skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about this exact thing, here's how I think I would do it. this is incredibly naive, but exactly how I would start looking at the problem.

1) get into model rockets - air rockets, water rockets, hobby rockets with real combustable engines (that make loud, cool rocket sounds).

2) learn about quad-copters, model airplanes and balloons as potential high altitude launch vehicles.

2.5) between "getting into" model rockets and quad-copters, you'll be learnig a lot about embedded systems - firmware and microcontrollers that will be the control brains of your rocket and launch vehicle. ..so you obviously have to learn about electronics and programming.

3) start building small rockets - practice launching them with a tiny payloads

4) get accurate in the launches, learn about weather patterns and affects on launch (and recovery).

5) Figure out how to be accurate and hit a target a long distance away - possibly a target that is already flying.

6) find the really expert hobby rocket people to teach you about the big rocket engines that require licenses etc. ..then start building combinations of rockets and launch vehicles that can take larger payloads.

7) do all of this in your garage on a shoe string, take lots of video, share your successes and failures on your blog and maybe just maybe you can figure out how to build a system that you can sell to someone... eventually you're rockets will get to space.

Good luck and may the force be with you.
My thoughts exactly at first.

There is something nonsensical about this whole matter (as reported by the blogs) that triggers a flag for me.

More info -

(tl;dr; the peering traffic between Cogent and Orange are too imbalanced; Cogent handles Google's traffic)

In this case, the US telecommunications operator Cogent claimed, among other things, that France Télécom was compromising the peering system (enabling exchange of traffic flows between networks, free of charge) used by transit operators, by requesting payment for opening up additional technical capacity for access to Orange subscribers. Regarding this claim, the Autorité considered that in view of the highly asymmetric nature of the traffic exchanged between France Télécom and Cogent, such a payment request does not in itself constitute an anti-competitive practice inasmuch as this type of remuneration is not uncommon in the Internet industry in cases where a significant imbalance exists between the incoming and outgoing flows exchanged between two networks, and is consistent with the overall peering policy adopted by France Télécom, with which Cogent is familiar.

However, the Autorité also noted a certain lack of transparency in the relationship between the domestic network of France Télécom (Orange) and its transit operator business (Open Transit), creating a potential for margin squeezes. France Télécom agreed to make commitments to prevent such situations and enable appropriate monitoring.

http://fastnetnews.com/dslprime/42-d/4881-france-telecom-fre...
Thanks, I'll be sure to let them know!

I haven't looked into using it, but I will! Want to improve the generation process if I can. I went ahead and pushed all the scripts I used, but they're a tad messy right now (was tweaking them); hope to clean them up soon.
So far what I see is an "innovative" service/tool with a non-innovative old (e.g. biotech) software business plan. I have to jump through hoops to get my hands on this tool. Have a phone call with them, talk about your data etc. Then, what is the point of easy UI and no-human-needed touch? Not to mention I have no idea about their price model.

I don't understand what is their cost in letting people try it before using the tool; unless of course it runs on their machines. Put it somewhere and let me try it with some simple data (e.g. iris in R).
What are your credentials? How do I know that your instructions are correct and do not actually compromise my security?

Have you filed security bugs for all these ways in which Ubuntu is apparently insecure by default? What does the security team have to say about this?
I saw this posted in the comments on another thread and spent hours reading the whole thing -- epic journey, and I absolutely adored the photographs of North Korea.

It looks surprisingly beautiful, in its own way.
Datefuzz.js: Scalable auto-updating fuzzy dates ('X minutes ago')
such an amazing story
Why use <input type="text" data-type="email"> rather than... <input type="email"> ? You're already using HTML5 data attributes, so why not use HTML5 input types? Added benefit is that the browser also has an idea of what kind of data goes there - this helps on mobile devices especially, where email fields won't auto-capitalize and might include extra buttons like the ".com" button and "@" right on the normal keyboard.
Me too! It was something I was actually thinking about before doing this project, so I hope to be able to port this to a more general solution in the near future.
Two things I don't do. Actually several more things. I don't do smart phones. And I don't do downloading of illegal files, copyrighted files. Why? I don't have to watch the next movie for free. I just don't care enough or want to waste the bandwidth.
Those are definitely two separate problems :

On one hand, there is a peering problems between some French ISP and Google and they don't agree on who should pay for the interconnection costs.

On the other hand, some French newspapers are complaining about Google News.
I used it on several multi-purpose machines, no desktop through. I just patched the stock Ubuntu kernel¹. If you enable pax you have to watch out for applications that are incompatible with it. GRUB, Java, mod_python broke out of the box, but you can change the flags for pax on a per binary basis. It's probably useful to write some apt rules to apply the changes on every update of the program. Otherwise there where no problems. Using RBAC and configuring it on the other hand is a more difficult process.

1: http://compilefailure.blogspot.de/2011/02/grsecurity-patched...
Wow, that site is a better find than the OP, now I can easily use those raw icons designers post every so often.
Thanks! I've went ahead and uploaded the generating scripts (all the *.rbs at the root level). They're a bit messy b/c I was tweaking them to deal with various idiosyncrasies, but I'll hopefully get time to clean them up this week.
You're right! I'll try to add that today. Thanks.
>> I admire people who participate here even though they didn't grow up speaking English at home.

I concur. It is, however, why I wish that there was a side-channel specifically for notifying someone of grammar or spelling issues. It'd be useful to let people know if they're using non-standard constructions without the notification being public. Email would be overkill for this purpose.
I am not an admin or anything. But won't the firewall rules lock down any access to : subversion, git, irc, or pretty much anything that doesn't use http or https.
Next time they blow up just let them all burn to the ground.
Marxism and Leninism disagree on what communism is. The major difference being the existence of a ruling party.

Also, if i call myself "Chinese," (I am not of Chinese descent) can I defend my claim by invoking the no-true-scotsman fallacy?
Congrats to technomancy and all the contributors. Leiningen is a pleasure to work with.
“We Like To Invest In College Dropouts With Insane Ideas"
I actually didn't "build" the converters, I used the excellent Pandoc tool to do it for me. (Even used them to do the HTML-Markdown conversion.)
Yeah got it. Two factor authentication. That will kill it stone dead, won't it?
The people in charge are too afraid we'll go all "Lord of the Flies" on them without the banking system to motivate us into productivity.
I agree with your arguments about North Korea. I was specifically answering the statement about Burma. And I agree that the first reason is very self-focused, because I believe that every change to the world around you starts with a change to yourself (corny, but still true).
I was talking about a different project that I would like to see happen, but built using a similar development model. To be more specific, I'd like to see a dedicated curriculum development tool built. I;d like it to be high-quality and open source, so it can see widespread use in schools of every economic level.

I am not envisioning a simple plugin to a word processing tool; I am imagining a dedicated curriculum development tool that manages things like importing standards, and connecting detailed parts of a learning plan to bigger-picture summaries.

I in no way imagine such a tool being mandated for anyone; I simply imagine a tool that is powerful enough that people will see it used well by experienced teachers, and want to use it themselves.
On Improving your Skills
Anycast isn't an IPv6 feature, it works perfectly well with IPv4. It's just routing.
Just to add, you forgot the transistor.
Even the "research" cited is dubious:

"The successful people we spoke with — in business, entertainment, sports and the arts — all had similar responses when faced with obstacles: they subjected themselves to fairly merciless self-examination that prompted reinvention of their goals and the methods by which they endeavored to acheive them."

100% of successful people subjected themselves to merciless self-examination? A 100% result usually indicates a small sample size or a meaningless conclusion. Nor is this a particularly useful fact without knowing what % of unsuccessful people self-examine themselves constantly.

It's hard to knock the article's premise though, even if the author has provided little evidence to support it: Frequent self-examination seems like a good thing.

I believe that honest and accurate self-examination is easier said than done, though.
To be fair, the value of changing SSH ports versus using only public key authentication is somewhat debatable.

The pros always come down to eliminating noise from automated attacks. The cons always come down to having to specify a non-standard port to clients.

If you only support public key based authentication, then I'd argue there's little to gain by moving ports.
I didn't used to think so, but then I got my Nexus 7 paired up with my iControlpad gamepad, and I really honestly cannot think of a better setup for gaming fun .. its just such a neat package. So, I've bought quite a few Android games lately .. maybe I'm not representative, but it certainly feels to me that this could be a viable platform, if properly embraced.
I bet your right. Too funny, you'll never think of everything you should test, right? :)
Back to "llama". Seriously
The hard way is easier
Hmmm... Account created an hour ago. Username unrelated to name of author on site...

Flagged as spam.
Largest structure in universe discovered, defies Einstein theory
>Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS

>WARNING: Juggle It is NOT compatible with any NON-RETINA devices, including the iPhone 3GS and below.

wtf?
Pushing files is interesting, but addresses, notes, and lists are easily done already.

Pushing an address:

1. Search address on Google Maps

2. Open up Maps on Android

3. Click on "My Places" from dropdown menu

4. Swipe to Recent

Pushing notes:

1. Create notes in Google Drive

2. Open on Android

Pushing lists:

1. Create list in Google Drive

2. Open on Android

Pushing websites:

1. Open website on laptop in Chrome

2. Open Chrome browser on Android

3. Select the "Other Devices" tab

4. Open website

I suppose you could push files via Drive as well.

Pretty cool though; I may give it a try.
Yes, inbound at least unless you specifically open those ports or allow all from a specific ip. Thats how it should be.
The command line SQL client is one place Postgres blows away Oracle. I'd pay real money for psql on Oracle.
I'm giving away 10 free copies of my book for designers - The Workbench
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I 100% agree I need to make pairing more clear.
Apart from postgres site, is there any good book with hands on practice exercises available on Postgres?
It's great as long as you know you are not getting a full picture. You see what they want you to see, if you think any different you are delusional. If you approach anyone on the street, you will most likely get them in trouble and it's very unlikely for them to tell the truth (even "the veggies are kinda brownish" is subversion and by now they have seen what happens to their "subversive" neighbors and maybe family members).

Not to mention that almost all of them have been born and raised in that system, they know no better and are fed daily propaganda to make them believe that the outside world is much worst. I'd bet that most North Koreans would pass a lie detectors test with flying colors when saying that they love their current system.
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This is intriguing:

Professors have access to the classes' data to learn how their students learn. We will facilitate experiments. For example, we intend this to be the best plaform for running A/B/N tests to measure the impact of different teaching methods on student outcomes

That they're giving data driven decision making such a prominent place is great. I would like to know more, though.

Having taught before at the University level I know it's a ton of work. It's even more work if you're developing parallel versions of a course for testing purposes. So the A/B feature had better be really easy to use.

There is also the ethical issue of giving students a worse performing variant of the class. The solution here is to use a bandit algorithm or an early stopping method to find the best variant as quickly as possible.

Finally, I think the Coursera model where everyone runs through the course on the same schedule is not optimal for experimentation. It doesn't allow for a tight feedback loop, because you have to wait N weeks before you can experiment with changes on the next cohort.
PennApps Hackathon Final Demos Livestream
A month after beta launch, we're getting some traction
How secure is this!?
I've been to Guatemala too :-) And it is quite different. I did not get a sense of oppression in Guatemala, but unlike Burma some places felt really unsafe (because of petty and organized crime, not national or political tensions that are present in some regions of Burma).
Heh, ain't that the truth. :)

[Update: I apologize greatly. Both my test pushes just arrived perfectly in my notifications bar. Nice!!! ]
ValidForm Builder is a lot easier to use imho. Generates both server and client side validation including the form itself.
I found this to be the most interesting, and infurating part. A true testimate to 'the system's' reactionary ignorance. This part pertains to PROBATION, after already being released from prison:

As a hacker you may find that your access to work with, or possession of computer equipment may be restricted. While this may sound pragmatic to the public, in practice it serves no other purpose that to punish and limit a former hacker's ability t o support himself. With computers at libraries, copy shops, schools, and virtually everywhere, it's much like restricting someone who used a car to get to and from a bank robbery to not ever drive again. If a hacker is predisposed to hacking he's going to be able to do it with or without restrictions. In reality many hackers don't even need a computer to achieve their goals. As you probably know a phone and a little social engineering go a long way.
This may actually be yet another way they are protecting users privacy.

For anyone that hasn't read the news: mega is securing users uploaded files from Mega itself by forcing users to encrypt the uploads. This encryption prevents mega from policing the content that their users upload and thus they can't be held accountable.

If they are really on the users side, Then this might be a way for mega to police copyrighters and DMCA people from creating scripts and application that publicly crawl mega.com looking for infringers.
An analogy:

Bank runs are like forest fires. If you prevent all the small ones, eventually you get a giant one that's too big to stop.
++Postgres; ++Celko; ++play around;

Recommend Postgres' own concise tutorial: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/tutorial-sql.html for starters.

Also, after you've cracked joins, learn the 'WITH' clause ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/queries-with.html ), it's good: 'WITH' restructures the more difficult 'middle-outward' subquery syntax to a top-down 'detail-to-summary' structure. Far easier to build, debug, and re-grok 6 months later.
I agree there are easy ways to do most of PushBullet's functionality through other means but I think there is a lot of power in not just actually getting the list on your phone with Google Drive, but actively pushing it into your notifications.

Glad to hear you'll give it a try :)
This is extremely disrespectful to women. They aren't objects.
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I think it is the author of the game, they've posted elsewhere before with "I'm 13 and this is my first game" so it seems plausible they'd do the same (mention age) here. Not sure what someone would stand to gain from lying about someone else's game?
Agreed, leinengen is a major part of what makes working with Clojure so awesome. And if you haven't tried out technomancy's work with Heroku, try spinning up an instance. It's incredibly well done.
I am still pretty new to clojure, but I really wish adding jars that are not located in clojars or maven was a little easier (and more straightforward).

Yes, I could always take the Java project, rebuild and upload it myself. It would be nice to just drop the jar in the libs dir and go from there.

Maybe this is already possible (but undocumented), but with all questions out there from a simple search there is no clear way to do this that is not some sort of a hack.
Inclusion of a landmine icon is interesting, but a generic skull and crossbones may help communicate the level of danger more universally. Otherwise very nice icons.
where from?
The point is, no matter what you read or hear on the web or anywhere else... shouldn't you always be asking yourself how much you let it affect you? The illusion that the web is that one place to figure out more "truth" than in person, well those times are looong gone - see grassroot advertising and fake forum posts paid for by companies and all that.

Every time you give either time and/or money, you absolutely always could possibly get scammed so the only way you can deal with this is asking yourself if you for yourself and your own sake care and want to do something or if you will just quietly follow whatever story is being told and not let it mess with you.

If what you say is true and some forum posts could indeed "do lots of damage" then it is all the more necessary that people wake up and understand that they shouldn't just blindly trust people on the web, just as much as they don't blindly trust strangers on the street.
What is the Net Native Model?
Almost exactly a year ago, we started working on this, and you gave some constructive feedback, a lot of which we honored - successfully (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580447).
Thanks. I'd never heard of that site until now. Absolutely brilliant.
>small institutions must submit to the rigors of the free market.

>market discipline has worked to keep smaller institutions on the straight and narrow, it has been ineffective with megabanks

>market participants have proved [in]effective in monitoring risks at these [huge banks].

>They know they will be protected by a taxpayer rescue should a large institution teeter.

How is this not obvious to everyone involved?
No disrespect to AT&T's Bell Labs and its employees legendary achievements was meant or implied. I'm well aware of what they stood for. (my first unix wm was mgr...).
Now I'd like the opportunity to edit the text notes I push, so I can copy paste into other apps maybe?
Be warned: there are only three types of businesses you can build on Mega’s API:

- ones that nobody cares about

- ones that become features

- ones that will destroy your life

It’s basically just like Twitter and every other platform that rose or fell before them, but with prison sentences.

Can someone please explain what this means?
Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
Great idea! Personally I had no bias towards either font, but now discovered that I do in fact like Helvetica a bit more (12 out of 20 times). Would be interesting to be able to see a test like that with statistics on how many chose each font for each logo.
I see violent responses here (and to patent troll stories in general); I wonder how many small businesses and their hard working founders have been destroyed by patent trolls. If there are even a few per year, I find it interesting that not more actual violence is directed against the lawyers (I do find it truly evil, not just 'a job') / troll owners. I don't know how it is for someone to destroy my company, but if I had worked my ass off for many years building something up, I can only imagine!
It could be legitimate but it will be an impossibly hard fight if they can't use piracy as an incentive and a short one if they do.
Sorry, I can't tell if you're being facetious.

The article implies that the cubans are, for some reason, receiving packets over fiber, but sending over satellite, which, for all intents and purposes, is insane. It is a real mystery as to why anyone would configure a network to operate in this manner.

It is akin to having a 10gigabit fiber line in your office and choosing to have all outbound traffic routed over a 1.5megabit DSL line instead. Madness!
I am 12 and I flagged your post.
How will you monetize this??
Just fyi that the screenshot on the github page has the word 'nigga' on there from someones comment.
Hey guys, I am the developer, I just decided to use my real name as my username.

If you download the game, the in about/credits section It says developed by Nick Shen (nshen) 14 years old.

Here is more proof: http://cubegrinder.com/hacker-news-post-is-not-spam/

This is not spam. And this is my first time on this wonderful site.
Guys are already talking to each other about the girls they hookup with -- we just made the process more digital and secure.
You are right, keys are used in the OP, not sure then why you'd use fail2ban for ssh but OK.

Regarding the sysctl entries, I reviewed them down to execshield (after that there are tweaking entries) in a Amazon EC2 vanilla Ubuntu distro and all the entries are the same except log_martian (debatable, again, are you going to look at the logs, if then what are you going to do with them) and accept_redirects. Execshield is a RedHat thing, it's not used in Ubuntu.
This is a government agency we're talking about. Why is this restriction even surprising?
Habitrpg.com maybe a solution
Talking about startups, does this just mean keeping your eyes on your numbers and doing frequent review or are we talking about something on a more personal level?
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girls are going to love this
This one is an app at this point; not a business, but we will be looking at doing different things. Currently, instead of liking a friend's "play" or hookup, you can buy them a beer from a local microbrewery to get delivered to their door!
It's just low.
We are looking into making it gender-neutral, because outside of it being targeted at guys, we totally think this is something girls would love to use too!
Start the Bank of the United States, cancel FDIC insurance.

There problem solve.
If my girlfriend ever found out I was using this she would literally kill me.
This is satire of how misogynistic geek culture can be, right? Because this couldn't possibly be serious?

right?