skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But with PGP you are supposed to check the key fingerprint before trusting it, either directly offline or by someone you have checked offline signing it.
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3 to 4 years? I know you said anecdotally, but that seems absurd with the carrier cycle at 2 years.
I assume nothing. I'm just pointing out that being "boring" or "entertaining" is completely irrelevant to whether someone is suited for a programming job, and that unless you're running a lifestyle business where enjoying your work day is more important than delivering results for your customers or getting paid, you're doing your company a disservice by hiring people based on these kinds of irrelevant characteristics.
"Every 20 minutes" for an S-bahn is totally fine! Especially compared to cities like New York, where every 20 minutes for some U-bahn equivalents would be considered good.
I'd love to be able to use this to host a coreboot showcase. Open Source licensing would certainly help there.

... Since you're using seabios, I guess its bringup is relatively close to qemu's?
They should be applauded for getting one over on consumers.
It got a bit better again, they dropped the top menu for calender, drive, plus etc into a non-modal popup.
One of the most interesting aspects of these types of DIY projects to me is making (and learning from) the same mistakes that others have made. Sure, it'd be nice to get it all right the first time, but nothing really drives home the point like learning firsthand why something is done a particular way.

It's like your observation about the aprons: you start out by wondering why you can't just slap four legs on a tabletop, and you proceed to find out exactly why. If someone had told you to put aprons on there in the first place, you probably wouldn't have nearly as good a feel for their impact on the sturdiness of the table. The way you learned it is more effective. More time consuming, of course, but the experience is the whole point.
Thanks for the feedback! We're just starting out and this is an excellent stress test for us... Any other concerns or comments are greatly appreciated.

Alliteration and portmanteau are a given for something like this. However, we designed the site to be able to handle submissions like foreign words, obscure English words, and also completely made-up words. Additionally, the scenarios don't necessarily need to be word-less lexical gaps! They can describe something which may already have a bunch of words associated with it - the WFT platform being used, in that case, as a voting (or popularity contest) system for the existing slang. Last, to counter the practicality of UD, WFT has the ability to search based on the scenarios and keywords. Once our databases are bit more filled out, users will be able to come to the site to search for a situation and see the most commonly-used (or most clever or whatever) words for that.

I do agree, however, that it may take some effort and some tweaking of the site to encourage something more than the lowest-common-denominator submissions from the general public. Then again, there's a trade-off there between improving content and alienating potential users.

Thanks for the feedback though! Lots to think about!
Why is it sad ? It's a display of empathy. If anything, it's sad that some companies abuse it, but even as far as such manipulations go, at least this one provokes positive feelings instead of preying on people's insecurities and fears.
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Because there isn't any? :)
Presumably it's dated by when the print version is released.
No, I don't mean zram. See ava1ar's answer to this stackoverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18437205/difference-betwe...

The big differences are (a) zswap is in mainline, zram is not, (b) zswap can swap pages out to disk when it's full, zram cannot.

Also, I wouldn't really characterize the difference that zswap makes as a constant, workload-independent percentage performance boost. Rather, it increases the amount of RAM you can use before the system moves from the "acceptable performance" regime (minimal swapping) to the "dismal performance" regime (lots of swapping). For things like running Rails apps on a relatively small VPS, or getting the most out of a limited-RAM machine like an Eee PC or Raspberry Pi, this is very important.
I live in Poland, went to school here, and definitely cannot confirm the claims made in the article. Half of my education happened in the reform school system that the article mentions and almost everyone agrees that it's much worse that the previous one.

High school in Poland used to be a preparation for further education at university. It ends with a nation-wide exam called matura. The reform greatly reduced the number of other types of schools. It has two effects. First, it's much harder to find a skilled worker because there are much less workers trained. Second, the general level of education at high schools dropped significantly. It had to drop because otherwise many of the new pupils wouldn't pass the matura. Notions of a logarithm, exponential, prime decomposition has become foreign to pupils. No one has heard about a derivative or an integral for more than a decade.

Of course all the above is a generalisation. There are some great schools with teachers who really want to teach their subjects instead of just formally completing stages of the government-mandated education program. Unfortunately they are in minority. I'm really concerned about quality of education that my children will get in this country. Home schooling is an option though an expensive one.
Interesting. Does this seem like an opportunity to measure reputation from influence, results and funding utilization? Is any site (lexis, etc) already trying this?
Can you do headings with Sir Trevor? If so, I didn't find a way.
That made me remember one of the earliest examples: http://www.teamviewer.com/
Do you have Montessori schools near where you live? Look into those... =)
Why would a culture that has no trade need numbers? Approximate buckets are good enough for the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

After all, it were Sumerian traders and bureaucrats who gave us both figures -and- numbers -and- a way to write them down.
Yes: https://github.com/madebymany/sir-trevor-blocks
And it's a kernel bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59841
Reminds me of Storify. :)
Google Wallet too - http://www.google.com/wallet/
Glad you pointed out the bit about utensils. Also a very interesting point about the internet of things. However if you look at a basic definition of internet of things (maybe there are more accurate), you can see that those would pretty much be "gadgets that talk to each other". Maybe the decentralization you mentioned would rather be the effect of internet of things rising than the goal of internet of things?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'all at once', since rather obviously not all of those lines of code are running at once. The 'S' in SLOC does not stand for simultaneous.

The application has been continuously developed for nearly 10 years now, and small parts of the current codebase are 5 years old. A little while ago, I was very pleased to find and remove some code that was weird in order to work in IE4, but these days I'm enjoying removing IE6 and IE7 specific code. IE8 is the last non es5 browser we have to support and it's painful. The whole application runs in the browser, and connects to services it needs via streaming connections.

Once you take into account the fact that it's not just a couple of pretty forms for a back end application, plus the fact that in the browser you have to write things that come as standard in many other environments, plus the fact that you used to have to write extra code to work on different browsers, plus the fact that the javascript ecosystem was not up to the task back then so lots of things that would be generic now had to be written in house, plus the fact that it's extremely well tested both with unit tests, acceptance tests and integration tests, then a large codebase is really not all that surprising.
Regulations? How about just not shopping there? Why must the government be heavily involved in everything?

Too bad we can't bring the Soviet Union back. They didn't have to deal with those pesky voters who obviously broken the American system so badly.

North Korea does a fantastic job of regulating business.. Freedom lies in the flaws of the system. That's the point. That was the entire reason the Constitution was written the way it way, to protect us from the tyrant of the majority. The system's flaws are a feature not a bug. Imagine what happens with a highly efficient government and suddenly people are leading that government that don't like you very much.. I'm sure history might paint a clear picture of the hell that situation can bring.

The less the government agrees with each other, the less opportunity for them to cause harm to the citizens.
I always think of these things as security vulnerabilities. Right in your brain! And getting a patch out is... tricky.
"Education begins and ends at home, and what schools offer is largely a supplement for the home."

I think it is the opposite. I pay the school to teach my kid. I don't expect to have them come home and require me to finish the job. Can you imagine if you went to a restaurant and they said, we prepared the food, but you must cook it.

I work every day with my child on her homework, but it is not to teach her what she learned at school, it is to supplement her teaching with things you won't learn in the classroom.
I know lots of kids that knew reading and writing before they entered school. Second year level calculation, too.

Of course the writing is quite crude, but motor control improves with age not with schooling.

The main thing in common I could discern so far is that the parents encourage curiosity and use those skills themselves.
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There's also "two clicks for better privacy" like Heise.de started and that Scheiner also uses on his blog. http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/ & https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy
Some MNC's and NGO can play important role in it.
There is a book about the "bubble" of string theory research written by a physicist, but the title and author slip my mind right now.

It discusses the very phenomenon that research grants go to increasingly bigger groups that can be trusted to deliver. And also string theory research itself which did get a ton of grant money during the 1990's even though the results never had impact outside the bubble itself.

Edit, some searching helped me find it: Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Physics
Not `dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/kmem` ?
I am usually finicky with content editors, but this one is very cool.
WOOOOW!!! I remember that blog and the project! What happened next?
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This striptease is very frustrating - and makes it difficult to plan purchases or have quality information. I hate the 'leak' marketing strategy, though I know it's probably very effective for Google keeping it in the news/blogs with no advertising. Hundreds of blogs are probably covering this same low-information 'latest leak' story and feeding speculation.. But what a colossal waste of everyone's collective time!
It is very toxic.
RIP television, hello mobile gaming
This appears to have an interesting implication for FFI [1], a mysterious genetic disease that causes complete insomnia in adults and results in death. The final stage of FFI is dementia.

It turns out that the β-amyloids that are cleared during sleep according to this paper, are associated with certain types of dementia in the general population [2].

It also turns out that certain sleep disorders are dementia predictor [3].

This is just a laymen's speculation, but this is suggestive that dementia may be a type of sleep disorder, that it could be caused by some interruption in the process demonstrated in this paper.

And this is a stretch, but it is known that FFI is caused by a malformed prion protein, which is a protein that is deeply involved in various neuron-related functions. It seems possible that this protein is involved in the cleansing process in some way. If so, that would be a HUGE deal, because abnormal prion proteins are associated with a huge variety of neurodegenerative diseases.

Basically, I have high hopes for future research.

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

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17502554

[3] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/781136
There was a good write-up on that from 37signals

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-tes...
According to WSJ [1] they have cut down the orders on 5c and increased orders on 5s.

There could be some psychology involved here. It's not hard to imagine some people making the decision to go for iPhone based on price of 5c but then actually ending up spending the few extra bucks to get the better model.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304...
I like the "block" abstraction. It seems like a good way to visually work with structured content. It also makes the editor really easy to customize (at least conceptually), which I find a big plus.

At least in the example, there did not seem to be a way to undo things. This is a bit annoying, especially because it forces a confirmation step when deleting things. I think most common use-cases would be much better served by being able to undo a delete than having to confirm it each time. Even if you don't want to have a general undo button, I would prefer a GMail-style undo link that only pops up after you've deleted something to the current behavior.
News guys getting desperate. How many times can you run the story "finely-calibrated update to world's most popular phone still insanely popular"?
Yup, this is basically what I was thinking - the daemon would run as a system user (e.g. root or something that could access user files) would "commit" the changes on write, pulling from the user's files, creating a read-only copy.

Obviously there are of course issues running stuff like this as root - if the daemon was compromised in any way it's game over.
Yep, if this could exist at file-system level it would be wonderful. What candidates actually exist for this and are in a usable state? BTRFS? ZFS?
Let's not overlook the fact that Apple is offering consumers a genuine, lower priced alternative, albeit one that appeals to a subset of the market.
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I am sure that company wants those engaged in its lowest paid repetitive tasks to be critical thinkers.

They might sit there, thinking critically, and realise that skill-shortage is economic new-speak for "wage-shortage". Everyone wants a ferrari, no one wants to pay for it. This doesn't mean there is a ferrari-shortage. Similarly, every big business and corporation wants cheap labour, preferably labour that will take the cost of any necessary skills and training on itself, or have it paid for by government. When it cannot get it, the stock standard propaganda cry is "skill shortage", often even when unemployment levels amongst...say...university graduates... remains high.

Of course, despite this "shortage" they will not raise wages. They will not pay for training to up-skill people...because its simply spin.

Then the workers on the line might think critically and realise that the reason the jobs were outsourced had to do with simple wage levels and the relative supply of cheap unskilled labour in other countries, and nothing to do with education, skills, or training at all. They'd realise that the company was just repeating the usual propoganda, and probably be pretty pissed off.

I'm sure that's what companies REALLY want.
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I don't understand why everyone doesn't just mark all Linkedin email as spam. That's what I did eventually all email from Linkedin goes to spam. That's what to do with spam.
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It's funny, for each thousand miles of space explored, we explored a mm or less of what is beneath us. We know what primal forces govern building blocks of space and time but we don't know how bicycle works.

For every profound truth we discover, there is an inane mystery we are yet to discover.
An interactive shell (like bash/python/irb) is untrusted code (i.e the user can type whatever the hell they like). But I don't/shouldn't need root to run it.
I imagine that this combined with virus capabilities (so it can spread itself via network) would be an overkill. Strange that they didn't do it, once you have an access to the local network (as soon as the initial victim runs .exe received by email) it shouldn't be too hard.
Is that in the international schools or local? We are thinking of moving our family back to Indo and one concern is the education... Actually compared to the likely quality in the UK we probably have nothing to worry about!
That photo of the Hubble Deep Field really messes with me... in fact any photo like that. You have to realise: somewhere out there, in fact, most likely, many, many places out there, are planets where everything we have and will experience has already happened. Whatever end-point human evolution is driving towards (massive environmental degradation, simulacrum-building, rise of a superhuman elite, space-travel, true self-knowledge, total mastery over the physical world, whatever) - its already happened. Over and over again. By people/things we will never meet and never know about.

Feels very disheartening.
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How about a karma/bittorrent system for researchers to encourage replication? In such a system, the "application fee" for submitting your experiment to a journal would be that you must also replicate someone else's experiment that was also submitted to the journal. This system could scale arbitrarily.
Because then you'd have new dvd's that don't work on most dvd players... consumers would get mad... and DVD is kindda getting obsolete now that there's bluray.
Ha! It was pretty funny to see practically the entire front page full of nothing but the key. I had friends who had their accounts banned by Digg at the time (I don't think they were ever reinstated), but soon afterwards, they threw their hands up and gave in to the swarm.
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I am from Czech Republic, which has educational system similar to celebrated Poland. "The holly cow" of reforms is to increase number of university graduates, if possible without spending extra money. On technical universities it means rationalizing and streamlining (for example before reforms to study IT I would also have to learn technical drawing). Also three years bachelor degree was practically non-existent.

In reality this eroded university degrees by one level down. Also unemployment rate among university graduates is rising. On other side unemployment rate among younger people is lower, since most of them are studying until 25.

There is shortage of qualified workers such as plumbers, electricians and welders. Those professions can easily make more money than software developers.
Actually iOS market share in the US was 40%. Apple's share actually grew, in a quarter before new iPhones and iPads. Anroid declined in the same quarter. Android has more or less peaked in the US while Apple has continued to grow. The massive growth Android got from people going from feature phones to mostly low-end Android phones is over. Apple's market share will spike in the holiday quarter and will continue to incrementally increase their installed base. In 2-3 years Apple and Android will have a more or less equal installed base.

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/10/04/comscore-apple-takes...
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I think you're misinterpreting what he's saying... I think he wishes that the other languages would make deployment as easy as it is for PHP.

I do too - I use Rails, Django and Flask, but I always dread project and server setup because it's almost always a bitch - there's some unwieldy virtual environment thing, or you have to set up two servers that talk to each other, or there are pathing issues and it's using the wrong version of the language, and the list goes on. On the other hand mod_php generally deploys correctly the first time everywhere, at least partly because it's so simple.

Things like passenger help a lot, but even passenger requires a lot more configuration than mod_php.
And having a flamewar on how people should google things for themselves wasted how many kettles? Anyway, if you don't want to tell people things, then don't tell people things, but going on and on on how OP should just google things themselves, is reaching 4chan levels of elitism. It's a really shitty kind of elitism.
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I grew up near the Bama Pie headquarters in Oklahoma, and I think this story is misleading. It omits some important facts in order to push education reform (particularly the core curriculum) and advertise Amanda Ripley's new book.

Bama Pie is not a high-end, boutique bakery. It's a low-cost, mass production operation. Their biggest customer? McDonalds. Showcasing their move as an indictment on the US education system seems misguided, as it's primarily a case of cost-cutting outsourcing.
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Wouldn't it be possible to attach a debugger to a running instance of the virus and extract the key while encryption is taking place?
It's no different than the innumerable YouTube videos showing how to lock pick. They're not picking the locks of any specific location, just showing the methodology.

But high-powered lawyers can be persuasive to your detriment if you do distribute it so you may have to get crafty with the method. I.E. Print it up on paper and distribute calling it Free Speech ;)
On the example page there is no option to add images. So initially I thought that sir trevor couldn't do image blocks. You might get more interest if the Example page makes it clear some blocks are disabled.