skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.conformal.com/about-us.html

Seems to me like it fits in with what else they do.
The BBC article on the same thing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21604005
The vulnerability is in Adobe Reader. PDF is a file format and there are other readers.
>people taking this approach only hurts more reasonable arguments //

Theft is a crime. Copyright infringement is [usually] a tort.

Theft deprives an owner of their right to use their work. Copyright infringement is no detriment to an owner's ability to enjoy their work.

Theft forms part of what most people would consider to be an obvious moral obligation not to deprive others of their property. Copyright is a right that extends unnaturally from ownership, being a democratically granted monopoly, and I warrant is by no means central to the majority of the people's understanding of common law.

It is a very important distinction.

To equate theft and tortuous infringement is quite insidious, copyright infringement is by no means similar to common thievery.

The big players in media production have attempted to screw the populus out of their side of the copyright deal - the falling in to public ownership of works in good time. All legal changes in the last decade or two appear to have been to the benefit of the rich lobbyists representing media organisation and to the detriment of the public.

In view of this failure to keep with the spirit of the contract that copyright establishes it's not surprising that the public should act as if big media had nullified the contract.
Mars' atmosphere is very thin compared to ours. I seriously doubt we could get there before the effect has cleared from the atmosphere. Even if we left right now.
The post office, alone of any government entity, must pre-fund pensions of persons not yet born. Congress is also pretending that the Post Office must be a self-sufficient organization. This is despite the fact that running the post office is a Constitutional requirement, profitable or no.
From my read of the article, Linus simply states his preference to actually support secure boot (and verify signatures), or not support it at all. He thinks attempts to "Secure Boot" a loader which then allows arbitrary code execution are a waste of time, and they are. If you don't want boot time signature verification, you should turn it off, not break the chain of trust.

In fact, done right, perhaps hardware vendors that currently only provide binary blobs could be coerced into providing source. "Oh, you want to boot on our distribution? We don't sign blobs, but if you commit source we'll build and sign the module."

If ever hardware does come out that doesn't allow you to opt out of signature verification or provide your own keys, just don't buy it.
If https://www.usertesting.com had an API, I think it would handle the majority of the points you listed.

UserTesting may already have one, however my brief two minutes of poking around didn't reveal that they do.
> If a homeless wanted to do some simple work (e.g. cleaning) in exchange for food and shelter would he be able to do so?

Probably, but why would you risk hiring them? The fact that they're homeless speaks to a lack of self-control. Even a perfectly healthy person who becomes homeless will get at least a bit messed up due to stress.

> Aren't there modern-day monks? Wouldn't people rather spend their life doing honest work with church than beg on the streets?

I've wondered this. We need secular monasteries, not just retreats for the wealthy. On the other hand, you can't really use your own motivations to understand why people are homeless. If they were thinking clearly and had a support network of friends / family that they weren't ashamed to reach out to, then they wouldn't be homeless.
Testing tends to be an intermittent need. Most apps that are to be tested tend to be off of the public Internet. I think that most orgs are unwilling to take the time to provide testers access they need (VPN access, etc) given the ephemeral nature of the relationship.
I think the author has an interesting proposal in his idea of "Letters to the Author"; however, one thing lacking in such a scheme is that the "Letters to the Editor" tend to come at the start of a publication, which itself can be thought of as a fairly linear medium. Blogs (and websites in general) tend to be non-linear in use, as hyper-linking disrupts any flow intended by authors. So while the idea is sound the implementation isn't there yet for the web based medium.

Perhaps starting off each post with a small "Letters to the Author" subsection might satisfy the goal.
Why not put the attributes on the image tag itself and avoid the noscript tags? If there is no JavaScript, these attributes would be ignored.

Edit: nevermind, I realized you could avoid loading images twice
It depends on the depth of a crater. A 15-20 mile deep crater would get you to Mt. Everest levels of density. Of course, that kind of a crater would require a direct impact from an object of this size, not a glancing impact.
And that is just fine. If every government agency had this "feature" we'd have half the government we have today. Politicians need to feel the pain of paying for their delusionary spending ahead of the need in order to ensure that they don't spend what we don't have or what we can't afford. What a concept: Want a new program? Save the money you'll need for the first five years of operation and then we can talk about it. Programs have been rolled out with no runway whatsoever and counting on sucking more money out of taxpayers to cover the holes. If the post office didn't have to face the reality of funding these insanely ridiculous government pensions my kids and their kids and maybe one more generation after that would have to pay taxes to provide postal workers with nearly a full salary for the rest of their lives. That would be wrong.
Agree :(
Better be safe and go with a darker text.

But darker text isn't necessarily safer, because having too much contrast is also a bad idea. That is why these guidelines about not using pure black or pure white get passed around so much in the first place.
>MS is at fault for pushing this whole system. Whether Linux distros could or not join the system is a red herring.

What?!

Pushing UEFI, which isn't their design, which has been used by Apple and other for years, or pushing secure boot?

Secure Boot is a damned good idea, and whilst IANAL it appears that for a windows sticker you MUST allow it to be switched off.

So its Microsoft are in fact pressuring OEMs to ensure that people can run other OS's on their kit (except ARM).

What this is about is how the other OS's can get the benefit of SecureBoot, well, if they can't get their act together as I mentioend above, why should they fuss that someone else gets SecureBoot. Lets be hoenst too, most people who need such simple "mum proof protection" are on Windows anyway.
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hmm, so my battery will be fucked up in no time, the back of my phone which is (usually) made of plastic will get scratched or broken, but, thank you oh lord, my screen will live forever.

Seriously, this industry needs to reshift their focus.
Except that wasn't why Paypal became what it is today. The P2P aspect and sufficiently protecting the customer during early days of e-commerce is why Paypal became so big. Removing the need to enter the full credit card info - was a nice to have - and secondary, once use of Paypal became more ubiquitous.

Infact, Affirm would have to hope that customers will use anything other than credit cards to settle with Affirm - because it will be cost prohibitive for them to do that. They would have to find ways to justify the customer settling via ACH. Too little, too late imho.
I said orbit.
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I'd love the European Commission to chime in, too.
Over the long term, zero. The instantaneous hit is dominated by the still much larger amount of energy continuously entering Mars from the sun and leaving due to thermodynamics.

When we talk about impacts changing climate on Earth, it has nothing to do with the instantaneous heat increase itself. It has to do with how the impact can change the rate at which Earth receives and retains heat, by changing the atmosphere. And Mars hasn't got very much atmosphere to change, so even that isn't much of a factor.
>the purpose of these laws isn't to stop piracy //

Assuming you mean the purpose is not to stop copyright infringement, then what do you consider the purpose to be?
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Ah, that's pretty much what I expected. So Node has nothing to do with how nice it's running.

One more question if you don't mind:
Are you doing any server side checks to make sure player movement is within bounds and then doing prediction on the client?
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Seems it'd be much more useful to be able to have a commit hook POST the app's Gemfile to your service instead of doing everything via GitHub, unless there's something I'm missing?
anything bigger than bumble.
I think you haven't given it a good look, this game is SOLID, awesome and fun

Yesterday I've played it for like 3 hours straight and had a blast, gamers will care(and are probably already caring since the servers are full) because it's fun and that's it
This is hyperbole. (no pun)

"Comet C/2013 A1 may fly past at a very safe distance of 0.008 AU (650,000 miles)," O'Neill wrote, "but to the other extreme, its orbital pass could put Mars directly in its path.
Why does a Company's culture matters?
Everything I can find on them indicates that they are simply an open source company who takes privacy and data security very seriously [1] -- which would explain why they are running tor exit nodes.

What information do you have that they are government contractors?

[1] https://www.conformal.com/
If you do that (like Firefox admittedly does), then my issue with subdomain users using up all local storage comes into place.

It would really suck for github (for example) not to be able to use local storage in their UI because pilif.github.com used up all available storage for the whole domain.
You can't throw a thing into orbit. Its trajectory will include the point where thrown.
Enhance it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
I don't think this is as easy or as common as you think it is. For one, almost every computer is behind a firewall these days and remote vulnerabilities for common services aren't anywhere near as common as they used to be.
Agree. In the PDF, there is this little statement:

Copyright © 2008 - 2010 by Gayle Laakmann. All rights reserved.

This means something. The author needs to respect it.
I've never even used OSX Lion, but I still prefer "natural" scrolling. I just run a script on login that contains "xinput set-prop 13 303 -111 -111". Obviously, you'll have to find the numbers in your current xinput as to obtain the device and preserve your optimal scroll speed (My example was for a Lenovo W510). This reverses the scroll direction on my trackpad, but not on the scroll wheel of my physical mouse or my lenovo nipple mouse.
I agree.

If you login through github and enable notifications, we install a post-receive hook.

For non github projects… we plan on eventually supporting that, but GitHub was an easy-lowest-common-denominator.
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wut? that looked like a text editor to me. VIM + shell is an IDE of another kind and its what I use (or Sublime Text, when I feel like it). apparently you think I was advocating the use of IDE's because I made a joke. who's the troll now? dick.
Making the minus part of the literal can lead to parsing ambiguity. For example, "x-3" would parse as 2 tokens "x" and "-3" (instead of 3 tokens "x", "-" and "3") which would be a syntax error in C. The only workaround I can think of is making any expression followed by a negative number parse as a subtraction.
You can leave out the explicit return type.

auto func = [] (std::complex<double> z, std::complex<double> c) { return z * z + c; };

You could also typedef the number type somewhere:

typedef std::complex<double> Complex;
// ...
auto func = [] (Complex z, Complex c) { return z * z + c; };

I think that last one looks ok.
The new crop of macs always go through a six month's cycle when they aren't supported because Apple decided to use new nonstandard hardware.
Let it die. I haven't had POTS in probably ten years. I don't want to have to support that infrastructure financially through taxes (or whatever). Despite the fear mongering in the article we are far better off today than we were many years ago.

The US comms infrastructure seems to move and evolve slower than at smaller countries for very simple reasons. When you take the lead you give late comers the advantage of looking at what you have done to improving upon. Our infrastructure is absolutely massive when compared to, say, Estonia's (not to pick on them at all, great country). This means that rolling out step improvements is very costly. There's something pro-government folk seem to insist on ignoring: ROI. Companies can't roll out new massive infrastructures and throw away investment from the prior generation. Yes, progress in the context of a significantly larger system will look and feel slower. Our next generation IP infrastructure is being incubated today through experiments and evolution. Perhaps it will take the form of 1Gb/s fiber to the home or something less radical but equally awesome. Only private for-profit enterprise can bring us this.
If our anonymous downvoter has information to the contrary, it would be helpful if they would post it.
I thought I've read somewhere that they are working for a lambda ala C# style. Can't find the paper though.

Edit:
I found the following links concerning this topic:

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/c14
http://isocpp.org/blog/2012/12/an-implementation-of-generic-...

And the paper: http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2012/n3418.pd...
Phase change sounds a lot cooler then what the article was trying to put forth.

Dielectric liquid cooled computers have been around a long time. I even did my capstone project my senior year taking a 3M dielectric fluid and attempting to make a liquid cooled laptop.

What's always forgotten is you have to move the heat farther then you think. Dielectric fluids are great for getting the heat off the cpu but then where do you move it to? In my project we tried to use the back of the laptop monitor to be a large surface area for natural convention. Boiling is much cooler (literally).

Laptop of course wouldn't work out because imagine trying to manufacture those things at scale! Also, these fluids when they evaporate aren't exactly kind to the atmosphere.
They could probably charge more with a title like that too. :)
Your site was throwing some DB connectivity errors...
But I'm thinking if it hits a pole it could release CO2 and permanently affect the temperature.
That's what I thought, but it appears truth values are typically defined with a partial ordering a <= b iff a && b == a, which gives false <= false < true <= true.

You could choose to ignore that partial ordering at your own peril.
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The GP is correct, you only need a licence for watching TV live. I have had the TV licence people round my house and I explained to them that I watch TV exclusively via the internet and never live. There was no problem with this, I've not heard from them since.

Love,

Someone who hasn't had a TV licence for years
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We actually do this at MobileWorks (mobileworks.com). There's an API that lets you get N minutes from N people filtered by demographic. Some folks use our Premier product for on-demand testing set up by email -- they send test requests to premier@mobileworks.com.

If you're looking for this more as a formal end-to-end service, you can take a look at our buddies at Rainforest (https://www.rainforestqa.com/). You can also look at services like uTest, though they're real pricey.
Sorry I wasn't more clear. I wasn't trying to make this a Unity debate, and I'm sorry I started one by making that point.

Thanks for the tips, but that wasn't really meant to be the point of the post. I just wanted to point out gnome-settings-daemon if you want to run something other than Unity.
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Ah, I see the distinction you're making: this is a map of exit nodes, not exit node operators. The operators can of course be anywhere in the world. For all we know based on just this map, all the tor exit node operators live in Antarctica.
>In fact the whole UEFI in general I think it is a clusterfuck of mishmashed random ideas, some good, many bad.

Care to explain why or how, instead of just throwing a general statement around?
Wow. What are the odds?

Just doing quick ratios and squaring them, if the comet follows the initial projections, there are only about 230 large objects coming this close for every one that actually lands on Mars. (And Earth gets hit with about 3.5 of these for every one that hits Mars. Our last is estimated to be 65,957,000 +- 11,000 years ago.) This is literally a once in a million years near miss!

Of course the odds now are much higher than they normally would be. The fact that it is on a hyperbolic orbit means that it comes from outside of the Solar System. The density of such objects is much higher near the galactic plane than elsewhere. However the Sun bobs up and down, spending most of its time away from the galactic plane and crossing it every 30 million years or so. We last crossed it something like 100,000 years ago and are now heading away, so are still in a period where interstellar objects are more likely to come barreling through. So the odds are higher than they normally are, but even if you generously account for the currently increased risk, this is still a once in a civilization near miss.

Of course the initial estimate may be wrong. From the article the uncertainty is much bigger than the distance to Mars. If the uncertainty is the stated 650,000 miles, then we've got roughly a 1/24,000 chance of a direct impact. (I am sure that more informed people will come up with much better estimates in the not too distant future.)
If we left right now, we'd be there before the comet hit.
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How can users make sure they get rid once and for all of Adobe PDF reader?

It seems hardly a month goes buy without a major Adobe Reader exploit.

Most importantly: can you still keep Adobe Flash (e.g. for YouTube) but disabling Adobe PDF reader and not have it re-install itself when upgrading Flash?
Hey! I (author) agree this isn't a great way to check equality in python, however after testing this is the way I'm sure it will work 100% of the time, so I went with it. If not [] would be more pythonic though.
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How much time is spent trying to install libraries on a Mac? Nothing beats aptitude/yum when it comes to installing software. Homebrew is nice, but if whatever you're looking for isn't in there (for me, pretty frequently), you're stuck either compiling stuff from source and digging through OS X's backwards filesystem layout or running a VM.
Maybe we have different aesthetic objections, but isn't all of the ugliness in that example due to the templated std::complex class, and unrelated to lambdas? If you make a typedef first, it becomes considerably nicer:

auto func = [](cdouble z, cdouble c) -> cdouble { return z * z + c; }
Very interesting, but why is it ruby specific? What about packages vulnerabilities in other languages? Surely you can parse Javascript and Python requirement files as well, the concept is no different.
Don't buy Lenovo, then. Places like e.g. http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/laptop-computers/ sell custom laptops without the Windows tax.
I was hoping something would mention semantics. Seems like a lot of new frameworks still require you to modify pre-existing HTML.
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Because UEFI is overly complicated and more akin to a mini-OS. All most people really want is for the firmware to set up the hardware and then hand over to the bootloader.
Am I the only one seeing:

> Disconnected from server...

UPDATE: This had something to do with my login. I just logged out and back in, and was able to get in.
I originally though you wanted freelancers for creating unit/integration/behavioral tests, which presents the problem that not all codebases are testable in current state.
Yup, thats the point :)
Linus posted a NSFW rant about it a few days ago. The story mysteriously went off the HN front page and subsequent submissions of the story went [dead].

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279531

Rankings graph showing a deep dive.

http://hnrankings.info/5279531/

Part of Linus' email:

>Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest. If you want to parse PE binaries, go right ahead.

>If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that's your issue. That has nothing what-so-ever to do with the kernel I maintain. It's trivial for you guys to have a signing machine that parses the PE binary, verifies the signatures, and signs the resulting keys with your own key. You already wrote the code, for chissake, it's in that f*cking pull request.
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Fortunately I have no babies for you to take.

It's nice not having your fingers perched on the keyboard like a bird, right?
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I'm thinking about creating a remote web-based city full of robots, quadcoptors,3d printers, etc. It would be in a warehouse and people could rent out time on the robots. Use cases, create and mail parts. Games like arial paintball. Obviously version 1 would be limited. I'm thinking power issues would have to be worked out. possibly solar cells with lasers focused on the power. Obvioulsy hardware based projects are expensive to get off the ground but I'm wondering if there there's any interest in this.
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Thanks for the summary. I probably should have just written that instead.
Reminds me of when they first demoed CFC's on the program "Beyond 2000". Turns out that stuff ate the Ozone Layer. Makes you wonder about the unintended negative side-effects about new discoveries.
That's partly true. But the reason a forum gets on their radar in the first place is by failing to follow those safeguards.

The way these guys operate is they write scripts to crawl the SERPs and find sites that are ranking, then they look for weaknesses (i.e. outbound followed links that don't go through a redirect).

Or they look at their spammy competitor's backlinks with AHrefs, Majestic, etc. and discover the forum that way. Then they help themselves to a link.
I married a man I initiated a relationship with. But we were good friends in high school and married young. I am curious how old you and your lady are and how you met, if you don't mind sharing.
"Anybody who thinks that a 300–400 dpi 4–5 inch smartphone isn’t a first class reading device hasn’t laid their hands on one."

I have an iPhone with Retina display.

I still read on my eInk Kindle.
Yes, I know this. It makes no financial sense to pay 6% just to move dollars (unless you're a drug dealer, but that was not my target market). That's double what credit cards cost. My target was 0.1%.
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To be fair, capitalizing "Wallet" makes it pretty confusing. If someone said "You need a Mac + Mail app", I would assume they meant the OSX mail app and not just a general e-mail client.
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Well said! I just had to reply since the vast majority of replies on your thread don't agree. I agree 110% with you. It boils down to will power, and applying yourself consistently in the right direction!