skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gun control issue is likely a huge part of why the democrats are losing so many elections. The sad part is, even if they were to win on the issue there isn't a viable legislative solution to the recent mass shootings (either laws already existed to prevent the crime or the proposed legislation wouldn't have mattered).

I would wager many on the left are rethinking their whole stance on guns and 2A with the Republicans in power now. Not saying we are getting ready for revolution, but at least folks might be more sympathetic to the view of people power balanced against government when the other side is in office.

As a further real life example of the self defeating gun politics of the left, I am confident far more innocent people will die as a result of Republican rule than any gun violence (consequence of dismantling Obamacare and environmental regulations, reduction of social safety nets).
I clearly remember using this to connect to the Internet via EDGE/3G on a HTC Tytn II and later a HTC Magic directly from my laptop, instead of tethering (which was against ISP ToS).

I think I'm going crazy now because none of the Android phones I've tried to replicate this on support this :/
Probably in a funny way?

I like three very much:

1) "we are dealing with a sysadmin"

2) Math over physics over chemistry over biology...

3) Knuth's answer to array index inconsistency across languages (some start from zero others from one because [reasons])
>The reason Nathan is not sharing more technical details is to protect the security of Red Hat users.

Security through obscurity?
Whoops! I use Bopomofo exclusively these days - I forgot c is a "ts" sound. Looks like her name is indeed spelled Wade-Giles style.

To add to the confusion, Taiwan seems to have had their own adapation of wade-giles between 2002-2008 called Tongyong Pinyin...

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

The moral of the story is - when asking for directions in Taiwan, don't rely on the street signs much for pronunciation :D
My first attempt was 想起來. Happily this is fairly close to where the author ended up. I think the author's suggestion is slightly better than mine. The other possibilities higher in the article were plain weird.
You would only lose messages if both people switched phones at the same time, and then probably only a single message. That tiny chance of losing a message does not warrant allowing adversaries to read a message when the user has explicitley marked themself high risk.

And even with the current implementation there is still the chance to lose messages.
I was having the hardest time figuring out why Philip K. Dick sprang instantly to mind reading this. Thanks. Could not for the life of me remember where or why!
I'm so very tired of the left/right analogy. Please describe your politics as well as you do your sandwich toppings. They're likely similar in quantity. To put Trump and many other republicans on the same "right" is more absurd than ever. I made a video about it.
This is a truly dark pattern.
https://textplain.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/image38.png?w=...
Faking browser popups is evil, and unexpected for a high-profile site such as Tom's Hardware.
I'm a big fan of the "Tropical Pepper Company" products in general. Their scotch bonnet pepper sauce is really nice as well.

http://www.tropicalpepper.com/product.php?idProduct=94

Scotch Bonnet peppers are a little less hot than Habanero but have - to me - a much nicer flavor.

A pattern I use quite often in things I cook, is to use quite a bit of Scotch Bonnet pepper and then add a much smaller amount of the Ghost Pepper sauce. To my tastes, that yields a nice combination of flavor and heat.
The authors don't suggest using it for anything. There is at least one more NMR (nonce misuse resistant) cipher in the current round of the CAESAR competition, AEZ. I have my own one built on top of libsodium primitives, called magicnonce. I don't think any of them are sufficiently well-vetted for you to start considering them for general purpose use right now. If you're bothered by nonce reuse, consider a different primitive. While libsodium's secretbox also has serious nonce reuse problems, it doesn't really matter because you can just select it at random.
The BMV near me has been nothing but cheerful and helpful and I've done a few transactions that are off the beaten path. Wait times are usually 0-40min and it's in a strip mall so you can do your shopping while you wait. I do live in the middle of nowhere by SV standard though.
Personal email analysis with light NLP
Keep taking those spelling lessons, kid!
I used to use zsh way back in the day because it was clearly superior to bash, then decades ago switched to bash because it was everywhere by default and my job involved using lots of computers that only had bash on them, then about 4 or 5 years ago I switched back to zsh because I realized that it really didn't matter that I used zsh on my own machine and bash on others, and zsh was still better than bash.

These days bash seems to have a lot closer feature parity to zsh, and I'd be curious to read an up-to-date comparison of both shells to determine if either is clearly better than the other.
> The RPi has filtering capacitors

It's hard to specifically assign blame to noise since it's such a personal and transient problem, but as a general statement power quality is one of the biggest problems with the Raspberry Pi and I strongly suspect that the Pi is not really equipped to tolerate 270mv swings as are seen on cheap USB adapters. Phones deal with this quite fine, but the Pi has less filtering and if anything is doing things that are much more sensitive to noise due to its OS.

http://www.crazy-audio.com/2013/09/raspberry-pi-power-supply...

> What does that have to do with the designers of the RPi? They don't have any control over which power supplies people buy.

You shouldn't have to buy a power supply at all. The norm is that when you buy a piece of hardware it comes with an appropriate power supply. When I buy a $15 gigabit-ethernet switch from D-Link, it comes with a power adapter.

Again, the Pi Foundation wanted to hit their price target so they could put "A computer for $35!!!" in their advertising, so they cheaped out on something that probably costs $2 when you are buying a million of them. At quantity 500, you are already down to $4 when sourcing them from Mouser.

They also pretty much openly encouraged you to use whatever crappy USB charger you had lying around. The reality is most knockoff chargers are total crap, their current ratings are dramatically overinflated, and they certainly won't be delivering clean power anywhere near their current ratings, which again amplifies the problems with the Pi's lack of filtering.

All of this has been well-known for ages. Check out Ken Shirriff's excellent series of teardowns on cheapo USB chargers and his comparison to a genuine Apple charger. This was not news even at the time.

http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and...

http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-ap...

http://www.righto.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-...
You can still do this as late as Win7. I think this was eliminated in Win8, but I've not used it myself.

If you do use Aero, you can change the window chrome colour to something custom, which should catch out sites trying to fake windows. I don't think browsers provide any way to get the window chrome colour, though come to think of it, I'm fairly sure IE does/used to provide system colour names in CSS, so it might not be impossible... (If you recall the Win2000-era colour customization window, which IIRC you can still access in current versions of Windows, it's just hidden, you can set things like default window background colour, which traditionally in the Win2000 era was grey. So I guess the idea is that websites could use these system colours if you changed them to be consistent with the OS. Of course nobody really does this.)
You cannot, as a culture, simultaneously underplay the importance of science and math education (nerds!!!) and complain when immigrants come in to occupy the high tech jobs. There is a big outrage about lack of high-paying jobs, yet there is rampant anti-intellectualism and discouragement of critical and analytical thinking which is needed for those jobs.
Since you specifically mentioned homelessness, here's a good example of care provided by "family and the community" back in the days when those were the sole sources of relief:

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

Do I understand correctly that this kind of thing is what you consider normal in your ideal society?
None of the current tests are 100% accurate for known diseases. So, no it's really not safe today. Further as I said, the risk for the next outbreak is significant.

PS: Risks of AIDS are conservatively estimated at 1:1.5 million per transfusion, but some people get a lot of transfusions. Here is one example from 2008: https://www.cdc.gov/Mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5941a3.htm AIDS is also rapidly becoming drug resistant making reduced transmission even more important.
>Because frankly the city doesn't care about change of ownership. Many cities (probably most in California, and SF for sure) are totally disconnected from helping citizens.

Eh, Boston isn't in California but from what I gather most of the populace has contracted whatever California has so it may as well be.
It looks broken in both Edge (the content area is half size) and Firefox (the tab sides are low).
I traded my car in, and one of the forms they had me sign was this. 6 months later I got a call from the DMV saying my insurance lapsed. I told them as much and they said that it's a common tactic by dealerships - they have you sign it then never send it in, because they don't want to be liable for the car even though they own it. Totally scummy.
What exactly does it accomplish, though, in this instance? Since it's not real it can't actually authorize anything the site can't already do. It's a dubious approach, but it seems more misguided than actively malicious.
Paint.Net used to be MIT licensed. I don't really know why he went back to closed source but I saw a comment he wrote where he said that releasing the source brought him only misery. Does anyone know any details about that?

For anyone interested, the MIT-licensed source is still out there: https://github.com/rivy/OpenPDN
I think Snowden would be a fool to come back to the US, under any circumstances (and he's obviously no fool). Even if he is pardoned, they will find some other charge to make his life hell to set an example for others. He can never come back. I admire him for his convictions and thank him for his sacrifice so that we would have the truth.
bash (and shells in general) are so hacky (in a bad way) that I wouldn't want to waste my time mastering them. Whenever a shell script grows beyond 10 or 20 lines, I try to rewrite it in a "real" programming language. Fancy shell tricks are a code smell to me, and clarity and simplicity are of far greater importance.

For me, as far as shells go it's usually enough to know the basics and be able to look stuff up when debugging other people's shell scripts.
I use tmux. The benefit of using suspend is not having to move around multiple windows/tabs. I try to keep those to a minimum (usually one or two). With suspend I can stick with the same tmux window for editing and cli within the same context. It's a personal preference over managing multiple windows.
You can use passphrases with a substitution or shift cipher and get a high entropy password that would also be resilient to combination dictionary attacks.
Good for them! I'm impressed with how quickly they were able to conclude their accident investigation and get approved for return to flight. Brings to mind all of the multi-year Shuttle accident investigations.
Occurs to me that counteracting this problem might be one of the strengths of 3D UIs, such as we might have to look forward to in AR systems, or with display advances. Untrusted content can literally be loaded up and restricted to exist only 'inside' a chrome box, making its provenance clear.

Of course, chances are that we'll get carried away with the possibilities of allowing AR web browsers to create arbitrary objects in the AR space long before we realize what a terrible idea that is...
Have Blue Origin gone 'up' further than ~100km ?
> If the first stage were to "fly" all the way back to land after separating from the second stage

You write it as a hypothetical, but that's actually how SpaceX landed their first first booster. It was Falcon 9 Flight 20, which deployed 11 Orbcomm satellites.

Infographic of the trajectory: https://i.imgur.com/D9BdO86.png
>but as a general statement power quality is one of the biggest problems with the Raspberry Pi and I strongly suspect that the Pi is not really equipped to tolerate 270mv swings as are seen on cheap USB adapters. Phones deal with this quite fine, but the Pi has less filtering

What is your source for all these statements? How do the voltage regulation circuits in phones differ? If anything the phones ought to have more noise, since they're using switching regulators rather than linear regulators.

>Again, the Pi Foundation wanted to hit their price target

Yes, you got it. There's 1001 improvements that could be made to the RPi. If you made all of those improvements, it would not be affordable.

>They also pretty much openly encouraged you to use whatever crappy USB charger you had lying around.

They say to use a charger that's rated for at least 2.5A. That does not include most crappy phone chargers. They also sell an official RPi power supply which anyone is free to buy if they're concerned about this issue.
Well not so much "backwards" as perpendicular.
Because the people who are qualified and skilled enough to make one from scratch are working for companies like Qualcomm, 55 hours a week at a salary like $190k.

It's kind of like asking where there aren't any gpl licensed m.2 ssd flash controllers, the people who design them are getting paid nicely to design and sell a commercial product. It would be cool if there were such a thing, but there is only so much "free" expertise to go around...
I personally enjoy uber and use it frequently.

However, after reviewing my Uber receipts, I realized how awful the drivers side of the deal was. Take gas, car milage, Ubers cut and then you have literally a fraction of minimum wage with no health insurance or 401k.

Then I start to think, well heck, if this kind of gig economy displaces traditional employment, a lot of people will be one crisis from poverty.

The future is really exciting, but unless we proceed carefully, we could end actually making things worse for the working class than they were decades ago.
Containers are all around us
Yeah, you left out a part of that.

"If you borrow a gun from me, and I don't know that you did, and you don't or won't tell me that you did... oh well. shrug" becomes your expectation of what should happen next.

"Oh sorry, you weren't driving your vehicle, and you have no idea who was, when it was involved in that accident. But you know it wasn't stolen. Guess there's nothing more we can do here, have a nice day."
Yes, but its nice not having blood on your camera and wondering where the battery and door that used to hold it in went. I think 85mm is the perfect street photography lens. Or a 35 pancake for discreet, or a 24-70 or 24-105 if you don't like changing lenses. 70-200 is just too heavy.
You won't understand why some languages aren't as elegant to write as ruby.
How device authentication works in Predix
Correct. Though it's now 2% (I moved to the US a decade ago):

"Medicare gives Australian residents access to health care. It is partly funded by taxpayers who pay a Medicare levy of 2% of their taxable income.

Your Medicare levy is reduced if your taxable income is below a certain threshold. In some cases you may not have to pay the levy at all.

If you don’t have private hospital health insurance, you may have to pay the Medicare levy surcharge (MLS) in addition to the Medicare levy. This depends on your income for MLS purposes."
Million people sign petition asking Obama to pardon Snowden
So if I'm understanding this correctly, this exploit is only possible if someone gets a hold of your private key? This sounds more like an academic/theoretical worry than anything that would concern the average user. Realistically, if someone has your private key, you are compromised, end of story. If damage mitigation is possible it should definitely be looked into as a matter of principle, but trying to discourage people from using Tox or even from developing it over such a tiny flaw seems like little more than hubris/concern trolling. I'm sure it would look great on your blog or resume to be able to say that you, the crypto expert, found a fatal flaw in a well-established security project that forced it to shut down. Luckily it seems the actual developers of Tox have more common sense than some of these "experts", whose standards of perfection, if ever realized, would see that we all stop using technology altogether.
I do not think cerium's suggestion requires that the beneficiaries need be regarded as plaintiffs in a civil suit, it merely suggests limits on the flow of funds.

Other than that detail, I think you make some very valid points.
If you are thinking of the same landing I think you are, the broadcast glitches caused some of that "magic" feeling.

The broadcast glitched out and when it came back the rocket had landed. The timing made it seem like it really slammed down, but if you look at a simulation of how fast it was really going, it looks a lot less "magic" (although still crazy impressive!)
Sure I can see that, but isn't a base station implementation just as complex?
The app's code was written by Apple, yes, but it was done so in close collaboration with Google. It's not like Apple was just another API consumer. And if Google hadn't had their heads up their asses, they would have given turn-by-turn to Apple and perhaps enjoyed still being the default mapping app on iOS.

Also FWIW it wasn't just turn-by-turn, it was also the fact that Google wanted Apple to give them more user data, which Apple didn't want to do. So even with turn-by-turn it's possible Apple may have chosen to do their own maps anyway, but turn-by-turn was definitely a major reason why Apple dropped Google and built their own service.
Subsidized by whom? Who is losing money on the RPi?
The President is not a dictator (fortunately). Almost any attempt at immigration reform in the last eight years has been shot down by the House, Senate or usually both. There is only so much he was able to do without them on-side.
Typical case went like this: Immigrant investor to Canada spent $300K (Canadian) to buy a pizza joint, hired 5 minimum wage workers, operated business for 3.5 years, then sold it or closed it. Minimum investments and required duration of the business have varied over the years, and by province as well.

The typical immigrant investor was not starting Google, a genomics lab, a 3D printing business, or anything even vaguely innovative.
Well that wasn't very nice
Cats are still deeply awed by the laser pointer.
Imagine if we were forced to live in a system where we had to choose between two people like that!
Not indigent? 100% The center is located where it would be difficult to get to if indigent. There are three colleges in town and a large portion of donors are college students. Most others I would guess are blue collar or para professionals. I think the income comes in handy for a majority of donors. It might help many make ends meet. I don't think anyone would donate for free.
Choosing aspirated unvoiced consonants as "typical" of English is very weird. Native English speakers do not consciously distinguish aspiration but they do distinguish voicedness so it seems it would be more accurate to call the aspirated form the allophone (aspiration only occurs at the beginning of words and stressed syllables, and never after "s" as you point out, so the unaspirated form probably occurs more frequently too).

Still, I agree with your main point. The Latin alphabet is not used like the IPA by most languages, even English has not preserved all the original Latin sounds as used by the Romans. And there's even precedent for some of the sound choices made in Pinyin that would seem completely alien to English speakers. For example "c" is used in all the Slavic Latin alphabets (e.g. Polish, Czech, etc) for the unaspirated version of the Pinyin "c" sound. German and Pinyin use the letter "z" for the same sound, etc.
> The US govt likes to sneak secret things into comm satellites. For example gps satellites also contain hardware to detect nuclear detonations and track missile launches.

Umm what? GPS satellites are not commercial satellites, they're owned and run by the USAF... every aspect of their design is protected by TS and TS/SCI clearance. The master GPS satellite control station is a USAF base in Colorado. They can put as many extra DoD supporting features on them as they want without "sneaking" anything.
I'm disputing more. I'm saying:

1) There is no apocalypse (and if there were, it'd be climate change or antibiotic-resistant bacteria, not side hustles)

2) "Unfettered capitalism" is not a sufficiently broad or complex boogeyman to blame what ills we do have in society

3) The gig economy is probably not a particularly accurate sign of #1 or #2, and if it were, it's more a sign that things are going in a better direction.
This would very well still be a risk if they were all donations and not monetary transactions. The onus is on you to provide evidence to show a corelation between purchased blood and AIDS/HIV.
Democrat versus Republican makes more sense as urban versus nonurban than anything else.
Wait, I missed the memo. When did blow jobs become demeaning???
Overall it may be true. But look at the break down. Here's the numbers from 2015.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2015/01/27/wo...
Well you could, if you were reckless, like China... Have you seen the videos of a failed first stage that fell on a village about 10+ years ago?
I did a quick google search but could not find any reference. Media barely covers any of our issues (no NYT no WashingPost, no noone). But, I personally know more than few of family friends were benefited.

Bush Administration made the "priority date current" for a short window; this allowed legal immigrants waiting in the line for Permanent Residency to file and obtain 485-EAD.
Eclipse for Java / Scala / Latex / pretty much everything. Awesome and mature IDE, performance is getting better, high degree of customization, and many other great things.
> However, I'm uncomfortable with the kind of leverage my employer has over them. If my boss asked me to work 60 hour weeks or work through the weekends or something, I'm able to say "no" because if they fire me, it's not really that big of a deal. I'll just go work for someone else. I'm not going to get kicked out of the country. For the H1B holders, it's a different story.

Thank you for writing this. I was a H1B worker and this is absolutely exactly how it happens. What are you going to say? No? ... they'll just put you on a PIP and push out your green card application a few months or tell you they're re-evaluating things in light of your transgressions. Now what?
Sounds like a problem with a different part of the system (too many legal protections to effectively shut down ponzi schemes/cons/etc.). In general, I've never heard a compelling argument that the government should pass laws that limit people's freedoms, solely for the purpose of potentially defending people from their own willful decisions that affect only themselves.
I do the same, but I skip the "and use characters from it". By using the full multi-word passphrase I get more entrophy than by using just some of the letters, at the same memorization effort. The only exception is sites with low maximum password length.
The issue is, there's multiple ways to do the clustering, in my understanding. We picked the most core thing to be our most core thing. Text is hard.