skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An Effective C++11/14 Sampler
Because if you need to transfer someone who's in cuffs, you don't want to be pissfarting around exchanging keys. Thus most cuffs have the same key.
Shit happens everywhere. How you deal with the shit after it happens is what separates the scumbags from the good guys.

Would we be so upset with Obama if the response to the NSA revelations was the firing of the NSA leadership, a solid investigation of wrongdoings, firing of those found to have been guilty of abusing their powers, and reparations to those wrongfully convicted under evidence unlawfully gathered by the NSA?
"Evade Unlawful Handcuff Restraint", indeed. I suppose the order form requires you to pinky-promise that you won't use it if lawfully restrained, cross your heart.

These guys know very well who their target market is, and it's not "law enforcement, military, and security professionals...restrained with their own cuffs".

Be a nice thing to pass on to your friendly neighborhood activists, though. I've known a couple of guys who always kept a lighter in their back pocket to melt through those plastic zip-tie cuffs. When there's mass arrests at a protest, it's good to be able to help a bunch of hastily-cuffed peaceniks get loose and melt away into the crowd before the paddy wagon shows up. You probably won't get everybody, but you'll do a lot of good if you can keep the pigs from getting their hands on women and openly gay/transgender people.
There was discussed [0] on reddit's front page yesterday.

Key comment from arimaspi quoting from the Foundation's website [1]:

"The last couple of days several (spontaneous) articles have been published, claiming The Ocean Cleanup Array is a 'feasible method' of extracting plastic from the gyres.
This is an incorrect statement; we are currently only at about 1/4th of completing our feasibility study. Only after finishing that study, we believe such statements should be made. Although the preliminary results look promising, and our team of about 50 engineers, modellers, external experts and students is making good progress, we had and have no intention of presenting a concept as a feasible solution while still being in investigative phase.

Please stay tuned for this study, which will be published online in several months' time.

We kindly request the press to refrain from any further publication, until all assumptions of this concept have been confirmed.

Thank you."

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1lzrxc/19_year_o...
[1] http://www.boyanslat.com/plastic4/
It's very easy for bad people who are not law enforcement to purchase and/or acquire duct tape.
The latest out of Tom's Hardware[1] seems to indicate that the combination of improvements in threading and modest improvements in the recent CPUs adds up to appreciable gains vs. the old Phenoms.

If you're laser-focused on single-threaded performance, steamroller is probably the one to look out for. They claim 30% improvement in ops per cycle.

[1]: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/piledriver-k10-cpu-overc...
Business Insider's CTO outed as a "sexist, misogynistic jerk".
I'm feeling sorry for the daughter.

The poster is hard to take seriously, one mention of the harassment ("sandwiches"), at least three times he mentions "Visual Basic? Seriously??". He seems more concerned about language wars actually.

So many people confusing programming and programming languages - the act and the medium.

On top the "(violence and rape references)" that had nothing to do with the incident of the headline "To my daughter's high school programming teacher".

This is a disservice to all people who work on more gender equality in tech.

[Edit: As pointed out, it's a she. Thanks for pointing this out. Sorry for over reading this, I usually don't care about the gender of a person. Yes I've read the article very fast as it is 90% not about the headline]
Agree, it's only of use as novelty.

Almost all handcuffs in the US use the same key (peerless). You can buy them at a uniform store for about a buck, or $4 on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Peerless-Handcuff-Company-Standard-Key...
Will there be a JavaScript API for the Web?
Lessons from a Janitor
Well I could see this escalating into something more serious than it ought to be. This could how ever be useful for a criminal with nothing to lose which in that case this product could be helping criminals escape.
"Terminal is the core of all development that’s ever been done in the history of computing."

... my high school hypercard stacks beg to differ...
> at least three times he mentions

SHE.
This is a bit ridiculous. The problem here is not "male-dominated" class room but more likely the ordinary bully problem.

I had a friend who was bullied due to his clothing. He reported the bullies and they got suspended. Later they comeback to the school in an attempt for revenge. Fortunately a teacher witnessed the assault and they were later charged for their crimes.

Also, you can't expect high school teachers to know any other languages than BASIC. It's high school, you don't become a programmer there anyway. Either you are self-taught or you seek higher education. I got many friends who have taken programming classes in high school and in all cases the teacher wasn’t even a programmer but solely followed a book written for high schools.
It seems to me that there's not a lot of cases where removing the unlawful cuffs will actually improve your situation. It seems like it's more likely to get you beaten/tazed until you stop resisting.

The "mitigating mass arrests" scenario I mentioned is one where it could help, though.
Or perhaps shot at, cops are very very strict and power hungry nowadays is best to just follow the law to avoid confrontation.
Did I just watch a video of a series of pictures? Why not just have a 3-5 second motion video?
Oh fuck yourself.

I'm not saying what I did was right or defensible -- in fact in the comment you're replying to I said that I agreed that I was wrong. And in a reply to a sibling comment I apologized for thoughtlessly slamming obese people.

I wrote about a time I was a jerk and put my name next to it. You ran to your throwaway account so you could show that you're effectively illiterate.
Hah, do I look stupid? I was just wondering how bad I'll get burned.
What does the relevance of ACM have to do with the ethical obligations of professionals, be they computing, or otherwise?

It's like the way the notion of Conflict of Interest has been marginalized as illustrated by no-bid contracts awarded to corporations which have strong ties to high level government employees.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gries/howbushoperates/haliburton.h...

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-575356.html

It's like hiring a former Monsanto lobbyist to be the head of the FDA. It is objectionable.

Just because some (mostly) Saudi nationals allegedly hijacked some airplanes 12 years ago that doesn't mean we have to discard our ideals in the name of some fictional "war" on an ideology.
> Victim-blaming.

Sorry. It was unintended. I was just describing my own experience as almost-victim. Personally I mostly place blame on lack of teacher training in detecting and properly reacting to harassment. I hate "Toughen up!" advice. I even hate term "bully". It sounds tolerant, even affectionate. I'd go with thug or hooligan. In my language there isn't even a word for bullying. It's called beating, name calling, stealing, breaking someones stuff, persecution.

> Smaller class sizes consistently reduces behavioral problems

That's because it's easier for the teacher to pay attention and react. Above some limit it's no longer leading the class, it's crowd control.

> I don't think it's useful to merely blame the teacher

I'm far from blaming teachers personally. For me it's mostly about what teachers don't get. Like psychological training, smaller classes, framework.
I get it, I really do. But if you want to stop being annoyed about this, just realize it's the norm and do it yourself. It's definitely a waste of time/vibes to be irritated about other people doing it. It's not like a grave moral issue or something. The world is full of inefficiencies and stuff to be annoyed with and a lot of them aren't actually a big deal. :)
It's very easy to edit a font. So if the font is perfect except for the ~, just edit it and change that.
Offering to assist with digging up funding is a lot harder than writing a blog post on your tech website.

Besides, the hits taste sooo good.
My favorite is Inconsolata-g, looks sharp for programming
http://www.slant.co/topics/67/viewpoints/6/~what-are-the-bes...
Thanks for your suggestion. We will try to make it more visible in the first screen fold.
Without sarcasm, a great way to prompt cops to start using zip-ties, which is just a lot more dangerous for everyone.
Lies, it does something - it pisses off the end user.

God only knows why the business model involves doing your best to annoy the person you want giving you money.
You're right, i completely discounted the possibility of female-female rape. I'm still pretty confident, but I take back the definitely. And I was using violence to mean physical injury, sorry if you were confused. I think it shouldn't be an unrealistic goal to have high schools where no one is raped or physically assaulted, I'm very confident i was at one, and I think that people who consider that so outlandish a suggestion that I must be an unwitting monster must have some sad backgrounds.
I accidentally copied and pasted the two URLs together (I didnt realize there were to URLs). It loaded a handgun, weird. "https://i.freeih.com/7278/iphone_screenshot.png https://i.freeih.com/7279/iphone_screenshot_3.png"
https://i.freeih.com/7278/iphone_screenshot.png%20https://i....
Ask HN:   Are Unit Appreciation Rights equity?
I have been given some of these upon hire. I was told that I would be given 2% equity in the company. All the research I can find states that these are not equity, but are more like a cash bonus if cashed out.

Was I lied to?
Armageddon! Armageddon!
Oo new review I didn't see yet: 12% increase, but since I'm @3.2Ghz, that's a 50% increase! Juicy.

And yes my single-threaded performance is the one I focus on, because the multi-threaded things, I can wait on :)

Thanks for the info.
I foresee a lot of people being surprised to realize that correct handcuff technique has the lock at the back of the hand where itchy fingers won't be able to reach.

http://www.policemag.com/_Images/articles/PO1202ties-7-2.jpg
uh, even at its highest it was $4 per 1000 (and now it's 50 cents) and you get 25,000 free per day. And that's through the automated API console, no enterprise license. And the "consequences" are...you get an over quota message. Seriously, search for "OVER_QUERY_LIMIT" and then compare that to all the stories of people being sued and shut down because they went over their maps API quota. I'll wait.

I've heard of terrible sales calls with them, so maybe that's what happened, but this seems a bit of a stretch. If it did, I hope you did some basic research before deciding what to go with.

In any case, MapBox is great and they deserve the support, so at least it worked out.
It's probably safe to assume that you're parodying the nakedly Orwellian nature of third-wave feminists, but I'm going to respond just in case this is a serious post.

This use of "privilege" as a targeted weapon to silence specific demographics has to stop.

Women in the western world have always been among the safest, most privileged people on Earth. This entire thread, in fact, has been a shining example of female privilege.

No one cares that women soundly outnumber men in university admission, and university graduation, and even high school graduation. Heck, no one cares that it is men who overwhelmingly make up the bottom of society.

Instead, we're having a collective anxiety attack because a hyper-privileged white woman is upset that her hyper-privileged white daughter might have had her feelings hurt in high school. This is surreal.
Anyone else think of Y: The Last Man?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_Last_Man
> More importantly the salient point was about comparing the binary output of different compilers.

No, it wasn't. I explained it (apparently badly) 3 times now. There's another iteration of bootstrap compiling in there before the output is compared.
No worries. Didn't take it as snarky at all. Valid idea!
A big problem with experiencing it as early as HS is that you really have little reason to stick with it anymore. Who cares if it pays well if you're going to be emotionally drained dealing with harassment? She can pursue many other degrees instead. Perhaps as far as she's concerned, she's saved herself a lot of hassle and can now choose a career where she feels accepted. Or maybe she'll be strong willed and push through. But I know in my mind I would just think, "Why bother when there are other cool things to study where people will respect me more?"

I don't really know what the right path is for her, but I hope whichever one she chooses brings her happiness. And I really hope in the not-too-distant future girls won't have to make this trade-off between programming and feeling respected.
I'll be the fool here since I'm not mathematical: how is it sustainable to mix any potentially flawed source into the entropy pool?

For example if my RNG just outputs a series of 5s, surely that would weaken the pool even if the other nine sources were lovely lovely entropy? What is the 'threshold' for tolerable degradation?

The patch that was finally accepted for the Linux kernel was to mix-in RdRand but not to increment the entropy counter. To me as a layman that suggests that if the other inputs are weak at any time ( e.g. soon after boot ) then RdRand will be dominant.
Why would they make this out of metal versus some other solid material? As it stands, it would be detected by a metal detector, right?
That was the sound of Linus dropping the mic.
That still means it's a very asymmetric competition: by default, Apple has a significant head start because of the JIT.

If others have to do some crazy engineering on networking libraries, nothing stops Apple from reusing the concepts the competition implements.

The competition does not have this possibility with javascript engine improvements.
Your post is the one that's hard to take seriously given that you continuously to refer to the poster as "he".

Near the end of the article, she writes: "I'm a single mother working in tech publishing — believe me, I get it".

My guess is you barely read it.
... Yeah. It's actually quite a small amount of code which manages the random pool, and it's well documented and fairly clear. So if you're in doubt, go read it before jumping to conclusions!

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
Thanks for the post Bruce.

Have you considered applying aluminum foil to the outer shell with contact cement, to eliminate solar gain and plastic breakdown?
If people are really worried, they shouldn't be petitioning. They should be collecting donations so that they can hire a security professional to audit the code in question.
I have a 7 year old 1680x1050 laptop at work (which is, unfortunately, still a better display than most people have). It doesn't fit completely on my screen either. This site doesn't seem to have been tested on sub-FHD resolutions...
County jail inmates uncuff themselves all the time (in a matter of seconds) with an industrial-sized staple.
Classic Linus terseness there. The man speaks truth.
Ok, then I suggest you sift through more closely. More and more apps & games are leveraging multi-core (more than most people realize), so the charts in the link I included are an amalgamation of single-threaded and multi-threaded programs, which is how Tom's tries to put together their "real world" indexes.
I am not being funny but that whole website should be shut down. It's clearly hindering democracy.

If you want to affect change, write a letter to your local representative.

Do not spend 60 seconds putting your email address into a random website on the Internet that no politician is ever going to take note of that site since it doesn't represent their constituents. People think they are making things better by putting their name against something or liking something, but it means nothing.
Linus is turning into kind of a douche lately.

(Someone's going to say "But he's right!" Being right and being a douche are orthogonal, though.)
This makes me wanna have a baby!
I think you may be using violence to mean any kind of bullying, which is a little vague. Teenage girls certainly engage in a lot of bullying, but very little physical violence, perhaps even less so in the rich private school environment I was in. I'm sorry you don't believe me. And I think claiming that not-rape would be extraordinary is pretty solidly in line with saying that rape is normal, yes.

To me the thread illustrates that for a community that gives so much lip service to disruption and progress, a lot of people are really unwilling to put up with the idea that high school shouldn't have to be the pit of misery that is apparently common in American public schools. But über is solving real problems!
I had people saying absolutely awful things to me in the middle of class, well within earshot of an authority figure who couldn't be arsed to do anything about it.

Funny enough, by far the worst class I took was a networking class. I thought I'd be surrounded by smart people. Turns out, I was only surrounded by assholes, with a teacher willing to let anything and everything slide.

The best class? Geometry. The teacher was more than willing to deliver an attitude adjustment when she had to, and she did, without even being mean about it. As a result, it's one of the few places I was ever comfortable interacting with people I didn't really know.

Healthy attitudes can be taught, but people have to be willing to step up and do it. It's not just on teachers—it's something anyone who has the potential to influence others' lives should be working on.
At last Another male developer talks about sexism in tech.
(way too serious reply) If the person with the key suddenly has a seizure and you're shackled up and can't do anything to help them, you'll quickly wish you had a paper clip and had taken a locksport class, or had this clipped to your underwear.
I would say that publishing is a key point of research, but merely in the sense of "finding something worth conveying, and then conveying it to those who can build on it and use it". How many people cite you is not the best metric of success, but obviously you would want as many people to read your paper, and incorporate it in their own work; that is a very democratic measure of research value.

In many cases, the paper is not the best method of conveying information, but it works well enough for most cases that no one has managed to usurp it. Editor reviewed journals might have some flaws in their process, but it is effective enough at picking out useful papers that scientists clearly chose to purchase them and use them as a source. So I wouldn't hate the publishing cycle per say, just the fact that in those cases where it is not exactly optimal, the tyranny of the majority is ruining the day of a small set of research types.
Imagine being in his position. I imagine that he does not really want to respond to it since the authors don't know what they are talking about yet he somehow has to since otherwise people could get suspicious. And imagine if this happened twice a day. Also it's one of the things that looks pretty good on the poster's resume, not so much on Linus'.
Lately? Lol, that's how he is. We can't eliminate the bad in people. It adds a bit of spice.
I hate to bring up his tone, but that's what his tone does: it distracts from his point, and inevitably directs the discussion towards him and his outbursts.

I can re-write his response to be concise and firm, but polite. It'll just take a second:

> "This petition is misguided. We use rdrand as _one_ of many inputs into the random pool, and we use it as a way to _improve_ that random pool. Even if rdrand were to be back-doored by the NSA, our use of rdrand actually improves the quality of the random numbers you get from /dev/random. All of the relevant code is found in drivers/char/random.c, if you want to see for yourself."
Does anyone know of a good guide to DEM (Digital Elevation Model) formats? New Zealand has some great open data[0], and I expect that it would be a fun exercise to create your own elevation API from it but I don't know how to get started

[0] http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1418-nz-80m-digital-elevation...
It had 5 signatures, there's no verification that the responder is Linus Torvalds. Seems like BS.
You can't audit RdRand because it's hardware, not software code:

>It is impossible for software to tell whether this instruction is actually returning random numbers or whether it has been deliberately subverted, either by Intel, by a malware microcode patch, or by a virtual machine operating system. One of the standards it relies on, NIST SP800-90, was led by an NSA employee and contained subverted randomness standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand

But since RdRand isn't the only source of randomness, it doesn't matter if it's backdoored, or so Linus claims.
If he were truly taciturn, he might have skipped a few sentences.
One feature I would like to see in a font: Really awesome Unicode support. With characters like all the subscript/superscript digits and letters. And all the combining diacritics (like hat, dots, double dots, overlines, vector arrows etc.).

Also, some fonts are monospaced in the ASCII set, but not for less common characters such as typographic quoted.

Do you know a font that qualifies here? Because Unicode is super awesome!
Spinning up a Virtualbox, especially on a machine with low resources unfortunately is a kill. Besides the Terminal, Koding has features like private Groups, Collaboration, Online editor and so on. That means once you create and begin to use a VM, you can access it from everywhere without any hassle with just one login!
Pretty much only the douche things he says gets the media's, or HN's, attention
0. HomeJoy was already in this space. HomeJoy was PathJoy, yc iirc.

http://homejoy.com

1. Any big pivot will take time for trust to return.
In my country the security professionals are taught to prefer cuffs with locks only on one side and always to place them away from the target's fingers. This usually prevents lock picking or jamming it with something.
I mean, the target is already cuffed and not in any hurry anymore - usually - so why rush opening them?
add_linus_randomness()
One big misunderstanding is that the Declaration of Independence is a legally binding document today. It was a declaration of war on the British Empire; it didn't really matter anymore than a statement of values of people who started the war once it was done with that.

I would look to treaties that we have signed to see what we currently legally state as human rights Treaties in Force [1]. Specifically this treaty: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [2]. Just make sure to check if your country is one of the countries that have agreed to the treaty and that the government who signed it is still in power.

[1]: Treaties in Force - http://www.state.gov/s/l/treaty/tif/index.htm

[2]: ICCPR - http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx
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He has always been, as you describe. Go back in history and see how disrespectfully he talks about free software movement.
http://robertociville.blogspot.com/