skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Housing law clearly bans that sort of thing for tenants. I can imagine labor law being similar.
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In other words, the triple-fault[1] is broken? This looks like a bad hardware bug, a really bad one. AFAIK on real hardware it does what it should, i.e. causes the CPU to reset. The fact that OSs in the past have relied on triple-faulting to cause a reset[2] makes this all the more unusual. Then again, I suppose no one has really tried to run MS-DOS and related software in Xen...

the vulnerability can be avoided altogether if
the guest kernel is controlled by the host rather than guest
administrator

That sort of defeats the point of using a VM, doesn't it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_fault

[2] http://www.rcollins.org/Productivity/TripleFault.html
Are you sure about that?

The lower receiver - the part of the gun that's a controlled "firearm" - is identical between the AR-15, M-16, and M-4. The only things that really change are the barrel length and the parts that go in the lower to differentiate between automatic fire and burst fire.

the "real" AR-15, by Armalite - not the semi-automatic version commonly available to civilians.
have you heard of xpath? :)
Have other languages with package managers a similar problem? (Ruby, Lua, Go, Python, PHP, etc)
US zip codes are authorized and assigned by the USPS, so by definition they are proprietary. However, the data itself (once it is obtained) is freely redistributable (in raw form).

The barrier is that the official source of zip code data, National Five-Digit ZIP Code and Post Office Directory, is copyrighted[0], and there is work in extracting the data from it.

The nice thing is that US copyright law limits the protection for "facts" [1]. The selection and arrangement of facts can be copyrighted, but not the underlying facts themselves. So it's perfectly legal in the US to take the zip code data and distribute it, just not in the original form from the National Five-Digit ZIP Code and Post Office Directory.

As for other countries than the US, it would depend on their local laws.

[0] - http://pe.usps.com/Archive/HTML/DMMArchive0810/G013.htm

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
> Top lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation called these attorneys “impressive.”

I dislike FISA as much as anyone, but I'm glad to hear the EFF is impressed with the attorneys. While the article is silent on their recourse if they are ignored, surely they can appeal to whoever in the administration did the hard work to get them there. Given their credentials, you can be sure there was a lot of opposition to this.
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Yes, I deliberately did not implement that GNU bug. I also avoided implementing the --prefix-of-long-option bug.
Sounds like bogus. Being primed for math and being primed for sex feels like two completely different modes to me.
You know the towtruck/repo industry currently compiles exactly this kind of dataset, and trades/sells it to each other? I have no doubt that well funded paparazzi already have access to exactly the tool you describe.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/automobiles/28REPO.html?_r...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/license-plate-data-not-jus...
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/43/4338.asp
> Hacker News is full of really bright people who like the expressiveness of Haskell et al. So it's not surprising that Rob's not going over well here. Just saying that us dumb people really appreciate his efforts.

Some of us use Haskell because we're also dumb people.
All of these machine learning news is making me regret not taking math seriously in my undergraduate studies. I am beginning to get bored doing web development.

Time to peruse Khan Academy and befriend Math.
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Looks great, maybe wrap all that up into a library to be a little less verbose.
Thomas is actively concerned that I describe our products as "games" but I've been having difficulty finding a word the market understands for this, since "CTF" gets blank stares from people on both sides of the market if they don't have a security background. Neither he nor Erin would self-identify as gamers in the same way that I do not self-identify as a ballet enthusiast.

Would I self-identify as a gamer? Well, "Ran a WoW raid guild", "I main AD Jungle Evelynn but haven't gotten many games in since having a kid", "My Steam account lists 720 hours of playtime on 60 games."

I don't particularly hide this on HN and also don't particularly go out of my way to talk about it. Games, books, and running software companies are my three big hobbies; one of these seems to be most relevant here. You can probably find 5~10 comments from me if you search for WoW, Warcraft, LoL, or Starcraft, but mostly they're talking about business, like you would expect.
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The wrong-drummer-guy killed it! He made the other band members look out of place.
Passport RFID reading demonstrated from 217 feet at BlackHat 2010 with just $2500 worth of eBay gear: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2215057/wireless/bad-guy...

The guy reckons 2 miles is theoretically possible with HAM radio-operator-legal transmit power (1.5kW) and the right antennas.
Now you overlooked that small detail where it's Google that is exploiting the data, not me. And doing so on behalf of itself, its partners, its future partners and assignees in perpetuity, and your ex-wife's lawyer.
Yeah, you'll find senators and their families become exempt from displaying licence plates...
This is awesome - and long overdue!

Can't believe how expensive this data was.. at some point we discovered that the suburb boundary polygons could be hacked out of the census reports though!
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I really recommend http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Example-Wordware-Developer.... I don't recall if it contained a segment of Behaviour Trees at this moment, but read up on BTs and replace any section containing FSM with that.
Taleb's point is true, but the style in which he makes it is rambling and inelegant.

Let's hope this is a pre-print of "Skin in the Game" and this gets fixed up by an editor.
Well as the authors pointed out we have two competing hypothesis: Stereotypes are accurate or stereotypes are inaccurate. So far all the evidence suggests that they are accurate with no evidence suggesting that the are inaccurate. While the evidence we have might be wrong for various reasons, but you don’t just get to dismiss it without other evidence - gut feeling is not evidence.

One of the more interesting things about the paper is the evidence we have for stereotypes being accurate is the evidence for this is some of the strongest in physiological studies. Almost everything else we know has less support.

As for how strong does evidence have to be before you will believe you need to provide us with a p value you consider would be convincing.
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Don't worry about the 'Murrica. I'm sure he's from one of those 'Urop startups we're hearing so much about....

:^)

On topic I'm pretty sure NASA uses metric units, after they had that one launch in the 90's that messed up do to a conversion error between metric and imperial.
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We already have the "specialized device used in software development": the laptop (read: MacBook). No longer do we need to be tethered to wires and the grid in order to get meaningful work done as laptop battery efficiency, processing power, and mobile internet connectivity is substantially better than it was ten years, even five years ago. With dedicated cloud servers we do a lot of the compiling and automated test running and deployment on machines other than our personal ones while simultaneously writing new fixes and features ready for the next cycle of server-side code building.

Ten years ago we were in the middle of switching from wired desktops to laptops, but laptops just weren't portable enough due to weight and longevity when disconnected from the wall. Today this is still there case as our processing needs have increased as our laptops have become more formidable. I expect in ten years we'll still be in the same position.

What has been happening on the phone/tablet/watch/etc side of things however is that we're able to do all of our non coding tasks on the go in a less distracting way, such as responding to emails, retriggering failed code builds, or even reviewing code and merging pull requests. But actual programming will be crazy slow without a tactile full sized keyboard, things we've relied on to code with since the dawn of calculators/computers, and that won't change until we're programming software graphically, i.e. as if we were using Origami with Quartz Composer or RelativeWave Form, as opposed to textually.
I thought it meant EMP hardened, kinda disappointed
In case you haven't seen previous discussion around Starfighters: this document is fiction, describing a scenario that was invented for a game based on software reverse engineering, to be launched shortly. But one possible in-universe explanation would simply be that the three chips had the same part number.
If only the rules were applied equally...

Why should I not get the same level of privacy?
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Yeah, then call it 'Almost jQuery 100500'
Can't afford to move to SFO unfortunately - any plans to expand remote work?
Right but ls calls getopt – and determines the meaning of the values provided.

After a glob, of say, * .txt, and let's say there are a.txt, b.txt and c.txt, if I call

ls * .txt -ltra

it expands to ls a.txt b.txt c.txt -ltra

In POSIX it expects options to appear before files, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getopt#Example_1_.28using_POSI...

Trust me, I wish this were not adhered to, but it is.
Why do people think "gaming" and "business" are such disparate interests anyway? Is it so hard to see the "Nevada Gaming Commission" and the "Securities and Exchange Commission" as not entirely orthogonal?

If it helps Thomas sleep better at night, I'd definitely encourage you describe your products as "experiences" instead, because seriously. Games ain't trivial.
Offtopic: on the screenshot "180 updates are security updates" on apparently live service makes me sad...
It makes me very happy that you refer to this as a bug :)
Guys, plural.

So I cheated and looked it up - Kistiakowsky had a background in ordnance :) von Neuman's model was critical though , and may well have been nearly pure invention.

A lot of things like this in the present day are boring, path-dependent stuff. Takes a while to get up to speed.
Only if you wave hands at all the costs.
I believe in some jurisdictions you can if you have a verifiable justification like death threats or stalkers. Other than that I don't think you'd be able to.
True, but they are physically new devices.

The B-52s are the same planes as were built in the 50s (not just the same designs. It's true that there aren't many parts in those planes that exist from the '50s, but and M-4 isn't a AR-15 that was taken the factory and rebuilt - it is a brand new rifle.
Show HN: A little JavaScript game written in five hours (mobile-friendly)
I couldn't sleep last night, so I decided to hack out a really small 'dodge the obstacle' game in Phaser and JavaScript.

It's not particularly polished, but consider going for a high score!
1. Manpads are already pretty common
2. A-10 has both jamming and flare countermeasures against infrared.
3. Anything terrorist groups can acquire are probably going to be infrared MANPADs. My guess is ISIL would probably have acquired MANPADs from the large cache of SA-7 MANPADs Gaddafi stocked, meaning they're all likely infrared MANPADs.

A-10s are not invulnerable against MANPADs, but they're not helpless against them either. In fact, one of the biggest reasons the air force hated the A-10 was because it was "too slow" and could be "easily" hit by a SA-7
The question is, why is OP finding books much less satisfying than when they were younger while , say, my mother continues to enjoy books?
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How about "programming games" or "coding games"?? The word "games" by itself makes me think of mobile games like Crossy Road or Clash of Clans. CTF makes me think of Team Fortress.
>To accept notable contributions, I'll require you to assign your copyright to me.

Okay, but why?
This is the new Australian innovation statement without the media filtering. There are some interesting things in here for Australian startups.
Shodan also keeps track of the ALPN negotation results, see the "Negotiated HTTP Versions" chart: https://www.shodan.io/report/tbi6kDZa
How'd you make the artwork in less than five hours? It's pretty good! Pixel art is currently beyond my abilities, which I need to fix. Whatever your process is, I was hoping to osmose it, if possible. Any pointers to start building this skill?

Your game is neat. Does there happen to be a github repo somewhere? Also, how'd you like Phaser?
E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be'
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Among other things, it allows the project owner to relicense the project without having to contact every contributor requesting permission to relicense.
Residential internet rate competition and pricing strategy
In the SF Bay Area, Comcast and ATT always have good introductory rates ($40/month) for internet that expire (to $75/month) and hence incentivize a switch to the other one. On the phone the rep always acts shocked that a customer would switch based on price. Presumably this pricing scheme only works because customers do not switch right away after the rate hike. How long do you wait after your discount expires to switch? Does anyone on HN have insight into these pricing schemes?
As with most pieces of surveillance, it's that there's a cost difference.

To find out where I am, you'd currently need to have me tailed. The cost involved gives me a reasonable degree of privacy in my estimation. You'd need to have some kind of reasonable cause, and assets, and need to think there was something in monitoring my movements worth spending for.

If it costs you $5 to pull up a complete driving history, you can surveil 1,000 people for the same cost, and go for a fishing trip. See if anyone moderately wealthy has been in a bad part of town, etc
I think you also would like use https://github.com/haosdent/s to simplify ssh login.
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Does anyone know of a science history book that probably reads like this?
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cool. thx for replying back - maybe i'm a bit sensitive about this sort of thing but i'm tired of seeing students put in dangerous situations and then if/when something bad happens they're labelled 'professionals' and their supervisor walks off scott free. once i got out of academia and did some real H&S training and assessments I was amazed at how badly I'd been trained over a decade or so of chem.
Correct, you'd get Medicaid instead.
Sorry, but this is just a "movie plot terrorism" entry for Schneier's annual competition, not reality as we live in it.

In what way is acquiring the skills required to download/compile/configure this software, then integrate it with an electrically detonated bomb - more likely to be undertaken by "the bad guys" than hooking the detonator up to the backlight of a burner phone and standing a block away and texting it? (Just like every reported IED from the latest war-torn country being bombed into democracy and freedom.)

It makes me mad when intelligent people think up "bad things" that might be done with extremely high barriers to entry, when way simpler and easier to achieve methods for the same "bad stuff" are obvious.

Case in point - one of my local councils has just blanket banned "drones" (without even bothering to define what a "drone" is) on the pretext that "there is a concern about people taking unauthorised photos of children in public areas" - See more at: http://www.ausleisure.com.au/news/safety-fears-see-leichhard....

Watch this video of a $600 point-n-shoot camera (at least past the 37 sec mark) and tell me you're more at risk from someone with a drone invading your privacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csp6asxf00o

If people want to take your (or your families) picture, they will. Probably with their cell phone without anyone noticing, or with a $600 camera on a tripod so far away you can't even see them. They _won't_ buy a $1,200+ drone and learn to pilot it, then fly it up close where you can see it. (And they _certainly_ won't be learning to assemble and tune their own quadcopter for a few hundred dollars of Chinese sourced parts. Not just to be a creep with.)

Same if they want to blow something up - they're not going to clone some open source code from github, learn how to use it's python bindings, and build a RaspberryPi powered auto-detonator to trigger off your numberplate. There are _way_ lower barrier-to-entry methods to achieve that goal (which are also way more reliable).
I wonder if an ARC'd APK of the Android in Chromium would work for you.
Interesting example here, in Romania, where a very small but vocal minority (atheists and agnostics, 0.2% of the population) have a constant political fight against public funding of religious cults (18 officially recognised), that is the ~0.2% of the annual budget. One of the many points raised is that its their money too and churches should fund themselves from donations, which in turn, should not be tax free.
That's s horrible spoilage of communication, and makes no sense in a hotel guest book. i think someone played a joke on you.
It is worth noting this article is from July 2014. Perhaps the title could be updated to reflect this fact.
The U.S. is a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. We vote for representatives, not laws, but that's still a form of democracy.

(Actually some states do conduct ballot initiatives, which are a form of direct democracy, as well.)
Could you clarify what you mean when you say it's better for California? I live in California. Is it better for me?
Ask HN: Is there a tool similar to Heroku Dataclips for self-hosted databases?
We've been on Heroku for a while and have found Heroku Dataclips to be a very powerful tool for looking at statistics like user counts. I haven't been able to find anything similar for a database hosted on a typical cloud server. Are there are free/open-source alternatives to really expensive tools like Looker?
Anatomy of HATE; If you're not from my caste/religion, you're non-human to me; http://wh.gov/iyhMK
Sad that the only reason they have had to scale back is a lack of funding. As someone as former insider this work is needed more than ever.
I don't think PAF (which is Australia's postal data) is included in this announcement.

No one should be using PAF to geocode, anyway.
You might be interested in "jq", a python program that provides an expression language for extracting and transforming json data:

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
He recently polled his Twitter followers about that: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/672057419841806337

25% Issue as pamphlet
30% Keep in SITG
15% Randomize
30% We're tired of polls
It doesn't defeat the purpose. VMs are still useful for aggregating services that need their own OS, but it would be a waste to give them their own box.
Housing law bans increasing rent based on number of children. I'm fairly certain that -at least in SF- it doesn't prohibit the reduction of rent for each child present in one's family.

Why would labor law ban the increase of one's salary based on size of one's family?
Go for it! Khan academy calculus and algebra courses are awesome. Also, Calculus One on Coursera is really good.
Thanks! The artwork is more or less twelve 16x16 images, which I drew in an hour or so. The music was generated from a script, and the font was taken from Creative Commons.

I'm not a trained artist, but I've mostly doodled on my spare time. I'll pick one or two particular pieces of technique I'd like to improve, then draw quickly and iterate on them a few times. It can be very frustrating, and progress can be slow, but I'd encourage you to practice! Feel free to show me your work too! (@savagedanface)

You can look at the source code and art assets here:
https://github.com/danbolt/rita-daniel-ideas/tree/master/pik...

I'm very fond of Phaser, because it lets you iterate quickly and doesn't impose a "paradigm" for development. It has a high browser compatibility and is mobile friendly so you can reach a wide audience as well.
Fundamental issues are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_selling
A little pressure washer, mud and road grime and it may as well be 1G-6G6-G
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A Subreddit voting drone targets
Nothing I suspect. If other countries don’t want to join in then the NSA could be turned into a more effective version of wikileaks. While I doubt anything like this will ever happen, it certainly would be interesting.
I (the author) cross-posted this to medium, since apparently comments on facebook notes are not public: https://medium.com/@sbuss/gun-violence-research-f20b2adc18cb
yeah, i watch some old french film, wearing beret was a real thing, especially for artists. anyway, fashion comes and goes, that stereotype might have become obsolete.
So the not-dumb ones probably also know of the existence of things like this: http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Garage-Opener-Receiver-Remote/d...

If you need more than around 200feet of range, a coathanger as an antenna at each end could probably triple that range, a couple of coathangers fashioned into a pair of 310MHz yagis could likely get you several miles range.

All for less than a Raspberry Pi camera.

Even if you, as a "smart guy" were also a bad guy, would you _really_ consider doing things "the hard way"?

The "bad guys" already know reliable ways of long-distance remotely triggering IEDs: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=IED+trigger&num=100&tbm=i...

They're using those cell phone we all threw out 10 years ago. (I think I see a dozen or more of my old Nokia 8210 there...)
A 1985 interview with Andrew Fluegelman, the inventor of shareware
Are they better than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_robot
should be perfectly fine to hold extreme opinions. Bayesian distributions suggests that extreme opinions will be unpopular, and will not find much evidence from the real world, and will be less likely to gain mass following.
Don't set up a demo site. Make it so that I can use the app with data backed by LocalStorage until I decide to sign up.
What were your alternatives? Google geocoding gets expensive quickly.