skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the materials and structure of a train car - can they sustain instantaneous force required to stop a speeding train? RRRIP! Oops, maybe not.
For a plane with how many seats? Screenshot suggests 4ish passengers, though the aircraft looks like it could carry more.

Am I missing something and this is a per-person cost? That surely wouldn't gel with the statement about it being a more affordable option for flights shorter than 300 miles?
Thanks for this one, I remember having read about this company before. haha and yeah I will be trying as hard as I can!
"It just works" isn't good enough
There is precedent for software developers to responsibly shut down activation servers, such as Adobe (gasp!) who made available a serial number and software download for CS2.

http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2013/01/get-free...
The examples here do not include SQL injection from known CVEs and are not vulnerabilites themselves, only potential misuses of the methods.

What would you like to have changed here? The methods work fine as long as you do not explicitly embed a user-supplied string in a larger SQL fragment.
They look better.

That is the simple answer. They have a more modern, sleek, look. Other companies like Dell are only recently catching up with them in terms of looks.

When I bought an aluminum unibody MacBook in 2008 I had a person who never used a Mac in their life compliment me on how slick the laptop looked after I closed it and got up to walk across the room.

Also consider this: Of what market research considers "luxury" laptops, Apple account for 9 out of every 10 sales. I.e., all of the other companies with what they present as luxury laptops accounts for only 10% of those sales. When you think luxury laptop, Apple dominates.
I'd say it was onerous at the time. Steam brought an "always-online" component (offline mode was utterly broken for years) to games you may have bought years prior, and this was in 2002/2003. In 2013, it's basically the status quo and other publishers have adopted similar schemes.

I think the interesting part is that in spite of that past behavior and almost no PR, the gaming community just rallies around Valve and will vilify most other publishers that attempt to follow Valve's footsteps with Steam.
The ‘six strike’ Copyright Alert System is now in place
Ginger: Grammar and Spelling Fixing Keyboard for Android
Per-password permissions are basically the RBAC design pattern [1], which at it's core requires 3 tables with 2 N:N joins in a relational mapping structure (the wikipedia article lays out 4 classes/tables).

That's a lot of complexity compared to a simple session-authenticated validation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control
I'd do it in assembler.
Fats and Carbs don't vary that much regarding satiety. Mostly protein and fiber, as I said.

How adipocytes "should" behave depends on circumstances...
Insulin resistance is probably more a defensive mechanism against the deleterious effects of overeating.

"The flawed thinking, that calories burned by the body is a fixed amount that doesn't vary based on calories consumed, is simply wrong."
Who believes that nonsense? Of course we have adaptive mechanisms that regulate energy output (especially NEAT) based on energy intake. The kcal in/out model is very much valid. You just have to account for fluctuating variables in the formula.

"The key is that energy expenditures only rise when the calories consumed are not being partitioned for storage. Elevated insulin levels cause storage of fatty acids, and inhibit release of fatty acids from fat cells by triggering them to be bound up into triglyceride molecules."
But this does not happen in a vaccum. This does not matter if you undereat.
And if you overeat on mostly fat we still have extremely significant mechanisms to store these TAGs independently of insulin : HSL / ASP.
That's exactly where I am. Chrome got to the point where it was using 2GB+ of memory. Safari uses a lot too, but consistently less than 1/2 of what Chrome would use and seems not to leak as much over time. It also boots MUCH, MUCH faster.
Quantum mechanics (or QFT) isn't likely to be found wrong anytime soon. And if it is, it will be to such a degree that it has almost no day-to-day consequences (much as how GR is only considered for particle physics and satellite synchronization).

What I mean by this is that the whole nature of chemistry and biology is already rooted on a very secure foundation. So as simulation capabilities increase, you can be sure that these have a very high probability of modeling the "higher-order" phenomena correctly. Even superconductors and superfluids can be modeled correctly. The only things that may not be correct would be the high energy limit of quantum gravity models. But simulation in this area is almost (and may be?) nonexistent.

Now... having stated that we have an almost perfect description of the underlying reality for any practical phenomena we would be interested in, it is true that this model is currently mostly unamenable to calculation. The amount of computation required to reach chemical accuracy is very high and we may not have that capability for quite a while. So we make concessions and approximate things. For example, wavefunctions are modeled as Slater determinants which satisfy the wavefunction's antisymmetry but do not take into effect all the correlative effects (like electron-electron interactions).

It is a scientific and mathematical challenge to characterize exactly how much these models are off from the "true" solution. Most of the time, you have a good idea if the approximation you are using will work for your domain. If I want to fold proteins, I don't need anything more accurate than CHARMM (describes pairwise interactions; it's a non-reactive potential). But if I want to study Cooper Pairs (in superconductors) I'm going to need to make many less approximations, and it will be a much more expensive model computationally.
100x faster hive
I was employed at Mozilla when the pronouncement to "suspend" work on Electrolysis came from on high.

I think addons are a small part of the picture.

The big deal is there are only so many Firefox developers, and Electrolysis was turning into a real sinkhole of time with no end in sight. There were a lot better ways to make Firefox a better browser in the meantime, and those things are being done.
Are you really putting a full cup of cream into a serving of cauliflower soup?

For your strawberries and cream example, I'm known to have blueberries with cream from time to time. Which ends up typically being a half cup or so of blueberries, and a tablespoon or two of cream. Much more than that is far too much (and that's from someone who's got an appetite).
It certainly gets the job done, but so does IE.
Jekyll. Running on Heroku. Gets the job done and because everything is static, it's blazing fast. I love managing my blog via CLI/git too.

Before that, Wordpress / Tumblr / Posterous (RIP) / etc etc.

Nothing is quite as elegant as Jekyll. It's not for everyone though.
I'm sorry for calling Tom a zealot (which I've since removed).

If it makes you feel better, I'm a client side MVC zealot. For Aiur!
1.Go to the local bike shops.

2. Find out who the biggest local cyclists are.

3. Give them some backpacks and take their input in prototyping it. Give them a special model named after them.

4. Go to local events and hand out some samples.

5. Have the local stores carry them.

6. Put up a website where people can buy it.

Not so hard to do, but takes about 3 months to get running.
I think app.net should be working on getting actual implementations of their file API out there (Instagram, every photo editing app, etc), yet that's another chicken-and-egg problem: what company will encourage their own users to rely on an unknown third-party service?

This sounds like a problem that can be fixed by throwing lots of money at it, but that doesn't fit their business model...
Google is full of horror stories about bureaucracies and abusive/ignorant/incompetent managers?

It's true that there are a few disgruntled ex-Googlers that may give you this impression.

But I don't believe you'll find many current Google employes who will agree with that.
If true everyone involved should be out on their ass, this is banana republic shit, it should not be tolerated.
hahaa good one
I'd be really interested to see the pricing/commercials around this too. There was a startup that did exactly this a few years back that got Branson's attention and turned into Virgin Charter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Charter - I believe it got hit by the 2009 financial downturn.
TEF: 20-30% is not negligible. There is even a group of scientist trying to change the default value to 3,2 kcal/g.

Yeah, weight loss is greater because of the bigger WATER loss. (1g Glycogen = 3g Water)
Which results in greater intial weight loss. Besides the possibility of low carb being a better treatment for adipose patients/people suffering from Metabolic Syndrome.

"In short, whatever facts anyone wants to bring up, there will always be more that either disprove, or at least throw them into doubt." > Mostly, if you don't know what you are talking about and haven't dived into the actual primary literature.
Most just lack some basic domain knowledge and read some Taubes. Now they think there must be some big controversy with carbohydrates and low carb going on. Meh.

Self experimentation is great if you use a non retarded approach. I find too many people trying to reinvent the wheel instead of focusing on some basics and then experimenting with how to integrate them into their life/habit.
Upvote for calc() function, Useful.
call the spiderman :)
Sounds like something I've used WordPress for in the past, hosted on a VPS that already had a rails app running on it.
I am not sure if India is topping in content creation too. India displaced US in traffic, which shows content consumption side.
Happy to see this. I frequently keep a ton of tabs open and hate being startled by a random one making noise through an ad. In Fact, about a year ago I wrote a sticky note to myself to make this as an extension for a side project. Never did get around to it...
why waste so much money. feed the poor
Actually, the same goes for Dropbox - just drag an html file to your Public folder and get it's link - Boom, instant static html page with css and javascript. Personally I prefer Dropbox because sync worked faster for me so the updates to the page were almost instant, but I had to wait a while for Drive to sync everything.
Break it down this way. Its about the way people in different cultures reflexively parse incomplete information.

The issue is that you have unspoken assumptions - Its just some guy giving you a buck, no other costs/strings or concerns to deal with. Take buck, move on.

Now lets say you are in a gift giving culture, or even better, a "high-context culture".

Whose giving you the money? A buck? From a millionaire? Are there strings attached? Nothing is free so whats going on?

So on and so forth.
http://zfsonlinux.org/
They no longer list the versions on the front page.
Last I saw the page was only a few months ago (max) and you couldn't even create a filesystem yet (you could create a zpool and zvols).
I remember reading on that page the zpool and zfs versions implemented at that time, and they were way back.

And yes, I am using Solaris for comparison... I mentioned that I'm triple-booting with Solaris in the post you replied to.

I'm glad so see the development has caught up, but it is still quite young.
Aha, thanks! That would explain why it didn't work for me...
I think the problem is that this is really hard to do. All-in-one devices more often than not don't do anything well, because they are trying to do everything.

This is one of the reasons Windows 8 is so confusing. It's your good old windows experience. No wait, it's a brand new tablet interface. You can install Metro apps... but you can also install existing apps...as long as they never interact. It's meant to be used with a touchscreen....but also with your keyboard and mouse. It does everything, but nothing well.

I'm not saying you couldn't have a phone that doubles as a laptop, that doubles as a desktop, that doubles as a video game device. But I think it's really hard to make it coherent.
Girl power: Seattle ranked 2nd for women entrepreneurs
Steve Jobs: “I think PCs are going to be like trucks" and Phones/tablets will be like cars http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2010/06/02/steve-jobs-at...
Interesting.

According to the Wikipedia[1], the 1318 km Chinese Jinghu High Speed Railway (350 km/h) came in at about $27m/km.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
Thanks, that link is way more interesting.

Yanis Varoufakis is the economist valve hired to study the economy of steam and valve itself.
He wasn't most people _because_ he wasn't the sort to submit to such a demeaning choice.
In 2007 I worked for a firm with a 4 billion row join table in PostgreSQL. Might've been 7 or 8, I don't recall which. It ran on a quad core server with 16Gb of RAM. Joins going through this table took about 2-3 seconds to complete.
Thanks! Earlier today I had a talk about #3 with a 'local face'
> A good parasite never kills its host.

That depends very much on how easy it is to find new hosts.
Java Magic. Part 4: sun.misc.Unsafe
Dumb question: was the data ETL'd into a star schema first? That can make a big difference, especially in columnar stores.
It's not just about profession. Being labeled a felon is a serious pain in the ass and follows you for the rest of your life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony#United_States

Besides all the restrictions, there's also the stigma attached to it.
Huffman coding alone wouldn't do a lot in that example. Huffman coding lets you build a prefix code to pack symbols into variable length sequences of bits, depending on the frequency of the symbol. A dictionary encoder, like LZ77, would replace repeated sequences by references, and that would make the two variable names equivalent. Deflate uses Huffman coding to pack the LZ77 compressed data using as few bits as possible, making it more efficient, but LZ77 is the part removing the redundancy.

I agree with the general sentiment though. Compression isn't magic, and understanding how it works helps you to work with compressed formats.

Writing your own implementation of some compression algorithms is a lot of fun to. I learned a lot from implementing Huffman coding and an LZ77 variant a few years ago.
>The science is pretty basic.

Actually it's not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism
I think having customers early is key to creating a sustainable project. A good co-founder is also priceless. It sounds to me like you're on the right track, I wish you luck in whatever you do next.
At some point, you want to avoid the "realism" and focus more on the scenery in the video.

I'm entirely impressed with some of the sample videos - I can think of numerous videos I've taken that would have benefited greatly from luma.io's stabilization.
The BSides goal is to expand the spectrum of conversation beyond the traditional confines of space and time.

Sex and drugs are a part of modern life and have risks, security, and safety issues which community members need to know. Better to know the facts than pretend the issues do not exist. I think cancellation of Violet Blue's talk was unfortunate.
New design, new hacking attempts
No offense to him (or anyone at Valve), but this sounds like a load of bullshit. There is circular logic and self-contradictory information even within the span of a few sentences. To me, this article is the equivalent of asking a general in the United States Army whether or not a job in the United States Army is great.
On a mobile, not about to test anything, assuming this is a free 4 hours of linode? Maybe give me a link at the bottom. I haven't seen you guys around here in awhile and I seriously considered switching over after the slicehost nonsense but rackspace is doing just fine for my needs and I'm too lazy to move everything now based on how cool I think you are.
What wasn't he guilty of?
I agree, what I've proposed is the absolute best of my vision for things to come.

But when I propose this, I think of all the hard challenges that have already been conquered in making cohesive, all-in-one devices. A few years ago, a computer, GPS and phone were 3 very distinct things. But someone figured out how to make them work together, so much so that today, smartphones outnumber feature phones in the US and other places. Laptops, tablets, gaming consoles etc. have all seen a similar accumulation of purpose.

Nothing good comes easy. Gotta dream big, or go home! :-)

Thank you very much for your comment!
The article says it's fixed.
I think that the old distinction between "development" and "maintenance" is particularly arbitrary and artificial in the games industry.
Octopress to compile a static set of pages served by nginx.
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Foursquare partners with Visa/Mastercard to expand its check-in deals program
Anything can halt a train, if you put a lot of it in one place.
In light of this, it is clear that Ortiz and Heymann should be in prison. I made this same comment in a thread earlier and got a bunch of snivelly equivocating about "intent" as a reply...that is just invalid here. These people either didn't like or criminally misunderstood something Swartz did and used that and the position given to them by the government to terrorize him. Inexcusable, at least and it should be criminal (if it's not outright already).
>You can either work to expend more, or reduce your intake, both of which are perfectly reasonable options.

Perhaps I should be more clear: Your body has mechanisms for defeating your ability to work to expend more (fatigue), and driving you to eat (cravings, hunger pangs). I'm not arguing with your basic premise: you must consume less then you expend. I'm arguing with your "calorie is a calorie" dogma. For insulin insensitive people (read: overweight people), 1 calorie of fat will satisfy you more (turning on the satiety mechanism) better then 1 calorie of sugar will.
I don't know what we're really talking about here, but I had a conversation earlier today why I will be getting another iPhone instead of an android- because I already know how to use it, it does everything I want, my entire day is filled with not knowing enough and constantly learning or figuring out something, and it just works.

I have enough to learn/figure out, if you show me something that "just works", well, I must already be using it.
Church of Scientology denies holding woman in isolation
Prior to 1989 all works in the US required either a copyright notice or registration filing for copyright protection. This is no longer the case, but people still do it. Note that, if present, the date should be the date of publishing of the work in question. One might be able to argue that simply updating the page to change the copyright date without actually creating and publishing a new copyrightable work is not a valid copyright notice (but, again, this is all moot since you don't even need a copyright notice these days).
Joel doesn't run an Enterprise company. So that advice doesn't apply to him. There's nothing difficult about this to understand.
Seconded, static is definitely the way you want to go.

Hexo (http://zespia.tw/hexo/) is nice too if you're more of a node.js guy and want to hack your way in/out.
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We know that the mind is Turing complete. What the author is suggesting is that it's possible for there to be some science or mathematics that is beyond the capability of our mind to comprehend. (and that it's possible that there's science or mathematics that may be derived by computers that we may not fundamentally be able to understand)

However, any attempt to compute or derive new science/mathematics outside the theoretical capabilities of our (Turing complete) minds on merely Turing complete computers is doomed to failure (at least, until we get some computers better than Turing complete ones).
Soon all construction workers will replace their iPhones with bulldozer phones lol
At the end of the day, my guess is it all boils down to your FREEDOM. right guys?
When I went to valve campus, I saw a man with a briefcase, and conservative black dressing. He looked like a boss to me, someone from the Government I think!
Much further after that, there was a jQuery plugin called taconite that let you do this from arbitrary languages. The idea was that you can handle all of your templating server side and build the template into a simple xml document that had tags corresponding to jquery dom manipulation functions. You return the template with the right mimetype, and the plugin handles translating your xml template into a dom update. This has been handy a few times to keep all of the display logic centralized in a single templating mechanism.
If it works, it works. But can it be better?

What I'm saying is that something doing what it's supposed to isn't the end of the story. Can it do better? Can it also do something else, which is close to its capabilities but just not realized yet?

An endless pursuit of betterment. That's what we're really talking about.
It's HN's favorite topic.
Santoku
Santoku is a platform for mobile forensics, mobile malware analysis and mobile application security assessment. The free Santoku Community Edition is a collaborative project to provide a pre-configured Linux environment with utilities, drivers and guides for these areas.
I wish there was a simple way to suspend all open tabs. I really have no need to refreshing disquis-comments or some crazy scripts that track my mouse pointer to generate heat maps.

I even tried to write a little chrome extension which injects a content script into every open tab, which calls settimer to get the highest timer-id and kills all timers with ids from 1 to this id.
But for some reason it didn't work.
Hi,
I work for Incapsula. Yesterday we've addressed this study in our blog.
http://www.incapsula.com/the-incapsula-blog/item/699-incapsu...

To make a long story short, this detailed report helped us introduce several patches to our WAF - but we feel that some of the issues were mostly theoretical and patching them can lead to security eroding false positives.

ModSecurity is a great security solutionand we are happy to be compared to it. We feel that we perhaps offer a more complete package (bot filtering, acceleration, user friendly GUI and easy setup, support, etc).

Still, you can't beat Free and if you are looking for OS security solution, ModSecurity is defiantly a name you should consider.

On a personal note, I wish that more vendors would take security a bit more seriously - especially if they claim to provide it to thousands of clients.

Web evolution is motivated by consumer trust and if we loose this trust we will also loose the cash flow that keeps Internet evolving.

Providing faulty security will do just that.
Can you enlist some of those things you think he was guilty of? Leaving aside the fact that he was actually trying to forcefully give people (you and I) back what they already owned.
Turing complete is really only meaningful for a computer with infinite time and storage; humans are limited in both. Just as a smarter human can understand something a less smart human can't, computers will eventually understand many things we can't wrap our heads around.
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