skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always amazed me that they used Windows. Why would an ATM ever need a full blown OS like that? The requirements are totally different from a desktop PC.
83 already exists in France. It's called "Adopte un mec" (translation: adopt a guy) and it's very successful (http://www.adopteunmec.com). It ysed to target a yound adult crowd with some funky design but the UX and design god much better over the years so they may be moving up.
I'd be interested to know the proportion of professors that write textbooks used in their own courses. I expect it's quite small. Certainly more common in humanities, quite rare in science and engineering.
It strikes me as really weird that a company would take your money for a preorder. It's not really a thing here in the UK, I don't think. Amazon certainly doesn't take my money before the product actually ships, and large stores like GAME or HMV only take a small, non-refundable deposit.
I wonder what happened behind the scenes after Jobs announced that FaceTime was to be standardised.
I used to host email for a co-op I'm involved in, and I eventually decided I didn't want to anymore. I don't recall deliberately reading any, but having my friends' personal messages sitting on my server in plain text format just seemed weird and icky and wrong.

I'm sure people will object to this opinion, but I don't think it's reasonable to send your messages to a third party's server in a totally open, unobscured format and consider those messages private. I just can't really see the situation any other way. If you're going to do that, your only reasonable expectation of "privacy" is hoping that the server's admins aren't sufficiently interested in your messages to pay any attention to them.
What Sam Altman taught me about risk (2011)
Mirrored it in HackPad :)

https://freestartupideas.hackpad.com/Free-Startup-Ideas-Oy39...
I bought a motorized adjustable standing desk. I don't stand the same amount of time each day, but typically at least two hours, and no more than about 6. I eased into standing gradually. When I first got it, I only had it "up" for maybe half an hour at a time.

I also don't strictly stand still. I'm always moving around a bit, even if it's just from one side of the desk to the other (it's a Geekdesk Max with a large (78.75" wide) desktop).
I'm surprised by the '60 years' part - if not killed, he could be living today! What a stupid loss.
> Content negotiation shouldn't interfere with caching, if both are done properly.

Unfortunately, “done properly” excludes things like nginx's cache module, a number of CDNs, and even certain browser caches. Some of the bugs are obvious – e.g. returning gzipped data to a client which didn't request it – but others will simply require monitoring to realize that your cache isn't caching anything or has a dismal cache hit rate because every permutation of request headers and the values referenced in Vary are being treated independently. Worse, all of these can change unexpectedly due to updates in “stable” software so you need deep monitoring checks to ensure that everything is still working the way it was when you set it up.

The more I've used content negotiation, the less I'm convinced that it's a desirable feature. Unless you tightly control the client, server and all intermediaries you'll spend a ton of time on operational overhead and the alternative is that you simply use unique URLs which will always work correctly after the initial implementation, which is also easier.
Well, I go to a large state school, but this semester all five of my engineering courses use books written by faculty or by the professor.
This is the part you challenged? We're skipping right past the part where vidarh seemed to assert p-zombiehood? ;)
um actually not because English common law (from what a lot of USA law is derived) has the right to bear arms in self defense.

It was only Churchill going slightly paranoid and OTT post ww1 that lead to restrictions in the UK.
FSF wants to replace "the" pronoun in Linux Kernel by the more neutral "xhe"
THIS

In my country there is currently a debate because we used to have a relatively big "industry" of photocopied textbooks because of the high prices of books.

Some weeks or months ago, the police closed a lot of this places that photocopied books (mostly in front of the law school oh the irony), and now, nobody wants to photocopy books.

I got really angry (not because I photocopied books, I have most of my book in pdf) but because the state university (the biggest and for some the best) likes to talk about how "anyone" can study for free (as in beer ;) but nobody talks about the huge bill of books you have if you buy them legally.

I thought about some kind of wiki-like platform for books where not only teacher, but also students can collaborate to create and maintain the books.

I would love to see this in reality, I wanted to start it myself, but really don't have the time/resources to get to it.
It's being used by a police chief to disparage those subject to one of these raids. No indication it was illegal per se.

A quick check of a reference indicates that as usual, it wouldn't be difficult for it to be illegal to carry outside your home. There also may be felon in possession laws with knives like there are with guns.
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What a bunch of nonsense.

The reality is simply that young, inexperienced people are cheap and are willing to cut corners because they don't understand the dangers. And then a year or 2 later the next MtGox programming blunder story appears.
Wow, this document totally overtaxes my perception ability.
This is accurate if viewing rights from a US legal perspective.

People who care deeply about privacy could make the case that this is unjust because there the legal system ought to recognize this as a natural human right.

Others, of a more philosophical bent, might note that the whole concept of "rights" is rather silly.
If you go this route (which I also recommend), make sure you adjust your striking appropriately, you'll want to land mostly on the balls of your feet or your toes. Landing heel first in zero drop shoes will give you shin splints like you wouldn't believe.
Remember though, that the best ideas initially sound like really bad ideas, as explained by PG in his essay (based on pretty good empirical evidence from funding hundreds of them ):
http://paulgraham.com/swan.html

So there could well be a few outliers in there.
Of course, that is a necessary, not a sufficient condition, i.e, not all bad ideas are going to be successful - but the most successful ones sound like really bad ideas to begin with.
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"I tried submitting some free startup ideas of my own on Github here"

https://github.com/genesisdotre/wikify/wiki/Main-Index-Title...

Same here. Although my intention was to put IP into public domain before signing employment contract.

(first step was to find suitable wiki / collaborative engine to put everything in place)
Indeed. Maybe he could have made more discoveries. Maybe he could have trained an entire, new generation of mathematicians. Maybe he could have just gotten to live a happy life, as should be the right of all human beings.
For an alternative to standing, check out the FitDesk: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00CM9CBZY

I use it every day.
I had a statistics professor that used a book written by himself in a statistics 101 class.

Also, as a pleasant surprise, the slides he used in class (and where available for students to download) were almost exactly the same content of the book.
Largely because many of them need to display advertisements these days. I've seen ATMs in gas stations that were displaying ads for the type of stuff you'd find in a gas station/convenience store. The rest I've seen advertising services of the bank they are attached to.
Whether that's a serious problem depends on how connected they are. If they run only a application-specific set of services on an isolated network, that's not a problem. but if you propose to sell POS terminals in an Internet SaaS model, you can't leave them unpatched.
If only programmers beating their heads against a brick wall wondering why their new "startup" isn't getting any traction knew the phrase "domain expertise" and the word "sales".
"This year marks the first time that the U.S. has earned Reporters Without Borders' dubious honor."
Piece of unsolicited advice - Stop declaring everything a strawman or propaganda. It does not strengthen your argument.

The situations we are talking about are actually more akin to professional athletes or sought after writers -- employers are actively seeking them out and recruiting them, at escalating wage levels, because they offer potential multiples of value to the company over "just any paper qualified candidate". Compare this to, for instance, auto-assembly or steel-working, where the difference in company value between resources is largely a wash.

We are specifically talking about the tech corridor right now. My home base is in the Toronto area but I seldom deal with Toronto area clients because the environment is dismal here: The pay is terrible, the product is terrible, and the mentality is of the "replaceable cog" variety, every project failing just enough until it's replaced by an innovative product made elsewhere. A union here might make sense because the situation already is pretty miserable. The same is true of the United Kingdom, to respond to another commentator. My comments about union specifically relate to the hyper-competitive, hyper-innovative and excellence seeking, silicon valley area.
> In February 2006, Google made a significant concession to the Great Firewall of China, in exchange for equipment installation on Chinese soil, by blocking websites which the Chinese government deemed illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peo...

So I think they would ban Google Search over this if they had to, but it sounds like Google would just hide it on Google.cn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_Ch... is another interesting read, the first 6 URLs are Google products.
Not to mention, New York is relatively clean compared to San Francisco. San Francisco shuts down at 10pm; New York truly is the city that never sleeps, and many neighborhoods feel busy and alive at all hours of the night. The public transportation in SF (and the larger Bay Area) is a classist, unreliable nightmare. New York has probably the best public transit systems in the country. Owning a car in NY is unusual and unnecessary. In San Francisco, most people own a car, just like any other suburban area in the US. The number and quality of restaurants in NY is unrivaled. New York is unquestionably more diverse. The list goes on and on.
Yes, there are multiple systems integrators who can create and support embedded Android devices. It's not too complicated to keep up with AOSP if you didn't go overboard with OS mods.
there's this http://firespotting.com/ but the community is kind of small.
That's two crimes committed with NFA weapons in the 80 years since the NFA has existed. One committed by an active duty police officer and the other by a former police officer.

And to the previous poster I'll add that production of AR15-pattern rifles and carbines alone for the commercial market averages about 380K units per year since 2008. Adding in non-AR pattern "military style" rifles brings that number to about 480K per year, or about 20% of all rifles produced and sold commercially in the U.S. The AR15 is undoubtedly the most popular rifle in the U.S. and that includes a hell of a lot of folks who can't reasonably be classified as "rednecks."
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I see your point.
How many lives would you estimate are lost/saved because of what OS is being used?
Wouldn't any vendor have a "military" version of whatever OS they would use anyway? Which would make it a lot safer to use..
The NSA probably cracks as many windows machines as they do Linux/Unix all over the world, I would think that it's all the same if you know where to go and what to do to get in.
I'm torn between this. On one hand I think you're absolutely right about the possibilities of ATM's and other vendors running a custom tailored OS. On the other, I know first hand how big companies screw up security on very basic levels -- And I don't think I trust the same people who still have an infrastructure built on Windows XP to custom tailor that OS securely.

>> I've seem my share of "embedded" devices (signage, control-room-displays) where the vendor just slapped their proprietary .exe in Autostart and left the Vendor supplied Win-XP + Nagware + never-updated-virus-scanner + ... intact.

This is what scares me. This happens so often and so frequent. I know it may be a shock to HN, but huge amounts of "embedded devices" are built this way. I for one would love to see custom tailored Android or linux -- but I'll say it again -- I really really do not trust them to do it right. Sorry to start the day pessimistically. :)
And use what alternative? Google, Apple, Facebook? Ubuntu cloud? Really? Is our data more save at Ubuntu services? You seem to be under the wrong impression that it's a problem we can solve by avoiding products of one company. As long as we're dealing with companies we're dealing with issues like that regardless of the image these companies try to create.

Use the internet as it was a public place. Remeber you can't even trust ssl connections (see Apple by mistake, NSA by purpose).
Can the UK’s first 'automated shop' vending machine keep customers satisfied?
It would be much easier to believe you if you provided a link. Might also help to solve your ratio problem?
My desk doesn't go high enough for me to draw comfortably, so I sit down for that.

I got lazy about standing all day, and am in the building-back-up stage again. My goal is for a couple of hours everyday, eventually increasing that to 8. Currently I stand up when I feel like I'm tired of sitting down, and sit down when I'm tired of standing up.
Make sure to click Like on things you really want to see. I made a point of skimming through liking all the good stuff, and now my feed is much better.
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And Chinese, and Mexicans, and South Africans, and... http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jan/03/ob...
There is truth in what you say, but you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. If the wording of your comments makes it seem like you're trolling, maybe it's time to adjust your wording?

As adestefan observes, the problem is not confined to America nowadays either.
Yea, bullshit. You're clearly not paying attention to the conversation. Troll elsewhere.
I haven't tried a standing desk for programming yet (it's on my todo-list).
But I did have a summer job as a student where I was standing in front of a computer all day, registering incoming packages in a warehouse.

My feet hurt for the first few days, but after some experimentation with different footwear (I ended up with a pair of orthopedic sandals as the most comfortable), a soft mat to stand on, and a 5-10 minute break each hour, I had no issues after the first couple of weeks.

I'm pretty sure that moving is better than either standing or sitting. Since walking around isn't very compatible with working on a PC, I expect that an adjustable desk is pretty much the best we can do. Along with switching between standing and sitting, frequent breaks, and suitable footwear.
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Are those Markus chairs from IKEA really comparable to the ilk of Herman Miller et al.? I'm wondering if the road trip to try one out is worthwhile. Please share your experiences if you own one.
I think this would be entirely ineffective, but it exists: http://www.kickstandfurniture.com/
I dove through the linkfarming: This is repackaged gizmodo content which itself was repackaged from http://www.psmag.com/culture/the-like-button-that-came-befor...
I literally don't understand the concept of buying textbooks. I have just finished a 4-year Master course in Computing Science in the UK and never had to buy a single book. Every single book that was on the reading list had to be available from the library - the library had at least 50-60 copies,and then you could access the ebook free of charge through the university network. I know that it's the same for other courses at that university - Maths, History, Biology, Electrical Engineering.....thinking of it now, I can't recall a single person who bought a textbook, ever. And in the case when I needed access to some academic publications for my dissertation and our library didn't have access to them, I filled out a request and within a week they purchased all the books that I needed. Was our university unique in this regard, or is that entire textbook craze US-only?
Are there any ways to defend against the attack?

I can only think of buying AMD Chips with CoreBios instead, which of I don't know, if they may have similar issues. Maybe buy Tilera, or other manycore chips instead?

This article with the title: "Expert Says NSA Have Backdoors Built Into Intel And AMD Processors" raises some concerns, even though I don't know, if the source can be trusted. http://www.eteknix.com/expert-says-nsa-have-backdoors-built-...
I released an upload service to serve static files for your (client) network
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tor-flashprox... - host a Tor bridge from Firefox.
Right, MS still wins. But for how long? American companies looking at difficult times due all this issues. Why should German or French companies rely on MS or Apple or Intel products when they have to face industrial spying. I don't even want to know the extent of the advantage american companies have gained due to NSA and othera spying.
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Back when I got a standing desk two years ago, it took me about two weeks to adjust, standing about 5 hr a day. It was mostly my feet that started to hurt back then, and I don't have a particularly strong back or good posture.

Nowadays I'm regularly on my feet for about 10 hours a day and just dont think about it that much. I do often walk around the office and constantly shift my weight around, which helps.
I use this at an adjustable desk: http://store.focaluprightfurniture.com/mogo.html

It rules. It encourages a lot of lateral movement, and I find myself using it about 50% of the time my desk is high.

I generally stand in the am, and then lower my desk to sit in the afternoon (I use a second-hand Aeron).
To quote John Gruber, "Ideas are worthless". It's the implentation that matters. So the idea about an idea generating website isn't all that good. :P
A good part of SF not seeming to be a 24 hour city, is that public transit in SF doesn't run 24 hours-at least not BART, and I don't think MUNI Metro does either. The last SB Caltrain leaves at midnight, I think?
EDIT: I'll give you being clean, SF can stand to be cleaned up a bit.
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And yes, if we're talking about SF proper, (not the Bay Area as a whole) MUNI can stand to be massively improved.
> The lack of diversity between social groups in San Francisco isn’t going to change anytime soon, as the number of tech employees in the Bay Area is only going to continue to rise.

I am not sure I understand. Tech sector brings people from all over the world including India, China, South America and Europe.
> Heh, you know how developing countries "solve" the bureaucracy problem? Through corruption!

True and this "grease lubricating the economic engine" does "work" on a small scale. Problem in an environment where pervasive corruption trumps over "rule of law" for the small honest budding startup up-start -- there's always be someone bigger with better connections and deeper pockets willing to outbid you when it comes to securing local market dominance which will more than pay off their elbowing-you-out ;)

Still, you have a point. A western-style rule-of-law environment is generally better for business and worth paying some amount of taxes -- within reason. But there comes a point where the tax and regulation codes do overwhelm small agile but resource-limited up-starts. (Of course there's still many success stories, but they have perhaps much to do with pressing forward relentlessly at the slight risk of perhaps missing one minor regulation or other tax facet and simply inadvertently gambling on the very tiny off-chance of doing so actually blowing them up.)

Then if you do decide "taxes and regulations are really kind of too expensive but still just-about worth it for just and fair legal protection", you'll be well advised to keep telling yourself that fairytale where your taxes are directly funding a functioning well-balanced governance system, rather than being simply a metric used NOT even to pay interest on the governments past and present outsized debt excesses --which would be crazy enough, but nowadays your average western "non-corrupt" government will borrow even for interest payments-- BUT simply for said government to reach some kind of good agency rating as a "quality" borrower.
Aren't most carbon fiber objects made from sheets that are shaped, baked and bound together?

Some of the strongest ones are made from laid unidirectional thread done in the directions you want to have the least stretch, the woven stuff is put on top to give it the look. Also, all carbon fiber parts are FRP, this is just using a different P. It will be weaker than a baked part, but it clearly has potential as it needs no tooling.
Actually I half suspect that the intent of the original post was to elicit a DNSSEC-enthusiast-approved how-to like the one we see here. After all, the best way to ask how to do something online isn't to ask politely while including all relevant details, but to obnoxiously claim to the right audience that it can't be done.
Does it? I haven't seen that. It has single copy transfer, but I didnt see a memory ownership transfer/sharing.
> So what exactly is San Francisco? When I came across a passage in the book, “The Annals of San Francisco,” about the 1840s Gold Rush, I found the answer to that question.

So SF is bunch of gold diggers?
Real diversity is not how you look or where you come from, but what's inside you and how you think and the culture you belong to.
Wow this is great... Now all that remains to do is years of hard graft, hustling and a massive truck of luck and you might be successful! Amazing!
No. I actually disagree with the point. I was trying to provide an interpretation of what had been written by the OP. And based off their response, my interpretation matched their intended meaning.

EDIT: I wrote this when I wasn't fully awake. I agree with the OP slightly, but that's because the OP is using "semantics" in a different way than how computer scientists (like myself) would use it. OP's definition of syntax is, basically, "rules". OP's definition of semantics is "understanding", not "meaning".

So by that definition, computers really only seem to be following more and more complex rules. OP seems to be of the opinion that the "semantics" side relies on something outside of encodable rules. In that regard, a computer doesn't understand its program anymore than a car engine understands its pistons. That doesn't mean that we can't encode meaning into our programs (what computer scientists intend with the word semantics). It also doesn't mean that I think OPs definition of semantics (understanding) is fundamentally impossible for computers (see my other post in this thread), just that, as far as I've seen and understand, it hasn't happened yet.
>A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The first statement is not at all a limitation of the second, but is rather a justification of the second. I agree that there needs to be gun control, but it should be done through a constitutional amendment, rather than by a misinterpretation of what is currently there.