skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have possibly been hacking 'space objects' for well over two decades, but (understandably) not much of that is in cited journals. The most you hear about it is that someone knows someone who knows someone that did something, in very rare cases the someone that did something even has a name.

That's not exactly verification, but there is so much smoke around this subject it would be hard to imagine there are no sparks or even a small fire.

Hacking a space borne piece of hardware that is in active use is probably an excellent way to become a 'person of interest' for a ton of agencies that you want no interaction with whatsoever. If you see an E2 flying in your neighbourhood while you're doing this it might be time to start packing.
How I hacked GoToWebinar to send my own HTML email
Confessions of a (Converted) SEO Writer
Praise publicly, criticize privately (with the person you are criticizing, not behind their back).
Math in JavaScript, using Jmat.js
I don't see how this could work on a single page application where only a small fraction of the content is loaded on page-load.
This article is superb and beautiful. Just go read it. I love it when procrastination is repaid.
This article began with John McPhee, who begins many great things. Somers' article is the most practical single bit of writing advice I've seen in a long time (it even includes software you can install).

If you're not familiar with McPhee, you're missing out. He's one of the greatest English-language essayists of the 20th century. My favorite is "Coming into the Country" (on Alaska), but the Hacker News set in general may prefer "The Control of Nature".
That was awesome! Very enjoyable to play with.

EDIT: I also feel like many people here are looking at this with an unintended lens: it doesn't look like it was meant to be a convenient interface for mixing a specific beat. It's meant to be more Rubik's Cube than mixer, and if you look at it that way it's an entertaining experiment!
Glad I found this! Sharing with co-workers immediately!
OS integration would be amazing, could make a massive difference. I reckon any developer - or document writer for that matter, given word processors' long established support for colour - shown a "here's what I see" would immediately gain a better understanding of the challenges we colour-impaired folks face. (RAG ratings, red/amber/green, in the business world are a real pain)
It is too early to say whose retaliation it is. Actually I have heard rumors that official files states that no Windows 8 machines should be bought in a government procurement a few days ago. I did not realize that this total boycott was happening then.
Key Components for Writing a Startup Business Plan
The biggest mistake I see managers make is that they think they are there to deliver completed projects to upper management. They are playing project manager when they should be playing people manager.

A good manager's job is to make sure their direct reports have everything they need to get their job done. The proper information, tools, training, time, motivation, etc. If they have the proper staff the rest of the success will stem from that.

I have employed that as a manager and expect it as a direct report and have only ever seen success when it is employeed both in the military and the private sector.
A perf test without side effects is suspect because the compiler can remove dead code. You should add asserts on the return values.
New mortgage rules turning country to rentals
Changing the color scheme to "classic" on the side helps but doesn't completely fix the low contrast.
Thank you! HN front page with a buggy site feels like coming to school without your homework. But as Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder) once said, "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late"
Sure they do. In fact, the microwave band was used for the longest time by HAMs because there was no known application for it, they pretty much pioneered it and dishes were the antennas of choice for those frequencies.

http://www.g3pho.free-online.co.uk/microwaves/history.htm

Doing a 1/4 wave trackable parabolic dish for something a little under 3m wavelength is very much achievable (and is not even close to microwave frequencies, 3m is huge!). If you want better efficiency you could use a larger dish but I think that it would be easier to up the power on the transmitter than it would be to make a dish 4 times that surface that rigidly tracks an object in LEO. That's quite the little bit of hardware engineering you'd have to do there. Even a few degrees 'off' would likely ruin the signal so precision is key and a large dish catches a lot of wind.

The amateur radio bands go all the way to 1mm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_frequency_allocat...
Course title should have been Intro to GNU/Linux
Interesting to see the authoritative power of Wikipedia and the sometimes lack of fact-checking from even reputable sources. I wonder to what extent experts believe (e.g., % of articles?) there may be such errors in Wikipedia, and what % of them get translated into reality.

Just thinking about how much fact checking I should commit myself to before now citing anything from the Internet.
You can have a look at http://www.fastspring.com/ too. I use them to sell my plugins online. Their support is fantastic.
China bans use of Microsoft's Windows 8 on government computers
Yeah, I should make China the default in my testing I think - it's certainly the most interesting.
(Note, this is just my take on it - I don't know its real intent, but this is what seemed feasible and fun to me when I tried it out)

To me, the entertaining part was that you couldn't see or use the non-visible sections unless you rotated them into view: that is, unless you altered your original mix.

It makes the Rubik's Cube analogy come together (because without something to force you to vary it, it'd just be freely inputting what you wanted: and at that point, it'd just be a bad mixer interface).

I don't think it was meant to be convenient to use, but instead entertaining and emergent via treating it more like a Rubik's Cube than a mixer.
White text over white images on https://duckduckgo.com/whatsnew - not very readable!

(Edit: How odd; a reload caused the page to be displayed differently, with the images below the text and icons.)
> High on the PT Barnum Scale.

As a relative layman, doesn't the interest from Google / NASA / Lockheed give some merit to their claims? Or at least move it from the 'PT Barnum' scale to some other speculative-but-feasible technology scale?
> taking over the field

Sorry, but "field"? What "field"? 'Machine learning' in 'computer science'? That's not a 'field'; it's a really bad joke.

> The "cook-book" problem is overfitting and it's pretty well known and avoidable.

Gee, people have been criticizing 'cook-book' statistics for decades, and the only problem was "over fitting"? Amazing. Gee, we can clean out nearly all of the definitions, theorems, and proofs of statistics and just put in a simple solution for the "avoidable" problem of over fitting! Astounding.

Did I mention a bad joke?
You can also fine tune the individual colors on the results page in Settings (https://duckduckgo.com/settings)
The indictment against the five PLA members was filed May 1, and only got publicized on May 19.

If rumors of a Windows 8 ban have been circulating recently, it could well be "sanctions" against the US in response to the indictment.

Hard to know for certain, but when the stated rationale for the ban doesn't make sense there must be another reason. Energy consumption? Security vs. XP?
I've never found myself wanting a like button for code. It's a nice gimmick, but I don't see it providing enough value that would impact my decision to use a product providing it.
How do you securely share the password to the password safe containing the passwords?
The article links to a wikipedia article about the circular reporting phenomenon, and I'm pleased to see that someone has added "vicious aardvark" as another name for circular reporting.

Brilliant.
My point is that Facebook and Google would've been the dominant actors on the Chinese market today, not Weibo, QQ and Baidu, if the CCP hadn't been actively working against the US companies.

The alternative to Windows 8 is, for now, some older version of Windows XP. But as other commenters have pointed out, the CCP is pushing for a Linux-based alternative to Windows. There was an internal CCP document floating around on the Internet last year discussing the Chinese government's worries about not having a domestic OS for desktop and mobile. It'll be a tough transition to make, but compared to forced urbanization it's a walk in the park.
This is FUD.

There are some system utilities written in Lisp by one of the devs, but there is nothing like an OS written in Lisp. It's the same as saying that Linux is written in Haskell because of Xmonad.

And by the way, spreading stupid gossips like this is very suggestive on certain individual's intents.
This would also mean that the results don't suddenly jump position when the top box loads. Many times I've mis-clicked because of the page flow change.
I could be wrong (and if so, pie my face), but I believe it's mostly due to one of the many the inline cache optimizations that v8 employs.

Let's consider the receiver (i.e the `this` value) of Example 1 and 2. The receiver of Example 1 is Benchmark, if invoked normally. The receiver of Example 2 is the empty function object function(){}.

When you call makeKeyCodepointObj.makeKey() - the VM looks up the object's prototype chain and finds the function. This call site is cached (think of it as a K:V store, where the key is "makeKeyCodepointObj.makeKey" and the value is the call site of the function.)

When you call makeKeyCodepoint(), the VM has to, for each call, look up the prototype chain until it finds the variable. The variable is then resolved into the function call site. Because of scoping issues in JS, I don't think this is cached (or if it's cached, it'd be invalidated a lot), and a lookup has to happen every time. (I know in my JS engine, I tried to perform caching optimization for global object properties and I gave up).

TL;DR: Function lookups happen all the time when the function is a method of the global object. When a function is a method of an object, the lookup is cached.

If I am talking out of my arse, please feel free to correct me.
I don't, and many people in the U.S. don't either.

DSL is an inferior good, not the same service, for what can be considered high speed internet. It's not a duopoly when you need high speed internet.
David Nolen makes core.async a fun way to spend an hour learning CSP (2013)
http://ddgg.nfriedly.com/
The play of unicodes reminds me of some awesome slides made by Larry Wall and other Perl hackers. A good slide show is about to convey messages in a visually efficient and succinct way, not in an overloaded and bloated one.
This is true but it's hardly common and has certain drawbacks (ugly URLs, extremely slow performance due to cache misses, and lack of future updates).

It's great for a journalist citing sources but it doesn't help with the problem where a writer on deadline checks Wikipedia quickly without exhaustively verifying the content and uses the information to inform their writing without directly quoting it.
Isn't your point about doing business true regardless of wether you're a foreign national or not?
Passwords: We don't. Everything that could use a password is either keyed or certificate auth. Edit: I should add that there are things that use passwords but those are user-specific accounts or communal accounts (which are considered, essentially, public accounts) and are accessible only on the internal network. Users are responsible for the safe-keeping of those passwords and user accounts can do no harm, so to speak, if compromised.

Secrets: In a closed office, verbally.
Or maybe it does:

http://news.techworld.com/security/3465259/is-windows-8-a-tr...
excuse me for that ;) good thing people downvoted it
Along the same lines, I would recommend Pieper's Leisure, The Basis Of Culture. It's somewhat a religious work, but for the most part is broadly applicable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting
Diff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circular_reporting...
Add https to the beginning and you should be able to see most ecommerce sites, like Amazon.
Ooops, the map had a messed up ISO code. Fixed.
I know. But Wikipedia's rules about authority only have bearing within their universe, and no bearing upon what is actually authoritative. Are you really saying that you are "not really" an authority about what you had for breakfast because Wikipedia wouldn't allow you to claim to be one?
I feel like this hasn't been really tested in Chrome on Windows. The gray, detail information on search results is pretty hard to get past. I kind of just give up using it halfway though, looks like it might be better on other browsers though.
I've got the Sony HDR-AS15. Liked the price, and the availability of a standard tripod mount on the waterproof case it came with. As for image quality, the output you get on the SD card doesn't match the capability of the sensor- looking at the raw output from the microHDMI port vs the encoded files- there needs to be many more bitrate options. The top end GoPro models have that right. I don't always need 1080p, and so most of the time I just use 720, but I really want an SHQ 720p mode that cranks the bitrate- that would be beautiful. I've also used it quite a bit for still frame interval timelapse, and have been similarly disappointed in the grainy over-compressed look of them.

verdict: good value, kind of pricey accessories for what you get, just adequate video quality, excellent audio for an action cam, good flexibility (video and timelapse options, HDMI out, mic in, decent waterproof case).
Imagine that on your business card.

"Space Hacker"
Please. There's no need to have the non-descript hamburger icon on a page designed for desktop
note: this isn't actually supported officially, but you can have the browser ignore the SSL cert mismatch
Based on the partners listed on the Ubuntu Kylin page, it has more traction with significant ISVs in China than Ubuntu Desktop has in the US.

There is a bit of irony in that the first Ubuntu Kylin OEM is HP. Presumably those machines will not be shipped from the US.

It looks like it is possible to build Ubuntu Kylin from source code. The ISVs probably have closed source apps. But it is interesting that a large swathe of users in China are being encouraged to use an OS that supports a lot of privacy-oriented software.
A rather nice musical tool, lol, loving it. But the shuffle makes it... well... still, nicely done!
Large enterprises usually use PIMs (Privileged Identity Managers), web based consoles where you check out credentials for the task. I have seen IBMs and it has some pretty creepy (if you are the dev)/powerful (if you are CISO) features like session recording etc [0], does allow you to see who used what at what time and rotates passwords for the systems required between use..

[0] http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/pim/

edit: video demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CITq80gf6Hk
Not so. Public sector monopolies are not aligned with profit-hungry shareholders, board of investors, executives looking for bonuses, etc. Instead public sector monopolies are aligned with quality, and making enough revenue to break even.

And don't cherry pick some individual poorer counties for road performance, even though on a whole they are better. I could cherry pick Somalia as an example of privately maintained transportation monopolies.
Why are you looking for alternatives? Looking at this issue myself.
Puerto Rico is one of those weird places where I think content gets blocked on accident.
Ideally, you don't share passwords. If it is a server, every user should have their own account with sudo access if needed.

If it is a website that you are unable to add multiple users to an organization with, LastPass has a password sharing feature that doesn't directly expose the password with people you share it with. Although if someone cares enough, they will be able to find it.

Any time an employee leaves a company, all shared passwords should be reset. It doesn't matter if it was an amicable departure or not.
Perhaps, but it's not what anyone actually calls them. I mean I doubt it's spread into anyone's common everyday language. All of the uses were likely just using Wikipedia as a reference for writing their article.
In another smb share.
You can change the default theme using the menu icon in the right hand corner. We have a couple of themes preset, you can try implementing your own color scheme by selecting the "Settings" option.
Yeah I noticed that as well on the first click its all thrown
at the center, and a reload fixes it.
Where do you store the IV? Do you just append it at the end of the file?
Doesn't seem to load for me.
> Someone is going to do something bad with this new idea.

Someone is always going to do something bad with something that others would do something good with. Sitting around being afraid of it is pointless.
My friend pays to promote them with his ".mac" email address!
We have implemented a bunch of the feedback from the original discussion. Detailed release notes were posted in the forum:
https://duck.co/forum/thread/5747/duckduckgo-beta-refinement...
https://duck.co/forum/thread/5851/duckduckgo-beta-refinement...

We also added themes (in the side menu) to address some of the feedback on contrast. Classic theme reverts to the color scheme of the old site. And you can fine tune the individual colors further in Settings.
Both peers are bad, but hate the ideas to make this proceed.

Also a funny to find another post that "Game of thrones author" working on DOS... Lol

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/windows-not-coming-gam...
I experienced the exact same behavior. I'm guessing it's probably the result of some plugin.
Google Sets Being Retired From Google Spreadsheets
While it's interesting from an accounting perspective, it could revolutionize payments. Imagine if you never gave your credit card number to a merchant, only signed a receipt from them in a way that assured the bank that the transaction was legitimate. PCI would be a non-issue since sensitive information is never exchanged. It also opens all new ways to pay for things, since the transaction could be submitted to the bank by either party (customer pays vs merchant charges).
It's the commonly known symbol for a menu button, and is used throughout the site. Don't see what the problem is?
is it an actual falsehood? it just says also called a Brazilian aardvark, which is true for at least one person in the world and became true for a lot more after reading it. it seems like the name stuck because people liked the name.
Don't you have external services which use a password? DNS provider, VPS admin console for example?
Racket documentation – Planet Cute Images
Do you just delete the footage when you get back on uneventful days?
Yes, you need Reveal app installed.
From an app idea to a profitable business
What happens when you release a Python teaching platform at Pycon
The Collective Intelligence of the Web
Not for game, but I am colorblind and I have made this html5 utility for maps and charts : http://colorblindhelper.com/
If it can help someone!
I agree entirely. I really liked the instant answer boxes above the search results in the old design, but using the same box to present images and videos in a film-strip design feels awkward. (And that box doesn't support horizontal scrolling, either.)

I do really like having the images and videos readily available; I just don't feel like the current presentation strikes the right balance between the text search results and "hey, you might want these images or videos", unlike the extremely valuable instant-answer boxes, which when present are almost always what I want.
Uber Underlying Technologies and How It Actually Works
Yeah looks like it's a typo in the CSS. There's a unitless height value that's generally ignored but causes problems for some browsers apparently. A fix should go out in the next deploy, but in the meantime you can apply a local style to fix it (for the curious)...

.page-whatsnew .site-wrapper--static, .page-whatsnew .content-wrap, .blk--whatsnew { height: auto; }
Honestly the original "share" isn't the big issue -- many ways to communicate securely. But the history is what will get you if your communication platform ever gets broken into.

Most of the external accounts (log analysis, analytics, CDN, etc) have individual accounts, no sharing necessary, up to the individual to maintain complexity and remember the password.

For other services, certificates and multiple authentication methods (2FA) works out nicely.
#SaveOurGuys tops Russian Twitter, demands release of Ukraine-held journalists
OpenSignal: UK Roads and Rails Report
Personally I am not a fan of horizontal navigation that breaks scrollwheels.

People get through websites with scrollwheels. Forcing people to use non-standard scrolling (left right) AND forcing them to do with click handles... I wonder if they're keeping data on how many people see the main preview and quit out versus how many actually see the other 5+ slides...
LastPass

Cheap, effective and good security track record.
The "dict" program [0] (with the default server) also pulls definitions from 1913 Webster (via The Collaborative International Dictionary of English [1]). It's my go-to dictionary, due to the ease of accessibility via the command line.

[0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_International_Di...
Slightly off-topic, but are humans the only animal that communicate electromagnetically? There's a bunch of obvious advantages to it, and there are already animals that can generate sufficient current. Is it because you can't build antennae from organic material?
Uh, Bitcoin?
That's great! 10k user base is a good number and I am sure it covers many 'real life' problems.
SendOwl also accepts BitCoins
Life Sentence over Pot Brownies
passpack.com -- have been using it for a few years now and never looked back.
Brain Implant Makes Man A Johnny Cash Fan
With this sort of authentication scheme what happens when the network connection goes down or the LDAP server crashes? Can you no longer login? Or can you only login to local accounts? Ideally I would like to have centralized authentication management, but if the central server goes down to still have a local read-only copy of the authentication data. Is something like this possible? Or would it be easier to just sync passwd files?
If I enter www.google.com and "open from the Netherlands" I get sent to Google Turkey.
Here's the announcement I just posted on our blog: https://duck.co/blog/whatsnew

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback to us during our public beta period! Please keep the feedback coming so we can quickly iterate. We really do listen to it all.
On Fedora 20 x86_66 with midori-0.5.8-1 (webkitgtk-2.2.7-1):

concat | concat obj | codepoint | codepoint obj
----------+------------+-----------+--------------
2,243,214 | 1,983,801 | 1,823,882 | 1,746,316

On Fedora 20 x86_66 with epiphany-3.10.3-1 (webkitgtk3-2.2.7-1):

concat | concat obj | codepoint | codepoint obj
----------+------------+-----------+--------------
2,515,750 | 2,280,291 | 2,187,448 | 1,957,199