skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It follows, obviously, that creating these log entries in the first place (much less reporting them) is a silly thing to do, just as receiving firewall logs for every packet to a closed port would be.
Because you are a foreigner. My government has done horrible things to many people in many countries. They are afraid of blowback.

In all honesty, if you are an intellectual, go elsewhere than the US. We're slowly turning technological backwater because we do not cater to smart people who were born in (gasp) other countries.

As for me, I'm stuck here, due to family ties and money. I wish you the best, wherever you go.
I don't think that they are latency sensitive operations. I can't think of roles they fulfill that even a 1 second latency would affect.
That is really cool

... is that _aluminum foil_ wrapped around a hose in one of the pictures ? I wrapped an unshielded 12 foot vga cable in aluminum foil once and it greatly (subjectively) improved the video quality.
Ruby is more Object Oriented than PHP will ever be. You dont need interfaces or abstract classes in a dynamic language. Unless you want to feel "safe" as a developper.
Killing distant people in a foreign country is most people's definition of a terrorist attack. A declared war is one thing but this type of terror weapon is likely to backfire some day, if it hasn't already.
I wrote a fairly large application (by academic standards) in mod_python, which I babied along until about two years ago when I converted it to plain cgi since the light traffic didn't justify the extra infrastructure.

The only thing I wanted was a simple means to pass around input that I didn't have to write by hand... much to the contrary of mod_python's intent.

I am glad Grisha is working on it again, though. I am always pleased to see labors of love for 20 years get sustained attention.
Sometimes it comes out later. In this case, it may be to their benefit to sow a little doubt over how they obtained it.
That's not correct. Frequentists view the world as an experiment measuring a set of unknown parameters describing a probability distribution. These parameters are fixed, and cannot be described probabilistically.

In contrast, Bayesians use probability to represent uncertainty.

I.e., to a Frequentist, it doesn't even make sense to ask the question "what is the probability that the coin is rigged", whereas the Bayesian would come up with a probability distribution for the probability of the coin coming up heads.
http://www.timmclean.net/json-editor/

A code editor that uses knowledge of a programming language's grammar. It's cool because it should be significantly more efficient than working in vim/emacs, and will allow powerful scripting capabilities and macros to transform code structurally, instead of as text.
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http://lesswrong.com/lw/gfv/notes_on_autonomous_cars/
I use the StartHQ launcher. Pretty cool! Thanks guys!!

I also like the weekly update emails. They email you news and posts about the apps you use.
Thanks for the link, made for good reading.
The links you suggested are as much expensive. I think the OP didn't mean a miserable appt but just not a great one considering the money paid.

Don't forget there are other costs that the OP might have added to equation: water, ec, internet, phone...
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Missiles? What if in that 1-second latency a car full of innocent people appear and they get killed?
I move from computer to computer a lot and don't take my SSH config with me. Typing the extra -p 2222 is tedious when it doesn't give me any benefit.

The only thing moving the SSH daemon does is give us a slight, conditional performance benefit (that using fail2ban on port 22 also gives, along with an actual security benefit). It does not give us any security benefit at all.
The interesting part is how much they managed to do without breaking the law, the scary part is how much more they could have done by breaking the law.

An absolutely fascinating article but not good for the old paranoia.
The lower economic class will use the self-driving self-cleaning taxis.

The middle class will have their own cars and use high-efficiency parking. It will be no hardship to use a short, tight slot six blocks away.

The upper class will have their own cars and good parking. Some will even have "drivers", because babysitting a fancy car is one of the less unpleasant ways for the "driver" to earn his negative income tax credits.
The difference is 25 or 50 micrograms. It’s muuuch heavier than a virus.

The milligram weigh sets (1 milligram = 1000 microgram) are/were standard equipment in a chemistry lab (Now, if you are lucky, you get an electronic balance.) The smaller weights are only a small tin of 1 milligram. See the images in the middle of this page: http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAINLESS-STEEL-MILLIGRAM-WEIGHT-SET...

I found a microgram weight set in Internet. (But I haven’t seen any of them in real life) http://cn.mt.com/cn/zh/home/products/Laboratory_Weighing_Sol... . These weights are only a small piece of thin wire, and you must handle them with a special tool because the fingers are too dirty. The smaller weight is 50 micrograms, that is approximately the variation between the kilo prototypes.
> The point of this piece is not that living in Barcelona and commuting to London is sensible -- it's that the North London property market has gone totally batshit insane.

That's not the only point.

The other point is that flights are still much too cheap:

And that is because airline companies/consumers are still allowed to externalize the insane environmental costs. Meaning: we are allowed to pollute, without having to pay for it. That means, a) we promote pollution (the externalized costs) and b) these costs are paid for by the entire world population (1st, 2nd and 3rd world, even if the latter have never ever polluted in the slightest way).
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I'm referring to parked cars on the left with oncoming traffic on the right, adding driveways with vehicles entering and a wall on the right hand side of the road.

I'm referring to really tight corners which you can't do it in a single turn and have to reverse back, all while there is potential for oncoming traffic.

I'm referring to single lane country roads with passing points every few hundred yards and having to reverse back to accommodate a vehicle or tractor coming the other way.

I'm referring to blind corners where the only way to know if it's clear is to watch for no cars between the visible gaps in a hedge or between cars.

I'm referring to the guy in the middle of the road with the road works sign saying waving you to go or to stop.

I really mean the less than predictable conditions on the roads.

Stuff like this:

Cars on left:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/preview#!q=holmfirth&data=!1m8...

Sharp turn:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/preview#!q=laithe+avenue&data=...

Pulling out onto this road:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d-...

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I know it's not easy.
Who is the Chief Information Officer of the Montreal police and how are they justifying their salary?
http://www.remotewaker.com

A tool to save computer power consumption. It is cool because, it could contribute to keep earth cool :)
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A Raspberry Pi-based multimedia display solution for SMEs, large corporates and municipalities. It displays nearly all video and image formats and real time news feeds at 50fps in almost any layout combination while using less than 20% CPU at full tilt.

It's cool because most people are blown away at how fast and smooth it is when they first see it. A lot of the code is in C, the video decoder is in a thread (and it actually works which is impressive for me) and it's all controlled by Lua.
not sure if it is ok to ask this here, but does anyone know of a blog where physicists might be discussing this and other aspects of time?
> it's irritating to me that this article is using weight and mass interchangeably.

The article doesn't mention mass at all and it is true that if a stationary object is losing mass it is also losing weight.
If you're sick of the mail program that comes with your OS, try Inky (http://inky.com). It's still in beta, but we just put out a refreshed version that fixes a lot of issues users reported throughout 2013. Lots of polishing work still remains, but we're happily dog-fooding it and have a loyal following around the world. (And yes, Linux guys, we're still planning to release a version for Ubuntu -- finally.)

Inky is a clean-sheet mail client implementation written with Python and Chrome Embedded Framework. It's taken us several years to get it to this beta stage; give it a try and let us know your thoughts at <hi@inky.com>. It's currently free; we'll likely offer upsell freemium versions at some point, once we're satisfied with it.

Mail is hard.
Can you pay your taxes in bitcoins?
OK - how many?
Already talked about this, but the coverage suggests that the BCNC will not allow Google to do anything with it given the lack of permits.
It's just a concise example to demonstrate template and logic at the same time. Introductory PHP looks like that.

No where is he writing "Okay, let's start with an example on how you should be coding."
Oh, really? Throwing him into prison would be a bad idea? The person you're replying to stated that he(she?) is against prison for computer crimes. In general.

Don't twist the statements here. I guess a discussion about arbitrary cutoffs for 'Yeah, a month ago he didn't know what he was doing, but now he's mature' would be fine.
Yes, only ;)
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These require Probably Cause, right? I'd assume so since they also seem a bit dangerous if they hit a human.
I don't recall off the top of my head -- does a ?1 on the end of a URL force re-fetching always, or would the browser re-fetch news.css?1 once and then subsequently use the cached version?

If it always forces re-fetch, then an alternative is to bake the timestamp or hash into the filename (so news-1382794165.css), and update the html generation to point to the new timestamp/hashed file name. Then the browser will fetch newly generated css (etc) exactly once (modulo cache eviction/clearing), and without a force-refresh.
I used the word “complexity” not in the meaning of “the installed system is more complex for having more software in it”, but in the sense of “I don’t want to feel like I’m entering Diagon Alley just for wanting to use SSH” – i.e. complex to use, not complex to set up.

But your interpretation works too – they are both valid arguments, in my opinion.
Wow, is it surprising to anyone else that a 1.54 inch tall/wide cylinder of 90% Platinum / 10% Iridium would weigh a kilo (2.2 pounds)?
The 17 year old youth who raped and murdered a girl in Delhi bus got off with three years in a correctional home.He was the one who drove an iron rod in the victims private parts and raped/tortured her for an hour before throwing her out of the running bus..he was just six months away from his 18th birthday..Juveniles always get free passes
From what I understand, we actually did transform into a much more suitable country for cycling during the 70s (~10 years before I was born). I'll try to look up the video that explains.

Ah found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
That is probably just ignorance on the part of the journalist. A trial let alone a sentence is highly unlikely in this case. The child will probably do community service or extra homework. (Although, I am not a lawyer and Quebec does have its own laws, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.)
>EDIT: To poster below, with regards to the Bay Area which covers a large geographic region, I'm talking about the San Francisco peninsula area. Amongst people I know, Cupertino (which is in Santa Clara) is generally referred to as being in South Bay rather than the Bay Area.

The term "Bay Area" has always referred to the nine counties touching SF Bay, and thus includes all of Santa Clara county. I've never heard your definition of "Bay Area" before, and I grew up in San Jose.

The area you're referring to is generally called "The Peninsula".
Build cars out of airbags, with 4 wheels attached, each with their own battery pack, accidents would be almost fun
There's also no privacy policy. Oops.
Also consider that Lua is widely used on many game consoles and embedded hardware, where even the basic functionality of many posix functions doesn't make sense.
I have a new meta-pet-peeve: people who are peeved by one-indexing.

EDIT: I guess it went into his "differetn" category. Never mind....

Why is one-indexing at the top of his list of bad things, or even on a list of things that matter? It is like getting stuck on adjectives after the noun...

My opinion, not widely shared here, is that 1-indexing is best for scripting and math languages where 1-indexing corresponds directly to the subscripts in the formulas. In Numpy etc, you have spend a lot of time converting those formulas by subtracting one all over the place, introducing bugs and making stuff less readable.

The only reason to use zero index is when, like in C, you are calculating your distance from a memory boundary.

Sorry for the rant.
Looking good on retina now!
Roel, since you're an expert -- can you help shed light on the history? From what I've read, other demographically and geographically similar countries in Europe have much lower rates of cycling. These other countries were undoubtably also not designed for cars, they were designed for horses and pedestrians (as I can attest from having driven in Europe). The source materials that I've read suggest that there was a major inflection point in the 1970's where bike transport share stopped declining and started increasing, and also that the linear miles of bike path have increased dramatically (3x?) in the past 20 years.
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Detroit should also invest in city parks of this size. For instance, the city of Cincinnati has benefited greatly from an abundance of large parks:

http://www.cincinnatiparks.com/history-master-plan

One well-known park came about after the purchase of a vineyard from Nicholas Longworth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Park_%28Cincinnati%29
I've been looking for a replacement for Sparrow after it's gone unsupported.

Will definitely check this out and pass along any relevant feedback.
it's not standard with symmetric encryption in general; it's a "known plaintext attack". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known-plaintext_attack - with aes, for example, even if you know the plaintext there is no known way to obtain the key (faster than brute force search).
It's not as easy, but if you never wanted to have that baby you can give it up the day it's born, before any real bonding happens.

Is it your argument that women having a stronger attachment to a newborn is a bias against them? Because I was only trying to argue that there was less bias than EGreg said. If she decides she wants the baby then it doesn't seem like a negative to me.

Edit: Oh, I'm a dumbass. I didn't make it clear that the 'giving up the child' was only in response to the pregnancy scenario. That's because once both parents are raising the kid, after a breakup both or either of them would continue raising it.
I think he only meant to ask about writers who are not techies.
The use of 2FA is clearly irrelevant to the issue of NSA internet surveillance. If the traffic is encrypted (and they can't decrypt it), then the authentication mechanism is irrelevant. If the data is stored in the US, they have access to it via Lawful Intercept capabilities, and therefore the authentication mechanism is irrelevant.

Of course, one should use 2FA whenever available, but it has nothing to do with avoiding surveillance. Indeed, it creates a stronger link between an account and an identity, i.e. anonymous twitter account + 2FA w/ mobile phone number == not anonymous.
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Presumably 6.0221413 * 10^23 * 1000 / 12 = 5.0184511 * 10^25
Spider-Man has been doing basically this since the 60's!
This is a fascinating story, but it actually made me feel more secure, not less. Look at the attack vectors they used - physical access, infected hardware, email attachments from strangers? I suppose the easy stuff worked, so they didn't have to come up with anything more sophisticated.

I'd still be more worried about the 1999 attack - social engineering the businesses who hold your information - than about anyone getting it directly from my personal footprint.
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It gets trotted out for a reason - because it is true.

All the change of port does is reduce the load avg from brute force attacks and failed connection attempts. You can accomplish the same thing with a fail2ban rule on the standard port.

Changing the port doesn't prevent intrusions. That's not a security benefit. That's a performance benefit, and a short-lived one at that, since what do you think botnet hackers will do once they've figured out that we're all running SSHd on a non-standard port and their brute force success rate goes to zero? They're going to adapt to the situation and scan the machine before connecting to it.

It's not security if it doesn't give a guarantee. Changing the port guarantees nothing.
All I want right now is a "traffic jam" button, where driving in congested traffic (speeds under 30 mph) on a straight road are taken care of by an AI. This is a much simpler problem to fix and can help with a transition rather than some sort hard switch.
http://jque.re/

Why is it cool? Lots of handpicked jQuery plugins all hosted on a CDN.

http://devlinks.co.uk/

Why is it cool? Lots of resources for developers & hackers to dive into.
Most stream ciphers just output a pseudorandom stream to be xored with the plaintext.
Treating it as a PRG simplifies the security analysis. Letting the plaintext affect the state is more likely to hurt than help if you assume that the attacker knows or can influence parts of the plaintext.
The issue isn't "is it technically possible" but rather "did the app developer realize it's sort of important and actually implement it".
> Amongst people I know, Cupertino (which is in Santa Clara) is generally referred to as being in South Bay rather than the Bay Area.

People you know are delusional. The "Bay Area" includes the peninsula, south bay, east bay, and north bay. Some people throw in Santa Cruz, which might be a bit extreme, but I've never talked to anyone who lived there for an appreciable time period and didn't include Silicon Valley (and hence Cupertino).

> I've met a few people now who are contracted by Apple to work on their customer facing Apps.

You've met a couple of employees (or maybe contractors?), and you believe that they are representative of thousands of technical staff? That says far more about you than it does about anything else.
Thanks for your comment Chris. Since you don't have the benefit of knowing what the experiments are, I don't blame you for being sceptical.

* Self Experiments isn't concerned with conforming to FDA specifications and obtaining IRB approval (yet). Also keep in mind this project is iterative. A lot of mistakes will be made along the way. Oh, and the experiments will be fun, or at least extremely interesting.

* Animal testing is often a proxy for testing on humans. Self Experiments will attempt to reverse this on a case by case, experiment by experiment basis. I hope Self Experiments will be preemptive and anticipate experiments that may be conducted on animals in the future - and conduct them on humans first. The trickiest part is designing the protocols for these experiments.

* One million? Try 19.5 million animals are killed each year in research in the U.S. alone. This does NOT include mice, which is probably numbered in the billions: http://www.statisticbrain.com/animal-testing-statistics/

* Factory farming is deplorable, and I've mulled over how to solve the problem for several years now. I have ideas but that's all I'll say. In the meantime, I'm vegetarian and working towards vegan-ism (although it's harder than I thought).
Well, If you're Bryant you feel bad. Reddit tears you apart. It's a pretty thought provoking article. I thought it was worth reading, at least.
IANAL but evading/fleeing the police is unlawful in most US jurisdictions (if not all, and there's a felony variant in most) which sounds like it meets the bar for probable cause (though I'm not sure probable cause is required for use of this in all UW jurisdictions, hasn't there been very recent activity on vehicle tracking devices in appelate courts?)
It's third lightest---there's an outlier that's way lower. But, again just from eyeballing, it looks like there's two clusters, one that has tracked with the IPK and one that is now heavier than the IPK. Based only on that, it strikes me as more likely that some of the national copies have gained mass(/weight), due to storage conditions or whatever, while others have kept their same weight.

Of course this "doesn't matter" in that whatever the mechanism, it's still a problem for the science!
I love asynchronous programming and prefer callbacks over other forms of asynchronous flow control... but callback hell is a real problem. It's easy to lose track of the logic flow and hard to coordinate several parallel callbacks without external libraries such as node-async.

Smarter coding does not fix the callback pyramid either, because then your callback logic is spread through the source and not where it belongs, making things even worse!

And when your callbacks depend on each other it's REAL HELL, because it's easy to create a tangle of mutable closed variables far from the real logic which IMHO is not a very good pattern. I tend to prefer functional programming with pure functions, but callback-hell-code can quickly resemble the worst parts of OOP if you're not careful (without the good parts such as encapsulation).

I love Node.js, it's my platform of choice, but big projects can quickly get out of control. I'm really looking forward to generators to fix the issue.

I couldn't understand callback hell either, until I really got into Node.js programming for big projects.
I wonder if you are aware of the horror that your sentence, "Society needs creatives, but just a few", invokes in some people?
I find it's got some unpolished corners with regards to my university's exchange system. Not really sure why it does it, but it'll occasionally deliver me emails a few hours late.
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If we're being honest, it's some % split between the "feature not a bug" case that you outline and credentialing to remove potential competition.

Nurses can (and do) do about 75% of the work a doctor does, same with paralegals and lawyers. Have you seen the absurd amount of stuff on the CPA exam?

I'm not saying we should allow the untrained to do highly skilled jobs, that's how accidents happen, but the real-world skills for those jobs are often different than the skills learned in law school, med school etc anyways. Not that the credentialing has zero value, it obviously has value, but it's not 100% or even 50% of what makes a good doctor/lawyer/accountant.
Indeed! The hackers seem almost incompetent - until you remember that they were playing with both hands tied behind their back.

A less scrupulous hacker would simply have broken into the flat by picking the lock, which would have resolved most of their difficulties.
> It is well established that prices RyanAir advertises are not prices passengers pay.

The prices on the website are exactly what you pay, as long as you pay by debit card and don't check luggage.

Source: I live in Barcelona, and travel monthly to London.