skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meteor is great, in that it's a really interesting look at what the future of web app development could look like - we've got ubiquitous JS runtimes on servers and clients, always-available internet connections, that kind of thing, and we need to be looking and playing with other approaches. And I think Meteor's is interesting.

But it's not going to 'kill' Rails any more than Rails killed PHP. I've seen loads of frameworks and indeed developers pop up who have taken the great ideas that frameworks like Rails had, and incorporated them into PHP projects. No doubt we'll see the same over time as new frameworks and tools arise elsewhere. And ultimately what we want is a better, more diverse selection of tools which are competing with and learning from each other.

Would I build a production app in Meteor? Almost certainly not. I'll probably have a crack at a prototype sometime soon (last time I tried, it was too underdeveloped to use) and no doubt I'll learn a bit on the way. But Differential's site is not an encouraging example - it requires JS, feels pretty slow and broken in places, and offers nothing that couldn't be executed as well (or better!) using any other toolset or framework.
Growing pains, that's all.

They've really done a lot of work. The jump from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5 was 775 commits. Wow. We're seeing concepts being fleshed out, they'll be refactored and strengthen in time. The team seems to be fully focused on 1.0.

Scalability is still a big concern, but it's only a problem you can be so lucky too have.

Meteor still needs to improve code structure, there's no common architectural pattern yet (just some lose guide lines). In my opinion, it would be a benefit. Meteor is still in its infancy and a developer is left to their own devices, rather then common sharable patterns. Rails does this well with the plethora of use-case strengthened API design, a benefit of it's maturity. Meteor will get there.
Thats American exceptionalism
Is it also working for Microsoft PowerPoint, sir??
The mpv developers have written a really very good rundown of the current situation: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav
Isn't the whole economy about fictional money paying for real money?
Put all the population in prison... and bingo all crime solve d
This is one of my favorite exercises. I started out in a similar situation where it was necessary to get an .net app to act differently. The feeling of accomplishment was completely different than regular development. Now reverse engineering is a hobby I am very passionate about.

It's also incredibly insightful as a developer to see how crappy code can exist in very expensive software.
They are talking about the 26/11/2008 Mumbai, India attack and how its going to make them a lot of money. Horrid!
https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=8496
USA NUMBER ONE!
I have visited, amongst other places, Cairo. I wouldn't be able to live there for the guilt it would instil in me. Sadly, Cairo is by far not the worst place (compared to New Delhi, government services are quite good in Cairo. Yes, really), and several "first world" locations are, at best, a degree of difference with Cairo (Hong Kong would be a good example).

People don't seem to be able to imagine just how bad life is in the third world for the majority of people.

And frankly, sorry to put it so bluntly, but here's a thought people should think about. Given you are a third-worlder, would you want to be one of the exploited or one of the non-exploited. Given that in practice most third-worlders still choose what job they want, the answer is obvious : with very few exceptions, people want to be one of the "exploited". Visit a third-world city, turn a few non-approved blocks, and you'll understand why.

Btw: one of the things that amazed me about Cairo is that they've created a "fake" city center, where the poverty you see is almost absent, in a way that I've seen nowhere else. So in Cairo, you definitely have to turn a few non-approved blocks.
So... What the U.S. is doing is A-OK because things might be worse in the former stomping grounds of the Stasi? Allrighty then!

(Seriously though, if a population that includes former East-Germans is complaining...)
I wonder what his three strikes are ? I thought that for three strikes you're only fucked if at least one of those strikes involved violence and a victim ?
governments are a widespread problem
At Google, 'Deep learning' clusters crack coding problems top engineers can't
> I really don't see the old days of proprietary junky interfaces being superior, especially on hardware that is close to what a modern desktop PC is today.

As a cynic, I would say web apps are all about proprietary junky interfaces instead of using my platforms standard GUI. Reminds me a bit of the VB6 days where every program used to define its own true button color... (except the modern web apps look a lot nicer, of course).
New GPS game is out of this world: Stratocaching
We intend to use your existing social profile (for example facebook), where you've already built your list of interest in one way or another. This existing data will be used to deliver you a personalized list of events instead of just a list of things that are out there.
We're also working very hard to bring the interaction with event organizers to the platform, since you are their potential customer.

Android was our first choice since it's more difficult to find iOS developer than Android one (at least here) and because it offers us a more flexible way to release new versions with ease. I'll set up a blog soon, where we'll describe our experience with Android and our journey more deeply.

About the iOS counterpart, we don't have a fixed ETA but we're just preparing everything to start working on it in following weeks.

Thanks for the support! Appreciate it!
That plus the factors of some localities that just kill people who commit bad enough crimes / allow people to walk on bribes routinely / vigilante justice etc
and .paris

Now I feel there is some security risk in having that many and any kind of tld, because non absolute domain names (ending with a dot) are searched thru a (locally configured) search list of domains, and those kinds of tl mcould easily be masked.

There are no computer or subdomain named com that I know of. On the other hand I used to know a few named paris or london...
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Is that including the large gulag-style prison camps?
actually - I'm proposing the other way. In fact, what you just wrote above (about the RNG being cryptographically secure in Rust) makes me really, really, really excited to try out the language.

For a large portion of my career, I was building EDA (silicon design automation tools), so I have worked with trying to optimize one bit at a time with unsafe pointers biting my back constantly. IMHO partitioning an EDA netlist is a NP-hard problem, so there have been lots of very interesting startups that tried to solve that problem and failed.

I now work with Ruby and Python.

Trust me I do know the value of everything you wrote: I am just wondering - requesting even - if there is a way to bridge the "accessibility" gap. Is there a way (anything - a "quickstart" library or a safe-but-suboptimal-subset, etc.) that enables me to start hacking with Rust in a matter of minutes ?
This is particulary impressive, seeing as it came from Polygon, who are notoriously pro-MS
> But when I read this report I am willing to donate more money to this organization.

At the risk of being overly cynical, and putting words into mark_integerdsv's mouth, I believe that's almost exactly what he's arguing against. Make-a-wish spends $7.5k on each wish on average[1]. Whereas something like Schistosomiasis Control Initiative per-child cost is $5[2]. That is, the money spent "granting wishes" could perform much more good elsewhere, and so by donating to Make-a-Wish one is buying "fuzzies"[3], not being optimally philanthropic.

[1]: http://wish.org/content/faq#How-much-does-granting-a-wish-co...

[2]: http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/schistos... , the $5 figure comes from http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

[3]: Word adopted from http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa... , meaning "warm fuzzy feelings of 'doing good'"
The GP says fictional _characters_.
> It's a crying shame.

That is an appropriate reaction, but the ACLU's focus on life without parole sentences grossly understates the savagery of US sentencing schemes. Tens of thousands more inmates are serving life with the possibility of parole for non-violent crimes. These inmates may very well never be released, and if they are they will have served so long that they will never be able to recover.

In Nevada, for example, 1 in 5 prisoners is serving a life sentence with the possibility (but no guarantee) of parole. Our version of the 3 strikes law, which is used in several other states as well, enables any three felony convictions to qualify an offender for a life sentence. This can and has included repeat drug offenders (including those who were not dealing), those committing multiple relatively minor property crimes (vandalism, theft, etc), and those with multiple DUI's that never resulted in accidents.

Simply put, US habitual offender laws defy all sense of logic, humanity, and reason. The political will to change this does not exist within either of our major political parties, so the problem is likely to expand over time.
I'd say Melbourne, being from Perth myself (just a graduate though)
> The UK currently considering to play catch-up with the US by also privatizing prison "services" and guaranteeing inmate numbers / occupancy levels

Privately run prisons in the US are not guaranteed inmate numbers or occupancy levels. That's a common misconception due to poor reporting on how the contracts are structured.

What they are actually guaranteed is a minimum payment. For instance, a contract might say that the prison company will take and maintain up to 100 prisoners, and the State will pay them each year the greater of $100k/prisoner or $9m.

This somehow gets reported as the contract guaranteeing that the State will keep a 90% occupancy rate in that prison.
Look, I mean... the US justice system has obvious problems. Too many people going to prison, a racial bias, lack of rehabilitation... whatever. You'd be a fool to deny that.

But is this really down to some kind of prison-industrial complex that "bribe[s] politicians and judges to provide inmates"? That seems a little far-fetched.

Let's use Hanlon's razor here - isn't it far more likely that the US incarceration rate is an artefact of endemic inequality, poor education, and a constant desire for politicians to appear "tough on crime"? Do we really need to bring bribes into it?
I think at the root of this is a very prevalent attitude among a many people in America toward "not letting people get away with things"

I don't think you can look at this in a vacuum - you need to see these punishments as simply another manifestation of this attitude. This is not a "this group vs. that group" thing; you may find this among "fire and brimstone" Democrats just as often as your "Limburgh Republicans".

I've often said the difference between these groups is: given 100 people asking for a free meal, the liberal will take satisfaction in feeding 99 hungry ones; this type of conservative will fret over the one person who "got away with" getting a free lunch he could have afforded himself.

(Side rant: these people tend to be among the loudest Bible-thumpers, and think "the Good Lord helps those.." is an actual biblical passage.)

Rehabilitation as a way of dealing with miscreants doesn't work in the US for the main part because there is too large a segment of the American populace who feel that these various programs equate to giving them a reward for bad behavior. Why should they (the convicted) get a free hand with job placement when no one else is "being coddled"?

(The wonderful quote "born on third base and thinks he hit a triple" always comes to mind here.)

So you see, Americans understand perfectly well all the logical and economic aspects of this issue. The fact is, it is built into our culture to punish people. We get satisfaction from it. We're not after what's best for the country, we're after revenge.

It's ugly, but I've been around for many years & I stand by that statement.
So what you have said is that if someone says "God is great" in a TSA line they should be sued or punished.

Does your opinion change if it is spoken in English? Or is it just Arabic? Should it be taken more seriously if a person is wearing a turban or not? Or maybe their skin color… does that matter?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/3D_Printing

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2013/07/29/native-3d-printing-...
The propellants are butane, isobutane and propane. The same sort of gases you'd use as fuel for a portable gas stove.
It doesn't stop 3-letter agencies (though really, people should stop pretending that's where the real threat lies for most people) and it doesn't stop informed hackers or intrusive corporate firewalls.

It doesn't stop any organisation capable of compromising your certification chain.

That might be a TLA going after a root CA. We could debate the ethics of that but I'm not sure it's helpful for this discussion to go over all of that again.

It might be an "intrusive corporate firewall", but if you're doing anything personal and sensitive from work equipment then I'm somewhat lacking in sympathy. No doubt that equipment was provided to help you do your job, and it is quite possible that your employer has statutory and/or regulatory obligations to meet regarding controlling of data and auditing of same, which is probably what any intrusive scanning on the way out is for. As for scanning on the way in, you only have to look at how many idiots open any e-mail attachment even if it's under a neon sign saying "Trojan here!" and how many people try to use things like personal webmail over HTTPS from work computers, and you can see a strong argument for inspection as far as corporate IT is concerned. (I do think it is in the interests of all concerned for employees to be properly informed of the possibility that their "encrypted" communications aren't and any legitimate justifications that apply, though. A throwaway line about monitoring communications on page 17 of the contract is not a good way to build trust, IMHO.)

But how exactly is an "informed hacker" going to compromise something like your on-line banking if it's encrypted this way? Probably the biggest practical benefit of current HTTPS implementations is that they do stop Little Johnny Wireshark spying on everyone else in the cafe or Little Johnny ISP monitoring the private communications of his customers. Even if the chain of trust is compromised and someone has the encryption keys, it's still only that one party who can intercept your communications, and you're still guarding against monitoring across the rest of an untrusted network.
It is still fairly naive to think that it is traumatic to no one.
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that's a race to the bottom. Those countries get away with it because big brother is doing it first.
The blank page loaded spectacularly fast for me. Not sure why it was submitted though.
I have a vague feeling of excitement about the future of JS development in general. Whether or not Meteor is going to be the bringer of that bright future is something I'm not so sure of.

On the topic of constructive criticism, differential.io could really do with ditching that "We work at Cintrifuse" interstitial before the blog post is displayed. In the spirit of being constructive, I will simply say that my experience as a reader would have been vastly better without it.
On the Preimage Resistance of SHA-1 (Simon Knellwolf talk)
I think the analytical approach is a good one, but I'm not sure the results are as simple as you imply, or have the result you may be led to believe. The damages of the Rim and Zaca fires were large, but the question is could the system actually prevent the ignition of the fire and decrease the costs of containment. In both of those cases, the answer to the former is <no> and to the latter is <unlikely>.

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The Yosemite Rim Fire was man-made and had outsize damages because of inaccesibility and bad policy. Viz:

The fire was caused by a hunter's illegal fire that went out of control

The blaze was difficult to fight because of inaccessible terrain and erratic winds, forcing firefighters to be reactive

Also contributing to the fire was a pre-1980s policy of suppressing small natural fires. The lack of those fires created nearly a century's worth of fuel to burn, resulting in a massive forest fire killing virtually all plant life in its path.

A widespread heat wave and drought conditions helped to spread the fire and make it difficult to combat.

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It takes hours if not days to get men and supplies into some of these locations. On the flip side, the grow very, very quickly. Lets look at the Rim Fire:

Only 40 acres when it was discovered, it grew to 10,000 acres within 36 hours and 100,000 acres after four days.

The premise that a fire is like an ICBM launch that can be shot down before it explodes via star-wars is flawed. Its the sort of thing that people in Ivory towers believe to make themselves feel better. Which is fine, but its not clear at all that such a mindset correlates with reality.

Lets look at the Zaca Fire:

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The Zaca Fire was a wildfire which began burning northeast of Buellton, California, in Santa Barbara County, California. The fire started on July 4, 2007, and by August 31, it had burned over 240,207 acres (972.083 km2), making it California's second largest fire in recorded history after the Cedar Fire of 2003.[1][2] The fire was 100% contained on September 2, 2007.[3] It was declared controlled on October 29, 2007.[4]

The fire was started as a result of sparks from a grinding machine on private property which was being used to repair a water pipe.

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Again, man made fire. People doing stupid things. Entirely preventable. On the flip side, would the Bird save any money by early warning? Highly unlikely. There was no delay in getting at this other than it being called in. So, you would not save any material amount on this.

The order of magnitude of cost savings would appear to be perhaps 1/10 of the actual cost, not 100/100. So, in this case, perhaps you save $12MM on the Rim Fire ans $11MM on the Zaca fire. So, for these two events you save $20MM. At a cost of 200-400 million, you would need to incure 10x to 20x of these large scale fires. But this case would be devastating, if ever incurred. So using it as a rational backdrop seems off. If we are really expecting that, we should adopt strategies of prevention and fuel mitigation as much if not more-so than early warning.
> on a useless "We work at Cintrifuse" page the rest of the time

Looks like it's the header and footer joint together waiting for content to appear in between delivered via websockets.

Never tried Meteor but I don't get the point of using websockets for blog posts unless it's purely for learning. Does Meteor encourage such use of websockets? If yes, why? (Genuinely curious)
CrowdProcess
Update Nexus 7 Wi-Fi to Official Android 4.4 KRT16O KitKat [GUIDE]
I don't understand how mad those judges should be to send those people in jail for life... Life imprisonment for that... It's like the ultimate punishment (because death penalty isn't worth it) for evilest people. Or is it mad laws? I understand when two adults are sentenced for life because they were torturing and killing random homeless people just for fun (real example from my city). They are very dangerous to the society and should be kept away forever, that I understand. But I don't see how driving a company's truck is an immense menace for the society.
Has the liberalisation of prostitution gone too far in Germany?
I personally use the term 'pure vegetarian'.
In fact, airports in places such a Turkey have two security checks, one at the very entrance of the airport buliding, and the second just at the gate.

However it looks like they are relaxing that:

http://www.ataturkairport.com/en-EN/Airlines/Pages/Announcem...
what is a good amount for the emergency fund? Is it lie 4 times the monthly income or even more?
Is VC Money Right for Your Startup? [video]
Yeah. Speaking as someone who doesn't have a degree, I'm not sure that I'd get much any of a raise as a SysAdmin/systems person if I got a degree; probably not any more of a raise than I'd get for that much more experience, anyhow. But a degree would help a lot if I decided to change jobs, or even get a professional licence of some sort. For example, getting a real-estate licence, something I've considered in the course of researching my own investments, is possible without a degree, but more difficult.

A degree would also help me move into management in another person's company, the traditional upwards path for aging computer operators.

A degree would also come in handy if I want to emigrate to a first-world country before I become rich. Again, it's not required, but the process is rather longer and more nasty without a degree.

I'm not saying a degree has zero value. It doesn't have infinite value, though, and the cost of a degree is not zero.

To bring the conversation back to me, I got out of high school in '97. I immediately got a really good programming/sysadmin job because, well, it was 1997. They were hiring any idiot with a pulse. I was able to turn that opportunity into a solid reputation with solid experience that I was able to use to remain employed through the crash. If I had gone to college, and got out in 2001? I bet I would have been unemployed for another five years after graduating. The job market for people with my skillset was brutal.

I think that if you have a good chance to start your career? you should take it, even if that means delaying school. Of course, if you have a chance to go to school for free, and that chance will go away if you don't take it right away? you should take that, too... but I think the former is more common than the latter. Usually, if you can go to school now, you can go to school four years from now, but it's dramatically easier to start your career when there is a lot of demand in your field.

Now, I'm mostly speaking of finances. there is a psychological aspect to school, too. There is value to learning how to fit in, but again, that value is not infinite, and the cost is not zero.
a lot of those countries practice immediate punishment in the form of bodily harm.