skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because not everyone enjoys being monitored by companies and/or governments (foreign or otherwise)

So the solution to that is publishing all your transactions to a public ledger?

(yes I know there are "tumblers" etc, but these come with operational and practical issues)
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Thanks. I've been reading up on OS Dev and static and dynamic libraries and have been trying to wrap my head around why an ABI change could blow things up.
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This is great !
From where you are polling the data ?
Mind share how to plan to scale ? which stack are you using ?
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> OpenRaster

Another ocean boiled, courtesy of the Free Desktop Project.
Probably the most popular of the historical-fiction variety are "Muhteşem Yüzyıl" and its spin-off "Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem". "Behzat Ç." is a pretty good police drama. The one that really sort of kicked off the modern renaissance of Turkish dramas, though, is "Aşk-ı Memnu", which is a modernized take on a famous 19th century Turkish novel. Many of the actors from that series went on to star in later Turkish dramas.

(Note: Just so you know what to expect, Turkish dramas are sort of a cross between their US counterparts and Spanish Telenovelas. There is some action, but much more emphasis on interpersonal conflicts...and more than a few very long, overly dramatic shots backed with suspenseful music.)
"[A]nonymised eye scans" sounds about as realistic as "anonymised fingerprints."

My interpretation of anonymity includes the test, "If I have the data and the person in the same room, is it super-duper easy to match them up?"
Right, they did actually give me the surface scan. It was really, really cool, though with really low resolution.

What got me interested in getting the data was this: [1]. It might be difficult to work with, but there was a lot of motivation to learn it.

[1] http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/GaelVaroquaux/nilearn_cou...
Heh, more than a decade ago I created a torrent file format library in .NET ... actually with VB.Net ... anyway, this is GPLv2 licensed.
http://writtorrent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/writtorrent/wr...
I am leader of Linux User Group in my country, so I am aware about typical problems with Linux desktop. Last problem with PulseAudion on major distro, I heard off, was years ago.
Depends on the company, but at SendGrid it's standard practice in the code review stage to wait for Looks Good To Me - no more changes needed - before merging.

Much like this submission, our continuous integration system (opsbot) doesn't let you continue through the workflow until you have a "LGTM" comment from another developer. This prevents lone-developer cowboy merges with no review. :)
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humans seem need these stories to provide the motivation to use existing antibiotics less and to get moving on creating new antibiotics.

Are drug company executives humans ^_^?

Because one of the biggest problems in bringing new ones to market is that after you've spent more than a strategic bomber getting them there, they're put on last resort lists ensuring they won't get prescribed often. To even come close to breaking even they have to have seemingly insane prices, which gets them horrible PR for the crime of saving lives in a system that's stacked against them.

Why bother? I'm sure a lot do because they don't want them and their's dying from a superbug in the future, but they've still got to keep their company out of bankruptcy.
Lenovo only maintained the "standard" for their ThinkPads because it was an explicit condition of IBM when they sold the ThinkPad line to Lenovo.
I dislike how it does not do microcode updates though.
Its interesting to consider a 2010s OHP frigate. A little architectural fine tuning, call it the OHP-II, the cost savings would be staggering so buy 60 of them for less money than the 30 or so LCS we're likely to end up with... Of course you'd be stuck with a cold war mission core design.

That sounds nice, but I've seen no indication that today's Pentagon is capable of purchasing such a product. What do other countries with littoral interests use? Could we buy the same thing as e.g. Indonesia or Nigeria, and then just tart it up with some fancier electronics?

Has any mission actually become cheaper since the Cold War?
This is a group that meets once a month in Berkeley, California, over coffee/tea to talk about the future of software. The next meeting is this Saturday at 10am.
>I don't think this commenter did anything to deserve snark.

Isn't the parent's question:

"yet your standard on a languages complexity favour of "how many books do those people write""

snark in the first place, as if that's unimportant, and as if literary history is merely a quantity issue? Sorry, but to my European eyes that's not even in question.

And how is the "surprising complexity of the tense system" relevant? Surprising to whom? Racists who thought an african american dialect couldn't be formal enough? Perhaps they haven't heard of creole languages either.

Racist expectations aside, what's "surprising" about its complexity? At best it is more or less comparable to that of English. That's not some "surprising complexity" that can help us access a language, except in the lowest level, of it's internal workings. Of course the main claim of the original article is indeed only that "it's a language too".

To which I say, this doesn't say much.
Hospital-acquired infections have become incredibly common. My grandmother caught a C diff infection after what had already been a very arduous treatment and recovery, and she received basically no support from the hospital that had effectively given her the infection.
"designed too ambitiously to fulfill too many roles and, as a consequence, well over its budget, flawed in its execution and struggling to meet even minimal operational requirements."

History repeats ad nauseam. Watch the dark comedy Pentagon Wars movie (featuring the Bradley fighting vehicle) for another example.

We now have examples on land (Bradley), air (F-35) and sea (Littoral) of over-scoped, massively wasteful projects.
Irony: that'd make GMT no longer the time in Greenwich.
We're not actually battling this issue, since technically it "works" for us. However, we do not know how much more uplift we potentially could get if we were to actively try to alleviate the mistrust & distaste for Ads, which i honestly do not know how we could.
The only way i see it happening is by everyone in the Advertising industry to take quality seriously and try to make Ads as beneficial to both users and Advertisers alike. Unfortunately there are still plenty of money-farming Agencies out there who don't care because they get sent a large Advertising budget by a big client (ex: Nike or Volkswagen) with arbitrary goals like "bring us X more traffic or bring us X more sales) which isn't necessarily in either one's interest. The Agency just rakes in the money with minimum effort placed in the creation of the Ad (ironically, the image in the Ad is called a "Creative" when often times there is very little creativity used).
This likely calls a UEFI protocol, which are typically called this way.
And one of the big problems (doesn't seem to be the case here) is where aggregated information is at a higher [EDIT: classification] than individual pieces.

For instance, you can know any two of the following and it might only be FOUO (for official use only):

When a military deployment will happen
Where it will be to
Who will be going

But all three, together, are considered classified. (Trivial case, usually not this small a data set, but this is the concept.)

The result is that someone gets apparently safe information from several sources. They put this into a briefing, or talk about it at the bar. The accumulated information is now considered Confidential (or higher), but was developed entirely from non-Confidential (or higher) sources.
My problem is that I hate learning from video lectures. Do you know any MooC sites that don't require videos i.e. that present the material in written form (either chiefly or to duplicate lectures)?
I don't understand this encoding method. If say, a dictionary starts with d and ends with e, how do you know with "d3:key5:valuee" if the value is "value" or "valu"?
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I've made a stupid assumption and didn't bother to get clarification before commenting full steam ahead.
This should be good news for people looking to getting rid of Computrace, effectively a rootkit, from surplus Thinkpads.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=114641

Yes, I bought a surplus Thinkpad (T61) and found it had Computrace activated on it. Grrrr.

Yes, I could call the Absolute(R) Software number and they should disable it for me. I have not been willing to sit on hold and jump their hoops to date. Since I run linux on the laptop, is fairly low risk for me, but Absolute(R) Software could inadvertently or intentionally "brick" my laptop. Grrrr.
> a case could be made for having standard HTML input tags for them.

and for the accordion at least, the case was made and approved. check out <details> and <summary>
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The biggest problem with these hacks isn't a preference for CSS over JS (which IMO is fine in moderation); it's the fact that they aren't keyboard or screenreader accessible. A person using a screenreader can't even navigate to the accordion (http://jsfiddle.net/yn4ls/), and if they could, it would tell them it's a form element.
Bitcoin has literally zero protections for consumers, so if you're trying to buy bitcoin, you're basically already on that boat.
> Reading this at the start of my workday is not doing wonders to my morale

I'm very sorry to hear that. Would it help if I told you how my life sucks now? ;-)

> Surely such a project should have generated way more research papers than it did? Since it doesn't seem to be used anymore, where's the source code?

I have no idea. I strongly suspect that the RAX code was not preserved, though I could be wrong. You might want to contact the JPL public-relations office and ask them.

It is hard to appreciate just how chaotic the entire DS1 project was. The mission was trying to do things that had never been done before on a budget and schedule that was a tiny fraction of anything that had come before. And then RAX was a little cauldron of chaos within the larger chaos. We were a team forced to work together by largely political rather than technological considerations. We were using CVS for version control (this was the mid-90's remember). It was all we could do to come up with something that worked at all. It was very stressful, and when it was over, everyone just wanted to distance themselves from it as fast as possible. There was no money for anyone to properly catalog and archive the code (AFAIK).
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Wonder how long it will take before they realize that current tax system won't last in the long run. Right now only rich have the resources to offshore the profits, but technology will drive the cost down.
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Still there. I guess we are through the looking glass where a documented lie (on your own website) about how you handled classified information doesn't disqualify you from running for president.
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I have a doubt: say you are a UK citizen, you can send BTC to the Russian exchange but what in return would you get from that russian exchange and how would you evade the UK government? Curious to know.

Unless you succeed to make them ship "some products" to you in some other country where BTC is "legitimate" such a transfer would be one-way only.
I have transformed an old T-shirt, it's crossover vintage-style camisole, I do think I have done a good design. However one of my friend thought I could do better on the color combinations, not just grey and white. Is there anyone have deep sight? Pls give me some suggestions
While I'm sure there are a lot of shady sellers, a lot of legitimate sellers simply scrape the top reviewers lists and send cold-call emails offering samples/discounts in exchange for reviews.

Amazon reviewers who get discount codes or free samples are required to disclose this information in their review.

When I hit the top 1000 reviewers on Amazon Canada, I started to get offers for review samples, and as my ranking improved, I started getting even more offers, with most of them coming from Chinese vendors.
Here in Tampa, the "standard" next day delivery services (where there usually is a surcharge) is fine (using the standard Fed Ex or UPS option), and I've never had a problem with the standard 2 day Prime service delivered via USPS or the like.

However, for some products, Amazon offers a "free next day delivery" service option. These services tend to be offloaded on sketchy "courier service" companies with names like A1 Courier Services, Lasership, Ontrac, Dynamex, etc. These carriers get generally awful reviews (as seen here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20carrier%20feedback/) and you hear a lot of reports of missing packages, late deliveries, etc. I've only used this option once, the item did arrive, but it was at quite a late hour (10PM). Based on the reviews, I would not use this service again.

I still use Amazon a lot, but they have become way sketchier over time. Knockoff batteries are but one symptom of this.
I think that many Confucian cultures feature a general sense of shame, fatalism, and inevitable death that is coupled with a specific drive toward self-improvement and seizing the day. We're all imperfect beings who are going to die eventually, so might as well live it up when you can. At least, that's the message I get from my Chinese father.

Many American-Christian cultures, by contrast, have a general sense of optimism, redemption, eternalism, and a belief that the future will be better than the past, coupled with specific feelings of guilt, irresponsibility, and imperfection. God loves us and He will forgive our sins, as long as we accept Him into our hearts. And so this drive to master the world before it masters us is not so strong, because the world is fundamentally benevolent. At least that was the message I got from my Irish-Catholic maternal grandfather.

The juxtaposition of the two belief systems is very striking, if you're exposed to both, and can lead to many misunderstandings. I remember being so frustrated with my dad and his constant pronouncements that the world was about to end in 3 weeks, a belief that, when I mention it to American friends, is considered outright paranoia. But having grown up a bit and married a Taiwanese-American woman who once lived in rural Peru, it's interesting to compare different cultures and their fundamental beliefs. This belief that we're eternally dying doesn't seem to faze most Asians; they just accept it and go about their life.

It's also interesting to see how quickly many Asians adopt Christianity once they immigrate to the West. I've got both family members and in-laws who have gone that route; I'd imagine that the promise of eternal salvation when coming from a culture that has this constant background message of inevitable death and societal decay must be pretty attractive.
You are referencing water standards in the USA. Each water type fell under the authority of a different Federal agency. EPA for tap, FDA for bottled, I believe. The FDA has lesser standards. My thoughts are because, at the time, only suckers would pay money for something that was practically free.

In any case, the standards have now been made the same.
Flagged and not on the front page.
The length of the string is included, so you know where it ends.
"lighting network clone" .... "to be released in Q3/2016"

Lol, its almost as if Ethereum is the alpha stage test environment for Bitcoin.

It even has its own bug bounty program called "The DAO" that pays up to 150 million dollars!
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My personal favorite is the UEFI variable bugs that brick laptops. I think many of them are trivial to exploit even under Windows.
I think there is a difference between administrative consequences and legal consequences. And Comey was running a criminal investigation. I think that she should not be able to get a security clearance for any unelected position. I don't really think that she escaped a criminal conviction because of who she is.

I also think that +50% of voters electing her president should override that concern if she wins this election. But that's not because I think the law shouldn't apply to her, its because I think the president needs access to classified material.
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> marked classified

That'll be their defense. "This wasn't marked as classified, so I didn't know!"
Yeah...I went down a pretty bad rabbit hole trying to figure that one out. I mean, XCF already exists? And application support is marginal, rather than nonexistent.
Glad i got into networking at the tail end of the thin-coax era...
Very likely the work of Hillary's shill force, pretty low odds they don't follow this site when major news comes out.
(Source: https://twitter.com/lorenschmidt/status/750102299087953920)
The problem is the only large ships being build in the US are for the Navy. The US Navy does like to buy american.

So the Navy needs to keep buying ships to keep the few shipyards that exist open. If they all close up they loose the ability to competitively bid any jobs...
Let's get this merged!
Googling some of the surrounding lines suggests that it is available here:

https://github.com/avtobiff/virtualagc/blob/master/Luminary1...
I had small battle in Wikipedia and won. Now page says correct information.
Because the value is actually "5:value", which means it's 5 bytes long. The final 'e' indicates the end of the dictionary, not the value.
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Having consulted in the adtech space, let me make some counterpoints:

First, ad growth is fueled entirely by mobile at this point; non-mobile ad revenue has flatlined despite continued growth in non-mobile content consumption.

Second, while we can "track and measure [consumers] much better," this is based on a combination of walled-garden ad networks (GOOG and FB, specifically) plus a series of ever-more-intrusive tracking technologies that essentially subvert consumers' own applications, and many of which are susceptible to better endpoint privacy and security technologies and practices. (And there's a non-negligible regulatory and statutory risk to a lot of tracking practices inherent to modern DMPs, too.)

Third, while the loss of revenue for content producers is a critical issue, ad exchanges are themselves responsible as a first-order cause of ad blockers. Publishers' ever-increasing need for demand and the need for AXs to hit fill rate targets means that all sorts of demand-side crap -- not just spam, but phishing and malware vectors -- makes advertising actively dangerous to consumers. (Remember when Forbes forced users to turn off their adblockers, then immediately started serving malware?) Unless AXs figure out how to deal with the quality issue on the demand side, adblockers are a security, not a convenience, issue.

One can be concerned by the potential conflict of interest in adblockers' whitelisting, but at least they generally seem to have fairly objective standards. The fact that those standards are antithetical to current adtech practices is, for them, a feature, not a bug.

More generally, the lack of transparency in terms of what data is collected on consumers, and how it's being collected, will continue to be a concern until meaningful and transparent standards are devised, enforced, and communicated. Until that happens, adtech will continue to be a watchword for anti-consumer, anti-privacy practices.
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Basically using a proxy product which is easy to exchange on both sides. You can trade in various forms of web currencies like WebMoney, PerfectMoney, etc. The standard sketchy web wallets, you just find a local exchanger for one of those of which there are plenty and then buy and sell PM/WM through them, then send that PM/WM to your exchange. At the point you've got the money into a russian exchange, you're pretty much safe. Just trade it and draw it to your bitcoin wallet.
Yeah, that's an uncool abuse of the checkbox element. I'd rather be conventional than clever when it comes to layout.
That's already the case during BST.
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My guess is it was as a political decision but not in the way you discuss.

I would guess Comey knows that Clinton, due to being Clinton, would not be successfully prosecuted, so decided not to recommend prosecution and waste further resources on it.
Many equatorial cities are at a high elevation for this reason.

Also, non-intuitively the equator is not the hottest area of the planet, but rather the tropics (+/- 23 degrees), so you can expect it to be merely hot.
Something needs to be done about this in my opinion. More and more over the last few months I've seen posts get flagged within minutes simply because someone disagrees with the content. Flagging should be for stuff that's irrelevant to HN and poor computer security practices by the woman running for president seems relevant to me - especially compared with a lot of the other stuff that gets upvoted.
Is it super-duper easy to give someone an eye scan?
Maybe. From the assembly we don't know what type the pointer is. The general C style for closures ("thunks") is to store two pointers—a function and `void `. Since `void ` can point to anything, it's fully general. But maybe the original has a less general type and we can't tell from the assembly.
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`qsort_r(3)` in libc, for example. It's not uncommon in idiomatic C code.
Yeah, I think that being president requires access to classified material. And I believe that the voters electing someone president should be enough to get them access to that material.
Maybe, like StackOverflow, HackerNews suffers from the "don't self-promote things even if they are relevant and useful" syndrome?
Webmoney is Russian paypal in that they seize accounts all the time and demand notarized ID if you move more than a few hundred dollars. Libertyreserve is long gone and the owner(s) in prison. They also seized accounts if you moved over $9k without ID.

Using BTC-e is essentially rolling the dice. The Russian/Bulgarian operators can disappear at anytime they like with the entire current volume they are anonymous and also not insured, existing on rep only which doesn't mean very much. They could easily put up a million worth of bitcoin as insurance somewhere held in a trust and refuse to daily trade over that insured amount, that they don't says they plan to just disappear one day.
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