skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Astronauts gone wild.

"I don't know about the onions, but the weed grows great up here! We grew enough up here to last for the next few missions!"

It's interesting to think how long these veggies could last within human civilization beyond Earth. How would our veggies evolve (only from genetic modification?) Would they be largely immune from disease in this environment? What would be the possibility of them hitting some sort of genetic dead end and us losing our entire supply? Could we create new types of veggies?
I guess it's http://slid.es/
IMHO "htop" and "wget" don't belong on this list of rarely used commands -- they're too often used to quality.
£31 000? Meh, that is low. Finance industry gets you above 75k
The NSA Isn’t Evil, It’s Trying To Protect Us, Says PayPal’s Max Levchin
Point and shoots are already dying and that handwriting has been on the wall for years. The interesting thing is that hundreds of millions of people having great smartphone cameras has created a boom in photography enthusiasts and DSLR and other high end cameras markets have benefited.
With how big a prick he is, someone might have kept him out of the hiring process.
> Yes, it’s plastic, but there’s nothing cheap about it.

Hard back-pedalling on plastic observed.
...and GCHQ in Association with the NSA and BetFred.

Place you bets now, heart attack or car crash?
Yes, news to me and that it's reported by the New York Times no less, albeit on a blog, makes it less of a conspiracy theory and less controvertible. I'd say it's more like this is news to 99.99999%

Kind of shocking, N.I.S.T and the C.S.E with their pants down.
What I find scary is that people who would respond to their advertisement/challenge are perhaps those who think themselves better than anyone else, who stand above things such as human rights, surveillance and who can justify for themselves working an unethical job, excuse it away "its just a job and I am one of the few expert enough to do it".

Perhaps GHCQ has found there is only a certain kind of people that would accept their challenge and still wish to work for them after all the leaks - the kind of person they need, the cold calculating moral-less bastards that will become our overlords because they have no conscience or willingness to live in a free democratic world.
Posting != Endorsing

For instance, OP might have found it surprising that GCHQ would post such a challenge amidst all the controversy.
I agree about the product managers, but I don't think that designers are to blame for the failures in the smart phone market.
I disagree - are you a founder?

Think of the list of things you wouldn't want your competitors to know about you - your upcoming deals, your plans for growth - these are things that I've seen founders reveal on stage during a video-recorded pitch competition.
> I guess we could get the same effect by encrypting using 3DES, then AES, then blowfish, twofish and then RC4.

TrueCrypt supports cascaded encryption in XTS mode, see [0]. AES-Twofish-Serpent, combined with a decent password and Whirlpool hash algorithm (it is used for HMAC and for mixing the RNG) should be pretty secure, IMO. Anyhow, we don't have plenty of really good and checked publicly available alternatives for symmetric encryption.

[0] http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/cascades
His argument doesn't make sense because it misses the fact that a government is supposed to represent the people, and therefore it should accept the will of the people.
I consider navigation not alright to throw away, but wouldn't put it in <main> either.
There are lots of theories about how we absorb printed information, but few of them are backed up by reliable science. Hopefully this will change in the future. But speed-reading schemes have a particularly spotty record in the cause-effect and repeatable evidence department.
Oh I absolutely didn't. I felt a bit bad afterwards for assigning it as a security bug. But that is really my point - when there's cash on offer people are apt to take a very liberal definition of what a security bug actually is.
Groundwater will become an increasingly important resource, and it will be especially critical in a region that experiences periodic droughts like East Africa. Kenya faces a water crisis, and water cuts were not uncommon even for those with access to tap water when I lived in Kenya around the turn of the millennium (I don't know how it is now).

However, because of its perception as a common-pool resource—land owners think they are entitled to the water beneath their land—groundwater management seems to me to present a particular challenge. Are there any success stories in sustainable groundwater management that Kenya could look at? Kenya does have the framework for managing water resources, but it's a question of implementation and political will. Control over resources seems to often end up in the hands of influential individuals who operate with impunity.
> Motion sensors themselves are really energy-cheap but the main CPU needs to be on to sample them, which basically means that if you want continuous mobility detection you're going to burn through your battery pretty quickly, which is why it isn't used much.

It's a coprocessor not a sensor, so it may operate independently of the CPU as far as continuously sampling the motion sensors is concerned. Presumably that requires much less power to do so.

Of course it will used to augment/supplement GPS.
Exactly, it would be interesting to get a bit more insight into the technology given the extraordinary claims of accuracy.
Actually, I did construct a more sophisticated argument, at least in brief. That's what that whole paragraph was about.

Also, I didn't call you a reactionary dullard. I see that your literacy is as poor as your numeracy. What I said was that such was the principle use of referencing political correctness, and advised that you could do better yourself. If I was sure, at that time, that you were a dullard, I wouldn't have bothered getting into it.

So it wasn't, at that time, a lowbrow dismissal. By now, you're getting a dismissal. I guess that the collective audience can judge for themselves whether it's lowbrow or not.
Phonebloks - A phone worth keeping?
Challenge Five is here:

http://www.standard.co.uk/advertorials/gchq/
The most interesting conclusions of Mike Pall reflect my experiences: sampling profilers are often much more usable in practice than instrumentation:

As you might have noticed, I had to change my plans compared to
the original approach presented in June. The main problem with the
instrumenting profiler was finding high-precision and high-speed
timing sources for all platforms. (...) The necessary pipeline flushes shadowed the
actual timings up to the point where the measurements were less
accurate than with a sampling profiler! Other platforms offered
only inaccurate timing sources or none that are accessible from
user mode. And to top it off, the instrumentation added
considerable overhead. (...) I had to scrap that work and decided to go with a sampling
profiler.

And I don't know any other scripting language with a built-in sampling profiler. Does anybody?
This is a great observation about how critically important the expectation of long-term safety is. Take a rich developed country and reduce that expectation from decades down to years and watch the economy collapse. Those guarantees of safety allow a huge amount of wealth to be created. People can invest huge amounts of capital into projects with very long and beneficial payoffs
The ARIA roles ideas seem to address the semantics/accessibility issues much better than semantic tags.

Plus with the direction that the Web Components stuff is going, I think they should probably scrap all the semantic elements, just stick to a smaller set of HTML elements that are "functionally" different. Then tell everyone to create their own tag-semantics by extending the basic elements for their use-case and use the standard roles taxonomy to describe the intent of the user-created tags.

It feel a bit like parts of the groups are not talking enough :)
server sent events? although they are push only. I can't tell if you also want write capabilities
But then that founder is making the decision to reveal those details. A judge has a right to ask whatever he or she wants about the business. It is on the founder to be responsible in answering it.

To preemptively answer your question, yes, I am a founder. Yes, I have pitched at video-recorded pitch sessions (though admittedly not ones as high profile as Distrupt). I have even told a judge "we are not ready to share that detail publicly, but I would be happy to share at least some of that information with you after the event".

If you can't share at least some of the basics, then don't pitch at such an event. They are not a fit for everyone, and if you are a speed play -- relying only on first mover advantage-- then they are probably not for you. I personally feel strongly that most founders are too stealthy and too cagey. We should be able to share at least the core of what we are doing because it is a good way to get feedback. The risk is that someone will come in and out-execute you. If that happens, then it was probably going to happen anyway.
And still Apple.com is not using responsive design, to be viewable on say, an iPhone...
Savers warned of dangers of investing in start-ups through crowdfunding websites
> "We also have some great prizes. You can win 1 of 100 Raspberry Pi"

It would probably cost most of us more (in terms of what our time is worth) to solve this PR stunt than it would to just buy one of those boards new.
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it's annoying that it can't be used more than once per page. It would be useful to also have a <content> element, e.g.

<article>
<header>...</header>
<content>...</content>
<footer>...</footer>
</article>
I think that CSS is the biggest failure here. Let's say I have a blog, so for article page markup should be something like this:

<html><head></head><body>
<article>lorem ipsum</article>
<nav></nav>
<form>search</form>
<footer></footer>
</body></html>

That way screen readers, search engines, etc will get the important stuff first and less important stuff afterwards.

But since the common way of presenting blog is more like this:

<nav></nav> <form>search</form>
<article></article>
<footer></footer>

I either have to do some hacky position:absolute things, crazy floats with negative everything, or just reorder the markup. Crazy and hacky is not fun to maintain, so I have to reorder the markup. That's because CSS is made for changing fonts and colors, and not for layouts.
prospects.ac.uk is full of shit as a rule.
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know how I can download the complete mailing list archive data (of luajit)? Many of Mike's posts are very informative and useful, and I'd like to be able to search/read them easily, offline.
One teaching moment in time - a global social media/tech teaching experiment
...which is actually http://www.thisiscreativeservices.co.uk/websites/EXT-glouces... served up in an iframe. Wat?
In that case, you announce a reroll, along with a published paper explaining that x^1 == x. But, assuming you use SHA-256 or higher, the chances of that happening are less than one over the number of atoms in the observable universe, so you shouldn't worry about it the same way you don't worry about hash collisions happening purely by chance.
While I agree that this is a tender topic at the moment, I have a hard time stretching it out as far as to being offensive, since it's a cryptography challenge posted by a mathematician.

I do agree that there have been gross abuses of power committed over the past years, but this isn't necessarily something that should be the center of a debate on it. Especially since they aren't forcing you to apply to a job by participating in this challenge.
Mathematical joke
Let's talk about continuous delivery
PixelPin's mission is to rid the world of passwords for ever and replace them with an engaging and easy to use picture based system.

They provide businesses and organisations an authentication service for their customers. The service is enabled for all web applications, and can be accessed from any user device. PixelPin replaces the current password solution which is expensive to manage and full of vulnerabilities with a very user friendly and memorable solution that uses personal pictures from the users own device as a means of authentication. The service is very secure and maintains the users privacy. Once a user has completed the simple process to set up a PixelPin account, they can then login to any PixelPin enabled web service.

Info and the Dev pages at https://login.pixelpin.co.uk/Developer/Index.aspx for tech integration info. Integration can be achieved in 2 to 4 hours.

By the way Windows 8 can not do this, but PixelPin can replace Windows 7 and 8 login
It may be more inefficient, but it funds basic research without a short-term payoff, or even a suggestion of long-term payoff.
I think you should try using WAI-ARIA standards[0] instead. That way you can keep your structure the same and give screen readers and such a better description of what's going on in your page.

[0]: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
My father got the O visa after being on investor visa for some years. He said it was the fastest way to the green card but quite expensive in legal fees.

While he has a couple of patents, the crucial thing was the business notability for which lawyers recommended getting testimonials from upper management in publicly known companies such as Apple and Dell instead of lesser known industry specific companies.
Flexbox[1] addresses the issue you're talking about - of course, browser support is still a little lacking (No support for IE9 or below, and IE10 doesn't conform to the current spec).

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Flexi...
Indeed, it's applicable to many things (although not any kind of not custom-built products, only those with high complexity and use possibilities), not exclusive smartphones by any means. But this discussion is about very particular matter, so I wrote the word "phone".
AMD goes “ambidextrous,” will produces ARM, x86 chips in 2014
I think it's more that finance is high rather than GCHQ is low. £31k is about average for engineering grads.
Want to fix law? Legislative Data Challenge by the Library of Congress
I disagreed completely with the title, then completely agreed with the article. Thanks for sharing the link. I've been asked some very probing questions by journalists as well.
Cell phone cameras repel UFOs
Ask HN: Any lib ideas?
One of my favourite parts of programming is creating reusable self-contained libraries. It is much more enjoyable for me to tweak the performace or the API of a library with a clear and simple goal than writing the often obscure 'business logic' of big applications.
On the other hand I think the 'lib market' is quite saturated. Currently I do not have a good idea about what kind of lib I should write.
Do you have ideas about some holes in the 'lib market', where the current libraries are lacking in performance, features or simplicity of their API? What kind of lib would you need?
Do you think one can make a living off of writing libraries (reuasble tech-heavy code), or is it always expected that a library should be free?
Your failure of logic is remarkable. My point was not that it's possible to make a better bitcoin (indeed, I even pointed out that it might be impossible). The point was that the flaws of bitcoin make its usage impossible for any serious purpose.
Much of the graphical froufrou can be done using the before and after pseudo elements (which is one of the reasons I'm sort of disappointed that the HTML for the newer designs on the CSS Zen Garden has remained the same, complete with extra divs and spans strictly for styling).
plus your biometric data may change over time. what do you do for those unfortunate edge cases where someone has an eye infection or a skin rash?

plus it costs a lot more to install, maintain and verify.

plus you can 'steal' someones biometric data without their knowledge (eg. from coffee cups, pictures etc.) without any real defense short of never opening your eyes or touching anything without gloves on.

plus they rely on heuristics and this lack of determinism means that either there will be false positives or false negatives. both cause issues.

... but at least it looks cool. biometrics does have that going for it.
How is people using their brains instead of their wallets idealogical or wishful thinking?
Simply astonishing... imho this technology is revolutionary.
Travis Oliphant on NumPy, SciPy & PyData (Seattle, September 18th)
Total tin foil hat territory here, but I see two explanations:

1) they didn't know it was going to be unpopular and dog slow when they started out.

2) they knew it was going to be unpopular and dog slow and didn't invest much time in covering their tracks.
I've long since given up on that. I plaster my email address al over the internet, so that people can contact me. It means I get spam of course, but that's what spam filters were invented to deal with. Very little actual spam ends up in my inbox.

If you need to keep your email address secret, I suggest that you're doing the internet wrong.
I've tried and failed miserably (so far) to use the tags also. It seems they are optimized for a single use-case: single, magazine-style, pages or blog posts. Anything other than this and it starts to fall apart pretty rapidly.

The alternative would appear to be micro (macro) formats which would offer more flexibility but obviously the chances of standardization on a widespread basis would appear to be remote.

Given the diversity of web-page content perhaps the goal of a semantic web is simply unattainable - at least in the short-term.
Ecosia - The Search Engine That Plants Trees
It can be used more than once per page: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
There's enough money in China that Apple can make some in roads but a bulk of the phones selling there are sub $200 (off contract) non-Google Androids. The 5C isn't going to take anything out of that market.

Rather boringly I suspect the C stands for colour (or color if you must).
What's the process for going about decrypting these things? I've seen some that are just base64 and the like - but those have obvious patterns. How are you meant to decrypt something when you don't even know the algorithm? Is it just a series of brute forces against different algos?
Climate-change deniers are silly. Our governments have created and sustained a climate of terror for over a decade!
About 2 years for me. Keeping strong.
>Remember the idea that the earth was flat?

Actually this is a common misconception. Educated people have known the earth was spherical since the birth of astronomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
This was also an underlying factor when I tried to find why Russian tourists used to spend crazy amounts of money right across the EU border. Few of them told that looking back, it's possible that things might not last, so you mind as well use what you have now. When your planning perspective isn't long, you make different choices.
I uploaded a few images while I fix the server..

http://imgur.com/a/y7nC8
It's not about what engine size do you have, it's all about engine efficiency and how you drive. Small car can be efficient without any fancy hybrid technologies, big engine can be efficient with smart engineering.
I'm not a founder, but am currently en route to being one (shortly, I hope) :)

Again, I didn't defend the right of the event/moderator/crowd to get a startup's data. But they have the right to ask for it, just like a founder has the right to refuse to give it up.

Startup events operate under an implicit or explicit give-and-take model. You get exposure in return for giving up insightful data about your startup. If you're not comfortable giving away data, by all means don't. But don't expect all other startups at such events to do the same. Let each one decide for themselves?
> I don't want to defend a sexist comment

Okay, fair enough, understood, and I'll direct my response to my disagreement about the math of it.

Why would it matter that 2/3 of DWTS viewers are female? Suppose that I publish a fanzine called "jh's dumb stuff", for which 100% of the readers are female (that's right, my mom is the only reader). Would it make sense to say "you can look at this awesome thing while your wife reads 'jh's dumb stuff'"? No.

The relevance, here, is that original oafish-seeming comment was "while your wife watches DWTS", which appears to imply that it's typical for wives to do that. And, based on the stats I could find, it is NOT typical for wives to do that. Over 90% of American women do not watch the show, right?

Mathematically, the fact that 2/3 of DWTS viewers are female is just not relevant.
Alas, that's not mutually exclusive.
The ability to low light pictures was the one thing that surprised me about my Nokia 920. It really does have a great camera, I guess the 1020 is even better.
It sounds like they are tracking acceleration and integrating to get speed - then integrating again to get location. If that is what they are doing then position will drift over time. If the battery life only lasts 12 hours then maybe position only drifts an inch or so by the time you put it back in the charger and re-zero the location
Somewhat interesting, perhaps, is the fact that this page itself has the following markup:

<main id="content" class="group" role="main">
<div class="main">
...

I, too, have tried to use semantic markup. Unfortunately, except for the most straight-forward of layouts, it's very hard to do. Though I guess there was also a time when non-table-based layouts was considered harder than it was worth...
There was a time when I, annoyed at being thrown into vi(m) whenever something spawned an editor, rather than setting the EDITOR environment variable on login, removed vi and replaced it with symlinks to emacs on the servers I managed.

I'm a bit more tolerant of vi now, but just because I "never" see it courtesy of suitable EDITOR entries.
It's 31k after five years experience.
Have a go at the first one. It's likely to just be a simple cipher:

AWVLI QIQVT QOSQO ELGCV IIQWD LCUQE EOENN WWOAO
LTDNU QTGAW TSMDO QTLAO QSDCH PQQIQ DQQTQ OOTUD
BNIQH BHHTD UTEET FDUEA UMORE SQEQE MLTME TIREC
LICAI QATUN QRALT ENEIN RKG

You might notice that there are a lot of Q's, perhaps those are E's... You might also look at repeated letters, or common letter pairs.
Just fly up to Hong Kong over a holiday and buy an iPhone there. Prices are cheap, and its what we used to do in Mainland China before (now, iPhone pricing is about 20% higher than the USA sticker, which probably mostly due to VAT).
ARM Diaries, Part 2 : Understanding Cortex A12
Some more points:

3. Since these emails are sent by the Google Scholar back-end, through Google’s legitimate servers, such a phishing mail would be more likely to bypass email client spam filters (compared to, say, an attacker registering google-scholar-hax.net and sending phishing emails from there).

4. The affected emails would still have Google’s DKIM email signature, proving that it was sent by Google (which would be impossible from a custom attacker-controlled domain). In other words, an attacker could send an email containing any HTML he wants, to any academic email address, and Google still puts a stamp on it saying “this is legit”.
Look at academic research papers. Some talk about useful things , but do not release code or a service.
1. China Unicom...3G is much better than TD SCDMA anyways, which almost never delivers even with a compliant phone.

2. I agree. The 5C occupies no interesting niche in the Chinese market beyond its unique styling. Besides, the yellow one looks too much like a xiaomi to be attractive.
It doesnt seem like a normal ceasar or ROT algorithm. I am trying it as a "playfair" algorithm at the moment but that seems like a dead end aswell.