skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, and I always have that option checked.

But if I am on a site that seems to be loading the old cached stuff during my regular browsing of the internet (not building stuff) I always open dev tools and refresh to do a "hard" refresh.

But learning that CTRL-F5 does the same thing is really neat, and I feel very silly at the same time!
While it may be slick, it does violence to the call stack which will grow tremendously with the size of your functions. Plus, it's very hard to optimize any of the generated code since it contains so many jumps and context switches.
We don't know how it works in detail but we can see which parts of the brain are doing stuff at any given time, and we've had a lot of progress associating different functions with different areas of the brain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_i...
Perhaps the most forthright answer is because it's interesting.

In my view the inability to live with contradictory theories is one of the things that makes science what it is, and also that propels science forward. Gravity and quantum mechanics is a grand example, but we're trained on countless little contradictions, such as why channels A and B of my circuit seemed to behave differently yesterday, though they are nominally identical.

Letting a contradiction stand without investigating it would have to be a conscious mutual decision, in and of itself. Making that decision arbitrarily would be akin to making the contradiction a matter of dogma. This is why some folks struggle with cognitive dissonances that they perceive in religions. Otherwise, if the contradiction is discovered to be irreconcilable for a good scientific reason, that discovery will be equivalent to a unification.

So it's a game where there's nothing in between winning and giving up, and no time limit.

What we never know about contradictions is how long it will take to reconcile them. When I discovered the problem with channels A and B, I had no idea at that moment how or when I would solve it. We have to live with the remote possibility that unifying gravity and quantum mechanics will take 100,000 years.
"You can basically fit all of Europe in Texas with a little rearrangement."

That's a bit puzzling as Europe has a larger area (10,180,000 km2) than the United States (9,826,675 km2). Did you mean the EU - which still has an area (4,381,376 km2) that is way larger than Texas (696,241 km2).

Even if you restrict yourself to Western European countries (whatever that means, it's pretty much a relic of the long dead Cold War): Texas ~= France + Greece, leaving quite a lot left over...
Firstly, I like the tone you used to concede your original point.

As to whether the port should be below 1024 or above 60000, I am undecided. I'd love to see some empirical data on this: let's say I run ssh over several days on port 22, port 762 and port 90332. How many connections do I get for each port?
Why not just keep your files in git? Use a git GUI if the command line is intimidating to writers. That way you don't have to create a brand new writing tool. I keep scrivener files in git, it works great.
MariaDB gets shot in the arm from Intel-led $20m SkySQL injection
Machine Learning And Analytics Using Python For Beginners
Mutt sucks less.

I've seen some bugs over the years, but very very few. I wouldn't use anything else.

I run mutt on a distant server, so I wrote a simple attachment handler that can save or view attachments locally. Despite my wishes, the real world does occasionally send me photos. :)
Osho in America: A Look into the Federal Question of Conspiracy
We're a long way from needing reversible computing, silicon isn't going to get us anywhere near the theoretical efficiency the universe allows us in non-reversible computing. Maybe after we transition to photonics or ballistic electrons or DNA computing or something and plumb that technique to the limits of it's efficiency we can worry about reversible computing. In the mean time, we really only know how to make good computers out of silicon and dark silicon is really only a concern in a silicon context.
Most writers won't want to use git.
It looks like a CPS transform, which can be very useful; but I think it's something you'd rather opt in to rather than apply everywhere.
Programming Languages: The Right Tool
Don't Throw that Hackathon
So THAT's what happens when I try to reply to ticketing systems with a mail+address-extension@example.com and it just keeps bouncing or creating new unlinked tickets :(
Creating new algorithms based on the key doesn't change the fact that the input for the encryption function is the key (and in this case apparently the plaintext).

You can reduce all this algorithm generation back into essentially one algorithm anyway: generating "changes to the algorithm" merely obfuscates the presentation of the underlying single algorithm. In the end, there's still a fixed set of input information that goes into an encryption function and no matter how you try to obfuscate it Shannon won't budge.
It depends. I like using Markdown for writing. Being a 'writer' does not preclude one from being a 'techie'.
THIS IS COOL. I did not know about showterm.io.
That's a roughly 4 hour commute in each direction: 1h flight, 1h train ride from airport to liverpool street + commute to the airport and waiting. And this are, in my experience, conservative numbers.

So you spend 128 hours per month commuting, to save 387€. Not what I would call a bargain.

Oh, what about double taxation? I'm pretty sure you'd be hit by that and that would most likely put you well in the negative.
Yes I know, of course, and obviously there are ways for cars to get to places, but the mere fact that you can name specific counterexamples confirms my point that in general most places were not designed around wide spread car ownership and -use, and car use was retrofitted where needed.

Not to be an asshole about it but I'm a Dutch planning professional, I've lectured and published about the effects of transport infrastructure on urban planning.
Is Google building a huge floating data center in SF Bay?
This worked for me.
Regular users still don't understand why GIMP complains, only know it's hard to do what they need to do anyway.

GIMP should have option "also save as native format in image repository" that is on by default, if the developers care so much about the conversion losses.
You are correct. WP still does want secondary sources, exactly as you state: http://enwp.org/WP:V and WP:IRS Independent reliable sources, and does not want WP:OR. IMHO it's ok to discuss one's own work on an article Talk page, in the light of a future improvement to the article, as in, "I've just finished this, it's in peer review now, it's slated for publication on (future date), and it's relevant to update/correct (section). I'll come back and notify y'all if it receives commentary by others elsewhere."
Analyzing the fragility of BigData with Nassim N. Taleb
A quick check with Google shows this cause, since walked back: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-credit-score-have...

Yeah, I'm seeing indications that Experian is for some inexplicable reason being tasked with income verification, along with identification verification. I can see the latter, whereas ... well, maybe the IRS just wasn't in a position to do the former at scale, or was otherwise intransigent. They're noted for pretty bad IT after the initial glory days when they first computerized their operations.

After the fact the insurance companies can look at customer performance and all sorts of things including individual or aggregate FICO scores to know how to change the overall pricing of their policies going forward.

However subsidy levels obviously require more than the three details you mention above, and they're critical for anyone using the system who's entitled to one. A quick check with Google doesn't show any indication FICO scores are used for that.
I guess I'll take EFF's marketing approach over yours:

My impression is that the article is for people who would be overwhelmed with prism-break (and couldn't do _anything_ with that list of tools - prism-break.org isn't very actionable without prior knowledge).

If someone without ITsec experience comes up and asks what to do about that nasty NSA stuff they've read in the news, and you tell them to drop their operating system ("Google, Microsoft, Apple" includes Windows, OSX, iOS, Android, Windows Phone), the applications that run on top of them, and their Internet based communication (Skype and Facebook), they'll probably ask you where they could buy a box of index cards and post stamps, and how to build a hut in the forest. And then turn around and change nothing.

That list provides a way to reduce the attack surface - not particularily against the NSA (because of the backdoors), but certainly against the Firesheep instance running on the neighbor's laptop in the cafe.
It also raises awareness without overwhelming newcomers.

Let them lock down their in-flight communication. You can still tell them about endpoint security later (and why US based corporate silos are a problem in that regard), so they can "level up".

If that list isn't radical for you, you're probably not the target audience.
For now, please note that it doesn't end with "you're done. Congratulations, you're now secure!", but with crypto parties and other ways to raise awareness - those are great places to consider and implement more radical steps towards security. At least if people are around who can lend a hand.
But then your definition depends on the definition of temperature (energy/entropy) which in turn depends on the definition of mass. You might say "make all measurements at the triple point" but then you are still stuck with the problem of dealing with thermal fluctuations and structural variation (liquids have uniform structure only in a weak statistical sense) in addition to the practical problem of ensuring uniform composition at the triple point. This idea doesn't work for benchtop measurements (How do you determine that you have 1 mole of H2O? By measuring it's mass!) and it doesn't make sense for high-precision measurements where you need to provide a mechanism to allow the experimenter to make the error arbitrarily small.

One of the leading proposals for the 2014 redefinition is very similar in spirit, though: defining Avagadro's number to be an actual number rather than a derived quantity (effectively this uses Carbon 12 as the mass standard).

Another proposal is to define Planck's constant. I can't comment on the measurability of this one, but it would probably make people studying atomic physics happy because they like to use units that set most common constants to one, and the redefinition would make more of these implicit factors of 1 defined, rather than measured quantities.
As a layman I don't understand the 'problem' with time?

To me, time is relative to 'timers'. So how I perceive the world passing is a function of a electro/chemical activity in my head. I'd imagine if you could somehow 'double' this function I'd perceive time at half the speed. And I imagine if you were to turn off my 'timer' the world would pass by instantaneously.

I've heard that 'time' is the fourth dimension? But again, as a layman, I have to ask why isn't 'thought' the fourth dimension? Isn't it only by being conscious, by being a 'timer', that 'time' can even be perceived?
Perhaps. But at least one complexity there is that there are a couple of isotopes (of different mass) for both oxygen and hydrogen.

There's the Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water[1][2] which accounts for differing isotopic compositions in different parts of the world.

There's been some competing attempts to the Standard Kilogram, including a pure silicon sphere of extremely precise physical dimensions (which we're good at), and using the lattice spacing to determine the number of atoms.

See the Avagadro Project[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Standard_Mean_Ocean_Wat...

[2] The "Ocean" bit doesn't mean what you might expect. It's still fresh (non-saline) water.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_project#Avogadro_proj...
while I agree with most of the things in this article, he states the obvious...

Don't understand how this article got to the main page and it's still here after more than 11 hours.
Ideally, you can run both https:// and ssh:// on 443, with sslh.

Everyone who's expecting to see HTTPS will see it on :443 as well.
I tend to agree. I just signed up for uploadcare.com, haven't tried them out, but the design seems very nice, and the their free tier allows up to 1k uploads a month - forever (got a very prompt response from the founder).
Unfortunately, the following is the best my Google-fu can turn up right now. I'd like to give you a link to the blog entry I once read by a professor who was actually working at a UK university when they started imposing market discipline with students as customers.

http://www.academia.edu/973542/A_Political_Economy_Critique_...
Not at all in the case of Haskell whose IO is automatically async. You write IO in a normal blocking style and your current thread will automatically be suspended and resumed.
You are just required to do it in the IO monad since the language is pure.
Looks good at first blush, but please fix the embedded hyphens in the top screen shot. (Must have been a quick copy'n'paste from public domain text.)
One evening as Shichiri Kojun was reciting sutras a thief with a sharp sword entered, demanding either money or his life.

Shichiri told him: "Do not disturb me. You can find the money in that drawer." Then he resumed his recitation.

A little while afterwards he stopped and called: "Don't take it all. I need some to pay taxes with tomorrow."

The intruder gathered up most of the money and started to leave. "Thank a person when you receive a gift," Shichiri added. The man thanked him and made off.

A few days afterwards the fellow was caught and confessed, among others, the offence against Shichiri. When Shichiri was called as a witness he said: "This man is no thief, at least as far as I am concerned. I gave him money and he thanked me for it."

After he had finished his prison term, the man went to Shichiri and became his disciple.
Even places of similar scale and population density in the U.S. fare poorly. New Jersey is half the size of The Netherlands, with a similar population density, but is very car-oriented anyway.
The "Upworthyization" of the Internet proceeds apace.
Well, that "bit of convenience" varies in size a lot over the market. If you intend to do any typing over a long period of time, using a tablet just isn't a good idea ergonomically. There are may other reasons to stick to a PC, but this one seems inherent to the tablet format, and once you add a keyboard and a cradle to position the tablet ergonomically, you've lost every advantage that using it might have had in the first place.

So yes, I'd say that there's a large market of people who would rather shell out $X00 for a little bit of convenience rather than $Y00 for something that will be totally unfit for their application. "it's not coming back to the PC world I grew up in" is a truism, but no indicator of the future market shares of PCs and tablets. Also, is there any basis to the claim that you are in the minority?
You should also do CSS versioning if you are pushing to a live website, like main.css?v=2 or something so that users (well, mainly nitpicky clients) will always see the latest.
From the comments I draw the conclusion that a solid, open source, GUI e-mail client would have great popularity. Are there such clients out there? I used Thunderbird under Linux but it feels cumbersome.
Most European countries have a double taxation agreement between each other. It seems like UK and Spain have one as well (at least according to the example on http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/international/dta-intro.htm ).
>So if it results in grade inflation, why not abolish grades?

Why not, indeed? I do think that a portfolio approach is much, much more effective in evaluating people's capacities to do stuff.

It's also costly. That's why we keep grade-based systems: those numbers are cheap to compose, cheap to evaluate, and provide just enough pseudo-objectivity to make bureaucrats feel all right about basing decisions on them without having to do any deeper thinking.

>When graduates are hired, why don't you look at their actual skills and knowledge?

Well they should!

>Teacher's job should be to teach and give feedback, so that students can correct themselves. It is employer's job to assess them.

Slight disagreement, here. You should not be allowed to gum up the works in Calculus 2 if you can't pass Calculus 1 to some set standard. Just saying.
Thanks for the clarification. This is one of those few cases where i actually agree that the moderators should change the submission title.
Have you reproduced this problem yourselves? It sounds like you've seen it with exactly one user so far, whom you've not been able to contact. This strikes me as something that could just as easily be due to a pathological set of rules one user created.
If what you know has been published in a way which meets enwp.org/WP:Reliable_sources then it can be used in articles. Unpublished material can't be used, because it can't be independently verified by anyone - see enwp.org/WP:V
Self-published material might be usable under certain circumstances, if you're already an established expert in your field (per independent reviews, or citations by others) - see enwp.org/WP:SPS
Isn't this asking for all the features that lead HN-readers to despise PHP?
About the statistics thing: I thought that Frequentism and Bayesianism were two separate frameworks to use in two separate contexts? Basically, I thought that you used Frequentism when you could do a definite experiment that yields an exhaustive probability distribution (like rolling a die to see how often it yields each number), while you use Bayesianism to evaluate accumulations of evidence about a distribution you can't experiment on directly. Is that wrong?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614066
I'm still convinced that we're just a few years away from a time when people don't have to commute to an office just to sit at a computer. That company in London could save some money and so could the employee in Barcelona if telecommuting were an option.
This makes upvote a CSS triangle. Could be extended for downvotes as well.

/* 13.328px = 1em */
.votearrow[title=upvote] {
background: none !important;
}
.votearrow[title=upvote]:after {
content: '';
display: block;
position: relative;
top: -1px;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border: .3em solid transparent;
border-bottom: .6em solid #999;
}
IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER is enough, to be considered as a hacker.
The QA failure most shocking to me lately is that on 10.8.5 on their newest MacBook Airs, Apple forgot some file necessary to use the video camera in 32 bit mode and therefore broke Skype.

Microsoft, for all their faults, is notorious for having fantastic QA and not breaking old apps when they update Windows, and would never have let that happen. You'd think when you update the camera that you'd check such a popular app as Skype.

Point is, it seems like the Mail team isn't the only place QA is lacking at Apple.
So often our reaction to a failing or misdeed is condemnation and to ostracize the person. It's heartening to see an example of a different impulse -- founded on a deeper humanity.

Not sure what role religion played, but in any case it is a good example that even atheists (myself included) would do well to respect and emulate. We could surely use more of this in the world.
Great times insulting office software outside of the office. The end result of this article boils down to: who cares?
Why bother? Just use a standard encryption. (Unless you feature your algorithm as a puzzle to be broken. Would make for an interesting spy game. But one that's probably more involved and `work' than most people want from their games.)
The Steve Job's Wrath Engine has been removed. QA folks at Apple can now live normal lives.
ILame - yet another LAME "captia"
sends a bogus sign-up request to http://shukshukta.com
I used to live next door to one of the guys working on the KG. Very smart guy! Basically from what I gather, weight is the last unstandardized unit of measurement at the moment and the problem derives from finding something that has constant mass. Apparently it's pretty near to being solved though, I believe their project was sold to Canada last year though.
I don't understand what the Basic example is supposed to do:

var x, y,
_this = this;

a(b, function() {
x = arguments[0], y = arguments[1];
return console.log(x, y);
});
ReferenceError: a is not defined
UltraHaptics - Multi-Point Mid-Air Haptic Feedback for Touch Surfaces
One thing PHP has going for it is its ubiquity. Despite all its problems, its an accessible, server side scripting language. Slash looks really cool for small, easy projects that PHP would be good for. In fact it looks better. But, it doesn't have PHP's ubiquity. I think it'd probably have to be 10x better to overcome the ubiquity problems. Maybe it is. How easy is it to install? (sorry if that was covered somewhere on the site)?
I gave up after a bit, but every directory I checked including what looked to be the most critical ones had one file under it, generally an index.html.

Completely ignoring anyone's opinion of Obamacare, it indeed looks like a laughable code base, probably just a check mark in their contract.
> 17. Sendmail

I'm very curious about the content of this chapter, given that Sendmail's deficiencies resulted in so many alternate MTAs being written (qmail, postfix, exim, etc.).
> A more detailed report will be handed over next month when the boy is sentenced, according to the Toronto Sun.

Are they talking about prison? That would be barbaric.
I find Mail.app to be OK now. The only think I am missing (and my main gripe) is strict threading. I just hate receiving my daily Google remainder (or lack thereof) and seeing the long list of previous emails with same subject associated on the same thread. Hate it!

Does anyone knows if there is a way to get strict threading —without changing the client?
Well.... Maybe it is because all of your sentences.... sound like awkward murmuring.... with all those extra periods.......
Satellite photos show the appalling extent of China's pollution.
This has a NPR take on what could be gleaned from the hearings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612333

Not much, but a lot more than we knew previously.
Actually no. Without the editing tools it doesn't matter.
Opera Mail would be that one, but it's interface is not the best.
the idea of unification you reference is more of a process of simplification, with an eye to creating additional explanatory value.

one of the best examples is that of the ptolemaic system of astronomy: prior to galileo speculating that the earth moved around the sun, everyone thought the earth was the center of the universe and that objects in the sky just naturally moved in non-linear spirals (epicycles) that needed endless corrections to be "correct". once galileo's system was applied, the complexity of making tons of extra corrections to track the path of some star was drastically reduced: these changes were now attributable to the earth's motion around the sun, and further the sun's motion in the galaxy.

you may be right that there is indeed an ultimate simplification, but nobody knows where the rabbit hole ends.
I am the one that should thank you for posting that link.

I had a good laugh.

And now I am curious about javascript crazy + behavior.
For a boat that big you're never going to get accelerations higher than a half G or so, and water is squishy so the jerk is going to be very moderate. I expect that frequent acceleration will actually have some impact on how fast the hard drives wear out, but not a large one.

Protecting everything from salt spray is going to be the bigger concern.