skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said don't take vaccines.

Yes, I do find it quite incredible that questioning the efficacy of vaccines is like a red flag to a bull for some people.

Even though the Lancet has published research examining the flu vaccine's effectiveness, it appears any kind of discussion is strictly forbidden.

I don't want to use the word "fascist" but this discussion has clearly shown that the people who are truly ignorant are those who fail to consider dissenting viewpoints.
You need to remove the "#" at the end of the url in order to read the article.
Why did they even set up the exchanges that way? "Well, employers traditionally have retarded deadlines and signup windows, so when we fix healthcare, let's make sure to carry that part over!"
Yep they make charging only cables and I THINK adapters as well, I quit looking after the first find:
http://www.amazon.com/Retractable-Micro-Charging-Cables-FUNC...
http://www.usb.org/developers/powerdelivery/

USB has both power and data lines. This new standard can use data lines to negotiate power delivery, I believe. I'd expect will still be backwards-compatible of course. I would think the only allowable voltage would be 5V, as is currently.
It's an example of gender bias. By using exclusively he, there is an implicit assumption that whoever reading the doc block is a man, reinforcing the gender norm of programming being male dominated. I would say that falls under sexism.

I don't think sexism was intended, but that doesn't mean it can't be sexist. I'll be the first to admit it, I say sexist shit all the time, most of the time it's unintended. Fact of the matter is I'm constantly surrounded by sexism, I was raised on it, and it is what was taught to me. Even though I make a conscious effort to think outside the perspective of what I was taught, it's impossible not to internalize the sexism all around me.
As far as I know this is a DIY solution for what companies sell as a "bonded" internet connection..?

I spent weeks trying to get a reliable setup for streaming concerts in HD from all varieties of spotty WiFi and 4G hotspots. The streaming server wouldn't accept packets that seemed to come from totally different IP addresses so there had to be an intermediate proxy server in the cloud that would re-assemble the data from my various connections.

I was able to get it working and it would have been great for normal Internet usage, but I never found a reliable system for streaming. That was about a year and a half ago. I would love to see this technology mature to the point where it worked well for streaming.
Is it just me, or are the graphs/plots in this article really confusing and poorly presented?
Inequality is a problem, but charts like these made with linear scales are disingenuos IMO. Power laws ppl!
Correction: the new standard will always start at 5V (for legacy purposes), but then may renegotiate the voltage (and current), according to: http://www.usb.org/developers/powerdelivery/PD_1.0_Introduct...
This is interesting as a contribution to the solar net metering debate. If you have a local low-voltage DC network, perhaps backed up by a UPS, you can charge the UPS battery using solar, and that means that solar electricity generated on-site automatically displaces grid electricity at the retail rate. That means that solar would only need to compete with the retail price of conventional electricity, and not the generation cost. And solar cost is already at or near parity with retail price in many parts of the world:

This is 2010: http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/solar-pv-its-cheaper-than-yo...

And this is 2025: http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/solar-pv-its-cheaper-than-yo...

(Countries above the isobar have lower solar costs than the price of electricity from the grid)
100W at 5V would be a 20A current, which is sort of high.

http://www.usb.org/developers/powerdelivery/PD_1.0_Introduct...
Page 9. There will be different voltage levels: 5V, 12V, and 20V.
Multiphysics simulation - a practical design tool
Note that the Trusted Computing Group has seen the controversy over Snowden's leaks as useful tool for spreading propaganda about the TPM and their goal of establishing a root of trust.

They acknowledge that almost nobody actually wants a TPM ("There has been no market driver to incorporate TPMs"), and observe that post-Snowden there are more people looking to improve their internet security.

Therefor, the plan is to repudiate the NSA, ("The manufacturers of TPMs must demonstrate that there are no back doors in their products." - at least not an NSA back-door...) and push their usual word-games about the TPM such as "secure end-to-end communication [...] made possible [...] with TPMS.

So it may be prudent to question the motives behind any of these new attempts at justify the TPM.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2013/11/16/trust...

Edit: It seems the author of this post appears to work at Google, a contributor to the Trusted Computing Group.
For what it's worth, I completely disagree. I think this episode has been incredibly interesting, as it's the first time that I've seen major news reporting about the realities of software engineering, which in turn means that it's the first time all the people I know outside the industry have had any insight into this sort of thing.

Of course the article isn't useful, that's not what it's for. As a description of a problem that has affected people in terms that they may actually understand, I think it works pretty well.

Hopefully we'll get some good detailed post-mortems eventually, but they certainly won't be in the newspaper.
>>And replace it with what? You can't phase something out until you have a replacement. (Or you could send everyone back to a 19th century standard of living.)

This is what came to mind while reading OP's and your comment:

One of the worst possible consequences arising from global warming is destabilization of agriculture. As you surely know, large-scale agriculture relies on the known climate for a particular region. This includes water supplies, knowing what to plant, and what pests to watch out for. The problem with climate change is exactly that: the climate for regions could change, adding many more unknowns/uncertainties to an already complex system. Some change is expected, but what I don't know is what tolerance we can handle.

My (perhaps unfounded) fear is that these disruptions could push us back to pre-18th century standard of living.
God yes. It feels like everyone involved went out of their way to make things worse at every step.

An invalid but well-meaning pull request? Better give it a cryptic rejection. A rejected by politically sensitive pull request? Better pull rank and force its acceptance in violation of project guidelines. Main project backers violating project guidelines? Better reverse their commits with a passive aggressive commit message. Project lead reversing commits? Better post a vitriolic blog post about how he is a terrible asshole who should be fired!

Would it have been that hard to bounce a couple of emails back and forth, and sort it all out in private? Christ.

(Add good point about the CLA. Although needing a CLA to change a pronoun in the docs seems silly, I think it highlights that a pull request was the wrong tool for this.)
It is worth noting that before the early 2000s, the same messages of distrust came from citizens. Forums, IRC, Internet culture in general promoted distrust of the government, distrust of businesses small and large, and an attitude of "we are smarter than normal people".

All across the Internet, people like you and me would post about how incompetent the average American is. We would aspire to be independent, logical thinkers, but unfortunately, this mindset almost requires the distrust of other people.

Now that the Internet has become widely adopted in the mainstream, this type of thinking pervades, and perhaps has penetrated the mainstream attitude.
More importantly, a quarter of the world speaks grammatically-gendered languages. Many languages have no concept of gender-neutral pronouns.
yup, I had read that and corrected exactly same time as you :)
From the blog post:

> If Ben can’t learn, we’ll fire him.

Reforming the use of English pronouns has nothing to do with the employee's professional activities.

No one should be threatened for either supporting or not supporting a political cause or brand of activism.

There is no consensus in society about how pronouns should be used or their cultural significance [1]. No one should have their livelihood threatened for either agreeing or not agreeing with one position or another or not having an opinion on the topic, or applying their professional, technical judgement.

Without commenting on the details of the kerfuffle, from a broader perspective, the workplace should not be a place for political coercion.

One editorial recently suggested that:

"[E]mployers coercing employees to express their employers’ political views is “the most undercovered story of the year.” [2]

"Already, American employers are increasingly using the captive audience technique to force their employees to learn about the employer’s political and religious views. During these sessions, employees may be forced, at the risk of losing their jobs, to listen to their employer’s perspective on the latest political and religious issues of the day." [3]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-onlanguage-...

[2] http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_12/...

[3] http://yalelawjournal.org/the-yale-law-journal-pocket-part/v...

[4] Efforts to keep politics out of the workplace: http://votesmart.org/bill/1711/
It is almost as if we should encourage and promoted smaller failure scenarios by reducing the existence of oligopolies or to use a more familiar term, to big to fail, organisations.
Haskell becoming the fastest OOP with compile-time extensible records?
> 20V and 100W would make for a lot of nice options for powering things.

Requires a pair of 17AWG stranded wires for a 2m run, allowing 3% cable loss.

For comparison, cat6 is 23 or 24AWG stranded, and US residential power wiring is typically 12 or 14AWG solid core. Smaller numbers are bigger, less flexible wires.

I guess it won't work with microUSB contacts, or at least not at full power.
Airfy - world's first smart WiFi HotSpot on Indiegogo
I can't imagine this growing beyond a fringe movement. Countries are pretty attached to their languages, I doubt it would accomplish more that aggravate eurosceptics: The european nationalism one of the quoted proponents dismisses is a pretty powerful force that hasn't exactly accepted the degree of integration these Latin-advocates envision.

Also, the history in this article is so atrocious I had to write a blog post about it.[1]

[1]http://sdpo.pe/2013/12/which-roman-empire/
A fresh upgrade is just backup, plain install, restore. It's super reliable but somewhat inconvenient and time consuming.

A package upgrade is easier for friends of the command line but runs the risk of leaving your computer with an inconsistent package selection or configuration. And it's less used so bugs are more likely.

I tried a package upgrade for 14->15, worked great. shrug I did 15->16 a few days ago reinstalling fresh (wanted to disable encrypted home directories, figured this was the easiest way to do it). Worked great too.
Technically, he was in the right.

Politically, reverting Isaac's commit (and especially doing so with a passive aggressive "Isaac, consider yourself chided." commit message) was clearly a mistake.
no offense, man, it is just sound like you've never developed or deployed Enterprise Identity and Access Management. I envy you :) The keyword here is "Enterprise" - insanely complex [lets just don't touch whether such complexity is really necessary, it is just the fact of a design to meet any possible RFP in the space :) ] and [in many aspects as a result of the complexity] slow non-scalable products.

>The rest of it sounds like they botched making this system scalable

these systems just don't scale. In a BigCo with local replication to regional sites it takes noticeable time for such systems to perform. Trying to build such a website - well, it is a government procurement, though i don't think this is a worse one around (Halliburton's and the likes' cost+ in Iraq/Afganistan definitely bigger :).

>normally a single table with fields like

It is "normal" from another world :) The simple way you described would be done by some startup, and they would horizontally partition it when time come to scale. It is not the way the "Enterprise" things are done.
Is it causing performance problems for you on the site? The algorithm's efficiency shouldn't be a factor in your decision here.
Roadside transformers are AC to AC, which is way more efficient and easy than AC to DC. My car runs on DC, and the quick chargers that provide 60 KW are the size of a large closet and have loud fans to dissipate heat.
A signed CLA may seem silly, but there were changes in code comments. That makes code ownership ambiguous, and the law doesn't tend to play nice with ambiguity.
>Unity

> best UX on Linux so far

surely you jest
surely this could be a software fix: tell usb driver to use special mode that is only allowed to use data line to negotiate power levels, before you plug into an untrusted power source.
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I use gender-neutral pronouns unless context dictates otherwise, but I want you to consider something.

If a policy (or lack thereof) is correlated with women feeling excluded or intimidated, it doesn't necessarily mean that the policy (or lack thereof) is a bad thing.

If women tend to feel intimidated by eye contact with men with whom they are in competition, it doesn't mean such eye contact should be banned. If women tend to feel feel excluded if the founding members of an organization or club are all men, it doesn't mean men should be forced to find a woman before founding an organization or club.
Not sure what you mean by support, but you should be able to use all of them together for different things;

- http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/ansible.html

- http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/vagrant/

- http://devo.ps/blog/2013/09/25/vagrant-docker-and-ansible-wt...
This was posted a month ago as well, discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6591186
There are USB condoms http://www.usbcondoms.com/
Failure is Always an Option
Well, the story made its way into the English speaking world via google translate, which is pretty notorious for dicking up subtle things like word order and direct vs indirect objects. She gave them the printout. She the printout them gave. They gave the printout her.

The original article is now gone, but you can read the HN comments from the time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864427
That special mode code and negotiation code is what malware authors will target.

For hostile / high security environments, I'd rather have it in a special charging-only hub (good luck pwning such a device) that physically lacks the data wires on the output socket.
Is there any way to automatically generate a provisioning script based on what was installed on the guest machine? For example, I do "vagrant ssh" and then install my whole development environment and it creates a script to do it every time based on what changed?
Way to go making a comment about a culture and tradition you are unfamiliar with based upon a newspaper article that doesn't go into the history behind said tradition!
Silly story, but the implications are interesting.

Next natural disaster with global media coverage, banners and tents with giant, video broadcast-friendly "Donate Here" QR codes will sound like a good idea.

Which means that someone (or more likely, several ones) will quickly make scam replicas and ruin it for everyone.

I remain deeply skeptical of QR codes as a user interface.
URL Rewriting for the Fearful
If you get bit (shocked) by DC, you let go, drop it instantly - AC will not allow you to drop it, you have to be pulled off. If anything its safer. Also, DC has lower loss over a given conductor. The problem historically with DC was changing from a high voltage for transmission and low voltages for loads, something changed by solid state devices.
Anyone know what tech stack they're using? Linux or some other *nix or Microsoft?
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That dehumanizing attitude is extremely common in first-world "social justice warrior" circles.

They consciously and deliberately use shaming and bullying tactics to intimidate others into silence. They acknowledge this constantly, especially on Twitter when their bullying victims ask why the "social justice warriors" are being so cruel.

Their answers are typically something like, "We need everyone to know that being a fucking asshole like you will mean everyone will mock and hate you."

These activists are quite literally bullies. It's extremely important that we continue to stand up to them.
Why is the maximum age for a field set at 50?
I've not tried running anything graphically. My previous machines for the past 7 or so years have been linux. I have my own bootstrap scripts for Python and R and some of the libs require RGtk2 and stuff, which couldn't really work on OS X without a lot of fiddling (but installing them on Ubuntu machines were a breeze).

So when my bootstrap scripts failed, I ran them on a Vagrant based instance instead. Problem solved.
>I am pretty sure I've repeated myself a couple times here, thanks to the tiny window HN allows to type in.

Insightful comment... sorry to only directly reference this line, but you can expand the text field by using the drag-handle in the lower-right.
Have we all been duped by the Myers-Briggs test?
Funnily enough USB's inability to work over longer cable lengths works in its favour here. Generally we don't rely on anything working over 3 metres.

Wikipedia says "the maximum power supported is up to 60 W at 20 V, 36 W at 12 V and 10 W at 5 V" [1]. For a typical 3 metre 20 gauge USB cable 10 W power delivery will cause a voltage drop from 5 to 4.6 V. This is within the +0.25/-0.55 specified for USB 3 [2].

Since nobody can rely on the 5 V from USB to be exactly the charging voltage they need, there will probably be switchmode regulators in-line anyway. Device manufacturers will just have to spec these up a bit to accept higher input voltage if they want more than 10 W.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Power_Delivery_Specificatio...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB
No there isn't a 'protect Indian English' narrative here.
Or possibly it's they-paid-us-for-x-and-told-their-bosses-to-expect-y situation.
Salty Vagrant is good, apart from the silly name - I use it: https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant
I'm amazed this made it onto and off the front page with 50+ comments and not a single mention of a startup or tech startup ideas on how to solve this growing problem.

I'm most interested in how you can offer people the potential for trust (or to put it in terms of michaelochurch's comment, reduction of "mistrust.") I believe the establishment of reputation around a useful and flexible digital identity will be _the_ way that people combat distrust among each other. Social proof will come in the form of reviews based on past behavior.

There has been such a tiny amount of innovation or success in reputation systems, I believe this is a massive open opportunity.
Our natural smell developed in a time when humans were naked and lived outdoors.

Let's just put it this way; I find it noteworthy that deodorant was developed around the same time that humans started to be packed tightly into office buildings while wrapped up in wool suits.
I ordered a pair of these glasses through the Vergence Labs Indiegogo campaign (the company behind the eyewear is Vergence Labs).

They've refused to provide updates to backers at all. They go months between vague updates with 0 (zero) hard promises or details. It's been about a year since the projected ship date.

In addition, the team has been deleting comments[1] left by backers eagerly asking when their glasses will ship.

I've contacted the team directly multiple times via email, and have received nothing more than PR-speak responses worthy of the greatest nonanswers ever. As a counterexample, the KeySmart[2] Kickstarter campaign forgot to ship my reward and it was resolved in under an hour over email (I am not affiliated with them).

I'll continue assuming my $389 is as good as gone till the product arrives.

[1] http://imgur.com/b1YpjBl, http://imgur.com/hRoooh0 (comments URL is http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/social-video-sharing-glass...)
I make Coffitivity.com and our Mac App is a menu bar app, and people love it. I'm not here to talk about that - we've never had a complaint about where it lives, where it lives is (as far as we can tell) is flawless in the menu bar.

What is shocking is how many users report bugs about the app because they think nothing happens when they open it, even though we alert them precisely to where it is with a dropdown. To a TON of users, that dropdown means nothing - there's no precedent to them for an app living there so it seems like just something to "find the x" to get out of.

Pretty interesting UX thing. Hush (coffitivity.com/hush) has the same issue.
You can make a power-pin-only USB connector, but I believe that precludes requesting high-current mode (i.e. you are stuck in 100mA mode)
Yep, android has no other mechanism of showing if a program is running or not, except for opening the process manager. Some apps die as soon as you switch to another and some keep running even if you select the explicit exit-button provided by the app itself.

One could argue that the skype should be located under the common sync-settings though, such as email. But i don't know if that allows fast enough update rates for IM.
The author could have saved himself some trouble if he would've investigated GnuTLS (which can do everything on his requirements list).
Several centuries of linguistic evolution would disagree. Those have always been neutral, though there has been usage of singular "they" dating back to Shakespearean-era.

It is somewhat widely accepted that he/him/his is only gender-neutral in situations where the gender is ambiguous though. For example, in writing documentation.

Personally, I think it sounds weird and prefer they/one.
I (and probably most of us) focus much better when I change my environment. Using a VPS mobilizes your entire development environment.
Take a look at Horde:

http://nms.csail.mit.edu/projects/horde/
http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/horde-mobisys-2005.pdf
Google files for patent on automated status updates to other social networks
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I would guess the user database is 11NF and has 1000 tables. The UML form of it cannot exist in our limited 4 dimensions of space and time :)
Not within Vagrant itself. This is really the realm of configuration management tools. As far as I know, no tools do this reverse engineering because it is a fundamentally very difficult problem, but many of the config mgmt tools make it very easy to translate shell commands to rudimentary scripts for their systems.
Looks like it's down again.
The only issues I hear about 4.3 are people who have _upgraded_ (not fresh installed) to Mavericks on OS X. Personally, a fresh install of 4.3 on Mavericks and I have no issue.

YMMV, however.
Even worse than USB is Firewire, which, if I am not mistaken, gives direct memory access to whatever device is connected.

However, manufacturers are already realising that blindly trusting every USB host is a bad idea. For example, iPhones now ask if you want to trust if you connect to a previously unknown computer via USB. If you chose not to, your iPhone will take power, but won't allow data access. Therefore it's no longer possible to create a device that looks like a charger but that actually downloads all the photos from your phone.
The 100 million dollar walkie talkie