skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works Shooting for 100 MW Fusion Prototype by 2017
A Guiding Light to Learning Clojure
Finding the Foil in Your Story
It's not just a USA thing. You get this in the UK too.

I think it's pretty much everywhere. Petty people get a little power (maybe as cops, or customs, or tsa or whatever) and they like using it. Most of those people are fine and try to do the right thing. But there are a few (I think of them as tragic) for whom that is all they really have in life- so they are bullies.
Prime Numbers, P?=? NP, and Involutions: Some Thoughts
they took a sarcastic scene and regurgitated it at face value. Maybe they should step outside their comfort zone and write some original thoughts.
> ... haphazard notes into an actual product of a writer.

To be fair, this particular blog post is titled "Notes on ..."
It was written two months ago about chips that are still the newest on the market!
If that's the impression you get of me from one comment, then I'm afraid it seems a lot like projection.

I enjoy debating online (debating in general, actually) - in a limited fashion, mostly for procrastination, at times. As with all things - the dose makes the poison. That's really all there is to it.

In fact, your comment again reflects the problem that I have with your other writing - What you say isn't necessarily in itself wrong (apart from the fact that I don't think it applies to me), but I don't know what you say it for. And I'm not even sure you know.
Works on 24
Local Swedish authority allows Islamic call to prayer
actually, it is. What is not good is the use being made of the military by the former and current CIC's.
I'm not sure - I think this is 'need a lawyer' territory.

But I would put forth the point that it's possible for an item to not be formally owned by anyone. Control is a kind of ownership, but it's not necessarily lawful ownership, otherwise a thief would lawfully own your car once he's driven off in it.

Perhaps it might be that he lawfully owns it, but can't lawfully control it until he gets the customs sign-off? But if he lawfully owned it while it's impounded, would that not mean he would have to pay licensing/registration for it while it sat there?

It does raise some interesting ideas.
It's about $3 Billion a year. Not bad at all.

US could have done this and fixed the power grid when we had that $800 Billion stimulus plan, at least we would have gotten something worthy out of it.
Fair point indeed. Although I really had to re-read a number of the points a couple of times before I got what he was saying. Which might a good sign that putting them out verbatim isn't the best blog material. Not really material for the HN frontpage in my opinion (which it just dropped off of).
Fly.js, an interesting, easy-to-use and lightweight jQuery alternative
you mean, you're for enforced servitude. I get it - slavery is back in style, because that's what it is when you take from one person to give to another, no matter what the relative positions of the two persons are.
It's about time to massively rollout FTTH in France. Paradoxically I think its deployment has been hampered by a good early ADSL coverage and the associated low prices on ADSL (with uncapped data). These low prices have decided the operators to only make minimum investments on their networks and to further seek to make profit in mobile where data plans are capped and where profits are better. Moreover the entry of a new actor in the mobile space last year has further exacerbated the situation, this actor has significantly reduced the subscriptions prices so the others actors seek to differentiate themselves and one way they found is to invest in LTE networks. So for all these reasons until now FTTH had low priority in France and is marginal. I hope it will change soon.
Gamers with Jobs has an incredible community, editorials, and a games discussion podcast.

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com
it reminds me of dawn of the dead. just a little bit creepy
Try to setup a demo, just as stripe.com - https://manage.stripe.com/register , https://manage.stripe.com/test/dashboard
Nowadays, it's not enough to wipe the machine. You have to toss (or, at least, re-image) the hardware.

Modern servers have firmware running on internal devices, including Linux runnning on full ARM cores, that can be 1) imaged from the base OS, and 2) have full control over hardware or other important data.

This includes:

- IPMI Modules: http://fish2.com/ipmi/itrain.html

- HDD Controllers (in your HDD/SSD drives): http://www.arm.com/markets/enterprise/hdd-ssd.php

... as well as ethernet controllers, any devices with PCI option ROMs (they can control boot), and quite a few other things.

This essentially means that you have a bunch of fixed, poorly documented, runtime reconfigurable and re-imageable hardware, with full access to data and system resources.
Non-framework approach to JavaScript apps - hexagonal.js
> Anyway, I always appreciate feedback.

If you actually mean that, some candid advice:

- Lists are good for enumerating points but not as the entire medium for your work. They don't scale well. After more than a few points, especially if they don't naturally correlate, it becomes harder to follow than simple prose. If you find it difficult to bring the points together, try recording yourself going down the list and briefly explaining each one in turn to a rubber duck.

- Try to use only as many words as you need to, but no more or less. Several of your points could have been rolled into one more coherent point, and some of them could have used a little more digging too. Again, reading aloud would help with this.

- "Takeaways / Action" as a header is a little forward. Let the reader decide for themselves what the takeaway should be, or if you want to address them directly, do so. It's already implied that someone taking their time to read your article is looking for a takeaway to make it worth their while.

- Spell check before you post.
>>There are too many people who were responsible,

That makes it more important to sort it out, not less.

>>and most of them were just doing there jobs.

That's never been a good excuse for anyone caught delivering a load of drugs.

>>It is too simplistic to run around decrying the fact that nobody was jailed.

No, not really. Jailing people is our answer to almost every problem. We imprison people even when it is obvious that imprisonment has a strong counter-productive effect. Yet, in one population where I'd argue that imprisonment would have a strong deterrent effect... nothing. It's not as though there is a lack of evidence of serious crime, either. On the contrary, criminality in finance is so glaringly obvious that people are tiring of pointing it out, while others simply work around it knowing that nothing will be done.
Britain would be better-off doing this rather than building ahigh-speed line. High speed internet for the whole country would be a massive stimulus to all sorts of new business ideas and working practices.
There is diversity in opinion on taxes in the US. There are also inane "debates" where people try to make their opponents' political opinions on taxes seem ridiculously outlandish and extremist, not infrequently for political gain.

In recent political events, US spending got hiked about 50% from ~$2T to ~$3T a year (with modest growth associated with inflation and a growing population). Initially this was under the Bush administration and the auspices of bailouts and the like, but the Obama administration has made these increases part of the permanent baseline. The conflict here is whether to hike tax revenues 50% as well, or cut the budget back towards where it was in 2007 or so. Perhaps more Americans would support proposed additional taxes if they thought the additional government spending over the past several years had materially impacted their lives in a positive manner? Economic decisions are made on the margin, after all; it's a question of more taxes or fewer, and not like anyone's seriously calling to disband the fire department (of course, the hype says differently).

(Any spending related to Obamacare once it goes into effect is not even addressed in these figures, so it would be additional.)

More imminently, there is a lot of hype about how a catastrophic "sequester" would end up shutting down the federal government and ending meat inspections and starving social security recipients (Democrat hype) or shutting down the military and starving all our veterans (Republican hype) -- however, even with the automatic sequester, the federal government budget would be larger in 2013 than in 2012; it's only a cut relative to the growth that was previously baked into certain budget assumptions.

Other fun bits: In December the Republicans proposed tax reform which would have raised revenue by keeping rates low but limiting deductions. The Democrats didn't like the plan, they got their way, and ultimately there were tax hikes instead. Besides not fitting with the headline programme of "let's tax the rich!!" a salient reason that the Democrats didn't like this plan is that state income taxes in a lot of high-tax states electing lots of Democrats are also a major source of income-tax deductions. That bit didn't get a lot of press.

(Oh, and the campaign promise that's still on Barack Obama's website? $2.50 in spending cuts for every $1 in new taxes, to close the deficit? Yeah, the White House has proposed budgets and they don't look anything like spending cuts.)
It's funny how the only ones using the word nowadays are governments and agencies.

'Cyber taskforce'? And you want me to take that serious?
You're lucky that it has quadratic pixels! You can't assume that. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_aspect_ratio
That modern Buddhists don't have the correct teaching - so they are not right as stated. We shouldn't say that truth can change (as implied by the statement everything changes except change) as when truth changes it's not truth anymore.
Radical 314mpg VW XL1 revealed
Yesterday's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256808
Never do what you just did in a startup forum.
This is the third time this story has made to page one in two days. It shows how important this topic is, especially for the hacker community.

If you have a job with health benefits you'll think hard before leaving it to start something of your own. But unless people take those chances our economy is doomed.
Since CGI went out of style, pretty much.
You and I both know that the politics, economics and public finance implications of the NBN are far more complex than you're making them out to be.

(We've crossed swords on the subject before)
I'm glad someone is investigating this. Hospitals get away with charging whatever they want, and somehow evade criticism despite it all. We need to reform healthcare in the US and hospital price gouging needs to be included in the discussion.
I have a networked HP printer (or perhaps I shouldn't admit that). Does anybody have a dummies guide on how to protect myself while maintaining connection to the internet? Thanks!
Thoughts on IndexedDB
>they are shutting down GameSpot

I haven't seen this anywhere, do you have a source? Maybe I'm just tired, but I didn't see anything about that in your links. That's kind of sad; I'm not a huge fan of the site, but I actually trust their reviews more than most other gaming sites.

edit: are you sure you don't mean gamespy? In your source I see 'subsidiary gaming sites 1UP, UGO and GameSpy are all being shut down'
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4964355
There's nothing that you can really condense down into a couple of simple numbers to use in marketing to non technical people.
I'd Highly recommend Nessus as well. OpenVAS is another that is alright. Most scanners seems to favor false positives though, so I wouldn't put a ton of weight behind their results.

But since the question was one of a live monitor that detects intrusion, I've never heard of such a thing. There's always the possibility of aliasing `mysqldump' or `pg_dump' to another command that emails your admins, or other manual commands that shouldn't be run throughout the course of the day. My personal boxes run such an email script anytime someone logs in as root, and emails the logfile anytime someone uses sudo. That won't help against SQLi, but might against RCE that's allowed someone to tunnel into your box.

But, in the long run, there's nothing that won't beat subscribing the the security lists of all the software you run to get immediate notice of any vulnerabilities, hiring a pen tester, and stopping every day to read the code you've written to discover what kind of edge cases might help an attacker compromise your system.
Bidding on Healthcare - cut the middle man
Nobody is unhackable. They've dealt with this honestly . What makes you think any other service could make further guarantees?
The Intel version of the surface tablet gets only half the battery life of the ARM version.

ARM is also moving forward with a big.little architecture that duplicates the CPU cores for either high-energy or low-energy situations.

Intel still has a way to go…
This article is from 2011. What's the point in posting it now?
What sort of backgrounds do people working in this field have? More specifically, I have a bachelor's degree in materials science and currently work doing run-of-the-mill web development (were the typical background of my peers is a bachelor's in CS). What steps might I take to move into computational engineering?
Ruby 1.9.3-p392 released (includes Security fixes)
Earlier versions were written in Perl, so no.
I just went through some of the posted reports. There is one that caught my eye. Someone developed a "bidding" portal to reduce cost. Quite intriguing:

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-930984

At least it seems that getting a handle on the prices is the way to go.
It doesn't seem to work on chrome canary in OSX Lion.
Graphics. You'll see it especially in game development.

If you can comprehend thinking in multi dimensions you should be fine. Obviously you'll need to learn matrix arithmetic.
Fish are a community resource and you should not get to take someone else's share of them, especially not to the point of destroying the population.

If you get in a situation where nobody can buy food, nobody is going to be enforcing the no-fishing law. It's a general rule. Courts exist for a reason.

If someone is going to lie about the fish they take then they didn't need to bother buying a license in the first place.

How is removing the ability to punish bad actors is going to improve anything?
Time Travel : Google in 1999
Use the bar on top to see how google has changed over the years
I remember GameSpy fondly for having those really awesome and funny short stories that I think were actually done by the Penny Arcade guys. The Divine Systems Administrator and the guy who overclocked everything, and the guy who plays an FPS quicksaving every 3 steps and never using rocket ammo. I want to recover those as I remember them being some of the funniest stuff I ever read back in the day, and they even had crossovers!

Their app was annoying at times, but it did server a purpose that was really cool and ahead of it's time I think.
It's more a question of company priority and customer demands. Try rewriting a few hundred thousand lines of code currently in production at several customers, who all want modifications. Unless you have enough manpower to dedicate a team to maintenance, that's not going to happen. Especially if the competition keeps churning out new features.
Part of what makes tablets so futuristic.
From Shaky Webcams To Sony PS4: How Game Streaming Hit The Big Time
That statement is misleading. James Strachan left Groovy a long time ago. Guillaume Laforge has lead the project from almost death to one of the most popular languages in use today.
GM was not too big to fail. GM was propped up because the administration wanted to for political reasons.
Neuromancer had the worst sex scene I have ever read.
My wife finds movies, especially action movies, too loud at the theater. So we don't go anymore.
Tegra 3 is anything but new. It's a 15 months old SoC. Besides, not enough info about Cortex A15.
They do when it comes time to regulate
Could be argued that if done properly and thoroughly, the rail line might not be necessary at all.
Intel had a lead in performance while they were working on fixing power consumption. Because it took them too long to fix that, now they lost the performance lead in both CPU, and especially in GPU performance. Apple gets credit all the time for having the "fastest chip", when it really only has the fastest GPU, but it seems people even forget mentioning that Intel has the weakest GPU, even when compared to Tegra 3.
Not to mention the anti-consumer nature of blu-ray and dvd these days: the unskippable commercials, trailers and anti-piracy warnings? These are also not present on Netflix. Some commercials are present in some content on Hulu Plus. But even that is far, far less than what you have to deal with when renting or buying a retail disc.

To say nothing about new releases trying to push people into 3D prints that were rarely good (let alone worthwhile), more-often sloppy and always carried the negatives of eye-strain, dimness, unnecessary cost, etc. [1]

Which is all just to say that the economics of film are changing because film-going and retail discs have been continually decreasing their value proposition while their digital alternatives have been continually increasing theirs.

[1] Not letting people BYOGlasses is absurd. Even if theatres allowed it, most film-goers would inevitably forget and just buy them anyway. They're really only punishing families with that kind of policy. Families who already have plenty of good reasons to ignore the theatre.
Feedback Control and the Coming Machine Revolution (Raffaello D'Andrea)
Who Seeks Control over The Internet?
Don't use git (SVN merging a change into the trunk is a real team experience)
I don't disagree with that, but there are plenty of people that make a career out of it. In the case of ex-colleagues who find a corner at a big multinational and get told what to do, someone else translates domain knowledge for them, and they come up with tech solutions to the presented requirements.

And then there are people like me who get called in because we're good at picking up large, existing, broken codebases quickly and somebody's in the sort of trouble that's best summed up as "Oh $&%£ we've got three months to deliver, the product's less than half-done and it's full of weird intermittent bugs". I'm finding it satisfying enough for now :)
The typical LAMP-stack out of the box is nowadays relatively safe. They were a lot unsafer earlier.

So, how to keep safe:

1. The app itself:

If you have a small web app, you have an incredible advantage that makes your web app potentially way more secure than that of a big corporation: You write the code and you know the inside outs of the system. And you are probably the only one having passwords etc. to the system.

In a big corp, sometimes the interns write some code and they have no clue of web app security. From an attacker's perspective, one security hole is enough.

So, if you know about web app security, you're probably better off than any other big corp.

2. The server infrastructure:

If you worry about the server architecture, get a managed dedicated server. There's probably not really a guarantee that this system is set up perfectly, but there might be trustable hosters that know what they're doing.

- Keep everything up-to-date (apt-get update, apt-get upgrade).
- Don't install software you don't know or can't trust
- use SSH only with public key authentication, remap port 22 to something else
- use SFTP + SSL for your website
- don't include any third party JS-software that messes with your website. Personally, I don't even include Google Analytics. I self-host everything and install only stuff that is trustable.
- don't use the root user if not necessary

There's this "myth" going on that every system is hackable. This is only partly true. You can't do anything against 0-day hacks, but if you protected your web app against XSS, SQLI etc. and your software is uptodate, there's hardly any chance that you get hacked.

What makes every system "hackable" is the human factor. The secretary that gives out her password to some guy on the telephone who pretends to be the technical administrator of server X. Are you likely to get social engineered? Probably not.
Dunno, people are wound up in investment without knowing about it. Kiss goodbye to your pension. Kiss goodbye to infrastructure and schools in your local area (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7659783.stm)
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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup
Ever wonder who was buying all the shitty mortgages packed up by Wall St? I mean who would be so stupid as to purchase that crap? Look no further than Iceland.
I've been keeping an eye on this for a few years, I'm sure it'll be expensive but that being said, I never thought I'd be in a 46k volt either... please bring us this vehicle.
Don't forget FTTLA, which is vastly available in the most densely populated urban areas - it is not as fast as FTTH when there are a lot of households connected to the last amplifier, but i'd say roughly 20% of households could have access to it. On the other hand, FFTH is available for maybe 0.5% of the country (I mean, even in Paris itself, not one building in twenty is connected to it...)

I think you are right with your argument on cheap and good quality ADSL services : i think for most people an uncapped 10-20Mbps, that includes TV, phone, and our famous boxes for 30€ a month is more than enough...
AWS is great, just switch to Sao Paulo region.

There is also Locaweb.com.br which is a bit cheaper than AWS, but their service is cheap also.
I appreciate the recommendations and will definitely check them out.

As an aside, I read reddit's r/architecture and find lots of the modern architecture discussed there quite dreadful, the group think seems to think that lots of flat rectangles with random material use. Everything looks same-same, unlivable and boring.

Walk around Grand Central and it's a model of efficiency, the number of people that can move about that facility without getting jammed up on thresholds and transitions, and oddball "innovative" hallways is staggering. Tall ceilings bring in ample natural light, the information desk is stunningly easy to find and offers the most important piece of information a train rider needs, a clock, large and high enough you can see it clearly from pretty much everywhere.

And it's simply a beautiful building as well.

It's magnificent. I'm convinced that the post WWII reaction to these older styles is where we collectively lost our minds, and we're only now starting to get them back.
WordPress loops: with_posts() is my way of dealing with them
Clever? Looks handy to me.
Does anyone here find the work of Lave and Wenger ('situated learning') of any use in their attempts to understand a problem area for a customer?

http://www.infed.org/biblio/communities_of_practice.htm

Basically, some organisations make their processes easily visible to most employees, and some don't. The ones that do can train people more quickly and improve their processes more quickly. Organisations that make 'peripheral participation' easy might be better customers for developers than those that don't. You might not have to make many sails or use a height gauge too often to 'see' what the issues are, just interview knowledgeable people carefully and cross reference the results with observation.

As a concrete example, the original author invested a considerable amount of (quite expensive) time in learning about sail making and lathe operating. In some of the 'business applications' I have to use daily, it is pretty obvious that the customer was a manager higher up and that the interface we have to use to populate the database that generates the wonderful reports has not really had much time spent on it!