skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, Chris. I'm a big fan of the humblebrag, but you would still have to draw the binary pixel version of each letter (because C doesn't come with binary pixel array versions of the 26 letters) - so it would be 8 times as much work at an absolute minimum (26 characters versus the 3 that you did), even if the code to embed them in the array were a completely obvious 1-liner, and so was the code to clean up the justification.

Let's not flatter ourselves :)
Exit polls give Merkel victory in Germany
This is a side project I've been working on for the Lisp in Summer Projects[1] contest.

It's a text steganography app using a simple book cipher, written in Clojure.

I welcome any feedback from HN so let me know what you think!

[1] http://lispinsummerprojects.org/
Because each input increases the size of the transaction, increasing the fees: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
Moderators should change the old static story (11 dead) to the latest live feed below (59 dead, mother and daughter executed in car park, ongoing hostage situation)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24193059
on the .deb files for deployment agreed - Hynek's rant on this solidified the meme about two years ago. there is a parcel project and my own pyholodeck (up but not exactly working yet - pre alpha, should get sometime this week)

mostly I think we shall cringe that we thought complex operations could benefit from a GUI - it's either a matter of education or curation. either we teach you to use the complicated .conf file or we make sure that the setup and default are so intelligent it's like a mac
He's not implying causation. The idea that stricter gun control laws cause shootings is ridiculous. He's disproving the causation that stricter gun control laws stop violent shootings.
The email that saved Evernote the night before it was going to be shut down
The Renaissance of Enterprise Computing (2012) [video]
Hehe, nice. I tried to put the small dot on the big one, both had the same dark hue, so I guess it works only on background, not on other placed elements, right?
The accolades the writer of the article gives makes me wonder: Was 'The Jungle' hyped up by the media before or after its release?

I don't mean to take away from the subject at hand, but If people haven't changed their behavior after NSA's doings went mainstream, what makes one think a book will be the straw that breaks the camels back, and do people need to be prodded into doing the Right Thing™? That would seem no more sincere than muse of the book…
Sounds like mongodb's batched write semantics.
"You should not be interviewing a PhD candidate unless you think you need one for that job."

Consider we produce twice as many PHDs as the business sector requires. This is probably accurate. From a humane perspective, what should we do with half the grads, soylent green seems a little harsh... The social perspective is they should just sit on an ice floe as it floats away in the ocean, which seems wrong.

We're moving toward a class based neo-feudalist system. The first time around with feudalism, the bottom of the barrel of knights and barons and such got wiped out in more or less continuous low-level warfare. In our new neofeudal era we don't have a solution for the bottom of the barrel of our various classes of titled nobility, leading to all kinds of angst.

To mix some metaphors it seems a waste of talent and economic costs to euthanize the bottom half of the modern Baronry after all that education and accomplishment.

Although it would screw around with modern feudalistic class based ideas, maybe we should be able to arbitrarily officially reject titles of nobility. Better to have a lower 50%-ile PHD writing CRUD apps as a code monkey than turn them into hamburger.
These are not non-citizens, these are citizens from another country. I'm a bit tired of US people using this vocable too.
Nice man! Props on the contribution.
A great coverage of the Westgate mall terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya
Unfortunately not. Matrix inversion (or any type of linear algebra, really) deals with real numbers. This problem is nearly a linear program, which can be solved very efficiently, except that some variables are constrained to { 0, 1 }. As a result, it's an integer program, which is NP-hard. Intuitively, this is hard because there are no derivatives (e.g. gradient, Hessian) to exploit in discrete optimization problems.

One heuristic is to solve an IP is to relax the integer constraint to inequality constraints, solve the LP, and round the results. However, this can do arbitrarily poorly on most problems.
Penguins in Space Asteroid mining and Linux
The Bed of Procrustes – Aphorisms from Nassim Taleb
It is also the law throughout much of Europe.
remora seems to be outdated
Again from Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin)

"The "stand your ground law" was not used by the Zimmerman defense team during the trial, although it was considered at an earlier time. Some sources have pointed out that “Stand Your Ground” was mentioned in the Jury Instructions preceding the trial,[308] however, this is part of the required Jury Instructions in all Florida murder trials in which the defendant claims “Justifiable Use of Deadly Force” as part of their defense."

And:
"The police chief said that Zimmerman was released because there was no evidence to refute Zimmerman's claim of having acted in self-defense, and that under Florida's Stand Your Ground statute, the police were prohibited by law from making an arrest."

Honestly, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that SYG played a role in the jury's decision-making process. But hey, don't take my word for it, what about the reaction of the Governor of Florida (again from Wikipedia):
"Three weeks after the shooting, Florida Governor Rick Scott commissioned a 19-member task force to review the Florida statute that deals with justifiable use of force, including the Stand Your Ground provision."

If that's still to tenuous a connection for you, let's hear from one of the jurors on the case:
"An anonymous member of the jury appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 on July 15 to discuss how Florida's Stand Your Ground law provided a legal justification for Zimmerman's actions. According to the juror, neither charge against Zimmerman applied "because of the heat of the moment and the Stand Your Ground"
http://thewabashc3.blogspot.fr/2013/07/timothy-johnson-media...

So yeah, I really do think it's "sensible" to think that SYG helped Trayvon Martin's killer walk away as an innocent man.
They mean not to use it as your primary DNS server. Pinging it and using it for temporary DNS is likely fine, I wouldn't suggest statically assigning it for permanent use though.
Which, castle doctrine or stand-your-ground?
That's about when I started using them. I still use it today. It got passed around on IRC somehow. Maybe undernet.
Sex-selective abortion: Gendercide in the Caucasus
I use https://hola.org/, works great and does not push all traffic trough proxy
$130 for a network connected 3D printer is still a steal.
Paying for knowledge that is freely available will always be kinda silly in my opinion. This is how I see school in general and why I dropped out and never looked back. School is great for some but very detrimental for others. If your field requires a certification then you need school, if not, you're probably wasting your time. Try building something or making your own company.
> I eventually realized that for perishable goods, they put the new stuff in the back of the shelves

I can't imagine this is a new practice at Trader Joe's, it's an industry standard, and common sense quite frankly.

I'm very interested in what you consider proper practice should be with perishable foods (or what you think they used to do)? It almost sounds like you think they used to throw all perishables away that didn't sell on the first day and restock everything fresh nightly.
How to deal with people judging you and your work
Stream Processing and Mining just got more interesting
On the scale of things to worry about, most Americans are more worried about the flesh and blood swat team down the street serving search warrants than internet surveillance. When the police are armed with military grade weapons and sees the community it's policing as the enemy, people are getting more hesitant to get the police involved in even seemingly minor things. This is where the 2nd amendment comes in to play. If the police can't protect you, you have to protect yourself.

The guardian article was right about one thing: America is in the middle of a civil war of sorts.
I've read various reviews of Tyler Cowen's new book (and I read his blog, very occasionally). I'm not worried about what he is worried about. I have lived overseas, twice. I'm back in the United States because the joint conclusion of my family (including my wife, who grew up in another country) is that the United States still offers us, and millions of other people, a whole lot of opportunity for personal advancement that is hard to find in other countries, even thriving, developed countries that also have representative government, a free press, and broad protection of individual liberties.

The death of the middle class in the United States has been predicted for a long time, but middle-class Americans still look like rich people in most other countries. The whole economy has been transformed over the last century (my uncle farms land that was first developed into a farm by my grandfather a century ago, when a large percentage of the United States population were farmers), but people are still mostly employed, and living in larger, more comfortable houses, eating better, and living longer[1] than ever. What is called decline in the United States looks a lot like progress anywhere else in the world. People are still very eager to immigrate to the United States,[2] so what exactly is the problem?

[1] An article in a series on Slate, "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why."

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...

Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/232...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/161435/100-million-worldwide-drea...

AFTER EDIT: I've still got time to edit this comment, so I'll respond to the people who think I am ignoring important trend lines. I respectfully disagree. (Note that I am well known here on Hacker News for saying that United States K-12 education needs improvement, so I am by no means saying that there is nothing left to improve, or nothing to worry about, here.) A funny comment posted on Hacker News about Japan's "lost decade" (posted before I opened my user account here)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=329218

shows how difficult it is for a developed country to lose ground:

It was terrible. People were forced to eat raw fish for sustenance. They couldn't get full-sized electronics, so they were forced to make tiny ones. Unable to afford proper entertainment, folks would make do by taking turns to get up and sing songs.

I've grown up in the United States, and I've been hearing predictions of doom here throughout my life. Doom here still looks like heaven to most people in most parts of the world.
Google grabs able PhDs like hot cookies. Is this another "I failed my programming interviews, hence all programming interviews are bad!" rants, thinly disguised behind an attention-grabbing headline?
The HTML5 player has been standard for at least a year now for GS. The two primary reasons I've avoided it are:
- Lack of broadcasts. (Presumably available in their native app.)
- Lack of wired.com-esque topnav position fixing in Chrome mobile. It's a minor thing, but having the entire page shift down every time you scroll can lead to incorrect menu selections when mindlessly selecting music.
Part of speed of editing for me is low RAM usage. When I'm doing web development, I tend to have a few browsers open (at least Firefox and Chrome), running web servers and databases, or the same in a Vagrant-managed VM.

When you've got a browser or two and a Linux VM running, finding the extra 500Mb for an IDE can be rather taxing. I've tried IntelliJ, Eclipse and NetBeans. Always end up coming back to MacVim, saving a few hundred megs of RAM and not really getting any significant hit in productivity.

I was trying out PyCharm the other day (IntelliJ's Python IDE) and it was unable to keep up with my fingers. The text was lagging a I was typing it in. What was I getting from the IDE? Debugging? I know my way around pdb, haven't got time to work out how the IDE fucks that up. File navigation? I've got Ctrl-P. Changing between project configuration? Meh. Got Vagrant for that kind of thing anyway. That leaves autocomplete (can take it or leave it. Not bothered.) and refactoring (mostly I use Python and Ruby at work, so mostly it's a shit show anyway IDE or not).

Even on Scala projects, I've gone in thinking "IDEs are the answer" and ending up back in Vim after a few hours of flailing around trying to get the IDE to talk to the compiler.

Agreed on Mercurial though. I like Git, I like Mercurial. Both have upsides and downsides. More important is that we are finally moving away from centralised VCS.
You just supported his point. The best feature of Grooveshark is that it has a big library... because it's acquired illegally. I just listened to Drake's entire album thats coming out next week. Sweet, but totally illegal.

Rdio has a better interface, Spotify better social/apps, Pandora better radio. Grooveshark will die because it's only option is to eventually go legal, and then it loses it's only advantage.
Bertrand Russell’s message to future
Upton Sinclair wrote the The Jungle as a call for socialist action, and it was only because of the public's disgust at the very unsanitary conditions of food production that the FDA and food purity laws were created. This novel seems to be depicting a totally fictional and exaggerated environment for satire. Not the same thing as The Jungle at all.
I'm guessing it was produced using LaTeX
I use 8.8.8.8 which is Google's public DNS
I could see an advertiser making interesting use of this. "Drink more ovaltine!"

Have you thought about trying to do a public-key based version? People could list their key in their profile.
Surely, the freedom to walk down the street knowing you can protect yourself from a fatal stabbing is more important than the freedom to feel a false sense of safety?

Ban guns, people will use knives. Ban knives, people will use sticks. Ban sticks, people will use fists. The weapons involved are not the issue. The root cause of the violence is.
Off-topic, but pertains to Docker images:

Do people usually roll out their own images from source/based on verified binaries from the parent distribution's repositories or are base images provided by the community?
Been using 4.2.2.2 (and 4.2.2.3) for almost a decade now.

In recent years I stopped using them though because of privacy and reliablility causes; I usually setup a caching server on the local host or network.
I consider myself a bit of an Android fanboy, and I think this question/accusation is a bit ridiculous. There are definitely some things that are similar, but I think this falls under function dictates design. At most, Android may have been an inspiration even if it was a subliminal one.

In addition, I feel this could also be chalked up to just the usual progression of UI design and the acceptance of certain design "standards".

They had a problem they needed to solve, so they implemented a UI that worked for what they needed. <sarcasm>Oh look, it looks similar to another UI that solves a similar problem. It absolutely must have been copied.</sarcasm>

Copied, no. Inspired, maybe. Solves the problem efficiently, yes.
When your favorite startup dies
If you were the bank, would you set your fees based on cost plus a reasonable profit, or would you set your fees based on what your customers were willing to pay?
link to previous HN story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5850154
The NSA does what they do in secret, without consultation or permission from the governed (if you believe the foot dragging and outright lying to Congress, which I do). We don't trust the NSA, because they never asked us for our trust except by the very thinnest stretch of implication.

The 2nd Amendment however is part of a public document. The public document in the US. And many people believe in the 2nd, either because it allows them guns, or because more generally it's part of our governing document. Of course many people don't support the 2nd. But it is the law, and because it's explicitly part of the Constitution there are huge (but not impossible) barriers to changing it.

As for apathy, yes we in the US are apathetic, but it doesn't imply that we trust the NSA, it just means that we're generally apathetic. The list of issues and wrongs that we in the US ignore is long (just for starters, compare our war deaths and gun violence deaths to the deaths of innocents around the world by "collateral damage"), and the NSA is just one of many. We mostly don't give a shit about anything except hating the opposite political party, hating people who have different religious views than our own, and watching TV. And football, we like that a lot.
Can we stop listening to her after she admits she didn't read his book? That's pretty ballsy to libel Eggers without even cracking the spine.
The Radius Probe section looks like Windows Active Directory -- servers that handle Remote Desktop Protocol connections (such as bastion servers) are routinely named RDPxx for easy identification, and AD basically runs off LDAP.

Though I don't know why that cloud would be labeled "OSS"
The later versions of Excel dropped support for the .dbf format.
I really want to see some measurements of the efficiency of vim. Because we [know](http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html) that people's perception of time taken when using keyboard shortcuts is skewed: using keyboard shortcuts makes you perceive your actions as faster, even in those cases where they are not. Thus, I hear a lot of people say good things about vim, but it is difficult to merely take their word for it, since it might very well be that they think they are faster then they are.
> the competitive culture pressures you into continuing

This was referring to CrossFit competitive pressure specifically, not general competitive pressure. I've been involved with CrossFit since 2007 and I've never seen anything close to that level of pressure. You invoked the legal definition of culpability, and if you can't establish that, then my statement "you have no one to blame but yourself" is exactly what you have to come back to. Even TFA doesn't invoke that argument, because that would change the focus to individual trainers rather than CrossFit as an organization. Are there trainers that would lose a culpability lawsuit? Mayyyyyybe. But those are going to be very rare and extreme cases that are impossible for CrossFit HQ to prevent.
Also, that's why gyms have you sign waivers. The waiver informs you in no uncertain terms that this stuff is dangerous.

So, we agree that culpability is not the subject here. That brings us to your new point: that it's somehow a problem that CrossFit has a higher rate of rhabdo. That's like saying that surfers are more likely to be the victims of shark attacks. No duh. IOTTMCO. Shark attacks are not healthy things for the body and are to be avoided, yes? Of course. Looking life with that view effectively paralyzes you. Everything is risky, so it's not about avoiding risky things. It's about making a tradeoff.

> Or is the presented data incorrect?

There is no presented data. TFA was nothing but anecdotes. Scary, sensationalist anecdotes. And for every one of those, I've got thousands of overwhelmingly positive anecdotes. In my case I got stronger and more fit. My body fat, cholesterol, and blood pressure decreased and I have actual data to prove it. I also noticed increased quickness, agility, and reaction time in everyday life.

So we agree there is a risk. But I (and many others) believe that the rewards are more than worth the risk. If you are one of the rare people who has gotten rhabdo while doing CrossFit, then you probably will be less comfortable with that tradeoff. And that's ok too.
In Docker 0.6.2 was added -rm as builder parameter to delete intermediate containers
I understand. I would like if WL developed the resources to curate as well as release entire data sets.
They have agreements with the big labels. They just signed one with Sony.

http://bgr.com/2013/08/28/grooveshark-sony-music-settlement/
I think this analogy sums up the problem and the social dilemma it creates quite nicely. Who wants to hire someone who has past experience that pretty readily indicates they will not be interested in the work you are providing them.
I've seen both; Docker's main registry provides some base images (the most used is named `ubuntu` and has base system for Precise and Raring), and I've seen many imaged descending from author's own base - it's quite easy to prepare a base image using debuild or other distros' equivalents. Can't talk about not debian-ish distributions, but debuild does verify its downloads.

The place of trust here is the registry - usually, for convenience, tags are used rather than hashes (and I'm still quite not sure whether the long hex IDs are hashes, or just unique random names). The registry returns hex id for a given tag, and is trusted to deliver correct files for an ID.

I believe that the main index/registry runs over https and provides basic security, but it would be a huge issue if it was compromised. It's quite easy to run your own registry, too. What I'd love to see on top of that is some kind of GPG-based verification of downloaded images (Debian got the problem basically solved in Apt).
And here we find one of the root causes... regulation (overregulation?)
-rm is useful but orthogonal to this -- the issue addressed here is the depth of the image stack, not the temporary build containers.
Should you use HTML5 to build your product? Pros & Cons
a whole lot of opportunity for personal advancement that is hard to find in other countries, even thriving, developed countries that also have representative government, a free press, and broad protection of individual liberties.

Out of curiosity, what kinds of things? I was born and raised in the U.S. (have lived in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, SF Bay Area, and Atlanta), and now live in Copenhagen, and don't feel like I am missing a lot so far, apart from the general experience of foreignness occasionally being strange (might be ameliorated if I were better at learning Danish). If anything the opportunities for personal advancement feel somewhat stronger, due to the social safety net meaning you can start companies or nonprofits or whatever without worrying about ending up homeless or without healthcare.

I'll probably move back at some point, but mostly just because it's where I'm from, not out of any particular dissatisfaction with Denmark. And I'll probably only move back if I have a good job with a salary and benefits lined up first...
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With my extremely elementary understanding of the banking system, i'd think they loan the money you put in your account to others, and make money from the interest from that.
I had to LOL at the paragraph incorrectly beginning with "It describes a future largely stripped of middling jobs". He's describing the present.

The future is already here, just not smoothly distributed.
The Google Play store has significant trademark issues. It reminds me of all the years fake iPhone chargers were being sold as by "Apple" on Amazon.
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