skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope that the reality is that there are Windows PCs on the plane that the crew can use for mundane things like mission reports (as the article mentioned). I really hope nothing mission-critical is running on a consumer OS.

Edit: Are there high-availability versions of Windows? If so, does that version run Word?
Exactly?? The parent poster didn't actually make a point did they?

Even if it is a large volume, I'd like the chance. I don't have hundreds upon hundreds of friends, and I want to see what the ones I don't talk to all the time are saying.
This is the talk from Twitter's Steve Salevan at this week's AnsibleFest in NYC.

The ansible-based deploy system Twitter uses is here: https://pantsbuild.github.io/

For more from that event, see this week's issue of Ansible Weekly: https://devopsu.com/newsletters/ansible-weekly/33.html
It's interesting that this came, seemingly out of the blue, a little after it was made widely known (from the mozhacks article [1]) that Opera developers were working towards integrating pdf.js into their Chromium fork.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/how-fast-is-pdf-js/
Interesting. This looks like the same concept as the community in which I reside: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreak_(community)

Every home has fiber, but the bandwidth is throttled to about 12/4mbit by Century Link, which is the contracted provider. This contract expires soon, so hopefully we'll be able to negotiate better speeds.
Putting my tinfoil hat on for a second, I wonder if (and how much) post selection is tuned to maximise advertising revenue.

To give a crude example, if I see lots of posts about people enjoying expensive holidays, I'm probably more likely to click on related adverts. The effect of advertisement-funded media on the style and content of programmes is quite well documented. What if social media had a similar effect on how we perceive our relationships?
Smarter Smartphones
Why are there so many post about Machine Learning for beginners, all these posts are basically saying the same things (I'm part of the problem as I did it as well some time ago)

My explanation is that it's easy to write about that and feel good after.
It's a feature of gmail to provide unique addresses. It might protect your other accounts that use your base e-mail address from an automated attack vs. the compromised data. It doesn't matter much if the database goes public, though.
It clearly wasn't reliable enough. The Air Force was sick of starting World War IIIs. =)
Init7 is the ISP that we (rsync.net) have been using in Zurich since 2007, and we highly recommend them.
I can see this as a valid point, but netflix has been around for years now. surely they still can't still be using the same thought process..

airlines get burned anytime they oversell and everyone does show up, they give out flight vouchers, hotel rooms, meal tickets all on top of another flight a few hours later or the next day..
It doesn't cost you anything, and few things piss me off when I'm signing up for a service than when it won't let me use an RFC-valid email address because it has stupid validation in place.
Why wouldn't they?

I do this with almost every website as a way to segregate or block mail if needed. It's pretty eye opening to see what companies trade or sell your email addresses.
Why stick to bouldering? Although I'm a huge bouldering fan, the intellectual and physical concepts of solving bouldering problems translate just as well onto roped climbing (whether it be sport climbing, traditional or top roping). Moreoever, you get to introduce your kid (and potentially yourself) to learning about knots, how to build anchors and the physics behind falling (all of which are awesome theoretical concepts to experience and play with in real life).
There's probably also many people that won't bother reading much about the product, and are reached much easier through a video. In truth, their blurb There's digital gaming. There's real world fun. And then there's Osmo, a magical experience that merges the real and virtual worlds to defy the boundaries of play. is the few sentences you were looking for. It just appears to be useless marketing speech because their product isn't really a single thing, but a way to augment traditionally purely physical children's games with instant digital feedback. Than can be hard to explain in a useful way with just text.

Edit: s/new interaction mode for children/better description/
Gym three times a week, which includes half an hour of C25K jogging (two weeks from the full half hour!) and strength training (alternating upper body, core, legs). On the off days, my wife and I play disc golf or go for a walk. This is with a ~9 hour workday plus a one hour commute both ways, while my wife's schedule is a ~13 hour work day plus a one hour commute both ways. It gets tiring but we're seeing results.

Look into a YMCA membership if you have one near you, it's a bit more expensive than a plain gym membership but there's a lot of value in it. For example, you can usually use any other YMCA for free outside of a 50 mile radius of your home club, and our club has what is essentially a free outdoor waterpark available to members during the summer.

We also did a Whole 30 a few weeks ago which caused me to make some permanent changes to my diet (mostly cutting out carbs and avoiding sweetener / sugar whenever I can). I lost something like 15 lbs on it.
I think the point is that if there's a bitcoin miner doing 2GH/sec for $19, the operation is cheap.
Those companies are not voters. If the voters say A and all the PR departments of all companies say B then in a democracy A should happen, not B.
Yes, init7 is a serious provider with real peering and a global presence. My impression (as their datacenter/IP customer) is that they've been putting this together for a few years...
Just ordered one for Spain. They do ship internationally.
It wouldn't be difficult, but a bandage is better then leaving a gaping wound. Yes it would be better store a second salt and do a scrypt style password generation.
Multistage environments with Ansible
President Obama takes a surprise walk [video]
There's many more points on the gradient, some of which are of practical importance. A person in deep sleep is less conscious than someone in light sleep who is less conscious than someone blearily waking up who is less conscious than that person when they're wide awake. More practically speaking it is medically and ethically important for a person under anesthesia to have low consciousness.
Distimo Publication: Google Play’s New Game Genres
Snappy strikes again!
mikeash, you are not alone. If text alone doesn't quickly and adequately convey what the product is or at least seriously pique my interest then I'm not going to spend time watching any videos.
Palette Image Generation – Technology to the Rescue
No, the cost is due to scale. Producing ASIC chips involves millions of dollars of setup.
That's not Twitter's fault though, that's Tweetdeck's.
You're really missing the point if you think this document is proposing an alternative to engineering. It's addressed to a subset of artists and engineers deeply concerned with the political and interpretative dimensions of engineering.

While there is usually a technical aspect to critical engineering projects, most engage issues well beyond the scope of the "sound scientific method." See: CV Dazzle by Adam Harvey. [1] I suggest looking at Garnet Hertz's Critical Making for a more informed picture of this kind of work. [2]

[1] http://ahprojects.com/projects/cv-dazzle/

[2] https://twitter.com/criticalpdfs
Awesome list!

One thing I would've loved for him to explain more of, was how he crafted his sales script in the beginning. Basically how he did his guess and check work and what sort of revelations/things he learned while crafting the sales script.

He really just mentions that it's hard to create a script. :(
Software doesn't deal with EMP hardening. Hardware does. Bits soft setting themselves is almost impossible to debug natively, since your debugger can be effected by the same error.

Your bet met is running the algorithm ~20-100 times and comparing the outputs, then averaging.

It's pretty horrible honestly.
The issue of magic numbers like this n is discussed in the article. n=1 has the benefit of perfect fairness. All other values have to be tweaked for the platform.
Echoplot: Plot song loudness using the echonest API
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If doing so costs Reid the next election, then his successor may well not obey those special interests.
Just because they can doesn't mean that we should accept it. That's why the downvotes, he calls people who have privacy concerns Luddites.
I thought that What3Words.com had a clever solution to this problem but they just didn't seem to get any traction. They simply sliced the planet into billions (trillions?) of pieces geographically and assigned 3 words to each square meter space. This allowed someone to say "meet me at foggy banana stovepipe".

Some of the downsides was that it only used the english language and that the next square meter over might be "purple dolphin bug" so there was no intuitive relation between square meter locations in any region.
>There is no fundamental law of civilization that guarantees that things will only get better.

Do you believe that humans are capable of achieving our aims? Now: do you think we are capable of rationally aiming ourselves towards good aims?

If you assent to both, then what is stopping us?
> Is this how disconnected from the real world we’ve become?

This is an example of the real world. Its nothing new, nor likely to change. History is full of "bad things" happening to people, on a large and small scale, that happened because others did nothing to stop it.

My comment does not mean that people should not help others who are in need, but suggesting this is something new - possibly due to changes in technology - reinforces the (wrong) idea that people think the world is a safe place.
In Lithuanian FTTH 500 mbit connection is only 23 euro or $31
FreeBSD has had limited support for this for a long time now (limitations may be lifted now, not sure).

http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/PATCH-BPF-Just-In-Time-...
I know what it does, I use it to categorize stuff I email to myself (+reading, +reference, etc.). I just don't see how it would help filtering against some who also knows what it does. Maybe they don't show up in the list because they stripped it out already.
With user-individual salts and assuming 100ms for a password trial, 100ms * 150e6 * 10e3 is approximately 4750 years, and while this can be done in parallel, it's not exactly a small amount of resources you'd have to devote to get these relatively simple passwords.
This is a good point, but remember the small business coalition is split. Congress sees some small businesses saying that troll lawsuits hinder their business, while others, particularly in capital-intensive areas like telecoms or medical devices, saying that patents give them protections from larger competitors and provide leverage in getting funding and or being acquired.
That's an important point that I didn't take into consideration. Thanks!
One Woman’s Lonely Boycott of Amazon
Open Source Replication and Offline Sync for Node.js and Devices
> That seems like it might have some negative effects on the pool of people willing to take those jobs.

Good. I think the people using these government jobs in this manner are the people we don't need overseeing those contracts.
> Apple, Microsoft, IBM, DuPont, Pfizer, Ford, and GE

DuPont, Pfizer, Ford and GE are in industries that are not plagued by patent trolls. That they're against it tells you nothing about how it would affect them because they don't experience the problem the legislation solves, so it necessarily creates nothing but downside risk for them. No matter how small that risk is, requiring them to put their full support behind it in order to fix somebody else's problem is requiring reform to fail.

But it is also disingenuous to suggest that they are the major force against reform, because the bill is quite well targeted specifically at patent trolls. The downside risk for Pfizer et al is extremely small. They may not support it but it's hardly going to put them out of business if it passes. What it would do is put a huge number of patent trolls out of business (along with the lawyers that represent them), and in so doing save a huge number of jobs at the startups they would have extorted or bankrupted. Which is why everyone is saying that the trial lawyers are the ones that most wanted to kill reform -- because the trial lawyers are the ones that most wanted to kill reform.
Of course ! He is THE Jeremy Kun ... :)
I mean, this is an aspect of human nature that's been pretty well documented for decades, at least. It might make you uncomfortable, but it's also not some unusual, hard-to-believe example of how "the dark corners of US society are alien".
In my article about DynASM I mention the BPF JIT and suggest that it could use DynASM (it would make the JIT more readable at basically no cost): http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-s...
Restaurant in India delivers pizza via a drone
I have plenty of friends on Facebook where occasionally one of their posts shows up on my news feed and I realize that I had completely forgotten I was Facebook friends with that person. Then I visit their profile and find out they're quite chatty, but it had been over a year since I saw something they had posted, without ever telling Facebook I didn't want to follow them.

It's truly insane.
"Paying a bonus, not a commission... because people leave at the end of the quarter and you can save a ton of cash"

I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that kind of policy. A fair days pay for a fair days work.
KillNewsFeed for Chrome is an extension that does this. I've been using it lately and I like it a lot. I'm going to fork it and also kill my trending box.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjo...
MacBook Air, Sublime Text.
In case you didn't know, the game is part of a whole franchise that started with Frank Herbert's Novels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28franchise%29#Games

But yeah, the game was pretty awesome, even on it's own.
Even knowing the chemical makeup of a stone as being a simple lattice of inert unchanging material? I don't think it's anyone's position that something could be mute and immotile yet conscious, but we know a lot more about rocks than that.

As far as applications, one of the early uses of a practical theory of consciousness may be to determine the effectiveness of anesthesia on a moment by moment basis.
Had you read the next sentence, you may not be confused.

"Osmo is crafted for kid‑durability and always ready to go: no batteries, electronics, or Wi‑Fi required. Works with the latest iPads including the iPad 2 and iPad Mini."
The people involved are not wearing "Good Guy" and "Bad Guy" badges! How exactly are the police going to magically know who is "right" and who is "wrong"?

When the police come to sort out an altercation in progress, everyone involved is going to get tackled, rolled face down, have a cop kneel on your neck with his entire body weight, have your arms wrenched behind your back, and placed in handcuffs. That is the best, least physical outcome possible.
This is actually about as good as it gets for password hashes, so kudos to eBay.

Since these are salted and require 12000 iterations, cracking individual passwords will be quite time consuming. The preferred method in this case, though, is to go after low hanging fruit.

The way one would do this is to try something like the 500 most common passwords against all entries in the table. This won't take very long (compared to trying to brute force a bunch of individual passwords), and will probably yield a ton of passwords.
Common Mistakes Made in Mobile App Monetization
Just because there is no evidence doesn't mean that it should be ignored. Lots of things don't yet have evidence but it is still worth letting people know so that they are ready to take the appropriate action when the time comes.

Let's face it. Lots of posts on HN are pure speculation but they don't get buried. In this case, leaving it up won't do any harm? If it's not real, then no problem. You may have convinced a few people that they should change their passwords though, but that is a good thing. If it is real, then people will already have changed their passwords. It is win win.

Personally, I'm getting really sick of the mods deciding what news is and isn't relevant and/or suitable for me.
Really. Users want all the bells and whistles of a cutting edge social network and want the money to come from Red Cross. The solution is actually not to use it or use it sparingly. Just keep an account to get in touch with friends. Mine doesn't even have a mobile number or my primary email address, or even a photo. No post or edit in last 7 months.
I'm with you. People citing their absence of research and their certainty that this will be discarded in a day is amusing. What those academic papers lack is an actual product and customers deciding to buy and use that product of their own free will. When someone releases an app to "connect people" or make some day-to-day taks easier, nobody seems to want academic papers to back their claims. I also feel like it goes without saying that this will most likely be discarded in a day but so will 99% of the products we build as startups. That's the great thing about today's environment. We get to experiment in the real world with real people and real products! Enjoy it while it lasts is my suggestion.
If RubyMine is anywhere near as good as PyCharm, I'd say give that a try. It has really opened up my knowledge of Django by letting me easily navigate code. I'm using an older Dell Latitude 15 inch notebook running xubuntu, which is working very well for me after I upgraded the RAM and put in a solid state hard drive.
> There are so many beautiful product pages out there which completely fail at the basic task of telling people what they're selling. It's baffling.

Its not at all baffling. Selling product is about creating feelings of need for the product, not creating an accurate rational understanding of what the product does. There's a few markets (like marketing development tools to developers -- but, notably, not marketing developing tools to non-developer executives) where those two distinct issues happen to be somewhat (though not perfectly) aligned, but quite often they are unrelated or even opposed.

Video, as a medium, is very good at conveying desired emotional messages, and poor for conveying rational understanding (this is why, for decades, it has been observed that, that is, all other things being equal, watching more TV news makes you understand current events less, unlike consuming news in print media; it is also why video is a prime medium for advertisement.)
The US took EMP testing pretty seriously - the ATLAS-1/Trestle test rig was rather impressive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS-I

I found it while searching for large wooden buildings a while back:

"Trestle is the world's largest structure composed entirely of wood and glue laminate"
Doing that with your real passport sounds like Bad Idea(TM).
This is a gap that should have been plugged long ago: a comparative guide to real filesystems. I know of no such book.
So lets see if I have your argument straight: when we do something in Microsoft's interest, it helps their 100,000 employees. But if we do something in Google/Twitter/Yahoo/Facebook's interest, it helps the oligarchs who own their stock. Sure glad Microsoft doesn't have to worry about pleasing any of those pesky oligarch shareholders.
TL;DR

Flipkart has automated the palette image generation using image processing, bayesian
probability, existing product information and some assumptions that seemed to
work. This will save massive amount of man-hours, reduce image sizes, ensure
consistent palette images across website and enable faster product launches.
It still seems to cost a lot, e.g. Vivo Casa package which has 8Mbit download speed is 74CHF, I have the same connection but with a VDSL-model.
The interesting part is that my connection really is 27Mbit so that the IPTV gets enough bandwith, then Swisscom adds this "artifical" speed reducer so that the Internet traffic only reaches a maximum of 8Mbit. :-(
I love this so much. But, when I step back and look at what you're getting for $58, I'm wondering why I can't build one myself. It looks like I'll need an iPad stand, a small mirror, and a fisheye lens.

Then, I'll just use the same apps as the other Osmo users.
It would be hard to argue that recycling is not worth it. Now in a way, one could say that recycling is just a brilliant way for goods manufacturers to offload environmental management costs on the consumer. I sometimes feel like I'm being manipulated as a useful idiot of capitalism.

The existence of products like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Open-Smart-Plastic-Package-Opener/dp/B...

.. just says it all
Add Gestures and Touch to your Arduino
There's smush.it for wordpress:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
NASA OKs Citizen Science Attempt to Rescue a Vintage Spacecraft
Can't comment on MacKeeper itself, but i feel this is a really stupid advice...

You don't need an antivirus because virus definitions are slow to update? Fine, but what about old virus? Am I protected by magic?

Also, I feel like the increase in OSX popularity will result in an increase in malware for it, so I'm not sure for how long "OSX is virus-free" will be valid
We created this dev-kit to let Arduino projects work with gestures + touch. It came out of the need for a project which required basic hand gestures to work accurately. We tested with proximity and distance-IR sensors but wasn't satisfied with the accuracy and development time required to make it work. We decided to build a dev-kit that uses e-field distortion to detect gestures accurately. We just launched it hoping it might help other hardware hackers looking to add gestures/touch to their projects.
> It is always important to keep in mind that Facebook (et al) does not sell your personal information, the sell access to a generalized profile.

I don't know if they reversed this policy, but last I heard, if I "liked" Coke on Facebook, they would use my name and photograph when advertising Coke to my friends.

That's not directly selling data to advertisers, but for me, it's just as objectionable. "Liking" a page and endorsing usage of my name for advertising that page to my friends or publicly are two very different things.
Japan doesn't have street names (normally), they number the blocks and houses. Which is a bit confusing, since the numbers of the houses are not necessarily in order either, other than generally assigned clockwise as they're built. So finding an address with out a map or asking someone can be tricky.
> (Though as I like to point out occasionally, if you sample a lot of languages in the world, real-world C and C++ programs have exceptionally long compile times due to ancient design decisions. Most other compiled languages are actually quite fast to compile. Go is striving to be fast even so, but when benchmarked against something other than C or C++ it seems less spectacular.)

Nowadays, especially with unity builds, a lot of the reason that C and C++ are slow to compile (especially C) is actually that optimizations and codegen take a while. Most languages use JITs, so their compile steps are much faster. With the 6g/8g compilers, Go doesn't really do the same kind of optimization that e.g. GCC and LLVM do (e.g. SSA conversion, GVN, SCCP, LICM, aggressive algebraic simplifications, etc), so much of its build speed comes from that.

In my experience, there's no free lunch: fast compiles come at the expense of runtime performance, and runtime performance comes at the expense of fast compilation.
This is awesome to me mainly because I am just thinking of all the other undiscovered ways we are destroying natures answer to many of our man made solutions. My hope is that this type of science gets more attention every day.