skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks fantastic. Kudos!

Projects like this give me hope that the holy grail will soon be within reach: an iPython-like notebook that allows me to host both Python code, R-code, and possibly JavaScript in one complete package (maybe including Sage analysis, too).

And, when the data sets are small enough, I should be able to compile all of the interactivity features of the notebook into straight JavaScript with embedded data, so that it may be run on any generic web server, such as an internal corporate intranet server.

Am I too greedy?
That picture shows a carefully polished phone into which someone has meticulously placed 5 careful fingerprints - as if they were being taken at a police station, nothing like the fingerprints you get in normal use.
> How Tu-144 could be spied if it flew earlier?

There's a lot of work prior to first flight.
How to Make Your Own DVD Disc
Do you have the need to convert your personally collected videos into standard DVD format and possibly then burn them onto blank DVD discs? If this turns out to be possible, then you will be able to save a lot of money on buy movie DVDs, as you can burn your own DVDs at home.

To that target, a DVD authoring tool that is able to convert all kinds of videos into DVD format and burn it onto blank DVD disc is a must-have tool. This is why DVDFab DVD Creator is here to help you on that subject.
pretty good, was challenging but won.
wish there was more and a way to trace
The scale is from easy to impossible.
> Note also that the audio input allows playback from an mp3 player or other sources, suggesting the audio can be wholly precomputed. Imagine how useful that could be in places like Africa so that you could print thing without necessarily needing a high-power device like a laptop.

This is an awesome idea. You could broadcast objects over FM radio! Just like they used to do for software when early home computers used cassette tapes for storage.
Sorry: I meant "to mock the U.S. military with active cooperation from the U.S. military."
This is very interesting technology. The only concern is that it seems very slow. (justifiable, as it's generating a full plot each time which takes a bit even on my local machine)

See the full web page example [1]. It might be hard to scale a full website using the tech but it is useful in a pinch, especially if you already have a script to generate plots. (of which I personally have many)

[1]: http://glimmer.rstudio.com/pioneer/pensions/
Texas is another one. Created more jobs than all 49 other states combined.

Actually, majority of other state lost jobs.
You'd still have to force the correct finger, and Touch ID requires a passcode after five incorrect tries.
FTFY http://abbottsinternet.com.au/
This is an edge-case, but it makes me sad to see they don't disambiguate between numeric usernames and ID's on twitter. For example, http://twitter.com/12345678 has a user ID of 9423832. I'm not sure if twitter still allows all-numeric handles or not, but I know there are active accounts that are confusing like this.
No, I couldn't be bothered because the man writes guff.

http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c

> "You know how iOS touch latency and scrolling performance have always been far ahead of its competition? The way you could just tell that internally, Apple had uncompromising standards for how responsive these things needed to be? That’s what Touch ID is like — it’s to all previous fingerprint scanners I’ve seen what the original iPhone was to previous touchscreen computers."

Make that fawning guff. Convenient that he forgets the uncompromising standards of Apple Maps.

> "Touch ID’s extraordinary performance and accuracy fit right into that story."

No benchmarks or comparisons to justify this hype compared to other fingerprint scanners. How do we know it's not the same as a cheap $1 RF scanner from China?

> " a complete experience hosted entirely on the device. Your fingerprint data is not just “not stored in iCloud yet”, it is not stored in iCloud by design, and according to my sources, never will be."

Rubbish. He knows nothing about Apple's roadmap. He always cites his inside "sources" yet he has NEVER broken any story where he had the lead on a scoop. Not on any products or corporate announcements.

I don't care what an armchair blogger thinks about TouchID. I do however care what the Chaos Computer Club thinks because they actually know what they are talking about.
> You don't have to have "everyone's DNA on file". It's actually pretty trivial even for your neighbor or whoever to get your DNA.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I can dump a gallon of your blood and semen onto a dead guy in an alley, but how would the government trace that blood and semen back to you?
The Perfect Star Trek Episode
To enforce a consistent indent style?
I am not impressed by this so-called hack at all. This is like people expecting encryption to solve both authenticity, integrity and confidentiality altogether by doing c = E(p,k). We want to see real hack as in actually bypass the system without any fingerprint, or a way to forge a fingerprint.
A bunch of exceptional films in that list.. you have good taste.

So, you acknowledge that there is a default, and that the films you mention challenge that default. I think everyone can agree on this.

Why are films like 'the thin red line' or 'full metal jacket' so powerful. The only pro-american-military film which I can remember having such a deep impact on me was 'black hawk down', and I think we all know the story behind that one.. I would argue that they tell a truth, and in the face of 60 years (give or take) of holywood military propaganda. And what does it matter that a dozen critical films come out over a thirty year period when, lets say 50 films a year come out pro-military.

Breaking it down your essential argument is - there is no propaganda because people like the propaganda. Question you should be asking is, who created that default?
Dual N-Back: improves your working memory, hence fluid intelligence

here's a great introduction:
http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ
Yes. http://makerjuice.com/
It's fud until you or someone else posts evidence that the fingerprint is sent over the wire, or that Apple intends to do the same (for example, code that sends the fingerprint that awaits activation by a third party). You're not going to be able to do that. It's shameful that you can't even recognize the fudishness of what you posted, especially if Linux actually is your operating system of choice and you have been through the fud wars of the late nineties and early two thousands (that was only a guess on my part).
Firstly nobody cares what hardware you have. It doesn't make what you say any more or less accurate.

Which in this case doesn't matter because you're talking complete nonsense. Apple does not send your fingerprint over the wire.
> When your competing movie has all kinds of bells and whistles, shots of real helicopters and aircraft carriers and all

But that's expected I presume. Military owns all those toys (well technically we as a people do but military is the one in charge of them). So if they want to see fit to use them for advertising whatever position they want they can. Most of the time it will be 'Merica Fuck Yeah! position.

Remember one of military's primary PR role is to attract young American men to join it. It is very conscious of marketing. If it also help promote a large goal of justifying war, torture and invasions, I imagine it is a secondary effect.

I don't even know how to possibly "fix" the perceived problem you pose. Make a law to disallow military to give, lend, advertise, promote? Maybe. Or force it to provide equipment, time and expertise to movies it doesn't want to support?
I am not trying to be mean, but justify that as "that's why it's in beta" is a wrong idea to sell your project/product. I mean your whole point of this project is security so make it right in the beginning.
Agreed. Additionally, it's thematically popular that when part of the US military becomes the bad guy, it's usually limited to "those guys" and not the entirety of the Military. Typically "those guys" comes in the form of a well meaning but rouge unit, a General with a vendetta against an opposing force (i.e. hasn't gotten over the end of the Cold war), a traitor of some kind, an indifferent chain of command, etc etc.

These are things audiences will rally around. Behind Enemy Lines is an example[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_Enemy_Lines_(2001_film)
The default is in the hearts and minds of the American public. The American public usually are not anti-military, even if they are anti-war. They usually oppose military policy set by the administration, and not the soldiers or the military itself.

If Hollywood went against this mindset, they'd be going against the default, and they would need good reason to do so.
Success is having the life you want to have.
That's why I try not to give attackers root access to the system, that way they can't examine the state of my PRNG.
Agreed. Both sides are CRAZY. I get caught up in the craziness every once in a while, before dragging myself back down to sensible-land
I stand corrected, but it still seems like there's plenty of blame to go around there.
You haven't actually made any points at all. You've just called him names and added some dismissive words after a few quotes from him. You don't have to convince anyone that you dislike Gruber. That much is obvious.
Its good. I kept small drop overlapped on big drop on first picture. Finally, I saw on black drop only. Is should show black drop with white drop at center right?
Having relevance conceptually and having a vehicle internally that knows how to communicate beyond its sycophantic core audience are two radically different things. The FSF has never been good at messaging; even its best speaker, Eben Moglen, has effectively cut his own path.

The FSFs ardent dogmatism serves a kind of barometric reading of a key segment, but it has little to offer as a "big tent" player in the broader discourse.
The IPython notebook can already mix Python and R code, and we're working on communications with Javascript running in the frontend, which would allow interactive widgets embedded in the notebook. Compiling the whole lot to Javascript isn't in our plans, though.
Yes, Nuitka (http://nuitka.net/) and Cython (http://cython.org/) both compile a Python program to a chain of C API calls. The performance benefit isn't typically all that large, since removing dispatch overhead isn't really a huge deal compared to using more efficient data representations. Cython has the additional benefit that it lets you declare some typing assumptions, which then enables serious performance gains.

There are also runtime compilers for Python subsets such as Numba (http://numba.pydata.org/) and Parakeet (https://github.com/iskandr/parakeet), which can potentially give you huge speedups (as long as you stay within the world of numerical/array-oriented code).
I hope this comes across in the constructive manner I intend it: when I am curious about a network issue, especially DNS related, a browser is never the tool I use for asking such questions. If you're on a modern OS then "dig" is an amazing tool, and on that other OS "nslookup" will do in a pinch.
TLDR: Docker uses aufs to provide copy-on-write snapshots, integral to docker container-image builds. aufs is not that widely used, and reportedly has a depth limit of 42. This script flattens an entire build process to a single snapshot to avoid said issue.

Context: docker people have already announced an intention to work to unlink themselves from aufs dependency.

Alternatives/Reality-check: LVM2 can provide snapshots at the block layer: either through the normal approach with a single depth limit (though you can un-snapshot a snapshot through a process known as a merge, and then snapshot again as required), or through the new/experimental thin provisioning driver to get arbitrary depth (but 16GB max volume size). In both cases it's filesystem neutral, and the first approach is very widely deployed which means no roll-thy-own-kernel requirement. zfs and btrfs also provide snapshots, but are historically respectively poorly supported/slow (userspace driver or build your own kernel for zfs) and unfinished/in development (btrfs). Linux also supports the snapshot-capable filesystems fossil (from plan9), gpfs (from IBM), nilfs (from NTT). A related set of options are cluster filesystems with built-in replication, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustered_file_system#Distribu... Overall, the architectural perspective on various storage design options can be hard to grasp without digging, and higher-layer solutions such as NoSQL distributed datastore applications remain strong options in many cases.

Trend/future?: Containers in general are moving towards formalizing the "here's what I need: x-depth snapshots with y-availability and z-redundancy" environment requirements specifications for software. In the nearish future I predict that we'll see this in terms of all types of resources (network access at layers 2 and 3, CPU, memory, disk IO, disk space, etc.) for complex, multi-component software systems as CI/CD processes mature and container-friendly software packaging becomes normalized (we're already much of the way there for single hosts - eg. with Linux cgroups). Infrastructure will become 'smarter', and the historical disconnect between network gear and computing hosts will begin to break down. Systems and network administration will tend to merge, and the skillsets will become rarer as a result of automation.
No. But if you don't like it, nobody is forcing you to learn or use them.
"They didn't say it was designed to the standards needed to protect DOD secrets."

I'm sorry, but this is so much backpedaling. Do i really need to start pulling out comments from the last discussion where people were quoting Apple's press conference about how revolutionary and secure this was?
Actually, I was at a lecture by RMS where he said "if someone wants to pay Eur 30K for your work, by all means, charge them Eur 30K".

Often it's not practical to charge for the software itself, because people know they can typically download it for free (as in beer) . In that case, you should charge for consulting. (Which is what RMS does)
Is the new iPhone...useful?
i suggest you spend time looking at Persona so that users can just login with a Persona account without you warning them "well you have to remember a password".
Which ones would get rid of?
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Can I make it in SF?  
A little background: I currently live in Dallas, I am 30 with no wife/GF/kids, and basically no life.
I have about 770k invested in equity from my previous job, and an additional ~300k in retirement accounts. I only have about 20k left in bank account, so soon I will need to start selling off stocks and living off that money until I figure out a way to make money. I am a degree'd engineer, but not CS. I need to take my life in a new direction. Even if that entails opening up a small business that is barely profitable, but pays the bills.

I'm not really sure what I'm going to end up doing for a living, but I have a drive to something entrepreneurial. My old job was just working as an engineer in the energy industry and I didn't enjoy it at all. I am currently learning code via one month rails and some other sources, but I'm probably a long way from making money with it.

Do you guys think I could figure out a way to make it in SF? I feel like I'm very ambitious and driven, and I really just need to change my life and get out of Dallas. I feel trapped here, and the days are getting harder and harder to deal with. Even crazy suggestions are appreciated, I'm just trying to brainstorm here, everything is on the table. If you would just put yourself in my shoes, ask yourself what you would do with my current situation. You could possibly change my life, I actually really do need help right now. I am going to a 10 day Vispassana meditation course starting Wednesday, I'm hoping this clears up some of the answers for me as well.
Extra info: these bindings are what Numba is built on. That's why it's maintained by Continuum Analytics, the people behind Numba.
"Iron Man originally used to be about fighting communism, now it is about fighting terrorism"

Uh? Let's look at the villains in the recent movies:

Iron Man 1: Terrorists, later revealed to be puppets of a corrupt American military contractor.

Iron Man 2: A Russian scientist with a personal grudge, later teams up with a corrupt American military contractor.

Iron Man 3: Terrorists, turn out to have been entirely made up by a corrupt American military contractor.

In every movie the real villain is a representative of the military-industrial complex. In two of the three, cutting-edge American military technology is publicly and embarrassingly subverted and used against American citizens. In the related Avengers movie, American military authorities order a nuclear attack on New York City.

There is a lot of American propoganda in American movies (oh God, Battleship), but Iron Man is a pretty poor example.
"more Americans have been added to the population of Mexico over the past few years than Mexicans have been added to the population of the United States, according to government data in both nations."

That is priceless. I hope the South Park writing team are taking note. They could do a follow up to "The Last of the Meheecans".
What Geek Could Resist Christmas Lights with an API?
Yeah, the SSME's were never as reusable as projected but their efficiency helped to mitigate somewhat the massive cost in weight of the shuttle. If you are committed to a shuttle design you might as well choose a very efficient partially reusable engine over one with RP-1 or a less efficient lox/h20 engine with lower total costs. That isn't an argument in favor of the shuttle just a reasonable design choice.

>>The Soviets would have been better off continuing to neglect LH2/LOX and focus on the fuels they did best with (basically what they have done ever since they discontinued Energia).

I have to disagree with this. The soviets began developing LH2/LOX technologies immediately after the N1 failure for the same reason that the Saturn V used LH2/LOX as an upper stage fuel: it is hard to make the math work for massive rockets that only consume RP-1. The weight penalty on the upper stages is just too large to be cost effective. You might as well pay the cost of LH2/LOX development if you intend to launch super heavy payloads.

>>Also, while the Energia would have been suboptimal for non-Buran loads, it still would have been the heaviest lifting rocket they ever had, able to put 32,000kg into TLI (compared to the Saturn V's 47,000kg and the N1's never realized 23,500 kg). The Shuttle stack wasn't merely suboptimal for that sort of thing, it was worthless.

If the criteria for deciding between SLS/Buran-Energia is which one can launch the most payload then, yes, you would choose Energia. This wasn't an intended benefit of Energia and was simply due to reliability concerns about reusing rocket engines(especially with fuel sources that the Soviets didn't have experience with).

It is hard to evaluate the cost of reusing Energia technology and developing a new booster that would be more optimal going forward. If the Soviets had the money and the political foresight to cancel Buran they might have been able to do it and use Soyuz and Energia together.
Thefts are not limited by passwords, the thief will just reset the phone.
Where did I say that word of mouth could no sell either? I'm making the case for the positive aspects of Marketing.
Apple rules for advertisers - no exclamation marks, no "new"
Name clash with SAP's Crystal Reports sucks. Crystal Reports has it's own basic variant for report scripting.
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I read this piece from the Onion years ago and it stuck in my memory because I found it so funny at the time:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/illegal-immigrants-returnin...

Now it's not even just Mexicans moving there, but Americans as well! A case of life imitating comedy and going one step further.
Unfortunately, the majority of those jobs are minimum wage jobs: http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/12/news/economy/perry_texas_job...
CoreOS internships 
We're looking for folks that are interested in hacking on distributed systems or systems level programming. Most of our userland code is in Go. Our systems level stuff is in C. Everything is Linux.

If you're up for the challenge, we'll throw a hard problem at you and help you get it out into the wild. This is exactly what Xiang did, the primary developer on etcd:

https://github.com/coreos/etcd

About you:

- You love to write software, and write it fast.

- You're very comfortable with Linux. Maybe you run it on your laptop, or have used Gentoo in the past.

- You love, understand, and want to hack on open source software and work with open source communities.

- Your favorite languages are C or Python, but you've been tinkering with Go recently.

If you are interested in interning in the summer of 2014, or anytime in between, please send us a note. Include something about yourself, your background, and any links to code you have written that you can share.

partners@coreos.com

Internship are paid. Located in San Francisco. Housing assistance will be provided.

-Alex
Useful? It's a subjective question. I think there is no need to update to iPhone 5s 5c if you already had iPhone 4. My rule is only upgrade when you renew a plan.
Yeah, I'm not denying geopolitics, just the emphasis as was described.
What's the point of a FTTN network? You haven't removed the bottleneck which is the copper wire infrastructure. This was one thing that could have made Australia competitive in the years to come, but instead the people who make the decisions know nothing about it let alone able to spell NBN.

IMO it's not all doom and gloom. By putting in the FTTN "backbone", it leaves the door open to rewire it to FTTH down the line when the government realises that commerce is being stiffed because of a slow network.
That is just such a lazy answer, and to a question i did not even ask.

I would point you back to my original comment (which you either did not read, or did not understand) but for fear that it may create a recursive loop from which there may be no escape.
NSA review panel has effectively been operating as an arm of the ODNI
Past trends do indicate that. However, the very recent past indicates that Apple is getting progressively better at foiling jailbreaks. It's taking greenpois0n and those folks longer and longer to crack each successive version of iOS. Took a long time for there to be an untethered jailbreak of iOS 6 and the latest rev of iOS 6 wasn't cracked til about two weeks ago. There was no jailbreak of any kind on the iPhone 5 for several months after its release, which is a long time considering that the time between device generations is one year.
Has anyone considered obtaining a leap motion and making a small rig that does this same function? Given the accuracy of the leap motion, it seems like an almost trivial feat
In particular, a lot of was written by Siu Kwan Lam (https://github.com/sklam), who doesn't seem prone to taking public credit but has been quietly doing an awesome job.
How is it better than regular android?