skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what happens to that percentage when a country decides that it doesn't have enough STEM people and forces people down an educational pipeline. And compromises its educational integrity in the process?
You ignored the vast majority of the practical problems pointed out in the parent link. Plumbing, roof pitch, acoustics, privacy, ventilation, insulation, etc.
There is not a lot of funding for "basic" research any more. Those dollars are now usually sucked up by the most ruthless researchers that have risen to the top of the power pyramid and sit there until they die or retire.

Young researchers coming up through the ranks have very few opportunities to pursue the basic research that may take ten or more years to manifest a rich result. They must serve their mentor's interest through publishing in his/her area, then hopefully land an adjunct position where this process is repeated for the Department/School, then after 12-20 years in academia they may get tenure and have a shot at some freedom if they aren't completely used up and corrupted. At that point it is much easier to just fall back into the patterns of abuse they endured except now it is they abusing their students.
Room Temperature Magnetic Refrigeration [pdf]
This is utter bullshit. He's clearly covered by 1A, as he doesn't hold a security clearance, and is an academic publishing material in public. His use of the NSA logo is fair use -- no one is going to confuse him with an official NSA site.

I think he has a moral duty to fight this. Prof Green is a well-respected US-citizen professor at a top school, and he has limitless pro bono legal counsel available. The next time this happens, what if it is an Iranian-citizen grad student at the US, and someone can pressure him by saying "we'll end your visa and send you home" or something like that.

(I assume he's cautious due to not having tenure, but I really doubt he has to worry.)
Seems you have every country on the planet in your drop down list for the shipping address, but I keep getting "no shipping option" no matter which country I choose.
Apple's big press event: what's real and what's rumor
The 10 NYC Zip Codes Getting the Most VC Investment
Haswell comes to the Brix, Gigabyte's take on Intel's Next Unit of Computing
I don't know why I'm responding to such a poorly phrased question, but interpreting it in the most charitable light: The unemployment graph I linked to is clear evidence that previous automation has not "automated away humans".
For OpenVPN - which is the only protocol we advise for real security (PPTP and IPSec/L2TP are fine for just hiding your IP) - we don't use pre-shared keys. OpenVPN uses TLS for exchanging strong symmetric keys. Your password is only used for authentication and its entropy isn't related to your session's security.
I think there is a demand for t-shirts and henleys that a certain online-savvy, fit-conscious consumer demographic perceives to be customized.
I agree. (source: at similar stage of PhD to original author. Trying to get to the end myself though).
It's really cool, but how do you deal with the problem of burglary?
The optimistic answer is that we pass on to our children what we wish were true for us, hoping that this time it will be different.

The pessimistic answer is that idealists make very hard workers, such that by the time they become cynics they've already locked themselves into a career path and it's hard to get out of it.

It seems the problem we have with science being a business is the belief that money is fundamentally corrupting. I think that only applies to mismanaged money; it can also be seen as fundamentally enabling.
I dunno if you know this but you can build them pretty big pretty easily. And you can easily fit 2-4 people per bedroom if you build them spaciously and people are willing to sleep in the size of beds featured in the dome.
It looks alot like something I did for my last job. Comparing schedules to actual transit bus performance. It's really neat stuff when you start digging into distance/time. http://imgur.com/gmN3EfS
In 2011, NYC had 0.65 murders per square kilometer (515 murders in 784 sq km of land).

In the same year, Gary IN had 0.23 murders per square kilometer (30 murders in 129 sq km of land).

Do you feel 2.5 times higher to be murdered in NYC than you do in Gary, IN?

For comparison with the traditional per-100,000-people rates, NYC had a rate of 6.3 in 2011 versus 37.2 in Gary.
Just ordered, and your reply is confusing me a bit regarding the measurements. I entered some measurements under "My Profile", are those all I need to enter, or will there be a different interface once the campaign ends?

First time I'm doing something like this, so I'd like to make sure I'm doing it right :).
while a PhD doesn't carry that much cachet anymore, doesn't that make 'PhD dropout' even worse? Isn't the impression then, that 'You couldn't finish even the lowered standards for the PhD' or 'You couldn't finish what you started' or 'You had the poor judgement to bite off something you couldn't handle'? I suppose the last isn't so bad given that the age that most Americans start grad school is just over 22
Thank you for the support! I wish I could return the favor!

The reality is that many people are served really well by standard sizes - but there are huge pockets of people that aren't, and that traditional retailers choose not to accommodate. We're not doing completely custom clothing eg. an all together different pattern - we'll do it, as a service if none of our sizes fit, but I think that is pretty unlikely.

What we've done is taken the most overlooked body types - tall and thin, extremely athletic (body builders etc.), and heavier-set guys that want nice shirts, and built sizes that look good on them.

That said, I DO genuinely think that our medium shirt (the size I wear) fits better than any medium I've tried before. We've had a TON of feedback to confirm this.

Great advice on the checkout forwarding. Will definitely make that change soon!
$FB hits a new high, and why I'm getting off the rollercoaster
I would not make the assumption that 1024 bit conventional Diffie Hellman is safe.
Where does the blog post talk about angel round?
Have been using DejaVu Sans Mono for years, it's fantastic and really easy on the eyes.
If I may make a suggestion: there's a hugely underserved population of short (< 5'6") men who cannot buy good quality, well-fitting clothing in the US. I would love to see a small shirt manufacturer tackle this demographic.
Plaques in Highschool bathrooms commemorating where Linus Torvalds once went poo poo.
Sorry about that! What're you trying to order and to what country? We'll get to the bottom of it.
mattbarrie pops up here, but not available to his paying(!) customers at freelancer.

He was never able to explain to me how the project that I started and paid for in thousands of $$ was closed by the developer who did not deliver anything. And the kicker is that I couldn't even leave a feedback!
Show HN: My Google Reader Replacement
Love PG and the community around it. The IRC channel on #freenode has been an invaluable resource with a lot of very patient folks in it answering very dumb questions (mostly from me).
Misplaced incentives all over the place. This one is going to be messy. But as many people have pointed out, much more slow moving than the previous financial bubble.
I'm very late to respond, but I wrote what I did as a religious point. After a lot of years of doubt on the matter, I've come to the conclusion that what the Bible contains is critically important truth. I honestly think it fails as literature, because it is incoherent unless comprehended by faith; but it is a source of comfort, encouragement, and guidance to those whom God has freely given faith beforehand.

But if you choose to read it as literature, I certainly won't stop you!
I suppose the the analysis would be better if it used Census Block Groups for the grid. That it could better account for population density. Unfortunately extracting CBG data is extremely painful. CBG data would also be slightly problematic in that it is residence based, thus a place like NYC's Time Square may show high crime rates per "resident", but is extremely safe.

Does anyone know where you can get a simplified CBG data dump? All you would need are boundaries and population.
Looks very cool, but it feels like there's a big gap between Evaluation (online only, low API call limit) and Enterprise ("contact us") pricing models.

Not sure what market you're ultimately going for, but right now it seems to defeat the point of providing a nice simple API if it's only usable for either throwaway projects or by very large customers.
It might meet some. Does it boot from external media? Can I use my own bootloader? Android or Ubuntu are both Linux. What about something like BSD or Plan9?

To be truthful, my "requirements" include first and foremost, a great looking enclosure. There is a reason for that. I want be able to buy the enclosure separately. This is important.

In my vision, there would multiple sources for boards that might fit inside. Not every user might want or need the same computing power or peripherals.

Imagine, to take an example, if there were multiple RaspberryPi-sized boards. Then you could mix and match different available enclosures[1] with different boards.

1. We are seeing the market respond with many, varied enclosures for the Pi.

There are lots of development boards for sale to consumers, and there are dedicated people porting UNIX OS's to run on them.

What I don't see, generally, are reasonably-priced and attractive enclosures for these boards. The RaspberryPi may be changing this state of affairs, as the Pi enclosure market continues to grow.

Separating out the parts of the device, from the enclosure to the PCB to the OS to the third party software is, you might say, like the UNIX userland philosophy of isolating functions to their own individual utilities. This separation allows more flexibility and more power, in the example of the UNIX userland by allowing the user to filter and redirect output and connect utilities together with pipes.

What are the things Apple does well? Enclosures and graphics, in my opinion. (And controlling their users :) UNIX is not on the list. There are better UNIX alternatives than iOS. My opinion.

Or, as in the article, you can wait and hope that iOS can be improved to be more like those UNIX alternatives.
That doesnt stop you from promoting "issues" and highlighting a stance a candidate has on those issues, you simply cannot use the magic words [1]. This is a fairly strange defense because 501(c)(3) organizations are almost synonymous with this type of lobbying.

1: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections...
This is awesome. I especially love his focus on reducing the complex down to the very simple. He put a lot of work into simplifying the design and the payoff was huge - only 3 shapes make up the whole thing!

From the article: "The three shapes we derived above amount to a remarkable simplification in fabrication and construction. We have decimated the complexity of the dome."

"Decimated" is the perfect word for it.

Here's a related gratuitous simplicity quote from Rich Hickey (of Clojure fame):

"Simplicity is hard work. But, there's a huge payoff. The person who has a genuinely simpler system - a system made out of genuinely simple parts, is going to be able to affect the greatest change with the least work. He's going to kick your ass. He's gonna spend more time simplifying things up front and in the long haul he's gonna wipe the plate with you because he'll have that ability to change things when you're struggling to push elephants around."

http://devopsu.com/blog/simplicity-is-key/
Room Temperature Magnetic Refrigeration [pdf]
http://www.ameslab.gov/files/MagFridge_Foundation.pdf

A friend and I stumbled on to this last night. I've never heard about this effect before and thought it was interesting.

From the PDF:

While Gschneidner and Pecharsky’s prototype was a landmark event in
the field of magnetic refrigeration, it would likely remain nothing more than a
curiosity were it not for the fact that the team’s device is more energy efficient
and environmentally friendly than virtually any conventional refrigerator on
the market today. Because the relatively inexpensive permanent magnet
handles the cooling without the need for additional energy input, electricity
is only needed to turn the wheel and circulate the streams of water. For its
part, water, even when combined with an environmentally friendly antifreeze, is
more benign than the chemical coolants presently in use.

And from one of the researchers last year, found at the bottom of https://www.external.ameslab.gov/news/inquiry/2012-2-karl-gs...

Gschneidner was instrumental in development of refrigerators that
harnessed this phenomenon in place of traditional gas-compression-driven
cooling.

"The biggest stumbling block we now face is coming up with a GMCE
material that doesn't progressively break down into smaller pieces over
the billions of magnetization/demagnetization cycles required for a
15-20-year appliance life," he says. "We also need to reduce the time
dependence of the transformation."

Based on the current pace of research and the growing number of working
prototypes around the world, Gschneidner expects magnetic refrigeration
to become commercially viable by 2016 or so, a fruition he plans to
witness.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_refrigeration
The Assassination of Prominent Atheist Narendra Dabholkar
Which is why the problem is being solved by a mix of pricing and development of alternatives by the free market.

The problem is some people don't think what the market is doing is enough and demand intervention from government based on a line of reasoning similar to Pascal's Wager.

Apparently, oil companies developing resources, and Tesla and others developing alternatives is 'doing nothing'.
7/12.

I'm not sure what the point is of the photo id.
MySQL CLI via SSH or MySQL Workbench.
Right. That's why if your parents live in Belarus, you have to go to another country, like Russia, to have an interview and then stay about a week in a hotel, waiting for your passport. You can't go back to Belarus, because they keep your passport at the embassy and not giving it back to you right away, even if you passed interview and your visa was granted.
NSA seems to really take its logo-censorship powers very seriously - even though those powers exist only in their imagination.

I don't know if that's the way NSA has always been or not (even when facing the public), but it's clearly one sleazy and very untrustworthy agency and group of people. I wouldn't believe anything that comes out of their mouths, or from anyone related to them.

Where do they think they are? North Korea? They're certainly acting like it, and I'm sure that would please "Emperor Alexander" [1].

[1] - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/general-keith-alexa...
I don't know, but I sure wouldn't think it appropriate to present at a TechCrunch event.
Why we might not be able to live on the Moon
And zombies.
In the states, if you fall into a certain number of body types and desire properly fitting clothing your options are very limited without tailoring. For me, even clothing that is aimed at my body type doesn't fit well. I appear to be on the extreme end or simply have too high of standards.

I know I'd pay a pretty penny for just a few shirts that fit exceedingly well.
looks cool. You could probably use this for stabilising video footage
Great idea! Shoot me an email at will@pistollake.com and I'll get some measurements from you and work on the pattern.

Our XS fits 5'6" well, but we haven't tested to see where it starts to become too long. Here are a few people that are 5'6" wearing it:

https://pistollake.com/images/examplefits/Erik_XS.jpg
https://pistollake.com/images/examplefits/Zach_XS.jpg

NAME SIZE HEIGHT WEIGHT	PANT SIZE CHEST STOMACH	BICEP ARM LENGTH
Zach XS 5'6" 140 28/28 35" 31" 11" 28"
Erik XS 5'6" 130 28/28 35" 31" 10.25" 28"
I know this sounds like rationalization, but I think we see it more like, "If we're doomed to suffer in a system where everyone is suffering, why not work to try to improve it and fix the problem instead?"

In other words, if we weren't doing this, we would all be in grad school/academia getting PhD's and doing research anyways. This is more a reflection that we're giving up that opportunity in an effort to pay it forward. I would rather 'PhD' to mean something again than to have something that is meaningless.
I don't know if you're reading the Bible out of cultural or religious motives; if it's the latter, I find that praying for understanding helps me understand. You could try it, if you choose.
Data on the pace of ad technology investing
Again, I ask, why do you automatically assume paying for welfare "protects the weak and vulnerable"? If you've ever been to a strong welfare state like any country in Europe, etc, you'd know they also have homeless, broken people, as we see in the US. Where, I ask you, is the evidence that "lots of guaranteed welfare"->"better off poor people"?

I'm just saying that by making these a priori assumptions we're arguing past each other- I can't respond to an argument that says "Anyone against welfare is a morally inferior person" because I am not arguing against the moral aspects of welfare, I'm just saying that poverty can't be solved by handing poor people a check every month.
This is -exactly- why we're doing what we're doing. What is your body type, if you don't mind me asking? Would love to see where you fit in our size scale and shoot you a shirt.
Can we get a PDF that's 164 pages long, that has each part on its own page that we could print on 8.5x11 paper (centering it, since you used 4x8 sheets)?

Then we could print out own version of what you created, and use some kind of fastener (tape? glue?) to put it together...
Time Kills Deals, and 7 other points on making it happen
This app has a high probability of making people in the audience uncomfortable on the basis of their gender. That is pretty much never cool.
I have three small children, and I heartily sympathize. Any reading I do comes out of much-needed sleeping time.
I was trying to order one polo to Canada. Then I tried a bunch of different countries at random.
Despite that being a rather interesting technical article, I am upset that my expectation of an actual Unicode depiction of a dragon was not met.
Actually, I see a lot of value in people who can recognize sunk costs and quit wasting resources, no matter how much they have happened to already waste. We all make mistakes, it's whether or not we choose to continue to make mistakes that is important.
Large evolutionary jumps in mankind's history have always been associated with use of more energy per capita.

This is typical of the hand-wavy peak oil arguments.

An increased richness of culture or an increased scientific knowledge clearly don't require ever-increasing energy consumption.

Oppositely, the reason previous evolutionary jumps involved more energy per capita has been that ... cheaper energy has always previously available (ie, this a correlation, not a causation).

Edit: A modern laptop uses less energy than a desktop machine of twenty years ago, yet the laptop's user certainly experiences a somewhat higher level of "civilization" or whatever one would call it. Just a simple counter-example to "evolution always requires more energy per capita" claim.
You're probably right. We've already changed to 2048 DH everywhere. Do you have any opinion on if that is a strong enough default?
Providing real, honest feedback is the only useful reply. Kudos to you. If your assessment is negative, then provide negative feedback. If it's positive, positive. No need to over-flower everything, we're all trying to help each other around here.
Haven't tried it yet, but this looks related to Firefox Junior[1] and the reason over which the product designer behind the initial idea got sued by Opera (since he came up with it while consulting on and off for Opera independently[2].) An interesting story and one that further tainted my respect for Opera.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5HPjhZeLYE

[2]: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/29/opera-claims-former...
It's a joy reading this in colors other than green on black!
IETF Chair's Statement On Security, Privacy And Widespread Internet Monitoring
The section of My Profile was our first stab at taking in measurements, but we're refining it and making the UX much better. We'll definitely let you know when it launches.
Ego is not so much the problem, it's that the computer industry is way more cutthroat.

Doctor's and Academic's ego's come from having to maintain the same reputation that a computer person has to maintain.

However, it's worse for the computer monkeys because we have the same level of intellectual capital to master yet we have no license to protect our years of knowledge which makes the industry way more cutthroat and step on your buddy to get ahead in my opinion.

Just my observations.
I bought on to the Kickstarter with the express intention of doing just that.

I sold mine. In 5 years, maybe I'll try again. It needs 2-3 generations of improvement, at least, before it's suitable for development work. Currently, the resolution is so bad you can't even display legible text within the 3d world.
It's not a conspiracy in the closed-door pre-planned sense. It's a power network, an oligarchy, an "old boy network" in the classical sense.

I never said the word conspiracy, did I? Labeling any criticism of power "conspiracy theory" is a straw man tactic for discouraging real discussion.
Funny how this didn't appear until Jobs wasn't around to defend himself.

Selling computers != selling soda and junk food.
Depending on your point of view, 'PhD dropout' could also carry connotations of having sound judgement and the audacity to act accordingly and quit despite doing so being somewhat controversial.
Bitbucket is returning 404 on private repo that I know exists
I just started getting 404 error on my private repo source code. Anyone getting this ? This is scary. I am not able to browse through any of my source code on the private repo.

http://imgur.com/tGbMMep