skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently realized I've been using the same $8 razor blade for the last 18+ months. Before every shave, I rub the dry blades against my bicep - obviously not in the cutting direction. It keeps the blade damn sharp. Someone told me about it at a bar, I tried it, and so far I haven't had a shave that's made me think about changing blades.
I did some poking around when Heartbleed first was disclosed publicly, and while hc dot gov may not be directly affected, a number of the state exchanges are. Not seeing this reported, anywhere.
Being able to track MH370 would not have changed outcome, a contrary opinion
The video is not a good argument. All the time I saved writing Haskell by being able to use quick check was completely torched by having to refactor my entire codebase, with no tooling, when I realized I needed to thread some configuration state all the way down to a tiny area of my code as well as spending a good 4 or 5 days hunting down space leaks.

Overall, I think I would have been more productive with OCaml. Every language has trade-offs, you just have to understand what they are and how they affect the problem you're working on.
Apple Tries To Patent Android’s Gestural Unlocking System
I don't own one, but I usually see lots of raccomandations for the EdgeRouter Lite or the EdgeRouter POE (which is a Lite + integrated Switch + POE).

It does run on Debian, I think you can just ssh in an do everything you want. By the way, on DD-WRT/OpenWRT/Tomato you can install pretty much what you want by using OptWare/EntWare.

The problem is usually not the software, but the hardware. Router are still slow (for example, I tried once to use transmission on my puny e3200, and the speed was capped at ~350kbps by the CPU) and they don't have lots of connectivity (on high-end routers you get maybe 2 USB 3.0 ports. The WRT1900AC is in fact the first router with an eSata port, and the first one with decent speed over USB).

If you want to run anything somewhat "heavy", you're far better with having a different box, or using a custom pfsense/smoothwall/m0n0wall/vyatta box.
Just ordered my first AeroPress, wondering what type of grind works best?

> With his plans mapped out, Adler went to Westec Plastics in Livermore, California,
> ordered $100,000 worth of molds, and put the invention into production.

Just how does one go about stepping up from something like 3D printing (manifold meshes [0] are easy) to something like injection molding?

[0] http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/prepping_blender_files_fo...
Just read this after reading a short essay on the damage a narcissistic person can have on the culture of a small company.

These fellas are a breath of fresh air. Here's to hoping these nice guys do not finish last.
Hey man, I'm dip, one of the co-founders of ecovent. You're absolutely right, we need to control the thermostat to maximize the utility of the system. Our plan is to integrate with any wifi thermostat.

If you're interested in joining our beta program, please email me at: dp [at] ecoventsystems [dot] com.
With the rise in deductibles, and still no formal structure for telehealth reimbursement through insurance companies, more people will start sourcing out other options for low cost alternatives. $50/mont isn't for me, or a lot of people, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it, especially on family plans.
I'm having a lot of trouble getting past: "Certificates bind a public key and an identity (commonly a DNS name) together."

X.509 certificates bind a public key and a human recognizable string (a "common name") together to create a verifiable digital identity. Over-simplified, X.509 is about solving the "I'm Spartacus" problem.

CRLs solve the "He was Spartacus" problem. I agree with the broad conclusion that CRLs aren't effective for human trust, but they are perfectly reasonable for machine trust.

Why didn't the author mention Kerberos? The default lifetime of a Kerberos ticket is designed around humans: roughly the length of a work shift in front of a computer terminal.

final edit: meta-moderation is hard
Add it to your favorites bar and then it will be much easier for you to launch it without going to the play store !
Looks awesome, thanks!
I read somewhere that storing the blade in baby oil also helps it last longer. Something about oxidation...
See my other post. Systems with shorter term authentication have been around for decades. The problem with X.509 is that it centralizes authorization with the browser vendor.
From a glance of the source it doesn't look like PourOver is doing any heavy lifting with Underscore.
PourOver works lodash.underscore build of Lo-Dash without issue though because it's not doing any heavy lifting you probably won't see a perf difference.
There's a password hashing competition going right now that will hopefully result in some more state-of-the art primitives available through a suitable interface.

https://password-hashing.net
Poxa: A Pusher clone with a real-time Console
Around a medium grind, finer if you prefer richer coffee (closer to espresso). Since you're using a filter, it doesn't need to be nearly as large as a french press grind.
Situations like this used to bother me greatly. In fact there have been several times in my life where I dumped ideas simply because someone told me it was a bad idea, only to watch that idea turn into a million dollar opportunity a year later with someone else. Over time I have learned that not everyone is going to like every idea or product. You could have the greatest product in the world and there will always be detractors who have no interest or a bad opinion. Unless every body you talk to has the same reaction I would not worry about the few who could care less.

Even Henry Ford had people who thought cars were a crazy idea and they would never use them. Now look where we are with vehicles. In short, don't worry about it.
Headline has a question mark? Pure speculation guaranteed.

This story needs more time to see if there's any truth in it. Commenting now is a waste of time.
The "better use of CAs" you describe is essentially DNSSEC.
> * recognize that limited & temporary secrecy is really important in combating crime or fighting wars*

How important? Quantify that. Start at zero, and then justify all the really vital things. You may find there are actually zero existential threats if some super-Snowden revealed all secrets.
Please, can we stop with the politics post? This is egregiously off-topic.
Sounds like you're going to be using some weighted statistical methods in there.

I also read that you're going the Java route. Decent option for handling the load (free tax returns will pull in a big amount of people - assuming they trust the service), but considering you guys are going to be 4-5, perhaps python with the data packages(numpy et. al) might help with AI (which reads like intense probability calcs).
The last 30 seconds of that video mention it but there way off base. Humanity has done a lot of above ground nuclear testing and for the most part unless your vary close it's simply a slight increase in cancer risk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk
I switched to electric years ago and I'll never go back. Quicker, easier, cheaper and just as good as far as I'm concerned without any mess.
I've been using an AeroPress almost every day for over 3 years, and love them.

I've had only one issue with them, in that the inside has become scratched and discoloured, which somehow messes up the taste as well (after about 2 years use).

A totally worth-while purchase. I'm now on my second one, hopefully this lasts longer, but if not, I'll just buy another one in a couple years.

One thing I like is how manual the process is - I can make a much weaker cup of coffee for guests who don't like it so strong without it becoming bitter. For different types of coffee, I can brew it in different ways.

And it's odd, but even cheap pre-ground supermarket coffee tastes hugely nicer with the AP. These days, I buy pretty much whichever the cheapest fairtrade coffeebeans the supermarket has, and grind enough for each cup, and it tastes great.
Ultimate Privacy Guide
More like Howey's "Wool" (Silo Series[1]).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(series)
Yes I'm quite aware of the history but the fact that borland/embarcadero choses to call both delphi doesn't really change what I said though, every where besides the marketing of this IDE clearly considers object pascal [1] as the language (with several implementations/compilers), and delphi [2] as the IDE.

Delphi's own documentation, once you're past the marketing naming on the box, makes it clear that the language is object pascal.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_Delphi
No, I am talking about a straight razor. User seniorsassycat is entirely correct.

These are the blades I was referring to: http://www.amazon.com/Shark-Stainless-Straight-Barber-Profes...

EDIT: Reply to your edit: I don't really care to fool around with a strop. Also, classics are more expensive. The one I have now is my first -- I got it because it was cheap and I wanted to see if I liked straight shaving. I have never bothered to get a classic because it works fine.
Added a set of questions that customers can answer after starting their Candy Japan subscription. Hopefully this will let me understand them better and help with setting the tone in the way I write, possibly influence product choices and help with marketing.

http://i.imgur.com/3wNZrSN.png

It's amazing what a nice bunch my customers are. Out of 500 subscribers already 70 have volunteered their time to answer the question set that I just sent out. For typical ecommerce emails, 14% might be the number of people who open an email, but here they not only opened, but clicked through some obscure link on the bottom and spent time answering a long questionnaire for me.

I haven't collected the answers yet, but here are the questions.

- Why they subscribed

- Who will eat the candies?

- Do they have kids?

- Are they into anime?

- Have they been to Japan?

- What are their hobbies?

Also included some that might help with online advertising:

- Age

- Gender

- Education level

- Married?

- Social networks they use

- Other websites they visit (5 people mentioned Hacker News)

I'm thinking of writing up a blog post describing what I learned, will post it later.
Are you referring to residential HVAC systems or commercial ones? In my limited exposure, forced-air systems don't really exist in the majority of European homes. They tend to be radiator-based heating loops with individual thermostatic valves on the radiators. Air conditioning, if it's installed at all, is limited to single-room or area units, not whole-house units.

Zone control is indeed expensive, and I'm definitely interested in Ecovent's idea about putting flow control at the floor vents (or is it just the registers). But unless these units are battery-driven, I see more complexity in just getting the silly things wired up, not to mention making sure doors are closed and pressure is regulated to keep those nasty dust lines from appearing on the carpets under your doors.
It's my understanding that if you have a forced-air system, closing vents is detrimental due to the pressures involved. Closing the vents adds strain to your blower and redirects the, now higher pressure, air to other parts of the house.

I'm no HVAC guru, this is simply what I've been told. Can someone enlighten me, or how does this technology approach this situation?
I think it holds up well, compared w/ pjax at least. You can check out the tutorials for examples where I do some somewhat complicated stuff with it.

Search for "Implementing A Dynamic Progress Bar" on this page:

http://intercoolerjs.org/intro.html

for a fairly elaborate example.

That being said, Intercooler is not designed to handle 100% of the AJAX cases you might run into. If you have a crazy dynamic UI, like a live graph or drawing canvas, this isn't the right tool.

But, it will play well with whatever the right tool is. :)
I've been using Postman pretty much every day for the past couple of years. It's a really handy tool for testing out APIs in particular which is primarily what I use it for. It's definitely worth upgrading your package and I think the developer well deserves it.
I've used Postman for a while and it is great for those trying to understand integrating with web apis. The ability to save requests in a namespace is invaluable.
I envy those of you who can make that work since I manage to cut myself around twice a week, on average, using a "safety" razor. If I switched to anything more basic, my bathroom would look like a crime scene.
hey man, check out the whitepaper here: http://ecoventsystems.com/blog/2014/03/new-whitepaper-when-i...
You would certainly want to interface with the thermostat but you don't necessarily have to, for instance, you could just open all vents when the AC kicks on except the one by the thermostat and have each room close off when it gets cold enough and open the thermostat vent so that it kicks off around when every other room is cool enough.
I think the system is "designed" to be opaque.
I am not a coffee nut, but got one of these serendipitously as a present and can attest it makes a good cup of coffee. Here's some facts (maybe obvious to others) I found out after the fact that I wish I had known a long time ago:

1. If you've never owned an electric kettle, you may not know that they will boil water in mere seconds (!) and are a key part in making an Aeropress practical. (And they're cheap: http://goo.gl/8dVnP2)

2. If you ever get heartburn and drink coffee, you MUST buy one of these ASAP, it will help immensely. Fast-brewed coffees have very low acidity, so you should treat yourself with aeropress (or Starbucks Clover coffee, another fast-brewed method) if you have this problem... you will probably feel better.

3. That said, these things brew a coffee that is like a hybrid between espresso and drip coffee, so if that sounds bad/good to you, you'll feel about the coffee you get from this the same way.

4. An aeropress is the easiest to clean kitchen appliance I've ever owned. You will NOT think to yourself "boy this coffeemaker could probably use a thorough cleaning" every time you want a cup of coffee... no such anxiety with this device.
The road design tricks that make us drive safer
Can you provide a link to the model you use?
You're stropping the blade, just with your arm instead of a bit of leather.
There's been plenty of action, but you can't turn the whole world on a dime.

Namecoin is fantastic in theory, but has the fatal flaw of using Bitcoin: the fastest number cruncher wins. Some would argue that the strength of Bitcoin's tech is that numerous currencies with different genesis blocks can flourish. That doesn't get us anywhere with naming, though.

Dead horse flog: the CA model's problem is that you can't do federated (global) naming and federated trust in the same system.
I prefer cli tools for api driving/testing, and httpie[1] works pretty well for that.

[1]: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
Why have a single entity at all? Moxie Marlinspike proposed Convergence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA) as a solution - I think that something like that has far more potential wheels to travel than a Namecoin based system.

I should be able to choose who I trust, a notary system would allow me to do just that. No central CA systems.

The biggest concern I can see is Identity management, but, as mentioned by Moxie, most of these CA don't do anything close to proper Identity management any more - I have a number of certificates bought from quite a few different CA's all made out to my rabbit, at no fixed address.

Notaries can, of course, do additional verification - they could even advertise this as a premium.

I don't see why this can't be extended to DNS lookup's either. I trust X notaries and pin the results I get, I can choose to trust a majority, or be hyper paranoid and require everyone to agree. No need to run a power hungry blockchain, no single point of technology failure.

Technically, all of that is feasible today. And I imagine we will see a number of different technologies combined to form a proper, decentralised, system.
It makes no sense to spend any serious amount of time saving money on razor blades -- at total cost of ownership per year in the $100~200 range, the thing to maximize for is comfort and safety. If you get your blades for free but have a small chance of cutting yourself / someone else when you dispose of them, that's a terrible tradeoff.
Can you give a high level description of how you implement the global grid? It's really only absolute coordination of a checkerboard-like grid that I'm wrestling with. I've verified that my algorithm works, and is nicely stable. I've also scrutinized it with VisualVM, and on Linux and OS X, the threads are either in wait or running, in the pattern I'd expect. (The subgrid worker-group threads have to wait for the global grid to do its coordinating.) I'm also seeing expected use of the thread pools. However, for some reason I can't seem to scale beyond 250 users.

One complication is that my grid is for a procedurally generated world with 2^120 locations in it. This is why I generate subgrids. A degenerate case is one subgrid per user. However, these subgrids are organized in load-balanced groups, each of which has their own thread pool, caches, and locks.

Also, rollbacks are problematic, though the real problems are arguably corner cases.

Erlang might be a win because each garbage collector only has to deal with its own local memory.

EDIT: It turns out my algorithm is somewhat similar to Pikko:

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/297/Pikko...

One big difference, is that my algorithm doesn't move or reconfigure masts, instead it dynamically creates subgrids, which are then grouped into "workgroups" each of which is supposed to be processed by a different CPU socket. Instead of there being an API, it's more that the subgrids stop what they are doing and their information is briefly managed by the global grid code. (The procedurally generated map is rigged, so that there are many opportunities for crossing from one subgrid to another.)
A few cobalt-clad h-bombs would make the planet uninhabitable for humans. Doomsday weapons are withing reach of, at least, the US and Russia, probably China, too.
A straight razor handle is low tech and more expensive.
Just a heads up. According to your contractual agreement with Apple for the iOS Developer Program, you are not allowed to use your Enterprise account (or even a non-Enterprise account) to distribute your app to anyone who isn't directly inside your company (i.e. you can't openly advertise + accept applicants for a TestFlight).

If someone with the right authority at Apple catches this, you stand a good chance of getting into hot water and/or banned from the dev program.

That said, awesome idea!
hah, don't get me wrong, I highly doubt anyone really "works" a 80 hour week. I personally work 35 given that I take an hour and half for the gym + lunch everyday. And out of that 35, I probably spend 10 reading HN, learning new tech, doing personal emails, and other not exactly job-related activities, so 25 I'd say total of real 'work'.

so I was probably exaggerating a bit, but I stand by my original comment that many of these overworked, underpaid startup employees lead absolutely miserable lives and work harder than 95% of people on the planet.

For reference, the US in general works more hours per week than any other industrial nation. Hunter gatherers worked only 15 hours/week. Most impoverished nations work very few hours per week. The only people who beat them out are sweat shops in Southeast asia
Want to help us work on this problem at http://telehash.org?
Facebook date turns bloody: Man shoots woman, then kills self
Excuse me, what does phah mean?
Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy
Perhaps you should read the article. It's talking about an event in 1965
postman turned real useful for me while getting some jira rest stuff to work
Working on a design & layout app for html. I recently switched to om/react.js and it's been a huge improvement in my workflow. http://i.imgur.com/fvUiUpa.jpg
HTTPie: Curl for humans
Super useful. It's nice that you can set auth parameters (basic/digest/oauth1&2) and headers easily.

I use it as a packaged app, so launching it is the same as it is for native stuff.
do you have a blog or sth on the detail of making this web app? I would love to follow.
Would that be a bad thing? (I'm just curious, and have no agenda. I'm ignorant in such matters.)

It seems like the proliferation of nukes has resulted in a more stable worldwide society. It's too early to tell, but in a century or two we'll be certain. Is it true that where there are nukes, war isn't?
Same idea as http://www.suntulit.com but they never quite launched despite much fanfare. I think they were acquired
> More people have been in space than have lived underwater to do science.

The qualifier, "to do science" in the above quote is important. Nuclear submarines stay submerged for up to three months, with normal patrols lasting 3 to 6 weeks.
I switched to a safety razor and have found similar results. I was amazed at how smoother the shave felt vs the typical modern razor.

The safety razor took about 5 min of practice vs a week, one of the reasons I opted for it.
Easy Markdown Documentation System
Austria can get a shallow water port on the Black Sea, in Vienna, with a rise of ~500ft.
When I hear these arguments, I always look for what is wrong with OCSP Must Staple. The author says that at the bottom it might be a solution with short lived certs, but I dont see the need for super short lived certs, only short lived OCSP staples. The author presents this as the problem:

> if the attacker still has control of the site, they can hop from CA to CA getting certificates. (And they will have the full OCSP validity period to use after each revocation.)

The solution here is to not allow OCSP stapling to request a new certificate and use a full OCSP check to verify that the cert wasnt revoked.
I use Rested, it's a simple, cheap, mac app and works great. http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/rested/

EDIT: Why the hell was I downvoted for suggesting a good app? goddammit...
Math topics useful for computer science/programming
Unlikely they "stole" it. Likely they obtained it.
Years ago a product came out that was supposed to preserve your blades. It was oil/liquid-based and you'd store the blade in the solution between shaves.

Not sure what ever happened to it but their rationale was that, contrary to popular belief, it's not the hair that dulls the blade over repeat shaves; it's the oxidation.

Since then, I made sure to always dry my blades after use and noticed a significant difference in their lifespan.
I'll recommend Postman to anyone any day. I make a ton of API's and it's the best tool for testing them.
One thing to add is that the Edge Router Lite is based off of Vyatta and it is mostly feature compatible with it. It also boots off of a 4GB flash drive formatted as 2GB so if you open it up you can get double storage for free.
App request: Android app, I enter "my" subway stops and the direction I take them ( Ex: The 1 train, uptown, from 116th ), the App simply shows me how many minutes until the next train.

I want something I can quickly open and glance at to know when I should leave, or if I should be sprinting to the station to save myself 20m late at night.

1 minute mock up:

http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/subway-app-mock-up.jpg
Postman is an awesome tool. If your intereseted in a php library to go a bit further and curl urls and expect certain json response bodies, headers, and status codes, check out https://github.com/commando/dogpatch.
I love postman but am not a fan of the just slightly weird behavior of chrome apps.
There's also Searchpath http://searchpath.io