skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one area that really, really varies, and is completely unstandardized across Europe (while the funding mechanisms and degrees are becoming more standardized, which is a tricky divergence). Germany has more of a traditional model where a Professor has a capital P, is not a social peer of the lower-down people, and there is no clear route to becoming that person. But once you are, there is a large degree of research freedom and some guaranteed funding. Sweden has the diametric opposite, where a lecturer with a masters degree who's been teaching at the same place for a few years basically becomes permanent faculty with tenure, without having to either do a PhD or go through a tenure application (and anyone with a PhD is more or less equally at the top tier). Denmark isn't quite as flat on the teaching side, but is flatter on the faculty vs. PhD student side, with PhD students considered more or less faculty, paid much better salaries than most PhD students (€40-45k), and guaranteed funding (by law) for their entire PhD before they're admitted. Italy is more feudal, with "barons" controlling the positions in some departments (apparently Umberto Eco, mostly known to the general public for his novels, is somewhat notorious in Italian academic circles for being one of the big ones). Spanish universities can be super-regional, with complex language requirements, e.g. a colleague of mine who was born and raised in Galicia can't teach at a Galician university without doing additional certifications, because his degree was not done in a Galician university. Etc.

But my point was mostly just that the EU as a funding body doesn't micromanage research areas that much, because it has too many governments to do so: Denmark might want all the money in wind power, but they won't get that through. Instead the EU picks general meta-goals like "promote European research integration", and a few broad focus areas, which allows quite a bit of flexibility on what the actual scientific project is. Some blue-skies stuff gets funded as a result, as long as it's multinational blue-skies work in a broad area of interest.
That's wrong. Vulcain 2 on Ariane 5 flew four times in 2013. It's a 1340 kN thrust LOX-hydrogen engine. By contrast the J-2X will have 1307 kN.

Also the F-1 engine has been surpassed in thrust and efficiency by the Russian RD-170 family which flies today in the Zenit rocket.

I'm sure you could learn a lot from studying the J-2 and J-2S. No harm in that. But mystifying Apollo has done a lot of harm to sane space technology engineering and policy.

Sources:
http://www.arianespace.com/news-launch-logs/2013-2014.asp
http://www.sea-launch.com/missions-q1-past_launches.aspx
http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2013.html
I use Pocket (https://getpocket.com/). Super low impedance to save things, and I can do it no matter where I am consuming content -- iOS, android, browser extensions, bookmarklet, etc.
We strongly considered doing this - especially since most of our writers are in foreign countries - but so far not a single writer has expressed interest and no one from the bitcoin community we reached out to showed much interest.

If you know anyone who would help kick this off/make it worth while, I would love to talk more.
Cryptsy is up there but you are right CoinMKT is US based and has USD working with a US bank. They also have a very clean website. They just need better marketing because I never heard of them.

Atomic-Trade is also in US and apparears to have a US bank relationship. Another one I never heard of them so they need to hire some marketing people.

Unfortunately I can no longer edit my post.
Sorry I don't understand. They pay for bandwidth, servers, etc. You are consuming their capacity without paying.
The everyday meanings of these words are misleading when applied to the context of a particular programming language. Variables in one language are not at all related to variables in another. Mathematical variables, for example, do not change at all. Similar differences exist for functions and objects. These highly-overloaded terms are a constant source of confusion for people trying to learn different programming languages.

Monoid, on the other hand, has no such problem. If you look it up, its meaning in mathematics directly translates to its meaning in Haskell.
Cyborgs and the future of humanity
For being "obscure", htop manages to find its way into a very large proportion of *NIX screenshots on the web.

Not to mention vim, rsync, curl, and ack, all of which I (and I had assumed everyone else) use on a regular basis.
Node.js is not ready.

The main problem with Node.js is that the libraries out there simply are not good, are broken / don't do what it says it does, or have critical issues outside of the most basic use cases. I'm talking about the popular libraries (like Socket.io) down to all the ones being contributed by the community. I've found flaws in every single library I've used so far, and they are flaws not present in their Python and Ruby counterparts.

Error handling in Node.js is one of the worst of any language.

NPM is now deploying breaking changes to production, without apology.

Javascript is also a terrible language for larger teams, unless everyone follows the same exact convention, as the language itself is extremely flexible, more so than any language I've seen.

I've spent 2 years in this ecosystem, and pretty much anything else feels liberating in comparison, be it Python, Ruby, Go, Erlang, etc etc.

The only thing Node.js has going for it is a community of front-end developers who want to dabble in backend architecture, but I just feel this whole entire ecosystem is too fragile for my tastes.

Like MongoDB, as people begin creating successful businesses out of it and reach a certain scale, similar articles bashing Node.js are all but inevitable.
Why Uber Driving Is For Introverts, And Other Ridesharing Tales
Geisha are not prostitutes.
2. Making it Rain
Waiting for the page for 3 minutes, so far only the title has loaded (and probably the rest of the html but it's not showing).

> Powered by Pulsar

For various definitions of 'powered'.
2 Apps That Can Help You Beat the Traffic
the full topic is "cool, but obscure unix tools"

most of these aren't really obscure, but i still think it's a cool list. thanks for that.
Out of curiosity, how do you break depth detection?
Or then have each vehicle doing multiple flights...
I don't think you understand what that quote means. But boy, you sure told him...!
Better yet, assume it's not secure and don't store funds there. Deposit, trade, withdrawal.*

*does not apply to day traders
>So, in a way, this "charity" is really just a marketing subsidiary of Broadcom.

You could look at it that way if you like. But if you compare the rPi to the comparable low-priced educational development boards available when the project started (none). You might conclude that their marketing effort had a good and very real effect on the availability of low-cost edu dev-kits for both Broadcom SoC products and others' as well (like the BBB). So, as both an educator and Open Source advocate, I am fairly pleased with the rPi project, and even if it isn't exactly what I would have wished for I can't imagine how it could have been more successful or had a better result.
Youtube Rights Management
As someone who used to run a high-traffic ad monetized site, $10 CPM would make me drool... I averaged around $0.15 CPM.
> Is it because in practice we distrust the government and our decision-making procedures too much and we trust private companies more?

It's because it's much easier to stop visiting reddit than to move to another country.

Failure to pay taxes is punishable by prison time. Failure to support the local arboretum probably shouldn't be. If you really have a problem with where taxes are going (either moral or practical), you can't opt out unless you move.

With private giving, you can keep your freedom of conscience and have a democratic say (by voting with your feet and dollar) that is more granular. On a ballot you vote for the democrat or the republican. With charitable giving, you can vote for AIDS prevention, AIDS treatment, or research for an AIDS cure. Or all three. Or you can decide heart disease is a bigger problem and put your resources there.
Fair point, but to my memory the Ruby tools/community were never quite as ramshackle as those around NodeJS.
Very likely, but potentially even better is this WebTiles version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/#lobby
Is there more common terminology for "a set with a binary operation that is associative and has an identity"?
Google Glass wearer ejected, robbed, seeks out media for attention
Bookmark it in firefox using various folder/categories. But after using "Hacker News" there is so many good websites daily/hourly that I'm starting to look for alternative too ^_^ Maybe use twitter :-) I'm actually thinking on creating links section on my blog and just add all the best websites that I find relative or interesting.
Ask HN: Anybody experiencing DNS issues?
Since this morning my website is experiencing DNS issues, it almost never resolves. A lot of people are complaining to Namecheap that their DNS doesn't work. Namecheap originally told it was them, then said it is comcast and now says everything's in order on their end. Yet, people are complaining DNS are not working. On my end the traffic to my website is close to 0. Is there a worldwide issue going on?
Is "moderated" a new euphemism for "deleted" ?
Nobody's talking about a world with no dealers, just whether they can be owned by the manufacturer or not.
The site’s hosted on a machine in his house, and is served over a DSL connection.

He says Node and/or Pulsar are doing well enough (150 connections using ~50 MB of RAM and 40% CPU)- apparently he just doesn’t have enough bandwidth to get everything out to everyone.
Car dealers are important for the same reason a shoe store is important. You've got to go in and try on the shoe first to see if it fits. But much like with shoes, consumers can figure out what fits and then go home and order from someone else.

That sounds like a premium experience that customers should pay extra for.
Your web server is simply providing data (a bunch of HTML) to anyone who sends an HTTP request for your web page. That's all your server is doing.

It's not telling the client (the browser) "here's a bunch of HTML, but you can only use it if you show ads". There is no contract or agreement to display ads, implied or otherwise.

In the end, all you can do is simply ask the user to display ads. If you want to enforce that the user views ads, the web probably isn't the right medium for your product.
I'd love to see a site just like this, but cataloging all the best Unix console tools.

It sounds ridiculous, but you can tell a lot about a console program from a screenshot.
From the author:

Oh, boy. A DSL line isn't sufficient to handle 150 people accessing the site right now. It may be slow, but it's not going to go down. It's powered by Node, the nodejs process is only using 56MB of RAM and about 40% CPU. I'm fine. My bandwidth is simply depleted. Have patience, and thank you for visiting. I need some bandwidth and a budget. Wow.
At my previous job, two of the most important C files exceeded 500k - 20k lines in one, 25k lines in the other (expression parser and declaration parser, respectively).

Emacs doesn't do so well on those files either, for reasons I don't quite understand. C-Home (M-<) from the end of the file took 3+ seconds on an 3.8GHz i7 machine, yet the command those keys are bound to - beginning-of-buffer - was instantaneous, as was M-g g 1 (go to line 1).
There are plenty of repair shops. Going to a dealer for service almost guarantees that you will pay above market price for both parts and labor.
3D printing?
"I think the abstract algebra names are great because they describe the general case precisely without any preconceptions carried along with them."

And there's papers about interesting things you can do with them.
I challenge anyone to find me a feature in an editor that you can't find in an IntelliJ IDEA based editor like WebStorm or RubyMine. Atom, Sublime Text, Text Mate, and even Vim and Emacs use (broken) regular expressions to do syntax highlighting and intelligent things. IntelliJ build a "PsyElement" tree which is basically an AST. As such it will always have more features and be more powerful, and it's all on the JVM and super amazingly fast, well except for the indexing and startup (yech), but Cmd+B on any variable in any language IntelliJ understands, or Alt+F7 on a variable definition or Shift+F7 or Shift+F6 for a rename. IntelliJ is actually here from the future to write our code for us, and I'm saying this as a pretty dedicated vim user.
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Oh woah - I'm very happy about the BSD license. This means people can more easily potentially spin up business around this platform. I wonder why they chose it...

Does anyone have any insight?
> Regarding pandora, the form post is over HTTPS:

Sure, but for the purpose of being explicit to other readers that is still not secure. If the form collecting the sensitive data is served using HTTP only then a malicious actor could alter the page (by injecting some javascript for example) to steal the data even if the actual form post is secured. Serving the form page as https at least ensures that the page collecting the data for submission was unmodified in transit.
What are you editing a 100 meg file for? Genuinely curious. I regularly work with 2GB+ files, but I don't need to edit them. I use "less". If I really needed to make a change, I'd use some combination of sed/awk most likely.
Why don't you just stop recommending Node.js?
I don't really think it's fair to call anything that's in a POSIX standard obscure (like xargs).

Most of these are fairly common, and many of the descriptions are terrible, for example: `rsync` doesn't "[Keep] filesystems in sync over SSH"; it's a versatile `cp`-like for dealing with remote systems efficiently that happens to support transfers over SSH.
It should be noted that Reddit also loses a large amount of money each year. Reddit has never not lost money.

Reddit is not an example of a successful ad solution because their ads are so out of the way and "classy" that they don't even bring in enough revenue to come close to covering their costs.

It still remains to be seen if reddit can ever build a sustainable business.
This thread is awesome. Goxed is now my new favorite word (sorry for the more initiated if I'm already late to the party). It's just like being doxed - you exposed yourself in some way, and some clever bastard got the better of you for it.
The reason I still find it hypocritical in this case is that Bitcoin is currently approximately useless. People were using MtGox to essentially place bets on the future of Bitcoin. Some people surely didn't get as far as hypocrisy; having no clearly formed views on the purpose and future of financial infrastructure, they were just chasing tulip bulbs. But I think betting on a technology whose major feature is independence from traditional regulation and then expecting traditional regulators to bail you out when it's not all wine and roses is essentially hypocritical.
Yeah, and I'm sure this line of thinking, will eventually route out the person who stole all those bitcoins -- and I won't be surprised it it's The top execs of Mt. Gox - - who better to take the money and run? They KNEW that they couldn't possibly sell bitcoins at higher than market prices, and make a profit UNLESS they were running a Ponzi scheme.
IDEA's scala support still flags bogus errors (e.g. it doesn't seem to infer the type of a Kleisli { ... } correctly). It's one of the things keeping me on Eclipse.
smem is pretty rad and obscure (http://www.selenic.com/smem/).
Well, the article answers the question later on.

Cosmin Laslau, Lux’s energy storage specialist, said there are profound differences between the past failures and Tesla’s new lithium-ion production effort. “Most importantly, the likes of A123 built Li-ion capacity first, and then waited forlornly for demand and partnerships that never came,” he said. “Tesla has taken the opposite approach: It started by creating the demand, unearthing a niche for luxury EVs powered by massive battery packs.”
> The site owner is saying, "Here, I made this cool thing. You can use it in exchange for $THING."

Name one popular website that explicitly states you can browse their website ONLY if you look at ads.

The notion that your users will look at ads isn't an obligation; it's an expectation. In contrast, wages are a contractually-bound obligation. It's not morally wrong to refuse to live up to someone's expectations.

If you owned a website, would you refuse to serve anyone browsing with Lynx? They sure aren't going to be looking at any ads.
Web application that can run in your desktop.
Spain caps crowdfunding campaigns at €1M and contributions at €3K
I had 19 of 20 (the Toyota-capitals are too hard to distinguish).

The story is this: all the big typesetting companies, like Berthold, Linotype, Monotype and so on, have been type foundries originally. They created printing characters of lead. Later they started to develop mechanical machinery for typesetting (especially Linotype) and soon after they started to develop machinery for fototypesetting (making way for the wide spread use of offset-printing, replacing letterpress printing). All the time, they also provided the fonts for their machinery and this fonts were very expensive. A single typeface (like Helvetica 55) would cost around 800 German Marks (roughly 550 US$ today) as a mercury-metallized glas plate from Berthold, containing the full character set. A type shop would often spend more money for the fonts than for the machinery (and the typeshop I was working for even had a dedicated insurance for the glas plates).

All the modern copyright laws existed already at this time and the big problem was, that a certain fontstyle would become fashionable (like Helvetica!) in the designers world, but only one type foundry owned the font. Fonts were not interchangeable between vendors and owning a good font collection with a lot of fashionable fonts could influence the system decision for the typesetting machinery. So all big manufacturers spent a lot of money for their own type labs AND for lawyers! I grew up in the font atelier of the H.Berthold AG in Taufkirchen, near Munich, where my father was working and I witnessed as a teenager, how they digitized the lead fonts into fototype fonts - an incredible laborous and artistic job.

Often, there was a big pressure to provide a certain font style within the vendors system environment, and so it was common to clone the popular fonts if they were owned by someone else. There have been lots of lawsuits, where judges had to decide whether two fonts are distinguishable enough, or have to be considered illegal copies. All the many variants we have of the Helvetica, like the Akzidenz Grotesk, the Normal Grotesk, the Neue Haas Grotesk, the Arial etc, have their motives not so much in readability or artistic reasons, but rather in license conflicts of different type foundries. Sometimes the cloning font lab was better than the original and the clone came out better than the original. VERY MANY fonts of the professional typesetting world were cloned again when Desktop Publishing emerged, to avoid license fees in the PostScript world. These copies can be recognized by their silly names. This development, in general, worsened the font quality. Not so much for the look-a-like of the single character, but for the metadata like "aesthetics letter widths".

So, just look into the owners of the fonts that seem undistinguishable for you, and the whole thing starts making sense: Akzidenz Grotesk = H. Berthold AG; Helvetica = Linotype; Arial = Monotype; Maxima = Helvetica of the former East German Republic (they did not want to use the font of the enemy).

Nevertheless, Helvetica is the best ;-)

(And just to make this clear: Univers, Futura and Frutiger do not have the slightest similarity with Helvetica)
Everyone should absolutely be running from a virtualenv. Never touch the system python.

brew intall python
/usr/local/bin/pip install --upgrade setuptools
/usr/local/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
/usr/local/bin/pip install --upgrade virtualenv
/usr/local/bin/virtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python py.env

And done.

. ~/py.env/bin/activate
pip install butterfly
He's doing a lot of negative bashing on twitter, and it sounds like he has some vague ideas of the freedom his job should allow him, while at the same time not having a true product of his own or the network to rebound from a crash and burn like that.

Vitriol gets you nowhere. This is something I've learned the hard way.
Wouldn't it be funny if the lost bitcoins---were all the result of someone forgetting where they put the key? So not stolen, just literally lost? Talk about a major 'oops' moment.
Might have something to do with age requirement or age appropriateness - make sure kids can't install apps on mom and dad's phone without permission because they need a password.
ITT people who don't think those tools are obscure
that's not the point - the difficulty of closing the laptop after a hard night of watching netflix is the first world problem. Do you really think anyone but a handful of geeks who watch too much tv care about this "problem"
Using Windows 8 as a windows development platform is inferior to windows 7 if you target legacy users (windows XP) because Windows 8 does not support installing SDKs like DirectX9. You can still compile for those targets but you can't run some of the most useful debug stuff anymore.
Uh huh. Do you know when I last time have seen a gun here in Germany, not carried by a police officer?

Never.

I have never seen a non-official handle a weapon, except on Television. In my life.

Oh by the way. Memories are long, sure. I recently read of a big weapons find, in the village next go mine. They found a lot of handguns and military rifles that somebody stashed in a hidden room of an official building at the end of the war. Do you know where those weapons went?

Straight to the trash. I don't even know if you can still use a weapon that has just been lying around for seventy years.

And what has the mentally ill thing to do with anything? I've been to America. Your mentally ill live in the street. How is that better?
I've recently seen a presentation about attacks on a widely used system used in current cars.

There are a couple of different ways that are significantly better than brute force (as in: works against real cars in seconds to a few minutes). (Though since key length is only 48 bit, even brute forcing might be practical.)

This might interest you:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
I'm pretty sure I've had this happen to me [1]: both my Chevy and Jeep were broken into on the same night without damage.

Knowing nothing about how it was done, I'd just assume the security was really bad [2] and the box simply emitted all possible combinations. Has any industry ever taken security seriously before the first major breach?

Our solution is to never store anything of value in the car.

[1] Pretty sure because almost never leave a car unlocked. Two cars unlocked is even more unlikely.

[2] By way of example, unlocking my Chevy with its fob routinely set off a car alarm for a different car. That tells you right there that the car alarm receiver has zero security.
"typedef" is one of the most misleadingly named constructs in the language. You can "define a type" without it, it just changes how things are tokenized. Giving it as an example of good naming is weird.
How about watches in LT - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8-b6QEN-rk

I've only used Intellij for scala and while the static analysis was pretty useful I wasn't at all impressed by the facilities for live interaction. Maybe some of that is down to the scala repl being pretty poor - perhaps if I used Intellij with python or javascript I would find it more useful.