skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an amazingly bogus analogy:

First of all, guns are directed energy weapons in a loose sense of that phrase. Else we wouldn't have gun safety rules 2 and 4, "Never let your muzzle cover something you're not willing to destroy", and "Be sure of your target and what's behind it."

Second, in the context of self-defense (vs. hunting, which is ... safer than golf as I recall), no one is "holding" a loaded gun unless they're in a self-defense situation where the use of lethal force is justified. At that point we, or at least the vast majority of the US including most anti-gun states, have decided the possible increased danger to innocent parties is an acceptable tradeoff.

The only time I hold my concealed carry gun is when I put it in my holster before leaving my dwelling (with thumb firmly over the hammer to prevent an accidental discharge) and then the reverse when I return. Anyone out in public "holding" a gun, loaded or not, for any period of time outside of a self-defense situation is going to get arrested.
Just for clarity, it's an Ezra Klein blog entry, not an article. Obviously Klein is no less susceptible to PR, but this isn't being presented as an unbiased news article. He's an opinion journalist.
"20% of your populace sharing a religion or cultural kinship"

Germany/Poland/Russia
Eric Schmidt Is Right, Using Google Glass Is Weird
> And I have the sinking suspicion that whichever party is in power, these rights will continue to decompose unless the citizenry is willing to vocalise this as a major election issue.

Our first-past-the-post voting system all but guarantees this erosion of civil rights will continue.
Distrust your government but trust your neighbours.
Not so much Xbox Live, they charge five figures for patches: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/microsoft-comes-under-...

The unintended consequence of charging that much for patches is that simple updates just don't happen, and that everybody gets a lesser game as a result. As much as one would say "get it right the first time", everybody makes mistakes. Thus when it costs $10,000 to fix a save game issue, it's may be a business decision to not patch. Thus, for better games, being in that position shouldn't happen.
Ditto: Logged in to find a bunch of calls to Pakistan
Channels are basically queues with beefed up language support. Not sure what's so annoying about that considering it's a very common concurrency pattern across many languages.
I've been using etckeeper on all my machines for a few years now. It's basically "install and forget about it", but it's been a tremendous help on a few occasions when something broke!
From the article ER wasn't the expensive part, it was the months in ICU.

No reason you couldn't identify him there -- granted it would only cut down, not eliminate the costs but it would give a decent motivation to become more healthy.
Blinded: A founder's prospective
I tried a bunch yes, and was fairly happy with them. Then I read about using proportional fonts for programming and just had to try it. It was a tad weird in the beginning but soon felt much more natural.
My wife had a problem with a girl creating a facebook account using a similar email to hers that somehow got her gmail account connected to that facebook account.

There was some account sharing going on, as the girl used that email address to login to her facebook account and all the FB notifications ended up in my wife's inbox.

At first I thought her account was compromised, but it was a secure password, so it seemed to be caused by the only slightly differing email addresses somehow being shared internally by gmail.

Only after activating 2-factor authentication did I manage to prevent that girl from using my wife's gmail account.
However, this was followed by a few weeks of constant gmail notifications about a detail/password change request sent to her phone.
> Is it really social engineering if the employees followed the Microsoft policy

I'd say that the attack vector is still social engineering; the difference here is that the result is not based in policy failure.

Normally we recommend that clients require their employees to attend security awareness training, in order for them to understand social engineering risks and remind them to follow the correct policies that are put in place.

In this instance, however, there is no policy being broken. My summation of the issue would be that it is a policy failure being exploited by a social engineering attack vector.
> Practically speaking, its use of two ports often causes problems with residential ADSL that are often doubled-NATed (1st NAT at home router, 2nd NAT at the local gateway).

Doesn't PASV mode solve this?

> FTP is not secure.

Neither is HTTP

> FTPS is but I haven't seen it used in ages.

Presumably because of the ubiquity of HTTPS, which is fair enough.

> The GNU project is already running an HTTP server. What does running an additional program with identical functionalities to a static HTTP server bring them? I see it as a not-so-useful expansion of the attack surface.

Presumably just tradition. I guess also that it's worked for the past 20+ years and they don't see a reason to change. I haven't checked but I imagine you could get the programs via HTTP as well.

> I am quite against blindingly following fashions in computing, but I fail to see what is the rationale for maintaining an FTP infrastructure for publishing files over simply serving them using plain HTTP.

As I see is, the main two advantages of FTP are that it's possible to browse the directory hierarchy, and to upload files. Of course both of these things can be done via HTTP, but in a non-standard manner (with the exception of WebDAV, though that is an extension to HTTP rather than part of HTTP itself).

I agree that FTP is less relevant today than it used to be, but I'm not sure that it's fundamentally broken. The two-way connection thing is the main problem as far as I'm concerned but as I understand it PASV mode solves that.
It might also cost many more lives than it saves. For example, if governments outlaw conventional fertilizer but the new one is more expensive to manufacture, then the cost of food could rise, causing starvation in poverty-stricken areas.
Oh try harder, consider "The War of Northern Aggression" in the early 1860s.

We currently have a VERY profitable civil war against our own population, "The War on (Some) Drugs".

I feel quite confident the military industrial complex would continue to profit.
They absolutely would (and I still don't see why they don't the cost/benefit ratio of paying for that should make sense) but in this case they are talking about the people who have no insurance or whoes bills are paid by the federal tax payers.

And while there are a fair amount of positive things to say about the federal government, prudent financial planning isn't exactly one of them.
This news pleases me enough to consider pitching into help complete the missing features.
A simple martingale for random walk stopping times
If you are going to vocalize an opinion, you should expect to have it questioned. Just saying "well that is my opinion" does not put it off limits. Far from it..
A really good way to make this happen would be for the US to just "open its borders" around the rest of the world so that every place currently outside of the US becomes a US state. (Either that or China should do it.)

Think of the efficiency: it would save many thousands of tons of fuel, reduce greenhouse gas exhaust, save people transport time and travel stress, etc.

It reminds me of the old "How do you move Mt. Fuji?" challenge. Problem solved. Next question please.
Yes, I put the "WHY" button right after I saw this post.
Wow that's impressive. How was this done?
Doesn't go just implement Hoare's communicating sequential processes, as does Erlang? They share the same inspiration.

You don't need to share state data between your goroutines if you don't want to either just like you don't have to use mnesia to share state between erlang processes if you don't want to.

I don't think you can really accuse go of being a cargo cult language either, Rob Pike has implemented CSP multiple times (http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/).
Can you tell me about your OS, Browser and Browser Version?
I read an article a while back that how you praise your children makes a huge difference. Basically instead of telling them "you're so smart" it's much better to say "wow you tried really hard and it payed off."
Probably the bes CSS3 demo I've ever seen. Good job.
While my mother wouldn't die for lack of McDonalds, she would die, prematurely, painfully (and cheap) for lack of food.

So I don't see how your argument stand.
A Job For Life?
Space Flight: Application of Orbital Mechanics (1994) [36 min]
By your logic, why can't everyone own a mini-nuke? Or let's make it more realistic, a tank? How about Grenades? Fully automatic weapons? I mean, statistically speaking you should trust people right?

Now here is where you draw some arbitrary line where on one side is liberty or some other overloaded emotionally charged word and on the other are things that don't qualify as liberty.

My line is different than yours. It does not mean that I am "against freedom" anymore than you are a horrible fascist denying my inherent rights as a human to own a tank.
30 at a time from some small subreddits on my site http://poemr.com
There's plenty of ways people can lose access to the attached email address: signed up with a work email, then left the company; signed up with an ISP email, then switched ISPs; email provider went out of business; Google banned your account. It's useful to have a fallback for those cases.
I have Firefox 20 and it says that it's up to date :/
I would love to see list of proportional fonts people are using for programming.
Sure. But wait, you might change your mind in the future. Nostalgia perhaps.
CLR but not C# (part 2)
Sure, but note that this is completely constitutional, the constitution explicitly grants Congress the right to set the jurisdiction of all courts inferior to the Supreme Court.
You have 4.5 hours to treat someone for a stroke if they teleport to the hospital the second they notice the first symptom. In real life, you often have an hour or four where the patients wait for their weird symptoms to go away again because they don't want to overreact and bother some busy doctor who should be taking care of Serious Emergencies, and then another half hour to get them to the ER, and then you're lucky if they're still in the treatment window at all by the time a doctor sees them.

There's not a lot of running down halls in screaming in real ERs, but there's also no time to, for example, send someone to go home and get the ID the patient forgot in their panic and hurry, to prove they're not blacklisted "no medical treatment" somewhere.
So what you're looking for is
1) a photo
2) not depicting a secret
3) publicized unintentionally
4) that ruined a life or relationship
5) without involving mass misunderstanding

Sorry, I can't provide one for you. The documentation on such events is typically kept to a small circulation.
Is this doable?
Someone posted that on reddit and it looks fake to me. I've never had the luck on dabbling with emails, but i know they are super restrictive enviroments. Would something like this be doable? If so, how?
LIGA04 | | Channel 1
These have some poor screenshots. Compare their Terminus screenshot with mine:

http://i.imgur.com/4NhZ3h2.png
http://i.imgur.com/yaCGIWG.png
A good analogy is etckeeper is to /etc/* as RANCID is to a (real) router and its configuration. So now if you know one, you know the other.
Important note: This also means that you cannot release any updates that support the iPhone 3G (iOS 4.2.1), since you cannot compile for both, iPhone 5 and 3G.

iPhone 5 requires Xcode 4.6, which doesn't allow to build apps for iOS < 4.3.
The image shows the email "with and without" images. I'm having trouble buying that... If you were to specify the with and height for each cell, then wouldn't that result on a malformed email with images? Thanks.
Robots Will Do Everything You Do Now Only Better
It is said in the article that the journalist and the girl are from different continents... is there any ISP that operates on multiple continents and uses the same cache infrastructure for all the geographical locations?
Exactly! Or the attacker can use a commercial service like spoofcard.com from any phone.
It's not free, but iA's writer got me hooked on Nitti:

http://www.boldmonday.com/en/nitti

I love working in that typeface and have it set to default in Sublime Text and Terminal.
fwiw V8 always had a generational collector.
All Canadians have these rights, regardless of the provinces endorsement.
Hint (from the CSS): http://s.cdpn.io/18515/PIA09959-1280x800.jpg
What I was working on was a side project, and my time got diverted to things that were more important and I haven't been able to get back to it; the key thing I was needing was a very fast "append" primitive (as in, amortized constant-time append performance) that would be very tightly encoded.

In essence, I wanted some kind of vector array implementation (std::vector, java.util.ArrayList, etc.) on a server, but in a situation where a very large number of the values would end up becoming "dead weight" at some point and, while I needed them to not be deleted, could be flushed to disk.

(At the higher level of my system I am able to shard the strings into which I'm appending so they don't themselves get so large that the eviction/recovery process becomes insane, but within windows of time I want near constant-time performance doing random indexing into the appended data.)

Redis, with the caveat that it has a needlessly and seemingly painfully wasteful format for its append-only durability solution, pretty much does this, but was RAM-only, so I set things up such that old keys could be evicted to LMDB and later could be seamlessly recovered when/if required.

I do not believe "plain LMDB" (without Redis) is a good solution to this problem, but I am willing to believe that I just don't understand how to use it very well (I never found any real "documentation", so I was reading all the comments in the code, looking at the API, checking the mailing list, and falling back on some guess/check; not many people use it).

(edit: Just realized this maybe didn't answer the question while re-reading our thread. Will continue with more focus.)

One thing that I was dissatisfied with here is that the durability of the eviction to LMDB is still only going to be on a single computer; for my purpose, once a key is evicted, its latency requirements drop dramatically, so I could potentially store it to something much slower (like S3).

Honestly, though, I don't quite remember what I decided was sub-optimal about this, because my brain is right now filled with other things that I don't quite want to fully context switch out for the purpose of trying to bring this project back to the front of my mind ;P. It worked, though.
Define failure in this case. Yes the poor have less than the rich, but so what? What is the cost of clean water today? How much for a fridge?

As it turns out, 99.9% of us households have a fridge (http://www.eia.gov/emeu/recs/appliances/appliances.html). Those weren't really available in 1900, yet I don't remember any huge government subsidy for those (and by keeping your food fresh they prevent diarrhea and improve hygine). I do remember huge, private, factories making them, however.

But even then soap is likely also one of those things that really help prevent deceases through proper sanitation -- yet how poor do you have to be to not be able to afford soap?
This. Flat design may look 'cleaner' but that doesn't mean 'easier to use'. I echo your usability findings -- usability tests are showing flat design is much harder to use.
And that's the way Unix was before Linux. Solaris, Irix, BSD.. all had different implementations of the basic unix tools. You're actually referring to the GNU tools and not the operating system.

Linux came along and everyone was using distros of Linux + GNU tools installed. You could in theory compile non-GNU tools and run a linux kernel and you'd be just as perplexed as running on a mac.

PROTIP: you can take any modern OS (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris) and compile/install the GNU utilities and get long arg support and have all the tools behave the same way. In fact, if you were building an OS from scratch your fasted bootstrap would be kernel -> compile the GNU tools -> distribute.
i've been using libots - http://libots.sourceforge.net/ - for many years now in various projects and it suffices in many cases i encounter.
today is always "1px wide" so it doesnt give a good sense of proportions ...
Photoshop slicing gives you a table. Simply set the background color of each cell and set the borders and padding to zero.
Offbeat suggestion (and definitely not free or readily available) - LineTo Akkurat Mono. I've always been a little bit obsessed with monospace type & this is definitely my favourite. I use it in Sublime, Vim & iTerm 2 - hate using Macs that don't have it installed. http://lineto.com/The+Fonts/Font+Categories/Text+Fonts/Akkur...
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but the way it's worded makes me think that they never changed their mind about the innocence of the defendant, but were simply persuaded to vote against what they believed to be true.

I'm perfectly fine with someone starting out thinking the defendant is innocent and then later changing their minds to thinking the defendant is guilty. I'm very much against anyone thinking the defendant is innocent but voting to convict due to peer pressure or whatever.
Money and self-deception work just as well in Iceland as in Britain or the US of A.

This is a human problem that must be solved by human means.

It is tempting when looking at the corrupted nature of our current institutions to think of technological solutions that would render our governments incorruptible by the people using them. But it is necessary to remember that an incorruptible institution is also an inflexible institution and that an inflexible institution cannot adapt to changing circumstances without breaking.
"No, they are guilty of harassment, property damage, and possibly assault depending on the legal definition in the jurisdiction."

Well, according to the hate crime legislation Neiwert is referring to, they are guilty of commiting a hate crime.

Whether they should be guilty of commiting a hate crime (depending on your opinion of the worth of hate crime legislation) or whether that hate crime legislation itself should exist is debatable, and you can argue one way or the other. But it is clear that a violation of the existing hate crime legislation has occurred in the example given by Neiwert above, for the reasons he gives.

As for your implication that the underlying crimes of harrassment, property damager, and assault are enough, I refer you to the second half of an earlier Niewert quote I posted above.[1]

"The last paragraph does not support "hate crimes" legislation, it points out what a threat is."

A threat to whom exactly? To people who single out others based on their race, color, creed, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, religion or gender and commit harrassment, property damage, and assault "with the intent of placing the victim in fear of bodily harm or death"?

I sure hope they feel threatened. Because they need to realize that our society will not tolerate these sorts of actions, just as society has less tolerance for deliberate, premeditated killing than it does for unintentional, accidental killing.

Intent does matter, and that's what hate crime legislation is a recognition of.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5622339
Last time I checked CouchDB was a document store with MapReduce queries. A very different beast from Redis.
"More MDs, fewer MBAs"

As Bullwinkle said to Rocky, "this time fur sure"

Honestly,

There's little evidence that healthcare is changing for the better and these measures may sound good but in many ways boil down to easter-egging a system broken on much more fundamental levels. You notice the way the mortality rate on the original article's chart was creeping back up, you hear how high-school educated white men experienced a significantly lowered life expectancy in the last ten years?

Of various things in your gilded list, "Quality measures. We can leverage data to force providers to compete on quality". You can use external incentive to increase quality and productivity on something like an automobile assembly line. But turning health care into an assembly line destroys the "human touch" that both helps patients and makes providers self-motivated. There was a study which showed zero gain in health care productivity over some long period of electronic automation. I blame the counter-productiveness of turning things into an assembly-line activity.

Consultants have been slingin' recipes for improved productivity out of managed, controlled, incentivized systems for a long, long time and the disaster has only grown larger. They have made lots of money, they'll continue to make lots of money and transform things for the worse for as long as they can define the problem as being medicine not being run like an automated warehouse. They even make more money failing than warehouse automators make succeeding because they have to reorganize again, and again, and again. Gawd, it's night of the live dead, regulatory-capturing consultants...
The beauty of concurrency in Clojure:

; Rough sketch: def defines a var (pretend it's a reference)

; @ is used to dereference the future and block to wait for the result.

(def f
(future
(Thread/sleep 10000) (println "done") 100))

user=> @f
done
100

;; Dereferencing again will return the already calculated value.
=> @f
100

http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/future

Edit: And more importantly, there are wrappers for the standard data structures designed around different concurrency use-cases (sync, async, coordinated, uncoordinated)

Refs are for Coordinated Synchronous access to Many Identities".

Atoms are for Uncoordinated synchronous access to a single Identity.

Agents are for Uncoordinated asynchronous access to a single Identity.

Vars are for thread local isolated identities with a shared default value.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9132346/clojure-differenc...

And you can use all (all!) of the Java concurrency tooling as desired, including raw threads (for which Clojure has a wrapper as well).

Part of the reason I use Clojure rather than Go is because it doesn't try to force you into a one-size-fits-all method for handling concurrency. I have no problem with CSP but it doesn't fit everything I do. Sometimes I just want to defer work or wrap it in a future. Or I want to use an intelligent coordinated data structure rather than trying to meld flesh and bone to steel in order to make a concurrency-naive data structure behave how I want in a concurrent environ.

If I can avoid those unnecessary battles, I will.

So - Clojure.
No, it would not.

People who inject heroin know that injecting heroin is harmful. People who are bariatric patients know that being 500 lbs is considerably risky for their health.

Telling these people that they will have yet another bad thing happen if they continue their existing behaviour has little effect to change their behaviour. There's already a long list of bad things. That's why people who've had their leg chopped off continue to inject heroin in the other leg.
Your right, we shouldn't care about how our nation's wealth has been siphoned to the top 1% to 5% of our population over the last 30+ years.

Hey look another reality TV show is starting tonight...
I get a generic Rails error page. :\