skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, when the down time starts you don't know how much time it will last. Having the problem reported is helpful.
The bank was authorized by a 1983 ordinance of the government of Bangladesh. It appears they are going to modify the ordinance to change how the board members of the bank are appointed, and from there issue shares to the government diluting the existing shareholders and giving 51% control to the government: https://www.devex.com/en/news/in-an-about-face-bangladesh-pr... http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2013/jun/18/governmen....

There is nothing not sketchy about it.
I heard from trusted sources RubyMotion for Android is on the pipeline. Using JRuby as their core dependency cannot be good.
No on all counts. Maybe I just lack some sort of collectors spirit.
True. And if you always roll over when you have explicitly said you won't, you'll lose respect. (Or lost appreciation for standing up)

The key is you have to deliver on what you say will. Then you can earn the respect.
music industry != music
[survey] What does HN think of Bezos buying the Washington Post?
I can't speak for the writer, and one can only speculate, but here goes:

Two suggestions seen (here on HN?) recently: (a) Washington Post is influential "inside the beltway" (b) its book reviews can influence buying on Amazon.

These putative purposes may be in tension with the idea that print newspapers are going away, but may be viable if Wapo will stay in another form (at least the website).

Also maybe adding some sort of news service into Amazon-related products, a subscription or such.

(The article is convincing about Amazon playing a smart or fortunate business strategy, but doesn't live up to the headline.)
Offtopic: this is very simple mitigation for any website, requires JS: https://gist.github.com/homakov/6147227
Side-note for the author: the download can be made more elegant that way

$ curl http://shortfin.io/install.sh | sh

I definitely agree with the HTTPS. For example this is what meteor proposes:

$ curl https://install.meteor.com | sh
RUMPS: Ridiculously Uncomplicated Mac os x Python statusbar appS
This captures my point.
Observing the behavior of plasma around the Sun is probably one of the indicators. Also, the Zeeman effect in the Sun's spectrum measures the absolute intensity quite directly; I'd assume that the zero transition could be observable this way.
> Humanity has never -- in no culture, historical or modern -- eaten as much meat as the western man does now

Absolutely incorrect. There are several well known groups of humans who survive off of a diet of principally animal products.

edit -- apologized for snark

I agree. In most places historically with good arable land, meat is not nearly as prevalent in a meal as today's Western diet. In many places, meat is pretty much just used as a flavoring in dishes like you might find in Chinese-American Szechuan String Beans (the little salted pork bits).
Anecdotally, from the inside of some larger organizations I've never seen a request for such leeway from a smaller company used legitimately.

It has either been simple ego or a sort of test to gauge just how far the small company is willing to compromise itself.

>"The small company marshals all its resources to create a detailed proposal (requirements, SWOT, etc.) which, when completed, ends up as an RFP that goes out to a dozen vendors, or maybe just to threaten their existing vendor with some fake competition."

Yep, this is Procurement 101. I've seen folks who are too lazy to bother doing a cursory search and replace to clean up the vendor name and logos.
Interesting data, and I don't even take photos. It could be very interesting to see aggregate data from independent iPhone repair men; I'm convinced the home button of the iPhone 4 had a life expectancy of around 7 months.
... and especially not if you're suggesting run it as root. You should never run anything as root unless you know what it is. Having it over HTTP vs HTTPS makes things really bad though.
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The government is allowed to create fake identities and corporations, use private facilities and infrastructure, etc. in order to run sting operations against sophisticated criminals. That's exactly the sort of "real police work" they should be doing, rather than surveillance.

Where is there ever a "degree" of visibility as to whether something is a government honeypot?
From the footer:

> It was created in 2011 by Timothy E. Johansson and is the base for the send-API and the tracking server for AlphaMail.

> It also powers this website (though behind nginx). You can reach it directly on port 88: shortfin.io:88
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Work firewall, duh, sorry.
Yeah, after you click a huge "VOID MY WARRANTY" button. I am surprised they made this change after the recent tor exit node exploit...
okay ... why? what's special about this? features? benchmarks? anything?
Halifax, Canada. Twisted Oak Studios is looking for a strong developer interested in project management for our 4 year old worker-owned consulting company.

Our company's focus is high-tech interactive projects. Over the past year, our work has included game development (particularly in Unity 3D), graphics/shader programming, and language and audio processing. We're mostly platform agnostic (mobile, desktop, embedded, custom hardware). We don't do much web tech.

We're interested in working with people who care about their craft. Ideally this includes thinking at both the design level:

- data driven work estimation

- keeping long term technical requirements in mind

- thinking about how a piece of work contributes to product/project end-value

And the implementation level:

- code standards

- readability

- maintainability

-exploring new effective development paradigms & techniques.

For this position we'd like to hear a little bit about you, see something that you've worked on that you're proud of, and hear about how you approach large-ish projects with a team.

We offer strong compensation, prioritize developer quality of life (limiting work-weeks, flexible hours), and do varied interesting work. Lots of opportunities and support for professional development and side-projects.

Lastly, if the relationship is great after 6-12 months, we'll want to transition away from wages in to shared-ownership.

Sound interesting? Hit us up at jobs@twistedoakstudios.com We'll get back to you within 2 business days.
Edit: The actual paper: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0894589/petrovic13unsupervise... (thanks to jaryd - I was certain the page on acl2013.org linked to it last time I checked...)

---

I like my papers like I like my women - in LaTeX.

(I realise that doesn't fit the rules set down in the paper... or those here on HN to survive title-moderation ;-) )

More from the Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/heard_the_one_about/

And here's how the Scotsman covered it (around the start of the Edinburgh festival): http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman-2-7475/scotland/scienti...
I love Play, but I have also been bitten by issues when upgrading.

Needless to say, if you think 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 is bad, don't ever upgrade to 2.x!
This looks great. Hoping you'll add simple conversion tracking for direct response/ecommerce. Our options right now are really underwhelming.
> may be at higher prices, but possible.

Because lower prices don't affect anyone's lives?
@homakov, so you can get a browser to trust a cookie from a HTTP response under a domain protected by HSTS?
UnSAFe at any speed
Having a look at the photo where 4 solar panels are folded out, it looks like you have to "deploy" your laptop whenever you use it.

I also want to know how long it'll last with indirect light. In some parts of the world, we get more days of overcast & rain than sun.
Gabriel Monroy here, creator of the Deis project. I'll be answering questions here and on Twitter (@gabrtv) for the next few hours.
There have been observation that when tribes move from hunting to agriculture (usually of desperation) the average height collapses and the decay of teeth is brutal in just a few generations.

Blaming marketing for meat consumption is somewhat unfair - people love meat - in the past it was reserved for the rich and wealthy - gout was called "The illness of kings". A lot of people just love meat.
Not just you, I had a similar reaction when it hit my inbox.

The line that stood out for me was "Nuremberg, Germany... [is] a bit far away from the tech-industry in-crowd". Nuremberg's a 1 hour flight from Berlin & 1 hour by train to Munich, both of which have vibrant tech/startup scenes. That line didn't ring true to me, so that's where I archived the email & moved on.
Having the Sun shine on your plastic gadget for an extended period of time? Sounds like a wonderful idea! Why not simply have a lightweight detachable solar panel instead?
How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers
I think that's the idea. All connections would be routed via Tor. Additionally, the local system wouldn't know the external IP address (would only know the eventual Tor exiting IP address.)

It's possible to virtualize Tor (without running a dedicated router) so that it, too, doesn't know the external IP address. You can do this, as an example, in FreeBSD jails, and instruct the firewall to NAT all connections from/to the jail in which Tor is running. Of course, having a dedicated hardware router running Tor is even safer.
How does this interact with lawyers' terms of engagement? Under terms of engagement you'll be incurring fees and by the nature of an invoice you can't necessarily contest this after the fact.

Unless of course you agreed with your lawyers that any invoice would be subject to review by SimpleLegal although I would suspect there would be some opposition to this. Although of course doesn't take away from the value of the service in allowing a company to monitor legal expenditure and to gain greater insight into this (possibly with a view to obtaining leverage for future fee discussions).

On a final point, your privacy policy already assumes that you will use data to improve your service and to provide external reporting. This would seem to imply a degree of aggregation. Although as stated this would be on an anonymous basis, the very fact it happens may be off-putting to certain companies.
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Isn't it amazing how confident people are that their own ignorance is everyone's ignorance?

It's so much worse when the ignorance belongs to a "journalist" who really just needed to do a little research before promoting such a poor theme.

Yes, we know how bicycles works. No, it wouldn't be that big of a deal if nobody was working on solving the mysteries of the bicycle in favor of really hard problems like "dark matter".
Good question.

The light spectrum emitted by the Sun has "spectral lines", or emission features (deep dips or strong peaks) that are determined by light-absorption or light-emission from specific elements (e.g., Nickel, Iron, and of course Hydrogen) in the Sun's atmosphere.

If the little packet of stuff that was absorbing light is moving toward or away from you, the characteristic frequencies of all its spectral lines will be Doppler shifted. So, you can measure the velocity of that packet of stuff by seeing how much the line is shifted. Since you have a lot of photons, you can do this independently across the Sun's surface and get a spatially-resolved map of velocity ("Dopplergram", http://solar-center.stanford.edu/dopplergram.html).

If the little packet of stuff was in a magnetic field, its spectral lines will be split into sub-lines due to the Zeeman effect. So, you can also measure the spatially-resolved magnetic field of the Sun, and this is called a "magnetogram".

It is kind of surprising that this measurement can be made at all.
Enjoy your skin cancer.
Yes, that was the joke. (Kindle isn't anywhere near as obscure as Rosebud, so even though the word 'kindle' has the same syllable count and stress as 'rosebud', it doesn't seem like a good _Citizen Kane_ allusion - until you remember what happened to Rosebud at the end of the movie.)
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Yes, but that has nothing to do with the RAM. Processors take a significant chunk of the platform power while RAM in almost all cases does not anymore.
Bootstrap 3, Foundation 4 and Bourbon Neat. Choosing a CSS framework
PaaS Phishing As A Service
Dots & Circles : A nice free dots like game
author should add a benchmark, comparison. or maybe it's just a fun, personal project and not ready for production.
> 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?

Precisely what I meant to ask, given that you've the critical journey at hand to work and focus on.
Anything without a well-regulated "app store" will be classified as a hacker tool in the eyes of the law.
If that failed to be stable, all that would prove is that particular design was unstable, not that there is no design with those features that is stable. This is a problem of finding a general rule, not just a particular design that is stable or unstable.

The issue is that no one has found a way to characterize all possible designs (within certain constraints, such as two wheels each attached to a rigid frame, the frames joined by a hinge) which are self-stable. They know some conditions that are necessary, such as at least one factor linking lean to steering and the design needing a steering force applied to turn in a steady turn. They have not yet characterized what conditions are sufficient for a stable design.

What you want, to say that you fully undertsand how a bicycle works, is a set of conditions which are both necessary and sufficient for a bicycle to be self-stable. If you build a bicycle which meets those conditions, then it will be self-stable (at some speed; certain designs may be self-stable over a wider range of speeds while some may only be self-stable at a narrow range of speeds); if you build a bicycle which does not meet those conditions, it will not be self-stable at any speed.

We've gotten closer over the last century; initially it was believed that gyroscopic force was necessary, but that was disproved. Later it was believed that trail was necessary (or either gyroscopic force or trail was necessary; I haven't read the older paper), but that has now been disproved. We now know a couple of necessary conditions (listed above), but they are somewhat weak necessary conditions, and we don't yet have (as far as I know) a set of sufficient conditions (conditions which, if they hold true, will guarantee that the bicycle will be stable, regardless of other changes to the design), beyond a few known designs which are demonstrably stable.

In fact, if you follow from the paper in Science to the "Supplementary Online Materials" (which is actually the full-length paper; what's published in Science is really an extended abstract), you will see that they prove that "no combination of positive gyroscopic action, positive trail, or positive steer axis tilt are either necessary or sufficient for self-stability over at least a small range of speeds." They construct models of bicycles that lack each of these things but are stable, and have all of these things but are unstable.
Thank you for this. Onc clarification: the "Bieber YouTuBe upload" takedown scenario remained a DMCA issue. The non-commercial = non-felony language was actually made even more explicit under SOPA.
removed details above. 25% gross margin tho.
Looks nice, but what problem does this solve for me?

Edit: I should clarify what I mean. The blog post should lead with "find out about the cool new apps your friends are using."

But, beyond that, what problem does this solve for me? I wish you guys all the best, but your toughest competition is going to be word of mouth recommendations. And, for a vitamin-not-a-painkiller product, that's pretty tough competition.
I was going to say that there are *~ files in the repository, they should tidy a little bit because things like that don't look good.

Then I thought may be I was being a little bit to picky and unfair, so I checked the code of some random files and... well, it looks like it was part of a learning experience but it definitely needs work before being considered a viable option.
Is the solar panel footprint even enough to power the whole laptop? I haven't done the calculations for it, and I was hoping someone more qualified would join.

In particular, I don't know what the efficiencies are. Also, I was hoping to find an ARM chip on that thing. Intel ATOM was not that power efficient, last I looked.
A browser will accept cookies from a HTTP response on a site that has HSTS set?

A CSRF request from a plaintext subdomain would not include a header and would fail Django's CSRF for lacking a referrer header (Strict referrer checking only available under HTTPS). Further more even a subdomain under TLS would fail to have the same origin.

A subdomain can set cookies this is true. This requires a XSS on the subdomain or allowing plaintext responses on subdomains. If you do not ensure both of these then besides being able to set (or in the case of XSS, read) the CSRF token you can also fixate the session, steal the session, preform a DoS using the size of the cookie, etc.

The solution is forced TLS with HSTS and includeSubdomains.
The "void my warranty " button is completely valid, since disabling JS will break many popular websites.
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I went into this article thinking it'd be a puff piece, but the details about holacracy are very well done and a lot of the insights are more or less actionable even if you're at a more traditionally-organized company.

Something that doesn't get talked about too much is how popular holocratic structures are in non-profits, either formally or informally.
The PV panels are detachable and an extension cord can be used to position the panels in an appropriate location, plus most newer PV panels will produce power in cloudy or indirect sunlight, but I too wonder about whether the laptop will operate if the battery is dead and the unit is barely beginning to take a charge.
This has been a thing since the mid-90s when you could execute 'telnet sci.dixie.edu 1 | sh' to install an IRC client. It preys on the clueless and one of these days, some project that uses this install method is going to get owned and a bunch of machines will get malware.

Then again, most of us blindly run what we assume to be GNU autoconf scripts and never read Makefiles before we 'make install' as root. Nor do most of us read or audit source code, even for security-sensitive applications.
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Even better, you can demonstrate the effect pretty easily. Jog alongside a bike and let it go. If it's fast enough, it will stay upright. You can even try to kick it over and the front wheel will turn towards the direction the bike is falling, "catching" the bike and converting the fall into a turn.
What's a "static web server"? I haven't seen this term.

A webserver for only static pages, i.e. it won't talk to a runtime? But it's "for serving web apps", this means all the dynamic content is pulled from client side JS? Then you would still need programs on the server to answer AJAX requests.

I did not find an explanation on the page or by Googling.
a lot of times it's curl instead of wget.
I really wish they would separate Archival Ink-Jets from the rest of traditional printmaking. As someone who runs these printers professionally (trade show , not fine art) and does classic printmaking, I just don't respect the output the same way. There is craft in printmaking, and in some methods a limitation on total number of prints possible. Ink jets are mainly making sure your printer is color calibrated and doing a little color correction while doing a run. Archival Ink-Jets should be another category priced somewhere between mass produced posters and original art. It's especially a problem at art and wine festivals...
They need to move up-market as quickly as possible. If you're a Fortune 500, your legal bills can be extremely voluminous and be very painstaking to review. There are already products to help review them, but they're probably crap. At the same time, because of that volume and all those repeat plays, the machine learning algorithms probably have a lot more to work with. But I don't think $600/year for a business makes sense for such customers. If the service is really useful, and if they can scale it up to be useful to a big company, they need to charge a lot more.
Once they observe the photospheric magnetic field, they use it as a boundary condition for models that project upward into the corona. They can't observe the field directly in the corona (this might be an experimental capability somewhere, but it is not done observationally anywhere).

They do observe the movement of plasma in the corona, to check the field lines predicted by the models.
I don't know what is special about emulating a ps3 on a PC, most mainstream PCs and GPUs are faster than the Power-PC based cell processor in the ps3 (an 8 year old console). Even the ps4 does not contain any better graphics processing capabilities than a recent relatively high end PC.
>"Are there any posts in particular you're thinking of?"

No, I haven't frequented Reddit for a few years now. I expect /r/politics would have been a goldmine for this last fall. I felt it was most apparent on topics that can be construed to involve race.
20 “brain hubs” in the US where workers earn more
Im sorry for the misuse of the word 'logic'. By 'logic' I ment 'makes human sence'. But I was wrong there too. For investigating in means to satisfy our tastebuts, more economly, sound really human to me.

I guess, what I'm saying is simply that the time and effort going into artificial meat, and the promise it is going to generate will probably end up in continued overcomsuption. Totally overshadowing the social consernes.

I only wish an investigation into how to behaviorally modify our species from doing wastefull and damaging stuff on mass scale, would get as much funding and attention.
Sorry, I meant the specific domain you mentioned. :)
You can, as always, install NoScript or other js-control extensions. Or if you want to break all js everywhere, head to about:config.
The keyword.URL setting (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL) was also removed, and of course addons have been made to re-enable it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keywordurl-ha...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keyword-searc...

I didn't understand why they would disable this feature which I love so much, but reading the bug explained that it was to prevent malicious apps from being able to change the default search in a way that is not easily reverted by users (keyword.URL can only be changed through about:config). Makes sense to me, and fortunately we have add-ons which can restore this functionality :)
I think this is what it hinges on:

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com.es/2008/11/cookie-for...

Is that possible under HSTS?
This idea that consciousness emerges from complexity is the study field of Giulio Tononi[1], and I find his point of view particularly interesting. This is not to say that we have something concrete in hands yet, but I like his approach nonetheless.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/science/21consciousness.ht...
Good advice. The only issue I have is in the first anecdote - absolving their debt based on a promise of future work? That's not letting a client push you around - that's being a downright idiot.