skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point.

It boils my blood to see a school administration so blatantly and wrongly take advantage of a student that they claim to be educating and preparing for the future. If anything, the administration should be in full support of the OP. If the OP can tolerate the pushback, and there is nothing in his school's policies forbidding, he should pursue the app. Let the administration spin their wheels. They can't sue him. And if they tried, they would lose. It's just absurd.
Quoting you:

> (unless any employee was able to give any talk they wanted without any form of supervision, in which case there's a deeper problem here)

I think any employee being able to give any talk they wanted without helicopter parenting should be the norm. I think one employee saying once one stupid thing should not be the end of the world. I think everyone should be allowed to say stupid things. We do anyway, right?
What a ridiculous article. Yes, in the context of rapidly declining crime rates of all kinds, gun homicides are down.

And yet it's the specter of omnipresent crime that many Americans hold up as the reason we need guns to keep us safe, ignoring all the statistics that show overall gun deaths and gun suicides are far higher in the U.S. than any other developed country.
If anyone's wondering, yes, there's a quickSort function already in the Swift standard library (no import required):

var ar = [3456,45,53567,356,7225,47858]

quickSort(&ar, Range(start: ar.startIndex, end: ar.endIndex))

// [45, 356, 3456, 7225, 47858, 53567]

There's also a version that let's you specify the "less" comparator.
> Outside America nobody knows what NFL is beyond that it is some strange variant on the football theme

I think this is extremely misinformed. Did you know that there is a world cup for gridiron football? It's the IFAF World Championship. And believe it or not, Japan is ranked 1st right now, with the U.S ranked second. American football was pretty well known in Japan and before I left, was becoming increasingly more popular among high school and college aged kids.

The also continually sell out games in London every year. The broadcasts there get extremely high ratings. I think the "myth" that the rest of the world doesn't know what American football is died sometime in the 90s. It's been on the rise globally: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/sports/football/13iht-nflc...
And many can now be monitored by the cardiologist from their office as the device uploads data to a server, or can even be reached directly from the physician's console. And both cardiologists and pacemaker companies generally have a pretty good bead on who's walking around with which serial numbered device.
In the 80's it was not uncommon to hear "snabel-A" in Norway too, quite possibly because Danish and Swedish computer magazines were more commonly seen in Norway before more Norwegian magazines gained traction.

"Alfrakrøll" was quite common for some time. Personally I don't think I've ever used krøllalfa - it just sounds dumb to me. "Alfrakrøll" is still what I'd prefer.

Then again, I've lived outside of Norway for 14 years, and it's quite fascinating to come back for visits and come across word usage I'm totally unfamiliar with. Especially since starting with home computers in the early 80's means English technology terms got deeply ingrained for me long before Norwegian versions started gaining traction.
Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Amazing article from a young kid, bright, smart keep it up!

Let them take it to the appstore and see if they can really get it down due to copyrights. I don't think they can sue you about anything, you'r just using public data...

Also something else, take it up with your parents or whoever has you at that school, and consider changing schools. Make it a scandal for them.
School trying to sue defendless student after having a bright idea for an app using public data...
And why would you claim MIT license on the code which you didn't write and has no license listed?
Why can I not do this with my git commits? If you're trying to track down a blame on a security bug, this would be an amazing way to expose that.
> Call up CNN and offer to demonstrate how BIOTRONIC is so evil that they refuse to fix their pacemakers

We should probably check first to see if BIOTRONIC is one of their advertisers first, might be an issue.
No there is more to it than that.
Added to Wikipedia over here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

If anyone wants to add more info, it's a worthy cause.
WISTIA – Shorter Videos Have Better Engagement Rates
Yes, the FDA certification should include something along the lines of "Manufacturer has an ongoing process to evaluate new vulnerabilities and push updates to affected individuals."
If I had this product implanted in me and it was known for a substantial amount of time that said product was 0dayed, you better believe I have a right to know.
Countries with looser gun laws also have lower gun crime rates. So banning guns doesn't seem to be the answer.
Someone made a comment above stating that people with pacemakers typically have to go in once or twice a year to get it checked, and the devices can be updated using 'inductive or rf telemetry'. Presumably doctors could update the devices when patients come in.
If a large enough majority of people get their pacemakers fixed, it greatly lowers the chances that you'll encounter someone with a defective pacemaker that you can exploit.
Agreed, this was way overblown - making cheesy-sitcomy-girlfriend/boyfriend jokes shouldn't be treated like a triple homicide hate crime
There's a concept called "max TDP" which essentially means how much heat the cooling system (fans, heat sinks, heat pipes and case) will need to dissipate in the worst realistic case.

For the CPU in the base model 2013 Macbook Air (the Core i5-4250U), max TDP is 15 watts.

For my 2011 Sandy Bridge base model Mac mini, max TDP is 35 watts. Most desktop gaming PCs have max TDPs over 100 watts if the heat generated by the discrete video card is included.

Max TDP for the CPU in this Zotac box is even lower than the 15 watts on the 2013 MBA. To achieve such a low max TDP, the clock needs to run slower, the chip needs to use lower voltages and other compromises need to be made.

My guess is that one place such a low TDP is desirable is in small tablets (or even smartphones??) where space considerations make cooling thing difficult even with a fan.

And of course it is desirable in fanless applications. Having just one fan, like an Intel NUC has or a Mac mini has, greatly increases the amount of heat the system can dissipate. The 2011 Mac mini server edition, for example, has a CPU with a max TDP of 45 watts and just one fan. (The Mac mini's all-aluminum case really helps here.)

But sometime even one fan is a bad idea: e.g., in boxes designed for dusty conditions, e.g., in a factory, or a remote location where it is difficult for someone to come by to clean out the insides of the system or to notice (by the noises it makes) when the fan is about to fail.

Note that fanless systems with SSDs like this Zotac box have no moving parts, and that really helps with reliable un-attended operation -- and with being quiet.

EDIT: "significantly less" changed to "even lower" to reflect the information in the reply.
"[chiocciola] is fun to say, too. Something like 'chee-o-cho-la' but with more exotic hand gestures."

The initial "chi" in Italian is pronounced like "kee" (e.g. chianti). So this would be pronounced "kee-o-chio-la"
Not sure why people are downvoting you. The @ symbol is hundreds of years old and originally meant "at the rate of" (as in, "10 boxes @ $1" means "10 boxes for $1 apiece"). It's perfectly possible that the Indian population could have picked this up and perhaps contracted it a bit during the reign of the British Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@_symbol
I don't know if my anecdote constitutes data, but the first time I went to the US in 1999 I landed at JFK, hired a car, was driving along slowly looking for an entrance to a freeway to Brooklyn. A guy in a convertible pulled out in front of me so close that I had to swerve into the left lane to avoid him, once I passed him I changed back into the right lane so I could use the upcoming freeway entrance, the guy roared past me, swerved back in front of me and jammed his brakes so quickly I barely was able to stop without hitting him. He then sat there in front of me yelling something for about 30 seconds whilst waving a gun in the air. He then took off and I never saw him again.

I'm not sure what that means exactly but I think it indicates a culture of aggression, bullying, anger, self importance, and when coupled with loose gun laws it means lots of guns get fired.
As much as people who log into their website through a browser do.
America had a movement to "de-institutionalize", that is, to help known mentally ill people adapt and cope with day-to-day life instead of locking them all in asylums. But the funding got cut... so now we have inadequate support and they end up in prisons because there are no asylums. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/12/w...
> overall gun deaths and gun suicides

Most gun deaths are accidents, where the person who died knew they were entering a dangerous situation. I'm pretty sure the people who die in gun accidents wouldn't want guns to be banned, or else they probably wouldn't be in that situation in the first place. Also, accidental gun death rates have been declining almost monotonically since 1903. For scale, almost 8 times as many people died of choking than of gun accidents in the US in 2011.

America's suicide rate is not bad at all. It's actually pretty low compared to many other developed countries.

So what, exactly, are you getting at? Should we ban guns to prevent accidents, presumably against the wishes of those who are the victims of such accidents? Should we ban guns to maybe prevent a few suicides, with no evidence that doing so would decrease the suicide rate and not just cause people to use other methods?

There are also considerations beyond safety. Cars are very dangerous, but we use them anyway because they have tremendous utility. Fatty meat and smoking (anything) are very dangerous, but we allow those things anyway because they are enjoyable and people deserve the right to expose themselves to dangerous things if they so desire.
I call BS.

How does an ECM (or anti-lock brake controller) "slam on the brakes"?
Isn't all declassification like that? They seem to have a required cooldown period. After all, once you let the cat out of the bag you can't get it back in- so what's the rush.
In China, it's called "circle a" (圈a), "flowery a" (花a), or "little mouse" (小老鼠). In Taiwan, it's most commonly called "little mouse"
Though you might want to read here: http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2013/D43129.htm for a bit of background on the price paid for such electricity.
Intercept and modify Java and COM objects in third party apps
Eric K. Drexler does a great job of describing a Xanadu-style hypertext system:

http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Hypertext/HPEK0.html
I've lived in the US for over 40 years and never had anything like that happen (and yeah, I've been in NY a few times). 'course, also anecdotal :)
Those are not negative news, just the speculation of Some Dude on the Internet.

Apple is not abandoning OpenGL, heck, SpriteKit and SceneKit are both laid on top of OpenGL.

The fact is OpenGL doesn't allow the underlying hardware to be fully utilized, so now those demanding best performance can use Metal. A good example would be a high-end gaming engine like Unreal. And those who don't, can keep using OpenGL forever.

All the FUD about walled garden and proprietary APIs ignore how Metal is supposed to be used. Engines like Unreal already support OpenGL, DirectX, the PlayStation variation of OpenGL-ish API, Mantle (AMD) and so on.

Now it'll support also Metal.

People who use the Unreal engine can still write cross-platform games for it, but now they'll get even better performance under iOS thanks to Metal.

That's really it. No conspiracy theories.
Digesting WWDC: cloudy
There is precedence for publishing non-js code on npm: https://github.com/substack/dotc
I figured that 50 miles for the BMW had to be wrong, it's way too small, but I looked it up and it's about right. Officially it's more like 70 miles, but that's still ridiculously small. I have to really wonder what the point of that option is. I get it for the Volt, you're pure electric for most of your trips, but you have gas range when you need it. But here, you still have typical crappy pure electric range, but with all the complexity of a hybrid system, and all the cost of burning gasoline for the last half of it. Why would anyone buy this?
If they replace T-Mobile's network, is that going to mean I can't use my GSM T-Mobile phone with the new company?
All I can think is how much longer it must be to speak tweets aloud in other languages. As opposed to "at Jim Lipsey, at Gruber, at Chockenberry, at The Talk Show", now it's "chee-o-cho-la Jim Lipsey, chee-o-cho-la Gruber..."

Sounds like a mouthful already.
Oh WAIT! It might be because I always have a RPG strapped to my back... ?
Why are you complaining on an American internet community about our choice of unit system and the terminology we use for naming different sports? The United States has distinct cultural features just like every other country. I waste a fair amount of time arguing on the internet, but I’ve never felt the need to find articles about European football and complain that people shouldn’t call soccer “football” because American football is better, that people who use the metric system feel compelled to tell other people they’re stupid for using different systems, and that Europeans are jerks for charging for restroom access and restaurants not giving free soda refills.
there's also the 'intense pc' from compulab: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/ipc2/
you think the university board wouldn't appeal to a good argument? possible they are bluffing, but if they get the right response they may shut up.

i find it hard to believe they would be spiteful, but maybe i am being too optimistic.
Start with a consonant, follow by a vowel, and being four syllables.
Bitcoin futures market? ;-)
Notify the manufacturer's products liability insurer through a respectable and concerned PI lawyer. Action will be swift.
Node.js socket.io live jam web audio application
someone said there is already quicksort in the standard lib... so this code snippet is really only academic...
atto is about the closest their writing rules allow. It is all pairs like ka, ki, ko, ku, except for n. So all loan words have to be extended if they end illegally.
In addition to the review, provides a great picture of the future of SSDs, and a thorough explanation of why SATA and AHCI weren't sustainable choices given the low latency of SSDs.
There is a double standard to a limited degree- I can't remember the source of this, but a good explanation I saw described it thusly - it's the difference between "punching up" and "punching down". When a woman makes a joke about a male stereotype, it's "punching up", the classically lower status individual tweaking the nose of those in power. When a man makes fun of a female stereotype, it's punching down, or picking on someone.

That doesn't necessarily make it right in either direction or represents a set of absolutes, of course, but it does explain the willingness of people to excuse a certain amount of one type of stereotyping and not another.
Everything except shorting their stock. If you wrote a hard-hitting exposé or a John Stossel-type broadcast you aren't likely to be branded a terrorist. Make sure you don't reveal how it's actually done, but the fact that it can be.

In short - media showing the potential results (and dramatizing them) puts heat on the company to fix it.
Crucial MX100 is a 256GB SSD for $110
Oh fucking yawn, this is absurd advice. Can you even be serious?
There is a deficiency - but it'd be hard to exploit at great scale, because as you bet the advantage goes away, and then later bettors might leave your stake with bad odds. Only being the 'last mover' in all the pools allows definite arbitrage.
Unpacking The $17B Uber Financing
I speak Russian as my first language. We use "sobaka" the Russian word for dog.
DuckDuckGo will be included as a built-in search option in Safari
I think it is good practice to license packages on npm, even when you are not the original author (which is very common on npm).
Corsair offers basically a full SSD disguised as a pocketable flash drive
Oddly, hybrids seem to be really reliable, despite the additional stuff to break. Priuses get top marks for reliability. I'm not sure why, but I imagine it comes down to the electric stuff being extremely reliable due to the nature of the beast, and the gasoline end being treated more nicely (more consistent RPMs and throttle settings, no idling, not being used at all for a substantial fraction of your miles) more than compensates for the tiny increase in potential failures from adding the electric system. Also consider that there is essentially no transmission in the more advanced hybrids, which removes a potentially expensive breakage that regular gas cars are subject to.
You should probably get acquainted with the details around copyright and fair use before telling someone what laws they didn't break in their country or another's.

This same story has played out at various levels and it gets repeatedly delivered to this audience through the prism of a "victim." Virtual pitchforks get raised, etc.

The talented young programmer makes some assumptions and, benefit of the doubt, "naive" mistakes in standing on the shoulders of others. Then, he cries about how his massive effort is wasted and the powers that be have dashed the dreams of someone obviously superior in skill and/or intellect to "the man."

And again... the victim pretty obviously ran afoul of cultural norms, if not fairly well-known ethical and legal lines. In this case, even the narrator tells you that the adults are merely using this a teachable moment. He would get sued and lose. He also decided he couldn't wait for approval... just had to go run out and assume things - things which would mean everything was in his favor. Until it wasn't.

That data wasn't his. He turned "free" data into a paid app. He forced the hand of the school to shut him down. He still hasn't learned one of the most important lessons for devs... Don't build exclusively on top of a single platform that is out of your control and/or has no incentive to support you.

I would have broken his parser a couple times before dropping the copyright argument on him. More teachable moments were available.
How about releasing the vulnerability in stages? The author jumps from unresponsive vendor to releasing exploit code. What if you add steps between the two?

For example:

- Announcing a vulnerability has been found and identifying the unresponsive vendor.

- Announcing what the disclosure timeline will be.

- Detailing the product lines known to be affected by the vulnerability.

- Publishing communication with the vendor so far with any details about the vulnerability redacted.

- Private disclosure to professionals (doctors & journalists) to have them independently verify that the vulnerability exists and help with raising awareness.

- Full details about the vulnerability, but no exploit code.
"Recently, the Tallahassee police department revealed it had used stingrays at least 200 times since 2010 without telling any judge because the device’s manufacturer made the police department sign a non-disclosure agreement that police claim prevented them from disclosing use of the device to the courts"

What complete and utter BS. Does that mean that the DA too had no idea about the use of stingray because the police couldn't tell them either. I think figuring out who should know (and who shouldn't) is probably very very selective!
I was all prepared to see something exciting when I clicked on the link, since unlike many of the commenters here I know what Project Xanadu is. So I open the page on my smartphone, scroll down a bit, and: "INSTRUCTIONS: DON'T TOUCH THE MOUSE!"

Ummm... touchscreen device here? As visionary as Ted is, has he failed to forsee touchscreens and design touch-based interactions? Don't get me wrong, I love my keyboard, but I don't always have one anymore.
A question of trust: fixing the replication crisis
>Maps render at a super high framerate

You might want to use a nice HTML5 video instead of a .gif, then. It didn't make for a good first impression.
Only being the 'last mover' in all the pools allows definite arbitrage.

If so, now we know the actual profit model of this business.

Actually there would still be value in getting one's arbitraged wagers in just before the window closes: at this moment the general public would be unlikely to drive one out of the money and the site operator would have no incentive to do so.
Most gun deaths in the U.S. are not accidents, they are suicides. Then homicides, then accidents.

And I'm not proposing banning guns, I'm challenging the commonly-held narrative that guns "keep us safe." The statistics are unequivocal that they do not.
The chip they are using has max TDP of 11.5W.

http://ark.intel.com/products/76611/Intel-Core-i5-4210Y-Proc...
I use to use DynDNS to access my POS terminal at my retail store. Dynamic dns is frequently an important tool so, yes, I would be very wary of using a hackaday production of it.
It doesn't have to be so black and white as that. You can take into account other factors such as country of origin of the consumer and identifying information provided as whether to accept a credit card payment or not.
Well... technically something with no license is the most restrictive form of a license; as-in nobody has the right to use it nor republish it nor modify it. Not being the copyright holder forbids you from assigning a license.

However, for a trivial piece of code as this... it could be argued it's not copyright-able and therefore you are OK... but just be careful in the future.
Pass(1): Password managment done Unix-style using gpg and ordinary directories
Every Ubisoft Game Reviewed At Once
So are we just getting better at keeping people alive or is the number of people shot going down?
Well to be fair the rest of my trip was much less eventful, but there were two other incidents of note.

In Manhattan, whilst watching the cockroaches in my hotel room and perusing the brown paper bag full of porn mags I found behind the bed, I heard someone rattling my door quite loudly so I yelled out 'hey', and he replied 'sorry man, i thought it was my room'.

In Virginia I was driving on a side road that I thought should lead back to the 'blue ridge parkway'. I pulled over to take a piss in the bushes, and whilst pissing I noticed a dead deer with a bullet hole in its neck.
An S.O.S. in a Saks Bag
This is clearly something where a regulatory agency that can and will apply penalties to manufacturers that do not fix bugs that are physically possible to fix without ill effect in a timely manner is appropriate. You simply report to that agency.

These problems are serious enough that failing fast and hard is not a good way to go about it. This is software meets physical reality. In software land, we've developed radically different approaches to engineering problems because of the incredibly cheap costs. This is one place where we have to borrow from other disciplines that have more experience with safety issues.
There probably is close to zero overhead in a small benchmark. Hardware branch prediction is indeed good. However, it's a finite resource. In a large application, lots of needless branches everywhere translates into fewer branch prediction resources available for the branches that matter, which means more mispredictions. Also, they take up icache, itlb, etc. It's not at all obvious that the overhead would be close to zero in context.
If it's not copyrightable it's deceptive to add a purported copyright license. If it is, he has no right to relicense it. Either way not a good move.