skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yes, if someone did commit a crime using my network the police might visit, but what better defense is there than the fact that I have an open wireless network?

From a famous name in security who is well aware of the issues, that could easily be read as obfuscation intended to mask nefarious activity.
yup, UPC .nl user here, and I shared my router as a wifi spot, that said, I don't see to many oter public UPC wifi spots at least in the area where I am the most zaandam / de pijp amsterdam.
if you are doing a university assignment, do it yourself..
simple arithmetic : 3.4B people in the risk areas, US retail price for mosquito DEET containing repellent is $0.1-0.3 per day (this is also about the same as mosquito repellent bracelets on Alibaba, though i never used one, and Amazon shows even cheaper ones - would be great if this stuff really works).

So, the higher estimate for everybody to have repellent every day is $400B dollars/year. In many areas you actually need it only part of the year. So napkin calculation comes to say $200B or 1K per clinical episode (or even less if not to use US retail prices).

http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/impact.html

To me it looks like something that we as a civilization could have done. And after few years the parasite would possibly be eradicated in many areas.

(note: i'd used DEET extensively in my time in Western Siberia ("stroyotryad" who knows/remembers :) , so i understand limitations of it, yet i also understand the difference it makes :)
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>I absolutely loathe this attitude that has taken over entrepreneurship. This is not OK. I don't give a shit what the Lean Theory zealots say.

They've worked insane hours for over a year to create a tool. It's an imperfect tool, but one capable of doing amazing things. And they've given it away for free. How are you not OK with this?
NDC 2014 will have 13 C++ talks
>pilot seniority scheme is a US-only problem

This is a union thing, as I pointed out - not a problem, but a solution to an otherwise intractable game.

The low wages is likely because lots of people have the ability to learn to fly in the US and lots people REALLY want to. Supply and demand.
That is only true in some communities; not universally.
The FCC just ended net neutrality
One analogy to consider is that peoples with argiculture had much worse living standard than hunters-gatherers. Yet, given that they were tied to a patch of ground, they've drove the hunters-gatherers out of their traditional hunting-gathering grounds and eventually took over the world.

The progress doesn't necessarily prefer better standard of living.
For one I have never heard of MetaFilter and I can't understand what it is by browsing the site.
D-Wave: Is $15m machine a glimpse of future computing?
The amount of energy we spend on rendering web pages each day pales in comparison to the amount we spend each day on transportation or even Bitcoin mining. A million times a relatively tiny amount is still relatively tiny.

It's an understandable argument, but I don't think it applies to client-side rendering.
Looks like you right click on a cubelet to make it active, but in Firefox under Linux that pops up a right-click menu. Double-click would have been a better choice for that functionality.
JavaScript code challenge: optimize function, win prizes
It says it was built for Chrome. It's really interessting
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This is a fantastic little toy project! Thanks for showing me. I'm thinking about building this into something for hosting on servers with extremely limited CPU, such as an RPi.
Actual link: https://speakerdeck.com/ange/when-aes-equals-episode-v
I agree in that a shell script is not the best platform for a blogging engine. However,

1. It has literally zero dependencies (other from bash, of course) which is kind of the goal of bashblog
2. If you examine the code you will notice it's clean. The engine is about 200 lines, the rest are HTML and CSS templates.
3. I don't agree that a shell script should be less than 100 lines, more or less. A single function? Of course. But a whole module? I disagree. As long as the code is clean, understandable and consistent, I don't see why not!

What I'm trying to say is that the mantra of "shell scripts should be used only to copy files and run make" isn't correct. Shell programming is a thing, and I believe bashblog is a good example of that.
Love: The Only Winning Move...
We have the same difficulties with our Maxmind IP database. An inordinate number of our users supposedly live in Potwin, KS, AKA the geographical center of the United States.
> here on HN, where growth and monetization are king

There is no monetization, and HN hasn't pursued growth for years, if it ever did.
I get this is a 'hacker' but in what way this is a 'news'?
If anybody is wondering, the name refers to the Roland TR808 drum machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808
> Gorilla (through Gorilla Context), stretchr's Goweb, Goji and others provide a `map[string]inteface{}.` Okay, so I still lose the type system, but now I have to litter my code with a ton of `realValue, ok := myMap["myValue"].(myType)`.

This is a good point, and it's something that—after you write a few pieces of middleware in any web application—you run into pretty often.

I avoid repeating things by creating quick Set and Get methods around that type that save me having to write out a type assertion; ok { } block every time, but there's still some repetition when it comes to dealing with the error.

Martini, for all it's "warts", is a fairly well thought out project and it's popularity is not an accident—even if it isn't idiomatic Go.

FWIW, I've started to look into Goji and like it a lot. There is /some/ interface{} there, but any type issues are at least caught on program initialisation (so you don't get bitten later), you get a request context without a global map/lock, and middleware is anything that satisfies http.Handler. I'm happy to give up a tiny bit of compile time safety* for a saner API and the extra things I've mentioned above. You generally have to be trying to give it the wrong type anyway, from my experience.

gocraft/web (as you have touched on) takes an interesting approach by having you create your own Context, which can then wrap any types you might pass around in your request context. The function chaining in the README is a little ugly, but you otherwise get a) type safety and b) no type assertions when dealing with context. The downsides seem to be a need to rewrite (to some extent) any middleware that already satisfies http.Handler to incorporate the web.NextMiddlewareFunc type instead, unless I'm misinterpreting that.

* Perhaps I'll regret saying this!
That's because the Ofcom regulation of BT has lead to one of the world's most competitive broadband/telecoms industry

In other countries, e.g. the US, there tends to be one Telco per region which both owns the infrastructure and provides service.
It's al right. After reading the current SA I decided not to go for the archives package. I just didn't like it. The way people were banned, unbanned was meant to look like funny but I didn't. Sometimes it looked like bullying, sometimes just assholery, sometimes just like absurd moderator actions. But then again I thought I was not going to fit in anyway and there's sth that I am missing to fit it. So, I just visit and login like once or twice a quarter. I never posted anything.
Notice that this question is 2 years old. I would imagine that several lots of things have happened for Roslyn. (They even talk about some of what they were working on). Nevertheless quite interesting.
> Why do you do it?

Not everybody does. You sound like you might enjoy Mustachianism. That's the idea of keeping a lifestyle much like yours and using the low costs to work less, even while "growing up" and raising a family. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
Hey I'm a 24yr developer as well and I used to have really terrible lower back pain from sitting too long. My worst was when I would feel this extremely sharp pain in my lower back when I thrust my hip in a certain way. The pain is so quick and intense it would paralyze me for a split second. I never went to the doctor to check it out, and fortunately now (6 months later) that pain is pretty much all gone. I got rid of it pretty much by stretching:

1. Simply sit up straight, it stretches your lower back the right way.

2. Get into pushup position and while keeping your body straight, try to reach forward as much as possible.

3. Lay on the floor belly down, lift your legs and chest off the ground, bind your hands behind your back and reach them as far back as possible. I found this great for temporarily relieving pain.

4. Do pullups: or if you can't do one, get on a bar and let your legs dangle and feel your back stretching out. This one feels so good.

Good luck!
How To Create The Perfect Social Media Post [Infographic]
The site is unviewable on a 4k monitor, giant red bar goes across the screen, scrolls to white, and nothing. Took a while to figure that out...
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Not really. I am a member too and I must add that even the moderators do (almost all the time) that what is frowned upon when he 4chan do it. But hey, to each his own.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7752423.
nice point! mammal territorial anger is cooperative - go away or else. it can avoid an expensive fight. fear is backing down - i'll go. this communication is a kind of cooperation.

this explains the exhibition of some emotion, and argues that that's all it is. though, there are non-social emotions that are useful, eg hunger, fear of high places, enjoyment of warmth in cold weather.
Let me get this straight, you're saying that f'n Rolls Royce doesn't have the engineering chops to assess the viability of future tech developments?

Additionally, you're saying that f'n ROLLS ROYCE builds the equivalent of 'steering wheels' in machinery?
People with children are of course telling you that you are naive but I think your point of view is just as valid as anybody else's. If you have a very low overhead, and don't develop a taste for expensive things then you can live comfortably on a tiny income. I had a similar phase after college for about one year where I had dirt-cheap rent. I did odd-jobs such as house-painting, did about whatever I wanted and was actually saving money. It was a leisurely, comfortable year but of course I did not have many luxuries.

Then I moved to a big city and my entire savings was depleted almost instantly. I had to work two jobs to pay my bills with barely any time or money to do anything but work. It sucked really bad for about two years until I started moving up and earning a salary that allowed me to quit my second job.

Basically, though, everybody talking about their bills, mortgage, tuitions, etc. These are lifestyle choices and they require a certain amount of income to maintain. There's all kinds of reasons for making these choices. Because you genuinely want that life, because your spouse wants that life, because your friends are doing it, because that's what "normal" people do, etc. Some people want a lifestyle that they can only afford by working insane hours. Some people are able to afford all of that stuff with a 40 hour work week.

Society does tend to pressure you into doing these things in order to feel like you have "grown up" which I know all too well. But, there's many ways to live life and they don't all require 80 hours of work per week.
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There's Plunk, a "human friendly" Elasticsearch DSL: https://github.com/elbii/plunk
I agree with "Most mefites actually did read the guidelines page, because by the time they've decided to become a member, they know that text on that page is probably important".

But just wanted to say that I love MeFi but the interface leaves a lot to be desired. Really :(
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If I was, I would.
And able to go to places (within a few meters, or less) where there are no rails, variable size (when was the last time you had a train deliver a single refrigerator), and flexible to change where to drive and where to without the decade or so it takes to get a new railway and stations planned, approved, build and operationalized.
Holy earf*ck. Beware of high volume sounds.
i read somewhere that Woz never wrote a floating point basic , and that was left to MS. if true, i'm glad it wasn't for lack of ability.
I feel so much better now. Thank you NSA!
Moving to Microsoft Azure
And a massive pain for security.
Thank you for the extra information!
That was exactly what I needed at the moment, thanks for sharing "In Praise of Idleness". Brainwashed as I am I keep thinking that I need to shake the slave mentality and focus my life on leisure time to ultimately become more productive of course.
Left clicking works for me to activate as well.
> the daily commute (for insurance).

I do the same on my bike, not a gopro but a Sony AS15 though.
Are there any alternatives to jOOQ?
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In Australia, ISPs sell the WiFi on your router. Similar to ZON

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/05/telstras-new-wi-fi-netw...
There are some old IEEE articles on management for techies that, in my humble opinion, are simply brilliant.

Delegation: (usually the first failure I see)
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art5.html

And the rest:
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/index.html
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A Programmer And His Blobs
if read some of the commentary on the web, you will have to assume most people are naive.

I think you are right that NSA has their own cables laid, unlikely to get sabotaged too.
Thanks for taking time to reply!
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Assuming you are arguing in favour of VMs, the benefits of Docker stand, and you can perfectly run Docker containers within a VMs.

The feature sets/usage sweet points of OS-level package managers, language-specific package managers, VMs, containers, distinct/same hosts, ... are both overlapping and different enough that you need judgement to choose which one you want, but they are certainly not exclusive.

If your use case means you prefer VMs over containers and you don't need to combine them, fine, but every situation is different.
Do, delegate or delete
It's a compiler bug.
The Twelve-Factor App, a modern application development methodology
>GoPro factor is the only one you can chest mount safely, and the only one you can helmet mount in the middle of a helmet.

I agree on the chest mount, but the helmet? Why wouldn't I be able to put my AS15 on my helmet with the provided stickymount? I prefer long and thin on my helmet...

I actually prefer the AS15's colours compared to the GoPro White (which is closest in pricing), and the Sony cost me €100,- less. (€150 / €250)
So you work 80 hours a week, meaning that you have almost no time to enjoy life with your kid... so that he can grow up to be like you and do the same thing, and presumably educate their children to do the same as well.

So your ideal of how things should be is to have a saga of people working their asses off, in theory for the good of the next generation, but in practice for nothing because the next generation will work their asses off for the good of the next one, etc.

Maybe it's culture shock (I'm a European) but honestly, how can anyone think that is "worth it"?
Thank you for posting this, thought of doing the same if noone else did it.
To all the people out there, the situation is horrible, a lot of people lost everything they had. If you can help, please do so, every cent is really valuable. Thank you all!
Was this explicitly legislated or did it just end up that way due to existing laws/tradition/precedent cases?
Ok HN, for those skilled in the art, is this real?

And what are the implications for cryptography? (isn't that always the refrain, "until quantum computers this is safe?")
I wonder how readily people switch platforms?

I've only switched once in 20+ years. I started using Windows, 3.1, then XP, loved 2000, but switched to OS X about the time of Vista. Got tired of the constant virus issues. Tried Linux, but I've used OS X exclusively for 10 years or more now.

I'll admit that I still feel much more at home on Windows (when I have to fix the kids laptop), it is like putting on an old pair of slippers.
This seems to be a fairly outdated article, despite the displayed date- it says the 'newest' version is 0.7, but we've been on 0.11 since 2 weeks ago: http://blog.docker.io/2014/05/docker-0-11-release-candidate-...

It's some pretty amazing tech, and I love it with Vagrant for my local dev environment, and for full deploys. I'm not such a big fan of Dokku- it's a great 'heroku replacement' but one of the best strengths of docker, is you can just upload your code to a private repo(or use a trusted build on a private repo!) and pull that down and run to deploy. Dokku going through the buildpack process, while making it nice from a quick git push angle, sacrifices one of Docker's strongest features(consistency).
Many companies offer production-grade hosting for open source applications. The fact that you are keeping your source closed tells me that you are afraid a competitor (or your clients themselves) could achieve an equivalent quality of hosting for less than they would pay you. To a customer like me, this is bad news.
As other reply points out, due to regulations, outside companies can't fly domestic routes. Interestedly, parent article mentions this fact as well.

But another interesting fact is that speed of flying is not going to increase - it actually decreased just recently with termination of Concord service. All new planes are developed to be more economical, not faster (which is more expensive due to laws of physics). NY to London in 7 hours is considered fast enough, very few people want to pay more for faster service.
What Foursquare, Twitter and SoundCloud have in common
I see a pattern: Enthusiast products that were built for a Facebook-like mass appeal. That leads to tension.
Caching audio streamed using AVPlayer
> Also, the wider field of view on the GoPro without built-in stabilization works better for skiing than built-in stabilization that can sometimes fail to keep up.

The AS15 has the option to use image stabilization at a 120 fov or without it at 170.
The only real negative of the Sony (except for maybe available mounts) is the image caption mode is limited to 1920x1080 images.
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1679

"MAGIC 8-BALL: THE RENEGADE MATH WHIZ WHO COULD CHANGE NUMBERS FOREVER

An eccentric billionaire, whose fascinating hobbies include nude skydiving and shark-taming, has been shaking up the scientific world lately with his controversial claim that 8+0 equals 17 [... six more pages about the billionaire redacted ...] It must be said that mathematicians, who we reached for comment because we're diligent reporters, have tended to be miffed, skeptical, and sometimes even sarcastic about the billionaire's claims. Not surprisingly, though, the billionaire and his supporters have had some dismissive comments of their own about the mathematicians. So, which side is right? Or is the truth somewhere in the middle? At this early stage, it's hard for an outsider to say. In the meantime, the raging controversy itself is reason enough for us to be covering this story using this story template. Stay tuned for more!"

And seriously:

"we have no idea yet whether adiabatic optimization (the technology used by D-Wave) is something where quantum computers can give any practically-important speedup."

And how the results match those of the machine based on the classical (that is, not quantum) model:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7087
From the article I was getting the impression that everything wrong with the airlines could be blamed on the unions. I guess the author would have said the same about trains had he been travelling a century ago.

Airlines are a bit like football clubs or Formula 1 teams - the way to make millions at it is to start with billions. Airlines are also like railways a century or more ago - big wage bill, big fuel bill, lots of infrastructure spread out over a geographically large area, a constant need to keep everything maintained and the ever present danger that some disaster might happen. Compare that with your 'Instagram' companies that have similar sized stock market valuations.

Did anyone make money out of the boom in railways? Or were all railways some type of speculative bubble where mergers, state bailouts and bankruptcy were all par for the course?

In Europe the airlines don't pay tax on their fuel. If they did then there probably would not be many airlines.

Whether it is trains or planes the key to making money out of it is to have some kind of trick. When you see a train or a plane packed to the gills it is impossible to imagine that the venture as a whole is anything but profitable, but, big picture, take away the tax-payer provided subsidies, the tax-payer provided infrastructure, the tax-payer provided loans and other incentives and, unless there is that trick, then it is a mug's game.

The future of airlines is already here with some of the European low-cost carriers. Essentially the staff no longer have jobs that are any more glamorous than that of a coach tour driver's. In the turn around it is the cabin crew that hoover the plane, pick up the sweet wrappers and make things good for the next horde of passengers. There are no specific cleaners to do the job whilst the cabin crew waltz off to enjoy a well earned break. I quite like this new reality, I also liked travel in the days of Pan Am and TWA when planes had a jet-set feel to them. However, regardless of the staff and what they have to do, running an airline is no easy way to make money and you cannot blame the unions when it doesn't work out.
It's not encrypted client side, so the server is getting it unencrypted. They also return the data unencrypted, so if it is stored encrypted, it's not that useful encryption since the server also knows how to decrypt it.

Also their privacy policy notes that they'll give authorities access to your messages if they receive a warrant.
New silicon valley in international waters near SF
Ask for specific dollar amounts. It'll give users an idea of what they should type in.

Yep. I was at a museum and they had "please donate €5" donation box, which was full of fivers. Otherwise it'd be full of coins.
The grippers and tooling on robots like that (for example the "da vinci surgical robot") are way too specialized, and applied only to minimally invasive surgeries. So not something like that more like these robots :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek8GKqmJ7n0#t=70

the annoying thing with these robots is that you still have to specialize the hands,grippers, and tools for the task or group of tasks. We don't really have great "really general purpose" robotic manipulators, but we can make really good specialized robots for very well defined tasks, so I don't think the shipping industry is going to pay for an array of expensive special purpose robots. The technology is really not here yet, but getting ever closer, it's the holy grail of robotics and control systems research. Sorry for the ramble.
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot could disappear in a generation
Web Heroes
or with https://github.com/mootools/wrapup :)
I really can't help but read the diaereses, they insist on using, as umlauts.
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