skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because we see news reports of poor American citizens dying everyday because of starvation.

Keep pushing your propaganda though.
These photos are usually of https://www.casascius.com/coins. I wonder if he has made more from press usage than coin sales
As I said before, the word is more specific than "request". Yes, it's an ugly term, but no, you can't make it go away by pretending it means something different.
Microsoft joins FIDO group hoping to replace passwords with public keys
looks beautiful indeed. how much would 40 hectares of land round those parts go for?
nope this is entirely legit. Valve confirmed that when they shipped the 300 steam boxes today to beta testers they'd also push live Steam OS Beta. Check the github and steamstatic.com files.
The typeahead.js library should use a binary search of a sorted string array. A trie of string prefixes would be more elegant, but it would probably have worse data locality and heap fragmentation.

And instead of searching the entire database for every new prefix (e.g. "s", "sa", "san", "san f"), the API could return a stateful query object that could be more efficiently refined.
Running on Debian 7.1 Wheezy, nice.
Now I don't have to change operating systems.
How media outlets use images is often painful. New Zealand Herald, APN, is a good example of how to do it badly. Both their app and website are image centric. Images load slowly, and the text jumps as you are reading. Often it's just loading some crap stock image like a police car with lights on or other such filler content. If I wanted images, I'd go to a TV or video streaming news site. I'm trying to wean myself off sites that behave like NZ herald.
Regarding #1: Even without the plugin you can drag a highlighted URL to a new tab and presto it opens.

Regarding Video Resumer: I watch a lot of longer video lectures online, and being able to resume where I left off is a great feature. Why the dudes at Google haven't added this themselves is beyond me--it's how TiVo worked since 1999. Maybe a patent issue?
Unfortunately, not all of those are appropriate for everyday users. HTTPS Everywhere breaks several sites, possibly due to misconfiguration, and can trigger switches to a server's self-signed HTTPS certificate which, in Firefox, makes it look like the site got hacked. Noscript is really only for techies and breaks all kinds of sites since there's not much reason to build or test for browsers without JavaScript anymore.
There was a DEFCON talk two years ago in which the presenter assembled large antennas and ran open-source software that allowed him to mimic a base station. Everyone who was using phones on a specific network (I don't remember which -- I want to say AT&T) connected to his base station within a few minutes, and he proved the concept by hijacking outgoing calls.

>If one's phone stays in the same area, it will never transmit while idle.

Maybe phones used to do this, but nowadays I'm not so sure.
Well, it's definitely not an official announcement. Though the github page looks legit and has only been added a few minutes ago.
If you don't announce what you're doing and why, people will always assume the worst.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is an economic story-behind-the-story. I'll echo other people's thoughts that it's great that this doesn't leave the users high and dry. There has to be a reason for not doing the typical acqui-hire that is more than altruism. Perhaps the investors didn't want to sell cheap, and it was more economical for the founders to keep their stakes and move on?

Great to see them promote from within, and I wish them all the best!
Wow. As a long-time user of almost (read: not G+) everything Google has made, I was just admiring the UI, thinking "How nice of them to make this for people who don't even know how to check their email..." and then I spot this:

https://www.google.com/get/googletips/card/ask-google-to-fet...

Which I had no idea about.

This is a brilliant content and feature discovery tool. Any other company would've just created a long list of products with short descriptions for each.
This is why his words carry weight. He's probably watched capable engineers and managers go from successfully building an impressive software system to pulling out their hair because they're constantly trying to figure out human systems, which are highly variable.
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I've started using quay.io to store my docker images. I have not used the service heavily (because I'm still building out my Dockerfiles), but what I have used has been great.

Docker.io is great to use to store images, unless you don't want them public. I have proprietary apps loaded on my images so making them public is not an option.

So far Docker is set to solve my scalability problem that i've been seeking for the past year. Since VMs are not ideal, I start with a farm of bare ubuntu servers and scale out to VM's in the cloud if needed. With Docker I can configure once and deploy to all of these nodes no matter how they were built. I stopped using Chef when I realized I could accomplish my goals with a fraction of the complexity and effort.
Brightsolid is a Dundee-based company that has digitised quite a bit of British library material as a sort of public-private partnership. For example, the British Newspaper Archive - http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

I'm of two minds as to whether this has been a good thing. On one hand it's digitised content that was previously only in paper form, but on the other that content is now charged for, and likely will remain so for a long time due to contracts. Effectively it has been put back into copyright.

Flickr is a perfectly reasonable tool for the job.
Yeah, apparently steamdb.info is unrelated to Valve. That was a little confusing. Shouldn't Valve be the one to release SteamOS?
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The difference is that I can basically count on any arbitrary java/jvm program running on Linux, but even with Mono I don't get that same level of confidence with random c#/clr.

Now this may be largely a culture thing, with Java programmers creating more cross-platform software and avoiding platform dependent libs just by default, or it may be a technology thing, but to the end user it doesn't really matter.
"if hands were scrubbed, rinsed, and dried properly."

... which never happens. Seems like the same faulty logic used to justify blow-driers over paper towels.

It doesn't look like the study that would actually answer this question (randomly assigning bathrooms heated and unheated water, doing hand swabs on leaving patrons) has actually been done, but if I were in a position to gamble on the outcome, I'd bet the cold water bathroom gets substantially less effective cleaning for human-factors reasons.
how is security of the head of state, or anyone for that matter, related to the size/population of the country?
That's cool. I can't foresee too many issues in putting an X server in the browser. Except that if you left the page, all of the clients would get killed in a fairly rough fashion. Could you run a window manager?
Sounds awesome! That's pretty much what we went through. We wanted something easy enough to use with all our data staying with us.
This is on a tech-news site why?

Let's not play out the downfall of Digg here.
Well if I was really paranoid I might argue that they could save that information locally then upload it later when Facebook loses the browser's focus (ie. switch tab).
Such a meaningless populist gesture. I suppose the symbolism is...something.
Mono has gained serious traction the last few years. I've personally been using it along side .Net and am loving it. You could develop in Windows with the Free/Express versions of Visual Studio etc. and deploy binaries to Linux. You could also use monodevelop (http://monodevelop.com) in Linux or OSX. There are C# plugins for Eclipse and IntelliJ as well.

Relevant:
http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono
https://servicestack.net/features
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18450/is-mono-ready-for-p...
Does anyone know if this can be installed in VirtualBox? I'd like to try it, but I don't feel like setting up a new computer for it or dual booting.
Do they allow us to install games outside of Steam or does everything have to go through the Steam store and their 30% cut?
What is the benefit of Disconnect if you are using Adblock Plus and HTTPS Everywhere already?
The American Way of Hiring Is Making Long-Term Unemployment Worse
I just got the NBN installed the other day(insane speeds, at a very high monthly price). The technician was at my house several times and his opinion as a contractor on the ground level is that no one at the top is aware of the impracticality of scaling the home installation in the time frame they are proposing. Furthermore, many people do not yet require such high speeds but are having it installed just because they are not required to pay for the installation, especially older folk who don’t understand what they are being ask to sign up for. There is a massive disconnect between who need such services (and what type of services at what cost) and what sounds good on a policy paper and in a press briefing.
How are you doing this? Where are you at in the process?
Calling Musk a founder of Tesla is stretching the word a bit... "Tesla Motors was incorporated in July, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who financed the company until the Series A round of funding. Elon Musk led the Series A round of investment in February, 2004, joining Tesla's Board of Directors as its Chairman."[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors#History_and_financ...
Ugly it may be, but hey, it says right down at the bottom, "This web page was successfully Validated as: "HTML 5 with CSS level 3" and tested in all above browsers."

So there.
That is odd; I imagine they did that because describing him as the founder of SpaceX in the caption would have been redundant so they opted for describing what else he does?

"Bezos, the new owner of the Washington Post (GHC) newspaper,..." is also amusing.
"Personal testimony + superlative = win!" - for some marketing creep, I'm sure.

"X is one of the best Y's I've ever met" is one of the most annoying piece of public relations blather I know. I can only hope that now it's getting enough exposure to go the heck away.

Not even to say any bad about this Garry person but this kind of empty rhetoric is more than a bit annoying.

Edit, see: "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate_%28196...
Download seems to be awfully slow. A torrent for the installer would be nice.
What I'm interested in is the streaming portion. Imagine a setup where a VMware server with a gaming VM streaming to a RaspberryPi in the family room or Mac.
Do hand sanitizers work differently then? You don't need to use water with those, just applying them is supposed to do the trick. I think some have alcohol that kills the germs.
What did you find painful about Play? I've dived into its internals a number of times, including to submit a performance fix a few months ago, and I've found it to be quite easy to understand.
Does this mean that an out-of-contract Verizon iPhone that's unlocked "internationally" but doesn't work on T-Mobile, etc. domestically can now be fully unlocked to work with other domestic carriers? I know it has the proper radios, so I've always assumed it wasn't fully unlocked.
Or...maybe a political decision? Who would have thunk!
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I also enjoyed the profile of him in the nytimes last year: After Years in Solitary, an Austere Life as Uruguay’s President - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/world/americas/after-years...
Fell in love with Pandoc after seeing my friend's online course notes[0] processed using it. Since then I have been playing with it to simul-publish HTML[1] and PDF[2] cheat sheets from markdown for a course I'm working on[3].

It's worked great. The one thing it's missing is a good way to do image size adjustment using markdwon (but it appears to be in progress).

[0]: http://www.asimihsan.com

[1]: https://googledrive.com/host/0BxJBBicEiS8aYlhGb1Y0cXFBUlU/ou...

[2]: https://googledrive.com/host/0BxJBBicEiS8aYlhGb1Y0cXFBUlU/ou...

[3]: Warning: those are an old buggy copy, notes have since been updated.
Pandoc is a great tool for anyone using Markdown to write, too, above and beyond the conversion capabilities. I use it to write my website gwern.net using Pandoc+Hakyll, but I also use Pandoc for other things because of its API.

I generate my book review page (http://www.gwern.net/Book%20reviews) from my GoodReads CSV export, but that's not all.

I also have functions to add support for Wikipedia links in my Markdown files (so I can write '[Adolf Hitler](!Wikipedia)' rather than '[Adolf Hitler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler)', which is convenient and a huge time-saver for longer more complex article titles).

And besides that, I have static checks of my pages via the Pandoc API: I have 2 scripts which parse Markdown files, 'markdown-length-checker' and 'markdown-footnote-length'. length-checker is checking for the case where I have too many spaces and a line suddenly becomes a fixed-width line of 200 characters or something awful like that (surprisingly easy to do with lists). footnote-length parses the file for all the footnotes, extracts them, sees whether their bodies are longer than 2400 characters, and warns if any are (since 2400 characters means the footnote needs some work).
Does anyone have a torrent link? The installer link is down for me.

Edit:
Here is an unnoficial torrent magnet link:
http://mgnet.me/foUDd
The advertising industry is responsible for most malware and privacy concerns. They get money through manipulating people and I'm not certain they are actually adding much of value in the first place.

Recommendation engines for app stores and online stores like amazon do the job of informing people of new things much better, and I think replaces the need for them entirely.
Hrm ctrl+w dang.
I suspect so, it's based on Debian 7.1.

The main problem is they seem to have put it on a single server instead of the Steam CDN and now no one's able to download it
IF you use cold water, your body has to make up the lost heat. This requires energy which comes from burning calories, meaning you will have to eat sooner. Food is not free energy, and in many cases is probably a lot less efficient energy-wise than hot water when you think about the energy it takes to grow, prepare, package, and ship it.

This is why I started the Lukewarm Water Hand Washing Awareness Coalition (LWHWAC). We've been fighting for years to raise awareness of the dangers of washing hands in both hot and cold water by lobbying to get our messages in schools, holding bake sales, running TV and radio advertisements, streaking through hot water heater sections of department stores, and holding flyering campaigns.
" It's disorienting for the 1st click on a name to expand a comment, but then the second click (on the same-styled name) to open another webpage (rather than collapse)."

Ditto.
I don't think there's a problem here. We get two functions with a monad m:

bind :: m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b

return :: a -> m a

These allow us to define

then :: m a -> (a -> b) -> m b

then x f = bind x (return . f)

i.e. it's trivial to lift a regular function into the monad.
As much as you can do remote support. Charge incident packages. You should structure the fee/cost structure like insurance. Pay more monthly, get more service, lower out of pocket costs.
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Google and Facebook get money by manipulating people and aren't adding any value? Wow. Bold claim.
This doesn't mean that downloads from steamdb.info or steamstatic.com are legit. Tread carefully, I'll wait until there's a link from an official site.
There is rarely an existing solution for your specific needs. And sometimes, at some point it becomes more work to tweak an existing thing into what you want it to be, than just do it from scratch. Yes, you can't always know that beforehand, but that doesn't mean it's always safer to err on the side of taking something off the shelve.

That said, seeing how the images are creative commons licensed, it would still make sense to put them on flickr, too :P The more, the merrier.
How much bandwidth would that require at 1080p with compression? Well, if we assume 16:1 compression ratio, that's 1920x1080x3/(16x1024) KB per frame, times 24 fps = 9.11MB per second. So a 73Mbit wifi connection would be required. Can the RPi push that?

30fps would require a 90MBit link.
Thanks for this sensible follow-up. If something outrageous happens at the airport, as you say raise hell, why not. My comment came from being a well travelled kiwi, who always feels the warm glow associated with arriving in perhaps the sanest place in the world when I get home. I am not an Aucklander, but Auckland International Airport represents to me "home at last - nothing more to worry about now". Actually I feel a bit the same at Melbourne or Sydney if I get to stop off there on the way back - a nothing really crazy can happen now kind of relief.

So, enjoy your trip. Don't worry as outrageous incidents at our airports are really really really rare - dollars to donuts you'll be welcomed as if you are coming home too. If you come to Wellington and are so inclined message me and I'll buy you a beer (or a coffee) and welcome you personally :-)
Shouldn't the use of good antibacterial soap remove most [99%, as advertised] of the bacteria anyway?
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Don't be so quick to cast judgment until we've established whether he was a left-wing terrorist or a right-wing freedom fighter. /s
If your functions are inside a module you import, you can still navigate them by browsing autocomplete using the module name as an unnecesary qualifier. Then once you find/remember, delete the qualifier in cleanup. No need to force members just for discoverability. (Not to mention that tools could provide other ways of doing autocomplete.)
Email. My inbox is overflowing and all the folders and tags in the world don't seem to help. Is there anything better out there?
A good question for graduates who want to be adventurers.
I didn't rank any languages. I made an observation that it is easier for non-technical people to pick up dynamically typed languages and be productive enough for use in many business cases than to pick up statically typed ones. That doesn't mean the dynamically typed ones are "easier" or "worse" than statically typed ones. It doesn't mean people who prefer them or learn programming with them are "dumb dumbs," either. There's a reason I put "lousy" in quotes and didn't flat out agree that they were, in fact, "lousy".

Seems to me that's a chip on your shoulder; not mine.
I guess I missed that. I was looking for a link to an About page or a FAQ.
Ask HN: How would you invest $500k?
Aside from startup investing, where would you allocate $500k? Real estate? S&P? Gold? Cash? Bitcoin? Assume no diversification - you can only put it in one place.
Is it as bad as Brazil? I have Uruguayan citizenship but never quite "exercised" it i.e. I've never lived and worked in Uruguay. I grew up in the border with Rivera though, and it was a much nicer place than Livramento on the Brazilian side: good street lighting, WAY better streets and sidewalks, nice parks, cops patrolling the streets. I remember finding it much safer to stay out late with my friends in Rivera than in Livramento. And not to mention the duty free shops where we could buy electronics and stuff for a much lower price than anywhere in Brazil :)
What is the blub conceit? Google searched it and got nothing.
The meme is more about the abuse of that idea into absurdly overengineered and the approach to programming where anything needs 3x the amount of work in the form of scaffolding and code bureaucracy.
A few less-popular addons:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak... replicates the scrollbar find result highlights you see in Chrome and IDEA

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-archi... saves pages to .mht or .maff format, with a reasonable pre-filled filename. Also reads .mht files.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autopager/ loads all pages of paginated content in the current tab. This also works great with Mozilla Archive Format for saving entire forum threads/articles/user comments.
Interesting from a biology/chemistry perspective, but also perhaps a really good example of missing secondary effects.

"The agencies do recommend using soap and water and scrubbing vigorously, for at least 20 seconds."

I spend a whole lot more time scrubbing when the water is nice and warm.

""You don't need hot water, you need soap, water, and friction," said Sack. He added that the Escambia County Health Department in Pensacola, Florida, decided to turn off the hot water heaters in its five clinics two years ago, after a review of the literature provided no evidence that hot water was better."

... and did turning off the hot water have impact on compliance with hand washing policy? That would be an interesting follow-up study.
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Mono is not a language. C# is not a platform. Get a clue - it's useful.
I have a huge problem with Steam in general. It's nothing against Valve and nothing against the games on Steam store, but hear me out.

Lets say you buy a game on the Steam store. Now lets say that game is so bug-ridden that you can't play it. It's so bad that you can't even run the game. You check online and it's such a big problem that the CTO has publicly apologized. You contact Steam support to ask for a refund. They tell you to forget it, so you contact the publisher. You explain that you have liked their games forever but this game is not playable. You want your money back. The publisher will tell you that you need to get a refund from the retailer you purchased the game from. It's out of their control because they don't have your money.

You contact Steam again, they tell you that they will issue no refund. You threaten to file a charge back from your credit card company. Steam says that they will disable further purchases from the Steam Store if you do so. They actually state that they will not let you purchase any more games from them if you protect yourself as any consumer should be allowed to.

Somehow, I just can't imagine doing business with them anymore.