skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it usually is trivially easy. If I were to do it, first thing I'd do is to look for the string in executable and patch it by hand with a hex editor.
A brief cold shower with water pouring down onto your skull will nudge your body temperature down a bit, which signals your body it's time to sleep.
You can also try cycling diphenhydramine 40-100 mg, melatonin 0.5 - 1.5 mg, and orange blossom water, never taking any one more than two nights in succession.

Orange blossom water, which you can find in Arabic grocery stores, is used to flavor deserts, and is traditionally used in some Mediterranean countries as a relaxing tea ("cafe blanc": "white coffee" though it's actually colorless), and, in a dose of a drop or two added to a milk bottle, to help children fall sleep. Drink two or three tablespoons of orange blossom water in a cup of warm water and you will soon feel a heavy shroud of sleepiness descending upon you. You'd better be near your bed when you finish that cup. The effect seems to work no more than twenty minutes or less, so it's perfect to help you fall asleep, without the risk of having to fight off a drugged feeling hours later should you have to get up and be alert.
White text on a light blue background is not what I would call beautiful.
This is a good point - I should clarify: what I mean is that there aren't a lot of tutorials, step-by-steps, etc by people using the systems... the type of thing I think of as "screwing around guides". The IBM documentation always feels more like deep manual. I'm pretty sure that even if I had access, I couldn't be up and running on a mainframe in an hour, like I could with some web stack and a simple app tutorial, there don't seem to be good blogs on "how I managed to do $HOT_TOPIC_OF_THE_WEEK on my mainframe". I find these really important for understanding various other technologies... not as an end to my understanding, but as an entry point. Conversely, If I finally get some time to look at Clojure seriously, I know how to find resources in a simple way.

I could very well be wrong about this though. Maybe they exist and I just don't know the ecosystem terminology, but that itself is a problem, I can't even figure out how to get into the ecosystem if it exists.
Something to do while you are waiting for your Lego Mindstorms EV3
Why not? PG is about to make killing on AirBnB and co-founder is a well-known spammer from top-100 FBI list [1] that used our tax money to send his spam, and AirBnB been known for spam practices contacting people from Craigslist [2] to crank-start their startup with empty database.

Further, AFAIK his SocialCam is worth tons of money as well, mostly thanks to Facebook overspamming practices [3]

Truly surprised PG is not full time in spam business; he would make triple killing! :)

HN moderators: its OK to downvote if the truth feels uncomfortable to you.

EDIT: Since this is getting strongly upvoted; here are the links:

[1] http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...

[2] http://www.tnooz.com/2011/06/01/news/airbnb-admits-rogue-sal...

[3] http://www.pcmike.com/what-im-thinkin/beware-of-socialcam
I didn't read that as saying that testing can predict (outstanding) success. I read it as saying that testing can detect (outstanding) failure.

If a student does at least moderately well on standardized tests, there's a decent chance they'll do at least moderately well later in life.

If most of a teacher's students flunk completely on the standardized tests, the teacher probably isn't doing a very good job.
1) it wasn't an article

2) why do you assume that the Church of Scientology feels bound to be honest about how many members they've gained in a Church of Scientology advertisement?
Filling in Python's gaps in statistics packages with Rmagic
I would not have thought that retroactive tax bills were legal. Are there any other common examples or is this a new precedent?
My style is that I want to start a conversation rather than trying to be extremely direct. [From my experience starting direct is a horrible idea] When I see "replies selectively" the first thing that comes to my mind is that you're picking messages randomly.

EDIT: Even when being indirect on the first message you're still put in the same categories as all the other guys, its a random chance at best... screw that.

If I'm not mistaken, good on you for having a sense of humour. The girls I've met on OKC haven't had such of a thing. A lot of them mention they have a sense of humor in their profile, but completely lack it in the message.
Speaking of webrtc and sip just try sipml5.org
I've just tested it with asterisk 11.2.0 and after a bit of fighting I was able to make it works (I'm not affiliated).
Yes, true. It is one. IMHO the plea itself should be illegal. You either have evidence against someone or you improve the tecniques to gather and understand evidence so that in the future sort of situation is more fair.

Instead, we have this plea system where they make your life a bet where you either lose small or lose big. but you lose, whether you were guilty or not.
Quick MapReduce with beanstalkd
I thought everyone got that as a marketing gimmick since I received it too.
I'm terminating the SSL outside VMs, so the VMs can be compromised without giving up the certificate's private key.

The VMs are each running a websocket server running as the user that will be connecting. This makes the security aspects very easy to handle. Each user can only modify their own environment and write to their own files (backed by unix permissions). Even if they root the VM (excluding hypervisor vulnerabilities) they won't be able to access any private data.

If I want to be able to hot migrate VMs between physical machines, I need some way of dynamically proxying the connections. If I had lots of IPs, I could simply let each VM have an IP address and the SSL terminator would route properly no matter where I move the VM.

Does that make sense?
The idea is by no means new. localStorage is old. So is the AppCache specifications that actually allows an application to go 'offline'. Gmail did this as early as 2009: http://googlecode.blogspot.sg/2009/04/gmail-for-mobile-html5...

Unfortunately it's not as easy as it looks. I found that out when doing research for a weekend project. Here's an excellent A List Apart article detailing all the gotchas you can face while working with it: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/application-cache-is-a-do.... The Financial Times Labs have an interesting article talking about an approach to deploying an offline app that uses the AppCache as little as possible: http://labs.ft.com/2012/08/basic-offline-html5-web-app/

And of course you can find information about it in places like Dive into HTML5 and MDN, by simply searching for them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U....
The best way to finish the New Yorker is to not feel as if you need to read every article that it contains. I routinely skip the fiction pieces as I am not a big fan of short stories, and the same goes for most of the critical pieces.
What browser are you using? There's a background image.
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Can you explain how his personal wealth, is related to his emotional distress over this case?
I work for one of the major banks and all the reasons you listed are true. From talking to coworkers who work with the mainframes, the mainframes still provide fantastic performance that Java and other higher level languages haven't matched on the stack (yet). Also, the applications are so large and so critical to our customers that the process of transitioning to a new stack would be a nightmare for almost zero short-term gain.

It should be noted that the industry is trying to make a push for porting the COBOL applications to Java to help resolve issues regarding an aging workforce, hiring, and documentation.
One of the main problems is that once the prosecutors become lenient with suicide risks then every person prosecuted says they're a suicide risk.

unfortunate for the people that really are at risk.
...through extensive vetting and rigorous testing...

I wanted to upvote your comment, but then I almost died laughing when I read that. Most Linux distributions are better about it now than they were many years ago, but I still remember being absolutely floored when RedHat had packaged a Perl module with a syntax error some years ago.

Same goes for Debian; some of the more "fringe packages" (those of upstream projects that haven't been updated in a while) tended to rot (compilation option changes to dependencies that silently broke parts of the program), and packages from upstream projects that changed rapidly tended to have dependency issues.

I'd also like to point out that while Debian may have had "app stores" before anyone else so to speak. The implementation left much to be desired compared to today.

Today a user simply selects an application and it gets installed. There's no prompts about whether I want the 37 additional dependencies, no text-based prompts about the configuration of some obscure package, and certainly the presentation was sorely lacking.

So yes, Debian may have had the concept early on, but as usual, Apple made something only a geek could love into something usable by everyone.
What is hitting a fork in the road?
I've wondered that myself, particularly in regards to the recent evolution vs. "intelligent design" debates in school as of late. I'd be interested to here what other HN readers think.

This is the most dramatic instance I experienced, but in Honors English we spent at least a week on the Bible, but never any other religious texts. Conveniently, at the same time I had read some vampire fiction by Anne Rice and concluded that it's possible that Satan is actually the hero of the Adam & Eve story. It turns out, however, that this is not a good opinion to express when trying to do well in English in a conservative public state school.

As to Earth Science, I was not penalized for my response; had it been, this would have been clearly objectionable. On the other hand, at the time I did feel that it was unfair in that one could give what I considered a cop-out answer for full credit. It may be a theologically true response, but it does not give us any scientific insight and understanding into our Universe.

Given the two examples above, I'm not really sure. It can certainly be uncomfortable for someone who is brought up as an atheist, but I'm not sure it's outright illegal. And this is where the avenue for standardized testing comes in -- it's not necessarily to demonstrate student learning but perhaps rather to better identify egregious issues in school districts.
I don't see there being an essential conflict.
When people say managerial work they often mean a blend of the following (in this oft discussed startup CEO sitch):
• helping employees focus on high value tasks that perhaps have some personal growth value for the doer
• business development
• some element of divining an effective path into the future for the product or service (a roadmap if you will).
• some element of business development and or retention.
• more things.

If you care deeply about creating an work place that can hire and retain people you'll be excited to work with, and sustainable continue to hire great people, good making CONTAINS good managing. You're just building by really trying to understand how incentives and human psychology interact.
Further, many foreign nations (e.g. Japan, I think Singapore) have admission systems comprised entirely of standardized tests. Top 300 scorers get into college #1, 301-600 get into college #2, etc.
I think they mean re-launch, because this is something they had done a long time ago. With the same name even.
I want to see the pitch deck that got these guys into YC
Postgres has had an XML type for a lot longer than that. There's also better built-in support for XML than JSON because it's been in there longer.
You'd think that someone at his level would understand that shutting up is the best thing to do. Right or wrong, when you're in the public eye in this manner, close your doors and let the PR/lawyers sort it out. The best you could do is offer your personal condolences to the family and leave it at that.
I know this is true, and it has always hurt my feelings a little bit.

I tend to find the women OkC matches me with plain, average, or unattractive. So if their algorithms are correct, what does this say about me?
It's not quite correct to say that Scots law is entirely independent though. It's true that The High Court of Justiciary is the highest court of appeal for Scottish criminal cases, but the Supreme Court of the UK (formerly the House of Lords) is the highest court of appeal for civil cases in the UK and decisions in Scotland can be appealed there. However, the rules and procedures of Scots law are different and so judgements in England which are used as precedents in Scotland have to be reinterpreted in the light of Scots law and visa versa. I know for a fact that there is a standard contract clause which currently has a different interpretation in England versus Scotland because neither of the interpretations have yet been appealed in the Supreme Court. As you can imagine this can cause endless amounts of expensive legal haggling. Scots and English law also use very different legal terminology and procedures for many everyday processes. Interestingly, this is because Scots law is a mixture of civil law derived from Roman law (like most of Europe) and common law (like England, US, Australia, Canada etc).

Also, I think English law can in theory draw on precedents set by courts in other commonwealth countries; I vaguely remember seeing Australian case-law cited when I was studying law related to professional negligence, but I can't find a reference to it now.

It's a very typically British setup which is the culmination of 100's of years of compromises here and there which viewed together now are totally impenetrable to the layman. The whole setup is utterly confusing and should be thrown away and rewritten from scratch preferably with the same law applying over the whole of the EU if you ask me, but then I'm not a lawyer.
To quote the illustrious Popehat: "When you outsource your marketing you outsource your reputation."
Don't forget that XML came around 5-10 years before JSON got anywhere.

XML changed things, because it shifted focus from syntax and parsing to the actual meaning of the document. It's easy now to say XML sucks, but having a standard format (that was self-documenting, too) that _everyone_ jumped on, is a major jump.

Go look at RFCs for HTTP or SIP and see how idiotic it is to have to parse yet another custom format with all sorts of cutesy exceptions. XML eliminates that. Can it be done better? Now, sure.
Chrome. There is an image at the top of the page, but the 'App' section has a light blue background.

In fact, the following sections (support, operations, social, etc.) don't render at all for me - just a background with no text. Is the page not broken for anyone else?

edit: Interestingly, the page doesn't render for me above a certain width of around 1000px. Was this intentional? It's pretty bad design either way.
It's civil disobedience. Accepting six months as a prisoner of conscience would have done about as much good for what Swartz believed in than whatever else he was hoping to accomplish. It would have been a sacrifice, but not one worse than death.
The CoralCDN also has a cached version:

http://lemire.me.nyud.net/blog/archives/2013/01/14/xml-for-d...
Personally I see it more of a game that women play to frustrate men as much as possible and this is a consequence of being overly picky.

I'm not saying its right to behave hurt, or act aggressively. But it is rather screwed up when women collect points between each other for intentionally misleading guys or falsely leading them on to reject them. [Builds the ego]
Python: Attribute based dictionary
Aaron Swartz Ought to be the Last One
"Can someone explain why creating a legitimate, privacy-respecting ad platform which allows desktop developers to monetize their applications in a manner that's almost exactly the same as ad supported web and mobile apps is that awful?"

Tracking IP and even MAC addresses? Hello? Spyware is spyware.

Also: ads are ads. If your product does nothing respectable (as opposed to selling eyeballs to advertisers under false pretenses) that is worth paying for it to anyone, that's bad luck. It doesn't justify deliberately and systematically messing with the rational decision making process of people, and that others are already doing that is no justification either, nor that they have been doing it for so long.
Oh, BTW, I looked at the JSTOR license for "Early Content Journals" and I'm confident that I am within the spirit and letter of their TOS.

http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp#TC2
Im sure having a felony conviction would be terrible for your ordinary person, but with Aaron's resume and public presence I dont think it would be hard for him to find work.
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Apparently you don't know the meaning of the word "sure" which you used plenty. I didn't accuse you of anything so I don't have to prove anything. You told us you were sure of some things and I asked you what made you to be sure. I was genuinely interested in the information you might have. It seems there was none and you just use words liberally, without regard for their meaning. In fact, I am sure of it. See what I did there?
My experience as a young person who has worked on COBOL and has worked for a very large "soul-sucking" bank is that they fired or forced out all of the older developers who knew how the system worked years ago. No one who's left really understands anything, and most code has been running un-maintained (luckily the older developers were pretty great) for YEARS. Because of that, there's no one capable of mentoring anyone else.

My experience as a web developer, though, has led me to believe that while mainframes do some really neat things, they just aren't necessary anymore. I'm certainly more than a little biased, but I don't see any reason why they shouldn't just transition to cloud or virtual web servers.
The firewall daemon firewalld will be the default firewall solution for Fedora 18, replacing iptables. Using firewalld will allow for application of policy changes without reloading, allowing connection states to stay unbroken when rules are changed.

UEFI Secure Boot will be supported in Fedora 18. This will allow Fedora to boot on systems that have Secure Boot enabled. Tools are available for administrators to create custom certificates to sign local changes to GRUB or the kernel.

Fedora 18 adds FedFS, a mechanism to provide a coherent namespace across multiple file servers.

Fedora 18 includes Samba4, which provides improved cross-platform file server support.

The X.org server has been rewritten to support 'hot' plugging and unplugging of GPUs. Specifically, this allows Fedora to provide better support for USB connected graphics devices exposed by many modern systems and laptop docking stations. The user is no longer required to restart the X.org server for such devices to be recognised.
i'd say something funny with tc...
The fact is that the justice system, as currently run, is an extortionate racket, worthy of being prosecuted under RICO.

Accepting 6 months in prison to escape the threat of 35+ years would perhaps have been the pragmatic way out, but still probably disproportionate.
In all seriousness E.A. Poe and his C. Auguste Dupin is the Father of the genre.
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Even if the prosecution could prove he's guilty, the sentence will be decided by a judge. There are cases in similar spirits to this case when someone knowingly commits an illegal act for a just cause. In these cases, even if they could prove guilt, judges typically would hand out a very light sentence.
I don't get why you're been downvoted. It's as if people don't realize that editing, curating, hosting, and distributing this papers/articles doesn't cost money. I'd be hard pressed to find any one in here that wouldn't complain when they get their hard earned living endangered because someone decided their "product" should be free.
Jail sentences are not speed limits. The maximums are set high so that a judge determining sentencing has flexibility in extreme cases, not because they expect most sentences to actually be that high. Yes, he could've gotten more than 35 years if they threw the book at him on every count, but he also could've gotten the minimum sentence, which everyone completely ignores. I don't know what the minimum sentences are for the crimes in question off the top of my head, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were very light. If anyone feels like doing the legwork on that, I'd love to have some definite numbers to throw around.
Well, it's usually the judge that makes the sentencing determination. A jury is just there to determine guilt or innocence. If a jury knew that the prosecutor was willing to take a 90% reduced sentence, but they still feel that the defendant is guilty, that wouldn't change anything.
I thought this was the "taxes changed during 2012 for the whole 2012 tax year" issue, but this seems to extend back to previous years.
The millions of PCs that belong to novice computer users that are loaded with crapware that are proof that your view needs some adjustment.

One of my grandparents usually just clicks "ok / next" "until the thing works". They don't understand any of the things you claim they do. And despite my best efforts to dissuade them from doing that sort of thing, they still do :-(
You usually aren't looking for a line based on the type... you're usually looking for a specific variable... with your variables lined up, that portion becomes faster... scanning for y in your second example without the variable declarations lined up for example. This advantage outweighs the slight hinderance of the separation on a given line. That, and many editors will highlight the line with the cursor on it. Which alleviates the issue you point out a bit.
XML wasn't a good fit for databases or configuration files, but it was basically inevitable that it would wind up used in those capacities. Playing around with new technology and misusing it in fun ways like that is an important part of the growth of a new technology--that's how we learn what the strengths and weaknesses of a technology are.
With all due respect to this great community and the intelligent posters here, I have to agree. It's a little dispiriting seeing objectivity fly out the window. But we all have blind spots, it's part of our human nature... Just wanted to add my singular dissenting voice to the chorus for what it's worth--not much I know :)
>Agreed, their supply chain management and component agreements were disruptive to the industry. However, that didn't stop them using behavioral nudges to make buyers also think the price was cheap.

Apple's competitors also played completely into their hands. Apple's perception in general was that they made relatively expensive hardware that was of good quality and excellent design. They had a reputation of producing premium products at a premium price.

The pricing of the competing tablets played exactly into that perception, and I think that's part of what made the iPad so desirable compared to the more powerful hardware of the Motorola Xoom and others.