skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Study: Teacher Prep Programs Get Failing Marks
Y2GAY - the database engineering perspective
Lavabit provides a public record of their ancient server stack. Why?
Not that this really does this, but I would be all for a better adblocking tool that did communicate back to whatever adhosting company presented ads on a page.

If I opt in to allow my browsing behavior to help improve the sites I visit, I am presented the ads.

When I click to disable an ad, I am presented some options:
* The content is not relevant to me or the topic
* The ad is intrusive or hurts my experience on the site

Then let me decide to block all ads on the site, just this ad, or these types (e.g. popovers) on the site.

The data can then be relayed back (again, I opted in) to the ad company and the site's owners and they might even be allowed to see browsing behavior that shows how much time you spend on the site.

It could be a clear message to advertisers and content providers about the amount of revenue they are missing out on and why.
Well an ssl cert that just expired is still encrypting data in flight. Most everyone that has dealt with security knows that people sometimes miss renewing the certs. Expired cert doesn't mean the site is now malicious.
"Activist" + brains != relying on middleman's platform
A lot of IRC networks block Tor exit nodes too. Since exit nodes are in short supply, it seems reasonable that there's a high likelihood each one has been used to launch attacks/spam Facebook and was consequently blacklisted.

Google takes a similar approach - if you use Tor there's a high chance it'll accuse you of being a bot and require a CAPTCHA.
I'm afraid not really. With all the regulations being placed on banks, it's only inevitable that banks will get bigger and bigger since there's less money to be made so some will try to go for scale and volume.
(and the NSA)
There's enough people out there that will let the appearance playe a major part in their decision of whether or not to buy it. So yes, from Apple's POV it needs to be smaller and different looking. It's all about pleasing the customers, innit?
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Of course, there's a cascading effect where it's now possible to also overflow the board you chose with your free move.
Its not a petri dish he is referring to. He is talking about a brain implemented in silicon or graphene, i.e, a brain simulated on electronic hardware.
or maybe be honest! why not.
I agree, very informative and good article.

I am not a AV guy, but using my mac mini i started to do the same thing described in the article. rather than byuing an internal hdd, i simply connected a 1tb external drive (silent, sdd). at first I didn't think about it, but this enabled me to:

- Need to transfer files to one of my Windows machines? Simply unplug the hdd from the mac and plug into the Winbox

- Travelling? Take my entire library of stuff with me. No need for DropBox, etc. This works offline, anywhere.

Sounds low tech and slightly too simple, but I'd love to expand this to other functionalities. An external graphics card would be awesome, play games on any machine I want (Mini or Air...).

I've built my own gaming PCs, but by now I would really prefer something more modular, easy, true plug and play.
Does Rails and Django abstract away too much for beginners?
That wouldn't put any pressure on 3rd parties to manufacture external peripherals (which is hypothetically the goal).
NaCL is awesome and simplifies many things, but it's not a protocol, so we can't stop arguing :( Example questions: how to do user authentication, should I use random nonce or a counter for this particular project, what happens when the nonce is reused (does it break my MAC, encryption, or both), how do I distribute public keys, etc.
And if the protections were relaxed, manufacturer-certified repair centers would go the way of the dodo? That they're attached to the people who would want to sell you a replacement car if something goes wrong seems like a conflict of interest.
I agree that Apple, as the case is at every brick-and-mortar store that I'm loyal to (B&H Photo has often talked me out of expensive purchases), has a great incentive to not oversell an unneeded product.

However, I think we need more data on recommendations before we can argue that the intent is entirely altruistic. As others have said, the low-end model is also the same model as the "Vanilla" build, i.e. the model that Apple has plenty of in stock...and a purchase in-store (with the possibility of upselling on other accessories) is more valuable than a purchase from the web. If it's the case that Apple sells a disproportionate amount of its Vanilla stock in-store, then is it coincidence that the Vanilla stock happens to be the perfect fit for so many customers? How many slightly-upgraded (but not in-stock) models are customers convinced to buy...because there has to be at least a few customers for whom the MBP is not ideal, but a slightly upgraded MBA is needed.

And if you want to be totally cynical, you could argue that Apple is ensuring that the customer returns in the nearer future by selling them a less future-proof model. Yes, customers have loyalty based on the reliability of the brand...but if the compassionate-sales-job is so effective, then that alone may be good enough of a memory for the customer to overlook that he/she is replacing a new laptop a year earlier than expected.
Using HTML Forms with Servlets
The ability to not switch branches from the commits view is frustrating. I really want to switch back to the old look.
Actually the trend these days is aircards... Never even get as far as checking out the hotel wifi.
Ruby Bundle dependency tree image
Agreed. It's worth noting that the the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is different than the usual "Article III" courts in that it is created by federal statute. Though its judges are drawn from the judicial branch, it is essentially captive to the executive and legislative branches and its judges have limited terms rather than life tenure. See http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1803
That might be the "whole point" but that is not how everyone uses it. I have a facebook account myself which contains nothing but a username, a generic artsy avatar and a list of popular facebook pages I like to keep tabs on. I dont share any personal information and I dont have "friends" on facebook.

This is all purely out of convenience. If I wanted to go full on stealth mode I could have used Tor at which point my account would not give facebook any information apart from a couple of "like" clicks from a super generic gray faced account.

Activists can create these accounts and have a place where they can tell the world about their experiences without risk of being found out. They dont need to give out their IP addresses, they dont need to give out addresses. All they need is a cause and a way to speak and, given luck, people will start listening.

Now at least one small avenue of communication has been closed.
> just because an image of a pair of shoes offends your delicate sensibilities

I added an ad blocker because the ads I was served were all ugly pictures of old faces. It was ads for some regenerating skin snake oil. It was physically disgusting me.

I have no time to spare tweaking the filters, so I just block everything and all is well.

This is to show that the bad practices taint the less bad ones. If ads were only small text, not served more than once a week, neutral, never served to kids or other sensible segment, I'd say it could be ok. Until then I prefer no ads. (I don't watch tv for this reason)
In particular, https google to http wsj.
How 10 min. can increase your business bottom line by $1,000's of dollars a year
The same argument can be made for many of Apple product decisions, why no Blu-Ray? Why no SuperDrive in the MBPr? The simple answer being as always, Apple doesn't think it's necessary. They've clearly designed it for a very specific purpose, I'm interested in seeing what the futures bodes for it.
I guess you just got less options for less money. Saved, implied you got the works for less the price.

But at least the sales person was kind enough to drop some basic computer shopping knowledge on you.

Can't believe you were ready to spend that much $$$ on a computer without much research.
Where I work we use Parallels Virtuozzo for a private cloud. I can see why more companies don't use it for public clouds-- you do run into a few weird edge cases with containers vs. full VMs and these would be a tech support issue for a large-scale hosted. But the density you achieve with it is at least one order of magnitude better than KVM, possibly two, and the performance is also better. There is zero I/O overhead since you are in fact running bare-metal, so it's very good for high-performance computing (one of our use cases).

Most of the edge cases you do encounter are due to poorly-written software. The most common thing is server software that depends on Linux's default overcommit behavior and malloc() never failing and then uses that to try to badly implement a memory-sensitive cache in competition with the kernel. Containers change overcommit behavior and malloc() CAN fail, so such software will eat all the memory in a container and barf. But there are hacks to get around this, and it's mostly an issue with POS rube goldberg machine web stacks like Apache/mod_php.

I've been following LXC for a while and see that some people are now using it in production. Once Linux has a main-line kernel container solution I think you'll see it used quite a bit more. Eventually the developers of crappy server code will be forced to fix their code to behave properly.
Why is "self concept" equated to consciousness? When a split-brain patient's self-reported notion of "self" makes up a story to cover for not knowing why they performed some action, what part of their mind actually made the decision to act?
Definitely, I guess this means all I need is phantom.js to steal all of google's search results now.
Yes. And because regular blocks are useless if people can use Tor to circumvent them. Legitimate users can get a block exemption to edit from a Tor IP, though.
As the North Rests on Its Laurels, the South Is Rising Fast
Spot on.

This is typical human hypocrisy at work.

The worst thing I find is the "I'll eat a sausage but I couldn't possibly eat a cute bunny wabbit". The sausage in its natural form is capable of being a valuable and loyal human companion.

I haven't eaten meat since I was at university in the distant past after I got addicted to a combination of ramen noodles, mushrooms and home made pepper sauce. The ethical dilemma made it hard to go back to eating meat so I didn't bother.

Regarding tastiness, Indian vegetarian food (particular aloo, gobi is far tastier than anything with meat in and you can grow ALL the ingredients yourself if you want without having to shovel a single turd.
Uber CEO explains what REALLY happened during NYC free taxi week
If people are murdering my family, no amount of your links will prove that they are alive and well. It's that simple.

But you were the one claiming they aren't anti-semitic, so why should we believe it in face of the reported incidents?
Isn't HTTPS connection enough to protect from snooping regimes? If the foreign government won't block FB access completely, user can go to https://www.facebook.com and will know that their data can only be seen by Facebook? Of course if government is blocking FB access, then I understand the need of TOR.
Worth noting Virtualmin and CPanel do support SNI.
Also worth noting old versions of software (wget, curl, IE, android etc) do not support it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#No_suppo...
[EDIT: Ignore me, I was talking nonsense, sorry
chiph]
What's the threat model for this? Is the MITM going to subtly change Schneier's essay? Perhaps they're going to find out the lame password I use for stupid comment forms, which password (literally: it's a word) I've been using continuously for that purpose since 1994?
Another trivia point is he's the inventor of surreal numbers, which Knuth (yeah, that Knuth not some other Knuth) wrote an enjoyable little semi-fictional novel about in the 70s. I thought it was a fun book, its not intense like TAOCP.

Conway's also the author of ONAG. On Numbers And Games. You'll probably run into that acronym in serious discussion about game theory, like computer game design or RPG system design. Its a pretty intense book. From memory its one of those "$50 for 100 pages" hardcovers. But, worth it.
While browser/device fingerprinting has made great strides, if this was really pointless, you wouldn't see so much of hue and cry over some mozillas decisions to block third party cookies. (http://www.iab.net/mozilla).

Flashcookie and localstorage based techniques are hardly legal. Store user profiles server side, but you will still be fooled by a different visitor id in the cookie (and fingerprint for that matter), won't you?
This is one thing I never really understood. Apple really cares a lot about aesthetics. In the store their devices all look fantastic standing alone surrounded by white/black.

But when you see an Apple device in the real world, it looks like crap. Why? Because it's tangled up in this octopus of cables and external doodads.

In my office I have a Lenovo X220, and everyone else has Macs, mostly Macbooks. I have a docking station, so all my cables other than mouse and keyboard are behind my desk out of sight and mind. The co-worker with the iMac has the same situation. Everyone else has a Macbook Pro or Air. The entire left sides of their desk are a mess of cables spewing out the side of the Macbooks. It ruins everything.

Hiding everything inside of the beautiful box keeps it pretty, so I've never really understood why Apple loves external devices so much more than internal.
1. Can you release a sample of your Motion to Quash, sans personally identifying information, or maybe the Motion on your own behalf?

2. Will you consider filing a Motion to the Court mandating the Court acceptance electronic filings (CM/ECF), since 1. presumably all Americans have standing; 2. your experience alone should be prima facie evidence that the Court is purposely limiting access to the Court itself; 3. it is an exception that a Federal Court does not permit CM/ECF (see: http://www.uscourts.gov/FederalCourts/CMECF/Courts.aspx)
- I am of the opinion that #2 will cause the most damage because it will open the floodgates and overwhelm the Court.

Give em hell.
My issue is that no-one should really have to 'remember' them.

When I first started using github it was straightforward as I only had to learn what the words meant (i.e 'fork', pull-request, etc). Now a new user is supposed to learn those concepts and their associated symbols. The cognitive overhead just increased.
I can understand that price may be the most important factor but I feel that the article lacks a more exhaustive comparative analysis - namely considering other factors and risks that are important when a person looks for a room
I briefly tried SourceTree when the Windows build was first made available for download. However, it too did not support Git submodules--although from my understanding the Mac version does. I'll keep an eye on it though, since that seemed like something that would be added in time.
Ray Kurzweil said so!

That was sarcastic for reference - I think the guy is a crackpot.
No they don't frame themselves as that!
Simon Peres said they are buying up Manhattan, Hungary etc...[1]

Now Jobbik is not against the Jews. They are against the fact that they (admitted by them) buying up our country!

If Barack Obama would say the same they would protest against the USA. Would that make them or me an antiUSAic? No!

Wether they are Jews, aliens, englishmen or bushmans or whatever, we don't like other people buying up our country! That's all. It's not a race issue.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4Cu-K17vE
The gene does, just as everything else, but we don't ascribe magical properties to the gene which are not readily accessible and coherent with the philosophical context. If you tried to use the gene to define God, then you would have the philosophical disconnect I'm talking about.
Container virtualization certainly has its uses, and we will see hosting products based on it; no question.

But to say that it is "the future" and virtual machines are on their way out is a naive view.

There's plenty of reasons why someone might want a virtualized OS; customization.

What if my application is built to run on Debian but yours is built to run on CentOS? With container based virtualization we have to be put on different nodes. With VMs, we can share a node.

This is why VMs exist. This is why they will continue to exist.

Disclaimer; I work in the hosting industry.
So it's the mafia versus the fascists.

Fuck.
That is an extremely interesting take which I hadn't considered, especially when considering rMBPs have two TB ports.
Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column that popularized this game also included a description of a variant: Brussels Sprouts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)#Brussels_Sprouts), played with small crosses instead of dots.

While appearing similar, in Brussels Sprouts the result is always fixed: if there are an odd number of crosses initially, the first player wins; otherwise, the second does.
The FISA court is not an article III court. Its a congressional check on the executive's exercise of discretion. It limits executive discretion that would otherwise be unbounded. So the fact that its secret isn't some big scary thing: it doesn't have the power to make decisions that require an article III court anyway. It makes decisions that would otherwise be made behind closed doors in the executive.

The danger of the FISA court is if it starts impinging on the domain of article III courts. Granting warrants that would otherwise require an article III warrant, etc. The fact that its real article III judges could lend an air of legitimacy to that process that it shouldn't have.
Ask HN: How do you manage older employees who report to you?
It is obviously not very uncommon to be 32 while your direct report is 55. Those of you in situation like this, how do you manage it ? A very generalized question of course but just want to hear your stories/ideas/experiences. Also older employees who are direct reports to someone younger, feel free to tell your side of the story too.
He walked into the store, self-selecting as someone who prioritizes immediacy. Otherwise he would have simply ordered from the website from the comfort of his home, no?

And if you went to a store and they then walk you through the website...that would be very offputting to many people -- all of the disadvantages of both mediums.

I, too, suspect that the sales rep was simply pushing what was available in stock, and while this is completely typical of all brick-and-mortars, it is by no means selfless or in his interest, and I think it will turn out to be a very expensive decision to go with just 4GB.
> Why couldn't Apple have provided a tower that had both internal and external expansion?

The lack of internal expansion means high-end mac pro peripherals have to be TB, which may finally kickstart the the TB ecosystem. And when that happens, these peripherals are compatible with all machines from the mini and air to rMBP and mac pro.
"Brewster Kahle, a computer engineer who founded the Internet Archive, has vast experience storing large amounts of data. He created a spreadsheet this week estimating that the cost to store all domestic phone calls a year in cloud storage for data-mining purposes would be about $27 million per year, not counting the cost of extra security for a top-secret program and security clearances for the people involved."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/evidence_that_...

Storage is cheap, and only getting cheaper. You could archive things older than a certain date onto cheaper media. Or consider converting audio into text-transcripts after a period of time, and you can dramatically reduce your storage requirements. Either way, $27 million isn't really much.
There's a huge difference between feeling pain and reacting to demage. Humans can react to injury in a very complex ways without feeling pain. And buildings too - when you crash with an airplane into a building, the building reacts in a complex way. Does it feel pain? Feeling pain is something fundamentally different than reacting to demage.
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Among other factors for the South's rise is one that's often overlooked: air conditioning.

It's nice to not have to deal with snow, but the South's wet heat can be miserable. Before A/C it was easier to heat than cool, so most people wanted to live up north. Now it's quite easy to cool, so the South becomes much more appealing.
> The problem is without any philosophical backup the neural correlate is entirely uncompelling—it's merely a clinical definition of a measure of... nothing meaningful.

Gravity is arguably a more compelling concept to someone falling off a ladder than to a student in a high school physics class. But, so? Does gravity lose meaning on a scale that is too large or too small to fit human experience?
I know a lot of people who didn't really move beyond thinking about boolean logic. It's easy to reason about the larger scale component if you're reading a diagram, but it gets harder to design with them at scale.
Doesn't quite work, since the opponent can chose the centre square which leaves you with a free move, but whatever master square you place your free move in, can no longer be used to force him back into the same master square.
This is quite a funny read--the author goes through many, many iterations of a database representation for marriages, starting with a basic spec that would make a Southern Baptist preacher happy and ending with something that even Heinlen would have agreed was sufficiently ambitious.

It's nice to see something this forward-thinking.
You can run debian containers in a centOS host, so long as they can share the same kernel, which Linux distros mostly can now, as we dont see the degree of distro patching we used to at one point.
I'd take it the other way. If you're not under custodial interrogation, they have no obligation to tell you anything - so a non-response to "am I free to go?" amounts to "yes". I mean, unless I get that no, they're just stalling for time to find some reason to detain where they otherwise have none. I'd be awfully tempted to include a "if you don't answer the question in 30 seconds I'll assume the answer is 'yes' and I will leave", but methinks that just complicates things. If they can't affirm arrest (however loosely defined), their delaying you is NOT for your benefit.
I don't think so. At Orwin -1, picking a non-center move forces O to one of 6 perimeter boards, none of which have that corresponding perimeter position filled. This cedes initiative to O.
Would recent commits give that information more effectively than viewing the whole source?
It's possible for advertising to have negative value.

There are brands / stores / products I've avoided specifically because of the advertising, whether it was annoying, disgusting, insulting, belittling, bigoted, or whatever. I've got several examples in mind as I speak.
Doubled Down on Pjax and Caching, i wonder if they are using Rails 4.0 already.