skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also a way, on rooted Androids, to sniff SSL pinned Apps.

SSL pinned is not an protection for reverse engineering anymore, you may want to add this info on your post.

More info at

https://github.com/ac-pm/SSLUnpinning_Xposed
the 'great leap forward' was a result of the policy of forcing all the peasants into big collective farms (aka collectivization); it has been a tragedy in all former communist countries that adopted this policy (Poland didn't adopt it). In the Soviet Union it led to the famine of 1932-1933; this one killed seven millions.

Now the collective farms were supposed to press money out of agriculture, money that was needed for developing heavy industry; they did that, but it cost millions of lives, In China they also had strange notions of backyard steel furnaces in agricultural communes and the four pests campaign. In Russia they had the great terror - but that came later than collectivization.
Justification for restricting individual actions should be based on empirical study of whether or not they harm others, not on an a priori creed that appeals some simplistic logic. What constitutes a free decision cannot be decided by the decree of a mid-20th-century fringe think-tank. For example (although this example, too, is very simplistic), capturing a bird and putting it in a cage restricts its individual freedom. But if it is discovered empirically that 98% of birds of that kind are unable to resist the draw to some sound at a particular frequency, then playing that sound is also a restriction of their freedom. In other words, "free" is not defined by math, but by the actual study of the behavior of actual people in actual societies. I'm not claiming that careful studies are always or even usually, conducted, but nor is it the case that freedom is defined arbitrarily.
Really? I thought they totally discontinued the part of the service that lends optical discs via snail mail?
Wouldn't any economist be able to say that the assumption that house prices will not move in a correlated way across the united states is patently false? It happened before during the great depression, and to some degree in the 80's and 90's. It was also clear house prices were in bubble territory by any sort of economic measure. While no one can accurately time the burst of bubbles there's enough historical data to be able to have an idea of whether things are over valued by various metrics.

What I'm saying it that I don't think that claims that bankers, who are sophisticated players and experts in their field, didn't know what they were selling. They should have known those instruments were not of the quality they represented them to their customers. I don't think shifting the blame to the rating agency holds water. At the same time they were giving mortgages to people who wouldn't "normally" qualify and where the risk was obviously very high they were selling pieces of those mortgages as AAA rated securities. Doesn't pass the red face test in my books.
Technical issues at Site5 Ongoing
Well, perhaps, but it feels incredibly minor to me. Even if true, I don't think the tone represents the intention.
> Does the catalyst get used up, or crud up with contaminants, and if so, how fast? What limits the life of the system? What are the costs like? (Excessive catalyst cost has been a problem.)

If you had actually read the whole article before commenting you would know the answer to these questions. Your questions about efficiency are however valid.
First off, I actually appreciate that - I always just assumed it was a nesting limit!

That aside, honest question, because I truly don't understand. You've said things like "I never once experienced a broken credit card machine" and "they were always early and helped me with my bags". I find these claims equally as fantastic as the claims that you seem to disregard from others (not myself) re: this 80% figure. I honestly, truly do not believe that every cab you ever called in 8 years was early. Moreso, I find it very difficult to believe that you believe that this is normal.

So, all this being said, why is it that you feel that your stance on that end of the spectrum is right, and others are wrong. Where is your evidence (not anecdotal), for passing the burden of proof for the extraordinary claims you're making?
You could not attend half of the tech meetups in NYC. Columbia, NYU, CUNY, Cornell, SUNY Stony Brook -- Boston is a 30 minute shuttle flight from LGA -- indeed the whole Ivy league plus CMU, MIT, Northeastern, BU &c., are handy, so a lot of innovation is going on. And most of the money is here.

That said, Seattle has to be in the running.
The US government also created a program in which 100's of millions of trees were planted across more than 18,000 linear miles in a massive attempt to reduce the wind-caused erosion and dust storms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains_Shelterbelt
A functional database (1989)[pdf]
Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor
Based on what you described I found this old Wired article from 2005. It sounds like this could be the case you're remembering.

http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/09/68...
TL,DR: this way the elite could keep inferior classes in the line.
Joe Armstrong thinks it is.
In that case I would look into ARP poisoning.
Not to take away from the content, but I do cringe whenever anything is installed by piping curl into bash. Yes, I understand that's exactly the provided way to install GVM and that this is supposed to be on a throwaway VPS, but this is an article focusing on security :|

If you were referencing a specific commit, okay. Just installing from HEAD? You might as well email the maintainer your credentials.
What you are saying is definitely true within mathematics and its applications. But the original article was about “The […] skills that students of mathematics […] will practice and that will come in handy in their lives outside of mathematics” and in the same spirit I wanted to point out habits of thought developed doing mathematics which have a negative effect when the problem you are facing cannot be fully formalized.
still not clear. Do I have to read the article to understand it ?
Apple announces iOS 10, new features for iMessage, Maps and Siri SDK – #WWDC2016
A little background: we're a pair of couples, each couple having one of the two higher salaries.

Others have noted the high rent/mortgage prices in the Cambridge/Somerville area. However, each couple could afford the rent on a one or two bedroom. We're privileged to be able to do so; however we choose not to.

Two of the four of us have experienced solitary (i.e. One bedroom, no roommates) living. We all prefer coming home to an occupied house with a pseudo-family.

For my partner and I, children are about a decade away due to the constraints of grad school, early career, and general desire to spend time together before adding a third or fourth person to the mix! Similar feelings lie with the other couple. As such, a traditional family is quite some time away for any of us.

Neither do any of us want to live with our parents for obvious reasons.

And living with just our partner feels, in both cases, a bit too isolated at this point in our life.

I suppose it comes down to the desire for family, togetherness, community. We each have three people on whom we can rely and with whom we live. It's comforting and enjoyable.

Of course we can also save significant money because we split one Internet bill, one rent, and one utility bill. Closer quarters living seems to be a bit more cost-efficient on the heating front. This compounds with the money saved by not owning a car and the economic benefits of easy access to the city's job market.

EDIT: I realize I didn't answer your question! I'm sorry.

It's common among my group of 24-28 year olds who are a mix of grad students and professionals. Most people have at least one non-partner roommate. I cannot think of one person who lives alone in the city.

I do have friends and relatives with apartments in the suburbs who live alone. They tend to have similar feelings to sibling posts here about "being an adult", a very strong desire to own property, and/or cannot stand the cleanliness issues that arise with roommates.
Oh I meant streaming. However they spun off the disc part of the service for a very small amount of time before customer backlash pushed them to re-integrate. Netflix has been doing physical rentals for... ~8 years since then.
First Person to Successfully Jump from a Plane Without Parachute
The sooner you round a number, the bigger the differences will be in the end.
I guess i should have added a ;-).

Although the laser sintering printer downstairs produces quite nice surface finishes. Not good enough for an optical mirror, but definitely good enough for mm-wave antennas.
Don't they say that Pinochet's regime was 'neoliberal'?
Do you have a source for that last part?
Others can do the work but also only a manager can write.
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Found my second situation where I needed a semicolon in JavaScript!
The 'good bits' of OSX is that there is no such a thing as 'drivers' from the users perspective.

If you have to use the word 'driver' - it's not user friendly.

If you have to 'build' anything - it's not user friendly.

99% of people want to use their apps - even most devs just want a clean, stable, bug-free, well documented and consistent platform to develop on.

I have nothing against any of the unix flavours - all the power to them, but I'm not sure that these kinds of articles are hitting the mark when it comes to anything remotely resembling mass adoption.

Free BSD is not a 'product' really, I would argue that it's 'technology'.
I'm sure if GRATS somehow empowered the least of us they wouldn't be a thing. But because they serve the established
nothing wrong, when i was a kid, i often drink well water directly uncooked. i filter it because now i can and i have a son.

well water are already filtered by nature. the deeper the well, the cleaner the water is. think spring water, which is rain water filtered by hundred-meter rock hill.

water in apartment often smell funky and can't be trusted (management mix water from its own water-treatment with government water).

i know for sure how nasty the apartment water because i often pour pure-strength (not grocery-bought) HCl or NaOH (wait for a day so they don't cancel out) down the drain when it's clogged in hope they dissolve matters.

the pipe still sometimes gets clogged after harsh chemical treatments so lately i just use thick-liquid SLS (or use downy super in the USA, or any concentrated detergent) and pour hot water. it moves clog point down further the apartment pipe. slippery it is!

i used to have my sink flooded within 10 seconds. now it's after 60 seconds, leaving plenty of time to do quick washings.

that's history because now i live in a house.
Actually, worse: there are actually lots of C++ file extensions and .cpp doesn't even seem to be the most popular. I was mistaken, apologies.
There's actually some new breakthroughts that have been made in the last couple years that have pushed it to closer to 15-20 years. A group out of MIT has designed a new reactor type that shows promise, http://news.mit.edu/2015/small-modular-efficient-fusion-plan... there's also a lecture they did for and MIT alumni association down in silicon valley back in February on YouTube.
In a broader Chinese context it makes some sense to see the suffering and rebellions of the late Ming dynasty and perhaps until Deng Xiaoping as the 'usual' chaos of a dynastic transition.
Not sure what you mean. I drove for a well-run taxi company, before and during the rise of "ride-sharing".

I left a lot out of the diaries.
> They should have known those instruments were not of the quality they represented them to their customers.

You're not wrong! And yet it seems very clear they did not know this. Which is pretty stupid, really...but being stupid isn't a crime.

(Plus...I mean, you were alive back then right? Did you make a ton of money betting against the housing market? If not, why not? Or if you were too young/poor, then do you know anyone who did?)
http://www.everysecond.io/youtube/ suggests that the ad revenue is less than what it takes to run YouTube. Is it really a loss making business?
Turns out it doesn't need to be electrical- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_amplifier.
Then maybe you're not qualified to make such judgements?
This is good finding, but anything substantial will take some time to materialize. But good we are trying to find ways to suck the excess CO2 from the atmosphere.
I do agree with you, though I'd suggest being nicer about it if not in general then at least outside of preaching to the choir.
It's difficult to use FreeBSD without becoming a 90s-style expert sysadmin, and the handbook doesn't really help even if it's possible to do better.

Setting up a server should be as secure and fast as possible with no work, you should get backups, and you shouldn't need a C compiler installed, let alone /usr/src. But the docs still act like you need to be checking out the whole OS and recompiling it for every machine, and then recompile again for jails. And once you get traffic to your web server there's a few pages of sysctl numbers to increase because it won't autotune anything.

On the power user topics, is there a way to get a changelog of port/pkg updates or OS beta releases? It's hard to know when you should bother testing something.
Is this covered in functional analysis?
Rare is the person who is willing to describe some randomly selected totalitarian dictatorship as a "capitalist" regime.

It's rare to see people being shot trying to escape a capitalist regime. That's one way to resolve the moral ambiguity that some here are trying to introduce.
One source that I am always delighted to see pop up each week in my Feedly reader is The Codeless Code: http://thecodelesscode.com/contents Each article is a parable or koan that aims to convey some kind of programming best practice. I'm very happy to recommend it.
Most of those are optional libraries and rails does a hell of a lot more than a base install of PHP. PHP is also only "simple" if you ignore the god awful language semantics and inconsistencies of both the language itself and the standard libraries.
"Meh" is about right. Various people have been making fuel-from-water-powered-by-sunlight announcements for years. This group is not the only one working on this. Lots of research groups have something that sort of works, but has some practical problem, such as the cell lasting only 40 hours.[1] But the press release ("Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered a potentially game-changing solar cell that cheaply and efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel, using only sunlight for energy.") is written as if they just achieved the big success that makes it commercially feasible.

There are startups in this area. Here's HyperSolar. They have their own proprietary "nanoparticle" technology.[2] They announced success in 2012. No product yet.

That's why reports of "breakthroughs" in this area have to be viewed skeptically. There have been a lot of claimed breakthroughs that didn't pan out.

This problem looks more like a long, slow slog to something that works well enough to use. Silicon solar cells were like that. Efficiency has slowly improved since the 1950s. Manufacturing processes have slowly improved. There was no "breakthrough"; the curves of efficiency and cost per unit over time are smooth, not discontinuous.

[1] http://phys.org/news/2015-09-efficiency-solar-hydrogen-produ...
[2] http://www.hypersolar.com/application.php
> Note that the integers don't have a very good notion of “sufficiently near”, unlike the reals.

You could use the p-adic norm. But that will probably not be the right notion for most applications.
Functional Programming in C (1997)
Both? git has a --author command-line switch that allows you to override whatever's the default.
I read the New York Times in mine via a phantomjs script that pulls out the text courtesy of DOM selector 'p.story-body-text.'

It's not perfect but I cannot find a closer approximation to the Kindle newsstand experience on a computer screen.

I am an All Digital Access subscriber of the Times and consider my actions justified under the Terms of Service, for whatever that is worth.

I use the Newsbeuter RSS reader.
Good recommendation.

A few more books worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Chairman_M...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_China_Blues

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118690.This_Kind_of_War

It may not be possible to fully understand China's 20th century struggles, but it's a fascinating subject.
Ask HN: How do you generate content for Social Media / Blog?
Hi,

I'm working on setting up Social Media accounts for a couple of DBA's I have & would obviously like to generate business for. As I'm going through this I'm wondering how I can come up with ideas for content on a regular basis.

I imagine once I get their respective websites up, I ought to have a Blog for each in addition to their Facebook & Twitter.

It feels like an overwhelming task to have something (different) to say on all these vectors of interaction. Not sure if it might be a good idea to hire a 'ghost writer' to manage it all.

How do you go about this kind of thing?
The hydrogen is combined with atmospheric nitrogen to produce ammonia. Usually we source it from natural gas, so all our fertilizer is incredibly carbon intensive to make whereas this would at least be carbon neutral.

At the end, you'd just oxidize the CO back to CO2 before release, like a catalytic converter does, or use the CO as a chemical building block to produce hydrocarbons.
Well the failure rate of the machines is super low, so experiencing nearly zero broken card machines would be about expected. The outcome of never experiencing a broken one certainly is rare, as you say, but it's nowhere near the astronomical claim made elsewhere of an 80% failure rate.

I'm not asking anyone to believe that zero card readers are broken. I'm only saying I never experienced a broken one, and never experiencing a broken one isn't that weird because the failure rate is low.

Someone saying that 80% of the time the reader is broken is making an extremely different type of claim, not really even comparable with my analogous claim of not ever experiencing a broken one. While my experience might also differ from average, it is orders of magnitude closer to average than someone happening to experience a broken one 80% of the time.

I'm not sure what to say about the bags comment. Every time I've ever gotten a cab to or from any airport anywhere, from Boston to Hong Kong, the driver helped me with bags if I had them. And all the other drivers helped all the other people in line too.

Maybe you're referring to the fact that I always experienced them coming early -- yes this could be highly variable. My anecdotes are probably no more valuable than others here on that point, mostly because nobody here extended the outrageously extreme claims they made (80% card reader failure, effectively zero clean taxis ever) into the topic of how late taxis are, though they might have (e.g. someone possibly saying another statistically unbelievable thing like 'taxis are always 30 minutes late' or '90% of the time they don't even show up' or something).

Keep in mind that being early only applied to taxis I scheduled from home to the airport. I never called ahead to arrange a taxi except when going to the airport, so those are the only ones which could have possibly been early or late.

The majority of cabs I ever took were cabs I just hailed on the street or at a taxi stand.
I had to do this recently and found a great tool for Android for sniffing traffic on the device called Packet Capture. It can even sniff SSL without root permissions by installing a self-signed certificate and running an in-app local VPN proxy. It also had a bunch of other nice features like parsing common protocols, showing the good bits of HTTP, etc. Much nicer than the approach described here (this article is from 2013), although it's certainly only for Android folk.

I don't think it's FOSS, but hopefully a FOSS alternative will come along and use this approach.
Can anyone comment in a knowledgeable way about the chemicals involved?

1. tungsten diselenide

2. an ionic fluid called ethyl-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate

Just offhand I see selenium in #1, and fluorine and boron going into #2. There's some expense there, and some handling and exposure dangers. If you have a lot of these cells around, are there public health dangers either in handling or in disposing/recycling old ones?
It's the embedded scripting language in some of our printers so we use it during development of new products.
Alternate between feed2imap and rss2email.
Also Apple section should have a count of the number of them broken or stolen. ^_^
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_foreclosure... is what he's talking about.
Some sort of DNS attribute might work.
Yes. Socket programming. A number of banking apps in the UK use the connect(2) etc, although I can't say if this is the reason. It's most likely to make it a touch more difficult to reverse than hooking NSURLConnection etc.
Facebook open sources a 3D-360 video capture system
It's counterproductive in the sense that you'd be guaranteed to reduce carbon emissions more (globally) if you were to instead just not burn fossil fuels at all. If you took the solar cell part and just used that electricity to displace carbon fueled power plants, you'd end up ahead.

That said, for a little while at least, having liquid fuels is inherently given a bonus relative to electricity only. Of course, you can just make those from the original fossil fuel sources as well...

Honestly it seems like a bit of a mess since each team solving problems locally rarely has all the expertise needed to see the impact globally. I certainly don't, though I've been studying it for many years.

I very much appreciate that things like the CA-GREET models have been trying hard to make it easier to apply wide systems analysis expertise to understand a small part of the overall system without spending years doing the math. But probably it will end up needing to be solved by AlphaGo...
Basically what SDR lets you do (More properly the Quadrature Sampling Detector techniques they use) is record a large amount of radio bandwidth at once. So in this case I could record from 80Mhz to 136MHz. I'd have to then tune in to each frequency on the recorded data, but I'd have the entire spectrum there recorded to play it back later.

It's like recording a bunch of TV channels all at once, and then being able to go back and look at every channel at any given time in the recording.

The bigger issue with this particular device is that almost any antenna you use is not going to perform very well over such a large bandwidth, but that's a much nicer problem to have.
You call it silly. I found it extremely funny, and a little thought provoking even.
One thing that the article does not mention is that dtruss is also just a DTrace script (well, a DTrace script in a shell script ;)). DTrace comes with some other nice scripts (iosnoop, execsnoop, opensnoop, etc.)[1].

But you need to disable some portion of the system integrity protection:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/34616033

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/10/10/top-10-dtrace-scr...