skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can tell it is not an accident because there many independent sources of evidence, all of which point to the same era. In particular, the proper motion of stars (i.e. the shape of constellations) matches exactly in every case. This is very strong evidence because a) unlike axial procession, it isn't cyclical, and b) we can look at any star that moves sufficiently fast relative to us, and use it as independent evidence. There are dozens of such examples in the parts of the sky that are shown in the comic.

For example, in the image below the left-hand image is from the comic, while the two on the right are captured from Stellarium using two different dates, 13291 and 2013.

http://i.imgur.com/PrQgn4k.png

As a side note, it just isn't possible that Randall drew the stars by hand. They were either captured within planetarium software like Stellarium, or generated programmatically.
App Review Launched Blog hits 1M Unique user in under a week
Yep. I was enjoying the article until I read that comment, at which point I lost all respect for the author.
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For those wanting to read more about dark patterns in design.. http://darkpatterns.org/
How To Upgrade From Fedora 18 To Fedora 19 With FedUp (Desktop & Server)
We have a health insurance marketplace already. The headline should read: "Government run insurance coming soon".
> But if you are putting something like a database in a Docker container, wouldn't you point the storage of the data files at something a little more permanent?

Of course, but how? Can a docker container somehow write to the host fs? It couldn't, a few weeks ago.
I truly feel sorry for Phil Fish. He may have said some silly things in the past, but literally EVERY time something news-worthy about him comes up, the internet explodes with thousands of vitriolic comments about how much of a dick he is. Just look at the comments on Reddit, RPS, or any mainstream news site. They're abhorrent. This has been going on in full-force pretty much since GDC12, when the "Japanese games" incident happened.

Fish asked on Twitter for people to please stop treating him like this a few months ago. It's only gotten worse since then. At this point, it's clear that this stuff is weighing on him pretty heavily. I don't think anyone deserves to be treated like this, regardless of how they handle their online presence. I mean, it's basically cyber-bullying at this point. I wish people would realize that there's another person on the other end of the line who is actually suffering because of their comments.

(Hoping to get this in before the Fish-bashing inevitably starts here as well.)
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I'm not sure that I'm buying that a 0.7% time difference is anything other than noise after only 25 runs.
Those are all good points, so +1, I think the situations then and now are just too different to directly compare. In some ways iOS compares best to Windows in the 90s, in others it compares best to MacOS.

What made Windows viable was Microsoft's heavy investment in providing first class Apps with the Office suite. Arguably Google did this with email and maps apps for Android, but even feature phones have those. They're not a platform differentiator. With iOS you had Garageband, Pages, Numbers and even some first class thirdarty apps out within days of the launch of the App Store. Even now iOS has far more high quality apps and games than Android. If you were to look at comparative app availability and quality between iOS and Android now, and compare that to similar comparative metrics for Windows and Mac OS at similar stages in the 90s, iOS would look a lot more like Windows that it would look like MacOS, whatever you think about 'developer friendliness'. Android being more 'open' may make it more like windows in some ways, but so far that has still yet to translate into it moving ahead as an app platform, and even if/when it does that will no more spell doom for iOS than iOSs current success there spells doom for Android now.
Or use SQL, which is a lot more powerful than APL

How could that possibly be true? What does "powerful" mean? Certainly not that it can compute things that APL family languages can't, and the design of APL/J/K etc. as languages is so much better that it isn't even fun. SQL is the COBOL for the 21th century.

Does the author understand that a just-in-time dynamically recompiling virtual machine is faster than an interpreter?

As memory latencies relative to instruction execution times go up, this factor becomes less and less relevant. An even worse problem is that your "just-in-time dynamically recompiling virtual machine" can't even vectorize properly, whereas APL has high-level array manipulating operators that make it comparatively easy to generate vectorized code. Your "just-in-time dynamically recompiling virtual machine" would have to "intelligently" recover high-level patterns from seemingly nondescript for() and while() loops to do that. Guess what: it doesn't! When you consider the fact that memory latencies matter these days, the fact that an AVX vector instruction can do a whole lot of work in a single cycle (or a few of them at most), and the fact that the integer units that would otherwise be idle can handle dispatching the next primitive operation in the meantime, there's a potential for even an interpreter to kick your "just-in-time dynamically recompiling virtual machine"'s ass.
You have to take a Herstory class at a Gender Studies Department to understand the blatant privileged sexism dripping from this quote.
http://lvivski.com/anima

By the way it's the only to support physics in animations
-C x does the same as both -A x and -B x together

(A - after, B - before, C - context)
Nothing to see here. In general, being a cheater is much more efficient strategy than being a working drone, and, on the other side requires much less actual skills. This is why, for example, so many people struggling to create an appearance of competence and success, without actually possessing any appropriate skills or qualities. Their overconfidence sometimes fools simpleminded neighbors.

Creating an empty-shell companies based on buzzwords, bandwagon effect and spikes of mass hysteria in order to gain ballooned valuation via media campaigns and staged "acquisitions" is a normal practice nowadays. The nonsensical valuation of companies such as Zynga are canonical examples.

Using just appearance and media manipulations to create an association between few buzzwords, a brand and ignorant snap-judgement - "oh, that is a cloud virtualization mobile stock" or, you know, MongoDB - "instant gratification and productivity (of ignorant)" is a new-normal.

The exit strategy could be a fail fail due to "bad economy", while pocketing all the money, or, if lucky, sale to a bigger fool, but first one is much easier.
Such as doctors who are further on in their careers — it's actually rather a nice system, where those who have been lucky enough to be successful can help out those who need it, and all benefit.
Alan Kay seems to think along similar (though not identical) lines these days. The sheer inertia of ordinary programming language implementations means that by the time you get to use it, you may realize that something "slightly different" would have been better, but you seldom have any other option than to "suck it up".
We are not the only ones being watched, politicians are being watched as well. This means the NSA can probably blackmail a large portion of the politicians.
Bacteriophages are pretty good at this. And used in some countries.
It is encouraging to see that the world (both developers and "consumers") "invests" in open source projects.

It means our resources are allocated in the most intelligent way.
It's new in 0.5.0 [1] - Released ~10 days ago. Things in docker-land move super quick!

[1] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/wiki/Docker-0.5.0:-extern...
Most of the United Kingdom.
"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time"

- Winston Churchill (a famous Westener)

- Speech in the UK House of Commons (1947-11-11)

- The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series), 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc. 206–07
Is GPL still relevant?
Ah, you see this is what I haven't yet done... but I figured you'd just mount some network attached storage and use that for the data files.

Which may or may not be the host machine, and most likely would be the machine you configure to be next door with more focus on SSDs than CPU.

I also figured, but haven't checked, that Docker will eventually support Vagrant-style shared folders. But maybe this breaks the philosophical design of a container.
thanks for the link. this is actually true considering the email validation embedded in HTML5.
Not sure whether your comment is sarcastic. Having to use a VPN to read about Tiananmen is not exactly my definition of freedom.

Also, people who walk around at night, shirtless and with an open beer in the hand are usually drunks/douches looking for trouble, that's why people will give you the stink eye. But last I checked, it wasn't illegal.
Economists have a term for it -- Path Dependence. Some decisions have a high enough reversal cost that they are in practice irreversible. This means that one's future decisions are dependent on historical decisions over which one might have had no control. In our case: once a technology is deeply rooted, it's hard to displace.

More closely, the Rogers model of diffusion[2] has 5 factors of diffusion (relative advantage, compatibility, complexity/simplicity, trialability and observability).

Generally even the most advantageous language transitions score well only in relative advantage. The other diffusion predictors are missing or weak.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
I don't get how this isn't illegal.

Limited companies are restricted from selling shares to the public. How do they get around it?

EDIT: Scratch that, looks like the FSA green-lighted it. Wow.
Don't even have to be premium. My desire HD (2010 summer model) got just plain amazing after switching to AOSP 4.2 CFX build (awaiting 4.3 right now). Smooth and no lag on 1GHz single core with 512 ram. It just that on a lot of carrier phones the stock android is crap and are stuck with no updates.
Well you get full offline turn by turn voice navigation now for free! Integrated traffic and commute status as well. I regularly use it to get around the UK and it's never let me down. I get people staunchly defending google maps against it until they are shown exactly how good it is. I tried google's nav stuff but it relies too much on a data connection. Not only that, on the 720, I can do a 4 hour drive with nav on, play around on the phone for ages when I get there and do a 4 hour drive back and I've still got 60% battery! Remarkable!

My wife uses a Lumia 620 with outlook.com with no problems. As a casual user it's pretty good. She manually added contacts to the people thing and they appear on the phone when you next get a sync with outlook.com. I've not heard her complain at all about it so far.

Edit: just spoke to her and she actually used contacts transfer from Nokia to use BT to transfer it from her (drowned but still working well enough to get stuff off) Asha 302 that she was using before. You can also import contacts from the SIM with it but she didn't know that until afterwards.
And as a short term solution (assuming VPNs will also be outlawed or otherwise made unattractive), take your pick:

http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymit...

My personal favorite is https://mullvad.net/en/ because:

a) not US based, therefor not subject to US laws (both known and secret laws/courts)

b) you can send them cash as your payment method (every online payment method such as Paypal, credit card, etc. will establish a link back to you)

c) they don't keep logs

c) you can easily set up multiple "exit" countries (good for circumventing geoblocking)
plenty "women in computing" archive photos available if you search for it. like this set from Bell Labs:

http://www.luckham.org/LHL.Bell%20Labs%20Days.html

somehow the computer scientist's workplace appears much more interesting back then.
I know it is not quantifiable but the effectively free marketing and goodwill that Twitter get from open sourcing Bootstrap must be worth many millions.
Can i recommend Foundation by Zurb, it's like bootstrap but better IMHO. It allows you to download and use the parts you ned and nothing more.
The arguments are not about 'swearing'. The arguments are about bullying and rudeness, both of which can happen without swearing.
You will be on a list of people who have actively opted out of pornography censorship. Imagine what would happen to your reputation if that list got leaked.

You would be forced into a situation where you would have to explain why you want to receive pornography.
While you and I can probably see the fine points of this debate, the general public generally would not.
Ask HN: Securely store sensitive data in the DB?
I am designing an information system and one of the requirements is to keep sensitive data encrypted in the database, with a possible intruder being unable to decrypt them. Encrypting everything in the application with a key and then storing to the database is unacceptable, since all it does is add a little difficulty for an intruder -once he gets the key he gets the data too.

Passwords are kept hashed, so the password provided in the login gets hashed and if it matches the stored hashed password the user is authenticated, otherwise not. The password is not stored in cleartext and cannot be retrieved, but of course can be reset if the user forgets it. So far so good but what happens with other sensitive data that I need store, as API keys, cc data etc? These cannot be encrypted with the user password, because if the user forgets the password these become useless.

What are some best practises to keep sensitive data encrypted on the database, and reassuring that after a system break-in the attackers won't be able to get the data unencrypted? I want to design and implement a solution as secure as it can be and would like to hear thoughts, ideas and experience by other startups and engineers. I have not found anything really useful in this direction, apart from references to proprietary solutions that promise to do anything on some magical way (no comments!)
I've opted out of my mobile phone provider's filter. I'm not especially worried about my reputation.
See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/ccf.html
Yes it does.

And it's made by Abbott Labs. I don't know how popular Ensure is, but Abbott's baby formulas are literally the only source of nutrition for millions of growing and thriving babies every year.

I would rather buy a product from a real company than from some egotistical young hipsters who (most likely) are nothing more than a recent example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

And if Soylent goes horribly wrong for them, perhaps the most apropos comment would be: "think of it as evolution in action".
Above and beyond the obvious moral debate over whether or not a filtering option should be offered, whether it can be effective, or whether it should be opt-in or opt-out, a number of practical things worry me about having any such architecture in place:

1. Once you classify web activity it becomes more economical, and arguably even justified in order to carry the cost of maintaining the filter, to make the move to offering a tiered internet service (i.e. having to pay more for access to porn)

2. Not everyone in a household may have the same preferences, so you'll inevitably want to to start tracking web activity on a per-person basis

3. Your preferences will be kept by your ISP, probably their partners, and definitely made available to authorities on-demand. "The defendant opted-in to viewing violent pornography Your Honour".

4. To simplify the design the system will most likely require that all 'hits' in any given category be routed to a web proxy system, even while you're opted-out. You can bet that this will be logged meticulously by someone. Hell, some ISPs may even be brazen enough to offer the 'feature' of alerting parents to their kids activities. So it's potentially, "The defendant opted-in to viewing violent pornography Your Honour, and did so on a regular basis."

5. Massive potential impact to the robustness and performance of the web. More middle-boxes. Less flexibility to replace protocols, even HTTP 2.0, in the future.
Yeah, but that's for production. For staging/dev machines it's not very convenient, and I really don't like special-casing things all the time depending on where I have to deploy... It adds a lot of complexity.

As LoonyPandora said below, apparently they added shared folders recently, so I'll play with that today.
And what book should be the replacement?
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Google are using reCaptcha to read door numbers from their Street View data
That's what's wrong with a lot of Americans, IMO. It's every man for himself, screw your neighbors. If something bad happens to someone else, they deserved it for reason X. (X being: they didn't work "hard enough," they were "lazy," etc when the person in question is often less lazy and harder working than the person complaining about them)

I actually had a classmate tell me the other day that me being able to get the medications I need to stay alive (because of the ACA) was going to drive the country bankrupt and (direct quote here) "destroy America." In my experience, my countrymen do not care for others very much--only themselves.
The same could just as easily be said about Android coming from an iOS users experience. What you are atempting to factualy explain away as bad UX is more than likely not being used to using one system over another. Android is as intuitive/unintuitive as iOS. Both have their merits.
> Buffett is so vague that people are seeing in it whatever they want to see.

This is true. And anyway, here's a couple of things I see.

The first is a failed (or at least truncated) attempt at articulating the concept of Structural Violence[1]. I'm surprised he got so far as publishing this op-ed, without having been told to read anything by Paul Farmer. At least it appears he hasn't, even though Farmer is quite well-known. I know George Soros counts himself as a member of the Farmer school.

The second thing I see is Buffet slipping into the trap of armchair "big-picture" philosophizing. This is what Esther Duflo warned against in the very beginning of her poverty course on edx.org (she has also given a TED talk). Trying to make grand, blanket statements or generic judgements about aid as a whole, is a flawed exercise. Duflo holds up two books as the prime examples of this fallacy: The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs, and White Man's Burden by Will Easterly.

Fixating on big-questions and big-answers clouds thinking and hampers action. Instead, Duflo teaches a clinical approach as infinitely more productive. Ask specific questions, conduct trials and collect data. Doing experiments and making observations is a much better way to discover truth than thinking your way through an extremely tangled web of armchair philosophizing.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
People do know about it, but they have the concentration span of a gnat here in the UK.

Seriously, whoever is winning one of Cowell's shite-shoveling programs or which piece of dirt is most popular on the reality show of the moment is an instant distraction from having to think about anything or act upon it.

The worst bit is these things promote surveillance and make it morally ok.

The rest seem to contract our their thinking to the daily mail. No comments needed there.
> It's a simple extension of a very old principle: you don't have an expectation [of privacy] on areas viewable from public property.

Wandering off-topic just a bit, there's an oddball trade-secret case from 1970 that has always puzzled me: A father-and son photographer team flew over a DuPont chemical plant that was under construction and took aerial photographs. DuPont tracked down the photographers and asked who had hired them; when they refused to say, DuPont sued them for theft of trade secrets.

The photographers moved to dismiss, in part on grounds that aerial photography from the public airspace was fair game. The appeals court upheld the trial court's ruling rejecting the photographers' contention and said they could be compelled to disclose who hired them.

The appellate court said, "To require DuPont to put a roof over the unfinished plant to guard its secret would impose an enormous expense to prevent nothing more than a school boy's trick. We introduce here no new or radical ethic since our ethos has never given moral sanction to piracy. The market place must not deviate far from our mores. We should not require a person or corporation to take unreasonable precautions to prevent another from doing that which he ought not do in the first place. Reasonable precautions against predatory eyes we may require, but an impenetrable fortress is an unreasonable requirement, and we are not disposed to burden industrial inventors with such a duty in order to protect the fruits of their efforts." [1].

[1] E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Christopher, 431 F.2d 1012, 1016-17 (5th Cir. 1970) (affirming denial of defendants' motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim), http://gozips.uakron.edu/~dratler/2010tradesec/materials/chr...
There was an incident a while back where Phil Fish was on a panel and was asked a question by a Japanese game developer. The question was prefaced by saying many indie games are inspired by older Japanese games, and the game developer asked what Fish thought of modern Japanese games.

Fish's response was "Your games just suck." It was an incredibly rude response. A lot of people don't like Fish since that incident.

It doesn't help that he's incredibly sensitive and rude in his public comments (that is, he seems to be able to hand out criticism, but not accept it with grace.)
So true.

It actually really does look like an Onion joke.
Yes, just turn on the SSH to a server in a country that isn't China. You are relying on the citizens of other countries defending their Internet from their government. If nobody did that there will soon be no such places to SSH to.

I'm in China too, and my current annoyances are 1. other people exercising their freedom to park their cars on the pavement and leaving me no place to walk; 2. always being last in line no matter my position, even in hospitals; and 3. the middle-aged lady behind me at the checkout constantly trying to jam her shopping cart up my ass to due to 2. Once I can afford to drive a Lamborghini and the law stops applying to me things will be great, but that day's not today.
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I wish this were a game a la knytt stories.
Meh. You are trivialising something really complicated and you know that.
I'm surprised that hide.io isn't on the list. I've been using it and it's extremely fast, has dozens of servers across the world, and is a Hong Kong based company, thus not subject to US laws (but, I suppose can possibly be queried from Beijing).
"The [Indian] Union Health Ministry is considering a new National Antibiotics Policy for the country to handle increasing antibiotics resistance in the country."

News Article dated 27 July, 2013: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/policy-and-issues/ne...
Show HN: Google City Hash re-implemented in Go
You can develop an OS with it: https://github.com/dom96/nimkernel
It sounds like you're think about something like http://projectmeshnet.org/
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That may very well be, but personally, I have no objection to this at all, b/c:

- supporting Twitter does not do any damage (unless you'd argue it's subject to the mass surveillance problem and should therefor be avoided)

- you're not being locked in, you can drop it at any time without any consequences