skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of us are sitting at our desks 24/7 :)

I've been all over the animation section. Great stuff in there. The whole list is phenomenal.
Well, it probably helps that male rape culture is in full effect. In the UK, it's legally not even possible for a woman to rape a male. Most US organizations won't count it either--the FBI found almost a 50/50 ratio of male and female rape victims, but a man being raped didn't count as rape because it "didn't count as rape." If there is a rape culture, I'm not entirely sure it's a female rape culture. Raping a female is basically condemned by everyone at this point. Case in point: national outrage over the Steubenville thing.

Domestic violence rates have been for years known to be roughly 50/50 between the sexes. Some studies have even found that women are slightly more likely than men to initiate violence.

Of course, only women get societal support and access to domestic violence shelters. My father was warned by the police that if he ever called them when my mother was beating him, the police would be forced to arrest him instead (due to the domestic violence laws pushed through by feminists in the VAWA).
This is a very similiar article theme-wise, but not as sparse on details http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/al...
I remember actually rolling my eyes when the first Hastings crash conspiracy statements were made here on HN, now they don't seem so far fetched. Crazy world. Still, chances are it was an unfortunately timed accident. However small it might be though, the (perceived) realistic probability of government involvement is kind of a big deal, at least for people like me who historically never believed in that sort of thing.
> I am almost ashamed to say that was my first instinct, try to break the system before you decide the system is worthy of your use

I am proud to say that's always my first impulse when thrust into security-related circumstances.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_m...
And I believe Musk was truly saddened by Armstrongs attitude.

...

"I was very sad to see that," Musk tells "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley. "Those guys are heroes of mine, so it's really tough … I wish they would come and visit … see the hard work that we're doing here and I think that it would change their mind."

http://www.space.com/14936-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-60-minutes-i...
Cryptographers; isn't Voynich manuscript a proof that security by obscurity works? (only confidentiality)
Remember - talking to your customers != cold phone calls.

* You can arrange a phone call. Email 'em first, or use a tool like ethn.io, or just hack something into the workflow of your site that lets people opt-in to a call right then.

* You can give options for customers to call you outside of support calls. Set up some office hours on ohours or whatever. Get your customer to call you.

* Find a local customer. Go out for coffee. Buy them dinner.

* Whenever you go somewhere not-local - see if you have a customer there. Go out for coffee. Buy them dinner.

* If you find there are non-local locations that have groupings of many of your customers - find an excuse to go visit that location.

... and so on...
112 (emergency telephone number)
What are you doing to make sure your site (and your users' URLs) will be around in five years? How about fifteen?

(I'm not just being snarky, I have run a freenet out of pocket for sixteen years because people's urls and email addresses are important to not lose.)
> Do we know for sure that the charges he is alleging are actually illegal?

No. We don't know their legality. As far as I can tell, there have been pseudo-legal rulings on the subject. But the existence, never-mind the substance, of those rulings are classified. Some people have a problem with that.
Men have been the target of systematic oppression for millenia, too, you know.

Throughout all of history, it's men that have been forced to fight and die in wars without any choice in the matter. There's a lot of raping of males that goes on in Africa during their various wars, but any coverage will inevitably focus on women instead (due to funding issues--no one cares about a male rape victim).

Life is hard for everyone, male and female.
I guess for a latin alphabet based language user, every other writing is either ancient or sci-fi.
Not all societies were patriarchies. Some are/were matriarchies. There were even some (like Sparta) that treated their women pretty equally.
There exists a Skeptoid article about the Voynich manuscript: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4252

The conclusion:

"So let's wrap this up with my favorite theory, and the one that is perhaps best supported by all that's known. In the early 1400s, some professional, perhaps a physician or astrologer or alchemist, wanted to create some marketing material that demonstrated he had rare knowledge from the East. He engaged a monk or other scribe to produce a book filled with wondrous and curious illustrations from multiple sciences, and a text that nobody could read, which he could tell his customers was the source of whatever great Eastern wisdom he wanted. The monk had a colleague assist, and the two devised an alphabet and used their own multilingual familiarity with written language to devise a convincing nonsense text. It was well done enough that its owner could even use it to impress his colleagues. Thus, this anonymous professional ended up with impressive marketing collateral that's conceptually identical to the labcoat worn by a naturopath, the energy diagram on the wall of a yoga guru, and the purchased-online title of "doctor" sported by alternative practitioners of every variety."
Sorry, not the best link to illustrate the situation, it runs over many years. They were denied the right to build there, so they applied for something that would have minimal impact, got it accepted. Then applied for something else, with slightly more impact, got it accepted. Every step was careful, measured and calculated to go unnoticed by locals. Eventually they turned and said, well hey, if I can build X surely Y (McDonalds) will be fine.
There is also a history of McDonald's not abiding by their council consents (not collecting rubbish generated, opening for longer than agreed to, noise violations etc), but they can afford the fines.
Nothing illegal was done in this instance, they just managed to bypass local feeling and played a perfect game. Key takaway I guess, is that out of 872 submissions to the council regarding the plans, 860 were opposed to it. completely. http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/news/editorial-the-battle-of-...
Taxibots need to be installed in every airport and for every jet at peak capacity.

These units go where the jets goes, and are available for exactly the utilised capacity of the airport.
^Z sends a SIGSTOP no? I believe it can't be trapped (like SIGKILL). Actually i think the result of trying to trap it, is undefined (by posix)
>stop believing what science tells you

You can't be serious.

Someone on Hacker News advocating not to believe in science? Really?
Just wait until one unknown day without notice or fanfare it disappears from the 'net forever!
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This is why I love HN. Great list!
Why Jason Calacanis Is Wrong About YouTube
similar to this list...
https://github.com/codylindley/frontend-tools
Pretty sure that's it, thanks. A blast from the past. It was probably 20 years that I saw that.
Agreed. There are way too many items on the list. This way, it is barely anymore useful than a google search for these tools.
Purely from an optics standpoint, I think it would be better for Snowden if the petition got 100,000 signatures than if it failed to.
Source? What information has been published which isn't a whistleblow leak? Bradley Manning isn't exactly charged with telling about someones secret crush, or where they hide to smoke, or where that secret stash of weed is.
There's a lot of americans that have bad blood with the space program; deaths in a colonization program would just fuel them.

I'm pretty sure the number of deaths doesn't matter either. Only a few people died in the boston bombings and that didn't stop the entire country from turning upside down over it for a few weeks.
Users can't and won't securely store key material, even their own.

Servers that store key material are subject to wiretaps.

We're not lacking secure alternatives because this isn't a technical problem.
From an ex-member of Google's hiring committee in 2010:

Brain teasers? Banned. (Of course, everyone has a different definition of a brain teasers.) If an interviewer were to ask a candidate a brain teaser, despite the policy, the hiring committee would likely disregard this interviewer’s feedback and send a note back telling the interviewer not to ask such silly questions.
...
Now, let’s look at the very widely circulated “15 Google Interview Questions that will make you feel stupid” list. You want to believe these are real questions, given that Business Insider feels like such a reputable source. Except that they didn’t get this list from a direct source. They borrowed their questions from some blogger (I won’t link back here) who was posting fake questions.
...
How can you tell that they’re fake? Because one of them is “Why are manhole covers round?” This is an infamous Microsoft interview question that has since been so very, very banned at both companies . I find it very hard to believe that a Google interviewer asked such a question.

http://www.technologywoman.com/2010/05/17/debunking-the-goog...

In my experience (10+ Google interviews) there's been a lot of brain-exploding algorithmic questions but nothing that would be called a traditional brain teaser.

Try & find a first hand, non anonymous account of someone being asked brain teasers at a Google interview.
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That's how I saw it as well. The reality is certainly more disappointing. This would have been a great opportunity to simply take away what I think is the Tesla's most limiting factor: battery degradation.
I like readable.cc, although I already sent a bug report. :)
No, it's proof that properly executed steganography works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
I recommend reading https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt and the per-namespace documentation linked to at http://lxc.sourceforge.net/index.php/about/kernel-namespaces...
When in the possession of UPS, they can just ask UPS to volunteer it. They are allowed to, and will. You gave it away.

The law specifically prevents this for US mail.
Sex-negative feminists and sex-negative Christians have a weirdly large amount of things in common at times.
Accidents do happen, even after sending email warning about big stories and Fed investigations. But then it all depends on his "big story." It need not be the Government doing it, maybe some big fish to avoid jail, embarrassment or a fortune loss, called in a favor or paid to have the problem solved. Personally I could see both of them happening.
Well - a lot depends on what part failed - was it the backend big iron, or the front end scraping system?
Firefox requires your master password (if you have one) to view your passwords in plain text.
I mean, sure, just typeset it in LaTeX and it'll breeze right past your Fortune 500 IT department's change management board.
Uhh, Google will do that anyway.
It's a power differential thing, I think.

What's most baffling is that...

With feminists: It's ok if women want sex, but not ok for men to want sex.

With fundamentalist conservatives: It's ok if men want sex, but not ok for women to want sex.
Of course. But you google names you come up with to check if somebody didn't found it earlier. It's hard not to do that.
Where will the keys be stored?

How will they be distributed and replaced?

Who will generate them?

How will they get on my phone?

What happens when my phone is stolen?

How will they get to the people who want to communicate with me?
Some data could be captured less, but what about data like email contents, files, contacts, calendar data, chat histories? Retaining those things are part of the whole purpose of having web clients and dwarf logs like the IP address you used to do a web search, which is ephemeral anyway. Can we at least define the "so much data" that we're talking about here? Going to my Google account page, for the most part I see services that I specifically turned on. What other data are we talking about here that would really save the day if not present?

LastPass is a webservice and stil encrypts the data locally; they use an extension, but Google controls the most popular browser today. They could add encryption capabilities to it and use it on Calendar, Contacts and others. Even email could be auto-encrypted on arrival.
Another "not a neuroscientist" - but I do have a slightly-more-than-layperson knowledge and interest in the area, and a degree in AI if that matters.

"I'd love for a neuroscientist to weigh in on this - what is the possibility that something like this could be used to generate an artificial neural network which imitates, even crudely, the functions of the human brain?"

Pretty much zero. Because it really just focussed on the organisation of the neurons, and ignores the complexity of the neurons themselves and the chemical/electrical/etc. communication between 'em. Neurons themselves are pretty complex beasts, and we're still learning things about them and the level of "processing" that is happening within neurons, as opposed to between 'em.

For example as recently as ten years ago everybody knew that most of the computation was implicit in the neural connectivity of the synapses. We now know that there is significant computation within individual neurons - in the dendrites of all things (previously thought to be pretty much passive carriers of output from other cells - just wires basically).

(See http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.neuro.2... ).

Don't get me wrong - it's useful work. But nowhere close to the level of detail needed to run people-sims.
Do you know how PayPal does it? They have a 30 day auth validity, and in some cases there's an option to extend the auth past the 30 days.

We use PayPal a lot for our e-commerce store, and have verified the 30 day auth with near 100% success.
Oh my god. Really?

Guess you better go tell a bunch of little girls that they aren't allowed to like whatever their favorite female Disney protagonist happens to be.
RAPE CULTURE

or is it LAND CULTURE?

perhaps it is MER CULTURE??

(I haven't seen that movie in a long while.)
The early implementation of Stripe in activemerchant (library that Shopify uses for payments) didn't have a auth/capture capability. So the early version of Stripe captured everything as soon as the cart was checked out.
It's powered by the APU, a small jet fuel burning generator that already supplies the plane with electrical power when the engines are off, so there's no need for extra batteries.
Just like tumblr is ground zero for privileged females attending $30,000/year liberal arts colleges for women's studies, right?
That if you are white, or cis, or a male, then you are innately evil and do not deserve to be treated with the respect that all humans deserve.
I think it's still less than one utah datacenter divided by a billion or so.
The argument is the same, but from the opposite end: Because it costs nothing and takes ten seconds. Why should I care about an opinion if the proponent can't invest more than that into it (say, a phone call to your congressman). What other artefacts of zero-cost, (near-) zero-effort expression should be considered in the legislative process?
Alt+Shift select in Sublime Text (and Esc to cancel).
I don't really see any of this...although I do see a lot of examples of female privilege going on in the comments.

The type of women in tech we need are normal people who don't social justice blog for 14 hours a day on their tumblr about how oppressed they are. Oddly, the women who end up in tech are more likely to be the women who did their STEM classes/homework for 14 hours a day, so in the end it usually works out.
No, it's proof that no one can crack what's just random shit pasted together. No message, no decoding.

Why would you assume there's a message behind the Voynich?
Should be bookmarked as startpage :)
T-H-A-N-K-S
As soon as you touch a library written in java (read as "designed for"), you start to think in terms of java features and how they map to your language of choice. The oft touted benefit of utilising java libraries suddenly becomes a chore since you are now juggling two different languages in your head.

Learn java if you touch JVM, there is no escape.
Ask HN: Those of you who who have had PRK, how was the recovery?
Hi Everyone,

I'm curious how long it took those who had PRK or LASEK to recover and be back to work e.g. coding and looking at a monitor for many hours a day. My insurance company is offering to reimburse 40-50% of PRK costs, so I'm thinking of getting it done sooner than later. Anyway how did it go for you guys/girls?
I think it's proof that given sufficient decorative fluff, people will spend a great deal of time attempting to make sense of nonsense. Same basic principle as snake oil.
Without getting into specifics, as what the SRWs generally consider to be an "underprivileged" person or whatever...I have been feeling the same way as your wife lately QUITE a lot.

It makes it so that actual victims of sexual assault/rape/sexism/homophobia/etc can't talk about their experiences, because there's no way to distinguish between say people with ptsd!triggers and the people with omg-someone-disagreed-with-me!triggers. I hate it so much.
And then invent distributed email cryptography systems to keep them from spying on us! And buy that sweet new Nirvana album!
Edit your your /etc/tor/torrc
And change the AccountingMax line to:
AccountingMax 3000 MB

This will reduce the monthly usage to 12GB and keep you under the 15GB limit. I've been running this bridge for a few months now and have never gone over.
Seriously, Glenn Beck's website is showing up on the front page of Hacker News? It's like the worst of Rush Limbaugh meets Alex Jones. Flagged.
Vim puts the terminal in raw mode, so ^Z sends ^Z instead of SIGSTOP. When Vim receives a ^Z, it shuts down ncurses, returns the terminal to a sensible state, and sends itself SIGSTOP. When it gets SIGCONT, it sets up ncurses and reconfigures the terminal the way it wants again.
The probability of a journalist investigating a big story in the atmosphere of recent scandals is significant. The probability of having a car crash, even a weird one is also quite significant. I won't comment on the (alleged) history of DUI offenses of hastings.

But if you really want to go off the conspiracy deep end, here's my take: Hastings was driving a modern Mercedes. These come with everything like ABS, EPS, Servo steering, Electronic throttle control, automatic transmission and so forth. And as you might know, cars these days are basically computers on wheels intrepreting the users input to the devices output. So if you really wanted to "produce" a freak accident, like say, remote controlling the car into a palm tree. All you'd need to do was hack the onboard control computer, you probably wouldn't even need an RC receiver as you could probably reuse the builtin wifi/radio to input commands to the computer. So unless you perform forensic examination of the onboard computer (which is usually locked down with DRM so you aren't able to repair your own car anymore) there'd be zero evidence.
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Here's the same story via the LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hastings-crash-e...

Also, the local station KTLA broke the story.
Yep. The air transport industry is very very change (read: risk) averse.

The current APUs (except for 787) have traditionally supplied power at 28 VDC and 115 VAC due to the worries about high voltage arcs. They would rather have more current over more copper than higher voltage.

I suspect they have added significant wiring and electronics to this A320 to get this to work. I haven't been able to find out if this aircraft has even flown with this rigging much less gone through certification.

I bet they could slightly improve this system and get rid of reversers as well (active braking).

That being said, I'd imagine ATC to be very wary of the current 130hp system: there is no way you could expedite a move across an active runway at almost 80,000kg MTOW.
Is it just me or does the "new" Obama not even seem convinced himself? Old Obama lots of passion, new Obama struggling to find the words. It makes him look terrible.
No problem, http://www.reocities.com/ to the rescue!
We rallied in Union Square the Monday after he revealed himself at noon. Fifty people showed up.

This is a huge deal on HN. But it's simply business as usual for most people.
I wish one of the legit news sources was on the front page, then, instead of this.

edit: nice component, btw: https://github.com/lattejed/LJSelectionView
Do you have a logo already? I would really like to add NeoCities to http://libreprojects.net
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...

Snowden: "Leaving the US was an incredible risk, as NSA employees must declare their foreign travel 30 days in advance and are monitored. There was a distinct possibility I would be interdicted en route, so I had to travel with no advance booking to a country with the cultural and legal framework to allow me to work without being immediately detained. Hong Kong provided that. Iceland could be pushed harder, quicker, before the public could have a chance to make their feelings known, and I would not put that past the current US administration."

He was not charged yet when he went to HK.
> You can do a lot with metadata.

With GMail metadata, yes; with Tarsnap metadata, much less so.
> Meanwhile, investigators are still looking into what caused Hastings to crash on Tuesday. They are trying to find out if the car had a technical problem or if he may have had a medical condition that caused him to wreck.

There's speculation online that it was a bomb, which isn't under technical problems or medical conditions. Which makes me wonder, would investigators conclude it was a bomb if there was ample evidence?
I've been building a list of front-end development best practices at http://www.betterfrontend.com - it definitely needs to be updated though. I haven't had a change to work on it for almost a year. Would love to get something going with a few devs if they're interested.
...also all the beauty, takes a hell of a long time to load.
It does cost something. It makes you feel like you've done something, so you perhaps have less motivation to do something more substantive such as writing your congressional reps and senators.

Which is a far more meaningful act than signing these useless online petitions.
This is truly an excellent list
Who cares they give it away anyway.
I wonder whether this 'negativity' is really negativity, or just well-meant criticism, testing and validating the idea, maybe even playing advocate of the devil. From what I've seen in the past years, the HN community is unlikely to produce a page with tons of similar 'Nice job!' postings.
Thank you.

Maybe a mod can swap the link. I don't think it matters under the circumstances though, this story is going to go under a microscope.
The benefit here is that most of these are at least somewhat usable in a project. Many of the resources that one finds online are not great. I found several things that I wish I had used on past projects.
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