skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the reply, but if your CI[0] server does passes reasonably often, why would one of them not happening then prevent you from continuing to work? It runs in passes, so it's not really continuous, and I'd expect it to survive running slightly less often, or slightly more irregularly.

Do you stop work when it runs? I don't understand your workflow that implies you have to stop while a process that runs often fails to run on one occasion.

I remain confused.

[0] I assume this is "Continuous Integration"
Scoreoid Truly Cross Platform Running on the Ouya
so like http://redpen.io/ ?
From another article:

"[Crossbar's CEO] could not estimate the price of a 1TB RRAM module, but said it will cheaper than NAND flash partly because RRAM is less expensive to manufacture."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045926/startup-crossbar-pits...
My phone is my kindle. As is my tablet. I no longer have kindle hardware, although I use the app a lot.
International Telecommunications Union crowdsourcing its 2016-19 strategy
I would suggest adding more information about the desktop app. There is only one link at the bottom of the page, but I don't feel comfortable installing it without first knowing what is it about.
What are the cells for the burger fed on? In tissue culture it's normal to feed cells Foetal Bovine Serum. Is this the case with these cells? If so we haven't fully removed the need for living, breathing animals from the equation.
Done a dozen startups. Its a joke with my colleagues (been thru several together): when they buy/build a new headquarters, its the beginning of the end. Been true more than once.
The issue isn't that the company is private, the issue is with the fact it's a for-profit entity. This leads to a host of perverse incentives such as providing the lowest possible level of care for the most money possible and a lack of effort put into curbing recidivism (repeat business!!).

There are juvenile facilities that are run by non-profits and they exhibit lower rates of recidivism with a cost far lower than public prisons still.
'e.g., when a guy asked how to make money by building Open Source software he replied something like "get another job"'

He's right in a way, don't you think? Let's look at it in another way: Open source is ostensibly about altruism isn't it? You get side benefits like free code review (this is arguable to a degree since edge cases/difficult issues don't get a lot of love), but in the end, it's about giving your work away for the benefit of people you'll likely never meet.

So then how do you turn altruism into a business? Some people have (charities are big business these days), but that isn't in the true spirit of altruism. So those who do build open source software without ulterior motives are destined to break even at best.
Lego blocks to build city blocks
The most coherent and consistent views tend to be viewed as extreme.
Selling shovels to the shovel sellers.
Perhaps this is to make the big companies kinda afraid from their people ;)
New iPhone app: WakeUp Challenge (play a game to turn off the alarm)
Or they recognize, as they should, the role that media plays in society. Being in the media oligarchy expands your range of influence.
There's also the corruption angle. I wanna buy xyz. "Hey guys XYZ sucks don't buy it". I get xyz for cheaper price.
How Elon Musk Can Build the Hyperloop for a Tenth the Cost of High-Speed Rail
There's a huge difference between "know how they work" and "know what influences their dynamics".
It's horrifying until you realize that all the same things you fear actually happen today, except that the entity doing those things is a monopoly which is less accountable and more hostile to the public than any corporation ever could be. When you dislike something a government does, you can't just stop paying and hire another government - you have to wait n number of years and then vote hoping the next candidate is going to keep his promises (and they never do). When you dislike something a corporation does, you can stop paying it (recent successful example related to the current thread: godaddy and SOPA).
I don't think the point is to merely be aware of the outage (as most who rely on github so heavily would most likely already have checks in place to notify them), but rather start a conversation, no matter how un-actionable, on whether the next guy should be using github.
It would be pretty interesting to see this applied to HN. I realize it would be more difficult because there isn't an API and pg is pretty harsh with the rate limiting.
Such and such site is down.
Anyone annoyed about seeing the repetitive posts of the obvious "SuchAndSuchSite.com" is down? Stuff like that should just be left for Twitter or isitdownrightnow
Inside the Tor exploit
> bumblebees not being able to fly

I'm pretty sure science still cannot explain how bumblebees would be able to fly a Boeing 747
Yes! I second this motion!
Link to poor people art please? (And please don't let it be Homer Simpson art---i.e. garbage smashed together. And I don't count digital prints as art.)
"Here you go. All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth 0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update. Nothing to it, just RTFM and you'll figure it out!"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/02/mandrake_9_0_vs_mand...
Sicily inadvertently created the conditions where a "polylegal system" took form in the 1810s during its transition from feudalism to capitalism. As government-sponsored police forces were sparse, private police forces formed that would protect from bandits and enforce contracts (src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#Post-feudal_Sic... ). I think history pretty much shows what resulted from this.
I think you're under the misconception that Amazon wants to sell Kindles. Amazon doesn't want to make money selling Kindles. They want everyone to have a Kindle.

That's why they have smartphone/tablet apps for iOS, Android, Windows (phone and 8) and even (gasp) Blackberry. They don't care what you use, they just want you to buy their stuff for it.
People want to extend the functionality, not replace it with a general purpose computer. There are already a lot of those on the market.
Thinking Business Continuity? Think Security.
Asperger's Syndrome vs. World of Warcraft: How My Roommate Failed Out Of UCLA
But may I use the G word?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh1RkRxnAOs
All these framework-vendor guides will recommend switching off Gzip, because it's a content-neutral workaround; it works everywhere, for every instance of the attack, no matter how you've coded your app. There are more specific workarounds, but they require changing how you encode secrets into your page, so there can't really be a vendor guide on how to do that; the vendor doesn't know how and where your app sticks secrets into its views, after all.
Thanks. In a related note, if you can get your hands on high-res digital versions of these prints, http://www.phdposters.com is great for cheap poster printing.
FBI uses Gaming to Increase their chance of Survival
Beginning of this year the FBI changed their Pistol Shooting Program and implementing a Virtual Simulator. This Virtual Simulator is run by VirtSim and I think in cooperation with Raytheon.

The VR simulator is to provide real world scenario on tactics that the FBI would use against a close quarter encounter.

The irony of this is that the FBI was advocating about implementing sound close quarter tactics to all law enforcement agency at the high to local level. Yet, it took them over a decade to actually change the program themselves. This is only after over 200 agents were killed in the line of duty, did they realize they better change their shooting program.

The cost for utilizing the VR simulator is in the millions - and guess who's paying for it? That's right us, the tax payer.
Yea, I thought about this a bit. I've seen HN threads turn nasty when they have several layers of depth. Those kinds of conversations are discouraged too with the delay for response. Either way, you're right- it would be cool to see how those rules (both social and built in) affect the network structure.
Google Developers R Programming Video Lectures
Elaborating on this, Apple giving consumers a glimpse into some very impressive technology for 2007 and then again with the price drop with the 3G gave consumers an expectation of Apple to consistently push boundaries every year with new, groundbreaking technology. Technological developments simply don't evolve as drastically as the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 made it seem.
Haha, ok, I guess it's gotta happen then!
It's true that increasing trail and rake both increase stability. But curiously, a bicycle can be made stable with both negative rake and negative trail.

An interesting take on this, with both mathematical modeling and real prototypes, can be found at [1]. Note also that gyroscopic stabilization is not necessary: in the prototypes, a counter-rotating extra wheel cancels out the angular momentum of the front wheel.

According to the authors, it's not yet even proven that a stable bicycle must turn towards a fall. Almost the only sure thing, so far, is that "at least one factor coupling lean to steer must be present". We know a lot of sufficient conditions for stability, but not what is necessary.

The conclusion of the paper: "As a rule, we have found that almost any self-stable bicycle can be made unstable by misadjusting only the trail, or only the front wheel gyro, or only the front-assembly center-of-mass position. Conversely, many unstable bicycles can be made stable by appropriately adjusting any one of these three design variables, sometimes in an unusual way. These results hint that the evolutionary, and generally incremental, process that has led to common present bicycle designs might not yet have explored potentially useful regions in design space."

EDIT: here's a not-paywalled version of the paper linked in the submitted article.

[1] PDF link: https://scholar.vt.edu/access/content/group/141943de-4222-46...
When I saw the headline I said, "Ugh. That sounds like something MG Siegler would write." Then I saw that he had wrote it and I said, "I bet half of it is really about Apple..."

I guess if nothing else you know what you are going to get from Siegler...
D Exceptions and C Callbacks
Why I prefer desktop computers over laptops
The only part you're wrong about is the compression on TLS part, it's not an 'and':

> While CRIME was mitigated by disabling TLS/SPDY compression (and by modifying
> gzip to allow for explicit separation of compression contexts in SPDY),
> BREACH attacks HTTP responses. These are compressed using the common HTTP
> compression, which is much more common than TLS-level compression. This
> allows essentially the same attack demonstrated by Duong and Rizzo, but
> without relying on TLS-level compression (as they anticipated).

and

> It is important to note that the attack is agnostic to the version of
> TLS/SSL, and _does not require TLS-layer compression._

breachattack.com
Flagging is for stuff that's inappropriate for this site

I don't think almost completely content-free promotional material is appropriate for this site, whoever writes it and whatever it is advertising.

I don't flag many submissions, and following the FAQ, I don't normally comment at all when I do. However, I don't know what actually happens when something gets flagged, so in this case I made an exception because I'm aware that Patrick himself is wary of submitting pieces like this. I didn't want anything to imply a personal attack, nor general criticism of links about A/B testing if they do offer new/interesting material.
"These allies can't maintain security even if they want to. They're all working with machines we gave them. There's no chance for them to be on par with us technologically"
It does if you smash the earth pin enough times with a hammer first :)
I was in a similar situation in that I needed a cheap Android device to test on with my college budget and I ended up going with a Nexus 7 for $200. You can also easily find a used 2.x phone for cheap on craigslist or ebay. Hope this helps.
I suggest using a Samsung 4.x device (S3/4) and for 2.3.x: a Sony/Old Nexus S if you can find it!
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Advance-Unlocked-Phone--U-S-Warra...
A Mushrooming Quorn Controversy
Good stuff! I wonder if you could somehow classify the conversation trees using depth or branching factor or whatever to predict and/or discover hot topics. Like you said, AMAs tend to have a pretty obvious structure but maybe that could be extended to discover "controversial" threads -- or even people!
Do we know why light propagates through glass in a straight line, but not paper yet?
Imagine you're going to send a compressed and encrypted message to a friend, and I (the attacker) can do two things:

1) Append a bit to the message before it is compressed and encrypted.
2) See the size of the final message.

So I start by appending the string "4179174b19e0cdc91bf4" to your plaintext message. I see the final encrypted message size is 500 bytes.

Then, I redo the experiment, but this time, I append the string "cschmidt@example.com" to the message. The final encrypted message size is now 480 bytes. The string I injected was the same size, but the compression worked better this time, and I can guess it's because the string I picked is redundant with something in your plaintext.

Mix in a bunch of complicated math and a bit of javascript, and you've got an exploit.

This threat isn't specific to Django: it's being billed as a TLS attack, but any encryption system that uses compression the same way is vulnerable.
I think the part about how airplains fly was good described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3379928.
That's a good idea, I'll do that. Thanks.
McDonald’s Franchisees Go Rogue With Meetings
This is very cool!

A very nice feature to have would be to run topic modeling (say, your run-of-the-mill LDA) on the comments, and then colormap the nodes as to preserve the distances in the comment topic vector. This way you'd be able to see threadjacking, etc.
I have to disagree. In my opinion, the kindle reviews are far more influencial than the Book Review section of WaPo. I think you are seeing in the wrong way, Newspapers are getting less and less influential as time goes by, who wants to read news from yesterday? So, the best move is to leverage the actual authority WaPo has, and give them more relevance in the actual world.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6165419
private or government, I fail to see a difference. The increased incarceration in some states is pushed by the unions that represent the guards and other persons working the prisons, California is a great example.

I think a better complaint is when prisons become tools of the political class. They create a feedback loop by having stricter and more laws than increase the prison population. That in turn means more prisons, more guards, more support persons, all who are unionized. They in turn pay more dues which becomes more contributions via ad buys or direct to the coffers of the legislator. Let alone all those union dues payers making their own contribution.

Ask yourself, as a prison guard which benefits you more? Legislators legalizing pot or those who don't want it legalized? The same with about any law. If not asked at the individual guard level then ask at the union level.
Curioos is NOT "digital art", It's barely a printer for "Digital painting".
You could use Flickr's API to acquire the images. Filter on interestingness, favorite tag and size. If it is only for your personal use, there are no limitations -- otherwise filter on license.
But then you have to trust the provider to keep the record of off-ledger transfers. I guess for small amounts it's fine
I didn't think this article was very good at all, I've read all this before.

These are just Stallman's exact ideas rehashed under hotwords like Snowden & SaaS...

I'd usually try not to whine but I'm not even sure if the quotes they use are from the talk or from years ago.
Do you actually believe that 40% of America live in worst conditions than 1968?
I attended the talk covered in this article, and someone actually asked him a similar question there.

His reply this time is that, personally, he had never made more money in his life than when companies paid him to fix or improve open source software. And I can see his point!

It may not be common, but there certainly plenty of organizations that either have business interests aligned with open source technology (e.g. 10gen, MySQL AB), have open source ingrained into their culture (e.g. Wikimedia Foundation, Mozilla), provide consulting/training services around open source (e.g. DataStax, Elastic Search, LucidWorks), or simply use open source so heavily that they need to pay people to improve it (e.g. Intel, Google).

And then, there are plenty of companies (like mine, http://parse.ly) that take the business perspective that anything that isn't core to our business / competitive advantage not only can, but should, be open source, eventually.

Getting a job working on open source isn't some fringe thing anymore. If it feels that way because your employer doesn't allow open source work, you may want to get the heck out :)
What I discovered is I may be too poor to own art but I can create it for people who are rich enough to own it. With time and the right opportunities I can increase the price until my name == expensive art.
Yeah, I get that... it's more of a UX failure (in light of this post) in that it suggests your password is ••••• when it's really *, but I guess that was factored into the UX considerations.
That's an awesome idea. A buddy was telling me to create a bot for it too, like if a conversation derails enough and focuses on one of the comments, it would post an image of the network having been derailed. On discovering hot topics- that makes sense- I bet there is a characteristic "engaging" type of network, regardless what exactly the content is.
why not go for Gitlab when working in an organization?
This. But Siegler does have a point sometimes.
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I think the problem with this kind of approach to marketing is that you have to be a marketing geek to enjoy it. I wish there was a minimal approach for people who find marketing bothersome.

Also, this is more controversial, but I think patio11 should make his points faster. His posts tend to be overly long for what they bring to the table.
The issue then isn't low demand and high supply, it's low elasticity of demand and, for human food products, low supply. The original cited factors were irrelevant at best.
Is it possible to organize CSS blocks so the file GZIP's better?
Ok, I see. Technically a JIT compiles to native code too, so for a long running app there shouldn't be much difference. Both Go and Java are garbage collected, but the JVM has the more sophisticated GC.
Even if you can look them up fast, doesn't mean you can run the raycasting logic fast enough on that amount of detail.
Software won't kill retail, it will transform it
Senate IP linked to edits in Snowden's wikipedia page
who is a "Hactivist"?

why is rms one?

the article only says: "Stallman, who looks every inch the part of a hactivist with his long mane of graying hair."

does that mean i can Hac if I look like Gandalf?

the fact this is not a typo and the explanation given practically discredit anything written in the article
Most contributors to major free software projects, like the Linux kernel, are paid developers working for corporations. So I guess it's not that hard to make money on free software.
glad that you dint use "beg HN" :D
gallerix.ru has a lot of relatively hires art: http://gallerix.ru/album/Museums
At least they use noscript and give you a warning if you don’t have javascript enabled, there are so many sites that don’t check if javascript and cookies are enabled
So this is an alternating current, but with a cycle time of 22 years instead of a fraction of a second?
I think you've hit it on the nail. People pay to consume on their devices. That's the model Amazon is going for (they've explicitly said it's not the hardware, it's the subscriptions stupid). So a Post which tantalizes you on the web but delivers the actual articles you can only read on your device, via a subscription. The devices are locked down, and it's not the web. Boom.
Yes, I am nitpicking. All that I need to do is point out one flaw, and your argument fails.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6159743
If you come across e-ink prices for TV-sized formats (e.g., 30-60" diagonals), let me know. At the right price, I think there are a lot of interesting things that could be done.
Indian girl lungi dance stop motion
Not shooting your fellow protesters and not sharing footage with their faces on social networks may indeed be a good idea.

Just a side note.
Wow, that's a great idea for next steps. This is the direction I'd love to take this work- getting into the comments and running an analysis. The comments range in size and some can have subtle humor- I wonder how that would affect the LDA.
To start with that is. When they are considered rational, it's probably too late.
A Prince2 approach to Digital Project Management
The displacement caused by industrialization and imperialism, and the economies they foster, is not a situation in which enfranchised working class people are making informed decisions about their future, freely choose their lot, and draw from the public resources managed by their benevolent representative governments.

It wasn't the case then, and it isn't the case now.

The fact is that industrialized agriculture represents a massive centralization of the production of a basic necessity of life. It is made to be perceived to be less inexpensive through subsidies on low-nutrition crops such as corn, sugar, and wheat, subsidies for import and export, state-funded research into literal Frankenstein's monsters built of corn, fish, and insect genes. Patents for the basic building blocks of life are issued and violations enforced, even cases of accidental spread of these genes by wind. Pollutants and hormones abound.

And what do we get? Lower nutrition when picked, lower nutrition because of shipping and storage, insecticides, hormones, anti-biotics, factory meat and egg production that makes a mockery of animal life, runoff that poisons our water supply and wildlife.

What is good about subsidizing junk crops? What is good about subsidizing the fuel used to ship food across the world when it can be grown literally in one's backyard? What if we funded robotics and technology for small agriculture instead of drones that kill Pakistani civilians and children? What is good about the conflation of money and value, to the point where money is lauded over health and freedom?

Your premise seems to be that people have decided they want industrialized agriculture because farming "sucks." To you this seems to imply that therefore industrialized agriculture is good and that there are not alternatives. We will and should become more and more materialistic, inert, disconnected from family and nature, because what people want must be good. We are not being manipulated by world government systems that have their own benefit at heart.

I reject this premise wholeheartedly.
"How can we build the next Microsoft without true ownership?"

The next Microsoft? That sounds like a nightmare.

No, thanks!
Either Python or Ruby. Photoshop is also a good choice.