skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend reading ultimates sales machine by Chet Holmes it cover the hiring aspect as well as the process of sales this book as been a game changer for me
One would need much more than the OP to know that--hence much is lost by a tl;dr abridgment ;).
I would have made almost the reverse claim: humanity has a well-defined threat-response instinct and we are constantly on the lookout for threats to ourselves, our family, our society. Like a social immune system. If there aren't any serious threats we can't just relax and live our lives - we have to invent some problems to worry about. Hence the never-ending stream of overblown largely imaginary threats - killer bees, crack babies, flag-burning, overpopulation, declining fertility, pesticides (eg, alar), GMOs, global cooling, global warming, "peak oil", fracking.

There is almost no correlation between how serious a threat is and how much we worry about it. In fact, the correlation is often inverse - we worry far more about child abductions and school shootings now that they almost never happen than we did when they happened more. Because if something happens all the time it's not "news". So a school shooting in any crappy city anywhere in the US prompts national headlines and gets us ALL worrying about whether our children are safe, whereas kids dying in auto accidents or house fires or drowning in swimming pools in much larger numbers don't even make the local newscast.
> Everything in Argentina can be awful, but for sure it's not education

That's very much relative to where you look. There are very good high schools and universities. Notably, there are very good <i>free</i> universities. But that's mostly in Buenos Aires city. The education system as a whole is in an awful state. Most schools in the rest of the country are in a very poor state. And as you mention the state of the buildings in even dangerous in some cases.
That's wonderful logic except for the fact that the R&D likely cost billions and we are only buying a handful of these things. In fact, in these army projects, the number of final units bought is from experience inversely related to the cost explosion of the project in the R&D department.
Matlab is usually run as an ide with an interactive window (command line interpreter). Graphics are built in and interactive, you can interact with any number of graphics windows and with the command line at the same time (this is difficult to do in python numpy and matplotlib), and you can tweak the graphics windows from the command line to add GUI buttons, boxes, etc. This all comes built in to the most basic MATLAB commercial offering.
Who's to say malicious people DON'T already have the codes? Clearly Volkswagen and the court believe they do not.

I agree that a perpetual ban is not acceptable in this case. Industry should have to fix the situation and the keys should not be predictable from this hardware.
The more backtracking you have to do, the harder it is for a human to solve / more likely that your weak flesh brain will encounter a stack overflow.
The reason I ask about the how long flight took to evolve was because
it was argued that evolution does not take thousands of years, and that's not true.

I've read the books that's why I see the paradox. I'm not playing games, if there are factual answers I would not be asking questions here. If an animal could survive for thousands of years without hibernating there would be no reason for it. It could even prove disastrous making the animal easy prey.

Moreover the dynamics of traveling underwater and flying in air are different. Features that are great for flight are not so great for traversing underwater for an extended period of time. There are animals that can glide today, but even there ability to glide has to evolve, and during that evolutionary process an evolving glider is a disadvantage. It is not neutral, it slows the animal down. If you are going to debate with conviction your answer should not be "I don't really know".

Yes, biology is far finished so let's not pretend like it is.
There are American troops almost everywhere. Robert Kaplan's books "Imperial Grunts" and "Monsoon" detail their current involvement in Columbia, Philippines, Mongolia, Iraq, Afghanistan and stations all around the Indian Ocean.
I like the colours and the general "look" of the app. I don't like how cluttered it is though. It seems like you've put in a lot of gestures and funky little tweaks just for the sake of it. You have instructions on every view in there it seems - I couldn't write anything for the first couple of minutes, and by the time I could, I had forgotten what the first instructions were.

There was also something where I made a note, went back to the list, and tried to edit it again and couldn't. The little pencil icon was hidden. Seemed like clicking the table cell edit icon, as well as the main portion of the cell, takes you just to the "view/share note screen". Feels like a bug to me. I would've preferred the table cell edit icon to go to the edit view and then immediately edit the note.

Is being able to change the screen brightness really necessary when looking at a note...?

I'm not that familiar with markdown - what is reading time? Is it literally just how long you think it would take to read?

When creating a note, I wanted to cancel, but instead I had to click the tick to save the note. I then went to "pull down" - not knowing what the gesture would do - and it created another new note, but not allowing the same title. To me, pull down refreshes. Maybe I'm stuck in my ways and it's now a gesture for many different things. Still, it'd be nice to be able to cancel out of the new note screen, or to even delete the note if no content has been added?
Byte magazine archives
I make websites
The HTML specification's algorithm for determining the applicable headers for a table cell might be useful:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

This was developed with reference to a corpus of real web tables.
I'm hardly advocating reading every single man page; just the man pages for things you actually use. And 10x War and Peace's is hardly an extreme amount of reading to become a knowledgeable systems administrator. That would probably be akin to two semesters of 5 courses each to become a systems administrator; I think most community college or vocational school programs for systems administration require 2 years, and wouldn't teach you nearly as much.

In any event, I'm not taking the position that casual *nix users should be reading every single man page. Just for the essentials like ssh, cp/mv, ls, man itself, etc. You do not need to be an expert to read a few man pages on utilities you often use. Everyone should RTFM, at least for the relevant bits, no matter what level you're at. Anyone who found the initial post useful would also find reading the man page for ssh useful. Thus, they should have read it. That's not at all suggesting that they need to become an expert.

The ~. key sequence is used in pretty much any console type application, not just ssh, so it's quite useful to know. If you do any work with a serial console i.e. configuring network devices, pdus, even some servers, etc., then it's pretty useful for ending a session as there's no TCP connection to close and take you back to the local console on your terminal emulator. If you're working on the actual local console and not in a full blown GUI on a system without virtual consoles, there may be no other way to close the serial console session on some platforms (notably man different OS'es running on Sparc64's as well as not on Solaris at all until recently).

Regardless, it's generally less effort to type ~. than to close and reopen a window/tab in your terminal emulator of choice. The time spent to read the man page would inevitably be made up by a few clicks saved here and there throughout a long career. It would have taken less time than to make multiple posts in this thread.
Bittorrent? That'd definitely be my first thought.

Failing that, OVH's servers are probably a good idea.
What's the point in protecting the one US city where hundreds of the most important political figures gather each and every day?
Are you in CS, by chance? ;-) I think the frequency of people who can even comprehend haskell drops off significantly once you walk over to the chemistry building.

That said, I'm not against a uniform environment; there are definitely advantages to having everyone on the same platform. I would just prefer we all piled into a greyhound bus instead of a retrofitted rail carriage powered by a pack of dogs.
Ask HN: Can We Really Trust SELinux?
I apologize now if you happen to be a maintainer for SELinux and you happen to be reading this and take offense by it.

I realize you can't really trust anyone and that three letter agencies have their hands in everything. I also know that there's been many posts about the Intel's random number generators and various other backdoors. I also don't have a solid understand of SELinux at the moment. I do know of it and that it's very commonly used.

I do a double take when a see the incorporation of software that was originally developed by the NSA, does anyone else feel that this really is worth a further examination by independent sources? Maybe it is, and maybe this is just a dumb question. I'd just like some thoughts...
Litecoin is another option.

https://litecoin.org/
C is like a Lockheed F104-Starfighter, fast and hazardous. This gives it an alluring appeal, along with its amoral nature. Also, I would say that languages get more interesting the more you understand about them.
Affordable Stylus Pen on IndieGoGo
What's a counterfactual? can you give a simple explanation of how that solves the problem?
Bitmsg.me - A new way to send Bitmessages from a web browser
I don't think they should, but I think they should be allowed to. You're never going to stop crazy people from saying crazy things, and sometimes those people might just happen to be teachers. Besides, if crazy ideas were verboten in education we'd still be in the dark ages slinging arrows at each other. Tenure was actually explicitly created for respected teachers to be able to say crazy things without getting fired. What are you going to do when a tenured professor starts teaching your child something you disagree with? Are you going to go with the same heavy-handed approach?

If you have a problem with the way your child is taught, bring it up with the teacher. Bring it up with the principal. Bring it up with the school board. Ask your child to be moved to a different class/section. Ask your child to be re-zoned. Or, all else failing, teach your own child. Maybe you should be more concerned about hiring standards for our teachers, or maybe consistent accreditation.
Clearly their intention would be to deploy these to every major city, particularly since the point of this is to spy on Americans via ARGUS.
A missile hitting DC is likely more probable now that it was during the depths of the cold war. To another question poised by mapmeld, DC is of significant political and symbolic importance, not to mention the many military agencies involved in the same. A successful strike against the capital would be a huge morale boost for enemies, as 9/11 was.

I have to second what Second_Ender mentioned -- we are at a critical juncture where off-the-shelf components offer rather frightening possibilities. I love technology, but benign videos like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwSVDVJNWc&feature=youtu.be leave me deeply concerned about the future.
The video of the presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0
Yes, because of licensing. See his recent presentation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0
Thousands of years of history tell us that toilets are a luxury too.
The Bootstrap grid system now appears crazy complex to me. I really wish all browsers would now support modern CSS3 Flexbox.
If you want to add microdonations you could add https://flattr.com/
Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be “Abolished”
Dr. Joesph Bonner's quote:

I’d rather have it abolished than persist in its current form. I think there’s a question about whether it’s possible to reform the NSA into something that’s more reasonable…But my feeling based on what I’ve read is that I don’t want to live in a country with an organization like the NSA is right now.
Huh, has Google said anything about the naming similarity between GPGMail and Gmail?

Edit: Sorry HN for not knowing something that you know and asking a question about it.
That is one point of view. Another is that the entire scientific community is entitled to peer review your work, and you should enable them to. Not just your referees, who will likely not compile and test your code, anyhow.

The concept may be the most important thing, but what good is a paper asserting some new concept if everyone can't verify it? I think it is the approach that folks like Fernando Perez at ipython are pushing with their html notebooks. Reproducible, comprehensible science.
I just started some Googling - and I see some posts like this that claim it's not http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/this-week-in-cm-july-19-13

My real question out there is for the Kernel and Linux gurus.
Why How You "Sound" Matters to the Customer in Every Channel
This morning, the first thing "zero tolerance" makes me think of is an abusive parent.

It's not about "fair", it's about exactly whatever they want. Or else...
I know in the UK, the sites below were popular. However, they aren't a button but a site you have to set-up.

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/
http://www.justgiving.com/
http://www.paysimple.com
http://www.wepay.com
...and maybe Google Checkout?
Alternatives to the Big VPS Companies
Great job!
Finally a perfect geoip database with api application. :)
Can we go the other way? JSON to Table? That would make this a really useful library for saving table states.
GPGMail predates Gmail by three years.
He also argues that busybox has now become bloatware with a large attack surface area.
We still have a sizable private militia in Iraq, funded by the US Government (and a much larger one still in Afghanistan).

http://nation.time.com/2012/10/09/contractors-in-war-zones-n...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2013/0319/A-less...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/19/business/iraq-war-contract...
3D printed shift knob gives haptic feedback to new drivers
Put up an ad for a better modem. Or maybe some Amazon affiliate link.

Or compile all the info into an ebook/pdf and put a "support this site and get all the info in a printer-friendly pdf" link to some self-publishing platform. I think they usually handle payments for you.

There was a project featured on HN just yesterday that allows you to sell documents stright from Dropbox/Drive[1]. Although they seem to be just using PayPal.

There's also Flattr[2] for small donations to websites. But they're probably more popular in Europe.

[1] https://sellboxhq.com/

[2] https://flattr.com/
Aside from Paypal & Bitcoin...

Stripe = http://viget.com/advance/accepting-donations-online-and-how-...

Dwolla = http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/217452-dwoll...

Flattr = http://flattr.com/

Could you show us the page? I'm curious.
Unfortunately a heavy handed approach is needed in the American public school system as teachers tend to waste a lot of the students' time with this sort of thing.
That just a company trying to not be complicit with a crime. A nice change of behavior, I'd say.
No way to adjust type face or size, difficult to read walls of text.
Not (initially) in the online domain, but I know of significantly sized, well established U.S. institution that was using "Gmail" (yes, exactly that term) publicly and in promotional materials including particularly mailings... oh, probably a good decade before Google.
The ideal for the military industrial complex is to be at war 24/7 with nobody in particular. They're close to accomplishing that goal.
This doesn't bother me. I get that it's being equivalated to living in a police state but I don't view it that way. Police or FBI patrolling more efficiently seems progressive and economical. When I'm in public I expect that I don't have privacy.

EDIT: typo
Why do I feel like there's a hint of Jealousy? Jealousy that others have found a way to make money with minimal work while the average person has to work their ass off for it. Like it undermines others' work ethic and that drives them to want passive income hackers to stop.
I find his point about the "economic need" for programming to be more efficient interesting: at the time, software was about as expensive as hardware, and hardware was about the get drastically less expensive, and so

If software development were to continue to be the same clumsy and
expensive process as it is now, things would get completely out of
balance. You cannot expect society to accept this, and therefore we
must learn to program an order of magnitude more effectively.

And yet, society has accepted it. It's now a truism that programmers cost more than hardware. Then again, it doesn't seem like his hoped-for revolution has occurred, either, so I guess he hasn't really been disproven and is merely guilty of being too optimistic.
I'm not the parent but I have to say that's an over-generalisation. The costs involved with buying mean that the balance between renting and buying can be tipped firmly in favour of renting even for 10+ years. I ran several calculations earlier this year as I was considering buying for the first time (it seems easier for those who are already on the ladder) and this turned out to be true for me. I pay an incredibly low amount of rent for Silicon Valley's current rates.

Given the area and amenities I want from a property, I save significantly more money renting and can live somewhere I actually like; unless I decide to commit to the country for 10+ years -- and I would lose my entire cushion of savings for startup runway funding in the process -- renting makes a ton of sense, even though at the base level the equation of "paying money for someone else's mortgage vs paying money for my own" seems a no-brainer.
Yes. With Psyco it was possible to use the entire Python ecosystem, in my case PyQt and the science libraries.

There was just something magical about Psyco, just adding two lines to your script and seeing it run 100x faster. It was really great at speeding up floating point math.
That analogy is a bit flawed. People who can't legally combine the GPL with other projects had to make the conscious decision of choosing an incompatible license. If you acknowledge the idea that there are no non-universal recipients or donors in software, then it makes more sense to use copyleft.
The Charitable-Industrial Complex
By the same token, google cares less about child abuse than the competition? Or maybe they just have a different view on when their intervention is appropriate or helpful.
Or an outbox that holds tweets for a time threshold or until approved by a second user. Both could help prevent issues from one employee.
Last Good Moment Before the Storm: Rockstar Fantasy Camp
And how many donations are you going to get with that?
Have you not read textbook that explained specialized traits as reaction to the environment ? How could that be possible when these traits are needed immediately.
You miss the point, why don't we have thousands of animals with the ability to hibernate that don't need them ? Of course traits don't have to evolve rapidly if you already have them or don't need them. But why would you already have the ability to hibernate efficiently if you don't need it ? Why would a bird of prey evolve the ability to hunt from the skies at relative high speed before it can fly ? I'm sorry I read the books there are no legitimate answers. Like said I love science and technology.
Also wepay... https://www.wepay.com/payment-buttons

I use their invoicing services and they are excellent. Have never tried their payment buttons though.
It's sort of swinging back around with the scale of some of the systems in place today. Relatively small increases in program efficiency can save a lot of money in power consumption, physical server space needed, and other related data center costs.
The Myth of Willpower and “Eat Less, Move More”
It's not an especially novel idea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Suicidemessageggb01252006....

...I suspect they want to avoid "copying google" yet again unless ordered to do so.
The Science of Winning Poker
What's the page? I want to fix my terrible AT&T modem.
Nobody sane would think GPGMail is infringing on Gmail in any shape or form.
Yes, as I said, it's getting better.

Simulink is a whole different world inside Matlab as well

Here's something that doesn't look like it's covered by NumPy 100% http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/signal/ug/iir-filter-design....
Email encryption is a good start!

Personally, I think, the user is best served with the "darknet" [0] approach.

It's unfortunate that term "darknet" leads a big chunk of the general public to believe it's something "dirty", "illegal" or otherwise undesirable or even dangerous, which doesn't help its cause. So help the Internet out and spread the word:

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29

RetroShare [1] is one of them and has the advantage of being the all-in-one encryption solution (VOIP, chat, messages, file sharing), while encrypting everything. It also eliminates the meta data problem which encrypted email has.

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

EDIT: Direct link - http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
How many donations is he going to get in the first place with PayPal or whatever else he may choose? If I had to guess, probably not too many.
Yes, I should have mentioned this. SLEPc has the only distributed implementation of partial reorthogonalization (the key component of high-performance Krylov SVD and Hermitian eigensolvers) that I'm aware of.
Revisiting: Benchmarking Dependency Injection Containers
Show HN: bullfrog, a text-to-speech service
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There's really not much of a purpose to that anymore, anyways. It was a bigger deal when servers were multi-user and when services were diverse.
I'm not making the argument that the keys are available already - I'm making the argument that the vulnerability has been previously disclosed, and that VW has done nothing about it. In fact, they have discounted it.

It's easily ethically defensible - there is no moral imperative to keep the knowledge of something secret which may cause injury to others by being kept secret. In fact, just the opposite. VW is in an ethically indefensible position, as they are in the position of selling vehicles with systems marketed specifically as 'secure' that are, in fact, not secure at all; a fact which has been known to a smaller community (and VW) for over 4 years. THAT is ethically indefensible.

Sometimes, publishing details in a painfully easy to reproduce manner is the only way to get a company to FIX the problem, which is the point in all of this. For a great physical analog, see the 'pen and u-bolt lock' trick. It wasn't until a Youtube video appeared showing just how ridiculously easy that lock was to break that the company updated it's design and fixed things.
That was another issue that they corrected a while ago. I hope they also correct this one.
Well, matlab--ahem, matrix lab--does certain bits of math quite well. But I would say that R/numpy are most than just 'getting better'. They literally do every thing you just mentioned, and typically their implementations go beyond matlab's.

Where I've found matlab to still be ahead is in the area of domain specific engineering. For example, if you want to manually pulse code a signal using some specific modulation scheme, matlab has a tool for just that. In python you still have to manually write a bit, interface it to the fitting routine, and convolve it across your signal.