skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually work as a developer for non-profit society. I agree that having paywalls around content is bad and prevents the dissemination and access to fundamental knowledge. We generate most of our operational revenue through journal subscriptions. I know from working here that it does indeed cost a fair amount of money to provide both the IT and editorial support for peer review and archiving/presenting the data forever.

We are trying to get authors to embrace an open access model where they pay a fee of $1500 or so to make their paper Creative Commons licensed and free to read for all. I do think there is a value for peer review and it is harder than commonly thought because science is so specialized these days.

An area which I think is woefully underserved is the science press. In our journals, I can barely understand anything published as it requires specialist knowledge in small areas of study. Just reading papers does not really keep someone knowledgable about anything but their very specialized sub domain. Peer review in itself is nice but it is important to provide accessibility to what is going on in science via non specialist explanations of published works.

So I agree that the model of paywalling a bunch of PDFs is horribly broken, and should be disrupted. I think scholarly publishing in general can really benefit from something like a one time fee to publish your paper and make it accessible to all not only in regards to paywalls, but in regards to the material being accessible to non specialists.
Education and the French mindset: Bangalore-sur-Seine?
Someone asked this question on the post so I will answer it I run a registrar (but not name.com obv.).

"Hypothetically, what would happen if some bad guys managed to transfer domains? What recourse would there be: would it be dealt with by yourselves, or would the previous owners of the domains have to take legal action against whoever the domains were transfered to?"

There is a procedure in place between registrars to cover situations like this. Of course this assumes that the person who has the name stolen knows it has happened and that the proper people are notified fairly quickly. There are many cases where people might not know a domain was stolen (extra domain pointing to another site for example or an unused name) so there is definitely a risk here. But assuming this was discovered right away by the person whos name was taken it could be reversed and transferred back to the losing registrar. Of course all this can be time consuming and there is no guarantee that the registrar that the name was transferred to would act quickly etc. YMMV.
MaxCDN does, inspired by SoundCloud.
A report from the Google Test Automation Conference
Passwords aren't (usually) encrypted, they're hashed. Hashing buys you time, nothing more; if an attacker has a copy of your hash you should treat your password as compromised.

Nothing to see here.
Click view source, there's a url too....

http://oak.is/
I'm thinking it's Al Pacino in Scar Face. Freddie Mercury just as solid a bet though.
Goldman outs Bloomberg snoops
How so? Other stacks are no strangers to vulnerabilities.
this assumes the law in the US, but there are many other countries, assuming one would want to stay within the law as well.
You forgot GOG.com
Ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM
The relationships seem a bit off...

For instance, Burton Baton is a relatively unique beer yet it has a surprising amount of recommendations associated with it while many other beers have few or none.

Also, how were the beers picked out? Its a relatively small set and its not based on popularity - which would give people a better reference point. And if its based on rating, I'm surprised at some of the beers not on the list.
An Introduction to the Inner Workings of LadyBits
I believe 11 months ago, the price for a Jalapeno was $150, and they increased the cost to $270, while giving it just a slight jump in speed.
It's unclear the reasoning behind this assertion that a CEO needs stock compensation to do good work.

Frankly if someone isn't professional enough to do their job without some cartoon carrot hanging in their face, I'm not sure how they would be suitable for a top position in the first place over those who apparently are.
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It's also worth mentioning that there's little contention over the fact that salaries and wealth at the top of the pyramid are rising faster than the norm. The majority of GDP growth for quite a while has been going to the upper crust. I suggest reading the following if this isn't yet evident:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Wow. I've never enjoyed being proven wrong this much. Never expected that! The higher wattage numbers that is ...
The advantages of full tickless elude me somewhat. Single percent performance gain does not seem worth the effort, so what else? For real-time operation tickless may make sense, but on the other hand idk how much ticking interferes currently RT processes on linux.
Makes me happy to see more and more topics on D-lang.
What is going on there?
Here's an example from the Python 3 docs[1] that specifically uses metaclass for exactly this scenario:

class OrderedClass(type):

@classmethod
def __prepare__(metacls, name, bases, **kwds):
return collections.OrderedDict()

def __new__(cls, name, bases, namespace, **kwds):
result = type.__new__(cls, name, bases, dict(namespace))
result.members = tuple(namespace)
return result

class A(metaclass=OrderedClass):
def one(self): pass
def two(self): pass
def three(self): pass
def four(self): pass

>>> A.members
('__module__', 'one', 'two', 'three', 'four')

[1] http://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#metaclass-...
Are there any sites that publish the majority of it's content (or alternate) in html comments (view-source), rather than in visible markup?
Custom domains are a make or break feature for me. Looks like you're hosted on Heroku. You could do this pretty easily by setting up their wildcard subdomains feature and allowing me to pick a subdomain which I can map to my own domain with a cname.
http://www.google.com/humans.txt
This is the most useless comment you can possibly post. If your only contribution is "check your privilege" then your contribution is worthless and you shouldn't even bother.

It's playground sarcasm and offers nothing.
Hashed was indeed what I meant. I tend to use the words interchangeably, in error. What I meant to say is the strategies in use can vary quite a bit. Are they using a salt and/or a pepper? Are they using bcrypt or the like? Based on those answers one can usually guess if its feasible to break those in a reasonable amount of time.
Great! There're also videos on your blog which is helpful. I'll be keeping an eye on this project, and once i get my Pi back from, i'll be sure to check your distro out.
A Problem-Solving Mindset
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/DOMContentLoaded/

Message on console:

"Do you come here often?
If so, we'd love to talk about opportunities on the IE team:
http://www.microsoft-careers.com/go/internet-explorer/340041... "
Loki Studios Acquired by Yahoo
Thanks for bringing this up. IMO, one of the best takeaways from this book, and what makes it somewhat unique among sci-fi, was how it contextualizes the act of scientific research building on itself and evolving. As a graduate student working on my own publications this context is fascinating to me.
I think github is moving there...

Currently it has graph on individual's profile that tells what he has contributed.
- Something like OpenBadges can be added to "top contributor to repo" etc.

One can compare fork and see age of the same. So say original contributor is no longer maintaining it, one can check fork. Visually.

- A good value addition could be showing it somehow on front page.

Issue voting - Yes, number of people watching could be good.

My addition would be
- Explicit mention of license mention on landing page. like google-code
- tags like google-code
Same thing on soundcloud.
Startup founder :)
Pretty much.

Providers refuse to provide DRM-free video now because they know that as long as nobody takes the plunge into DRM-free, they can wring marginally more money out of every customer with DRM. But once one company takes the plunge into DRM-free, this model is over. Customers will demand it of the other companies, and the ones who want to stay in business will have little choice but to abandon DRM and the unethical-yet-slightly-more-profitable models that depend on it.

This worked for music. All signs indicate that it's working for books, though that is still in progress. It will work for video, too, if we let it. All that's required is a few more years' worth of patience. Unfortunately, the W3C doesn't seem to get that.
Physics at 60 fps via only the DOM, on a mobile device
Open up the Javascript console..
Preparing the Web for the High-Resolution Retina Future
slava@rethink here -- we're working with a small group of early customers (providing support, driving product direction, etc.) If you're interested in working together, shoot me an e-mail -- slava@rethinkdb.com
I have kept bees in West Africa. In my experience, African bees are a bit more defensive than European bees but they are by no means "killer" bees.

Certainly, there is no more risk (from the bees, anyway) to maintaining a bee hive in Africa than one in the US.
In fact, I am frequently amazed at how much less protective gear African bee keepers use.

Also, I find that hive bees tend to be generally less aggressive than their wild cousins and can co-exist just fine with people. It is not at all uncommon for hives to be situated on farms or near houses.
Also: http://archive.org/details/tv
Is Curry relevant here?
This is brilliant. Why aren't the likes of Coca Cola doing it on a wider scale?
How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran [2007]
There needs to be a more explicit distinction between "acquired" and "acquihired."
I must wonder why Debian needs to do 10 months of developing/bugfixing software in the first place. I mean most of the software is already supposedly "stable" releases from upstream, is it not? Maybe Debian should focus on working closer to upstream developers so that the software would be more directly usable out-of-the-box.
"For the techies who are wondering, the encryption on the credit card information is 4096 bit RSA."

Why would they be using RSA to encrypt fields in an internal database, rather than a symmetric algorithm?

If they really did use RSA, I'd wager they did not pad it correctly and don't have any authentication.
>>> Unarmed non-consenting populations can and have brought down governments. e.g. in Egypt

In Egypt, the power was actually taken by the military after Mubarak has resigned. If the military had supported Mubarak, you can look in Libya and Syria how it would play out.

>>> side-arms won't help you against a decent army

Depends what you mean by "help". You can destroy a city with a bomber, but you can not actually govern the city with a bomber.

>>>> So the presence or absence of civilian guns are not the issue that you make them out to be.

It is. If the population is disarmed, the only force who decides if the government is to survive or not is the military. It's good if the military is on your side, if it's not you're in for a long and unpleasant ride.
Hundreds of millions is two orders of magnitude more money than "the first few millions." To me that seems pretty significant. And even more so when you factor in how many more things (or even classes of things) you can buy with $10E8 vs. $10E6.
With McCain I learned that "maverick" means "no consistent underlying principles". Sometimes it works to your favor.
Whenever you do anything on the web your browser is talking to a whole stack of machine specific stuff, graphics drivers etc. The browser is just an abstraction layer on top of this.

I don't see how this would necessarily be worse than the current status quo. Big content providers who demand DRM are just using things like Silverlight instead which don't provide any official support for any of those OSes so they can't access that content anyway (without some wine hacks).

At least this way it is possible to produce a Linux variant that does support these things without having to ask MS for a silverlight port.
I sincerely miss Outlook now that I'm at a company that uses Google Apps. The gmail web interface just isn't usable the way a real mail client is, and using an IMAP client is never as good an experience as native Outlook/Exchange. And that's just for mail. When you add in calendaring Outlook gets even better in comparison.
Kind of sad. I really like tagged types, and I advocate for their usage when appropriate, but from this article it seems like D doesn't have native support for them.

I really wish more languages had really simple tagged type support. Sometimes I don't need full on inheritance, things like packet formats would benefit greatly from a dead simple minimal implementation.
lol yes but this is a product that has within itself the seed of its owners undoing... the more they sell, the more bitcoins are mined and the harder the next is to be mined
Sorry for my ignorance, but can anybody explain what makes the Butterfly Labs machine special?

What kind of propitiatory knowledge do they have that there are these long waiting lines for the machine?

What is they key issue that makes these boxes so hard to replicate?
> The article doesn't really focus on your car phoning home and telling Google where you are.

Apparently you and I didn't read the same article, since the main worry of the article seemed to be that Google can't be trusted with your data.

>Almost all of the benefits being touted as advantages of driver-less cars only become reality if everyone uses the AI.

The article does imply this, but it's simply not true. Autonomous cars will be able to reduce accidents and park themselves the moment they are available. There have been some past pie-in-the-sky ideas of ultra-high-speed internetworked cars, but the practical problems of those are (perhaps counter-intuitively) harder to solve than the technical problem of a car that can drive autonomously without communicating to other vehicles.

Furthermore it is obvious with a little thought that autonomous vehicles will have to be able to function well on roads where every other car is driven by a human. Otherwise there will never be a "first" autonomous car.

> In theory, in some dystopian future, everyone would be forced to rely on the AI to drive.

1) IMO that is still far in the future

2) Whether or not this is dystopian is subject to debate; certainly in the hypothetical future where the car sends all your travel data Megacorp X without any option to opt-out it's dystopian, but the same would be true of mandated tracking devices in cars without mandated autonomy. I personally would be perfectly happy with a future where manual driving was forbidden on public thoroughfares but I could still take a sports car to Laguna Seca and burn some rubber.
Your comment is not a response to the comment you replied to. In particular, it was quite clear about the flaw in question:

> Mutable state makes reasoning about program behavior more difficult than necessary.

You could dispute that claim, but bringing up performance characteristics is totally irrelevant to it.
This is pure bullshit. EME doesn't change how something is rendered, only whether certain content can be delivered at all. And we already have existing standards-backed cases where different platforms get different content (or no content at all). Coincidentally, it affects the exact same thing EME does: media rendering. I can deliver an H.264 video and be standards-compliant, yet rendering differently in Safari vs Chrome (because Chrome refuses to support H.264).
Has anyone heard anything from Moniker, or the other registrars claimed to be hacked? I wasn't able to fetch the registrar data from the zine release, and haven't found another source, though it had sounded like HTP obtained root or privileged access on Moniker.

I haven't heard anything from Moniker. My trust for them has be waning for a while, and radio silence on this doesn't help -- though I haven't attempted to reach out to their support at all either.
I don't see anything interesting.
Fair enough about your point about the cholesterol.

However, I'd challenge you with this. Go back and look at how the cholesterol error was made. It's a instructive microcosm of how we got to having such bad advice about health, where a tiny little sample of the vast multidimensional space of health was taken because we happened to develop a test that could see cholesterol, and we radically, radically over-interpreted the results. (Arguably without even doing the test we could have done right then, which is to directly ask the question of whether eating cholestThen ask if you're really, really sure that's the only time that happened, in our set of health advice that largely was created in the same era (if not a decade or two before) and hasn't changed since. Because I do agree that consensus hasn't changed much over the past 50 years; what I am saying is that change is inevitably coming, and if you know where to look you can already see its shape.

"Salt is still harmful, btw."

There are significant studies that suggest it's only harmful if you already have hypertension. There's also some serious question in my mind about how salt can be harming the population when studies can also show that people actually maintain a very constant level of salt intake and have historically maintained that same salt intake for as far back as we have records that can reasonably answer that question.

"Calm dieticians have been suggesting that people cut down fats, but not replace those with weird sugar-foods."

And I still think this is revisionism. I've been reading recommendations from the government and other sources for my entire lifetime and I've only recently seen anyone making the point that replacing fat with sugar is a bad thing, and it is usually still people not in the scientific mainstream until very recently. (Sure, Atkins said it in the 1970s, but I'm sure you wouldn't count that.) The government has been pushing low-fat everything for a long time. If perhaps the point was being made in some academic journal somewhere, I don't really care, I'm talking about what the general population was told. The idea that low-fat itself might be bad can probably be dated to when it finally broke through that transfats (margarine) was worse than what it was replacing (butter), which was a relatively recent development (~10 years ago), and that's when it finally became politically viable to even ask the question of whether low-fat foods were actually better for you.

And I could quibble further (the badness of red meat is highly dubious from what I can see, fruit's virtues seem oversold), but it doesn't matter. The change is coming, because the advice we've been given for decades is unbelievably awful, "our grandchildren will ask us how we could believe that" awful. It won't stand, and when the authorities try to rewrite history to claim nothing has changed I will not forget that it's not what they told us.
gzip makes it quite a bit less than 20%
Why is this being downvoted? If it's important that you not be interrupted by the phone, there are a variety of easy ways to make the phone not interrupt you.

- Unplug it/turn it off
- set to silent and turn off vibrate
- "Do Not Disturb" setting
- "Send all calls to voicemail"
- etc.
No, there is a second nuclear war. Some people escape on rockets, but human life on earth is ruined.

The author was an American bomber pilot in the second world war, and took part in the bombing of ancient church buildings in Italy. After the war, out of guilt, he became a Catholic wrote the book. He seemed to share the same kind of pessimism that George Orwell had, having lived through one destructive war only to see another war come on the horizon.

It's a very good book, and despite its themes it is readable and in parts humourous (especially the first section).
Twitter Music is not about Music
Relevant:

http://dartogreniyorum.blogspot.com/2013/05/performance-opti...
The Dart VM improved by almost 20% recently: http://www.dartlang.org/performance/

The Java implementations could also be slightly different.
The argument you are making is basically an argument from authority, which would be fine if you understood the nature of the authority in question, but you do not.

Peer reviewed journals contain a lot of garbage. Whether this should be the case is irrelevant. There are plenty of people on HN qualified to both judge and understand the study and my criticism of it. If you cannot understand my comment or for some other reason are unwilling to comment on its substance, that's fine, but there is no reason to dismiss it out of hand.

Also, there is a fundamental flaw in your logic. You keep saying that it irrelevant whether the studies methodology is valid or not, and yet this is the only evidence you give for your position. You say that I failed to give a counter-argument, and yet I directly addressed the only argument you gave for the relationship between empathy and reading, namely that study.
Interesting analogue. I was a lifeguard in a previous life, and what people actually look like when they're drowning is not as it's depicted in movies.

In my experience, a child will typically jump into water too deep and simply sit there with their head barely above water, eventually they'll sink under if no one realizes they're in distress. A lot of the time they'll look right up at the lifeguards. Many inexperienced lifeguards tend to stare straight at a swimmer in distress without realizing it because the swimmer doesn't exhibit any outward signs of distress.
Even the President is in on it:

view-source:http://www.barackobama.com/
Agree with your comment.

I wonder if this is what non-programmers think the advantages of understanding programming are? Looks like the author has never actually held a real programming job (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kirk-mcdonald/0/4/824).

Learning programming skills does have some benefits in learning problem solving. I'll never tell someone NOT to dabble in code, but I don't think the benefits are as pronounced as this article is making it sound to self-teach a tiny bit of programming. There's an earlier comment that states that it might hurt more to know a little; I can see where that viewpoint is coming from.
Vircurex Bitcoin Exchange Compromised
This will totally stop piracy.
Thanks for the heads up guys, sounds like a bug that I need to track down.
You can use bare hands to gain access to handguns. Just surprise any armed person, hit him over the head with anything massive (or just with your bare hands if you're strong enough) and take his weapon. If you have a couple of accomplices you don't even have to be that strong - 2-3 reasonable strong men can hold a person down long enough to take his/her personal weapon, which is usually readily accessible. What plastic gun changes here?
The idea of the FP-45 gun wasn't of course to be battlefield weapon - it was to convert unarmed population into armed and dangerous one. In the US, it doesn't change anything as whoever wants to be armed already is armed.

>>> Have you ever personally carried concealed?

No I have not, but from the dimensions of this one I don't see how you can reasonably keep it concealed on your person without people trained at detecting concealed things easily noticing it. You could of course disassemble it and hope nobody figures it out, but it's nothing new. If you don't need the weapon to survive more than a single shot, there are a lot of things that can be converted to a gun.
A good definition of some words
I would like to show you the real definition of the words "School", "Class" and "Finals"
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