skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This made wonder about the situation with a lot of houses that were foreclosed on over the years that are off the market ("owned" by banks and left in various conditions).

I wonder if someone could use the zillow api (or something in the open) in someway to deduce spaces/homes where people could invoke adverse possession and somehow work it into concepts of hackerspaces as far as funding and usage is concerned (maybe with some support of local communities as far as outreach and image is concerned), but with more lax requirements when it comes to allowing people to habitate.

IANAL, so all the specifics of how it would work out are hazy to me.
Have you tried contacting them directly to remove any offending articles? Other than that, you can try to contact the host provider directly by filing a DMCA cease and desist. But, the UK process to a DMCA Takedown is a bit different than in the US - found this article on Quora that may help you guys:

"Copyright Law: Is there a UK equivalent of filing a DMCA cease and desist for websites hosting copied content?"

http://www.quora.com/Copyright-Law/Is-there-a-UK-equivalent-...
We're not last!?!
D vs Go comparison
That's only studying one dimension. Isn't it entirely possible that one group has a lower heart attack risk, but the other has a higher rate of crippling joint degeneration?
What model laptop stand is he using in the picture?
Standing firmly in one paradigm is a good thing for a language IMHO. I've worked in multi-paradigm languages and they suffer from the fact that their communities can't find a common style. "Should I use a fold or a loop or a tail recursion?", or some library designers want to be as typeful as possible, others don't, etc.
Troll detector went off? You claimed they are clones and someone just registered fake account to clone a positive comment about them.
The world's largest 3D printed art installation
What the world's largest 3D printed art installation says about the future of architecture
One HN'er suggested a tweak to HTML where a hash of the js is taken along with the <script> tag to allow the browser to verify if the js has been modified. Of course this assumes that the js is static and that there are no upgrades to the code.

Another option would be to do this as a service but then you'd immediately have another attack vector as well.
Since this is a technical community most of you can grapple the idea of return on investment. SEA using scripts to find flaws is easy, taking good advantage of them is way trickier. But in the end when hacking news services, they are seeking to disseminate false propaganda using the lowest investment with the most impact as possible.

What I have been doing, stitching videos together to wider images, panoramas, takes more than a touch of technical skill. Stepping through these events that occurred in reality takes a toll.

I honestly wish people would look past poorly written text, look away from the technical feet of propaganda hacking various services.

Look into one doctor's face, whom I will never meet but will never forget[1].

[1] http://imgur.com/gallery/gXCREGj

I am done here, you can go back to contemplating how to push iPad CPA offers via 'advanced new marketing techniques.' There is no network of hackers using information yielded from Bluecoat hardware to track and kill dissidents, they are just doing things like pestering Twitter, yep.
I didn't mean to imply that this is possible with technology we have at the moment. A piece of JavaScript code (framework, perhaps) could surely send the needed data, and for those with JS disabled, the page could fail over to using media queries (to be exact, it would need to load the media query version the first time your site is loaded, but could immediately redirect to the lighter JS version if you have JS enabled and the light/JS version would be loaded for future requests).
It's highly misleading. It might be more useful to see an analysis of the marginal change in outcomes per spend, where spend is measured in terms of the average wage hour in a particular country.

The US certainly skews toward reduced efficiency for the purpose of better outcomes for some edge cases.

The average fully insured American gets worse healthcare than the president, precisely because the risk/reward calculus of preventative care, emergency care, diagnostics, etc., is viewed to be different for the president compared to the average citizen. Put differently, ensuring the president's good health is done at the cost of a bit of efficiency.

So efficiency is related to class, with the highest class people being able to "afford" lower healthcare efficiency as a kind of luxury.

Correspondingly, in countries with much lower per capita income, it's possible to deliver healthcare that is remarkably good (say, roughly equal to early 1990s US standards) for a fraction of the price of modern care.

Diseases of affluence get lots of health care spending, and many (like heart disease) offer low yield for each additional dollar. There are a few areas (some cancers) in which you'd very much prefer to be treated with 2013 medicine rather than 1992 medicine.

To opine on this issue entails a significant value judgement about the relative importance of various diseases... effectively picking winners and losers, with every dollar saved in the name of efficiency offering a benefit to one person and causing harm to another...
Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means
Interestingly he didn't even invent the assembly line; just made it a lot better...
NYTimes seems to be down and Twitter is be loading all wrong because twimg.com is down. Whoa! This is some serious stuff.
Seeing the Elephant: Defragmenting User Research
From the article: “(I should stress that in this article I’m focusing on school arithmetic and school algebra. Professional mathematicians use both terms to mean something far more general.)”
The twitter frontpage is completly broken for me. Static assets like css and javascript are served by twimg.com, which are now missing. If SEA has access to a server which can take the load of twimg.com, they can inject their Javascript and possible exploits to ALL twitter users...
In everything associated with the situation in Syria beware of the possibility of false-flag operations.
Woah! Has Verisign been hacked?

$ whois twitter.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

TWITTER.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM

TWITTER.COM

And then:

$ whois verisign.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

VERISIGN.COM.MIGHT.SUCK.FYRAE.COM

VERISIGN.COM

I get really crazy responses like this for almost every major site I try (cnn.com, yahoo.com, google.com).
I don't think we agree.
Money is "printed" everytime a credit card is swiped. This is detailed (though with check writing instead of credit cards) in a great little booklet[1] that the Federal Reserve put out in in the 1970s:

"The actual process of money creation takes place primarily in banks. As noted earlier, checkable liabilities of banks are money. These liabilities are customers' accounts. They increase when customers deposit currency and checks and when the proceeds of loans made by the banks are credited to borrowers' accounts.

In the absence of legal reserve requirements, banks can build up deposits by increasing loans and investments so long as they keep enough currency on hand to redeem whatever amounts the holders of deposits want to convert into currency. This unique attribute of the banking business was discovered many centuries ago.

It started with goldsmiths. As early bankers, they initially provided safekeeping services, making a profit from vault storage fees for gold and coins deposited with them. People would redeem their "deposit receipts" whenever they needed gold or coins to purchase something, and physically take the gold or coins to the seller who, in turn, would deposit them for safekeeping, often with the same banker. Everyone soon found that it was a lot easier simply to use the deposit receipts directly as a means of payment. These receipts, which became known as notes, were acceptable as money since whoever held them could go to the banker and exchange them for metallic money.

Then, bankers discovered that they could make loans merely by giving their promises to pay, or bank notes, to borrowers. In this way, banks began to create money. More notes could be issued than the gold and coin on hand because only a portion of the notes outstanding would be presented for payment at any one time. Enough metallic money had to be kept on hand, of course, to redeem whatever volume of notes was presented for payment.

Transaction deposits are the modern counterpart of bank notes. It was a small step from printing notes to making book entries crediting deposits of borrowers, which the borrowers in turn could "spend" by writing checks, thereby "printing" their own money."

Modern Money Mechanics - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

[1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern_Money_Mechanics/Introdu...
But couldn't a worker file a lawsuit? I think the big enforcer of policy is employee lawsuits, not government inspections.
Because Groovy has unfortunately turned into a mere appendage to Grails, with very little independent use, it's generally not considered as a viable standalone language by many people anymore.
Nameservers of nytimes.com and twimg.com are changed:

Name Server.......... ns27.boxsecured.com

Name Server.......... ns28.boxsecured.com
Indeed, and thanks to non-repudiation they simply have to verify once that a given wallet belongs to a certain someone and they've solved that many more layers of that fully-documented transaction history.
Music. Labels. Curation. Kickstarter. Drip.fm.
Imagine if the DNS Root Name Servers were ever hacked?
The use clause is the weird part. I would imagine the reason it has to be there is because it would be bad if functions that weren't written with closures in mind previously suddenly turned into closures. Otherwise why even bother?
Off-topic (but oh-my-god) from same site.

http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-cas...

1: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

$518.5B
SEA takes down NYTimes
I have used PIA for 6 months or so, the business being US based has worried me. Speeds have been good so far and the pricing is great. I have a question for Linux users with more experience than I. Has anyone wrote a script that could tell if the openvpn connection has been cut, then just kill eth0 automatically?
US is about to bomb Syrian military assets so this is Iran's response. The SEA is clearly Iranian. Email them something in Farsi or PM one of their propaganda accounts on youtube they usually answer.

last time I checked ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com was hosted out of Russia and includes "	qatar-leaks.com" which seems to have disappeared
> I know what a kyphosis is.

may be now you do. Couple comments up - you obviously didn't as you so eagerly agreed with tghw's doubting what abnormal cervical curvature can be a problem :)
Last update on status.twitter.com was August 6th.

Get your shit together guys, this is serious business.

Edit: looks like there's an update now: http://status.twitter.com/post/59528478030/twitter-service-i...
I actually made a mistake - it wasn't CBRE that won the award, but rather a company called "Tutor-Perini", which Richard Blum is the chairman of the board for.

There's all sorts of fishy things going on: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Apr/21/tp-high-speed-rai...
> say, roughly equal to early 1990s US standards

If you think any Developed country in the world has healthcare equal to early 1990s US standards, you're very confused.

If you're talking about Developing or undeveloped countries, why would you want to compare the richest country in the world to developing or undeveloped countries? I would have expected you to aim higher than the bottom of the heap.
I never use CA's so didn't notice this, I only use the twitter app which Moxie Marlinspike and Charlie Miller hardened with pinned certs to avoid all authorities

Also this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4415269/suspicious-result...
I like Tinc VPN (http://www.tinc-vpn.org/). It's multiplatform and open source, just as OpenVPN is, but I prefer it for its simplicity and its mesh feature. It doesn't try to do too much (which means you'll have to set up routes yourself).

See http://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation-1.1/tinc_4.html#How-co... to get an idea of the mesh feature.
Education? It's not a big deal to Peter Thiel
It's possible to get something like an electric Razor scooter for ~$300, but the parts they use to hit that price, like lead-acid batteries, make it a lot less appealing.

Just like a car or motorcycle, right now there's a floor to how cheap it can be and still be great. If that gets lower over time, all the better.
Infrastructure advice
Background: I'm a new build engineer tasked with a good bit of overhaul. Our build system is going moving to a collection of 8 local servers. I'm excited for the task, but a bit daunted. What I'm looking for is a little bit of advice. As a casual reader of HN, I have caught glimpses of some relevant tech, but piecing them together is tricky.

Constraints:

- All of the build servers must be running Windows.

- A master CI server will already be running, so all of these servers will simply be slaves.

- Able to wipe clean and start fresh regularly.

- They wont all be the same image, some builds require different versions of tools.

- May not need all 8 at any given time.

Thoughts:

- With the different and dynamic nature of the build machines, something like chef, puppet, or salt seems to be best for managing configurations.

-- Things that seemed immensely useful in Salt were the windows software repositories[1] and in puppet the packages system.[2] The system for Salt seems more simple, and I didn't see anything comparable for Windows with Chef.

- Virtualization also seems ideal, but my inexperience makes me wonder if it is worth the trouble.

-- If virtualization is a sane approach, what are the options here? OpenStack is the only thing that I know of that (I think) fits this case.

- Once the machines are up and running with Windows, I can manage. Getting it to that point is the biggest mystery to me. If I'm able to use virtualization would I be using something like Vagrant to get the images ready?

Thanks for any advice or links provided. I hope this was coherent enough, if not, feel free to ask me for any clarification.

[1] http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/windows-package-manager.html
[2] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows/writing.html#packagepackage
Doesn't this cause Varicose veins: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/varicose-veins/DS00256
I love my IKEA Jerker standing desk. IKEA no longer sells them, but you can pick one up on Craigslist for under $100.
For some reason this is buried at the very bottom in low-contrast text:

CTL-C is the brain-child from the makers
of AppFog.

AppFog is now part of a $19.8B company
which means we have the resources to
back this in a big way. :)
I'm gonna go with US $120-305 per piece.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/311870898/T_feet_electric_...

Probably best to leave out the garish tabletop and find your own, though.
We are now publishing at a backup site: http://news.nytco.com
OK, then, the key question is: which registrar are they using and how do that registrar's security get compromised?
This hack appears to be genuine.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/24/tech/syrian-electronic-arm...
I have the same keyboard (with a Kinesis keyboard tray) and while it's not as sloped as yours, I'm maxed out on negative angle (while sitting).

The most important thing is that the keyboard height and slope match so your wrists are straight. In general, I prefer having my elbows more open because I find that minimizes arm fatigue, but having the elbows open would definitely not be a plus if it forced your wrists into extension.
I've dealt with a number of chiropractors. I go to one several times a year and have for the past decade.

There are those I respect and there are those that are scam artists. The ones I respect are the ones that know the limits of their practice. The ones that are scam artists often use x-rays and neck angle to dupe people into "treatment" they don't need, using words like "natural healing power" and "life force".

The over-arching problem is twofold.

First, like many alternative treatments, there is very little real scientific research backing up their methods. Within chiropractics, they do studies, but they typically fail to meet scientific rigor in a number of areas, including controlling for bias and methodology.

Second, and much more worrisome, is that chiropractors are not medical doctors and are rarely trained to properly refer people when a problem is outside their area of expertise. I've seen this with both of my parents. My mother had knee pain, which the chiropractor (which was one of the ones I respected) insisted was an alignment issue. In reality, she needed a whole knee replacement, and suffered unnecessarily for a number of months before seeing an orthopod, because the chiropractor insisted he could fix it.

My father had severe shoulder pain, extending all the way down to his fingers, and eventually started losing functionality in that hand. Again, the chiropractor thought he could fix it. My father had a severely herniated disk which was impinging a nerve. Again, he suffered unnecessarily because chiropractors do not refer people when they're out of their element. Finally, a neurologist determined that surgery was the only way to fix the problem, which it did. He has regained 95% of the function of his hand.

I think chiropractors have their place and can help with some skeletal alignment issues, but there are significant problems with the industry as well, and people should be aware of them before going in.
You are aware phishing pages, ddos attacks, redirects have led to IPs controlled not just by Syria but relegated to the government itself?
The tweet button/widget is served by http://platform.twitter.com so this shouldn't be a problem as long as the twitter.com nameservers are unchanged.
no.

VERISIGN.COM.MIGHT.SUCK.FYRAE.COM is a subdomain of
FYRAE.com

See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204867
OS X Mail is surprisingly usable. I used to use Postbox before I got my first MacBook and I loved that. Think Thunderbird, with a prettier UI, some extra features, and not free.
They probably make about 20-30% profit on each one dependent on the company.

Making shit is expensive unless you're doing it at scale, the majority of people don't care about adjustable desks so the marketshare is by nature a niche. You then have staffing costs, design costs, distribution costs.
Without a good income source, a life filled with things that matter to you is very difficult. Watterson has presented a false alternative.
Forget about the Wikipedia article, which is trying to define algebra "in general." I know of no definition that encompasses all uses, both technical and colloquial and I'm not sure why we'd want one. A better question than "What is algebra?" might be "What does it mean when Person X says algebra?"

For most people it means high school algebra, which is what I was trying to explain until the very end. (High school) algebra is to arithmetic as arithmetic is to the more concrete and often physical things I mentioned. Put another way, algebra is what we get when we go through the same process we applied to invent arithmetic as we understand it today, but treat particular numbers as the more concrete thing.

Speaking precisely high school algebra means "the study of the real numbers under the operations of addition and multiplication as we typically understand them." Linear algebra and the algebra of the complex numbers sometimes make an appearance, too, which often confuse students because we're now equivocating and calling all these things just "algebra."
Forgot to tag the title as an ask thread, sorry about that.
They are extremely heavy.

My current kick scooter weights 12 lbs and i consider it heavy. I can't imagine handling 35 lbs, my bike is lighter :)
New York Times, Twitter hacked as DNS records altered
I imagine going to the concert hall and listening to classical music. I find myself wanting to direct, but then the music is slower, more mechanical. When I let go and just listen, the melody gets faster and more complex, more enjoyable. Usually that lasts a few seconds and then I slip under.
Syrian Electronic Army Hacks DNS Records Of Twitter, New York Times
Phishing pages targeting dissidents, redirect attacks, denial of service attacks have all led to ranges owned by the Syrian government.

Aside a few cases where they were getting ddosed themselves and SANA.sy had to seek hosting elsewhere. lul.
And if an orthopod diagnoses it, then it's probably legitimate. What I was saying is that, in my experience trying to find good chiropractors, the ones that jump straight to x-rays and neck angle are highly correlated with scams.
I agree on principle, but there are some activities for which Tor isn't an option (for example, sending large files). An offshore VPN that doesn't store logs (or even tunneling through several VPN providers/countries) can provide good enough anonymity for the task at hand.
Division with Roman numerals being a nightmare was not obvious to me. That was my first friction point here :-)

> There was a time when numbers like "4/5", "-2", "0", and "√5" made people freak out because we didn't have the symbols to represent them

Who freaked out, and how could they freak out if they could not behold these numbers in the first place (i.e. no symbolic representations)?

> without drawing a shape that somehow encoded that number

Recommend you use "represented that number" because encoding has a strong, separate type of meaning to me.

> Now, pop quiz: how do you represent something like "0" or "-2" in this world? If you were a Roman using Roman numerals, how would you represent "4/5"?

For "0" I would have made an empty box, out of strings if necessary. For the -2 I would have placed two of the strings in a different location. For the Roman numeral conundrum I would have placed IV and then a line and then a V below that. Now, I just solved your conundrums. Or didn't I? To really speak to beginners it's important to delve into this stuff. So far I have not discovered why our number system is so great, and I don't feel like I'm freaking out about anything in particular. :-)

Thanks for your writeup, though. I hope you can turn it into a book for people like me.

--Designer guy who is not super great at math
I am surprised the US is even that high!
Creating a VPN for yourself on AWS EC2
The CODE Keyboard
As a user, you get your order confirmation and while it might take a bit longer for the money to arrive

Setting up Direct Debits, at least the UK version, it's not "a bit longer" for your money to arrive, it's confirmation several days later vs. within seconds.

For ongoing payments like subscriptions this probably isn't a huge deal, but for one-off payments it makes less sense.

I much prefer debit, as it makes it much easier for me to get my money back if the seller doesn't deliver.

Unfortunately from the seller's point of view, that also means it's much easier for someone to claim to be a customer, get hold of your e-book/music/software/whatever, and then reverse the payment. There are procedures for disputing chargebacks on credit cards, but with Direct Debit the guarantee is basically that banks will reverse first and ask questions later, and the time limits for doing so are much longer (if there are any at all).

Again, this is less of a problem for ongoing payments for utility bills or something like SaaS where you can just cut off access if they stop paying, but for things like one-time downloads it's a huge risk for the merchant.