skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The £10 note had Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, and it is soon to have Jane Austen. I can understand "I don't like her books" but that's not part of the criteria.
I am not clear what your point is. Are you saying that it is a normal human instinct to broadcast all your shit to the world? Just because a few people think that cultural consumption should work like that, doesn't mean that everyone does think the same way.
They can, and they do. Which is why you need to use encryption as well as Tor if you want to something private. But that's the case without Tor anyway.
http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/
This is their learning portal. It appears as though something was posted that shouldn't have been; I'm assuming that they cleared these internally, then wanted Google to remove them from their index to remove the sensitive info from the search previews and cached copies.

Related, this is interesting: http://cisco360.cisco.com/popup/
> Driving can be difficult and sometimes you need to park and stretch your legs.

If your employer doesn't allow legally required breaks you can use the GPS log in your suit against the company. Otherwise it sounds like you weren't doing your job.
It's even less likely he jams signals where ever he goes and LSE just happened to notice it. His company would be very curious why he was disappearing. They can pull him on a screen and watch when he goes in and out of range. It would happen only to him, in whatever vehicle he happens to check out that day. A driver would have to be far more clever than that.

The article states "timestamps on trades made in financial institutions can be affected" There's your likely culprit; someone who for whatever reason needs to affect timestamps.
> The mechanism by which patents work, though, is by (temporarily) banning competition.

Yes, for valid cases, since patent is a limited monopoly. Thing is, software is an invalid case to begin with for a number of reasons, including patent thickets issue.
What is stopping any of these kids from, I don't know, just staying home like a normal person and working on the game in their spare time as a hobby? Nothing indicates any of these children are homeless, fosters, or abused in any way, so one has to assume they're (presumably) regular kids.

Are we (and by we, I partly just mean the tech community, or whatever you wish to call it any more) seriously so introverted as a society any more that we have to encourage 13-year-old boys to sit with their headphones on, near-silent in a house with a bunch of developers potentially ten years their senior instead of going out and acting like a normal person?

There's nothing wrong with wanting to develop something, but come on. Why can't people simply engage like regular human beings any more?
The FSF is an organization focused on freedom, not pragmatism. They leave the pragmatism to other people who are doing quite a good job at it. We need at least one organization to be hardliners. They do make the exception for running non-free software in order to make a free version of it, which in some ways is what Ubuntu is aiming at.

But they shouldn't compromise their position. One way to put it into perspective might be to shift it into an freedom issue that has already been decided in popular opinion, like slavery. Imagine this kind of opinion after the first census in 1790 while the USA was building its economy with slavery, under the agenda of promoting freedom:

I'll never understand the stance that the abolitionists take in throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Sure, America might have some slavery. You know why? Because America is trying to offer freedom and opportunity to the world, do something other free nations have not been able to do. There is a HUGE benefit to freedom and democracy if America succeeds.

But the abolitionists don't see it that way. It seems the abolitionists would rather see America fail rather than succeed with some slavery. Mind boggling.

If America succeeds and is 82% free and 18% enslaved, is that not better than other nations where 18% are free and 82% enslaved?

If/when America succeeds, the next generation can work at that last 18%.

A reasonable, pragmatic and realistic approach is better than DOA.
If you read about the history of APL you'll see that Iverson developed the basic notation for the description of processors at a low level.
One possible use is launching solar reflectors to reduce global warming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
Wow, this is awesome man. When did you launch the product and how did you get this first users? If I may ask :P

Btw a big congrats on your launch :)
I think the parent means that the person who is driving past the LSE with his jammer is less likely a delivery driver, as they are under close scrutiny but rather anyone else.

Might as well be anyone who'd rather not be tracked if they can help it. I can imagine perhaps a VIP or even an organized crime member who prefers their car free of GPS trackers when they drive around town visiting associates.
This is certainly a crucial point to make here, a fact which immediately won empathy from me
There's an Australian company who's got a land based positioning technology. It does not rely on satellites and I think it holds a lot of promises especially for airports.
It took me 40 times longer than you
Someone isn't doing their job when they are taking breaks more often than the legally requirement minimum?

Sounds a bit harsh to me.
Apple workers file lawsuit for lost wages due to bag searches
Depends where you live. I've toured entire counties that seem to think Al Gore is the devil for daring to say their hummers are melting ice caps.

But on principle, those are the kinds of people that didn't study history. Or much of anything, at all. So we do have evidence we learn from our history, just that we don't inspire enough people to learn about it.
You are confused because you assume that software patents are normal patents. They aren't. Software should not be patentable. In practice software patents cause more harm than any possible benefits they supposedly bring to innovation. Therefore companies should avoid using them for aggression.

Compare it to weapons. Weapons are used for warfare, aren't they? But do you think using nuclear weapons is a sane thing to do? No. But they are still weapons, right? Same thing with software patents. They are patents, but they are not sane to use. Today patents are used as weapons, therefore aggression / defense analogy is very appropriate. And aggressors are the bad guys.
Wouldn't that just give even more power to big corporations? Or do you think things would work themselves out without government interference?
Posted this a couple days ago, and it didn't take. Very glad to see that this finally made it on the front page. Hyper-V had an impressive plasma thruster campaign, so I know they can deliver. I hope this gets funded and they can pull of the proof of concept...it seems so much better than many other ideas for small payload launch.
People aren't machines and shouldn't be treated as such.
Hmm. I'll have to do something about that.

Thanks for the perspective.
It's an interesting idea to be sure. And it's definitely one that seems kinda crazy, which probably means it could work. But there's one crucial detail missing: calculations on the centripedal/centrifugal force necessary to continue acceleration and/or direct the payload from horizontal to partially/completely vertical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force

a = v^2/r

so let's go with 1km/sec and a diameter of 5m. a = 1,000 x 1,000 / 2.5 = 400,000 m/s^2 or roughly 40,000 g

Now let's assume that it's a 1/4lb weight as described or 0.1kg.

F = m x a = 0.1 x 400,000 = 40,000 newtons.

Next let's assume that the piece of metal is steel and roughly cubic. It's density is around 8g/cm^3 (http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/KarenSutherland.shtml).

Mass = density x volume => volume = mass / density = 100g / 8g/cm^3 = 12cm^3

cube root(12) ~= 2.3 so we've got a cube with faces around 2.3cm on a side.

They've said that they're going to encase it in plastic so let's neglect the strength of the plastic and call it 2x the size of the cube. That brings this to 5cm x 5cm.

Now let's translate that into pressure.

P = F / a = 40,000 / (.05 x .05) = 16 MPa

The tensile yield strength for a regular, boring steel (A36) is 250MPa and the ultimate tensile strength (the max it can hold prior to breaking but after deforming) is 400MPa so this is fine for now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tensile_strength

At 2km/sec you get 64MPa needed and at 7km/sec you need 784MPa all of which are within the realm of possible but rapidly heading towards the limits of material strength.

The 784MPa number would go down if you made the diameter bigger, too.

Ultimately they aren't building a thing which will disintegrate the slug (my initial thought) but it's going to have to be extremely well engineered and precisely made for balance in order to ensure that it doesn't tear itself apart. The technical combination of a steel rolling mill and a swiss watch. And due to balance issues definitely harder from a technical perspective than even the really tough portions of a rocket.

EDIT: didn't realize that "*" did formatting so I fixed it.

EDIT2: Screwed up on the calcs, assumed 10,000m/sec instead of 1,000/msec. Fixing those.
It's looks awesome :) I love the design.
Can you explain how is it different form request.bin or how it will be different in the future?
Interestingly, while the statute uses the term too intoxicated to consent, it doesn't define it.

Is an unconscious person too intoxicated to consent to consent? Most people would say yes, and I imagine the law would concur.

Is a person drifting in and out of consciousness too intoxicated to consent? Most people would say yes.

Is a person who's able to walk, but obviously drunk, too intoxicated to consent? What if you ask them to come to your place to have sex and they agree with a drunken "uhhh yeah uuuhhhh cooool... uuuhhh ok". This is sounding more like real consent but a lot of people would proceed with caution to avoid a bad situation and/or regret.

Is a person who's had a couple of drinks and is exhibiting increased outgoingness and reduced inhibitions too intoxicated to consent? This is where a lot of dates and hookups end up. Most people would say this is OK, but a zealous prosecutor with an axe to grind might be able to make charges stick.

And finally, one presumes that if you're below the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle, you are also able to consent to sex.
There were far worse reasons to file a lawsuit (such as the company encouraging out right fraud in record keeping) but not many drivers are going to do that. They'd rather just complain and play the game while staying gainfully employed. There are all kinds of subtle ways to get rid of problem drivers. You've heard of Three Felonies a Day? [1] A driver can easily break a lot of driving rules and if the company wants to be strict about it, you're gone.

[1] http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.asp...
The tools to create and the networks to share already exist but the trouble is getting people to enjoy creation. Fix this and you might create tomorrow's economy.
I regularly delete my forks once I'm done with my pull requests. I used to do keep-ups (fetch from upstream, merge into my own, push into my own)... then it got tiring and out of hand.

And I haven't even contributed much to open source (very very very few pull requests)! So I started deleting repos once I have not contributed for > 6 months
This idea to me seems a lot more feasible. Read about it years ago and it makes me sad to see that it's not happening.
It totally changes the tone. It goes from a pompous and hateful statement, to more of a sassy put down. The original Futurama line is obviously satirical, so quoting it is referencing a satire. It was also a reasonable assumption that the target of the statement would recognize the quote.

Not defending Phil Fish. Just the "kill yourself" incident seems to have been blown out of proportion.

Meme graphic: http://memegenerator.co/instance/37859418
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Sorry to stick words in your mouth.

I agree, you're right, his responses are terrible and he seems pretty rude.
>Mozilla is understandably wary about new technologies from Google, because it would be very easy for them to make it so that the best youtube experience can only happen in chrome, which would be quite detrimental to Mozilla.

Surely Mozilla adoption of Dart or NaCl would make this less likely, not more.
We invite cool guest speakers and make sure they all interact with each other. The best games aren't built in isolation, feedback from peers is extremely important.

Here are some pictures from the location covered in the article, as you'll see it's not like everyone is silent and asocial: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.262781033863020.10...

I'm sitting in the middle of the internship as I write and there are at least 3 collaborative discussions going on around me right now.
I picked the old reader because it was a no-fuss google reader replacement. Feedly is bloated and was slow to boot. I also didn't want to pay to read my feeds.

I'm now switching to Digg Reader, which is equally simple, and has an android app coming soon (the iOS app is already out).
Lots of phones support GPS & GLONASS together: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smartphones_using_GLONA...

What we should be doing is replacing $1 GPS receive chipsets in phones with procession positions chipsets, and taking advantage of CORS reference stations (http://geodesy.noaa.gov/CORS/) for sub-centimeter positioning.
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My opinion is that one can easily teach these "high level concepts" (loops, syntax, control flow, etc) using C.

Furthermore my (admittedly curmudgeonly) take on the C vs "high level languages" debate is that learning something like Python "first" because it's "easier" is actually sort of damaging, in that the student will learn these "high level" concepts without any clue about the underlying implementation. They will then have to learn a bunch of "bag of tricks" that will seem arbitrary to them, and a bunch of "gotchas" to avoid, again, that will seem arbitrary to them, because they have no concept of things like the cost of memory copying (passing-by-value giant arrays as arguments to functions, etc).

I actually think that someone who is incapable or even worse, unwilling to learn programming using C, has no business programming anything at all of any import, beyond the most toy-example tiny scripts here and there.
I used 3D printing during the prototyping stage, and even using a friend of a friend's printer it still worked out to be roughly $60 AUD a print.
15g of isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol will kill you.

There's a chance, though, that you may be calling low quality ethanol alcohol rubbing alcohol, and I'm just missing it.
A millisecond is a long time.
Seems commonplace in the French IT sphere. On the new "42" school forums, the mods are downright trolling.
Setting Up Midway Testing for an AngularJS App
It originally said: Is Hacker School/App Academy/ect worth it? (MBA builds an app in less than 2 months)

Let's flip that to: Is B school worth it? (Engineer builds a business in less than 2 months).

I agree with what jmduke and damoncali had to say about this, but I'm pretty sure Hacker School provides a lot more value than the ability to build an iOS app in less than 2 months.
I guess we should migrate towards non GPS position tracking faster: http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/04/10.aspx
> I don’t understand that reasoning. If that’s valid prior art, then patents for functioning time machines won’t hold up either.

Patents on functioning time machines are likely to be problematic, anyway, since the natural response to such a patent [1] is to copy the machine, go back in time to before the patent was filed, and file a patent on it. It doesn't take many repetitions of this loop before the original patent on the device is expiring just about the time the device was actually invented.

[1] Ignoring all the other problems with causality and paradox inherent in time travel.
I'm debating attending this, but I'm in Ontario so it'd be a full day of travel each way to get there. I also don't know many local developers I could coerce into attending. Any students from HN looking for a team?

edit: I should point out, email is in my profile or alanctgardner(at)gmail(dot)com
A paper on GPS jamming countermeasures

http://servv89pn0aj.sn.sourcedns.com/~gbpprorg/mil/gps4/GPS-...

Ultimiately, the lack of MAC and encryption makes civilian GPS MITMable.

(Discliaimer: I worked at Trimble.)
The same way a corporation is a person. It's an abstraction to make rich people richer while limiting liability.
The Futurama line is satirical: pompous robot says obviously cruel and pompous thing. Quoting it, assuming the other party recognizes that it's a quote, keeps some of the original humour and makes it into more of a sassy put-down than a literal "you should kill yourself".

For instance, if I say "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" I'm not ACTUALLY saying we should nuke anything. I'm actually quite against the use of nuclear weapons.
Yeah, but so would any infringer, thus making the infringement prior art for the invention.
Sigh, the challenge of magnetic rail launchers and this slingatron thing is the atmosphere. Sure if you could pull a vacuum around the launch facility you might get close, but consider that the typical rocket launch gets maximum dynamic pressure as it goes supersonic on its way out of the atmosphere. This thing is going to hit that and live in that space while its going around the loop. Now compute the effect of a supersonic shockwave that is curling in on itself. The standing wave you generate it going to generate some amount of overpressure, back of the envelope, looking at four to six wavefronts collapsing on themselves as you go around the final loop of maybe 6 atmospheres?

There is a reason fish don't swim in a circle to build up speed to jump out of the water, because their own wake would stop them cold.

I wonder if someone could do a quick CFD of a payload travelling in a 7.6km/s at sea level is in the 'high hypersonic' regime (> MACH 10 closer to MACH 25) The energy you are dumping into the air at that point is going to create a pretty impressive flame front by itself. This is perhaps the coolest things about the really high speed videos of the Navy railgun project.
I had a long career programming computers and decided to take a break from it and do something completely different. I had two different driving jobs (because I like to drive.) I was shocked beyond belief at how employees are treated as machines and worse for not much pay.
Sure! I'm trying to work out travel from LA at the moment. Shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com.
I have had some worse situations, friends leaving, people dying in the family one by one struggling to find a job, finding acceptance and so on. I just began to think in the same way. Think about your mother and about the bright future, not on your past, start afresh. Even Gold has to go through fire to prove its purity. Just wait for things to fall into place and hustle, life will be awesome soon.
I think it's likely a driver who is constantly jamming his GPS. I have seen this in work with the FAA. A driver will go past the airport or park and deliver something. We see a temporary GPS outage which have traced back to delivery drivers in several instances. I imagine their company assumes their GPS equipment is broken, but still lets them drive.
Pyquery: a jquery-like library for python
Not for the NonEmptyList...

Is your problem mainly what you call this notion?
Only for the grocer's own brand (e.g. Woolies' Homebrand). All others are $4+.

http://www2.woolworthsonline.com.au/Shop/Department/1%3Fname...
A 16GB heap that's mostly live objects will take tens of seconds per round

The situation you describe, as you describe it, is (no longer - was it ever?) a pathological case. I run stuff with 12-20GB active objects and a few dozen http hits a second and the only times I get a latency over 100ms is when I reload/refresh some data from disk (1.5GB of gob), then it goes to 150-250ms typically.
Why do you say the OSI model is unrealistic? Writing the simplest Hello World web service call takes advantage of the OSI model, even though you might not notice it unless you also write network drivers and manufacture network cards. In fact, I've worked at companies where it would be accidentally accurate if you simply labelled the dev teams with the layer of the OSI model their work corresponds with. You practically can't read a network sniffer trace unless you understand the OSI reference model.
I wonder if it would be worthwhile to push for prosecution of perjury for automated takedowns, though. Automated detection with manual review seems more reasonable, though, insofar as copyright is reasonable to begin with.
For what it's worth, I see identical behavior with stock market enthusiasts as well. Good job numbers? Market goes up. Bad job numbers? Market goes up -- clearly Ben Bernanke must keep printing until employment stabilizes. "A" is good for the stock market and so is "!A." It really is a crazy time we live in. Cognitive dissonance everywhere you look.
Interestingly, Google's successor to BigTable -- Spanner -- utilizes GPS clocks and atomic clocks to maintain consistency of their data across globally-distributed data stores.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)
Git is not distributed it's disconnected
This seems incomplete without the labs and assignments included. The github link on the assignments page leads nowhere.
Debugging and Tuning Web Sites and Apps with F12 Developer Tools in IE11
I hope you mean open proxies, because even ssh allows you to establish a (for you only) socks 5 proxy.
This isn't Reddit. (Thankfully.)
http://www.blabdash.com/statements/700
The "slashdotter reaction" column is priceless!
Courier companies are going to have to wise-up pretty quickly and realise that the operational benefit to accurate GPS tracking is far too important to risk using as an HR tool.

At the end of the day, route optimisation can make or break a courier company, and getting good metrics on driver routes is just as important as getting (for example) tracebacks on your errors when coding.

The smart companies will take a no-blame approach: a driver is responsible for his route with the assistance of the intelligence provided by the company. Any follow-up should be constructive, and the good drivers will feed information back to improve the system.

There is no way it should be used to check your break schedule, and any operations manager should be coming down like a ton of bricks on anyone who is undermining such an important tool in their business.
THE TOURETTE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
This one actually includes all the practical material. Thanks :)
I have a hard time considering "bullying" on the internet or "smear campaign" a real issue. I just think "just ignore the suckers". As long as you do have people behind you as well as opposing you, it should be alright.

Maybe the problem is that, having never been in the situation, I don't really understand how it feels. It really makes me wonder how I'd hold up in the situation.
The Old Reader going Private in 2 weeks
The first step is accepting that you have a problem. Fortunately, it's fairly straightforward to fix the problem!

Previous discussion of how to handle this scenario: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2689149
Sorry, why is RIPEMD-160 deprecated? I've been unable to find any supporting information as to why.
For more information on the 'weakened' state of SHA-2, see http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/207

(Full text PDF: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/207.pdf)
It'd be nice to have whirlpool in the list - I remember when it was seen as the great new hope for a good hash, but I haven't heard anything about it in recent years.