skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Oh, look, a good definition in a legal document. Don’t people normally complain about ambiguous laws leaving interpretation open to the courts

Yes you have a "good definition" in the law there, but what is the law for? It can't have been too important if they repealed it and some people deny its existence.

>Or are you just annoyed that this is measured in millimetres rather than imperial attolightfortnights or similarly ridiculous unit?

The anti-British sentiment in this thread is astounding (I use metric by the way).

The sausage name is shared across regions due to a historical legacy, people who have traditionally enjoyed it should not have language and culture taken from them for the purposes of profits. See my post above on the feta rule being historical and linguistic vandalism.
Small quibble, but I don't like that you mentioned Game of Thrones along with Netflix and Hulu. Those online services don't have Game of Thrones. The only way to watch any HBO show is to have a cable subscription or buy the episodes directly.
Those are 200mm+ telephotos. At that distance F4 makes bokeh like you'd see in a 1.8 prime. F5.6 on a 50mm doesn't let you separate the subject from the background at all, or get any light. If you are 100 meters away from something, you're likely outside with plenty of light (or shooting sports, but those guys shoot with 2.8 zooms like the EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS).
FWIW, repeating 'ab' 8 times as a password gives 'centuries' worth of crack time (i.e., 'abababababababab').

(I am very impressed by the password checker though; it's difficult to cover all scenarios)
I'm not throwing up my hands. I'm pointing to facts. And you're conflating suicides with accidental deaths and homicides. Curiously, the link I posted only breaks out homicides via firearms. According to the CDC, firearms constitute around 84% of the weapons used in homicides for ages 5-19 in 2005. The previous study has it at 65%, so it dropped 19% in two years.

If child/young adult safety is truly the goal, then there are far bigger fish to fry than controlling firearms.
It's hard to find definitive statistics on that. If you go looking around you'll see a few cases that pop up. In the early 2000s a police officer (and member of the SWAT team) used his issued MP5 to murder a few people, and sometime in the 70s a police officer found his wife in bed with another man and killed one (or both? I can't remember) of them.

The point is, like you said, it's exceedingly rare.
Opening Up Networking's Black Box
>The RFC also calls out that internal state may be changed in the face of an idempotent (and even a safe) operation, another indication that what's being specified is not internal server behavior/state (because if it's mutating state it's not internally idempotent).

Ah, now I see the crux of the problem: you've mixed up safety and idempotency. It is perfectly all right for an idempotent action to change state, as long as performing the same action twice is functionally no different from performing it once.

This is different from safety (which some call nullipotency), where performing the action once or twice is the same as performing it zero times: i.e. nothing changes. The HTTP spec notes that it has no way of actually preventing servers from ensuring that safe actions change nothing, but it still warns server developers against doing so.

But the final proof that idempotency is not with respect to communications comes from the spec itself: RFC 2616, section 9.1.2, first sentence. The spec even explicitly states that error or expiration issues can cause different responses on subsequent requests, which is what makes it clear that idempotency is not with respect to communications.

"Not Found" is an error condition with respect to the server. That is a fact of the HTTP server specification: the client wanted to do something with a resource that the server couldn't find. It might be that this condition is precisely what the client wanted, but the server has no way to know that: it can only answer from its own perspective. It is up to the client to sort the matter out on its own, but fortunately, this is not hard. A client that expects for resources not to be found from time to time need only listed for these cases, and deal with them however it wants to. The server need never know.

>You're begging the question by assuming that a client should not call DELETE on a nonexistent resource. It's perfectly valid to interpret "DELETE" to mean "make sure nothing exists at this URL" (I believe the RFC does), in which case a delete of a nonexistent item is a successful call.

Actually, the RFC doesn't say that. The relevant section (9.7) states that DELETE is for actual requests to delete something. Nothing else. To "make sure nothing exists at a URL", the proper method is GET. You can also use HEAD if you're worried about a large entity-body taking up too much bandwidth. OPTIONS would work too, and it has the advantage of only touching the metadata, but not all servers support it.
But their political opponents would not hesitate to have them declared pathological, and so proceed to establish "legal" grounds to disarm & incarcerate (ahem, involuntary commitment to treatment). Many authoritarian governments have done so to great effect and great harm; ours is heading that way.
Spot on. It's just easier to communicate than "devices with higher than 'usual' DPI" :)
I agree with you.

I see the main problem as this: Many people want to keep firearms to keep the power of the government in check, and the government wants to write the rules on who can keep arms. This causes a friction. Either the people give up the right to bear arms and trust the government fully, or the government should not be allowed to make rules on who can keep arms. Anything short of that will continue to cause the friction.

I'm of the opinion that the founders of the United States did not envision a government that people should fully trust, and that mistrust in the government's actions and motives by the populace would actually be healthy for the government. I'm further of the opinion that the founders did not envision a medical profession that could, with a diagnosis and the stroke of a pen, be able to essentially enforce such government full trust, by removing a person's constitutional right to own a firearm, and that without a crime having been committed, and the person not having been convicted of such a crime in a court of law.

If you ask me, that's exactly what the movie Minority Report foretold: "We think you are going to commit a crime, and therefore we will pre-emptively curtail your freedom."

Is this the America the Founding Fathers envisioned when they signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776?
Haha - I was the one who was responsible for adding the Pyreal Scarab. I remember freaking out that night when I was playing and went to Teth's vendor and saw what was happening. I called up the producer at the time at 2am and said there was a "problem".

"Oops." --Devilmouse
> But the lack of symmetry says a lot about how diseases are identified; it is about institutional convenience.

Is it?

I'd chalk it up to the fact that a unnaturally compliant child doesn't tend to cause the parents to seek out treatment, whereas a child who's kicking holes in walls and attacking their siblings does.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/dependent-personal... ?

In fairness, any abnormality defined by evasion of confrontation and dramatic episodes will inevitably attract less attention than the reverse, irrespective of institutional environnment.
Our brain is good at making excuses for things that make us uncomfortable. Instead of 100, go ask at least 5 and see how it feels.
Thanks. I'm going to have a look through the site copy and see if we missed anything when we moved the "migration" option to be a PRO feature.

We do offer migration between storage providers at https://trovebox.com/migrate. It is new-ish so we don't have prominent links for this but one of our important features. You can upload 20,000 photos and then one day decide, I don't want to use Dropbox anymore.
I don't think that their data is publicly available
Ultraconserved words? Really?
Interesting. Didn't know that. Thanks!
I find it hard to believe those media properties like Huffpo are losing money. I didn't read their financial statements but I wonder if it's just a financial artifact caused by deprecation/amortization. They bought Huffpo for $315m a few years ago for example... if they're amortizing that over several years, they could really be printing money but ending up with an accounting loss.
Too bad you just gave it to Intel, and over plain text.
Rad! I feel pretty confident you guys are the future.
Everything written in Python has the automatic promotion from C longs to bignums when the result no longer fits: see http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#numeric-types...
Field Report: 3 Insights On How Pivotal Is Doing At EMC World 2013
Except for the shooting and killing of the King's Soldiers at Bunker Hill outside Boston.
Use of Comic Sans on Website
Most of all, all "german sausages" sold in britain show how much the brits still hate us krauts. Each and every one is an insult to every living german - and probably to the dead as well.
Cool thanks!

Edit: I'm listening to it now and it's excellent.
Bought a copy. It looks great but keeps crashing for me =(.
First Head-to-Head Speed Test with Conventional Computing
> Some people say that geniuses always survives life hardships, but the fact that there are no new Einsteins (or Maxwells, Plancks...) seems to show this isn't true.

No new Einsteins, Maxwells, and Plancks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Phys...
> Step 3: Diversify your social passwords for added security
> "My 1st Password!: Twitr"
> "My 1st Password!: Fb"
> "My 1st Password!: Redd"

This is a terrible technique, because it's only marginally better than using the exact same password everywhere. It shares the same weakness in that as soon as your password is compromised in one place, it's as good as compromised everywhere else.
Sony waives $99 mobile development fee
you've just went live and already have testimonials?
The government needs a search warrant, not your housekeeper. If your housekeeper then tells the government of your "crimes" that's whistleblowing, not government invasion of your privacy.

As for the telephone conversations, read this thread a bit more... the government didn't need permission to wiretap until a specific law was passed in 1934 that required it.
Great quote: "When everyone’s rowing together toward the same objective, it’s extremely powerful."
They're using the battery temperature run through an algorithm they've devised which they've found to, when averaged with other local users, estimate the actual temperature. My phone's been charging since I installed the app and that skyrockets the battery's temperature, so I have yet to see it give a remotely accurate reading of the ambient temperature.
Nudism Provides Health Benefits to Body and Brain
Guys, when will it sink through? The technology to protect yourself from wiretapping is in your hands. End-to-end asymmetric encryption has never been more accessible. Explain to your friends and family what PGP is and start using it.

Maybe the NSA has it cracked, maybe not. But the IRS sure doesn't, nor do the FDA, DEA, FCC, FBI, Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft for that matter.

EDIT:

Here's how it works: I run PGP/GPG (GPG is the open source/free version of PGP, they're the same protocol) locally and the first time I use it, it creates two files, a "public key" and a "private key". I post/share my "public key" online (and you assume it's really me sharing it with you - this is important).

gnupg --gen-key
gpg --armor --output Desktop/mqudsi.asc --export "Mahmoud Al-Qudsi"

For example, here is my public key:
http://neosmart.net/downloads/miscellania/mqudsi.asc

Anyone can now use this key to send me a text message encrypted only for me. They just need this file and their own pgp/gpg private key; they tell it to encrypt message X for user with public key Y.

The result of that command (gpg --encrypt --recipient 'Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mqudsi@neosmart.net>' toencrypt.txt) will be encrypted text that no one but the holder of the private key (me) (which should never be shared) will be able to decode.

The result is plaintext. You can send it via email, text message, snail mail, whatever. There are apps that automate the encryption procedure as part of the sending process.
I'd like to think my friends realized that HuffPo was a vile pit of tabloid trash (independent of their pandery political positioning) and content farming. I WANT TO BELIEVE. Don't take this away from me!
Why not? They already have a popular paid version that doesn't have any advertising. It seems like encryption would be a pretty compelling add-on to lure over businesses that are nervous about their data in the cloud.
It will if you pass in --compressed flag, e.g.:

curl --compressed "http://cdn.unrealengine.com/html5-4c0913f/UDKGame_Data.js" -H "Referer: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/" -O
Really sharp! I've been developing for years and a lot of my stuff doesn't look this sharp... =/
The problem is that a child will not be brought to a therapist for following the rules; only a child who violates rules too frequently will ever see the inside of a psychiatrist's office. A child who always does what they are told will be rewarded, and will likely be rewarded further if their reaction to their rewards is, "What are my next set of instructions?"
My "to buy" list looks very similar. Mostly modern firearms that serve a functional purpose with a few 'fun' guns (like an M1 Garand and Five-seveN) thrown in for either their historical value or 'cool factor.'
It truly help a lot when you read things like this. I'm 36 years old now, and have learned to live pretty successfully in society.

But as a child that wants to explore and innovate (or for that matter just understand the rules I'm following), it often feels impossible to live in a society that has a rigid set of expectations.

One common refrain from childhood: "If only he would apply himself..." well, of course, I actually applied myself with a focus that would blister the brains of the people who said this sort of thing. But I didn't apply myself to what they wanted.

And that was from the people who even recognized that I had intelligence worthy of any respect. Many had no idea that I was more than troublemaker (a ditch-digger some would say). I suppose it is of relevance that I grew up in a very blue collar environment, and in those environments the expected measure of success is a stable job with routine and predictable pay increases; questioning and understanding is not the path to that, acceptance of the "that's the way it's done" is.

These issues led to a malaise and kind of depression that resulted in me dropping out of school and joining the Marine Corps (yeah, great idea for an "anti-authoritarian", but part of me still believed i was the one with the problem and needed fixing).

The path "back to the world" was a difficult one, and who's to say if that path is even done -- where could I have been. My decisions were poor back then, but hell, I was a teenager and living in a world that didn't support me. Ironically, as I've gained positions of authority over people who themselves are submissive to authority, I think they have a greater respect for me, than they do people who are not innovators or independent thinkers.

I still fight the battle constantly, the white collar corporate world is nearly as unimaginative as the blue collar world -- it's not even about resisting authority, in fact, a good 'authority' is as good as delegating -- someone trusted to do stuff.
edX's 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics also provides the textbook for free with similar conditions. The textbook in question is The Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits ($79.99 on Amazon) by Agarwal and Lang published by Elsevier
Since the XKCD comic was already pasted here, instead some fun read.

"realistic password strength estimation"
https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/04/zxcvbn-realistic-password-s...
Thanks for the overview. It'd be nice if they could make a password strength checker that got the exact strength instead of an estimate, that would be cool (because actually building a hypercomputer is impressive).
There are still over 90 people killed by accident EVERY DAY in the USA.
Oh, sorry! Sometimes when you've spent too much time in your free app, you forget about the 'paid' world. Even if the author specifies it right there in the post. :)
Business has its hand in the legislative process in Europe too. Europe's not some corruption-free idealistic utopia.
Not just another post about burnout
Why are you comparing based on size? Surely it is sensible to try and compare economically similar. Western and Northern Europe is probably the best comparison, with a combined population of something like 280 Million, not too far from the US. The murder rates are 1.0 and 1.5 respectively, far lower than the US. The whole of Europe includes Eastern Europe which is much less similar to the US and has a higher murder rate.
This is slightly off topic, but I googled "PGP" as I do when I want to understand something specific better, and found that PGP stands for "Pretty Good Privacy." Ha.
We provide a livestream API to researchers only right now: http://pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca/livestream/. We haven't yet opened to businesses yet because our new open source SDK is going to change our API quite a bit, so we want to stabilize it first. We're interested in this type of partnership however, and look forward to opening this up in the coming days/weeks. SDK code is about 90% feature complete and totally stable, so we're almost ready.

https://github.com/CbSoftware/pressureNET-SDK
They don't, but they're not the type to check their bills either. I did collections in college for AT&T Consumer Lease phones. These people have been paying to rent their phones (6-20 dollars a MONTH), still, 20-30 years after the breakup of their monopoly. Their kids had been paying the bills for them as their parents were incapacitated. It was pretty terrible.
It's all ok in the end… There's a 3d printer and a "liberator" waiting for you! And if you call now, I'll throw in a Feinstein mag! (Shipping Not Included)
Ummmm: written June 19, 2000
> What the Obama administration has done is make extra-judicial killing of citizens legal (and therefore less of a risk to decision makers) and scalable (for the purposes of domestic counter insurgence, which seems to be a big concern of post-9/11 security policy).

There was a whole lot of extrajudicial killing of US citizens in the course of domestic counter insurgence between 1861 and 1865; Obama has neither made this legal (as if he could) or made it scalable in a way which it wasn't before.

Both the threat environment and the tools used in response have changed, and certainly in the modern situation the line between interstate war and domestic insurgency is much less well defined, as are the fronts in either kind of war. This does produce quite involved issues in how to deal with both, and how to deal with that (and the interactions, in either the internal or international case, between war and police functions.) And certainly there is considerable room to debate the appropriateness of the particular choices and policies of this, the previous (and, no doubt, the next, etc.) administration on these issues.

But lets not pretend that they are something they aren't, because that isn't helpful.
Oh Joy! I'll go see if I can dig up some links. Thanks for sharing this. I've seen this before, but I believe the legislation, at the state level, was driven by nosy neighbors. I'll ring up a friend of mine who's an expert on the subject to see if I can get some commentary.
Previous discussion of this article one year ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3642570
Most servers are x86-64 these days. So using 32 bit signed ints barely improves performance at all. Could have gone with a 64 bit unsigned int as it is a positive value all of the time.
I did some work with a guy who was asked to figure out how much accelerant was needed to burn a pile of cows. I knew burning them was a last resort, I hadn't figured that it was actually hard to do.
I get the connection, I just wondered if OP had something other than snark for this since it doesn't follow directly from the link.

Also, it isn't just communist countries it's authoritarian regimes generally. Hyperbolic comparisons and innuendos don't help the conversation, they just push potential participants away.

As to the idea of mass disarmament of "sensible liberty-definding anti-authoritorian citizens", I doubt that any organization within the government has the manpower to assemble an army of shrinks to diagnose the whole population. And then another literal army to quell the ensuing rebellion - considering that much of the current armed forces would be deserting. They may make it more difficult to purchase a firearm, but the existing ones aren't going anywhere for a while. Especially since Congress can barely cooperate enough to agree that the sky is blue.
In theory, it is possible since this is offered by a lot of startups these days. However, it also means that they are not obligated to give you anything unless you ask for it. So I would suggest you do this :

Ask the prospective employer one question : "Do you know on average how many days were taken off by each team member during the past 2 years ?". That will give you an idea.
I used to do this, but there are still so many annoying websites that require certain characters or maximum length, or other patterns, to your password. I would use a PwdHash for some websites and not for other websites, and then have to remember which sites I used PwdHash and which I didn't.

I finally settled on 1Password for the iPhone. I don't remember any of my passwords. I unlock 1Password, find and reveal the password, and type it in. This allows me to have really complex and long passwords. I always have my phone on me, as I use 2-step authentication for every service that provides it. In the rare event I forget a password, I still have email fallback recovery.
Congratulations! You'll never regret this decision... unless of course you get so immersed that you begin to hate computers because nothing ever works.
> "Shopping on Amazon is a superior user experience and it runs the table on the magical retailer formula of selection, price and convenience"

Clearly has never used Amazon Canada.

But in all seriousness, a great article. It's interesting to see how the different web markets overlap so easily.
I loved Brütal Legend, Jack Black was so funny and the whole setting of Metal Covers was so beautiful.

The game was absolutely great, fun, great music.

I have watched the intro sequence with Kabbage Boy so often, it's one of the best intros of a video game ever.

Watch it! Get it! Play it!
Not any more than SimCity 2013 was an MMO. There may have been free-to-play MMO-like monitization of every little thing but the game mechanics are all single-player/small-group-of-players.
Inertia isn't luddism, necessarily. Hating change isn't hating technology, even though the end result is using older tech.
What a fantastic business model, relying on the misunderstanding of your customers.
When you're hiring people based on their ability to sell, you are hiring them to sell. When you're hiring people based on how much they pretend to love your company, you're hiring them to lick your boots. When you're hiring people based on how much you like them, you are paying them to be your friend. These probably account for a lot more real-life hiring than we want to think.
my personal favorites are the ones that send me my current password in plaintext as a form of "recovery"
What constitutes a fold for types other than list?
"Maybe the NSA has it cracked?" I'm actually curious, why do you think they may have?