skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ron Paul interviews Julian Assange about Syria, Wikileaks, and "Cypherpunks"
Cue the Arthur C. Clark quote:

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic.”
Amazon has a Kindle owners' lending library:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=10007398...
As another person with rather more knowledge of architectural design processes pointed out in great detail on this page, the group that designs the facade is not the same as the group that models its behaviour under certain conditions, which is not the same as the group that makes the final decision on the tinting of glass panels, which is not the group that erects it to surprisingly imprecise tolerances.

We're not talking about something obvious like Linux vs Windows. We're talking about something which is superficially obvious like integers can exceed X digits
...where the actual integers are the product of a decidely non-obvious set of calculations intended to generate low values but affected by code several specialist teams have commit privileges to.

We're talking about a very slight degree of concavity on part of a large facade focuses the sun's rays for two hours a day, two weeks a year provided the surface material is sufficiently reflective and London has less than its median 68% cloud cover for September. And we're also talking about a building that isn't finished yet: here's an architect's rendering of the offending facade that appears to have ridges the current sheer shiny wall doesn't
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?um=1&safe=off&client=firefox-...

It's not like either glass facades with some degree of concavity are unusual or being singed by them is common. Unlike database errors those stupid developers keep coming up with.

n.b I don't even like the building; it's fugly from where I'm sitting. I'm going sunbathing there tomorrow though.
Android Exposed - Mobile Enterprise
You seem to have ignored my "All other things the same" qualifier - that means you have to assume that power, weight (except for the difference between the gearboxes,) suspension, environment, tires, and everything else, is identical for the quoted part of my sentence to apply.

I don't see how your first two points are relevant to what I said, or your original post. You can love the GTR all you want, I don't mind, and I never claimed that there was anything wrong with it.

As for point 3, if you were to compare to a theoretical manual transmission GTR, that half a second of extra power would still only net you a couple tenths advantage, since acceleration and aerodynamic drag are nonlinear.

And I stand by my claim that a couple tenths on a 12 second quarter mile is 'not much faster.'
We even have a Ministry of Medical Magic in the US now: http://nccam.nih.gov
Since this is still floating around /best, I highly recommend http://hockeyapp.net/ SoundFocus is using it for their betas and it "just works" for distribution and updating. Feels like the app store too.
I currently do trust a good portion of my passwords to OS X's Keychain app, because based on my knowledge I'm fine with their record of software QC. What am I missing?
Do people really believe that companies would spend millions of dollars on PR, trade shows, ad campaigns, etc. and not carefully measure their return?

Sure, measurement before the Internet involved social science instrumentation rather than log analysis; but that does not mean it was not careful, rigorous, and even cutting edge for its time.
Holy shit this article is so bad. Let's see here we've got

* taking quotes from troll accounts and implying those views are the same as Mike Krahuliks

* calling out Penny Arcade for failing to address an incident of sexual assault among enforcers (spoilers: the offender was quickly kicked out and banned from PAX, which isn't even mentioned in the article)

* implying that everyone who supports Mike makes rape and death threats

This is a great hit piece disguised as socially responsible commentary. Here's Mike's response for those interested in another side of the story http://penny-arcade.com/2013/09/04/some-clarification

There are far more viewpoints than the 2 extremes that seem to be outlined in this article, and I'm not defending either extreme. I think the original comic was funny if a little off color. I think the initial reaction to the comic was vitriolic and overblown. I think Mike's response to that vitriol was unprofessional and, as he put it "a massive AOE that hurt a lot of innocent people". That said, he's not a villain. Despite what people want to believe, Mike has owned up to his mistakes in the past (see his handling of the transphobic comments he made) and genuinely seems willing to learn from these experiences and be a better person. This whole controversy seems to be perpetuated by some very vocal minorities from opposite spectrums, each taking what the other extreme said and freaking out. Mike certainly didn't help the matter with his original comments, but people calling him a bigot and boycotting PAX are also (in my opinion) overreacting based on articles like this that get pageviews by fanning the fire.
More like 5 minutes to set it up.
I genuinely wonder if with the increase in fingerprint biometrics we will see an increase in crimes resulting in missing fingers?
"They could have stated up front..." - IIRC their ToS stated up front that you can't accept that money at all (i.e., no pre-sales) - but they didn't catch you in time, so they are holding the funds. It's essentially as an escrow, but better than that - escrow would release funds only AFTER shipment, but they are presumably offering to release part of it before shipment according to the requested business plans. And they have no obligation to catch 100% of violating merchants immediately, it's your responsibility to not request payments breaking the ToS.

"They could have demanded the backers to waive their refund rights." : No, they can't demand that - the refund rights are mandated by law and nothing can waive that, consumers have them no matter what any merchant (like you) or intermediary (like paypal) might want or put in agreements; some chargeback rights apply even if they sign in blood "this is an nonrefundable donation".
As a student at epicodus, I am hoping this gets some attention! We love building cool things :)
I Have Another Bull in the Next Field
Sure thing! I use it for my own lists.
Is anyone out there working on a scaled down, easy to conceal disposable Tor exit node based on the Raspberry Pi or similar password?

If would be awesome if they got cheap enough that they could be scattered around the world on open networks.
Interesting article. Though I think in most serious production environments there is an NGINX or varnish in front of node.js which handles all these cases (and more)
Seems easier to just use a regex. Every programmer should know them already, so this is just another API to remember. Still kinda cool though, but prob not so useful.
While fingerprints might work as a proof of identity, they should not be a replacement for passwords. Identity is who you are, passwords are authentication, and they are better when kept separate. Besides I cannot look at this issue without being paranoid: Apple is one of the companies that comply with the PRISM program. By putting your fingerprints in their products, you are just giving away more data for survelliance and creating a security "issue" rather than solution. Do we really need this?
How Carnegie Mellon increased the proportion of women in CS from 7% to 42%
That kitkat tagline could mean absolutely anything. It could be a kid-friendly set of features, or a more efficient OS so that cheap devices can run well so people in 3rd-world countries can have Android too. It could also mean cat-friendly interface with paw-sized touch targets.
The trend is not towards HTML5, but actually away from it.

I'd argue that is because the functionality isn't there to make it competitive. So the Chrome Mobile team isn't really swimming against the tide, they're... whatever you do when you put things in the sea to adjust tidal flow.

Mozilla, too. I have a Firefox OS phone on my desk and while it's far from ready for end users, it is an impressive showcase of what you can achieve with HTML.
Quickly Strip and Clean Microsoft Word's Generated HTML Code
Tension & Outrage Cartoon
I really don't understand why some people are so afraid of regex. Sure, it's not perfect, but these symbol-less solutions feel to me like one step forward and two steps back. A more interesting development would be something along the lines of what Perl 6 is trying to do (if only someone could implement it).[1]

We should start treating regex like a computer language in its own right, rather than some second-hand citizen that we stuff into a single line without any delimiting whitespace. Use the /x switch and comment your code as you would with any other programming language, and you'll find that regex really isn't that scary.

Take the example pattern. The regex written by a human might look something like so:

m{^
https? :// # Protocol
(?: \w+ \. )? # Subdomain
([\w\-]+) \. # Domain
(?: com | org ) # TLD
/?
$}x

It's certainly easier to parse. Debugging it is also a lot easier. We can see that this won't match anything with more than one subdomain. We can also see that it won't match subdomains that have hyphens in them. It also looks at a glance much more like a URL and less like some arbitrary Ruby code.

[1]: http://www.perl6.org/archive/doc/design/apo/A05.html
Thanks for confirming. I think you've found an issue with haproxy compression; compression support is quite new, and there are still issues being fixed. I'm going to move compression into the web server layer (it probably belongs there anyway!)
according to theverge, that's exactly the plan: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/5/4696618/google-chrome-apps-...

although in that article, they also claim chrome apps are going to come to iOS including availablity in the iOS app store, which sounds really really unlikely.
Why do OLED displays matter?
> attitudes about drugs generally don't affect whether an officer will make an arrest (until laws get changed).

This is untrue: officers operating under the same set of laws within my state have disparate policies regarding arrest (and from the DAs, prosecution) based on the local social leanings.

> I estimate that it does affect them more disproportionately than the war on drugs disproportionately affect minorities.

According to the CDC study cited in another reply, you'd be wrong.

> Men going about their day-to-day business aren't concerned with the threat of rape or related issues;

This seems like it's cultural and about social attitudes, rather than about any actual danger level. (Based on the same CDC report.)

I'm not sure that I buy the argument that because one group of people is afraid of something that impacts a wider group of people, no one can make jokes about it.

Here's a few questions: would your opinion of whether the rape joke was "sexist" depend on if the male author had been the victim of rape and was making jokes about it as a therapeutic device (noting that all the rape jokes in the strip are about "dicks" and male slaves)? how is the joke existing different in this context? should he stop if people are still uncomfortable about it? why is this (not) okay if the author hasn't been raped, but has some sort of anxiety about it? where exactly does it become "sexist" again?
It's not just that Bitcoin is not stabilized by any Government. Bitcoin has no stabilization mechanisms at all, and they cannot be added.
Bermuda Open Data
In iOS5, css transforms worked great, a bug was introduced in iOS6 crippling the performance, it still hasn't been fixed in iOS7. I'm not comparing to Android, I'm just saying that a huge mobile market is basically unavailable with this feature.
Was at Burning Man, this totally fell off my plate. I'm looking for someplace to put the 100GB zip file up right now.
You might be looking for something akin to http://coreos.com/ !
I'm in full agreement with your demonstration, however, as to the case at hand, it appears to me that it's not really the point : the fact is that it should not be qualified as a "presale" and Paypal here is not a trade intermediary but a postman.
If that's not the case, Paypal needs to explain how "crowdfunding", which depending on the viewpoint could be characterized either as a capital investment or as a donation and therefore in any case NOT a commercial transaction, intersects "presale" which definitely is a commercial transaction...
"Well, murder isn't generally perpetrated by one distinct group of people against another distinct group of people, so in that sense it's a universal problem."

Really?

I mean, it's certainly a much larger issue amongst certain socio-economic and ethnic groups in the United States, at least. The Trayvon Martin murder, for example, was very much about race and culture -- about the perception that murdering someone with a certain skin color is kind of okay because those people are inherently threatening.

And there are events like the Holocaust which absolutely were perpetrated by one group against another. (And that "Hitler's bunker"/Downfall video meme, which jokes about the ultimate perpetrator of that horror, went through a period of being beloved on the internet.)

And wasn't the original comic about a man getting raped?
The brain (and how it works) specifically is an area that modern medicine really hasn't figured out yet. I learned this when my father had a stroke. Talking to the doctors I learned that, unlike the rest of the body, our understanding of the brain is still sufficiently primitive that it's treated as sort of a black box.
The books I'm reading now are 5.69 a book. If it's a long month or they are short books I can get through maybe two a month.

So while $9.95 is slightly cheaper, it just doesn't seem worth it to me. I'd rather pay more and keep adding to my book collection.
Another hard problem: sarcasm. it's fun to think about how to approach it.
I don't think that's right.

TraversableLike, and FilterMonadic will both size up the resulting return value based upon the length of what's passed to it. You'll get a List of N items, and the call to flatMap will also traverse the list to remove/flatten the Options. Items will then get dropped in the List. You're looking at one or two collectable objects every time you run through that method, as opposed to bin.items.length collectable objects in your original code.

Look at it this way-- what happens if bin.items is a List() of 10M objects? completed_items can be replaced up to 10M times. The .flatMap creates one collection of 10M length, removes the None objects, and returns the resulting List.
Pretty awesome talk for API Developers, Community organizers, and Open Source Developers.

Actual talk video is here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1igB5fk13k
Sorry - I wrote this up a bit haphazardly and set it to post. Fixed it up a bit, sorry.
Frankly, the e-book programs for the last few libraries I've been around have been awful. Hard to use, one was Windows only (we don't have Windows at home), selection of really lousy books... Basically, anything else that shows up presents a compelling alternative to the library ebook systems I've seen.
One point 3, that makes high level (non-agent-based) cloud monitoring a must in addition to your primary monitoring. In that kind of event, you need local and global monitoring.
The big thing for me about the privileged flag is the ability to run VPN software on the containers-- this way, they can talk to each other cross-physical-machine as well as between containers on the same host.
How cloud computing changes (almost) everything about the skills you need
Is Inbox Zero a Myth?
IQTELL just released the long awaited EZ Email feature. This feature was developed with and for our great user community.
> What exactly are you expecting to get from the mythical "ChromeOS and Android merger", when you already have Chrome for Android?

Seriously. I don't get this knee-jerk desire to have ChromeOS and Android become some sort of weird hybrid. They're two different platforms. Their combination isn't necessarily greater than the sum of the parts.
So hold your finger behind a gel with the fake fingerprint.

Mythbusters tested a bunch of fingerprint readers and they could break even a few of the ones with "life" detection.
Not at all. The Windows OS now has command line accessible management points that are similar to Linux. There is still a great deal of difference in their management models (I blogged about this a while back - http://blog.serverfault.com/2013/06/03/cross-platform-config...)

That I was hired as a Windows specialist was so that we can go deeper on the OS side and the PowerShell side, just as we have a Linux expert to go deeper on the Linux side. Our sysadmin team was just more tilted with experience on the Linux side (though you wouldn't know it - as almost everyone I work with would qualify as a senior admin in any Windows shop in the world).
> Is there any appropriate response to this other than unqualified outrage?

Oh gee, I dunno, maybe trying to think critically about the issue and taking a measured look at what actually went down instead of believing that some people are really the villains that an inflammatory clickbait article makes them out to be?
Brogrammer!!!!
The problem with your answer though is that this was the top post on HN for x hours and damaged an already damaged (and trying to recover) brand. So I would say the complications of additional details would offset the risk of saying little and sending a bewildered blogger into the wilderness.
Oh HELL NO. If you push a notification to my device after I walk out of the sales process I am uninstalling your app immediately and rating you 1 star, you dirty fucker.
Or instead of learning start maybe with words multiple has either ending you learn ^?\w+(|)$.

I'd imagine that wrappers such as this one do not enable users to create any more complex patterns, than ones they could make with a most basic understanding of regular expressions. Whilst providing neither a base for more complex regex use nor a community to further an understanding of regex.
I don't know. I honestly don't really know how the chargeback system functions. I mean, what's to stop me from ordering for instance some hugely expensive item from say Amazon, waiting for it to show up, and then filing a chargeback on it? Does it make a difference if I go through say Paypal to do it? Is there anything stopping anyone from filing a fraudulent chargeback (which is essentially what a chargeback against a Kickstarter or IndieGoGo campaign would be)?
What politically-correct babies we've become. I'm sick of the outrage that happens when comedians make rape jokes or other "offensive" jokes. The Penny Arcade guys don't support rape. They made a joke. What's the issue?

Here's the late, great Patrice O'Neal on the matter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjIuPSuYSOY
but authentication is identity. a password does nothing more than identify you by something supposedly only you would know.

and yes, we need this. convenience is the antithesis of security, so anything that builds a bridge for more users is welcome.
40% of transgendered people have attempted suicide. Assault is pretty common. There is a lot of life at stake here.
How Flake-Handling Trick Will Enable Graphene's Next Revolution
It's a different API key for every Longview machine. I set up 3 and the keys are different in each case (which is also why the short URL changes for each machine, the API key is part of the response and is different for each machine).
Yes.

There are lots and lots of people who don't want precise analytics.

Why don't some people want precise analytics? Because if you aren't sure if something worked, then you can't be at fault for it not working.

Measuring closely what works and what doesn't is of course better, but there are plenty of people who are scared about losing their jobs who would prefer not to track.
Literally the first bullet point under Hardware says "Full access to the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi". Adding support for controlling devices using an arduino is an _excellent_ idea given that there are several home automation / RF shields and online recipes available for the Arduino, which makes it easier for software guys to actually get this setup working.

It's also much easier to reliably implement interrupts using the Arduino, compared to the GPIOs of an ARM CPU running Linux.
Why You Took The Wrong Job
Some governments etc. force you to submit to giving fingerprints of all ten fingers. If an adversary steals just that biometric database, you're done. That's it. No more fingers to use.

Any civil worker who takes fingerprints isn't going to let you put your foot on the fingerprint scanner to verify your identity, and the next customers certainly don't want to touch the device after you've had your way with it.
>> Isn't the fact that it's built on top of JavaScript kind of throw the idea of security out the window to start with

No.

>> Shouldn't we start with JavaScript security advisories

Its a language, not a specific implementation of a language. Chromes javascript engine is what would have security vulnerabilities, no javascript itself.

This isn't security advisories for node itself, it is for node modules. the node security project is auditing all of the modules in npm for security issues, and posting about them there.
Am I the only person who thinks that things like this are totally unnecessary? Is learning/reading regular expressions really that difficult for most people?

Here's the subset of regular expressions that has gotten me through nearly all of the regular expressions I've ever needed to write. As a plus, it has no dependencies!

* - zero or more of the preceding character/group

+ - one or more of the preceding character/group

? - zero or one of the preceding character/group

$ - end of line

^ - beginning of line

. - one of any one character

\ - escape the following character (for a literal '$' or '.', for example)

[<some characters>] - one of the given characters

[a-zA-Z0-9] - letters and numbers inside a group can have ranges!

(<something>) - capturing group (anything that matches inside it will be accessible in the match object)

<thing1>|<thing2> - either the first thing, or the second thing (or the third, or the fourth...)

This isn't a complete, or even precise, definition, but knowing those things will get you to the point where you can read and write expressions like this:

^(-|+)?[0-9]*\.[0-9]+$

which matches things like -.2, 0.123, +0.1, etc. (floating point numbers, basically). This likely has bugs, since I haven't tested it ;)
Why you shouldn’t argue with fundamentalists, primer on Bayesian probability
Finding corner cases is the point of Jepsen :)
The main part is here

"Despite what Meiklejohn was able to prove about Bitcoin’s traceability, the experiment also shows the limits of tracing those underground transactions. Once our bitcoins had been mixed up with other users’ bitcoins in the Silk Road’s 40 bitcoin account, it became impossible to track them further. So even though Meiklejohn could show that we had deposited bitcoins into a Silk Road account, she couldn’t see that those bitcoins were later paid to a drug dealer"
Should public figures be held responsible for the actions of their fanatics?
Busting the Biometric Myth - once and for all 
Biometrics continue to gather VC money and customers. They promise to be the end-all of two-factor authentication. But are they more like snake-oil.
I find it sort of amusing people pick and choose the social standing of gaming depending on circumstance. Some days "gaming is mainstream now! This isn't the 80s anymore people, everyone games!", while other days there is "gaming culture" which is distinctly "geek".

I suppose the truth is probably somewhere in the middle (somewhere pretty damn close to "geek" I think). I just find the juxtaposition amusing.