skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, it's generally believed that forecasting will never be effective beyond about 15 days, due to amplification of small uncertainties by the nonlinear atmosphere dynamics. Predictability is better in the tropics by a couple of days, and better in the northern hemisphere winter by a couple of days.

It's worth noting that the pressures measured, even if they could be calibrated, would be almost entirely on land, and only at the surface of the Earth, not at higher altitudes (it is, of course, a 3D problem). And also, a lot more than just pressure is needed -- temperature, wind velocity, clouds, aerosols, irradiance, ocean currents, wave height, soil moisture, ...
"Don't tax payers have a say in who gets to waste valuable tax dollars on frivolous cases?"

Only very indirectly. We tax payers (voters) elected President Obama, who appointed Carmen Ortiz as a federal prosecutor in 2009.[1] Since Obama can't run for president again, we've lost our chance to show our displeasure in the only way he'd really care about (losing an election).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
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Yea you really only need the contents of ~/.ssh and you could access every server the laptop could.

Even if they didn't have production access, a lot of times servers are configured to easily hop from one to another. They could have connected to a development server and then just hopped to the DB server with the accounts it seems they were looking for.
Apply as a phd so you can TA the whole time, then drop out with the masters. You'll get paid for your MA.
Not a single bit of what you just said makes any sense.
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Bug number?
Sublime Text will crash if you type File:/// into the help textbox in the help menu.

(This is true of basically every OSX app there is)
There are certainly bugs in Mac OS X (there are bugs in everything) and yes, it would be great if Apple could focus more on Mac OS X -- but this article's "proofs" are just bullshit. Honestly, the writing seems like a baseless rant.

> OS X Finder — damages the system, can’t copy files reliably, can’t do useful things it ought to do at all, hides key files, rife with bugs.

Other than "hides key files" this is simply not true, nor does the article actually provide any evidence for these claims (despite being labelled a "proof").

> File system — continued use of HFS Plus instead of robust ZFS

This has been analyzed at great length but basically ZFS is not an ideal choice for most users (storage pooling is a complicated concept). Even if pooled storage were an option in OS X, it would not be a good default option.

Also, Sun/Oracle denied a license for Mac OS X so the point is somewhat moot. You can actually download the implementation that Apple wrote here:

http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/

but Apple are not allowed to bundle it as part of OS X.
Apple cannot stop me (legally) from running whatever software I like on my iPhone.

Not for lack of trying. Jailbreaking is only legal because of a specific DMCA exception granted by the Copyright Office, which Apple opposed. And IIRC that only applies to phones, so it actually is illegal to jailbreak an iPad.
The service doesn't deliver a sex partner though, just the condom. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Performing a "forced-reset" on waves of accounts is a pretty effective way of eliminating 'anonymous' accounts no longer linked to a valid email. I bet a decent number of users were permanently locked out of their accounts.
You know, I've had this going on all four of my Gmail/Google accounts (!) for well over a year now, and I still think it's totally worth it. It's not really a pain, and I can sleep better because of it.
I'm seeing a ton of people I know on twitter complain - I'm user 5511, and these are people who joined at the very beginning too - so your theory is indeed apparently correct. I got an email myself, and reset my already super complex password.
Did any one get any stranger followers before or after the twitter warning/password reset?

Not sure if this is a coincidence but i got a follower at 3am today then the twitter warning. the follower is legit but i can't make a connection/context as to why they would follow me. After i did a pswd reset i get another follower who i known for years in business but now wonder if these coincidences are related. this all reminds me of that twilight zone episode on Maple St where the aliens fiddle with the lights and the whole town goes paranoid bonkers :-)
Could you make a RethionkDB Heroku Add-On ?
I would definitely try it out then.
It must be a British-ism. This is the first time I've ever heard it.
most apps use xAuth, which means your password isn't sent down the wire except for the very first time you authenticate.
I've looked at it before, but never taken the plunge. Well worth it? I go through about 2 liters of soda water a day, if not more...
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Out of technical curiosity, would it be reasonable to remove YAML from the source tree and check for the lack of exploit via "find $APP_ROOT -name "*.rb" | xargs grep YAML"?
Honestly, this is what I expected the article to be: "Step 1: Turn on ILS. Step 2: Have a beverage and flip the fasten seatbelts sign on-- here's where it is on the instrument panel."
SodaStream puts a deliberately incompatible and patented connector on their CO2 bottles just to charge a huge markup on refills. They sort of deserve to face someone else's anticompetitive shady deal.
At least where I'm from in the US, un-flavored/sweetened carbonated water is a bit uncommon and more expensive. It was a shock to me the first time I visited Europe and was served "fizzy water" when I asked for water. Unless you explicitly ask for "soda water" or a name brand of bottled carbonated water, you'll get uncarbonated water. Also, mineral water does not imply carbonated here.
this looks nice, but i'm confused.. how do i actually use it on my webpage?
I can vouch for ardupilot. Out of 6 flight controllers I've flown (KK, Mikrokopter, Multiwii and variants) it is the most advanced and stable flight platform under active development.

OpenPilot looked promising but I haven't seen any proof yet.
Trying the app I saw there's an option choosing who you want to share your data with.
I'm inclined to choose 'public' but in the end lack of insight into whether and/or how you do data anonymization made me chose otherwise.

Care to elaborate a bit on how and what you do with the data?
How can you explain the fact that we are living in the most peaceful time in the human history? Surely we are not able to change the human mind to control the desires of wanting more and more but we have definitely improved the fundamental definition of what it means to be human. We are not barbarians anymore, we don't enslave other human being for fun and profit anymore. These things matter and matter a lot. We are still in the development stage in-terms of society. We still treat people differently depending upon their skills, knowledge, power and still have notion of national borders and military to protect those borders. I have a feeling that technology will take us to the level of such abundance that future generations will find it hard to believe that we killed each other for resources and honored artificial geological boundaries.
And, the irregular lenses on all those crappy cameras. (Crappy by astronomical standards.)

There's no way you'd be able to calibrate that out, so you'd never know which pixel on the camera mapped to a given patch on the sky.

Not to mention that the camera body is so compliant that even if you perfectly characterized the lens, once you put the camera in your pocket and took it back out again, it would all be different.

And what about thermal effects? It boggles the mind.
Fun exploit of this - you can use it to lock up Safari hard:

http://grack.com/hangsafari.html

(not a reduced testcase - it's more of a brute force)

You can also trigger a mailto: link that crashes Mail:

mailto:pete@bar.com?subject=File:///&body=File:///
Couldn't have said it better.

People act completely stupid when it comes to their OS. HOLY SHIT THERE'S A STANDARD TEXT FIELD CLASS?!?!?! APPLE IS DOOMZ0R3D!! Be a champ and submit these kind of things to your local devs and (as the super "hacker" posters say) carry on...
Untethered iPhone5 Jailbreak Coming This Sunday For iOS 6.1 Devices
Not just three separate offenses, three separate indictments.
The cause of this bug seems to be the OSX system spell checker; I've crashed a few applications to take a look at the dumps, and so far they common point of failure seems to be that they all have some call to something like `NSSpellChecker`.

In the OP for example:

6 AppKit 0x00007fff921dbd1a checkDataDetectors + 536
7 AppKit 0x00007fff921d9429 NSSpellCheckerCheckString + 13334
8 AppKit 0x00007fff921d5f9f -[NSTextCheckingOperation main] + 152

7 AppKit 0x00007fff921d9429 NSSpellCheckerCheckString + 13334

This explanation makes sense to me because the spell checker is integrated very tightly into the user-facing text entry experience across the board in OSX. It is one of the few bits of code that could explain reliable failures across applications that we've been seeing.
PornHub.com also submitted an offer to buy a Super Bowl ad, but was rejected by CBS. Without a doubt, they knew it would be rejected, and were hoping for the free publicity. Based on the proposed ad, I think they got their money's worth.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-pornhubs-rejected-super-b...
That feeling was me for 10+ years, mainly teenage ones. Not sure where it went, but I prefer working stuff these days.
I'm ABSOLUTELY pitching down first. Especially when you're on final approach, it's always attitude (pitch) to control your airspeed, and power to control your rate of descent, not the other way around.

If you're really on your toes, you'll end up doing both at almost the same time anyway, but pitching down is what'll get you out of a stall, not adding power.
So he's facing 100 years for releasing thousands of credit card numbers and security codes. He was leaking information and the numbers were not the motivation. Seems quite harsh, but am I missing something?

Edit: He also appears to have just posted a link. Unless he actually uploaded the data, hopefully he's acquitted for that. By this standard, wouldn't Google be guilty of all sorts of terrible crimes?
Why not use jqMath? It's latex based, 10 times smaller, and 10 times faster than MathJax - which is aimed more at publishers.
Seems to be that way.

I just got a second 'Twitter Password Reset' email with more explanatory information now, almost two and a half hours after the first.
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Ask HN: What universities are good? (Undergrad)
I have been reading an unfortunately large amount of articles here on Hacker News seemingly deterring prospective students like myself from entering a university, especially from the field of Computer Science. They cite large tuition/living costs and "wastes of time" as not worth the potential four year education gained. These articles and blog posts claim that jumping straight into industry is an acceptable and perhaps even favorable alternative.
I refuse to buy into this idea as I crave the challenge that I feel a good computer science program can bring as well as want to experience the good ol' college life. Are there still places out there that offer a diverse undergraduate Computer Science program that goes beyond teaching Java and C++ and focuses on the application of these technologies to create things? Are there schools out there that will let undergrads touch research and tackle the problems that current computer scientists face today? Or is this asking too much of a pre-graduate program?
I believe IB only requires 10k initial deposit and then you can maintain your account on 2k (+ some buffer).
Mistakes we made that killed our startup.
It's a bug, it happens, let's move on.
Well, does what it says on the tin.
I go back and forth on this. It's true that your app won't feed people who're starving, at least not directly. But it's kind of incredible how many problems essentially boil down to information problems, and particularly search problems, and your app can certainly solve those. In particular, I think there's a very large supply of untapped goodwill, and a basically infinite demand for goodwill, that is not connecting right now (or connecting poorly, through inefficient charities). For some things, for some people, at some points in time, an app can help bridge that gap. For example, you could write a volunteer version of Exec where people in your community just, I don't know, ask for help and then someone nearby gives them help. Like going grocery shopping or something, or even helping cook dinner, clean the kitchen, etc. Particularly powerful for the elderly - and I think there's plenty of good kids out there who'd be happy to help an elder out for free.

No, it's not "changing the world" in terms of making it a utopia in one fell swoop, but it's adding a bit of the community connectivity, and making real people's dreams of making the world a better place. It's not starving kids with flies on their mouths half a world away, it's people who need help right here.
>>>I think that once you're 1.5-2.0 sigma, in capability, above the social position that's available to you, your goose is cooked because it's hard to condescend in the right way and, once the discrepancy is vast enough, it becomes an impossible task.

I think that software is a great field for these talented individuals. The necessary tools(other than luck) to produce profitable software products are: 1)talent, 2)experience, 3)a powerful enough computer to develop your software, and 4)an economically feasible way to distribute your software.

It seems like your "1.5-2.0 sigma, in capacity" individuals possess 1) by definition. 4) is ubiquitous now that the internet and payment processing are cheap and ubiquitous. 2) seems achievable for anyone who has 1). 3) is affordable to most interns I know in the software industry!

That said, I agree with your observations(in this and other comments) in reference to corporate structure and social positions and managers and etc. Managers shouldn't be managing their underlings, they should be managing away all of the bullshit that makes their underlings less successful.
Unless you have been admitted to a highly prestigious school (MIT, Harvard, etc.) and tuition is not going to be a problem for you (through wealth or extensive scholarships) this route is definitely one of the best ways to go for most people seeking a 4-year degree.

Also, consider that at a community college you could learn a trade, it'll take more time but if you're likely to spend 5 or 6 years pursuing a 4-year degree why not spend just as much time and far less money also adding a skill and a credential that can pay the bills?
One can never guess what is going to be projected into one's writing.

Tokenadult pointed out some things that MET figured out were highly correlated with effective teaching, he quoted them with : "Of the 36 items included in the Gates Foundation study, the five that most correlated with student learning were very straightforward:

My wife and I home schooled our kids through "8th" grade, they went to the local high school. I got to meet a number of kids being home schooled, and their parents. I recognized all five of the factors that the MET identified as being present in a home schooling situation. That is all.

What did you think I was saying?
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Not so terrible an idea? Keith Rabois resignation from Square is example enough that you should be absurdly careful when mixing business and pleasure. If you're looking for casual hookups it's best to avoid people you may be connected to professionally.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5117719
I think you missed my point. Unless you really think there's no difference between naming an html element, and giving it an inline named function handler.
I'm not "upgrading" to Lion ever. Their next software update will determine whether or not I buy a Mac again.
>SodaStream has a product that could be wildly disruptive to the soda industry, if successful.

Not really. Maybe with a different business model, but from the cost analysis I've seen, SodaStream comes in at about $0.40/L, which is a little over half of what Coke and Pepsi cost, but the cost of Coke and Pepsi is about 50% branding anyway. A fair comparison would be generic sodas, which are are closer to $0.50/L. So you're only saving about 20%, even though you've cut out the cost of bottling water, warehousing it, and shipping it around the country (aka, most of the actual cost of soda).

Which is to say that the SodaStream is a rip-off. They lock you into buying their proprietary CO2 tanks (which are specially threaded so you can't shop around), so it's sort of a similar business model to printers or razors. Except, of course, that you can actually build a DIY carbonation system for not much more than the cost of the SodaStream fountain itself (and it's not a difficult build; you just have to connect some hoses to some off-the-shelf parts, and you can find plenty of guides on the internet).
Quadrocopters FTW.
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Figured you can crash Safari on page load with this. http://gironda.org/this_will_crash_safari.html
All GDP hollywood-accounting aside, the reason why they went up to public debt of 70% was because the nanny state was spending too much. I know it's hard to understand for socialo-commies, but it's a fact.

Contrarily to France, they realized it and worked hard to reduce the public debt and it worked.

Yes, cut in pensions for older people do suck. But it works. It allows the nanny state to be a bit less of a nanny state and hence to escape from the public debt trap.

I'm not disagreeing with you that health-care and infrastructure shouldn't be run for profit. But then comes the problem of... COST!

Where do you draw the line? Socialo-commies are always going to use intellectual terrorism like: "What, you don't want to contribute $X so that grandmas have their life expectancy probability augmented a bit?"

But it makes no sense. Let me tell you: what if, for 1 000 000 000 000 $ per person I can create a better healthcare system. Are you going to allow me to do it?

No, because there wouldn't be any economy anymore. It wouldn't work.

So I return your your argument: you sebcat insensitive clod, how comes you're not willing to spend $ 1 000 000 000 000 per person per year so that everyone has a better health-care, you really have no heart!?

So any discussion about "health-care" is pointless: it's not about no health-care at all or a super-good healthcare. The question is which % of the GDP can be used to provide with level of health-care without ruining the entire economy.

And that's the big problem of the socialo-commies and their nanny states: they cannot count. It's all words and intellectual terrorism.

But as soon as you use their own arguments against themselves, they're dodging the question.

Now every single time I discuss with a socialo-commie I use that $1 000 000 000 per person per year example and I ask him if it's sustainable or not. And he says no. So I tell him he really has no heart and he's a bad person for letting all these grandmas die.

And then the expression on their face are priceless because their entire belief system is shred to pieces.
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Geesh, tough crowd. No sense of humor.

(Chrome version 24.0.1312.57 really doesn't crash for me on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Safari and TextEdit do, though.)
One of Mary Roach's books (Packing for Mars?) also claimed that in a large passenger plane, you're moving too fast to jump out without dying.
Thanks, just trying to save the world. I made theboycottapp during the SOPA/PIPA resistance. I ran out of steam and was bummed out that the UPC scanner wouldn't work on the iPod touch that I bought to test the app out on - not a good enough focus to resolve the UPC.

I'm working on other things now with any available time; all of them are free. I keep track of them here: http://www.nanch.com
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Does not crash:

- 'File:///' typed slowly

- 'File://a' typed slowly

- 'File:// a' typed at any speed.

Does crash:

- 'File:///' typed quickly

- 'File://X' (X being any non-whitespace character) quickly

- 'File://X ' (any number of non-whitespace followed by any whitespace) at any speed
Compass is one of the most complicated instruments to master in the aircraft because it behaves differently depending on many factors: where you are, where you turn, and are you going up or down:

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

However if you do, then you have a backup instrument that never fails.
Chu refocussed DOE efforts heavily into renewable energy, and while the ThinkProgress article [1] pushes the "going public with climate change rhetoric" angle, for me the money quote is:

"The cost of renewable energy is rapidly becoming competitive with other sources of energy"

I am guessing that Chu kept his head down deliberately about climate change to avoid the ire of the deniers, and funded efforts to reduce the cost of emission-free alternative energy.
The deniers have nowhere to go, as over the next two decades cheaper electricity generated with zero emissions will steadily replace more expensive gas/coal generation, and petrol/diesel for transport.

A job well done.

[1] http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/01/1529531/chu-resi...
>Interesting slight of hand comparing maximum possible jail time for three separate offenses to actual sentences for one.

I don't think cutting a century into thirds would do much to refute the disproportionality of the sentence to the underlying action.

And the fact that the maximum and what the typical guilty party receives are so divergent is a big part of the problem. It leaves too much to the discretion of prosecutors and courts and is unacceptably coercive to the accused to have to risk anything like that sort of penalty merely in order to exercise any of the constitutional rights that effectively evaporate the moment you accept a plea bargain.
My one line response.

I am a crazy person and I push the human race forward. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXzimTThnPM
Oh, please. What is a standard text field class doing with the text inputted into it that would cause an entire app to crash? It's a ridiculous scenario.
> I agree that there's an issue with grandiosity, but I'm still unsure if it's a net positive or negative for society.

I believe that is a net negative for two reasons: (1) grandiosity is a sign of people tying their self-worth to their achievements and (2) grandiosity is a sign of a lack of healthy self-critique.

Tying your self-worth to your success, especially in a high-risk activity, is a recipe for long-term inconsistency and increased personal risk (which in turn impacts net productivity).

Too much optimism and self-confidence is a recipe for stagnation, and that's what we see for the most part in the startup / app-development world.

For instance, perhaps if people were a bit more self-critical, they would discover that historically most technical innovation has occurred in the context of large, well-funded research programs. People might then choose to, rather than starting that social media website that will change the world or hacking together that 'cool' project for Maker Faire, study computer science and take a job at Microsoft Research, PARC or SpaceX.

Or something else.

But any behavior that reduces the extent to which people think about their actions is probably bad.
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