skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did the exact same thing - took apart a camera and noticed the flash capacitor had a shock warning writing right on it, so I thought to myself "I better discharge this before it shocks me." I figured shorting it out using a screwdriver across the terminals would do the trick.

A huge flash arc mini-explosion blasted that screwdriver and left me seeing spots for a few hours.
I hope that Sanders becoming president will help at least as a first step.
On criticizing programming languages (without criticizing their users)
Boosting telomerase is a double-edged sword - it can make cancer bloom, too, and we all have some cancerous cells in us.
I do remember the hotkeys to send windows to the side or corners, which I liked. But, so far I am doing fine without them, and appreciating some hard won stability.
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Edition 109
Yes, you're right. Now where that paper finishes is pretty much where GoshawkDB starts. Because with GoshawkDB, the server controls the object UUId, you can push as much entropy in there as necessary so the problem identified in the paper is gone. However, ultimately what GoshawkDB ends up generating is basically a set of numbers that you interpret as a way to construct an order of the different nodes (it's the path down the tree, as described in the paper). This set of numbers you could intentionally change in order to change the load balancing to exploit locality.

So yes, currently it'll rigorously enforce a uniform balancing. However, it should be possible to move objects around if/when necessary. I doubt that'll be in for 0.2 though!
they can't force Apple to do this easier

*either
Your comment reminded me of a funny thing. I did a couple years in the Alaskan prison system. The prison I was in served two tacos every Wednesday for lunch.

I worked in the computer lab, and as a lark, I wrote a cute program where an inmate could input their projected release date, and the program would tell them how many tacos they had left before their release.

Years later, after my release, I learned that the department of corrections had been sued by an inmate who alleged their "Taco Time Calculator" had miscalculated his sentence.
Actually, I think your argument rests on a poor understanding of the laws you are criticizing, as you presume incorrectly that they rely on definitions of "game of chance" and "game of skill" such that the former must have no element of skill and the latter no element of chance.

The definitions are different in each case, but none of them work that way. In New York, for instance, the outcome depending materially on chance, whether or not skill is also involved, makes it a game of chance.
The emailed login link is a short-lived, one-time password and can be associated with a cookie already set on the website's "send me a login email" page.
SQLite is the most widely deployed database engine out there.
0% interest rates are not a concept that applies to index funds
This isn't a product, so it doesn't need a flashy landing page.
My first experience with Persona was through my mobile phone provider, Ting. They still use Persona: https://ting.com/account/login. I loved it then, and I love it now.
I've hit the upvote button, tweeted Stavros that I think this is awesome - but I still want to document my support with a post.

I don't have a FB account and don't use my Google account a lot. I should really delete the latter.

But it would be so much easier with Persona. Yes, a lot of sites won't adopt it, at least at first. But with a well supported alternative that I want to use, I'd have an easier time to say "fuck it" and close the browser window.

Right now I'm trying to go for the next best thing: Different accounts per service (vs braindead "Log in with Silicon Valley Corp").

Alas .. Persona would simplify my password store a LOT. I'd back a campaign. Not sure if I could offer hundreds of dollars, but let me state here that I'd find a way to add 50-80 right away/as an incentive to adopt the project again and I definitely would be able to contribute a recurring amount (a la Patreon etc) for the ongoing development.
Sure, just google crank-forward bikes, and there are dozens of them on the market now.Many of them trend towards hipster/cruiser, which is not my personal style, but there are many choices.

The one I have is one of these -- http://www.electrabike.com/bikes/townie/original-3i-3i-eq?g=...
LXC is using containers in the same manner as VMs. There are still reasons to use a container over a VM. To name a big one, application density. There's a Canonical page about it I can dig up if you want that claims you can get ~14 times the OS density with LXC containers that you can with KVM VMs. That allows you to provide a high degree of separation while still allowing you to use more traditional tools to manage it.

Not everyone is of the caliber that tends to browse HN. Not everyone adapts to new technology as quickly as people around here tend to, especially if that new technology requires a huge upheaval in the way that things have been done for the last 10 or 15 years. Using containers the same way we do VMs provides a lot of the benefits of containers without requiring a drastic change from other departments.
Some laws use a predominance test; New York law, which seems to be the main focus, does not -- it uses material element of chance standard, which can apply even when a game is primarily skill-based.
Facebook’s “Anonymous Login” doesn’t protect you in any way from Facebook, it’s for hiding information Facebook owns about your life from other websites. So it doesn’t help with this:

>The basic, accurate information you receive from the FB SDK really helps salespeople identify qualified leads for trial-to-paid conversions; the info also can be used to tell you what other websites people visit or software they use. This really helps make sales and improve your software in a way that seems generally net positive for consumers and producers.

but does nothing at all to protect your privacy.

> And yet it's hardly adopted anywhere.

That’s because it’s Public Relations. Just like their TOR gateway. Just like Zuckerberg’s LLC “charity.” Just like everything else they do[1].

“Steps in the right direction” is the signature move of modern corporate PR.

[1] http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/258060-advocate-accu...
How we got 30$ on Android Market
Facebook Anonymous Login is a menace to the open internet.

As a website operator, these are no longer your users, they're Facebook's users, and Facebook can take them away from you at any time.

As a user, these are no longer your website accounts, they're Facebook's website accounts, and Facebook can take them away from you at any time.

Putting Facebook in complete control of identity is not healthy for anyone. At least when you get email addresses from Facebook, you can bootstrap an independent relationship with your customers if necessary. From the user's perspective: If Facebook blocks your account, the website operator can still validate your ownership with the email address.
Watching Netflix also makes them FreeBSD users, as that actually streams the video.
Medical Specialties as Programming Languages
At Couchbase we recently introduced an open source SQL-style language with extensions for nested data. Live tutorial: http://query.pub.couchbase.com/tutorial/

We get a lot of folks who start with a Mongo evaluation and end up moving to something more serious.
Takeaways:
Don't store strong chemicals in your bedroom

Some of these seem the wrong side of irresponsible
What's the difference between these sort of libraries and an ORM? Don't ORM's provide built in validation and serialization?
Stalin's military lacked in organization, tactics and strategy due to the purges and was surprised by Operation Barbarossa's timeline, but it was well armed and well equipped. Case in point being the Soviet tank forces, which were much more numerous and advanced than German intelligence had suspected.

The population's ability to bear sacrifices and Stalin's willingness - matched by Hitler's - to sacrifice millions of civilians alongside the soldiers were instrumental, but it certainly was the military - rather than civilian resistance - that ultimately broke the German war machine.
Considering the US has 231x the area of the Netherlands (and the infrastructure is far worse), we rely on hacks, kludges, and private industry for stuff to get from one place to another.

Y'know, if you really think about it, the US is just one big growth hack.

Makes me all the more eager to move back to Poland.
No, I didn't write anything like that. I said that some search results can cause serious problems and there should be a legal framework to prevent this.

Inaction is ignoring these issues and letting affected people suffer while fighting battles they can't win.

The solution you suggest isn't in touch with reality. The people who created the false information probably aren't (they or their business) in the same country as the victim. A legal battle can be very long and very expensive. If the victim is jobless for example and can't find a job due to the false information, how can he/she go sue an entity in a foreign country? What prevents the perpetrators from creating a new company with the same data in a different country?

Google isn't in the wrong but they acquired so much power, that now they also have responsibility to help innocent people affected very negatively by their business.
It's a waste of time to interact with policy makers.

They have no interest in just or fair or good outcomes. They are corrupt and beholden to those with wealth and power, and they only desire the same.

The law has become an illegitimate tool of violenence to oppress any who dare oppose the state. The only solution is wide scale defiance.
> rsync is apparently extremely inefficient in a number of common cases, such as simply renaming a folder (completing synchronizing all the files in the folder again).

If you run it the normal way this is (sadly) true.

However you can use the `--fuzzy` flag to make the behaviour a little more clever in handling this specific case.
IoT Dev Kit Runs UClinux on a Microsemi Cortex-M3/FPGA SoC
Tungia negocios – Las mejores maneras de promover su negocio en línea Hay m
or maybe even more cynically, he'll use data about how his customers use his tools to further optimize his own betting strategies.
What Really Happened With the DNC’s “Datagate”?
> It should've been supported directly within the Firefox chrome ASAP.

That could have been fixed, and could still be fixed.

> It had branding different than the site you logged in to and was in a popup[1].

That could have been fixed, and could still be fixed.

> It took the name of another Firefox feature that users already knew about.

That could have been fixed, and could still be fixed really, but it's pointless now.

> Because the team was experimenting fast, the code quality of the service was such that outside contribution to it (or even cross-team contribution internally) was hard to impossible.

That could have been fixed, and could still be fixed.

> We had enough time to do these things, but we didn't. The team accomplished something really amazing, but it wasn't enough, and most importantly, putting more effort into what already existed was not going to work. This idea that Mozilla can just turn around and throw effort at Persona and make it win now is, IMO, wrong.

Why wouldn't it make it work? Persona was only alive for 2 years. It saw slow adoption, in part due to usability issues. If you fix the usability issues and give it more time, why wouldn't it be more successful? The issues holding it back were not fundamental. In fact, the fundamental design of Persona was sound and worked very well.

Now, yes, merely fixing things and making the project supported again won't make it more successful overnight. It may need rebranding, it may need a lot of promotion, strategic partnerships, etc. But to declare it completely dead and waste effort on recreating what you already have is silly and counterproductive.

Persona already has many sites - and people! - using it. It already has some (limited) brand recognition. It already has a solid protocol and design, a working codebase, a hosted service that is usable.

The hypothetical successor to Persona? It has none of this. A hypothetical new approach? It has none of this. Could that change? Sure, but you're still starting from zero, and you have to re-do everything.

But why start again when what you had wasn't fundamentally broken?

> We need a successor or a new project.

Why? What could a successor or new project bring that Persona couldn't?
There are integer additions of different size, but is there anything you could honestly call plain integer addition that has different behavior from wrapping?
I did this puzzle with a coworker and regular "commits" ( photocopy and add a version number ) was pretty useful. We botched it more than once and it was nice being able to revert.
Very Interesting!
Revoking certificates is a hard problem (how do you know if the CRL is blocked by an attacker, or just down right now?), so instead we rely somewhat on the certs expiring after a while so that they'll eventually get replaced. It also offers some mitigation against certs being stolen without you realising, as they have a limited lifetime.

It's the same theory with passports, credit cards etc.
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015: The Business of Ed-Tech
Snake Oil: Signal Proof Headwear
The patent system would be a lot better if it didn't protect "obvious" technologies (which in general is pretty much all of the useful technology).

One of the largest problems with the patent system is large corporations try to position themselves as the go-between on some obvious and useful technology. It's not about protecting real innovation to them, it's about stifling competition.

None of the major corporations (technology or otherwise) are innocent here as far as I can tell.
A more distributed internet infrastructure would also be needed i.e. mesh networks. Dragnet surveillance is too simple and easy to do when the internet infrastructure is centralized in the hands of a couple ISPs.
Therapeutic Refactoring
this was fun. i popped in on a nice fellow that listened in to my miles davis and tea slurping. i wish I had a problem to talk out! I'll have to come back....
Notable Medical Findings of 2015
I still remember getting a new computer for Christmas almost two decades ago and seeing Microsoft underline words red and correct spelling/grammar the first time. It felt like magic.
Anti-Aging Research by James A. Green
Yeah, because bloody revolution is sure to work out well. No way that could possible lead to unintended outcomes.
That behavior that you set will be reset back to defaults with the next update.

Thanks, but I have better things to do with my time than chasing settings in the system, whose vendor does not respect my choices.
No, you're just plain wrong. Go read any of the scientific literature about it. And yes, it does have a scientific basis, that's why REAL SCIENTISTS talk about herd immunity. The vaccines are NOT effective for everyone who takes them, that's why herd immunity is necessary.
http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume
Darwin award applicant.

"I had made some gunpowder and had some sitting on an outside table. I was experimenting with fuse design and was burning a fuse 6 feet or so away."

"I bought some H2SO4 and used most of it immediately. Unfortunately the original plastic bottle didn't fit in my cabinet. So I transferred the contents to a couple of small plastic bottles. Finally, the cabinet was temporarily blocked so I decided to temporarily store them on a shelf next to my bed."

"I had a few hundred mL of acetone and H2SO4 waste stored in a glass peanut butter jar."
I posted an HTML link above from the project's main website.
I'd like to see a PDF, too, although I put an HTML example above.
I'm with you man. What we need is a way to get in front of CEO's, presidents and managers, get their attention and listen.
Should follow up on the lack of 2008 PP data. Might show up as an abortion peak...possibly why it has apparently been witheld.

Uh..downmods?
This is a bit off topic, but I don't understand the government's need to stunt technology for the good of the country. Is there really a net benefit for spending trillions on cyber spying? I've yet to see a cost benefit analysis on that, and would appreciate any input on that.
This is perhaps true for English, isolating language with clear word boundaries.

Making spellchecker for Russian (inflecting language), Japanese (I think they don't always put spaces between words, Koreans less so) or Finnish (agglutinating language) still takes good part of a decade, more or less.
This might work out. With the preemption clause ("notwithstanding any other provision of law"), network providers can now snoop on any government snooping directed at them.
Ubuntu Message of the Day
sudo nano /etc/update-motd.d/10-help-text

printf "*************************************\n"
printf "*** apps.NNNNNNN.com ***\n"
printf "*** STAGING DC-8 ***\n"
printf "*** $(($(date -d 'Dec 31' +%j)-$(date +%j)+1)) days to New Year! ***\n"
printf "*************************************\n"

Re-login and enjoy.

*************************************
*** apps.NNNNNNN.com ***
*** STAGING DC-8 ***
*** 8 days to New Year! ***
*************************************
they are ok if the passwords are hashed
Wide scale defiance does not necessarily mean bloody revolution. Dr. King being a prime example.
> Your argument would also apply to running OS X Server,

And it does! Old work had a few in house servers with OS X. If it was free, we'd see a lot more of it, I am convinced.

> If you like, substitute 'competence' for 'prowess.' Running Ubuntu is like running Windows: it's popular;

Isn't the ability to quickly ship a stable, reliable product that customers are happy to pay for, a better sign of competence than say picking Slack or FreeBSD for server for now good reason except to show competence?

The question is who is the show of competence for? Other developers, customers, management? I can see developers boasting who knows how to configure and run obscure distros and use exotic functional languages and that's cool. I was just saying after a while you realize that show of prowess is not what is important.
You can't do that. End-to-end encryption only applies to private data or p2p communication. Anything p2p wouldn't even be covered by CISA since it's for network operators. If I make a post to HN it has to be decrypted for anyone else to read it. Financial transactions all need to be shared with banks. Banks can't read your balance unless they can decrypt.
CERN'S+LATEST+ATTEMPT+TO+BRING+LUCIFER+TO+EARTH+SURFACE+-+YouTube
Then sit by and allow the American government to continue wholesale slaughter of millions, allow it to bomb more weddings, take the innocent and lock them away without trial, assisinate whomever they please without due process, torture with impunity, spy on any and everyone, declare everything they do to be a state secret, and allow any they wish to ignore these laws since there is those who are above and those who are below. They will outlaw any tools that threaten them, while using the same to dominate others.

Accept the American police state, accept your life as a slave with no power over yourself, only what the kings above will allow.
I'm not exactly sure what semantics you intend, it seems like you might be able to spell this

{ foo; baz; } | grep bar | sort -rn | tail

or, in bash only:

cat <(foo | grep bar) <(baz | grep bar) | sort -rn | tail

This is assuming you didn't intend interleaving, for which the second syntax would work but you'd need something other than cat.
One would think that doing something like weakening and backdooring encryption would provide a negative net benefit because it helps hackers to steal information more readily. I guess it depends on what you think of the broken window fallacy.
surprised they don't have libopencm3 (http://github.com/libopencm3/libopencm3/)
On Hating Your Job
And this is a great example of why Gnome is such a PITA: to change anything like that, you have to go download and install some extension, which of course will break the next time Gnome updates.
Citation plz (no paleo blogs.)
There is lies and there is statistics :). For more reading on the subject, I recommend Beautiful Evidence by E. Tufte. He's a classic when it comes to infoviz.
Technically correct, but the ad campaign is trying to make it sound like it's only to do good. That's what's hypocritical.

That said, Facebook is not good.
How to deal with science denialists
There are two things I never liked about Unity, the Amazon thing, and the super shallowness when pressing the "windows" button to launch apps. It only works reasonable well on super fast machines with a really good graphics card. I don't understand why it takes up to a second before I can start typing on almost any machine I use. And it is only a overlay which could almost be static.

Gnome on the other hand does the whole live animation thing for every window on every desktop and it is still mega fast even on my oldest machines. I press the button and basically instantly I am able to start typing and launching the app I need.
Some decorations were up the day after Halloween where I live.
What does Mongo have to do with Javascript, and why is querying a DB with javascript a bad idea? What language you query a DB in should have no impact.
Have never tried it myself - but as a user of both DPP (canon digital photo professional) and Photoshop, I have found that the cabin software has an advantage with quality - something about understanding the camera better.
How does darktable match up to DPP and Photoshop?
What I've realised is that most startups are just traditional businesses, but done with a bit more digital marketing. Selling product, selling services, b2b, etc.

It's only a few startups that are purley technology startups, the majority are actually traditional.
Hacking strength: Gaining muscle with least resistance
can you explain the mechanism for the bandwidth increase?

do the photovoltaics act as logic gates? doing calculations?

if the mechanism that is controlling the optics is electric:both transmitting and receiving; it would seem the throughput would be the same as pure electric

i understand fiber optic because light will travel a longer distance faster than an electric field propagated through wire, but these chips are built using atomic scale welding techniques(i)

(o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4&feature=youtu.be...
How is this dude not dead yet?!
In all honestly I do not see what the concern over this law has been about. It doesn't expand the (terrible) surveillance powers but just allows network operators to do what they have been doing anyway (e.g. CloudFlare's WTF and cloudsourced DDoS protection), and share data that you reasonably should expect to be shared.

What is concerning is what the law may be twisted to "authorize" (see patriotic act and mass metadata), but on the surface of it I really don't see concern about CISA.
Lack of screenshots is usually a red flag; you guys should fix that :)
There probably is not, but there is a benefit to those who make a living from spying and undermining freedom. Also, as a matter of psychology, most people prefer it when "something is being done" even when that something is ineffective or self-destructive, so there is some political motivation to "do something", so you can claim to "have done something" in case something bad happens, to avoid being responsible.
There are many alternative to bloody revolution to topple governments, and not all aftermaths are worse. Look at the way the Soviet Union came apart. Nations regained freedom. Very few lives were lost.

Not all aspects of those revolutions were within the law, but neither were they more than minimally bloody.
About -> Screenshots
The first one was indeed a bad chart, the others simply lying with data. That might as well have been wrong in written text...