skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a physicist, but it's irritating to me that this article is using weight and mass interchangeably. I doubt they'd ever allow this, but the "simple" solution is to bring the weight aboard the ISS and capture its mass on an inertial balance.
Very cool. Is there something like this for collaboration on reST (reStructuredText) documents?
> I discovered my second attempt to contact the user about this problem in their Junk folder tonight.

Peeking into a user's mail box? I know it's all plain text anyway, but this article makes me feel a bit uneasy.
Carbon Worlds May be Waterless, Finds NASA Study
For every story like this there are 10 where the victim gets promptly stabbed and the thief is never caught.
Did you actually think that they were somehow planting an "old-growth" forest?
"It’s an open source project people, it’s only dead if you do not contribute to it."

Word.
Maybe retailes when outsources need to add requirement akin to not putting cats into microwaves like:
Do not use child labout
Do pay a fair wage
Do have a safe working enviroment
Do not compete with emergency services for road space.
etc etc

If the suppliers/retailers had that in the contracts then in places which bend towards such outcomes could at least be directed into a more sainer appoach too things. Extra penny on a T-Shirt or next news story about people dieing due too a T-Shirt lorry blocking the road. Hardly a tough choice but one which seems to be needed.

I don't blame the retail clothing industry, but they hardly help themselfs and less open than they could be. I suspect this may even be news too them at many levels and hardly an issue they should have to deal with, educating there suppliers. But I think they need too, even from a PR perspective it is disaster waiting too happen. Put another way, what good will come from this as it is an accident within accident waiting too happen. Still many did not even know about unsafe clothing factories until people died.
There is Geary, but I have tried it and it is both lacking in features and pretty buggy. It is quite nice looking however.

Myself I have all but given up on GUI email clients, I still use Thunderbird from time to time but only when I need PGP encrypted email, otherwise I stick to webmail. I am looking forward to Mailpile if it delivers on its goals, looks very promising.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-bac...
> Giving away your mobile phone number is not something I'd consider doing lightly.

Why? Unless you're a world famous celebrity no one is going to call you. I put my Google Voice number all over the place and the only issue I have is with recruiters.
This seems to be based on Gitlab. I'm sorry if it's not bit something tells me it is.
Because water expands and contracts at different temperatures.
I wrote one of these too, but eventually I decided it was simpler just to run mutt on the local machine.

"the real world does occasionally send me photos."

Dealing with the real world, while using mutt, is made easier with muttils: http://lee-phillips.org/muttheaven/
How concerning dynamical those arrows from pictures to symbols? As so much as I bear in mind there has been posts concerning this same topic earlier.
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Ignoring Node for a moment, Ruby and Python currently have a noticeably higher barrier to entry for the kind of personal home page that PHP was named for. <html-stuff><html-otherstuff> <?php $todays-date ?php> <making-up-the-syntax-as-I-go-because-Ive-forgotten-it-all>

AFIAK, in either Ruby or Python the equivalent of that would be far harder. You'd need a program made of several separate files, have to grab Rails from somewhere, have some concept of responding to requests somewhere and a bunch of stuff other than the one time stamp above. Though I suppose you could use client-side JS here too.
Not on purpose. It's the job of the hackers to trick them with a nice GUI and "sexy" interface.
Doesn't something similar happen to Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables as well?

> After devoting the novel's opening chapters to Bishop Myriel, a kind-hearted old clergyman in the town of Digne, Hugo, without any transition, launches into the story of Valjean. He is a strange man, who arrives one October evening in Digne, searches a place to stay for the night and is turned away. At last, he is taken in by the bishop, who trusts him, feeds him supper, and gives him a bed for the night. Hugo then details Valjean's background. He was born sometime in 1769 in a small town and orphaned as a child. He became a pruner and helped support his widowed sister and her seven children. In winter 1795, when resources were scarce, Valjean stole a loaf of bread from a local baker. He was caught and imprisoned for five years in the Bagne of Toulon, the Toulon prison. He attempted to escape four times, and each time his sentence was lengthened by three years; he also received an extra two years for once resisting recapture during his second escape. After nineteen years in prison, he was released, but by law must carry a yellow passport that announces he is an ex-convict.

During the night, he awakens and steals the bishop's silverware and silver plates, and runs off. He is arrested and brought back to the bishop. However, the Bishop admonishes Valjean (in front of the police) for forgetting to also take the silver candlesticks that he'd given Valjean, reminding Valjean of his "promise" to use the silver to become an honest man, claiming to have bought Valjean's soul with it, withdrawing it from evil and giving it to God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Valjean#Jean_Valjean_in_t...
I've a pet project http://mdocs.io aims to be closer to gdocs for markdown. We use operational transformations for realtime editing and we allow connecting Google Apps domains so you can share to everyone in company and so on. The Interface needs more work . it is open source.
so if you know the plaintext you get the user's key?
The correct way to define a kilogram would be N number of molecules of Carbon (pick your favorite isotope) at relative speed = 0.
It's the same in Python, and it's mostly solved by external static code analysis tools. The trick here is the assumption that misspelled variable will be used only once in a file - exactly where it got misspelled - and tools like pylint or pyflakes warn about such names. If you're running these tools sufficiently often and have them integrated with your editor (my Emacs runs pyflakes once in 3 seconds, after enter is pressed and on save, whichever comes first) this kind of error is essentially eliminated.

OTOH, having a language which doesn't need external tooling to eliminate such errors is an obvious win. Smalltalk, with it's code browsers, refactoring tools and similar does this really well, for example - if you use a new name inside a method definition you are asked if you want to declare new instance or block variable, or turn it into selector, or if you want to rename it (and then it gets renamed throughout the method) and so on. And that's at compile time!
What is such a misogynistic link even doing on HN?

Not only is it offensive, but it literally offers no value -- banal visualisation, based on the author's PERSONAL EXPERIENCE and some data he got off a pickup artists' forum?

Seriously?
It's always seemed odd that all kids get a free pass just because they're kids. I knew what I was doing at 12. I guess it makes sense; age is often used as a (bad) proxy for maturity.

That said, prison time for anyone, adults or children, for computer-related crimes is barbaric. But I doubt that's on the table here.
Here is an even worse log output nightmare: Enable logging in the firewall/ids, which show all packets sent to a closed port.

It's massive. Endless. Like looking into the endless void.

Of course, my computer does not log packets that are just bouncing against my computer. It would distract me too much, and maybe it would do so for you to. Easier just to tell the computer to not bug you about it, and trust that the "attack" is harmless enough so to not to bother logging it at all.
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Thank you so much for posting this! I've tried to find it again for ages! :D
Probably Jessica chose the right place - a crowded aisle?

> "I spotted him in a crowded aisle and approached him," she continues

Very difficult to stab someone in a crowded place and not get caught or draw significant attention.
I've searched in vain for an alternative, open or closed, to Mail.app on any platform ever since Mozilla lost its mind and released Thunderbird 3. I can't find anything fast, simple, stable, and maintained. The next best option I've found is, of all things, Outlook (Mac or Windows), not that it's particularly desirable, either.
It's amazing how many people are hung up on the "mowing" part of this. First, who cares? It's such a minor point. Second, this land is surrounded by neighborhoods with sidewalks (and even has homes interspersed between land parcels). Certainly, they should maintain the landscape near the sidewalks and adjacent lots that they don't own. It seems reasonable that the maintenance would include mowing. And maybe there's even more "mowing" than that but this obvious explanation is enough to justify their "mowing" comment.
a is a function which would already be defined at this point. Anything after the exclamation point is arguments to the callback function. Any following code is wrapped in an anonymous function passed as the final argument to the function a.

Anything on the left-hand side of the assignment (in this case, x and y) are arguments passed to this anonymous function. A concrete example of why you would do this would probably be useful.
Git is certainly capable of this, but I don't think that makes a service like Penflip that focuses specifically on collaborative writing superfluous.

I like to code and I like to write, but I'd be much more likely to put a Rails app on Github than, say, a short story on which I'd like to collaborate. It's not that Github can't be used as an effective tool for collaborative writing, but rather, that it isn't really the place for it.

I have a lot better chance of social interaction around code on Github versus writing because the primary social object on Github is code.

There is no question that good writing exists on Github and that it shines for particular forms of writing, but the dearth of writers to coders there seems to signify that a service like Penflip has a market that could be better served.
Is that because you are primarily a user of c-style languages?
I would very much appreciate an iOS 7 stripping of Mail.app. I've developed this aversion to opening up the app, and if I do by accident, it's a panicked scramble to quit. It's bloated and clunky. I would consistently get connection errors, it would randomly decide to re-sync all of my mail attachments, and more. I've been on Sparrow for a year or so now and have had zero problems. It's funny, across all of my Apple devices, I don't use any of the native mail apps for one reason or another. On iOS, I use Mailbox.
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Or you cycle to station (using a folding bike) and then to the office in the city - most of us in the Uk cant afford to live in central London.
Quick, somebody post this on reddit.
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I told my son not to let the DC LEGO play with the Marvel LEGO. But did he listen? No.
Here's a somewhat contrived example which I haven't tested, but I think illustrates the point although this particular case is probably better handled by other syntax presented later in the README.

err, data = fs.readFile! path

{

if (err) throw err;

console.log data

}
Quebec's law system doesn't allow that. At most he will be sentenced to a few months of detention in a youth facility. Once he will turn 18, everything will be cleared.
I often wonder why they don't make a set of scales with a electro magnet at one end that attracts one end of a balance and you place the weight on the other end and adjust the strength of the magnet until you get a balance and from there can measure out that same weight. Now would need very well pression made electro magnet and balance.

Though idealy the ability to measure out a fixed amout of atoms of element and wheigh that and work out the relationship of how many atoms of element X is needed for a kilo. Well until then it is one of the last area's of measurment that history still firmly has its teeth into.

Was nice TV show in the UK not long ago that covered the whole area of weights and measures from the science and history of them comming about. One of the better science shows.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02xgf5d

"Deep underground in a vault beneath Paris lives the most important lump of metal in the world - Le Grand K. Created in the 19th century, it's the world's master kilogramme, the weight on which every other weight is based. But there is a problem with Le Grand K - it is losing weight. Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores the history of this strange object and the astonishing modern day race to replace it."
Just in time for Novel Writing Month![1] I will be penning my 50,000 words in this (both on the web interface, and locally in Mou[2].)

[1] http://nanowrimo.org

[2] http://mouapp.com/
Wow. Those stories are shocking! I notice they're both helicopters. I've always found quads and helis scary (dangerous combined with difficult to fly) and I fly RC planes exclusively. The regulations need to recognise both ends of the continuum. The regulations applying to a high powered RC model helicopter should be quite different to those that apply to something like a parkzone mini vapor. But both are considered RC aircraft.

The regulations are outdated too. But not only in the high-powered end, but also the low powered and new micro end. I am not allowed to fly the mini vapor (or any other RC aircraft) in any park in my electorate. But there are many of small park flyers that are very safe.

As is often the case, the law struggles to keep up with the pace of technological change. It's really modern lipo battery tech that has enabled this change. Both at the high end, with large craft using 12 cell lipo batteries (50 Volts and capable of delivering hundreds of Amps for short periods), and at the low end with minture 1 and 2 cell micro lipos.

Regulations could have categories based in part apon things like:

- peak power output of battery/motor system

- material of craft's construction (EPO foam vs balsa or even aluminium)

- size, orientation and exposure of propellors and blades (ducted fans vs multiple large horitonal rotors)

- weight of aircraft

- top speed of aircraft
So what? Everyone in a family has a bike (even the kids), but there are usually one one or two cars. Also bikes are cheaper and usually have a shorter lifetime. If cars would outsell bikes, THAT would be a headline.
I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling
You can also publish fingerprints of your host key in DNS[1]. And then

ssh -o "VerifyHostKeyDNS ask" host.example.com

Alternatively, put

VerifyHostKeyDNS ask

in your ssh config. Obviously, this would work better with much maligned here DNSSEC.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4255
I understand it just fine, thank you. GPLv3 is hardly the only thing I disagree with Linus on. Childish appeal to irrelevant authority is not an argument.
Ctrl-R on Windows Chrome did the job for me.
toffeescript is a language which has a compiler that generates Javascript.
I hacked a Greasemonkey script a while ago because I wanted some easy way to pick out vote/comments. I've been using it for many months now and it's not annoyed me once, which is a good sign. It also leaves the rest of HN alone.

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/3G1k2j0w2Q3G

Source: https://gist.github.com/ingmar/5564603
Standard with one time pads (and symmetric encryption in general) — the key and plaintext are a shared secret.
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Pulling statistics out of your bottom doesn't strengthen your argument. In any case, this article needn't be read as a call to risky behaviour. Rather an inspiring example of having your reaction be tempered, reasonable, and humane.
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A GPLv3 license is saying that I will share what I created with you if you will share what you create with it with me on the same terms.

If you don't like those terms, you can write your own software from scratch. Nobody is under any obligation to give you anything on any terms at all.
This is the default email that a freshly installed FreeBSD sends you every night. It also contains a bunch of other bits. That's a bit different than subscribing to firewall spam.
> drop code in a folder via ftp and have it "just work"

This is essentially what Zed Shaw was working on for Python:

https://github.com/zedshaw/fuqit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6039146) and here's another for Node https://github.com/ricardobeat/fuqit

I'd love something like this fully fleshed out for Ruby. Some things PHP did "get right" like how it "just works."
Nobody can build a kilogram-scale inertial balance of sufficient absolute precision. If we knew how, we'd be doing it.

Also, the ISS is a tricky place to work for a precision measurement. It's electrically, seismically, and gravitationally noisy (and huge gradients). Precision gravitational measurements are generally carried out in dedicated spacecraft with careful attention to those concerns, if they can't be done on the ground.
I'm somewhat confused. Thunderbird on my computer is at version 24.0.1, are you referring to an ancient version, or a different numbering scheme?
sigh

Every time people post about great cycling cities, the immediate reaction is a pile of reasons why it would never work here because I live in a place that's completely different and special.

There are challenges in every task. Either you overcome them or you wimp out. These are not unsolved problems. Montreal literally means Mount Royal - it's a city built around a mountain. They manage to have great cycling infrastructure.

Even worse is the moaning about winter cyclists - almost every one of the great cycling cities have bitter winters.

You're always going to have an excuse not to do something.
The simple solution involves space travel?
I released a small book about building community products. Here's $4.01 off.
Wow. That might be the most amazing machine I've ever seen. Even if it was an old-growth forest, I'd still just be impressed.
Shh, you're interfering with their wimpy excuses that they use to conceal the fact that they just really don't like cycling.
I was getting a lot of phone spam. I even reported a couple of incidents on the FCC's website.
I'm a bit confused about this. I merely glanced at the RFC, so maybe I missed that:

I guess most people connect to a server by name (using DNS lookups, vs. direct IP addresses).

If my query for example.com is redirected somehow, wouldn't it be fairly trivial (ignoring DNSSEC right now) to present a valid fingerprint via DNS as well?
Police firing GPS tracking 'bullets' at cars during chases
Because the question was 'Who are the 100 people who most changed the world?', as in 'who are the 100 people who directly changed the world?'. I think this is understood in the question. Everyone named was directly involved in the change they made, as in they made/changed/invented/came up with whatever it is they did. So what if they had a mother? Everybody else in the whole world had one too.
You've described a Watt balance and the Avogadro project.
There's nothing inherently good or bad about running SSH on another port. Honestly this argument is a bit silly given how easy it is to port-scan and many scripts out there will do that before actually trying anything. Essentially all you're going to do is make things annoying for your users.

The really real good idea is running a VPN in front of all of your servers and never allowing SSH access to the outside world. I have two ports (at most) open on all of my servers: 80 and 443. OpenVPN takes less than an hour to setup. There's no reason not to set it up!
Thanks for the tip, was unaware of that option.
So does this:

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

PasswordAuthentication no
Under the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause [1], it's the other way around: treaties signed by the U.S. government take precedence over state constitutions.

[1] This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
Intent doesn't have to do with causation. What I'm saying is that actually doing whatever it is that caused some effect does.
I like to consider a low corporate tax, maybe even 0, but taxes on all types of income. If the corporate profits are in the corporation, then it is just a collection of people, but when the money comes out of the corporation (to a CEO or other shareholders) it can be taxed appropriately. And no preferential treatment for capital gains or carried interest.
What are you talking about? This is the problem of why PHP is still being used, because developers think that Ruby or Python don't allow you to do several stuff you actually can... look at this example (ERB lets you run Ruby code the same way):

$ cat test.erb
Hello there! Today = <%=Time.now%>
$ erb test.erb
Hello there! Today = Sat Oct 26 16:42:36 +0200 2013

Plus you still need to run PHP over a server (Apache, Nginx, or what so ever), so I don't see so much difference with Rails, Django or Express, except that PHP is an old and stinky language.
Yet San Francisco is one of the best cities for cycling in the United States? Flatness is plainly not crucial.
The first sentence "Ambulances in the USA have to follow traffic laws" is certainly true, although the way it's written, it sounds like it means "all of the same traffic laws as everyone else", which is not true. For example, the requirement for ambulances at traffic lights is that they be careful not to endanger anyone. But they do have their own minimal traffic laws to follow.

But yes, the rest of Luc S's comment is just wrong. The law explicitly states that you must immediately yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle with flashing lights. It's not demanded; it's absolutely required. And the thing about "significant liabilities" is irrelevant, regardless of whether it's true. The simple fact is that a sirens-on ambulance does not have a speed limit to obey.
Math is hard. And understanding real science often involves understanding math. (And docus almost never go into the math parts.)
Most police forces are institutionally right wing, and so are quite happy to help corporations build blacklists to keep people involved in unions or who brought up health and safety issues out of work. I'm sure police forces hate left wing occupy protesters and will be quite happy to supply detailed information about who they have arrested or information gained from undercover operations to help build blacklists.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/12/police-black...

Police officers across the country supplied information on workers to a blacklist operation run by Britain's biggest construction companies, the police watchdog has told lawyers representing victims.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has informed those affected that a Scotland Yard inquiry into police collusion has identified that it is "likely that all special branches were involved in providing information" that kept certain individuals out of work.
> I knew what I was doing at 12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
It's about my experiences making Forrst, Tinyproj, and more. Entirely Q&A format. I'd
Love for y'all to check it out.
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