skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless the debris includes a liferaft.

But I'm not keeping my hopes up.
> because MySQL isn't as sexy, feature laden

you misspelled "responsible with data, standards-compliant, concerned with doing things the correct way."
Well, Finally a credible source of information. Things we take granted in "western" news organizations and research come to light when you see how investigation is done in the hands of some people. No disrespect to the Malaysians I love their country and culture but the authorities did a disaster of a job handling it all. More disinformation than anything.
This is my game changer read, excited to see it here. Everything from dealing with my father's death to that black emptiness I've fought my entire life, I've read this book a few times now. It has a lot in common with Cognitive Therapy but doesn't require filling out mood journals (does anybody actually manage to do that?)

It serves as an excellent intro to Seneca's Letter's from a Stoic, which is another great book to revisit over the years.

There are some samples from the book available on Boing Boing (http://boingboing.net/author/william_b_irvine).
measuring the potential between the shield and your tongue... I (maybe inaccurately) read the parent comment as "If miswired sockets REALLY are a hazard to people messing around with 5V electronics, prove it"
Boing Boing apparently uses it: http://bbs.boingboing.net/
I think you're thinking of the cockpit voice recorder [0], the flight data recorder [1] (also referred to as the black box) contains all sorts of data about what commands were sent to plane and, Wikipedia says, records "17–25 hours worth of data in a continuous loop" (presumably overwriting the oldest data once it's reached capacity).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockpit_voice_recorder

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Data_Recorder

edit: just about everyone's beat me to it!
Kind of fun, but I agree with some of the other comments that it would be interesting to see what would happen if the app made a move every 15-20 seconds based on the vote tally in that time window.
Taking a quick look, per what I referenced:

How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers

http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11877

Frontline's "League of Denial:The NFL'S Concussion Crisis" Airs

http://www.metafilter.com/132838/Frontlines-League-of-Denial...

And, since I happened across an older mention of this, as well:

http://www.metafilter.com/124600/Soccer-matchfixing-probe-68...
I bet that most people that say they don't use MySQL, still use it.
Hey guys, it's the creator here.

I never thought this little project would get this big!

If someone wants to help me scale this, or add things like chat, please do! Just send a PR on Github!

https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048
I was letting him slide with exactly that: an on/off switch. But with additional configuration one could use a 'g ' prefix to activate autocomplete via Google, for instance.
AFP: Battery power from the people
If your ergo expert is talking about auras instead of measuring your dimensions and evaluating your posture, you need to find a real ergo expert. Even for ad-hoc use in meeting rooms and hotel rooms, a good expert can help you do a better job and protect your nerves. Anyone who works at a computer all day should probably go at least once a year, just like an annual physical.

http://mindfulmotionphysicaltherapy.com/what-is-an-ergonomic...
(For info purposes - not endorsing this particular practitioner.)
Several sources, here's one:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/mala...

Yeah - sorry I should have clarified voice recorder not the flight data recorder. Will edit.
And a general lack of links throughout. Who doesn't hyperlink their table of contents? Or call a table of contents a glossary, for that matter...
Good idea! I'll make an issue for this on Github.
A joKE?
Nothing "crazy" about taking control of your life to make it healthier and happier.

I've never regretted taking less money to live in places I love and work on things that interested me.

Good on you.
Anytime an airplane disappears the probability to find anybody alive is small. The day it happened I was already feeling sad about it. I just can't imagine how the families must feel every time news are announced.
Finding other expats when you move for a job
I guess they try to keep the airplanes cheap enough that they can't spring for a 16gb card in the CVR.
You said it better than myself!
Study on lunar crater counting shows crowdsourcing effective, accurate tool
I'm not sure what the current physical medium / technology is, but with some generations, IIRC forensics could actually recover several of the most recent recording passes over the medium that travelled in a closed loop -- if there were enough incentive and resources to do so.
It certainly doesn't have the fluke logo on it, but as someone who uses yellow multimeters fairly regularly (Fluke and otherwise) I immediately (and possibly mistakenly) recognized the design (shape, color, the specific rotary switch used) as that of the particular model Fluke multimeter I have in my drawer. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I own two yellow multimeters and only one is a Fluke)
Good idea. Working on it.
In lawsuit, woman says Uber driver harassed, fondled her
Any reason to not open-source it? I doubt you can build a startup out of something that's probably against the Youtube ToS, so not much to lose.
seems like it falls victim to popularity, and crashes often.
I really don't like to hate on other people's work but seriously more 2048 forks? And now ones that aren't even remotely playable?
I really hate to be negative about this but isn't this highly unlikely considering the rafts on the planes have emergency locator radio beacons?
Why, today, people refuse to use trusted SQL RDBMS's still boggles my mind...
This is probably a bit much, but I'd love to see someone whip up a multiplayer 2048 using something like Firebase. It would probably start many an argument.
"credible source of information"

you're not Australian are you? ;)
Looks like this is the guy: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=64303478.
Right. It needs a Democracy mode. maybe even a Democracy/Anarchy slider controlled by Q and E.
In the case of Air France 447, it did take 2 years to recover the black box. I'm guessing this one will be quicker because of the potential terrorism angle.
I sort of agree to most. Being able to write recurrence out of master theorem is never kind of thing really needed here. Even if you know conceptually the running time of a loop (nested ones etc.) and be able to apply that practically is sufficient.

Ah... yeah for the design statement :) i can't say much beyond that for most of the companies with established practices - you have to write a design document, often down to the level of writing data structures and function names - run through debates with others to justify your choices BEFORE you can even start to write first line of code.

I understand this partially because of being in Embedded, C/C+ domain where you can literally shoot yourself in the foot due to wrong choices and often product models are different.

E.g. at one place that i worked, code reviews and conventions were very rigid, some what more than say Linux kernel, because the product was an RTOS and associated stacks, which were sold to companies WITH SOURCE since the customers were actually developers developing end applications using our APIs. So even one comment not written according to company's coding convention often won't pass a peer code review - but i believe this is a pure exception rather than the norm.
Wanted to see how this goes first, but you are right about trust when talking about a desktop app. If this blocks everybody, I will open-source it.
If you think the rule about turning off your electronics during takeoff and landing is conservative, try to imagine what it would take to certify a solid-state memory card for use in that application.
We could learn quite a bit, for instance, if the voices on the recorder were neither of the flight crew, or whatever the subject of what was said could suggest whatever had happened at the diversion

... unless whoever was smart enough to disable the transponders would disable the cabin mic, which would probably be the least informative condition
My parent's ISP is relatively cheaper than its competitors but they inject ads in most popular sites.
Using Brew and Rack to Install PHP, MySQL, and Wordpress
I once did a technical visit there and the IT Director/VP started trolling me on kernel internals. It took me a bit to figure out he was vetting what someone in L3 had told him.

Bloomberg has driven more kernel tunings on traditional unix flavors than any org I'm aware of. Smartest people in the room.
I've been in a similar situation. You're tackling the right problem: you should take your mental health very, very seriously, especially when you're away from friends aand family as you are.

That said, be careful that you're not burning bridges. If you can stick it out another year, I would advise you to. You have access to:meetups, conferences, people at barbecues---all of these useful for career development.

Best of luck.
yeah i'm sure you 16gb SD card data is made to survive several hundred Gs collision crash.

EDIT : adjusted Gs
There are tons of fantastic demos and experiments out there already, more than I ever thought would be at this point.

The retina mac book will be passable but will have trouble maintaining 60 fps with many of them.
Pandora Ups Subscription Price As Competition Builds
I think the Australian Maritime Safety Authority is a pretty credible source.
Despite assault on privacy, Page sees value in online openness
Amazon trades at a P/E ratio >600. Seems like shareholders are giving them plenty of credit.
Hacker News is seriously business only. No fun allowed, because a sense of humor is problematic.
The CVR only recording two hours is absolutely inexcusable. Why does my iPhone - $850 retail - have capabilities that far surpass those of a $250 million modern passenger jet? Hopefully after this incident, public outrage over these ridiculous technological shortcomings will be the catalyst for legislation. Throwing in some extra satellite transmission, GPS, and voice recording capabilities that will hold up even in the event of an electrical issue or fire, and that cannot be disabled by bad actors, just cannot be this difficult.

In my view, the moment this plane went off course, or a fire alarm went off or any other irregularity occurred, a Malaysian Airlines control center should have been alerted and been able to bring up video of the cockpit, maybe the passenger cabin as well, and been able to remotely view diagnostic and positioning data. All of this could easily and cheaply occur via a satellite internet connection.

Edit: For the record, I am not suggesting that plugging a commercial iPhone into a cockpit would work - I'm comparing the capabilities of consumer technology to cockpit technology, which seems woefully inadequate to me.
If anyone's interested, I posted thorough notes for the book about a year ago: https://booknotes.quora.com/Notes-on-A-Guide-to-the-Good-Lif...
No one has a right to survive in the sense that you mean, especially giant, useless corporations. If AI came around that made my job obsolete, threatening my existence, then no, I would not have the right to survive still by coding especially since the AI would presumably do much better work. Likewise, media companies do not have a right to survive. When their business model is superseded, they should adapt or perish like everyone else.

There are plenty of companies whose products are no longer necessary. Do they have a right to survive? No. Not if they don't adapt and start producing useful goods. One example would be a company like Kodak who once made most of their money from analog cameras and film. If they hadn't changed their focus from their initial offerings they'd be in even worse shape then they are now. No one who doesn't adapt deserves to survive (in an economic sense, of course).
Make 2048 forks, not war.
SQL isn't buzzword compliant. It's ironic really. MongoDB is the new Oracle, while Oracle would actually be a reasonable solution here.
500 is often reported but is incorrect. As of today, it appears to be 501.
The title is wrong. Actually is Bitcoin Core. Bitcore is another project of Bitpay.
Oh wow I had to stop playing the Witcher 2 after switching full time to Ubuntu at home, this is great news!!!
No, it's not crazy at all, but don't sell yourself short, and take your time. Are you in the doldrums right now because of your breakup? If so, it would probably be best to make this decision when your are neither very happy nor very sad. If this process cuts into the next lease, try to find a place that will go month-to-month for you. You really should try to make this decision when you're feeling fine.

If you still want to move back when you're feeling good, you should pitch this to your employer with it being a negotiation in mind. Tell your employer that you've done your best to stick it out in the city, but that you just have too many close friends and family that live far away and you want to be near them. Then tell your employer that you are looking at alternatives to make it work, like doing contract work, but tell them that you would love it if you could work remotely for them.

Make it clear that you've made your decision to move back and that it's happening soon. If your employer senses that this is a gambit to get out of the office they'll probably call your bluff. Good luck!
For me, every work day starts by strapping on a pair of steel-toed boots and a hard hat, climbing high up some steel structure (usually hundreds of feet), building an anchor, and rappelling in to get done whatever needs gettin' done. I think this gives me a different perspective on matters of industrial safety than the typical Hacker News poster.

Granted, I have never worked in a developing country; neither have I worked in the United States in the 1930's.

The culture of industrial safety in the United Sates is... interesting, to say the least. The squeeze for productivity is there for sure, and it sometimes flies in the face of every employer's claim that "safety is our number one priority."

This puts the worker square in the middle of the predicament. Pressure, culture, and, sometimes, a lack of training and equipment creates the worker who is less-than-dilligent about their own safety. Then, when something does go wrong, whether it's a real accident, a "near miss," or just a "violation" that could have escalated but did not, the worker is blamed. Disciplinary action and firings are commonly heard about. This happens because the employer gets to point to "safety first," loads of policy, and their entire (huge) HSE department, while ignoring the fact that the worker was under pressure, mired in a culture of others behaving exactly the same, and, sometimes, poorly trained.

I'm talking about the United States in 2014, where we benefit from a history of labor unions, modern government regulations, two centuries of industrial experience, incredible technology, and a legal environment that scares the pants off every employer.

I cannot imagine what these migrant workers in developing countries are going through. Given the safety statistics we've seen here, can you imagine what the day-to-day grind is like?
I agree. Two is not ideal. I'm very happy with my three 27" setup (though I wish they were 30" and Retina-quality). I never liked two monitors because I like (1) symmetry (2) no borders in the center; and you can't get that with two (unless you stack them on top of each other).

Oh, and the distraction point mentioned in the article has nothing to do with the number of displays, per se, so the article is BS in my book.
+1 for the basic idea that we need to find a way to share medical information. surely we can write some algorithms that preserve privacy while still keeping the data useful? the costs of not sharing data are quite bit. One research paper (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1080262) finds that electronic medical records sharing within hospitals (not to researchers or innovators mind you) means about 16 fewer infant deaths for every 100k births.
Here is my app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.contraryki...
FWIW this article and the Dave Thomas one are actually making that distinction and promoting the manifesto. Agile delivery (by which I mean the 4 line manifesto and not Scrum etc) has always worked brilliantly for me and the teams I've worked with.
Yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7379813
Just a warning: if you are the only remote worker it is hard. You miss out on a lot of conversation that you really should know about. Source: me, only remote worker in company.

Also, I doubt the money will be the thing that decides them.
Your own user inputs are now bolded

Commit:
https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048/commit/308f68341b2c54bf...
I appreciate asking the question bc that means that you are at least willing to hear answers.

It depends on your employer. Here are two EXTREMELY broad types (so broad that they probably lose applicability to you):

Business employer: Even if you are able to convince your employer that working remotely would be better for your well-being, then once you leave, you will be treated like an outsourced employee. It will gradually grow on you, but you will be bc in their mind you won't have as good of a grasp on the business and you will be expendable.

Person who employ's you and it just happens to involve business: You're good.
No. In my experience, when I've talked to people older than 60 who worked since they were of age to work, almost all of them have recommended something similar. The ratio might be different, some say take a 50% cut, some say 20%, but they are all very much into the idea of taking a pay cut for the overall happiness.
One of the interesting things about classic ciphers is that (as far as I know) they're obviously insecure by modern standards.

Most of the time what people want out of modern crypto is something called "semantic security" -- in other words, an attacker should not be able to learn even a single bit of the plaintext for any message, even if they are allowed to see the encryption of polynomially many chosen plaintexts (ignoring length, of course.)

What this means is that deterministic encryption schemes are all broken. Consider a game:

The attacker asks to see the encryption of messages a and b, receiving a' and b' as ciphertexts of a and b.

Now, the attacker is "challenged" with a new ciphertext of a or b, c. If the attacker can (with reasonable probability) distinguish which plaintext c is the encryption of, then the encryption scheme is not "semantically secure."

Notably, since our encryption scheme is deterministic, c = a' or b'. Therefore, with probability = 1.0 the attacker can distinguish which plaintext encrypted to c.

So, by modern security standards all deterministic (and therefore all classic, I think) ciphers are broken.

This is the sort of thing which is covered in the coursera class. Modern crypto is (usually provably) substantially more secure than what used to be used, and the kinds of techniques used to do modern crypto don't have much overlap with things like Caesar ciphers.
> 2.) Enable people to educate themselves. Public libraries were essential in building the mindset and providing the place and materials for me to drag myself out of poverty.

Completely off-topic from the OA, but do you have any plans on this front? Plans, hopeless dreams, crazy ambitions, etc.
Yes, that's why I made my reply. The lack of consistency with regards to choice of /dev/random and /dev/urandom, as well as the lack of authority and safe defaults seems like a recipe for disaster.

Why is no one authoritative on cryptography setting these defaults so that determining "what programs do with OpenSSL" is so random. Why is OpenSSL leaving these choices to programmers by default?

It seems like a terrible, terrible thing that people are micro-optimizing how big their seed is, what their source is, etc. This can not be good for security.
I'd present this to the employer as switching from a full-time employee to an almost-full-time consultant. They give you a project, you get it done, regardless of where and how you do it.

If the employer needs more convincing, propose you start with a test by trying one day per week remote from now.

Agreeing to take a pay cut would be the icing on the cake.
It's a good idea, but don't be willing to take a pay cut.
>Why does my iPhone - $850 retail - have capabilities that far surpass those of a $250 million modern passenger jet?

Because your iPhone isn't designed to survive a plane crash.

The requirements for both design and certification are so different that comparisons to consumer electronics (especially regarding price) are meaningless.
I suspect this kind of sonar application is why TI is making analog-to-digital conversion chips with 31 bits of resolution:
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ads1282-ht.pdf

Compare to 16- to 24- bit resolution in your typical audio processing chain.
I think the problem is more with the architects of the applications than with Mongo. You can safely use a non-ACID database for financial applications. You just have to take care of the parts of ACID you need yourself.

It's tricky to get that right, though, so most developers would be much better off picking a database that does it for them.
Probably already had an upvote in the 2 hours since you posted this, but if not, I upvoted you anyway. :)
http://i.imgur.com/Hi5CQf6.gif
It doesn't matter that much whether it does or not. Modern data storage is so cheap that we could stick in 8 of them in addition to the super-touch CVR at very little extra cost, and odds are that one of the cheapie units would survive. The hardened CVR system is great, but it should be a last resort sort of thing. We can have cheap, redundant, and high-capacity systems in addition to the CVR for peanuts, so why don't we?
Lean could be described as an implementation. Real options are right at the heart of both - http://www.infoq.com/articles/real-options-enhance-agility.
Very true, I was just making cheap funnies :)
He interpreted it as "the time complexity of computing the sum of the numbers from 1 to n", which using the formula you just gave takes O(1) time.
Why would doubling or quadrupuling the storage be a problem? Assuming you have the cost of a new chip paid for, I dont see the capacity issue. Or are you saying solid state is incompatible with the engineering parameters of a black box altogether? In that case, the answer is even simpler: just add more of what's already in there.
I wonder about the rest of us who bought it on disc.
I'm of two minds on this one. On one hand, remote work is perfectly awesome. I do it. I work for a company that does it. It's a great way to run a company, although it is almost impossible if everyone else is at headquarters are you are not.

The risk you are taking is that you may end up working on projects that do not require interaction with many other people, which may not actually exist in enough frequency to keep you on the payroll.

On the other hand, there is a psychological concept of transference. If you're unhappy in one part of your life, you transfer the unhappiness to another part of your life that is going well and then destroy the good part.

It would be much, much better to focus on the part of your life that is wanting and build that up rather than to break down the part of your life that is successful.
Yeah, I was really looking forward to watching this over time, but the first time I thought to see where it was it was already out of circulation. Bummer, that.
Travel Startup – Startup on Travel