skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool project! I also developed a tool for Pi's called Bakery for configuring a Pi from a user interface :). The difference was that it was focused on setting up the Pi as a Gateway device for IoT. I took it down though because our Knight Prototype Grant funding ran out and we didn't have time to maintain it. In case you're interested, our approach was to generate a bash script from input in a web form, then put that script on a USB drive and plug it into a Pi. We rolled our own Pi distro that then looked for new USB drives containing an `autorun.sh` file. We now just teach people how to use the command line to pipe data from devices to the Internet. All of our device and database drivers are actually just CLI so no fancy UI needed... But using these CLIs we made in PiBakery would be really cool way to lower that barrier to entry! If you're interested in taking this tool an IoT direction, check out our wiki at http://openpipekit.github.io/. We do a monthly first Thursday hangout at 8pm (link to hangout at the bottom of the Wiki).
> Not really, you can always improve upon an existing PRNG by XOR'ing the random number stream with the output of your own PRNG without thereby weakening security.

Unless an attacker gets to acctively control your PRNG results.
Completely fair point.
The factor of 25 is over a 100-year time period, and accounts for this decay.
"Bing" also means stellar.
Streamline Your Business
> Not much information on the diesel engine used.

It does mention that it's an off-the-shelf Ford Transit diesel engine and transmission. I'm sure you can find the answers to the rest of your questions based on that.
It is not, check http://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html
Just further clarification of how little we understand the damage we're doing at an ever increasing rate.

We've achieved a little awareness along with some limited recycling and energy saving, but still use an order of magnitude more than even as recently as the 80s. Oil companies see melting ice caps and think "great! new places to exploit"

I don't see much hope of change until something seriously dramatic happens. Dramatic enough to convince the most dogmatic politician currently thinkng growth is the only thing that matters.

Only then we'll try and fix it. Probably by having to adopt something like a war economy, globally, with all the restrictions and ramifications that would bring.
I saw in the article they mentioned new prototypes in the near future. You think they'll have something to unveil in the next few years?
One more hyperlocal app to increase your real social circle
Like video games? You may be playing with government propaganda [audio]
http://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/the-ricks-mus...
The next Chernobyl may be intentional
The world's most wanted man protected by those with nothing. Absolutely incredible.
Minority investors should check the returns policy
I don't see why this is "ridiculous".

It may sound stupid or funny

So, ridiculous then?
Global leaders test limits of spreading wealth
Reminds me of an old joke:

> A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. The old man fingered his worsted wool vest and said, "Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel. I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents. The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37. Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars."
I'm not sure if I understood your points correctly. There is always more to be done. There is not a fixed set of things humanity needs that will one day be fulfilled. We didn't know we wanted cars, computers and smartphones until they were invented. This is regardless of scarcity, possibly even because of it (scarcity of resources will drive the need to be more efficient handling them).

I also don't understand your two points since (1) automation increases efficiency and thus production levels and (2) as a result of that increased productivity, there is a raise in wages.
Copyright on a song or book is like ownership. Imagine a scenario where you mould from clay an amazing aesthetically pleasing shape. Do you think that it should be taken from you after a set time period?
Hard to believe the Soviets were using vacuum tubes instead of transistors In hindsight, the MiG 25, which the West had been so worried about, turned out to be a ‘paper tiger’. Its massive radar was years behind US models because instead of transistors it used antiquated vacuum tubes (a technology that did, however, make it impervious to electromagnetic pulses from nuclear blasts). The huge engines required so much fuel that the MiG was surprisingly short-ranged. It could take-off quickly, and fly in a straight line very fast to fire missiles or take pictures.
If there are guys named River, Forrest, Leaf, and girls named Rainbow and Sunshine, then Squirrel isn't that far off the mark.
Show HN: An interactive comparison of 256 popular monitors
Makes sense, thanks for explaining! Basing the limit on the moving average is an interesting choice and I wonder what sort of long-term consequences it will have on people's behavior. Seems like there's some potential for weird feedback loops.
His point is really that perceiving reality may not be correlated with fitness that well. It's a shame this work has been taken up by a lot of pop press philosophizing, because the actual research is quite interesting, and the philosophical surface layer is mostly not Hoffman's fault.
And where does this calculation come from? How was it determined that this is
a valid approximation of a physical process? This "global warming potential"
seems to assume that a wave of certain length can be reflected and absorbed at
the same time, which idea is somewhat unexpected if you dig through optics
handbooks.

Not to mention that the formulas are incomplete.
How full of shit is Zuckerberg do you think?
I don't know if you can answer this, but does it apply to "kit" cars too? This car is supposed to be shipped unassembled and you can probably source a used (or even new) Ford Transit engine.

The article does mention taxes and customs as one motivator for this design.
But it's not why it was taken down ... :)
In Defense of Cargo Cult Programming
Presumably the X11 / HDMI interface going to sleep, not the whole thing.
some of Flightradar24 and FlightAware clients include: Airlines, other aircraft operations, Freight services using aircraft. Airport Flight status display boards, Airport services, Tax officials etc.
Hatch – DigitalOcean's new incubator program
Oh man.

There is huge undiscovered land of material for cross-cultural and comparative research in communication in these developer forums. Ruby and Linux mailing lists could provide material for number of really interesting studies in many fields.

Ruby community has hint of Japanese culture: design aesthetics, simplicity, importance of politeness, saving face and rigidity.

Linux community has hint of Finnish culture: practicality, "pig energy" and "management by perkele" combined with 80's competitive hacker culture.
Daily content ideas for Buffer posts
A big part of the point of this blog post is avoiding the OpenSSL userland CSPRNG, which has not proven to be consistently safe. Far better would be the snippet of Common Lisp that reads random from getrandom(), and then /dev/urandom.
Maybe you shouldn't watch movies if you're poor.
Show HN: Kubernetes on RPI3 cluster
... and "ice" and ...
Since the article doesn't want a userspace CSPRNG (which is probably a good idea, even though the Linux PRNG design is embarrassingly bad), better to just read from /dev/urandom or make the appropriate syscall.
It's been a while, but when I first set up OctoPi, I'd run into the same thing. Would disappear from Wifi after a short amount of time. At the time, I searched and found a directive to prevent something from going to sleep: wireless, USB (wifi dongle), the whole Pi. Endlessly frustrating. But I think/thought this has been resolved for some time.

Exciting project nonetheless and look forward to using it!
Seriously?!? Incompetence... Thanks for writing this, disabled.

EDIT: FF: about:config, media.peerconnection.enabled => false
Improving the performance of full-text search
vector is using FreeSWITCH for it's audio and video conferencing afaik. FreeSWITCH also has another project called Verto Communicator built with all sort of Node.js goodness: https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Verto+C...
As a private company they can kick one off the service anyway, ToS (which they can easily modify on the fly) or not. I (probably mis-)read your post to mean there was a clear legal problem with trying to modify the view to suit user tastes ("user content stays, ads go").

Folks doing this are fighting an uphill battle against stronger opponents who have powerful weapons (e.g., disable access), but it is not a hopeless battle -- there are examples of successful and profitable products built for filtering out force-fed content.
It depends on the person. Some will use it as basically a replacement for their actual name, others will use for only for business with people who can't speak Chinese.

Interestingly, there doesn't seem to be as strong a correlation as you'd expect between a person's use of an English name and their command of the English language.

I used to work for a startup in Shanghai where no one spoke a word of English, except for the English names of the other employees. Office chatter was entirely Chinese, with a sprinkling of "Tony", "Leon", and "Francis." At the other extreme, I had a friend who was from Chongqing, but grew up and went to school in the west, who refused to take an English name at all because she didn't see the value in going by a fake name to all her friends.*

However, by her own description, this was somewhat unusual, as it meant that people called her by her full given name all the time. And according to her (this could be wrong, I'm just repeating it, and its hard for me to verify as I'm not Chinese), Chinese people generally address each other by some kind of nickname. So bringing it full circle, an English name is not only kind of cool, but doubles as a nickname, which was already a part of the culture anyway.

*I can see the merit in this. If you're going to befriend someone, especially someone of a different cultural background, telling him/her your name is basically the first chance you get to introduce them to your culture and language. But I digress.
The future is not set in stone. You cannot predict the future. You cannot even tell what happens in the next 5 minutes.

Privacy is a significant concern for many. Not just individuals, but organizations work to ensure privacy is respected, and more (e.g. through policy). Active research occurs, and technology is developed specifically to create privacy-respecting systems and augment the ones that don't already do so.
I thought so too, until I saw things like these about one of the "nicer" occupations. They broke the resistance with brutality -- then the population suffered silently until it was clear no Soviet tanks would roll in if they threw the yoke off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1946%E2%80%93...

A few percent of the population was in prison for political errors (like not writing over your farm to the party):

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

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

Sending most grown ups from Transylvania with German ancestry (they generally moved there during the middle ages) to Siberia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_settlements_in_the_Sovi...
This article made me carry a bottle of water with me: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-trick-yourself-into-drinking-mo...
Heh, indeed. I think what I meant was that your opponent can thwart it, in practice, given the actual abilities of both players. Things like the 50 move rule and the repetition rule are ways to detect this condition without actually having to figure out a way to analyze their abilities to decide whether a position is practically unwinnable.
Xcode 8: Code Signing Configurations
And have you noticed that you only hear these laments when it's programmers? Nobody laments when somebody in the sales, finance, or marketing departments wants nice things. Hell, in the business side of many companies, getting a nicer chair and/or a bigger office is just as much a part of your promotion as the title, raise, and direct reports are.

But it seems that there are people intent on cutting programmers off from the same perks that MBA types consider essential. It would be one thing if this backlash came from management; at least that would make sense as a cost-saving measure, but in the case of this article, it's coming from other programmers. It seems that not only are programmers undercompensated, but other programmers are actively seeking to keep us undercompensated.

Is this crab mentality [0] at work or just ignorance of how non-technical people get compensated?

Either way, it makes me wonder if I went into the right profession. I went into software engineering because I love computers, and coding is fun, but I have to wonder if I'd be better off if I got my MBA instead of a CS degree and went into finance or marketing or something (I know I don't have what it takes to do sales).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
Are we ignoring some valuable aspects of development when doing estimates?
Amazing.

Maybe I'm extremely naive, but it seems to me that you shouldn't be able to turn the transponder off in a commercial passenger flight, and that international medium/long-haul flights that are likely to be in areas with reduced transponder coverage should be required to have some sort of Iridium beacon (which also cannot be turned off).

Even sending the coordinates every 15 minutes would greatly reduce the area to search, and preventing disabling the transponder safeguards against nefarious or suicidal crew/passengers/terrorists.

If I didn't know better (MH370), as a laymen I would have assumed all major flights would be sending their GPS locations constantly via satellite already, for a slew of reasons (one of them being it's 2016).
Typical PR: title says "fight cancer and save lives", scientists actually "Their method has already been tested in the laboratory and has been successful against both Breast Cancer and Leukaemia cells."

AKA, not anywhere near saving lives yet.
Still, she's leveraging those opportunities when the alternative is a life of leisure.
> So they told me I was infringing 4 years later... when there are numerous apps in the store doing the same.

This is not a great defense. We know from the trail you presented that someone from FB's legal/compliance team found your extension, not the others, likely due to its visibility and popularity. That doesn't mean the other extensions are in the clear. It just means they weren't on FB's radar.

> The extension is free. There is no advertising. I don't make any profit.

I'm sorry, but that's irrelevant. The complaint wasn't that you were profiting from the ™, just that you were using it.

> If I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I can't fix it. This is not about TM infringement, but the total lack of communication by Google

I cannot disagree more. They told you what the problem was and the originating email explained that quite explicitly. You did not have permission to use the trademark Facebook (or FB). That's it. If you removed those protected trademarks, it would have been a different story.
Rebuilding a $20k/month Bloomberg service using R and Pokemon Go
I have been developing Product Chart for over two years now. It all started when I posted the first chart here on HN that compared flashdrives.

Here comes chart number 8: Monitors.

If you have feature suggestions, let me know.
I'm confused, how did her website get around the restricted internet in China? The article mentions there are other similar baby naming websites, but China does not have access to them . What makes her site special?
The Iridium NEXT satellites to be launched by SpaceX soon (well, we'll see about that ...) are equipped with ADS-B receivers, see e.g. http://aireon.com/resources/iridium-next/
Transfiguration
Bah! That's a digression, the intended meaning here is clear.

Though let me say it is an interesting digression :D It seems that the use of that saying here qualifies for the "Loose rhetorical sense" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...) described in that article. The one we would really like to avoid would be "Serious nonsense": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...
Community conference starts with 10th release of LibreOffice in 2016
Are they still using the Code of Conduct that explicitly allows "reverse-racism, reverse-sexism" etc. for members of marginalized groups?
A technical intro to Pearlian Causality
Try an experiment, then. Create a new account and submit the extension under a new name unrelated to facebook. Grow your userbase to a size significant enough that FB notices.

I am betting that FB will get it taken down again. Trademark Infringement was just the scapegoat for your original extension. The real reason it was taken down was because it was harming FB's business model for a growing portion of its userbase.
The 3 Key Elements of a Killer Digital Marketing Process
> The Soviets had not built the ‘super-fighter’ the Pentagon had feared, says Smithsonian aviation curator Roger Connor, but an inflexible aircraft built to do a very particular job.

There is no mention what MiG-25 was designed for. Its task was to intercept nuclear bombers flying over Soviet Union and it did this task pretty well.

Because it used steel it was cheap and easy to service. At that time soviets had lot of experience with titanium (space, submarines), but expensive plane similar to SR-71 would not cover entire Soviet Union.
We were _really_ preparing for nuclear war. While US military adopted the MAD doctrine, considering their nuclear weapons just the ultimate deterrent, Soviet generals thought that nuclear war can actually be fought — and won.

I am quite surprised that we are not living in Fallout by now.
That doesn't negate the negative homonym.
It teaches them to binge-play and waste away their childhoods?
5 Crazy things technology in the next decade can lead to – Infographic
I was recently reading an article about James Watt, and his steam engine. It's a remarkable story.

I'm reasonably intelligent, but I'm pretty sure that even if I was given his tools and his blueprints, I would never be able to construct an actual working steam engine (input burning coal, output rotating shaft).

This got me thinking about how in India (I'm Indian), we don't have any of the older technology. We don't actually know how to construct a steam engine, or an internal combustion engine, or an electrical engine from scratch. All the key components are imported from Japan, or Germany or the U.S. As a child, my little toys with electrical or gas motors (RC airplanes) in them were all imported.

I think there's a lot of focus on software because it's actually easier to tinker with. All one needs is a PC and internet. I suspect there are lots of mechanically inclined Indians who would love to work on motors, engines, stuff that makes shafts rotate. But we simply don't have the basic tools and infrastructure to tinker with those.

I guess what I'm saying here is that while it's very good that there's more internet infrastructure being laid out in India. I wish someone like the Ambanis would lay out infrastructure that could allow for tinkering with older technology as well.
Now, this is something I can identitify with! Haha
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802144/
I'm willing to entertain that this is true, but it's also possible that the companies that sacrifice good engineering are setting themselves up for big costs later, like, for example, if someone uses one of your security holes to destroy your site and you can't easily fix them because they are so numerous. It could also presumably cause major scaling problems (if you are lucky enough to have that problem), which could impede growth significantly at a critical time.

That said, as someone who highly values a well built product, this may be wishful thinking.
In emacs, one could use TRAMP and EasyPG Assistant:

C-x C-f /rsync:user@host:/path/to/file

One could of course also configure stuff such that one could type quite a bit less.
A type system for Machine Learning
Atom.io Activate Power Mode
Internet of Potatoes
No, of course not, because not everyone in her situation has a business with 200k clients, obviously. But it helps.
I consider this article to be the über meta-troll.

Writing a blog entry discussing about how the community discusses about things surrounding their jobs rather than actually doing it, rather than actually doing one's job is either a very clever pun, or very short-sighted.

This entry also documents how one-liners can get a bit confusing.
No Silver Bullet – essence and accident in software engineering
Yeah I totally agree. Personally I want to find a way to do both. Build a great product that's well marketed. If anything, when you build something great, don't totally ignore the marketing side of things like I often do.

I think one way to do both of these is market your product well, yet at the same time develop it in a sustainable way so that this piece of crap is becoming something that eventually looks great on the engineering side of things.
As ever it depends.

To use the ever-present car analogy, shoddy engineering didn't harm British Leyland - until it did. And now there's no native British car industry to speak of.

But people don't care about engineering - they care about how your product will affect their lives today. If you can prove to them that it will solve that problem they have, they don't care that it's made out of biscuits.
Because Facebook doesn't want India to use Internet. Facebook wants India to use Facebook.
Zombie Meetings
Show HN: Result of tcp port scan for ngrok server
And a two-cent thermistor should take care of that...
You mean like the rest of us "wage slaves"?
Zelig- Everyone's Statistical Software
I actually found the post to be mostly true - at least for me. It struck me on a personal level because I find myself talking about being an indie game developer. I have cool hardware, all the game programming books, and some interesting prototypes, but I still haven't shipped a game. Talking about it is just easier and more fun than actually doing the work.
how about go fuck yourself
If you're not paying them money, you're not a customer.
>> "To insult a new hire by providing only a single 4:3 monitor? I can't work like this."

> I can work like this, but I prefer two monitors. How much does a monitor cost anyway? Having two displays is much more convenient.

I now prefer a LG 21:9 34". They are fairly cheap, have a good quality screen for long viewing, and the extra width is a real help. I wouldn't buy the thunderbolt version as it really doesn't do the thunderbolt properly.

I think any programmer or manager bitching about developers chairs or screens is a sadist and doesn't really get we have to live with this stuff and it affects our health.
>Most 16 year olds are just using their phones to send silly snaps to their friends and watch porn.

And most people waste their lives away in 9-5 jobs. It's not an age thing.
Mukesh Ambani had been planning this for a long time now. They got the license couple of years back and then started building out the infrastructure. However Facebook's freebasics and the failed venture with his brother's company might have had some effect on the pricing that Jio is offering now.