skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who aren't afraid of manual control (which can be a pro or con) and a bit cryptic CLI invocations, I'd say - give git-annex a try.

It works with multiple remotes (hubiC, OneDrive and SFTP) flawlessly for me.

A basic file management is well automated by git-annex-assistant (e.g. just moving a file to "archive" directory makes sure necessary number of remotes have a copy and a local one is then removed, etc etc.), but the initial setup has to be done by a tech-savvy person who had spent some time reading the docs.
> Last I checked, Google had registered something over 3 billion Android user identities. Relying on that large a population to 1) trust individual software authors with 2) no specific code of conduct or review process and 3) have a high level of familiarity with permissions systems, architectures, and peculiarities of specific releases strikes me as a good working definition of "unreasonable expectations".

What would the alternatives be (given 3 billion user identities)?
Who cares if you're rich by then?
This assumes that surveillance aircraft have their ADS-B transponder on. It's not required until January 2020 (https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/faq/).
It is an easy complaint to address: just open this database to reports of good police interactions, just like Amazon does for products.

I would appreciate a resource that told me which police officers are trustworthy.
What If Apple Is Wrong?
Rewrite phase is also supposed to "flatten subqueries/views" (cf. "Extensible/rule based query rewrite optimization in Starburst"; SIGMOD 92) and can be fairly complex. PostgreSQL doesn't do it to the same extent as DB2, but there is certainly some complex logic involved there.
TFA describes a process that takes methane and converts it to hydrogen (used in ammonia production) and carbon (inert waste material that may simply be dumped anywhere). Consuming methane is the opposite of releasing methane.
"Passengers more freedom in deciding what's safe for them"

This makes it seem like reasonable defaults are absent; "safe for them" is a one-size-fits-all when we are talking about air travel.
Shocking! Landlords are wealthier than their tenants. I would think this is true not just of trailer parks, but also downtown condos.

How dare these landlords take vacations… in Jamaica!
Check out the modafinal subreddit. It's like a 12 hour coffee without the side effects. Improves concentration somewhat like Ritalin although less intense.
Yeah I don't think many people who read HN make that sort of money.
For legacy apps (that lived in a time before per-permission user-controlled configuration), yes. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmall...

I don't know that it lets you tune what fake data is fed; the intent of the feature seems to be to make it possible for legacy apps to run in M at all, not to fuzz the metrics an app author might be collecting.
... ? I'm neither the author nor the submitter.
The unicode arrow is just a pretty-printed ->

The bizarre opeators seem to be an attempt to maintain similarity to make's cryptic oerstorsr
That paper is excellent and serves as a great intro for a graduate database course. It would be remiss not to list the main author though (Joe Hellerstein, Berkeley).
You might want to edit and add a short description that people can read without clicking the link. Alternatively, "SHOW HN" is usually a direct link to your project.
VeraCrypt or other FDE-like tools (that are meant to be used on actual drives or their imitations using a file-backed device) are not so great idea for use with Dropbox or alike file/object storages. Here's why: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/
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There's a gap in the market for online security training aimed at developers. Most training companies focus on security awareness for regular employees (making sure your receptionist doesn't click on phishing emails) or infosec training for security professionals (learning how to perform penetration tests). Developers have to make do with books, blog posts, and online videos.

We've taken the most common security vulnerabilities and put together a series of interactive exercises that ask a developer to put themselves in the shoes of a hacker. Next, we show how to protect against these vulnerabilities with real code samples. Finally, we test developers on what they've learnt.

The beta launched a few weeks ago and the feedback has been amazing. We hit the front page of reddit (300,000+ page views in one day) and have more than 13,000 sign-ups so far. Our users are consistently telling us the same thing: they have always worried there is a gap in their security knowledge but have generally been too embarrassed to bring it up to their boss.

Getting into YC will help us grow the site into a real product. We have a couple of big security firms interested in working with us and a lot of enquiries about the premium version (which will allow employers to invite and track their employees' progress through the course). There's clearly an appetite for the product, and we want to build a business out of it!

If you have any questions or feedback, we'd love to hear from you. :-)
Yes, maybe I should've made this emphasis stronger in my comment. Also I didn't meant to say that using owncloud is worse than using dropbox in security terms - but you should use your own (client-side) crypto either way if you care about data security.

For myself I use my selfhosted owncloud (running on a cheap VPS) with EncFS, encourage other users on that server to use client-side encryption as well and never lied about how secure their data is when they decide not to. But this isn't so easy as it should be.
The Amiga 3000 – a VR pioneer
How I Used Your Credit Card to Pay for This Book Online (2008)
Totally agree with you. Before switching to the Apple Watch(black stainless steel metal strap), I also had an Omega Seamaster!
The most daring scam of that era is probably the successful raising in 1822 of £200,000 (a lot of money at the time) from investors who bought a bond issued by the "Kingdom of Poyais." The bond was floated in the main London exchange. It might be the only bond ever issued by a fictitious country in history.[1]

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21568583-bi...
Not really. There are airlines who hire young low paid unskilled pilots, there are pilots from various countries with different English skills, there are pilots who didn't get enough sleep last night. Then there are airports that have different standards for security, different border-control waiting time, different luggage waiting time & equipment, different ground-crew serving the airplane. All this information is obscured from the passengers, but it doesn't mean it's not affecting safety, because it is.
Can't balloons or drones be used instead of planes? I can't imagine their fuel must be cheap. Who pays for all this and what are they getting?
Back n' Red's are my go to note taking pads (specifically the hard back spiral bound A4 books [0]). These work really well with my cheapo Parker Vector fountain pen [1] which I bought to replace my (sadly lost) Waterman Carene :(

[0]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000N3WR96

[1]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000RGHIVQ
Besides, if you really care about this stuff, you bite the bullet, root your phone, and install an alternate OS that allows for permission faking and more graunular control.

As much as people on HN seem to hate to admit it, the average consumer does not care sufficiently (or have enough to hide) for the ability to do fine-grained permission control to be valuable to them, so it's a niche feature. Most apps from big vendors can be trusted; the maximum-harm case isn't the common case. On the plus side, in a couple years (when the average Android comes with M pre-installed), users will have the ability to do fine-grained control whether or not they care. That's an improvement.
Predatory businesses are still exploitation.

> Building such a business (and I assume running a 131 unit mobile home park) is absolutely work, the value of which is evident by the paying tenants.

Running a sweatshop is still work, the value of which is evident by its customers.

Just because someone needs to work or a place to live doesn't make it right or commendable.
There are use cases for things like Arduino (a microcontroller development board). We'd like to allow uploading to Arduino boards from an online IDE. We'd also like to allow for interaction between sensors and actuators on an Arduino board and websites (e.g. programs written in the Scratch visual programming language). Yes, we can do much of this by having the user install a local application that communicates via web sockets, but that has its own security implications and adds an additional step for the user.
-𝔖𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔪𝔶 𝔊𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔤
If we can digitally describe something as a sequence of bytes, and we stack those bytes end-to-end, can we not say that the bytes together form a (very large) integer, and that the integer already appears in the set of natural numbers?
excess fertilizer causes algae blooms

I was just hearing an Ohio farmer complain that they won't let him spray manure on his fields while the ground is frozen anymore, and he doesn't have sufficient storage to hold all the manure through the winter. What's a poor farmer to do?

Spraying frozen fields is not "fertilizing", it is just dumping manure and letting it wash into the streams. He may as well have been dumping it straight into a stream all winter.

It makes one wonder, is there an 80-20 rule for farmers? Are 20% of them causing 80% of the fertilizer runoff?
I'm currently own an Apple Watch. If the future revision can operate without the iPhone, then I plan to leave the phone at home when I go out.
That decision is generally made by the app vendor. Apps in the Play Store declare a minimum OS version they compile / run against.
Also, I don't like Google to become a universal place to go to for anything. They already dominate search; they don't have to dominate the entire internet.

Further, I am afraid that these tutorials could lead to a "bubble" effect, where everybody who learns to play the guitar starts with the same songs. Boring.
Let's think in terms of solutions. Concretely, what would you propose to change to make it better?

Have you started to raise funds to start and run that business?
What's wrong with that quote? It seems like thr normal jargon of psychology.
From TFWikipedia: "Some programming language theorists require support for anonymous functions (function literals) as well."

I suppose I wasn't aware that that wasn't a universal requirement, but count me in with that group. I think it's useful to make a distinction between "higher-order" and "first-class" for this very reason (i.e., we can talk about languages that do make a distinction without resorting to overloaded terms).

I mean, consider a language where this is the case:

> "hello," .. " world"
==> "hello, world"

> 2 + 2
==> SYNTAX ERROR

> def a = 2
==> #<number "a">

> a + a
==> 4

Would you consider such a language to have first-class integers?

Sort of on a tangent, but while I'm reminded of it: as far as Python's "lambdas" go, they're brutally gimped compared to Python's notion of a function, since what is allowed (and even required) of a function body in Python is much different than what is allowed of a "lambda" body.
I hear this argument a lot, but I don't buy it. Professional athletes and Hollywood actors have some of the highest wage differences of any profession and yet both are fully unionized. Those fields have so much negotiation that people typically hire an agent just to handle negotiations for them. A union doesn't stop the best athletes and actors from getting paid millions, why would it stop the best engineers from getting a measly few hundred thousand?
They pay no taxes on any of the money. And they can still spend it offshore if they spend it from one of the offshore accounts "lower in the maze" of accounts. Also, products haven't been priced based on production costs for a long time -- a part of strategy is creating "effective monopolies" based on distribution channels, geographies, product mixes, and making such arrangements in conjunction with theoretical competitors, so the pricing is unfair and the unfairness is hidden (and the co-conspirators are paid off by purchasing offshore stocks which are designed to provide "pay offs") These are all things I have seen -- most of them more than once. So these accounts also facilitate pricing and strategies that are used to undermine our society -- and not just tax evasion.
Performance Culture
Being relevant is the ultimate goal of innovating anyway
Again, something software devs catch right away, that the layman often doesn't.
1. Facebook's algorithms determine who sees what you post.

2. I've noticed that personal pictures get a flood of likes, no matter how trite. Widespread distribution by the algorithm + people like them.

3. Making my own post with multiple links as sources = basically invisible, compared to "sharing" similar content which is already going around Facebook.

Sometimes, of course, it's hard to discriminate between "what the algorithm doesn't like," and "what people just aren't interested in."
Have you seen the movie "Little Man Tate"? You might appreciate it.
>What percentage of Davids would spend the $1,000 on going out to dinner and let their house rot?

I think it's reasonable to assume, an absolutely tiny percentage of them.

>If it costs us $50,000 to repair the house later, that's a much bigger impact.

In what way is this society's problem? David has already paid for the house, that means he has already done things for society worth more than the cost of rebuilding that house. If he lets it fall apart, that's his problem now.
To make poverty better? Free job training and placement, with a living stipend.
I hope you're on an aisle seat!
> Assuming it is, though, how would one know whether they are or not?

You don't have to know it, you just have to believe enough to pursue something. You can sit around saying "nothing I do matters," but if the end result of that is doing nothing, then surely that kind of thinking would matter even less than any alternative.

>Of course you might also be saying it lightly, e.g. feel "more or less" the same everyday, as opposed to always exactly the same, and given that nothing especially nice or bad has happened to you and those you know all this time.

I feel a good number of emotions, they just don't color my whole day. I don't have bad days, basically. There are doubts, joys, pains, and irritations, but that's pretty much true of every day.
The original calculations were pretty simple: "Will this get me more votes?"

Puerto Rico has always assumed that the economy would soon be turning the corner and everything would work out, with a healthy helping of cargo-cult New-Jerseyism.
Once you factor the "complexity", it actually becomes much worse. A better rule of thumb for 64-bit math might be that division is 100x the cost of addition. 64-bit division on current Intel takes 40-80 cycles, and they don't overlap well. Addition takes only 1 cycle, and the processor has three execution ports that can execute this instruction in parallel.

Moreover, with SIMD, you can add 4 64-bit floats with each instruction. There are no vector instructions for division.

The last case where I found this to be the limiting factor was ranged random number generation. If you have a fast generator, reducing it to an unbiased range by traditional means can often be most expensive step. It can be much faster to substitute a lot of other arithmetic just to avoid the division/modulo.
You've lost me towards the end. However I disagree with your opener. If you change your habits and appear to lead a happier, more satisfying life others will notice this and adopt similar habits. A sort-of reverse keeping up with the joneses.
If you want to go along with owncloud (and I don't know a proper alternative) there's not much you can do then upgrading to Owncloud 9 and hope that the fix was done right. In the meantime you could encourage your users to use their own client-side encryption while giving up the idea of an easy setup.
The calculations were, I'd assume, that it made for a lot of popular politicians.
Thank you!

He is the fellow in the back, with the clean shirt and the silver hard-hat, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L77BSBKvMJk#t=27m22s
Is there any indication this will suddenly stop being true in a few generations?
Interesting that a lot of the top rated articles over the year have been political, not strictly (or sometimes even remotely) technical.
Sure they would. People will do almost any job, if they're paid enough.

This is why military contractors in war zones, Arctic crab fishermen, and prostitutes make a lot of money.

This is econ 101; supply and demand. You know it too. You're (presumably) not impoverished, but you'd work in diamond extraction or a clothing sweatshop, if you were paid enough.
There doesn't seem to be any free or commercial software that converts high res scans of vinyl records to high quality digital audio. I remember this post from 2002 http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html where a guy posts his results with this approach, but the quality is bad and he doesn't provide source code.
The inverse being: Why don't I just end it all right now?

One answer possibly being: Hmmm, better find some stupid project, and occupy myself, before I really consider whether I'd find a convincing answer to that question. Oh cool, they open sourced this childhood video game!
I'm the same way: take a question and answer with the source. But as my time gets more and more constrained, I wish more large open-source projects had design docs akin to CockroachDB. I read through the CDB design doc in one sitting, then read the source and it was such a treat to have that high-level context while wading through the details.

I can't say the same thing for ElasticSearch (or most large open-source projects). It's very difficult to get the high-level context without a well-written design doc explaining why things are the way they are. Some parts of ElasticSearch make sense, and other parts just seem hackneyed. Of course, I could pull together little bits and pieces of high-level insight from multiple disparate blog posts and forums and mailing lists here and there.

But what I would like is a design doc! If you were to produce something along the lines of that for open-source projects that need it, I wouldn't hesitate to pay a modest fee.
I witnessed a scam similar to "Horse Trading" while playing Team Fortress 2. In the game, players can wear cosmetic items. It's just for fun, but the items can still be worth tens or even hundreds of dollars.

A player joined the server that I was playing on and after a bit asked if anyone had a certain low-value hat. He said that he was willing to pay the equivalent of $20 for it. No one did (no doubt he had made sure before asking.) He left the server and a few minutes later another player joined wearing that exact hat! A bidding war began and the second player left approximately $10 richer.
Why do we post on social media? And what impact does it have
How much do you think it would cost? Any plans to send to Africa and other developing countries, perhaps in an agreement with an ONG?
Oculus Rift's Terms of Service Are Now Attracting Questions from Congress
What if Marx was right?
My point is that Jones doesn't really help you: the majority opinion focused on the trespass theory, and did not rely on the consequences of longer-term GPS monitoring.

In my opinion, the whole "expectation of privacy" thing is reading words into the 4th amendment that aren't there. If you look at the phrasing of the text, which focuses on "searches" and "seizures" of "persons, houses, papers, and effects" it's clear that the 4th amendment prohibits the government from doing what would be a common law trespass (to the person, to real property, or to chattels). It's based on property rights, not privacy.
V = IR. For a given resistance (your body!) V and I are interconvertible.
Thanks for asking, I'll go to it:

As for its operation: it's an attachment that fits to an existing door and uses motors to open it in a new way. The device is designed to have multiple input mechanisms, such as auditory (hand claps), light, or vibration (taps), and run on basic AA battery technology. In an industrial setting it could be keyed to RFID or other mechanisms to work as the mechanical assist to open/close a door with larger power and design optimization.

As for who would want it, there is a 'basic' version intended for senior citizens and pet owners, up to a 'connected' variant which can have all sorts of activation programming conditions. Essentially if one wants a door to open by itself, as though a ghost was doing it for them, this is the mechanism for that convenience.
1) This seems awful close Google Helpouts. Why do you think that might have been discontinued?

2) If you're trying to get attention of someone at Goog, fix your branding mockup -- the product name is in grey, and doesn't have the jaunty "e". See e.g. the header of https://www.google.com/services
Grid power is a convince and money saver when it comes to solar, but it's not needed. You can just hook up solar to a battery system and then use battery power without hooking up to the grid. You can enegy just unplug and appliance from your solar system and use grid power when nessisarily. However your much better off setting things as that quickly becomes incredibly annoying.
Thanks for the tips - I rip vinyl for the same purpose.
If you haven't seen it, look up the Last Week Tonight on municipal violations and prepare to get angry.

However there are a few things that are more explainable than others; check cashing places exist because banks are not designed for the poor at all. Thankfully this is, I think, going to change in the next few years what with all the startups cropping up to offer financial services to lower income people, since most of the shit the banks charge fees for is because they rely on antiquated processes and management that can be automated.
Recent memory research supports the way they structure the testing. The repetition and redoing things until you get the score of 100% not only shows sticktoitiveness, but the process improves retention.
Also, the way they have the video lectures stop and ask questions which require the correct answer before continuing improves retention.
So far, all the courses I've looked at have a free option, but some are more free than others. One course I enrolled for would let me take the tests, but wouldn't grade them. Guess what I didn't finish?
What do the certificates look like? Do they name the school providing the class? Lots of colleges and universities are offering courses on coursera. Some charge more than others for the certificate. In theory, the value of the certificates should be affected by the outfit presenting the course. What does it matter who gives the course if the certificate is going to only say coursera? A certificate from a famous school is a certificate from a famous school. Coursera is just a classroom.
The thing is though people are willing to pay a lot of money for crabs. No one is willing to spend crab money on, say, sweatshop clothing.

Going fishing on one of those boats is on my bucket list, once I'm not so flabby. I think it would be a hell of an experience.
And the people that provide goods and services now to the impoverished (especially the actual exploiters, like pay day loans and corner stores, and the manufacturers that supply the junk foods they eat and drink) have a financial incentive to keep people in poverty and grow their demographic. Combine that with an very easily corrupted government like the US has now, and you get corporations dictating policy to prevent economic upward mobility and create more poor to become dependent on their products.