skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent example. Most famous rock musicians aren't extraordinarily talented at playing their instruments - Richard Wright of Pink Floyd couldn't even read sheet music. Jimmy Page is quite a sloppy guitarist.

Pure technical ability is a dime a dozen. Check YouTube for a zillion teenagers who can play shred guitar as well as anyone. But inspired creativity is rare and valuable, and execution requires only a certain level of technical ability, not mastery.
Good article.

I'd like to know what he used to output those graphs.
Legitimate business correspondence generally doesn't have threatening language on the envelope quoting penalties under 18 USC for "obstructing with delivery of this letter". Something like that would end up in my recycling bin without even getting opened.
2 minutes isn't much time to accomplish anything in a space suit. Your buddy needs to recognize what's happened, get to you, drag you into the airlock, and repressurize the airlock. Unless this happens directly next to the airlock door, I think you're done for.
The Spanish translation is really bad, I had to choose it in english in order to understand the purpose of the page.
But look how well it worked. The article stayed deleted for mere hours, and now it's been seen by more people than if they'd taken out an advert in the Times.
Funny I think so to.

I've heard to much of the story before, it seems like they have mashed a few of the classics together to create it.

Edit: Or maybe I just read the original story on Reddit.
Pretty fascinating reading the comments here about how big WhatsApp is outside of the US. I've never encountered anybody using it here, never would have guessed it's so popular elsewhere that it's been turned into a verb.

I think this is a great example of why you should never be afraid to try and reinvent something. Even a concept as simple as messaging apparently still had a (potential) billion dollar opportunity.
Explosive decompression won't happen in space, under normal circumstances. It is a thing that can happen, but it requires a drop larger than 1atm -> 0atm to overcome the strength of human skin. People have literally exploded from a pressure drop, but they were deep-sea divers in a decompression chamber that lost integrity and went from 9atm -> 1atm[1], a drop 8x larger than going from sea-level atmospheric pressure to vacuum.

From the article, it sounds like some of the symptons resemble "the bends" divers have when they surface too quickly. The cause of the bends is the change in pressure no longer being sufficient to keep the nitrogen dissolved in your blood, dissolved in your blood. Bubbles in blood veins are bad news.

Pretty much all of the issues with vacuum have to do with liquids becoming gases, and unsealed gases wanting to disperse. I have to imagine it's goddamn weird feeling the water evaporate off your eyeballs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_acci...
Dead comment from h72a (brand new account; possibly double-posted and deleted the wrong one?):

h72a 14 minutes ago | link [dead]

Tor's TLS handshake exhibits a number of peculiarities which distinguishes it from HTTPS. The cipher list inside the TLS client hello used to be a (almost?) unique (see http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/static/gfc/ ) and the SNI contains a random bogus domain.
I think some sort of Camera to radio detection system, chances are every person carries a phone and then synchronize them to count matching parameters (if the image is moving radio field will change)
Enrolling in E-Verify is very easy and if the company you outsource HR to can't process E-Verify for your I-9 Forms I'd be extremely worried.
The near future might need us, but will it need nearly as many of us?
Great story and perseverance. Huge props and very happy you were able to get your camera back. This gives us hope when we are faced in this kind of situation. Great read, thanks!
Technology predictions
Depending on the lens, it could be grand theft.
The Wikipedia article they link to is much more informative than this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1#Program_error
release announcement: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/12515...
One quick note 1. Lift heavy as possible and 2. Use proper form. Part of the reason people often are started with lighter weights is to get proper form in a safer manner. This is why crossfitters (for example) often first are taught to perform the various olympic lifts using pvc pipes (and progress to bar with light weight at first). Learning form with heavy weights tends to encourage bad habits without someone there to coach form.
I was an avid Usenet user back in the 90's and an active redditor today, and only now I realize how right you are...
I assume their easy cooperation indicates the guy is living in a reasonably affluent suburb where the police are both well-equipped and not very busy.
Check out fuge.it, in beta and offering free credits for anonymous torrenting.
Someone tagged the picture of the DJ with the comment "This just in : Mojang might have paid a famous DJ to help people feel more inclined to party. This is disgusting."

Apt.
If true, I'm pretty sure this wasn't in San Francisco or Oakland. I could maybe see one of the smaller Peninsula PDs helping out like this.

Confronting a thief in person is pretty dangerous (if the police weren't there); there's a non-zero chance of a fight, possibly involving a knife or gun. If you theoretically have a CCW and can be legally carrying a gun for self defense, it's still physically dangerous, and legally risky (a lot of legal/self defense advice is that if you're going to confront someone like a cheating spouse or whatever, you should not have even a legally owned gun with you, since if things escalate, it can get much worse.) Even a "righteous" self defense shoot in California is probably going to cost you $50-100k in legal -- absolutely worth it to save your life or the life of someone you care about, not really worth it for anything else, including breaking up strangers fighting on the street.

Much safer to just gather information and give it to the police.

I don't know how much risk I'd be willing to take for a $350 camera. (if it had a 5.0 f/1.0L or 1200mm, capture/torture/killing might be appropriate, though)
I'm pretty sure it's real. I went to high school and college with Jeff Hu. He shared the links to this on Facebook. Definitely happened. There's the whole reddit thread too: http://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/1ajifl/someone_...

I'm not sure he or anyone else had anything to gain out of lying about this. I had a Canon T2i for quite sometime and it definitely does embed the camera's serial into each captured image.
Could be his game. Party looks big enough while walking by, sneak in when it's starting to get a little hazy, grab a little something and stroll out.

Or he was just a scummy fuck.
Spirograph in HTML 5
I am 26 and got started with programming mainly through QBasic and to a degree DOS batch scripts before that.
I take it you don't listen to rap music?

If you did, I think you'd have a different viewpoint as a G.
Good job!

All this story lacks is a serious beatdown, or at least a tasering to the balls.
Thank you, both the way appellate decisions work and the fact that it refers to input not viewing were unclear.
I followed the link to your weight loss suggestions where I learned about BMR. I don't get it. I must be a very abnormal human being. My BMR worked out to be 2660 * 1.2 = 3192 calories. But I tracked my caloric intake using MyFitnessPal for over a month and I was averaging abut 2000 calories a day and often pushing myself down as low as 1500 calories a day. Yet I barely lost a pound.
Of course, I didn't mean to imply that any microbenchmark would change someone's mind. It's kind of absurd to think that's what I meant. Go should approach C/C++ in performance and often Java is promoted as about 2x slower than these two languages. Fast compilation and linking is another big plus. The formatting consistency is another. It's not a verbose language either.
I never claimed to offer a specific, "practical" solution and my last comment pointed out the oddness of you asking me for one vs asking those responsible.

And I'm still not sure why you continue to make that the issue. It's not so much argumentative as it is odd.

In any event, what I did point out are some of the underlying issues that make the current system corruptable (i.e. untrustworthy). I don't really feel like retyping that, so if you're earnestly interested, perhaps you can check my ancestor comment on this thread.

As far as devising "practical" solutions, surely identifying and addressing those core issues might be a starting place.

EDIT: But perhaps the real question is: what exactly is your point?
http://www.flightradar24.com/ does similar, is it related?
I'm a huge fan of the Skyfall version. Very well done, cheers!
It's a nifty idea, but sadly there's some problems either with the data, or how the data is being handled - it's currently showing trains running on parts of a line which are shut down for engineering work this weekend. (Northern Line, Camden to Charing Cross). There's also a train running under Bloomsbury without a line to run on...

So cool but not quite trustworthy!
Yeah, but at the very least, maybe some sort of color coding to suggest direction the train is moving.
Reminds me of Zed Shaw's Learn Code The Hard Way approach:

> You must type each of these exercises in, manually. If you copy and paste, you might as well just not even do them. The point of these exercises is to train your hands, your brain, and your mind in how to read, write, and see code. If you copy-paste, you are cheating yourself out of the effectiveness of the lessons.
Some rap music gives good legal advice (Jay-Z's "99 Problems" is about 95% accurate, it just oversteps the rights argument in a few places). A lot gives really bad advice. I'm a lot closer to George Tenet with the rented Maybach without tints or rims, spending money on businesses rather than 80 gold chains :)
Changing the name of a programming competition to not cause some kind of offence is ridiculous in my book.

I understand what a shootout is. Do you understand what a programming competition is? I'll give you a clue, it does not involve murder nor does it advocate gun crime. Anyone that can construe a bad message from a programming competition called a 'shootout' is as bad as feminists claiming sciences lack of progress in the field of fluid mechanics is sexism.

This kind of behaviour only encourages the ridiculous "politically correct" world we live in today.
I'm a little confused about using a number pad to find names, as is shown in the graphic on the site. We're doing this on iPhone, so why use that old T9 mechanic?

Looks like a solid effort, in any case.
Fake... No craigslist buyer or seller ever arrives on time.
Thinkpad T530 with Mint here. I believe everything works, though a few things don't work out of the box (the discrete nivida optimius gpu needs Bumblebee, which Isn't that hard to set up, and I haven't ever tried to use my fingerprint scanner).

my screen is huge, and my battery lasts for hours. I believe smaller screens do get better battery life.

If Bumblebee used to work, it's probably a config problem. I'd purge bumblebee and reinstall both it and the driver.
Even in those cases, they don't control your dollars, they control the companies that you have asked to hold your money.
They weren't too busy because the author did all the work for them: all they had to do was walk half a block and arrest a guy.
Training to failure seems like a core principle of HIT but is there consensus on its general effectiveness? I'm two months into the basic program of Starting Strength, lifting solo at home, so for lifts like the squat I don't really want to go to failure. Is this just something to apply if you want maximum return on time?
Yes, at the moment points 1 and 3 are enough to distinguish Tor traffic from other HTTPS traffic. They're working on a few solutions though:

https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en
One thing I remember from those days is how fast the web changed. Every new browser version brought new features that people immediately started using.

Nowadays, a 5 year old site can still look and feel like it was made today. Back then, a 5 month old site was already outdated.
Same here. (Faces life in prison.)
Implicit Concurrency and You (via #FakeSethGodin)
Can you just write a book already michaaelochurch? Or rather, just compile your blog writings into one [1]. I've been meaning to read everything you've written in your blog... but I think I think I keep pushing it because I generally don't like reading long things on a computer screen.

[1]: patio11 had good things about to say about the publisher he worked with, perhaps they could also work with you too.
I would not say it's essential, but multiple cursors is certainly one of the features I use quite frequently in Emacs. In many occasions, it is more useful than plain search and replace, though even that is kind of super charged in Emacs to bein with.
It appeared in Wired 13 years ago this month, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_The_Future_Doesnt_Need_Us
Wow, police helping anyone in a situation like this? Like, you ask them and they come and help the same day (or at all)? I don't mean to be harsh, but based on personal history and what I've heard from friends and acquaintances, that's a first.
20 years old, started at 8. Father taught me VB6, got addicted to programming, and built simple games for a few years.
What does this really have to do with tablets? Odd headline.
Build dolls with 3D printing
It uses Python's Matplotlib with a custom styling, available here: https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
Downvoted for unconstructive criticism without arguments.
Heh, I submitted this with a comment about it being 25 years ago... clearly my arithmetic needs help!
As an Austinite and an EE student, I am very excited about the potential. However, our local media (KXAN)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8A08jNxAaA] is harping on all the benefits this will bring startups, and I'm not convinced. Google's ToS for their fiber lines essentially forbids all of the cool things that you could do with a symmetric﻿ gigabit link. They have a wiggle-room clause in their (non-binding) FAQ about whether such things are "legal and non-commercial," but I'm not holding my breath. I don't get the obsession over how this will "help" tech startups if commercial use of the line is expressly forbidden. If I were a founder, I'd be very wary about basing my business on something Google could pull out from under me at any time. If I developed a standalone Dropbox alternative that could take advantage of fiber lines to customers' homes, would that constitute a "commercial" use of the lines? Probably not for the customer, but what about me? As well, I've heard that the hardware provided is relatively limited in terms of network configuration, and has no bridge mode to hand off the connection to hardware that _can_ handle such configuration. That means no pfsense or other routers with Tomato or DD-WRT or other firmware. And I've yet to see an official stance from Google on whether things like running exit nodes or seeding legal content are permitted.

TL;DR - This Austinite isn't convinced.
Two previous discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478532
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1378232

(My take on this kind of thing is foremost to acknowledge that it's not enough to make an argument that an existential risk scenario is implausible. Given the stakes, it's not even enough to make a seemingly airtight argument that it's impossible. We should be funding very serious thought on existential risks, including crazy-seeming ones. Y'know, just in case.)
Having used scheme before, and gone through some of SICP, it was neat to see the topic expressed in JS. I think it came through fine, though I'll always have a love for Scheme!
Reminds me a bit of the http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/p-p-p-powerbook
I think it helped that he had pretty much done all the work for them, and if he explained it well enough on the phone or in person I don't see why they wouldn't help.
Ordered dictionary remembers its insertion order, it's very useful for some situations.
I waited on hold for 30+ minutes on a 911 call before giving up. Was going to report a domestic dispute, but never got a human. The dispute ended without anyone getting hurt, which is good, but ... well, it was then I decided that you pretty much can't rely on Oakland emergency services, so I moved out of the city.

It's too bad, because I loved living there.
You have to be carefully with stories like this, often the reason they go viral is not for nice reasons.

To me it seems the enjoyment is someone gets hurt and we get to be guilt free in doing it because the hurt person is 'clear cut' bad.

Sure that's why we enjoy most movies and computer games, but I think taking it to real life is a step again.

There's a nasty undercurrent in these sort of things on the internet like nigeria scammers scammers.

Always remember more often than not the people participating in these crimes do it due to mental illness or desperation.

I'm not saying let them get away with it, I'm not saying don't blog about it. I'm just saying in my opinion perhaps try not to celebrate it to much.
From the main python.org homepage, I see the announcement for Python 3.3.1 as well. What's curious is...

Python 3.2.4 and Python 3.3.1 final have been released.
Published: Sun, 6 April 2013, 22:30 +0200

Python 2.7.4 has been released.
Published: Sat, 6 April 2013, 11:00 -0500
FWIW I have seen a lot more Debian support from hosting companies than Ubuntu support. Either way it's overwhelmingly RedHat.

Honestly though, problems surrounding "newer packages" is the reason #1 I avoid Ubuntu. I think the problem I had might have been LTS-specific, but I expected it to break less with changes, not more.
TL;DR: Tor is a peer-to-peer anonymity system providing TCP-like connections over SSL/TLS on TCP port 443.

Anonymity can be used for good. It can be used for evil. A botnet has been seen utilizing Tor.

There's a program called "Caploader" with a checkbox labeled "Identify protocols". Checking the box can identify traffic speaking the current vanilla Tor protocol.
> Always remember more often than not the people participating in these crimes do it due to mental illness

what?
I find it's a lot faster to find a contact with T9 than a soft QWERTY keyboard or just scrolling through a list. (CyanogenMod has this built in to its dialer and it is beautiful.)
This looks very nice visually, but I had trouble adding contacts to groups, most contacts resulting in "this contact belongs to another account, cannot be added to this group". Maybe this has something to do with the fact that I have synchronized the contacts with my Google account?

The lack of native UI components also makes this app feel like an "outsider" in iOS, which is easy to notice when opening the native contact card inside the application that looks like it's from a different OS, literally.
Python 3.2.4 and Python 3.3.1 released
> "Game School" (whatever that may be)

https://www.digipen.edu/

http://www.fullsail.edu/game-school (right in the URL on this one)
We did 'fix' these issues as soon as we managed to track down why the daemon was using up so much CPU time on our machines. I wrote my entry partly because I was annoyed at how terribly badly thought out the code was and partly to warn other people.

(We have never tried to feed the 'fix' upstream because our fix simply hardcodes some answers. I don't think it's even possible to fix the code to do what Ubuntu apparently wants it to do, although it could be less catastrophically inefficient.)
1995: "How concerned should I be about information I put online?"

2013: "very concerned... In about 6 years."

1995: "...and this is usenet which is a collection of computer 'conferences'"

2013: "what? When I first logged on at Purdue, 1993, I thought of usenet as a public email inbox. Oh and hey 1995! Sell SUNW and buy AAPL.
I think there's been a misunderstanding. We (the people who ran into the accountsservice problem) don't have a Canonical support contract. hp50g, who commented upthread, is the one who had the Canonical support contract.
I know of people who had various robberies and burglaries committed; the police wanted them to file an online police report, rather than sending officers out (I guess you could go to the PD, too).

Anything where I wasn't legally required to interact with the Oakland PD (i.e. a shooting or something with serious bodily harm, or filing a report on insured property like GTA), I'd avoid them. Armed robbery would be about the cutoff; I don't think I'd report assault without a weapon.

It's a defective police department due to internal culture, but also due to budget issues (and generally defective city government). The best hope for Oakland would be a federal takeover of the department (or city), or failing that, CHP replacing OPD. What they got was a weird federal guy appointed by the federal courts to essentially oversee the department.

Oakland Fire is actually totally fine, which is weird. And their EMS isn't bad for dealing with gunshots -- Highland is pretty good as a trauma center, although it's a county-funded hospital, not city. It's really just that the police department has serious problems, on top of the city having both crime and budget/governance issues.
I'll point out that it is very clear that there will be BLE support in stock android(Samsung supports BLE via a device specific SDK) after the Google IO release of the Android.

Google's Glass supports BLE based on the FCC approval documents. It appears that BLE support was prioritized after the Bluetooth stack rewrite that happened in 4.2.

The Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 all have hardware capable of BLE that should be available after the update.
OrderedDict was in collections since 2.7, what has changed now?
Too late to edit: The grammatical errors in the parent post may lead one to think that I was inebriated prior to typing. I assure you this was totally due to poor editing rather than alcohol. :)
The problem (for large sites) is the CPU usage required to repeatedly re-parse and re-process the group file; this is apparently not insignificant for large group and password files. IO isn't an issue because as you note, it'll be cached.
Downvotes? How about an explanation?
Yes, it's a great site when it works. My personal camera isn't found despite uploading many images online w/ EXIF data.

I recently (two weeks) had my camera bag stolen from my apartment in Berkeley, with a few other things around $9k total and quite a few years to accumulate it. Fortunately, insurance is helping, but the police didn't even take prints in my case. Nevertheless, I'm continually stalking ebay/Craigslist/others for serial numbers and other signs as I've kept pretty detailed notes on the gear I had.
I didn't know the Lun had that high a ceiling! There's still a potential problem if it can't land in a storm, however. It might climb above the swells, then run out of fuel at high altitude.
I couldnt say for commonality, but for me writing scripts in notepad for a game emulator to make new items, using a series of tutorials and articles that had been turned into a .chm file because their coverage was so good.
When I started working in the IT department of a famous American investment bank, my along with fellow graduates were sent to New-York for a very intensive 6 weeks training programme.
Despite the workload and pressure (we had to succeed score high marks in all our tests to stay on), I managed to find some time to visit this great city. I am sure Martha will be able to focus on her learning, while also finding the opportunity to discover a bit more about New-York and the US.
By the way I just saw that she has reached her fundraising goal. Congrats again to her!