skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was looking for this in the list and was disappointed not to see it. This was emphasized multiple times during my degree. The point of introducing this catastrophe to us was to show that there are lives in our hands and we have to do our best to keep people safe.

These were structures and aircraft classes so the point was extremely important.
While true, to be fair they've hardly put much effort into the browser since iOS 3 or 4. Still far behind on many important web standards. Still do releases like once a year. Haven't improve homescreen webapps at all (every time you click the icon it starts the app from-scratch, even if it was already open).
Meanwhile, Comcast is patting themselves on the back because they just upgraded me to 50MB! I feel like I'm being served $25 boxed wine by an idiot waiter while across the street a guy is getting a $16,000 Richebourg for the same price.
If only there was an LLVM backend to generate BPF. Oh wait, there is! As readers of LLVM Weekly (http://llvmweekly.org) will know, an implementation was posted to LKML a while back: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/5/743
As I found out in a comment below, militaries do have weaponized lasers for the purpose of hitting enemy pilots ... such weapons have been used by many countries for over 30 years now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzler_%28weapon%29#First_use...
The Google Play store link seems to be the most useful for figuring out what it does: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.okhi.app
I had briefly used Scotty before, but never acid-state. All of this is just the result of a discussion at work where my position was “oh, come on! it's not that stupid!”, so I just chose something I though would let me get a test site up and running really quickly.

I would probably polish it a bit more if I knew it would get this much attention, but hey! – it works, and uses almost no resources on the cheapest Digital Ocean account.

I recently saw some discussion about acid-state on Reddit, and it seems that the Hackage developers have had some troubles with it: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26405r/storing_data...
> Specifically, it's imaginable that an entity we'd consider unintelligent has a rich and detailed subjective internal life.

Yes, just as its possible that an entity we'd consider intelligent doesn't, but since it's subjective, its not subject to empirical -- and, hence, scientific -- verification. Anything we are going to say objectively on issues related to consciousness isn't going to address that, because that's a question outside the scope of science.
eBay user data for sale?
Crashed Firefox 29 here (Linux, x86_64).
To give you a clue: This was a really quick for-fun project and I did not expect it to get this much attention. ;-)
You are correct, in hindsight, I would have handed it over, halfway through fighting it over, while bleeding I contemplated handing it over? What stopped me from doing so in the beginning?

I had the largest presentation of my life that night for a public audience of 200 people and letting my company and CTO down. I couldn't imagine losing all of my things and not being able to do so. Yes it was a very selfish driver at the time, but my brain couldn't move beyond that thought.
Similar here. Ridiculously competitive, and though I had inconsistent physical results, I enjoyed learning strategy as well as making physical progress.

I personally found great intellectual stimulation and feelings of satisfaction from one-on-one sports such as tennis, table tennis (ping pong), badminton, racquetball, and wrestling. I also played team sports quite a bit, and enjoyed being a student of those games, but I tended to prefer pursuing mastery of one-on-one sports (edit to add: though I've never come close to mastery).

By distilling the experience down to a one-on-one competition, I find I'm able to focus more on the intellectual pursuit, as opposed to the intellectual+social pursuit of team sports. Handling social dynamics can sometimes overwhelm me when I attempt to focus on the strategic and the intellectual.

Everyone's experience and taste is different, of course. Many paths can lead to happiness :)
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> While true, to be fair they've hardly put much effort into the browser since iOS 3 or 4. Still far behind on many important web standards.

Well, it's much, much faster, and they've added plenty of stuff since IOS4 (web sockets, for instance, which it had a fair while before Chrome for Android).
By the time I was 16 I was ready to do university level subjects in my chosen field and was even on a course that would have articulated to it - so instead of graduating high school I would have dropped out. School principal didn't want me to drop out, so organised a meeting with myself, her and the careers counsellor which left me shaken up! I ended up finishing high school but at some personal cost - failed a subject, got depressed and ended skipping 1-2 days per week.
That's a highly political (i.e. lots of beating around the bush) resignation letter. What's his point exactly? That IPCC has vested interests in fear mongering or what? And what exactly are the good things that we can expect from climate change? In any case I believe that just the accelerating rate of catastrophic weather incidents is dismantling that argument(?). Of course there is a multitude of interests and even a market for climate change (i.e. books about it) but this doesn't mean that the problem is not there, evolving and getting worse every day. He -too- does not deny that.

About the Arctic/Antarctic ice: I guess that http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php argument 25 addresses that. Also seeing the whole system oscillating between extremes (too few ice - more ice) is not comforting or reassuring that it reaches a new balance.

PS: I'm not Suzuki's spokesperson. I didn't even know the guy till yesterday. Maybe he's overeacting and maybe not. I also note that the party is obviously full of fear mongers and shady traders of all sorts. I also note that it is not logical to dismiss the whole argument because of such people.

PS2: HN is the last place I would expect to find myself fighting against climate change skeptics.
A lot of the time it's not particularly a fair trade, either.

Salaried employees can typically be forced to work upwards of the 40 hours they are officially bartering with for money. The money doesn't scale with time or effort put in, which is one of the contributing causes to burnout and do-nothing-but-still-so-"busy"-ism.
I'd imagine a lot of that increase has to do with fewer people going diagnosed, rather than more people having ADHD in the first place. People become more aware of the symptoms and realize they can get help, they're less scared of being called crazy, etc. Given how hard it is to tell mental conditions apart (I think I remember reading that somewhere around 40% of psychologists' diagnosis are later changed), there are probably some false diagnosis in there too, where the "true" diagnosis is something else that's less top-of-mind, or that hasn't been discovered yet, or is something other than mental disorder.

> It's fine to say "change the environment" but that's not always an option.
^ good point.
An IP address (which is matched to a specific "customer" MAC address or login name. ISPs do log this stuff.) is enough for probable cause and a search warrant. The law enforcement agency then executes a search warrant and finds evidence, and the case is further built off of this. If the case goes to trial, the IP address is a mere stepping stone in the prosecution's case, and not much more.
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Doesn't that just protect PayPal? How does it protect from someone social-engineering their way into your eBay (not paypal) account through, say, customer service?
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> the universe guarantees that we will reach a stable solution

Oh, thank goodness, that's a reli...

> That stable solution may end up killing billions of people but

Uhhhhhh.....

I think we're talking about social systems, not physical ones. A social system in which BILLIONS of people die is not any kind of "stable".
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. This was done really quickly and I didn't expect it to get that much attention. :-)
Term limits won't do anything except cycle the politicians faster. There are two systems that need to be cut in DC to change the tenor.

The first is the cycle of government employees overseeing contracts and then going to work as lobbyists or employees for the people they were overseeing. Passing an amendment that says no government appointee or senior staff member can go work for any company they had contact with while holding the position for 5 or 10 years will end the first cycle.

The lobbyist / I need $ for reelection is harder. Some say only government funded campaigns, but I'm pretty sure I don't want the government's current parties making those rules and frankly it doesn't seem to help elsewhere. I am more for an amendment that says groups (corp or union) cannot contribute money to politicians / political parties. Both corporations and unions are gatherings of people and no more deserving of protection than the other. The biggest problem with all that is the news media is run by corporations and the ink is still going to be there. I'm afraid the second cycle is going to be with us for a long while.
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Treat Open Source Like a Startup
A few more numbers:

IBM: ~400,000
GE: ~300,000
Ford: ~180,000
Apple: ~80,000
Pfizer: ~78,000
DuPont: ~70,000

Additionally, I know that Microsoft almost another 100,000 people employed as "vendors". Furthermore, these are the kinds of stocks that tend to be widely held by e.g. pension funds and 401k programs, so their impact extends well beyond their employees.

Now to be fair, these employee counts are worldwide and not just in the United States -- and the interests of their management are not necessarily aligned with the interests of the employees. But it's important to have some perspective on the scales of things. Historically, Ford has done a lot more to raise the standard of living of the average American than Facebook has.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft.
Added to Ohloh: https://www.ohloh.net/p/nine_m, or to stay stylistically consistent: http://9m.no/ꋅ곁
Yup. It seemed like they were just having a good time with the journalist.

Isn't there an actual real-life game where someone is sent from person to person to get help, eventually landing back at the first person?
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I don't think they're trolling - I have some similar feelings about this too. I think the main point is that outside of document-centric websites (say, Wikipedia), rich webapps are basically grossly abusing HTML to wrangle it into a semi-sane (but not really sane) way to render desktop-style UIs.

Think GMail, think Pandora - neither of which parses logically as a document, but are made from HTML: horribly hacky, horribly complex HTML at that.

It would seem to me that we're making HTML do something it was never meant to do, and that there are many applications on the web today that really don't need that stack at all, and really just need code and a renderer (like, say, a desktop OS).

Of course, this is a double edged sword. Simply tossing a renderer to devs is just going to invite a whole slew of confusing, non-standard UIs. Though, that said, if you look at GMail et al, we're already there.
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If speed is your top priority you may also want to look at Sundown, which can be installed as a PHP extension and is likely faster since it's just C.

https://github.com/chobie/php-sundown
seems to hijack a lot of browser keys in fact. I don't like that.
I had the opposite problem while living in Toronto. I'm so used to navigate by landmarks that I couldn't find places I'd been to before because everything looked just about identical. Second street down from the 'pizza-pizza' on the west side of Yonge street. Right. I had not quite figured there would be multiple pizza-pizza franchises on Yonge street alone.
Electrolysis is NOT sandboxing, full stop.
I'm not an expert about concurrency, but from my understanding Go still does not solve the safety issues relating to data races. In addition, Rust's concurrency 'primitives' are built as libraries rather than into the language itself, making them far more powerful and extensible. That said, Rust pays for this power and safety with a steeper learning curve and a more complex type system, but in my opinion it's worth it.
Independence day?

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/boeing-b52-C...
You are not the target market.

The target market would know exactly what this is and why it's useful, because they live every day without a physical addressing system like most of the world enjoys[1]

[1]: http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g294206-i9216-k5547694-...
Rod Brooks on what Rethink Robotics is learning from customers
Do you really want to know what the developer three rows down is working on every day?

Unequivocally yes.
Seconded. Am stupid. Website made me remember.
On the "Why Enginuity" URL http://theenginuity.com/tour.html

You're delivering a "403 Oops!" error when the browser user agent
is not set/sent. If you read RFC2616 Section 14.43, you'll learn
that sending a user agent string is Optional.

Edit:
You probably want to use "Trend Search" or "Trending Search"
rather than "Viral Search"

Edit2:
http://theenginuity.com/index.php

> "with support in 28 international languages."

should be:

"with international support in 28 languages."
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This was my first thought as well. And specifically if anything he was doing got flagged the crypto party would be an excellent cover for why he was using Tor and TrueCrypt to send things to random people
This is the same as an older thread, but I didn't comment in the last one, so I thought I'd comment here.

I was a technical reviewer on Node Security from Packt, and it was an interesting experience, so I thought I'd highlight a few things for those who have criticised the quality of Packt books.

- Reviewers are unpaid, I'm not sure if this is normal. I was happy to do it unpaid as experience that I could talk about with future employers. The only 'pay' is a copy of the book, and one other from the library.

- I was found and asked to be a reviewer, but I was quite surprised given my lack of experience. I was also surprised at the lack of experience of the author. I felt I was able to do my job as a reviewer, and would have declined otherwise, but I perhaps they should be finding some more experienced people.

- Node Security is one of their shorter books, most are either several hundred pages and ~$30-40, or about 100 pages and $20. During the review process I highlighted that I felt the book did not contain enough content for a $20 book, lots of it was quite practical stuff that could have been found by reading some READMEs on GitHub repos for the libraries it talked about.

- I noticed that much of the advice in the book was around deployment of Node.js applications, and I suggested an extra chapter specifically about configuring secure deployments, perhaps covering nginx reverse proxying, etc, I felt that this would really improve the overall quality of the book, the focus of each chapter, and ultimately I thought it would make the book well worth the $20. Unfortunately they declined to do this. I'm not sure why, and I'm not sure what my role as a technical reviewer was for because of this. I found some minor issues in the security theory descriptions, and a few errors in example code, as well as making a few suggestions for how bits could be worded better, but it seemed they weren't keen on any major suggestions.

I'm not sure whether I'd buy books from Packt, I'd probably have to evaluate them on an individual basis, but I felt there could have been better selection of authors and reviewers, and that they should have been more open to changes proposed by the reviewers.
If you live in a country with no addresses, you don't need to be told "Why".

From their blog

"So what’s wrong with the physical address system in Kenya? It’s not that it doesn’t work, it’s that it fundamentally doesn’t exist. The majority of homes do not have a name or number, rarely have a street name and definitely no national level post or zip code. This leads to major social and economic issues that are throttling growth in Kenya.

Imagine an ambulance driver who can’t find their casualty, a pizza delivery man who can’t find his customer or a bank that does not know where their customers live. This happens thousands of times a day in Kenya and almost every other emerging market in the world. It’s a big problem that has to be fixed and we believe we’re the ones to do that."
The Cybiko was a handheld device that ran apps/software installed through the Cybiko desktop program. It has small antenna that allowed Cybikos in proximity to communicate. It had games, productivity apps, and communication software. One of my favorite apps was a speed reading app that flashed one word at a time. I read a couple of books in that format as a kid. I convinced many of my friends to get one in school. Teachers never realized we were playing games and chatting in school.
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You'll need a license from Lucas Pope, and a permit from the venue. The permit-issuing authority will want to see your license before granting the permit, and Lucas will need to see your permit before granting the license, but you can get around this by obtaining a provisional temporary interim permit from the protests and demonstrations secretary at the mayor's office. You will need to claim that the LARP is actually a protest against government bureaucracy, which it is, technically, albeit satirical. That permit is only valid for the grassy verge between the sidewalk and the west wall of the city government annex. So you will need to apply for a change of venue on your real permit application, which requires approval from the police chief. Since the best place is the county administration center, you will also need to get approval from the sheriff. Now the sheriff and the police chief don't like each other, and won't agree on anything, so you will need to make the first approval look like a rejection to get the second. I'm sure you can figure it out from there. Good luck. There's nothing else that I can do for you without possibly getting fired.
Agreed on mobile, not sure about payments/bitcoin at the present time (but it could very well become something like that).
So not a CRM 114 then?
He was running one of the largest Tor exit nodes at 2Gbps. Meanwhile the NSA was reading everyone's Facebook posts.

The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
I'll be here for a little while now and a little while after work to answer any questions.
> We can't make those smart robots visit cancer patients in a hospital,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7tYwnqot6M

> or serve me food while playing a violin at a restaurant at my tenth wedding anniversary,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOLL59nIkrA

> or perform a moving and/or erotic song and dance at a concert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kM3n64WJmo

> Well, we could, but none of those things would go over well or have the desired effect.

People seem to be enjoying the last 2 robots plenty. As for the first one, robot nurses, I think they'll massively prefer it over not having anyone. Baby boomers didn't have nearly enough kids, so they won't have any reasonable amount of attendants during old age. People that were never born can't take care of them. This is especially true in Europe, but even in America it's a pretty reasonable argument to make.

> We also can't make a robot to make startling leaps like "hey, I think the PHASES OF THE MOON are controlling the strength of the tides! Holy crap!"

I think you need to visit a university. Or even better, a pharma company, or an oil company. The times of people making those associations are long, long over. Now people clean databases before they get fed into the computers that make the real discoveries, and fix any blockages in the equipment. Oh and implement the bureaucracy, of course.

Mathematical discoveries, it's been 2 years now since one was actually made by a human. It's been decades since the last real mathematical discovery that wasn't at least "proof-assisted". Same goes for physics and it's becoming more and more true in chemistry (it's already true in commercial chemistry and pharma).
And just to head that off, I do think there are elements of the patent system that need to be fixed. The three patents with my name on them are good evidence that -- at least when it comes to software -- the USPTO is granting patents they probably shouldn't be.

I know absolutely nothing about the legislation in question.
Apple’s iMessage Issue Goes From Bad to Worse With Server Glitch
Ha! That's cute. The joke is that anyone can send any relevant transaction hash that they see straight by email. Obviously, if they were serious, they would offer a unique Bitcoin address to each prospective buyer.
Would You Live In A House Made of Sand and Bacteria?
PuPHPet is a great project. It served as great "training wheels" for me while I was learning vagrant+puppet. Thanks for making it.
But if you do that, inline photos, files and stickers won't work.
The headline is completely inaccurate. The B-52H communications systems have received multiple upgrades since they were built in 1960-1961.

They received a major revamp in the late 1980s, which is when the current CRTs and ACUs (computers) were brought in. Additionally, since their upgrade in the late 1980s, they've received numerous incremental upgrades to both the system and the software.

CRTs stuck around so long, because they weren't fragile, and could handle a lot of the long term vibration and shock you deal with on an aircraft like this.

Source: I worked on these systems on the B-52H for a few years. The systems even felt somewhat archaic back then, but there was a reason: they were probably the most reliable military avionics systems I've come across.
Instagram had a nice post on how they did their PK generation/sharding a couple years back. Still a good read, http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha....

Previously discuss here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058327
Yeah, it's absolutely disgusting how desperate and beaten down the American proliteriat is. We have to ask permission to take vacation or sick days, and both are frowned upon. How long you are seen to be working is a very important statistic for workplace prestige, far eclipsing the actual amount or quality of work done. It's important to be seen working long hours, that way when the lay-offs come (and they will come) you aren't in the "slacker" pile like the people only working 9 to 6. Most people think this is the normal and right way to do things, and are fearful of "lazy" systems practiced by the effeminate Europeans. I'm not exaggerating. People actually think this.

I'm not sure there's anyone with a spine to make it change; when I've raised the issue of unionization to my co-workers I tend to get blank or vaguely fearful stares for bringing up something so untouchably controversial.
Actually I think this is a pretty good idea. I know I have learned a lot when doing some pair programming watching other people code.
You were lucky. I forget the paper I saw it in, so I cannot link to it, but it was a story of a very similar situation. Except the person that stopped to help ended up getting mugged and beaten. The police quoted in the article advised everyone to just call in situations like this and leave it to the authorities, to not involve themselves.

I'm not saying I agree (or disagree) with that advice, but there are good reasons for not getting involved.