skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the evidence becomes associated with conspiracy theory though, many people prefer to shy away because of the commonly held feelings about "those people." For example the recent claims of ET corpses being genetically studied, mysteriously absent from headlines it seems: http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1109-disclosu...
Surely having a concentration of world wide IT talent in the US is a good thing? Even aside from that, I would have thought protectionism is not something that will help the IT industry in any shape or form.
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Don't wait to try this out, I've been using this in production and it really flies ... I'm getting results in simple tests right around 60-70% which is right in line with this guy https://gist.github.com/soffes/4478454.

Can't really measure performance boost in production though, since I can't afford to get newrelic just yet
Is there a tool that will remove the selectors for you? It would be nice to have something included in a site build process that does this for particularly large CSS frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation.
> I guess you wouldn't get oxidation or similar activity on Mars

Mars is principally deeply covered in iron III oxide. That's why it's red.
Emmanuel, sorry this happened! We can fix it... I sent you an email with my PayPal email address and my cell phone (call/email if you wanna understand what might have happened here). I have also sent his thread off to folks within PP who can help lift/adjust the restriction. Should be sorted in no time, dont lose hope :)
When I bump into a country selector, I always type the first bit of my country's name so the cursor will jump to it. I doubt I'm the only one. In effect, for me, it _is_ a text field. Just a really bad one that doesn't always work how I expect, makes a lot of noise and has poor visual feedback. For other users it is a gigantic list that is hard to deal with on a smaller screen. (There's some room for bias here, by the way: lots of web developers live in those countries that get listed first - for reasons which speak directly to why this whole thing is a terrible idea - and lots of web developers have big screens that cope reasonably well with colossally tall menus).
Useful for surfaces which only come in contact with liquids. Not so much for a lot of stuff they demonstrate though, like hammer, gloves, boots, or generally anything where the coating would rub off in less than half a day's work.

Also, how many construction workers are concerned with keeping their work boots and gloves free of dirt stains? lol.
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Your point is based on a false dichotomy. There are not two equally popular opposite camps in this situation.

Most proponents of TPB are anti-old media not pro stealing.

Its largely an unwillingness to accept archaic business practices in the world of the internet.

Constantly drawing parallels or comparisons to pre internet business models and notions of property misses the point entirely.
Perhaps creating a command line interface for Tumblr / Posterous hosting would work. I wouldn't try to reinvent the hosting platform though, if that's what you're asking.

Hosting one's own blog is trivial, and I'm willing to bet that your target audience is more likely to use a static site generator like Jekyll or Pelican.
http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%2...

It's translations of Roman graffiti found in Pompeii. If you're surprised human nature hasn't changed in 16 years, prepare to be flabbergasted. :)
Mars likely had more lightning when it was wetter, as well. Also, some Mars rocks and regolith have extremely high concentrations of Iron, so lightning induced in situ sintering of a little hunk of fulguritic Iron isn't out of the question.

The cool thing is that Curiosity is so crammed full of equipment for studying mineralogy and chemical composition that we'll likely be able to solve the riddle pretty quick.
What is nice with alien is that we really don't know. So the sentence above tells much more about your pessimism than about aliens.
Thank you all for your kind answers and offers. This definitely answer my question. Sorry I could not leave a word earlier, I had to catch a few hours of rest.
This stuff seriously seems like a game changer. Could be all hype but if it's legit I think it'll be huge.

Never having to clean the toilet again in itself would be amazing. Cost reductions in business here alone is significant.

Anti graffiti capabilities would make it huge for government applications. On park benches etc keeping communal equipment from ageing. The whole cleaning industry could be changed.

Waterproofing electronics.

Hygiene in hospitals might save many, many lives.

I do like living in the future.
This is exactly why I always keep paper backup of the master passkey. But, the paper backup is encrypted with light encryption. Why not to use strong one? It really doesn't matter, the master password is random string and 16 chars long. Then it's encrypted with simple phrase, using substitution, partitioning and transposition. After those steps, I'm confident that the password on paper is also utterly useless to anyone without knowledge how it is encrypted and what the simple pass phrase is. The backup key is also hidden outside any reasonable search area.

You could also utilize very simple methods like reversing case of random password, or swapping parts, adding or removing something you know. Like prefix to strengthen the password, you just always write passwordpassword (or something similar) and then add your real password. Without knowledge to the attackers now your 6 chars long f8Snb3 random password is 22 chars long. Don't use any of the schemes mentioned here, make up your own.

The password container software is configured to run about ~10 million streghtening iterations on the password before it's being used. This means that it will take about two seconds to verify one password. (Yeah of course depending from many factors.) - Password strengthening can be done using memory hard problems, like scrypt, which is way better than options which only consume pure processing power. (Read about memory hard problems)

You should also be aware of corruption risk of encrypted data. Therefore it's better to always have a off-site backup set with different encryption key(s). I usually do not renew both keys simultaneously, so I can reasonably recover from the backup even if I would lose the master key.

Of course you can also use indirect method, where you map to numbers and letters, pages, rows, char poses and therefore the password on the paper has absolutely nothing to do directly with your password. Do mapping so, that distribution is even and it's not clear that it's offset references. Then you just know, that when you pick (pdf/book/file,source code) X and start applying your code, you'll get your password.

Generally I have absolute minimum length for passwords 12 random chars and for master keys I prefer 20. For keys that I don't remember, I use 32 random. If you're using AES256 and prefer to have 256 bits of entrypy in your password, use fully random password of 40 characters (including large set of special characters) or more.

Giving password to lawyer is good idea if you want someone to have your password, in case something bad happens to you. Otherwise it's totally pointless. If I'm gone, my (private) data is gone, and that's it.
I remember seeing old videos of this tech used inside a ketchup bottle. I wonder if we're going to see food-safe versions soon on products like toothpaste and peanut butter :)
This is called Pareidolia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia).

> Pareidolia ... is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant.
Anti-graffiti use is the first thing that sprung to my mind as well.

As you said, it may all be hype- but if it delivers, I suspect that the company making it (UltraTech?) is going to have a nice few years ahead of it :)
The kdf should be as slow as possible for an attacker but fast enough for you. If you're using python and the attacker is using C, you can increase security with no usability loss by switching to C and raising the iteration count.
Yep, I'm lucky in that I don't use large documents or office docs in general so it doesn't affect me, but I can't see how it will ever gain traction in pro circles without it.
quote from wiki :
"Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any physical process linking the two events, such as astrology, omens, witchcraft, Faith, etc., that contradicts natural science.[1]"

by my account superstition is not the correct word because the possibility of ET's existence is not supernatural. maybe naivete could express more eloquently the state of affairs here.
I've used Django before, and I found it disappointing. Does the ORM still lack identity mapping? Does it still not let you run custom SQL and get the results back as model objects (instead of plain tuples)?
I really enjoy being able to see the theme without having to navigate away from the page. On the themes near the bottom the page gets cut off because the top of the page is starting near the cursor. I can't scroll down to get the cursor higher on the screen so I just ignored those.
Many people's religion has a huge effect on their daily lives, and news like this would have a huge impact on their faith.

Also, the information we exchange with them would have a huge impact on everything. What if they have the secret to efficient solar power? Or AI?
"A bottleneck to mainstream use is the lack of overlap between hackers/devs and people who are most influential in academic publishing, such as senior editors. To developers the question is: if editors want to post their articles on the web, why don't they just do that? To editors, the question is: how can I practically make my journal open access? There is a need for technology to assist in setting up open access journals."

That seems pretty far-fetched. Lots of Open Access journals and preprint platforms exist, and there is no evidence that lack of a suitable software platform is a limitation. The problem is more one of those new outlets gaining sufficient reputation to be trusted by more people (and hiring comittees) and figuring out how they should sustain themselves financially.

With the more adventurous approaches the main problem is once again coming up with a model that is actually better and then convincing a whole scientific community to drop their current approach and make their careers depend on a new publishing model. Writing the software is easy by comparison.
I see a version of this every year. Still never seen it released commercially, or even non commercially.
That's only true for a student in their first academic year, but since we don't really know the OP's specific situation I don't want to get into an argument about details. http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b...
You'll get your money in a few weeks, PayPal are just enjoying the interest for now.
> That being said, this is why it is best to avoid large projects with node.

Like Airbnb, Linkedin and MySpace?? You can handle even large codebases well with Node. Callback hell is overrated since a large chunk of your code still stays synchronous for most server side rendered Node.js sites. At the end you implement user concurrency not in your app rather in some load balancing entity abstracting this away from you core app logic. Then, writing a Node app isn't much different than writing a Ruby or Python app (if using the right patterns/tools/libs).

And you get amazing speed: I think most didn't get how fast Node.js is -- it's factor 100 compared to any other traditional scripting language (i.e. Ruby). Once people learned this they won't go back.
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Well this concept is based on superhydrophobicity. I do not know the working of this coating particularly, but it seems to be superhydrophobic. A superhydrophobic surface(SHS) is one where water has very high mobility i.e. an extremely water repelling surface. Is is due to a surface having low surface energy and a textured topography. They hold very high commercialization potential. Lotus leaf is one natural occuring example of this phenomenon. The research into this field started extensively in 1997. SHS can be employed in variety of applications theoretically i.e. cars, windshields, toilets, ketchup bottles, kettles, phones, power lines, preventing ice accumulation, on boat hulls, on shoes in rain, fabrics, solar cells, around sinks, shower curtains... the potential is unlimited. Many researchers are working on making it possible, and they are very good ones too.

So after you have been primed about the subject, what is preventing their wide spread usage? Durability. Not a single one of them is able to sustain mechanical duress. And one of the most widely used chemical is Teflon, which is expensive. Hence, reapplication is not possible time and again. Many researchers are working on it, but a solution remains elusive until now. These sprays are nice such that they open the field, but much more still needs to be done in this field, since these sprays have been in market for at least 5 years now.
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This was a problem for me while moving. I had to completely delete my US paypal account and only then was I able to open another account in an international address. There was no simple way to 'migrate' the account or add another card with an international address.
Well, they aren't taking VC or CEO jobs. So if you're a big shot, you have nothing to worry about. Otherwise, you have a legitimate concern.

Want more Americans to major in STEM? Stop jacking up H1B visas every time the professions available start paying a wage commiserate with the intellect required.
I have to point out that this is incorrect. The simplified version is that if the workers are paid more a smaller piece of the megacorp's pie goes to the big whigs whether they are the shareholders or executives. In essence you have more distributed income amongst more people rather than it going to one or a few people. A situation where 1 person makes $20 and 9 make $1 has more income disparity than a situation where 1 person makes $15, 2 make $4 and 6 make $1.
Majority of mathematics isn't at all concerned with calculation techniques, this is a fundamental misunderstanding many people get from school, mathematics is the study of concepts and relationships between them. If you do not understand the proofs, you do not understand the concepts and you will not be able to apply them. People who learn mathematics as calculation are the ones that most often claim that have no use for mathematics, where in fact they did not really learn any. Proofs are also crucial in Computer Science, for example you do not really understand recursion until you see how it is related to an inductive proof. The widest areas of fruitful application of mathematics do not arise simply from "calculation techniques", whatever that would mean.
My question is: why is he selling? lf he is wealthy enough to have accumulated all these games and consoles in the first place and not care about probably making twice as much by selling piece-by-piece, I don't think it's for the money. Maybe his SO said it's either me or the video games. The fact that he spent literally months of eight hour days lovingly cataloging and photographing everything seems to show that the flame still burns that led him to collect them in the first place.
It's not an obstacle it's just laziness. Unlike the iPad you basically get a usable tablet UI for free with Android. Android's fragment API makes it a lot easier than he iPad to adapt to a proper tablet UI if you want.
http://www.ultraeverdrystore.com/products/ isn't a commercial release? (Admittedly I didn't try ordering any.)
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This reminds me of that spray you can buy at the shoe store. It does work, for a while. Also see "LiquiGlide":

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679878/mits-freaky-non-stick-coa...
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You can use interfaces types as the keys to a map. So you could easily have a map with both 3-tuples and 4-tuples as keys, just by having one struct with 3 elements and one with 4 implement the same interface and using that as the key. Of course, if you want a truly arbitrary length key, you'll probably have to use the convert-to-string trick.
You can try hackathons. You'll meet tons of developers there, and you'd have fresh ideas to steer your small tool to a kickass tool! Feel free to message me if you're keen to be involved in hackathons
More likely this may be human created with Photoshop.
So I know a guy at Microsoft on h1b who makes ~100k, is that underpaid or what?
But if I read the article right, the car IS adjusting its display for temperature. When the temp went down, the calculated available miles went down also -- and almost accurately, that is, the car went dead about when the miles-left display went to zero.

The question I'd have is, how much current would they have to divert to keep the batteries warm? It seems like the juice expended to hold the battery pack at 20C might be less than the capacity lost by letting the batteries go down to an ambient -5C.

Or, they could provide what a lot of east-coast cars have, a built in engine-block heater that you plug in to a 110V extension cord overnight. Except in this case it would be a battery pack warmer, but the same idea, keep the important bits toasty over a cold night.
Direct link to the PDF of the full book linked to from the page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/SEv1.p...

I have to say that this is the only course book from Cambridge I've reread multiple times.
That ratio is misleading for Reddit since it was posted on a bioinformatics specific subreddit. Of course they were going to be more negative.
Surely there is a very reasonable possibility of a crashed asteroid/comet... at least much more so than some of the other wild speculation (non-human intelligent life, etc.)
I'd been thinking about these things over the last few years and was calling it "accidental duplication", analogously to the term "accidental complexity".
I want this on all of my clothes! How cool would that be? Never sweaty!
I hope this movement turns in to something substantial. But I have reasons to be cynical.
Exactly.

And let's not forget that Microsoft -- as a corporation -- as no responsibilities other than to make money for its shareholders and, as CEO, Bill Gates had likewise no responsibility beyond making money for his employers (i.e. shareholders). So talk about what Microsoft did or did not do is disingenuous since it is people, not corporations, that have moral or social responsibilities.

Therefore, what Bill Gates has done is extremely praiseworthy as he has spent his own personal wealth and it is not diminished by whatever Microsoft may have done to give him that wealth.
That should be easy for nasa to invalidate this finding then.
SO: any plan to add Shuffle feature like Quora?
how many construction workers are concerned with keeping their work boots and gloves free of dirt stains

Many actually, especially toward the completion of projects when interior decorations are starting to be installed and the architect/owner/designer may demand removal of boots to prevent workers from tracking dirt on freshly laid carpet and flooring (I've seen this mostly on high-end residential but it also happens on commercial projects).
Zipcar and Scoot aren't cab companies. The cars sit without drivers until somebody reserves one online and picks it up. The only difference here is the car can pick you up and drive you instead of having to drive it yourself. Self driving cars don't magically solve every problem I've listed. All they mean is you don't have to drive yourself and it can park itself far away. More efficient traffic flows? Absolutely! Less traffic congestion? You bet! The end of the personal car? not by a long shot.
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I would like to offer up some advice. Do not apply if you're simply applying because it's good practice, or you're gambling against the odds. You won't get selected. If you've applied 4 times before and did not even get an email response or invitation to interview, then you should probably evaluate why it is that you apply each go-around. The folks at YC have obviously tuned their process finely enough so that it avoids candidates like this. I have a good friend who made it into YC years ago, and for several years after I tried getting into it myself. I found friends to apply with so I'd have a group, and we came up with company ideas that we could apply with. I tried this probably 3 or 4 times. All times, I coded my ass off in hopes that it'd end up with a trip to YC for an interview - so, it wasn't all just empty applications. But, was I really applying because I had a startup in need of that extra push? Was I in a position to make use of YC's advice, had I even gotten in? Maybe, maybe not. All I know is that I felt like I was applying just for the sake of it. Sort of like it was some free contest that I could enter, and if I won it meant instant fame and fortune. Well, let me break it to you softly ... do not do this because it only ends in the same place that it begins.
well, no... you'd drip sweat.
Based on my understanding, you're right-- you'd have to use a string to get a truly arbitrary length key. However, you can use interface types as I've commented above, which gives you some flexibility, but not truly arbitrary flexibility.

If you want to tune for performance, you can always replace the convert-to-string code with something custom later. I've seen a few HashTable implementations in Go floating around on the internet.
Well typically the driver is written by the manufacturer or, more commonly, someone who DID want access to those features. What may be useless to you, or I, may be immensely useful to someone else.
religions have an uncanny ability to either ignore scientific facts or bend their religion to fit with the facts. Remember that originally it was thought that the Earth was in the center of the universe because God had put it there. When the facts changed religion was eventually bent to acomodate the facts.

Science changes and religion adapts.
The demo at about the 1:50 mark with the liquid gathered in the center of the glass pane is mindblowing. The firs thting I thought of was using the hydrophobic stuff as a mask for pcb fabrication using a copper sulphate solution for the hydro part. That's probably pointless for the purpose, but it seems like this would be an insanely useful manufacturing technology.
Map projections are part of the technological infrastructure of the world. Most people shouldn't have to worry, but someone needs to. What about calculating missile range? Or designing a tunnel that needs to be accurate to 1cm. Are your GPS surveys out by 30cm because you used a system that ignores continental drift. Or placing an oil rig in the wrong place in the sea due to a poor projection choice.
> There is a vast world of mathematical understanding available to programmers who don't like proofs.

Mathematics is a deep net of knowledge, you can not just somehow study "interesting functions" in isolation, only by systematically exploring the relevant areas and understanding the concepts you can apply it, and calculation is the easiest part most of the time. If you understand something clearly, you can prove it. If you can't prove it, you don't really understand it. It's that simple.

Don't equate proofs with epsilon/deltas and Cantor sets. There are very practical theories developed formally that you can only study fruitfully if you are not afraid of proofs. Algorithms, probability theory, statistics, machine learning are all full of proofs, there is not much to calculate until a very late stage and it is very practical right from the start. A formal approach does not necessarily imply highly abstract concepts.