skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you just want to read a SINGLE CHAPTER of MoF that most clearly addresses your concerns, it is quite short, it is titled "POLICE, COURTS, AND LAWS---ON THE MARKET",

I read it, and I admit, in my teens, I had a similar sort of wishful thinking about ideal societies, but it's ignoring a couple of issues.

Firstly, it's basically a kind of for-profit government. Will that ultimately be better? Look at how many companies screw their customers now, often without their customers noticing. Of course once customers notice, they can switch, _if_ there is sufficient competition. But companies love merging, and at some point, a powerful protection agency can dictate terms to smaller agencies. The largest agencies can form a cartel to concentrate and divide even more power. And sure, you can switch to a small, independent agency, but will they be able to protect you against the big guys? Maybe if enough people switch, but that takes time.

In the end, you're trying to play one protection racket against another protection racket, but in the end, you're still stuck with a protection racket.

Let's first try to get honest competition working in something fairly innocuous like telecommunication, before we start giving those companies real power, okay?
Huh? There are most certainly proper tests for ADD, of all of types and varieties. It is unfortunate that self reporting is the most frequently used diagnostic technique, but it is by no means the only one. Heck there are structural brain differences in people with ADHD that can be detected!
I also do not have a CS background, but have contributed fairly immensely to the ventures that I been associated with. I have a good statistical background, and currently am delving into Python and R with some CartoDB here and there.

I do participate here, the topics are a varied lot that allows for good participation. So delve in, the community is harsh sometimes but some of it is essential too.
Downhill racing helment? Motorcycle helmet? Neither of which you'd normally wear on a road bike.
Agreed. I can't fathom how a person who self-described as "very concerned" with doing a visual approach got into the cockpit of a 777. That's the sort of thing I'd expect from a fresh student pilot who spent too much time playing with the ILS in his flight simulator.
...of all website traffic...

The report [1] does not include any non-http traffic, which excludes all heavy content like torrent, Netflix, music streaming, etc.

[1] http://www.incapsula.com/the-incapsula-blog/item/820-bot-tra...
Like the example on the repo page, I think this could be really useful for images that are not the right size for its container.
I agree; however, the Air France incident you are referring to is when the airspeed indicator was locked due to a frozen pitot tube, wasn't it? That seems like a much less blatant failure on the part of the pilots.
Excellent. Instead of just taking other people's money and giving it to someone for no return, an individual actually chose charity, aided the willing without government interference, and "taught a man to fish." Bravo!
I get the strong notion that I'm missing something here.
> (I believe a 'rover' is driven by a person)

Doesn't have to be.

Curiosity is usually described as a "rover." In-between commands sent from mission control, it operates autonomously.

Until today, the last rover to drive around on the moon was the Soviet rover, Lunokhod 2, in 1973.
I hate using Lync for group conversations, but I feel compelled to point out that it also works on Mac OSX. If you don't need the video/desktop sharing (which crawls after you get more than 8 people involved), you can use Pidgin/Adium to connect to the Lync server as well.

If you're looking for a more stable multi-platform chat product with video support, Ignite's Openfire works great (and also has AD integration).
According to twitter, upgrading to FF 26 fixes it.
Hey thanks for liking the article (I'm the author)

It seems maybe some of the NewSQL stuff is doing this. You use "SQL" but the data is still organized by some kind of hierarchy (like in F5). I'm trying to get into Google's Dremel paper to learn more about how they do it.

In general, though, it seems if there's any chance something might be normalized, but behind the scenes maybe its actually denormalized a bit, then folks try to layer on some kind of SQL-likeness to the database.
Has Delicious failed? It might not be flavour of the month anymore (since a long long time), and I don't know anyone who uses its social features. But as a way to quickly access my bookmarks from any device, it still has a job and it does perform it well. I like to be able to access my public links without having to log in.

What is a partial failure, is the flat redesign. Very nice to look at, but slightly infuriating to use, especially when adding a new bookmark.
It's interesting that in the name of "healthy living" busybody types encourage us to bicycle to work (thus exposing ourselves to significantly higher risk of accidental injury) or do things like posting nag signs to "take the stairs" next to the elevators (ever compare injury rates in riding elevators vs. falling on stairs?)
Wow! I've got no excuse!
> No, but it can be inferred.

I don't think so. We ought to be able to describe our own experiences without making a claim about productivity in general. It seems clear to me that peeters was doing exactly this, and not implying that his experience ought to be indicative of others.
I immediately imagined adding web UIs, or simply network APIs, to various "dumb" hardware. Attach it to a ADC/DAC and suddenly a lot of things become computer controllable. It's small enough to stick it on most electronic device boards without major changes.
Robotics, consolidate all your sensors and controllers onto Ethernet. Its quite hard finding a microcontroller with good Ethernet.
hey thanks for your comment (I'm the author)

I must be biased by my peer group :). Maybe I'm less concerned about SQL being a default choice than Mongo or something being the default choice? I say this as somebody that helps people migrate to NoSQL databases as a job.
It's there, scroll down on http://www.dynatable.com/, which is linked to from the github page.
Well I think we are blurring two different issues here. The first question is whether or not full disclosure is acceptable. The second question is whether or not it is acceptable to choose it because one is not being paid.

As far as full disclosure being acceptable, there are a lot of advocates. For example Bruce Schneier, Leonard Rose, and others. Not to mention that this issue isn't in a high impact category like remote code execution, loss of data, privacy, etc. It's also difficult to exploit; it requires authorizing a malicious app. So for all those reasons separately, and certainly all of them together, I think full disclosure is a completely acceptable choice.

Given that it is acceptable, is it still acceptable to do it if it furthers our own interests? Again, I think the answer is yes. The fact it is in my interest does not make an acceptable action into an unacceptable one.

You seem to be hung up on the fact that the researcher here was not particularly nice to Twitter. But people are under no obligation to be nice. It would be nice if you sent me a check for $200. But you won't, because there's no obligation to do that. And you and I--two strangers arguing with each other on the Internet--have a much stronger relationship than this researcher has with Twitter.
The guy literally said that this app made him realize how much he takes his IDE for granted and then he provided examples of what he meant. I don't see what there is to disagree with there or what could be inferred .
Pebble vs. Qualcomm Toq: Smartwatch showdown
Cool, Nodyn looks interesting. Thanks for the info.
Actually, you should probably read the Chilton (or equivalent) manual cover to cover.
I don't want to dwell on the negative, but a big reason I don't wear a helmet is because I think they send the message that what I'm doing is dangerous when it's exactly the opposite.

And that message is part of the whole complex of ideas keeping otherwise healthy people in their cars. It's been documented (and backed up by my and others anecdotal experience) that motorists are more respectful of riders without helmets.

There are plenty of resources here's one http://cyclehelmets.org/
Guys, that's exactly what we need! Just launch now, seriously. Building a backend for an email client is such a pain and I can imagine how this could save lives. But we'd love to be able to put it on our servers. Good luck and hope to try it out soon!
>‘Homeless coder’ saga shows connections matter more than coding skills (washingtonpost.com)
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> https://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filt...

Leo The Homeless Coder (media-results) (imgur.com)
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> https://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filt...

> The Real Story of the Homeless Coder (youtube.com)
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those are just the first two pages. Now, My point is : "bravo leo. but enough with this Oprah shit."

IMHO this story is borderline spam.
I hope you are using Zapier to ties those APIs together ;)
Update:

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc is back...finally!
It's at the top of the page:
http://os.alfajango.com/dynatable
tmux and emacs for me. but yeah.
Hi AmVess, would like to know what you're missing. I'm more than happy to clarify.
I didn't see PoE on this device, you need to supply 3.3VDC to make it run. So do you want to attach a wall wart? I don't think it will run long off a lithium cell.
Slack: Easy team communication
Ah ok I was confused, it says "name of your startup" and then you have a lot of big name companies down below. Are employees of large companies also welcome?
On one hand this is great, on the other, what does this guy do now? How does this help him? I imagine this helps his self esteem, which is a good thing and a meaningful non-tangible benefit. But it's not as though he can go get a job now. And he still doesn't have a place to live. And I'm not saying the dev who taught Leo to code is somehow in the wrong, I'm genuinely curious what the next step could be for this gentleman.
That's exactly what we're trying to do.
Benchmarking Nginx with Go
The basic points (TR069, remote-accessible backdoors for "configuration changes" by the provider - greetings and my personal choice swear words to Telefonica/O2 Germany here!) are still valid for DSL connections.

The router is the perfect gateway into your private home network, especially as Windows disables the firewall in a "home network"...
Isn't a bug according to twitter employers:

http://twitter.com/jmhodges/status/411975535703511040
I chuckled. But, like it or not, lesser trust requirements are CRUCIAL in the immediate future of computing and therefore so is research on Byzantine Fault Tolerance.
> B. Homakov could donate his time, as a skilled and highly-trained professional consultant, to a $32bn publicly-traded company

This is probably the best option, but only if you approach it the same way most contractors do when offering a discount/free service for a client.

When you do free work, don't say it's free -- instead, say that you're offering a 100% discount. Sent your client an invoice for the price you'd regularly charge for such a thing, with the entire price deducted off at the bottom. Include a note saying that this is an offering of goodwill, and that you hope this will help in building a relationship with them in the future.

Leave the client to decide for themselves whether this means that your future vulnerability reports will come without this discount, and see what they say in response.
Would you be able to take in all the sites and sounds around you on a nature hike, say you are going birdwatching or something, just as well with a foam hat on? If you can see your helmet at all then that's part of your peripheral vision you are sacrificing. And if you can't see your helmet it's probably not gonna do much in a car crash anyway... I prefer not to get hit and one way to do it is ride in a part of the world that respects people on bikes. When I lived in Mountain View I wore a helmet... but I also didn't bike much.
We use them to add ethernet and new comm protocols to regulated legacy embedded devices that only have serial ports.
I guess motorcyclists wear full face helmets because they don't like gravel flying into their eye at 50mph.

That said, they still die like flies and for reasons totally unrelated to (not) wearing a helmet.
There's an important (but not always obvious) difference here: individually, you're strictly safer with a helmet, but when you start forcing people to wear helmets, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. That's why lots of cycling organizations promote voluntary use of helmets.
Not everyone can think of the next genius app on their first try. Unlike you, apparently.
Flying at idle throttle is completely normal when descending from cruise to final approach. What's not normal is certain patterns of airspeed and altitude loss, and I agree, you could probably come up with better indicators for that.
I'm not an optometrist/ophthalmologist by any stretch, so I can't comment on the physiology, but I can say that the most remarkable thing about the Oculus experience is the sensation of infinite depth -- and infinite depth 360 degrees around you.

I think this is the really surprising thing for people who haven't tried it before -- you think it will be like looking at a screen up close, since you've looked at screens your whole life, but it's nothing like that at all.
I'm a card-carrying feminist* and thought it was hilarious, although I can understand how others might feel differently. I guess it depends on whether you see it as a dispute between different schools of feminism or between feminists and anti-feminists. Count me a pro-humor feminist. I never laugh so hard as when I laugh at myself.

*I think my Mills College faculty ID counts.
Dropping IE 8 support is tricky. For those who produce web apps for use in the enterprise arena, IE 8 can be a significant part of your user base. In the last month, 15% of our users accessed our site via IE 8. As such, it may be another year, or so, until we can take a serious look at Angular. That, of course, assumes that twelve months hence they don't drop support for IE 9.
As a fan of both databases, I just have to say, you don't always need all the constraints.

Also, at the very least, graphite should have been able to enforce them at the app level in addition to at the DB level.
Dunno. I assume quite a lot of bots don't execute Javascript and therefore don't get to "see" a lot of ads anyway.
Startup's green card to hell
>And if you can't see your helmet

Properly worn bike helmets are invisible to the person wearing it (except for the head visor extension if you use one, and that's above you so doesn't really get in the way).

>it's probably not gonna do much in a car crash anyway

Bike helmets aren't designed to protect you from a crash with a car, so yes, it's probably not going to do much, even if it was in your peripheral vision.
I've had good success with the NXP LPC178x series. Cortex M3 with onboard Flash and SRAM. Ethernet is onboard and easy to attach with a simple PHY, also works well with extenral SDRAM and expanded Flash.
I think there's the potential for a renaissance of super-high-end gaming-class PCs for sure. As well as a reason to radically enhance the 3D graphics computational power of smartphones and tablets.
> Ripple Labs can slow down or even stop distributing XRP until the price goes back to where they'd want it.

You should stop with these posts; it's just getting more embarrassing.
Wouldn't that be solved by shielding the circuitry using a Faraday cage?
You realize that this is a humor column for USENIX's online magazine, right?
Richard Feynman - Manhattan Project [video]
Or in a commute/recreational ride, which is the type of bike riding we need to increase.
Isn't insurgency an "actual modern war scenario"? It also tends to be the scenario where civilian casualties has the biggest propaganda impact.

For a long time, the Pentagon lumped counter-insurgency under the term "operations other than war". That bugs me. Counter-insurgency is war! We spend a lot of time optimizing for potential near-peer conflicts with countries like China and Russia. Maybe it's prudent. But counter-insurgency has become, for better or worse, a big part of what we do. We should not be so bad at it.
I heard that one guy had his steam account closed so he couldn't access or play any of the games he had bought after processing a chargeback! Small Claims court can be the consumers only friend in these situations.
what a dumb idea! I can't even tell if you're being serious.
I'm confused as to why Teton County, WY has one of the highest income tax rate in the country, given that there is no income tax in Wyoming or Teton County. The article suggest this is because of the ski resorts, yet I know of no income tax within Wyoming.
Very interesting. The only thing I don't get is that if the government knows it can't enforce these red-light and speeding camera tickets, why implement them? Is it really because they know that the majority of people will just pay and not fight it?
A fiat currency is
any money declared by a government to be legal tender.[1]
state-issued money which is neither convertible by law to
any other thing, nor fixed in value in terms of any objective standard.[2]
money without intrinsic value.[3][4]

Fiat is latin for "it shall be." Ripple XRP was basically conjured up, it has no value, it has no origin except for the Ripple corp. Now keep sucking on that Ripple currency milk bag. Maybe the ponzi scheme will peel out for you and you'll be able to fund that storybook startup of yours.
The pilots attempted to go around at the last second, when it was already too late - if the pilots had not attempted to go around, i.e. not piled on the throttle at the last second - just wondering - would the crash have been as severe?
With flying drones lobbing missiles, yes. I would hope that robots on the ground are a little better.
>I'm not sure if actually banning off-label prescriptions would be the right solution.

It absolutely is not. There's no money in getting FDA approval for a lot of diseases and nobody's gonna bother even if the drug worked well. Lots of rare diseases have no funding.

I suffer from a rare disease that has no FDA approved treatments so my medicine is used off label.
Why I'm not laughing at C Plus Equality
maybe if he had been playing more with his flight sim this wouldn't have happened. it's such a basic mistake to make.
Well, this stuff is always going to depend on where you are and who you know. I commuted to work by bicycle at an english university and I knew many other people who did, many without helmets, but the accident rate was very low.

On the other hand, this might be the consequence of safety in numbers, good infrastructure/cycle paths, availability of quiet roads with wide deserted sidewalks, the fact the average cyclist lived much closer than the average car driver and hence covered fewer miles of road.

I'm sure someone commuting by bicycle in London during the rush hour, or in other countries, might have a very different experience. I'd be interested to hear where you're located, if every bicycle commuter is involved in multiple accidents?

Personally I see motorcycle helmets as quite different to bicycle helmets; motorbikes tend to go a lot faster leading to very different injury patterns in accidents, from what I've read. They're also very different as signals of social status. And many governments want to increase the number of bicycles on the road, and hence don't want to make moves that discourage bicycle riders, while most governments are indifferent to or want to reduce the number of motorbikes, so if legislation reduces the number of motorbike riders they don't particularly care.
It's probably worth noting this is from October so not related to the sending DMs without permission issue making the rounds this weekend.
that's good point. It would be nice to see someone who does not have a vested interest in under or over reporting the number of bots on the web take a good crack at this number.

Per spider.io, bots are ripping off advertisers left and right. That being said, scared advertisers are the target market for their products.

http://www.spider.io/blog/
yeah I also used that a while ago, but I don't think I can fit an ethernet client for Robotic Operating System on it. Doesn't appear straight forward anyway:-

http://mbed.org/forum/bugs-suggestions/topic/2662/?page=1#co...

Hmm, that Xport product is £50 from mouser. Not bad
Exactly my point. If you're buying <$1k in a stock, you're likely not going to be a big source of revenue for margin loans or API access.

So basically, they will attract lots of small, active trading accounts. I don't see the model.
Um, so was this guy actually driving his car when it was photographed speeding, or not? He doesn't say, but I'm guessing yes.

And so this post is simply a tip on how to break the law and get away with it?

That may be fine (sorry!) if it were a useless and unfair law[1]. Perhaps that is the case with speed limits on some sections of road, which seem designed to gather revenue rather than enhance safety.

But in general I find speeding to be a fairly selfish and not very useful crime. It doesn't really speed journey times significantly, but puts other road users at greater risk of iinjury or even death.

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[1] It may be ok to ignore stupid laws, under some moral frameworks. Though, if you're not going to follow the actual law, what are you going to follow? How does society function when people have different ideas of right?
IBM Tries To Put Twitter In Patent Cage
How many people honestly find the attitude that "I can get away with it, therefore it is ok to do" acceptable?

Yeah, they can't prove it was you, but we both know that you were speeding. Furthermore since it is your car, in 99% of cases it is either you or someone you lent your car to.

Would this be different if it was a drink driving case? I'm sorry, but for all your opinion on why it's legal for you to do this, I think you're a fucking douchebag.
> Candidly, this strikes me as relatively irresponsible advice, and half-humblebrag. "I just get so bored with normal corporate work, you know? I always need something new."

Wouldn't know, I've never done corporate work. Merely commenting that I myself frequently get tired of doing the same thing after a month or two, to the point where things simply don't get done. Hence the recommendation for short-term projects.

> Those who would judge you as lazy probably can't be communicated with---the answer to that is simply producing.

When you produce, isn't that the cure? Not everyone needs a pat on the back.

> I do wish to provide some hope for those who think they may have some sort of condition, but are wary of the stigma associated with acknowleding such.

As do I. The first step is rejecting this nonsense about "conditions".

What you have or don't have, you don't know and quite frankly, nobody can tell you. It doesn't matter either. You have it and it's not going anywhere.

What you have control over, however, is how you live your life. Far better than medicating yourself to the grave, is to simply mold your life to reflect who you are. A blind man shouldn't live next to a cliff.