skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to suggest those poor, sheltered suburbanites are al wrong. So should I have believed the guy at the bus stop when he told me he would sell a Rolex for $100 or the nice man at the gas station that asked for money for gas in his car with a long story, though he had no car in sight?

It's nice and hip to just imply people are not worldly but it may be that their distrust is justified.

You said some nice things about science ... But which set of assumptions really need to be examined here?
I've been without deodorant for years now. Anytime I think I should try it, my body seems to reject it. I wash my body and my hair with the same bar of soap. I've been doing this for about 8 years now. I think I'll stick to toothpaste though.

Overall, the use of essential oils for cleaning is ideal. My ex-wife had horrible acne, and tried the harsh 'cures' like Proactiv. The fix was a simple blend of lavender and tea tree essential oils mixed with distilled water in a spray. Using that once or twice a day cleared her up within a week.

Disclosure: I own a small soap company and only use my own bars! :) [1]

[1] http://oldkinderhook.co
Suspicion of TPMs has, so far, been just wrong. Most machines don't have TPMs; they're usually a feature on "business" laptops. Lenovo's ThinkPads have them, IdeaPads don't.

But now Windows 8.1 apparently makes OEMs ship a TPM to provide transparent device encryption for tablets - so it should become more commonplace. (It might only be for ARM devices though.) I'd assume those TPMs provide the full APIs and capabilities others do.
love USB.. now I don't have to go looking for a compatible charger or connector when ever I lose mine
Oh yes, cul-de-sacs have a mind destroying force ... Really, is this what science is giving us?
Not tricky when your platform provides a standard way to do it already.
Making the Case for Open Source at Work
That's a great idea. Funny that I've been tracking the ng driver out of technical curiosity and that didn't really cross my mind!
Turkey is really close to London. Domestic traffic in Australia travels further than that. It is quite a different matter round tripping packets across the pacific to another continent. I can do minor edits on a Linode but I much prefer using a local solution like vagrant. I would like to ditch OSX but the hardware/os combo is hard to beat.
For corporate security, TPMs are a great gift. Installing TrueCrypt or requiring people to keep a password or USB key is extremely annoying. With a TPM, we can get a fairly decent level of security in a completely transparent way (much less to worry about lost laptops). And at the cost of a 4-digit PIN, we can up the security significantly.
NFS is no silver bullet. In exchange for performance and reliability you lose some production/development parity. You need to special case your provisioning script to guard against any FS permission changes.
Another key factor is that watching TV/movies is a fairly passive activity - whilst you do have to concentrate on what is going on, you don't have to think particularly hard about it.

On the other hand, video gaming can be a fairly active activity (depending on the game) because you far more in control over what is happening and you have to make decisions. For some people, this makes it very dull because they don't find having to think about what they are doing relaxing, whereas for other people watching TV is dull because they aren't doing anything.
Isaac Asimov Explains His Three Laws of Robots
Wonderful. We need tags on HN. You could tag this #pointless_open_source_drama.

What happened: a maintainer refuses a pull request changing a pronoun in a doc on the grounds of "triviality", without giving more context. Joyent at this stage had two options:

a) reach out to him to stress why they thought it was actually really, really important, or at least get his deeper reasons
b) act as if somebody peed in their coffee and write an angry blog post talking about firing people, because Open Source doesn't have enough drama already - it's just missing some more good keywords like Pulseaudio to trigger the best flamewars

It's fascinating to see how supposedly smart people behave with the emotional maturity of a toddler.

Anyway, as of a couple of hours ago, Ben posted this comment on the Github issue:

Hi all, let me try to clear up a few things.

Why I rejected the pull request. Us maintainers tend to reject tiny doc changes because they're often more trouble than they're worth. You have to collect and check the CLA, it makes git blame less effective, etc.

That's why the usual approach to such pull requests is 'no, unless' - in this case the 'unless' should probably have applied. To me as a non-native speaker, the difference between 'him' and 'them' seems academic but hey, if it gets us scores of female contributors, who am I to object?

Why I reverted the commit. In hindsight, I should have given Isaac the benefit of the doubt because I don't doubt that he acted with the best of intentions. On the other hand, if another committer jumped the line like that, I would have done the same thing. We have procedures in place and no one is exempt from them.

To the people that felt it necessary to call me a misogynist: I volunteer in a mentorship program that gets young people - especially young women - involved in technology. How many of you go out and actively try to increase the number of women in the field?

I'm probably going to step back from libuv and node.js core development. I do it more out a sense of duty than anything else. If this is what I have to deal with, then I'd just as rather do something else. Hope that clears things up. Thanks.

Well, thanks Joyent. Hope the extra publicity was worth it.
I think that is a bit different and for the most part only comes up in certain situations. Most distrust in America is not because of 9/11.
Are there any TPM implementations where the user doesn't control the TPM? And by user, I mean the owner of the physical device (so a company over its laptops, a person over their laptops).

I've not heard of any TPM that has some other owner, like the claims against TPMs have said. TPMs aren't needed to provide a DRM scenario - UEFI Secure Boot can do that by itself, right?
I'm late to the party on this thread, but I want to point out that, to my lay eyes, the words "uncommon" and "unreasonable" have distinctly different meanings -- that is to say, something can be utterly familiar and commonplace while being completely senseless and out of proportion at the same time.
Fat City - What can stop obesity?
I think it is more subtle than conspiracy theories.
Take mongohq.com for instance: they range from free all the way up to $6545/m, and "call us for more"...
Boy its not a smaller country. It will explode some day with people.
An interesting article that appeared in Forbes two days ago:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/11/29/why-im-ce...
Joyent is looking worse and worse as the dust settles.
Bitcoin unfortunately makes this feat very difficult to verify. We will never truly know how much of that $24,000 the poster controlled in the first place.
I pay tax in India but I am happy for this mission but it causes more pain when my money goes into the pockets of corrupt politicians. It's not the country which is poor, it's the corrupt politicians and bureaucracy. Refer to list of Indian scams : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India , now annual scam every year is worth $20 billion , I wonder why people are not criticizing the administration and corruption but ISRO.
"Always wear underwear" - makes sense to me.
Programmer Anger Management Test
The use of Latin would do great damage to the European dream of unity. There's already a great distance between those who (are suppose to) represent the European population and the European citizens themselves. If they started using their own language it'd be like the old days where one could only come close to god via the church because the bible was written in Latin, a language only the men of the church understood. Controlling the language meant great power (as Martin Luther found out when he translated the bible so common man could read it).
Oh, it was the build system rather than the language or library? I wouldn't've used SBT (still don't). maven handles scala fine.
Definitely. Especially organizations deemed "too big to jail" as well as "too big to fail" and with a well-established habit of dodgy practices.
See Commonwealth Edison Company, Schedule of Rates for Electric Service, Ill. C. C. No. 10, 1st Revised Sheet No. 148:

However, in certain individual situations, certain retail customers in the
central part of the City of Chicago are provided with direct current (DC)
electric service. Such retail customers are provided with electric service
through rectifiers that convert AC to DC. Such retail customers have been
provided with DC electric service since the early years of the twentieth
century. Beginning in the 1930's, the Company has been working toward the
retirement of DC electric service. The Company does not serve new or
increased electric power and energy requirements of any retail customer with
DC electric service. For a situation in which DC electric service is retired
at a retail customer's premises, the Company removes its rectifier and
associated AC to DC conversion equipment that had been used to provide
electric service to such premises. Eventually, all such rectifiers and
associated AC to DC conversion equipment will be so removed, and all retail
customers will be provided with AC electric service.

I think the customer pays for the rectifier losses, though. According to Sheet No. 191:

For a situation in which DC is provided through a rectifier, meter-related
facilities are located on the AC side of the rectifier.

— https://www.comed.com/Documents/customer-service/rates-prici...
Windows provides Data Protection APIs, which allow any program to encrypt data using a key that's derived from the user's password. Reset the password, lose that data. (It also has options for in-memory data, based on a user's session or process scope.)

It doesn't protect you from arbitrary code running in your security context that has access to your encrypted data. Without app-level verification (like kernel verifies current binary is signed and hasn't been tampered with), I'm not sure that's even possible.
For context, here is the entirety of what Ben Noordhuis has publicly said on the matter thus far:

"Sorry, not interested in trivial changes like that."

- https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538...

"@isaacs may have his commit bit but that does not mean he is at liberty to land patches at will. All patches have to be signed off by either me or Bert. Isaac, consider yourself chided."

- https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...

"Hi all, let me try to clear up a few things.

Why I rejected the pull request. Us maintainers tend to reject tiny doc changes because they're often more trouble than they're worth. You have to collect and check the CLA, it makes git blame less effective, etc.

That's why the usual approach to such pull requests is 'no, unless' - in this case the 'unless' should probably have applied. To me as a non-native speaker, the difference between 'him' and 'them' seems academic but hey, if it gets us scores of female contributors, who am I to object?

Why I reverted the commit. In hindsight, I should have given Isaac the benefit of the doubt because I don't doubt that he acted with the best of intentions. On the other hand, if another committer jumped the line like that, I would have done the same thing. We have procedures in place and no one is exempt from them.

To the people that felt it necessary to call me a misogynist: I volunteer in a mentorship program that gets young people - especially young women - involved in technology. How many of you go out and actively try to increase the number of women in the field?

I'm probably going to step back from libuv and node.js core development. I do it more out a sense of duty than anything else. If this is what I have to deal with, then I'd just as rather do something else. Hope that clears things up. Thanks."

- https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...
Maybe spend some time looking into puppet then? Although if you've already got everything setup there's probably no need to change. That said, I should probably look into chef a little more than I have.
On my comment or yours? I haven't got enough rep to see.
Do you often login to your Bitcoin exchange account without performing any write actions? If the majority if the time you're not logging into a read-only session, having an extra password seems rather pointless. If an attacker has compromised the 2FA system, they've most likely compromised your device.
sigh What a horrible poll! The given options are needlessly fragmented and imprecise. You will get skewed data just by asking the question like that. I miss at least the options "Kinda" "I believe so but I can't remember well and she doesn't call back" and "Waay too many".
Nooooooooooo sir
Is this a boring Poll? Yes
100W at 5V means 20A. We usually recommend 4 A/m2 max for copper conductor sections, so it would require two 5mm2 wires in the cable here. It would feel more like a rod than a cable IMO. Anyone got an idea how they plan to address this? Higher voltages?
Many people may indeed have a holier-than-thou moral perspective, but certainly not all of them?
The salient part is Price's assertion that health was strongly dependent on diet. As I said, it's kooky, and frankly, I don't know whether I find his views credible or not, though I've shifted from my initial highly skeptical viewpoint. The work of others in the relationship of sugars to health (particularly Roger Lustig and Gary Taubes) makes me somewhat more receptive of Price's general theory.

My reason for posting was more to show that lines of inquiry similar / related to those of the source article have been pursued for a long time.

So: yes, actually, it is relevant.

Incidentally: if you're familiar with any specific criticisms of Prices work, posting those might be of interest. To myself as well as others.
Most hosts will provide at least 500mA without any signal from a device. Hosts and chargers vary in their current capability; those capable of providing more than standard USB spec vary in their implementation. In general, high current hosts always provide their full capability, and the devices are the ones which require some signal to indicate maximum current available. Other devices increase their current draw until the host's voltage drops, and hold at that level (or less).
I do see where you're coming from. Maybe if I said I don't believe it's a _new_ wealth transfer? 30% of the population is not going without care today - they are getting ER care for non-emergent reasons or they're covered by Medicaid or the VA. The Medicaid/VA is a direct cost and the ER visits are indirect via increased costs.

Unless we want to decide as a country to not subsidized healthcare for those that can't afford it and to allow hospitals to refuse treatment without upfront payment... then let's be honest about what's happening there, too. The money comes from somewhere, it's every bit as much of a wealth transfer.
At which point you're back to the same basic problem with passwords: the weakest link and root-problem is the average user's lack of knowledge. There wouldn't be such a mad scramble to find a decent alternative to passwords if everyone was using KeePass or the like, and no alternative is going to be near-future viable if it relies on something too complicated for the nearly-everyone who isn't using strong generated passwords.

2FA is working because all the user has to do is get a text. Anything beyond that level of difficulty is simply a non-starter at this point.
Do you really think that it assumes the reader is male? Why not the caller? Can't the function written in the user's code be masculine, just like boats are feminine?

(This was largely intended as hyperbole, I don't know why "it" is not the answer. Distancing and dehumanizing language seems appropriate when talking about function calls.)
Thanks! I was completely unaware that such type-hinting existed.

I was also unsure if loop/recur was a good loop paradigm for this kind of problem (maybe for with variable would be better?) but I'd say in 1/3 speed of C it's pretty good for Clojure :)
I believe that this is what Apple implemented with their "do you trust this computer" dialog in the newest versions of iOS.
> a bit more of work for other major backend languages like Ruby, Python and PHP.

Java ,PHP ,Ruby and Python have had excellent form libraries for years ,handling multipage forms ,complex client/server/db validation , etc...

I say it's more difficult to do anything in node,as soon as you have a complexe domain model.
Nop, and I don't want any. I'm planning on getting a vasectomy but in my country (I'm from Europe) you have to be at least 35, married, and with two kids. Nonsense. So I'll have to travel abroad to get it done.
Carl Sagan: We Humans Are Capable Of Greatness
those who have kids don't have time for such silly polls
I think with the number of negative stories on HN about how everything is going, we occasionally need to take a break and ponder something like this.
In fairness, the test (as with all of these things), isn't really a magic anything - it's about self awareness, or at least that's how I've seen it used over the last 15 years I've been aware of it. Self-bias warning: I found MBTI very useful in understanding why people found me hard to take, and why I come across as a bit of a dick at times. Partly because I AM a bit of a dick, but partly because I like feeling super-goddamned-smart, even if that means patronising other people to death/arguing them down at any opportunity. I mitigate the worst of that now. I don't think, though, that MBTI is presented as a panacea to anything - if it is, you're working with the wrong people...
Ecommerce subscription services and the unopened boxes problem
Have you tried scaling that to a team of at least ten, including a designer? I find Vagrant to be a big help for collaboration.
New "USB heating wire!".

I've had USB cables get hot before. The finest being a cheap Chinese USB cup warmer. Why they build such things escapes me.

The losses at low voltages are pretty high as well.

There's a reason that we have mains cables how they are and our current power distribution infrastructure.
Huh? What country in Europe? No problem in NL.
Stepdaughter actually, used to say I didn't want any of my own, but I've been reconsidering lately :)
The blockchain has timestamps, so actually you can verify quite easily. Unless, for some reason, the individual is sending bitcoins to himself...
Who usually recommends 4A/mm? Using the wire parameter calculator below, a 2mm diameter wire is capable of carrying 20A, with a 0.1V drop over a 1m (3") cable. A 2mm diameter stranded copper wire is not entirely unwieldy.

http://circuitcalculator.com/wordpress/2007/09/20/wire-param...
https://blockchain.info/address/1HiMoMgBaAikFHgAt3M4YJtetp4H...
Are you sure? Just because the ACPI/BIOS doesn't present it to the kernel, doesn't mean it's not there.
Brightness decays exponentially for light traveling through smoke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer–Lambert_law. But I think the article author probably just messed up.
Are you using Virtualbox VMs, or VMware VMs? My seat-of-the-pants experience is that VMware shares are more performant.
To be honest, RMS himself has demonstrated behaviors similar to that of a small child at times.
Ok, so maybe I had it backwards which way the communication goes.
“Quant” hedge funds: Computer says no
Trying to preserve a language by '...instead of using the modern Latin word for train (ferrivia), you must write something like vehiculum in binaris ferris currens: "vehicle running on two irons."' is an excellent way to ensure that the language stays dead, permanently.

If people want a 'lingua franca' not based on languages of large nations, then a quick googling seems to indicate that there are much more esperanto speakers than fluent latin speakers...
There are similar barriers to the procedure in America, though they are negotiable. The main issue is that people are fickle, and reversing a vasectomy is very difficult, so they need candidates for the procedure to be absolutely certain it's what they want before they go through with it.
So your brother's match is just an excuse to test the Hawthorne Effect? I hope you at least pretend to cheer.
One of the things we train any newcomer to our company is to never do what this man does:a complex single line with expected behavior based on your (arbitrary) conventions.

Yo always do multiple lines, with comments on each one.

It sounds ridiculous, but this simple thing made some kind of bugs impossible: those that you have in front of you but you can't see in a million years. The atomic operation in code is the line, you can't debug a complex line(1).

It is painful forcing people to do that, people use to hate being told what to do, but at the same time they love the outcome so much. In the end everybody loves it.

1.With assembly you are debugging an instance of your code. You are not debugging what will be created with any compiler, any os or architecture.
What kind of dependencies do you usually have in a web app that would lead to the configuration problems described in the designer part? Our designer only needs to to check out the code and make an ssh tunnel for the database for it to work (PHP and webserver already installed on Macs) so not sure what good Vagrant would do.
I bet you mean Spain but it would be nice to know another example...
Naive question: visually, this looks like all Mints before it. As an Ubuntu and OSX user, I'm not sure I'm liking the 'retro' Linux UI style.

For a distro like Mint or Ubuntu to hire a professional design team for the OS to provide an aesthetic and holistic UX comparable to OSX / Android - is the stopper just budget or is there something technical in X/Mir that stops that from happening?
Ben: "If this is what I have to deal with, then I'd just as rather do something else."

After this all-smoke-no-flame shitstorm, one big company carrying out a character assassination and publicly wishing they could fire him and his current employer dangling a Damocles' sword over his job...I really can't blame him.
I voted No twice for each of the two kids I don't have. Maybe you should add a "No No" option for those of us that don't have 2 kids.
It's odd how easy it is to tell when someone hasn't been taught survey design.
What is the purpose of this poll?
Other than those who answer No may feeling young and those who answer Yes may feeling old.
Looking at the result, I'm feeling old.
Build Real-time Big Data Applications on Apache HBase.
Act only according to that maxim whereby at
the same time you should will that it become
universal law.
/Immanuel Kant, Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals
As someone who also hasn't been taught survey design, I can't tell who your comment is criticizing!
SQL-mode is a wrapper around psql that makes the psql tool a bit more human friendly. You can always add a buffer name / theme for production to avoid confusion. General rule of thumb: caution for production should take the form of a more careful code release process (i.e., you release scripts that talk to the database, not use psql directly). Executing interactive queries isn't for prod.
I wouldn't say you got it backwards, the communication is bilateral, but the device is the unit which controls current flow; the effect is the same.