end of anyone actually "knowing" anything. Why learn if you can just google^H^H^H^H^H^H read it? Same shit, different millennium.
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>the XKeystore source code designates the Linux Journal as an “extremist forum.”

This again? Debunked here:
http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/validating-xkeyscore-code....

Y'all are always asking for website ideas. How about a kind of "live Snopes" that lets people discuss and debunk reporting on current affairs?
How should the officers have handled this?

More to the point, is this protesting the inappropriate way he was detained, or the atmosphere of fear for black Americans?
"Invalid phone number". Nice try, but no.
Fun to play with, nevertheless. :)
Hum, basic arithmetics is mechanical repetition. There may be some benefit to the brain in doing it, but I'm doubting it until I get evidence.

The main benefit is that knowing arithmetics well makes higher mathematics easier to learn. That's because one won't get distracted doing calculations. That's still true on the calculator era, just a bit less so, thus I do think it's important to learn arithmetics... It just the "it improves your brain" that I find highly suspect.
That is a heart-wrenching encounter. I admire the author's cool head under pressure and emotional honesty and awareness.
I've never heard of this. Does this policy have a name I could read up on?
Haha it seems the motto should instead be "get some pointers to your secrets into source control". This makes the tool much less vulnerable to the abuse I was envisioning, but also pushes it into "so what?" territory for me. I can already save pointers to secrets in my code; this is another layer of configuration for dubious benefit.
The bank of england has no capacity to determine what a good blockchain idea is. And if it did - there's no damn way the winners would want their prize. This is hilarious
I'm getting a 503 Service Unavailable, so here's a mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151205162353/http://artandever...
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Yup. And my comment is about when it does and when it does not matter that you make more and more of them. If your society is in fiat credit bubble, then you are doomed into Mad Max Scenario when you slow down the exponential growth (bubble collapses). But if you do not have any bubble in the first place, then slow down is just a slow down. People make less people, consume less, wait for better days, "time slows down" so to speak if we are talking about technological progress. No Mad Max scenario at all.
USD 16,100 once you account for PPP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
His mistake was answering the officer's initial questions. You are under no obligation to talk to the police if questioned. If the officer has sufficient reason to believe you're guilty (such as witnessing a crime), he will simply arrest you on the spot and talking won't do any good.

Second, I see a subtle racial angle to this, and as a white person I too have been stopped by the police several times. White police are not singling out black people.

getting barraged by dovecotes but will not remove the post because I think it is still helpful, or at least encourage discussion about the matter
Ideally, none of your servers on EC2 should be 'permanent' :) Although having EBS available makes it easier to start relying on them as if they are permanent.
Exploiting xdebug enabled servers
DragonFly BSD 4.4
Sysadmins have to learn about more abortive technologies and know about them sooner than most programmers. They have to have knowledge of stuff that should have been deprecated a long time ago and they have to know why to say yes, no, or maybe when they're asked to do something new.

Reading, assessing, and learning are massively important skills.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10665409
But replicators are just around the corner!
I've noticed this behaviour outside of school and with much older people. I grew up with a computer and I admit I use it at least 15 hours a day every day, but a big chunk of this time I've used for learning and contributing rather than just pure media consumption.

Today too many people are engrossed in facebook and can't continue a conversation without flicking and swiping through facebook every 30-60 seconds. Everybody's faces are now illuminated by their devices' screens.
cities like chicago have near 3% property taxes to pay current teachers average salaries over $75k/yr. with health, with vacation, with summers, with cola, with lifetime guaranteed pensions of 70%+. school admins routinely take home $125k+. when are we going to stop with the nonsense that teachers save the world while starving in their yugos?
There is enough evidence that, while not directly performing attacks, they have considered doing such and engage in behaviors that encourage such attacks. For example, look at the FBI radicalizing individuals and convince them to carry out attacks. Even though the FBI works to make the actual attack a fake, they have created a dangerous individual who may switch to carrying out an attack. And this isn't even considering the things the CIA has done. I see no reason why the US would be alone in these horrors.
Incorrect. This certificate is valid until 2016/11/22.

The reason you're getting this error is because the hostname in the URL doesn't match either the CN or the SubjectAltNames in the certificate (NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID).
Why? Seriously why?

Technology and software are, not to sound cliche, eating the world. Even something you would consider to not need tech for like farming is seeing great advances from technology including but not limited to: drip irrigation, gps auto-pilot machinery, robots to kill weeds without herbicides, weather patterns, crop patterns, and more. Software and technology is everywhere and if it's not somewhere yet then it will be soon. Why should be churning out tech-illiterate students except for a couple of fields? This seems incredibly short-sighted.
Nope. The fusion stages in an H bomb are there mostly to enable further fission stages.
Shared IP, inhuman number of queries per second. And an IP which is associated with a hosting provider (AWS, Azure, Etc) and thus unlikely to be a user endpoint. Lots of scripted searches are identified on those two data points.
As is a lot of the proven things involving the FBI and CIA.
Plottable.js (http://plottablejs.org/examples/) is another library that takes a similar approach: reusable components written in D3, and a table-based composable layout system.
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A friend of mine reported that her breast milk production was greatly increased by alcohol consumption. Other mothers I know have not found alcohol to have this effect on them. YGMV.
Want to provide some kind of source for that claim?
We see the same impulse in the U.S. and across the world: whenever something bad happens, people call out for something to be done, regardless of whether that something would have helped, or if its negative effects outweigh its positive effects.

We see it with encryption. Yes, encryption can be and is used by bad people for evil ends, but it is also used by good people for good ends; encryption is simply the means. It's a human right to speak privately. Law enforcement can still investigate, can still use different powers to eavesdrop and compel parties to speech to reveal that speech; but it has no right to be party to private speech. Yes, bad things will not be detected as a result, but it's worth it.

We see it with arms control. Yes, weapons can be and are used by bad people to kill innocents; but they are also used by good people to defend themselves, whether from crime or tyranny. It is a human right to be armed. Law enforcement and the military can still use their superior numbers and training to overwhelm a foe, but they have no right to claim a monopoly on arms. Yes, innocents will die, but innocents will also live.

We see it with the war on some drugs. Yes, some people will take certain drugs and commit crimes; but other people will take those same drugs and enjoy a pleasant mental state. Law enforcement can still arrest criminals, but it has no right to arrest folks who haven't harmed anyone. It's a human right to alter one's mental state. The tradeoff is worth it.

The thing is, you have to take this attitude toward all things: religion; drugs; weapons; encryption; speech in general. Once you start to carve out exceptions and exclusions to liberty, you'll end up losing ever-more liberty. It happens faster than one might imagine.
Verizon ‘might look at’ buying Yahoo
It's a lot to do and think right now (as always for this kind of service) and we have to focus on making our uptime trustworthy and our architecture solid!
This is just our first draft of our page and the loginBox demo is on its way this week along with the beta dashboard. We are going to make it more clear and answer to those questions in advance!
Thanks a lot for all!
In my experience its closer to "or the atmosphere of fear for black Americans" + distrust + likely hood of the application of the use of asymmetric force from hear say.

Extending the conversation a bit to the intersection of technology, sur|sousveillance[0]:

">[...]creepy stalker[...]

Which are attributes usually assigned to human beings, no? Or do you enjoy being trailed by officers/staff when you shop because of the color of your skin, or do you not have to face nor think about such things when you shop or in other interactions in your life? Because I don't particularly enjoy that either, and I'm doing what I can to address it among other issues assuming that if others could leverage information that is already out there about me, maybe, just maybe I won't have to be treated as subhuman by some on initial interactions, or at least while I patronize a store on occasion. What are you doing to address the problems you have surrounding the use of technology in such ways beyond vocalizing your displeasure? Do you still use social networking, webmail, play apps via smartphone, purchase via credit cards online/offline, etc…? If so, your behaviors are telling others otherwise.

I'm just stating that's the direction things are going in now, and for anyone to avoid such realities means that they shall continue to be suspended in a state of cognitive dissonance. Hardly just my "scheme", I'm just a piece in the puzzle that was already being built before I was even born."

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496897
Wow I was just waiting to ask someone who's seen this stuff about this.

I'm planning to create some tools ease CRUD workflows.

I think my point was not properly conveyed. The goal is not to get the pointy haired boss programming your expense report app. But instead of paying someone with 4 years of experience , you just use a team of people you trained in 3 - 4 months to do most of the screens using such tools .

Is that unrealistic ?

PS : Yup any code generator needs to have a lot of extensible points so you can change it.
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The "Gendarmerie" is a part of the military that operates police duties. Although the concept was originally French, you can find a similar thing in a a lot of continental european countries (the Carabinieri in Italy, the Guarda Nacional Republicana in Portugal, the Guardia Civil in Spain, Internal Troops/National Guard in Ukraine, ...).

In France, generally speaking, the Police National is in charges of cities and large metropolitan areas, and the Gendarmerie is seen in rural areas. They live in barracks, and are weird in that they answer both to the ministry of interior and to the ministry of defense.
> But betwixt you and I

you and me ;)
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China has blocked Wikipedia again
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GDP (or GWP) is a flow: how much stuff we produce each year. Wealth is a stock: how much total stuff we've already produced and not consumed.
"betwixt you and me"
If you are wondering why people don’t go with the police, I hope this explains it for you.

Nope, I still don't get it. Thanks for the perspective though.
Let's get material. How long would an economist expect there to be exponential growth in electricity consumption? Steel production? Indium usage?
Agreed, think the article title is misleading because it implies it covers everybody whereas it only really covers people who live in cities. The PDF cited in the article with a title of "Urban demographics - Why people live where they do" is more accurate.
Thanks, looks like it's back up now. Google didn't appear to have a cached copy; it kept giving me a 503.