skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check ebay, check etsy, search google for specific types of art if you know what kind of stuff you're looking for. Art in other (poorer) countries is also far cheaper than art in first world nations.

Of course, well known artists will command serious prices, but for every well known artist, there dozens of other lesser-known artists with comparable quality and styles that you can get a lot cheaper.

Or commission your own art if there's something specific you're looking for. Once again, if you're looking for something down by a specific person, you're going to pay for that brand, but if there's a styler you're looking for, you should be able to find someone to do it for a lot less.
Ours was in DC back in April. :) We took a road trip from Salem, NH to DC for school vacation. We visited the DC Tesla store and charged up there and I saw one other Model S "in the wild" valet parked while walking the town.

They are not as commonplace on the eastern side as they are in California. Back in June, there were somewhere between 300 and 400 in the New England area. Probably about the same in the states surrounding DC.
Yeah - Buy the most popular phone for your target audience, if that's general public, get it at a Wal Mart, Best Buy or some other place. Not only will you have a good sense of hardware and platform limitations but also any issues that might arise from the more common phone providers out there.
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Let C be the original number of companies (or their billings, doesn't matter.)

In month 1, we have 1 * C companies.
In month 2, we have 1 * .978 * C companies. .978 is the survivorship rate, which is the inverse of the churn.
In month 3, we have 1 * .978 * .978 * C companies.

Given that we are most keenly interested in how many company-months we rack up over time, we can solve for this with sum of an infinite geometric series. The formula is C / (1 - s) for s is the survivorship rate, or C / (churn).

Exactly like Gail said it was.
> I can see people writing software for love, but who writes all the documentation?

1. People like me? :) I genuinely love writing documentation. Though I should mention it's easier to write books/tutorials than to write detailed documentation of the software you are yourself not writing, which brings me to point 2.

2. Writing documentation is very much a part of software-writing. It's usually best to do write documentation as you're writing the software... I haven't met anyone yet who really hated the process, so I wouldn't consider this to be a big problem at all.
Probably both. Like a lot of other speakers, Stallman has a few canned speeches. He asks the organizers which one they want, and he gives it. It probably evolves over time, but the differences are minor.

The issues Stallman talks about have not changed much over the last 20 years, so his speeches haven't either.
I attended this talk and he spoke about Snowden/SaaS for like maybe 5% of the total talk time. Misleading article indeed.
1) If you're in poverty (15% of Americans) your checks from the gov't are direct-deposit. Getting swindled not only catches whatever salary was currently in the account, and racks up penalties for whichever bills you currently just didn't pay, but it takes time to get your direct deposit redirected to another account (and open a new account). Those bounced checks during the time you got swindled? That can be enough to bar you from opening a new account, which is part of why "Check Cashing" stores thrive in low-income areas.

2) If you're not in poverty, and your employer direct-deposits, all of the above, only you can change your direct deposit destination faster.
Well, the basic idea is that a government prison would have the goals of society in mind (both security and rehabilitation) whereas a private prison's profit motive benefits most from having as many prisoners as they can get for as long as possible.

Actual rehab runs contrary to that; facilitating a state of affairs that results in more prisoners (repeat and new) for longer periods is going to be a primary goal.

What solutions are there that aren't simply large carrots (bonus' for prisons when repeat offense rates fall?) or large sticks (penalties/fines for the opposite)?
No good. You need to line your walls with at least 2mm thick aluminum sheets with welded seams and 5cm overlap at the doors.

Edit: I guess it's true, HN is forever meant to be devoid of humor.
The laptop looks pretty cool. I like the ruggedized trim, even though I'm not sure it's more rugged than a thinkpad.

That site is way slick though.

Unfortunately the site was too slick for me to find much in the way of specs. I gather it'll use an Intel CPU, which makes me wonder about power usage -- is the solar panel on the back enough to power the laptop in direct sunlight? How long to fully charge if it's off?
It's the only way Bitcoin can scale to major-currency levels, since every on-chain transaction is seen by every full peer.

If you have a bunch of "banks" who provide checking accounts, they can use on-chain transactions just for periodic settlements. "In the past day you sent me checks worth 10,000 bitcoins, and I sent you checks worth 11,000 million bitcoins, so now I'm sending you 1000 bitcoins."
> Occasionally, you’ll have to show those cards and win a hand to prove that you can. But the rest of the time you call and fold, as you await the monster to take the entire pot.

Wait, just which game are we talking about here? I thought it was chess and checkers but now we're on to cards. I'm only sort of kidding -- Bezos certainly does seem like a genius to me, no argument there. But this is just the author going "No, you don't get it, he's so smart!"

(Also, as it happens, the above would tend to be a terrible poker strategy.)
Discovery channel's Shark Week 'mockumentary' played as real
During the Q&A session of the press event, I think he did mention that they used Fetal bovine serum, and that it worked better than the alternatives.
We've got the next Microsoft already. It's just squarer, flatter, listens even less to its users and throws slightly fewer chairs.
Bear in mind that was written before Go 1.1, additionally Dimitry has made steps to address CPU underutilization and has been working with the rest of the Go team on preemption. I think these improvements will make it into Go 1.2, fingers crossed.
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A slightly mind blowing fact is that if you ride a motorbike at reasonable speed in order to enter a turn to the right you actually turn the handle bars to the left. This causes the motorcycle to lean-over to the right and thus entering a turn in that direction (due to the horizontal component of the weight).
Clark, this is a neat idea. I signed up.

A bit off topic, but what tools (if any) are you using to write, publish and distribute the ebook? Are you using version control, by chance?
Seriously???

Is this a joke?

http://www.amazon.com/Crease-Constellation-2/dp/B00E67R24U/r...
On Red Pen it seems that you can only make a comment, and it requires your email address/name. No arrows or boxes.
Study examines UK space plane idea
The gyroscopic theory has been proven wrong, yet many people continue to believe it. But just because many people are wrong, does not mean that no one knows.

A bicycle in motion adjusts its center of gravity to remain upright. It's very similar to the inverted pendulum problem.

Look at a bicycle directly from behind with the wheels exactly lined up. Now imagine that you could frictionlessly slide the two tire patches left and right. The similarities to the inverted pendulum become more clear.

Of course, it is more complicated than the classic inverted pendulum. Instead of one point of contact under the mass, there are two. And the two points of contact (i.e. the wheels) have their own complex dynamics.

Having a rake angle on the front wheel makes a bicycle self correcting (if the c.g. is on the right side of where the wheels contact the ground, then a right turn is induced in the front wheel by the rank angle)

There are two major forces that must be in balance to turn a bicycle - the side force from being off center with respect to c.g., and the centripital force in the turn.

Ever watch a cyclist train on rollers? That's much closer to an inverted pendulum. And since there is no forward momentum, there is no centripital force, which makes it more difficult to remain upright on rollers than on pavement.
Scaremongering article - badly informed and possibly biased. We've been eating Quorn products in the UK for years with no reported ill effects (otherwise it would have been pulled from the shelves very quickly).

I'd rather eat Quorn in the US than the drug pumped beef or GMO corn fed chicken any day.
I don't know. It went from #4 to #58 in ten minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraits_by_Vincent_van_Gogh#D...

Some of them he couldn't even give away!

Seriously though, if you want cheap art then visit some art student graduation shows or visit the cinema. Amazon has probably moved into this area because it is high margin and they'll get a big cut and compete with eBay, not through any desire to democratize fine art, so I doubt they'd want the prices low.
There are price selectors on the left to filter by under $100, up to $250, etc. If you're looking for originals at that pricepoint, you might be limited to abstract pieces that are quicker to produce.

Outside of this site, there are studios in China which will replicate pictures or paintings quite affordably - I have a 2000x1000mm copy that cost more to stretch than commission (The original: http://luxxurylivving.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Francoi...).

Another option is to hit up student exhibitions at high school or college level and find rough gems.
We studied the physics of bicycles (angular momentum if I recall) in engineering school.
Secondary liability for service providers and hosts on the internet remains a serious threat to the open web. Service providers should not be held accountable for the content of their users.

This effort to bring back parts of SOPA, combined with a recent push by state attorneys general[1] to compromise Section 230 of the CDA are extremely concerning to me.

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130724/12...
I've only looked over their painting selection, but I have seen far nicer works go for far less at Skinner's and Sotheby's auctions (in and near Boston).

If this site jives your interest at all, I highly recommend looking through an art auction catalog. You can find GORGEOUS 18th and 19th century pieces for excellent prices (Less than $2000) at many auctions.

Here's a Skinner's online catalog:

http://issuu.com/skinnerinc/docs/2655b_paintings/1

(It's worth noting that everyone likes different things, and its entirely possible I am unimpressed with Amazon's offering because its different than most of my aesthetic expectations, and not because the art Amazon is offering is unimpressive.)
Presumably, interacting with Github's hosted issue tracking, editing your project's documentation on the wiki, submitting pull requests, doing a code-review of someone else's pull request before accepting it--any "clerical" project task other than writing and committing code, really.

I was speaking more generally than just Github's case with my original comment, though; for example, it's really obvious that people talk about Reddit being down on HN because when Reddit is down, they're A. bored, and B. want to talk about Reddit being down. They'd do that on Reddit if they could ...but it's down.
So, it seems that even if I encrypt everything, a lot of information is still present in the size of encrypted message; in case of VOIP, it's possible to guess speech that is being transferred over an encrypted transport, in the case of text, it's possible to figure out secrets if the attacker can modify an equally-sized part of the message.

Is there any general way of preventing this kind of attacks? Inserting random data could work, but it's distribution would have to be exactly right for the attack to be impossible over longer periods of time. For the BREACH case, we could solve it by not compressing user input, but what about the VOIP case?

Also, why does the site http://breachattack.com/ says that "Randomizing secrets per request" is less effective than disabling compression?
I love the look of this. A small suggestion: why not challenge the notion of 'adventure'? From the site copy, I'm thinking you'll be writing mostly about scenic voyages abroad. It would be cool to see some city adventures documented as well (e.g. urbexing, underground scenes, the kind of stuff not usually covered in travel guides).
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Personally, I like it.

Maybe don't visit a contemporary art gallery. You might find it frustrating.
I just don't get it, 20k for pieces like this: http://www.amazon.com/Firecracker/dp/B00E70BZ3K/ref=sr_1_22?...

I wonder if people would appraise it quite as highly without context, and the painter's life story.
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Seems like bartbes pointed out the problem. I suppose not specifying the port correctly makes it use some default port or something like that.
Unfortunately it wont do any good because you can't buy taste
What lawyer? They took your money. How do you afford an attorney?
Probably not easy to cast aluminum to look like crumpled paper.
Probably takes as much time and effort as a week working on a web app.
> you will discover to your amazement that resulting code became 7-10% slower on V8

I found both V8 and Ion to be >10% faster using array. I no longer have the results but IIRC it was 11% for V8 and 14% for Ion on i7 (ivy bridge). I moved remove() from OrderedCollection to Array prototype. Perhaps you made some other change.

> Overall it seems that this is irrelevant in the large picture of things: Dart VM is around 195% of V8,

There are 3 benchmarks. That is not enough data to say anything meaningful about Dart VM performance.

> dart2js is somewhere around 100%.

How can dart2js results be compared to the original JS if the data structures used are different? It makes no sense.
Nope, because you won't get any current to live.

Our UK household plugs and sockets really are a fine piece of engineering.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears as though Django isn't the only framework/technology that is vulnerable to such an attack, they're just one of the first to provide a mitigation strategy (resulting in this post).
So you're telling me that Jeff Bezos has just bought an asset which appears currently to support no long term business model, but that, if there were such a thing as a viable micropayment technology, could suddenly become immensely more valuable?

I wonder if Amazon has anything interesting in the works in the payment-cost-management space?
Relatively famous artist (in his circle), and dead almost 20 years. With a work like that it's at least as much of an investment.
+1 for ham radio!
Pretty much every newspaper is a corporation... that's the only legal entity that makes sense, given that it has to own a building, pay salaries, sue and be sued, etc.

Being owned by a massive non-media-related corporation would be concerning, but this is Bezos personally.
On an irrelevant note, this is an example of a perfect GitHub repo README. I'm bored silly of README's which only include a download link and nothing else, this is what people should be going for, code examples, what it does, etc.
RMS is extreme, but your questions don't seem that hard to to imagine answers to.
1. Why would we want to do that? What problem does creating the next Microsoft solve?
2. I have never heard him claim this. Free software means that you have a right to troubleshoot and resolve problems yourself if you want... not that diy is the only option
3. Why can you see one, but not the other? Some of the best documented software is foss. For example, Its hard to beat Emacs documentation.
I'd like to do an affiliate sale on this one... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DV8CMCM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Even with the lowest rate of 4%, that would be $194,000 in my pocket.

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I know that the release notes still says Firefox Beta when I submit this, but my browser just updated itself to version 23. The beta release notes usually are pretty accurate when it comes which features will be in the next stable version.

I believe the new baseline compiler is included in this release as described here:

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2013/04/05/the-baseline-...

If that is the case it's the most interesting new feature for me, but I'm a compiler guy :-)
It is more hip to use 'puter.
The article includes the following quotation:

"The sun's north pole has already changed sign, while the south pole is racing to catch up," says Scherrer.

Does that not suggest that the sun is currently a magnetic monopole? Or is that too simplistic?
What? Yes. Quantum Electro Dynamics (QED) has some pretty compelling explanations at a "basement" level as to how this works.

Also, light does not propagate through glass in a straight line, it diffuses, refracts, and reflects.
The claim that there's some healthy level of meat eating that Americans are exceeding is dubious. The claim that the level of our meat eating is devastating to our environment is indisputable.
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Hardly surprising. People are going to have differing opinions on the matter. Should be a laugh watching the edit wars over this one, though.
I tried writing an Objective-C application intended for server-side deployment, but finding a Foundation library that worked was infuriating. The ones that compiled were not feature complete, and the ones that promised more were not maintained.

It really is a lot easier to write Objective-C code than C++ if you have access to all that Foundation and the associated frameworks provide, but getting it to compile for your target system is not exactly easy. Many of those components simply do not exist outside of OS X.

I'm not even concerned about GUI bindings, as I imagine those would be really awkward.
Would something like this actually be painted by Andy Warhol?

http://www.amazon.com/Muhammed-Ali-II-180/dp/B00E6HWXRG/ref=...
If a dude with a boxcutter can, surely a bumblebee could. Hell, rats can. http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/brain-dish-flies-pla...
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This is a very person-centered view of the universe, no? We're made of the same fundamental particles as everything else, no need to make special cases for when perception and cognition arise in the universe -- they/we follow the same physical rules as everything else. So as long as you're simulating the right universe (i.e. the laws of physics are the actual laws of physics that we experience), everything you're talking about just happens by definition, right?
Hm, is the patronage idea from the table already? What would I do if I had one billion dollar of leisure money? I guess I would buy a world-leading, still struggling social institution that has a high value for society - for just a quarter of my fortune.
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Defense contractor? Can't see any other situation were Wikileaks would be NSFW. Please explain.
Any website that

* Be served from a server that uses HTTP-level compression
* Reflect user-input in HTTP response bodies
* Reflect a secret (such as a CSRF token) in HTTP response bodies

is vulnerable, regardless of technology.

The mitigation strategies were given in the original paper[1], this announcement is just repeat of what's in there. That said, it's exactly the right thing to do, that's not a knock on Django.

1: http://breachattack.com/#mitigations
For what it's worth, I came here to say a similar thing. I was jubilant that SOAP had finally been put to a well-deserved rest.

Well, of the two, I'd agree that SOPA is the greater evil. By a slim margin, anyway.
Context my friend. Why are you offended when someone is clearly not using it in the context you seem to be offended by?. It's intention behind the communication that you should react to. If there is no intention then it's pointless crying over it.
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I know I'm stating the obvious though these comments are hilarious. Keep'em coming.
I think you're drawing a false dichotomy. It's certainly possible, and probably preferable, to have large scale agriculture that limits ecological impact, produces nutritious food, and avoids antibiotic use without requiring large numbers of people to work as farmers.
maybe this is not the objective, rather having a more efficient way to produce meat, you're taking out of the equation the farm, meaning less space used, maybe healthier meat (without all the antibiotics and less fat)
from one cow you can produce 10 tons of meat without all the space needed not only to raise the cows, but to grow their food, the lab can also be closer to consumers having obvious implications on that.
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Maybe, but that would just result in less trust in quality of the service. Which errors and hangs would do also.

I'd rather see simulated data if it's purely for development purposes. You would have far more control over the conditions you need to test.
We know quite a lot about how bikes behave, we've been building them for decades, centuries.

While we might not grok all of the specifics behind the physical dynamics, consider this: We also don't know the specifics of why gravity works. We know enough about it to make practical use of it, it keeps us on the ground and we fall at about 9.81m/s^2, but how we are affected by gravity over vast distances is still a mystery. Why we are attracted.

If we can get along just fine without being blown away by the fact that we don't even know how we stay on the ground, I don't think it's that amazing that we struggle with the dynamics of a particular system of locomotion. We can make it work well enough.
And if you want an api to the met museums art... I made http://scrapi.org . Full disclosure: I work there.
How will the future of big data impact the way we work and live?
It's also hard to accurately profile Go programs on OS X because of bugs in it's now quite stale kernel. Specifically SIGPROF on OS X isn't always sent to the currently executing thread. Afaik this isn't a problem on newer FreeBSD kernels.
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What's front or back depends obviously on what your point of view is: Scala or LLVM.
> Is there any general way of preventing this kind of attacks?

Disabling compression is a 100%-effective countermeasure for compression oracle attacks.

> Also, why does the site http://breachattack.com/ says that "Randomizing secrets per request" is less effective than disabling compression?

Putting random data in the server response will only slow down the attack. With enough requests, the noise from that random data will wash out.

Disabling compression will stop the attack cold. The whole thing is predicated on analyzing the size of the compressed text. No compression, no compression oracle.
And Mozille gets its money wrom where? Google paying for being the default search engine? Is Google search open source?