skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do I understand the post correctly that the font is bundled in Firefox and thus usable with no download lag? (If so, does that go equally for all variants?)
My browsing of HN is leisure about 70% of the time. At other times, I do various kinds of work (in that I am making a concerted effort to create value, rather than intending to enjoy myself) and very occasionally do "home" type things (senses of belonging, kinship, shared struggle, etc.).
I'm still comparing Fira Mono and Source Code Pro. They are both very nice.

https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro
The number and complexity of the fault lines in CA is quite amusing. For refrenece, it is illegal to build directly on top of fault lines (per code). Howevere, check out this faultline going through some famous real-estate landmarks:

http://graphics.latimes.com/hollywood-fault-flyover/

The san andreas and major faults like in the olympics are well know and more or less ~easily avoided. However, the seismology are then just are more localized, and not even CAL state has a great handle on where all its faults are.
That would be fine as an internal or pie-in-the-sky goal, but by making these claims they are exposing their customers to health risk and themselves to legal risk. There are hundreds of MRPs on the market, and many of them have more thought put into their formulations than Soylent, but none of them make the claim that you should or could live soley off the one product for any extended period of time.
Now only we need is Chrome to bundle it as well.
I very much question the value of a comment from someone who is incapable of understanding the source material linked in the submission in the first place. If it's so technical you need somebody elses slimmed down (and likely faulty) synopsis to even comprehend it how likely is it that your comment truly contributes to the discussion?
I take it you have now watched the video and concede that you are wrong.

I don't mean "it's open to interpretation" but I mean flat out wrong. The Guardian admitted it was not a PR stunt.

I accept your concession.
I think the author means Korean in that he can't read it. I don't believe Ken Iverson had a Korean connection in making it.
Allow me to disagree in both assertion and sentiment - "not recoverable with today's technology" doesn't mean much with the rate of progress of oil extraction technology.

And rather than 2/3 of the US Shale oil reserves, the 13b barrels is less than a quarter of the current estimate (58b - http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11611), which still leaves 50% growth in reserves over the 2012 figures.

And given the trouble throughout the world caused by US energy imports, I'd be happy to try exporting for a while.
Preliminary quake map shows fault lines under schools, hotels, homes
In the Universe of legal systems.

I suppose you could say that the police "intimidate" criminals by threatening to arrest them as well but it would make no more sense than you are making. Like a parent "intimidates" a child by grounding them instead of throwing into the street to fend for themselves.

The Government had a legal case, they offered the Guardian a solution which was quicker and less disruptive to their business.

Is your argument that the should not have compromised and just launched a case to have the Guardian shut down immediately? Is that your argument?

Because if not then you have very little evidence to say the Government were not being reasonable.
Life in ancient Mesopotamia was at least as violent as life under Saddam Hussein or the current Iraqi government[1]. It was likely preceded by a succession of violent thugs (aka rulers) back to the dawn of humanity. If only the historical record was better you could probably trace the legitimacy of most governments back to some Neolithic caveman beating another caveman into submission.

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130425-indus...
Thanks for the insight! I know it's very off-topic, but seeing your comment about indexing title tags I have to ask if you have any idea what could be wrong here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23732242/how-to-get-googl...

Google seems to be ignoring the title changes our JS makes. Should we not have the title tag there in the first place and then add it in when the title is known?
Campus safety app
VCU Police has brought a powerful new safety tool to campus for the new academic year. The department recently partnered with LiveSafe, a technology startup that has created a mobile app by the same name designed to improve interaction between campus law enforcement agencies and their communities. The app is free to students, faculty, staff and neighbors of VCU and is available for iOS or Android devices.
I downvoted you because you are behaving like a prick.

The downvotes are telling you to calm the fuck down.
My daughter fell in love with a similar non-rotating tangram game at that age, and that's why it came to mind... tangrams are something that tablets do really well.

That said, I do see what they mean about rotation. My son took some time to learn to play Amazing Alex (Rovio's Incredible Machine remake) because of the clumsy rotation UI in that one.
When I was serving I always used to wonder why the Ministry of Defence never used to defend itself with a public spokesman about public allegations.

Now I know why - people are morons and no explanation will suffice. It is really not worth the time or resources to argue with people who have no primary experience of the subject they think they are qualified to argue about.

Carry on HNers; you are doing a fine job.
Well, in that case, you got any plans this weekend? I'm sure we can find the student something else to work on if you fixed it for us over a weekend ;)
SHA1 is long past its expiry date. NIST has been recommending to move away from it since 2010, and it outright banned it last year. And when the NSA-influenced NIST recommends something, you know you should be doing it at least 3 years earlier. Someone like NSA or even a drug cartel can pretty easily break it now.

This is a 2 year old article:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/when_will_we_...

If you're worried about the performance overhead of SHA2, just use Blake2, which is actually faster than SHA1 and even MD5:

https://leastauthority.com/blog/BLAKE2-harder-better-faster-...

http://bench.cr.yp.to/results-sha3.html#amd64-titan0

https://blake2.net/
Isn't it fascinating that this has been on front page most of the day, and it has but one comment? I suppose I'll fill this echo chamber.

This sort of work is absolutely fascinating to me. Emergent behavior like this can be so varied and complex, and getting any handle on it at all is often impossible. The fact that mathematics is starting to approach such problems, and may one day discover a great edifice of knowledge that explains what happens when a few simple rules interact—why, I would love to see the day. Recall that programming, too, often involves putting together just a few small pieces in an intricate arrangement, which causes beautiful behaviors to take place. Imagine understanding that phenomenon on a deep level!
Last time I saw a USB dock with video the video performance was really poor, max 30hz at 720p etc... Do you have any experience of how these work?
A minor point about OSA: everyone is covered by it whether they've signed or not.

All "signing the OSA" means is that you have read it, and you have said that you've read it.
Sure, but my point is that there is only one speaker involved so the cancellation happens in the electronics, before any sound is made.
Set ActiveRecord free from Rails: http://bradgessler.com/articles/activerecord-sprockets-shoul...

Like the sequel gem.
probably they were waiting for students to start coding to announce this
Too black and white. Why not be funny, short AND thoughtful? Why does everyone here have such tunnel vision?
Buy/sells seem to be only time stamped to a day. Surely you need greater accuracy than that, e.g. the exact second? Otherwise, if I buy a stock on a day where it rises 10%, what price do I get?

Do you take dividends into account? If not, why not?

How do you rank people who make different numbers of picks? A naive method would be to add up all the returns, but this would then favour people who make more stock picks. For example, if I recommend two 'buys' that both give a 10% return, have I gained 20% in total or 10%? (As I would have had to split my bank to invest in both at once)
That doesn't make any sense. Defensive coding means not silently discarding errors (by returning null, in this case), and has nothing at all to do with exceptions.

As for rewrapping errors, yes, each subsystem should have its own error space. You don't lose data by nesting errors; on the contrary, each level can add additional context to an error result that makes debugging an unexpected issue far easier.
Not only is this measurable, but laws of supply and demand are pretty well established economic theory. I'm honestly surprised to see such gesticulation about economics in a start-up oriented forum.
You are absolutely correct.

They're like the entrenched interests at Kodak that tried to stop the development of digital cameras (which Kodak actually invented) to support film sales.

All they managed to do was ensure that the digital cameras were developed by companies other than Kodak, and now Kodak is bankrupt.

The same thing is happening with ebooks. In many genres, 50% or more of the best-selling ebooks are either indy or small press.

This doesn't end well for the big publishers, I'm afraid. It sure as hell didn't end well for Kodak.
I think people often forget this when they try to hand-wave away concerns about peak oil and think energy independence is just a case of allowing for more drilling.

On the whole we're burning through the easy stuff at a staggering rate, and when these are depleted, the only thing left will be the types that are far more expensive to extract. There might be a time when the stubborn tar sands are actually the cheapest, and the only other types of oil are even more colossally expensive.
Führer means leader, not Hitler. What's the problem?
Apple, Google seek approval for $324.5M wage-fixing settlement
Key derivation is SHA1-PBKDF2 not just SHA1, but you're right. I'll change to something more reputable in the next version.
Every technical term you used sounded like gibberish to me, but I'd like to learn more - I live in Manhattan. Can I buy you a beer or another beverage of your choice in exchange for some of your time and explanations?
The shutter sound can just be a beep as far as I know. One digital camera I bought for dirt cheap did that, presumably to cut costs.
The lawsuit had nothing to do with Amazon.
For some reason I'm reading that as "Prominent journalists claim profession illegal"
Ditto. Retina MBP and an older 11" Air and 10.9 has been solid. I never have to reboot either of them except to do some updates.

I've had more issues with hardware reliability with Apple products than with software issues.
Ask HN: Service that gives me a signed iPhone app
I do not have an apple/iOS developer account and do not want to have one. Is there a service where i can upload my iOS app code and get back an enterprise signed app which i can install on my Phone and use for ever ?
Make Your Own Wordpress Sidebars – Laplacef
QuickSort [1962] [pdf]
That means there's like a weeks worth of recoverable oil in that field.
Some people define "reasonable" as not seizing information from journalists, destroying their stuff, offering them choices that include getting shut down...

Edit: How effectively they can cloak themselves in legalism is beside the point.

Edit 2: I'm resisting writing more, because there has to be a Godwin's Law equivalent for when you start quoting dictionary definitions at people. Also I've made more than enough flip remarks that could be used against me by a future authoritarian regime...

Edit the third: I'm sympathetic to your arguments about mundane classified data handling, particularly as [ed: you're] a mundane classified data handler, but I'm afraid government agents fucking with journalists gives me strong feelings of Not Okay.
> Basically, many people have looked at the overall book market both before and Apple entered it, and found that, when looking at the entire market instead of just e.g. the NYT bestsellers list, prices were not higher after Apple showed up.

Basically, many people have looked at the 5 publishers accused of collusion and have seen that prices were higher AFTER the collusion
Koala accepts water from Human
Caviar (YC S11) is looking for Rails Engineers
DNA based research may have unveiled long sought diabetes treatment
I have suffered through debilitating anxiety and depression attacks (I call them attacks because they are finite) for most of my adult life. And my treatment, frankly, has been spotty, although clinical mental issues run in my family.

I can remember the first time I had one at the age of 22. I was traveling home from an internship in Silicon Valley. I'm now 40 and have been going through a significant episode. Most of my attacks occur around major life changes, or events I feel that I have no control over. I suspect many of us go into technology because the machine is an environment we can control, and many of us don't like (or can't cope with) being out of control of our environments.

My anxiety attacks have centered around:

- Fear of economic collapse

- Fear of personal financial collapse

- Fear of terminal health problem

- Fear of being alone

- Fear of not being able to provide for family (which prevented me from having one)

To name a few.

Wall Street maybe driven by fear and greed, but I am driven primarily by fear, and occasionally greed. But fear in many ways has treated me well, and has forced me to take action.

There are many situations in life where you are faced with a major decision for which there is no right or wrong answer (marriage, moving, changing jobs, buying a house, starting a company, etc.). Personally, and I suspect many of us are like this, I want to know what the right answer is. I'm frustrated that I cannot see the future. This frustration leads to a mental infinite loop which prevents me from functioning.

I don't think I have been treated properly for my problems. There are folks who I think have far less anxiety who get far more treatment. This might be because I have a fear of treatment.

So yeah, you aren't alone. It definitely sucks. But also doesn't have to prevent you from being successful, but I wish there was less stigma around it.
The fact that Hitler isn't mentioned in GP, nor Twitter, tells you exactly what the problem is.
Sure, I'm usually around.

General overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications

JT6M is a radio protocol for using the meteor trails to make contacts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJT_(Amateur_radio_software)
Ask HN: What are your favorite free web typefaces?
Great type combinations are also appreciated.
I'm not shilling for Evernote, but some of the comments here suggest that not everyone is familiar with browser plugins like Clearly: http://evernote.com/clearly

Couldn't imagine reading log articles on the web without it. It amazes me that 90% of all content-based sites are not designed for simply reading.
Fira Sans is also one of the 3 free fonts (along with Charter and Source Code Pro) recommended by
Butterick's Practical Typography: http://practicaltypography.com/

It is also used in Racket's documentation:
http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/fira-sans/

And here is how I use it in LaTeX:

% Font settings
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
% Serif body font
\usepackage{charter}
% Math font
\usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}
% Monospaced font
\usepackage{sourcecodepro}
% Sans-serif font
\usepackage[lf]{FiraSans}
Go proportionally spaced fonts for code and don't look back.
It's interesting to think of 'cancellation' in different mediums. Waves in physical space. Radio in electromagnetism. And now 'computed' waves cancel each other too.
There's a strong associate between the two.

Example: It's the first thing your mind jumped too although cpeterso never mentioned the Hitler in his comment.
The 360K filesize is because I wanted to update the image to include the real iv in the image, which is based on the filesize. The only way to do that was to leave the PNG uncompressed (so the filesize remained constant), making the PNG you see 180K plus a duplicate reverse encrypted version appended at the end of the file, making the total 360K.
Oops, I forgot to link the templates in step 1, here you go: https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/guides/bug_report...
The State of the Apple Developer Ecosystem
That page doesn't load correctly on my desktop, so I can't see the example.

Your question though, you want to show the first few minutes of the video or something along those lines, then ask users to register?

That'll definitely increase registration. I don't agree with it though. You'll inflate your registration numbers, and at the same time, turn away users from enjoying your content. For example, Quora displays a portion of comments, then blurs the rest asking you to sign-up. I know you can get creative and modify the URL to get the full page, but I just no longer visit links to Quora based on principle. I don't like to jump through unnecessary hoops.

You want users to register, because they want to register. You can hold their video hostage after the preview, and they'll just create a throwaway account, or register, and never participate or return. Is that something you want to encourage for the ego boost of a higher user count?

Anyway, that's my take on the situation. I'm always for giving users the best experience possible, and I think interrupting their video doesn't achieve that goal.
Previous HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6440962
The problem is perception. If people associate the name with Hitler (and I think they do), then no matter what the "correct" definition is, the name will be what people think it is.

This is how languages evolve. If enough people think something about a word, then over time there is a good chance that word will morph into the the new meaning. The same thing happens with pronunciation. For example, originally the "correct" pronunciation of the word "forte" was "fort", however most people think and use "fortay". Now most dictionaries will give both pronunciations or even the "incorrect" one and over time it will almost certainly change into "fortay" completely.
Let me know how that works for you if you ever write Lisp, Haskell, or have to deal with someone who thought they could make their $ALGOL_INSPIRED_LANGUAGE look cute by aligning everything into tables.
Sorry I didn't make it clear at all!

We had 3 months where we had 20 minutes of downtime. The edge router was ~15 minutes and there was a denial of service on a machine in the same portion of the network which took a few minutes to isolate.

That is the only downtime we received in our 12 month initial contract which started Feb 2013 and ended Feb 2014 (we are on a rolling contract now).

So (20 / 12) = 1.6 minutes a month averaged. For arguments sake it puts us around the four 9s in availability a month.
LED bulbs for everyone!
Well, this certainly colors my thought-experiment of creating several Nvest accounts that apply various strategies including random.
Are you trying to claim that somehow this whole affair affected book prices for the smaller publishers that didn't have agreements with Apple? Because for both of us to be right, all the smaller publishers must have dropped their prices precipitously to offset this supposed increase across the board in the prices of the 5 big publishers.
I had an Econ professor who insisted individual stock picking is a fool's errand, and he had some pretty compelling evidence to back it up. If you have a thousand users picking stocks randomly, some will by chance do well. I wouldn't be comfortable putting money behind the lead users who are likely victors by luck. But then again, its very possible I'm missing something.
Algeria Authorizes Shale Gas Exploitation
It's already yielded impressive results for me. I bought a SP1 at a big discount, hoping to use it only for digital artwork. I didn't have my hopes too high, as I was aware of all the criticism it had drawn (though honestly, the tech press of today is utterly ridiculous. There's a couple of holdouts of excellent coverage, but for the most part it's comprised of a frothing band of gadget fanboys).

I didn't expect to end up loving the SP1 so much. I'll never be able to go back to a tablet without split-screen multitasking, or to a small laptop without touchscreen and stylus input. Everything else feels incredibly rudimentary in comparison.

The first-generation SP has a good deal of flaws, but none of them have been dealbreakers for me. This is the first device I've truly loved so thoroughly, ever. It feels like it's truly pushing the envelope.
What if 40% of the people in your organization work one extra day a week?
What beaches and microscopes can teach us about plans, details and human nature
For a more graphical approach, a group at the Norman Lockyer Observatory have set up a network across the UK with waterfall plots of the audio: http://www.merriott-astro.co.uk/spam3D.htm
With most flat design sites I have the feeling I've seen them before. With the new Virgin site I don't have this feeling. Although it didn't work for you haha.

Most flat design websites currently all use the same flat colors and the Flat UI template.

Flat design websites that are created by excellent designers begin to use gradients with specific color combinations. Like Stripe.

There's also an ongoing trend by using more thin fonts and thin graphs in charts. Looks more elegant. I really like this, but UX wise I hear a lot of signals that people find it hard to read.
How To Read Technical Books
The sense of "it's Greek to me". J is an extremely cool tool. We are preparing much better article about this language, which will be available very soon.
Yes, but you've got to find your niche.
You don't adjust the returns to risk? Why?

You should have the basic sharpe and sortino ratio at least.
There's a simpler explanation. The average person is not especially bright, funny, or articulate. The larger a community, the more it regresses to the mean.
On Amazon.de you can sort the search results by:

Best result | popularity | cost: ascending | user rating | date

On Amazon.com this feature is missing! Why?

Btw. the technology: A9.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com based in Palo Alto, California that develops search and advertising technology: is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com
The price is going down by 1-2 orders of magnitude. Things are looking bleak for Astrium, Digital Globe etc. The sector has long needed an adjustment.

But whether space imaging is going to be worth anything for civil markets is questionable. If drone imaging can deliver less than $1 per acre then the satellites are going to lose. Hardly anyone is going to pay $0.01 per acre for 1m GSD when you can get 1cm GSD for $1.00.
I am really surprised as CoreOS is super new to a lot of people and yet they managed to convince Google and Amazon to provide an image. That's amazing...
Gorgeous font. I'll donate $50 toward an italic monospace.
Film cameras: SLRs are big and obvious, Leicas not so much but still fairly obvious. The Rolleiflex medium format dual lens reflex camera has a leaf shutter and is very quiet at the time of exposure and is held at waist height. Popular with portrait photographers. However a Rollei is not easily concealed. Taking any of these cameras out is a serious undertaking. Bag, film, camera, various extras. Not casual.

I suppose the advent of high quality cameras that are always carried as part of a phone coupled with the very small size of the phone has lead some countries to evolve these regulations.

Perhaps an actual digital camera is felt to fall in the 'not casual' category, so not covered by the regulation?