skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article, but do many people use curl for binary downloads? I thought most sysadmins used it for viewing headers and/or parsing raw text. For binary downloads wget seems to be favoured. So with that in mind, I'd be curious to see how wget compared with the other solutions in those benchmarks.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not trying to imply that my way is "better" nor the only way HTTP GETs should be called. I'm only commenting on how I generally work and the trend I've anecdotally observed. Though I'd be interested to see if many others on here do prefer curl over wget for pulling binary files.
6) Don't have an order page that 404's

http://www.balsamicsauce.com/collections/frontpage/products/...
I can't really be bothered with all that after basically writing that entire solution for a private company. Another metalanguage to learn...

Plus I have to have a network connection and log into a UNIX box for it which I can't do whilst I'm on the phone as it's stuck to my head at the time.
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> ... except that serverB is only listening on a private IP and I want to connect to it in by web browsing (http) ...

Still possible, with ssh's "-D" option that basically turns a remote SSH server into a (HTTP) proxy server!

$ ssh -D 4444 serverA.example.com

Log in and keep this session active.

In your browser (I use a separate browser, permanently configured this way), configure it to use a (SOCKS5) proxy server for all traffic. The proxy server should be "localhost:4444".

In your address bar, navigate to "http://serverB.example.com". The HTTP traffic is sent over the SSH tunnel to serverA and from there it goes out to the network to its destination. To the destination server (serverB), it appears that the request originated from serverA and that's where the response will go (at which point it is again encrypted and sent over the SSH tunnel back to your local machine). Visit http://icanhazip.com (or a similar site), for example, and you'll see that, to the remote web server, it appears that traffic is coming from serverA.

This isn't the most eloquent explanation, sorry. Look into "SSH socks proxy" and you should find much better explanations. It's really much easier than it sounds! =)
> But then he uses the model wrongly, since he puts "hidden factor" "smoking" "lung cancer" in the vertices, and not "hidden factor (t=0)", "smoking(t=1)" and "lung cancer(t=2)".

The direction of the arrows shows causation with also implies time has passed though the amount of time is not specified in the model he is using, though it could be added. He has a section latter in the article about why he left it absent earlier and covers how it could be included.

> Further if used like that, then a possible hidden factor could actually be "lung cancer(t=0)", since it could (conceivably) cause both "smoking(t=1)" and "lung cancer(t=2)".

If lung cancer actually caused smoking then yes that would a simple solution. If that was the answer though the very next question would be what caused "lung cancer(t=0)". Which "smoking(t=-1)" if existed would be suspect, and another "hidden factor"(s) of course as well.
How come the US still has a bail system? It so obviously favours those who can pay their way through. Either you are under arrest or you are not. If you are, you should only be able to regain your freedom by being found not guilty.
Check out the demo from last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8zwnqKysfI#t=4314s

(Video should start at ca. 1:12:00).
I don't get it, why does Wayland require Nouveau? The closed-source NVidia drivers are feature-compatible with their closed-source Windows drivers, so why would Wayland (or MIR, for that matter) be limited by them? What more do Wayland or MIR need besides shaders and OpenCL?

Or is all of this just because the Wayland and MIR developers only want to use open-source drivers?
And science marches on.

Maybe I'm showing my age, but it astonishes me how quickly the study of exo-planets has progressed. I wonder if I'll live long enough to see images beamed back from an interstellar probe?
In those instances it's very clear that it's not a real threat, I doubt anybody reported it. In this case it was unclear whether it was a serious threat and somebody reported it. The work kill is used in the contexts you presented all the time and people understand that it isn't serious. It's not everyday you hear it people threaten to kill/shoot children as a joke and some people rightly take that seriously.
Wouldn't this rather set a bad precedent that your time is cheap. Yes they might hire you, but not for the big bucks...
People are starting to take the whole "creative resume" thing to absurd extremes. But there's a valid point hidden in this blog post, which is to say, standing out from the crowd isn't easy. Startups need people with hustle, and showing some hustle isn't a bad thing.

Hustle doesn't necessarily imply competence, however, which is why she suggests #3 ("Show them you can do the job").

But the thing people miss about gimmicks is that they have to be relevant: to you, to the job, to the company. Gimmicks for gimmicks' sake (logo drawing, cake baking, etc.) are just silly.
All voting systems that I know of require trust, with or without machines. Do you trust the person counting your ballot to count correctly? There's a district in the UK that prides itself on always being the first to return results. I would be fairly worried about the ballot counters there.

Eventually someone has to trust someone to execute correctly. Unless there's some voting system I'm not aware of that doesn't require humans and is easily verifiable at the point of voting by the average voter.
I don't agree with that last sentence though. It's not more complex because you don't need to spread booths all around the country, get volunteers to sit a whole day at the booths, secure the ballots, count the ballots, recount the ballots, etc... It takes a lot of logistics to do papervoting and it's probably more expensive too, compared to a centralized datacenter. They probably still have booths for people without computers, but they surely need less.

Also, if voting is not compulsory, there's a lot less friction to actually go vote from the comfort of your home, whenever you want, than there is to get to a booth and stand in a queue on voting day, it would surely result in a higher turnout.
(http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130709/18282723752/teens-...)

> D.C. Police Officer Christopher Picciano, "a 17-year veteran who was a member of the elite presidential motorcade detail," will be suspended without pay for a little over a month after joking about killing the first lady, threatening to go on a shooting spree, and calling Pres. Obama a communist.
When I read "throwable", I thought it implied "disposable".

This, in a way, reminds me of the scene in Prometheus where the scientists map the interior of the cave/ship using a pair of floating censors than scan the walls. I can imagine (a more hardened version of) something like this being dropped down a mine shaft or crevasse in search and rescue situations. Or even thrown into a building.

The radio-controlled robots have a relatively narrow field of view and you often only see where the camera is pointed (on the throwable ones, I think the camera is confined to one axis, up/down, motion).

Combine this with the gigapixel camera ( http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/50-gigapixel-camera-straig... ) and you have Prometheus tech today. Just gotta work on that anti-gravity part now.

Edit: Just finished watching the full video demo. Looks like they're pushing the search/rescue angle too. It makes perfect sense really. I hope it gets to market soon!
I crashed at my sisters for 3 months and then lived in an apt for $300 for 9 months while making $250/month for the first 3 months.

Ended up getting a job there, working my way, getting recruited & then quitting & starting my own business.

Not a "rich person", just got tired of getting rejected from starbucks/target/caribou & figured I'd might as well spend my time being useful rather than complaining about being unemployed.
I've only been in for 5+ years, and I don't look at my stock so closely, it has traveled a bit up and down, nothing to think much about.

The way American/Chinese taxes work, actually, I'm annoyed to get stock at all as compensation and wish it would just come in as salary.
What? A reasonable response would be to do nothing.
There are theoretical cryptographic systems where each voter can verify that his vote was counted properly, without revealing his vote to anyone. I don't think any have been implemented in practice.
The UK has had problems with fathers using the votes of everyone in their family via postal voting.

I'd be interested to see if electronic voting fixes that, or makes it worse.
I think the difference is people going out of their way to work for free at a company they enjoy and wouldn't get a chance to work at normally, vs. the expectation that you must work for free, like the traditional interns for Lawyers.

You're right, in the latter instance, there is such a large supply of interns working for free that it becomes the expected route of entry into these firms and creates a big market distortion. You could argue these tend to be for high paying jobs requiring special skill-set, and thus could view 'complusory' internship as an extended 3-month interview.

But if you go and work at a start-up for free, you're there because you want to, not because it's expected.
In practice, Gtk+ will have to deprecate a few things to better support Wayland. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Wayland/GTK%2B and https://wiki.gnome.org/Wayland/Gaps.

Mir and Wayland seem to be pretty related though. Same gaps that Wayland has (needing development time) also are with Mir AFAIK. So once fixed for Wayland, Mir will have it easy :P

Note that real Mir support is only planned for 14.10. At the moment it is just XMir, which is totally different from the what is going on with Wayland (goal is native, this is way more difficult). I have seen the development that is needed to get Wayland really working, Mir seems way behind on this though they probably can copy what was done for Wayland and pretend they did it :P
Darpa unveils 6-foot-tall humanoid robot Atlas
The sad thing is that one would think that these migrations away from their services should worry Google, but they are apparently offset by the benefit of being able to concentrate on serving the sheeple.
Github link: https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine
Good point, I didn't read it either ;)
Tell HN: your obsession with Google isn't healthy
It seems like it's the same old item atop the HN main page: someone manages to string a title with some permutation of the words "Google" and "evil" in it and it instantly shoots to the top.

Their content is being duplicated as well (search HN). Recently the dominant anti-Google rhetoric consists of the following formula: 'I'm moving of of Google services, here is what to' or any number of Google Reader or federated XMPP laments (which they truly fall under your definition of "evil" then you're perspective needs calibrating). The result is not strictly HN material, it's not thought provoking and it never stimulated any sort of meaningful discussion. It's just boring and pathetic.

Yesterday someone submitted about the new revelations regarding Microsoft and the NSA, it never once reached the top. I'm not suggesting some sort of conspiracy is taking place, but seeing as the discussion on that post somehow veered towards Google would certainly point to an unhealthy obsession HN has with them that is making this place a dull one.
Is the editor a program is written in really a criterion you evaluate software against?
Round trip ticket to Bangkok.

3 months is enough to head up to Chiang Mai, take the slow boat down the Mekong into Laos, cross into Vietnam, make your way South then into Cambodia, then park it at Tonsai beach in Southern Thailand until your time's up or you decide to blow off whatever it was you were heading back for and extend your trip out to an entire year.

If you haven't done that already, then there is absolutely nothing else in this world (short of fathering a child) that will be as engrossing or life changing.

Book it today.
Edward Snowden appears at Moscow airport and renews asylum claim
It's a bit different when friends are spread out all over the globe. If I want to message someone 13 hours away it is either Facebook or email, and facebook has been replacing those short messages that email or IM used to be used for.
It's an interesting observation.
Slightly off topic:

How does the bail system fit to "Equal justice under law" ?

How a justice system can call itself just when rich get a clear advantage?
The main gain is that people can vote from home, from abroad, or from work. Which increases turnout (especially among young and busy people). However, I'm not sure if the risks are worth that convenience.
There was this talk on TED a few years ago about e-voting without fraud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izddjAp_N4I

I think they had a website for it, too, but I can't find it right now, and don't remember how it was called exactly.
no, because you can't challenge "javascript is slow", since only apple is allowed to JIT it. If they do a bad job, there is noone else to help.
the problem with e-voting is any single sys admin has hugely more influence than any single human ballot counter.
Sadly many of the identifiers are named in estonian. Limiting this project to estonian developers only. I'm aware that this is _estonians_ voting system, but i'm sure there are developers all around the world who would be interested in contributing (especially security audits would be interesting) to this project without the necessity to reverse engineering/translating the code.
Some heavy security checks:

https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine/blob/master/ivote-serve...
I did:

Your batteries have to provide 600W continuous for 18 hours (actually more as that was the power needed for a controlled decent), and your solar panels have to provide that same energy in your 6 hour 'solar day'. In addition, the solar panels would need to provide another 600W for 6 hours in order to run the motors whilst charging the batteries.

So that's 10.8KWhrs of batteries, and 2400W/hr or 14.5sq m of solar panels.

That translates to 108KG of batteries and 29KG of solar panels using your weight to power ratios - 137KG in total, compared to the rider at 75KW, so your 24 hour solar bird is a sadly flightless before even adding motors, gearboxes electronics and cabling.
It seems like the majority wants that, and that's very understandable. But it's very very hard to know what "it" actually is, especially when you try to account for the future. So, I don't think most people have the smallest clue if this is a good trade-off or not. Time will tell I guess..

Another point that actually bothers me more is how inflexible this is. You can't mix & match the best services when sticking to one ecosystem. And you cant take part of new development happening elsewhere. So you're actually missing out on all the cool stuff happening elsewhere, and the longer you use these services the harder it is to switch to something else.
A little south of the border - Bulgaria. In the north parts of the country the Christmas slaughtering of a pig is called killing (without specifying the species).

So a Bulgarian invites Romanian relative to come visit for the killing (mostly brutal overeating on various pig parts with few gallons of wine for drink). Some cops intercept that and mount a full force investigation, wasting money and man hours, arrest the guys etc ... then release them of course, but this would have been avoided if just the cops has asked someone from that part of the country about the jargon used.
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> I'd be interested to see if many others on here do prefer curl over wget for pulling binary files.

This is how I ended up consistently prefering curl:

Last time I looked closely, I had better control with curl, and curl had better support for stuff. For example HTTP 1.1 was supported by curl, but not wget.

This makes curl a far better choice for testing HTTP servers.

And next, since I now know curl pretty well, and have it installed all over the place, it is my go-to HTTP command line client. I don't know of any reason to use both, or any reason to prefer wget, although in some situations maybe "wget <url>" acts slightly more like you want than "curl <url>". (Which is of course easy to work around by using "curl -OL <url>", if that's what you want, but convenient defaults are still convenient)
"I wonder if I'll live long enough to see images beamed back from an interstellar probe?"

I would say you have a small, but definitely non-zero, chance of that - but it probably depends more on the development of effective life prolonging therapies that anything else. We're quite a long way from being motivated enough to build a dedicated interstellar probe and then you would probably have to wait a few decades for the probe to actually get somewhere and a, much smaller, time for the signals to get back.

Personally, I'd settle for seeing manned exploration of Mars and I think that may just happen...
It fixes it somewhat, depending how far the person will go to claim those votes: iirc you get a week to vote, and the last vote you make counts. So even though your father might stand next to you and watch as you vote for his candidate, you can always recast your vote later. This doesn't solve the problem in case the person keeps an eye on you from the time you voted until the deadline, or steals your ID card until after the deadline.
Thanks for the feedback! We are working on improving the web interface to show comment history.
Yes, it was very similar to many prototyping apps like POP that we tried. We have added those features we found missing in the existing apps. The feedback on the web found to be very useful for many of our users.
In this regard WP8 is very much like iOS and not even close to Android.
Apps are 'tombstoned' when they are not the visible app. So no matter how many apps you install, when they're not open, they won't use battery.
Ignoring the comparative levels of freedom in the respective countries, wouldn't it seem to be a safer bet to seek asylum in Russia than Venezuela? Russia seems far less politically volatile and more likely to resist US pressure over a 50 year time span.
Responsive Web Design - conquer ALL the devices
The voters can check their votes by following method:

http://www.vvk.ee/public/Verification_of_I-Votes.pdf
AT&T selling your location to advertisers (and already to NSA)
Well cURL is also an HTTP library which makes it a better comparison with other HTTP libraries than a file download utility.
It is highly doubtful that goverments could plan a century ahead.
On that subject, unexploded ordnance (UXO) is a real danger for the Crossrail tunnels deep under London:

http://www.londonreconnections.com/2012/a-legacy-of-iron-cro...
Always wondered - why not just distill the stuff yourself in the US? It is extremely easy - you just need fruits, heat source, sugar and basic 6th grade chemistry knowledge to separate methanol and ethanol.

Even better solution is to just buy ultra pure for analysis ethanol from local chemistry store (or Merck), dilute with distilled water 3/2, add some drops (very little - a drop or two per liter) of glycerin to smooth the taste, some citric acid or lemon juice.

It is better than top shelf vodka.
The license (Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0) is a strange choice for a project published on Github. Github encourages forking and making changes, which goes against the NoDerivs part of the license, unless I'm misunderstanding something.
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http://www.yallamoviez.com/2013/07/Episode3-GreatAwayPartIII.html
There usually are representatives of various political parties at each polling station during elections in my country.
How do you watch electroing vote counting? How do you recount in case of doubt?
Must be Estonian thing. I had to deal with the system that was also born in Estonia but went international later. Estonian comments and names did not make it easier.
But why? Why can't people use email anymore? This is a genuine question! I rarely feel like I would need something other than email for anything, so I don't understand how facebook replaced that?
Lock, wait & obstruction free synchronization algorithms and data structures
I didn't ment the desktop client, i wanted to point to their email services.
Well great. But being in France I would have loved to have a chance to even know ADD existed before I found it myself online at the age of 29.

And I think there is maybe only 3 doctors in Paris that diagnose it. And the only medication available is Ritaline / Concerta.
When I looked at the word 'blue' in the title, my first thought was there could be life but. But reading further...

>> It is only 2.9 million miles from its parent star, so close that it is gravitationally locked. One side always faces the star and the other side is always dark.

and

>>day side and night side temperatures on HD 189733b differ by about 500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Means life similar to us doesn't exist there.

Seems like our exploration of the cosmos and some drastic results with regards to that will only happen after some drastic changes in technology. It took a ship, and a few determined men to explore places on earth.

It will take some radical invention in transport systems. And few determined men this time too.

I don't think we will ever discover anything substantial as long as the physics of that is limited by things like speed of light. Its like thinking of heavier than air flying machines before the discovery of bernoulli's theorem.
Hyperbole and wild-eyed speculation aside, the important point is that I think the train of events playing out will have long term consequences. The most immediate one is the balkanization of the internet as countries and regional groups scramble to put up barriers to keep the undesirables out of their back yards. The US government has probably permanently damaged or perhaps destroyed it's claim to be the leader of the Free World so what and who is going to fill the gap? With weak leadership in the EU and Russia's perennial imperial ambitions perhaps the Kremlin is going to use this to start to drive a wedge between Western Europe and the USA - something it was unable to do during the Cold War. Over a long period of time, with the USA focussing more on China, that would leave Western Europe more vulnerable to (or even accepting of) Russian influence.

Great stuff for John le Carré's next novel.
The modern way of doing this is to have something called a 'sheep dip' station. This is an unconnected system that's used to check the contents of any import/export. The idea is that you cryptographically sign the material you want to import/export, burn it to write once media, pop it in the sheep dip box, confirm it's all hunky dory and if it is, import/export to/from the network. The media is then archived so it can be traced back.

Typically the sheep dip station has AV and some other antimalware tools, but depending on what you're trying to do you might have a dedicated sheep dip person that manually checks the content of what you're importing/exporting (particularly for sensitive IP in large engineering and research organisations). When this happens, it usually takes weeks to get anything approved for import/export.
It seems like a good option. Relatively cheap as well. But are they encrypting my files? On the FAQ page they say that during uploading the data transfer is encrypted, but they don't mention if my files stay encrypted on their server.
Yes, but that would make spy movie believable and thrilling again.