skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit confused about the "non-root support" -- the (somewhat lengthy) setup manual absolutely seems to require root to set up users and directories in the root filesystem.

In contrast, the official client can absolutely work without having root access. You can install it locally (pip install --user letsencrypt) and change all working directories to paths your user can write to using a configuration file.
The Mozilla project was wrongheaded from the start. Anyone who genuinely believed in open source could have known that KHTML was better quality code and so it proved, despite vastly greater resources being poured into the terrible Netscape codebase. (I can't help thinking this was largely jingoistic Americans preferring an American project).

Some good things have come out of Mozilla-the-organisation - I very much hope that Rust/Servo is a success. But when it actually comes to developing an open-source browser, the incentives of a donation-funded foundation like Mozilla are all wrong.

I don't know what the right way to fund open-source development is. Dual licensing has its share of failures. So does trying to make it a direct business. So do research grants. Partly it's just the tragedy of the commons. In my darkest days I wonder if open source is fundamentally doomed because it simply can't make the monetary incentives line up with good engineering practice.
Or sell yourself to the manager. "This is what I did (proof that you're valuable) - if you assign me to this new thing (and pay me more, since it's harder), I'm going to create 2x the value that I'm creating right now."

If it doesn't work, leave.
But they are volume limited, though I believe they generally store the towed array sonar in the ballast tanks, so the same thing could be done.

More serious problems are the time it would take to extend and retract the buoy, speed limitations while the buoy is being deployed, and noise mitgation on the buoy and cable.

Right now, submarines carry disposable communication buoys that can be deployed from depth and sent a pre-recorded message via satellite. Submarines can be alerted to a pending message while at depth through Extremely-Low-Frequency radio communication that can penetrate water, at which point the submarine can move to periscope depth and communicate via satellite without actually surfacing.
My point was that the evidence isn't strong enough. Asking a relatively small group of students about their views on stereotypes isn't enough to base any strong conclusions on the views of the population at large, larger studies (10000+ people) with a wider group of people (different ages, different backgrounds) would give a much stronger footing for this research.
We did something similar in .NET via the ServiceStack library and some custom code. We open sourced it on github too. We used it to prevent a method from being called more than once at a time primarily.

http://stackify.com/distributed-method-mutexing/

https://github.com/stackify/redis-tagging-locking-sample/tre...
I wouldn't use pre-compiled binaries when it comes to certificates...

I would read the source code and compile ($ go build) it.
Compare with equivalent JS/JSX and you'll see what 'neat' means in this context.
Sprite strikes again! And never disappoints. I remember first coming across his site as reference for a personal project, which instantly stalled me as I spent hours reading every single article.

However... 13 Tamagotchi? We still need the "trillions and trillions". Maybe the next step is to make a SETI@Home style (or something less centralized) distributed Tamagotchi matrix.
LIDAR is pretty cool because you don't have to do object recognition on the point cloud to know what you shouldn't be bumping into - since the data comes back "already 3D" you have distance and size information and just need to calculate speed. Another benefit LIDAR has is its high resolution as compared to RADAR.

Where LIDAR typically falls down is in adverse conditions (rain, snow, low sunlight in the horizon). There's a group at my university, MDAR, who is prototyping a tech to better overcome the adverse weather issues through a better laser sensing technique.

Here's an article with a little more technical information [1].

Disclaimer: I've done some part time work on market research for MDAR.

[1] http://articles.sae.org/13899/
"How many people do you know in Europe that can do that?"

I did that, after only a couple of years in the tech industry. Most of my friends could do that. I wrote a tutorial of sorts how to do things like this in a comment on HN a while ago, but removed it because people seemed to get upset (I could summaries if someone is interested).
Even if it's 1/10, the point still stands.
Shouldn't something called Acme work more like mk than make?

Good work and good ideas though. I haven't looked at the Python client, but it seems like there may be some valid points here.
I thought the micro-mirror approach would be considered electromechanical and not solid-state?
Actually, I'm surprised the Dune universe never explored people who undertook at least some mentat training, at least in secret, to become better leaders, instead of merely relying on that group of human computers.
A Simple Platformer is out
TrueConf Reduces Video Conferencing Prices
As of December 1st 2015, TrueConf reduced prices by 30% for TrueConf Server – an on-premises UC&C solution with the shortest deployment time.

After researching the international market, TrueConf observed that the price point of a video conferencing solution is a major influence on customers, who are no longer as willing to invest in expensive infrastructure like MCUs or similar virtual appliances. Video collaboration is no longer a luxury available only for large enterprises or in conference rooms it has become a vital communication tool across all devices enterprise users choose. As video conferencing has become normalized as a software in the workplace, solutions must become lighter, more flexible, and less expensive: especially for businesses who do not want or cannot use cloud solutions.

To better meet their customer's needs, TrueConf has decided to make secured on-premises video conferencing more affordable. The company has permanently reduced prices for TrueConf Server by 30% to increase the solution’s popularity among SMBs.

“One year ago, we released a free version of TrueConf Server, which became hugely popular around the world and has tripled the installation rate of this product. Surprisingly, there is a huge demand for on-premises collaboration products in the era of cloud services. Good old shareware is the most secure choice in the UC&C collaboration space and we can’t resist making more companies happier with our new reduced pricing,” says Michael Gotalsky, TrueConf CEO.

You can see the updated prices on the company's web site.
The article is pretty explicitly discussing new ways for insurance companies to get better data on your lifestyle.

The poor don't buy overeat because it's cheaper. Those poor (mostly obese) diabetics you discuss could have saved money by consuming less food. That's fine - they can make their own choices, apparently they value twinkies over health. But it's not right to force the rest of us to pay for those choices.

In much the same way, it's not right to force third parties to live with pollution just so a factory owner can save money by not upgrading his machines.
On the anecdotal side most accelerators I've been to in London were filled with non-UK and non-EU founders, the majority would be from the US, Asia and the Middle East, the European founders would often be from Eastern Europe where people are I guess much more accustomed to having to "fight" for it.

I also agree about the employment part from both sides (legal and employee mentality) with the exception of highly competitive fields (big 4, high end law firms) you would rarely find many employees willing to work for 12-14 hours a day when need be.

Even in the accelerators unless it was a "beer and talk night" the place would pretty much start to clear out around 5, and by 7 there would be no one there. Similar accelerators in Eastern Europe or the Baltic states (as well as out side of the EU) would be quite often still quite full till 11pm and even later.

Employment laws in many countries also make it very hard for startups to actually develop, the UK (and to some extend eastern Europe) probably has it's the easiest (which is why I think that and the combination of access to financial institution is why accelerators like London) as small businesses are still exempt from things like mandatory pension.

However hiring employees in other European countries may incur heavy financial costs which include pension, healthcare, allot of paid vacation and other benefits, that combined with the cost of actually managing all the HR related stuff and the fact that in some countries firing employees on a permanent contract requires you to involve a court makes it very unattractive for startups.

I also agree about the fact that many employees simply do not want that life style, but this has also been some what solidified by employers, as you won't find many if any at employers at all willing to pay a kings ransom for extraordinary talent most roles will have a salary range set to them and while it's possible for some one to make 10% more than their colleague or even in some very rare cases 15-20% (which will usually include other responsibilities) you wont find people making 50% not to mention double what their colleagues do simply based on their apparent talent or what they've demanded during hiring / what was offered at that time.
No! Javascript the language and thread are not related. If you find a Javascript implemented over JVM like ringojs uses JVM threads to execute JavaScript in parallel. In which case you get both event based within thread, and multi-threaded at the same time.

http://ringojs.org/documentation/ringo_101/
The most important thing to do after a server setup is to enable firewall. By default block all ports on public IP and then open ssh, http and https. There are tools like ufw, just few commands and your server is secure. This is much better approach than securing all services and system deamons run on a server.
700 people is more than enough to get a very representative sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size_determination
And value created is lumpy. I found a bug in 20 mins in one major job site in the uk that was costing them £1/2 mill a week.
There's definitely references to people doing exactly that --- Paul Atreides is the one I can immediately find, although of course he's special.
What Are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? How Can You Benefit Out of MOOCs?
It's not very unusual to shoot with the "wrong" hand. Sure, someone who had never used a gun before would naturally pick one up with her dominant hand. Those who practice a bit, however, often shift to using their dominant eye (occasionally opposite the dominant hand). If only one chirality of firearm were available when one were learning to shoot, one might acclimate to that as well. Right-handed bolt-action rifles are a regular annoyance to me.
The US Congress has, by standards of other Parliamentary bodies, weak party discipline. The parties in the Australia's Parliament exercise almost totally complete voting discipline (formally or informally). The UK somewhere in-between with the concept of the three-line whip.

In that sense the USA already has a coalition party structure: various voting blocs form within the two parties and occasionally defect against the rest. In Australia we call them "factions", but their role is to seize control of the party and then enjoy the fruits of party in discipline. In the USA they can instead directly exercise their votes on the floor of Congress.

This is partly a consequence of the ability to mix appropriations with other bills and for amendments to happen in committee. In Australia neither of these is possible: appropriations bills can only deal with appropriations or they become totally invalidated, and amendments have to be moved in the open. Party discipline becomes necessary under such conditions, but the Parliament as an institution is arguably more functional.

Another cause is the primaries system. Members of Congress are answerable firstly to a constituency that represents outliers of outliers, not to the general electorate. They are motivated to occasionally defect.

In any case, even if you introduce multi-member electorates, gerrymandering doesn't vanish. And the USA needs a number of other electoral reforms, too: independent electoral commissioners, replacing first-past-the-post with another counting method and so on.
The right way to handle it is to enforce laws in meatspace. To create CP, for example, you need to abduct and exploit children, and produce content. This leaves a trail of money, places, and witnesses. Bear down on that instead of snooping.

It could improve the effectiveness of law enforcement to force them to focus on meatspace crime rather than playing with their shiny computer toys.
Such a clickbait way to say that Google is developing a way to draw blood needle free.
For your convenience, the paper mentioned in this article, "Goethe's Second-Price Auction", can be found at https://www.econ2.uni-bonn.de/pdf/goethes_second.pdf
Well, technically Colombia was then part of the Spanish Empire, and that galleon belongs to the Spanish Crown. I personally don't mind but knowing how low gold is in the spanish central bank, probably the spanish gov will make some kind of move to get back its "historical heritage"...
I do my best to avoid the verge any more.
Could you post a citation, please?
my solution is an external WD drive that has RAID1. It's not gonna save me from all scenarios of failure, but it does increase my confidence that if my computer dies, i'll be able to get data back. I also rotate out drives and keep them for historical purposes to have something to go back to that might be several months old, but at least have my "stuff".
I guess you can look at the comment as trolling. But look past that and it is an interesting idea that’s worth thinking about.
If you can't leave, you have no leverage and rely on the benevolence of others (a trait which is exceedingly rare). I've been in the situation where I went from being the junior hire to the team lead, with only minor pay adjustments. All it took to fix that was to point out (nicely) that I expected to be paid what I was worth, and they had the choice to do so or to risk me walking out. Line up an alternative, then leverage that into a better situation. If you have no alternative, you're not underpaid, regardless of fairness.
This is an academic exercise, as it implicitly accepts that there are natural "groups" in which members share the same attributes and as a result individuals within those groups can be expected to either 1) act together or 2) if apart act in a similar way as individuals. In fact there is nothing of the sort, groups are a creation of the social mind and the individual elements may or may not behave similar as individuals.

The brain naturally makes heuristics and clusters items that it finds similar into the same group. "Stereotypes," which may be globally common traits but are attributed with higher weight to certain socially constructed groups, can memetically reinforce those groupings by making them more cognitively "available."

There is no rational solution to this - as it's a biological process. Like Beer, pattern matching and grouping is the cause of and solution to all of our problems.
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The same could be applied to Apaches, Comanches, Navajos, etc ...
The official let's encrypt client will happily not modify your configuration, too. I don't understand why being distributed as a binary is important.
Coming soon: "We kill people who use encryption."

If you have something to hide from us, you are the enemy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQiz0Vavmc

That was an easy google search.
BLAKE2 Crypto Hash and MAC optimized for size on x86 cpu
grsec does this:

https://grsecurity.net/
When I was a kid (way back in the 70s) my parents always used to get those Radio Shack kits with the spring terminals you could wire together between the parts to make all kinds of circuits. Similar to this kit...

http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-1604010/elenco-200-in-1-ele...

They still sell the old RS stuff on Ebay. I guess those Arduino boards are nice and all, but kids like to create things sometimes, not just play with pre-made stuff. I loved to tinker with things when I was a kid (and not just take alarm clock guts out and stick them in a different case) so those kinds of kits really kept up my interest.
The math of mass shootings
This is all the same sort of thing that the folks who keep "finding" Amelia Earhart do, and it's all completely backwards. They are not finding bits of evidence, investigating them at length, and then reaching a conclusion about Hitler. They're finding "evidence" and then asking "how can this prove my theory about Hitler"? It's the reverse of a real investigation, because it starts with a conclusion and then looks for evidence to support it.
I both love and hate stories like this: I love them because it is amazing we're still finding new ways of making batteries; I hate them because at least 3/4th never make it to market, and the ones that do usually take about a decade.

Example: ubiquitous high speed front side bus interconnects between devices. Infiniband, Thunderbolt, RDMA over Ethernet, multi-host USB 3.x networks, whatever. Getting cheaper? Yes. Ubiquitous? No.

Example: Freesync being deployed everywhere, in monitors, on phones/tablets, being added to HDMI and put on all future TVs, and finally just eradicating a ton of processing latency in the display and getting UI responsiveness I last saw when all analog VGA CRTs existed. Is that a thing yet? No.

Example: Internet so fast that latency basically vanishes, and the last mile is no longer a liability, thanks to ISPs like Google Fiber proving it is cheap, easy, and required to deploy. Do I have Google Fiber or anyone else standing up to the challenge yet? No.

Example: A smartwatch, in the vein of Google Wear or iWatch, that has a week+ battery life, and can do various action tracking shit that Moov has been pioneering, and has actual working heart rate tracking, and has water proofness measured in tens of meters (so I can go swimming with the thing on if I so choose). Is that a thing yet? No.

All of these have been promised to me in the past decade. I'm tired of getting my hopes up, but hope is one of the few things I have left.
Switching away from primary's to OMOV One Member One Vote - would improve the USA's political system no end.
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Depends on what you're measuring, and what proportion of the total possible sample size is being taken.

If you're measuring the education quality at a University of a few thousand students, then 700 students (from across different faculties) is ample. If you're attempting to measure the perceived accuracy of stereotypes across society at large, then you need to show that your sample is representative of that society, as personal backgrounds and personal experience are likely to play large factors in determining how others are perceived.

The sample you pick from matters. To give an example, imagine asking 700 people in the ethnic majority of a society about the effects of racism in that society.
I use Time Machine for full system backups, mainly for convenience if my SSD fails. I also rsync onto two separate drives the two main folders that I'd be devestated to lose: photos and music.

I also always liked the quote of there only being two HDD's in the world: ones that have failed and ones that haven't failed yet.
I still think the cap on the number of representatives is the problem. The current number of 535 should be more like 10,000+ considering the current population size. This would also solve gerrymandering and help with the money problem.
The text of the article currently seems to talk about Colombia's “national cultural patrimony” -- I couldn't find much about Spain; was it edited? was the earlier text quoting Spain?
> Software is nothing like building a house except in rare circumstances. Real world construction projects are mostly about creating linear combinations of known things.

Have you actually built a house before? The plans never quite match up to the reality. It always takes longer than you think, and costs more. No house is exactly the same as another. Every house has bespoke parts to it. Shoddy construction happens often, and fixing the issues that result can cost more than initial construction. And then the customer changes their mind, causing costly rework that never quite fits properly into the initial design. I would say building software is very much like building a house.
Yeah, Paul is the product of generations of research into trying to produce their equivalent of the ubermensch, the Kwisatz Haderach. He does receive training as a Mentat from Thufir Hawat, but I think it is implied that such a thing only worked because of his Bene Gesserit training and the fact he is a superior example of humanity.

It's been awhile since I've read through the Dune novel, I should go read it again.
Sorry to burst your bubble but "In Europe we have X" is more often than not a "myth", Europe is much more closer to the US it in's overall outlook than most European would think.
And as far as educated professionals go then Europe is actually considerably poorer than the US, so unless you're a low skilled worker I would not take so much pride in that.
Is There a Future for the Professions?
Isn't Paul Atreides being secretly trained as such by Hawat? Or was it just Bene Gesserit training?
Related - discussion of the cited article from symmetry from two days ago [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10674526
>but for the average programmer it's pretty close (skills are quite homogeneous

I don't think that's right. First of all, programming skills are not homogeneous at all, they are in fact widely dispersed. A bad programmer can very easily destroy value by slowing down his team, in a way that doesn't happen in e.g. a factory environment. It's also not easy to judge programmer skill pre-hiring, so starting salaries are biased toward the mean, making good programmers underpaid and bad programmers overpaid.

Additionally, there are biases, morale considerations, and cultural issues that prevent compensation being equal to value added. Businesses are incredibly averse to firing people (there are some good reasons for this of course, e.g. morale). There is also very strong inequity aversion (again partially a morale issue) that makes it impossible to pay top programmers what they're really worth. Both of these issues lead to significant deviations.
Ask HN: Is TechCrunch Disrupt London Livestream?
Saw they had some events in the past streamed. Anyone knows if they do it with this event?
The link seems to be down. Actually, the whole site is. But thanks for your comment. It makes total sense.
The project just completed work on one of the major reservoirs used by the system. The Thornton Reservoir is a limestone quarry that can hold 8 billion US gallons (30,280,000 m^2)

Here's a video of the reservoir taking in 400 million gallons after a heavy rainfall last week:

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151203/south-chicago/watch-...
None of those peoples come from modern day Colombia.

Aztecs - Mexico
Maya - Guatemala and neighbouring countries.
I had exactly that story, disk crashed, time machine not working. Fortunately most of the data on the disk was ok and I had cloud backup as a second backup. For me Time Machine + Arq for online backup makes me feel safe...
How much does a $5 computer cost?