skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a concept. I think my mind just blew.

I have no insight into whether women want this, but if they're amenable to the idea, imagine what the marketing engine behind something like the Susan G Komen foundation mixed with the home security industry could do with this.

Already, home security advertisements imply that you should buy their product if you don't want your wife to be raped. What if that could be extended to people's feeling of compassion for women in general? Imagine how much would be donated to buy these for Indian women after a rape scandal.

I always assume a company out to make money will eventually blur the lines of morality like that, but the complication comes from this device's implication that women are responsible for not being raped. I think people will be seriously, seriously fucked up by the fact that this thing exists. If someone is raped, how will she handle the idea that if she spent the money she could have prevented it? How will parents feel if the worst happens and they didn't buy this for their daughter? How will they feel if they did buy it but she wasn't wearing it? What about people who can't afford it? Think about what that could do to your self image! Or even worse, this only looks like it'd work on a woman who has a narrower waist than hips.

I can also see legal trouble. What about the first lawsuit against a college/concert venue/etc for bringing people together without providing these? What about someone claiming indemnity for providing them in an otherwise unsafe environment? And that's not even getting into the skydiving disclaimer the company selling 'em would have to use.

This has to be the craziest thing ever brought to market. I guess what I see happening is another pink ribbon, ostensibly nonprofit. I actually hope that happens, except this time the people behind it set an example of using 99% of funds to make the device cheap and widely distributed instead of 'losing' 80% of the money to 'administrative costs'.. though that still leaves the manufacturers and material suppliers in a morally complicated position wrt profits.
StackOverflow permits and even encourages people to ask questions and then answer their own questions.

All that matters is that the question/answer is of importance or interest to developers, not who asked or answered it.
One virtually unknown gem of a tool that one of the authors of Thorax also wrote:

https://github.com/walmartlabs/mock-server

We use this extensively to develop the mobile web app.
What's your opinion on minimum-wage laws, and about the thought process that went into creating them?
The open conjecture (officially, the existence of subexponentially strong pseudorandom function families), is a weaker variant of some stronger conjectures (the existence of polynomially-strong pseudorandom number generators) which actually imply P != NP. So in some sense the problems are very close to equivalent. But yes I think you're right, that nobody would take such an approach seriously.
The salt is typically stored in the password db, alongside the salted hash.

If Adobe has taken that approach, the intruders would have all the salts, but they would not be able to do this attack of seeing how many people use the same password.

However, Snowden's silly password hint would still have given the game away. If that is in fact him.
It's pretty simple actually. Imagine direct democracy, but with the option to delegate your vote to someone else, who can delegate their votes to another person, and so on. At the end of the day, the major powers aren't based on traditional parties but on layers of delegation.

The obvious danger here is its tension with the secret ballot. Currently, your boss can put all sorts of pressure on you to vote a particular way (even if it is illegal), but he ultimately can't step into the voting both with you. In contrast, with "liquid democracy", the chain of delegation may afford all sorts of ways to decide how someone "voted".
to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us,
and help us.

9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are
possible to him that believeth.

9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with
tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

9:25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked
the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge
thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

9:26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and
he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him
privately, Why could not we cast him out? 9:29 And he said unto them,
This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

9:30 And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he
would not that any man should know it.
Looks like a standard catalogue photograph to me. Opportunity wasted.
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Honestly it seems fairly obvious to me - "clocks changed" is kind of the first assumption you make when two time strings that appear very close together parse as far apart.

After that, it only takes some quick googling to figure out what happened at the end of 1927 that could affect things.
This still needs a particle accelerator sitting behind it to work - 60Mev electrons are accelerated 300 MeV/m by passing through something centimeters long.

This will be useful for smaller X-rays, not particle science research.

“I’d say that the future is bright for laser-driven particle accelerators.”

hah!
Docker is lxc.
You don't have to blindly trust a third party.

I have a KeePass which can generate random passwords. I trust that because it's open source, so I could look at what they're doing--and build it myself--if I wanted.

I store the db file in Dropbox, but I don't trust them either: my file is encrypted with both a unique password and a second key file which I've taken pains to only ever transmit by copying on removable media.
They popup ads on some popular bit torrent sites that are named for political parties in Europe. ;)

That might explain the hidden stats.
Yep, misspoke, just debt holders. Shareholders usually receive nothing.

Regarding societal benefit of the bailout, even with imminent domain, the government has to give the owners fair compensation. It can't simply step in and disregard rule of law and pick and choose its preferred winners.

Keeping GM afloat in no way excuses the preferential treatment. The unions hardly took a haircut at all compared to the bondholders:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230376810...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB124105303238271343
Sigh. Obviously not. I'll just go step away from the computer and come back some time next... decade.
They say it is easy for the wearer to remove, but hard for someone else to take them off. Still it seems to rely on a sort of low-grade combination lock which is going to take some amount of focus and manual dexterity. The first question that comes to mind is how hard is it to remove for someone who finds themselves doing the pee-pee dance?
Chin up... this no more heralds the decivilization of the world than airbags herald a rise in car crashes. While it's a terrible fact that it remains an issue... it's heartening to see progress giving a better chance of walking away with fewer scars to those whom the unthinkable happens to. It's not enough, but it's a step forward, not back.
http://www.kickofflabs.com/
Why I Stopped Working From Home
No doubt they had problems.

My point was that they weren't necessarily "this company should be liquidated" problems, they were "this company needs to restructure its debt obligations and rethink its strategy" problems.

GM retains its position as the world's #2 car maker by volume, behind Toyota, and is profitable again. It's going to die some day, but probably has a lot of life (and thus economic contribution) left in it. Sometimes governments step in to prevent the "creative destruction" of the market to destroy its own citizenry. The open question is where the limit should be.
I don't disagree with you, that, if we have to make a "Best Guess", we need to bring in our day to day context - but using the the one word, "only" - not only eliminates the guessing, it also helps to reinforce logical thinking.

Re: Electron - I was trying to use it as an example of a poorly written exam. This particular question was on a Grade 10 final exam, and I thought it was obviously, "proton." The "correct" (for some definition of correct?) was "electron." I was using it as an example to demonstrated that "test creators" - are people, just like you and me, who make mistakes. Also using it to show how the student who is always looking for the "correct" answer (as compared to the correct answer) starts to lose their ability to parse and logically communicate.
Are those plastic scissors and knife?
Waning: Meta

What's the process by which a stack overflow question hits HN?

How does the OP

1. Wander into this question

2. Decide it's worth sharing

3. Decide to post on HN specifically?
1. There is no doubt that government spending stimulates things until it no longer does. I find the outrage over Walmart to be particularly funny since over time it has evolved to maximize its benefit from government spending. Walmart is one of the largest supports of food stamps and other welfare programs because in some states it captures half of all money the government hands out. I find it to be a gross distortion of the market that will only grow larger over time.

Highways similarly distorted the markets and we will be living with those effects for some time. One primary distortion was the destruction of passenger railroads. It may have been the right thing to do but for every tamper we get right more are gotten wrong.

2. I can't do anything but shake my head.

3. Pre Civil War politics frequently involved guns over the issue of slavery on both sides. Post civil war for decades also involved lots of guns.

4. All financial crises (monetary or otherwise) stem from overextending credit to people that should not have it. Its the same whether its tulips, railroads, stocks, internet companies or mortgages. Rises and crashes are the natural ebb and flow of the business cycle and should be embraced. Downturns are a way of correcting mistakes. I don't see how they can be fixed with taxation. The real issue is interest rates.
Unfortunate it's just for HS students. I know my University's website could do with a lick of paint.

But great to see a competition for high school students to get into, something for them to show off their skills! I would've loved if my secondary school or college (UK here) did something like this!
Less programmable, more like selectable.
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Certificate Patrol just threw up an alert that HN's cert is now from PositiveSSL. Anyone else see this?
I didn't take the organic chem lab course, because I had a bad time in lab I. The o-chem lab might have been better, since it was supposed to be more qualitative and less quantitative, so maybe it would have been less susceptible to shaky titration hands... but I didn't want to chance it. The analogy to programming only goes so far, but the differences were enjoyable to me, since I had plenty of exposure to real programming.
This game is over 5 years old. Come on guys :(
In plain English, you are willing to forgive Google their transgressions because you feel that they are being attacked and you like/work for them, but not Apple/Microsoft for spurious reasons; this being the cognitive dissonance I alluded to earlier. When it is pointed out that this is not the actual case, you claim that that they are in fact being attacked and it's not fair, so they have to resort to the same tactics, which is forgivable because you like/work for Google. Google are as bad as Apple and/or Microsoft.
First thought that came to my mind is how a paramedic/ER team is going to have have to deal with this if they have a unconscious person and are trying to run a catheter to figure out which drugs the person might have consumed.

I guess it comes down to the odds of ending up being raped versus ending up in an ER ward after a night of partying (and the benefit/consequences to wearing "AR wear" in each of those scenarios)
totally agree with that. I'd say one of the main reasons it hasn't happened is there are way too many software/operating system patches to roll out and would cause way too much chaos.
A more charitable way of phrasing your point: devoting resources open source provides a lot of value for a company, particularly ones not technically associated with buzztech (so either fledgling webdev shops or older/more conservative BigCos, like Walmart). It's great, actionable PR; it improves employee satisfaction; its an effective recruiting tool.
Chrysler and General Motors conveniently eschewed existing product liability litigation during this time period, many of the cases involving plaintiffs whom were seriously injured for life.[1]

GM also tried and failed to shed all future product liability claims involving vehicles manufactured prior to the 2009 restructuring.[2]

Product liability cases in progress at the time were effectively wiped out; the entity being litigated against ("Old GM") suddenly became an empty shell ("Motors Liquidation Company"), and most claims were settled for pennies on the dollar.

Plaintiffs who wished to proceed with litigation against MLC despite this would have had their cases moved from their current jurisdiction (overwhelmingly state court) into the same jurisdiction as the bankruptcy proceedings (federal district court in New York). This made proceeding with litigation essentially futile: the introduction of prohibitive travel expenses, transition to the wildly different procedural and evidentiary standards of federal court, and an award sum (if any) a fraction of the original claim amount.

The best and perhaps most ironic part, however, was that the plaintiffs who did proceed would have the comfort of knowing that the defense attorneys assigned to destroy what remained of them and their product liability tort would be directly financed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

If anyone wants further reading, I recommend Steve Jakubowski's blog posts on the subject. They mostly chronicle his arguments before the bankruptcy court concerning successorship liability issues at the time, but he also does a really good job of putting a human face on the matter.[3]

1. http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/15/news/companies/auto_bankrupt...

2. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gm-to-cover-future-liabilit...

3. http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/archives/bankruptcy-...
The post is a year old, but received a lot of views/tags/upvotes so a stackoverflow "top threads" reader might be reading these in his or her downtime.
I can't imagine what process you have in mind to put right what you see as a problem. Who is the arbiter of the press coverage? You are assuming unrealistic habits on the part of the passive observer of the results of research. Life isn't spent checking out media coverage or providing it with checks and balances unless there's a major issue involved which impinges on people's lives. The solution to your perceived difficulty is to check the facts for yourself from original sources and not expect some arbitrary secondary source to keep you up to date because that is something they are never going to do.
Another problem domain like this is color representation.
To the author: if you're filtering this word list at all, you should probably know that I encountered "cumming".
Vector Graphics in iOS via PDF
I agree, async is much more flexible and powerful when it's a library feature (as it is in F#) as opposed to being a built-in language feature (as it is in C# 5).

core.async looks very well-rounded, congratulations on a fine job.
use http://launchrock.co
How significantly different is this from the bullet-proof whiteboards people tried to make a quick buck on? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/education/edlife/bulletpro... Seems like both basically capitalize on fear.
Highly Sensitive Person
Indeed, Peñalosa was an extraordinary mayor ans his transportation system improved the standard of living. But as the article hints at the end, the follow up has been terrible (e.g. one mayor indicted) and the city has gotten out of hands.
I spent a year and a half working on a calendar application and timezones were by far the most complicated part of the application.

I agree that a lot of things would be easier it everyone used UTC without timezones. In England you might go to work at 09:00, while someone in California might go to work at 01:00.

When you setup a meeting, you would just need to say, "The meeting is at 04:00", which might be mid-day for California and really freaking early for London, but everyone would know that right away without doing any offset calculations.
Linkbait scummery.
On my app, it takes 2s to render 174 tasks on my desktop. Imagine on a mobile phone...
http://github.com/spumko has the other set of walmartlabs' open source projects. Separated b/c too much noise from notifications.
It was just posted on reddit for the 100th time (r/webdev)
Shameless plug: If your webapp deals with date, time and timezones in the past, present or future, you may want to use TimeNinja[0] - a simple, free REST API, I built, for date time conversion and arithmetic which uses historical timezone information to perform required calculations.

[0] http://www.timeninja.net
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Check John Skeets answer history :)

I think he's the #1 answerer on stackoverflow. He always answers extremely fast and correct. Sometimes i wonder if SO is his full time job. In any case, any senior developer who has worked a lot with time zones should have known where to look for the answer so it's not entirely unbelievable he could answer it so fast. The answer has also been edited, the first version, after 16mins, was just half as long.
IMHO, it's hard for these client side frameworks to get much steam in Angular's wake.. Though Thorax is much easier to start, I think over time Angular's power will make it the dominant front end framework out there
Happy-Diwali-as-a-Service
What kind of change could Microsoft make to their runtime to "kill interoperability" with Mono without affecting backwards compatibility for everyone else using .NET?

There are enough people (especially enterprises, their most important customers) using .NET now that Microsoft has to be very careful about any changes they do make to avoid breaking existing applications and upsetting their paying customers.
It may be due to the recent switch to Cloudflare. I also get a PositiveSSL cert with sha1 fingerprint ‎5a 2b 9a 0c 7d 29 65 ae b0 6a b0 2e 30 0c 8f e7 5d f7 49 05.

My location is Germany, over various providers I get the same cert
This is interesting though I'd be curious if diverging from solar time would be as easy as the author claims.
Looks like someone has started one: https://github.com/joneshf/sublime-grasp
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I think that crowdfunding could provide one answer. Many open source projects are widely used by businesses for commercial purposes. In a lot of cases I think those businesses would be willing to pay money for improvements to be made to the code; if those contributions could be pooled, the amounts of money involved could be substantial.
I type really fast (120+ wpm) and a big problem I had with this game was making one typo and not realizing it until I'd already typed 3-4 more words. Then I'd have to go back, find the one typo I made, finish that word, then re-type all the other words that the game had ignored my typing in the meantime. This is actually what killed me in the end.
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While we are at it - anyone knows how to verify PGP signature with just the public key and withuot creating the keyring file? All the libraries I have seen verify signatures against keyrings - but I want to store the keys in a database and making a temporary keyring with just one signature to do the verification sounds like an ugly hack.

Here is my question at stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19683880/pgp-signature-ch...

Just another example of how unnecessary coupling is thwarting new uses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_shears
My Product Must Be My Marketing Plan
Are you saying they use messaging service instead of Email? Citation please?

Most people use both messaging service and email, each for different purpose. For example, it's easier to create new topic with email. It's easier to attach a file. It can be automate for mailing list and have easier address for support email.

How does QQ or WeChat replace that in China?
Chaplin features this as well, via a "dispose" method. It'd be great to see a comparison list of all these Backbone meta frameworks.

Note: I am just a user of Chaplin, not an author.
I agree with everything you said, but you're looking too closely at just the last link in a long chain. Yes, it's important to trust your password manager. I base that trust on my inspection of the short bash script and on the reputation of GPG and the Ubuntu distribution system. But 95% of the passwords stored in there are being pasted into chrome, which is a gigantically complex piece of code with hundreds of developers. They're passing through the selection buffer of Xorg, which is also quite a beast with many contributors over time. And of course I have to trust the Linux kernel! Not to mention the hardware it's all running on, which I'm sure has many critical parts manufactured in a country that harbors and probably sponsors people hacking into US companies and infrastructure.

Looking at the whole picture, using something like LastPass or 1Password in place of bash+gpg is only marginally less secure, and since non-techies are more likely to actually use them than some console-based thing, encouraging their use is a net win for security. Saying "you shouldn't trust a password manager that you haven't inspected line-by-line" is ultimately counter-productive. The people that have the most to gain from password managers can't even read code, and certainly couldn't spot a hidden side-channel.
CloudFlare was taking too long to produce their own certificate, so I provided them with an extra we had for other uses:

Serial Number: 1D 9B 1D 4D 32 6C 01 B6 AC 23 61 14 BB 6D 6C 89
Fingerprint (SHA1): 5A 2B 9A 0C 7D 29 65 AE B0 6A B0 2E 30 0C 8F E7 5D F7 49 05
Noticed I added references to Netscape classic source code.
Was looking for the person who mentions kids. Thank you. The misery of putting a kid to bed an hour early (WHY DAD WHY?) then listening to them rage for about 2 hours due to getting overwrought, just to have to wake them up in the AM rather than wake up naturally. Its miserable and having braved 4 time changes since she became sentient, it gets worse every time.
How would that help? It would just make things worse.

Now instead of knowing your local business is likely to be open from 9 to 5, you have to look up the conversion factor for wherever you are.

Unless you also propose people go to sleep at the same time throughout the whole world.
Was there anything you wanted that wasn't influenced by society?
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As for me, I often explore related questions if their title is interesting. I also follow a few people who post very good answers because they're usually a joy to read.

And sometimes I stumble over things I didn't yet know and find interesting. I posted one such case here once.

But that's just me.
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F# developers generally command higher salaries because they're often working in the financial sector.
Yes, it's somewhat ambiguous. You don't even know if they kill bacteria and they pet [verb] dander. English grammar is crazy ambiguous.
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