skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting to compare drones to the state of wireless a century ago. 100 years ago, every hacker with access to an oatmeal can and an old Model T spark coil was building a spark-gap transmitter. There was no licensing. It was pretty crazy with commercial wireless companies trying to contact ships at sea, the Navy, and hackers all on top of each other.

So, the Commerce Department regulated radio. It basically outlawed personal wireless. The "hams" put up a fuss, and the government gave them everything from "200 meters and down", subject to a license. This is because all the World Famous Professors had said that any wavelength shorter than 200 meters was completely useless and of no value. The hams whined a bit, but then got on with discovering short wave propagation. At which point, most of the short wave spectrum was taken away from them, but they were able to retain slivers this time.

So here we are again. Hackers have cool technology. Government takes it away as much as they can get away with, licenses a little bit back to the hackers. Next move: hackers.

The cycle continues.
Well, you can’t give people stuff to do offline because they cheat (you’ll see the whole thing show up in no time as a Stack Overflow question). And you can’t avoid coding questions during interviews because it is astounding how much people lie on résumés; seriously, even people who describe their background as “Advanced Knowledge of $LANGUAGE”, can choke when asked to do the most trivial things in $LANGUAGE.

I try to ask questions that aren’t completely ridiculous, but definite tests of knowledge. And in my mind I judge correctness not so much on remembering obscure syntax but on how they approached the problem, and how much time it seemed to take them to start doing something. I always ask about things like how they approach debugging, testing, etc. because these are important too and they tell you a lot about how likely the person is to be able to handle any problem you come up with.
I don't have a particularly strong opinion about most markup, but I know for sure I'll never use something that uses xmlto/xsltproc as part of the toolchain (such as Docbook). As a maintainer of several packages for a Linux distribution, I've gotten far too many headaches dealing with packages that rely on Docbook for generating their manpages or other documentation. The user's xsltproc setup has to be just right for the packages to build. Anything off in the XML catalog will break the whole build. Supporting it has been the opposite of fun.

For manpages, I write mdoc directly. It's not hard. There are several great mdoc resources on http://bsd.lv

For reference material, I stick with either Pandoc or I use LaTeX (along with tex2page for generating HTML). Anything fairly small tends to get the Markdown treatment. If it's something I foresee will need to be split into multiple documents, I reach for LaTeX. Scribble is pretty nice, too, if you're dealing with Racket or Scheme.
Oops, my bad. I didn't realize this was a server side issue, that is pretty bad.
I have been expecting github markdown to become the defacto standard just as github itself has become the defacto standard for hosting.

This would be a good thing since any standard is better than the tower of babel we have now.
Up Yours, Brutus (2014)
> A passwords work by being (a) secret and (b) changable. Your biometrics are categorically not secret and categorically not changable.

Very true, the biometric itself (face, fingerprint, iris, etc) really shouldn't change for it to be reliable. But this doesn't always mean that a picture of your face will automatically allow someone else to gain access in a real world system. Further, even a stolen raw template from a data breach doesn't necessarily guarantee anything.

Currently, I disagree that a biometric should be used in the same role as a password for most applications. Most research is geared toward recognition performance, but comparatively little is focused on system security (such as spoofing). However, i still get uneasy when i see such declarative statements claiming that a biometric can never be a password. Microsoft Windows "Hello" [1] is really the best implementation of what i mean. The user sits down at the computer and the system recognizes them. For consumer applications this is really the goal of any biometric system.

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/getstarted-wha...

> A biometric 100% authenticates identity....

the author assertively states that a biometric does not authenticate identity, so my comment is related to the fact that the purpose is to authenticate identity (not that it will be right 100% of the time - easy to see how that would be confused - probably should have used different terminology)
> Why would an AI want to make war with humans, in the first place?

Aren't there already efforts to incorporate some basic AI, such as to assist targeting, into military drones and the like?

AI that "makes war" with humans will be created by humans against other humans at first, as a matter of inevitable course; it's just another shiny weapon that nations will want to have and outdo each other in.

Remember the nuclear arms race? Russia and the USA showing off their destructive capability in turn, each explosion bigger than the last? AI-based militaries, or at least automated assassins, will probably kick off the next arms race. Sooner or later someone must want to show off an AI that can laser-focus on exterminating everyone but their masters. After that it's just a matter of time for the definition of "masters" to be up for interpretation by that AI...
Note: if you're using Ubuntu, there is a semi-official PPA that has a non-vulnerable version (2.7.3): https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
I've worked with designers with limited JS knowledge on a JSX-free react code. There may have been a short learning curve, but it didn't seem to slow them down much at all, even really early on, certainly not after a week (at that point our codebase was coffeescript, so JSX wasn't a great option).

It may have helped that we converted an existing code base (so there was a lot of html-as-JS example material to see), and devs were around the corner for any questions - but in my experience, JSX did not appear to be relevant, not at all.

The only advantage jsx does have IME is that it enables copy-pasting real html (sometimes with minor alterations) into your source, and that's a mundane but constant minor boon. All the examples on the net are in html; and if e.g. you use browser dev tools to rearrange a page to look like you want it you can easily copy-paste that back into the source. I don't think that advantage is worth putting up with JSX for, but it's not irrelevant either.
FinTech Startups Working with Incumbents Key to Addressing Financial Inclusion
> So I -do- place some skepticism on the idea of blanketing 'religious giving' as 'charitable contribution'.

So, you cherry picked the megachurches without showing how much of the Church going population they make up. I could throw in an equal list[1] of all the charities (some well known) that have horrible giving records . Also, yes, staffing costs are big at churches because these people do actual pastoral work. Of course a church tries to spread the word. That is not much different than a lot of secular charities.

1) http://www.charitynavigator.org
There's also Jangouts:

https://github.com/jangouts/jangouts
Not really understanding how some of these rows relate. For example: content management systems > wikis > fiverr. What's the correlation here? Outside of perhaps social media posts, anyone creating content online is still using some variant of a CMS.
Good luck and thank you for being honest. :)

Yeah, I'm aware of the 5 year window.
I too get them back to front, but to be frank I have no better suggestion. Markdown definitely isn't perfect, but it is "good enough." Now if Only HN supported Markdown :)
CryEngine V announced – pay what you want, C# support
> This leads people to embed HTML directly in their Markdown

I don't find that too bad.
> How is it doing this?

Good question. Until now, with WebRTC, you always needed a STUN, TURN and signaling server [0]. And I would be very surprised if they somehow managed to create a whole new architecture. It certainly seems like these servers are run centrally by Hublin.

[0] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/infrastructure...
Male victims of sexual harassment take to Reddit
How the NSA Is Killing American Small Businesses
Justice Department Suggests It May Demand Apple's Source Code
That was the SSL key delivered on 11 pages of printout in 4pt type. A bit less arguable than compelling someone to find the needle in their haystack for you.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-lavabit-melted-do...
3000 manuscripts posted to bioRxiv since 2013. More than a handful.
I do not concede the point that "electronics" somehow bring controversies outside the scope of the Constitution. The Constitution didn't foresee electrical power, automobiles, or telephony either. Human air travel was a fantasy when the Constitution was drafted, and we didn't have to amend it to deal with airspace controversies.

What I do think is that people who are intimately involved with new technologies will tend to believe that the complexities of their technologies must somehow swamp the Constitution.
Assemblywoman Admonished Over Sexual Harassment Allegation
Most clients won't need real design or anything more sophisticated than Wordpress.
I wonder, if it will be possible for me to "rollback" back to my "plain" database server if level of service does not satisfy me.
Teampass security release 2.1.25
Why would someone in elementary or middle school need to learn that though? I think anyone in high school could easily learn a bit of abstract algebra.
I am the one in the article. I run the trade association. If you want to help build a coalition to lobby the government, let's do it. I think we need to join the conversation not just wait and pray.
It's a social problem, not a technical one. The main new features bioRxiv has are comments and digital object identifiers (DOIs).
It's either this or "functional JavaScript" posts on my feed. Really, I've seen about ten "guides" about it in the past two weeks.
End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories
If you consider subtyping, Bottom is a type
IIRC, In the category with types as objects and subtyping relationship (a->b if b is subtype of a) as morphisms, Any is the initial object and Bottom is the final object of the category
Apple Files Last Volley Against F.B.I. Before a Hearing Next Week
I've noticed some open source projects (particularly Angular 2) follow this convention where they never actually "merge" the PR, but rather rebase it into their main branch and have a message in the commit to close the PR.

The advantages seem to be that you get a cleaner git history, and you can keep all the "in-between" / WIP commits that tell the story. Is this done through an automated tooling or is someone manually rebasing it into master? It seems to be a really useful practice so I'm curious how people do it. It would be great if GitHub could offer this natively, as I think many power Git users appreciate the benefits of rebasing over merging.
Your Middle-Aged Brain Is Not on the Decline
Discoverability is a big part of it as well, at least at the user end. I find out about new papers from email alerts of subject matter and tables of contents of the new issue of the journals I keep up with. (Obviously when I need to look into a particular issue I use google scholar).

I have never once found a paper of particular relevance to my research (geology/geophysics) on arXiv. I haven't looked very many times, but after striking out several times, why keep trying?

If there was a geoRxiv then I would probably browse it more regularly because the chances of me finding something relevant would be much higher.

For that reason, and another, I kind of disagree that fragmentation (or fractionalization) is undesirable. The second reason, which is not unrelated, is that–at least with peer-reviewed journals–the quality of the work in field- or subfield-specific venues is often far higher than in the sort of pan-scientific journals like Science or Nature. I think a lot of it has to do with the quality of the reviewing/editing, but a lot of it is that the papers have to be written for and justified to a wider audience that wants to be wowed and doesn't know the background well enough to evaluate the science for its own sake.

If I write a paper and send it to Tectonophysics, I know that the readership will understand what I'm doing and why, and I will write the paper accordingly. If I write the paper for Nature, then I have describe and justify the how and why to a wide range of people from my peers to journalists for phys.org and the NYT. Sometimes that's fine: If I find out that the Seattle fault is loaded and ready to pop, the press, policy makers and citizens need to know. But if I find out that the stress field on the Seattle fault is largely determined by the topography near the fault and that has some persistent influence on how an earthquake rupture propagates on the fault (but doesn't necessarily change the seismic hazard) then I don't need to go through the rigmarole of explaining and justifying any of that to anyone who isn't intrinsically interested, and maybe more importantly, I don't have to explain (i.e. gloss over) the subtleties, ambiguities and caveats of the work to an audience that lacks the relevant background. This simply allows me to write a more clear and more honest paper.

This brings up a tangent that is relevant to the broader topic of self-publication: You always need to write to a specific audience, and with a journal you know who that audience is. With a blog or a website, you don't necessarily. That may be fine but it can trip a lot of people up, and make the writing much worse.
Ke Jie (9p) to Challenge AlphaGo
Could this be the Trello Toppler?
Would You Buy a $75,000 Apple Car?
Your only objective should be to get your app in front of as many people as possible. That includes us. What's the app? I'm sure you'll get some constructive criticism.
I won a worldwide NASA contest with a friend designing and building a Space Helmet in a weekend [1] and my friends won two of the Hyperloop categories [2]. We have created a community of students [3] in our University in Spain and now we are launching a robot competition [4].

Would you consider sponsoring our community or the contest? We are operating with a budget under 1000$. Both money and products would be awesome :D

[1] https://2014.spaceappschallenge.org/awards/#globalwin Next Vision (Space Helmet)

[2] http://hyperloopupv.com/

[3] http://makersupv.com/

[4] http://orchallenge.es/
I selfishly wish the tutorial could cover HTTPS configuration with LetsEncrypt. Nicely done though.
But they only want the super extreme mutant killer rockstars who would destroy galaxies to work there, so it's ok
That doesn't contain any buttons or grids or any of the interactive stuff that Bootstrap provides, so its not a great comparison.
are you being sarcastic? otherwise can you elaborate?
Dear Github, can you please bring the search bar back (w/o the need to log in)?
Markdown has a lot of faults, but it solves the one single biggest problem in writing documentation that basically overrides every single other consideration: getting people to actually write it. Basically nothing else matters except this.

And I disagree about the portability. Write Pandoc-compatible markdown and you can convert it to just about any format under the planet. I love that I can write in Markdown, then quickly create a word document to send around the office for comments - whatever anybody says about Word, the track changes and review functions both useful and defacto standards in most offices.
Papers in prestigious journals matter, but the location of a citation does not really matter. As long as the source is included in whatever you're using to count citations (usually Google Scholar, Scopus, or Web of Science), a citation in Nature is no more valuable than one in PLOS ONE.

The only wrinkle to this is that citations in more popular venues are more likely to be seen and re-cited.
I think the reason so many companies resort to asking candidates to do a programming project for the interview is because they are lazy and don't want to take time to interview someone, or they suck at interviewing, or both. Bottom line, if you can't judge someone's ability by talking to them it's YOUR fault. You suck at interviewing. Last time I was looking for a job a company I was interested in gave me this massive assignment and I just told them to take a hike. I'm not spending all day writing some code for you for free sorry. Sure there are lots of horrible programmers out there, and you'll end up hiring them if you suck at determining what their skill level is via a conversation. But I hope other GREAT developers follow suit with me. Refuse these stupid programming challenges.
Also, the documentation is out already: http://docs.cryengine.com/display/SDKDOC1/CRYENGINE+V
Anonymous declares total war on Donald Trump
Trump's Name Left Off Florida Ballot?
>Bottleneck was memory transfer bandwidth across PCI-E

This is why Nvidia are working on NVLink to replace PCI-E.
Cherry picking isn't the same thing as Simpson's paradox.

As for cherry picking: right back atcha. But even that doesn't work for the Ireland, Jamaica, DC, and Chicago graphs.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...

Statistics can be manipulated surprisingly easily.
While the original poster doesn't enable it, GEOM_ELI can authenticate the storage using a HMAC, with HMAC/SHA256 the recommended algorithm. If you don't overwrite the entire encrypted volume (e.g., `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1a.eli bs=4k`), reads from uninitialized sectors fail due to data integrity verification errors, which might be interpreted by the file system as a bad sector instead of an empty one.
Loosely translated:

Just today, Jinli Guan Fang announced Ke Jie's endorsement contract and will support Ke Jie's challenge of AlphaGo.

Also of interest is a Bayesian estimate that AlphaGo has a 58% chance of being stronger than Ke Jie.

https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/4ai6g0/is_alphago_ev...
Denver Monitor Urges Steep Penalty for Crime Database Abuse
Doesn't seem to work on Google Maps. :/
Your comment only applies to US citizens, who make up about 3/70 of the world population. What about the vast majority of the world?

There was a time when DNA and faxes weren't considered admissible. It just takes time for legal systems to catch up with new technologies.
FreeBSD Root on a GELI-Encrypted ZFS Pool (2012)
Russian chess master Garry Kasparov’s harsh critiques of Bernie Sanders
In Python 2

print 3/2 outputs 1

In Python 3

print(3/2) outputs 1.5

Even a language that is regarded as well designed has unexpected behaviour, it's not necessarily wrong it's just not what the user expects.

They fixed it in 3 but does it's existence in 2 make Python a bad language?

PHP historically did a lot of stuff that a user wouldn't expect but they have started to clean that up, it won't happen overnight but the trend is there, strong and growing.

No such thing as a perfect programming language since everyone has a different definition of perfect.
No, you can upload just the PDF if you want.
Any suggestions for setting up HTTP2 push with Nginx? Or do we just have to wait for official support?
No matter what the percentage of all drivers own one, whenever one owner gets nailed at a trap all the rest that pass by don't get nailed by the same trap. So it only takes a small percentage (one of a thousand?) in your area for it to start working.
Negative contribution margin would be if your sales did not even cover your variable costs.
Linux 4.5 Offloads Copying, Improves IPv6 Networking
empathy != extroversion

Empathic introverts will spend a lot of time on their own because being hyper-aware of other people's emotions is draining.
My opinion about how I choose to use my time and what I have time for is the only one that counts. It isn't open to debate. You are basically engaging in a personal attack, for no apparent reason. Attacking me personally in no way adds to the discussion here. Do you have something to say about whether or not the original article has merit/is worth actually reading/etc?

If not, it would be extremely nice if more people followed not only the letter of the guidelines here but also the spirit and didn't engage in ad hominems or other smear campaigns.
And here's how you do the same thing, only with ZFS:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120606231347/https://web.irtno...

(Sorry---I'd posted this to my now-defunct blog back in 2012.)
Microsoft exec: Frustrated customers are lining up to ditch Oracle
The Great Linux Mint Heist: The Aftermath
Almost all the publishers I would consider publishing in now allow pre-prints. A partial list: Nature journals (not just Nature), AAAS (not just Science), PNAS, Springer, Cambridge University Press, Cold Spring Harbor Press, many Oxford University Press journals. Cell Press does not forbid it although they reserve right to make a case-by-case decision.
How some men fake an 80-hour working week
I don't think the legislature helps you here, because one of the very first things the legislature did, when it was populated with the framers and signers of the Constitution, was to delegate to the courts the power to compel third parties to assist investigations.
And the GREAT devs like me will not waste their time on your antics and will look elsewhere for a job at a company that is less of a hassle to deal with.
So... because England doesn't agree with your agenda it must not be a large enough sample and its laws must have the same legitimacy that you get from the random dictates of some random Somali guy? I see.
Just saw this on /r/sysadmin.

https://letsecure.me/secure-web-deployment-with-lets-encrypt...
How much should I pay my developers?
Thank you, that was amazing. I work in oracle and PG SQL a lot at work, but I never would have dared enter the source code. Mental barrier, broken through.
If you want a dedicated circuit, then of course it's going to be expensive. But there's really no reason to spend that much money on an encoder, unless you're doing something like integrating an ASIC [1].

> Video chat systems/protocols look to be somewhat stagnate/immature

Eh. There's a lot of work being done with WebRTC, but I'm not going to say that's significantly advancing the state of the art with respect to video transport -- SDP, RTP, DTLS have all coexisted for a long time.

What has happened, though, is that by abstracting away media handling, the traditional "control plane" is being disintermediated. As a result, we're seeing 1) a lot of reinventing the wheel, and 2) more siloing among service providers. Both lead to feature fragmentation among providers and slows the progress of video-based services.

While I'll be the first to admit that SIP (and XMPP and H.323 and BFCP and ...) is rather too involved to be used outside a fully federated telecom environment, it's a bit of a shame that a nicer signaling protocol hasn't really gained any traction in in its stead. Having most services work from a higher level baseline could reduce feature fragmentation and speed up the perceived progress of video services. And hopefully encourage more interoperability, but that's probably a lost cause...

[1] I'm aware there are encoders that cost in that range, eg VBrick, and it's crazy -- you don't need to spend that much for video conferencing.
Heads up, this also requires a PS4 camera which costs $60 if you don't have one.
If people are interested in getting involved philanthropically (or otherwise!) in one of the world's largest microfinance organisations -- and supporting low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world -- please do get in contact with me on j@greenaway.me.

I'm based in London, and would love to talk with tech-literate people.

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Dual-Boot Mac OS X (FileVault2) and Ubuntu (OpenZFS/LUKS)