skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cat Picture Communication with steganography.js
That's an interesting point. However, I'm not sure if it matters too much. Even if the switch were absolutely indestructible, the wiring going to it is not, and a short elsewhere could easily cause the switch to "close" even if the physical switch itself is not affected.
I changed my nameserver from the MOS control panel some time ago. It took about a week, though.
Since it was a bit slow for me, cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_RNpf-T...
Yes, these issues are major problems for China overall and for the individuals that make up the working poor (Still literally hundreds of millions of people.)

The parent comment was about creating cheap hacker spaces.
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How does a syntax error have anything to do with robustness? Now if you had mentioned something that made sense, like "testing" or "continuous integration", then only the "'tis" would be irritating.
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I cannot cite the exact words, but in discussions professors have indeed expressed the opinion that a next ice age won't be of concern for us.

Those charts, especially those going back further, are a good argument for why we will need to control the climate at some point in the future (but please not when we have not figured out how to without significant risk).
Though I've also never used a Lisp machine, integrating my setup closely with Emacs, SLIME, and stumpwm has been one of the very best computing decisions I've made.
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Uh, yes it is still a "possibility". Unless you have a source I missed, which is possible but please actually cite it, all we learned about Dual_EC from the NSA leak was that the algorithm was designed at NSA. Lots of crypto is designed at NSA; it isn't all presumed to backdoored.
In the same article, they explicitly mention that the study is not based on tree ring proxies. In fact, all the global reconstructions are based on many different proxies.

I also think you misrepresent the 2nd article. The question is what and on what time scale are you trying to predict. I believe they are talking about more precision more short-term models. Just like we can predict winter and not predict weather, we can predict warming due to human forcing, but not the specific details.

In the end, however, it's completely irrelevant to AGW if there was a higher temperature in the past or not. The theory of AGW doesn't stand just on that argument (nor any other single argument, for that matter).
Do you know why the original 11,000 year chart doesn't look anything like the 10,000 year chart in your link?
I think this applies to most desktop OSes and nearly all the hardware platforms they run on, aside from virtualised ones.
In the UK an area has to be granted city status, which traditionally has been based upon where cathedrals are. This means there are quite a few cities under 50k. St David's in Wales is a city with a population of 1,700 people :D
"Lastly, to confirm the Milky Way results, the team put little cardboard hats on the study beetles’ heads, blocking their view of the sky. Those beetles just rolled around and around aimlessly"

Sounds like they had a good time doing this research.
EU being "a single country of multiple states" is purely a myth.
First, you are refering to Schengen Area, which is a subset of the EU.
Second, and more importantly, several countries, such as France, keep "special cases" for border control within a 20KM buffer zone to the frontier. (and I believe a similar smaller range is applied to any train station receiving non-domestic trains). Look at a map of EU, look at France, and you'll quickly see that, with its central position, France is a basically a big "border control area"...
Ah, Hacker News, I always underestimate you. As I was reading the article, I was thinking to myself, there is no way someone can turn this into a negative, cynical, crabby top comment. Boy, how wrong I was.

Not a single mention of anything in the article, just a bunch of loud complaining about how humans aren't living the way some random guy on the internet thinks they should.
Different data set. The 10,000 year chart is only Antarctic ice cores. The 11,000 year chart is a composite of a number of temperature records - tree rings, etc.
And what do you use, Mr. Fancy Pants? Markup?! Psh, that's poppycock.
I suspect that "geological record" quoted is only one source - the graph in the original link is many sources combined.

Also, note the scales are totally different, and that the original link at least states sigma (uncertainty.)
Such 'instruction buttons' and other notices/signs sprinkled through the UI can be an indicator of bad design, an insufficient consideration of 'affordances'[1].

Which is to say, a good user interface (and not just software, but anyplace human/device interaction occurs) should probably be as intuitive/discoverable as possible, featuring behaviours which can be inferred/suspected from an element's inherent properties (e.g.: in an aircraft cockpit, make the "flaps" switch resemble a flap), from the user's general experience in other contexts (an on-screen control that looks like a "button" should act like a "button"), or which preclude incorrect actions entirely (on a door which only swings open in one direction, install a flat plate on the "push" side and a pullable handle on the "pull" side, so the incorrect choice becomes impossible, and no signs are even needed). Putting actual instructional labels onto interface elements, whether in software (e.g. using words "Click here to..." in the text of a hyperlink) or in real life with the push/pull signs, is oftentimes a cop-out in lieu of a more thoughtful/obvious design.

In computer software interfaces (particularly web apps), I would suggest that a large, prominent, colored circle with a gloss effect and an action written/iconized on it, has the affordance of carrying out that action immediately when clicked (for some value of "immediately") -- i.e. being a button.

If substantial UI changes have taken place within an app that already has a customer base, I agree it may be valuable to bring these to the attention of the users. But a highlighted notification box appearing at the top of the app's regular UI screens, which persists until the user reads and dismisses it, is widely used -- rather than sprinkling "push" and "pull" signs around a wrongly-conceived interface[2].

Even the venerable "tool-tip" (aka HTML "title" attribute) seems often overused, becoming a crutch to support a mystery-meat navigation[3] philosophy which requires users to hover and wait to figure out what the hell _anything_ does.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

[2] I'm not suggesting that the MC UI itself is wrongly-conceived or even particularly bad, just continuing with my general point.

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation

[n] The examples about cockpit design and push/pull doors come from actual published studies in ergonomics. I do not have the resources available at the moment to cite them further.
A look at the Firefox OS Hackathon Uganda
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JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SVG. Not proprietary technologies (Flash, etc.) and not really server-side JS (yet).
I showed this to my girlfriend and she thought it was a feature - seeing that if you /really/ need to phone someone, why not allow this in Emergency Mode, as it's probably an emergency anyway? Yeah, I am not sure about that logic.
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Those circles doesn't look like buttons at all to me, just eye candy. Failings of the flat design trend?

At first I thought he was talking about the 'Drafts' and 'Create campaign' buttons on the top right.
It's just

secs = utcTimeToPOSIXSeconds . readTime defaultTimeLocale "%F"
That's due to the little ice age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age), which extended to the mid 19th century, not man-made climate change.
I thought they used a TRS-80:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dung_Beetles_%28video_game%29
"Michigan" isn't a border zone. You might be referring to what I think is probably an urban myth about the "100 mile Constitution free zone stretching inward from every border", which is not a fact of law (and was in fact explicitly refuted by SCOTUS in the '70s).
Right, lets just "cope" with climate change the same way we did 425,000 years ago. By dying, I guess?

What's wierd is that despite that fact that's you've done your best to make AGW look like a non-issue, the chart for the 100 last years looks extremely worrying.
I was not aware of pandoc, just installed it and that certainly does the same job and a lot more.

I guess if you are looking for something solely for previewing markdown and don't use pandoc you may want a lightweight solution. Pandoc has a larger footprint and there are a few more keystrokes after all :)
The striking beauty of Mars
Stunning digital images made ​​by Dane Kisom Vinenbosom (Kees Veenenbos), grace the pages of National Geographic and the site of NASA. These images were obtained with the help of landscape modeling program Terragen. Keys worked with various versions of this program since 1999. Most of these images were made ​​with the use of digital elevation models derived from various NASA satellites, among which was the unit «Mars Global Surveyor».
Well, there are a certain number of explicit and implicit caveats that don't make it into the made-it-to-the-top-of-HN pretty graph.

One is that this is based on other people's work, as the GP mentioned. Updates to those works will affect this one; the hope is that those 73 underlying datasets aren't systematically biased and any errors will cancel out. Another is that those error bars are probably 95% confidence. So we fully expect that about 550 out of the 11,000 years in this chart will fall outside of that range. A final bit is that we're only reconstructing averages here; it's a lot easier to guess the average number of shoes owned by 1000 people than the exact number of shoes owned by 1.

These extra caveats don't invalidate the data or render it useless, they just qualify it. You shouldn't look at the graph and think, "Here is the exact temperature for the last 11,000 years", you should think, "Given our current best understanding of the available data, the average global temperature for 10,450 out of the last 11,000 years probably fell into this 0.4 degree C range."
His chart is based on a single data set (the vostok ice core) for the majority of that period (plus modern temp records slapped on at the end, but it's not visible in the 10,000 year graph) which is not representative of global climate. Correlating proxy records with modern instrument records of temperature is not trivial either (which becomes far more apparent once you look at more than a single proxy record).

It's just cherry picked data to make a cheap political point. The scale of the vertical axis makes it very hard to see what is happening during interglacials, which is what we are in at the moment. If we were worried about an ice age arriving in the next couple of centuries the choice of scale might have some merit, to show how much colder it could possibly get. But we are worried about rapid heating, which that scale does a good job of hiding.
Possibly because it's a three word AGW denying blog post, and includes only from ice core data from Antarctica, whereas the 11,000 year data in the original post is compiled from multiple combined sources.

I'd hate to assume bad faith on the part of a climate change denier, but I can't help but speculate that the data source was chosen specifically because it made the point s/he wanted to make.
You call a shame the fact that this website does not work with your very specific add-on that modifies entirely how the browser handles in-page navigation?
The goal of these instructions is to guide the user on how to use Mailchimp, the e-mail system, not the UI. The plane cockpit won't show you by itself how to start the engine, that's in the manual/training.
I agree that Alien & Sedition is a cheap shot (as would be "Lincoln suspended habeas"). It would be interesting for someone to dredge of examples of targeted surveillance and arrest policy from the time of the founders; I bet there's good stuff. You can find metadata surveillance policy in the mid-1800s!
If that is the worst thing that happens to you, you should be thanking LinkedIn for teaching you a valuable lesson about typing your email password into random forms on the Internet (or sharing passwords).
Very unrelated. China also has its share of ancient ghost towns that are similar to ours; e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niya_(Tarim_Basin)
Or an actual 68 million year old T. rex leg bone with blood vessels, still soft: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur.html
From the article, there's "an apparent link between wealth and, well, unseemly behavior", but is that because in some cases, unseemly behavior leads to increased wealth? It's the same old correlation/causation question that doesn't seem to have been looked into.
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"Hiding" your data in the alpha channel of most images doesn't really seem at all secure to me. That's like hiding your valuables by placing them in your basement.

Steganography that I'm used to seeing intertwined ones data with the actual image data. Which is much more difficult to detect (though certainly not undetectable).
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A picture is worth a thousand DWORDS.
Yup, such tools exist. I've used peat before for stuff like this:

https://github.com/sjl/peat
I haven't open sourced it.

The stack based language works quite nicely with Lisp; in fact, Lisp machines were traditionally stack based.
If we want to use cheap art space as a guide, like 798, they don't last very long, or, if generic, are not very intellectually stimulating. Might as well crash someplace nice like Bali where at least Google+ and Facebook aren't blocked.
By "conservatives" exit means the American kind, who by and large deny the existence of AGW.
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Very nice. I've been doing some table extraction from PDFs recently. Also check out PDF2JSON for nodejs-based parsing - it grabs all the texts and positions so you don't have to 'intercept' draw calls and dumps them out in JSON.
It's a graph of temperature anomalies!
.dk danish domains is free. Where do you get that price from?
The 11,000 year chart is a composite. Funny how the data takes a wild change right where a completely new data source is included.
Wait...are we in "summer" on that time-scale now?!
I'm sure I'm missing something, but given how many there have been wouldn't you at least stick an `assert(!isPhoneLocked())` or similar on entry to anything that shouldn't be accessible while locked?
> Well, there are a certain number of explicit and implicit caveats that don't make it into the made-it-to-the-top-of-HN pretty graph.

They're not supposed to. These are supposed to be caught by peer review. If you believe Nature, then you should believe Science, too (I am talking about journals here :-)).

BTW, they explicitly discuss the possibility of "missing" temperature peaks in the RC blogpost.
This immediately made me think of how my co-workers and I interact. If I can’t remember a random bit of work related info, I start querying the relevant people I think my have the answer. I share an office with six people, so the answer can be found very quickly, as everyone hears the query (this is not an endorsement for shared work spaces, I absolutely hate sharing an office with so many people). So to think I’m using google as a seventh office mate or as a “Transactive Memory” tool is fascinating.
for the .ro (Romania) domains this is not really true. the national domain registrar (rotld.ro) doesn't charge anything for updating name servers. probably the additional fees you're talking about are imposed by some third-party / reseller.

what I also found interesting or at least peculiar is that the Romanian registrar charges a one-time only fee for registering a domain and it has been doing so for as long as I know. you pay 50 Euros per domain but you get to keep it for your whole life or as long as they don't decide to charge on a yearly basis. I'm curious if there's any other domain provider offering lifetime registration?
apologies; I thought it was mainstream to believe that the "little ice age" would have continued into a proper one if not for the industrial revolution. This part of my comment remains relevant though:

Conservatives have little to be smug about here - it shows that climate change is indeed anthropogenic, contrary to their narrative for the last 20 years - the red line, modern records, show a much faster rate of change than anything in the natural period.
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The table omits the Xerox Daybreak (aka Xerox 6085, Xerox 1186), circa 1985.
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I and a couple friends used to compare the iPhone/iPad vs Android by touching the middle of the screen and wiggling it sideways really fast. iOS is always 100% precise - the area under your fingertip is exactly the same as where you started - while Android only started to keep up after Jellybean, and is still not as good.
They're back online. I had visited them yesterday and got 404s , as well.
Major US security company warns over NSA link to encryption formula
Unfortunately alpha-channel steganography is one of the simplest and most trivially detected of image steganography algorithms, making it not very useful. For an example of what goes into a serious and secure steganographic algorithm see perturbed quantization:

http://dde.binghamton.edu/download/pq/Fri05pq.pdf

http://dde.binghamton.edu/download/pq/
@eigenschinkpete come by the next viennajs meetup (www.viennajs.org) next wednesday there will be a talk about a similar topic
Robustness - "the persistence of a system’s characteristic behavior under perturbations or unusual or conditions of uncertainty". Changes like Chrome versus IE; like 1 visitor versus 1000.

'tis.
Might I recommend http://tent.io as an alternative? I don't have any affiliation with the project. I just think it's the brightest option I've seen for the future of the consumer cloud. It's basically a cloud backend protocol that allows the customer to pick their own tent host that acts as a data store for content they create at sites that use it for a backend. They can even host their own tent. The point is that it gives the user power over where their content is actually stored, with the benefit of centralizing content from disparate apps.
So not knowing anything about genomics / evolution - what advantage might proto-feathers (and 'pre-proto-feathers' before them - if there is such a thing) have conveyed that caused them to become full feathers? How does any evolutionary advantageous feature get started?
They seem like a banners, not buttons
I doubt that any airport anywhere uses neutron scanners (whatever those may be).
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Sources,

The Science paper: http://www.usu.edu/geo/physical/MarcottEtal_Science_2013.pdf

Online supplemental material: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2013/03/07/339.6124....

The figure itself is a new plot by Potsdam University researchers for realclimate.org, though, using the same dataset, but not a graphic taken directly from the paper (the paper's Fig. 1 has some alternate versions).
How long can the Communist party survive in China?
Check out pianobar, a command line Pandora client. It works great for me!

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http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/ has the same contents and is both machine and human readable, vs. a pdf containing a bad scan of a printed document, unless they've changed that recently?
What's wrong with iOS 7 UI - Part 1: Disappearance
Creating products that solve problems is great but you will not be in the "blue ocean". Did twitter solve a problem? No. Apple? Nike? Coke? Nope. They created great products that turned into a problem if you didn't own them.
Resistive screens don't need to be scanned like capacitive ones. The moment you make contact on a resistive film the controller can detect the resistance change and perform the A-D conversion. There's more latency in the host communication traffic than the conversion.
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> Another is that those error bars are probably 95% confidence

The legend claims one-sigma (68% confidence assuming normality)
I see that you can copy and paste; 'tis still not pertinent to a syntax error, which will break this site on browsers like Chrome and IE (and Safari and Firefox), with 1 visitor or 1000 (or 0 or 74635494635).
You realise that there is an entire paper in Science about how they synthesised the various temperature records? http://www.usu.edu/geo/physical/MarcottEtal_Science_2013.pdf

If you have something constructive to say about the methodology then let us know rather than making ignorant comments that tell us more about your political ideology than about the science.
I think features like this start off as mutations that don't cause an evolutionary disadvantage to the creature that bears them. After a few generations where they change a bit every time, they might actually become useful to the animal's survival and start evolving even faster. If they became disadvantageous at any point they'd probably become excluded because they'd make it harder for the animal to reproduce.
They were obviously a superior adaptation for attracting a female ticklesaur.
BlackBerry Announces $1B loss, 4500 layoffs and shifts away from consumer market
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Really? For all these years I follow such things, nothing you said it's true.

Apple regularly posts security updates and notices, and they aknowledge the people who find them.

Heck, even besides security, the claim that "Apple has never acknowledged a problem with their platform" is totally BS.

Steve Jobs himself apologized for the iPhone 4 antenna, and there was also a public statement from Apple about iOS Maps. An of course, they also have the usual recall programs, for things such as faulty batteries, HD and such.

So, FUD much?
Do you know this because installing the app requested permission? The android security model is all or nothing, up front. If anyone ever would want the app to access their contacts, the app is required to demand that permission from every user at installation.
> Currently, jade-inheritance depends on its own version of Jade to parse templates. Since jade-inheritance does not offer compilation, this must be done using other tools which may use a different version of Jade.

Why not use the jade that's already installed by the parent app? Due to the way dependencies work in npm, by just removing the jade dependency from jade-inheritance it should just traverse up the directory structure until it finds a jade package. Just instruct users to install jade alongside with jade-inheritance, and instead of using node_modules/jade-inheritance/node_modules/jade, it should use node_modules/jade.
Am I missing something or is there no article there, and just an advertisement for a conference/session?

That page was hard to parse/read so apologies if I missed it.
Nothing wrong with this. Technically he's just offering a job to homeless people.
But... he is a hipster. I don't hate hipsters because they're different: I hate them because they're the contemporary version of dandies.
nah, you're right